skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't made up my mind if tracking is altogether bad. I certainly enjoy Google showing me relevant ads in a non-malware-appearance. Privacy is good in theory but out of convenience I keep using services that compromise my private information and I myself willingly leave personal information online on several websites. Anything is as strong as your weakest link. And their are too many weak links in my online circle.
The platforms you mentioned don't track how well their users' stock recommendations perform. We want to change that and give you more insights about people's stock recommendations.
It's unavailable in the sense that you can actually buy it now. I just did. That is, in the sense that it is available. And right now the claim made is demonstrably false, if not a deliberate lie.

Seriously people you need to confirm your facts. Not everything you read in the papers is true.
BTW, it is called "AngularJS", not "Angular".
Currently, they have to sign up before they can get tracked. There are challenges to track non-structured recommendations from other platforms. If you have suggestions, we would love to hear about them!
So you bought surface and didn't check its specs and you blame Microsoft for that?
Bill Gates published an academic paper in 1979
Not so sure, when you do a search the good ones are generally long enough ago.

Here's yet another project that covers the same ground from September 2010, for instance - http://pleasantsoftware.com/developer/3d/2010/09/26/keep-it-...

edit - another video of that one, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaEkukmnmK8 and there is also this other thing from 2011, http://hydraraptor.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/auto-bed-leveling....
What is the name of this new website design that is just one page that you scroll through.
cala-light, embedded as a webfont. You can go into web inspector and delete that font in the css, turning it back into whatever the default serif is.

Cala-light does look more readable at sane font sizes, but although I'm not a typography expert, its kerning looks bad. e.g. the letter spacing in the word "charging" on the first line, or the sequence "rr" or "oin" just to name a few.
Not that there's much of a San Joaquin Valley aquifer left to ruin by fracking, but politics and the sheer cost of trying to do business in California should mean the Monterrey Shale will be held in reserve. (Personally, I think I'd rather eat California produce than have cheap gas for driving around on foraging expeditions/pantry raids.)

Great piece from Mercury News on SJV water here:
http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_25447586/california-dr...

Tip of the research iceberg on the obvious:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/groundwater-contam...
Thanks for the correction. I assume that the simple

v(t) + -1*v(t) = 0

approach is unworkable because you can't generate the canceling signal (-1 * v(t)) fast enough? By the time you have received it, amplified it, and played it back, it's too late? So you need a predictive approach.
This is why "work remote" jobs are so fantastic if you can get them. You don't have to worry as much about politics. In an office environment you have to worry about if you're getting along well enough with people on a personal level and this nebulous "I enjoy working with him or not" factor might make or break your career. At an office job you need to put in hard work to "become friends" with everyone otherwise some people will bear a grudge. Sometimes this is not easy depending on the situation. There are too many "social factors" in office jobs which can make or break you and that have nothing at all to do with your ability to "get shit done". Not so with remote working. All that matters is your ability to be productive.

https://37signals.com/remote/
weworkremote.com
>>> These locusts were AOL users. In September of 1993, the company granted Usenet access to their entire user base, which triggered an unending deluge of noobs into the Usenet community.

Amusingly, I joined AOL in September of 1993. It was not long after I graduated and lost my university log-in, along with the e-mail address that came with it.

I chose AOL for a simple reason: I could dial up anywhere in the country and keep the same e-mail address no matter where I lived. AOL also greatly simplified the process of using the Internet. I ran a small business via my AOL address.

Each update to AOL software came via some promotion or other -- an insert in a magazine, or even a pile of AOL disks at the supermarket. At some point it became possible for an AOL user to access the Internet without the AOL software, e.g., by using mainstream e-mail and browser software.
Randall Munroe has a nice writeup about flying on Mars, here. Short answer: the air is so thin, a drone would have to fly at Mach 1 just to remain airborne. Also, because the air is so thin, at that speed the plane would be darn near impossible to turn: the plane itself would rotate but not change course.

http://what-if.xkcd.com/30/

Now zeppelins, on the other hand ...
So how did you ever learn to walk, then? Every time you tried to move your leg, the fact that you moved forward, would be anecdotal and the data should be thrown out.
This post set off HN's voting ring detector, but we turned that off because we want to see original work on HN.

Please don't ring-vote posts, though. It's against the rules, makes it likely that your post won't be seen (I only caught this one by accident), and will eventually get your account dinged.
Worse, it seemed that the more esoteric the search term, the more likely it was to show up in one of those goofy ads. I'm not sure if that's actually the case, or if I was just more likely to notice because the dearth of organic results prompted me to pay more attention to the ads.

But, in any case, it was definitely noticeable that they were "spamming" AdWords with worthless ads that frequently led to nowhere useful on eBay's site.
Someone mentioned Oklahoma but it's certainly not the only place:

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2014/04/ohio_ack...

