skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of kinds of analyses require some kind of normalization or whitening to work properly.

The problem with PCA is that everyone knows about it and kind of understands it, and thinks that it'll magically tell them something interesting about their data. Especially when you can take the first three components and make cool-looking 3D plots...
You can identify passion in a programmer by seeing if the person is eager to create more efficient code whilst always ready to optimise even further. Pushing the boundaries is one of the most important factors and this can be found out by simply asking, "what would you like to achieve in the next 12 months?"
If he were to veto it, it would already pass again in the House with a 2/3's vote. The Senate would require some politicking, but it's not unimaginable that it could also get a 2/3's vote.

Having your veto overturned is a bad thing. That alone would be a reason. The other reason being that Obama chose to stay silent on the SOPA/PIPA/CISPA issue the first time around. Coming out against it would have cost him relatively little in public opinion, which must mean there are interests relevant to him that aren't entirely opposed to the bill.
I'm going to guess that it was my statement about praying for rain that caused you to feel I was mocking the US political system. I actually intended to mock a US politician who mocked the political system. Which wasn't a good idea, I'm a little disappointed with myself for doing that. It's not helpful at all in a discussion, but since it's out there, I may as well explain.

In this specific case, I think there probably is an alliance between this particular politician and the business interests that pollute and who would like to dismantle the political mechanisms you mentioned. My biggest problem with the "prayer for rain" was that it came from someone who tends to mock the US political system (though he was unable to specify the third govt agency he would like to replace, he did reassure us that he didn't want to eliminate the EPA, he just wanted it "rebuilt", and I can only imagine who he'd put on that panel). He also rejected the conclusions of the vast majority of the scientific community about what might be causing and/or exacerbating chronic droughts.
I'm a little puzzled by the "perfect fit" thing myself. In college I worked for a men's specialty clothing store in NYC. All the expensive stuff (IOW, most of what they sold) was adjusted by the in-house tailors. You'd buy something off the rack, and then be immediately taken to someone who would take your measurements and take it in/let it out to get a good fit.

Doesn't this kind of thing happen anymore?

D
Boston bombing: flood of digital evidence is a blessing and a curse
This is incorrect in two ways.

1. Cyber threat intelligence is defined as information pertaining to the things you listed. That is much more broad than your definition, for example sharing information pertaining to a vulnerability is much more broad than sharing the vulnerability itself since the latter only includes e.g. the code that results in the vulnerability whereas the former also includes any customer data directly related to it.

2. CISPA does not just grant immunity for the sharing of "cyber threat intelligence". It grants immunity for anything that is shared as such "in good faith". So in reality, it can include anything, as long as it was shared "in good faith". I quote: "EXEMPTION FROM LIABILITY.—No civil or criminal cause of action shall lie or be maintained in Federal or State court against a protected entity, self-protected entity, cybersecurity provider, or an officer, employee, or agent of a protected entity, self-protected entity, or cybersecurity provider, acting in good faith— ‘‘(A) for using cybersecurity systems or sharing information in accordance with this section; or ‘‘(B) for decisions made based on cyber threat information identified, obtained, or shared under this section."

As you can see, the set of things you get immunity for is extremely broad. Far broader than you describe.

Furthermore, this bill puts no oversight in place that even checks that things were shared according to these (extremely broad) rules. And people have no way of knowing what information about them has been shared. So warfangle's scenario is very conceivable. For example if a company thinks you have in some way triggered a vulnerability (accidentally, or though a programming error on their side, or you didn't trigger anything at all but they just think that you have ("in good faith"), doesn't matter), some lazy chap can just dump the database with all data related to your user ID and send that over as long as it is his private opinion that it is information "pertaining to a vulnerability". Not only is that perfectly OK according to this bill, but you'll also have no way of knowing that that happened, and there is nobody evaluating if sharing all that data was actually OK or not.
imperson up: http://www.scribd.com/doc/136764612/Im-Person
OVH.fr - great machines, good prices. We have a machine in western Europe. VPS or dedicated servers.
Kind of. Tor operates over a standard port, so detecting it is relativly easy. However, people in a non blocked region can create a non-standard entry node that is indistiguishable from normal encrypted connections.
This is exactly what I've tried pitching to some friends. Of course, this is also in the "the web already had a method for this." It was even supported in blogger, where people would "tag" their posts.
Kepler spots two super Earths, one squarely in the habitable zone
> EVE encourages clever use of game mechanics to do devious things and they have just clarified they don't consider escaping Concord clever use of game mechanics but an exploit.

2nd sentence contradicts the first.
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/
No we can't.
Those are just first year liberal arts students frustrated by party politics. Also punks.
That was true 10 years ago. It is not at all true today. Meanwhile, RSA and simple prime-field DL crypto are the subject of serious progress, while whole avenues of attacks seem to be precluded for the ECDL problem.

