skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"it would be just as easy for a Democrat with more appeal to the left to unseat her in the old-style partisan primary than in California's non-partisan primary."

You'll have to actually make a case here, rather than simply asserting it. In a general election, F vs. DwiF, with Republicans breaking to DwiF, F has much less of a downhill battle than typical.

"Strategically voting Republicans would be taking a pretty big risk of doing that, because that means they stand a good chance of ending up with a general electing of DwiF vs. F, and the realistic anti-surveillance Democratic candidates tend to be more opposed to Republican positions in every other area than Feinstein is."

They stand a good chance of yet another Republican losing to Feinstein, if they all vote for the Republican. Depending on who DwiF is, that may or may not be preferred. It may very well be that there's no one with the right positioning in the field at present; there very well could be by 2014.

None of this is to say that Feinstein is guaranteed (or even likely) to lose in 2014; simply that pointing out that the last races weren't close doesn't tell us much, and I think there is more of a chance then there has been.

Of course, she's also 80, so it could plausibly even be that she retires before we find out.
I use this: http://www.iconpaper.org/folds/

IconPaper is nicely-curated site.
No, it won't have that affect at all. They weren't creating pages based on search traffic they were already receiving, but search traffic they could potentially receive. You can still use the Google Keyword Planner to get lists of millions of keywords and their search volume. Webspam isn't going to be reduced by this change.
RapGenius for politics!
The basic idea is that it is possible to transform a signal without loss of information from being some value vs time (so called time-domain signals) to being a bunch of different frequencies with different intensities (so called frequency domain) where the frequencies are just sine and cosine waves. A pure sine wave in the time domain gets transformed into just one value with the same amplitude as that wave in the time domain.

To see why this is useful, imagine a song you wanted to listen to that was recorded with a low-pitch hum in the background because the microphone running next to a power cable and picked up the 60 Hz signal. Removing this unwanted tone by looking at the value of the song in time is really hard because the 60 Hz signal is mixed up with the rest of the song. However, when transformed into the frequency domain, the 60 Hz hum is very easy to spot and remove. When you transform the signal back into the time-domain (so you can listen to it), the 60 Hz will still be gone.

This process can be done automatically with computers using a technique called the Fast Fourier Transform. This is the basis of many techniques in the field of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) which is the theory behind most of the communication breakthroughs of the last 40 years. I should note that many naive approaches to this problem (like the approach in my example) don't work particularly well, so as in any problem domain, there are important but subtle performance trade-offs to consider.

[1] http://www.dspdimension.com/admin/dft-a-pied/
If you're a trained scientist, 'Data Science' sounds distinctly odd. What other kind of science is there? A friend likened it to going to a restaurant to do some 'Food Eating'.
Drupal + Bootstrap + a bit of custom css/html
I wonder if a standard webkit-gtk might be doable just because it does support running without a JIT from some googling. I imagine it'll be slow as anything could be, but it might work.
The incredible skyscrapers set to become the tallest in the world
I wonder how (if at all) this might be tied to recent findings about gut bacteria and obesity.

We're still just scratching the surface in terms of our understanding of the human body. Doctors in 2113 will be as horrified by some of our early 21st century medical practices and recommendations as we are of the Downton Abbey era of medicine.
Maybe this is a different law, but I thought Godwin's law was more along the lines of "whoever first makes a comparison to hitler automatically loses the argument".
If you read farther down in his blog, Apple has responded directly to Lessig:

Did you read the post from Lessig to the Apple forum that was deleted?

What you quoted is from another user, "tarinib."
"Any concern about mass defection of paid users to unpaid is unlikely if the service is good and shows trying to take the high road."

In my experience, this works until a user hits a moment of hardship or "meh". Then they cancel and find it's easier to reallocate those consumption dollars to something new than reboot the subscription.
I got the impression it would play bird sounds, i.e. a "zen" noise generator, not filter actual bird sounds through.
5000 Nexus 5 units spotted in the flesh at a warehouse in Canada
First time I've ever felt compelled to actually leave a comment on HN. And full disclosure - I work at Engine Yard.

