skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many hotel sites offer price comparisons to other hotels nearby? That's value right there.
> Why do we have to help him?

Because I have a gun pointed at your head. You don't have to, but if you like what he's doing and want to support him, please do.

> He can raise millions of dollars from VCs.

The thing with VCs is they aren't really turned on by "We will have no ads or any plans to ever monetize this, and its source code completely given to the public to do with it whatever they'd like, even for selfish gains."
Implicit Exception Chaining in Python 3.0
One thing that I always find with the "rating" sort of systems is that negatives can always sink a site or reputation so instead of allowing negative postings, perhaps allowing people to post the deliveries and then rate them up if they were exceptionally great.

This avoids the negative impact but allows the view to total deliveries and those that were "positive".

In addition, each user has their own opinion so you may need to add variance for the rating.
> Images by one of my heroes, the Ukrainian-American artist Boris Artzybasheff. You can find more of it here.

Agreed, very nice attribution. It wasn't added in response, I noticed it 8 hours ago (last night for me).
Type casting has to be modeled (more or less) as (a) upcasting only (b) a failure of type safety, or (b) an admission that the type system is entirely vacuous.
This is OBVIOUSLY my 2 cents...

Re: 1. I think this is a different thing. If you want to tell a bunch of stories that are linked, that's fine. If you want to tell one giant story then at least have a plan. There's no indication that Jordan had "a plan". (I think this is the point the great-grandparent is making)
>What are the practical, non-entertainment benefits of magnet balls?

Keep your laws off my balls, nanny-stater.
And then the patients were put in a US plane with US staff and flown to a US hospital next to the US CDC, all paid for by a US charity. There they will be monitored by the US trained doctors, meanwhile feeding information back to the US based company that invented the drug, which is manufactured on US soil.

This has nothing to do with them being doctors and everything to do with them being American. Sorry, it's not an insane conspiracy, it's just the way the system works. You keep pointing it out - but we all already get it. There is a different standard when it comes to American vs non-Americans in the situation.

The important question is whether or not the drug works. Because if it does, you can bet your ass people are going to try and get as much as of it to the affected countries as possible. If we made a stockpile of the wonder drug and withheld it from Africa, then you would have a point. Until then, cross your fingers like the rest of us that this will work.
"Privacy is not to protect you from the government of today, it's to protect you from the government of tomorrow."
Comparing Price, Length, and Workload of Learn to Code Courses
I never get messaged by these attractive bots. Striking out with the ladies once again. :(
Fwiw, Bintray requires the private key and passphrase to do the signing. This isn't really proper key handling and has been pointed out before.
It's Indiegogo, with a flexible funding campaign. Indiegogo's take is 4% if the goal isn't reached (unlikely) and 9% if the goal is reached (likely). So if you contribute to it you will be lining the pockets of Indiegogo in addition to supporting the author of PDFy.
Yeah, the thing IAM is missing is "sensible defaults", i.e. pre-populated templates. They have this, but it's not the default.

I suspect there's probably a career (for a while) in being an IAM/VPC/etc. configuration specialist.
Monetizing the Industrial Internet of Things
> It's definitely not slow and we have folks updating 5000 servers in 5 minutes. (Yes, really!) ControlPersist and the like are key, and we'd be happy to help discuss options for you.

It's good but I wouldn't describe this as fast, it should be possible to increase the performance by another order of magnitude with some optimisation. Web servers can easily serve 5000 request per second even when SSL is involved, why couldn't Ansible do the same ?

After enabling ControlPersist, the next optimisation is to run Ansible in the same datacenter. Latency is a killer when deploying to us-east-1 from Europe.

> Steps are executed in order, but that's true of all CMS systems.

It's true on a single host (although puppet's and salt's ordering is not guaranteed). Ansible also orders across all the hosts. If you have tasks A->B->C, ansible will first run A on all the hosts and collect the results before moving to the next step. Each step is thus as slow as the slowest execution.
Design Responsive Websites In The Browser With Webflow (YC S13)
"all computers that access the website" seems the polar opposite of "particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized".
This discussion is just going to reduce down to a runtime tag vs formal type definition. This particular article is using the term type to mean formal type, and my comment is also under this assumption. Under that definition Ruby does have a null type system. That's not a moral judgement of it's design, it's just a fact that follows from the definitions.

