skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What exactly do you think should happen when a jagged metal object collides with your car with enough energy to rip through critical components? Do you think susceptibility to telephone poles and meteorites is also a defect that auto makers need to fix?

>Short of encasing the car's primary energy store with 6 inches of plated steel, what are you looking for, exactly?

that is a bunch of 6in fallacies. Car fuel tanks are made of something like 1-2mm steel. As far as i understand Tesla doesn't have a 1mm steel sheet below the battery. That is the defect made obvious by these 2 accidents.

Btw, modern cars are much better at hitting telephone poles and does tend to explode less when being hit by "meteorites" (say bullets) than they were say 40 years ago. So, yes bad crash results ("susceptibility to telephone poles") for example would be a defect.
I suspect it's a reaction to the LAX shooting to prevent an attacker from fleeing on foot so easily - similar to the double bank doors you sometimes see on banks in dangerous countries. More important than proper fire exits? No. Just my theory on the possible purpose.
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
Metaphor Generator
Meh. I mean... funny, but it just reads like yet another person who saw bogus numbers, got fed up, ranted.
This is sad. I discovered so much music throughout my teenage life using WinAMP. I used to do shoutCast broadcast for friends and feel like a DJ. I used to be excited when a friend would allow me to replace their MusicMatch Jukebox with Winamp. It was solid, and worked. Why shutdown? :(

I supposed I've only been installing the <3.00 version anyway, so I can stick with it, but still...mixed emotions.
Using the logo is not a good idea.
I'm not sure if that "microsoftstore.com" site is genuine or not. "microsoft.com" is registered directly to the microsoft corporation, whereas "microsoftstore.com" is registered to a whois proxy in auckland, so we can't easily find the real owner.
How live blogging a conference got us $1k+ in new $MRR
Apple Is Preparing A Mysterious Product For Next Year
So keep the gunman locked in with more people around them to shoot?
Seems like a good deal of sensationalism here. We are talking about people's lives, but the crash data so far doesn't support the hand-wringing we're seeing from the NHTSA and journalists. If anything, the crash data so far suggests the opposite. And comparison to safety of other cars is absolutely relevant to whether the safety of Tesla automobiles is an issue or within statistical industry norms.
My point applies in the same way to a laptop you buy, use, then incinerate. Even after you incinerate it, you are still bound by the terms you agreed to (to the debatable extent to which [1] is enforcable at all, anyway).

[1] The download page states "By clicking the "Download now" button, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to the Adobe Software Licensing Agreement.". That statement is hundreds of pixels away from the actual download button.
> installing the portals has allowed Syracuse to eliminate a security job at the exit lanes

Works for me. Unlike TSA workers, automated exit doors can't form unions.
Early in the PC revolution there were several companies making "almost" compatible PCs. For example the DEC Rainbow was one of these. Even IBM tried to go it alone with their incompatible PS/2 and Microchannel bus. These companies tried to make sure that PC/DOS software would run but that they owned the hardware market exclusively. They all failed--they were all rejected by the customers.

Shortly thereafter the market was inundated with white box PCs. This change reduced the margins on PCs to such an extent that it remade the PC market again. The rise of Dell was part of this process. The only way to beat the local white box supplier was to have superior supply chain logistics which is what Dell brought to the market. By this time, the requirement for compatible hardware was so ingrained there wasn't even a discussion if it was possible to go off on your own--unless your name was Apple.
Where are the Mario clones? I'd love some good Mario clones. Instead they all seem to be Double Dragon/Castlevania/Metroid clones
I don't think they outright ban VPN just yet, but even if they did: get the OpenVPN source, XOR every incoming and outgoing byte with your favorite constant. That will already beat any packet detection engine out there (if you also take a little care to eliminate the "side channels", i.e. run it on a random port), while not compromising the security at all.

I wish we could just have dynamically mutating protocols, and Tor et al are certainly working in that direction, but for a single person with the education, this would be my way to go.
Are there any tips that would help when seeding two-sided markets with fake data, a la reddit getting started?

http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/22/reddit-fake-users/
I use Bose QuietComfort 15 (noise cancelling). Link: http://www.amazon.com/Bose%C2%AE-QuietComfort%C2%AE-Acoustic...

I got a pair for my wife and I used them constantly, so I got a pair of my own. I absolutely love them. I often use them just for the noise cancelling (i.e. when travelling) without any music playing.

I'm not an audiophile and haven't tried every pair out there, but I'm very happy with these. If you're married these really come in handy. If you don't get it, you will.
Indeed, yes, and I do this for all my projects. But even a global salt is way better than no salt at all.

That aside, doesn't Wordpress still use lots of global salts?!
> Without the drugs that keep livestock healthy in concentrated agriculture, we’d lose the ability to raise them that way.