Thanks Brian Shirai, Michael Papis, Wayne Sequin, Kirk, Evan, Dr. Nic, etc... and Engine Yard for the support of all these projects. Getting to working with these gents has been one of the highlights of the last few years for me.
No need to be hostile. I'm not threatening your livelihood.

Nor am I trying to change your opinion or influence your thoughts to suit my agenda.

But I do confess: I wouldn't be disappointed if that was a common courtesy.
perhaps, if you are so concerned about privacy, you shouldn't be using the site period; are you now going to claim that the site owner has no right to see how people use their website?

but oh! google is happy to sell that data
They're not sure whether this stems from genetics or environment - they say they think it's genetics, but there might be a simple environmental explanation:

The main way people exchange mouth bacteria is through dating, and there's a huge tendency to date people of similar ethnicity.
You're right. But turning the money is a mechanism of creative destruction. Sometimes this is needed to rebuild anew.
That would be more like an equalizer than selecting out particular "sounds".
Khan Academy moving to React.js + Backbone
The kind of query visibility they need for that has not changed at all. Google still reports search volume for specific sites in Webmaster Tools, and for the search engine as a whole through the Keyword Planner tool. It's only the ability to link search terms to individual people that's been lost... unless you pay for it, as advertisers still get that data.
missed this! so yeah i guess it's a bit riskier than i thought.

then again, if you have a decent amount of evidence you are competent and not an asshole i would imagine this raises your odds significantly.
That is not what I was expecting, but it is awesome!
How do you feel about google still having that data?

They're not getting rid of it - they're just selling it now (most likely to the highest bidder).
Thanks for the Half Life link -- hadn't seen that one before; definitely most impressive one I've seen :)

Edit: Love how he finished with 1 HP

Also loving the SMB3 :)
The act of negotiation itself is a cost/fee that people would rather avoid - and for small purchases the need to negotiate is more costly than the actual product price.

Lack of negotiation isn't a curiosity, it reduces friction of transactions - see item, point at it, give the money, you're done; which saves effort for both parties.
You dont get people. This is a normal behavior by most people. People get frustrated when things do not work and they feel helpless. Not a happy feeling. And they vent their anger in forums and customer service. This does not make them an ass hole.

If anyone is an asshole, its apple. For not replying when previous customers reported nicely.
gmail existed before GWT was created.

But i m pretty sure GWT was created as a result of the research/code written for closure (which, even tho it was opensourced after GWT, existed before GWT in some form or another).
I wasn't suggesting doing this instead of offering Scholarships to detected referral cheaters - I was suggesting doing it in addition to that.
I clarified above, I'm mostly talking about search engine result links. Yeah with most javascript-heavy sites, doing this everywhere is impractical.
neocities if it's small enough, tornado for internal demos of ideas. As a person whp develops deep learning back end stuff I often find that a decent UI to show case an idea is far more successful than circulating a paper (and I despise PPT)
I agree.

But it's something. She was adamantly opposed before this, actively preventing any members in her committee from answering basic questions about oversight. She steamrolled over any objections Udall might have had, for instance.

The fact she acknowledges anything wrong with the NSA at all is a reversal for her. I'm hoping it will serve as flag for other Senators to vote for comprehensive reform legislation that's being introduced this week.
Drones & our lives
Documentary showing the potential and danger of impending drones over our skies
http://cljsfiddle.net/ goes a long way towards having a tool people can just play with to try out ClojureScript without being twarted by setting up Clojure/JVM/Lein/Lein-cljsbuild/
Monthlong Chase Around New York City for Banksy’s Street Art
Grandparent is talking about the post linked to by Lessig in this thread's linked article. Others are variously talking about that and/or the actual post(s) by Lessig you've linked to directly here.
http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.directive:form explains it pretty well.
Got you. Thanks for the thorough explanation, you've made an important distinction for me that the linked article did not.
I've always wondered why GWT isn't much more popular (at least, for google properties). I know of a half dozen apps written in GWT by google. The rest is probably in closure (or something else).

