skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. Mainly just low hanging fruit for those who aren't in this stuff day to day.

In a lot of my talks and day to day conversations, I've found people don't know the difference between a feed forward architecture vs, recurrent, vs recursive vs,...you get the point :P
Just to add another data point - I seem to be very sensitive to caffeine, too. Any more than a small cup of coffee in the morning will lower my sleep quality.

Sometime I find myself getting strangely aggressive about things if I have, say, two small cups of coffee. It helps a lot to get me going in the morning, but I have to be very careful, and take frequent vacations. I used to be able to drink a lot of coffee, too much, but I've gotten much more sensitive as I've gotten older.
It seems it isn't that simple. It looks like wild plant conservation lacks funds, and that the operation of saving a plant from extinction is hard. To the thief it doesn't matter if he sells the last lily on the planet for $10k. That's $10k he wouldn't otherwise have. And he has no particular interest in selling to a conservationist. It doesn't matter to him if the plant dies.

However, in general, we care. We want to preserve these plants for their own sake. But thieves don't. There is a strong feedback loop: the fewer of a plant there is, the better the gain from stealing. That's bad for us, since we want more plants, not fewer.
I sincerely doubt that. I believe once driverless cars come around, there will be nothing to differentiate Uber from any other app from an established fleet management company like Avis, Hertz, or Enterprise.
Agreed, but this is all part of the core usability problem: it's too hard for users to reliably not lose their keys, and it's too hard to safely access them from all the places they're needed.
No, we've seen it however...we've lacked the time to investigate properly. Very intriguing.
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A bit of a misleading headline - they're exploring subscription models as additional monetization, not about getting rid of ads altogether.
Mine is a first and middle initial and last name gmail account. Some woman just bought a Honda and I get email from the dealership. I get contracts and song demos for an American country music singer-songwriter. (I get email from his pickup truck dealership all the time, too.) Someone else just applied for a job at Wells Fargo. Some guy is building a house in North Carolina. Attempts to correct the problem rarely work.

In South Africa, someone with the same initials added his wife's initial before the last name and once I figured that out, I've been able to correct realtors and banks. (I've gotten copies of leases and loan documents.) He and I have exchanged a few emails about it. His wife even invited me to their twins birthday party.
All projects tend to require IE 8+, specific versions of FF, Safari and Chrome.

Oh and the fun that is working with native iOS, Android and WP browsers.

Then put on top, whatever web framework might be required by the customer.

The fun starts when the UI isn't working pixel perfect to those Photoshop mockups or the cool HTML 5 effect that can only be partially implemented in all browser versions mentioned in a "Request For Proposal".
How are they getting such low write times with Postgres relative to Redis with comparable datasets and throughput? It's been a while since I used Postgres, are they implying that they're using a particular add-on or that they've optimised their queries for it?
Thanks for the response.

Could you give me a quick example of calling a component with object literals instead of functions? I'm not understanding how that will play out in the final code.

Also, isn't it just adding React.createFactory, not replacing React.createClass?
One thing that worries me about GPG's trust model is that marginal trust doesn't actually stack very well. If three of my friends go to a key signing party, and each check some guy's ID to his face, I'm not really that much more confident that it wasn't a fake ID. The same holds, albeit weaker, over more spread out interactions... Only signing keys when I've known the person interacting in public under that identity for a protracted time seems a solution, but dramatically limits the growth of the network.
Anybody have any success connecting the app to Strava?

I'm really not a fan of the logo. Makes the app look like a different kind of app. Should be change it to something that's more associated with fitness at first glance.
A lot of criticism of "new shiny tech" gets downvoted/flagged on HN so people don't even bother anymore, while another useless library in Go/Javascript gets pushed to the top of the front page.
This would make more sense for offline sales, where you are more likely to get customers paying, but not collect contact information like email address. Online it's pretty standard to get an email address to send a receipt (if customers aren't already logged in).

The next question is how many people look through their credit card statements and click on links. I know I don't...I use Mint and look mainly at the breakdown by category more than the individual transactions.
Not sure about this. I would have taken public transit more often before. At UberX's price point, I ask for a ride more often than before.
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for one, the duration of copyright should be a lot shorter and not be extended everytime mickey mouse's copyright is about to expire (called the Mickey Mouse Protection Act) ...
How are drivers making $50,000? According to the article it's more like ~$12 an hour. Working full-time, 40 hours a week, that's only ~25k. 12 * 2048 = $24,576
Even if the only difference between Uber and taxis was that Uber seamlessly takes credit cards, that's enough to increase demand vs. walking / public transit for the growing population that doesn't carry cash. Add in that an uber is much more likely to show up when called than a taxi, and all of a sudden it seems worthwhile compared to an airport shuttle or wheedling a ride from a friend. Finally, knowing you can get home after a late night without relying on the uncertainty of the taxi system may make you more likely to go out in the first place, again, increasing demand.
I could imagine the NSA has set up a team of people who collect journalists PGP private keys from their computers these days.
Jurymind moves weight of jury duty into your phone
I wonder why the green-blind looks all green.
Those are much better examples of where network effects would come into play.
> The expectation is that every so often the W3C will pick a revision of the WHATWG's HTML spec and stamp it with a version number.

