skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is any of the conference videos available online, or is that only for paying customers?
Isotope v2 Launches in Beta
How a set of guitar strings changed Rock 'n Roll
If he had a choice, I think he would've chosen another country. But as it is - better free in Russia than incarcerated in the US (or any other country).
>Of course, the more liberal/democratic the country, and the more recent, the more weak/stetched the case is.

Not really, quite the opposite. The most "liberal" countries are the worst perpetrators of such things, if we're talking about Western democracies. They usually do it outside their territorry to assert influence on countries and place allies in power, grab resources, prevent unfavorable regime change etc.

(Nothing to do with establishing democracy either: they are impartial to that, and have worked with regimes such as the apartheid in S.A., Pinochet etc, including of course people like Noriega, Saddam and Ossama, which they later broke ties with when their foreign interests didn't ally as well, but who were just as scum when they were pals).
Also, electric cars can be powered by coal, nuclear, hydroelectric, etc... or whatever the grid is powered by.
Google has won the search indexing game. Who will win the next level when robots understands the content?
Working with the congress that has the lowest approval rating in history, and the congress that has passed the least amount of bills will do that to you.
Wife dropped her phone. We found it. $350 value this past month.
BBC Panorama investigates Amazon working conditions: The Truth Behind the Click
Hershiser reportedly to join Dodgers' TV crew
I don't think transit is an apt analog to data provider services. I also don't think transit is regulated to the degree that you would like to regulate data.

We don't have omnibus shipping/commuting/travelling utilities, and many of the constituent parts of this hypothetical megautility (USPS, AmTrak) are money pits that fail to adapt to the changing needs of the population. In other words, I don't think transit is a commodity either.

Electricity, water, garbage, sewage... those are commodity utilities, for the most part. I would also mention phones, but landlines are quickly becoming redundant, which underscores my point if anything.
Balaji Srinivasan Steps Up As a16z’s Newest GP
It's not "corruption in government" (e.g some rotten apples). It's what people used to call the "military industrial complex" which operates the government too. Those are not the works of some lunnies -- those are examples of official policy, discussed, planned, and executed long term for decades...
I think he was raging at the cyclists that don't obey the rules of the road, not cyclists in general. I know I can separate the two out in my mind.

For example: when a bike is curb-hopping and ignoring stoplights, I become frustrated at their wanton disregard for their own safety. When I see a bike riding on the side of the road in their lane, focused and stopping at lights, I don't complain and comfortably wait until there's space for me to pass him with a wide berth and then do so.

It's the same with pedestrians. I don't get upset if they're walking on the road. I get angry because I'm scared for their safety when they think it's okay to j-walk across 6 lanes of traffic in rush hour at night while wearing black because "I'm a pedestrian and if you hit me, I'll sue." No. If I hit you, you'll probably die because I'm a ton and a half of metal and you're 150 pounds of water and carbon.

Cars are big and they are very dangerous. I may love my car and I love driving it. I love biking and I love walking as well and in some places in the world, we've designed it so that all of these activities can be done in close proximity with relatively high safety and everyone needs to do their part to keep it a safe environment. When cars don't respect bikers, people get hurt. When bikes don't respect cars and predictability (by staying in their lane, going WITH traffic, stopping at traffic lights, or staying on the sidewalk, etc), people get hurt. When pedestrians think they're God and don't pay attention to cars OR bikes, people get hurt.

I have no idea what happened in this single instance that the article itself is talking about; but frustration with a certain kind of biker does not automatically result in believing "it's okay to not treat cyclists who are killed in traffic accidents as human beings".
I agree. How many of those making laws right now know anything about technology let alone how to code? So why does Joe Public specifically need to know how to code? It would be much better to teach people math and proper grammar, that would get them much further in life.
The Wild West of Ambulance Charges
Not even civilians face criminal charges for running over cyclists.
A bit of background - "geofencing" has been around in iOS as part of Core Location since version 4.0. Given latitude and longitude, you can pass in a radius and create a circular region (or specify a set and create a rectangle), with callbacks that trigger when the user enters or exits that region.

