skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird - doesn't for me, just asked me if I wanted to search App Store. But kills finder, makes chrome do odd stuff etc.
The increasingly blurry line between Big Data and Big Brother
"Facing 100 years" != "will serve 100 years."
You may be right about pressure, but btown is talking about temperature and that's going to have much worse systematic bias exactly as he says. Your comment and his are nearly completely unrelated.
It's conceptually easier to go through life avoiding brazen bastards than three quarters of humanity.
I don't think the poster implied anything else.
All of the people in that ad were intensely self-critical and none of them changed the world by building apps.
First search on http://jquer.in whether that plugin is already available and then make a plugin.
The biggest thing in flying is not controlling the airplane but understanding that you are in charge and there is no anyone else who can help you. In the story mentioned above (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34/other-other-topics/prop...) the guy explains clearly that he was panicked to death 30 secs after takeoff. And only the presence of the instructor in the plane helped him to continue. A lot of time during the initial training is spent on teaching the student to make decision, take control over the flight and building confidence in student's ability to fly the plane. Flying the simulator is very different from flying real plane simply because in real life there is no "reload" button.
You only think it's unfortunate because you're thinking about a sympathetic defendant. Consider the opposite hypothetical: all those people suing mortgage lenders for predatory loans. A lot of those people are going to lose those cases. Should they get stuck with the mortgage lenders' legal bills?

Losing a (civil) case does not mean the plaintiff was in the wrong for having brought the case. Very often, people legitimately think they've been wronged, they submit the conflict to the courts for resolution, and the courts decide against them. That's why loser pays is the exception, not the rule. It's reserved for when people use the legal system simply to harass someone else, instead of submitting a legitimate grievance the resolution of which just happens to not come out in their favor.
Chinese hackers suspected in attack on Washington Post computers
The title isn't meant for anyone who's account was compromised. Mine was, I got an email. The subject was "Twitter has reset your account password". No beating around the bush there.

I'm not upset, it sounds like they detected it quickly and went out of their way to make sure everyone was not only notified but ensured that their account was safe. 250k users is a very small number of their accounts. A literal drop in the bucket. It sounds to me that they're going after the hackers and I appreciate that.

Was your account compromised?
Bitcasa ends beta. Introduces pricing on Tuesday.
Which studies? I'm a little skeptical that home schooled children have better social skills than kids that attend public school.
New portfolio network for student engineers (built in node.js)
Seelio is a new portfolio network for student builders and doers. On the campuses of MIT, UMich, Carnegie Mellon and more.
There is not one among us who does not stand on the shoulders of giants. Incremental improvements is what makes the world go round.

It makes me think of "Dizzying but Invisible Depth" Google+ post from awhile back. https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/dfydM2Cn...
We leave a large amount of sentencing discretion to judges on purpose, as a check against overreaching legislatures.
> that code could be made yet more compact if written in Groovy

Indeed. It's very hard to read this and not think ... "but this would just be" in Groovy:

[m1,m2]*.keySet().sum().sort().join(",")?:"<none>"

So small that I would rarely even make a separate function for it. I imagine it's much the same in many dynamic languages.
My sister-in-law got one of these too. It came from "facebookmail.com". Anyone know if this is legit?
CBS is majority owned by Sumner Redstone, an ardent Zionist - you knew that, right?
Agree completely. I am a Netflix/Hulu only subscriber and I would gladly pay 3x as much for more content.
The hilarious part is SodaStream costs as much if not more than brand name soda.

Unless you just always pay full price for soda and are too lazy to wait for a sale or think you are above coupons.

Maybe they made a deal with CBS to purposely reject the ad, because that seems like a growing trend - to purposely get rejected so you get attention.
When I took flying lessons the hard part for me wasn't the landing or take off it was straight and level flight.

I would often find myself too high or in a shallow dive or a turn so my instructor would have to mention it to me.

