skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For any app that can run as a web page, this model will work.

For apps where latency and responsiveness are important factors, locally installed and run apps will continue to rule.

Given how powerful and inexpensive microprocessors and GPUs have become, it makes no sense to go entirely to the thin client model. WebGL is a good example of a hybrid technology.
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Also worth checking out, the $10 Open Source spectrometer that attaches to your phone.

http://store.publiclab.org/products/foldable-mini-spectromet...

The challenge seems to be to understand how to interpret the results. SpectralWorkbench.org is place that folks are sharing scans and comparing.

http://spectralworkbench.org/
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Check out http://store.publiclab.org/products/foldable-mini-spectromet... and http://spectralworkbench.org/
Import NYC taxi and Uber trip data into PostgreSQL / PostGIS DB, analyze with R
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About time. I was watching a CBC documentary on a sanctuary in Louisiana and the US was clearly criticized as an outlier in this respect. The chimpanzees are treated terribly with no regard given for their livelihood. Nothing should have to go through that in my opinion. This policy is a few decades late but better late than never.
Fortunately, we all trust Elsevier implicitly as moral arbiters.
This is a profoundly complex question. Or, rather, answer. : )

Everyone knows one Ken Olsen quote, though few people know it's taken hugely out of context[1] - it was quite prescient at the time (and the next few decades) though with a bunch of RPi / IoT / HUE gear in my home now, perhaps he was wrong after all.

Mind, his anti-TCP position is almost as naive / famous -- but aligned with several other CEOs of large organisations that are still with us.

Is there ever a single sound-byte-able response to the question 'what killed company X?'? Probably not. Perhaps they backed the wrong architecture. Or they naively went up against Microsoft (a very different beast to the cuddly MS of today). Or they disrespected their customers just a wee bit too blatantly. Or their QA dropped unforgivably (or at least uncompetitively) low.

[1] http://www.snopes.com/quotes/kenolsen.asp
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Feature request: show the lines where there is an invalid json parse error.

Right now I'm just getting the "Invalid JSON" in the top-right corner.

EDIT: This one might be a bit of a stretch, but would it be possible to be mongodb friendly? (even though it's not technically json)

Really nice otherwise, good job.
Thanks for the heads-up!

For some reason mailchimp was returning 403s from heroku, this must be related to this morning's outage. This is fixed and I added the emails that failed.
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That's the thing, Elsevier know stealing when they see it.
The company behind that software, HAFAS (which is used almost everywhere in the German-speaking countries) constantly advertises for C++ and Java positions. As far as I'm aware the main part of the software, including the web facing portions, is written in C++.

The software has a long history, the first webserver with it was started in 1995 and even that most likely reused logic from their first version of 1989. So the language choice is not too surprising.
> I personally hate waiting games with pay to win options

The game doesn't have pay to win option.
This means Comcast is assembling the packets up to the application layer for deep inspection and injection, which slows down receipt of the packets because it must receive the full payload before processing, reassembling, and transmitting.
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> It's not reasonable to assume that a human changed their mind that quickly

Those orders were resting there for a long time, it was not flashing.

Like you selling two adjacent houses and see a buyer purchasing one and wanting to purchase another. You understand that he/she wants the house really badly and increase the price for the second house.
If I serve a page with a no-derivative license can I sue Comcast for the license violation? There must be a good way to legally stop this.
What will be the impact of this on jobs? I see a lot of layoffs in the semiconductor industry. I don't know what is the impact on jobs for a firmware engineer. I don't see anything new coming soon in the embedded space and IoT looks like more of a hype than anything else.
That reminds me of a discussion we had when I was working for * (one of the large tech companies in Silicon Valley): The conclusion arrived at was that if a freak meteor would hit our campus and take out just middle management, the rest of the company could come in tomorrow - hold a mandatory memorial service - and go on with their work, with higher productivity.
Cox injects HTML into your HTTP connections. I've recieved popups on pages saying they've spotted traffic from a botnet server over my connection, and that my computer may be infected. I talked to Cox support and they view it as a feature.
Now if we could only convince India to move upmarket and develop new drugs instead of simply making generics. India would be richer and their population of 1.3 billion people would greatly benefit, as would little countries like the United States.
I wonder how many of these "censors" spend most of their viewing time staring at their phones.

