skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily.

http://popupcity.net/mapping-new-york-citys-runnability/

http://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-most-popular-running-routes-vi...

http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#6/-120.90000/38.36000/blue/r...
Please reply to my comment based on its scientific merit without resorting to an ad hominem attack.
Broadcast TV as a service is what I want so badly. Beats hooking up an antenna dongle to your laptop or PC. At any rate since OTA reception is poor where I live I just don't watch TV if the signal is bad. Really hoping Playstation Vue becomes available where I live.
Most commodities markets get really thin a few years out the curve as well, so if you're a large producer wanting to hedge your production the next few years it may still be pretty tough without lots of slippage.
Cable to expensive? It's a 10 dollar addon(digital starter) if you have internet with comcast. It used to be cheaper to have internet and limited basic than just internet alone.
And with just a roll of duct tape you can silently break a window.
Girls are discouraged from studying STEM from an early age, as the infographic mentions. Some tech companies do try to hire women, but many don't care. And sexual harassment is not the only problem facing women in the workplace.
Interesting, I have a similar setup, but with the old standard PCI-based tuner that just pulls the data and dumps it. I hadn't seen a tuner option that would transcode it on the fly. Is there any noticeable lag when watching live? Does the WMC still record it in the standard wtv format, just with a different video codec?

What's a rough size estimate for a 1-hr show? Can you adjust the amount of compression or otherwise tweak the h.264 encoding parameters?
That definition is meaningless without a distance metric (for "different") or a scoring function (for "better, greater"). And some reference point for "usual" - are we comparing this snowflake to all the other snowflakes? To a grain of sand?[1] To every other subset of atoms in the universe?

In the context of this article, I'm pretty sure "special" is intended to mean things like "valuable [to humans]" and "worth preserving [to humans]", and to distinguish life from mundane things like snowflakes and scribbles. It seems really weird to me, to ask "is life special just because it's rare?" in a context where the word "special" applies to snowflakes.

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sand_under_electron_...
Same most places I've been, makes it a total nonstarter.
Without looking at sources, I assumed that the percentages were accurate..and there are quite a few of those.
I dont think they come close to making the point that the author is making, but they seemed factual.
When it comes to fantasy sports(and in this case, daily fantasy sports), it sounds like you're missing something.

Using football as an example, players(gamblers) select professional players from across all the teams playing in an upcoming set of games. As those games are played, the players they chose score points for a variety of different actions in the game. The person with the team with the most points at the end of the series is 1st place, though the prizes are divided in various ways depending on the game.

On sites like Fanduel and Draftkings, the scoring system is viewable by anyone(look for rules & scoring in their footers) and as a result, totally auditable. You can look up detailed records of every single action by every single player in a game and match it with the fantasy points scores.
Man, this guy needs to cite his sources...

It is interesting to read a thorough refutation of the legitimacy of hydrogen fuel cells, specifically because I thought this was a known quantity... It feels like reading about how wood-burning stoves just aren't going to work out for central heating.
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Civic Tech Startup OpenGov Raises $25M, Adds Marc Andreessen to Board
Bitcoin's price has been going down ever since it was $1. Similary, there's yet to be any competitor that's worth a damn - so it seems here to stay around for at least a bit longer.
Do you still use Google? Not only do they have ties to the NSA:

http://www.salon.com/2014/11/16/googles_secret_nsa_alliance_...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/04...

Hillary hires Google executive as CTO

..and of course the data mining startup that Eric Schmidt is using in an attempt to get Clinton elected as president (the same one that worked for Obama):

http://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-working...

Many companies in Silicon Valley are tied to bad politicians and politics. At this point, it's almost necessary to survive.

My point is that if you are using this as a basis for services that you will or will not use, you will be left with a computer running GEOS...and no access to the outside world.

I just don't put any data on any cloud provider that I don't want the government to see. Bittorrent Sync works pretty well as a personal cloud provider.
Irony is in the eye of the beholder since it hinges on the reader's expectations.
Yes, it really is important. I don't mean that in the sense that it's dehumanizing to replace a human being with a number and then round up or down, but in the sense of determining things like: are civilian casualties caused by Allied Forces' aerial strikes rising or falling over the years?

I'll argue that this IS spending effort on the living. UN report is a credible figure, which CENTCOM can't ignore, and that hopefully will result in strategy or tactics change that result in fewer civilian casualties.

Take a look at this infographic, and you'll hopefully spot 2011 in it at once on the top/bottom graphs: http://projects.voanews.com/aircraft-weapons-released-in-afg...

