skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Winamp is a great music player. It is still the best for some file formats. Via it's plugins it can play more exotic audio file formats than any other player. Some players support s3m and it, but play only half of some files: Winamp plays it all. There are great plugins for nsf, spc, psf and usf sound files (sound files form NES, SNES, PS1 and N64 games). I wish there would be a real alternative (for Linux). Does anyone know a good player for these file formats? Audacious is good for s3m, it and nsf, but spc, psf and usf?
>Automobile crash data is irrelevant

>We are talking about people's lives here.

These two statements do not belong together.
I only have Tor logins recorded and nothing indicates that my account was compromised, so one of the exit nodes I used must also have been used by the attackers. I guess it doesn't necessarily mean that the entire attack was done over Tor. Perhaps a zombie in the botnet was running it. :)
Probably relevant: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html
An IP Microscope in Haskell
That's a 3in fallacy. The battery in the Tesla S is significantly more resistant to damage than any passenger car fuel tank I've ever seen.

Do you honestly think that Tesla left that pack hanging underneath the car totally unprotected? Beyond that, you completely and utterly missed BHSPitMonkey's point.
This is a bait headline, its just an automated machine to only allow exits. Several airports in Europe have similar systems
WebGL - 2D vs 3D libraries
Noted, I'll try that too. Thank you!
It isn't immediately obvious how to sign up. I recommend adding a sign up button on your main page that links to http://www.coinhark.com/signup
Macro snowflake photos with a $50 lens
I'm sure someone would argue that it's the Illuminati. That doesn't make it a rational argument.
Am I the only one who can no longer intuitively differentiate between these geometrically styled logos in four flat primary colors and so was initially confused by this mug?
Unlawful imprisonment.
Should the 99% Harbor Resentment Against the Tech-Elite?
Thanks! I'll try as soon as I upgrade from 10.6.
There's Winamp Lite for you. I don't miss anything from the pre-3 times.
For what it's worth, journalists can and do talk to subject experts. Whether they quote their sources in a casual non-scientific article for Wired magazine is another thing.

For more info (e.g., of a journalist talking to doctors and such), take a look at:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hunting-the-nightmar...
Coin, Kicking Credit Cards To The Curb, Answers A Few Questions
smart idea!
I am surprised that so many people here are okay with the idea of being momentarily detained as a matter of course.

This is not a turnstile, because turnstiles do not detain you or trap you; you can always move freely on one side or the other. This device detains you and then lets you move on. What are you going to do when it decides not to let you move on?
Yes, this is the email I got from them on October 25th:

Hi,
Thanks for supporting Filepicker.
We recently changed our pricing plans, and wanted to let you know directly.

Today, we support over 30,000 developers and serve over 200 million files per month. As we grow, we continue to invest in our infrastructure & engineering so that we can continue to deliver a superior experience. Therefore we are changing the pricing plans.

Changes:
We are reducing the free tier to 500 file uploads per month & the max file size is revised to 20MB.
Image conversion, uploading files directly to S3, analytics, adding logo & custom CSS are no longer offered on the free plan.
The paid plans start at $ 19/month for the Starter Plan and are available at: https://www.inkfilepicker.com/pricing/

What does it mean for your account:
We are grateful for your support over the last year.
As an early supporter of the product, we are offering you an opportunity to upgrade to the Enhanced Start plan for just $9/month, 50% off the Start Plan. And, the Enhanced Start plan gives you more benefits than the Start plan:
• Up to 5000 files uploaded per month
• Max file size of 100 MB
• Up to 150000 files converted per month
• Upload files directly into your Amazon S3 bucket
• Analytics into how your users are uploading files
• Add your logo and custom CSS to the dialog

Further, we are offering you a 30-day window to upgrade (till Nov 25th). If you decide not to upgrade, at the end of 30 days, we will work with you to migrate you to the regular Start plan.
Safety data is relevant. There are dozens of new car models on the road right now that are more dangerous to drive than a Tesla. It is demonstrably true that if you crash one of those cars you are more likely to be killed than if you were driving a Tesla.

This is a somewhat silly attack on a new technology. Tesla is, and has, responded appropriately to every one of the safety issues they've encountered. I'm not necessarily a "let the market decide" kinda guy on this issue, given the way corporations have behaved in the past and given the nature of the corporate veil protecting the manufacturers from liability (often even in cases of gross negligence), but when it's clear the company is doing right on a scale much larger than most other auto companies (I can't actually think of any companies that have been more careful about the safety of their cars; maybe Volvo and Volkswagen).

"We are talking about people's lives here."

This is one of those "Think of the children!" kind of statements. When it comes to cars, we're always talking about peoples lives. Driving cars is the most dangerous thing most people do every day, by far. If you want to think of saving peoples lives, start campaigning for more mass transit and fewer cars. Campaign for self-driving cars. Campaign for dedicated cycling lanes so that more people will stop driving and start biking (without the risk of cars bringing their deadly influence into the picture).

