skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really interesting, the part where he uses a spreadsheet on google docs made me think that I never used a spreadsheet in my life, I never even understood what they're good for. I have a feeling that they can be useful to most people in several calculations though, so I was wondering if there are videos like this that show practical examples of how they can be useful for.
In my opinion points are not as important as the creator of this apparently thinks (as to warrant the y-meter).

Once a story hits the front page, its points are irrelevant. I rarely notice the difference between, say, 20 and 200 points for example. Comment count is far more important, this is a discussion site more than anything else. The only time I ever notice or care about points, is when it's really extreme.

All that effort put into the premise behind the y-meter, and it's among the least valuable things you could focus on here.
Great I have a project I would like to find someone to collaborate with. I will use your service to do this once I have access.
How does this differ from running a VNC client inside any browser?
I can only agree. It's absolutely horrendous UI to ask for anything other than "what is your name?". It's incredibly unfortunate that various systems that one has to integrate with all have their own inadequate representation of names (given/last, given/middle/last, etc.) when everybody would probably be happier with a single Unicode string "name". :(
> just isn't relevant in a day when your language has a sort() function built in and hashtables

You're conflating Computer Science with Computer Programming.
Finally. Now all 3 of my environments are now supported. I can start downloading games/movies at work and get home to a fully installed game or movie ready to go.
Interesting. Maybe an area where linear types can shine?

Rust is probably the most trendy language offering linear types at the moment, although I'd say it much closer to being "a safer C" than "a linear OCaml", so it wouldn't really make things more functional (although it would be safer!).

ATS is descended from DependentML, but for some reason most ATS code I've seen is written in a "safer C" style too. Maybe that's just pragmatism, since ATS has very few native libraries, so it's usually easier to call out to C.

Linear Lisp might be a nice choice, but its dynamic typing may be a problem for security-critical code.
If there are no consequences then there's no value to the CA system. Why bother with it then?
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What a dehumanizing experience.
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my next project is going to be in this area and you seem like a good person to know. get in touch with me if you want. email address in my profile.
It's because of incidents like this why I call our PKI a scam and a racket. The fact that this is even a thing that can ever happen points to massive, systemic problems in the trust model.
I've also noticed the issue and can't figure it out for the life of me. Thanks for pointing that out, though! If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to comment. We have stickers! #bribery
Not a sarcastic question:
Are these just black backgrounds with white text, or is stuff not loading for me?
Because you as the customer are already paying your ISP for receiving it.
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Awesome to hear you're digging Meeet. We are working 'round the clock to get the ball rolling.

We will offer a basic service at first, then allow people to vote on which features get added next, with ~ 1 feature per week.
Fair enough. I think sometimes it's the obvious things that people forget. Like people think pricing and product marketing is freaking magic, when really it's often just simple math. Got anything better you think would be relevant to this thread?
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Clarify for yourself why you are joining the startup.

Then the percentage won't matter.

(But yes, to answer your question, it is pretty close to 100%).
Filmmakers Demand to Know Why Google is Getting Their Search Results Wrong
It depends on the language, and the API of the libraries you use. If we have a Haskell-like Maybe type, you should be able to create functions that refuse to take a Maybe. That would force you to determine soon after the fileOpen call: did it succeed or not?

To be clear, this would involve the static type system for your language forcing certain things to happen, or not compiling. The sequence:

1. fileOpen returned a Maybe<FileObject>

2. You want to store the FileObject somewhere, and it expects an actual FileObject.

3. Maybe<FileObject> is not itself a FileObject, so you have to figure out: is it Nothing, or a FileObject?

4. You have to handle the Nothing case (language forces you to, even if you do nothing about it - you explicitly decided to do nothing).

5. If it is indeed a FileObject, you store it for later use, and you are guaranteed it is, indeed, a FileObject.
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Correct headline is "The tragedy of the Arabs"; omitting the definite article makes the lede significantly more offensive :)
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I tried to "Apply for Early Access" for this yesterday and all I seem to get is a "We dropped the ball. Try again?" message. Looks like it's resulting from a javascript error, which I'm guessing has to do with Modernizr not loading? Looks like the URl is invalid (http://meeet.co/js/modernizr-1.6.min.js)
Utomatic bias correction doesn’t fix omitted variable bias
Private companies have incentive to pursue whatever the fuck they want to pursue. Public companies have a nominal responsibility to shareholders, but as long as they can justify it they can do whatever so long as it makes money eventually. Governments have a nominal responsibility to their citizens, but can do other stuff if they are allowed to do so.

