skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shame on Ars for this clickbait trash- with "In mice at least, although humans might want to be cautious." as a subtitle it is hard to take the rest of the article seriously. Then you find out they were injecting mice with some unspecified amount of THC within Saline solution (please correct me if there is a specified amount, but I had to dig to find this at http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2015/10/09/1514962112.DCSu...)

"THC (THC Pharm) was diluted in 0.9% NaCl
(saline) solution containing 3% (vol/vol) DMSO and 2% (vol/vol)
Tween-80 and administered intraperitoneally (i.p.) at a final dose
of 3 mg/kg to pregnant females for 5 consecutive days, from E12.5
to E16.5. Control mice were injected with vehicle solution."

This will be on Fox news within a week, and when it is- they will monger fear in older generations (those who typically control laws by either voting or creating bills) that are too lazy to research and come to their own conclusions.
It's not. stock wiggles are very close brownian noise with an average direction of up at ~6% a year (random walk, EMH, etc)... and yet, playing this game, I seem to be able to time the tops and bottoms of my trades. I think the camera is leaking directional information in how it pans.
Haven't checked 2015Q3 yet, still using 2015Q2 where it's available. It might be broken or failed to build in 2015Q3 then :(
Show HN: Byte – the game. How quickly can you translate 8-bit binary in 30s?
>And there are still enough people using Gecko and Trident . . . that you can't just target the intersection of WebKit and Blink and still have any reasonable kind of coverage.

You mean "union" not "intersection".
I took a $200 ASUS ZenFone 2 to Yellowstone – and took some awful photos
When an article doesn't get a lot of attention, it doesn't count as a dupe to repost it. (with caveats, of course.)
Absolutely. Automating this would be a great idea, was actually what I thought was happening on first watch.

It's clever as since the image is small, isolated graphics and the interaction is quite close to the surface it helps with reducing the typical problem of shadows obscuring a projection.
15% of the US population is on Medicare. 27% of households in 2011 had someone receiving Medicaid. Nearly 50% of houses get some form of federal welfare, WIC, CHIP, etc. Our system might not be perfect, but let's not pretend like we live in a "Fuck you I got mine!" world even if someone doesn't think we should adopt something like single payer.
It is awesome. Here's a docker image that'll serve as a tile server. Add a JS library (I use d3) and a OSM snapshot and go.

https://github.com/geo-data/openstreetmap-tiles-docker

Note: a bit finicky.
Actually, it's not. He's taken the mean average over the course of 30 days to get the average number of searches per day for all users. That doesn't give you the average number of searches per user per day!

In order to get the mode, you'd need to know how many searches each person does each day. You can't get the mode from the figures he's been provided.

But in the article, he wrote:

"I tried modelling what search activity probably looks like on mobile: I used a mean = 0.925 (as per Singhal) and mode = 0.5. The mode must be below the mean because of the long tail of higher values; 0.5 is a guess, but moving it around doesn’t have a large effect. This gives a median of 0.94, close to the mean, which you’d also expect."

He made some guesstimates which he used as input parameters to form a Pareto Distribution.

As for the mode always being less than the mean, that's wrong too.
Looks like you even type with an accept :^)
Curl's api is turrible.
Auntie-Player: iPlayer POC on the New Apple TV
Yes but unfortunately people look at up front costs and not end costs.

$200 to someone living in poverty is more than a month of food, while $20 up front + $40/ month for a baseline limited text and call plan seems far more manageable.
I'm pretty sure it does not have a man page. Read http --help instead.
Monitor the Internet
I don't believe there are full time engineers at Google making less than 6 figures. Right out of college at Google I'm making 105 base and way more with stocks/bonuses.
If the times wants to be the news of record, it should do a better job of reporting on news rather than editorializing or trying to sway opinion or garner a writing prize for "investigative" work.