Here's one summary of the ECC patent situation:

http://cr.yp.to/ecdh/patents.html

ECC is increasingly common in commercial systems. Who's asserting patents against those systems?
This plays into HN's jbaudanza wanting to create a system to support this [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5560247
EBay seller who sued over bad feedback apologizes—but he’s done it before
Zynga was once insanely successful as well, making north of $2.3 million per day with a 47% profit margin: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870351550457614...

And then their profits dropped 95% year-over-year... But that's the nature of mobile gamers and mobile games. The players are extremely fickle, and the games lack the depth and complexity necessary to keep people engaged over long periods of time. People flock from one fad to the next.

So far, I don't think we've seen anything but a bunch of one hit wonders in the mobile gaming industry. Draw Something, Words with Friends, Fruit Ninja, etc. Maybe Supercell will be different, but it doesn't seem likely.
...published content isn't confidential.

Unless you happen to increment a public-facing URL in a numeric fashion...
Yeeeeaaah, this doesn't really indicate much of anything. All it reflects is number of searches for a specific term or combination of terms. Why do people do Google searches? They're looking for something or they're curious about something. One way to read the results is that Angular is difficult to learn--thus all the searches (for help, tutorials, documentation, etc.). Plus, if you add or subtract minor details like "js" or categories you get totally different results. And Backbone doesn't look remotely right. Relying on these trend graphs for anything is laughable at best. They're not even that interesting because they could literally mean anything depending on the framework. Some frameworks might incite a lot of curiousity but but easy to learn with great documentation (that reduces the need to Google for relevant material); Other frameworks might be difficult to use, difficult to learn, and have poor documentation...and thus require lots of Google usage.

Google Trends graphs without substantial analysis are just noise.
Show HN: Propercss, a rails generator that organizes your CSS the right way.
I don't think you can find a very good 2 in 1 guy for this. These two people are very different types. One is happy chugging along just keeping the lights on and probably is only interested in doing that. The other is going to be more of a visionary who would not be motivated by just admin work.

For example I consider myself more of a 2 of the two types listed here. I am a builder and would never accept a sysadmin job. It would be boring to me.
I think perhaps the lesson here is to nail down the requirements properly before you start solutioning.

I'm in the middle of some business analysis training at the moment and this has been one of the main takeaways for me. One of the techniques the training suggests to help get to the real requirements is to ask the question why several times over. Interesting that Brent arrived at the same solution.
If only Aaron Swartz was still alive.
I second the milestones idea. I used to do this back when I was freelance web developing and it helps the client feel more comfortable knowing they're paying as they see progress. (Helps you a ton too cuz you get money as you go along).

This was one of the major features of my new startup matchist (http://matchist.com/talent). You create milestones for your client and they prefund each milestone before you start working on it. Once you're done, we release the payment to you.

Works great for both parties.
I don't think "regular folks" are going to be creating websites with Jekyll and Github anytime soon.
Is the site ever up? I've tried a number of times and it always seems to be down.
This seems to be a harmless case of erroneous old information slipping in because it was not stricken from all maps many years ago. However, it is not unusual for many maps to all contain the same mistake. Cartographers have been known to include small mistakes in their maps to catch people who copy their work. In the past, even if another cartographer found information on a map to be inaccurate, they would not always correct it completely, for similar reasons to why the value of the charge of an electron in Millikan oil drop experiment took years to correct.
I can report the opposite - I've had to assist a fedora user when yum/rpm left them in a state that prevented a ton of new packages from being installed due to an interaction between the official fedora repos and rpm fusion, the repo everyone tells you to add to fedora to get video drivers and codecs etc. It was actually quite complicated to resolve as packages relying on specific libraries that were being held back had to be identified, removed, external repo removed, libs updated, packages readded, repo readded.

All it took to get him in that state was copying a pasting a few lines thats suggested on every fedora forum, and a few unwise version dependencies in some official packages, and an external repo that falls behind the official one a fair amount.

That is not a description of a well working system. And casuals frequently end up with tons of held back packages with apt because of not using dist-upgrade.

I'm a heavy linux user and happily deploy it all the time, but to suggest that current package management needs no improvement is insanity. It's a highly advanced system of bandaids for decades worth of iterative engineering on a core design that predated shared libraries, CVE's and when update cycles were well longer than a year.

