skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it's less an issue of police officers intentionally triggering things in order to harass individuals like the original commenter said and more of unintentional training. Thank you for the link!
I might be missing something, but surely that's not a sustainable solution?
There are lots of unsolved problems. Unsolved problems which can easily be solved with appcrap and webcrap are getting scarce, though. Too many people in that space.

Some medium-sized unsolved problems:

- Solar panel installation. Installation is about half the cost of an installed system. Figure out how to get that down. Can solar panels be integrated into roof systems? And last for 40 years without leaks?

- Police paperwork. Cops spend far too much time doing paperwork, which they hate. There's pressure for cops to wear body cameras, which they also hate. So come up with a system where the body camera images, audio, GPS info, and what you can pull from police files are used to put together most of the arrest report. Cops would like that. Start with something where a camera glance at an ID or license plate or face fills in much of the details.

- Tablet based basic education - reading, writing, spelling, and basic arithmetic. Not just canned lessons, ones that adjust adaptively to the student's performance and errors. Ship on a $50 tablet.

- Good $50 tablets. Some are good, some suck, some have weak points. Evaluate some, find the weak points, talk to the manufacturers in Shentzen about getting them fixed, and set up a distribution chain where they're sold in bubble packs in the back-to-school section of stores.

- A rugged phone with no holes in it. No connectors, wireless charging only. Permanent battery. Hermetically sealed at the factory.

- Intelligent HVAC for homes. The next step after "Nest", which can only turn heat and A/C on and off. Window fans and A/C with inside and outside temp, humidity, CO, and CO2 sensors. Outside air is used as much as possible. The whole system learns the house, self-adjusts, and doesn't need HVAC engineering.

- Video from talks where the speaker image and slides are combined intelligently, with the system deciding when to emphasize what.

- A PA system which absolutely cannot feedback. It's a simple DSP problem; why isn't it everywhere?

Those are a few ideas to get you started.
In general we recommend to run tests all the time. Machines are cheap compared to developers and you can add as many runners as you want.

What you can also do is use project or system hooks to trigger CI via the new build API that will be available on August 22.

Another option is to skip builds, you can just add [skip ci] to your commit message, and next build will be skipped.
Illegally-obtained evidence shouldn't be inadmissible just because it was obtained illegally, but because it is co-mingled with the motives of the official who broke the law to obtain it. You can't possibly know if the evidence is even reliable and accurate because it could just as easily be fabricated to further those illegal motives.
You're missing the point entirely. We don't care terribly much about the people who eventually go to jail, at least not in isolation.

The problem is innocent people who get searched illegally. Being sent to jail is not the only bad thing which can happen to people; being searched without probable cause is inherently unacceptable without regards to the results of the search.
Oh, absolutely. The overcompensation the other way is a pain in the backside, though, and reminds me why people don't like nerds much. (And I say that as one.)
There are some interesting politics behind the Higgs boson results mentioned in the article. The 144GeV result should not have been released because it was not significant by particle physics standards (>5 standard deviations). However, the world was frothing at the mouth for LHC news, so out it went

There's a great documentary on Netflix about it called Particle Fever
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_Fever
This project is amazing, especially considering that you have been working on it on your own for 3 years. Lots of perseverance!

A similar project (albeit not open source) is Goo Create by Goo Technologies: http://goocreate.com/product/

It is being used by several companies in pretty large productions (including games, ads, educational projects, etc) both for desktop and mobile devices. You should really check it out.

Full disclosure: I work for Goo Technologies as a Frontend developer.
Your statement is so optimistic that I am almost worried you are being sarcastic and making fun of me. :) Is this really going to happen?

I notice you left C, JVM, and .NET off the list. What's the story for how you could run Rust on a JVM, or on a platform that has nothing but a C compiler?
Work smart, and hard. Then you'll beat both of the other types.
It really was. Colony collapse disorder was bad for the colonies and breeders that experienced it, yes. But the honeybee industry has been going strong, contradicting all the apocalyptic warnings.
While I see your point, I frequent most of the places you mentioned, and somehow they don't give me the same feeling of comradery as the IRC channels of yore. There are probably many reasons for this, but part of it is the numbers -- there is simply too many people on HN/most subreddits/chans etc. for me (may be different for other people obviously) to see people as anything but statistics. Also I think the {up,down}vote mechanic are good for aggregation sites, but toxic to communities in general. It rewards groupthink and noncontroversial content so much that for any, say, subreddit, with more than some certain amount of users it becomes incredibly uninteresting.
Good ideas, but I'd avoid government (DMV) and large national chains (McDonald's). The people running the local sites/store have no power to change anything and they all have way to much bureaucracy for a single developer or small startup to deal with.
* Finding the most relevant X on the web is fundamentally part of the same market no matter what X is.*

The thing is, if what Google displays as "the most relevant X" is always or predominantly or even merely often a Google site, rather than what is actually the most relevant X, then Google is abusing their dominant position to create advantage in related markets. I do agree that the failed 2014 deal was a piece of crap.
If you enable e10s in Nightlies you will get sandboxing.
And C remains the linga franca of FFIs so that's there to stay.
Source:

https://www.verizonwireless.com/news/article/2015/08/simplif...
This behavior used to be common in IRC, where there are really no consequences for being a dick. In IRC, my experience was generally: ask question, spend 5 minutes justifying why it's a reasonable question to ask, then maybe (or maybe not) get an answer.

