skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How do you manage your obsession
After few years of reading more than a few articles on startups and more than hundred books (audible + kindle only) it is hard not to think about it good part of the waking time and harder not to talk about it at all. But your friends do not quite understand what you are talking. Specially when your family and friends think that, you have a job that pays, a nice family (this is true) and a "hobby" of reading about startups but they are very annoyed when you sometimes (they view as almost always) skip the weekend funs for doing some boring stuff staring at the monitor. Some will say, some will be nice not to say, but still will think about almost certainly. Worse part is there is no way to argue any of these since you have nothing tangible in your hand other than few stories X lines of code or a working beta where users grow not in millions, not even in thousands but just a few every week.
Tangential curiosity I didn't knew,

> The first chess programs were written in the early fifties, one by Turing himself

When readed that I wondered in what computer could possibly that chess program ran. The amazing answer is: nowhere. Turing executed himself the orders of the program he wrote acting as cpu.

http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Alan+Turing#Chess%20a...
I made the error of giving Public Citizen a few bucks a few years ago. They since sold my name to dozens of other organizations. There was absolutely no chance to opt-out when I donated.

It's amazing how quickly an NGO can burn off its good will.
He was on Yemen's "most wanted" list. However, the government of Yemen is weak, and he had the protection of powerful tribes.
Characterizing the killing of people who actively plan attacks on civilians for their own political ends as 'assassination' seems misplaced.

These are killers with an agenda. It is quite literally kill or be killed.
> The biggest limiting factor of wireless is the lack of frequency in which to put you're data. Not interference.

Isn’t the idea to send data to multiple devices at the same frequency simultaneously? Signal interferences are prevented by clever timing of the three senders, namely by creating interferences that add up to noise everywhere except for a small volume that hopefully contains the receiving device.
That's a horrible idea! I like that iOS is app focussed; it's one of the stronger facets of it's UI. This is solving the wrong problem. As the author points out, gestures already make switching apps easy.
makes sense, can you give me a specific example?
Well, that sounds unlikely given that [their Charity Navigator information](http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary...). Perhaps you over-estimate the cost of fundraising. 12 cents of each dollar are spent on fundraising, and 84 cents of each dollar are spent on their aims.

It is annoying that they keep calling you, though.
8 Stories of Civilians Killed by U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen

http://www.policymic.com/articles/89135/8-stories-of-civilia...
One thing that I make use of but don't see too many services providing is some kind of 'match level' - where the geocoder returns a code indicating how confident it is about the quality of it's result. A result of 1 might mean a building level match, while 100 might be street level etc.

IIRC Google's geocoder does something like this, but it's pretty inaccurate, overstating it's match level consistently.

As others have said, geocoding is very hard to do well, but I commend the efforts being made with Nominatim and komoot/photon.
If that was their justification, why would they be so ashamed of it? Why would they hide this justification from us?
He knocked over one bowling pin to start: he conquered the Canadian dating market, started locally and moved across the border.

That can't be replicated again in the dating market, it's hyper saturated now, but that concept holds true for most any market and for most any product or service: you have to conquer that first market.
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Maybe not my real phone number but Google Voice number? Sure, who cares?
"The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence, as the primary method to locate targets for lethal drone strikes – an unreliable tactic that results in the deaths of innocent or unidentified people."

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/the-ns...
> that includes killing outsiders who pose a security threat

Is the executive then to get free reign, unrestrained by the judiciary, to declare a citizen an "outsider"?
Some of us share everything as a matter of principle.
the premise is, it is marketed to merchant as 'the business you would not have without us'. Merchant will treat this as 'referal commision + payment processing'
Fair point, and I debated making that statement.

I do not believe this kid was purposefully being violent. I do believe what he did could have had terribly violent results. But until I receive additional information to the contrary, I'm going to assume that he was engaged in a prank -- a very dumb prank.
Building a business around machine learning APIs
It doesn't even have generics!
> I was under the impression that killing US citizens without a trial had been considered pretty much unthinkable until a few years ago

U.S. citizens were killed in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and it is believed that some of the ones that went to fight for the Nazis were also killed by American soldiers on the battlefield.
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> Caught between atheism and a crippling fear of death, Ray Kurzweil and other futurists feed this mischaracterization by trumpeting the impending technological apotheosis of humanity, their breathless idiocy echoing through popular media.

An unexpected jab in the second-last paragraph, seems the author has some strong opinions about AI. I wonder how he'd respond to Hawking's recently newsworthy worries.
>Note that I'm talking about executions, not killing as part of warfare.

I'd be curious to see where you, personally, would draw the line.

Is it not warfare to kill someone that is plotting on harming civilians as a primary means to advance their agenda?
"... reading scores among young children have improved since the 1970s, according to one test that measures reading ability. The reading scores among 17-year-olds, however, remained relatively unchanged since the 1970s. ..."

