skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Psychological, Educational, and Behavioral Treatment Meta-Analysis Confirmation
Back in college I implemented a checker AI that used minimax and a neural network that was trained with a genetic algorithm. After 4 days of tournament on a 400mhz box the resulting AI would almost always beat me. It was always fascinating to me that it used a 4 ply minimax with a 50 hidden nodes and 90 inputs to handily kick my ass.

I always wanted to re-implement it in node and for a cooler game. Alas! I have too many side projects.

The source is here:
https://github.com/mkoryak/Evolutionary-Neural-Net-Checker-A...

and you can play against it here:
http://mkoryak.github.io/checkers/nn_checker_ai_demo.html
(requires java, might also require a 7 year old computer)
It's like watching War Games - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHWjlCaIrQo
Testing Stripe.com WebHooks With Requestb.in
The $200 price point seems a bit steep. I have the feeling I could build something similar for half the price using standard Ikea parts.
I won with using basically this strategy. I was forced to use the other direction exactly once.

http://i.imgur.com/4Ig74Q9.jpg
WeChat’s Worth “At Least $60B” Says CLSA
Totally agree, we wanted to keep the price low to let people like you customize it to their workspace. It's really hard to match color so we wanted to stay away from custom paint jobs.
Gimp or Photoshop?
I've been introduced to a few people recently (because someone asked the person who knows me about me) and I haven't replied. Why am I obligated to do so?
Gertrude Bell Survives a Plague
True, but I'm betting more than a few HN folk qualify as a "person who's had white-collar job for years [who] doesn't get how difficult service jobs are."

I'm actually impressed that we don't (yet) have a chorus of people saying he's overpaid or that he deserves it.
I'm publishing as I go on LeanPub; I've written a little about the process so far on Server Check.in[1]. I'll probably work on getting the book on Amazon/Kindle before it's in its '1.0' state, but LeanPub will always have the latest version of the book (including after the '1.0' release).

[1] https://servercheck.in/blog/self-publishing-my-first-technic...
My understanding is that the "Subject" line of emails are also considered metadata for the purpose of surveillance and warrantless information demands by police.

Subject lines are clearly not needed for routing.

There's feature creep (a.k.a. slippery slope) at work even for metadata.
Yeah. It just defer request Font Awesome, so the icon will show up after the main css parsed by browser. But I think it will speed up the site.
Given the context of this submission, this is effectively speculation and IMO not appropriate for HN.
I love these meta-meta-analyses, since they let you say things like 'Published studies yield mean effects 0.14 SDs larger than unpublished studies.' Isn't that useful to know?
The minimum pledge is $200 for the actual desk, $25 if you are willing to cut your own pieces.

Seems a bit steep, but then again, it's got some nice thought and design behind it. Before I back, I'd want to measure my desk(s) and see if the heights they offer would provide good work positioning for me (using boxes/phonebooks)
I'd be a _little_ careful turning "detectable cues" into some kind of axiomatic understanding of attractiveness.
PHP-CPP – A C++ library for developing PHP extensions
How I 3D-Printed a Mathematical Function
Dong Nguyen says he might bring Flappy Bird back to the App Store
Docker launches its first conference
But then add Glide (DOS), please. :-)
Mac OS X + Homebrew:

brew install html-xml-utils
Everyone gives Science, Cell and Nature way too much credit. They are flashy, but tend to have less substance than other journals. Their retraction rate is also much higher.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3187237/figure/F...
It seems obvious to those who've been doing it all along, but everyone has to learn "common knowledge" at some point. I learned from seeing how other people do it (when I was being intro'd), but this would have been helpful at that time.

Also, I've found that people outside the startup/tech world are less likely to know about this protocol. For example, introducing a graphic designer to a business person never goes as smoothly for me as introducing one techie to another.
> "Sometimes, decisions can't be democratically. . ." I would love to hear your thoughts about the CIA story on the front page right now ;).

