skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I might have read too fast, and might have some serious bias here because I actually prefer C# and .NET over anything else (and like leaving performance issues to be dealt with caching / rather than introducing complexities) - but it seems like you went from using a familiar, predictable, and very popular stack to embracing a dozen different smaller and lesser known technologies all full of interoperability issues, idiosyncrasies, and each requiring very specific domain knowledge.... All because a single person at the top is ideological about OSS instead of practical about solutions.

Though maybe that's what was required to get a buyout or merger, in which case that's what you needed to do due to the environment/culture of the other party...

http://www.empathica.com/press-release/mindshare-technologie...
NSA chief Alexander and the embarrassing PR video
> I'm rooting for some massive disasters/scandals with self driven cars, to put the idea to bed. And you can be pretty sure there will be some big disasters if they ever get anywhere with it.

During the Vietnam War, more Americans were killed in auto accidents on the DC beltway alone than in the actual war. Auto accidents are one of the leading causes of death, and driver error is the leading cause of auto accidents. No, I think you just want to watch people die.
I generally like the original interface, but I hate to have to re-scan all the titles in the home page to find out which ones are new. So I built this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-mark-a...
The set of experts I'd like to invite to Talk page discussions would be published, widely cited authors, including professors, engineers, scientists, and non-degreed practitioners with a good reputation in their field. Publications can be academic, professional, and/or popular, IMHO. Peer review, of course, helps. Longevity helps. Professors who have published, and been cited, would certainly become seen to be established in their field.
You are correct about the diluted 6%. That was not so much an oversight, I was outright wrong I did not believe it was subject to dilution, but I stand corrected.
I bet he was too. But personally I don't care, and in my opinion neither should Wikipedia.

In my opinion it'd be better to risk a little inaccuracy if it meant attracting experts to edit articles. But as cldr notes above, it's possible that's not the goal of Wikipedia - which is completely fair, but makes me wish some hybrid of NuPedia and Wikipedia existed.
Now the real question is -- where are they going to go from here?

* Few exchanges will be able to accommodate a 144.3K BTC transaction

* All transactions are public[1]

* The exchange(s) that broker this transaction will receive a massive amount of publicity

Now, it may end up being a bank looking to leverage the ownership of these BTC for their own business dealings, and it could adequately obfuscate where the BTC will go.

Keep in mind that the FBI's BTC address has been permanently tainted -- any shady business that takes security seriously will never do business with that address. This disqualifies the usage of the BTC in sting operations (for example).

[1] History of 'sends' for the FBI's BTC address: https://blockchain.info/address/1FfmbHfnpaZjKFvyi1okTjJJusN4...
California Zero-Emission Push Grows to 8 States, 3 Million Autos
The same that they do with all things they seize. It will be held for some time and then auctioned off.
I am not sure what "women are highly biased by attractiveness" means. Everyone is highly biased by attractiveness by definition of attractiveness.

Also it is truism that, as a man, you care more than JUST physical appearance in a woman. And you, personally, might even not care about looks at all -- though you'd be quite rare in that case.

I am talking about the overall majority of men and women and what makes them attracted and at what time. There have been studies done on this and it's pretty clear: women's biological appearance plays a larger role for men to be sexually attracted, than a man's biological appearance. (I say biological because obviously if you consider clothes, cars, cologne, hairstyle etc. to be part of the equation then those factors matter, but they can be manipulated and are related more to lifestyle than biology.)

Men are more visually stimulated. It's a fact that's been shown over and over. I did not say men are JUST interested in that. I said that in most societies, men put more work up front -- witness how many men devote countless hours to learning pickup techniques and tricks, or getting a great car, or working their ass off to have money to take women out. Meanwhile, women start putting in more effort than the guy once they have invested in the relationship, and it's probably due to the nesting instinct / biological clock. They put a lot of biological investment into having kids, more than men. And so forth.

I am not "attacking men". You are being knee-jerk reactionary.
This ad for UN Women "uses genuine Google searches to reveal the widespread prevalence of sexism and discrimination against women. Based on searches dated 9 March, 2013 the ads expose negative sentiments ranging from stereotyping as well as outright denial of women’s rights."

They don't show what the equivalent searches for men are.
There's also public transportation, I've lived in Portland and LA and on average it takes 2x-10x longer to get to where you want. I've always wondered, especially on light rail, why can't they just go faster?
Humidity also has a big effect (lower is slower, it's plausible that drinks in Vegas are less diluted than in Hawaii).

http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/a...
Browshot can do up to 1920px width.
"very low overhead but maximum possible contention" → an accurate description of the GIL
Just because Steve Messiah Jobs says something does not mean that it is correct or relevant. Nike sell very different products to Apple and Nike know more about fashion retail than Jobs ever did.

The problem with sports/fashion retail is that it is very subjective. Furthermore, for some products you need customers to have choice.