I also wonder if any of the other censors are silently annoyed by this because it ruins their film-watching experience.
Sounds to me like a case of not understanding the true cause leading to a case of The Fox and The Grapes (I can't achieve that, so I decide it is bad), leading to animosity. And then they justified that animosity by mixing it into their beliefs (religion - but one can argue the religion isn't a necessary component, just look at totalitarian communist regimes). Yes, probably oversimplified, but I still just see known common psychological traits in action.

I'll take a look at your references later.

Yes, ideology drives the direction. I'm very well aware of that and agree fully. But which one spread and how they spread and how popular they bevome largely depends on factors like, timing, who it spreads to first (influential people or not), the prior context, etc... Different contexts make it more likely for some ideas to spread but not others. Comparisons to virology is actually very applicable.

And a crisis is a typical situation that amplifies the probability of some idea spreading broadly and taking root, and the context and circumstances is part of influencing which ones.
I read your blog post, but it seems that you aren't running a startup in Switzerland, just being an employee.
Awesome! I've been looking for something like this.
The only issue I have now is my laziness to trust the client.
Because although a board/card-game could be calculated on a server. Turn based Games where "a move" takes several user inputs and display actions on the screen can't use a server to calculate stuff. The roundtrip would kill the joy.

E.g move several characters while engaging with the enemy. I haven't come across any good reading material on how to properly deal with that so you don't fully trust a client.
It is the same story as the key performance indicators in employee assessment. People stop working to the wealth of the enterprise and instead focus on the growth of their indicators.
> we saw a clear increase in [the] virus in [blood] plasma

Couldn't this be due to the virus actually multiplying instead of waking up?
On a regulated exchages you cannot bypass official gateway. Though you do not need to. The only thing you want is to be faster than other traders.
A few US state have zero corporate taxes:

http://taxfoundation.org/article/state-corporate-income-tax-...

And a few states have zero personal income tax:

http://taxfoundation.org/article/state-individual-income-tax...
I had no idea until I read your comment. I overlooked "Code". I though Visual Studio is open-sourced and got excited :(
We have a small safe that we use to store sex toys so our kids won't find them. Hopefully if we ever get burgled they'll make off with our sex toys rather than tearing the house apart looking for other valuables (in vain, because we own none)
Depending on the city, some actually do have live(ish) bus location information available through public APIs.

Los Angeles County was one such I think. I used theirs for some information visualization art projects a couple years ago.
"the lens was born ready and doesn't care about your plans" gave me a good chuckle, thanks!
If you need to hire software engineers onsite, I would not go for Switzerland, that is true.

But it goes both ways. Switzerland is one of the few countries where employees do not need to work five days a week to pay the bills. Some tend to work Monday-Wednesday, because 60-80% of a middle-class salary is enough to live on. On Thursday and Friday one can chill or bootstrap something.
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Do you see the same behaviour with all dev tools turned off?
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College is good. Study computer science and learn well algorithms and everything underlying that machine in front of you. Also have a nice experience, make lots of friends and connections because later in life you'll need them.

The kind of connection you make with people you've worked with are different from people you've studied with for 4+ years, no matter what.

And also keep studying stuff by yourself.
I don't think this is coming out of Silicon Valley:

play@primotoys.com

+44 (0) 740 0549 759

Unit T, Reliance Wharf

London

N1 5ET
That's a pretty thin bit of evidence. A simple traceroute tells a different story.

