skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing is conveyed except for the fact that the person leaving the comment is an idiot. Or they are slaves to fashion and are copying the kids.
A whole lot of stuff related to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid
Hahahaha not for the bosses, but a union that makes sure devs get properly paid for their hard work.
Finding opposite for 'Justin Bieber' is like dividing by 0 - infinity.
If you're a tech company, chances are you don't have a storefront, or even employees in an office, so you don't have a physical presence anywhere.
Like many of you said, it's true that Urdu and Hindi are pretty much the same when it comes to the colloquial, spoken form of the languages. However, when you experience more advanced usages of the languages, they begin to sound totally different. Watch a news broadcast in Hindi and Urdu and you'll see what I mean. The formerly seemingly identical languages diverge sharply in academic settings and literature because Urdu borrows it's more advanced words from Persian which in turn borrowed these words from Arabic whereas the more advanced Hindi vocabulary is based on Sanskrit.

Not to mention the script is totally different.
Part of it is just imagining a device where you put in one name and a wifi/family password and suddenly this name gets you

1) SSID (say PxtlFamily)

2) Local domain-name for accessing your intranet (http://PxtlFamily) with your imitations of gmail, drive, picasaweb, and the admin panel, with a built-in loginless "family" account for shared stuff. Access to the same files via an FTP server and DropBox-like application.

3) Dynamic Dns public domain name provided by the vendor (http://PxtlFamily.Dyn.Org) for anything you want to show to the wider internet (which is nothing by default).

4) Email domain (user@PxtlFamily.Dyn.Org)

5) samba file-server name (\\PxtlFamily) to access to the same shared folder above.

Boom, you give it a name and a wifi password and you get all that. Use the wifi password as an access password for wired ethernet connections. You're relying on your wifi to provide security, but that's the most you can realistically expect from home users anyways.

Then you can let users create their own accounts for all the private stuff. Just let them make their own accounts since they're already semi-trusted since they've got the Family password.

Obviously you would want to offer the users more granularity in configurations as they want - support for encryption, rights controls, etc. But this is the bare-minimum "I buy it and I give it a name and a wifi password". You give users a massive motherlode of functionality and it's more secure than just about everything on the internet because it's not on the internet.

Just stick a cheap cellphone touchscreen on the darned thing for admin actions until the user gets around to setting up an admin account.

The amount of software you'd have to write to create such a thing would be a beast though.
What use is an MD5 of dataset if its semantics should be clear from table and column names?
Not $2K.

If you have a friend living in another state, they can be your registered agent.
Now you can watch porn in your living room
He's up to $123/hr now...

That's currently $7503, with a current average of $61.
There's one really, incredibly glaring flaw in this argument right near the start. He argues that it takes men to come up with sites like Twitter and Facebook because most venture-capital-backed startups are created by men. Except, of course, venture capitalists openly admit they choose startups to back not just on their merits, but "pattern matching" the founders to what they expect a startup founder to look like - and everyone expects startup founders to be male. Even if women were just as good at founding successful startups, we'd expect them to be less common than male founders simply because VCs go with what they're used to.

He is essentially arguing that women are inherently worse at founding tech companies because they're under-represented in an area where people discriminate against them based on the belief they're inherently worse at founding tech companies.
Right, but the purpose of the brief is to refute the government's expected argument that the program is necessary to catch terrorists.

Wyden & co. are trying to show in each case that the intelligence would have been available by other means.

This is important because it tends to undermine both the government's statutory interpretation argument (that all call records are "relevant" for these investigations) and maybe the 4th amendment argument (if collection of metadata is a search, then search is "reasonable").
Hahahaha

http://thumbs.newschoolers.com/index.php?src=http://media.ne...
Although it would be awesome, I doubt you will find anything like that. After all, the second someone published their "actual production adwords campaign" info, their competitors would know exactly what keywords to bid on and by how much. I know a lot of the younger HNers are all about "transparency" but that's bordering on the absurd.

"But, Scott - surely they can blur out the text so we can't see it?" Sure, but then if they're doing that, how could you trust it? Example - author says "All I did was increment by $0.10 and our CTR jumped 100%!" But what if he really pushed it up by $10 just so he could quickly have an example screenshot to show?
GitHub for books: Publishing needs better collaborative tools
If you live north of Perth in Scotland and a parcel is sent via one of the big couriers it often gets subcontracted out to a local courier or franchised operator who can add another two to three days to deliver something that should be next day. I used to live in Perth and never had a single Prime delivery arrived next day as promised - in one ridiculous example, they shipped a parcel from their Greenock fulfilment centre to Perth and it took a week to arrive!. I ended up getting half the money back and cancelling Prime.

Four years later I found myself eligible for the free trial and have given Prime another shot, so far so good with 3 out of 3 orders arriving next day via Royal Mail.

