skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A while back, I wrote a little app that tracks the relative scores of new submissions and the front page, which tries to tell you when would be a good time to post: http://hnnotify.leknarf.net/

The twitter notification part broke at some point (I haven't had time to fix it), but the main chart is surprisingly accurate. It shows that it's been a good time to post for the last hour or so, so this submission was very well timed. That other submission was sent at a particularly poor time (about 2 hours ago), when few people were upvoting on the new page.

Timing really does make a big difference.
The reason humans should be involved directly in war, and be put at risk, its to make it harder for leaders to declare war in the first place. If they know their own people might come back in body bags or get captured, they might think twice. Its a harder decision. If the only loss is hardware and foreigners, the decision declare war is a lot easier. These drones and remote control hardware, war toys of a military of cowards, used to automatically slaughter less advanced population, with out any self risk. If there is not risk, the military are no longer noble and can no longer be lauded for this bravery. They become a push button murder machine. The ultimate politicians toy.
It seems warfare is moving in an interesting direction, though. Rather than people being the casualties, infrastructure and drones may be what is being destroyed.

It might turn out more like the picture you've painted, but I think it's too early to say for certain. It could be a good thing.
Is there any imagery or video available that shows the white-hot glow happening?
I bet the prospect of losing control screens off any prospect of money making.
I personally can't stand smoke detectors and would love for someone to improve on them.

My house has very high ceilings, so dealing with any issue with the detectors is a pain. I change the batteries yearly (even though all my detectors are connected to power) mostly for safety but also since I can never find which alarm is beeping. Mine beep once every 5 minutes if the battery is low, twice every 5 minutes for some other issue and blink a red LED is something else is up. They might blink green if everything is OK, or if it's tuesday I don't really know, I just know they are terrible and non-sensible. It's almost like they want me to turn them off. (Have I mentioned they make me angry) So if it ever gets to the point where one has a low battery I spend forever moving from room to room waiting for a beep. Also since the beep is so short it's hard to even tell if I'm in the correct room when I hear it.

Additionally one night an alarm went off in the middle of the night that we had never heard before. I had no idea if it was a smoke detector or not. A simple interface where I could get status would have been great then. Another night (why is it always the middle of the night?) we heard beeping from an alarm, so I went to the garage, got the ladder and climbed up to the alarm only to find out it was the CO2 detector near the floor that was beeping. I can't say it enough, an interface with words to describe the system as opposed to beeps is all I need to be very happy. I'd pay for that.

Give me smoke detectors that report status to a system so I can see which have low batteries and which alarm recently triggered (which they can do for reasons other than smoke). Heck even let me disable the kitchen detector for a set timeout when I'm frying something. Please do this.
Next up: text "MERGE" to #448482
That's because he's not saying anything intelligent.

Reporters sometime pressure a source to give them a negative sentence so they can bring balance to an article. It means nothing except that the reporter didn't want to seem one sided.
In pursuit of their business interests, not out of constraints inherent to writing/music/film/art.
That's exactly what makes one suspicious.
Biggest come back ever if they win. They were down 8-1! He's put so much money into it. I would too!
I think you're just projecting your familiarity with things like RFCs as somehow more intuitive. People have plenty of problems with the network stack and its associated abstractions! TCP/IP or even just HTTP lead to plenty of confusion. In a vacuum, I am not convinced the RFC would be any easier than a paper on Hindley Milner. (Wikipedia is not a good replacement for either.)

"Intellectual level" isn't exactly a well-defined term. It inevitably conflates the inherent complexity of something with the background needed to quickly understand it. The difference in the two articles is not in how accessible they are to somebody with no relevant background--both the RFCs and H-M would make no sense to a layperson!--but in the fact that they target different audiences.

Both are very stupid in the same way: they are very explicit about every little detail. It's just where an RFC uses technical terminology mixed with a legalese-like language (SHOULD and MUST and so on), H-M uses mathematical notation and inference rules. I do not believe that one of these is so much more inherently difficult to understand than another; it's much more a matter of experience and background knowledge. Without that, reading either is going to be relatively slow and laborious. Having gone through both RFCs and type theory, I've found both similarly slow in terms of content; the main difference is that the mathematical notation happens to be much more dense. So perhaps it takes me five times longer to get through a page about type theory as a page of an RFC, but that single page contains the same amount of information, just encoded differently.

Also, I don't buy that you have to understand how the inference works to use it, any more than you have to understand or think about the OSI model to write networking code. You can use both perfectly well--and most people do--without needing to think about or understand everything. Moreover, you won't be able to learn either without a good deal of work and the relevant background. I suspect that it just happens that the background for one matches much more closely with yours than the background for the other.

