skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact I just copied/pasted the bit about the NASA's percentage of the overall US budget from the referenced Wikipedia page. It wasn't an attempt at editorialising.

Homelessness is certainly an important problem, but is it more important than (for example) tackling antibiotic resistance ($450 million budget in FY2014 [1])? For any deserving issue/problem it is possible to play this game all day, as illustrated by the Fallacy of relative privation [2].

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/os...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation
>> If I take your picture, your image belongs to me. So it follows that if I take a picture of your picture, that also belongs to me.

As was pointed out in the article, only if its transformative in some way does copyright give you cover under the "fair use" doctrine:

Prince’s appropriation was “transformative” enough to qualify for fair use. In the words of the presiding judge: “[Prince’s] work adds new meaning...and the fair use doctrine guarantees [him] breathing space.”

A simple picture of a picture without alteration would still be considered infringement under the current copyright laws.
Personal opinion as a lifelong artist, so take it with a grain of salt:

What a consummate jackass - not an artist, not an innovator, just a sleazy rip-off gutter dweller. He's essentially a fore-father for the mentality perpetrated by "The Fat Jew" on Twitter, who is, rightfully, being excoriated for making a business model of profit by way of theft. If Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk wanted to achieve something useful in the space race, they'd find a way to grab both those guys, shove them in a rocket on a one way trip to the moon, broadcasting a camera feed back to Earth, and with just enough water to make it there before they have to turn to cannabalism as a last resort before their inevitable, well-deserved end.

By Richard Prince's logic, I should totally be entitled to steal his identity and empty his bank account in the name of performance art. He doesn't believe in copyright? Fine. I don't believe in the illegality of stealing from thieves.
If you really believe that police--paid employees of the state--can murder people with impunity, why haven't you joined the rebellion yet? How many more straws would it take to break your back? Do you really want to live in a country where you believe you can be capriciously and arbitrarily murdered by the government without consequence?
As everyone is saying Prince's method is not okay, I will try to defend him. First, Copyright should nurture creation, not ban it. So what Prince is doing should not be illegal/impossible, but maybe he should have to pay the original artist. How much is fair? Before Prince entered the room, we had a simple selfie on instagram. Or a Marlboro ad most people did not care to look at. Everyone could have just gone to the copy shop and hang it on their wall, but noone did so. It was not very valuable. Now Price enters the room. He does something simple, and people are willing to give him a lot of money for it. It's not because of the original work, but because of his work. He could have choosen many other original works, it would have worked the same. Should Price pay money to the original artist? Sure ... but not more than a regular stockphoto licence. Maybe 500USD? I guess he would be fine with that.
That's certainly an item in the "pro" column, but there are lots of other free ones out there.
Pig notice only on checkout? That doesn't necessarily point to some issue with his payment method. The checkout server is likely different than the content server and may be subject to different protections.

Imho they are running the standard 'enemy IP' blocklists used by p2p filesharers for may years. Where one sees law enforcement using computers, one must first assume incompetence. In all likelihood he/she was using a machine at a known cop shop (Windows) without any sort of IP masking.

Some cops are highly trained IT specialists, but many investigators are actually just senior traffic enforcers who have been promoted into "technology crime" units. They have training and paper certifications, but lack any deep knowledge re technology. They make lots of mistakes. Think flowers by irene.
How Phan treat SIMD in PHP7? Does it pick up what is going on with functions as variables?
Do you want to know about solar cycles? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle

There's a solar irradiance section that explains:

> Solar irradiance varies systematically over the cycle, both in total irradiance and in its relative components (UV vs visible and other frequencies). The solar luminosity is an estimated 0.07 percent brighter during the mid-cycle solar maximum than the terminal solar minimum. Photospheric magnetism appears to be the primary cause (96%) of 1996-2013 TSI variation. The ratio of ultraviolet to visible light varies.
We ditched Google Analytics
So, more expertise and more hands make the task riskier?

Too many cooks spoil the broth, but a good cook with a hundred scullions can make a lot of good food and investigate a lot of recipes.
Also the "related content" is pretty much not worksafe.
NBC, CBS, and FOX are all as reliant on cable subscription revenues to pay for their NFL contracts as ESPN.

ESPN isn't losing subs because people are calling their cable companies and saying "I don't want ESPN". They're losing subs because people are cutting the cord.
The problem with this is that the economics of our grid infrastructure and more importantly, the economics of existing generating capacity depends on it running most of the time. Imagine if you had to amortise all those fixed costs over the 5% of the time that you need them.
Thanks for references.

I've read the topology and data paper; it lays down motivations for TDA, but it doesn't quite connect it to existing literature on dimensionality reduction and manifold learning and explain -- "Here's something you can learn by using tools from TDA, but not existing methods." The best I could see was that it produces results similar to existing methods.
"Firefox" is the brand normal people recognize, and Mozilla has been shedding things that aren't Firefox for quite some time now.
Yes, nice nod to Mark Pilgrim. (Although his sites are now 200 GoDaddy.)
Could be because Intel has an actual fab in Ireland, while Qualcomm, like AMD, are fab-less chip companies.

