skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been using Foursqaure for years in NYC, and I think it is really useful for finding new places and picking food on the menus. Checkins, at the end of the day, are a means to an end. Mayorships/Badges/Game Mechanics/etc. might have made their app more viral (I stress might), but it appears there was never going be a way to monetize them, hence their "pivot"

This is how I see it now:

1) If you still live in a major metropolitan area (like NYC, San Fran) then the service is still useful (probably more useful with this new design)

2) If you do not live in a major metropolitan area, Foursqaure is pretty much useless - but it always was and always will be.

3) Now that they removed checkins, I dont expect to ever get recommendations better than what I am currently getting, because I am not downloading swarm.

The fact that they removed checkins from their core app seems really crazy to me - not because I thought checking in were useful, but more because the whole concept around the new app (I think?) is their machine learning algorithms leverage their huge database to provide great recommendations. With Swarm, not only did they add friction to creating more of this data easily (I have to switch apps to do it), Swarm was actually pretty buggy and doesnt appear to be gaining user adoption (per app store reviews, which are obviously subjective).

Disclaimer: I rarely use Yelp, and never use it in NYC because of Foursqaure
Its unlikely that disruptive changes in the robotics situation will magically leave room for everyone, or even for most people, to still have meaningful work. We'll have to decide what to do about that. And it will take more than hopeful trickle-down theories. Probably a basic income or work program solution of some kind.
As a YC Hacks participant, the most striking part of being there was just how genuinely friendly and helpful everyone was. Really a great experience.
In the EU they're subject to data protection laws, so in the UK if they are unresponsive, a combination of a complaint to the Information Commissioners Office + issuing a Subject Access Notice (demanding a copy of the information they hold on you under the Data Protection Act, though some of the information may be exempt it should assist in finding further details on where any bad data comes from if the agency in question doesn't divulge the full details on your credit report) should generally help.

Under EU data protection laws, in most cases failure to provide you a way to delete or amend incorrect personal information held about you is a clear violation of the law. As is failure to grant you access to information about whom they have passed personal information about you on to.

That doesn't mean they won't try to act like asses sometimes, but bringing up the Data Protection Act and mention a complaint to the Information Commissioner can and does make a difference.
A cute one I have been meaning to try: using a Haar wavelet as the histogram, with online updates.
theory.stanford.edu/~matias/papers/wavelets-vldb00.pdf
Every time you think or hear "it would be nice to make this more efficient, but it would put people out of work", think of discussions surrounding universal basic income. If the only reason for having humans behind the wheel is because those people have no other way to make money, maybe it's time to face the fact that we don't need them to make money. Take their job but keep paying them the same, and the benefits from not having them on the road (they won't get in accidents, won't need to stop and sleep, will be free to pursue other things to enhance their and their family's lives) will still ensure that the economy benefits.

It's not just truckers, but forklift drivers, cab drivers, nurse assistants, any other job that can be replaced by a robot. There should never be a situation where we are putting people to work or putting people in danger for no reason other than so we feel comfortable paying them to do poorly what a robot can do perfectly.
I don't buy the privacy argument. Its an inherently extroverted market so you split your apps into an introvert app that no one in the market will want to use and an extrovert app. Why?

I don't buy the assertion that the small segment of the population that was into 4sq would be into privacy. They're optimizing the experience for people that don't exist beyond the initial fad-explosion.

I would extend my remarks that its a two phase operation where the initial phase is all friends and family and social, but it rapidly converts to astroturfing, basically geo-aware semi-stealthy advertising. Its twitter, as a self selected spam delivery service, but location aware. Not sure how that fits into the privacy angle. This is going to be missed insight on HN because there are so many early adopters here who will remember nostalgically the good old days of being the first on a new service before the masses and then astroturfers invaded and destroyed it.
Dead Media Ain’t Dead: NYT Strikes
Sal Khan year 2060 education predictions [video]
I'd say everyone is a bit high, people that post on HN for sure and most technical users but I doubt that the average facebook user knows or cares about any of that.
That's a great article. The author said "invested" rather than "spent" a billion euros, I loved the visualization [0] of how big the asteroid was, and they kept the article not too technical as to bore the audience but technical enough to interest the more science-minded readers.

[0] http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/76758000/jpg/_76758586...
You say "other than", but native controls are a big deal. As an OS X user, I for one would strongly avoid using an application that uses (often generally poor, almost always slightly off with keyboard shortcuts and such) HTML replacements for native UI. (For the record, I don't use Atom, but in that case the horrid performance is more important.)

