skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don't they know they'd make metric craptons of money on something like that?

They would? Thinkpad margins aren't that great to begin with (which is why IBM sold the business off to Lenovo). So now take out every high-volume, low cost component in there and replace it with something less popular. Because you no longer have those economies of scale you don't have the best fabs so the thermal profile of everything in there sucks, so you have to find some way to put the thing in a lap without causing permanent damage. And then you're marketing the thing to the users of the third-most-popular desktop OS, where the breakdown of market share is something like 90/8/2. But then not to users of the most popular desktop Linux distro, or even the top 10 most popular Linux distros, to the people who use stuff like Gnusense.

Where's the metric crapton of money?
CausalImpact: Causal Inference using Bayesian structural time-series models
brilliant idea!
I suspect it's a blanked credit history.
Satellite Finder Online
The leaked NYT innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age
The negative publicity on Android for bad taste or stupid/dangerous apps (remember "Send me to heaven"? the app that measured how high you threw your phone?) is probably swamped by the bad publicity from malware and spyware. The thing about the App store is so little bad news comes out of it that all the hysteria is over minor stuff (e.g. Apple accidentally banning Civil War games).
I looked through this and I don't like this. Having been a front-end engineer in SF for nearly a decade the number one thing you need to know is computer science. The Steve Yegge hardcore engineering fundamentals that apply to computer science jobs anywhere also apply to the front end where engineers are building sophisticated client side applications.

There's little of that in this handbook. Once you know how to program and understand computer fundamentals, then you can build good software and you can take that anywhere, from native apps, to front-end to working on distributed backends.

If you just learn the things outlined there you're probably going to build, slow hard to maintain barely functional applications. You'll struggle at most technical interviews, and you wont progress.

As an engineer, computer science comes first.
When you're running a SaaS business, your configs are your code in many cases.

Version control is incredibly important for scaling operations. To keep things manageable at scale, you also need to separate concerns properly. But this just means you shouldn't do things like have your configuration API refer to its own repository to configure itself.

edit: CocoaPods in particular is a weird artifact that I suspect will go away now that iOS is supporting dynamically linked frameworks.
Actually knowing Javascript, HTML, and CSS is pretty darn huge if you want to do front-end work. Solid front-end people are very much in demand.
Onsite service is generally a paid add on at the time of purchase. I'ts not uncommon for businesses to pay the extra cost. I've had fantastic <24h onsite repairs or replacements from various PC manufacturers.

I have no idea if Apple offers this sort of service, but if they do, I'm sure it isn't cheap. 3 day, in store, in (limited) warranty repairs isn't the same class of service.
Since when is content theft "hacking"?
Enhanced Presentation Export to PDF HTML and Get/Set Hole Size in Doughnut Chart
It used to be that the discovery of an exoplanet, any exoplanet was big enough news to warrant its own discovery paper. But these days we know of so many planets that putting out an individual paper describing a newly discovered hot Jupiter is a little ho-hum. There has to be something unique about the planet to justify its own paper, otherwise it'll just be lumped in a big data dump paper.
agreed +1
Explain to simpletons like myself how pornography distribution is like measuring weight. I'd love to draw the connection but I'm afraid logic prevails.

Furthermore, if Dateline is an influencing force in Apple product decisions - remind me to smash my iPhone into a million proprietary pieces.
One of the biggest offenses I've seen lately in this regard are developers that keep their database name, username and passwords in their CMS_config (wp-config.php is a big one.)
I would rather just leave bower.json in the repo. What's the point of bower if you're including the /bower_components folder?

edit before someone snarks about rtfa, I did. I disagree. What is the point of bower if you're checking in components.
The Mathematical Surprises of Triangles, Squares and Pentagons
Ask HN: Where can I find high quality writing services?
I'm looking for someone to write high quality article/blog post (about NYC). There are tons of companies I could go with, but I'm completely unfamiliar with this whole area. Any recommendations? My budget is 100-300$ per article.
Once you actually get to an article, having to click "continue" after every paragraph is mildly annoying.

