skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blinding flashes of light are widely used by infantry forces of several states, including the US, in the form of flashbangs[1]. They are much smaller and cheaper than a searchlight system mounted on a tank, and being deployed as a hand grenade allows their use indoors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stun_grenade
By "uppercase", did you mean "all capitals"?
I really meant reify, as in "turn an abstract thing into a marketable thing". Monetize would mean something else.

> Is this really a workable view of criminality and justice?

It worked for 400 years in Medieval Iceland. If you are interested in debating this I'd like to hear from you why you think that what you say would happen if this was in place, in fact did not happen when this was in place.
Then set up a system to store the shipping address for a couple of months and then purge it from the database.
The "hallway with lanes"? The thing that isn't obvious at first glance (but is more obvious in further design depictions) is that it is setup like a miniature version of a typical street in which to the immediate sides of the bike lanes are "bike parking" spots and on the far sides of those spots are pedestrian "side walks".

It seems like a fair design to me.
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If you haven't already, you might want to take a look at Julia. It's extremely fast, and has more native support for vectors than Python. It's still immature, but I think it has great potential as the truly great language for scientific/data computing.
A lot of what he says about play seems consistent with Huizinga's book. It's not an eccentric theory.

Although presumably only behaviours which demonstrate reproductive fitness get selected for, I don't think wasteful activities (like art) are necessarily evolved in this way. See e.g. Jeremy England on thermodynamic drivers of evolved complexity.
When you complete a tile shape using smaller tiles the game zooms out and the shape you just completed is falling into a new self-tiling shape. Inception Noise
It would? http://www.webpronews.com/french-police-told-to-seize-uber-c... begs to differ, after about 30 seconds of googling.
There's a backup service that lists its pricing in picodollars per byte (or byte-month).
Paperjs looks interesting. The major downside is that it is a separate programming language. It really makes me wonder why the authors could not separate concerns and make a self-contained library for those boolean shape operations.
Epigentic experiment reveals interesting “mind over matter” issue
Good idea, not all the things are equal priority. They do require different amounts of effort.
Awesome site!
Conversely if the upstream filters are working, then its not going to hurt anything to implement, is it?

I agree its a much more useful discriminator for civilians than naval officers or professional sailors.
Yep. That and currency hedging should be part of any large corporation/project.
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> Of these, mole and kilogram are dependent of the kilogram.

Did you make a typo? While it's technically true that the kilogram is defined by the definition of the kilogram, I just wanted to make sure.
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R also has tools to spread tasks over multiple cores or over a cluster quite effortlessly. In practice, I can create a Fortran or C++ module, then use R to apply it over multiple cores, and get fantastic performance for certain tasks.
For the information content, this article could have been two sentences long.
I found a 14-core Xeon to give optimal price/performance for my usage. But I guess if that's simply not fast enough to run your app there's always the 18-core; the cores may be slow but the total "MIPS" is still higher.
There already is bluetooth pairing with NFC. checkout sony SBH-50
Yes, capital letters.
Honestly, that is in the same level of saying that you doubt the consensus on Evolution.

I say this not to disparage, but you are simply ignorant about the subject. If you read about Psychometrics and perhaps work by Charles Murray et alii you will realize right now you don't know what you are talking about. Start on YouTube and listen to Dr. Murray and he'll give you more papers to read and keywords to look for.

The consensus exists and you can verify it for yourself if you care to.
I don't think this is a good list for a side project.

Every side project I have ever attempted has taken me ages and never got anywhere. Saying things like localisation need to be done before your MVP ready is nuts.

I'm working on a side project right now. I've tried to learn all my lessons from other attempts. It's just a basic website (landing page). Between building that, trying to sort out product, make a plan, etc - there is barely any time left... I have a full time 9-6 job, and a two hour (total) commute. There's hardly any time left at the end of the day, squeezing out an hours work each day is hard enough. Localisation would never be on my list.

Having the time to check each one of these points is a luxury most side projects can't afford.
Indoor races when the weather is bad? :-)
I could never get my parents to use a ps3 or 360 or whatever to watch netflix, and them looking vod meant using a crappy service that let them download files into their own "media player". Since they have a chromecast, all they need to do is open whatever they want on their tablet and press a button.

As for myself, I use to it to stream my video games on TV using the "stream entire screen" option in google cast extension in chrome.
Depends on the scientist's position. Tenure-track and tenured faculty in the US typically have 9 months of their salary covered by the institution employing them. Only the remaining three months need be covered by grants (or teaching).
A friend asked me to join up.

Since I've been in my industry for 15 years and since people seem to like me (dunno why) I haven't gotten a job but through personal recommendations in 8 years.

