skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't make any sense (no offense). CrowdFlower uses almost a hundred different "channels", of which Mechanical Turk was only one until we removed it a while ago. It was not our largest channel at that point and it represents a small fraction of the workers available on our platform. There is no sense in which Turk has more contributors than CrowdFlower. On the contrary, we have access to a much greater variety of people including specific groups from countries like Japan that Turk has no access to.
Court rejects Aereo’s request to argue it’s a cable company
I also want to add...how did this make HN front page?? Really, this has to be rigged; I've seen a plethora of better articles not even get 1 point, and how this got 7 amazes me...
Why did you guys decide to have the API endpoints a) use plain HTTP and b) include the API key as a query parameter? While it doesn't look like the API lets you access anything particularly sensitive, you're just asking for API keys to be sniffed out and used/abused by folks other than those you issued the key for.
It does help Liam, thanks. I'm coming at this from a web search perspective. Checking our crawler we have about 16M documents from Wikipedia indexed, which would presumably fit inside your single partition. The 'hot' crawl (things that change with a frequency <= 7 days) is a lot bigger than that though :-)

I'm guessing your target market is folks that want to corral their documents? (sort of like the Google appliance but in the cloud?) What is your privacy policy on that? (lawyers for example have a lot of documents but rarely put them in the cloud for example) And when you say 15 qps what is the SLA? I that at the 50th percentile? 95th? 99th? I've noticed it seems to be hard to pin down in Elastic Search.
well it is the internet, you can always try to create your own? once you have people willing to play, their league isn't special or unique
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For the first time, I just spent some time reading First Look. I thought the material was very good, an antidote to the highly filtered news from MSNBC, Fox, CNN, etc.

I have several friends and family members who are self-described "news junkies" who only watch/read the few main US corporate news outlets. This drives me nuts. I have shown them, for example, news.google.com as a means to look at one story from the perspective of what news outlets in multiple countries are saying. Most seem happy with narrow viewed, filtered news.
This all just points to the importance of choosing a good metric. The article’s example of GDP as a metric was just an example – later in the article, the author points out that a few ways in which that metric would need to be patched.

I think the proper response to wanting to vote for a sheriff who would cook the books is to increase the penalty for sheriffs who are caught cooking the books, since their actions would incentivise others more than they do now. Hopefully then, even a more crooked sheriff would recognize that it is not in his interest to go to jail just so that the people who voted him in with can make more money.

To help those who are on welfare, perhaps the metric needs to additionally include a criterion such as average happiness of everyone, including those on welfare, as rated by a periodic survey.
That's not anything close to a four day week, that's a five day week with long hours on four out of five days.
Ask HN: Any APIs you'd like to see from the New York Public Library?
Hi, I recently started working as a developer at the New York Public Library.

We're working to make all our data (digital collections, catalog, branch information, etc.) as open, easy, and publicly accessible as possible.

Are there any APIs that you'd like to see?

PS:
You can check out our Digital Collections API at:
http://api.repo.nypl.org/

And, of course, our website at:
http://www.nypl.org/
I recently moved from a Mon-Fri 9-5 to Tue-Fri 9-5; I've definitely noticed an improvement in my morale, and possibly an improvement in my productivity, though that's harder to measure. I don't necessarily think replacing the day missed with more work each day is a brilliant solution though, as productivity tends to drop off dramatically over the day anyway. If we want to work less, it might be best to actually work less.
Creating an Open Federal Election Commission
They made something. Good job! You seem to be brand new and have nothing to show.
Ask ten women/minorities if they feel the same way, then ask ten white dudes. If you find a discrepancy between the two groups, then ask yourself if that isn't actually an indication that that call-out is in fact doing the job it was intended to do.
Wow, what a non-story. The article describes an IQ test in use for roughly the last 100 years. Then they profess surprise that children's IQ, measured at age 4, is a predictor for their IQ measured at age 14.

