skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stuxnet, gone rogue, hit Russian nuke plant, space station
Stuxnet, gone rogue, hit Russian nuke plant, space station
> Do you mind if I ask where you spent $250 online for prescription sunglasses?

OpticsPlanet.com

> Did that price include designer frames?

Yes. Ray-ban.

> unless you chose and value branded designer frames.

Bingo.
Correct, it's better to invest the money elsewhere if you are servicing "free debt" and you can gain more money than you lose to the debt. Don't just compare raw percentages, but compare the actual dollar value difference.
What do you think will be the evolution here? Surely mobile won't stay behind native-webapps forever, at some point asm.js/pnacl/something else will come in. But what?
the right to property is not a universal one. If you have a right to live, and we lived in a society where we shared everything, why would you need a right to property?

Not saying that it's the way things should work, but very few ideas are universsal
Fox News and other agencies do the same thing any time they're reporting that something controversial or offensive took place. It's not because they actually consider it bad, it's that they know it's inflammatory and gets viewership.
I don't think your comment is an accurate summary of the the links i posted.

For example, in the first link the author summarizes his long comment: " In short, he's extremely sloppy with his numbers and relies on almost no scholarly sources. I would not accept the type of work he puts in from an undergraduate.". So maybe Pinker does jump to conclusions that not necessary result from the data.

The third point , about how do we define violence is crucially important. I wonder if you counted the homicide rate in nazi germany before wwii or in soviet russia after wwii , you've get much lower numbers than pre-history(per capita). But it's hard to tell with a strait face those are "better" or less violent than pre history.
Agree.

To me, the crux of this article seems to be that investors need to be more scientifically literate.
I simply can't wrap my head around the ascii interface. I wish it had even the most basic of sprites.
You should raise this issue to the guy doing this kickstarter project, and not only comment about it in HN. In fact, I will email him if you don't do it. I would rather you (or an other chemist) do it as you probably know much more about this than me, and can maybe suggest an alternative.
That's only because urban housing and infrastructure is largely a zero-sum game. If you want to live in a house in San Francisco you have to outbid all the other rich people who want to live in a house in San Francisco.

It's totally possible right now to raise a family on a single income working remotely with a better than 1950's quality of life. Unfortunately, you'd have to move somewhere outside the first world which very few people are willing to do because they're caught up in a never-ending race to out-compete and out-consume their peers.
Hmm, well I don't ever do any intensive mathematics, or math at all really. But I have overcome many cerebrally intensive challenges with the below method.

Work on / build things that will aid you in solving the problem. This could be organizing code, organizing notes, (reorganizing equations??), building test pages. Anything that you can think of that is intellectually simple that will aid you later when you find your motivation.

Also, after an intense push for a number of hours, go outside and sit, have a coffee or beer or wine or whiskey coke for thirty minutes. Just relax, don't work. And let the most recent effort seep into your subconscious. I often find that my subconscious is better at solving these types of problems than I am.
Capone - evasion

Wesley Snipes - failure to pay

Nicolas Cage - threatened

Willy Nelson - threatened ( I think he got probation )

Generally the pattern is very similar, taxes don't get paid, there is some reasoning on the part of the taxpayer why they didn't pay their tax, they are charged with evasion and work from there. This is because typically people who owe taxes they don't have the money to pay, don't file a tax return, which is the minimum definition of "evasion" according to my CPA friends. I am much less familiar with people who file a tax return, indicate they owe more than has been withheld, and then just let it go at that. I don't doubt they are out there but I just haven't seen the details of any cases like that (would be interested though if they are out there, searching the web hasn't turned up much, the IRS suggests you talk to them [1], they don't go into 'you talked to us and still won't pay')

[1] http://www.irs.gov/uac/Failure-to-File-or-Pay-Penalties:-Eig...
I'm usually one of the strongest developers on my team, even when I'm managing. It's one of my strengths and why I stay with small companies. It also means I'm qualified to judge the technical skills of my developers, I know how long it should take.

People who think judging performance is hard have a broken development methodology or no technical chops.

That's also why I included the comment on my own rankings; I have some pretty serious weaknesses that were ranked as areas of strengths by my peers and reports.
I agree, that's the thought I've had ever since learning of native client. These native, proprietary solutions have come and gone, such will be the fate of NaCl. As far as I'm concerned the future of high-performance webbrowser computing will be javascript-based through projects like asm.js or remote cloud architectures (eg https://brendaneich.com/2013/05/today-i-saw-the-future/)
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googles.

Ooh, that's fun:

"The ability to surpass the oxidizing ability of oxygen leads to extreme corrosivity against oxide-containing materials often thought as incombustible. Chlorine trifluoride and gases like it have been reported to ignite sand, asbestos, and other highly fire-retardant materials."

