skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with
brandonwamboldt, mellett68, and tsm; the domain name is useless.

If you had a different business name...

I think a site that summarizes someone's github contributions from a recruiter / interviewer's perspective would be very helpful.

Poking around github to research a candidate is time consuming. Perhaps a more useful one page snapshot could be created. X profile views is free and you sell recruiters a per-company subscription fee.
Lyme disease can cause a type of arthritis and it was hypothesized that the vaccine might result in a similar autoimmune response in certain genetically-disposed individuals. There are many more details about Lymerix and what happened here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/

[EDIT: Just to be clear though, there was no evidence in the numbers that the vaccine in fact caused arthritis.]
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> Does the Democratic party espouse that we should recreate the US government as a democracy instead of a republic?

The US government is already, in theory, both a (indirect/representative/federal) democracy and a (democratic/federal) republic. "Republic" and "democracy" aren't mutually exclusive forms of government, they are largely orthogonal.
Was Black Jack for me :)
The president of the university I went to is paid well over a million a year in total compensation, plus is given an extravagant mansion for free. Many of the highly ranked administrators were paid half a million, including the PR manager. Who knows what their army of lower ranked administrators were paid. Last I heard, the president would only approve the CS department to hire a single new full-time faculty member. In the meantime faculty/student ratios are plummeting and the school is starting to do sketchy things like breaking a single class into two "sections" (which are in fact the same) to game the stats.
What about smarturl.it?
You can only have so drastic of a change in how you think from ten minutes of experience.
The funny part is why Facebook sends the exact GPS coordinates. All the end users see if a rough estimate, typically the city name.
^advantage of
>> I can't think of a single company who has reached a critical-mass consumer audience and not been able to monetize.

Twitter, just about every news site, Pinterest, WhatsApp, Digg, ...
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That depends on the age group, on sites targeting 30+ / more serious dating there is usually balance or more women
I've considered doing this if they are compatible- Does anyone know for sure that they are the same?

I assume I just take a dose for a great dane :P
> When I see this the debate between native apps and web apps is over, and it does not end with native apps winning.

You're acting like most people care about permissions. 99% of users just click through everything.
Is it possible to delete a project on SF? I've looked and can't find any information on it (on SF... haven't googled yet).
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You're confusing the subject of potential with the subject of valuation. If Snapchat goes public at a valuation anywhere near its current private market valuation, the revenue potential will be more than built in to the valuation, with minimal discount for risk I might add.

As a public equities investor, this is entirely unappealing unless you believe that Snapchat could deliver a multiple far in excess of comps like Facebook and Twitter and at a time when valuations are already so rich.

At this point in the cycle, I do not believe it would be wise to be chasing an issue that has retail investor appeal but minimal revenue. If you're bullish on social, you could do a lot worse than to invest in the company that has the best working model.
> I doubt they were even looking for that (if I'm really cynical, do you even trust them not to hide that?).

The drug companies do not do the data for their clinical trials - a third party supervised by the FDA does. The penalty for hiding data is pretty high.
Fastly is actually really great but they cost $50/month to start with. Their throughput and routing is amazing through.
Feel free! (let me know if you ever build something, maybe) :)
They ended up moving the World Cup to winter, determining that it would simply be too hot.

Of course, almost every major soccer league in the world runs during the winter with a summer break, so moving the month-long World Cup to would have thrown a wrench into the scheduling of every league and match in the top leagues. It would be an absolute nightmare.

I have high hopes that the World Cup will be moved (it's been moved with as little as three years notice before), but if not it will be chaos.
Python 3 doesn't handle Unicode any better than Python 2, it just made it the default string. In all other aspects the situation has stayed as bad as it was in Python 2 or has gotten significantly worse. Good examples for that are paths and anything that relates to local IO when you're locale is C.
Just make sure to find someone who's drift-compatible, and don't xhase the rabbit!
Oh, well, don't feel bad... the non-RC versions were also plenty broken back in the day. Play word association with me and hand me "buggy Linux distro" and you'll get back "Mandrake".

And I've played with a lot of Linux distros since then....

(This is way back, like, less than a major version after it forked from Red Hat. The first thing they did was put all the latest newest pretty shiny in to the distro. This had the expected effect on stability, unfortunately. And Linux has come a long way, as has everything else despite our occasional complaints... "expected effects on stability" == "hard hangs". Back then, "hard hangs" tended to encompass disk corruption pretty frequently too, even if you didn't go with the latest & greatest filesystem, which was actually "slightly faster but much buggier than ext2", which itself was not necessarily great. My goodness, we really have come far....)
Oldie but goodie. A contrarian view of business from a prototypical hacker, Don Lancaster. I re-read this every few years to regain perspective.