That's basically the entirety of the 338-word article.
Not sure what I did to deserve this... but okay. Thanks for the feedback.
Very well done. I can see myself using this in the near future. Thank you for making this.
Sounds like you're working 44 hours for 40 hours of pay? (For example: you could have all your hours done by Thursday night, but you still have to come in for a half day on Friday, correct?) If they're going to make you work 40 hours anyway, why the extra half day? Seems fine to me to set the required work time to 40 hours, but that should mean that you can leave once you've got 40 hours in.
Another awesome work from Martin, the creator of Circos.
Please demonstrate the existence of subjective experience.
Why Bootstrap is a bad fit for WordPress
Actually, most of C's "undefined behavior" is left undefined to permit compilers to define whatever behavior is most natural for the target's assembly. Undefined behavior is an issue when you're trying to write portable code. So it's really not surprising that this worked out in the programmer's favor in this situation.
It's also known that certain types of marine quakes are more frequent at low tide, though the weight differential involved there is orders of magnitude larger than in the case of the CA drought: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009....
You are having one right now.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
The introductory paper on futarchy (http://hanson.gmu.edu/futarchy.pdf) says ‘For no particular reason, I’ve named this alternative “futarchy.”’ That seems to indicate that “fut” isn’t any kind of standard prefix with a known pronunciation. So the way I naturally read the word is “FOO-tar-ki”.
Show HN: Green Honey (visualization of Wiki color entry)
I think I prefer 5 six hour days.
This is particularly relevant given that there's been a recent trend of interest in thermal imaging cameras... of course, the range of those is in much longer wavelengths.
My current schedule is 12 days on 13 hour shifts followed by two days off. Resident physicians get screwed and only recently were 'limited' to 80 hour work weeks. I would love even a five day work week.

I have noticed my moral has dropped immensely on this schedule. It is definitely hard to balance work with social life, exercise, and sleep.
> You know, it's not a simple question

Yes it is a simple question, and the answer is NO.
The incentive that already exists – the law. A single person couldn’t do much damage on their own to affect a global metric like GDP much, and they would probably not consider it worth it to have made a little bit of money if they have to spend time in jail because of it.
They don't do transaction systems on these cards?

That's like "Writing to a Consumer File System 101". Yike.
You're only adding fuel to their mediocracy. You should be direct and tell them to do better. With proper guidance, these guys actually might.

btw, your assumption about me #totallyFalse
Search API. Datastore isn't really aimed at search.

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/search/
These are just boilerplate disclaimers.

>The correlation is moderate, so our findings are interesting

A fair comment

>but it does not mean that parents should worry if their child draws badly.

Just an irrelevant disclaimer.

>Drawing ability does not determine intelligence, there are countless factors, both genetic and environmental, which affect intelligence in later life.

Just a disclaimer to rule out "determinism", which is itself a meaningless concept in the probabilistic world we live in. Given the correlation they discovered, it is accurate to say that drawing ability predicts intelligence to some degree.
New Research Suggests Cancer Can't Be Eradicated
Also, I've used nedb and highly recommend it. It's fast and comprehensive.

https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb
I had basically the exact same idea but am glad someone else did nonetheless. I think your apps looks much better than what I would have done. Congratulations! Ideas are dime a dozen but implementation takes real investment. Good luck!
you can require two different versions of the same library and it works just fine. uses a similar process as browserify.
The vast majority of the water consumption in the state is from agriculture. Agriculture is only a tiny sliver (~2%) of the state's GDP. California could easily afford to halve its agriculture output (and severely curb water consumption in the process) and while this would be a hit to the state's 17th largest sector, it would not be the end of the world.
Sadly, this isn't really a solvable problem. On one extreme you force all transitive dependencies to use the same version. On the other extreme, you bundle n different versions of a library. Organizations such as Google have strict policies to enforce the former extreme - only one version of a library is allowed at a time. Unfortunately, this isn't possible for the OSS community where there's no enforceability.
Porn will catapult this VR tech to the extreme.
That stinks if you have a long commute. Still having to commute that fifth day.
Thank you very much! I think the more difficult problem is getting users, at least compared to the actual programming of the app. XD
+1, been here awhile; created a throw away account; 2nd'd
I think practically you are a nonintegrable and thus unpredictable process so your actions are not determined by your inputs thus you have free will.
I'd argue that you can rely more on powerful types because they lend more to the totality of your program. This is just a hunch/intuition though. If I'm wrong, I'd be glad to know why and how so I can correct that ;)
What's really cool is that this entire project was done for under $5k!
> Health care is already free of charge in most of the modern world

This is completely and utterly incorrect. It's not free. Doctors and nurses are getting paid. Equipment is purchased. Drugs are prescribed. Who is paying for it? Taxpayers. Therefore it's not free. What you meant to say is that now everyone has an access to healthcare.

