skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The high cost of living is caused solely by liberals and their zoning policies?

You really need to work on your reading comprehension. I said that liberals have caused the cost of living to increase in urban areas due to regulation in markets other than housing. Housing regulation is something that both liberals and conservatives engage in.
Fantastic! Thanks for pointing that out. My cursory glance over the code in ai.js led me to believe that you were weighting it by score, now I see the full picture.

One more thing - have you looked into storing the game tree? I noticed it is starting the search from the beginning every time. I'd expect you would see a branching factor of around 10, so this would only really make a difference at depths greater than 4.

You started an excellent and inspiring GitHub project - I feel like the AI research into this game has only just begun.
Exactly; that's the problem. The usual correct way in Windows of calling the function with `NULL` to get the length, then allocating the buffer and passing it back in, is wicked annoying with path names, so most developers simply don't bother.

Interestingly, while that problem doesn't exist in .NET, and so you'd think that .NET would finally support long file names by default, Microsoft actually goes entirely the opposite direction: the BCL strips out any leading `\\?\` in paths to force you to stay at MAX_PATH or below. The more things change...
Dept. of Health and Human Services Patent Covering Medical Marijuana
Just for context:

Veronica Mars (2014) Ratings: 8.0/10 from 312 users

...

User Reviews: Review this title »

ie, no reviews. How is this "favorable"? Sounds like insiders gaming the score for the moment.
Wait, so it's not a digital cryptographic signature...it's just like an image of your handwritten signature stamped on a document? Does that have some kind of magic legal force?
Bug reports:

Tried changing to the UK time zone but got an error:

Not Found

The requested URL /en/Europe--London was not found on this server.

Why so many timezones anyway? Europe will have only five timezones during the World Cup, not one or two per country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_time_in_Europe

Wikipedia disagrees with you on the time of England -v- Italy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_FIFA_World_Cup#Group_D
Sounds like the host machine paniced/crashed/died, and your guest was killed rather than being cleanly shutdown.

Once it came up the file-system check was executed where it either repaired or screwed the file-system further.

I've no experience of this with DO, but certainly with any unclean shutdown file-system corruption is always a possibility.

What should you do now? Shut down the guest, create a new one, and restore your backups to it. If you don't have backups consider this a good justification for starting them. (We all learn that lesson the hard way once, if you need to be taught more than once you should instead look for a sysadmin who will set them up for you.)
Does the AI guarantee winning?
What I find surprising about this is that the work was apparently conducted by separate groups at Riken, Japan, and Harvard, USA. It would take a fair degree of negligence/incompetence/subterfuge for a basic error such as that proposed to occur (i.e. there were no stem cells produced by this method).

Apparently the paper was in review for 9 months, which suggests at least two back-and-forth discussions between reviewers and authors. If there was that degree of misbehavior suggested, I would probably give the editors and reviewers a pass. Their job is not to detect outright fraud.
>mysql has no full text indexing on innodb tables

it has this in recent versions, but it's shockingly bad at matching.
Already getting great feedback -- thanks guys!

I'll be changing the "Save" button in the options to something more like "Save and run", with a message that states the tool will begin automatically favoriting tweets.
I am thinking of doing the same thing with my blog: http://www.preferredembodiment.com/

My audience is very niche and I don't think the ads Google chooses are very well targeted. I have an abysmal click through rate and I think the ads undermine the integrity of my content.

Which BitCoin Donation service are you thinking of using?
The sense of righteously indignant moralizing at others is just as "amazing" to me. And by amazing, I mean worthy of ridicule.
Nevertheless, this was no solution. It is not that those with low willpower will not find other distractions.
If you go to Kirkland and get laid off there, you're almost certainly going to have to move again to find your next job. Sunnyvale, probably not.

This is false. Kirkland is a suburb of Seattle, which is one of the principal technology centers in the United States.
> but there are thousands of people who are making sure it just works.

Problem identified!

