skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, this is really grim situation for Gaza people. Even then calling/texting residents to warn about attacks is awesome move of Israel, very underrated in media though.
If the terrorists goal was to take away your freedom, they apparently have won.
The enduring challenge of compressing random data
Maybe my lack of real-world experience skews my perspective on this one, but why do these companies continue to put out Square clones?

If you're Bank of America or PayPal, you already have access to the customer's billing information and financial accounts. Why not circumvent the credit card all together and create a fully digital phone-to-kiosk direct pay system?
Absolutely agree with what probably happened. Everything I've read about this mentions wires and fuses. As bad as the TSA is, it seems entirely more probable that an artist wanted to make a point, by using items that draw attention, without actually being illegal. If this is just some guy with an eccentric watch, I hope they backtrack and let him go. But if it's someone trying to incite a reaction, then you can't really complain about being arrested.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
I'm guessing that the party organization itself isn't allowed to do anything other than nominate their candidate. The campaign, of which the GOTV system is a part, has to be directed by the candidate. This makes sense in that you're technically electing a person, not a party.
Apple has succeeded in convincing consumers they need something that they really don't. In other words, I think the consumer's perceived value of an ultra-high resolution display is much greater than its actual value.
My First Week on Code Academy
Haha "I only have $6,000 in the bank!!".
> Is it possible to be socially conservative privately but socially liberal publicly? I'm thinking it's not an inconsistent worldview to believe that things like abortions and homosexuality are morally wrong, yet it is not the government's job to enforce those rules.

I'm glad you clarified what you meant, I thought your first sentence was just referring to hypocrites.

I think it's possible. Your adultery example is good; I personally think that for 99% of people, polygamy doesn't work at best, and harms at worst, but I have zero interest in the government poking its nose into people's relationships, and I'd probably vote for multiple-partner-marriage becoming a recognized legal entity like man-and-woman marriage is today.
You are running an event. Running events is hard. You do not have money to cover upfront costs. Seek sponsorship to cover upfront costs.

Sponsor is possibly concerned over conference diversity. Solutions:

1) Address sponsors concerns

2) Seek alternate sponsor without the concerns

3) Seek non-sponsorship funding (bank loan, kickstarter)

4) Cancel conference, transfer blame onto those who stated event diversity.
Cisco Acquires Enterprise Wi-Fi Startup Meraki For $1.2 Billion In Cash
"This Is Your Brain on Neural Implants" - Ray Kurzweil
PHP 5.5 Alpha adds coroutines
Intel's Haswell CPU Microarchitecture
In my understanding of network communication and data transmission this should be impossible. All payload data and encapsulated header data etc is subject to checksums, hash's, variable encoding schemes on the wire, parity balancing, redundant bit insertion (hamming) etc. The result of which will always signal an errors presence. Even if the bit flip occurs in Primary memory surely the OS's memory management subsystem's would detect the corruption.

So for a bit flip not to be detected and remedied before the execution of an errant DNS lookup seems odd. Although I could be wrong (just a final year CS student).

EDIT: Just watched the video, originally classified it as TLDW, seems plausible.
> modified ribosomes that can assemble polypeptides using non-standard aminoacids (presumably coded for using four-base codons)

This prediction is a little too much. Theoretically it is possible to use a four-base codons, but I'm almost sure that it is extremely difficult to make all the changes in every part of the process. For example, to change the number of bases in a codon, you must change the number of bases in the reciprocal part of the tRNA. But the shape of the tRNA depends on the length, and it seems to be very difficult to change this without breaking the other functions.

It's much easier just to change the meaning of some codons (there are 64, and only 20 codified aminoacid + a termination mark), and even the mitochondrias and some estrange living organism have small changes in the genetic code.
> illegal uses are covered by laws that are actually about those illegal acts themselves.

My point exactly. Which is why I'm so confused why you think you're disagreeing with me. Maybe you need to reread my post?
This is something real Anonymous would fight against.
Alas, the Anonymous we have instead is busy supporting Hamas terrorists and defacing Israeli web sites.
From the page:

"Everybody loves it! They clearly understand the concept. They ask great questions, they make suggestions. But do they use it afterwards??

The ODB is as close to a silver bullet as you can get. Why don't people use it?

I don't get it. :-("

"Needed

More than anything else, I need people to use the ODB."

Now, this tool is not for me personally - I don't see myself writing for JVM anytime soon - but it seems really good. I wanted to ask you, as the author is asking, why don't you, Java and other JVM programmers, use this tool?

Is it that there are better tools? You're not allowed to use this? You don't think it is worth it? The tool itself proved to be somehow lacking? Or are you actually using it heavily and the page is outdated?

I know nothing about Java ecosystem, Java programming or about ODB - I just felt that, if what the author writes is true, it's truly sad situation and would like to know why it happened.
You mean causal decision theory?

