skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your euclidean distance formula is kind of wrong (at least on the site). The units of each term are incompatible so cannot be added together directly, they all should be normalized with a weight factor. A sensible weight factor would be the inverse of the standard deviation of the specific term.

Alternatively you could use the inverse of the covariance matrix as the metric tensor of the properties since there could be quite a few correlations.
A great instruction manual for applying a personal touch to a new startup!
Jabs against monarchy are always warranted.
Does anyone have details on the associated costs involved for Uber and/or the drivers? I can't imagine background checks being very excessive for the drivers, so maybe it's grossly expensive and miscategorized insurance?

Uber + Lyft just relaunched here in Portland. Drivers are required to have valid business licenses and pass a background check too. Everyone is very happy with the changes. (except our local taxi commission, of course)
MIT alum in my 30s. When to babes start throwing themselves ta me because of my degree? My parents promised me this would happen.
Do you ask every single person you meet if they speak the local language? That must get tiring. Or do you generalize and assume that people in a certain country by and large speak that country's language?
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I agree. Names just ain't that good of a heuristic.
Funny - that's similar to what people say about golf.
I think you are absolutely right. The other point that can be made is that P(person is black | name=Jamaal, person is US citizen) is much higher than P(person is black | name=Jamaal), since that is a common name in Arabic and in Muslim countries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal. One can argue that the extra "a" in the spelling of Jamaal as opposed to the more common transliteration Jamal is a marker but I don't think regular people notice this.

Note that the other weirdness is that the common US usage of "black" to commonly refer to African-Americans is very problematic: An arab may look dark skinned but most would never consider themselves "African" or there are African-Americans that have lighter skin colors than, say, people from Sri Lanka. Similarly for the label "white". For example, when we say "white men's advantage" there is an implicit assumption, not always stated or well-understood by users, that this refers to white men in the US, or perhaps more broadly to countries where there's a large population of "non-whites" that have been historically repressed.

Personally, when faced with a form that requires me to fill in race, I mark "other" or "does not want to disclose" rather than "white", since I don't feel I fully understand what the connotations of that label are for the purposes of that form.
He also does weekly videos discussing curl, HTTP/2, stuff at Mozilla, etc; worth a subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/danielhaxxse
I suppose it has 2D fractals only, my Haswell CPU struggles with 3D fractals already - I wish I had a experience as smooth as in fractal lab.
Google, very sensibly from a web security point of view, have a hidden nonce field in their surveys that you'd need to parse out of a prior request in order to submit the form. That means you can't use 'pure' cURL. formfind might well work to grab the value you'd need to send though.
Kind of crappy title, and mostly old news.

Should be : Researchers: Lenovo computers contain 'massive security risk'
> What rights did women not have in 1788 that you would want them to have? They couldn't vote, but voting isn't a right.

I think that most people today -- and most of the founders that you seem to deify as paragons of philosophic virtue -- would recognize both the right to participate in the government to which one is subject (the basis for the slogan, "no taxation without representation") and the right to equal treatment under the law -- both of which women did not have in 1788 -- to be moral rights. Certainly, both are actually legal rights which are extended to women in the US now that were not, in the same way, extended to them in 1788.

> They could own property, for example.

Unmarried women could own property, but under the common law doctrine of coverture, married women could neither own property, nor enter into contracts, nor earn a salary. Her husband could do all those things -- acting on his sole discretion -- including entering into contracts which called for performance by the wife, or exercising all rights relating to property which she had owned prior to the marriage.

> Once married, they became basically legally merged with their husband, but I'm not sure what it would mean to share a household in 1788 and not have joint ownership of things.

They didn't have joint ownership of things -- the concept of joint ownership in marriage in the US is a result of laws beginning in the 19th century which allowed a married women to own property at all. Prior to that, the husband owned any property and could dispose of it at will without the consent of the wife, but the reverse was not true. It was sole ownership by the husband, not joint ownership by the couple. The same was true of the power of contract, and basically all other beneficial aspects of legal personhood.

> In fact, they would have been covered by all of the bill of rights, including 9 and 10, which we are not covered by today

Both halves of this are wrong: while the Ninth and Tenth Amendments remain in effect today, they were formally proposed by the first Congress operating under the new Constitution in 1789 and were ratified in 1791, so they didn't apply to women or anyone else in 1788.

In any case, the Bill of Rights is not the only part of the Constitution that provides rights; among the amendments ratified after 1791 that provide rights are amendments 13, 14, 15, 19, 23, 24, and 26.
Mozilla write to Prime Minister of India on #netneutrality , against #zerorating
I don't agree.

If a climatologist proposes a model, good or bad, we can still use that model to make predictions and then wait for them to come true (or not). The climatologist is in no position to coerce the weather to adhere to what his models says will happen.

