skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So perhaps we ought be working on building solutions that bridge the Python-R gap? Because as someone who has effectively left Python, I'd love to learn from solutions Python users find effective. After all, it's not like one language is the sole proprietor of useful approaches (;
The competition here is not everyone flying their personal plane (with "sharing" introduced to maximize efficiency), it's commercial aviation, whose cost structure is already more efficient compared to general aviation.

It's as if Uberhop was launched in a market that used predominantly city buses.
LÖVE 0.10 released with iOS and Android support
> Pictures sell

Uhhh, what? I'm struggling to think of a favorite or popular restaurant that has pictures on the menu or in the restaurant. That's a move generally relegated to cheap chinese or mexican restaurants. You'll find pictures on yelp and sometimes on the restaurants website. But, in general, no–pictures aren't what sells.
They've all been sinking money into sovereign wealth funds, and Dubai has been spending big on expanding it's airlines, promoting its airport as a global hub and developing a tourist industry. They're attempting to diversify their economies but whether or not any of that turns out to be sustainable without massive subsidies from oil profits is dubious.
So Jim in Vermont is going to New Haven, CT tomorrow to see his sister. Jeff has a business meeting in the same city and figures he can save some time waiting around in airports if he flies with Jim and pays half the costs.

At takeoff time, weather around the CT coast looks iffy. Jim would rather stay home and see his sister next weekend instead. Jeff can't get a flight on such short order, and tells Jim he really needs to make the meeting or a big contract is lost. He offers to pay Jim 2x the full flight costs to make his meeting.

What Jim will do in this situation is likely very different than if he hadn't agreed to take Jeff along.
Credit where credit due - I think Basecamp were one of the early ones to perfect this strategy.
In the game of zones, you win or you rent.
I think there's definitely a cultural problem where the outcome of an experiment is associated with the reputation of the scientist who performed it. We see this in the bias to publish only positive results - as though if an experiment did not make findings of significance it is a failing of the scientist who performed it - and we see this in the reluctance of many scientists to investigate that which would be very surprising if found to be true.

The NASA research into the EmDrive is an excellent example of this. The discovery of a method of propulsion which does not consume onboard mass yet achieves energy efficiencies greater than that of a photon rocket would be extremely surprising, which makes it all the more important that apparent effects such as these are investigated. The correct response on seeing an unexpected experimental result is not to ignore it or to assume the experiment is wrong (although that should be treated with a high probability), but to report it and to systematically investigate the discrepancy until either the unexpected result is confirmed with a degree of evidence commensurate with its unexpectedness or the error is discovered. Extreme skepticism can be equally as bad as extreme gullibility, and it is extremely discourteous to imply or to assume the existence of fraud, or to attack the character of the researcher unless there is overwhelming evidence supporting such an aspersion. Even if it might by probabilistically justified to promote the possibility of fraud on the part of the scientist to the most likely explanation for an unexpected result, this has negative externalities on entire scientific fields and forces researchers to "stake their reputations" on publishing surprising results, which is just the sort of perverse situation we should strive to avoid.
Like Magic Links in Slack. That's a great idea.

http://www.sandpaper.io/post/134762619566/slack-magic-link
China to Use Big Data to Rate Citizens in New 'Social Credit System'
I don't think the point of this piece is to claim Fleischmann and Pons actually succeeded. I think the point is that there is a difference between the failure of a particular experiment, and proving that all experiments in cold fusion will fail.

Fleischmann and Pons was certainly not the only science experiment to produce a false positive in 1989, but it was a huge, public failure, in a research area that is filled with cranks (easy energy). I agree with the article's author that it probably tarnished an area of research that, while far-fetched, should not be automatically dismissed as impossible.
Why Political Data Is a Complete Mess
Pirate Bay founder copies songs to /dev/null to bankrupt the music industry
I believe there's supposed to be an element of realism to the game. Building new housing is hard enough, imagine trying to convince SF to do away with zoning bylaws.

The rule that Marin can't be upzoned is hilarious.
Yep, I can't believe that they made John Langford and the team leave from YR, the best guys at scalable machine learning.
Bitbucket for private repositories or create your personal git repo in 10 minutes[1], a VPS server cost 5 USD/month and there are dozens of free solutions nowadays.

If you're a lone dev, you can use 'tig' a command line tool to visualize git flow. Otherwise, Gitlab or one of the dozen lightweight httpd front-ends will do the job.

[1] 2009 blog post: https://www.convalesco.org/articles/2009/07/24/how-to-set-up...
How wobbly would it seem if he moved next door to you and your family?

There is a reason people scream to prevent parole and scream to have life sentences for sexual predators, my friend.
As opposed to where?
I just tried reading that in your voice, but it didn't work out so well...
We've banned this account for breaking the HN guidelines. You can't personally attack other users like that here. Doing it after starting a flamewar makes it worse—or rather, not worse, but clearer. None of this is welcome on Hacker News.

