skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Help me validate an idea
Trying to validate a Twitter audience tool that identifies influencers/potential customers/customers/people of interest for a specific topic.

The goal is to figure out if my algo delivers quality results, and what a good model for selling is (price per lead seems reasonable to me ATM).

Fill out the Google doc and I'll turn around a list of names/Twitter handles within 24 hours for free; I just ask that you let me know how good/bad the results are for you.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1sBPAZdlGOmP_AFbfyVnTez5_YD7xEBrtmDZhp-9-L44/viewform?usp=send_form

Thanks, HN.

sam
About 45 years ago, there was a captain in the US Navy who answered candidly in a congressional hearing about the F-111's potential for use on aircraft carriers. He was greatly admired by his fellow officers for doing this, but he killed his career along with the naval F-111.
http://benpfaff.org/writings/clc/strncpy.html
Gitty for GitHub
And the job I want let me wear whatever if feel like. Which excludes polo.
That would make a class of error impossible, at the cost of losing consistency (in most modern languages, the class name is just a variable that holds a class value).

I'm not decided if I like it or not.
> The belief that African Americans were literally inferior to European Americans animated most of 20th century racism, so this observation is probably less helpful than your otherwise clear writing makes it sound.

I'm afraid I may have implied something I didn't mean to imply.

I'm not sure what you mean by "this observation". I didn't mean to imply that people see girls as "literally inferior". Just that people probably think they're less likely to be competent.

> "Girls" is probably not the word you want to be using, by the way.

I'm saying girls to be all encompassing. "Women" just includes adults. And "females" sounds weird, like dehumanizing.
Microsoft criticises UK government decision to adopt ODF
Just because you play golf, does not mean you wouldn't miss several hundred dollars. Golf is not really a poor man's sport, but neither is it polo.
Assumptions that can kill hundreds of people. Its illegal to point a laser pointer at an airplane worrying that it would blind pilots even though most planes are on autopilot. At the same time they don't consider to assume that Russian backed rebels would have missiles capable of shooting down planes.

I hope they stay away from Israel/Gaza airspace as well and not wait for another incident. Maybe airlines should publish their flight paths to the public so that we can make our own decision!
emacs-prelude is a nice way to get started with emacs if you are a vim user: https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

You can enable the prelude-evil.el module and start out with a nice set of bindings. It would be sweet if there were some more pull requests to make the evil-mode bindings in prelude more closely match vim.
As I mentioned elsewhere, that's more than a small nitpick, because something like:

XI
--
Chapter XI...

Is perfectly fine in text-email -- so adding the space on the end is very useful -- as you'd rarely need to escape "-- " on a line by itself -- not so for just "--".
it's a definition, not an analogy.

language is just our best tool for sharing feelings, concepts, etc. funny to think it's (probably) ultimately not the best tool for that. :)
It's from here: https://www.google.com/search?q=motorcycle+sidecar&source=ln...
Having personally experienced nothing but excellent service from Amazon, I'm inclined to think Bezos does have the customers best interest at heart.
Unusual Airplanes
Fair enough, I remember it that way too. I was only looking to clarify what I read in your original post as indicating that backbone.js was the first one. I agree with you that it was the first highly popular framework.

Sorry for the earlier "well, actually." :)
Celery Launches Consumer-Friendly Bitcoin and Dogecoin Buying Service
So the test was run on a 285 node cluster with 60 clients. It would be nice to know how they arrived at those numbers. Was there some sort of formula used to calculate how large each group should be? How much trial and error was involved.
LittleBits' latest module lets you connect your creations to the internet
Thanks, but I will stick with Terminus Font:

http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/shots.html
NatI: Multi-language voice control system for Ubuntu written in Python
Interesting, I often wonder in these kinds of cases whether that implies that Kitty, the best crow, has the equivalent of an internal language or symbolic logic that they're using to frame these ideas? Also, if provided with an easy way to interact with human language, would they be able to develop / learn concepts like grammatical structure, or always be limited to simple relationships like "Red = Food"? Would their reasoning ability improve if provided with such a language framework?
Yeah this part was laughable. Fresh-out-of-school lawyers, accountant, and business-types are routinely expected to work 80-100 hour weeks at large firms.

I have a friend who worked at Goldman Sachs up until their manager called them on Christmas Eve and demanded they drop everything and get to the airport ASAP for a big meeting. There was no meeting and upon reaching the airport they were told their job was safe and to go home and enjoy their Christmas. Those who did not report were fired upon returning from vacation.

Do we hear about that kind of stuff ever happening to devs? (Well, outside the gaming industry)
When people actually do the math they get promising results. WiTricity claims over 95% efficiency "when the devices are relatively close to one another". I think to charge a car from a parking space over 90% efficiency is possible.
http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_giler_demos_wireless_electrici...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonant_inductive_coupling
It's because you can dump lots and lots and lots of fossil fuel waste into the atmosphere for a long time before it starts becoming a noticeable health hazard -- and by then you can see it coming.

