skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really cool. I want to see more of this.

Oh man, I just went to the home page. Tons of cool stuff! This is great.

I could see something like this being integrated with codeacademy as a way of learning after you finish the intro lessons, sorta like how chess masters watch a lot of chess games to learn how the game works.
I think actually there is nothing worse than using XOR, full stop.
Every year when the previous year's promotions expire, I cancel my TV and lower my internet down to something cheaper. Every time, within 10 business days I'll get a call for a better offer.
Is it very difficult for Cubans to move to Argentina, Chile, or Mexico? As troubled as some of those places are, they seem like paradise relative to Cuba.
Annoying. Must be a bug in ReadTheDocs or something
https://github.com/peterbe/autocompeter/blob/master/docs/api...
I beg to differ. A vocal minority of users who are aware of the JS dependency speak up for the unknown subset of users who can't read the page due to an error and don't care enough to investigate.

If a page starts to lag when I'm scrolling on a phone, it isn't worth the CPU cycles, battery life or my frustration to continue using it.
Anyone else who happened to buy at that time was also affected.

There are always less-informed bystanders, and an efficient market is supposed to be about getting prices right. Adding noise to the signal isn't helpful.

I agree, though, that it will probably self-correct.
> websites that want to track will keep coming up with lame excuses to ignore it.

DNT is a political solution, IMHO. Many websites and industries claim that consumers accept tracking. If the consumer sends a contrary message every time they connect, tracking them anyway is a practice that is difficult to defend in front of the FTC and Congress, and in the court of public opinion. On another level, it's simply rude.
Learn you some Joe Armstrong's books..)
how do you manage 30 unique homework assignments?

Well one approach would be not to require students to do homework. In my experience, when I'm learning something that I'm interested in, there would be no benefit to somebody checking work that I do. If I want a second opinion, I seek it out rather than the other way around.

To me, a school that really "respected" students in the way the author is suggesting would have no need for telling students into learning anything in particular.
Except that harmful algorithms aren't limited to only harming other algorithms. They manipulate the stock price for every investor, including small investors. The SEC should be involved to protect the small investors from the effects of bad actors.
You could take Ugandan currency, and make a big announcement somewhere that you are willing to buy bitcoin with it. Some enterprising person will come up with a way to deliver.

(Though the sister comment about going via neighbouring Kenya seems more down-to-earth.)
Thanks joliss! That sounds great — I’m going to look around on StackShare and find some interesting companies.

About the labor laws: I’ll be turning 14 right before the internship could start (at the end of the school year), but that’s definitely true.
1) compatibility with S-Plus, which was widely used by statisticians for long before R

2) developing new statistical methods and other innovations (knitr, etc) is much easier in R or S-Plus than SAS, SPSS, etc. So R's improved a lot faster than the others.
I think the problem is that if I'm playing a FPS on Onlive and playing against you, say in Counter-Strike, and I have an extra 150-200ms lag and you don't, then I lose. Coop and multi-player play in Onlive sounds terrible.

For single player games, yeah, you're right, a person can handle 100ms or so, but that's mostly because he isn't playing against anyone else and the game is designed to handle 100-150ms delay. It can handle an extra 100ms or so from Onlive without too many issues. Its not pretty, but it works well enough.

I do agree that spikes and lost packets are the most noticeable issue, but even if you eliminate or minimize those, you still have the coop delay problem.
To give the other side of the argument:

Most scientists have little or no quality training in software development, but scientific research is increasingly reliant on software. At present, software is a glaring black box in a great deal of research, because very few reviewers have the skills to thoroughly scrutinise it.

A software monoculture always has negative consequences, but fragmentation can be equally problematic in many cases. A reviewer saying "This would be better in R" usually means "I have no chance of understanding your code, because it's not in R". For better or worse, R is currently the statistical computing lingua franca in most fields.

I believe that the scientific method is in real trouble, due largely to the immense complexity of much modern-day research. Scientists have access to immensely powerful analytical and statistical tools, but most lack the training and infrastructural support to use them in a rigorous manner. Bad practices in software and statistics are the norm, rather than the exception; I'm sure most of this is just an honest shortcoming, but I'm equally sure that the lack of CS and stats experience amongst reviewers is a gift to would-be Bogdanovs and Obokatas.