That's not to say Tesla shouldn't always improve the safety of their cars, but past behavior indicates they have that built into their values as a company.

I'm just saying that if there's going to be investigations, why not start with the Dodge 1500 pickup truck (one of the longest running, most dangerous, vehicles on the road)? Or the Cheverolet Colorado pickup? Or the Mazda CX-9 or Jeep Wrangler? These are all dangerous vehicles to drive; they crash poorly and are involved in more vehicle accidents where someone is killed or injured than average (and a helluva a lot more than Tesla).

Statistics give us the ability to make rational choices in the face of something horrible like car accidents and death. Sure, Tesla should mitigate or solve the fire problem...but, when there are millions of more dangerous cars on the road, why pick on Tesla?
Most airports have large sliding doors that are triggered on one side only. Because they are large, and there are a lot of people flowing through them, it would be possible to slip in while the door is open, so they need human guards to watch and ensure that no one does that.

A regular turnstile doesn't really work very well for people with a lot of luggage.

So this is basically a large version of a turnstile, that is more secure than just a single gate, so it can be secure enough to leave without full time guards without preventing people with baggage from getting through.

Not a bad idea, not horrible civil liberties wise, but could be a problem for people with claustrophobia, and if they are avoiding having a guard, it's likely that there won't be an alternative exit for people for whom these won't work.
Could always use more hands, especially in certain areas. Shoot an email to jobs@continuum.io and reference this post.
Matrix multiplication, orthonormal basis, triangular matrix, gradient descent, integrals, Lebesgue mesure, convex, and the mathematical notation in the paper are not harder than the code shown here. It is better to have solid prof of what you are doing is sound and will converge before jumping into the code.
Suppose a "hidden truth" turned out not to have been intended by the author — would that make it less true?

One of the beautiful things about art (and life) is that it literally is what we make of it (or what we can make from it using the evidence at hand).

Authorial intent is super interesting, of course, and can enrich your understanding, but it's also pretty rare information. Often the work itself is all that remains after the author's gone.

At that point, it doesn't matter what the author "meant". You read what they left you to read and get whatever value from that you can.
Out of curiosity: I use AHK to do basic testing automation for a windows application that I have literally zero ability to control programatically (to achieve actually good automated testing). Anyone have a better option for this kind of use case?
NASA Next Frontier: Growing Plants On The Moon
Everything you said is true. But so is the fact that people are starting to die of things that just a few years ago were curable.
No, that seems to be the ideal form for expressing information.

A "real writer" would have said the same thing but taken 5000 words to say it. It would be more fun to read, sure, but would take much longer to get the gist, and half of it would probably be made up to sound good.
LESS Hat 2.0
It's a one-way exit from the secure area of the terminal. Functionally it's the same as a guard standing there watching people file through to a one-way escalator or door into the public part of the airport.

Personally, I'd prefer the human. This system sounds too complicated and expensive and prone to malfunction. What if there's a fire and the doors stop working?
I am not doing that. Elon Musk was.
Does this other variation exist?

"What do Hacker School students not look like? They're not programmers looking to spend three months prototyping their next startup product"
It's a whole category of products with shirts, hats, posters and more:

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Scroogle...

(via http://marketingland.com/microsoft-web-store-now-selling-scr...)
Who schmoozed and boozed to get this contract, instead of a normal one-way turnstile door?
not only that, they've created a novel way to trap people inside a burning building. This is a terrible idea.
They all solve slightly different problems, we use both bower and browserify
done! thx again
OpenHatch looks cool. Checking it out.
Actually. Yes (on average).

Since people tend to want more, and since we're all subject to boundary conditions posed by nature, compromises need to be made in certain cases. A good example is the driving situations in Japan/China where if you have an even numbered license plate you can only drive on certain days.

Also, central planning != micro management. Just general guidelines similar to things like building codes. But really, not sure how it would really work.
Thanks for the correction. NMC is still cheap in the secondary market, though; the current price puts it around a penny per domain.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still rooting for NameCoin, and I think distributed DNS is sorely needed. I just think it faces an uphill climb for adoption by users, browsers, and OS vendors.
Wat? One of the things I like about consoles is that they are plug 'n play. No fiddling with trying to get emulation settings just right.
Do you know what car is least likely to catch fire? A horse.

Honestly, as long as consumers are given accurate statistics regarding how safe these vehicles are, I think they should be able to buy (and insure) them even if they are a little less safe.
One of the reasons my WP is a POS is that when I search for "instragram" in the App Marketplace, the actual intstagram beta app is like the 20th thing.