One of the main points in the article is that it's particularly battery intensive to update the user's location, so there's a trade off between accuracy and battery usage. To try and solve this, Apple created a hierarchy of accuracy constants, which range from "best" to three kilometers, but it's only somewhat effective at preserving battery life.

The other strategy is monitoring "significant changes" in location, based on cell towers/wifi signals. For this, Apple provides a method called "startMonitoringSignificantLocationChanges" if your app needs to constantly monitor the user's location.

From what the article said, Foursquare is trying to improve these methods by creating probabilistic maps so they can draw better regions for each user, and therefore check for location updates less frequently. I'm assuming there are similar methods for Android.

Here's the documentation for one of the main classes in Core Location called CLRegion:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/CoreLo...
"We were foolish to think Google was the entity that would become Skynet, when it was Facebook all along." - John Connor
I have to say, coding is definitely not for everyone. A rather specific kind of person (such as myself) is drawn to program computers. While I enjoy it most people I know would not.
Certainly having the option to take Intro and AP CS courses (both of these are available at most public high schools) is great, but "calling on all Americans," to code seems a little excessive.
I'm sure that's true, but what alternative are you suggesting?
Parallel Processing with core.async
Obviously. Thanks for pointing it out.
> Why try to force equality? Am I missing something?

OP here. Good question. A long time ago I thought in a very similar way because I was strongly opposed to discrimination in all forms and because I think that there is often a backlash effect against affirmative action.

Between then and writing the linked article, what changed? Well 2 things:

1. Increasingly studies have shown that diversity or equality in itself contributes to the performance of a team more than just having lots of GOOD homogeneous employees - as per Natch's excellent comment (by GOOD here I'm using the study's metric of IQ.
Link: http://hbr.org/2011/06/defend-your-research-what-makes-a-tea...

2. I have come to the realisation that some of these societal norms have a far more insidious effect of us than we often realise or accept. That is to say we will often judge "GOOD" through our own very polarised perception. Thus women are often told that if they want to succeed in business they are told that they need to act "more like men", just like how black people were (are?) told that they need to act "more like white people". The dominant culture creates the societal norms, but this has a negative impact on my first point because we lose the balance and discourse that comes from having a diverse organisation, so we miss an opportunity to improve the performance of our teams. To combat this there needs to be an artificial effort to challenge dominant norms and see greater diversity.

Finally notice how my article refers to gender equality, not Women's Rights. I believe the case for gender equality is as equally valid in Tech as it is in Consulting and HR.
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This could be America's great leap forward into the 21st century.
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.

False flags are symptoms of a deeper problem. The root problem is that we want war to be justified, because we want to be the good guys. War is unjustified, period, even when you think you are doing the right thing -- it is this that a lot of people have moral problems with Ender's Game.
Liberals like to hate on Bloomberg because they don't feel he has been effective at helping the poor in the city. What they fail to see is that he's done something more important: keeping the rich from leaving, so they stay there and be taxed to provide the money that bankrolls NYC's safety net. The alternative is to become Detroit, where the rich people have left and there is no more money to pay for social services.

The fact is that NYC will always have a ton of poor people. It's almost guaranteed by virtue of its providing subsidized housing, etc, that all the poor from the surrounding areas will migrate to NYC.
ygra: that's because IE implements that hack into it's core.
Le jeu The Last of Us est en route pour le cinéma? 
Le jeu The Last of Us de Naughty Dog a des chances de faire l’objet d’un film. La rumeur survient après que Sony ait enregistré deux noms de domaines.
Is the graph just the number of internet IPO's in a particular year? Because in the 90's it was much more common to have a smaller-value IPO than it is today.

