jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I always thought that the whole LOTR/Hobbit thing could to well as a modern TV series; like Game of Thrones, House of Cards or Breaking Bad -- movie-like quality but much longer, so there's possibility to tell a much bigger story and zoom in on many details which each can tell a story on their own. I for one liked how the LOTR extensions had more time for some quiet moments, and song. Maybe they'll do a longer TV-Show-like edit.

Although with the Hobbit they stretched it in really tedious and annoying ways, not adding much interesting to the story, just dumb action and and annoying characters. So now people want it to be shorter.
Actually, a Lie Group is a group which is simultaneously a manifold, such that the group multiplication corresponds to diffeomorphisms of the manifold onto itself. The Lie Algebra corresponding to that Lie Group is the tangent space of the identity. The elements of the Lie Algebra generate the given Lie Group via the exponential map.
Sure, but it's not the business of legislation to force him to make that choice.
That's a completely different scenario with different motivations and no bearing on the ticking time bomb one. (And even in that case note the information came too late to save the victim.)

In a ticking time bomb scenario, a suspected terrorist might or might not give up the correct location of the device in many circumstances - could be a lead pipe, asking nicely, bribery, being attractive, making a convincing moral argument, or they may be unwilling, or unable in the event that they are innocent. Clearly none of those can be assumed and it won't be the same each time.

So even if one were to look at it from a purely amoral utilitarian viewpoint - even on those kind of sociopathic terms it is still absurd and very telling for an individual to seize on torture as a magic bullet for obtaining success. When we also consider that torture is widely documented as ineffective for gathering information, we are left with sadists, stupids, and immature creeps whose understanding of the world is based on action movies.
Glassbreakers launched today for women in technology - what industry do you think they should explore next? Film?
More money will reduce the stress in your life (if you are using it right). So overall, it's still a net reduction.
"unique" comes directly from the Latin "unus", one. The modernist, American wishy-washy uses of the word to mean "unusual" are a sad travesty of thinking. One should simply use the word "unusual" if that's what one means to say.
The Android model i.e. the Google model is now the same as Apple's.

Only it has the ability to sideload applications which let's be honest as primarily been used for installing pirated applications.
People want to get ahead so what matters is the % relative to your surroundings. The amount doesn't matter as much as purchasing power. Money is illusory anyway -- just a social contract we agree to as a mechanism of exchange. People want expansion in various ways whether it is more money, more status, more goods, more sex, or even more religiousness. You can't stop that.

As to effectiveness -- that is dependent on your personal goals. Some people are very effective at chilling out and not doing much. Others are very effective at building business, or playing a sport, or programming, or whatever. Dependent on what you want emulate the ones succeeding in that and you will be "effective"
Yeah, cost of capital is definitely a concern, for two reasons:

First, most companies fund new ventures via loans, etc., and the price of a company's stock and the company's overall valuation have a big impact on the terms a company can get on a loan - both how big a loan they can get and at what rate. Naked shorting materially worsens a company's ability to raise capital.

Second, most companies are operating on rolling credit lines - this is just a reality of doing business: Invoice Monday, get payment Wednesday, bills are due Tuesday. A company's stock dropping dramatically can cause these credit lines to be yanked, which can demolish otherwise solvent businesses.
The way McDonalds makes its fries isn't a secret. They let Food Network film part of a documentary on fried food in one of their french fry factories, and showed the entire process from potato to frozen product ready to ship. It was basically cleaning and sizing (large potatoes cut in half), shot through pipes by water pressure with a grate on the end of the pipe that cuts the potato into fries, steamed to make the inside fluffy, then fried twice at two temperatures.
the cutup method.

while reading a book, do a text processing project with it. extract and read a large subset of the sentences, phrases or words, that share some interesting properties--semantic, phonological, syntactic, etc.

it's a good way to get primed for a new subject. the dislocated language is strange and memorable, if not informative. you gain a kind of reflective facility with the language.
To just respond to one point: even in the 1990s, mortality from acute MI was down to ~12%: (e.g., http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/356/11/1099 ). There are many sequelae of acute MI that are likely to be expensive in the long term (esp dilated cardiomyopathy). Then, there are the lifelong visits to cardiologists; cardiac imaging; and pharmacologic interventions.
Yes please. A +1 for more information on the business models of megaupload, rapidshare and similar services, preferably with some numbers.
"Beyond the technical and management experiences, the experience taught me how to be audacious and think outside the normal framework," Or relates. "Much of the Mosad's power derives from a capacity to do things so audaciously that the enemy can't imagine such things would be done to him."
Patenting seems smart, but if the Green idea relies on government funding or mandates (laws) in any way to achieve profitability or sustainability you should be careful. As soon as the other side of the political spectrum takes over, the Green stuff might get unwound. It is a political target for both sides, meaning a lot of unpredictable risk. One side is pushing it on people who do not want it and the other side doesn’t want that.