I have sold a few Nike products in my time (for cycling, yes, think Lance Armstrong...) and I did not feel they were that competitive on grounds of price, sales margin, fit, quality and so on. By any objective measure they were not that good.

However, what did the customers think? They bought it. Not all of the time, but some of the time. Depending on the customer I would steer them towards known best sellers, quality, value or sale items, however, sometimes they would find the Nike branded products suited them better - fit, colour, taste, the brand or whatever it was made them prefer those products.

Had Nike listened to Steve Jobs (or me) and got rid of all those shoddy cycling products then they would have lost all of those sales. Furthermore, those slightly more 'American sized' customers would not have found what it was that suited them.
Haha, the mental image of that has been solidified by years of Windows mediocrity.

What's ironic, though, is OS X out pop-ups Windows 7/8 with annoying prompts and notifications.

Again, tablet OSs just aren't prone to this, so people 'feel' more comfortable using them.
What about the semantic web? What reason might the DoD have for cutting off that research?

Edit: Never mind. Upon re-reading, I see that you chalked those up to fashion.
I've been pretty happy with the HackerNew Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...
Can someone help me interpret the data?
Show HN: Shuffled Web. What the other side of the Web looks like.
BE MAKER: An Arduino-Compatible Kit With Lessons For $69 (or less)
Groovy breaks into top 20 list of programming languages
I'd be curious if any of these 8 states is also blocking Tesla sales with dealership laws. Or have special taxes for electric vehicles. I know VA charges something like $64/year.
That post doesn't address the underlying problem. How is the new signature opcodes introduced? How is consensus reached among a mix of nodes that may or may not understand the new signature scheme?

Back in 2010 this could have been handled by hard-forking and requiring everyone to upgrade. In fact in the very early days there were various hard-fork changes that were not even well documented at the time - you simply upgraded your client and things worked. That is no longer an option: the bitcoin ecosystem is simply too big.

Since then we've worked out ways in which soft-fork changes can be introduced which do not result in consensus errors. This was first tested in the wild with pay-to-script-hash in 2012. P2SH outputs are treated as anyone-can-claim outputs by older clients. More recently there has been work on proposals for adding Lamport signatures without the introduction of new opcodes. This is all definitely new work.
Right, even the European average of 188km isn't very much, half a kilometer per day annually). Between commuting and running errands, I am riding about 500km per month (Portland, OR).
Drive syncs all your files, too.

The various Google Docs, etc., web apps only put links to the real content in Drive, however.

Any file that you created with a method that would let you store it in Dropbox will be synced the same way in Drive as it would be in Dropbox, the only difference is web apps that are tied to the Drive UI that don't store their substantive content in Drive in the first place, which obviously Dropbox won't help with. (Conceptually, you could have web apps that do the same thing in Dropbox, though I don't know if the Dropbox API and Web UI have features that would make it attractive to do.)
And to relate this to another quote by Natalie Clifford Barney, I'd say that progress depends on the trouble-making individual.
Maybe I'm just too old to understand, but this seems a little creepy to me. My friend hasn't introduced me to their friend, but I'm going to start chatting to them on FB? How would my friend feel about this? If someone else contacted me this way, I think I might be a little reluctant to say very much. I don't know if this is because I'm older, or very introverted, or both.
Might there not be a required process of selling seized assets?
> That assumes divorce is a bad thing.

Ideally, it wouldn't be. In practice, I doubt many people enjoy it.
It is interesting that before Fukushima the common knowledge was that any amount of radiation is bad and may cause health issues. We can see how after the Fukushima this morphed into a little radiation may actually mobilize your immune system to protect the body from radiation-related illnesses like cancer.

Another thing is this - and I'm a right wing pig here if you'd like to call me that - USSR as bad as it was it took responsibility for the Charnobyl catastrophe. There was Army and the Government involvement on all levels to clear it up from day 0. In Japan years after the incident the Government is still finger pointing some CEO trying to operate that facility. I hate that because this is precisely one of these things that gives capitalism very bad name. And what is the Japanese Government there for? To come up with lies about how radiation is good for you now? How pathetic!
I'm disappointed not to see SignalR listed as an option. I've used it and have no complaints.
The results paint a numerical picture of a community dominated by bureaucracy. Since 2007, when the new controls began to bite, the likelihood of a new participant’s edit being immediately deleted has steadily climbed. Over the same period, the proportion of those deletions made by automated tools rather than humans grew. Unsurprisingly, the data also indicate that well-intentioned newcomers are far less likely to still be editing Wikipedia two months after their first try. ... One idea being tested offers newcomers suggestions about what to work on, steering them toward easy tasks such as copyediting articles that need it. The hope is this will give people time to gain confidence before they break a rule and experience the tough side of Wikipedia.

People want to create content, not fix other people's grammatical mistakes.

