skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Local minima are only nearly as good as global minima in very very deep networks.
It is all right to point out that there are problems in accountability or democracy in the EU, but that "absolutely no" is so manifestly untrue that it takes away credibility from anything you say.
To borrow a turn of phrase from Bjarne Stroustroup, there are two kinds of software: software people complain about, and software nobody uses.
> wait.

"wait" sounds like find the right cellular automata.
Because then the only thing you're relying on the centralized closed-source company for is actual git hosting. This is a boring problem that dozens of other services solve well, and thousands of other services (like S3) solve poorly in a pinch. If you can migrate the interesting part of GitHub -- issue tracking, PRs, wikis, etc. -- to another provider, and GitHub just holds your data, then you're no longer locked in.

If you don't build it and you wait for the centralized closed-source company to, then you're putting your project even more in their hands.
Because it's not about the idea-the idea can (and probably is) shared by multiple companies. Ideas are easy. If you don't execute well AND fast, others will and they will win. This is especially important in startups that require network effects to survive (think social, uber, etc). If you don't build the lead first, others will, and their lead will grow by virtue of being in the lead (and not screwing up).
I really appreciate the advice. It says connecting until the server has facilitated a connection between you and a peer if no peers are online it will say connection for ever. There is an api available. HTTPS://github.com/flynnbo/hookmeup. Will connect you to other peers. I will implement the recaptcha to prevent spam. And maybe setup a bot to always be available. Thanks once again.
In one breath "I am a bit of a bare-metal purist" and in the next "As for using other languages - I played with Python on Storm".

So which one is it? :-)
>If current trends continue, my beautiful Mac hardware will be nothing but a boot loader for VMWare and Linux.

Your whole post is a pretty good troll but I'll bite anyway. Tell me, what do you plan on replacing iTunes and Photos with under Linux? From what I've seen, there's nothing there that even comes close to functionality of iTunes or Photos.

And why even run Linux in a VM? Why not boot it? Why not sell MBP and just buy a Lenovo?

Anyway, your whole post is silly.
China is but one example. Singapore is another. Russia is still undecided, but certainly not democratic.

Long term, it's hard to say what political-economic systems will look like. However, it appears China has so far achieved economic success via capitalistic economics without democracy. It does not seem that China is in any hurry to democratize. In its history, there has been at least weak centralization, never the less, centralization and strong central gov't is embedded in their collective psyche.
That's funny, the UK regards London as the financial centre of the world.
> Add HTTPS support to Github Pages

This is technically already available, though not officially documented anywhere [1]. Example [2]

[1] https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156#issuecomment-377...

[2] https://beltex.github.io
When technical problems are really people problems
The world is going to need a "minimal tech" community to share best practices :)
I wonder how many people actually use outline view. I didn't even know it existed until now.
Thank you so much! Mind boggling.

(I think I have lost the capability to enjoy reading long-winded books or stories.)
Wiki search is #1 on my wish list for Github. I see others talking about cloning the wiki repo locally and searching it but for big projects this would be the equivalent of downloading something like the Python docs and searching them. It could be done but it would be a massive pain in the ass.

I have written most of the documentation for the project I contribute to the most and I organized the wiki like a two level tree where a top level page has links to category pages and each page on the wiki is linked to from one of those category pages. Then there are links interspersed among the pages like a normal wiki. This structure works okay but I know it can be better because sometimes I cannot even find information that I produced!
Microservices Security: All the Questions You Should Be Asking
Jay Z's Tidal looks like a time bomb, what went wrong?
Your email address isn't your identity. It's a name associated with your identity, but the identity itself is your account. Or put another way, not all valid email addresses are valid identities for these websites.

If the website is doing things right, they have other means (like a CAPTCHA at the least, or phone verification, or you buying an item from them) before deciding that an email address really is an identity.
In terms of where the USA put most of its effort it was. Not that FDR didn't have his own ideas about the USA and its place in the world.
This is very much not the case. Bomb theory and critical mass come from a fundamental understanding of neutron chain reactions. You need to have good data on fission properties and neutron mean-free-path distances, but that requires only extremely tiny amounts of Plutonium or natural Uranium, it does not require enriched Uranium.

Other than that the other critical factor is coming up with the correct model/theory for nuclear weapons. Something that the Japanese got right, the Americans and British got right, and the Germans (specifically Heisenberg) ended up getting extremely wrong.