A clean slate design would be an infinite improvement - it's just a crazy difficult problem without it basically being a new platform and requiring modifications to the 3rd party code that you're installing.
Is this site ever up?
Right now it's a simple tool, but I'd really love some feedback on how to grow it.
No, it's still a bad design feature. Having just gone through this less than 60 seconds ago, it really feels like a slap in the face from a company I otherwise respect.
Anticipated and Controversial, First Google Glass Devices in Production
It's worth noting that :vsplit can and should be shortened to :vs

Also, depending on how you like to work, keeping a stable working directory can be very useful:

:vs **/bar<Tab>

is somehow less mentally taxing than:

:vs ../../models/bar.php
extjs seems to be very popular on Cuba compared to the rest of the world. huh?

if these graphs were about to mean anything or be relevant, it could possibly that the rest of the world is not that keen on instantly jumping into the next hot technology of the day. usually it takes time until the silicon valley hotness gets abroad. not judging, just sayin'.
* justifiable "deserved" fortune to any one person*

Very disappointing to see those kind of entitlement discussions around here. Who are you to tell others what they deserve? If he/she/it founded a project that is so solid, so engaging, so successful, h/s/i absolutely deserves whatever others are willing to pay.
"X is a ... method that gives people a delusion that they are doing something useful with their data." could be applied to pretty much any method in ML if you don't know what you're doing. PCA is a strange omission, but it's not like it's hard to find references on it. ITILA is a great book and it's legally free online, by the way.
The Bristol Papers and the state of C++
Huh? Liberal arts students = capitalists? I'd personally guess they'd lean more anarcho-syndicalist/socialist.

But definitely agree about punks. Or punks with jobs. Also cypherpunks, crypto-anarchists, etc.
Republicans seem to care less about civilization than "family", more precisely "conserving [Christian] family values". That's why it's linked to all the nonsensical, irrational thinking about gay marriage and abortion; they think it violates the ideals of the traditional Christian family. It cannot be equated with "civilization" unless you somehow believe that those things are uncivilized, which makes the entire axis analysis tautological.
Open Source Bible Web App - Bible Browser
PCA extremely widely known and (ab)used. You can't justify ignoring it.
Code is here: https://github.com/digitalbiblesociety/browserbible/
remove one of the terms and throw in jquery.js + jquery it pretty much squashes every other search term
I meant "I don't think they ever did, but I am not sure, and don't want to see replies discussing this minor point".

As to disabling push messaging: I think this is a bit of a gray area. For some apps, push messages are minor features. for others, they can be an essential part of the app. Disabling them for such apps is equivalent to removing the app from the user's device.

I haven't seen the AppGratis App, so I don't know what push messages mean for that app.
More active thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5572017
IANAL but here's what I think an attorney who took the time to look the whole thing over would say:

The language in the contract (that you posted) seems pretty cut and dried, but I don't know whether that's actually going to hold up in a court of law. You entered a contest expecting the contest holders to hold the contest correctly. When the flaw was exposed, they did not honor it. That means your work was in vain. That's not in the spirit of the contest, thus the written words are only part of the story. A reasonable person expects that the company running the contest does so fairly. You seem to have not been treated fairly thus I think you have a case. I would imagine that, if you posted up a $500,000 lawsuit with $30,000 of reward and $470,000 of punitive damages, you'd hear from a different GE exec who has a very different POV.
I made an archive of all the PCLs that have been spooled so far, plus PDFs and (rotated) PNGs rendered at 150 DPI.

http://thomas.fach-pedersen.net/SPOOL/
Can't do much about the travel but I can definitely give you a discounted ticket and I'm sure you could find someone in the local community to couchsurf!
Definitely an interesting story, but I hate the "$2.5 Mil per Day" framing of the headline. This isn't anything noteworthy-- lots of companies have annual revenues of over $900 million.
Well it's better than you'll get on reddit.
So that's clearly "unfair" on the Democrat axis. Old school Republicans should be for some measure of properly financed universal healthcare (oh, hi there, Mitt), but there is also the financial end to consider: overspending is moving away from civilization, and towards savagery.
Functional Programming with D
Please, get a lawyer outside the family with experience of competition law - maybe your sister/aunt can tell you the area of law that might apply and point to some local firms

You need objective advice, not coloured by "what if my advi e leads to not speaking to half the family" - don't put that on her.

Secondly, consult a lawyer because they have - if according to the common-sense rules you should get 30k (and I don't at all understand the situation) then no amount of disclaimers or indemnification deprives you - statute on competitions run for marketing purposes are widespread.

Maybe you have a case, maybe not, but without a lawyer you won't know and without a lawyer they (GE?Kaggle) won't take you seriously - which kind of screws the only other reason you seem to have for not getting a lawyer - the idea that maybe you will pick up some work later on. If they see you as a push over on this, why will they respect you next time?

This does not mean drop a writ for 10 million in the morning - get advice, if there is a case, ask if the lawyer can directly contact the organisers lawyers for clarification or discovery. If you have a case they will have to do something - push now, so that their decision has not been set in concrete and them moved on.
... I agree if you know an attacker has access then you should revoke. Just like if you know an employee has been compromised. But why wouldn't you store them hashed, anyways? So that if an employee has to debug something and selects more than they should, your system is not compromised?

