skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow... that's very fascinating, thanks for that reference.

Also sort of similar is the story of eight-time World Memory Champion, Dominic O'Brien - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_O%27Brien

http://www.real-memory-improvement.com/dominic-obrien.html

He never had superior intelligence growing up, it's something he trained really hard for. And I actually read his books and audio CDs a few years ago, and competed in one of these memory championships myself. At the peak of my training, I was able to memorize a pack of cards in order in under 2 minutes.
ScraperWiki.com is always looking for talented, generalist engineers - people
who can advance our products and build things for our customers.

Location: Liverpool/Northwest UK

We're currently building https://pdftables.com which converts tables of data locked up
in PDFs into formats more useful for the general public. What sounds like a
boring problem actually requires quite a sophisticated approach - PDF's usually
don't have much in the way of useful structural information in them.

As an engineer at ScraperWiki I can honestly say this is the most fun place I
have worked. My office offers an environment of self-determination, a chance to
explore all areas of the stack from product development to technical development, operations, security, product design and user experience.

We have a generous holiday package and a guy in the office called Dragon. He
has a giant fluffy red beard and long hair and is generally an awesome guy.

What more could one ask?

We build things in Python, Go and Node, using Github, EC2 and salt - to name a
few things. Of you, we don't ask anything specific, but hopefully you can
demonstrate to us some decent experience in building interesting things. We
would expect someone who at least had a year or two's experience with Python
or experience equivalent to that.

You can contact me personally or our CEO. Bonus points if you can crack the
puzzle:

UHR2IyNRbmJ6bCppaS1KfXF2fX1nMjZ+djluc3k9bWpCS0d
AUAVJQQhQRV5eDUsCXVBbXxRBWRdLUF1VXVEeSyggNmM9Kj
NnKzsrKCcoKm8kOTsgdG9/
Integer math and regular expressions come to mind... ;)
We're a little behind :)
This is terrible news, NY Times being one of few news organizations providing quality journalism. Hope they can figure out a way to keep running without degrading their quality.
They only crack down on accounts that have been reported by other Facebook users. So it's usually not a problem if you're not abusing the anonymity. Obviously there are minority groups who are more at risk of being maliciously reported, and it looks like that's the change here.
- Your friends and family tagged you as someone else

- Your name is abnormal

- Your name is different on websites using Facebook Connect

- Your name is different in peoples' address books / phones
And until recently get sorted onto the vocational track in Germany and you were radically limited on where your career could take you.
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I disagree, this author is clearly trying to make the case that the idea that addiction being "progressive" is wrong. That is definitely minimizing addiction.

A perfectly reasonable counter to his arguments is the possibility that the data isn't terribly accurate. The data concerning people "classified as addicts" vs the hypothetical set of data for "actual addicts" might look very different (could we actually obtain this). The problem of classifying addicts or even really defining the term is very open as of now. Using datasets for addicts with the same confidence as datasets concerning those suffering from breast cancer for instance is foolish. The gray area as to whether someone does or does not have breast cancer is very small when compared to that same gray area with addiction.

My own experience shows that there are addicts who never get better, progressively get worse and tend to die very sad deaths. My family is riddled with this type of addict. The possibility that the author is not suffering from the exact same condition that my family members are afflicted with is not really considered. He spends one or two sentences describing how bad his addiction was as proof to the contrary but this is just shirking the real issue of identification. So yes, I think through the author's narrow-minded approach they are indeed treading dangerously on minimizing addiction and the "negative impact of drugs."
I liked this naming schema (I believe it came from HN): http://mnx.io/blog/a-proper-server-naming-scheme/
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"Two scenarios I could see are everyone lives in a prefab home, when things start to go wrong you just replace it. That leaves all the plumbing to just cutting and bending pipes to pre-built designs and installing it in prearranged steps. I could see that being possible."

Currently we live in Microsoft houses, eventually we might live in Apple houses. That is a terrifying thought either way...
Did facebook apologize to the lbt community or to the extremely vocal and demanding group that says it speaks for all lgbt people, while having no real support but from amongst the group itself?
I was using Wikipedia to get the size of a US shot of 89 for a double and 44 ml for a single.

