skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It [the LHC] has been creating high-energy collisions to smash protons and then study the collisions and determine how subatomic particles acquire mass — without which the particles would fail to stick together.

Too bad -- a science writer wouldn't have made this elementary error.
Show HN: IPython Notebook Mac app, my side project in time for PyCon
The American Dream right there
Which is why it infuriates me to see invariably affluent, educated professionals preaching the Gospel of Free Markets and Small Government to the shiftless masses, with their petty concerns like Health Insurance. Why can't they just buy anything they need?

Your understanding of their motivations is deficient. You seem intelligent, maybe you could spend some time understanding their argument. If you do understand their argument, why misstate it?

It's not so much they think, "Why can't they just buy anything they need?". It's that they (we) think, "These masterminds who lie by telling voters that they can set up this magical one-size-fits-all healthcare system and work it efficiently are just trying to grab power and votes for themselves. It's a horrible idea to set up yet another governmental dependency that is doomed to fail like all the others. Already, the system will cost triple what we were told. We have seen that 'You can keep your own insurance' was a lie. It contains numerous hidden taxes and costs. When will we ever learn?"
As a helpful recipe for the future, let's maybe not say X,Y,Z Ideology is DEAD but list those properties which turned out to be crucially misunderstood, unknown and in the end hurting.

In almost every failed/criticized ideology there are parts which still make sense and should not be thrown away.

Let's not make the mistake again of blindly replace "all of communism" with "all of capitalism" f.e.

This would maybe get a higher chance for the next idea to "succeed better"
Abusive Patent Litigation Congressional Hearing (webcast/prepared testimony)
go up a level to get to their good stuff:

https://github.com/Netflix
I hadn't heard of PlaceIt before. Thanks for mentioning it! I love how laid back their attribution policy is: http://breezi.com/blog/using-placeit-images-for-commercial-p... .
After the power-drunk players of the internet bubble made everything free, market expectations were set, and now there's an expectation by most internet users that a large part of the online services they use be free.
Hah. Nice.

At least you didn't have to write UI code for it!
Fine-grained oauth is clearly better and something we plan to do eventually, but we're a very small team and we've been prioritizing building features and improving the design and relevance for the time being.
No, it is a very serious problem when your Ideology can provide a single correct answer to every single problem, regardless of the actual facts related to that problem.
I went to the grocery store with my grandma back in 1980's, and she told me she wasn't buying steak because she and everyone she knew where boycotting a manufacturer. That was the first time I heard of the concept. I asked her if it worked and she said yes, they had successfully boycotted several products in the past. I always think of that when I hear talk of boycotting -- that it could work if people were serious about it and actually closed ranks around something.
Capitalism also means DDT, which kills mosquitoes that are vectors for malaria. However, statist intervention bans DDT and allows mosquito populations to thrive, thus killing large numbers of people in places like Gambia where...wait a minute! Places like Gambia where malaria rates are in free-fall! And why? Because of the use of insecticide treated netting...(kinda makes you wonder what kind of drop in malaria rates could be achieved through DDT, huh?)

See: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030203243.ht...

So, socialism and enviro-wacko statist intervention gets people killed by malaria through bans on insecticides, which turn out to be the most effective counters to malaria.
I am not a physicist, only someone who enjoys physics, so
I may be. I would love to be enlightened if I did misunderstand.

My understanding from the statement is that they know there is the effects of a Higgs has been observed. But that this isn't necessarily the Higgs which fits into the Standard Model. I understand there are other models which may be considered but I thought that there were specific conditions which would satisfy the Standard Model.
I love Reeder for iOS/Mac and was relieved to see that the developer has plans to continue without Google. See https://twitter.com/reederapp/status/311995748482945025
Yeah - fortunately our company is small enough where we can hear stories like that from our support/sales staff, but in larger companies developers are so far removed from the end user that we have no idea how much of an impact we actually make in people's day-to-day.
Ahem:

> Two-thirds of his total intake came from junk food. He also took a multivitamin pill and drank a protein shake daily. And he ate vegetables, typically a can of green beans or three to four celery stalks.

And of course, "he lost weight" doesn't unequivocally mean "he got healthier".
I don't use it every day, but I've paid for it since I first started using it a long time ago... Always want to support cool stuff when I can.

Make sure there is an export feature, for some reason, I can't find it, and I'll be a daily user.
Google's BigQuery now supports JOINs on tables of any size
Discovery of a MySQL Bug
I would like to hear more about taking advantage of the "Hospitals always have a hard time filling nursing demand"

My wife is a nurse and we are moving to a new city soon. Seems like a good time to optimize her employment if we can.