Actually, Qt suffers from this as well compared to native Cocoa, because of both small issues with reimplemented controls (as of recently, anyway) and, more importantly, generally Windows-focused UI paradigms. But it's not as bad as HTML.
Hmm so when were was there a lull? Serious question. I grew up in the 80's and although I don't check space news every day it doesn't seem like activity in space decreased in that time. All I'm really aware of is the loss in interest in, say, manned moon missions after Apollo 11. Are you talking about robotic probes?
Log-binning can be useful. However it has some disadvantages.

I think that in your case your data (server response time?) looks good because you probably have a log-logistic or log-normal distribution.

Suppose you were working with values that are exponentially distributed which is also a reasonable hypothesis for your data.
In that case the log-binned histogram would like a plateau with the exception of the beginning and ending bins. In this scenario a linear-binning approach would probably be better.

Unfortunately, I think that there is no approach for bucketing that is good for all situations. Usually the best approach will depend on your data and also on what you are trying to analyze.
How well is the caching supported. Is there a way for me to cache and restore my gem dirs?
So just two hours ago the other post by OP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8143000) was flagged to death. Presumably because quickly after posting, two eerily generic and positive comments showed up (one from a new account).

That being said, as far as the service goes, some comments:

1. The popup "join our newsletter" after a minute was a little annoying.

2. Without guarantees on capacity and utilization, pricing by "machine hour" is useless to me. I'd prefer something more concrete.
Too many downvotes. Please be tolerant with other cultures.
And a top hat!

That's daytime formal, but it's arguably closer to white tie (tailcoat). Another option is the stroller - charcoal coat with peak lapels, waist coat, striped or check trousers.

Also, just a 1980s power suit could be a fun approach.
Many Clojure abstractions need things like map, filter, concat, etc. Reducers are eager, lazy-seqs are lazy, and core.async channels are lazy and push-based. This is a way to unify all these abstractions so that you can write a single map/filter/concat transform once, and use it in many different ways.
Bah to the MBA (unless you get it from Stanford or MIT). I would focus in more on the Psych angle, perhaps going for HCI, Anthropology (with fieldwork in the 'first world', like Gabriella Coleman did: http://codingfreedom.com/), or something similar. Or you could branch out a bit to Behavioral Economics.

Almost NOTHING will increase your future chances of success at creating new companies more than better understanding users, their needs, and how they make decisions.

That would be two years very well spent.
If one person in every family made their in-laws grumpy about the CIA torture scandal, then the entire nation would (at least once, over the course of months/a year) have an actual discussion about the situation. That discussion then goes on to inform their views on various topics, including who they should vote for in the next election.

Government officials, at the end of the day, are chosen because the circles get filled in on ballots, and the circles get filled in from a choice made on the aggregate of our experiences, including discussions with friends and family.

The difference is that if we talk about it, even if it makes people uncomfortable, then the nation discusses these issues and takes them in to account when voting. If we don't, then the nation doesn't.

The rate at which pissed off people bother their family members about what they're pissed off about directly influences the course of national politics, even if the particular result of any particular discussion is some pissed off in-laws and a small percentage chance a bubble gets filled out differently in a few months.
> heads and tails recycling is an important part of the production process, and requires both skill and testing to make sure methanol is removed from the spirit.

The tails contain no methanol so we can ignore them for this conversation. If you have a reasonable estimation of the amount of methanol in your mash, then throwing out enough of the head takes neither skill nor testing. Without that knowledge you need either a moderate amount of skill (to determine when methanol is coming out of your still) or the ability to test for methanol, but not both. I have done this myself and spoken with multiple people who have done it. It sounds like you are talking about re-distilling your heads and tails to get every last drop of ethanol out of them. This can be done safely with skill and testing, but is not necessary by any stretch of the imagination.

You can make a good argument that what they did does not constitute a "Federal Poisoning Program" as they did not intend to poison people. I am not arguing in favor of that term, but I know from personal experience that separating out methanol from ethanol is not particularly difficult. The same criteria that make a still good at separating ethanol from water make it good at separating methanol from ethanol.

>Finally, on point 1, the foresight and knowledge to remove methanol doesn't come in a nice pamphlet with the illegal still

Correct. If foresight and knowledge to remove methanol was universal, no one would have suffered methanol poisoning.

>we know that a lot of the alcohol produced by the illegal bootleggers (who the government did not have control over) was contaminated with methanol

We do not know this. It is possible given that are records are not great, but my guess is that this is false given the low quantities of methanol generally produced by yeast and the ease with which it can be removed. Heavy metal and other contamination seems much more likely (though I would expect them to be quite rare as well).

As for industrial ethanol including methanol, some of it probably would without a law requiring it, but that would certainly not be universal. Do you believe that without the law requiring contamination that they would not have sold uncontaminated ethanol?

