skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good one, looks neat, and congratulations on your first open source project!

Can there be addition where there is one more mode where there is a small icon lets say 'i' at the a specific location (left top, right top, left bottom, right bottom) which when clicked/hovered on brings up the caption or a detailed write up panel?
Second year University of Hull compsci student here, would just like to thank you for this - it's so much more efficient to use than the official intranet version.
I know this is pernicious, but I'd suggest that disappeared isn't a verb
Some research needs to be done on how distracting Glass is to drivers. I'm particularly interested in comparing the distraction caused by using Glass to navigate compared to the typical built-in navigation systems that ship with most cars today.

I suspect that Glass would beat out the Garmins and Tomtoms.
That's right! 1 - 1 + 1 -1 ... = nothing!!!
Unintended consequence: my confidence in string theory just plummeted.
You should watch the linked video. The logic isn't that hard to follow, and finds real-world application all over the place.
This is why bad laws must be fought hard before they get passed. Because after, people forget about them, since "it doesn't directly apply to them", and they remain as laws for decades, ruining many people's lives.

I also find the American system of adding up charges incredibly stupid, and extremely easy to abuse by prosecutors, way more than any positives it may have (although I think he has none, especially with such high minimum sentences for most crimes).
The Ramanujan Summation is not a sum in the traditional sense. So the title is missing a script R after the -1/12.
I wouldn't set it a fixed amount to the giving but I would hope to encourage it. I make giving a routine part of my life and I would encourage it in my children too.

Responsibly managing your money in my world means: spending it wisely, saving and investing it wisely, and giving it wisely.
For example, when United States Army veteran Ronald Thompson fired two warning shots into the ground, he intended to scare off his friend’s grandson, who was attempting to enter her home after she denied him entry. He never imagined his actions would leave him facing decades in prison.

So, `stand your ground` only kicks in when the purported assailant is shot dead? Words fail.
Bridge: A faster way to integrate with APIs [video]
Proposed Q&A site for beer aficionados and collectors
@followsteph: a ton of respect for what you've done.

How do you acquire most of your customers?

What channels have been most effective for growth?
FYI - On level 3, the "okay" button is obscured by the page footer, and can't be clicked on one of my machines. Scolling down doesn't help, the button remains obscured by the page footer which scrolls with the page.
Good catch! I'll fix that.
No, the sum of all positive numbers up to infinity does not equal -1/12. Bad math is bad. Amazing people actually buy this dude's "math."
This is part of why I'd advocate for limited government. That way if everyone around you is acting foolish then the amount of damage they can do is fairly small.
Did Euler overflow his abacus or something?
You have a point. But I think Google's vision and mission and intention is to move forward the technology in every area. Financially possible, not necessarily intelligently possible. The acquisition of Nest shows they may not have the gene for building hardware systems, devices are ok, but it's not a long-terms solution without a system in place.
> I can hardly imagine a way to satisfy the protesters' demands for cheaper rent without taking away that landlord's fundamental right to charge what he wants for use of his own property.

There's two ways to do it, and that's neither of them: increase supply (build new structures; apparently SF has over-restrictive policies on building that could be loosened?) or decrease demand (e.g. make corporate-run buses illegal).
Good thinking, just added one!
I take a much more spiritual tact on the whole thing. I think giving is good for the giver first and then helpful to the people receiving it (particularly if they aren't just giving it away but investing it in something useful for others). That's been my experience and reflects Biblical teaching on the subject.
He shifted the series over and added it to itself, which I've seen be called out as an invalid thing to do on another sum 'proof' with a weird result.
This article is a total mess. Also, saying that Etsy creates jobs in the same article that mentions the scores of people once employed by Kodak is laughable.
Except that all the math presented in it is, strictly speaking, completely false.
I asked this question on the mathematics stack exchange: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/633285/is-the-sum-of...

It is only true if you redefine what the "sum" of an infinite series is.
I was using humor there. Yes, I am open to this kind of thinking being useful. I did watch the video. I followed the logic. (That logic is contradictory from other perspectives -- see http://www.quora.com/Mathematics/Theoretically-speaking-how-...).

Summary: as most people understand it, the sum of all natural numbers is (a) positive (b) very large (c) not finite (d) certainly not -1/12.
ASP.net? What sorcery! My undergrad website was developed in classic ASP. Our version control was copying files to a networked shared folder.

For an example of how utterly fucked classic ASP is: it has no API for accessing file uploads. If you code it yourself, it disables all of the rest of the parsing (query string, form variables, ...), which you then also have to code yourself. Not to mention the whole "hasn't been supported by Microsoft for a decade" thing.
Why is this a plugin? I'm likely only going to be using one of these types of captions, which I can write in about 5 lines of stylus. The rest of the options that you added to make this a 'real open source project' are then cruft.