With free rent it sounds like she is part of a travel nursing program or something like that?
Number of times google reader has a planned shut down, in which I still have plenty of time to grab my data: 1

Number of times something has happened to make an old desktop app stop working: numerous

for example (I haven't experienced all of these):

- switching from Windows -> Mac
- having my hard drive fail and finding out my backups were broken
- OSX upgrades breaking backwards compatibility (ie, old binary format)
- having my laptop stolen
- switching jobs, requiring me to give my laptop back
- having multiple devices that I like to read news on (ie, phone, laptop, tablet)

I much prefer to have as little as possible tied to the hunk of metal my sweaty fingers type on. I haven't lost any data yet from using 'cloud services' and the GR replacement I pick will be well vetted.
Party-Line Vote in Senate Panel for Ban on Assault Weapons
Or, many of the people who would see this in a store and be excited might even be aware of the problems until they bring the game home and it bites them in the rear.
> Not only do they carefully look at the properties of what they find to see if they found something else, but they also take into account other statistical details like the look-elsewhere effect ...

If psychology adopted this level of scientific discipline, it would destroy the field -- most psychological "discoveries" are based on votes, not experiments: http://arachnoid.com/building_science
Of course it could work. Trouble is the gaming community isn't cohesive enough, and the majority of people don't care enough.
Can it? I pull and push Github over ssh, which is an attack path that Cloudflare isn't built to mitigate. If it were strictly http and https, it would be a different story.
is Google X something real or the retirement community within Google?
Building Evidence into Education by Ben Goldacre [pdf]
If there's a need to assign attribution then there isn't a need to use this tool.
An alternative is LZJB, used in ZFS and CDDL licensed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZJB

The code is less than 100 lines for both compressor and decompressor, and it compresses fairly well considering the code size.
Making data a first-class Web citizen
Go re-read the comment I was responding to carefully. Both you and the other commenter completely missed my point.
Whew. This was/is a big one.

Vagrant 1.1 is the first release in Vagrant's history that is provider-agnostic. I'm shipping a Fusion provider and open source AWS and RackSpace provider, but the interface itself is completely open source and documented, meaning anyone can add their own providers: http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/plugins/providers.html

And the provider API was introduced while retaining full compatibility for stock Vagrant 1.0.x installs. I'm really proud of that achievement. Vagrant 1.1 is a drop-in replacement for many organizations.

Vagrant 1.1 is already in use in production at many large organizations, the biggest of which at the moment may be Yammer. The QA process for 1.1 was actually done by shipping to the big companies first. That was quite an experience, but I think that will result in a stable 1.1 experience for the masses.

Anyways, I'm here to answer any questions if you have them.
Google Reader may very well rise again… as part of Google+
FB-only login? No thanks.
there's already one: https://www.change.org/petitions/google-keep-google-reader-r...
New internal combustion engine could boost electric cars
I agree, normally I just use my Desktop, but it's nice to have sync across devices and OS.

With Google Reader you could have that sync between RSS Readers because you were using Reader as backend, but now?
I checked the math on a post yesterday that compared the energy in a gallon of gas to the energy stored by 3500 gallons of water at a height of 1 kilometer.

As far as I could see, the math was right.

That doesn't account for pumping losses and all that, but it is a nice check on intuition (for reference, 1 gallon gas is equivalent to 33 kWh, ignoring our inability to extract that much useful energy).
Omg ruby is so much better. K thnx bye.
From 2011. Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2271421
In general a cool release, mostly because it finally adds providers. However, given the price point of 79 USD per seat, I can hold my breath a little longer, especially since VMWare adds another 50-70 Euros on top of that. That's somewhere in the ballpark of 140 USD to replace something that's basically working fine.
Well you can say that about many problems that we actually have today. That does not necessarily mean that UFAI is not the greatest long-term existential threat. I am not saying it is, but the SIAI sees it that way while recognizing that a lot of money and energy should go into solving problems we actually have today. But does that mean absolutely no energy or money should be spent on unlikely existential threats?
Spot-on on all points. Also of note, there are "noisy" pre-aggregated feeds out there which are useful for discovery of new authors or blogs, but have content wildly varying in quality or interest.
toblaso means that rather than finding/changing the certificate, someone patching the game could either replace the certificate with a self-signed/generated one (for your local server instance), or completely bypass the usage of SSL entirely.
Sorry didnt think this post had enough troll in it to qualify as an authentic go discussion.
That's essentially saying that being too competitive is anti-competitive, and frankly, I think it's ridiculous. So what if smaller competitors aren't able to provide the same solutions at the same price? Isn't that why it's called competition? The point is to benefit consumers, not to keep inefficient businesses alive by hurting them.

That said, I think there's some sense in calling anti-competitive when a player lowers the price temporarily, in order to drive out competitors and jack up the prices afterwards. But that's clearly not what happened here.
You're putting words into dscrd's mouth. They didn't say that people are "inherently irrational", which would imply that making a rational decision would be some extraordinary occurrence.

