skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why can't it just be a "dumb" fantasy? Why does it have to be a dumb libertarian fantasy? I don't see anything particularly libertarian about it. If anything, the existing infrastructure there is a vaguely libertarian thing, the product of their own self determination, and the Google-ish meddling is merely run of the mill capitalistic scheming.

A great article otherwise though.
DNA sequencing, by iPhone
I misread it as "...with zero effect", and the article was exactly what I expected it to be.
Russia To Abandon U.S. Dollar?
It was mentioned, just the opposite of your assumption.

"By the time most meat reaches our table, it contains little or no antibiotics. So we receive our greatest exposure in the pills we take, rather than the food we eat."
That has some advantages, but also some disadvantages. It uses the original server as a "web seed", so even though it's a torrent, it's still putting a little strain on the web server for no good reason. Also with all those unnecessary trackers in there, it's long and awkward to copy-and-paste.
Probably an incomplete or corrupt report. It would be an incredible coincidence of timing for the system to produce a location data point precisely at the moment that the aircraft hit the water and before the system was destroyed. This is probably an incomplete report when aircraft left the coverage area or if the system malfunctioned mid-air and mid-transmission.
In what way is Haskell's pattern matching not as clever as Erlang's?
Only reason I clicked this link is because the title was so ridiculous I expected satire. I don't even bother clicking links like "X ways to..." or "Y reasons to" or "Z people who". These are pretty much always useless articles that have next to no content, but still find a way to spread that little content over multiple pages to maximize the number of intrusive ads they can give you.

I wish people would stop trying to be sneaky and start using sensible titles to articles. But traffic is everything, so they won't. Even good articles hide the main topic in their titles now. It's sad.

I keep imagining a newspaper in 1914 stating "The nation that violated Belgium's neutrality - find out who inside"
FutureJS – May 1-3 Barcelona – First ticket batch on sale
So I'm talking shit but you admit to being ignorant of the research?

:-/
I think this will be one of the killer apps for sequencing
I thought KitKat was supposed to block apps from automatically sending SMS messages to premium numbers?

This is a nasty piece of malware, but premium SMS scam apps are nothing new to Android. So the article playing up the danger of this random, seemingly single-market focused malware (Hispanophone vs. global) isn't particularly scary.
> I highly recommend the SSD power especially for mysql and redis performance.

If SSD is giving you added performance with redis, you're using redis wrong.
You can't "make" people read your blog. They will read it if it is good.

People won't just show up to your site randomly. You need to make quality, original posts that other people will be interested. Then you can post on sites like HN, reddit, etc. If people like your content and how you write they will come back for more. If it is badly written or something that has been seen a hundred times before they will just close it.
For a bit of perspective about these equations:

I only have a bachelor of science degree with a major in computer science. Mostly through my interest in physics and mathematics, and hence the electives I took, I have a somewhat intimate familiarity with all of 1-5, 9, 13, and 14. I have at least basic knowledge about 7, 11, and 12. I have no idea, really, about 6 and 15-17. I'm a bit embarrassed about #15, given what I do. I have heard good things about Shannon's original paper, so I should give it a read. The ones I never listed fall into a half-half area, where I am aware of their meaning, but not very familiar with them.

At the university I obtained my degree from, just as I was graduating they were removing the requirement for computer science majors to take 6 credits in third or fourth year mathematics courses. All that is required now is first year calculus courses, with linear algebra and statistic in second year. The credits are moved to electives, so interested students can still take mathematics courses, but I feel like few of them will.

It was posted elsewhere in these comments that a proper treatment of these equations is found in Ian Stewart's book "In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World". I had heard of this previously, and now look forward to giving it a read.

Edit: To be clear about something, plenty of my knowledge of these equations came from my choice of electives in second and third year physics courses. So, my moaning about the removal of required mathematics credits isn't precisely relevant.