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I disagree. I dislike having that many devices, I remember being so excited when phones started to have lots of memory and ability to play MP3s - I could skip having an MP3 player.

Each device imposes a maintenance burden. You have to remember to charge it. It takes space. It's easy to forget to take that Nth device with you. They're usually not interoperable, they don't talk with each other at all - which is bad, because in this case an integrated device is more than a sum of its parts.

People get the Unix philosophy backwards - having lots of small tools is nothing but making waste if you can't compose them together.

Personally, I want a SpecOps phone. Everything the AdventurePhone has, plus more ability to hack it. Plus all sensors. There aren't that many things that piss me off more than the stupid market segmentation games phone manufacturers are playing. We could have had a goddamn tricorder. It wouldn't be even that expensive because the parts are already there, and economies of scale works in favour of less differentiated devices here. But we don't have it and won't have it, because mobile devices are designed with sole purpose of milking money out of consumers, instead of giving people a versatile tool to expand their power and abilities.
Cool Linear Algebra: Singular Value Decomposition
These exist: http://www.filabot.com/collections/filabot-core
Submission Note: There are some legitimate points in the article, but a lot of it is buried under poor phrasing and inconsistent goal of the article. I think if the author spent some time with an editor polishing this it would go viral. I changed the title to something more neutral that the original.
The paper at the link isn't about any sort of countermeasures. It's about repeating GPS signals to the inside of shielded areas on the same frequencies.
Up here in where I am most restaurants have pictures on every page of the menu. For example Earls, Joeys, Red Robins, Boston Pizza. Menu's that don't have pictures often feel cheap and non-professional.

Edit: typo
You're right that more technical areas (ML, algorithms, maybe even systems) expect more advanced degrees.

But there is far more demand for standard development/architect roles and even those roles command a generous salary.
WW3+MUSLIM+CUBE+EXPLAINED+?+TERROR+NOW+HITTING+USA+-+YouTube
These headphones were designed by audiophiles, and they're glorious
You seem extremely knowledgeable about high-performance servers!

Your example is fantastic -- I realize it's written in C, but perhaps you could explain how in the context of a tool like this (current article) might allow it to function as an end-to-end webserver?

What kind of limitations? What are the advantages, security implications? What is it well-suited for?

Really appreciate a reply -- I'm writing a book on architecture design and I'd really love to include some elements from the bleeding-edge of performance -- you clearly know what you're talking about.
It probably has more to do with the fact that China is the worlds factory (Foxconn?), while India has a lower portion of their economy in heavy industry.

As to why that's the case - again, this could be attributed to a political issue - government looks aside as BigCo craps on the country's environment, as long as it fuels the massive economy, keeping everyone optimistic.
Probably off topic, but since we're in the 'sue' domain: What I wonder is, if my locked-down (in order to avoid OpenWRT installation) SoHo router gets exploited by a well known bug and I suffer psychological and physical (as in money) damage, can I sue Linksys for NOT allowing me to install a SECURE software?
Look and listen for people's problems. Then come up with a brilliant solution.

The world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest business opportunities. On this subject, Peter Diamandis writes a great blogpost > http://peterdiamandis.tumblr.com/post/128046793118/problems-...

Also, podcast discussion with Dan Sullivan >http://www.abundance360summit.com/podcast/2015/10/19/episode...
The article says:

> The attacker also replaced some test vectors.
Please stop using HN to post inflammatory political comments. That's not what this site is for.
> Translate menus and descriptions as needed, by using the customers’ vocabulary instead of brand names, foreign words, and insider jargon.

I think this is great advice not just for UX, but also for when communicating technical topics across disciplines or to nonprofessionals. Of course, this is easier said than done -- many concepts are often not directly translatable, so it takes work to come up with near optimal approximations.
The difference is that the American right is ideologically homogeneous and the American left is a mess of different ideologies that agree on a few things and so elect candidates from the Democratic party.

And furthermore, you're implicitly and explicitly misrepresenting the arguments against all of those things which you claim leftists hawk as evil. Nuclear power is powerful, sure, I don't think anyone denies that. But it leaves us with piles of toxic waste and very few ways to rid ourselves of it, so it's not as if it's a done deal. Especially not when sources like solar and wind have many of the same benefits without the toxic aftereffects.

As for GMO foods, I'm an aspiring synthetic biologist myself and I can say that there's nothing inherently dangerous with the scientific side of it, nor does there seem to be anything explicitly awful going on with commercial GMOs right now. The problems I have with GMOs are more what I see as potential problems, specifically that the companies creating them have less than sterling reputations for concern of public safety. I'm also generally wary of deregulation of industry, because historically it has not ended well. I think people shouldn't trust large companies implicitly, especially when these large companies are saying "please trust us".