The sum to get UK units is:

Serving size in litres * ABV value

So 44 ml * 4 shots * 26.5 abv / 1000 conversion from ml gives 4.5 units per day.

A doctor (and obviously I am not a doctor) might ask you to cut back a bit, but that level of drinking is normal.

Did you feel urges to drink other than those shots? Did you experience bad things from alcohol but continue drinking? Did you find it hard to stop? I think some of these things would have been used to assess whether it was problem drinking or not.
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This isn't even news, it's a press release.
No worries. I've got a little startup too and I totally get it.
> So it's usually not a problem if you're not abusing the anonymity.

This is incorrect for some communities, I have a lot of friends who are furries and their accounts get banned for not having real names all the time. For example, my Epoch Wolf account got banned years ago.
Every one will have a different experience, and some people will need more help than others. I was a meth addict (but was also a frequent abuser of a large variety of other substances) and quit cold turkey during a cross country bus ride to the east coast. Ever since then I have been clean, and only take part in drinking alcohol. That first year was insanely hard, and the mere thought of meth would make my hands clammy, as if my body was still wanting it. I have no problems now with restraint, and I can be around people doing drugs and can easily sit back with no temptations. I didn't need NA or AA, but as you said, they still have some merit and may be the necessary crutch that some people require to get out of the hole.
the NS is free at the point of delivery which is great but we do pay NI which pays for the NHS and other benefits.
I thought that until it destroyed one of my notebooks. All 55 pages of it. I now use vim outliner and svn.
>I was able to memorize a pack of cards in order in under 2 minutes.

How long did that last? A week later, how much of the deck did you remember?
Demons don't exist

That's what the demons want you to think.
BTW, I feel like I always come across as a crazy person when I say this stuff but I really don't see a flaw in this. The basic premise is that there isn't going to be a logical explanation of "the universe." So, that seems to lead to the conclusion that any complete explanation will have to contain some illogical portion. I feel like once you accept that, all bets are off as far as feeling comfortable in our cozy little science bubbles.
I think you just answered your own question. Parsing CSV is not a problem solved by "any standard regex library".
Maybe the author is still a long ways off from 10,000 hours of writing.
There may be different fundamental types of addiction but what the author described sure sounded like 'addiction' to me.
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If anti-virus, firewall, and intrusion-detection products are willing to ignore something as hazardous, cheap-ass, and cheesy as this, think what a visit from the FBI or NSA will convince them to do.
The NY Times really needs to stop with the nickel and dime differential pricing tactics. Every time I consider getting a subscription, I look at the options and get pissed off: they are either artificially limited to only some of my devices (phone or tablet, but not both) or absurdly expensive at $8.75/week for access on all devices. NY Times, this is bullshit: if I'm going to be a subscriber, I want a reasonable rate and unlimited access to all of what the publication has to offer but I'm not going to pay $455/year for it. If you stop jerking your readers around and give them a good deal, you may be surprised by how many would be willing to subscribe.
This product is absolutely nothing like Apache Wave. More similar to some cross between PowerPoint Online and Sharepoint Online.

Apache Wave is an attempt at an email replacement. Something akin to Facebook Messanger but with more hooks into extensions (kind of like Sharepoint meets Facebook Messenger).

This product is more a publisher-like application, create stuff then share it, not a real time communications application.
RedBean 4.1 released
Taiga.io hit #1 on @HackerNewsYCBot for a while today (thanks HN!). Traffic up 100x. I was dumb enough to ask our developers if we could handle it. This is what they sent back

http://goo.gl/B57ERn

Each little "ball" is a request to the server
On the left: the IP numbers from the users connecting around the world
To the right: The url's being served up
In the center: The "static calls being serviced by our front end

The brightness represents the speed with which the code written by our awesome developers delivers data (aided of course the great hardware)

Had any of the balls gone past to the right, that would have been a serve we couldn't return. Try that, Federer!
Yes, 100%.

10,000 hours does not mean you will be world class.
10,000 hours does not even mean you will be excellent.

