skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's harsh. I learnt stuff from the article; it seems reasonable enough.

Which bits did you especially disagree with, and what would you recommend instead?
The issue with central planning is that it isn't robust - if the planners mess up, everyone is screwed. If we could inject a method by which a failed plan would take down only the planners (and not consumers), it would help a lot. For example, we could allow large centrally planned organizations to exist, but if they fail to meet consumer needs they get dissolved and consumers can go to a different planning board.

Wait, we already have such central planning boards - Uber, Fedex, Walmart, etc. My mistake.
I've never heard of it either.
You could implement something like the Levenshtein distance [1] which is easy and still very fast. It gives you the difference between two strings in steps it takes to transform one into the other based on operations like insertion, deletion, substitution (and swapping two adjacent chars).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance
Ask HN: How do you store customer-supplied (POC) data?
How would you handle/store customer-supplied data and/or code for a POC? Store it in git? It would be nice to have version control to know what arrived when and what changed when. What if it's a LOT of data (TBs). Store it in an S3 bucket or a DropBox?

We'd like something that gives our employees shared access, version control, is relatively inexpensive, is reliable, etc.
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If they didn't provide it, someone else would (and do). Like it or not, there is a demand for those sites.
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Uber has made Taxi operators better for Indian cab drivers.

Pre-Uber (and Ola), operators used to pay drivers 60-90 days post. They would make arbitrary deductions, which the drivers could not protest.

Post-Uber, most drivers choose to go to Uber/Ola. Drivers say that the operators have cleaned up their act now. They pay 15-30 days post. They pay the right amounts, no deductions. In fact some drivers prefer to work with the operators..
> Care to cite your source for this or are you a gaming industry insider?

Strange dichotomy to those of us who have been to a casino. They tell you right at the games — you don't need to be an industry insider.
Similar to PopcornTime but much better user experience.
It has more content too. More like media center, coz you get notifications when new TV show episode is available and stuff.
I don't think it's a matter of last resort, rather correct use.

GUIs are inevitable.

You basically should only ask from the user what a computer can't possibly know, for example what date you want to travel for your holidays and how many units of that product do you want.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Go
Show HN: Emojiboard, a JavaScript keyboard for web forms
Worth noting that Google seems to use Oracle Hyperion - you pretty much have to use tools like Hyperion for consolidated financial reporting once a company gets past a certain complexity level.
Chicago is also doubly-messed up because the city pays into the pension fund for City of Chicago teachers AND the pension fund for not-City of Chicago teachers.
Introducing Camo: A Class-Based ES6 ODM for Mongo-Like Databases
Feel free to ask any questions (improvement suggestions (or even better pull reqs) are welcome!) - we just pulled this out of our existing app Schedugram as a friend asked to use it so I figured why not?

Essentially it's a jQuery dependent keyboard in a style generally similar to iOS (category and layout) that attaches to a <textarea>.
> You establish brand by making happy customers. That first requires a sale.

In some cases, that may be right, but in general branding begins the first time someone interacts with your product (or even your industry). If I notice your business name on Google SERPS, I am engaging with your brand.

I didn't really use NewRelic for 2 years after I first heard of it, but I did keep seeing them and speaking to them at events, reading blog posts, etc. Eventually, I signed up and paid for the product. What convinced me to do that was the branding work they did before I became a customer.

Even for freemium products, the business builds a brand to encourage people to invest the effort into signing up. Even government services (e.g. in the UK - the BBC, the NHS) do branding work.

Branding doesn't start at the point the customer enters their credit card.

Lovemarks is a good read on branding - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lovemarks-Effect-Winning-Consumer-Re...
Also people who registered on the site out of curiosity or fantasy and then never carried through on the act.
They did do a lot of work towards improving ruby performance remember this post: https://blog.twitter.com/2011/building-faster-ruby-garbage-c...

I think a big issue was at the time mainstream ruby was 1.8 and upcoming versions 1.9/2 would later replace and create a minor python2/python3 type issue where many later organizations using ruby 1.8 did not upgrade to 1.9/2 not until just recently, causing a kind of stall in patches contributions to what is now 2.2

That said many of the ideas from twitters work and others is now in ruby.
Running smooth on a first gen mac book pro retina here in Chrome. This machine is several years old. Are you sure there isn't something else using a lot of CPU in your system?
Are you just after a faster Ruby? We're working on an implementation of Ruby that is often an order of magnitude faster than anything else out there http://www.chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/.

