skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may know this, but for anyone else who doesn't this is called Brookes Law "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%E2%80%99_law].
I fell foul of this recently, I bowed to the pressure and hired more resource even though I knew it wouldn't make the difference expected. It was more of a political statement; "I'm listening to what you're saying and see? I'm doing what I can to make the project go faster." They were essentially paying to feel that things were being done to meet the deadline.
it should also support an `-rf /` flag to indicate that you'd like to `Read From the root expression`
While I agree that common carrier obligations helped the internet significantly, your picture of history is still mostly wrong, and the particle of truth in it is drastically oversimplified. The internet didn't evolve over phone lines. Phone-line providers weren't legally banned from blocking traffic, and in fact did legally block data traffic over phone lines for decades. Common carrier obligations didn't exist in most of the countries where we have a free internet, and have never been relevant to most of the participants in the internet: not to AlohaNet, not to ARPANet, not to Mindvox, not to Netcom, not to UUNET, not to AOL, not to Level3, not to Global Crossing, certainly not to JANET, not to NSFNet, and not to The Little Garden.

Rather, the internet was created by an academic-military coalition that had sufficient political power to overcome the phone companies' and regulators' opposition to data networking.

It's plain that you weren't on com-priv then, you aren't on NANOG or equivalent now, and you haven't read the history.
Check out anything by Zig Ziglar -> Napoleon Hill -> Andrew Carnegie and Tony Robbins.

People miss that sales is not just technique or what you say but state of mind, belief and confidence.

Stay away from sales only focus books.

If you really want to learn something check "Mastery" by Robert Greene.
Just got 'Database Error'while trying to connect to this page.
Error establishing a database connection.
So, the number of connections to this page is limited? or what could be the issues throwing this kind of error?
I own a FTV, and I love it. You can side-load anything you want, as long as you can find the .apk file.
The trouble with this principle is that there is some damage you simply can't put right retrospectively, and in this case we really are talking about the government agencies whose remit is to try to prevent those things from happening in the first place. They do have a legitimate need to take preemptive actions in some cases, because otherwise people will quite literally die. The useful questions are about how we can help them to do their job and keep people safe from whatever real dangers are out there, but without doing more harm than good.

In the case of encrypted communications, I'm not sure that will ever be possible, because the dangers of preventing everyone from communicating privately may far outweigh the danger from otherwise unanticipated acts of terror. The politicians want a middle ground solution where only good people have access to the information, but the technologists understand that no such ideal solution can exist here.
You don't have to posit systematic exclusion. You can observe it directly.
Downloading now. You have at least persuaded me to have another go at it :)
I really like the new Apple remote but I would have liked 4K. Now I am undecided but perhaps with a preference towards Fire.
1Blocker – the most advanced iOS 9 content blocker
Firefox and Safari has a build in reader-view. In either browser they show up in the URL bar, on safar it's a few horizontal lines, in Firefox it's a little open book.

It'll strip all menus, ads and other cruft leaving you just the text, headlines and pictures nicely formatted.
Are there any good Neural Network frameworks written in Ruby?
The ones I have used (ruby-fann and AI4r) dramatically slow down when you use them on large amount of data.
Alternate Reality Games Could Still Take Over the World (And Your Life)
Although this is not for beginners of machine learning (learn that first), this is a book on deep learning that is currently in pre-publication and its being written by some big names in the field.

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/dlbook/
Exactly, it seemed like Apple has really held back on the Apple Tv. I think their original plan hasn't panned out yet with the "replace your cable" deals, but they also had to release the hardware now.

Maybe future software upgrades will bring something more enticing?

I was sort of put off by the no 4k support. I will most likely have a 4k tv within the year and much more content will be in 4k.

Note: the version without the gaming controller is $99.
Actually, memory chips (NAND flash, DRAM) are usually specified in terms of bits, usually using a lowercase 'b' to denote 'bit'.

Online sellers have used this to their advantage, selling e.g. "1Gb" flash drives, with real 1 gigabit flash chips, which turn out to be ~128 megabytes.
YES! We need SOMETHING. It drives me crazy that everyone uses AdBlock and then has no recognition that this will break the Internet :(
Well it's been two months and I haven't heard any complaining other than one ActiveX based drum scanning thing doesn't work. Turns out the scanner's direct descendant has a web API so we're integrating that.

