skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To actually learn machine learning algorithms i found the coursera (stanford) course to be excellent. Minimal programming and math knowledge needed.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/home/info
Odd even car plate numbers used to decrease pollution
Maybe change "0 comments" to something like "Start a discussion" when there are no comments. Makes it seem like a graveyard when they're all empty.
Mind blown on this one too. It makes sense too - the aural bits of the brain and the reading bit of the brain don't interfere modally, so can act in parallel.
"Using Specware, we've specified and synthesized an entire computer. We even have flow charts of the hand movements of assdmbly line sorkers. The entire process, from design to manufacturing, should be correct by construction. As will be the computer."

He then added, "That's assuming the following assumptions are true. There's about 500 of them do bear with me on this PowerPoint..."
Why invent new markup (eg for links), instead of just extending markdown?
First get rid of the "dark" money. If a candidate has $1M then the electorate should know where this money came from to the last dollar. No laundering through PACs or other organizations.
That "citizens united" is even an issue is completely unfathomable for an outside observer (as is this whole vocabulary that's been invented for describing a defunct political system: "gerrymandering", "filibuster", "fiscal cliff" etc. I mean come on...).

In most other western democracies a constitution is something no one thinks about. No one praises it or accuses any one for being "unconstitutional". Yet the US political system and the constitution it relies on (I presume) seems to be held in very high regard, despite being outdated and clumsy in many areas.

Admittedly - the US isn't a country it's a bunch of largely independent states and the federal government is more like the EU than it is like France. And the european politics is arguably working a lot worse than the US.
The title should have (2015) in it.

This is a weird one, I feel like I am stumbling into a bit elephant trap, the authors seem to know what they are talking about but have missed some fundamental points.

Firstly there is a statement asserting that it only takes a few months to learn a language if you are a competent developer, which I agree is true to a point, but the assertion continues with the view that therefore we shouldn't hire given what languages a person knows.

Now, in a big company where there is a lot of runway for a project and a good training budget - and where you are building capability, spotting talent and hoping to build your own cheap well integrated team rather than a bunch of half crazed guns for hire, then yup, agree, but a bit of nuance is needed. A lot of places cannot function with people learning things for two or three months (or weeks, or days even). There's work to be done and it needs doing.

Then there are statements about Perl, Python and Javascript being fairly similar - which they are in a narrow technical look how the compiler works way. But I don't know about you (obviously) but although I loath Python (irrationally) I would feel relaxed and happy picking up 30k loc to debug and maintain if it were written in Python, I would be somewhat nervous if it was Javascript and I would be having a breakdown if it was Perl.

But as the authors note, horses for courses - Python is not a great fit (ok it's pretty good) for processing lots of strings and so on, Perl is good for that. Javascript - guess what - I think Javascript is a boon for creating web front ends. Perl, not a great choice.

In a similar vein I use R sometimes for interactive data mining. It is very handy in term of setting up analysis pipelines and creating insight. I like it for that. But I have folks working for me who write substantial projects in R and I constantly worry about maintenance and sustainability in the field. It isn't great for creating a structured and well understood code base.

With respect to the gender politics and the "exclusion" angle, this was a very real problem 25 and more years ago - one that I (somewhat shamefacedly) must confess that I innocently profited from. I got the chance to learn Smalltalk, Objective C, C, plsql and C++ using expensive compilers on expensive computers. This gave me a substantial leg up, people in India or Africa had no chance (effectively) of doing this. Now almost everyone can get the opportunity (I'm not saying with ease or that the opportunity is just there, but it is possible) to learn Java or Python or C++, MySql, Javascript and many more valuable useful tools. The question in my mind is why is it that some people end up learning ones that then aren't too useful to them? I learned php some years ago for a particular project, it was useful, I will never use it again.. but why is it that someone learns php and then doesn't learn Python? Or Ruby? Or Julia?

If you want a job in a company that uses Python why wouldn't you learn it? Why wouldn't you write a few projects and put them on Github?
Mexican Supreme Court Should Reject Mass Surveillance
Even if the email account is compromised it's still stronger proof of identity than ID scans.

An attacker can't just pretend to be able to read your email, such ability is too easy to conclusively prove. To be able to read your email they need to hack you somehow.

But for a fake ID the attacker only needs to throw your name in a PSD and they're good to go.
That's just Array.forEach in JS. Or in Scala:

(1 to 5) foreach { _ =>
println("look, a line!")
}

That's really nothing to do with Sets.
Go out right now and get the book "Crucial Conversations". It is BY FAR the best book I've ever read on this kind of thing. It is simultaneously the best relationship book I've ever read and the best business book I've ever read. It goes through the basic principles for handling these situations in an easy to understand way.
I don't think that VR is the first step to AR. AR (virtual content graphically overlaid on the real world) is a fundamentally different concept and the applications are different. VR puts you in a different world, AR tells you more about (or modifies) the real world.
Finding Your Soul Mate Online May Be Harder Than the Dating Sites Suggest
No just plain Swift.