There's actually a lot of news out of that area regarding fracking and earthquakes, going back a few years. The data have improved over time and we've moved past the "correlation isn't causation so come on and have another cigarette" stage. An earthquake happening right under a fracking well is considered scientifically significant.

I don't know if the drilling is on the same scale in CA but I just assume that the eventual rules for avoiding faultlines will be even more strict in a state with a history of serious earthquakes.
Maybe import all of the posts, tickers and dates, and then get the user to manually go through and tag each one as buy/sell/hold, and enter the target price.

It's not perfect, but it might reduce the friction as you solve the chicken and egg problem.
This Constitution you speak of also speaks of the right to bear arms, and due process, both of which are trampled. Your assertion that his allegations of the government influencing, and therefore limiting free speech, are based in fact and empirical support.
We are hosting JotForm mostly on Incero. We have 16 dedicated servers there.
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Fast personal support, reliable service and good prices.
Also, his argument is more or less a seat-of-the-pants assertion with a bit of ad-hoc logic thrown. The game theory doesn't sound bad but human behavior often defies single simple or clever explanations.

I'd like to see data backing this up. But I'm pretty sure he's not using any data because there's little data supporting any blanket assertions; HN is different than Facebook is different from discussion board X - even at scale.
These are excellent lectures! I saw Chap 4, and it was very satisfying to watch the introduction to convergence, L2 norm, inner product etc. Technically, Fourier transform requires only the L1 norm (the 'Manhattan distance') to be finite, but L2 intersection L1 is a superb way to motivate distributions. These lectures must be made required viewing for all students of engineering and mathematical sciences.
I'm creating 2 ^ N fake accounts in order to ensure that I have at least one account with N perfect recommendations. Then pump and dump, baby.
Barely related, but it's surprising how often DSLR newbies show up on photography forums asking how to disable the shutter sound on their cameras.
This is my understanding as well. During the drilling and analysis process, a lot of saltwater is extracted. The recent earthquakes in Oklahoma are believed to be caused by pumping this saltwater back into the ground. The pressures involved are very high.

Source: my uncle is a senior log analyst for an oil & energy company in Oklahoma, and this was his explanation to me last week.
We do plan to implement features, such as validating phone numbers, to prevent that.
You presuppose the wild animal can understand a running wheel, something it never encountered before.

The mice, on seeing something novel, did what that normally do and try to climb all over it looking for food. They then got stuck running on it, not realizing they were getting nowhere.
This has been a consistent topic on HN. I wonder if folks who suffer from anxiety have tried meditation as a cure. I highly recommend some stuff from www.osho.com .
To clarify, this is about an older model surface pro, however Krahulik/Gabriel indicated that the SP3 didn't improve on the pen lag that seems to plague the entire form-factor.

I just brought it up because Krahulik is one of the louder cheerleaders of the Surface Pro line, and so one of his colleagues in the same field that disagrees is worth reading too, even if that article is now a bit dated with the launch of the SP3.
Classified or secret information certainly existed in those times—though it was probably much more limited to direct military concerns.

Examples of classified info:
Strategic information would be troop movements (not into battle), supply build ups, orders for materials.
Tactical information would be 'order of battle' related —troops and arms being brought directly to conflict, troop movements, etc.

I would be very surprised if free press didn't include the ability to write things that the government didn't approve, short of actual, no kidding treason.
thanks stanford, and thanks ycombinator, i really look forward to going over these lessons
This doesn't address the larger community issue, but if you use chrome check out:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/Hacker%20News%20Co...

I use the first one and it makes HN much more readable.
i'm usually disappointed by meteor showers but there was one back in like 97, that me and 2 friends caught that I'll never forget. It was non stop fire balls in the sky. Been hooked ever since, but never seen anything come close to magnitude of that one.
I thought this might just be fluff but it turned out fluffy and good.
The Purple Zone Legal Defense Fund
"it was a really odd application of antitrust law at the time, since Amazon is the one with monopoly power"

The lawsuit was about price-fixing and collusion. It had nothing to do with "monopoly power" (which Amazon does not have now and did not have then).
Was not meant as a jab. It just felt like it had a bit of agenda (the comment). Thanks for clearing it up.

Something I did learn today is that what Balanced really excels at is making marketplaces easy. Stripe doesn't do this well at all...at least not yet. So I think that for now, there's room for both.
That's the thing, Apple fans will just keep buying Apple no matter what. Even if you could by a PC with OS X there would always be a demand for Apple hardware. If Apple sold OS X separately from Macs people would still buy Macs.
Thomas Piketty’s exhaustive inequality data turn out to be flawed
There is a good book whose title and author are eluding me for the moment that examines the necessity of a frontier for freedom. Freedom requires the ability to up and move into an area that is a challenge for the nearest power to control, regulate, and abuse. That is the only meaningful check on the power of the sedentary bandits that become a region's elite.

