skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. This is a tough crowd. Its not enough to generously give your time and money to charity, you have to have an effective data driven approach to your giving or you suck. And if you can bill at $500 an hour, no helping out at the soup kitchen for you -- that an inefficient use of societies resources. Back to your cubicle, work some extra hours and give it to whatever causes our models say are best. Kind of a cold and sterile way to approach giving.
Well, it's definitely less popular for people looking for random sex, what with smartphone apps and all. Not sure about other things.
I can relate. I mostly ended up around 55% overall per round (only slightly above average) but I did get a 100% score on one photo which made up for some spectacular fails.
Thanks for posting. I thought myself as reasonably informed in the natural history and biology of ascorbic acid but this article managed to teach me a lot, props.

It was mentioned briefly in the article, but a lot of the micronutrient deficiencies (beriberi, pellagra, nyctalopia, the list goes on) were similarly mismanaged despite the practical knowledge of effective cures. If anything this really highlights the danger of coming up with a theory without sound mechanistic proof - for there are too many confounding factors out there to deceive us.
I feel like there's also a lesson here on the importance of commenting. If all of those inexplicable hairs had been properly commented, you wouldn't have to wonder.
I'd say that they have different security problems rather than more.
I think the important part is that it ends litigation between the companies, so any acquisitions of either ebay or craigslist would be easier.
Other than needing to fork for every request, this should be really fast because it uses the efficient sendfile() mechanism in the kernel to handle returning the file and most importantly only implements a bare minimum of support for the protocol. nginx is almost certainly going to be slower because it has to worry about different types of requests, different protocols, IPv4 vs. V6 sockets, CGI, etc...

It's easy to make something fast when you only implement a very small number of features.
Mini DisplayPort started from 1.2 of the DisplayPort standard.
What is its radius in meters? Can I assume it is a unit sphere?
One is running ecommerce the other is running local commerce.
"Idea guys" are mostly useless: the people that want credit for "thinking of something" and kick back while everyone else works. More often than not, they're deluded and "in love" with "their" "great" ideas that deny reality in high-def cognitive dissonance. (They're usually wantrepreneurs or enterprise busywork titles.)

What set SJ apart was positive value (being right more often than not, building people up to produce better work products than they thought the could, a determined direction, actual vision) on balance outweighing negative traits (histrionic tantrums, treating employees like shit, generally acting like an asshole).

A cautionary note: If someone is going to play the eccentric jerk role, they'd better be actually right nearly always and bring metric fucktons of net positive value by the containership-full to the business, staff, customers, partners and other stakeholders.
Putting the Athenians aside, because their system is significantly different and different throughout the 500BC~338BC period as well, counting happens in parallel so there is no substantial difference between Australia's 24 million and India's 1.2 billion. The resources of the nation for counting, volunteers and money, scale with the population as well remember. The only difference is the final step, which is fairly trivial. Even if you had an election with a population equal to everyone on Earth it wouldn't be that different, there isn't any meaningful scaling problem.

I don't think there will be cost savings, and these machines will need to be replaced regularly as well so it won't be a one-off cost. And the present system isn't really expensive as elections aren't held every year, so that $600m price tag for the Indian election has to be weighed against the GDP of an entire electoral cycle of five years. We are talking about a price tag of around $120m a year for India then, against a GDP per annum of almost two trillion (if not higher, I am just going by 1.87 trillion for 2013). Per capita that's something like just under 10 cents a year from each Indian. I somehow doubt an IT project, which also has to accommodate all of India's many languages and scripts, is going to make a significant saving on that.

I am not aware of any research linking voting machines to turnout, have you got a source for that? I imagine some older people might even get frustrated and stay away. Australia has something like ~95% turnout through implementing a small fine for not voting (the tasty BBQs at many polling stations may also have an effect). There are also limited polling booths open before the election for those that expect to not be able to vote on the day.

So the benefits just aren't there, and as you say yourself "I don't know how we would implement such a system".
I've had to deal with this exact situation in the past, and I went through the same rationale.

My experience: you wind up constantly iterating, hoping for small "wins" - where the expectations of your PM matches something you've produced. But these are far and few in-between.

You need world-class people who've lead projects to save and push things forward. The success of the project depends on whether you have someone on the team who's willing to stand up and push their own vision, and whether your PM is willing to budge. You WILL have to do mockups to some fidelity, just realize that your PM won't appreciate the work and the complexity that goes into it.
Highly doubt it. Getting rid of the legal uncertainty is minor plus but getting rid of a possibly 10 figure holding for much less than that is a large minus.
Pretty cool, but I only got one item showing (a video about how to make samosas)... so not sure if its still ready?
No, I don't think moderators are evil; that's absurd. Moderators are people. Some are good and some are bad. But the nature of the job of a volunteer moderator is that it's going to be hard to get anyone to do it who isn't, as you say, going to give up and quit because of all the crap they have to put up with in exchange for no pay. Who's going to be left? The egotists, the fanatics, and the folks who see it as a useful tool to "change the world."

