skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt that a 31.5-inch 3840 x 2160 monitor will be less than $1,000. Dell's U3014, which is 30-inch and 2560x1600, is $1,200.
Fixed and pushed. Also included this great guide under documentation. (And added a warning for the affiliate links).
Speaking of bagging: Geoff Hinton talks a bit about model averaging and has a very stimulating pair of hypotheses related to this, which are:

a) genetic recombination in the form of sex might be "bagging across genes" that prevents tight co-adaptation (= overfitting on the evolutionary timescale)

b) the brain uses noisy discrete firing instead of continuous communication because it allows for "bagging across network topologies".

The bulk of his talk is about how dropout in neural nets can be used to accomplish some of the same performance benefits that model averaging gives on other algorithms (at a much smaller relative computational cost).

Here's the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DleXA5ADG78
In theory, couldn't BitCoin be redesigned for an electronic voting system? I would probably avoid using any system that is electronic, but a public ledger of votes that could reasonably protect the franchised (and its privacy) through a public ledger? (RSA founders still state their mistrust of an electronic voting system)
great tactics. thanks!
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First off, i'm the G guy. But just because i'm a halfway decent software dev doesn't mean i'm not a generalist. I'm not the SQL guy (though I can write it), and i'm not the SAN guy (though I know how to carve out new volumes). I can work on pretty much any problem, but my strengths will lead me to work on the things I know the best.

So often i'll take on a bug if I know how to fix it. But if i'm busy, someone else might take care of it (perhaps the A guy). Doesn't really matter. If he needs help, he'll ask me or someone else, otherwise he'll figure it out.

Generalists are great at figuring things out that they don't understand. But they also have to be willing to admit when they're stymied and ask for help.
I guess the 'you get what you pay for' means I need to start charging more.

I don't follow specs to the last misspelled word, and in fact I will provide lots of UX suggestions.
Startup's gesture-based AR glasses closer to Minority Report than Google Glass
Why is it so important? Is it for gaming, maybe? Because I am pretty sure it's impossible to notice that while working, because there is no flicker between frames anyway. And gaming on a 4K screen (at PC viewing distance) is pretty crazy.
Wow, it has been 2:1 for a while, hasn't it? USD recovered?
Show HN: Citibike Station to Station directions
I'm not sure about the law in these situations. What happens if a hacker (right now let's not label them black or white hat just yet) decides to tell Facebook that hey know of an exploit which can gain access to anyone's account given an email address. This is a monumental bug, obviously. Is the hacker allowed to negotiate a price and then withhold the info if his demands are not met? Or is this against the law?

I would guess as long as they doesn't use the exploit or sell it to some 3rd party (nefarious or otherwise) then they should be safe, right?
IOS status bar status notification/alert library
I'm currently stuck with a Lumia 800 with a penchant for crashing thanks to Vodafone's "repair" service.

I explained in a written letter how the phone would crash at frequent intervals (especially when playing or recording video). Being a developer I even wrote the letter as I would write a bug report with steps on how to replicate the problem and what not.

They returned the phone to me with a standard letter saying how they fixed the phone by upgraded the OS to the latest version.

The OS was of course already updated to the latest version before I even sent it to them. They even tried ringing me on the broken phone I had sent them so I could explain what my problem was. I'm not sure how they thought I would answer it exactly...

I tried again and received the same response. Needless to say, my phone is still broken.
I wouldn't mind having Interchange or this: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/srcset/w3c-srcset/#adaptive... as a standard
This has been discussed many times before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5761441

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5366423 <- Significant discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4411318

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4409219 <- Significant discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2728975

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1479143 <- Significant discussion

Consensus seems to be summed up in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5761688

jebeng
I remember seeing this before. The quality of the courses were
often quite poor. And many instructors would start a course and
not finish it, leaving the people following the course hanging.
I don't think I would need more for a terminal and a text editor, really.
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Thanks! it is work in progress so a few upgrades should be coming along as well
Microsoft should stick to its guns and keep the Start button gone
I quickly hacked this together this morning since I found myself copying and pasting the station names to Google Maps in order to get the actual biking directions.
Man, that ff-tisa-web-pro font is genius. Even though it's rendered differently by Chrome, Firefox, and IE, it looks really good. In fact it looks so good in FF that I stopped to investigate!

Oh... and the content is good too ;)
Transcript:

> Named after George Boole, boolean is the most primitive data type, allowing for one of two values - true or false. Boolean operators are intended to represent truth values. Many languages contain a strict boolean data type, however, several languages, such as C and Lisp represent boolean values as the integers of 0 (false) and 1 (true). In most languages 1 and 0 are interchangeable for true and false.