Nix doesn't just solve user-facing problems, it's first and foremost a solution for developers to package applications that should just work. You won't need thousands of people making sure a package works - but one. If it builds for him, it should be for everyone, by virtue of the fact he specifies exact dependencies and build instructions, and performs the build in a chrooted environment which should be reproducible exactly on a users machine.
It just saves you the pain in the ass of some other party wanting you to print, sign, scan in and send it back to them.
> When scaling web instances, does it provision a new machine per instance?

We host application instances in Docker containers, so each instance is essentially a container on a VM. We have a very basic scheduler implementation (read: round-robin) that deploys the containers evenly across nodes under the Runtime Layer[1]. As gabrtv mentions in another comment, we are looking to replace this scheduler with something more sophisticated like Apache Mesos[2].

As for creating backing services, we are looking to implement a service registry[3] where it would communicate with third-party services much like how Heroku Addons work. For the moment, most users set an environment variable for their application as per the docs: http://docs.deis.io/en/latest/developer/manage-application/#...

[1]: http://docs.deis.io/en/latest/components/layer/#runtime-laye...

[2]: http://mesos.apache.org/

[3]: https://github.com/opdemand/deis/issues/231
I tried the three main XBMC distro: raspbmc, openelec and raspbian.

I early dismissed raspbian because of the lack of updates.

I liked raspbmc because it's a debian and it's easy to add more features to the PI but I dislike and used to fear the monthly update. It would often break my installation (the dreaded endless reboot loop).

I like openelec. It feels lighter but it's hard to add anything to it because it's a custom-tailored linux distribution at its core.

Can't see any differences between the three of them xbmc-feature wise. Most kinks (audio gap when playing songs, etc.) have been ironed out now.

I now use raspbmc with auto-update turned off.
>So sticking to the only facts we have

That somebody has said something may be a fact, but the substance of the content of that speech is not a fact. We have as much evidence that what they say is true as we have evidence that idle speculations that don't contradict the known facts are true. None. None other than what Snowden hands us, rather, which tells us that they are not only willing to lie to us, but excited to come up with new ways to do it.

>If we're willing to speculate without any concern for concrete facts

To be clearer: I don't think that the government is particularly interested in my genome, therefore I don't believe that the government has analyzed my genome. There's no evidence that precognition exists, so I don't believe that there are psychics analyzing me for future crimes. The government is clearly interested in the content of all of my conversations and everything that I read. Let's talk about the possibilities of that, instead.

There are things that the NSA are doing and have done that will never be able to be verified. There are things that I am doing and have done that will never be able to be corroborated, and will leave no evidence. Operating as if that's not a possibility is a denial of reality. Allow the facts to remain indeterminate, rather than relying on the testimony of the accused because you're starving for facts.
This can be solved with denser housing and more efficient public transit.
My friend found you can get pretty far in the game (at least a 1024 block) if you just spam RIGHT-DOWN-LEFT-DOWN repeatedl (basically rolling your fingers across the bottom row of arrow keys).

It was a little upsetting when I had actually been putting thought into my play and he was doing better.
Fist Bump to Reduce Pathogen Transmission
GUI without the G: Going Beyond the Screen with the Myo Armband
The slides used to sell police and repo companies on license plate database
I use 'hollywood' as a way to describe the industry not the individual players. There are people in 'hollywood' that tried different business models (Louis CK comes to mind), and have found extreme success in doing so.

There is a need for an old, outdated business model, that doesn't benefit the consumer -- and it would appear no longer benefits the industry -- to change.

Consumers want content on demand, without delay, both offline and online. If 'hollywood' as an industry does not accommodate the change in consumer behavior, they will lose to other sectors that do accommodate this change.
Show HN: Track Changes for Google Docs
Google Docs Add-on platform is launching today. We've built a Track Changes Add-on for it.

