skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Bay Area? Barely middle class for a family of three.

What I don't understand in the venom these people receive. Makers vs. Takers? Ridiculous. Perhaps people should stop buying into Ayn Rand's objectivism nonsense and take a more humanist stance? Society is made up of people from various strata, some skilled, some unskilled. That doesn't mean it we should devolve into class warfare. These people are working and providing a service. Shouldn't they try to maximize their earning potential while doing it? Why begrudge them for wanting to make a decent wage in an area that is already hyper-inflated? Certainly there were some ridiculous parameters for the negotiations, coming from BOTH sides. If there should be anger it should be at the lawmakers for allowing critical infrastructure in a city the size of SF controllable by any one entity, be it union or not.

To me, this issue is about more than a wage number. It's about leveling everyone in society.
Does this imply that one should read/use code only of licensed/certified programmers?))
"turned off" and "unplugged" may be two different things. even older systems have 'wake on lan' capability.
Hey, great job man. Not often a site distracts me for as long as this one did :)
Tab completion?
http://www.bmj.com/content/309/6967/1480.full
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox#Kidney_stone...

Has larger sample sizes, all would be valid for statistical analysis. Although this paradox isn't really dependent on a sample size, it is not so much a statistical test. It's a trend that can be observed when looking at sub groups compared to overall averages.

In the above example open surgery was better for both small and large kidney stones and is a prime example of Simpson's paradox. However, one should note that Simpson's paradox can also be subject to further confounding variables. Perhaps patients that were suitable for open surgery were in better medical condition and therefore the open surgery sample was non-random and caused the higher success rate.

The presence of Simpson's paradox, similar to correlation, also does not imply causation.
Great Job. Some questions, in no particular order:

1. What was your inspiration for the project?

2. You mentioned it was your pet project, how long did it take to develop once you got started?

3. What is the tech stack it is built on?

4. How much data do you have in it now that it is visualizing from, and can you talk about the process of how it determines what to display, refreshes view, etc.

5. I notice that there is a "login" option, and the ability for users to create "calendars". Can you give a brief summary / pitch of where you would like to see this go?

6. What is your favorite flavor of cupcake?
Hopefully they wont host the servers in Sweden.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law
I basically have two jobs:

1. I work part-time as a consultant for a company in Durham, NC named Open Software Integrators. There I do things ranging from working on greenfield, custom-code-from-scratch projects, to architectural consulting, to training, to performance tuning, to writing articles and blog posts, to mentoring / training junior employees. As a company, we focus on open source enterprise engagements, mainly focused around the open source Java ecosystem: JBoss, Tomcat, Activiti, Hadoop, and other technologies of that general nature.

2. I am one of two founders of an Open Source Enterprise Software startup called Fogbeam Labs. We develop OSS products for the enterprise, with a focus on tools that foster the application of collective intelligence, and support better and faster collaboration, problem solving, decision making and knowledge transfer. The product we are most focused on right now is an Enterprise Social Network named Quoddy. Quoddy brings together aspects of Social Networking, BPM, Machine Learning. and the Semantic Web to that end. Over time we plan to offer products in several areas, including Enterprise Search, BPM, "Big Data", Business Intelligence / analytics, SOA / integration, etc., where everything fits into our vision of IT as a means to enhance the collective intelligence of the organization.

As the original founder, and one of only three people working on the project (counting an intern) I do a bit of everything: writing code, developing product vision, writing marketing copy for the website, sales, customer development, strategy, market research, you name it.
Pinboard announces feed reader
A pro cyclist might also not have the optimum watt/kg output for the time period defined for the contest.
Completely understandable, as that would be a pretty major step. Going back I now see the more/less/read buttons which could benefit from going in that direction. Good luck!
They use ZipZap which is owned by moneygram, it's a different setup where retailers can accept cash payments and isn't available everywhere like Wu or regular MG
So long as you live in Latvia, where we have an absurdly fast internet connection ;)
Einstein Answers a Little Girl’s Question about Science vs. Religion
Distributed Learning: A new model
You can use tr instead of sed and grep, too. Also -k1 and -n 10 are default for sort and head:

$ < bible-pg10.txt tr -cs a-zA-Z '\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head
62265 the
38915 and
34588 of
13474 to
12846 And
12589 that
12387 in
9762 shall
9668 he
8942 unto

I have a `bins` script that is just `sort | uniq -c | sort -nr`, so that reduces to `tr -cs a-zA-Z '\n' | bins | head`.