Omega comes to you and presents two boxes. One is transparent and contains $1000. The other is opaque. Then Omega says "I give you 2 choices: either you take the two boxes, or you take only the opaque one. I have studied your brain, and have predicted your choice. If I have predicted that you will take only the opaque box, I have put $1M in it. If I have predicted you will take both boxes, I put nothing in it." Note that when Omega comes to you, the content of the opaque box is already fixed. So. What do you chose?

Decision theory is not solved yet.
Adding spaces to make things line up is proscribed by the Python Style Guide. Which is entirely optional, but many people follow it.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#pet-peeves
Firefox OS simulator that runs on Win/mac/lin? Sounds like a complicated way of just running Firefox :P
What Do Animals Want? [on animal behavior, ethics, and consciousness]
Marrying ClojureScript and JS Frameworks – Knockout Edition
Airbnb’s Android app creators discuss reworking iOS apps for other platforms
Sid Roth it's supernatural 2012
Well, that’s true, there trying to shut up pastors and mostly Christians and you know it’s interesting the Moslem Brotherhood in their strategy for destroying America was to use political correctness and our own Constitution and Bill of Rights against us in Sid Roth radio broadcast. And they have been their major weapons to attack us and you know you can say anything about Christians. But think about that memo that came down from Homeland Security saying that everyone that believed in the end time prophecies of the Bible and Veterans and these Right Wing Groups were the major terrorist threats of America on Sid Roth 2010. And did not even mention in that memo Islamic G Hadist, which have been the source of ninety nine percent of terrorist attacks in the world for the last half century. How blind could you get? - Sid Roth it's supernatural 2012
But see this is kind of my point.

Solo vs. co-founder isn't really the question here.

It's not that it's harder to be a single founder, it's that it's difficult to even get a company up and running co-founders.
I'm all for opening up the US and allowing more immigrants in. With the author's solution, who determines what is and what is not a start up? If I start a restaurant, am I not a start up? What if I start a cleaning service, a landscaping company, etc?
Prepaid or postpaid?: The fight for your cell phone dollars
You can forget the distinctions without impacting performance if your JavaScript engine uses UTF-16, because that's the native encoding of Windows NT 5.0+. You'll still get overhead when working with binary data, Typed Array or not.
CT High Deductible Medical Plans
Exit != IPO.

One of the most common forms of exit is to be acquired by another company.
The irony of 3M scientists mentoring and awarding a project dedicated to purifying water is not lost on this reader.

http://www.cleanwateraction.org/publication/pfc-factsheet

Great to see these kids being rewarded and recognized for their hard work though. Inspires me to think about volunteering to be honest.
Yes, if a similar story came out about Obama, I would probably say the same thing. Why not? Don't assume I'm automatically for the "other guy" just because I'm against Romney.

As for overestimating the importance of my profession, I don't buy it. It's the importance of project management, not software, that's in play here. The president needs to be the sort of person who can find people who will know that Best Buy is a bad choice. He doesn't need to actually know it himself, but he absolutely needs to be able to find them, in all sorts of areas, and then listen to them.

Honestly, if I had my way, not a single presidential candidate since I've been alive would be qualified. I think our current politicians are atrociously bad. So your point that the bar I'm setting is too high for current candidates may be true, but I don't think it makes me wrong.
The US does offer a program like this, which the author referred to, and is the EB-5 program. It requires you to invest $1MM in the US and create 10 jobs ($500k and 10 jobs in economic development zones). You can go from a visa to a green card within 3-4 years after proving your investment and the creating of 10 jobs.
Fancy a cup of tea?
I would hesitate a great deal before entering an argument with either Larry Wasserman or Eliezer Yudkowsky, but here goes.

You're right that if, for whatever reason, someone is fascinated by "coverage" then confidence intervals will answer their questions better than Bayesian posteriors. But I think Eliezer's right that there's something very wrong with thinking that "coverage" in this sense is what matters.

Let's consider your example again. In what circumstances is the following actually a useful problem to solve? "Given an observation of one thing from a box, tell me a set of box-types in such a way that for each box-type you'll choose a set including the right one at least 70% of the time."

I can think of some. For example: a mad scientist starts sending you boxes, with instructions to start guessing; he's going to monitor your results on each box-type and if he sees you getting any type of box wrong more than about 30% of the time he'll kill you. Otherwise he'll reward you for nominating fewer box-types each time. But (1) that's a desperately contrived situation and (2) the most diehard Bayesian, in that situation, will produce something like "confidence intervals" because that's what Bayesian decision theory says to do.

Is there any not-so-contrived situation where the problem solved by confidence intervals is actually an important one?

By the way, my best guess about the Rule / Theorem thing is that he's distinguishing between a theorem about conditional probabilities, and a normative rule saying "when you get new information, update your beliefs like so".
Reversing on Windows: An Attempt to Make a Read Access Violation Exploitable
On Fit and Emotional Problem Solving
> I don't think he was focusing on the software aspect, as much as the business aspect.

