skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So is this article saying that trying to quantify what makes a wine "good" or "bad" is a matter of perspective and lacks any kind scientific method? I mean, do we need a scientific method if it is something we collectively can pretty much agree upon? They can do all the studies they want and criticize this all to the finest minutiae, but in my own personal experience I can say with certainty that wine recommended me to by trusted experts is generally better than just blindly picking a bottle. (Well not quite blind, but with a really limited knowledge of regions and vintages). At the end of the day for all us casual wine drinkers, I would think that is all that really matters. It may be interesting to see some statistics on casual vs serious wine drinkers, could help clarify a lot of this.

I would also say getting to know an expert to the point where they know your own individual tastes really helps. Perhaps it is this aspect that people are getting hung up, everyone will have their own tastes, enter the expert who can categorize this for you, etc.
Those seem like personal (or perhaps social) problems for those who think that way. Seeing lots of people who are not well off certainly doesn't make me any happier. It depresses me and makes me want to help the local shelters.
Was the currency unit switch an accident?
I'm not sure whether things are actually imaginary, or whether they might just have a lower perception threshold.

In beer tasting, we talk about off-flavors like green apple, butterscotch, cooked cabbage, or flavors like spicy/peppery, cloves, bananas, citrus, passionfruit, etc. None of these are imaginary, as each of these are linked to a specific chemical compound, such as acetaldehyde, diacetyl, DMS, various phenols and esters, and of course hop oils and various humulones, cohumulones, etc. from the hops.

What would help in wine tasting would be to link each aroma and flavor to specific chemical compounds, it would make detection more objective and make it possible to tell apart the very real aromas and flavors from the imaginary ones.
The UK is a very odd place when it comes to metrication.

My experience in Sweden is that things sold in the 1/2 and 1/4 kg sizes are often measured in grams or sometimes hectograms rather than kg. Meat, for example, is usually given in values which are a multiple of 25 g, even when there's more than 1kg.

This bypasses the need to use low denominator fractions.
Well, to be fair, the last 2 Firefox "design concepts" got almost verbatim into the mainline despite almost unanimous complaints, and now I have 2 different plugins installed to correct the mess they created.
Agree that this letter (as what you have just indicated exactly) is a YMMV for sure.

As a landlord myself I didn't have to even read this letter to know that it would be worth my while to dispose of this problem by paying back the money. My take is "this guy has a lot of time on his hands and I don't".

Otoh, there are others who will fight a battle just for the sake of the battle and there are other battles that I do fight literally just for fun sometimes. It's like a game in a way.

In contrast I had a few commercial tenants (Physician practices) and had to withhold some money on move out for various issues. We wrote a long detailed 3 page letter knowing full well that the Physician wasn't going to take the time to question any of the information that we so completely presented. And they didn't. And we never heard any issues or complaints or a peep about the money that was not returned (we returned some escrow of course).

So once again, in business, it all depends on the circumstances and the particulars of each situation.

One other thing I will point out is in our state an individual can represent themselves in small claims court but a corporation can't. So right off the bat if you are suing a corp you have an advantage their unless they have in house council or want to send a particular message of "don't mess with us".
For me, simply the development of brand recognition alone is reason enough to want to include a nice, visible logo and some aesthetic design in the email. I'm not entirely focused on "conversions" in email. It is part of a much larger user experience where everywhere customers interact with something I've made, I want it to communicate a cohesive message and also imprint my brand into their mind. Obviously, you should degrade to plain text well. But maybe what seems obvious to me, isn't.
Every. Single. Landlord. I've leased from has returned my security deposit in full without any hassles.
> "I prefer startups because I like to be surrounded by people who are not just working 9-5 but prefer to get things done"

Not a big fan of this attitude. You can get quite a lot done in a standard work day without the same risk of burnout.
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The rating system for problems seems like it needs to add in some kind of variance factor, or at least a provisional period. I'm altering problems' ratings by 20+ points with my default 1200 rating despite having less than 10 problems completed. My actual strength is hundreds of points above 1200, and so if I play on this site without making an account a bunch of times, I'm going to artificially lower every problem's rating...
We Sent Freddie to the Stratosphere
There is a discussion on documentation in one of the issues[1]. Feel free to weigh in!

[1] https://github.com/18F/api-standards/issues/19
This is absolutely fantastic. Well done for creating such a great product Andrew, really well implemented.
> Streetcars/trams/light-rail is always a bad idea unless it is segregated from regular traffic

I find this interesting, since there is a lot of mixed light rail traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area, whereas in my hometown of Richmond Hill, Canada, there is ongoing construction of segregated bus lanes (with the intention of building light rail over the bus lanes in the next ten years).