It was one of the few major disappointments of my time at university that I didn't get to take the proper course in electrodynamics (equations in 11). I have always meant to obtain Griffiths' text on the subject and give it a fair shake, and still plan to do so. Entertainingly, I looked it up quickly on Amazon and see they released a fourth edition in 2012, which has mixed reviews and seems to suffer from the usual publisher hijinx.
These are equations, not algorithms.
I love the idea, and since Amtrak started the writers program after a tweet, I sent it to them on Twitter. Please RT or add more...

https://twitter.com/jsnwr/status/442741220851216384
Libertarian bashing seems to be fashionable lately. Which is funny because most people in power are not libertarians.
I've worked with these guys and I can answer any questions you guys may have.

Here's a link to something written by the actual scientists: http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.1211
Well, I opened a calculator to prove you wrong, and guess what?

300K * k * 1GHz = ~4pW

Or, in other words, you are right, we can in theory reduce the power consumption of our computers so much that a current watch will last for a lifetime.
Dvorak has lots of little factual errors in the article. I posted it hoping for a good discussion.

It was a pretty big success in Japan indeed and did respectable numbers in other world markets outside of the U.S. (and was eventually released in the U.S. but was DOA).

There's a few interesting variants of the hardware too, like dedicated MIDI composers, and a version that let's you do video compositing (display MSX graphics over top of video using a dedicated "transparent" color) like an early video toaster.

There's still a surprisingly active scene for it (unlike the Amstrad or Atari 8-bit machines). Nowhere near the C64, ZX, or Apple II levels.

I think one of the problems was that the architecture was dated when it started, and relied on an architecture that wasn't going to go anywhere (Z80). So building a cheap 8-bit machine at the beginning wasn't hard. And in the later years building the most powerful 8-bit machines imaginable became easy as well. But the move to bigger bit architectures was very hard. The Turbo-R spec tried, but the market had already moved on.

In Japan, other PC standards caught on and lasted longer. The NEC PC-88 line for example, was a business oriented 8-bit computer that was Z80 also. But when the market clearly needed a 16-bit upgrade, they simply moved to the 8086 line. Which as you can guess gave them a core architecture that lasted well into the 80386 days...but was not entirely IBM PC compatible.

Other Japanese PC standards like the Sharp X1 were also Z80 based. But when they jumped to 16-bit they went with the Motorola 68k architecture and produced the X68000 which also got it up through the 32-bit 68030 days. Despite being fantastic hardware (much more capable than the comparable Amiga), Sharp never released the line outside of Japan.

Well after the IBM PC standard had won the battle for PCs (with Apple hanging on), Japan still tried to produce non-PC compatible systems. Fujitsu's FM Towns is the most well known. Basically a 32-bit super desktop PC built around the 80386SX (and went up to the Pentium line) with lots of custom, Amiga like, hardware to support an a CD-ROM drive as standard. It had great graphics and audio capability for the time. The system was designed to boot to live software from CDs, so users wouldn't have to muck around in DOS or Windows to launch software. It worked great, but the fact of the matter is that most of the software on the FM Towns are just ports of PC software with small upgrades in graphics or sound. You could also boot direct to "Towns OS" in 1989 2 years before anything else could boot to an OS from an optical disk. There was a brief play to try to "consolize" the FM Towns and a variant called the "FM Towns Marty" was released which was the first 32-bit console ever released.

If you ever get a chance the FM Towns ports of LucasArts games are generally superior to the PC releases and ScummVM supports them.
@spiritplumber, I can only assume you've never flown a plane or used a flight simulator (MS Flight will do).

Today's airliners are incredibly advanced. In the 60's they didn't have Terrain Collision Avoidance. Try to fly the plane into a hill and alarms go off and tell you how rapidly to ascent. They didn't have automated traffic collision avoidance (TCAS). Fly two planes at each other and it tells one pilot to dive, the other to climb and how much. They didn't have stick shakers which alert the pilot if the plane is near stalling, before it stalls, so they know to gain air speed to prevent the stall.