[edit] The other thing is that a bubble doesn't need to be built on people knowingly selling worthless products. The things people are selling can actually have value, just usually not intrinsic value.
The legality of that underscore in your username hasn't been explicitly confirmed either, and I say it looks too much like a weapon - so as far as I am concerned, you are a mass transporter of weapons.

Which is nonsense, of course. Things are legal unless explicitly made illegal.
I actually made a Standalone version of my own. All it needs is a composite video signal, so you can use it with any type of video source.
These guys wasted a lot of money that could have been used to fund 100s of other companies. This should make the headlines as a case study, what went wrong and how to avoid it in the future. When a high profile well-funded startup goes south, there is a lesson to be learned for many people.
> "...absolute hell for anyone without an advanced mathematics background"

I'm a good programmer in a well-paid job. I've never studied mathematics formally. I've picked up a little knowledge of it from books, but I've almost never needed it for any programming I've done. Your statement seems crazy to me.

Of course, if you're reading fucking Knuth then yeah, there's some mathematics involved, but you seem to be arguing that you can't write an app without it, which is simply false. I've written apps. No maths beyond basic arithmetic.
Not too much - close to minimum actually. I'm alone though, so that's less of a problem.
>A bubble can occur when speculators invest with the belief that a sucker will come along after them to buy the stock at a higher price.

This seems more of a requirement for ANY market - not just a bubble. Aside from fixed-income or high-dividend paying stocks, When would an investor ever buy a stock without the belief that someone else will eventually buy it for a higher price?
Hey look, a recent example of a bicyclist not only injuring but killing a pedestrian because they chose not to obey the law.

http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/08/15/107079/Chris-Bucche...

I hate the pedantic bullshit of elitist cyclists like yourself
I have the DIY version [0] of this on the back of my monitor right now, and the effect is quite nice, especially when playing games. The total DIY cost was $30 in components, namely a Teensy 2.0 microcontroller and a WS2801 RGB pixel string from eBay (unfortunately, I don't have nice mounting hardware so they're just stuck in cardboard strips).

[0] http://learn.adafruit.com/adalight-diy-ambient-tv-lighting/o...
Ignoring your unfair generalisations about Accenture employees, I made no assertion that Accenture as a whole was a good way to run a business.

In the 3 years I worked there, there was a lot that I disagreed with, but one thing they did well was their effort to drive towards greater gender equality.

[edit typo]
Also, conspiracy theorists. They seem to have a blast when anything related to Obama is mentioned.
Clever. I see your point making sense, when you simplify this to just a pre-processing phase. But as you said, it just delays rendering needlessly. What Browser Vendors really want are online one-pass algorithms.
there are plenty of data parallel problems, but general computer usage isn't really one of them.

another issue - say the Mill is released. when the next version comes, with different latencies, belt lengths, etc, what does that mean for the binaries?

i'm not exactly a fan of x86, but OoO scheduling has enabled the exploitation of instruction level parallelism without requiring changes to codes, and similarly, enables other vendors to implement the ISA in various fashions. i.e an in-order lower power single core CPU with 512k cache can execute the same instructions that a big OoO quad-core CPU with 20MB cache can.

as i said, i'm sceptical.. but i hope my scepticism is misplaced. and the only way we'll find out is when we have a decent implementation of a Mill to benchmark with.
>Snowden's supporters certainly wax eloquently when they condemn the history of the Western world. Where are all the pithy insights regarding the history of human rights and liberty in Russia, and that of the KGB?

Well, perhaps they'd rather hear about a worldwide operation run by the number one superpower (the US), and with tons of also complicit powerful allies all around the world, than about what some second rate, provincial ex-power does at 1/10 the scale.
This is nonsense.

Refrigerators are easily found used for under $100 (just like the flat screen TV from someone else's example here).

Eating out, at a minimum, is 2-3x ingredient cost.

Besides, you're reading way more into my comment than was intended. Its substance was:

"To save money, don't eat out."

