skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use and enjoy the services that uber offers. That said, it uses dubious loopholes to evade the (misguided, anti-competitive) regulations taxi companies operate under.

Letting uber evade the bad regulations instead of fixing them is a poor solution (same with tesla and dealerships).
Glad they added .query() to Pandas in .13. In general I find the methods in Pandas/NumPy much more consistent with general programming constructs than most of what I see in R. No doubt Hadley has bolted on a lot of great functionality to R, but the Rcpp dependency/GPL license is a turn off.
Thanks for your appreciation guys. I've written programming books so writing a story would be easy I thought. Creative writing is similar to programing I told myself. Writing has grammar, software has syntax; writers plot their stories, we engineers create architecture diagrams. But there are important differences as I found out. We engineers are proud of our knowledge software patterns but writers snub their nose at word-patterns, calling them clichés. Why, George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language" shook my belief system to the very core! The pinnacle of our skill set is our ability to abstract objects, and the highest animal in our food chain, the software architect is paid big bucks because he can make "John" a "Man". Our abstract objects are like the Platonic archetypes: if there is John, then there is an archetypal form of John called "Man" up there in the sky. But writers snub their noses at abstractions. We want to know about John, not "Man" they say; show & tell, they say; be concrete and not abstract, they say.

These writers, these omnipotent, omnipresent gods, are in the minds of all their characters at the same time. Natural laws do not bind them: John can slip from the past to the present tense whenever he likes; but for an engineer if a font is out of place, or if he uses a hex code not specified in the style guide, the wrath of the QA department is upon him. We are the ants, the workers, the technicians forever bound to technical specs, UX and style guides. Writers have the magical "voice," which their characters echo. The closest we poor engineers can get to articulating a "voice" is through a spirited /debug comment/ which is an inadequate substitute because, mindful of the peer review, we dare not be too spirited in our comments.
Continuation Passing Style (2007)
Or if you run WordStar, maybe you'll get George R.R. Martin to switch machines :)

Edit for context: http://www.cnet.com/news/at-game-of-thrones-premiere-nerds-c...
This was (or maybe still is) one of the most troubling things about Twitter's location services feature. When someone tweets and chooses to share their location, the label appears something vague like "Pittsburgh" or "New York City".

They may not be aware that the precise coordinates of where the tweet was sent, possibly narrowing down not just where they are, but even what room they are in, is shared with anyone and everyone.
Quote from article: "But these lists don’t really measure something even more important: the quality of their employees’ lives." But the article isn't showing that the quality of life at lower ranked companies is better. In the end you are responsible for your own quality of life. You can achieve amazing things at Google, Facebook, etc, but it comes at a price. Key question is: what do you value most?
If you think hearthstone has difficult rules you should look at MTG. It's actually turning complete, the game is that complex.

http://www.toothycat.net/~hologram/Turing/HowItWorks.html
feh, sucked
The problem is that any real change for cab companies requires the PPA (or your local city's authority) to admit that medallions are incredibly overvalued, artificially inflated, and archaic.

I don't know if you know the Philly PPA, but it's more likely to rain gold nuggets.

The PPA (and other medallion authorities) will never admit they're way is antiquated or wrong (or damn near criminal) and will do whatever they can to sustain authority, the status quo, and monopoly. The only way to shudder "disrupt" old, dirty cabs with poverty-wage drivers is to show complete disregard for bad laws and those desperate to hold on to power no matter how bad it is for the population at large - or even the drivers they say they protect.
Russian hackers stole millions from banks, ATMs
You could probably easily tell where anyone lives with the geotagging feature just by looking at breakfast and dinner photos.
Seconding this, it was a great article. Every now and then you come across a piece online that seems intimidatingly long but is utterly worth it. This expanded my perspectives on geopolitics and how nations become superpowers.

To sum it up in one word: Rivers. It seems somewhat counter intuitive, but the article explains how a network of navigable rivers makes all the difference. If the factors in an economy are Land + Labor + Capital, rivers drastically increase the capital side of things. Generally it costs 10X less to ship goods via water as opposed to over land. Countries that are well connected by rivers can ship things much more cheaply and as a result have a lot more money to re-invest in growth. Arid farming plains and having few access points for hostile neighbors also help a lot, but rivers make a big difference. This Stratfor report had several other unexpected insights along these lines and was definitely worth the read.
An interview is a fairly terrible way to get to know a company's culture. Among other things, the interview is a filter, not an employment conversation.
I think Pixie is a very promising attempt at something like that https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie
Oops: people are downloading and keeping Sony's rental for the Interview
> I mean very productive land, lots of mineral resources...

It wasn't productive like the US territory was. It was mostly inhospitable tundra. The bolsheviks weren't an economic superpower for the same reason the canadians aren't.

