skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone is interested in more of the mathematics, I have a few posts on Fourier Analysis (starting with four lengthy posts here: http://jeremykun.com/primers/ ) and a follow-up on actually deriving and computing the FFT here: http://jeremykun.com/2012/07/18/the-fast-fourier-transform/ with a (relatively misguided) application of denoising a sound bite.

My implementation is in almost pure python (except for complex number arithmetic) and it shows.
Age-related memory loss and the protein that may reverse it
Former Hedge Fund Analyst Starts MoneyGeek, a Canadian 'Cookbook' for Stocks
Curious why that article didn't mention Deep Tunnel. It's our 50-year project to dig massive drainage systems and underground reservoirs to hold the emergency storm runoff. We're..hmm..15 years away from being done!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_and_Reservoir_Plan
I prefer the humbler version: "fools never disagree" ;)
I also think of it as "don't settle for what is already there".
Seen her pic. She's not all that. How strange.
No, he's dead!
It's the reverse: my customer started to test our components with their QA army with a Windows 8.1 version that is not available in the MSDN.

The central point of my rant is that Microsoft is harming their own customers.
One new policy will end a government practice that lets military weapons, sold or donated by the U.S. to allies, be reimported into the U.S. by private entities, where some may end up on the streets. The White House said the U.S. has approved 250,000 of those guns to be reimported since 2005; under the new policy, only museums and a few other entities like the government will be eligible to reimport military-grade firearms.

These guns are mostly (if not all) "curios and relics", largely uninteresting to anyone but collectors. They are not the kind that "end up on the streets". This is not an attempt to curb crime, but instead to curb a popular & harmless hobby enjoyed by people who are card-carrying good guys who have subjected themselves to intense background checks.

Little different from banning re-importation of US cars sold overseas on the grounds that a vanishingly small number might be used as getaway cars in crimes.

The Obama administration is also proposing a federal rule to stop those who would be ineligible to pass a background check from skirting the law by registering a gun to a corporation or trust. The new rule would require people associated with those entities, like beneficiaries and trustees, to undergo the same type of fingerprint-based background checks as individuals if they want to register guns.

There is a category of extremely tightly controlled weapons known as "NFA" or "Class III", which includes "sawed-off shotguns", "silencers", "disguised guns", and the very few remaining legal machineguns. To get one of these, one must pay a $200 tax, pass an intensive criminal background check, and have a local Chief Law Enforcement Officer (CLEO) sign the paperwork. This last point is often problematic: despite full legality of the registered purchase, and unquestionable confirmation the buyer is not a criminal and has no criminal intent, many CLEOs nonetheless refuse to sign the paperwork and have no legal obligation to do so. To get around this refusal (amounting to anti-gun bigotry), buyers may (and this has been firmly established by government gun registration department BATFE) create a corporation or trust which legally buys and owns the weapon, available to officers thereof. Shutting down this imputed "loophole" serves absolutely no purpose but to crush the very small category of upstanding citizens who cannot get reasonable cooperation from local officials, citizens who purchase these arms for upstanding hobby or business purposes.

In doing so, the Obama is unilaterally moving to destroy a Constitutionally protected activity which is long allowed & regulated by legislation, activity which has no connection to crime.
Honestly it's just ignorance on your part.

If you watch some of the presentations Jobs gave e.g. during his NeXt days it's pretty clear that he absolutely understands every bit of the technology as good as any engineering manager. The ability to combine technical knowledge with exceptional design, marketing and product development skills is what made him vital to Apple's success.
Super powered Jekyll templating with Jekyll Liquid Plus
Skype confirms 3D calls are in development
I was about to post an identical comment http://imgur.com/Pdwf6HW
Well... it is fiction "inspired" by real facts. The point is that people should be aware but that is not the case for the most part.
Interestingly, this thread and my frustration with how... boring 4.3 is on my Xperia S has made me download and flash MIUI on it.