EDIT: Sorry, not to denigrate your hard work, but I was burned early in my career by trying to use too many labor saving plugins. Later, I learned how to code correctly. I found that I could accomplish in 30 lines of js and 10 lines of css what I had previously downloaded a 500 line plugin for. I wondered why people found it necessary to build such bloated plugins, and realized that it probably stems from a desire to make a 'real, full-featured project'.
No, I could be holding it to my ear despite it being turned off, as stupid as that sounds. The point is, in the case of the phone, the officer never has proof that the phone was on.

And if driving with Glass while it's on is illegal, shouldn't those dash mounts for phones be illegal too??
Windows is a horrible environment for UTF8 unless MS provides a special locale for it.

At present state, you can choose to use utf8 internally in your app, but when you need to cooperate with other programs (over sockets or files), it's going to be confusing. Some will be sending you ANSI bytes and you take it as UTF8.
That's his point - what is happening to that subscription level? The RDIO post only says "we now have that service, but ad supported and if you don't want that, you can pay $10 for our unlimited service".

So what is happening to the $5/mo service that is the same as the now-ad-supported service, but without the ads? I listen to an average of less than one song per day and only need it on my desktop, laptop, ipad, etc -- so there is no way I'm paying $10/mo for what used to be $5 and if I wanted to listen to ads, I'd just turn on terrestrial radio.
Whilst technically true, “at the lowest level”, I find it hard not to take with a pinch of salt any article that describes Heroku as a “free service”.
I think that it is.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disappeared
Can't wait to see the "complete flexibility" thing show up. Once I don't have to ask my customers to make an extra click to accept payments I'll take a look at your solution again. Until then, we'll stick with Balanced.

Best of luck!
http://www.spur.org/publications/article/2012-12-18/corporat...

"The City of Mountain View [...]expressly rejects housing as an allowable use in the area."

IIRC there was another rejection late last year, but I can't find it.
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Let's say all these Googlers decided to live in San Diego instead, because the weather's better, the beaches are nicer and it's closer to Tijuana for a party weekend.

At what point would Google charter flights? Obviously not for one employee, but hypothetically, would they do it if 1,000 employees moved today to San Diego? Or Maui? I think they would.

I ask because it's obvious that Googlers get to have their cake and eat it, only because their employer has the resources to pander them. This may be a reflection of how hard it is to find and retain tech talent.

Free food, free laundry(?), free child-care(?), free transport, etc. At what point does a company say enough is enough? How long can this party last for?
Actually, RDIO has never been forthright about what quality they stream in.

From their customer support in their knowledge-base:

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"We're not currently providing specific bitrate or codec information. We experiment with different rates and encoding formats in an effort to provide the best possible listening and user-experience, and stream CD-quality audio over the web and wifi (for mobile devices), and only stream a lower bitrate if you’re on a 3G connection.

We realize that is not be as much detail as you’d like, and we apologize for this — if you have feedback about Rdio’s sound quality as you're listening, please do let us know."
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> a fucking loser dork with inconsequential ideas and a dumb life.

>Sam Biddle of the Gawker site ValleyWag
And a non-linkbait title for the post would be:

The Ramanujan sum of all positive numbers up to infinity is -1/12

Which is not sensational, exciting, or even that interesting.
there was a good discussion of this on /r/math a week ago:

http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1usu93/1_2_3_4_5_112_n...
Nope.

The US justice system is simply insane, and I've no idea what will bring it back.
You're referring to Grandi's Number. Numberphile covered this pretty well on their youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCu_BNNI5x4
Strange none of the big players are offering play & control audio in sync. There are a few native (seedio, tunemob) and web apps (speakerblast) that offer this already.
Technically they wrote the Ninth Amendment for that, but it's very vague and there's no real consensus on its judicial interpretation.
Ask HN: Current hourly rates for iOS Developers?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlvwE_jC2EdDdFRGV1dPQjRZYWVBSWJSZFJtRkZtS3c&usp=sharing
> Blair also dismissed a speeding ticket against Abadie, because an expert did not appear to testify to the calibration on the officer's speedometer. Blair said there was a lack of evidence to establish Abadie's driving speed.

This still happens? I thought it was pretty standard for officers to calibrate and maintain written records (at least, it's standard in new york)
Achilles runs at 1 unit/s and Tortoise at x < 1 unit/s. Tortoise gets a head start of 1 unit. How long until Achilles catches up?

Well first, Achilles has to travel 1 unit because Tortoise got a head start. That takes 1s. By then, Tortoise managed to run x units, so Achilles has to catch-up, which takes another x seconds, and by then... etc: The time it takes Achilles to catch up is 1 + x + x^2 + ... Since x < 1, this converges and the answer is 1/(1-x). It takes 1/(1-x) seconds for Achilles to catch up.

