skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jeremy from DataRobot here. Thanks for the support! We're looking forward to releasing the product and showing off all of our hard work!

Simone: Thanks for the congrats and all your help during and after techstars.

NnamdiJr: I did mention Xavier to the wsj--not sure why they didn't include him in the article. Xavier has been working with us full time for close to a year now. Him and I have been good friends and collaborators for over 2 years now. It is true that Xavier was ranked #1 for a very long time. If it wasn't for him taking time away from competitions to work on DataRobot, he may still be ranked #1. Owen, the current #1 ranked Data Scientist, worked with us at Travelers and I've known him and his wife for about 10 years now. Thus, I would say that so far we are recruiting from the intersection of our own network and the Kaggle leaderboard. That said, I think recruiting kaggle-proven data scientists is one of the best ways to ensure you hire a quality data scientist (although there are plenty of other factors that matter like real-world experience building and implementing predictive models).

acoyfellow: There are some startups using Datarobot. We have a cloud product for SMB's and startups as well as an on-premise version for enterprise.

jawns and blauwbilgorgel: Sometimes I use "Data Scientist" and "Statistician" interchangeably, but I do think that stats is a subset of data science (I subscribe to Drew Conways venn diagram definition of a data scientist). I do know plenty of people who call themselves statisticians but actually meet all the criteria for being a data scientist. Regardless of what they call themselves, true data scientists are extremely rare.

If there are any true data scientists (by Drew Conway's definition) that are interested in working with us, please send us an email at careers @ datarobot. We are also looking for great Python, Javascript, and Spark engineers. http://www.datarobot.com/careers/
This seems interesting but they recorder is missing a lot of context. If you drive Los Angeles freeways you'll be hitting the breaks a lot for random people who cut you off in bumper-to-bumper traffic, but the data will only show you stomping on the breaks all the time and the insurance company might conclude you're a bad driver because you're not paying attention.

Also how does it distinguish between drivers? My kids often "borrow" the car and I'd like to be able to "advise" them when they're causing our insurance to go up by driving poorly.. :-)
I wish these features were in macvim that would be even cooler.
I'm on my 'Gap Year plus' right now. I decided to take a year off after sophomore year to teach myself some web development and travel. I was originally planning to go back to university this Fall, but I am pursuing a career in modeling/showbiz. It has always been on my list of things I wanted to do, so I thought it would be better to do it now while I'm young rather than later when I have more obligations. My advice would be to go with whatever whim or dream you have, even if others might not agree.
One of my siblings had one of these. It constantly squawked/beeped at them when they went too fast/they braked too hard (which is actually a lot more often that you might think - the deacceleration threshold ).

It got to be a point of humor in their family. "Mommy, you're driving too fast!"

It did lower their car insurance considerably. Thankfully, it was a temporary deal to have it installed, not a permanent commitment.
I think the key is to constantly challenge yourself and never rest on your laurels. It's like strength training — if it's easy, it doesn't do much for your muscles.

Learn new things, read about new concepts. And always remember, it should be hard. If it's easy, it doesn't do much for your mind.
Nope.

"Incredibly cheap" is not a relevant metric. The relevant quantity is price/income. If income drops by 50% and price drops by 10%, the good has still effectively become almost twice as expensive.
I want to combine this with my idea of accidentally summoning elder gods with the forgotten Greek alphabet ASCII character set...
Consult the previous thread on Increasing Cognition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277457
I want to use Overcast, but I can't
Easy. Do something that is not obvious for you.

Yes, that means get of the house and stop coding (if you are).

Ballroom dancing, lyrical poetry, busking, popping-and-locking, figure sculpting, going up to strangers and trying to learn something about them, anything.

For bonus points, once you learn skills in the above, immediately start trying to teach them.

Success is one area is not directly transitive. However, the more success you have in multiple areas - the better off you will be. It's all about confidence.

Be open to new things. A closed mind is a terrible thing to see.
I'm the founder of a health-tech startup, so HIPAA is something I spend a lot of time thinking about. (Disclaimer: IANAL)

> A lot of the medical data about you is essentially the doctor's or industry's data, not yours. It can be difficult to impossible to get everything about you disclosed to you; it is for all intents and purposes data about you but not owned by you.

Quite the opposite - a large portion of HIPAA is about the rights of the patient to access their medical data. Actually going through this formal process has a number of steps, but some of the first lawsuits regarding HIPAA were actually about this, not about the safeguards on sharing or security.

In fact, under HIPAA, doctors and insurance companies are allowed to share your data with other entities ('associates') without consulting you first, as long as they sign another agreement with that entity promising that they'll abide by certain rules. Those associates are allowed to share it with other associates, and so on, etc. - all of it is legal as long as there's a trail of these agreements going all the way back to the doctor, hospital, or insurance company.

