skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Richard Feynman has by far the best explanations I have ever seen from anyone in my life. His explanations are fascinating and deceptively simple. His explanation of electricity in this video has fundamentally changed the way that I see the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS25vitrZ6g&feature=youtu.be...
Yes, I wonder why the US is not listed as well. Maybe it's different issues?
Sorry but I think I'm missing the point. Why would you want a standing desk if in the end you end up sitting anyway? Might as well just get a normal desk and plant your feet on the ground, no?
I'm not sure tracking privacy-seekers is a fear tactic. It may have more to do with consolidating bureaucratic power -- the more an agency can collect, the more convincing it can be when it asks congress for money.

TAILS solves the problem of your individual privacy, but if you care about privacy in general you need to engage politically. Increasing TAILS use without increasing letters to congress increases the odds of anti-privacy legislation.
Totally. I'm pretty short, and it was many years before I realised that part of the reason I like sit cross-legged on office chairs is that my feet aren't comfortable because they're not flat on the ground.

My home desk is at a height which looks strangely low to visitors, but my knees and elbows are at nice right angles with my feet firmly planted on the floor.
According to their KDD paper, they showed modified / trained alexnet performing as good as VGG with significantly less computation time. Not sure what they actually use in practice.

http://www.kevinjing.com/visual_search_at_pinterest.pdf
The Apple ones are trash, I gave up and went with the Monoprice flat ribbon lightning cables. Last forever, flexible, cheap, and work. http://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=12859
I've had frayed insulation with multiple MacBook adapters and Lightning cables. I wonder if it is climate related; I live in a hotter and more humid place than Cupertino. In any case there is no excuse for the insulation being so fragile when $5 USB cables never have this problem.
Again with the personal attacks? And egocentric to boot.

FWIW, nearly every HN commenter, or at least those who post as often as you or I, has an inordinate amount of spare time.

Also, I see you've used "I'm out" before. As I mentioned earlier, you derided the 'political-myopia of tech culture' here on HN. Later in that thread, maxerickson at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10519360 wrote:

> I was pointing out that what you said about value was not an argument against economics (because economics doesn't care about what form value takes).

> You keep looking for a word other than value to describe this thing that you think should happen because then I can't point out that you can analyze it economically, but this is not a way to argue that education should not be analyzed economically, it is a misunderstanding of economics (it was really clear when stated as "Value" is not only monetary, but "we should do it just because" is still an imputation of value...).

You decided, incorrectly IMO, to describe it as "a last-word-mine argument", and ended the thread with "I'm out".

My interpretation of both exchanges is that you don't like it when people point out apparent inconsistencies in what you wrote.

(BTW, for those in the future who, like I, sometimes review someone's back history before commenting - hi!)
I suspect you're correct about it being 2 and 3. I've never had a failed iPhone, iPad, or MacBook power adapter that was apple manufactured.

My wife on the other hand goes through about one phone charger every 6 months. Absolute disregard for how the cable is positioned (like if the cable is being crushed or snagged by an object).

I guess growing up with those brittle NES controller cords taught me something.
Same as. 3x MagSafe connectors in 10 years (3 laptops). All still working perfectly and in good condition despite daily use.
Helping fix https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/8118 may get you access to these.
I believe a LOT of security testing will evolve to QA and software testing. There a LOT of issues will be found. Instead on micro-focuses (in the past), the CD approach can test the whole system, which is a huge leap forward.

Pen-tests should be good reality checks to ensure the system is working, and that it is sufficient to withstand current attacks.

Sometimes companies are very smug and need the reality check. Boards are starting to request them to ensure the confidence is warranted.

I've also seen pen tests used as a tool to GET funding. Fail one big time due to known vulnerabilities just to show how messed up things really are...then get a budget to fix them.
Peggy: DevOps without the hassle
Why does it matter how much engineering went into it if the result is worse than average?

