skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I really don't like seeing people advocate using this license or any other non-free license. The whole point of making analysis code available is to aid reproducibility and future research, but this license explicitly forbids reuse of code for anything other than peer review or validation.
I'm pretty sure that's intentional. The point of the license is for releasing crappy code that is still necessary for the research in question and validating the findings.
I don't think the level of manipulation is any different between Russia and the US. The only difference is the type of manipulation - US spooks need to found a company and use their connections to make influence - e.g. CNN - meaning they're more covert. Russian examples are more overt, because Russian culture simply allows for the embarrassment. Americans would rather not be confronted with the degree to which their government is oppressing them - so they hide it behind corporate entities designed to hide the true influence in the shadows.
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I never accused rich people of being thieves. I didn't say Justin Bieber stole his wealth.

Justin Bieber is not a wise custodian of wealth. Wealth is not magically redirected away from stupid people towards smart people is all I'm saying. Many smart people are not rich, just like how many people who are rich are also stupid.

The loaded term "wise custodians" as if rich people are benevolent caretakers of the world's wealth due to their infinite wisdom is what I'm attacking here.

I would say, if placed under equal circumstances, the intelligence and benevolence of rich people is more or less the same as all people in general. We should be in agreement on that.
you have this exactly backwards, because you're ignorant of how poor people actually live in this world and rely on your dogmatic beliefs to guide your interpretation of reality. people being lifted out of poverty do not make high marginal value goods. they make things that create pollution and junk.

i invite you to take a look at a factory in the developing world (the people who are being lifted out of poverty) and see what they produce. i assure you it's not "high marginal value" goods like swiss watches, fixed gear bicycles, and midcentury modern furniture.
How about "seeking mature, responsible adults, serious about working."
If you want to discredit Bitcoin-related finance, have Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne be its poster child. He has an embarrassing history of making absurd statements about short selling and analysts rather than focusing on running a successful business.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_M._Byrne#Campaign_again...
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Still looking for them ;)
Yea, seems more like a backlash against the whole ninja/guru/wizard meme.
Say you have a generator that emits random numbers in the range [0,6]. Now construct a fake timeseries by sampling that generator about 50 times. Fit a curve or moving average using the same method that you used here. What is the probability that your random series will exhibit an upward trend as great as the one you saw here?
Clearly dragon slayers are very useful when map()ing the frontiers of big data.
Agreed, but technically it is defined.
In the natural state of things, one does work and in doing work one gains roughly equal wealth in exchange for an equal amount of work.

Yielding compounding returns on investments with little risk is gaining wealth for no work. That is unnatural.

What is more unnatural is when an obscenely rich person earns a million a year as a return on investments. A million dollars in wealth in one year is usually not equivalent to the output of one man. Multiple people must work together to generate that amount of GDP. So how does a rich man procure the wealth equivalent to the work of multitudes of people without contributing any work himself? He must do so in a way that is unnatural.
It's ONE way to go. There are others.

Sum types supported in the language such as in Ceylon is another one.

And yet another one is safe dereferencing operators (?.) such as in Kotlin.
What is it you are saying you predicted?

One way to answer would be to take the "this" in your first sentence and replace it with a clear description of what you are talking about.

"Read the posts" isn't really a satisfactory answer, they are not particularly focused or easily distilled to a concrete prediction.

(One company issuing a tiny bond is not particularly significant news and is probably not a harbinger of the future. It is not unusual for companies to issue billions of dollars of bonds, so $25 million is not a large amount in this context.)
Looks really nice but I've found that apps like this aren't incentivizing enough to be useful in the long term. I use Beeminder, which isn't nearly as nice-looking or user-friendly as Steaks appears to be, but its financial incentives work phenomenally well. If you're serious about keeping (or breaking) a habit, you check them out. And competitors, you should copy some of their features.
I do not have access to the database, but this is what I find using hnwatcher.com (based on submissions and comments, fow all HN posts)

http://imgur.com/ITgXkk1
I know it's not a very charitable response, but that's simply ridiculous. The world is not run by mustache twirling villains who get sustenance from the tears of "the people."
Is that really backwards? The contest is "underhanded", not evil. Underhandedness can be used for good or evil, and it is good that this year's contest reminds entrant of that.
Sure and I agree with your first sentence and second sentence, but I don't think you're understanding what I'm trying to communicate.

The loaded term "wise custodians" as if rich people are benevolent caretakers of the world's wealth due to their infinite wisdom is what I'm attacking here. It just simply isn't true. Justin Bieber is full proof of that. The guy is not wise, he's not a benevolent custodian either.