Here's another idea: Instead of figuring out new processes, badges, sandboxes, help zones, and polite ways of saying "your contribution doesn't meet notability requirements and needs at least n media citations. Please refer to Policy X before resubmitting", why not attack the hydra head on? Determine how to eliminate bureaucracy. Don't keep adding to it.
As I read the article, the address is owned by DPR and the FBI seized the associated wallet.
No, they are just choosing some sites randomly. I guess they are rolling out a new theme for like buttons.
Look at the Wikipedia article on the Russian Armed Forces[1]. Look at the budget of 907 billion dollars (44% GDP) for 2013. That's ridiculous isn't it? I tried changing it to the proper 90.7 billion (4.4% of GDP) but it reverted back. I tried again and same thing happened. I rest my case.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Armed_Forces
The Religion of a Rebellious Spirit
Why is it relevant that it was a woman? It sounds like you suggest that the only applicant academia got was a 'woman', as if women are mediocre at best.
No, we're talking about "affix a stamp and make yourself liable" engineering certs, not just competency testing. You know, PEng engineers, not just inflated job titles.
Glad you enjoyed it. It's true, and I'd also add it's about deciding what is easiest to cultivate.
Great framework! Imho best at having powerful yet non-leaky and clear abstractions. We use it to build kato.im web app.
Thanks! I appreciate your insights here.
"A U.S. Pacific tsunami warning center said there was no destructive widespread tsunami threat following the quake."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/25/us-japan-quake-idU...

"It was 6.2 miles deep, officials said, and hit at 3:10 a.m. Saturday local time and was felt 300 miles away in Tokyo.

The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a "yellow" warning Saturday morning, meaning a small tsunami could reach the coast at Fukushima, site of the 2011 nuclear power plant disaster.

There were no immediate reports of damage from the temblor, which Japanese authorities classified as a magnitude 6.8, Reuters reported. No irregularities were reported at the Fukushima nuclear plant.

A yellow warning is issued when a tsunami is not expected to exceed three feet, significantly smaller than the tsunami that hit the energy plant in March 2011. Residents in the coastal region of Fukushima Prefecture were being advised to move to higher ground.

No warning for the rest of the Pacific was posted by the U.S. Tsunami Warning Center after the quake."

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/25/21150222-73-ma...
Your point of view is certainly interesting.

As you suggest, I simply must be using PCs wrong. But then, the ipad doesn't need an instruction manual, or to be used perfectly, for me to use that right.
You're the one making the claim that a document link shares all of your documents.

You're the one that have to prove it, until then, you're just writing bullshit
Confirmed YC ownership is subject to dilution. I appreciate your tact in pointing out my error.
> Apparently I didn't sufficiently explain the edit. It didn't require explanation: it was an uncited, demonstrably false fact.

So did you provide the explanation? Was the expectation of an explanation sufficiently made obvious?

So given the reversion wars (mostly on politically sensitive topics and companies that want to whitewash their images), I can understand the reversion of the removal.
> Perhaps you would like to discuss the "academic" benefits with the likes of Twitter and Foursquare?

Academic vs Practical probably? What's the point of discussing with <big-name-company>? Devs there do like to try out new tools, new languages, new platforms for the sake of trying as well. Devs are humans with ego as well, just like the rest of us.

> Most (actually all) Java developers that I know grumble when having to code in Java after they are exposed to Scala.

I code in Java, Python, JavaScript (modern) and playing with Ruby/Rails lately but I never grumble when I have to go back to Java because I know there are limitations/disadvantages of the other platforms as well. I use SVN and Git and I never grumble when I go back to SVN on a very large project with multiple component that have dependencies.

Context is everything.

YMMV.
I am not sure what myth is busted. Just because women are more likely to file for divorce does not mean that they don't push before the marriage, saying, "where do you see all this going" or hoping he'd propose.

Women have a lot more invested in sex and children than men do. And therefore, they are looking to have a stable situation to have a family more than men are. That situation was typically marriage, but now with the state being able to take care of the children so much of the time (public school, various welfare programs etc.) there are lot more single mothers. I think single motherhood is highly correlated to the amount of governmental assistance in a neighborhood. To the extent that there is single motherhood in an area, you may be right -- women may be much less willing to make a relationship work.

