skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting idea. I doubt any one Fellow has the power to do that, however, Round 3 does have a lot of Open Data Initiatives which might be related to this.
I'm the founder of the Insight Data Science Fellows Program, and the new Insight Data Engineering Fellows Program we just launched above. With the Data Science program, which helps PhDs transition to industry, we're at 70+ alumni working as data scientists at companies like Facebook, Square, LinkedIn, Airbnb, etc.

This new Data Engineering Program is NOT restricted to PhDs, and open to all professional engineers or BS/MS graduates. It's still free, just like the Data Science Program, and is designed for people who want to leverage their existing software engineering skills to transition to a career in data.

Happy to answer any questions here.
So a tree is growing before biofuels were developed. Say biofuels did not get developed, the tree is still there converting carbon dioxide to oxygen and hydrogen. (Generally a positive thing for the environment).

Now someone develops biofuels. Convert the tree to biofuels, and burns them. One less tree, more CO2 (generally a bad thing for the environment). Whats difficult to understand about that?

Now if you plant another tree on what was a piece of concrete, and burn that, THEN you have a zero sum game. I imagine most of the biofuels are being grown on lands which previously had (non-biofuel) plants growing rather than on concrete.
This video is pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk9EBOOAYiU
It makes me wonder how the Google Loon project moves forward.
Yes, a playbook would run post-OS install. It's either executed locally or anything you can SSH to. If being careful enough one can support multiple OS-s with the same playbook (at least different Linux flavors) but it's definitely quite some maintenance like different package names and conf file locations etc.

A playbook contains tasks like installing, removing packages, editing config files etc. The beauty of it is that if done correctly you can run the same playbook over and over again against the same computer and each task can be smart enough to know if it needs to be run or not. This makes updating your computer with the same or updated playbook very fast.

With Ubuntu it's easy to get to the post-OS install, it's more involved with Arch Linux. I would first create an Arch box with Vagrant using Virtualbox. And then create a playbook that works with that virtual Arch box. If the box and ansible playbook is good enough then
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Moving_an_existing_inst...

At least in theory, I haven't moved Arch between VM and a real host myself... Of course you can also just do a manual Arch install and then run the playbook but that would miss half the fun of doing less by doing more.
Based on your name I'm assuming we're trying to find them in the same city...
So if I was taking Fake/No medication, then I should believe that my body developed the ability to fight and stop the disease without any the help of any external agent just because my brain was thinking that I am taking real medication?
cue the downvoting of anyone critical of the OP....
Vik Muniz and Marcelo Coelho Build Microscopic Sandcastles on Grains of Sand
It's unclear what the duration at the right for each API call is. Rate limit? Information freshness?
The demand is no doubt there. This needs to be executed well and priced well also. I'm going to bet it's neither. Sony is notorious for high prices. Also, who's to say the writing feels as natural as they're making it look?
Designing Lasting Habits: Takeaways from the Habit Summit
Ads already paying less for users from poorer countries, so a pay-for system should be priced also by country.
Y Combinator's YC VC may lose the actual VCs
It's not even that people have been thinking about it theoretically - actual places have actually implemented schemes to save money on toner and ink.
If the computer adds some additional analysis to the data, autonomously, then it would be fair that reader should understand the nature of the analysis. With humans, we kind of live with it because we know they have common sense, so we kind of know what we can expect (or maybe, humans understand what are our needs). With automated translation or adding titles, we understand the process. But in automated writing? I am worried a lot of effort will be wasted trying to figure this out.
Test your network connectivity
tesla is weak. they are a huge underdog against the other car companies. they are david versus goliath. they are being cocky. that's what the small dog does :-)

there is a risk of a bad accident that could be bad pr. that risk exists with or without the arrogance. elon musk has a high tolerance for calculated risk. that's why he's a billionaire and you and i are 2nd guessing him on hacker news.
all language can be weaponized, see "Politics and The English Language"
Grey's Law:

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/08/21/magic-stupidity-mal...
except flappy bird retained users which led to more ad impressions. i guarantee you the retention for 2048 is crap.
A (Successful) YC Application
No. None of that $590 million came from the sale of Alibaba shares, as the Alibaba sale took place in 2012, not in 2013.

In addition, $590 million is not Yahoo's net income, but their pretax income from operations. In other words, excluding Alibaba.

Here's the breakdown for 2013, in thousands:

Income from operations 589,926
Other income, net 43,357
-----------------------------------------
Provision for income taxes (153,392)
Earnings in equity interests 896,675
=========================================
Net income 1,376,566

"Earnings in equity interests" is Alibaba.

