skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I bet there will be much more incentive to really read up on the Science.

You mean capitulate to a forced perspective?

If she learned fundamental statistic, pored through paper after paper, found errors and miscalculations, would she get her money back? No, so ignorant or not is irrelevant.

Your utopia is terrifying.
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It may be irrelevant to your analogy (it'd be more difficult to identify "personal bias" in reviews of people, after all), but the "20% of Yelp reviews are fake" meme is highly misleading. The study in question looked at what percentage of Yelp reviews were hidden, by Yelp, for looking "fake."[1] This provides us with little additional information on the percentage of visible Yelp reviews (which is what most people will assume you're talking about when you say "Yelp reviews") that are fake.

It's a bit like noting that 96% of Harvard applicants are rejected and concluding that "96% of Harvard students didn't deserve to get in," with the caveat that by "Harvard student" you mean "a student that applied to Harvard."

[1] http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/FakeItTillYouMakeIt.pdf
GM Made This Bizarre 20-Foot-Tall Vehicle to Predict the Future
IMHO Most backers are "religious" , in the sense it's spare money for them and they get some satisfaction in backing an idea,i really believe only a tiny minority of the backers really want a concrete product in the end ,otherwise I cant believe how some ridiculous projects could be backed 10xtimes the initial money asked. For businesses,backing something can be good PR too,a lot of business do it ,no matter what the outcome is.

People like me that are too paranoid or skeptical to give free money would never back anything to begin with.
I made a long comment on the history of the right to be forgotten on another thread that just fell off the frontpage. Definitely relevant to this thread too!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8083211
TripAdvisor nabs Viator, tours startup, for $200M
There's a startup that's trying to do this: https://myrepp.com/. Not sure why they're not using this case as an opportunity to get some press.
> YoYo is nothing*. It's a joke. But it could be something, I guess. It could be like Yo, but maybe it automatically responds to a Yo with another Yo...creating an infinite loop of Yo's
But Airbnb, as a service, should at least filter/advise for knowingly stupid things like renting out for such an extended period.
Historically I think Haskell will be very important as the substrate on which a lot of the next generation of dependently-typed languages (Idris, Agda) are bootstrapped on top of. It's a niche use admittedly, but it's hard to understate how great Haskell is for writing modern functional compilers.
I'm genuinely struggling to understand the value of Rackspace.

See [1]: "We don't offer raw infrastructure without service." That is, support is included in the cost. Lots of people don't need support or don't want to pay for it, particularly the startup-oriented crowd here on HN. But I would be interested in a comparison of Rackspace's support to others'.

Rackspace charges you $120 per terabyte of data transfer

Is this in the fine print somewhere? I wouldn't be surprised, but I don't see it mentioned in [1].

1: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/onmetal/
What cases are you referring to? I've never heard anything like this. Even if such cases exist, it still doesn't justify murdering people because the state is incapable of doling out justice.
So, revealing one of these mistakes would come off as a brave revelation of a personal mistake; a lesson learned and moved on from

All of them together seem to come across as being simply dishonest. Being years behind on taxes because you never bothered to have a proper accountant look at your finances, calling people co-founders one day and then treating them like employees, selling non-existent features to your customers and collecting credit card information with no product to back it up, saying you "dropped out of Harvard" when you "took a few courses at Harvard Extension", not telling your investors about what's going on, all adds up to pretty much being entirely dishonest with everyone you interacted with.

One of these mistakes could be forgivable; I've known some very good people who were terrible at accounting and so wound up with lots of back taxes to pay. A good salesman may sell a feature that's not quite ready yet; it's sometimes frustrating for the developers, but as long as it's more the exception than the rule it's OK. Focusing on your product more than your investors may be OK if you just have so much to do and you really are bringing them a lot of value.

