skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The conversation is “raw” to say the least—almost everyone checks their filter at the door.

Their filter? You mean privilege and doubles.
Sure - why not? It is generally best to shed as much light as possible on gossip.
You didn't play with it. It does object detection. It is as "smart and powerful as google". That's kind of our thing. We are smarter than Google, and working on the more powerful thing.

If you give it a pic with you off in the corner it will crop around you. If you give it a pic with a laptop sitting on the right third it will crop around that. It is pretty smart.
Uber doesn't have the same model as a taxi company -- what would stop a driver from staying logged into the Uber application whenever she's running errands? Taxi drivers drive shifts in which they're using cars that are the property of their employers.
This is a great article! The only thing I would improve is the typography. It was hard to read the entire article because the line length was too long. The font for the text is a bit small. The difference between the headers and the subheaders is not large enough. Since some of you taskrabbiters play here, hopefully you'll take that into account.
> Do you have any idea how ridiculous you sound?

Did you even read what I wrote? But I get it. It's difficult to process this information.

> No one should take you seriously

Don't just take my word for it. Go investigate the collective works of the people I listed above. If you do that, you'll agree with me (unless you've been severely traumatized as a child).

> I don't see what espousing that ideology is going to get you.

Me? -Possibly nothing. But it's good if I can help ordinary people everywhere avoid whatever seriously unpleasant fate awaits us all if we don't wake up in time. People not being subjected to coercion is not much of an ideology by the way.
Show HN: All social media taken at certain events
Great online PNG compression
Bad papers can be generated. published, and cited a lot faster than failures to replicate.
Crow: a URL checker from the command line
> Pluto's average surface temperature is seven degrees warmer.

What about the temperature in Pluto's shaded regions (if there are any)?
The core problem here is the legal system allowing software companies to successfully disclaim all liability for their software products. Traditional manufacturers can and do get sued over defects in their products.
Why We Switched From Mixpanel to KISS
Hehe, yeah. I thought "Novel The Black Mountains" was some sort of internet handle, until I realized that Google had translated his proper name.
Kohana seems to have the structure in about the same way, but is more complicated and has some basic modules, whereas Kamele does not.

Kamele does have a nice Database class that handles the PDO-object in a MySQLi-like way of approching the object. Especially the Database::safeQuery() function will be interesting for you: https://github.com/goldenice/Kamele-Framework/blob/master/sy...
this is way off base. dynamically typed interpreted languages are usually slower than statically typed compiled languages, but that's not what the OP was about.

notice that PHP and Java were tested as well and had totally reasonable times. The thing to notice here is that there is something about the Ruby regex engine that doesn't properly handle the regex used in the test.

you shouldn't just paint broad-strokes "dynamic languages are often slow". please try to notice what is actually going on here.
Click on, and play for a bit. This is actually a very impressive platform.
TicTacGo – An AI for Ultimate Tic-tac-toe
It's still not possible to remove a hyperlink. I have created an issue on Github https://github.com/raphaelcruzeiro/jquery-notebook/issues/35

Thank you for pointing this out!
Thanks for the feedback!

The point of that section is exactly that "NoSQL" (or to make things even more confusing "NOSQL" (Not only) doesn't have a very specific meaning. Some think it rules out ACID, other's don't. Thus, you'll need to know what you need.

And database marketing tend to not be very good at pointing out what they're not good at, or actually deliver what they promise. See also: http://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen
> Compiling the list may just have been a coping mechanism for your brother, and I don't think it's fair to think it had anything to do with the son's suicide.

I didn't say it that way, either here or at the time. I only warned my brother that the list might provoke my nephew to kill himself, not that this would make my brother responsible. The actual suicide was, of course, solely the responsibility of the nephew.
I'd like to learn from you about "general-purpose primary store". Do you mean for storing any type of data? Here is what I think regarding the case you brought up in the previous post:

ES is suitable for full-text based document indexing for enterprise level or any websites, which means they have a reasonable amount of data to be indexed in a given timeframe. A complete re-indexing won't not take for a couple of days.

