skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've more often had the opposite experience with Amazon. They usually hit the early side of their delivery estimates.

Amazon manages my expectation correctly by saying "Only N left in stock" where that is appropriate. They have earned enough trust and applied this consistently well enough for me to believe they are saying this mostly for my benefit, rather than just to manipulate me into panic buying. Although I don't prefer to shop at Amazon, that's an impressive feat.

It is lying to make a blanket statement like "in stock" when you know there is a fair chance that it isn't.

The number of times when I will lose a "first come first serve" retail battle due to light speed should be infinitesimally small (or predicatable: ticket sales sites have developed a decent system for dealing with this). Even if this did happen, you could certainly recognise it before taking my money: you don't have to take my money at the speed of light. I don't believe this is the cause of any of the delivery/stock errors that I have experienced.

Compensating me by offering me money off my next purchase is not compensation: it's a shady marketing trick.
Designers born from 1990's onwards must be warned... This is a dangerous game...
I'm not sure that's the case in Munich. There are special arrangements for exchange students, but it seems that everyone else is treated in the same way. For university accommodation there are waiting lists for various buildings, with waiting times of up to two years. In order to give new students a chance to get accommodation at all, they hold a lottery every semester exclusively for new students. If you don't win, then you're put on the waiting list with your original date of application. Oh, and all this is possible only for students of low income (who are eligible for BaföG).
Probably not, but there's not much point in doing so, as you'll pee it all out anyway.
Geocities is the new black?
But what is the point of using a movable tray in a shop or museum and so on, where employee has a cash or cash machine right next to it?
And if the tray is just a place to put cash before other person takes it - such trays are used everywhere in the world.
A super-minimal, almost “plain-text” email template for Mailchimp
> Can you tell me what costs firing someone in Portugal incurs to a company?

If you can get a legitimate reason for dismissal, two months pay per year of past contract duration. Reasons for dismissal are quite limited, but in the case of Mandriva they could use the legal figure of "labour force reduction".

Protocols are similar. You must fire lower seniority folks first, and you may not hire anyone for that position for a year. Employee and unions must be notified in advance.

If you there is no legitimate reason for dismissal, you'll need to reach an agreement with the employee. Typically, it ends up as four months pay per past year of contract.

The current government has softened these rules a lot, but they apply to new contracts only or to the contract period after the law was approved (depending on provisions for different parts of the new labour law).
Is there any data about how many people suffer from "crush syndrome" versus the "bystander effect"? I'd guess the latter causes more suffering.

I saw a man die, so did a first aid course. The tutor was unequivocal that trying to help is pretty much always better than not trying to help.
Their startup or my question, can you explain?
GitLab.com outage on 2015-05-29
Ask HN: What kind of conversion rate should a hybrid landing page get?
Looking for information on sign-ups for landing pages on sites where the user can view some of the content pre-signup.

e.g.

http://www.wanelo.com
http://www.soundshelter.net
We need a new an HTML5 what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor (a new Frontpage/Dreamweaver). Sadly, the HTML "contentEditable" API is in a very broken state.
Can it be called a pure AP system if a long running network partition can cause it to become unavailable?

In our case, shard groups are part of the data that is in the CP system. We create these ahead of time, but those are what we use to determine where in the cluster a given write should go and what servers we need to hit to answer a query.

Let's call a "normal partition" one that is less than a few hours. In that case I wouldn't expect it to cause the system to become unavailable. However, there are certainly scenarios in which a longer partition would make it unavailable.

And even for a "normal partition", new databases wouldn't be available to write to.
>could recast the same argument in terms of races

No you cannot

> black people don't deserve the rights of citizens

You are not recasting argument. You just add racism on top of it, then claim original argument to be racist

>women should stay home

And how does that follow from protecting citizenry employment?
They could have used an alternative data set as I assume all the other competitors are doing.
Is that true in tech or just in "regular" big business? I don't see Gates, Zuckerberg or Jobs being real high in EQ as I understand it, but perhaps I don't fully understand it.
Apparently Soylent doesn't contain much of either soy or lentils. It's a weird way to name a product. Sort of like making a fruit juice called "BeefPork".

(I know the name is a movie reference. Still doesn't make sense to me.)
> I Don't think we should be too hard on Baidu, considering they are attempting to improve their algorithm for the interest of humanity

They are not improving the algorithm for the interest of humanity. They submitted and obtained test results much more frequently than allowed. With that information, they can tune parameters to more closely fit the test data.

