skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Someone needs to get into this archive and copy these to more durable media NOW.

This is a problem archivist are having right now with data from even 10 years ago. 100 year old books and nitrite films just need a stable, cool, dry environment. Have you seen the hoops people jump through to get an old Apple floppy read? It's a race to copy the data to the current storage format before the last machine stops working.
Right, but I don't think the average person does that. I haven't paid their "normal" or listed rate, but I imagine the typical family just pays.
Lessons learnt building the WebGL city platform ViziCities
'Future' of NYPD: Keeping Tab(let)s on Crime Data
IMO Deep breathing is not the same as Overbreathing/hyperventilation. Deep breathing should be done in calm and controlled manner. There is no tension/stress involved with Deep breathing as in hyperventilation. Deep breathing increases the amount of oxygen in the blood and brain. In my meditation practice I do 10-20 mins of Deep breathing and than the breath gets extremely shallow very easily after that. There is no need to hold or restrict the breath at that point. It naturally slows to 1-2 breaths per minute. Which induces great calmness.
I've worked with the unofficial Snapchat API a lot, and I've had the same thoughts. Basically Snapchat used AES ECB encryption with a symmetric key hardcoded into their binary. That's not a good idea, but its also better than nothing. Their api requests are all sent with a generated key parameter that takes 3 steps to make but really boils down to security by obscurity.

Snapchat made these security decisions long before anyone had any interest in "cracking" the app, and now I imagine they are looking for a way to get rid of this legacy code without breaking the millions of installed clients out there. It's an interesting problem and for now I'm having fun hacking on the API. If you're a Java person, check out my JavaSnap library which lets you send and receive Snaps.
Just want to say, Thank You for Redis.
Does anyone actually sell stock photography on that basis? I can honestly say that I have never encountered such a thing, and I've bought rights to use images, including stock photography, on numerous occasions.
I wanted tread the article, but apparently not only can they not get facts straight, their shitty dev team can't present the information without enabling javascript. So...no thanks.
They have reverted some of their more overt specialisation in more recent years and brought back some of the more "classical" elements, like the translucent "lights" etc., alongside new bricks that can be used in many different ways (and some of which I wish I could have had when I was a child). There was a period where everything was pre-made, pre-printed and almost monolithic, with single-purpose blocks, but most of that seems to be gone.

Additionally, their Creator sets actively encourage multi-purpose bricks since the box itself already gives you 3 different models you can build out of the contained bricks, plus the endless possibilities of your inventions.
Yes the same encryption is on in-flight snaps. You could absolutely set up something like that.
Yes, still, I only "use" this feature by mistake.

especially because it's too easy to make it when scrolling up
The coeliac disease existed before Monstanto started selling glyphosate.

It may increase the risk, though.

If we could correlate regional epidemiologic data with the introduction of glyphosate in various places of the world, we may get a better insight.
Google currently has policies against doing any kind of cross-referencing with audio or visual data, which means that face recognition is a no go currently [1], even though they're in a good place to provide it because of a) the large repositories of photos on Google+ and b) their acquisition of PittPatt (a facial recognition company) in 2011. They're holding off because of the privacy concerns.

Honestly, I'm glad they're concerned about privacy, and hope that it stays that way. I'm not sure that the privacy concerns will ever go away, and worry that there may be a time when leaving you house could lead to being harassed by random strangers because of something written on an online profile.

[1]https://plus.google.com/111626127367496192147/posts/fAe5vo4Z...
Facial recognition tech isn't that specific. It could recognize people from your own personal network, but it's not like fingerprints. You'd need some secondary information to help it narrow down the search-space. For example, if it could tie it to anybody whose phone has GPS-indicated they're in your area, then you could do facial recognition since you've got a much smaller search-space (locals and your personal Plus network)
Actually this is exactly what I want to happen to any devices that I own. Depending on the executor of the will of course, there is a lot to gain from possession of a device/account.

People need to make separate arrangements like password handover etc and sort their affairs out properly. This should be promoted here, not the fact that Apple haven't handed the details over yet.

If I were Apple, I'd deny the request to be honest.

If I were the people in question, Id shrug the iPad off and get on with rebuilding my life.

And before I get accused of sounding insensitive, exactly this happened to me with my father a couple of years back. I had a 1Tb encrypted NAS and no passwords. Had to write the data off.

Edit: that NAS array contained 38,000 photographs for reference that I'll never see.
I would paper trade for a couple of months, i.e. don't use real money but write down buy/sell actions in your journal. then see if you made money or not. real trading is a lot different but through this you get used to the process.

If you are in technology for ex., I would have a look at tech shares, you will then have a slight information advantage at least.