Plot the lines: Achilles runs along A(t) = t, the tortoise T(t) = 1 + x t. Solving for t: t = 1 + x t = t (1 - x) = 1; t = 1/(1-x).

Ok, now what if x > 1? Let's use x = 2.

1/(1-2) = -1. It takes -1 seconds for Achilles to catch up. Don't believe me? Plot it: A(t) = t, T(t) = 1 + 2t; Achilles catches up with Tortoise 1 second before the race starts!

There you have it, a physical interpretation of why 1 + 2 + 4 ... = -1. (I have no example right now for 1 + 2 + 3 ..., sorry.) So you see, this isn't nonsense, though I admit it DOES depend on definitions!
So what does this argument give you license to do?
Surely you mean isn't a transitive verb? Anyway, it's rare but well attested: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=disappeared+it...
I work for the keefe group. I was told at a presentation recently that Keefe is actually the #3 or #4 seller of mp3s by bandwidth in the world.
It seems that one can write even a master's degree on this topic:

The “Google shuttle effect:” Gentrification and San Francisco’s dot com boom 2.0

http://svenworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Goldman_PRFi...
Ugh, that's annoying. Fails the unwritten rule of "value first before shamelessly plugging stuff."
Obama just got to much trust in advance. Everybody seemed to think, because his predecessor was such a catastrophe, Obama must be some kind of savior.

But he isn't. He even got the peace noble price just for his announcements. Nothing more. Still his announcement is there, that he will close Guantanamo. It is announced but nothing done. He is the savior of announcements.

Also people thought, that he would finish up with the bad ruling of his predecessor. But even the known cases of torture in Iraq did not have any consequences (besides those of letting some stupid low level soldiers be the escape goats). One of the first doings of Obama was a big amnesty for any wrongdoings of intelligence people. That already showed a foreshadow what we could expect of Obama.

I guess, either Obama is a Wolfe in savior-skin, or he is a sheep in a wolfs-skin and so much under pressure from some side, that he has to obey and shut up, no matter what he really wanted in the first place ...

I also guess, that we should internalize the thought, that the really mighty in this world are not on the cover pages of the newspapers and those on the cover pages are less mighty as we shall think.
Similar situation happened to me 2 years ago and I was dismissed in part because of the lack of evidence to back the calibration of a radar gun.

Link: http://skatter.com/2011/02/how-my-smart-phone-got-me-out-of-...
M-x butterfly-mode
Unfortunately, our education system does not teach us that the Constitution is a framework setting form constraints upon the government, but as a framework establishing and itemizing a list of freedoms citizens are allowed.

So, we have an entire population that assumes if it is not enumerated in the Constitution, you do not have that right. For example "hey, the Constitution doesn't say privacy is a right". Well, no. It doesn't need to. You already have that right, without a piece of paper declaring it.

Unfortunately, I'm afraid that this understanding of the Constitution has become so pervasive that it can not be changed, thereby completely reversing the entire intention of the founding fathers in constructing it. Thereby giving the government all the rights and citizens only the rights specifically declared in it (and, these days, not even that).

It's kind of stomach-turning to see that reversal.
Rule #1 on diet/health claims: anyone that claims something to be the "best for pretty much anyone" is virtually guaranteed to be bullshitting.
There's only one way to add a finite list of numbers, but several ways to "add" infinite lists. Ramanujan summation is just one way. There are also other ways to define "addition" on infinite lists: Abel, Borel, Cesaro, Euler, etc. summation.

They're different from each other because they disagree on certain infinite sums, but they're still considered "summations" because, for finite lists, they give the same answer as normal addition.
Well, maybe not a vacation, but stepping out of the office for a few days might be a good idea. I know once in a while I'll get overwhelmed on my project, and I'll start spending days thinking about it day and night, while staring at the mountain of work that needs to be finished. After a few days, I've accomplished absolutely nothing, but I feel burnt out, and mentally exhausted. Going into the office every day and trying to focus on your project isn't a vacation. Take a couple of days off. Don't go into the office, and don't think about work. Go focus on one of your hobbies, go bike riding, take a short road trip, do some work on your house and paint a room, etc.

When I find myself escaping to HN/Reddit and trying to pass the time, I know I need to go offline, and clear my mind.
That was an unfortunate example. The widen() in this case is absolutely unnecessary. The author even recommends using the L prefix for UTF-16 string literals inside of Windows API calls (but not on other platforms, where wchar_t isn't UTF-16):

> Do not use _T("") or L"" literals in any place other than parameters to APIs accepting UTF-16.

Except for that, you do make a good point. It's probably better to store some strings in memory according to the platform requirements, if the program can be shown to exhibit delays caused by string conversions.
Ticket for driving in Google Glass dismissed
Well yeah it doesn't converge on any particular number so it must diverge.

Like what has already been said I think this is helpful in certain fields, but bollocks in others.
Looks simple and cool, thanks for sharing!