I think StackOverflow does a pretty good job of incentivizing people to give helpful answers, so I haven't seen this behavior as much there. Even when the person asking has flawed assumptions, the answers tend to steer them politely in a better direction.
If honey bees in the wild are an invasive species decimated by another invasive species, and pollinating honey bees in practice are all proprietary, than discussions of honey bee populations in the US aren't much different from discussions of dairy cow populations.

So, no, I don't see how this is unsustainable.
The private web, your home server, your decentralized secure/encrypted mesh net.
Stolen webcam footage 'not policed'
Being incorrectly sent to jail is much worse than being incorrectly searched.

Therefore the standard of evidence for sending people to jail is higher than the standard of evidence to search people.

Therefore the standard of evidence for probable cause is lower than the standard of evidence for a criminal conviction.
Ignoring the prior probability invalidates the argument, but it cuts both ways.

Consider a drug sniffing dog at an airport, it sniffs all carry-on bags as people go through the line to be searched. If we find drugs even 10% of the time that the dog whines, it's amazing, because the actual distribution of drugs amongst travelers is minuscule, maybe 0.01 of 1%.

But if the dog is right 55% of the time? This is excellent probable cause for a search.

But by way of contrast, consider a drug-sniffing dog that is only brought in when a human handler suspects a traveller may be carrying drugs. If the handler is very good at their job, and optimizing for success, the handler may themselves have a 55% positive-positive rate. Meaning, 55% of the people they pick are carrying drugs.

Now if the dog whines 55% of the time they are given a suspect that has a 55% chance of carrying drugs, well, that is no better than a coin flip, it's garbage.

And of course, what if the handler is amazing at picking people who might be carrying drugs? For example, what if they have access to warrentless surveillance meta-data and are using the dog as an excuse for parallel reconstruction ("Your honour, I picked this person at random, and the dog whined, so I searched them"). The handler might have a near 100% success rate of picking people carrying drugs.

Now a 55% rate of whining is truly terrible for deciding whether the dog is any good.
Oh no! The question isn't bad at all and this is the place to ask it! I don't mean to discourage you from asking on HN.

What I mean by not asking those questions is when I am picking a system I usually ask other questions. Like: how much data am I going to be storing? What will he the structure of the data? Will I be heavy read, heavy write, or a mix of both? Will the data be pulled on a geographic or a time based system? Things like that. My requirements rarely worry about popularity.

Also, again anecdotally, while it may seem like I endorse mysql, I actually prefer postgres. However, I am a big fan of meteor so I also generally pick mongo. Again, your mileage may vary! Welcome to HN!
This is stackoverflow.

"I want to draw a square in an HTML Canvas"

"Why?" "Why not use python?" "Circles are better than squares, just saying" "It is not possible to draw a square usign that language, it was not designed to do that" "It depends on what type of screen you're using" "Are you sure you want to draw a square in the screen?" "How do you define a square?" --> "10 Downvotes, closed as not constructive"

And later, but only if you're lucky:

"c.getContext("2d").rect(20,20,150,100).stroke();"
Doom sells. You will never sell any newspapers saying all flights landed safely.
App showing available parking to be trialled in Cardiff, UK
How To: Create a User Persona
At the parties I go to, that's a good way to find yourself alone.
less than $2 a cup <-- here is your internet weirdo :-)
Exactly. Non-Android. So either bring up an RTOS or something else on the chip or simply customize their UX layer to make it seem like a different OS. No worries! Thanks for responding :)
Interesting that the government put together a policy framework to "save the bees", but the market corrected itself anyway.

Also interesting that you can buy a queen bee online for $25.
Reversing the GoDaddy-ification of application monitoring
Buying more and more bees is a very expensive solution.
Perhaps I'm just a poor beekeeper (maybe true?) but I would have to sell my honey at untenable prices if I was looking to make money on my beekeeping.

For example, I've spent $1600 on bees and equipment, I've harvested 3 gallons of honey. I would have to sell that honey at $44/Pound to break even. Now hopefully over the long term this goes down a lot as the upfront capital investments spread out over the years.