Trading account: either just talk to your bank (most of them provide a trading account) or find a broker on comparison websites. ultimately the trading fee, if not exaggerated, is not that important if you only dabble once in a while.
Let's get them all out the way:

* Get your ars out!

* Mining ars.

* There's no liquidity in ars.

* Where can I sell my ars?
Why wouldn't they just completely wipe/reset it?
I guess that even for Google would be cheaper to just upgrade it to support Java 8 features than to replace it completely with something else. Especially since that "something else" would still need to support all existing apps for a long time to go. Otherwise, they could as well just cancel Android as a whole.
Just HUD information about local businesses - Yelp ratings, menus, upcoming events, news, etc.

I want to look around a bustling city street and drink from the fire-hose of information of everything The Internet knows about this area.
Exactly this. Most people's huge, monolithic apps should be partitioned out into smaller, more modular apps. They're easier for multiple developers to work on, they're easier to spec out, they can have their own optimization/iteration cycle, etc.

An example, we have an app that so far consists of about 25 individual SPAs. It was originally an SPA, but we ran into tons of problems with routing issues that cropped up, and realization that when the user uses the apps, in any given session they'd probably only use 20% of what it offers. Developers get to work quickly on their modules, there's no up front initialization/download of the entire apps. Some of the apps are more prototype quality to get the job done, some have been refactored several times. But they all form a cohesive experience. It's also nice when you're developing a group of functionality that you don't have to start the app at the beginning.

Most users won't even know when their in a SPA vs Multi-page SPA.
Thank you ksec, without a great community there is no fun.
I site with the static blog generator crowd. I've not heard of anything that would meet all of your requirements but my favourite static blog generator, Pelican, would come pretty close.

http://blog.getpelican.com/
The near-term future of disruptive spaceflight isn't sending big heavy objects into space---it's sending nano-satellites into orbit around the earth.
"had a 3,000+ line function that was nearly impossible to factor out"

Sounds like the only reason it was nearly impossible to factor out was because someone didn't stop at line 500 and say "hey this is getting out of hand".
Pushbullet for iPhone Released
Why not track how many times the entrance/exit doors open or close? Or add a laser(?) that cuts across the entrance that counts each time it's line is broken. Directional but also simple to do.
awesome set.
KCup Runneth Over cartoon
Ten-Year-Old Makes Comedic Plea To Jimmy Fallon [video]
I'm also of the opinion that Google will not replace Java-based Android with nodejs-based Android.

On the other hand, I think it's worth pointing out that a lot of JavaScript development does happen at Google, albeit within the confines of the Closure compiler. Some kind of nodejs project somewhere at Google would not be out of the question. It's a big company. https://www.npmjs.org/package/closurecompiler
The actual information is less exciting:

Laura Champine - Canaccord

Good morning. Thanks for taking my question. Your close rate performance was impressive, how do you measure that?

Bob Hull - Chief Financial Officer

Laura, so a couple of different ways, so of late, we have been using satellite imagery. So we take pictures of parking lots throughout the course of the year. We max that up with actual transaction counts in stores. Of late we have been actually using some technology that involves traffic counters in the stores, which gives us close rate by day, by hour, which is going to further allow Rick and the team to optimize labor going forward. We have tested both methodologies for the same stores and got similar results. We are pretty comfortable with the methodology. It allows us to forecast and see actual improvement in close rates

From the earnings call:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/2051323-lowes-companies-ceo-...
Any particular "math" you're interested in?

If you just want to get your foot in with pure math I'd recommend studying basic abstract algebra and analysis at the same time. For abstract algebra look into Hungerford (Intro, not his grad text), for analysis, maybe Rudin, or Kolmogorov and Smirnov.
Sadly, oftentimes it is industrial affiliation that can be the biggest predictor of whether a published work supports one side or another in particular issue.

Usually this is due to companies funding their own biased research.
* Pulling coins our of our ars.
Because DRM is an idiot lie.
Is it there anything that Russia might need to import from US or US owned companies around the world?
However, any compromised NHS website would lead to bad publicity and insecurity.

And horrendous scope for phishing. Who's going to think twice about entering potentially sensitive information into their GP's web site accessed via a .nhs.uk address? Not most people, I suspect.
CryptoCurrency as a replacement for internet karma points and JesusBucks given away at Wednesday night Methodist Youth Fellowship meetings.

