skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about tapping into the local universities around you ? Plenty of universities nowadays teach intro-level courses in machine learning. Someone who has gone through such courses would know more than enough to satisfy your needs. I'd love to help, but I'm not based in Amsterdam :)

Failing that, there're always online resources to turn into. I highly recommend this https://class.coursera.org/ml/lecture/preview. This is how I got started with machine learning too. It's not hard to hack together a basic recommendation system quickly ... although for the long term, you might need a dedicated person to work on it since providing good recommendations on favourites seems to be your core value proposition.
The risks of the high wire act, the vertical mountain wall climbing is that you can fall. We need to think up workable nets and ropes for people pushing the edges.
Silicon Valley greed in the long and short term
If you think AAP hacks give a flying fig about the uber-politics of global news, wait until you meet one.

Mostly they're interested in filling their daily quota of pap. And scamming free feeds, every time I've ever dealt with AAP journos the subject of lunch or dinner at my expense has somehow come up.
One more free video to the Introduction to Kendo UI Course
Saying 'I might run for the Senate' is different to the announcement of a federal election and then confirming that yes, he definitely will run.

If you don't think that's newsworthy, aaaaah, you're nuts.
Zynga’s chief game designer, Brian Reynolds, resigns
I agree. Elon Musk is amazing, but I doubt he has the time to review the battery design of everything manufactured in the entire Universe so that he can warn about design flaws.

On the other hand, if your kid sticks a fork in a electrical socket, anyone can say, "you really should have bought covers for your sockets". Does that really add anything to the conversation? Sometimes the incident itself make the previously underlying flaw so apparent that the armchair commentary and criticisms (which in the Boeding case seem to obvious in retrospect to all EE professors) almost provide no real value.
Is your ergonomic desk trying to kill you?
I appreciate the humour, but he's running for Senate, not Parliament :)
Why not charge more to account for that 5% overhead, FCC certification, etc. ?
Sorry… it's HN, it brings out the finest pedantry in me.
400k subscribing users is a great big pile of cash to work with.
I was thinking the same thing. Setting up his own Wikileaks party would be a division of resources.
I think focussing on the Senate run as an effort to avoid extradition is missing the point.

It's two things. One is to actually try and do some good via a spot in the Senate. Cynicism might tell you that's not right/too simple. Ignore that feeling. Some people do actually have ideals.

Secondly, it's a bit of good old shit-stirring. Certainly something we need in Australian politics.
Australia does not have immunity for Parliamentarians.

Immunity is mostly a feature of countries with fully separated powers.

In fused Parliamentary systems it makes less sense to worry about the infringements of the Executive upon the Legislative, because the Executive is subsidiary to the Legislative.
Say what you will about the old BIOS systems but at least it worked and everyone understood it. EFI/uEFI seems to be a big clusterfuck.
That case is already addressed by ram-air turbines on many aircraft, including some from Boeing: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_air_turbine
Yep, there were images of him receiving a posted package containing a GPS & a camera a week or two ago: https://twitter.com/bitnk
> "Hey, here comes a request, let me generate a page just for you"

In a blogging context, stuff like Wordpress where pages are generated per request, then cached to handle any form of serious load just rubs me the wrong way... Such an infrastructure to display a few pages seems ludicrous.

> The default would be to bake out static resources when data changes, and you'd want to automatically track all of the data flows and dependencies within the application. So when your user submits a change, or your cron picks up new data from the FEC, or when your editor hits "publish", all of the bits that need to be updated get generated right then.

... so this is exactly what my WIP custom blog engine (ultimately meant to replace my posterous blog) looks like, initially composed of markdown source and makefiles, then ramped up to some rake tasks and a ruby library. An entity change (edit post, add comment...) should trigger generation of each page referencing it exactly once, and possibly immediately.
Ask PG: 'Unknown or expired link' - What's the story?
> Guilty or not he should stand trial.

