skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://newspacewatch.com/ - Newspace sector news. Clark Lindsey knows what's going on. If you want to set into context what SpaceX does, this is the place: Usually it's something that other companies have already done on a smaller scale.

http://www.43rumors.com/ - Micro four thirds camera news, only interesting if you have one or are going to buy one.

http://www.greencarcongress.com/ - Automotive sector technologies. This is the engineering style site: just mostly text and more in depth press releases. No fancy word plays or car show girls. I do wonder though, why we are not in a better position as a new massively improved cheap battery technology is discovered every week...

http://planet3.org/ - Climate scientists write thoughtfully. Also in the comments. It's not as massive as realclimate and it's much less formal.
It's biologically possible, but not economically possible. What would convince a couple who don't think they could afford to raise even a single child today suddenly decide that they could afford to raise ten children?
Is it now the mark of the n00b, or something? Or just your own involvement is old?
This post is about using publicly available data to inform public policy.

The author demonstrates how to use R to analyze the data, and he illustrates a "deeply interesting" correlation. (Causation is another question.)

Just because the topic is controversial does not mean that it is not "deeply interesting". From the HN welcome page:

What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches
you about the world. A story about a robbery, for example,
would probably not be deeply interesting. But if this robbery
was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, then perhaps
it could be.

Source: http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
You Are Not Adam Lanza's Mother
GitHubbers Get in the Holiday Spirit
Talk about backing the wrong horse.
Agree that adding an icon on the button is useless, but as I work with developers, I see that it's the way some developers understand UI and UX - adding an icon equals designing! As for the textures, I suggest myself everybody using subtle patterns, but, again, the mistake here is adding an extra alpine background image: the thing I saw several times when developers tried to make efforts in UI, lol! But the good thing is that this topic really makes people react!
This is not a very good "faceoff." I'd expect to see a point-by-point "this feature v. that feature" in order to truthfully call it a "faceoff."
Wow, now there's a high growth market.....NOT!
It's not really evolution, strictly speaking, unless you believe that the choice to avoid using birth control is somehow determined by a person's genes.
Hack the sales/mktg funnel by "Alienating the Non-Prospect"
>So, none of them? Again, never used PL/I, so I can't roll on that one, but I know guys who have been doing FORTRAN since the seventies and that culture and outlook bears little resemblance to the C community. Java's community is not nearly as buttoned-up and business-centric as COBOL's was (even the oh-so-wise "scripting people" aside); COBOL had literally-literally no other significant use case. And PHP, for all its many warts, is viewed as a language you use to ship products, novice or no. Actual products that people use, no less. The first time I can think of BASIC being readily usable for that was in the nineties.

Do I have to repeat that it's not about them being the SAME, but merely an equivalent for the modern era?

The PHP analogy here is the novice targeted/available everywhere/easily run part.

The Java analogy is the enterprisey, business, all serious part.

The C analogy is the made to run fast but too low level and too concerned with control/low level speed over proper abstraction stuff.

Etc etc.
QR codes are probably the greatest example of monkey-see-monkey-do ad spending in the last decade.

I have had large, international clients (you would recognize the brands) ask us to "invent something that uses QR codes" because their competitors use them.

I have seen the results of a campaign that was (and is!) huge in Sweden, involving many regional celebrities, and the total number of QR scans was in the double digits.

QR codes are a link. Plain and simple. Except they're not plain and simple, they're weird and complicated. They take you from one piece of content, which happens to be in real life, to another piece of content, which happens to be online.

And you need to include your URL and instruction text anyway, so it's not really providing a big advantage.

Some advertisers even use them ONLINE! That just baffles me completely.

If all smartphone cameras included QR readers by default, there MIGHT be a chance for them, after a lot of public education. But as it stands now, the incentive has to be huge to get over that initial barrier.

If QR codes really want to succeed they will have to become better than the alternatives: Google + memory, URL + keyboard, etc.
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When did Dell ever try that hard with Android? All these titles make it sound as if they are making a huge business shifting decision. I haven't even heard anything about Dell and Android in like 2 years. I actually thought they gave up on it a long time ago. This sounds like a PR move to make it look as if Windows 8 is "gaining" on Android or something. These PC-to-the-core companies were never serious about making Android devices. They didn't understand it and the devices it had to be on.
Overkill in America
You could answer your own question in 10 minutes by downloading the BB10 emulator.

There's no need to speculate: the answer is no.
They need to lead by example. After all, what do they have to hide?
Probably you won't see this reply, but if you do... we move a decent amount, but not a crazy amount. In the last 30 days it was around 3TB total (through Cloudflare... we only saw about 2/3 of that).
Oh, come on! How old are you (pun intended). I know I'd have been deliriously happy if any of my apps had gotten a write up like this when I had been 13. Even in a local newspaper.

