skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work on a desk without trays - the keyboard too high is a big problem for me. And trays (IIRC) aren't very sturdy/mouse friendly. So I'm thinking about having a low table when I move again.

Also, it seems to me that the old rule "top of monitor in the same height as your eyes" is actually a more personal "whatever works for you" thing. See discussion at
http://superuser.com/questions/231377/whats-the-correct-moni...
That's very interesting. Why is the FTC happy to let people get scammed and annoyed, and let scammers reduce the utility of the phone system in general?

Is the FTC in on this rubbish? Are they getting payoffs? WTF?
I use Avira on Windows 7. Once a week, I run Spybot.

I do weekly backups, alternating between two sets of disks that are kept at opposite ends of my flat in case only one end burns down, as happened to a friend. The really critical must-not-lose data is encrypted and stored on SD cards on my keyrings that I keep with me all the time.
Because it looks to me like the stock market has a tendency to follow an exponential curve - or at least a high degree polynomial. I also believe that to a certain extent the stock market is bound to the real world and in the real world growth is currently not following an exponential/high degree polynomial curve. The tension between the two is causing an oscillation to develop which overrides the tendency for high disorder in price movements.

In short I think that over long time periods stock markets show some degree of predictability. They are not perfectly disordered because the they are bound to systems operating in the real physical world which display predictable behaviour.
Bring your own device (BYOD) and the problem every business faces
This isn't the place for trolling.

From the guidelines: "Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity."

Expressing joy over the suffering of others isn't civil. Lets not turn this into reddit.
Ubuntu uses aptitude and will prompt you when there are conflicting files and creates .dpkg-new for diffing: https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/09/21/debian-conffile-config...

Arch (pacman) creates .pacnew files for diffing later.

RPM creates .rpmnew files, not sure if you're prompted or not at the time of updating.
Is there a repo you can make an issue / PR on?
There was no looting of the neighbors. There was some racketeering though. It was mostly redistribution of the previously state owned enterprises.
FreeBSD uses the service command these days too.
Thanks for digging this up :) But it seems it is also quite simple to solve such puzzles using conventional (non-neural) programming. So my next question would be: what is the advantage of using neural networks? Or, how far can this be pushed?
The Year of CoCoRo Video #34/52: Relay Chain Basics
I think they're two different projects, but this is exactly what I thought of. A separate Chinese DDoS was even mentioned by cjb in his announcement of GitTorrent a few months ago: http://blog.printf.net/articles/2015/05/29/announcing-gittor...
Not really. Thesedays disabling javascript would likely render any webpage unusable.
‘Pharmacy of the developing world’ under attack from the US, EU, Japan
Sublime Text look and feel on PhpStorm
Yes, but clearly in this case classes were not needed to make clean, responsive, and readable design.
I work on a docked laptop with 2 screens (3 in total, I keep the laptop open)
We all have USB keyboards for if we want to have the laptop closed, but lately I've been typing with both. My left hand on the USB keyboard and my right on the laptop.
My hands are a natural distance apart from one another and my shoulders are more relaxed. It means that there's uneven wear on both keyboards, but I'm quite a bit more comfortable.
"at the earliest it'll be the next day."

One of the interesting hard mathematical results to come out of generalized learning theory, as used by machine learning, is that there is a fundamental relationship between the speed of feedback and the ability to learn. It is not merely a matter of "willpower" to learn from temporally distant feedback, it is fundamentally, irreducibly harder, and there's no way to "correct" it because it's not even wrong.

Homework grading (note the emphasis) as a learning mechanism has such a delay that its learning rate is effectively zero. And what feedback you get is often not even very much beyond WRONG!, which is not exactly rich with information itself.

Homework is only useful for the feedback and learning you get while doing it, and for the ability to assess the student because we live & die on assessments, give us a direct choice between assessment and learning and the system will generally prefer the former. So, I won't say "homework is useless" but we could save everybody a lot of time if we only checked that it was done and spot-graded it for assessment, rather than making the teacher laboriously, yet nearly entirely uselessly, grade stacks of homework.
I'm nobody to assure this but I can see one thing common in both the cases, 'Dragon'.
And something such as haskforce[1] wouldn't work for you?
[1] http://carymrobbins.github.io/intellij-haskforce/
Don't mislead the inexperienced: there is no such thing as 100% certainty unless you're peddling something or being peddled abd then it's gambling and luck and manipulation and a game of chicken.
Many installations are familiar from Burning Man
There's some conflicting data out there about this: http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/06/08/41231470...
Horrible price for the hardware. I mean, as a proof of concept it is OK, but the power these deliver is laughable for the price they have.
But I would also say that in face to face conversation. That is not trolling - I love when markets crash. It was fun during the dot com bust, during worldcom and enron and during 2008 crash.

