skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of the statement Norvig makes at the beginning of SICP that all AI programs seem like magic until you understand how they work, when they just seem quite unimpressive. What we're learning is not so much that fish are wonderfully intelligent as that the things we take as intelligence are actually not-so-complex patterns.
Is there a specific API document for ycmd? I tried looking through the code base and did not see anything explicit. For emacs support the implementation will have to be in elisp, so having a python independent way of describing the API would be helpful.
I wrote this on my mobile phone. Sorry for the grammar and spelling. Now that it has been linked around a bit I feel a bit embarrassed. It has been up too long to edit. :-)
"It's better than new. Now it has a story."
-David Mamet

Not only are these beautiful and useful fonts, but each one has a story that's as unique as the typography itself. I can't wait to use one of these in a project soon.
It is interesting. At first I thought these fonts were hideous compared to the ones we know and love, but the examples gave me a little inspiration for them.

Click the photos of the individuals, and they show examples on products or posters, and they look quite nice, original, and have character. They should really place these images on the homepage, instead of the written alphabet.
Google has run away with the web search market and almost no one is chasing
Check out the ones that have already been written. See what you can improve on.

https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ForumAppsComparison
Obviously I don't think it's okay for a hotel to provide services in a slow or rude way as long as they eventually provide them. No one would seriously suggest that.
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Maybe I'm not "most users", but that would immediately kill any interest I had in a site I was browsing. The way I view it is, my attention is something I bestow upon a website, it's not something you have a right to grab without my permission like this.

On a more constructive note, how do you intend to deal with false positives among users that have multiple displays? If I were interested and wanted to share the link, by moving my mouse to the address bar it would trigger this popup.
Excel Hacks for AdWords
Some cheap video cameras don't shutter the frames (grabbing all pixels at once), they progress thru pixels - leading to a usually-annoying stretchy visual effect. If the sound affects much of the frame with suitable uniformity, you've turned a 60fps camera into a 2MHz "visual" audio sampler (lots of noise, artifacts, & other difficulties aside).
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The failure of Democracy to scale.

More specifically, the failure of people who would have common cause within some topic to actually come together over that cause and effect a change. Instead, people seemingly fall victim to 'wedge issues', reactionary prejudices, and etc.
I think there's an even easier fix here; you can solve it by getting curl to read the form parameters from a file (I'm not 100% sure, the manpage seems to suggest that -F can take a file source, but it might just be referring to how to upload an entire file?)
Is the World Making You Sick?
I wonder is it just me or google search for "Caviar" returns their website at the first position, above the Wiki article for actual "caviar"?
I'll risk being downvoted with you, because I agree that Yo, and all the hype that has cropped up around it, is just stupid stupid.
If you deposit $10k in Wells Fargo you have to trust them for the full $10k. Which you already do by putting $10k in a bank account.

If you want to send me your $10k I need to trust Wells Fargo for $10k because I will then have $10k that Wells Fargo owes me. I can then cash it out at say an ATM or branch. Once you have transferred the money to me you no longer need to have the trust and once I cash out I don't either.
> I don't see anything wrong with Gilead charging $84,000 for curing a disease.

Personally, I do. Helping other people is never going to be friendly with a free market. I accept that it may have a cost, but I reject the idea that people's health is something that should be traded on the free market. While it's great that this cure was developed, it was developed because there was a profit to it. That's the worst reason to develop a cure—how about working on diseases that aren't likely to return a profit? Curing the cold may not make you rich, but it would yield substantial productivity benefits for our society. Same with basic dietary habits. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that the US (not familiar with other countries) is worse off, mental-health wise, since the invention of Prozac, compared to basic research into public awareness of exercise, diet, and basic emotional well-being.
I bet this is why Google tries to merge G+ and YouTube accounts.

But then, Facebook comments are hardly much better even though they often have real identities.
I don't know labor law across the EU, but here our labor courts don't like companies who fire people for exercising their rights.

That is certainly the general attitude around Europe, encoded in law to various degrees depending on where you are.

However, it's worth keeping in mind that most of those laws are meant to protect the little guy from being fired unreasonably and winding up with no income but still rent to pay.

The maximum levels of compensation available for wrongful dismissal tend to be relatively low compared to the levels you're talking about as a founder/early employee/investor in a company that becomes successful. It seems to be implicitly assumed that anyone dealing with bigger numbers will know enough to make suitable contractual arrangements that protect their own position explicitly.
>'Do you have thoughts as to why things are this way?'

Off the top of my head, I'd think there's a lot of Apple / Steve Jobs mimicry in the use of flowery language.

