skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would imagine so, that part confused me as well. It's possible that the level sensitivity required is just too extreme, and would be subject to too much local interference.

There's one such test [1] that I find interesting that suffers from similar problems. It tries to detect gravitational waves traveling through the universe by pointing a laser at a mirror at the end of a 4km tunnel and measuring any changes in the total distance.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO
Heh, yep - and actually the strings of MightyLeaf tea bags are the best water wicks known to man.

For this reason, I cut/rip/tear off the strings from all my tea bags. I have been a voracious tea drinker for years.
Please kindly advise where I should be posting this if I can't reply to [dead] comments.

This guy hasn't said anything that deserves a hell-ban.
It is uncomfortable, but you shouldn't ever have had an expectation of privacy when driving around in public with a licensed, regulated and marked vehicle.

Just because it can be done without much manual effort today vs. 50 years ago having people sit around town logging every car they see drive by doesn't mean really the privacy expectation has changed. Just because it is "scary" doesn't mean it is "illegal".
Services for UNIX has been deprecated. It is no longer being kept up-to-date with new Windows versions.

That's because the primary purpose of these tools was not to provide a UNIX environment for users. Rather, it was to provide a transition to Win32 for developers of UNIX applications. In version 1, you'd move the UI over to Windows, and leave the back-end mostly unchanged. In version 2, you'd then rewrite the back-end for the Windows API.

At this point, if you haven't already ported to Win32, then you're probably running on Linux.
Dubai diet: Slim down, get paid in gold
I think what follows immediately deserves to be noted here as well. 115 is a very small number by itself but then over half of them return.

>Of these 115 incidents, 57 percent ended with the return of the child. The other 43 percent had a less happy outcome.
I say "Eff Sucking". I'm unsure if I go it from "this fucking sucks" or fsck
What I mean is that there are these standard ways that actually held fast for quite some time. The big change between old school perl/php and new and cool ruby/python was mostly the ORM.

It was standard that you had some scripting language behind that some mysql. I used to do ASP classic, and from there to Django the diffrence is there but its not as radicle.

With datomic and pedastal the hole way I tought about web programming changes. Im not arguing that all these things are better then what we used to have, but just that the threw over my hole thinking.

Im trying to develop a simple boardgame that you can play online against each other. Normally I would just go in standard dev mode and it would be pretty clear what to do. Now that Im doing it wiht Datomic and Pedastal im constantly thrown off. How would you do this? Is that idiomatic?

> Datomic (the closed-source community makes us pretty cautious to rely on it too heavily)

Yeah I can see that. I kind of think that as people learn more about Datomic somebody will start a opensource implmentation of it.
There are a bunch of plugins to do that. It seems to me like a behaviour that's better left to a plugin.
Very nice documentation! Mind sharing how you are generating your API documentation?

Edit: Looks like it is Swagger.

https://developers.helloreverb.com/swagger/
"Apple dumps all three major Russian carriers" is how I would read this heading. Everyone I know in Russia has or wants an iPhone, Apple isn't losing any market share there, because you can get an iPhone from Apple directly.
Ask HN: Know any solid but affordable freelance mobile developers?
I'm a designer looking for help implementing some simple app ideas. All the flows and UI are done and pixel perfect. Just checking in with the HN community to see if you have any recommendations for solid but affordable iOS and Android developers who speak great English and have built several stable apps in the past. Ideally looking for a rate around $100 / hr or lower. Happy with remote / overseas or with a firm or an individual, as long as they have good references and track records
I'm not sure I understand how this effect actually works. Cosmological redshift isn't due to galaxies moving away from us but the expansion of the universe occurring underneath light as it travels in an expanding universe. So replacing velocity with mass increases doesn't actually work as far as I can tell because the mechanisms aren't equivalent. You actually need some physical mechanism that produces this mass increase over time that happens to be exactly the same as that observed by cosmological redshift.
I recently bought a fitbit, their online dashboard is pretty similar and you get access without a monthly fee. I'm pretty sure you can sign up and try it without getting a fitbit tracker, but the tracker is pretty nifty and it lights up the dashboard with all your info.
There were two versions of primers. The mass market version had auto-schooling (giant boat of threatening asian girls). The expensive ("for royalty/CEOs") version had a live adult person interacting with the child, but the child didn't know a real person was behind it. The child just thought the book was very good at being instructive. The actor of the expensive primer had no way to communicate with the child except through Primer-Approved stories, but the actor would direct and personalize the stories as necessary for the child's life conditions (i.e. "remote parenting").
https://github.com/wordnik/swagger-core
What people often don't see is the loads of money that flow around in a bubble. Yes, maybe Startup Community is a bubble right now. But still there is a lot of money. And still a lot of people get rich by playing these "unrealistic" rules. The bubble isn't bad until the last moment and for those guys who don't see it coming. In my eyes, the solution is not playing a completely different game, but playing better.
I think these online technical degrees are just the next iteration beyond those one-year MS/MEng degrees that started popping up around 2000. This was back when "financial engineering" was the buzzword... that worked out well, didn't it?