Likewise, I wonder if it's reasonable to claim that people are "inherently rational", because we all know from experience that it doesn't require extraordinary circumstances for a person to make an irrational choice. People make both rational and irrational decisions all the time!

I know you're trying to make a lighthearted jest, but your benevolent actor = batman illustration seems a little too mean-spirited in its chiding. You start by misconstruing dscrd's meaning, and end by claiming that dscrd's "essentially believe[s] in batman".

I don't think it's unreasonable (irrational?) to presume that people are capable of increasing the amount of rationality they wish to apply to a problem based on its stakes (although we have plenty of anecdotes to support the counterpoint to this, as well), while still constantly making irrational choices on things which are (or appear to be) lower-stakes.

For example: I probably wouldn't build a house next to a coal power plant. I would consider that to be a rational decision. On the other hand, I may be a smoker, or really, really love doughnuts. There may be rational components to each of those (they give pleasure), but when viewed in the light of my decision to not live next to a coal power plant (I don't want to eventually get sick), they seem like pretty irrational decisions (because they'll eventually make me sick).
I interned at an IBM acquiree this summer and that's how they taught me Rails.

"tsm, you need to make a webapp that does X, Y, and Z in Rails."

"Um...I've never written a webapp before, nor do I know anything about Rails."

"We know. So. tsm. You need to write a webapp that does X, Y, and Z in Rails."

It worked.
Using Stripe, disquss etc it should be doable in a couple of hours/days.

Of course the main feature of AirBnB and the large copycats is the market penetration. Nobody cares if you have a fancy backend or e.g. a node.js based mobile app. It's about active users and transactions.
> were they doing enough experiments that they'd have eventually said it couldn't exist if they never found it for some amount of time?

No, that's called "proving a negative" -- in most cases it's an impossible evidentiary burden. For example, no one will ever be able to say that Bigfoot doesn't exist for lack of evidence. This is why the null hypothesis is the default scientific precept -- that something without evidence is assumed not to exist (but by no means proven not to exist).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_hypothesis
yes, creating an app to supplement an existing business (Men's wearhouse) can yield sub-optimal results at best. A better way to do it is to disrupt the model like IndoChino did. They realized that buying a suit is all about the materials and the fit and did everything possible(refunds, alteration fee) to ensure that customers were satisfied.
Very cool. Is there a switch to direct Chrome to ignore the cache and pull fresh data from the server?
NYC Schools Gap App Challenge ($104,000 in prizes)
They Keep Using That Word
The scale and ambitions of wars today are much smaller which is in essence what you are saying and it is a really important point. We are living in a time of extremely limited war that in comparison with the mid 20th Century is a time of relative peace (the mid 20th Century being one of the most bloody in human history). This graph makes this point better than I:

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/war-1900.htm

>think some of this talk about ideologies is throwing the baby out with the bath water. Abstracting your worldview so that you can better explain yourself to others should not be looked down upon.

Agreed, and for the record I'm not against ideology or story telling in general. It is what humans do to make sense of their role in the world. It is interesting to me that we live in a time of old dying ideologies and it skews our perspective about the future since long term these treads have never lasted. For example the The_End_of_History(tm) claim that was getting some traction in the 1990s. What will come next?
I thought Gates made fortune due to Capitalism
Well, gee, thanks for reminding me AGAIN that I have this itch for diving into LISP that never subsides, no matter how strongly I put it off as overly academic or otherwise removed from reality. Upvoted.
One of the first 2 sites I go to when I launch my browser in the morning everyday (gmail and reader). I will sorely miss it.
There is also the possibility that the target is North Korea, so the price of discovery is that much higher.
I'm sorry to hear about the closing of your start-up, but your write-up really shows how much you have come to understand the business of solving peoples' problems. You aren't in denial about how the start-up failed and it is very refreshing to see!

In my opinion, you are poised for incredible success in your next start-up, because of what you learned at Vinetrade.
I work at an agency using ASP.NET, so I find myself regularly estimating for projects and small jobs. The biggest issue with our clients is that they will always argue how long things will take. One of our large clients has a SEO guy in one of their offices that has "11 years web experience" (despite not programming professionally for the best part of three years, and seemingly knowing very little about programming or how the Internet works) and he will frequently argue every small cost. We quoted two hours to modify a form used across eleven country-specific sites for one specific use case on a single site, and he went crazy, stating that it'd take him "twenty seconds in PHP". A bit of Googling shows that this guy hacks a bit of PHP in his spare time, but can't code for shit, and given his position at the company it's not really up to him to dictate price.

Anyway, the only way to give a valid estimate is to break down the task as much as you possibly can and to assign risk to each small task. Build a spreadsheet and break down every task into the smallest possible unit, and assign a risk rating to it. Any tasks that are high risk should be estimated as a range, rather than a fixed time. Even with this advice you'll still get things wrong, but it's impossible not to. It's the nature of estimating.

