skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a cultural issue. Most business I know see a program telling you data is invalid just means the program is annoying and getting in the way.

They want the program to just assume you know what you are doing.

This is what they want, so this is what they get.
World Startup Events is a guide to key startup events
Ten Rules of Internet – Anil Dash
Yeah, this page hasn't been updated in awhile. However, IceCat's maintainer (who is also the Trisquel GNU/Linux maintainer) has builds of IceCat 31 (maybe 32 now, not sure) for Trisquel 7. The source tarball should be officially released sometime soon.
The 'contested' area is completely free from planes right now.
Trying out WordPress 4.0 on OpenStack
Pot smoking kills bees is my favorite... ought to make it into a t-shirt.
That currently is not possible, but wouldn't be very difficult to implement as I had it in mind from the beginning. Inspiration could be the Dropbox integration:

Client-side model:

https://github.com/jakubroztocil/cloudtunes/blob/master/clou...

API endpoint: for local files, it could simply serve the file:

https://github.com/jakubroztocil/cloudtunes/blob/master/clou...

Plus it would also need indexing, configuration, and to introduce a new media type across the app.
Thanks for the feedback, you're absolutely right and I'll make it more clear on the landing page. There might be some new functionality in the future that would make up a paid service, but all of the current functionality is meant to be free.
Anecdotally, trillions of dollars daily are moved around through chains of excel spreadsheets. It's been an eye opener for me :-)
> A lot of other stuff on the OKCupid blog, e.g. claims of racism because black women receive fewer first messages than women of other races, fell into the same trap.

I don't see how that was faulty.

It's pretty clear that Black women are involved in interracial marriage at a significantly lower rate than women of other races, or even black men. Then if you look at response rate by race (a previous OKTrends post), black women generally have a lower response rate from men of all races compared to women of other races. Data supports the idea that black women are generally not favored.
'land or we'll start World War III'.
Done. Although I did this years ago: http://mobile.sheridanc.on.ca/~claassen/Gravity/Gravity.html
Fire phone is now available to customers in the UK and Germany
One day we'll get strlcpy and strlcat for sure. Just not here, not now.
The problem is that causation is an oxymoron.

The measurement problem is the same as the problem of induction.

Max Planck understood this, read his quotes on matter.

No amount of correlation increases the probability of one event followed by another. Therefore, all scientific analysis is unverifiable. Knowledge of the world is completely unjustified. Not to mention our immense presumption of consistency in world phenomena when we really have no basis for asserting uniformity of nature. Read Hume on causality.

"Belief in the Causal Nexus is superstition" - Wittgenstein

If knowledge requires certainty, and our method of determining certainty is an infinite regress of reduction, it is like a recursive function which never returns a value.

Logic is inherently a comparison operator, and if logic is the only mechanism available to us, we are trapped in a purely relational analysis and it is impossible for the mind to conceive of certainty beyond a non-reasonable emotional preordained state of knowing. A feeling so powerful it is personally indubitable.

The premise of a singularity is invalid since it is inconceivable and the idea that causation is at any time inferred via comparison is fundamentally incomprehensible. If the premise is unclear then the argument is invalid.

If I say that an airplane functions on fairy dust and you make an argument about propulsion and lift, and you claim that my assertion is wrong because I have not properly performed a rational reduction and that a detail I do not understand could invalidate my entire theory, well guess what neither of us is technically correct to any degree since the test for invalidity applies equally to both of our assumptions. The concept of proof is also an oxymoron.

Hence, the very concept of phenomenal causation is an oxymoron. The notion of knowledge about the world is a disguise for a coping mechanism based on hope and desire.
Identity of notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper finally revealed
My New Entertainment Web Site
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It is a funny site which you can search by various contents like musics, videos, places near of you and more! I hope you like it and Enjoy! There is a android version too, you can get it on google play. :-)
> if this is the case then 30 seconds into them explaining their idea you can interrupt them and point out that you are conflicted because you are already working on this idea and then likely they will just pull you from their list as a supplier.