No doubt Amazon has bad managers and may have toxic work cultures, but for the Times to be shoddy in reporting is surprising in light of their house cleaning after the fake news reporting by at least one of their previous and now disgraced journalists, but no, it appears he was more symptom of the management of the NYT rather than mr Blair being a single bad apple.

It's also surprising to see the management dive into what's degenerated into a spat. Report news, dont get into personality fights, keep composed, stay above the fray, if you purport to be a news org.
Are they planning on not relying on a 3rd party root CA and instead, ask all browsers and OS vendors to include LetsEncrypt CA? IOW, is this [trusting IdenTrust] a first step, or is this the original goal?
Probably because it has browser in the url or something idiotic. Complain to your IT staff who use blanket rules on their gateways,
Agile isn't a methodology, so it can't be a snake oil methodology. However, it's also not a set of quantifiable, unambiguously decidable metrics for evaluating a set of methodological choices, either, so a lot of different methodologies, some of them snake-oil, get sold as Agile (and some which aren't snake-oil get sold in a way which obscures the actual indications for use, which turns then into effectively snake-oil even when they have, underneath, something fundamentally sound.)
You are right. Getting things cleaned up is definitely one of my highest priorities. I appreciate the reminder.
Maybe you should make an actual point instead of talking about made up fantasies?

I can't guess what every person means from behind their screen. I can only read the text you post.
I understand the history of copyright, but in general I don't understand why copyright can't be an incentive for governments to create and maintain information products such as maps, just as much as it is for companies/individuals. Without copyright and the ability to charge for use, the government might not want to spend the larger amount of money to create or maintain the dataset.
Movie Search in Foursquare
too many bits, did not view
Do you also reject democracy because all brutal dictatorships call themselves The Democratic Republic of X?
Git remote dropbox – Use Dropbox as a Git remote
What is the paleo diet? Eat like a caveman
Before I can wholesale share it, I have to go through to figure out which ones are locked in to ACM/IEEE to exclude them from the list. The rest are [mostly] disorganized because I started pulling them in batches of 20-100 a day. So, there's a little work to be done there before I can publish them.

I've saved your username and email somewhere so I can notify you when I get around to doing that. What topics are your core interests? My main focus is high security IT and software/system verification with a number on programming, hardware design/synthesis, software engineering, networking, databases, filesystems, OS's, and high-performance computing. Might send you a few samples of each in your interest to let you see the kinds of things people overlook. I should have time this week.
I don't think this is one of those cases. Agreed that when the press goes off the rails (I've had this happen once, a reporter tried to get me to say something I really did not want to say on the record and the cut and pasted my words until they supported his foregone conclusion) it is not nice. But when the press reports actual wrongdoing you should address the problem, not attack the press. Shooting the messenger is usually the wrong response.
Show HN: Veruca.io a search engine for recruiters
Intel Launches ‘Greenlow’: C236 Chipset and Skylake E3-1200 v5 Xeons
My point was that the value of the hardware may not be reflected in the retail price of the phone, the purchasing psychology doesn't matter there.

It seems that there are lots of ~$100 (or less) phones shipping though, and they are quite a bit less capable than the one I bought.
Information leak #1: Scale Changes - noticed this but could not put my finger on defining it clearly.

#2: Date - along the bottom edge the date progresses. Knowing generally that the market did well during certain multi-year ranges was an absolute edge. Too bad the real world doesn't come with this kind of information.
Why Is the Democratic Party Afraid of Larry Lessig?
It's obvious why this is the case imho, typing with your thumbs suck, and I don't want to say "anti-itch cream" out loud into my phone so I'll wait until I get home.
> The fundamental truth about health care is that no amount of taxation or insurance can live up to the demand.

Yup. It's worth all of your money for me to live an extra day—to me. That's the fundamental problem with insurance and end-of-life care.

> If you go the insurance way of the US and try to let market forces rule then you end up with highly inflated prices

It should be noted that while the U.S. employer-purchased insurance model is extremely broken, it's not really a free-market model. We've not had a free market in healthcare for a very long time (and of course, if we did have one, there would be issues about fraudulent marketing and credentials).