traceroute -n 185.92.223.209
traceroute to 185.92.223.209 (185.92.223.209), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.178.1 0.234 ms 0.256 ms 0.347 ms
2 * * *
3 213.51.189.185 28.455 ms 28.474 ms 28.465 ms
4 213.51.158.2 28.555 ms 28.442 ms 28.535 ms
5 * * *
6 84.116.136.2 28.556 ms 84.116.134.69 40.941 ms 40.837 ms
7 80.249.208.36 40.916 ms 12.764 ms 20.108 ms
8 81.20.72.122 163.443 ms 225.328 ms 237.616 ms
9 108.61.198.3 20.033 ms 24.019 ms 11.429 ms
10 185.92.223.209 15.245 ms 16.994 ms 16.989 ms

Confirmed by a simple whois on the /16:

whois 185.92.0.0
% This is the RIPE Database query service.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
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% The RIPE Database is subject to Terms and Conditions.
% See http://www.ripe.net/db/support/db-terms-conditions.pdf

% Note: this output has been filtered.
% To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag.

% Information related to '185.92.0.0 - 185.92.0.255'

% Abuse contact for '185.92.0.0 - 185.92.0.255' is 'abuse@isimkayit.com'

inetnum: 185.92.0.0 - 185.92.0.255
geoloc: 40.76573368922964 29.789603054523468
netname: Isim-Kayit-Bilisim
descr: Isim Kayit Bilisim
country: TR
admin-c: KK5679-RIPE
tech-c: KK5679-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: isimkayit
created: 2015-03-30T16:37:54Z
last-modified: 2015-03-30T16:46:06Z
source: RIPE # Filtered

person: Kadir Kurt
abuse-mailbox: abuse@isimkayit.com
address: Esentepe Mah. Agadere Cad. NO:75 Kat:1 Korfez/Kocaeli
phone: +908502903344
nic-hdl: KK5679-RIPE
mnt-by: isimkayit
created: 2015-03-13T13:57:32Z
last-modified: 2015-03-30T13:04:37Z
source: RIPE # Filtered

% Information related to '185.92.0.0/24As43260'

route: 185.92.0.0/24
descr: Isim Kayit Bilisim ve Web Hosting Hizmetleri
origin: As43260
mnt-by: isimkayit
created: 2015-03-16T14:52:59Z
last-modified: 2015-06-26T07:29:03Z
source: RIPE # Filtered
remarks: Sirketimiz, ilgili kanun geregi, "YER SAGLAYICI" konumundadir.
remarks: Olusturulan icerikler musterilerin kontrol ve yonetimindeki web sunucularindan yapilmaktadir.
remarks: Kanun No. 5651 - MADDE 5(1) Yer saglayici, yer sagladigi icerigi kontrol etmek veya
remarks: hukuka aykiri bir faaliyetin soz konusu olup olmadigini arastirmakla yukumlu degildir.

% This query was served by the RIPE Database Query Service version 1.82 (DB-2)

So my money would be on the host residing in Turkey.
Oh this is truly sad news.

I first started my online journey with a 300bps Hayes modem and an original 4.77mhz IBM PC, connecting with a service called The Source in 1981. I soon moved on to Compuserve and then, of course, BBSs.

The first protocol I remember using was not Zmodem, but Xmodem, which as I recall, had a really nasty habit of losing its place in the middle of a 2 hour download, forcing you to start completely over.

Remember, Compuserve costed $5/hr(!), so these disconnect/restarts were not only really annoying but quite expensive.

Zmodem solved this problem very nicely...it was smart enough to restart downloads at the point of disconnect, and because of this, Chuck was a hero of my youth.

Rest wel...NO CARRIER...
Now I'm even more glad I moved to Berlin from NYC..!
And this one for the trains in Finland: http://188.117.35.14/vrviewer/VrViewer.html?locale=fi_FI

Click 'x' on the popup and zoom in to Helsinki to see the city trains. The site says the data is GPS location data.
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What did the control group do instead? It seems that video games would be a great replacement/complement to the crossword puzzles people do in their elder years.

While you have a career or if you have a hobby, I suspect any new skill that you practiced would lead to similar mental simulation.
absolutely, once the comments are over in a day or two, i will aggregate all the feedback, sit with the team and prioritise which ones to do..
This is correct. It is only performed after you are sent emails, letters, phone calls, etc. We do the same for when you are about to exceed your 300GB of data. Most people don't give us a good email, don't login to check it, don't login to their comcast account, etc... This type of notification is to cover those people. We are working on better ways to do this, see: https://www.caida.org/workshops/aims/1503/slides/aims1503_ba...