Sure, humans as a species are not very good at mathematics. But they aren't very good at engineering either! They are really bad at keeping a bunch of details in memory and running (even simple) algorithms in their heads. All told, it's better to avoid it.
Cold calling, then. Offer them a story and see if they bite.
Nice font! The demo site could use taller lines. (increase line-height)
I love the small g. Notice the differences between normal and italics (especially a, e, f, g, k). It's not just slanted, but curvier as well. Really makes it stand out.
Sorry, not going to set up a custom runtime for an editor. Note the "giant runtime" concern I put first.

I'd use the system java/browser which has an extension available, no need to scan. FF just enabled javascript for everyone without their permission, and Chrome does plenty of shady things. The fewer software installed, the better. I prefer to stay far away from potential security problems, with multiple hurdles whenever possible. If it makes you feel better I don't install flash or ruby either unless the situation calls for it.
China has a bunch of "UAV" versions of their J-6. Pretty cool looking without a cockpit. http://i.imgur.com/B9yXf.jpg
I think you would be safe using SHA-3-512 and truncating to 256 bits but that is a rather ridiculous way to set up a cryptographic primitive.
I see all of the "I would too" comments, but really it's a slap in the face for his customers. He owns Oracle, and he's obviously a fan of the America's Cup competition, perhaps he could have scheduled OpenWorld a bit later?
> the 0.01% of the time where they are "activated", they do their job just fine.

Several homes I've lived in had smoke detectors that would false positive on a somewhat regular basis from (what I deduct were) sudden changes in humidity. This tends to happen in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, the only fix at times was to unplug the smoke detector and go back to bed. A "silence for 15 min" option, sensitivity adjustment, or any kind of interactive control would be amazing.

Also, who wouldn't want to get an alert if their house is burning down?

If Nest released this tomorrow I would replace every smoke detector in my house with one.
My guess is this has something to do with SteamOS and the recent rise in gaming on Linux.
> Do you really believe that you would be involved . . .

I wouldn't tell you that even if I knew, and I don't. My point is only that someone who DOES have reason to know commented about it above. I believe him over someone who argues that Google is messing with the results for money, especially if the guy's evidence for the conspiracy consists solely of Google ordering the results for a query the same way everyone else does (see my other comment in this tree).

My disclosure is just so that someone wouldn't go fishing in my profile and accuse me of withholding my association. It is not like I am an authority on the way Google ranks stuff -- there are probably thousands of people outside the company that know more about it than I do.

> considering it's about as standard of operating procedures as it gets

How would you know what the standard operating procedure is? As far as I can tell, it's just a presumption on your part, and you think that somehow this counts as evidence that it's not a conspiracy theory. Sorry, that doesn't work.
The charts are from appfigures.com. I'm not quite sure what they are using to generate them, but I'm sure the developer console in chrome will tell you ;-)
Company Quietly Closes - NSA Backdoor Concerns?

or

Concerned NSA Quietly Closes Backdoor Company
If you poured $300,000,000+ into the sport (http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2011/11/15/larry-el...), and your team was on the verge of an epic comeback from being down 1 to 8, I think you'd probably do the same thing.

If you're into sailing it's a seriously exciting event. I can't really blame him.
The phone is definitely pink.
Spiekermann also designed FF Meta, which is the font used for the Mozilla and Firefox wordmarks ( http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/communications/typef... ). So, the similarities between Fira and Meta aren't coincidental.
> A door lock, on the other hand, would be great.

https://lockitron.com/preorder

Mine is on its way!
I am classifying it is a conspiracy theory because he is not rejecting his pet theory when even a basic amount of experimentation (done by
@jamesaguilar elsewhere in the discussion) reveal results that do not align with the predictions his theory makes.
I'm sure all his customers understand, and they should be blowing off OpenWorld too for the short walk over to watch the races live.
> Haskell has an adoption problem, n'est ce pas? So where does my reasoning go wrong?

The problem is thinking that this comes from unification-based inference algorithms which is an implementation detail thats fairly far removed from the day to day programmer concerns. Most Haskell programmers are not type theorists and don't implement HMF algorithms. The only difference between a Haskell programmer and "most programmers" is that they've taken the time to learn the language. In my experience many people turn away from Haskell because they can't immediately transfer their existing knowledge into it and don't like feeling like a beginner again, so they stop. I've met many /more/ people who think that programming in Java is too smart for them as well, it's just a matter of putting the time in to learn.
Human, After All
Thanks! This was much clearer than the blog post.
I'm no fan of Ellison or Oracle but IMHO he's done so much for that company, I have a hard time chiding him for taking a little time off. Very poor timing I'll admit, but I wouldn't be holding my breath at an Oracle event just to hear Ellison speak on a product.
Hah that is an clever, witty, and awesome title.
I see the article is from Alison Green of Askamanager.org, a professional writer not affiliated with Intuit. Looking at their other content it appears most of it is professional done by some pretty well known authors from NY Times, Forbes.com, etc. Pretty good stuff. Subscribing.
It's an intriguing, albeit risky move. Existing smoke detectors are pretty ugly with bad UI. There is little to no competition for the 'high end' retail market. With that said, current smoke detectors can be had for $10-20 bucks, and my guess is Nest will charge significantly more than that. Of course they can add a number of extra sensors/functionality to justify the costs. A CO sensor would be a good addition, maybe motion sensor (for security), temperature sensors (to provide more granular feedback to the thermostat), and maybe some other sensors to monitor indoor air quality (VOC's, radon). I am sure there are a few other things that can be thrown into the device to make it more useful (wifi repeater?).