The Incredible Secret Money Machine http://www.tinaja.com/ebooks/ismm.pdf
more of Don: http://tinaja.com/

-G
But nobody knows for certain if adjuncts are actually worse.

I know my personal experience with adjuncts has been good. They taught, not because they had to, but because they wanted to and they enjoyed it. I studied law these guys were partners making 1 million + a year. They had practical experience which is very useful.

My wife is doing a maters in international relations and she had Madeline Albright teach a class.

The article never really discusses the elephant in the room--adjuncts aren't meant to be full time professors. In fact many schools ban them from teaching more than a class or two at a time to prevent them from being full time. The job is designed to be a part time side gig. It's not meant to be a way to earn a living.

The people this article talks about are treating adjunct professors as a tenure track gig when the entire system is not-so-gently telling them the opposite.

The real issue is that PhD programs are like vampires on grad students and then pump them out into a world where they aren't anywhere near enough jobs. That's why these people are pretending adjunct jobs are full time professor gigs.
digg never got big enough. Pinterest, Whatsapp are intentionally delaying revenue generation to build the userbase, a common strategy and not at all proof that they cannot monetize.
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Is it just me or is the central premise here: "Google is going to miss out on the future, because the future is advertising of the past" ? (e.g. old media style brand or "lifestyle" advertising)

Which is not to say that the end (headline) result isn't likely. No company dominates and continues to lead and grow in every market it plays in, ad infinitum. I just don't think a back to the future on display ads is going to be their undoing. Some feel there's a bubble in display and facebook ads happening right now anyway.
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Hi, I'm the author of this post. First of all thank you for responding to my comments, I'm humbled that you took the time and I apologize if you felt compelled to defend your work.

I was in part responding to the comment in the "Limitations" section of the README about how Disque was developed in "astronaut mode". Mostly, though, my point was that I think many people use Redis as a queue because they want to use Redis as a queue. Maybe it's already part of the stack, or they like the simplicity, whatever.

I am a huge fan of your work and hope to see Disque succeed, again apologies if you felt I was attacking your project.
I had no idea that was online. Thank you for posting it.

For my contribution, I would suggest http://bartleby.com as a source for literature.
>New England in particular.

http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/lyme/cases...
"The US is no different or infact worse" is a typical argument used to justify various Putinite wrongdoings and deflect discussion. Just go to /r/worldnews for a taste on reddit.

* Russia aggressively annexing its neighbors? Hey look over there at the US and Middle East

* Russia curbing various freedoms and opposition? Sure the US is a 2 party system where there is no hope for change.

* Putin gaining complete control of the media? Sure in the US the media is all run by same companies.

And so on, the best lies are those sprinkled with a small grain of truth as the saying goes...
Why should I expect the FDA to be more reliable than the drug companies?
Totally agree. We're just testing a concept here. If people like the product, we'll keep adding more and more filters and features like that
Well, there's "monetize" and there's "make a profit".

There are plenty of critical-mass consumer audience companies that failed to make a profit, some are alive only by leeching off parents, some died.

I mean, are the following companies successes or failures?

Reddit, Digg, Foursquare, ICQ, Instagram, Youtube, MySpace, Tumblr, Napster, Chatroulette

And they're the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

One could argue that Snapchat is the epitome of a fad product that should sell to a Yahoo to 'monetize'.
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Ask HN: What is your docker registry setup?
I'd like to ensure that our build and deploy process is reliable and speedy when pushing/pulling Docker images.

Using DockerHub, I have seen some reliability issues (downtime, sometimes without status page updates), bugs (timeout querying DockerHub API when a repo has many tags), and behavior changes (images used to be immediately available after push, now it appears to be async).

Given the above issues, I'm interested in better understanding what my options are... Have you used / do you recommend alternatives such as DockerHub enterprise, a self-hosted docker registry/distribution, setting up a mirror, CoreOS, etc?

Thanks!
When dealing with sensitive data it's still possible to show progress bars, spinners,... But in most cases it's best to lie to the user and it's what Meteor does by default.
It doesn't sound like it's a kernel panic, though; based on the description, it sounds like the issue is with the UI ("Springboard"), which explains why jailbroken devices (which usually have Cydia's "substrate" installed to catch Springboard crashes) are kicked to "safe mode" instead of outright crashing.