Or is it the typing and other infrastructure you wanted?
And that first requires reputation. I'm not giving your company my credit card number if I've never heard of it.
Had a beta access code and the site is a mess. They boast about having the lowest prices on the web but if you actually check their prices they don't. On many items they were quite a bit more expensive than other well known sites (but we're still quoting "savings" in the checkout cart.) Some items were cheaper but not by much. If their model is to beat everyone on price then that's a giant race to the bottom. If you claim to be a better deal but are actually more expensive, well then you're just dillusional.
> The driver turned up and said an "UberX" is just the person, nothing else, that's what the next one is for.

Maybe this is a regional rule but I doubt it, it's definitely not the rule in the States.
My requirements were a hatchback with no touchscreens and a manual transmission. New or used. There were no Imprezas matching that available. I bought a 2011 Mazda 3 hatchback with a stick. The only one available in my area that day. They even had to drive it from a different dealership. Next on my shopping list would've been a Ford Focus, but the Mazda was available, so I didn't get that far.
>>> Well if Apple Pay stored the PAN instead of creating a token it would work exactly as people expect.

Apple Pay does have a PAN. It stores a unique device ID not tied to a card which is sent for every request. So it does work as people expect. The problem is people using TWO DEVICES and are seen as two people.

>>> The point is, for a customer of a business who does nothing dishonestly, it is not acceptable that you pay more than necessary twice because of some obscure technical limitation that wouldn't happen if TFL just used paper tickets.

You can still use paper tickets...
When Chrome, YouTube and Firefox drop it, Flash is a dead plugin walking
The limitations are technical. The device uses a unique card number (so yours is not transmitted) and thus devices can't be easily linked. When using something like this you should know to ask how it works (there are staff everywhere) or check online. Doesn't really seem like Apple of Tfl fault. TfL made it pretty clear how this worked and Apple's tech has limitations due to security. I really don't understand why you wouldn't touch in/out with different devices anyway. Only scenario I can think of is iPhone and Apple Watch users and how many of them are there in London? Seems like a few people had this issue, media picked up on it, and blew it out of proportion.
Hackers Threaten to Expose 37M Cheating Ashley Madison Users
Another for your consideration is Jaro-Winkler [1], which I've used with a fair amount of success in previous projects, and is still fairly performant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaro%E2%80%93Winkler_distance
Is it worth millions of dollars to know that? Nope.

It's rich people playing with their toys.
That's the entire point of semantic web
"Secure \n\n The generated private key is passwordless by default."

That's a bit concerning to me. One would hope that the default behavior would be to put a passphrase on the key.
Hi, I'm a Go player (only around 9 kyu though).

The programs don't make "intuitive" moves, but nor do they exactly perform brute search - the search tree is far too wide.

They actually use a mixture of techniques. For example, in the beginning they may select moves from fuseki databases of accepted good play, and have some knowledge of joseki for plays in the corner.

During the very end game they may be able to brute force search and make sensible decisions about the order of play - however there is also a book about using simulated annealing with neural networks to decide the order moves should be played. <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mathematical-Go-Chilling-Gets-Point/... Go: Chilling Gets the Last Point</a>.

There have been attempts to code "rules of thumb" into the Go algorithms, such as knowledge of bamboo joints, table shapes, etc., but the recent improvements have largely been down to techniques such as evaluating the position after allowing two consecutive moves and even simply trying various random plays rather than an exhaustive breadth-first search.

There certainly used to be a mailing list for people interested in the development of Go-playing programs. I can't remember the address but if you broaden your search terms to include "Go, wei-chi, weiqi, baduk" you should be able to find it.
Comments like this belong on reddit. This is an information sharing website.
I've been using it purely as a phone for now (other than the occasional ssh into the office), but it is exactly the vision you state above that puts me into the early adopter camp. I don't know about X apps. MiR is supposted to have an X-compatibility layer on it as far as I understand, just like Wayland, but the details or pitfalls are not known to me. I am going to assume that Canonical will try to steer people towards MiR, hence the controversy about the rift with the rest of the Linux community. I'm assuming that this is being watched very closely by the other distros and I don't see why we shouldn't see other full blow linux stacks on phone-like devices in the future. This is clearly the way forward and I'm going with Ubuntu now because they're the furthest ahead.
So, I'm supposed to trust someone I've never heard of, and just take their word for it?

The fact that the site allows one to enter credit card details over plain HTTP would be my first clue not to trust this cert.
It's a bit unclear to me how the authors establish the direction of causality. Isn't it an equally valid interpretation that low productivity industries with lots of collateral cause the financial sector to grow?