But all of them at once? That doesn't leave you with very many excuses; you weren't so busy building features that you didn't have time for investors, you were using your customers, and the IRS, and your "cofounders" as extra investors and even with all of that you weren't able to make it work out.
One of the biggest things I loved about Joel and the entire Fog Creek / SO history is that it always felt like a company. A real business with real people. Not a cartoon and not a sweatshop. I hope with this news Trello continues down that path.
Only 20 requests/second with 45 instances? That's horrible performance.
In the meantime in Japan we have automatic parking buildings using robots for like... 15 years or something. Lifting the cars up to store it vertically with minimum waste of space.
Clipped launches summarization API and infographics
I'm curious; what have you heard that makes these sound like lesser crimes? I feel like from my reading of this, it sounds like he's admitting to being pretty dishonest in a lot of ways (though obviously weasel-worded), so I'm curious what more we're not hearing about; if this is supposed to make him look better, then whatever's left must be pretty bad!
Yet with all this purported modern fiber, only like 5% of the US population at most have access to speeds over 100MB/s, and only at exorbitant prices that do not reflect the current low cost of maintenance of that infrastructure deployed a decade ago (when these companies were, note, still profitable).
Except that Dvorak has been repeatedly proven as an inferior solution to qwerty, especially for programmers (and it's also pretty bad for carpal tunnel syndrome).
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Show HN: Laravel dev environment in a Terminal.com container (example included)
I wouldn't read that much into it. That will get pulled in as a dep for most packages, including Rails.
Censorship contradicts freedom. To me its that's simple.
http://blog.mailgun.com/open-sourcing-our-email-signature-pa... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8081532) has some screenshots with blurred email addresses you can read without fancy deciphering.
China plans 52 km diameter proton-proton supercollider
Powerful people have a distorted perception of time
PayPal confirmed this as a real coupon thing. It's weird that the information in About is so vague and the URL is... well hyphenated.

https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/About-Protections/Did-an...
You could panhandle for ten the bucks. OTOH, no company that expects a person to read or send an email, or do any other internet-ish thing can expect their employees to subsidize their business while on a business trip.
That story probably isn't true. Why would WhatsApp raise money if they weren't planning to spend any of it?
If they're going to that effort, then why can't they filter for knowingly illegal things, like short-term rentals in cities in which this practice is illegal?

I don't see them doing either one anytime soon, since it presents a major PR/deniability problem.
If you think that's bad, don't get me started on chairs and desks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=105026

(Incidentally, since writing that N years ago a physical therapist talked me out of the Aeron, which has poor upper back support. I've got a Steelcase Leap now.)

If you ever find yourself getting a job as a programmer, convince them to buy you a fancy keyboard and a proper chair and some Ergotron products. These things all last at least half a decade, so it's not as if you're spending that money every month.

Or buy them yourself... But if your company can't be convinced to budget $750 per year to keep you healthy and happy as you sit at your desk all day pounding out code for them at ludicrous speed, I've got bad news about your company.
What do you have against external ethernet adapters? I don't see how requiring an external ethernet adapter is a worse trade off than adding extra pounds and size.
No. The way to correct traffic is to stay in the right lane, moving at the same speed as the other lane, and merge at the end. That is what the zipper merge is. Driving at a faster speed than the other lane does not correct anything.
Mbalu Fonnie, Basidatu Sheriff and Princess Iye Gborie.

knowing their names means something

remember them

since you wondered.
Yes They Don'T. Fuckers.
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You seem to be confused about what legal protections are or are not in place, and whom the law protects. This isn't some loophole or edge case in the law, this is an explicit protection for lessee which is written into the law for a specific reason. "Legitimate slumlords", if you can tolerate such a concept, are well aware of this provision, and will bodily remove you and your belongings from their flop houses on the 29th day.

This is just an example of a person with barely enough capital to dabble in capitalism and lose. They thought they were going to flip a condo into rental income, skirted the law -- one wonders what other shortcuts were taken; did they have an occupant's insurance policy or a landlord's policy? did they take out a mortgage under the pretense of occupancy? Are they taking income tax interest deductions and claiming homeowner's property tax exemptions -- and pretty much got what they had coming.
Get an Airport Express that supports the 5Ghz band, and set it up to be a bridge. Best of both worlds.
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"Pacific Heights", 1990 starring Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine & Michael Keaton. SF based movie showing Michael Keaton abusing renters rights and even having the home owner arrested after turning off his electricity. Fantastic film, these guys (definitely scumbags) unfortunately might be in the legal right. Very unfortunate.
> The postal service should be worried about 3D printing.

This is going to happen no matter what the postal service does, so they can fight a useless battle, or go with it.
Haskell does still have major "ease of installation" problems in my experience. On OS X I had to install GCC and change a config file to get packages compiling correctly. [1]

Once I had that working came Cabal issues. "Cabal hell" has been ameliorated by sandboxes, but to use these you need to update the version of cabal-install that comes with Haskell Platform (I think they're close to updating Haskell Platform though). But when you update cabal-install the built binary isn't in your PATH for many users [2].

Once you get sandboxes working, you're in a good position to install packages. But because you're starting fresh, installing a larger package like Yesod takes me around ~2 hours (iirc).

Even when you have all that working, adding new packages can be hairy because of the frequent conflicts between packages.

I've distilled all this into a few sentences, but installation issues on Haskell have caused many hours of frustration for me (far more so than, say, Ruby).