See 10-K at Yahoo's investor relations site: http://investor.yahoo.net/sec.cfm
The Problem of Multiple Counterfactuals
Exactly, reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:

"We survive by breathing but we can't say we live to breathe. Likewise, making money is very important for a business to survive, but money alone cannot be the reason for business to exist."
Relational databases are not the right choice for large-scale data stores serving large number of users because:

- they provide unnecessary features at high cost (e.g. database-wide transactions),

- they don't provide features that are essential (e.g. scalability, distribution, graceful degradation).

By contrast NoSQL data stores like Bigtable are highly scalable and can easily be stacked over to provide more features if needed (see e.g. Megastore, http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824-2011/papers/jbaker-megastore...)
New Oculus Rift Competitor
From Farm Boy To Billionaire: 7 Insights For Entrepreneurs
Most of the power differences between cores these days isn't in terms of clock speeds but in terms of extra structures that cause more instruction to be executed each cycle. The rule of thumb involving voltage/speed scaling is that your power use is indeed the square of your performance more or less when you're in a reasonable region. However, a relatively simple in-order core like an ARM A7 might also only take 1/4 the energy to execute a given instruction of a complex out-or-order core like an ARM A15 even when both are clocked at 1 GHz on the same process.
> And who gets to decide which conveniences are "slight" and which benefits are "superficial"? Sounds like nice work if you can get it.

By that I did not mean to suggest that there's is or should be a universally enforced definition of what is "slight" or "superficial". I meant to point out that no matter how you define those words the definition of wastefulness depends on it. How you choose to implement it is a matter of values.

> Not likely. Computer recycling centers return the materials to manufacturers so they can be used as raw materials for new production. They don't resell the systems as-is.

There are various ways to go about recycling computers. Even if your computer was sent straight to a manufacturer to have its raw materials extracted, it would be better if it was given to someone in need of a computer for immediate reuse.

> If your definition of "wasteful" is "putting things in landfills instead of recycling them", you could have just said so.

"Throwing away" was admittedly not very carefully worded, try "getting rid of it in a way that does not guarantee continued use". Never mind that millions of tons of electronics go into landfills every year.

> This is quite true. But you're failing to ask the next question: why are people readily throwing their old stuff away? Because the new stuff is perceived by them to have better functionality. (This is not just true for computers; it's true for pretty much everything, cars, houses, clothes, etc.) They may be wrong, but who made you the judge of that?

Why anyone is throwing their stuff away in favor of new stuff is besides my point. Perhaps they don't realize the consequences, or they ignore them on the basis that they won't personally have to face them.

> You are completely ignoring the benefit to me of having my current laptop instead of my previous one. You're basically saying that people should be satisfied with old, outdated products that don't work very well compared to new ones, just so that we can avoid manufacturing new ones. If you want to make that tradeoff for yourself, fine, go for it. But if you expect other people to accept your definition of what are "slight conveniences and superficial benefits" that don't justify buying new stuff, you're going to need to do a lot better than just pointing out that people buy a lot of new stuff.

I am not ignoring that there is a benefit to you having a new laptop, and I'm not trying to tell anyone what they should or shouldn't do. All I am saying is that the shape of our society largely depends on our general lack of interest in the consequences of what we do with discarded products.
Upgrades break Mint though, it's like you're living in 1980, backup and reinstall? What's the point of using Debian variants if you have to do that?
HTC One M8 Review: An unambitious update to a premium smartphone
This Little-Known iOS Feature Will Change the Way We Connect
> shitty "poor people"
You've offended billions.
Wow, that's recursive -- downvoting (and thereby censoring) a comment satirizing censorship and redaction. I'm ok with that, since my comment could have been more explicit: did anyone else think it was weird that the thing the judge ordered the government to tell Dr. Ibrahim has been redacted? http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Screen...
Regarding Unity, it's fairly easy to revert to the "classic" Gnome desktop, which is a good enough approximation of the old behavior for me. See, for example: http://askubuntu.com/questions/58172/how-to-revert-to-gnome-...
I agree in working smarter not harder, but they were both equally smart. Maybe the harder working one more so.
Trees and plants are a short term carbon sink, rotting releases most of the carbon back into the air.

(So a tree does store carbon as it grows, but there is probably a sensible separation between a few hundred years in a tree and geologic carbon. "Biochar" is one idea towards sinking carbon, the charred material doesn't rot as quickly.)
"In addition to PDF source files, MS Word®, PowerPoint®, and Excel® files can be converted to the PDF format, then saved, viewed, and annotated on Digital Paper."

Don't worry, though, in addition to PDFs, you can convert other files to PDFs!
I didn't say you would want to switch. I said most people use little photoshop functionality. If you think that is controversial, then I think you are delusional.
I'm unclear on what Chen meant when he said he was restarting production on the blackberry bold... Is that referring to the updated version of a keyboard BB10 device that would have the trackpad or does it literally mean restarting the BB7 powered Bold device?
"Is the article accurate? If so, does the ability to restart the mind from an inert brain tell us something important about how thought and consciousness works?"