My point is that it's much safer to get that 30 second description before entering into a legal agreement, especially since it's usually with someone you barely know.
With all due respect: Spoken like someone who's never actually tried to do scraping on a large scale. This line just cracks me up:

> If people can still access the same data just by going to Amazon with their browser, I don't see any fundamental reason why they wouldn't be able to get the data if they really wanted to.

Just so naive, like a little kid saying they can build a rocket to the moon because they have a cardboard tube and some petrol.

In its own right web-scraping is difficult, and when the adversary is intentionally fighting against it it can be almost impossible. Modern web-scrapers often have to be smart enough to incorporate almost a full web-stack of technology, since if you lack JS or CSS rendering it is trivial to hide content from you or worse give you bad content the users won't even see (and also keep in mind the scraper has to "understand" CSS using its own logic, as it cannot "view" the result).

They can also dynamically alter how the page is rendered (e.g. if you're treating DOM like a tree and going down to a specific branch, it is trivial to re-order the HTML to break that). CSS effectively removes the relationship between HTML tag order and location on the page.

If I had a team of engineers working full time, I could likely maintain a 90%+ good Amazon web-scraper after about a year of pure development on it (likely using something like WebKit as a starting point). But nobody puts in this type of effect because sooner or later Amazon would sue you for something obscure and effectively win via lawyers fees alone.

An easier solution is just to hire Mechanical Turk-like people to look at pages, note down the price, and pay them 1c/price. It would cost an absolute ton of money, but you're able to start operating almost immediately (no prior development overhead). Plus you could limit it to Amazon's top 100,000 items and nothing more.
I get it, I really do. But I'm a programmer.

Spreadsheets are the dominant end-user-programmable tool in existence. Much of what people user them for is horrifying to programmers who know better.

But if spreadsheets actually did the "right" thing, they would never have been so widely adopted in the first place. That's an unprovable assertion on my part, but I strongly suspect it's true. I think it's a clear case of Worse is Better[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
I'm not sure if it's even possible to build a twitter-like system with distributed servers in the vein of e-mail. It's possible for e-mail because it's a one-way system. Twitter has the concept of following a user, and that user's tweets appear to me. It's a 2-way system that needs to constantly be kept in sync. Even if it's possible to do, it won't be easy, with loads of extra technical challenges that SMTP doesn't have.
A comment about the appspot.com domain.

I did look at getting a dedicated TLD (i.e. icsconverter.com) for this but with Stripe (quite rightly) requiring SSL when I did the sums for getting a custom domain on SSL with Google App Engine it was around $50/year. Which is ok for a site that's going to be making some money but a little extravagant for a little side project

Especially when compared to $0/year for SSL on a appspot.com subdomain.
I thought we were talking about "programming" languages only.
Amazon does use more than 140 characters to present a product.
If it works. The BBC don't link to this study. It's not linked on Dr Pitchford's website - http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/njp/research.ht...

There's a PDF called "unlocking talent" on the onebillion website, but that crashes iOS Chrome so I haven't been able to read it. It's not peer reviewed. It's not blinded.

https://onebillion.org.uk/downloads/unlocking-talent-final-r...

I can find plenty of published research for stuff which is pure horseshit - brain gym - or for stuff approachig horseshit in the way it's applied - Omega 3; learning styles; a lot of "cures" for dyslexia.

So far I have a press release from a company saying "trust us, our app works" with nothing to corroborate it.

What do you get for £16?

Sorting and matching

Counting to 3

Lines and patterns

Counting 4 to 6

Where is it?

Counting 7 to 10

Patterns and shapes

Counting 1 to 10

Comparing

Add and take away.

That's an under whelming list. It's the bare knuckle minimum you'd tolerate if you had a 1:90 teacher:pupil ratio.

Tldr: give them the money because educating Malawian children is good, but for your own children buy a book and do it yourself.
Arrest them?
That sounds like it'd encourage misleading clickbait even more than the current Internet.
>I want an IDE service.