For example the binaries for Ubuntu 14.04 don't work if the newer GCC is already installed.

Swift compiler will fail to find the modules due to an ABI error as it will interpret the function call results from libstd++ as failure.

The workaround is to re-compile everything with the new version.
All papers will carry stories that have elements of fear and outrage in their mix of course. What makes the Mail special is that it puts fear and outrage at the very core of its proposition. It is what it specialises in. It will jettison any other aspect of a story, including accuracy, to maximise these factors. It is wholly toxic.
I guess we'll never be able to learn why Mick's code was so bad.
Ask HN: I am Nepali. Can I goto US and startup with the help of Y Combinator?
My native is Nepal, and i want to start a startup. I want to submit my startup to Y Combinator. Can i do this?
Feather is a recently released data frame file that both R and Python can interface with. We have Hadley Whickam and Wes McKinney to thank for it!
> Correctly, but the state must say what accuse you of

They were informed when they where taken to the police statoin to be questioned.

> but won't say you exactly ... for the children protection

That is only regarding answering the media's questions. The parents are informed. The police are not allowed to give such information to the media in order to protect privacy rights of the children (and the accused parents if they wanted to)

> If I do something wrong, take me (to prison or whatever), not my kid

Their focus is to protect the kids and separate them from potential abusers until they have clarified the situation. You can't take the parents out of the home and leave the kids alone? The only choice is to put the children under temporary foster care until they either clear the parents or find some other arrangement. As a general rule they prefer to let the children live with their parents of course, but they have to make sure that it is safe to return.

The baby has been returned, but the older children are still in temporary foster homes. The parents are under investigation and the police will decide if they are going to press charges in a court hearing next month. The system has to take the children's rights seriously, so they can not return until their rights are protected.

BTW: This is not something that is specific to Norway. All Nordic countries have come a long way when it comes to protecting children's rights.

I do not have any connection to this case. I'm just someone who takes the rights of children seriously, even if their parents think they have the right to ignore them.

I'm sure that the parents do not mean them harm, but when the police gets a warning they have to keep the children's rights in mind. Parents who get the media's attention should not get special preferences. The law should be equal to everyone. That is why they follow the same procedure so that everyone is treated equally. If the investigation proves that the parents won't beat the children again, they may be returned.
TensorFlow: Large-Scale Machine Learning on Distributed Systems (2015) [pdf]
The Saturn failed as Sega had made the best 2d system they could whilst Sony had made the best 3d system they could and it was $100 dollars cheaper.

Sega fought the last was, Sony opened a new battleground.
A common situation, as I understand it from movies and TV, is in cases of domestic violence.

A woman breaks up with her abusive husband and he threatens to kill her. There's some record of him saying this. Should society do nothing to protect her? Men are known to be physically stronger. What kind of society would we be if we did not provide her some protection by putting space between her and the husband? Presumably courts would decide if it's necessary to jail him or just use a restraining order. And ultimately his punishment wouldn't be the same as if he actually committed the murder.

This becomes a real problem in the case of a repeat offender. The offender realizes he can deliver some "light" abuse and threats. Officials try to lock him up, but he only stays behind bars for so long, and unless the wife agrees to press charges and testify, there is little law enforcement can do. The wife is often terrified and won't testify.

It is situations like these that authoritarian regimes like China and North Korea will point to to suggest that democracy is nuts. Under their authority, they could easily jail or kill such an individual.

In real life, there is a balance struck between laws and rights in the interest of furthering a trustful society. Different cultures draw the line in different places. I'm not familiar with what countries do not have laws against threatening someone's life but you could try to find one and see if you might like to live there. My guess is there aren't many and the bigger a country gets, the more likely they have this kind of law.
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Yes the speech rate algorithm is important. The application I use uses the Sonic algorithm by Bill Cox, which is actually optimized for rates over 2x.

https://github.com/waywardgeek/sonic

I think speed rate should be a standard control on every multimedia player, just like volume.
I'm a big fan of computercraft. You can quickly build turtles (robots) and program them to do almost anything a player can do. So you can automate almost everything and it's really fun. (Also in Lua.)

Open computers does have robots, but they are much more difficult to actually build, and have more constraints. I did try to get into OpenComputers, but everything felt so much more limited and expensive, and I just wanted to program cool things.
IMO part of the reason for the sacredness of the Constitution is that it is nearly impossible to change. 3/4 of states must approve a change, a very high bar. Maybe in the 1790s when there were comparatively few states and fears of tyranny were more reality based this was more reasonable, but with 50 states it's very unrealistic.