Everything your local startup produces is beautiful just like everything from a new Apple store to an app, a document or a template in a WWDC keynote is beautiful and everything Apple does in general is 'incredible', 'great' and 'amazing' in their own words.
As more and more human labor is automated, its inevitable that companies will get smaller.

Determining what people need and how to fill those needs will never go away. But these organizations will get flatter, as more of their inputs can be purchased in the marketplace instead of needing to be manufactured precisely as the needed for a final product.

Companies that are built on platforms, such as the Internet, these inevitably get simpler and partially more alike as their platform gets richer and easier to use. More will be using AWS, for example, instead of hiring people to build and manage a data center.

And then there's Apple, which has demonstrated that there are still complex products that can be better integrated when you control more of the supply chain. It can switch both hardware and software to a new processor without coordinating with dozens of companies.
You still need a tiny amount in order to create transactions.
I ran across this technique on a couple of sites last week when going for the back button (no idea if they were ExitIntent users).

I thought it was a neat idea, and I stopped and played with the effect for a couple of minutes, testing its behavior. I may not remember the sites that did this, but it did make me pause and look at the popup as my pointer left the page.
So, it looks like they're using BGP to "program" the adjacent router a la "SDN." I'm curious as to two things:

* Byzantine fault-tolerance: How does this system handle failures when a specific node fails in a way that it fails to withdraw its routes. When a node's haproxy fails, how is BIRD informed of its failure? What if the failure is in some way that internal fault detectors don't see the failure.

* How is the ECMP hashing problem handled? ECMP hashing on most gear is just a plain hash, that means when a route is withdrawn, the rest of the systems see their traffic rebalance. How does this not result in all connections being severed?
I've talked to multiple people who did not know that we've had HepC cures for around a decade now.

I can sort of understand why marketing exists. Many people (most?) do not see their doctor on a regular basis, and even if they do, they might not bring up some chronic issue that they've learned to "live with".

For people who do not see their doctor (or who do not have a good relationship with their doctor, or who have a poorly informed doctor) marketing from pharmaceutical companies may very well be the only way that they learn a cure or treatment exists for a problem that they have!
I'm still in the process of writing API docs[1], but I did write a pretty thorough example client[2] that demonstrates how to talk to ycmd. It echos out all the chatter between the client and server and even pretty-prints and syntax-highlights the requests and responses. It should be pretty easy to understand how things work.

[1]: https://github.com/Valloric/ycmd/blob/master/README.md

[2]: https://github.com/Valloric/ycmd/blob/master/examples/exampl...
Thanks a lot for your feedback.
As of now it does trigger on moving your mouse towards to the address bar, we would fix this soon.
>You never change them both at the same time. The bio-filter harbors bacteria which neutralizes the fish urine. Yes, it will not seem 'clean' but it doesn't matter. Anyway, you should change out the water a bit at a time

That's how someone else explained it to me as well. When I say "Change in chlorine" I meant "she started again with tap water so there was addition of chlorine." and "I don't think she considered the chlorine." We had super chlorinated tap water in that city.

>You and your roommate should probably look up fish care

She was my roommate more than a decade ago and I don't know her anymore but yea, of course she should have known better because she was keeping fish. They were also just fish from a carnival/fair so she didn't exactly PLAN on keeping fish. She also went to the store and added a bottom feeder to the goldfish. Which was part of the point. Many (most?) people don't know what the hell they are doing when they start/maintain a fish tank. This is common.

I had absolutely, and I mean absolutely, nothing to do with the fish tank. I wouldn't touch it, it was hers. She was keeping the fish not me. She had the fish before we met. I also had no idea whatsoever she was changing the fish tank water or that you weren't supposed to do that. I wasn't her babysitter. I wasn't (an am not) responsible for her mistakes.

I am not going to look up fish care on google because there is no way I'd ever keep a fish tank. I was simply speaking of my experience with a former roommate's mistakes, I don't need a lecture on fish care.

I think she just neglected the tank for so long she felt starting over with fresh water would be easier not knowing the consequences. The fish lived for years before this incident.
I'm not the original poster you're responding to, but it seems odd to say, "if any of your friends do <something>, you'll be fined." It would make sense if it were something physical like vandalizing the hotel while they were at my party (possibly - depending on the circumstances). But if your friend from the party comes back 2 weeks later and vandalizes the hotel, should you still be liable?

That's kind of what this feels like. I didn't tell them to write a review. They genuinely didn't like your product or service. Why am I being fined just because they booked a room for my party? Maybe my friend has a legitimate complaint that isn't about how old the furniture looks (which is what this appears to be about). What if your staff was actually very rude, or the room wasn't up to the quality listed on the web site?

It seems unenforceable to a lay-person because it puts the burden of controlling third parties we can't control on us. If I go someplace for a friend's party and the friend tells me not to post a bad review of it if I don't like it, I'm going to tell my friend to fuck off and write whatever review I want. He has no say in the matter.