Edit: I am also not a huge fan of the choice to organize the topics by the "high school class" they were introduced in. There is absolutely no reason to break algebra up into "Algebra 1" and "Algebra 2"

In particular, this means you're putting "basics of matrices" arbitrarily with "Algebra 1" when knowing how to add and multiply matrices has literally nothing to do with the other topics in that group.
It will not work. If there is a need for fiat cash in the economy, they will start using euros or dollars instead of Swedish crowns (SEK).

Injecting foreign cash back into the cashless SEK economy amounts to selling these foreign banknotes at any, available exchange point. They cannot reasonably ban these transactions, because foreigners bring these foreign bank notes along with them when they visit Sweden.

If they insist on addressing that issue anyway, they will end up introducing Venezuela-style, self-defeating, absurdistan regulations that will make the situation only worse. They will be up against a growing number of people trading against them, in order to defeat such regulations, and to make money in the process of doing so. As always, it will be full of opportunities to thoroughly bleed them while making a killing.

So, a Swedish economy without SEK bank notes is possible, but not necessarily one without cash. If that is the situation that materializes, they will have made the situation worse for them (foreign cash) instead of better (Swedish cash). You cannot outsmart economic fundamentals, because there will always be lots of money in punishing off such attempts.
May be they wanted good speed, freedom from particularly complicated FPGAs, and not to have to order chips as ASICs?.. I'd like to know too; this could be a good thing to have.
What about bookShelf?
Donald Trump just blatantly contradicted his own website
Actually not. There are multiple strains for each type. A HSV-1 "above the neck" infection does not prevent a HSV-2 infection below the neck.

http://www.jci.org/articles/view/57148
This is 100% false. Per Mertz, Annals of Internal Medicine, 1992, previous oral HSV-1 infection reduces the acquisition of subsequent HSV-2 infection by 40%. That is not immunity.
Got it. Don't work for Joe, terrible boss. Just one of many good life tips.
I've seen that before, but it's essentially the opposite of disavowing isn't it? He's doing quite a bit of rationalizing and misdirecting in that post, IMO.

At the time, I remember being incredibly disappointed to see him hide behind the EULA and "This one seems a matter of opinion." That's why it came to mind immediately and I was curious if YC ever took a more respectable position in the interim.
This is a machine for early adopters - not the followers.
Then how will the author share the results page? That was the task they wanted to accomplish.
I don't think that's true.

http://www.healthcentral.com/genital-herpes/c/86/6903/hsv1-o...
I've worked on numerous elections, data projects, and interactives over the past few years. They're a great asset but the narrative behind them is just as important.

I've had reporters say "I found some data, can we do something with it" and it's not nearly as useful as "I'm writing a story about X, how can we use this data to visualize Y to illustrate X?". It's amazing just how rare that understanding can be from traditional media folks.
Curious, what's your level of HW development experience for FPGA's JoachimS? I'm keeping my eye out for people who might put high-level synthesis tools I spot through their paces. There's two that I think haven't got much review but have potential.
There are two common strains of the herpes simplex virus, called HSV-1 and HSV-2. Both can cause genital sores, and both can be transmitted sexually. Here are some facts: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs400/en/
It's not just a kissing disease. The direct, evident exchange of bodily fluids is not a prerequisite. You can get it from a hand shake. Sexual transmission is only incidental, or rather more or less nomenclature, indicating the rough interpersonal proximity required for transmission, and not the specific acts that precipitate transmission.

People who spread it won't readily display symptoms while contagious. People have it and don't realize it. Doctors don't even test you for it, unless you specifically ask, since it's not life threatening, and most people who would test positive may have had it since infancy.

Simplex I is the more common infection, that even your grandma probably has by now. Simplex II is the skeevy version that your cousin picked up in middle school. Technically speaking, it has to do with the tendency for each species to proliferate in different mucous membranes. The differentiation probably has something to do with the way the human body operates the immune system at different levels in different parts of the body, and over millions of years, each species has adapted to colonize one orifice more readily than another.

