skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish there was a "Cord Cutting" approach for the internet. It's easy to "Cord Cut" a TV - just don't buy one or don't subscribe to cable. The internet is much harder and, unfortunately, can be just as distracting. Even reading the day's news for an hour or more is rarely that beneficial (at least in my experience).

Unfortunately blocking sites by yourself via hosts doesn't work too well and I have yet to find a productive app that could live up to its promise.
I'd hope that the analytics help pinpoint all those cases of people booking a room "just in case" and then not using it.

(In a perfect world, resulting in reduced priority for their requests)
It somewhat reminds me of the book 'Eon' by Greg Bear, where a mysterious rock shows up in earth's orbit.
> Fortunately you had just turned up a bunch of new servers just days before.

We call that "capacity planning". ;)
PSA: Lenovo ships machines with parts that can't be freely updated or replaced
I have an E545 and my wireless networking card is extremely flaky (30sec of connectivity, 2 minutes of connecting at the worst; 30min connected, hours of the prior at the best). I've tried updating drivers, reseating it, &c and nothing works. I got a replacement card from an old Dell Latitude, put it in and got: "1802 - Unauthorized network card"

http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/ht001309

Their FCC excuse is utterly laughable because other manufactures don't require their computers to have white listed parts.

I wish I knew how low the Thinkpad brand has sunk under Lenovo before buying this machine. So, just a PSA to others out there. Lenovo is no friend of yours.
Um, brainwaves != subjective cognitive effects.

Even plain old, ordinary, non-binaural music has significant, meaningful cognitive effects (and is often used in gyms and therapy for that purpose).

Most know from first-hand experience that sound can affect the brain (and body) in significant ways. Sound affects neurotransmitters and hormones in the body. If it didn't, we probably wouldn't have ears. The purpose of ears is to make it possible for sound to affect us.

If your conclusion is "no effect", you're probably not listening hard enough, or for the right thing. That "Not much difference" could make all the difference.
It seems like the algorithm must have been broken if there were two lushes, and one had a certified following and 10x the number of subscribers, and still lost out.
Product is not for me (private Google calendar covers 7 people and one room well enough), but just wanted to say that your site and app design is really nice. Well done. One of the cleanest-looking I've seen on here in a long time.
Having kids is a great way to give yourself some perspective and curb existential angst.
eh, any where query that hits an index where the 750M rows are not going to be scanned. The query can easily return in 100ms... fetching the records is a different story.
"we've done this experiment on two subjects"
They probably don't want to set a precedent of doing this. For example, if BMW wants youtube.com/beemer, but frank beemer has had it for years, they probably don't want a precedent where poor Frankie gets to keep it.
As a user of them and isotones, I would like a more comllete attempt. I've got a few isotones from iso-tones.com. The headache mp3 actually helps. The focus ones do too. Perhaps this is just placebo, but with only one data point, myself, I think they can help.
With only two exceptions (Philippines and American Samoa), you need to be a permanent resident (i.e, already have a green card) to enlist in the U.S. military if you aren't a citizen.
Project Zero: Analysis and Exploitation of an ESET Vulnerability
His Medallion Fund seems to have done really well. From another article:

Simon's flagship fund, Medallion, requires aminimum investment of several million dollars and charges a 5% management fee and a jaw-dropping 44% performance fee. The fund is closed to new investment and has returned an astounding annual average net of 38% (remember, that's after the high fees). Since its 1988 launch, the fund has lost money in only one year, 1989, which saw a drawdown of 4%.

But I have to ask: why limit the fund to multi-millionaire investors? Why not open it to the other investors too and let them benefit for a change? This is just the "rich-getting-richer". If anybody needs a 38% average annual return, it's most certainly not a multimillionaire; it's more likely a middle-class person who could use the gains.

I apologize for sounding negative here, but this inequity is something that bothers me.
> DFA implementations are worst-case O(n ^ 2) in the number of states of the regular expression

What? Why is that? If the NFA has n states, then the DFA in principle might need one state for every possible set of states the NFA might be in, of which there are 2^n. Where does n^2 come from?
>but cooking foil could reasonably be interpreted as being food waste

oh I hope thats not whats going on. That would be closer to lack of common sense than rule confusion.

The tricky cases I understand - as you say the rules are difficult - its the obviously wrong stuff that gets to me where people chucked it in the closest bin.
That's a neat idea and I'm always glad to see companies working on tech that will protect little kids! Please don't forget to add this to the thread on Friday morning - they will post it at 0900 PDT.

Good luck with your startup!
You are absolutely right guys, I tried to communicate with the popup provider to fix the issue that causes it to display twice, they failed to do that, and I'll replace the provider soon. Thank you.
Craft Without Code: Webydo 2.0
Will be fixed soon. Thank you.
> Another frequently-cited benefit of opened borders is that -- for the most part -- current citizens own everything in this country

This is not true. Very many things in this country are owned by entities that are not citizens -- foreign corporations and/or foreign individuals.