Historically, this has all been geography. But going forward, there is the opportunity to do something new with technology and section off slices of economic activity into reaches that while existing in the same geographic location as a centralized state are prohibitively expensive to control for its bureaucrats and enforcers.

The malaise of the modern world is, I think, in large part due to the shrinking of frontiers. There is little of the world left that is easily colonized but also hard for the major players to reach into, and so the states become ever more grasping. There is no safety valve by which people can up and peacefully revolt with their feet in large numbers, and that won't return until the cost of getting into orbit falls dramatically.

Meanwhile, there is cryptography.
I don't like ice cream that much... but taco trucks that deliver tacos that taste good.. ok
"The main reason this is getting publicity is that the authors are getting punished but they have no power."

Sure they do. They can put the book on Amazon themselves and make 70% of retail rather than 15% of retail.
> I burned myself out once and it took at least 12 years to regain full productivity. Don't do it.

This is interesting to me -- I've been seriously "burned out" at least three times, and each time it's taken me about a month at the right job to recover. We'll see the next time, but I certainly hope/expect it will take a month or less again.
just tried to order one by "fixing" the styling hiding that model on the site. When you get to the cart it says that it is no longer available.
> (I am not in a position to change jobs at the moment. I am helping my
> BF's startup by doing this job.)

Quit. Get out. Work out a plan with your BF. It's no good to you or him
if you destroy yourself on work you hate. Be happy and poor together
rather than rich and dysfunctional apart.

I've never had to work (for a long time) in a job I truly hated, but
I've felt the pain of working in a company with a poor management
culture -- it's taken me a long time to get back the joy of development
since I left. I now work in a completely different, low paying job --
but it's better being payed less and not having to compromise your work
every day. I'll probably end up with another job in the industry (well,
I hope, anyway!) -- but I'll be very careful in choosing where I apply
-- unless I manage to make a living independently.

For you it sounds pretty much anything, anywhere would be an improvement
though...

I had a gf that worked in a job that crushed her (she
did the right thing, moved away, got certified as a padi instructor and
now lives with her husband and their child, both working as diving
instructors -- I'd say she made the right choice :).

Quitting might not mean that everything works out for you and your
current BF -- but it sounds like staying will ensure that things will
not work out for you.

Anyway, good luck, whatever you end up doing...
Not true.

Amazon pays individual authors 70% of retail. That's far more than they get from any publisher.
Spring Boot and Thymeleaf with Maven
Ranking people by their recommendation performance is going to be very misleading for most people. There is this natural intuition to look at the top performers and try to learn from them. In reality, the rankings would look almost identical if everyone just picked everything randomly. Mutual funds and hedge funds exploit this all the time. They start lots of funds that all invest a little differently. They cull the losers and keep the ones that happened to do well. Then they sell prospective investors on their past performance of one particular fund when in reality they didn't need anything more than random chance and multiple tries to get it.
It's more that sound waves aren't simple 1D sine waves varying over time. Sound is a 3D pressure field varying over time. A single microphone on the outside of the can doesn't give you a full picture of what noise is entering the inside of the headphone. The nature of the noise, the headphone fit on the user's head, even the shape of the user's ears can all influence what the noise field looks like inside the headphones. ANC headphones use 1-3 microphones on the outside and 1 or more microphones inside the can. The DSP makes a guess as to what it should do based on the signal from the outside microphones, then has to make corrections based on what the internal microphones hear, all of this while filtering out your music signal (which the microphones also pick up) so it knows what is noise and what isn't. This is why the system can't be instantaneous, the overall system response is time varying, so the correction filters have to be adaptive. It's also why they do a really good job at blocking continuous noise that they can zero in on an ideal correction for over time, e.g. aircraft cabin noise, but don't do a great job with 'spiky' sounds, like speech.
That distinction between `while` and `whilst` is a humdinger.
Interesting. David Hughes at the Post Carbon Institute said roughly this same thing in 2013. PDF here:

http://www.postcarbon.org/reports/Drilling-California_FINAL....

