skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering whether someone would nitpick about that, but given the audience I should've known.

It's the closest proxy we have though, especially given the subjective nature of corruption.
Educational Robot for Robotics MOOC
If they're smart, they'll just make the website part of your work responsibilities and get it for free.
I think where BRS shines is that it helps flight in situations where the risks were otherwise too great. Flying day VFR over prairie is pretty survivable if you have an engine out, but the chances of getting through a situation like that while flying at night, in IFR, over mountains, VFR OTT, through known icing, etc., is much lower.

Light multi-engine aircraft were born for those situations but, ironically, they're not much better than single engine aircraft for survivability. There's a saying that a twin just gets you to the scene of the accident faster.

So, yeah, it's not a panacea, but improving the odds of living through the other 44% of flight accidents is still a good thing.
Pick a platform, port later if needed. It's what most indie app developers do.
I like how the login/sign-up button click boxes conform nicely to the central circular 'or' area.

...but that's about it.
Probably not. If Noam Chomsky is to be believed (I do), most research to date has been publicly funded. In the US, it has been mostly through military expenditures. (To take only one example, ARPANET itself was funded by the military.)

The actually awesome part is having huge investments on long term research. Private or public, it doesn't make any difference.
The rule of law boils down to men with guns listening to the judgment of twelve of the most ordinary people that can be found. If you're unlikable, or if you're acting outside the social norms, that creates a problem for you.
What is Money? can be broken down into: How is Money used? and How is Money created?

How Money is used is virtually the same for everyone:"medium of exchange, store of value, and unit of account".

How Money is created is more interesting. It is essentially created by fiat, which undermines the general belief that the quantity and value of money are closely associated with the amount of economic goods and services in the consumer economy, and it is not.
It's in Comcast's interest to peer with all large CDNs. Any player who isn't large enough to be a major CDN can outsource to one.
Google is investing a lot of money with efforts like Chrome apps and Cordova.
Cool! Why is this not on pypi?
I thought it was from Sparkfun as well, but it's also early and I didn't know of the situation until reading this response.
I found 5 bucks in my car yesterday.
I feel the author is mixing up a lot of stuff (between OS and manufacturer).

For example, there is no such thing as a Dell "system". I have a Dell laptop and work with Ubuntu. It came with Windows 7 installed and I changed the grub configuration to boot on Ubuntu by default and not wait.

I also feel it's like he's mixing Mac and Mac OS (i.e: The laptop with the operating system). And since Apple moved from PowerPC to Intel, he could easily have an Apple laptop running under Windows.

Also, since the software he wanted to use for real estate wasn't available for Mac OS (Not Mac the computer!), he didn't say anything about trying Boot Camp.

I feel reading through the article that the author has very little understanding of the computers he's working on and was almost living in a bubble, frankly; which doesn't surprise me at all since he described himself as being a former Apple fan, but surprises me since he had a high position in that company.
LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner Beats Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg as CEO of 2014
>Don't be under the illusion that our system is built upon trust and volunteer acceptance. It's built upon overwhelming brute force.

Not completely, but society still heavily relies on it. The majority of people obey (most) laws because they believe it's the right thing to do, not because they're afraid of punishment. And if they didn't, we'd very quickly find that the existing police forces are completely inadequate to keep control of a herd of psychopaths.

Companies are a little different, since their decision making is often disconnected enough that the individual morality of their employees isn't necessarily reflected in their overall behaviour.
> This trait of C++ is not a good thing, but the amount of successful software written in it seems to prove that it's not fatal either.

That depends. It could also be argued that our current tools are limiting what we can accomplish and at some point we'll need a revolution, otherwise we'll hit a ceiling, just like when concrete replaced the need to carve and place rocks on top of each other.

For example living organisms are way more adaptable, more self-healing than anything we've ever built. Our own body should be a text-book example of massive parallelism involving trillions of independent agents that cooperate with each other. In particular, the process of wound healing that happens when you cut yourself is quite fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound_healing

If we wanted to simulate the human body, or at least the human brain, since that's the most interesting part, somehow I'm not seeing C++ in that picture.
You should use symptom checkers. And you should never trust them.
Nope, thanks for the tip, this looks promising!
Assassin's Creed Unity Announced
You should work some sort of "drag and drop to MediaCrush" thing out. Hosts video, audio, images with minimal BS, and gives you a link to share. Open source and has a great API, too. Disclaimer: I helped make it.

https://mediacru.sh

https://mediacru.sh/docs
Typo. Edited. Thanks.
http://www.coaster101.com/ is somewhat of a coaster news site. Also has some interesting information regarding roller coaster construction
Oh they´ll try, i´m sure.
i can manage my ups though. Thanks for the tips guys.
Bitcoin is an interesting environment in which one might discuss the gender ratio.

