skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably contains 2 servings of tuna, just like a can of soup contains two servings of soup. Most/Many people will use it as a single portion.

Pop, chip, candy makers used to label their products as multiple servings when it was normally used as a single portion and have since been forced to stop.
Interesting, especially that its quote-selection is apparently informed by actual linguistics research. It seems to do a pretty good job.

I'm thinking that I might be able to adapt something like this to read HN links autonomously and automatically post useful comments. Automating this task could save me a lot of time:).
they didn't do that. Tidal forces get weird as the sun starts getting larger and really weird when the sun's radius exceeds the orbit of earth. Their simulations did not take into account solar death (it's in the article).
What type of resources does your tool manage? It actually doesn't sound that similar to what Terraform's providers manage, e.g. http://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/aws/index.html
There's no evidence here that successful seed companies are more likely to look like bad ideas than unsuccessful seed companies. If 4/5 black swans look like bad ideas when they start, but 4000/5000 of this year's startups also look like bad ideas, then there's no effect to explain. The only lesson is that seed investing is just throwing darts.
He paid for disgusting, dehumanizing ads. And his views have not changed -- if they had, he would have said so. He did not, nor did he disavow anything his money went toward. If he had, he would still be CEO.
I agree with you 100% about the screenshots. Two weeks ago I was actively looking for a new RSS reader on iOS - I did look at Unread, but the screenshots totally turned me off - they just didn't show what the app experience would be like and I wasn't sure what to expect. I ended up buying Reeder 2.

I think if Jared updated the screenshots to be full view, real screenshots, showcasing a flow of functionality, he'd significantly increase his conversion rate. Same with the website - more / better screenshots and he probably would have had my business.
Finally, Martin Fowler added a section about laziness and parallelism to the article. But I regret not seeing the mention of the "stream" way of seeing collection pipeline in the parallelism topic and "streams" are only reminded in one sentence in the article about their unix history. Nevertheless a good article on an important technique - the pipeline - that ease data structure processing.
Here is my answer to the Google/Facebook login question:

http://www.words4chrome.com/2014/about-words-login-options-a...

and

http://www.words4chrome.com/design-choices/#nonative

Even though there is no privacy downside, people are still afraid of Google and Facebook logins. I guess there's no way to change that perception.

Just out of curiosity, you and several others have singled out Google, not Facebook, for criticism re: the login. Why?
Orget old experiments, let’s reinvent the wheel
No it is not in different situation. If I tell you your social security number is now accidentally written in your HTML file (probably because you copied and pasted the wrong thing), and now I tell the world "hey come look at sneak's SSN" instead of waiting for you to resolve is wrong.

Now back to this gist.

Is he responsible? It depends on how the situation was played out.

Based on what OP said:

* He found this 216 days ago and wrote about it as a comment on HN

* He didn't say whether he reported that day but he recalled Instagram was making HTTP request a year prior to that day he wrote the comment

* He didn't tell us when he report this issue to FB. Yesterday? Last week?

* FB said they are aware of this situation and closed the ticket. Like someone else said here, "closing" has different meanings. I've never reported any vuln to FB so I don't know how that works. But on HackOne, particpating program can close a ticket and set the ticket to "Not Applicable" meaning someone else has already reported.

So the decision factor is:

* when was the first report submitted by OP? Yesterday? Last week? 3 months ago? 216 days ago?

* if it was very recent, OP doesn't know the exact time the last duplicate report was sent out. Give FB a little more time and ask FB again in a week or so.

I did say in my other comment fixing this issue should be pretty trivia for Instagram as an outsider, but I also should acknowledge any major change to infrastructure should have a proper audit and roll out.

edit:

One last point. If OP thinks he's doing the right thing, let it be. There are too many things unknown to me so I am just listing all the possible consideration. I have tons of bug bounty reports unfixed for 3 months on various sites and I still email those sec teams back and forth to look at progress. It's an individual decision and with every decision comes a consequence to bear.
Hey I'm in that book :)

You are only looking at this kind of book as a sort of reference manual, but there is also historical value there as well. There don't seem to be many web projects that put enough effort in to describe the current state of an industry, but an author will. And that has a lot of value.

Books are a slice in time, whereas websites and news articles tend to show an evolving state of an industry.
How does this compare with Nixops or Disnix?

It sounds like it would be possible to plug nix-based provisioning into Terraform, and use it to manage the high-level cluster structure.

Edit: downvotes? whatever for?
I think there's a difference from a Powerball jackpot. There, the upper limit is defined. Whereas there's no upper limits on Sam's investments.

They're perhaps not black swans in the sense that Sam is aware they may increase in value, but other than that they seem to match the criteria in a way that Powerball doesn't. Taleb has spoken specifically about how black swans are not lottery tickets because of this calculability.
I also am hoping Redfin wins this battle but, in part, for a different reason. The model that Zillow/Trulia work on is rife with scammers. I almost got caught up in one myself on Zillow. And were it not for the bad PR they get that'd be more than happy to allow the scam listings since that only generates more page views for them.