So it seems bizarre that you can even legally agree to something over which you have no control. It feels equivalent to saying that you agree to pay a fine if it rains while you're staying at our hotel. (That very well may be enforceable - but it seems odd to the layperson that it could be because you can't predict it ahead of time and can't control whether it happens.) It's simply an example of the law making no sense to the people it applies to.
Thank you. I was initially evaluating against this list https://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/forums/ but it seems there are some hidden gems like https://github.com/rafalp/misago that somehow didn't get on the list.
Exactly. These guys have essentially cured a major _viral_ disease. If they are wallowing in cash because of it, that's fine with me. Even if my premiums go up 2%. If the public sector is not going to do the work, there needs to be incentive for private corporations to lay out the millions required to advance medicine. We can't have near-zero public funding and then get all pissy when miracle cures are expensive.

And this is very close to "miracle cure". I had Hep C when I was younger (blood transfusion) and I went on interferon and ribavirin, which was 6 months of daily (maybe twice daily, can't remember) shots. And I was told that there was still a very good chance that I would never be "cleared". And sure this is $1000 a pill, but that six months of shots was not cheap either. Probably at least half.
It's just a matter of time before Google become just another tech company. It happens to everyone. It's taking longer for them since they have more money.

It will be a good day when a company comes along and dethrones Google from search. No one company needs or should have the power that Google wield. It's unsavory at best. I swore long ago that I would never use "free" services because they are not free. You are the product. There are too many good email services out there that cost less than a couple of cappuccinos a year to use crap like free email. I'm a customer, not a product. No for-profit ads, no making money from my information, just a great service for very little money. Who is this great email company? Fastmail.
My first reaction was to say "it should be based on the number of CPU/GPU/*PU instructions". But then, there are things like this: http://www.norvig.com/spell-correct.html. I wonder how much actual new-ness you can pack into, say, 100 instructions on a modern CPU.
Any ratings or classification system has some very fundamental challenges.

There's no way to collapse a multidimensional metric to a single value without losing information. That's what a "star system", numeric review, or others, do. Quick, what are food grades, and what are the grading criteria? (See: http://articles.latimes.com/1987-11-13/business/fi-13882_1_m... and https://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk3/1977/7707/770706.PDF)

Different people have different assessment criteria. That seems to be the problem the hotel in question claims to be facing. "What's best?" inherently presumes "For what?". A vintage hotel shouldn't be rated on the same criteria as a five-star downtown hotel or business hotel. Or for its healthcare, auto-repair, clothing, bookstore, or hardware characteristics. The challenge is when an entity tries to claim a special status or twist that's at strong odds to most general expectations.

Thin data. Only a small number of people typically leave reviews, and you're likely to get feedback only for exceptionally positive, or exceptionally negative, experiences. Or those who are motivated for whatever reasons (competition trying to shut you down, paid positive reviewers, etc.) to tell a specific story. This produces a highly non-randomized sampling selection.

Unqualified reviewers. This is a problem pretty much any collectively rated system has. People who are not capable of making a valid assessment. Among other services, reddit and HN are suffering from this.

The significance of ratings. Meaningless as they are, small changes in ratings can be hugely significant for a business. A major problem of the market is that information on quality is thin, non-abundant, and often expensive to come by. Ratings systems, even imperfect ones, address the ratings cost issue, even if the data conveyed are low-quality (think of racial discrimination or similar behaviors). So despite the problems, people care.

One way around these issues is to come up with a "based on your profile you'd likely prefer X". This is what Amazon tries to accomplish with its product recommendations, though the appropriateness of these is often pretty thin.

The problem space is a hard one.
Doesn't that seem like a legitimate use of a review site?

I could just as much consider it a warning to post that their wine selection is bad. Might be important for people who care about that. If you see it that way then you will ALWAYS find something you can spin to make a 1 start review without ever having interacted with the business.
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Except that this does not really give you that much security. Maybe only in the transport, but certainly not verification of content.

HTTPS (or SSL/TLS for that matter) only verifies the identity of the server the content is coming from. Since users can upload stuff to repositories on Sonatype, there is no verification of content whatsoever.

A naive workaround of this is to use PGP signed content. This would work, if users actually verified the PGP signature through a third channel. Either using web of trust, or some other means of getting a verification that the PGP key actually belongs to the developer.

Failing that, HTTPS is just snake-oil security here.
Any one have an interactive heatmap of the same data on a county or census block level? That visualization makes it hard to explore finer grained trends.

Googeling around for one I found this article which picks out the inland west as the fastest growing region in the nation:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2013/09/04/a-map-of-a...