The one paper they cite which isn't paywalled uses a rather flawed methodology: http://www.bis.org/publ/work381.pdf

The same methodology also shows that too many doctors, telephones and or R&D technicians inhibits growth: http://www.iie.com/publications/pb/pb15-9.pdf

The reason is that if you try to fit a quadratic regression to an S-curve, you'll come up with a downward sloping parabola (if the data points live near the right side of the S, if they live near the left you'll get an upward sloping one). That's simply a limitation of quadratic regression. Oops.
Krebs is down again, so here's a link to the Washington Post coverage: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/20...

TL;DR: Hackers took basically all data from cheating site AshleyMadison.com and what the hackers claim is a human trafficing/prostitution site EstablishedMen.com, have released some of real names/addresses/photos/profiles, and are threatening to release all 37 million personal records if the company doesn't take both sites offline.
The base model for 2015 Subarus has the touchscreen, and there weren't any used for sale with a stick shift.
Debian reproducible builds: week 12 in stretch cycle
In fact, any sufficiently advanced digital program can be a "messenger" rather than a "message". But how do we know what kind of execution environment is available at the destination?

Aliens probably use Brainfuck [1], so we need a substantial increase in Brainfuck AI research. Some modern-day Kennedy needs to step up to this challenge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
I've been using my X200 since I got it. Not only has it survived multiple falls from a 1.8m standing desk, it's still perfectly serviceable for everything I've needed it for. Most Thinkpads released since then are markedly worse, plagued with low-resolution or glossy screens. They've also removed the LED indicator that tells you whether the AC adapter is plugged in and when the battery level is critical.

tl;dr: sure there are newer machines with better specs, but nothing better in ways that actually matter to me.
Sounds about right. Frank Drake created his famous equation [1] to try to quantify the probability of detecting ETI, but you do need to make guesses at some of the inputs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...

Banks don't have to have the money before loaning it out

"the relationship between reserves and loans typically
operates in the reverse way to that described in some
economics textbooks. Banks first decide how much to lend
depending on the profitable lending opportunities available to them ...It is these lending decisions that
determine how many bank deposits are created by the banking
system. The amount of bank deposits in turn influences how
much central bank money banks want to hold in reserve (to
meet withdrawals by the public, make payments to other
banks, or meet regulatory liquidity requirements), which is
then, in normal times, supplied on demand"

Link above is specific to UK but it's similar in most countries

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_requirement#United_Sta...

"When an institution fails to satisfy its reserve requirements, it can make up its deficiency with reserves borrowed either from a Federal Reserve Bank"

in other words... banks lend first and account later, if there's a shortfall at the end of the day they basically get an automatic loan from the central bank
Americans favor Supreme Court term limits – Reuters/Ipsos poll
You should be able to get your first few sales without any brand identity, just based on the merits of your product. I expect the majority of people reading this site who actually have a project in the works are probably boot-strapping. There is no way they'll be able to spend on "building brand" before they start making sales. Whatever Facebook or Lexus or NHS or whomever does has no baring on us, we are fundamentally different beasts.

Also, you're not sending me your credit card number, you're sending it to Stripe, or Amazon, or PayPal. Regardless, I think you severely overestimating how cautious people are with their credit card info.
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Personal means it's not enterprise.

Lightweight means not a lot of features.

Why the hell are people so nitpicky
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Imagine all the countless hour of pointless human labor that could be saved if we simply abolished patents. How many man hours has been wasted in these thousands of cases? And for what? How is patenting combination of spices going to increase innovation?

But then again I suppose this "solves" the problem that there's not enough productive work to go around.

In a 100 years perhaps all human endeavor will be about fighting over imaginary monopolies.
Los principales riesgos de las radiaciones en las viviendas
This is precisely what I meant, yes :)
I dislike the way mobile has become the new lowest common denominator for web development. It used to be IE6 because it was antiquated but now it's anything with a touch screen - mainly thinking how hover has been relegated to visual effects even though it's fine on non-touchscreens.
> In 1998, a group of free software supporters decided to rebrand the movement, freeing it from the moral views and highlighting the benefits that working together has for business. That’s when the term open source was born and it became an important first step in making the two polar opposites see how could they work together.

That's a revisionist view, or perhaps just a simplification that happens to discard examples that end up weakening the argument.

We already by the early 1990s had "first steps" where free software and corporate, for-profit companies work together. Cygnus Solutions with GNU support, Lucid Inc. with Lucid Emacs, and NeXT with Objective C are companies who in ~1990 were shipping free software products. With NeXT, that includes the 'polar opposites' of Jobs and Stallman.

(And you'll note that Jobs was an actual hippie.)

This essay also views "Companies that use and modify community projects and never give back" as "evil".

This view, while not uncommon, is contrary to software freedom. Quoting from http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html : "You should also have the freedom to make modifications and use them privately in your own work or play."

Companies which "never give back" are not evil nor even pushing the edge. They are doing exactly what the free software movement says they can do.
Anybody could intercept the connection with an unsigned connection. At least they could have used HSTS so that only the first visit is vulnerable. If you have a signed cert the NSA has to work harder; there are more logs and it's more riskier for them.
On the other hand, such distributed planning is incredibly inefficient - how much resources are wasted by Uber competing with Lyft competing with Taxis, by FedEx competing with UPS competing with post office, etc.? The point is, it's a tradeoff - efficiency with single points of failure vs. resilience at a cost of huge waste.
Sure, but do those facts alter the (im)morality of their behavior?
Traditionally, SETI is not specialized to messages intentionally crafted for us (or, in fact, necessarily crafted for anyone). It's just a search for radio transmissions that are unlikely to have been created by natural sources using various statistical techniques.

Even for intentional messages, it's certainly conceivable that another civilization with sufficient power simply transmits the message in all direction continuously.
If we really believe in scientific progress, then we must accept that, compared to some time in the future, our current understanding of the Universe is akin to people thinking the world was flat some time in the past.

Maybe the Universe's scale compared to our physical form has a purpose. Maybe it's intended to not be traversed physcally. Maybe that's the most obvious conclusion an intelligent life form might draw from analyzing it's scale ?

Maybe in the future we will understand it just like the aliens we're looking for did a long time ago - that the way to communicate in this Universe does not involve physical travel or physical signals.

Just look up some pictures of Pablo Amaringo - a shaman making drawings of his trips on ayahuasca.
Notice the 'aliens' and the galaxies and the the distant worlds that he is visiting while tripping.

Anyone who has been on powerful psychedelic trips would agree that there is a lot of stuff to explain there, besides just the brain reaction to a chemical. Stuff like traveling through time, out of the Universe, into the microcosmos, before and after life, etc.

People did this for thousands of years - they used terms such as 'spirits', 'beings' and 'gods' to describe who they made contact with.

But what if those substances are more than just intoxicants, what if they really trigger some unknown mind-space-time gateway which we haven't yet tapped scientifically, which makes space and time travel possible.
What if we could approach this scientifically and actually make these trips predictable and repeatable ?

What if the aliens are actually just high tech savages using advanced psychedelic drugs + mind machines to travel and explore time and space, while sitting in a forest around a fire ?

We should start exploring the inner space just like we are exploring the outer space. When will we see $100m invested in that ? :)
Which is why I drink high quality green tea.
Unity's been working on bettering its HTML5/ASMjs exporting, so hopefully the need for a plugin goes away someday
I had interned in a similar company, they had this sorted out way back then, using bloom filters. This is the github link if anyone is interested: https://github.com/mobmewireless/fast-filter
PayPal gets to expand (eBay's competitors have avoided using PayPal because of its parent), and eBay gets a one-time mega-paycheck it can use to pivot, acquire other companies, marketing-blitz, or otherwise rejuvenate the brand. Sounds like a good plan to me.
I firmly believe that in a short time computers will predict all of those little things really well. Let's see.
Rust is fine for OS development and plenty of hobbyists are using it for that.
I was thinking more about Leon Uris' Exodus.

Most of the faults of colonialism seem to come from how poorly the handoff between the imperial powers and the local population went. It's an interesting dynamic, since almost all of the traditional colonial powers were a shell of themselves by 1945, while the two ascendant powers were the USA and USSR, who really hadn't been involved in the Victorian era colonial land-grabs, at least to the extent that the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, and even Italy were.
That's not really useful to prototyping.
It might depend on the length of list, and phone and browser, but a quick swipe usually starts it scrolling down, and a quick tap will stop it (there's usually some momentum, it'll stop itself eventually too).

For a short scroll then a single hold and swipe will work.
Well of course; authority is just a heuristic, and heuristics can by definition lead you astray. But it doesn't mean they're not useful if you're careful about using them.
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What is millions of dollars for scientific research compared to millions blown on stadiums, or billions on new jet fighters?