skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. Any particular tutorial/article/book you're following?
I was not challenging the experience behind the maths, just I don't quite follow the formula

I think that the above means 2 out of 100 trialists will become customers and 1 out of 4 people who click on a ad will become trialists. So with 200 clicks we will get 50 trials and then one payin customer

If the trial costs us 4 USD in hosting fees that means we pay 200 bucks (50x4) for the trials, and 200 bucks for each 1 dollar click through (if that's how click throughs work).

So that seems to be 400 bucks to acquire a customer. This could be changed in so many places (cost of hosting etc) that the actual figures aren't really important - just trying to follow the rough proportions

As you can tell my uncertainty on how click throughs work indicate I am trying to understand the landscape - not challenge your experiences.

I am however very surprised that click to "free trial" is such a big conversion (25%) but after that they can't be bothered to go further. My takeaway from this, completely at odds with what I would have guessed last week, is to always take a credit card at sign up. Anyone who can be bothered to open the wallet is probably really interested.

And if they don't open the wallet, grab that email :-)

Tl;dr I believe you. I just don't quite follow the details - and that's where the devil lies I am told.
Indeed, that is already (essentially) the subtitle of the article.
Send the bride an invoice, then send it to collections if they don't cough up $500.
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Read it more closely and you will see that, yes, the guest will not get fined, but the bride and groom will have $500 per bad review removed from their deposit.
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They don't because it's not true. The reason civil libel/slander between private parties is more restricted in the US than elsewhere in the common law world is because of the First Amendment free speech and free press guarantees. The idea that it only apples in criminal disputes or where over party is the government is false; it's a limit on government, sure, but on governments power to make law, which applies both to laws governing dispute between private parties and to law governing criminal or civil cases where the government is a party.
How can someone review something they've never experienced?

I'm calling for people to comment on the facts of a public policy posted by the hotel. No more, no less. If you interpreted this as a call to post dishonest or mean comments, you were reading into it the wrong the way.
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Sarcasm doesn't always translate well on the Internet.
Curious question, has the NSA thought of doing root jails as honeypots in front of these important military contractor networks to not only catch intrusions before damage occurs but also catch on to new zero day attacks?
So your argument is that marketing is a net loss for the company? I don't think that's true.
> There is no reason to use empty() over the not (!) operator unless there is the potential your property doesn't exist.

I think empty() is one of the "magic" parts of php that requires to know what it does really really well before trying to use it, especially before 5.5. For anyone learning the language, avoiding empty() altogether might be best/

One of the most interesting thing IMO is the suppression of any error occuring during the test. I.e "empty($object->is->null->but->we->call->nine->levels->of->properties)" won't generate any warning nor exception about calling properies on a null object, it just returns "true". It's powerful, while being a potential trap for anyone not aware of this behavior.
That's a delegation strategy, which is a very limited form of composition.

A class with a trait/role can be queried for that interface:

smile() if $my_object->does('SomeTrait');

Methods provided by a trait/role have direct access to $self.

Also, Moose gives you the ability to apply traits to classes that are not predefined with those traits:

use Moose::Util;
my $instance = Moose::Util::with_traits('MooseClass', 'MyTrait')->new(%params);

You can parameterize roles (as in, pass parameters that affect what the role provides). If you put some method modifiers into your roles, you can enhance existing functionality; for example, you can add logging, memoization, and persistence, all without the class having those features beforehand.

In other words, roles/traits make your OOP functionality much more composable.
Some companies see their employees as orange trees that they need to keep healthy year after year.

Some companies see their employees as oranges they need to squeeze as much as possible.
That's like saying it's not extortion if I threaten your friend unless you do what I say. The Bride and Groom are threatened with a fine unless their attendees do what the hotel says.
Never mind, all of the comments there are incredibly racist and dumb.
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In the US there is no such thing as personal airspace to trespass in. What one has is a right of way to build structures into the airspace as a property owner and a reasonable expectation of privacy neither preventing overflight.
I couldn't find the windows version, sorry. But I found someone who has built a cms ontop of this server.

http://solicms.com/

Also there seem to be some people creating projects with it on Github: https://github.com/search?p=1&q=gwan&ref=cmdform&type=Reposi... I thought you might be interested in the code :)
The amount of various safety lights on cars/bikes/road works in London is getting ridiciulous. I wonder if at some point the safety feature of lights/high vis just becomes a distraction. I would much rather have proper street light everywhere in big cities than thousands of different individiual distractions.
> if they hire me for an 8 hour day, I'd darn well better give them a proper 8 hours' of work.