I forgot how awesome it actually is. So very well done.
Bootstrap 2.3.2 throws up an advertisement in their docs.
Yup, because a woman's entire worth and character can be judged by quickly looked at a single "pic"
WhatIsFailure
Agree that testing/deployment is a pain. The solution I've come up with is to use the shopify theme manager app, which syncs local files to the online store, then have to two copies of the repo on my local machine, corresponding to the live store and a testing store. It's a pain, but it's Bette than hacking on the live theme files.
I was thinking, since the drawing functionality was mostly right, Jobs could have tweaked the background color or shadow size manually instead of telling Espinosa to move things around a pixel at a time and waiting for another iteration.
What a Speech
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Yes your endorsements are always there. You will continue receiving endorsements too. They just won't be displayed if you "disable" them.
According to Wikipedia, Breakout was created in discrete logic. Not exactly high-level.
While this is true, keeping a large project from getting ... err, decohesed and coupled, takes a lot of time as well. You will have less lines of code, but you'll definitely spend a lot more time than that first 1000 lines on a large project.
It depends on who you ask. If you ask recent graduates, or college students they will say Yes. However, ask someone who graduated 6+ years ago, and they will just smirk, laugh, and say No.
Extending the DevOps Model for Improved Security
People in Kenya are better at taking advantage of phones than we are; the M-Pesa system is much more widespread than Square is here. People know how to use mobile tech just fine. There will still be boarding passes, but in 10 years, most people are just going to use their phones.
Either go full text actions or only icons. You can't have both because of the reduced space and reduce the ammount information you need to digest. Also, users can experiment with your UI/UX, so the camera example doesn't apply.
I really like the "one way street" sign in this blog post because it reminds me of our first trip to Germany, where we were bemused at the incredible number of roads Munich had all named "Einbahnstraße".
I've noticed that people tend to endorse each other for not-so-cutting-edge technologies as a joke.

"You have endorsed Coworker for SVN, Java and XSLT"

Where I work, I don't think a week has gone by without this happening. It's all in good fun. :)
It's surprising to see no Interac support, since Shopify are from Canada. I don't see any store here using this unless it supports Interac debit cards. I use a Square card reader with my iPhone at a merch booth at concerts, which doesn't need the full POS components, but more storefronts here support Interac than credit cards and you would be turning away a lot of business in a storefront context by not supporting it.
MS frustrates this by changing the icons with every major release, though. I have no idea what the Word 2013 icon looks like. They didn't even keep the colour conventions - outlook always used to be yellow.

But yes, VS2012 is a worst-case scenario. The TFS source-control file browser makes my eyes want to bleed.
Offtopic. That link is incredibly scary. On what basis does Europe justify making an incorrect opinion illegal? And why that opinion, specifically? Why not criminalize a belief in God, or alien visitation?
Stuff like beeminder or stickK lets you pledge money to achieve a goal, which creates a real deadline for you. Beeminder works better with regular tasks, but you can probably use it for one-offs too.
Why? To finish the job of killing Microsoft?
Does John Resig know about jQuery?

https://twitter.com/notasausage/status/360788936282501120/ph...
Thanks for this. I'm just wrapping up a game and part of my marketing is going to be via social media so those social media cards on my landing page will be key!
Does this mean in SSL, the host name is not plain-text but in TLS it is?

To me, it seems better to use a possible-to-crack SSL with hidden hostname vs. hard/impossible to crack TLS where anyone can see I'm trying to go to https://anonymous-upload.wikileaks.org.
How about Sundar Pichai?
Reminds me of when I went to Brussels the first time, trying to travel to Leuven (where my friend was staying). All the buses were going to "Geen Dienst". That's a popular destination I thought to myself.
We'd love to have the .com, but it's not in the cards. But ya, we chose the India TLD for exactly the reason you suspect.. text it in.
I am honestly bewildered by your thought process here.