An economist is in a position to influence the economy. And economists as a group are in a position to steer the economy in the direction of whatever their model predicts.

Any predictions they make are less predictions and much closer to being promises.
Yes, it will be. Here's a fairly fun demonstration of exactly that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db-7J5OaSag
YOUTUBE TURNS 10
Well, in the one example given, a waiter used the name to discern that the debit card would probably belong to a black person. That seems like a perfectly innocent use.
From the video, it looked good. Great takeoff, boost, coast and landing. Really well done!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bhW2h08zhY

Couple of points of interest:
There were a couple of puffs of smoke from the engines that might be a sign of premature shutdown. Having one engine out would cause uneven thrust which will cause the vehicle to rotate or tumble. The test continued successfully, so if an engine did indeed die, we can assume that another was also intentionally shutdown to balance the thrust. The remaining engines would have fired for a little longer to make up for the lost ones.

The engine chambers are the first entirely 3d printed production rocket motors in the world. They're printed in inconel using Direct Metal Laser Sintering. This is the first time that so many of them have been fired in an actual mission scenario. The tech is so new and untested that special shields were built round the motors to isolate the rest of the vehicle in case of an explosion. I'm very interested to see how they held up.

There was some pretty severe tumbling during the drogue and main chute deploys. While easily survivable, this would have been quite uncomfortable for any passengers inside. I wouldn't be surprised if SpaceX tweaked the deployment sequence a little to help reduce this.

Good job, SpaceX... I can't wait for the In-Flight abort test later this year!
What area of software development are you hiring in? My experience with low-level development (hardware, signal processing, and such) is that companies won't even interview people who don't tick nearly all of their specific boxes.
Cool idea, I could see some companies paying for a group package for their employees. If health insurance discounts for fitness tracking become commonplace, I could see that taking off even moreso.
Seriously anyone working to create just a brokerage these days is pathetic in comparison to zenefits.

Also, zenefits knows that they don't really have a moat. Anyone with a brokerage license can come along and follow their model. They need to blow up while nobody is chasing them.
This uses the HBase API. You just connect to it like you would any other HBase cluster, using an HBase client. It's not like e.g., BigQuery or Datastore where you need the API client. You include a JAR and then connect to HBase like normal.
Another great step for SpaceX. At the moment it feels like they're making progress every other week.

What sort of G loads do the astronauts in that capsule experience in an abort scenario? It shoots up much faster than a typical launch. The separation from the trunk looks fairly violent too.
When did the "Prisoners Dilemma" get renamed to the "Farmers Dilemma"?
It is similar to saying "money does not make you happy, but lets you seek it at more places"
1. Old games had to be hard because if they weren't, they would be too short. People would finish them straight away and exclaim "wait... that's it?".

2. The point of playing games isn't always to "win" or "lose". Sometimes the point is just to have an experience. To roleplay, to see a story unfold, etc.. Then a ruthless difficulty can get in the way of that experience. Or it might not - but the point is that difficulty and achievement aren't always the biggest points. At least not to me.

3. A lot of hard games are hard in a lame or lazy way. Or just in a "fake" way[1]. Games should be hard in a way that forces you to be more cunning, agile, faster and smarter. Not just blindly double the HP of all enemies, or make progress depend on an obscure secret which can not be guessed from the game, forcing you to buy some gaming magazine in order to progress further in the game.

[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FakeDifficulty
How Bitbrains/ASP4all Uses Consul for Continuous Deployment Across DTAP
That's been around for a while, but it's not a hidden feature anymore: there's a link in the HN footer called "lists" that takes you to a page with all such lists.

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
Wait. Did you just claim that people who meditate get possessed by ghosts!?
The main issue is a bubble market for bonds. People are buying them because they have gone up in spite of the fact they lose money in the same way they used to buy loss making dot coms in the 90s dot com boom. For example a 10 year zero coupon bond paying $100 in 10 years time would traditionally have sold for say $80 giving you some return but if people choose to pay $101 I have a feeling it will go all webvan and pets.com on them. In fact the market appears to have started crashing three weeks ago. Cash will survive of course as it always has done.
Uber made claims that "thousands of jobs" would be lost in the move

I've got a lot of reservations about calling Uber/Lyft a "job" in the first place; in fact I have a lot of problems with these "sharing economy" apps-calling them jobs when really you're just subcontracting labor on the cheap while the business side collects massive investments and benefits for the full-time employees.

It's like when you drive by a Dominos Pizza {substitute with the chain of your choice} and they have signs "make $15/hr"; you'll maybe make $15/hr on an incredibly busy day or a sudden surge in ride requests, but what's the mean? Is $15/hr the mean? If not, you don't get to advertise "make $15/hr".