Science has always been a collaborative effort, but I think most fields are in desperate need of greater support from computer scientists and statisticians. Ultimately I would like to see those professions become deeply integrated into all scientific fields, with the expectation that all papers should credit a statistician and (where applicable) a computer scientist. Likewise, editors and reviewers need far closer ties to CS and statistics professionals. Of course, these issues are intertwined with many other problems in funding and peer review.

Until then, the hegemony of R may simply be a price we have to pay for better research in the short-term. A software monoculture at least gives reviewers a fighting chance of spotting issues with software that might affect the validity of results.
I wonder if tourist places will be able to keep overcharging in CUPs. I think it's a lot easier to sell a drink at 5 CUCs than at 100 CUPs.
Would hold a lot more water if it weren't a NEGATIVE affirmation, with an unreasonable default (assuming most people WANT to be tracked unless they take the trouble to tell you otherwise?)

Option should have been "Track Me", unselected by default. If a person wants to be tracked, let them say so.
> Without this change, websites that receive a DNT signal from the new browsers could argue that it doesn’t reflect the users’ preference, and therefore, choose not to honor it.

With this change, websites could argue that they don't care and choose not to honor it. Is there any actual enforcement of Do Not Track? If not, the whole idea seems broken at its core.
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Possession is nine tenths of the law?
Though what we really need is a device to decrease the efficiency of human walking.
I'd argue that much of the internet consists of minds of people who browse, communicate and share. Private are most of the pipes, low level and high level (like Facebook but not torrent).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9317002
Why does HN have usernames, comment/submission history, and frankly upvote counts if we're not supposed to look at them?

If it weren't in the "spirit" of HN, it wouldn't be such a critical feature of the website.
Consider using package `log` for logging, `fmt.Printf` doesn't linearize writes to stdout.

https://github.com/peterbe/autocompeter/blob/master/server.g...

Also with `log` you don't need to add a `\n` at the end, it will do it for you.
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Those things are of course at bottom of any multi-task discussion. But they are so far below the actionable layer for service designers as to be moot. For that we need to talk about transactional data, about restartable processes, about context and state and where its kept, from a language and data structure point of view.
Nope because it doesn't account for risk.
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No, the real issue is that stocks have been turned into hype driven vapoe-ware. Tesla stock has a P/E of NEGATIVE 250 or thereabouts.

OK, they are building a company and maybe even an industry. I get it.

Yet the problem is one of ridiculous valuations. There's huge risk. It is nothing less than legalize gambling. This coming from someone who day-traded full time for over a year. The things I experienced during that time made me decide that the stock market was nothing more than a form of gambling.

Don't blame the joke or the algorithm. Blame a regulatory system that does not protect the masses from "going to Vegas" any time they touch the stock market.
Though, getting to the moon didn't really give us anything (apart from seeing it as a valuable thing in itself).
The original WSJ story feels like "we requested the visitor logs as part of our reporting, and there wasn't that much interesting in them, but we might as well write something about it."
That’s definitely true, jfoutz. I built Noodles because I wanted to, and I’m thinking about some more projects I might take on personally.

I’m also going to try and start writing tutorials to make learning things less painful for new folks, because with more recent frameworks like React there just aren’t a ton of articles out there yet.

Thanks!
Sorry, let me try again, without humor this time. :)

"I dislike the use of the word 'sexy' to describe things which are considered attractive for non-sexual reasons, partly because it dilutes the original word and partly because it doesn't convey any reason for the attraction to the actual thing."
Where do you propose we go?
A challenger appears:

http://www.cryptofails.com/post/87697461507/46esab-high-qual...
Ever seen any commercials about upcomming premiere of anything?
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Agreed on RStudio being a factor. For me its all about packages and RStudio. I totally believe some other languages are better in general (Python), but RStudio makes a difference at work. As I can quickly show co-workers charts, data views and Shiny Apps.
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Give a man the assumption he is safe and he will lower his guard. There is no reason to not believe the algorithm used is intentionally marketed as safe but is in fact not. From the top of my head I can think of numerous three-to-four character organizations which would benefit from people thinking they have secured their data when they in fact have not.
Have you tried https://news.ycombinator.com/classic yet? I've continued to enjoy HN for 2081 days thanks to this useful filter, which removes submissions from newer users.

This is helpful because it is primarily the users under 1000 days who are much lower quality. By browsing the classic section I find I can recapture some of what the message board was like when I joined nearly six years ago. The dream would be an HN with both submissions and comments filtered to users who are older than 1000 days.

