skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not. There's already two main sources for the Popcorn Time app (popcorntime.io and popcorn-time.se).

Neither of them are distributed by the original devs, how certain are you that they are not injecting malware into the binaries?
It's there. "Mining of Massive Datasets"
Anyone recommend any of the R books listed or know of any great R books for purchase?
I feel like a lot of what was said on https://usesthis.com/interviews/john.mcafee/ alone would lose a lot of voters.
Also get plugged into a local meetup/user group. They are popping up everywhere. Here are some examples of R user groups. http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/local-r-groups.html
Note that when he created scan, it was a very different software from the one which became later.
Suggest putting this in a repo somewhere, in the vein of:

https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr...

https://github.com/ligurio/free-software-testing-books/blob/...

etc.
It's not quite infinite, I think. Each of the stat bonuses is limited to 50 levels IIRC, so there is an effective limit of 800 paragon levels (16 stats * 50 levels each - would take quite a while to reach).

It is a much better game now, regardless.
Is this like Yahoo Pipes?
It's not free. It's subsidized.

Nothing is free, if that's your point of view.

I think everybody understands that the term 'free' in contexts like this means 'free at the point of use'. Quibbling over it seems a little pedantic.
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1. Code used in the article seems to be from https://github.com/inueni/birdy.

2. The howlong = (today-ltdate2).days line doesn't follow PEP8.
Nice to see a German company here.

Side note: What is it about German company websites and extremely small fonts and "busy designs".
Ask HN: Is there any list which keeps track of companies that have shut down?
There have been many instances of startups shutting down.
A place where I can read about companies which had the initial boost but has shutdown due to various reasons. A postmortem of such events would be a great insight for people who are looking to startup.
I was pointed at this as something that can be used very effectively for IoT.

Still investigating.
https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr...
My favorite intro to R book is The Art of R Programming by Norman Matloff http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Programming-Statistical-Softwa...
I see, thanks.
I my own code I suspect that it's the for loops I can't vectorise that are making R taking so long in some operations, so this is where this project would help.

Must give it a try then.
Creator here, happy to discuss any development ideas!
That was my first reaction, too. It seems to at least have borrowed the design patterns from it.
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David Bowie played Tesla (a minor, but very important part) in The Prestige.
I'm an astrophysicist, we don't really trust p-values. But it could be handy in some other areas.
Please explain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQCgtCoZyFQ
When local laws are outdated, then it is time to have a discussion in the political arena about those laws.

Uber isn't doing anything like civil disobedience here, they're just making a new quick buck violating employment laws.

Aaand, in cases like this, it's always useful to ask: the laws we're breaking, who are they intended to benefit or protect? People without a lot of economic or political power to begin with? Yeah, maybe we should leave those laws alone--by definition, the people we're hurting are the ones least able to do anything about it anyway.
Depends where you are. London is deeply racially divided. There are effectively black-only schools and white-only schools. There are also schools almost completely dominated by various other ethnic groups too. The divide includes both the teachers and the students.
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Reddit is making a lot of policy changes to bring in more users.
You can still use IPFS for direct messaging though, see http://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmTkzDwWqPbnAh5YiV5VwcTLnGdwSNsN...

The difference being you're addressing to IPFS node IDs, rather than IP addresses. The advantage here is that your IP address could change (moving datacenters etc.), but your node ID never needs to change. Technically you could just use IPFS for routing to between clients and your standard PHP server, which would still be an improvement over the current approach and would guarantee a DNS whoopsie couldn't redirect your site to China, but you'll get better results (less bandwidth required, guaranteed uptime) by decentralizing as much as you can.
Also mitigates road congestion
You'll probably find that it's the same manufacturer, same parts, just a different retail brand and a slightly different case/chassis design.

I just had my hob replaced, turns out the new hob, branded as Neff is exactly the same hob branded by about 10 other electric hob makers you see in your local white goods outlet. All they did was change the knobs.

It's the same with bog standard fridges/freezers. I used to service computer equipment for a company that manufactured floor standing fridges/freezer combos. I was told by staff there that they manufactured them for nearly every conceivable well known brand in the UK - Hotpoint, Electrolux, Indesit. All that really changed between brand were the plastic moulded insides that held the shelves, door handles, and possibly the door facings. The actual refrigeration/control electronics meat and potatoes, chassis, power supply were pretty much the same across all the brands.
Harvard tries to recruit these students, but obviously isn't doing a good enough job of it. As a Harvard alum, this is somewhere that I'd particularly like to see them improve in terms of undergraduate education. When a majority of students are on financial aid, I don't think it's fair to say that "few will take it". Also, Harvard's graduation rates are so high that even if failing and dropping out are much more common among particular demographic groups, the graduation rate is still extremely high across the board (some would claim that it's too high and indicative of the extent of grade inflation.) There's a general philosophy at Harvard that while it may be hard to get in as an undergraduate they'll do everything they can to make sure you graduate.