Perhaps they still haven't solved the SEO problem of GWT internally, and so only things that don't need SEO-features like control panels, dashboards (but ironically, the google groups forums too) are in GWT.
The Fall Of The Alphas
> They stand a good chance of yet another Republican losing to Feinstein, if they all vote for the Republican

In a primary election, there is likely to be more than one Republican, and the opening of the primary system means that, instead of the Republican with most support from Republican activists being moved forward to the general election, in the absence of substantial cross-major-party-voting or massive supermajority Democratic primary turnout (unlikely in a statewide primary), the Republican with the most appeal to Republicans and Republican leaning independents voting in the primary will move forward.

The very same changes to the primary system that you are going on about are exactly why it doesn't make much sense for Republicans to cross-party vote, since the problem that has made them noncompetitive in statewide general elections is mitigated in the new primary system and, unlike registration-switching in the old partisan-primary system, cross-party voting actually means your party is less likely to even have a candidate in the general.

As a California Democrat, I'd love it if Republicans followed your plan, because I'd like nothing more than a D v. D general election.
When is time/money ever not an issue?
That's the thing, if you want to balance the budget all you have to do is prevent the government from borrowing more and it balances itself.
I would prefer to clear the confusion by calling Closure templates "soy templates", and differentiate it from the Closure compiler (for compiling javascript).
Let's get her off the intelligence committee:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6630677
> they're just selling it now (most likely to the highest bidder).

[citation needed]
Looks like suicides and accidents are at least a little bit correlated as well. I wonder if that is due to incorrect attributions? It could go either way, too.
Full screen'd this beast and jammed out, bass line is thickkkkk.

Works perfect on Version 30.0.1599.101 Chrome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5R4GFbXPvY

edit: added link to OfficialTrapCity
i m certain you can pretty print the resulting compiled js. see http://googleclosure.blogspot.com.au/2010/10/pretty-print-ja...
If It’s Not “Hell Yes”, It’s “Sorry, No”
white and red on orange? I hate to be critical, but these really do need a designer, or someone with more of an eye for color and fonts. The header is large yet the font is small, the colors either clash or are hard to read.
Where did I say that the state of affairs is innate to Argentina? In any case, that's a red herring.

You can't simply state that the economic policies unilaterally led to corruption as a self-evident truth without some supporting evidence. Clearly officials who have a history of corruption are more likely to institute new policies that benefit themselves as well. Economies are not so simple that causality is easily stated in an absolute manner, especially in so flippant a manner as "corruption […] is a function […] of something inherently unfair". That's probably the most hand-wavy statement about such a grand topic that I've ever read.
The touchpad is not just bad, it is unusable (I find). I'd rather slit my wrists than try... A laptop with a very poor keyboard and an unusably poor trackpad is not useful. I use mine only for OneNote with the stylus and have to keep carrying my Air for everything else.
No, you have to block spending, not the debt ceiling. Have the debate on the actual policy. The ceiling is a dupe var out of sync.
I'm currently working on a big Angular app that is about to move into production (although it's not to be something that's widely used in public) - we have found that Angular causes everything to be structured in a nicely organized fashion overall. This app is not structured perfectly by any means either, due to bad design on some of our pre-existing code base.

From what I understand, big Ember projects have turned out well for Ember devs - I can confidently say that I feel the same way about big Angular apps. I have built several big ones, including an online assessment platform (frontend by myself) and an online assessment platform/management system (with a team of ~10, 3 of us on frontend).

