skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're working on algorithms to improve the 'predict' part (way beyond Holt-Winters!):
ow.ly/jRKrT

If you're interested to see our algorithms in action, email me jennyinc at gmail.com
That quote is great, made all the better by the reality that writing code is doing that surgery manually.
"... at the NSERC conference this week. It's crazy. They don't want to fund research unless it is run in collaboration with an industry partner. It's killing primary research and making all of the scientists crazy."

-- My coworker
>mostly inexperienced when it comes to writing mantainable code

Mostly. Just like any other average guys in any industry.

But game industry is continuously bringing back many interesting technologies, especially performance-related. Like LuaJIT, rapidly becoming mainstream and widely used, GPU-assisted calculation, used even in PostgreSQL - https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PGStrom - and so much more.
Anyone who walks away from this article thinking that the above is a reasonable interpretation of what is going on here has completely missed the point.

Nobody seriously objects to lots of girls liking sparkling pretty things. Or to there being lots of role models for that.

The objection is to the complete lack of alternate role models for girls who don't fit into that mold. And for mutilating a character who emphatically was not of that mold.

To draw an ice cream analogy, this is chocolate lovers upset that they are being offered every variety of vanilla, and nowhere any chocolate.
What about a subset of Hoare's CSP, as in Golang/Erlang? Objective-C already has support for immutables. How hard would it be to implement channels?
I did think it sounded too crazy to actually do, but I really like the way it turned out (did you try our demo slider?). And it is just a single slider, so not as bad as multiple decisions, exactly. Admittedly it's harder than "monthly vs yearly" though.

In any case, I won't be surprised if you're right and it only makes sense if your users are nerds who will like it for it's own sake. :)
Everything you wrote is completely confused. Monsanto doesn't invent a new strain of herbicide resistant crops every year. Roundup doesn't change. It is a trade name for a chemical with an expired patent, and many different companies make it.
I thought the most profound thing mentioned in this article was that loneliness was about intimacy. Not necessarily physical intimacy, but social intimacy. This is exceedingly important subtlety. Too often we say things like "go be social, go hang out." You can "be social", but non-intimate relationships (relationships with people you don't trust, people who are cruel, people who aren't authentic) do not have good therapeutic value.
Then they should engineer it to be seedless too so they don't have this problem. I really can't believe we're living in a society where a corporation can successfully use the courts to make natural reproduction illegal.
Ask HN: How to get back into mathematics?
So, here is the situation. I got a degree in literature a few years ago. Not enjoying work now (I work full-time). I used to like making sites when I was a kid (just simple JavaScript, PHP, etc., stuff). So I will be taking some programming courses. However, there is some math requirements. I only did up to grade 11 math, if memory serves. I never really liked it and have not done it in about 15 years.

Now that I'm much older, I have another perspective and really want to understand mathematics and do well in it. Basically, I'm willing to put the effort because I've somehow grown to appreciate it and hold mathematicians in high regard.

Question: shall I get a good algebra book (study on my own) and take a math placement test? Or shall I take the pre-req math courses at college and work my way up?

If I go the book route, what are some good algebra books/sites?

Thanks for any feedback I may get in advance.
This advice is backwards. If you're so busy with the backlog, you should hire someone to work on the backlog and supervise them. If you're running the business, your job is finding work, then managing the work, then executing the work, in that order. Anyone worth their salt at selling technical work for a small firm would be doing it themselves, why would they even need the job? Better to hire freelancers who you know are great workers, but aren't as good at attracting them business, and having them help work through the backlog.
Every single one of your pessism factors was true in 1932, and we all know how the world economy did after that.

The economic potential in genetics, robotics, nanotechnology, nuclear energy, space exporation, etc. are enormous. We just need to keep moving forward.

I'm not saying that you're wrong about the negative factors; they are all risks to a better future. I'm just saying that they can be overcome; it's been done before.
Think of HTML as assembly language. When I was writing compilers, my boss told me "A good compiler should generate assembly language that an assembly language programmer would be fired for writing".

And so it is with HTML.
I recommend a fitness related hobby that will bring you into regular contact with people. Then yes, you have to do the hard work of talking to the humans. Start small - you aren't looking for your soul mate you just want to make small talk for 3 minutes.
Why not limit this?

Annually and/or within major version updates, except [security] bugfixes of course.
AppScale (Open Source Google App Engine) 1.7.0 Released
If research is done purely in the private sector, then how do the research findings make it into the wider scientific community? Especially if the processes become patented. There is no communal well of scientific knowledge to draw from.
I don't think you've been watching the discussions surrounding Kickstarter over the past year or two.
My lossy PNG compressor (http://pngquant.org):

pngquant --ext .png -f --quality=80-100 *.png

halves size of the page with little quality loss.