Not that I managed to publish any marketable apps at that age.
I don't understand why they pick this minimal level of sensationalism. I would have written: "New Android exploit makes worldwide thermonuclear war likely. If this hack were installed on a phone that was carrying the nuclear launch codes, then hackers could access them and launch nuclear missiles at the world's largest cities, including New York, Los Angeles, and Pyongyang. Up to 75% of the world's population could die!"
>I would think investors at this level would be capable of retaining their own lawyers and filing lawsuits if they felt cheated.

That'd be a faux pas in this context.

Between two corporations, fine, but to bring in lawyers against Facebook/Instagram in this context would bring a lot of stigma.

Better to let the gov't be your barking dog.
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They print them out.
In FF I just used "View Image" from the right-click menu...
I've very seldom used anything else than a fountain pen. It's so nice and pleasurable!

My older kid is 7 and learned to write last year with a fountain pen. His teacher said it prevents kids from pressing too hard on paper, and helps them develop a nicer writing.
Following Adobe user forum breach, hacker claims he has access to Yahoo servers
Yeah, that's fair and it's something that I've considered.

To be honest, it's the flexibility of Ubuntu's software that I really like. I like having multiple workspaces, and I like having my VPN running so I can access my devices easily.

I realize it's doable on ChromeOS, but I'd rather keep that clean and untouched. It's easy to boot into if I need to. Who knows, after a while, I might change my mind.
This shouldn't be flagged because it could create controversy. The article is not at fault here. Immature postings replying to this article that aren't related to the topic, but to the data used in the example should be flagged instead.

Don't kill a technical article just because the sample data used might whip up feelings in countries where it's a political issue. Science shouldn't back up from things like that.
This is a good point, although as we saw most recently with Petraeus, sometimes an expansive surveillance state can't help but ensnare its own leaders, and this often accidentally leads to its limitations (as a bill requiring warrants for emails is now making its way through the Senate)
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I think backing Windows 8 is a smart move.

Why? If Dell can make a good-quality hybrid, I'm sure people will buy it. Windows 8 is a great OS for hybrid devices.
Ask HN: Are there any remote internship opportunities?
I am a CS student from Athens, Greece. It's this time of my life that I must get into a demanding and high throughtput work environment with lots of learning opportunities (aka internship). Unfortunately good internship opportunities in Greece (I cant speak for other countries) are very rare. Especialy for modern technologies like Rails etc (lack of a mature startup ecosystem).

Are there any Ruby/Rails startups willing to accept remote interns/apprentices? If yes please include email to send CV/Motivation letter. I guesss a lot of people (including me) would really love working for a startup (especialy one that is using our favorite programming languages, tools etc.) . Additionaly I think that such opportunities would benefit both sides as well as the general local ecosystem (eg. more experienced people in Greece).

PS. This question is for both paid and unpaid internships.
There's a few ways to get by without Chef or Puppet. Once your dev environment is set up you can run "vagrant package" and redistribute the vm with your modifications.

You could also use shell provisioner instead.
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I've taken courses from people in a few of these overlapping but historically-different camps recently, e.g.:

- Frequentist statisticians
- Bayesian statisticians
- Old-school AI researchers
- Statistical learning theorists
- Bayesian machine learners
- Engineers working on optimisation with noisy data
- Information retrieval folks
- ...

I'm really keen to see these guys starting to talk to each other and unify more of what they're doing around statistics (Bayesian and frequentist, parametric and non-parametric, generative and discriminative) as the common language and framework. Hopefully expanding the horizons of statistics a bit as a field in the process.

I imagine it'll take a while longer though, and some of the differences in terminology and talking-past-each-other can be a bit maddening in the mean time for those learning. What would be really nice would be a course offering a broad, well-rounded introduction to the various different philosophies to modelling data, their histories, interactions and overlaps, differing goals, strengths and weaknesses. It can be hard to get a sense of this when most introductory courses are taught by someone who's implicitly from one camp or another, even if (as is usually the case) they're not overly ideological about it.

One criticism of (some, not all!) statisticians is that they can seem to have a strange and rather limiting fear of computation which leads them to give undue preference to computationally simple models, even when the dataset isn't big enough to make compute time an issue.

I can see an argument for pedagogical reasons why one would rather not teach (or learn!) the details of fiddly optimisation algorithms -- but having a basic literacy in optimisation can free you up to treat the algorithm for optimising your objective as a black box to some extent. Feeling less "guilty" about this (whether the compute time itself, or remembering all the details of the optimisation algorithm) can be quite freeing in allowing you to think about the modelling itself in a more powerful, modular framework. This seems to be where machine learning has gotten a big advantage.

On the other hand machine learners can be frustrating in the way they reinvent statistical terminology and methods. Also in a gratuitous tendency to skip the modelling stage and go straight to inventing different objective functions to optimise, or even straight to the algorithms. Leading to opaque black-box methods which (due to the lack of probabilistic motivation) make it harder to reason about uncertainty in a principled way.