Then watching people do the same mistakes again ...
Show HN: Upside-down Pendulum in JavaScript
No, you're not. I do too. Also, whatever noise cancellation, sampling or jitter that cell phones have makes it so that people talk over each other a significant number of times. Landlines don't have that, and I suspect that the analog "last mile" is the reason.
I think the key part you’re missing is “Here's a quick Python function that uses numpy and matplotlib to plot the results:”

Doing the same in C is going to be a lot more effort.
The author (me) frankly hates C and C++. Haven't touched it for use on a PC since 2009. However I use it every day for my job working on dsPIC motor control, because I have no better options.

When I am trying to teach someone about algorithms, I turn to Python because it is more readable, quicker for me to write, it's platform-independent, and I can incorporate it into an IPython (now Jupyter) Notebook and postprocess that into my blog articles with a minimum of hiccups.
Which is completely pointless. If a hacker wants to hack your system, the very last thing they want to do is destroy your OS. Who cares about the OS, it's just one re-install away and you got it back. If a hacker were to hack into your system they would want your data, your passwords, your bank account details etc. Or they would want to use your system to do illegal things that look like you did it.

It's in the best interest of the hacker that broke into your system that your system continues to work flawlessly for both you and the hacker. This is why Mac OS X "rootless" is just yet another obstacle for the power user, yet another obstacle when compiling and installing POSIX code from source, and yet another step closer to locking down OS X to be an appliance like iOS.
There are quite a few times I have legitimately used flash where it has improved my web browsing experience.

HTML5 canvas? Not so much. Maybe some day. But it hasn't had very much impact so far.

It really is disappointing plugins are being removed from Chrome. I am seriously considering moving to a new browser. Those who didn't like it could just disable it.
There is no universal "southern" culture the way you're defining it. While Baltimore is certainly nothing like Atlanta, neither is either anything like Tallahassee.

I'm not just making this up. This is the generally agreed upon definition, that "In popular usage, the Mason–Dixon line symbolizes a cultural boundary between the North and the South (Dixie)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_line#Symbo...

If you just want a list of which are the southern states:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States
Haha thanks!!
Most of the ones I've seen are. However, all the Kickstarters I've seen are targetting consumers. If your product is based on something like an RPi, then your parts costs are already much higher that they should be and your profit will be close to zero because B2C prices are typically very low.

If you are targetting commercial/industrial customers, then the added cost of standard hardware is generally not a deterrent IME.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States
As somebody who travels a lot credit cards are much, much cheaper than cash. It's not even close. Banks / exchange shops have commissions (baked into the exchange rate) from 2.5% to 5%.

My credit card charges $5 flat fee to take out cash, gives spot forex rates, and gives me 1% cashback on purchases. So if I take out $500 cash and spend $500 directly on the card I pay zero fees versus the $25-$50 in fees I'd spend dealing with $1000 cash.
You're comparing the IIS management command lets to bash. PowerShell the language is largely the same, the same as bash. A more apt comparison would be to apachectl and the apache config files, which have changed.
Rechargeable batteries with almost indefinite lifetimes coming, say MIT-Samsung
If I'm reading this correctly, this is only about grabbing someone's laptop when they are leaving the country. Does this in any way affect people who are entering the country?
AMA on Legionnaires’ Disease in New York
I have wanted an Ergodox* keyboard for a while. They would certainly solve that problem. I think your situation with the different key styles would really bother me, however.

* http://ergodox.org/
I've always felt that Flash's influence on paving the way for the modern web gets overlooked. Against the backdrop of a web that was painfully fractured and deficient of features, Flash basically innovated the hell out of all the worst parts, and then slowly but surely browsers and web standards adopted the best innovations (and ignored a few missteps). People talk about Flash dying or being killed, but I think of it more as having served its purpose, in a good way - if the open standards are no longer deficient, then there's no need for proprietary solutions that work around them.

So in that vein, I think the features you've listed are basically the last few good bits that haven't been adopted (or covered by frameworks) yet. But I suspect 1-3 are kind of the same problem - that HTML's never had a good container format.
Will this stop the next Border Patrol person from grabbing a laptop? Most definitely not. They can grab it, and then let the defendant wind his way through the courts. This isn't new, by the way; I remember going back all the way to Steve Jackson Games[1] that the government will seize the stuff willy-nilly, and then let you fight it out in the courts.

Violations of our basic rights will continue until there is tangible punishment for an LEO for doing so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U...
It's a private venue. I don't see tagging art at a private show as similar to tagging something permanent like a building in a public space.
The paper on Barycentric Lagrange Interpolation did a pretty good job at explaining clearly how to evaluate efficiently the polynomial.
Something people underestimate (I think) is that having a correct posture requires having strong enough support muscles so that you can maintain said posture without getting tired, or even thinking about it.

