skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New money mistake. You don't change the world by putting your money into non-profits but rather cultivating a dynasty that has tentacles in business, government and thus policy.

You consolidate this kind of wealth into the proper channels to influence public opinion and thus a much greater sum (measured in trillions) over a greater time to get the real change you believe in.

It's a good gesture but a losing strategy. But it's his money to do as he pleases so, cheers Zuck.
i'd be interest in his analysis of popular YC companies, AirBNB for example
What Happens to Your Heart When You Dive into the Sea
Neither do the lawyers, usually.
Sorry about your troubles.

However, you can use Django AllAuth (https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth) to achieve an email login system by tweaking its settings.

Specifically:

ACCOUNT_AUTHENTICATION_METHOD = "email"

ACCOUNT_USERNAME_REQUIRED = False (if you do not want to use the username field)

More here: http://django-allauth.readthedocs.org/en/latest/configuratio...

Cheers!
On Being a Data Puppet
> The dude is literally trying as hard as he can to fix problems in the world

lmao, you're kidding right?
I know Hyperloop has a ton of naysayers -- partly because the initial price tag of $6 billion is most likely a severe underestimation -- but...

It has the potential to make a tremendous impact on society, much more so than self-driving cars in my opinion. Just as a simple example, imagine what would happen to the Bay Area housing market if people could live in a ~300 mile radius and still get to work in downtown SF in less than 30 minutes.
Show HN: PHPHub Android – An open source Android application
if you can not beat it, kill it?

3 things

1) it's a platform: the flash platform

2) inside this platform you can find many runtimes: Flash player, Adobe AIR, Redtamarin ( https://github.com/Corsaair/redtamarin )

3) you program those runtimes with a programming language: ActionScript 3.0

as long as there are runtimes to run programs it not gonna die

enjoy ;)
Where was twitch.tv hosted before the acquisition? Bandwidth on AWS would've costed a bomb.
Kayne and Kim named their son, North
Mark and Priscilla named his daughter MAX.
Can the Macbook Pro replace your iPad?
Researchers Developing Wearable Cognitive Assistant
They did stream an NFL game this season (exclusively) so they still try this every now and then I suppose. It was one of those "odd times in the US" games held in London iirc.
I wonder how that game worked out for them/what the internal goals were.
Badum tish.
Pop Culture Is Finally Getting Hacking Right
Yes you did say actions in that last post. I'm fairly certain your flagged post argued for "coming down hard" on people advocating for certain things rather than doing things. I'm fairly sure, given the tone, that I would still disagree with whatever you mean by "coming down hard"/"not tolerating", but this is getting speculative so I think this is a moot point.

> Biblical punishments on gays

Where does that come from? Was that what Eich wanted?

As far as I know, there was no advocacy for violence (something we do punish but in a due process, legal manner).

Are you arguing that you see no difference between 'death to the sinners' and whatever notion of 'sanctity of marriage' Eich might have espoused?
My X1 Carbon appears to be almost wholly unrepairable, but it's not like any of the similar alternatives I could buy are any better.
Maybe, but when we're discussing the real world and especially lived experiences, these details can help to provide context.
http://www.unclaw.com/chin/teaching/antitrust/herfindahl.htm

disclaimer: recovering attorney who studied this in law school long ago. no longer practicing.
Unless the type of work you do requires concentration, and you are easily distracted by external stimuli.
> Now he's giving 99% of his wealth to a charity he controls.

Which is just a way to setup a comfy retirement where you make more from the money than you have to give away to be considered a charity and everywhere you go is now "business" as long as you give some money away on the trip. Make 30% on investments, give away 10%, avoid all kinds of taxes and appear charitable all the while still in control of the whole fortune. Color me skeptical.
Search still is a significant source of revenue and growth for them.

1. http://adage.com/article/digital/yahoo-s-display-search-reve...
I found Josh's code a couple years ago and had this very project working. Not as well documented but the concept has been around for some time.

https://github.com/joshlf/magspoof
I've only been through that CBS link, but it's almost comically awful; a good reminder of why you should avoid nearly every story about a complex issue from a media outlet. As a representative line:

"Mayors in 29 cities say more than 1 in 4 people needing emergency food assistance did not receive it."

But at any rate, you completely misunderstood the parent's comment, which alludes to the fact that any American with enough disposable income to be browsing HN is in a rarified stratum of wealth globally, and has plenty of opportunity to donate it to the less fortunate.
Ask what your country can do for you
Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Adele-“hello” SUPERCUT
"I don't even know what kind of programming those languages aren't a pain in the ass for."

If we limit the discussion to ML languages, they are generally very nice e.g. for datastructure transforms (including interpreters and compilers). Static typing with type inference makes implementations short, and, if written in good style, are correct when they compile.

