skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook Admits: Expect Organic Reach for Pages to Continue Declining
Can you give us an example of how this is preventable? Repeatedly physical stress wears down the body. This is why you see long time weight lifters and runners with worn out joints in middle age.
Holy shit how did I never know about the ":r" shortcut??? This changes everything.
And many people with degrees are delivering pizzas for a living while trying to pay off their student loans. That is a problem.
So you believe it's completely useless and no value to take 1 common factor, and see what other common factors exist or vary from others who don't have that common factor?
Ask HN: Do you use resume books to hire from colleges?
If yes how do you filter candidates for further interviews ?
There are several statements that TEPCO made before, during, and after the Fukishima incident that were directly refuted by the IAEA report on the disaster. And I certainly agree that it doesn't help the cause of Nuclear Power use when such things occur. There were also false and misleading statements made by the opponents of Fukishima but I hold them to a lower standard than I do TEPCO.

"Ideally, in a crisis, a government would communicate effectively to its people and the global community. Risks associated with the crisis and ongoing efforts to manage the crisis would be clearly articulated. Efforts would be made to provide factual reassurances to the international community. All of this would be done with timely information provided by recognized authorities in a coordinated fashion. Fundamental to such effective crisis communication would be adherence to a sound, well-researched accident management plan predicated on coordination and support among government entities and the utility (or utilities) involved and on trust among all parties, including the national and global communities.

None of the above happened with the Fukushima Daiichi accident. The reasons why are not entirely clear. Obviously, the Japanese government; safety authorities; and TEPCO, the nuclear utility, had a stake in the conduct and outcome of the accident, and they, for their own benefit at least, needed to provide reliable, timely information to their stakeholders and constituents. In addition, many other organizations across the globe had a stake in the conduct and outcome of the accident, and they too needed solid information to be provided to them so that they themselves could provide meaningful information to their decision makers, stakeholders, and constituents. What was actually executed was unfortunate for all parties involved."

From -- http://fukushima.ans.org/report/societal-context
As opposed to coal, oil and gas fracking?

Tu quoque fallacy.

No, I didn't say that these weren't.

If you want to know, rather than project on me, my beliefs, you could ask me. As it happens, my view is that humans, as with other life forms, exist to perform the function of exploiting low-entropy energy stocks and flows. The consequences of that ... tend not to be something we consider in advance. We've benefited hugely from fossil fuels, but have put ourselves well beyond the point of sustainability. Even with, say, a practically unlimited energy supply we'd bump into the problems of heat dissipation within a few centuries to millennia at present growth rates. We've simply got to stop growing.

As to what's sustainable? Probably on the order of 500m - 2 billion souls if you want any sort of industrialized lifestyle. Hell, even if not, not much more than that.

The next century or two will be very interesting times. Starting likely within a decade or two, possibly less.
>Show HN: HNaaS (Hacker News As a Service... in ~100 lines of js)
If flying is a problem, you may drive to Canada or Mexico. Mexico has a pretty good private system that is used by the local middle and upper classes. This is from my hometown...http://www.chihuahuamedicalcity.com/
I think this is true for anything we put out there for the world to see, whether it be software, prose, music, video, photos, etc.

I have had a hard time dealing with some of the feedback I've gotten with the things I've written, whether it be on HN or on my blog, but I'm slowly learning to be okay with the fact that no, not everyone will love what I have to say :P
I don't know if that site has now been opted-out of whatever Feedly is doing, or something else - but the example link given goes straight to the-digital-reader.com for me...
Without being able to see what's going on, I'd have to guess that Feedly is wrapping the content, putting their own header and subscribe button on the top and using an iframe to pull in the original content - in which case they're not hosting it on their website, as alleged.
How Lady Gaga Took artpops sales
Four years ago Android was well behind iOS, RIM was still around, OEMs were still considering having their own smartphone OSes, and Google had minimal leverage. There's a good chance the OEMs would have refused to go with an Android with a tighter licensing model.
I realized how little I knew about sh earlier this year. It struck me that it has by far the highest ratio of "how often I use it" to "how much I know about it"

So (to learn more about it) I implemented a large fraction of the POSIX shell specification. It was rather fun, and fairly easy in any high level language that can call setenv() and fork() and I learned all sorts of interesting things. Example:

FOO=bar cd .; echo $FOO

will output "bar" in a POSIX compatible shell but not bash. Also, this is completely valid:

for if in case; do echo {; done

since reserved words are only reserved when in the command position.
The last graph database that I used for a large project was Virtuoso, which wasn't mentioned in the slides. It's worth a look:

http://www.openlinksw.com/dataspace/doc/dav/wiki/Main/
I clicked it probably only 10 minutes ago and it showed the screenshot listed. They seem to have just disabled it.
Except they're not shitty jobs. You start low, yes, but you work your way up. Most of them are union. Soon you're making $25+ / hour with benefits and overtime. Yes, God forbid, what a horrible life.
No Man’s Sky Is A Huge Procedurally Generated Sci-Fi Exploration Sim
Donald Knuth lecture - "Trees and chordal graphs" (2012)
I guess that's fairly standard
There is nothing in the physics of building nuclear reactors that prevents us from building a reactor that does not leave behind any waste

First I've every heard of any such proposal. How exactly would you go about stabilizing every last decay product to the level of background radiation?

