skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much latency does the system have in the best/worst and average case? And is your implementation public?
Another reminder that Japan extended their feudal period longer than most.

Then again, the west took on the practice of putting the founders name on a corporations...
Off topic slightly, but the link you provided takes me to the KS page as you, the user. Meaning, at the top of the page, it shows your name, and it shows me your pledge amount. I can't access any account information though. Just an FYI
Anybody have an idea when SourceTree will have an update?
Ask HN: What CLI tools do you wish existed?
Who cares about mobile apps, what command line tools (platform in/dependent) do you wish existed?

The question comes from boredom and wanting to write something in Rust...
I know some ways around that.
Seems like an engine used to make a content bot site where they hang lots of ads and try to get google and others to send users there via search.
Hey thanks for that.

I might buy the reader that Portland's Powells City of Books sells, but have not yet looked into whether it phones home.
Baidu Announces Breakthrough in Speech Recognition
The people missing the point/satire of this comment are actually airline shills terrified that their secret has just been discovered.
Those EU countries don't need to achieve 7% annual returns because they won't pay as much as 2/3, nor allow retirement as soon as age 55. Their models are much more sustainable.

It's going to get interesting in the US, as an increasing percentage of private sector retirees are scraping by on an average $1K a month whilst public sector retirees are enjoying cruises and taxes are being raised (or services reduced) to fund them.
Nice article. We should ask people wanting to "learn to code" what they mean and what they hope to get out of it. And in some cases the truth may be that it will only work if they spend a lot of time learning. If they want to create a very simple game they can learn game-building tools and use that. But that will probably not help them build a really advanced game with a scalable back-end. If that is something they need they might have to spend years learning and building. Or they might need to get help. Simple web programming is also easy but it might not lead to the most highly paid jobs directly, if a better salary is what they are after. It is however a good way to start and you can learn more about advanced programming or back-end programming later. If they expect to write the next Halo game by themselves they should probably lower their expectation a bit.
[Edit: spelling]
American troops in Iraq battle ISIS for the first time – The Navigator Online
why would they do that ? A/B testing? to make people click 2 times on the same article?

Huffpo used to pull that trick on its homepage,once with an acceptable title/then with a bait if you visited the article before,I hate these silly techniques.But I guess that's how they make money.

The latest is one of the worst offender when It comes to baiting.It's just annoying feeling you're being taken for an idiot.
That is, btw, an absolutely fantastic distant future sci-fi novel. Among the best of all time. (Vinge doesn't consistently product books that good, but man that one is great.)
w.o.w.

Absolutely amazing and chilling at the same time. I typed in "sex" and had 1 minute of free time. It seemed coherent but the subject matter seemed to drift far away. Some tweaking and it would be very convincing.
The "kill problems, don't wound them" idea reminds me of the idea in programming to make invalid states unrepresentable. It's not always possible to redesign problems away entirely, but if it is possible, it is a good thing to do.
Just a humble field worker battling the dreaded title fever, which drives souls mad like mosquitoes in the old North West.
My HTML Docs are my papers!
Direct manipulation as a new Apple TV UI – a prototype
I found Bozhidar Batsov's Prelude to provide a solid "foundational config" for getting started with an editor that is configurable to the max:

https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

I installed an earlier version of it 3+ years ago and then worked through the standard tutorial a couple of times, invoked with "C-h t" (control-key + h-key, then t-key).

After that, I was off and running with Emacs!

Once some familiarity with Emacs Lisp (elisp) has been acquired, a careful study of the prelude sources and the sources of various packages installed by prelude is a great way to acquire a deeper understanding of how to wire things together inside Emacs.

A decent way to get started learning elisp is to read the introductory text hosted on gnu.org:

An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html

Pro tip: if you haven't done so previously, you may want to remap your caps lock key (via OS settings) to act as an additional control-key – some users find caps lock easier to reach for with their left pinky finger than the left-control-key on many keyboards.
The Open Bay
Oh! That makes sense.
If I had the wealth some people have in the Bay Area, I wouldn't be throwing money away at just making more money; the money would be funding legitimate wildlife preserves in Africa, and elsewhere. I know the world has many problems,
but this is a problem that should be fixed--now.
It's junior developer position and its going to be a phone interview which should make things a bit easier.
As mentioned in the mailing list announcement (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1853266), if you run a git host on linux, you can still spread the dangerous commit.
If women only conferences are good at helping women network and communicate safely, I really think we could apply the same argument to men, do we just disregard men who are to afraid or feel uncomfortable around women because we already have too many successful men who dont suffer from this problem?
A much better analogy would be for the postmaster to be noting the sender and recipient of every letter that came through his station in a log that was then passed along to King George's agents in the colonies, allowing them to draw whatever inference they might like — while somehow also having a copy of every letter to hand for further perusal in the event any of the corresponding parties were deemed "suspicious."