The evidence points towards consciousness and thought being purely physical things inside of the brain. As long as the brain isn't damaged while off (which is difficult and what this research is trying to achieve) then there's not much reason why someone can't be "restarted", whether it's 10 minutes later or 1 year later.

"Every day at work I declare people dead. They have no signs of life, no heartbeat, no brain activity. I sign a piece of paper knowing in my heart that they are not actually dead. I could, right then and there, suspend them. But I have to put them in a body bag. It's frustrating to know there's a solution."

The above sentence basically sums it up. Our advanced medicine is constantly improving, but the current state of medicine is primitive on the scale of things that humans are capable of eventually fixing.

Can we eventually fix the spinal cord? Yes.

Connect to a brain via a BCI? Yes.

Restart the brain? Yes, as long as it's not destroyed first.

Also there is no reason that the brain can't be transferred. That's where the real discussions on consciousness begins. How slow does the transfer have to be so that we're really still ourselves?
He means drinking doesn't get better, so stop drinking. He doesn't mean "life itself."
Some people thought % formatting sucked and made .format(). It was then discovered that some not insignificant number of people found .format() a complex abomination and so deprecation plans were nixed.
Isn't $3.5 trillion per year slightly less than $111K per second?
The real issue is that a bunch of people have thought of this before, some even made websites and posted articles, but they didn't get on cnn.com (and the top of Hacker News) for it. So now they are hurt and upset.
Show HN: My Isometric Voxel Engine 6 Months Later
This looks interesting to me, but doesn't Apple hate apps that are too much like the App Store? The Private App Store description seems like it would make it a target for the ban hammer.
The death spiral continues. I have to hand it to them, they lasted longer than I expected.
I have ADHD and no tolerance for weed -- it ruins my headspace and makes me paranoid. I also hate ritalin/etc, so I manage myself using tools like lists, alerts (if I've been using my web browser for too long), calendars, and lots of visual cues around my workspace and home (color-coded stickies).

I really, really wish drugs worked better for me, because it looks so much easier.
A Giant Basket That Uses Condensation to Gather Drinking Water
Learn how the browsers lays out elements
Deaf woman's shock as she hears for first time
Not surprising. Even mainstay companies are advocating BYOD now and even if the reintroduction of the "bold" spurs corporate sales they still need a solid consumer phone. Not that the z/q10 aren't(never used them) but I don't know that there is any compelling differentiator to encourage users to switch.
Because I actually enjoy making my life more complicated, obviously! (it seems like a fun challenge)
I think the concerns of the aluminum body panels on the new F-150 is specific to this segment (trucks). Utility vehicles are expected to take more abuse. Getting hit with tools/logs/ladders/etc. isn't uncommon and people are afraid their truck will look like a golf ball after a year.

The main drawback of aluminum body panels is that it's difficult (i.e. expensive) to make them. I would imaging fatigue (from vibrations, for example) is also a larger problem in this application with aluminum than it is with steel.

Citation on difficulties of fabrication (introduction paragraphs):
http://www.thefabricator.com/article/stamping/warm-forming-o...

Additional considerations when designing dies for aluminum forming:
http://www.schulergroup.com/major/us/technologien/produkte/a...

A list of some cars using aluminum body panels:
http://www.paintgages.com/List-of-Car-Manufacturers-who-use-...
Blackberry seems to be the classic example of a company that didn't take the competition seriously enough while in its prime & thus paid the price. This is what happens when you aren't constantly vigilant & innovating - you're at risk from companies that are.
One final gameplay tweak: there's now a 90% chance that a newly-spawned tile will be a "2" and a 10% chance that it will be a "4".

The gameplay should now be identical to the original 2048.
he has been labeled a sexist all over the internet by someone who has been in the lab for a couple of years

The word "sexist" does not appear in the article. Not even once.

I am guessing it were examples such as, "My former adviser has never graduated a female PhD student", that made you think "sexist"?

Notice that the conclusion and the label are yours, not hers.
It's still amazing to me that they haven't produced a keyboarded, skinned, android device yet.

At this point sticking with only their own OS seems prideful. I'm sure the internal discussion are about "differentiation". But that swings both ways. Being different/bad is not the kind of differentiation a company wants.
Great start indeed. Simple and good execution !
This is a perfect example of where a (short) code comment would be helpful. The "lambda: 1" a notable piece of code, but it's hard to tell that at a glance.
There is still a pretty significant delay between writing and the text appearing. Nothing like the prototype display Microsoft was showcasing some time ago.

I wonder if this may be a limitation of e-ink.
Yes, he is a kid, but I believe that the best way to show respect to a kid is to treat him like an adult. The article mentions that he was encouraged to publish in the Journal for Emerging Investigators, and it goes on to say that this journal has the same standards as academic journals. The whole point of this exercise is to treat him like a grown up in the grown up world, because that's the best way of showing respect to a kid.