And let's not even get into issues of personal responsibility and choice. Should others underwrite lung care for smokers? AIDS medicines for the promiscuous? Mental treatment for drug users?Are some personal choices acceptable, and others not? Who decides? If a majority, who protects the minority?
> According to his numbers, the mode is precisely 0.

I was referring to the fact that the graphs - e.g. https://theoverspill.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/screenshot-... - are using using mode = 0.5
Well, I'm Scottish and I don't have a particularly strong accent (at least by the standard of Scottish accents) and my accent appears to be beyond any kind of voice technology (Apple or Android).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU [NSFWOS]
Thank you for posting context where it lacks. I've thought that site has had some, well, issues for a while. Mostly when they decided it'd be a great "scoop" to go deep into their forum archives for anything and everything Snowden had said there. While it was within their rights, and an interesting story as a concpet, the execution was so tabloid and tone-deaf to criticism I figured there weren't the type of site for me.
Anecdotal, but I've never been witness to a project where requirements changed so drastically it led to failure. I've seen MANY "Agile" projects where effectively no analysis was done however. Which then reliably leads to failure.

EDIT: To add:

If the success metric you're using is: From the client's perspective, do they get what they asked for, when they were promised, for the price they agreed to?

Then I've seen a majority of "Waterfall" like projects succeed. And the ones that don't typically "fail fast" in the analysis phase.

I've never seen an Agile project meet that bar. By the time they're canned they're usually already way over budget and while a team might imagine they've "delivered value" the projects are (IME) canned specifically because it became evident they would most likely be handed over to another vendor and the delivered version scrapped entirely at some point.

I also find it frustratingly comical that projects are routinely compared to assembly line work (Toyota assembly line philosophies) when they have a lot more in common with the design and development phases of car production. Agile in the small perhaps, but overall an incredibly structured process with a lot of planning and analysis. Unless you want a car launch 3 years late that costs 50% more than you promised. Nobody wants an "Agile" car (unless you've already set aside your deposit for a Tesla Model 3 I suppose ;-) ).

If I were a client, there's no way I'd ever give a anything bigger than a low six figure project to an Agile shop. For a process intended to lower risk, I've only seen it do the opposite.
another example of augmented reality : http://www.battlekart.eu/fr/accueil
Tech Bubble Pops: Dropbox Warned It Can't IPO at Its “Private Valuation”
If I am not sharing something alive, I have no wish for that to be shared after I am dead.
As far as I know all EU countries are signatories to the Berne convention on copyright, and so all of them have the concept of copyright. It is just that copyright is not the only intellectual property rights that apply, as you pointed out.

Authors rights (or "moral rights") are not a big problem. While you usually can't sign those rights away, they don't generally prevent the author from signing away distribution in perpetuity, so while you can't get "total" public domain in those cases, you can usually sign away most of the rights people are most interested in.
It looks like the paper says they were given 3mg/kg THC per day for 5 consecutive days. So it does seem the dose is specified.

It's pre clinical and far from surprising but 3mg/kg is a lot of THC, the equivalent of using ~1g of strong stuff by yourself (assuming no THC is lost during consumption).
I always thought that Morphic was extremely interesting, but I never could wrap my head around it. Clearly it was used to do some cool things in Squeak, and obviously the problem is that I was either insufficiently intelligent or experienced, or too set in my ways—but it seemed very difficult to understand.
I work as a developer within an ad agency context, so please keep that in mind.

I moved from Pittsburgh to New Orleans in 2011-ish and I love it here. I currently live on the North Shore, but I lived in Orleans Parish for a while.

The developer community is small, but it depends on where you're coming from, I guess. A lot of people here see the region as being on the forefront of things, but when I was in Pittsburgh everyone had the same idea. I figure that most regions have this opinion of themselves, but I feel like it was more true in the case of Pittsburgh. Maybe I see it less because I'm outside of the city now? shrug

Where are you coming from?

