skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I linked this in a thread below, but I think it's worth reposting here: https://www.readmatter.com/a/bad-blood-the-life-and-death-of...

It's a very interesting article about what happened to Litvinenko and how polonium poisoning actually works.

You're right that it's a curious choice in some respects. In the Litvinenko case, police were literally able to retrace the steps of the assassins by following the radiation. Its short half-life also suggests that whoever was behind it had access to a nuclear reactor.
Wikipedia says chelation with mercaptopurine has been effective in mice. Not sure how quickly it would have to be given, though. (Wikipedia says biological half-life is 30 - 50 days.)
Why would anyone clone the Raspberry Pi's form factor? Why would you ever want connectors on all four sides?

Of all the things to clone on the Raspberry Pi, the form factor shouldn't be one of them.
Traps in Application Performance Management
Should be placed in the steer. Would forget to wear it after 5 times...
Here's a document outlining safety standards for bicycle helmets sold in the United States: http://www.cpsc.gov//PageFiles/86318/10mr98r.pdf

As you can see, it's fairly rigorous. The main criticism is that by setting strict rules it discourages innovation. But that doesn't mean there are no decent standards or crash tests.
Richard Lyons - Understanding Digital Signal Processing

Focuses more on explaining the concepts behind the math than presenting a wall of theorems. Given that math is the language of DSP though, there's still a reasonable amount of math.

It assumes the reader has an EE or similar background, but I think it's still fairly approachable regardless. Given that my own background is in EE/embedded systems though, I'm not sure what my opinion counts for there.
I think the line is somewhat blurred, but I object to the notion that I'm not being clear: if the equity stake doesn't give a person the same, or comparable, authority and take of the profit as "major" shareholders, the person is an employee, not an owner. To take one specific case as an example, if a person can be fired by the "real" owner/equity holders, he's not an owner. So the "Product Manager" in your example, if he doesn't get paid for every hour he works, is working for free for some hours, regardless of the particulars of the ESPP program he's participating in.

You're conflating "compensation in year N+1" with "being paid for hours worked in year N." The compensation you're talking about is dependent on work done in year N+1, and is not some sort of "back pay" or "built in, amortized pay" for the work done previously.

A simple example may help illuminate what "working for free" means in the context of this discussion.

1) You earn $1000 per week in salary compensation.
2) You work 45 hours during a given week.
3) You are paid $1000 for work done that week.

It doesn't matter whether you get a raise the next week, or what the amount of the raise is. For the week you already worked you contributed 5 hours of unpaid, free labor to your employer.
Oh please no. It is a terrible design to work with, the screw holes were put where they fit between wire traces, so random, and they don't provide sufficient support for the board under the GPIO header (or anywhere else)
Then there are the connectors on every side of the board and the lack of a proper power connector (no DC jack). USB power supply caused issues consume most of the forums for the thing.
The Pi proved there is a demand for a simple PC at this price point, there are now several products that are much better and offer a lower total cost (once accessories are factored in) with many more on the way.
IE10: 4236

FF 28.0a1: 10083

Chrome 31beta: 11289

I'm actually positively surprised at IE10's performance - that's possibly not even all that noticeable.

One note however: none of the browsers were particularly responsive under load, but FF was unresponsive even in other tabs.
An accelerometer would be able to detect the unique thrashing signature of a body trying to stay above water; it differs greatly from swimming or kicking to stay afloat.
No helmet can stop concussions. If they could, the NFL would redesign football helmets and save themselves a lot of trouble. G-forces are G-forces, whether you're in a helmet or not.

EDIT: There are a lot of very smart people working on this problem. But it's a hard problem.

From the Associated Press:

In a series of interviews with The Associated Press, representatives of the NFL, its players' union and the four equipment companies that make every helmet worn in the league all agreed there's no football helmet -- in production or on drawing boards -- that can eliminate concussions. And there might never be one.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5797046
...and I've had no problems with Linux sound since I tried to force JACK to do things no sane human should. Your anecdotes illustrate nothing.