Radiation will kill you relatively quickly and you won't even know you're dying.
I'm puzzled as to why it's called "stable," while at the same time it appears to require btrfs-on-root to be useful (i.e. for hosting Docker containers) but that part is "experimental."

Can someone from CoreOS clarify?
while that's true, it still does affect how readable the article as a whole is.

And besides, the content was hardly insightful.
Well done, sir. I've always thought something like this was needed. Paid products are fine, but why not open source if a person or crew wants to take the time to build it with the polish required to pull it off? Well, you built it and it looks awesome.

Plus it's refreshing to see something seven years in the making and testing posted here. News and speculation are always interesting, but this project has some weight to it. Thanks for posting.
I can't find it now, but the guy running http://www.viemu.com/blog/ has a good explanation for this problem. Basically, while there are modes, you don't work like that. You are always in command mode, and you slip briefly into e.g. insert mode, before popping back out to the 'default' command mode. This perfectly described how I work in Vim, and when I passed it around my office, several people had 'ahah!' moments. YMMV.
I think "activateUser" seems more semantic than "UserActivation/create" - that's just Kingdom of Nouns again.
I disagree -- I don't think that a hole-in-one correlates with winning the round (I'd be interested if someone can crunch the stats for the PGA), and I also don't think that goes any further to explaining the reasoning.

I think the article DOES hint at explaining it anthropologically -- there's a rich tradition of "potlatch" events in which community members demonstrate their power by how much they can give away. Ultimately, you've just experienced some incredible good luck, and that gets spread around by handing out free drinks. Also, if you hang out at the club long enough, you'll be the recipient of many hole-in-one free drinks, which will ultimately balance out the round you had to buy.
Congrats to you! :)
Obama blasts US firms for ‘magically becoming Irish’
hole in one insurance is usually just charged by the club in addition to membership fee, not by an actual insurance company. its also inaccurate to assume that anyone who plays golf can afford $500+ in alcohol.
"The average black man has a lower IQ (Google it, many citations)" - wow, well, that f'd up comment says alot about alot
The new .NET web stack is pretty amazing
Very nice, not something for me, but I have passed the link onto relatives who are involved in churches.
I wouldn't develop software for chuches since my opinion is that they are bad for society. Feels weird for me to wish you luck, since I want religion to vanish.

But good job in making a sophisticated software, even if it was for a horrible cause.

EDIT: I knew this was probably going to be downvoted. But I just want to say that I have nothing against this person. I just dislike religion but understand that other may not agree with me.
I was hoping for a more precise software concept. Maybe it is loosey goosey.
That font size is so big! Am I alone w/ preferring 9pt http://d.pr/i/NDUU?
Your comment came in response to someone calling not paying taxes, "unpatriotic", and saying the US is a "blob of land delineated by imaginary lines", when in reality the whole point of this debate revolves around the fact that entities residing in this "blob of land" are expected to pay taxes, in return for which a whole host of benefits are granted.

It's not nationalism to malign those who benefit from the collective tax paying body without contributing to it.
Or branch out several personalized versions for each faith/denomination.
I realize you may have been joking, but I wonder how most atheists and other nonreligious people here would feel about selling a product or service targeted specifically at religious people or churches. To me, it feels dirty, like I would be saying, "I know that religions are false and even harmful, but I'm going to milk those less enlightened believers for all they're worth."
I remember clicking through those same pictures a few days back and I was under the impression that I was telling the observers what pictures I thought were more beautiful, not safer.

Did they just re-label the same data here or is this another separate program?
HR for startups wouldn't and shouldn't be like HR for big companies. It doesn't have to slow a company down at all, and it's definitely a function that can enhance a company culture in really positive ways without dampening it.

However, if you think sexual harassment doesn't happen in small startups, you're not paying attention. At the end of the day, HR is a mediator for the company to protect it from lawsuits. HR can stop a little issue from turning into a big, expensive issue, which is positive for both the company and employees.
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For reference, the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 was termed in the US report[1] as a "a tragic and regrettable accident". The report goes on to use the word 'accident' many more times.

[1]: http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/International_security_affairs/o...
Forgive my ignorance of terms, but how is this "CSS-powered" if it's a jQuery plugin?
Chas was kind enough to call me and not only explain their product, but also to educate me on HIPAA compliance in general from a legal standpoint (his background) – answering all my questions until I had a really good grasp on it and pointing me in the right direction to learn more.