And i'm not sure if Intel has offered such deals, or simply been selling their Atom chips below cost.

There may also be some issue with Qualcomm sitting on some radio patents. Samsung had to use Qualcomm chips in some Galaxy variants to function on Verizon networks, for instance.
It needs to because otherwise supply voltage drops and you get brownouts.

There is no provision in light switches, outlets, thermostats, industrial machinery, or anything else to first check "is there enough current in the grid right now to run this?". They just draw current when connected, and changing that policy would be a huge endeavor.
But in this case the government is coercing companies, which violates the first amendment. See https://theintercept.com/2015/12/01/court-ruling-against-chi...
It is annoying. I had to search for Firefox itself, and click "related"
That photograph really is sensational. Gates looks wonderfully young and innocent, almost angelic. Ballmer looks like an enthusiastic understudy for Jack Nicholson in "The Shining".
Is this the problem that is mentioned within the JavaDoc https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/file/Watc...

under "Platform dependencies"
Twitter deciding that they don't want ISIS supporters using their application violates nobody's 1st Amendment rights.
wait, anybody actually things about any US big media (cnbc, cnn, fox and whatnot) to be NOT biased and quite heavily? they are all under murdoch empire, no?

generally, within boundaries of popular news sources, one should use a foreign source to get information for a given country. now finding which one is +-balanced for given country is a tricky thing, and probably not constant as time goes by
Inessential: Low-Hanging Fruit
The author keeps slipping in references to encryption but I don't really see the connection. Clearly it has little to do with terrorists broadcasting messages intended to be read by everyone on social media.
Also in China.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-qualcomm-idUSKBN0LD2...
Building products that matter
“In 2016, we will be shipping Rust code and Servo components in Firefox”
Hm, weird. Can you email me at dominik@refind.com and I'll ping you once I know the issue / have a solution.
> "This is laughably false."

It's not as straightforward as that:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/tehran/axis/te...

Here's a key quote (from Robert Baer, a former CIA officer):

"And how important [is] Hezbollah? ...

It's extremely important. Hezbollah's divided into many parties. There's the Islamic Resistance in the south, which beat the Israelis. They attacked the Israeli army. They defeated the Israeli army on Lebanese soil. I do not know how we can describe that other than a national liberation movement.

I don't agree that Hezbollah itself is a terrorist organization. It delivers powdered milk; it takes care of people. It's a social organization; it's a political organization. It fights corruption.

Then there's the Islamic Resistance, which is an army, which is a guerrilla force, fighting for control of its own country. And then, under the Hezbollah umbrella, was the Islamic Jihad, which I call their special security, which was controlled by Iran, which carried out terrorism against the West. And you can paint Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. You can do that for political reasons, but strictly speaking, it is many things. Just as [with] the IRA, you got Sinn Fein and you've got the real IRA, which is conducting terrorism."
Ads are fine. But Ads that consume vast amount of CPU/memory/mobile-data/battery resources or crash the browser are unacceptable. Also many people dislike ads that follow them around.

So only certain bad ads are bad citizens. Show us traditional ads that worked fine for years - and still do.
We'd like to get there eventually. Phan populates a sqlite database when analyzing code (if run with the -s flag). This allows fast runs on single file changes or patches. We're hoping to use this for things like auto-complete and finding callers for a class/method/whatever eventually.

For now, we have a primordial Syntastic vim plugin (https://github.com/etsy/phan/blob/master/plugins/vim/bundle/...) for getting errors into the quickfix view.
Yes. It just seems misleading to say "by Firefox" for the majority of users, who don't know that.
Control a Relay from Anywhere Using the ESP8266
Swiper skimming might be an issue as well, but didn't some of the largest breaches include stored credit card data? Washington Post says credit and debit card information was included in the Target breach.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/target-says-...
I think you can live in 99% of the world pretty comfortably with such a salary.
Later than people think, maybe? My point is that they're expect to have a successful career first, rather than it being a job people apply to directly from college or grad school.
States are too small. In the information age, governments are (still) limited by territory while information knows no borders. That is why twitter is larger than any governments own social network can ever be.

Steam & petrol engines made many things obsolete - so are networked computers doing now.
Which is silly since the same ads show on both pages. But I guess the site can charge twice...
I've been on hackernews almost from the beginning and I didn't know this rule. Maybe once in a while, it's good to share basic rules :-)
One challenge ahead--in most hospitals, the doctors have to choose to use these new tools and many aren't. Some don't see the need (maybe due to a generally conservative attitude), and others actually see them as a liability (if there's more data than they can personally review, they could be sued for missing an important signal). But at least the research hospitals are making headway in developing and testing new tech.
Makes sense seeing as they're focus -- no pun intended -- is pretty much Firefox and its various incarnations throughout desktop and mobile. Expanding their most visible brand to include their entire suite of browser based technologies doesn't sound like a bad idea to me.
Demonstrate relevant skill.
"Firefox" is a much better known brand than "Mozilla".

