skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that gets you less far than sarcasm is condescending pithy platitudes.

Edit: Rather than quote meaningless self-help fodder, you could have pointed out that it is difficult to convince people of the benefits of a different approach by labelling them. It is instead better to point out the costs of what we're currently doing wrong, and the benefits of the proposed way.
Off topic: I've heard people refer to Hiroshima/Nagasaki as a "bluff" in that there was no third (fourth) bomb to drop if Japan hadn't surrendered. This article indicates otherwise. The Demon Core would have been the next bomb to be dropped, and was ready to go. So the USA wasn't bluffing, and was in fact prepared to keep dropping bombs one after the other.
http://sideprojectors.com

(I maintain the site. So let me know if you have questions!)
It is worth noting that employment in Eng and CS is up about 5 percentage points from 2010 to 2012 (the last 2 years for which the article has data). Not a huge gain, but I would not consider a 5 percentage points increase (10% increase) to be stagnation.
I'm a big fan of Webhook, though I must admit that as a Kickstarter backer, I never got the time to seriously play with it during my first month, so I need to circle back eventually. This is a great concept nonetheless and a real sign of innovation in the CMS space.
It might add more to the discussion here if you described what you feel is being glossed over.
An Actor-based User Similarity Recommender: An Experiment with the Akka Toolkit
... said the dying old media company.
yes, having incredible wealth would draw a lot of unwanted attention. The Rothschild's had their wealth confiscated at least once through nationalisation of banks they owned.

It's best to lie low and disguise crazy wealth as much as possible.
I'm wondering if it would be useful to plug groupcache into this. It's what Google uses for serving downloads (e.g., Chrome downloads). Inherently distributed and self-balancing. I might give that a try.
If you (or someone you know) understands the cloud better than the existing investors and analysts, perhaps you should be trading shares of cloud companies yourself. Of course, if a deep technical understanding of such things does greatly influence long-term market value, you can expect there to be some competition doing the same thing already.

There are undoubtedly less-informed participants in every market...otherwise very few trades would ever occur.
Amazon at the consumer level is a more appropriate comparison.
I'm a different person but I did use and prefer Stylus for a while.

When Stylus was created it was definitely more powerful than Sass. The syntactic flexibility of mixin invocation lets you define your own css properties and override how others work transparently. It also had a better story for defining in-language functions and whatnot.

Since TJ stopped working on Stylus the Sass guys have continued adding features. Using @extend can significantly reduce the size of the output CSS file, the ability to pass blocks into mixins was added, and SassScript roughly matches stylus' language. I consider Sass to be more powerful but someone using a different/older feature set could easily argue the other way.

The sass community is also larger/more prolific so you have sass frameworks (not that I generally use them but they're there) and things like the Team Sass github org doing interesting/random things.
Can't click or interact with anything on Firefox 33a. Just an unresponsive start screen.
Interesting... Nice that IOS gives you a warning. I wonder if Android does the same?
Languages can evolve rapidly and unpredictably though, based on factors which can't necessarily be predicted or controlled. What would people ten thousand years in the future make of the word "radioactive" if modern technology and scientific thought had been lost for millennia due to plague or a global energy crisis, for instance? Bear in mind how much of our current store of knowledge and culture is tied up in a relatively fragile, energy hungry digital infrastructure and a constant supply of fossil fuels. In a few centuries much of what we consider modern history might be a mostly blank page to those who come after us.
What kind of details do you think go into this rating? My guess: how long driver waits for you to get in the car, how drunk and annoying you are, how much you tip (do they see this before rating?), how profitable your ride is.

I suspect most drivers, like most passengers, give a 5.0 to almost everyone, but dock points for being a dick. It just seems there's no other way to differentiate passengers, since they'll be paying the fee regardless.
Thank you, too. I appreciate this reply very much.
I'm not going to comment on whether or not Aerospike is ACID, I have no idea, but I can give a bit of info on CAS vs ACID.

CaS (Compare and Swap, or Compare and Set; they're almost identical, and don't really have a clear distinction) is the process of validating a record's value before performing an update. This helps a lot with Consistency (the C in ACID), but doesn't guarantee the other three (Atomicity, Isolation, and Durability).

Aerospike might have systems in place to address all of ACID, but if they're claiming CaS is ACID then they're just lying.

Look at the Wiki page on ACID ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID ), it's actually pretty good.
This is a lot easier than the Charles MITM proxy I used to intercept the Uber iPhone API calls to determine mine. I feel kind of silly now that I didnt bother checking the web API.

I also made a web scraper to get my uber trip details (incl. route driven), save it to JSON and map the trips all at once. http://i.imgur.com/Q1W59rD.jpg. Here's a quick dump of the code https://github.com/joshhunt/uber. It's pretty rough and it makes a lot of assumptions (e.g. metric system and AUD). I never really plan on looking at it again, so your milage may vary.