Also, I'd say that a SHA256 hash of a 256-bit key is hardly a "half-measure". Nothing short of compromising your RNG or SHA2 will make those hashes useful to authenticate.
Have a look at the pull request notes: https://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com/pull/3

"What progress, you ask, have I made? …
I have begun to be a friend to myself."

A github user thdvl (likely _why) communicating with another github user cwales (also likely _why) saying he's begun to be a friend to himself. Is _why coming to be at peace with himself? So many ways to interpret this art :)
Yes and No.

You have to look at the companies with a critical eye but there are well established ones.

Buyvm.net is a no fuss provider and they have been around for a while.
In the UK at least there are quite stringent rules on how you can run a competition - give away a car? Abide by the rules.
The same hypocrisy can be found with Democrats. They like "big government" except when it comes to wars, women's bodies, and gay marriage.
Hackers, Developers, Programmers
It's easier, but what I've noticed with many companies that follow that model is that a handful of clients(maybe even just one) end up controlling most of the revenue. That sort of buyer power is not good for any company's long-term prospects.
To expand on this a bit (please correct me if I'm wrong), there are three major uses of dimensionality reduction:

1. Reduce overfitting

2. Train models faster

3. Take advantage of unsupervised data

Regularization handles case (1) quite well. It can also be used in conjunction with most methods of dimensionality reduction such as PCA/auto-encoders.

PCA covers all three, but isn't as effective at dimensionality reduction compared to auto-encoders.

Auto-encoders tend to yield a better compression than PCA but take more time to train and produce output that's harder to understand. There is a bit of analogy here, auto-encoders are to PCA what neural nets are to linear regression.
If you're talking about the "old Republicans" who may pretend right now that they are also libertarians (like Glenn Beck is doing for example), then I agree. But since the "Ron Paul movement" a lot of true libertarian people entered the Republican party and are still trying to take over it. The "real" Republicans are actually fighting them, though, because besides lower taxes they have almost nothing in common.

Also if you were thinking about Rand Paul, in a way he's his father's son, and unlike others who just pay lip service for liberty and such, he's actually fought hard against the Patriot Act, FISA, NDAA, drones and so on. He filibustered them for many hours, introduced amendments (which obviously got rejected), etc. However, he also seems to play way too much towards the overly religious base in the Republican party, and in that way he's also much like the "old" Republicans, which is a shame, and I think it makes even libertarians have second thoughts about him. The "always lower taxes" attitude at least could work on most libertarians, but the very religious side of him, kind of ruins it for libertarians, too.
In Feb 2012 ostatic had a look at the most "interesting" projects, and found that of the top 49 or 50 projects only 2 are GPL: the Linux kernel, and Diaspora.

http://ostatic.com/blog/the-top-licenses-on-github
Fork of Gitlab that allows public access to repositories
I feel like these numbers may be skewed due to Ext's miserable documentation and inconsistent behavior. There simply isn't much good ext related info out there once you want to do anything complex (and thus one using Ext spends more time entering queries). I feel like >50% of my Ext related searches end up fruitless and I'm stuck banging on it till I can determine how it actually works (vs. how the docs might make you think it works).

Or maybe I'm dense.
Ask HN:Is anyone from the community able to live strictly from donations?
Hi, I have a problem. I find myself unable/unwilling to work on things that I don't consider important, and by important I mean things that can improve the human condition, that optimize in some way our existence on this planet, that deliver true value. At some point in the past this made me quit my job and never wanting to come back again. I had a couple attempts later but no use. I just couldn't take anymore the inefficiency, the misplaced or lack of interest, the greed or just plain stupidity. I could swear a lot of people don't have a clue what they are doing, what is the impact of their actions and don't really care. I know I may be no better and that I'm just too idealistic but this is what I feel. I also find it very difficult to join other projects even if I like the general idea. It just has to grow inside me somehow in order to make me act..

In the same time, the things I work on and do consider important I just want to give away for free. The only way I find acceptable to get something in exchange of the potential value that I provide is donations. So I was wondering if anyone of you guys manages to live strictly from donations?
Try http://www.prometeus.net/

They are very highly regarded and are an European provider.

They may not be the cheapest but are reasonable.
Bank simple does this, it is a security measure, imagine a random person just opens your email in your phone (most likely note secured) and reads a message that reveals things like account balance.
Sure, but never rely solely on technology to escape your government. Political solutions are much better and more "comfortable" in the long term.
The sad part is that the majority of messages (at least in the case of Chase bank) are duplicates of what are in the email, or at least able to be figured out from the email (e.g. a large deposit has been made). I'd be concerned that with the frequency of emails received, it might prevent people from logging in when there actually is a real important message.