I'm sure some firms will really like these degrees, but if you're a company (like Google, for example) insisting on a specialized degree, why not aim for PhD level? The income differential is marginal. In Chicago, PhD quants for funds generally start out around $140-150k. I'd argue those ppl are going to be more productive researchers/data scientists than what can be produced by an online program, due largely to value of a research oriented degree versus a skills oriented degree like this one. Even if there is a project component, it isn't the same as writing a thesis. I did an M.Eng way back, trust me: it just isn't the same as banging your head against a research topic for a couple years.

Also, for what it is worth, I found the target audience for one-year financial engineering degrees (Goldman Sach, etc) didn't respect the degrees as much as PhDs & MS w/thesis. They generally regarded it as a 5th year of university.

Criticism aside, I'm sure this is a great skill builder and ML is fun thing to learn. Not for $60k, though.

I like how they're still marketing that McK data science report. "Hadoop everything"
Accessing private PHP class members per reference
Do you never go to a friend's house and use their wifi?
Perhaps, but voice calls, and SMS all go through the carrier. While russian carriers don't have to provide data to the NSA, the probably do to the FSB. Yes you can make apps the communicate via encrypted channels, but that requires the same app at both ends, and ultimately I suspect apps are secondary for most people. Voice and SMS are the primary function of phones still.
9. Linking your logo to the main homepage (currently the blog).
I do not mind people collecting data about me. I do think that we need to have a restriction that if you collect data about me, you have to share it with me. All of it. In a accessible manner, at least as accessible as you do in your reports.

Every day that you fail/delay to provide me those reports, you will pay me $100k in damages.
Worst fonts for programming
Haha, touché. We are using a rails blog engine and it is isolated. Guess I will look into it :)
JavaScript Is Way Too Slow – for What?
We want to make it as easy as possible to make an app multi-user and realtime.

The BaaS/etc ecosystem is large and the differences between products can certainly be confusing. Checkout this cool graphic from the team at Kinvey: http://www.kinvey.com/blog/2608/backend-as-a-service-welcome....

GoInstant is different in one very important way; we are built for real-time, multi-user, data-intensive applications. We call these Multiplayer Apps.

Basically it's a way to make your app as interactive as Google Docs, etc., we manage all the servers and scaling while providing a very straightforward client-side API.
Thing is, this is actually not a one-time backup but an ongoing sync. And it's super convenient - I only have to enter the password on one of my devices and then all the others can connect.
You forgot the most important ingredient: A small boy.

Tools for crossing a stream:

1. Boy (with swim skill)

2. Rope

3. Pully

4. Chair

EASY!!!
Lose your phone and you can't drive home? :)
Citizens United did not say that corporations are people. If you are starting from that misunderstanding then lots of things won't make sense. Corporate personhood is not mentioned in the decision.

A year after Citizens the court ruled unanimously in FCC v ATT that corporations fail to meet the "personal" part of "personal privacy." That decision is fun to read if only for the last paragraph.
The End of Digital Tyranny: Why the Future of Computing Is Analog
A much simpler explanation that adds no new assumptions and shows that space itself need not be expanding to explain what we observe is at http://finbot.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/expanding-space-obvia.... It also solves the flatness problem, a major problem in cosmology.
My understanding is that the scare used to justify totalitarianism in NAZI Germany was terrorism (blamed on the Communists).
[...] light losing energy to radiation [...]

Light is radiation. So we are are talking about radiating radiation...
This is surprisingly less common than you think. Most people don't have a very good grasp of business, and many many businessman have a "sales mentality" that insists that selling as much as possible is the best way to grow a business (while completely ignoring margins, which are what is actually important).
>> Russia has over 180m mobile subscribers

The whole population is 143M (2011) including infants and very old people. How is it possible? Multiple phones per person?
IMO This is not targeted towards individuals applying on their own.

I went to a walkabout of a similar online education company's office and asked them about the high cost for an online degree.
The answer I received was

1. there is demand for this and

2. Most of the demand comes from people in the military serving in remote locations or people working inside other large organizations which foot the cost. and

3. They provide online infrastructure to courses of schools like UC-B, UNC etc and the colleges set the price so as not to dilute their "brand" because the online degree does not mention the fact that the degree was obtained online (this could have changed).