>they think "the government purposely added poison to alcohol sold to individuals for consumption" - which is not what happened.

The government did not purposely added poison to alcohol intended for consumption. They did however require the addition of poison to alcohol that was later sold for consumption.
At this point, I feel like so many of these startups get acquired and shut down their existing services. What incentive do I have to invest myself in a new set of services that are only going to be shut down as soon as the company is hired?
Awesome! Reminds me of this article on my blog

http://blog.zfeldman.com/2013-10-05-setting-up-a-chromebook-...
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Accelerando.
there are many many uses of my time that can affect changes to make the world a better place

if nothing else I can spend that time being a better parent and spouse

voting ranks extremely low on the active uses of my time to make the world a better place
And also make it harder to distinguish a Google Bus from any other car.
Anyone know why induction can't go longer distances?

Could homes be built with a giant coil in the whole attic that could then power things in the house?
I think this is just announcing that the Clojure core libraries are gaining another arity for many functions specifically for this usage so that you don't have to use (partial) or the short-hand #() syntax to use this pattern. I assume the goal is more community awareness and cleaner syntax for the re-use of this pattern.
Google is removing tens of thousands of links; the media will cover only a tiny fraction of those.
Foreman on the JVM – Gaffer
Wikipedia Refuses to Remove Famous Photo Because Copyright is “Owned by Monkey”
Also, I totally faced the same problems which is why my Chromebook is basically bricked now - when people press space all of the changes are erased...there needs to be a more user friendly way to make this process work. I'd be interested in collaborating on this process perhaps, shoot me an e-mail at zach (at) nycda (dot) com
The page doesn't load for me. My recursive resolver (unbound) just gives SERVFAIL.

I did a bit of digging, and apparently you need to follow a ridiculously long CNAME chain just to resolve the domain:

www.whymicrosoft.com. CNAME whymicrosoft.sharepoint.com.
whymicrosoft.sharepoint.com. CNAME prodnet17-37a0001.sharepointonline.com.akadns.net.
prodnet17-37a0001.sharepointonline.com.akadns.net. CNAME prodnet17-37ipv4a0001.sharepointonline.com.akadns.net.
prodnet17-37ipv4a0001.sharepointonline.com.akadns.net. A 157.55.62.117

For me, that's a typical example of why I avoid Microsoft stuff. They promise the world, but never seem to get the details right.
Yeah I would think too that a Bitbucket integration would be more critical than supporting Docker.

Hopefully it will come soon.
I'm reminded of my friend Ben, who has a PhD in Physics and drives a bus. Please, please put Ben out of the bus-driving business, if it means a basic income so he can do physics, or teach physics. This current economy is a waste, that demands smart people do stupid work so they can eat, instead of doing smart work that would enhance us all.
Kentucky State president to share his salary with school’s lowest-paid workers
Ask HN: How did you get your scientific computing job?
I know it might sound vague but for the sake of being brief, if you work in scientific computing or high performance computing, how did you find your job? Do you work for a lab/government? I am asking because I want to know what the process is for getting these jobs and whether it can be made more efficient.
I have just updated to use Google Speech API v2.
Another good point is that for every book, movie, song, game, etc. that is very popular and keeps getting re-printed, re-published, re-released, or ported to new platforms, there are tens to hundreds of books that do not. Having long copyright terms makes the chances of vast swathes of works stop existing entirely, simply because of the decay of the medium that they are produced and stored on.
Bridging the Talent Gap in the Bitcoin Industry
Square's Security Bug Bounty
Yes, and the article reads like an advertisement. I generally like reading AVC posts because there's often some thought-provoking questions or other insight with broader application. Not so on this one. I guess the take-away point with this one is going to be long-term, watching to see if they're successful in using empty buzz to generate an exit.
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If I understand this correctly, videos stored forever are being limited more now. Someone correct me if I missed something there.

If an acquisition is in the works I wonder why it would prompt this - surely Google can handle the storage requirements. A way to cover themselves legally possibly?
Piggy-backing: They want reviews and tips right? I rarely check-in on Yelp, but on the rare occasion I do, I'm probably also writing a review and uploading photos.

Why on earth would you make a whole separate app for a single button and modal? And what incentive do I have to participate?
You realize that two out of three of those issues are archtype culture war distraction issues, right? Political types call them 'squirrels'. They're a great way to get people to watch your network, vote for your candidate, or kill an inconvenient web browser.
Isn't there some overlap between this and extend-protocol? To my vague understanding this is from the functional composition angle instead of a type, but otherwise don't they accomplish the same thing?
"And Yelp is ready to be killed."