Still, a high-res video with alpha transparency made with "codec" that doesn't compress any redundancy between frames is going to be big.
To add to your fears I had catastrophic syncing issues last few. Stupidly enough I had turned off local backups thinking Google would be better. 10gb of design files gone.

I still haven't worked out what happened but there where 5 computers syncing the files at work, something got muddled and deleted everything off all the computers at once. All I know for sure is somehow they where modified by a person who wasn't at work that day (and hence not on there PC). They where then deleted, but not available in the online trash, gone off all computers but not moved to the local trash as the forums so it should of, and all history had disappeared from the online drive.

They still appeared how ever if I did a search for them, you just couldn't navigate to them or find them in through any other part of the UI. So I did manage to zip them all up and get my data back.

Anyway lesson learned, and for me its dropbox and local backups from now on. All trust lost for me. I have no idea if it was syncing, an error in the cloud, or someone in the office, but yeah total loss of trust for me.
Get a pet.
I would recommend the events posted in the CouchSurfing.org forums. Or, if you prefer, can also contact people directly on CS and suggest meeting up.
For "too much" interaction, which way does the causality run though? These people could be attempting to compensate for feelings of loneliness or other unhappiness with more social interaction.
This is nicely pieced together.
There are usecases that use minimal to no bandwidth but a lot of connections. IMAP-IDLE comes to mind as a premier example. Essentially anything that requires "push" capability these days relies on open connections, other examples are websockets and instant messaging. Also the number of concurrent users is on the rise because of the always-on nature of cellphones. While 10M sounds bit far fetched today, I think that using available bandwidth as a measure for connection count is misguided.
Bloomberg terminal users' messages leak online
Pittsburgh has remade itself as a startup ecosystem going from a steel city to a IT startup hub. Could Detroit do the same I wonder. Manufacturing is not going to be what it used to be. Can Detroit take some of those empty buildings and turn them into startup incubators? I don't know. Maybe Enimem could invest in such a project. There is little Slim Shady could not do I should think. :-)
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If the developer is reading, it looks like you've got some bugs with tasks. Editing the task weight always returns an error stating 'Please enter a value no larger than 99NaN'. Also the description in that modal is 'Please enter a value between 1 and 99NaN'.
So how about an update to the OSX client so that it doesn't eat resources or choke on shared folders?

Or generally put some development behind Drive in general, not just the client but also the apps that have been rebranded as part of Drive? It's hard enough to trust Google not to discontinue stuff as it is, being almost completely stagnant isn't helping.

This isn't development, this just moving the deck chairs a bit.
LinkedIn Updates Privacy Policy 5/13/2013
don't you need a million dollars for that?
kind of related, you guys may or may not be interested in https://github.com/leeoniya/preCode.js

basically, it's a small snippet which lets you write code within textareas without having to mangle them in the source, like un-indenting. i've been using it a lot for writing static docs/demos for my projects.
Yes. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5700973
It seems to me that this whole legal struggle would have been unnecessary if Monsanto had not been pressured into abandoning genetic use restriction technology [1], aka "terminator genes".

I am aware though not fully acquainted with the concerns about "food security" in developing nations that led to the moratorium, but at least in developed nations, why favor the legal tactic of signing contracts that forbid replanting over the technological solution? They seem to accomplish the same end, after all. It also seems prudent, from an ecological perspective, to ensure that genetically modified plants cannot accidentally spread into the wild.

I cannot help but suspect at some level that the widespread fear of this technology is the result of successful scaremongering based on its unfortunate moniker ("terminator" or "suicide" seeds); it would be reassuring to learn of better reasons for the ban.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_techno...
That would be great. Thanks, James.
I find D to be much less complex than Rust. Rust, even now, is woefully incomplete. Take the 'rust' tool for instance, see how many bugs you can find just in the flags that you can pass to it!

(it's a substantial amount... or it just decides to break conventions, which dmd did also with it's '-offilename' type flags.)

Rust is also harder to learn, and it seems (to me) to also be more difficult to use C libraries from Rust than D. I cut my teeth on D by creating a few bindings, and I really struggle to do the same in Rust.

Just my experiences...

PS - Rereading this it occurs to me that D is probably just as complex as Rust, but it 'feels' less complex due to syntax familiarity.
Ah, but what it it when it is -40?
Show HN: Nuuton UI demo. Give me your feedback.
Government subpoenas, obtains wide set of AP phone records in investigation
Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2 (PBKDF2) -- A JavaScript implementation
Disruptive behavior includes pissing off the guards with wisecracks and a smug air of intellectual superiority. I'd bet $10 to 1 that's why he's in there.
Canada have also sold out public museums..