> Still to this day, Russia underdelivers, given its vast resources --natural and human/intellectual.

Russia is the 8th largest economy in the world.
Well, compare Russia to Japan or SKorea, or Taiwan, or the UK.
My tuner recommended Inside Out to me after he saw I bought Reblitz. Apparently Reblitz is pretty out of date as far as tuning methodology goes? Can't really speak to it myself as I now own both and have read neither due to that particular hobby getting backburnered for a bit.
Science has largely eliminated the perception of graft in the US. Most graft here takes the form of corporations and the government colluding to create fake scientific studies and white papers in order to justify giving massive amounts of public money to private individuals for no especially good reason, as well as passing laws to do the same.
That also worked just fine on Amiga OS 3.1 without and MMU :)
You're totally right. But I think it's interesting to pick a bunch of random Instagram users in your area whose address you now know who start posting photos that are geotagged out of town. Now you know where they live and that they're not in their house right now.
I attempted it once, more as a lead in to a monte carlo tutorial than anything else. The results were not particularly favorable to a BI.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/basic_income_vs_basi...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6725096

The response from most of the BI supporters was approximately what you'd expect.
His Lego domino row building machine is pretty neat too. It does its job pretty well, with only a few Lego blocks used. http://woodgears.ca/domino/index.html
Shoot, I hate having to admit it, but I didn't see the list you're quoting from at the very end of the site- You are correct that they are explicitly targeting covert/dark applications, and I should have seen that before commenting.
There will always be data thieves. The real criminals are the lazy developers that make apps without full client side encryption. This would claim to make that obvious.

If you put together an app that professes to send messages that are private to one other user, when in fact they are visible to anyone with access to your servers, you have sold your users down the river just because you are not a competent developer. This is widespread right now, but it doesn't mean it isn't true.

However, as other people have pointed out, this particular idea looks like BS. Even so, I think it will be implemented in some form in a few years. It's time to end the "fingers in the ears, la la la" approach to data security that your post exemplifies.
But 95% of natives didn't die of disease. Unless you are saying white men are a disease. We had to cull the indians like we culled the bison, deer, wolves, bears, etc. It was the most successful genocidal campaign in human history. It was also one of the most successful clearing the land of all life period.

Settlers were paid for each indian scalp they got. Indian men, women and children were hunted and slaughtered wholesale.

Idiots like Jared Diamond might try to absolve our sins by lying about how the indians died. But the truth of how the west was won is no so convenient. It was brutal and rapacious.

I mean, we didn't even push the natives past the appalachian mountains until the 1760s and that idiot jared diamond wants us to believe the natives essentially died off in the 1500s.
> crazy mathematical formalizations you can come up with to describe

The probably with informal speech is that it is ambiguous.

Also, using informal speech would really hurt you when generalizing these concepts abstractly. Plus after coming up with informal speech to talk about all of these things, you'd probably realize your words aren't that much different than theirs.
> Still to this day, Russia underdelivers, given its vast resources --natural and human/intellectual.

That makes it sound as if Russia and the former USSR are one and the same. They're not.

A better way to restate that sentence is, "The USSR under delivered, in spite of its vast resources - natural and human/intellectual."

And you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out why. In an atmosphere where fear and uncertainty rules, individual and group creativity suffers.

Russia is doing better in that area, though there's still a lot of room for improvement. But it is a young country. Some old habits from the former USSR still lingers, which is expected given that most of the current leadership grew up in the former USSR. It take at least one generation to shake bad habits.
With an actual firearm and bullets, it might not be; bullets don't have a lot of mass.
There has never been a cross-platform, cross-media, accessible platform like the web in the history of computing or humanity for that matter. It is very much indeed something to be proud of.
No. The microwave has passed FCC testing and has been approved. Devices with radios have to be approved before they are commercially sold.
> The disease hypothesis puzzles me because it cannot explain the reality of such countries

The disease hypothesis is bullshit. Some retard wrote a silly book about it and nytimes pushed it like it was gospel.

The royal proclamation of 1763 set the border between the colonists and the indians at the appalachian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763

Even after disease supposedly wiped out the indians, we could only push the indians past the appalachians in the 1760s.
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How would you arbitrate unverifiable data? How about if I auction "I know who hacked Sony" and the "data" is simply a name and address, without (or with fickle) proof? Or "Identities of 5 CIA agents in $region"? In fact, most military secrets.

And - how would you arbitrate misleading data? "0-day Flash Exploit For Windows", "...NT4".

Maybe we're missing the irony.

edit: more ranting (won't dupe) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8795427
I don't do any woodworking but love to watch his videos.

