skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What he said was an old Scandinavian saying.

Is it really that bad as long as you only need to get from A to B in something like an urban environment, though? Most of my problems with the cold have been switching clothes because of variations in activity levels, and having to actually work outside in the cold (for example having to take off my gloves because they aren't nimble enough with them on).

I'm assuming you had something like a balaclava on in those extreme conditions? If that wasn't enough you also have more wind-proof headgear: people use them to drive snow mobiles, so they should be good enough for the purpose of getting to the bus.
The Ask Patents site was created in partnership with the USPTO; there is an expectation that examiners will search the site while researching a pending application.
On linux/chrome as well and this was also my first thought. Even if the "scroll down" text were clickable and automatically scrolled for me, that'd be a big improvement.
I tried Piwik on a number of sites to move away from GA, but I was simply not able to match the minimal impact on my load-times compared to Google. Self-hosting your analytics solution still requires an optimized web-server - things like TTFB were a real issue for me.
Speculation - Did he mean that he believes that he could have accessed 100K users' details rather than that he had accessed (or certainly copied them)?

It is the only explanation that makes sense to me when he talks about only having accessed 73 employee's details.
Agreed! This is so amazing. Something about it makes me smile like I can't help it. Space always makes me feel small, but in a good way.

Sad bit: "Almost 20,000 people participated..." At first glance that might seem like a lot until you realize that it's 0.000003% of the population of this planet. Amazing things like this happen and literally nobody cares.
Thanks for doing this campaign! It takes courage to post a goal like that.

I'd much rather give you $600 than pay AT&T and others for the "privilege" of an unlocked phone. I'm happy to have gotten my pledge in and look forward to many exciting updates :)
I understand where you are coming from but we really need to focus on the bigger picture. Let us all just get back to hating Google for being the most evil company that has ever existed and live in peace.
I don't think so. I'm wracking my brain now to remember the manufacturer. I might have to ask my dad. Ah, childhood comes rushing back.
To be fair, when you're watching the game, horse-race commentary is just straight up more fun to hear. I love hearing a radio announcer just get excited about what's happening. However, even live, they do throw in some statistics. Admittedly, these are the sort of post-hoc statistics that aren't good for anything (e.g. "they win 90% of their away games that fall on Friday").

Offline, fans of some sports are almost exclusively about statistics and numbers. Baseball is famous for this.
Well it's got to be super sekrit so it needs the best SHA algorithm, what better than the one that even the NSA hasn't picked yet? :-)
Fair enough. I should have said, "The purpose I see them as being useful for," and it's not fair for me to criticize your position on that basis.
Obviously you don't watch sports. "Teams down by 10 points in the middle of the third quarter while on the road in November during a waxing moon have won 23.3% of the time in the last 16 years."
Awesome!

Based on my layman's understanding of relativity, I intuited this model on my own, but no physicist I've spoken with has verified it as a valid model. It just seemed so obvious to me based on the constraints. Thanks for verifying my intuition on the topic. :)
You can only expect so much dedication to the numbers from people who watch a thing for entertainment.
Do you trust your compiler?

"You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself." - Ken Thompson[1].

[1] "Reflections on Trusting Trust", Communication of the ACM, Vol. 27, No. 8, August 1984, pp. 761-763, http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
The Awesomest 7-year Postdoc
Method for selective laser sintering patent: https://www.google.com/patents/WO1988002677A2 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
OP here, thanks for making that clear. I intentionally tried to keep the Clojure code as generally easy to read as possible, and aside from the big Clojure win (more specifically, functional programming win) towards the end, the code is pretty generic ZeroMQ stuff. I suppose it's not a coincidence that the ZeroMQ docs has the code snippets available in many programming languages :)
I wrote an ATS binding which I use in a number of projects: https://github.com/doublec/ats-libzmq

I attempted to use ATS features to make sure resources are cleaned up and msg data usage is statically checked for correct sizes, etc.
systemd handles service monitoring natively, as well as socket management and many aspects of container management. It's a superset of most of the tools listed.
Given a discrete list of tactics and enough data, it's of course possible to generate a best strategy for any particular situation numerically. So yes, if your question is "should I pull block or chip block here?" and you are willing to throw out all the information specific to the situation not found in the data (e.g. the fact that the left tackle's ankle is a bit sore today), then you can do it.

