skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you seem to be interested, I'm sure you're aware of the vote manipulation studies at Facebook and funding link to the Air Force and DoD (MINERVA)?

https://www.google.com/search?q=61+million+experiment+social...

There are also - and I can go on about this for quite some time - programs and studies partially revealed by the Snowden docs but evidenced well beyond those documents that have the US investing resources into not only tracking the flow of ideas using large scale sentiment and social media analysis, but also curating and directing these ideas. While there is around 10 years of capability research regarding the online case, today DARPA has a research program called SMISC (Social Media in Strategic Communication; Strategic Communication is the DoD term for influence operations/propaganda) that studies how to measure the 'idea posture' of an online community and also how to control it. This combined with efforts like Operation EARNEST VOICE and the host of others does make an onlooker take the State Departments 'War of Ideas' concept much more seriously.
This is a pretty silly deterrent in an actual nuclear standoff scenario.

If you have Nation A and Nation B, and Nation A chooses to implement this "leader must personally kill to launch the nukes" plan, then what happens if/when Nation B finds out about this? Nation B is able to more strongly bully Nation A because the leader of Nation A is less willing to actually make the call that would lead to a personal death.

In contrast, the "hostage" approach described in the linked-to article (http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/09/19/the-heart-of-deter...) is better, and, as one of the commenters mentions, was something in use historically:

>The fundemental logic of ‘family hostages’ is not that different from how many of the monarchies achieved various alliances with other nations through the use of marriage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_exper...

Happened 1887. A load of other things mentioned by other people here, too.

I wonder if there was some sort of geographic centre to it. A lot of it sounds like it happened in the US.
Sure. Like I said most aren't glamorous nor necessarily tech in their core nature. I know some of the rough FTE counts, but also some of these used quite a bit of part time help.

Electrical Contractor - ~$14M/Annual revenue, less than 30 FTE's. Honestly a couple variations of this too around, one was a regional HVAC supply company etc.

Small boat manufacturer - ~$25M annual revenue, less than 60 FTE's (IIRC) Family owned, started only about 10 years ago. Owners worked their asses off until the past few years (I think he said when he crossed the $18M mark as that was some magic number for them).

Family that has purchased many Franchise stores from Texas to Virginia and Florida - ~$8M annual rev and they never work in a store other than when it opens to help set the tone. They visit them often though. I have no clue the count of employees they have, but in the holding company we did work for it was only about 4-5.

Plumbing contractor - ~$9M annually, they started as a pure service contractor and then also opened up regional distribution of supplies. Supply side is the higher growth side for them, even through the real estate market stupidity. I guess everyone needs a toilet that works and pipes that don't leak though, so makes some sense.

Financial Auditing Software - ~$14M annually, they wrote custom software 15-18 years ago (and keep updating it) that analyzes loan risks and compliance for underwriters. Around a dozen FTE's, owner would rarely wear shoes when he came to the office, always made me laugh.

Consumer wearables (shirts, hats, backpacks etc) - ~$11M annually, < 25 FTE's. Actually a few of these types of business we have worked for, but they seem to come and go more than others, so my sense is sustainability doesn't seem to be really easy in that market place.

Some of these numbers are old and I know at least 2 of these are likely doing considerably better now. The things I noted when I was doing work for these and others is how they structured their companies. They always focused on hiring people to manage things for them and focused on training the leadership. They never made the business all about them, maybe to help get it off the ground but not after. That lets them pick and choose what they do and allows them the freedom of the "lifestyle" business. I probably have done work with 25-30 over the past 7 years that would fit into this category now. I can't say I have seen too many with > $25M in revenue, as that seems to be when people start selling out or they have to jump back in 100% and push to a new level (just my observation/guess).

Also, in talking to them the other common theme is it was never "lifestyle" in the early days, it was only after they hit their magic tipping number or a certain number of years of profitability at a certain level that it became "lifestyle" for them.
We've hired people without ever once meeting them! Remote workers, online interviews, accepted and get to work. But we're a company that creates remote-worker tools, so we're well-placed to make that happen.
Sighing in text and accusing people of trolling make me assume your point needs bolstering by emotional resonance.

Your hypothesis of naive proportions may well be correct, but you certainly didn't make much an argument beyond stating the premise.

I personally see no particular reason that interest in engineering has a need to be distributed equally across any human grouping. Fairness as a concept aside, there are clear differences in humans that are driven by gender. Desiring to assume these differences can't affect interests is fine, but it's far from proven by any empirical data. In fact, this article potentially contradicts that notion with actual numbers - although it's impossible to draw a line between inbuilt differences and external influence here.
Your article is quite interesting. Only one thing annoyed me: the text color doesn't contrast enough with the background, making your article difficult to read. It seems to be your first article on this blog this is why I wanted to give you this advice. Keep working hard.
Ask HN: Removing many impostor accounts from FB?
I've tried using their tool to report them one at a time, it's quite tedious.

