skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks really slick!

How well does it work with some kind of lock-screen security? The UX for that is always a hassle, and I'd love to find someone who is doing it well.
This is a neat idea, however, I fail to see either why it requires so much funding ($1.7m according to TechCrunch) or any server backend whatsoever.
HTML5 combined with crazy CSS can make a C2D crawl these days. It's not just Flash anymore that's sucking CPU power down.
Hi. My name is Dewie, and I'm a Web addict. (but thanks to the obnoxious follow-you-everywhere social media banner that also hovers above the text of the article, I at least didn't indulge myself by reading this article)
It's not like it's constrained to the web either. I had a bit of an epiphany about the state of desktop Windows a few years ago when for a hobby project I wrote a UI using only Win32 and C and no external dependencies. Maybe it took longer to write than it should have but I was really shocked at how the thing ran so much faster and smoother than just about any UI I was using on that machine. It dawned on me that all those layers of MFC, WinForms, WPF, Silverlight, WinRT and whatever else they'll come up with in the name of developer productivity are no match for a set of APIs designed to run at 25MHz with 8MB of RAM.
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I disagree.

I think that if everyone adopted the author's attitude, we get innovation where it is needed most... Which is exactly what is happening: there has been a shift in the focus of processor development over the last ten years or so from "make it as fast as possible and who cares about the power consumption" to a more performance-per-watt oriented approach.

edit:	worldsayshi got there first.
Do you think they could make that font any thinner? I was having too easy a time reading that site…
If the whole point is to enhance the search experience, why doesn't Google do it for free? Why does Southwest have to pay to make Google better?
Heh. What the Facebook phone could never be; useful.

It would be good to be able to define actions based on location (either by which wifi I connect to or GPS) - as well as time of day.

(I'd like to have my screen auto dim at 10PM)
Will Assembly itself be open source?
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Seconded. Riding too close to parked cars is extremely dangerous, as doors open without warning, and if you don't have sufficient space you then have to make a sudden swerve into the middle of the lane.

Cycling in the middle of a lane is not dangerous (although annoying to drivers.) Making a swerve into the middle of the lane without checking for overtaking traffic is very dangerous, and is the usual cause of cyclists getting hit from behind.
That's not the point. He said he can run any modern game on high settings on the computer he bought 3 years ago, I doubt you can play any game in 2016 on high settings if you buy a computer for $800 today.
Just a slightly off-topic question, but WTF does TC require VC 1.52 for?
Ah, so it's "new top level domains" all over again. Seems to be a pretty good way to vacuum up money.
I'm looking forward to the first CPUs or GPUs that are double-layer with memory integrated on the second layer...
Homebrewers have been doing this by hand for years. I do this often at parties when I don't have space in the fridge.

Fill a pitcher half full of ice, add cold water to above the ice, and a bunch of salt. Insert bottle, and spin by hand for 30-60 seconds.

This device saves on the cleanup time, in exchange for having another permanent appliance on the counter.
Yes, at a former job that was exactly how we did it in our point-of-sale software. The software had the public key and could do a one-way encryption of the data for temporary storage on disk if the network was down. The private key only existed on a server we controlled.
Well, here in North Dakota you get sunny weather quite a lot in the winter and in Manitoba it is about the same. In fact, the local sunglass stores do more business in winter than in summer. It looks like their weather would be fine for this.
Page and Brin themselves once pointed out the problems of accepting ads or paid placement, with some rather ironic examples:

Furthermore, advertising income often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results. For example, we noticed a major search engine would not return a large airline's homepage when the airline's name was given as a query. It so happened that the airline had placed an expensive ad, linked to the query that was its name. A better search engine would not have required this ad, and possibly resulted in the loss of the revenue from the airline to the search engine. In general, it could be argued from the consumer point of view that the better the search engine is, the fewer advertisements will be needed for the consumer to find what they want. This of course erodes the advertising supported business model of the existing search engines. However, there will always be money from advertisers who want a customer to switch products, or have something that is genuinely new. But we believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

The main difference seems to be that today even getting the top organic search result doesn't provide enough clicks for advertisers, so they feel obliged to purchase ads for their own brand names even when they already rank first. If people searching for Southwest Airlines on Google aren't ending up on the Southwest Airlines website without a huge great banner ad (despite it being ranked at the top of the results) then something is going badly wrong on the Google search results page.
The typical approach is to provide overloaded versions of primitive functions (generally addition, multiplication, subtraction, division, powers, trig and hyperbolic trig functions, exponential and logarithm) for which you explicitly tell the program what the first N terms in the Taylor series are.