All in all, my initial shock was a bit tempered after hearing the realities involving all 3 parties : the school, the student and the online enabler.
I've probably saved hours of phone support because my parents wifi passwords and email setups is saved in their iPhone backup (this is only done if the backups are password protected). When they get a new device it's just a matter of plugging it in, choose restore, and that's it. They do have to enter some payment info again for each new device on the App Store though.
I read an article in WSJ on rent hikes in SF this morning. Yikes.

I grew up in SoCal and miss it terribly, but my cost of living in Chicago is a tiny fraction of what it would be in SF and my income isn't behind California norms.

Maybe if I was 24 and looking for experience... I suppose you can apply the same argument to finance in Manhattan.
The first time I traveled to my sister's house for Thanksgiving setting up the WiFi on our devices was a several hour ordeal that stressed out the whole family. They aren't used to keeping track of these things. I'm very glad I have never had to do that again through several device upgrades.
Business and personal phones? Lots of 'Russian Business' around the web.
Only electrocutes 5% of the time. What me worry?
I would say not really! The real problem isn't the effect can't be replicated it is that replacing cosmological expansion with something else requires the something else to exactly mimic all the other things we can observe about the universe.

Dark matter is a great example. Due to gravitational lensing this can mimic directly the redshift we can observe. But then you have to explain how all this dark matter is distributed(not to mention created) in a way that doesn't mimic cosmic expansion in one part of the sky but everywhere at once.

I found the teaching company course on cosmology(from what I saw of it) to be absolutely fantastic as a general introduction: http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.asp...
Shrinking the address bar width in browsers
If you just want to see it in action: We put up a multi-user Google Maps demo last night:

http://maps.goinstant.com/
For what damages?
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Neat idea. If/when the paper gets published I hope I stumble upon it.

One thing that I don't get with the hypothesis is how it deals with conservation of energy. Its well understood that mass is a form of energy, so if atoms were to simply grow in mass, then that would either require some other energy source, or violate conservation of energy. Obviously, this is a huge an obvious problem that should preclude this hypothesis from serious consideration. The fact that this does not do so suggests to me that this issue is somehow resolved within the theory.
Great primer, if this stuff interests you - particularly with regard to utilizing colors to drive CRO etc please go check out http://www.colorvoodoo.com/ which is the original book that got me A/B testing >10 years back - great content -
I see these cars all over where I live. It really is no different than the meta data that the NSA is collecting and most likely we will see defense of the gathering using similar rebuttals, namely YOU have a right, the license plate/car/phone/database does not.

Apparently they want to use indirect collection or collection by private groups as somehow not falling under the 4th because of how it was assembled. I guess they could take all of a grocery stores purchase records and do the same, after all they aren't look at you directly under the guise of fixing health issues.

Eventually data, wherever it may exist, will have to land at the Supremes to declare how abstract it has to be before it is not subject to the Constitution. Based on past cases it may not bode well for us.
Error 102 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED): The server refused the connection
on
https://maps.demos.goinstant.org/
Are you sure about that? There is blueshift and redshift as you move towards or away from light sources.

While the speed of light doesn't ever change no matter your reference frame, the frequency/wavelength indeed does.
If Edison had killed even a millionth as many people failing to invent the light bulb as socialists did failing to invent socialism, I suspect he would have stopped trying.
10. A tour is not bullet points that say what your product does. It shows what your product does. I have very little idea of what will happen after I authorize your service to use my twitter account. Some screenshots, video or such would be nice!

Also, just a heads up, looks like you've got some formatting errors there as well. http://snid.es/image/0n2e2E410h2y
Even with ongoing sync there could be an option to store the password on the device, either permanently or to enter it at boot time. Just like with SSH keys.
oops, that was the old URL http://maps.goinstant.com/
While it's a good idea. Some times if something is not broken, there is no need to fix/upgrade it
Linkedin meets Klout
Ctrl-click works as well.
I have an aria, not a fitbit, and it's pretty cool. I really really really want integration with mint.com though, then you'd be able to track the fitness goals vs money spent, and come up with an optimized plan for everything.
A+ for actually building something that shipped, but in my opinion that idea seems really stupid. Most companies have the developer capacity to build an idea like this quickly, even for the arguably little provided return it offers.
This remind me of the "gravity is entropy because everything is holographic" hypothesis made by physicist whose name I can't remember, when he had his passport stolen and had to wait in Paris for a week before they make him a new one :)
The article contradicts itself...

The idea may be plausible, but it comes with a big problem: it can't be tested. Mass is what’s known as a dimensional quantity, and can be measured only relative to something else. For instance, every mass on Earth is ultimately determined relative to a kilogram standard that sits in a vault on the outskirts of Paris, at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. If the mass of everything — including the official kilogramme — has been growing proportionally over time, there could be no way to find out.