It's 2010 that appears like it has greater number of aerial strikes, but that's not the case. Yes, it has some big spikes, but it's actually 2011 that cumulatively has more strikes. Below is the corresponding number of civilian victims of aerial strikes as determined by the UN. The bottom numbers, the casualty numbers, are going down after 2011. Note that the last "15" number came from a preliminary UN report and will be updated soon.

Back to the person-hours you mentioned. Was it worth it to keep counting 2011 statistics, four-five years later? I think yes, because otherwise it's really easy for CENTCOM or anyone else to either miss the correct numbers, or cherry-pick them. If anyone had only cited the 2011 UNAMA report (which was initially reported as 305), it would imply that number of casualties remained the same instead of rising sharply like it did.
Good grief, I remember this cruft.

class Nineties : public Node {
void accept(Visitor &v) {
cout "Visitor " << v << ", welcome to the year 1995" << endl;
}
}

A better idea would be to write all this code processing in the language that is being byte-code interpreted.
That is to say, use an existing implementation of that language to write a compiler which produces byte code. Then write the byte code interpreter for that in C++. Finally, include the compiler's byte code image in the C++ program (as a static array or whatever), so that the program is a complete implementation which can compile code and then run the bytecode.
And now you've got a bunch of other problems, many of them being inflicted on your citizens.
The DHT is good, although I wonder whether the routing is centralized through relying on DNS, or whether it's completely decentralized.

What is the point of the blockchain, though? Is it just to avoid a double spend problem? Proof of work is terrible now for new blockchains because people have rigs that can easily execute a 51%+ attack and destroy the network. It needs proof of stake, which becomes better the more participants there are. But proof of stake has a more centralized character not unlike a website with moderators controed by the initial host.

Isn't there a better way these days to prevent sybil attacks? All you need is to make it very expensive to make more than one account. How do you do that? You take what 99% of people have one of (such as their body, or their house, or their cellphone) and have them prove they own it. But that defeats anonymity, doesn't it?

Isn't there anything that people have only one of, can prove they own it, but doesn't reveal their identity?

Someone should implement this. THAT would be the real way to prevent sybil attacks.
VMWare acquires email startup Boxer
Unison.
https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

It handles file conflicts, which is massively critical for anyone thinking of rolling their own. It also works over ssh, so it's encrypted.
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Be careful with rsync, whose original purpose is mirroring, not backups. Specifically, if you're using it as a backup system of any kind, you want to use the --delete-after option, or else your receiver might delete the file before the sender even finds out the hard disk is corrupt (--delete-before is default, which is dangerous for a backup system).

You may also want to set the --max-delete option, to avoid the scenario where the sender doesn't have the volume mounted, resulting in the receiver deleting everything.

Be also aware that rsync is completely unencrypted, so you need to use it in conjuction with sshfs, ecryptfs, or some other method if you want security.
When scale confounds our perceptions, stories can clarify them
That's why I've said "plant-based vegan diet" and not "vegan diet of french fries topped with sugar and olive oil".

Please post the actual numbers, as "nominal" levels in a society where it is normal to die from cardiovascular disease, for example, are not a good representation of optimal health.
According to the article, Dropbox raised capital at a valuation equal to 25x sales, even though Box is trading for 7x sales.

Whether "irrational" or not, the private-market valuation multiples of "unicorns" like Dropbox are much greater than those of similar public companies like Box.
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a paper is not a black box with inputs and outputs.

would i release a package? no. would i release the source code? why not?

code isn't irrelevant or useless just because it can't build. this is why we can teach code on a whiteboard.
What's not a client feature? It'll be pretty annoying when you've only got a couple of custom clients hosting your version of the 10TB blockchain.
Sharing information under pressure from the government is different from asking for leadership from a war criminal and co-architect of an incredibly shady administration.

In the first case, it's something that companies can fight back against (and some have) as long as their hands aren't tied by unconstitutional, secret pressure.

In the second case, it's the company actively going out to ask for that kind of influence on their organization. And, furthermore, Dropbox's reason to exist is to keep your privacy. It's not like a gaming site or something. Leaking your Dropbox information would almost always compromise your privacy/safety.
I'm going to just assume OSC is accurately portrayed by Person of Interest - they already know, and they'll shoot you if they find out you know too.
While completely ignoring that contractors like Snowden have absolutely no whistleblower protections at all.
There is a reflection group "SG7" in c++ committee dedicated to this. Some propositions have been done. I hope it will be ready for c++17.

Group discussions : https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/forum/?fromgroups#!fo...

One proposition : http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n411...
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Did Zeena die or is she still alive? In all of this article, I kept wondering if she saw anything or anyone and could serve as a witness or if there's a law against kids serving as witnesses in France/Britain. Wouldn't she have seen/heard something that could have been used as a lead?
Another benefit of SpiderOak is that they de-duplicate your data, so you may end up using less space on SpiderOak than you do on your own machine.
So that's where Leova really shines. We saw this shortfall in accuracy when we were using iSpeech for testing on iOS, so we built a machine learning system that generated structured phonetic dictionaries.