"Some of the drivers decide they don't have time, or it's near the end of their shift, and log deliveries as no one home" - yes that is truly annoying and verging on fraudulent behaviour.
No, but people would argue that mostly men are truck drivers due to rigid gender roles and strict gender policing of the patriarchy.
I eventually found a solution to being neurotic about turning things off - when we go away I go round and take pictures on my phone of all the things I would worry about.

The interesting thing is that I never need to look at the pictures - the mere fact they exist is enough to keep my happy....

[My family do indeed think I am crazy]
You would justify one true tyranny (ubiquitous surveillance) in order to prevent another, hypothetical, theoretical, unsubstantiated "tyranny" based on a few examples from the dustbin of history (and just so you don't mistake me, I intend that metaphor as "history is a useless dustbin with no predictive value")?

raymer sez: "The only thing worse than a bad government is no government."

Counterexample: North Korea. The various governments of the French Revolution. There are plenty more.

The nation-state is a relatively new concept in social history. National governments are neither necessary nor a proven good thing.
Generally speaking, we institutionalize the incompetent. We don't allow them to run around harming themselves and others, sign contracts, and the like.

We also rehabilitate them. Jailing someone for minor infraction does not qualify.
Sorry, but if that were the case, then just showing the list of pages and their locations would get 100% of them, with 0% probability of being "by chance".

Then, you say "that's a complicated rule: no one can memorize the list", and that's fine. But finding the simplest rule that has the best fit can be shown, via the Minimum Description Length principle, to be equivalent to models with deep connections to statistical learning.

The gist of the matter is: even if you have a single dataset, statistical considerations are very important to make sure that the statements you make are sensible. That does not appear to be the case in this Slate piece.
Sorry, yes we should be more descriptive - will update it shortly. It's not a stand-alone service but one that plugs into your existing email, albeit has a web component that you can choose to use in a stand-alone fashion if you like.
The term "Philosopher's stone" is from medieval european alchemical lore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher's_stone

I don't know if they imagined british kids all knowing about that, but I can assure you the term would be just as fantastical to them as to americans.
Wow this is really good, its funny I was literally just looking for a music similarity website since last.fm isn't very good and this nails it.
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> and you could run an emergency hospital without receptionists.

Not for long, at least in the US, without replacing receptionists at least 1:1 with other people doing the job of receptionists (which, in the emergency room of a hospital, is entirely about getting identification, signed consent for treatment, and insurance/payment information from patients so that the hospital gets paid for the service it provides.)
I'd pay $2 to trial it, and I'd use it while jogging and listening to music. I have no idea whether it'll work out -- twitter timelines tends to be very fragmentary so I don't know if I'd be able to follow conversations well. However, it just needs to hit that 'cheap enough that I'll buy it anyway' price point for apps.

Trying to be as honest and helpful as possible, I generally prefer to avoid fragmenting features over lots of apps. For instance, the other day I wanted to send >140char tweets, and was annoyed that my main twitter client didn't auto-split tweets. I have a separate app (TweetSplit[1]) which allows me to flip between apps to do the work, but it's not great. The feature (split tweets) was implemented in a separate app and that was annoying.

Reading out tweets seems like a very similar proposition. I don't know if I'd sustainably use one app for reading, and another for TTS. There's friction around logging in to separate apps, switching between apps, and keeping your reading position in both apps.

I think, then, I'd ideally like to see this integrated into my main twitter app. So maybe another group to sell to are developers of twitter clients?

Also worth noting that Abvio's Runmeter app [2] will read out your mentions during a run, which is where I got the idea. I don't use this running app any more, but would still like the feature.

Lastly, maintaining reading position between apps has been looked at by Tweet Marker[3] and might help mitigate the problems of having separate apps for reading the same timeline.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tweetsplit/id460008334
[2] http://abvio.com/runmeter/
[3] http://tweetmarker.net/
2k is ridiculous. people will have less incentive to set up shop in nyc bc of this rule.
Thanks for enumerating this.

However, for me, the amount of time 'saved' for tasks like this seems like it could easily be outweighed by having to spend even a minimal amount of time tinkering/debugging the setup of these devices.

Given that my phone sometimes forgets which wifi network to use, I can only imagine having to reconfigure my microwave, washing machine, stove/oven, dishwasher, stereo, etc. occasionally. If each device forgets the wifi network infrequently, like once every six months, that means 12 times a year I have to configure wifi one of my six smart devices. This amount of reconfiguration is more time/frustration/effort than would be saved by the kinds of notifications listed.
Awesome, I'll follow your blog. I plan to learn Ruby (+on rails) too ! :)
Looking at "contribute", it doesn't really reflect my listening patterns since I starting listening to music almost exclusively by streaming. Once upon a time I bought albums and had favourite artists, but now, for me, it's all about the song. I don't really have a favourite band anymore, and the stuff I listen to most is one or two songs by this act, one or two songs by that act

It's not really a criticism, looking up stuff from the days I listened to bands rather than songs it seems pretty accurate, but I dunno how I'd use it in the present
[Another bokeh dev chiming in] Additional tools like crosshair, data and color inspectors, box zoom, more types of selections (point, lasso, etc), and measurement tools are all planned.
Do you think this is the solution? Would it work in any environment? Start-up for instance?

