skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No kidding. It's intended for the blind, and using it this way is more like a well-supported hack than a feature.

However, Apple and Amazon's hands may be tied by contracts. Amazon tried to introduce general-purpose text-to-speech in the Kindle 2, but soon retracted it when rights-holders asserted that such a feature required paying a separate audiobook royalty.

Roy Blount Jr., in his role as the president of the Authors Guild, set forth that position in an NYT editorial titled "The Kindle Swindle". Noting the public opposition of the National Federation of the Blind, he specifically exempted assistive technologies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/opinion/25blount.html?_r=0
It 100% will be a huge deal with flight sims. The Rift is ideal for that. In a few years, playing a sim without some kind of high immersion device like the Rift will be like playing a flight sim without a joystick today.
I imagine the recipients probably have a more positive and realistic view of the matter than you.
State Creep, Surveillance and Snowden: reframing the debate
You know, in billiards (pool) you have to actually point to the hole in which you plan to sink the bal. So that if the ball ends up in some hole (but not the one you anticipated), you don't get credit for it.

Same here - if you read the piece (http://quixoticfinance.com/tag/nassim-taleb/) it exlains in detail how Taleb's claim to predicting the crisis is 100% off the mark (and the said thing is that he knows it, which makes him a poseur).
It's not unthinkable that accelerometer data might reveal more information about a user than cursor motion and keyboard input. Home layout, restroom/kitchen/etc. habits, body type, chair type, and even the squishiness of one's clothing could conceivably be determined.

Is this -currently- the case? Highly unlikely. But will someone seek to profit from these data in the future? Probably.
Sad, because....?
Traditional cooking method takes lots of time and rinse water to remove the bitter coating. If as a tribal villager you've been cooking your porridge for decades you get pretty good at it, but it tastes pretty awful as a gringo if you screw it up and its all bitter. So yeah, pretty much unsellable in the USA without the debitter machine treatment. I have purchased and tried small amounts of locally produced quinoa at farmers market and to say the preparation is an unholy PITA of rinsing and soaking would be an understatement.

I am mostly a paleo diet type guy but I try lots of foods and its not bad, properly prepared. The primary problem seems to be taste. Its not that much different than rice and is cooked roughly the same way and spiced roughly the same way. It is an excellent protein source for a starving village farmer if its "free" or cheap, but at now $10/pound I'm better off with steak as a protein source in my diet, or fish, or pretty much anything else.
Hmm. Man, maybe I should see if I can hack something together using npm and a naming convention.

Package managers are ... important.
Also worth reading is this VentureBeat interview with Michelle Zhou about her research:

http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/11/how-ibms-michelle-zhou-fig...
"I find myself wondering whether it would have been good for GoTo.com to have patented its system."

At the very least it would have provided more incentive for google to buy goto rather than develop a competitor (regardless of even the validity of the patent because of essentially fud.)
It's quite a striking evolution, going from the truth-to-power press of Vietnam-era America to the Democrat mouthpiece lapdog media we see today.

Rather ironic that the Obama campaign actively opposed "warrantless wiretapping," and now the press isn't holding him accountable at all. We won't visit the other equally-ironic points where his policy doesn't quite match up with his campaign.
Overdosing on Celebrity Gossip, The News, and Low Quality Information
Strikes me as fairly similar to the Amish? I get the impression they avail themselves of a few benefits of modern civilization like that subset of medicine that actually saves significant numbers of lives, while eschewing most of the glitter; are there significant differences that I'm missing?
Nothing fancy - the data is available on Robert Shiller's website[0] and I implemented the rule in Excel.

[0] http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/data.htm
Last time I check all the fields you mentioned do controlled experiments.

Example climate science: Have two models, and see which one predicts the next decades better.
Something that I always wonder about: How do you get into Developer Evangelism?
Why is there much effort? Take a pan, turn on the heat, put the pizza into the pan. If you keep the cheese from touching the pan, you could even get away with not cleaning the pan.
Internally Valve forms temporary hierarchies to shepherd projects along and there are also anecdotal accounts from ex-Valve employees that things aren't as "egalitarian" inside as they claim and that some people with seniority have more authority than is claimed.

That being said, I've had a hard time verifying any of this stuff and it's rather a given that a company would be reluctant to air their dirty laundry.
one of the non official being http://twitter.com/yugdom
Specie backed currency was not a better store of money, because the levels of redeemability of the paper notes were highly variable. Banks went bust all the time in those days, taking all your savings and all the currency and loans issued by them with them. Deflationary periods were even more disastrous than hyper-inflationary periods. Once the banks started popping, they shrunk the money supply along with their numbers, caused further deflation, and further ruined everyone.