W3C HTML5 is not just a snapshot of a particular revision of the WHATWG Living Standard. In a reasonable world, W3C HTML5 (etc.) would be a subset of the WHATWG Living Standard on the date the former was published, but I'm not sure that even that is strictly the case.
> It might make a lot of sense to include a link to them on the 'submit' form.

That's a good idea. It's easy for us to forget that not everyone knows about this, and I'm sorry for assuming that you did.

> let you do your mod job and change it according to your judgement

I hope you didn't miss my point above about how we get it wrong too. The most I'll claim is that we try to correct the mistakes people tell us about.
or we could use a hardware RNG ..... and run it through a whitener just to make it more interesting ....
"We" are providing a large scale application in the education space, with more details to follow. I am not able to give much more now, but I can say that given the contractual nature of our application, we've been fortunate to start out with a HUGE user base that has taxed Meteor and exposed its scalability issues more than most typical Meteor apps at this time. It's still young, and there are some significant advances that can be made to its oplog driver, but overall Meteor is incredibly forward-thinking compared to other full-stack implementations. Philosophically speaking, you must be all-in, however, otherwise you will always kick against the goads. As everyone's favorite theologian would say.
I think I will be much more cautious in giving away health data to Google. I would be happy to pay a small money and keep that information to myself.
So the FBI spoofed one specific individual with a phishing attack using a fake Seattle Times link? That's a big Meh in my book.
Open peering at common points on the part of the T1 providers would help.

If you're a small ISP or datacenter (T2/T3) Cogent/L3/etc won't peer with you even if traffic levels are balanced. They'd rather you have to purchase more transit instead because then there's a chance you'll purchase transit from them. OFC now they gripe about MSO/ILECs not peering with them. As a small T2 (peering + transit) provider, cry me a river. They are getting what they deserve.

Part of the problem is Cogent (and their ilk) primarily ride cheap intercity fiber between NFL/MBA cities and ignore the other places. Fiber to COs is the province of the ILEC, MSO, or boutique transport provider (INDATEL etc).

If it doesn't make sense for Cogent/L3 to pay the ILEC/MSO for ports to offload traffic at a datacenter it certainly doesn't make sense for Cogent to buy fiber to the CO from ILEC.
The way they handle client syncing is a bit different though. Meteor actually hosts a mini-mongo instance on the client allowing for better offline support.
A key difference between Uber and Groupon is that with Groupon, unhappy business owners simply ceased their dealings with Groupon. With Uber, unhappy drivers may be able to inflict far more damage beyond quitting or jumping ship.

Most threatening to Uber's long-term viability are putative class action lawsuits, such as one alleging that drivers were misclassified as independent contractors[1]. If Uber is forced to reclassify its drivers, it could literally upend the economics of Uber's business overnight.

Because of the legal and regulatory challenges it faces, I think Uber is actually in a far riskier position than Groupon ever was and Uber's valuation seems to indicate that investors have too significantly discounted these risks. At this point, I actually think Uber might for some investors prove to be a binary investment. That wasn't even the case with Groupon, which still has a $4 billion valuation despite its decline.

[1] http://uberlawsuit.com/
The article isn't "question in title, answer in article", it's "set scene in title, story in article". It's not a FAQ.
You know, we've done a hell of a lot better with JS and HTML than we have with walled gardens.

That you aren't worried doesn't mean that you're correct.
> Now I think there is a decent argument that ISPs should have to have free peering available at their local loop level. If congent wants to peer at the CO office of the local telecom, it should be able to do it.

That's what the whole dispute is about. "Verizon is a Tier 1 provider" is some kind of meaningless talking point with no relevance to anything. Cogent and Level 3 are already transit providers with national networks, they don't need to use Verizon's transit network because they have their own. The problem is that they have traffic they want to pass to Verizon in LA for Verizon's LA customers and Verizon won't give them access without paying a toll. The fact that Verizon also has fiber going from LA to Houston and San Francisco has no effect on any part of that.
If you're looking for a general JSON editor - there's a nice online one at: https://json-csv.com/editor
Thanks for spotting that! Its fixed now!
I'm the "crazy" founder of Nautilus. We are a science magazine, with a multidisciplinary approach. We want to explore each monthly issue topic from disciplines within and outside the sciences, like philosophy. But we are mostly about telling good stories....science with a literary voice.
This sounds great and I hope they're successful.