From my experience, the Angular team has thought things out on a high level, which I greatly appreciate. They are big consumers of their own product, as Angular is used quite a bit with Google's own sites - here is an example of an Angular app, with Angular being used to implement parallax scrolling (and probably more): http://www.google.com/nexus/7/
If this is about privacy, what about stop capturing search data at all? Eliminate all user personalization and search history, as if you weren't logged in. No more privacy issues, NSA court orders, etc.

Of course, this won't ever happen. This is not about privacy. This is about posing as a company that cares about privacy. It's easier to deal with some upset marketers rather than governments pushing for stronger regulations and anti-tracking measures, given the total lack of self-regulation (third-party cookies, anyone?).
You don't have to go skiing _in_ San Francisco, you just have to mentally link the colder weather with snow in Tahoe.
Oh boy.

Kudos to you for gathering a lot of good stuff, an A for the effort absolutely. I should point out that you're off on /some/ things (or perhaps more accurately: incomplete). For beginners, the OS I use -- you're thinking Win8, but that's only on the laptop I recently bought. I've actually been using Ubuntu for a couple of years on the main desktop. My race, car, political ideology, place of birth, current residence, current religion, religion of household I was born to, education you've got right. For my own good I will stop confirming other bits of information, I think (hope) that still leaves enough ambiguity to grant me still some freedom of anonymity (or maybe I'll have to abandon this account after another week or so, I guess I'll think about it). Oh, while I have the perfect chance to preach /why/ anonymity is important: I have family problems, because of religious differences. If my family found out my religious beliefs in full they'd be mad at me, that is one of the reasons I choose to be anonymous (in addition to a good many other, relating to professional work life and other things).

One question: Why is my talking about being in a CE class of 250+ people not conclusive enough information that I've been to college? And, what was that /extra/ thing that made you confidently say 'Scratch that, you've definitely been to college'?
https://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/#xl6a68x

Here I use the Diagonal Proof to talk about Observation Statements (or Observa) / Mental States (of Observers) such that Diagonal Statements (DiaSt), once normalized for all Observers, can be measured along arbitrary distribution of duration ranges (T) of a non-local universe. Given this, we can predict the upper/lower bound of periodic collapse of quantum systems (our Model).

I've also seen Cantor's Proof applied as a metaphor for the analysis of Web Artefacts: Hypermedia Types (X axis) / Web Components (Y axis). (I see "soft objects" as a species of Web Artefact.)

There are many interesting applications. For me, personally, I think Cantor's Proof gives us a means of assuming the periodic collapse of quantum systems w/r/t quantum observers (it is a myth that "your" mind and "my" mind are discrete entities) such that quantum field theory can be salvaged.
As cool as this is, it's scary to think where our economy is going. What will all the construction workers do?
Microsoft brought in a new ad agency for the Surface 2. If they did the Hulu ad, then this was a change for the better.
On first glance, I was shocked by how similar it looked to the electoral map from Presidential elections. 39/50 states in this chart are the correct color for the 2012 electoral map. For fun, I then took the correlation of the mortality rate and percentage of votes for Romney for each state and got at 49% correlation.

It goes without saying that correlation != causation and I do not mean this as a political statement, rather a quantification of this curious resemblance.
Here comes a special boy: 'Achewood' is back, but TV isn't ready
Been using (or, trying to use) AngularJS for the past 2 months.

The way to get around the bad documentation for me are sites like http://egghead.io/ and http://thinkster.io/ (and of course, tons of SO-ing).
Prove they're larger than the benefits. Rough numbers are fine.
Does this imply I can eventually login with my breath?

kord@brush:~$ ssh -i .ssh/id-halitosis teeth
Bitcoin ATMs coming to five Canadian cities
"You dont get people. This is a normal behavior by most people. People get frustrated when things do not work and they feel helpless. Not a happy feeling. And they vent their anger in forums and customer service. "

Or maybe I do. I worked in college for an airline in lost luggage. I know a thing or two about angry customers.

"This does not make them an ass hole."

