skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
News in this sense is just catching up to the financial world. Big finance has had bots that parse news feeds and raw data for YEARS as part of their high frequency trading (HFT) platforms as a form of arbitrage.

So let's say a major earthquake happens in San Francisco and the Google HQ falls into a bottomless pit. The trading algorithms will know about the earthquake within seconds, and they will also know about likely know about Google's obliteration from speech-to-text of police scanners. The millisecond these reports hit the wire, the HFT algorithms would likely short the hell out of Google's stock immediately while also placing positive bets on Google's competitors as well as construction companies and building suppliers. And this was going on 10 years ago; they're probably light years ahead of this by now.

It's also not very hard to write the second piece given the right machine learning technology. Feed a decade's worth of human-generated articles into an algorithm (which could also be paired with marketing metrics like page views, avg time spent on page, etc.) and the algorithm picks out the types of statistics it should look up from the databases and how those statistics should be incorporated into the story. Heck, if you wanted to get really fancy, you could try to pick the major themes of the game out of a transcript of the play-by-play or specific emotional moments of the game by measuring the level of crowd noise or twitter traffic.

A computer will have better information recall, better research skills and better perspective to write stories that are more appealing to people. Heck, they could even write a story on the fly designed to appeal specifically to the individual's preferences. I understand that there's a place for reporters, but I don't think it's going to be written event-based reporting for much longer.
Does not apply. This is not a news article per se, but a blog post. :)
I decided to go the LTS route as well. I actually don't know when they will actually release the new version, but I assume it will be before the end of April (do they always hit their target release month?).

I will be upgrading fairly early; probably at the end of April. I have a big deadline in late April and upgrading Ubuntu will be my reward/punishment. I suppose I will listen for any disgruntled users before I make the plunge, however, and reassess if things look too problematic.

Note: this is for a work machine, but a PC, not a server or something like that.
since noone actually responded to your question, and assuming you are talking about on servers, i began testing our configs against trusty some time ago. I'm not going to switch right when it's released, but I am eager to move to it. You're going to get lots of things that you may have had to work for in 12.04, like a newer kernel and newer versions of system tools and libraries and your key server software, from OpenSSL to nginx/apache2, python, ruby, libc, etc.. The LTS cycle works, and I encourage you to begin testing as soon as you can, and in the future to test while it's in testing simply because you can - it's not expensive to throw up an instance here or there.
from the product info l ink at the top of the page:
"Ecofont software saves ink and toner by leaving small holes in the letters."
http://www.ecofont.com/en/products/green/printing/packages.h...
"Snyder is proposing this as the actual mechanism of Huntington's, and they have shown, in human tissue culture and in mouse models of the disease, that supplementation with extra cysteine can stop or reverse the cellular signs of the disease."

Question mark or no, that sounds pretty positive. Anything that moves the eight ball on understanding the mechanism of a disease is good news.
Well put. I find comments of the nature "I know a guy who just cut down on his drinking and now he's fine" the most dangerous. Sure, some drinkers can do that but there are many more who cannot safely do so.
50 signs you might be an entrepreneur
>it's good that aa uses the 'god as you understand him' which most people just use that as meaning 'something outside yourself'.

Have you read the AA "big book?" If you have it is very clear it refers to the Judeo-Christian God with many quotes from the Bible. Its section on non-believers is completely offensive (to me). It basically says "accept god or die."
I remember the spell-checker being harder than it looks. You have to train a Naive Bayes classifier to "recognize" misspelled words.

I can't access the link right now...
OK: http://web.archive.org/web/20140217174744/http://norvig.com/...
This is great, not just for the idea, but how detail the writeup is. I feel as though I could do this even without much Arduino and Node.js experience.
Your feelings about Unity, and your preference for Mint because things regularly break and it gives you learning opportunities, may be things you really want to get said. But they are not really relevant to the question you are replying to.
they should want risk-takers, not people seeking the shelter of Google, McK, Bain, etc.
Innodb redo log archiving
What about the impact on rent prices and rental unit availability in rent-controlled markets like SF and NYC?

I'm curious how many rental units are taken off the market for use with AirBnB.

I've come across at least 6 people thus far that use AirBnB with a rent-controlled unit in San Francisco.
Have you consulted a sleep specialist? Have you tried practicing proper sleep hygiene?

http://sleepfoundation.org/ask-the-expert/sleep-hygiene
The standard that the media holds Tesla to will still be a picnic compared to how the media will treat the first self-driving cars. Far safer than human-driven will not be nearly enough; the first high-profile accident will be wall-to-wall "Are Self-Driving Cars Really Ready For Prime Time?"
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."

I take Kurzweil with a grain of salt, and generally think he's waaaay too optimistic, and just plain ignorant [1][2] about entire bodies of knowledge intimately related to his predictions.