All things considered, this is a pretty genius move. In the push to create 'smart homes' most of the attention has been on lighting, kitchen appliances, and entertainment systems. But one thing that has always bugged me was how do you get a refrigerator at the back of the house to communicate seamlessly with the wireless router in the front if the signal doesn't reach that far. I was thinking that mesh networking would play a big part, but even in an appliance saturated home, there could still be some dead spots. Well, smart smoke detectors might solve that, as they are in almost every room in the house! One issue I can forsee is that not all homes have hard-wired smoke detectors (which means power would be an issue, thus limiting what they can do with it).

EDIT: Seems like everyone is focusing on the UI comment. While I think that that is still an issue, I think the more exciting possibility is that a 'smart detector' could also provide nodes for a mesh network (or something similar), essentially providing a communication layer for appliances/devices in the home. If they go this route and they succeed, they could put themselves in a really good position competitively, as they would 'own' the networking layer.
> B) There's much less difference than you would expect between a $500 gaming GPU and a $2,000 workstation GPU. It's totally plausible that you are one FOSS driver away from a much more expensive GPU. That is a problem for everybody, including the gamers who want to keep buying $500 GPUs.

I wasn't aware that there was a difference at all. Haven't there been cases of changing a single resistor to switch the card's mode?
Twitter reportedly picks NYSE for $1.5 billion IPO
Because I know that they can't tell me much about NSA.

You are not the world. You are not even most Dropbox users.
Sounds like you need a GF more than anything else. Here's a tip, take some college course (again!), meet them :)
Cadillac preps to take on Tesla, GM CEO says
I hope Ellison gets so infatuated with other things that he runs his company into the ground. :)
You know, I just don't think a humanist sans with a lot of character is the right choice for an operating system.
I'm a game programmer, and I have an answer for my preference of Z being up:
I want positive values going into the screen (away from the viewer) but I also want a right handed coordinate system (mostly because physics become more intuitive - especially wrt torque).

X is almost always to the right, so this gives me Y and Z to work with. To satisfy both the positive values into the screen and right handedness I need either Z forward and Y down or Y forward and Z up. Since most of the time you draw a graph with an axis going up rather than down, that settles it.

It's entirely arbitrary in the end, a single matrix will fix any dispute you have amongst peers.
Did you factor in the risk of dying when you made this decision?

This kid is naive.
"America hasn't won an Olympic marathon medal since 2004."

American Men also didn't win a medal from 1980-2004, or between 1928 and 1968. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_at...

The Marathon for women only started in 1984, and American's did not medal from 1988-2004.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_at...

I'm not American, but American's have never been marathoners. It's an extremely shaky argument that the current generation is slower based on the statistics quoted in this article.

If America sees a long-term decline in something like the 4x100 relay (running or swimming), then I'd say there might be some cause for concern, but I suspect more people are competing in running events as a whole, and most of those people are going to be slow, compared to the past when athletics was for athletes.
I'll wager that their business interests are directly inherent to their writing/music/film/art. The meme that artists somehow shouldn't expect to be paid for their work needs to be stopped. Many wouldn't have the ability to continue creating their product if they weren't being paid for the time and effort it takes to produce it.
I think a Myst game with the Oculus Rift could be amazing. Especially with some sort of wiimote type device to manipulate objects.
I find it much easier to route socks requests via Polipo (http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/polipo/)

Just run `polipo socksParentProxy=<host>:<port>` and then use it as a regular http proxy with requests (default port is 8123).
No one expected the America's Cup to continue this long. It was scheduled to end this past Saturday at the latest, but between the 2 points Oracle was penalized (meaning they have to win 11 instead of 9) and weather delays it's extended a lot longer than anyone thought it would.

Today the TV announcers were talking about how their realtors are trying to kick them out of their temporary apartments.
Of course, Intel has it somewhat easier, considering their GPU+driver combo only needs to play minecraft and quake live.
Not a fan of it all, but massive congratulations for them including the different weights properly.
I'm assuming the #1 S.O.P. (dealing with changes) for any business is you don't implement changes that negatively impact your revenue numbers.