Please don't pay people money to get you a job. Just get your cold-call game on.

Go through the phone book and find any place that remotely looks like they could use your skillset.

Ring-ring "Hello, are you looking for what I do? No? Ok, thanks for your time." 10 times a day for a month and you should be fine.
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It shows up in all sorts of places. It's completely eclipsed the BerkeleyDB/DBM type of databases in most of their use cases. The main thing is that it's usually embedded into something else like say Subversion.
> So it's a university [mainly] funded by the tax-payer

This is not true, at least for most states. For example, the UW system got 1.2 Billion from the state out of a 6 Billion dollar budget: https://www.wisconsin.edu/about-the-uw-system/

The large majority of most state university funding comes through tuition, research grants, and donations.
Thank you. Please let me know if you have any ideas how to make it even better! :)
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Google Tone - publish urls via audio

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9575291
As a younger man and husband (28) who is struggling to find his own way, I find that saying "what actions should I take so that I enjoy my life, the people I care about, the ideas I believe in, etc.?", and following through with it, takes a lot of mental and emotional fortitude that must be built up and trained. I believe that having the self-respect to make a decision based on what you truly want, and then standing firm as everyone in your life fights against it, is something that is very masculine, though not exclusively masculine.
What differentiates social media from journalism?

I suppose in an ideal world fact checking, but thats not my experience of late.

It makes me wonder if the Pirate Party was onto something with Kopimism [1]. When Ethereum [2] takes off, we should create some similar religion oriented around journalism.

1. http://kopimistsamfundet.se/english/

2. https://www.ethereum.org/
http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03622

The paper. Basically Kepler, or to be more precise the Planet Hunter crowdsourcing effort, found a star with a rather strange light curve and the Atlantic jumped the gun and babbels of aliens.
Who said that and in what context?
Thanks; I suspected support for embedding R within Python already existed as well, but I wasn't sure about that one.
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I love how this has been on the front page for almost a day, yet there are no comments. This says something... I'm not sure what, but something is being said.
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> maps (with arbitrary scalar keys, not just strings)

Floating point keys just seem like a terrible idea.
> I do think that legislation should be avoided if it's not necessary.

In other words: if legislation.necessary? then enact else avoid.

> On the other hand, if an issue is important and legislation can get the job done, we shouldn't shy away from it.

In other words: if issue.important? and legislation.effective? then enact else avoid.

These two are contradictory. Which is it for you?
or Scala, Clojure, or indeed C.

R's great strength is finding the interesting bits of the data. Testing the Algo. Doing the R&D basically. Better than Python.

Once that's done, why stop at Python? If your game is production, Python will do it, but others will do it so much better, faster, more efficiently.
Ah yes, effort should be taken into account too, so you get the quick-wins at the top.
The Chromecast app includes a feature called 'backdrop' that allows using a photo album as background screensaver images.
On a modern naval vessel if you lose all the electronics the ship is going to be drifting anyway.

Still it seems smart to keep the skill around as the GPS system can be locally jammed and in WWIII could be completely knocked out.
The more general and broad the patent the more valuable it is. The system rewards big general patents.
Would be best to disallow mixing types I think, except for the legacy behavior with primitive types you describe. Those hidden conversions are a source of subtle bugs.
You misunderstand. "Because science" is the correct reason to do anything. It is short hand for everything objective and rational in the world. It means, "we've conclusively proven this will have a better outcome; your personal whims are baseless." Why should we decrease fossil fuel use? Because science. Why should kids get vaccinated? Because science. Why is the Earth 6 billion years old? Because science.
This inspired me to check out my local symphony,

> Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: User themiso_org already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections in /var/www/domains/themiso.org/docs/dbconnect.php on line 5
Unable to select database

Sigh... :/
Happily, a Python port of ggplot is underway [0], although it's still very much a work in progress.

[0] https://github.com/yhat/ggplot/
Sexism 101.
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Your colleagues should/could have played the game. Just sit there, in the cab. Either he takes the payment that they offer or they get to leave. As long as they're sitting in the cab, it's not making any money.

Force him to decide to either take their payment or write off the loss from the ride because he can't get any other fares while they're occupying the seat. What's he going to do? Call the police and tell on himself?
UWisc has always been very aggressive with its patents. I recall sometime during 2002 or thereabouts, while working for a reasonably big semiconductor company with DSP/ARM processors, one of the guys in our team with an interest in computer architecture, used the company network to download and play with a simulator or something (might have been simplescalar). A few weeks later the head of our group gets contacted by the company lawyers saying that UWisc was asking for licensing costs for using their tools (they provided the ip address that was used to download the tools). I'm not sure how it was resolved finally, but I don't think the company paid.
so given that the biblical command to suppress and channel sexuality is in direct conflict with modern observation that sexual expression is necessary to be spiritually healthy, do you still find the bible compelling?
How much savings can be had from optimal use of BIM ? and why aren't we seeing new companies start to operate to reap/share those savings ?
mnesia is great in isolation with bounded datasets. erlang is great for operational observability of both the data flow and your application. they go great together, sometimes, if you know all your requirements up front.