Are you looking for more info on the job market? Companies to work for? Meetups? Or something else?

Feel free to drop me a line via email—it's in my HN profile.
How did they make you sign something, in a situation where you were resigning (however they internally scored it)??
Bloody hell, it's even worse than I thought. Even if that data was correct though, it's not showing what he is saying it shows.
Millennials Are on YouTube
i'm not the type to call a title "misleading", and this is definitely not misleading in the traditional intentional sense...

but, lets be clear here. a LOT more than "50% of people" do 0 searches per day. i mean seriously- wtf? "50% of people"?

"more than half of all searches incoming to Google each month are from mobile" is the qualifier we are looking for.
When I was traveling overland in central Asia, everybody I met was using maps.me with OSM. The maps were of surprisingly good quality and maps.me is superb, allowing the maps for whole countries to be downloaded (ideal if you don't have a data plan) and the route calculation is quick as long as the road grid isn't too dense.
> but I don't have anyone to help me get it off the ground.

Have you defined exactly what sort of help you need? If you can get clear on that, then it's a relatively easy process to zero-in on where that sort individual hangs-out either online or in-person. Say there's a meet-up in major hub city. It's worth making a special trip to attend. You might need to have 100+ conversations till you find the right person.
The only thing OSM is missing is a good open places database
I do search on Mobil as one offs. Quick search. When I'm looking to buy or compare I do it on desktop where I can have multiple large windows open which I switch back and forth and do additional searches based on serendipity.

On mobile I feel "caged in" psychologically, but that may be influenced by having had the desktop experience as my first and also my primary experience in search.
Some individuals have negative value.
How DevOps overcomes traditional dev and ops mindsets
You should probably remove the 28-MB image from the readme.
It could be something where a short term optimization does not apply to a long term problem.

Take running. Trying to get from point A to B as fast as possible requires different strategies depending upon how far apart they are. A very short distance is best done by going all out 100%, but if you do that for a marathon you'll be beaten by someone who paces themself.
Of course, root, without it I couldn't do a thing.

I have Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 but older edition, battery is still fine, the OS got slow, even on factory reset, so, I decided to root it and runs much faster - pen use was not that great before, now it's perfect.

Note that the act of rooting didn't have anything to do with the speed up, after installing a custom OS with GPU optimizations for drawing graphical elements it worked great.
That doesn't say not to use pip install. It says not to do it as root. So yes, pip install away
That's no surprise.

Phones are a consumption device when it comes to internet stuff, not a creation device and to do a search you have to enter text, which is (at least it is for me) more trouble than it seems worth. I can wait with most stuff I could do while on the move until I'm home, and I can use my phone to make calls. I don't remember when was the last time that I used the browser on my phone for anything at all. On those few occasions where I absolutely had to search for something while on the move it's a small inconvenience to have to boot the laptop.

If text entry were easier on phones I'm sure this percentage would go up but since keyboards have been declared 'out' by the design departments this is unlikely to change much.

Witness the signature lines 'apologizing for the brevity of this response but I'm on my phone' and more evidence like that that people do not like to enter text on a phone any more than they absolutely have to.
Minecraft Isn't Educational
The problem, which I've stated, is not that Let's Encrypt is doing something bad. It's that they have zero economic incentive to protect their brand when a subpoena comes for their private key. If you think this doesn't matter, I honestly recommend studying economics. I'm not being sarcastic at all. In fact, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_security, albeit short, is a great place to start.
Re: Sinusoidal vs Sawtooth patterns, in fourier analysis a sawtooth is just a bunch of sinusoids with the phase aligned. I wonder if these sharp transitions just occur when many factors with different frequencies happen to align in phase. 1848 and 1968 come to mind as years when this seems to have happened.
Probably there is no availability in any booking class, so trying to book fails at the inventory check step.
None of my cards are signed and the merchant never checks the back of the card or asks for ID after signing. In a lot of cases AMEX doesn't even require signatures for purchases.
I do a lot of mountain bike trail mapping work using OpenStreetMap, and it's really bugged me that more public-service mapping projects (eg: MTB Project) don't build on OSM. They all tend to instead build their own mapping set which requires stuff to be re-entered... It's kind of a pain.
Ask HN: Good Amazon EC2 tutorials for beginners?
I'm new to Amazon EC2. Having setup an EC2 instance after following AWS' getting started guide, I'm looking for some simple tutorials to get an experience with the EC2 workflow and recommended frameworks to use in different scenarios.