How could anyone call that 'well designed'?
tip: call apple and tell them you have a cord that looks like it's a serious fire hazard. Each time I've said "fire hazard," they've replaced it without question.
Next thing Facebook will close will be React.

Remember this comment.
This is interesting. I bought the World Adapter Kit for our trip through Germany/France, and nearly every hotel/B&B we stopped at, I could literally feel a gentle vibration/shock coming from MBP's case whenever it was plugged in to the two-prong outlets. I don't know if that's poor grounding or something else, but it was definitely unnerving and I didn't feel comfortable using my laptop when it was plugged in.

But it seems the adapters are being recalled for a different issue.
Thanks for those. Here's a fantastic elaboration: https://www.quora.com/What-did-Richard-Feynman-mean-when-he-...
Jessica Livingston: Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing (2013)
I think internships are extremely useful! I went through a lot in high school and college trying to figure out what exactly I wanted (or didn't want to do). Now, I have a number of interns and some of them have gone on to graduate school in physics. Others have decided that physics isn't for them and have decided to do computer science or math. I try to give them a chance to have a self contained meaningful project.

Do any of you have any suggestions for remote interns? I tried it once and though both the student and I were motivated, the time difference was a killer. Also, I rely a lot on random interactions with my interns. I think it would require a lot more structure to pull it off...
Some how these numbers are higher than AWS's numbers in the same quarter. Something weird is going on. Are they lumping other MS products which run in the Azure cloud into this figure? Office 365, etc?
I don't know about you, but I think the strain reliefs that just about every other cable has are "sleek and well designed" enough to stop them from failing there. Apple's strain relief, which doesn't relieve strain particularly well, reminds me of those on very old equipment (pre-1940s): nothing more than a featureless tube surrounding the cable. The reinforced design with a flexible, radius-limiting boot that's popular today evolved over many decades and works very well. Apple's design provides only a minimal amount of reinforcement and doesn't offer much radius-limiting. You can see this when you bend it - the "boot" creases and wrinkles, separating from the cable, instead of smoothly controlling and limiting its bend radius as a good strain relief should.
the pins on the magsafe plug side.
Why.

Why do journalists insist on describing "dark matter" by qualifying it with statements like:

that mysterious, unseen counterpart to
ordinary, luminous matter

Dark matter is just shit that ain't burning.

It's not mysterious. It's not "spooky actions at a distance", it's not galaxy devouring black hole matter. It's not depressed, or angry, or crazy. It's not an angst-ridden high school teenager.

It's just opaque dirt. Or water. Or rocks. Or whatever.

Luminous spheres of raw nuclear fusion are much less "ordinary" than the rest of the matter in the universe.
Try hitting one of the API endpoints with something else while connected via Tor. I noticed swathes of sites responding with 403/401 when I browsed via Tor.
I long ago stopped using the two-prong adapters; they're just a bad idea when you plug in at places that don't have particularly clean power. Where I used to live, my unibody Macbook would literally give me a little static shock whenever I touched it as long as it was plugged in with the adapter (or possibly it was a continuous current; running your palm along the metal felt a bit like rubbing a balloon.)

Switching to the long 3-prong "cable" connector solved that, and I've never dared go back.
hey now, I edit objc in emacs all the time!
He has a valid point. Steve Ballmer even called them out on their bullshit/creative Azure accounting.
How I fixed a bug in Atom
I literally don't know of any large companies moving away from virtualization to bare metal. Where is that information coming from?

I know of some that are deploying some things back to "bare metal" if that's what you want to call containers, but even in those instances, it's a very, VERY small subset of the larger environment.
What it is likely to do is make stockholders question the short and long-term strategies of R&D in companies invested (even if only in a subsidiary role) in electrics and hybrids...

Important will be the wherewithal to financially ride out the oil glut, essentially buying time until electrics and hybrids fully return to consumer radar...