Inspiring guy. He seems to make his money from selling his woodgears software program, plans for some of his woodworking projects and from Google for being a Youtube partner.

Pretty cool.
> Then why am I - as the consumer - should want to foster the growth and strengthening of unions?

WUT? Do you play any other role in society than that of consumer? Worker, maybe?

Perhaps you're a Titan of Industry, or a self-employed tinkerer, but society depends on big projects (think about the roads you use...), which require big organizations, which have many more workers than bosses. As consumers, those workers may not support unions, but as workers, I'll bet quite a few do.
Thanks! There's no good reason for me not to share a project like this :)
Argh, 'i.e.' means 'that is'; in the text, it is used to mean 'for example,' which is of course abbreviated 'e.g.'
This is the real reason behind when companies say things like "We only hire the best." It's not to attract the best, it's for people working there to believe that they are part of the "best" (whatever that means).

The way pretty much every company finds people is that it hires the best, according to subjective and biased criteria, from the people that currently are looking or don't have jobs who tend to live in the area and happened to find out the company had an opening.
Adora Cheung of Homejoy is still working on Christmas Eve with her team
Use Lyft?
NO BULLSHIT guide to MATH and PHYSICS --- a calculus and mechanics textbook for adults; also covers high school math.

disclaimer: I'm the author
That makes the sellers identifiable through their previous leaks/auctions.
Sounds like that guy might make more money driving with Uber than having to pay $80/day to play.
I did search for related research a while back with no results. Tried to leverage reddit too, someone asking the very same was told this : http://www.reddit.com/r/computergraphics/comments/12gs2a/ada...
How does the closing of big institutions improve the scientific rigor
of a psychiatric diagnosis?

The misunderstanding is probably my fault -- the message was too
short. Let's establish the basics: There can't be any science if you
can't measure. Reproducibility (replication): theory and experiment
(prediction <-> measurement spiral) are corner stones that support
each other and build on the language of math.

"the results" -- as the very first message I've posted on the topic
says -- are about the reliability of psychiatric diagnoses. If we
can't have that (an ability to measure) there is nothing to discuss.

On "150 inpatient beds" -- how many people are in jail instead? And
again, how does it relate to scientific foundations of psychiatry?

Both "lye to the doctor" excuse and "bleeding peptic ulcer" are
addressed on the very same wiki-page where the quotes come from.

"Your link mentions RD Laing in the lead. RD Laing is now thoroughly
discredited." Here's the only occurrence of the name in the
article:

"while listening to one of R. D. Laing's lectures that Rosenhan
wondered if there was a way in which the reliability of psychiatric
diagnoses could be tested experimentally."

Does "the lead" mean "an inspiration"? In what way precisely anything
about RD Laing changes the results of Rosenhan experiment?

I can go on pointing out imprecise statements but it don't see the
point. What would be nice to see is even a single reference to an
experiment that shows that yes we can reliably diagnose psychiatric
illnesses and here's what changed in out assumptions -- where is the
paradigm shift?

On 2008 experiment: the result: "The experts correctly diagnosed
two of the ten patients, misdiagnosed one patient, and incorrectly
identified two healthy patients as having mental health problems. If
you think that the result:

psychiatric diagnoses are unreliable

is invalid due to the way the experiment was conducted (some
methodological issues) then do point them out.

> doctors were not allowed to interact with patients.

Diagnosing a mental illness is a serious business with long term
consequences. Have any of the "experts" refused to diagnose on the
account of insufficient information? -- I don't know.

I'd like to be proven wrong and see psychiatry in the hard science camp.

Have I mentioned that psychiatric diagnoses are unreliable ;)
The Personal MBA - Josh Kaufman
The First 20 Hours - Josh Kaufman
So Good They Can't Ignore You - Cal Newport
The 4-Hour Workweek - Tim Ferriss
The 4-Hour Body - Tim Ferriss
Stop Acting Rich - Thomas J. Stanley
James Altucher - Choose Yourself
> The U.S. at that time was nobody.

The US was an APEX power and had been for a long time. Nobody could conquer it. To claim the US was a nobody is a laughable.

> It was still undergoing the post-Civil War recovery

After the civil war, the US fielded the greatest army in the world and it's economy was growing because it was shifting to westward expansion. We took over territory bigger than western europe. Not only that, the US was the largest producer of oil BY FAR at that time.

> the Industrial Revolution JUST arrived on the continent.

It just arrived in european mainland as well relatively speaking...

> No European nation was interested in conquering the largely agrarian society.

No european nation could. Let's stop pretending any european country had any hope.

A european country conquering the US in the 1800s is like costa rica conquering the US today. It's laughable.

