skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some things in science have become "immoral" to question. In a big way evolution, including macro evolution, has become the religion of science. If you even entertain the idea that macro evolution has not been happening, you might be labeled an evil heretic. You might be labeled anti-science. You might be laughed out of your field. You could get fired from your job. You might lose all your funding. All of this could happen even if you go about your research, testing, and analysis in a very objective, scientific way.
Ultrathin Microlenses Could Boost Space Science and Tech
Babun: a Windows shell
Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics
And what was then actually the conflict now being resolved I also couldn't figure out from the fine article if the experiments anyway had the different goals since 2011. Anybody knows?
"Back room" -- I like that! I suppose the general idea is that there's this place somewhere out out "back" where the client can't see it where you administer things.

I usually call it the admin area but I have no idea why I'm bothered by the use of "back office" (English words) in a French language environment, when the term is not too common in English in this context. (Or that's the hypothesis I'm trying to test/challenge).
I managed to post through a shortener with no issues

http://goo.gl/NMy9In

And then I managed to post the plain URL.... maybe they've unblocked it, or it's not blocked from within the EU.
Online Courses and Time on Campus = MIT's Master Degree in Supply Chain Management
> its a filter on people who can't handle math or can't handle complicated written procedures.

Do you think that the USNA admissions process and or the Academy's graduation requirements do not provide an equivalent filter?
[Infographic] What Is Ipswitch Innovate?
Hi wbond,

Sure it's a big mess, and at the moment our MVP was only functional and available for Europe and Australia.

We differentiate digital goods and standard services, and compute VAT rates on-the-fly according to the following location proofs:

- Customer billing address
- Buyer IP
- Credit Card country

On more than 100k transactions, we never had 3 different locations, so our algorithm is for the moment pretty accurate.

We also validate VAT numbers for B2B if asked to by our customer - we let him choose if doing so or not -.

We handle invoicing regulations in Europe, for instance we convert the tax amount in the local currency at the European Bank exchange rate, and print the right annotations on the document.

We store the previously quoted location proofs, and are able to provide the tax administration a SAF-MOSS XML file they can require during an audit.

We have plans around digital signatures, it would be through a partnership, but as it was still not requested by our customers, it's still an ongoing feature.

The main issue concerning our MVP is that we relied a lot on Stripe API calls, and the way our customers implemented it.
Our plan with Checkout is to determine prior to the transaction which rate has to be applied, being able to retrieve easily all the evidence we need.

Doing so, we also plan to support the US/CA cases, that are also tricky; and we will be able to help businesses collecting payments, being fully compliant without having to develop a backend.
Yep - lots of fighting - bar fights, street fights, amongst other things (at least as a kid).

I turned 40 this year, so it could be an age thing. When I was 20, I probably seemed more similar to you. At least, I was certainly motivated by similar things. I lifted a lot of weights (when I maxed out I weighed around 230 lb), etc. and really identified with masculinity and various male roles.

When I say being more male, I'm not talking about being more 'feminine' (which would just be the opposite), just more Human. For instance, in the past, I would (subconsciously) say to myself, 'what is the right thing to do as a brother, father, son, husband, man?'. Now, I say, 'what actions should I take so that I enjoy my life, the people I care about, the ideas I believe in, etc.?'
Breaking the sound barrier by air, by land, and in free fall
23andMe Funding Values Genetics Startup at $1.1B
Using R from within Python works pretty well for all those unique R packages which don't have a python equivalence.
When it comes to digital technology patents are often granted for ideas or concepts so general as to be ridiculous. Whether those patents stand up in court is another thing but even there -- as in this case -- there are no guarantees of sanity. I hope Apple will appeal.
This was a mistake due to this specific blog post sharing some design elements as some spammy blogspot posts and it was fixed. If we really wanted to censor this story wouldn't we block all criticism of Facebook and not a pretty straightforward and well-reasoned analysis of Safe Harbor? Wouldn't we block the "I declare that I am a wizard and Facebook can't use my content blah blah" memes?
Meet Elbee, the next big innovation in wireless headphones
There is so much cool science out there, I wish we could accept it as cool without it being aliens. The phenomenon that lead to this odd flux observation is more interesting than hypothetical alien megastructures.

