skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Memory Book - Fantastic, maybe not always practical unless you have a lot of practice, but extremely useful to at least understand some of the strategies to memorizing strings

Understanding Weatherfax - for an attempted (and failed) circumnavigation

Sail Power

Kon Tiki

Shogun

Art of the Sailor

Business Adventures

Metamorphoses (by Ovid, not Kafka)

Guns, Germs, Steel

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - this book had so many rave reviews. it has a tremendous hook and style for the first 50 pages, but overall I thought it was terrible

Cryptonomicon -- fantastic

Simulacra and simulation -- started, but I need to start over. this is not an easy read...

Predictably Irrational -- another book with great reviews, but reading this book was not time well spent. the author just summarizes psychology experiments with pages of dumbed down explanations and tedious anecdotes

The Alliance -- read this on my last day at my old job, a good reminder on the social contract between you and your employer and how it should be mutually beneficial, lots of boring filler though

Triple your reading speed -- I wanted to take a speed reading course when I was in elementary school, but my dad thought it was a waste of time. I think I really missed out on something, but late is better than never.

Siddhartha -- rereading of one of my favorite books of all time

The Alchemist -- rereading of one of my favorite books of all time

Jazz (by Leveaux)

The Jazz Piano Book

Mastering the Piano

Big Blue Book of bicycle maintenance

Probability (by Pitman) -- its embarassing statistics/probability isn't a required course in many programs

Elements of Statistical Learning

Advanced Analytics with Spark -- feels like this book was published only 80% done

Optimization Models (by Calafiore and El Ghaoui) -- going to finish this is 2016

Functional Programming with Scala -- going to finish this is 2016

Linux Programming Interface -- going to finish this is 2016

Finished 18 books cover to cover in 2015, 6 of which were textbooks/academic texts. Currently have 7 in progress, 2 of which are piano workbooks and 3 are textbooks.

Goal for 2016 is 30 books cover to cover, at least 8 textbooks/academic texts.
In defense of grandparent, let me point out that you ignored the adverb "completely". There is "dependent on government" and then there is "completely dependent on government".
How I learned about assertiveness and reality from being a consultant (2014)
Breakthrough light-based microprocessor chip could lead to more powerful devices
I doubt security minded folks would be choosing Android, because of the lack of updates.
Would be more interesting to apply this photo transformation given, as an input, not only the painting the artist produced but also a photograph of the thing the artist was trying to represent. Otherwise all you are doing is recreating the artist's visual tools, not the way the artist translates what they see into the visual palette.

But then, if you tell the algorithm that The Scream is just a painting of a man on a bridge... you're not going to get a very good result.
TSA sharply curtails ability to opt out of electronic body screening at airports
So it turns out that guy messed up the SpaceX plot (the distance downrange was doubled), and posted a corrected one to reddit:
http://i.imgur.com/Z81NgAk.png
Show HN: Node.js – A collection of distilled load balancing engines
Well, for a 139 years old company, with today some 118k employees, working on products with technology as their primary added value (as opposed to Apple which can be expected to spend a lot of its energy on design, user design and industrial design etc etc while not really inventing that much new foundational technology, in comparison) ...
A few people have been killed by RC helicopters (see e.g. http://abcnews.go.com/US/minute-mechanical-error-led-teens-r...).

A man was killed by a larger drone when, it's suspected, the GPS was jammed: http://lemondronor.com/blog/index.php/2013/3/gps-loss-kicked...
> NB. appears to be the comment marker

Likely in reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nota_bene
All the patents in question seem to relate to cellular radio technology, and not to touch screens per se.
> It sickens me that I have to pay taxes to support them when they just continue to spiral downward.

This is a feedback loop. I'm not saying that throwing more money at public schools will help them get better, but taking money away will certainly make them worse.

> Most liberal solutions that I've seen leave out human nature and a history of complete failure and re-dress it as something 'new'.

Actually agree. Most liberal policies are somewhat naive. But on the other end you have the free market people crowing about benefits of deregulation and wanting to disassemble public services because "I don't want my tax dollars going to [parks, buses, schools, etc etc] I don't even use!!"