I also found their API structure to be quite unusual: They make a call to something like `api.uber.com/` with POST data of something like

{
url: '/api/user/123123123',
method: 'get',
location: [lat, long]
}

and you'll recieve a response back of something like

{
responseData: {
username: 'madeofpalk'
...rest of requested data...
},
vehicles: [
...list of all vehicles and their locations...
]
...other data that wasnt explicitly requested but comes through with every request...
}

I had never seen this pattern before, and thought it was quite unusual (especially for a 'new hip startup' that uses Python and Node.js). Anyone care to comment on why they may have choosen something like this?
Maybe I'm suffering from nostalgia, but the Reddit comments were once a place where some good discussions were shared. Now, they've evolved into contests of wit and cross reference to other posts. In the "frontpage" subreddits, the comments are usually void of meaningful discussion that I remember in the earlier days, although I acknowledge I may be romanticizing it a bit.

I think I lost interest in Reddit as a whole when I found HN. Curious if any others had the same experience.
An AngularJS validation library that doesn't suck
I think it's interesting that this seems to have been written and put together by a digital agency, not a journalism company or nonprofit. I wonder what benefits the agency gets, if any. Or maybe they just think underwater cabling is fascinating. (I agree!)
Before Google pulled out of China, Baidu had 64% of the search market, that increased to 70% after Google's pullout.

Baidu had already won in China before Google's pullout. The pullout was just a PR move.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405274870399930...
Can you test the following keystrokes manually and let me know the outcome with your browser:

1) Open any page in chrome

2) Press Ctrl+S

3) Press "Right" arrow key exactly once

4) Type some string, say "-suffix"

5) Press "Home" key exactly once

6) Type in some directory name with "/" at the end, say: "/tmp/"

7) Press Enter.

Sorry if this sounds pedantic, but this is the actual sequence of key stroke the script will mimic in this case, so just want to make sure that work in the first place. Alternatively can you try https://github.com/abiyani/automate-save-page-as script in isolation (with --suffix command line flag).

PS: Under usual circumstances, the name field will should be replaced by something like this by the script (before pressing enter in the "Save as" dialog box): "/fully/expanded/dest/directory/path/<original_page_title>-000X.html"
You don't tip Uber drivers.
I have a skype group that has a few people in the field. You can add me on skype: Switch336
awesome- this was great. 4.9
Tip is included in the ride, you can't adjust it.

This is not very scientific. I got 4.8 which means absolutely nothing to me.
I would've thought the opposite. The default subs have large numbers of subscribers (of course), but I feel like they don't have strong communities, or specific themes, that would appeal to an advertiser. Like... /r/funny? /r/creepy? /r/DIY? /r/IAmA? What would compel someone to advertise on those?

On the other hand, there are a good number of non-default subs that have strong themes that I'm certain advertisers would want to tap into. For example, city-specific subs, or /r/bodyweightfitness (105,212 subscribers), or /r/bicycling (126,713 subscribers). These communities are so specific that advertising seems like it would be more effective in those areas than any other. Of course... it needs to be done in a way that isn't intrusive or damaging, and that's probably a bigger challenge in a smaller community.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=stink+at+math#!/story/forever/0/st...
I find that the smaller niche subreddits have that vibe. I subscribe to /r/dogtraining which has loads of valuable information and a ton of helpful, active users.
>This newer 2013 MacBook Air is holding up much better than the 2012 model, and I'm consistently still getting 6-8 hours of life out of the battery at least.

It may be just my usage patterns but I never seem to get more than 4 hours on the 2013 Air. I mostly have a fair number of Chrome tabs along with a terminal window open and that seems to be enough to drain the batter rather quickly.
There are people who follow the front page? I don't think I could understand this. In my view the value of reddit, as you pointed out, is in the subreddits: somewhat peer reviewed focused forums with a much better interface than the PHP forums of old. And that's where the money is, IMO. Just as you said, offering enterprisey features for them could rake in a ton of cash.
Historically, Chrome has not handled third party login very well, and one could argue that it still doesn't.

However, they recently took the chrome.identity package out of experimental mode and it's what I'm using for Oauth flow because it handles authentication in the browser, not in cookies and URLs.

I agree it looks sketchy and several of us have complained to Google to make it look a bit more legit. But you know how that goes.

If you're really concerned, crack open WireShark and take a look at the handshake yourself.
The window.Uber variable has a lot of interesting information, like "isAdmin," data about the last vehicle I rode in (interior color, exterior color, model year, capacity), last driver's phone number, "activeExperiments" which I assume are multivariate tests being run against me, etc
It means nothing to you but remember that you're not supposed to see these - a 4.8 probably means something to the driver.
The article was written by Mike Issac, who was ATD/Recode until very recently.
I looked at their website. All I can see is a group of moneyed people choosing to live in an unconventional way, in semi-rural environments.