I was using macbooks at the same time for our video editing. Don't pretend they don't spin that beachball crap at you at the worst moments.
Whatever the cause is, it's still Google's fault/problem.

I too have a big gmail spam problem (related to my email address being very short and guessable), and mark as spam on average about 10-20 emails a day.
Can you give a pointer to some sample code implementing a custom connector to a file containing flat binary records? If no, sample code for a connector to HDFS...
It's even easier when you read the guy's biography :

http://www.cms.gov/About-CMS/Leadership/ois/index.html

This guy is a typical management idiot. He has no qualifications except "leading" (not specified any further, of course), and making decisions about other people's money. While it's hard finding disastrous decisions in his CV, I'm not seeing anything that suggests he did more than show up.

As for leading, he has zero qualifications in either healthcare or IT.

I see this at a lot of companies, and someone really should explain it here, where I can ask the question anonymously : how the fuck do these guys get their positions ? Suppose I came in for a job interview about programming cars. First thing I say is that I have zero knowledge about either programming or cars. But I've got "executive awards" and I managed a few people in a completely unremarkable company in a project no-one's ever heard of, or ever will hear off, they were that important.

Would you hire me ? I hope not. Why the fuck did this guy get hired ?

I can't even fault the guy himself. Of course he's not the right person to lead anything, but he's responding to incentives put in place by the US government, and by companies more generally. Given what he gets paid, of course he's doing whatever his superiors want him to do, without question, and without taking reality into account. Of course he's extremely motivated to lie to everybody to keep that job for just a few more months. The guy who hired him to make responsible decisions about IT, or healthcare, that's the guy that needs firing.

Really, I'd love to understand. What, assuming it isn't flat-out corruption or nepotism, motivates someone to hire people like this into important positions they flat-out know nothing about ?
Most of my hobbies are related to my product - so no issues there. But even in the main project, there are some issues that require the personal attention of senior engineers. These will require time aside from the regular co-ordination / mentoring.

Also I don't manage people. Just projects - a Technical lead so to say.
It's almost impossible to do. You're better off leaving.
Awesome list, thanks! There's worse things to be addicted to...
Is there no list online for this?
We don't need that many to do that.
Really? So, you basically put Arafat and founders of the United States into the same category. Way to go... It doesn't more delusional then this.
what phases did you use?
AJE reported that this was not true.

"But French doctors never offered an autopsy and Suha Arafat did not request one." (http://goo.gl/vcGJ2t)
I don't know, I have personally fallen off a bike travelling at around 25km/h and hit the side of my head on the pavement. If I wasn't wearing my helmet(and that was a regular, $40 helmet) I don't know if I would be still here - the helmet cracked,but my head was still completely intact,so I guess they have to work to some extent.
>Dart is pre-1.0. It's being worked on.

Typescript is pre-1.0.

It's telling, to me, that the first argument of mine you take seriously you handwave over by vaguely saying it will get better and it can be fixed.

I'd place a bet that Dart is about as good as it is ever going to be.

>I'll take the upvotes as confirmation that others agree with me.

Sorry to disappoint you, but I've got upvotes, too.

>The attitude isn't conducive to civil discourse and not welcome here so I'll continue calling it out where I see it.

Whatever floats your pompous self-righteous boat.

I may be curt, strident, and critical, but you don't really have high ground when it comes to condescension. You went straight to childish insults. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6679901

When I disagree with someone I don't directly call them stupid or immature. (Well, usually.) I may speak and act as if something I believe strongly is obvious, and I may not mask my disdain for the ideas expressed. There's nothing wrong with being wrong, but I'm not going to hide the fact that I think you're wrong.

You seem to have a problem that someone a) disagrees with you, and b) says so confidently and forcefully. Again, get over it or walk away. If I'm so wrong and so boorish, you are under no contract to continue.

You can't change me and I am not your responsibility.

