skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I can install Ubuntu (or any distro with touch-enabled UI) on this and attach a USB keyboard, it'd be heaven.
Greek letters are used a lot. Learn their names,
otherwise you make a fool of yourself when giving
an oral presentation

One thing that surprised the heck out of me is that we don't pronounce Greek letters like the Greeks do.

Example: tau sounds something like taf in Greek.

(that's all I got :-)
I guess (1) or (2) would depend on the culture that gets evolved :)
+1 - Not a facebook user any more, but someone very interested in personal health. The site looks amazing but I wouldn't reactivate my facebook just to use it.
Wars are a particularly fine pointed example of nationalism. Woodrow Wilson, Democrat, liberal, World War I. F.D.R., Democrat, liberal, World War II.

Nationalism a tenant of conservatism is absurd. My degree is in political science, it's not widely accepted. Nationalistic sentiment within the U.S. Republican party, and conservative libertarians? Perhaps. But that is a narrow sample.

Widely accepted is the actual denotation of nationalism, which doesn't include left vs right tendencies.

Consider emotional attachment, appeals, devotion, strong desire to easily identify nonbelievers, all part of nationalism. Similar to religious belief, but involves deification of the state (or some idealized future version of it, via violence, like the 2nd coming).
Yes. Their software analyses connections between people and locations in huge databases of call records, email correspondence, money transfers and so on and so forth.
Mehmed II? In any case a lot of the territory Suleiman conquered did remain part of the Ottoman Empire into the 20th century.
But this IS still the best Android tablet on the market priced within the expected price bracket.
Christmas.
I wouldn't want such thing. I like focused products. But the geek opinion-makers in the web like buzzwords such as "convergence" and "hybrids". It seems relevant, because opinion-makers talk about it, but - at least to me - the relevance to real-world users still has to be proven.
This should really be solved by letting you transfer (or somehow attach) the shares to the IRS at the value they "believe" they are worth in lieu of the tax on those shares. Or better yet get rid of the whole AMT mess entirely.
Why do they need more cash? This seems like a business model where they should be profitable already. If they are not, what do investors expect to change to lead to the profits-promised-land?

Contrast to Atlassian which built an (arguably) much more scalable software business with much less funding.
In Ottoman empire the Sultans do not get married, I think it was forbidden. They have Harem, the women are concubines.

The story is that Roxelana (aka Hürrem Sultan) got herself freed and when Süleyman wants her, refuses and tells him "he needs to marry her" since she is not a slave anymore. She was only woman marring a sultan.

His was interesting fact for me also, because it means all sultans are kinda bastards. But a little research shows that children are not considered bastards. Also from religion point of view.
Integrating Talkdesk, Zendesk and Usersnap for Customer Support
From a high-level point of view, the work they do appears very interesting. They really try to leverage the strengths of the computer in combination with the strengths of the human mind to provide a superior analysis. It's basically what I think will be the most fruitful (near) future of AI – intelligent human-computer interaction, rather than replacing the human wholesale.

I applied for a job there for that reason, but due to an unwillingness to relocate I couldn't follow through.
Better the project die the miserable unloved death of an unwanted product than miss the launch window.
Firstly, I didn't mention FL Studio at all. Why do you attribute a notion to me without any sign of me thinking so?

Secondly, there's a clear distinction between taking cues and reusing a harmony or a melody from another source. People have always done it and will do it more than ever, if they have the right tools.

Of course, it only matters if we still think about music as more of an art form than a production of non-material goods. Hope we still do.
Mostly slow application switching on my case. It's significantly better than on iPad due to OS having better keyboard support (yes, even the Pro keyboard is awful to use), but it doesn't really compare to proper desktops.
What would be an example of a test that fails, and how does this happen?
Caring about OpenType features
Call+of+Duty+Black+Ops+III+best+gameplay+-+YouTube
I think math/physics are less accessible to the layperson, but more subject to Dunning-Kruger. There are so many popular accounts of quantum this and string that in the media that a lot of the population seems to feel qualified to hold an opinion on anything quantum-y. ("It's on TV" => "I'm encouraged to have an opinion about it.")