There are various other reasons why one would not want to use them. For me it's platform stability and availability - while I enjoy functional languages in principle - I yet seem to choose C++ more often than not for my hobby projects.

I would say learning self-described fp-languages have made me a better programmer who values static typing more than before.
> if he's really giving 99% of his wealth to charity

By "charity" he means himself, his own charity foundation. He's basically putting the money in another pocket and calling it charity. It's a tax avoidance scam. Cheaper to give away 10% a year in the guise of charity than actually pay the taxes you'd owe.
> The reaction was to focus severely on attracting customers that were using the products for utility and to discourage others from purchasing. Wonder why you can't buy everything Patagonia makes in black, like you can for anything North Face? This is why.

What? A black waterproof coat is dorky, it makes you look like a walking garbage bag. I should know, I have one (it was the only color left in my size). They are popular with people who have to wear them on the job, though, because they look "professional" (I don't mean a cool, adventurous job like mountain helicopter rescue who can wear a red and orange coat, think instead of a security guard who has to patrol the same block all day in the rain.)

> Wondering why effectively everything they make with a hood has an oversized hood that fits a helmet instead of being geared to bay geeks that have to walk two blocks from their Uber in the rain? This is why.

First off, do you not understand how Uber works? Second, you think bay geeks don't wear helmets when they go mountain biking or snowboarding? If anything, they need an even bigger hood to fit their GoPro.

You know, that Patagonia post, obvious brand marketing though it is, was actually working. "Patagonia sure cares about the environment and making sturdy, quality goods like in the good old days", I thought. But now, thanks to your comment, my subconscious will instead remember that "Patagonia are a bunch of sanctimonious jerks". Congratulations on ruining it!
I doubt it will be like current rail systems with multiple stops. There will probably be a very few stops, likely once every hundred miles or so. Getting to downtown SF within 30 minutes is unlikely for the vast majority of people within that 300 mile radius, Hyperloop or not.
Do you have an internship opportunity (embedded systems/IoT/ sensors/etc...)? J-1 Visa ?
I could make the same assertion about "self-described OOP languages" or "self-described procedural languages" with just as much evidence. Once you've done it enough, all programming feels like a pain in the ass.

I see FP languages being able to excel at the kind of projects with large, maintainable codebases that evolve over a decade and are shared between dozens of developers. Service oriented architectures serve the same goal -- isolating behavior and state locally, and being explicit about mutation and state changes over time.
It wouldn't be HN without this being the top response to one of the richest people in the world announcing an intent to dedicate 99 percent of their wealth to the betterment of humanity.

If you can't respond positively to this announcement, you really should step back and do some serious self-examination.
It's more than the annual budgets of about 2/3rds of the world's countries, including places like Croatia, or the Philippines. I'd call that politically significant.
What happens to you when you sleep
Hyperloop doesn't solve that problem. You can't have a hyperloop station in every town in a 300 mile radius.
(Tedious disclaimer: not speaking for anybody else, my opinion only, etc. I'm an SRE at Google. I can't respond to most of the things in this thread, so don't bother asking.)

"If Google were to provide real transparency into the information they track about me, that would be fantastic."

"In no way do I believe that is all the data Google tracks about me."

The second comment here is why there's no point in doing the first one. It doesn't matter how much information we release about this, when people are determined not to believe it.

It is a frustrating experience for the people who work on them to pour time and effort into making sure a privacy policy is really precisely accurate about what is happening, and then see threads like this where people will go looking for loopholes that aren't there, and because English is fairly ambiguous they'll eventually find a way to misinterpret the words to support what they wanted to believe all along.

Here's an interesting hypothetical question: if the primary effect of the conspiracy theorists is to throw bricks at the people who are trying really hard to make sure the bad things never happen, then which side are the conspiracy theorists really on? (I make no claims about whether this is what's happening, because I can offer no evidence, I just think it's an interesting question)
Knuth Reflecting on His School Years
The 7-Day Productivity Plan
Some Simple Chaotic Jerk Functions (1997) [pdf]
> and marked it off-topic

What does this mean, technically?
Basecamp Valuation Tops $100 Billion After Bold VC Investment
I like and agree with the author's message. I would appreciate if we as a society accepted the notion:

"...we have the ability to decide not to be offended."

My next question is, how do we address the blasphemous things people say in our everyday political discussion? How does society correctly stifle the pundits that shout the xenophobic soundbites?

What do we change so that speech that offends for the sole purpose of offending falls on deaf ears?
So if giving away $45billion for the betterment of the human race isn't enough, what does someone have to do to impress you?
Passenger rants about Islamic State before shooting Muslim taxi driver in back
This is over a short period and doesn't count stuff like the Sudanese "civil war" muslim raids on Southern villages, which would have made that graph look like a rounding error.
That's an unreasonably high estimate, and there is some data to support the idea that it's unreasonable[1].