That just silly.
No. Netflix is a rental service. If you are paying a recurring fee, and you only have access to the product as long as you pay the fee you are renting.

Netflix main expense is not bandwidth it is content.

But yes, if netflix started selling tv shows and movies like you suggest, drm free would be something consumers should demand.
If you're that worried simply don't take the job. Trying to get a customer to move on a pre-condition is a losing battle, better to focus your limited acquisition budget elsewhere it is not as if work is hard to find.

The article could have just as well been titled 'why we won't be doing certain jobs'.
My gut reaction to that is skepticism.

I've done basic switch configuration, looked at packets, had to troubleshoot MTU and MRU misconfiguration in commercial switches, etc.

Conceptually stuff at that layer is a long ways from the actual content.

It's like pointing to a guy walking his dog at the park after noticing a parked car with it's lights on, and saying "there's the owner in the car" vs "there's the owner of the car".

It feels, to me, like those sorts of linguistic mistakes must be exceedingly rare?

Or maybe the person writing up the statement wasn't the person who generated the notes and they just had a transcription error. I'd buy that I guess.
Young Scientists Using Hypergravity to Get Noticed
Show HN: Chat.cc – Turn your email conversations into a real-time chat
It has nothing to do with bureaucracy. Americans loathe bureaucracy. However, American corporations are highly anti-competition and have been for years. This is an extension of that.
The only people who have asked me to sign NDA's have been for project which amounted to very little.

I work as a contractor so my experience may be different than a full time employee, but for me somebody asking me to sign away my rights for the chance to hear their idea does not attract me. It's a huge red flag to me that they are more interested in locking down their idea than realizing it.

My parents taught me a long time ago that creative people give ideas away, and non-creative people cling to the best idea they have run across. If somebody steals from a creative person it's no loss, they have a dozen more ideas and know how to come up with new ones. If a non-creative person has their idea stolen it's a MASSIVE loss because they don't know how or when another idea will come across their path.

In life, I have been the creative type and not afraid to let my ideas go, but somebody locking down even discussing their idea send me warning signs they 'arent' a creative type and will guard this one idea they have to the death. That's not conducive to me taking it and turning it into something beautiful. Would you expect a seamstress to make a beautiful gown out of fabric you keep under strict lock and key in a box? They can't work with it!
Building Pulse and Bloom, an interactive biofeedback installation at Burning Man
ISPs Should Assume Heavy VPN Users Are Pirates
Last time I visited a hospital, there were gel dispensers beside every single door, already. I googled and those are under $10 for twice the capacity of the PullClean... so 1 PullClean vs 20 wall-mounted dispensers?

I think they'd really have to have some studies showing the different placement really made an impact for hospitals to buy this at scale.
What would we find up there that we didn't find last time with a new moon mission?

EDIT: I guess the assumption about basketball played on the moon is that most of us would watch that on television. But how much would a team have to make in TV advertising revenues to recover the cost of sending athletes to the moon and keeping them alive there? (A similar question applies to the costs of running the Olympics on the moon.) Ladies and gentlemen, those are fun jokes, but is this kind of joking response going to prompt anyone to invest their own money in a moon mission?
I'm not sure if you're already aware and have concerns with it, but Xen offers several levels, ranging from full HVM to PV:

http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-07/what-color-is-yo...
> their post was their opinion

This is a false statement. "Your country is beginning to stink." is a blaming statement that attempts to lay out pre-support of the opinion "In many respects it is worse than third world countries". However, in the subsequent context in which it is used the statement is presented as a logical conclusion or fact. It is then followed up with another blaming statement meant to seal the 'logic' of the opinion, "It looks like it is not terrorists who are going to destroy America after all. Your corrupt governments, banks, judiciary and law enforcement will do it on their own."