Just to begin, I'm trying to code a program as follows: 1. Query few open datasets (eg. weather datasets) 2. Retrieve the data 3. Save the data on Parse.com to make it searchable
The Messy Story Behind the Making of “Destiny”
Not really into using darwinian language, but I like the focus on fitness.

It may work better for customer-facing products ("Market Fit" is a thing), but It may be harder to sell it for internal products ("Functional Fit"?)
The vigor with which Amazon is fighting back, for me at least, conforms that there are serious problems going on.

It reminds me of cases when someone is guilty and at the slightest mention of the problem they start swearing up and down that they are alright, and everything is fine.
Arachne is another, it's interesting because it can run on DOS or on Linux without a framebuffer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10419516
> I still think the 2003 editions were the best

Yet LibreOffice is said to be comparable to that version.
There's a lot of pressure internally, I think, to refute the whole thing and go into full-denial mode.

After all, Amazon's culture got this way for a reason - and it's not by taking complaints seriously, admitting to cultural failures, and making real substantive change.

So, background, I'm an ex-Amazonian, converted from internship to full-time along with a few dozen others, so we all kept in touch on FB. Nearly all of us are gone now - nearly all of us left within 2 years, a few have stayed on as long-term Amazonians.

When the NYT article first hit it was kind of a weird sight. Among the (legion of) ex-Amazonians the response has been pretty universally "yeah I recognize the Amazon in this article". Among the (few) current Amazonians the response was universally "all lies! slander! hit piece! yellow journalism!". The gap was startling - every single one of these long-term Amazonians knew many ex-employees, some they called friends, who left disgruntled and unhappy, and yet here they are insisting that the whole thing was a pack of lies.

Odd to say the least, but lines up with what I saw myself internally when I was there - criticism of Amazon's culture was always met with overt hostility and vehement denial on the internal mailing lists that discussed such things. It never seemed like an environment where change could take root simply because no one was willing to own the failures to begin with.

Bezos made some conciliatory gestures, but I'm personally skeptical - even if he's serious about change, the rest of his company isn't.
Is this the same Charles Arthur who contributes to The Grauniad[1]? If it is the same person, then I am not surprised by the lack of cogency.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Grauniad
An Overreaction to Food Allergies
Not that I necessarily disagree, but how did you arrive at $3 million per year?
"So, like alcohol, another recreational drug that is legal in the US, marijuana is likely best avoided by pregnant women."

This is so refreshing to see articles made with a neutral tone about marijuana and not the usual "IT'S EVIL" talk. It's a recreational drug like any other. You wouldn't drink when pregnant, you shouldn't smoke either. Those fact shouldn't be related at all about whether the substance is legal or not.
I think the main point being made by the author is that without the waiting, day after day, combined with the external confirmation bias of hearing how other stocks are outperforming yours (you thought you did great on your trade, until you hear Google could have made you multiples more); you are missing a ton of the statistical noise that screws up your trading.

Don't throw out the entire argument with nitpicking on a minor misunderstanding re: institutional trading. The main thrust of his argument is clearly valid.
Okay, I understand about the 50 shares now, and the rest of your descriptions of how this work makes sense too, thank you for explaining this clearly.

Going back to NFLX example, I have one more question. You said that NFLX was trading at $100 yesterday, so where does $7.00 a share come into play? Are the shares not $100 a piece?
The NYT Partners with Google on Virtual Reality Project