Microsoft has been losing, at most, a few billion[2] a year on Bing. Assuming they've spent $45B since 2009, that's $6.4B per year spent on Bing. A net loss of $2B on Bing would mean Microsoft is making $4.4B per year, which isn't in the ballpark.

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-microsoft-on...

2. http://hal2020.com/2013/01/18/about-that-2b-annual-loss-from...
I live in Asia and can always find a shoe guy or garment lady to fix my stuff for $1-$5. They are found in market stalls or the side of the road somewhere. You can't find as many of these "tiny businesses" in developed countries, perhaps because licensing costs too much to make it profitable, licensing isn't permitted for street vendors, varying climate doesn't make it as easy year-round, or ... Anyway, I really like this about Asia in 2015 and wish it were more prevalent in the US
Can you remember the town?

I am from NE Georgia, and while racism is undoubtedly alive, public racism like what you saw is something I have never heard of in my 30 year life-span.
Eh, you know, I wish more businesses would actually do this with their online activities. This kind of inconvenience, would force people into doing other, perhaps more fulfilling activities and remind them of the physical aspect of life -things begin and stop. I'm not saying a FOIA isn't fulfilling, but if Amazon, Walmart, Facebook, could "close down" for given times zones during a wee hours window, it might not be a bad thing. If nothing else, I'd like to see the outcomes.

Now, of course, no one is going to jeopardize sales and do that... but I'm glad some of the gov't tries to keep it's business hours based on human labor concepts. A kind of skeuochron.
The problem is that current market prices do not accurately reflect negative externalities such as pollution, exploitation of cheap labor, depletion of natural resources, and exacerbation of socioeconomic inequalities. We just dump our trash somewhere and hope that someone else will deal with it someday.

If there's a reliable mechanism to make market prices better reflect such externalities, I'm all for it. But until we've found and implemented such a mechanism on a large scale, a bit of moralizing wouldn't hurt.
See who is talking around you or else where on Twitter
If you're interested in iOS & Android dev / automation tools you should check out https://fastlane-tools and https://www.bitrise.io/cli . The two projects have a fair amount of overlap, but handle a couple of key concept differently (e.g. built in modules in fastlane vs decentralized step library in bitrise). I'm more than happy to help you get started if you would decide to contribute to bitrise
If you force rich people to give away a large enough percentage of their money, perhaps you will remove any incentive for the non-philanthropic ones to keep earning more money. If they weren't inclined to give it away in the first place, they probably won't be inclined to make more, knowing they'll be required to give it away.
Mega.nz works, for free. YMMV.
Yahoo has already done almost exactly that and had to write off $42 million in October when their original content effort failed.

http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/yahoo-misses-q3-earning...
There's a 99% chance you'll need to settle for a similar (or different) color

Sew it on the inside and it becomes less noticeable

But then again it's very old and probably reaching beyond the point of reparability
I think we're talking past each other.

I'm not saying that fabrication of testimony isn't possible - I fully acknowledge that perjurious conduct occurred in this very case!

What I'm saying is that fabrication of testimony and planting of evidence aren't the same thing.

You aren't going to be oppress an entire class ( / race) of people by producing "victim" after "victim" whose basis is perjurious. Some, sure. Especially when the stakes are high and the state needs a solid lie.

But in order to have this assembly line of false convictions, you absolutely need a victimless crime.
Enabling the NLP Conversational Economy
Yahoo! Screen revived NBC's Community sitcom for a sixth season, but lost a lot of money:

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/bp/community-season-6-yahoo-2046126...
What is the best way to integrate this with a camera?

Is there any specific IPTV cam platform?
Check out MailMate! It's great!

It's a robust IMAP client that has cross account message rules, smart filters, blocking external images, OpenPGP, Google's wonky IMAP implementation, great support, and a lot more.

http://freron.com/
To be clear, they are asking to lease >10 acres of land for 25 years, but only plan on using 10 acres of it for solar panels? Is the extra acreage for access roads and power lines?

Are they going to start a competing farm? :P
> It's interesting that they are talking about the Board directly and not Marissa Mayer

They're talking about something the Board, and not Marissa Mayer, is doing. Marissa Mayer is not deciding these things. There's no reason to bring her up.

> Is it common for the press to do so ?

It depends on the situation. If the Board is doing something, the media talks about the Board. If the CEO is doing something, the media talks about the CEO.

The first confusing exception is when the CEO owns most of the company, which makes the Board irrelevant. This is the case with Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg owns the majority of voting shares, so he has absolute control over Facebook. The Board has no power to overrule his decisions as CEO.

The second confusing exception is when the CEO and Chairman of the Board are the same person. This was much more common in the past.

> Isn't the CEO like the spoke-person of the board of investors ?