Fine tuning critical mass calculations was important in optimizing the bomb later on but it wasn't necessary to developing the basic underlying theory of how bombs work or of pointing the way toward implosion assembly and Plutonium breeding.
A gateway in the city-Do you think about the simple joy of watching a paint?
I just finished painting “A gateway in the city” that I’m launching tomorrow Aug 6!
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O en español
Si, el lanzamiento es mañana 6 de agosto!
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One of Stalin's priorities in invading Germany was capturing intact the German nuclear research facilities. I wonder if that wound up helping the Soviet bomb program significantly.
You offer suggestions on ways to handle such transaction volumes. Does that mean it is currently an unsolved problem? What volume can the current bitcoin blockchain implementation absorb?
Indeed, we use ImageJ in our lab often. Mostly after we did prototype an idea really fast in ImagePlay.
Sweshiya Shchi – Cabbage Soup
> 50 bitcoin in 20 minutes or your car takes a drive off the pier

I would NOT like to think about what would happen to someone who tried this sort of thing. I expect within seconds of the first accident (or worse, injury, even fatality) causing malware being discovered, the resources of the entire NSA would be being used to track down the author. Then, when found, 'bad day' would not begin to describe the rest of their life. In fact, I can see this sort of thing being validly placed under 'terrorism' and dealt with appropriately.

People who randomly attack vehicles being driven around today (brick thrown off bridge over a busy road into windscreen et al) are not the smartest, or have poor self control or other issues, but they are actually quite rare. To pull off an automated hack would require enough intelligence that they can surely understand the consequences. Therefore, this will be done by a genuine psychopath (or sociopath? never quite sure of the terminology) or terrorist group.

I think we should be as worried about vehicular-malware-based-death as we are about dying from other terrorist attacks. So yes, I know that means the risk is small, but the general public will over estimate it, and worry inappropriately. That seems to be a matter of education, not technology, though...
Search can be easily worked around by using Google with the site: parameter, e.g., search on Google with this query:

wireless site:https://github.com/esp8266/esp8266-wiki/wiki
People's happiness have started to shift with size and battery. People are willing to even get something a bit slower now if it means half the size (new MacBook, MacBook Air and other small laptops based on Intel's Core M Broadwell).
One thing that is not clear to me is if this part is mostly aluminum or mostly carbon fiber. If it's carbon fiber, the fact that it can float might not be so surprising. Another interesting question is just how high it was floating in the water. If it just barely reached the surface then it would experience very little windage, so its path through the ocean would be almost entire driven by currents. I don't know that that would simplify drift analysis, but it seems like it might.
That's due to a lack of generics. There are some workarounds like gonerics [1] -- a clever abuse of import declarations.

[1] http://bouk.co/blog/idiomatic-generics-in-go/
Announcing the Launch of Pozify Nation
Awesome! Tools that give you real-time feedback like this really help those learning image analysis/computer vision.
That is a great proposition. We added some pictures for now(not yet easy to find in OSX version).

But I guess we will provide some simple process chains to start of.
What do you miss the most or find cumbersome or unusable?
Show HN: Improving NSNotificationCenter
Reddit Finally Bans R/CoonTown and Other Hateful Subreddits
Reddit bans several of its most racist communities
What don't you like in current PRs?
The funny thing is that the PM also put out an arrest warrant for a British journalist (Gordon Brown's sister-in-law) for covering the corruption case. If he hadn't done that, I wouldn't have heard of his whole scandal before this.
You can also buy index funds for the broader market, like the Russell 2000.
Basically Ubuntu 15.04 docker image + openjdk8 + mysqlclient + the service itself
While I don't doubt that it is sealed, I wouldn't think it would have to stay completely sealed to float: I'd expect that a sufficiently large air pocket trapped iinside could do the trick of keeping it afloat just enough for it to travel somewhere.
Thanks for the praise! Even more real-time if you use the webcam image loader. Than you get your real-time algorithm in real-time. (-,
Great tip, but unfortunately that doesn't work for private repos.
I agree college is for the privileged, but there is value in enjoying youth.
Investors have a right to know how the company they invest in is spending money. Lots of investors don't exactly like the absurd levels of C-level pay or golden parachutes for failed execs.
Chrome only too, which is super lame.
Cute idea. Needs a better example document to really be judged properly (for example, this document has a far too many large and imposing headings), but in any case, some comments:

Would be better with less leading, a smaller text size, smaller left margin, and more characters per line. This current version has a text block more like a newspaper column width than a book, and the large type and unnecessarily generous leading (especially in block quotations!) make it feel a bit like a children’s book. Not much content fits on screen at any time.

Small caps shouldn’t be used with a typeface/browsers that don’t properly support them and just shrink capital letters instead, they just look spindly and bad. Either find a real small caps font, or skip the idea. Likewise for italics: use a real italic font instead of a browser-generated oblique version of the roman font.

If you want it to look like a nicely typeset book, use an indented first line for new paragraphs rather than a blank line.

Lots of other parts need tweaks, but it would take making several sample documents and then judging how the parts interact.

