skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And here we can see the issues and clusterfucks of the completely undefined and arbitrary "concept" of "weak" (conv. strong) typing: java's behavior here is well-defined, simple and statically typed, there's no more type loss than when doing `5 + 1.0` in Ruby or Python.

Why do you find implicitly converting an int (/Fixnum) to a float (/Float) more palatable, when they have completely different internal representations, domains of definition, precisions, operational semantics and potential pitfalls?

And what about Python's `"foo" * 3`? Hell, what about this:

> class Fixnum
> def to_str
> self.to_s
> end
> end
=> nil
> "5" + 3
=> "53"

so "strongly typed" it has a protocol for implicit string conversion.

But wait, there's more without even bothering with overrides:

> a = [1, 2, 3]
=> [1, 2, 3]
> a[1.4]
=> 2

floating-point index to an array? no problem.
Super interesting KickStarter campaign - Woojer
A new little gadget that addresses gamers, music fans and hearing impaired. Lets your whole body feel the sound. Tell me if you liked it too
Depends how long it takes.

If you kill people slowly, so, booze, fags, fatty food, pollution, and so on, then its fine. Killing people really fast, well, that's then it gets iffy. Oh, unless you are a government waging a jihad, or is it "war", on something.

Im sure they must be a line some where...
I was under the impression that AGPL requires the open-sourcing of everything that touches user data at any point in the pipeline.
What is the benefit of a web client if you keep it open the entire day? I find standalone clients, like Sylpheed, much easier to use and you're not constrained by what you can run in browser.
Does owning slaves and printing currency make one an authority on 'natural rights'?
YouTube begins rolling out new comment system featuring Google+
Depending on your country, the price of education might not be much of a concern :)
Mystery of Google's barges is solved
I would love to know more about FT's, along with FFT's and how they help with for example signal processing or finding a signal when looking at a sample or multiple samples of a SDR.

Are there any good books/papers/web articles on this topic that are accessible? I often find myself reading papers where some of the math goes over my head.

Something with examples/code (code makes me understand math so much easier!) would be fantastic!
Oh no! Now the government knows the same things about you as we do! It's OK for us to exploit this information for profit, but I'm pissed as hell someone else might make use of it. I sense a little bit of butthurt from security people who thought they were the bee's knees but where getting completely owned.
I have had very few mistakes / missing mails.

It's still pretty good, but I have been getting a lot more false positives in gmail lately than I used to. Even a security code from hotmail got redirected to spam, which I thought would be common enough (and important enough) that Google would have learned about it already.
Vintage blotters?
You mean, it's a good idea when it's a good idea, and it's a bad idea when it's a bad idea? This is general for silver bullets.
Live Fast, Die Young?
Relevant bit is at ~5:23, although the first couple minutes are worth a watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFxjy7f9RpY#t=5m23s

I can't help but think that that level of exposure as a five-year old will only lead to a severe case of 'special snowflake syndrome.' Kid clearly is intelligent though.
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Anything in particular on that page you'd like to highlight? I'm putting myself in the shoes of a client who just wants "my site to be ranked higher." From this client's perspective, it's the web dev's job to make that happen. I don't see anything on the linked-to page that directly dispels this notion.

Just to be clear: I recognize that the web developer plays a role in improving Google rankings. I.e. the web dev should definitely follow Google guidelines. But following the guidelines doesn't automatically get you to the top. (What if everyone follows the guidelines? They can't all be in first place.)
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I'm tired of these cowards coming out against the war on drugs after they no longer hold a position of power to do anything about it.
And now I'm going to buy one.
Ask HN: Any experience developing on the Salesforce Platform(s)?
I'm looking to develop an application on the Salesforce platform. Haven't decided whether to go the ISV or Force.com (PaaS) route.

Has anyone here developed on the Salesforce platform, or is looking into it? I'd love to learn about your experience and get your thoughts on developing there.

Hit me up (email in profile)
That. Why did I have to scroll down so far to find exactly what I was thinking all the time?
I mean, I absolutely love Asimov and Mass Effect but they are entertainment stuff. The distances we are talking about here seem to be completely beyond everyone's mental reach.
Even if we could upload ourselves into spacepods like Kurzweil suggests (or for that matter could just UDP our souls out into space) we would not break the speed of light - which makes interstellar travel possible but only in a very constraint range feasible. Plus the problem that during the four years it had taken me to get to Proxima Centauri, humanity on earth will probably have seen centuries pass...
Any comments welcome!
If the design of the system is good, the overhead of stocking is going to be cheap. I mean, communications to the box says "put these discs in these locations", the guy opens the box pulls out that "tray" or whatever (many possibilities here) and replaces it with another that's also been computer and roboticly stocked, you're done.