Anytime that you sign a document authorizing release of your information to a third party, that's generally referring to releasing data that they can't legally share under HIPAA via the above means.

There are some caveats, but this is more or less what is already happening to your medical data - you just don't know about it.
Never skip over the definition of a word with which you are unfamiliar. For example, acuity.
- Get fit: go to the gym regularly, eat healthily, sleep well. It's amazing how different peoples' first impressions of you will be if you're even a little bit well built.

- Learn life skills: cooking, seamstering (is that a word?)

- Travel somewhere very different to your home country for at least a month

- Try to start a company

- Learn the basics of a wide range of topics: politics, economics, philosophy, law, etc.

This is the stuff I would do if I could take a year out of university right now, some of it might apply to you too.
Maybe this will sound like trolling, but it isn't: don't be stupid.
Not quite so expensive. €249.00 (but currently out of stock) here:

http://www.seriouswatches.com/brands/issey-miyake/issey-miya...
Body Cameras on Police Can Reduce Use of Force Citizen Complaints
In the film days, it really made a difference. You can use a Leica M4 or 6, yeah it'd cost you a little more but your camera took amazing photos at 1/4 the weight and size of say, a Nikon F3, with a shutter that is whisper quiet. You can go closer and shoot more unobtrusively; while a given Nikon has equal optics, if different characteristics, it couldn't go where a Leica could. At least that's my take on it.

Granted, you could get the same effect from, say, a Canonet or a Yashica but still...

Nowadays, though - I am assuming mechanical precision and design is a more commoditized skill amongst companies whereas EE design - semiconductors, sensors, etc is more of a differentiator. In the age of tiny mirrorless Fuji's and Sony's, Leica's value proposition is more or less destroyed.

I think it's the classic story of an original innovator sitting on their asses while a disruptive tsunami -- modern electronics and computer science -- passed them by. Granted, they sat on their asses for arguably 4 full decades, so they had plenty of time to go "oh shit" and adapt, and the fact that they didn't leaves me with little sympathy.

Them and Eastman Kodak.
> If you drive Los Angeles freeways you'll be hitting the breaks a lot for random people who cut you off in bumper-to-bumper traffic, but the data will only show you stomping on the breaks all the time and the insurance company might conclude you're a bad driver because you're not paying attention.

That is the correct conclusion though. The insurance company could care less whether you're a bad driver—what they really care is how much of an accident risk are you.

Even a good driver frequently caught in LA traffic is a higher risk than a good driver elsewhere. Hence the device is reporting exactly what the company needs.
Popular server setups for your web site/application
I use this for all my applications.
And again, Evgeny Morozov is shown to be uncannily prescient about how technology is affecting our society.
The complaint seemed eminently reasonable to me... up until the point where the author began taking an openly hostile tone with the support representative that he spoke with. Even though he had a deeply unpleasant experience, taking it out on the poor support guy is pretty unprofessional, and is really not terribly likely to reinforce the image that he's worth doing business with.

Sigh. Nasty to watch what HostGator did too, though.
I have a working prototype. How do you want to proceed concretely?
This is increasing breadth of knowledge. I'm not sure I agree that if we are going for mental sharpness that breadth of knowledge is the thing we want to train.

I'd look more into things that where the challenge is incrementally increasable and more focused on mental quickness: puzzles, math challenges, that sort of thing.
You just cast some light on a major misunderstanding.

It's irrelevant whether would you like to take a trip or not.
It's like medicine.
Many of us know how it works.
You should try taking it even if you don't feel the urge.
Based on what you said so far, it's very likely to be effective.

For example I went on a 5 weeks, inter-Europe trip in 2004 with MPlayer A'rpi when he was heart broken. All of my friends said I'm crazy to recommend such a remedy, but it worked! :) We were ~27yrs old only though...

I would be delighted to talk about meaningful work with you.
I see soooo many problems in the world unsolved... many just in software land.
The amount of knowledge required to evoke the help of hardware of software to solve real world problems is just ridiculous and very prohibitive for people who otherwise understand the problem domain well and have probably good ideas for solutions.

We will never know though whether their ideas were good solutions or not, because it's just beyond their capacity to learn all that bullshit we call "programming" nowadays.

Rebol, the http://easiestprogramminglanguage.com/ showed a possible direction.
A friend of mine is pursuing that direction by writing a modern incarnation http://www.red-lang.org/
He gave up his job, retreated from Paris to Montenegro and in the past 3 years he was living on donations, then just moved to Beijing recently for incubation at InnovationWorks. He is your age too...
Competition reduces marketing expenses and adds parameters for differentiation.
You're pretty much not going to find a LAMP shared hosting company that doesn't have a similar policy.

