skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do use APIs for sports data, but I pull that data from existing places. Unless you have some impressive connections or a lot of time on your hands, you're probably not getting data with the same detail as, say, baseball's Sean Lahman or Retrosheet (or commercial options like the data that underlies Synergy video tagging for the NBA), and specialty stuff like SportsVU data (again NBA) is not exactly easy to come by without dropping All Of The Money on a license. I can't speak to the NFL or NHL, but I know datastores exist with accessible APIs and very good data sources.

This is a pretty mined-out space. Might be fun (and if so, go for it!), but I don't know how applicable it would be if you're looking to build it for others to consume.
It's like somebody finally got around to building the think we've been asking for all these years.
There is a distinction between original Dropcam/Dropcam HD setup and Dropcam Pro setup -- may be part of the confusion? Dropcam Pro had BLE setup, previous versions did not and require USB setup.
> 1) make tickets non-transferrable (but refundable)

This is apparently what Louis CK is doing for his latest tour. I ordered tickets and I have to pick them up from the box office with ID starting 1 hour before show starts. Or I can request a refund.
I have just updated the example_client and README. Combined they should resolve your suggestion.

Here is the example client: https://github.com/robsco-git/spreadsheet_server/blob/master...
This site's fading-loading transition effect just sucks.

Reminds me of IE transitions. http://www.simplehtmlguide.com/pagetransitions.php
I grew up in Louisville in the 60's and can attest to the poor state of race relations there.

My white grandparents had a house in the middle of the black part of town. And when I say "black" I mean except for my grandparents and my family, we never saw another white person anywhere close to their house, when we visited. We'd make the trip from the suburbs to their house every Sunday to take them food and hang out on the porch, in good weather, or the living room in bad weather. They were in their 80's and had lived in that house for 50+ years, and they saw no reason to leave. They and their neighbors were dirt poor.

As a kid, the difference between were I lived and this place I visited once a week was striking. It shaped how I felt about poor people and race relations, in general. The weird thing is that when I went there, that neighborhood felt more comfortable and friendly to me than mine in the burbs.

I remember when Ali refused to be drafted. There was a lot of anger in our home town. It help me form my feelings toward war and service. I don't think that internal dialog would have happened had he not done what he did.
Unrelated: Can't tell how I feel about Medium.com as a CMS compared to old Grantland. Reads great, but feels like standalone (could just be me.)
>It was the only criterion that was explicit.

Well, even in itself, it is wrong.

It's not just that other criteria apply too -- it's that it alone needs several caveats, as succinctness is quite orthogonal to readability (e.g. sometimes even needless boilerplate syntax that the compiler could infer by itself, make for better readability when present).
> he's batting 1000 in life ... got into the best start-ups early

I don't think this is factually true. Besides Netscape, he's noted for cofounding Ning and Loudcloud. Loudcloud pivoted almost entirely, sold their old business, and rebranded the new idea as Opsware which had a successful exit (but even so wouldn't be "the best"). Ning I'd grant being successful in the sense of not having died, but I don't think there's any argument that it's anywhere near "the best". It feels like a huge stretch to count that as three-for-three.
As I understand, the blastocyst is a state of a human being in the early stage of its development, having in turn developed from the morula, and the zygote (the first cell).

If you want to argue semantics of the words or the phrase, we can do that.
If you want me to use a dictionary to justify my use of the words "human" and/or "being", I'll do that.
If you want textbook (medical) definitions, you can have it right away at https://goo.gl/ZFDcbg. And if you'd like more scientific literature backing, consult https://goo.gl/zXpbAu.
If you are willing to cede that the nomenclature fits, but would like to now rank human beings by worth in relation to stage of development, I would like to provide arguments for why you shouldn't do that.
Finally, if you have reconsidered everything, I would invite you to the Way, the Truth and the Life, as scary as that might sound.
Peace be with you and yours.
Show HN: Which-cloud, what cloud does an ip address belong to?
I can't comment for the ThinkPad 13, but I've been really disappointed with the quality of Lenovo's recent ThinkPad offerings. I used to have a 1st Gen X1 Carbon Touch and I swapped it for a MacBook Air after a year. Terrible battery life, shockingly bad display (other than the low resolution and poor colours, they placed some kind of protective film over the top which made everything a bit blurry). Screen wobbled, fan spun up way more than necessary (I don't think I've ever noticed the fan on my MacBook spinning up).

Before that I had an IBM ThinkPad X40 which I absolutely loved - it was a solid little machine. A friend of mine just had a fan go in his X230, and another friend had a T430 with a defective touchpad. Of course every laptop will have some failures, but it seems that the build quality on the newer models really isn't up to the same level it used to be.