WMD is such a stupid thing to bandy about, anyways--how many more are killed with cigarettes and cars than have died from these superweapons that rot in silos and labs?

PRISM, as somebody else has pointed out, is a stupid example because massive data mining is literally the business model for vast swathes of industry.

Just stop.
1. Hard to grasp concept of Y-Meter as a new user, and even for those in the know, it's a visual overload. Numbers provide greater clarity.
2. The white is hard to read, because of font and font-weight.
3. Comment bubble to the side is out of direct sight and forces me to divide my focus, thus making it harder to scan.

It's nice visually, but needs more love in the UX area.
It is more like a VNC server than a client.
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Edited the headline.
Thanks for pointing out.
Unsurprisingly, you don't know what my contract with Comcast says in it.

I do, and I'm not paying my ISP for what you're saying I'm paying my ISP for.
Right. This makes sense. Though, I would have thought the lazy semantics of Haskel would trip you up here. Ultimately doesn't matter, my main argument is that I see people proliferate "Optional" values all over the bloody place. So, I would expect to find that they just put the optional ref up and used it later when necessary.

And I should note that I don't necessarily dislike the optional types and such. I just also don't have the major disdain for null that the internet seems to send through a massive echo chamber nightly.
This article [1] attempts to clarify, while actually muddying the waters considerably from my point of view.

In addition to "the United States", "the United Kingdom", they list "the Congo", "the Bahamas", "the Netherlands", "the Phillipines", "the Sudan" -- the article also lists others, like Gambia, Yemen, and Lebanon, where I personally am not as familiar with the use (although I've heard "the Yemen" before, probably from that movie about salmon fishing).

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18233844
> The rules have attracted more than 600,000 comments to the FCC’s website, including some filed after HBO’s John Oliver told his television audience “the Internet in its current form is not broken, and the FCC is currently taking steps to fix that.”

That could backfire. The courts struck down the FCC's net neutrality rules. We are currently operating without net neutrality. The FCC is trying to restore net neutrality, using the same regulatory authority it used before, but this time consistent with the limits placed on it by the courts.

The complaint of some net neutrality advocates is that this regulatory authority is not powerful enough after the limitations placed by the courts (it can prohibit "slow lanes", but cannot prohibit "fast lanes", only require that they be offered on a commercially reasonable, non-discriminatory basis). They want the FCC to switch to a different, more powerful, regulatory authority.

If people submit comments to the FCC modeled after what John Oliver said, saying that the internet is fine as is, and the FCC should not make changes, they are in effect saying that they do NOT want net neutrality.
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Right, I agree. That is what I gathered before but the article and their new splash page makes it seem like they want to supply this to large device makers (i.e. anyone not building things out of their basement) and I don't see how this could work.

They can't make money on the hardware, because TI makes the chip and provides the reference design and drivers for free. Spark boards are all OSHW anyways. You'd spend the extra week and integrate the TI part into your device anyways.

Their cloud stack is open source, and is basically a transport. As the device maker you'd still have to write the cloud app that gathers data from different points and sends commands to the end unit.

Beyond the dev kits I'm having a hard time seeing the revenue stream and/or value proposition.

What am I missing? Maybe guys from Spark want to chime in?

If I use Spark to prototype, is there a product they are offering me that I would need to pay for at scale?
The optimistic type theoretician says that since dependent products are sums then it's perfectly fine to use a product to emulate a sum... except since the dependence in the projections isn't reflected in the type system it's totally up to the programmer to ensure that the providence is maintained.
Hey Mike (sorry if that is incorrect). Can you email me when you get a chance? I would really like to see your slides in detail if possible.

Also, your doing more at 17 then I was, and I would love to talk more. (email in profile)
> the Y meter obscures an otherwise instantly understandable

I'm not sure I agree with that, because it takes me a noticeable amount of time and effort to look at the scores for two different stories, located at two different parts of the page, and to compare them. It's far easier to get an instant notion of how a story is performing compared to other stories using the Y meter, for me at least.

My recommendation for the Y meter is dead simple: just also show the number.
Hey!

Thanks for letting us know. I'm fairly certain that the JS is okay, as this is the first time the issue has been brought up, but we will throw that error in the event that someone has already signed up for Meeet's mailing list. Could have you put in your email prior to that?
The Net Neutrality discussion has always been about punitive throttling

Not on HN. Some here on HN insist that any interference with bits-in-bits-out, including QoS, violates NN.