"Exposure of larger amounts of chlorine trifluoride, as a liquid or as a gas, ignites tissue. The hydrolysis reaction with water is violent and exposure results in a thermal burn. The products of hydrolysis are mainly hydrofluoric acid and hydrochloric acid, usually released as steam or vapor due to the highly exothermic nature of the reaction."

HF scares the willies out of me, and this stuff burns you and then turns into HF. Lovely!

"Handling concerns, however, prevented its use. John D. Clark summarized the difficulties:"

"It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water — with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals — steel, copper, aluminum, etc. — because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminum keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes."
I would donate to a crowd-funded thing that did that.

A scientific rapid response unit - finding and correcting errors in online comments, with links back to a blog that has a nice easy to understand article about the subject, with clear diagrams and examples.
There is one penis.

And some medical looking photos of men, all easily explainable so long as your workplace permits you to browse HN.
check out http://rework.jobs - they are basically a recruiter for folks looking to transition to "meaningful" jobs
My Meteor Boilderplate
Star Command was ok, but the replay value was low. FTL replay value is very high.
great :(
If you're going to spend the same amount either way, you might as well get the results back in a day.
Ask HN: To show or not to show
We have a few beautiful designs for the future of our product. The development won't be completed for at least 3-6 months to get this new look and feel fully functional.

Question: Should I show one of our potential customers this sweet design that meets 90% of their needs now? I'm worried that if they love it, they'll be measuring the success of today's product with what we show them "could be". But, I'd also like to let them know that we have a lot of cool things planned to meet their needs...help!
I dance inside at your poetry of anger - please recieve this paltry karma point as it is meant - as a gift of a thousand.
A laymen thinking they have a sufficient understanding of biochemistry to "hack" the human body isn't only naive, it's unethical. There's a reason we license people to become dieticians.
I can't tell if this is just hyperbole or if you actually believe what you're saying.
Ook?

Eeeeek, ook.
> what's the benefit?

I don't have to write JavaScript.
Works for me:

http://www.thisplusthat.me/search/Dick%20Cheney%20-%20evil%2...
I'll be interested to see how pepper.js performs on mobile. Certainly plenty of people have skin in the game and want to see this stuff work.
I feel like you can get 90% of the way to soylent's promises with whey protein milkshakes, multi-vitamins and fish oil. Toss some fiber in that diet and you get the rest of the way. Athlete? add some creatine to your morning shake and eat something with more carbs post workout (carbohydrate supplement powder works great and is cheap). Having a minimalist diet isn't rocket science, but I guess it is reassuring to have that stamp on the bottle that says a doctor approved of the macro-nutrient ratios.
Roskosmos denies Kaspersky's claims of ISS computers infected with malware
Look at it from the point-of-view of poor people. If you're really poor, you might depend on acrobatic credit-card usage & cash-advance agencies to barely hold together a paycheck-to-paycheck life. If one of your children gets sick and the medical-cost ruin you. Your credit-cards stop working or get some insane interest-rate. Now you're in a situation that makes you wonder how your family is gonna eat this month or if you'll end up homeless within 3 months of not paying rent. BTW, this is the kind of situation I _hope_ Obamacare can prevent, but that's a whole separate discussion....
Do something related but trivial to get yourself into it. Momentum is the key. You're at a stand still. Pick the easiest or most interesting part related to the project and start on that. Even if it doesn't really make sense to do that first. Anything to get the ball rolling. Once the ball is rolling I tend to tackle the scariest part first. Whatever I'm not sure how to solve yet.

Visualizing the end product can work very well too. Create a sketch or non-functional version of what you're building, just to see what the finished product will look like.

If I was creating Google I'd make a really dead simple app that let you enter a query and returned 10 crappy links. Just to make the work tangible. This lets your brain easily grab onto what success would look like (e.g. 10 highly relevant links vs 10 crappy links).
> What is the difference between the completely artificial hamburger people get at McDonalds and Soylent?

No one tells you that you can live on McDonald's alone.
>Doesn't valuing your credit counteract that incentive?

So what? All poor credit means is that it will be more expensive for me to borrow in the future. If I know I can buy back my debt for pennies on the dollar, who cares how expensive it is for me to borrow?

What this would do is make credit an essentially all or nothing proposition. One screw up and any future car loan, student loan, mortgage or other debt I want is out. I would rather have the opportunity to make up for my mistake by borrowing more expensivly than never being allowed to borrow again.
To be fair, people defend Hitler on economic policy. Richard Koo (who got famous for his comparisons of the financial crisis to lessons from Japan) said something along the lines of Germany under Hitler unfortunately being the only European country with a successful economic policy at the time.

