skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The MLS team in Kansas City was initially (in 1996) actually named the 'Kansas City Wiz.' It was later changed to Wizards (and later still totally renamed after changing ownership hands). Their games against the (also since renamed) Dallas Burn generated a lot of childish jokes, as you might expect.
"the more complex stoves that run on electricity or burn liquid fuels typically cost more and require access to a steady and cheap supply of fuel, which often isn’t available in rural villages."
Google does not sell "users", that's why it is inaccurate and misleading.

What would you say of a private highway that sells billboards? If the business model of a private highway is not tolls, but instead selling ads along the road. "You're not the user, you're the product?" Would you say the highway owner is selling the personal information of the drivers?

The people buying billboards do not receive any personal identifying information about the drivers, they are instead buying access through an auction, like if this particular highway feeds into a sporting arena, then it is likely a good place to put ads for football fashion.

Within Google, Gmail/Inbox are Products. Their success metrics are user happiness and usage statistics. Like many startups, Google produces products which get marketshare and please users first, and then figure out the business model later. Google itself was launched with no real business model. And when Gmail was created, there was probably no plan on how to make money on it. They just wanted to do something awesome, and Gmail was born.
"Men’s interest in workplace power, on the other
hand, was unaffected by the degree to which they wielded power at home." - Does this mean men desire power regardless of situation and do not substitute power in one scenario for that in another?
The Vikings tried that, but they found that in practice, most of the time the more competent swordsman won. There were professional duelists who made a career of going around the Nordic world, making fake claims on farmers' land and challenging them to trial by combat to determine who was the rightful owner...

You might get more interesting results if both sides had to be represented by a duelist of equivalent skill. ("If you cannot afford a champion, one will be appointed for you by the court"?)
I was being serious.. I hate obituaries where they don't say how the person passed...
Blue Belt Technologies Acquired by Smith and Nephew for $275m
Pyston 0.4 released
If you think you are being targeted as a suspect, that's one thing. If they are asking you simple questions (which is what a lot of this is about, people think they are helping law enforcement, when really they are being targeted) and you believe the law enforcement officers you are speaking of are willing to break the law on little provocation, your decision as to whether to cooperate or not should be more nuanced. Try not to say much without a witness of some sort, preferably a lawyer, but also try not to upset them. At that point are basically the same as mobsters, so act accordingly.
There is a similar entity for visual art, the juried exhibition or juried publication. Submissions are invited, which are reviewed by a jury of artists, and the best are invited to be in a gallery show, or a publication.

But you have to pay a flat fee that covers the cost of the process. And this flat fee can be way more than it actually costs to review work -- it's basically profit-taking by whoever is putting on the show.

And further, you have no real reason to believe that your work was actually seen. The jury could have just tossed it out and selected works from their 12 friends. These shows are generally regarded with great suspicion, but still, artists pay to be included. (http://joannemattera.blogspot.com/2012/01/when-do-you-stop-e...)
Take a look at source code.
Phoenix in question

1) outdated, version used is really really old (0.8 or so)

2) Database pool set to really low value unlike other participants (~10x lower)

3) Configured to do many things other frameworks skip, like generating csrf token

All these points were fixed already but, most likely, new results will go to Round 12
If you read Keynes, you'll see that capital ROI is the inverse (1/x) of the share of their income that the population invests.

Yep, that simple. That's called investment multiplier, and economists were discussing at the late 00's how it could vary from one company to the other given the Keynes' identities.
Because we are being manipulated by multi-billion dollar industries to believe it is a willpower issue.

Carbohydrates are broken down into sugar during digestion. Sugar causes a hormone called insulin to be released by the pancreas. Insulin causes the body to store energy as fat. Therefore, carbohydrates cause your body to store fat. It's that simple.

Americans are obese because of carbohydrates, not willpower. As someone who never got to know his grandfather because of obesity, I have very little patience for the "calories-in, calories-out" myth.