But when you think about it, is it truly a pinnacle of humanity if good things (treating people) are achieved by doing bad things (stealing from people by threatening them with jail time and confiscation if they refuse to pay taxes)? Is it truly a pinnacle of humanity that we treat people yet simultaneously we also kill thousands of people in wars using the same tax money? Is it really okay that I have to subsidize a treatment of a smoker who ignored health advice for a number of years? Or a fast food consumer who ate at McDonalds every day and now has diabetes? Why should I subsidize their treatment and not spend more money on my kids, for example? You have no moral right to claim I OWE these people money. You can kindly ask me to help them out, but if I refuse, you shall not be able to jail me and confiscate my property.
> The rent situation in the Bay Area is so out of control

in 2000 during that housing squeeze we rented very small (almost studio) 1bd in Palo Alto at 1100. Currently i see large 1bd in Palo Alto going for ~2K. Given that money has cheapened at least 2 times (and salaries and prices doubled) during this period i don't think that situation has changed significantly in any direction.
Animals without a natural check on their population and resource consumption can also experience a population boom followed by a sharp decline and even collapse, possibly extinction.
I think the best 4 day work week would be a rolling day off and probably not coincide with co workers ( allows someone to be in every business day). First week you get Monday off, second week Tuesday off, etc. if you need a day that everyone needs to be in perhaps you exclude a day, perhaps Wednesdays, from the rolling off day.
> The argument is that subjective experience would not have evolved without free will.

That's not an argument, it's an assertion. By its nature, subjective experience can't be used as an argument, because it's not accessible to the other parties to the debate. This is how subjective experience is defined.

> If there's no free will, then an animal with subjective experience would not have an evolutionary benefit over one without it.

This is easily refuted by examples in which computer programs, neither conscious nor possessing free will, without any behavioral latitude whatever, in a rigidly defined computer environment with no random or unpredictable elements at all, evolve according to the usual rules of natural selection. Therefore evolution and the existence of natural selection cannot be used to argue in favor of free will.

> Is my argument for the existence of free will correct?

It's not only not correct, it's not, strictly speaking, an argument. This is not to say there is no such thing as free will. We just don't know.

The evidence for an argument in a debate must be accessible to all participants in the same way. This is not to say they will agree with the premise, but they will all experience the evidence in the same way before drawing their own conclusions.
Weeks were originally based around market day: you'd work your fields for 6 days then go into town on the 7th to trade, socialise, etc. Basing weeks around a day of rest was a Jewish innovation.

There are examples of places using 8 or 10 day weeks (e.g. the Roman Empire, revolutionary France, the USSR) but everyone keeps returning to a 7 day week.
Provided you don't have to physically travel to a work location more days but shorter does seem to be more productive, for me at least.

I could work a few long days a week but I get a lot more done working a few hours a day instead. I'll often work 6 or even 7 days a week but those work days are only 1-4 hours long.

In particular 1-2 hours spent working on saturday or sunday usually results in a extremely disproportionate increase in overall productivity.
Clone Your SD Card for Raspberry Pi
A few comments:

* I was hoping to be able to use it for a while without signing up first. I nearly walked away.

* It fails to find some feeds, such as for http://dev.opera.com/ and http://www.iheni.com/

* rssheap.com and www.rssheap.com are separate domains so logging in to one doesn't mean you're logged in to the other. I think you should have a 301 redirect on one of them.

* You could add "RSS Heap" in the title tag - then it would show up when bookmarked.

Nice site though. Straight to my SpeedDial.
Your coworker would get first work Tuesday off, second week Thursday off ( if excluding Wednesdays for all hands in day), etc...
These guys are making the classic indie game dev mistake- making a funky indie game that doesnt monetize well, has no virality, isn't freemium, etc.

Game developers like these aren't professionals, they're hobbyists. They're making games like its a hobby, not a professional job. They do no market research, experiments, etc. If you run a normal business or a normal startup like that, you will have similarly terrible results.

Be a professional. Look at the market. What monetizes well? What works? Hint: it's not the linked game.

Go look at the top grossing charts in the various app stores for an idea of what type of game you should be making.

I co-founded a small game company 2 years ago. We took 10 months to make our first game and have been releasing updates for it ever since. We're all working remotely. And, we're making enough money to pay ourselves a Bay Area salary.

I love video games. I love the game industry. I started as a QA tester and worked my way up from there. I will never do anything different. You can make money making games, but you can't be an indie game developer / hobbyist. Be a professional.
I only got through one class, but have heard my concerns echoed by many who are only continuing the program because the have invested so much into it.

The program is based on weekly discussion board posts and a few exams per course. For the most part, I find myself attempting to put fluff into my posts rather than meaningful analysis.

There are "sync sessions" throughout the courses, but they don't occur every week. This is much unlike a MOOC, which provides a set of weekly lectures to view and gain understanding.

There was zero project work in my initial class and projects at or below the level of undergrad projects in more advanced courses.

I managed an A average while spending the absolute minimum amount of time on the class.

When paying 4,000 dollars per course, I had hoped that the instruction would be at the same level or better than that of a set of MOOCs. In the field of data science, I believe the time can easily be directed towards side projects for greater knowledge and similar employment prospects.
There are 2 huge problems with this blog post.

First, the source image is a photograph, saved as a PNG24 file! They then show how JPEG XR and WebP file sizes compare.