Your statement is equivalent to noting that there's nothing in chemistry which prevents us from building coal-fired power plants which capture all CO2 and toxic pollutants (mercury, sulfur, particulates, NOX,, radioactives, etc.) as well. However it's economically and thermodynamically infeasible. Not that emissions haven't been drastically reduced from early designs, but it turns out that that's still not good enough.
It looks like Feedly killed the feature. It's not working on links to any other website either.
In case someone else wants to find github user ids, you can use this webapp: http://caius.github.io/github_id/
Not sure how I feel about this thread.

A hundred folks who probably haven't investigated how to effectively teach adults, try to explain monads in the space of 3 tweets (probably not the best medium).

And then we wonder why folks steer towards less abstract tools. For every person who visits which gains monad satori, how many have we turned away, never to return?
Not many people can use 5GB of data in a month. I'd say "normal" use is nowhere near 5GB.
My Airbnb story - How to ignore your degree and not know any better
JB wasn't responding, MR had broken up her questions to reply to parts of them.
Open Source Laser Projection Keyboard
The Louis CK video isn't time tagged....

Woops. I mean: The Louis CK video does not have a single example of the author's thesis in it!
That's all fine and dandy if you think the BLS CPI isn't gamed. I happen to think that they change it enough that it's nearly meaningless to talk about "growth" for the last 20-40 years. When the inflation rate and the growth rate as as close to one another as they are all you need is a small error calculating CPI and suddenly mild increase turns into mild decrease.
> spread / caused by

That seems like a giant conflation to me.
Anybody notice that the Oracle representative who signed that announcement was a young Mark Benioff?
The biggest problem with that is most carriers don't give you a discount if you own your own phone. So you can either pay $50 a month and get your handset for $200 or pay $50 and get your handset for $600. Which one makes more financial sense?
Designing for the extremes (or why your average user doesn’t exist)
Depends on what content we are talking about - RSS content is viewed within the reader, so it's fine for a RSS reader to copy content and provide it to the user. The issue here isn't copying content, it's that Feedly is changing the URL from the publishers site to their own site - which is distinctly not cool.

Note - I love feedly, and, with the exception of HN, NYT, xkcd and twitter, it's where I consume all my content from the web. This was just a misstep, and I'm sure they'll do the right thing.
This story struck me the same way with the free coach and presidential connection all made by friends of his.
SET : Group
MAN : Lie Group
TOP : Topological Group
GRP : Objects

The last line should really be "GRP : Abelian Group"

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckmann-Hilton_argument
This looks great! Is there an email list or any other way I can get notifications as new material is added/revised?
Depending on what flashlight app that is, crashing might actually improve it.
http://m.fastcompany.com/3023042/fast-feed/this-popular-flas...
Go pay-only if freemium costs are too high.
For Github you have to enter the username. For Stackoverflow you have to enter the numerical userid which can be found in the url of your profile page.

The Github API rate limiting made it impossible to keep up with the user/repository growth so I stopped in March 2012. Only users that were public at the date of the crawl, and are part of the largest connected component of the network will be shown.

I am the designer of Ekisto. Questions and feedback are welcome :)
This is neat! Fantastic, even! The math is less theoretical and more systems oriented. The choice of python, modern psuedocode that runs, is great, too. The naive Bayes chapter is useful, too. One might want to look at Udacity's AI course for more info about this topic or as a supplement. Bayes seems to be one of those things where the math is short and difficult; I've been reading about it recently, myself. Just practice, I guess. To engineer stuff with it you may not need to understand it perfectly (until you get bugs ;). Anyways, it's still good. It's a hard topic and Bayes law/tricks appear in AI often so it's worth knowing more about.

Thank you, Ron Zacharski!

(disclaimer: you do not want my opinion regarding any topic).
I'd favor video lectures. What you're proposing is pretty ambitious for teen learners, so (posted) videos will allow them to rewatch them, pause to take notes, etc. Good luck!
As a subscriber, and avid fan of feedly, the only thing that I see missing from the feedly reeder is the ability to consume content offline, particularly when I'm mobile, so I'm happy you are working on helping users consume content faster on mobile devices.

If I read the OP article correctly, the major issue is that feedly is now changing the link for an article away from the publishers site, and sending it back to feedly. That's not cool, and I'm hoping you revert back to the original behavior of the sharing feature, and send back the publishers link, not a "feedly link".

