skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, I've seen a lot of great posts where I wished 'angersock' would change his name. I am sure they will get visibility under a more neutral name as well, and you can always put in your profile that you had posted under angersock.
In that case you're paying the commissions on the expensive sales people needed to take your order over the phone.
I'm glad that you agree that HN has been getting better. We obviously have a way to go to win you over, but challenge accepted, we're absolutely willing to try.

It isn't hard to deny that general impression you're reporting, because it isn't true. But I don't see any way to refute such a sweeping claim convincingly. As far as I can tell it exists only on the level of rumor and is unanswerable. But I'm happy to reply about specific cases.

In the Drchrono case, we got an email from the founder asking to post a response after the commenting window had closed. I agreed, but not because this was a YC startup, but rather because we would do this for any startup in this situation, and have indeed done so for at least one non-YC startup I can remember. Before I agreed to the Drchrono founder's request, I told him I needed to make sure that we would do it for any startup in that situation, and I thought long and hard before concluding that was true. It was by far the most important factor in that decision.
I'm generally in favor of TPB, but "may be operating at a loss"? How the hell do you not know if your bottom line is going up or down? This sounds fishy to me.
30 cool open source software
it's not really "significant" if you don't optimise it that way. It's only the first generation scavenger that needs space for breathing.
> PG opened a pandora's box when he said that downvotes were acceptable when you merely disagreed with someone, instead of doing so for civility. There is no end of sadness and bullshit caused by that remark.

Since that remark came to my attention, I've put less thought and research into my HN comments.

It only takes a few net down votes to make a comment sufficiently hard to read that it is effectively dead. For example, suppose there is an article about government surveillance, which the article opposes, and the article makes an assertion about the 4th Amendment that is wrong. If you post a comment explaining the error and how the 4th Amendment actually works, some people will misinterpret this as implying that you are in favor of government surveillance, and down vote you for that.

The people who correctly interpret the comment are not as likely to up vote as the people who misinterpret are likely to down vote, and so the down voters have an advantage.

If down voting simply moved the comment toward the bottom, rather than making it almost unreadable, it would be OK. It the combination of making down voted comments hard to read and saying that down votes for disagreement is OK that is the killer. The message that sends is that comments here are supposed to agree with the majority opinion.
Ah got it, you simulate individually per atom, I thought you were describing the entire population. Indeed, you can always use that vector as the parameter to a multinomial distribution and recover the real distribution.

Regarding the Pareto distribution, random growth model are probably the reason why power laws are everywhere.
Ask HN: Reasonable things to demand as one of the first engineers in a startup
Hello HN,
Three months ago I decided to join a hardware startup as a software engineer to help develop their upcoming product. I'm the only software person on the team and I'm working as both a backend and a front-end developer.
It was a side project at first but it has turned into a serious and time consuming project. I wanted to know what is a reasonable demand that I should make? They clearly have no money to pay the only demand that I can make is in terms of equity rates.
I hope they are not expecting me to work for free since we have never discussed these stuff.
iOS: Inbox in lieu of GMail (Not hating it so far), Tempo, Dark Sky, Evernote, Sleep Pillow, Twitter, Chrome
> One thing we try to discourage on HN is "me too" or "disagree" posts that don't have much more content. The presence of upvote and downvote buttons means that those comments don't get made, because votes serve that purpose instead.

If this were true, then why are downvoted comments faded? Because unpopular opinions don't need to be read by others? The downvote button is for noise that doesn't contribute to the discussion, but that doesn't break the rules. At least, that's what it's always been to me (regardless of what HN claims it's for).
"You shoplifted an expensive purse, so now we can force you to eat your late mother" is a positively medieval stance to take. Prisoners are still human beings, and forcing them to do horrible things like that is a violation of both the general idea of human rights and several parts of the US Constitution.
I think the point is not that it is technologically infeasible to live in deserts, but that doing it years with only what you can fit in a capsule the size of a U-Haul or dig out of the ground (with a drill you brought with you in the U-Haul) is extremely difficult.

And, that no one has demonstrated how that can be turned into a positive, long-term revenue stream, even in principle.
I'm continually surprised and disappointed by the dismissive and negative reactions that any VR work that isn't John Carmack complaining about Samsung receives in the developer communities like this one.

Coming in and dismissing out of hand the great work a small group of volunteers at Mozilla and other places are doing because you read somewhere you needed a million FPS to avoid constantly vomiting is... I don't know what it is. Short-sighted. Close-minded. Ignorant.

Yes, lower latency and higher frame rate is always better. That doesn't mean that the current state isn't good enough for people who claim to be "visionary" and "early adopters" to get in on the ground floor and start working on some cutting edge software. You said you wanted to be an innovator? Here you go. Here's your chance.