I've tried emailing them at info@facebook.com. Redirected to support page.

I only care because FB is the first hit when you google my name and FB suggests connecting with these impostors on their logged out landing page.

Besides writing a bot in Selenium to scrap FB and report each profile, I'm not sure what to do. Any ideas?
From the whitepaper:

8.10 Bitcoin Wallet

1. Decentralized private key generation – Multiple Enigma nodes locally create a segment of
the key, whereas the full key is only ever assembled by the user. No trail of evidence is left
anywhere.

2. Decentralized transaction signing – Transactions signed without ever exposing the private
key or leaving a trail.

3. Decentralized controls - Set spending limits, multi-sig, CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY like
controls, and more with a private script. Lock time,
The New Twitch: Tell Me What to Rap About
Facebook Messenger payments are now available to everyone in the US
Free and Out of Beta: Why We Charged Nothing for the HubSpot CRM
It's because "people on HN" is not a monolithic group.
Proudly un-Enterprise
Why does Fowler always feel the need to invent his own terminology? A more accurate and accepted description for his examples would be "Stream combinators".
This link will get you started:

http://edumall.pxq.in/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Entrepreneu...

Leave me your email and I promise I will scan in some other sections I think you'll need into a PDF and email it to you by the weekend.
I think I saw a talk, or a statement somewhere, made by Rich Hickey - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8342718 .
I believe it was in this talk.

Not that I was being negative about it.
Hey, thanks for the info. I've tried that, but now I get a "Error: redirect_uri_mismatch" error.

edit: I got it working. When creating a new client id, you need to choose "Installed application" as the application type.
The consequences of Kawasaki - especially if undiagnosed - are severe. Coronary artery ectasia, which infrequently persists, can lead to spontaneous coronary thrombosis in otherwise young healthy adults. In other words, healthy young adults can develop heart attacks as a consequence of this disease. This is documented in the article, but I'll emphasize that it's something we see (albeit rarely) in the real world.
See it in action: http://applemusic.tumblr.com/

Interesting to see Apple using Amazon S3 as well.
EasyConnect – Any Application, Any Device, Anywhere
See also: http://snnd.github.io/bailout/
remember that boto3 was released separately - https://github.com/boto/boto3
Ask HN: Anyone want a free hour of acquisition marketing consulting?
Hey NYC HNers,

I got the idea for this from Franze's post in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9797482

I'm a direct acquisition marketer with about 8 years experience based in NYC, 5 years as a full time employee. I have experience in scaling paid acquisition from almost nothing to many millions per year, and have used all major paid channels. I am gainfully employed and busy, but think it's important to network more at this point in my career.

I would be happy to offer an hour of consulting, over the phone or in person, for any company that has at least made $100 in revenue from their business so far. We can go over ways to optimize existing channels and to expand to new channels. Otherwise the same limitations apply as Franze has in his post.

Not sure if anyone will be interested, but email me at probonohn@gmail.com and I'll get back to you soon.
Instead of alluding to a mysterious critique that refuted anything, you should have delivered it, because this post was not only sexist but you appear to have entirely missed the point in your fervor to demonstrate your "right" thinking.
(Smart hunter look at the other hunters flying over the whooly rhinoceros horn whereas munching this small trouts with garlic and wild lattice from a safe place...)
This may also be a factor in Belgium, which has a similar situation (though I think the presence of nukes is confirmed there, I'm not sure).
>Can you imagine a NFL player ever doing something like that?

Absolutely. Sure, there are many NFL players I couldn't imagine doing that, but there are tons of NFL players and many of them are class acts. I could easily imagine hearing the same story about an NFL player.
Well not only does he build quality products but he's an esteemed member of the mISV and HN community. His blog is popular and very educational.
I love vim.
Yep, I couldn't agree more... I used to be slightly out of the M25 in a nice area but my partner wanted to move closer to her work and so (sadly) we in zone 6.
Coinciding with the Long Depression of 1873-1896?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression

Those good old technological explanations for secular stagnation don't look great over longer timescales.
> Public markets are rational

Are they? If markets were rational and efficient, you wouldn't have stocks trading below their asset value. There is nothing rational at all about having $1B on the books that you could acquire for the company in a fire sale, and then trading as though you only have $500M. This is the basis for how value investing works and how people like Ben Graham and one of his students you may have heard of (Warren Buffett) have made billions of dollars off of this assumption. Fred's a great private/venture investor, but he's not a credible source on macroeconomic theory.
This discrepancy could be driven by the private equity brand craze. Firms buy into the Uber's, Airbnb's and Slack's at irrational prices just to say the are 'investors' when raising the next pool of money.
To address one point, the safety bicycle was the point in the development of the bicycle that made it possible for women to ride while wearing long skirts. This was a huge step for women's autonomy as it allowed women a way to travel independently. So yes, the safety bicycle was a big deal, though I agree that it's nonsense to try to rank decades.