So the basic idea behind the NoSQL database is to dump the data into the database quickly and return, so you can see very fast response for insert and delete. Then it will load the data into the memory to process for real-time retrieval which also produces fast response from select. I'm not sure about update.

If the data volume grows, they quickly add shards or make the number of pre-shards big enough to allocate enough memory resources to handle the queries or let the OS to swap the memories by adding more server nodes.

So if you want to use NoSQL database, you must be bound with the system requirement and make your application fit into that and take the most advantage from it. Otherwise, if you are running high structured data store, better to use relational database.

Another point is: if the documents are collected from the web like search engine, NoSQL will not fit for the large volume of data and relational database is also used to store the indexed data for fast retrieval. I guess this is what you meant "general-purpose primary store".

Correct me if I'm wrong.
13 year olds use the word 'cross'?
> all of the problems you mentioned around needing your phone are common to nearly all two-factor auth solutions.

Not true. From his list of problems, TOTP does not require the Clef servers (or any third-party server), nor does it require your phone camera or (more importantly) phone networking to be working.

And to make the comparison fair, you have to realize that this is not two-factor. There's only one factor (something you have) since there isn't a password requirement.
Looks like I'm wrong, but it also looks like in most of the country where you can buy it you can only buy it from the farmer directly. So it's still not easy to get.
You're using a very, very basic definition of cloud- one that really shouldn't exist anymore.

You're talking about moving a physical service into a hosted service; IAAS/SAAS. We're talking about actually developing and coding the IAAS/SAAS solutions to be cloud ready and performant. This infers automation, utilizing version control systems, scaling, stateless servers etc.

What those companies did was move their servers onto the web. It's like me telling you that I'm moving my wordpress blog from my desktop to linode. Just because I'm using linode does not mean I'm utilizing the infrastructure in any sort of "cloud" manner. If the server goes down and I've not designed my stack to be resilient I'm not "cloud." We expected IBM to be designing underlying cloud infrastructure years ago. Instead they bought Softlayer. I'm not sure if they've even done anything remotely interesting since that.

Next year they'll probably start trying to massively hire Openstack developers just like Cisco/etc are doing now (also late to the party).

Semantics, but vastly different.
Yeah, I guess you're right, I didn't realize PHP 5.2 was that old already. Thanks for replying!
Yes, a cumulative sum would have done a much better job than that pie chart at illustrating their point (from the text: "Apple over the last four years spent more on R&D than it did during the preceding 15 years combined")

Also note that 'time series' is a well-defined and widely-used term that exactly describes the dataset presented here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_series).
To be fair, we know there is sometimes liquid water on mars, at least it is incredibly unlikely that there would be none at all, comets crash into it occaisionally, for instance.

Evidence of liquid water regularly occuring near the surface is very exciting though. This isn't cool because they might find H2O, we know that there is H2O, this is cool because having liquid water near the surface increases the chance of finding life.
> Lawyers, doctors, and engineers are all required to pass tests before they can practice. They prove their competence before they can even begin working in the field.

Because performance on a multiple-choice exam equates to competence in the field? Nice one.

> Finally, and probably most importantly, professional are subject to fiduciary obligations to their clients that require a minimum standard of professional conduct--if they mess up, they can (and do) get sued for malpractice.

I have an equal obligation to my clients and can just as easily get sued if I engineer crap.

> OTOH, apparently programmers can call themselves programmers after a 6 week course

I can call myself a surgeon after dissecting a frog, it doesn't make me into one. People call themselves things all the time. So what?

> Programmers aren't responsible for their mistakes--if they mess up, the client's option is to pay for someone to fix it with no option for recompense.

Err... what? My clients pay me by credit card. If the thingie I made doesn't do what it's supposed to, they can and will get a refund from the credit card company.