This means that Leova provides a layer of error correction over and above specifically iSpeech's transcriptions. And with frequent usage (days, not weeks) you'll see Leova's interpretations of buggy iSpeech transcriptions really blow competing NLP parsers' resilience out of the water
Why would a shuffle of 3 billion distinct cards be less unique than a shuffle of 52 distinct cards?

> If you randomly generated 3 billion alphabet characters, would it be instructions for building a Saturn V rocket? The blueprints for building a single cell?

No. It would be a unique string of worthless jibberish.

Meanwhile, the instructions for a Saturn V rocket have probably been written down in at least two places. So if you have a copy of them, they're less unique than my random string, yet more special.
Is the universe getting bigger or am I getting smaller?
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> 45% of all global wealth is concentrated in just 4.6% of the world's population.

Why do you say that like it's a good thing?
See these comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10394403

If you tell us more about your needs, we could give more tailored recommendations.
How so? Blockchains would probably be the worst possible way to deliver SMS from a resource consumption point of view... And from a security POV it'd just be silly.
I think they would have found traces of the bodies had they not survived. Yes, I know there are extenuating circumstances, but they have eventually found bodies such as Scott Peterson's wife and child many months later. Even a femur found on the shore would lead to an investigation, so I just find it hard to believe that body parts weren't found.
I think representative democracy and then specifically representative democracy with FPTP has been shown not to work, primarily because of the principal-agent problem and also the spoilt vote effect which in turn ensures a two-party system (i.e. Duverger's law).

Direct democracy with smaller electoral districts and a saner voting system could be more efficient, or at least have much higher response times. Of course you're still stuck with the self-fulfilling bottleneck that voters will seldom pick anything outside their cultural zeitgeist, but then it keeps the electoral system well contained and lets people focus more easily on actual activism.
Have you looked into applying a blur filter in CSS and just reducing the bitrate of the video to a very low value?
The DynamoDB-caused AWS outage: lessons learned
git-annex + cheap storage vps
Binding arbitration: An end-run around the 7th amendment to the us constitution by the corporates.
ElixirConf 2015 Keynote by José Valim [video]
I have to force close facebook on android after every use, if I don't want my pocket to heat up and my battery to empty.
I'm, unfortunately, very familiar with the LPU (Least Publishable Unit) after having been to grad school. It's actually a thing, especially among pre-tenure people.
Yes, but what exactly do you mean by "tax money"?
not necessarily, right? Aren't hydrocarbons (gasoline) used as well?
John Malone is a great example of how understanding taxes really well can help create significant wealth: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-11-03/malone-gai...
They are but I prefer the Silvine A6 twinwire pads, quality isn't as good but they work out about a pound each in bulk, paper quality is excellent and pages are easy to tear out.
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For me the most grave offense of our current president was taking out Anwar al-Awlaki in 2011. I understand he was not a good individual, by any means, but he was an American citizen which entitled him to all of the protections afforded under The Constitution.

Programs like these are what undermines any legitimacy our country has left.
Hey HN folks - I am the co-founder and CEO of Ayasdi. If you have questions about the math/CS aspects of this, happy to answer.
You could argue for the right to defend yourself, but since we're making a moral argument here, you should also make sure that your defense inflicts damage to those who are a danger to you, and not to innocent bystanders. Also a defense that makes more enemies is a pretty crappy defense, both from moral and practical point of view.

(Of course we're skipping the part of the more likely real reason for drone strikes - more people pissed off == more terrorists == more need to defend == more money for military-industrial complex. You can play this game safely as long as your enemy isn't very powerful.)
Awesome post.

Just found this one.
Managing your data archive in the AWS Cloud
http://cloudacademy.com/blog/managing-your-data-archive-in-t...
People won't take you seriously because of your handle, but if we take your image for what it is (a political cartoon), I think it brings up some very important (albeit contentious) points.

In no particular order:

- There's an overwhelming preference (across all academic and professional disciplines) for women to prefer working with people and for men to prefer working with things [1]

- Gender theory is a sociological and political theory that's often touted as being scientific. To be sure, it's contributed to science (e.g.: the idea that gender roles are socially-influenced), but the idea that men and women are equivalent outside of socially-constructed differences is (a) unsubstantiated (b) unfalsifiable (we can never fully remove social influence) (c) in contradiction with what cognitive neuroscience tells us about anatomy and physiology shape cognition.