Why? Is that your personal sentiment on their company, or are you suggesting their business isn't successful? Who's their biggest competitor? They killed Citysearch, and Sheckys, and all the other websites that used to dominate that space, but I can't think of another company that comes close to their brand awareness apart from Google, who probably won't dominate since it's not their primary function.
I'd love to be able to use jpegoptim or mozjpeg but the trouble is choosing the right quality level. As Steve Souders says in his comment on TFA, it's not possible to experiment with varying quality levels when you have hundreds of images to optimize.

Because we haven't been able to solve that problem yet, we use JPEGmini, a proprietary (but not that expensive) vendor solution.
No, (map f) is not curried map. It returns an entirely different thing - a function of reducing function to reducing function, aka a reducing function transformer, aka a transducer.
Good site. I wasn't even aware of HSTS until now. Although the lack off HSTS shouldn't affect users who check the url bar for https connection. On the other hand there is no reason not to add this into the configuration since it is trivial.

Also where is firefox's HSTS cache? Can I see it? It would be interesting.
Storm Chasing on Saturn
OKCupid has the option of notifying when someone visits your profile.
Larry Hutchison Comedy Show
I wonder how long until someone does "FinFisher, Community Edition".

While FinFisher was a huge threat to people like democracy advocates in Bahrain (which is what I am hopefully speaking about at SXSW 2015...), now it's out there and even FVEY friendly organizations need to fear it.

FFCE should be usable by pure criminal or even script kiddie type organizations. FF was a pretty decent package, but freed of licensing constraints and designed for more autonomous deployment, FFCE should rapidly surpass it.

(EDIT: Apparently not too long: https://github.com/FinFisher)
Well, any consumer in San Francisco with an iPhone.
I had both experiences. When I was at my mom's house, technology was heavily limited, and in the hour a day I was allowed online, they were hovering over my shoulder the whole time. When I was at my dad's house, unlimited access.

I definitely gained more benefit from the unlimited access. However, I've always been a person who has been both very inquisitive and strongly ethical. I self-censored a lot of smut from myself online. I also used my time constructively. At age 12, figured out the ins and outs of audio codecs (I wanted to get audio files from my favourite NES/SNES games but wasn't allowed Napster, so I figured out how to convert MIDIs to WAVs with WinAmp). Started learning about emulation, first as a way to play video games and later as a programming exercise. I stumbled across the Earthbound hacking project as my introduction to assembly. Learned how to rip videos from video games. Fucked around with Blender for 3D modeling, and made a few shitty Flash programs. Eventually wired up my computer into the home theatre system. I played with network sniffing tools and taught myself the details of TCP/IP, wireless, mail protocols, etc. I played with various linux boot disks (Slax, Ubuntu, Arch) just to see what happened, figured out how to do sysadmin stuff from that.

I did all of this before I turned 17, and I did it specifically because I had unlimited, unsupervised access to computers and the internet. I can definitely see that perhaps others wouldn't be quite as driven as I was (my brother and sister, same opportunities, but they just fucked around on Facebook/youtube/etc). But at the same time, I think there is a certain subset of people (such as myself) who drastically benefit from unrestricted internet access.

And, TeMPOraL, I'm right with you. Most of the things that technophobic people spend their time on in "real life" feels like total nonsense. My mom, stepdad, and extended family still mock me for wasting all my time online, and yet they spend an ungodly amount of time watching shitty TV all day.
"robotics mechanic" - sounds like a job for fully automated robotic robot service centers.
On the red sneaker effect:

I'm a sys admin by trade. Every new job that I've started I've made a concerted effort to hunt down the other tech people around the company who are the most obviously "non-conformist". I have a near 100% success rate of quickly finding out who the most knowledgeable staff members are.
Maybe there are not as many Seinfeld fans here as I thought.
Yeah... That's the only thing keeping the world from adopting Go.

It is possible that Webkit will eventually become the UI container/framework of choice, however, and I'm sure at that point Qt will adapt. I'm still torn between them choosing QML (which is great!) vs HTML/CSS/JS purely for popularity reasons. I would wish for QML to win because it is a dream to work with.
China Corporate Espionage Boom Knocks Wind Out of U.S. Companies (2012)
How do they define open beta? Anyone with the app can opt into the beta, or is there some form of filtering out users?
but I can't make one person in every other family talk to their in laws about CIA torture

I can only affect my small corner of the universe

how would the world be different if 1 person in every family told their in laws that they appreciated them as human beings

maybe that would change the world more, maybe there would be less pent up fustration and anger for Fox News (or whatever political bogeyman you ascribe to) tap into and frame with a political lense