But the point is that detailed blocking foot work is not adequately captured by such a framework (unless you're going to do detailed numerical simulations of every part of everyone's body). There is no concise way to explain exactly why chop blocks work well in certain situations, and why a hypothetical block which seems mechanically similar is completely useless in the same situation. Human bodies are complicated, and the answer is usually just "empirically, that's how it works out".
I use Haskell and C++ primarily. Haskell has local functions, ADTs, hierarchical modules, and good support for streaming and concurrent operations. C++ has (limited) local functions and lambdas, classes, nested namespaces, iterators, and...well, let’s not talk about imperative concurrency.

These are (mostly) good tools, but I still avoid hierarchy more than one level deep—in my experience it just introduces more complexity than it saves.
If my custodian passed away, I would be tremendously sad, although he never touched a computer in his life except to see pictures of his baby granddaughter. He is a wonderful person and a great friend to have around the office. Everyone loves him, and he is a much a member of the team as anyone else. We bounce ideas off him all the time, and although he sometimes has no idea what we're talking about he does his best to be an ear to whisper into. And in the the company I work for, I might be the only employee on HN.

Now multiply that by the thousands of employees from Facebook or Google who are here. Does this new affect them? Hell yes it does. You know what "doesn't matter to me"? The death of Douglas Engelbart. Sure he invented a lot of things that I use every day, but I never knew him and I never even paid him a thought until I heard he had died. But plenty of others had, and did, and mourned him. And I mourned alongside them, for we had collectively lost someone great that I never had the honor of knowing.

In short, try to be a decent human being and respect the mourning of others. This post is one our of thirty on the main page, and yet this is the one you choose to shit all over. Find something that interests you more.
I just read Silver's book "The Signal and the Noise" and I think this makes a lot of sense. Silver never was a political junkie, as all the NYT political journalists are. He was drawn into political statistical analysis almost by accident: he saw how "noisy" the political analysis were and knew that he could do something about it. In the book he clearly shows that baseball and poker are a lot more interesting subjects for him.
Oop. You're right. I overlooked that. I put about 2 minutes into the illustration and didn't think it over very much (I probably should have).

I was mostly responding to TomGullen's confusion about the GP's statement, rather than trying to paint a super-accurate picture.
> The probability that a certain person be "unethical" is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

So it's innate and completely random? Social environment growing up doesn't matter? Wealth, social class, education, intelligence, none of that matters at all?
There's a few gems around handling this in middleware:

https://github.com/benkitzelman/google-ajax-crawler

https://github.com/inossidabile/hashbang
If they also buy the sun, or stuff like the technology wank-mag T3 ( https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&so... ), presumably they are also equally complicit.
I suspect it is something in you setup -- that is a use case that ZMQ is specifically very good at... the fact that you can start the client before or after you start the server (doesn't apply to inproc) is awesome.
Agreed, the scientific claims are simply baffling.

Science aside, the post comes across as a thinly-veiled attempt to brag about the founder.

Press logos up top, followed by 'green buzzwords'. Then, a photo of the founders from the socialite party photo website "Guest of a Guest". Constant reference to a single accolade: their appearance on the Forbes 30 under 30 list, a list with no scientific review (or need for a demonstrable proof of concept) and an open nomination process.