But one of the job hubs they mention, Boise, didn't make the NY times vis.

My own experience is that, when considering cost of living and quality of life, it is hard to beat the northern rockies.
My apartment building rents out its first floor for events, often to weddings, and I've also noticed there's a tendency for guests to review things that really have nothing to do with us: how the event was organized, how the band sounded, whether the cake was good, and so on.

That doesn't mean, obviously, that we try to fine anyone for those reviews. We trust people reading reviews will realize when complaints don't make sense, and have good reviews that outweigh the bad.
Does someone who has studied virology have an opinion on the chances of this disease reaching the West?
As a converted vegetarian, I used to make exceptions for fish. Not because I thought they were mindless creatures, but because I had heard that they were rich source of nutrients; omega-3 fatty acids and the like.

Until the day I realized that there are some vegetarian foods that can supply these nutrients too. For example, linseeds and walnuts are rich in omega-3 as well.

Just putting it out there, in case anyone is on the fence, like I was.
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I think this is the cheapest (relatively speaking) high-speed camera: http://edgertronic.com/

There are also some consumer cameras that can capture almost 1,000 fps from a small sensor window. I wonder if those would work.
There's got to be a term for it, but the factors that influence how fast people drive on a road include how well it's been maintained, how congested it is, but also purely visual factors like whether there are trees or signs or buildings crowding the edges of the roads.

There's also the "They aren't serious about it" effect. Warning signs should be reserved for locations where it really would be dangerous to exceed a certain speed, either because there's an intersection just after the crest of a hill, or a reverse-banked curve, etc. So people have been trained to ignore the warnings because they're so familiar and have proven (most of the time!) to be not all that important.
Hyperbolic Discounting and The Science of Procrastination
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Doesn't this work just as well in reverse?

> Eventually you will run out of available, qualified coastal talent and you will need to hire someone from a non-coastal area.

I live in the bay area, but am from Utah originally. A couple examples from my home state:

http://www.adobe.com/careers/locations.html#lehi

http://blog.ebay.com/ebay-expands-in-utah-with-the-opening-o...
For me, the Wiki article comes up first in both my logged in and incognito results.
Wouldn't all this stuff work better if it was simply backed by cash? Is stellar/bitcoin a store of value or a transaction mechanism? If it is just a txn mechanism then backing it with regular currency is fine. If you want a non-fiat store of value, choose gold or something.
It's not against the Show HN guidelines, but generally it is frowned upon to advertise your project/company on someone else's Show HN post. If you're offering advice, and linking to your own project as a reference to credibility, that's different. Your comment comes off a bit like "If you're looking for a real Survey webapp, forget this and check out mine!"
holly shit awesome project, a genuinely great idea
Why Pound is awesome in front of Varnish
But there doesn't have to be.

I built the database and web interface for my current workplace 3 years ago. We used Excel as a temporary quick fix for inputting data. Problem is, we are still using it 3 years later. I am constantly cleaning up the mess of crap data being in the database because of this. Its really tedious, and has generated far more work than replacing excel with some proper web form that properly validates the data. I never get a chance to build the web forms, as it will take a week or two to do it properly. Instead I spend my time on tedious boring crap, that I shouldn't have to do, because management doesn't see it as a problem, other than me complaining about it.

If something is boring, there is a good chance it can be automated somewhat.
Sadly the human thing to do is to package it up, patent it and sell it to rich countries at $1000 per pill. Africa is their testing ground whilst the west turns a blind eye. They haven't got the money for a finished product. Think of the shareholders!
The landing page is actually an interactive survey builder though.. And quite nice at that.
Easily the coolest thing I've seen in a while.
I wish people would stop defining "free speech" for themselves and getting disappointed that it doesn't mean what they want it to mean.
There's an implicit assumption here that if a creature is above a certain level of intelligence, we shouldn't eat it. Why not?
Presumably the fish are all relatively at around the same level of intelligence to each other, yet fish eat other fish and we don't look at them as immoral for doing so.

Animals (including us) eat other animals. That's part of life. It's nothing to feel bad about.
'Embrace the Suck' is a great concept to re-frame your current situation. The mental game aspect requires persistent training and practice. Recommend reading Mark Devine's book, The Way of the SEAL. Here's a podcast interview> http://www.thenewmanpodcast.com/2014/02/tnm-151-mark-divine-...
The wonderful thing about these other cities is that for the same price, you can live in the city for what it'd cost you to live in a far-flung suburb of San Francisco or D.C. The 1,200 square foot house where I grew up, in the D.C. suburbs, is almost $600k now. Why should I spend that money to be in an area that might as well be Oklahoma, when that'll buy me a bigger condo in Chicago with a lake view?