There's a medium ground here. The point of society isn't to preserve your tax dollars or to give everyone welfare. The point is that when we all live together as a group, we all do a lot better than we did when it was six of us in a group starving out on the tundra.

There are some public services that we just shouldn't live without, especially if we want to stay competitive as a country. However, some of them need complete overhauls or just shouldn't exist in the first place.
Just happened to see this article today talking about how much real estate costs in various area's of Greater Vancouver: http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2015/12/metro-vancouver-real-esta...
> To this day I can never make sense out of the "sizes" that appear on women's clothes

Why does nobody step up and fix this problem? (See also: clothes for women with useful sized pockets). Given the amount of complaining I see, I would have thought that somebody releasing a range of sensible clothes in women's sizes would instantly dominate the market...
> If you're a good developer, you can get a better deal by working at an established company and simply investing.

This cannot be emphasized strongly enough. Even if you suck at investing, take a look at the max fluctuations for Valley's finest - AAPL, GOOG, FB or NFLX. Starting as a very late employee at any of those places with companies well past IPO stage with original equity package pegged at 1.5x-3x the annual salary, with annual/biannual refreshers and occasional performance bonuses yields a very secure future.

Of course, there's a bit of survivor bias here, but employees of a publicly traded company generally have a better idea of the company direction.
I simply wont buy anything where the only option is "Contact us"
Australian police secretly turn phones to spying devices
Can't agree more. One start-up which I worked for a few years went bust. It was an experience that brought up very complicated feelings of proud, pain, excitement, upset, comradeship, disappointment, etc. Although it was painful to accept the outcome, it was not surprising, considering the odds of success.

What I learned from the experience is: when you consider joining a startup, it doesn't matter what products they are building, what market they are pursuing, etc. What matters is the people you will work with. I learned a lot about how to read people during the up-and-down time, about what people you can trust, both their abilities and their personalities. If my ex-colleagues start new companies and ask me to join, I will jump in for some people as long as I can get enough cash to cover the living expenses of my family, and politely decline for some others.
A proposal for a stateless laptop
No? Really? Seriously? See also pthread_spin_lock on your friendly neighborhood Linux box or other post-2001 POSIXy system.
> I think the success of Spotify and Pandora and Rhapsody are proof that consumers don't care about [absolute] quality

That is, after a certain threshold, quality is no longer a concern. As ears are typically less fidelity than eyes, that threshold bar is higher for video than audio.

As an aside, this http://test.tidalhifi.com/intro is an interesting little test.
I switched to Python three a few months ago. And it still gets me and I end up typing "print variable", only to have Python complain. It's probably stuck with me because of it's simplicity, though I do understand why they've removed it. It's an aberration in the syntax, for lack of a better way of putting it.
Given that there was a license agreement on the same technology earlier, I think it is a reasonable guess that about a third of Ericsson's profits came from Apple in 2014.
On the other side, you can look how fast, reliable and cheap is fibre line in Romania. Free market, no regulations, no corporations, no protectionism and good competition in that field. https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/2ct58s/average_inte...
Easy platform independent gui as webpage. Used it on my pc a robot and raspberry pi.

https://github.com/dddomodossola/remi/blob/master/README.md
That's bizarre. The login should be working :( Would you be able to please send me a screenshot and some more details of the problem you are getting and we will try to solve it asap. If you are login in via Facebook it should be straightforward. If you create a new "Mesmo Account" you should get an email to confirm your account. My direct email is abalkin@mesmo.me. Thanks Alex
Now that the Jobs' era products have been exhausted, I expect to be underwhelmed by more mediocre Apple products in the future. One would think a CEO doesn't have that much of an influence, but Apple hasn't put out anything better than average since Jobs died. Whether cause and effect exists really doesn't matter as the quality of products, especially software, continues to plunge.
'Fat but fit' may be a myth, researchers say
For people actively working full-time in the field, some of the papers which have simple but powerful ideas, reading the paper for 2 hours (or glancing at the key diagram / formula) is enough to implement it.