In reality it's literally impossible for most people to imagine how hard the math is - because an undergrad physics or engineering degree is barely even a warm-up for it.

I'd love to see a TV show that made it clear just how challenging the math is without reducing it to the usual storytelling.

Popularisation can be great, but maybe it would be good to get a realistic appreciation for the raw version into the public narrative.
This stuff seems very gender studies specific?

Not that there is anything wrong with that.
> Please notice how far afield you went to find a failure of inductive reasoning

Philosophy doesn't "find a failure" of inductive reasoning because it doesn't care (in this context) about how well things work. It questions whether induction creates knowledge[1] (vs. "mere" utility). You're arguing about plumbing with a banker. If all you care about is plumbing, the bank is indeed a bad place to discuss it. It sounds as if you simply have no interest in looking at the world from a perspective other than utility, and the that you take the value of utility as an axiom. Philosophy is simply an exploration of views of reality with axioms different from yours. It is like the study of logics, while you like sticking to a particular logic system, building on top of that one. What you consider to be the end of the chain of questions that interest you, philosophy considers the beginning. That's perfectly fine and maybe philosophy isn't for you, but you've got no quarrel with it, and so far stated no disagreement with it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology
Thanks for this reccomendation, it's in my queue now :)
> But generally, musicians really hate the idea of having a machine writing all of their music for them.

... unless they develop the algo that writes the music. E.g., think Autechre and their Max/MSP patches?
Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927)
Show HN: Get Unlimited Addictive Movie Quiz for Free
Generic Binding – Christoph Wanzke – Lightning Talks Meeting C++ 2015
I think some level of welfare is necessary. When you're born into poverty, you have very little control over your life - Getting out of it is nearly impossible. Society should account for this.

People born into poverty also didn't agree to any "social contract" - They were screwed from the beginning.
The law will catch anyone who tries to sell services related to the registered trademark.
Why Popper is not on the list?
For more practical persons I recommend skipping the historical parts of philosophy and go straight to Bayesianism. I recommend "Rationality" by E. Yudkowsky as an entry point, "Probabilistic Inference" by J. Pearl, "Artificial Intelligence" by Russel & Norvig for the theory and "Formal Theory of Creativity & Fun & Intrinsic Motivation" by J. Schmidhuber for inspiration.

[1]: http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/creativity.html
Untrue. Difficult to have fascism when the state isn't strongly supporting businesses. For the simple version, Mussolini's description is good: fascism is better called corporatism.

Revise your understanding of fascism.
So is wiretapping illegal without a warrant or isn't it?

Because they aren't collecting just meta data with this and unlike the NSA there is likely no discipline at all about how the data is used or shared.

Policing in this country has come down to "try to stop us from doing it" instead of asking first "is this even legal" on every aspect.
Lol, just like all those other people who are offered plea bargains and take them? They all guilty, right, otherwise they'd fight in court?
Power Data Recovery 7.0 Serial Key and Crack Free Download
Q – Run SQL Directly on CSV or TSV Files
I didn't understand what was behind your second paragraph, my searches lead me to:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dn879354.aspx

"Mono: The Mono CLR enables you to develop and run ASP.NET 5 apps on a Mac or Linux device."
The collectors need enough smarts to detect that an IP address is behaving legitimately, and when the behavior changes sufficiently that it's no long legitimate, to stop accepting data from that traffic.

If you're talking source IP spoofing - that's only UDP, we don't offer anything other than DNS over UDP, and that's now being served by Cloudflare, so we can just ignore all UDP packets. Sure people can spoof SYN, but that's not a very powerful complexity attack.
On the front page this is right next to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10715888 "Hundreds of thousands of engine immobilisers hackable over the net (theregister.co.uk)". Not unrelated.