That said, look for services with a minimum term of a year (this lowers spammer numbers quite a bit), and look for services that have multiple contact methods including an actual physical mailing address listed on their site (even if it's just a PO Box, it shows that they're probably not a reseller... there are lot of resellers out there).

And avoid companies owned by EIG or GoDaddy (some web searching will get you lists for both)—they're both just too big and too disorganized to provide adequate levels of support.
>> "You need to have an audience to distribute it to"

If you've read the article the take away should be this isn't the case. He used the audience available on ProductHunt and HN to make it go viral. It was also a really useful product.
Is that Seattle/Bellevue? But then there's a porsche with Eurpoean plates below :)
> Chrome isn't open source, chromium is. What are the extra bits in chrome?

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoo...

Plus, if you're on Windows or Mac, the auto-updater for Chrome.

The most significant differences are probably that Chrome has oit-of-the-box support for AAC, H.264, MP3, and Flash that Chromium does not have (by default).
Yes, Hongkongese too can say that "We used to build shit in this country".
In my life, I swap exercise and nutrition in terms of importance — at least anecdotally for me dietary intake is where I've seen the rubber meet the road; especially in the context of cognitive function. Though thats with a bias towards nutritional ketosis.

I've yet to experiment seriously with nootropics, but from what I know about it on the periphery, it seems to be a promising industry. Though Modafinil terrifies me.
nodejs, requires node package fetch

Under four seconds, please note that this violates Google's ToS and you will likely be blocked if you do this on any significant scale.

var bandname = "All Time Low";

var fetchUrl = require("fetch").fetchUrl;
var url = "https://www.google.de/search?q=";
bandname = bandname.replace(" ", "+");

fetchUrl(url+bandname, {
headers: {
'User-Agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2049.0 Safari/537.36'
}
}, function(error, meta, body){
var ret = [];
var alts = body.toString().split('alt\\x3d\\x22');
alts.forEach(function (alt) { var cur = alt.split("\\x22")[0]; if (cur.indexOf("(")==-1) ret.push(cur) });
console.log(ret);
});
Exercise. A short jog around the block is enough to give you a boost.

Sleep. Your body requires rest.

Fruits & vegetables. You don't have to be 'vegan' or 'vegetarian': my motto is the more fruits & vegetables I consume the better. Juicing is a great way to consume large quantities of these foods. People give me the o.0 stare every time I mention that I get 'high' from kale--along with other dark greens and fruit.

Learn about other fields / domains that interest you. Find less technical intro books and find ways that you can apply simple algorithms to compute things or program systems that aid in automating and managing things in that domain. Create a domain specific language (DSL) for assisting in thinking about and computing things in a domain. These things should be interesting to you and potentially beneficial to your life! Start small, stupidly small, and just explore and have fun.

Build a discipline of studying and practicing. Shit takes time, and if you don't put in the time you won't get there. Build the habit of regularly spending deliberate study and practice time. Plan your trajectory and track your progress & velocity and adjust regularly.

Nootropics and other supplements: (ar)modafinil, racetams, artichoke extract & forskolin, choline, amino acids, creatine, etc. I am a believer in no biological 'free lunch', but it can be fun to explore these on your own and form your own beliefs about them.
Thanks for the feedback! ⌘1 is what you want to focus the sidebar, and <Esc> will take you back to your buffer. We're working on some improvements to the View menu.
Breadth and depth are not mutually exclusive.
We have worked with DataRobot for quite some time now. Our company is called Next Glass and we're building a really cool app that takes the guesswork out of choosing wine and beer by analyzing their chemical properties. Our business model is built around data science and we chose DataRobot to power the predictions that drive our app. Both the software and the team have been amazing to work with. It's clear that they deeply care about the success of their customers. I highly recommend them regardless of whether you are a novice or expert in data science!
One of intended or unintended consequence of the work is distribution of wealth. And the effects of the growing robotics and automation will be breaking this distribution. Per se, this should not negative, unless we are prepared for this.
ColorRun – Simple browser game about colors
There's lots of good things about this. They're going to spend money educating the market about this kind of service but they're never going to be a monopoly, they'll have lots of competitors if the market is big enough, and someone else had a similar idea and thought it wasn't horrible too.

You should launch and carry on with your existing plans, faster.
I shoot a 5DMII with a variety of pricy glass. I'm not very good yet, but good enough for people to offer to pay me and to incorporate into the work we do at Venn. I've even been hired to do some video stuff by the CBC (web only, of course). I think most non-photographers can tell when a photo is "pro" but they have a harder time distinguishing how good things are at the top part of the photography spectrum.

For fun, I'll sometimes go on "photo walks" around Toronto with my friend that owns a super pricey Leica and has been into photography for way longer than I have. The primary advantage he has beyond just being a better photographer than I am is that when he takes a street photo people don't notice he is there until he already has the shot, whereas I look like a paparazzi.

