skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Brikoule.ma est une plateforme de Micro-jobs qui offre une solution adaptée à la fois aux internautes qui souhaitent monnayer leurs compétences et aux personnes à la recherche de prestations de qualité, sur mesure et à petits budgets.
A travers la plateforme Brikoule.ma, nous entendons instaurer une culture essentiellement basée sur les compétences, mettre en place une relation Client/Prestataire durable et surtout mettre à la disposition des utilisateurs une plateforme qui répond au mieux à leurs attentes.
Still its not clear that file can compel someone to even reveal what they do internally. Its an empty promise.
Agreed. I majored in Symbolic Systems, with a concentration in AI, and it was fairly CS-heavy. We skipped some topics I would have later found useful (compilers, database, operating systems) but in exchange I did a lot of AI CS work that I would not have taken were I a standard CS major.

That said, if you choose a different concentration within the major, you would end up taking only a handful of CS courses.
I don't know if that's a huge difference, considering the binary blob provably doesn't do anything (you should be complaining about).
Thanks Zach for doing this (both starting the company and coming here to Hacker News to answer questions).

Based upon what you're seeing:

1. Please rank these in order of importance:

- technical skill in one (or few) technologies
- broad technical skills
- years of experience
- raw smarts & ability to learn
- user/customer domain knowledge
- soft skills (project mgmt, systems analysis, etc.)
- cultural fit
- attitude & determination

2. What % of opportunities are in large companies vs. start-ups?

3. What % of a "typical" programmer's energy should be spent presenting themselves better vs. actually getting better?

4. What makes your coaches/experts so special? Do they have last names?

Nice concept. Best wishes to you and all your candidates.
I think is awesome, you really should have a mailing list for when you go national tho in addition to the "SF batch sign up" :P
Why does everyone ignore the UAH and RSS troposphere data? It's the best data (by far the most accurate) we have on atmospheric temperature, and it shows no warming since 1996.

http://images.remss.com/msu/msu_time_series.html

I have a simple R script to find the trend if you want to see it yourself.
If you are talking about the CO2 portion of it and focusing on the artificial sources than here is the chart you are looking for:

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/sources.html

Obviously you are missing out on natural sources for CO2, and the rest of the gases as well:

Water vapor (H2O)

Carbon dioxide (CO2)

Methane (CH4)

Nitrous oxide (N2O)

Ozone (O3)

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
When only the glib win, we all lose (2009)
I understand your perspective on this, I just think that bailout money should be contingent on measures to make Greece's public sector sustainable. At the very least, that means cutting the deficit so it grows slower than GDP. In the long run, it means fixing Greece's deeper economic issues.

The EU is already being very generous by accepting tax hikes in a lot of areas where Greece should really be implementing spending cuts. But Syriza wants to convert even more of the spending cuts into tax hikes.

The structural reforms are more important. Deregulating professional trades, selling off nationalized industries, easing bureaucratic barriers to business. The problem is that the Greeks have elected an anti-capitalist far-left party, which is fundamentally opposed to the goal of the reforms.

If the EU is going to budge at all, it should be on accepting a longer term deficit reduction plan. They shouldn't budge on the structural reforms.
In theory, the traditional model, which might include a hotel chain in the transaction, would funnel a greater percentage of funds away from the local economy. Under the "sharing-economy" model, more of the funds exchanged in the transaction stay local.
The thin text is almost unreadable on Linux. https://i.imgur.com/XFTitdd.jpg
I am not an asshole, and so can you
Their business line is decent, I had a ThinkCentre machine a while back that was rock solid. Their consumer line is not nearly as polished, and with the spyware stuff from last year I now won't even touch their business hardware, which arguably wasn't affected. I moved our company from Lenovo to Dell and HP for any new workstations, specifically because of the loss of trust. It's not even about the possibility of an infection as I always re-image any new machine we get immediately, it's more about the principle, and my boss agreed.
RSS troposphere's hiatus goes back to December 1996 as of May 2015.
Still contains the same amount of sugar so just about as bad for you.
There will always be alternatives to Uber. Uber is at it's core transportation. It competes on price and quality in more arenas than 'ride sharing'.

In regards to your monopoly point. There are very few, of any, natural monopolies. Ones which occur in a real free market.
There's also confounding variables to take into account. One of those might not be driving the other.

Many commenters above are speaking about how hard it is to eject someone out of a bias, but I don't know why they're doing this. They're lamenting the inefficacy of logic to convince people while not applying it in this very case. The graph just shows a correlation.

http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
Screw deserves or ready, you are ready to get somewhere and deserve to be there when you manage to arrive.