I should highlight that none of these constitute point blank denial of science in the way the denying global warming does.

As for complaints with the potential effectiveness of missile defense, you'll have to be a bit more specific.
Blind studies have shown that wine experts aren't nearly as good at identifying wine as they think they are. Same thing with high-end audio. People are incredibly susceptible to the placebo effect, and I think it's good to be skeptical when it comes to sensory matters — especially ones where the entrenched position is "this is sooo much better than everything else" and the price (whether in dollars or years of life given) is incredibly high. The brain is incentivized to value the product in these kinds of situation far out of proportion to its actual value.
More like "Junior devs should not be shipping nonreviewed code into lifesaving medical devices."
Music Macro Language
The fragile base class problem shows that not sealing is also troubling, much more than sealing them.
I was open minded about Rossi and the 'E Cat' until I saw that video.

Like, where is the measuring equipment? He has a multimeter measuring the current coming out of the wall, but is not taking a simultaneous measurement of the voltage. Sure, OK, I guess we'll assume it's 220 V from the power company, and figure it's drawing about 750 W (about half the power of a full size microwave oven).

But then on the output side, he has a rubber hose with a tiny amount of steam coming out. Maybe even less that what you would expect from a 750W tea kettle. They have to hold it up against a tshirt to measure it. They have a thermometer on the input water reservoir but for some reason don't even bother measuring either the temperature or mass-flow rate of the output?

This video is not demonstrating the measurement techniques of a credible scientist. I would not let this guy service my home air conditioning unit.
I analyzed 250 SaaS pages, and all of them were using Bootstrap
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

How about a nice game of chess?
Ask yourself if you make something-

1. Why will you use it?
2. How much will you use it?
3. Will it use it daily or atleast with proper interval?

Then ask to be users around you and listen what they say on those 3 questions and derive from it.
Are you suggesting that he has something to gain financially by tweeting about PH a lot? This comment makes no sense to me.

I know Jeff and can confirm that he was a huge fan of Ryan and Product Hunt before ever meeting him. Jeff is the epitome of a super fan. He networked hard and moved to a new city (SF) to make the connections he has and to get his job at Meerkat, as well.

He also doesn't angel invest, so he doesn't have anything to gain by posting the products he posts or tweets.

Here's the other thing, there are a ton of other people around the world just like him. They're a big part of the reason why PH has been successful and has struck a cord with product fans and makers all over.
wrong. usa is god
If you want to know if it's better, use apps like Postmates or Starbucks to order food. It's slightly better, but there's so far to go.
hold short, wasn't it proven months ago that the E-Cat "worked" by using the ground return for powering a second heating coil?
Earth’s Recent History Key to Predicting Global Temperatures
Implications for climate sensitivity from the response to individual forcings
It's a result of supply and demand. In other industries there is too much supply, people pile on the degrees (and go deeper into debt) to be more competitive. Employers then raise the bar for hiring and people still end up with crappy low-paying jobs.

In software, more supply = hiring people who can just get the job done and not worrying so much about credentials.
Great article. I'm not going to defend Rossi, but what happened in 1989 was a travesty. Yes, Pons and Fleischmann were premature in their annnouncement. But they didn't deserve to be made pariahs, and there were others whose careers were destroyed for so much as publicly entertaining the possibility that cold fusion might be made to work. Edward Teller, on the other hand, was old enough not to care:

Around 1992, McKubre says, he was summoned for an audience with legendary physicist Edward Teller. "He asked probing questions, in better depth, I think, than anyone else on the planet. You could see what a giant intellect he must have been in his time. I was subjected to this interrogation for four hours. At the end of it Teller said that he did not think that cold fusion was a reality, but if it were, he could account for it with a very small change in the laws of physics as he understood them, and it would prove to be an example of nuclear catalysis at an interface. I still don't understand what he meant by that, but I'm quite willing to believe that it's correct." [0]

It really shows how political and, frankly, corrupt Big Science is. As this article points out, failure to replicate proves nothing. The charitable reading is that Pons and Fleischmann didn't even know for sure what properties of the alloy they were using were critical to the reaction, though they had some ideas. That possibility should have been considered.

[0] http://www.wired.com/1998/11/coldfusion/
Kludgeocracy in America (2013)
This is pretty grand news, and I never used Lua for game development. Congratulations.
Managed inclusion v2 was ended in September. That's when managed inclusion v3 began[1].

[1] http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/checkpoints-borders-policy-de...
Sure. But you could have chosen _any_ datastore to cache your results in, right? Redis doesn't integrate with Hadoop in any special way. Some datastores do. For example, it does make sense to say Cassandra is a part of the Hadoop ecosystem, due to the features in https://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/HadoopSupport
Url changed from http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/22/gitlab-just-launched-anoth..., which points to this.
> We do not know a whole lot about code just because
> it has type checked. It may feel like you do, but
> that's just a feeling.