I suspect the average lay adult pulled off the street would have a hard time understanding this, let alone a child.
Why a la carte cable won’t save you as much as you think
Biotech startup secret sauce... sharks (but no lasers yet)
Could you describe how to adjust the dpi? I would like to try changing it on my current laptop, to get a feel for if my apps will work in future.

I realise I should be able to read the docs, but I have found lots of different suggestions on how to do it, while you have successfully!
I haven't found the full text, but it seems that this 'The bilingual brain: Cerebral representation of languages' by Fabbro in 2001 might be it. A related study: 'Multilingualism in Stroke Patients: A Personal Account' is available here : http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijel/article/view/27556...
Open products. How can we open-source consumer products? Why should we?
The hidden dark side of today's hottest tech trends
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What we would dream about OCaml
My stomach ...
These bounties should be thought of more as an "award" than a "reward". In this case, the author has received a great honor for his cleverness.
Sadly in the same boat. I'm going to look at the reddit thread for inspiration. I was mostly de-motivated with the influx of media server projects, because I didn't need that. Time for inspiration!
> Either you're a white hat and believe selling to malicious hackers is fundamentally wrong and you wouldn't do it at any price, or you're a black hat waiting for the right price.

That sentence is such a false dichotomy it's hard for me to take you seriously.

Is it evil to want to feel appreciated for your work? The message facebook is sending is that they honestly don't care if you find huge, potentially costly security holes in their software and go out of your way to let them no.

edit: It seems from reading other comments $4500 is actually quite reasonable. I was basing my comment on the author saying it was a "paltry fee".
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+1 for TenFourFox on a G4 Cube. iCab coming second.
If you believe a perfect todo app is possible, make one. You'd get rich.

I've resorted to writing my own because I've never found one I'm even remotely happy with. The requirements are too personal.

Meanwhile, getting a working definition of what "colonising mars" means is reasonably easy, even though people mighty disagree about the details.
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Nicely designed and really handy to cut through the clutter to get to relevant London based stories.
The Core Tenets of Game Design
It would be better if you give search like google rather than filling all the points. It looks messy.
Occupy Gezi
Basically protest against Turkish Government to show people have the right to have a protest. Continuing with blood.

http://fakfukfon.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/atencionatencioattentionattention/

Please share as a human being to stop more blood in middle east.
My complaint is the payment for the login service through the use of my behavioral data I'd rather keep private. I have never clicked through an ad to purchase anything. I dislike seeing ads that are clearly based on my behavior but don't understand the intent of that behavior (i.e. showing me ads for generators because I looked at a few on Amazon to compare the stats to the one I already own). I also dislike seeing ads in general because they are not a useful feature to me. I'd prefer to pay for features in a more direct and favorable (to me) manner. I also dislike the concept that targeted ads are in some cases specifically designed to influence my attitude toward brands and provide me with information that may not be absolutely true but which they will hope I internalize to influence my future purchasing decisions.

Obviously, this is my personal preference, and I do understand that ads can be a useful revenue stream for companies targeting other users with different profiles from mine.
Serial entrepreneur names "the ideal place to build a startup."
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I'll believe that if someone manages to make a perfect todo app before Mars is colonised. I very much doubt I'll see that happen.
A bit late, but I wonder if any one knows of a reliable way to detect support for prefetch/prerender, without having to actually fire one off and see if it goes through?
I'm sorry, but this is naive. And your anecdote argues against the point you are making below it. Most people do have a price, even a "good" people. And good people like OP are more likely to stay good when they feel it's appreciated. I think the price FB paid him is almost like a slap in the face, and could have the effect of antagonizing otherwise helpful people.
Module Pattern in JavaScript and CoffeeScript
Built a fully automated media center for my mum using OpenElec (SickBeard + Couchpotato + SABnzbd + Usenet + XBMC). Had the setup running for a few years on my Mac Mini at my house, but was awesome to see it achieved for a fraction of the price.

Oh and at work we are using it to control a robot but can't say much more for another couple of weeks :D @sidgtl
There are too many factors involved here.

For example, human languages are reinforced completely differently.

From birth, you will hear from inside the womb often one language. Later, you hear and speak either a couple or more languages but generally in different contexts, e.g. mostly one with parents, maybe one or more with friends or strangers and one with school and media.

The latter context is normally reinforced further with reading and writing, while the former rarely or not at all. I suspect, though without more studies it would be impossible to know, that it is the exclusively spoken languages that are most affected. The reading and writing languages, as well as being used in different contexts, are highly likely to be processed by the brain differently.

In addition, almost all of these human language uses will be tied to life events and (strong) emotional feelings.

So, the comparison to programming languages seems tenuous at best, especially since there are plenty of other contexts where one can misapply learned rule-sets in general. The word "language" is almost a misnomer across these two different fields, in my opinion.
G is for generalist, right?
The U.S. government (and several others) is surely already aggressively doing vulnerability discovery. [1]

They just keep the exploits to themselves, to use for their own spying -- instead of sharing them with the public so they can be patched, to increase security for everyone.