How can a single word search for an app with basically one word in the name have such bad search results???
I agree that the notation is tough. Especially for folks who need to learn to do this stuff as a one-off and not as a career. That's why I wrote a book that teaches the algorithms with nearly no math notation while trying to be very rigorous:
http://www.amazon.com/Data-Smart-Science-Transform-Informati...
Or the media will pick up and hype pretty much any juicy-looking story.

If I look back through your comment history will I find you suggesting Musk and the media were involved in a conspiracy to sabotage Boeing (which doesn't generally advertise on radio/TV) during the 787 issue?

Or are you, like much of HN, having issues with this specific situation because it involves someone HN practically worships as a god?
Both, in my experience. The downloadable code is usually a rush job and has all sorts of sloppiness and missed edge cases. The code in the docs is usually cleaner (because it's just excerpts), but doesn't always get updated when APIs change.
> And, actually, I do know about it. Your use as an adjective was wrong as was explained in that link.

That link does not address the word's use as an adjective at all except to note that it can be used as an adjective.

> I have no interest in your "points". I don't care how you thought you were using it. I don't care that you think you were right. I really don't care about the whole thing at all. I simply told you where you were going wrong, so feel free to ignore it if you wish to remain wrong, but you were still wrong. Go learn something.

I quoted OED to support my usage. You linked to a Stack Exchange question asking whether the correct prepositional form of apropos is "apropos" or "apropos of" — when I wasn't even using the prepositional form. If you were in my shoes, would you listen to you?
If that's the problem, it's really rather easy to define a wrapper that only clones on an insert. (And, I fundamentally disagree that over-copying this is a pervasive issue; there are a few places (mainly old code) where unnecessary Clone-ing is performed, but this is very much the exception.)

fn find_or_insert_clone<'a, K: Clone, V>(map: &'a mut HashMap<K,V>,
key: &K, val: V) -> &'a mut V {
match map.find_mut(key) {
Some(x) => return x,
None => {}
}

// `key` is definitely missing
map.find_or_insert(key.clone(), val)
}
Introducing the new Google Wallet Card
It's not reasonable to say that the Model S has a 25x increased change of catching fire. The sample size is orders of magnitude too small (there were 3 instances so far?).

Put simply, there is no statistically significant difference whatsoever between the Model S and the broader population in terms of fires post-collision, and Musk is understandably frustrated about the bogus press claiming there is.
Keep in mind that to a mathematician, the code is "unnecessarily confusing" compared to the mathematical notation. They speak math; we speak code.
Those fixes just change a few constant here and there. Any game programmer (or any programmer really) can do that with her eyes closed.

The real problem is QA, user interface elements and internationalization. QA will have to do a complete walkthrough for every resolution * language * FSAA * videocard combination possible. This is very long and expensive. There will be bugs and they will need to get fixed.

At the end they decided it was not worth it. Another company with different priorities might decide otherwise. But what I can certainly tell you is this was not due to limited knowledge from the staff.
It also isn't immediately obvious what this even does. I recommend adding a clear and specific description on your main page that explains what you do.
what proves that running windows is the least concern. they would have added some suid crap listening out for reason had this been linux or anything else. this is just negligence. it is the same as bridge falling it two trucks drive there at the same time. everyone would be fine blaming the architect, engineer, construction company, politician that paid for etc... that happens in software, it is nobody business.
I can see how this appears to replace a TSA employee watching for reverse travel, but what has been created is of a different nature. Atlanta's airport has a similar reverse-travel prevention system in the form of a 3 story escalator, but there travelers can't be easily singled out. This individual door system is a security camera and a remote override away from individual detainment. Add facial recognition (the physical conditions are ideal) and the only thing separating this from an automated warrant officer is a willing politician. It seems out of place to be upset by what appears to be an automatic door, but some forethought suggests this is substantially different from what it replaced.
Hierarchy Is Overrated
Sounds like a problem for machine learning :)
Video Backgrounds Concept
Tracking the tools I use every day with Git
New backdoor worm found attacking websites running Apache Tomcat
I have, but as far as I can remember they all have small normal doors to the side - is that not the default setup?
You're right, Tesla doesn't have a 1mm steel sheet beneath the battery - it has a 5mm thick sheet [1]:
"Musk explained that damage to the armor plating on the bottom of the vehicle was inflicted by contact with debris of a specific shape that resulted in a lever action, puncturing the bottom of the Model S. He noted that 25 tons of force would be required to make the three-inch-deep puncture in the quarter-inch-thick armor plating."

[1]http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319728
Google Wallet Card FAQ
1024x512 = 524288, that's over half a million and they're all visible. So far, they don't carry more individual properties than a position and a motion vector, but i could easily imagine to add another texture for that, and at some point i will also go for more life-like entities with adjustable distributions of status and needs values too, maybe to model behavior in a dynamic system of hunters and gatherers, you know. Give them very basic intelligence, intents, and planning. I had also thought of using a physics simulation for a skeleton model and neural nets for sensors and actuators. But I'm drifting away and I'm helpless in god-mode. Statistics is computationally heavy and i won't add anything like that too soon. It is and will be an abstract cat toy.
> The difference between the Go built in web framework at 190,687[2] (1.3 ms) json responses per second and Flask, a popular Python framework at 18,945[2] (3.1 ms) is trivial when you look at the bigger picture.