Furthermore, HSV I can show up on the mouth or anywhere else. HSV II can ALSO show up on the mouth or anywhere else. You can have both on the mouth simultaneously or both on your junk simultaneously, or one on your junk and the other on your mouth. Each species of virus has a tendency to reside in one area and transmits from that area more readily than the opposing area, but it's really just a liklihood, not hard rules that one only happens here and the other there. That tendency to colonize the mouth is what makes HSV I so common and transmissible because our mouths are exposed to more environments and come into contact with various situations and aren't covered behind clothing nearly as often as elsewhere.
Haven't we learned from that Lego MMO that penis police doesn't work?
It's also intentionally difficult to gain access to the customer's card number on checkout. All the server is allowed to receive is a unique token representing the customer to complete the transaction with. Pretty clever, but I suppose not impossible to workaround.
Abreva is pretty useless. Its really expensive and only reduces the duration of a cold sore by 17.5 hours in clinical trials. That is not a noticeable timeframe to me.
22 Shipwrecks Found in Single Location in Greece
More importantly, if the spec is specific enough, you've essentially already written the program you want to outsource.
You might already have it. Many people who are infected are asymptomatic. General STD screens also don't test for herpes because so many people have it that the stress of finding out is more harmful that actually knowing you have it (or so the logic goes. I've also heard that it's because the test has high false positive rates).

I spent a long time freaked out about this... then I realized that it's basically an inevitability. We'll all be dead in 80 years anyways :)
First, HSV, not HPV.

Second, you're being downvoted because oral outbreaks can be very mild and may just look like acne, or a razor burn, or any number of other normal dermatological conditions. "Just looking for it" is perhaps the worst way to possibly think about any STD.
You need to agree the new Xcode Licence to use git on OSX
$git status

Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo.

$sudo git
Password:

You have not agreed to the Xcode license agreements. You must agree to both license agreements below in order to use Xcode.

Hit the Enter key to view the license agreements at '/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/License.rtf'

###LICENCE ...

By typing 'agree' you are agreeing to the terms of the software license agreements. Type 'print' to print them or anything else to cancel, [agree, print, cancel] agree

$
To restate in different words:

"In developing countries, kids will get herpes from playing in the mud or other things. In the developed world, we incubate kids in sterile bedrooms, so their first exposure to this pathogen is during sexual activity."

This seems very elitist to me - having grown up in a first world country, where I played in the mud and hit things with sticks.
Wordpress seems to be well behind in good dev practices. I do know Drupal adds the settings.php to the default .gitignore. It would take a bit more than simple ignorance to add setting to the repo.
I would think the accountant would be exactly the sort of person who would be in witness protection.

I know the Mexican cartels are now abducting microwave transmission and cell network technicians to run their comms networks. No doubt it'll be microsat experts next (less trudging around).
I haven't looked at the actual board design, but I'm making a few educated guesses based on people mentioning Freescale.

If this is using an i.MX6, one great way to interface the FPGA with the CPU is through the EIM (external interface memory). It allows you a quite fast interface, without giving the FPGA direct access to RAM. It might not be fast enough to connect a 100MSPS ADC, but for many things it's quite great and easy to write both the Verilog/VHDL and the kernel-side driver for.
From the article:

“Errors” were defined as any kind of mistake in the process of ordering or administering a drug or an adverse drug event, which includes harm or injury to a patient related to a drug, whether or not it was caused by an error.
Screw you Chase
Building Reliable Operating Systems Despite Unreliable Device Drivers (2006) [pdf]
The software control SCADA system for the Gotthard Base Tunnel is called WinCC OA, made by ETM Siemens.
Full disclosure: I did a summer job for them in Eisenstadt, Austria in 2012, and my dad uses the same software at CERN.

ETM made software called PVSS, and it was renamed to WinCC OA when ETM got bought by Siemens.
The previous Siemens software, WinCC, was the victim of the Stuxnet worm. Hopefully ETM's is a bit more secure!