You want to know why Google Cardboard exists? So you can get working on developing VR applications now, for basically free, if you can't afford the money or wait time for an Oculus Rift DK2. Of course nobody is suggesting you duct tape a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 to your head and call that done. They're suggesting that maybe we try to make VR as inclusive as possible, even for people who can't afford the full kit or are reticent to invest in something they don't understand yet.

I like my DK2 and I like my cellphone in a cardboard box. The DK2 is more comfortable, smoother, and looks better, no doubt. The box lets me walk around and is a hell of a lot easier to get setup. The box has GPS and a camera built into it already. The box let me work on design ideas long before my DK2 even made it out of the shipping gate. All of my software will support both, and will support falling back to 2D displays. That's just good UX: be accessible.

No, this isn't production-ready work yet. Best estimate anyone has is that a consumer-grade headset will be actually ready sometime next year. That gives us a little time to try to build the software blocks from scratch. I'm sorry the community doesn't have VRBootstrap ready to go for you lower-class glue developers to be able to slap together a disruptive, social coupons app in VR yet.

I think Oculus is doing great work and I'm grateful for what they have already done. But have you ever stopped to think that maybe they have an interest in encouraging a perception that they're the only company in the world worth bothering for VR hardware?

Have a spirit of adventure already. I got motion sick with my DK2 once because I had my axes backwards (incidentally, my cardboard box has never made me motion sick, but that's a different issue entirely). Is that Oculus Rifts fault? Am I never going to touch it again? Has it in any way changed my opinion or enthusiasm about VR? Ridiculous questions.

You work on electronics, sometimes you burn your hand with the soldering iron. You cook, sometimes you cut your finger with the kitchen knife. Sometimes things take more than a weekend hackathon to finish developing. Suck it up and get back to work.

And quit knocking on the efforts of others who are working on this stuff just because you're too scared to put on the goggles.
This was about president's powers, not what winning party/coalition in parliamentary elections gets. Parliamentary systems with active (but less powerful vs the US) presidents such as France, Finland, etc. (but re your tangent, minority governments happen and are common in some places. See eg. Denmark)
I believe so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D
> 4. And, for all of you who hated Australis, a compact theme with square tabs.

Right, because that's totally the problem with Australis. Nothing to do with screwing up customization or the general theme, treating users like idiots etc. It's the rounded tabs!
I use InstantClick on all new sites now. There's a bit of a cost integrating third-party javascripts but the wins are fantastic.
Not making money makes it legal in Spain and Hungary for example. US law doesn't rule the world.
Even if a diet choice is voluntary, if the choice is grounded in religious or ethical reasons then it is an infringement of personal freedom to deny that. Yes, prison itself is an infringement of freedom, but some believe that certain freedoms should remain permanent.
it's that simple right- go back to facebook -it's where you belong.
>> One of the reasons it remains relatively high quality is necessarily that many users of the site do not use downvotes to express disagreement.

I think the reason it's high quality is because it started as a place for the kind of people interested in startups. To me that means (statistically) well educated, ambitious, interested in STEM topics, etc...

Just like in the old days of internet news before AOL made it available to the masses. For example, sci.math had awesome discussions among leading mathematicians, and then the masses came looking for help with their homework and those guys left.

Like all good forums, if it does really well to the point that the general public takes interest, it will likely become crap.
as noted in the bug, those "features" are both apparently opt-in, which complies with AMO policies ("no surprises") which existed before that add-on update was submitted

Mozilla do not own the rights to the addons, they only act as a distribution point. if you want to blame someone, blame the original developer for selling access to WIPS
Outline of software engineering(Wikipedia)
Here in Brooklyn car services seem to have lost the ability to navigate the city in just a few years. You used to be able to call a car service, have a car show up in 5 minutes, and they'd get there with just the cross streets.

Now most often the first question is "what's the address so I can put it into my GPS", even with metered cabs. I've been yelled at for asking to take routes that the GPS doesn't suggest, even though I know at 3pm on a Tuesday we shouldn't be on the BQE. Or there's construction on Flatbush and we should go around it.