Maintenance is a bigger unknown to me, but seeing as how they're in their 3rd? generation, they seem to have that under control. Capex could be the big one, those machines and their DVDs aren't cheap ... but they've been keeping this game going for quite a few years. A serious analysis of their financials would be required to make a guess of that, assuming their public owner breaks them out sufficiently.

Ah, and that company does the Coinstar coin cashing kiosks, so that might improve their servicing situation.
Like the way that we have American English, British English, Singapore English, India also has its own flavor of Indian English.

Also like how American and British English spell some words differently (color vs colour), Indian English also has that spelling difference. You can't really say they're wrong, just..different.

It has its own Wikipedia page too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English
Any time will do. Someone analyzed best times and posted an article here a while ago, but I've seen show hn's posted on Sunday afternoons stay on the front page till Monday. Just ship it.
What an excellent article. I wish every teacher had the ability to be so clear and concise and most importantly interesting in their work.
And it perfectly matches up with the numerous other authoritarian aspects of American culture that have arisen over the last few decades.

- Criminalizing anything and everything they can

- SWAT teams abusing and murdering at will, serving warrants with extreme violence

- militarization of police forces

- the espionage state, from the NSA to the FBI

- destruction of justice, through techniques such as parallel construction

- the treatment of all individuals as potential terrorists

- the spread of the TSA and DHS throughout American society, whether it's needed or not, including trial runs of setting up checkpoints on interstates and at sporting events

- military projection by the federal government, war and bombings without any authorization by Congress

- droning, the murder of civilians anywhere and at any time just based on supposedly trying to kill terrorists

- trial balloons for arresting people based on free speech issues, eg saying something on Facebook

- using the espionage act, among other laws, to prosecute leakers and journalists; and or otherwise intimidate journalists, including with illegal spying (tapping the phones of the AP / Fox)

and on and on it goes
This application does not guess much about me, but thinks I'm a teenager. That, I can't help to be proud of :)
In the aggregate, I'm sure this is true. If I were an individual criminal, I'd still be nervous. What if I'm the outlier, i.e. the criminal who gets caught despite an abundance of caution?

Not that I'm disagreeing with you at all. Your point seems spot-on.
The text on this page is almost unreadable: http://metrics11.com/analytics/keyword_trial/
Hey kirbyk,

Founder of CodersTV here. I'm trying to get in touch with some experts of Meteor to make some broadcasts about it.
Already tried to contact Chris Mather to do some casts, but he is focused in http://www.eventedmind.com right now. Go check some of his videos, they are very inspiring! :)

Meteor channel on YT are very inspiring too: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3fBiJrFFMhKlsWM46AsAYw

Hope you enjoy!
The Mystery of the Google Barge Is Over, and the Answer Is Kind of Boring
[NFL News] Packers Must Continue To Ride RB Eddie Lacy With QB Aaron Rodgers Out
When running against Hive data, Presto is similar to many analytic databases in that queries typically perform a full table or partition scan, so "point lookups" that search for one or a few records will be much less efficient than they would be in an OLTP system like PostgreSQL that has a precomputed index for that query. (This is actually a property of the data source and not the Presto query engine. For example, we are writing an HBase connector that can take advantage of HBase's indexes for very efficient queries.)

In general, you should be able to write your query in the simplest and most readable way, and Presto should execute it efficiently. We already have the start of an advanced optimizer that supports equality inference, full predicate move-around, etc. This means that you don't need to write redundant predicates everywhere as is required with some query engines.

Also, if you are familiar with PostgreSQL, you should feel right at home using Presto. When making decisions for things not covered by ANSI SQL, the first thing we look at is "what does PostgreSQL do".
Let's murder this one too: http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
Introducing iOS 7 notifications and Pebble SDK 2.0
Interesting, it looks like the same algorithm, but does it work with 2D data (images)?

Edit: It looks like that function only works with one-dimensional data (along a single axis): https://github.com/scipy/scipy/blob/v0.13.0/scipy/signal/sig...
I've never used SR (or similar site), but there's plenty of drugs which I couldn't get locally if I wanted them - I'm sure they are sold near me, but I wouldn't know how to find them. Heroin, LSD... etc. Hitting up a dealer is only easy if you know how to find a dealer. (Personally I've looked for mushrooms in the past with absolutely no joy. So I've never done mushrooms.)

For all drugs, it's quite possible that online offers better quality. I've known cocaine users whose local dealers only sold shitty quality, afaik I don't know anyone who has bought online but it might make sense for them in that case. And drugs like weed, might well be that you want a choice of strains whereas most dealers just have whatever they managed to buy, not a supermarket range of choices.
Interesting.

Where/how are you getting your data, especially CPC estimates? I also like the report and parallel terms you make available.