It's not instinctive you'd think you would feel it but you don't. He ended up having to draw a line on the windscreen with a marker where the horizon was. I used the instruments but mainly it was VFR (visual flight rules) only.

My instructor was very hands on one day as we were heading for the runway he said "OK you take control and land." I think on my second lesson onward I took off each time.

Once I was landing trying to beat a small commuter jet (coming from the other direction!) and he said "See that?" Not the jet but I didn't see anything else "That over there, 2 o'clock low." Nope didn't see anything. Then I saw it a big purple hot air balloon a mile or two away very low with evergreen trees behind it so dark it blended in. So there I was my first or second landing with a hot air balloon and a jet both in my way.

The flare is the most important part but flaps and speed too of course but if there is anything to remember it's the flare at the last moment. Stare at the end of the runway aim for it as if you will crash there then at the last moment flare (pull back a bit) and you ride the bubble of air.

I can't see how a flight simulator would have helped at all other than the basics of instruments and the radio, nothing is like the feel of real flight.
It seems to me I had similar concerns when I switched. In particular copy, cut and paste. I ended up using the CUA standard versions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access#Descript.... Although looking back I think the awkwardness had more to do with muscle memory than anything else. I also was concerned when switching to vim. The purpose of using the motion keys h, j, k and l was defeated. I recall there being a dvorak layout for vim but I never switched to it. On the other hand, some of the other commands became much more convenient. Looking back I don't think it has been a big issue. What shortcuts in particular are you concerned with? You could always remap shortcuts using AutoHotKey or some other means. But I'd give muscle memory some time to build up first, unless there are some shortcuts you have found to be extremely inconvenient.
SodaStream tries everything they can to stop people competing with them to refill their gas cylinders or supply competing gas cylinders for use with the equipment they sell, and have largely succeeded, allowing them to sell carbon dioxide at a significant mark up.

For comparison, considering only the cost of obtaining carbonated water, and assuming water is free (since it isn't a significant cost), in New Zealand dollars:

1 L of store bought carbonated water: ~$0.99
1 L of water at the lowest Sodastream carbonation: $0.20
(assuming $12 / 450g of CO2, 450g makes 60L).
1 L of water using market rate food grade CO2: $0.0032
(assuming a 3.5 kg cylinder makes 467 L and costs $15
to fill).

Note that if you do buy a cylinder, there are additional costs (in NZ, a cylinder must have a safety warrant of fitness issued in the last three years to be filled, which costs ~$15 - so that is an additional $5/year to add to the cost of ownership).

This article provides information on the DIY approach:
http://m.popsci.com/diy/article/2012-06/how-make-your-own-ho...
That wasn't the point. The point is, that if you are crazy enough to do what you enjoy, it doesn't matter. Because you will push the Human Race Forward.
"Each participating Class Member who submits a valid and timely claim form may be eligible to receive up to $10."

I got one of those mails to, but for $10 filling out the form is way too much effort.
Even if the canisters were disposed instead of reused, recycling metals is ridiculously efficient.
Your wrong. Richard Branson first business was an App. An App for selling Audio Records in 1970.
http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/01/28/facebook-suit-se...
And it's "up to $10". Totally not worth it.
I think I now understand why the naivety of a high school student is a good thing. Wish I could go back to those days.
Twitter employee, here. At one point in time, auto_increment_increment was > 1 on the MySQL master for uid generation. This led to many holes in the uid range.
Seems like Swedish economy has significantly better longer term prospects than Norway's (because it is based on replenishable exports, while Norway's on natural resources)

However both, and most of the other 'Nordic' economies are export oriented. Meaning that they depend on having negative trade surplus somewhere in the global economy

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

This is why their model (including taxation and welfare systems) are not applicable to places like US.

Actually, trade deficit that cannot be easily (and organically) 'corrected' by sudden jump of exports (typically means natural resources, arms or food) -- is rather catastrophic for economic stability.

