skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
send women back home in droves to be full time moms My mother told me of that time and she was one that wasn't particularly happy about being told "thanks for your heroic effort, but now back to the kitchen."
The name comes from the Italian word "nebbia" (mist) but I'm curious why you think Nebula fits better. The cloudiness?
Oh very cool. That was eye opening. I have been running that demo occasionally since I happen to have my first computer, an original IBM PC with CGA card, standard PC beeper/speaker, (and no monitor, but this demo uses NTSC to a TV anyway!)

Fortunately I also had modem software (Telix) on the PC's 20MB hard drive so I could copy the demo over a null modem cable with Zmodem protocol, from a win2k box that also had a serial port, USB port, and hyperterm on it! And I had pkunzip on it already as well to unzip the file. It was so slow! I forgot how it was slow just to unzip files back then. (And to get the file onto THAT computer I had to put it on a USB stick from my windows 7 box because it's the one with wifi and USB but no RS-232 serial port.)

Now I get why the demo sometimes comes out in black and white when it tries to do 1024 colors. Somehow it's not triggering the "color burst" correctly.

Old story: I was excited the first time I realized flight simulator 3 could show more colors (blue sky, green grass) if I selected the right mode and hooked it up to a TV. Same for old Sierra games like King's Quest: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Km7UB9CRMyE
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Denial is a powerful thing, and at this point there are people who still think the genie can be put back in the bottle. I'm just being rational about how these things always go. Quite aside from the inevitable, very quickly built search apps, we'll have infographics galore about the population set of users.
Pocket is not Facebook. Pocket can go out of business sooner than Facebook will ever go out of business. Including Pocket can actually promote Pocket to get more users, so to some Fx users they suspect there was some money-business deal involved. After all Firefox doesn't bundle Yahoo being the default search in the North America region without Yahoo paying at least what Google was paying.
Can't point with curved fingers. (Pointing is an essential human trait.)
I would just like to say that I love boost. I believe it leads credibility to a project such as this to know that the wheel wasn't reinvented. I seriously don't understand why there's such an aversion to it. Most of it is header-only and the especially useful bits are tiny.
I'm curious why so many are downvoting. Do you disagree that the business model is disgusting, or just think it's inappropriate to say so about a peer's startup?

I'm very curious to know what HNers think about this.
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That description of what the teachers did differently has to be one of the most vague descriptions I have ever read. Can anybody do a decent job of articulating what they actually did that worked so well?
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It seems down from here. Google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WGhnu5f...

And Archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20150419093843/http://www.diygeni...
There's something poetic about people who use an Internet based service to commit adultery being exposed by crackers. With luck the fallout will break Ashley Madison too.
It could make a great data set for machine learning.
Which actually makes an important but subtle point: just because the rate of positive effects identified went down doesn't mean the effects that would otherwise have been identified were all false. It just means we don't know. There may be extremely strong evidence of effects that would overcome any amount of multiple testing correction, but they still aren't allowed to use it. It might take years or even decades for them to do a follow up study to validate the result, which means a significant number of people are harmed by not having access to the drug in the interim. Just playing devil's advocate to make the point that it's not a given that we're getting an better overall outcome by being this stringent.
I've seen it posted once here already. The comment was nuked. Check on Reddit's Hacking section.
If you're interested in bringing functional/reactive style code to an existing application, you might also be interested in splint.js: https://github.com/adzerk-oss/splint.js

I wrote a blog post about it recently: http://adzerk.com/blog/2015/06/splint-functional-first-aid-j...

In a nutshell, it's a jQuery-friendly packaging of the ClojureScript runtime and the Javelin cell library, usable in existing applications. You basically write ClojureScript in JavaScript syntax.
Absolutely false.

Getting hungry again happens naturally regardless of the choice of food offered by a restaurant.

Whether you remain sick, are cured, or get sick again depends significantly on the choice of treatment offered. Healthcare companies have an incentive to choose treatments that don't cure you.
Our finger bones are curved on the palm side.

Hand muscles are pretty strong. Climbers can support their weight on fingers.

http://www.eatonhand.com/hw/facts.htm

(Although that link does describe the finger spiral as following fibonacci so maybe it's all nonsense?)
I am, but I let them come to me about it before I started "teaching" them anything. I never pushed it on them nor did I hide it from them, but I just figured if they ever showed curiosity I would show them.

My son is finishing a technology program in his high school and going to graduate heading off for an engineering degree this year. My daughter is about 7 years younger and is now wanting to learn how to do some basic programming, so I am showing her the basics now. She is fascinated by minecraft which creating a mod is what really peaked her interest, so that's awesome in my book.
New startup idea: self-driving solar-powered bikes which make sandwiches for you and collect payment via smartphone app.
Repost from a different, and now I think abandoned, thread:

I'm curious - I keep getting downvoted whenever I criticise Ashley Madison on the grounds of morality. Why is this?