The most plausible hypothesis I've heard so far (mixed with my own speculation) is that whatever code handles notifications runs into some sort of resource exhaustion (whether it's a memory overflow or an integer overflow or somesuch), causing Springboard to segfault. Cydia's substrate catches this on jailbroken devices, causing Springboard to enter Safe Mode (which is unaffected by this bug), while non-jailbroken devices - unable to handle Springboard crashing - resort to rebooting.
that's why it has the valuation it has. the valuation is pricing in the potential . People thought Google and Facebook would not deliver, but they did. Maybe snapchat will, but maybe not. I think they will.
In October 2012, the firm successfully used its 40-kW combined fiber-beam system. Not 10-kW and 40kw is on the low end of what you want. Worse, 100kg per 10kw seems optimistic.

Anyway, as a first approximation if you’re dumping X energy on target with a 30% efficacy laser using a 30% efficient generator your net efficiency is at most 9%. So, you need to dump 11 times as much energy as you can get on the target. This is why most early designs focused on chemical lasers.
I agree with you - just started reading this and finding it super helpful in my understanding of JS.
If it has servers in the name it is distributed computing.

How modern is modern CS?

I took my CS degree around 20 years ago with focus on computer architecture, compiler design and distributed systems.

Distributed systems literature used in the degree went back to the early UNIX days.
Earlier today there was a link to a talk about the state of Go. The link below shows that Go 1.5 is working on Android and experimental on iOS. What does "working" mean? No idea. I would bet that Google has been developing another development language for Android since a ruling in favor of Oracle would would be a huge financial burden for Google.

http://talks.golang.org/2015/state-of-go-may.slide#20
Nobody gives a shit what the "people" think. r/worldnews isn't going to change foreign policy with outrage and opinions (Russian or US).

The more meaningful point to be taken from this event is that US government can and will use its influence over public and private institutions (banks, sporting organizations, other governments) to pressure Russia (and possibly other BRIC nations) into abandoning their economic and strategic interests.

This is dangerous because there is no chance in hell of Russia abandoning those interests over a soccer tournament (no matter how unfair/undeserved those interests seem to an average Redditor trolling /r/worldnews from their mom's basement in Illinois).

I feel that there are significant powers in Washington who sense that NATO and US's days of being able to violate international law on a whim and without repercussions are numbered and the only way to extend that immunity is by raising the Iron Curtain once more.
Say you're asked to observe a video of a ball moving forward in a straight line, then the video is paused, and you're asked to predict where the ball goes. You say, "Straight ahead into the target." Then they play the video and instead of hitting the target, someone catches the ball. Oh no, you lied! You horrible, horrible liar!
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I see. Thank you for the clarification. I was hoping you'd tell me that there are quite a few active users who are developing cool stuff for Plan 9.
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If you use a 32-bit scheme, you can dynamically assign multi-character (extended) grapheme clusters to unused code units to get a fixed-width encoding.

Perl6 calls this NFG [1].

[1] http://design.perl6.org/S15.html

^ link currently broken, the plain-text version is at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/perl6/specs/master/S15-uni...
This is kinda my position too. I value my time more than money, so I wouldn't mind if I didn't get the extra consultancy thing. The main reason why I'm interested is that it might lead to a different level of work. More strategic, architectural or advisory than just the coding, perhaps, and that might be interesting, and I would like to taste a bit of that.

So I do see this as a potentially interesting opportunity, and I don't want to waste it, but I also want it to be financially worthwhile. I think it'd help me a lot if I had some idea of what a normal rate for this kind of thing would be. Or even if I knew how or where to figure that out.
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Having to fear borking your monitor by setting the wrong hz is not something I miss. The fantastic feeling when stuff actually worked is something else though. I feel I have gotten spoiled.

Just now I had to spend 10 minutes fixing the system tray icon of pidgin under kde5. No satisfaction when it worked, just annoyance.
> Authorities accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF, of raping a maid in a New York hotel and made him do the perp walk in front of the cameras. What happened in the end?

Well, the "end" is hard to assess. What has happened so far is a series of investigations begun and dropped over various sex-related crimes until the current set for "aggravated pimping" for which he was tried this past February with the verdict to be read in June.
As someone on the implementation side I have a sour taste for Sales and Sales Engineers. Always selling features we do not have or things we cannot do. Then they mock it up and leave and I have to break the news to the customer.
> Nobody gives a shit what the "people" think.

The effort governments (among others) put into propaganda demonstrate that this is not true.
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I have first hand experience that says it still happens.
I mean poor in terms of how good it is to assert against someone. You can easily get a really narrow useless patent, but that doesn't cause any problems.
Do you consider missile guidance systems hard real time requirements?

http://www.atego.com/products/atego-perc-pico/

As a language I am not a fan of Go, but on the context of using strong type languages in embedded scenarios. I think the less C the better.

