skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. The way I identified my attorney was by asking someone who wrote a legal blog (this was years ago) in my industry (blog writer who was a tenured law professor) who they would recommend. They gave me several names.

The attorneys he referred was from personal knowledge of what they had done for clients as well as their own interactions in the past (was a federal prosecutor).

I didn't know the person who wrote the blog (at the time) just cold emailed for some suggestions.
It is difficult to detect unless you know to look for it. The symptoms are pretty generic and easily misdiagnosed since few doctors would be expecting it. Still not that great of an idea in such a high profile case, but it has the potential to be a potent weapon for an assassin that has access to it.
Bonus is part of an overall compensation package. Its not payment for 'overtime'. Its just a different risk/reward calculation then only salary. The key point in all of this is to have a mutual understanding of expectations with your manager.
SEEKING WORK - NYC - Remote

Data-centric developer, currently immersed in Python after a lengthy and generally happy career with OO Perl, and past lives in Java and C -- involving, among other things, a fair amount of web crawling & data modeling, DML/DDL on various SQL platforms, and occasional frontend / backend web development. Available for part-time / full-time freelance engagements until Spring of 2014, and perhaps for permanent positions thereafter.

On other fronts -- U.S. citizen; NYC resident; hard science degree. I don't come from a formal Machine Learning background, but having done a bit of work in NLP & sentiment analysis, I'd be highly motivated to take on opportunities to build out my skills in this area. I also like being challenged to learn (interesting) languages at the drop of a hat, and would be keenly interested in diving into (for example) Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell, Go, R, or Julia. In any case, most of my work in the past few years has involved "data husbandry" to a significant degree, and I'd very much like to keep investing in this general direction (but a lucid web development project can potentially be
quite interesting, also).

BTW, I'll be at PyData this weekend if you'd like to meet up spontaneously & chat; otherwise, just drop me a short note describing what you're working on, & what you're looking for in a collaborator (beyond the usual keyword filler), & we'll take it from there.

Thanks!

wst.labs at gmail dot com
That's indeed remarkably little.
You'd need about 1-2µg of it to kill someone, that's 1/100th of an active dose of LSD.
All that and there's no link to the iOS implementation? https://www.cocoacontrols.com/controls/rpfloatingplaceholder...

n.b. I created the site I link to above, etc etc.
HealthCare.gov’s head tech guy is out
This is a really good outline of the steps it takes to bootstrap a software development career. Succinct and useful.

"My initial plan wasn't to work as a developer indefinitely, but rather to stay on the tech side for at least two years and treat it as my own personal TFA-style program."

I had a similar plan when I first started but quickly realized that coding was exactly what I wanted to do - that I never wanted to go back to the marketing side.

I wrote an article like this one about my own story: https://medium.com/a-programmers-tale/a3f7aa8d9bdf
This is exactly what you should expect in almost all cases because you are kinda comparing apples and oranges.

Hadoop/Hive was not focused on speed but proving it is even possible to do queries reliably on such large datasets. Once this was achieved it immediately became clear the long waits for Hadoop/Hive batch jobs to finish made it impractical for many uses. Presto, Impala, Drill, RedShift, etc were all designed Primarily to address this problem and be much, much faster than Hadoop/Hive so that the data could be queried interactively.

All these new projects/products are in a very active competition to find the best way or ways to do this. You should compare RedShift to these other projects rather than Hadoop if speed is an issue for you. Each has it's pluses and minuses depending on the situation.
In the Litvinenko case it was probably used as a signature, since there are very few entities on this planet that can actually obtain a sufficient amount of the isotope. The assumption is that the assassin wanted everybody to know who gave the order.

That same reason also makes me somewhat sceptic in this case, but who knows. Hopefully, time will tell.
To be accurate the paper should then come to the conclusion that "a majority of published work is inconclusive and fails in the proper application of statistics used to support their claims" instead of "a majority of science publications are wrong". The second is just pure sensationalist troll.

