skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? Look at the price of Nexus devices for example. Those things are well powered enough to do anything your flagship can.
Then maybe everyone would find a less invasive monetization means.
I don't know what's normal now but a long time ago, 1997, I moved with a complex with 300 garages each with a remote. I opened the remote to change the battery and noticed only 8 switches for the code. 256 codes, 300 garages, drove around the complex opened 2 other garages. Even at 12 bits with 300 garages the odds are very high of a match

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
Pipes was the first service I ever owned from an ops perspective (circa 2008). We had two clusters, one on each coast. I thought we had capacity to take one offline to do a full upgrade, turns out we didn't.

By the time I turned the west coast back online, the east coast was failing health checks, and the LB failed everything over to the west coast, which then proceeded to be overloaded, and everything flipped back to the east coast... Ping ponged for about 2 hours until they finally settled.

Fun times.

Another fun story: For the longest time the front page had an example pipe that merged search results from various online sites (amazon/ebay/cl). It was made by a former employee and was easily one of the most popular pipes. One day we found out he had his affiliate id in all of those links. We chuckled and moved on.
It's a popular bank: https://www.chase.com/
IFTTT doesn't let me basically reformat an RSS feed and then see it in my RSS reader. Most/all of my use of pipes was "go scrape this thing and turn it into RSS, filtering out stuff I don't want to see."

It was great for that - I'm unaware of anything that is even trying to replace it.
Munich is amazing. They have a beer garden in the middle of a beautiful park... what more could you want?
> Whatever you choose, if trusting a proprietary operating system not to be malicious doesn’t fit your threat model, maybe it’s time to switch to Linux.
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Traverls expect their airport to be like a kafkaesque mall that forces them to see all the possible wares they can purchases before getting out of it.
In practice, that turns into far too many ways of defining classes in Javascript. There are at least four major approaches, and that was last year.
Even with those other methods in place, the leaderboard would still favor methods that overfit. That is why the final score is determined on a dataset (the validation set) that is not used until the model is locked down. The public leaderboard is based on the test set.

A more in depth explanation on the use of three datasets for model building can be found here: http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/19048/what-is-the-d...
The other discussion thread is talking a lot about the humiliation of having to train your lower-cost foreign replacements, all mostly from India.

So my first thought is rebellion. I wonder if there's some cultural blind spots that the trainers could exploit? It'd be the social equivalent of leaving a timebomb in the software. Don't explain how to weigh the options of which system to take down? Make the deployment system more obtuse? Make all of the hard decisions for them during those three months, so even though the trainees have been "doing the job", they haven't been exposed to any of the hard decision tradeoffs that were made?

I imagine that it would be hard for management to spot this kind of subversion.
That's part of why the credit bureaus and banks in the US have such incredible power. People tend to believe the calm and faceless large organization over an angry individual ranting on the Internet. Surely, the law wouldn't allow someone to be treated so poorly by corporations? And, yet...abuses are so pervasive that I am gradually beginning to think even the most ridiculous sounding horror stories about credit are believable.
jjwiseman is a user here and quite awesome.
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This tool is incredible. I love the ability to dig into system trace level activity per container when running a cluster of docker containers on my machine.
Not extortion but a trade. You aren't owed severance.
Anybody want to tackle this (seemingly large) problem that we have with credit bureaus? I'd be more than happy to try and dethrone the credit bureau beasts with a new, helpful, transparent service that folks actually enjoy.
>> So do you think calling Caitlyn Jenner by her current name is PC?

The expectation that every single individual knows everything about her history and should call her by her first name (instead of who she is best identified with...a transgender) is PC.

In return, I'd ask you this. Why do you think I'm insulting her by calling her a transgender? I'm genuinely saying this in a respectful way. It is you who thinks that I am insulting her. You are the one at fault...I'm the genuine person here.

I would in fact call a person asking me to be PC as being deceptive. You are the one totally ignoring that person's individuality. I, on the other hand, am fully accepting of her being a transgender....accepting her as an individual.

Who's the one at fault?
For what it's worth, that is exactly one of the things I am building. Glad to read I am not the only one needing it.
Describe your experience in details and post it in public and visible blog.
Also twit about - in other words - let the whole world know about this.

With all the recent privacy buzz - this may attract necessary attention to shake out this swamp.
This is why I'm EXTREMELY skeptical of companies calling for more H1-B's. I'm all for making the path to citizenship easier but these companies don't give a shit about that (However that's what they ACT like). They want cheap tech workers who they can use to replace their American workers. There isn't a shortage of tech workers, there are a shortage of tech workers that will work for shit. It's outsourcing 2.0.
This is why I just roll my own data mining tools.
This is a really important article!