How does this support touch devices? Do they have to tap on the picture to see the caption, or does it show up automatically? I could see that being an issue if clicking on the image also brings up a full-size version of the image.
I was visiting this comment thread with the intention to post that link if nobody else had already. For all the hate reddit gets, I love it for content such as the discussion contained in the above.

Reddit has major issues due to its user base, but one thing I do is browse certain subreddits once a week (month) by filtering by top posts in the past week (month). The day by day drone in most subreddits is tiring, but quality threads hit the top posts.
I am trained in bare metal microcontrollers--6800,8051. Not Linux. Bare metal. I know 74LS logic. I can make transistor driver circuits for steppers.

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Fearing drones, the CIA clusterfucked everything to do with computers so all people can do is make webpages.

I don't like making web pages. I'll just collect my disability check.
404. Did it really disappear in the last 32 minutes?
So the title should instead read "The sum of all positive numbers up to infinity (for a certain definition of 'sum') is -1/12".
Unfortunately, so many citizens feel this way, too. It never occurs to them that the government never gives power back. Look at the Patriot Act. It just keeps going and going and going.

It never occurs to them that when you give a president some obscene unchecked powers (and especially when you have a legislative branch that abandons their responsibility to be a check and balance and becomes a bunch of bi-partisan yes-men, you are giving that power to every president that comes afterward. Including the next Nixon. Which I guess is what we have today, when you think about it.

We like to blame "the government", but I'd blame most of our current situation on an entire population that we have failed to educate on civics and how government works. They don't even know the basics and they give up or dismiss so much, because they don't know better.
key point! from wikipedia:

Ramanujan summation is a technique invented by the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan for assigning a sum to infinite divergent series. Although the Ramanujan summation of a divergent series is not a sum in the traditional sense, it has properties which make it mathematically useful in the study of divergent infinite series, for which conventional summation is undefined.

...so the way we normally think of sums, of course 1 + 2 + 3 ...grows infinitely large. Makes me wonder- what was the impetus for creating the idea of Ramanujan sums?
Universities today have become a text book example of bureaucracy at its finest. Not to say bureaucracy in itself is good or bad, but I think John Stuart Mill was spot on in his remarks upon them: "A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy". Which I guess in the context of most universities today (at least in the united states from my experience), seem to have become hollow shells of their former selves, or at least towards what most claim to be advocating.

At least that's what came to mind when reading the statement from the university and the students hand-waving remarks that smelled like the typical PR speak we hear in the news (the brown nose kind) upon their reflection on the situation. I can sympathize with the students though, the university threatened to take disciplinary action (whether that means not allowing them to receive a piece of paper from them, or some kind of suspension, who knows) for their efforts in recognizing a problem and applying their knowledge for the betterment of their student body, and maybe with the university staff that had to come to the consensus to do what they did for whatever reasons (maybe ones listed in this thread, but we'll probably never hear a straight answer from them either way). Though this will probably be all forgotten in the upcoming weeks and complacency once more will return to it's familiar home. Rules need to be followed, boots need to be licked, and so it goes on… :S
This video has been showing up all over the internet, and the math in it is completely imprecise. Numberphile has lost a lot of respect in my eyes due to how much misinformation this video has spread.
Show HN: Hacker News for International News based on Meteor 
I hired someone to use Meteor to make Hacker news alike for International news.
"Stand your ground" isn't magic, it's a legal defense like any other. Everything hinges on what the jury finds, and in this case it seems as though the prosecutor was persuasive.

Also, if you mean to draw a comparison to the Trayvon Martin case, "stand your ground" wasn't relevant to that case.
No, I could be holding it to my ear despite it being
turned off, as stupid as that sounds. The point is, in
the case of the phone, the officer never has proof that
the phone was on.

It is customary to wear Glass with the screen off but not to do the equivalent with a phone. The law is not like software; the judge can consider the case and make the sensible ruling.
The Tampa Bay data has a weird outlier that it making the map kind of useless:

https://kwelia.com/maps/cbsa_census_tract?cbsa=Tampa-St.%20P...

Notice the one red spot at the top level, and everything else falling within the first 3 levels, which are 30% each. If the data is correct, perhaps the algorithm to pick the scaling factors could be improved to ignore outliers at the top and bottom?
"I still use it as an amiable label for the nerdy guy who comes to my office and rolls his eyes when I ask why my computer won't talk to the printer down the hall."

why does this piss me off so much? it was all well and good when we were servin' you, and now we make something of ourselves and you mad?

while I can see that change is happening a little too fast for most people, I do believe it was society that set us up to be nerds at the unpopular table. WELL ITS MY CAFETERIA NOW BITCHES! WHAT?
I had a similar experience at my university (University of Waterloo), which I discussed some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3682163

In my case, it was internship postings instead of a course calendar, and I was actually "punished" for it.