I think many of these problems are fixed by using http://ghcformacosx.github.io/, but that project is 2 months old so wasn't an option until recently. Recent advancements in Cabal like sandboxes and version freezing (1.20) are dramatically improving this situation so I'm optimistic for future users of Haskell.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/21285413/1176156
[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14918251/have-i-upgraded-...
That was his first success as an entrpreneur, selling a Ben Franklin franchise store - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Walton#The_first_stores
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parking under my building in the Sydney CBD is ~$85 a day, and checking the Sydney airport website, a days parking is $105

$40 a day is a pittance
It is unclear to me if one could pull the same thing at an actual hotel or not. Assuming you could find a hotel that had a room available for more than 30 days, would they book you for that long? Or do they already have a policy against that for this very reason? Or do they have some different protection under the law that makes it easier to make you leave when your stay has ended?
Earlier this month Rackspace switched away from offering any servers without managed support, even in their cloud. So every server or VM you get from Rackspace now will come with 24/7/365 support, including phone calls with engineers.

That's the main reason their stuff is more expensive than AWS, Linode, Digital Ocean, etc. They just decided that their competitive edge is support, so they aren't going to compete with those guys on price any more. This will probably lose them customers in startups, but improve their margins overall.

http://www.rackspace.com/blog/newsarticles/rackspace-goes-al...
Please see: Pacific Heights (1990)
I'm with you 100% on the whole issue, and believe that pedophilia isn't any less ethical than homosexuality is, but I do feel that a sexually repressed person who cannot release their sexual urges is more likely to rape someone than a person who regularly has sex/relationships/etc, regardless of sexual preference.

Maybe not very much more likely, but it's definitely not less, and probably not equal.
Ask HN: Microsoft employee on H-1B visa. Should I stay or jump ship?
Been working at MSFT for about 2 years now as a Software Engineer (already under combined engineering) in the MBS (Microsoft Business Solutions) division. The layoffs haven't hit us yet, but there wasn't a reassuring email about our jobs either. I am struggling deciding if I should jump ship before being randomly laid off, or if I should stay and see what happens.

It's not an easy decision because I have a family. My Green Card process is moving forward and having a Green Card means my wife will be able to work again. She hasn't been selected in the past two H-1B lotteries, so she's miserable being unable to work. If I jump ship, my GC process will restart and that means she'll stay out of the workforce for at least a couple more years than if I stay and continue the current process.

The problem is, staying and risking a layoff is also a bit dangerous for us. I've just renewed my apartment lease for another year, and wouldn't be able to pay it all if I lost my job and had to return to my home country. Also, my wife is taking the time off of work to complete an online degree, and I've just paid this semester's tuition, so if we had to go that would be even more money down the drain.

What would you do in my situation? Does anyone have any insight into what might happen in ASG (which includes MBS)?
It's interesting to see that Gosu was announced here two years ago without a single comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3671054
It's really disappointing that Airbnb didn't offer any help until after the story got picked up by the media.
"It said that, while not many people bought their albums, everyone who did started a band."

And possibly a country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel
Fixed – Mature Responses to Problems – Fixed: 1, SFMTA: 0
For comparison.

Old design: http://bit.ly/1nyPUCL
New design: http://bit.ly/1rEA7FE
They're pretty much knowingly illegal as a business model, but that doesn't mean they can't protect their own users from simple abuses.
I see, so she will just have to co-exist with them.
I'm getting an application error when visiting the link to the heroku site.
About 4 billion Chinese people disagree with this article.
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Has the stack Trello is built on changed at all?
ref: http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-trello-tech-stack/
This is terrific. I'm mathy enough to know e to several places, and use it in programs occasionally, but if you'd asked me how it might be intuitively derived I'd have been at a loss. And that's just for something inside my comfort zone - the article on linear algebra is just as illuminating.

This looks like it will be my commute reading for the week. But more than that it just makes me happy that it exists.
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How does USPS have a monopoly on shipping package goods?
Solution for the “Confusing” Gender Neutral Toilet Sign Issue
You forgot the </sarcasm> tag.
Thanks! Bandwidth usage would probably become a limiting factor before CPU. It also depends on which mix of services was being used. The services are all lightweight enough that I don't think you'd have any issue with lots and lots of concurrent users, even on a Micro.
The title seems a little misleading. The acquisition was 2 years ago.
It sounds like Yammer timed the exit well and I'm sure there was some kind of two year earn out.

I wouldn't be surprised if, like many acquisitions, once acquired Yammer wasn't just another cog in the machine and being seen as a non-critical part of Microsoft is more like being a cog in the machine than like being a fast moving startup.

With all the corporate realignment, I'm not sure there is much room for any acquired leadership to really make a big impact at Microsoft, but that is more Monday morning quarterbacking than a super meaningful analysis.