Even notifying Zillow of the scam listing wasn't enough to get it removed. I had to keep replying to them by email and post on social media just to get them to look at the listing to see it was posted by a scammer. Which tells me they generally look the other way unless forced into addressing scams. Sure, they do some analysis on listing prices and alert you when its unusually low but that's clearly not enough.
Bolt - you will likely lose this case, Facebook knows this. Don't litigate.

Bolt is used too often and the only way you would succeed in a reverse confusion trial is to show that you own the Bolt trademark when it comes to mobile communication - no easy task. Just look at FiftyThree's USPTO application for "Paper" and the letter of protest that was submitted.

You only recently filed for the mark in the USPTO, and even by some miracle you get it through the PTO, Facebook/Instagram can still file a Letter of Protest or file an Opposition in the TTAB.

Unfortunately, even though you have rights to the name Bolt, you likely won't be able to enforce it. That said, neither Facebook nor Instagram can successfully litigate against you in court.
Even worse: he'd offer to sell you the app for $50,000!
Let's say a comment on one site gets 100 upvotes and no downvotes. On another site, another comment gets 10 upvotes and no downvotes. Was the first more popular, or just more trafficked?

You need the ratio of up-to-down to determine a comment's true usefulness.
http://www.3dhubs.com/ is exactly the kind of service you're looking for. Individuals will compete locally for print jobs, and you can have it made by a hobbyist nearby in Spain.
Teespring and Zenefits I've never even heard of until today. Are they rolling in the bank and disrupting their respective industries?

And Stripe, there was huge pent-up demand for a PayPal alternative before they came on the scene. How could anyone say that was a "black swan" bet? It doesn't make sense.
Moderating high-emotion topics requires moderation heavy in both quantity and quality. If HN is not willing to commit resources to that -- and it takes quite a bit of resources -- then connecting hot-button topics to GND is the least-worst alternative.
Ask HN: How to make career connections in industries you don't know
I've done almost nothing but webdev professionally. But in my spare time, I play with much cooler stuff, particularly with embedded systems. I'm sick of webdev but I don't have any professional connections with any other industries. How do you make those new connections?
Oh wow, yeah my bad... totally missed your reference. I fully support the creation of tools like firesheep to help/nudge companies into SSL.
That's a function of Youtube primarily delivering video content. A website designed to deliver audio content (e.g. Soundcloud) can keep playing just fine with the screen off.
The #1 item on Aida specifically mentions breaking backward compatibility is an option.

The #1 item on Don Giovanni is "clean up syntax".
I asked a teacher about this the other day: why are they cutting things out when there are tools like this?

Well you need to print something out first and then define the cutting patterns then run it. It's just easier overall to just cut things out by hand.
Thanks, but it's just a name. Just like you are not really a buffalo :)

Joking aside. DataGenetics is the consultancy company I set up when I was doing that line of work. It was all about spotting trends/patterns/explanations in data (sort of like the DNA), and the term described the work I did. A lot of the work I did was related to video games, and what the characteristics (chromosomes) were about games and how they performed. When selecting a business name, you can chose to attempt to describe your business function in the name "GreatPokerHands", "DataGenetics", "CheapTickets" or you can try an obscure reference "Amazon", "King", "Zynga" and then spend additional money educating people on that brand and what it represents. (Amazon sell things online, and has nothing to do with the river. If we listen to Jeff, he says the name was selected because it started with the letter "A", so will appear first on lists).

I continue to blog under DataGenetics as I own the domain, and have followers there. It's a hobby. Not every post is about data, either, it's just a place I put my thoughts. It's my hobby.

http://datagenetics.com/blog/may52014/index.html
Yeah this scrolling seemed kind of bad to me, I got halfway down and had to use a lot of force to proceed. I'm looking forward to this gimmick going away.
+1 on this, big time.

As a technical guy who became funded & CEO now CTO, getting a business plan both is, and isn't, rocket science.

Ask yourself: what would an investor want to know?

They want to know how expensive to develop, time horizon, risks, possible positive outcomes.

That's all a business plan is. If you haven't answered this for yourself, or it's just a "feeling" not backed up by data, then you don't really know it.

Run this past your friends, people who will give you a straight answer.

The entrepreneurial spirit is taking the bull by the horns and wrestling, not saying "I'm not a business guy." Try it yourself.

If you try it yourself, and "fail", you'll learn the kind of business guy who adds value, then you can look intelligently and correctly.

If you try and succeed, well, there you are.
The limit doesn't matter so much as striking it in the first place. Realistically, all of the mentioned investments are within the realm of reasonable thought. The presumption of a black swan is that it is completely outside the ability for one to rationally assess a system then predict it with decent success. 5/40 would be a phenomenally high success rate.