Those are the basic standards. Today any aircraft worth it's salt has a full Doppler weather radar to avoid storms, hail and down drafts. Today the entire flight path is computer calculated and tracked from end to end. Just turn on auto pilot or keep the indicators aligned on your artificial horizon and you'll get where you're going. No one gets lost these days without trying. I've not going to even start on CatII and CatIII landings too. Today planes can land in 0, that right 0, visibility.

> if it wasn't airliner stuff would all be automatic

But let's keep going. Ever heard of AutoLand? Yep, plane can land itself. Ever heard of AutoFlare? Yep, plane will tilt back at just the right angle for a pillow soft touch down. Ever heard of AutoThrottle? No need to keep adjusting those engines, plane takes care of that, just tell it where you want to go. Frankly, pilots rarely do much more than tell the plane what it should do. Want to go to flight level 380? Just turn the knob to 38000ft, set the desired vertical speed rate and the plane will adjust the throttles, ailerons and trim itself out at 38000ft for you. Want to go to heading 245? Just dial in 245 degrees the plane will take your speed into consideration and speed up just enough to keep everything constant through the curve.

Funny thing about automation though is not getting everything automated, but keeping pilots from getting stale because too much is automated. Take the Asiana flight, it's what we call Controlled Flight into Terrain. Not a thing wrong with that 777 but the pilot.

We're worlds away from the 1960's and the 777 is among the most sophisticated and advanced craft in the world. Far more advanced than even our spacecraft of the 1960's.
Stanford engineers invent 50-cent microscope
Which post? I see several that say it's clean.
If this patent gets accepted, I think US may never see any Bitcoin exchange except EBay. This is completely stupid. There's nothing fundamentally special about a Bitcoin exchange. Trading engine and all the other parts are, of course, difficult, but hardly a new type of software.
There are about 70,000 users.
Yeah I was also a bit surprised. LTCM's "Long-Term" was ~ 4 years (1994-1998) with a total loss around $4.6 Billion. That time seems to be very small compared to the ~ 2500 years of the list. And $4.6 Billion? It's not even one third of WhatsApp!
Haven't had good results with that one, but thanks.
And the first of #11.
How is this better for people than a company that just moves packets around?

I mean, government regulation and oversight are presumably means to an end, rather than goals in themselves, so tell me: in this case, what advantage do they offer? If we were talking about, say, emissions regulations for a factory, or worker safety regulations, or something like that, then I could see the case for it. But for this? Man, I just want my packets to go from one place to another.
There are billions of dollars in private money betting that you're wrong in Texas, one of the most car-oriented regions of the country.

http://www.texastribune.org/2013/10/09/politics-high-speed-r...

Self-driving cars will increase road capacity, but I don't think they'll make driving costs cheaper than rail costs per passenger when all subsidies are taken into account. Rail lines are expensive, but so is expanding interstates, and Texas's three major interstates, I-10, I-35 and I-45, are all near capacity.
www.hackerhousefuntimes.com
<---- This is the current status of the establishment
He also lived in somewhat seclusion on a boat, as I remember.
This blanket characterization of an entire continent's people and leadership strikes me as borderline racist.

Yes, there are corrupt governments in some African countries, and yes, there is a history of corruption in many of these countries. But to group all of Africa's governments together and judge them with such prejudice is hardly just.
It shows later in the slideshow, no? Slides 40-41.
>So it's true that US wine is primarily from California, and it's true that France produces significantly more. But it's also true that the US does produce quite a bit.

By your numbers France produces 145% of what the US does while having 20% of the population. So per-capita it produces a lot more wine. On the other hand the French drink more wine. I found a table of consumption per capita[1] and looked up the populations of France and the USA on wolfram alpha. The end result is that France produces 142% of it's consumption, while the US produces 95% of its consumption.

