skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See my reply here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5818507

I try to live a life which is entirely ethical and I treat people with respect where earned. I will not be an apologist though and if I find something morally reprehensible I will exercise my right to mention it as you are exercising your right to criticise (which I accept).

Your comment by nature is to demote the "right wing" which means you are playing to typical partisan political ideologies.

I care not for either.
A game? :)

Do not most games get inspiration from earlier games? Aren't quite a few FPS-games quite similar to the ones preceding them? Or RTS-games? Aren't most games iterations, improvements and variations upon an existing foundation that we collectively build on to create ever greater games? :)

There are games that take entirely new paths. But most games, actually most GREAT games are built on foundations of many, many other games, while introducing something new. And that's what I hope Skycraft will do.
It has turned out to be quite hard to implement higher-level cognitive phenomena directly, so they decrease level until they find one they can implement and then try to get emergent properties from there.
It should have shown the video at first. Even for scrolling it's too much until you find out what all that really is about, that you are not willing to read it any more.
Funnily enough, in Germany parents are advised to not let their newborns sleep in somewhere with all four sides closed (as is the case in this box).

The alleged reason is to reduce the risk of sudden infant death.
Agreed. I mean at some level of abstraction (EG status reporting to senior management/sponsors), rolling up sub-sub-tasks into one 20 day task would be OK but if I had direct oversight over the developers I'd aim more for 2-3 days.
I don't read the articles focus as being on the reduction in infant mortality, but as a piece about cultural differences in care for infants, by describing one aspect of what Finland does, and where the reduction in infant mortality was mentioned in passing and not much more.

You'll note the title is not "How did Finland reduce its infant mortality rate?" or similar, but "Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes".

It's a human interest piece more than anything else.
I wonder how this translates to peoples understanding of medicine, and alternative medicine in particular. Those discussions tend to get very heated.
Hello, we recently hosted a hackathon and it spat up an open source, no-bullshit Google Reader Alternative. It is live at http://reader.pykih.com.

We started this as a fun project and we only have an early prototype out but are getting sign-ups. We want it to be a simple, text-heavy, less UI, developer friendly, hacker news style reader.

Please do try it and give suggestions, feedback, bugs, etc. at https://github.com/pykih/reader/issues. In case you are a Rails developer and wish to contribute, we are at https://github.com/pykih/reader. Thank you in advance. :-)
> I don't see FirefoxOS as the mobile OS for "Firefox users."

Oh sure, anyone could be a fan of FirefoxOS, that wasn't the point of my comment. I was just pointing that one would have to be twisted to turn this story into an Apple fanboy fight.
Get some magic in your life? Having done 5 start ups in the last 20 years, my observation is most seriously that the magic can be best described as CHANGE. Never mind salary and hours... If you love change and love to drive change it will feel like magic. If you don't you will hate start ups.
Also there is more bang for the buck making sure babies are raised well and healthy, over trying to fix maladjusted and unhealthy teenagers and adults years later.
Most NHS hospitals allow you to pay for certain extra services. TV and internet access is common. In many hospitals it also includes being able to pay for private rooms with en suite facilities.

EDIT: Specifically regarding maternity wards: We did pay extra for a private room when my son was born, so I have first hand experience with that.
The box is heavily subsidized and even Finns can't buy them directly. Some people re-sell theirs but mostly on finnish language baby websites.
Hey Dan, interesting to hear your experiences with EC2, especially with RDS - Would you mind expanding on your comment:

"EBS would fail often too"

How often is often, and in what way did it fail ?

I'm currently thinking about using RDS in a production environment and it would be interesting to know the limitations.
I should like to give a contrarian comment about this, because it is on top of the front page and seems to be being received positively. This book is probably not a good way to learn about statistical inference. It has quite confused explanations of both Bayesian and frequentist approaches. The preface seems to imply that programmers, by virtue of being able to use computers, don't need to take a rigorous mathematical course in Bayesian methods. However the text actually uses mathematical notation throughout, and as far as I could tell it is often not explained. I noticed at least one case where a probability distribution (gamma) was described only through plots i.e. without specifying its pdf or how you could derive the pdf. I think the kind of discourse that this book exemplifies is halfway to cargo cult 'statistics'.
The great gender divide in tech explained, maybe
In all sincerity please dont refer to Java and Android in the same sentence.

As far as Google is concerned, Java does not run on Android and you might be bearing witness to something that Google disclaims.
And they are plowing (at least some of) the proceeds into public programs, instead of private companies.
Except democracy is often false, and essentially a duopoly. Take here in the UK for example - there are two main parties, Labour and Conservative, which are varying degrees of right wing neoliberal. I don't doubt either of them would have supported this project because councils are full of careerists who owe favours. We can try to elect a "better" party (we tried with Lib Dems) but that goes tits-up, and we could start a much better left wing party (Green Party), but it's insanely hard to get any real power due to a variety of factors such as the media, ingrained ideas, gerrymandering, etc.

