skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Might work if there's a way to filter out the tech-savvy posers from the people that are actually tech-savvy. More charitably there's a wide range of tech to be savvy in. I've had a customer tell me they were a expert in last-mile access systems because they "are a expert WinSock programmer".

Actual tech support call: "Now, before we start, I've got four Microsoft degrees." That to someone with an actual degree.
My hope is to help lonely people feel a sense of connection with others.
Hey Dang now that we have a separate Show HN section , can we please move Show HN posts from the front page to that place (so that they don't appear on the front page anymore ?

Because at the moment 11 out of the top 30 stories are about Show HN.

It seems that now that there is a separate Show Hn section , the posts are getting more traction and in the process appearing on the front page.
Matt Cutts, Google’s Head of Webspam, is going on indefinite leave.
I am beginning to think about how well non profit health insurance companies would work.
Ask HN: Why are there so many Show HN posts on the front page
I'd pay for an itemized list of all the stuff I've bought at the grocery store(s) over the last 6 months. I'd love that level of insight into budgeting what is my family's third biggest expense.

FWIW, none of the stores I go to have loyalty cards, though I'm pretty sure that they could do matching based on hashed card values or the name they get back from the card. (That's could, not that they do. I'm not sure if PCI would look at them sideways for hashing card values and using that as a key for a data store)
As someone with a pretty strong Math background, I certainly didn't take that from his comment. I took it to mean he understands Math fairly strongly as well, and that most of your grievances with him have more to do with your lack of familiarity with the deeper underpinnings of Mathematics.
Show HN: TheNews (iOS), HN & DN in one app.
I'm pleased with this development, because the proliferation and marketing of new domains should create awareness among the general population that there are alternatives to .com (which should benefit those of us who use them!).

The more that happens, the less the conventional wisdom about .com's (with their relative scarcity) will apply.
I never knew this, and sincerely doubt most people do. But besides this rare start-up, if you're an established player like Blue Cross, does one or dozens or even hundreds of complaints even matter?
>Can't be bothered to read it? //

Your realism and pragmatism, in offering a digest, is appreciated.
Lots of health insurance companies are technically non-profits. Doesn't change their behavior. They accumulate huge amounts of excess reserves, and pay their executives like they're a for profit company.
As I understand it, opening the door has negligible effect on the performance of the aircraft. The shape of the fuselage is modified to send airflow past the aperture.
Interesting content. "Full Stack" means all those server-side bits and the client application portions as well. i.e., "everything". This looks like it addresses only the server-side part of the "stack".
Solo is about sharing the experience of being alone. Secret is about sharing secrets with friends.
That is not what I am thinking of, of course.
Wow, this is beautiful work. Kudos to the authors.

Now, to go examine the actual content....
Eh, never mind, it's too depressing. I think I'll just jealously admire the scroll down again.
Now /show has appeared next to /ask, so they don't need to be on /lists since they are visible already.
Correct on mods, I was ranting too fast. I'll maintain my rights to rant on occasion if something smells fishy. The post had legitimate interest, a comment chain, and votes in both directions. The algorithm seems to be at fault but I won't know for sure without some feedback. I sent an email out, so I guess we'll wait and see.
This is all true, but completely misses the point: that THIS IS OBSERVABLY INSANE.
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The post title was literally our selling point which was the exact features offered. I'll have to reply to the mod.
Math is a philosophy.

The only difference is that Math adds a few extra requirements in that it is required to stay internally consistent using a given system of logic (in this case, strictly Boolean logic, it's the entire reason why proof by contradiction is even possible).
Where Does Your Popcorn Come From?
Acxiom is partnered with Facebook/Twitter and owns LiveRamp.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/05/14/data-broker-acxiom-mo...

"The data-gathering has stirred privacy concerns. The Wall Street Journal reported in 2010 that Rapleaf, the former parent company of LiveRamp, had amassed databases tying people’s real names to privately shared information in their Facebook profiles, as well as data in their voter-registration files, real-estate titles, shopping histories, and other records. The company was censured by Facebook for the practice, which involved pulling data from apps against the social network’s rules."
Success! Private Team Fires 36-Year-Old NASA Probe's Engines
LinkedIn Connects With Beijing, Censors Falun Gong
SOFIA, like all major observatories, uses tracking. A guider camera tracks on the target itself if it is bright enough, or it does offset tracking on another star in the field. You don't need to have any visible signal from your target at all in order to stack the images. Note also, that not all instruments and observing modes are imaging. Often, spectroscopy is done instead.
Have you seen http://www.ektoplazm.com/ ? It's a free music label. There's no obvious monetization strategy and it's hundreds of albums worth of independently produced electronic music, some of it quite good, all available for download at full quality. Perhaps it's just so so cheap to produce music that people give it away for free? Maybe they just do it to get a higher profile, so they can get DJ gigs, or they just love the music?
I think that's very very difficult to do to be honest, though. There are variables such as prices based on location, and within that location, what the shop or store wants to charge you. The same person with the same car can go to the same location twice for an oil change & get two different prices.