Just like JavaScript JITs, it is always a matter how much companies are willing to invest to improve the quality of the existing eco-systems.
Like memory leaks. Greatly problematic.
Well, that's a trust the government debate, but I worked at one of the third-parties and they did a pretty damn fine job of it. Their reputation was pretty important to them.

I was astounded by the cost in a study. Thousands of samples overnighted to the lab with multiple tests run on each. The bill for that alone is staggering.
It's a common pattern to use window.onbeforeunload to prompt users before closing a tab if a request is still pending.
Would love to check this out, but I'm seeing this error:

> Book not published

> You may not read an unpublished book.
He lived, but barely. If he wouldn't have gotten to the hospital in time, he would have died.
Except if everyone started using that, nobody would upvote anything except maybe spammer sockpuppets.
Ask HN: How shall I get started with theoretical physics and cosmology?
I have completed my masters in computer science. I am currently working as a software developer, but I want to start dabbling with physics with the aim to become a computer scientist aiding in physics research.

I have taken discrete mathematics in undergrad, but aside from that I think the first step is to get started with the math. What kind of math should I be looking at? Is there any website/material online that helps people like me ease into physics?

I am not much of a book person, so I'm seeking other alternative. I also don't want to take a formal course. I just want it to be a hobby that I can build upon once my knowledge grows.
You will still be tracked on other sites you browse if you are logged into Facebook with your primary browser. That is the benefit of an app like Tinfoil for Facebook, which keeps your Facebook cookie in a sandbox.
You can still use it: A2 Bluebottle. I proposed it as a solution to the paranoia of "NSA et al subverted everything! What can we use now and to bootstrap better stuff!?"

(raises hand) The well-documented, portable, simple OS and toolchain written by people with no interest in subversion available online for free? Not quite an Ubuntu but more usable than most things people were proposing (eg microcontrollers with hand-written Forth lol). I also thought Modula-2 or Oberon might make a good target for high level languages such as ML or Haskell if we're doing end-to-end safety arguments: one's claims can build on the others.
The costs I gave are the costs as contracted for LRIP lot 8, which consists of 43 aircraft. There are two more LRIP batches after LRIP 8, and then full rate production begins.
Clickbait. The $23.6B is virtual, earned in an iOS game.
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That reads like a right-wing mirror image of critical theory—a logically flawed mess that attempts to hide its defects with a long-winded obtuse writing style.
Won't CDN come into force for the two super hot users? I would gone with consistent hashing as well....
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Does that mean we can soon expect Node.js-like competitors written in Rust?
That's wonderful but your choice is your choice and shouldn't invalidate how others choose to live their lives.
Where "skewed views" primarily means "opposing the idea of a universal basic income based on the moral principle that people should earn what they receive"? Because that's what I got out of his comment.
Some people consider an abuse of list comprehensions if you use them just for the side effects. Why not just a plain for loop?

for t in threads: t.start()
But the students don't mind, and that's the elephant in the room.
Not natural top predators in the ecosystem: explosion of coyotes, deers and deer's ticks.

I'll wish to read some research about tick density in yellowstone after the arrival of the wolf. Is increasing?, decreasing?. Keeping some parts of the park relatively clean of deer's ticks?.

Mmmh, both seem mutually exclusive species, that's interesting...

http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/maps/interactiveMaps.html

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/gray_wolves/ima...
Only in the rube Goldberg sense of a ridiculously inefficient system.

Also, if you can build a mirror to bounce the laser you can use that same mirror to protect the target. But, N beams and N mirrors sidesteps this issue.

PS: An amusing idea is to use a fleet of drones with mirrors to cook the target using sunlight.
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Our team also runs into this issue. Dealing in real time means real time changes. Even if we have to wait on an return from the database to the api to the client.

So we simulate the changes as the user makes the action, 'optimistic UI updating' and then wait for confirmation on the server to persist the data. During that waiting period, we tell the user that their changes are being saved, but they are free to do what ever they wish.

It lets the user know things are happening, but might not persist because we are still in the mode of saving, yet allows the user to carry on with their tasks while we deal with the information they send us.

If they close the page, during this time, they are well aware that the changes are happening. The request has been made, it just didn't return yet.
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How does this address the problem of not saving user-submitted data after informing them you've done precisely that? This seems _very_ bad.

I think we're debating the merits of different classes of update here. Some updates are not essential (UI preferences, etc.), but other requests by their very nature, are--billing, messaging, draft editing, etc.