On one hand, crypto-currency in general is a relatively new phenomenon -- it seems unlikely that there could be a well-established gender bias in the community, given its youth.

On the other hand, perhaps Bitcoin, etc. have inherited the apparent male-dominated attributes of the tech scene from which they emerged?
Is X a Prime Number?
Show HN: 2048 without numbers
It's not the revelations that are costing the tech companies. It's the spying.
I'm working on proper documentation for extensions as we speak, but for now you can find some very basic info at https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/wiki/Extension-API .

As the author of pretty much THE book on writing PHP Extensions ( http://amazon.com/dp/067232704X ), I can say with a fair bit of authority that writing HHVM extensions is SO SO SO much easier.
Yeah. But the sense of humor from Numberwang makes it more than a "look I just stole someone else's idea" clone, gives it it's own personality.
VOTE for TrustLeaf at #wins30s competition
same for me : at work youtube ( and social sites as well ) is filtered so I have no way to know what the app (is it an app ?) is for and who is for (smartphones is it ?).

From the HN comments, I can infer it's some kind of neat way to save web-based datas, but I'm still in the dark.
Neither is the third one. As usual, the first fit will go into military.
while I'm not familiar with Grails, I am familiar with other frameworks besides Django and I've got to say, it seems like lots of the choices the Django developers made are completely backwards compared to how other frameworks manage things.

- Form. ModelForm? Formset. Inline formset? Model Formset ... ? Jesus I just need data POSTed back. Why must I use your management_form when you don't also give me the JS to ... manage it?

- ModelForm._meta knows it's app_label, why doesn't a regular Form

- 200-line migration files are just not fun to grok.

- ID based migration file names are a pain when multiple devs are involved (Rails / SQLAlchemy solve it using timestamps / SHA1s. South closed it as a wontfix years ago)

- Having a user model you're not supposed to touch

- urls.py gets way too disconnected from what they are actually routing to

- managing 'apps' is silly, making a new directory in python gives you just about the same advantages.

- if request.method == 'POST': ...

- The `class Meta:` pattern.

SQLAlchemy is the better ORM for python.
Jinja2 is a similar template syntax but with better performance.
WTForms are easier to work with than Django forms.
Tastypie also makes a lot of dubious decisions.

I just really don't see where this framework fits in.
>If you want to start an online financial services business, the first thing to do is start researching the legal requirements for doing business...

This is a bit naive isn't it? Imagine contacting FINCEN, or whatever other appropriate regulatory agencies at the time of MtGox's founding when Bitcoin was a novelty and worth practically nothing. Imagine trying to explain to them what a "Bitcoin" is. Imagine being thrown out of their offices "Go away kid. Grown-ups are working here." Even if you did find some reasonable solution, compliance would have probably made the proposition unprofitable. Bitcoin might never have got off the ground if your advice were followed rigorously.

OTOH, it is certainly unforgivable for Kerpales to have continued in shooting from the hip after becoming a millionaire; and after MtGox was raking in the kind of fees that would have supported hiring legal staff, building a robust trading engine, and implementing some sane practices for data protection.
Needs to say what it is on the homepage.

When my only options are to play a video or "register with" then I always choose the third: close tab.
Jerk is also a limit in how fast a subway can move between stations. There is a clear limit to how much jerk average standing passengers can survive before they fall down.
I worked for IDG for about 7 or 8 years. The Christmas visit was quite amazing. Companies far smaller than IDG distribute annual bonuses via an impersonal notice from payroll, and here we have a corporate leader of an international publishing conglomerate who goes out of his way to personally thank most of the people who work for him, chatting for a minute or so about our jobs and how important the work is that we're doing, making a crack about our supervisor or local CEO, and then finally giving the envelope with a card and a check inside. If my company grows to that size, I will make a point of following a similar practice -- or finding other opportunities to thank people in some personal way.

One other thing about "Uncle Pat": People now see "billionaire publisher and philanthropist" but at one time he was a scrappy startup founder, too. His stories about founding Computerworld and running it out of a Harvard Square walkup in the 1960s were hilarious. He disrupted the industry in a big way (most tech publications before then were mouthpieces for advertising departments of the companies they ostensibly covered) and when CW started with a mission to be the voice of IT management, advertisers launched a boycott that lasted for some months or maybe even a year. It's only when they realized that their customers deeply wanted unbiased news about products and trends that they gave in and started placing ads in CW (and later its sister publications, Network World, InfoWorld, etc.). IDG grabbed huge market share and expanded all over the world, and became the large company it is today.
> How about just make Javascript frigging fast so everyone can code their own layout system? How about standard NaCl interface for layouting?

If layout were in JS (or PNaCl), we wouldn't be able to run it off the main thread, or parallelize it in Servo, or experiment with running it on the GPU. We would also lose the ability to do text reformatting on mobile, accessibility would be harder, etc.