My comment was less about government and more that you can't design/make decisions by committee.
Same with the franchise restaurant biz. In another life, I was in a position to get a franchise from the Golden Arches. The restrictions were amazing. You'd have to come up with X dollars, and be willing to relocate. Profit after controllables was typically 10-14%, and after that you'd have to pay franchise fees! and then taxes. So on a million/year in sales, you'd have 100k less a franchise fee and taxes. Not exactly driving a Beemer... And each franchise sold for multiple millions unless you were in a program that focused on leasing the facilities to up and coming store managers.
Everyone in this thread seems to be conflating the NSA metadata spying and the CIA torturing people. These are very different things and it seems Feinstein has been (surprise surprise) consistent in her view that torture is bad and the CIA shouldn't do it, and that the NSA's activity has adequate oversight.

I disagree on the latter point, but I have to say the former is more important and can't fault Feinstein for focusing on it.
Nah, just fun at a higher level.
The example [1] looks promising, but it would be nice if they used a more applicable example. Sometimes these benchmarks can be misleading. I'm sure there are certain tasks that this can be used for targeted optimizations, but it should be used sparingly.

[1] http://www.php-cpp.com/documentation/bubblesort
So...what's the point in this?
Google announces Docs and Sheets add-ons
This is a big release for the project. Now that every Deis component is a Docker container we can start work on things like:

* Removing the hard dependency on Chef

* Integrating with an enterprise-grade scheduler (possibly Mesos)

If you have any questions, I'm happy to field them here.
Attackers trick 162,000 WordPress sites into launching DDoS attack
Malay here from Rock Health—you're absolutely right. We have two close partners in the area (UnitedHealthcare and Mayo both) and come out once or twice a year.

I'd love to connect with the community next time I'm in the Twin Cities. Send me an e-mail (in profile or malay@rockhealth).
Depends on what type I think. I'm a front-end primarily, and it's not that bad (as a woman) but my friends who are back-end developers find it harder to get accepted at workplace. This is all anecdotal of course
This is more talking about people who asked for an intro, but then don't reply when they get it.
This is what Robot Strippers look like
The Art of Click Bait on Mobile
In New York, there's a relatively large indie game scene. They hire game developers, but usually for casual games i.e. iOS app games (think flappy bird) or indie games
The Times reported that the CIA created a special network share with the cables that the staffers were supposed to review, and that the staffers "had penetrated a firewall inside the C.I.A. computer system that had been set up to separate the committee’s work area from other agency digital files".

That sounds overblown to me. The SSCI committee hires from the same general pool as the rest of the Hill -- ambitious PoliSci grads, lawyers, and the like. They pay the same crappy wages too. They aren't getting Kevin Mitnick.

My guess is that some incompetent windows admin didn't set the permissions right and they were able to click on network neighborhood and access the files in question.
Cryptocurrency News Round-Up: Bitcoin Recovers to Pre-Mt. Gox High
>we have had plenty of piracy for years now -- and do we still have plenty of film/TV/music/book production? Yes!

That just means despite losing "potential income" the industry is still managing to earn money via people who do not wish to circumvent Copyright Law. Or in other words, the number of people not interested in infringing copyright is greater than the number of pirates. That doesn't mean anything other than a majority of people respect copyright law.

>So piracy (at least, as we have known it) is not harmful, in fact it seems almost certainly beneficial economically

Please link to data that demonstrates piracy is economically beneficial to everyone. Since you're claiming 'almost certainly' - I assume you can find hundreds of studies.

Here is my simple thought experiment. Let us say it was impossible to pirate Windows or popular games or tv shows and people had to pay the $100 or w/e it is. Would every single pirate switch to Linux, free games, non-copyrighted entertainment OR Will some of them end up paying the $100?

If reducing Windows piracy means more Linux adoption, I wonder if the Linux cheerleaders would be onboard to reduce Windows piracy :)
Before There was Canvas
Beat it!
http://screencast.com/t/2b3zNbYy6HDi
That's what I have been doing. It "feels" like a good strategy.