Lottery is totally not black swan, which is exactly what I was trying to say. Despite having prior knowledge of the company's situation (unlike a completely random lottery), it seems to me that these investments are closer to the lottery than black swan.

You don't place bets on a specific black swan, but you could place a different, outside bet on a disrupting event (kind of the idea of antifragile, benefiting from disorder). I think under Taleb's comments in Antifragile, living life as an artist as opposed to someone who is inherently reliant on the stability of say, an office job, is placing that bet every day.
If any terraform folks are watching this, I have a little feedback on the home page. When I first got there, it wasn't apparent that I could scroll, and I thought I had to sit through the flashy animation before I could see anything. Was a little bit off-putting.
I was sort of disappointed that this wasn't about actually impossible engineering problems [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
Same exact thing happening to me. I'm loading friends pages, liking photographs, and getting nothing.
You are being downvoted but it's very true. Amazon has had this partnership with 3DLT for a while but have only just now published the news.

I guess they were doing a pilot of the project to see if anyone would buy.
Diverse Teams Outperform Homogenous Teams
One of my former professors has done a lot of work on the issue of how DNA evidence is presented to juries. Basically, when you quote the Random Match Probability, jurors (and apparently journalists like the author of the article) basically forget about everything else: http://bioforensics.com/conference/RMP/RMP%20-%20irrelevant.....

There's two different logical errors involved. First, jurors conflate proving the assertion "this is the defendant's blood" with "the defendant killed the victim." Second, the "one in a billion" theoretical random match odds turn into more like "one in several thousand" when accounting for laboratory error. In fact, laboratory error totally dominates the error rate of the overall process.
Snowden: Dropbox is hostile to privacy, unlike "Zero-Knowledge" SpiderOak
Mitchell, do you even sleep? Every time I see one of your tools, I feel like I need to pay you a hefty sum to teach me how to start coding productively, cuz Hashicorp output seems ferocious. Keep up the good work.
I also use the "turn it into a project" mental hack. Use your engineering mentality to "break it down" and do one step at a time.

Don't shirk the "who can I sell it to for how much" question, though. That's the common fear/concern of technical guys.
I didnt realize there was more at first, till I read the comments.
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I recently talked at length with someone who had just finished one of these programs, and learned that they do an incredible amount of "teaching to the test". That is to say, they very specifically and intentionally designed the program to teach people the things that are typically discussed during interviews. The number one goal didn't seem to be teaching programming or software engineering so much as teaching you how to pass the interview to get a job as a developer.

That said, the person I spoke to had created a project on par with what I'd expect a CS undergrad to do, and clearly had the ability to get things done. I'd guess someone from such a program could be a good developer, but beware there will be big gaps in understanding beneath the surface ability to do Rails or Node.JS or whatever the bootcamp used.
Anything that allows two browsers to communicate directly with each other without the user intervening can be called a real-time web framework. Examples include WebSockets, the WebRTC DataChannel, publish/subscribe networks, paid services like PubNub or Kaazing, etc.
Ah. Well then correction, you told me SIGWINCH was not implemented in BICON and you did not have the time to work on it, which is definitely understable.
When Stripe came out it did not compete with Paypal, it competed with companies like Braintree. Stripe was never just a traditional payment gateway. It created an API for payments and a dashboard for managing invoices and recurring customers.

Pent-up demand for a PayPal alternative are from sellers who have a customer facing PayPal payment mechanism. Customers know they're paying with Paypal and customers usually have a PayPal account they use to pay you with. PayPal can hold on to customer funds like a bank.

With Stripe, a customer doesn't know you're using Stripe and if they had a Stripe account they wouldn't be able to see all the purchases they made at various sites that used Stripe, they're just not the same thing.

PayPal now owns Braintree, so they now do compete with Stripe.
Because almost anyone who eventually "owns the platform", eventually squeezes the content producers out of all the profit.

Why would I cooperate with a central platform, when once its achieves market dominance, it uses that position to dictate my profit margins?
Tiny Linux SBC web-enables DIY IoT modules
> Redfin is disrupting the brokerage model of paying agents price-based commission. As far as I can tell, they are happy to use the existing MLS for listing data, and then put a nice interface on top of it.

Not only that, but they're storing the data forever. You can see every time a property is listed, the price changes, status changes to contingent, sale prices, everything.

You don't get that with the MLS system.
There has to be some level of scale involved... I googled for lead emissions and found a nice graph showing a quarter of a billion tons in 1972 dropping to basically nothing now, around 500 tons or so.