Specie backed currency issued by a strong, ethical central bank with a solid management team in a stable country might be a better store of wealth - but how rare are those? Historically, very.

In the long run, we are all dead and there is no good store of wealth. In the short run, however, diversified investments in stable countries are a decent store of wealth - certainly better than any currency holding. Which is why you don't see rich people hoarding vast sums of cash. They typically keep very little money in the form of cash, because it's the least reliable. Cash, currency, is valuable as a medium of exchange, not of storage.
I'm afraid the need to actually investigate and analyze has not been obsoleted by the occasional leak or espionage.

It should trouble us when all our news about a subject is coming from one source which we have no way of checking up on.
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What will it take to convert all cargo planes into drones?
> Face it, luck is perhaps 90% of any tremendous success. Just because Gladwell wrote about this doesn't mean it's not true.

Could you write something to convince us that it is true?

(And if not, then why do you seemingly believe it so strongly?)
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You lose all credibility when you assert that the entire (US) media is beholden to the Democrats.
I wonder if you can take some Dramamine and still get used to it without having to endure the initial nausea.
yeah both of this is not updated often enough :) But thanks! Might have to code my own rss to twitter script after all.
Is there a caching layer built in or how does it make sense to create a blogging platform with the performance of NodeJS?
Fingerprinting devices for one http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/10/10/stanford-researc...
Tangent: parts of Utah and Texas have speed limits of 80-85 mph. Their speed limit laws are also prima facie, which means you can get out of a speeding ticket by proving your speed was "reasonable and prudent" even if it was in excess of the limit.
I don't understand. As far I've seen, NodeJS is faster than Django/Rails in approximately every scenario, and that's a large part of the reason people are switching to it.

So either you're confused about the relative performance of Node against the other most popular frameworks, or you dislike all of the most popular frameworks and have your own preference for a webapp that you're failing to mention, and that most people disagree with you on the merits of. Which is it?
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The 5s is the next generation and the 4s is seriously discounted. My Dad had his phone stolen and he intended to buy a 5c to replace it, but the 4s was discounted so much he picked it up.
The whole idea of why the print yellow pages was good was that it was biased toward people who believed enough in what they were selling to pay for an ad to sell the product or service. [1]

Everyone gets a free listing but if you want (typically) additional headings and (definitely) a big or bigger display ad you pay.

As a result if you are a general contractor that does kitchens and bathrooms and also sells plumbing fixtures as well you would have to spend the money to be listed in ads in all those categories.

Without having to spend money it ends up being confusing for consumers because it's like craigslist and inevitably results in people not being able to find what they want.

The "advertising funded" is actually a benefit not a detriment.

[1] I used the yellow pages to build a business from scratch that I actually sold. At the time I started I had no employees and there were established competitors (that didn't advertise) that did the exact same thing. The advertising is what made the business pretty much (in addition to price, quality service and all of that).
I often see these "plot the output of the RNG on a 2d grid" things. I understand they're useful for demonstrating non-randomness, but if you're searching for patterns, do they reveal anything an FFT wouldn't?
Open standards adopted by the internet and mobile devices and the have made it highly unlikely that any OS could every achieve the level of lock in that made Windows what it was.

If you send me a mail you don't know where I'll be or what sort of machine I'll be using when I open it. If you write a blog post you don't want to have to care what browser I'll use.

Sure there's a base level of functionality that any OS will need to provide to be a workable computing device (mail, web, maybe the ability to at least view PDF and Office-type documents, that sort of thing) but there are already dozens of OSes providing that and it feels unlikely that there could ever be anything big enough to move us all back to a single platform.

Open standards rock.
Because that's not the browser job.

Facebook, Twitter maybe are de-facto standards for some stuff, but by no means we should mark, use them as is it. Let people use what they want. If you want fonts with symbols, you get system ones.

@font-face will be the answer and the real freedom.
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Check out issacs npm-www[0] too. I found it helpful for trying to learn how to get things done sans express.

[0] https://github.com/isaacs/npm-www
Such nuclear designs are being worked on. In fact they're essentially ready now, but one does not simply get approval to spool up a nuclear plant. There's no inherent reason why either type cannot supply variable power needs instead of baseload, but it tends to be more inefficient overall to use a design with a wide variance of generation capacity, which is likely why utilities try to stray away from that.

I'm sure there's other problems though that an actual power distribution engineer could describe. E.g. the wide variance of wind/solar production from second to second would require a lot of energy storage and filtering to allow it to be placed on the grid (especially the rickety U.S. grid) without a series of transients accidentally opening circuit breakers and causing a blackout.
I look at it like the Duo Core and Duo Core 2 in the Mac line. If you had one of the first Duo Cores you weren't in much better shape than the PowerPC folks.
By flexible, do you mean "able to ramp up to meet demand and ramp down when not needed"?