This isn't a whinge about downvoting (if I didn't want to get downvoted I wouldn't keep posting about A-M), but a genuine inquiry into the reasons.

Is it that people see discussions of morality as off-topic for HN? Do people disagree with my moral judgement of A-M? Or disagree with moral judgement in general?
The front page still says "Over 38,855,000 anonymous members!"
'Female Viagra' approved by US drug agency
The Weird Abandoned Spaces of Virtual Worlds
Ashley Madison e-mail checker
You keep saying 'there is no way to be the absolutely sure' - but this is a truism that applies to all of human decision making.

You are using it to make the situation seem less clear than it is rather than responding to a clearly articulated critique of your position.

If you differ on any of these topics why not say what you believe?
http://mywuwj5f76usg7eo.onion/stuff/impact-team-ashley-relea...
awesome work! would be a great tool in learning and teaching node :)
"Literate programming" is to some extent an artifact of Stanford's intellectual property rules for faculty at the time. If a faculty member wrote a program, that was the property of the university, a work for hire. But Stanford did not insist on owning the rights to published books and papers authored by faculty employees.

"Literate programming" was thus a way to monetize software if you were on the Stanford faculty. (This was before professors started doing startups.)
> They would not have gotten to where they are without a healthy dose of arrogance.

I've seen this idea expressed on occasion. I don't think it's true. They need drive, they need confidence, they need decisiveness, they can certainly use a dash of charisma... but outright arrogance? No.

Arrogance is the refusal to consider even the possibility that one might be wrong. No dose of it is "healthy".
This doesn't mention any Eastern traditions of fake meat which are also pretty interesting and stem from Buddhism.

I've visited restaurants here in Hong Kong where everything is mock meat (usually tofu processed in some cunning manner, or fried gluten). From whole roast "ducks" to "chicken" skewers.

Some of the "meats" can look pretty convincing, though unless it's an unusually thick sauce, the taste and texture are different.

Pork Belly: http://static4.orstatic.com/userphoto/photo/4/3HT/00OUM883DA...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock_duck
> actual homestead actually producing food

How much land do you have under cultivation, what is your growing season, and how much water do you consume?

The fact that your farm can feed your family is not enough to show that your methods, if scaled up, could feed 315 million Americans (plus an unknown number of people we export to) on 914 million acres of farmland.

The fact that the argument also comes from corporations does not change its mathematics.
You're making unwarranted assumptions about who uses the site. It is marketed at cheating spouses but there are plenty of people on there who are single, in open marriages etc.
But it sure helped out banks, who get to borrow from the Fed at near zero rates and lend at much higher rates.

The US tends to inject Government money into the economy through banks. In comparison, Japan tends to inject Government money through infrastructure projects. Some of the infrastructure projects are expensive for what they accomplish, but at least they're real things.
The continued Asian investment in messaging apps like Snapchat (Alibaba), Kik (Tencent), Hike (Softbank), and Viber (Rakuten) is really interesting and makes sense. Apps like WeChat and QQ are extremely popular in the Asian markets, and they want to also have a foothold in messaging services in Western markets.
Question: what are the legalities for downloading and performing analysis on the dataset?

The Washington Post has downloaded the dataset for journalism (https://twitter.com/pbump/status/633844944105512964), but I would be interested in looking at the statistics in the data for visualization purposes; however, that likely doesn't fall under journalistic shield.
"Over 490 anonymous members!" would be pretty funny
I'd love CoffeeScript support.

Additionally... Tonic is comparible to CodePen in terms of testing and thus gave me the idea;

Perhaps you could also include other languages into your platform. Such as a Stylus REPL, SASS, SCSS etc. all of which, like CoffeeScript, are just JS modules on npm.

With compilers like Stylus and SCSS you would probably default the return value to be the compiled CSS, and with Coffee you'd need a toggle button to show what the compiled JS looks like, though not 100% necessary.

With that said, if there was just a way to set up a "build" script for a REPL to set up the environment to achieve the same result. As in, you require('stylus') then have some global variable stream/buffer, tonic.output, for which you could inject into the module of your choice to generate output, and then save it via tonic.buffer.write() or something. It could then be ridiculously flexible in terms of testing out finicky new languages/compilers.
ShapeScale definitely caught my eye!

I feel like that level of data about my body would really help motivate me to eat better and exercise more.
This is also not true. There is public funding going into creating new biotech varieties and publicly distributing them. Last year, for example, Arkansas released its first public roundup ready soybean (http://arkansasagnews.uark.edu/8273.htm). Sadly though these researchers had to wait for the patent to expire.
A Gentle Introduction to Application Security (for Software Developers)
I downvote a bunch of these style of posts because they're i) really unpleasant judgemental gloating or ii) idiotic assumptions.
I also applied at the last hour.