What were the arguments for mixed light-rail/roads, and what are the current counterarguments that make buses and/or segregated light rail strictly better?
Resin.io alpha testing stage
Genesis 3:16 also explains it as one of the curses on Adam and Eve: "To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children..."
Startup growth hacking wiz talk on 8/27, tickets: http://bit.ly/1ztbhtB
Yes, and there's a list of known horizontal gene transfer events in Eukaryotes at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer#Eukary... .

How do these observations lead to a breeding technique where a plant ends up with fish DNA?

You'll notice the the events listed are either in related species, or from ecologically very tightly coupled species (eg, host and gut bacteria), and seem to imply time scales and population counts which are much higher than would be economically feasible for breeding.
> The author is full of it. Whichever system you grew up with will seem natural to you

This is true to at least my case: grew up under the metric system and after 15 years living in the US, still have to mentally convert dimensions to metric in order to make sense of them:

- If you point at something and ask me how far it is, the first number that comes to my mind is in meters, then I say that number and add "yards" or mentally multiply it by 3 and add "feets"

- If you ask me to grab something and give you the weight, the number comes in Kg and I mentally multiply it by 2.2 to give and approximate weight in pounds.
In the tenant agreement, consider including an acceptable late payment date, and a fine if not met (depending on local leasing law). My current place says rent is due on the 1st, acceptable to turn in as late as the 3rd (mainly to account for things like office holidays, Sundays when the office is closed, and the like), and any payment made later is subject to a $100 fee.

Having that helps break tenants down into well defined groups, I suspect, and the appropriate remedies; people who pay on time (or nearly; no worries there), people who don't and who end up paying extra (would be a pain, but an extra $100 a month helps with that), and people whose leases should be terminated for non-payment (because they've gone a month without paying).
I have been on a four year journey for learning Haskell so I understand where you are coming from.

I have recently starting doing almost all of my NLP and semantic web/linked data experiments in Haskell and that has helped get me over a learning curve hump, a bit.

One thing that helps me, when possible, is to get the pure code working before worrying about network and file IO, etc. Working on pure functional code is really nice. Monads still cause me some grief and I look for examples on the web of what I need to do, and modify them.

I have given up the idea of ever becoming an expert in Haskell, but I am enjoying it and getting stuff done.
> ...Korolev spent a couple of years at Google... He then moved on Microsoft... Within a year he decided to shift to Facebook, participated in the company's BootCamp, and worked in spam for a a bit before deciding large corporations were a thing of the past... After a stint with... Public Verification, Korolev decided to move on...

I know I should be judging the story solely based on its merit than its source, but this kind of makes me wonder. He seems to job shift once a year on average. Considering that you spend a month or two settling in and that you usually decide a month or two in advance before you leave, he seems to have had little time to properly experience each company (except perhaps for Google).
A cute Google easter egg
http://www.google.com/killer-robots.txt

(You will need to follow the link to see why it was submitted as text instead of as a link.)
I wasn't the one who started talking about coffee shops, FWIW.

As for the iPhone... I don't know - I haven't thought about it, and consumer devices are of little interest to me, so I'm probably not the guy to come up with a great idea for competing with the iPhone.
The “Just in Time” Theory of User Behavior
Yes, we're currently using Glicko-2 but we're not accounting properly for the Rating Deviation that incorporates previous games played (tactics attempted). This will be fixed in a future update. Thanks for the report!
Ask HN: Preparing to launch product at TC Disrupt 2014. Advice?
I don't get this attitude. It's decently well known that there are diminishing returns once you pass a 6-8 hour workday. Why would anyone want to spend more time working to produce worse results?
Headline fail. The very next thing out of his mouth is:

"...and that's a stupid thing to say."
As far as I can tell, the audience voluntarily(?) locks itself into facebook and twitter, so I fail to see that much of a difference between the past and the future.
Given how smart Elon Musk is about issues like this, this is rather hard to believe.
Urk. I'm not impressed--it's already shaping up to be super-enterprisey and architecture-astronauty, and supporting binary stuff means folks will keep smuggling in HL7 v2.
It's really great to see this on HN. Major kudos should go to Eric Mill, Gray Brooks, and everyone else who contributed[1] to these standards (as well as the White House, whose API standards 18F forked[2]). There is a blog post[3] that further explains 18F's goals for these standards, as well as a bit on how 18F evaluates what becomes a standard and what does not.

These were discussed out in the open, and meaningful feedback, suggestions, or pull requests are certainly welcome.

[1] https://github.com/18F/api-standards/blame/master/README.md

[2] https://github.com/WhiteHouse/api-standards

[3] http://18fblog.tumblr.com/post/91868213233/hot-off-the-press...
According to his linkedin profile he spent 4 years at Google in Zurich, 1 year at Microsoft and less than a year at Facebook:

www.linkedin.com/in/dimakorolev

He doesn't state whether he worked at Facebook's Menlo Park or Seattle office.
"Because the individual needs something, and the startup does not"

Sounds like they do, in fact, need something, and it's a different person.