For example:

Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition

Fast and Accurate Deep Network Learning by Exponential Linear Units (ELUs)
I wonder how much Ericsson is paying Apple for _their_ portfolio, though. These patent deals usually imply reciprocity, including licensing fee reciprocity.
Ginger Roll is free to download on the Play Store (Hurry, before price goes up)
It's because we're all in it for the fame and glory. Right?

;-)
I couldn't disagree with you more.

If you don't know HOW to build a multi-billion dollar product without stealing prior work that isn't yours, WHY should you be able to sledgehammer your way into lots of money by preventing somebody else from getting paid for what they did?

Furthermore, a current lack of sufficient resources to pursue an idea does not mean that you never intend to do anything with it. The poster seems to think that the arbitrary amount of "a few years" discredits any prior work, as if it doesn't take people much longer periods of time to get their life in order and bring their life's work and ideas to fruition.
Or drag-select text to the New Tab button. It will open a new tab and search your selected text (unless it's an URL, in which case it will open it).
Looks extremely similar to https://github.com/schematics/schematics . Always good to see two projects approach the problem the same way independently - higher chance that the solution is right :)

Schematics has a very useful feature in "roles" - i.e. a good way of hiding certain fields in certain situations (e.g. admin views vs self vs other vs anonymous). Does marshmallow have something similar?
Wolfram Community Highlights: Medicine, Drones, KenKen, and More
How Do I Get My Business to Show Up on the Right Hand Side of Google?
Stockholm's 'Reverse' Congestion Charge Would Pay Cyclists with Driving Fees
India has no way to go but up, IMO. Half the country is illiterate, fer chrissakes. Get that number down and growth is more or less inevitable. Social unrest is inevitable as well, though.
Seriously one of the most impressive blogs out there. Here's him answering your question: http://blog.acolyer.org/2015/03/30/end-of-term-and-how-i-rea...
No, don't you get it? They clearly weren't giants if they couldn't do everything themselves, so it's okay if we don't do everything ourselves, not pay them, and make more money.

(obviously kidding)
Why not "just" fall back to a mutex after enough spinning? I guess this would require an extra branch in the unlocking function (to check whether there are threads blocked in the kernel that need to be woken up), but that doesn't sound too awful especially as the branch would very rarely be taken. (It would sort of break OSSpinLock's ABI though. Sort of.)

AKA an adaptive mutex.
Sure, the primary objective is a huge IPO. It's the playbook in the sense of it was plan B to break even by cutting employees out. Investors might have not made out, but they broke even, and scratched the back of execs who can repay the favor in other contexts.
Those 100 Trillion dollars bills are quite epic: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Zimbabwe-100-Trillion-Dollars-X-5-Pi...
Create Your Future, 3D Business Online
Massive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10779589
Is this not an awfully scary precedent? How can Google be expected to modify it's algorithm on-demand in these cases?
It was a never a truth to begin with, really. Even the original study was rather controversial in its results. Fat but 'fit' is a transitory state between healthy weight and fit or obesity and unfit; eventually all that weight will catch up with you.
Modern Front End Development
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10779589
That's amazing. He comes across like such a "magician".

An illusionist like "yes, take a look inside the machine!"
Primary discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10779589
> I mean, it's not like you are building "the whole product," you are just building some feature.

If slavery was still legal, you'd better fucking believe that the corporation that owned you would be suing other corporations over getting a percent of the revenue for some work you did.

But alas, you are just a person, and as such you don't get to write laws and international trade agreements, so your contributions to a product aren't litigated over.
On one hand this seems bad because it implies that Google is sanctioning the links it returns... it's just a search engine, not a content curator. But the IP people have been making Google take down links for years so I suppose it's not that different. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Arduino Powered LED Christmas Tree
One allegation is that RipoffReport is basically extorting people by having third parties post unredactable negative reviews on their "forum" and then asking a price to have them removed. RipoffReport is not liable because the forum posts are deemed user generated content, but in this case, Google's autocomplete suggestions are deemed to be published by Google, hence Google's liability. Is this understanding correct?
>If you don't know how to build a multi-billion dollar product without stealing prior work that isn't yours, WHY should you be able to sledgehammer your way into lots of money by preventing somebody else from getting paid for what they did?