I don't think we need a test quite like London's, but basic knowledge of neighborhoods and major intersections should be required. At least until we get those self driving cars that can optimize routes in real time.
True, but corporation can be influenced for the general good too - by its customers. In fact, you can argue customers have more control than the voters - if the politician has 50%+1 votes in his pocket and appoints the bureaucrat, the opinion of the rest of 50%-1 voters have absolutely no weight to him (unless he is of a special rare breed of saint which is so rare in real politics). However, for the corporation losing 50% of their customers would be a huge blow, which given healthy competitive market would probably kill it, so the control of the customers is greater. Of course, with monopoly it would be different, but if the monopoly is not externally enforced, large reluctance of the customers to deal with it will eventually lead to the competition emerging and thus the monopoly would be lost. If the monopoly is persisted by law or regulation then this may not happen, but then the problem again is in that regulation that essentially now forces almost 50% of people to use service they do not want to use.
Religion and/or ethics are completely different from distaste.
Someone's been watching too much Hollywood. That's not how food inside works. Your meal is selected for you and given to you in a container, depending on facility. Some prisons have a system similar to what you describe, but inmates' hands are not on the serving equipment and you're only saying "yes"/"no" to things. The facility has strict counts of calories to maintain and putting a serving spoon in the hand of an inmate is a good way to throw a budget away.

In almost all cases in county, the food is already prepared in a plastic container and if you refuse what is offered to you, you do not eat, which means even kosher folks go without for a couple days until the records "catch up."
> "My question to Obama is: why now?"

My guess? The FCC is probably close to deciding and Obama knows which way they're leaning. So he wants to build some distance between the DNC and the FCC, before the FCC inevitably announces they're going to let the ISPs do what they will.

If Obama says nothing, Net Neutrality will continue to be a sub-headline issue even if/after the FCC allows it to die. Inasmuch as anyone notices, it will reflect poorly on the DNC in 2016.

If he says something now, the reactionary portion of the GOP will take the opposite position as a knee-jerk response. It will become a larger news item and the GOP will have inherited the fallout. Inasmuch as anyone notices, it will reflect poorly on the GOP in 2016.

That he didn't say anything prior is probably either because the FCC only recently notified him of their position, or he wanted to avoid any blowback on those democrats who were already running tough mid-term re-election races in conservative districts.
dang I like the current design (it is no nonsense), but could one change be made to the location of the vote arrows. Could the down vote triangle be moved to after the users name (e.g. ^ dang v)? This would make it so much easier to avoid accidentally down voting on mobile devices.
My understanding is that this is what a breakup fee is for. If they back out, at least they're paying for it.
Microsoft EVP Lisa Brummel to retire at end of year
Geek Social Fallacies
Just because our laws are poorly suited for new technology doesn't mean we have to be stuck with the tech we have. With more automated traffic enforcement, our laws would have to better model our expectations, as you point out. If we had speed cameras on 100% of roads, I doubt people would be okay with $300 fines for speeding, so it's bound to change.
> It's still unelegant and inconsistent. If I claim my diet requires high-quality food determined by me daily, that gets ignored.

Wardens are not robots and are capable of applying common sense and judgment. If a prisoner claims that his morals require him not to eat animal products, he's likely to be telling the truth. If he claims his morals require Kobe beef daily, he's probably lying.
How the prisoner perceives this deprivation is irrelevant:

"I need to eat filet mignon once a week"

"No"

"But it's immoral for me not to"

"Oh okay then"

Prisoners are granted privileges based on how society and its laws perceive their demands. Nothing gets automatically granted just because of morality or religious choices by the prisoner.
This was submitted a couple hours ago by the post author but was deleted for some reason. Reposting my criticism:

1) Distribution of Resume Scores for Each Group box plot: the distributions for both box plots seem to be equivalent at a glance; you can't assert a statistically significant difference between group scores at first glance.

2) Overall Accuracy histogram: You assert that 64% of the resumes are strong, so a person saying that all the resumes are strong would have 61% accuracy. The most popular groups are 3/6 correct and 4/6 correct, which fits this, and is why accuracy isn't always the best metric for a successful experiment, especially with relatively low amounts of data. (also, that distribution is definitely not normally distributed.)

3) None of the differences between participant groups were statistically significant (p < 0.05). In other words, all groups did equally poorly. That's not what a statistical significance test determines: it determines where the results between two statistics (in this case, the accuracy of two participant groups) can be attributed to chance (i.e. if p < 0.05, then the observed value only has a <5% chance of occurring, so it is unlikely to occur by random chance).

4) A helpful note is that the study can be modeled as a binomial distribution, with 6 trials and probability of success = 0.64 (assuming user guesses strong): http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=binomial+distribution%2...
Now that sounds nightmarish.

I would quit or require a very high payment.
There's a contributor working on that feature right now as we speak: http://bugzil.la/663803
"in the sense that their stomach physiology isn't capable of digesting it"

Its a very popular strightdope urban legend discussion topic. You'd die pretty quickly if you couldn't adsorb complete proteins. Astrologically speaking, iron ions from spinach are dramatically different than iron ions from a steak, but your biochemistry won't know the difference.