Antibiotics for industrial animal farms are one of the reasons bacteria develop multiple resistances. One should ban antibiotics for animals world wide. Unfortunate this wont happen, till its to late.

"The sheep look up" holds still true.
YES YES PLEASE
Please, can this finally be the nail in the coffin of the "Keep Calm and <x>" meme?
Coin Announces New Features To Address Security Concerns
Fair enough. I guess what it comes down to is I don't enjoy using my phone for work, whereas it seems like you do. So I only use it when I need to and don't have access to a larger device. In fact, I use AirDroid so that I can send text messages from my desktop when I'm on it. :)
unlike human workers, automated exit doors don't hesitate to imprison the occupant with no thought about the situation.

these are jail cells, not doors.
For what it's worth, a similar system is in place at the Madrid Airport.
No, grabbed *.winamp.com/winamp.com (full grab I'll send off to be added to archive.org).
I'm on the other side. I have a PhD in chemistry, can do molecular biology, biochemistry - the wet parts, and I am on my last breath with science. Since I can write computer software, (not too terribly disciplined, industrial-wise, at this point, but I can learn), if my attempt to launch a nonprofit research institute fails, I'm going to quit and go into the digital world.

Perhaps the grass is always greener, but I have strong words about what is wrong with science, and if you want to know, feel free to contact me.
> If we really lost antibiotics to advancing drug resistance — and trust me, we’re not far off

When did journalists become biomedical experts? I don't want to read a story about a serious subject that says "trust me".
Ancient DNA from Siberian boy links Europe and America
They are not jail cells. We had the same thing in restricted hallways when I worked my prior job in big pharma. They were used mainly to allow big hallway access and securely allow one person at a time through the door, with weight sensors at the bottom of the pod.

You can override these doors most likely with an emergency button if needed.
Jam vs ender vs colo vs component vs browserify vs bower?
Which should I learn / use?
From what I've heard TSA agents don't think about the situation either
It sounds like the "main purpose" of this system is to create a one-way exit to prevent people from accessing the terminal without going through the security checkpoint (using the exit as an entrance). It's a problem that every airport has solved in one way or another by either posting security or using existing, novel, techniques. In an attempt to "improve" on the one-way exit idea, they've created a user experience that is exceptionally foreign to anyone using it and also adds a one second jarring experience that gives the impression of being detained in a tall, glass, coffin.

At one of the major airports I used to travel through (DTW), exiting the terminal involved going through a slow-moving motorized revolving door. It was one way, and also included a brief instant where you could neither enter, nor leave, and could be "stopped" by airport security at that point should detaining you be necessary. Because it's a revolving door that works very similar to nearly every revolving door a person encounters (save for the motor and one-way nature), it doesn't have that same feel and certainly wouldn't warrant an NBC News segment.

I'd imagine this over-engineered solution to a solved problem also comes at a much steeper price tag.
Saving money by spending millions to replace a couple of $20 per hour TSA goons?
Just for reference, here is the actual 0.3 announcement: http://continuum.io/blog/bokeh03
Have you never used an automatic double-door vestibule in a cold city?
Keep Calm and Regurgitate Once-Popular Memes
I stopped using Windamp for a long time until I purchased my first Android phone. After looking through the dozens of Mp3 players on the market, I saw my old fave, downloaded it and have been using it ever since on my phone.

RIP Llama
Startup out of cash? Rent out the whole team.
New college graduates in CS that startups love to hire aren't necessarily inexperienced: many people I know who recently graduated from CMU worked at Facebook and/or Google for internships.
You better create poll and we'll see how many people use which. We use bower.
They also stipulated that Microsoft's app be an HTML5 app, and not a native app (which is what the iOS/Android clients are), for no reason I was able to discern or theorize at the time. And thanks to deficiencies in the Windows Phone web engine, that proved impossible to do effectively.

They also refused to provide whatever information was necessary to allow their native app to display ads appropriately.

Basically, regardless of how Google explains their position, it really feels like their goal here was to prevent YouTube from being easily/effectively accessible on Windows Phone devices. Or at the very least, they had zero interest in getting WP owners onto YouTube.
The end of an era: Winamp's shutting down
Is there a large contingent of bitter MS employees on HN? Does it really need to be explained how the whole scroogled campaign is kind of ridiculous and hypocritical?
K-means is simple, easy to implement and it often works quite well. It's unlikely to be state-of-the-art for any particular problem, but if you just need to do some straightforward clustering as part of a larger data-processing pipeline, K-means is a reasonable default choice, at least until you figure out that the clustering step is your bottleneck in terms of overall performance.