If I am getting someone to build me an Android app and I don't know how to do it. Then I am not going to learn Java, SDK, tool chain, build process and buy a device just to show them how to do it. I am going to send them an email and tell them to change it and go back and forth until I am happy.
Anyone know why Venice, Italy hasn't undertaken a similar plan?
You can do both on a desktop. The average PC screen is like 4 ipads duct-taped together.
Cass Sunstein is among the most famous living constitutional law scholars.

Obama himself graduated magna cum laude with a masters degree in law from Harvard and then lectured on constitutional law for 12 years at the University of Chicago Law School. Expertise in constitutional law doesn't necessarily translate to skepticism here. The constitution is not a moral authority on privacy.

Richard Clarke

He wrote an interesting op-ed before he was named to this committee. It appears to be critical of the NSA's operation, but a closer reading suggests his problem is about the degree, he's fine with massive record keeping, he just wants it in the hands of the telcos.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/worry-nsa-article-1.13697...
Will be funny if he retires the win kernel and announces a port to freebsd.
Panties, Patterns, And The Problem With Content Marketing
It's awfully unfair on Brin's girlfriend too. Being involved with someone who is separated is very different from being involved with someone who is married and still living with their partner.
An actually good joke cross-referencing a previous popular HN article -- well done my friend, well done.
Because that incorrect belief tries to erase and cover up the murder of millions of people. I'm not sure if that's right, but that is the motivation.
Less guns = more violence: Harvard Study
I would probably host my own, and offer access to others in our group. But I wouldn't want to feel responsible for keeping it up if I found new constraints on my time: easily moving from one pod to another would remove that risk.
It's laziness, Google is the most visible adherent because all of their products are heavily internationalized.

I'm going through this right now - we're translating a native mobile app into a bunch of languages, and let me tell you, getting a dense UI to fit right in multiple languages is an extremely iterative exercise that saps your development velocity like nothing else.

A natural and popular reaction to this is to go "then we'll speak in a universal language - pictographs!", except complex concepts can almost never be expressed properly in iconography, especially iconography that isn't well-established internationally.

I have a strong suspicion that Google's forays into all-iconography UIs is an attempt to reduce the amount of translation (and subsequent tweaking) they need to do.
We started out with mondrian+mysql, but quickly had to drop mysql ("mysql is great until you want to put data into it and then get it back out again" - unattributed, to protect the guilty). Our primary work was with postgresql in the beginning. which, in my opinion, is a pretty solid database to work with overall.

We did partition all of our dimension and facts tables, which helped a great deal. Aggregates were a problem that is specific to us, so we couldn't cheat the usual way that reporting servers do.

The other problem is that our stack is suddenly fully of things like java and olap and postgresql, which made onboarding people who wanted to help, and just debugging, a pain.

I like that comment about the coalface/bookworm, but sometimes it takes somebody on the outside to see what I'm missing.
No degree, I earn pretty much as web developer (above the average for my country).
And who is running HP??? Meg Whitman isn't high profile?
They can see that anyway if they intercept the traffic anyway, since the IP will be in all packets. Even better, the TCP connection will end up creating routing tables on all hops along the way.
Blessed are those who have a smattering of enemies, for they shall them a (s)hero.
How do you tooltip on a phone?

Seriously, a standard (?) icon in the corner to show all the text labels and list the gestures temporarily should be a standard feature on touch devices that often heavily rely on gestures and textless icons.
I finished highschool in '95, I was in good school, and we had computer science course - though I didn't notice them ... but my friend gave me his programs from which I learned. We had law classes, everything.

Still I had no guidance in what major to pick in college. Ended up in computer science for same reasons I saw in list - hands aren't steady enough to be doctor, I liked law (took in highschool), but thought I'd have to deal with criminals all day, and I liked video games.
Not once did a job such as taking x-rays, or other medical-field non-doctor jobs pop into my head.

My point is I felt even my good school didn't give any guidance to pick a career. (They let you try a lot of subjects though, all electives - take anything, you want if you want.)
Nokia is like a ship with a hole in it, and Elop's job is to get it pointed in the right direction.