I think anyone who's spent some time doing machine learning, and has seen just how time consuming and tedious it is to get a relatively reliable answer to a relatively simple prediction problem is not going to be brimming with confidence that we're going to have strong AI in our lifetime.

[1] http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/08/17/ray-kurzweil-d...

[2] http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/08/21/kurzweil-still...
A digital format is never going to be printed with fluid inks? ;-)
OWASP Hatkit Proxy Project
In your experience, is Debian less prone to breakage when upgrading from stable to stable than Ubuntu with its release upgrades? I've run Debian but I have never been patient enough to stay with a stable release and find out.
I actually don't think our opinions differ that much. I just have trouble expressing my ideas. You seem to have hit it on the nose with your last statement. I am more optimistic that these scripts will be used to generate breaking news that doesn't (yet) require much human analysis, just information that must be quickly disseminated in a readable format (such as an earthquake's geophysical qualities). This would hopefully leave more resources that would allow more rigorous journalism (such as analysis of the effects of and response to an earthquake) to thrive in the future just as deficiently as now.

The word count was intended to display just how little information might be conveyed in fifty words. The inclusion of my comment's word count was simply to make the comment self-referential. Both can be safely ignored.
Yes. There are some things that people can't realistically do without. I worked as a stringer for the local paper for some years. In this capacity, I covered local water / sewer authorities. The typical cycle went like this. The authority raised rates to meet their costs. People used less to try to cut theirs. The authority took in less money; so they raised the rates again.

Also, in the US, these contracts go to the lowest bidder. The bidding process is not exactly always the most honest and truly competitive.

The combination of these two things is why I fully expect ink prices to go up.
This is anot only a great summary of the summit, but also of the Hook model. Shared it in startup letters today as well :)
RealCrowd co-founder here...

The investments are direct with the real estate operating companies, avoiding layers of fees imposed by the REIT structure.

These sponsors do get traditional funding. The operators we select to be able to post on RealCrowd do not need capital from the internet at large. Instead they augment their fundraising or recapitalize an existing property so they have more free capital, allowing them to do more deals. Since we do not charge any carry or other fees to investors, sponsors also bring their traditional investors onto the site to make the fundraising process easier.

More info on our operator-focused page: https://operators.realcrowd.com
There is a difference between poaching someone from some company and hiring someone from that same company who happens to apply to yours.
"he has a promising future as a manager."

Or, if this actually leads to adoption, a salesman.
Social network for your body hides clothes that don't fit you
Reminds me of this: http://youtu.be/IC3W1BiUjp0.
Also note that some cars (the old Audi allroad) and last two generations of Audi A8 have airbags built into the suspensions at all four wheels that inflate and deflate to change the ride height.

This is different than simply adjusting the characteristics of the electronic suspension - this actually raises and lowers the car non-trivial amounts. I think a D3 A8 can raise up 4-5 inches from highway level to bumpy dirt road level...

I am genuinely curious what the raise/lower range for the tesla is - anyone know offhand ?
exactly.. I read that and was like... how did I not get that from the original article?
Anything similar for android? Looks like nice project for hobby hacking.
I feel strongly that Sony has been changing in the past year and finally getting in the game again with genuinely great products. PS4 (best console), Xperia Z2 (best smartphone), Project Morpheus (forward-looking innovation), and now this.
Google cloud – updated, flexible pricing makes it much cheaper
Save an email to Evernote with just a tap
I disagree, but I'll shut up now, and let other people talk.
Since many documents are not just "text on a page", one might wonder how much it will cost to lay things out using a more efficient font.
I do not ever want to work with a person that does not see a joke as just that, a joke.
you'll be able to soon! Cole is very happy as well!
Wait, what? Don't get me wrong, I'm on board with the notion that misogyny is rampant, but I don't see how this is an example of it.

SPOILERS: She transcended him in the end. In the end, she did not need him. How did he solve any of her problems?
Amazon to launch aunching a free, ad-supported streaming TV service
If that's all you need then literally almost any distribution will work for you. ... including Ubuntu
Brace.io dev here. We're working on Brace Teams which provides collaboration features (and currently requires full dropbox access). We would be happy to let you try it out. I'll send you an email.

Also you linked to our not-so-secret staging site. We'll be putting up access restriction there soon. Please use http://brace.io.
I couldn't help but think of Turkey as I read this.

You want to cut off the internet? Fine. You can't stop us from communicating, though.

Although if there was an agent with a phone in the area, he could see what everyone was saying, even if not who was saying it.
Thanks!

If you haven't already, I would recommend taking an intro to databases course. A machine learning course would also be helpful, if you have time to take it before you finish. Other than courses, I would try to build some weekend projects that demonstrate your ability to write clean, modular code.