So true democracy is a bunch of people who stand up for their community, or at least that is far less flawed or corrupt than the system as it stands.

As for the right wing idiot thing - I disagree. I love the place I live in, if some arseholes come along and threaten, intimidate people here, then of course I think it just to counter-protest, vastly outnumber them, and make it clear that they are not welcome.
About the "clone of someone elses work" part, I find myself repeating this, but I think it is worth repeating:

Do not most games get inspiration from earlier games? Aren't quite a few FPS-games quite similar to the ones preceding them? Or RTS-games? Aren't most games iterations, improvements and variations upon an existing foundation that we collectively build on to create ever greater games? :)

About all your points of hatred: I'll note the wish for a "creative mode"! :) And Skycraft will definitely explain more ingame when starting than Minecraft did. Although there was a charm to go online to understand Minecraft, it's not very user-friendly.

Thank you for your great words and great feedback! :)
The whole locked phone thing is just a graphical and OS feature. If the OS is vulnerable to a remote injection it might just as easily bypass the locked state.
ipython looks really interesting, maybe even deserving its own HN thread.

This is the second time I've seen it in the last month, I noticed it in the documentation of a Python static blog generator, Nikola [1].

[1] https://github.com/ralsina/nikola/blob/master/nikola/plugins...
I agree and would add front end guys and source code don't mix well anyway! Or is your front end guy called Bill?
You, sir, are correct! :)
Marketing in technology is a complex task. The visionaries are generally poor at marketing and the marketers don't actually get the vision. That lending of vision from the entrepreneur to the marketer makes or breaks a startup.
Germany drops its longest word: Rindfleischetikettierung...gesetz
More about it at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinderkennzeichnungs-_und_Rindfleischetikettierungs%C3%BCberwachungsaufgaben%C3%BCbertragungsgesetz
You're saying that anything that can be summarised must have originally contained a trivial amount of information?
There should really be a standard interactive-ebook file format (something like a pdf + ipython, or an open-source CDF). Low power devices could easily degrade to text only with good tipography.
:(

What browser/OS?
I wonder:

Whether dislikes, especially from an unknown walk-by, have a stronger emotional effect than likes. (And whether this varies by gender and anonymity of the attacker.)

What subset of posts tend to attract dislikes. (I could easily see questions and things like that attracting dislikes because they don't add general utility and then one dickhead comes by and decides to spit on someone for being ignorant/learning.)

Whether when people dislike something they're really just trying to make it less visible.

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Though, since we're really talking about something's size in the search space, if people just ignore it it has more or less the same practical effect as it getting downvoted. Which makes the fact that something can get posted early in the day and be missed, and then be posted later by someone else and be seen kinda ironic.

I don't know, I've long thought that rating systems done on a per-post basis are really bad for promoting positive content. You don't get to customise it to show each user what they want, you don't get to cache any of your work really - and there seems to be something wrong with it, at least based on back of the hand personal eye-balling, that seems to make it wreck communities (i.e. since it's been becoming popular I've found less value in online discussion.)
How to use Chrome’s serial API to talk with Arduino
Nightly builds are quite scary.. using as much new APIs as Skycraft does, there's always a big chance that a small change breaks something. Does it work in stable Firefox for you?
I read the article and it's nothing less than sensationalist, right from the title. It did have bits and pieces of useful information, but overall a dud.
They say that in the article.
Press Q to change the size
The first thing that I noticed about the box is that all the baby clothes are sex-neutral. Here in North America it's almost impossible to find baby clothes that don't immediately scream "I'm a boy" or "I'm a girl".
What "countermeasures" has the US "installed" to prevent suicides? Just because they aren't occurring in a sweatshop makes them no less real.
> I treat all people as classless.

What a convenient fantasy.

> The problem is not specific to one traditional "class".

Except it is, because it is only a problem by the implication that signs of wealth means that insufficient money must have been used on what is needed for the infant
> Things are terrible right now for cognitive 1-percenters who want meaningful, interesting work (i.e. an upper middle class salary isn't enough, and it's never "stable" for top-0.x-percent intellects because of the job security risks that level of talent implies

You seem to be implying that less intelligent or educated people have LESS job security risks to worry about than the "cognitive one percenters"?

You can't be serious. Are you confusing "risk" with "choice"? Going down that scale, it's "choice in finding a job" that gets reduced, not "risk of having to find a new job".