I've mostly given up on NN debates. In addition to debating the merits of the various positions, we also have moving names for each position, and people really insistent (not you that I've yet seen) that their definition is the "right one."
You're not paying to receive traffic from the internet at a minimum designated speed? Than you aren't buying an internet service good enough to receive streaming data from netflix or other similar services. Your options are to either pay more and get decent internet service or make netflix pay for it (and charge you via their fees). That second option would destroy the internet as we have it today.
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>Is it a business requirement to offend people?

Yes, it often is. Years ago in college I worked in an international retail establishment. We were required by policy to address customers by their first names. It was a rural community with many older people, and many people were visibly unhappy being called their first name by a 19 year old kid they didn't know. And as an adult, I find myself in agreement to this day. If I don't know you, why are you calling me by my first name?
If you try it out you'll notice that it's just better. I don't know the internals of it, but I suppose it uses more modern codecs for transmitting the screenshare. The experience just feels a lot snappier.
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I dabble on MTurk every now and then.

It might sound strange, but I find certain kinds of survey type simple tasks incredibly relaxing and some of the HITs clearly connect to what seems to be interesting research.

Pretty much everything the author says here is spot-on and has been for a long time.

MTurk is positively flooded with HITs for generating fake reviews for products and fake content for websites. The best paying HITs by far are translation tasks - transcribing Arabic and Farsi seems to pay the best ($0.30 or more per minute of transcription).

I aim for academic projects with preference for things which require qualification (simple math / reading comprehension tests usually) as they generally pay quite a bit more.

I've earned an average of $0.27 per HIT and have never had one rejected.

Some of the more interesting / unusual tasks I've seen:

* Pinpoint various joints (shoulder, elbow, knee) in each frame of a clip showing a baseball player swinging a bat.

* Drop a pin on an estimate map location based on scenery shown in a short video clip (This was long before MapCrunch/GeoGuessr).

* Manipulate the camera in a scene of flat-shaded objects to bring them into 'correct' perspective.

* Choose 'preferred' structure designs (little houses) which appear to have been created by some sort of genetic algorithm.
Why donate to a only to a charity? Why focus on giving money?

-Some charities spend money on so much overhead, you're better off throwing money (or buying meals to throw) at the homeless yourself.

-If you pay taxes, countless government programs help the needy.

-If you are handy at computer repair, maybe you'll be more useful refurbishing computers to give to underprivileged people rather than giving money to them. This goes if you have any professional skill. Your effort might be more valuable than your money.

-Maybe you should invest some of that money now so you have even more money later to donate. Bonus if you invest in yourself becoming a social worker or some other professional in order to do pro bono work for those in need.

-Maybe you should invest in ideas that do more or something different than a charity can. If your money can fund the development of something that wipes out a disease, or transports food/medicine/electricity to remote areas, for example.

Some of this is long term vs short term stuff. But there's more to helping those in need than donating money to charity.
Maybe minimalism isn't the real goal. The data might be represented twice, but functionally the representations are not redundant. The number provides maximum granularity, but the Y meter facilitates instantaneous comparisons of many stories simultaneously.
I think in the office it won't look good having so much "clicks" all day long.
I love the Y-meter, but the font that you chose physically hurts me when I try to read it.
Odds? Who gives a shit about odds? It's probably something like 0.1%.

But it's not zero percent. In your case that's as good as 100 percent!
Yes, working: how awful.

I hope you're trying to be on the workers side but either way this is a terrible thing to say. The way you look down upon people trying their very best to make a living is not helping them at all.
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> "Joe Biden, White House, Washington DC"

Speaking of web forms and DC, I hate when they have "Washington, DC" listed as the state. Never mind that it isn't a state; at least the territories have to put up with that, so we're not alone. But DC should be in the Ds, not the Ws. Washington is a city, not a state(-like thing), even if it isn't distinct from the district anymore. Well, Washington is a state, but… you know what I mean.
Yes definitely want to give him a primer of a git or some sort of VCS. Hopefully after we get through some basic python
You're over thinking this. He means a handful + 3.
What would be great (and I've been meaning to do for a while) is exactly this, but to put in touch tech founders with business founders. Basically, technical founders would showcase products they've built and people with the skills to market and grow them would get in touch with them. I can't be the only tech guy with lots of MVPs finished but who doesn't have the time or skill to market them.
From the Internet? Yes. I pay for a certain speed (up to, but whatever), but Netflix->Comcast doesn't go through the Internet. Currently, Netflix uses some of the 8 bucks I give them to ensure my videos are in HD by entering into peering agreements with my ISP.