When my hairdresser has their own CryptoCurrency how shall I maintain my faith that bitcoin has a value these others don't?
I hated that at first, but it's really hardly a problem when it comes to actual development. And it's pretty nice for optimization to be able to mix/control what properties on a model actually need the notification changes, as opposed to other frameworks that just assume everything notifies. (Especially useful when you start dealing with object graphs with 100s of properties).
> I have found that the most consistent way to improve your skill set is to work places where you feel like you are the dumbest person in the room and wonder why they gave you a chance. When you don't feel that way any more, it may be time to leave

I follow this to the letter like a credo. One of the worst feeling is watching everybody better than you leave the company, leaving you the most capable developer. It's unnerving, and only a fool would stay in that position.
Presumably it has some sentimental material on it, like emails or photos, that is considered more valuable than the iPad itself.
Since this story seems to be nit territory, another one: 'm' is not an abbreviation, but a symbol. That's why you don't write a dot after it.
Two words: "ass pennies". :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO1Q7F23DxM
Amazing but it seems that there is an obvious bug in handling scroll events.

I am using Magic Track Pad in Safari so there is no visible drag-able scroll bar in the attribute panel. When I scroll the attribute panel, the scroll events just escaped the attribute panel and cause the glyph to scale. I must concede that the scaling is smooth and responsive, rendering this behavior quite funny but delightful.

Also, it would be more amazing if unicode were supported.
They pay a license fee for the spectrum, but do not own it. Because no one can own a frequency. So the frequency is licensed by the government.
Xperience concept UI for Linux, by the developers of Nitrux
Foursquare CEO says revenues grew 500% in Q1 2014, 600% In 2013
I think there's way too much emphasis on volume here. Sure, if price swings wildly, there will be a large volume associated with it, but if there's a large spike in volume it doesn't necessarily mean a big change in price.

So ultimately volume is a measure of interest, but for every bought share there was a sold share, so it's not a measure of performance. I would bet that higher volumes might mean lower bid/ask spreads, meaning you're paying a smaller penalty to get in/out of a position, but for most retail traders that spread isn't going to make or break you anyway.
For me the problem is that math papers/articles lack a proper API documentation. By that I mean that it's very hard for me to understand what a lot of symbols mean because mathematicians (and physicians) love to use single letters to name various concepts and functions.

Worse, they also like to use the same symbol to denote different things in different fields. I'm sure it's extremely convenient to have a shorthand when working and sharing "code" with some peers in the know but for stuff like wikipedia articles it makes things appear more complex and obscure than they should.

I don't mind if people call a local function variable "n" in some code, it's usually non ambiguous. But if you export a variable "n" in an external API you will be screamed at. Why is it ok for maths?

To give a quick example, the letter R in maths can mean the set of real numbers. It can also (with a different typeface!) mean Ramanujan summation. Oh wait, you're doing physics? Then R is the gas constant, silly.

Also, i is the imaginary unit. Except in physics, then it's j, because i is used for currents. Makes sense.
Is this in mathematics or another field?
I don't know. People are unlikely to remember the license plate (unless it strikes an obvious pattern) but a person who was so inclined could write numbers down manually and store them indefinitely a bit like a CPU with no storage mechanism simply would hold the data in volatile memory... unless we plug in a hard drive.
I find the arguments for Hygiene Theory being the cause of the increase in autoimmune diseases and allergies much more credible, and it seems to have more science behind it.

There was a good discussion of "An Epidemic of Absence", a recent book on the topic, on EconTalk this week. The basic premise is that these disorders may be caused by a lack of microbes and parasites in the modern Western world. The lack of those microbes and parasites causes our immune systems to be overly aggressive towards harmless outside substances (peanut allergies, celiac disease) or mistakenly aggressive towards our own bodies (Crohn's disease, type I diabetes, etc.)

Sounds very plausible to me, but it lacks a villain, which I think makes it an unsatisfactory explanation for some.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/03/velasquez-manof.htm...
Zite has been acquired by Flipboard
Canadian Bitcoin bank collapses after hackers steal digital currency
Back into parking spaces. Of course in some states you are supposed to have a license plate in the front of your car as well
Although I'm very much miffed by the excessive surveillance of every country these days I don't find this to be the same. Companies and organizations do have the right to check up on people's activities in some manner. If your car wasn't paid for and it belongs to the bank now, I think the bank has the right to know where it is to repossess it. I think this is one of the ugly truths of reality rather than a matter of abusive behavior.
> So many ideas seem closed to mortals because of the nature of mathematics.

Which is why everyone, but especially programmers, should learn a lot more math.
Looks line a great idea for virtual visitings. Wonder if it can build a 3D modeled environment based on a scaned one and how real would it look like. Could it use real pictures to make the object textures? Would it be able to deal with glass, mirrors and other reflective surfaces?
We need an app to see through clothes. XD
AmigaOS inspired website
As opposed to Mt Gox, which was run by Arse Clowns.
Append "_nomap" to your AP's SSID to opt out of Google Location Services (2011)
I see this as a general trend of misattributing problems to technology that are actually caused by one's own behaviour.