See also: The Safyness of Static Typing[1]

[1] http://blog.metaobject.com/2014/06/the-safyness-of-static-ty...
The supposed problem of choice
I'm wondering if "clickbait" should be a first-class content flagging option. It's subjective, of course. Clickbait is not quite fraud...but I do feel like people are attempting to steal my attention.
> During the 2015–16 school year, colleges and universities are expected to award 952,000 associate's degrees; 1.8 million bachelor's degrees; 802,000 master's degrees; and 179,000 doctor's degrees [0]

Every year, the H1B quota is 85000 for B.S degree holder and higher (or the equivalent of experience).

[0]: http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372
> If the typing's in your head, then why not write

> it down for the benefit of others?

Because writing it down gets in the way while you are exploring.
I would have liked something similar years ago. Here are a few features I would like

Free dinner, breakfast, and snacks
A small kitchenet
Free or cheap onsite storage
Include all util also Wifi and premium cable
pay rent online
Security cameras
way to let guest into building without going out to meet them
Fully furnished option
In unit laundry or laundry service
Amazon locker
Base boxes are versioned. You have to keep the old version around if you have any VMs using it.
I'm in mensa, and "use a linear function to estimate basic financial costs from a baseline and a per-unit cost" is still foreign to me. I could probably get the outcome you're trying to get at, but those words don't do anything for me but put me on edge.
Early announcements would have been one thing, but all evidence points to these guys committing flat out fraud.
I would love to tinker with LÖVE, but I don't know the first thing about Lua. Anyone have pointers to good introductory resources they can share?
I stand firmly by the idea that a co-living arrangement should never be structured as a traditional corporation. Make it a co-op, and make each member (roughly) an equal shareholder. Have the incentives align.

Are there any such public co-living startups?
Now playing in your headphones. Nothing
The 'Flash Boys' Exchange IEX Is Still Controversial
Nope.

A better analogy is a toolbox. That's our combined product and service offerings. While each toolbox has ~50 different tools, most customers end up needing only a subset. Furthermore, they need each tool to be customized to their specific use case. So we use our technical skills and knowledge to modify those tools, package them and offer them as a customized solution.

That's why it would be silly for us to say "each toolbox costs X dollars." Each solution has a different price depending on what the customer wants to get out of it.
This article is from October 19th, so 2 months old. They also announced their funding back in July.

Have there been any updates since then? What is fill rate? What is feedback from inhabitants like? Updates on next residence timing?
How are the people moving in the winners? They are the ones getting ripped off the most. The city that used to be home to a constant influx of weirdos and innovators has been taken over by an aging landholder class, who will do anything to preserve their grip on power and drive up their multimillion dollar property values, while draping themselves in progressive bs.
Oculus Rift Due Out in Q1, Tweets Palmer Luckey
You and the parent may be referring to different tiers of restaurants.
You can pretty much learn the language in 1 - 2 days if you are an experienced programmer. Try the LUA website, they have some links to good tutorials.
> I think it gets encoded into your boarding pass.

It does. Three beeps from the little scanner thingy at the ID check means you have Pre. One beep means you don't.
Does anyone know if Clearbit is just a frontend for Fullcontact? I tried both recently, and all I get from Clearbit is basically a subset of Fullcontact (plus some added data eg lat/lng)...
But that would be interesting in itself.

P&N made the PR mistake of calling their process "cold fusion."

If they'd called it "unexpected heat we can't explain" they'd have encountered much less hostility.

Then the question wouldn't have been "Where are the neutrons?" but "Can this be replicated?" followed by "Can this be used for energy generation?"

Social taint my be true strong a description. But there's huge hostility in science to experimental effects that appear to challenge existing theories without also providing a completed new theory that makes predictions and can be falsified. The further away from the mainstream the effects appear, the more hostility they generate.

Which is why claiming to have found cold fusion as a result of unreliable experiments and a complete absence of a finished theory was professional suicide - even though there seems to be some kind of phenomenon there. Or at least enough of a phenomenon to be worth investigating.
> Photos of food and other products help create desire, answer common questions, and set expectations for a high-quality experience

Uhhh, no. Maybe it's a cultural thing, but here in England no restaurants have pictures. It's cheap and tacky, and it's a huge red flag when you encounter a rare one that feels the need to show you photographs of bowls of pasta/steaks. I defy you to show me any European restaurant that treats it's customers like children by showing them brightly coloured pictures of their food on the menu.

The only exception I can think of is the desert menus for Indian restaurants, but that's mainly because they don't really 'do' desert and just buy the ice cream and menus from some distributor as a package.