It could be something like:

https://news.ycombinator.com/classic/item?id=9316022

This would allow you to filter out comments from the newer users.
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2015/03/really-rupert...
I wonder how it would work if I had a t-shirt with this constellation watermark on it.
The entire stock market is based on gambling. No, not even that. You're gambling on the value of the baseball card, not even on the value of the player. Once a company sells stock, that share value is essentially unrelated to the company except by tradition and cultural expectation. The share can vary all over the map, and only gets a reality check if it goes below book value (none ever do). Even dividends hardly matter; they are factored into the stock price near dividend time, and drop out the day after the dividend.

SO no they haven't turned into anything; they always were vapor-ware.
> With a default option DNT would have no reason to be honored by any site owner. We could be enjoying native DNT tracking right now if Microsoft hadn't done that stupid dick move 2 years ago[...]This should be a post apologizing for the trouble they caused and for destroyed the point of a W3C proposal that set back the industry for several years. Instead it looks like another Marketing stunt.

You're taking this really far out into left field and what you're saying is incorrect. DNT is a useless standard; it requires the visiting site to receive the preference and act appropriately on it. There is no way to enforce that the site acts appropriately. Sites that want to track users were always going to anyway. Except for maybe a few exceptions (such as I would expect browser makers to follow the standard) almost no one was ever going to honor this even before Microsoft's decision.

If you have a business where tracking users can make it more profitable and the W3C came along with a standard that said "if you receive this bit pretty please don't track the user please" why would you even care? There is nothing anyone can do about whether you track or not. At worst someone on a blog publishes a rant about how you're ignoring it but big whoop; countless other sites are also going to be ignoring it.
Can you quantify that? Are you judging by "algos that trade the most" or "number of algos". Or "trader id attached to the algo", or "at the clearing house?".
Why does it matter where the interesting stuff is implemented?

Do you have a link to your implementation or comments on how this one could be improved?
This whole thing is pretty silly. If you are not sending a DNT signal then almost surly only because you don't know about it or you don't care enough, almost surly not because you really prefer being tracked. Or is there really a relevant group of users preferring to be tracked? If yes, why?
The biggest boon for R was the rise of "data science". Data scientists have actually existed for decades, but they had different titles (quants, actuaries, quantitative researchers, etc) and came from fields that preferred enterprise software for various reasons.

Data scientists, on the other hand, largely rose from tech companies that hired software engineers and preferred open-source software. When I started in the field ~10 years ago there were very few reasonable open-source options outside of R. Matlab and SAS were prohibitively expensive, Octave was too immature, Python didn't have basic functionality like data frames. In short, it was our only viable option, so we used it. A lot of people started using it for the same reasons, so R's library support became the best. This is what keeps me semi-locked into R - I'll probably eventually move to Python or Julia, but R hit the critical mass first and in a huge way.
The techniques developed are useful in other areas. Eg Double_Cast talks about fast matrix multiplication above---certainly a useful technique elsewhere.
(Reuters) - The world's largest concert promoter, Live Nation Inc, plans to buy Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc for about $400 million in stock, aiming to create a company with dominant holdings in concert promotion and ticket sales.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/02/10/us-ticketmaster-li...

2.5b enterprise value inlcuding debt. not 2.5b equity.
To be honest, I started learning VueJS first (vuejs.org) and that got me into the line of thinking of MVC/MVVM. After I finished my project prototype with VueJS, I ended up going through an Ember tutorial or two and rewrote that VueJS app using EmberJS. I highly recommend EmberJS because of its painless upgrade process, strong conventions, and awesome community. Once it clicks, you'll be amazed by how fast you start shipping out features and building complex UIs.
Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Everybody is an imposter on some level. Everybody is making it up as they go along. Once you figure that out, a lot of things start making sense. The solution to feeling like an imposter is courage and persistence. The cliche is true, if you think you can or think you can't, you're right. It sounds like you're already going down the path of least resistance, out of fear. You should probably stop doing that if you want to better your position in life.
Does an unpowered clutch engage a spring in parallel with the Achilles tendon when the foot is on the ground, offloading the calf muscles and making walking easier?
you could put a couple of NULLs in front of the file so its unreadable and claim its encrypted :)
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It’s not for the cash — I’m not even concerned that I’ll get paid at all. I more want it because endlessly building things on your own isn’t as challenging or as much fun as being with a team for a little while. I’d also like to meet some more new people along the way.