Do you have any citation or source for this?
That's also why experimental psychologists have mixed feelings about running power analyses* to figure out how many participants they'll need in a study to to yield statistically meaningful results--it's almost always a humbling high figure.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_power
Thank you, I'm not the only one! Every time I see someone misspell it, it makes me think less of their intellectual capacity.
A cached version:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3...
did anyone ask him when he's improving the hand dryer?
This looks great, can't wait to try it out!

My only concern from the screencast is that it looks a little cumbersome entering deployment commands in that tiny input field. A good feature would be the ability to create a library of shell scripts and assign them to a machine for deployment!
you need a shared project, mission, experience, goal, or whatever to bond with people.

Meetup is not that - you drink a beer, then just leave after an hour or two. If you work on a project together, though, even on github, you will probably become good friends

Volunteer, get a job you believe in, work on an open source project with someone.
Charging more money doesn't create more time, especially if you're already solidly booked.

Now it's great to quote a really high rate when you're totally booked because there is almost no risk but then it can be challenge when the client then accepts it.
Namecheap And Bitcoin – A Review
Government obtains wide AP phone records in probe
As a Canadian ... how are the broadband speeds in New Zealand these days?
Can you say something about pricing / how you are going to monetize?
If someone steals my laptop from your apartment, the person stealing is still guilty of a crime. Depending on our arrangement you may also be liable for the loss of my laptop, but that doesn't excuse the thief's action.
Disruptions: Even the Tech Elites Leave Gadgets Behind
How long will your experiment take?
You're doing it wrong, sorry. I have omni-completion enabled with syntastic support for D in Vim.

Works for me.
Linode was down
This is the BETA UI. Still tweaking it, though its very close to what you will see on the BETA launch. Let me know what you think. I specially want feedback on how moving around the page feels. There are some features not included in this UI (secret until launch) that will be present later on. And no, Nuuton is not dead. Its more alive than ever.
I see the docs mention that these only work when importing modules. The dev version of IPython lets you transform the AST of code that is typed in the REPL. It would be really cool to see an IPython AST transformer based on this. Here is an example from the test files in IPython: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/blob/master/IPython/core/...
Yes, but the steam releases typically still have Steamworks DRM, as far as I know - otherwise Steam Achievements and similar features wouldn't work. Has that changed? Can you just copy the folder out of steamapps and run it on another computer?
I think that, regardless of what they write, intentionally defacing someone else's site, especially in a way that they're unlikely to be able to easily detect, is rather immature.
Everything in moderation.. except moderation.
Talk itself (that is, marketing) can be a "minimum viable product". Enough to make sales. But I think that's more valuable in the Kickstarter world of making things you can kick. In software, the standard is usually (not always) higher. As a consumer myself, I'm a lot more willing to pay for the promise of a physical product, than to pay for the promise of software.
Immunity? There's no immunity (supposedly) inside the Google search algorithm. But of course, there's inertia. Big brands have a huge inertia: you can think of a big brand as having thousands or millions of small links that push its ranking up. That is very hard to overcome with these tactics, it's like stopping the sea with a teaspoon.
"Has the Internet forgotten about me or am I still a hot topic?"

I'm not super-familiar with this case, but there is something unsettling about the mindset behind these words.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul
Looks really good, will definitely use this when charts cross my path the next time! Is there really anything in life that isn't replaceable with one line of Ruby? Got to love that pile of gems.
Some minor notes:

Conventionally, "authn" means authentication, "authz" means authorization, and plain old "auth" doesn't mean anything in particular.

I don't think it makes sense to blame SAML for the awkwardness of using the passive browser sign-in scenario for something for which it was not designed. There are other profiles and other protocols available from any competent security token service.

Also bear in mind there is a tremendous amount of confusion around the SAML terminology, which can mean the token format, or the protocol for exchanging authentication request messages, which are entirely separate things.
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Sweet. Now change the ToS a little and my gut will feel better...
put a cloud in your pocket and you'll get cold wet pants
> At one point, the psychologists thought of designing a mobile app, a sort of electronic nagging mother, to help people break bad social habits. (You’d check an item off the list, say, if you remembered to talk to anyone that day—a store clerk or a librarian.) But they didn’t get funding for the software, so now they’re focusing on a simpler and more low-tech fix.