I'm not arguing against the work itself, or against more rigorous application of statistics. I'm just arguing against sensationalistic and inflammatory language. Anyone who practices science in a particular field for any length of time will have a pretty good idea of what work is "good" and "bad". Certainly they are smart enough to ignore previous work that has been refuted and/or retracted, and it's not really fair for this previous work to contribute to assessments of what % of the field is "wrong".
Perhaps you could put it on your own server, then redirect all calls to Google's CDN to your own server? This way it works automatically for you. You could also add files and CDN's to your setup as necessary.
> the new process introduces another click

Yeah, that is an unfortunate result from adding more functionality in the same menu. I would’ve preferred to have two buttons: one for sharing links and one for sharing files. Even better: I’d like to customize the toolbar, like you can in Finder.

Currently, there’s no preference option to set a standard export format. I’m sure you could write a script that automates the process, but you might have to do it through UI actions.

Personally, I’ve starting sending links instead of files. Doing so only takes two clicks, like we’re used to.
Waze in Desktop Google Maps
Yes and in the USA a lot of them are one medical emergency away from bankruptcy.
It also creates an additional scope whereas the ng:show does not.
So you have to sign into your free Google AdWords account to use a feature of Google AdWords? The link still works and even explains what has changed in significant detail.
Oops, I'll add documentation and upload it all to PyPI today.

The dependencies are: Python 2, NumPy and matplotlib. The script can't really be installed at the moment, use it like so:

git clone https://code.google.com/p/fftresize
cd fftresize
python fftresize.py /path/to/image.jpg 2.0

Edit: It's on PyPI now! https://pypi.python.org/pypi/FFTresize
The thing about the first two is that yes they are very simple and clean, but it also makes them go unnoticed, especially if you consider that the new apple app store has a white background.

When you are new and unknown I assume you should chase the opposite effect, i.e., cause impact, get noticed.
> post-PRISM

Post? You optimist you. If anything we're smack in the middle of it.
The fact that drug use and misuse kills at least 1 in 4 Americans, if you count legal, illegal, and prescription drugs. Supposedly eating healthy and exercising are the most important things for health, but these are difficult because you need to do them every day. Whereas with drugs, if you just sit down and read 10 books on drugs, or at least 10 books worth of information, then you're pretty much set for life. So I generally think the ROI from investing in teaching people about drugs is probably easily higher than the ROI of any other health-related programs.

Also, they're the only non-profit I know of with an affiliate link generator. And it seems like a waste of an opportunity not to use affiliate links, but at the same time the trust of my readers is obviously worth hundreds of times more than the 12 bucks or whatever I'd earn from redirecting them to myself.
yep. there was a project to build an open source whatsapp clone.
That just sounds a lot less plausible to me, like an explanation given if someone had asked for a devil's advocate position. I find it hard to believe that opting not to pursue a more lucrative deal for themselves with Hollywood studios in the DVD era would have significantly impacted Blockbuster's trajectory.

Wal-Mart would have likely negotiated very similar deals they ultimately got regardless of Blockbuster's actions (it's not as if Wal-Mart didn't sell movies up to that point anyway, or squeeze suppliers for great deals). Blockbuster's money-maker was always new releases (and fees on them), the price of which stayed around $20+ to buy on release anyway. Did they piss away their "near monopoly"? Most certainly, but I think it was by not adapting with the times rather than a commitment to late fees and driving Hollywood to Wal-Mart.

Blockbuster made sense in a non-automated DVD world, Wal-Mart or not. They didn't make sense in a digital (Netflix) or automated (Netflix, Redbox) world.

Just an armchair observer though. I could be wrong. But the "obvious" explanation in this case really does seem a lot more plausible.
I disagree with this premise.
Unfortunately these are the only critics we have.

There aren't enough critics of every persuasion on the Internet?