To be fair they are financial point of sale machines so it's all process driven and they're not general purpose computers.
NVidia has a free online course going on covering these libraries: https://developer.nvidia.com/deep-learning-courses
Show HN: Topophi.com – find forests, camps, photos of national forests and parks
This is my thinking as well. Everytime I hear the "make all drugs legal now" people make their various fantastic arguments it reminds me of the kids I grew up with, who mostly did about the same amount of drugs as each other. Half of them recovered and the other half more or less became burn-outs. I don't think we remotely understand how LSD use affects us, especially non-neurotypicals and those with mental illness or sub-clininical issues. The latter group developed this hard to quantify attitude, like this dead look in their eyes that never really went away and is matched by just a real lack of creative thinking and motivation - both of which they had before drug use. I think drugs are much more dangerous than we think, even pot, for at least certain demographics; especially young people who are still developing. Yeah, 30+ year old guys don't have much to worry about, but there is rational and non-biased research showing this and I fully believe my friends have been victim of liberal drug attitudes. I believe Duke university found a 70% IQ drop for regular pot smokers compared to their peers by age 35 and other studies have found lowered executive function, increased risk of mental illness, and a messed up reward processing system.

I'm certainly not advocating for the status quo, but if things like pot, shrooms, or MDMA or even LSD become legal, there needs to be strict age and dosage limitations. The idea that they're a "fix all" is dangerous and disingenuous to me. Maybe in a clinical and controlled setting there could be realistic positive outcomes, but certainly not in a recreational one.

Meditation is safer but takes more effort than eating blotter paper. As a long time meditator, its raised my quality of life significantly. Sadly, when I try to sell this onto some of the people mentioned above I get nods of approval and then a "Let me get high first before I try it," comment which pretty much invalidates whatever benefits you can get. To them, drugs only make things better, in fact, life is kinda terrible sober. Not to mention, I've never had a 'bad trip' or paranoia or anything negative with meditation. Its incredible that we have this simple tool available to us at all times, but dismiss it because its weird or because people think they can take a shortcut to retraining their minds with drugs. Hint: you can't. Everything worthwhile takes some level of labor. Instant fixes don't really exist.

Sometimes I wonder if baby boomer drug liberalism has cost us a few Einsteins and Newtons. Or what wonderful things John Lilly or Tim Leary, both men who I consider near-genius level, would have come up with if they didn't go down the burn-out path. Its a scary thought. The entire boomer drug experiment didn't pan out, did it? By the time Leary and Lilly were in their prime years, they became obsessive weirdos going on about trans-dimensional aliens and such and morphing into empty-suited but profitable celebrity caricatures. What a waste of two fine minds.
This "suitcase" is about 17cm wide. You can measure it from your picture using the conveniently-located power plug, whose prongs will be 12.7mm apart. If this kid wanted to make something that looked like a suitcase, surely he would use something big enough to actually hold at least one suit?
It's not a sign of the dysfunction of a system. It's the system functioning as designed.

In the history of the US, there have been only 27 amendments. Two of them cancel each other out, and 10 were introduced at the beginning, so that's 15 amendments over 226 years. We're 23 years away from the last amendment, only 8 years above the average. It's not "more impossible" now to pass an amendment than it was over the past century. Maybe more difficult, but not near impossible.

It's not even the longest time between amendments in the nation's history. After the Bill of Rights, amendments 11 and 12 were mainly to resolve procedural issues. It then took over 60 years for the next amendments to be passed, all in response to the Civil War, granting the freed slaves freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote.

After that, the amendments were mostly to resolve procedural disputes again, such as presidential term limits, how we elect senators, start of terms, and Congressional salaries. The major amendments after the Civil War all had to do with voting rights: for women, for those aged 18, and for those who couldn't afford a poll tax.

The one time we tried to use the Constitution for social change, it failed miserably. Prohibition resulted in a sharp increase in crime, didn't stop people from consuming alcohol anyway, and ultimately resulted in amendment 21 being ratified to repeal amendment 18 and end prohibition.

None of this points to dysfunction in the system to me.

People don't often forget that the Constitution contains methods for amendment. See: the Marriage Amendment that was floated around in the 90s, and people today saying we'll need a new amendment to limit the power of the super-PACs.

You linked to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. I'm sure if a future Congress sees this as a procedural issue pressing enough to bring up as an amendment, they will. Besides that, there is not much pressing at the moment that requires a Constitutional amendment. That an amendment has not been added in 23 years and one is unlikely to be added is not a sign of dysfunction of the system. It is simply business as usual, no new amendments needed at this time.
How Hacking and Espionage Fuel China's Growth
4K TV without the 4K TV
Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest
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Ask HN: What are your favorite podcasts?
I have recently got into the world of podcasting, it turns out to be really cool. Can you recommend me some interesting stuff to listen to?

I love tech, writing and comedy, but I'm looking for anything awesome, intelligent, and interesting.
Novel Photocatalytic Pervious Composites for Removing Toxins from Water
You are right, the approach is probably too simplistic. But he also gave some pointers to websites that can help make a more informed choice about how to apply altruism in one's life. Also, thinking about it is of course the first step, which is what this talk helps to promote.
I've only heard of people talk about binary orders of magnitude; hexadecimal no
Student copies start at $99 [0]. Copies for home use start at $145[1]. This is not outrageously expensive. Students can spend more on a single textbook that'll be used for only one semester. For home users, this is the price of 7-10 dinners out.

