skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is something worth thinking about. Of course time, and experience, will tell. We wanted to keep it as simple as possible, and as disruptive as possible to the current employment/contracting process that goes "offline", so we decided to start the way we did. We're not shutting our ears though for ideas.
Video animation: The Business of Formula 1
They did do this with DeepMind [1], before they pointed it at Go. Simple 2d games though, like Space Invaders. They said 3d games would be their next phase after Go.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePv0Fs9cGgU
Your experience with calling cabs from the phone is much better than mine. Perhaps that is where you live. I'm in Central Florida and have had similar poor experiences when traveling. Glancing at my phone and knowing how far away the cab is is a lot more convenient than being told it will arrive in 20-45 minutes and watching for it and not being able to make good use of the waiting time.

As for paying, it's a big deal to me. Being able to just exit the car at the end of the ride is a lot nicer than waiting for the driver to scan my card, sign the receipt, etc.

These two small things greatly reduce the friction and make me more likely to use a cab over other options.
http://espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5198604

Note the times - on the order of minutes.

You don't need a pressure cooker to kill a person from heat. The 70°C of a traditional sauna will do just fine.
Knowingly or not, you've stepped into a long running linux v. gnu/linux debate
Lock8 | Berlin, Germany | full-time ONSITE VISA

We are a [startup](http://lock8.me), building the hardware and software to enable bike sharing and bicycle fleet management. We have a cool and experienced team, good clients and things look great.

We are looking for a frontend engineer. Our stack is React and Flux, there’s a lot of visualisation and maps, which I think is fun.

Hit me at misha@lock8.me with your cover letter and link/CV.
Sure, https://hackage.haskell.org/.
Multi-Threading in C/C++: Implications on Software Library Design
Some other languages have a central repository where everyone publishes their packages like https://hackage.haskell.org/, https://crates.io/ or the venerable http://www.cpan.org/. Scala has no such things: people publish to various repositories like http://bintray.com/ or https://oss.sonatype.org/, so a central place to get information about existing libraries would be very useful.
Access the Native Device Clipboard in Telerik NativeScript
Mathematics: Why the brain sees maths as beauty
The custom scrolling on the site bothers me a bit. Its really cumbersome when you are using a trackpad, and it does not scroll the way you expect to. It also prevents me using left-swipe to go back a page.
Mobile Choices You Have to Make in Today's Mobile World
It's Pi Day Here are 3.14 facts about pi
Computercraft mod gives you LUA programmed turtles with impressive levels of programability.

Its fairly bare metal. Its not like you're running "mine.tunnel" and it does all the work for you, you have to program every little detail of movement or activity. Its not like LUA or LUA inspired, it is LUA so you get functions and real control flow.

I find it mildly amusing to program for my mining turtle to dig a large transport tunnel for me and line it with torch on the wall every X blocks and double tracked rails along the bottom and collect the goodies for me. This is not exactly the pinnacle of software development, but it is fun, which is all that counts.

Its also fun to emulate quarries and deep mining operations with programmed turtles. They come in handy for weird automations also.

My son watched the now ancient direwolf20 youtube mod spotlight on computercraft but had no motivation to run it himself. He's more an arduino kid, which is OK I guess.

(just to save time, insert here "LUA is not a real programming language", and insert here "I don't care its more of a programming language than watching youtube unboxing videos")

Computercraft is not unique, its just the oldest and most widespread of its genre. Personally I'd like a LISP in minecraft. Hoist out the guts of computercraft and toss in a nice jvm lisp like clojure ... in my infinite spare time... Assuming someone else hasn't already...