US was able to maintain its economic stability since late 70s (this when US trade deficit started) -- by continuing making the USD a reserve currency but now without the gold standard.

Being the country controlling the value of the world's reserve currency puts US in a place - that simply cannot be compared with any other country in the world.
I was curious about that, but `whois facebookmail.com` shows Facebook's nameservers for it, which means it's under their control.
There absolutely is an education bubble. That doesn't mean that education is worthless, far from it. Houses are never worthless even when there are huge housing bubbles. The problem is the runaway, unsustainable cost.

I got my degree from a local state school in the mid 90s. And then I went back and pursued another degree in a dual-major for another 3 years before finally deciding I wanted to do something else and leaving school. That was a luxury I had because school was so cheap, my parents paid for most of school and I was able to graduate without any debt. Today that same educational experience at the same school would cost nearly twice as much per year adjusted for inflation. Which is just not supportable without taking on most of it as debt for most people. And if you go to out of state tuition plus rent the costs are enormous, and also unsustainable for even people from reasonably affluent families.

Meanwhile, it's become oh so much easier to take on massive amounts of student loan debt, which has no doubt helped fuel some of this bubble.

No matter how valuable an education is, and I consider mine plenty valuable, when the cost doubles or more the benefit to cost ratio goes down substantially. And that's the core problem of the education bubble today. It used to be that moderately valuable degrees were still good, because they could be gotten cheaply enough, but now every degree is hugely expensive so the less valuable degrees now have a much lower RoI and are much less worthwhile investments.
well, I hate to beat a dead horse, but here's a one-liner (ruby):

(map1.keys | map2.keys).map(&:to_s).sort.join(", ").instance_eval { empty? ? "<none>" : self }
Crafting Code in Factor
Everywhere I have lived seltzer water (straight carbonated water, no minerals, salts, sugars, anything) is pretty common, supermarkets almost always have a section of it. Usually you are looking at $0.50-$0.80 per liter if you buy liter bottles, and a bit cheaper if you buy 2-liter bottles.

Pricier than it should be perhaps, but I honestly think I have an addiction to it; I've been drinking carbonated water at home almost exclusively for years. I'm considering getting a professional carbonation setup like a bar might use.
Does this diminish or enhance the value of the article in any way?
Would you have the standard text field run in a separate process sandbox? Or not have standard widgets shared between apps? Or just try real hard to write code without bugs?
Rubygems Signing System Proposal
Agreed! I think most of us are sitting on those great shoulders as opposed to standing, but that's semantics for you.

To clarify, I think it speaks positively to Notch's character when he says that Infiniminer was the game he wanted to make, and also publishes the statement on his own website for all the web to see.

And I think it's great that he and others were inspired by Infiniminer, and added their own tweaks. I just wish the original inspiration was still around so everyone could see where it all came from.

It honestly surprises me that I haven't heard about Notch helping Zach out financially, since most people seem to think that Notch is a pretty nice and honorable person.
Interesting. Looks like it maps TeX directly to HTML, so it must support fewer constructs? Or what are the downsides? Being 10x faster and 10x smaller without any drawbacks seems too good to be true.
would have been a better idea for RIM to reinvent themselves once they started getting serious competition back in 2007, not as their last ditch effort to avoid bankruptcy.
The fun thing about having it in messages.app, is it is actually a bug on the RECEIVING end of messages.app. And I can't seem to delete the message before the app crashes again.

I'm so happy I have nice friends.
Fail:///
Sounds like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client is what you're looking for.
jqMath doesn’t use LaTeX.
Facebook class-action suit is real
The show is excellent, IMHO. Delightfully wicked and intriguing.
It's a Cisco setup so they will be using their CleanAir feature to identify and triangulate sources of interference.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns1070/index.html
I'm the co-founder and CEO of StatsMix. If anyone has any questions, I'm happy to try and answer them.
> Our image of primitive man is that he was a bumbling, grunting idiot. In truth, he probably wasn’t much different than we are now. Time hasn’t made us smarter, nobler, or more compassionate.