If the car is to become a peripheral of the smartphone, it really needs to be done in a modular, open, futureproof way. Having a car tied to a particular model of phone is ridiculous.
This raise is relatively small because it is a continuation of the previous raise. To me, it actually sounds more like a bullish sign that they were able to raise more than their target amount at such a high valuation. The investors had access to far more information than we outsiders do. If Palantir were truly "struggling", then they likely would not have been able to secure more investments at that same high valuation.
Are you having a bad day?
I'm a mechanical engineer in physics and I've had no formal training in writing code or computer science, yet, I am now doing simulations for atomic physics in Python. I am designing some software library package which will serve as a sort of diagnostic/design tool for future experiments with a machine being built.

I've run into the problem of figuring out how to organize the whole dang thing and sometimes have to go back and re-write a lot of code. Can you recommend any good books that introduce computing concepts for applied physics and engineering?
Even that makes a pleasant change from the usual blame-the-user verbiage on 404s.

Or Google's useless and annoying "Something went wrong, that's all we know."
"Feminist science" is an oxymoron.
Sorry, we couldn't understand this search. Please try saying this another way.

Even when logged in.
At least it doesn't hurt my eyes like the IJ 13 splash screen: http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/files/2013/12/splash13-1.png
SEEKING WORK: •Symfony; •Yii; •Zend; •Laravel; •CodeIgniter; •Phone Gap; •Ionic; •WordPress;

Location: Ukraine, Eastern Europe, UTC +2 Remote: Yes

Technologies: PHP; CSS3; LESS; HTML5; JavaScript; MySQL; jQuery; Ajax; Sass; Angular.js ; Photoshop; GitHub; Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2, Rout 53); Plugins and APIs development and implementation etc…

-= Front-end & back-end development =-

We are the team of 15 developers and we are ready to help you with projects of any complexity from small to large. We speak English, are writing good & clean code and much more.
Please PM me and I will provide all the information or estimate on demand.

Or contact me via email: ivan4ti (at) yahoo.com

LinkedIn:https://ua.linkedin.com/in/ivanpetruk

- Ivan
I am just curious - what kind of technology does Palantir use? By that I mean - what kind of databases, which programming languages, how do they scale and so on.
I have neither used Django CMS, nor hip kid in town - Wagtail.

Do you have any comments on differences between them? What I mean is: is Wagtail powerful in features to take on Django CMS? Or it gained it's popularity solely based on new, eye catching design?
looks to be US only, but banking systems in other countries may not need something like this. And with each country having different rules and regulations, it's probably a very big nut to crack for a single US based company.

In the UK, for example, I can easily transfer money to other people's or business's accounts and it will arrive within 2 hours, and generally it's immediate.

If you need to transfer between countries, then it gets more interesting and you get forex's involved.
Incremental recompilation is a big one, but beyond that, out-of-the-box handling of multi-package projects without the hassle of custom scripting or setting up .nix files just right. If all your projects are single package, `cabal repl` should work pretty well. Where stack really shines, and where it's interesting to simply reuse that, is for multi-package repos, which tend to be very common in private company Haskell developments.
> knowledge that reflects the particular perspectives of the subject

I.e., a typical postmodernism. Not anywhere near any real science.
Modern assembly lines are truly beautiful.

Something that's unique about this video that I don't think I've seen in any other assembly line video is the actual build phase (starting at 0:17), really neat! The line itself looks fairly simple and modular. Would be interesting to find out how much equipment is off-the-shelf vs custom built for their needs.
(Former)OpenBSD developer, Miod Vallat: https://twitter.com/MiodVallat/status/669253976261570561
I don't know about the databases, but I know they use a lot of Java. I think they might have their own database.
Fintech and Telco trends for 2015 and 2016 Forecast
Url changed from http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2015/12/chubb-offers-uks-f..., which points to this.
I have similar feelings about the Grauniad. It's Fox News, albeit much better written and more journalistic, for the opposite side of the political spectrum.