I disagree, and think that's a huge difference. The latency may not be, but requests per second? That could be a significant amount of difference if you start pulling decent traffic: you need ten Flask servers for every one Go server. That's a lot of ops complexity you can save yourself right there.

Flask, mind you, has a much more mature ecosystem (WTForms, SQLAlchemy, et. al) and development is likely to be faster on that front, but if you're looking at building something scalable and don't mind a bit of groundwork now, there is an advantage to using Go. It just may not be an advantage for every team (and that's fine: horses for courses).
Interesting how some household names aren't on that list. Namely Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter.
They should try using tf-idf to create the initial representation of the keywords per post...also, I find there are many cases where applying machine learning/statistics correctly is harder than it looks, this single case not withstanding.
Sure, some ML concepts are intuitive and accessible without advanced math.

But it would help to highlight some of the fundamental challenges of a simplistic approach.

For example, how is the author computing the distance between points in n-dimensional space?

And does this mean that a one-paragraph post and a ten-paragraph post on the same topic probably wouldn't be clustered together?
Every single European airport I have been to has this kind of portals to get from inside the secured terminal area to the baggage claim area.
Freeman Dyson: A failure of intelligence
Google: will build fiber Internet networks in developing areas
This response, and the replies to it actually come as a bit of a surprise to me. I am a graduate student in artificial intelligence who has a comparatively weak background in mathematics who is still very capable of applying, implementing, and improving upon machine learning techniques. I have never taken a calculus or linear algebra class. (Don't ask how I managed that, an effect of the odd route I took to get where I am). The point is you shouldn't be telling yourself you can't do it because you don't know the math, you may surprise yourself.

That being said there are plenty of barriers to a software engineer picking up some papers on machine learning and getting started. These are the result of some serious issues that I believe exist with academia at present and specifically the "publication game". I will not however get into this as this comment will quickly turn into the longest paper I've ever written. It is a problem with the system, and as the reader it is not your fault.

Your issue with applied machine learning may be largely imagined. Take for example the k-means clustering algorithm in the article. This is quite useful in a number of places be it data analysis or intelligent user interfaces, its straightforward to implement, and many usable implementations exist online. The same case is true for other models such as linear regression, naive bayes, even things like support vector machines are pretty easy to use these days.

In any case, as selfish as this is, this sentiment you're expressing provides some comfort that I'll be in demand when I enter the job market. :P Though if you really want to implement and apply some simple yet useful algorithms he recommends Programming Collective Intelligence at the end of the article and I can definitely second that recommendation.
While I tend to agree with you, the problem is we'll then have a lot less livestock to eat, and there will be a global food shortage.

The house of cards is stacked very, very high.
This article isn't some "2012" doomsday nonsense.

This is a real and pressing concern, indeed has been a concern for decades.
PostgreSQL: Don't use CHAR or VARCHAR
Perhaps people want to know about impending doom in the faint hope they can do something about it, while they don't read about impending happiness because- well, who wants to prevent happiness?

Also, articles about impending happiness can wind up making you unhappy. Just think of all the "Cancer cured! (in mice)" articles, as well as product vaporware.
Snowden's NSA leaks truly are the gift that keeps on giving.
Normally I would think it would be considered a very bad sign when a company is so terrible at convincing you of their own greatness that their only recourse is to attack the competition.
that is 5 to 10 years of computer crime you are looking at, sp332.
Does it fade out songs when you pause them?

If so, where can I download it and where can I donate to whoever wrote it?
There are already airports which have pairs of sliding doors with a room between them, timed so there's a moment when the first door is closed behind you and the second one hasn't opened ahead, in which you're "detained".

And practically every subway system already has one-way turnstiles that can "detain" you in the sense that you can't pass until it opens, and either can't return through it without re-inserting a fare card or can't return through it period.

In fact, there's a fuck ton of controlled-access places with systems which effectively do this. What are you already doing for the "detainees" who already are created by those?

(not that I like the TSA, I just also don't see why you're treating this as new or unusual)
I think it's the hypocrisy that irks me the most about this.

I remember a short while back a Microsoft employee was asking on HN 'why the hate?' Well, THIS (Oh, and the patents thing).
The recent new Giana Sisters was reasonably fun, and very pretty. Though I'm judging as someone who has been away from the gaming scene for a while.
Steve Ballmer: Blame the market not me, for Microsoft's stagnant
I think that meme was all nailed up and buried a long time ago.

Unfortunately "a long time ago" seems to be Microsoft's primary domain.