By far the biggest benefit of going to the gym has been that my core muscles got stronger, which in turn has cured all back pains I had.
These days? The hell you on about? As far as we can tell the order of human inventions went: fire, wheel, beer. Humanity consumes far less alcohol today than in the past.
The more the government is involved in managing the economy, the more corrupt it (usually) gets.

China's economy, while allowing private ownership, is heavily influenced/controlled by the government. Hence corruption.

The US economy has turned statist - cue in the lobbyists looking for favors.
It doesn't actually matter if it's deliberate. Your response is part of the play.
I'm just back from lunch, so I'm struggling to follow. How would the "hedge fund backed FOSS, where the commercial software competition are publicly traded" work?
No side effects!
Considering its the Chinese government, yet again, its probably a mix of both. It makes it harder for their nationals to get VPN software that goes through their firewall and also is an assholic statement against the West's ideas about freedom of speech, assembly, and peaceful changes of power via popular elections and multi-party government. The Chinese are most likely hoping they can force github to get rid of these projects by threatening periodic DDOSing.

They also probably feel emasculated that South Korea told their pet regime to knock off the stupidity and China and North Korea capitulated to their demands yet again. The timing of this is far from a coincidence. China's foreign policy is almost 100% hinged on having North Korea attack the west with impunity and they don't like that Park is actually pushing back against this dynamic. So now China is having its hissy fit on Github instead on the Korean peninsula.

Yeah, lets keep rewarding them with factory contracts, right guys?
SEO Ranking Factors 2015 Summary (from SearchMetrics Report)
There was a UK rocket that launched a few satellites to orbit. UK is the only country in the world to have have given up space access that it had.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow
I’m realizing my comment sounds kind of negative. Overall I thought it was a great blog post, full of nice pictures!
Not sure what the UN or any organization would be able to accomplish in an ecosystem of organizations and improving tech.

The genie is out of the bottle.
Welcome to the big data revolution.

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=169
What about a solution like this: [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKrVByT6pq8&t=14
Is Deep Sea Mining a Savior or a Scourge?
What are your specializations/what kind of focus do your skills have? What are you interested in? What resources do you have available? How many people are working on a project? How much time/effort is expected to be put into it?
Google rolls out internet bikes to teach women in rural India about the web
He works on VS2013 on Windows, and LLVM+GDB+QtCreator on Linux, IIRC. He has also commented on the "involution" of Visual Studio in the last years, making it difficult to the user to ship a standalone executable.

(He has praised Turbo C several times - probably his favorite environment in the 90's, never matched these days in some ways... )
"Those with antisocial personality disorder tend to antagonize, manipulate or treat others either harshly or with callous indifference."

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/antisocial-per...
There's not a harassment noise floor beneath which we should ask the harassed to just shrug off harassment by their coworkers.

I'm not gonna argue what side this is on, just that there is there is a floor. They're called "haters." Conventional wisdom is to shake it off. (Just think about the time spent getting down and out. You could have been getting down to sick beats.)

Different people will have different opinions on if this is above the floor and actions should to be taken in response. People are going to to disagree about when actions cross boundaries, so simply labeling actions as harassment doesn't cut it to make everybody agree with your view that it has crossed boundaries.
> it's surprisingly hard to convince them that government-sponsored software is a good idea

That's because it's not. Governments are not reliably good, and their money comes with far more strings than private money.

The FSF have it right: people should write free software because proprietary software is immoral.
Or "let's move our entire business workflow to github!". Doh! This is why you should run indefero/srchub/gitlab or any of the other self hosted source code control apps.
Mozilla to fire suspected employee posting hate speech on Reddit
After experiencing wrist and back pain, I found it helpful to rotate my setup between desktop and laptop. At the office, I use a relatively ergonomic desktop setup with a keyboard draw and a 24" monitor at eye-level. If I need to work during the evening, I use a folding wood laptop table in bed (allows adjusting the laptop to proper angle) or I sit on a recliner that keeps my hands and eyes at the proper angle. I try to avoid using a laptop on a standard desk whenever possible.
Mandrill reported they were investigating system slowness a short time ago, also.
> You also need to factor in any foreign currency fees your card issuer imposes.

He's specifically referring to cards that offer spot forex rates. There are many such options in the U.S.
It also has has mechanical switches and not cheap rubber domes:

http://superuser.com/a/366797
Louisiana is a Catholic state.
Flash developer can use haxe (http://haxe.org/)

More gear towards games though.
Maybe people near you thought it was funny, but there were a lot of people seriously unaware about Daft Punk or McCartney.
I don't like being treated like a criminal every time I step outside.
Thanks to many on HN who can't come up with any way to make a living that doesn't involve creepily probing the private data of millions of people, it's all down hill from here.
Nokia Supports Digital India Program, Says CEO Rajeev Suri
> How do you store issues in git?