(I'm working on a product that may eventually use this – left my email on their website and Chas got in touch and we ended up on a Skype call)
The definition I use is a piece of software that runs independently to encapsulate infrastructure libraries. In other words it gives you a way to access the libraries without having to import them into your code.
Alongside secrecy, I wonder how you prevent people from selling their votes in this system. It could be a much bigger problem than it currently is because of the ease with which someone could do it.
https://twitter.com/Papapishu/status/492401740029775872
Building your own update client
This tradition also goes down to a round of golf with friends, where there's no money on the line at all. Also, while golf started out as a game for the wealthy, there are quite a few teachers, etc who golf now too. Finally, a membership to the local country club could be someone's big monthly splurge; instead of lots of cable channels, etc, they just have a golf membership so they can go do something they enjoy without worrying about it. Golfing simply isn't as hoity-toity as it used to be.
Nigeria government confirms Ebola case in megacity of Lagos
This page is itself a poor example of the principle it's trying to expound. Unfortunate, and especially disappointing as its an idea that I agree with.
The point of that part of the article wasn't that one must wear a polo, but rather one must look professional if one desires to be treated as a professional.

Wearing nice jeans and a nice button-down can be very professional looking. -- wearing torn jeans and a hoodie into a meeting... not so much.
I know both well, and emacs are essential to navigating Mac OSX UI. If someone ever catches you typing in gmail they will ask how you are moving around so fast.

I tried emacs until my pinky hurt so bad I switched to vim.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#.22Emacs_pinky.22
I'm going on a road trip. I'll be driving on the interstate, and have already gone half way.

How much gas will I use?
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Having a "company name" as a username on HN just feels so impersonal when you're talking to us.
Well, comments raising the issue are almost universally down-voted without comment.

I imagine that tells us quite a bit.
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"Golfing is a game for the wealthy"

Not all golfing takes place at country clubs. The District of Columbia has four public courses (three of them nine-hole). I golfed when I was a kid, and though we were comfortably off, it would be a stretch to say that we were wealthy. I've since known golfers who, again, were comfortably off and not much more.

Do those golfers put wagers on their rounds? I have no idea; we never did.
We moved, I started working with a new startup, and we had a baby, all since January. She's four months old now, and I smiled reading this.

I've decided that the single biggest thing to aim for as a new parent is to be flexible. People will tell you all sorts of things, and you'll have all sorts of ideas about how things will go, but in the end being flexible and willing to try new things is key.
Something like this:

sudo aptitude purge emacs
sudo apt-get install vim gvim
gvim

Edit: Clearly I'm joking. If you wanted a serious answer, Emacs is just a large, easily extensible program. It's not really an OS. That's like saying Google Chrome (contains a package manager, web browser, text editor, scripting language, and much more) is an OS.
I think it is silly to argue such semantics with natural language. We all know what it means when they said "accident." Something unintentional, unexpected, and unfortunate. So why do we need to go off topic and argue whether something was the correct word, when everyone is aware of the meaning implied. In this context, "crash" and "accident" are really the same. The events are random and out of control from the perspective of the airline or passengers, the people who matter in this post.

It's not like we're programming, where (hopefully) 2 != two != "two" != "2"
Bose files lawsuit against Beats over patent infringement
What made you think it would be a CUDA guide?
I well take your point, but biglaw offers $160k [1] plus bonus starting comp. Even if you don't make it through the up-or-out crucible, the 2-4 years you should make it ought to at least zero any school debt you have and leave you with a good chit on your resume.

And my rule is to quit jobs if I have to work weekends and I don't see the c-staff in there as well. Even if they have no work to do; if they screwed up badly enough that I'm working they better not be fucking off with their kids or hobbies.

[1] http://abovethelaw.com/2012/10/the-160k-plus-club-which-law-...
Ashe Dryden wrote the best explanation I've read: http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/the-ethics-of-unpaid-labor-an...

(Helped me realize why writing opensource never appealed to me: the respect of my peers is even worse motivator for me than money. I rarely enjoyed the company of other programmers, due to the toxic culture we replicate. Caused some minor problems when I "led" a team of them; needed to care for them despite disgust at their cowardly, sociopathic acts. My interest kept returning to their far more marginalized coworkers.)
Worked fine for me on Chrome.
It is no "quirk" of the DMCA that you cannot remove software locks. It was the entire point of the DMCA. Anyone who has read the text knows that.
Can you talk a little about how you're using it for analytics and why you like it over other similar choices?
Robert Cialdini also brings the same theory in his book Influence. Not only that a tragedy prompts other to the same action, but he showed some studies where a type of tragedy prompted a seemingly irrelevant event.

For example, 2 days after a suicide appearing on the news, it is significantly (don't remember the exact numbers) more likely for there to be a plane crash. He attributes this to the fact that some pilots that have had suicidal thoughts are triggered by the suicidal news.