So strange why someone would do a campaign like this. It seems like the majority of the attention it's receiving is through Vanderbilt University's PR arm: http://news.vanderbilt.edu/tag/param-jaggi/

(In fact, this story was submitted by a senior at Vanderbilt University! Surprise, suprise!)
upstart does the job nicely.
Thank you Josh.
Russia’s Anti-Gay Crackdown
"A few days earlier, just six months before Russia hosts the 2014 Winter Games, Mr. Putin signed a law allowing police officers to arrest tourists and foreign nationals they suspect of being homosexual, lesbian or “pro-gay” and detain them for up to 14 days."
You're right I have no idea why I wrote Edmonton.

I know enough people that went there recently and in the early 1980s too during phase one of the oil boom.
Oh I'm sure the NSA has already picked it ;) NIST just hasn't yet...
Would just adding a line like "This site uses AJAX for a large part of its functionality" work or would you prefer a more in-depth description?
Actually, Mike Bostock (creator of d3) has been employed by the Times for awhile now.
> And he upset them further by turning political prognostication into something understandable by common readers -- instead of something only pointy-hatted political wizards could divine with the right amount of eye-of-newt and other secret ingredients.

And get better results in the process.
It's also possible that medical applications (and, by extension, deploying the hardware in a hospital) would require them to have a whole different set of dev, manufacturing, and QA procedures, much like flight control and other "mission critical" software.
Please add God[1] to the list, we use this in production.

Also I'll put in a shameless plug for my side project, a service management tool for multi project development; Hack On[2]

[1] http://godrb.com/
[2] https://github.com/snikch/hack
I bought it. If nothing this is the kind of innovation which makes me excited for computing and I want to support that.

Best case the phone will arrive just in time to replace my Nexus4. Common case I get a refund. Worst case the thing is a dud, either poor build quality or under-performance.

From a high level Canonical has taken the right decisions to avoid the worst case. Being a high end device there is plenty of margin for a good case. The System on Chip is off the shelf so perforamnce only depends on the software. If Ubuntu is too heavy for mobiles then I can revert to android. The high fund threashhold means the phone will have the volume for factory production.

Before my Nexus 4 I had a N900. The N900 was the closest thing yet to a linux computer in your pocket. I loved it, you could tell engineers developed the N900 as a phone for engineers by engineers. This Ubuntu Edge looks like a true spiritual successor.
Why the sudden drop in one year, which seems to represent a change of definitions?

That seems to be the case. This is from the same source as these population figures (Eurostat):

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....

In footnote (3) it says emigration figures for Lithuania -- the largest of the Baltics -- are overstated in 2010 and 2011. Those years include emigrants who had left in previous years but hadn't been counted.
Participating in what? Looking up and smiling? That's ridiculous.

This was pure hype. Glad you showed yourself.
> The probability that a certain person be "unethical" is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

Given that ethics are strongly related to one’s culture, I find this unlikely as a general statement. What can be ethical for me may not be ethical for you. Think about guns, abortion, etc, even clothing.
What are you using for out of band management?
"What You Need To Know About Your Next Domain Name"
To start with, I was skeptical. 32mil? But, I watched the video, and realised that Ubuntu are trying to achieve what I've always dreamed of and asked for: an enthusiasts phone at the cutting edge.

I've backed it. I hope that this is the future of mass produced electronics.
EBay CEO: We 'can't afford' to buy AirBNB
Thank you! I'll take another look now.
I have very little knowledge about this, how much post processing would go into a picture like this one, if any?
I presume there's effort put into highlighting the Earth because I find it hard to believe that Earth would be even be visible as a dot from that distance.
There are so many more inputs and outcomes to model in sports than in politics, I'm not surprised that it's a more interesting subject matter for a statistician. He never seemed too much into the wonkier side of politics.

The science of predicting election outcomes may continue to be improved, but perhaps it's essentially solved in a way that sports prediction isn't.
i'm a fan of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5VlpgEVVg4&feature=share&lis...
Thank you. Just added.
Negative Probabilities
Props for using social media share nag images that do not load from Twitter/Facebook/Google until click. :) Better speed and better privacy for end users.
I admire this effort. However what we need is a fully free phone (Hardware schematics, source code). I am really disturbed about all that network connection, GPS yet so little transparency.