Try getting a refund from a doctor or a hospital for poor service. I dare you.
this one http://javascriptobfuscator.com
I would rather you let the people in the disadvantaged positions judge that for themselves.

I personally don't worry much about anonymous screeching. But then, I'm a white male with 14 years in SF and a long background in tech. I've got sufficient social and financial capital that some anonymous people being dicks to me is unlikely to make much difference.

But that indifference also means I'm unlikely to be a target. Watch any nature channel: predators are careful to select the targets they can most easily hurt. Having talked with people who have been the targets of sufficient internet abuse, I promise: it, as intended, causes real trauma.
Author here, any questions or comments are welcome :)
How? An untrusted computer can just steal your session token.
>I think Flappy Bird is a wonderfully well-tuned game. I've yet to see a clone that implements the finer details which made the original shine.

>Many games introduce difficulty through complexity. Here's a game that's simple to grasp, hard to play, yet not boring or frustrating.

I don't think Flappy Bird is any better tuned or has a better feel than any number of games. I have played many, many games far better on a Ti-85 and they don't even stand out.

And it is boring. There's no escalation or change over time. Once you can get to 50 you can get to 100 or 200. It's like bouncing a ball on a paddle and trying to get the highest score.

I would suggest http://terrycavanaghgames.com/maverickbird/ if you are looking for something better.
There are also cities where the cabby owns the car. Then it would be more similar.
Chicago's bike sharing data challenge
Yep. Mine does, anyway. From near London, UK.
I watched your Installing Ruby video to see how you did it, I strongly disagree with using rbenv in production. It adds on a completely unnecessary layer of complexity to the system and adds maintenance steps that are likely to be forgotten by the next fellow.

I recommend using Ubuntu server and using the BrightBox PPA to install 2.1. Updates are an apt-get away, and adding PPAs is far easier to do with configuration management than managing rbenv or rvm.

I use rbenv in development and it's a godsend. I keep it the hell away from production, though.
Anyone else love Smalltalk's message syntax. Objective-C uses it too. It has got to be the best syntax invented for a programming language. To see what I mean compare the normal procedural code vs. the OO version:

(a)
drawRect(50, 50, 10, 21)

(b)
aRect drawAtX: 50
andY: 50
width: 10
height: 21
Case Study: Escalation Support for Symantec Workspace Virtualization
> So you don't really need Bayesian logic to reason that you should test fewer people if you want a more significant result.

That's misleading by the use of the word "significant" which apparently means something in frequentism than it does in normal speech. I certainly wouldn't use "significant" in that way as a non-frequentist, I would instead rephrase what you said as:

> So you don't really need Bayesian logic to reason that you should test fewer people if you want more confirmation bias in your result.

And that's a statement I can definitely get behind!
Yay for pseudo-journalism! @mfheretic, fact checking your work wouldn't be hard.

Kiva's Response: http://www.nextbillion.net/blogpost.aspx?blogid=3731
Reaching Demand
I might have been opposed to your suggestion, except recently one of the devs explained that they've been discussing it internally [1]. He also said they're not really willing to open the discussion up to the public, for practical reasons. So we're basically getting all we can ask for at this point.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7222557
That is certainly helpful. The website makes it confusing as to whether I need to host this somewhere, with every client site, or if I need to run a single server and point things to it, or if they do the hosting and run a service for me? What exactly am I paying for when I buy this?

Presentation issues aside: I think it would also be neat if I didn't have to host/maintain/setup anything at all. Simply point a service at a (my) github repo where I can commit my client's sites, and let the service take care of the rest, providing a nice admin for me and something I can do for my client. That way, I don't need to have a server setup and running PHP if they don't need it. Makes it less expensive for me to setup and less expensive for the client to run.

It could store my templates, so I could easily fire up a new service and send a link to the client. Hell, maybe even use a template each time and say: "Here, provide your copy while I go build some stuff. We'll marry them together as we complete our respective sides of the agreement."