But I couldn't tell if it was really just for my own cognitive convenience. That is, it's easier for me to reason about moves if I constrain moves to keep my high tiles against an edge.

I watched the AI play once, and it of course does not constrain itself this way. To really rub it in, the AI won the game, which I have not.
Web Designers Code
"Development methodologies" are all about Process, as in the process to yield good results with ordinary people. For a team with good people that can self organize, processes stay in the way.

My general rule of thumb for considering somebody good (or great) is his/her ability to recognize / to be upset about problems / to care about usability or correctness of the implemented business logic ... and to roll up their sleeves and simply fix it, even without confirmation. If you have such people on the team, then the team can self-organize, if not, then prepare for sprints and meetings.
We looked into it and your comment is true Arelius... Check out our new post correcting our old one:

http://thesurge.net/contrary-to-our-recent-post-it-appears-c...
Just out of curiosity, where would you store the unique AES key, that wouldn't break the UX in many ways? For instance, not losing messages when you upgrade your phone.
I have no idea what kind of network you are suggesting.
One of the biggest problems with OpenGL currently is the lack of a good binary intermediate representation of shaders. Direct3D has a byte code representation that is vendor neutral. OpenGL has APIs that let you cache off binary shader representations (glProgramBinary), but they are configuration specific. Configuration differences may include hardware vendor, hardware version, driver version, client OS version, etc. So in practice these formats are only useful when the shader files are compiled on the client machines. They don't actually allow developers to ship only compiled shaders unless they are comfortable with their shaders not running on future hardware, for example.

This leads to developers pursuing various less optimal solutions that all involve more startup time for users and less predictable performance and robustness for developers (at least when compared to the solution D3D has offered for more than 10 years). So when people say OpenGL is years behind D3D this is one of the things they mean. D3D isn't perfect here either. There is a fair amount of configuration-specific recompilation going on, but the formats are more compact than the optimized/minimized GLSL source formats people are pursuing on OpenGL and while the startup time (shader create time) is still too long, it is still much better than OpenGL. Shader robustness is generally more predictable and better on D3D but it's hard to disentangle shader pipeline issues from driver quality.

To be fair multicore is also an issue for OpenGL, but D3D isn't great at that either. The current spec for D3D11 includes a multicore rendering feature called "deferred contexts" but performance scaling using that feature has been disappointing so it isn't a clear win for D3D. Other APIs (e.g. hardware-specific console graphics APIs) expose more of the GPU command buffer and reducing abstraction there allows for a real solution to the multicore rendering problem. There should be a vendor neutral solution here, but so far neither of the APIs has delivered one that is close to the hardware-specific solutions in performance scaling.
It's fine to call something bullshit if you can back your assertion up with data.

However, calling something bullshit with unsupported assertions is, well, bullshit.
Abortion Is Not Birth Control....It's Murder
If it's laziness on the part of the person being introduced, then it's pretty bad and you should stop doing favors for that person. However, I've had situations where the person being introduced simply didn't realize the ball was in their court. A quick message to that person should do the trick; "Hope this helps! You should follow-up with John as soon as you can."
>The technical details for this brouhaha, if I'm interpreting them correctly, sound like they might approach Dilbert levels of managerial incompetence.

One wonders what "Dilbert" would have been like if Scott Adams had worked for the government instead of a private company.
Japan has a strange culture: Their scientific funding is based largely on hanging out naked at a hot spring with the guy that controls the budget.
All those are answered on the website's FAQ.
The less people paying to see a movie equals less movies being made, which means less employment for people involved with making movies.
We would love to hear more about it. We don't have any sequencing companies, but have multiple hardware and medical device companies in our portfolio. We don't shy from capital-intensive businesses.
Huh? They had someone rate a pitch, then ask if the pitcher was attractive? But then they are asking then same thing - you cannot tease the two apart.

THere seems to be a heap of different issues tied up together here, and this does not seem to be an elegant way of seperating out biases from anyone. I am happy to be wrong but I am not getting good vibes...
This whole story is so Kafkaesque.