If you are world class, you almost certainly have put in your 10,000 hours. Not the other way around.
Source? I know Netflix is popular, but that seems excessive.
I guess this is a win for the LGBT community, but I can't help but think that this is a bad thing for Facebook and it's users overall. This could lead to Facebook losing it's main edge in having "trusted" and "verified" users who actually are who they say they are. I guess we'll see how this pans out in the long run.
Yea but there are a lot more "things other than drugs" than drugs, right? So, your stats make drugs sound very dangerous.
bashcheck https://github.com/hannob/bashcheck/blob/master/bashcheck includes now also tests for the last 2 lcamtuf bugs, so it tests now for 6 known vulns from this shellshock series, plus a general test for variable function parser safety.
Use complete sentences?
Looks very promising. I like the idea focusing on Kanban and Scrum and not making to work on everything and that way turning to too complicated.

Angular needs some optimization obviously or maybe the server is just slow? It would be cool to see text complete when writing users stories. Like: As a...
Also, poker planning and retrospective tools would be nice to see.
Ask HN: API Playgrounds?
What are your favourite API playgrounds and why?

Examples:

https://dev.twitter.com/rest/tools/console

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/

http://products.wolframalpha.com/api/explorer.html

http://www.getpostman.com/
Newspapers and magazines were traditionally funding by advertising with subscriptions fees only to cover printing and delivery costs and as a concrete measure of dedicated readership. Moving to web publishing, printing and delivery costs are nearly 0 and readership is easily measured. But, instead of pushing ad revenue into the information age, they've thrown their heavy-handed weight behind subscriptions which work like death to online readership, then crying that it's their everyone else's fault they are losing money. I don't know what mental malfunction caused this unilateral suicide spiral, but they should probably stop making the same mistake and expecting different results and start focusing on innovation in online advertising (especially selling its value to your traditional clients.)
Curious: what are you doing with microwaves?

Radio's always interested me but I haven't done anything with it since high school.
Yes, I'll agree with that. Users have to poke at the data cell to see what the formula is there - and it's easy to not do this, and be confused why the results are coming out wrong.
> Just to be clear: this is not Kickstarter funds being redirected.

While that's good to know, I think that the implicit upside gain hoped for from Kickstarter that underlies a lot of decisions to fund through it (especially for software) is that acheiving funding means not just that the thing gets delivered, but that an effort is made to build a sustainable business model is built around it and support the user community. The perception that, having delivered the kickstarted product and spent a couple years on it the team would abandon it and move on to a very different kind of focus (even if in the same broadly drawn domain) understandably reduces the perception that that kind of upside potential is around for a future effort.

Now, one can argue that that kind of upside expectation is somewhat irrational in the first place, of course.
Canadian, which does have a lot of British influence.

Saying a burrito is "quite spicy" usually means "surprisingly" but not "excessively" or "extraordinarily".
At first I thought you were joking, then realised you likely live in the US. I guess each country has it's share of things that other countries don't understand!
I think even more interesting to see is a "Feedback" link in the header (visible after you sign in using the link on top right) which is asking users to vote/suggest on new product features. Coool!
Right, like the fundamentally different types being:

1. The kind that goes away.
2. The kind that just keeps getting worse.

for instance?
We are in the Brave New World, my friend. That is just the open internet. Now add all those lovely people who watch cable, satellite. ;)

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/americans...

People spend more time watching TV as they do working on average. [34 + 3 = 37]

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t18.htm

34.5 hour work week average
Your comment exasperates and frustrates me in much the same way as the original article does for you.

The article is full of evidence for why the 10,000 hour "rule" isn't really true at all. But you say you want people to believe it anyway. To me, there are few things more grating than pop science that isn't true, but gets repeated because it sounds good.

And the "10,000 hour rule" is worse than just a trivial factoid. It is a recipe for disappointment. If you tell someone that, despite their initial lack of talent, they can be "superb" at anything they want, and 10,000 hours later they are still mediocre at best, don't you think it would be frustrating to have wasted that much time?

I want people to dream, but also to know themselves and to be able to perceive the difference between what comes easily and what doesn't. Achieving mastery of something is a deeply satisfying experience; a person's best shot at that is becoming acquainted for their real talents.

Judit Polgar is not "a product of the 10,000 hour rule." While it's true that she devoted an extreme amount of dedicated practice, she also showed extreme talents from a very early age. When she was five she defeated a family friend at chess without looking at the board. I doubt she had practiced 10,000 hours by then, or that most five year olds with a comparable level of instruction could have done that. Actually I would seriously wager that even with 10,000 hours of practice I would not be capable of doing what she did at 5.
Here's the text:

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Hate to wait? Follow us and tweet why you're excited to use Sway, for a chance at earlier access.