One could argue that training a programmer should be like training a doctor - once you get over the initial hurdle of getting into Medical school, it's all about a long period of learning and mentorship.

My impression is that great programmers can come from unlikely sources. It's ok to cast a wider net for people, when the worst thing that happens is that they're more skilled for their efforts.
I guess this is what passes for "design" for people balls-deep in PHP engineering. The old one was at least quaint/retro, this is just kinda "babby's first blog design".
Translate a nucleotide (DNA/RNA) sequence to a protein sequence
Photos Of The World's Disappearing Cultures, Before They Fade Away
The main reason I like the comments on php docs is it's helpful for me to see a basic usage example. A lot of docs (your typical 'man' page for instance) just have a dictionary-like wall of text without a usage sample.
we're starting out with web-based email since it's easier, but plan to expand to outlook soon also. can I learn more about what specific problem you encounter regularly? if you're interested in sharing more, I'd love to hear at yukuan@flowcontrol.io. Thanks!
Go's sql package tutorial
Also in Seattle, and prime is great, except for when they use Ontrac. I once had a next-day shipment fail to show up, and on the third day I called Ontrac to find out why. The rep told me, and I'm completely serious, "the driver just decided not to do his job."

I actually appreciated the honesty, but I hope they fired the driver.
$9.99? This is why most people offer an enterprise plan.
Actually, yes.

It wouldn't mind if the term originated 11 years ago and the author stated it was coined 10 years ago. But the author claimed it was less than 10 years old, and the term was around for many years before 2002--I just found that article as a quick example for younger readers who might think the term "smartphone" developed as a generic word for "iPhone-like device"--it may seem crazy, but some people actually think this, and the article's opening supports that narrative.

Inaccurate, unthoughtful statements like this lead us to forget history, and they especially do a disservice to articles contemplating developments in the near future. I think it's relevant to the article that "smartphone" was a part of tech and business life and news before it became a household term--these products see a lot of development and a niche user base before, suddenly, everyone has them. That nascent period, during which products' dangers can be considered and hopefully diminished, is essential.
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LOL, luckily it was not. It wasn't a dictionary word.
Cool story, but I hope permission was received first to divulge those account usage details.
A Diver’s Rise, and Swift Death, at the Limits of a Growing Sport
> What ideals? The institutions' roles?

Yes, the Institutions' roles.

> Do you mean Democracy? Surely you don't think hierarchical/technocratic institutions legitimized in the use of force is a necessary arm of Democracy or Liberty?

Are you referring to the US democracy or the democracy I have in my european country ? What are you really talking about ?

> [..] But sure. Let's assume the people at the absolute top fight for our interests.

Not what I said. Don't make it look like I mistake people who abuse ideals for those ideals, thank you.

edit: Do you really think life was so much better before humans came up with some institutions to rule themselves ? The outback isn't that far.

PS: of course ideals are vague. We aren't some machines that would just need the right code to run as an "ideal" society.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d113:23:./temp/~bdyc...:
This sounds like it was written for a 12th grade research assignment and makes several incorrect inferences without a basis of fact, i.e. the male hunting equating to math reasoning.

I tend to think of it as the same reason minorities are not prevalent in these places either, probably because society held them as "lower class" until recently and they are just now making gains which are long overdue.

All in all, women are catching up fast to men in mathematics as well. They account for the fastest growing percentage of graduate degrees in the sciences and I, personally, work in a high-tech field dominated still by male developers, but also women managers who supervise them and do a fantastic job at it.

It's not biological, it's history. Until recently those spatial learning and building toys for children were all male-focused, but that is changing.

I firmly believe that women will easily overtake men in technology in the future because attitudes have changed for the better.
Cool site. What technologies did you build it with?
Largest Independent Research on The Use of Tablets in Education Launched
This is not the reason it is completely useless.
Hate your job? You probably live in the US
And Rails 4. The difference with Rails 4 is that the session is encrypted as well as HMAC'd, but it's still the case that as along as you have the token (or can otherwise craft a session) you're hosed.
Phenomenally misleading -- a cost associated with LLCs is not a cost for "new businesses" generally; LLCs are by far not the primary vehicle for "new businesses".
Subscribing for Google Play Music All Access (yeah, say that seven times fast) opens up the instant playlists ("radio stations") to include all of the music in Google's catalog. But I have found the selection of similar music to be pretty conservative; despite Google's large catalog, the same artists/songs come up every time I play a given radio.
We're actually using canvas.

http://bokeh.pydata.org/plot_gallery/iris.html

That has a selection tool you can play around with.
This is big deal. Forming an LLC to protect a new business is a fairly cheap and easy process. I paid an online service $300 to handle all the details for mine. The additional 2k for publication fees is just outrageous in comparison.
There are already some tools available, pan and wheel zoom, plot resizing, selection (on some plot types). Many more tool types are planned.