Basically it is like scoring higher on an exam where some of the questions have been leaked. It does not suggest you now have a better understanding of the subject.
So I post this on designer news and it ends up on hackernews? What. Upside down.
Why would you want to avoid learning Maxwell's equations? They're one of mankind's greatest advances.
Both treasury and corporate bond liquidity are worrisome. At least from the credit perspective, banks were previously able to step in when shit hit the fan and smooth out market volatility. Between prop desks being dismantled and increased capital charges, banks are simply no longer warehousing risk. There's been constant sell-side pieces and more recently a lot of regulatory or government cautions on the topic.
hasn't been measured yet. That'll come in mid-to-late summer after we've released 0.9.1 or 0.9.2.

Also, on the 0.9.2 or 0.9.3 release cycle we're going to start work on a new storage engine that is custom built for this use case. That will have a massive effect on the throughput.
Is the Berlin Airport ready yet?
Nice viz, no data from the rest of the world, though?
Are those rhetorical questions?
That argument might make sense if this competition was the only avenue in the world for improving AI.
What's with the title? No details have emerged (although the full report is due in a few months). Even BBC's title is misleading. "Virgin Galactic pilot recalls colleague's crash"- he said he couldn't see anything.
Honestly the best thing I've read today.
With animated horizontal rules and an animated background.
> Web people, please don't start to use effects that punish the eyes and offend sensibilities of people using particular browsers.
Hmm, not all font effects listed there can be seen in Firefox (39 beta) and IE (11).
Not to be overly inflamattory, but whoever designed that passport (an inherently international object) without taking into account international date format deserves to be fired. Then re-hired. Then fired again.
For example you can use Hibernate with projects that are not JavaEE and it's certainly not wasted time , almost all Java job descriptions ask for Hibernate knowledge.
Yep; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9655901 above
Great article by Cory Doctorow. Gets across the reasons why a seemingly innocent government policy can snowball into something awful for the general population whilst failing to achieve its original objective.
but it's not just negotiated in secret. There have been voted in the EU on documents that are classified. In the US, for example, a member of Congress could go to prison for revealing the contents to a constituent, even over things like ISDS provisions which could be massively damaging to democratic integrity.
The PLA appears to have taken down the NYT story.
this is a nice refutation of evolution
Some background:

This competition (the "Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge" aka "ImageNet") isn't just some random competition. This is the competition that gave rise to the recent explosion in interest in Neural Networks.

In recent years Google, Microsoft and Baidu have been one-upping each other to the point now where they are getting very close to better-than-human performance (ie, humans disagree with other humans more often than their systems disagree with the average human rating)[0].

Andrew Ng went to Baidu to start their team. I don't believe he is still involved in this challenge.

Baidu has been getting close and close to Google's performance. Every year so far Google has topped it at the right time, but Baidu has later passed the Google benchmark that year.

There were reasons to think that this could be the year they finally beat them. [1] is a story from January about the system that Baidu had built then.

Now this.

[0] http://karpathy.github.io/2014/09/02/what-i-learned-from-com...

[1] https://gigaom.com/2015/01/14/baidu-has-built-a-supercompute...
A Misleading Moment of Celebration for a New Surveillance Program
It's a mystery to me why, in this day and age, anyone is jailbreaking their iPhone to bypass digital signature checks.

I mean, 20 years ago there might have been some benefits, but these days that doesn't really matter. So why is jailbreaking so prevalent?

Or will it take some malware being publicly released to get the customers to take notice?
Their actions were motivated to win the competition, not improve AI in general. There are many image sets the Baidu team could have used to test on. They used the competition's image set an unfair number of times to tweak their computation to score better on those specific images (not to improve it overall).
So many of these are not supported on Firefox, very disappointing.
How to implement a compile-time meta-container in C++
Game developer in the midst of the Ukrainian crisis
Huh? Link works fine for me.
Thymio goes wireless
First Scrum – HELP
Hey everyone, I'm attending my first morning Scrum soon and I'm a little worried. I've studied Scrum and understand basically how it works, but never actually participated in the morning scrums. Any advice? Please??? :)
>Like all of the people involved in this story, I'm not a medical expert, so I don't know for sure whether these people helped or harmed the situation.

