skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure we should expect only cold, sterile data and the most banal hypothesis from a magazine targeting the general public.

Moreover, I think it's good to spark the public's imagination through informed speculation. Yes, maybe what lies over the horizon is not a mysterious land full of strange wonders but -- you know what? -- maybe it is. So to all those out there who feel it is their duty to defend the orthodoxy that we're alone in the universe from the human imagination I say just let others have their dreams. One day you may live in a very different, more wondrous world because they refused to accept the limits you seem so eager to impose on them.
Can it send push notifications or other alerts to my phone?
16 Entrepreneurs Share Advice for Scaling Your Business
Oregon and Washington looked at replacing the I5 bridge across the Columbia River also known as the Columbia River Crossing. $175 million was spent on the problem before the whole project was cancelled, http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2013/07/columbi....

The estimates were about $4 billion. I believe the project never went anywhere because the states didn't want to put in their chunk of that $4 billion.
> Such as? Article is a bit short on facts here.

* Using JavaScript to access APIs that don't support HTTPS (NextBus)

* Embedding iframed content from sites that don't support HTTPS (Youku)

* Using CDNs for photographs and file downloads, using your own domain, and without paying a ton of money to get them to install your certificates (Imgix, Amazon)
Creating secondary and composed indexes with Redis
They mentioned a lot of the graphics were interactive on-set. Any idea what web technology are they outputting this to? Flash?
Tesla: Trespassing journalist assaulted Gigafactory worker
Given the difference in rating, McShane was likely at a disadvantage.

So, if I'm McShane, do I push when my most likely outcome is draw or loss? That's actually a pretty tough calculation. Nakamura clearly was not going to let him go into the opening line that he wanted to which was going to make the game much more difficult. McShane probably should have pushed for a win since he was going to be at a disadvantage relative to the tiebreakers anyway. However, that's a tough call. Add in some fatigue and taking an easy draw to get past the person ranked second in the world doesn't look that unappealing.

Nakamura, on the other hand, is one of the absolute best players at speed-type chess which is what was going to be the tie-breaker. So, he has a huge incentive to take an easy draw and rest up for where he has a big advantage, and zero incentive to put anything at risk. Nakamura is absolutely not going to let McShane go into his preferred opening when the draw is just fine.

Finally, please do remember that 50%+ of grandmaster games wind up in a draw anyway. So, both of them can decide to press on, waste a lot of energy, and be in the same situation as the nine-move draw anyway.

Given that Nakamura won the whole shebang, it sure looks like he made the right choice.
According to Wikipedia, you saw the only one in existence with its original tank model/structure.
because there are no netsplits... /sarcasm
A photographer edits out smartphones to show our strange and lonely new world
Centauri Dreams, write about this: http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=34260

(It is a favorite web site. Academics writing about interstellar flight, etc.)
Can I get push notifications to my phone from IRC?

(Not sure if Mattermark provides them, but it's one of the reasons I use Slack)
Yes, I used IPython a lot.

What I meant by better interactive interface is that the language itself is designed with interactive use in mind.

For instance compare

func(x$a, x$b)
func(a, b, data=x)
func(a=1, b=2)

with

func(x['a'], x['b'])
func('a', 'b', data=x)
func([1, 2], ['a', 'b'])

The R versions are easier to type and read.
I thought it was kinda fun :) Though it definitely wasn't what I expected, and took me a minute to even figure out what I was watching.
1:03 -- "encripted information"
Crain's Fast 50: New York's Fastest Growing Companies
I think the reason for this is that most millennials are still in their 20's and family formation has been delayed by the economic problems by 5 - 10 years. Thus, less 30 year olds have school-aged children versus their parent's generation. In 5-10 more years, I think you'll see more migration out to the burbs as this generation's children reach school age.
I've always just done `bundle exec sidekiqctl stop tmp/blah_worker.pid` at deploy-time, and then let the process monitoring system bring them back up. It works fine. I've never had a problem with orphans in production, but our apps dont rely on sidekiq for their core functionality.
Four Stories about Storytelling
> If it's fixed-precision it's not floating point

I'm not referring to fixed point, but fixed-size representation.

> If you didn't mean fixed-precision, then I'm not sure how actual floating points could sanely act as a hash key.

I don't see what the problem is. Certainly, there's problems if you do certain floating point calculations and blindly look for the result as a key in a mapping, but that's not a problem with floats as keys, its a problem with that particular usage pattern.
There was a time when I thought something like this was a good idea. But after using Slack for about a week, there's no way I would give up all the benefits of a well-integrated centrally controlled service. All the clients work together perfectly. We have Slack channels with customers. It just all works much better than I can imagine any self-hosted, decentralized service would.
WebChimera.js – Libvlc Binding for Node.js / Electron / NW.js
> Such as? Article is a bit short on facts here.