Have you ever seen a movie, where the rogue agent does not take out and destroy the phone, like it is a devil work :P

Any knowledge on hardware schematics, source code, license issues?
monit for active monitoring + munin for trends
"Liquidity"

I don't claim to understand it completely, but that's the justification I've heard before.
It's not even a big news to make a fortune by selling street food in Asia. Personally I know a family selling Pan-fried Stuffed Buns as street vendors in Taipei about 25 years ago. After 5 years or so they earned their buildings and moved in to a brick and mortar place in a neighborhood that's equivalent to the UES in NYC. Their business is still standing today, with three or more items on their menu. I would say they pretty much embed the "lean startup" spirit by surrounding their MVP, Pan-fried Stuffed Buns, from the beginning.
You are confusing special relativity and general relativity. In special relativity you are ( sort of) right. In general relativity you can find shortcuts in the way we measure distances. The trick is, that speed can either denote a local property, as measured by your speedometer, or a global property, that is distance traveled divided by time. And the light speed limit only applies to the local property. So if you can find a spacetime that contains a shortcut, then you can increase the distance traveled faster than the speed of light. ( And there is nothing in general relativity to stop you, since it only requires you to move locally slower than the speed of light.) An example for this would be a expanding universe ( and for simplicity let me assume that the expansion only starts a some time t1.) So you travel from t0 to t1 with constant velocity v < c. And you are then at some point x=v(t1-t0). Then you stop and expansion sets in. You stay in place at x, as measured relative to some point nearby, but the distance to your original starting point increases, since space itself is expanding. And there is nothing to stop this increase to be faster than the speed of light.

The other thing is the "sort of" parenthesis, the Lorentz transformation is directly linked to the causal structure of special relativity. A statement like "if* you could go faster than the speed of light, then you could violate causality" is somewhat nonesensical, since if you could go faster than the speed of light, then you would break local Lorentz invariance and therefore you break your very definition of causality.
Well that's fucking awesome.

But uhh...doesn't Canonical already have money? :P
The device can be positioned anywhere you like, but I'm guessing there's a definite learning period if you have it somewhere other than under your monitor (sort of like what I imagine Wacom users have the first time the use a screen-mapped tablet).
Sorry, but I have to call this out as blanket, misguided and uninformed criticism. I've been a frequent reader of the Times ombudsman in the 10 or so years since it was put in place after the Jayson Blair scandal. Sullivan has been the most incisive, most responsive of all the ombudsmen so far.

You're right that the position is toothless...she has no ability to fire people or allocate resources of her own. What she does have in terms of power is getting to say whatever she wants, about anyone at the Times, without fear of being fired. She's like an internal affairs cop (who themselves have limited direct power) but who is guaranteed a spot in print and on web in America's biggest paper.

What other companies have such a position? If you're thinking, "X tech company who got hacked and wrote a lovely apology letter about it"...well, then you thoroughly misunderstand the public editor's province. Her equivalent at tech company X would be someone who interviewed the engineers who fucked up and then put their names and quotes into print...not someone who does PR apologetics for the company.

She was among the first under the Times masthead to point out that their incoming CEO had some major problems and to say what many were privately thinking. No, she didn't get him fired or removed...but again, that's not her purview. Her role is to raise awareness and stir the pot in a way that most people internally will never do. She is most certainly not a "pawn"
Nice win but I have to say the bit that really got me excited was this

"My dream is that when big companies hear about how friggin’ easy it is to block a patent application, they’ll use Ask Patents to start messing with their competitors. How cool would it be if Apple, Samsung, Oracle and Google got into a Mexican Standoff on Ask Patents?"

How great would that be?
upstart
upstart (http://upstart.ubuntu.com)
Please don't use God. You're in for a lot of flaky monitoring problems if you do.