> and stand to make a bit of cash if there's an influx of new faces looking to buy houses, used cars, rent rooms, etc etc etc.

Sure, some people (some of whom are citizens) own things for which local demand and prices would increase with an influx of new people. Lots of citizens don't own much, and would be competing to purchase those things, and would suffer rather than benefit from the higher prices.

The benefit here is pretty much directly in proportion to current ownership of capital (just like the benefit from greater supply, and therefore lower prices, from labor.)
Yes because if you have some criticism of policies that allow Disney to have workers train their foreign replacement you must be some kind of xenophobic racist.

Immigration is a complex issue. Name calling doesn't solve anything.
The only thing I still need a cable TV subscription for is European Football. It seems that there is absolutely no way to watch it online other than signing up for a cable package...I wish we had something like twitch, netflix or youtube for live sport events...especially football(soccer as somebody call it here)
This is just another statement of precision vs. recall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall
After buying AOL/Techcrunch, now I'm reading all the relevant Techcrunch posts from the "what's in this for Verizon?" perspective.

Verizon is about to launch a "cord-cutting" online video service, and it may even use AOL/Techcrunch's advertising network to power it:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/26/us-verizon-video-i...
Option #1 is actually fairly easy. But it often means taking a less exciting job than, say, an early stage startup. I have to agree with you that the author didn't have his priorities straight.
Yeah, I just moved into an apartment where the couple recently cut the cord as well. I think the only part where you're wrong is in saying cable TV is getting "shaken up." I'm pretty sure cable TV as we knew it is over.
Imgur used other CDNs before, as well (they were on EdgeCast, not sure if they still are).
I would love to cut the cord permanently, but as a huge sports fan, the alternatives to cable aren't quite there yet.

I spent the past year streaming streaming NFL Red Zone and TNT for the NBA Playoffs using my parents's cable login info online. I casted both to my television (didn't have an HDMI out adapter for my laptop) and the quality was not on-par with HD video from a cable box, despite a 100Mbps connection. This is mainly due to the transcoding happening when casting, however, even when using the WatchESPN app on the Amazon Fire TV, I experienced similar video quality. Further, the lag between "real-time" (when I see reactions on Twitter or from my friends watching on cable) and what I saw was about a minute or two. As a huge fan who craves content now, I find that lag unacceptable for me, and hardly consider it live television.

I understand I am likely in a small minority, even for sports fans, but the current cord-cutting options are just not adequate for me. I will be adding cable service in August in preparation for football season.
It's truly amazing how terrible it is.

Extremely expensive, enormous amount of advertising, content is only available on a time schedule, DVR is slow and still has the ads you have to fast forward through (if it works at all).

I don't understand why anybody would pay for it (with the notable exception of sports).

My fear is that it'll shift into a service like Hulu where they ditch the time schedule, but you're still paying for tons of advertising. I hope the Netflix and HBO model win (or even Apple and Amazon). Better content, no advertising, better price. I hope the others fail and take all of their shitty content down with them.
I wouldn't be too eager to draw a definitive conclusion from N=2.
Proud cord cutter since 2008. Hi-Speed internet providers like Webpass with Hulu+, Netflix or Amazon Prime has more than enough content to satisfy your idiot box cravings.

I used to be a netflix subscriber but then I moved to Hulu+. There some strange appeal about uncertainty of content line-up. With Netflix you layout your own lineup. But Hulu+ has some pseud-TV feel to it.
You think all those going to school in the US are brilliant students? There are a ton of students who just have money and go to school in the US. They go to US universities who are in part propped up by the money spent by these students.

Having these type of students go back is not a lose. In fact they bring with them a demand for American goods, and culture.
I notice now I cut some corners. I meant language specific tooling for resolving/downloading dependencies, building and installing.

Sorry for the confusion.
> mostly philosophers

No wonder you say you can find the Greek stuff "pretty boring." There's so much more to Greek literature than philosophy. Try

* Homer - the closest thing the Greeks had to the Bible, yet so different in spirit in that it raises unanswerable questions about the Greeks' beliefs, without affirming them

* Aristophanes - slapstick humor

* Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus - the great tragedians

* Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon - some of the greatest historians ever, although they fall somewhat short of our modern standards for historical rigor

* Lysias - mainly valuable as a record of the Greek legal process

* Lucian - for satire (if you don't like philosophers, you'll love Lucian)
This comment isn't really intended to sound snobbish, but...

I took Ancient Greek in college, and toward the end of the term was reading "The Clouds" in the original. And it was incredibly funny. But I've never found a non-boring translation.

Which led me to suspect that a lot of the modern rejection of classics comes more from the culture and norms of classical scholars' translations than from anything in the works themselves.