This system is well documented: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108

I'll bring up the idea of an opt-out for users that DO check their mail, email, phone, comcast account, etc...
Perhaps the algorithms should be used (or statistical analysis of hiring retention) to gauge hiring managers... :-)
> pre Seamonkey naming

Maybe you predate me but when I jumped on the Mozilla bandwagon at Gecko 0.7.1 the internal name for the suite was Seamonkey. It was only after Firefox that the group maintaining the suite started using the internal name as the public branding.
Real time London Transport Visualization. Available on GitHub too.

vizicities.com

ViziCities is the first project to visualise the entire London Underground network in 3D using accurate station depths. Not only that, we also visualise real, live trains moving along the 3D network.
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Thanks ctstover for getting the ball rolling...

An even more egregious quote is "Last week, I wrote about new evidence that shows Earth’s climate system has moved into an unprecedented state over the last several months, at least since the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago."

We have no exact data on what temperatures were like during the Medieval Warm Period or other earlier warm periods (Roman and Minoan, both less than 4000 years ago). There is no way to say whether or not El Niño conditions caused higher spikes during those times, but it's highly likely they did based on simple statistics.

http://hot-topic.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/easterbroo...

The other rather important data is that the biggest spike in average global temperature during the 1998 El Niño was considerably higher than the current spike so far. In fact, so far this spike has not even topped 2010.

http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_t...

In short, this is breathless hype from Salon, promoting climate related panic in the hopes of pushing through a globalist agenda at the upcoming climate conference. Shameful!
> When not excessive, I feel this is good for both of us.

While I also agree that it doesn't feel wrong to experience something on a screen as a family, we should always be wary of "it feels good/right" as a reason for believing that something isn't bad for you in the long run. That's a slippery slope that has led to plenty of negative trends recently. It's far too easy for people to latch onto things that are good in moderation and let those things slip into over-saturation.
No need to speculate: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108
While it's against most bank TOS, that clause has been ruled uncompetitive and therefore void by courts. As far as I know there is only a single German bank (DKB) that officially cooperates and gives them API access. For the rest they use web scraping, the banks are not allowed to (intentionally) break it.

The banks don't like that payment processor and therefore just started a competitor where you only give your credentials to your bank. Hopefully it gains traction.
I live in a small town in Georgia and literally my only internet access options are Comcast and AT&T. AT&T's service here is fairly slow compared to Comcast's offerings, and since I work from home remote for a company based in Florida I have to choose the fastest options available to me, and that's Comcast. I would love to have more options, but I just don't.

I only pay for internet access, I don't use their cable TV or telephone offerings. Internet alone is about $80/month. I just ran a speed test and I get 14.1Mbps down & 8.6Mbps up. I forget which speed tier I'm paying for, but I know I'm paying for much more than that! Ugh...
I am happy since moving from Mendeley to Zotero. I like that I can store my pdfs on dropbox, and use Zotero on many different PCs. Mendeley's insistence on absolute paths to the database prohibited this.

Zotero's use of Google Scholar to extract metadata from pdfs made it easy when starting with several thousand pdfs.
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Porterhouse seems to be missing but it's on OSM and Overpass Turbo. The Dawson Lounge doesn't seem to be on the map either

Also DTwo is there yet Dicey's and Coppers are not, which seems odd (Krystle is on Overpass too), so maybe it's just the definition of 'pub' used that's throwing it a bit e.g. Dandelion isn't listed, yet it seems Capitol is. That could just be due to the small map though and I'm reading it wrong (Maybe Capitol is JJ's actually)
People don't check their email, some don't know they have a comcast email, and most don't give an alternate.
I really dislike this line of thinking. It assumes things can't change. Microsoft as a corporation is just a brand, the people have come and gone and with it much of the ideology and decision making thought.