Another interesting study looked at how mortality rates of car accidents are higher after suicide-related news. This study found a surprising number of car deaths in which the driver was stepping on the gas pedal, instead of the break, which might be an indicator of suicide.
I WANT TO BELIEVE

But seriously, this sounds like an awesome project. As far as I know, there are still no great multiplayer-DAW setups. Would be incredible, but definitely a big challenge - working alone in a DAW uses serious CPU cycles, and trying to get a second person in on it would be hard. Good luck!
If you're interested in Rails, I transcribed an interview with DHH about many things, including Rails, which he had with Randal Schwartz on the FLOSS podcast:

http://www.transcribed-interview.com/dhh-rails-david-heineme...

"The architecture of Rails is that it's going to be full stack. Which means this is not going to be just one piece and then you have to go out shopping for another ten pieces to build an web application. I wanted something more... you have the entire box. With Rails today, just using Rails and nothing else, you can build an awesome application from the bottom up. That meant including the database, the templating, the MVC structure, bla-bla-bla. The core reason of why I wanted to do this was because I wanted all the pieces to fit together just as well as an integrated Apple stack. Apple products were definitely a leading inspiration for the design of this."
> In other words, you want to address diversity by stamping out any ideas that are contrary to the modern politically correct BS that most people here are dulled into believing.

My natural reaction to this comment is Plonk.

But I realize that is only perpetuating the problem. I have the luxury of ignoring you. I have the luxury of ignoring whoever I want to. Many people don't.

And maybe that is exactly what you are trying to point out: if we try to solve this by using group consensus to ignore/block/killfile idiots/fools/bigots, what happens 1-on-1.

So in response:
I also have experienced situations where HR doesn't really add anything, but maybe someone can come up with a way to do HR.

I don't think it is just politically correct BS.
For anyone interested in building such a system:
http://users.speakeasy.net/~lion/nb/html/doc010.html

Taking into account that you've written this when you were 16 years old (2003), this certainly means a lot to you and I don't want to interfere with anyones beliefs. I also do believe in computers so I can relate.

Edit: http://gtdtxt.tiddlyspot.com/ seems to be an implementation.
5 tips to get you through the design process
We expect our own designs to be perfect from the start, only to give up when we find out that’s not the case — and it’s NEVER the case.
That's exactly what I was trying to say - I think this is an issue of pilots getting caught in a health/safety battle, and there's every reason to go about investigating from that angle (I'm assuming that's what the Inspector General investigation is focused on). I don't see the evidence to conclude that he's being reprimanded for whistleblowing.
What happens to everyone's net worth if power goes away for months or years? If I have, say, $1M in the bank (I don't), and the power returns after 2-3 years, do I still have money?
OSS communities are not inclusive

Community or inclusion aspect is a red herring imho. I use opensource software all day every day and barely ever even communicate with its authors.

I'm willing to bet that majority of open source code is just some dude banging it out in his free time with maybe an occasional question or a patch if he's really lucky. No community at all, just a repo, a package, and a few stars on GitHub.
$3/mo is a flat, fixed fee that can be budgeted against. $650 out of the blue is a lot like having a car break down, and is enough to put a crimp in any other plans one may have coming up. If someone really enjoys golf, it seems like a reasonable thing to do.
Do you really want a meaningful discussion, or a discussion where PC opinions are upvoted and critical voices are downvoted/banned by dang?

There are a lot of us who think that the code you write matters more than the gonads you carry or the color of your skin. We're quickly becoming pariahs as our workplaces become more politicized.

I don't know why more people don't understand that equality of opportunity is perfectly compatible with inequality of outcomes. Does nobody read Harrison Bergeron anymore?
Huge win for ODF in the UK: let's not mess it up
I was just adding a point that is left out of these discussions more often than not. The point is that "white" people aren't unified because of their skin pigment. Europe is a major example and of course the never ending protestant and catholic wars around the globe.

> Talking about white people or even generalizing about white people is not racist. There is no institutional and systemic power backing discrimination against white people based on their skin color.

Unfortunately generalizing about white people is racist. And saying that it isn't, is a "systemic power backing discrimination" based on their skin color.

> On the basis of being white, you do not suffer increased chances of incarceration, lack of access to education, worse job opportunities, and so on.

This supports my original post, I think we should move away from skin pigment based judgements. Also I don't have any references at hand but I recall these statistics being heavily influenced by your socio-economic status. You could replace "white" with "middle to upper class".

> White identity is not the same as Asian identity and the issues facing Asian people do relate to racism. It is a false equivalence to compare whiteness to being Asian

I'm not sure what you meant by this point. But what I meant is that Italian's, Greek's, Irish, American' and Australian's don't fit neatly under the "white" banner and nor do Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian's and Korean's fit neatly under the "asian" banner.

> There is nothing wrong with a little self awareness of being a member of the dominant social group in tech.

"white" is not the master social group of tech nor do people walk around consciously identifying with the "white" group. The Tabs vs Spaces debate does not give a shit if your black or white, extend this to TDD debates, functional vs OOP etc.

Yes, I know racism exist.