Another cool citizen science project was the observations of the epsilon Aurigae transit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon_Aurigae
In general one is allowed to store data for a limited time for specific purposes. A delivery address, for instance, is vital to deliver a package to.

You could probably even keep a names and addresses database so long as it was something you needed to keep in order to conduct business with the customer.

Routine data mining, asking for irrelevant info, selling it on to third parties, not so much.
Company that hiked drug price 5,000% now under antitrust probe
A bike ramp into the apartment is useless. You can just take the elevator with your bike, or you know... Just make a garage for bikes on ground floor. The article doesn't really say much about how to design a city for bicycles, which mostly comes down to providing good roads where you aren't bothered by cars.
Scarfolk is a fictional northern English town created by writer and designer Richard Littler, who is sometimes identified as the town mayor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarfolk
The patent is at least more innovative than Slide to Unlock. If you encourage crappy patents, they are gonna bite you some day.
>$862m isn't that huge in the grand scheme of things.

Well, it normalizes large patent payment damages which isn't good and guarantees that non-giant companies will never, ever be able to compete in this space because investors are spooked over random near $1b lawsuits.

Big companies seem to not mind the patent status quo for some reason. I suspect it just keeps competition away by raising the barrier to entry. This should be concerning to all. The refrain of "Apple can afford it" is scary as Apple is the world's wealthiest company. Of course they can afford it. That's besides the point.
This also assumes life follows some statistical laws at a cosmic scale :)
Yes, what they have done here is replace landscapes marred by roads with landscapes marred by paved bike paths. Even as a cyclist I'd say it's not a very nice solution.
So this had nothing to do with Unions or corruption. Ok, just checking.
Companies that claimed to be doing "nanotechnology" in 2005 or 2015 are basically fraudulent. "Nanotechnology" is a well-defined term: it means, as kanzure said, "positional, precise molecular manufacturing." Unfortunately, lots of gold-digging hucksters jumped on the term to tout anything involving small particles, extending the term to the point where it could plausibly be used to describe the process of smoking meat.
Pretty obvious solution, but very useful. If only Bluetooth-pairing was this simple.
Won't speak for anyone else, but it's basically a small, affordable media extender. I can mirror my phone or a Chrome tab on my computer. I can use my phone as a remote to stream Netflix/HBO/etc or using the Plex app to control my Plex server and stream from my local network. A few other basic uses like mirroring output from my security cams or other media sources but that still falls under the "media extender" umbrella. There are a handful of games (think more like Monopoly than CoD) you can play with other people where your phones are the controllers and the TV is the main display.

I dunno, for $35 it's more just a sweet spot for what it does than something groundbreaking. I also have one of the audio-only versions and it's nice for turning any old shelf system or set of powered PC speakers into wireless speakers in your house. Once they add streaming to multiple Chromecast Audios at the same time, I'll probably get a few more to use as an affordable alternative to a Sonos setup.
I'm surprised they gave it up. It is still best practice in yachting to have at least one crew member on an ocean crossing be able to do celestial navigation. You can't count on electricity, and thus GPS, so you have to return to the basics as a backup.
I understand that we get in a mess with different compilers not supporting the standard with cross platform code so MSVC should be changed.

But with respect to binding RValues to LValue references, why is the MSVC way not the standard? At first glance the MSVC way appears way more intuitive.

For instance if I have code:
update_X(X());
I would expect to be able to refactor it to this safely:
{
X x;
update_X(x);
}
In addition to having a network with old colleagues and LinkedIn (which can be really good, if you have a network).

