skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For all the people that are hating on this - some people (like me) sometimes just need a quick design run through on a set of slides to make them not look like default off-the-shelf presentations.

I could see these guys scaling their services beyond powerpoint to provide targeted design services, but they gotta start somewhere.
Considering LinkedIn is suing[1] left and right for people scraping LinkedIn profile data.. Any analysis would most likely be released anonymously.

Would definitely be very interesting though.

[1] http://recode.net/2014/01/08/linkedin-sues-to-fend-off-conte...
YouTube to be monitored by British security
This post contains some strong arguments for the benefits of prediction markets. Since Intrade was shut down due to legal reasons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrade

it seems like the market is wide open for a decentralized alternative.
You may have missed the fact that other "five eyes" intelligence agencies conduct broad sweep data collection on US citizens, which is usually then shared with US agencies (the GCHQ Webcam program mentioned notes that it isn't clear if that program is shared with the NSA, but it also notes NSA documents protocols for dealing with webcam footage).

You'll note the NSA statement on this program was very carefully worked:

The NSA declined to respond to specific queries about its access to the Optic Nerve system, the presence of US citizens' data in such systems, or whether the NSA has similar bulk-collection programs.

However, NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines said the agency did not ask foreign partners such as GCHQ to collect intelligence the agency could not legally collect itself.

A suspicious person might wonder why the spokesperson said the NSA "did not ask foreign partners" for intelligence it could not legally collect itself. Perhaps it is because they don't need to ask? We already know that intelligence sharing between the five eyes is very open (eg GCHQ used XKeystore to run the Yahoo program somehow), so it seems likely that the NSA has access to GCHQ intelligence on US citizens without asking for it.

I'm not entirely sure why your acknowledgement of the phone metadata tapping program makes it less of an issue, either!
Still, when lightsabers clash you never see them bending as the article claims they would.
My One Color is a weird but cool app
Saw this cool/weird/unique app in the iOS app store that kind of reminded me of the Million Dollar Homepage from way back. What the MDH guy did was to sell 1,000,000 pixels on his website at a $1 per pixel and sold out within a month. This is like the modern version of that. With my one color, instead of pixels, there are a limited number of colors (16.7 million under the RGB scheme), and everyone who downloads the app get one and only one of those colors, and no two people ever get the exact same one. Some colors are completely random and have never been named before, but others are special crayola, web, or pantone colors. Pretty neat actually, and its gotten 5 stars in the app store.<p>You can see what colors other people got and what they named their colors at http://www.myonecolor.com/. Hah, I love this one: http://www.myonecolor.com/colors/b88f9e<p>I got a greenish color that I called "green with envy" (http://www.myonecolor.com/colors/60f320).<p>What color did you all get?
"fast Haskell and easy/safe Haskell tend not to overlap"

I'm sorry, but the only people I've heard say this are those who are slightly open-minded about Haskell but truly believe it usually can't be remotely as efficient as imperative alternatives. None of the people I've heard make these statements have had even a few months experience writing Haskell.

If you can qualify this, I'd be pretty interested. Or if you've had an experience with Haskell that led you to believe this, I'd like to see if there is another solution.

I'm very interested in these limitations people always talk about with Haskell, but none of them have held up so far. I've been evaluating Haskell for a while and am very interested in testing any limitations you've faced.
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Not sure.

Do you think Da Vinci sat at his table and thought "let's invent the helicopter" (with a nice unique memorable name for his work in progress)?

I would rather imagine Da Vinci being supposed to draw some boring architectural work or even writing against his will to his great-grant aunt. And then a paper fell off his table, spinning away. And then I imagine Da Vinci drawing a spinning paper on the margins, and adding equations, schemas, and getting deeply inside this new project, which becomes clearer in his mind as he works on it, without ever having a name.

This is exactly why I hate deciding a branch name before some tasks and I love `git add -p` which allow me to add a bucnh of unrelated things in the work tree and extract the juice later.
It is very common (I've filed over a dozen articles of organization and incorporation across 3 states) but clearly an archaic, inefficient means of announcing a business name establishment. There are "newspapers" in Arizona dedicated entirely to publishing these announcements. It seems like a racket, becoming a recommended vendor to provide a service for a legal requirement in an obsolete way.
While I agree with you, I think it's important to note that part of the difference ni the experience is that anyone can post whatever they like in a forum thread, leading to trolling and worse.

