skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting idea. Took me a moment to figure out what the actual results would be (beyond "garbage"). But unfortunately it doesn't sound very useful. What you'd end up with is a structure that reports a tri-state value: "Yes I've definitely seen it", "No I've definitely not seen it", and "I have no idea". With the added drawback of having to know your data set size in advance to tune the bloom filter (or resetting it periodically as the article suggests, but that weakens the "No" answer to "Not since my last reset").
if you re-read the above comment imagining yourself as someone reading it many years in the future you can really appreciate it much more. thanks for putting me on that train of thought.
It's interesting when you look at the temperature record that the data sources are NASA/GISS, but the record goes back way further than these organisations have existed. So we ask, where does the data come from?

The bulk of the earlier record is from standard weather stations enclosed in stevenson screens, which are dotted around the globe in cities and remote areas. The number of these has varied over the timeframe shown here, as some have been abandoned over the years, and the nations responsible for them have changed.

A first, obvious question one might ask is: Where can I get the raw data for all of these weather stations since the recordkeeping began? To which one might suspect there's probably a freely available corpus for all climate scientists to look at.

You'd think completely wrong though. There is no data. The data from these stations is aggregated in national weather organizations, who publish only an "average" temperature. Most of the raw data archive is lost. What data you can actually acquire (perhaps you can get more if you have 'credentials'), is rather limiting, and vague as to what it represents.

This is the main reason I look at climate science with a pinch of salt. All of the scaremongering depends on this so called temperature record dating back to 1880, but they're comparing apples and oranges. In any science experiment, you take the variable you wish to measure and attempt to keep everything else constant. In climate science, the means of measuring surface temperature is allowed to be variable - it's changed significantly since 1880. The recent record uses satellite imagery in addition to the surface measurements for example. Still, climate scientists are treating it as though the data they have is from a fixed number of weather stations in fixed locations, where any human activity around them can be considered to have no effect. This reality doesn't exist.

What is really behind this data of NASAs is "an adjusted view of surface temperature from 1880 to 2014", where the adjustments are made based on hundreds of theories and climate models proposed by many other climate scientists (albeit in peer reviewed works). I want to believe that the state of AGW is as dire as it is made out to be, but until I have the raw data at hands reach for any of these publications, and we can start comparing oranges to oranges, I remain sceptic.
This seems like an alright solution, but I think an LRU or LFU cache would perform better (they wouldn't have pathological cases like two colliding events that frequently alternate), and you probably wouldn't have to implement it yourself.

I also think it's a bit much to call this "the opposite of a bloom filter". A bloom filter has a lot of properties that don't come through in the algorithm proposed.

For one thing, the space required is O(MN) (size of an element * size of the filter) instead of a bloom filter's O(N). For another, bloom filters give the same results regardless of what order previous elements were added in. It seems to me that if you're looking for "the opposite of a bloom filter", you're probably wanting those properties.
I have no qualms about removing the cap but one simple condition: Pay rate is at least 90th percentile for the company or the industry as a whole, which ever is greater. The more you hire (and if your company is a consultant company), the higher the salary gets pushed up because according to the corporation, it can't find skilled workers to do the job. Well, if you can't, then they must be quite valuable, so you should then compensate them and pay for it. It'll be a bit costly, according to the company, is worth it because there's no one else to do the work.
I don't understand... we've been an industrialized world (and by all accounts, a far dirtier one) for over a hundred years now. Why do the big shifts seem to happen between 1980 and 2015
thanks for the links! Atlas is on the post.
On the other hand, getting your team spoiled like that can easily make a product that only works for people who have top-of-the-line conditions.

e.g: (2nd hand info - might be wrong) There's a recent Batman game that fails to work properly, and in fact, was essentially pulled from the market and re-released almost unchanged once common-enough gamer machines (still not "very common") caught up with the specs needed for the game.

another e.g: Facebook now does 2G Tuesdays[0] in which network speed is (optionally) purposely degraded to 2G speeds, to make sure that the technologically spoiled Facebook engineers and designers get an idea of the service their lesser-equipped users get.

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-2g-tuesdays-to-slow-...
I feel uncomfortable using maps these days too. Something about the dynamic moving and bouncing of elements when I'm just moving my mouse makes me insecure. I can't easily figure out where to find things.

I've started to use bing more recently.
I highly recommend Anki: http://ankisrs.net FOSS Python app with mobile clients and a sync platform. Uses flash cards with powerful templates and a spaced-repetition algorithm. Great for languages as well as anything else you want to learn and remember.
Didn't George W Bush try giving $300 to every tax payer? What happened to that scheme?
However, it is possible to consider another, fundamentally different, scenario. What if the brain, as all other visceral organs of an organism, does not need any special recuperative rest connected with total interruption of functionality? What if the brain, like a computer, can work efficiently for long periods of time, and observed “sensory isolation” of the brain during sleep just reflects switching over for processing of another flow of incoming information?