Mozilla are not only using the "Firefox" brand for a single application, but also for other solutions which are related to Web browsing in one way or another (e.g. Firefox OS). "Made by the same people who make Firefox" is a great presentation card. You can not expect people to have intricate knowledge of the IT sector before deciding if one add-on is trustworthy or not.

And if Mozilla ever want to include a content-blocker in Firefox proper, well, they already have a name for it.
In other languages the construction for "My name is Steve" is something like "They call me Steve" (Russian) or "I call myself Steve" (Spanish).
The idea of permadeath games such as Nethack is that you play a game and die, lose everything you had with you and start all over again from scratch, time and time again.

But every time you play and die, you'll learn something. The learning curve is the game.
It was a House committee, not Senate. It's in the name ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_C...
Why We Switched from Pivotal Tracker to JIRA
If someone were to gain some traction in this space I would prefer it to be a credible organisation.

I long thought that this should be driven by a foundation , rather than a private enterprise, but I wanted the additional benefit of delegating the profits to a particular donation.

The hooks are implemented by Apple and the data is crowd sourced. I don't see any reason why anyone should profit in this space.
Attacking people's looks is a pretty low blow. How would you like if you started a company, published a photo, and everyone started calling you names purely on your looks? As someone who is older and perpetually 15-20lbs overweight, its really unnerving to see how young people just think its cool to lash out on the looks of others so casually without regard for the other person at all. Internet cattiness has become this mainstream thing and its inexcusable. This is HN not PerezHilton.com.

Its also hypocritical, because if someone said something about the looks of Bernie Sanders or Marc Andreesen then he would be downvoted to hell and back, but because Ballmer is a controversial figure the fat/ugly/psycho-killer comments are excused and as you can see below rationalized.

Please keep the discourse at a higher level and on-topic. Thanks.
This is interesting. Part of me wants to dislike the idea of cloud services because I like the idea of having the app on the phone itself. But part of me thinks this is super cool because Google Now (and all the speech recognition and whatnot) is cloud based and works great. Having this available to devs is great.
Someone should just photograph his work, repackage it, and sell it. He would be totally okay with that. Use something like Office Lens on your smartphone to do your image transformation and print them on canvas.
Apple data centers on 100% renewable power
who are these "companies don't want to disclose IP"?

Software startups disclose their IP whether through traditional IP protection (copyrights, trademarks, patents) - or open source. Those relying on trade secrets do not disclose their IP to investors.
Exactly this.
This is not what "200-lines of simple Python" should look like.
I wish that were the case, except there were over a hundred comments, about how it didn't belong on here because it isn't of a high enough standard for hacker news. I still write a well known advanced programming blog, but I don't share links here as a result - I have found better outlets for content which actually concerns people in tech circles, as opposed to things like : "Why I scrapped X and did Y", "X is broken, we are fixing it", "Bill Gates read a book, Click here to see what it is! - You will never believe number 3!"
Interesting analysis. I would love to learn more about the crime data collection though.

From the what I see the provided data is pretty darn detailed including category of the crime, category, and even down to location coordinate, which is pretty incredible IMO (I couldn't even get any information on recent crime from my local PD).

How do the police collect all these data? Are they entered in real time as the officers make the arrests? or is there people at the office who are responsible to compile these data?
Do they have some kind of GPS-equipped device that is used to make the report? Or are these some kind of estimation made by people at the office?
And pretty much everyone on (or off in this case!) the planet.

A lot of HN readers seem really, seriously out of touch on the income front.
Yeah, we do what we can, as good as we can.

But I'm imagining that medical community also tries their best to a) push state of knowledge forward b) safely apply known best practices while curing patients, thus acting in patients best interest. This two goals are compatible in long term and conflict in short term: you can't really apply experimental treatments or "experimental diagnosis" to patients outside of research programs, even in case when it could potentially be in patients best interest. Do authors expect researchers to push boundaries faster or maybe they expect practitioners to apply unchecked knowledge?

Article tone and title are, in my opinion, very unreasonable.
PocketSphinx[1] isn't bad. I'm sure one could get better accuracy with a DNN recognizer, but good luck getting something like Kaldi to run on a smartphone.