The magic is that you also tell it how to compute Taylor series of function compositions, if the Taylor series of the functions being composed are already known - then any arbitrary function composed out the primitive functions can have its Taylor series computed automatically!

For your example, the function 1/(1-x) is the composition of

x -> -x
x -> 1+x
x -> 1/x

and so its Taylor series is already known as long as you have already defined negation, addition and reciprocation.
No, really you don't need Taylor series at all; see for example Conal Elliott's "Beautiful Differentiation"[1], which shows how to handle arbitrary derivatives of multidimensional functions and never uses Taylor series for anything; all you need to know is that d/dx sin(x) = cos(x), etc. Just as a warning, Conal's paper is quite dense and is probably not a good introduction.

[1] http://conal.net/papers/beautiful-differentiation/
I am holding out for either a Samsung Ativ Book 9 Plus or a lenovo T440s
SSDs help in most cases, however, I once happened onto a netbook (Atom 1.6GHz, 2GB RAM) where SSDs did not really help. Slow as mollasses in Web browsing, Flash video stuttering at 480p. I removed SSD and sold this netbook immediately.
When I think of deterministic builds, I think of the ROMs on the old GameBoy. Apparently some of the ROMs had whatever empty space was left in the fixed-size image padded with random data pulled straight out of the build host's memory. As if consistent tool versions weren't already enough of a challenge!
By the way, what happened to another important bill to repeal the wicked DMCA 1201 (by Reps. Zoe Lofgren and others)?

http://lofgren.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=a...
I doubt Google gets much for it, because they want to provide the most relevant results to their users. This is how they keep their users. If the front page doesn't show all kinds of stuff for Southwest Airlines when the user typed "southwest airlines", then Google becomes less useful.

Southwest probably knew this when they negotiated with Google for the giant front-page ad.
I totally agree with having lively discussion within a framework defined by the leadership. But it seems that the mission and values are usually at a pretty high level - so high that they don't necessarily help in coming up with a single solution. It still seems that someone ??in a non-leadership role?? needs to be empowered to make the final decision - and to know when to make it. Maybe the framework you're thinking of, while influenced by the higher-level mission and values, has the "who" and "when" built in. And it certainly wouldn't have to be the same "who" all the time.
LibreOffice is free, has been for years, but MS still sells a lot of Office.
I like the Made in USA touch!
Neat! Lately I've been trying to just ponder, soak in the moment or just do nothing if I'm waiting in line or something, rather than reach for my smart phone. But the biggest timesink for me is my laptop, or rather my Internet powered laptop. I remember when I didn't have WiFi (or was it electricity...) in my apartment. I thought I would be bored to tears, but it was actually a nice change of pace. Definitely more serene. Now I just need to find some self discipline and use the Web less, or maybe turn it off completely, and when I do use the laptop to be less obsessive with Facebook, email etc.
Looks like to be in competition with Aviate: http://getaviate.com/
> Hobbists have a wider selection of computing tools than ever before

I don't think that's quite true. We had Heath kits and a lot more variety of computers from the late 70's to the early 90's. There is no under $200 computer sold at major retailers like there was in the 80's.
This is interesting. I am generally very skeptical about taking derivatives of functions computed from real-world data for exactly this reason. What I normally end up doing is applying some form of kernel smoothing (e.g. nearest K points with a Gaussian kernel) to approximate the function, and then compute derivatives of that instead.

Would you recommend another way?
Sometimes you have to read between the lines as well.... how many of the customers wanting to pay per ticket had signed up as a direct result of the first promotion which offered the ability to pay per ticket starting at $1?

Plus a chart that shows you significantly cheaper than three competitors is always a good incentive for some people to get the credit card out.
Does it need to be 1/4 of the page, though?

I think at this rate Google will only show one result on the page in the future, with a 90 percent chance that result being a big brand, and with a "See more results" link at the bottom. I'm not sure I'd like that future, even if it wasn't compromised by Google's push towards showing big brands at the top, and if it were in fact showing the "best of the best" result.
I can pop-up Activity Monitor any time in the day, with multiple apps open, and it's guaranteed the app using the most memory is a browser (any browser).

As a data point: Safari is using 600+MB now with just HN and GitHub open. It's using more memory than all the other apps (editor, terminal, mail, Rdio, Skype) combined. 600MB is not much by today's standards, but comparatively, is ridiculously wasteful. It's a damn CD.