I'm interested in giving this a go, but also have some specific requirements to really get moving, such as an API. Do you have plans for API access in the near future?
While I do agree with your point wholeheartedly, I believe that the mere fact that an innocent person's life can be ruined by these types of shenanigans shows the flaws in our current system. Our system is supposed to protect innocents, but as we have seen too many times, the cops rush in on flimsy evidence and wreak havoc. This is what needs to be addressed.
Google is pretty paranoid about hosting things under google.com unless they absolutely have to be there, since user authentication cookies are the holy grail for malware or other attacks. The published papers from research.google.com are linked off the same static.googleusercontent.com site, for example.
How To Bootstrap a Company While Still Working a Full-time Job
and the podcast startupsfortherestofus.com

FollowSteph3 reminds me a little of Mike from the podcast. While Rob Walling realizes he needs to hire freelancers etc. in order to sustain the business and make it work in a reasonable time frame, Mike took a few solid years to bring in other people. He wanted to do it all by itself. I've been listening to the podcast for a few years and you can see how Rob built one solid business and just launched another one in the same time frame Mike barely did one.
As sprizzle says, F1 and Dremel are not competitors; Dremel is a read-only system supporting large analysis queries, while F1 is a read-write system designed for large numbers of smaller queries. Last year Google published a paper on PowerDrill (http://vldb.org/pvldb/vol5/p1436_alexanderhall_vldb2012.pdf), which sounds somewhat like Dremel but is designed to use large amounts of RAM, which in turn enables some very powerful optimizations.
The cost of training is baked into the price of every product you buy, and legal services is no different

At $60/10min, they can take their lumps for training new staff, just like everyone else. If you call tech support, you're not charged extra when there's a trainee doing a ride-along. If you use retail, it doesn't cost more if a trainee cashier is serving you with a supervisor hovering over them. Having your car fixed doesn't cost more because an apprentice worked on it.

No other industry sees this sort of extra charge as reasonable, especially when there's so much fat built into the price to begin with.
Another family for those interested in FTs are Discrete Cosign Transforms (DCTs). Also widely used.
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Heh, yeah I mean people do get locked out though sometimes... gotta do the neighborly thing.

Calling the LL / Calling the cops are a bit more of a nuclear option that I'm looking for; I just want to find out who's doing it so I can discretely ask them to inform their renters of a few things. I don't want to see airbnb go away :)
Someone should make an updated song to "Video killed the radio star"
Recently "vanished" by Wikipedia in response to a bot "spamming" WP with valid links to archive.is and archive.org.

http://enwp.org/WP:Archive.is_RFC

http://enwp.org/WP:Archive.is_RFC/Rotlink_email_attempt <-- conversation with archive.is operator or representative

http://enwp.org/WP:Using_Archive.is <-- "corrected"

http://enwp.org/Archive.is <-- deleted as "non notable"
I'm sorry, but what's an SDR?
For what it's worth, you can currently buy drugs on both Amazon marketplace and Etsy. It's not even a hypothetical.
Brilliant - thank you.
HTML is indeed bad as a machine generated format -- which is what it is; e.g. <p>, list items and a few other things don't have a close tag, but most things do.

These things (like SQL) make sense if you assume that the input is (a) written manually, and (b) by people who are not expected to do this "professionally". Neither is the case of HTML nor SQL anymore.

(Seriously, SQL was originally marketed to managers with the idea that "it's just plain english so you can do it yourself, and don't need programmers!". You know how well that worked out)
>powerPC processor are the best, firewire! Scs

all canned and replaced features
All the power to you brother.

Do you miss the human interaction one gets at the office?
You could try copy and pasting jquery into the developer console for a one-time trick. If a dependency needs jquery to load, try setting a break point before that script and paste jquery into your console.
I mean yeah if you don't care about understanding the nature of existence, the distinction doesn't matter. If all you're concerned with is making useful predictions, there is no point in quibbling about the subjectivity of experience.

My point is simply that just because the scientific method leads to useful predictions that doesn't make it objective truth nor does it invalidate the importance of subjective experience.
Ask HN: Help me pick the best icon alternative for a new fitness app
Our designer gave us 4 alternatives:

http://i.imgur.com/WV7sklD.png?1

We were going to use the last icon before the iOS7 redesign came. The first tree are redesigns of the original icon with different level of flatness.

Training routines are a central theme on the app, hence the clipboard and the paper sheet on the icon.

The MT stands for MyTraining (www.mytraining.pro).

What's your favorite version?
Nice app. It reminds me of http://www.refurb.me, which is to track the stock of refurbished Apple devices.
How does Presto compare to Impala?
Ok, now I understand. Yes, git expects you to commit or stash before doing that, matching the philosophy that there should be a commit you can go back to undo (even if you have to look at the reflog to see what that commit is).