The Intelligence committee is just doing a review of the CIA's torture practices, no big deal, largely for purposes of whitewashing the whole thing and sweeping it under the rug.

But then the CIA did something unconscionable and lashed out at the committee, threatening them with being reported to the Justice Department. That's when a red line was crossed and they had no choice but to bring the CIA's horriffic moral crime (not torture, but fucking with the Senate) public.
Shouldn't a Congressional oversight committee have access to everything at the CIA? Therefore it should be impossible to accuse the committee of improper access since it's their right.
I totally LOVE the idea, seems far easier and more 'reversible' than buying a dedicated desk.

Big problem for me is it would look a bit naff with our glass desks and iMacs. Can you make a sexy version :) ?

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Reports that smartphones of missing Malaysian airliners' passengers are still on
One might think Facebook did their due diligence and said, "DANG, you got all these users with this big of a hole just laying right out there? Here, have some money."
Thank you - what I was trying to say
That makes sense. I'm not currently looking for a job, and I don't like having people try to sell me on them.
Google Launches Add-On Store For Google Docs
Disney Ponders the Biggest Big Media YouTube Bet Yet: Buying Maker Studios
For me it wouldn't work since i need to rest my arms on the desk and there would be too little space to do that.
Yes, I find the arguments that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme very compelling, even though the case hasn't been made beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Most of the product is purchased not by end-user consumers, but by vulnerable sales people who have been sold on false hope.
No. It's this:

Ansible (et al) aren't enough => We improve a part of the underlying system => We build a new tool that makes use of the improvements and is therefor better than Ansible.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixops
I once worked at a company that was in their third year of transitioning to Agile.
OT, but AES write(decrypt(open())) in python as done on the post seems to be padding the decrypted data with extra bits to match up in size with the source.

OpenSSL's aes-192-ebc gives me a slightly shorter, but well-formed db.
House in Onehunga. I've had the data side of things rewired and the cable from the pole on the street is new too. Something is rotten in the street though.
Multicorn: PostgreSQL extension for writing Foreign Data Wrappers in Python
Sounds like this would make for a great movie script.
Wage theft is sketchy and illegal, but also extremely common.
It's just someone being an asshole.
Yes PostgreSQL is awesome. From my experience with a large installation, we had many more issues with the actual hardware on EC2, than we had with postgres which ran on said hardware. However, I was pleasantly surprised Amazon's RDS now supports PostgreSQL too, so you can abstract away most of the hardware considerations, assuming they've optimized their stack: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/
MultiTable makes the ModTable with a manual crank for about $650 including a "large" tabletop. We have a bunch of these in my office and they are awesome. You can get discounted rates when buying more than 1 direct (but they also sell on Amazon).

$200 for this Kickstarter isn't a horrible price but you don't need to spend thousands to get a very good standing desk.
Funny tinder video
The Stylish Homeless and his Unbelievable Bench Decoration… This will move You
Oh excellent, that's pretty much what I wanted to know. Labdoor's exactly in our field and I've been meaning to reach out to them anyway. Thanks.
Having tried them all. I went with XBian in the end, their latest updated made it faster imo.
We're considering Lucite as a premium option. Or alumin(i)um. Your thoughts?
Go for the double-wide!
> I never said that we should receive them for free. Re-read my post. Slowly.

There is no need for such a condescending tone.

Anyway, I don't see how a staggered movie release cycle can be considered unethical. It's not causing you any real harm by having to wait until the film is released on your preferred medium. This is a very poor justification for software such as Popcorn Time.
Maybe - but remember, we're talking about the CIA. My encounters with anyone potentially related to the agency has been that they're quite competent, to say the least. When considering an agency such as the CIA, it's safe to say that incompetence only occurs in areas where competence is not a priority, incompetence is on purpose, or where the situation is beyond the competence of anyone.