The article complains about reading ability among children being the same as before. They lament lack of progress, they do not lament decline in ability. Maybe your reading abilities were above what 9 years old could do back then.
As mentioned several times, Github is not your resume. At the very least, it's not mine. Sure, I have a github profile, but the little side projects there don't really have anything to do with my professional work (most recently, data deduplication and video processing).

Also, LaTeX can produce much, much better resumes than markdown. Here's a link to my (extremely dated) resume using the moderncv template: http://jsaxton.com/resume.pdf

It's great for a number of reasons:

1: It immediately gets the attention of the hiring manager, since it looks way better than the typical MS Word resume.

2: It's really easy to edit. If I want to add an item, I just add "/item Did X". It's great.

3: It's plaintext, so you can throw it in git, which is really nice. Since I don't want the public to know if I'm updating my resume, I keep my resume in a private git repository (the same private repo where I keep all my Coursera work).
To a modern physicist, perhaps the most interesting thing about the Oklo reactor is that it gives us one of the biggest levers on the question "Have the laws of physics changed over time?"

So far as anyone can tell, nuclear physics was the same back then as it is today.
the golang alias works pretty well, but until you learn this trick it's annoying as hell.
It only shows how racist the American political and judicial system inherently is.

America is the only civilized country where the state sanctioned murder of foreign nationals is called an execution. Principles are principles and they extend to all human beings regardless of race or nationality.

Shame on America.
FCC’s Wheeler Denies Trying to Divide Internet Into “Haves” and “Have Nots”
It disappoints me that so few people here read the linked article. This article talks about writing your resume in markdown and only tangentially mentioned git at all in that writing it in markdown will make it versionable. The only direct mention of github is a link to a repo that converts resumes to pdf.
< 60MB per month upload, < 5MB per month download

1) Seems like a lot of data, what exactly is it communicating and to whom? What are the privacy policies?

2) What happens if/when the company stops running its servers? Does the device continue to work or will it become junk?
Everything I've ever done is on my github account. I also get paid to code.
My understanding that much of the legal work is donated so outreach seems like a reasonable expenditure, particularly if it increases revenues or brings in more donated legal work.
This only deepens the mystery of humans are able to do it.
I really hope I live long enough to learn how human intelligence works.
Is trading allowed in the rules though?
How does that follow? That the judiciary has jurisdiction over the rights of those present on American soil is an uncontested assertion.
And code that a beginner wrote a year prior might indeed be worth not sharing.
Anecdotally, about a third of small businesses (cafes, food trucks, etc.) use Square here in Austin. Another third use PayPal or Intuit. The rest use something else. Square has plenty of retailers here, and cab drivers often use Square to pay 2.9% instead of the ~5% their companies charge them to accept cards.
Fast, cheap, good, pick two.
https://www.google.com/#q=R

R you sure about that?
> How about game with much smaller search tree complexity first, like poker.

I presume you're talking about limit poker. In pot-limit or no-limit poker, the search tree is large, especially (as you say) for 6-max or full-ring. I don't have much of a frame of reference, but I'm tempted to say "very large".

> The problem in poker is not the complexity of the game, it's in learning how your opponent thinks and how they adjust to your play.

I don't understand this distinction. It seems to me that learning how your opponent thinks and how they adjust to your play are a central part of the difficulty in most deep games of strategy.
agree, a simple to understand confidence score is critical.

Also agree nominatim and photon are impressive
Another quote: "... reading scores among young children have improved since the 1970s, according to one test that measures reading ability. ..."
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I just tested this quickly (on MacOS 10.9.2), it is not a 1,0,1,0 sequence. (It is repeatable since I'm not seeding)

On Linux, same thing. It even gives the same sequence as the Mac OS version

(it's 100 numbers, "1,0,1,1...0,1," no \n at the end)

./rt | md5sum
7a5a5a0758ca83c95b21906be6052666
Most libraries support Python 3 (http://py3readiness.org/).
3.4 added asyncio, 3.3 added the 'yield from'. Python 3 has a saner print statement, type annotations.
I guess that it isn't that much, but I moved mostly due to the fact that a) the libraries I need support python3 anyway b) the stuff I write might need 'yield from' c) what if Python 3.x adds some awesome feature that you'll need, and by that time, you're stuck with a ton of code you need to convert?
Imagine how different mankind would be today if our ancestors were barred from using boats. Colonialism probably would never have happened.
I don't like this line of thinking, because it blurs the very real distinction between military actions on foreign soil and police actions on American soil. Those two things are, in history and practice, utterly different.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/20/us-dron...
I'm a PhD student at MIT interested in doing research using the Commoncrawl dataset. Are you interested in working on this together or at least getting together and chatting about it? drop me a line: nagaraj@mit.edu
It's not meant so much as an analogy, but an example that shows the rule of "the government shouldn't kill people without a trial" not really being a rule.
Well, we don't know, because the details are not public.