That said, what's the point of pre-announcing stuff like this, when it's at such an early stage? Is it just goodwill?
Amazing theme! Thanks for sharing.
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>Why do Apple, Google and major IT companies seem so much interested by our health suddenly ? What are they planning to do with the data ? Just selling it ? (life insurance companies ?)

I'm surprised that posts containing not even outright cynicism, but merely questioning where this data may end up and for what uses, are being downvoted to the extent they are.

If we're simply going to be unquestioning fanboys of Google et al. then why bother opening such topics for discussion? To slap backs and shout a mutual "hurrah"?
There's a well known problem with manufacturing inspction called "the two inspector problem".

Ann ispects units, then hands them on to Bob who performs a final inspection. Ann is falling behind so she gives the units a quick short less thorough inspection. She knows that Bob will catch the problem. Bob gets a sudden extra load of units, so he too gives them a less rigorous inspection. Bob knows that Ann has previously inspected them. It happens surprisingly often although not quite in that form.

There's a whole bunch of research shwoing what a group of people do when estimating numbers - they tend to clump around whatthe first person says.

I suspect three people checking and ID would be subject to both of these problems.
Every time I bring this exercise up, someone says this. What's terrifying about thinking about a 10 year plan? Realizing that you don't have one?

My wife decided she wanted to be a professor when she was in high school. She's three years into a tenure track job. She's been working towards this for nearly 15 years.

Building non-trivial skills or things of value takes time and usually requires a plan. All my startups had multi-year plans, even if things didn't work out as we'd envisioned.

At one point I decided I wanted to learn to speak other languages. I studied Japanese for a year, got a chance to move to China, and studied Chinese regularly until I got conversational. I wanted (and still want) to study others, but things went in another direction.

Another time, I decided I wanted to get better at math. It took me about a year to formulate a clear plan: I decided to get a PhD. There were some barriers (I had dropped out of my undergrad, for example) and it took a while to get on track. That was 8 years ago. I graduated in July.

I'm still working on my next plan.
> https://guides.github.com/

At first, I thought "create generative background images from a string" meant that the algorithm could be fed any string and it would use that string as a sort of seed for the creation of fractal/geometric art. So I thought that the text overlaying each of the rectangles on the GitHub Guides page was the seed text for the art underneath it. After reading further, I see that assumption is wrong. But I think it's an interesting idea to couple the text on a page with automatically generated geometrically and chromatically pleasing art. I see this sort of organic and causative dynamic as the future of a large part of software development, especially as we enhance our toolset with the power of evolution (e.g., a website that evolves by itself through A/B tests and little human intervention).
They have better ways of tracking their info.
Really cool article I found it pretty informative. I think the Uber/On-Demand Taxi Service was a revolutionary idea but the question is how successful will it be in the long term, and how much power does uber truly have over controlling the price? I think they've taken a risky route and may be susceptible to failure without some type of change.
So you can be directed towards doctors/procedures/products to treat whatever they find? Advertising isn't necessarily bad...
On point. Seems related to diffusion of responsibility.
Oops bad timing there - the server is in the process of being physically relocated (moving data centers via a van).
> there's room for a yellow pages style public key directory for journalists

There is! Most journalists have a Twitter account or at least some verifiable online identity, so that's exactly what https://keybase.io/ is for.
Is digital media itself harmful? I really doubt it. I think there is a considerable luddite element amongst some academics. I would guess the problem with digital media is the opportunity cost. It is time that could be spent understanding the natural world, other people, exercising, reading, creating things etc. Kids simply spend too much time with technology and do too much of the same thing with it. The sensible thing for parents would be to set limits and to encourage the use of technology as more of a tool.

Many of the same arguments people make about digital media damaging kids brains could be made about schools.
Sadly I haven't had time to read much Middle Age literature but I want to get around to the following.
Sainte-Augustine's Confessions
Dante's Divine Comedy
Petrarch's My Secret Book

I remember Sainte-Augustine by his quote "Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet" and it would be interesting to see how a hedonistic turned into one of the most famous and revered characters of the Church. Dante's Divine Comedy tells about the scholastic tradition and how the leading thinkers were introducing pagan thought into their discourses. Petrarch book shows the start of the Renaissance and how current human thought can add to secular knowledge.
World's largest advertising company developing cancer and heart attack detector. Think of the great AdSense and AdWords lead generation opportunities coming. It's like printing money.
>Honest question: Why?

Why should an advertising company get access to this data in the first place? What do they intend on doing with it?

Selling us adverts based on a combination of our biochemical data, or the state of our health, coupled with our search terms that might indicate we have concern over one area or another?