My bee losses have been huge though. The first year I had 3 hives, lost 2. The second year I had 5 hives and lost 3, last year I had 5 hives and lost 4. Buying bees at $130/hive isn't sustainable (except through my charity) if I wanted to actually make any money at this, especially on a small scale.
Question for you: as a GitLab Enterprise user, knwoing that GitLab has CI built-in, is there a situation in which you would buy CircleCI to go alongside it? Obviously we (we being CircleCI, founder here) have GitHub Enterprise support, and I wonder if we should build GitLab Enterprise support too.
There's a little bit of dodging going around in this article... What's really going on is we still have a high amount of churn in the funnel, we're just spending more to hide it.

> "The 2014 numbers, which came out earlier this year, show that the number of managed colonies -- that is, commercial honey-producing bee colonies managed by human beekeepers -- is now the highest it's been in 20 years."

So the absolute numbers are up, great, but that did not come for free:

> "The average retail price of honey has roughly doubled since 2006"

Or, put in startup lingo, the churn is still high, but we're just hiding it by paying more to acquire a larger number of bees. CCD is still killing off bees, but we're just spending more to compensate.

This is the dodgeyness: any good HN reader knows that it's your churn that kills your finances in the end.

And that's where the insanity lies: I believe that CCD has basically been conclusively traced to a certain class of pesticides... what sounds insane to me is we have created a toxic environment that has increased the leaking in the boat, but it's okay because we can just spend more money on bigger bilge pumps instead of addressing the underlying cause of the leak.
Micromort
Statistics should be a high school course.
Exactly, the fact that there are more people (at "HN, slashdot, reddit, many IRC channels and many other places") means that you don't really know anyone.

Remember back when you'd join a new forum, and they'd have a Welcome Thread just for you, asking you about your interests, etc.? When's the last time you've received a real personalized welcome to a web community? I think it's been at least 15 years for me.

I'm not sure how many people on Hacker News actually remember that internet, most of the community here might be too young to even know what we're talking about.

Edit: Someone ought to make a Web 1.0 emulator, that is invite only. People can set up their own websites, etc. but there is a limited amount of people allowed to join. We can live in the old days FOREVER. XD
Well I wouldn't say population reduction is never a good thing, but it's probably pretty obvious when it's needed.
We're getting deep into philosophy here, but I'm not sure that, if you froze the state of the universe right before someone made a decision and replayed it, they'd make the same decision every time. I guess that's the whole difference.
The readme says litegl is a fork:
https://github.com/jagenjo/litegl.js/tree/master#readme

Evan Wallace should get some credit. Evan created that fantastic WebGL Water demo.

http://madebyevan.com/

https://github.com/evanw
Proably, Xcode 6 saw the death of the Carbon tools.
The weirdos and ideas are still there, just drowned out by the masses.

I'm not sure anything can replicate the feel of the early internet because it's inextricably linked to the entire cultural context in which it was born, not to mention the physical limitations that the entire world had been used to but were newly lifted by the internet.

However in regards to the suburban shopping mall feel, I think the answer there is movements like IndieWeb, and the general spirit of open source which is stronger than ever. There's no rolling back the clock on the commercialization of the internet, and the indie stuff can't really match the aesthetics, but then again when enough people get bored punk kills disco.
> The object/component system looks like a Unity3D ripoff

Component based systems have existed since 1968, way before Unity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component-based_software_engin...
Awesome comment. Reminds me of my friend Mary who was able to get some part time work off of the burner listserve in Cap Hill, Seattle.

In Colorado, where I am, it's been really nice to be able to tap into at least the awesome friendly dance parties that are tied to some of the burner scene.

But yeah, I think Burning Man's rise had a lot to do with this vacuum for community. It offers a lot to people. So funny how much judgement there is of it from outside of it. Funny to imagine what people think it's about.
Demo Days and the General Solicitation Conundrum
It seems that the way beekeepers raise bees, spreading positive genetic variants happens often. They split healthy colonies into two to hedge their bets against bad colonies bringing down the entire population.
A large amount of programming problems are not getting a program to do a certain thing, it's that nobody knows what that certain thing is they want it to do.
Yours is a needlessly inflammatory response to what was in fact a reasonable question.

Eugenics is a philosophy that suggests human breeding should be controlled to select for favored features. It's disfavored for a variety of obvious reasons that connect to our principals about the unique value of human life.

Honey bees are livestock. Livestock has been selectively bred for millennia, and discussions of long-term genetic selection among honey bees is not an indicator that participants believe in eugenics.
Umm, no. See Firefox gives no one any reason to hate it based on idealogy. It's a pro-consumer, pro-internet user, privacy-respecting, standards-compliant browser. What is not to love in this ideology?