Eat fat.
I'm a queer person. I don't find scripture-based Christianity to be a particularly good moral compass.
I've got an iphone 6 for work, and an S6 edge for personal use. I can say with confidence that the Samsung camera is better. However I will say they're close enough, and they're both so far ahead of the pack, that you could flip a coin.
I wish more people realized this. Evangelical christianity has its own crooked morality, which is entirely based on the infallibility of "born again" christians. What for most people is a sign of hypocrisy, for them is just a normal way of conducting business. Their use of the bible is a great reinforcement for this mentality. For example, if a christian leader commits a serious crime, they instantly point to their bible heroes such as David or Jacob (who also had seriously flawed ethics) as an example that christians cannot be opposed by non-christians even when they are wrong, and those chosen by god will always prevail despite their moral failings...
None of it would be possible without BEAM and Cowboy :)
Cowboy is a huge driver for our great numbers. It handles the tcp stack and websocket connections for us. As I said elsewhere in this thread, we are doing more than just holding idle WS connections open, but we're standing on the shoulders of giants as far as cowboy and erlang are concerned.
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/274780565_Measuremen...
Ask HN: Brightplay or Armadillo
I'm trying to settle on a name for my new education startup for young kids (5-8). We are considering two options, Brightplay and Armadillo. Which do you prefer (if any) and why? Thank you!
Arbitration by combat exists. It's called war.
Dilay – a free 3D sculpting application
That was a rational argument. You know as well as I do that if you explained it the way I did above most people would not care. But instead you insist on the "you're the product" FUD nonsense to elicit an emotional response. Spreading FUD is a demagogue's job, I would never condone it.
And yet 80-year-old academic theory holds up very well. Seems many neglected to study the basics, in favour of parroting whatever the ruling class wanted for self-interested reasons.
The Challenger site seems to consistently crash Firefox if you have https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/react-devtool... installed. I don't know if React was used to make the site?

Not too sure if is this something that should be reported to Mozilla or to Facebook.
> I'm not convinced that the Blackberry hub will work as well on Android as it does on BB10

There is no technical no reason for it not to work, or work much better under QNX than it does under Android.
Unless it is a safe, the thief could just drill into the battery.
Google Keep is actually maturing into something quite useful, especially if you also use an Android phone and other Google apps. You can set reminders, easily create lists, and even add collaborators. There's both web & mobile versions, and it also integrates nicely with Google Now & voice commands.
You raise a very important point. I'd hope that there is an actual finite (and relatively small) corpus of approved, manually white listed answers that transcend through Google accounts. You might get personalized options based on what you write most but they would not show for other people. Would that be enough to satisfy this concern?
Not just tech – lady DJs speak to their xp, and offer advice to potential allies
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

How is a user's karma calculated?

Roughly, the number of upvotes on their stories
and comments minus the number of downvotes. The
numbers don't match up exactly, because some votes
aren't counted to prevent abuse.

My interpretation: I suspect the abuse being referred to here is voting rings. If the system believes the votes are coming from members of a voting ring, they won't be counted.
A police officer's insight into the mental health crisis in Skid Row
It'd be surreal if the stars on their flags were bookmarks.
If you've made no statements, you can't be charged with lying (whether the charge is actually true or not), unless you say they lie about you making statements.
I recently talked to a CFO who put it like this:

For the sake of planning: The difference between what you paid (you have to exercise options for this to matter) for your shares and what the are worth (see the company's most recent valuation) is counted as income for the current tax year.

If you hold the shares for more than a year, the money you make on a sale is subject to capital gains tax. This is indeed affected by WHEN you buy shares, so make sure to take monthly purchases (if you vest monthly) into account.

When you file your taxes: Hire someone; don't try to do this yourself.
Order status and package tracking are extremely popular features of Google Now.
It would be great if Blackberry launched an Android-based Passport. I'd get it without thinking twice.
> sometimes very useful features which may be considered unorthodox like "Gmail telling you when it thinks you wanted to attach a file but forgot".

That one's not that hard.

http://marc.info/?l=mutt-dev&m=95685122323646&w=2
Read only and no browser integration. :/ at least they publish a python module to speak to the agilekeychain
Why it’s good to learn “useless things” in school
The Un-College That's Training $100,000 App Developers
We already have large commercial customers pushing more than a million data sets per hour for bulk processing.. its a fairly common use-case for us.

Also, you are greatly over simplifying these problems with a "I could build that" type statement. In my experience (more than 15 years as as professional software developer) this is something junior developers say all the time...

While i'm sure you might be able to roll some of these yourself in most cases its a waste of time and money and the constant maintenance of data is a real problem (as well as the quality of data). Some of our methods have taken a long time to perfect and test (years!) while other methods you would just not be able to implement yourself (e.g. HLR)

Lets examine one of the more simple APIs: IP Info (IP Geolocation). So you wan't to roll this yourself and run on your own gear. OK first, the data source. You need to find a quality source of IP geo data and load that into your database of choice. Great it works well, job done. Not quite, IP geo data is changing rapidly these days (mostly due to IPv4 exhaustion) so you have to keep downloading (and most likely paying for) database updates. The provider doesn't provide an automated way to do this, so you have to build that as well. They also seem to charge a lot of money for the "full" database. Later it turns out some of their data is highly inaccurate, so you have to find other suppliers, they use a totally different format so you have to re-implement that as well.. I think you can see where this is going..

That's just a trivial example. Most of our APIs are far more complex than IP info is and require much more work and maintenance to keep running.
This article is part of a larger series by the NYT on the rise of arbitration: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/business/dealbook/arbitrat...