Do consider headhunters. Some can be very good and professional (my area is finance and IT). If you're not sure how to contact them, search via LinkedIn - for time efficiency, avoid the bigger shops and look for ones with small looking independent websites (again, finance IT type headhunters) as they're likely to have a personal network of employers to fit you against.

Non financial IT, I've little idea.
Agile for Startups: ZebraPlan Agile Project Management Software
DEC was working on it, allegedly for EV8: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis501/papers/store-sets.pdf. They cite to the inventor of the patent in question: "Independently, Moshovos et al. published a comprehensive description of memory dependence prediction. This is the first published work identifying that memory
dependencies are problematic for out-of-order machines."
I also live in the Pacific Northwest. I live on the edge of a watershed. Black bears, cougars and coyotes live within 300m of my house (you should see our heavily armoured and locked garbage cans). It's a suburb of Vancouver, so no one really has guns (you'd mostly find them clustered around grow ops) and you'd only have bear spray if you're going far into the backcountry -- I have a can somewhere in my garage.

Dealing with the predators here is no more work than dealing with the Sun and sunburns -- a little bit of behaviour changes and a little bit of equipment goes a long ways. People are just used to it too -- putting on sunscreen, wearing hats, knowing when to seek shade.
Much of this goes against conventional wisdom for launching an MVP.
Direct link to youtube video of Colbert Zelda Performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=220&v=Wg8d3TJzVl...
matplotlib seems a good contender to me

On paper perhaps, less so in application. Sure you can probably make matplotlib do everything ggplot does with enough work, but working with ggplot is just so much quicker easier and more fun.

And I say that as someone who does all his data analysis in Python.
Supports Lua? SWEET!
I have to agree that Python is more powerful, and I am indeed doing more and more in Python. Python was my first language, before R.

However when the dataset is medium sized (i.e.: fits into your computer's memory / 2) R crushes Python (and Pandas) for the 80% of the time you'll be spending wrangling. The reason is that R is vector-based from the ground up. Pandas does everything that R does, but does it in a less-consistent, grafted-on way, whereas the experienced R person who "thinks vectors" is way ahead of the Python guy before the analysis has even started (i.e., most of the work). I know both really well. I use Python when I want to "get (semi) serious" production wise (I qualify with "semi" because if you're really serious about production, you're probably going to go to Scala).

But when it comes to taking a big chunk of untidy data and bashing it around till it's clean and cube-shaped, will parse, and has no no obvious errors, R is miles ahead of Python. R is where you do your discovering. Python can do it too, but I would estimate the cognitive overhead as double.

By the way, that's why people who "think time series" all day long (i.e., vectors, not objects), and who want to implement their algos, not think CS, will first typically build it in R, which is why CRAN beats Python all the time and every time for off-the-shelf data analysis packages. Data people go to R, computer-people go to Python (schematizing).

R is slow. That's its main problem. And that's saying something when comparing it to Python! But the gem of vector-everything makes it a much more satisfying language than imperative, OO, Python, when it comes to the world of data first, code second.

Finally I'd add that Python 3.x is arguably distancing itself from the pragmatism which data science requires, and 2.x provided, towards a world of CS purity. It's not moving in a direction which is data science friendly. It's moving towards a world of competition with Golang and Javascript, and Java itself.
Icebraining has it right - it's actually struck down Safe Harbour, which means that the US is considered an unsafe destination for personal data until such time as national rulings to the contrary are made, and those rulings could well be subject to challenge at the EU level themselves.
I saw a presentation at OWASP a couple of weeks ago by Coinbase, where they stated that the BTC are stored on air gapped servers, and that 97% of the Bitcoins never exist on routable servers.
I think that by fixing common problems before launching, you get more meaningful feedback later from your users. They won't concentrate on the obvious problems that could have easily been fixed.
A secure/convenient place to lock your bike at ground level is better.
Heliosphere
Yes, you could end up with multiple big joins. The advantage is that you're at least only doing a single query for those joins. What would be worse is performing joins on the client and doing three separate queries to get the data you need.