As for the architecture, BokehJS is built entirely on top of HTML canvas. The python bokeh library sends data and plot specifications to the browser, which uses BokehJS to render the plot and handle interactive tools, etc.
Fluentd vs Logstash
interesting. Do you think they felt they weren't up to the task?
It is my understanding from reading Maynard's preprint that he claims independence from Terrence Tao and the Polymath8 project. He doesn't claim independence from Zhang and neither should he, even if he uses a different approach. His result may well turn out to be important or more important but Zhang's result is clearly earlier and well-known.

My differentiation is that number theorists are looking for better sieves all the time. Zhang's work was a breakthrough in bringing the prime gap from infinity to a finite number. It is not surprising that better sieves could bring the gap a lot closer.
Spyware deployed by law enforcement like Finfisher does capture and transmit photos and audio.

In terms of mass surveillance, only very recently has facial recognition been built into phones and penetration is still low. It is also easier to detect because of limited connectivity and conspicuous bandwidth and battery usage. But yes it will become almost as easy to do it on phones in the near future.

Given what we now know about surveillance the claim that facial recognition and gait analysis on the Xbox One will be used in mass surveillance shouldn't be contentious.

It's an easy sell: "NSA/FBI: If we had such a system deployed during the Boston bombing we could have found the perpetrators in a matter of hours instead of days."

"POTUS: What about privacy concerns?"

"NSA/FBI: The biometric data is stored on the users machines, we only query the Xbox network for individual suspects and return high probability matches, it's not mass surveillance at all!"
How about this site go fuck itself with its "log in with facebook" banner that won't go away
Good question. How much larger/smaller would it become? I just figured doing 3D requires more code and that would end up making it larger.
Solar-powered battery woven into fabric for 'wearable electronics'
To be more clear, there are two main parts of bokeh. First there is the js portion which uses canvas to create the plots. There is an object model that allows plots to be composed of multiple components (glyphs, data sources, axes, data ranges).

The python side produces json that represents the objects to be plotted. Python only writes a small amount of js to start the js running. For the most part python just produces json objects that the js side reads.

There could be alternate implementations of the python side that still use the same js rendering logic. You could even write a nicer higher-level js api that wraps the low-level component construction.

I talked about this at PyData NYC. Here is my notebook (which I am in the process of updating for bokeh 0.3) http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/paddymul/bok...
Awesome post! Very accurate and well written description of Hacker School.
>far more bad has been wrought by assuming differences were innate than assuming they were the result of bias.

I see more people causing harm trying to ignore natural differences, so I must ask, what have you observed that causes you to believe that?

"Don't just stand there, do something."
Software patent reform just died in the House
But he has to work 62hr/week to get that? That's not so tempting.
For God's sake, please at least get a 2:1. Otherwise, should anything happen with your current gig, you are unemployable by grade cut off.
Crowdsourcing goes mainstream in typhoon response
Ask HN: What mobile app would you like to see?
Mobile developer here with a case of app writers block and I'm looking for a decent idea for my next iOS/Android app.

I thought I'd post here and see if HN at large had any ideas I could, er, borrow.

So - what app would you love to exist?!
Cool stuff. However, the first thing I wondered was "does it use variable pitch props so I can get it to autorotate?"

Our volocopters are fitted with a rescue system in the form of
a parachute which safely lets the entire aircraft sink to the ground
in the case of an emergency. At helicopters in contrast, is the main
rotor in the way.

-- http://www.e-volo.com/information/safety-concept

This (combined with an emergency back-up battery) is probably better than a traditional helicopter for low-altitude power failures, but worse for higher-altitude. With a main engine failure at sufficient altitude, a helicopter pilot can reverse the pitch of the main rotor so that it builds momentum while the craft falls. During the decent the pilot also has control over the craft, so he/she can hopefully avoid trees, power lines, etc. Finally, at the end of the decent the pilot is able to reverse the pitch of the blades again, turning the stored momentum back into downward thrust, safely landing the craft.
The best way to think about life is: RNA is one true source of life activity. Everything else: DNA, proteins, carbohydrates and membranes are just things that RNA decorates itself with to minimize degradation by other RNAs, which are trying their best to cut your RNA into little pieces.

That's why you have to be so careful: life tries very hard to keep the wrong RNAs out.