My video got one full length view, it says from Texas. My demo wasn't signed into, don't know about hits because it doesn't have analytics. In any case there's nothing to see before signing in!

It was a very nice lead, and one it's been very useful in following. It spurred me to get a demo up and forced me to explain my idea in less than one minute of speech and very few written words. All these things have been very valuable learning experiences and have put my project in a better state now.

6500 applications about very early stage ideas, none of which have traction. Imagine trying to pick a few hundred (?) prospects from that pool for interview. Statistically speaking they'd probably be more likely to pick winners by throwing away 75% at random, and giving that much extra consideration to the remaining pool, such is the level of noise introduced having to try and read and consider 6500 applications in such a short amount of time.

Who knows, maybe that's precisely what happened, maybe not so explicitly, but perhaps they'd already picked 95% of their interviewees upon reading the first 25% of applications, so late applications were, statistically, not on the same playing field. I agree with your conclusion there, I think they even say it themselves, strongly implying this is the case (why wouldn't it be?).

All in all, for others in this boat, don't be disappointed or annoyed that your application doesn't seem like it was given much consideration. It couldn't have been in the end. This was an experiment, it was free money, the application pool included remote teams and was therefore global. No traction or even a demo was required, just a short application form and video. Of course the intense competition was going to wash your idea into a sea of noise. Who with an idea they were working on fairly seriously wouldn't apply? Many, many, many great ideas by brilliant people will have been overlooked because of the noise, it's nobody's fault, just a statistical inevitability.

Your project is in the same position now as it was before you heard about this, actually probably a bit more advanced with the extra weeks, plus the application process giving you a bit of a kick up the proverbial. You've lost nothing but a potential opportunity, and there are plenty more out there.

Crack on!
Where is this documented?
World Soccer League for Founders?
You sound sincere. Part of it may be the fact that, generally, you are violating "judge not lest thee be judged" and specifically, outing the adulterers also stands to cause real harm to their families, and also many of us know of circumstances where covert extramarital affairs kept families together in a good way.
I think it would be much fairer to compare OSX on Apple hardware, to Ubuntu on hardware where it's certified by Canonical. Meaning that the hardware works and you're using the version of Ubuntu it was certified with [1]. An example of this would be the Dell XPS developer laptops, which are certified, and an image is created that by Canonical with the correct drivers in it.

In those circumstances you shouldn't have any "stability" issues because it's a like for like set of engineering - basically.

In general, in terms of your other comparison with "any" hardware on the Ubuntu side - the two most likely causes of problems are hardware drivers and user fiddling (ie mixing repos and kernels). Lack of engineering support from manufacturers for client hardware is a big issue that's outside the Linux distros control. Nonetheless, if you use common supported hardware and standard installs then you shouldn't be having stability issues.

[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/
The blanket residency grant was a political move by Reagan.

The circumstances were that most of Poland had joined an independent trade union, which is awkward for a Communist country that is theoretically run by the working class. You can wikipedia 'martial law in poland' and get all the context.
The HN change from the original title ("Was the Ashley Madison Database Leaked?") seems odd. Questions in titles are usually clickbait, but in this case it is legitimately uncertain, and the article doesn't claim an definite answer.
See: "Tell HN: If your HN submission doesn't get any upvotes, don't worry about it"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9864254
It's time startup needed a different exposure for their app/website!
Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in Cultural Market (2006) [pdf]
HN seems to be tolerant of people's personal beliefs, until those begin to be used to judge other people.

Also, there's a bunch of assumptions being made about AM and its customers and the emails released by hackers.
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Right, makes sense, I'll try and check out what's available then. :)

By writing to the model, you mean programmatically adding new measures or the like?

My interest is in programmatically querying models using DAX, though to this end I'd also look to look in the direction of Microsoft's DirectQuery mode in SQL Server which supposedly did DAX-to-SQL conversion.

If one could use such a conversion plus MDX to start querying models on an Apache Spark cluster through pivot table/chart interfaces...
Surprisingly, the passwords are probably the only thing safe. Looks like they were hashed with bcrypt.
First online checker that I found:

https://ashley.cynic.al/
I'd like to know this too. I remember seeing a talk by Facebook on Youtube by their security team that they will download these datasets to see if Facebook users have used the same passwords so that they can protect accounts. It would be unfortunate if this was less than legal.
I wondered if the misting shower head might feel great but be a bit annoying at rinsing suds? I've noticed that feeling unsatisfying in some showers I've had in hotels.

The water saving aspect is great though. Could there be a similar application with washing dishes?
It's hard to figure out McIlroy's motivation for responding this way. It's like Bentley asked Knuth to demonstrate long division, and McIlroy then wrote an article criticizing Knuth for not using a calculator.