Wealth is not magically redirected towards smart caring people. You are not a "wise custodian" because you are rich. You will always have stupid people who are rich and smart people who are not rich.
It is perhaps scary to consider, but a lot of the non-Western world consider the USA to be a land of fascists and nazi's, alas. And there is much that can said about just how "true" this observation may be ..
It really depends on your personal burn rate.

In truth, I'm a bit amazed by many of the HN comments. The materialistic stuff (ferrari bmw etc) has powerful symbolism to many. However, if you look at the article, it is mainly about those nearing retirement years.

Materialistic wealth loses a lot of appeal to those who are older and wealthier, many who realize that such things require care and feeding, and really end up owning you rather than the other way around. PG has a terrific essay about materalistic icons losing much of their appeal once you realize that you could easily purchase them; Not being able to have them is part of their mystique really.

The wealth of financial independence (defined as having enough to supply your burn for the rest of your life) enables you to do with your time as you please. Some great questions arise after achieving that kind of wealth, like "What do I want to do with my life?" It turns out that having-a-purpose is of great importance, and that might well appear to younger journalists like continuing to behave middle class.
"Several medical ethicists said it would be impossible to get approval for a clinical trial to send a group of children to Delhi to monitor their health."

So what about sending children from Delhi into another places and then comparing them with children that stay in Delhi?
The answer appears to be yes if this [0] is to be believed:

> UPDATED April 06 2015, to include the latest underlying libraries - libplist, usbmuxd, and libimobiledevice.
libimobiledevice is now at version 1.2.0, which means gtkpod should now support iOS 8 devices, including the latest iPhone 6/6+, iPad Mini 3/Air 2 and Apple TV 2G/3G. Although for music-sync to work with these newer devices it's necessary to install an additional "libhashab" file. See the "Special Requirements" section below for details. This situation applies to these models:

> - iPhone4/5/6

> - iPod Touch 4gen, 5gen

> - iPad 3gen, 4gen, Air, Air 2, Mini 1/2/3gen

> - Nano 6gen, 7gen

[0] http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=94022
What would be a convincing argument for people who don't believe that CNN is literally a front for the US Government?

Edited for clarity.
Huh? I don't see what the big deal is, I think this is standard stuff. I mean, JSON is just another serialization format.

All of these operations are already supported for XML in most databases that were around 5-10 years ago, and the same pitfalls with keeping all your data in XML inside the database also apply to JSON.
Are you aware of what most academic code looks like? The name is fitting.
I must say, I have never seen this in a license before...

1. By reading this sentence, You have agreed to the terms and
conditions of this License.
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What did you use for making the charts? They look nice.
Due to shitty academic job market, I was forced to take a job part of which could be described as "semantic web evangelist". If you read some incredibly optimistic article about the semantic web and how it solves all life's problems, there's a non-negligible chance that I wrote it.

The semantic web is a colossal waste of time and money. It does more harm than good. Unless you're a savvy PI (probably in a European country) who has used it to lasso a big fat grant from clueless committees who think in terms of buzzwords.

Every successful project which is linked in any way to semantic web, would have been successful without the semantic web.

The only original thing to come out of semantic web, RDF, causes more harm than good. Anyone who has had to deal with encoding sequences in RDF, or any other kind of nontrivial structured data, which is only possible with incredibly asinine "blank node" trickery, either knows this or is deceiving themselves.

Semantic reasoners are either limited to EL ontologies, which defeats the whole purpose of OWL's expressiveness; or else take dozens of gigabytes of RAM to reason over any ontology more complicated than "the pizza ontology". Utterly, thoroughly irrelevant in today's VPS-based world.

The semantic web "community" is about 75% made up of invalid URLs because all these academic geniuses are too busy theorizing about ontologies to realize that all the links into their department webpage are going to stop working when their one-year postdoc expires. Various URL-standardizing services try to address this, unfortunately the number of these services is approximately 1 per semantic web researcher, and in the long run they're no more stable than the department webpages.

The semantic web is a horrific waste of (mostly EU) grant funds that could be used on far more worthy research. The world would be a better place if the whole idea had never been invented.
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The people's faces were not shown in these photos, so unless you want to identify them by their ass cracks, theres no personal shaming involved. You don't have to find it funny, but apparently lots of people do.
You are probably talking about C++, not C, unless those look identical to you:

foo();
int foo;
(int)foo;
The probability of an upward trend when sampling is pretty much nil if you are sampling from a uniform series. A [0,6] uniform distribution will follow a Normal distribution with mean = 3 and variance = 3 after enough resampling. 95% confidence interval for true mean would be (-0.3948196, 6.39482).