I'm no scholar of Revolutionary era America, but I'm pretty sure that if shit of that sort were going down, it would have gotten specific mention in the Declaration.
Interesting; when I make a copy of a song file I do not own, it's stealing. When the gov't makes a copy of my search records, it's not?
You know what I don't like. People who complain about technologies they've never used.

1. This was NEVER an issue for 99.999% of people. The drivers all had the default set to FSYNC_SAFE.

2. It DOES scale the way it claims. It just doesn't have unlimited scalability and guess what no product does.
Self-hosting. Basic setup (imap over SSL) using Dovecot + Postfix. There are easier ways (Virtualmin etc.) but email's back under control, at least.
Hi, ianyh! :) the repro steps I've posted seem to be pretty consistent, but I think it's hilarious you can't seem to replicate it. Superpower indeed!
My opinion is that the general population's respect for the court (in the form of whether or not t-shirts are appropriate courtroom attire) has no bearing on whether or not the executive adheres to judicial decisions. On the contrary, I think the attitude that everyone needs to wear suits in court because "respect the court, or the executive won't" is detrimental to those already marginalized: the poor and less educated. They are probably less likely to recognize the social signalling that the formal attire represents.

My secondary point, apologies for the lack of clarity, is that relaxing courtroom procedures and the mystique surrounding them would allow for greater transparency. Greater transparency and a more approachable set of procedures would allow for greater understanding throughout the general population. A greater understanding of our legal system (my second definition of respect), minus the fluff surrounding it (language, attire, etc.), would be a good thing in my book.

I understand that there is inherent complexity in matters of finesse, whether it be law, engineering, or programming, but I don't think we need to actively propagate stifling behaviors like suggesting that suits (and the equivalent for women) must be worn at all times, forever, in the courtroom.
Thank you! I appreciate your input. Clever advice.
Beautiful, cheers for this!
In 2007, the life expectancies at birth were as follows (World Bank data):
Cuba, 78.26 years;
Latin America and Caribbean, 73.13 years;
United States, 77.99 years.[24]

The mortality rates for children under five in 2007 were as follows (World Bank):
Cuba, 6.5;
Latin America and Caribbean, 26.37;
United States, 7.60;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Cuba#Comparison_...

You are right, Cuba is third world poor and they still beat their capitalist neighbors and even the wealthy and powerful US in life expectancy and infant mortality.

Cuba does so much with so little because of the radical idea that we are all in this together. Cuba spends $300 per citizen on health care, the US spends $7000. I spent $5000 personally just this year on health care and I'm young and healthy.

Those in capitalist countries are getting fleeced, and Cuba shows us that. If Cuban socialism didn't exist I couldn't point out these facts, and that is why Cuban socialism was such a threat and why the US has acted so insecure towards the tiny island's revolution.

I don't want the US to adopt the Cuban system, I just believe we had no right to violate their sovereignty, and having different political systems out there lets us have a sort of A/B test for politics. I don't believe a global political and economic monoculture is healthy.

As an American I wouldn't want to trade places at birth with a Cuban, but if I had the choice between being born to asset-less parents in Jamaica or asset-less parents in Cuba, I know I would be healthier, more materially secure and far safer from violent crime in Cuba. I also would have a much greater chance of not dying during my birth.
One feature where Emacs seems to be lacking is 'out of the box' text completion and IntelliSense. I know that there are modes like IDO, auto-complete, and probably others, but editors like Sublime and IntelliJ just work with zero effort. A detailed explanation on how to best configure Emacs would go a long way in making it easier to get started.
What I don't understand about the big retailers is why they haven't been doing something similar all along to compete with Amazon.

Amazon has been building warehouses all across the country near cities to reduce shipping times. But the retailers already have what amounts to hundreds of warehouses at every population center, plus the inventory management systems. Why haven't they put their inventories online and offered same day delivery to neutralize Amazon?
Not that much harder since software demo disks often came bundled with consumer magazines.