"Meanwhile potentially having them as a resource who will say 'oh yeah Ex Employee was a really great guy, we regret losing him, definitely hire him if you can' "

He was there 2 weeks, if that. You can't tell if someone was good in that time period. If I got a reference like that about someone who worked at a place for a grab total of 6 days... I'd think something was fishy.
I am more than happy to migrate my site to https and I took a two days to watch your youtube video to ensure i do not miss anything

But I got one very valid concern. Most websites running some kind of affiliate links and banners. Most of the affiliate links and banners is not on the https platform. This will cause mixed content error message by the browser. First, is using protocol relative urls solve this mixed content error issue? Second, can the non-https affiliate links and banners work correctly(tracking etc) on https website?

I am sure this is the one big hurdle need to be addressed or else more than 50% of the websites in existence will have difficulty to migrate.
Shoot me an email--let's talk.
I walked away from Somm convinced that wine tasting is a load of crap. The organization that puts on the "Master Sommelier" exam doesn't share results or a scoring rubric, which is a huge red flag that the test isn't merit based. It screams of manufactured exclusivity.

The best trained wine tasters can use deductive reasoning to narrow down the wine's identity, but a significant portion seems to be visual. Arguably, they are only effective at this because wine taxonomy is defined by visual characteristics. In a double blind taste test, I highly doubt it's possible to precisely identify the wine.
"why would he contact them other than to disrupt the relationship between YC and his former employer"

He might want YC to instruct other YC-backed companies to avoid this behavior in future, sparing other people this problem.
When I read ''9 to 5'' in this context I take it to represent a culture and mindset of limited engagement and responsibility, not necessarily the literal physical presence for only those hours of the day.
I also think it would be really nice if the position switched to an "analysis mode" after completion. Sometimes, especially if one gets a problem wrong, it's nice to examine the position more deeply. Bonus points if some open-source chess engine is integrated (I presume this can be done client-side somehow?).
(when (seq s) ...) reads to me as "do this as long as I can treat s sequentially". The following operations on s require it to be seqable, so it's like a runtime type check. not-empty is less direct, and feels like it's assuming that s is seqable.

Of course, not-empty is implemented with (when (seq)), so there's no REAL difference. At the end of the day, (when (seq)) is what people use.
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I'm strongly in your camp. However, to play devils advocate, a founder has to make the company the focus of their life. They're gonna be working long hours, 6-7 days a week, with little to no vacation. There's diminishing returns on that time, but the pressure is on and the clock is ticking.

Naturally, founders want to hire people who also make the startup their life. If you're working all day, don't you want to build your company with people who do the same?

But besides founders fervor to work round the clock, some people are just addicted to work. They can't stop thinking about it and no matter what they're doing, if it's not work, they're not satisfied. These people want to work with other people with the same mentality.
I suppose it'd be better than being Boeing and going in front of your stockholders to explain why your marketshare is radically down because you refused to conform to the measurement system 95% of your customers are using.

It's a non-question anyway. Boeing planes already report fuel load in litres. Funnily enough, flight levels are internationally represented in feet (well, 100-feet) so there's a "win" for you. Also, ground speed is measured in knots!
Storefronts over train tracks
The returns are diminishing, but not by much for many people. E.g. a 100 hours work week having 2x the productivity of a 40 hours one (instead of 2.5x).

From my 30+ years of experience in the SW industry, a guy who works 100 hours will far outproduce someone working 37.5 or 40 hours and on top will improve his skills a lot faster.
You don't just want good words, you want to position yourself so your next move is also a good word. So you don't just have to iterate over the current board, you have to iterate over all possible upcoming boards.

But it's even worse than that! You want to set up your opponent for a bad move, and vice versa, so you're trying to infer each others' tiles from past moves and bluffing starts to matter. So you also have to reason about counterfactual games where your opponent would have done the same thing, meaning you have to care about the entire game tree instead of just the sub-tree you're in...

In the general case, solving games involving partial information requires super-exponential time. It's no picnic. (Of course in practice we use approximations, and those can work quite well.)
My parents live in a rural area without cable. Tried satellite for a while, then just got a smartphone and used it as a hotspot. The performance was much better.

I live in a major city but am thinking of doing the same. T-Mobile charges me $10 a month for the minimum data plan, with the unlimited data plan being only $30. So as I see it, that means it'd only be a marginal cost of $20 for an internet connection. I've used it before and the speed is fine. I don't know if it'd be good enough for downloading HD video from Netflix, or for playing twitch-based online games, but it's fine for surfing the web or downloading documents.
Sorry, but that story is pretty dumb. If an expert is tricked into drinking the same shitty Indian whisky six times, they're going to be thrown off.
While everything about wine-tasting is debatable, it must be said that sommeliers / wine tasters spend a lot of time training themselves to discern the scents and flavours of the different wines.