Not everyone has the ability to broadcast news from a news outlet, and certainly the more reputable ones, which are hours behind, are behind because they also have habits from more traditional journalism, things like fact checking and avoiding pure speculation.

> Yes, there were a couple of users that may have jumped to conclusions - but so what

You cannot seriously be blind to the implications or consequences can you?
I think in one of the movies one of the Jedis calls the blasters clumsy or ugly or something. They're looked down upon as too easy or low class.

Also if you just have a blaster, then you can get shot. With a lightsaber you can block shots at you, and also block force lightning.
I think you hit the nail on the head there. They're all conventionally attractive, thus intelligence was clearly not the guiding factor in selection. So the message is that intelligence or advanced degrees are not all that important except as some kind of weird gold star -- it is still looks that count.
Good rule of thumb in gave development: assume people don't read anything...literally, anything.

That said, I thought the goal was pretty obvious as well.
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This peak does not include "behind the meter" (rooftop solar) generation.

The peak last year was 2.07 GW, set in June.

Summary info here [1]; Calif ISO graph here [2]; we didn't quite hit 4GW today 3/12/14.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/solar/califor...

[2] http://www.caiso.com/outlook/SystemStatus.html
Let me get this straight, you're equating having control of a device with DMA with being able to sniff a network connection?

If you really think they're the same thing, I have some baseband software for you.
The problem is not so much what the aliens might do to us, but what their microorganisms, bacteria/virus equivalents, might do to all of earth's life. Our microorganisms would survive and adapt, we might not.
I mean actual colo space, like you just pay for 4u, 8u, bandwidth and power. No machines, just space.

Both are "cheap" just along different axis.
Nice layout for this one, a tad better than OpenSpritz.

One issue: numbers with points get split up, which is very confusing. E.g. 16.4 becomes 16. and then 4.

Another issue: It sometimes starts reading out script code, e.g. here. http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2014/03/05/amazons-wa...

One feature request: Keyboard shortcuts to pause and maybe to step back or "zoom" out to see the whole last/current sentence before continuing.
I think part of it also diminishing returns: life of cancer patients has been greatly improved, with early detection it's no longer a death sentence and at times not even a major handicap. See, e.g., quality of life after treatment of prostate cancer now vs. quality of life after treatment of prostate cancer treatment just 20-30 years ago.

I imagine power law holds in most disciplines: going from 99.99% uptime to 99.999% is far harder than going from 99.9 to 99.99% which in turn is harder then going from 99% to 99.9%. Likewise, I'd imagine same holds true with death tolls over N years from various illnesses (but obviously with different constants involved).

Can you explain to me what you meant by externalities here? Do you mean medical industry benefits from cures without contributing to funding the NIH grants?
Isn't twitter a twitter for opinions?
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How do you MITM someone specific that may be thousands of miles from you? Much easier when you have access to their modem.

Exploiting system services - you can attack any kind of non encrypted traffic flowing through the modem. Such as unsecured applications running with broad permissions. Or you can inject data into kernel services that communicate directly with the modem.

I don't know if on these phones the modem presents itself as a simple serial device, or if it has its own kernel driver (/dev/modem). If it does have its own kernel driver running in the phone, then this driver becomes an easy target for attack, granting full system access.
I didn't know they had DMA.
Good luck. I do some custom dev work for a event management firm because they could not find something that fit their needs (this was 4 years ago) so I took an interest in the space. It shocked me how broad the reach of Active.com was and how they were pretty much universally despised by everyone who had to use them. Really a sales organization pretending to be an event management system.
I'm just curious about the reason for this, but I notice a lot of startup's (especially from Y Combinator) tagline is 'The easiest/best/fastest way to x'. Should there be more originality here, or has it tested so successfully that it is recommended for everyone? (I am genuinely asking if there is data to support this, and am not being critical of eventjoy)
It's a great way to go, if for no other reason than it will give you a stronger relationship with your aircraft and thus make you fly more carefully. :)

That said, while assembly and setup is mostly trivial (the hardest parts are basic soldering and dealing with some open source configuration GUIs for some flight controllers), figuring out what to buy and where to source it is pretty challenging, especially for a first build.
Nimrod is very interesting. As a former Delphi hand, Nimrod looks very much like a modern upgraded version of ObjectPascal, with some heavy influence from Python and possibly Ruby.