I've heard plenty about what's wrong with "these modern times", but this must be the first time ever for that particular criticism.
> Maybe they tend to, but when they drew that graph, Italy is definitely an outlier.

Granting that, why bring Italy up them?

> Very proportional systems have large problems of their own too, including all the "horse trading" that goes on to form a coalition.

Horse trading goes on to form a winning coalition in two-party systems, too (the major parties in electoral systems that create a two-competitive-party dynamic are, invariably, coalition parties); the difference is that, in such systems, the disporportionate power of the needed-to-win segment is less than in two-party systems, because its much easier -- because the factions are formal parties that you can negotiate with -- to swap coalition partners and form a new majority coalition if a minor partner wants too much.

(That's also, really -- outside of systems like the US where you've got an FPTP electoral system forcing pre-election coalition building -- a bigger issue in unitary parliamentary systems vs. separation of powers systems -- because having a majority coalition in parliament is a more significant issue in unitary systems whereas in separation of powers systems, ad hoc coalitions on particular issues can function in the legislature without requiring a stable "ruling" coalition in the legislature. So, if you are looking at an FPTP separation of powers system like the US, its a problem that moving to a proportionally-elected but still separation of powers system alleviates rather than making worse.)
This is my experience with bootstrapping as well.

The technical platform problems around bootstrapping have gotten much easier, due to Heroku, AWS and all the services out there (Papertrail, Exceptional, New Relic, etc.)

Unfortunately relatively little work has been done on the "requires that you be a stubborn bastard" problem.
Well if its on wikipedia then we know it must be official.
Is Google autocomplete evil?
This comment really illustrates the major flaw in hourly billing. People begin to believe that all they are paying for is time. But they really are not just paying for time. They are paying for an attorney's expertise in getting the job done. This is why I try to stay away from hourly billing as much as possible. The billable hour is a scourge to the profession imho.
Building GoSnake: a Real-Time Multiplayer Snake Game
can you share some links to open source libs that implement what you'd consider state-of-the-art in this field?

just curious, as an onlooker. :)
Ubuntu launches OpenStack Interoperability Lab
Well, the Russian poisoning happened after the Mossad poisoning. The person who killed Litvinenko had time to learn from whomever killed Mossad.

Russian agents learning from Israel perhaps.
Though I agree with the sentiments regarding large scale firms creating the housing crash, then buying back the assets in liquidation, this article makes it as though this is the first time a large publicly traded company has been in the housing rental market.

There are many companies that have been managing properties as their business model for years, so to point out that this is something new and possibly evil is incorrect.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/156054-10-stocks-that-could-...
Thanks for sharing and liking the site. I am the one who created it with a couple of friends.
Tommorris, we are using Onboarding because, as you mentioned the industry uses it. Also, onboarding and signing up are a little different in the sense that some apps don't have a sign in in their onboarding flow. So we want to use a more generic name.. But thanks for the suggestions!
This is the problem with the GPL/AGPL- what exactly must be open sourced under what conditions has been debated many times, and different people/groups have come to very different conclusions.
Product Hunt: Cool Hunting for Web & Mobile Apps
I agree the "trial" was way to short to actually test it out and see if it was useful enough to pay for.
So, the obvious question is does it connect easily with Scuba? From the paper, Scuba doesn't support joins, so would that logic be handled in Presto?
Similar experience, and pretty much reflects what most bootstrappers I know said, too.
Lol a Brit trying to lay into an American corporation for imperialism. I wonder why a system he "worked" on for 1 (or 2) years was so easy to subvert. What a laugh.
More details on the experiment here: http://ryanhoover.me/post/66192199851/announcing-product-hun...
Sounds like the kind of thing that some giant arts endowment should be supporting, if paying customers can't keep up with costs.
The FAA has turned off the "No Electronics" sign
I'm not an expert, but the way I see it,
It's kind of like having a horse competing for a race.