The LOESS regression lines do have a confidence interval to reflect the uncertainty. It's a visual aid to illustrate the trend.
Is Theo paid to be such an idiot?
I don't think an email like that is ever appropriate. It's immature and childish, regardless of how foolish the initial inquiry was. There are certainly people who can provoke that kind of reaction, but since I don't know any backstory I have to go on what I read at the link. Here's an interesting truth: as your software achieves greater levels of use and success you come into contact with more, not fewer, clueless people with strong opinions. You going to tell all of them they are idiots? I assume so. Think about the impression others get when they come upon stuff like this in the archive, before you go cheering on such behavior. I have nothing bad to say about OpenBSD or the people who run the project, but reading a reply like that makes me wince.
Wow, I did not know this. Truly a business genius. Thanks for sharing.
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"Gurus" trend on HN: http://imgur.com/7GUIFie
(based on all posts, not just who is hiring - src hnwatcher.com)
It's not dead yet, but clearly not as trendy as "ninja" nowadays :)
http://imgur.com/ro5Tvh6

EDIT: last point for "ninja" on the last graph is June 2015.
Do you think I need a cofounder?
Hello HN,
So I am a 17 year old student who is running my own startup, PassWhiz. You can check it out at passwhiz.com It's been a crazy ride and I have almost 4,000 users. I am now out of school and want to dedicate some serious time to selling this product. Selling involves a lot of emailing and chatting with high schools and middle schools. While I do enjoy talking to the schools I think have a co founder who has done this before, or just someone to help take some of the workload could be pretty useful. What do you think? Do you have any advice for someone in a position like this?
If he wouldn't, that would be sexist.
Ask HN: Does your business offer promo codes?
I'd like to get a sense about the value people place on promo codes. Some things I'd like to talk about:

How important are promo codes/discounts/coupons to your purchasing decisions?

Does your business offer promo codes?

If your business offers promo codes, please describe how you use them.

For those who don't want to share details about their business here, I created a survey that I would be grateful if people filled out.

http://goo.gl/forms/Hn7B3uxGM3
You do realize that Duffel Blog is a parody news site?
Businesses would love this, but the "those filthy immigrants are stealing our jobs" lobby is very powerful...
OMG! Down voted!

No ads. Free app. Retro. Sarcasm.

What gives? No revenue model?
Hating democracy is a massive overstatement. It was designed as a democratically elected representative republic. They didn't want a mob ruling, but at the base, the people select the representatives. That is how virtually every democracy runs itself.
What I meant by that is the joins happen explicitly in code (as opposed to implicitly in queries). I got burned using another framework where my lack of knowledge of how the ORM managed DB queries would lead to really inefficient stuff - basically really bad joins that I could have avoided if I knew what the framework would do.

When I say no magic, what I mean is how you can understand what data is being loaded every step of the way so the mistake I mentioned previously is harder to make.

Also, I wanted to avoid query joins for easy sharding (if needed), but that adds an extra round trip so if needed the developer can write their own joins (giving up a bit of flexibility in the process).
I though heat pumps were generally more efficient.

They still do use a lot of energy, so it can be used in a similar scheme, but I wonder how it would change details.
Bingo. I think the biggest problem CS students have is being under the impression they're studying a career directly instead of learning the tools they need to tackle unknown problems directly.
Good catch. Academia seems like the strangest place for people to be especially possessive over the IP they produce, since the actual knowledge the produce is generally intended to be shared freely and used for any purpose. And yet academia seems to push for patents for their ideas (admittedly these ideas tend to be less obvious than the patents coming from industry) and non-commercial licenses for their software. I think it's time for academia to reevaluate what their purpose is, and whether sharing software and implementation details should be considered as essential as sharing ideas.

I personally think that academia should use permissive licenses, since they are primarily funded by the government, and so the software should be available to all without restriction, just as scientific knowledge is. But I guess that depends on your views on software "freedom" (which I characterize as the belief in natural right to modify and copy software that one owns).
We have that for skilled workers (TN status).
You say that now, but when your sailboat gets eaten by a dark matter kraken you will sing a different song.
I believe in democracy.
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Yeah and his analogy is plain wrong. Bernie Sanders is saying to make the tulips free, not to give everybody enough money to buy them..
First past the post is actually an inherently two party system [0]. It would take a monumental amount of effort to overcome that bias and an intelligent voter knows that they can't beat the system and have to work with it. Thus, the final choice for all voters is still two mediocre individuals.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo
haha, I know it, anyway I still have difficulty imangining the situation when you go to your prof. and say: how about releasing our work as CRAPL?
Except even firmware that comes with the hardware may be updatable somehow.