It's hard to picture a solution. Perhaps if moderation was an actual job; that would at least weed out some of the folks who are unstable or are just in it for internet points.
I would like to see that bookstore toured on Periscope.
Indian women sell hair to Chinese, who productizie it and sell to Koreans, who further refine it and eventually sell it African American women == worst experience? I think this sentence is soaked in prejudice.

Most global supply chains, some for super luxurious products have these three countries involved... I dont know how that automagically qualifies for a horrible experience
Or better yet, if there was a unit test introduced with each bug fix.
I hear this argument very often but I don't see any strong evidence that it is happening in the majority case, nor will happen. The music/entertainment industries have been relatively slow to react to digitisation, the internet and technological advances, but their lobbying prowess is frightening. Just look at their power and handywork at the national level instigating ridiculous and oppressive laws and at the international level at the trade agreements being instigated. Just like in the linked article.

I do agree that small scale/localised success - the long tail as it used to be referred to - is a positive force too. It looks like we all just have to learn to live with both camps (and many more besides) being given scope to thrive. Hopefully that's the best outcome, but this type of out of touch and obtuse legislation is not helping.
This is coming from personal experience so take it with a grain of salt:

Craigslist is an insanely valuable source for lead generation in recruiting, and car sales.

I run a recruiting company and craigslist is the best source of applicants by volume and return on investment (cost ($) per applicant).

Having observed them closely, they are not ignorant to this fact.

When specific cities or sections grow more popular they begin charging fees.

Their biggest boon has been a recent change to charge car dealerships 5$ per post. Car dealers pay because only months earlier they were paying for black hat solutions to post for 1-2$ per post.
It gets rid of a tiny legal uncertainty. Much more significantly is that Ebay is apparently walking away from a massive financial gain and potentially even larger business gain by never having figured out any way to take advantage of Craigslist assets.
but what if its the most impactful?
Irrelevant. We're talking about what he is doing while on top. There are more than enough examples of people on top that are doing nearly nothing to better the world.
Ex-developer of that system here (not working in MSA anymore since 3 years ago).
Can answer questions if there aren't hundreds of them.
Maybe not "all", just 99.9%.
> THE QUEEN on the application of
> (1) BRITISH ACADEMY OF SONGWRITERS, COMPOSERS AND AUTHORS
> (2) MUSICIANS’ UNION
> (3) UK MUSIC 2009 LIMITED

Perhaps, as a token of defiance, we should compile a list of the people at the top of these organisations, and forbid them from using our software.

There's a time and a place for spite, and this is it.
I will tell you with very direct experience that their _monetized_ sections are growing quickly (due to more monetization in more cities), and the overall user base is growing with overall internet usage.
In one of his recent interviews, Stephenson said that he was intentionally playing off the silly trope of Star Trek type aliens that are basically just caricatures of humans with this-or-that trait emphasized. Not that he was trashing Star Trek, just that he was having a little fun trying to make up a backstory about why humans and vulcans can interbreed.
Glad you noticed that! It's proof of the difference a great designer (in this case, Rumsey Taylor of our News Design team) can make.

As a developer it can be quite humbling to realise how many seemingly tiny yet actually really important touches exist in a project you think you know inside out.
That reminds me, I should cancel my MaxEmail fax account. I haven't needed to receive an inbound fax in years.
My favorite sentence was "Most people are not special, not talented in any valuable way and there are most certainly not Michalangelos sat in every office cubicle in the modern world." :D
Unfortunately, this is not true for many repositories. GitHub's interface (i.e., the "Merge" button), encourages users to merge from the web interface, where this tidying can't happen.
This would not work because there is no limit on upvotes. It would therefore be advantageous to just upvote a lot of random posts. And then if many people do this, it breaks the voting system entirely.
The user should never be given control. Users are terrible at determining their own experience. A good designer knows what the user wants better than the user.

Of course, there are bad designers, but they get filtered out by users not going back to their site.

In the end, the designer should have control over every pixel on his product. Any OS branding should disappear from view, because the web advances faster than OS UI design.

Also, this problem was the same back in the 90's. There was the default terrible OS user interface, and some apps decided to make their own much nicer interface.

Kai Power Tools immediately comes to mind, as well as any game with their own UI.
How can a Project Manager boss around the requirements and judge the implementation - that is a job of a Product Manager and Dev or Design managers? Project Managers should mostly focus on the team finishing projects on time - like an Agile coach.
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Russia's general feelings were always reasonably clear, but there's an enormous gulf between "want to annex and complain a lot about the current situation" (lots of states have such positions on disputed territories) and "actually sending in tanks tomorrow"...
true that :)
I must be living in a parallel universe, I cannot explain otherwise having a memory of all i said...