So the French need to export their wine to find a market, and that's probably only easy for the high-end stuff. That should make entry-level but still good wine easy to buy. That's certainly our experience in Portugal as well. It's one of the barometers I use for the state of our wine industry. If I can still find good 2-5€ bottles of wine on the supermarket it means we're still not good enough at exporting it.

[1] http://www.wineinstitute.org/files/2010_Per_Capita_Wine_Cons...
Ghostery isn't an ad blocker, it's an analytics blocker. It's for people that don't want to be tracked on the web.
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has an excellent fact sheet for dealing with identity theft in the US. https://www.privacyrights.org/identity-theft-what-do-if-it-h...

Not sure how much applies to Canada but there's some very good stuff there.
It's an amazing project. The structure of the microscope is made of folded paper, meaning not only is it cheap, but it can be flatpacked and shipped cheaply. The lens is also a cool innovation. They use the glass balls that rattle around inside aerosol cans as a 140x magnification element. The optical quality would normally be horrible, but since such a small image is focused through it, the quality ends up being decent. The balls are mounted in electrical component manufacturing tape, meaning you can just pop the tape in, with no alignment or scratching issues.

Here's a wired article on the project: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/03/paper-microscope/

Here's an old TED talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/manu_prakash_a_50_cent_microscope_t...

I've worked with them to pilot the educational use of these microscopes in local schools. Feel free to ask me any questions about the project or the design.
What kind of stupid comment is this? "Identity theft" has caused people to be chased by collection agencies, to be prosecuted for or imprisoned for crimes they had nothing to do with, and credit ratings ruined.

Case in point: a copy of a guy's id card here was used when signing a lease for an apartment. Apartment was later found to contain marihuana plantation. Public prosecutor claims the guy is the guy behind it all, and has him arrested several times until 2 years later, at trial, the judge decides 'well it can't have been this guy, given all the circumstances'. In the mean time, he lost his job over it, was so stressed and depressed that his relationship fell apart, and was in financial ruins.

He handed a copy of his id to a temp agency once before this thing happened. Probably somebody there copied it, or there was a break-in there and somebody took it. There was no way to hold them responsible, nor were the actual people who rented the house ever found.

How can you say that 'identity theft' isn't real?
>That's exactly what AOL provided when you accessed the 'internet' through an AOL dialup account.

And where is AOL now?
This may be worth it for the transition from lab project to app prototype but I would be seriously wary of deploying anything significant on a proprietary cloud in a proprietary language. Does anyone remember when Google App Engine hiked their prices? A lot of people had to switch off the platform because the traffic patterns of their apps did not work with the new pricing. That could very easily happen here and you'd have to port to a different language, not just a different runtime.

In my senior year of college we built some computer vision stuff in matlab (pretty similar) that we ported to C++ to put in an iOS app. It would have been cool to get a quick prototype by exposing some of the functions as web services but there's no way I would release on the app store with that setup.
>Yes and people only live in areas where they have a way to get food, air and water. A business can't function without profits.

Well, tons of musicians, writers, painters etc don't give up if they have to function without profits. In fact lots of them keep at their craft, without ever achieving much monetary success, and they produce stuff.

A person making a web service could do just as much, if he really wanted to "fill a need and change the world". At least he/she could go at it for a reasonable income, without aiming for bucketloads of money. And yet, lots of people here sneer at "lifestyle businesses".
* What's this Freudian obsession with tax-avoiding libertarians?

* How exactly do you avoid paying taxes on something that's free?
I accept that Russian bankers are getting away with various forms of theft and fraud. But so are the bankers in western countries like the USA and the UK (too big to prosecute). It is like this article's refrain of "In any other country,", "in most countries", etc is not only unaware of the same thing going on everywhere but intentionally ignoring it.
4 reasons:

1. It's hard work summarizing licenses. I'd like to give people a chance to get credited for their contributions to the community and be social about licenses.