I'm also assuming that Ad CTR (or some portion of it) is dependent on the user not getting what he/she wants in the organic search results section.
Nest could be waiting to see how Lockitron fails. Then, they would have the chance to compete and innovate on a better product. Given their current mainstream success and apparent financial comfort, I would imagine Nest having more resources to tackle the problem than Lockitron can hope to raise with a crowdfunding campaign at this point, in addition to more years of industry experience. So that might explain why, even though Nest could make a door lock right now, they are waiting for the right time to develop and unveil one.
Would it be outrageous to suggest that smaller and narrower (but still exploratory) indie puzzle-solving games like _Machinarium_ occupy a substantial portion of the Myst-like niche in the modern video game market?
I don't think they are that similar.
My server logs suggest I need to fear Chinese espionage. You'd need a hell of a citation to beat that.
Yeah, folks, living and working in Oakland is literally a death sentence. Don't come here.
I have decided to quit youtube since google is forcing me to create a G+ account.

Is there an alternative of Youtube to upload private or unlisted videos? How is vimeo?
This type of requirement is a solid reason for me to avoid DO rather than the non-specific issue that the OP ran into. I don't use twitter or facebook, and the reason that I've considered DO was to host a blog and company website. So if they were to bring me down for unknown reasons, I wouldn't be able to pass their extraneous id requirements. As a result, they are off of my consideration list. From some other comments in this thread, it sounds like Linode is the better way to go.
> Ziptr, the secure communications service predominantly targeting legal and accounting professionals, appears to be closing its doors as a ...
Risk of dying? Have you even been to Oakland? The area around Jack London Square is just as safe, if not safer than many of the parts of SOMA where startups setup shop.
Brazilian president: US surveillance a 'breach of international law'
Do you know anything about the crime in Oakland beyond the superficial 'oh man there is a lot of crime in Oakland!'?

Most of the crime is isolated to a few specific areas. You realize there's a lot of crime in SF, too, right? And that crime is concentrated in the areas where a lot of startups have their offices (e.g. the Fidi). Do you factor that in to your search when you look for a job in the City?
I suppose Meai is referring to AppCode, which is a different product.
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That depends greatly on where in Oakland.
Agreed on the lowercase r. Tried replacing the Source Code Pro with Fira Mono in Sublime and this immediately stuck out as annoying to me.
For the source of my bias, I have actually spent a considerable amount of time working with people in the "RFC world." For example, I wrote the kernel of the Openwave WAP browser, which shipped about a billion units, even if it sucked and no one used it. I have spent just about no time in the PDF world, and even when I was in grad school I was an OS guy. (Here's a fun old paper of mine: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.41.7...). So, zero time in the "PL theory" world.

I can tell you how this world sees the "PL theory" world. They say: look, you have your own way of formalizing computing, there are infinitely many ways of formalizing computing, the one we use seems to work just fine, so why should we learn yours? Whether they won't, or they can't, or they are too pigheaded to - the answer is, they aren't.

I don't view language design as an opportunity to change the world to this extent. And I think many, many good ideas are getting lost in the PL theory world. So, my goal was to replicate these ideas, as best as I can, for programmers who think about programming the way I do.
I find "selling technology to shallow people who don't give a crap about technology" to be quite topical and useful to understand, if depressing.
This rate is not an atypical profit margin for partners (owners) of a consulting firm. Keep in mind that if the parent poster is really only spending a few hours a week then his hourly rate is fantastic.
In many consulting firms the partners are also active employees, and so receive salary as well as a portion of the profits.
I feel like IPython is better for sharing your final analysis but I do all of my coding/development in Emacs + python-mode and haven't been able to figure out all the hype around IPython. And once you start with Pylab it becomes difficult to map your functions back to their original namespaces (especially since many are redundant between numpy and scipy) in a bigger project, so I stopped using it altogether. Could you explain a bit if I'm missing the point?
Perhaps he could have scheduled OpenWorld later, but he's far more than a simple fan. Oracle has had a boat in the race since 2003 and Larry Ellison personally has been heavily involved in Oracle Racing in that time, pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into the team. It's far more than a hobby for him.
The F-16C is a multirole strike fighter, although retaining the air-to-air capabilities of the earlier versions.

The F-22A is the USAFs Air Superiority fighter[1]. The F-14 and F-15 were the Air Superiority Fighter of the Navy and Air Force although they also became strike aircraft (F-14D and F-15E versions)

A single F-22 could down 4+ enemy fighters without even being seen, and the pilot coming back alive. The F-22 can also close for a gun kill. A Suicide squad of 4 F-16s would be hard pressed to beat that.

Just because a jet can dogfight does not make it an Air Superiority Fighter.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_superiority_fighter