All the same, as of 2015, it is a poor implementation of a browser from the technical point of view. Not because it was designed badly, but because it has simply not kept up.
Ask HN: Meeting the founder of my company for the First time.Questions to ask him?
Cool, very interesting but is this data just scraped from AngelList? If so, is there a risk that its more representative of AngelList's growth as a platform / relevancy amongst employers?
See if this interests you http://www.covert.io/research-papers/security/Automatic%20An...
The numbers indicate that the increased rate is almost entirely within the human's judgment, though. If we assume that none of the cars where the dog didn't alert also didn't contain drugs, then that means that the dog was responsible for an increase from 55% to 59%. It's worse if the dog missed some cars in the 7%.

Now, what's the actual base rate? What proportion of cars on the road contain drugs? I'd wager it's well under 10%. Even if we say it's 10%, that means that the humans are taking the rate from 10% to 55%, and then the dog goes from 55% to 59%.

In other words, the dog is basically useless, except as a tool to make the searches legal. If not for the legal requirement, one could just as easily say that "between the human judgment to bring in the magic 8 ball, and the magic 8 ball itself, the police are able to find drugs at probabilities that are multiples of the base rate."

Apparently police are really good at figuring out whether cars contain drugs, but the law doesn't allow them to act on this directly. And apparently dogs are nearly useless at figuring out whether cars contain drugs, but the law allows their nearly useless indication to be used as the basis for action. This is rather backwards!
YouTube was <1 year old when it was bought; GitHub is 7 years old.
Link?

StackOverflow certainly has its issues but absurd hyperbole like this only makes your argument weaker.
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What is your strongest / weakest quality.
Hi I m meeting the co-founder of my startup company for the first time. What interesting questions should I ask him ? Please leave out the stocks/salary and the regular employment based questions. I have already joined the team & this is a 1:1
What is your greatest achievement.
If reconstituting new hives from annually purchased queens was economically non-viable, pollination prices --- which is where the money in honey bee husbandry seems to come from --- would show that. But while prices have risen, it doesn't look like they've done so at a historically unprecedented rate.

Irrigation is a much bigger economic threat to pollinated crops than pollination.
The book of Proverbs in the Bible. I'm amazed at how useful these brief, to-the-point and very practical advice have been in my life, time after time.

While being very (sometimes almost humoristically) concrete, I have figured that there are great principles there in behind, that you'll get committed into your spine, by testing these advice out in practice.
co-creator of deeplearning4j here. you can get involved now with open-source projects, if you're willing learn and chip in. most open-source is built by a handful of individuals, so there's always lots to do, and the learning comes with the doing.

http://deeplearning4j.org
Yep. There was no informant. The implications are quite unacceptable.
Thanks. What do you think this helps in ? Have you asked this to your founder / boss / leader ?
Tell a subscriber that the curators want to interact with her or him better, and listen to that subscriber. Repeat this maybe a dozen times.

Ask your curators if they had any specific ideas for engagement and see what the subscribers think about that.

You've got to be your product's non-technical founder, and coordinate with your users and customers to build what they want.
What about ABBY, does that work well for you?

I'd even pay money to get somethig that works well.
Can you share other 11? :)
Robot Tries to Escape from Children's Abuse [IEEE]
That's orthoganal the math at play here.

The point of that analogy was to create a situation in which someone is right 55% of the time and see how the language "prudent and cautious" feels in those circumstances.

Whether that means rolling over a certian number on a die, or rolling a specific number on a very strange weighted die is irrelevant.
Oh goodness yes.

"You don't NEED a car, I use four shopping trolleys bolted together with an outboard motor. It's so much better."
G+ post: https://plus.google.com/111502940353406919728/posts/DKDCbDGr...

And past discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9084152 'My buddy and I call that "I asked how to use a ladder, you told me to take the elevator" syndrome. I'm picking apples!'

It's typical mind fallacy in weird people who don't realise how non-normative they are.
what his vision for the company is? what is it that motivates him to do this? how do employees grow in the company?
>> A native app is less secure. They're all written in memory-unsafe languages, are not guaranteed to be up-to-date, and do not run sandboxed.

So how can we even trust the browser if native apps are always less secure according to you?

The exploit ran despite the sandbox if I understood it right.
The 'market corrected' itself by increasing prices because that's the only way you can keep up with a high leaky churn.

We haven't 'corrected' anything, we've only found a new (more expensive) equilibrium because the inputs are still dying off at a higher rate. The correct thing to do is to address WHY the inputs have become more expensive... my understanding is that research now points to a certain class of destructive pesticides.
Yes, this comment makes no sense. Your selection of a 100 sided dice was obviously just a method to discuss probability. But then you randomly jump to a statement about having 100 possible outcomes? This doesn't have anything to do with the original topic at hand.

I downvoted your comment because the argument you are attempting to make is incoherent. I'm sure that you understand what you are trying to say, but as written your comment does a poor job of expressing that point of view.
The US is vilified regardless of reality because they are so ridiculously dominant. Pretending that everyone is equally bad is only workable theoretically, in the real world bad systems die.