Therefore, it is in fact your comment that is more disrespectful to the kid than the other comments which are pointing out flaws with his proposal.
Maryland House Fights Back Over 'House Of Cards' Tax Break Threat
The risk of fire from collision was significantly higher that from conventional ICE. The figures Elon used included fires from electrical and mechanical failures, and even arson. Raising the car mitigated the risks in the short term. This is a long term solution. Kudos.

Here is full statistical analysis of why it was a real problem.

http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/24190-Discussi...
BlackBerry 10 is an underrated OS. The move to bring back the Bold is a bad decision. Nobody supports BBOS7 anymore. Bring in Google Play to BB10 and start marketing your security.
> If it's 0 confirmation, what exactly is checked?

That's it's been broadcast to the network.

> Convincing customers to give up the protections of CCs or other digital cash payments would be a very hard battle.

No it won't, customers don't like sharing their credit card information online, it's why Paypal is still in business.

> and for most consumers the slim advantages of Bitcoin are far outweighed by the numerous disadvantages.

Not when they trust their vendors. I trust Amazon for example, I don't need to pay a few extra percent to the card company for consumer protection. Bad reviews work far better in getting a vendor to act.
Allow me to come to your defense and congratulate the skeptics in the audience for completely missing the goddamn point.

There is no need to be afraid of the idea that a chiropractic procedure might have possibly worked. If an alt-med procedure works, and there are rigorous scientific studies to back it up, congratulations, it is now science-based medicine. Science-based medicine is not particularly picky, and if physical manipulations or sticking people with needles is shown to work as a treatment for a particular condition, it's no worse a modality than any other.

The reason to reject chiropracty and acupuncture as fields despite their occasional successes because of their lack of rigor, and tendency to keep using treatments after they have been shown to be ineffective or dangerous or both. Some practitioners still adhere to the original, discredited foundations of their fields (sublaxations, nonallopathic lesions, qi), some practitioners will happily treat for conditions for which their methods have been proven completely ineffective, and some practitioners will happily injure patient after patient with fractured vertebrae and punctured lungs. And their professional organizations have shown no ability or desire to regulate their practitioners.

Rigor, not modality, is the problem.
This algorithm is O(n^2) in classic OO languages too!

I think what this is is a translation of a classic OO "array.add(x)", which would usually be O(1), into "array = array + x", because that's the closest you can get in this language. However, mapping that translation back into a language you know, that should raise alarm bells, because it looks like it should be O(n) and allocate garbage like mad.

So, rather, i think this is classic insufficient paranoia and self-doubt when doing an unfamiliar new thing.
Everything is subject to bias.
I've been following Jake's Insight Data Science program for quite some time and continue to be amazed and impressed by the quality of his fellows (all top University grads) and the quality of the companies hiring...

Super excited for his new Data Engineering program!
Can we redo this study with Comic Sans MS?
Screen and OS is more like the black and white kindles, it loads an image to the screen and records what you draw on it. It's not live or fluid. There was a distinct screen flash when it updated new content.
What is appdrop? Sorry but the website is really all over the place.
Falcon 9 could slash space travel costs and open new frontier for investors
Indonesian startup lets you design your shoes from scratch
Anthony Weiner's Message To Silicon Valley
I too was pushed to mint after 11.10 but I'm sick of Mint now too. Not only do upgrades break it frequently, but I find small 'glitches' that end up taking up too much time tracking down. Stuff like Wifi dropping, and icons in my taskbar dissapearing, random browser crashes etc.

What I did was decide to sit down and do an Arch install. Yes it takes time, and yes you have to know what you're doing. But I invested the time up front, and now it runs very reliably, and faster on the same machine.

I say if you want to GSD the best thing to do is set up something like Debian, Arch or Gentoo and invest the time setting it up so you can use it without problems later. I don't know about you but I have better things to do than screw with an OS all time, I have real work to do. These "harder" distros are great for that.
The Importance of Forensic Tools Validation
Google cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
That does sound interesting but I simply don't believe it unless it can be reproduced and studied, simply because of how extraordinary those claims are.
Don't want to sound like a downer, but I'd also love to see applications where the founders weren't your typical white MIT, Harvard, Yale graduates/PhDs who worked at McKinsey GoogleBookSoft.
Merchants are ripped off by consumers far more then consumers are ripped off by merchants. That's reflected in the prices of goods which means the consumers are still being fucked by it. Saying fuck the merchant is profoundly ignorant; it's always the consumer who is fucked in the end.
It's being responsive, perhaps mistaken as aggressive when in fact to me it looks prompt and blunt.
WebScaleSQL: MySQL for Facebook-sized databases
Hack Added to Debian Benchmark Game
>There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.

In other words, people who don't work don't eat, except through the charity of people who have decided that they've earned enough to take care of themselves and their families.