I've found that a lot of my fellow founders have faced trouble when going to raise money from investors simply because they either looked uninformed or careless when dividing up equity!!

Make sure you don't fall into that trap.
Are you saying you think it makes sense to have vesting schedules longer than 4 years? I've seen "evergreen" clauses where employees constantly get new options, but not vesting schedules longer than 4 years.
Still, this also confirms the obvious fact that the selection of the winning team based on that hidden, private test also gives no guarentee that it is not accidently overfitted, especially with tons of submissions. The only reliable option to solve it is to ask participants for self-contained programs and run it inside a CV loop on the organisers' hardware, but this seems too cumbersome to be implemented in reality; I think only TunedIT tries it, but without luck :L
I visited an orchard a couple of years ago. The owner stored his pears at 0 degrees celsius and apples a little bit warmer - 4 degrees celcius if I'm not mistaken.

Since that day I've put my apples and pears in the refridgerator, and haven't had to suffer as many overripe pears and apples.
The live chat button on the website doesnt seem to be working. I wanted to ask if the site hosts lawyers outside of the US in places like the UK for instance as I'm currently looking to start a conversation with a legal expert on some startup matters.
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I said GOOD DAY!
This is actually a (very) small plot point at the beginning of the book 'Sparrow' by Mary Doria Russell. A technician shadows you for an amount of time, until he/she feels they know exactly how your job gets done. Then they go off and teach an AI to do it.
Sarcastic, which is why I included /s (a de facto emoticon of such) at the end.

Although sarcasm isn't popular with some HN users, I felt that I could either post a longer, heartfelt diatribe about how this is wrong.... or I could convey the same opinion in less space and perhaps with a bit of humor by using sarcasm.
Why resubmit within an hour? (and for me, the link still takes ages and doesn't seem to do anything). You should be able to change the title of your first submission if that is what you want, if you can't message the mods.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9660424
How Hubspot and Mattersight use reviews to shorten the buyer’s cycle. 
Debbie Farese, Sales Enablement Head at HubSpot & Jason Wesbecher, CMO of Mattersight will share how their companies are using online reviews to shorten buyer's cycle & close deals faster.http://bit.ly/reviewsformarketing
I’m curious, if you were an attendee what questions or tips would you ask for?

They are going to talk about:
– The role of peer reviews at each stage of the buying cycle
– How to leverage reviews as social proof to increase sales effectiveness
– What are the tenets of a useful user review
– How to secure high quality user reviews at scale

What else would you want to hear about?
Who is working on a pipes replacement

I'm curious if anyone has suggestions about solving a piece of that:

What would be the best toolset to recreate the Pipes UI?

It's pretty slick, and I could see the underlying UI being useful for modeling a variety of things...
I don't think this is an issue of competing with overseas workers, per se. American companies like H1Bs for two reasons:

One, they're generally paid less. I think this is usually justified by the employers because of the up front legal costs around the sponsorship, but those costs amortize over time since the salary stays lower each year.

Two, they're locked into the job. It's not trivial to get a new sponsor; you can't just randomly job hunt. So when things get bad, the sponsored employees stay when the standard ones leave.

And regardless of thoughts around global markets and whatnot, H1Bs are supposed to come with a simple rule: there is no available domestic resource to do the same job. At the point where you have the prior workers training the new workers, that's plainly being violated. It's not supposed to be "nobody to do the job at the sub-market price you're willing to pay."

I'm all for global marketplaces, but this isn't really that. This is importing artificially cheap labor into a domestic marketplace. That's a bit more questionable.
As am I :)
Yes indeed. I worked with groups of Chinese chemists all on H1Bs. They had to work ridiculous hours and assigned the most mind killing labor. If they made trouble they were told they'd lose their job and it was deportation. Finally the company fired all its non-H1Bs, including me; eventually giving up the pretense and relocating overseas. Where was the department of labor and industry? One of my coworkers contacted them and they wouldn't even return the call. H1Bs are simply licenses for a form of slavery.
This a great advice but it's a fucking shame that this is the ONLY resource many people have against credit bureaus and large corps in general. The number of times I tried traditional support to no avail and got a response to an angry tweet minutes/hours after posting makes me sick.
You might be able to try signing up here:

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What if I wrote a couple of honest, impassioned paragraphs as to why I disagree with the reporter's treatment?