I'd like to not have to pay Comcast too, as they already charge Netflix.
I wish there was a better way for deal with screen resolution. I know that scrolling is a pain, but I'd still prefer it to default to the resolution of the physical display attached to the host computer. (Actually, I'd really prefer it to adopt the resolution of the client machine, a la MS Remote Desktop, but that probably introduces a lot of complexity).
Apple has never had any pretense of caring about people or society, including its own customers. Google has. Google has also made a fortune through the open, equal access nature of the internet (search), open protocols, etc. Apple would prefer if iDevice owners had to buy their iNternet through Apple, and their many loyal customers would buy it, and the stockholders would be happier for it.

I think people are clinging to the idea that Google is greatly morally (or at least strategically) different than Apple. They're anthropomorphizing. Corporations have no personalities, they have brands. Decisions are made by designated people within them, and the mix of decisionmakers at both companies are fairly identical in temperament.
Ah, you know I am seeing a request being made that returns the response that I'm already subscribed. But that message never makes it to the UI -- I only see "We dropped the ball. Try again?". There's a JavaScript error generated every time I click the buttno. It looks like coming from the smoothscroll-ck.js script: "Cannot read property 'replace' of undefined" in t.smoothScroll.filterPath. Not sure if that's what's preventing the real error message from showing? This is Chrome 34, btw.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/05/law-school-enrol...
What I've read and understood is that the stress associated with low social status (i.e. open plan offices for a programmers, whose work requires more focus and privacy) is extremely toxic (depression, anxiety disorders, cardiovascular load) but that stress itself isn't inherently toxic. For example, if you work 70 hours per week but you enjoy the work, it doesn't hurt your health. Technically speaking, all exercise is stress but not unhealthy (in fact, the opposite).

If anything, our bodies interpret our social status by stress, which means that good stresses (e.g. a workout, a hard problem) can have positive effects.

I don't think it's even controversial that the negative stresses coming from, e.g., open offices and subordinate work contexts, are extremely toxic. It's just that physical stress isn't prima facie dangerous.
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Thanks for the offer! I will ask the teachers and get back to you
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Lyft expands to NYC
The legal field is currently suffering from a huge excess of lawyers, and attending a law school outside of the top 10 (arguably top 20 with scholarships) is generally considered a poor investment. It's good for the legal field as a whole to see many of these T-3/T-4 Law Schools slim down and stop churning out so many law students that end up, unfortunately, unemployed (or in a job that doesn't use their JD in a meaningful way).
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You could use a torrent client with a web interface and Steam's remote install feature.
This is a serious problem that requesters face. Often the workers who spam everyone with fake work will report anyone who rejects their work as retribution.
Cloudian Raises $24 Million Because Not Everything Needs To Live In “The Cloud”
Interesting that the Apple-provided sample app mentioned around 7 minutes in uses "~=" as a custom operator, given that it's already defined for use with pattern matching (match an input with some sort of pattern), and intended to be overloaded for that purpose. I wonder if this is just an oversight?
This is the first time I got to know about it from frequenting r/Chrome for help with customization.

Just like all most Google products it looks like it requires both parties to be logged into their Google accounts, so concerns about Google's privacy policies are still valid with it.

PS. Does it use websockets?
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Can someone please make a "low-stress routing algorithm"!? Most days I honestly wouldn't care if a route took me 50-100% longer to travel if avoided traffic backups and stop lights. Call it "sane route" or "road rage free routing", but as long as I'm moving in traffic I have a much lower level of stress when I arrive at my destination.
But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought.

Just like how tobacco companies have never psychologically manipulated people to start smoking, right? They're just giving them what they want!
I'm 2 weeks into building the thing I just watched you demo. Cue sinking feeling.

It looks awesome. Bravo.
Thanks! Wasn't sure how to add that, I am a hacker news n00b.
I've used MTurk for a very subjective task: "Value the object in the image" for which I paid $0.10 per valuation (a maximum of 30 seconds was spend on the task).

The valuations were fair but the workers of Mechanical Turk may have a different view of how much something "home made" or "retro" may be worth (typically far lower than the object would be worth for someone in the market for said object).
What an interesting way to encourage users to stay logged into Chrome all the time. Who needs cookies anyway? http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732480770...
Yo! That's awesome you figured it out.

Yeah - I'm fairly certain that's exactly what the issue is. The reason you're not seeing the real error is that we get the errors via not-so-readable JSON from the Mailchimp servers, and the JS email library we are using displays that error message for ANY error returned by the server to keep things simple and prevent confusion, though it seems to have caused a bit of confusion here.

There's a chance we may change that in the near future. Again, if you want a sticker, feel free to drop us a line on Twitter, we'll follow you, and you can DM us your address. We have plenty! :D