You may then fuck it up, and frankly it would be surprising if we didn't kill a few people trying, but that is exploration.
Literally medallions and literally the mafia? Not as far as I know. But most cities restrict supply of taxis to keep prices high and fix prices as the behest of the taxi industry -- in addition to all of the other fun things the taxi lobby does.

When Seattle built the Link light rail system, it stopped 1 mile shy of the airport because the taxi drivers didn't want the competition. Fortunately public outcry shut that down, but it's pretty rare that the general public gets upset enough about an issue to overcome the power of a specific interest group (yes, this includes Uber as well!)

There's plenty of literature to explain why price fixing and limiting supply/licensure is bad. There's no competition, no incentive to improve or provide a premium service. There's no reason to provide service in far-out areas where it might be hard to find a return fare. There's no reason to provide service in less "desirable" (read: minority) areas.

Of course, there are problems with the Uber model, too: Surge pricing being one of them. Some people think it's gouging, some think it's the right solution to provide supply for excess demand.
Makes me feel a bit guilty that I play it in the 2D view.
I understand the pedantic nerd impulse to explain everything to everyone and prove who's right (I've had to master that urge myself). This is a case where you should keep these thoughts to yourself.

If you believe the law or case to be unjust then convince your fellow jurors by poking holes in the case, or if need be just vote to acquit and refuse to explain why.
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This is definitely a thing elsewhere. The amount of rudeness that I received from cab company dispatchers in Seattle is astounding. I would much prefer to deal with nearly anyone - Comcast, traffic cops, DOL - than a cab company even today, and there has been a marked improvement in customer support since Uber, Lyft, etc have become a real thing.

They where a monopoly, and they acted like it, and now they aren't.
I'm not afraid of looking at the source.
Many times the "summaries" get distorted.
Statements like "provide some evidence for" gets translated into "this proves". Popular press often does this.

The actual raw data and original article and independent confirmation is the gold standard for science.

I've chased down many stories reporting "proof" in many fields and , after examining the actual article, found that it actually said "well, this might be some evidence for possibly maybe supporting something".

This is a hazard in MANY fields.

Many people know this.

We Hacker News readers ran in to this a couple of days ago.
Somebody said "Fasting helps in cancer therapy" and listed some science papers. It was voted up.

The actual papers DID NOT SAY THAT. They said "this small sample might provide some evidence but more study needs to be done".

These are separate things and careful readers can discern this.

Appeal to Authority or to a Mob or to Fashion is NOT science.

We need proof or it's not settled science.
That's what I like about Hacker News, clarification from the co-founder himself.

I was very inspired by the original post on Instagram infrastructure:

http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/wha...

mainly because the stack mirrored my tools of choice and how plain vanilla the stack was: AWS, Ubuntu, Django, Postgres, Redis.
I paid for it. It's incredibly useful and I use it every day, and since I expect to get paid for apps I release, why would someone else's work be different?
>> Considering the number of fingers that may have touched a telephone book during its manufacture and distribution (surely the cops have phone books and knew they weren't sent in the post, or if they had found a post worker's fingerprints on a piece of mail they wouldn't have arrested the postal worker) it seems to me that they may have been reckless in their conclusion.

That's why such evidence is supposed to be supportive of a larger case. Of course there will be a fingerprint on almost any given item. If you have a complete biometric database of every person in the country you will be able to match it, but that doesn't mean anything at all. If the person matched happens to be local it still doesn't mean anything by itself. In this case there was a plausible innocent explanation of how it got there, but in most cases people won't know how they spread their prints or DNA.
> Maybe because they're correct? I thought you said that was what mattered?

So you're suggesting they're correct but can't explain their point of view with basic facts/information/references/logic?

That.. doesn't sound likely.
Perhaps the searches are [EDIT: not] looking in the PDFs? I just opened the Summary for Policymakers for the Physical Science Basis report, and found a few discussions of water vapor in the atmosphere.

I'd try looking at "Physical Science Basis" and "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" reports; try the Summaries for Policymakers first, and the full reports if those don't have what you need (though go straight to the full reports if you have time -- they can be fascinating!).

I hope that helps.
"Lobbying is a way of structuring administration of regulation that shifts responsibility from unelected bureaucrats to people"

Or does it "shift responsibility from unelected bureaucrats to" corporations looking to maximize their financial benefits, regardless of its impact on society?
Ask HN: Tool for giving feedback on websites?
I'm looking for a tool that would let my client click a spot on a website (perhaps a specific div, or just a screenshot), type a note, then that sends to me so I can review.