You're projecting.
100 Acoustic Guitar Riffs in one take
There are usually alternatives, but they're sometimes hard to find. MonkeyBrains in SF is top-notch.
http://www.wispa.org/find-a-wisp
I think jwr is attempting to wind-up Charlie, given his notoriety for tweeting his daily word counts and the degree of trauma that this has caused him; often doused by evening libations in a local hostelry.

None of which is an excuse for his sluggishness.
Here are actual activities people can do online to get exposed to coding: http://csedweek.org/learn

including an activity for people with no programming experience: http://learn.code.org/hoc/1
One might even suggest that the title is at once playful, satirical, arresting, and a little ironic.
What do you think is a good minimum threshold for number of tweets for this to be interesting?
R-Core dev switches to Julia, and the pain of CRAN
Oh man that guy was my machine learning professor at NYU :) Sparked my interested in Lisp, but now I seem to recall that he wrote all the problem examples in his own language.... Lush. Even so, all my knowledge of Lisp syntax and neural nets stems from his bad-ass lectures
Unit tests as penance
Sometime in the last few years, we reached a point where there are, by weight, more ships in the ocean than fish

Nice link. This made me sad :'(
The "starred by people I follow" feature is exactly what I have been waiting for.
There's other versions [0] of the same idea that uses a Raspberry Pi and a USB video grabber to do the same thing with any HDMI signal (you only need an HDMI splitter and an HDMI to composite adapter).

[0] https://github.com/gkaindl/ambi-tv
If as it seems the cyclist was rear-ended, it isn't actually relevant whether he was in the bike lane or not. Rear-ending is illegal and dangerous, period. Speed awareness is mainly important at intersections. Away from intersections, all vehicle operators are responsible for maintaining a safe distance between their vehicle and those ahead.

My original point was just that the automobile was moving quite fast. Thanks for seeking clarity!
This is all about finding patterns for businesses to better target and sell to people. Valuable information is likely NOT going to reach or become usable by say government organizations or other organizations that are trying to problem solve big problems - at least not be affordable, because they'll be competing with for-profit businesses for bidding on access those users.
Finally, a pretty replacement for Ruby's RI docs: Omniref
This post is so bad, https://github.com/will3942/tanalyzer/blob/master/tanalyzer....
is the worst class I ever seen in my life, it is a shame for a guy who calls himself a "hacker"
How do we really know anything about this case? It is heart-wrenching no doubt, and I am sympathetic. But it's a piece of literature (albeit non-fiction), but it's not journalism. Facts are cast in a particular light to make the author's point. Statistics are provided without context; everything is provided without context, except where the author pulls back the curtain and lets us see what he or she wants us to see.

It's an effective piece -- it's able to wring fresh emotion from people who've been hearing similar stories for decades and have become desensitized. But it's not a policy discussion, and it's not even a good starting point for a policy decision.
Singapore has the most expensive beer in Asia
Are you implying that some readers of Hacker News might not know much about the particular problems that homeless individuals are trying to solve, and their simplistic prescriptions that don't take into account actual lived circumstances might not be a cure-all for everyone on the planet?

Blasphemy!
Well, if they were to learn one thing is that they would do rather well.

Stalin died in his bed of old age. Mao. Tons of western equivalents.

It's mostly good guys that get fucked over -- that's what history teaches us.
Maybe if everyone knew how to code, we could fix healthcare.gov.
Maybe you would assume that, but from experience much of the vitriol would be focused on the fact that a cop probably broke the law and in the process killed someone. The life of a cyclist is no more precious than the life of anyone else.
I don't love the name but names are rarely make-or-break and the product is barely even live so "lack of success" is wholly inappropriate at this point. The company has had success in raising money and hiring top tier talent which is most important at this stage.
interesting product, but really weird/poor choice in demo content at 22s in their video...

The YT link they have on their marketing page (above the video) is even set up to take you to the creepy part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UP7SmUqkxc#t=22
... how does that work? Was it a part of your lease agreement, or a mandatory part of your ISP's offer?
This may have no basis in reality, but I get a sense that there's an inverse relationship between the amount of hype a "stealth" startup gets and how successful it is. Or at the very least, if not directly inverse, the hype factor does little to actually promote success.