I know because I've had it happen to me. The price differed by a few dollars, but still. Take it one step further & any shop that's established will have tools built specific to them where they can charge whatever they want on a sliding scale. Go to STS Tire in a nice, fancy area. Ask for a quote on a particular service. Note the price. Ask for the same work to be done in an impoverished area & ask for the same work to be done. The price will be radically different, especially if the shop owner isn't greedy.

I think you're on to something, I just think it would take a substantial amount of work but figuring out how to do that in the most efficient way to collect all those data points makes everything easier. Smells like a project to me. :D
Show HN: Wodlog.cc, helps crossfitters track wods and make progress
Not a Google employee - but the linked file looks more like a simplified DSL for analysts.
Not only that, but the CDs are an automatic backup to the digital versions and they have a much higher bit rate. So I have the best possible sound on permanent media.
Off topic, but #999 on #FFF (author title and background color, respectively) fails the WAG guidelines for color contrast.
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So this is like CRON-O-Meter (https://cronometer.com/)?
Please see the Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

To count as a Show HN, there has to be something for people to try out. When you're ready for that, come back and do a show HN then. Good luck!
Credit report? Wait until fiancés gets the legal right to see your score.
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This. When I read "full stack python" I was expecting something like Meteor behind the link.
Interesting insight, thank you!

I think crowd-based approaches and machine-based approaches will always have very different strengths and weaknesses. The quality of algorithmic answers will generally (always?) be well below that of human-written ones, especially at first.

However, in the long term I can see machine-based approaches "winning", simply because of their near-infinite scalability (and the sort of insight that emerges from enormous scale). Take web search: if started out with hand-curation in the portal era, until that got wiped out by algos and scrapers that could better manage the growing scale of the web (and exploit patterns only visible at scale, like PageRank).

Human knowledge, including the sum of personal experiences of the people who express themselves on the web, is now at a size where it is no longer human-manageable. I see enormous potential here to extract, understand and navigate that knowledge using algorithms.
I basically got by without knowing times table and suffering for it until about grade 5 which was when I figured out the trick. After that rest of my grades picked up dramatically as well, as I had figured out that understanding how things work is way better than simple memorization.

So basically laziness carpe diem.
Yes, and the NSA would refuse to give the context...so you have to make assumptions about information about them.
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This is great. Lets hope this helps surfacing good ideas which dont get traction or get shotdown.
Maybe you could also add a little of information about why one would choose on framework over the other.
Yea definitely, this engineer should deviate from very standard looking easy to visualize format./s

Take a look at this RFC defining websockets written in 2011

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455#section-5.2

and the RFC for TCP from 1981 (check out section 3.1 describing the header)

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc793.txt

See the similarity? We have over 30 years of consistency here.
because dang just showcased the 'show' and 'ask' tabs on the homepage interface.
So it's not a harm to freedom of expression if we allow your blog to exist, but we censor links to it because they're "automated"? It doesn't matter if it's automated or highly moderated. It's an expression and censoring anything like it influences the public discourse in some way.
It got the reference, but didn't answer my question:

> "what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

> "Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British comedy film written and performed by the comedy group of Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin), as directed by Gilliam and Jones. It was conceived during the hiatus between the third and fourth series of their popular BBC television programme Monty Python's Flying Circus. "
I honestly identified with it because it's been my observation that too many people decide on something and then rationalize it without considering their thought process for getting there.

And I'm always secretly afraid that I do it more than I think I do. So when I see the blog author describe something so exactly close to how I feel about it, it's gratifying.
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I believe that it has modifier keys to allow access to function keys and the like. I think the idea is that all of the keys can be pressed without removing your hands from home row, so it's more efficient/faster than a regular keyboard once you get the hang of it. Kind of like how VIM purists will insist that you don't need to use arrow keys to navigate.
And because it's luck, it shouldn't even be thought about. In fact, the word 'luck' shouldn't be used. A more correct term would be 'probability'. There will be a certain number of people who will die by a falling brick or lightning each year. It could be you... probably not.

But it's something that brain cycles shouldn't be wasted on. We get out of bed each morning without knowing that a bad thing will happen that day. We should only think about the things that we can control.
> you get a arrested for having a "very high score".

I was thinking more in terms of automated drone strikes, but yeah for the facade of democracy arrests may be the way to go for now.
If it were me, and that was all I had to go on, I'd take the amount and work out the likely combinations of goods that you might buy with that amount, then use other purchases where the store was likely to be selling one thing to alter the probability assigned to various purchase combinations. You could also weight it by buying frequency, the likelihood of particular purchasing habits in their demographic - things like that.

Maybe you wouldn't be able to tell precisely what someone bought, but I imagine you could get a reasonable idea.