http://www.annielondonderry.com/womenWheels.html
maybe just #include <standardCitations.h> ?
What about the parent comment validates your theory? The commenter gave another example of a skilled single backhand player but that doesn't really validate a theory that it's better or worse than the double backhand.
initials instead of full name maybe? I doubt it's an issue for finance, more for tech perhaps? Depends on what role it is and what level you are at. It matters less than it used to. There's more important things on a resume to determine if you get an interview. Tailoring resumes to company and role is more important.
Uber executives to stand trial in France
How many dentists per capita are there in Portland compared to similar cities.

Edit, I checked. It seems that it might be higher than average.
Ask HN: License template/example for single-use license
I've produced a short (~15s) video intro/title for a local sporting event being covered by a media firm. This work has been done for free, as I support the cause.

However, I want to ensure that I license the rendered assets to them in a way which ensures that they cannot use them again in future for an unrelated event without requiring relicensing for a fee.

I've looked around, and cannot find any boilerplate single-use license templates. Any advice?
Oops... Thanks! I could fix it just in time :)
Getting to UTF8  20,000 Transactions per Second: Part 1 – What’s the Problem?
What I meant was that the limitation in highlighting is usually due to the limitation in pattern matching. Of course, IDEs usually contain text editors, and they often do highlight using an AST. But that's expensive, both to develop and to run, and especially if you're not going to use the AST for any other IDE-like activity. Pattern-matching is cheap and usually good enough.
Pretty much how you navigated the web before search engines. Also, something all SEO'ers tried to get their sites into as search engines used to use this as seed site for their crawling process. But, yeah, I don't know why anybody would post it. Maybe they were feeling nostalgic.
The common way to do this in literature is using an alias. 'Little Bobby Tables' is probably available again...
Getting to UTF8  20,000 Transactions per Second: Part 2 – What’s the Solution?
Many more people on HN upvote WSJ stories over similar stories on other publications. So "people on HN" is accurate, as it appears to reflect the majority opinion here.
Payments Firm Backs 'Crazy' Offline Bitcoin Transactions Experiment
Whiteboarding in tech screens?
What are your thoughts on whiteboarding problems for on sites? What types of problems are you seeing most often?
Based on my [limited] understanding, better error messages is one of the goals of Perl 6 and something the Racket folks put a lot of thought behind when creating the Student Language series. At the other end of the spectrum are JVM languages that fail spectacular with references to Java classes that the program's author never heard of.
I recall something similar to this recently on HN, http://www.zerodb.io/. Are they using homomorphic encryption here?

Would homomorphic encryption make it possible for cloud hosting to run a website without knowing the code that is being ran?
I actually just migrated 20 million rows of Magic: the Gathering price data from influxDB to postgres this week. For a few days of effort, I decreased my query latency by an order of a magnitude; a full set query, roughly 270 cards, went from 30 to 3 seconds with a cold cache.

The migration was prompted by influxDB 0.8 eating 50% of the VPS' cpu and 77% of the ram while idling. It had no capability to index along anything but time so every query, for my use case, required a full table scan. 0.9 was supposed to fix every issue I had with it but it was due to be 'production ready' months ago.

Unless you're dealing with ingesting an absolutely insane amount of data indexed along time, I'd have to say that postgres or comparable sql database should be more comfortable, more stable, and much more mature.

EDIT: I don't want to come off as shitting all over influxDB, to its credit it barely moved beyond idle resource usage when I was stuffing it full of data.
Why not just use a time decaying ring buffer

Because you don't want to through the data away. RRDTool and Whisper implement ring buffers but you lose data and resolution with them. If that's acceptable then absolutely use those tools. If you don't want to lose data though then you need something else.
The notions of dark matter and the dark matter particle are incorrect. The mass which fills 'empty' space is beginning to be referred to as the 'dark mass' in order to distinguish it from the baggage associated with dark matter.

'Dark Energy/Dark Mass: The Slient Truth'
https://tienzengong.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/dark-energydark...

"That is, all that we are certain about [is] the dark mass, not dark matter, let alone to say about the dark 'particle'."

Particles of matter move through and displace the dark mass, including 'particles' as large as galaxies and galaxy clusters.

The Milky Way moves through and displaces the dark mass.

The Milky Way's halo is the state of displacement of the dark mass.

The Milky Way moves through and curves spacetime.

The Milky Way's halo is curved spacetime.