Minetest might be cooler sooner than you think. Its hard to speak for the community, but most see it as only a matter of time before MS kills minecraft modding a monetization scheme or abandonment of the java platform or who knows, at which point the mod authors and players will be salivating for something like minetest. The problem with minetest is nobody mods it so you can't program a turtle in LUA on minetest, only minecraft.
How close is modding to full access to API and source code? I'm asking because don't know anything about it.
What's the best way to 'read' that xkcd storyline?
Emotion detection in 2 min with Google's Vision API
If only the pull requests were the only part that would a payment incentive. How do you encourage people to do code reviews if they're only paid for pull requests ? How about testing, bug reporting and triaging ?
Screenshots might not be the best example, since there may be some "shiny cute effects" going around. However, reading your idea sprang another one in my head: screenshots shouldn't be restrained to the same rendering resolution as the rest of the system/the screenshot resolution should be configurable.

I don't require the screenshot to be instantaneous, I require it to appear instantaneous. In that sense, if the whole rendering pipeline is working to give me a framerate of 60 fps, then I could spend ten times as much rendering a screenshot without that delay being noticeable. Also, why on earth does Windows (don't know the behaviour on Linux/Mac) apply ClearType to a screenshot? That has always bugged me, there are some situations where you tolerate it and others where it hurts.
Even with a scrolly-heely mouse it sucks. My OS has a perfectly good scrolling mechanism, stop messing with it! Especially when the result is worse!
Definite PR article for EF. I live in Shoreditch, have my own startup, go to a lot of events and have barely heard of them. The events I've got more out of include:

http://3-beards.com/dontpitchmebro - Interesting pitches, usually very high quality. The group that run it do a lot of cool startup events.

http://www.meetup.com/HNLondon/ - Geeky fun, though has been getting increasingly commercial

Lately the best meetup has been "lean coffee" (http://leancoffee.org/) , the quality of people and feedback I have got from that meeting has been superb. I suggest starting one in your area.

Overall I am negative on accelerators. Perhaps I am bias as I have enough savings/income from an existing small business that I don't need my living expenses paid for what I think may be giving away too much of your business. Though I look forward to reading other peoples experiences.
Yeah, that is true for sure, difference being that the 10% use-case (installed package before, offline now) is still usable if it's local and not on tonic-dev.

I like tonic-dev, don't get me wrong. But the workflow for using a package in tonic-dev is too slow compared to having it in a REPL, at least for me. Might be because I'm using Firefox and the performance for tonic-dev is terrible there, but mostly because I feel more at home in the terminal than in a js-editor in the browser.
Is today really Pi Day?
Yeah that was the point :) You can wrap up the contents but everything else is open.
Minecraft doesn't even have any support for modding, external modding APIs are built by the community by reverse engineering the binaries' bytecode.
it's so obvious. everyone else missed it. the company is:

http://www.dwavesys.com

and it happended yesterday.
Multimillion-Dollar+Scam+Dangerous+Dinner+Parties+-+Sizzle+Call+Phone+Number
From Van Gogh to Jeff Koons, Here’s a History of Flowers in Art
I do miss the taste of coffee. When I quit, I thought that I would allow myself the occasional coffee or espresso, but I've been reticent to allow myself the risk of becoming dependent again. I've not tried decaffeinated coffee because of the solvents used in producing it in general.
Cool, thanks. Some of those studies seem to find protective benefits with decaf. Or there wasn't enough data to know if the same effects are present with decaf.

> Most studies did not include data on decaffeinated coffee, either because too few people drank it or because data were not available. The few studies that did, though, had differing results. With respect to cardiovascular disease, decaffeinated coffee did not seem to have the same protective effects as regular coffee. With respect to the one stroke meta-analysis, it seemed to be just as protective as regular coffee. In two breast cancer analyses, decaffeinated had the same nonrelationship as regular coffee. Decaffeinated coffee was also protective against lung cancer, not as protective against Parkinson’s disease, and protective against diabetes and overall mortality, but perhaps to a lesser extent than regular coffee.

> But for most studies, there just aren’t data available. The conclusion to take away: There’s less evidence overall for a potential benefit, but still, there’s no evidence of harmful associations.
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Hi! I'm the founder of Common Search.