Except he hasn't. He's just bailed water a little faster, and slightly reduced the sink rate.

I give them credit for doing something daring and different (betting on Windows when they knew noone else would). It was a big gamble, though, and at least so far, it hasn't paid off. Android would have been a far safer bet in the short-term at the very least.
First look at Clojure.core.typed
This is very nice. I will recommend it to friends.
Solar energy is actually nuclear energy.
These are the signs by my wife's office - it's really hard to visualize but at points in the sidewalk there are grates that you can see through down to the old sidewalk below

http://fuzzyco.com/news/archives/uploaded/2005-08-15/vaulted...
Microsoft’s Surface 2 surfaces in logs
Their mascot looks copied from TurnTable.fm's characters...

Still want one of these!
Nowadays we should always have mobile users in mind when designing web interfaces. The only thing I could come up that works and isn't confusing is always visible text.
The cost of acquiring mobile app users soars to highest level in 2 years
It's hard to write game in a language without side effects, even if you don't care about performance.

Games are made in iterative process, you change sth, test, etc. You don't know if something is fun and looks good without testing it. And it's really hard to upfront design for fun.

Without side effects most of the time programming in this way is spent maintaining long arguments lists and passing them around to be able to add even very small features.

You want to play sound when player leveled up? Pass soundManager through this 7-functions-long callstack. Now you also want to shoot stars around the player on the occassion? Pass this ParticleEffect handle too. Oh, but the effects should vary depending on the region the player is in? Pass that information to that function too. And time of the day, while you're at it, so stars can be blue at night and yellow at day.

In the end you give up and pass WorldState variable to every function. I don't think pure functional programming is good for prototyping games.

I thought about this problem a little, and I think this could be solved by structuring the WorldState variable into a tree, and writing a script that you run after the game is done, that looks inside functions for which parts of the WorldState they really need, and changing them accordingly, so the code is easy to read and functional after the experiments are done.
Because the goal isn't an unbiased review, but a stamp of political approval? Did you really think the government as a whole is self-critical?

Read Feynman's account of being on the Challenger review panel. He was the token scientist among politicians and PR people, and they tried to steer him away from doing any actual investigations. They tried to agree, before doing any investigation into why the shuttle blew up, not to blame NASA and to indeed give it vote of confidence.

The goal is to deflect blame from the government while making the status quo look hunky dory. Any actual investigation is counterproductive and I guarantee it won't actually happen to the NSA. This is a PR campaign, period.
Why not? It's free to have an AdWords account and you're not required to spend any money. I have one and haven't run a campaign in 5+ years.
The Decline and Fall of the Mobile Ad Network
Because good security is hard.
Button To Nowhere: A Simple Hack For Testing New Features Before You Build Them
Sunstein is a much more highly regarded legal scholar. Obama was a lecturer at UChicago. Sunstein was a professor. They're not in the same league. Sunstein is up there with Tribe.

I'm not sure where "moral authority on privacy" enters the picture. The question is how the program comports with the Constitution and the American system of governance.
So Undertown does exist?
At a specific time and place in 1945 this law makes a ton of sense, and it's actually done a lot of good. Compare german - european relations with japanese - chinese/korean/filipino relations.

Maybe it should have a sunset provision for the sake of free speech, although I don't think you'll find many MPs signing up to sponsor that bill.
Even if Woz had found support to build a microcomputer within HP, it almost inevitably would have been watered down or corrupted as some sort of 'design by committee' took over. Sacrifices made to meet budgetary or time constraints, etc. The purity of his vision would have been lost, and the Apple I wouldn't have been an Apple I.
Something that strikes me is that Da Vinci got the job mostly as a combat engineer, hired to destroy enemy forces by any means possible, but ended up creating art of various sorts and increasing human knowledge in many domains. The military appeal he provided seemed only interesting during the hiring process and is not what lasted across the ages.
Where's Damascus?
So... what do those icons at the end mean?