If there weren't a lot of major governments that really really want to get him, so that he could be guaranteed a fair trial, then of course he should stand trial.
Lessons for Entrepreneurs in Rubble of a Collapsed Deal
Downplaying burnout of mixing burnouts with boredom, or exhaustion gives the wrong impression. Most people that think they had some kind of burnout if they are not motivated or exhausted is plain wrong.

If you had serious depression going with your exhaustion at least, you might have had burn out.

The trivialization of burnout is damaging to the victims of burnout.
Most Unexpected A/B Test Results and What Could Cause Them
Running A/B split test experiments is not only a useful exercise to help you increase conversion rates but it can also be quite fun. Especially when your experiment shows some unexpected results. What could be the most unusual surprises?
Generally sympathetic to this point of view, but Lockheed/Boeing actually started this war by publicly calling SpaceX's tech into question. From Dec. 18 2012:

http://go.bloomberg.com/political-capital/2012-12-18/musk-vs...

The Lockheed-Boeing venture, United Launch Alliance, has
launched “hundreds of billions of dollars” of satellites
on 66 consecutive missions, said Robert Stevens,
Lockheed’s chairman and chief executive officer.

“I’m hugely pleased with 66 in a row from ULA, and I don’t
know the record of SpaceX yet,” Stevens said at a Dec. 14
Bloomberg Government breakfast in Washington. “Two in a
row?

A public statement like that probably means that both Lockheed and Boeing have been beating up on SpaceX as "risky" behind closed doors for a while. Musk saw an opportunity to turn the tables and took it, first by offering to "help" on Twitter and then via these comments. This is separate from the technical issue at stake, but looks like Musk may not have started this particular fight. Moreover, given that SpaceX and Boeing are going to head-to-head, it is likely that Musk/SpaceX has now made a fairly detailed study of Boeing's batteries to make their case in subsequent competitive launch bids.
On moving the game to a beefier server: “This is the machine that systems get reinforced on when players request that. Unfortunately, the same thing above applies – anyone in the system when the move happens gets disconnected. Because of this, it’s basically never done,”

It seems like a fairly small addition to the game logic to allow the game to freeze for a few seconds and be forcibly moved to another server. Is this kind of scenario so rare that it's not worth the trouble, or am I missing something else?
Google unveils detailed North Korea map with Gulags
Translation: the auto industry tried to attack Nader's reputation after he embarrassed them with his devastating report on the Corvair.
A key thing you get in college is access to people who know the topology of your field. It is a routine recommendation to start with TAPL. A map is invaluable in order to limit backtracking or dead ends.

==Very good point.
I think the ST author subscribes to the "you need to pay money if I upgrade the major version number"
Meh, the greens are a gimmick party. Even the democrats were a gimmick party - their slogan was for a long time not even about their own party ('keep the bastards honest'). I'd much rather the Sex Party get the last senate seat than the DLP (who nabbed it in Vic last time around).

Pretty much any party that hasn't had a serious go in power is a gimmick party, simply due to lack of experience.
The "intent to reside" requirement is in S94A, which limits who can apply to the Electoral Commissioner to be enrolled. But that's not the same thing as "qualified to become such an elector", which is governed only by S93 - basically you just need to be an Australian citizen over the age of 18 who isn't insane or been convicted of treason.
I felt pretty violated when I ran it against some of my code and it told me how hard it sucked.
Does it compared to VIM? Or compared to what? Edlin? cat "myline" >> MyFile.py ?
That's because it's a lot harder to fuck up a few kilobytes of assembly than it is to fuck up several MB of bootloaders, device drivers, filesystem drivers, code signature verification, etc, etc, all of which are required for a complete EFI implementation.

What we are seeing here is solid evidence of the fact that software is hard - and a lot of companies just don't have the chops to do a good job. Somehow I doubt the Surface Pro would have bugs anything like this, for example.
Game that makes you become addict of a game.
Life is one big addiction spanned across multiple treads of what we enjoy.