The difficulty is when there is a power asymmetry in the original agreement, as there normally is when it's an individual signing a contract with a larger organization.

Two large companies agreed to arbitration? Stick to the original agreement, as both sides paid lawyers to advise them on what to do, and there was almost certainly a negotiation. But individuals don't, usually, have the resources to hire lawyers or the ability to do the kinds of negotiations required to get favorable contracts. In such situations, I am troubled that we can end up signing away our ability to appeal to the courts to intervene on our behalf.

If this issue gets enough press for a long enough time, I could see legislation that voids arbitration clauses in certain cases.
That's a very professional process.

Sad, but true. Not about the Swift part (I have no opinion there) but about the analysis and review of shipped bugs.

It should really be "that's an industry standard practice", but a huge amount of software development seems to be done in ways that don't have any systematic way to attempt to learn from mistakes.
One of my favorites of all time. Everybody should watch this at least once.
Ask HN: Sunrise Calender users, what app will you switch to?
Microsoft is shutting down Sunrise, once integration of the Sunrise team and product into Outlook is complete.

What Calendar app are you going to switch to?
> What would you say of a private highway that sells billboards? If the business model of a private highway is not tolls, but instead selling ads along the road.

If it's funded primarily by the billboards and not by the drivers, then yes, the billboard purchasers are the real customers. And that could potentially lead to poor results, such as optimizing for billboard viewing time rather than safety and throughput.
Yes and no. It was caused by too much exposure to debt, so when asset prices dropped banks and consumers became insolvent.

Low interest rates by themselves wouldn't have caused the recession, although rates probably should have been higher during that time period anyway.

Also keep in mind it's only recently that Keynesian and left-wing economics has become fashionable once again...
More than just the ads (which you may not have if you're on a business account), you're also taking advantage of AI processing for the spam filter.
Holy straw man, Batman. I'm pretty sure "utopian paradise" is not the same as "sensibly doing some things differently from trying to fit every enterprise and institution into the investor-owned private model."
Interactive Visualisation of “Piano Phase” by Steve Reich
I have the Galaxy S6. Camera is wonderful. Battery life is crap. Going iPhone next.
Just a guess, but with Apple, you trade cost-effectiveness for robustness and reliability. By using Macs as the computer and OS X as the UNIX-of-choice, they are able to eliminate entire classes of errors related to drivers, hardware-compatibility, and system configuration. Apple knows its hardware very well and OS X has (mostly) sane defaults, but I agree it is an atypical choice.
ok. will see round 12.

But why did you downvote my comment? I was just reporting a fact, a benchmark that was performed by a third-party. It's not like I was voicing a weird opinion or fabricating truth.
I've thought about getting a used H2S detector on eBay, but ideally you'd want to test and calibrate them, and there's the rub.
Great. I've been working through the pluralsight react courses but I liked your Sublime stuff and am excited to give this course a look!
I noticed a weird behavior with the eyedropper but it did work, partially. For me, it worked when the inspector was side-docked in the window, but not when it was free-floating.
* Your chimney's exhaust is just another person's air when it's as concentrated as you'd find in places like those described in the article.*

This is true but does not change anything as even now the exhaust would get out of the building, just more inefficiently. It is staying likely closer to the ground for longer too.

Of course for long term solution a concentrated and well filtered power plant with an accessible grid would be a best solution. But even then an exhaust hood above the cooking place is needed.
Here's a relevant link: http://phys.org/news/2015-04-gravitational-constant-vary.htm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Phase
I mean if you're not willing to find your replacement, I think the answer is pretty obvious...
If you skimmed it, then you should read it again, in full. Because it didn't say what you think it said.
What exactly do you need to take downtime for? With careful planning this should rarely be necessary unless you're doing something like upgrading the database version.
There are people that can handle alcohol just fine and there are people that can't. I tried to imply that I was talking about the second group by adding the word 'abuse'.

Having the occasional beer should definitely not be criminalized and I'm the last person that would suggest so, in fact I think that no substance abuse should be criminalized as should be clear from reading the above comment.
Apache Spark Machine Learning Scenario with a Large Input Dataset
The point is that it's a plainly obvious rational argument that is the ground state of the discussion, not some brilliant insight that once it is revealed to people they're sure to see it your way.

And it's not FUD to point out where money flows really come from. In fact I find myself wondering why you are so passionate about people not talking about it? It's not an invalid observation, a lie, or something irrelevant, so people aren't going to stop talking about it. Generally jumping up and down and shouting "Stop following the money!" is, well, not how conversations on HN go, shall we say? If you're searching for something to be contrarian about I can provide a few better candidates....
Interesting - lack of active directory integration, and lack of on-prem solution is disappointing though.