So my guess is they applied little care to the oversight committee and handed them a sheet of what not to do, such as attempt to browse external web sites. The staffers did so anyway, and now are "penetrating" the firewall that didn't even exist except on paper. The agency now has a reason to restrain activities of oversight staffers that they didn't have before (for violating policy).
I work at what used to be a startup until it was acquired by a large company. I arrived at that number by dividing my annual comp by 2000 (40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year) and then rounding down to the nearest hundred. It's probably still a bit high because my comp will drop a bit in two years when I stop vesting my retention bonus.

In retrospect, I wish I'd chosen a number that others would relate to a little better. At $50/hr, an $8.99 Netflix subscription is still paid for in just over 10 minutes of free time, which is just as illustrative of the point I was trying to make.
CompassMD http://compassmd.com/ is addressing #1 and are getting great traction from what I hear.
But you can install specific versions:

apt-get install nginx=x.x.x

I'm not aware of a case where that would install anything but what you ask for.
Yup, and, ironically, my last 10Gig deployment (2009) was 100% copper from the server to the switches - but it was a pain in the butt trying to get it to work, and I don't think I would ever try doing anything but fiber between my network elements for 10 Gig.
Where does religion come into play here? I'm unaware of anyone rejecting the atomic theory or the scientific method (seriously, what scientist could reject the scientific method?)
HTTP decision diagram (png)
Totally true, we just figured since a lot of people already have a desk this would let them keep it!
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Use "full disk encryption for privacy" Here's how to do it for mac
If you use clojure.typed, I think the second example would give you a compile-time type error.
This hypocrisy makes me physically sick.

Feinstein has been one of the biggest apologists[0] for violations of civil liberties, government surveillance, and (both) executive and judicial overreach. Suddenly, the tables are turned on her (however briefly) and she's not so happy with the way it feels.

Call me a cynic, but I'll wait to feel sorry for her until she actually backtracks on all of these despicable practices.

[0] Actually, I don't think it's even fair to say that - she's been a downright advocate of a whole number of nasty practices.
Google did, almost everybody on HN whined like a baby. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7255579
Person with the sun behind then - you've got a high dynamic range there from the sun to the shadowed face.
You could give them $25 and get the specs to make your own. Based on the design in the video, it looks like it would be fairly easy if you already own a jigsaw.

--EDIT-- After messaging the team, they say a router, some wood, and some elbow grease is all that should be required.
Good call.

I'm probably still gonna be in for one either way. Maybe we can work together to figure out the "sleek" upsell? :)
Nice job on the AI! I can still do much better much quicker by hand using the left-down-right-down-left-... strategy. Obviously an alpha-beta search should be able to do better than that naive strategy, but it needs a little more domain knowledge.
Ask HN: How to file tax returns in United States
Does anyone know, what the simplest procedure is to file tax returns for a US incorporated company. It has income of about 2-3000 USD in the year 2013.
Likewise, I wouldn't say I only used the other direction only once, but I definitely keep the highest tile in the top right, and build up the top row, mostly moving up and right only
I won 4 times in a row using a variant of that strategy where I lined up biggest to smallest numbers in a snake like pattern across the bottom of the grid. I only used up if my largest number got moved from the corner and I only used left if my bottom row was completely filled or my choices were narrowed to up or left.

EDIT: 5 times in a row now. I think I'm addicted.

EDIT: lost on my attempt for 6 in a row. I had to press up right after the 1024 appeared and was scrambling the rest of the game. I managed to get the 512 and 2 256s to appear as well but couldn't get them together.
That's not what Kafkaesque means. Kafkaesque is something like Chicago's treatment of sex offenders: state law requires them to register yearly within a short window at the threat of violating probation, but the police close the registration office early because they're lazy. Its about lack of coordination and internal inconsistency, not malintent.
>Does this happen Windows Phone devices as well?

If they put the database in their isolated storage then no. Apps are sandboxed to their own isolated storage folder and cannot get access to the other apps folder (the source of your pain)

Edit: Spelling is hard