(a similar problem is known to have happened more recently with Dumas' "Three Musketeers", which suffered from English translators whose prudishness cut out a lot of fun bits from the original French)
We haver good immigration numbers at the moment, and society is ever-changing for the better as we balance a healthy mix of cultures. The trick is to constrain the rate of immigration so that the infrastructre and society can adapt. As it is out biggest city, Auckland, is experiencing insanely high house prices that folks in the Bay area would grimace at. Aside from that it's a wonderful wonderful place to live, and the start-up ecosystem is thriving.
I do this by leave my laptop at work, leaving my smartphone in a drawer at home... and using a Nokia bar phone.

It might not be for everyone, but works for me.

http://www.amazon.com/NOKIA-301-2-FACTORY-UNLOCKED-QUADBAND/...
A better idea is to offer a free, limited version with no support and premium versions with support. That way your time is focused on those willing to pay and anyone who needs it free has to find someone to help when they get stuck. That gives them an incentive to upgrade while still making your SaaS visible to new users. I think Trello has it right; the free version has us onboarding hundreds of new users for them and teaching them to use it and the paid version is worth paying for if you need to control your users.
The other angle that would be interesting to look at is the number of TV & movie pirates that have converted to legitimate services.

In high school, university and through my early 20's, I pirated most of the music I listened to, and nearly all of the TV shows and movies I watched.

Now, even though pirating content is now easier than ever, and I still refuse to pay for cable, I now consume the vast majority of content legitimately via online streaming.

My personal reasons are twofold:

- As I've gotten older, my income has grown and I can afford to pay a reasonable amount for access to media.

- Nearly all the content I want to watch is covered by a combination of Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Now, Rdio and sports league network subscriptions.

I wonder if I'm part of a larger trend of pirates becoming legitimate online viewers/listeners as more content becomes available for legitimate online streaming, and how large that trend is.
I also wonder why those limits exist more generally, not just for this fund.

Maybe those limits affect the timelines on which money is invested and in which it is withdrawn, where-as actually having rules about such things would not work as well.
Paul Krugman Goes for a Knockout Against Scrappy Austerians
This is settled enough science that when you go to the doctor as an overweight Indian person, the doctor says "Eat less roti and rice or you are going to get diabetes." Admittedly nutrition science doesn't have a great track record of accuracy, but when something is well enough established that it's the standard preventative treatment, I don't think it requires a citation.
I've recently been learning J to try something different, and have worked through the first 60-odd Project Euler problems using it.

My current assessment is that J combines the powerful computational primitives of a language designed by a brilliant applied mathematician with the FFI & I/O interfaces of a language designed by a brilliant applied mathematician. Writing purely algorithmic code feels like writing executable math in ASCII. Writing code which needs to interact with the outside system feels like programming an 80’s 8-bit microcomputer in BASIC.

I have not yet learned APL or K, so I cannot yet compare and contrast.

* Edited to add: most useful for me so far has been the book J for C Programmers bundled with the official documentation. It mostly takes the tack of expecting that you already know how to program and want to know how to do certain things you can do in other languages in J. Additionally the final section on "tacit programming" includes some details on the implementation which made some of the more obscure behaviors of the language more clear.
When robots take our jobs, America will need to learn to respect the unemployed
I'm a Canadian citizen (but I live in the US), so I think I know what' hes' referring to.

With Bill C-24, whether you were born in Canada or were naturalised, if you qualify for another citizenship or hold citizenship from another country, the government can take away your Canadian citizenship if it considers you to be a terrorist or threat to the country.

I'm against it.
The thing with society, culture, and communities is that things are always a matter of perception. Sometimes that perception can become distorted.

For example in Ferguson where I live, the perception was Mike Brown had his back turned to the police officer, had his hands in the air, and said "Don't shoot!" and was shot in the back about a dozen times, execution style. We had about a dozen eyewitnesses that claimed that happened. When the forensic evidence came into play, Mike Brown was not shot in the back, didn't have his hands in the air, was running towards the police officer and the killing shot was on top of his head so he hung his head down as he ran. Faced with this scientific evidence those eyewitnesses had to recant their testimony. But our community still has the perception that he had his back turned, hands in the air and said "Don't shoot".

They released the names of people who donated to a charity to pass Prop 8. Your name was on the list, as well as the CEO of OkCupid who put up a message when someone used Firefox on their website. http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/okcupid-ceo-donate-a...

Notice how it is described as Anti-Gay, anyone who donated to that charity was found to be Anti-Gay. That is the community perception to anyone who donated money to a charity to defeat that law. That they are an Anti-Gay bigot. None of these people are given a chance to explain their position that donated to that charity, none were given a chance to apologize, it was a public perception that they are all automatically Anti-Gay bigots.