You can make sure the horse is physically prepared, in good shape, has been properly trained and has been thoroughly inspected for any needed medication, but you can't and won't ever be able to ensure that the horse you're caring for will 100% of the time finish the race first.

Sure, you can use some shady tactics, drugs, or anything else, but that's temporary and is bound to be corrected unless there's some stuff going on with the judges...

same goes with SEO. As a dev, you can only guarantee so much. You might hit the jackpot, you might use dirty tactics to get to the number one spot, but in the end, what you can confidently guarantee only allows any given website to be in perfect shape to be in the starting blocks. The rest is up to you.
Microsoft Merges Windows Store and Windows Phone Developer Accounts
A beautiful example of ringing. :)
Um, your question is unclear so I'm not sure exactly what answer you're looking for but, in short, yes, there's quite a lot you can do to improve your site from an SEO perspective.
I would love it if they eliminated this one step:

* The files are served off of a basic Node server...

By eliminating that they would truly achieve their goal to get rid of "Mucking around in backend code".

They're already storing their data in Firebase, so why not store ALL of their data in firebase, including those assets that they currently are using Node to deliver? Think about it: ALL data stored in Firebase (or a similar DB-as-a-service API), including HTML, css, javascript, images, etc... Finally, you could could create a web and app service and never touch a server. Sweet!
You'll find that unless you sell an impulse purchase (sub $35 price) targeting developers HackerNews traffic doesn't equal sales. Being that we sell accounting software for small business the traffic really doesn't affect our revenue. Overall programmers are highly critical of software applications, giving the most judgement support requests and demanding features deeming them "easy to build".
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The other thing to realize is that 37signals ideals and brand directly serve their marketing. I'm not questioning their wisdom per se, but realize that it is a tremendous positive feedback loop—one that they started cultivating for at least half a decade before they released their first product. And at a time when web know-how was a lot thinner on the ground than it is today, and being any kind of professional agency that knew what CSS was actually a shockingly huge differentiator. The other product launch I can think of with such a huge audience and explosive success out of the gate was Stack Overflow that followed a similar pattern of massive precision-tuned audience to market to with an already-authenticated-and-trusted human voice announcing the product.

That's not to say that their audience made their success—they obviously came out of the gate with great products as well. So if you can make a great product then you have half the equation. But the really interesting question to me (since I can build a product) is how to get the marketing right from a bootstrapping perspective.
F-Secure Corporation's Answer to Bits Of Freedom
Its interesting that in some areas they locate at gas stations, some at big box stores, some at fast food, but locally they're in every food store.

You can fill your gas tank less than twice a month, avoid walmart like the plague, I haven't eaten at a McD in many years, but every couple days you have to buy fresh food at the supermarket... And there is always a short line at the redbox.
Instagram API having issues.
1) Creating any business is hard, unless you sell blue meth.
2) Creating two businesses is even harder (bootstrapping + consulting to make a living).
3) Technical hurdles are getting easier but rarely does the best product win. Marketing is hugely more important that product, although I wish that wasn't true.
"The policy is not useful for Internet Explorer, which doesn't update automatically and has limited OS support."

First point is wrong, from IE 11 the default is automatic updates.

The second point is an unusual way to phrase it...

On the overall topic, I find this strange. Google Docs seems to make efforts to target Microsoft Office users by writing importers for what are very complex formats. It then pretty much cuts itself off from most medium and larger Microsoft based companies, very few of which, in my experience, are up to IE 10.

I wonder if this says something about them really targeting the small, but fastest growing companies and anything really big is nice, but not the priority.
I would love feedback on my startup, Lawdingo.com (YC W13), as I believe it addresses many of these issues. We get independent lawyers to be transparent about their prices, we solicit community reviews, and we make lawyers available instantly. I'd humbly recommend people try it out for their startup legal needs. It's free.
This is but one example. On git, if there was more back and forth merging between two branches, you can't figure out on which branch a commit was made later by merely inspecting history unless you encode this information in commit messages.
any plans to monetize? and if so how? a secondary market?
Wait, so RedShift (Drill, Impala, Presto) do the same job as Hadoop\Hive, only faster? You only mentioned they addressed the speed, but what's downside? At what cost they achieved their velocity?
When you suggested etsy of drugs, my first thought was custom made to order small batches of drugs. Not farmer to addict direct sales.
Statistical Analysis, R and Octave
Not bad. Certainly better than inline labels. However, I think another con is the distraction of stuff moving around as soon as I start to type.

