skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about gas stations and oil infrastructure? Why fill up at a store when you do it over night at home? Also, Service stations will be disrupted. Electric cars require much less maintenance, no oil changes, timing belts, or transmissions.

Those things alone have a hell of a broad impact on American life.
Yes, there are several. See slide 15 of this talk http://www.slideshare.net/teoliphant/numba-siam-2013 and also the github repo: https://github.com/teoliphant/speed

Note that the array-expressions previously in numbapro only have been moved to numba (our plan for all premium products is to move features into open source as we get funds to support that).
Web vs Native
And that is the exact problem with certain researchers. I just had to explain this to my undergrad who's project resulted in negative results (his 1'st study). I congratulated him, as he discovered that the treatment he gave did NOT effect the genes he looked into. He didn't understand, so I had to explain that his study (with the correct controls), provided information that is useful to science.
Negative data = data.
Data = good :)
Yes, my point is that "the API" as in the interface itself can be the copied, but "the API" (implementation) cannot. Clear? :)
YouTube introduces Subscription Channels at $0.99/mo
At least those historical mathematicians acknowledged their gaps of knowledge. Cancer research is a far cry different.
I tried out home on my Nexus 4 and the biggest issue I had was that I felt weird having pictures of other people's kids scrolling by as the background on my phone.
They should just separate the chat heads functionality.
I see what you're saying, but the fact that a $99 phone that's on the market today--in fact the only one offering a heavily-marketed selling point--didn't see enough demand to keep even that low price point.
But, the upshot is that Numba produces code that is either faster or roughly the same speed as C or Cython.
No, that feature is the reason Waze has so many users.
YouTube spitting out obscure message for all searches
"There may be confidential content in your search results. Please do not share outside Google."

shows up on all youtube searches

Sample:
URL: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kittens
Screencap: http://i.imgur.com/NxtHU34.png
They did. Facebook Messenger app on android has chat heads without the obnoxious homescreen
It bothers me that journalists take this view often with technology that can only be used by a small fraction of users. It also bothers me that companies feel it's necessary to do a big dog and pony show for a feature that's only available at launch to a minority of users. I feel for companies of all sizes. If you launch a product and for whatever reason it is not available immediately or to everyone, without fail it is lauded as a 'cool new idea' and reported almost in the same breath as a commercial disaster. A better strategy for almost all facebook products IMO would be a campaign that is much more targeted and limited in scope. especially when the product is similarly limited in scope. recent examples of Graph Search and Facebook Home come to mind.
His first proposal, that WordPress installs should update themselves, makes sense.

His second proposal, that WordPress should show users a click-through warning when installing themes and plugins, doesn't make sense. The experience from e.g. SSL errors in web browsers, is that most people will just click through and ignore the warning.

Instead of making it difficult to install themes+plugins, make it difficult to write insecure themes+plugins.
Oh, wow. With numbers that high it never crossed my mind that you were talking about loan interest. Normally the interest you pay to short a stock is single digits, and if you have enough money it can be <1%.

I was thinking of this: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortinterest.asp

You can see the short interest in TSLA here published twice a month: http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/tsla/short-interest which is very high compared to AAPL's short interest: http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/aapl/short-interest which hovers around one day to cover.
I'm not underestimating the technology used in the M5. If anything, though, the M5's technology is the one that I would describe as "incremental." They took an internal combustion engine, the mechanics of which have been well-understood for over a century now, and improved it incrementally until it became a twin-turbo V8 that has a ton of horsepower.

Contrast that to the Tesla, which has been engineered from the ground up to use batteries to power it. The car is a technological marvel, even compared to cars like the M5. And this translates to a driving experience that is different enough from ICE cars* that it makes it a disruptive tech.

*instant acceleration, no engine noise, real-time graphical feedback about the car's systems, etc.
Poll: Are you primarily a Developer, Designer, or Idea Guy?
Developer: you do mostly back-end coding

Designer: you do design (interface, graphics) and/or front-end coding

Combo Dev/Designer: you do both back-end and front-end coding and design

Idea Guy: you've got biz ideas and are trying to learn how to code or create your product
Combo Developer/Designer
Idea Guy
Thanks, Omar! Getting to share an office with Priceonomics has been grand!
Well, in a way. Yahoo products with Summly integration are in the app store right now.
Tesla being successful and Tesla disrupting the car industry are two different things.
Don't Let Fear Keep You From Moving
This relates to something I noticed recently. Out of the blue, I started receiving "join my network" requests from people whose names sounded vaguely familiar. I couldn't remember ever meeting them, and their profiles didn't give me any clues as to where I might know them from. I searched the inbox of the email account associated with my LinkedIn profile, and it turns out that they were all people I had contacted about items for sale on craigslist.

So, I'm guessing that my address was somehow added to their address books, which they then imported, and that's how LinkedIn identified out "connection". What that doesn't explain, though, is why these invitations were sent out. I'm confident that none of these people would have knowingly sent an invitation to me, so I'm guessing that LinkedIn is obtaining their "consent" without making it clear what is going on.

If anybody understands the process behind this, I'd be glad to know. The sad part is that once I realized who these people were and that they almost certainly didn't intend to send invitations to me, I didn't bother to investigate any further, because that's the kind of thing I've come to expect.
Now is a good time to show that people are capable at passing legislation instead of blocking it.

It's easier to enshrine rights in law than to oppose every iteration of PIPA and CISPA, every time they try to let it slip through unnoticed.
I love seeing these kinds of moments on hacker news. Very inspiring. Congratulations guys :)
Textastrophe - collection of text messages
That would make sense, and it's analogous to the laws in some states where it's legal to own lockpicks and use them on locks you own, but if you get caught with them while breaking & entering, the lockpicks become illegal.
What's New in Scala 2.10 [video]
What a garbage article. That guy should reconsider writing as a career.
PyPy 2.0 - Einstein Sandwich released
CEO of Crocodoc here. Crocodoc's API will remain a stand-alone offering as part of the Box platform, and we're going to be investing heavily in making our service even better! Nothing's going away, and we'll continue to support all of our existing (and new) customers.
Ah, and Jon Bentley's chapter about quicksort, along whose lines there's a (also very interesting) Google Tech Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMnn0Jq0J-E
Layoffs at Electronic Arts Hit 10 Percent of Workforce
Why do you need the DMCA to protect these things?
Patents will be treated in a special manner?
I just don't get this. Well done for open sourcing the client, but on the front page the product is touted as fully open source so it can be audited, but the client is only half the product (arguably less) so security cannot be audited. The prices are also incredibly expensive, I can understand why you pictures of old fashioned USB sticks. Good luck with your business but I can't see how this is going to disrupt anything.
PDF.js is awesome and works remarkably well.
I would be excited to go work for yahoo at this moment in their history. They're making some relatively big moves to get their game back.
Open Source Cloud Is Failing To Gain Traction: Survey
Deleted Snapchat photos recovered by forensics company
We built a special embeddable viewer for today's announcement using our new HTML5+SVG document viewer: http://box.crocodoc.com/documents-reimagined/

We're looking forward to launching the new version of Crocodoc once things settle down on our end. You can preview how it will work at http://preview.crocodoc.com
"From $99 to 99 cents" sounds like a comically drastic fire sale only if you know nothing about the mobile industry in the US and the basics of how handset subsidies work. If the retail price of the phone is $500 and the carrier normally shifts $400 of that into your monthly bill over two years, selling the phone for $100 less is a 20% off sale.

I don't know whether the writer is intentionally being obtuse to write a hit piece or genuinely doesn't understand the market, but a 20% discount sounds like the First isn't quite hitting sales forecasts, which is a considerably less interesting headline.
It's almost like kids benefit from running around outside with other kids, rather than being forced to be mini adults. Or something.
There isn't "one design to rule them all". There are designs that fit the objectives of the business.

The objectives of most magazines is to sell as much advertising as possible, typically through CPM. I'm not a designer, but I'm guessing it would be hard to design a print or web magazine that featured loads of advertising and still looked minimalist. The ads are screaming for attention, so the content has to scream for attention alongside them.

Magazines which don't tend to make most of their revenue from CPM advertising have more layout flexibility. The Economist comes to mind.
I've been using this for a few weeks: https://github.com/terryma/vim-multiple-cursors

Works great!
Premium accounts still see it, though.
Does reproducible in this context mean:

The paper did not document their steps sufficiently, so the authors were unable to reproduce the experiment.

-- or --

The paper relied on circumstantial evidence that was not well-understood enough to be reproduced.

-- or --

The authors were able to perform the experiment as documented in the paper, but were unable to reproduce the results.

or something else?
This seems fun. Unfortunately it is stuck at challenge 2 and takes about 2 minutes per compile.
Why do you need the if? Shouldn't the while loop run zero times if have_posts() returns NULL or an empty array?
Revel Adds Facebook-based Fraud Prevention to iPad Product
I think if you take away the need to it to be really truly secure it's workable. Social profiles aren't nuclear secrets, they are just posts about topics and pictures. I think if you embed the private key with a symmetric key password that would be good enough. I do wonder why that hasn't been done especially in the era of native mobile apps.
When somebody says "The right to bear arms is ... the _most_ essential right.", he or she is repeating that claim from the US Founding Fathers.