We should not forget that sleep-deprived animals die not because they become blind, deaf, have forgotten the ways to a food tray or because of serious problems with decision making. They die mainly because of multiple visceral disorders in virtually all life supporting systems, including the immune system (Rechtshaffen and Bergmann, 2002). At the same time, the brain appears to be the most resistant organ.

...

Thus, the central nervous system during sleep might be involved in the process of visceral regulation.

That's a fascinating theory, I never realized the brain is never the primary cause of sleep-deprivation induced death. What sort of regulation do "visceral organs" like the immune system need that, if you don't sleep for long periods of time, they start to fail?
Website doesn't work on iPad
Gamma rays from the Milky Way's core look ever more like signs of dark matter
Tumblr’s New Messenger Is Chat for the Cool Kids
It's time to kill Surface (2014)
This paper misses the bigger picture that genomics is a Big Data problem. Setting up pipelines to put together perl, bash, python, and C++ programs is not where the field will be in a few years time.
Are you sure that all 10 of your family members need 15GB of email storage?

Even if they did, it's $3.33 per family member per month.

And if they don't need that much, it's only $0.83 per family member per month.
The problem with only having "A" talent is that you become very vulnerable of bias in your own criteria. People often primer more concrete skills like in-depth knowledge. While sometimes you just need people who are more motivated to do whatever. It's a classic problem of successful sports teams for instance. They buy a lot of high profile players that end up not working very well together, won't adapt to new situations and are sensitive to failure.
Do you expect the website's author to read your comment here?

If not, what's the use? Mail him if it bothers you!
Apple Pulls Popular Instagram Client 'InstaAgent' for Malware
Can someone put 2011 in the title?
I think the general idea that results should be the only relevant metric is good. I'm a bit worried that the mantra could have bad long term implications though. Iirc. I read a study from the domain of education science that basically said "always praise work ethic, rarely praise results" and it seemed convincing at the time.
[I'll see if I can find it later and edit it in]
What a great, useful read...maybe its text density doesn't follow best practices for a slidedeck but something about dividing up all those code examples across slides made this the most engaging multi-language writeup about Unicode. I always think I know how complicated it is but I think the OP set me to a new level of realized ignorance.

Though I also like that my perceived difficulties with Unicode when moving from Ruby to Python are not just imaginary or out of ignorance, but seem to be actual differences/flaws in implementation. Also did not know about the `regex` module for Python, which aims to replace the standard `re` (and was just updated this week): http://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex
Or when you leave your country.
Of course Verisign controls .com. That was never in question.

Again, there are millions of use cases where .com doesn't matter.

You alluded to some control that some large entity (which I only assume to be Verisign) exercise over every important domain. I take it that was never the case?
These slides are from 2011, so some things have changed for the better in the interim. For example, Python now uses a flexible internal string representation that ensures that characters in a string are always whole code points, addressing the "inherent brokenness" called out in the slides: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0393/
I noticed the same behavior by hobbling their time down to 10ms for each.
I suspect that's what was meant by "one".
Thank you for thinking critically about my comment! As I mentioned I am an amateur at stats and I now think I modeled the problem wrong.

Let's hypothetically suppose that we knew that 75% of the studies were replicable. Can we make a better coin flip prediction? If you had a coin flip that says yes 75% of the time, it isn't necessarily correct at a rate of 75% -- instead it'd be right .75^2+.25^2 = 62.5% of the time. In fact a coin that just predicted "replicable" every time in this scenario would be right 75% of the time. So I think maybe my null hypothesis should've been based on "did they do better than a parrot that always says yes", not a coin flip.

I think the math in the original problem stays the same, it's just you change it to "a coin that always predicts it will be replicable". And in that case, if the underlying rate of replicable was 71%, then their prediction market only does as well as the always-yes coin and is in fact not very useful.
It's not fair to call Fastmail "a bit pricey" when your point of comparison is a special circumstance you are in that is not available for new users. In general, Google Apps is $50/year, which is 25% more than the comparable Fastmail plan.
Various temples in Cambodia:

http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/ngg/AngkorWat/

I also think it was Ta Prohm that had some plaques depicting the computer reconstructions they used to help rebuild walkways out of piles of rubble.
I think that is economic nonsense. Risk taking does not merit any rewards otherwise it would be a sane strategy to just maximize the risk of any endeavor.
right on. PS cloudnative.io looks cool! Looking forward to playing around with it.
Other than formalism what new stuff does this introduce that text OT libraries (such as google wave(?), etherpad, etc) haven't done?
The moment you have anything other than utility in mind, you are off into lala land...
Quality and quantity are not necessarily opposed.