At the time he pointed out that much of the original estimate was derived from oil company investor presentations. Perhaps not the most unbiased source for the EIA to use.
I'm not familiar with the others, but Motley Fool's CAPS certainly does... I.e. http://caps.fool.com/player/gibybo.aspx shows accuracy, score (this is % return after subtracting the index), average score (same thing, but per recommendation), plot of the score over time, and the performance of every recommendation.
I think they are required to honour the price in Canada.
I tend to practice "only catch what you can handle" in exception-enabled languages - I haven't written in a systems language in almost a decade, mostly bad memories of C. How much does error-handling get in the way when you have to live without stack unwinding?
Spaceweather Radio: Listen to the Camelopardalis meteor shower
I can't stand the fonts. Why is it necessary to make the letters on a 120px font what feels like 1 pixel wide :( I can barely make out the characters at all.
It is equally true that the smoothest ink experience is within Microsoft apps such as OneNote. And so, by far, it should have enough performance for note-taking regardless... Well, at worst Microsoft does have a return policy :)
I just read the first section, just the section on structs -- what's different here, from C? It provides all of the same features, with a slightly different syntax.
It's a multi-page slideshow with vertical transitions, not a single scrollable page. Main benefit is that you can design in full pages, and you don't have to care about how it looks mid-page. Also, it makes animations and 'on page'-interactions possible. It actually works pretty well once (and if) you get used to it. I guess it could be a bit nauseating for people who have become one with the mouse wheel.
When I clicked that I wanted to go from Austin TX to Portland, OR it said "pack your plaid". This is just a poorly done rip-off of hipmonk's messaging. It's just going to confuse people who aren't familiar with silly internet-meme based stereotypes about whatever city it is they're choosing. It's just a bad idea. Portland's message should have said something about roses, or Mount hood, or even make reference to the fact that it rains a lot there, but not some fuzzy stereotype about how a certain age group tend to dress.
You could only trade when they go short.
Every time I used my Surface Pro (1st gen), I lamented that the screen wasn't bigger. You really feel like you're missing a third of possible screen real estate. Hence why I'm excited about the 3:2 aspect ratio. I always figured the Chromebook Pixel was on to something ;-)
Is online freelancing a viable source of income?
that is the case - because there is ~no one else bidding for those keywords, they are more likely to fall under their (usually very low, relative to competition) maximum bid.
Funnily enough, I got an email from Google this morning:

"You could run 27 more ads on 15 pages of your website."

Apparently I should try to make more money by using the full ad complement on all pages... The 15 pages it's probably talking about are things like the contact form, about page, etc.
A technical pervert would take a HD video with their phone and then use multiple frames to mathematically extract even higher-resolution stills from it:

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~kalyans/research/snapshots/supp...
I have two instances on DO. I use one purely as a VPN server so I can watch u.s. netflix etc. It is roughly 3~5 times faster than VPN subscriptions. I use the other instances as a backup server.
and people in the train will see you with a digital camera instead of a multi-use device like a phone.
Seldom have I seen a serious site that would be improved by switching to Comic Sans and Papyrus, but here one is.
'Empathetically Correct' Is the New Politically Correct
It has to be the same people contributing content as the ones doing the fault finding. If those 2 jobs are done by different people the distribution of checks becomes a mess.
Then why do we expect to prove such traits for animals?

Keep in mind we use said "proofs" to justify how we treat animals used for food, experiments, hunting them for sport, and so on.
Thanks, this was my immediate thought. If Bogle's thesis is correct (which is perhaps equivalent to the efficient market hypothesis), then there should not be anything to be gained by looking at these folks' stock picks in general.

Retrospectively, of course, some of their picks should look like pure gold.
PACER pricing is ridiculous. From their FAQ:

------- begin quote -------

PACER charges $0.10 per page retrieved. This applies to both the pages of search results and the pages of documents you retrieve.

The charge for any single document is capped at $3.00, the equivalent of 30 pages. The cap does not apply to name searches, reports that are not case-specific, and transcripts of federal court proceedings.

If you accrue a total of less than $15.00 worth of charges in any given quarter, fees are waived for that quarter.

------- end quote -------

I can understand charging for document pages, but for search results pages?
Well done on the website. Navigation is smooth, and the layout is nice. I'm interested to see how this social network for stocks does once you get more users.
No I brought the surface knowing the spec but hoping they would add it in the next few iterations, which they haven't so far. Not having a GPS and 4G is pretty much the only reason I am not going to upgrade to the Surface Pro 3. These two additions makes it the complete package for my travel.
Phone numbers cost $1 to bypass this.
How do those laws address devices without the capability to produce sound?
If you think about it, it's pretty much the same thing as twitter, except the social graph is built more implicitly. In exchange for a larger selection of relevant content, you have to sift through more noise. But it probably feels better to vote if you know your vote counts differently for some users. You're no longer just one number in a statistic, but part of a much more complicated ranking system. Best of all, your votes significantly affect your own experience on the website.

A dynamic social graph like that would probably obviate the need for even categorizing content, let alone "jumping ship" when the community decays.

There are some drawbacks though. If you implemented it in reddit/hacker news, there would no longer be a "front page of x" to serve as a symbolic milestone for your submission. Without context, "2000 upvotes" has ambiguous importance. Also, a different ranking system exists for each cluster in your social graph, which sounds like a fun engineering problem.
Phone numbers are a dime a dozen these days..you need more like SSN validation.