It is the same when a politician votes down a law in congress. Maybe they voted it down to get a better law passed later on. Maybe they didn't like the wording that would allow loopholes and voted it down so the next time that wording could be changed. But politics plays the gotcha game where if anyone votes down a law, they must be against what that law represents.

Now one has to watch what they post to social networks and the public Internet. There is no expectation of privacy as donations to charities are made public, email can be hacked, websites can be hacked, phone calls are recorded. All it takes is one comment taken out of context to ruin a career.

Most of the people who campaigned to have you removed didn't even know what Firefox did. I remember watching some shows on Cable TV about it and the host didn't know what Firefox was, but they knew you were against Prop 8 so they wanted you gone. Had no idea of your history, what tech you invented, how you helped co-found Mozilla and spin it off of AOL. How Microsoft had all but put Netscape out of business, so AOL bought it out. People are not aware that Netscape had started a revolution in the Web browser history and that you put code together to make the first JavaScript language. Your critics don't know your full history so they marginalize you.

I am not sure what you are doing these days, how you earn money, but you had to resign because the public perception was against you. It is a matter of public relations, and these days the public very rarely forgives and forgets.
Don't underestimate sports. I think live sports are what keeps the industry afloat.
> Downvote. The comment isn't grey! Someone voted this creepy thing up!

I have a comment at -1 points right now that shows up (to me) as black. It used to be grey. I don't know if authors now see all of their own comments in full black or if comments revert to black after a certain period of time or what, but I'm not prepared to guarantee that a comment in full black has more than 0 points.
Things are getting better wrt companies granting options here. The law has improved slightly but still isn't perfect. At least it's simpler than the US.
Bug in the month matching, instead of [01]\d which will also match 13-19, maybe try something like: (0[1-9]|[1-9]|1[0-2]) https://goo.gl/RMv4x2
For lots of amusing true stories of bad programers and the havoc they cause, see http://thedailywtf.com

"Founded in 2004 by Alex Papadimoulis, The Daily WTF is your how-not-to guide for developing software. We recount tales of disastrous development, from project management gone spectacularly bad to inexplicable coding choices."
>Pensions are basically a massive pyramid scheme; it's going to fail eventually. The only way it can continue is if there is no limit on availability of natural resources for the manufacture of new stuff on which Western Capitalism appears to depend.

This is a common misconception. You should do some research on what is known as "productivity growth" and then come back for a rational discussion.
I run the engineering team at www.hometeamcare.com

It might not be immediately apparently from our website jobs here definitely satisfy all of your criteria. Let me know if you want to chat.
Median net worth in the US, last I saw, was on the order of $45K -- since that value is > $0, its not the case that 50% of Americans have zero or a negative net worth.
Well, there used to be a limit in the number of investors. I think it was only 500 people. Does that limit still exist?

You aren't guaranteed returns. Many hedge funds fail:

http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/18/hedge-fund-failures-busines...
How does someone articulate that without collapsing in shame?
Not nirvana, but not hell either — if you use vagrant — vagrant share + tmux + vim/emacs works well for remote pairing.
I actually recently left my job at google to start my own company and that's what we do. We didn't consider using GPUs yet as the queries we are running for the specific usecase we are currently working on (web/ecommerce analytics) are all IO bound [so the first step if we wanted to speed stuff up would be moving the data onto ssds or into memory as we are currently storing everything on disk. however this hasn't been necessary so far]. Our product allows you to run interactive queries (segment/aggregate/etc) against a billion record dataset (in the terrabytes; basically a giant logfile that stores an entry for every interaction we observe on the website/app with lots of metadata) with O(seconds) latency.

We wrote our own code that does "the heavy lifting" but it's pretty much the same that everbody seems to be doing right now and comes down to minimizing the # of bytes read at query time; we index all data into a columnar format (so we only need to load a subset of the data and can pack it tightly for most queries) and then slice the query up into lots of individual shards that we compute in parallel (again, being bound mainly by the 200megs/sec disk read we get out of each machine).

Without being completely serious now but regarding your question; "a simple WHERE" (scanning each row and applying a predicate fn with no shared state/shuffle/merge phase) is pretty straightforward to run on a huge dataset as you can split the execution up into as many pieces as you want and run them individually. Since this allows you to basically choose the problem size per shard you could scan those 750m rows on a ginormous cluster of tamagochis if you can fit a single row onto one ;)

If you or somebody else would like to talk more, please shoot me an email: paul@deepcortex.io
That interview costs me at least $500 cash -- my take home pay for the day of vacation I would have to give up. I value my vacation days at rather more than $500 actually, because I have so few of them.
"Most of the channels I may have been interested in watching have slowly descended into drivel: Discovery, History, TLC, Science"

I completely agree. It's amazing how these once interesting channels have decided to go the reality TV route, and it's so far away from the type of programming you'd assume they would have. I remember being devastated when the History Channel started doing this.