Fortunately I think you've finally clued in ("so there's no point in continuing here"). I've certainly spent enough time on this. Later.
I'm a bit amazed they work.

In a Blockbuster, you can have a few dozen people looking around at once for the right movie to watch. On Friday and Saturday nights, they were often packed. But a kiosk, you have to wait for the other person to finish browsing and purchasing. Seems like they work precisely because the demand is just low enough that there is not too much contention for any one kiosk.
I do a bunch of on-campus recruiting at Facebook.

For freshmen we recommend FBU: https://www.facebook.com/careers/university/fbu

Everyone else should check out regular internships or new grad positions: https://www.facebook.com/careers/university
Delphi: why won't it just die?
I agree with you. My point was just that I do not want my value being reduced to nothing but time, and that is exactly what hourly billing does. So I tend not to do use hourly billing. Having done it working for other attorneys, I'll tell you it is a crappy way to spend your day keeping track of minutes.
Pattern looks like someone decided to rewrite both Scrapy and NLTK for no obvious reason
I do think that's better. But I'm concerned that if focus changes have a visible effect, that could also be disconcerting to a user. I think I'd have to try it out.
Marvel Comics Introduces Its First Muslim Teenage Girl Superhero
Because HP never upgraded my graphics card drivers on my laptop, I cannot upgrade past IE9 on my Windows 7 machine. (For whatever reason IE10 takes a dependency upon some point release of DirectX that requires driver revisions).

So, umm, gee thanks Google? Ugh.
http://hovding.com/en/

This is the official site. They seem to have tested the safety rigorously. And, best of all, it's Swedish design!
If you're putting it on a toddler, why not simply have it activate when it detects water?
Seems like the author is going out of his way to create controversy. He can't figure out the zip codes in one county in Oregon without help from the post office? I doubt the restaurants that report the zip codes have any official assistance.
> pdfTex will take TeX input and output PDF

Ok, well, maybe I don't understand TeX at all, because I thought that's exactly what it did.

EDIT: Ahh, wait, I have it! When they say "extension" they mean "implementation"! They actually replace TeX as an engine. Is that right? So, luaTex is just an implementation of TeX written in Lua?
Snap. I've been looking into doing something like this for the past few months, and this is the first of heard of this and lifestyle.io. Guess I wasn't looking hard enough :)
You're right, a little hyperbolic perhaps...
Pretty sure if that happens a few malls would advertise privacy, charge a premium, and only the poor would use the others.
Finding psychedelics in the Midwest is impossible. I can swing a dead cat and find all the heroin you could ever want though. Supply and demand doesn't work so well on the black market. Which makes an online brokerage pretty enticing.
Wow, there are other people like me? I've been doing this for ten years full time. We should all get together or something. Maybe help each other out. I'll be making a move to a different type of programming or going back into the work force because my software is pirated so much these days.
If I'm reading correctly, the half-life is 138 days, or 4-1/2 months. If you start with 5 times the lethal dose (still a very small quantity), you've got a year to administer it.
Self hosting real time "Commenting" web application with text mining/taming functionality. (A replacement for Disque)
I wonder if Google are shooting themselves in the foot a little bit here. The corporate world doesnt move that fast, many companies still use IE7 for instance.

If corporate users cant use gmail etc its going to force them to things like hotmail which im sure will work fine in any version of IE7+
Activision sells $1Bn worth of "Call of Duty: Ghosts" in 24 hours
In that screenshot, it would help if the toolkit showed the extent of the textboxes. Having the bare floating text in a sea of white provides minimal context.
That doesn't seem all that less bulky than a regular helmet. Plus, you have to keep it charged. Sometimes low-tech is better.
It's a blog, and this is a prime example of why I don't consider blogging on the same level as real journalism.
I think you missunderstand me... I'm saying what if the sellers are also honeypots? Encryption means nothing if the NSA created the "sellers" key in the first place.
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All in phase.
Helmets could spread the impulse over a longer period of time, reducing G-forces.
This article and related commentary are relevant:

http://nautil.us/blog/the-math-trick-behind-mp3s-jpegs-and-h...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6683866

In fact, it looks like Lucas Viera may have used that blog post as inspiration.
This is a mathematical analysis built on unstated assumptions of how long the brain can focus on something in the long term. By this line of reasoning, 4 people working 168-hour weeks would be maximally productive, but they wouldn't be sleeping, so obviously the purely mathematical argument falls down on its face.

