skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is essentially how inflation is calculated. Instead of just a big mac, an entire basket of predetermined everyday items and services are watched for changes and the fluctuation in prices are averaged for a domestic locale giving us the consumer price index. Then the numbers of the previous CPI are compared to the current.

Also, some people have taken to using the "iPod index" or really any uniform product that is widely available and standardized.
Yeah, that's actually what inspired me to dig this up and post it.
I know you are joking, but the last thing this world needs in another acronym? If I was made a dictator in a fantasy world, all future suggested acronyms(related to computing) would have to be vetted by 12 well paid, top notch, Programmers. And only very few acronyms would be approved yearly--even the one that save time. I guess I'm just tired of so many acronyms? Or, maybe I'm just tired?
Don't miss the gallery link, it's got a high-res version of that photo and lots more https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPX0SCl7OzWilt9LnuQliat...
My notepad of choice is the Rhodia dot pad. They're bound on the top of the page so they're good at laying flat, and I've never had an ink bleed through the paper. As far as pens I use a Pilot Metropolitan with Noodler's black ink. However, I'm really lazy with refilling it so I tend to default to the PaperMate InkJoy pens that my office gets.
You're using the wrong definition for man to qualify your visual irritant. Man in this case means "human, person". If I say this will help all mankind, I'm not excluding a gender. You simply misunderstood.
The classic venn diagram of data science is still helpful: http://drewconway.com/zia/2013/3/26/the-data-science-venn-di...

This article reads like a way to find yourself in the danger zone.
looks incredibly useful, ive been looking for a remote job, has some sources ive never seen before, definitely worth checking out
Ah, and then it just silently throws an exc and never closes the connection. Nice.

Gracias Señor@!
> So far as I know (this is sort of my profession), there's no federal "burglars tools" law regarding malware.

To be fair, many "burglars tools" laws require possession of the tools WITH INTENT to perform a criminal action. The intent piece is key. Merely possessing lock picks is usually fine. But sulking around masked in bushes outside an office building with a pickset, rope, and an empty duffel bag might get you in trouble.

A good list of Lockpick laws collected and indexed state-by-state at http://toool.us/laws.html. You see that in most jurisdictions intent is required.

While malware laws are still much less mature, I would hope that similarly there'd be an intent requirement. Possessing malware for purposes of reverse engineering to develop protections is obviously important, and clearly an activity we would want to remain lawful (and hopefully unlicensed/regulated).

Conspiracy is probably the easier route to a conviction.
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We can (must) judge this article on its own merit. While not particularly informative, it is well written and explains the problem very, very clearly. The examples and analysis make sense even to people who aren't developers. It helps to raise awareness about an important issue, and is a part of the solution.

Telerik's cruft is somewhat different from the cruft referred to in the article. They offer "rich" UIs, which we might hate, but is just what many companies choose when they try to replace their old Windows Forms apps with web apps. With modern browsers, they aren't really that computationally expensive. And in any case, they aren't responsible for the type of issues mentioned in TFA. Like loading from dozens of domains, interstitial ads, social media links, and 200+ requests.

Telerik's products cannot be evaluated in isolation without looking at their history. They primarily cater to enterprise-y Microsoft shops, and they been in the business at least from the classic Asp.Net days (10+ years). Their components were DLLs earlier (which they probably still offer), but have now moved to somewhat leaner, modern JavaScript libraries. Their market moves very slowly, and it makes sense for them to move at a similar pace.
Non-atomic objects are not illusions: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2896

The word "illusion" ought to be all but struck from philosophy, in my opinion. It seems to lead philosophers down a road of reductionism until they explode into a paroxysm of reductionism so complete that they won't even admit subatomic particles "exist". Further the idea that either A: I can explain it or B: it doesn't "exist" really ought to be struck too... even in 1908 I would have called that sheer ivory tower arrogance but in light of what we know today is it simply absurd. There are true, meaningful, and incomprehensibly large statements, such as "a true specification of the full state of the world economy". (In theory nothing prevents such a statement from being produced, but you won't be fitting that into your head anytime soon.) There is always C: I can't explain it but it exists.

It remains a current theory that time is not an atomic element of our universe, and that it may arise from something else (entropy? the connections in loop quantum gravity? something something holographic principle?), but regardless of what the truth is, "time" as a useful concept won't go anywhere.
It's weird they specify Visual Studio Professional though, what about Enterprise?
What is illegal in a download of an online drug marketplace? Are pictures of drugs banned where you live?
I think it might be considered linkbait, and that's discouraged in the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Er, you may be a native German speaker, but a touch of spellcheck might be appropriate given the quotes in the person you are replying to
Sites like this work fine. Also a post to /r/programming or /r/India /r/Brazil would work.