Any power plant that uses steam turbines is going to have a long ramp-up time to boil a huge quantity of water needed to produce the steam. Nuclear plants do this, and I imagine most/all coal plants do as well. Hydroelectric plants don't need to because the falling water drives the turbines directly.

The first thing I thought of when I read the article is that this power plant can't be very efficient. It's using steam turbines, but six hours after sunset there isn't enough heat to keep the turbines going. That means they need to reheat every morning. It seems like it would have been better for them to include a coal plant for nighttime operations to keep the steam boilers hot and keep the turbines going all night. That would be flexible, because the coal burners could start up quickly to keep the already-hot water boiling. (Can't use nuclear this way because you can't really turn a nuclear reactor on and off.)

I'm totally guessing here, but I suspect they didn't include an alternate nighttime operations fuel because this is a "100%-Green" project that either wouldn't have gotten funding if there was a coal plant involved or it was just intended as a demonstration of the solar capability and didn't need to be practically efficient.
And its industry nick name was "Deutsche Bunders Pest" :-)
I get the impression that their job is to take the press releases verbatum directly from the government. And then, because they are people persons, they deliver them directly to the public, because they are super good with people, which is awesome.
But it's also the community.

The WordPress community is rivaled by none and that makes it a hard option to pass up on a budget.

edit: This isn't to say I prefer WordPress over something like Ghost. What I do prefer is something stable with a healthy community. I wish Ghost as well as others like it the best of luck in getting there.
Don't eat it like rice, then you'll just be disappointed. Quinoa is a different food and (I say this as a quinoa-lover) just tastes boring if you eat it the way you'd eat rice.
Too expensive, but pitched like a bargain product, except the actual bargain products are cheaper, look nicer and work just fine.

If they had made iOS7 a 5x exclusive and just supplied patches to legacy iOS6 devices, they might have had more uptake.
Visualizing The Matterhorn as an 860,000 point cloud
Believe me, I am more than aware of the perils of overfitting!

The purpose of my comment isn't to say that using Shiller's P/E ratio is a good way to make money. In fact, I'm essentially saying the opposite - that while I think the research is good, it would be an inappropriate tool for most individual investors, because of the length of the required time horizon, and the length and magnitude of the drawdowns you'd have to endure.

As an aside, I believe that your criticisms of economics are misplaced. Certainly there is plenty of poor research and curve-fitting that gets published in journals of economics. But there are also extremely capable economists whose understanding of data-mining bias and overfitting is far in advance of yours or mine, and who are extremely careful when evaluating models using historical data.
It's also 'window speed aware', if you move/shake the browser window you will notice it.
Ask HN: Good budget SSL certificate?
I have a startup, and I need to get an SSL certificate. I am a bit overwhelmed by the array of options.

I would say that Verisign has the best name-recognition, but it seems a bit pricey.

What are some good options that are trusted & safe while also budget friendly?
What should influence government financial and fiscal policy if not economics?
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Ahh that is kinda how "exponential growth" works.
But clearly the exponential part is recent because if you project backwards at doubling every 4 weeks you find the hash rate started at one hash every 28 days. ;-)
If you need to select text, something still isn't working properly. You should be able to drag two fingers down from the top of the screen, and it will read and turn pages for you until the end of the book.
To be more clear, the Fairness Doctrine was dismantled by the Reagan administration and permanently shelved by Obama himself, meaning that for the press in America to be held accountable for its own actions is now somehow contrary to their constitutional rights to free speech. I think the full implications are just barely being seen publicly, but essentially, non-biased media is absolutely a thing of the past.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

And while citizen journalism can allow for unbiased reporting, with no editorial guidelines or presence then it also opens the floodgates for citizen journalism to be even less restrained than commercial media in terms of lunacy.
This topic has an easy answer: if you think they need it, just prove it by doing an MVP and leaning the project.

Make a homepage, get some sign ups, see if this is worth.
Sick of Getting Scroogled, Russia Is Planning a State-Controlled Search Engine
If your website is that bad handing out a usb stick is not going to work!
I was disappointed, too
> "testable explanations ... i.e. controlled experiments"

Explanations can be tested through careful observation of uncontrolled environments.
If you're looking to deploy to a larger platform (AWS scale deployments) check out the JuJu charm for node apps - https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/howto-node.html
Activity Does Not Always Equal Productivity
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Risk I/O Security Engineer Ryan Huber recaps his SecTor conference talk on mitigating application DoS attacks.
I've heard that this is the case. A former Valve employee described it as similar to high school. http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/07/wireduk-valve-jeri-ell...
A community has to start somewhere. Ghost is a brand new platform but I'd be surprised if a strong, active community didn't grow relatively quickly. It's gained 800 stars on GitHub in the space of about 3 hours.
In light of all the sacrifices he's making to live thusly? Very doubtful.
Yeah, not sure about the choice of products but I've no doubt this is going to be a very normal way to receive goods in the future.
Personally, I enjoy having a repository of my location history that I can browse easily. Where was I on such and such a date? Easily looked up.