On security: I’ve emailed several companies about security bugs on their websites, but I hadn’t considered being paid for it. I’ll check that out!

Thanks.
> advertisers have a case that the user has not explicitly asked to disable tracking.

Advertisers don't need a case. They don't need to ever care about this bit.
It reminds me a lot of embrace, extend, extinguish employed by Microsoft.

Once they got platform adoption and popularity, it's like they stopped investing in the platform.

At least that's my perception as an outside user.
I disagree. Yes it's a huge risk, but you take that risk if you believe in the vision and people behind it. It's a lot different than betting on numbers. In fact it's a lot more like angel investment, which in the case of startups without revenue have a P/E ratio of infinity.
How do you manage this repository? Have auto-commits, auto-pushing, auto-anything?
I've found Apache Solr the best approach to building a flexible, fast auto-complete service. Solr can spit results back in json so it's dead easy to write a simple API wrapper in whatever language you're using (go, python, ruby).

You can then stick Varnish in front of the whole lot if the search space is relatively static and not ridiculously huge.
io.js isn't very bleeding edge though. That's just FUD.
Tinder reproducibly crashes my WiFi
It sounds absolutely absurd but Tinder reproducibly crashes my WiFi Network.

Network:

- Technicolor TC7200 Router

- AP WA801N v2 (2,4GhZ, WPA2 encrypted)

Clients:

- Apple MBP 2011, OSX Yosemite

- Moto G (First Gen), Android Lolipop

Scenario:

- I give all devices (AP, Router, Phone and Laptop) a full, fresh reboot and wait 10 minutes

- MBP is pinging the Access Point, the Router any site (say Google/Facebook whatever)... all fine. No drop outs, packet loss or whatsoever.

- Moto G has active Internet Access... i can browse sites, load content in Apps... all good.

- I open Tinder, scroll thru my Matches... still all good.

But the moment i open a profile, all pings to the Internet on my MBP fail and the Phone also can't make any connections whatsoever (browsing, loading in-app content... it all fails).

Im sure by now you think i've gone crazy but i can reproduce this behaviour at any time.

How is this possible?
I somewhat disagree with the consensus. This, like Netflix moving their earnings date, is a big middle finger to the people who provide liquidity in the company's stock.

Musk feigns intolerance and disinterest in the games of the market. But more than any other CEO, he baits and stokes it. Several times in the last year, as TSLA stock takes a beating, he drops a tweet. He did it on October 1st with the "Model D" tweet. It creates a boomlet until the announcement, then a crash back down to reality. It creates a bag-holding moment for retail investors. It's not unreasonable to think that the CEO should not be meddling with the public market. I go even further and say: the investors and traders of TSLA have significantly helped the company succeed. Why does he keep kicking them in the teeth?
> I'm going to wager you haven't used, or are even aware of, "literally every frontend framework ever created," so we can agree you're being hyperbolic.

The definition of a framework is abstraction. That's not hyperbole, that's fact. Frankly abstraction is programming since all programming languages are is an abstraction of machine code.

I'm not going to bother responding to you point to point, since I made valid counterpoints that you are hardly qualified to dictate as "not valid". The OP's post was opinionated half-truths designed to be pissy about Angular because that's what the Cool Kids(TM) do these days. It's gotten boring...

But hey, it won't be but a moment before more boring people have more boring complaints about React. Naivety has no end.
R's library support predates your timeline.
I think this is definitely true. If my parents were prompted when they installed IE with an explicit message that said "Do you want to be tracked by websites you visit in Internet Explorer?" my dad's response would probably be "wtf they can do that?" and then promptly select "NO".
That's... exactly what the caption under the first image says.
Actually, local mkdocs gets it right. Only on readthedocs does it get screwed up.
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I can sorta agree with the both of you, but this is really off topic.
DNT is not a technology that will automatically restrict people from tracking you like adBlock for instance. The idea is that good citizens will honor your choice of not be tracked.

It needs buy in from both users, advertisers and publishers. If you make it so that you only get approval from users, advertisers and publishers will ignore it and the whole thing collapses. They already have very little incentive to honor it.

We could have seen laws, in the future, requiring business to honor it. But this move by Microsoft gave publishers/advertisers all the weapons they would need to fight those bills. It no longer express the choice of the users, and that was the key of DNT.

Microsoft move completely removed any possibility that publishers or advertisers could support it, basically killing the proposal. It is their fault. Do not expect to see anyone honoring it anytime soon.
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