The graph links from here

http://faculty.cua.edu/forbes/environment.htm
Lisp is probably the only language where eval makes sense. If you need to concatenate strings together to create "code", you're doing it wrong.
>hypothetical racist had an established work history of not letting his/her racial opinions impact management

I would still feel very uncomfortable working at such a company, and I think that's the sort of environment Mozilla wanted to avoid.
There's a difference between complaining about downvotes, and asking why you were being downvoted. One is whiny and doesn't benefit anyone. The other can spark a thoughtful conversation. I see no obvious reason why the parent post is being downvoted, so I would also like to know why.
My next business venture definitely needs to be 'common sense as a service'
Developer relations: 8 ways relationships are important/overcome differences
As always, the general rule of the desktop is "don't break my browser functionality". Browser functionality = scroll bar, back/forward button, refresh, bookmark, etc.
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This is sweet! You have intuitive controls, interesting enemies, and fun combat going on.
Raising Engagement on job descriptions using Live Chat
Most police forensics is junk science: http://lst.law.asu.edu/FS09/pdfs/Koehler4_3.pdf (page 4).
> let's leave politics out of this kind of stuff UNLESS the candidate is demonstrably in one of the outer circles of "unacceptable viewpoints".

Unless you've got an objective outside referee to decide what is acceptable, your proposal is meaningless in practice.
One thing I noticed recently that really bit me was I created a few issues on a public repo which decided to disable issues and so I lost them forever.
Realm peeps, can you explain this: "The only restriction is that objects can be used only on the thread on which they were created"? Is this same as Core Data limitation or is there more to it?
Shell announced lead free avgas last year. Last I heard it was undergoing regulatory approvals.
In fact it seems that the spanish newspapers have been oposing this tax. They know that the moment google stops linking to them they'll lose a huge quantity of clicks.
But the gobernment wanted to do it any way because it's how they plan to reciver part of the taxes generated by google revenue in Spain that it's diverted to Ireland and the offshore google conglomerate.
I think it's going to backfire the internet market in Spain, and it's a huge mistake.
Urban gardening is a great example of faux-environmentalism. It feels good, but it's not an efficient or safe way to farm. Lead contamination is one reason. Another is pure logistics. While advocates claim local food reduces "food miles" and saves resources, the amount of miles food travels to get to your plate is just a fraction of it's carbon footprint. It's much more efficient to grow food where it grows best and ship it across the world compared to growing it locally and using excess resources to grow plants in poor conditions.

If you have time, read this:

http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/15000/15100/15145/DE97763079.pdf

Otherwise, get the short version:

http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/food-miles

That said, gardening is a great hobby that shouldn't be limited to rural communities. But we need to do this safely - perhaps raised beds and a green house. And we shouldn't expect urban farming to magically solve our food needs. Even if everyone had a garden in their back yard, it wouldn't substitute the amount we grow in large farms.
Tooling is, unfortunately, not fixed cost. The majority of tooling cost on a line that runs several years 24/7 will be maintenance.

I think the bottom of a cylindrical can might be doable but rolling the lid seam on a filled can would be tough.
That also means that people will never pick it for anything that needs long term development/maintenance.
I'm just saying it's not likely they used a API or something to find your name from your phone number. They are just using good ol manual registration to make your ordering time faster next time.
Summary:

Scala 2.12: Focus on leveraging JDK8 features and interop

Scala next: Collections framework simplification

Scala next next: Language improvements
My first thought was "I hope this is paid like pandora." I would love to be able to purchase content in app, or at least contribute through the app. Maybe split the proceeds with my local npr station so we can end those annoying fund raising drives.
There shouldn't be any money at all in hackathons, it should be voluntary and tinkering/hacking on technololgy for fun or societal benefit. This is for a project with a well-defined goal defined by a large government that may be used against dissidents by a authoritarian state.

That doesn't quite fit into hacker culture at all.

If they aren't going to hire a well-paid hackers full-time like the NSA does to do the same thing, then at least make the prize significant similar to X-prize.
At least during the beta, a "Donate" segment would occasionally be interspersed between programs/segments; the app displayed a button that linked you to the start of their online donation process.
I think you missed the part where Microsoft and Apple had completely different core businesses.
New York's public radio station, WNYC, recently revamped its app to incorporate this feature, which I agree is very useful:

http://www.wnyc.org/mobile/

A lot of the available content categories aren't specific to New York, so it might be worth checking out regardless of where you live.
That's not what I meant to imply. I think the problem is that I wrote "something" and you are interpreting it as "literally everything".

Do I have the freedom to tell my boss to go fuck himself without facing any consequence? Of course not. That doesn't mean there is no such concept as "free speech".

I have the freedom to partake in many types of speech without fearing substantial retribution. Some forms of speech are restricted by the government, others are restricted by other things.
This is a very nice feature, and I'm going to take a close look at Terraform. If you are already using cloudformation, I'd recommend applying stack policies that deny permission to "Update:Replace" or "Update:Delete" any resources. When you need to, you can use a one-time policy that lets you blow away specific resources, by name or type.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuid...