skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, tyndierock. We've just started the entire process earlier this week, and the early results are already promising.

Speaking of the 7-time rule: (*)

"The Rule of Seven is an old marketing adage. It says that a prospect needs to see or hear your marketing message at least seven times before they take action and buy from you."

We re-imagined it, and changed if we're not getting any activation & usage from a user after 7-times of trying, then we're grouping them as 'lost users' which we might win back them again with some other techniques.
Yes, I imagine widespread adoption of this idea will lower honey prices and therefore increase the effective cost of the fences.

Still, it's neat to have a fence that's a potential source of profit if managed efficiently and depending on local prices. Elephant related cost savings will subsidize the cost of bee-keeping.
Only this year Facebook refused to remove videos of a woman being killed by having her head cut off.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22368287)

They've since changed[1] their mind about this, but finding videos of real people being really killed is trivially easy for anyone. This isn't in some specialised guro community or a shock image on 4chan, these were distributed on a social network with a billion users.

[1] Weird that they had to change their mind because these clips seem pretty clearly to violate their rules already.
Action movies in a digital age
And yet the specialized employees people really pay to watch make nothing at all.
> Free honey? Beekeeping is actually a lot of work

True, but you can decide your tradeoff: if you don't want or need much honey, don't gather it. The bees will be healtier as well, as a result.
The "free" market doesn't exist without regulation against things like fraud, collusion, monopolies, etc.

This is exactly the sort of regulation Republicans should care about.

Not that this excuses Republicans from being hypocrites. But on this issue, there's no conflict with their core philosophy.

And frankly, even deregulating the financial industry was consistent with their philosophy. It was their support for socializing what should have been private losses that was the philosophical problem.
That's okay, it probably won't last:

Sports Illustrated estimated in 2009 that 78 percent of NFL players are bankrupt or facing serious financial stress within two years of ending their playing careers and that 60 percent of NBA players are broke within five years of retiring from the game.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/story/2012-04-22/Pro-a...
> Self-driving cars are really just an incremental improvement to what high-end manufacturers like Mercedes or BMW already offer.

So you are telling me that I can go to a Mercedez/BMW dealer right now and get a car that almost drives itself in regular traffic conditions? Simply not true. There's a lot of assisted driving technology (blind spots alarms, HUDs, assisted parking) out there, but nothing like Google's self-driving car.
Hand-to-mouth living from a credit card company perspective
RethinkDB sounds like it's document oriented from their site: "RethinkDB is built to store JSON documents, and scale to multiple machines with very little effort. It has a pleasant query language that supports really useful queries like table joins and group by, and is easy to setup and learn."

Also not sure why relational == Meh.

RthinkDB does sound promising though not ready for primetime. The following (critical) features are still in the development pipeline: Secondary indices, a db backup tool.
This stupid argument is reiterated again and again and doesn't become less stupid. There are about 100 millions of gun owners in the country. Do you think any government can wage war with 100 million armed citizens, drones or not? Do you read newspapers, do you know how successful the war in any territory where the population is hostile, noncooperative and armed? Do you think US tried to find local allies in Afganistan and Iraq because they didn't think of using drones? Drones aren't some magic wand that makes you invincible, and no government can remain in place if 100 million armed people want it out, drones or not.
College offers you a much larger group of people surrounding you, so it's harder to judge everyone. And in turn, you recognize that people are judging you less. This is part of the freedom that you feel when you exit high school, I think :)
Yes you're right, edited.
85% effective, but once the elephant is in he might not want to go out.
Why You Should Hate Trailing Whitespace
I think you guys are getting lost in the hypothetical vs the reality. Is it hypothetically possible, yes. Is there any evidence it is true, no. See my comment below to see how cnet confused a physical bug with some inherent bugging capability of the phone.

Even in the hypothetical, don't you think someone would have identified the "bug" by now? It would need to draw power while the phone is off, that would be measurable. It would need software on the phone. Even without the source code, the bug could be found in the OS or firmware. Do you think the FBI is working with ever phone manufacturer to install this and no one ever leaked that info? There isn't one piece of evidence that it is actually true.
You could perhaps deal with it by insisting on being paid up front. But then I'd worry about the potential for lawsuits, if the client really is that crazy, and that's a potentially unlimited downside you can't work around with higher rates. The more he's able to pay you, the more he's able to pay his lawyers when he sues you.
> The problem I'd have with doing this is that it would be difficult to think of a price I would be happy with.

Just add zeroes until you get that warm fuzzy feeling. Myself, I'd be able to never work again :P
It would change the business model for sure. Cable companies (and "phone companies" and ISPs and basically all data-to-the-household businesses) would become a commodity utility like electricity or water. Phrasing like "destroy the profitability" isn't really helpful here. My sewer service doesn't have the opportunity to engage in price discrimination, yet it still works.

The counter-argument would be something along the lines of "technology service cannot be commoditized -- it requires innovation and a return on investment!". To which I reply: cable companies.
How About a Free Market for College Athletes?
Very common. A kid who got drafted the same year from the rival high school across town OWES the team that drafted him $10 million.
That is awesome! We was missing a ticket-icon today at work, and discussed what to use instead, with this new release we don't have to do anything :)
Michael Ford's proposed syntax looks much nicer. I don't understand why the enum values have to be assigned when they are first looked up. Why couldn't the commas in the definition signal that the enum members should have automatic values assigned at the definition?
There are couple of things that suggest correlation: Chicago and DC.
There are lots of parts of science that can't be experimented on (e.g. astronomy). Even for those parts that are experimental, just because you're wrong doesn't mean you're not doing science.

The current test (if I remember my philosophy of science correctly is about falsifiability - it's not science if its claims can't be disproven. From this perspective, bad experiments are still science - someone predicted that similar experiments would behave similarly, and their prediction was falsified. This is how science is supposed to work.

It gets problematic when any failure to reproduce instinctively gets explained away as experimental error on the part of the second experimenter. Even worse is when experimenters (as in this case) work to have failures to reproduce hidden from the scientific community (the authors of this study had to sign contracts that they would not identify specific failing studies before they were given the necessary data about experimental procedure.
All the posts involved set off the flamewar detector, except this one which I'm now going to kill manually.
The original problem is that farms are blocking elephant migration paths. "The elephants’ key migratory routes have been cut off in many places."

And now you've replaced a fence that they can break through with a fence made of bees. Yes, this is probably good for the humans, but I don't see how it's better for the elephants.
Is the data out there find out what the highest paid programmer/database administrator/'IT manager' is per state?
I would have just used loud speakers which made "buzz" sound , hooked it onto a motion sensor and PV for power.
Voila! Problem solved.
Do any HN people know what they're doing to unlock phones? Brute-forcing the passcode as the article suggests?
Can I have both please?
This reminds me of an observation I made while out at lunch one day. I was at a local restaurant having lunch and realized that two tables away, there were some of the ladies who were janitors at my work. After a couple of minutes of over hearing them talk about my work place, they were pretty outspoken, one of them said "....and they just sit there and stare at the screen all day......and they get paid all this money - I don't get it...."
"will destroy the profitability of cable companies"

I would phrase it as "it will eliminate the monopoly of the cable companies". Which is a good thing. Sick and tired of the limited options we have with cable companies and the "bundles" they provide. I don't want bundles. I want to watch what I want to watch.
> I've got a can of assorted seeds, enough to sow an acre of all the veggies you need - $40, get busy.

Now all I need is an acre of land and time to tend it. Don't you think that's a bit ingenuous? It's like saying the parts for a laptop only cost $200. Now get them and start soldering.
Thanks for the promo code! Works great! ...will post a review for you.
Growth Stage B2B Heat Index
Yes, however the technology has not "trickled down" from high end cars (albeit some car makers are pushing hard on this). We still need to wait a little bit more before we can find some of these on a Civic/Corolla.
I think the obvious question regarding this issue is whether athletics provide any educational value. Is so, why would we care if they turn a profit? How would spending funds on athletics be any different than spending funds on other ancillary departments like drama or music?

It seems that most universities believe there is some value in it for students considering that many schools are happy to run athletic departments at a net loss. The Ivy League for example has a strong tradition of fostering athletic competition and those schools often have larger athletic departments than most large state universities.
But the CEO and the Sales guy are key to the software company's mission. The football coach is not key to either education or research.
Is this including increased revenue from alumni? Or rather, how much it would decrease if the sports teams were removed? I'm not sure if this is actually something that would happen, but it seems like it could be.
As much as it kills me to support McCain (I'm not a fan of him at all), all I can say is "Holy cow, well done!!!"

This thought came across my mind first when I was 15, wishing for Cartoon Network without paying extra for cable that we couldn't afford.
This will be awesome and it is long overdue in the United States in my opinion. The monopoluy of the cable companies is outrageous to say the least. Also, enough with the bullshit "bundles" and "packages". I don't want to pay $100 to comcast (Northeast US region where I live) and get a "bundle" of channels but if i want to watch HBO, pay extra. If I want to watch Showtime, pay extra. Basically, any channel worth watching, pay extra. I would rather pay $100 to pick 10 channels that I really watch even if that includes CNN.
Great job Dave. <3
Perhaps we need a bill that covers 2 things.

1. If a channel is free (NBC, TBS, etc), cable/sat providers are required to include it as part of the base connection fee.

2. If a channel is paid, subscribers need to pay for it directly, it can't be subsidized through the basic connection fee.

Now individual networks have the power to determine if a channel is part of the basic service or not. Cable companies still have the option of bundling channels together or go ala carte if subscribers really want to access premium channels.
A Week With Fitbit Flex: What You Need To Know, TLDR; Edition
Feel free to bookmark the icons page. :)
I was extra tickled that the highest paid public employee in Nevada (read: Las Vegas) is a plastic surgeon.
This is meant more as a tool for me to show people directly what their site would look like.

For example, without asking you to sign up, I could build a link where all you do is click to try http://qiip.me out

But for regular visitors to the site, you just click on the icons on the home page which does the same thing.
Hey, my state is the only one where the highest paid employee is specifically for women's sports. He is not a woman himself, though.

Nevada is completely appropriate, though.
The facility cost is shifted to university's balance sheet. Most calculations assume that the cost of building and maintaining a stadium and supporting infrastructure is zero.

I'm going to sound like an economist that refuses to pick up a $20 bill (if it's real, somebody else would've picked it up), but there's, for example, profit opportunity in on-campus food catering. So a bunch of private contractors sign up with university to operate their own facility, hire their own staff, and give the university a cut of the earnings or licensing fee.

Why has no for-profit corporation stepped up to build up a stadium, hire coaches and players, license the university name and then enjoy the profits?
BitChicken - A Bitcoin Contest for Game Theorists
I wish I had seen your comment earlier. The "what is healthy food" discussions are just as bad as language- or editor-wars.

And they totally ground these discussions. Instead of offering a bunch of options of cheap food, the various posters insist that you have to follow their whatever-plan first or else fuck everything else.

Cheap foods: Bananas. Eggs. Brown rice. Brown pasta. Red beans. Carrots. Sweet potatoes. Peanut butter. Whole-wheat bread.

There are some foods on there that aren't allowed under certain diets. That's okay.
That tends to get you "the boy who cried wolf" effect and is often eventually ignored by animals.
I don't have a free market in cable providers.

In my largish apartment complex, there is one cable provider: Cox. I can't use a sat dish, my apartment faces the wrong direction and I'm on the second floor. FIOS isn't available. CenturyLink agrees no "prism tv" whatever that is for me, and directtv is out because I am on the second floor and face the wrong direction.

So there's really no free market in cable providers for me, it's a monopoly situation.

The free market solution would be to require Cox to allow other cable providers to use their cable to get last mile to me and then let Cox, et. al., charge me however they wish.

I would be curious to know which situation Cox would prefer: mandatory unbundling, or force them to share the cable.

EDIT: I do wonder what keeps Verizon from offering FIOS if they wanted to. Is it too expensive to rewire a huge sprawling multi-floor apartment complex?
It's more about what cold meals stereotypically are--some processed cereal, two slices of wonderbread with some bread and ham in them--that drive that rhetoric. Sure, a cold corn and arugula quinoa salad is certainly much healthier than the vast majority of meals, hot or cold. But on average hot meals are likely slightly better.
That's silly, the coach is key to the athletics department he was hired to work for, just as the CEO and sales guy are key to their respective departments (or in the case of the CEO, the entire company).
Designer claims to have used iOS7; Describes it in detail
How about a system that ranks the "popularity" and activity on all the forks, and simply lists/suggests these forks when a repository is considered inactive? The community will figure it out ("this fork is the suggested source"), and no action is required on behalf of the owner of the original repository.
Objects can be mutable or immutable. The value of a mutable object can change to another value, but it's not that the value-in-itself is mutable.

http://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#objects-va...
I can't imagine this lasts much longer -- it's such a charade to begin with that eventually there will have to be a major shift in how college athletics are handled.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/lets-start-paying...
If you don't mind me asking, why do you refuse?
Visualising CSS matches
Bookmarked. Thanks Jeremy, this seems like an excellent reference. I've been taking a few Coursera courses on this subject matter, and this will be a good supplement to that.
Ahh, I'm sorry. I should have specified I was in Firefox (and should have tried it in Chrome!)

Black and white looks tons better, but I think it would depend on the picture.
Check out its namesake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-45_Liberator

There have been plenty of "practical scenarios" where access to very minimal handguns has been used to gain access to more. E.g. handguns were quite significant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

And its certainly concealable; a bit thick for my tastes, but otherwise almost every time I walk out the door I'm carrying concealed a 4" barrel standard length magazine M1911, which is not a whole lot different in the other dimensions, and plenty of people are able to conceal revolvers with thick cylinders or semi-auto handguns with double stack magazines.

Have you ever personally carried concealed?
You'll probably still have to scroll through them - they'll just be marketing screens saying "call <cable provider> to order <useless channel>!"

I just downgraded my U-verse account. The channels I used to have are now just a blue screen with the image of a TV and a message either saying "you are not subscribed to this channel" or "call <number> to order this channel".
This counts as a hack now?
Mathgen: Randomly generated math papers
No I was not bound to a bed and wished it was muscle loss, I have legs like tree trunks and sadly they somehow stay the same from my sporting days -- think rugby player type build.

Though the part of the body that uses the most calories is in many respects the brain, and I know I think too much.

Also aware that my glicogen(probably spelling that wrong) levels can account for nearly 2 stone in my case - everybody different though and I'll admit due to my frame and size I'm not normal.

When I was doing competitive swimming and in peak form I could happily walk on the bottom of a swimming pool instead of being boyant and was due to muscle weighing more than fat. Just something I accept as normal too me.
Debian development and release: always releasable (essay)
This site is broken in Chrome and Firefox, at least.
Thanks for sharing goshakkk - and for your blog posts on event analytics, there's some good stuff there:

http://goshakkk.name/analytics-analyzing-tracked-events/ |
http://goshakkk.name/tracking-events-in-analytics-systems/

Have tweeted about this from the Snowplow account...
Hyperdex looks quite interesting indeed, but after getting burned with new products claiming too much, I'm perhaps overly cautious. Also, it doesn't appear to be able to change schemas after creation, which is a significant issue.
Likewise, we have a general principal in US wherein companies should be free to develop profitable business practices.

Cable is sort of special since it's become part of our infrastructure, so it deserves some oversight, but does that extend so far as to dictate how programs are packaged?

I think a la carte is pretty tricky. I want it because I only want to watch AMC and HBO. It might not be so good for the consumer who wants 20 different networks.
Yeah, I'm not really sure what his point was with that. It's not that the article proposes a god github account that call push to any repo without being watched.
I'm surprised at the negative replies to this comment. We usually praise start ups for using bundling or other microeconmic techniques to increase revenue, but for US cable companies it's not ok (I'm not based in the US so have no idea how hated they are - seems quite a lot). If the cable companies are abusing their monopoly then they should be prosecuted for that, but it shouldn't need this new legislation to stop their monopoly.
You'd be surprised by how passionate waiters can be about their jobs. None of these claims are universal, and not everyone can be passionate about their jobs. I agree that society needs garbage men (and garbage men actually get paid quite a bit), but that doesn't mean that for those of us who have more of a choice/desire to find fulfillment in work we should completely ignore the idea of seeking such fulfillment because some others choose not to.
City of Boston drops Microsoft for Gmail
Functional Reactive Programming with ClojureScript (video)
Wonder if that clever randomized home screen icon can go transparent? http://i.imgur.com/8NBbH9N.jpg
As you point out, I think it is one thing to offer and another to ask... the former is part of a marketing strategy.

I would do it, but there would be a fee for the hassle and my legal expenses.
As the maintainer of an an alternately alive/not-really-alive github-based project, a problem with changes being voted in is that many submitted PRs are of fairly low quality.

Just because an idea is needed by the consumers of a project doesn't mean that any given implementation will be satisfactory. Many voters will tend to be uncritical and/or have different standards. E.g. did the submitted change include tests? Did it pass existing tests? Did it implement a feature that was actually needed (e.g. did it solve a "docs" bug via a "code" patch)? Bikeshedding over existing functionality? The list goes on.

I'll also note that GitHub's great CI integration support (used by Travis CI, the Jenkins GitHub plugin, etc.) can significantly aid the proposals in TFA. E.g. a PR that doesn't pass CI would automatically be ineligible for merging.
I have at least a 10 fold increase. In my project I have many lists of integer tuples and I need to do a lot of comparison/arithmetic on that.
Boxfish: Realtime Index of Every Word Spoken on TV
I agree that the disparity is a serious problem. However, I reject the notion that the solution is to pay the athletes. The fundamental problem is the intertwining of a business and an academic pursuit; colleges should not be in the business of sports, and the sports they have should be about amateur competition rather than fundraising or prepping athletes for the NBA, or the NFL, etc.

The solution is to divorce academic institutions from the sports business.
Beware of conservatives bearing "gifts".

Check which lobbyists have been visiting/donating to him recently.

(and with all the problems we have right now, all the unfilled positions for five years, this is what he is working on?)
“The company says it is preparing to launch in 2014 its first batch of autonomous vehicles capable of driving up to 31 miles per hour. The limited speed reflects the technology’s expected initial use in heavy traffic.

Volvo says it is working on higher-speed autonomous driving, but isn’t yet disclosing when it would be available. Its prototypes have run thousands of miles of test drives on public roads in Spain and on the company’s test track in western Sweden.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2012/12/03/volvo-plans-to-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_cruise_control_syst...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precrash_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_departure_warning_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotic_car#Notable_projects
That's really cool, although it is hard for me to visualize (ie, see through the cloud into its components). I saw a video on youtube somewhere where someone did a 3d cellular automata in minecraft. It just kind of grew and took over everything. This is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNypW-aSCmE