The state of displacement of the dark mass is curved spacetime.
"More ubers actually mean less vehicles since people who would otherwise drive and park all day would take an uber"

That's a pretty strong claim - where I've see uber operate the vast majority of fares seem to be people who were taking taxis anyway, they just prefer uber. Do you have evidence that uber is actually eating into private car usage in any significant way in a dense metro area?
K Allen – Watching Me Fall Ft. Nadia Rayne
Thanks! I signed up and submitted.

One more small thing that would be nice to improve is being able to tweak the thumbnail. It seems to be generated automagically, but would be easier / better if you can also upload your own thumbnail.

In any case, good luck with Eduhunt. Great to see more resources for e-learning out there.
I don't think this is a real common occurrence or something you should be worried about (but I am also male). And like ellisv said, in the few times it does would you really want to work at that type of place? My 2 cents, be yourself and don't hide anything.

If you really feel it is hurting you though, then try using your first initial. But either way, neither would stop you from getting an interview with any company I have been apart of if you had the qualifications, and I think that's true at most any reputable company.
They help relieve pressure on the garbage collector by eliminating intermediate sequence allocations (eg. (comp (map a) (map b) (filter c) (map d)) would create 4 sequences, transducers create none). Consequently you can work with results incrementally unless there is an intermediate flush required such as for a windowed aggregation.

I imagine most applications aren't very sensitive to the performance gain, but it's good to know for when you need it. In addition it's a nice and testable, compos-able pattern. I've only done backend work, no cljs yet, but I'd call it reasonable practice to think in terms of compositions/transducers for most data transformation pipelines in the future though, throughout the stack, whether performance matters or not.
Pondering Solar Powered Bitcoin
IMHO find an IFA and work out a holistic financial plan.

With 6 figures you should be getting ahead.

If you do take this advice make sure:

1) They are regulated (obvious) and check the FCA register to see if they have any complaints

2) You like them and think you can get along, don't just settle for a 'cheap' proposition

3) Make sure they use lifetime cash flow modelling

4) Make sure they use scholastic modelling, and

5) Be prepared to pay for the advice and implement it.

TBH right from the outset it sounds like you might have to make lifestyle choices around spending habits.

Also just guessing here but if you are in that tax bracket you should have several tax mitigation options that will help you.
Anyone want to take bets that it was written on an Apple device? I find auto-correct has such a high error rate.

There are even certain basic error patterns it simply cannot recognize like when typing on an iPhone and the lowest row of characters ( c, v, b, n) are triggered instead of the space and words are strung together. It seems like a rather simple problem that should easily be corrected by detecting erroneous character placement.
Is HN Scared of Discussing Andrew Keen's 'The Internet Is Not the Answer'?
Is his book controversial? Yes.

Does he have all the right answers? Probably not.

But are his questions worth being asked and discussed? Absolutely.

While receiving wide press coverage on The Washington Post, The Guardian, etc., neither the book itself nor any reviews have received more than two points on HN.
Very clear explanation, thanks!!
I wouldn't say compete, but definitely complement.
It would be used when dealing with sensitive data.

One problem is that it's slower. 100x slower.
Might want to fact check before posting.
His main conclusion seems to be (see his final paragraph in part two) that mathematics starts off with an empirical basis, but it "begins to live a peculiar life of its own" which corresponds more to a creative discipline, whose primary criteria for evaluation are aesthetic.

An excerpt from that final paragraph:

But there is a grave danger that the subject will develop along the line of least resistance, that the stream, so far from its source, will separate into a multitude of insignificant branches, and that the discipline will become a disorganized mass of details and complexities. In other words, at a great distance from its empirical source, or after much "abstract" inbreeding, a mathematical subject is in danger of degeneration. At the inception the style is usually classical; when it shows signs of becoming baroque, then the danger signal is up. It would be easy to give examples, to trace specific evolutions into the baroque and the very high baroque, but this, again, would be too technical.

Seems very much along the lines of software projects: we lay down some framework that we work in which appears simple, elegant and well-suited to the conception of the product we're building. Then, as time goes one, it becomes complex as we 'patch' the imperfections of the initial system—then we refactor: a sort of paradigm shift occurs and we're working with new basic terms, hopefully restoring elegance to the system.
Loudoun County Public School Challenge – Call for Solutions
Self service security bounties seems like a very smart idea.

Would self-service security bounties enable a distributed bounty ? where each site developer puts a relatively small bounty in his site and his bounty offers him a certain qualification in the eyes of customers , but from the hacker standpoint , if you hacked one , you hacked them all and hence you can collect multiple bounties ?
Had to do it: https://logo.clearbit.com/piedpiper.com
scraping is not legal, and damages SEO meaning that anywhere it is added to does poorly in search engine results

copying or scraping of public domain information or information licensed to be copied/permission for copying or redistribution is not illegal but still not great for SEO. Many websites have a copyright policy on the bottom in the small print. You can also search for information which is public domain, or creative commons licenses. I don't really see the point of scraping. It's easy to link to sources.