Unix for Poets, man. It's the shit.
Realpolitik. Although Wayland 'could' support Android based/styled graphics drivers Mir should be able to work easily with these drivers.

My understanding of the GPU vendor world is that generic Linux GPU support is way below the priority given to Android. This isn't to say that there couldn't be some alignment/commonality for a driver in Linux or Android, but Android will get a lot more testing and biz focus.

The Wayland and 'open software community' GPU advocates either have not considered this, don't care or hope that GPU stack implementations will move towards their world rather than Android's. Although ironically the licensing for Wayland and libdrm and whatnot are MIT rather than GPL like Mir.
Correlation implies relation, not causation.
> battery of examinations in what America stands for

I think we should have a refresher on what America does stand for, because I think it has changed quite fundamentally in the last <x> years, regardless of what your political angle is on the subject.
> Point is, everyone has different needs from a Maps app.

Exactly. For instance Nokia Maps don't cover Japan, so they're a complete non-starter for me.
A few years ago I ran OpenBSD on a Thinkpad. Worked well.

It was a lot like Linux used to be in the late 90s though... I tried to put it on a few other machines with less success.
Australian Telco storing data on behalf of US government
> for all I know every single penny of my tax money could have gone to provide food for the needy and beds for the homeless and it's just your taxes that are going toward funding guns and NSA.

It's a collective pool to which you contribute which is used for both purposes, you bear some responsibility for both actions by extension.

> since one could willingly contribute to only those aspects of government which are considered good and to none of the other ones (which are considered bad, knowingly or unknowingly).

No, they couldn't, your option to contribute to the state is violently coerced and the allocation after it is violently coerced is out of your hands. You can play games imagining your money went to a nurse instead of a CIA black ops mission to overthrow a popular foreign leader and prop up the interests of your state in the region, but at the end of the day that's all that is, a game.

> so why should it be permissible to unknowingly and unwillingly support bad corporations?

It isn't; you are responsible for the repercussions of that 99c hamburger, act accordingly. You're right that's the only consistent position, and you're right that it implies that people are responsible for the actions of the entities and organisations which they support.

If you simply ignore material reality and obvious facts so you can ignore having to deal with the cognitive dissonance that comes from contributing directly to behaviour you despise, then you're once again just playing games. It's your responsibility to make your decisions and your responsibility to examine the repercussions of those decisions, I understand that the concept of personal responsibility is completely alien to the vast majority of statist humans in existence, but that doesn't stop it being the only path I am able to accept.

The knowingly or unknowingly bit gets slightly harder however since it's not completely beyond the realm of imagination that you might trust a party with which you choose to do business to behave in accordance with your expectations and standards. However, the difference there is, once it becomes clear they've violated that trust, you retain the option to cease your dealings with them.

No matter how many times the state violates that trust, you do not acquire that option, your option is the same as it was to begin with, serve or die.
Another viewpoint (not just on Quinoa): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPGnBkH3fBg
Well, there's two ways to do that in Clojure: write your own list processing (usually regarded as bad style) or use reducers. Both are appropriate in specific instances, but the fact remains that the lazy seq code above is the idiomatic way of doing it in Clojure. So the _default_ way of doing it is slower than LINQ's default way of doing things.