And as others have pointed out, there's also Gnu Octave, which is reasonably (or used to be) compatible, and free. And where it's not source-compatible, it still largely retains the same semantics and underlying models so knowledge of Matlab can be easily transferred.

[0] http://www.mathworks.com/pricing-licensing/index.html?intend...

[1] http://www.mathworks.com/pricing-licensing/index.html?intend...
How GOG.com Saves and Restores Classic Videogames
What kind of bandwidth do you need to stream 4k?
The power plug is an even better indicator, since it's pretty much flat. Given the prongs are 12.7mm apart, that makes the whole case about 17cm wide. You could literally fit it in your pocket.
I think you are talking about Andrew Ng's course.

I completed it and can't recommend it more highly. It is a really excellent, dense course and Ng is a very good teacher.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
Serious question: What does this have that the new Apple TV doesn't? Other than coming with a games controller by default, rather than having to buy one separately.

Also, assuming that amazon will make an app for the new Apple TV (which they seem to have done for all iOS so far) the new apple tv will play EVERYTHING - Plex, Amazon, Netflix etc, and iTunes content.

I know it's apples fault for not making iTunes-playing apps for other devices, but that doesn't change the fact that with AppleTV I only need one device, versus every other solution. It's just plain more convenient. Of course, this only applies if you are in the apple ecosystem to begin with, which is maybe not who these are aimed at...
I'm not sure if I can help you but just wanted to say thanks for thinking about donating your time and skills for the community. Maybe my friend Sallar (@sallar in twitter) can help you with finding a good project.
Cheers!
You've done an incredible job with this game. I sat down for a minute to just take a look at it, and it nearly made me late for work an hour later.
All Economic Hell Is About to Break Loose
What happens to your body during alcohol withdrawal
1. The best book I've read on sales is:

"How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling"(1952) by Frank Bettger

2. Everything at Heavybit is excellent,

their sales videos are very nice:

http://www.heavybit.com/library/developer-sales

And an must see video for me was:

http://www.heavybit.com/library/video/2015-05-12-jason-lemki...
I like the spirit of this, in that I personally enjoy working some in other areas. Plus, I think dividing out work like "analyst" and "architect" can be super dangerous: it shifts individual focus from project success to looking like an awesome producer of architecture documents or analysis documents.

On the other hand, I think the model you suggest would also be problematic because on a project of any size you need to glue back together a lot of very thin slices. It adds the problem that no one person is going to be amazing at all those things, so a fair bit of important work will get done poorly.

I think the best model is instead cross-functional, closely collaborating teams where the decision about who does what is extremely fluid. That gets the benefit of lots of people doing (and understanding) different sorts of work. But it lets key work be done by people with strong expertise.

Real-world examples of this include IDEO's pursuit of "T-shaped" people:

http://chiefexecutive.net/ideo-ceo-tim-brown-t-shaped-stars-...

And Atomic Object's use of "poly-skilled, co-located teams of generalists":

http://spin.atomicobject.com/2011/09/16/poly-skilled-teams-d...
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"Let's get real or let's not play" by Mahan Khalsa and Randy Illig
When the first Amazon Fire TV was launched one of the big features was the voice search. It was originally stated that Netflix voice search would be coming by the end of 2014:

“We expect to support [Fire TV] voice search later this year.”
-Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO

That time came and went and the Fire TV never had its voice search expanded to include Netflix. I wonder if this was due to Amazon and Netflix not being able to come to terms over this feature? It seems that the new Apple TV allows you to voice search Netflix. I'd really like to be able to voice search Amazon and Netflix's catalog at the same time.
"There is nothing wrong with the US that cannot be fixed with what is right with the US."

I really love that quote. (Bill Clinton, right?)
I'm happy to see this. We wanted a better way to manage payroll and some other HR stuff. We found ZenPayroll (now Gusto) originally through Zenefits. After weeks of back-and-forths, mistakes, and misinformation from Zenefits, we decided to sign up directly with ZenPayroll, and they have been wonderful. As we grow, I'm much happier knowing we can start to handle more with Gusto.
> This argument is based on the premise, however, that display ads are the only (or the main) way of monetizing the web while keeping the content free

Reality is that paying for content is no guarantee ads will go away. I already said this somewhere else: ad brokers will always pay for ads to be shown. Content providers will always look for ways to increase revenues. Paywalls do not change this reality.

Recent example of the above: "I paid $60 bucks to have advertisements in a game."[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/3krj4c/i_paid_60_bu...
Yes, that's certainly a good point.

What if someone really wants to go into finance, likes its money and prestige and now he might be even able, thanks to effective altruism, to appease his morally doubts.
> What does this have that the new Apple TV doesn't?