Personally, I commit and stash all the time, and feel better than the old CVS in which I manually stashed (by copying) the pre-"cvs update" state in case I needed to go back to it.

matsushiko above mentions that git now has --autostash; legit had "sync" which does stash-rebase-unstash - but I rarely ever needed that workflow.
I have to agree with this post. Gnome 3.1 is really great, and I feel they've finally moved away from the 95 look and feel.
> It was used on Alexander Litvinenko because the Russians wanted to show that they were able and willing to take the life of former agents that attacked their interests.

Or maybe not. It is very well known that Russian security services brutally murdered Litvinenko, but there is remarkably little evidence. The only evidence, in fact, is that "everyone knows it". What if new data will make you reconsider this well known wisdom?

> What motivates the use of a radioactive element that very few possess?

It is very widely used and easily available.
This seems out of date: "Google AdWords provides a handy Keyword Tool".

You'll end up on a page explaining Keyword Planner has replaced Keyword Tool. To access the tool I must sign in to my AdWords account.
There is the bug for nearly that exact thing:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=890402

I linked to this comment in that bug, thanks for the feedback!
"TSA and Pigs"
ImageMagick has a nice tutorial on the use of Fourier transforms in image processing, if you want to get a more intuitive feel on the subject: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fourier/
So strange--I went to see what, if anything, Gérard de Villiers had written about the situation, and noticed he just died.

That always happens. I'll try not to think of anyone here.
What about connectors to other relational databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc?
Show HN: Keep track of your groceries with your phone
If you block third-party cookies, C has no longer has a reliable way to know that you are the same visitor on both requests. (Unless you're suggesting that C is stuffing a UID in the cache or something?)
You don't need the ledger to be centralized either. A bitcoin style blockchain stores transaction histories tied to a specific set of keys/wallets. In the future I imagine some sort of reputation system will be maintained using this.
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Most of the data in our data warehouse is stored as relational records using Hive's RCFile format, though we are actively working on converting it to the new ORCFile format.

The Hive data model supports complex types including arrays, maps and structs (nested tables), and those are used liberally. We also have a fair amount of data stored as JSON inside of string columns in Hive tables, though much of this is actually structured and could be better modeled using Hive's complex types.

Presto currently has limited support for Hive complex types. All complex types are converted to JSON at query time and can be accessed using the JSON functions: http://prestodb.io/docs/current/functions/json.html
I think a lot of it is the popularity of Gary Taubes and people not fully understanding what he means when he says that the calories in/out theory doesn't really explain obesity.

His actual argument is a bit more nuanced, but tends to get lost in the soundbite.
It is not a question of propaganda.

It is just that this is what happened to us in Brazil, and USA never gave any clear indication that it wants to improve its behaviour.

So, why should we trust it now, if we could never trust it in first place?
Thanks for the update. It helps remove some assumptions.
Seriously, if you have a lawyer that needs to scam you out of your cash, then you have the wrong lawyer. Go hire a professional. Good lawyers are really busy and don't need to lie to you to make money.
Renouncing technology you say... Also Medicine? If not so, overpopulation would soon become a problem and if by then they still don't know how to colonize further into space they face a serious problem.
I found the source of my confusion.

The post I replied to stated, "I don't know how much time would have passed on Earth though." You stated I calculated "how much time would pass on Earth."

The OP was wondering, "if a person on a ship visited a star 100ly away, how much time would have passed on Earth when they returned?"

However, the OP was wondering about time frames in terms of a warp drive, rather than a conventional almost-light-speed drive. Take my upvotes. :-)
I'm disappointed not to see the "Share" menu make it into this list.

In iWork '09, there's a "Share" menu. It has a few different output formats (PDF, Word, etc). When you click an output format, it exports to an attachment and automatically opens Mail. This is so incredibly efficient and reduces so many clicks.

I use this feature at 5-10 times a day, at least, and it's the one feature that is preventing me from upgrading to Mavericks on my primary laptop.

I realize that when I install the new iWork, the old iWork will still be there, but it still feels risky.

Apple, if you're listening, please fix this.
It would have also been "quite a claim" awhile back about the NSA collecting anything and everything about citizens. I don't get your comment.
Turning (YouTube) comments into conversations that matter to you
Yasser Arafat 'may have been poisoned with polonium'
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- Experience with templating languages (ejs, mustache, etc.), HTML 5, and CSS 3
- Experience with database systems such as MongoDB and Redis
- Experience with message queues such as RabbitMQ and Celery
- Experience with Git and collaborative coding
- Experience with test driven development in Node.js
- Experience with Ubuntu/EC2 development environment
- (Nice to have) experience with tools such as Angular.js and CoffeeScript

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I like how their workaround is to have two versions of iWork installed. That's the same kind of shit they are always making fun of everyone else for.

Personally, I find OS fragmentation more excusable than Office Suite fragmentation.