Or maybe you're confusing the "job security risk" of losing that really nice intellectually challenging job and having to pick a possibly less interesting one from a number of companies that are jumping up and down because intellectual talent like that is never on the job market for long, with the ACTUAL job security risk of losing your job, period. And the subsequent worries about where next month's rent will have to come from.

And the "right now" part has me scratching my head as well. From what I'm seeing, if there's one sector that seem to be coasting along just fine in this turmoil of economic crises, it's the tech sector and in particular the highly intelligent top of it.

My friend for instance, is a brilliant programmer with a sharp analytical mind, only just about to finish his Physics PhD, already found a job, had to look for, oh, about a week or so. He had at least 3 options (he indeed picked the most intellectually challenging one), the reason it was "only" three was because he doesn't really want to move (this university town is a bit of an "island", most people have to move to other regions "where all the jobs are"), he limited his options by choice.

Now compare with his girlfriend. Equally smart, but no background in programming and her PhD is in Bio/Med. She's already had to move to be able to take a temp research position and has been looking for more stable employment for months, without much luck.

... and one other, unrelated thing, the following can be pretty dangerous advice:

> Don't write code that you'll use later on work time-- you don't own that-- but feel free to explore and just rewrite the code from scratch at home.

I can't speak for how it works where OP lives, but this won't fly in the Netherlands. Regardless of whether you rewrite it from scratch, code that you could conceivably have written as part of your normal work description (yes this is pretty broad), you don't own that. Doesn't matter one bit when or where you write it, at home or at the office, whether you made money from this hobby project or volunteered to write a simple database app for your local sports club (that last example is literally a casus we learned about in class).

It's a snag, usually won't give you trouble because a boss doesn't need to enforce it, esp if he wants to keep his programmers. But what you're suggesting is deliberately placing yourself in an adversarial position, it depends on how you do it, but the tone you described it, can easily push someone to become very difficult, very quickly.
Assumptions are certainly part of it. Software is often designed to consider certain round-trips cheap and others expensive. If this assumption does not apply, it will perform terribly.
Because ASDA in Feltham or Hounslow is a probability sample of humanity? I don't think so.
> It is worth noting that all this is not free, but paid for by the tax payer.

While its technically true, its really misrepresent it. Every time i hear that argument it sounds like a kid holding one part of a singular share of Microsoft stock, proclaiming to the world that he has now "funded Microsoft!" because of his $10 investment.

Sure, in societies with lower tax, the state would be less likely to be funding a baby box. However, in trade of, society itself tend to then evolve a culture of charities to handle the slack. The US is a good example here, where such a box would likely also exist in some places, but maybe coupled with a bible or a cooperation logo on. People could then argue that such a thing is also "not free", but provide under advertisement for a religion or brand.

So while its technically true that this is a gift paid by tax payers money, that description deserve a lesser attention that we currently are giving it.
I usually respect Falkvinge but this is pure uncut bullshit.

First the status of US as a superpower is much better guaranteed from the couple of thousand nukes and a couple dozen of carriers etc ... even in the case of total economic collapse the military might alone will be enough to allow the US to have strong word in the world affairs.

The fact the US have no trouble selling its debt at negative real interest rates means not that US is borrowing too much but that it is not borrowing nearly enough concerning the people that want to be US creditors.

Us is also one of the main centers of IT research, development and production. Just forbidding Intel and AMD to sell chips to some country can harm it a lot.

Krugman calculated that the benefit of USD being a world reserve currency is roughly 300 billion USD per year - not a pocket change but hardly a game breaking amount.
Ebay Leads in USD 50 mln investment in Snapdeal, forges commercial Partnership
Now this is my kind of nanny state. A thought:

This program started for low-income families but was extended after a few years to all families. The nice thing about universality rather than means testing is that a) middle class families are more apt to continue supporting it if they can experience its benefits first-hand; b) you save the money that would otherwise be spent testing, enforcing and auditing the system; and c) it builds solidarity and shared values rather than socioeconomic conflict and what I've come to regard as revenge egalitarianism.
> Disturbed individual or hero?

No, just yet another human being with contradictions, light-heartedness, courage, blindness, dreams, and sins.

Just a unique destiny. One should refrain from judging him. Who are we to judge a Japanese old man who crossed unadvertently the path of an ugly dictator, and managed to survive, and became half-addicted?
Increase Leads by A/B testing your live chat software (with Math explanation)
Christchurch: Sensing City
I don't know how relevant this is to the american media, but here in small european countries, media corruption is rampant: government agencies (in particular ministries) bribe newspapers and magazines with expensive ads in order to avoid the (rightfully) bad press and possibly investigative journalism.
>"The United States is kept alive as a nation by the fact that if anybody wants to purchase goods from another nation, like China, they first have to buy US Dollars from the USA, then exchange those USD for the goods they want in China. That, and the fact that this results in all countries buying tons of USD to put in their currency reserves."