There will still be a target market for certain Green things no matter who is in control though, because there is an identifiable subset of consumers who value it enough to pay for it.
If someone with a typical web dev background (knows how to handle databases like oracle or MySQL, but nothing about tools like Hadoop etc), could you recommend a course/book to start big data with? Also, with so much to learn, how does one go about deciding what field within big data to specialize in?
This article seems to basically say its already illegal to prohibit employees from discussing pay (NLRA 1935) and it is certainly illegal to pay someone less based on race or sex (Equal Pay Act, and others) but the solution to wage discrimination is pass more laws that make it illegal-er.

I have a hard time buying this argument. If you are an employer despicable enough to systematically be paying women less just for being women, I don't think another redundant law is going to change your behavior.

This seems like a feel good exercise. People still buy drugs? Pass another law that says trafficking drugs is super duper illegal. Another heinous murder? Make it extra illegal to murder someone. In fact, make it extra illegal to murder someone with a specific type of weapon.

This stuff doesn't seem to matter. Drug dealers know they face stiff penalties if caught. People who have decided to murder another human really don't care if the penalties are higher if they use a gun versus a tire iron. And, misogynist employers aren't going to be swayed by yet another law that says treat all people the same regardless of sex, for reals this time.
I only pay for cruelty-free SVG images, or possible, for free range PNGs.
> It's because Chicago's culture is excessively risk averse

I don't know if the culture is that much more risk averse than SF, but rather that the risk calculation is different. There's such a big tech ecosystem out in SF that "failure" as an entrepreneur might mean raising more money for the next project, or failing that BigCos fighting to hire you. Without the same depth of tech infrastructure, the downside risk is much higher in Chicago (or really, anywhere that's not SF).
QuantConnect.com has tick data for every stock in the US universe back to 1998 -- its roughly 4TB of data.
The title of that article seems irresponsible IMO. If someone seeks out LSD on their own I don't see a problem with it, but I wouldn't want to be the one who encouraged them.
Fortunately, there are lots of hardware solutions to that problem.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&De...
I would hesitate to try to put a narrative-based explanation to it.

As you pointed out, Beta is the correlation of a security's price history to the market's movement.

Approximately half of any group of equities will have a correlation below 1 against the group's weighted average performance. If the group is large enough, its movement will closely mirror the market, so for a large enough group of equities (chosen randomly) about half will have correlation below 1, and half above.

It merely means that Microsoft is reasonably closely tied to the market's movement, though slightly below.

You compared it against its sector, technology. The tech sector has a higher average beta than the utilites sector. That's just the nature of the sector.

Where it gets interesting is something like FB at 3.29. That's really high. But its price history is also short, having IPOd so recently... perhaps over time it will stabilize at a lower number.
Congrats Nick and company! Way to go! And crap! I was hoping to use that stuff.
Personally I don't think they are trying to become the next big hardware manufacturer. I think they are making the Fire devices to drive consumption of Amazon services, similar to how Google made Android to drive usage of Google services (and made Nexus devices to drive Android).

Which means they don't need to be a huge hit in the device market, and they don't even necessarily need the device division to be profitable.

The biggest clue to me is the Kindle e-reader. It seems obvious they created the Kindle to drive Amazon book sales. Doubly so with the incredibly aggressive price reduction generation-over-generation.
Agreed. Reporting behavior could be correlated with unobservables that are driving the results. Interesting study but far from conclusive. IMHO correlations like this are useful for driving future, more rigorous research, not for drawing broad conclusions.
From what I can tell, the loss of functionality has been entirely on Facebook's side to this point. Right?
Who has an incentive to work against public unions? Public unions operate in a monopoly for which one business can not be undercut. And after all, public unions vote.
Because those abstract away the complicated build processes for the target, notably game consoles.
I don't think there's any "accurate depiction of LSD". This wasn't at all my experience with LSD, but this looks like it is for some people.
What a lovely read.
I think it's language dependent - no team i've been on has been strangled by dependencies, they've largely amplified development; and the tradeoff to address breaking changes when they come is worth it.

But if you add dependencies, and don't make time to keep them up to date... you're going to have a bad time.
I think GTK3 will still be viable for a least a few more years. It's currently in maintenance mode -- no new features will be added, and all feature development is happening in git master in preparation for the GTK4 release. The first release of GTK4 is currently planned for this fall.
That's why the best rule for ingesting news about current events is usually: don't read the comments
In Massachusetts we were told the numbers would go up quickly because there were a lot of results backlogged at the CDC.