It's always good to keep in mind erlang+mensia were designed to run in a "network" consisting of a unified blade chassis (each blade is a new node, and the network is a physical backplane). So, things like network partitions around erlang distribution and remote mensia tables don't have easy/proper error recovery strategies.

Even with unbounded datasets, mensia is great if you devote an engineering team to managing the scaling of it because amnesia can't do simple things like move a DB from one node to another without semi-advanced erlang+mnesia knowledge. But, whatsapp was (is?) 100% mensia last I recall, even though they had to reengineer some of it: http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/558/efsf2...

But, mensia still relies on dets and dets still, in 2015, has a 2 GB max file size. If your data grows beyond 2 GB, you have to do mnesia fragmentation which is just an operational burden.

My scaling thoughts tend towards: sqlite -> postgres -> riak
http://www.coboloncogs.org/INVOLVE.HTM

This is perfect :)
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this is a good checklist for real projects too. As a developer, it's hard for me to see big-picture what matters because I have my head buried in the code.
Good read about Varnish and SSL(again).
https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/ssl_again.html
This is a key aspect. There is a pressure (both institutional and self-imposed) to produce something original and unique, so trying to reproduce other people results is seen as a lost of time.

Either you confirm previous results, which is nice but not something you can publish or write a thesis about; or you find they are wrong and then you have to tell the authors, which is something they may appreciate or not, and be exhaustive to prove it, which is something in which you may be interested or not.

What I would like to see is that PhD students were required to reproduce some previous results as part of their thesis. This would increase the quality of scientific results and would prepare the candidates to do their own research (at difference of now, that they are put on front of a laboratory to get "interesting results" and they don't know what to do with it).
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Then that is what lawsuits are for, not preventative law that can be super abused.
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This is not ok. This is not free speech. It is not taking a noble, principled stand. It is not clever, or admirable, or justifiable.

If you get caught doing this I sincerely hope that a judge sees fit to put your internet acess on a tight leash, to say the least. Such behavior does nothing to further any rational debate. Intimidation tactics are the surest sign of a weak argument, and damages rather than helps any underlying goals
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I don't think I followed any of these for my side project (www.diff.so) because, well, it's a side project! It's a prototype, something I did for fun. This is a great list of things to do before I expect someone to use it seriously, not a pre-launch checklist.

To go a bit off-topic, I actually tried to follow the "don't use color alone to provide information" for the static diff on diff.so/about, but I couldn't find a way to get ChromeVox to read text on one side of the diff any differently than text on the other. I'd be really interested in any advice on that - it seems like some screenreader users could use something a little more user-friendly than emacs.
Fraudsters exploit weak SSL certificate security to set up phishing sites
I still think it would be interesting to do a COBOL / RPG IV compiler to WebAssembly. The decimal handling will probably be an issue, but I am pretty tempted to give it a go when the WebAssembly stuff matures a bit.
Well, it's also possible that there's something special about the Milky Way in particular that makes it just a teensy bit more life-friendly, right?
Chromecast is a different approach to extending media. Most devices (Roku, FireTV, AppleTV) all requires proprietary apps to be installed on their devices. For example, Netflix developers would have to create a port of the application to be used on each media device. Obviously (or maybe not), you can't install apps on a Chromecast. The only thing it does is receive an instruction from a device on your wi-fi network. That instruction comes from a mobile app (such as Netflix) that implements the chromecast api, a way easier approach than porting the entire application.

It's amazing and simple. Chromecast is on to something...
Python's main problem is that it's moving in a CS direction and not a data science direction.

The "weekend hack" that was Python, a philosophy carried into 2.x, made it a supremely pragmatic language, which the data scientists love. They want to think algorithms and maths. The language must not get in the way.

3.x is wanting to be serious. It wants to take on Golang. Javascript, Java. It wants to be taken seriously. Enterprise and Web. There is nothing in 3.x for data scientists other than the fig leaf of the @ operator. It's more complicated to do simple stuff in 3.x. It's more robust from a theoretical point of view, maybe, but it also imposes a cognitive overhead for those people whose minds are already FULL of their algo problems and just want to get from a -> b as easily as possible, without CS purity or implementation elegance putting up barriers to pragmatism (I give you Unicode v Ascii, print() v print, xrange v range, 01 v 1 (the first is an error in 3.x. Why exactly?), focus on concurrency not raw parallelism, the list goes on).