Hence, the call for the disclosure of the memos.
Doesn't seem like anyone has actually used POF here so I'll put it out there—it's the trashiest, most annoying dating site I've used.
Those numbers are averages. Maybe they get a lot of larger donors or recurring donors. It's quite possible that they wasted his entire donation trying to convert him from a $50 donor into a $1000+ donor.
Thank you. What I wanted to say.

I would also add one of the more important means of communication that we really do not know how to use well - code.
I see them mostly in trendy bakeries or cafes in the south east US. I also see them all the time in cabs in many parts of the US.
They can be tested with quickcheck as well: http://yellerapp.com/posts/2014-05-08-testing-riak.html
Perhaps the link title should more accurately describe the post content, then. It's up to the author and link submitter to clearly communicate.
You must have a much clearer idea as to what 'combat situation' and 'targeted executions outside of war' means than me.

Is it acceptable to bomb a tent of generals planning a campaign in the middle of a war?
Explaining electromagnetic waves propagation
Story-telling is important for society.

I'd also argue that even if someone says "oh, I don't read stories," their lives are still very much affected by "stories," many of which are not explicitly told to us (rather, we learn them via cultural habits). Over the last few years, I've found it interesting (and satisfying) to examine what sorts of stories inform my life.
My program does click on results on a random basis. It doesn't just search.
Clear case of: http://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297690717/why-doesnt-america-r...
A ViewPager subclass with parallax background effect for Android apps
Gmail's next overhaul is radical and will make it look more like Google Plus
> I could be wrong but I'd tend to believe it is because they are a clear threat and not because one has poor choice in friends or makes suspicious trips to unusual destinations.

I'd love to be able to trust the governments ability to decide who and what is a 'clear threat', it'd make a lot of things a lot easier. But unfortunately history - including fairly recent US history - is chuck full of evidence to the contrary.
Github is not my resume. Stackoverflow is a piece of my resume.
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Ask HN: I'm visiting SF for 3 days, what do I do?
Hi HN'ers, I'm visiting SF for 3 days from May 15th to May 17th. What meetups/cafes/events can I go to to network with VC's, founders, tech people, other awesome companies, etc?
Because they are also hiding it from the enemy.

If you know the rules, you can exploit the rules.
Well, for the majority of us that is not the case. If you work for Mozilla (or something like that) then great, but to expect the same from everyone is just ridiculous.
Steps 2 through 5 say that throwing an Ultra Ball at a Slept/Frozen Pokemon will have at least a 1/6 chance of catching anything. Was it that easy to catch a Legendary in Generation 1, and this is something they've changed?

Also, Generation 1 had Nest Balls and Net Balls, didn't it? Those are missing from this list.
Keep in mind that's just the ad views, not the analytics for the entire site. If he began testing AdSense briefly in June, it wouldn't show the traffic the site had in May.

His site from archive.org reveals some interesting things:

(from april 2003)

https://web.archive.org/web/20030422063613/http://plentyoffi...

At the top of the page are links to promotional systems. I'm guessing he basically used link exchanges, similar to how imgur used a traffic exchange (mgid.com) to dramatically bolster its early start.

https://web.archive.org/web/20030423171521/http://www.thefre...

and: https://web.archive.org/web/20030420035505/http://www.alovel...

and: https://web.archive.org/web/20030420102231/http://www.single...
Yep, it is kind of scary. It is as if non-Americans would not count as full humans. Human rights maybe apply, maybe not, depending on immediate political situation.
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Firebase (YC S11) is hiring a Developer Advocate for Mobile in SF
Haven't played the game myself, but I have heard about it! Have to give it a go one day.
I used Square Wallet where I could, because if I used my card I had to sign on the iPad screen, which was always kind of awkward.

But I don't really know why I had to do that - in plenty of other places I can charge ~$5 without signing. And the software was controlled by Square. So effectively, Square Wallet helped me solve a problem that Square caused in the first place.

Now I have Google Wallet enabled for tap payments on my phone. Every time I use it I feel like I'm living in the future. Except I can only use it in Duane Reade.
is it possible to get this resume exported to Pdf? I might consider it in that case, but i dont really have that much trouble using Latex and it really is quite beautiful once it comes out. Thanks Latex template makers!
Worth a listen on this topic - Radiolab on the 60 words that define 'The War on Terror'. Includes a discussion on the group who sit and discuss who ends up on this kill list. http://www.radiolab.org/story/60-words/#13999071198021&%7B%2...
This could be cool. We've got a coffee shop in our building that has a Square POS system (which is itself pretty neat). In theory, I'll be able to order by drink before I get there. That's pretty neat!