Also, keep in mind that this is a query language and not an API spec. If you want to allow clients to perform massive joins then GraphQL will facilitate that, but that's your decision to make. Ultimately you still need to decide what clients can and can not query.
"Personalized Features: Language" sounds like a lot of work for not much payoff. Halting the launch before translations are ready will get in the way of 'just shipping'. That said, probably a good idea to dev with js i18next even if all translations aren't ready.
Yes, it seems simple, but I'm not sure if this proof is sufficiently rigorous that it allows for mathematically pathological tiles.
Music is for enjoyment, and one of the greatest pieces of advice my former-pro guitarist mentor said was "Audiences don't like it when you play over their head."

I'm all for expanding the universe of good tunes that orchestras can play, especially if that keeps orchestra members able to make money and continue their art. There's a small part of me that can see the perspective of the purist, but it reminds me too much of "formal musical study" of the guitar, which is, essentially, playing a lot of classical stuff that most people aren't interested in hearing! The jazz guys and gals maybe have a bit more approachability, but again, the peak of the genre is very complex and out of the usual scope of "listening for pleasure."

I haven't been to one of these (yet) but I'd surely like the chance to experience it. Also, somewhat relevant, the last time I checked, the "Trans Siberian Orchestra" holiday performances were hanging in and probably making some good money! I know they got my cash one year.

Times change, tastes change.
The desperate, hopeful ads of freed people searching for lost loved ones
Mattermost 1.0 released – open-source Slack alternative
Businesses should consider a Git-inspired collaboration approach
For one thing, you wouldn't have to look at old or infirm people...
Some years back NYC [1] (under Mayor Giuliani) instituted a policy whereby drivers suspected of driving while intoxicated would have their vehicles seized by the police. Unlike unlicensed limos, DWI is a real public safety problem.

The problem with what NYC did, however, was that a driver could be found not guilty of DWI and still have his car seized. There were many complaints regarding due process, uneven applications, etc., and eventually the city abandoned this policy.

I mention this not because I sympathize with drunk drivers (I don't), but because it's not the first time the city has done something like this.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/24/nyregion/drive-drunk-lose-...
The portion of the BBCs audience who actually want to know the patent number is tiny, and the portion who would actually understand the patent itself is a tiny fraction of those, so why include it? Those who are interested can go out and find it themselves without much difficulty.

The job of a journalist isn't report every fact, it's to cut through the noise, take something that happened and condense it into something that their audience will read and can understand, without distorting it.

This article does exactly that. That's why it's journalism.
Show HN: Slidebox – A damn fine photo manager for your phone
Physical Web – Walk up and use anything
> VS2010 was one of the first compilers (even before gcc/clang)

GCC supported C++0x features back when they thought the standard would be released before 2010. Hence the 0x, not 1x. I remember using the `-std=c++0x` flag back in 2008, when I first took a course on C++, which is a few years before VS2010.
As a student in physics, I always used to joke about how we should say "3 megadollars" and "5 gigadollars" instead of "3 million dollars" and "5 billion dollars".
Welcome to “Changing lives”, freelancing stories from WordPress experts
I like Bragi better
Yep, I live in the Netherlands and my apartment complex has a separate entrance to a bicycle storage area on street level, which connects to the central hallway. Parking's only half the story though. You also need to feel safe to ride a bike, which requires infrastructure and attitude.
Leet News
I guess the university can provide better services[1] to the public if it's profitable.

[1] Like an NFL-class stadium.
Just applied for Winter 2016! We're looking for some tough questions to answer! What do you guys think? Do we have a shot?
Why SQL is neither legacy, nor low-level, nor difficult, but is simply awesome
I've read it in context, thoroughly, and it doesn't help. And really, in what context could this become okay?