I love your product - use it first thing when I wake up, over breakfast, dinner, and just before I go to sleep. Will probably pay you any reasonable subscription fee you ask for. I realize you have to experiment, try new things, or stagnate - this was probably an experiment that went awry. Yes, it will drive more customers to feedly, and, in the short term, show you really good uptake - but, in the long term, it will just attract bad karma from publishers - Your entire value proposition comes from the repackaging of other people's content, that they've allowed you to distribute free of charge, so, at the very least, you can hand out the original link.
I think this is a parody/satire of bitcoin... hard for me to tell if there's anything of value here. They've set up their own proof-of-work currency with their own website and posted source code for mining daemons, wallets, etc.
On Emerging & Controversial Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Trade Treaty
There's a lot of interesting takeaways in this interview, at least for me. Some of them include:

- They are a very distributed team and that seems to work well for them. Interesting to see at a large company like Walmart.

- The node.js framework they use (I believe they are the original authors as well) is http://spumko.github.io/

- There's a ton of upside in the network centric nature of node.js for them.

- They sound like a very competent, small team, so some of the successes can also be attributed to that, rather than necessarily be all thanks to node.js (despite my own bias)

- It's great to have such high traffic installation of node.js out there, since it brings up the production quality of node.js
The Rules of Minimalist Programming
Is nexus devices available in every country? Can you walk to a store and buy a nexus phone? Do Nexus phones have SD card (very important for me)?
If we want sustainable nuclear energy, the only solution would be fast reactor that can burn nuclear waste. Politically, it is near impossible to find a place to build nuclear waste storage. Nobody know how safe is such a storage. If we can burn nuclear waste, we will have sufficient clean energy for several hundred years. By then, nuclear fusion will be harnessed, and we will have enough energy for next many million years, and they have much less environmental impact.
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If the weight is positive that feature helps the neuron fire and vice versa.

If the neural network is processing images, the weights form and image too. You can tell what a lot of the units are "looking" for by plotting the weights as an image.

page 14, Figure 3:
jmlr.org/papers/volume11/erhan10a/erhan10a.pdf

You can clearly see various digit deformations in the weights. (white is positive weight, black is negative weight typically)

Lots of papers do this, this one was happened to be the first one I managed to google.

So the first layer is normally readable because weights are in the same space as the input feature space. The second layer is normally a jumble as its randomly initialised before convergence. But in the paper's example you can imagine the 2nd layer output unit representing a final classification of a 4, is probably summing up all the 4 deformation detectors in layer 1 and negatively summing up everything else.
To me this was a huge WTF? If they went to the trouble of making the back easily detachable, why did they deliberately do that? Almost feels like they're trolling the user: "Ha! Fooled you!"

Even more so when they officially refer to it as the "battery door" in the documentation!
https://motorola-global-en-roe.custhelp.com/app/answers/prod...
Mike Rowe, advocate for the human machine.

"60hrs? Lazy bums! A good hard working man only need 4hrs of sleep a night, and can put in 16hr days, six days a week. Just like the Good Book says." --Future Middle Class Worker
The Manhunt for Christopher Dorner
I know beans about this, but am intrigued and read as much as I can understand. For whatever reason this reminded me of the bitcoin protocol where they take measures to ensure a coin isn't duplicated in the system. From a personal perspective, I don't like the idea of more than one of me and would take steps to stop duplication of me if I could...
You can't dig below the reactor, because there is a high chance of the whole structure collapsing and getting in contact with water.

However, I share your opinion on dealing with radioactive waste. It's not a technical challenge, but a political one.
Difficult to take it seriously. But a good parody, if any, I must say.
Robin Milner of ML is the most prominent example I know. One of the two Turing award winners without a Ph. D (the other being Floyd.) He introduced polymorphic type inference to a full-blown programming language - this is the most jaw-dropping language feature I have seen to date:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Milner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_inference
Speaking of crappy politics in Japan:

" Japan’s finance minister on Thursday publicly retracted comments he made this week that appeared to call on Japan’s current conservative government to emulate Hitler’s takeover of prewar Germany. " [1]

1.http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/world/asia/japans-finance-...
How is it a good parody? It's just bitcoin + a 4chan meme.
Which (when true--lifting heavy things on a daily basis is eventually deleterious even when one uses proper technique) takes time, which reduces productivity, which isn't acceptable because money.