Which course of action is more of a 'police state'?

[1]: “You’re commuting to where the information is stored and extracting the information from the adversaries’ network. We are the best at doing it. Period.” -- Michael Hayden, who headed the NSA, and later the CIA, under Bush.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-23/how-the-u-do...
Since you're a security pro, why do you think this is the right amount? Because of the ease/difficulty in exploiting it?

How much damage could have been done to FB's credibility if this guy had been malicious?

I suppose it's damned if you do, damned if you don't.
There have been two attempts that I know of (and probably more) to add keychain support to Firefox, once leveraging Camino’s code. The problem wasn't technical, but resistance from Firefox leadership to the idea. IIRC they were concerned about breaking the ability to move a profile folder from one OS to another.
I'm not sure how they thought I would answer it exactly

Because number are tied to SIM-cards not phones. I've never sent my SIM card off to be repaired. Just pop your SIM card into a new phone before sending your broken one off and you'll have not trouble answering when they (or anybody else) calls.
Okay, a few more questions:

What are the SaaS company's founder(s)'s backgrounds? Have they launched and run a successful business before? Are you sure they really know what they're doing?

It sounds like you don't really stand to lose anything - you can continue your agency business whilst siphoning some of your teams hours off onto this project. On the other hand, if this other company has the 'vision' and all their needs catered for, except development, that leaves you in a somewhat weaker position (in my opinion) as they could pick any decent agency to do their development. Is their anything unique about your relationship/agency to them, other than having developed the MVP?

I'm not going to be able to advise you on a starting percentage since I have zero experience in negotiating these kinds of things, but I imagine this is all information anyone here would need to even take a vague stab-in-the-dark guess at a starting point for your negotiations.
In a similar position and fantasising about being able to afford a monitor big enough to stick on the wall...
Not to mention users like me, who opened it in a background tab, never even saw the video playing. I wouldn't have known it was anything but a blurry image if I hadn't seen this comment.
> Inputs/outputs DisplayPort, 2x HDMI (optional), RS-232C, 3.5mm audio-in, 3.5mm audio-out

RS-232C?! Cool!
Groupon UK Breached
Two days ago I got a very suspicious email on one of my accounts. (Probably) like many people I operate a domain purely for emails and I like to have a catch all on said domain so I can label my emails when signing up for things and keep track of who has my email. For example lets say I signed up to hacker news I might use the email address "ycombinator2013@mydomain.com" - this allows me to know the source should one of these companies get hacked or sell my data on. I only use the email addresses to signup to things and NEVER use the same email twice on 2 different sites and the email address never EVER gets given to anyone. Also because it's a catchall it goes to my main email account in Winblows mail so hitting "Reply" makes it come from my SINGLE outbound smtp email account (i/e not from "ycombinator2013@mydomain.com") IF and when I ever do reply to emails.

As I already stated A couple of days ago I received an email to "groupon2012email@mydomain.com" which was odd as this is the first time it had ever happened. I proceeded to get in contact with Groupon who flat out told me that "You mustv'e given the email out to a third party" - which I know to be false else what ever would be the point in myself tracking signups by using non generic emails?

I'll update this as and when they get back to me again :)
What kind of display is that?
The two go together like peanut butter and jelly. As an imgix customer, I can tell you that the service is a godsend. It looks like you would just pass your imgix URLs into the data-interchange tag.

Or for bonus points, fork Interchange and have it pipe every image request through Imgix.
Cheers James, means a lot
The wealthy Oil and Gas industry is a challenge to Norway's Tech Startups
Best device to read programming books?
I have an ebook reader (an old Kindle) and it works fine to read novels, but it's not practical to read programming books or similar.

I'm not planning on spending too much for a tablet, so I won't buy an iPad, I guess, but I'd like some suggestions if anyone uses to read manuals on some device and she/he is confortable with it.
well, I was talking about contrast, not labels. Usability is when you guess what is something before you focus on it!
A note of sarcasm? I thought I was being quite blatant about it.

Why does it matter why they want it if enough people request it? It was removed and the response was to ask for it back. It's not like new functionality is being requested. It's a feature that has been a part of Windows for several generations of the product. There seems to have been little or no benefit in its removal. If the change confuses the customer, then it's likely a mistake. If the change removes or hides expected functionality, then it's likely a mistake.

Considering that people have been using commercial and free utilities to restore the functionality, it doesn't seem a significant thing to put it back. Microsoft could just bundle one of them with an install of Win8 and do nothing at all.