To elaborate in regards to running CSS off the main thread: We got very lucky that IE's extensions to allow JavaScript in the middle of CSS evaluation (and also possibly XBL) never caught on, and so CSS can be done more or less entirely independent of the main JS event loop (unless the styling is performed in response to a direct JS query, e.g. getComputedStyle). If layout were performed by JS, there would be no hope: layout could perform arbitrary JS manipulations and we would be no choice other than to stall the main event loop while styling is happening (as current browsers do). But because CSS is largely separated from JS, we can just run it off the main thread and allow JavaScript to run uninterrupted by layout.
Ouch! tough crowd :)

Sorry, I don't mean to cause offence to anyone. I blog things I find interesting. I use my own words, create my own animations, derive my own formulas (and the spelling and grammar mistakes are all mine!)

When I use the photos/images from others, I give credit and link back to sources as much as I can from available data.

I've have on the order of 100 blog articles now. I'm sure over the course of these I've trodden on a few feet (sorry), just as much as I've blazed new trails.

We can all become better by listening to feedback, and I'll try to do better at providing additional sources of information and inspiration.
> [IBM] is spending $1.2 billion to build cloud computing centers around the world to lure foreign customers who are sensitive about the location of their data.

IBM et al are still American companies, and until they're immune to American legislation (ie: FISA Section 702) then no-one will touch them with a fifty-foot ethernet cable. The location of the data is irrelevant.

The US Government will not budge on this issue, and they will happily throw the entire tech industry under the bus. Bailing out Silicon Valley and nationalizing as much as possible is very appealing, too.
The article conveniently leaves out that he was convicted on one count of identify fraud in addition to the CFAA count: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/att-hacker-found-gu..., by a jury. If it had just been the CFAA count, he would've gotten just a misdemeanor.
Why Americans are the Weirdest People in the World
tl;dr

A graduate anthropology student sets out to confirm "humans all share the same cognitive machinery—the same evolved rational and psychological hardwiring."

He uses prisoner's dilemma test on an indigenous population near Machu Picchu. His results were vastly different from previous studies.

He continued his research across the globe and he finds:

- Almost all cognitive research tests is performed on people from Westernised societies. And of all the western societies represented, the overwhelming majority came from America.

- Americans are outliers with relation to most cognitive research, even when compared to other western societies.

- Our culture directly effects our rational and psychological hardwiring.
tl;dr

A graduate anthropology student sets out to confirm "humans all share the same cognitive machinery—the same evolved rational and psychological hardwiring."

He uses prisoner's dilemma test on an indigenous population near Machu Picchu. His results were vastly different from previous studies.

He continued his research across the globe and he finds:

- Almost all cognitive research tests is performed on people from Westernised societies. And of all the western societies represented, the overwhelming majority came from America.

- Americans are outliers with relation to most cognitive research, even when compared to other western societies.

- Our culture directly effects our rational and psychological hardwiring.
Whether a joke or a real suggestion there seems to be nothing suggesting it was taken forwards and it isn't like they didn't get chance to go through with something because the police knocked down the door that minute.

Without further evidence of any concrete action I don't see how it could be regarded as an "attempt" at anything. That he was convicted on the basis of that[0] strikes me as a failure of the system (including the prosecutor, the court and the jury) and that hopefully an appeals court would correct the error.

[0] Assuming that was the extent of the evidence in this aspect as there may be other evidence of which I am not aware.
I am still finding good solutions for those too, and trying to add some concepts to my toolbox like orchestration, service discovery, proxies, data containers, ambassador containers, and so on. It's hard for me to wrap my head around the different recommended ways to use docker compared to my initial expectations.
I tried dragging everything on the page...because I didn't want to watch a video. I ended up caving and hitting play when it didn't work.
I think my edit snuck in at about the same time as your reply, sorry about that.
I agree, of course.

Some context about weev. (And of course regardless of my preferences he should be free unless convicted of a crime)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?p...
Am I the only one that bothered when tools like this do not give you some insight on resource consumption/limit?

Even if it's just parsing logs via sqlite, I still want to see the limitations and X per Y usage metrics to see if it can handle monitoring high traffic domain without impacting performance.
GitHub Reliability
Will IBM fall?
US DHS digs out 27,000-member child abuse ring buried on Tor
Curing (and treating) cancer currently employees quite a few people.
I used to use it but stopped after Mavericks because the version I was using is no longer supported. (I was using the version made by Greenbytes.) I've since migrated my data off of it.
Source: https://github.com/Zolmeister/prism
I am a very social person so this might be strange but here is my career path so far.

Well I went from working IT at Age 13 - 17 (Sales and programing)
Artist and Art Restoration 17 - 20
Child Minister and Christian Camp Director 20 - 32
(LEAST FAVORITE JOB) RD and Systems Librarian at a College 32 - 37 (College as faculty is a very high drama environment)
(FAVORITE JOB) - Head Start Literacy Coach for 250 3-5 year olds.