The other reason it's sacred is that we Americans revere our founders to an absurd degree. They were great men but not gods. They were deeply flawed, just like leaders of today.
Exactly.

Bring back WebRings!
Git-random: Chrome extension replaces new tab with random GitHub user's profile
Ireland works this way; there are about 25k voters per representative. What happens is clientilism: representatives become very concerned with local issues and neglect national issues. Corruption of a different, more local kind, is encouraged.
On the top of my head:

- Some parties/candidates spend more than they are allowed and try to hide the difference and that can only be done illegally (See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/1085...).

- Also there can be some voting(?) threshold you have to reach to be eligible for the reimbursement of campaign costs (5% for the french presidential I believe) so small parties are gambling a lot by throwing themselves into the pit with other well established big parties and sometimes they simply decide to make a coalition in order to have the guarantee to survive financially. But then they are forced to reframe their political agenda and this usually weakens the ideological stances of everyone.

- I think you have to submit every spending and justify the origin of the money private donors give you. Except when they can't because that money was obtained in shady places (See the Gaddafi-Sarkozy affair http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-22220272 or the Sarkozy-Bettencourt affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettencourt_affair).

Of course I am not blaming the system. But at the moment the implementation lacks several error catching checks to make sure the whole thing runs as intended (eg: the official/national organ that is supposed to investigate these campaigns and make sure everything stays legal is largely under funded).

I gave some notorious examples from right parties but it doesn't mean the left doesn't dabble into those waters (in France and in Belgium).
Off-topic but I'm curious: How do you and your sister handle sharing iMessage? I can imagine the confusion if my sis and I were getting the same messages from each other's acquaintances.
I recently read Robin Hobb's liveship trilogy. I was often skipping/speed reading pages at a time to keep the story going at a pace that I enjoyed.

I enjoyed the story without having to 'endure', from my point of view, the boring exposition and over detailing and over explaining of plot points. The dialogue was good, the story interesting, but there were big chunks of text talking about character motivations or other inner monologue and scene painting that were very unnecessary and dull. Entirely skippable. From my point of view.

I've even done the same with my favourite author, Iain M Banks, who got a little wordy in his later novels (for example Matter, which was a bit of a slog compared to the sublime Excession, which I soaked up every word).

That's the point. Not every word in a book is created equal. Authors aren't infallible and also I'm very quick at picking up the gist of a plot point or argument, it's my 'superpower', I get a bit bored at the comprehension rate of most people that authors aim for.

Also I prefer story to detail, I think of it as the difference between people who listen to music for lyrics vs listening to the tune. Personally I don't understand lyric listeners, it's called music, not poetry. Each to their own.
And yet again these stuff can be automated with contextual bandits or gaussian processes. Instead of bruteforcing one can just put yet another system to find the parameters for them.
I'm not sure if it's intentional, but you can up vote your own posts...
I'm not saying he's an angel, he's as corrupt as the next politician, maybe even worse than the average. But no other bent politicians seem to get as much bad press as Putin, given the fact that he's no more guilty of crimes than say, Hilary Clinton.

I've never understood why Putin is singled out by the media for such vicious treatment when, as you yourself pointed out, there is absolutely no shortage of political corruption stories they could run with.

Still, it's a lot easier for the American public to swallow that a man half a world away, from a traditional enemy figure, could be evil and corrupt, rather than examine the fact that some of their own representatives might be the same. No no, that would throw into question their belief that American is the worlds shining bastion of freedom and democracy, a notion that they've been spoon-fed since childhood.
As a contractor working in Germany, I have encountered many small and medium businesses that are leery of American cloud providers for data security reasons, sometimes unreasonably so. They would like to use the clouds but can't bring themselves to do so. It's a little breathtaking to watch Amazon Google or Microsoft pass up significant revenue in real time because of us policy.
done;)
> It's clearly a walking dead.

That's a very strong statement to make against a company whose competitors are no more compelling that itself.
Moving to proportional representation would greatly curtail gerrymandering or even eliminate it altogether, especially with some sort of ranked voting system. It also solves the third party problem; no longer does a vote for the Green party hurt the Democratic candidate or a Libertarian vote hurt the Republican candidate.

IIRC Spain has a system along these lines.

First past the post needs to go.
Awesome, though I'd love to see a line or two under the title with the show notes (if they have them embedded). For those not already knowing about the hilarious podcast, The title is precious little to go on.
Everyone has their own preferences. Loads of books have some much fluff it's almost a crime against the reader. Personally, I speed read everything.
Croscore Fonts (Chrome OS's Open Source Replacement for MS Core Fonts)
Thanks, i'll check ot out.
First impression (Macbook Air 11"): 2/3 of the page are header and filters, I can view only 2 posts at first glance. That's pretty different from the functional design of HN.
The latency inherent in drone control is at odds with the need to develop an awareness of the battlefield situation.