I would give out invites first to people telling the world why they're excited to use my product. It's better for my product, really, what's wrong with it? They don't force you to tweet to get an invite, that would be different (and tactically, but not morally, wrong).
why should a "funky" start-up not pay its fair share of training costs - a major structural problem in the UK going back decades.

Bring back the training levy which paid for proper vocational and associate professional training - none of the apprentice baristas fucking crap
4 is the wrong number! we are talking about 6 now.

* CVE-2014-6271 (original shellshock)

* CVE-2014-7169 (taviso bug)

* CVE-2014-7186 (redir_stack bug)

* CVE-2014-7187 (address sanitizer)

* CVE-2014-6277 (lcamtuf bug #1) [no patch]

* CVE-2014-6278 (lcamtuf bug #2)
By age 35, half of all people who qualified for active alcoholism or addiction diagnoses during their teens and 20s no longer do

And half don't. That's still a huge number, and they're not "simply growing out of it" two decades later. "Just wait a couple of decades, you might get better" is a crappy position to take.

And "chronic" means "recurring", not "permanent for the rest of your life". You can have a chronic problem that goes away after a while.
Don't read the code, add the name of the code to the end of the URL.
> This service seems tailored for people who would gladly give some money to charity, but don't feel like researching effective non-profits on their own.

That's really the problem. If you would gladly give money to charity, but don't care enough to even research who you're giving to, the chance that you help create lasting change and a shift in thinking about yourself versus others is unlikely. Don't get me wrong, being able to raise money for charities (assuming it's a good cause) is undoubtably a good thing, and will have a positive impact, but this is the kind of shallow giving that doesn't create lasting change. I believe true impact comes not just from dollars but people having their hearts invested in causes they believe in.

If you're willing to trust Dollar A Day to spread your money to charities, why not just cut out the middle-man and find one charity you trust and believe in to give to?
I'm not sure that Facebook actually has that edge, considering that you can buy likes and accounts quite easily online.
Agreed. Back when you could give them somewhere around $8/mo, I did that. A few months later, they emailed saying they were canceling the plan. I think a lot of people would happily give them $8/mo for no incremental cost. That's all to the bottom line.
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If you deliver enough traffic to the ISP that you are more than 5% of their network utilization? Ya, you should or at least at a peering location by one of their DCs.
Judging as purely an outsider...it wouldn't surprise me if the Opinion App was little more than a prestige project for that particular department to have as a feather in its cap, rather than something that the Times' innovators organically thought was a real revenue generator...there's just no precedent for an opinion spin-off app...general news apps aren't even doing that well, why would they seriously think that consumers would have fun juggling through two different news apps, nevermind the news consumers already get through general browsing of the web or through social media?

It's not surprising that a large organization would have throwaway products, it's just a shame for a financially-strapped org to continue having such bureaucratic machinations at such a critical time in its history.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...

Any time someone creates a throw-away account to post a pro-government opinion, I immediately assume it's GCHQ/JTRIG.
Containers [pdf]
you don't have a sense of smell? How is this called?
Do you actually never smell anything or is it just very very weak?
Does it also mean that when eating you basically couldn't tell between smoked herrings and cheese other than by level of saltiness/texture?

I hope I am not unpolite in asking and please forgive my curiosity, I've never heard of "congenital olfactive loss" and my mind was just blown.
Relative to what it was. I was on reddit at the beginning, and it was much higher quality than the default, now. It's like the eternal September all over again.

But, this is a natural progression. Not sure what to do about it except to form exclusive communities. While the fact that reddit has hit the mainstream means that there are some interesting AMAs and experiences to be discovered, it also means that reddit got dumb -- because the main-stream is dumb.
http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/netflix-youtube-bandwid...

It is more like 32%. The 50% number was all video.
It's not AA's disease model. AA isn't a medical organization.
I don't think these analogies really go that far. It's more along the lines of switches and wires, which as far as I'm concerned is a simpler model than clockwork, or the hydraulics gmarx mentioned.

The analogy doesn't really go into mechanism, it just talks about routing and activation.
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