For example, this paper http://www.stanford.edu/~acoates/papers/coatesng_nntot2012.p... demonstrates that using K-means to learn feature representations for images (i.e., use k-means to cluster small patches of pixels from natural images, then represent images in the basis of cluster centers; repeat this several times to form a "deep" network of feature representations) gives image classification results that are competitive with much more complex / intimidating deep neural network models.
Well, okay. I'll give you that. I never played Castlevania or Metroid much, so I didn't think of those. But, you're right what we see now are more about shooting/ short range attacking than jumping on stuff.
Agreed. Just watched the latest trailer a couple of days ago and it was absolutely clear that the kids were fighting a real war. Quotes like "we have to tell them the truth" make that totally clear imo
*You're

I see your point just fine; my point is that SnapHack lets you save snapchats (and it needs more press).
I think you may have missed the point.
That may matter to you, as a techie.

Do you think more people are going to read their blog post here, or if the president was to tweet something?
What do you mean? FB2K has had excellent ReplayGain support for as long as I can remember.
The Retweet Exchange Program
1. right-click paywall

2. "inspect element"

3. right-click highlighted html

4. "delete node"

5. ???

6. profit
GoldieBlox "Princess Machine" (a concert for little girls)
>Rather, you should focus your ire and spending practices on the congress people that agreed to leave the CBM out of the legislation.

Or rather.. do both; do anything we can..
Boycoting the products its also a good idea.. a very good one.. if we can get a "anti-patent" conscious citizen the same way we do with the green conscience..

The companies will fall faster, less money to spend in lobbies.. so why not?
Keep calm and...wait until we properly encrypt our services - Microsoft

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/encrypt-web-report-who...
I'm also curious what "GitHub Studios" mentioned in the credits is.
Maintenance Driven Development
It's a great question, and as someone heavily involved in industrial control systems, I ask myself and others that a lot.

The only real reason I've heard comes down to cost and support. It's easy to develop software for Windows, easy to find developers, easy to support the operating system, easy (debatable) to use in an industrial environment. It's a known factor.

Always remember that people on the shop floor (or hydrocarbons refinery equally) aren't interested in maintaining a PC they don't understand, and their management aren't interested in maintaining a well-educated IT department. It's a simple cost/benefit equation, and so far the benefits have been completely ignored.

Likewise, vendors of control systems don't want to put the time and effort in to develop their IDE's, display tools etc for a Unix variant. System integrators (ICS programmers and configurators)... well, we'd be cool with a Linux-based control system, if it worked well.

That's why you see Windows in industrial control environments. Couple this with the extremely conservative nature of industry, and you have a huge, glaring problem. We (ICS engineers) know it's a problem, clients are starting to realise it's a problem, but the wheels move slowly.

At least Stuxnet has made the wider industrial community aware of just how deep the shit is. Now begins the slow process of crawling back out of it.
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Does there exist a tool that will translate mathematical symbols or an entire equation of them into plain English?
> The server stores v = g^x, x = H(s, p)

Where H() is chosen, and only ever performed by, the client. As you suggested, I'd recommend using Scrypt for H. The poor evolution of SRP is tangential to the concepts and protocol
the false assumption is that all effort in the sciences is not similarly squandered. I assure you, most of it is. At least when you're making a better platform for cat pictures, you are presumably giving someone what they want and making their life marignally lighter. So much science is basically just politically connected higher ups getting money thrown at them for pursuits that if you stopped and thought about you would realize they were not.even.worth.it, or, being chased after by the wrong researcher. And in the process, the poor grad student (or postdoc) is having the best years of their life ground down. In 97% of cases, I'd say the cat pictures are of better social benefit.
Keep Calm and Focus On Things Other Than The Quality Of Our Own Products.
Mountain out of a mole hill. These doors simply ensure that people can only exit, and not enter, a secure area.

There are dozens of civil liberty violations to complaint about w/r/t airports and TSA. This isn't one of them.
Sorry I was being facetious. What I meant was if they priced them too close, no one would buy the 16GB and therefore it probably wouldn't be economical to produce the low end tablet.
"I like Mario, and I like Doom. LETS MAKE MARIO DOOM!"
- The mindset I hear from so many game designers nowadays.
>New college graduates in CS that startups love to hire aren't necessarily inexperienced: many people I know who recently graduated from CMU worked at Facebook and/or Google for internships.

Generally, for me to call you 'experienced' you've got to have 5-10 years of experience. Not just a summer internship.

Don't get me wrong, certainly the internships are valuable. A company is almost always going to choose the kid out of college who has worked at google during the summer over the kid out of college who took summers off. You might even play them into counting month-for-month as experience, but having a summer job while in college is vastly different from having half a decade in the trenches.
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Of the many topics that seem to capture the attention most readily, tales of the apocalypse to come are perhaps the most compelling.

For reasons I don't completely fathom, people gravitate toward stories of impending doom much more readily than stories of impending happiness. History shows that 'good' unexpected things happen just as frequently as 'bad' unexpected things happen, and consequently we get a lot of change but not necessarily all bad change or all good change.