I don't think search result quality is on a linear scale so it's hard to define "better".

The results will definitely be less personalized, which will be a big plus for some people, and a blocker for others. There will be a few other dimensions where we can stand out, and some where we will have a hard time catching up (index size for instance).

In the end, given enough contributors, I'm pretty sure the results can get "good enough" for most people, and hopefully "better" for some ;)
Cold fusion is dismissed out of hand. It's energy positive (and then sustained and then practical) hot fusion that is around the corner. Energy consuming fusion reactors have existed for a long time.
I here what you're saying. All of these are also tasks that need to be done. however I believe that in most scenarios, those tasks would have to be held at the organisation level. I'm also not sure the github platform integration would be useful to accomplish that, and the coding itself is the basis for the dev process, we thought we can help with that.
I don't like the name. It immediately makes me think "diploma mill," which signifies cheapness and inauthenticity.
This is based off the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. I hope this helps you understand the story better.
I had read that the process of decaffeinating coffee involves solvents that are bad for you, so I've avoided that. Maybe I should look into that closer because I certainly do enjoy the taste of good coffee.
hehe sorry for that. You know I used a ready made theme, and it works fine on my chrome/mac and I didn't really tested it on many other OS/browsers. What you're using?
People need money to live, people make money from proprietary games. People also invest that money and make even better games. It's not practical to only limit yourself to OSS.

When I went to school years ago they used to have us do computer assessments using custom built software that emulated excel, word etc. The result? All my class mates knew how to use this internal software that no company actually used. So they couldn't even say they knew how to use MS Office, and they really couldn't because the layout of the program was completely different.

You are mixing your OSS ideals with the reality of life. Your kids don't care that Minecraft is proprietary or not. Instead they care that they play the same games as their social circle, and can impress others by building things in those games.
The Lavabit case was only contentious because of a very poor implementation of encrypted user data. It won't be long until there are established platforms and libraries that are used by most apps that fix the technical problems of Lavabit. Mega (the file uploading service) is pretty close to having a reasonably fool proof design, in that the most security conscious users are unlikely to have any external party be able to send malicious code that prevents the security and effectiveness of client side encryption.
See my sibling comment for some stats.

My beef is with the word 'especially'. If you look at the numbers for both UCL (my university) and Oxford (who via public scrutiny have to publish extensive statistics), you can see that postgraduate tends to have a more equal male/female ratio than undergraduate. Girls are still outnumbered, but saying 'especially among PhD' implies the situation worsens.
Nah, but I found her on Yelp.
Note that the authors do not get materials benefit when journals sell their articles. If anything that sentence means that authors can claim back the profits made by publishers.
Why the rich don't give
You know, the original name we came up with was GigHub. We also found the owner of the domain gighub.io and agreed to buy it. But then I thought we're a GitHub app and the names are too similar and maybe github won't like that, so I asked them, and yes, they said it'll violate their trademark policy and we better find another name...
systemd-nspawn seems like it makes sense...
Not with Haskell-style (or, rather, System F-omega-style) existentials, sure. But why not with strong existentials, like what you get with first-class modules in OCaml or 1ML?
I was talking about different forms of gun violence. Namely, bigger, scarier, more powerful weapons are the least likely to be used in a crime but which receive the most regulations. Such as 'assault weapon' laws which ignore all the handguns used in gang violence.
It would be amusing to open a question at http://www.gjopen.com (Good Judgement Open) or a similar site; seems like a decent place to run an informed poll.