Bad times for the oil industry:

US--through fracking, producing record amounts...>oversupply
China slowing down...less demand, >oversupply...
OPEC refusing to lower output...>oversupply...
Iran released from sanctions...>oversupply...
Russia, oil dependent economy, forced to sell...>oversupply

Uncertain times...
DarkOrbit Cheats Hack 2016 No Survey
Sujieaire Air Cooler Malaysia – Sing Tung Air System Sdn Bhd
> designed for use in Continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Argentina and Brazil
Ran into the exact same issue when using Parse. I was working on an app that
operated primarily through push notifications. The push notification downtime
was horrible -- I remember having to get on calls with clients apologizing
profusely for the downtime. We were also paying Parse an absurd amount of money
for extra reliability, which didn't seem to help much.

I never heard people talking about the difficulty of moving off of Parse,
especially in mobile clients that were developed with the Parse SDK. I spent a
ridiculous amount of time getting Parse synced with our custom backend so old
clients wouldn't break.

Final thing: debuggin. For nearly any issue, a half-assed solution---often not
usable in production---by one of their staff was buried deep into their forums.
Super painful.
I'll be interested to see what you come up with!

But why must demonstration of skill be limited to elite red-team style pentesting? You could devise challenges geared at demonstrating all sorts of knowledge (HIPAA, PCI, websec) basic or advanced.

If you've seen the sad state of PCI audits in particular these days, you'll get my drift. I think there's a huge opportunity here to raise the quality bar with your marketplace.
The fatigue doesn't come from giving all libraries equal consideration. It comes from having to decide what's "in" and for how long. Sometimes it takes days of research just to decide if something is popular, let alone whether it's going to last.
Switching supermarkets is much, much, easier than switching backends. I'm sure lot more BaaS companies will pop up to grab former Parse customers. I'm not sure how many of those will still be around in another 5 years.

I strongly suspect there's something negative about the economics of BaaS services that's being implied by the fact that two of the most successful providers have shut down after acquisition.
In 1984, I misread the syllabus for my Physics class, and, as a consequence, bought 'The Feynman Lectures in Physics'. It turned out to be a brilliant mistake, as Feynman was much wiser and funnier than the required textbook. One of the best intellectual moments of my early college life was to read his perspective [0] on how physics fit in with the other sciences, echoed nicely later by Randall Munroe [1].

[0] http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_03.html
[1] https://xkcd.com/435/
"If you are in showbiz and looking for fun you should go there." Makes it sounds like the businesses on shark tank aren't real businesses. I would argue that any business were you made out better then if you worked for someone else is a win.
Wow - the dashboard looks close to Parse's new dashboard.

https://developer.apple.com/icloud/images/cloudkit-dashboard...
It's smooth. It locks into position at set intervals when you release the lever. Fortunately there is a good range of motion and the intervals are rather small (I'd estimate around 2-3cm each?).
That completely depends on how graphics intensive a particular game is. Sure you won't be running the Witcher 3 at 90 fps, but it's definitely possible if you make a game that is more stylized and less photo realistic.

They're also apparently using some kind of frame interpolation to run 60hz games at 120hz. How well that works to stop nausea I don't know, but the reviews from early demos I've seen look promising.
Damn, I just added Parse to a small project. Does anyone have a suggestion for a good service that handles Push notifications like Parse? I really don't want to set up my own server for this.
Hey, we are migrating from Parse and planning to use PubNub.
With parse,
1. we use channels to subscribe.
2. All the cross platform thingy like iOS/Android/Windows is managed by Parse.

I have a couple of questions.

1. Do you have a way to upload all the channels+device tokes and stuff that we can extract from Parse?
2. What does the "Daily Active Devices" - 100 for Free tier mean? Does it have to do with Push notifications? because we are NOT using it for realtime connections.