I'll still read their food sections though, at least while they have Jay Rayner writing for them.
Managing Your Investors – A Founder's Perspective
Google Hangout? It works on all major platforms, and it can call landlines / cell phone number too.
"[...] for a narrow set of vision-related tasks."

Which is good and interesting news! But then I would not have clicked, because the information I was looking for would have been in the title.
But Google also gives Google style benefits and better than below market salaries.

(I guess, there's no mystery: some people apply at Palantir. Even more apply at Google.)
Another self-driving car hits the road…in China
They don't seem to think that is a good idea:
http://www.cnbc.com/2014/03/19/free-advice-dont-go-public-sa...
Yeah, I can make them have 16 but it slows things down esp on mobile phones.
I don't think that, strictly speaking, Palantir "needs" more cash. However, it puts them in a more secure position grow aggressively, even if markets take a hit in 2016.

Contrasting them to Atlassian, Palantir is much more ambitious. While they are best known for their government work, they are now far more than a government contractor. They have very strongly expanded to into many different other fields, and aim to be the data analysis leader, period. In that sense, they are a more scalable business.

To be clear, I'm certainly not saying that Palantir's approach is any way superior. It is certainly more risky. My point is that, while Atlassian is steadily profitable, Palantir is pursuing a path of "Go big, or go home." Raising more money lowers the chance of "going home."

(Disclosure: I worked at Palantir from '06-'08. Everything I post about them is my own opinion based on publicly disclosed facts.)
The SF term is 'computronium'.
What do you want them to do? Subpoena the drug gang?
No, it was not an accident. Serbia shot down an F-117. The downed stealth bomber was sold to the Chinese and it was stored in the embassy. CIA wanted to destroy the wreck, but it was in an other part of the building. This story makes sense because China started developing a stealth plane right after this Kosovo war (Chengdu J-20).
https://archive.is/CabIl
Yeah reinforcement learning and policy gradients can possibly attack the same problem.

Although for a simple task like this demo, I stand by simple conventional neuroevolution as they would work best and are easy to train as the nets are quite small.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10704405
Orbit Downloader 4.1.1.19 Portable for Windows 7 Full Version
State of UK Salaries Report – Hired [pdf]
I think it's really interesting to see the divide between visualisations and "actionable insights" in the discussion here. I'm definitely more about the latter, which has been my focus when building Exist[1] — which you could say is an uglier AprilZero/Gyroscope. AprilZero looks like a magical movie interface (and I feel like Anand has said he was inspired by this sort of thing before). In contrast it's definitely obvious I'm not a designer! So while Exist aggregates a lot of the same sort of services, it's much more about trying to make it work for you — we track rolling averages for all your data points, find simple insights each day (best/worst steps for x days) and automatically correlate everything against everything else to find interesting relations. Correlation != causation, of course, but seeing things like "Your weight is higher after you check into Little Greek Souvlaki" (a genuine result of mine) feels sort of like magic to me, even though with some thought I probably could've figured that out on my own.

Where we still have a way to go is tracking things at a smaller than day-level granularity — I really want to find relations between things that happen around the same time, like checking in to a specific place vs productivity levels, but that level of smarts is still a fair way off I think. Plus the "actionable" part of "actionable insights" is a whole can of worms in terms of computers telling people what to do.

All the same, exciting times.

[1] https://exist.io
I've been taking a different approach for the last few years, building apps in MOAI, which is basically "like Java, but you get to/have to be a native host developer as well".

MOAI is a cross-platform Game-engine/GUI-toolkit designed tot allow pretty fast depiction of games/GUI interfaces, specifically game-like interfaces. It is very easy to get a working game environment, of most of the most common forms, in 20 or 30 lines of code in MOAI, i.e. Pong, jump'n'run, shooter, etc.