I only found the one below about the negotiations between NATO and Russia of not expanding to the east, no article on the warns prior annexing parts of Ukraine. Putyin's reason for the annexation was to "save" Russians from the international interference with legitimate government in Ukraine. This is all available on this side of the internet now.
Not for nothing, but all of those exist today.
This is laundering FSB intelligence.
Jacob Appelbaum's disclosure from Google about Wikileaks investigation
You're creating a central point of security failure. Like LastPass, the "master password" remote service that was compromised a few days ago. You're an obvious target for attacks. This means you have to be really good at security, accept responsibility for your failures, and have insurance to back you up.
Significantly less invasive. Not everybody needs a defib after a heart attack, especially in the case of minor, atrial infarctions.
Premier coaches of Indian railways are infested with bed begs
Along those lines - when/if are they are they required to disclose it as a publicly-traded company?
Interesting seeing eBay separate itself from these entities. First PayPal, now this. Are there others I'm missing?
"In early 2015, Bandcamp released an announcement that artists using the website had officially gotten $100 million in total from music sale"

Total music industry is 15B (afaik). It is 1/150th of the entire music industry and that is just one site. I think the artist make more on Bandcamp and other music distribution platforms than on big labels, that might be the reason why Bandcamp is greatly successful.
There was not "an earlier agreement between the NATO and Russia that we are not expanding to the east direction in the EU and we do not interfere with Russian interests in ex-soviet countries."

First, you are confusing NATO policy with EU policy. Agreements between NATO and Russia are binding on NATO, not the EU. Likewise, agreements between the EU and Russia are binding on the EU but not NATO, and agreements between Russia and individual states are binding on those states, not NATO or EU.

NATO-Russian relations are broadly defined by the Founding Act(1995)[0]. This calls for cooperation to achieve peace and security, and calls for respect for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of "all states." Both sides are alleged to have violated this over the years, NATO in the Balkans(Serbia-Kosovo), and Russia in the Caucasus.

EU relations are based on the PCAs[1], but these are generally based on deals with individual countries and do not deal with Russia on the basis of a presumed sphere of influence.

However, the relations between Russia and the West specifically regarding Ukraine are strained by the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances[2]. Western countries claim Russia violated this agreement by not respecting existing borders (annexation of Crimea) and by the threat/use of force. The agreement also specifies that that economic influence should not be used to influence Ukrainian politics. Western countries believe Russian economic influence affected the decision by Yanukovych to pull away from the EU in November 2013. You could counter that EU influence has affected Ukrainian politics, but the memorandum was an agreement between US, UK, Ukraine, and Russia, so there was no guarantee against EU influence.

[0] http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_25468.htm
[1] http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/external_relations/re...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Budapest_Memorandum_on_Secur...
Just because someone is articulating someone else's perspective on an issue, doesn't mean that they're excusing their actions or sympathizing with them. Lawyers can get itchy trigger fingers over the Kleenexing of brand names, and understanding why that is can be enlightening. I don't think the person you're responding to was saying that the IMAX lawyers were right all along and Ars was wrong, and I don't think the numerous other people in this thread that have gotten downvoted to the bottom of the Marianas Trench for saying similar things intended their comments to be taken that way either. There is nothing evil about trying to understand the reasoning of people you disagree with. I seriously question the intellectual honesty of the people who did the downvoting though, they should be ashamed of themselves no matter where they stand on the issue.
Interesting - what candidates do you recruit using Craigslist?
Love it. Would love to read my news this way. I find this much more intuitive and antural than Twitter. You have a hot product here OP, congratulations.
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Here in San Mateo County, we have a good voting machine system, although the knob-based UI is strange. After you've selected all your votes, you press the "done" button, and, behind a transparent window, a printer prints your votes on paper, with the chosen candidates names spelled out fully, followed by a big 2D bar code. You can then accept or cancel your vote. If you reject the printed version, it prints CANCELED and you start over. If you accept, it prints VOTED, and the paper roll winds past the window.

The paper is a backup. The votes are also recorded by the software. But the paper can be read by hand if necessary, or by a scanner which reads the bar codes. So recounts are possible and checkable by all parties.
Thank You for doing this.

I appreciate that you review the Show HNs.