The language is actually pretty amazing — it's expressive and flexible (eg., type inference lets you omit types in most places, to the point that much of your code ends up looking something like Python/Ruby/Lua), and it's just amazingly fast, but not at the expense of ease of use. In almost every way, Nimrod is the "speed of C/C++, ease of Ruby" replacement that we have been looking for. Go's performance has been too disappointing, while Rust is a wee bit too complex. Nimrod feels just right.

As I wrote in a different thread, I and a colleague have been looking a little bit at using Nimrod as a game-logic language, as a replacement for Lua. Lua is pretty fast, but Nimrod is considerably faster; I'm personally also not a fan of Lua with its very weak table-based OO and rather idiosynchratic syntax, although I know it gets a lot of love on HN.

What makes Nimrod particularly suited to game development is that it's designed to integrate well with C. Nimrod compiles to C, and the generated C code provides the necessary bindings so that you can easily call Nimrod functions from C without an intermediate translation layer. In other words: If you write your core engine in C, scripting the game with Nimrod is (from what I can tell) as easy as with Lua. Very exciting.
I think another part of the problem is that there aren't really any important things in the public sector right now. The last public sector thing that engineers got excited about was the Apollo program.

Fixing government? Yeah you might be able to modernize a lot of the tech stack that runs various governmental entities but you're not going to actually fix the entities. You'll be implementing failed or broken policies in node.js instead of cobol. It's a step in the right direction but it doesn't actually fix the core of what's broken.

Curing cancer? There's no Federal Department of Stopping Cancer, either you work for a big pharmaceutical company or you get a PhD and scramble for grant money.

Rebooting our space program? That happens every administration and it always starts with some kind of dream to do audacious thing X that won't get any significant funding.

Fixing education? I'm not really sure where to start here. You can't fix from within since there's a constant struggle by the administrators to stay in power because teachers don't have any upwards mobility besides administration. And trying to fix it from the outside? That's even tougher, Kahn Academy has some traction with people but little with teachers who fear it'll put them out of work.

Find me something inspiring that's not going to be mired in politics and bullshit and I'm all ears. I don't think any of those are all that inspiring. I'd even deal with less pay for something really impressive.
Great point! I mentioned it in the post, did you read it?

"Note that the properties of a relational database are well suited to online-transaction processing (OLTP). Such a system guarantees consistency and availability, and it supports extreme multi-tenancy. However, complex logic over large amounts of data does not perform well"
You're changing the rules and shifting the goalposts. Look, it's simple: if the objective is to win then you want to avoid giving your opponent any chance to beat you. That means you never choose dice.

> The point is that there are appropriate tools for reasoning about such games correctly - utility, decision theory, etc. - and they beat minimax.

Perhaps this is true but you have not convinced me that this is the case here. Moreover, the OP claims to have empirical results showing that AB-pruning does better than MC-search for the game of 2048.
IIRC in universe a lightsaber is essentially an infinte blaster shot trapped in a magnetic loop. The crystal tunes the magnetic loop, so blocking blaster shots is simple because the blaster on the "outside" bounces off the same field keeping the plasma "inside" and for the same reason you can have proper sword fights.

I forget if you can shoot a Jedi with a regular bullet but I'd imagine s/he could just dodge it regularly since blaster bolts travel significantly faster.
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There's a Skeptoid episode about the WoW Signal:

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4342

The podcast starts with: "It was August 15, 1977, when astronomer Jerry Ehman was examining data coming from Ohio State University's radio telescope, which was engaged in listening for signals from deep space, hoping to find something of intelligent origin. In a moment that's since become one of the most famous events in astronomy, he saw a sequence of six characters on the printout — 6EQUJ5 — which caught his attention. So much so, in fact, that he circled the text, and wrote "Wow!" in the margin.

It was, apparently, a signal from outer space. It came from the direction of Sagittarius. The strength of the signal was represented by the digits 0-9 and the letters A-Z, a scale of 36 levels of intensity, rising with 6EQ and falling with UJ5, a near-perfect bell curve of signal strength spread over 72 seconds. All speculation and hype aside, Wow! remains the strongest candidate ever detected for an alien radio transmission."
>You cannot seriously be blind to the implications or consequences can you?

There seems to be a serious lack of empathy on the parts of many of the users on HN who are commenting.