Would I -- or anybody else here -- have accomplished more? Aren't we all just bellyaching on the Internet?
There was IFTTT but looking at their page now it seems like maybe they have pivoted, at least I can't tell that it works like it used to: https://ifttt.com/
I've used this beforem but it's been a while http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/
1 line at the bottom of a blog post does not forgive the rest of it...
Not "anyone", but it's all a matter of price. Given enough resources, all back-doors are shallow :-)

And when speaking of encryption, people should be concerned with crime syndicates or with industrial espionage, in other words entities that might have the resources to find and access those back-doors.
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Not everyone quotes the things they put into regular expressions. Before that would have resulted in incorrect code, but now it's a security vulnerability.
Huginn fits a lot of Pipes' usecases: https://github.com/cantino/huginn
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My understanding is that YQL is being used as the middleware between services internally. Will probably not be shut down, but they could shut off the publicly accessible one.

One thing not mentioned in this thread is that Pipes 2.0 was a rewrite from the original Pipes which was written in Perl. We ported it to the same engine that powers YQL.

As for why shut down Pipes if it shares infrastructure with YQL? Probably because usage is mostly RSS crawlers that no one looks at anymore.
Did Disney actually replace their 250 workers with H1B immigrants?

The article seems to be juggling words a bit to make a case against immigration, but later states that Disney only direct employs 10 H1B workers. I presume the agency that is now doing the data center work at Disney is all H1B immigrants, but the article doesn't address that either.

Considering that only 85,000 H1B visas/yr are granted and there are 154,000,000 workers, is this (0.05% of the workforce) really as much of a problem as the article is making it out to be?
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It reminds me of a friend that never lock his very old car so that no-one will break a window to see if there is something to steal inside.
Public VM crashed, no different ip. RIP Bananalert...
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Those restrictions are in place, to the point that there are requirements for advertising the job for a certain time, etc.

One of the classic ways to get around that one was quietly advertising the job on a company bulletin board or in a low-readership classified section, or something like that.

Not sure if that loophole ever got fixed, but basically, companies game the system.
Elevators and the numbers of bodies you need to move with mass transit really aren't amenable.

A ten-car train in an urban commuter rail system might have 40-80 passengers per car. That's up to 800 people deboarding (say, for a downtown terminal station), though generally you're looking at a low few hundred.

Dumping that demand onto 3-4 escalators is doable, and the streaming is continuous. For elevators, I don't see it working. Too many people and elevators don't operate continuously as escalators do.

Unless there've been tremendous advances I'm unaware of.

Schindler's high-capacity elevators are rated for 6-21 people. It would take 38 elevator trips to empty the train I described above (divide among multiple shafts and/or car trips as you like, but realize that speed is 1-1.6 m/s (about 3.6 mph), or just over 60s to travel 100m, plus return and dwell time. If train service intervals were ten minutes, you'd need ten shafts assuming 3 minutes per round-trip to clear 800 passengers.

http://www.schindler.com/content/pl/Internet/pl/modernizacja...
Like = upvote; an echoing of the sentiment expressed. The word does cause some cognitive dissonance.
"and, in fact, early implementors wanted to be able to store their Unicode code points in high-endian or low-endian mode, whichever their particular CPU was fastest at, and lo, it was evening and it was morning and there were already two ways to store Unicode."
Except the '+' goes on forever once it's figured out, whereas the '-' is only limitless if the technology is impossible.
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You know that German intelligence cooperates with the NSA to this day, right?
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Pipes was awesome. But was there ever a credible strategy to monetize it? Does anyone on HN have any ideas?
YQL queries can do everything pipes can, you just have to write little scripts to do it instead of the UI

Argh! The UI was the innovative part. The whole point of something like this is that you don't have to learn a bunch of syntax - when you add a module, it tells you what sort of data it needs to know (such as a URL or...) and when you connect modules together it tells you what sort of inputs and outputs are available. This allows you to focus on the actual problem domain instead of the morphology of the query language, which is not important to the user.

I keep encountering this attitude among programmers - 'I type code all day, so why don't you want to do the same thing?' If people wanted to type stuff all the time the command line would still rule, but the majority of people prefer graphic user interfaces because they don't want to write code, they want to make selections from available options and use the computer to take care of the plumbing. This is a Good Thing. It's easier, more fun, and yields greater productivity, for the same reason that handing someone a box of Lego is better than handing them a few blocks of wood and a set of carving tools. The existence of Lego hasn't led to a collapse of sculpture or mechanical engineering. On the contrary, the simplicity, consistency, and interoperability of the different components has made a massive creative, educational, and commercial success.