My money has been on Google for ~15 years now as the most likely, though I still give them <<< 50%. (Why do so many consider them an ad company? They've been AI since day one.)
iPhone7 Release Date, Features and Its Speculations
funny that you mention chrome/mac, because thats exactly what I am using.

chrome:Version 48.0.2564.116 (64-bit)
osx: 10.10.5 (14F27)
Keeping It Canny – Asset Preparation for Virtual Reality
I don't write allocators myself, but Boost has a pool allocator library [http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_60_0/libs/pool/doc/html/inde...], which conforms to the Allocator concept defined in the standard library [http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/concept/Allocator].
GraphQL Ruby: Clean Up Your Query Type
Why do mobile OS's allow access to the clipboard without “privacy settings”?
I've been having a debate about this. Usually mobile applications need permissions to access your photos or contacts. Why not have the same protection for the mobile clipboard manager?
Who'd pay them for support if everything ran smoothly?
Isn't a parallel (and perhaps even larger?) market that of users of a system or library that might be willing to put a bounty on having a feature prioritized by the maintainer(s)?

With that in mind, could you use a variant of the same system to put a bounty on issues/tickets being resolved?

I don't know how to (in general) solve the problem of developers at large enterprises taking advantage of open source developers that are barely making ends meet. Nor the problem of developers being demanded to fix bugs or add features for the benefit of people who aren't paying anything for it -- but maybe this could be a start?
Adobe Launches Experience Design CC
> The few times I used taxis, I called them from my phone/skype long before Uber, and they arrived exactly when discussed.

You might be the only person in the last 20 years for this to happen to.
Until then, let the blood run.. :(
Silver Flows acquired by Invision
It's frequently done with liquid CO2. It doesn't leave any residue (and it anyway is not toxic). So you could source beans that use that process.

The roasting process is probably introducing some nice awful compounds into the mix anyway.
I agree. The times I search on computers in the address bar and then wonder why the results are bafflingly awful, I realise the search is set to Bing or any other Search Engine. Re-typing the exact same phrase into Google and suddenly the top results are exactly what I wanted in the first place.
> Apple close behind

Do you know something I don't or it's based on their well-known Siri the hardcoded automaton?
Former Zenefits Employees Reveal Whether Sex Really Occurred in the Stairwells
You're conveniently forgetting that this "AI" is a representation of tens of millions of amateur plays which is far more than a few decades in total time. Not that Lee Sedol needs someone like me to defend him, but remarks like yours are very misleading.

A human is far, far, leagues, more efficient at learning than today's AIs. These AI requires millions of hours of man time of data to even come close to competing at the level of an expert person which did the same, and even arguably far better, in a "few decades".
Dartmouth Conferences
(Also, as far as comparing statistics go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11253500 )
I think your concern about lack of due process should be more focused on the tens to hundreds of thousands of civilian bystanders the US has killed since 2001. We are killing dozens of women and children overseas every week and chalk them up as collateral damage.
Engineer Humanity's Future: The 2016 Hackaday Prize
PyPI for Python https://pypi.python.org/pypi
This seem like a good idea but in practise i am not sure how this will work for large codebase where more time is spent on understanding and guessing where to make a modification or adding a feature than writing code.

And how this will not be flooded by devs from poorest countries of the world like upwork and a lot of freelancing websites making those platforms pretty much useless for westerners.
Show HN: DOM99 Simple HTML manipulation for the modern web
One of the few languages that, when dying, appears to increase in use.
There's a few simulations around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xQeEgPhSfI
MRSA is an arms race. It will just evolve a resistance to this new technique.

The only solution I've heard anything about that "beats" MRSA is the Norway solution:

http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA400703/Has-Norway-Beaten-MRSA...

That's dated, so I'd be interested in hearing what the stats on the effectiveness of their approach are now.

EDIT: It's worth noting that the two philosophies appear to be in stark contrast. The Norway tact is to drastically reduce drug prescription. The American tact is to create more drugs.
Nice work. I have braces so...
Being able to choose one's outward gender and race appearance in public reminds me distinctly of the Steiner adage "On the Internet, nobody knows if you're a dog."
Proper way to customize Facebook login button on Android
9 Proven Ways to Be a Prolific Creator
I've read that machine learning is making statistics classes fall out of favor. I can understand why. In a lot of ways, machine learning is statistics in reverse. Instead of starting with a hypothesis and trying to reject the null hypothesis, unsupervised machine learning starts with data and generates hypothesis.
Builds backdoor for stealing code... hopes it won't grow into a backdoor for stealing code.
I guess it's something in the parallax the theme uses then. I'll need to have a look. What puzzles me is that I don't really feel any problem myself...
Let's rephrase the question: should public research funded with public money have results available to those who paid for it?