For people earning a wage and living in large cities who have no choice but to rent, it's utterly meaningless.

Please explain how this is anything but a privileged group of white people congratulating themselves on their ability to live precisely how they want.
Level 20 now. I'm a little bit color blind and 2 of the squares look exactly the same. Higher contrast between colors would be apreciated.
Your definition of privacy expectation isn't accurate. For example, you have absolutely no expectation of privacy in what meal you ordered at a restaurant.

>Isn't this similar to the problems that people have with being tracked in retail stores?

You can be tracked in a retail store too.

>And for that matter what is the legal difference between the police collecting certain data and, say, a business person collecting that data? And perhaps selling it to the police? (Question not a statement).

Anything you willfully disclose to a third party is no longer private, with very few exceptions like medical records.
I've only had a few rides and ive 4.9 (ie someone didnt rate me 5.0). Meh.

Then again, I don't feel bad rating drivers because they sell me a service, I'm rating that (it wouldnt even have to include their name - it probably shouldn't. then again I'm european, we seem to have slightly different ethics).

I feel bad that they rate us because we don't provide them with anything.

That rating is going to be saved, sold and shared eventually.
A version of the referenced paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4085611/
I think it's great that you have found your version of success. I'm not sure I would say there are "a great many people" behind your cause, but if it works then I think that's fantastic.

But realistically, I'm not talking "earning potential", I'm talking about "spending your twenties making $10/hour as a graduate student and shafting yourself come retirement." Nobody becomes an academic to get rich, but I worry about the mid-life financial health of today's postdocs versus that of their mentors' at the same age.
> decided not to have firm answers right now

I'm remembering this for the next question my boss asks me...
You seem to be missing the practical upshot: If you are middle aged, not exercising, and moderately overweight, HIT twice a week is an effective way to "significantly" improve your aerobic capacity, physical function, and reduce your blood glucose levels. Whether HIT is the optimal way to accomplish that is not the question they were investigating. It's a small sample size but was effective for all eight participants. It works in practice, whether or not you understand why it works theory. There are lots more interesting questions around the edges that can be explored now.
No, it can't without everybody leaving, but they will all leave anyway. My theory is that social news is like the popular club in a major city or a fad in popular culture.

You can't predict which will be a hit or for how long. What you can predict is that eventually when enough people show up that it will lose that quality that made it so interesting to begin with, and the people that made it special will move on.

This happened with slashdot, digg, and maybe a bit to Hacker News too. I think Reddit's subreddits have made it more of a community of communities instead of one monolithic thing, with a monolithic front page. That certainly helps it have some legs.

However, I really don't see how any fad can sustain itself over the long term and anything that is built on social communities is at the whim of the movement of social opinion and interest. People change, get older, and what made something cool for one generation doesn't necessarily work for another generation.

There is no reason that Reddit should be popular as opposed to any other community site other than it's where people are congregating right now.

In 5 or 10 years, where will people congregate online?
The page linked goes into more detail, but among other things, Compare and Set operations are only concerning one data element at a time - meaning you cannot do Atomic updates to multiple keys. The ability to do multiple key updates atomically makes it possible to build higher level abstractions by reliably combining data from multiple keys under concurrent workloads.

Basically, transactions that can span an arbitrary number and set of keys are what makes it possible to build rich data models from simple ones. SQL databases are a perfect example of this - most use a simple transactional data store on the bottom to store complex relational data structures. A single SQL operation may require many key-level updates - but this is OK if you can wrap them all in ACID transactions.Without ACID transactions you can't guarantee data consistency because keys will be getting updated at different times, allowing for a mix of old and new values.

It's a shame to see vendors trying to change the meaning of ACID to fit the limitations of their databases. It means more confusion and bad decisions in a market that needs clarity and honesty for people to make the right decisions for their applications.
Mock your API server with JavaScript in the browser
Build pyramids on top of it
For me the Reddit homepage is entertainment; a guilty pleasure like some people surf TMZ or whatever.

But there seem to be some strong communities in some subreddits. /r/personalfinance is one example off the top of my head. AskScience aggressively prunes bad comments and the net result is good discussion (sometimes surrounded by a ton of deleted comments).
I think I lost interest in Reddit as a whole when I found HN.

Once you start exploring the smaller focused subreddits, discussion gets much better. Although even then, the poop can creep in.