We will have about 7-8 thousand devices registered and < 1 million push notifications. So are we still under the Free tier?
Is the iPhone Finally Losing Its Mojo?
Wouldn't you like to get paid for Social Networking?
This is what sharesi.es is working on. Sharesi.es is a new social networking site that will pay you for posting. You don't have to be original—you can post videos that you saw on Youtube (with their music track). Or you can post a photo from your phone. Depending on what is displayed, whether or not it's a promo, selfie, or whatever, you can receive a reward. New users can get the reward of an Amazon gift card for posting for the first time. The rewards are automatic, and installation is simple. Available on Google Play (for FREE) and at the App store.
Not really on the sources. I remember it from news stories in the 60s/70s. It may have been hyped up by the tabloids rather than having been significant in reality.
> Many large companies with their own datacenters are running off of bare metal

What does "bare metal" actually mean? I don't think an embedded hardware guy has the same definition of bare metal as someone doing things in the cloud.
If and only if a hard mechanism is devised, otherwise unions will do what they're incentivized to do, and that's to protect their own by any means rational. Public shaming is not a sufficient mechanism, and nor is personal morality.
If only their international shipping rates were more reasonable, like Amazon.
It's an interesting bit of curiosity how capital design kind of spread from France to the U.S. and then from the U.S. to Canberra. While other purpose built cities, like Brasilia had designs sourced locally.
check out http://appacitive.com
VMware is 3Com of today.
A note that using extends Component will cost you the function auto-binding that [p]react.createClass provides. In my specific case, using extends produced code that read more poorly.
Parse is a great provider for push notifications, having only really gone down once in the time we've used it (and also being, well, free). I didn't use any other part of the system because we had our own databases and whatnot, but it is great for push. It will be missed.
I've never understood why it seems to be popular for US wall sockets not to have switches.
JP here too. This was in ~2011, the staff then Really Liked Macs. Now it's the "my iPhone screen broke" bar, and they have way more staff.

The service for my Mac last time was actually pretty hideous. I can't remember what he said, but he used some amazing jargon to explain the difficult act of booting off an OS on a USB hard disk. Then tried to say that the broken hinge (the hinge part of the stand on 2014 skinny iMacs is prone to fail without warning, tipping the screen forward) and bad RAM on my iMac might not be covered under Applecare (it was).

The genius bar has never been a fun experience (our sensors indicate you used your laptop! Sorry, but Applecare doesn't cover oxygen damage), but that was super unpleasant.
Getting shit done is valuable. Tolerating bullshit is absolutely not.
I just replaced an Apple power brick from 2008, because the MagSafe plug wore out. The cable and attachment point at the brick were as good as new.
Borophene new material inspires from Graphene
Can you elaborate on what you mean by that? 1.7 added 'this' typing improvements, and it looks like 1.8 is adding 'this'-based type guards.
I'm not even going to dignify this with a proper response.
First-person drone racing is much harder than I expected
"The cloud annualized revenue run rate—a conjectural number that former CEO Steve Ballmer described as "bullshit"—across all commercial offerings now stands at $9.4 billion, reflecting growth both in Office 365 and Azure."

http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/01/cloud-surface-are-th...
"For data science and algorithms Clojure beats anything else I've used."

A very strong claim. Julia, R and Rust might have something to say about that.

Fwiw, I think Clojure is awesome. For data science though? (IMO) no(t yet). The Python ML ecosystem is miles ahead of Clojure's.
I do 1,2 and 3 as well. My cables routinely perish and disintegrate. I have been using mac laptops for the past 15 years.
I'll admit and thought that by "fixed" he meant made it not start slow... but this was very well written and interesting. Great job Mr Galbraith!
Teachers are not all organized like that. Just the ones for public schools.
As people adopt external state containers, like Flux and Redux, it becomes increasingly impractical to bucket brigade chunks of data and callbacks to the leaves of the component tree via props. Some sort of delivery mechanism that doesn't couple in intermediate components is pretty critical to avoid having to maintain an unbounded amount of glue code. Context isn't without its kinks, but it's pretty useful in cutting boilerplate and decoupling components. The one thing I don't buy is that it's somehow worse than props from an architectural perspective (it's often compared to global variables, which makes little sense to me).
I've only had one iPhone cable come apart on me and my power cable from my Thunderbolt Display shows some wear but I've never had a cord for any of my MBPs get loose or breakdown in any way. I've got at least two bricks/cords from 2008ish that I still use with an adapter.
That sounds like it makes sense, right?