Faced with this situation, what would you have done?
They can't possibly have been around that long - according to all the other very original comments here, the web would have imploded and turned into 1995 geocities or some such.
Google's 'smart' food diary is actually kind of dumb
We only recently (and barely) passed the performance level of a human. There's still a lot to be gained from competitions like this.
A detailed post that shows how to implement a stateful meta-container that is usable where a constant-expression is required, effectively making it possible to store away different states during compilation of a program. The approach enables the world of meta-template programming to closely follow the semantics of imperative programming.

This post is part of the series regarding non-constant constant-expressions in C++, previous posts are linked below:

* http://b.atch.se/posts/constexpr-counter/

* http://b.atch.se/posts/non-constant-constant-expressions/
Depends on how observant you are, in Judaism, it is mandates / marching orders.

The "shiv'a" (literally, "seven") is a lot more than just the mourning period - it is also the period when others are required to come and comfort the mourners. It also officially stops if a holiday happens to fall inside it - thus, it might last as little as half a day, at which Judaism tells you: "It's time to stop mourning". (with the implied statement that the deceased has semi-saint status, and that's why you don't need to mourn as long).

It's not uncommon for people to mourn longer than specified (e.g., the whole 7 days even though there's a holiday that should have terminated it) and for other people to be critical of them for disobeying the letter of the "law"

I don't think it's about reducing guilt; It's about establishing something that's easy to follow for people whose world just collapsed. Guilt management is, perhaps, a small part of that.

During the whole following year (if mourning a parent; 3 months if mourning your child, one month mourning a spouse or a sibling), the mourners are instructed to not enjoy - modern interpretation is to not see movies, shows, attend weddings, etc. I think it's about mourning etiquette much more than it is about guilt.
GeoCities was exactly what came to my mind when I saw the "fire" animation.
When you've got a person who can hack a good prototype together and then later use the lessons learned to develop a fantastic quality software system, you're in luck.
Sounds like a short course.
There are probably a fintite number of points that are your best guess and near a station. Use station locations inside a radius.

Then run them all through mapumental to get distances. Weighting can be done in code or a spreadsheet.

Or implement a hill climbing algorithm using mapumental and the weights to make your cost function.
Do not find "London" when in the demo text I added this: "Regards from London,"
One pull quote: "Within the production environment of Spanner, clock drift at any moment is typically from one to seven milliseconds."
Lol, i also thought of Geocities and old Frontpage pages :p Missing fireworks anyone?
first thing I did was google if this had been an April fools!
If it's dead, someone should tell the recruiters that keep spamming my inbox. I've had four in the last month asking if I'd be interested in working on some JavaEE projects, even though I have no experience in that (they probably see Java and run with it)
"bringing the Android platform to cars"

Does this mean Google?! Would there be any other trustee choice for my car?
Funny for a moment I thought some one submitted a headline with an Indian word in it. Asthir in Hindi/Bengali means unstable, not stationary or worked up (remotely connected to Astir?)
As a Firefox user I'm glad this is missing in Firefox.

Maybe it's my age, but I'm getting more and more tired of unreadable pages that take ages and a lot of resources to load.
That counts.

By which math? 90% of the world doesn't know 90% of the history and doesn't care to know. The same history that includes big names of their era. Steve Jobs may be held up as an Ozymandias of our day, but will he be remembered for any of his "accomplishments" a thousand years from know? I doubt it. Why? How many Steve Jobs does 90% of our planet remember from 1000 years ago? One, two, ten, Zero? So is it about a named legacy or an anonymous one? If you are talking about impact. Sure. How about your impact on those whose actions affect your life the most? Whose choices influence your decisions about your life? Why does the focus have to be binary? Either, or?
PLA = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army

I think that was intended to humorously imply that the link appears down when accessed from China.
Just some anectdotal evidence, but at work I had to implement a clone of our Google Maps application in Baidu Maps for our customers in China. The only reason I was able to use their API was because they copied Google's interfaces, in some cases, word for word.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki
It is lying to make a blanket statement like "in stock" when you know there is a fair chance that it isn't.

Exactly. The CAP theorem isn't the customer's problem.

I do find it infuriating when a merchant tells me they have something in stock, takes my money, and then says they don't. The solution to this is easy enough for routine sales of off-the-shelf products: take the money at the time you physically ship the product to the customer. If you take an order in real time and then find you can't actually ship it within a short time after that order was placed then own up and offer the customer the best options you can.

A business that took my money for something they claimed was in stock but then didn't ship and held the money for a significant period would get a polite enquiry the first time, but if that didn't result in the product being shipped or an immediate full refund, they'd get the book thrown at them. This is probably the most common complaint I've heard among friends and family with on-line merchants as well, and as far as I can tell, pretty much everyone takes the same view about this one.