4k
I didn't follow The Sopranos, but the people I know who loved it, did so exactly because of that contrast, especially by the protagonist. The way he could have some great qualities, and suddenly so something so horrifying; it was a jump from feeling empathy to absolute disgust in a few moments.

None of my friends "admired" Tony Soprano, they found it fascinating, in the same way that you might find a venomous spider.
Post World War II architecture is a blight. For whatever reason, engineers who believe art is a scientifically unprovable fiction chose to play artist en masse with civilization's buildings. Likewise, people who hate the precedent of architecture (and the precedent of nearly everything else) chose en masse to play architect for future generations. The results litter the present landscape like jagged, half-knocked-out teeth. These buildings cannot return to the earth quick enough.
Maybe it's not his life's ambition to own and operate a truck that drives around to cater to screeching drunk people?
So Android TV...
A couple ones I've read and found quite useful:

Make your contacts count

http://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Contacts-Count-Networking/dp...

The science of influence

http://www.amazon.com/Science-Influence-Anyone-Minutes-Less-...
Subversion has blame, praise, and annotate depending on your mood. [1] Though I think blame was first.

[1] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.6/svn.ref.svn.c.blame.html
This supporting of curiosity, invention, creativity and science contrasts sharply with the recent sad story of the Texan teen Ahmed Mohamed. We need to embrace such creativity early and embrace it and nurture it within our society.
In my laptop

$ node -v
v0.12.7

What happened to Node?
>You're describing a world where corporations represent you

Not at all. I'm describing a world of partially shared mutual interest.

>Corporations want to keep you happy in the same way that dairy farmers want to keep cows happy

No. I have a voluntary business relationship with some corporations. Cows do not have a voluntary business relationship with farmers. Corporations cannot milk me against my will or slaughter me when I stop giving milk. All they can do is try to trade with me.

My relationship with the people of the country I am allowed to vote in is not voluntary. It's a result of the birth lottery. I don't even share many intersts with them as I don't live there and it's not a global superpower.

That said, it's not my intention to deny one fundamental fact: The extent of my influence on corporations as a consumer and as a shareholder depends exclusively on my wealth. My influence on elected politicians is much more complex and there is at least some chance of my being human to count for something regardless of wealth.

Fundamental rights to privacy cannot be based on wealth, but that doesn't mean we should ignore our shared interests with corporations where they exist.
In my laptop

$ node -v
v0.12.7

What in the world happened to Node?
> If you're not willing to spend $200 to learn something you're probably not that interested.

This is a bit presumptuous. I know people for which 200$ is a month's income. If you only consider their disposable income, 200$ would probably take 6 months.
meh this tripe again.
The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes is fantastic.
I've been looking for a way to assemble ARM instruction by instruction in python; unfortunately this only seems to do x86.
If only they had included HDMI2 or Displayport...
At the end of the day, I think that making government more accountable to its people is more directly established by migrating more power to the states, and away from the federal government.

I have a much greater likelihood of engaging my state and local politicians than I do my federal representatives, and while New Hampshire residents have more direct representation than, say, California residents, it's still dramatically improved over our representation by federal reps.

This of course comes with its own set of pitfalls, for which the federal government has been placed as arbiter, and ceding / being granted power with which to remedy, but in my opinion, term limits seem to be more of a band-aid for a hemorrhaging wound than a a root cause fix.
Logging with docker – Part 1
Whoa, I wrote my thesis on this. Interesting to see their take on it.

The assertion that the framers didn't understand the flaws inherent in a mixed constitutional system is false; Madison wrote about it, actually. He also predicted the failure of the Constitution, but conceded that it was the best they could do and possibly the best that could have been done at the time - without a negative (essentially judicial review, but under the purview of the senate as well as the judiciary) he essentially foresaw a fracturing. Of course, we got Judicial review a few years later, but that's not in the Constitution and is, as a result, a more fragile power.
I wish you could see how a potential employee acted in a Slack room and in pull requests for a week or two before hiring them. (It's doable, but fairly rare in the industry right now.)

As we move more and more towards working in a distributed fashion, using tools that don't require us to even meet someone in person for months at a time, it's a little strange that there's so much emphasis placed on in-person interviews (which is inherently a fairly stressful process). How someone communicates in person is fine, but that's sometimes only part of the picture.

On top of that, some people are much more comfortable communicating over the internet, and weighing in-person interviews so heavily ends up discounting their real talents. Ideally you find people have skills with both asynchronous and synchronous communication... but you need to be keeping an eye out for both qualities for that.
That's a very interesting result (assuming it's correct).

It certainly agrees with intuition based on analogy to boolean circuits where, for example, the parity function requires exponential circuit size for shallow circuits but only linear size for deep circuits, but I haven't heard of a proof of this for NN's before.
The strange history of VISA and Bitcoin