When your sensory data is out of date by up to 2 seconds, you're going to get a lot of blue-on-blue fire.
You should scrape Reddit eg https://www.reddit.com/r/podcasts/comments/4e9idv/weekly_pod...
No offence, but this seems like it would be better as a Reddit sub. Not everything needs to be the HN of something.
Getting 500 errors on podcast comment/show pages. I get the idea though, I'm just not sure this is the best way to discover podcasts. To checkout a podcast takes quite a bit more time relative to a news article / blog post.

I think that this has the same issues as https://www.producthunt.com/podcasts, for me at least.
What is the difference between a shell and a defense contractor?

Only thing I see so far is the DigaForce deal; co-founder's profile on LinkedIn lacks any "oddness" in my opinion.
I wonder if movies and certainly TV series are too much of a time involvment to get a good ranking.

What about music?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10532957
Flew an A10 for three months in training. AFAICT he then flew F16s for the rest of his operational career before transferring to command.
How many journalists has Clinton had murdered?

How many political opponents has Clinton had murdered?
Useful bash or dos scripts for software testing
What is the most useful bash or dos script you've written and most used for your functional testing activities?
Pre ipo Uber shares? Yes.
I didn't know about Overcast. Volume normalization for listening in noisy places, smart speed with silence removal - I want those features!

Unfortunately Overcast is iOS only. Could anyone recommend an Android app similar to Overcast?
i wish they would offer wildcard subdomain support (forget the official term right now) - for services which offer subdomains to their users. I run one such service for free, and would love to offer HTTPS to my customers, but don't want to add yet another running cost for something I don't profit from
I could really use something like this. It's a recurring problem I have: finding interesting podcast material to listen to while working out.

Podcast suggestions should remain on the front page longer than articles do in HN though. Since listening to a podcast is way more time consuming than reading an article.

Thanks for sharing!
I took it more like the way you specify certain jQuery operations such as:

$('.card').hide();

to mean "hide all cards", or

$('.card.green').show();

to mean "show all green cards". It's really comfortable to think about operating on the set like this and not having to worry about looping on the individual items.
That discussion is about the library. Not the playground.
> The application I use

What application do you use for listening?
I uploaded a quick screencapture to youtube and updated the README file to point to it. Hope that helps.
The youtube link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciA5XX3CIOs
Holding the founding fathers in high regard isn't a bad thing - but holding an outdated constitution in high regard may be damaging. It should be hard to change a constitution. It's amazing how a lot of the US electorate finds the constitution so flawless, yet thinks "Washington" and the political establishment to be flawed - as if the political establishment is a product of itself and not of the legislation. I think winner-takes-all two party systems have the intrinsic problem that changes (such as to gerrymandering) will always benefit one side more than the other and thus it's hard to pass.
fixing some stuff, thanks for the feedback!
As a European I'm not jealous of the money aspect in US politics. I see US politics as completely corrupt, and it's all legal. The coming elections is the 10% against the 1%. The one who cobbles together most money gets to influence most voters though campaigning and commercials. 90% of the electorate does not seem to understand that they are bought and paid for.

And because the US is the most powerful country internationally, it influences Europe in a big way. We get to deal with thing like TTIP, which seems to be a direct product of US corruption, and a refugee crisis, a direct result of failed US foreign policy (which Europe would not improve on, admittedly)
> hmmh without trying to talk negatively about it, why is this on front page? am I missing something here?

The submitter probably forgot that HN is for bleeding edge JS frameworks only.
Because most (if not all VC's) base their investment decisions on the power law, I'd argue most entrepreneurs (other than the ones looking to disrupt the world and all of God's creatures) would be better served by pursuing PE funding. This crowd has A. a longer term view and B. a bell curve of expectations on investment returns.
PLEASE don't do this. A friend of mine had done it a few times and was getting confident in the process. Once I was watching him, the bottle broke into tiny pieces and went straight into his hand. He had around 30 pieces of shattered glass that managed their back several centimeters deep inside. I still remember calling emergency and waving hands when they arrived so that they saw us. My friend came back a few days after with his hand wrapped in band after a pretty awful night in hospital. Pretty stupid idea if you ask me. Don't do it. Remember one hand is one half of your text editor...
Watching that helps explain why MS paid $2.5b for Minecraft. Maybe the most incredible visual computing artefact I've ever seen. Having a channel to that young man's brain... Priceless
But adding those will you get into the whole argument about whether Edison was an inventor or a relentless taker of other people's credit
Yeah, that's part of why I ignore most stuff I hear about what "psychological studies have shown."