During the civil war, the US developed much of the military technology that was used in the first world war a few decades later.
Not to be a huge ass, but the lack of using capital letters, while proving the shift key does in fact function (@, % both featured in posting) only further solidifies the idea I had in my head that this is a crazy person posting. Not a fun, quirky, startup CEO kind of crazy, but more the delusional, oblivious type of crazy.
Meet the 'Smart' Suitcase
Prions are misfolded proteins; while prion diseases occur in the brain, I do not know of any evidence that the prions themselves are not found throughout the nervous system. Are they in fact isolated to the brain?
> But pillage and slavery are not workable bases for an industrial economy.

I think the guy forgot that for most of its existence, the British empire was powered by slave labor, and that the cotton plantations of the US were also powered by slave labor.

Even modern, industrial economies of today are in a sense powered by slave labor. Visit the sweatshops in the Brooklyn and Queens boroughs of NYC to see first-hand what slave labor is like. I've not visited Bangladesh or China, but I can imagine what the sweatshops in those places are like.
Putin seems to be the new bad guy these days.
Uber does not provide vehicles for free either.
At the end of the interview I was left alone in an office where an employee showed up and thought I was there to interview him. Still, I understand your point.
The greatest respect one can offer another society is to treat them as being the same kind of humans as ourselves -raw, opportunistic, realists who would go to similar lengths as ourselves to achieve goals, not the fake respectful nonsense people project onto them to subvert them.
Awesome. I've always wanted to do exactly but like you said, it's a full reimplementation!
Sony Will Release 'The Interview' Online
I'm imagining a nifty little startup office at night, open plan, with 15 or so people. It looks like any other late night push to hit a goal except it's Christmas eve and barring any cultural reasons these poor souls have nothing better to do than ... go into the office? I want very much for them to to discover family and love and presence and how much more it matters than "work". No matter how much you love work it can't love you back. The lottery ticket can wait just one night.

This reminds me of The Family Man http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218967/
Far from it; it is full of holes.

Various issues: C used (huge flag), little progress yet, arbitration can't help in subjective/unverifiable/misleading data situations, anynomity will drag in the trash-sellers by the dozens, entirely unsourced data -even when true- is not as useful as sourced stuff (which you'd call "actionable"), de-duping information is impossible, what's the arbiters' motivation to be honest and not attempt to contact either side for bribes (or vote against "truth" for lolz), etc.

But mostly: Just think of the Signal/Noise ratio. Everyone will be trying to abuse this.

Even the dumbest, shotgun, numbers-game approach would have returns: Keep listing seemingly interesting stuff that is actually misleading/incomplete/bad/resold/... and eventually some of your transactions will not be reverted by arbitration.

And this is anonymous crowd-funding, you say?
Looks like
https://github.com/appjs/appjs
and
https://github.com/sihorton/appjs-deskshell/

(If you want to look at alternatives)
Ask HN: Is HN an echo chamber?
From my observation, the software community seems to be largely segmented into two main subcultures or school of thoughts (while there are many other shades in between or at their intersection): the hacker one and the non hacker one (I will use "enterprise" for lack of a better word).

The hacker subculture has a more craftsmanship oriented approach to software development while the enterprise subculture has a more engineering oriented approach.

Some technologies that tend to be more commonly associated with the hacker subculture would be Linux, Python/Ruby/Go, REST, etc. And with the enterprise: Java/C#, Windows, Oracle, SOAP, UML, etc. (I might be a bit off here)

Obviously, Hacker News is largely dominated by the hacker subculture and since it is my primary source of information, I am sometimes wondering if I am missing out on some valuable knowledge from the other side of the industry (e.g. I stumbled upon infoq.com recently and realised I didn't understand half of the jargon - IT governance, AOP, DDD, APM, etc.).

Do you think my assessment is somewhat accurate? If so, any actionable advice on how to get more exposure to the non-hacker side of the industry?
Japan, SKorea, Taiwan and the UK have the benefit of living in pax americana and being an ally of america. It has access to all the resources they need...

Russia's problem is that their vast territory is also their achilles heel. They stole land from japan and skorea and every other nation on its border. China, germany, turkey, ukraine, iran, mongolia, etc...

Their land is a blessing AND a curse. Russia can't fully trade with china or japan because of territorial issues. So they didn't fully capitalize on japan's economic miracle. And now they aren't fully capitalizing on china's economic miracle.

Politics and power are an unforgiving discipline. If russia keeps missing out on opportunities and keeps falling behind, the russian empire is going to collapse. Doesn't matter how many nukes they have or now powerful they think they are.

What separates the US and russia is this. After ww2, russia stole a bunch of islands from japan and annexed it. That's why japan and russia still haven't signed a peace treaty. The US returned okinawa. We didn't steal it so we can have normal relations with japan.