An org-mode file named 'issues,' with each issue under its own heading?

A directory named 'issues,' with an org-mode or CommonMark file for each issue?

A directory named 'issues,' with a directory for each issue, with CommonMark, org-mode or restructured text files for each person's comments?
Russia briefly bans Wikipedia over page relating to drug use
See my other comments here.
Life with the Dash Button: Good Design for Amazon, Bad Design for Everyone Else
never so simple - ha, what an understatement. I've called Verizon over the "Rachel from Cardholder Services" robocalls. The chummy customer "service" rep claimed he'd never heard of anyone with such problems. He was shocked, shocked I say! to learn that robocallers actually send different caller ID numbers, so it's useless to try to block them. This whole robocaller thing is dependent on a lot of different things, all of them due to sluggishness or callousness on the part of service providers and regulators.
Genetic transmission of reading ability
Japan Sends Whiskey to International Space Station – In the Name of Science
MIT's Multi-Material 3-D Printer Isn't Crazy-Expensive
Not much to go on.
I'm using RequestPolicy [0] for selectively disabling JavaScript based on domains. It's usually a bit of clicking to allow crucial sources when I visit a new site, but I think it pays back with the reduction in distracting UI elements and loading times.

[0] https://requestpolicycontinued.github.io
Unfortunately the system operating in the real physical world is based around human behavior, which, despite probably following some heretofore undiscovered law or algorithm, is very difficult to predict.
The second answer does.
WordPress 4.3 – an honest, impartial review
Well in fairness, Britain did OK with that whole steam engine thing.
Researchers show that an iron bar is capable of decision-making
Wow, pretty bad advice they got... The little company I work for does high end microwave equipment (satellite terminals, RF conversion equipment, 5Gbps ultra-low-latency terrestrial links used for high frequency trading, etc.) and only turns over a few million dollars per year...

I would be surprised if a flash remote cost more than two or three hundred thousand to develop and productise, tool up and do a small production run, but that's assuming you have a team with the right skills. If you're paying contract design houses then I guess it would be a lot more expensive.
Thinking about job titles
Microsoft Security Essentials on Windows 7 Ultimate
Well, usually you have to write quite a lot of code to be able to answer such natural language questions.

For university I'm currently writing something similar (with Prolog), its basically a pipeline that goes something like this: (1) natural language -> (2) syntax tree -> (3) annotate syntax tree with logical (in my case, lambda) terms that represent the semantics -> (4) use semantics to query knowledge base.

(2) requires you to write a grammar, which is a lot of work, even for a very limited subset of your target language. (3) is even harder, for every term and grammatical construction that you want to be able to parse, you have to write rules that translate the semantics into something the computer understands. And (4) is quite time-consuming as well, since you have to translate your knowledge into something that the computer can understand (in my case, logical terms).

From what I can understand, this system allows you to skip (2), (3) and (4) i.e. you just feed the system your facts and questions and it will perform the reasoning by itself, no more hand-written rules. Basically, you feed it only natural language (easy to do, even for untrained people!) and it does the rest on its own. Which is a huge timesaver, obviously :-)
Citation needed.
Many people will ask "why not do this in user space?" The article answers this:

Unlike Linux user space, the Linux kernel space has support for interrupts. The first example in this article demonstrates how you can write an LKM that uses GPIOs and interrupts to achieve a faster response time than is possible in user space.
> Thesedays disabling javascript would likely render any webpage unusable.

Not any web page, and not completely unusable, but it's getting worse every single day.

It makes me sick to see the open web perverted so badly. Web pages should be documents to be read, not programs to execute!
What we know about how non-bank lenders are connected to the big banks
The SearchMetrics report is fantastic, using hard research to produce SEO insights. I've taken the very long report and broke it down into easily consumed pieces (but I still recommend reading through the original report sometime).
'menace' is a bit too strong of a word. Alternatives for development are a good thing, just look at the native world and the constant innovation that goes on there (go, rust etc). This idea that everything on the web should be shoehorned into html + javascript is hugely flawed because the ideas behind those technologies are so antiquated. The web model is completely broken but everyone just keeps on ignoring the root problem and just patch over it with 'innovative' frameworks like angular or react...
Everyone who says this is a bad price for the hardware, please link me to any other bare metal server for rent at 16e/mo. I haven't seen it, not at Hetzner, nor anywhere else.

You can hate on it all you want, but this is simply a unique offering.