My point is, knowing that turning dial A up doesn't help doesn't mean that turning dial B up does. It just means turning dial A up doesn't. Sometimes the reality is that turning neither dial up is the only option, and you have to plan around that fact.

In reality, there's decent evidence out there to support the statement that turning dial B up can be just as counterproductive as turning dial A up unless it's done very judiciously.
Why not choose a different browser?
Spark seems to be a good one to start.
http://www.sparkjava.com/index.html
Firstly: they could just start using TypeScript if they really care that much about type erros, since TS is a superset of JavaScript they can start using it with their existing code, so there is no excuse not to use it.

Secondly: it's ridiculous that their way of handling type errors is by just silently hiding them. They could be making a lot of errors that will become really hard to find this way.

Thirdly: performing type checking on runtime in JavaScript is just stupid, things like this could be performed at "compile time" with TypeScript or the Google Closure Compiler.
Indeed. The response was terrific and we were humbled that so many folks wanted to participate.
Let me try to rephrase. If an SEO comes and regurgitates the same tools and strategies that are easily obtainable to me, what value is the SEO adding? Are there limitless things outside of a predetermined checklist of 50 or so items that fall outside my general responsibilities as a startup founder? Which would therefore require me to outsource it? If an SEO told me that you could go build link farms and that would boost my SERP, I'd pay an SEO. Seems like a good ROI right?

My general assumption with SEO is (1) create good content and (2) make sure content is tagged correctly (3) share content.

Honestly, I'd love to be sold on why I should ever spend money on it, but given the recent updates to the Google algorithm, I can't seem to figure out why...
Sorry, yes. I am going mad! A long day in front of the screen.
That is a presumptuous attitude, completely wrongheaded.

Instead of being comfortable feigning ignorance I instead choose to be proactive in educating my friends and family about the dangers of local storage and a haphazard backup schedule.

Don't be rude and assumptive.
I tried to parse this article for useful information.
Of that, $2 billion in losses are attributable to the Xbox platform.

Wow, I would have never imagined the Xbox division to be in dire straits.
Bitcoin. That is all.
How tenacity, a wall saved a Japanese nuclear plant from meltdown after tsunami
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How does it break sites? I use Safari, where this setting is the default, and everything seems Ok.
There's always Firefox and Chrome. No one is forcing you to use Internet Explorer.
Yeah, this is all good and everything. But to get to the top in a competitive market, there is usually very little option but to buy high quality links.
Final Draft Extends Domination, Re-Ups WGAW Pact Ahead Of Final Draft 9 Debut
The issue here is that their quote is in government-speak that not everyone can understand. Translated into plain English:

"proprietary business information" means "this nation's copyright and patent systems are horribly and possibly irrevocably broken and many government departments are so unaccountable they feel so entitled and lawless they care more about making their jobs easy than serving the people paying their salaries."

When you read it that way everything makes sense.