It wouldn't be hard to make LINQ behave like Clojure, either.
Note that Colin _could_ conspire with / be compelled by the NSA to attempt to convince me to "upgrade" my local tarsnap code with a backdoored version

Far more likely is that they'd oblige him to upgrade everyone's tarsnap with a backdoored version, just in case.
Timeline – the DataArt History Visualization
Not nearly as experimental as Upcoming, but Sunrise http://www.sunrise.am/ has been my goto for a while now. A bit buggy but pretty, functional, and improving.
Kremlin security agencies buying typewriters "to avoid leaks"
Coursera has a good class on networking. https://www.coursera.org/course/comnetworks

If you're looking for projects to play around with check out quagga and the community version of vyatta.
http://www.nongnu.org/quagga/
http://www.vyatta.org/
Worse, a number of ISPs use Telstra's lines, eg. iiNet, Internode, TPG. I have no idea if that agreement also covered others using the same cables.

(Telstra was government-owned until it was privatised from 1997-2000, and as such has a monopoly on most of the phone lines; the government sets the wholesale rates at which the lines are leased to other companies. Optus ran a bunch of their own cables, but the coverage isn't nearly as extensive.)
If the local community has no economic integration and no means to afford the transportation costs associated with imports (because transportation has been optimized for a certain crop), then it's a problem.

Malnutrition has been an endemic problem in Bolivia since the Spaniards pillaged its mineral wealth. This does little to improve things.
One commenter there wrote and I'd like to read some reasonable answer to that:

This is old news, obviously no one watched 4 Corners years ago – I think 15 – 20 yrs ago. I think it was about a program called Echelon. Remember the time a New Zealander broke into one of those unmanned “Pine Gap” sites (in NZ) and found mainframe computers downloading telecommunications data. Did we care then?
Depression Alters Young Brains
It won, partly, because is has nothing to do with Java App Servers.)
I wonder what the real price of quinoa is, before this "superfood" bollocks got to it?
Gibberbot is wide open to practical mitm SSL attacks and of course timing analysis to see who you're talking to. If you use it or any other jabber w/OTR, you would want to use it tunneled through another layer of encryption like Tor, so if you and your associates use .onion XMPP servers (and they aren't traffic analysis honeypots or run by incompetent admins/badly configured) then you get an extra layer of encryption to defeat future attacks should there be found a major bug in Gibberbot's OTR implementation and agencies just go back to all the traffic they collected and archived and use the bug to decrypt your old messages.
For the past 12 years, the only thing I've had to do to get the nVidia driver working again after an upgrade was a reboot. It doesn't wreck the system and it still works better than its AMD/ATi counterparts.
Ask HN: Critique my minimalist rss app
I never got into using a dedicated rss reader, but the death of Google Reader and iOS7 coming out soon, I feel like the market can handle yet another rss reader.

I decided to take a 3 day break from my usual projects, and wrote my own iOS rss reader powered with a Node.JS backend for parsing users feeds.
What I really like about my implementation is the intuitive swipe gestures for marking read/ favoriting articles, and a ultra fast tap and hold preview mode of articles (no network connection needed).

I would love to hear some critique on the idea/design. The plan is to have my friends play around with it later today, and release it to the store as soon as its approved.

Here is the gallery:
http://imgur.com/a/8UIRf

EDIT:
Forgot to mention, there is also a Google Chrome extension I am working on as a companion to the app to easily add more feeds, and track new articles on the desktop.
The problem is that half the population is below average in terms of mental ability and education.

A bigger problem: the state's attorneys and judges should know about the Bill of Rights, and they are the ones with the actual power here. With such a high bail it appears this particular judgeship was granted erroneously.
I agree. The reason I put in that last sentence is because I read this in their FAQ (https://heml.is/):

> Distributing to other servers makes it impossible to give any guarantees about the security.