They're forgetting that Sunil was a person, and that he had family and friends. They're forgetting that baseless accusations actually hurt others.
I thought it was safe to assume that seconds were the unit of choice, but next time i'll be more clear. Thanks for the suggestion
I've spoken to a Qualcomm engineer about this article. He responded by telling me, in fact, he was one of the engineers that dealt with the issues that highlighted after it was published. He asserted all of those remote-execution holes were addressed, and the article has been a constant pain since because it was never updated to reflect that.

I'm not a close friend of his, but I've met him on multiple occasions and felt confident he was telling the truth.
Same here, always sought out DejaVu fonts until Canonical ? came out with the Ubuntu font. Now I literally even use it on Windows, not my preference to use Windows but Ubuntu fonts and Cygwin make the limited time I have to spend on it bearable.
It shows up in more complex queries:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+Planck+mass%2Ftau+mass
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I think one issue is that people have different opinions on whether "ownership gets really tricky" is a common case or an edge case. Many people with unique_ptr experience seem to assume that Rust's owned pointer is more of the same and not really applicable when ownership is even slightly complex, but this is not the case. Rust's owned pointer is vastly more powerful than unique_ptr and in my experience (and in Rust compiler and Servo browser's experience) and "ownership gets really tricky" is an edge case.
So can people with knives or swords, or baseballs propelled by a bat. Anyway, I suspect that all of those quadcopter injuries occurred while the owner was setting up the quadcopter. Every story I've read (mostly from my frequent visits to RC hobby forums) is from people attempting to test functionality on a bench with the propellers on, or perhaps a few people who attempt to take off with their aircraft right at their feet. The RC helicopter death is a valid point, but that's the only RC aircraft related death I know of, and helis like his pretty much self-regulate because they're expensive, require mechanical knowledge to setup and maintain, and will mostly likely never get off the ground if flown by someone who doesn't know what they're doing.
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Indeed, that is also partly responsible - there's less incentive for the public to learn HTML, and instead they will feel more inclined to rely on these frameworks/applications/services. The barrier of entry to just getting your opinion published has lowered; but the barrier of entry to making your own site and being a webmaster has gone in the opposite direction. I think that is largely how the Web is becoming more closed.
5x5 version of 2048
You don't need to be force sensitive to use a lightsaber but it helps because it's weightless so someone without force enhanced reflexes is likely to slice off an arm or foot trying to actually fight with it. I'm pretty sure though there are a couple of expanded universe characters who use lightsabers but aren't force sensitive and of course there's General Grevious who is a robot.
> I mean could you ever imagine a fashion line modelling male PhD students?

Yeah, that would be ridiculous. The only thing I can imagine more unlikely would be something like, say, the world chess champion as a fashion model. [1] [2] [3]

[1] http://en.chessbase.com/post/magnus-carlsen-s-new-career-fas...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.282813624995.33321...

[3] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2562821/Magnus-Car...
If you look in the citations, you'll see everything you need to reproduce the results!
Non sequitur, but...

Seeing that whiteboard, after constantly feeling ashamed of my whiteboard writing next to that of my team members, I am just overjoyed to see whiteboard writing that looks as messy as mine. In fact it looks exactly like mine, letter shapes and all.
As an applicant https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs was always a fun way to read the pulse of the YC crowd. I saw something interesting, I applied, and now I'll be starting my new position in a few weeks! In a word; useful. :)
I think these are the best set of flappy bird clones that have come out yet (except perhaps the flappy bird orbital game).

Admittedly, only a couple of them truly qualify for that title (annoyingly difficult gravity games with stupid simple controls), but I think they all adhere to the same theme - extremely simple game ideas that are nevertheless compelling.

In the Atari-NES era, technical constraints forced this style of game design upon developers, and they (well, some of them) still produced compelling games by focusing on the details of these simple interactions. There are admittedly somewhat similar constraints on this particular canvas (ahem) but I believe the tools have evolved so much that you can spend a lot more time on the mechanics, rather than fitting it into RAM (hence, 10 rather polished 8-bit style games in 10 weeks).

I think it's good to get back to basics. I played all 10 games, and I enjoyed it (though the typing game was downright cruel; it's amazing how difficult it is to read and understand a misspelled word, then type it misspelled, let alone the gibberish). Well done.
As with all things Star Wars Wookiepedia has an extensive article on how lightsabers work "in universe".

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightsaber