skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The language used in the NYT article you referenced is fairly loose for something that is trying to draw conclusions from statistics. And it is not hard to find people questioning the reliability of the source work, Who Really Cares by Arthur Brooks.

For example, you and the article's author state that conservatives donate more blood (which may well be factually correct) and seem to assume that there is a direct causal relationship from political belief. It may instead be that non-conservatives are disproportionately likely to belong to communities that have negative attitude to blood donation. See [1] for a possible example. There may be many other confounding factors.

"People in red states are considerably more likely to volunteer for good causes"

"People in red states" are not all conservatives. If those people in aggregate are more likely to volunteer then the causal factor(s) may have more to do with geography or regional history than political outlook.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20840534
I don't want to test them all, but I am sure there is one that doesn't work (404). It should be around the middle.

I know because my spider told me.
Investigation into security director who hacked the lottery expands
sounds like a good idea.
Before Google There Was the Chemical Rubber Company
Washington DC has been doing it as long as I can remember:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slugging

Basically pickup someone random so you can utilize HOV.
Is there enough data to determine the weakest weakness? Energy makes logical sense, it is also fairly easy to fix with an auxiliary energy supply that could kick in in an emergency situation. That's fairly easy logic to build as well, it seems like something a pro video drone might already have. They don't have a lot in the way of instruments typically, do they have wind gauges and such on the bigger more professional drones? We only see the bottom of the crash, could it have rolled from a gust of wind and become unstable and just not recovered in time? How do you monitor ice build up? How stable are they when a single motor fails? What about the base station? My cheap qav250 drops like a stone when I flip the radio power off, that opens the door to a lot of other potentials for failure, including interference, I know many have gps and return home functions when they lose signal but those are options that are added on. what about a vps signal failure which isn't that unusual in the mountains...

I guess the issue at hand becomes cost, between licensing, insurance and then building devices that are higher quality as if they could endanger life, I suspect they'll be cheaper than planes and helicopters but quite a bit more costly.
> And finally...well, I have to admit it, but I use Python like a goddamned moron in that I still don't know how to use virutalenv/venv to do proper dev isolation.

I was the same way for quite a while, until I bumped into pyenv-virtualenv[1]. Just install that plugin, and you can do, eg,

pyenv virtualenv 3.5.1 my-project

to get a virtual environment called `my-project` based off of Python 3.5.1 (assuming that you've installed 3.5.1 via pyenv, of course). Or, you can just do

pyenv virtualenv my-project

to make a virtualenv called `my-project` based off of the current version of Python that you're using.

Once you do that, pyenv treats `my-project` just as another installation of Python. In fact, `my-project` will show up in the list of installed versions (`pyenv versions`), and you can switch to it:

pyenv global my-project

(Or you can switch at the local or shell levels. Whichever.)

And voila! You have your own virtual environment that can contain its own list of libraries.

And no, I'm not a shill for the creator of pyenv, I just really like the software.

[1]: https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv-virtualenv
I forgot to clarify I meant DC<->Internet costs. This is the incremental cost of allowing full internet access.

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2011/04/cost-to-send-a-gb/
Another vote for scrapy, massively useful for web crawling. Particularly love the shell for debugging things.
Google's Creepy Robot Reindeer
docopt was inspiring in its own way, but click was 'simpler' do toy with.
Or CentOS 7 (Docker is not supported any more on 6.x).
Neurotribes: A Better Understanding of Autism
If you exploit people without giving them a fair share then they will eventually revolt.
Pull your credit regularly.

Credit score is a huge scam too. Coming out of college I was in the bottom 5th percentile in the nation from random medical debts and such, and within a year I was in the 95th percentile. I spent a lot of time researching and negotiating on the phone to make that happen, but I paid nearly nothing.

There are so many tricks that can be used to improve the score that are completely counter intuitive. For instance, you would think it would be a good thing for your credit to pay a delinquent bill? Almost never. It's acknowledgement that you owed the debt to begin with, so it hurts you.

In the case of your doctor's office, the best thing to do is NOT pay the debt collector, and then go a different route through the doctor's office instead. Generally you can scare them with a potential HIPAA violation into getting the item removed from your report.

Edit: I should clarify, pulling your credit will only help for things that are outstanding and have already been reported as delinquent. The important thing to know is that if you catch it on there, you can negotiate anything. Even if you have to call back many times until you get the 'right' person, you can social hack the process.
Angular 2 for React developers
Are you a “harbinger of failure”? – MIT News
Wouldn't this make modern browsers vulnerable to a downgrade attack via an active MITM?
This is pretty cool. Is the first stage trajectory to scale here?
> defense of laws which guarantee freedom

Some powerful organizations are doing a lot of illegal surveillance for decades despite of those laws.

Shall we stop using HTTPS in the meantime?
This article is written as if it's the startup's fault that tax laws are irrational. Doesn't reflect well on the NYT.
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But people have been flying RC forever. It's not like it's a new hobby. AMA has been around for 80 years. It's just a fad right now. Everyone couldn't fly 4 channel airplanes or 6 channel helicopters, but a monkey could fly a quadcopter.

The same guy who gets into RC airplanes and helis is not the same person who gets into quadcopters. From what I've seen the quadcopter community does not feel like the regular RC community. Very reckless bunch of folks from what I've seen, and they're ruining it for all the other RC folks like me who have flown for 20+ years with no problems.
Sorry, I can't find an actual citation - if you ask any Spotify employee though, it's pretty much an open secret that Spotify's initial collection was scraped from the pirate bay.
Who else is quoted in the article with an opinion similar to Ted Ligety's? Also, I don't want to insinuate bad motives, but it should be pointed out that he is a co-founder of slytech (http://slytechprotection.com/athlete/ted-ligety/).
It's something like Django models but with Elasticsearch. You can create object classes and then save them to Elasticsearch, query them, etc. It's built on the lower-level https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-py. Very handy.
Secure Messaging: 3 Reasons Why Your Business Needs It Now
Loosely the main points are that the rate falls off exponentially with the "width" of the barrier, and that energy is still conserved (you can say the particle "must have" had more energy at some point because it crossed the barrier, but you'll never observe it with more energy than it has). For more precise answers, just plug the potential you're trying to tunnel through into the Schrödinger equation.
This isn't like the free AOL discs, but as if AOL were free but never allowed people to access anything other than a free encyclopedia, medical information, and their own content and services.

A major reason Facebook is doing this is that they see an investment opportunity. In some countries the majority of people are using the internet, but can't distinguish the internet from Facebook. That is any techno-monopolist's wet dream, and it is exactly what they are going for across the entire developing world.

I know for a fact that some people working at Facebook think they are doing good and being charitable by supporting internet.org. It is extremely hard to convince anyone who stands to gain from internet.org that this could be a net negative for the people on the receiving end. I've been called arrogant and out of touch for arguing this. To me, it is disturbing that this is seen as a world-changing act of charity, but some people clearly feel that way. I'm relieved that regulators are standing up against Facebook, and I hope they stand strong, but I have doubts. We may be losing the free internet and weakly accepting the rule of a new emperor.
Wired cameras have also had problems such as http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2013/05/26/coca-...

It would be interesting to start comparing accidents per hour for wired and drones.
That is actually pretty hilarious....I wonder if they grabbed it because of potential issues with the name or mainly because of mistypes.

We grabbed quite a few names due to people misspelling the domain so we could direct them to the proper site, never really cared about the <name>sucks.com stuff.
The fact that some employees have to pay taxes based on the valuations that VCs dream up terrifies me.
Richard Stallman wrote the GNU GPL. Eben Moglen assisted in writing version 3.
Not, it isn't. It would be more innovative if it was forced to compete with Facebook.

Just FYI, startups in India already go head-to-head with Facebook and Amazon. What Free Basics does is make them compete for preferential treatment by network operators, which changes the whole game.
> Even worse, they had paid taxes on the stock based on the higher value.

That's the most annoying part of the entire article, and why I ask for salary rather than equity. Keep your stock, I'd rather pay my bills.
> Hillary Clinton actively campaigned at Saturday’s debate for a “Manhattan-like project” to break encryption.

Fight this now, tech industry. It doesn't matter how stupid the idea is; those are fighting words.
>>But 50% of the rest of India doesn't pay for internet and it thinks there is no need to because that is ALL the internet has to offer.

>I think you underestimate people's intelligence. More so, if they only want to use Facebook, or don't want to use anything else enough to pay for it, what's the problem?

I think this is totally possible, not at 50% though. Imagine the people who have never used Internet before and are not-so-educated. If Free basics is what they are going to use for the first time, it's possible for them to think that what they get to use through that, is all of the Internet.
It gets pretty close; 3DRs SOLO streams "black box data" to the transmitter in addition to logging it onboard the drone, so you get data up to the moment of incident even if the transmitter link fails. It also has a fail safe processor in the hardware that the community is adding I/O functionality to for just this purpose.
> Just fine in the sense that it's the dominant language on iOS, and iOS sets the bar, IMO, for snappy experiences on modern platforms.

> Stuff implemented in java and javascript, not so much.

I agree with the data but not the conclusion. iOS' performance is great in spite of using Objective-C as its language, not because of it.

The only performance-related features that Objective-C brings to the table are (a) being able to piggyback on the optimizations implemented in popular open source C++ compilers; (b) being compatible with C, so you can easily inline C into Objective-C when Objective-C's slow performance bites you; (c) not requiring tracing garbage collection. When you're actually in heavy Objective-C land with method calls in tight loops, performance is pretty bad, both because message sending is slow and because methods can't be devirtualized. Apple knows this, and they've basically reached the limit of what they can do without incompatible changes to the Objective-C semantics. Hence the performance-related design decisions in Swift.

(As for UIScrollView/UITableView, I agree that they're very fast relative to Android or current Web browsers for example. I know the reasons for this and they have nothing to do with the implementation language. Algorithmic and engineering concerns often trump programming language performance.)
Yes people have been killed by RC helicopters. A buddy of mine who flew at a club almost died when a Trex 500 hit him in the head. You won't hear about that stuff on the news though because it's not a "drone". Drones are the media fad right now.
I was skeptical about several things in the article. First its hard to sue for past SOL debt- most civil courts recognize this and dont want to be clogged up by it. Second, only four kinds of debt can garnish Social Secuirty: overdue federal taxes, child support, alimony, and student loans. And only for 15% max. Where some people run into trouble if they comingle a SS bank account with other income. A SS-only account is protected by banks.
This sounds very much like the slow adoption of the HANS Device in NASCAR. The guy who developed said he sold maybe 200 in the first ten years.

That all changed when Dale Earnhardt died of a basilar skull fracture, and then the drivers lined up to get them. It's now standard equipment on all NASCAR vehicles.

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/2012/09/11/u...
WebAssembly*: An initial view
I won't repeat what blktiger said. A better example would be child pornography hosted on multiple servers in multiple countries. I'm sure there is a less emotionally charged offense where you could come up with a single act violating the same (or very similar) laws in multiple jurisdictions simultaneously.
Though I have found no evidence of its inspiration by Wittgenstein's experience, nonetheless one is reminded of the title character in Herman Hesse's "Magister Ludi", who

[Spoiler Alert]

abnegates his position as head of the world's leading (perhaps only) academy to seek a reification of philosophy (to "bring it into contact with the broader world"), in part through the tutoring of a childhood friend's young son.

I must at some point comb through the accounts of both attempts at this goal, to see if the resemblance is more than superficial.
Sure, but that doesn't mesh with Swift's goals, as I understand them. The team seems to be positioning Swift as a language that will scale down to low-level performance-critical pieces in a way that Objective-C can't (though I may be wrong here since I'm not involved in that community very much).
>There's no real public transportation to/fro Marin to San Francisco

After the loans on the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge were paid off (some time in the 1960s or 1970s) instead of eliminating the tolls, it was decided to use the revenue from the tolls to subsidize public transportation between SF and the counties to the north of it. The buses and ferries between Marin and SF remain very good IMHO.
also, no unicode keys for this or shelve in 2.7 which really causes some coding pain. (not sure about 3.X)
Form an LLC. Not quite a corporation, but accomplishes what you are looking for. http://guides.wsj.com/small-business/starting-a-business/how...
You should see how awkwardly he debuted one of the latest phones, and you'll understand. Might just be social awkwardness. (Still sucks, but feels microscopically less malicious).
The issue is that politicians also need to appease their donors, which is why they just generally protect the elites. But that doesn't make what Dotcom did any less criminal.

In my opinion, they're two entirely separate issues. And getting both right would probably require something like a President Sanders with a Democratic congress willing to pass significant campaign finance reform.
What's the advantage of Q over pdb?
The constitution -- and the fundamental inalienable rights it enumerates -- were written to provide a backstop for when society fails to draw the line on a slippery slope.

This is exactly what happened with the legalization of gay marriage through the judicial branch.

Your comment is incredibly naive in the face of even contemporary world history, nevermind the generations of slave and feudalistic societies that came before us.
Fact check: Japan productivity falling?

2009: $31

2013: $36.24

2014: $36.45

source:http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=PDB_LV

(GDP per head of population in USD ppp adjusted)
Ask HN: Papers you read in 2015?
Curious about scientific publications in your field that are worth sharing.
Seaborn is great for visualization; it basically packages up some of the more specialized R plots for MPL. The other thing I really love about it are plotting contexts, which make it really easy to properly size and format the same plot for e.g. a poster and a paper.

Interestingly enough, my biggest use of Pandas is to serialize to and from HDF5. I work with a lot of large datasets and Pandas simplifies using HDF5 quite a lot.
I have pushed a lot of fixes now and sent a PR.

In the meanwhile, please see this working example on the Go playground: http://play.golang.org/p/voUfPGQulf
What programming language would you use to develop a mid-sized web application?
Why?
Thanks! I have pushed a lot of fixes now and sent a PR.

In the meanwhile, please see this working example on the Go playground: http://play.golang.org/p/voUfPGQulf
Is The Federation the Ultimate Communist State?
Oh, I thought rms only wrote GPLv1 and got a lot of assistance from Moglen for GPLv2, but I suppose you're right, my bad, it was only until GPLv3 that Moglen had a big impact.
“Write in Go”
11 Ground-Breaking Web Development Trends for 2016
This graphic aptly shows the differences in complexity between the two flight plans, but it doesn't show the biggest difference between the two rockets. When the Falcon 9, enters space at the height of 100 km, it is traveling at 5000 km/h with 125 metric tons of payload[0]. Blue Origin's New Shepard, the best I can tell was traveling at ~0 km/h at that height, as it reached apogee at the height of 100.5 km and began falling back to Earth.

According to Musk[0], a first stage of a rocket is judged by the energy it can impart to its payload at the standardized height of 100 km. Merely getting to 100 km is the easy part. The Falcon 9 is able to deliver 120 giga-joules to its payload at the height of 100 km, while performing a return to launch site landing. While it appears the New Shepard had ~0 joules left at 100 km.

[0] - http://www.spacex.com/news/2015/12/21/background-tonights-la...

[1] - https://www.blueorigin.com/news/news/blue-origin-makes-histo...
It's funny but not coincidental that the physical manifestation of this particular quantum computer is almost identical to modern NMR experiments, down to to the pulse trains used to move rotate the qubit spins back and forth between phase and amplitude.
Every day I write in bash, Javascript, XML, JSON, Java, Scala and probably a few others. Trivial differences don't matter.
While the idea sounds straightforward, I don't believe that it's as simple as "punishment deters crime". IMHO, the deterrent effect of imprisonment is negligible; it's primary effect is to prevent those who commit crimes from committing more in the public arena by locking them up.

http://primary.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_scienc...
Recreating a Footballer's face based on his Footballing honors
Here's a size difference comparison as well: http://i.imgur.com/g2VIKVC.jpg
The startup and/or its employees should have known the tax laws. It's not like this exact thing hasn't been happening for years and years.

(And it kind of is the startups fault that there isn't a way to exercise-and-sell the options. If it was a public company you wouldn't need to take the risk of a massive AMT bill)
That particular back-end is deprecated, but the same API is provided by the dbm/gdbm/dumbdbm modules. Those still exist in Python 3, although they've been consolidated under one top-level module.
A Primer on Deep Learning
I find click to be much more natural too. Docopt was always touchy about more complicated CLIs when I used it (probably because a lot of "magic" happens behind the scenes), whereas click lets you drill down and arrange things just so. It also feels very well designed, hats of to Ronacher as usual for being good at designing Python libraries.

I also find myself using click even when I don't want a CLI. The pretty-printer (`secho`) and progress bars are extremely handy, plus some of the other stuff in utilities. It's quite nice that they handle detecting when output is an interactive terminal versus piping to a file.
I don't get it; why doesn't it matter how stupid the idea is? If she wanted to have a Manhattan project for perpetual motion machines it would be harmless, right? (And from a Keynsian standpoint it would be better than harmless since she'd be injecting money into the economy, having physicists and engineers doing the equivalent of digging trenches and filling them in.)
Go uses semi-colon insertion like Javascript does, albeit with the benefit of Javascript's experience to fix up the edges. Calling "adopting some of the syntax of arguably the most popular language" capricious is probably stretching a bit.
Just so you know, this tutorial costs $40, and is not available for Linux users.

And there are free resources for learning Elixer: https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr...
Besides what others have pointed out, there's also the economic angle. It may be worth the estimated $X (for whatever value of $X you believe) to predict a collision, forge a cert, and MITM all of a website's traffic. It may not be worth nearly as much if the prize is only the ability to MITM 2% of that website's traffic. Maybe it's 6% under oppressive regimes, but it's still the same amount of work for a much smaller prize.

Of course we'd like to protect all 100%, but this is about tradeoffs. Assuming downgrade attacks are as preventable as they claim, I think it's respectable that they're making this kind of effort to reduce the impact.
Tearing down is a lot easier than building up. We leveled massive neighborhoods and rewrote how transportation infrastructure works in the US due to the car. Not to mention everything is much much more expensive now than it used to be and the political will to fix things isn't their. You've also got decades of voters who think in terms of the automobile. People in their 60's, 70's and 80's remember denser more urban cities where cars didn't dominate, but those people moved to the suburbs in their adult-hood and raised kids in the burbs who then raised their kids in the burbs and so on. Car culture is going to be here for a long time and the damage it has done will be slow healing because the people who could speed up the change the most have had an auto-centric world view from childhood.
For future reference, the return part is made up of 3 burns. The first two use three engines, and the landing burn uses just the one. Coming back, it's obviously much lighter without all the propellant and 2nd stage/payload weight, so it needs much less thrust to reverse course. See http://flightclub.io for more info.
They don't do the same thing. Q does printing. import q; q(var) -> prints var to /tmp/q, with syntax highlighting, separate files for big output, etc. It can also do lots of other cool things, cf 1-page documentation in the link. :)
The liability protection of an LLC only covers legitimate business activity. As soon as you've mixed your personal activity with that of the business you've "pierced the [thin] veil" between you and your business, and your personal assets are no longer protected.