I beleive that most of the strength of VGG (and Inception) vs Alexnet is that it was able to learn the feature relationships better, not because it learnt better features.

VGG is pretty computational intensive, which is why Google concentrated so much on the computational complexity for GoogLeNet/Inception/ReCeption

So if you are just using the features directly then it would make sense to use whatever was the quickest to compute.
I strongly doubt it and I don't think you've worked in an engineering environment if you think this is true.

This document is written as a credible engineering analysis of a distinct problem and uses extremely strong terms. It isn't addressed to the general public, or an article on Buzzfeed, it is an interdepartmental memo from an engineer signed by his manager to the Vice President of Engineering.

Your example of "clear writing" would have just made this engineer look hyperbolic and likely undermined the issue even more. In a document like this, stating the physical problem up front is clear writing, and then, once the engineering problem is stated, he immediately states the possible outcome and then describes what he says as the management failure to allocate the appropriate resources, and how to fix it.

How it comes off to you as a layman doesn't dictate whether or not this is good writing. He wasn't writing it to you.
I remember doing this to install Gentoo on a RedHat 7 (not RHEL 7, but RHL 7) machine ~12 years ago.
Sometimes I write it in Sublime. Although even then, I sometimes just write the method in Xcode to get the autocomplete then copy paste it, or just open the non-xcode-project file in xcode.
Understanding dimensionality reduction and its applications
I have experience this as well and was quite concerned about it for a while, this is exactly the first thing that came to my mind as well.
Your average business trip gone horribly wrong (2012)
Believe what you will but a rose by any other name...

Maths is problem solving, recognizing patterns, and the ability to express those ideas and solutions. The language is rather difficult to learn but most people can do the former intuitively without being told they're doing maths.

Without giving away the game there are beautiful mathematical concepts built into it. You may not realize that as you encounter new puzzles and constraints you are internalizing a vocabulary for the patterns you start to recognize. Once you start writing down this language you will appear to be doing what people recognize as maths. However I find myself content with simply having the conversation... for now.

It is certainly tempting to start formulating a proper solution to some of the puzzles and write programs to test out my theories.

Regardless of what you want to call it I think you can certainly hone your "problem solving" skills in this game.
May I ask what that solution was? :)
Pretty sure they still use WebObjects for iTunesConnect (at least).
> ... let me interact with students who want to learn

the key to being a great teacher is engaging the ones that don't want to learn.
I agree with you, but I have heard the opposite from some people. They like being able to memorize programming interview books and grind problems on LeetCode/HackerRank instead of having a portfolio or other alternatives.
A C++11 compiler for DOS?
I'm from a physics background, and I am pretty confident that Linear Algebra is sufficient. Please know variational calculus, as well. You'd think you need a bunch of statistics, but I think highly specific statistics is unnecessary as long as you have a decent understanding.
Mirage Men, a documentary on how the US used mythology to cover up advanced tech
This seems to be a meaty thread on the topic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10991729
I mean, I like R, I think R Studio is an incredible IDE, but I would never build anything meaningful in R code. It's messy, slow, and has an antiquated community where people share library documentation in PDF's.

Julia seems promising, I haven't used it on a real project yet though, but I really like how easy it is to do data visualizations in the browser with Clojurescript and don't see Julia really having an answer for that.
Actually, I would recommend focusing on Linear Algebra before you delve into Matrix Algebra. Some universities offer courses on Matrix manipulation, which is too superficial. Learn vector spaces, basis, orthogonality, operators, transformations, inner products, tensors, etc. and you'll have a leg up on many machine learning scientists lmao.