Finally, if enough people request a feature such as Program Manager, you're darn tootin' you should consider implementing it. The biggest failure of Microsoft concerning Win8 is the simple fact that they decided to ignore user feedback it was getting during the beta phase.
1936: GM, Firestone, Standard Oil. "Perhaps you can guess where this is going."
Yea - there are a ton of stations.

Do you mean having an autocomplete with the station names?
I've got two that I plan on tinkering with this summer. Not exactly sure what I'm going to do with them, but considering my programming and building experience is pretty novice, if I can get them to do anything remotely useful will be a big win.
Stop saying cybersecurity when you mean infosec (and vice-versa)
If anything, they should be punished for this move, and get a 5% cut in next year's budget.
You have weak and dynamic typing confused.
he's one of the people who partly (because he's still over 10 tabs) gets the current bookmark-systems in browsers.

For most users the bookmarks seem to be broken/too complex. Never had the problem, maybe because I'm going crazy when I got over 10 tabs and want to get rid of them ASAP. :\
You were nitpicking about the analogies the author used. Which is usually the kind of arguments that elitists make when they refuse to agree with an opponents point of view.

I think most of us can see things we would have done differently - just as I think most of us can see things that we do like about the book as well. But arguing about the intricacies of an analogy that is aimed at children strikes me as unfair.

Which was the point the former poster was making. We're not saying that you're not allowed to have an opinion nor a right to express it. Just that some of the perceived negativity (and I say that because your comment - intentional or not - does read negatively) comes across as pointless nitpicking.
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It's just about what Google pays for auth bypass on sensitive servers.

"How much damage could have been done" doesn't really enter into the calculation.

I'm not seeing how anyone's damned here.
And gaming on a 4K screen (at PC viewing distance) is pretty crazy.

Crazy Awesome.
Kids are "people" too. I guarantee if you hand them a new, shiny electronic toy that is total crap then it won't be long before they want something different.
I'm currently reading "Programming Erlang" by Joe Amstrong and I'm loving it.

Buy the second edition beta ebook here - http://pragprog.com/book/jaerlang2/programming-erlang. The new edition highlights features that are in the yet-to-be-released versions of Erlang. Also has content on how to use tools like rebar.

There's also Chicago Boss, which is a cool web framework. If you are coming from Rails, you'll feel right at home. https://github.com/evanmiller/ChicagoBoss/

The IRC channels: #erlang, #chicagoboss #ninenines (for Cowboy, Ranch, etc) on Freenode.
Is there an RSS feed of Zurb's blog? I can't seem to find it.
Yes. Quake players swear by 120Hz+ screens. We're all geeks and nerds who still use CRT monitors because those new hip 'flat' things have too much input lag and too low refresh rate. In a fast-paced game like quake, these things make the difference between winning a duel and losing one.

Also in the fighting game community (King of Fighters, streetfighter) input lag is a killer. if your monitor has lag, you won't be able to chain your combos as well as the pros.

For working and document editing and browsing, 50Hz with slow input time is fine, but for 'serious' gaming it's not, I guess.

It's also one of the arguments I hear why PC gamers consider themselves 'more awesome'. "Why would I play on an xbox, on one of those TVs with the horrible refresh rate, and all the post-processing that adds milliseconds of delay"
Huh? They cared enough to send him $4500 as a thank-you. Their obligation in this case was zero.
If the track is not evacuated, what happens to the supersonic shock wave off the nose of the train? Seems to me it would reflect off the ground and enclosing walls, causing all sorts of turbulence.
Swedish startup Hövding's invisible bicycle airbag is the buzzing in India
Do you know, or necessarily care, who supplied the brakes in your car?

Yes?

That's probably not the best example since many people actually change the breaks in their car, whereas I believe the point of the OP was that this is a library that is compiled into the final product.

That said, I don't think this is evidence that the BSD license is "broken" in some way. It simply requires that the user of your code cite that they used it. (I believe Microsoft failed to do this for a few years for their sockets code). Just like when you quote another text, you need to cite your source; the BSD license requires the same. If that's not your intention, don't use it, but don't blame the license.
$4500 for a website auth bypass is not a slap in the face.
this solution does not work as domload is executed way too late and image replacement cause nasty reflow.

RWD images problem is much more complicated than this.
you have to consider things like:
- dom reflow (img tag without width/heigh)
- requests (additional request to load default image)
- internet speed (you can use wifi on your phone, or 3g on laptop)
- choosing breakpoints

i wrote a blog post about this some time ago http://gondo.webdesigners.sk/responsive-images/
apparently i'm not the first one thinking about using base tag. i've come across some old video (dont remember the link anymore) where it was refused because of "browser bug". unfortunately i never found out what bug is the guy referring to so i can just assume that it was already fixed.
For canvas games I recommend locking viewport to device-width and disable scaling. The scaling mechanism mentioned before is mostly for letting the game canvas adapt to multiple screen sizes and works also good on desktop.