Prune your subscriptions brutally. Once a sub goes bad, it doesn't go back. Report spam & inflammatory comments etc.. The community is only as good as its members!
Are there any drivers in the audience who can tell us what different ratings mean?
So if you check this after every ride, you'll know exactly what everyone rated you, right?
I've had experiences with police, but not from driving. You are forced to interact with the TSA when flying, but you aren't forced to interact with the police when driving. Is it that hard to understand how that makes his entire post pointless? It's like complaining about how you have to interact with the FBI every time you fly because you make jokes about bombs.
If you keep track of the total number of rides.
12's kicking me
I had one driver tell me "if you didn't vomit in my car or swear at me, you get a 5."
That makes sense (especially the part about not having access to bid closer to the end time) for something cheap or with few alternatives.

Still doesn't make sense to me why these people are bidding - mostly lower than the item value - for things like iPhones that have literally thousands of eBay auctions going on at any given time.
And you assume that there's no weighting or discarding of ratings that goes into the average.
> how much you tip (do they see this before rating?)

You don't tip with Uber - 'gratuity' is already included. Regardless, the rate-the-customer screen is seen immediately after stopping the trip
A straightforward usage of CAS doesn't provide transactions. In other words, there is no way to update multiple records atomically.* For instance, perhaps you wish to update two balances to reflect the result of the transaction. Using CAS, a reader may observe that only one balance has been updated -- the reader sees inconsistent data.

* no sane (or performant) way.
^ This incredibly snarky and condescending comment ought to be downvoted.
Not necessarily. Drivers rating the passenger is a defence against passengers rating the drivers low, and also a way for Uber to keep quality standards high by stopping 'bad' passengers from using the service.
Another example: /r/MechanicalKeyboards with 38,000+ subscribers. That's a community just ripe for good advertising.
So what is your real concern about Facebook?
The size of a family grows exponentially with generation. Assuming a young couple. In 3 generations (~70 years) the family size would have become close to 10x. More often than not, wealth is divided among extended families. So, to maintain per-capita wealth, the initial pool would need to grow at a matching rate by 10x in 70 years -- which is an annual growth of roughly 3-4% (in real value, i.e. over-and-above inflation). Otherwise, wealth will simply be diluted exponentially, apart from getting consumed/expended. (Unless at every step you manage to keep marrying rich)

If you start with a large amount of wealth, achieving such a growth rate (3-4% per year, in real value) is no mean feat.

1. For starters, one cannot depend on "employment" which has a relatively small return. You need to find a way of earning money on your capital.

2. The political and societal conditions might not be conducive. The person(s) in the zeroth generation might have been lucky in many ways. This relates to the idea raised in the OP above.

3. People growing up in wealth might not have the skills, or the luck.

4. Or they might not have the desire. They might prefer to move higher along Maslow's hierarchy once the lower level needs are met.
To quote John Adams: "I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematicks and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, musick, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelaine."
This. Interestingly, I was just reading on this topic the other day. Many sources (see Wikipedia article) suspect/assert that the Rothschilds are worth somewhere in the trillions. Since that's more than the GDP of most countries, it fuels a lot of illuminati/"new world order" conspiracy theories. With that kind of wealth, one family has the power to manipulate international markets. By coupling that manipulation with timely investing, the Rothschilds can multiply their fortune indefinitely.

Honestly, neither the idea that they control trillions+ nor that they are manipulating markets, seems that far fetched to me. Their family has multiple dozens of individuals spread throughout the world in financial roles, some of them visibly managing billions of dollars in assets. They've controlled their wealth far longer than transparency laws have had any real effect, so it would not surprise me at all if combined, they controlled trillions of dollars.

If you've got a family who all knows each other, meets up multiple times per year, and controls trillions of dollars, what do you think is going to happen? Obviously their loyalties all lie to each other, not individual countries. I imagine their family retreats include more than a few "back room meetings" of the most powerful members, where they openly discuss their assets and strategize how to use them to their advantage.

It's not hard to imagine a small group of people controlling that much money becoming hungry for power and influence. It's a scary thought, but the world seems to be doing fine so far, so I'm not too worried.
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Adrian Thompson's page - http://mazsola.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/~vajo/html/ade.html
Why does it matter that much? I am sure that there are good reasons why some users would care, but...
The Conclusions section does a good job of outlining the merits and limitations of the study. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4085611/#__sec18...
I recently discovered HN and since then I go here when I want to think and browse reddit when I want to kill time. I used to browse reddit to think and watch youtube to kill time, but now there's so much brain-numbing shit on r/all it's almost pointless. Sure, the smaller subreddits are better, but the overall focus of the site has changed to humor from discussion.
Thanks for sharing these links! I did take a brief look at Selenium, but due to my lack of familiarity with it and no mention on how to save the full page in html (instead of screenshot) I moved quickly to writing this version using xdotool. I agree this approach is more clunky and perhaps less likely to work across different platforms (than say Selenium/CasperJS), but it finally served the purpose for me (Ubuntu 12.04, GNOME, Chrome) by letting me download a bunch of communities. :)

Good luck with your CasperJS approach, and I would love to learn from it if you wish to share the code later.