Is there anything out there like this?
I'm not complaining about what it does, I'm complaining about how it was delivered. If someone breaks into my house to put a new TV on the table, I'm still going to feel violated.

Google broke the trust the open source community had in them, by silently flipping a switch that surreptitiously downloads a binary blob. They have now gone on record saying that was wrong and have reversed the change going forward. Good on them for that, but as far as I'm concerned that trust is irrevocably broken.
There must have been some misunderstanding/miscommunication, if not then Cloudflare has pivoted their business significantly from what my understanding of it was (granted I haven't researched them in over a year).

Media is the primary purpose for CDNs. The performance boost comes from a global network caching the media files so when requests are made for the resources, the end user downloads the media from the nearest CDN node instead of your server that is potentially on the other side of the world. It doesn't matter quite so much to have non-media (such as the page html) served locally because the size of an html page is generally significantly smaller than the media embedded in the page.

From the small amount of research I've done on the Cloudflare service just now, it doesn't seem very transparent how exactly it works. I've found information on 4chan and imgur using them to serve billions of CDN requests, but others saying don't rely on their CDN. So who knows, maybe it's on a case by case basis.
Genuine question: what did/do they execute on so well? I've only read about them having a great launch strategy.
No kidding. Coal releases trace amounts of uranium into the atmosphere, not to mention the mercury.
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Ask HN: Ideas We'd Like to Fund?
I'm looking for pointers to newer versions article similar to PG's 2008 essay "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund." Alternatively, what's something you need built and sold to you?
How to RUN Your MOBILE APP AS SAAS WITH XCOPY
Yes I understand that effect, and it makes sense that higher temperatures might cause more CO2 to come out of solution, as in a bottle of soda going flat more quickly at room temperature than in the refrigerator.

That said, I am not certain that the recent dramatic spike to 400 ppm of CO2 (from what I've read) could be entirely caused by the fairly moderate temperature rises measured in recent years.
> Statements like "provide some evidence" for gets translated into "this proves".

For what it's worth, the IPCC reports are very, very careful about this. They have a chart (though it can be hard to find) of exactly what confidence/probability is meant by each phrasing.

EDIT: for example, from the Sythesis Summary for Policymakers report:

The following terms have been used to indicate the assessed likelihood of an outcome or a result: virtually certain 99–100% probability, very likely 90–100%, likely 66–100%, about as likely as not 33–66%, unlikely 0–33%, very unlikely 0–10%, exceptionally unlikely 0–1%. Additional terms (extremely
likely 95–100%, more likely than not >50–100%, more unlikely than likely 0–<50%, extremely unlikely 0–5%) may also be used when appropriate.
This is a really great intro to the how and why of TLS PKI as well as showing how to use CloudFare's really awesome looking CFSSL tool.

I'm a big fan of DigitalOcean but they don't offer VPCs like AWS does so I always have to create a PKI in order to communicate securely between my droplets. I've always done this with some crappy scripts but I'll definitely give CFSSL a shot for automating this next time.

EDIT: One beef I have with cfssl is the csr_ca.json file. Making the keys in the "names" object less obscure would do wonders for readability.
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Good lord, not the polygraph data! I wonder if the Chinese have a database with I-Ching divinations?
It is a little bit apples and oranges. This is a simple point-in-plane index, PostGIS is a full-blown geospatial data modeling capability. PostGIS is going to be much slower but it is also doing much more as part of the process so that it is useful for sophisticated spatial applications. PostGIS is not fast relative to comparable systems but this particular comparison is not fair because PostGIS is expected to do so much more.

That said, I have also implemented large-scale point-in-plane indexing systems, though not in a while. Per CPU core, you can encode and index around 20M geo-points per second if the implementation is good.
The shape of the curve is driven by the independent variable (CO2 concentration, volcanic activity, etc). The magnitude needs to get adjusted so that it doesn't produce inconsistent results when extrapolated backwards in time. Which is the problem with explaining the recent spike in temperature as anything other than CO2 concentration. Most of the other variables like solar flux are relatively steady so that if you increase their climate forcing effect you get a really bad fit in the 1900s which is non-physical.

There's also additional data like satellite measurements of the broadening of the absorption lines of CO2 and H2O in the IR blackbody spectra that the Earth radiates and the measurement of the shortfall of outgoing radiation in the radiation budget which are consistent with GHG effects and independently confirm these models.
Yes: There's really no way to actually get in touch with appropriate googlers. There's no real evidence that product owners participate where the people actually are.