I've lost so many shots because people see the militaristic look of my camera / lens combination. It also can sometimes lead to arguments on the street over the finer points of the legality of photography in public in Canada. Whereas Leica cameras never really illicit this response.

Not that I'm ever going to shoot Leica, I find Canon's cameras much more usable and ergonomically designed.
> But why for someone like HostGator to ask for so much identification? Their services aren't like LSN (Limestone) where it costs a lot of money

Cheap services make scammers and spammers more likely to show up, not less.
Compact Leicas are usually rebranded Panasonic's. This one isn't, it has it's own mount and dedicaded Leica lenses. It's not a rebrand and price-hike like the compact Leica's and the Lunar.
I am surprised more people aren't mentioning meditation. That's a shame.
> [As a managerial candidate] the CEO talked to Bill as an equal, not as a paternalistic, bullshitting, “this is good for your career” authority figure. There was a tone of equality that a software engineer would never get from the CEO of a 100-person tech company.

As I've gotten older I've learned people often interact with me the way I expect them to. If I expect them to be patronizing while I am submissive, I will be shy and withdrawn and the person will try to move on from the conversation, often in a way I will find patronizing (especially because I will compare their responses not to what I said, but to what I wanted to say).

Similarly if I interact with someone as an equal they will respond in kind.

Managers are more likely to have figured this out too (if they are any good), while engineers are often quite poor at this.
The revenue per price point graph looks like a really cool and useful data visualization technique. Thanks for sharing.
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For the other readers.

First up. I find inline diff's really hard to comprehend once they get past a few lines changed here and there. This might be just me, but anecdotally I've found other devs to also feel this.

The better context and navigation is all about seeing the change in the context of the code-base. Small code changes can have large effects. Indifference will allow you to navigate the whole code base rather than just the single change set +/- a few lines. In this way you can get a better handle on what has changed and how it will effect the rest of the codebase.
lol, so we would still have an over 50% chance of living to 1,000 years old? That sounds pretty good if you ask me.

And this is without even considering other technological advances that would increase safety during the time from 75-5000? Heck, we even have the prospect of self-driving cars now which would significantly decrease the chances of dying in a car crash. I think this only shows how robust the indefinite lifespan theory might be.
Wild speculation: diversity could be measured via the density of "ethnic" phrases in business names.

When I lived in Boston I noticed a high density of small ethnic grocery stores / eateries vs what I was used to in Denver. Within a radius of a few blocks from where I lived in Boston I had a Korean store, an Indian store, a Vietnamese restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, a Korean restaurant, and an Italian restaurant (none of which were franchised). In Denver I had a deli, a bunch of franchised fast food, and franchised ethnic food (Chipotle, Olive Garden, etc). My anecdata would score Boston as more diverse in this sense.
How a Skype call changed what I knew about crowdfunding
Thank you for forcing email validation in your sign up page. I get a lot of spam because so few do.

What "desktop" is your target? Someone recently asked me if I knew a good side-by-side diff tool that worked with GitHub and wasn't written a decade ago. I only knew of a buggy plugin. This, superficially, seems to be what he was looking for. If your target is Apple, he'd likely be thrilled. If it's Linux, I'd be interested.
We're workin on better embeds for large data sets: Google Sheets is wrecking the page. In the meantime, the data can be downloaded directly from the individual requests' pages:

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/pro...
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/pro...
http://www.reddit.com/r/programminggames/

http://www.reddit.com/r/gameai/comments/v86kk/list_of_games_...
City of Munich Considers Switching Back From Linux to Windows (In German)
I agree with you, but I'm not sure how effectively I can compete as a 1-person operation.
The BBC has done a documentary about this, though I can't recall the name of it now. The only one that comes up in searches is How Smart Are You but that's not the right one.

If I recall it came down to simply breaking routine. I'm not kidding.

One specific example I recall was they asked people to make a chocolate sandwich (which they claimed was popular somewhere in the UK) in a way they wouldn't normally. If you butter the bread and then pour the chocolate sprinkles on, then try buttering the bread, pouring the sprinkles onto a plate, and mopping up the sprinkles with your buttered bread.

My advice would be:
If you always make the same breakfast, try making something else or preparing it in a different way.
If you always walk the same route to work, take a different route.
If you take the bus, try taking a different combination of buses.

Take a second to ask yourself what your daily routine is, and then find a few things - as many as you're comfortable with - and find a different way to do those tasks.

Edit: I think it was How To Make Better Decisions, which up on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rirW96NM6HM
As a mac and linux user those would be my first targets. Im planning on writing it using clojure and embedding webkit in it (as im a web guy first) ala light-table. So moving from one platform to another should be trivial.
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