Not sure what they're referring to.
I am currently prescribed Concerta 54 mg and take it in spurts. Why spurts? A love-hate relationship. While I am on Concerta, I excel at my job. Unfortunately, Concerta tends to super-enhance my "logical/work" side while hampering my "interpersonal/compassion" side. My girlrfriend cannot stand me while I am on my ADD medication: I am far too distant and non-communicative with her. I know she is right, I can't deny the truth: I neglect her to focus on logical tasks instead.

It seems I cannot maintain a healthy, intimate relationship with my girlfriend (or likely any other person) while on ADD medication. In addition, my performance at work is abysmal without medication: I find any and every distraction around me when not medicated. How can I balance my work/personal life with ADD?! This frustration is driving me crazy! =(
7. What is your favorite type of cheese?
Could Artificial Intelligence Create an Unemployment Crisis?
I own and run http://andrewluke.net, a software/hardware development firm. In there I mostly program all day, but do take time to talk to clients. Love it.
Show HN: Wrinklefree jQuery and HTML5
This is the third article I've read that has mentioned no details about the strike, which is really the core issue. The fact that some well known people in tech made foolish remarks is unfortunate but now the story is no longer about the deal.

Here is the closest thing to talking about the details, which is a straw man:

> "The notion that 'These workers are expendable' is a fundamentally different attitude toward workers than 'Let’s make sure they have these benefits so they don’t want to unionize,'" Berlin said.

Here is the only article I've been able to find that lists any specifics:

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/health-coverage-costs...
Yep, I was very careful about the high-voltage capacitor. I made sure to unplug it whenever I removed the microwave case. That's a crazy story about the guy, I hope he's doing better now.
What is available for the cn market? My phone is locked to that even though I'm American myself.

I was use ping here maps, or HERE whatever, there are a lot of them and I'm not sure what each does. It didn't help me find something as simple as the post office when I needed to mail off tax forms last month, which google maps and apple maps had no problem with. Very disappointing.
I was actually looking for something like that today. Looks very good. Will try it out.
I set it up (and allowed access to my contacts), but it only shows me like 5 people when I try to add events/tasks with a person.

Am I doing something wrong?
Perhaps I have more confidence in the perspicacity of the US public than you, and you should also note this is a global issue, not just a US one. To me this story says more about the dangers of a surveillance state than about Snowden.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-ins...
Cell phone hardware is the "make [information] universally accessible" part.
I've seen android apps generated out of webfiles before - things like AppsGeyser - but never opensourced or providing the actual java code. I feel like this gives you the flexibility to take a web app and make a genuine mobile experience, as opposed to another host for a website.

Critique is always appreciated!
Quinoa plants produce more seeds. Sounds like pothead wishful thinking.
I've been building this Hacker News web app over the past couple days: http://hn.meteor.com/

The code's on GitHub: https://github.com/zacharydenton/hackerreader
Quick note: I am still working on the feed manager view, so excuse the messy top bar. Here is the rough app icon concept http://imgur.com/w0mVhXI
Googles coding guidelines does exactly that, I imagine because they would otherwise spend too much time debating them over and over again.
Can you elaborate on this a bit? I can't comprehend the concept of people growing a crop not being able to afford to eat it - if they're the ones growing it, then they don't have to buy it at all, just sell less of it. And surely the high international demand for quinoa means that they're making much more money in trade than previously.
> The problem is that half the population is below average in terms of mental ability and education.

Isn't this a problem everywhere, though? Why do we only hear this issue WRT the U.S.? (I freely admit it could just be because I live in the states)
How Larry Ellison Is Destroying the America’s Cup
> Not until Google Docs does footnotes and cross-references and tables of contents and careful page layout, it isn't.

LibreOffice does footnotes and cross-references just fine and LibreOffice is 0 USD. Here's the thing - MS Office is innovative and still the best at what it does. But it's old and like anything old, it becomes a commodity.

Adobe Photoshop is also innovative and still the best at what it does (by far). The problem that Adobe has though is that many Photoshop licensees are not professionals and can be served just as well by cheaper or even free software. Companies like Adobe also benefited a lot from piracy, as a lot of people ended up using Photoshop, even though not that many people can afford it.