People that think this way have a ridiculous amount of brand loyalty which really means nothing. The people change behind the brand all the time. It's clear that MSFT is changing. It's clear from the people that I've talked to that work there. It's clear from the messaging by senior management.
> does not actually result in stopping these incidents

My point was that collecting it all isn't necessarily about stopping incidents, it's about instantly knowing everything about a terrorist once they are identified through other means. There's certainly value there and the debate is whether or not the cost is too high.
Even with all the positive support from parents this kid is an extreme outlier.

Terrence Tao supposedly knew numbers from Sesame Street at age 2, but I do not know of any avid kid readers at age 2.

I know plenty of kids ages 3-4 who know the alphabet but none are actual readers.

In fact I know plenty of kids who "read" a book at age 3, but they are not reading the way we adults are they are imitating the reading process.

Anecdotally I was a relatively early reader at age 5 (reading whole scary Grimm's tales) but my mom keeps insisting it was age 3 when I know it was not.

So if he really was reading at age 2 and half that is showing advanced potential.
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It is very sad, but our Bill of Rights is getting eroded by horrible legislation. Our founding fathers predicted this bad government behavior by giving us the B.o.R. Now, we are just standing here watching it be slowly taken from us.

Edit for clarity.
I live in a large town (Boston) and the situation is not much different.
This is the root of the problem, and it is being worked on: https://www.caida.org/workshops/aims/1503/slides/aims1503_ba...
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I think you may be misunderstanding something. The owner of the copyright has exclusive rights to prepare derivative works (or authorise someone else to do so). There are certain exceptions. What's unclear about this?

Maybe "used in any other way" confuses you? It's standard legal language and it means publishing, public performance, creating mechanical copies, etc. The possible uses of a copyrighted work are numerous and due to advances in technology that list grows constantly. This expression makes it unnecessary to list every known possible use, or yet-to-be-discovered futures uses.
> The UK law adds weight to our position; we are ensuring that those with "lawful access" (in UK legislation speak) have the right to mine our works.

Emphasis mine, I wonder if that was a slip or intentional.
EU proposal to clamp down on Bitcoin curb terrorism funding
I enjoyed reading the article, but there's a pretty good chance this is PR for Scoot
So finding a way to sneak an obfuscated bug into a library used by Webkit now yields 500k? Opens the door for a whole new class of 'open source monetization strategies'. Seems like it starts to make sense to pay people to infiltrate core dev groups of infrastructure libraries.
Reuters bans RAW images
What are your options for satellite internet? The pricing these days seems very competitive, and although latency is (much) higher it should be ideal for the vast majority of use cases.
seems to be down from here. cached version

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xaUrkJ...
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10593453 (38 points, 4 hours ago, 16 comments)
The pollution shipping causes is really not taken seriously enough. Much of overseas production of cheap products is possible because of cheap shipping, but the environmental impact of this is going to cost us dearly.

One report say 16 of the biggest container ships produce as much pollution as all the cars in the world: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1229857/How-1...
Peter, one of the people behind GraphHopper, here.
Let me know if you have any questions
Seems more like a glorified link list to me than a "knowledge sharing" tool. Such a pity, I'd be really interested in someone tackling the IMHO much harder topic of real persistent knowledge sharing (wikis, knowledge bases) - which suffers from constant abandonment, irrelevancy and still the need for everyone for good documentation.
EU plans to crack down on Bitcoin after Paris attacks
We've known the answer for some time: mastery. It's the same reason we play sports, instruments and other "unproductive" pastimes - we desire to get good at something and enjoy demonstrating that expertise.
I'm sorry, that sounds brutal. I live in Brooklyn and thankfully there is competition from TWC, RCN and Fios here. I have TWC cable at 300 megs down and about 50 up for about $60 a month. The cable television is still horrible and an enormous rip off.
Your comment seems to imply that said regulations are tougher than needed, and that if "FDA and European regulators" would loosen their standards, it would be a good thing.

Did I understand it correctly? Why is it so?
You know you live in a first world country when that's considered "the fastest option."
You just made my morning.