>Amherst has gone a long way toward solving these problems

They have, but I don't think they have a massive lead over Harvard. If I recall correctly, both have similar aid profiles, are giving aid to a similar percentage of their students, have a similar percentage from low-income families, and have a similar percentage of students of color. I believe the graduation rates are also similar. Amherst has been a real leader in this area, so I'm sure there are areas where they're leading Harvard, and please let me know if my memory (or bias) is deceiving me or my information is out of date.
There won't be a direct replacement, rather some other network will grow while one of them gets 'legacy' status (and will be eventually shut down)

FB (the company) is hedging their bets by acquiring Instagram and Whatsapp and not relying only on Facebook (the platform)
Not a list as such, but the TechCrunch deadpool[1] maybe?

[1] http://techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/
Ah, but think about all the workplace poopers out there. We don't have the back of a shampoo bottle to read.
Supposedly McAfee antivirus software turned awful after being taken over by Intel. I don't have a source on that, but I've seen this sentiment in a few places.

As for some murder scandal, I think it makes sense to check out his side of story:
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3hr9f0/i_am_john_mc...
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3hr9f0/i_am_john_mc...

The entire AMA is quite interesting, though he seems a bit paranoid indeed (on the other hand - if there's some truth in Belize government opressing him, I'm not surprised).
> People don't fight upzoning because it reduces the value of their real estate

You didn't read what I said carefully enough. People fight _nearby_ upzoning because it reduces the value of their real estate. Upzoning of their actual land increases its value, of course.

Agreed on people fighting upzoning of their own land because it would change the surroundings in a way they find undesirable.

By "people trying to enter the market", I mean the housing market, not the real estate purchase market. That is, people trying to find a place to live. It's quite rare for people first moving out of their parents' house to do so by buying a house themselves; they typically rent. The result is that there are tons of places in the US (including San Francisco) where people have to move far away from their relatives when they move out on their own because there is nowhere nearby that is a viable place to live.

As for that last.... that's true if you exclude the interests of the children of the community (which are nearly always excluded; once the kids finish college they're on their own and typically shut out of the community). It's also true if you ignore the fact that some of these communities (and the Bay Area is particularly bad about it) try to create lots of employment opportunities but without the corresponding housing. This leads to hellish commutes for everyone, including the members of the community in question, lots of complaining, and poorer quality of life than you would have otherwise.

There are some unpleasant tradeoffs here, for sure. The problem is that some people refuse to acknowledge that the tradeoffs even exist and to discuss what the right tradeoff is. They insist that nothing must ever change, period, and it never occurs to them that this means that their commute will suck more and more and their kids will not be able to live near them.

Note that I say this as someone who lives in a suburb. I like it here. I would not be terribly happy with upzoning myself. And yet I'm watching a lot of the resulting problems play out (including people who grew up in the town being completely priced out of it). It's not pretty, and upzoning sure would help some of those problems.
> scientists are much more likely to enjoy the lisp nature of R

That confused me a great deal. Julia seems more lispy than R. From the comment section it seems that you have perhaps implicitly decided apriori that R is better. So you would rationalize out of evidence and examples of situations to the contrary.
Working link: https://usesthis.com/interviews/john.mcafee/
I am not an US citizen, but I have more faith in him as a president than any other of the candidates, after all you should trust him he is, sort of, an engineer
I guess most kids don't like to be on a social network that their parents also use. Quite an interesting problem for facebook to solve.
His website is down... not a good look for the Cyber Party candidate.

https://mcafee2016.com/

Edit: this was the link from the article. My bad, no https.
For a company to replace Facebook (or even scale to a point where they're a legitimate competitor) they would have to turn down offers from Facebook/MSFT/Apple/etc to buy them. If Facebook buys then they just stop being a competitor and become part of Facebook. If anyone else buys then they're unlikely to want to go up against Facebook consider Facebook's marketing power. That alone makes it highly unlikely.

There is one the notable exception though - a startup that got enough traction to worry Facebook and then sold to Google might actually come out on top. Google actively wants to compete with Facebook. The problem for such a startup would be Google's track record in social, so they'd need to resist Google's desire to assimilate them too much. That would (probably) be quite hard.
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Fixed link: https://usesthis.com/interviews/john.mcafee/

Is this for real? It sounds like a parody.