As for the claim that the Bible has "always been counter-cultural in promoting the equality of men and women", that is a very limited viewpoint on history; it has been used toward both oppressive and egalitarian ends since it was written. And if you mean that the early Christian writers like Paul were especially egalitarian for their time, this too is controversial at best in scholarly circles. The mere mention (even praise) of certain women does not demonstrate a culture of gender equality; Roman society at large is also known to have venerated certain female figures in the same way, so this was hardly a counter-cultural practice.
Make it:

interface Addable<RHS, Result> {
Result add(RHS other);
}

The problem is hardly new though. Groovy is very Java-like and has operator overloading: http://groovy-lang.org/operators.html#Operator-Overloading
I used to be a supporter of California's high speed rail project until this bridge. It's not just the cost overruns it's also the shoddy work, the political interference, the secrecy, the publicly funded PR bullshiting, and the complete lack of accountability. I really doubt the rail project will be completed in my lifetime.
Flash hit by another zero-day vulnerability
There's no reason a battery powered jammer won't fit in a bouy or "mine" or drone. If you're already declared an area a "no fly zone" or "no float zone" then jamming civilians is not going to be a serious concern.

We're coming to the end of a golden era where RF electronic reasons used to mean significant jamming was somewhat unrealistic at an analog electronics level. In the "next big war" jamming is going to be cheap and ubiquitous on the battlefield (or for that matter, in terror attacks or whatever).

There is an interesting economic warfare aspect where a jammer drone is inherently always going to be cheaper than the antiaircraft missile or antiaircraft drone that shoots it down due to certain precision flying and targeting requirements. A jammer has to keep the right side up and not hit anything, and anti-jammer has a much more complicated task of finding, reaching, and destroying a jammer. So it being cheaper to jam than to unjam means only the wealthiest aggressors with good logistics support will be able to decide when GPS will be usable on a battlefield. Also unjaming has certain risks... sure go ahead shoot down that jammer drone, the site that launches a missile or even a drone will get plastered about one minute later by what amounts to counterbattery artillery fire. Now you have GPS data but no anti-aircraft cover... hmm, probably not a good trade. This is before meta level games are played where you want to lure someone into an ambush by jamming the heck out of everything but one heavily armed and prepared "empty" mountain pass. In the future I think you can pretty much count on GPS not being available or at least not being reliable on the battlefield, and when the enemy does let you use GPS they're probably messing with you.

The concept of drones being cheaper than what it takes to shoot them down has a meta problem first discussed in anti-star-wars technology in the 80s where MIRV ICBMs had decoys... You can expect X drones of which only Y contain expensive jammer hardware, making the cost ratio of anti-jammer drones even worse compared to jammer and decoy drones.
I'm confused as to why they created bike paths in apartment building hallways.
If you're dead in the water with no electrical power, do you have anywhere to go that needs navigating.
That's true, not all these things are equal priority. I do agree that launching quickly is important to start getting feedback from the users. But by fixing obvious issues, you get more meaningful feedback from the users.
I like the list, but seems to be rather much for a launch.

How about doing a poll to get the most important points and apply the Pareto principle?
We know that stars follow statistical laws on a cosmic scale, because we can see them, and have mapped them. So it's a reasonable assumption that life which forms round stars, like us, will be distributed the same way as the stars themselves.

It's worth noting that KIC 8462852 is an F3 star very similar to our own, which is a G2.
The only thing I'd add to this is that it displays a webpage that can be controlled from the originating device (and possibly other devices, though I'm not sure if that's baked into the API or if you are on your own as far as getting other device involved). Using your phone or computer as a "remote" is one example of what you can do with these apis.

It also has sufficient hardware video decoding capabilities to play back 1080p video streamed over the network.
I would say they're both as limited as Python, Julia far more so. R's stats packages get ported to Julia faster, though. Mathematica still can't do mixed generalized linear modeling, and no other language (other than SAS and Stata) has a package for analyzing simple effects within them.
Fairly confident that was a tongue in cheek comment :)

Then again, with Andrew Lloyd Webber never say never..