Amen. Actually, if you start thinking you are better, note that a good proportion of the world's villains thought they were somehow better.
Not to be insensitive to Aaron, but even if this could be pulled off, which it wouldn't, this might encourage copycat suicides to produce change. Suicide should not be encouraged. Often change can happen without any harm to self or others. Sacrificing oneself because there is no other option is one thing; but suicide to make journals available was probably not Aaron's intent.
From what I can recall, AF447 was stalling but the fly-by-wire system was stabilising the stall. Normally the FBW system wouldn't let the pilot stall but an earlier event caused it to enter some kind of unusual mode. That same event also made the pilot mistrust the instrumentation for the remainder of the flight. Because of this and the stable handling (+ bad visibility, lack of training and a whole load of other contributing factors) he didn't believe his speed was low enough to be stalling.
The issue is not that judges have the discretion to impose lower penalties in cases that warrant it, the issue is that their need to do so has become the rule rather than the exception. There are supposed to be checks and balances: Congress should enact a sensible maximum penalty so that it limits the scope of the damage when the judiciary makes a mistake, and judges have discretion to impose lower than the maximum penalties in specific cases to limit the scope of the damage when Congress makes a mistake.

But Congress has abdicated their role. They've taken the judicial discretion that ought to have been a rarely needed relief valve and built the entire criminal justice system on top of it by imposing ludicrous maximum penalties and leaving it to the courts to sort it out. In consequence the check that Congress is supposed to be imposing on the courts effectively no longer exists, and if the courts get it wrong then there is nothing to stop it.

Throw in that the plea bargaining system bypasses even the courts in the overwhelming majority of cases and you have the recipe for prosecutorial discretion becoming outcome determinative.
There is a clear reason. Blackberry failed to inspire or identify the market and how they will sell the new device. They had a weak product launch. Lots of coverage but nothing that would really compel people to buy the product.

I would have loved to have seen them come out with something compelling, and the product may be, but if so, I don't think they were able to verbalize it.
So if you read the long form notice (http://docs.fraleyfacebooksettlement.com/docs/notice.pdf), the terms are actually not as horrible as normal.

Yes, class counsel wants ridiculous fees, but it seems rather than the "we're gonna pay everyone 10 bucks and call it a day", they also seem to require at least a few changes from facebook, though some of them seem laughable:

"Encourage new users, upon or soon after joining Facebook, to include their family in their profile information,
including their parents and children. Where both a parent and a minor child are users and confirm their relationship,

Facebook will provide parents of Minor Subclass Members with certain additional educational information and tools
to control whether their children’s names and profile pictures are displayed in connection with Sponsored Stories"

Hey, we didn't want to bug people to find their parents to expand our large social graph! We were legally required!
>>> I almost made a comment similar to this, but I didn't know how to phrase it.

Really?

>>>I think seeing suicides from people in a similar situation to you almost reminds you that suicide is an option at your disposal

Seems like a pretty damn good comment. Make it a top level on the next suicide thread, maybe it will help someone think more rationally about WHY they are suddenly looking at suicide as an option.
Why? Are you playing naive? Information today is the ultimate power, those surveillance systems are operated by the most powerful people in the world. A guy takes actions against them, how shocking he's getting punished.
They make it a publicity point when their ads are banned. It creates an aura of forbidden fruit. And by god do people love to feel sanctimonious about their consumer choices as political speech.

The genius move to me is the fact that after 100 years of marketing by PepsiCo and Coca-Cola to create a multi billion dollar global market, here comes these guys that just piggy back on all that to sell the same sugar water but delivered in in shiny metal/plastics proprietary gadgets.

John Sculley should have jumped on board with these guys instead.
Several people have said that these apps are crashing at an assert. How did asserts make it into production code? Is it just a C thing to make them debug-only?
Do not send this string in an iMessage, unless, of course, you're evil.
"Facebook denies any wrongdoing and any liability whatsoever."