It was recently documented that some ad mechanisms for which Google gets money wouldn't work.
Should I put single skill or multiple skills on my Resume
I know multiple technologies like iOS, Android, Ruby on rails and somewhat python. I have side projects also and worked on official projects. I was wondering should I mention multiple skill or single skills on resume. My primary technology is iOS.

How recruiters choose resume. I have some very bad experience in past as I have shown some of great achievements of stackoverflow and github which are very good but none of big companies choose my resume instead they choose my colleagues resumes which are just ordinary and have nothing special.

I want to know If I mention multiple skills on resume is it good point or bad point. How recruiters select resumes.
> 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).

And trash removal. When people design their utopian non-car city where everything is by bike or by train or whatever, they always forget about trash removal.
I never hear this question anymore- or at least, not where it hasn't been answered already.

The trick? That's literally the first thing I bring up with a prospective employer, even before hello- "I'm making X right now." It's remarkably effective and rather than making one sound difficult to work with, it makes one sound valuable. It also sets a negotiation floor and trims off wastes of time.

In a boiler-room metro like San Francisco right now, employee turnover is rampant, so the "let the inexperienced candidate negotiate against his own salary" stratagem that matches employers' instincts throughout the country really bites companies here, because other employers can come in and +50% the employee's salary after 3-6 months.
Then just ban all cars except emergency vehicles? Replace all roads with single lanes and use the road pavement as pedestrian walkway.

Good delivery trucks could only be allowed between 5 and 6am. If shops need something urgent there are always transport bicyles/tricyles (with or without electric support).
Einstein: “Some Notes on My American Impressions” (1921)
TL;DR

French security researchers able to trigger Google Now / Siri from 5m way using headphones as antenna, send txts, make calls.
That's very cultural I think, not really inherent. My impression from living in Copenhagen from some years is that bikes in that context are somewhat more inclusive than cars, though neither is perfect. (I personally mostly used a mixture of walking + transit.)

Families with two kids use bikes all the time [1], and the median bicyclist is a middle-aged office commuter, not a 25-year-old single person. Mobility scooters are also permitted in bike lanes (and you see them fairly often), which further expands the inclusiveness of bicycle infrastructure.

[1] These are popular among families: http://livingcph.dk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/christiania.j...
Cool! What do you use it for? Any suggested apps or games that you like?
You shouldn't ever have to move out of someones way if they are not walking. I live in NYC so perhaps my perception is skewed but pedestrians should always have the right of way.

Don't move for runners, bikes (shouldn't on sidewalks unless it's a kid) or these things. It's up to the user to manage themselves and prevent themselves from hitting and potentially hurting others.

I see these around here and there, more and more, and don't mind them for now but if we start to get a problem with users hitting people then I'll support a sidewalk ban on them.
The same can be said about R. Rcpp makes it super easy for you to drop right into C++ for bits of code that need that level of performance.
Thanks for the interesting link.

I think the discussions used to be much better. There was less 'noise' and some truly excellent 'signal', which made the discussions worthwhile. Recently, my impression is that the noise has significantly increased and the excellent signal has almost disappeared. But: That could be simply my mistaken impression, it could be just normal variability, or it could be something else. Certainly I'm not the first to say, in any community, 'it's not like it was in the old days'.
Props for open-sourcing, but I'm putting my money on http://matrix.org/
It's not practical to design everything in the world with the very slowest people in mind. The efficiency losses would be huge. Imagine if every pedestrian crossing light went for five minutes. Vehicular traffic would grind to a standstill.

Actually, there was a study in the UK a couple of years ago that didn't get acted on, but which demonstrated that pedestrian crossing lights in British streets allowed so little time for crossing that able-bodied teenagers had to hurry -- middle-aged, elderly, unfit, or handicapped people really need about triple the time.

The solution is probably a combination of the sensor-controlled systems showing up in newer crossings in the UK (IR sensors block traffic by setting a red light until the crossing is clear) and cutting down on automobile use in densely populated areas like urban cores. Ahem. (Hint: why should your one ton rolling steel status symbol trump anybody else's right to use the highway?)
> but is there a compelling reason we'd want Swift running on Android?

Yes because it's a language of higher level than C++ that can theoretically run on all platforms. Now I don't know about you but I'd much rather write the core of my software in a language that can be used on all platforms. This way I can leverage the same business logic everywhere and just have different, dedicated logic for UIs.

I once tried to use C++ for this but the STL is supremely lacking in almost every way compared to the standard libraries that come with almost every other language. There just isn't much choice out there.
True. Fortunately, we can be reasonably sure there will be multiple good tools to debug something talking over HTTP 2.0. With something like Transit, I'm not so sure.
I would also check out dplyr for data munging. Since most of the code in dplyr is written in C++ it is much faster than the munging capabilities you probably used when you were using R years ago.
Feature idea: a canvas where people could draw instead of typing a text.
Agreed. It's not that millennials are different in any way (preferring high rises vs the McMansions of the Boomer generation), but instead the millennials are putting off children until much later and just don't have many school aged kids yet.