All the places it was bad to be thought of as intelligent though Pre-School had the fewest consequences.
Nice idea. How's it working for you?
I can only speculate, but as you may recall, Numenta abandoned their original, belief-propagation-based design, replacing it with a new one based on sparse distributed memory. Dileep had done a lot of work on the original design, and I recall reading that's what Vicarious is using, having licensed it from Numenta. So I think you can put it down to a difference in technical direction between Dileep and Jeff. As far as I know, the split was amicable.
If I ever buy a light GA plane, I'd love to have something like this for additional safety. Unfortunately in GA, there are a lot of safety innovations which never get implemented, due to strict regulations and cost. Things like un-stallable/un-spinable airplanes (like the Ercoupe or the Long-EZ), could potentially make the dreaded spin on the base to final leg non-existent, but they aren't mainstream because they're too expensive to bring to market.

It's kind of a catch-22; people are afraid of flying because of safety issues, but you need scale to spread the costs of making planes safer.

*edit: corrected typo
Judging by the article's image, I thought they were going to bash this "dashboard". I mean... it looks absolutely terrible.

I'd be curious to know how many tax-payer dollars went towards this state-of-the-art dashboard.
When a prosecutor is not only technically illiterate, but proud of their illiteracy, they should be disbarred.

By that logic, when a programmer is illiterate with regards to the law, they should be barred from programming forever if they make an app/SaaS/whatever that breaks any law, any where, for whatever reason.

Prosecutors, especially US Attorneys, are self-aggrandizing, attention-seeking political whores, but technical illiteracy by itself is not a justification for disbarring them from the practice of law.

Weev's attorney can, and should, [edit (past tense)]have sought[/edit] Moramarco's removal from the case based on his statements. Prosecutor's don't need to be fully technically literate when it comes to prosecuting a crime, but they do need to at least understand the basic details in order to maintain their ethical obligations to their position, the court, and the defendant.
I'm happy NYTimes changed the headline. It used to say "Edward Snowden Leaks Cost US Tech Companies Millions"

Now they properly changed it to NSA spying as the cause.
this is nice. What libraries did you use to build it? It's like a cleaner version for the non-technocratic masses...
Malaysia Airlines didn’t buy $10 upgrade that could have tracked missing MH370
Could it fallback to the original event?

say that I have other drag and drop extension on firefox like QuickDag, it does open link in new tab, google the text, download images... etc.

when I drag a link and drop anywhere besides Dragdis sidebar, then it should fallback to Quickdrag and opne the link in new tab, not just cancel the drop event.
Ask HN: Best resources for a web developer to dive into server admin?
I'm a proficient PHP developer, but thus far have not dealt with anything that requires scalability or requiring to know the system--everything has been taken care of by managed hosting. Now I want to dive right in and learn everything from load balancing and web server administration to server security, scaling, performance, and troubleshooting everything when things stop working.

I know the basics of Linux (even my desktop is Ubuntu), and I've messed a lot with Apache config files, ufw firewall setup, etc, so I don't have to completely start from scratch. But I'm not sure where to go to when it comes to scaling my application (like with nginx or haproxy), performance, security. I'm looking for book recommendations or other resources that can give me the whole picture.

What I've found so far:

UNIX and Linux System Administration - seems popular on Amazon, but not sure if it'll cover everything I need as a web developer, such as scaling.

The Official Ubuntu Server Handbook (3rd Edition) - Claims to cover server setup, clustering, cloud, troubleshooting, etc, but I'm not sure if having it only Ubuntu-oriented is good.

All advice is appreciated!
> I'm pretty interested in the types of things you might like to do in your "advanced mode".

"Advanced mode" in this context simply means "I want to write an expression in a formal language because it lets me remove the difficult-to-control natural language parsing." It's actually a simpler mode, because it does less, but it requires the user to use a programming language, which is generally considered "advanced" on this type of user interface.
Right. If HN is so sensitive to critique that something introduced as a 'small quibble' -- a marketing tip, from someone who has been there -- then you, HN, have jumped at least one shark, and probably several other marine macrofauna.
The landing page is very confusing. I didn't want to watch the video or register just yet, so I spent a good 5 mins trying to drag the buttons on the page, expecting it to be a demo. Didn't work, thought the demo was either broken or it didn't work with my browser. Almost left and gave up before reading the comments here and decided to register and give it a try
Thanks, I'll put it on pypi soon, just put it on github today
They already do. Google had/has a whole education site based on finding out whether your ISP was blocking/throttling.

http://www.measurementlab.net/ (Google is heavily involved)

http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/ (although this page's "venom" has been taken down in recent years)
He's stated it was a typo for MtGox now.
Not in a flawed PRNG was used. Lets not forget we talk custom wallet implementation here...