Regarding hours: Insight is really intense, so while the official hours during the six week program are M-F 10am-6pm, most Fellows stick around pretty late each evening. The peer-to-peer learning aspect of the program is one of its biggest strengths, and you get the most out of that when you can be around the office collaborating with others as much as possible.
Wow, this looks like the beginning of something big!

If half of these features are solid, you guys will do really well.
Very rarely hot-lead printing (and analogues), which I assume is the exclusive use for ink traps.
Learn To Build
What would you expect a 9 yo to accomplish regarding programming? What do you teach them? (it's just a question,not a criticism,before you downvote in mass)
> Looks like a dream.

Indeed. As a PhD student that reads and annotates a ton of scientific papers, this really seems like something that could help me do my job much better.

Please, if any of you manage to get your hands on one, I would love a hands-on review with a lot of pictures.

The price is really high, that's true, but I can see top people in academia or enthusiasts like me adopting it.
Control groups are quite hard to come by...
> "People you may also know"? Really?

One of their objectives is to keep expanding their user base. This feature is crucial to be in a visible place on the screen. Also quite useful for users that have just joined Facebook.

And about:

> random stories "Top stories" rather than sorted by date

It's a known fact that when you add randomness to the action -> reward relationship, addictiveness significantly increases. (it's not intuitive, but has been proven on everything from rats to humans!)

I stopped using Facebook "personally" some time ago, but I admit that they know their shit and do it well. Whether they do it by brute-force metrics or they have some really smart UI/X evil geniuses, I don't know, but it's well done!
> (B) Requires me to plug it into my PC and install Sony produced software.

That there, is a big turn-off for me. What business would Sony making a device like that which requires their own specialised software to interface it with a normal computer. There are standards for these things. The USB mass storage device standard is well-established already.
If Sequoia Capital Is in Your Future, Read This
Said by plenty of folks - for example, Joel Spolsky http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
Oh, that makes it much easier to imagine.
Wired changed their headlines. You won't believe what happened next!
Confessions Of A CSS Expert
Yes.

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/alcohol-abuse/alcohol-abu...

Signs of alcohol abuse

You have problems at work or school because of your drinking, such as being late or not going at all.
You drink in risky situations, such as before or while driving a car.
After drinking, you can't remember what happened while you were drinking (blackouts).
You have legal problems because of your drinking, such as being arrested for harming someone or driving while drunk (intoxicated).
You get hurt or you hurt someone else when you are drinking.
You keep drinking even though you have health problems that are caused or made worse by alcohol use, such as liver disease (cirrhosis).
Your friends or family members are worried about your drinking.

Signs of alcohol dependence or addiction

You cannot quit drinking or control how much you drink.
You need to drink more to get the same effect.
You have withdrawal symptoms when you stop drinking. These include feeling sick to your stomach, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety.
You spend a lot of time drinking and recovering.
You have given up other activities so you can drink.
You keep drinking even though it harms your relationships and causes health problems.

Other signs include:

You drink in the morning, are often drunk for long periods of time, or drink alone.
You change what you drink, such as switching from beer to wine because you think that doing this will help you drink less or keep you from getting drunk.
You feel guilty after drinking.
You make excuses for your drinking or do things to hide your drinking, such as buying alcohol at different stores.
You worry that you won't get enough alcohol for an evening or weekend.
You have physical signs of alcohol dependence, such as weight loss, a sore or upset stomach (gastritis), or redness of the nose and cheeks.

>but you are not doing drugs - you can quit easily

1) Alcohol is a drug.

2) Even if it wasn't, non drugs can be very addicting and harmful - gambling, shopping, porn, etc.
While this is arguable clever,
a similiar concept has been known for ages to traditional printers.

There is a whole class of typefaces optimized for high speed, low cost/low quality printing, which pre-compensates the letterform for expected ink bleeding, so called Ink Traps[1][2]. They are highly optimized for a specific printing method, the font size and the paper-quality used, and don't translate well to non-ink based printing.

The problem with current desktop publishing fonts is that they can't possibly be optimized for every single use case on screen and for all of the myriad types of printing so robustness while maintaining legibility is key. Especially if the product is expected to be photocopied I would always go for a reasonable bolder weight, uncondensed typeface rather than losing information.

Also make sure the 8 is distinct enough from a 6 [3] (Times New Roman beats Arial by lengths in this aspect)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink_trap

[2] http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/calculated-errors-the-...

[3] http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...
I'm new to programming and web development, but just out of curiosity, if I wanted to write a script that fetches data and writes/generates product descriptions, is there an online resource that explains how to do this in general terms?

Also, would writing it be something a beginner/novice like myself could do or does it require pretty advanced skills?

Thanks for any info you can provide.
Huawei on NSA: If foreign spies attacked a US firm, there’d be “outrage”
Android Apps for Mapping (OpenStreetMap)
Robots : Immigrants from the Future (Economist Special Report)
This 188-mph R/C car will blow your mind
How many of them, though? Just because "some" of them were accurate doesn't mean he's any more accurate than any of us would be if we took a stab at it.
3D Printed Skull Successfully Implanted in Woman
Interesting. how does one go about proving a negative?