EDIT: many posts on whether the USPS is government or not. I hope we don't lose sight of the forest of bureaucracies large and entrenched enough to skirt accountability and twist IP laws in ways the Constitution never intended while focusing on that tree. That is, the details of its connection to the government don't change its behavior.
Microsoft and Sony have lost $3-5bn on the PS3/XBox 360-generation of consoles.
Tapping multi-mode dark fiber unnoticed is now considered trivially easy? I must have missed when the bar was shifted this high.
Supporting older browsers is an enormous drain on productivity, and it also influences design decisions for the worse sometimes by driving the design towards a lowest common denominator there the denominator is broken (e.g. terrible garbage collector in IE6/7)

It's time to move the web forward. I'd say this is an effort to turn Google Docs users into IE11, Firefox, or Chrome users.
Resource allocation and telling people what to do is a skill in itself (which of course requires a lot of attentive listening if it is to be done well). It's easy to dismiss managers as idiots, but that's not much better than dismissing individual tech people as short-sighted folks who can't see the big picture.
Weebly (YC W07) Launches E-Commerce Tools To Lure Entrepreneurs From Amazon
If these numbers are accurate, then yuck!!! My disgust for software patents just went up even further.

More seriously, I have a question for those who know more about this...

1. Are these generic, broad "idea" patents and hence there is nothing Google/OEMs can really do here to avoid licensing them? If not, why don't they use an alternative implementation to avoid the conflict?

2. If the answer to #1 is yes, how does Apple avoid this problem? Are they also licensing from Microsoft? Or is Apple in some sort of a mutual cross-licensing agreement here to fight the common enemy Google?
Earn (verb): 'gain or incur deservedly in return for one's behavior or achievements.'

So why change the article's title, HN?
Startup Idea: Marketplace For Social Media Accounts
Have you tried writing your own very thin wrapper for scraping Apple instead of doing it directly inside of the actual application?

I like the app... It's clean and simple. I had this problem the other night. I wanted to see stock of phones and unless you begin the process of upgrading your line, you can't do that on mobile.

Anyway, seems like there might be a creative solution here if you run your own lightweight proxy-like API so that on the surface it appears like you're not scraping Apple. It also opens the door for repeating the experience of your native app as a mobile friendly website.
This is the one I've used in the past:

http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/
Are Swedes actually that concerned with their cycling appearance?

A nice helmet (I use the Giro Aeon) and cycling glasses looks good enough.
to patdennis (apparently there is a max level of replies): I think you underestimate the amount of force an NFL player takes when they get hit. NFL helmets stop 99.9% of concussions. If a cyclist wore one they would not get a concussion falling off their bike at 20 km/h or even getting hit by a car. NFL players get concussions because big collisions between players are more similar to getting in a "severe car accident"[1] which is tougher to guard against.

[1] http://www.inreview.com/archive/topic/14556.html
Very very cool. Although it seems it wouldn't help if something runs into your head before impacting your bike or body. Like a truck with a high bumper. Or entering a free-fall and landing on your head. But I suppose those are relatively few of bike incidents.
Wikipedia for starters.
Makes sense. I was thinking for the case where you have data in multiple databases/servers and want to do aggregation or joins without first doing some ETL step to bring the data into another format. Unless there is something Presto can do that a relational database can't, I would assume you just use normal SQL if you have a single database.
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Someone at CIO level for a government agency or large corporation isn't going to be expected to have technical qualifications. They're going to be expected to manage the folks who do, which means a history of managing large teams and degrees more like an MBA than a Masters in CS.

> Suppose I came in for a job interview about programming cars.

You're not interviewing for an executive-level position, then.
I'll add SynthEdit, because the demo version is fully-featured, intuitive, standalone and free.

If you just want to do it by numbers without interface, and get as mathematically crazy as you like, R has some simple "turn a timeseries to a wav file" libraries.

Also to add: quite a few ipad apps that let you sketch in either a wave form or a spectrum, then turn knobs on it like a synth. Addictive Synth is one that lets you draw spectra freehand; WaveGenerator lets you put in various surfaces or even pictures and "listen" to them. This specific method is called "Wavetable Synthesis".
Very helpful - thanks.
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You are right. Google silently removed 3 (that i counted) times the ability to remove referrer from chrom[e|ium]

And apple probably disabled some 3rd party cookies more to harm google than thinking on user privacy (now this is speculation, but add that the fact that jobs had said he'd gone nuclear on google at the time)