As for the privacy issues, they are real, but my carrier could easily replicate this data if required to anyway. So if it's going to be generated with or without my consent, I may as well have access to my own copy.
I don't believe that is a bad reason for trying something. Committing resources to using ghost in a mission critical environment would be demonstrably silly - however being well informed of the tools available to you and their suitability to purpose is just good sense.
Poll: How many Bitcoins do you own?
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51 - 200
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It's a tradeoff, just like not supporting users on IE9- or with JS disabled.

Using sprites instead of fonts to support users with foreign fonts disabled means degrading the product for some other users. Building a polyfill means not spending the time improving something else.

Why do you consider "support everyone" to be obviously better than "build a better product for a subset of users"?

I feel like the undending debates around this issue (most often regarding JS) exist because some people on HN look at it through a business angle where #2 can make complete sense, while some others look at it through a Web ideals angle where anything but #1 is heresy.

Edit: To be fair, the Web ideals remark doesn't seem to apply to you. You rather seem to consider than being pretty is way less important than supporting more people. But why? Being pretty has been increasingly important this past decade, and especially so regarding blogs where being pretty is one of the few differentiators.
>It's not as true as it used to be. Due to population growth

London's population has shrunk:

http://www.demographia.com/dm-lon31.htm

More people lived there in the 50s.

Otherwise a perfectly fine argument. Except wrong.
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Well it's a comment on an article about the establishment media, so let's assume I'm talking about ABC, NBC, CBS, NYT, etc.

Now, think back to the Bush 43 administration and contrast those media outlets' treatment of his presidency with their reporting today.
A lot of the investment properties are completely empty and not rented out. That drives rents UP.
Bull or Bear for next 6 months?
Alice may well be the sole provider of the product. This is especially true in the realm of products with zero marginal costs.

Even if we assume she is not, and that a fungible product is available from other vendors, the fact that Bob has not yet purchased it, even though it offers more value to him than it is reasonable to assume that Bob may go on not knowing about it indefinitely. (If not, why hasn't he purchased it yet?)

If Alice pays for an ad, Bob buys her product and then derives more value from it than it costs, he is still better off than he was before, even if he could have bought a substitute for a lower price.

The value (or utility) Bob derives from the product may not be quantifiable precisely, but it is certainly possible to quantify in approximate terms, and this practice is very common in Economics literature. Price paid in a competitive market is not the only way to quantify utility. Indeed, some of my undergraduate economics courses were concerned very largely with how to estimate the value (or, if you like, the aggregate provided utility) of resources for which no markets exist.
Do you have stories about how you hacked the news too?
Don't good economists do the same?

Economists also attempt to test micro-economic principles through controlled, randomized experiments, similar to how psychology experiments are conducted.
They were focused on reducing poverty in indirect ways, which have turned out in the long run to be far more effective.
> I was a bit baffled by your question:

There's nothing to be baffled about, it's a fair question. You even provided the answer: "It will heat depending on how quickly you can get energy to it, and it will cool depending on how quickly you can remove energy from it."

On the other hand, there's no "electric heater" here to use to heat up the liquid used to absorb solar heat (not to mention ice or freezers...); it's the sun or nothing. Given that the sun doesn't give us peak solar flux until the midday it's entirely possible that solar energy production in the first few hours of the day would only keep up with instantaneous energy needs instead of having enough of an excess to reheat the heat storage fluid for energy production later that night.

Whether this is actually an issue or not depends on the numbers, but it's not a baffling question at all and there's no reason to be so condescending about it.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/oct/14/american-nob...

"Fama, 74, is notorious in left-wing circles for denying that financial bubbles exist and asserting that recessions are a largely unexplainable fixture of capitalism that should be allowed to take their course."

It should be noted that the Nobel prize in economics is nothing to do with the Nobel Prize or the Nobel family.
I don't see how depriving the machine of a cog can be construed as complacency. I've had several windows of unemployment and homelessness, sometimes by fate and sometimes by choice, and it is never an easy route. Like the saying goes, "If you are not an active part of the solution then you are just another part of the problem". In that respect, re-tweeting insolence and signing e-petitions and the like is closer to complacency.