I would heartily recommend looking into purchasing a second-hand ThinkPad. If you're taking it in to uni regularly then probably the smaller X210 or X220 would be a good fit.
Woah, that's just painful to watch. Thanks for the video.
The numbers of firefighters in the area that you quoted is incorrect. Currently there are 2,146 firefighters and support staff, 80 helicopters and 219 pieces of heavy equipment battling this fire.

Source http://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=41701E7ECBE35-AD48-579...
>Social reasoning is not some kind of magic, so there is no reason that an AI couldn't learn it.

It's not only magic that people have issues learning. It's all kind of skills that do not fit their idiosyncrasy.

It's not that an introvert can't read about how to act like an extrovert, for example. It's that they can't pull it off in practice, because it goes against their instincts (of course talking about the general case).
A direct link to a PDF of the paper: http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep590/06au/projec...
Андроид на пк всего в два клика
The customization looks ugly. Hopefully Medium will add more flexibility or become plug and play like Disqus.
It's really interesting to me how controversial contrarian opinions to Facebook actions are in this forum. The parent has bounced up and down vote wise quite a bit.

FB is a real lightning rod topic.
I don't mean to offend, but is this a serious question?

Ideological diversity can be measured by simply conducting public opinion polls on a range of public policy issues (social, economic, foreign, domestic, etc etc). This is a pretty well established science. Add in the distribution of said opinions -- a lot of different opinions in about the same mix everywhere is much different from large concentrated enclaves in different geographic regions (ie the Big Sort[1]).

As for different needs, before we even get into ideology simple geography dictates a lot already. California has a lot of forest fires, Louisiana and Texas have a lot of floods, New England has a lot of snow.

Then you get into urban vs. rural -- America has some of the most vast expanses of rural land and many of the world's biggest cities. Urban areas have very different needs from rural ones.

THEN you get into the differing needs of the peoples themselves which is affected by a million different variables. Education levels. Income levels. Health. Languages spoken in different regions. Populations with many recent immigrants have differing legal and social needs from populations of ninth generation native-born citizens. And on and on and on.

[1] http://www.thebigsort.com/home.php
It's one of Nabokov's more notable novels, but I guess to each his own, including *chan for some.
Curious as to how the use of emoji and other unicode effects your password management.
They didn't turn down American help, there's 200 US firefighters there right now.

Source - http://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=41701E7ECBE35-AD48-579...
Does "responsive" not include responding to printers? When I try to print the web page, the first page has the header, but the next 16 pages are blank.
I recently experienced the same scenario with comedy show tickets, Dave Chappele did a few last min shows in Portland and getting tickets through the sales site was absolutely impossible.

Not only were they sold out within seconds, I also got the impression the process was designed to make sure anyone with an automated process would "win". Being a developer and knowing how people would use a system like theirs, it blew my mind they took basically no precautions to stop automated buyers from buying everything immediately.

Someone is making lots of money.
> Also, I resent the idea to "direct researchers away from implementing dangerous goal systems that are not provably coherent in face of self-improvement". That's censorship at best. Also, given the computational power available for $5000 these days, how exactly are you going to stop any of these researchers ?

No, it's called spreading knowledge. Although, if censorship were possibly in this matter (and I agree that it likely wouldn't work) I would very much prefer such measures, however draconian, to the potential loss of everything compatible with human values in the entire future light cone.

Anyway, do you also object to the measures that were enacted to stop the use of CFCs? Leaded gasoline? Or the work that is currently being done to prevent the global climate change from reaching catastrophic levels?
Don't know about Python but someone did a similar thing with Swift: https://github.com/VeniceX/Venice
I have the Messenger app. When I first installed it, it asked me to do the following:

- Enable Notifications

- Enable access to my Contacts

- Add my phone number to my FB account

I respectfully refused to allow any of this. Every time that I opened the Messenger app, I got a pop-up asking me to enable Notifications. I enabled notifications, then went into my iOS settings and disabled them. This stopped the pop-ups, but now I see a red warning symbol on my Messenger "Me" icon in the lower right which wants me to enable Notifications once and for all. I also see another red icon on the People icon which says that I need to sync my contacts.

I'm disappointed in the direction that Facebook is turning the Messenger app towards. They seem to be desperate for these three options to be enabled.
I can't relate to any of the arguments in this thread!

Why does it need to be fair? It's a private business putting on an event that nobody needs to go to except as a luxury entertainment. It's not access to food and water. We don't expect that other limited luxuries should be available to everyone, so why concerts and sport events?

Surely tickets going to the people who'll pay the most is fair?
Keystone.js: The Keystone assembler framework, now available for JavaScript
Are we in a "bubble" or just the latter stage of a business cycle? A lot of it depends on the definition you use for "bubble." Regardless of your definition, it doesn't matter much one way or another.