No, unless the CEO is also the Chairman of the Board. The CEO can have very conflicting opinions and actions compared to the Board.
Patrick Bateman -- World problems speech

https://youtu.be/dZlK_ThjMk4
Does any one know any other websites similar to this perhaps more advanced? Thank you
Tony Lucas, of converse.ai, just sent me an email alerting me to the existence of his company, so I went to take a look. I am surprised to see that this startup so completely overlaps with what I wrote about here:

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/what-happens-when-the-b...

Not many people realize the difference between simple NLP and the kind of NLP that is supported by a Conversation Finite State Machine.

And I am about to start a totally new startup that is focused in the same space.

So it seems likely that we are about to see a whole wave of conversation-via-nlp startups, a bit like the Social Media wave that we saw 5 years ago.
I really hope so. The Document Foundation seriously has their shit together. Having them take over would be a major win for open source email clients.

Forgot to add: Is there any official way (besides sending an email) of getting them to consider it?
tl;dr This is satire. It's kinda funny. But not that funny.
Because the Python ecosystem is huge, with real scientists writing real libraries to get stuff done.

The Haskell crowd seems to write monad tutorials that are either cute or unintellegible, and stratosphere-high level stuff where I wouldn't have the slightest clue what I can use them for (Arrows? Zippers?).
Basecamp is worth 100B dollars
5 years ago you probably would have said "we can't have a self driving car... there is <problem1> that we can't surmount." Yet, now we are on the brink of it. Hell, even at the start of this year I would have laughed if you said we will have aerial drones delivering amazon goods. Yet, here we are with a pretty impressive POC from amazon. we can merge onto a freeway why can't we merge these hyperloop pods so we can have many stops?
You never know. Perhaps flickr will end up with someone who will run it better.

Or Google will buy it, loot the customer data, and close it down.
And Lenses!
this argument is irrelevant; as whether adults can give informed consent or not is not important (at least) here. e.g. adults have voting right, at least in some countries,including USA (whether they give informed vote or not is not even checked just assumed) but the children don't have this right. It is outright wrong and unethical on google's part to steal a kid's information especially after declaring they are not doing it.
My current setup for "scientific computing" is RStudio and CSV files for quickly running typical stats-tests (a couple of t-tests and a tost + krippendorff's alpha the last couple of month) and python+libraries for anything that resembles "building stuff" (mostly scikit-learn to build some classifiers).
I mostly use R "as a consumer" i.e. I basically use RStudio whenever my colleagues fire up SPSS.
That combination works fairly well. I'd recommend it to anyone who enters academia in any field that involves statistics who doesn't want to use the typical proprietary tools (I've also tried PSPP and it works ok for basic tasks but lacks a lot of functionality. If all you want to do is run a quick t-test or ANOVA it's a decent tool).
Even to the extent that may be true, it does not follow that "As individual consumers, the single best thing we can do for the planet is to keep our stuff in use longer." as the article claims. There are almost certainly better things most individuals could do.

I think moralizing is actually pretty harmful in the context of environmental issues. It leads to things like wasted resources on inefficient recycling programs, ill advised programs like ethanol subsidies, biased evaluation of the merits of the best options for power generation and other examples of schemes that prioritize moralizing and making people feel that they're doing something over actual positive results.
I wonder if you could package these all together into some sort of expert system that would run all of them and highlight the interesting bits / places for further study.
List of Repair Cafes: http://repaircafe.org/en/visit/

I was pleasantly surprised to find one in my current city of residence: http://repaircafe-lemans.org/
The system that elects billionaires is the same as the system that elects our government.
> perhaps because licensing costs too much to make it profitable, licensing isn't permitted for street vendors, varying climate doesn't make it as easy year-round, or ...

I'm not sure that someone would be able to make a living in the US repairing everyday imported clothing items. The few times I tried to get something repaired by a tailor stop in the US, the cost at US wages was a significant fraction of what it would cost to buy a brand new replacement (made overseas at much lower wages). Admittedly, those were complicated repairs, but everyday clothing is just so cheap (in price and quality) that repairing it doesn't make sense.
Switzerland: https://www.konsumentenschutz.ch/repaircafe/schweizer-repair...
If Numpy, Pandas, etc. were wrappable from JavaScript this could have easily been titled "Why I use Node.js for High Performance Scientific Computing".

The "Python" here isn't particularly material to the result, it's mostly a wrapper around C. Toss in Cython, and now you've really gone outside the bounds of "I'm just using 'Python' for HPC!".

I agree some of the tooling and niceties are beyond a doubt best in breed with Python, but it's disingenuous to equate this to "writing HPC code in Python". If you had written a RPython to Verilog translator that produced an FPGA of your algorithm would you call that "using Python"?
Mark Zuckerberg isn’t really giving his money away
Our Investments Are Unparalleled for an Indian IT Services Startup: Ashok Soota
Well, to be honest, the cost of living is also significantly higher than in most countries.
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