Their POS system combined with an easy way to enable online ordering is a huge win for the retailer.
For a comparison: In Germany a sniper or a law enforcement officer killing a suspect is not necessarily specifically allowed in the law (3 out of 16 states don't have any special regulation concerning this). The legal theory to still allow shooting a hostage taker is called "(Aussergesetzlicher) Notstand", the situation where to protect one person from harm you need to inflict harm to another person. This does not make the action itself legal, but the person goes unpunished. It's actually a legal concept that I prefer over permitting killings by law enforcement.
This is from 2012, when Basecamp were still 37signals.
Using this service doesn't touch our "data" in any way whatsoever. It's a DNS service; it's not like I need to give them access to my Postgres database and Google Analytics password.
This may be relevant to the legal opinion in question, too! But it would be nice to know what exactly it said either way, wouldn't it?
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Aus Holz kann man die schönsten Sachen gestalten, wie z.B.: Stühle, Tische oder sogar Abstrakte Skulpturen die als Accessoires im ganzen Haus ins Auge stechen könnten. Schauen sie sich doch einfach mal in einer Schreinerei hier in Bern um, sie werden Augen machen wen sie sehen was man alles aus Holz machen kann.
What punishment do you recommend?
I have a dedicated email for my Github profile. Interestingly, I've received several unprompted job offers at that email, which is not the email listed on my resume. So there are at least some groups (most of these were startups) who may be hiring based off Github profiles alone.
I agree with you and perhaps someone should change the title. But I am still disappointed one would see fit to dash off 50-100 words without taking the time to read the article. "Ooh, this guy pressed one of my buttons! Here we goooooooo."
Metallbau Bern
Wen man an Metallbau denkt, dann geht einem sofort nur der Metall durch den Kopf, dabei kann man aus dem schweren material vieleSachen kreieren wie z.B.: Geländer, Treppen und noch zahlreiche andere schöne Dekorationen für das ganze Haus. In Bern gibt es viele metallbau firmen die ihnen ihre Wünsche aus Metall verwirklichen können.
I agree with you. But please do read the article.
Consider this situation (numbers fictional):

1. It costs 10 dollars an hour to keep a cop on active duty.

2. You need 10 cops to handle a specific region based on the fact that you receive 10 incidents a day.

3. You now get an additional 2 fake incidents a day but you don't know which of the 12 incidents are fake.

4. You therefore need cops to check out these incidents. You must hire them.

5. Your cost of operation goes up.

Lesson #1: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
Wasn't there some kind of unpleasantness around the time of Abe Lincoln's presidency, resulting in the killing of several hundred thousand American citizens without trials?

It really irks me when this kind of discussion is focused on US citizenship, as if nobody else counts. Either the US government has a right to decide that somebody somewhere is so dangerous that he needs killin', and then go whack him, or it doesn't. I don't see how it's not OK on due process grounds, but only if the guy is a US citizen. Anyway, this kind of rule is likely to result in some kind of a circular arrangement, in which the US whacks undesirable French citizens and France whacks German citizens in return and then Germany reciprocates by killing US citizens, and hey - no rules are broken.

BTW, I can't say that I am against all government-ordered killings in principle. Governments conduct wars and military operations, sometimes with good reasons. And wars don't just result in killing people "on the battlefield", as Rand Paul says. Suppose that some terrorist group is preparing an attack somewhere - are you supposed to send special forces after them with a death sentence from some court in their pocket?
If you're happy with Go's "everything is a unicode string" approach then you should be happy to just treat everything as unicode. Don't handle the decode errors - if someone sends some data to your stdin that's not in the correct encoding, too bad.

Yes, python3 makes it hard to write programs that operate on strings as bytes. This is a good thing, because the second you start to do anything more complicated than read in a stream of bytes and dump it straight back out to the shell (the trivial example used here), your code will break. Unix really is wrong here, and the example requirement would seem absurd to anyone not already indoctrinated into the unix approach: you want a program that will join binary files onto each other, but also join strings onto each other, and if one of those strings is in one encoding and one is in another then you want to print a corrupt string, and if one of them is in an encoding that's different from your terminal's then you want to display garbage? Huh? Is that really the program you want to write?
If I am wrong, please tell me why.

I don't think your necessarily wrong that it would make him look bad, but it would have to be some really extraordinary revelations to make his character look worse than he already does. Maybe it would mean more widespread exposure of his real character, but for all the praise that can be thrown at him, anyone paying attention is already aware he was an all-around petulant asshole willing to act immorally and illegally to get his way.
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Loving the article so far, interesting read and makes me interested in reading more into the AI Go scene. Any HNers have links that would an excited learner make?

also

> computer game theory genius Alfred Zobrist

I couldn't help but laugh, because I read this an entirely different way than the author intended. I assume he just meant 'game theory' without the computer prefix