This mobile app sounds like something that would be really easy to write.
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Have you tried GCD barriers for this? A custom parallel queue basically gives you a reader/writer lock, with dispatch_sync or _async acting as a reader lock, and dispatch_sync_barrier or _async_barrier acting as a writer lock. GCD has a heavy emphasis on performance so I'd be interested to know how the speed of that approach is.
sry, Im confused on what you are trying to say now. I know its not the case, but it sounds like you are suggesting that monsanto planted the seeds in his field.
There are lots of them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Hi-Bred

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer#Bayer_CropScience

(Call that a sampling, I didn't try to do an exhaustive search)
The example from the article is really ignorant and self-defeating. Maxwell didn't come up with anything himself, he just formalized and turned into Greek squiggles what Faraday had discovered. And Faraday's claim to fame was working for Davy, doing things like inventing electric motors and lamps. So if you want to use that history as an example, it says applications come first, and hypotheses and research papers and scientific conferences and the rest of that crap are just the documentation of the new invention.
Dude, I'm assuming you're desi, in which case you may avail yourself of the aunti-network that always seems to be a matchmaking service on overdrive. I know quite a few geeks who, while having spent more time staring at a computer than bars, have had quite a bit of success with.

Based on heuristic evidence, I've seen some happy families emerge for guys who may not otherwise have done so well if left to their own communication/social skills. I think there's actual statistical evidence which points to longer lasting marriage thru the somewhat more traditional method of desi matchmaking.
I agree with the trend you're describing although I slightly disagree with the absolutism (i.e. "every incremental discovery" and "no longer possible"). Still, regardless of this increasing demand for funds, there are other ways to procure funding other than taxation.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad. That was my mass-market pop introduction to assets over liabilities, paying yourself first, and building value (long-term and tangible) over submitting to short-term lazy don't-rock-the-boat thinking.
I used the bench marks from http://code.google.com/p/java-matrix-benchmark

Decision came down to speed is reasonable, library has some other math functions I need, and time taken to build.
My existing SSH connections are still up, must be a DNS issue.
I humbly contend that forcing people to do anything in the name of an preserving the purity of an ideology is a Bad Idea.
Yep, there's an issue for that! https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy/issues/14

I've also gotten a basic implementation working in the CPython REPL, which requires you to run a function `macro_repl()` before you can use them. A Macro powered REPL would be super cool!
Show HN: gander.cc – an easy way to make a collection of photos
Even easier, they could probably just provide a list of items to enter in an existing todo/calendar app.
Must have been very short, I can access my sites, login to admin, and see all of Linode's pages as of 3:49 CDT
"If it wasn't for dickheads like you, there wouldn't be any thievery in this world, would there?"

-GySgt Hartman
There are a lot of activities that are illegal but not criminal. Parking infractions, failing to properly permit construction, or smoking marijuana in a state where it is decriminalized (but not legalized) will result in a fine or other corrective action, but no arrest or jail time.
They didn't make reproduction illegal. They confirmed that Monsanto's patent lets them restrict how you can use the products of reproduction (beans/seed).

These beans wouldn't naturally exist if it weren't for Monsanto. It would be extremely difficult to produce a soy bean that didn't produce seeds... since that's the bean part.

This is very different from the Myriad BRCA1 patent where they patented a naturally occurring mutation in humans. In Monsanto's case, they actually produced something that was novel - an herbicide resistant soy bean.
I find it interesting that sentence in the article that the title is taken from actually says 'they will only perform research that has “social or economic gain”'. A bit of a change. That sentence is a hyperlink to the following article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/research-counci...
If true, why veil it at all? Why not just defund it alone? The government reserves the right to not fund whatever it wants to. This will have an awful lot of collateral damage. So much so that I doubt the primary motivation was simply defunding climate science.
DNS issues seem to be resolved now.
Designmodo's Flat UI Pro Review Part 01, the PSD's
Nice review of Flat UI.
Yeah, pretty much same service (from couple years ago). Shortly does seem to have a bit larger character limit though.
Fascinating. I'll have to give that a shot. Thanks!
Thanks for your feedback and your suggestion. It is within our priorities.

Also, check your email. We just sent you an invite!
Back up now. Linode has definitely been doing all they can to scare me off!
I think it's fairly good proof of the religious nature of climate change that anything and everything somehow must relate to it in some grand conspiracy. Sorry for being hostile, but your claim is simply ridiculous.

The NRC already was a completely captive vehicle of the government. With this change they're essentially trying to make it more self-sustaining by moving it to contract research, which obviously includes a lot of renewable energy research, health sciences, etc.

Such a change (to funded "partner" research) is short-sighted and foolish, but it's all about dollars. It isn't a "veiled attempt" at anything, yet is an obvious, open attempt at reducing costs.
What is weev's current mailing address?

I don't approve of his crimes, and don't want to feed his ego, but I'd like to send him books to pass the time and also express to him that he's virtually not a topic among the public at all anymore. This might help him spend the time on some major introspection and maybe worry less about what people are thinking about him.