I'd have to dig a bit for the link to his speech though, it was a few years ago.
I stand corrected. Good for them!
How to use the Facebook API in AngularJS
Did you walk away because you were unable to pay, or because the market value of your house dropped too much?
The Occupy Wall Street movement is frequently criticized as ineffectual, especially when compared to the Tea Party. (Here, ineffectual refers to their ability to induce legislative or regulatory change aligned with their respective movement; it is not a normative statement.) Adherents of OWS often state that it is a consequence of their movement's organic character or that it is intentional. (I find the later argument incredulous, kind of like saying, "I lost, but I wasn't really trying that hard.") In either case, this tactic could be highly persuasive.

Ross says,

Our purpose in doing this, aside from helping some people along the way – there's certainly many, many people who are very thankful that their debts are abolished – our primary purpose was to spread information about the workings of this secondary debt market.

I suspect that spreading information about the "workings of the secondary debt market" is a very tall task. Certainly, they are getting a great deal of publicity, but I'm not convinced it will produce a lasting response. Yet, they have also purchased what I expect would be an atypically strong allegiance from almost 3,000 direct beneficiaries at about $5,000 each. They transmuted economic indebtedness for social obligation, by way of the rule of reciprocity. When you consider how vehemently, vocally, and persistently these individuals are likely to support OWS and their objectives, the influence purchased may be cheaper than traditional means (e.g. TV ads, direct mail, etc). And, it could be indirectly translated into more influence through votes.
> You ordered online and that means you probably paid with a credit card. That means you always have recourse.

No, you don't always have recourse. If you entered into an agreement with the merchant that the transaction is non-refundable, then no, you don't.

And you can't order glasses with them unless you do.

I'm not claiming that I didn't get anything. Just that I didn't like what I got. And they, of course, will claim that they can't resell what they made for me since it has my prescription in it.

> You could have disputed the charges.

I did.

> Even before you dispute, you could tell the merchant you are likely to dispute.

I did. I didn't go into the details, but there was a bit of drama before they even agreed to a second pair.
ECMA plans to sign-off on ES6 in December 2014: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2013-November/...

But browsers are already rolling out some ES6 features now: http://kangax.github.io/es5-compat-table/es6/
Did the title, and the link just change?
"a lot of people have 4G"
Welcome to the real world.
What do they mean by a lot?
That's cool. Are you building it?
Sounds more like Java to me. Let's replace a few words in the article:

"Under the hood, Java Applets work by compiling Java source code to an intermediate representation, rather than architecture-specific representations as in Native Client. The Java bytecode is wrapped into a portable jar file, which can be hosted on a web server like any other website asset. When the site is accessed, Chrome fetches and translates the portable executable into an architecture-specific machine code optimized directly for the underlying device. This translation approach means developers don’t need to recompile their applications multiple times to run across x86, ARM or MIPS devices."
People in developed countries can't even imagine the corruption that exists in developing countries. In Bangladesh, my dad once had to pay a bribe just to get his telephone service hooked up.

Going to lobby for an industry after leaving political office is what people in developed countries call "corruption." Tens of billions of dollars in aid money just getting "lost" is what people in developing countries call "corruption."
Every new day seems to bring another new Bitcoin scandal -- whether it's a hacked exchange, stolen wallets, frozen funds, collapsed Ponzi schemes, arrested illegal-market operators, or who knows what else.

Yet, despite all this, Bitcoin keeps appreciating, recently reaching an all-time high.[1]

--

[1] https://blockchain.info/charts/market-price?timespan=all
Or productivity goes up because other team members can now flourish without being berated.
So what do you eat? Do you blend everything into a homogeneous sludge?
Secondhand Vapor? Americans are Split on Public E-Cigarette Use
Hey doctoboggan, awesome questions!

>> What is the dimensionality of each word vector and what does a words position in this space "mean"? What is this dimensionality determined by?

Each dimension roughly is a new way that words can be similar or dissimilar. So I've got 1000-dimensional vectors, so words can be similar or dissimilar in only one thousand 'ways'. So associations like 'luxury', 'thoughtful', 'person', 'place' or 'object' are learned (roughly speaking). Of course, real words are far more diverse, so this is an approximation. The 1000 dimensions is configurable, and in theory more dimensions means more contrast is captured, but you need more training data. In practice, the number 1000 is chosen because that maxes out the size of my large memory machine. That said, the word2vec paper shows good results with 1000D, so it doesn't seem to be a bad choice.

>> Have your tried any dimensionality reduction algorithms like PCA or Isomap?

Yes! I've tried out PCA, and some spectral biclustering using the off-the-shelf algorithms in SciKits Learn. I only played around with this for an hour or so but got discouraging results. Nevertheless, the word2vec papers actually show that this works really well for projecting France, USA, Paris, DC, London, etc. on a two-dimensional plane where the axis roughly correspond to countried & capitals -- exactly what you'd hope for! I wasn't able to replicate that, but Tomas Mikolov was!