Central bank policies have been ridiculous the last 8 years. Nobody should be surprised there are market distortions - and nobody should pretend there aren't.
Claims of humblebraggadocio is the HN counterpart to calling out an "edgelord" elsewhere.

As a word, humblebrag is irritating to see in use, even if you are not its target.
As an initial thought, being able to much more accurately locate missing aircraft sounds like it would be a cost saving. eg:

* the many months/years of effort + associated resources for searching would be likely reduced

* technical/procedural weaknesses that led to aircraft loss could be better analysed, hopefully leading to reduced further aircraft losses, reduced loss of life

Realtime data (other than location) sounds like it would have uses too. Not just alerting for impending or actual failure.

On the other hand, would doing this open up potential remote vulnerabilities for aircraft systems? That could have long term crappy-ness attached. :(
GDS isn’t doing the NHS work, although many of their team are alumni and there’s definitely knowledge sharing going on.
That's interesting. Your comment jogged my memory on a study of how automobile drivers act around bicyclists based on drivers' assumptions about the appearance or perceived level of experience of the cyclist.

According to the research, overtaking vehicles drive closer to better equipped cyclists (wearing a helmet, reflective vest...) than a woman with long hair and no helmet.

Also, the bicyclist with protective gear might be more prone to engage in risky behaviour.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-h...

"The implication," Walker says, "is that any protection helmets give is canceled out by other mechanisms, such as riders possibly taking more risks and/or changes in how other road users behave towards cyclists."
The point of this data is to understand why planes crash (or how were hijacked) so that design faults, defects and crew procedures can be altered to prevent them happening again.
I recall when they publicised their early investment thesis, to wit: most of the returns are from few companies, so let's invest in those.[0]

There was a great deal of fanfare and forehead slapping for what is, essentially, saying "most of the winnings in horse racing are from the winning horses, so we will only bet on the horses that are going to win".

Still, I am inspired. I'm announcing a new venture fund. We will only buy winning lottery tickets. Bring your slide deck describing your lottery ticket and we will decide whether to buy it off you.

(You may need to show how much money the ticket has already won -- we're not amateurs).

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/business/venture-capital-f...
The problem with accepting any kind of help from Russia is that the Russian government is single-mindedly focused on geopolitical leverage. It does nothing out of the kindness of heart. Every offer of assistance, every interaction with a foreign government is a calculated maneuver. No thanks.
The Clean Air Act allows the federal government to give CA the ability to set alternative standards for car emission controls, but it isn't likely it allows CA to ban all fueled vehicles.
Ha, definitely a mistake. Thanks for the QA :)

(We use an internal chat channel to mention links for the highlight list, but also lots of other stuff that shows up on HN on a given day. Probably the streams got crossed.)
I met a few people who studied music (different instruments or theory) and later switched to a career in programming. They said the whole theory stuff felt a bit like a different approach (notation etc) to math.
We're about to add a link at the top to download as PDF. This was originally a talk given in PowerPoint & uploaded on Slideshare. Here's a link in the meantime. http://www.slideshare.net/aleberrycreative/perceived-legitim...

Cheers,
They should probably skip subsidies though.

Taxing emissions makes sense because emissions are a direct externality. But when you subsidies replacements you are essentially betting on the most efficient solution, not at all certain it would be the best, you also introduce new externalities for people to profit on unfairly.

I'm guessing it would be much more effective to tax emissions, do so aggressively, and then just pass back the money directly as a public dividend. This way the market has full freedom to pick a way forward, any way.
I've never heard of him but I do know that there's been noone at any point in history who has been any good at predicting the future, even the very near future, so you can take anything he/anyone says with a large pinch of salt. Bill Gates wrote a book which barely mentioned the internet right as it was happening!
I am excited to see what the tape holds, hopefully it will give a bit of closure to the families of those lost.
Do you mind sharing some of the existing data sources / API's you are using?
I think it asks you when you install the app only if it targets an older API. Not certain though.
It's widely known: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJu8sVWQ-wk
no almost always kicked
I don't think responsive includes printers, but I can surely be wrong. I've come to treat that as "print" styles. Which not every website has or needs.
Damn you got me
Is ts cmmt esr t rd?
Fixed it to some extent. Thanks for reminding me of the issue.
The Eccentric Genius of Muhammad Ali’s Boxing Style
That's what I've always heard it called.
> So it's just a Trudeau-like "diversity" hire or something?

Are you implying that they're all black because they're from South Africa?
A tiny web service to handle slack outgoing webhook and push the data to resque
Behaviour like this is why we need efforts like purple-facebook[0]

I wish to be able to host purple-facebook on a server and throw a web UI in front of it. It won't be as complete as messenger, but at least basic chat will work without having to download a sneaky app.