When we encounter a statement that says something you enjoy is bad and is addiction, and should be get rid of, we either fall into denial, ignore statement or find something else to be addicted. Or have some other way to overcome this imaginary wall set by society.

Someone just gets addicted on fighting addictions :D
"all" is tricky, there isn't a standard command on all computers to list the contents of a file, let alone edit. But even my WRT54G has vi installed on it, and you can expect to find emacs and vim on almost any *nix.
Down with magic strings
It's not a problem because there's no way he'd get in. Even people sympathetic to him as a person would think he'd be incredibly ineffectual - a literally absent senator.

And yes, we have extradition treaties with the US - a few years ago, we dutifully handed over a hacker who had never set foot in US soil, because his activities were harming US profits somewhere.

EDIT: It reminds me of a Mad Magazine gag: One of the good things about being a senator is that you get to use the title The Honourable right up until they throw you in jail for all the things you did.
How much of your course load would you say was directly related to programming topics, not CS? It is not so much a question of you not learning programming skills in the program, so much as what it would take to learn the same outside of the program. One software engineering class and a bunch of practice doesn't seem particularly difficult to catch up on, and even surpass, in the same time frame if you place your focus squarely on that topic.
> can't seriously argue that someone who is accused of rape should just be set free like that

If there's no substance to the allegations, yes, the person accused should absolutely just be set free like that. This is obvious.
There aren't any hard-coded limits, and you can do things like make recursive functions with unique local variables at each call. We have a JS SDK for custom code too: https://www.scirra.com/manual/15/sdk
This is a very good point. Both my grandfathers passed away when I was young (i.e. before I took any important exams), whereas both my grandmothers are still alive and kicking.
Awesome stuff! Ditto the comments that the biggest challenge will be getting your name out there. Depending on your focus and bandwidth, the DIY approach of Lockitron may work, or you may wish to just go Indiegogo/KS and focus on the promotion side yourself and let someone else handle the payment plumbing. You'll have to promote either way.
John Locke on Ideas
It certainly is with people like the author dropping the dime.
At first, I was surprised by this. If IBM wants to use 100% IBM developed and owned open source code, then the licence of the original project is irrelevant.

However, the use of a copyleft licence for the project leaves open the possibility that it includes code from a copyleft project authored by someone else.

Was the point of the approval process to ensure that contributions had not come from anywhere other than IBM?
Can you ever really delete yourself from the Internet?
Anybody know if there are similar shortcuts in Firefox as well?
I guess Surface Pro will be locked down via Secure Boot and won't ever boot Linux unless jailbroken. Whether that's inherently better is probably another question.
Why? Are both too much to ask?
Looks like you have a lot of writes going on there. Look at the wkB/sec! Massive. Almost no reads at all.

Why so many writes? Have you got a lot of small updates and inserts going on? Have you split the transaction log from the data files, preferably on a different disk?

Also, put that slow performance logging on a separate disk. In fact, try to turn it off. It can have a performance penalty in its own right!

If you want best bang for buck, and you want RAID, it's normally recommended to use RAID 10 (or otherwise known as RAID 1+0). Basically it stripes the data, and then mirrors those stripes. It's the most reliable option.

Whatever you do, do NOT use RAID 5, it's just overhead and you telly gain very little in a disk crash due to often lengthy rebuild times.

Good luck!
You're just redefining "gimmick" to suit your argument. I don't consider minor and microparties to be gimmicks because they don't get many votes.

I consider them gimmicks if they use a gimmicky tactic to garner votes.

I consider the Sex Party to be a gimmick. Because teehee, Sex Party, get it?

We are talking about the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, not the sort of suburban football club or undergraduate student union for which such puerile names are appropriate.

And it really irks me that gimmick parties deprive other micros of the tiny amount of attention they get.
It would be much more useful if you could select where the snapshot focuses in and the zoom level.