I don't mean this as a hit on you personally, but I find comments like the above frustrating. Imagine you went into a police station to report the disappearance of your bicycle and the person behind the desk shrugged and said 'you're still able to run around on your legs, what's the problem? Your bicycle may have allowed you to go faster down the street but it's not like you could ride it up and down stairs so you should be happy with walking on your feet.' The problem is the loss of a tool that offered substantial efficiencies on some common tasks even though it wasn't ideal for every situation. You'd probably be equally pissed off if your favorite high level language went away and you were told you could just go back to writing assembler. I personally love doing things in assembler because it makes me feel smart but that doesn't mean it's better than high level languages.
> [E]levators don't operate continuously as escalators do. [...] Unless there've been tremendous advances I'm unaware of.

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

:)
If you sign in all the previous functionality is still there. Seems their landing page is only advertising their new "Do" apps (which are a one-button extension of the old IFTTT recipes). Installed it, but never used them much.
How about you being protected from basically everybody else?

Am I the only one who would rather not let any random theif have access to all my personal stuff? If the government wants to fuck me over they don't need my laptop for that.
Sure thing, but could you show an example? Let's say we want the `rename` function be private, this is what I came up with: https://gist.github.com/ravicious/5412eebf8a1934ec7886

I don't particularly like this solution, because now I can't just write `this.rename()` in other Person functions. That's why I'd rather have a baked-in way to define private properties & functions instead of having to use (in my opinion) this weird syntax and later explain the whys and hows to other developers.
I was looking into doing a Pipes 2.0 sort of project. If you live in the bay area i'd love to get coffee and chat about it. There are a number of the pieces to pipes that are opensource, but none of them are strung together.

I also thought that pipes queries were amazing, but slow, so it was hard to use them as part of an application.
It is odd that there is such a significant cultural difference. On the other hand, the difference in culture may be more subtle than we realize.

For this test, they should have had an automated way to enforce that rule, if possible.

Look at the actual levels of piracy in the US versus China. In the US, you will get some people who say they are worried it might be wrong or that they will get caught. But most people will say something like 'watching this free stream doesn't hurt anyone'.

In the US, we have no problem with high end shoes that look similar to one another, or low-end similar to high-end. But there is a subtle distinction -- there must be some way to claim that this is not copying the other. But maybe it more often comes down to taking a different attitude towards the same thing. E.g. "cheap Chinese knock-offs" versus "inexpensive sensible alternative to overpriced designer brand".

Its also perfectly fine in general for companies to copy a successful business model. But we insist that there must be some distinction. However the difference between these companies may only be slightly greater or mainly surface-level, and so when you get down to the fine analysis, I thinj the real difference between the cultures is smaller than people want to admit.
No, a 64-bit atomic add isn't required. Smaller atomic adds can be used just fine with a double-wide number.
One of our open source projects[1], lets you consume RSS, Email, and Tweets, with more "stuff" coming, and apply filters and set triggers, etc. It's still pretty raw, and we don't have the really awesome visual interface for laying things out, but that sort of thing is something we hope to get to eventually. One other neat thing we do is pipe content through Apache Stanbol to do semantic entity extraction, and build up a knowledgebase as content is consumed.

[1]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick/
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https://github.com/validator/validator, can probably be extended for things like 404 checking
What business that develops software can't afford $9 a month for an upgraded plan? The utility you get from this type of software far outweighs the cost.

Who wants their wireframes to be public projects? Maybe if you're working on UI's for open source projects? I can't think of any other use cases.

Precursor's unique value propositions seem to be aimed at problems I would guess few people have...
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Urban light rail is almost universally electric. NYC, Chicago, DC, LA, BART, Seattle, Portland, etc. Sounds like a few places need to contemporize still, but in a lot of cities, electric has been the norm for a long time and we can trivially add more tunnels and not worry about exhaust.
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I understand that this is almost par for the course in corporate America (and certainly elsewhere) but it's always a bit more striking when it involves a company whose business is selling fun and entertainment.

I mean...Marvel movies! New Star Wars movies! Pixar movies! All of the cartoons we loved as kids!

But yeah, their damage to U.S. copyright law and stuff like this always makes for a quick reminder that even when your brand means "fun!" it's still based in the calculating world of profits and shareholders.
I didn't know that there are indeed double-paned windows that have most of the air removed from the space between the panes. That was interesting news to me.
The strongest arguments for and against raising the blocksize are all about decentralization.

For the raise: As the number of transactions organically grows, if the blocks fill up, users will be pushed to "off-chain" services such as CoinBase or ChangeTip. This will hurt decentralization, because these services are basically banks.

Against the raise: As the size of blocks have grown, the number of full nodes has fallen. Further increases in block size will only make the number of full nodes decrease further (because of increased requirements for bandwidth, memory, and disk space), which will hurt decentralization.