Rather than debate this for the gazillionth time, I'll just point you at tel's article which breaks it down very nicely: http://tel.github.io/2014/07/08/all_you_wanted_to_know_about...
Rational people is a very vague word; in particular, I assume most people consider themselves rational, but not necessarily others. Personally, I consider people who were protesting Brendan Eich's position as CEO of Mozilla based on some past, popular (i.e. consistent with majority opinion) non-violent non-crime, but are not protesting Condoleza Rice's position on Dropbox's board or Israel's attacks on Gaza, to be highly irrational. But there seems to be a lot of them (especially in the media), and they have proven to have huge destructive power, so it makes sense to hide stuff from them.
Just a related thought to having GPU and vision input on cars. Get enough data and you can start finding the optimal lines through corners. It's a bit theoretical, to sell as a economy feature, or maybe just a little bit premature, but as above, I really do want more GPU horsepower on my GPS device, beyond what mobile phones can supply.

I think it is UPS trucks that Nokia HERE maps rig with LIDAR scanners. I'd like more of that to happen and become public data. Nokia seem to have the majority of auto manufacturers in deals, Microsoft didn't get to buy that bit of the company clean, and I bet they've thought about how to extend journey data capture. That's potentially a nice ecosystem to have strength in, as qualifying anything that my interact with car control is a substantial barrier to entry.

Which leads mw to wonder how long it will be until, assuming someone gains access to a platform, compiling a Google maps street view dataset is possible on a budget. Maybe that is Nokia's plan...
After allowances, they are making about 52-70k depending on which rank they hold. That's not bad for what they do, but if they were actual doctors it would be terrible.

Its also not a technical job in the traditional sense, 70Ds typically spend 8 years as a 70B (Even though a lot of them will be slotted as 70Ds much earlier than this) which is essentially a management position at a medical facility.

From the description of 70D, it could end up being a technical job depending on the particular assignment, but its more oriented towards healthcare management types.

Its not a bad deal at all if you are looking for a way to pay off your student loans.
How to validate a credit card number?
there should be a law that you should be able to cancel in the same way and convenience that you can sign up
"... refering to every human-managed society ever, I assume?"

Of course! Controlling information is an integral part of all kinds of relationships.
I didn't want to sound overly dramatic, I just thought I'd like to call things by their name.
If you don't treat linked in as a public resume your doing it wrong. You should only put information there that anybody including competitors could look up quickly.
> This company has shown a great deal of integrity by fully cooperating with investigators and stepping up to the plate without hesitation to help make workers whole ... We are particularly pleased that LinkedIn also has committed to take positive and practical steps towards securing future compliance.

I'm surprised they're getting praised so much for complying. It's not like they had a choice.

Instead of commending them on their newfound diligence, we should be asking why and how these overtime violations occurred in the first place. Was it a systemic problem with lower management incentives? How far up did knowledge of the violations extend? Why wasn't it detected until now, and what can we do to prevent it from happening elsewhere, not just within LinkedIn?
> Perhaps you could suggest some good candidates for release formats that met the criteria of being easily accessible/convertible as well as being manipulable and easy to produce.

The entire case here was around the requestor specifying he'd like the data in Excel format (although presumably CSV would also be acceptable). I can't think of many databases which can't export query results to CSV, or indeed many civil servants who are so completely inept with a computer that they couldn't redact information as (or more) easily in Excel than they could with a PDF.
"Well typed programs don't go wrong" only for sufficiently narrow definitions of "go wrong". They don't go wrong by doing undefined behavior. They can still go horribly wrong by doing unintended behavior, though. Type safety doesn't eliminate all bugs, just a subset of them.
LinkedIn Stiffed Its Own Employees, Agrees to Pay Millions
Try The Dresden Files. It will be (at completion) approximately 26 books in length (yep, 26). Jim Butcher currently released book 15 (Skin Game). And I have to say, every book has gotten better than the previous book.

Jim started out with a plan when he wrote the first book. Try it, you'll get addicted.
This looks like the sort of comment that belongs on https://twitter.com/HackerNewsOnion
Here are some random thoughts:

- You've already identified this, but as an applicant I want to know what exactly I am getting in return for my time. There are so many ways I could spend my time, including making money and progress on my projects, and being put into a room with 100 random people doesn't sound very useful. IMHO you need to define a clear goal that is shared by all participants. For example, finding a co-founder, getting feedback on a pitch, improving your public speaking, etc. However, once you are doing that you basically have a meetup/event that requires an application.

- The design school at Stanford (http://dschool.stanford.edu/) operates under a rather similar model. The school offer classes of varying duration (from days to month), each based on a different theme or project. All classes require students to apply in advance and describe their backgrounds. Participants are then chosen in a way to maximize the diversity of students from different departments/backgrounds. You may be able to steal some ideas by browsing around on the website.