0: https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook
> And while they might be arseholes on the political scene otherwise every time there is a large scale fire they do extend their hand and come in with serious help.

It's difficult to top the US in terms of foreign policy assholery though.
Acquiring a signal by GPS does not make you stratum-1.

Stratum 1 servers are directly adjacent (within microseconds latency of, NOT milliseconds) to stratum-0 servers, physically connected to atomic clocks.
For those interested, Bill Hammack (Engineer Guy) pulled apart a 1970s-era flight recorder in an old video.[1] The one in video, though, gets etched to a roll of tin rather than recorded to a magnetic tape.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlY5W7be5jU
Muhammad Ali – The LEGEND left us with tears
When I read and see some interviews with people like him, it's interesting to me how Islam was seen - not very long ago - as some self-determination movement for black people. (Malcolm X, and all that.)

It makes sense to me of course, but it's still interesting to see Islam being perceived totally differently today, just a few decades later. If you hear someone mention today that he wants to make "islamic nation", your mind goes to what is happening in Middle-East right now.
Musk: The chance we are not living in a computer simulation is 'one in billions'
Sarcasm can be very valuable. It can also be used to contemptuously insult someone when a simple rebuttal would suffice.

The latter is an immature, weak intellectual position (see Appeal to Ridicule and Question Begging Epithet) that says nothing more than "you are so wrong as to look asinine".

This only fosters more emotional, insult-riddled dialogue, which is why the user above quoted HN guidelines, which you are now impotently raging against. This is a pretty civil place, we like to keep it that way.
Muhammad Ali – 'The Greatest' Tribute (1942 – 2016)
Selling some at a lottery provides a market for people who would be priced out very early along the curve.

If you want to avoid a Hunger Games situation where only the rich and famous enjoy your product (the NBA and many musicians care about this) that sort of person needs to be provided for
I think that backgammon is more similar to chess than poker in this respect. Despite the exogenous element of chance it can still be considered a perfect information game.

Your statement does not hold for games truly characterised by imperfect information (e.g. poker), in theory or in practice.
IPython notebooks about genetic and evolutionary computation
Facebook once changed all e-mail addresses to @facebook.com

Facebook can sync with your contacts and make a huge jumbled mess

Facebook app drains battery

Facebook app demands elevated privileges that it shouldn't need

Facebook may or may not be listening to your microphone
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4192998/
The web app version has a whole lot of features that the installed app doesn't:

* It takes up zero phone memory. Yes, this is still an issue on really cheap Android phones. [0]

* It takes up zero phone resources, unlike the Facebook app, which is known for slowing down your entire phone. [1]

* The messenger app wants to send me notifications about stupid things and collect personal data using its over-broad permissions. I don't trust Facebook, and I'm not a tinfoil hat type.

* I don't want another chat ecosystem in my life, but if someone does message me on Facebook, I'd like to be able to see it on my phone without having to install an idiotic, resource-sapping, spyware app.

I really, really don't want a "good" Facebook chat solution. People want to chat with me, they can use Skype, Google Hangouts, or Slack. Or just send me an email and we can talk on the phone.

[0] http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_core_prime-6716.php

[1] http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/207468
Why can't we ban fuel-burning cars? They have a more direct impact on the environment than just climate.

I live next to a busy road and I frequently have to sweep noxious dust off my balcony. Not to mention that the sky at sunset is not naturally orange, but is tinted by the haze.

We banned CFCs because they were removing the UV filter from our atmosphere, so there is precedent, and decades later nobody misses them.
I'm not sure about when he said what, but Muhammad Ali first joined the so-called Nation of Islam, then was introduced to Islam by Malcolm X (also a former NOI member).
It's incredibly difficult to do end to end encryption well in a mobile browser.

Facebook has hinted they are rolling that out and it will create all kinds of frustration for mobile web users.
Of course it's better if things just do what you want them to automatically, and that's entirely possible with current connected bulbs. I've got some with physical buttons to control the lights, and some smarts (so that I can hit the same button for full brightness at some times, a nice evening dimmed at others, and really low level at night).

The issue at the moment is that it's not really accessible to everyday users, I had to interact directly with the system's slightly obtuse API to do that. Your everyday user just gets switches to activate a particular scene.
I don'n really see the point of the question. I doubt you hope to find out there is a significant consumer-base in need, for reasons already mentioned, so are you asking if it's useless? I would say no, because making data accessible always is good.

Personally, I don't care the slightest for stuff like football, hockey or whatever, but I remember struggling to find comprehensive data-set on human physical abilities, such as results in light&heavy athletics, which would include year, age, measurements and all other stuff that might be potentially interesting when analyzing something like that. Data on not-mainstream events is especially hard to find, which is a pity, as it is potentially even more interesting, because olympic athletes are obviously less human-like.