2. A little harder to make bold/troll edits if all of them are moderated by both license submitters and admins on the site. Any information around legal things are very sensitive and impactful - although TLDR doesn't claim to be a law firm or provide legal advice, we still try our best to have good quality content.

3. Future ability to build tools for the community on this dataset, where data is attached to user accounts.

4. Easier way to understand how many people are participating and announce new, important features.

Finally, TLDR doesn't encourage you to ignore the license. It provides you an out before you delve in deep.
It was a decent video, but I simply couldn't help but feel like screaming "Just say the words 'free software' and 'proprietary', for fuck's sake!"

It is truly aggravating to what lengths some people will go to avoid using these words, as if they are some deeply offensive racial slurs.

Especially considering they specifically mention Richard Stallman as the founder of it all, which is just a total slap in the face to his ideas.

"Predatory" is actually a relatively accurate term, but it's the first time I've seen it used. We've already agreed on the vernacular: proprietary.

Open source is a purely pragmatic issue and does not offer any moral and ethical guidelines concerning freedom in of itself. Something can still be open source yet proprietary (or "predatory") at the same time, as in Microsoft's shared source models, or GitHub's Atom editor.

I'm very disappointed. This video was basically explaining the concepts of free software throughout the whole time, but for some inexplicable reason chose to stay away from addressing the proper terminology. Is it because "open source" is more marketable? Some hipster herd mentality? A revulsion towards the FSF?

It would have been great if they contrasted "free" with "gratis", but alas. I guess at this point free software has been too deeply whitewashed. I wonder if RMS will repeat himself for the umpteenth time over this?

Could have been more, but hey, I guess it's better than nothing.
Are you trying to tell me that if a person begins to exercise more, with everything else being constant (calories), that there would be no weight loss?
I was initially afraid someone stole my secrets, but turns out that isn't the case, thank god.
This is why Verizon gets away with charging customers more money
Coke, that used to come in 6 ounce bottles, now comes in 24 and 32 ounce bottles. And rather than one once a week as a treat, we can have one or two each day. That's at least part of the problem.
I think that you can get a lot of the benefits by being smart about organising your work and social life.

You don't need to sleep in the same place as other cool people to work/hang out with them.

Crappy living conditions seriously diminishes quality of life and productivity (and those photos seem to indicate a pretty crappy place)
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I used to live in a similar communal-type living space. There were a lot of interesting people, great way to network and all that but things werent really run that well management-wise. Eventually the substandard conditions became common knowledge, not many people wanted to live there anymore and it ended up shutting down (bit of a pity tbh).

The irony is that the people who are happy to put up with those kind of conditions, are often the kind of people who don't want to pay their rent.
"Identity theft" is a catch-all term describing fraud committed using this sort of information. It may not be as specific a term as you want it to be, but that's far from not being "actually a real thing".
"THE WORLD'S HIGHEST LEVEL LANGUAGE" <-- based on what?
You're trolling, right ? Are you kidding ? "Poorly documented" ? I use most of them on a regular basis. I haven't had first hand exposure with only Black&Scholes': But I looked the thing up when I was a freshman as I was interested in stock prices, and was interested in Louis Bachelier, Brownian motion. The rest is well documented through the whole Engineering curriculum. There are a couple I haven't used in a while (Schrödinger's and relativity (hint: Who is Poincaré)).

These "single character variables" are known for whom they matter. You can't have brevity and delimiter-separated names. Equations taking a whole line (or more), good luck with that.

"Maths notation is great for brevity but fails utterly tests for readability and ease of comprehension".. Okay, clearly trolling.

Next thing you know, IEEE will hire Will.i.am or Apple fanboys as consultants to make things "beautiful".
They should change the schedule. What's the point of having an impossible-to-meet schedule anyways? Sets unrealistic expectations and constantly disappoints passengers.
http://madewith2.meteor.com/ has some small-team or one-man projects with source code available.

Production apps are not usually open-sourced.
Would you say communications infrastructure is the best way to help poor developing nations?