If I was to hire you, I expect I will pay you your rate for the emails you send to me telling me status of your work, for the time you spend researching the problem at hand, and for telling me that if I compromise on one part of the development that I would get $BENEFIT and that I should change my specification to get $BENEFIT. None of this is writing code but all of it is very valuable.

I've come to realize that people who write code are not as valued by those who authorize the writing of checks as people who can communicate and get shit done. It doesn't matter if you write code well, it matters that you get shit done and communicate about it to others.
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Have this proven to have been the case? ("a vulnerability in their closed down software which allows this"). Could you give me a link? Thanks!
I'm sure I read that it only works on *nix environments, because Windows execution is slower. If true, it doesn't fly in any worlds.
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Being able to ensure that your important job gets a certain fraction of the CPU, memory or I/O resources regardless of what other jobs on the same machine are doing is very much an instance of 'resource isolation' - in terms of usage, rather than access/naming which is the kind of isolation that namespaces provide.

CGroups can theoretically provide resource access isolation too, e.g. the device security cgroup subsystem, but it's not really the ideal model for it.

FWIW, Borg (at least as of a few years ago - it's possible that it's changed now) hardly uses any resource access isolation - apart from a bit of bind-mount trickery to provide filesystem isolation, it's primarily concerned with resource usage isolation, and jobs are very aware that they're running on the same kernel with potentially many other jobs.
With no disrespect intended, I have to say that "Kaggle" reminds me way too much of the name of a certain female exercise.
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The human body is generally well-adapted to maintaining homeostasis, in the absence of extreme illness and disease, i.e. feeling thirsty when you need fluids, hunger when you need calories and needing sleep when you're tired.

However, sometimes external and internal factors can cause us to ignore these basic needs/warning signs. The need to meet a deadline, the need to not let down your coworkers or the need to demonstrate "passions" for your line of work. The first two apply pretty much to any job nowadays, while the latter applies groups that are often expected to show a "portfolio" of their work, such as artists, musicians, graphic designers and increasingly, software developers.

All of these demands can easily lead to burnout and a lack of passion, not just tiredness. Feeling tired is one thing, as one usually ascribe that physical causes. But having a feeling of lacking passion can be soul-crushing, as it leads one to question whether one is in the right field of work. This is perhaps the one of the worst effects of burnout and must be avoided. Burnout is the cause and a lack of passion is merely a symptom.

Realizing there is much more to life than work-related goals, as the article suggests, is a good solution.
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So I agree with what appears to be the overwhelming majority that this policy is probably legally unenforceable and was destined to backfire as soon as it was posted on the interwebs, but...

I think they have a legitimate problem and I'm wandering what alternate solutions we can come up with. The person planning the wedding (may or may not be the people actually getting married) thinks this is a good place for the wedding, but many of the guests do not enjoy it. The reviews exist to help that person make that decision. Whether or not guests usually hate it, is part of that decision, but I agree with the venue that what the people getting married want is the bigger part of that decision. How can the company manage expectations better?
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I wish I had mod points to give you. I also got taken in by that article. This makes a lot more sense now.
Within the last three years, but projecting availability out about a year.
Yes although the location isn't as important as the concept that in a discussion of removing one half of "diploma plus test" we have a lot of experience with removal of the other half of the requirement.

In practice I don't think the horror stories really matter... if we graduate roughly 2 to 3 times as many new lawyers as there are jobs for them, then by definition we only employ roughly the top 1/2 to top 1/3 of grads, so horror stories about what could theoretically happen if an idiot got past the idiot filter are not entirely relevant if only the far right side of the bell curve will ever get jobs in the field anyway.
Here's a crazy idea: work less. Try first with a 40 hour week. Then 35. Just the 40 hour week could probably give you enough time to do other things you want. And make this mental note: if your business needs you constantly for more than 40 hours a week, you're doing something wrong.
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I agree with the majority of the article, but one thing leapt out - the first question that the author suggests might 'help you to pinpoint your resentment';

Why do you want to take a break, go on holiday? What are you really running away from?

Taking a break and going on holiday is not running away from things. Even if you're working on something that you absolutely love, with an amazing team of people, doing something that will change the world - it's still a good idea to take a break. Experiencing different cultures, seeing new things, getting out of your comfort zone, and looking at things from a different perspective is fantastically useful. It makes you see things differently. Going on holiday is a good thing in itself; it isn't merely a cure for the bad things.
It does seem a bit unfair, but at the same time the reviews aren't just a measure of how much the bride and groom will enjoy the place, it's also a measure of how much everyone else does as well.

Perhaps "many of your guests will hate this place" is a valuable signal to couples picking venues.