If America were being ruled by some sort of King George and the Founding Fathers had their revolt today, the Founding Fathers would be called "terrorists", just like the Boston Bombers are.

Americans have had this stuff drummed into their heads as a result of nationalist propaganda for over 200 years, because history is written by the victors.

If history were different and King George had won, they'd instead have been hearing about how gun control was the foundation of their liberty and how it protected loyal subjects of the Crown from those nefarious pro-French traitors.

The same goes for Robin Hood: he isn't given a better presentation because we are reading fiction but because King John lost. And John was a tyrant, by the way, who was made to submit to Magna Carta by force.

According to media accounts of the Boston Bombers that I have seen, they claimed to be fighting America because of America's injustice to Islam.

Apart from its increased plausibility, how is this different from the claims of American gun-nut militias who are worried about being forced to give up their liberty and their Christianity because of plots by the United Nations, an organization led by the anti-Christ?
Tell me my surgery will cost $100,000 at hospital X and $200,000 at hospital Y (both of which are close to me and staffed with competent employees). It won't influence my decision as long as my insurance company doesn't care. I'll pick based on the doctor and the insurance company can negotiate either bill (down to a very similar level, I presume).

If I don't have insurance, I may be swayed by the $100,000 price, but either way they'll have to sue me to get all of the money that they ask for.
NYC Study Finds Protected Bicycle Lanes Boost Local Business
You clearly are unfamiliar with the history.

If you can find a copy, George Berkeley's The Analyst was a cogent criticism of the foundations of calculus in his day. (He didn't have answers, but he identified real problems.) A variety of books were written by mathematicians in response. Uniformly these were much lower quality, and consisted of defenses of the foundations of mathematics, rather than acknowledgements that there were real issues. His criticisms were not taken seriously until that mathematical framework completely fell apart when Fourier series constructed "obviously impossible" things.

Today we are used to a very general notion of a "function". But historically a square wave simply wasn't a function. (Because if it was, how did you know how it interacted with infinitesmals?) And getting one out of the sum of a bunch of well behaved sins, with some simple integration, was a huge shock.
Windows XP SP2 activation password
You can go to google finance: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ATSLA&fstype=ii...

And then select 'Annual', 'Balance Sheet', and then look at the line item for "Retained Earnings (Accumulated Deficit)"

Or alternatively, from TSLA's 2012 10-K:

"We incurred a net loss of $396.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2012. In addition, we have accumulated net losses of $1,065.6 million from our inception through December 31, 2012. We have had net losses in each quarter since our inception."

Source: Page 31 Here: http://ir.teslamotors.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1193125-13-...
I'm asking for clarification of the impact of this bill. Do you know the answers to those two questions off hand?
Was it really necessary to have a blinking Bluetooth headset? :|
What a frustrating trailer. Show, don't tell.
Searches on YouTube giving Experiment Warning Message
Basically a search on YouTube gets a red v=bar at the top of the results page with the words: Experiment: There may be confidential content in your search results. Please do not share outside Google.<p>Anyone else seeing this at the moment?
Have you ever been to a Formula 1 race? Or even any auto race?
Twitter Acquires Palo Alto-Based Scalable Computing Startup Ubalo
I have some happy news
I looked. I don't see him saying he has a JD. I don't see him saying he passed a bar exam. I especially don't see him saying he's a practicing lawyer. I have no idea what "fellow" means in this context, but he's not listed in the staff directory.

"Spending considerable time researching the issue" is not sufficient for not looking like an ass when acting as a lawyer.

There's a theoretical side to law, but it's mainly a practical art. Sort of like software. It would be hubris for somebody who has "spent considerable time researching software" to make his first coding project something big enough that it gets reported nationally.
Order Routing Animation 0.5 secs
Duplicate inventions happen all the time:

Mendeleev (Mendeleyev) spent part of his life re-discovering and re-inventing stuff... because most of the inventions and discoveries took time to spread to his native Russia.

And Mendeleev's own Periodic Table was re-discovered :) by Lothar Meyer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_periodic_table
This is a pretty dubious justification. Whether or not Alchemy lead to later easily reproducible results, the alchemists couldn't have engaged in an effort to present themselves as what we now know as scientists.