Also, what you're seeing here unfolding with web apps is only the begging. In relative terms, the concept of a web app is still young. Even in early 2000, people had no idea that they can have apps running in their browser and broadband / 3G / 4G is still not a reality in many parts of this world. The combination of cheap and easily accessible on any platform, without any lock-in whatsoever, is extremely powerful. Couple this with devices that are designed to be portable and always connected and you've got a killer that will cannibalize everything else.

> The reality of modern web and mobile software is that a lot of it is cheap, and it should be cheap, because it adds only a little value and it isn't very hard to create it

Things like Google Docs / Google Calendar / Google Maps / Twitter / Wikipedia give me a hell of a lot more value than anything a desktop app could. Are you saying that you could build these in a weekend?
Where does the second set of 10 units come from?
The problem is that there are no signs on the fence explaining why it is there, and the people who raised it are nowhere to be found, and the most likely reason for its existence is unreasonable paranoia.
BART strike article with actual details
how exactly WebRTC going to solve raised questions regarding privacy ? in light of a fact that, for ICE to operate, you need STUN server and exchange ICE candidates (and SRTP keys) through WebRTC server
What's the plan to market this? Why should I use this over feedly?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/imply

The third meaning is the one that "correlation does not imply causation" refers to. There is no other meaning for that word in that context.
"I pledge allegiance to the wealthy of the United States of America, and to their police force that beats and lies, one Nation under God, unaccountable, with liberty and air travel for few."
> We can’t have X causing Y causing Z causing X! At least, not without a time machine.

You should be able to have cyclic graphs, though. W could cause X which causes Y which causes Z which causes more X.
> those other crops are likely more expensive

In terms of effort required to grow those crops, or in terms of market price? If they're growing the crops in order to eat them, the market price isn't relevant (except that if those other crops are expensive on the market, they can sell those for a profit, too).
Yeah that's only Python 3, which most people aren't using yet. Also it's not optional typing -- it's optional annotations. Someone would still have to actually implement the type checking -- not even sure that's been done.

I have wanted to play around with implementing some type checking, but none of my stuff is Python 3 unfortunately.
At least when running on Internode hardware, the traffic only runs on Telstra copper; once terminated at the exchange (on Agile/Internode DSLAM), it pushes out into Internode's backhaul/network. (It's a moot point if the backhaul is Telstra owned I guess, or significant parts of the private network is leased from Telstra...)
Apple better than Nokia in build quality? Oh my... Do I need to bring out the drop-tests various blogs have done?
Half of any population is below average on any (and every!) metric. That's why they call it an average. Right?
That's almost identical to what I came up with, but yours is better...I didn't know about the mapValues function.

def mostCommon(str: String, num: Int) = {
str.split(" ").groupBy { s => s}
.map { case (k,v) => k -> v.length }.toList
.sortBy { _._2 }.reverse.take(num).map { _._1 }
}
I assume he uses the shut down feature.
Maybe I'm going cross eyed from a long day, but looking at that result... how can Quaker oatmeal have 2g of protein and be 5% USRDA, while quinoa has 4g of protein yet 7% USRDA? Shouldn't that be 10% USRDA for quinoa?
Are you living in a cave? Every heard of "ladies night"? They get in free while men have to pay a cover, hell, sometimes they even get a free drink while men do not.
having lots of apps though is that it makes it harder for the NSA to subvert the apps or developers

The NSA has had several 10s of $B a year, every year, basically since World War II. This is far greater than the entire public data security sector.

By now they likely have sophisticated internal tools for reversing and analysis. I doubt that it would take long at all for them to develop an exploit for an buggy amateur crypto app. They probably have plenty of new hires and contractors looking for trivial projects to practice on.

Don't get into a war of resource attrition with the most well-funded military on the planet.
If it's anything like Wayland, it should be like VNC.