Where gender theory has a role to play is in telling us how to structure our societies despite eventual differences between the sexes, but I really don't care for it's opinion on empirical questions.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19883140
If the prediction works forward, it should be backward predictive too... That's not a sufficient condition, but it is necessary to validate the predictive power, provided assumptions haven't changed in the time period being tested.
There actually is more water in the environment now because of all the hydrogen from mined hydrocarbons is now water.

But it's probably a pretty minimal amount relatively speaking.
Interesting, looks like you're right. I'd guess that's unsustainable if consumption ramps up with a bunch of cars on the road, though.
I grew up in Kansas, and my dad now lives in Oklahoma. Living in Seattle, I'm used to a variety of healthy choices. When I visit my parents, though, I struggle. If it's difficult to go out to dinner and eat healthy in Kansas, it's nearly impossible in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma is composed of three things: fast food, buffets, and gas stations.

As an example, on my most recent trip to Oklahoma, we went to a buffet and I decided to get a salad. At the large "salad" bar there were exactly three vegetables: iceberg lettuce, radishes, and carrots. Everything else was meat (mostly fried) or bread. I ordered a side of green beans; they were canned and fairly unappealing.

No wonder people don't eat healthier when the options are so limited and unattractive.
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Right, the information is unique, not the medium.

There are multiple copies of the Saturn V blueprints, just as there are multiple copies of the human genome in your cells.

Is Lord of the Rings not unique because it's stored on multiple mediums?
Slavery and open borders are completely different things, so your jab at "well-meaning and good-hearted white people" is invalid.
Did you read the stats in the original post?

"Surveys with high response rates also imply that sexual assault is a serious problem. The Michigan study found that 12 percent of undergraduate women had experienced non-consensual penetration within the past year; the Stanford survey found that 12 percent had experienced attempted or completed non-consensual penetration since arriving at Stanford; the Department of Justice found that 3 percent had experienced rape or attempted rape within the last 7 months."

Is your claim that those numbers are not high, or that those numbers are somehow unreliable even though the surveys have high response rates?
I tend to average around 400 Wh/mi.
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For those who downvote, why is a wire transfer no go in this situation?
The most active voters are elderly people, who are thinking of a future they are not likely to see.

How fucked up is that?

Well, seeing as how I turn 55 in less than 2 months, I'm inclined to say "probably less fucked up that you think" ^_^.

Wisdom is often comes with age, and I think I've seen enough and learned enough that I can make much better decisions than I could when I was under 30.

(I grant that I'm not the normal case, was politically aware by Nixon's 2nd election in 1972 (knew it was important he win in 1968, but not really why). And I study history, a lot, this comment is being made as a break from reading yet another book about the Manhattan Project.)

As for the disinterested populace, I'm not sure that's such a bad thing. The American "leave me alone" and "live and let live" attitudes have a lot to say for them. Especially since they rapidly adjust when things get really bad....
Depends on whether the lessons have already been learned or not.

For stuff like "we fucked up our culture, therefore our cells couldn't do whatever we wanted" is well understood.

In clinical trials where some patients may respond to a treatment and others not, there's definitely a lot more to learn there, if you have a large enough data set and a plurality of controls.
Well, why should people necessarily care about this issue more than about any of those? Also, just because people do not agree with you, does not always mean they do not care.
Sure, there are many innocent victims of drones -- but your opponents can just as easily showcase equally innocent victims of Taliban or of Al Qaeda or of whatever group the people killed by drones belonged to.
That's a good point, I'd never really thought of that! Almost any life we could find in another system, we'd see before our first radio waves got to them.

On the other hand, if I was some ancient super advanced civilization, I'd have probes all over the galaxy, and they'd report as soon as anything interesting happened with evolution on a planet. So they could know what life was like on Earth about 1500 years ago, and extrapolate from that.

Not that I can guess what a super advanced civilization would think like :P
All sorts of processes locally reduce entropy - any solidifying liquid will meet that benchmark.
Most people who own cars can't afford fun or fashionable ones, or don't choose to allocate their budgets that way. SF is a distorted perspective: car ownership is unnecessary, so the only cars you see are those owned voluntarily. I was struck by how new and expensive all the cars on the road looked when I lived there this summer. In Chicago, the overwhelming majority of the cars I walk by are 10-year-old beige econoboxes.

Luxury cars may be around for the long haul, but I suspect cars of necessity will not.
Woah, I think you're way off here. All class systems are a result of how you're raised. Raise a "poor" person in a rich family and they will be smarter, more healthy, etc. Likewise take a rich baby and put it in a poor family and watch it's environment mold it.

Humans in general are striking similar physically. We are all homo-sapiens. It's almost entirely nurture, it was sad to read your comment because to deny that being raised by parents who are often tired, overworked, underfed, undereducated, etc, etc, doesn't continue a cycle.