It's refreshing to see someone from YC giving tangible feedback on businesses/startups/ideas -- in public.
That is very clear. Putin gain massive support in Russia with these moves, of course this is melting away after the embargo kicked in. The problem with that is two fold. The embargo directly hurts EU's economy (look at the Mistral class ship deal with France) and the lower oil price triggered a massive buying up operation in China making them even stronger than before. Basically USA's (and more broadly the Western world's) influence hurting their allies and enabling the other parties (China) to gain even more power. This sort of play is not good for us in the long run.
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nginx is highly configurable at compile time. You can strip out a considerable amount of functionality (modules, in nginx lingo) for performance.
I think you're bending the term 'McGuffin' slightly past its limit. Originally it meant "interchangeable object of pursuit that drives the plot" - a secret document, a special microchip, a stolen diamond etc. Recently I've seen people using it to mean "contrived shift in the plot", but even then it seems wrong to apply that label to a person. Villain or antagonist maybe?
To me it seems selfish to feed 100 people by donating time at a kitchen, instead of working more hours and donating to a charity that might feed 200.

It's as if I want the personal gratification of helping a human being in person as opposed to helping N times as many equally real human beings who I will never meet.
Unfortunately what you're hearing appears to be in your head. I didn't say that, nor do I think it is true. Please discuss in good faith.
This is just UK. I dont think it will fly in Spain, Czech rep or other parts of EU.

For start there is author tax to compensate authors for fair use, it is collected as VAT on empty mediums and printers. With this law many powerful people would loose money. I would welcome it, since it means cheaper hardware.

And secondly: YES! More stupid laws like this, more DRM and people will turn to free music under Creative-Commons like license.
Hi, have a couple...

1) First, I found the complete lack of security puzzling. I mean, they don't even use SSL in their site logins. You use md5 to check firmware...and the coders are obviously capable of using proper cryptography, but they won't. It's like they completely gave up on any kind of security whatsoever. Is this something deliberate?

2) Why the RFID to store the vote? why not a qr-code? it's hard to read? RFID tags are hundreds of times more expensive, they can be unlocked, re-written, must be protected with a weird faraday cage that do not work correctly (Faraday cages must be grounded!) they are a nightmare. I'm sure there must be a good reason.
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Sales positions. car sales, insurance sales, real estate sales.
European Copyright legislative is an inconsistent mess.

Right now, in Austria, the government is up to demand 6% of the price of any digital storage device, to compensate copyright holders when the legit consumers of their work execute their right to make a private copy.

So the European Court apparently just has settled that in one country of the EU, consumers do not have the right to make private copies, while in others consumers just got a new tax to do so. AFAIK the Austrian model follows German legislative.

What a mess.
You should try to read Cyrillic code comments...
If the paper can be read, political thugs will use bullying and intimidating tactics to get votes. Secret ballot is essential.
Well that's incredibly positive and I wasn't aware of that. I'm used to seeing more of the news that artists get almost no money through Spotify and similar channels or that consumer websites like Pandora getting legally harassed.
Interesting that they're using FLAC as the encoder... Seems like it would be very memory intensive.
No. I was talking about the people, not the use.

In Argentina we have the top development team of BitPay, developing cutting edge stuff like Copay, Bitcore Wallet Service, etc. People like Matias Alejo Garcia, and Manuel Araoz (now a BitPay alumni). Look at: https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore-wallet-service and other projects.

We have Sergio Lerner, one of the top security researchers and the official Bitcoin Core security reviewer. Look at his blog: https://bitslog.wordpress.com/

We have also projects like Xapo.

And many many others like https://streamium.io/
Which language(s) do you think do a particularly good job of documentation syntax and extension API?
That's like saying: "Anyone who would want to go to the gym is already pretty fit, so they don't need to go to the gym." The emotional muscles of charity need a workout just as much as our physical muscles. If you don't exercise them, they atrophy.
Your phone has GPS. To be matched at all, Uber had to know both the driver and you, with some mixture of identification/credit/payment information. They relayed your request to just one specific driver, for a pick-up in a specific location. Even if the driver immediately cancels and goes rogue, that's a better record of your-last-known-contact than any other transport system.

Uber relays to you a photo of the driver and the make/color/license-plate of their car – so anyone who pays a little attention won't get in any unvetted cars. The driver gets your chosen alias as another lightweight mutual authentication step – when they call you by that name, they've proven they're in the system.

Taxis still offer none of this. The only check before getting in is, "does it look like a city taxi?" Only flimsy pieces of paper, stuck inside the vehicle, tell anything more about the driver. Turns out, these paint-job and paperwork signals-of-authenticity have historically been easy to fake: http://missionlocal.org/2009/05/mta-poised-to-crack-down-on-...
Yep - don't know about the rest but my former employer, Morgan Stanley, has a mandatory vacation policy (MVP) in place. You must take two consecutive weeks off per year.
I was recruited to my first sysadmin/devops/etc. position through craigslist; similarly I encouraged a family member who quickly found a construction engineering position.
You mean...everything?