You can see a demo video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HwBhhKQwxA&feature=player_embedded

You can get the Add-on for free here:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/track-changes/pgjeblaieehjmmahlikmifaggjckpcnp?utm_source=permalink
I find this game quite addictive, contratulations!
What do you think the actual odds are that the parent has never created anything of value?
Happy to answer any questions, too. Cheers!
It's my favorite too! Unfortunately it's broken in Gmail's latest UI update :/
Show HN: Schedule recurring HTTP calls for anything
Yik Yak banned as schools grapple with toxic anonymous social chat
1. Good help is hard to find. If you're smart and capable, you're above that $20/hr line, and if you're not... well you're just not.

2. Service business is hard. Customer support can eat up your time, money, and energy day in, day out. Maybe if one had worked in retail in their youth they would understand it.

3. One of the more homegrown trends the past few years has been maid service. There's a vibrant community on Reddit and blogospheres revolving around setting up maid services in various localities. They all build off the same model. Good to see that it's validated by Exec switching to focusing on that.

In the end, these businesses revolving around re-organizing labor structures and managing people result in the inevitable grand truth: people are complex creatures, sometimes a person is good, sometimes a person is bad, then sometimes a person is cheap, and sometimes a person is expensive.

But we keep insisting on using an iPhone app to sort human beings into quantifiable skillsets then driving down the costs to utilize them. Everyone serves as little cogs in our lives commanded by our remote control. So future.
Definitely not "Ridiculously false". I've lived in the midwest most of my life. You can live ~1 hour within a major metropolitan area (minus chicago) and rent an apartment for $500-$800 a month.

$10 / hour is $20,800 a year. At that rate your effectively paying 0% tax and you probably qualify for heat assistance, free insurance, etc.

I didn't say live like a King. I basically said meant live life.
In a way that's a good thing - having a user work through the frustrating UI and still be interested in the product is amazing validation. Early adopters can self select.
Show HN: The Automataic Gardner
Yes!

Add-ons have been released: https://developers.google.com/apps-script/add-ons/
But it is artificial. How can you strongarm management into paying you more what they would have to pay a non-union worker?

There are plenty of manufacturing examples where unions demand higher than market wages, and companies simply relocate operations.

BTW, both of my parents are union workers. I support their goals, but I think the idea of a union is outdated and ultimately counterproductive.
You can rent 12 years a slave on HD for $6, or buy it for $15 on Google Play. https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/12_Years_a_Slav...
Unless I'm mistaken, any application can read the device's SMS database if given the appropriate permission (and few users are very discerning with regards to permissions).

To an end-user, WhatsApp is essentially an SMS application, except it doesn't use SMSs. Given that, this doesn't seem like the end of the world.
I made this a couple of weekends ago, and since 2048 went over so well I thought I'd post it here.
Sounds a little like Jetpack Kitty.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jetpack-kitty/id567551748?mt...
"If you go to Kirkland and get laid off there, you're almost certainly going to have to move again to find your next job." This seems to be a bit of an odd statement, given that Kirkland is right next to Redmond and Bellevue, across the lake from Seattle, and is home to offices of some major tech companies (including Google). Sure, it's not Silicon Valley, but there's still plenty going on here.

I haven't been to Sunnyvale, but I can't imagine how it could be drastically different from Kirkland and the Eastside. Are you sure you're not thinking of Richland?
Shitty clones would've been made irregardless of him removing the app from the store.
Student Appreciation Video
All too often students go under-appreciated in the classroom and it can lead to a poor learning environment. So I set out (with the help of my 4th grade class) to get the word out there: ALL STUDENTS ARE APPRECIATED!

How often do you remember your teacher appreciating you as a student?
'Naked Truths' About Wearable Electronics
In my opinion, the real issue is more along the lines of "How do I purchase and watch a film that I would like to see." The solutions are many and varied, but none provides access to all of the films one might want to watch. A given film may never be available in a theater near you and once they leave, may never become available online (via Netflix, iTunes, etc.) Just like the record companies, the production houses are hoping that if they fight progress long and hard enough, people will continue to pay top dollar for physical media.