In fact back in the 90s, my Linux box would only receive updates via magazine cover disks.
Depending on how much volume you have, inventory turns are an important gate on how many items you can afford to carry. And I would imagine that there are practical limits on how many SKUs you can pull stock from and still deliver in an hour.
it's not just a question of beholdenness or privilege - the real distinction between technology-as-magic and social-engineering-as-magic is how the bill for your force multiplication is paid. if you manipulate/organise people into doing things for you you have definitely achieved some sort of leverage, but there's no real feeling of magic because you know that at the bottom of the pyramid, other human beings have had to put the work in.

what makes magic magic is that the forces you manipulate and control come for "free" - not in the sense that you don't have to do any work to access them, but in the sense that any output over and above your input is drawn from some more fundamental reservoir of universal energy.
Only one question: Will the engineer be fired?
Or Linux mounting a case-insensitive share, e.g. CIFS.
Meditation associated with preserved telomere length in breast cancer patients
When are we going to have the Black or Latino/Hispanic Founders Conference, YC?
As a compulsive rewriter whose middle name should probably be Stop-Me-Before-I-Edit-Again, it never occurred to me that they didn't just get their titles wrong a lot.
Because there are often permit requirements for protesting in public places.
Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you check regularly?
What are some blogs of really smart people you check regularly?

The less mainstream or well known the better.

Edit:

I'll provide some of my own;

http://blog.asmartbear.com/archives

http://www.dilbert.com/blog/

^Mostly of entertainment value but he says some interesting things from time to time.

http://rs.io/articles
What you are overlooking is that the vast majority of these people (and women are disproportionately represented, including many stay-at-home mums doing this in their spare time) did not have to deal with VAT _at all_ previously because they never came anywhere near the VAT threshold. They have never had to apply for it. Suddenly, they have to register and comply with not one but two government bureaucracies, and submit quarterly statements on the VAT collected. (By the way, the rules affect the sale of digital items, like knitting patterns and ebooks, rather than physical goods like crafts because the VAT threshold is being abolished on digital goods.)
Pas mal! But lurking beneath France's crisp white egalitarian shell lies a deeply unequal, slime-ridden underbelly.

Still, every little helps.
Here they are for you:

Samuel Adams is the brand name for beers produced by the Boston Beer Company (NYSE: SAM) and its associated contract brewers.

Battle rapping, which can be freestyled, is the competition between two or more rappers in front of an audience.

In the 1980s, battle raps were a popular form of rapping - Big Daddy Kane in the book How to Rap says, "as an MC from the '80s, really your mentality is battle format...

He is most famous for creating the acclaimed film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which heralded a new era of African-American focused films.

The gains made by African Americans in the Civil Rights and Black Power movements not only obtained certain rights for African Americans, but changed American society in far-reaching and fundamentally important ways.
Braiiiiins, of course.
Jeez.
Would it be simpler to just define a couple "mirrored" variants of the main layouts?
You may have to do these first:

sudo mv /usr/bin/git ~/.Trash/git_mac_old
brew update
Have you experienced customer service in countries where there is no tipping? It is often entertaining and involves unpredictable "extra work". Perhaps digital reputation systems will provide a stick to replace the carrot of tipping, unless labor laws evolve to impose Fair Reporting on mobile logistics data.
Thanks for this. Might want to move the original /usr/bin/git out of the way, rather than outright deleting it, juuuuust in case you end up needing the original binary.
This, I feel, is an apposite article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
Data Science Weekly Newsletter – Issue 56
The Grinch That Tried to Exploit Linux
We use some where I work. They are useful in niche applications, such as our one-off research lab equipment. They wear out slowly. They work best where we have 5 different common orifices for fluid that need to be merged into one. When they wear out, we order new ones.

We pay a tech who knows CAD and a fab house rather than a machine shop. A machine shop would probably cost a lot more. Although now that we have the design down pat, we wouldn't waste as much money on prototypes.

Our design includes 2" diameter threaded ends and it holds pretty firmly although the threads do wear out and tear off the tube with vibration and heat changes.
Well, Amethyst can float windows so I wouldn't call it a tiling-only WM, but there's a lot of reasons I prefer it over floating window managers.

I'm really lazy and want software to deal with my windows for me. I used floating window managers for a long time and found that I spent a lot of my time arranging windows in the same patterns.

I also found that with floating window managers were just too limited for things I wanted to do on a daily basis. Two come to mind off hand. I want to be able to make a window temporarily bigger, but keeping the other windows on the screen and sized appropriately and I want to be able to easily switch which window is the "primary window." When I'm doing web development without external screens I find it very help to have an editor and a browser window open at the same time. One of them takes up about 80% of the screen and the other takes up about 20% of the screen, but I switch which is which pretty often. Make the editor take up most of the screen, make some changes loosely referencing things in the browser window, make the browser window take up most of the screen and see effects loosely referencing the code in the editor. And sometimes I've also got a Hulu or Netflix window open taking 20% of the width and 50% of the height. The complexity of making that work with a floating window manager is just too much compared to how easy it is for a tiling window manager.