In fact there are several wine tasting training sets for sale, with tens of different wine aromas.

As humans OTOH, our smell is inferior to, say, dogs.
My wife tried this on me with yogurt. I like yogurt a lot and like to try every type of yogurt available in the store. She thought I just like buying the most expensive stuff. So one night she setup a blind taste test for me. I was able to distinguish and name the different yogurts (there were only a couple in the test).

But, I do think that Thomas' test was a bit unfair. He arranged as if it was a test of different whiskeys but then gave the same one every time. That isn't a double blind trial and it physiologically manipulates the participant. It makes a good story but I don't think it proves anything. Furthermore, you really need a larger sample size to say whether or not "snobs" can distinguish the real thing from the fake. If you are testing just one "snob" it would help to run multiple randomized trials.
You may be placing a different interpretation on here that the author intends. . Here "9-5" means people who are just working for the sake of working vs startups where there's a tangible goal to hit and people want to hit it and move on. So it's a "I want to work around a constant short term goal oriented culture vs one where goals are measured in years (if at all)"
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Hopefully apple will be more vigilant in the approval process with respect to SSL implementations in the coming year.
"Just use JSON" means "give up on REST/HATEOAS ideas", right?
Well, this attitude is not that uncommon, which is easily seen if you read http://clientsfromhell.net/ with any regularity. And in come countries this is the norm.
Quality and scope are different aspects of a result. You can focus your diminishing returns on getting less done at a similar quality level. Meaning the returns may diminish, but your contribution is still a net positive.
Well if you've got to sow your field before the snow comes then it's not real helpful to have the guy next to you telling you that after 8 hours you're producing diminishing returns and should call it quits. That's going to be interesting advice next spring when you don't have a crop.
That's already in there. The rent is due the 1st and on the 5th the penalty is due.
Can't believe it took 5 hours after the OP for this one to show up.
Bestselling authors take out full-page New York Times ad against Amazon
I've been at wine tastings where the sommelier who is a sommelier teacher can pick from what exact bordeaux region a certain wine is from without looking at the label. Respects that expert skill different from computers but mastery. I think it is like in all fields there are self proclaimed experts and real experts and not all who claim to be an expert are one some fake it.

However its also been proven that people think that an expensive wine tastes better than a cheap one. So psychology and expectations play a big role.

I would advocate that we get mass spectrometers out there in smart phones so that we can scan the wine and tell its contents. Not only do we want to test the wine contents, we also want to scan our meat to check that it is what is says it is and we also want to scan vegetables for pesticide residue.
There are a few power users of OSM. Like, MapQuest and FourSquare. However, either of those have neither the detailed information of Google/Bing nor their popularity, so I see your point.
BTW the android version runs perfect on BB10.. You guys should package it as a port and put it on BBWorld.. very easy to do.

Happy to see that there are users in Orange County/SoCal now
I guess so. Strange sense of deja vu, but I will take your word for it.
As an author I support Amazon's position because as they say, books compete with the video game, TV, movie, etc. markets, and keeping consumer book prices lower helps grow the book market relative to other forms of entertainment, and I would argue that books benefit society more than video games and TV (but not necessarily movies).
How about Uber for online dating? Single people with no plans on a Friday night could click and get arranged for blind dates (maybe based on some minimal filtering like age range). Restaurants with open tables could even be included into the business model, and pay you to send dates to fill their dining rooms.
Sorry for the ambiguity - I was asking re the video not the web site :)
I don't know any Clojure, but I guess it's for the same reason why

if lst:
# do something with lst

is preferred to

if len(lst) > 0:
# do something with lst

in Python. It becomes more obvious when you use descriptive names:

if customers:
# do something with customers
Neither Amazon nor Hachette have interest of reader or writer. They are just trying to side on the reader or picture their interest as a interest to reader or writer.
Notify others of their driving behavior :)
> 9 out of 10 lawsuits in the world are now filed in the United States, which is also home to over 80% of the world’s lawyers

The source the article cites for this says the US has 1.2 million lawyers, so they are claiming the world has 1.5 million lawyers, and that there are only 300k lawyers outside the US. This is wrong:

Germany: 139k lawyers [1]
France: 46k [1]
Greece: 36k [1]
Italy: 121k [1]
Spain: 114k [1]
UK: 151k [1]
Turkey: 55k [1]
Brazil: 622k [2]
Mexico: 215k [3]
China: 200k [4]
India: 1300k [5]

[1] http://www.ccbe.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/NTCdocument/table_n...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Brazil

[3] http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/plp/pdf/Mexican_Legal_Pr...

[4] http://www.china.org.cn/china/2011-12/26/content_24249504.ht...

[5] http://www.legallyindia.com/201302183448/Bar-Bench-Litigatio...
Judge rejects $324.5M settlement of tech wage case