I believe that firmware should be free, but refusing to ship blobs for this reason, while still attempting to be compatible with hardware that buries them under the covers (even when the blobs not being shipped are updates for the very same hardware - e.g. all major x86 CPUs), is burying one's head in the sand. Would be more principled to avoid hardware with proprietary firmware entirely, and advocate for both documented hardware and 'free' (i.e. open HDL etc.) hardware.
What about hard disk controllers and the like? I think that's what Theo is talking about here.

I'm not an expert, but I won't be surprised if it's completely unrealistic.
Pretty sure there's a dig at the GPL in this very post:

A few other firmwares are slightly less free. Meaning they are free
for money, but they try to stipulate subtle rules we do not want to
impact the freedom of our source tree with. ... OpenBSD
has a tool built in which will download those, so that our base source
tree remains full of freedom.
IIRC, Scala's parser/compiler had to have a few little things added to support it even though Scala's syntax mostly supports it without messing with the internals. I could be wrong here, I am a bit fuzzy on the details. Also they sure put in a lot of effort in custom extractors and lots of other features to make it feel like the language supported it natively. But now Scala's XML support is a separate library that is not included with the distribution.
This is very frustrating for those of us that see the rather large problem in front of us - our apparent total inability to move around the stars, and only feeble ability to move around our solar system. This caps the lifespan of humanity (and most of the life we know) at about 500k years at best. So, even if we succeed wildly at our environmental and social problems, we'll end up with a single beautiful world getting smashed to bits by a meteor, gamma burst, or other uncontrollable, unavoidable cosmic event.

Physicists need to get their heads out of their political/philosophical asses and start earning their bread - which is nothing less than to justify our technological existence by discovering the knowledge that will help our species live longer. If not for this, I think we'd all be better off living on a planet of 200M people living in rural villages, leading simple lives that are as happy and fair and erudite as fate and culture allows.
Fair enough; I did not do manual introspection for sentiment.

However, I would say that both positive and negative sentiment is still important since it reflects on whether people take silly job titles seriously. Especially since Rockstar does not follow a similar trend.
Nah, JSON is just another serialization format, with its own tradeoffs when used inside the database.

Go ahead and read this article from MS SQL server from 2004, about introducing similar features for XML (binary storage, functional indexes) inside the database.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc188738.aspx

In 10 years, the relational model didn't budge. There are loads of good reasons for why you'd want to decompose data into native DB types, with a strongly-typed schema.
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Yeah, I know some of us there work on windows desktops but struggle for the right replacement shell to get multiple workspaces and some more customization than MS allows. Anybody have something that is more stable than LiteStep to use as a replacement shell?

Thanks guys and gals..happy hacking
Another common weird academic license issue I've run into is people making up licenses to try to enforce academic norms about citations. Usually in these cases there will be a term in the license that requires a citation in any paper that gets written about data processed by the code.

Since it make it legally questionable to use the code (what if I forget to cite them? Will they sue me?), fewer people will want to use it, making the whole exercise of publicly releasing the code less useful overall.
ggplot2, although I'm still playing around with the theme/fonts. See this post for a general overview/tutorial of the theming: http://minimaxir.com/2015/02/ggplot-tutorial/
Politically untenable. Mexico is a third world nation.
>the only reason people purchase a stock is for that stock to be worth more in the future

It depends on what you're interested in. Warren Buffett buys shares in companies he never plans to sell, like Wrigley's, Heinz, Dairy Queen, See's Candies and Coca-Cola, because he's more interested in the annual return on investment than in increasing the capital itself. To Buffett, owning shares in a company means owning a share of the company in every sense of the word. He's often quoted saying "you should only buy shares in companies you're happy to own for 10 years should the stock market close tomorrow".
Was one faster than the other? Are there things that can only be done with one of them?

Recently I tried to get a figwheel configuration with Cursive working and in the ended up letting figwheel run the server and perform the Clojurescript compilation in one JVM. There's a great Leiningen template to get this working with reagent here:
https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent-template
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That's not really relevant to joeyspn's statement at all. He's not talking about an economic system, he's talking about a political system. While political systems influence economic systems, they don't have a one to one relationship. In the case of the US, we have a corporatocracy which maintains the current mixed economy.
Isn't that enough?