This is a worthless comparison. Spoiler alert: the lossless PNG24 isn't very good are storing photographic data, because its not designed to.

Had imgix known how to do a proper image comparison study, they would haved used a PNG24, generate a normal, non-progressive JPEG, at the "Save for web" quality setting of 70. That's you baseline. They should then generate the JPEG XR, WebP, and Progressive JPEG off the source PNG24, and compare those sizes to the size of the baseline, regular quality 70 JPEG.

I have seen great performance benefits from using WebP where it makes sense, and I discuss them in this video about Warby Parker [0]. But the imgix guys are going about this the wrong way to explain the benefits.

Second, the use of Content Negotiation is a terrible idea as well. You don't want to serve different file types from the same URL. Because then, the web server uses the Accept header, and potentially the User-Agent header, to determine the response. This means it must send a Vary: Accept or Vary:Accept, User-Agent header in this response, which renders the response essentially uncachable for shared cached. I discuss this problem here [1], but in the context of the User-Agent header.

Its clear the imgix is trying to help people, which is awesome. But its also clear from their advice and analysis they really don't understand what they are talking about, or can't express themselves properly. Either way, this is bad performance information, and we really don't need any more of that.

[0] - http://zoompf.com/blog/2013/07/how-fast-is-warby-parker

[1] - http://zoompf.com/blog/2012/02/lose-the-wait-http-compressio...
Daydreaming Is the Brain’s Default Mode
Why Zipf's law explains so many big data and physics phenomenons
Right, this idea is way over done. And I have not seen it do well yet. Perhaps someone will do it right...

They made something and want feedback. That's better than making a throwaway and trolling at least.
This assumes you also always get Saturday and Sunday off.
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In defense of parent (although I'm speaking against my own initial argument right now): I think there are two ways to look at it. One is to look at the final energy state in orbit, where kinetic energy is much higher than potential energy. One is to look at how much fuel energy is spent for each delta-T for potential and kinetic energy, and integrating that over time. Intuitively I expect that to give a different result, e.g. most fuel spent for increasing potential energy. The difference[1] comes from the potential energy that gets stored in the remaining fuel that will be converted into kinetic energy later at a lower cost. So, there is an argument to be made for both sides, however one has to be careful in how to apply this knowledge to a new technology like air breathing rocket motors - it has a very different economy.

[1] edit: There is a second factor that will also change that result compared to the first: air drag. I.e. some fuel energy will be lost in heating up the surrounding air.
It would make sense, because I expect that they use Tor a great deal themselves.

Perhaps they only anonymously report the bugs that they detect someone else potentially exploiting? I'm sure they would try to maintain their ability to try and break the protocol, but perhaps if they think some other (non five-eyes intelligence) actor has discovered the vulnerability then they report it.
I can't start it by myself, and if I knew like-minded people, one of them would probably have a connection to this group already.
Once upon a time when I was first learning to program, I wrote a Python script to download them from bartleby.com and make them into nice CHM files :) some good stuff
Yes, very true. I've recently been working on a mathematical extension of the Logistic function that models this process that's often seen in nature:

http://arachnoid.com/peak_people
Spoken like management.

there are four words you have to remember in this economy and they're either "show me the money" or "fuck you, pay me".
Sounds like it's a regional and/or departmental issue then. I initially thought it was just our group that would pay for Gold/Green access, but turns out it's uni-wide.
I am moving to Boston in the next few months. I'm originally from Boston but I've been living in Bolivia for the past few years. I'd love the chance to work with a company with these hours.

I've been freelancing with US clients for about 2 years now and my work schedule is always 4 days so I'm extremely used to it by now. :)

Hope we can connect in the future!
React-responsive – Media queries in react for responsive design
I'd be in agreement. I think tertiary education should be free of charge, I think by mid way through the next century we'll view free continuing education in the same manner as we view primary and secondary education at the moment, i.e. as a right.
Congratulations on shipping!

Rolling up your sleeves for some location-based, real-time coding would have been a bit of fun right?

Giants like Twitter have obviously had location-based tweets for a long time but a sizable segment of those users will always be reluctant to share their location against what can be a very public, linked account.

An app like this that allows anonymous users to jump into location-chats anywhere could be really useful.

Obviously geographic channels on IRC have existed for aeons and do the same thing, but putting it in a modern app for a new generation makes sense.

There are undoubtedly loads of other existing services and apps doing this kind of thing, but who cares if this is all a personal R&D mission right? You never know where it might lead.

Keep at it!
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I can't wait to start filling out time sheets (or maybe you have the convenience of a punch card?) to make sure I "get my hours in".

Fuck off getting things done: we've got hours to complete!