The way to measure the increase in weight is actually described in the article itself: observe a shift in absorption/emission spectra.

Of course, such a shift may be infinitesimally small and undetectable over short timespans. However, this is precisely the sort of theory (like all the neutrino theories, for example) for which you set up a very long-term experiment.

The experiment is simple: measure the absorption spectrum of hydrogen in space with an extreme level of accuracy and a bajillion measurements (that's the scientific term). Record that for posterity. In 10 years (the equivalent of observing something 10 light-years away), repeat the measurement. Keep doing this until you either observe a shift or have made a measurement that based on observations of the real world (i.e. galaxies drifting away).

The experiment might take 100, 1000 or even 10'000 years, but eventually we'd have an answer!

UPDATE: Heh. isomorphic points out that this is actually not feasible given that it's impossible to make these measurements accurately without relying on mass being constant... So much for this. retracts
+1. This article is rubbish. Singular "they" is fine.
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There is a significant difference between the expectation of privacy as a platonic ideal and the real life expectation of privacy.

For the former, you're of course right: not much has changed! The local police could have posted someone on every street corner to record every license plate that passed -- probably multiple people to account for traffic!

That's no different than cameras, in theory. You have no less privacy with cameras! But in practice, the police didn't do that (to that scale).

So, given that my expectations of privacy are not about logical possibilities, but rather about actual realities, they certainly have changed.
> light losing energy to radiation as it travels

> I've not found anything to fully discredit it

Well, for starters, there's the minor problem of light never having actually been observed to lose energy as it travels. If light loses energy to radiation as it travels, then this radiation should be detectable. Where is it?

Then there's the slightly less minor problem of having to rewrite all the known laws of physics from scratch, starting with electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. (I presume that you're not going to toss out conservation of energy because the whole point of the exercise it to account for the cosmological red shift, yes?)

But other than that, I can't think of anything that would discredit it either.
Most such Android settings are on by default, including all the location tracking ones.
a summarizing comment from reddit's discussion ( http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1igw7r/direct3d_9_sup... )

> "Its not been integrated into Mesa or Wine yet. It'll be 1yr+ til that happens and more until it feeds into Ubuntu and other distros. Even then, you'll only be able to play the game through WINE, since this allows native DirextX9c thru Wine, not magically making all games work in Linux. Before Wine has converted DirectX9c to OpenGL then to gpu drivers, which caused slow down and incompatibility issues, now its going to be Wine with DirectX9c native to gpu driver, which should reduce lag and incompatibility issues. Only opensource drives will get this benefit though, since this state tracker is just for gallium3D opensource drivers."
Consider yourself stumbled. The paper is here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6878/
Well it's les simple that I though but it's still seems doable. I'll probably try to submit a PR about that. Is there any previous PR or issue that I should rea first ?
A problem I have with JS web apps, is that "cool URIs don't change" [1]. While querystrings are a server-side convention, the ability to convert a server-side site into JS without having to rewrite all the old URLs is much more important to me than inventing new URL schemes just for JS apps...

[1] http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
Eh, maybe they'll decide to do something sensible and increment the first number every 10 or 20 releases.

Actually, I think it would make the most sense to go with a year.month numbering scheme, but that probably won't happen.
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> Because your idea of what is going on is frankly ridiculous.

Really?

> It's easy to see the user-experience story for this.

It's even easier to see how handy millions of wifi passwords might come in handy if you already have the information about the wifi networks you got from war-driving (street view).

You now have access to millions of (private) networks all over the world which you previously had not.
This sounds like a novela :)
Capitalism has also killed millions of people. Feudalism has killed millions of people. Mercantilism has killed millions of people.
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Wasn’t that easy?

No, because there are a reasonably large number of people, especially in Starbucks' home town, who want to be referred to as ze, zer, or one of a number of other gender-neutral, recently-minted pronouns. http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~writingcenter/Gender-Neutral_L...

So now you either need to ask a user for their name and preferred pronoun, or just refer to them as "they".
Hey, that's cool... how did you configure that?
I like how "red" means excitement youthful, bold. Reminds me of RED bull.
Alternatively:
1. Take Coursera's excellent Intro to Data Science for free
2. Spend time doing Kaggle competitions and learning along the way
3. Profit
The Roy building? Loved that place.
How do we measure frequency (or time) precisely if the emission spectra are changing?
Thx for the advice, will try to work on the tour more.

I will also look into the formatting issue, thx for the screenshot.
Phew! It appears that my instincts were correct when I first turned on this device.

I keep wifi passphrases in a location that is just as secure as the ethernet network to which the wifi is tied: on a piece of tape on the bottom of the WAP. Looking at this again, in the unlikely event I forget the passphrase, seems not to be a burden.