"My tools for national security consulting are primarily a semi-auto .22 rifle with a silencer."

"I also do my most productive security designs while having extended sex."

"My favorite real-time software is the XM153 remote control software that comes standard with the XM153 50 caliber machine gun."
Facebook is still used heavily by younger people, especially in their 20's and late teens. I see Twitter falling a lot harder in popularity than Facebook. At the end of the day, "everyone" has a facebook. Most of my friends don't have a twitter and only use it when linked to it from Reddit or some other site.

Twitter does seem to be gaining in the international recognition, probably still residual effect stemming from the media attention gained by the Arab Spring and other social news events that unfolded on Twitter.
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A few questions about IPNS:

- Is it possible to, say, log into my bank account, see my current balance, and set up bill pay?

- Can I order a pizza over IPNS?

- Can I do realtime chat?

Also, this article says we could use Namecoin and not rely on ICANN for DNS, however, you still need ICANN to distribute ip address to get connected to the internet in the first place. Or am I missing something?
Plebs can't handle decentralization.
The site isn't https. http://mcafee16.com/
That is true for the data lookup part where DHTs are replacing DNS in a way put still the peers need to discover each other's ip in some way.

I don't know what would be the term for it since it is not completely centralised, as in the nodes collectively form the system without any central coordination, but a new node joining in still needs some information to connect to the network from some source which could be denied-of-service by say a government, so not completely decentralised either.
I agree with you that it'd be nice, but I don't think there are any plans for it.

I wrote https://github.com/dumbmatter/fakeIndexedDB which does run in Node (albeit really slowly and only in memory). It wouldn't be that much work to make it run on a real DB backend (LevelDB like Chrome, SQLite like Firefox, etc), at which point it would be everything you want. PRs are welcome :)
Yes, I like the concept but as I mentioned before can't see ordinary people using it.
History repeats itself, but not during consecutive events and not always.

I think natural way social networking would go forward is that there will be a lack of interest in general purpose social networking. These will be eventually replaced by cliques kind of things that are context specific. Basically, social structure would be integrated in most products, inherently. Now that might (or might not) require a centralized social graph.

But saying that RSS/Atom would replace proprietary general purpose networking gives an impression that there would still be interest in a Newsfeed going forward. It also assumes that we are at pinnacle of social networking evolution and all that needs to happen is even distribution of power. I think both statements are false. This is exactly the kind of thinking that drives FOSS products 10 years behind time.

The Web is not a distributed AOL. A distributed AOL would have failed. AOL evolved into Web. There are plenty of examples of distributed protocols being evolved into proprietary one. In fact, look at the usage numbers surging on messaging apps. Compare that to rate of e-mail and SMS.
Do people still use it? Any time I've visited the site, the information is so out of date as to be useless. Feels like AOL is shedding and anchor rather than letting loose a boat.
Is there a list of examples available?
AOL is definitely the best comparison. AOL had a 10 year run of dominance much like Facebook has had.

But we're already in a world where kids today see Facebook as something for their parents. And I know more and more people who (like myself) deleted their Facebook account years ago and don't miss it.

Facebook is headed toward irrelevance. It will probably always hang on like AOL and Yahoo still do. But it won't be the center of the online universe like it has been for so long. We're already on the down side of that hill.
I've looked at symbols before but missed the part about protocols. Thanks!
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Looks interesting. Is the code available somewhere? It certainly sucks it's not possible to map any 16K bank to any 16K segment (shouldn't be too difficult) but I guess nobody was thinking about multitasking and memory protection when those computers were designed.
Even DHTs require a server to bootstrap the network, due to a node's unicast nature on the internet.
Everything else on the site is real, so I can't imagine they'd have a single parody article mixed in.
I think Facebook is heading for the same kind of "irrelevance" as Microsoft or IBM.

Which is to say that they are irrelevant to a lot of people, particularly "early adopters", but they'll be around and profitable for a long time.
Are you kidding? So what if he's an engineer? The guy's a lunatic and this is nothing more than some weird publicity stunt. It's a cry for attention, nothing more. This whole race has become a circus.
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As for your first point, you should really first learn more about how IPFS handles content addressing. If you look at section 3.5 the paper[1], you see that a IPFS object consists of a free-form data field, and an arbitrary amount of links to other IPFS objects. This is a very flexible format that allows for caching.

You talk about a page with comments. You could (this is an example) create three 'models': a Page, a PageBody and a Comment (which 'inherit' from IPFSObject). A Page would contain links to one PageBody and multiple Comment objects. Every time a comment is posted, a link is added to the Page object (so its hash changes), but the PageBody (where the majority of the page size presumably is) doesn't have to change. All peers can keep the same PageBody cached, while the latest Page contains all the desired comments. This caching mechanism will also work for unchanged comments.

