skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you think that using a SaaS gives you a free option on service next month. This is... an unusual understanding of how business services work.

That might be true technically, but it's certainly a common expectation among organisations that use SaaS offerings.

Moreover, it is a necessary expectation for many of those services to be commercially viable. Frequently the time and resources invested in integrating someone else's service will take a significant period to generate a net positive return and outsourcing will incur a significant degree of risk. If decision makers didn't have a good faith belief that a service they were planning to integrate would remain available for a useful period of time, approximately no-one would ever sign up in the first place.

Obviously many businesses do offer services that, according to their fine print, do not provide any such guarantee. They rely on their potential customers either not noticing or not caring enough to prevent them from buying.

(If you disagree, then if you'll forgive me for using a personal example for a moment, I invite you A/B test Appointment Reminder's current home page against a factually accurate version that does not make any claim that is undermined by the fine print in your Terms of Service. For example, instead of "Clients get a reminder call or text message prior to their appointment" in your main graphic, you could write "Clients might get a reminder call or text message prior to their appointment, or they might get it late or not at all.")

IMHO, current trends like launching MVPs and exiting via acquihires are therefore poisoning the well. Potential customers of future services will, quite rightly, be suspicious of those services' reliability and longevity, and otherwise viable businesses may fail purely because of trust issues.

In the interests of fair disclosure: My own businesses depend on very few such services, and without any exception I can immediately think of, either those services are conveniences rather than critical to business operations or their providers have given legally actionable guarantees about their intentions/exit scenarios.
This is mostly how we ran things at Rockmelt. 50+ VMs.
Not only that, Facebook's default privacy settings are set up in a way which most users' proper email address is not exposed to sites using social login.
5 Questions with Sam Tarantino, CEO of Grooveshark
This isn't just with Mathematics. In general in any profession, people who start new things are valued more than the people who solve problems with existing things.

On earth day I was speaking to a volunteer, who talked about how people who talk about saving existing forests are taken to be anti industrial progress but people who plant new trees are considered as people who are changing the world.

This applies to any thing you will ever do.

This is also why you must avoid jobs and responsibilities that deal with legacy projects, and seek projects that are doing something new.
The real problem is that the roads don't seem to be engineered with a "bandwidth" mentality. Instead I see interchanges where 2-3 lanes from a new road are being piped into an existing 2-3 lane road. Did the existing road get expanded to 4-6 lanes? Very rarely, because you would see a lot more 10-20 lane roads running through downtown.

Instead, it seems a lot of "traffic" studies are just minor tweaks around the edge, add a lane or remove a lane from a 4-6 lane main corridor and the traffic patterns basically don't change that much because its massively oversubscribed already.
Another throwaway for similar reasons.

I have never used myredbook, as it isn't very popular in my area, but I am an active client of several related sites in my area for connecting with and reviewing sex workers.

Personally, I think these sites are great for making the industry safer and more useful for both sides of the exchange, and I am concerned that the government seems to be interested in taking down these sites rather than busting the actual bad actors enganged in pimping, human trafficking, underage girls, etc.

I am also open to answering any questions about the industry and the sites that service it.
Thank you, that behaves a lot better. It seems a bit odd that the multiClickStream emits a `0` 200ms after the last click, but I guess you can add the filter to the multiClickStream directly and let the button clear its own text a different way.

http://jsfiddle.net/U2j4D/17/

So more than 4 lines of code, but I'm glad to see it's quite doable.
Check out webpack
BitcoinJS 1.0.0
http://moz.com/ is a fairly authoritative source on good SEO techniques.

They address keyword stuffing in a 'common myths' article [1] that also happens to address the metatag myth. Matt Cutts, Google's search spokesman, also has some unkind words for keyword stuffing [2].

There are appropriate meta tags to be included [3] like the description tag. There's also Open Graph, RDF, and the like to consider including [4]. These don't influence Page Rank and SERP but can help with traffic and providing more information to people. As a brick and mortar store, your client should likely be on top of this kind of metadata and if not, this should be one of your priorities.

Hiding elements sounds like the kind of grey hat techniques that work now and impress people but gradually get detected and penalized by Google over time. Unfortunately this kind of stuff often works, until it incurs a penalty. Instead, reputable SEO will likely involve building content around keyword groups. Think blogging about keyword1 and keyword3, another entry involving keyword2 and keyword4, etc. Make it informational, make it share-able, and avoid spamminess.

It sounds like you're in a difficult spot, your client is likely to continue down this road despite your objections. I hope you have some success steering them towards proper SEO and more traffic.

[1]http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/myths-and-misconceptio...