I dislike those statements, at least say "we are paying money because some people were displeased with our action" ~_~

part of $20MM being split up at max $10 increments, less than 2 million people.

Everyone should exclude themselves from the lawsuit just in case something comes by in the future.

If paying $10 to each Authorized Claimant does not exhaust the Net Settlement Fund, the remaining funds will be distributed to the not-for-profit organizations identified below, unless the Court orders otherwise as discussed in Section 2.3(b) of the Settlement Agreement.

so even if no one else participates in the claims, it goes to a good(?) cause.
If you want to exclude yourself (in case you get bored and want to sue them later), the form is here:

https://secure.gcginc.com/fbk/excl/exclform.aspx
There are lots that are good.

MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley, CMU, Harvard, Princeton, UCLA, UCSD, Cal Poly, and hundreds more.
I filled it out. It asks you under the penalty of perjury if you think you were "injured". I had no problem saying yes because I took issue with a couple of things people liked, and I felt that others may have felt the same way about things I liked.

This will probably discourage many others from filling it out, though, in addition to the time it takes.

It would be nice if it asked the questions about whether a person considers himself or herself a part of the class before asking how to pay them. It would be a bit of a waste to fill all that out and not submit it.
I put ut a JSFiddle crashing Safari. This is fun.
http://jsfiddle.net/EJzhH/3
‘Native ads’ on Web can blur line between news and advertising
when did IB get tick data? the last I checked they just had one second bars, which are totally different.
Why not PHP? =/
1. Counsel asked for 7.5 million in fees, so you should assume the amount being split up is only 12.5 million, total.

2. Nobody ever admits wrongdoing in a settlement, because it would lead to more lawsuits.
I recommend upgrading to the latest release of marked ( https://github.com/chjj/marked/tree/v0.2.8 ). It has a few improvements as well as GFM tables.
Its a common question that comes up, and as far as my wife and I could figure out it has never actually been an issue here. One of the things people don't recognize right away is that rarely are you the only person home schooling, there can be lots of people in your area doing the same. One of the programs we did was for science a bunch of us did a one science topic for the week, and everyone in the group's kids would go to that parent's house for some particular expertise or investigation. These were 5, 7 even 10 student groups of similar ages working on the same material. Similarly for Reikes which was 15 - 25 home schooled kids once a week meeting up at a county park to discuss the ecology, bio-diversity, flora, fauna, land management, lots of stuff.

If the impression is home schooling is 1 kid sitting at home all day doing the same things they would do in a class room, you are not seeing what is going on around here. Groups of kids tackling problems and learning about history, math, communication, societies and communities, and all the material you'd normally get in school, just in chunkier bits with the opportunity to go deeper into the topic if you're interested and just pick up the required bits if you're not. Lots of reading, lots of field trips (the Sierras are fabulous for doing geology field trips), museums and such. Oh and lots and lots of reading.

I'd love to see some more rigorous work on this.
I've never liked python code like this because I can't read it in left-to-right order nor right-to-left order. You have to read into the comprehension, then read left, then finally jump far right to the 'or'
I was asked, but I'm not taking part in this suit. I was not harmed or put out in any way, and would bet that most people that participate weren't either. I really dislike this type of class action suit. Instead I wish they would get me my money for the thousands I've put into my car for a design flaw that has been obvious for years- but no- instead of justice where justice is due, there are tons of people getting 10 bucks from a company that they don't even pay for their service for something that the company didn't even do.

Justice will not be served.
For something like the lexus, where everything except the dipstick and brake fluid cap are accessible, I wonder why they wouldn't get truly innovative and do away with the concept of a standard opening hood.

For the most part, this will only be worked on by people in the know. Does the hood of a car have to open for everybody? Can't we get access to all the more common bits by a gas cap like flap?