For reference see this bug which has been open for 2 years.

https://github.com/mojombo/god/issues/51
Did you test vmware fusion with shared folder?
He didn't discover a vulnerability. He hacked Apple, got scared, and tried to save his ass.
Because it's owned by ABC, which will host his election coverage..
Special relativity.

If you measure time in seconds, and speed in units of C, then vx^2+vy^2+vz^2+vt^2 is always a constant (in flat spacetime). So you have no choice over the matter. If you are stationary, time passes at a rate of 1 second / stationary second. If you move in space, rate of passage changes exactly by the amount required to compensate. So in a way, you always move at the same speed through spacetime, speed of light, and can only choose the direction.

The reason is that time dilation factor is the lorenz factor, (1-u^2/c^2). This is how much time will pass in your watch per one second of a stationary clock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-velocity
Saturn, with 10x the diameter of Earth, is visible as a faint disk from Earth, without a telescope, and with atmosphere in the way. Saturn's moon Titan, 40% of the diameter of Earth, is visible with a small telescope.

I think the integration time for the image was around 20 minutes.

Bottom line, I think seeing Earth was no big deal (with the Sun behind Saturn). The issue with this image was to capture as much fine detail in the rings as possible.
There appears to be a company working on silicon-anode batteries: http://www.nexeon.co.uk/about/an-introduction-to-nexeon/

They claim to have a prototype factory producing 500 phones worth of battery material per day. Not the scale Samsung needs but enough for a one off phone run.
Agreed, never hesitate to drop $10K on an attorney for any request like this, even if it bankrupts you. Better safe than sorry.
I guess nuts make the best antivirus.
The accuracy is definitely a mixed blessing - interpolation, velocity awareness, and (screen-independent) gestures go a long way toward a good user experience.
Have been using monit to keep a couple of node.js services online / monitor their PIDs and HTTP interfaces. It's been a positive experience so far.
It would be extremely useful to know if the outflow are a lot of say "aging Russians" or "young Estonian/Latvians", as each would have extremely different implications. The fact that the information is missing in the article means we can only speculate. Perhaps the information is obscured or those statistics aren't collected, but without knowing, it is much more difficult to find the cause and ultimately come up with a solution.
Proponents argue HFT provides liquidity and increased market efficiency.

Market efficiency relies on extreme competition between investors that are highly intelligent and able to make quick decisions. When you can sum up much of those decisions in algorithms, what better way to deliver competition than HFT?

Opponents argue markets were efficient enough pre-HFT and that any benefits delivered by HFT are more 'academic' than practical. Opponents also argue that the level of uncertainty ("inexperience") with HFT brings more risks than argued benefits, as well as all of the "usual" criticisms of 'trading' vs. 'investing'.

As you may be able to tell, I myself am sitting on the fence on this issue, albeit with both feet pointing towards the opponents' side.
Hardly a scandal, although that won't stop the Guardianistas tilting at their windmills. Besides, this censorship silliness has been going on for months.
Bluepill https://github.com/arya/bluepill
HTTP works fine for me. Seems like a nice article though.
Seconded. I like the DSL, but a monitoring solution has to be unfailingly rock-solid, which God most certainly is not.
I wonder what the impact would be across the different types of startups. I see this as a boon for foreign entrepreneurs but there are associated downsides as well. For one as an example, if you are planning to start a service based start-up, you may have to manually grab users until your start-up picks up steam.

Based on the numbers from International Telecommunications Union, US has 10 times more online users. I am pretty sure online services and in general start-up success is also tied to your market size. Heck, the first thing they taught me in Management Consulting is to size up the market. I am sure you can get a Temporary Business Visitor visa to the US but as always, this complicates the story.

All in all, as someone from India, looking to start something, I am thrilled by the news but I am not going to apply until I run out of all options in the US. Just my $0.02.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...