[2]http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/avoid-keyword-stuffing/

[3]http://moz.com/learn/seo/meta-description

[4]http://searchengineland.com/facebooks-open-graph-for-local-s...
1. Awful summary

0.6% recurrent event rate does not mean it was 99.4% effective. You need to know what the recurrent event rate would have been if everything else was the same and they hadn't followed the diet. Hint: if the normal recurrent event rate is 0.3% then they are worse off, not better (insert test of statistical significance here).

If the event you are testing for (recurrent CVA) is rare, then a large enough sample and proper statistical significance tests are even more important.

2. No control group

"Didn't follow the diet" is not a control group. They have, post-hoc, selected the subgroup consisting of "people unlikely to follow a lifestyle intervention". That group might also been the most likely to continue smoking, not take their medication, do no exercise, be too unwell to follow a rigorous diet, etc etc.

3. Subgroup analysis

Drawing a circle around a subgroup after your study and making inferences from them is an excellent way to get bogus results. (Classic example: Wimbledon winner prediction system. Email 2000 people at random with each player and ask them to bet $1 on that player. After you know the winner, get the subgroup of people who won, and ask them how accurate they think your winner prediction system is.)
Control and double blind studies are more important when the placebo effect and subjective outcomes are at play. Not necessary here. Everyone that follows a different diet would like to complain about that. You should have compared it to the paleo diet, or low-carb diet, or whatever. Show studies that those diets have similar effects and then they merit comparison.

Self reporting is an issue, but this is not the only type of study on the issue. It has been supported by international studies, animal testing, and countless studies about the health benefits of more fruits/vegetables and less meat.
Yes, this is what I thought, but how do I say this to a client and get them to listen?
Actually, it would be very interesting to know whether different people gave different answers when asked the same questions (e.g., managers might give you the "official answer" but non-managers might give you a different perspective).
kill: - 10;
blast: + 10;
nuke: - 100;

/conjecture
Maybe not the place to discuss this, but I attended Florida as an undergrad and Grooveshark has a terrible reputation among my grad engineer friends there (they're especially well-known for underpaying devs who don't know any better). I'd steer clear of them if you're in Gainesville.
uhm... does this mean I'm moving all those bytes when I'll get up from the chair?
> The simplistic approach of CommonJS works, but long-term it's not the best solution for the wide use-cases of JavaScript.

Could you elaborate on this point a little more? I've worked on Node.js projects varying greatly in size, and even on the larger ones I've yet to feel encumbered the CommonJS module system.
Usain Bolt is an example of this. I remember being totally shocked when he ran the 100m in 9.59 [1]. Check out this awesome graph from the "Men's 100 m progression" wikipedia page.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nbjhpcZ9_g
[2]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/World_rec...
This is great, I think at first glance it works at scale, but I think a lot of shops not in the 'startup world', older IT shops still working out of the 90s and 2000's will find that hard to do. When you have 5 monster work horse servers instead of 50 VMs where you can spin up 50 more within 30 minutes it's hard to get away from direct server access for the devops team.
Having read the pastebin link below, the author (regardless of it being true or not) could be liable for slander of individuals and probably in violation of his employment agreement constraints about sharing private data.

A likely scenario is that this post was circulated internally at Grooveshark and their executive team and/or HR team reminded their employees about their obligations.

I am concerned for the submitter - I don't think this is the last we hear of this.
You are going to have to point at something more specific than the article as a whole. At a skim, it seems to support my interpretation perfectly fine. It starts off:

"In computer science, a function or expression is said to have a side effect if, in addition to returning a value, it also modifies some state or has an observable interaction with calling functions or the outside world."

The increase in CPU temperature certainly an "observable interaction with [...] the outside world". Given that you are given no kinds of guarantees about the semantics of this interaction in any language I'm aware of, it would be poor engineering to rely on it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen or that it is not a side effect.
Weird coincidence that glassdoor is under maintenance.
Maybe not that specific position, but the salary list at the end looked very roughly 20% low to what I am used to seeing on Angel list etc, etc., even giving the lack of locality pay.
I use GoodReader. It's really the best PDF on tablets/phones with ability to annotate, highlight and so on. Problem is that there is no web version but for that you might use dropbox or Google drive anyway.
I feel sorry for him, but it is interesting reading. May help looking out for situations like that to avoid in the future.
Whatever you post on the internet will be available for posterity!
They are low, even figuring in the locality pay.
Web developer, right now mostly front-end and integration.
Nearly 100% of participants who changed their diet had no additional cardiac events; some even had measurable disease reversal. These were all sick people. The hard question is "What is a healthy diet that includes animal products?" This study doesn't address that interesting question but does demonstrate that if you eat a particular healthy diet that happens to not include any animal products, you won't die from heart disease. That's a profound result for the participants, with profound public health implications.
That's honest of the HN team. Thanks.
I don't think it was a downright lie to say Grooveshark was worth $375MM if they were making $13MM/year in revenue. Heck valuations aren't necessarily tied to revenue. If they were then a lot of pre-revenue companies would have a zero dollar valuation and that clearly isn't the case.
Thanks heaps for this. I think one of the problems is that they expect when they hire an expensive "expert" they then trust that expert's advice, same as they would advice from a lawyer or accountant. Me coming along and saying "No! don't do that" comes off to them the same as if I complained about advice from their accountant.