Edit: since someone is apparently upset over my comment - those two features are absolutely mandatory in almost all corporate environments. If you have a comment to the contrary, feel free to share it. Don't just downvote my comment because you don't personally need the features.
This Facebook Video suggests it has had months of either training or development, which sounds might be it learning by playing, reinforcement learning in this space could be very interesting - more details would be good.

The two breakthrough papers using Deep Conv Nets to play Go - trained on Expert Games to predict the Experts Next Move.

This is made possible by the huge archives of expert play from online Go servers that have reached Big Data sizes in the last few years.

Teaching Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Play Go - Clark & Storkey Edinburgh Informatics 2015
http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.3409

Move Evaluation in Go Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Maddison, Huang, Silver, Sutskever Deepmind 2015
http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6564

David Silver has work on Reinforcement Learning and Go: Reinforcement Learning of Local Shape in the Game of Go Silver et al 2007.
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?view_op=view_citation...

Go is scored by occupying and surrounding territory and the opponents pieces taken.

The current State of the Art programs use Monte Carlo Tree Search with each move being evaluated using random playouts - this is well suited to Go as it reasnoble estimate for comparison of the territory that will result from a move.

As the Go search tree branches a lot (~200 branches per play) tree search takes some time and cannot be exhaustive.

The Expert Move Predicting Convnets provide very good moves very quickly, and can provide and provide probabilities the expert would move for each square in a single forward pass.

Most of the current development now centers around using the Convnets to prune the search trees for the random playout MCTS engines.

Go is useful from an AI perspective because it is a huge state space and the patterns are subtle with long term implications. No computer can yet beat the best humans - so it is an area where natural intelligence beats artificial.

Yet the convnets are not doing planning, only predicting what an expert human would do next, the planning is implicit in the dataset but not a part of the convnet itself (though the internals of deepnets are mysterious so who knows).

The Computer Go mailing list is very lively and full of the best program creators with regular computer tournaments against each other.
http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go

The Facebook video shows GnuGo is the opposing player, this is not the best computer player and suggests Facebooks player is not as strong as the Convnets as yet - it also does not detail how deep the playouts of the tree search are, i.e. what level GnuGo is playing at, so this cannot really be compared to recent work.

Hopefully Facebook will publish more details soon - if they are learning through play then their results may well be interesting.

Remi Coulom's excellent slides detail the Monte Carlo revolution in Go programs.
http://www.remi-coulom.fr/JFFoS/JFFoS.pdf

AFAIK MCTS with Random playout and hand coded heuristics are still SOTA.

When I visited in the summer Edinburgh Uni Informatics Department convnet Go was in active development.
WebStorm Forrst Theme
Ha! Sorry! I know the feeling too, there's a guy who keeps a mighty big interest in a website I run and I stumbled on his catalogue of its/my goings on.

Hopefully this doesn't reach that level of awkward and your info was really cool to see in that Reddit thread.
Wow, tough room! So much negativity. Whisper Systems, thanks for making encryption simple enough that my Mom can use it, and open enough that I can trust it. That is the success story here.
Escrow.
Hey, remember that one time when this feature was Gmail's April Fools Day joke[1]? Kind of funny how it's now a serious and actually useful-looking product.

[1] https://www.gmail.com/mail/help/autopilot/
Thank you for your help with the 1Password for Teams infrastructure!
How China wants to use an algorithm to rate its citizens
My best period was when I got my first job as a programmer.

My worst period is now. I am 61, have been unemployed for two years and I sometimes wonder if I've retired and just don't know it yet.
This event spooked me forever against Textsecure. I've seen moxie's reasoning for moving to Gapps, but I don't know if I (or the the unix world) agree with it. If I had a gun pointed at my head, this tactic (making an insane choice that boils down to "it's encrypted. what could possibly go wrong?") would be my canary of choice. I'd probably mix in some Lennart Poettering, "it's the future, get on board," to make it extra-obvious, though.
Bush 43, was that the one that presided over the inflating housing bubble that burst in 2007, as well as a ballooning federal debt? A Democrat had to clean up the mess, so I guess you could call it a long-term success.

Notably the only US president since 1980 that achieved a balanced budget was Bill Clinton - unsurprisingly, he did so by raising taxes.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/FYFSGDA188S

By the way, did you know that Keynes wrote of the Laffer curve already in 1933?

http://www.liberal-vision.org/2010/12/17/keynes-and-the-laff...

Of course, the important question on which opinions differ is where is the peak of the curve.

Given the data the US has collected over the last decade (see link above) it is immediately evident that current levels of taxation are to the left of the peak.
It seems similar to https://github.com/scalableminds/invoice-compiler ( which i forked for a ERP app to https://github.com/nicojuicy/report-compiler ) but the documentation isn't upto date on my fork :(