In the case of the record companies, widespread pirating put pressure on these companies to make their content available online at reasonable prices. In my opinion, piracy is once again providing that pressure, this time on the film production houses. I believe that once the majority of films are available online at reasonable prices, products like Popcorn time will lose much of their appeal.
First of all, what he said wasn't racist. Even if it were, should someone be banned from his profession for life, for one mistake? That is a very cruel punishment.

If we banned people for life for saying dumb things, we would have no politicians, movie stars etc left.
It is steep when you can buy an IKEA LACK table for $10-20.

http://www.fatjoe.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Coffee-Ta...

http://www.fatjoe.co.uk/diy-stand-up-desks

Works for people around 5'9.
How we compared code analyzers: CppCat, Cppcheck, PVS-Studio and Visual Studio
I visited Sweden for a couple weeks during a school program in high school. My feelings were largely based on my experiences during that trip meeting tons of students and staying with a family there.

Honestly there were tons of drugs, little motivation, and a happy yet seemingly poor society. The mom I stayed with complained endlessly about how her lazy son was throwing his life away.

Maybe I just had a misleading experience. But I just can't say I saw it the same as you do.
There is always room for misinterpretation. You will never be able to defend yourself 100% against people with poor reading comprehension.
Ask HN: can a LLC use the YC safe financing documents?
Does anyone know if its possible to use YCombinator's SAFE Documents (http://ycombinator.com/safe/) if you are structured as an LLC now but plan on converting to an Inc. once you close your first round?
The phrasing is misleading. The add-on cannot run without you present. In order to fetch the document without any formatting problems we needed to use ScriptService which causes this permissions prompt.

See related: https://code.google.com/p/google-apps-script-issues/issues/d...
I am confused about all these licensing "problems" everyone is talking about here. Could you enlighten me?

Sure, Ocaml and shen have "weird" licenses but I just read through them in the last few minutes and see no major issues.

The licenses for both only effect the code for the language interpreter/compiler and associated libraries itself and should have little to no effect on your own code.

If you use MIT/BSD licenses then you are almost certainly fine, with GPL there are some potential issues but most people think that dynamic linking doesn't count as "linking" in the lawyer sense and, therefore, using GPL code with something like Shen would be fine. This hasn't been tested in the courts AFAIK.
Which was a really big help, but by the time it was on that Youtube channel it was already #1 on the App Store. It really was word of mouth that got it there. There are whole articles analyzing the Flappy Bird rise. I didn't bookmark any though, but they all seemed to conclude it was the perfect storm of viral awareness, it just spread by word of mouth perfectly.
Quad-rotors: How the 1% will control the 99% in dystopia 
The author posits (melodramatically) one very compelling economic question, which is: How will the 99% provide economic value when the 1% do not need them and do not fear them.
Popper, Kuhn etc where laying the groundwork for how to validate phenomena and add facts to our models of the world.

The black swan is a good example of this problem (i.e. what lead to why we try to falsify things.)

Without a discussion about scientific methods no science and therefore Philosophy is important.
Here's the chain of money as I see it when making a movie:

1. Someone comes up with an idea for a movie
2. They approach someone with money to create the movie
3. Monied person gives idea person $X to make the movie with the assumption that they will receive back $X + $Y (ignoring Hollywood accounting).
4. Movie is made. People are paid out of $X
5a. Movie is successful. Monied person receives back $X + $Y
5b. Movie is unsuccessful. Monied person receives back $X - $Z

None of this simplified hypothetical happens without the idea or the monied person. The idea person makes an arrangement that allows them to realize their idea and make some coin. The monied person... Well, he just cares about money. So he wants to make more.

If movies are perpetually unsuccessful, guess what happens? The monied person ends up investing in something else, leaving the idea person out of luck.