Being able to help the medical sales industry target us more efficiently? As in "X user has Y indicators in their health data, therefore they would be a prudent market to advertise Z to"?
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...and here is a good historical perspective on the whole subsystem, which could explain why terminals are weird:

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/
You have to use a TON of bandwidth for CLEAR to throttle you. The only time I've been throttled was when I streamed Netflix for about 8 hours straight. I've transferred GBs/day many times without throttling.

That said, they are not transparent about it. They refused to call it throttling or even agree that they were throttling me. They used misleading language like "fair-share for the antenna you're on."
Just to get this straight, you are under the impression that actually doing documented and premeditated bad deeds is irrelevant, but 'vibes' are important to developing an opinion on someone's character?
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Because, why? Why exactly can't large scale evolutionary change by powered by single mother-child genetic signals? That makes just as much or as little sense as claiming that evolution is powered primarily through a single random mutation.
I fully support that it's a good idea to offer a product where you can pay something and not see the ads.

But I have to say that it's almost as if they made the ads more annoying than they had to be in order to insure that when they offered an ad free product people would be more likely to choose that option.
Was recently at the Lost Coast for a hike and on the way there several of the smaller lakes and rivers were mere rock beds. From what i've heard from friends in LA, shops still 'water the side-walk' as they call it.
where did you get your stats from?
Interesting, thanks. In that first blog post it mentions that Meteor serves static files. Is that a requirement?

edit: posted too soon they talk about it here https://meteorhacks.com/does-meteor-scale.html
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I assume you're looking for something more HN oriented, book review-like, than what google would trivially provide.

Also very few people will read the original, and will go with modern english translations, donno if you'd consider that cheating. And I'm guessing you're limiting to western europe because thats what the linked story did.

Beowulf is just cool. Here's a thousand year old D+D campaign waiting to be played. I'm sure someone has RPG'd it up in the last 40 years or so.

The Sagas are interesting, same argument see above.

Nibelungenlied is kinda cool. Ditto as above.

The divine comedy is just weird. Maybe you could make a MUD/MUSH out of it or an artists interpretation in Minecraft for Halloween.

You can troll people with Petrarch, many say he's the first Renaissance dude so he doesn't count. Well, just don't tell those people, then they can't harass you. If you really want to piss them off try "ah, plutarch, petrarch, whats the difference anyway". (Plutarch is Awesome to read but he's about 400 years too old for your cutoff) Anyway his mountain climbing story will be the weirdest travelogue you'll ever read, and some people find "weird" to be aesthetically appealing. There are English translations on the net for free. See something "weird" like fear and loathing in las vegas can be explained away by drug use, but petrarch's story has no excuse making it weirder.
So the entire risk pool/population has to bite the cost of the "previously uninsured"? Whether they want to or not? Sorry, nevermind that second question, it was rhetorical. Of course it doesn't matter if they want to or not, it's effectively a government mandated "tax". Taxes are almost never voluntary.
I believe the snarky Inquirer take on this (after a previously touted splash of cash on life extension) was "because dead people don't click on ads". At least funnier than the standard flavor of Haterade.
Likely, but that doesn't mean it's not a step in the right direction. If those "alternate means of sustenance" were lower risk or more profitable, they would be doing it now. Cutting off access to this profit stream will at least slow the rate at which they accumulate power. That doesn't make anything easy, but it stops making it more difficult.
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I've been doing mobile professionally for well over a decade, and every three months or so something happens in that world which annoys me into thinking that the web is the future again. The times when I've ever actually done anything to look into it - well, mobile's a mess, but the web is a whole other level of horrific.

Guess what I spent this afternoon doing.

This is why backend server devs seem to actually make it to middle age, whereas front end types go to burning man one time and never come back.
> systemd is the most notable process manager that has cgroups support

So? Not everything is about systemd.

systemd does not disable the OOM killer, so this has nothing to do with systemd.

You can create cgroups yourself you know - you don't need systemd for that.
Just an anecdote, I sold my car after moving to Seattle because public transit + bike, Uber, Lyft, and Flywheel (yes, normal taxi) + Car2Go + car rentals, was cheaper than owning (including opportunity cost), storing, and paying insurance on my car.

I started using Uber and Lyft a few months after selling my car. Flywheel was a good enough and cheap enough alternative for my needs.

I highly doubt more people are calling cabs based on the technology, but I would definitely believe fewer people are buying cars (or people are selling cars) because alternatives are easy and plentiful.
If they really make it possible to view youtube ad free, it will be huge. At least for me. The advertisement based internet drives me crazy, on a philisophical and practical level. I would sign up for a subscription immediately.
Really good points, I feel the same exact way towards Uber. I think if they don't change something they will inevitably fail.