1: https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx

2: http://kaldi-asr.org/
This is complete speculation, but I'm guessing that the Starbucks deal happened late (as does any deal between higher executives that don't have to implement it), and the dealmakers wanted it running as soon as possible.
Tesla M4 is what you are looking for - it is designed to fit sever slot.
Small businesses aren't kittens, to be loved and protected regardless of anything. We fight shoplifting even though it disproportionately hurts individuals who rely on this business model - as opposed to big companies that have other, often legal, ways of stealing. We fight it because, like ads, it's a crappy business model.
Still seems strange to see somewhere so close to home mentioned here. Always feels like the middle of nowhere when I'm in the area.
Feels like it should be 5 five cups, with another one in the center. Unless you know you need to keep them a fixed distance from the perimeter.
Channel it into something competitive that gets you exercise as well. I started BJJ and wrestling in my 40's with no prior experience. The health benefits make it worth it. The depth of the skills keeps me engaged.
Saturday morning hack: A note-taking app with Flask
That's awesome. If a PR was opened that added autocomplete and/or finding callers and/or refactoring (and assuming that the code is good), would you guys be open to merging it? Or would it be delayed so that the core functionality can be focused on?
I blame ad revenue sharing, on-video links, and allowing links to outside content. Youtube's become a cesspool of spam and pandering garbage over the last few years. Enthusiastic amateurs eager to share useful or interesting material are buried under wanna-be Internet stars and ads masquerading as content (plus, you know, actual ads). I dread using the site now.
in terms of openings I would also suggest

http://www.shredderchess.com/online-chess/online-databases/o...

and

http://chesstempo.com/chess-openings.html
Try https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1055677337

Or try

https://itunes.apple.com/{countrycode}/app/id1055677337 with the two character country code for {countrycode}

For Germany, it would be

https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/id1055677337
On the Influence of the Sewing-Machine on Female Health (1867) [pdf]
"Easy" hydro locations refers to hydroelectric power generation.

But the person you replied to was referring to pumped-hydro power storage, which is a totally different thing for a different purpose, and is much more flexible.
> Such honey-pots would no doubt catch false-positives but it is a known effective means of reconnaissance and sabotage, considering how aggressively and thoroughly they are connected to social media.

The less mature sort of civil libertarian (I consider myself the mature sort of civil libertarian) would no doubt oppose honey pots. Can't you imagine it now? 'The government has been running a secret program to entrap people!'

> Where are our NSA pundits? Are they too busy with economic espionage against their patrons' opponents?

NSA's job is not economic espionage, and NSA does not often take public stances. It does its job quietly; if it has ideas for how it could contribute to the fight against ISIL, then it would probably not bandy them about the media.
There is a world of difference between a statement like the one to which you're replying, and something like "Ballmer looks fat" (which he doesn't). There is nothing wrong with pointing out the obvious difference in stance and body language.
Oh, sure. I didn't realized that at first. It must be my programmer brain telling me "English is the one global language" all the time.

(note: I'm not an English native speaker)
Spoilers: Women working on pedal driven sewing machines were complaining of back pains. An alert medical professional also discovered that the women were getting off by the leg movement that drove the machine. Clearly, it was this immoral behavior that was the cause of their back pains.

Pretty remarkable that this line of reasoning was accepted by the brightest and best educated minds only 150 years ago.
Still trying to determine if the Steve Jobs quote was intentional irony.
Russia gives France a puppy in honor of police dog Diesel
This week is a Mozilla "Work Week", where the whole company gets together to say hi face to face.

This quote is from David Bryant, Interim CTO and Vice President of Platform Engineering, (read: platform == Firefox) during the opening keynote this morning.
That 7MB png should be a jpg :)

Here I fixed it for you http://s27.postimg.org/pupcpnbkh/focus_blog.jpg

And it's still 7x larger then it needs to be.
Yes, for point-of-sale exploits, this would not work. But certainly there are companies that store CC information. Every time I go to Amazon, I don't re-input my cc info. They must be storing it somewhere?

As for buying it back, see my comment about LE not needing to make such purchases for this to work. And if the CC companies know about the fake numbers, the process of verifying that the number works, would itself, inform of the breach.
The kid I grew up literally next door to became an astronaut. It'd be hard for me to be any more jealous. :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Kimbrough
Ex Secret Service Agent Gets 6 Years Prison
There was a time that I felt the same as you. As the years passed, my view shifted: Thank goodness for stadiums and sports franchises. Where would all those particular assholes (and I'm not saying all, or even the majority of sports fans are assholes) congregate if it weren't for sports bars and stadiums? The price we pay is definitely inflated, but I've come to appreciate the societal separation it provides.
For those who don't want to wait till this propagates through the App Store CDNs, try

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1055677337

Or try
https://itunes.apple.com/{countrycode}/app/id1055677337 with the two character country code for your country put in the {countryside} placeholder

For example, it would be

https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/id1055677337 for Germany

https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/id1055677337 for France

https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/id1055677337 for India

and so on
have been using refind for some time now. i really like the content that my network shares through it. found some great articles.