>> It would be interesting to find the word vectors that contain the most variation across all of wikipedia.

Hmm, interesting indeed! I'm not sure how I'd got about measuring 'variation' -- would this amount to isolating word clusters and finding the most dense ones? Something like finding a cluster with a hundred variations of the word 'snow' (if you're Inuit)? I'd be willing to part with the raw vector database if there's interest.

>> Have you tried any other nearest neighbor search methods other than a simple dot product, such as locality sensitive hashing?

Only a little bit, although I'm very interested in finding a faster approach than finding the whole damn dot product (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6720359). I worry that traditional location sensitive hashes, kd-trees, and the like work well for 3D locations, but miserably for 1000D data like I have here.

I should reiterate out that most of the hard work revolves around the word2vec algorithm which I used but didn't write. It's awesome, check it and the papers out here: https://code.google.com/p/word2vec/

Whoa, that was alot. Thanks!
Sorry, yes, I should have qualified that. Yes, I'm building that. It's only about a week's worth of development thus far, but I've got a fitbit and a WiiThings scale on the way to start integrating those into the API as well.
This is very evident in Apple's marketing slogans

Snow Leopard: "The world's most advanced operating system. Finely tuned."

Lion: "The power of Mac OS X. The magic of iPad."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_Inc._slogans#Mac_...
>Hey, here on HN we never say "You can't."

We hackers are sustained by WILLPOWER, even when mocked as reckless and crazy! If there's a wall in our way, we smash it down! If there isn't a path, we carve one ourselves!

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Yes, I know what a 360 is, I've participated in them.

In the situations I indicated I was also a developer on the team so I knew how productive and skilled the 10x prickly developer was. His peers ranked him high on technical skills but only as high as more amicable and lessor skilled peers.

I'm not saying I ignored the social aspect, in fact that is why I called him "prickly". I'm just saying that, while his teamwork related areas were properly low, his technical areas were improperly low because of this halo effect.
Sure, I'll give you SSH access to my servers. I know I can totally trust you!
Humans have only eaten grains for the last 10,000 years or so. For the millions of years before that, we evolved on a diet that didn't include grain. Of courses those assertions don't prove anything but they do make me question the wisdom of basing the human diet on grain.
What was the company then that had a Cheerios box in their office because they turned down AirBnB and that was their guerrilla marketing prop?
s/I/It
I Quit watching the video at the part were he says "i was eating leafs, it so strange".
I've made the same argument before as well. Also thinking of the great overview of market/social norms in Predictably Irrational. It consistently gets ignored when talking about trying to inject money into open source.

Now I read a well written article on HN about exactly the question of how to encourage open source without ruining the exact thing that makes it work and think "Hey, there will be at least a bit of an interesting discussion in the comments. Maybe some new ideas about how to retain social norms while encouraging more open source work".

So was the point hard to understand and I only think it was clear because I'm on the same page? Why are there barely any comments on point, and the majority seem to just have wilfully ignored it and written whatever was on their mind concerning the author, open source and money in general?
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Consider just getting the highest-paying job you can and then giving as much as you can afford to the most effective charities you can find.

http://80000hours.org/
http://80000hours.org/earning-to-give
http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/
http://www.givewell.org/
http://home.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/
You're attempting to transfer your intuitive, everyday understanding of the situation of an individual household to the situation of an entire country or its government.

In doing so, you are making a mistake, especially when you apply it to the US.

Think about it: Why is spending more than you earn bad for a household? Because according to the rules of society you will eventually not be able to spend anymore.

The rules of society are different for the US government, and therefore your conclusion about spending vs. earning does not apply.
I made God's temple.
Yup, agreed. I never meant to imply that it was a simple machine.

I too see Soylent as an experiment, and a possible way to push our models of nutrition forward.
This kind of project is great if your infrastructure is in that inbetween-stage between manual ssh (1-2 servers) and full puppet/chef automation.

There are a lot of concerns about trusting the third party host. I don't want to put down a solid attempt at turning this into a business, but server management fundamentally needs to be a commodity, so expect them to focus on the user management / audit trail and other value-adds in the future.

Commando.io was previously an open source project [1], but that didn't support parallel execution or live streaming results over websockets; there are cli alternatives e.g. pssh [2], clusterssh, sshpt [3]; and i wanted something like this in a hurry, so i hacked together my own opencommandio[4] using the awesome node-ssh2 library.

1. https://github.com/nodesocket/commando

2. http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/pssh , https://code.google.com/p/parallel-ssh/

3. https://code.google.com/p/sshpt/

4. http://code.ivysaur.me/opencommandio.html