Oppositely, it seems logical to expect that a parade of fake and often impressive results would act as a damper to real, modest gains getting attention and funding.
That was my conclusion as well. I'm working on a Market Samurai competitor, currently in pre-launch at: http://KeywordSear.ch

I'm wondering how they got this data, I would love to be able to offer App store specific research. I agree, sales and gross rank would really be slick.
Stop giving kids Ritalin
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/aug/01/athletes-with-adhd

Micheal Phelps was diagnosed with ADHD, along with many other kids (particularly boys). Maybe we should embrace kids have different inclinations rather than funneling them through an institution which crushes their innate talents.
Good idea, and our minis thank you ;)
I never know what to make of these kinds of studies. The author has full license to decide what "categories" will be part of their spectrum and what their definitions will be, and then further to interpret every data point by themselves. The former you can review and question, the latter you cannot.

So let's question the former:

>Kim decided that for her study, she would both parse further the different dimensions of the Eurocentric profiles and create new ones that better fit the styles of the East Asian families.

Oof. Two biases don't make a right.

>The responsiveness that’s considered an aspect of “authoritative” parenting, for example, was broadened to include both positive and negative attributes: warmth and hostility. Control, she would write, has “multiple facets … positive control is measured by parental monitoring and democratic parenting; negative control is measured by psychological control and punitive parenting.”

The Stasi were a form of positive control, apparently. Just kidding -- kind of. Suffice it to say none of the above are so mutually exclusive that they should be put in categories called "positive" and "negative."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/aug/01/athletes-with-...
1. Tarsnap and (I believe) Arq both have client-controlled keys; the server can't decrypt data.

2. Stop saying you MD5 things, and, if you're using it, stop using MD5. Also: this is not a compelling feature. Tarsnap HMAC-SHA256's every block of data it stores.

3. I'm not going to tell you that you need to open-source your server, but I wouldn't give "it doesn't matter for security" as a reason why.

You should put a page together that explains your whole cryptosystem, down to "why you're using CFB" and "how you pick IVs for CFB" and "where integrity checks are performed", so that people can review it. It's awfully hard to assess security claims without detailed information.
Discover New Web Startup
The "Labor Hoarding" Effect
Vagrant VMs are headless. So when you 'vagrant up' a box you won't see a GUI window or anything you'd expect to see when launching VMs with VirtualBox.
It would give me hope for America's technological future if this one can be pushed through.
They're probably using the IP.

What is worse is that
1. There is no way to actually delete the data. From what I can see, they only disable the account if you ask them to delete.
2. Even if you didn't give any of your data to FB, your friends/family etc can - there is simply no way to prevent this (a friend takes a picture of you at a party, tags it with your name etc)
And in Virginia, where they were denied a dealer license despite the investigators recommendation that it was in the public interest, seemingly because of an existing relationship between the DMV head and the dealership association's directors:

https://openwatch.net/i/40/why-did-the-virginia-dmv-deny-tes...
After playing with this for about 3 seconds I realized this would be perfect for a ticking timebomb. The use case: You configure your freelance/consultation web app to start injecting this script 1 month after an invoice is due and not paid. I would bet the clients will be hurrying to pay your invoice after they get complaints of farting sounds coming from their website!
Pinging a server will no longer be boring: hello fancy graphics
Upto now, pinging was boring.
Only a couple line with boring statistics scroll by.

This no longer is this case when pinging webservers with HTTPing!
HTTPing now has a (completely optional) gui (compatible with every terminal in the world, as long as ncurses runs on it) with flashy graphics and nice colors.

See for yourself at http://www.vanheusden.com/httping/
On this page you will not only find all the sourcecode (released under the GPL) but also a couple of screendumps and a nice reallife video of HTTPing in action.
check it out!
I'm getting it, this is actually kind of interesting, Viral marketing for something perhaps?

Edit: looks like it might just be a botched revision.
That is a fascinating question. Just like breaking into a network is illegal, you want something that applies at a document-level.

It's not actually a copyright issue. Whether the DMCA (or something else) covers it, I don't know but would love to hear.
Why would you expose such information in a way that it is protected only by a mechanism that the public has access to? It seems like you are asking if fixing the DMCA would remove protection for irresponsible behavior.
>The economy is not "a pie", because it's not a zero sum game. The pie can grow, leaving more for everyone.

But in the short term (multiple years) the biggest swings will likely be in terms of allocation of wealth rather than increase in total wealth. The majority of immigrants aren't going to be the likes of Elon Musks or Sergey Brin. They're going to be the rank and file IT workers that absolutely will cause stagnant wages and increased unemployment.
This article is light on content and heavy on sensationalism, but it's also not wrong.

How many of the people in this thread jumping on the author are actually running Facebook Home?

Exactly.