I do agree with some of the other people on here that piracy puts pressure on the business people to improve access.
I developed the Electrician Calculator Pro, a National Electrical Code compliant calculator for engineers, electricians, lighting designers, etc:

http://www.electriciancalculator.com

I first created the Android version about 3 years ago, then the iOS version about 1 year ago. It currently makes just enough to cover some bills, although I believe it has a greater potential. I'm currently looking for ways to make this a recurring revenue stream instead of a one time payment gig.
It could merely be the people I've known, but I think the un-wealthy actually do spend far less going out to eat and repairing their cars. To whit, I think it's more likely to say I've been duped by Poe's Law.

I mean, one of the defining characteristics of being poor-ish to me is what a person is willing to put up with when driving junk cars. Cars which - when it inevitably gave up the ghost - would be replaced by another junker. Now, I was raised lower middle class, but for a brief period my parents got out of it; the defining turning point was managing to get financing on a new Ford Escort. It wasn't nearly as expensive to own as feared, partly due to incredibly better gas mileage, but also it drank less oil (two quarts every two days, and not a drop on the pavement... Well maybe one or two for good measure.)

Anecdata, to be sure, but I've met quite a few people with similar stories.
I honestly don't get what the hubbub is about. This is a case where the CIA detected the exfiltration of classified material from a CIA network on to a CIA owned computer that the user was likely warned was being monitored. I would speculate that the only reason that the users are not in jail is that they were there as representatives of congress.
There maybe legitimate questions about why certain information is being withheld, but not monitoring what was going on on their network and the computers attached to it would be a dereliction of duty on their part.

Anyone who thinks that this is the equivalent of the NSA sweeping up all of the "metadata" don't know enough about technology to be making policy decisions IMO.
NYC startup jobs fair 
Hey any NYC based startups recruiting? We have a few stands left at Tech Startup Jobs Fair NYC on 15th Apr. Come join us ...
http://newyork-tsjfair-2013.eventbrite.co.uk/
To the best of my knowledge you can make GPL clojure code, and include clojure.jar too.

http://osdir.com/ml/clojure/2010-03/msg01337.html
My only comment so far is that the sign-in button doesn't conform to the Google+ Branding Guidelines.

https://developers.google.com/+/branding-guidelines
How Instapaper remembers the most interesting stories
These are just common feel-good anti-intellectualisms about individual words and phrases I wrote, which ignore my actual points.

So I'll try to put it plainly:

Most of the problem will indeed go away if everybody, not just the criminals, stopped relying on the concept of "identity" as if it were infallible.

In your example, the negligent prosecutor is responsible for the sheer majority of harm to the victim, by failing to evaluate the quality of the evidence. By perpetuating the term "identity theft", you are giving that prosecutor a shield to hide behind instead of them having to change.
Appreciate it Nathan!

Gmail pushed out a new UI and we had to hustle to accommodate the new changes. Since they don’t have an official API that would let us add the ‘sign’ button, we have to move fast when they update the UI. Any change can trigger an all nighter for us. So, there was a brief gap between their new UI and our update to fix it. Sorry about that!

Either way, the UI issue should be resolved. Please email support at hellosign dot com if you see any issues.
Lack of broadband competition in map form
Thats not really fair.

The point I think the Parent is trying to make is. Remember what science is and how it works and why it's useful.
Vets in tech and startups
Article on military vets getting into the tech/startup world.
Frequentism and Bayesianism: A Practical Introduction
I see the flow you're talking about but IMO that second sentence is just too big and too bold. The paragraph seems to drop that bomb, inch away and then come back to discredit it rather than just spitting it out like, "rumors begun to spread that Dong had..."

Anyway, no sense in nit-picking but I would like to see a couple words rearranged. I really think he's a good guy and he seems to be someone worthy of the industry's admiration.

We need many, many more people like him in this world. (from what I know about him)
He designed Mario pipes? WOW!
New Jersey Just Drop-Kicked Tesla