To support my side, do a Google search for "Joel spolsky Mozilla". Hope that helps. Granted, it was written four months into 2000, but was reflecting murmurings one would read on Slashdot months earlier (back when /. was the HN of its time).
Out of curiosity, if the founders are reading this thread, how did YC help you to improve your company? Specifically, did they help you in any way that you couldn't have done without them?
Elon Musk is the heartthrob of our generation, producing electric cars, space rockets, wish I was as successful.
Wrangling Dalvik: Memory Management in Android (Part 1 of 2)
Or, you know... just keep using an old, stable, dependable version. But you can't do that with GNOME since they are such rabid fans of the CADT model.
I don't think the demand is just here. If anything it's probably greater in areas where there are fewer techies, but harder to find.
> 11.10 (the "unity" interface) sucked so bad

To be fair, Unity in 11.10 was quite broken and slow and resource hungry, but they fixed that in 12.04 and 12.10. I understand if people don't like Unity, but it's been getting faster and better than in the earlier versions. Personally I use cinnamon.
Ruby Garbage Collection: Still Not Ready for Production
Having used scratch (very cool) I have been using the beta to teach them things like - this image is an ~object~ and it has properties. Look how we can tell it to change these properties over time etc. Its more conceptual than "this is the syntax of an if statement in objective-c". Pretty cool so far (as cool as scratch, just different)
"However, to improve things further, we provided an over-
the-air software update a few months ago to increase the
default ground clearance of the Model S at highway speeds,
substantially reducing the odds of a severe underbody
impact."

How can a software update impact ground clearance at highway speeds? Is this some special capability of the suspension in a Tesla or are more cars capable of this type of adjustment?
Nice. This means a true WYSIWYG application should simulate ink flow! Does any existing app have such feature?
Sony's hardware is top-notch, however their software deserves every bit of criticism it gets. It's universally awful and as such universally reviled.
awk is for messing with text, of course it's going to be terser.
And yet this is written for people who aren't familiar with this area of software engineering. It's stated so right at the top of the article.
Cloud reseller
This makes me hopeful for my future. I have 4GB and am in the constant cycle of "close firefox so I can start my VM, close the VM so I can start Inkscape (with a big file), close inkscape so I can start firefox, and if you want to play one of these new GNU/Linux games: _close_ _everything_".

It honestly feels like there is some kind of problem with the system swapping (or failing to swap some memory) or some memory leak that I can't quite track down. Maybe something got fixed somewhere in the last two years...
Even Betteridge's law occasionally has it's exceptions.
How do you know this is strictly because he is sexist?

What if I'm a hiring manager, and I had 50 applications, 25 Male, 25 female. What if all the female candidates were really bad, and I ended up hiring 10 men? Is that sexism?

People are really reaching. I have yet to see a direct case of male vs female sexism on HN. It's usually heavily extrapolated and begging for an implication.
After reading a lot of the comments I think it would be useful to create a distinction between a drinking problem (loosely defined as someone drinks to much, has negative consequences, etc) and addiction (loosely define as strong, life threatening withdrawal symptoms and intense cravings).

I've heard addiction defined as a "Confusion of your survival instincts" caused by prolonged exposure to a drug which seems to be an adequate and accurate description of addiction.
George R.R. Martin releases a new chapter from The Winds of Winter
IT perspective:

Interesting and subtle change. However it will likely be net negative. Most high volume copiers/printers are laser and/or covered by a cost per copy maintenance agreement. Meaning that most organizations pay the same price for a page regardless of how much toner is used on that page.

Contrast this with the cost of enforcing a single font family across millions of systems and documents. There are a large number of unseen costs here. Imagine 10 years from now some vendor responding to an RFP for healthcare.gov v2.0. The government insisting that the source code be converted to garamond for the weekly status reports. The HN posts that day will be about how ridiculous of a requirement this is.
Don't disagree re the average Joe, but as a semi-technical Joe without the chops to really code this is exciting. I'd like to see more non-game demos to better appreciate the scope, but SalesForce integration screams small and medium business use-cases.
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Ha ha ha ha - that's so true :)

I've got a Bravia EX that doesn't work properly (random failures, won't record to hard disk) and a dead VPC-J1 all in one at the moment. Spot on.
No drone experts were harmed in the making of this video… Or were they?
A tribute to my first coach
Those fires were the best thing to ever happen to my stock portfolio, knowing the real story behind the fires almost felt like insider trading
As a contractor, I was involved in development for the trip planner widget for Skånetrafiken. Markup was constructed from MSPainted jpeg blueprints. Where the designs came from, I have no idea.