My guesses:

1) no idea (share photo?)

2) take panorama

3) take video

4) take photo
Felixge/node-ar-drone
Grades dont matter. But having a track record where you have sought to excel in some facet of your life matters. For a lot of people grades / school are a ready made environment where they seek excellence.
Not bad, but had to laugh at his statement, "All earth will be a single choked Manhattan by A.D. 2450 and society will collapse long before that!"

Uh, a collapsed society could not support a growing population, Dr. A.
It's the 21st Century. Where's My Fusion Reactor?
Last time I've checked (a few years ago) Penumbra was nice clojure-sque OpenGL wrapper. But it seems it's abandoned. Shame, it was really nice, even had clojure DSL to write shaders.

https://github.com/ztellman/penumbra
Or maybe you understand in spite of the fact that there aren't any USD involved.

Buying a new miner is a risky venture. Even in the face of the coming obsolescence of my existing (working) mining rig. Whether you use bitcoins or USD to do it.
See the upstart documentation for examples. There are no special requirements for running a Go program with upstart.
Correction -- radioactive batteries -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen...
Microsoft should pick Elon Musk or a famous googler, one of
Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt. That would create a tech super-empire. Then one of these should run for president.
Coincidentally, with German signs being mentioned in the article, German public service typography, the signs and so on, is gorgeous. Really well designed.

There's the guy whose company did stuff for BFG and the railways talking about some of his work here:

http://vimeo.com/30008631
Oops. Nevermind.
It's not as simple as that: think about libel laws: if I say that you've stolen something, or that you've killed something and I actively try to ruin your reputation, then my 'opinion' of you is actually very damaging.

The same goes for holocaust denial, those who deny the death of millions of people risk repeating history, thus making their 'opinion' dangerous for society at large.
I think it's because social perception of history is volatile and some experiences came at so much cost that they ought to be remembered correctly.
How Podcasts Conquered Comedy
Well, I prefer FreeBSD. Did you mean "*nix"?
Why Twitter’s new Conversations view is a big deal\
It's kind of annoying that Ars, which is a publication I usually respect, only talks about one side of the legal argument around cell tower information.

"In addition, in its well-known Jones decision of 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that warrantless GPS tracking of a suspect was not allowed, and in response the FBI switched off 3,000 tracking devices. Cell tower dumps might well qualify as warrantless 'tracking' under this standard."

Jones was based on the fact that the police had to physically invade the suspect's property (car) to place the GPS trackers. Physical invasions of property are a clear-cut situation where the 4th amendment requires a warrant.

Trying to extend Jones to cell phone tracking doesn't work. The police didn't place a tracking device on anyone's person. These guys bought tracking devices which uploaded their location in real time to third parties that came under a court's subpoena power. The guys tracked themselves and handed the data to a third party that the police could subpoena for evidence. Third party doctrine says that this doesn't require a warrant: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/01/23/a-supreme....

The basic problems is that connected technology and the 4th amendment aren't friends. Connected technology spills private data everywhere like a sieve, and the 4th amendment, as it's currently interpreted, doesn't really extend to information you "make un-private" by sharing it with your thousand closest friends at AT&T. One or the other will have to change, and it's a much more uphill battle than Ars is making it out to be.

Also, note that this isn't 1970. We have a conservative Supreme Court and a conservative judiciary (that is reeling from decades of criticism from both the left and the right for being "activist judges"). I'd be shocked to see an expansive judicial reinterpretation of the 4th amendment while the composition of the Court remains the way it is today. The Court today is looking for tight legal arguments. I haven't seen one that justifies an expansive view of the 4th amendment in the digital context. What I've seen are the kind of nebulous, policy-based arguments warning about social harm that might have flown in 1970, but are unlikely to do so in 2013.
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After reading Isaacson's book, I lost all respect I had for Steve Jobs.

It felt he continually found some one whom he could exploit to keep his career going.