On top of that, there are already 3rd-party frameworks which implement some sets of standardized "GUI" basics like sliders and buttons and scrolling scenes, and so on. So its possible to do a common GUI that runs exactly the same on all platforms - i.e. ignore native entirely and boldly forge ones own ecosystem of standards.

Which is actually kind of nice, to be honest.

So I'm wondering about the C4 side of things and your plans to embrace/wrap/extend the GUI world. Will you be a subscriber to the native world - and thus either have to do a lot of native host code (or find some way to make your developer-users responsible for the problem) - or do you think there is a future in non-native/runs-everywhere GUI development beyond that provided 'by the majors'?

I'm going to put C4 on the lab-bench some time in the next few days, looking forward to checking it out ..
Because they did it!
Americans have special powers.
See for example Scott Adams:
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/134861704021/my-offer-to-stop-d...
Open Sourcing our Website
The snake oil?
> Skype on Windows 10

Skype (for Desktop) continuously changes the sound settings (sampling rate etc.) on Windows 10 causing sound to no longer work; until I go and reset the settings to the defaults.

Why the hell would it need to change the system-wide sound settings, just to play a notification tone?
Cgroups, namespaces, and beyond: what are containers made from?
Genghis Khan? Charlemagne, arguably..? Maybe one of the Qin emperors... yeah, there aren't many great military conquerors whose gains lasted.

Start digging in the arts and philosophy though, and there are plenty, after a fashion.
And, yet, not a single mention of the iPhone hunchback battery debacle. I enjoy reading Gruber's blog, but his bias is ridiculous.
It took the UK a few years since contactless cards were launched around 2010. Everyone already had chip+pin terminals, and at first it was mostly coffee shops in London, but now many merchants have upgraded to contactless ones. It's not just national chains, but local shops too. It's much faster paying by contactless in a busy pub than paying cash.

It's possible there's pressure/support from Visa and MasterCard for small, local retailers to accept contactless payments. It's part of their advertising that you can buy a newspaper using the system, and most newsagents are local, independent shops.

A basic chip+pin (not contactless) terminal is available for £100 (or £3/month), I can't find a price for a contactless one.
One of my favourite games ever. Was recently announced with VR support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xegBdz8K2nU
Nope. https://plus.google.com/115981076197658979302/posts/2QXBZ16G...

Maybe if you use crouton, but it won't have proper permissions, and you'll have to boot ChromeOS first.
I would assume high performance / low latency software in finance.
A tool for solving problems of the form “I need a python function that does X.”
I'm curious what the top-voted and now "deleted/removed" thread used to be in that Reddit discussion, and who nuked it.
At a cursory glance, seems to be a good cache-optimization 101.

Only prefetch related slides were outdated, those should be ignored. In short, don't do manual prefetch, CPU automatic prefetching is good for predictable sequential access. Manual prefetching can even make the execution slower.
For anyone interested this seems to be the code (written in Matlab) that they used to get their results:

https://github.com/brendenlake/BPL
> Windows desktops, and OS X / Linux desktops, are far more viable than iOS or Android

You mean capable, not viable. I use a big desktop too and prefer that for serious work, but I am not a mainstream user. I know how to secure my PC: I install Visual Studio, Node, Office, Java, Android SDK some utilities and not much else. Ok: I'll also install Minecraft and Steam for my kids. They also prefer the PC over the iPad for serious gaming.

But even installing java on a PC is not consumer-safe. I read an article where someone tried installing the top-10 most popular free apps from download.com accepting all defaults: after just 3 the PC was completely hosed. Therefore I advise most normal people to just use an iPad for consumer things.
Instantly crashed WebGL on Windows 10 Chrome 47.0.2526.73.

Runs nicely on Microsoft Edge.

Looks nice.
As a former professor it does happen in biology. Whenever some crazy person would ring the switchboard in the biology area they would pass it on to me - I am not sure why, maybe it was because I was relatively patient with the people who called. Lots of interesting conversation, but little science.
Android Widget Development: How to Meet Custom Requirements