Compensating me by offering me money off my next purchase is not compensation: it's a shady marketing trick.

I agree with this, too. Taking someone's money and then failing to provide the goods is breach of contract, pure and simple. A merchant can certainly offer the customer some form of compensation for the inconvenience. If they have a generally good reputation with that customer and it's a rare event then maybe the gesture will help to maintain that positive relationship. But the customer has no obligation to accept the gesture, and if the merchant does this systematically, they deserve every chargeback they get.
And get your work done.
SQLPro for Postgres – Free Beta for a New PostgreSQL UI for Mac OS X
Hello All,
I’ve recently been working on SQLPro for Postgres, which is a new database manager for PostgreSQL. I’ve had a few users beta testing and it seems to be going fairly well. I would like to invite any Postgres users to give it a try and let me know what I’ve screwed up :) (kyle @ hankinsoft.com, or tweet @sqlproapp).

Some screenshots of the app are available here:
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There are some great features such as:
+ Syntax highlighting (including themes).
+ Autocomplete.
+ Multi-result set execution.
+ Single cell selection (when you have query results, most apps only allow full row selection. SQLPro products allow for single & multiple cell selection via keyboard navigation and/or mouse drag/selection).
+ Table designer allowing creation and modification of table columns.
+ Read-only indexes, foreign keys and triggers are also visible via the table designer.
+ Query results will detect primary keys and allow you to make inline changes changes to data based on those.

I should note that I am not very familiar with Postgres. Its very possible you may see things in the app that makes little to no sense in a Postgres environment and this is most likely due to my limited knowledge. I build the app as I had multiple requests from users of my SQLPro for SQLite and SQLPro for MSSQL database apps request it. From my limited user testing so far, they seem to be enjoying it!

You can download the free beta at http://hankinsoft.com/SQLProPostgres and if you feel like the app would be something you may enjoy, you can also pre-purchase for a limited time price of $5.99 via the buy button on the website.
Aha, fair enough - so if you only sometimes query the values together, you should separate them out into discrete series =).

For a logline, the sort of metrics we'd get would be things like query duration, database, client ID etc. You've often query them together, but you'd also query them separately, so I guess that also makes sense as multiple separate series.

Interesting, that line protocol looks cool and seems like it'd be more efficient on the wire.

Will the drivers (e.g. Python, Go) be updated to take advantage of this new endpoint?

Finally, I see there's also a ticket open for binary protocols:

https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/issues/139

Do you see that as being still potentially useful?
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I like it. I wonder if it would work with mixed in Markdown annotation.
That's how I read it too. The article didn't say whether the person under the bus benefited from, or suffered extra as a result of, the actions of the crowd. But rather it was how an exception to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect can arise.
Would it still be an issue with TSV? That's my preferred flat file data format, find it less error prone compared with CSV.
I have a really hard time with seeing grief on social media. It just comes across as shallow to me. People changing their profile picture to the deceased, posting tributes to them... it just seems fake.

I don't doubt their sincerity, I just think it's a really crappy medium for that kind of thing.
It's a completely irrelevant question and not everybody here has a startup.
Pairs nicely with http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/
Was very disappointed when I realized that I had misread the URL...

This is not in fact a Startup Pranking website as I had thought.
From the beginning of my remote job search I've faced the huge problem for me - lots of places where you try to submit your CV and cover letters. Mail, some site forms, Jobvite, Stackoverflow careers, HN and so on and so on. Every new job site offers its own way to submit applications, so where is on any single place to get info about how many applications you already sended, to what companies, when. It was really absurdly when I've sended my CV third time to same company only because didn't find old email about this.

That's why I decide to go with simple Chrome app where I can, at least, track progress of every try and keep all the things in one place.

Well, guys, i need your feedback and some improvement notes about my quick attempt to organize things related to my job search.

Feel free to ask and suggest, I will be very thankful for any feedback.
Based on this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon - touchscreen phone and PDA from 1994 - I'd say the concept was firmly established prior to Jobs return to Apple in 1996.

I think the vision comes in concreting the conceptual developments that had happened in to a product and creating a market for that product at a price that made the company hugely profitable.
Can mailchimp be considered a startup still?

Also, why can't we just look at the Alexa stats for this?
They already censor anything the Russian government doesn't like. [1]

[1] https://gigaom.com/2014/12/05/github-gives-in-to-russian-cen...
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