R wants to get things done, and is vectors first. Vectors are what big data typically is all about (if not matrices and tensors). It's an order of magnitude higher dimensionality in the default, canonical data structure. Applies and indexing in R, vector-wise, feels natural. Numpy makes a good effort, but must still operate in a scalar/OO world of its host language, and inconsistencies inevitably creep in, even in Pandas.

As a final point, I'll suggest that R is much closer to the vectorised future, and that even if it is tragically slow, it will train your mind in the first steps towards "thinking parallel".
A planet is (one of?) the worst celestial objects in terms of usable area to mass. The benefits you listed may not be valid for planets other than Earth. In fact, most of Earth's surface isn't easily usable by us, due to large oceans and ice caps.
Algo people use R because it's faster, nothing to do with being 'data people'.

I am a data person, and I have to deal with a lot of text in my job. If I had to do it in R, I would quit.

Can you explain why you think it is easier to wrangle data in R? My experience is the opposite.
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I have one question: Do the professors teach this technique in classes?

I mean, that'd be funny, right? Teaching students something that you patented, waiting a few years for them to go into industry and apply what they learned, then suing them for it.
No, it could have been one sentence long, which is why the opening section is only one sentence long. To quote directly from the article (the first sentence, in bold):

> Apple faces a bill of $862m (£565m) after losing a patent lawsuit.

It then goes on to describe what products the patent covers, when the patent was filed, what it does, what other companies have been sued infringing, what the outcomes was, what the likely outcomes is going to be in this case and the factors that are likely to have an effect. It then describes some recent related news which may be on interest.

It's a perfectly fine article for the audience it is aimed it. Most people don't give a shit about the details - not everyone reads HN.

The BBC have a very predictable style. Open with a very short (single sentence) summary that covers the main points. If the reader is interested, they read on, if not, they've already read enough to get the gist. As the article goes on, it will go into more detail, sometimes repeating what has been said earlier but going into more depth.

Stop reading BBC articles if you don't like their style, but that's what the BBC do, they are very good at it, and are respected world-wide because of it.
I actually think slide to unlock is brilliant, specially the old skeuomorphic ”track on rail” one.
The new, cleaner one is made possible by old one being burned into our collective unconscious.

I also think “one click to buy” is brilliant.

Since it's impossible to unambiguously distinguish between crappy and worthy patents, we should either abolish them, or have them last for a really short time, like a year or two. Plenty for the inventor to secure its return on the research's investment, not enough to stifle innovation.
There's usually more than one knob to twist too.

salary + equity + benefits + time off + freedom.

You can say 0.8x salary + 1.5x equity or 1.2x salary + 1.1x equity, etc. That's where the range comes in. Not a range of salary, but a range of combinations of options.

In any case, as the weaker party in employment negotiates, it's best to never volunteer any concrete information yourself.
This is the very reason the foundation was created. The family wanted to give back to the community for his actions - basically forcing him to do so.
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HAProxy is not linux-specific. We have a POSIX logging facility, and HAProxy works just fine with syslog. If journald has problems with syslog, it's basically journald's problem.
MicroFocus COBOL has been used to write websites, so maybe those people want to move to the newest buzzword but still want their COBOL.
You can use your existing apps that you already have on your smartphone and have it "cast" to your TV. "Casting" is simplying saying... take this video link, and play it full screen on my TV. Or if you were using Spotify, "play my music through the TV, instead of through my phone". All the while, you're able to keep controlling the experience (pause/rewind/etc).
I've deployed business apps in Scheme and used rational numbers for currency values.
That's a city designed for ONLY bikes, and no city will ever be designed like that, no cars allowed is nice in theory but not workable. To be practical it would at a minimum have to accommodate foot-traffic, supply lines to stores (or did you think that those stores will be supplied by cargo bikes?) and access for disabled people (not everybody can ride a bike).

So it's a nice thought experiment but not at all practical, on top of that 'bike lanes in apartment building hallways' make you wonder just how much experience the designer has riding bicycles, you park your bike at the interface between inside and outside and you don't run around the apartment hallways on a bicycle because of (1) pedestrians, (2) playing kids, (3) the fact that you now have to elevate your bicycle every time you want to go in or out of your house and (4) storing your bike at streetlevel is simply much more practical.
I don't think it's meant to be a 100% replacement of walking. Personally I think of it as a toy.