Does that have to happen?

A googler participated on Quora a while back, and it was related to the compose window changes. Was an interesting thing. Several of us wrote up the issues with that change, and the response was "I think Google is getting pretty close to optimal on this feature" and not much else.

They've got their metrics, and they've set them in various ways, and the product offerings are there to take or leave. When tons of people take them, great! When they don't, they do what they think might improve on that, or remove the product.

I get the feeling Google watches the dialog, and they take input that way, but they rarely have direct dialogs where they can end up committed in some fashion.

The more expected model is customer driven, and I agree with you on your observation. Google isn't necessarily doing it that way, or not directly.

But do they have to?

That's the question. It's also a potential abuse of their position, and I find it very intriguing to think about.

Mostly, their products add value to my life, and the costs associated with them do not trump that. So it's good for me, and I don't worry so much about the little things.

They are little things!

Like the phone UI. Or what they did with Inbox. There are some limitations. Take it or leave it. You could switch away from hangouts and be just fine, right?

In the scheme of things, UI issues aren't the same as, it doesn't work, or it hurt me, type issues.

Gmail always sends it's mail. If it didn't, that would be a major support issue. Gmail sometimes is borked on the UI, or my browser, or I don't get a draft saved when I thought I might have one, etc...

(On a phone, I find it difficult to edit a draft without actually going to the drafts list of messages, for example. The desktop allows it.)

Those things are annoyances, but they always have work arounds and I can get it done, so I just go and get it done, and if I can get it done, how much support do I really need?

IMHO, this is close to how Google thinks of things, and they get to do that, and I get to select them or not.

I've seen companies invest a TON on every little thing, completely customer driven. I've seen that work out OK, and I've seen it fail too. Failure in the sense that the product could have been taken somewhere awesome, but for lack of resources. Maybe it's that "support every little thing" drain that killed it?

Fair questions, if you ask me.
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1. The importance there depends on the company. This is why we take a human-oriented approach, instead of just building a marketplace. We can understand the nuances of what different employers want better. Data models will follow, but we're hand picking the points to start.

2. Remember we're open to helping you get anywhere. We've placed people at both startups and large companies already, but most of our contracts are with startups. Large companies don't do recruiting deals unless you're pumping them huge numbers or giving some crazy insightful data.

3. This depends on the programmer. I think, unfortunately, a lot of getting the right job is knowing how to present yourself better. In addition, I think most programmers already know how to get better at programming, but few learn the tricks to land more interviews and get more offers.

4. The status quo is pretty terrible. I like what some of the new companies are doing (Triplebyte for example), but recruiters are still the predominant factor in hiring. Some of them are good, but most of them... nope. Our coaches are all engineers. Our experts are all engineers. Our coaches have a full-time job -- that job is to understand the job market, understand the candidates they work with, and help them out however they see fit.

I'll also mention that since we're still only 3 people, we, the founders are also doing a large portion of the coaching. Gotta love startup life!
> People make jokes about the Libertarian practice of repeating "Am I being detained? Am I free to go?" when questioned by a police officer but it would have done this man a lot of good.

People should very much remember their rights and the distinction between being detained and "voluntarily" cooperating.

The reason why libertarians get made fun of is because they just keep shouting the same thing over and over, even after an answer in the affirmative has been given ("Am I being detained?" "Yes" "Am I being detained?"). They sound like a toddler who thinks they have a get out of jail/trouble free card if they just keep shouting the same phase over and over.

But, sure, teach people their rights and their right to remain silent (and to have a lawyer). But also remind them that shouting some phase over and over again doesn't provide them legal cover or help situations de-escalate. And, yes, they will be made fun of for acting like an idiot.
It currently lives in its own repository:

https://github.com/jlouis/maps_eqc

There is also an accompanying series of blog posts:

https://medium.com/@jlouis666/breaking-erlang-maps-4-4ebc3c6...

(Part 4 here links to the other 3 parts in the beginning for interested readers).
They found that time of editing is linearly dependent on the size (finding 1). The nonlinearity of the dependence would be interesting.

There is no indication that outliers have any non-linearity.
Re the past proxy data, and possibly the recent data, why is the assumption that causation follows gas->temp and not temp(unknown_var)->gas?
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How would the Baytrail Z3735F CPU that it is equipped with compare with a 6 year-old ATOM n280 ?
If you like this, you'll probably also appreciate this earlier study by the same author:

http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/03/10/deus-ex-human...