There is no proof that America will be destroyed by corruption inside government, banks or the judicial system. There are observations that we are threatened by some individual's actions, but there are also observations we are doing something about it. The claims we will be 'destroyed' because we are 'corrupt as a third world country' are simply false. There is no evidence this will occur and it is pure conjecture.

While I agree with you it probably started as an opinion the comment, in general, their comments consititued an irrelevant conclusion. Irrelevant because it was full of blaming opinion from someone outside those being blamed, and conclusion because it was presented as fact. As it turns out, irrelevant conclusions fall into a broad of set of relevance fallacies, which themselves are 'ad hominem' arguments. Look it up.
One thing you might consider in the future if you're interested in monetizing is going the Wordpress route and offering the option of premium themes/templates. Have some solid core designs, but also offer some additional options as well.

It's certainly something that occurred to me looking through the options.
A platform rejecting ad customers? Not going to happen, ever.
Makes perfect sense to me.

Most NDAs I've seen are idiotic. A good NDA is symmetrical, limited in time, limited in scope, and covering the minimum necessary. But the ones I see are often one-sided, indefinite, and enormously extensive. No matter what the NDA says, the truth is that if you send me something in email, I am never going to go and remove that information from my backups. But please, keep asking for return of all information, just like this is still 1953.

I have also never actually heard of an NDA being enforced, ever. I've seen them honored and I've seen them violated, but I've never seen anybody go to the trouble of bringing suit over one.

On many occasions, though, I've seen early relationships get bumpy because some novice wants everybody to sign a bad NDA. Then some poor service provider either has to a) suck it up and sign a document they have no intention of honoring in full, or b) try to help the business noobs understand why a bunch of their NDA terms are wrong, dangerous, or pointless. It's a no-win situation for the service provider, and I've definitely become "too busy" rather than deal with another novice and their bad NDA.
And often has reviews on the same page.
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Amazon has an established reputation as a low-priced retailer, and stakes its reputation on that. Twitter seems to intend this as more of an ease-of-purchase kind of feature. My expectation is that there is little to no incentive for Twitter to be pricing these products competitively.
Rails, Laravel, vanilla PHP, daily.

If I had it my way, it would just be Rails. Much more productive.
>There is no excuse for a spreadsheet quietly taking a never-assigned cell as zero, but indeed it does. WHAT THE HELL WERE THESE PEOPLE SMOKING?

I think the head scratching about Excel's (and probably other spreadsheets) behavior on empty cells is misguided. Yes, if you have a computer scientist mindset then it might seem very mathematically satisfying to have strict rigorous logic around empty cells but we're getting into 3-valued NULL handling like databases. That type of extra logic checking is misplaced considering the origins of spreadsheets (e.g. Dan Bricklin's VisiCalc) as a business computation tool instead of a GUI for an E.F. Codd relational db.

If a particular power user finds the typical "null" cell behavior to be "wrong", he can add formulas to his cells such as:

=IF(ISBLANK(C3), NA(), C3)

... such that #NA# (Excel's quasi "null") propagates throughout any SUM() and other calculations.

However, imagine if the situation was reversed and we had an alternate universe where Excel propagated empty cells as #NA# instead of zero to satisfy the logic of computer scientists. We'd inevitably have:

1) Microsoft adds a button wizard on the toolbar to bulk fill "null" cells with 0.

2) User forums with power-users trading VBA macros to fill in zeros of empty cells. "Ugh! How do I get rid of all these useless #NA# littering my spreadsheet???"

3) Microsoft adds an user option checkbox to "treat empty cells as zero instead of #NA#" -- which everyone ends up activating as a defacto setting. This cancels out the strict null handling the computer scientists were imposing on the spreadsheet!

I contend this alternate universe scenario is much worse for business users of Excel. In other words, you can't "force fit" the concept of NULL as a default where it is not natural. The end users will just work their way around it.
Partly, NDAs are one of the weird things where high-status/power/etc organizations dictate "Hey, low-status/power/etc person. We have an arbitrary hoop here. You must jump through it." They're usually contracts of adhesion ("Negotiate the terms of the NDA? They were established by legal 5 years ago and everyone uses the same ones. Get with the program.") and usually filed-and-forgotten.