People like Ford and Edison used to believe that you could get more quality as volume increased. And in fact, if you wanted to increase quality, then you had to increase volume.
What service level agreement? Most licenses for freemium apps sale the product "as is".

I agree that candid people may make binding promises that they were in no position to fulfill, sometime not even noticing. And I agree they have to pay for that mistake. However, you cannot force them to derail their lives for it.

There are bankruptcy laws for people who over spend money, so they can cut their looses and not end up being debt slaves for the rest of their lives. And the lenders who are foolish enough to give money to someone who is obviously not solvent to pay back are at least partially responsible. Why should it be different for creative works?
This is why graphic designers should be kept as far away from projects that create things that must be used by other people and not just admired for their beauty. The current subway map is a good map because it was basically designed by sociologists. Sociologists should be doing much more designing than what we ask of them today. This is one of the reasons the current map shows some but not all curves along a train line- the sociologists figured out that if a curve can be felt onboard a train then it is best to try to reflect the curve on the map. To not do so makes people feel uneasy. If I need beautiful or creative content for my art gallery, graphic designers are invited. If I need to create something useful then they are not.
Fair enough. Original comment edited to clarify the "pricey" bit.
This is actually a really bad idea because of attorney-client privilege issues. By having a third party record the call, Uberconference or Gmail or Rev or Zapier itself, and it being sent forward to several other services, Soylent most likely waived any claim of privilege they may have in the event of litigation.

If you are a company considering doing this I would be very cautious.

I commend the hack, but unfortunately the legal world of ethics isn't moving as fast as technology.
I'm not even a Google employee, let alone a Gmail developer, so I don't see how is it insulting. I'm simply explaining why I don't see the problem being reported.
New strategy for extracting americium could pave way for recycling nuclear waste
None of that requires manually transcribing numbers. Here's what the ranked paper ballot looks like that we use in SF. This is entirely scanable by machine.

http://californiawatch.org/files/imagecache/image-full-width...

Notice that it says (hard to read in this image) in the second and third choice that the selection must be different from the other choices.
With such a positive feedback you should really tell us the name of the upstream
PHP now also has intl, which provides access to the gamut of functionality of libicu, so the php part of the deck needs a near-total rewrite.
How Facebook Is Stealing Billions of Views [video]
Despite the uninteresting title, this is a pretty large release from Nvidia.

Release summary:

* There are now Maxwell powered Tesla GPUs! The M40 is the K40/K80 upgrade, has 12GB of RAM and 24 SM's of compute capability 5.2. The new M4 GPU is a low power consumption Tesla that looks like it's targeted at video transcoding. The M4 has 4GB and 8 SM's (CC 5.2).

* Nvidia added GPU support to ffmpeg. This looks like it makes it significantly easier to encode videos on Nvidia's GPUs. I think this will work with any Kepler or Maxwell GPU.

* GPU REST Engine. This looks like a framework that maps REST requests into GPU tasks. I'm not exactly sure why these concepts aren't orthogonal, but the documentation suggests this is non-trivial because it balances work across multiple GPUs overlaps data fetching, data transfer, and compute.

* NVIDIA Image Compute Engine. An image resizing service built on top of GPU REST Engine framework.

* Nvidia is working with Mesosphere to add GPUs as a resource to Mesos. This will allow Mesos task proposals to request GPUs.

* There is some sort of better integration of CUDA with Docker now.

My thoughts on this:

* I'm interested to see the price point of the M4 since the "low power Tesla" is a new product for Nvidia. I'm interested in how it compares in price and power consumption to GeForce cards.

* GPU support for Mesos is exciting, because this + some non-trivial modifications to TensorFlow would be an awesome framework to train neural networks.
Or in 1996, it was easier to put up a page on your website which panders to some hypothetical internet libertarian demographic that might vote for you.

Ultimately this is just typical American presidential political theater. By election day 1996, Dole and Clinton were in almost total agreement on internet issues. Telecommunications Act, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, etcetera.
Null Object Pattern in Swift
It's not uncommon for authors to read HN comments on their content. It also serves as a warning to fellow HN users.
An idea that was too idealistic to survive real life. Or was it too complicated? I was reluctant to contribute to products because of a perceived mob rule - and backend engineers were outnumbered by frontend and UX folks.
I submitted this because I think it and the original HN discussion[1] are interesting bits of history. 18 months ago, it was debatable whether the Surface line was worth continuing. Now it's a compelling and profitable product line. To me, this was a very unexpected turnaround.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7784739
I'm the author of the article. All the other web mail clients from Yahoo! Mail, Outlook.com, Comcast and so forth support the style tag. If it was a big security attack vector, all those clients wouldn't be doing that.