You're exactly right. We don't really know much of the software side anyway, aside from little details like that it was not adequately tested. I'd be thinking the same thing if a similar failure had happened in any area of Romney's campaign, it just so happens that software failure is 1) what happened and 2) is what gets discussed on HN.
Regarding the flotilla debacle, Israel offered to have the ships dock at Israeli ports, inspect the cargo, and transfer any legitimate aid through the land crossings.

The flotilla organizers refused this offer. Their purpose was not to deliver humanitarian aid, but to cause a spectacle drawing attention to the security restrictions imposed on the Strip.

Once the flotilla was diverted and the contents were unloaded and placed on Israeli trucks to be transferred to the Gaza Strip, Hamas refused to accept it. This humanitarian aid was apparently so urgently needed that Hamas decided they didn't want to lose face by accepting it.
I was really impressed by your app.

I have travelled a lot in the past and this would have been great for keeping people up to date (especially facebookless elderly relatives).

With this in mind, I think you should do away with the free option and up your premium price.

Edit: younger backpackers go travelling for long periods of time, their parents would think nothing of shelling out $5 /month to be kept in the loop!
If i remember correctly, Ryan Carson has publicly said he doesnt want to sell either, he's said he'd happily run the company for the rest of his life.

[Source] http://vimeo.com/47271938
> He was running his campaign as if it was a business that he was trying to wring dry

That's how the law stipulates the campaigns should be run. Money raised for the campaign can go only towards the campaign.

Which means you cannot spend on anything not directly attributable to the campaign (and politicians have been prosecuted for trying to direct that money elsewhere).

It also means you cannot accrue any new expenses on the day after the campaign is over, previous obligations aside.
Bravo.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
> I would not hold up South Korea as being exemplary in anything particular but they're trying hard to make it work.

I think that, their history of dictatorships set aside, South Korea's economic success should be lauded. I can't think of a single other country that has grown so quickly in such a short period of time, despite the odds being against them.

They have little in the way of natural resources, and are a small country. After more than a millennium of being ruled by a backwards monarchy, followed by 36 years of brutal colonization by the Japanese, followed by a horrific proxy war between the US and the Soviets that split the country in two and left it poorer than India and Sub-Saharan Africa, followed by a series of brutal dictatorships, they have managed to become a developed nation with a democratic government. Korean "chaebols" (multinationals), such as Samsung, Hyundai, and LG, have gained worldwide renown, and Korean cultural power abroad (particularly in the rest of Asia) is growing rapidly with each passing year[0].

They certainly received outside help and a lucky confluence of incidents in the global economy, but they have to be given credit for seizing the opportunity. Take a look at this blog post[1] for more info.

There are undoubtedly a lot of issues with Korean society, such as discrimination against women, discrimination against foreigners, really messed up schooling that make students work too hard and crushes their creativity, critical thinking abilities, and individualism (no matter what Obama says about SK's educational system), a general societal tendency towards groupthink, and corruption. But that doesn't invalidate what they've achieved.

0: http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/18/3516562/k-pop-invades-ame...

1: http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2011/02/is-koreas-economy-ove...
The actual code generator I haven't published because it was kind of a pile of crap. I created bindings to libclang as well here but haven't finished rewriting a more generalized code generator from it https://github.com/Benvie/node-clang/blob/master/bindings.js
This Apple Store Employee Better Watch His Back
Wow terrific feedback, definitely appreciated!

1) Login with Google is just a way to make it simpler for us for an MVP (and as you note we need the photos as we don't have a direct photo upload in this product just yet).

2) The graph is a reflection of intensity of the story (basically the more photos you take, the more interesting stuff is going on around you) and it gives you a time context for how things went.

We will definitely add an explanation in the interface.

3) What kind of customization do you mean? Structural (move things around) or cosmetic (colors, etc).
Basically the graph is firstly a navigation tool. You click on the event names to move to that moment in all the views of the app (album photo grid/large photo view/album edit mode).

4) The map widget starts centered in Slovakia (center of Europe) for non-geotagged photos. This does not mean that the location was assigned to the album, it is just how the widget renders. (Does it look like we automatically assign the position? Any idea on how the map widget could look to avoid this confusion?)

For geotagged we are of course working on using this information (it is no there yet).

5) It is all about the context (graph - time context, info boxes - POI in the area or related concepts).