If that's where Statmatic, Stamatica, err... Statamic, is going, then I think that's pretty neat. But, it's not terribly clear at the moment.
That's the most famous comparison between frequentist and bayesian statistics, and it's a shame because the frequentist interpretation depicted in the comic is really a straw man argument. See: http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/43339/whats-wrong-w...
> Javascript has always been considered as a scripting language with low performance compared to most low level languages. Thanks to V8 engine, it is now becoming a platform where developers can prepare a fully functional backend.

This is not accurate, and shows a lack of respect for the JS VM developers at other browser vendors.

Very close to the time v8 was launched, SquirrelFish Extreme from Apple and TraceMonkey from Mozilla were also launched, each far faster than previous JS VMs, beat v8 on various benchmarks while losing on others, etc.

Since then v8 has generally been in the lead, certainly, but not always, and it would depend on the benchmark and platform.

So it is not fair to say - and this is not the first time I see it, or else I would not write this comment - that v8 is single-handedly responsible for JS being fast today.
Queen’s University sues Samsung over patent theft
Ah, this again. Is there something special about all those services that makes them impossible to provide with money that has not been extorted from millions of people?
# pgrep nginx
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Notes is a terrible piece of software. So outdated, slow, with a horrible UI and UX.

And Sametime is not lagging too much behind.
Agreed! Iowa's genius governor did a hiring freeze for the state universities. Which mean researchers could not spend their grants in Iowa; they fled. Brilliant move.
He has all the right to say whatever he wants and believe whatever he wants. Doesn't mean he should be rude.
If you make it past 1000 the pipes disappear.
Well, if you are building a very simple system it's quite possible you don't need a backend at all. Our goal when designing the tool was to help people get an estimate of how much it does cost to build an app, hence we have some options that don't strictly point to backend features.
Water could be flowing on Mars now
As a proud user of Elastic search since the early days I'm happy to see so much progress. Never mind about the *search part of their naming it's really a database for all practical purposes, especially for web data.
We're One Step Closer to Nuclear Fusion Energy – Wired Science
Gartner also had an active hand in killing Smalltalk in the enterprise.

CTOs would pay Gartner millions of dollars to have them confirm their bias to go 100% Java/Windows/IBM.

Not that ParcPlace did themselves any favors.
http://rtigger.com/blog/2012/11/19/redefining-hacker
When You Screw Up in Business Make It Right
A handwavey explanation of Metropolis-Hastings
I would think something like lastpass is an even better workflow however.

1. click login button
2. there is no step 2
I guess that's better in a COBOLly sort of way. I'd prefer a tool that let me investigate the signature and validate the arguments if I was interested; otherwise its awfully wordy and slow to write/read.
You try, you fail, you learn. It's fantastic more countries are venturing into space exploration. Their next effort will build upon what they've learned.

Do countries typically share what they learn about these failures?
When I have a broken leg I go to doctors to have it fixed. My friends[1] play an important role in helping me get groceries or chatting to me about the awful itchyness. But qualified professionals do the xrays and put the cast on.

When I have a severe mental health problem why do people think that a few chats with people who have little experience of mentla health treatment is going to help?

Sure, for the mild end society really needs to be better at talking about this stuff. And it's great if people are supportive when talking about the severe end too. But chatting to a pal is 't going to fix my suicidal thinking.

I found the blog post confusing. It refers to an event from a few years ago and MH practice moves rapidly. It mentioned how tricky the author found it to talk about MH problems but then asks other people to be better at talking about MH problems. She mentions a history of depression and anxiety but she didn't appear to have good rainy day action plans or coping techniques.

I'm not sure what the takeawY is: "don't be a high stress environment" seems reasonable but you're fighting a losing battle with that one.

[1] lol as if I have friends.
My concern given the very simple nature of the benchmarks tested on, is that this will not work on more sophisticated code.