In 5-10 years, they'll be heading out of the cities just like their parents and grandparents did.
It's not really that easy even in LLVM. Just like how real world languages don't map 1:1 to each other with all their idioms and untranslatable phrases, LLVM IR isn't a generic virtual machine. Instead, LLVM IR targets various overall architectures such as "64bit ARM processor" with "such-and-such ABI", so there is a limit to which processors the final assembly can be generated for.
> intermediate IRC client

A bouncer? Usually pretty straightforward to install, and quite mature in features.
> their dress shirts are very high quality and fit (me) extremely well

Yep, I'll back that up. I haven't tried any pants, but all the shirts I've bought from Bonobos fit me really well. I'm not a "slim fit" guy, so I really appreciate their shirts.
did you ever come across matrix.org? We are similar to mattermost in that we are open source and you can host your own server.
It's good to have options.

The takeaway I'm getting from this story, and Mattermost, is:
1. Export your critical data from SaaS services if you're business cannot exists without them.
2. Test that this works before putting years of data into a service.

There's nothing wrong with SaaS services, they just mean users must do their due diligence in any business partnership. I can't see how a game company can put their resources into delivering this as an open source project with no future plans for monetization. Frankly, without monetization, open source projects generally wither up and disappear. Then you're no further ahead.

http://www.mattermost.org/why-we-made-mattermost-an-open-sou...
Having added localisation to applications after a few years of not considering it I now try to build all but the most trivial tools with it in mind. In most cases the only locale will be en-GB, but having at least considered the possibility early on makes the process of adding that second locale infinitely less painful, and by extension the thought of expanding into other markets less scary.
Since we are talking about open source software, maybe the guys that own the Mattermost account on Github could create a placeholder repo for Android (I wonder if this idea would work for iPhone, too) and accept Pull Requests until there is at least a beta native app.
Good question. Two aspects to the answer.

1) Let's say the article was about people who fell to their death because there was no fence at the top of the Grand Canyon. Let's further suppose that this was a pattern and it has been happening with increasing frequency of late, but it is still rare because the random gusts of wind that push people over the edge are rare, and further that the people falling had no idea that it was a risk posed by touring the Grand Canyon. And then you posted that in fact 294 people fell to their deaths every year but that number includes all the people who were out climbing mountains for sport. That number might be horrific, but the mountain climbers understood the risk and chose to take it. The tourists at the Grand Canyon thought that what they were doing was safe.

2) The solution for the one problem likely has nothing to do with the solution for the other. If many of those 294 deaths are because of gang violence or criminal activity, magically removing all guns might reduce that number, but it probably wouldn't reduce it much. Someone who is out just to shoot up as many people as possible may well not try to kill anyone if he can't get a hold of a gun. But someone who needs Guido dead so that he can't rat him out, he is just going to move to the next best weapon for the job. A crossbow, or a knife, or a poison dart, or a baseball bat, or a rock, or something.
Yep, and my site includes photos from S3, and S3 can't be https (because my bucket name has periods in it, like Amazon suggested). I guess I'll have to proxy the images myself.
"The very slowest people" are actually the majority: the elderly, the very young, the temporarily or permanently disabled- if you put all of those people together they're many more than the young, strong and fast.

What's more important, each and everyone of us, will inevitably, at some point in their lives be very young, elderly or disabled. In fact most of us will probably be each of those things during our lifetime.

So it's not so much a matter of efficiency as accepting the fact that human beings are not born with wheels, but with feet and that they should always get priority, despite any misunderstandings about what the purpose of "efficiency" is in the first place.
not really true - if you walk 10-12 hours a day, i'm pretty sure you could eat anything you were capable of and not gain weight (assuming that you start in reasonably good shape - if you're already overweight then just walking would put you out of the fat-burning "zone")
No one travelling on a sidewalk should go so fast that they are unable to avoid a stationary object.

Edit: extra word
Maily Herald – Rails open source self-hosted Mailchimp alternative
The ZenFounder Podcast. Co-Founders: What Not to Do
Ya I agree. I think there are some basic sanity checks that are easy to forget in the rush to get shit done before launching a page. My minimum viable checklist:

1) Does it work in a bunch of sizes on laptop/desktop monitor?

2) Is it readable/usable on my iPhone?

3) Does www.mysite.com and mysite.com work?

4) Do I list contact info for someone to reach out to me?

5) Do I have some way of capturing signups?

6) Do I have a google analytics snippet working?