I said it once at the start of all of these talks two years ago: It's becoming increasingly apparent to me that "disruption" in so many startups more recently means less "disruption with the goals of bringing about much needed substantive change to local regulation" and more like "give my company special treatment to operate". And it's a hard pill for cities to wave off when the population centers are all clamoring for an alternative to taxis.

okay I'm done ninja editing.
It generally means that at any moment, you can be hellbanned and not know about it. If you're overly critical of something, you might be banned. If you offer a contrary viewpoint, could be banned. It's a dick move IMHO, and makes every forum that does it more of a circle-jerking echo chamber.

(I've been hellbanned a few times in the past, and for no real reason).

I expect this account will be hellbanned now :)
How do you compare? Fuel in Germany is around €1.50, that means 75 to 85% of the final price are taxes, compared to 52% for electricity.
Do you mean contract? A good manager can hire a pack of young contractors to rent out.

Of course an old manager can consult (== sell expensive sage advice)
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All currencies fall apart. Period.

It's unfair to claim that only gold standard currencies fall apart, or that they're more inclined to do so.
I think it's not that these games simulate work per say. These games mostly try to simulate accomplishment while offering a minimal amount of work.

Desert Bus illustrates what happens when the accomplishment is 1 point, and the work is 8 hours.
It's curious to read contemporaneous reports about negative interest rates on record hoards of cash, the pending insolvency of social security and medicare (in the US), and high unemployment globally. You'd think we could find better uses for those massive piles of cash.

I for one welcome our pending transition to federation credits. ;)
Just in case, I did the check.

Nope, the proxy only accepts connections from localhost, and no one has my ssh private key.

But there are some failed connection attempts from one particular IP from China.
The evidence you offer does not go so far as to support an inference of bimodality, only that there is some sort of broad distribution. That is as far as my personal experience of the matter goes, as well.

Some teachers in the field think they see bimodality in their classes, though there is some evidence [1] that this is a result of teaching to those with prior experience. One might guess (but cannot assume) that this carries over to the workplace, but also that it could be mitigated by better teaching.

[1]Anthony Robins. Learning edge momentum: A new account of outcomes. Computer Science Education, 20(1):37–71, 2010.
As of mid 2013 according to that blog, but I still bump into this from time to time
Go has a few curl packages too: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=go+lang+libcurl
FTP I did knew, but oh that list just took me by surprise. Suddenly I'll be using curl even more.
Perhaps I'm too quick to assume my experience is universal on this point. At school growing up, the white people were fairly mixed in actual ethnic background. Statistically, though, any researcher would consider Italian white if they used "white" as a category.

Would it be too personal to ask what she meant? Was she taken for Hispanic, or did people use anti-Italian stereotypes?
London Startups Do Better Where There Is Less Accessible Public Transport
Would be really excited but then I remembered facebook owns this and I got sad.
>> Typically, books like this cost between $20 to $30

>> ... too valuable not to share

>> ... generosity

>> ... share

>> ... minimum contribution of FREE

>> ... suggested contribution of $19

This is too weird. Is this some kind of social experiment on price framing ?
I think most of us here studied econ as a minor in University. The thing is, it doesn't take much knowledge to correct poor policy decisions. Credit default swaps, for example: basic mismatch in incentives. I was screaming at anyone that would listen about the coming crash. It was on the cover of the economist a full two years before the crash. Didn't matter; got fucked anyway.

Economics isn't like physics. There are wide disagreements over a host of issues and models and the disagreements impact public policy, which impacts us; the electorate.
I love baseball and I'm good at it, but it will never pay my bills. I am on a minor league team and I program to pay the bills.
I was born with an uncommon last name.

It caused me a lot of distress because nobody could properly spell or pronounce it. I had electric bills come in with my last name misspelled. My apartment complex had to tear up a lease and reprint it because they misspelled my last name (I caught it before I signed it, fortunately), and I'd been living there for over half a decade when that happened. Edit: it was also a variant form of an ethnic slur (you can thank bigoted Ellis Island officials for sticking my ancestor with the name), which made me really uncomfortable.

I hated it.

Last year, I had it legally changed. I was changing my first and middle names anyway (as part of my gender transition), so I threw in a new last name in as well (where I live, it doesn't cost any more or require any more paperwork to change your whole name than it does to change just the first and middle). My new last name is a monosyllabic word that's in the dictionary, refers to a common household object, and has no variant spellings. I've never been happier with my name.

> It would be nice if people could use two or three names legally. Like when you use multiple emails.

As long as you're not trying to defraud people, you can use as many aliases as you want. Of course, you'll still have to use your official name when dealing with the government, but there are companies who will respect aliases and use your chosen alias for all purposes except tax reporting.
Ardour looks pretty nice actually, but I haven't used it myself. Same goes for Reaper and Presonus Studio One.