Still made me smile very much.
I believe only one, Bobby Sands, was elected to Parliament. The government quickly introduced the Representation of the People Act (1981)[1], to prevent prisoners serving terms longer than a year from being nominated/elected in the future.

[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_of_the_People_Act_1981
Online is terrible. In print and on the iPad it is far better.

But I fear for Fairfax when the Guardian officially launches:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/australia
I'm not so sure about the latter. They already do and the results are horrible. And I see very little signs of that they actually understand design just by doing it.
"Check out Google’s removal request tool: It allows you to ask Google to remove search results or cached content."

That the OP even suggests this without reservation indicates she doesn't have a clue about the topic.
All while keeping in mind that employees, managers and
executives have day jobs – so how could we ask them to
spend significant time on new ideas while not sacrificing
their present obligations?

Good to hear this acknowledged, but I didn't notice from the article what they did to address this problem?
GuessNumber - Developing a JSF (Java Server Faces) application
New, smaller Apple TV features A5X processor, iPhone 5′s Broadcom BCM4334 chip
Perfect Solution Fallacy [1]?

I agree that helping 15000 people is better than helping none. My cynicism relates to how the Pis are to be distributed and what can be learned about whether this works in any educationally meaningful sense. If this is an experiment and the [geekiest|nicest|poorest] kid in a school gets a Pi to take home, how do you evaluate the educational outcome?

This announcement also exists within a political context (corporate tax avoidance), and occurred on the same day that Eric Schmidt made public comments about Google not being opposed to a more restrictive corporate tax regime in the UK. If it is a PR move then I don't have much confidence that there will be any follow-through aimed at achieving genuine educational improvements. To do this requires infrastructure and ongoing commitment.

For the record, I have three Pis and I think they are wonderful. My children are going to be using them at home soon and if they had access to them in school too then I would be very pleased.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy#Perfect_solutio...

[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/29/google-tax-...
Why I Miss BASIC
I'm glad this technique has helped for you too. As useful a tool as FB can be, there's really no need for it to permeate every aspect of most peoples' lives, in my opinion :)
Look, I'm all for better laws and such, but most of what constitutes being a hacker (in the HN sense) doesn't even approach illegality. I think it's never been a better time to be a hacker.
Microsoft wants to see primary school computer science teaching in UK
It's a bad time to be a whistleblower too.
The Companies I Should Have Paid More
94A(1)(d) has the same rule: "the person intends to resume residing in Australia not later than 6 years after he or she ceased to reside in Australia."

And the argument would be the same one I outlined above.
Yay! Apple aproved it yesterday (some hours after I made the previous post).

I will launch it on iOS and Android on 8th of feb :)

\o/
> One of the things they talked about was that once one student commits suicide it greatly increases the chances that others will follow.

I've observed this myself. The effects of suicide are insidious but brutal: if you think nobody will be affected you're deluding yourself.
The problem (I believe) is that they don't have a way to 'freeze' and transfer a running game. Think of it like any program -- it is easy to "save your work" and load the file on another computer. It's much harder to exactly save the state of all parts of a running program and transfer that to another computer. Each user is represented by a stackless python program, these are hard to shut down and move.

As you say, it could probably be done, but it would be a lot of work, which wouldn't get used very often.
Composibility of obtaining a value.
Actually my comment there ignored "value" altogether, really. The value is irrelevant.

My point is you can't quantify the value or justify the cost in this way. Surely, a $40,000 Ford Taurus provides more value than the $100,000 broken bike, but that doesn't mean the Ford Taurus is priced appropriately for needs.
Having read chapter 2 of Probability Theory: the Logic of Science by E.T. Jaynes, my probability for the stupidity hypothesis went way, way up. There's probably a heavy status-quo bias at work too.