- I believe there is an inverse relationship between the people you hope to attract and the people who want to attend such events. You are trying to be selective in that you are are choosing the "top applicants" (however you define that, probably based on past achievements in their statements). However, the successful people you hope to attract have very little incentive to attend such events because they already are successful, or have better options to spend their time.
SurveyMonkey acquires Fluidware, provider of FluidSurveys and FluidReview
Disrupt SF 2014 hackathon tickets available
@benatkin Or you could donate bitcoins... and bypass that entire process.
Thanks. It still seems like there must be some way to transfer what one individual's immune system has learned to another person. I'll have to read up on it some more.
I've read about 2/3 of the Silo Saga and I can't second this recommendation enough. It was originally just a novelette, but it was so popular on Amazon that he was compelled to write more and so far, it's all excellent.
I'm sure there are political reasons, but it is very hard for me to understand why agencies purposefully keep the data obscure.

Opening data stimulates innovation around that data. It benefits society by allowing analysis to provide value, and improves the economy through the sale of related products.

Every time I see things like this, I cannot help but hope that if not my children's generation, at least my grandchildren's will be one that takes for granted accessible free information from public agencies. So many good things would come from old world beaurocrats relinquishing their stranglehold on data that is payed for by the people who need it the most.
SurveyMonkey acquires FluidWare
I don't get it. So if I'm working overtime for my employer, a lot, I'm entitled to money?

I get that my work after hours is essentially "free" labor. But I wasn't aware that there are actually laws that say salaried employees are entitled to more compensation when working after hours.
Yeah, but who is making those decisions?

Google? SEO agents? Large multinational corporations?

Wikipedia is subjective too, that doesn't mean that they just give in and let PR people manage the thing.
Reply to “What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL”
Yo isn't any stupider or less innovative than 99% of other tech startups. It just doesn't pretend like it's making a difference in the world or other such nonsense. The fact that people are offended by it is actually pretty amusing IMO.
Haskell also allows casting in a way that defeats static type checking - `unsafeCoerce`
I actually requested that some of my friends endorse me for "Sandwiches".

Partially to highlight the ridiculousness of endorsements, but also because I make really good sandwiches.
Your logic is flawed. Random results (which can't be gamed) are more organized by your standards.

I don't think so. It's the fact that results are organized what makes SEO possible.
prohibiting off-the-clock work to all nonexempt employees

I presume this doesn't include computer professionals, which for some reason are exempt [1], as are sales staff on commission or, you know, farmworkers. Can someone explain why this insanity continues?

The original source for that exemption seems to be [2], an act from 1990

To eliminate "substantial documentary evidence" requirement for minimum wage determination for American Samoa

which also includes this provision. All I can figure from the history of this bill that can be found online is that in 1990 Idaho, senator James McClure decided to fuck over tech workers and sneaked that into a bill on American samoa (snooze). 25 years later and here we are not getting paid.

[1]: http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/screen75.asp

[2]: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-104/pdf/STATUTE-104-Pg2...
You can get a long way without a product or user base. Look at Kickstarter for examples of ideas that generate money. I'm not saying they are good examples but they are examples.

The real question is what are you looking to create and how much money do you need to get started? Using some of the Lean Startup methodology to gauge the market would be a good idea but don't think you can throw an idea out there and get millions.

If you want to know how much it costs to start a company, the answer is very little. I gave a presentation on how to get from Idea to Beta a while ago, you can view the slides here: http://www.dstrb.com/blog/minnebar-presentation
Then I get the impression you are defending Dart just by inertia and not because you understand the problem, it is very common to see that in fanboys.
The biggest problem with the 'OK, let me see your credit card statements' retort is that, well, of course they don't want you to see stuff. It's all too easy to say that the government is impartial, composed of perfect human beings that follow the rules, and that the rules are reinforced by lots of checks and balances. Most people don't realize that their neighbors, friends, ex-spouses, etc. could be the ones watching them.

But even if the argument is not humans watching you, but computers, what happens when you say "terraces" on the phone and the computer algorithm transcribes it as "terrorists"? Or if you look up "bomb making", out of curiosity, using Google, and get permanently flagged as a potential suspect in every bombing from now on? You know you are not a criminal, but these systems make it so ridiculously easy to provide evidence that any one person committed any one crime.
There are exempt salaried workers and nonexempt salaried workers. The exemption refers to overtime pay. The LinkedIn employees were nonexempt (so they were owed payment for overtime).
Hampton Creek Scrambles Big Data + Food Science to Change the Way We Eat
Yes I've read about that elsewhere, but they do still use a lot of other signals AFAIK. The more complex their algorithm becomes, the less inclined they will be to change it, and the beauty of only using user input is that you get an ever changing signal and people start to be less obsessive about their exact ranking, because it changes constantly. Of course it does introduce problems of its own with trust.