This is public knowledge, not insider information:
http://www.etm.at/index_e.asp?sname=div_nw_0209_gbt_e.asp
Phobias: Fear Myths and Mysteries Unhinged
I don't have a Lego Rock Band or an Xbox 360 and I'm doing fine.
all dem down votes. you better get some WP m8.
The sad part is that we are talking about "early" adoption with just 2 months to go for 2016!
It can be bad, but if you're the type of person reading HN, it means you probably can afford Valtrex if you have a really bad outbreak. You may never have a bad outbreak. You may have one and it will clear up in a day.

The hardest part of any STI for someone with access to health care is the fear and the disclosure, but here's one of the best written articles on the subject to say why disclosure isn't so bad: http://thehairpin.com/2012/04/the-perks-of-herpes/
Cebit-india-2015
I've asked a couple of times here, but I haven't had an answer:

I've got an X1 carbon where the vPro/AMT/ME setup screen doesn't load (CTRL+P on boot does nothing, missing UEFI binary?). Can I still activate it in Linux for my own purposes?
Ask HN: YC interview invites are sent. What's up now?
YC application and interview process could be tedious for founders.

I am curious which companies got selected, which didn't and why? How do you feel about it and what you are going to do?
Download link on the site does not work.
You're bound to get it, or maybe even have it already without knowing it, so why worry about it? It's just cold sores, not HIV.
Quality Early Childhood Education: Enduring Benefits
There is some massive pain of having Pods checked in in the beginning of a project, but once you get more stable it's alright.
Also the fact that the CEO/"founder" hasonly one year of college as relevant experience. She appears to be a pop star persona: a face to send to interviews to look cool in PR, fronting for the business machine in the back. And of course there was never any tech, just hopes they ride a hype was into winning Quest's contracts.
Totally disagree about dependency management. If you check them into your repo, people who use your repo to build do not need to fetch other dependencies which may or may not exist over the network anymore. This is especially true if you ever intend to build an old version of your software.

And if your library doesn't support multiple platforms, I'm not sure I fully understand how omitting the source code of a dependency from your repo magically gives you platform independence.
I want to ask a question on this subject. Don't websites get paid for(most of?) the ads only when user clicks through?

People talk about turning off ad block "to support creators", but aren't you supporting creators only by clicking on ads?

Personally, I have probably clicked on at most 3-5 ads in the years before I started using adblocker(by accident). Does it even make sense for me to turn it off if I'm not going to click on links anyway?
I like it on mobile.
If you're doing something more than a pet/toy project then there are plenty of reasons why you would want to check in components.
I took gp to mean that HSV-1 "on top" renders one immune to HSV-1 below,
not HSV-1 and 2 below. And that appears to be true. Interesting that
1 and 2 appear to be "assymetrically" related, from your link: "As
HSV-1 and HSV-2 have similar pathogenesis and host interactions, many of
the concepts for development of an effective vaccine are likely relevant
to both viruses. In addition, infection with HSV-2 provides partial
protection against HSV-1, although the reverse does not appear to
be true, and thus there is potential for generation of
cross-reactive immunity. The possibility that an HSV-2 vaccine may
provide protection against HSV-1 increases its potential value and may
shift the optimal time for immunization to early childhood, instead of
the more problematic adolescent vaccination series." (My emphasis,
references removed)

[ed: to add, I'm not entirely sure on how/if hsv-1 (the same strain of hsv-1) can "move" -- I recall sex. ed. stating that the most common cause of HSV-1 in the genitals and eyes were self-induced -- but that might have been the other way around (HSV-2 moving from the genitals to the eyes)]
There are good points here, but it's possible to take a more sophisticated approach to these things. You don't have to leave configs out entirely just to avoid putting passwords in the repo. Just don't put passwords in the repo. Also, checking in CSS files compiled from Sass (for example) can be a pragmatic way around the dilemma of having to deploy a separate Ruby stack, or have a more complicated build process (small projects only). I've actually never worked in a place that didn't check in images. Where would they go?
You still get easy control of upgrades, new installs, etc. The tool is there when you want it, instead of on every new clone.
Presumably a dental dam would prevent transmission of HSV-1 during oral sex.
Some of us like CocoaPods offering source dependencies instead. Makes it easier to learn, debug and fork. That being said, the quality has gone downhill.