I mean, many frequentist methods directly contradict Cox theorems! That should convince anyone they belong to History, not Science, doesn't it?
They don't "seem the same", they are exactly the same thing. From the shareholder point of view, they are completely equivalent. The only thing that changes is that if you are completely passive about your holdings, buybacks reward you with a larger stake of the company, while dividends reward you with straight up cash. Either way, you can trade one for the other at market price.

If you think there is something wrong with stock buybacks that is not also wrong about dividends, you are simply confused.
I thought the "day/night" icon was a sideways smile face.
White Nexus 4 Shows Off Its Backside In A New Leaked Pic
I think it is worth noting that in much of the technology sector you can work in SF, and make a SF salary, while existing in Atlanta. This also serves to drive up salaries in the sector across the nation, and even the world.

$100k/year income, $8k/year rent, $20k/year taxes, $72k/year disposable

Outside of tech, where presence matters more, your scenario probably is fairly realistic though.
Upvote here: http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/98149-use-memory-mappe...
It would be interesting if there were more 1-3 year "rotation" positions.

The Silicon Valley (and more so outside) default seems to be "we're hiring you for life", even though the compensation structure (vesting) is set up to encourage no more than 4 years, and in reality more like 1-2 years.

There are a lot of jobs I'd love to take if there were an explicit "accomplish this in 18 months -- if that is successful, you've been successful" -- but where psychologically the idea of "work here forever" would be horrible (even if I intended to quit). VC (EIR focused on security, or some associate type role, ...), politics or activism, turnaround/tech strategy for an existing business in distress, etc.
The allegations have been repeatedly upheld as substantial by multiple jurists and court officers in multiple countries.
A couple things:

1. Being cheaper doesn't mean more sales. I've often times chosen the more expensive option simply because it is more expensive and it has to be better right? If you're cheaper than salesforce, then I view you as an inferior product to salesforce. If you're the same price as salesforce, than you're a salesforce knock off, why not just get the real deal? If you're more expensive than salesforce, oh? Why is that? You're better in x,y,z ways? Perfect. That's exactly what I could use. Offering a lower price works when you view your self as a commodity. You probably don't want to view your SaSS product as a commodity.

2. "I"ll raise prices later" is a bad approach because SOMEONE will have looked at your sales page the day before and now want the old price. Also, if you say, "My real price is xxx, but I'm going to charge xx now", then you also have the added disadvantage of not knowing if you could actually charge xxx later. Furthermore, you might be attracting the wrong types of people via xx pricing, who then mass exodus at xxx, and you would reach the wrong conclusion. You're marketing and pricing brought in a bunch of cheapskates, and yet your revenue would triple by going to xxx, with decreased sales and support costs.
The assumption was correct.

http://www.8newsnow.com/story/20784172/ecomom-co-founder-ceo...
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I am completely and utterly baffled by this statement. Do you realize how many man-years have been spent working around BIOS bugs over the years? Get any kernel developer a drink, then just say the word 'BIOS'; your opinion of UEFI will change pretty rapidly.

I've dealt with kernel dev for BIOS systems, CSM development for UEFI, etc etc. I'll stick with UEFI, even if it does still have some growing pains.
http://www.8newsnow.com/story/20784172/ecomom-co-founder-ceo...
Show HN: PlayCLI: Play Iteratees + UNIX pipe
Show HN: My Development environment
The free version gives access to 1% [1] of all tweets, which seems about right for this.

[1] https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/2752
Ask HN: Is there a simple way to create a comment wall?
I need to create a comment wall for a web app. The kind of wall I´m looking for should include: comment wall, like button and add comment. It should also display the picture of the user that has posted a comment.

Do you know any piece of code available to avoid starting from scratch?

Thanks!
Silicon Valley's Mentoring Gap
If a customer used your code for evil, that means they broke the law, not you.
No, generally not in the timeframe between being notified and the funeral. There may be an announcement in a local newspaper -- local to your deceased relative -- but this is as likely to be after the funeral as before.
Maybe there should be a "most often reposted" section in HN.
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