Final note: Tufte’s books don’t look good because of the basic style choices, but because of the incredible care and attention he puts into writing and composing them. Crappy content is not going to suddenly become amazing when a different stylesheet is slapped onto it, and any document that aspires to be as pretty as a Tufte book is going to take many hours of manual composition.
* Search code in a branch other than master.
* Advanced code search inside a repo(match searches with symbols, etc.)
That sort of design scares me. I've got a circa 2010 lenovo X201 and a keyboard replacement on that is a 5 minute job max and costs $20 and it's all a small philips driver (I use a swiss army knife). I'm on my third keyboard.
Transactional Email Templates (from Postmark)
Check him!
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Show HN: Search video better on Jayhap
I've gotta say, I strongly disagree with this:

> GitHub already has a great code search

At some point in the last year or so Github rolled out a new search engine which drastically reduced it's usefulness. Any moderately complex search query now has all of the modifiers and key bits stripped out making your search results unnecessarily cluttered and somewhat useless. I consider it to be one of the worst parts of the site these days.
Don't they have fuel tanks in the wings too? That might be a reason to have it completed sealed up.
Smart contract is basically a small script with defined triggering criteria and defined results. The main benefit - contract is executed by network, not by machine controlled by person or organisation. This minimises trust.
When is ssh -A insecure?
Are you talking about the NSA or China?
I think they use the mutisig feature of bitcoin and a hash of the contract.
The first party would send that transaction to a 3rd party that would then (when whatever requirements are met) would publish it the network.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong and lets to talk in lower level terms as per ops request.
Boxes 2 for iOS is out Organize your collections. Buy and sell with others
I read some pretty bad reviews of the Galago. A full third of the Amazon reviews are one star:

http://www.amazon.com/System76-Galago-UltraPro-Ubuntu-Laptop...
TrueCrypt 'decrypted' by FBI to nail doc-stealing sysadmin
And even if there are no serial numbers, there are detailed maintenance records for the aircraft; you can see if a bolt has been replaced, trimmer adjusted or a hole fixed, and you'll find matching records in the books.
It's SAAS. It's the future. Get with the program.

(Thanks hadn't thought of going to those lengths)
Folks may also be interested in the Openshot cross platform video editor (no affiliation other than as a user). They use (and helped develop) some of the libraries used by Shotcut. http://openshot.org/

However openshot did commit the cardinal sin of second system effect. Version 1 was doing well, with a whole bunch of changes queued for version 2 including going cross platform, changing the UI toolkit, updating/changing the media toolkit, and a thousand other features. Version 2 has been imminent for well over a year now, and still doesn't seem too close to release.
I don't think AMD is really dumb enough to actually want to catch up on the desktop. It seems like they are doing a certain amount of marketing lip service to desktop hardware, but their really interesting products are APUs/GPUs for ML and HPC, and their real ambitions are there and for parts of the server market that Intel isn't pursuing as aggressively.

Last I heard Zen is supposed to release as a server part in 2016, which I take to mean that it would be a miracle if I could buy a mainstream desktop part in two years (http://www.fudzilla.com/news/graphics/37713-amd-has-finfet-t...).

Anyway, for anyone who doesn't already own a fab and have the market cap of BP, trying to compete with Intel on desktop parts is like starting a cattle ranch in your back yard to try to undercut Cargill Meat Solutions at selling leather to buggy whip manufacturers.
It's actually very surprising how little visible improvement GitHub has had in the past few years.

What are they working on?
Real World Data: Wealthfront Tax-Loss Harvesting
> People lose their minds when Google services go down because it happens once a year. When Apple services go down, people just shrug or write a blog post like this.

Well hang on a minute, I thought people lose their minds when Google services go down because Google is a software company and their core products are online services. When Apple services go down, it isn't as noteworthy since Apple is a hardware (dare I say fashion?) company. But when Apple sells a cellphone that can get faraday-caged by your hand, that's when people freak out.

Now is that any excuse for Apple services to be broken as often as they are? Not at all, it projects a shoddy brand image. And when it's a service that is required to make the hardware function, users won't care which part of the "experience" is breaking.

Anyway, good writeup.
Hehe, yes, I'm afraid I have a proclivity for terrible puns. I do think they're somewhat less cringe-worthy that the link-bait titles that are all the rage these days (or at least endearingly cringeworthy).
Show HN: Instagram API console
Helm: A functionally reactive game engine in Haskell
the best part was, they had 2 only for redundancy, they could have gotten away with only having one.
It may be an easy decision for a part that's all metal and low density to be sealed to add a bit of buoyancy in case of a water landing, to give the passengers more time to get off.
SciTools – Python libraries for visualisation of weather and climate data
The italics are basically the only thing that looks OK here:
http://i.imgur.com/H9X3Hpl.png