I also just like being able to see everything on my screen at the same time.
Let's take a look at their pricing plan

https://mixpanel.com/pricing/

I wonder how much of their MRR X 12 months is multiplied by to reach $865M valuation.

AVG MRR X 12 X ?? = $865,000,000

I can't fathom what the ?? will be, it would have to be significantly crazy. It isn't 1000.

Is it 100 ($8.6m ARR) ?
Is it 50 ($17.2m ARR) ?
Is it 25 ($34.4m ARR) ?

What is the average valuation multiple for SaaS? Is it higher or lower than other Startup models (consumer, yearly subscription)?

If one was to replicate a similar valuation with their SaaS what would it take?
> Cassandra is one of the better ones out there

I take it you haven't actually used Cassandra much in the last few years. It's data model is almost identical to a typical relational one and it's consistency promises are quite clear:

http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cql/3.0/cql/aboutCQL.h...

And I've scaled Cassandra clusters from 1 to 100 nodes in hours with no issues. It really is quite simple. Likewise have had no issues with MongoDB replica sets. It is definitely not "really, really hard".

> postgres is to do it right, or not do it

What a pathetic cop out. PostgreSQL has been around for decades they've had plenty of time to have a proven, stable solution implemented.
Actually this kind of thing gets fairly complex. Consider for instance a scenario where the government was sponsoring an event like this - would that be OK?

Or consider a company that has a table reserved in their cafeteria specifically for black men. Would that be OK?

It seems as a society we've decided that a certain basis of discrimination is fine while others are not. For example having a table exclusively for executives is fine, while one based on race or gender is not.
The legal issue wasn't "taking ideas from 3rd party apps and integrating them for free into" Windows.

It was taking anticompetitive steps to defend an existing monopoly, and to leverage an existing monopoly to monopolize another market.

Its like complaining that one person gets arrested for shooting a gun when another doesn't, not noting that what the first person was actually arrested for was murder by way of a gun, and what the second person was doing was shooting targets on a shooting range.
So, cognitive science? The most effective way to do this is user interviews as this is purely subjective. Hints only tell part of the story.
farnamstreetblog.com
Your case is among the 1% luck cases.
The other 99% cases are NOT same as yours. They are fired.
3 books for freelancers/bootstrappers, by bootstrappers
Yep.

I also found that quite interesting. It's quite similar to my own view ... let's see, an October 12 variant:

Twitter, and much of the rest of the Web 2.0 / dot com firms mostly are solving the problem of "where can we invest all of this free money the Federal Reserve is pumping out while real financial returns are so low. The fact that much of the business model supported by these ventures is effectively advertising, and that a lion's share of the advertising is itself FIRE (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate) sector -- also bolstered by easy money / liquidity / QE2, or electronics goods, dittos, makes me think that this is all one hell of a massive bubble. At some time it's going to pop, and it's going to be all kinds of ugly -- the dot-com bust will look like salad days in comparison.

(Comment on the post in question)

https://plus.google.com/104119855035793551431/posts/QQrWKvBx...

So, yes, Spiegel's comments on the Fed and money are pretty interesting. Not sure if it's confirmation bias on my part or just confirmation.
ICANN Got Hacked
Really smart people I know like www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ . It's quite popular on HN. I also recommend https://news.ycombinator.com/ for interesting articles :P
Hi Jerome, those are great results! We got an email this morning from someone else on the Watson team pointing out that we didn't include the latest IBM number -- we'll be sure to update the results in the next version of the paper (three cheers for arXiv).

Of course, we openly say in the paper that we don't have the best result on easy subset of Hub5'00 (we had it as 11.5%). We're more interested in advancing the state of the art on challenging, noisy, varied speech. Of course we'll be working to push the SWB number down too :)
DewDrop a Formal Language for Social Networks
Meanwhile in Canada...
I want to know the reality. I don't want to see another PR show. Dear Information diggers, please let us know whether the guy was fired!
I hope you print it on recycled paper. Dead tree reincarnated is better.
Window spacing is actually in the works for Amethyst. It just has some issues because some windows just don't size exactly. Terminal windows, for example, only size in increments of cursor size, so you're almost always a bit smaller or a bit larger than you want, which makes the spacing in between windows look weird.
Lol silent mode?
Not everybody finishes their PhD. I believe there are a lot of successful people who started something during their PhD that turned out to be more than just a dissertation. You could simply shift gears and go ahead with the startup, hoping to finish the thesis later (maybe using your startup as a research site or data source?) or you could focus on the PhD project now and monetize it after you graduate. Reflect on this question: do you really want to be a professor, or primarily value the sheepskin?