Or maybe it does. At the end of the day it doesn't matter what label you want to put on it. "Asshole" is the generic term I happen to use for "legal behavior which will not be tolerated". The guy being asked to leave the party/restaurant? It's because he was acting like an asshole. The guy who's comment got deleted for screaming about FREEDOM like he was an extra in Braveheart on the customer service website? What an asshole.

"If anyone is an asshole, its apple. For not replying when previous customers reported nicely."

They say up front they aren't going to reply on those forums, who expects them to reply when they haven't replied once there in 10-15 years?
Can you recommend anywhere to learn about the capabilities of one note? I start to take a look at it and then get overwhelmed and vow to come back when I have more time to figure it out, but keep forgetting.
And another: http://tjdetwiler.github.io/hcf/

It's a shame 0x10c isn't a thing anymore.
I used to obsess over style and color and fonts and stuff. Now i'm likely to just to Slim/Laravel + Twig + Bootstrap and try to move on with my life.

Which is weird... I was the "art kid" for most of my life but I realized that when it comes to this I like the code a lot more than the design.
How would you interpret "MBA-culture people"?
Here’s Another Chance to Buy Google Glass
No idea.. You only needed to visit a few to find the answer you were looking for.
“A textbook example of AI hype of the worst kind”
Turn your API users into data suppliers by adding an optional GPS lat/long and accuracy radius to the API request. You could potentially enhance the position they already have with wifi data (like Google Maps claims to do), and collect the GPS to wifi correlations to help other users. This is potentially a much larger data source than people running dedicated stumblers.
Physical appearance... what else? That's hardly a wealth of information, and if the store owner is too obvious about documenting the physical appearance of customers who are just walking around they could get into some trouble. Security cameras are an accepted necessity, for security, but not most people wouldn't accept them for marketing purposes. This brings to mind the ads in Minority Report, that scan your eyeballs to identify you and show you a personalized ad. That's technically possible today, but I doubt you'll see it anytime soon.

In a real-world business, you don't get actual information from a visitor until that person buys something and becomes a customer. At that point you'll often get a credit card which gives you a name and relatively unique id, and you'll have the opportunity to interact with the customer and ask questions like "Did you find everything you were looking for?", "What brought you in today?", and "Is there anything else I can help you with?".

Depending on the type of store, you can have salespeople wander around and ask visitors those questions too, but they can't be pushy about it without violating the person's privacy and guaranteeing that the visitor won't become a customer.
Just saying but dependency management in PHP is pretty great. The only thing I need to really worry about is where the library requires a PHP version higher then mine.

I have yet to have trouble with composer packages to the extent I have trouble with basic ruby gems. The funny part is when you get gems that require multiple versions of the same gem. That just makes me laugh :)
Its always funny how every time one of these articles gets written, the author mentions a small percentage of people (in this case 5%) who refuse to go along with the process. What they always seem to miss is that they are the top 5%. In other words, the ones who you want to hire. This goes for any whiz-bang candidate filtering mechanism.
"So basically, it's OK to store nude images on a private SkyDrive folder, with the exception of any that are clearly about the exploitation of children. Another person during the AMA asked if it was fine to store a family album of pictures that had images of the person and his siblings swimming nude as a kid. The SkyDrive team said, "yes. def allowed.""

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsofts-skydrive-reddit-ama-in...
For some wild reason this just makes sense.
I read this for the first time in the excellent and surprisingly accessible The Annotated Turing[0], which I can highly recommend. If you're vaguely interested in things like proofs like these or about computability or just Turing's and others' contributions and approaches, the book approaches these things very well without presuming a deep pure mathematical background.

Seriously, read it.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Turing-Through-Historic-Comp...
Or, for that matter, google.com, which launched a $340B business on a website that could've been made by a 12-year-old.

Ironically, Google actually has some really talented designers now, but the minimalist look has become part of the Google brand, and so all the designers now are constrained by user expectations of what Google should look like.