The best advice I can give you is to stick to your guns and estimate for how long it will take YOU to do a task. If people still argue, then tough. As rightly pointed out by adios, more experienced devs/pm's will happily overestimate and will fight their corner to say that this is how long a task takes. If you are honest with yourself on how long a task will take then you will find it much easier to stick to your guns when someone complaints that "an easy task" shouldn't take as long as you've said.
He may be modeling it as (or similar to) a prisoner's dilemma, with the assumption that only a huge infusion of funds could cure malaria. In this case, assuming a democracy, "spending other people's money" is more like enforcing an agreement contract in a dilemma game.

(This model is wrong, of course, but I doubt many people are aware of the expected disability-adjusted-years-gained-per-dollars-spent-on-mosquito nets statistics)
Why is "100% clear communication" an assumed universal good? Some jokes are only funny because some people don't get them. And yet, this--as I might term it--"populist heartburn" at realizing one is in the not-getting-it majority, and demanding an explanation, ruins the fun of those who do.

Bob Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man" might be appropriate reading here. :)
We’ve Never Had So Much Money in Canada: iNovia Capital’s David Nault
I value my privacy far more than any feature or convenience a web app may offer. This is one of the main reasons why I stay away from web apps as much as possible, and use open-source client-side apps whenever I can. As a side-benefit, I also don't have to rely on the whims of the web app provider to keep their service running.

Unless you use web apps for absolutely everything, you're still going to have to make backups. And if you're making backups anyway, how hard is it to include a tiny little list of RSS feed URLs which can be used to pick up from where you left off with any RSS reader, should anything happen?

Anyway, if you screw up your backups, you've got far more serious problems than simply restoring an RSS feed list. Do a good job on backups, and the rest mostly falls in to place.
He said "rust doesn't have the kitchen sink", and then listed the kitchen sink. Rust is awesome, you should use it.
Supposedly Page has been heavily inspired by Steve Jobs's advice to him to 'focus'.

Just consider this part of Jobs's most poisonous legacy: his epigones.
I created this talk for the Enterprise Big Data track of O'Reilly's Strata conference - so it's not a technical description of how deep learning works. Rather, it's an attempt to show why it's important, and how it fits into current data science trends.

The "Biggest Data Science Breakthrough of the Decade" in the title is a rather bold claim, I know... But I think it might be justified. If there are are bigger breakthroughs, I'd be interested in people's thoughts about what they might be.
This is great protocol for all discussions/agreements. It's pretty hard for any relationship to break down if there's a shared understanding of expectations.

The re-statement/confirmation email is a great weapon against what time+memory do with reality, whether it's in the investment setting, with a partner, with an employee, or, heck, with a friend/spouse.
You mean someone will need to use evil hacker tools like an hex editor?
Give them real life projects that you will use. If it's about programming, in my experience, I learn different programming languages by feeling it and coding using that language. Let him appreciate the real use of the project he will do. A good dev can learn on his own, but make sure you are there beside him. Always be open if he has questions, or clarifications.

For essential skills, I can say programming language literacy, version controls, SQLs, basic algorithms and data structure, and software dev life cycle.

The best thing you can give to a fresh dev is experience. :)
Parents, Experts Blast New State Database of Private Student Info
Usually because random guys on the street see a lot more of the "logo area" of your t-shirt than you do (it's sort of outside of your regular visual field unless you're looking straight down or in a mirror). Though, admittedly, possibly-savvy coworkers see similar amounts of it. Depends which you spend more time around, I guess.
> we supposedly* select people who are good at ruling

The consumer is irrational, but the voter is rational? This is a contradiction.

The operative difference between a purchase and a vote is that purchases are (1) voluntary, and (2) continually adjusting to changing conditions.
Right; the downside of a tolerant system is that it does not fail hard. This does not, however, preclude finding the system limits by use of the scientific method. It just makes it a tad trickier at times.

I'm getting the idea that people profess a "belief in science" in the general case, but then absolutely deny its applicability in the specific case here. ;-)
I just spent an hour learning about OSE. Really amazing stuff, shared it with my friends and family, thanks! I have a friend who does a lot of mission work in Honduras.. maybe they could use some of the OSE stuff.
I would be interested in recording the actual order of http requests and being able to replay them on the commandline.

something like open -a "Google Chrome" --args --record-mode --output-file output.log

then:
some-command-that-plays-it-back --infile output.log

does anyone know if something like that exists?
That's shaken my very comprehension of the universe. Or rather, very much heightened my intuition of algebraic geometry. What on earth are we wasting our time with pi for!?
I guess I'm a bit old school - FeedDemon ( www.feeddemon.com ) - Windows Desktop RSS Reader
Anyone know where the recorded content is stored, and whether it's kept segregated from other cached content? This could be a really interesting archival format...
Duck duck go has one up.

http://www.ddg.gg