Yes, Knuth could have used a calculator, but the calculator still needs a division algorithm, and `sort` probably needs a complex data structure or algorithm. (At least if it's to be fast and work on large files.)

The only thing I can imagine, is that he wanted to advertise UNIX pipes (I would too!) and saw an opportunity to get attention by criticizing someone famous.
There was also a guy in Florida who went to jail because he ran a jammer in his car during his work commute so people wouldn't text and drive around him.
I presume they're designing something to sit visibly on a shelf, but I quite like having things in a more stackable form factor. e.g., an external 3.5" on top of a Mac Mini sitting on top of a four-bay NAS, etc.

I guess that creates issues with interference with the antenna functioning though?
I happen to agree that the business model is awful, but it's also sort of off-topic. The way in which I am displeased with someone who chooses to cheat on their spouse is very different from the way I am displeased with a company who makes money off of getting large numbers of people to cheat on their spouses, and this hack victimizes individuals more than the company. It's also very different from the way I am displeased (or really, not displeased) with someone who chose once, in a moment of weakness, to attempt to cheat on their spouse, and thought better of it shortly thereafter, or even someone who did cheat on their spouse, regretted it, apologized, and sought forgiveness. We have no idea from the data how many of those people still have email addresses and credit card numbers on file.

I do wish there was a way to distinguish between "Your facts are wrong," "I disagree with your opinion," "You're off-topic," or "You might be right and on-topic but you're not constructive" when downvoting, especially since HN norms are that the first two are appropriate uses of the downvote button. (I don't think it's very likely to be the last one, in this case.)
copy writing / psychology technique. it is super effective to have those secure logo to gain more users. just google copy writing hacks for landing pages. some of them give you their numbers and just imagine how big 1% of a conversion rate is for a big site. it is really fascinating stuff.
Maybe have a look at https://github.com/jolicode/jolitypo?
Funny, it's not even controversial among professional economists.
It certainly would be a good place to hide it - unlike most of these data dumps, you would be getting lots of unsophisticated people looking at them trying to workout if their name was in the dump.
I started developing a self hosted home automation framework for my senior project last year. Been on a bit of a hiatus, partially because I don't have my own place currently, but its here: https://github.com/terramod. Central web application that can run "apps" on your house, with raspi nodes that connect the hardware around the house.

I too am a bit surprised to hear tech minded people get excited about products that basically exist to collect their data.
Yeah, it could be done using the ADODB interface on data in the workbook itself rather than from some actual DB. See this link for an example: http://stackoverflow.com/a/26678696/1502035
That being said, when I encountered someone doing this I was pretty surprised as well.
Open market operations can't really be characterized as lending to banks. Instead, the Fed buys various kinds of debt, especially US govt bonds, thus injecting money into the economy. The fed funds rate is really the rate at which banks lend to each other. Banks are privileged in that they have a special legal mandate to act as banks, but they are not privileged in terms of access to credit (they can borrow at the "discount window" but this is less important than the Fed's open market operations).

But more importantly, QE is more like injecting money into "real things" since it is buying corporate debt that presumably funds real projects. So the (alleged) failure of QE is not very good evidence for your claim that standard monetary policy is bad.

EDIT: and they main reason I and most economists prefer US style monetary policy is that it's very neutral: you have a lever, and that lever is how much bonds you buy. You can choose various flavors of bonds, and various maturities, but they are all fundamentally the same. In contrast, the government directly funding real projects lends itself to corruption and favoritism.
Ask HN: Which job should I choose?
I need to make a decision in the next 8hrs and i need help to decide which choice would be better for me and my career.

The first company is developing software for airline companies and they have a few big clients. The tech i would be working in is Angular, Backbone, Cordova and some PHP.

The second company is into IT security. They develop tools for malware detection and network security. The tech i would be using is JavaScript, jQuery and Kendo UI. I would mostly be building charts in the beginning but there is a possibility of getting a bit more into actual software development later.

Both companies are good standing and the pay is about the same (the IT security company is offering a little bit more). I like the tech the first company is using more, but i'm more interested in IT security than airline software.

Please help me decide, i have 8hrs, what would be better for my career and what branch do you think has a better future?
Not bad for a LOL typo.
It would be nice to see an RNN version of this idea, but I want to congratulate you on writing software that can create the headline 'Do not think that is 100% "conspiracy theories". Watch This Woman Dripping Fake Blood From Her Own Webcam'.

Gawker has a job for your bot, good sir.
Here in Singapore, some of the providers offer free but crappy router for their 500mbps and up. While other ISP offers S$50 voucher for the routers they sell.
There should simply be more coursework on privacy, classroom discussion on information monopoly, corporatocracy, ect... To level the field, it takes Education. (and I'm not saying the router is evil)