The above links are good and I'll read them when I get a break and apss them along. As for the hiding elements, I just plain said I wouldn't do it, but the rest I've less grounds on which to object. In short, I want them to do what's best for them
It isn't inherently a loophole, I never said that, I said from the point of view of the IRS it could open up a loophole, possibly.

Giving to the public isn't the point of nonprofit status, there are lots of different kinds of nonprofits, and the one under discussion here is a very specific kind, and in order to qualify for it, the IRS requires a lot of specific things.

From what I understand, the issue the IRS has is the fact that the recipient of the charity was too broad, and to qualify for 501(c)(3) status, the recipient of the charity should be more targeted.

Think of it this way, I could give away free food all day, but if I'm doing it at the top of a ski resort, it probably doesn't help the kind of people who need free food and my case for being considered a charity may be diminished.

There is nothing to say that companies doing open source can't qualify, many have, and they obviously did so with better lawyers and maybe a more concrete/directed plan as to who would receive the charity they are offering.

The IRS isn't concerned with the benefit to society, that's not what they are regulating, they are regulating the flow of money and exemptions to taxation. Software that is tax free and used by entities which may exploit that are what the IRS is probably considering.
Why can't they just install more speed-bumps?

Off the top of my head:

- Given the variety of suspension systems in cars (and available aftermarket options), trying to make a speed bump targeting one speed (or even a relatively narrow range of speeds) would be pretty difficult unless you want to limit all traffic to 10-15 mph

- Speedbumps on major thoroughfares can cause problems for emergency vehicles

- (from personal experience) riding over a speed bump (certainly ones that haven't been well-maintained) on a bicycle is not fun

- they make snowplowing more difficult (but not impossible)
Show HN: Yo2048 – A Mash-Up From the 2-Hour Yo Hackathon
Location: Los Angeles, Ca

Remote: Willing to try it out.

Willing to Relocate: Depends on role,company,etc.

Technologies: iOS (Cocoa Touch & Objective-C, and a couple weeks of Swift)

Resume: http://linkedin.com/in/remartinez

email: email [_at_] dorkify [_dot_] me

Background: 5 years working in the aerospace industry with a MS in Aerospace Engr, BS in Mechanical Engr & BS in Aerospace Engr. Relevant experience includes writing code for aerospace hardware development, namely, modeling physics-based gas dynamics (Matlab). Recently self-taught; developed an iOS app and published to AppStore -- and loved it! Looking to find an iOS developer role where I can continue to mature my skills and expand my knowledge of the iOS SDK.
It looks from http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/prove-and-con... like the proper date for this article is 2000.
And then you have the dicks who will move at -1 second and jump the lights without checking that it is clear.
Interesting, I've got 3.5 Chumbies :-) This is not a good thing for me :-(

The Chumby was a product from Bunnie Studios which was an ARM system with a touch screen, embedded is a bean bag kind of case. It had an application which is basically a flash player (yes on ARM, the only one I know of these days) and it would cycle between flash applications on a "channel." Some times it would cycle through to an advertisement.

It has an accelerometer, speaker, 320 x 240 x 16 touch screen, a couple of USB ports and a wireless network connector. You can wire up a USB serial port to the console if you have something like the AdaFruit FTDIFriend board.

It very much was the classic case of something "before its time" and the business model was kind of dicey. If you didn't want commercials you were out of luck. Once the company shut down they left a server up serving the one App I really liked, "Space Clock" which was a clock like you might see on a Star Trek universe ship (it has a very LCS look to it).

The site has been revived and a new business model has been put in placed, $3 per month subscription for the ability to run 'apps' on your Chumby. I presume it no longer shows ads.

Its sad for me because it has a really crappy clock app now that runs instead of the space clock, and that is going to force me to finish up my OS replacement. The thing is based loosely on the old Beagle board and much of the things that run on that board run on the Chumby. In particular there is a Ubuntu image for it.

I get the subscription thing, but I don't get the price. For $36/year you can run quite a bit of server. A single droplet ($5/month) can serve up several thousand Chumbies (they don't make I/O requests all that often). $3 a year would have made more sense to me, even $5 a year. Anything more than $12 a year and I'm just not going to go there.