As an aside, I am not sure we think that's healthy or desirable. Children born into two-parent households have been shown to do far better on average than children born into single parent households.
Experience is being underrated
Yep these will be watched as closely as Sathoshi's (alleged) coins.
Why didn't the user backup all their Docs using Google Docs built in "Convert and Download All" tool? http://i.imgur.com/AnOAIw9.png
Circa has pretty a decent synopsis: http://cir.ca/news/fukushima-earthquake-october-2013
it's the exact same thing as giving a 20 year old $1M to do whatever they want with.

i'm guessing the proportion of people who make good decisions (kids given money, women given attractiveness at an early age) are the exact same.
Magnitude 6.8, felt as ~mag 4 on the mainland.
I appreciate the criticism. We'll try to make sure future posts check off that box more clearly. We thought it was useful to know that a business as small as Jim's could even see good results. Perhaps not!
Physicist here: I stopped making contributions to Wikipedia after a few edits and reversions, I stopped too. Furthermore, the danger that something I'd put a lot of time into could be replaced meant that it's not worth sinking a lot of time into it. The citation policy makes a ton of pragmatic sense, and I understand why it's there. It's an unfriendly way to meet the Wikipedia community. (an alternative way to address a "citation needed" concern is to presume that the editor is correct, and go looking for the citation)

In addition, I'm not aware of any way to be compensated, even by citation, for putting time and care into Wikipedia. As academics, we give a lot away for free (want to know some of our most-clever trade secrets? Just read our papers, where we detail everything we do so you can replicate it), but our compensation ultimately comes from what we can show others as our contribution to society. To anyone considering me for a job, promotion, or tenure, a well-written introductory article on precision tests of gravitation isn't worth a hundredth of one precision test of gravity published in Physical Review Letters.

For a single contributor, Wikipedia is ephemeral, but the academic literature is effectively permanent.
> There are two kinds of people who quit academia: those who want to produce research and those who don't.

The article calls out a third case, those who don't produce research because they aren't being paid enough. If you are being paid a teacher's salary, they can't really complain when you put forth a teacher's work (well they can, but not justifiably).
"Wait! Now it's $50 million! Now it's $23 million! Now it's zero!"
Most organizations don't take security seriously.

I work in the information security industry--primarily focused on healthcare security--and you'd be amazed and appalled at the lengths that CIOs will go to say that they "don't need to be HIPAA compliant."

More and more, though--especially as high-profile incidents become more widely reported--security is starting to become an accepted norm. There's still not much budget for it, and it's still considered an inconvenience, but at least people recognize that spending some preventative dollars can save a significant amount in reactive responses (DFIR, legal fees, etc.).

The HN crowd might be interested to know that the worst security offenders I've seen (even worse than old legacy systems) are software startups. Why? Slogans like "Ship First," or agile development cycles that don't include QA/security testing as part of a meaningful SDLC. What good is shipping something every two weeks, if one of those releases loses your customer database?

My latest drive is to help organizations realize that security is a feature, not just an inconvenience. Once that idea is more commonly accepted, we'll all be better off.
I'm waiting for stereo components that connect to each other via an Ethernet cable and a hub.

Imagine a CD player, turntable, receiver, preamp, etc., that all have only two connectors: power, and Ethernet. You wouldn't have problems anymore with running out of connections on the back of your receiver. That incredible rats nest of disparate wires and cables would be gone. No more RCA cables, coax cables, HDMI, optical cables, composite video, supervideo, component video, BNC, various adapters, etc.

No more fumbling around the back trying to figure out which socket to plug the RCA cables into, which is input, which is output, etc.
What? The site WAS designed to be 100% secure, which is why the government demanded he hand over his private keys.

There was no compromise anywhere, financial institutions use the same exact security strategy. An insecure system would be one that makes it easy for a 3rd party to intercept communications (via warrant or through a disgruntled employee or whatever), that is basically what you are suggesting.
How can I restore a permanent deleted file? I can't find the option to do that
Under the terms of the Rules and Regulations they explicitly say that they don't claim any right to own or use the Entry. They do get a license to use, review, asses, test, market, promote the entries in connection with the Hackathon. It generally seems it can be used for marketing but nothing really beyond that scope.
Here's the USGS report:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usc000kn4n#...

M7.3 , offshore
I don't think that most RFPs require or make many allowances for "reputation."
There would still be a need for ssd specific wear leveling and trim logic in the controller though
As someone very interested in signing up for ObamaCare this isn't just media+congress circus.

And March '14 isn't the date that individual plans go kaput. Most of us in FL and I assume other states got notices from BCBS that our plans end on Jan 1st. That means we must signup before Dec. 15th on healthcare.gov.

My experience with healthcare.gov...

I think I must've been the first person in the US to successfully create and account and apply. I received my authentication confirmation email at 4am on Oct. 1st.

However... I still haven't been able to view any plans. When I click the "View eligible plans" button it goes to a 404. Sometimes it's a 50x, sometimes it just times-out. I've tried nearly every day since Oct. 1st. I've tried early, I've tried late, I've tried on the weekdays and weekends... I've tried re-applying, I've tried applying in another state we are thinking of moving to. From my experience healthcare.gov is radically busted.

So yes, you can create an account, enter all your personal information and "apply" but you sure can't see any plans that you are qualified for or actually you know signup.

However, healthcare.gov generally seems very quick, very responsive, I thought the UI for signup an authentication was good.

YMMV