Every time the Page changes, its hash would be published under some IPNS name, so peers will always retrieve the latest version.

[1] https://github.com/ipfs/papers/raw/master/ipfs-cap2pfs/ipfs-...
Although, there is no denying that this is a valuable resource but I have started to get turned off by a list of n books to learn something - they can be valuable but it is undeniable that they can also be overwhelming and perplex someone about how to get started. I believe technical books should be used to complement your knowledge of the field not to get started in it. For eg, "Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja" will be very valuable because I already have experience in JS and it will help me understand some of the caveats that I might have overlooked. The best way has always been to get start implement something regarding the subject and try to dive into everything you uncover.

A blog post submitted here mentioned the same sentiment [1] -

> I can’t fully explain how immensely unmotivating it is to be given a huge list of resources without any context. It’s akin to a teacher handing you a stack of textbooks and saying “read all of these”. I struggled with this approach when I was in school. If I had started learning data science this way, I never would have kept going.

[1]: https://www.dataquest.io/blog/how-to-actually-learn-data-sci...
> And btw, good luck treating any kind of Big Data with JMP.

Oh I'm definitely not intending to. (To the commenter below, it really doesn't matter how you define Big Data for that statement.) That much I had already figured out, which was why I was evaluating R with an eye towards pitching my boss on it.

The test case I'm referring to here was a pretty simple neural net to my mind -- roughly 350,000 rows of data, six predictor variables, one hidden layer with 30 nodes. I can verify that the neural net code ran because if I truncated the data set down to 1,000 rows I got a result back. But the full dataset just chugged for hours and hours without stop.
After so many requests we created the Github repo is here:
https://github.com/timcreative/light-bootstrap-dashboard

We are still working on the SASS version to be in stable mode and push it.
Of course its not. After all, why would it be?
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Time for a Ross Ulbricht movie maybe?
That national governments spy on their citizens and each other is immaterial. If cloud providers cannot adhere to the EU data protection directive, EU organisations will be legally bound to find services that can.
John McAfee is certifiably nuts..he would make me more afraid for this country than Trump!
Are they seriously still running a Cold Fusion website?

Note: it'd be nice if the site could survive being on HN's cover. My past experience with CF makes me thing it's a poor choice if you want that.
Terrible victim blaming from the poetry community here.
According to Wikipedia Apple hired Chris Lattner, one of the original authors of LLVM, in 2005. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM)

So they don't own it, but they do employ some of the most knowledgeable developers of the project. They almost certainly have control over the direction it takes, and could easily develop features behind closed doors.
> If you think about it, the only thing that RSS/Atom was ever missing from becoming what Facebook/Twitter are today is a central aggregation point in the cloud. A smart startup [...] could potentially spell the death of proprietary timelines.

I've got the feeling you underestimate how important this central aggregation point actually is. Imho I'd even say it's the paramount reason Facebook/Twitter are still the top dogs, people are just attracted to the (unique) aggregator which already has the most people.
I can get behind the message that Scrum has been problematic because it focuses too much on selling PMs on practices to the exclusion of developer practices.

XP was much more balanced in this regard. I think Scrum loses a lot in both being so free-form to start and in being so often something that PMs or management bring to the table. XP in my experience always seemed to be more of a developer lead movement and ultimately a development process without developer buy in becomes a command and control process that kills creativity and stifles feedback.
I'm glad he can have fun with life.
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Hi, could you tell me some best practices or complete well designed app (example/code) that follow the Material design pattern? Have you other resources to suggest me?
I use the official resources provided by google:
- development guide : https://developer.android.com/training/material/index.html
- design guide : https://www.google.com/design/spec/
-best cases : https://design.google.com/articles/material-design-awards/
Three main stresses that human body learn to deal with during the course of evolution trigger development of brain (and nervous system in general).

These stresses are endurance activity (walk long hours), strength activity (fight or flight response) and famine.

The agent responsible for development of nervous system in these cases is brain-derived neurotrophic factor. It is responsible for creation of new neurons and branching of old ones and directly related to intellectual performance.

So your link to high level machine intelligence is wrong, I believe. I also think I explained above why do you feel smarter after a day of physical activity.
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Does this mean that browser-only users will not be able to 'host' content?
Isn't there already more than enough media to consume for several lifetimes?

Most of us haven't even read the world's top 100 books or watched the top 100 movies. If production were to completely cease, how long would we have until we run out of high quality media?