It's always interesting to see how these things turn out.
With most of those problems pretty much gone, functional programming is doing quite a bit better than it did 15 years ago. Hybrids languages are gaining popularity: You can find Scala in quite a few large companies out there.

Major adoption of non-hybrid languages doesn't seem like something that will happen any time soon though, and it sure seems like the FP community actually wants it that way. We just sent one of our people to attend Lambdajam, and in his 5 minute version of what he learned, he was telling us how his impression is that there were plenty of Haskell people there that seemed to barely tolerate having any talk about Scala in the conference. Badmouthing of hybrid languages is the order of the day by extremely prominent members of the FP community, even if they end up using said languages in their presentations.

So I suspect that the future of FP is to be influential, for most of the best bits to be copied by language makers that build communities that care about marketing, and Haskell and the like will remain used only by people that just think there's no way to write any useful program without first learning all about category theory.
It is literally a "proposed standard": http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3676#section-4.3
In the meantime Lakitu is a nice Twitch client with Chromecast support:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kwd.lakitu
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Thanks. We took that part out.
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Not true: Mike Bostock's stuff is all over the NYT website very frequently. He and Jeremy Ashkenas seem to be key players over there. Very inspiring work from both of them.
Someone died today because someone didnt know how to merge (the on ramp is to get up to speed) and probably because someone thought they'd be 'nice' and slowed down. My guess is both vehicles at the merge point slowed drastically and everyone on the interstate were too close to each other for the speed and volume of traffic. Sad. http://www.wxow.com/story/26101450/2014/07/24/breaking-part-...

Edit: or perhaps we should fault inattentive driving on the truck driver. Still sad.
Analysis of programming languages and their salary/demand
There is a browser with VI key bindings https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero
I wonder if there's an option 3, install a mobile traffic light that allows one lane only at one time, in sequences of one minute or so each, i.e Alternating red and green lights, so that there is no need for merging. This way there's no slowdown caused by the merging, I feel that this method may actually make it faster overall.

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Airbnb makes it easier for naive or unsophisticated "landlords" to rent out their properties. Yes, those would-be landlords should educate themselves about what they are getting into. But you could argue that Airbnb, by dint of its existence and its success, is lowering the barriers to entry for the would-be landlords of the world -- and thus bears a social and ethical, if not necessarily a legal, responsibility to educate or protect those people from common mistakes. And besides, it's just good business to watch out for your customers.

The woman in question was not aware of the problems involved in 30+-day leases. We can fall back on the idea that she was ignorant, and that she got what was coming to her. True. But that's victim-blaming, and it's only half satisfactory. She is the kind of person who would not have invested in, and rented out, a property without the existence of a hand-holding site like Airbnb. Accordingly, Airbnb should do its part to ensure that people like her -- people entering the market because of Airbnb, and who are presumably unsophisticated -- are reasonably protected from rookie mistakes.

I don't think Airbnb is to blame here. I don't think Airbnb owes her any money. But I do think it should be thinking very carefully about how to retool its process, so that situations like these don't pop up again. Not for legal reasons, but for UX reasons. Airbnb operates a two-sided marketplace, and maintaining that two-sided marketplace means balancing the needs of both sides of the market.

It seems that Airbnb is offering to assist her with her legal expenses, and I applaud them for that. No, they probably don't have to do that. But "We don't have to" is a pretty lousy excuse to fall back on. Customer service matters, even if it means protecting your customers from their own mistakes (within reason).
Thanks! The name's "test/unit", but I won't hold it against you ;-). It's pretty sweet that people have gotten so much mileage out of code I wrote, and if it's helped us as a profession - even a little bit - to write better code, I'm thrilled.
Really? Do you know of any research that shows this?
> I don't remember why, but a few months ago it popped into my head: You know, when I was a kid in Harlingen, there was clover everywhere. We'd pick a bit out of lawns as we roamed the neighborhood and chew on it. It's been decades since I've seen a neighborhood like that...

Clover was not considered a weed until the 1950s, when 2,4-D became the herbicide of choice.

Before then, seed companies intentionally added clover into their grass seed mixes. Clover will grow in nitrogen-deficient soil because it can fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. Grass cannot. If you wanted to avoid bare patches on your lawn, you needed the clover.

For example, the book Planting and Care of Lawns (1931) recommends planting lawns north of 35 N latitude with a mixture containing 5% clover: http://books.google.com/books?id=_vL1mNCfVDAC&pg=PA8

For the greater part of region 1 the following mixture
has proved quite satisfactory: Kentucky bluegrass 17 parts,
redtop 2 parts, white clover 1 part by weight.

Once 2,4-D became popular, anything that it killed became regarded as a weed. This included clover, so clover became a weed.