With the increasing popularity of Bayesian machine learning I think this is less of an issue though, it's bridging the gap between the two camps. One can also find a lot of more modern ML research using Statistical Learning Theory as a nice framework for principled frequentist analysis of their models.
The most common term is "stabbing", e.g. "stabbings are up 25% this year."
It seems that Nintendo 3DS was really hacked
If you want to get more context follow http://gbatemp.net/threads/ozmodchips-posts-we-hacked-it-ima... or http://forums.ngemu.com/showthread.php?t=154198
If you don't remember it later, you probably weren't motivated enough to do the QR code in the first place.
I stand corrected. I tried for a fourth time, and apparently, after chmodding you need to wait for a minute or two. After that if you open the camera app, there is a black screen, exactly as you described.

EDIT - I still don't understand. The camera seems to be completely controlled by black magic. I have not recorded, but opening/closing the camera, then changing the permissions seems to allow you to continue using the camera app even with (0600).
My understanding was that MBTI is the most valid of these type of tests, if not MBTI then what should organisations be using? Include links if you have them?

Also I can't see a test which includes a negative factor such that there is a 'wrong way' to complete it and hence risk potential workplace repercussions as a valid replacement.

Further I'm sure each big consulting firm has a version which is no more valid than MBTI.
I just posted the 'news' because, now the source are the guys into the 3DS scene.
I have to say, I think asking someone as deeply depressed as the OP to find the perspective to hear the stories of struggle amid the trumpeting of success is asking an awful lot. That's tough for anyone to do, never mind someone who is struggling from a severe lack of perspective in the first place.
I have to admit my first reaction was "Dell made Android devices?"
The person that submitted this (mangoleaf) is the father of the boy in the story so I assume he knows more than the article mentions.
The big news is: dell has made phones???
Cultural evolution? Cultures certainly behave like organisms. A culture of birth control could easily get out of hand and exterminate the group the espoused it. E.g. Shakers.
According to the Nature of Things, one in every 100,000. Considering how few tigers there are on the planet (less than 50,000) the chances of one naturally occurring are extremely small.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. The "us" is the father [me] and son [13yo in article]. HN has been HUGE in his development. We are forever grateful to everyone here in HN.
Wow. Got a lot of minus points for stating that I'm not a fan. Guess I should've elaborated.

Perhaps I should've spoken about how I think half an hour is cutting it a bit tight.

Perhaps I should've mentioned that the background-image idea isn't too smart, as it leaves too much room for erring with non-fitting imagery. That's part of what designers do: they know what fits together - you shouldn't expect programmers to be able to do that. And if you're really set on educating programmers, maybe talk about the background-image's colors, composition or contrast. Or maybe suggest a totally blurred image or something gimmicky that will make it an "instant hit".

Perhaps I should've mentioned that making bootstrap not look like bootstrap in half an hour, inevitably means that you're going to end up with a lesser product. Bootstrap has been designed from the bottom up. You either use that and it's default features, or end up with a hybrid that looks like you "tried to make a half-decent site in half an hour".

But thanks for the rage points there. I wonder if I could make up some points by posting "I'm a fan" elsewhere.
My end-of-the-year review about Google's Vulnerability Reward Program
If Systrom had an offer from Twitter on the table for an amount close to Facebook's offer, the state might view it as opportune to make Twitter and Facebook compete for the company, increasing the return for the investors (whose interest they are representing). If he ignored the Twitter offer but took the Facebook offer due to some personal gain, the state will have a problem with that if it wasn't disclosed to investors. The article discusses that near the end. The entire purchase was shaky -- remember the bit about Zuckerberg not talking to his board? -- so I suspect this isn't the last we'll hear of regulators poking around.

This regulation, which applies to all corporations everywhere, is there to protect investors from being swindled by executives. Without it, we'd have a very different corporate landscape. I don't know if it'd be better or worse, but it'd be very different.
It doesn't even have to be attractive. It just has to be less oppressive than the religious culture.
You can email me if you like.

I would encourage you to seek out nondrug alternatives and gradually reduce the number/amounts of meds. My personal firsthand experience with therapy is that it can be useful for insight but won't likely cure what ails you. You need people in your life who genuinely care about you. You cannot pay someone to genuinely care. That may be why therapy isn't helping: You weren't loved/cared about as a kid and your therapist is unlikely to care enough to take that pain away. There is only so much progress you can make based on intellectual insight.