The reason I have 3.5 is that the .5 is the 'Chumby Guts' option that Adafruit offered for a while. It was all of the parts, minus the squishy case. At $99 for the parts it was a really good deal for a small ARM linux system with a touch screen. I wish them luck, and I'm glad they are back, but I think they need to rethink that price.
What does the Facebook experiment teach us?
I was trying to sum it up in a short'ish manner. However https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7975185 does it a lot better than me.
Last Line: "I'm working here until I can find a decent job somewhere else where I won't have to sell my soul anymore."

Ya.... Maybe that plan won't work out now.

It's not I haven't felt similar about work.. but when they pay you and you stay there willingly maybe you should keep your frustration to yourself and a few close friends. And.. there may be something you don't know about what your bosses are doing. Ever think of that?

If you really feel the way you do and you want to warn people, quit, then do your rant. Don't continue to take their money while betraying them. To do otherwise is not good practice at all. Even if you are right.
I fail to see how this advice applies specifically to sex workers. What I see is a (good) guide on how to protect your privacy and keep your personal data from prying eyes in the general case. You will be at risk of seizure, surveillance or examination if you're doing less serious and more passive stuff than a sex worker has to do.

EFF could maybe come up with some advice that will narrowly target sex workers in this case. They mentioned MyRedBook was used to screen clients and keep from predators, so perhaps some advice on how to do that now the site's down will be valuable?
Amid sexual harassment allegations, dating app Tinder suspends co-founder
Perhaps it's not an issue of "more obedient to authority". Instead, at least some microloans overseas succeed because of "solidarity lending" [1], which involves "peer pressure, mutual support and a healthy culture of repayment".

But not here: "Efforts to replicate solidarity lending in developed countries have generally not succeeded."

I think it could work here among the right groups. E.g. in the last century credit unions were very popular. These weren't just formed by employers and unions, but also by various immigrant groups in the big melting pot cities like New York. Those immigrants weren't desirable customers by existing banks, and so they were forced to form their own banks for both deposits and loans. And were quite successful.

What "qroup" did the borrowers in Detroit belong to?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_lending
Initially confused about the "Greek culture" bit but I guess the author is comparing the executive staff to the stereotypical bro fraternity. I winced every time a real name was used. Brutally honest (and possibly slanderish) writing.
54-line if condition in gcc's reload.c
I wish the EFF had stated the case as an issue of state's rights.

From Wikipedia:

The regulation of prostitution in the United States is not among the enumerated powers of the federal government. Under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, it is therefore exclusively the domain of the states to permit, prohibit, or otherwise regulate commercial sex, except insofar as Congress may regulate it as part of interstate commerce with laws like the Mann Act.

Furthermore, that site is also legal in parts of Nevada where prostitution is legal.

I don't see how the federal government has jurisdiction in this matter. The Mann act is for interstate commerce. Perhaps this applies, but I think a real lawyer could share their related experience.

10th Amendment, btw: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people
I'll answer for now.

I found sex workers through advertisement and reviews on related sites. Many people enter and leave the industry frequently, and recent ads and reviews not only demonstrate good services, but that the worker is still active in the industry.

Personally, I find there isn't much point in trying to resolve the sort of dispute that normally comes up at this level of the industry. At worst, you may post a review or an alert about what happened. If you found that you weren't compatible with somebody or didn't like how they do business, better to just write it off and move on, rather than try to get a refund or something.

I have never used any of the more old-fashioned ways of doing business. I am much more interested in seeing truly independent ladies for more extended appointments involving genuine conversation, and I don't feel that this happens in the lower tiers of the industry.

I have never seen any indications that anybody I have seen was being trafficked or otherwise involved in the industry against their will. If I did, I wouldn't see them at all. Most that I have seen have told fairly detailed stories about how they got involved. I suppose it isn't impossible that some women I have seen have been coerced in some way and have been very good at concealing it, but with the level of privacy that we both need, it seems pointless to try to verify anything further.

I have occasionally participated in industry forum discussions on related topics, but I mostly try to avoid getting involved in any of the sort of drama and involved interaction that tends to happen on forums of any type.
No, credit card companies require at least the full number before they are willing to run a charge.
Tor is currently funded by the US government.

Any list of things you should know about tor should include that.
Awesome - thanks for the feedback. We're indeed going to post to those subreddits and reach out to those companies to potentially sponsor us. If you know a good contact, we'd love to be introduced!
I hope you realize you just described the entire Internet. Which is the ultimate irony of complaining about the security of tor: you're trusting someone else to forward your packets. Yes, yes they can modify the traffic to and from your host, and yes, yes they can monitor everything you're doing. The difference with the non-tor Internet is that it's far far easier to do that.