Not that I don't imagine - the article and
rosser say as much - that they have other sources of info.
You are mischaracterizing the case and unfairly tarring the reputation of Oliver Wendell Holmes, a truly great Supreme Court justice. Perhaps you would like this better:

"we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death"

Back to the other quote: it is a classic and excellent demonstration of the one of the greatest tensions in US Constitution, the balance between individual rights and societal good. It doesn't require any context.

Perhaps I should have used the blunter formulation, also from Justice Holmes:

"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins"
"Hello, this is Richard Stallman and I pronounce Linux as GNU/Linux."
Google for "Seattle startup map"
And there's still people who think there's no place for Math in programming.
English explodes in India
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Often buying a physical CD on amazon (with included mp3) is significantly cheaper then buying just the mp3 album on amazon.

To me the shift away from purchasing music is because the constant availability of music. If I really want to hear that one old song, I can pull it up on youtube without having to build a library. My music tastes are easily satisfied with Creative Commons music or free streaming, even without subscribing. There is such a surplus of music available with how cheap it has gotten to produce. Music labels are in big trouble as they have to compete with hobbyists. They're being marginalized both in the production and distribution end.

But I don't see that same level of hobbyist quality TV. The business has changed a lot of TV, but only in distribution, not the production. Red vs Blue was a decade ago and little has built on that model since. Maybe Dr Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog could be considered a hobby project, but it was done by big name stars. The only real hobby video we have now is just game-streaming and sketch comedy skits.
XKeyScore runs nearline, not in-line - and it's distributed.
> Seriously mods, this is taking things a little too far.

No moderator touched your post. It fell in rank because users flagged it.

It's against the HN guidelines to turn questions like this into Ask HN threads. Please don't do that. As the guidelines say, you should email hn@ycombinator.com instead.

Also: when a post is flagged, a repost counts as a duplicate. Otherwise flags wouldn't mean anything.
My thought is: awesome, the new, clearer guidelines make Show HN friendlier and more accessible!
Yep, I agree on the whole. The problem that I've seen in a lot of cases is that the resources that collect knowledge and display it on the web don't necessarily incentivize the knowledgeable to contribute or reward them for doing so in the best possible way.

What you end up with is a high signal to noise for quality, factual content, and for things where facts are not even expected (politics, etc...) you often end up with a polarity that doesn't acknowledge the other side exists. Beyond all that there is a huge amount of sarcasm, humor and nuance to content that will be hard for a machine to figure out on its own, but hopefully you can find a way to separate the wheat from the chaff :)
I came here to say exactly that.
I couldn't agree more with the guidelines and with your comment.
Ask HN: What do you about graduates from the University of Waterloo?
I am about to hire one, need feedback. thanks HN.
Installed it. Very nice and clean layout. Well done folks!
Now for the feature requests :-)
- disqus vs wp spam prone comments integration?
- mobile version? I usually begin all my blog posts while walking. Currently use Notes on the iPhone and love how when I get back to my MBP its there synced.
Just these 2 would be enough for me to switch to using this as my tool of choice for blogging.
I wouldn't say get them off the front page, but at least weigh them down.
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> First, you absolutely can do scientific induction. For example, if I drop a ball a bunch of times, I know that balls fall, as long as the context does not change.

You absolutely can do it, but that the result of scientific induction is meaningful is, itself -- at best -- a proposition that rests on scientific induction. Specifically, the proposition that "my memories of patterns of things which I have observed is a useful basis for predicting future observations from other acts or observations" is a proposition that, itself, must either is unsupported or is a generalization from past experience of exactly the type it supports.

> What I am saying is that if I take one seed and add another seed and count them, I have two.

You can't count them and get "one" or "two" until you define what one and two are, at which you have already made one plus one equals two deductively true, and the same is true of any other supposedly induced mathematical truths -- in order to be able to induce them, you must first have definitions, from which deductive mathematical truths follow of necessity.
I agree, but I'll add that a minor variant of that "you can call me either X or Y" is really annoying, because in my experience "it doesn't matter to me" is almost never actually true. I see this a lot with students; they think they're doing me a favour by giving me a choice, but they do prefer one of them, and their friends call them one of them, and I end up looking like an asshole for using some other form of their name.

To avoid the appearance of that, it would be nice if instead of "you can just call me X"---which sounds like it's your less-preferred alternative, your second choice, so obviously someone's going to try for the other one---you said "please call me X" or "I prefer if you call me X". Then everybody wins! :)
Funny how math and code make journalism so much better.
I'm going to read into this way to much.

You say that you're about to hire one. That sounds like you're fairly certain about this person's skills. But, you're ambivalent, hence the post.

Are you looking for an excuse not to hire someone or for reassurance to do so?

Waterloo is a good school. But, like all good schools, it has a bell curve. Waterloo will produce amazing developers and also abysmal ones. If this person passed your process, he/she is probably good to go.
Something suggests it's an attempt to keep the font from being appropriated. Though if it's used, that won't last long. And letterforms aren't copyright-protected (though the software by which they're derived may be: the basis of font copyrights in software).
Cambron instead of Cameron? o_O