Best of luck, whatever you decide.
The "original" Galaxy S devices (I9000, Epic 4G, Vibrant, Captivate, Fascinate, and Mesmerize), which also use the Exynos processor, are not affected for some reason.
The angel offer came from a retired CEO of a public company that saw the article. I posted that as the first comment, but there is no way to make that comment sticky to the top. I see it below.
oh, I see, I have no idea how I read it the other way around. I thought the pitch was that HN had introduced these things to the world and now HN had introduced your sons app to the world. woops.
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I was a little bit afraid to read this one. I've glanced at some of the functional patterns in the STL — function objects, ugh — and come away shaking my head.

But despite my problems with C++ and/or the STL, I really appreciated this piece. The author seems to know his stuff pretty well, as there are references to Haskell, monoids, laziness, as well as a brief discussion of performance.

It's probably too much to hope that this will win terribly many converts, but hey, what do I know?
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Two things:

1) If you need a central name directory to point to the locations of various services, we already have DNS and DNS-SD.

2) I've been investigating mDNS+DNS-SD (a.k.a. Bonjour, a.k.a. Avahi) as a potential solution. One can advertise ØMQ sockets at the host and link-local level, potentially with forwarding between subnets if you're inclined to configure it that way.

However, be warned that you shouldn't expose ØMQ sockets over non-trusted networks. It's still possible to induce bad errors (including aborts and segfaults) by sending malformed data to an open ØMQ socket.
Apple takes investors on a wild ride
“It’s a content play with Android”. “Amazon is selling books and Google is making it up with search. So far we couldn’t find a way to build a business on Android.”

Yet, Samsung seems to be doing just fine.
No.

This is just some random person with no knowledge of cryptography making up a set of nonsensical abbreviations to might fit the ciphertext. It's no more likely to the the answer than any other random guess.

It's embarrassing that anyone is taking this seriously.
Not exciting. I'll wait for my Jolla communicator.
The founder has stated that he doesn't want to see it used for military purposes.
Any chance of a blog post on how this was made? the buts and bolts lets say. Been thinking about an idea like this for my beloved football (not soccer!!!)
You must not play fantasy...
Use connect middleware and small, focused, interoperable modules instead of a "do-it-all" framework.

I would recommend starting with Connect and using middleware specific to your needs.

http://www.senchalabs.org/connect/

As far as frameworks go, Express is stable, tested, fast and the perfect level of abstraction.
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The board and executives work for the shareholders. They are required to maximize shareholder value, and taking a lower offer for personal gain is illegal. That is the concern here.

That said, it's hard to have sympathy for investors in a company that flipped for $750M in under two years.
On the other hand, you don't want to be the guy who let in a person who then goes on to commit an act of terrorism(or any crime, really). With that in mind, I can understand the guard airing on the side of caution, even if it is a bit ridiculous in this case.
Hacker News

If it's good enough it will make it's way on here. If not, there's no point in me repeatedly checking their site or collecting it into a big RSS dump where I have to wade through 99% crap to get to the good bits.

Hacker News does a great job of giving me the HREFs I like to click on and that's one of the reasons I keep coming back.
I don't. It makes a lot more sense now. Bold might be nice still
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What this misses is that for many mental illnesses, is that the connection between actions and consequences is broken. My brother had EXTREME issues with oppositional defiance disorder and ADHD growing up. I can guarantee you my parents made sure there were consequences, but it doesn't matter. They simply can't connect the actions they're taking in that moment to the consequences they will receive afterwards.
Perhaps the solution is to tell the mourners that we live in a terrible world, and you'll have to grow a thick skin. The best we can do is warn the mourners that mentally ill people are coming to laugh at your tragedy.
No, actually we didn't.. But it's certainly a great site. Looks really nice. But, as I said to someone else, it's quite one-dimensional - as it only offers "hearts" (upvotes). There's no granularity in the rating scale. We offer up- and down-votes, in addition to a 0-10 scale. I think that's quite important for a social list site.
I think for most people there's a lot of reflection, conscious or subconscious, that leads up to a "sudden moment of clarity" and a great deal of consolidation work that follows. It's hard to tell the complete story of accepting a simple fact that you've been resisting for a long time. When I read something like this, I don't think, "Yeah, right," I think, "How would this have played out for me?" The story would have been long, boring, pathetic, off-putting, and embarrassing. Which may be why these things are always presented as sudden moments of clarity, though I'm open to the possibility that other people actually experience them that way.

The point I take away is not the instantaneous nature of his insight but _what_ he realized: that the consequences of his vices would become more and more serious, and that he didn't want to pay the price. (The discovery of empathy, I think, was a side effect. People are generally emotionally blind to the side effects of behaviors they have no intention of stopping.)
Thank you for posting this. As someone going on Paxil (day 5) and struggling with intense anxiety/depression every morning, I really appreciated reading someone else's experience.
Very cool--I'm jealous of what a great environment teenagers have for programming today. When I was 13 I was hacking up QBasic games I downloaded from local bulletin boards. A teenager today can publish Android apps to impress their friends and make some spending money!