Honestly, if you've been a legitimate guest of a particular venue IMO it's perfectly fine to leave a review about it. The people that foot the bill aren't the only ones who get to chime in.
Sorry, I should've included this, I was trying to keep things fairly high-level as I had already written far too much.

The clearance currently required is NPPV3 (although it might need to be higher in future). I can't find a nice concise description of what it covers, but there are a few documents floating around that refer to it:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=non+police+personnel+vetting+level...

It's fairly standard criminal record and family/financial background checking. We've yet to have a person fail.
One would come in handy right now.
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They must have an army of trolls who are typing in tags.
I've been to many weddings. I've never been forced to stay at any particular hotel. There are usually several in the area that the bride and groom suggest, and you're always free to seek out another hotel if you don't like those.

The bride is not a business partner, she's a paying customer. A business partner would be receiving a share of the profits from the transaction, a bride is not.

How is it different from docking an employee's pay? Well, to start with the bride has no employment agreement with the hotel and is not receiving any pay, so that's a pretty big difference.
If all we're saying is it doesn't pass the "reasonable person" test, then it's not obviously illegal. Some may feel it is reasonable to communicate the terms of the non-disparagement clause you've signed to the members of your party and that it is reasonable to expect the party's sponsor to pay a fine if the members fail to adhere to the rules.

I'm not a lawyer so maybe I'm missing something obvious. I would just like some substantiation. It seems that many people have the habit of automatically declaring something they don't like to "must be illegal" simply because they strongly dislike it. That's now how law works, and that's important to understand because many people seriously underestimate the powers that the legislature holds.
I think the guys at osdev mean you need to be good at C before doing systems programming at any form of a professional level. If you don't intend for your code to actually do anything (I mean this is just a side project or something, not for somebody to use in production) than you can really do whatever you want.
My sarcastic point wasn't that they should be forgiven -- or that they shouldn't be punished. I was joking about how after reading an article like this some People on the Internet feel saying retributive things on Yelp and Facebook = social justice.

These hoteliers have a stupid (and likely unenforceable) social media policy. And they might be assholes. Fortunately they have almost no sway over your life. Fry bigger fish.
Humans tend to surprise in what they wind up writing. All HM has to do is fail 5% of the time to be very annoying.
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You're quite right. I hadn't realised that the constitution relates to actions between the government and the people only. Reading HN comments is always educational! I suppose it's more correct to say that it isn't in the spirit of the First Amendment, or free-speech in general.
As bad as the star system is, I'm not sure there's anything better. I think Amazon has the right idea with the "Was this review helpful to you?" buttons, though that may not work quite as well for Yelp if you consider the possibility of review-burying by owners.
Its extremely complicated.

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Source: I'm related to several (five?) school teachers and ex-school teachers. The staggering number of hoops to jump thru and document are considered a huge PITA. Its such a PITA its best mentally treated as a bonus as opposed to a life plan. All you need is one principal who takes a personal dislike to you and your financial life will be ruined, so for your own mental health, go in like its a lottery winning.
But I'm not actually concerned about my credit card number getting stolen or being tracked by ne'er do wells with NFC readers. There are much easier ways to steal my credit card or track me. I just want to get through the turnstile without looking like a tourist.
heh, ok, the stone ages of Scala ;-)

Current Scala (2.11) has many issues to be ironed out, but I'd be surprised if the topic at hand here were one of them.
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Looks like a really malicious way to punish Bridezilla: "When I stayed here for the Smith-Jones wedding on July 26..."
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Over the last 10 years, Gilead has spent somewhat more on research than marketing. They still spent a big chunk of change on marketing, though: $9.4 billion.

That being said, presumably they set their marketing budget at a point that maximizes their revenue (i.e. the point at which one more marketing dollar fails to bring in more than one more revenue dollar). Given the fact that the research budget is a fixed cost, obviously it makes sense to spend money on marketing to ensure that there are enough sales to recoup that expenditure and make a profit.

So I guess I don't understand what your point is?
I think it performs really well on some crappy vps's. That floating point exception is happening with the newer kernels, but who really cares.
The claim with php (500k requests) they actually managed to get there with ph7 (which is way off). Still, even so, you could use gwan to get some high performance out of your static files.
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An easy fix here is for the patient to be evaluated for fault. If you got Hep C via botched transfusion, you're covered; if, however, you are a degenerate who chose to scrounge up used heroin needles from alleyways, then you're not.

This is, of course, for reasons nobody can adequately respond to with reason instead of feelings, unpopular.

But it's certainly 1. fair and 2. a large cost savings, given the sheer number of Hep C patients who brought it on themselves.
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