Hope the Mavericks update improves this a bit since I'm short on RAM on this machine (4GB).
Did you not grandfather your existing customers' plans?
> Doctors won't call it a cure because they don't know what proof or how much time is needed to declare someone free of HIV infection, long feared to be permanent.
So instead of implementing a full CAS that knows linearity of differentiation along with the product and chain rules, you implement something that for a little less computation can give you exact derivatives at any given point. Am I understanding this correctly?
Not that hard to imagine really given Bayer did market heroin as safe. Is very good for coughs, apparently.
You find it evil that people are using the service to quickly find exactly what they're looking for and the service provider gets paid for it? As someone mentioned above, if these were the results for "cheap flights" this would be evil, but they aren't; they're the results for "southwest airlines," and these results are helpful and relevant — that Google is getting paid for them doesn't strike me as relevant when this is the case.
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I think this is an example of the Simulation Heuristic, but I may be misunderstanding it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_heuristic
Hi everybody, designer here. I really appreciate all the feedback; this concept is still in its infancy and can obviously use quite a bit of improvement, but I'm trying to tweak it as best I can to maximize its usability.

Couple of notes:
1. The ultimate intention is to either pull images (both satellite and decoy) from the web as they are needed or create a database of images and update it regularly. Thus identifying images as real or decoy will only work on a short-term basis; there will always be new images entering the fold.

2. If people like this concept well enough to keep at it, I'm planning to automate some kind of color-matching scheme so that it's not possible to just look at the histograms of the images and identify the satellite images thusly.

3. I'm only just starting to learn about OCR, so at this moment I have no idea whether it's worth bothering to disguise letters or even whether it's worth using letters at all. I prefer having a two-tiered approach; having to ID a satellite image AND identify characters. If the bots are too good at identifying the characters and/or it's too hard for humans, that just leaves the satellite question and from what I've read that's not a high enough level of entropy.

4. I don't have anything lined up for an audio solution just yet. I'm fooling around with a few concepts, but nothing worth mentioning just yet.

5. Thanks to all those who wrote in suggestions/solutions and signed up!
The article suggests that no, there isn't a cure.
In my case, I almost have to watch something while I'm eating. I usually stream something and if it doesn't load when I sit down to eat, I will rather wait until the food is cold for it to buffer rather than not have something to watch.

I read Hacker News afterwards, though...
> a bigger design flaw than the fixed supply: there's no entity with the ability to prop up demand.

That's a strange comment, considering that seems to have been one of the fundamental deliberate choices made in the design of the currency, and is one reason why a lot of Bitcoin enthusiasts are attracted to the currency.
So "sorta, not really" is the answer. It's a potential hackintosh, with all the associated hassles that come along. (updates break your hackintosh? Hope you didn't want to get work done today).

And it's in an ugly case.

With less useful hardware (Xeon vs i7, memory quality).

It's going to not have workstation level build quality. For instance, my older mac pro has literally 1 cable run inside the case (power to the gfx card). Everything else is slotted in, and done on board. No self-built system I have is built that well.

I doubt I can get applecare on this system. So when things go wrong, I have 15ish different supplies to go through RMAs with (for better or worse).

Basically this "article" makes zero sense. It's just a link to a bunch of parts. Is it just advertising / affiliate?
But knowing that sin' = cos is again begging the question, just rephrasing it back.

I think I get it, though. You can get away with simplifying intermediate steps of a differentiation computation if you only care about the value of the function at a single point.
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My MacBook Air (2012) is completely silent most of time (except viewing videos in Flash or Silverlight). Given is silent, I can actually hear the power supply of my monitor buzzing! (actually it's very quiet buzzing) - be careful what you wish for I guess.
It's very impressive. And they have hidden it behind some annoying browser plugin requirement. I don't understand it.
Original report in the New England Journal of Medicine: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1302976
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I can't speak for this palette, but I just selected a color palette for a new startup I'm working with and here's what went into the consideration:

• We started by choosing a couple of colors we liked (green, purple, blue)

• Next we used Pantone's 2014 color forecast to see what shades of those colors would be used in fashion/product design for products hitting the shelves in spring/summer 2014

• After selecting a palette of trendy shades of our chosen colors, we used color theory (science) to "tune" the shades of those colors so they worked together in harmony

• Lastly, we tested our palette against the most common forms of colorblindness to ensure that each shade was distinct (our primary target is adult males, who are the most colorblind demographic)

Think of colors as wavelengths of light. We're really familiar with the science of matching wavelengths of sound (like music notes, making chords when wavelengths work in harmony, and the idea of a measured scale of tones from low to high.

Some musicians can 'play by ear', and likewise some artists and designers just rely on their gut to pick wavelengths that 'feel' right together. Obviously your mileage may vary.

Thankfully, just like we have explored the relationships between wavelengths of sound and constructed science and mathematical formulas around it (music theory) we can also apply similar principles to wavelengths of light (color theory).