Linux/Firefox FWIW.
We have been using Amplitude at 12 Labs (getapplause.com) after having tried several analytics platforms, and it's an amazing platform. Large free tier, really intuitive interface, and the tracking is really accurate (we did rigorous testing to verify that).
Appserver.io – A Production-Ready PHP-Based Server
The problem with programming tutorials
nice share and creation
Getting notifications/emails when a new release is released of a repo I'm watching or have starred would be awesome!
I'm not even particularly worried about applications to which I don't have code access. I'm worried about getting off my OS's upgrade track because the minor version of the application I've verified to be usable and correct in my environment is no longer the one I'm going to have because a vendored dependency was upgraded during a release of the application itself rather than as an independent, dynamically linked library.
If you use Chrome you have an option here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/github-wiki-search...
Super helpful response. Thank you!

> What data are you trying to store?

A couple of fields could be imported by integrating with existing EMR/EHR through HL7, but at this early stage I don't envision any integration and these fields will be input manually. The MVP works this way, for example (and has been used in a few hospitals).

> You definitely should. Else, be prepared to deploy your own physical servers

Does this mean you've seen off-site hosted apps using these HIPAA PAAS providers being used by hospitals "in production" (so to speak)?

> Not impossible. Just excruciatingly difficult, with difficulty scaling exponentially with the size of the hospital. :)

Is this regardless of using a HIPAA-compliant PAAS, or only in the case where we don't? I'm already dreading the answer ;)
In 2012 Nvidia released Kepler, which had 7 billion transistors, also at 28nm. 3 years to increase transistor counts by 12.5%... Isn't that evidence that Moore's law is in fact dead?

If it were not dead, that should be 28 billion transistors in 2015. Instead you're talking about 8.
Needs sparklines.

https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...
another great news for php community to know what appserver is. Love the finding.
In which case, our over consumption of meat makes us a society of mostly psychopaths (not even counting the non-eating things vegans do that can harm animals).

I'm not to say you are fully without a point. Consider manual breeding of animals and what exactly is involved, which is done primarily for profit and which would be considered very anti-social behavior if done for more personal reasons. I dare say this is one place we are hypocritical as a society (compare treatment of dogs and pigs).
Google "Farm Hall transcripts", that's what you're thinking of.

But you're quite right. Heisenberg used an incredibly faulty method of calculating critical mass. And everyone around him simply deferred to his expertise. His method involved considering a branching tree of neutron chain reactions inside a sphere of fissile material, and if this tree can grow to include about 1 mole of material then that should be about enough to release enough energy for a "bomb". The reality is that it's completely unnecessary for an entire neutron chain-reaction tree to be encompassed within fissile material. All that matters is that on average from generation to generation there is a multiplication of neutrons, which will then grow geometrically incredibly rapidly. And that can happen even with many "branches" of the tree leaving the sphere and not contributing to future reactions.
“The Dream of Internet Freedom Is Dying”
Here's the source:

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2015/08/05/the-employee-exp...
"You don't find yourself needing static typing if you're doing a small, self-contained, line-of-business task like a script. You start to really want it for multi-developer programs and for infrastructural jobs that'll take months to complete (and, at age 32-- that's ancient in programming years-- the only programming challenges that really interest me are the hard ones where Haskell's type discipline pays off in a major way)."

IME, this seems to be roughly, "What are the odds you'll need to refactor significantly because the world changed around you?"
We created this in Meteor.js, pretty fun. Great for short term chat rooms that don't need a sign up. Would love feedback!
Me too. Some folks prefer to think instead of messing with the code and retesting. I hate it.
Disclaimer: because my university is nearby ASML, I get bombarded by their information... also I'm not an EE student

The actual progress of technology is in lithography. The lithography machines are produced by ASML and used by almost all major chip producers[1]. Currently ASML is building their new line of machines, namely with extreme ultraviolet lithography instead of what the line of current machines use.

What I do not know, if the machines are currently used for Intels 14nm or that the old machines are still used (or maybe both). What I do know, is that ASML and Intel are having problems with getting to 10nm. That is because they have to improve the current machines, you observe this from the delay in the Tick-Tock from Intel.

Which brings us to the Tick-Tock of Intel, this is the improvement of the chip structure itself. They do this because they have to wait for the smaller transistors.

At last, what I heard is that the ASML machine is getting more and more complicated. Especially because they are having troubles with the laws of nature.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873238093045784288...
I get why people want their web sites to look as good as Tufte's books, but since they can't, I wish they wouldn't try. Make things that look good in the medium you're working in; don't blindly copy the rules from other media.
This is a really good list.

As for sorting things by file, here's a pretty cool project to do that using GitHub API - https://github.com/sivel/pr-triage
I dont see how counterparty risk is reduced... especially if these products are OTC products with regularly scheduled payment legs, you will always have counterparty risk. It is an inherent part of trading.