Btw, what is your product ?
Everyone is like: haha that is funny, or evil, but think about it for a second

Consider large financial groups. Often they have both investment banking and wealth management divisions. Let's say IB is a primary dealmaker for country's oil industry. Why would WM division hire an analyst covering oil industry, combing through the public sources? They already have insider knowledge of the industry!

Oh wait...

Except that it is expressly illegal and finance is required by law to maintain "glass wall" between certain divisions and control the flow of information.

It is quite believable that Google would want to avoid accusations of unfair competition, self-regulate, and hire an SEO person for one of their non-search related businesses, like Nest or broadband, or carpool service, and maintain some degree of plausible deniability that it does not use insider information to compete with other non-search-related companies.
elance, freelancer etc. hire them as beta testers.
I think that's probably right. The system wouldn't be perfect (in particular, you'd still have the problematic specter of the rich hiring whole teams of expert attorneys, giving rise to the suggestion raised here that the rich can, to some degree, buy the justice system), but I think it would be adequate so long as the defendant's resources were typically comparable to the resources brought to bear by the prosecution in a particular case. (Bearing in mind that, for run of the mill cases, the prosecution will not exactly throw every dollar they have at it either.)

This hints at some sort of rule that requires budget parity between the government's expenditure on the prosecution and on the defense in a given case, but I really haven't thought such an idea through sufficiently to suggest it as a solution.

It's also worth considering that, as with many other things, diminishing returns kick in at some point in one's legal defense. The objective reality of one's guilt or innocence does also, of course, play a role. Even a team of expert attorneys will have a hard time securing an acquittal with bad enough facts. So concerns about "buying justice," while real and important, are also often a bit hyperbolic.
I am planning a blog post on the relationship between YouTube video duration on other statistics. So I did a little exploratory analysis to validate the data.

As shown, the distribution of durations in Music videos is much, much different than all other categories. As a result, it skews nearly every other analysis and I may have to exclude videos from the Music category entirely.
If you're in England: you can get free treatment for OCD. Waiting times vary across the country. Please do use the complaints process if you feel disattisfied with the process - it's a valuable source of information, although it doesn't always feel like a useful thing.

To get treatment you could see your GP and say, clearly and firmly, something like "I think I have OCD. Here are my symptoms. I want to try a talking therapy. Please refer me to the local talking therapies service".

Or you can search for your county name and words like "IAPT" (improved access to psychological therapies) or "cognitive behaviour therapy".

You could also get a private therapist. Downsides are cost (about £25 to £50 per session, each session about an hour, should be less than 14 sessions needed) and therapists can't prescribe meds which might be useful in some cases. Look for BACP registration - they're somewhat reputable.

You should expect this level of care: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg31

I know a few people who had OCD and it surprised me how debilitating it can be. Really interfered with their day to day life.
The colors represent voltages (green is positive, red is negative). When (for example) Q1 switches on, its collector voltage goes low and since the voltage across C1 can't change suddenly, that means Q2's base voltage becomes negative.
Ummm...and delta airlines isn't going to have a problem with the name in the url/brand, same market category, and same color scheme?
Language is about more than sematics...
Will you be able to deliver to other clients in the same period? If not then you are working for ~28kpa which is low, and given you are freelance pretty unfair (because the reality is that you will be unlikely to get close to that on those rates.

Realistically if you have some experience you can expect (outside London) to earn ~40k pretty easily (and much more if you are good/prepared not to do the easy stuff) Given you are freelance my view is that you can ask for a 10% premium to cover sickness and fallow periods. So aim for 44k so I think that £4700 would be a fair quote (low end) for this job.

Of course this assumes that the work can be done in 5 weeks on 40 hr weeks. If in fact you will need to work 60hrs a week you need to be asking 50% more ~£7k
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[Author here]

LDAPass is a Python/Flask simple web application that aims to make Unix/Linux LDAP user account passwords manageable by their users without involvement of DevOps/SysAdmin resources in a simple, non complicated application not requiring extensive setup nor maintenance.

Be gentle ;) Happy to answer any questions, hear any feedback.
Just say no and move on. You'll make more money going after sensible clients than negotiating with a bad prospect to get the price up to something reasonable.
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There is a major thing going on here that is not mentioned in the article: One department doesn't deliver a website.