And, it is very easy to beat existing engines on small new benchmarks. Much harder to win on larger, more varied benchmarks, and much harder still to win on real-world codebases.

But, the project is existing nonetheless, looking forward to see more information on it.
We, Chinese, do not know too much details either. It is hard for us to know details about the spending.

I tried to google it with key words like "Chang'e budget", but found nothing useful. However, I did found an article about the history[0]. Here is some fact: Back to 90s, there were Chinese scientists suggesting for lunar exploration. But the projects requires a budget around 1.5B, which was declined by the prime minister LI Peng (Family name first.)

0. http://www.baike.com/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E6%8E%A2%E6%9C%...
Cool! Ya, I have a project that is on the back burner I am planning to work on at some point in the near future that I would like to use. I have started playing around with Codemirror and the newish texteditable HTML tag to see what could be done!

I like githubs flavor of markdown, because I would like the ability to perhaps make todo lists (and maybe other things that may be useful).
It's nice sometimes, but other times it gets in the way and makes lines so noisy that you end up needing to split that function call into eight lines just to be able to read it tomorrow.
I almost always use full grammar and punctuation, even in texts, and often in IMs. I'm weird like that. I hope I'm not coming across as angry or stern without realizing it.
How do you log in from the web page on your phone?
Is there a link to substantiate that claim that doesn't put the information behind a paywall?
HyperDex 1.1 released
From my unscientific "splatterwall of experiences", this is pretty much the norm, though I know of exceptions, such as smaller, gender-specific colleges that will bend over backwards to help (e.g. girls or boys-only colleges).
BSA.org offering rewards for reporting "pirates"
Or a service like Twilio, with an HTTP API for this.
0.05 == 5% == 1/20. If you flip a coin 5 times and get heads every time, do you intuitively feel that there is more than 1-in-20 odds that the coin is fair?

You should really get used to the idea that stating a different problem will give you a different answer. You need to be very careful when asking a question, or your answer might not mean what you think it means.
That one doesn't require a smartphone, I believe.
I don't think that's the case. He's pretty strict in enforcing behavior, including the behavior of staying on topic.

Another good example in this regard is Quora. They cover an incredibly wide range of topics and viewpoints. But they're pretty insistent on respectful behavior.

I think that focus, respectful behavior, is exactly what makes for good real-world discussions. Because on-line fora break the sort of continuous, subtle social signals that help guide real-world discussions, I think we need to be especially disciplined in pursuing that respect.
Perhaps a legal defense could be funded through something like KickStarter?
The article says it uses a GC thread. So perhaps it does fully concurrent GC, with no main-thread pauses whatsoever.

Your skepticism is very justified, however - I would like to see the various existing GC benchmarks and GC latency benchmarks working with no pauses, to believe this.
Woah, why didn't I know about this site? Awesome! Would be great if you'd include links to you original sources. Even though you don't include P-values in the graphics, on the detail page I would still love them just as much as Chi-square. Your tagline should be "correlation does not imply causation" ;-)
Ah. Thanks, that's helpful. Where should I look to see a sample of 4chan that you consider more representative?
I'm the author of a popular app that has been copied by many many other developers. Despite many complaints to try and limit the copy-cats, Apple does nothing and leaves the issue up to the developers to sort out between themselves for the most part and it's absolutely frustrating.

Watching an app be successful and then watching the copy-cats swoop in to feed on your success as Apple (or Google) do nothing is very difficult to deal with.
It’s been brought to my attention that when testing paying with mobile at Cafe 17 last week, some of you refused to install the PayPal app

If that's not an unmissable sign that you're doing something wrong, I don't know what is.

I don't understand how the response of any rational manager to that news could be anything but "Why, and how do we fix it?".
Rapid Iteration Teaching
We have detected a lot of ice, but we haven't confirmed flowing liquid water yet, and while water can be used to mean the chemical in any phase, it is more commonly used to mean the liquid phase of H2O.