Re competitors, I think that's more about eyeballs than quality - Google is such a behemoth now and is entrenched with revenue from advertising - they can use their other properties and interests like mobile to feed search revenue. I really don't think they're at the top solely because they return the best results any more, because they've been without significant competition for so long.

I was actually more interested in the idea of injecting some random results (say from the top 10 pages), as that might significantly increase the relevance of their results for many queries, give them even better data from user input, and would make it very hard to game the system.
3D Object Manipulation in a Single Photograph using Stock 3D Models
Except, these agencies are quick to retroactively redefine terms. Maybe data isn't "seized" until you classify it as evidence.

And if all else fails, "think of the children" usually works.
So his point is that his business isn't ranked as high on google as he thinks it should be?
In secret cyberwar games, civilians “obliterated” active-duty personnel
Trello: Why a Simple To-Do List Tool Is Winning Over Legions of Fans
Google supported Accented or Non-Latin Characters now
Mt. Gox wasn't reputable and anyone willing to look would have seen that disaster coming 6-9 months away at least. People were just being greedy because of the higher BTC exchange rate there.
Chunk Scatter: An HTTP chunked encoding analysis tool
I don't know, you may be very far away. The camera could be in space, or maybe on a plane. I mean, if you can hide microphones, the ferns would be irrelevant anyways, apart from being a good distraction.

Kind of off topic but just last night I was watching some (silent) lightning in the clouds, thinking how much more localized sound energy is when compared to light. In other words, I can see for light-years but can't hear much anything 100ft away. Or perhaps it's just our sensors are more sensitive to light waves than air pressure waves. Now I realize sound isn't so localized! It leaks. /rant
I've never heard of proprietary systems "customizing" SHA-1 "…to personalize the cryptography for a given customer, while retaining the security guarantees of the original algorithm".

Are there any examples, prominent or obscure?

(Who the hell would buy something with "SHA-1, but different"?)
Nice app. Keep it up.
He starts with an intuition-bound definition then clarifies as time goes on. Ultimately "go wrong" needs to be embedded in the type system before it applies.

Other things are obviously language safety features, but just are not "types" in the sense of how some languages are "type safe".
So type safety is just a synonym for "no undefined behavior"? What about code like "i=i++", which leads to undefined behavior but doesn't seem to have any type errors? I thought type safety referred to only a subset of undefined behaviors, namely using a value of type A as though it had type B.
You don't do anything strange in the bathroom right? So I'd like to have a camera fitted facing the pan. It's not like you do anything the rest of us don't, and there has been a problem of people illegally flushing refuse down the sewer. This monitoring camera can ensure that you're an upright member of society and everything is OK.
Sorry to say but if you're working overtime for absolutely free you're not very smart person.
Some excerpts that help explain it:

The FLSA requires that covered, nonexempt employees be paid at least the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour for all hours worked, plus time and one-half their regular hourly rates for hours worked beyond 40 per week.

With few exceptions, to be exempt an employee must (a) be paid at least $23,600 per year ($455 per week), and (b) be paid on a salary basis, and also (c) perform exempt job duties. These requirements are outlined in the FLSA Regulations (promulgated by the U.S. Department of Labor). Most employees must meet all three "tests" to be exempt.

An employee who meets the salary level tests and also the salary basis tests is exempt only if s/he also performs exempt job duties. These FLSA exemptions are limited to employees who perform relatively high-level work. Whether the duties of a particular job qualify as exempt depends on what they are. Job titles or position descriptions are of limited usefulness in this determination. (A secretary is still a secretary even if s/he is called an "administrative assistant," and the chief executive officer is still the CEO even if s/he is called a janitor.) It is the actual job tasks that must be evaluated, along with how the particular job tasks "fit" into the employer's overall operations.

http://www.flsa.com/coverage.html

Generally managers, engineers, and most salaried office jobs are "exempt". Lately more focus has gone towards defining who exactly is an exempt vs non-exempt salaried employee in white collar office jobs.
Justin.tv has shut down
It seems to me that you probably don't want to do arbitrary computation in types at compile time. Even "this type is an integer that must be non-negative" is a problem if that type allows subtraction. Now your compiler needs to know the the value of all such types at the time that subtraction was applied to them, to know if the operation is valid. That's not a good position to put your compiler in.

It seems to me to be better to make this a runtime check, which the compiler makes sure to call every time subtraction is applied to a value of that type.