The other webmails rewrite ids and classes and prepend unique identifiers to prevent them from clashing with their own namespace (AOL is the only one that puts it in an iframe).

Interestingly Gmail webmail actually supports the style tag but strips out id and class selectors in them leaving element selectors - so they're actually doing some heavy duty parsing already.

As for it being an inherently text medium. I would say it depends on the recipient. Emails do not need to be web pages, but simple CSS styling can go a long way to ease readability in emails - especially in a long curated newsletter like Product Hunt.
I have my GMail configured to send email from my .edu address through my school's SMTP server. Fastmail supports this too. Look at your IT department's website, they probably explain how to configure it.
It's a shame that people need to be reminded of these.

For some reason, people tend to see the past through rose-colored glasses.
Alibaba busts Singles' Day sales record with 12 hours to go
At the scale of Theranos / Holmes you can easily borrow against your huge wealth. She was pegged recently - before this mess - by Forbes as being worth $4.5 billion.

The best option would be to go to a giant firm like Goldman Sachs. They would have written her a check for $100+ million prior to all of this unfolding. They might still consider it, but Goldman would do a very thorough rectal exam of the company and its prospects now.

If you wanted to borrow against private wealth of the sort Holmes was sitting on, you'd avoid common banks. Not because they won't give you a mortgage on a house, but because it wouldn't be even remotely worth the hassle of going through them. If you just wanted $500k for a mortgage, your best bet would be to make a call to one of the big VCs backing you, they'd cut you that check under all sorts of arrangements with hardly any questions asked.
Broken on mobile and hard to navigate on desktop. Here's an easier version: http://output.jsbin.com/qewonisinu/1
>5 Port Backplane (Marvell 9715 Chipset) $43.85

Where exactly does one buy this?
A good graphic designer will work with people like sociologists, psychologists, etc to convey the information in the most effective way based on some set of requirements. If a graphic designer does not approach their work in this way then they aren't really doing anything.
You May Doubt If Magic Has Been Indeed Leaped in Real Life
Not only is this site still up (I'm assuming parts of it have gone down since it was originally posted), but the web-design firm that built the site still has a functioning front-page, made with the rock-hard kind of HTML design that maintain its appearance and functionality for at least the next decade of browser and standards changes:

http://www.presageinc.com/Presage%20Digital%20Stratgies.html

I think 1996 were the days in which high school age kids could get $30-$50 an hour making webpages of this quality for local businesses. That's not bad small town money when you adjust for inflation.
Wow this is disturbing. One wonders whether this is a transitory time for kids that they grow out of, or if the future becomes more dystopian quickly.

I also wonder if this is a just a symptom of rich-kid schools. I can only hope your typical state-school student body is more rational.
Фига, вы таки выложили код!
Вах!

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I second a Dell XPS-13.

I've been using the Dell XPS range since 2012. I've had 2 Dell XPS-15, and last years Dell XPS-13(the newer one is even better).

I only use Ubuntu, so i just replace Windows(eventually, might keep it around on dualboot for 6 months or until the next Ubuntu release). It's a breeze to use. The only time i've had problems has been the shutdown/suspend sometimes get stuck. Other than that i've not had any issues. The hardware like wifi, graphics all worked without me doing anything.
"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

Also, the writer of the article worked on google wave.
Not sure I even need a visual programming environment as I'm comfortable using a command line and hacking stuff together in Sublime.

However I am highly visual and visualizing the impact on the results would be really helpful. I deal with a lot of analytics and data as part of my day-to-day managing digital media. I often find that I can easily spot trends just by glancing at data visualizations, and infer insights from them.

Further, being able to visualize the nature of the functions/data/etc. would also be very helpful. I tend to need to visualize something to fully grok it.

If you have any suggestions for a more visual take on machine learning that is beginner friendly, I'd love a link.
When we hire people we just say, "What hardware and software do you want/need?" and take care of it.

Things like a computer, monitor and mouse are such a commodity it's just best to get it out of the way. And the most it's ever cost us is about $3,000 for a top of the line, maxed out MacBook Pro and Thunderbolt Display. But that's a Haskell developer making $150k, so that's a no-brainer, and gets you off on the right foot.
posted twice earlier this week, earliest at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10521211
Author here. Haha yes I write on experimental techniques like carousels mainly to get developers curious into the kinds of stuff they can do with just CSS.

I'm very aware of Outlook's backward HTML support, but at least its a single client. With Gmail, each of their clients has weird quirks that make it frustrating to code for.

As developers sometimes creating HTML emails are necessary, such as creating system generated reports for business users. Right now, the process is fraught with issues - including figuring out Outlook, so fixing this does not just benefit email marketers alone.
Ran it in chrome and it came out to a draw.