Let me be clear, it's not that there's movement. It's that if a box asks me to enter something, then my answer is premised on what was asked of me. If the moment I start typing it seems like something in the environment is changing -- suddenly I'm like, whoa, what changed? Is what I'm typing still what the box wants? Did I do something that caused state to change simply by typing a character?

There's this tiiiiny moment of hesitation at that first character, before my eyes scan what happened, re-read the label text, and I see what occurred and that my input is still valid.

tl;dr: might take a bit of getting used to seeing stuff change on the screen the moment you type into a box.
What if someone claims their p=0.05 but their control group wasn't quite as representative as they assumed and their p is really something more like 0.1?

Or what if one of the experiments in a paper is well-designed and well-executed and supports a hypothesis with very high certainty but some of the other experiments were sloppy or botched? Should the conclusions of the entire paper be labeled as "wrong"?

I find it pretty funny when critiques on statistical rigor in science arrive at language with words such as "mostly" and "wrong".
1. I am against illegal drugs. It is up to the society to have a consent whether x drug should be legal or not. For example, marijuana.

2. Liability and safety. It's safer to assume your pharmacist is giving the right drug and the right amount and the right quality. I am all for reducing the cost and I think we should lower the cost whenever possible, but getting through silk road because it's cheaper/easier to get doesn't meet my standard.
It almost seems like nobody got the reference. So, not only did Internet kill the video store, it also killed the radio-star-killing video song.
Getting Basecamp linked up with any mention of Ruby on Rails helps too. Outliners (like 37Signals) work hard and do great work but they're not the standard we should compare ourselves to. Well unless you always want to fall short and feel like shit.
Yes! Same goes for pulling eigenvectors out of a data set e.g. for PCA (Principal Components Analysis) -- those form an orthonormal basis. You can even pick a set of random orthogonal vectors of the same number and dimension as your original data and re-represent the data with no loss of information.

I had a lot of fun demonstrating this concept for reconstructing images via a Processing sketch a few years ago and still use it for teaching from time to time. All source code for quick and dirty Haar, Eigen, Random, and Fourier-like methods included here:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~phlosoft/transforms/
I was having similar problems as well. I sent them some emails about it, but they kept asking for more pictures and I just got frustrated with the process. It doesn't happen all of the time and I'm not really doing anything crazy with the watch, so I've just been kind of dealing with it.
Google wants to enable the amateur etymologist in us all
Ask HN: Which version of Rails are you running now?
If you're using Rails in production, which version? If you're spread across multiple versions, what's the composition of your codebase?
I don't see the HN connection. Care to explain?

Also it doesn't sound like the custom is at fault for the deaths here. I could be wrong, but I strongly doubt the custom approves of kidnapping the same person four times.
Your answer should be quite clear: that's not a developer's responsibility. Tell them to consult a digital marketing or search specialist.
If you would like a rigorous but equally enthusiastic and readable treatment of Fourier transforms, then you can't do better than the (free!) book The Scientist's and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Procesing: http://www.dspguide.com/
Trying to find a cofounder with a GitHub issue
Rotating Tower Rendering
I've found TextBlob to be a great tool.
They don't have a backup office?
This needs to be upvoted rather than downvoted.
At a guess, flexibility. If the opportunity presents itself, your assassination attempt won't be foiled by the target's/victim's decision to have a casserole instead.
We're currently using 3.2.13, but we have a bit of Rails 2-esque code mixed in too.