I wish I knew where the official numbers were coming from. For a while we’d hear about “presumptive positive” cases, where a person had tested positive according to a state test, but it wouldn’t be counted until confirmed by the CDC. I don’t know if that’s still the case.
Don't blame others for the removal of basic rights whist secretly applauding their removal. "this is why we cant have nice things" where the nice things were actually harmful. Instead if you were actually upset about basic rights being removed, try to defend these rights before they are taken away. Or perhaps be honest about actually liking less freedoms for the greater good (after all it will save lives). But please don't pretend.

For those of us old enough to remember 9/11 - we should remember that everyone wanted their rights and liberties to be removed because they were hurting. They applauded authoritarian measures then, just as we are now. And it did save lives (at the expense of brown ones).

The outrage revealed by Snowden and Assange happened years and years after everyone was happy to have sign away their basic rights to have some control over the crisis.
I am building a Vehicle to Home (V2H) charger to use the batteries from my Nissan Leaf to use only off-peak energy (cheaper and greener). Also allows to run the car as backup.
For the sake of the rule of law, we need to reform our constitutions into something we will actually follow. A mix of lofty and silly aspirations that nobody can take seriously is far worse than something less ambitious but precise.

I am 100% for a constitutional amendment that abridges the freedom of assembly in pandemics, provided that pandemics have a mathematical definition that is hard to abuse.
Have you seen https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
I tested "Join by Browser" recently. On macOS (Mojave), it only seemed to work in Chrome, and the video resolution of the other person was poor, but it did work. Also, I did not need to click a "Having problems" link before the "Join by browser" link to appear, so maybe this feature is being deployed more widely now.

Since you mentioned Google Meet, I recently tried that with a group of 6-7 people, and it only lasted about 10 minutes before multiple participants (myself included) started having issues. It seems like it needs more time to bake, but since we're talking about Google, it's probably unlikely to ever receive that time before they kill it and reinvent it a year later.
It's even worse. Each city and county has its own health department (Gesundheitsamt) that can freely decide on their own guidelines. So you have some departments that test nearly everybody and others that will only test when you call 3 different always busy hotlines with a 40°C fever - which btw isn't even an indicator; you can be infected and just have a mild cold.

Bavaria declared a statewide emergency in part to be able to overrule and have a consistent guideline across all health departments.
their UI is really good i don't want to have to spend the time to reinvent the wheel I just want to add some special search filters that require scripting
It seems to be progressing. I am using it on a couple volumes and I am quite happy with it.
Because, of course, people are completely incapable of forming their own opinions when given a set of arguments. :)

The point is that the student is exposed to multiple viewpoints, and gains experience interacting with various arguments. That even includes weird things like queer theory (which I must say, makes a lot of sense as a gay man. I can't say how much it would relate to someone cisgendered and straight.)
You'll have to build an audience first. I read a lot of the mixergy Entrepreneur majority of the successfull ones all had audience or contacts before they had customers. An audience or contact is different from a customer because they are just people who are interested in you, whereas customers go a step further and buy. However an audience or contact allows you to make offers and build a customer base.

You can build an audience by making friends on hacker news, if you're known for making great contributions to the hacker community
you can build audience. So it's important to be genuinely interested in the community. Once you have an audience you can make them an offer, and if it's any good you'll have customers. And interesting recent example of this is edw519 ebook. Ed genuinely enjoys the hacker news community and people enjoy his contributions which are basically his comments/submissions. I doubt his intentions was ever to sell an ebook of his comments, but he is doing that now, and the site promoting it has been viewed 20923 times, and that's only because he is part of the community and has an audience. see:
http://edweissman.com/i-turned-my-hacker-news-comments-into-...

It's a small experiment on Ed's part, but it won't be worthwhile without an audience.
If you're interested in more specific ways to build an audience stay tuned.

Also read:
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/04/the-easiest-way-to-succ...
In that scene, he isn't acting. He has simply lost fear and is therefore presenting his case openly.
Every college student should read this. Maybe if they had read it when I went to school, I would have gotten less harsh looks for showing up to class completely trashed every day...
A centralised system like that, however, has a very high privacy cost - one server knows all IPs addresses that access every IP address monitored by the system.

The article isn't clear on exactly how trust is computed, but if all that is required is to detect the total number of connections between given IPs, it is possible that a peer-to-peer algorithm where only limited information is shared with neighbours about IPs that are specifically queried.

If the aim is to obtain a list of IPs that at least m peers out of n have been contacted by (only counting the last k incoming connections, per peer), without disclosing the entire list to any party, that could be done having each peer broadcast the number connections per /8 to all peers. Each peer checks the total is less than k for each peer, and also records the number from each peer for each /8. Any /8s which have seen a total of less than m connections are rejected, and the counts for each /9 in the remaining /8s are broadcast (and must add to the right number reported previously for the /8 for the peer, and be less than the number of IPs in the range). This system means that at least (m-1) peers need to collude to find out if someone has been contacted by an IP address in a range that rarely contacts people - if some mechanism stopped (m-1) of the peers from being controlled by the same person, this system could work.
Bachelors any field and Masters in CS/STEM from a good school
Ejendomsmægler
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Intel: new 'Thunderbolt' data-transfer system is blazingly fast
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/02/24/thunderbolt.intel.apple/index.html
It's geeky but true: An Intel technology called "Thunderbolt" is creating quite a storm in the computer and gadget worlds this week.Here's why this may matter to you: Thunderbolt will allow you to transfer photos, videos and files from other devices to a computer faster than ever before.
ActiveQuant
http://activequant.org/
AQ is a framework or an API for automated trading, opportunity detection, financial engineering, research in finance, connecting to brokers, etc. - basically everything around trading, written in Java, using Spring. All is published under a usage friendly open source license.
Show HN: Ruby Gem To Obtain Phusion Passenger Status
http://skillachie.github.com/passenger_status/
Gem that parses the result of passenger-status & passenger-memory-stats. Will appreciate any feedback that you have http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10066234/feedback-on-gem-created-module-vs-class-best-practice-recommendations
Bitbucket annoying bug with reviewers suggestion
https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/8012
Bitbucket doesn't check the permissions first before suggesting them as a reviewer to the repo.
Nuclear Crisis Update: No Water to Cool Spent Fuel Pool
http://news.discovery.com/tech/nuclear-crisis-spent-fuelrod-pool-110316.html
All of the water from one of the spent fuel-rod pools is gone, according to the chief of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. With no water to cool the fuel rods, they could just get hotter and eventually melt down.
Increase your search engine rankings using trashy content
http://www.gordoncampbell.co.uk/good-quality-content
Don't listen to Rand Fishkin, you don't need high quality content to get your site ranked.
Show HN: A classical Bulletin Board for tildes or *Nix servers
https://github.com/sdemingo/gbb
Here I show a simple application of a classic bulletin board type designed to be used in public *NIX servers as Tildes. We have been using it for several months.

Classic style and retro look!
The Pirate Bay accepts Bitcoin donations, Will be Bitcoin real?
http://payament.com/pirate-bay-bitcoin/
Pirate Bay now accepts Bitcoin donations, which are untraceable, meaning that any person that wants to sustain it can do so by donating Bitcoins.
Facebook App Internationalization in 3 lines of JavaScript
http://blog.siteapps.com/facebook-app-internationalization-in-3-lines-of-javascript-2/
Using SiteApps to internationalize Facebook apps.
ShowHN: RestDB - RESTful DB with expressjs middleware 
https://npmjs.org/package/restdb
This is a simple filesystem based RESTful DB, designed as expressJs middleware. not production ready, but useful for rapid prototyping & learning frameworks like backboneJs or Angualr JS.
List of Web2.0 Softwares
http://pandyan.wordpress.com/
If you are looking for a list of Web 2.0 softwares, this list is a good one. I used it to look for softwares that i can use for building my own app. Collaborating with other web 2.0 startups is good in that you can concentrate on your core functionality. Ofcourse you have to do some testing before using.
Patrick McConlogue is an entrepreneur, programmer, designer, and wait...
Patrick McConlogue is also a "Social Media Strategist" according to his CrunchBase profile?
New focused radiation treatment effective for gynecologic cancers
http://www.patexia.com/feed/video-new-focused-radiation-treatment-effective-for-gynecologic-cancers-4186
Five years ago, cancer specialists in Florida began a study, taking a cutting edge radiation delivery system -- stereotactic body radiation therapy -- and using it on patients with advanced gynecologic cancers, who were otherwise out of options, for the first time. This treatment was successful in 80 percent of women and years of monitoring have now found that it also prevented recurrence or cured the women altogether.
Add Page Rank Button In Google Chrome
http://hackspc.com/add-page-rank-button-in-google-chrome/
Google Chrome doesn’t support toolbar or any other such kind of features, for viewing page rank. But you can add page rank button with the help of JavaScript function.
How to Make a WordPress Theme SEO Friendly
http://vivastart.com/seo-friendly-wordpress-theme/
Online success nowadays relies on the power of social media websites and search engines. However, for some matters I really believe that search engines are the rulers.

Things got simpler however thanks to WordPress and it's great community, but SEO still needs more attention and in this article you learn how to optimize your theme for best results.
IPhone 5: AT&T vs. Verizon vs. Sprint – Which Carrier is Best?
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/09/12/iphone-5-att-vs-verizon-vs-sprint-which-carrier-is-best/
The iPhone 5 with 4G LTE is arriving on all three major carriers on September 21st for $199. With the introduction of 4G LTE, iPhone 5 buyers have a bigger reason than ever to compare carriers.
Obama’s Immigration Sop to Silicon Valley
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2013/12/04/Obamas-Immigration-Sop-Silicon-Valley
Engineers need to spend more time on understanding how their political support affects their pay check.