This isn't Elseviers fault, or the researchers fault or the universities fault, it's the fault of whoever distributes public money to research without having proper criteria for what is expected in return.
I can certainly rely on social-network-style filtering to surface interesting reading.

It comes with its own trade-offs, particularly the tendency toward "viral" titles and abstracts so that a particular paper would be more likely to be clicked / skimmed / shared. I'm not sure that we want to encourage that as I think it would injure the quality of published works in general.

There are merits to being able to put faces, and reputations, behind the editorial direction of the information stream. Social-network-style consumption would necessarily anonymize or obscure the effect.

As before, there's definitely agreement that more access is better and I'd bet there's a good middle ground available.

For example, a journal I worked with while I was an undergraduate changes their articles to open-access nine months after publication. You still get the editorial process and curation, the team has some financial support to evangelize their journal's mission and most folks who won't have needed the most immediate access can get to it for free. If you're an individual and want the articles immediately, the "subscription" is in the form of a $40 or more donation each year, which receives as a gift the biannual physical volumes and full digital access.

They're not the majority of course but options do exist that straddle both stakeholders' needs. Flipping the market completely on its head simply might throw out useful qualities that wouldn't completely transfer over.
Hyperloop augmented reality
Maybe you should ask for credit card numbers and passwords to check if they have been compromised.
Acts speak far more loudly than words - if those protocols meant anything they'd have been adhered to, rather than utterly disregarded.

The US wouldn't even ratify Kyoto.
Spectacular news! Really excited to see the Coursera MOOCs being offered again as well.
I believe that if you can define your task in as much details, and break it to the most micro level, then it works. If on the other hand, you're issue is something like "there's a bug when sometimes an invoice is inserted with a negative amount", so yeah, this is something more comprehensive, and maybe related to god knows what in the codebase....
Machine translation is a good example. Google Translate is probably the best around, and it's just using statistical techniques to produce some pretty bad results.

A strong AI would need a true understanding of language, which requires a radically different approach which few people are even thinking about.
it's an assumed 8 hour day... if they notice you're only working 4 hours they'd expect you to bill half a day
The Appearance of Physical Strength May Be the Look of Leadership
Upvoted, because maybe for him/her 'foreseeble' means a year.
Or the helpless look of Aja Huang... like "I have no idea how to decipher that neural network, that's part of why you are here".
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Pizza Hut National Pi Day Math Problems
If I understand what you're saying, we made an open source offering based on our current model: http://codemill.io/for-open-source is that what you're after?
Peculiar pattern found in 'random' prime numbers
you get a backdoor, you get a backdoor, everybody gets a backdoor!
Do you honestly believe this?
You're right. I didn't think of that. Need to make sure payout doesn't change while task is grabbed.
The Tau Manifesto: For the Curmudgeons Amongst Us
We went through various configurations/deployments of ES in-house, and eventually outsourced the job. The fickle nature of cluster restarts/upgrades were frustrating along with the unassigned & lost indexes that would often result. Then there were cluster partitions that wouldn't heal without a lot of manual intervention.

The tradeoff in value wasn't worth the time it was requiring, so we outsourced to compose.io -- they've been a good fit price & stability-wise, and feel pretty close to a blackbox for the benefit. If you need a large cluster however, you'll pay handsomely with any of the SaaS providers when last I looked at it. For large quantity work we've moved to AWS Redshift.
Amazon Now Resetting Some Account Passwords Following a Security Breach?
This sign language spontaneously developed mostly without supervising:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language
Let's hope that amateur will also have a powerful personal cloud.
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