It is economically smart to burn out people doing "hard work". And it's not like we're going to do much to help them.
How hard was it for Moxie and friends to get clear of their watchlist status?
Thank you! Silly me only read the instructions for the stackoverflow data and assumed it was the same. This does explain why I couldn't find myself. I had assumed I jsut wasn't important enough to show up.
It's definitely a paradoy. Probably not directly of Bitcoin, but of all the Bitcoin clones that have been launched in this way. Setting up your own currency/website/wallets/mining daemons/etc is actually incredibly easy now and has been done several hundred times. Usually they add no value over Bitcoin and are just used as a pump and dump scheme.
Clickable: http://ekisto.sq.ro/
I haven't been following the news on this particular story (shame on me). Is there something that can put this story into context for me? It was fascinating to read but hard to understand without knowing the story.
Well listing IQ requirements is not allowed. So presumably restricting this falls under the same category?
Of course it is a parody. And have to say, a great one.

It's target at ($someRandomWord)Coin coins which emerged recently. Most of them guarantee to be "gpu, asic and fpga resistant" and what not.

After BTC got mainstream, there is a number of people now mining some random coins (which are not listed in any cryptocurrencies exchanges) in hope that one day they will be worth $1000/coin. much dreams. so rich. much fast money.
What you call "crippled appliances", other people call "things people want."
it is hardly unsolicited. If you don't want people to reply to your comment why are you posting?
Install Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL and phpMyAdmin on OS X Mavericks using Homebrew
Yes, it's easier to explain a specific concrete example rather than an abstract concept. You don't study literature learning about iambic pentameter and then ending your studies; you also read Shakespeare to see how it's applied in real life. But, you also don't learn to read by starting with Shakespeare. You start with something simpler. The IO abstraction is deep and the implementation messy. So start with State or Writer or something, and go from there.
The irony of capitalism working better in China the the US is strong. What failed in the US? Under or over regulated? Or is it the lobbyists thing?
There are a large number of people who have terrible fitness and are 50+ pounds overweight. Many people smoke. I don't have numbers on the correlation with socioeconomic status, but I'm pretty sure that worse fitness and smoking correlate with lower status to a degree (can't recall the news articles on such things, I've read occasional notes on such things). That's borne out by my personal observation.

So basically, if you take the intersection of "bad habits" and "physical work", you wind up with "worse body" as a result. On the other hand, careful maintenance of your body & health habits allows you to do better than your unmaintained colleague. It's hard, but doable.
I don't use shared web hosting. Thankfully.
> I just think it's somewhat arbitrary to say that software is nothing but information.

As opposed to what? It is nothing but information. It has no corporeal existence. Even if you put it on a disk or a piece of paper, encoding information into a medium doesn't make it not information (and shouldn't cause it to become patentable when it wouldn't be otherwise) any more than it would for other information like a song or a photograph or English text.

> Sure, you could work out software problems on a chalkboard, but I would say doing so is different than creating a piece of software that does the same thing... in the same way that a story that is told verbally from one person to another (and not stored say, via video) is different than a book.

OK, so one exists in your mind and the other exists on paper. You can draw that distinction if you like, but what is it supposed to change? You can't patent the verbally passed down story or the book. And I think the attempt really exposes the charade of software patent claims that attempt to avoid unpatentability by claiming the physical encoding: Can you really patent the information in a book just by claiming it as a physical object encoded with that information? It seems ridiculous. But that's apparently how they justify software patents.
Notice how the questioner seems to have someone else's actions to blame for the problems. This is often a narrow way of thinking and can be a deception in ones own view of the world. What I like most about Mike's responses are that he doesn't blame anyone, per se, but understands that these problems are best described by analyzing the current environment in which they become evident.

Who could blame colleges for raising tuition when the current funding environment begged them too? Who could blame people for not wanting to work shit jobs in the heat but instead go to college and work at jobs that require instead a skilled intellect, pay more, and are more comfortable? And why shouldn't Mike talk about people who work hard, dirty jobs when a show about them made him famous?
Churn and burn joints trying to crank maximum effort at maximum speed do exist in the trades. My observation is that as people acquire skill, they try to avoid avoid such companies. It's simply bad quality output, bad morale, and lousy work conditions.
Ray Kurzweil and the Brains Behind the Google Brain
Sorry, I think the term I was looking for was unsolicited criticism, not unsolicited comments.
Working out and getting proper sleep.

I am a coder and I feel like I need to use a lot of my brain during my working hours. Working out (could be lifting weights or even just running or crossfit stuff) helps shift the focus from concentrating on algorithms and design and to just getting from point A to point B or lifting x weight. I know many friends who tried working out and couldnt get themselves to commit. The difference for me is that, I am motivated by an athletic goal that I set for myself and hence work towards it.

Sleep is probably the most important "habit" you should have. I personally find that after a good night of sleep, I am extra productive during the day and get more tasks done. I can think clearer and able to code better/faster. While number of hours of sleep is important...so is quality! An example of quality sleep is sleep where you dont wake up in the middle of the night to hit the washroom or out of panic that you missed something in your code(I used to have many of these haha).
Forget it, he's rolling.