You can get three interesting effects:

1) Any time you mess with your diet you mess with your gut flora and ... residue. Not to mention the "feel" in your stomach before its all broken down to constituent molecules indistinguishable from plant sources (other than less fiber) So minor tummy ache is theoretically possible. Less fiber intake = less... output the next day, etc.

2) From my M-i-Ls adventures in gallbladder problems, its theoretically possible for vegan types to chug olive oil especially in the form of salad dressing, but to really consume huge quantities of oil/fat all at once you need a greasy triple cheeseburger with bacon. So you can have some bile / gallbladder related fun (whoa I just ate three days worth of oils/greases in one meal, totally freaking out my gallbladder type of reaction). You'll be fine.

3) Psychologically you can get really messed up. Try eating some dog sometime in a foreign country and then focusing on your stomach (assuming you're standard American) is going to be all messed up. Still meat is meat and if they told you it was pork you wouldn't have blinked, but here you are feeling like you're gonna hurl. Its really not as much fun as my description sounds. Think of that soy stuff instead of cows/chicken/fish/pigs/dogs and you'll be just fine as long as you can avoid getting all anxious. Being anxious is never fun, no matter if due to diet or relationships or tiny enclosed spaces or public speaking or whatever.
Thanks, I was so focused on finding the files that I forgot.
Lopsided: Sifting through the election results
I don't see 1st amendment issues if this is content-neutral (I don't think the Supreme Court would consider the choice of encryption scheme being speech by itself and thus protected expression) towards underlying data. As for 4th amendment, right now I think the prevailing position is that ability to collect data is not search until the data is actually collected, so providing capability for lawful intercept would not be considered 4th amendment problem. I don't like it too much, but that seems to be the state of affairs now.
Having just gone through my first acquisition process from beginning to end, this was great reading and a lot of it range very true for us.

One thing that it seems people often forget is that, in business, if you're truly entering in to mutually beneficial agreements (whether it's hiring someone or being acquired), both sides generally will try to come to some sort of arrangement that makes sense for both sides. In other words, when it's understood that an agreement is win-win, then both sides are motivated not just for themselves but for the other side as well.

Of course, the sentiment is a bit idealist, as the hard part is actually figuring out when someone is being genuine and knowing exactly what value you're providing to them and they will provide to you. If a company really wants to buy you, and they're not trying to pull one over on you (e.g. intentionally offering much less than your value), then they won't try to strong-arm you into doing something you don't want to do. I think this is what the author is getting at when they say that it's okay for you to push back on things such as offer price, deadlines, etc. The key is to also be genuine and not try to pull one over on them.

Of course, this sentiment is also a bit idealist, as the hard part is knowing what your actual value is to the other party, as there's seldom an absolute value of something; it usually depends on the situation of the environment and other party, which constantly changes and which you won't have the full story.

This also assumes that genuine parties are wholly genuine and that they're not being led astray by other parties, whom they absolutely trust but who may not be genuine or as capable as they have led the primary parties to believe. I've seen plenty of deals fall through, or almost fall through, because of good people being influenced by outside factors.

I kind of lost my point in all that. I think it was simply that, while acquisition talks are stressful and time consuming, they can also be scary. That fear however, usually comes from doing a deal in which you may feel you're misrepresenting your value (and thus trying to get more from the other party than the actual value you're providing), or in trying to do a deal or negotiation which you feel you absolutely cannot walk away from. Both of these situations lead to more volatile negotiations which fall apart more easily. And this can lead to making the wrong concessions or agreements, which gets us back to one of the points in the article, which is that the best time to solicit an acquisition is when you don't need it and can easily walk away.
The threshold is 500, as far as I know. Whenever I reach that, I delete my account and create a new one. I'm probably one of those people who downvotes others that I don't agree with, and I don't want that power. Especially since, imho, 50% of the comments that are downvoted here don't deserve it.
Animation explaining quantum physics
>There is no particular purpose for HN downvotes other than to express dislike. It's not needed to move 'stupid' comments down, because only 'non-stupid' comments rise up.

The problem is that smart-but-unpopular comments may fail to rise up. We want to prevent groupthink by ensuring that the top comments don't exclude ones that are well written and productive while expressing a contrary viewpoint.

A simple "vote down for disagree" breaks that.
His real middle name is Samuel. He had to change his middle initial because there was already a member of the Writers Guild of America with the name "David S Cohen".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_X._Cohen#Name_change
This is most likely true.

To all who fight to re-open the free internet -- such as Peter Sunde -- your time is now.
> Prison is punishment first, rehabilitation second

That is not a society I want to live in. Prison should protect the remaining population and rehabilitate, punishment should be a consequence of the means necessary to do so. Prioritizing in that order (protect -> rehabilitate). In my opinion anyways..
Where do you work where you get to pick so freely? What kind of projects?