First of all, this isn't true. You can use the Forex market to exchange your currency however you wish. It's true that a lot of people save USD because there's a lot of trust in the USA (held by the fact we have the highest gdp in the world), which boost its value, even if that currency was replaced with people saving bitcoins instead, the usd would still have a lot of value. The value of the United States currency is in the trust that the country will survive.

While I wish we didn't have the national debt, it's just a fact of life for most countries. We owe most of our debt to ourselves actually, and as a percentage of gdp, the US debt is about #35 out of all the countries in the world https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/... .
Many things are "clearly observable".

My using the "observable" trump card, I could claim that it is usual to hang around billionaires all day and spend the working day sailing. I've observed that first hand.

But without evidence of frequency, it is a meaningless observation that is more likely to say something about observational biases than society at large.
This is a strategic investment by Ebay to push their international sales, which have been subdued in recent times. At the same time, it is great for Snapdeal, because it offers much needed legroom in the increasingly competitive Indian ecommerce market
Does someone have read the original article ?
I am curious about how the reader evaluation of potential risk was assessed.
Was there a control group which didn't see any comment to compare variance amongst this group to the other groups variances ?
How was the sampling done ? Were people with knowledge of science equitably balanced amongst groups ? How many of them was there ?
At which level is the variance difference amongst groups significant ? 2000 subjects can lead to average results depending of the sampling.

The jsonline article does quite a lousy job with details.
"What power do foreign government agents have in these situations?"

Guns and strong arms, I can only assume..

"Could someone explain how Austria permitted slaves to be held within its borders?"

I agree with Dominik that that is a rather offensive question. Ofcourse it doesn't, even Kim himself did not believe she was a slave still, of course she was and felt that way.

There's only one way to assert that you are not a slave, and that is to test your freedom.
UK Police Launch Campaign to Shut Down Torrent Sites
In some way, the butterfly effect highlights that North Korea is in meta-stable state, and relatively minor events on few select people can effect its political course. In the modern world, much less is governed by outliers of chance, simply by virtue of many more agents involved.
Cheers ozh, I think that's definitely a phase 2 addition along with multiple uploads!
Ask HN: How to identify problems businesses have?
I think mot of the problems businesses have that can be solved (as a startup) are not obvious as a customer of said business? How can I find out what these problems are? (and solve them). Do you think businesses realise that they have problems (for a startup to solve) and if so, how receptive do you think business owners will be to someone directly asking them questions about the way their business works?
It's hard enough figuring out a product in the early days, even harder if you've got to support multiple platforms.
I've done a similar project GitHub HTML Preview, which allows you to run any HTML & JS & CSS without using GitHub Pages or downloading a repo: http://htmlpreview.github.io
Go Step-by-Step to Ensure Success for iPhone App Development
However the moment you do serialisation you can also do it across machines, or nodes within a machine which gives far greater scope for parallelism assuming the ratio of processing work to size of serialised data is large.

You can also do that with Akka, for example.

It's true that you can't avoid serialization when you need to work across multiple boxes. That doesn't mean serialization and IPC should be forced upon you the minute you want to parallelize. There are a LOT of jobs that can be handled by 2-8 cores, provided your language/libraries give support for it.
Media is wrong? No. Perhaps the following lines put it succinctly.

"When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth." - Steve Jobs

Guess, we have to do away with "when you're young" part now. Internet keeps us young.
50 Stunning Examples of Data Visualisation
I'm not sure I could come up with a better parody title summing up how a certain segment of the tech community prefers fairly delusional writing about politics and economics to doing real research than:

"How Bitcoin Can Bring Down The United States Of America"
To my understanding, parents in Finland don't normally know the biological sex of the child before birth. If the box is given before the actually birth, then it makes sense to make the colors gender neutral.
Inter-datacenter network latency is also a limiting factor. Round trips between an app server and a database add up quickly if they take long.
Firstly it's not a fantasy unless you make it one. As someone brought up on a shoestring budget in one of the worst bits of London, I can assure you that in the real world, class is entirely irrelevant and ethics and morals are. There are people earning a quarter of what I do and three times what I do living either side of me and we're all on the same page, have the same ideals, hopes and goals.

There are no classes other than in the media.

Secondly, health is more important than purchasing branded and luxury goods. That is universally accepted as to shortcut ones health is to cause harm and the "golden rule" backs that up. To observe both signs of wealth and signs of poverty at the same time has certain obvious implications.

It's all logic.