So to answer your question yes, but also yes.

Shameless plug: here's the palette [1] our startup is using, based on whim, trend, and ultimately science. It's similar to Bootstrap 3.0, Hubspot's blog palette, and Android's new color scheme - but I think ours will perform a little better.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/aBstzQj.png

edit: I am a trained graphic designer and took classes in Colour Theory and Perception during school, so it is something that is formally taught. If design science gets you all excited, just wait until you hear about some of the geometric relationships in typography (font design)
If Support-Foo is going to be open source, and as per its description "Instead of charging per-seat, it would charge by volume of support.", then why does the Enterprise option say "1 year license to run behind the firewall with unlimited support and agents" ?

Is it open-source, and you need a license to run it behind a firewall?
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I suspect there was a garble in here, HHS's CMS was the "quarterback" (senior vice president of CGI Cheryl Campbell used that word in her prepared testimony), specifically they took on the role of integrator and integration testing. Except that CGI Federal has testified by letter (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6606243) that the White House was thoroughly involved.
I don't know.

Look during normal days, having big "southwest airlines" banner ad is ok. But if there is a current event involving "southwest airlines" which might not be beneficial to them (some review, revelation about safety, etc.) this ad will be basically make this event on the second page of the search...

Look, Southwest AirLines are not stupid. Nor Google.

It is just that we are annoyed because there is less and less of "free internet".
I'd love to help - drop me a line at zack@asetniop.com and maybe I can help devise a method that can fulfill both your aims.
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Thank mother of god and all that is holy. This &$&$ bullshit has gone on long enough.
Considering they document their build process very carefully, I can only imagine they wound up standardizing on that library a long time ago and keep using it to this day.
I was worried when I saw this headline, and then very relieved when I saw what was actually going on.

So long as Google only returns these sponsored ads for searches for the company name, I don't see this as being a problem at all, given the fact that many users are using the address bar integrated search in place of bookmarking or typing URLs.

Where this would become a problem is if they start expanding this to searches beyond simply the company name, and I think there is a bit of a gray area there. As someone else pointed out in this thread, showing the Southwest banner in response to a search for "cheap airfare" pretty unambiguously crosses a line, but what abut something like "book southwest airlines flights." One could argue that the user was attempting to get to the southwest airlines website to book a flight, so showing the Southwest banner would be appropriate, however, companies like Expedia, Kayak, and so on, whose links would now be much further down the page, would likely disagree.
How about "the world isn't perfect and whilst it would be great to live up to our every ideal, our primary responsibility is running a business and providing a great experience for our users who, ultimately, in the vast majority regularly engage in such egregious violations of sensible security protocol that most-anything we do is unlikely to affect them and in cases where it would, said users are usually sufficiently literate to wish to avoid this anyway".
aliasing git shortcuts seems more appropriate for git config:

https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Aliases

...after aliasing git to 'g' in your shell config, of course :)

alias g='git'
The numbers don't have to be the same for the analogy to work.

In any case, I think you're underestimating the number of people who never cook, or cook very infrequently. In your average family household, one person typically cooks the vast majority of the meals.

To clarify, by cooking I mean real cooking — beginning with raw ingredients, going through numerous stages of preparation requiring some degree of skill, etc.
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I really wonder how this will fare during the winter. Granted, there is little sun during a snowstorm, but this will require a lot of maintenance with constant de-icing and such.
Healthier but not necessarily far healthier. It's harder to overeat fruit since much of it has large water and fiber content. But fruit is still mostly empty calorie sugar. When given the choice between junk food and fruit pick fruit but there are alternatives.
Watch as the Ackerman function gets calculated
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dirty-checking (angluar) is always better than change listeners (knockout), here is why: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9682092/databinding-in-an...

Try to do something complicated in Knockout like nest a bunch of complex models and you will very quickly abandon knockout. Angular isn't all roses either but at least its possible to do complex views.
I agree with you. I like the idea and concept, but I prefer that apps like this actually let me do some of the teaching manually. Perhaps try to define the apps I want to appear at certain times of the day.

One of the reasons I stopped using Aviate was that I felt like their scenes just didn't really match what i was doing at the time.
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Evon Latrail is the author of a children's book "When Mommy Went to Heaven". She wrote/recorded a few songs; "Lord Bless My Enemies. And, even has a song entitled, "Can't You See (Abortion Is Murder). She went Pro-life after having a abortion! Really???? Now here is a photo of her posing in chocolate as a "Swamp Girl". The word Hypocrite is floating around somewhere. Go to Google or YouTube and search, Evon Latrail