Color, Snocap, Asana, Cuil, etc. I feel like the more hype, the more stealthy, the worse they end up doing.

But I know this can't be right (or rather I hope not). Anyone have some good counter-examples (Hype => Win)?
I agree with everything but the 'slow down' part. There are plenty of locations where it is safe to drive at a high rate of speed, especially during the day time; however, slow down if it's unsafe to pass? Absolutely. Slow down if you're in a residential zone or location where it's probable to see pedestrians on or near the road? Absolutely. Slow down if conditions make it unsafe to drive at a higher rate of speed (rain, snow)? Absolutely.
No, because a person dying in a car accident isn't even news.
Rating Congress by "number of bills passed" is as smart as rating coders based on number of lines of code written.
This "learn to code" meme is getting tiresome.

Why not focus on the more critical skills in life that are more applicable to most people. Here's a big one:

1. Learn to communicate. Improve your writing and speaking skills.
FTC finds flashlight app for Android illegally sharing data with advertisers
Call me a cynic, but I'm really indifferent to this entire "everyone should learn to code" nonsense. There are so many mistruths that Code.org is spreading that it's shameful.
Let's get down to the biggest one: that with a "little bit of math and science" you can build the latest video game or write an app.

Buzzer #1. It doesn't take just "a little bit" of math. It takes a TON of math. Reading CLRS took me a month to master, and that was already with a background in elementary calculus using the infinitesimal approach. I'm reading Knuth's seminal "Art of," and I can immediately say that it would be absolute hell for anyone without an advanced mathematics background.

That brings us to mistruth #2: that somehow, learning to "code" will help younger people build tomorrow. That's utter bull. Learning to code will only lead to worse code: uglier, crappier, and less elegant and efficient code. Github will become a junk pile. Instead of coding, we need to teach students the programming part of computer science. Get a copy of Algorithms into every CS course and get rid of all of the silicon in the classroom. Trust me, people will learn much more meaningful things about problem-solving that way. Isn't that what writing code really sets out to do? You know, SOLVE PROBLEMS? Just code is NOT going to help that at ALL.

Then there's problem number 3, and probably the largest one: it assumes that programming is something we need EVERYONE to learn. EVERYONE. Yes, that is Code.org's goal. EVERYONE SHOULD CODE.

You know what, fuck it and let's teach EVERYONE TO BE A MECHANIC. Right? Why the hell not? It's like programming. Only that nobody in their right minds would tell people to make mechanical engineering a part of the curriculum. But people insist on doing the same for CS, as if it's any different.

I could go on about this for days. But forget it, Atwood's explained it far better than I ever could.

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originally posted in the original discussion located here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6873136
Volkswagen Kombi: The end of the road (1950-2013)
Soon to be followed by shale fracking for water.
Steve Job's Stanford Commencement Speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
If you think the death penalty is justified for violating traffic law, then I'm sure you won't mind if I ram a Ford Taurus off a bridge for speeding.
>It's gone well for him so far. He's assassinated dissidents, whistleblowers, and reporters before, with seeming impunity. He colludes with other tyrants who are butchers and oppressors and is lauded for it.

So, he pretty much did what most western powers do with umpunity since age immemorial? Minus threatening, controlling and/or invading non-neighborhouding countries?
Sort of, but if you think about some of the businesses that use this, three or four swipes can mean longer lines at peak times, which can make some people decide to go somewhere else.

So they may not successfully collect money from people at the end of the line.
The comment was (most probably) added after the HN comment (check the history).
A new consensus call on ALPN vs NPN in TLS
Do you really need to know some science to code ? From my perspective it is not required.
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I took LeCun's class in undergrad at NYU and it definitely wasn't easy. He's a fantastic speaker, definitely made it more enjoyable.