Lying to people is a bad idea; some people mistakenly believe that they can lie freely without others knowing, and then cry foul when new technologies threaten that belief.

Everything we do, everything we say, has consequences that spread through the great web of causation; technology only allows us to look at this web faster and in more detail, and thus spot more inconsistencies in our model (i.e. lies). It's not the fault of technology if you lied and got caught.
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> Secondary math education, for me in the UK, didn't deal with anything outside of elementary algebra, Euclidean geometry, some statistics, and relatively simple calculus.

I've been a secondary math teacher in the UK and I want to defend this point a little.

The job of a secondary math teacher at this level is to teach everyone math, particularly including a majority who don't have a strong interest and won't go on to study more mathematics. You probably underestimate how difficult a job this is.

With that in mind, this is already quite a long list of diverse topics. You neglected to mention an introduction to number, up to the real numbers, perhaps because you now think it is obvious. You were taught that.

I personally try to teach 'looking forward': explaining how these concepts link towards what direction you might take in the future.

However, it's very difficult to cover the whole scope of mathematics and mathematical subjects. For example, I personally knew only a little about what's relevant to EE (although I've learned over time). But, it's not that you could skip anything from the school curriculum anyway - my general advice is that potential EE students need to show interest enough to study independently outside of school.

Something like algorithmic complexity, you should be learning from Knuth. Well done for that: there are not many educational experiences better than learning independently from someone who has devoted his life to making his subject accessible.
It wasn't clear that there was an affair happening.
Some people just can't win - if they had granted access, half of HN would be shrieking about "OMG APPLEZ INSECURE".
Apple literally cannot win in the media and the current security narrative. If they could/would remotely unlock or reset passwords people would freak out about lax security you could get around by purely faking a written and signed letter.

This sucks but is all this heartbreak and fighting with a company worth a 500 dollar toy? This whole thing is ridiculous.
So true! Also, in most organizational structures, every X employees will need one manager, which is also a cost that needs to be factored into the cost of hiring an employee.
None of these mention one of my favorite unintended references. The ASCII character '*' is 42 (in decimal, 0x2A in hex). Which I like to think that after all that time the only proper answer a computer could respond with to define life was a wildcard.
I'm familiar with the typed API, but it still doesn't quite bring me as far as Scoobi does. I recognize your name from the Scalding code, so I'll say that this is meant as helpful criticism and not a complaint.*

- There a couple types for datasets in the Scalding API: TypedPipe, and KeyedList and subclasses. Scoobi subsumes both of these under DList; thanks to the usual Scala wizardry, this has all the methods to operate on key-value pairs without loss of typesafety. This isn't a huge deal, but it removes the tiny pains of constantly converting back and forth between the two.
- Scoobi's other abstraction, DObject, represents a single value. These are usually created by aggregations or as a way to expose the distributed cache, and have all the operations you'd expect when joining them together or with full datasets. You can emulate this in Cascading / Scalding, but it's a bit less explicit and more error-prone.
- There's no equivalent to the compile-time check for serialization in Scalding, AFAICT.
- Scoobi has less opinions about the job runner itself... there are some helpers for setting up the job, but all features are available as a library. For some reason, I found the two harder to separate in Scalding?
- IIRC, Scalding did job setup by mutating a Cascading object that was available implicitly in the Job. In Scoobi, you build up an immutable datastructure describing the computation and hand that to the compiler. This suits my sense of aesthetics better, I suppose...

* Also, thanks to you guys for Algebird! That's a really fantastic little project, and I use it all the time.
Value comes through scarcity but more importantly willingness to accept the currency for goods and services. Anyone can make a currency out of shells and beads, but it will only have real value when more people will accept it as payment.
> The purpose of most academic papers is not to explain (let alone teach!) ideas in an intuitive manner, but rather to express them in formal, correct, unambiguous terms -- that is, to make them as accurate and critique-proof as possible for publication in some journal. Their intended audience is subject matter experts.

Their purpose really is to let the authors show off how smart they are, impress their peers, and advance their careers. The other properties derive from that.

;-)

edit: I don't want to disparage research in general, BTW, but specifically, the scientific paper redaction process.
> Deep breathing increases the amount of oxygen in the blood and brain

Read about the Bohr effect. Deep breathing lowers CO2 levels and consequently reduces tissue oxygen uptake.
Definitely inspired, considering this looks very little like the original AmigaOS.
PhpStorm Workshop available on GitHub to learn IDE with a set of exercises