This is why VCs treat entrepreneurs' NDAs like a mark of immaturity and why Fortune 500 companies treat their own as usual indicia of serious business being conducted.

Personal stance: Asking me to sign anything catapults me out of "friendly chat" mode and into "enterprise sales" mode. I've only had one startup really fail to understand the distinction. ("Hey Patrick, can you do us a favor and fly out here to talk about X? We'll reimburse you for the ticket." "Sure!" fast forward to two hours before the flight "Oh, BTW, here's an NDA, which I haven't read, but if I had, I'd know that you're already in breach of it because our lawyers didn't think we'd ever talk to anyone outside the US." "I have no desire to sign an NDA with you, most particularly not this NDA, which clearly has not been drafted in anticipation of our circumstances." "We need it to let you into the building." "WTF no you do not. If this is worth doing, it is worth getting Legal to fix this. If you will not waste Legal's time with it, I will simply decline to sign." "I didn't expect you to be difficult on this." "PLEASE CLARIFY WITH YOUR CEO WHICH OF US IS DOING THE OTHER A FAVOR." "Umm maybe we can skip the NDA." "GOOD DECISION.")

There exist some entrepreneurs who, having worked at BigCo, believe that constructing straw replicas of BigCo's NDAs will result in having BigCo levels of success. This is not a success-enhancing belief.
Now that I think about it... I wonder if you could combine pull clean with copper/antimicrobial surfaces.
> they [Mozilla] distribute and recommend non-free software as plug-ins and addons

What are the non free plugins distributed? And what are the ones recommended? Afaik you download Firefox without plugins. Is the message "for seeing this video you need Flash player" the recommendation?
I'd be pretty likely to buy music off Twitter if it was released there exclusively. Come to think of it, I'd be highly likely to buy one-off items from Etsy, Gumroad, and Amazon through my Twitter stream as well.
Any idea what the payment commision will be?
Though I don't personally have any problem with system Java installations, I agree that it would be nice if JetBrains would just do as most Java game developers (and many destop app developers) do and simply bundle a JRE with the IDE. It'd mean considerable bloat if you use many JetBrains IDEs (as opposed to just IDEA with plugins) of course, but would eliminate the "why do I need Java" complaint.

That, or Oracle could do the right thing and a) remove the crapware installation from the public JRE installer and b) fix the JRE updater to work as silently and smoothly as, say FireFox or Chrome updaters. The latter has gotten much better of late, but could still use improvement.
Odd little metaphor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8285240
> Then you shouldn't be looking for contract work in order to execute someone else's ideas.

Your serious claim is that nobody should ever fund their own projects by doing contract work?
Using evolutionary computation to explain network growth
Something does not match my experience. IntelliJ IDEA is significantly slower than Eclipse. There was a blog explaining how to increase memory allocated to it to make it faster, but IDEA crashed when I did this (I have 8 GB RAM). I have thereby had IDEA Ultimate stay unused on my machine for the last two years or so.
My immediate reaction when I read the title was something along the lines of, "[Expetives] your sense of entitlement you [expletives] elitist [expletives]", but after reading the article it makes sense.
Thats because most tools that strongly focus on correctness are also designed to not allow the user to proceed despite the detected errors.

The real right thing to do there is to give the user a warning: visually mark the field as potentially tainted, but assume the user knows what they're doing and give them a result anyway. Let them decide how much they care about correctness in that particular case.
Really! Cool - I was not aware of that (only using them under Linux).
Ok, if by Russia, you mean Moscow and by eastern Ukraine, you mean south-eastern Ukraine, apart from Crimea, then you are right.

Apart from M99551 from Motor Sich Airlines, which is headed to Kharkiv.

edit - actually it looks as though it is going past Kharkiv as it is still climbing.
That website is unusable in FF on Windows.