Is that "Terms of Service" modal there because a front-end dev thought "interrupting the user experience is a great idea!" No, it's there because of legal. And all those social sharing widgets? They are there because of marketing. And the 5 different ad exchanges? They are there from Sales/BizDev. And that 400KB of JS crap? That's Optimizely and their crappy A/B testing library that the dev team put it. And that hero image that's actually 1600px wide and then resized in CSS to 400px? It's there because that was the source image from the external agency and no one thought to modify it.

The biggest challenge with modern web sites/apps is that they are largely built by committee. Often its not literally built by a committee, but I mean that while multiple departments are all involved and all get to add to the site, but no one is really responsible for the final, overall user experience of the site.

And even if there is a "user experience" or "performance" team, they rarely have the power to change things. A customer of ours is a Alexa top 100 B2C company that provides a market place for buyers and sellers. They get commissions from sales, but a large part of revenue is ads. The "performance team" makes no head way against any of the terrible performance problems with ads because the ads team is judged based on the ads/conversions, not on performance of the page. Even when the ads are hurting the conversion rates of the sales/commissions, the ads team doesn't care. It's total deadlock of departments saying "performance and user experience is not my responsibility, I only do X".
Any paper voting system that is not entirely open for inspection is inherently open to alteration. Software systems are hardly unique in this respect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJfj9ySYg0Q
Great comment.

BTW, you can make interactive visualizations in pure python with bokeh: http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/

Also with Blaze, you can use Pandas (or even Dplyr) syntax in python to query Hive, Spark and other large stores. http://blaze.pydata.org/en/latest/
Typical behavior from a large corporation trying to wiggle out of a bad deal, but this...

>> At check-in, American agents detained Mukharji and escorted him to a private office.

... caught me by surprise. Agents of an airline can detain you?
It's 90 or 120 days and I believe that's only going to be required for the free Community Edition. Pro and Ultimate level users won't have to sign in.
I lived through Statistics, Business Analysis, Decision Analytics, Data Analytics, Data Mining now Data Science. Same thing renamed over and over again.

Regarding post above, it's right. Data scientist is someone better at statistics (classical stats, bayesian, machine learning) than computer scientist, and better at programming (SQL, R/Python for building models) than academic statistician. Plus a teaspoon of visualization (ggplot or d3).
There should be a warning for this enabled in every C project.
Yeah, I phrased that poorly. It takes as much evidence to go from 50% to 67% as it does to go from 98% to 99%
Each of them, I don't know, but Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising are his, I believe, and they're pretty good. Of course, after a while it really becomes about masturbating to America's mighty stick.
Tried in the sense of "We, the government, are going to remove all laws and even ourselves, and let society run itself"? No.

Tried in the sense of the government collapsed? Yes. See Somalia for the most recent example, but there are others. And when it has happened, yes, it has been found lacking.
HN moderators edit submission titles so that they match the submitted articles. Except in the cases where they arbitrarily change it to their liking. Like turning "laid off" into "let go."
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> I guess it would be an appeal of the sentence, rather than appealing her the charges she pled guilty to.

There were several legal motions prior to the guilty plea and on which it was predicated that are quite likely to be the subject of the appeal, particularly the motions to dismiss all charges (first for Constitutional due process violations involving unlawful pretrial punishment, second for violation of the Constitutional right to a speedy trial.)
Most of their workforce has been in their mid 20's and early 30's for the last decade or so; demographic-inspired change isn't coming because they have such insanely high turnover.
There are some strong points in this article but I think it reaches the wrong conclusion. Flipboard and Instant Articles are not an alternative business model. They are a loss-leader, plain and simple. The goal is still to get you on their webpage where you'll see the ads.

Good ole capitalism solves this problem quite easily. CNN banks on its brand to keep people coming to their site but there are plenty of non-terrible news sites on the web so for those who care about a nice user experience can just use those instead.
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I enjoyed this article. But I have one nitpick.

The author suggest HTTP/2 as a solution to web cruft.

I could be wrong, but I see the HTTP/2 ploy as a proposed way to deliver more cruft, faster.

What do you think is going to be in those compressed headers?
How large do HTTP headers need to be? What exactly are they trying to do? I look at headers on a daily basis and most of what I see is not for the benefit of users.

We can safely assume the compressed headers that HTTP/2 would enable would have nothing to do with advertising?

Again, I could be wrong, but in my estimation the solution to web cruft (unsolicited advertising) is not likely to come from a commercial entity that receives 98% of its revenue from web advertisers.

The web cruft problem parallels software bloat and the crapware problem (gratuitous junk software pre-installed on your devices before you purchase them).

The more resources that are provided, e.g., CPU, memory, primary storage, bandwidth, the more developers use these resources for purposes that do not benefit users and mostly waste users' time.