Still you can write a blog post that the economy is near the breaking point, our civilization is mere moments away from collapse, or that some calamity is on the verge of wiping us out, and get all the page views you can monetize.
> code interviews by phone
you're joking right? would you speak the code out loud like so:

a equals list open bracket range open bracket ten close bracket close bracket new line

or is it more abstract, like:

create a list from 0 to 9 and store it in a variable called a
I'm confused. I was ready to be upset about this, but assuming they're telling the truth it's just an overly-complex version of a turnstile/one-way revolving door. I've never seen an airport that didn't have some sort of one-way-enforcing mechanism on the terminal-to-baggage-claim passage. Am I missing something? Or is the issue just that it's unnecessarily complex and failure-prone?
I really fail to see how capitalism played any role in the advancement of civic liberties and rights, for instance.

If you really equate socialism with communism you have some political history books to hit.
Of course, I could have just been responding to the language in the headline, but... nah, how likely could that be.

If there's a troll in this particular cave, it's the author of the misleading headline, not me.
As a graduate in artificial intelligence and machine learning I can tell you that machine learning IS hard.

Sure, the basic concepts are easy to understand. Sure, you can hack together a program that performs quite well on some tasks. But there are so much (interesting) problems that are not at all easy to solve or understand.

Like structural engineering it is easy to understand the concepts, and it is even easy to build a pillow fort in the living room, but it is not easy to build an actual bridge that is light, strong, etc.
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MLbase - Distributed Machine Learning Made Easy
Another vote for the HD-380 Pros. They aren't the most comfortable to wear for long sessions for me though but I do like everything else about them.
Xbox: Keep calm while we read your biometrics and detect what emotions you're feeling and use that information to do who knows what!
Elon Musk on Mass, Mars, and MBAs
Another etymotic ER-4S user here. They lasted two years and, when they broke, they were 3 weeks out of warranty. Etymotic replaced them for free - good customer service.
Thoughts on Backbone and Marionette - 1 Year Later
Does the wrapping material dissolve after a while or last for the rest of one's life?
I recently read a book called "Data Smart" [1], where the author does k-means and prediction algorithms literally in Excel. This was quite eye opening as the view to ML is not so enigmatic to enter. However, the translation of your data into a format/model to run ML is another challenge.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Data-Smart-Science-Transform-Informati...
It's not a vanilla stretched key that gets send to the server. It is, in effect, the equivalent of your public key (that just happens to be kept secret by the server so it can use it to prove its identity, as the bearer, to you)
CascadiaJS 2013 talks have been posted online
That's the million dollar question. I could imagine someone is willing to pay by the cycle for distributed computing, like a commercialized version of folding@home or something. The question is who and how do you turn it into a marketplace.
Clementine is great, but I sometimes wish they could implement some scripting/plugin mechanism somehow .
While the LAX shooting was happening I kept wondering why the shooter didn't just go backwards through the exit. There is usually just one (half asleep) agent sitting there. This would certainly prevent this.

TSA quit screening my thoughts!
Likewise in the US --- Obama campaigned, to some extent, on a rollback of this stuff, but he's been gung-ho in favor of it once in office.
>Is there a large contingent of bitter MS employees on HN?

Huh what? What leads you to that conclusion? I'm totally lost here.
Mathematical symbols are overloaded by context, this could be done but you'd still need to tell it whether it was a formula from "machine learning" or "topology".

Then you'd still fail to account for symbols invented/repurposed in a single paper or by a single author.

Basically, the tool itself is a machine learning problem.
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We do use Rserve and AppArmor. Security is something we're working on right now, but we're hiring ;-p
Politicians do look at how people vote. This is why UKIP has such a disproportionate influence on the policy of the current government.

"Alternatives" to democracy aside, you should vote every time, even if it's for a throwaway candidate that you believe in but think will never get in.
"Keep calm and kill this meme"
Who is going to take the blame when people are looked in during a shooting? What if the power goes out and there is panic? I hope there are other fire exits.
SVM prediction is pretty straight-forward, even if you're using a kernel/dual formulation:

"Here are some training points from classes A and B, each with an importance weight. Compute the weighted average of your new point's similarity to all the training exemplars. If the total comes out positive then it's from class A, otherwise it's from class B."

If you tried to explain training from a quadratic programming perspective it would get messy, but if you use stochastic gradient descent then even the training algorithm (for primal linear SVM) is pretty light on math.

Of course, this is only possible after a decade or two of researchers have played with an digested the ideas for you. I think until Léon Bottou's SGD SVM paper, even cursory explanations of SVMs seemed to get derailed into convex duality, quadratic programming solvers, and reproducing kernel hilbert spaces.
Many previous k-means applications are now done using support vector machines. They are a bit more advances, but not a lot.
I signed up, but there's no explanation after signup either. It doesn't seem private since I keep seeing other people's random posts, despite this being MY memory box.
Subverting library calls with LD_PRELOAD