In the end, in my experience, it comes down to a few things:

- stability and available support for problems
- ability to share native sessions w/ other users (as opposed to just stems)
- support for hardware (audio i/o and controllers, including mixing surfaces)
- ease of use - so the interface and process doesn't get in the way of the creative process

I am not necessarily a fan of ridiculous skeuomorphism in things like plugins, but at the same time a big knob or fader on the screen makes a lot more (and a lot quicker) sense to me than a little box w/ a hex value in it. I think the advent of touch screens in pro installations reinforces this - see Slate's Raven controllers, which are becoming very popular now - http://www.slateproaudio.com/products/raven-mtx/

In the end though this is just me - more power to anyone making good music anyway they can.
Nothing special. It's more a single service that handles all HR, which happens to make money from insurance commissions.

Other companies should be doing this!
I think of the three AWS services you named, only Dynamo can't easily be ported out.

Redshift use Postgres drivers. EMR uses the HBase API.
The survey is here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uQNYfTmRwF9RX5-oq_HV4VyeT1j...
Atlassian Acquires Team Chat Service Hall
I thought git was all about decentralization?
Yeah I'm getting murdered for being "tea party" on this thread for finding some merit to historical money.
As others have mentioned, we generalize all the time. We have to.

No single stone is like the other, and yet we we talk about stones and pebbles like they were some uniform set of platonic ideals and some sharp boundary separating one from the other.

We lack both knowledge about each individual and the capacity to hold all detailed information of all individuals in our heads to not shove them into categories.

Of course once you know someone better you slice them into finer categories ("polite person", "work-a-holic", ...) and thus add facets and tidits to your model of that other person. But that in itself is a continuum from broad categories to unique bits of information about a person.

If you're walking down a street at night in a city with a high crime rate and a group of tattooed, muscular youths comes around a corner then you're likely not going to treat them as individuals.

You will at least consider crossing the street because you categorize them as potential threat. Even if that particular group of youths is no threat, it's still a matter of probabilities they might be and avoiding them seems a reasonable risk-avoidance strategy because it costs you little.

You simply don't have the time or necessary information to treat them as individuals.

So as long as your generalizations are statistically sound (instead of outdated stereotypes) they are useful and should only stop once better information becomes available.
There is no correlation between the screen door effect and resolution.

Source: Palmer Luckey https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/2rayri/hint_that_cr...
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I want to do the same but with Lua. I think that would be a very nice environment.
So you think monolith is the only alternative to microservices
True they gave back the extra, but their startup is dead. The impact of too much money raised is a lack of focus, after doing so much on so little, it is easy to feel like you can do anything with a huge pile of money. And instead of accelerating the current thing out the door, a half dozen new things get started which slows everything down.

You can see this on kickstarter campaigns where there are "features" that are added if they get more money, but often the features are much more costly to implement than the delta in money between not-implement and implement. If you've been in that situation before you recognize they are setting themselves up bruising.
I see what you did there. Tarsnap is awesome indeed :)
When you go as far as Proto-Indo-European roots you're in linguistic fantasy territory, but anyway, I was talking about "a word coming straight from the Latin root". It's a clear evolution from the Latin "niger" to Spanish "negro" and illiterate English colonist "nigger". And it kept its meaning of "black" all this time.

Since we're talking etymology in the grayed out bottom of a HN thread, did you know that the word "slave" comes from the Latin "sclavus" that means "Slav" and is therefore offensive to people of Slavic ancestry? Will you stop using it now that you know? I hope not, but it goes to show the absurdity of putting hurt feelings before reason.
Also, here's a video of Kansas City's mayor, Sly James, speaking about the frustration of these negotations from his side of things prior to the vote. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHjJUJW0Jt4
That sounds like a language problem, not an editor problem.
Page Object Pattern – Design Patterns in Automation Testing
Thanks for the distributed issue tracker mentions; I didn't know they existed.
Manmohan Singh (former PM of India) was an economist par excellence. As the finance minister, he was responsible for the liberalization of the Indian economy and arguably responsible for the economic boom in the country today.
But his tenure as a Prime Minister is largely remembered for his missteps and his general nonchalance to everything that happened around him. His legacy was tarnished and now he is just remembered as a puppet PM.

So yeah, extra curricular skills and fancy degrees and academic credentials may not translate into a good leader of the country.
Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Announces Reddit Video at Disrupt NY
How despotic! Lawmakers demanding background checks and insurance from taxi drivers! This is outrageous. Where is muh freedom? I want to be able to hire a taxi with a rapist driver! http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/transportation/article/...