This is why computers (and the web) can still be slow even though both have increased exponentially in capacity and speed over the last two decades. I still run some very "old" software and with today's equipment it runs lightening fast.
The reason it is so fast is because the software has not been "updated".
It's a general black market, not just drugs. For example, one of the sites described on that page is PEDOFUNDING, "A crowdfunding site for child pornography." Now the dump isn't supposed to contain any images, but it's hard to be 100% sure. In any case, whatever risk there might be seems to be clearly implied in the name and description there.
You have just described why so much offshoring moved back to the US. If you need something cookie cutter that has already been done, sure, but then why are you building something that's already been done? If you have all the infrastructure to take everything else out of the equation except the raw development, then it often still makes sense to have a developer or 2 full time to maintain the app and understand the business needs.

I bet the offshore guys get a lot of work from all of the "I have an idea!" people though.
Hello everyone, I am the developer of this app. I wanted to thank you for the appreciation and I hope you find this tool useful in your work.

There are a lot of things that I want to add to this app in the future - e.g. working with heat maps, path and area measurement, simple image editing tools etc. Also while the auto extraction stuff works ok at the moment, I think there is still a lot of room for improvement. I hope I can get to all these things soon.

If you have any suggestions, then feel free to comment here, or use the issue tracker on GitHub. You can also just send me an email.
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> And I don't think it would be a PR disaster.

It might be, depending on how you write it.

"Millionaire crackpot Elon Musk and his crew asphyxiated on Mars today, after the Banks Dome suffered a catastrophic failure. Musk spent over six billion of his personal wealth to get himself and his crew of seven to the red planet. He is survived by his wife and five children, all of whom have launched lawsuits against SpaceX, arguing that he was clearly not of sound mind."
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They appear to be using highcharts.js for the interactive graph (according to the mouseover event on the bars)

http://www.highcharts.com/
The release notes mention several benchmark comparisons.
Or perhaps the point where you become "old, senile and unable to do anything useful" will also happen later?
>Actually, by your definition, an Austrian holds, as a first principle, the free market as a good. There can be no "because" there, it is simply a moral axiom for Austrians that the behaviors that people make in free market conditions define what good is.

That's exactly my point! Which is why arguing against an Austrian position (or for that matter a Marxist one, or one from any economic school based around a specific moral system) can only be done philosophically, not empirically, as their core tenants are moral axioms, not testable empirical propositions.
If only there was a way to submit both the original title and some kind of summary...
The idea is commendable but I don't see how it can be effective.

Startups are knowledge intensive business, they don't target those who are in need for a job (usually uneducated, men and women who were working on manufacturing and/or agriculture) which is the vast majority of the population.

Greece is a toxic environment for any kind of legal business, especially now that taxation will become even more aggressive.

Wish you all the best, whatsoever.
> That is, by far, the most ridiculous click through rate I have ever seen for a newsletter.

We have a pretty great fanbase. :)
McDonald's in Brazil targets a customer base very different from MacDonald's in other countries. In the US, McDonald's is cheap fast food; in Brazil its stores appeared first in posher shopping malls. The local alternative (xis) is a lot cheaper, so pricing probably has a lot to do with market segmentation, which would render such comparisons useless.
People spends too much time improving technology and not content. Infinitely fast access to void is not worthy.
This is the case for me. There's nothing nefarious about it. When the case was prominently in the media, "he" was Bradley Manning, and so that's what I think of when I see any headline just referring to her as Manning. It's only after reading the article or comments I am reminded that she is "Chelsea" now.

For the record, I lean towards thinking she should be found guilty, but I haven't put enough thought into it to feel strongly.
> how come no government has entertained the idea of opening up tax money budget allocation, e.g. by letting citizens vote on where they want their money used?

I'd wager that most people would vote to allocate the money to themselves, one way or another. Fixing potholes, hiring more police and firemen.

How many people would choose to fund researching things that might not pay off in their lifetime?
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It's not at all clear that AA actually did anything to you. Check my comment in this thread containing "papersplease.org" for more info.

I'm also not at all convinced that your analysis of the value of these tickets is correct. Again, see my other comments in this thread for more info.
You should investigate by yourself :)
Interference is generally defined as physical interference of some sort, using violence or the threat thereof to prevent the action. If action X introduced a new alternative that person A preferred, then it wouldn't require violence as person A would consent to it if they viewed it as better than the alternative.
Pen: Uni Pin fine line. 0.1mm is my go to for general day to day use, anything over 0.5mm tends to be too thick for writing.

Pad: whitelines black oceans (Lined) is really nice to write in.
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