The assumption being, of course, that you actually stole prior work instead of coming up with the same idea. From what I can tell, most of the time these patents cover obvious stuff.

A touch screen on a phone? Who would have thought of that? Everybody, actually. Everybody.
Of course, the headline is misleading, as per usual...

From the article:

"By 2008, foreign currencies such as the U.S. dollar and the South African rand had become de facto currencies thanks to a booming black market. The following year, the government announced that it would officially allow businesses to use these currencies, effectively abandoning the Zimbabwean dollar.

The new agreement would add the yuan to the list of currencies used for public transactions, and the Zimbabwean government said it would encourage its use."
>Pointing in the vague direction of an exemplar system and describing it a positive argument does not constitute an argument.

Neither does saying "hierarchies do not scale well", or "no they don't", without providing any evidence. So at least you are both "arguing" on the same level: unsubstantiated opinion.
Amazon Seeks to Ease Ties with UPS
Does anyone have any idea the style of painting that he was actually doing? (In the first one)
> This is a tangent, but the most annoying change in the latest Python versions is you can no longer write print "foo". Now it has to be print("foo").

The statement-to-function migration for print is, IMO, generally an improvement, but in any case its not a change in the latest versions of python, except with an unusually broad interpretation of latest; its a change in Python 3.0, which was released a little over 7 years ago.
Without patent system, what would stop someone from just cloning the IPhone and coming out with a lower cost version which doesn't factor in all the r&d that apple put into the development of the phone?
I am not a physicist... Why is setting a rock atop a column of water better than an unadorned column of water?
Are you able to share any of the tweaks that were used?
Friend of mine that I worked with in college gave me a hundred billion dollar note. I think at the time it was worth something like $.50...
I think some of these patents are pretty bogus.
Take this patent for example:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7660417B2/en

Is this a patent for an encryption handshake? I'm pretty sure I can find very similar flowcharts in my security textbook from 2002.

http://www.slashroot.in/understanding-ssl-handshake-protocol
Verifying the truth of every anecdote, review, news report, and wiki page Google links to sounds far more difficult than managing copyright claims.

If this stands, will everyone in Australia be able to have pages about them removed from Google searches with a simple request?
Sue this biitch
The "Wait, Google Sent Me!" extension is awesome for this- you just have to click a button in Chrome and it'll reload the page with the appropriate referrers.

Although Google took it out of the Chrome store it's still up on Github[1]. All you have to do is download the zip file, change the extension to "crx", and then install.

[1] https://github.com/lakario/wait-google-sent-me
Top Christmas Presents for Her -
Our government does use drones? Has done for years.
I'm quite sure...as it's been 13 years and 5 (or 6 or 7?) promotions spanning from Senior Software Engineer to VP.
Right. I'm just pointing out proponents of unionization usually pretend that unionization costs zero to the workers' wallets. Well, there's the dues, but in theory they pay for themselves in increased benefits, therefore any rational employee should join the union.

The elephant in the room is the migration strategies the employer starts exploring when faced with an added cost (offshoring, moving to a right-to-work state, increasing automation, switching from vertical integration to third-party contractors).
And of course there's also The Great Quux's Double Bucky Song:

Double Bucky

(C) 1978 by Guy L. Steele, Jr.

(Sung to the tune of "Rubber Duckie")

Double bucky, you're the one!
You make my keyboard lots of fun
Double bucky, an additional bit or two:
(Vo-vo-de-o!)
Control and Meta side by side,
Augmented ASCII, nine bits wide!
Double bucky, a half a thousand glyphs,
plus a few!
Oh,
I sure wish that I
Had a couple of
bits more!
Perhaps a
Set of pedals to
Make the number of
Bits four:
Double double bucky!
Double bucky, left and right
OR'd together, outta sight!
Double bucky, I'd like a whole word of
Double bucky, I'm happy I heard of
Double bucky, I'd like a whole
word of you!