7) Is my static content behind a CDN so I don't go down in an easily avoidable manner?

I like to leave this checklist open ended since my definition of 'working' on mobile vs. desktop depends on the project. If I'm throwing an event, it's very important that people are able to register on mobile...if I'm launching an e-commerce store, they might not need to buy but just add their email address.
Some of this stuff looks like cellphone ui sensibilities. Any real scientist would rather get violent on you than getting shot into space with a device that has the movie equivalent of a spinner gif.
In return for stopping short on features, it's incredibly easy to extend (and the work has already been done in most cases). For example, there have been build and log IRC bots for many years before Slack existed.
For those who haven't seen it, here's the original, starring Stewart Cheifet and Gary Kildall:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpXnqBfgvPM
Wouldn't that cause a larger infrared emission (consistent with a young star)?
The pants are cut for squishy office drones. It's for guys carrying an extra 12 pounds who still want a modern tapered cut. The quality is pretty much standard disposable American clothing, that is to say a pair of pants will be visibly disintegrating after about ten washes.
How a self-hosted service prevents you from having channels with customers or whatever else Slack offers?

The only upside of third-party SaaS is that you don't have to bother yourself to set things up and maintain them. Otherwise, I really don't see any limits that Slack can do but a self-hosted system can't.
Yeah, but is kind of expensive if you don't live in a developed country. If I lived in the US I would happily pay what they charge, but here in my country I would end up paying almost as much in Slack as in the office rent.
I'd say, if most of your job is analyzing the data yourself and trying to make sense of it, R wins hands down. Particularly if statistical graphics or advanced statistical methods may be needed, but it's still the case even if they won't.

If most of your job is going to be implementing data analysis techniques that you or someone else has done earlier and putting things into production, then Python will quite possibly be more suitable.
JavaScript Engineer  Liftopia
> The problem is, it's almost impossible to switch completely from HTTP to HTTPS in one fell swoop—there are just too many factors that need to be tested and debugged.

It's not impossible or 'almost' impossible. It's just hard, and requires work.
First Jailbreak for ios9 released
Is there something that would intercept your connection to news.ycombinator.com and supply an invalid certificate?

Chrome seems to be quite happy displaying a green padlock for me when I visit Hacker News.
IF you do your stuff in R, how do you move it into production? Or do you not need to
The historical record is full of key themes and tropes: our warlike behavior as whole, bias for tribalism, hatred and discrimination of minorities and society's propensity to rally behind those things.

To ignore the recent abuse of such data is ignoring the potential abuse DNA collection could enable.
No problem! Not annoyed in the slightest, I enjoy exploring this subject. However, since you mentioned the phrase "miraculous healing" I get the feeling that you're ascribing an opinion to me that I do not have. You probably think most people who talk about the mind/body connection to be miracle-believing nut-bags, but that's not me. To me - a miracle is just a misunderstood event.

Saying that things heal in time/nature is just another way of affirming that "your body indeed has the ability to heal itself". But also consider the fact that placebos statistically quicken healing faster than nothing at all (e.g. just the passing of time). There's just no way that placebos would be used as a reliable control measure without having tested them against the theory that the passage of time is enough. I believe that most clinical trials also include or are compared against groups of people that take no placebo and no drug.

It's also been proven that the emotional pain in the mind can cause physical pain. And it's been proven that depression can cause you to actually get sick. So, I don't think it's a far leap to imagine that the mind can directly and significantly affect things in the opposite direction.
Interesting inducing audio on the wire of a connected pair of headphones. (lousy shielding, coax wouldn't work but nobody seems to have coax headphone cables at the low end :-)

I've always wondered what would happen if broadcast "Ok Google, call 555-1212, ok" over a loudspeaker in a crowded shopping mall. How many people's phones would simply obey?
What's fascinating to me is that now, 14 years after the Segway failed to take over the world and became indelibly associated with upper-middle-class nerds, similar technology is now 90% less expensive, has found a more socially-acceptable form factor, and is actually becoming associated with celebrity tastemakers.

It would be quite the irony if the breathless hype about the Segway circa 2000 ended up being realized a decade and a half later, without the Segway.
[5:15] "Why don't you try installing it again?"

[5:00] Fourth tech support agent. "Something Happened" error message.

[4:15 with Microsoft] Update failed again with 80070002 "Windows Update Ran into a Problem". Looks like we're going the create installation media route. That's the one I tried originally since it allows a clean install...I did a little homework before I started this thing.

This means...you guessed it downloading Windows 10 again.

[4:00 hours]
Well it rebooted and the tech is back. Tried installing Windows 10 and we got a new Error message 80200056. They did something and now we're downloading 2.8 gigs of Windowstenagain.

I got to type my password in while someone was remoted. That's always heart warming.

[We've hit four hours and I can't edit my original post.]