Besides it's easier to manage your dependency in a Podfile than submodules.
I like Akepa. I've used it for months and just bought the Pro version which allows voting for $5. Worth it to me.
Wonder if they can "fix" this by sponsoring an open source project that would find some token "use" of the interface. Then court can point to it and say -- look, another use!
I don't think the problem is the lack of comp sci fundamentals (although yes, there is that) it's that aside from part 1 -- a pretty pointless ramble about "the front-end practice" -- this thing is a crazy collection of links to other stuff without much in the way of curation.

The author recommends three well-regarded books on UI design (I haven't read any of them, but I struggle on) but doesn't seem to have applied them to this handbook. Don't dump an unedited pile of crap on the user -- have an opinion and tell the user what you think they need to know, leave the list of resources to the end.

The problem with this thing is that it's not a "handbook", it's a collection of "useful" links.
A lot of people are suggesting some bad things.

Some people might take issue with this, but as far as resources/classes/research groups in academia/textbooks go, AI != machine learning. And neural networks are a subset of machine learning.

The AIMA book is the best introduction to AI, but only to traditional AI, which consists mostly of planning/search/inference algorithms (brute force algorithms, albeit clever brute force algorithms). It is not a book on machine learning, even if it talks a bit about machine learning.

The Deep Learning book that people mention is not an introductory book on the subject of neural networks or machine learning.

Your best bet is Andrew Ng's Coursera course as an introduction to ML and neural nets.
Put your passwords in env vars people. By that I mean your web server-to-db connection or 3rd party api passwords. See 12factor.net .

Then you can still store your config files in git.
I got it when I was a kid, and still occasionally get coldsores on my lips. I used to mess around with Zovirax and related creams, but now just leave them until they go away (usually a couple of days). No touching, or licking because that just makes them last longer, or worse, spread.
I have one of these machines and it's been great fun so far to hack on. The development process and the continuing work of the community has been great to be a part of.
The high flying startups you know didn't go to market with the engineering processes you mention.
The European Union’s Unstated Ambitions
Small children can also get HSV-1 from things like being kissed by an older relative with an active cold sore.

That kind of thing probably happens less in developed countries due to higher awareness. [citation needed]
Any idea why BlueCoat would categorise your site as "Suspicious"?
Name a successful startup that was beyond reproach.
Keep in min that tex is really old software, from a time when computers weren't as powerful. So it makes a bit of sense that it was architected to make multiple passes over the input instead of storing the whole document in memory.
Supposedly the CHIP computer project has committed Allwinner to open source their SoC. I don't know exactly what that entails since it's an ARM core chip, but I'm tentatively holding my breath for that. I will be extremely surprised if they deliver on that commitment, but if they do it could be really great for the open hardware community.
Some Things You Didn’t Know About Kubectl, the CLI for Kubernetes
That's always been the case, with any command line package that was installed and linked to Xcode. It's not just the latest version.
Surely. I'm just saying modern times call for modern languages, and that makes me uneasy about TeX.
Inside the Wild West of Drone Racing [video]
It's very true that we don't have the full picture yet.

If he has even moderate responsibility, I don't think he deserves any bonuses or similar he got. It doesn't take 'full' responsibility.

But maybe he had almost none, and it's fine.
What Makes Us Happy? (2009)
This shouldn't be downvoted. It's far from unreasonable to attribute these moves to following the "hack/hustle" ethos we hear all the time in Startupland. "Passion" + "exploring" + "small team" + "moving quickly" + "bootstrapping" + "quickly test". It's all there, folks.
Most people don't pay for ad blockers.