(For those of you who are interested, the term "bucky bits" comes from Niklaus Wirth, known as "bucky" to friends, who suggested that an extra bit be added to terminal codes on 36 bit machines for use by screen editors.)
THat's what people thought twenty years. Today this does not matter anymore.

> Yes, but they also share a history and a set of syntax and ideas...

Clojure:

user=> (cons 1 2)
IllegalArgumentException Don't know how to create ISeq from: java.lang.Long clojure.lang.RT.seqFrom (RT.java:542)

user=> (cdr '(1 . 2))
CompilerException java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resolve symbol: cdr in this context, compiling:(NO_SOURCE_PATH:2:1)

What I say...
And both have spiritual debt to the telephone amongst all other knowledge/art before it. I don't know much about the details of this case but I don't like what I do know.
"Rediscovering" 19-20th century philosophy and massaging data to fit it describes much of modern research psychology.
Trademarks.
Honestly, naive spinlocks in a mobile OS just generally seem like a bad idea. You just aren't going to get great results.
My interpretation is that the case specifically hinged on whether auto-complete suggestions were published by Google, not the search results themselves.
"In recent months, some Zimbabwean economists had argued that the country should increase its use of the Chinese currency in a bid to get around U.S. sanctions."...hmm other dictatorships may follow suit...
> Phabricator includes applications for: .... counting down to HL3;

> If you prefer a more straightforward tone, you can disable most of the flavor by turning on the phabricator.serious-business setting in the Config application.

Development done right.
Why baking is the perfect pastime for busy entrepreneurs?
In chrome you can go to the address bar, add a "?" before the http and hit enter, and click the first link in the search results for the full article.
I'd guess not much, unless Apple has a bunch of cell-tower patents lying around. Ericsson divested from the handset business after pulling out of the SonyEricsson joint venture.
I think this officially marks the end of Dollar Hegemony: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_hegemony#American_mon...
By the way, being charitable in iterperting what others write here is one of HN's tenets. You've demonstrated self reflection and contrition. That puts you ahead of most.
$FF bottles of beer on the wall.
$FF bottles of beer.
Take one down, pass it around
$FE bottles of beer on the wall.
[...]
Parent's saying that absent the necessary-evil patent system, people will copy other people's stuff rather than innovating, because it's easier.
It's amazing in 10 years we've gone from an X-prize to do exactly that to "not interesting".
No if I were to try to get a loan or credit card (a.k.a. a line of credit) for my LLC (which has basically zero assets), the bank or credit card company would require me, personally [edit: or someone else with assets], to cosign.

"Perhaps you mean that sometimes those extending loans to single-member LLCs require that the member co-sign the loan?" Yes.

As long of the funds from the loan are used strictly for LLC business purchases and purposes one should be able to keep the corporate veil in place. Even if the LLC defaults on the loan/debt the creditor doesn't need to pierce a corporate veil to go after your personal assets to repay the loan... they have your personal liability signature. Your corporate veil would/should still be in place for any other transactions that the LLC is a party to.
My 15mbps cable broadband in the USA costs $62 a month. Every year goes up $5/mo or so.

The biggest problem in much of the USA is duopolies (and the DSL side of that typically sucks so it is effectively a monopoly).
Whoops, yeah.

http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alpine_package
37000 patents dedicated to "mobile communication" is pretty crazy. I wonder how many are software vs hardware.
a giant head start, brand, trade secrets (hardware and software), strategic supplier & manufacturer relationships, strategic partnerships (app developers & carriers)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-23/google-ordered-to-pay-...

mentions extracts, links, and auto-complete results. My interpretation was that all three were considered defamatory.
Ask HN: Any tips on project/software task estimation?
This has been an issue and I would like to know what other people/teams have done to solve this.