6) The problem with empty space in the timeline is that once you start 'stretching' and 'compressing' it, the time axis will stop being homogeneous which sort of ruins the effect of 'at-a-glance' time awareness.
If there was a big block of down-time on the holiday, why do you want to mask it by covering the gap in the graph? The representation loses faithfulness that way. But maybe a faithful representation is not that desired here, hmm :-D
No way the battery's going to last as long as an iPad...
I just read up on this. It works if you have that much capital at the start but what if you don't? What is the alternative for say people, who are fresh out of school and have a bunch of ideas and might in 3-4 years time create value and jobs worth that number or even twice it.
Can we all please get over this ridiculous idea that we are perfectly rational agents in some free-market meritocratic utopia? People are irrational, biased, accident-prone, living things. That alone precludes unbiased judgements of another person's "merit".

I mean, come on. We're programmers. We have jobs because of how much people screw up.
There's also an Arch PKGBUILD on AUR for anyone using Arch. Seems to work on my 64-bit Arch installation.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/netflix-desktop-bin/
A diverse population doesn't necessary mean different skin colors. In this case diversity, to me, would mean people that work on different technologies, proprietary vs open-source, web/mobile/enterprise etc, small studios vs big co vs freelancers; it's a software conference. I don't give a damn what a speaker looks like, and also don't have any reason to assume they share anything besides being british and liking Ruby. And what about women, why did nobody complain?

I do support pro-activity measures in education/work, but I don't think being conscious (or "pro-active") about inequality all the time does much good for equality either.
It is hardly an improvement to have centralized micromanagement instead of getting whatever serves their needs.
Consider two things:

1) The country is extremely divided culturally and politically. I think Romney was correct that there was a very significant percentage of people who would have never voted for him but by that token, there was another significant percentage of people who would have never voted against him. So the percentages in play were small. The best outcome for either candidate was a win that would look small.

2) By the conventional wisdom, the election was Romney's to lose. Running against a president in an economy which is in serious bad shape usually is a great position to be in. In that small group of undecides, Romney should have been doing well.

So I think one could argue that losing by 2% instead of winning by 2% might really be a pathetic fumble, a complete wipe-out given Romney's position when campaign season began.
You are correct. From the article:

"Shawn and Stephanie Grimes’s efforts have cost $200,000 in lost income and savings"
Sure, but the party could contract with a consulting group, which could take on the winner as a client.

It is all the same people circulating between the parties and the campaigns and the consultancies and the PACs.
I am confused: Is there a reason why those _shouldn't_ be startups? If there is a reasonably baseline of jobs, $J being created in a certain reasonably timeframe, $T, with a certain amount of equity, $D being generated. Why should the U.S. government have an issue with how cool or fancy your startup is?
Let's say it takes them another 2 years to release the "good" version. What happens if over the next 18 months more and more people learn they don't need full computers and happily adopt iPads and Android?

At that point their sales are declining as people move off desktops, and they face the much higher bar of having to convince people not only to buy computers with their new OS but drop their investment in other platforms (such as apps purchased).

At some point they won't be able to count on their market still being there by the time they have an OS people want.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but men and women are not that far apart. We are all humans who love solving problems.

The ratio of men graduating with CS degrees to women is around 8:1 or 9:1. Do you honestly believe that our genetics are that different?

>> Given this, I'm not sure how you can claim that it's everybody's responsibility to push for more female coders.

Ok, since we can't prove identical dispositions and--who knows? maybe women are 8 times more unlikely to want to solve computer science problems--let's just disregard the imbalance and do nothing. Is that your philosophy?

[1] http://www.cra.org/uploads/documents/resources/taulbee/CS_De...
Do you think you will get a person to lean more towards a no than a yes if you follow up too many times and force them to make a decision? But I must say, following up 37 times is impressive!
Cisco Acquires Meraki For $1.2 Billion In Cash
We are aware of iPhoto thanks :) myStorify is based on a research that has been going on for about 2 years, so it is just unfortunate timing.. We try to push automation of the event segmentation (clustering) and couple other features like collaborative authoring of albums and a cool search (e.g. try searching for 'summer', 'switzerland', 'michal alena').
I don't know how they achieve it, but this Quartz website works perfectly in Lynx, yet all I get in Chrome is a blank screen and a loading spinner.

Sorry for being off topic, but it infuriates me when people screw up the web this much.
Depending on the meaning of "need" you may be correct -- at least, I'm having a hard time imagining a task which can only be performed on a retina display. However, for most people I think the display will serve as the primary source of output from their digital device, and I think it makes a lot of sense to improve it as much as possible. Even if it's only for an improved user experience and not any strict requirement, I think it's beneficial. After all, if computers still had the user experience quality that they had in the 80s they probably wouldn't be so common place today.
Heh, did you copy paste "significant... " or did you retype the whole phrase by hand and then forget to change the preposition?
I don't know if you're serious or not but I'll give you a nudge in the right direction for finding out what Firefox OS is: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefoxos/
> Won't solve the three problems you listed, but saves you the trouble of installing your own personal root across your devices.

They why respond? You're missing the point about requiring an IPv4 addy for each cert. That's the big issue.