skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never knew about these which is just a bit shaming considering how long I've been in the data munging field. :)

I agree with several other comments that the biggest issue is not being able to represent them in an editor. If you use some form of whitespace, then it is likely to lead to confusion with the whitespace characters you are borrowing (i.e. tab and line feed). If you use special glyphs, then you have to agree on which ones to use, and it still doesn't solve the problem of readability. Without whitespace such as tab and line feed, all the data would be a big unreadable (to humans) blob, and with whitespace, it would lend confusion about what the separator actually is. Someone might insert a tab or a linefeed, intending to make a new field or record, and it wouldn't work. If the editor automatically accepted a tab or linefeed and translated it to US and RS, then there would have to be an additional control to allow the user to actually insert the whitespace characters that this is supposed to enable. :/
I guess the entire tech world has a pretty good nose for cheap PR then.
> Books that aren't listed on places like Amazon are troublesome? Good thing it's really easy to get a self-published book on Amazon.

> Self-published doesn't have to mean self-everything.

I think this is the crux of the discussion - people like Nathan Barry are advocating that you do not put your book on Amazon. I think that may work for a few authors, but if everyone did it, it would fall apart.
along the same lines: one of those diamond sharpening rods. $15 at walmart, 5 strokes on each side before every use, and you've got a 9 inch scalpel that you'll never have to take a real whetstone to. Also, the knife doesn't have to be great, just not junk. I'm using the best knife I could find at the the local dollar store(like $30 marked down to $6), which is great, but my $20 for the entire block ones from walley world just refuse to take a decent edge. Look for a rigid, tapred blade(this ought to be tempered steel), as opposed to a flexible uniform thickness one(junk sheet metal).

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Smith-s-Interrupted-Surface-Diamon...
19 January 2038 is the world's end date according to the Unix demigods prophecies, so it doesn't make much sense to predict what's going to happen afterwards anyway.
The "side-channel silent" improvements should help improve the security of RSA. Here is a paper about it: https://gmplib.org/~tege/modexp-silent.pdf
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If a doctor that administers a number of effective and proven treatments also practiced "vertebral subluxation" or bloodletting I would classify that doctor as a charlatan.

Quackery runs amok in their industry, as evidenced by their major trade groups' stance on vaccination,[1] and genetically modified plants.[2] Ironically, while also supporting "alternative elective course of action" in lieu of vaccination they also support "enforcement efforts against quack medicines...that endanger the public health..."[3]

[1] http://www.acatoday.org/level2_css.cfm?T1ID=10&T2ID=117&ID=1...

[2] http://www.acatoday.org/level2_css.cfm?ID=10&T1ID=10&T2ID=11...

[3] http://www.acatoday.org/level2_css.cfm?T1ID=10&T2ID=117&ID=1...
How a Chinese Tech Firm Became the NSA’s Surveillance Nightmare
Russian Officials Dump iPads Over Spy Fears
WebScaleSQL "We're Gonna Need A Bigger Database"
Can you use this as a replacement for Github private repos?
Maybe I'm mis-understanding your point but the issue isn't just about "phenomenological reality". It's about real harm http://whatstheharm.net/
Since there shouldn't be too much moving around the open ocean besides planes, couldn't you use this artifact to build a semidecent search algorithim rather than going through all the data by hand?
After Twitter, this was expected. Just couple of hours ago, leaked audio recordings were uploaded to Youtube which show "Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, National Intelligence Organization (MİT) Undersecretary Hakan Fidan, Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu and Deputy Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaşar Güler are heard discussing possible intervention into Syria and possible reactions from the world"

They were planning to organize artificial attacks from Syrian border and put the blame on Syria and strength Erdogan's position before local elections.
Scrypt based coins (like doge) won't get hashrates nearly that high. For example, a GTX670 pulls in ~300kh/s while mining doge. 1.3mh/s would make the Galaxy faster than the current highest end graphics card[1]. A Raspberry Pi pulls in just under half a kilohash/sec[2]. So your number is probably about 1000x higher than it should be, based on the number for the Pi. $17/hour is a lot less attractive.

[1]https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison#Laptop_.2F_...

[2]http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1ttxhi/digging_wit...
Ah, the weekly "hacker news for X".
Hacker news for X
------------------------

Hacker news -- https://news.ycombinator.com/

data scientist -- http://www.datatau.com/

Designers -- https://news.layervault.com/stories

finance -- http://www.boredbanker.com/

JavaScript -- http://www.echojs.com/

marketing -- http://www.inbound.org/

new Ideas -- http://firespotting.com/

growth hacking -- http://growthhackers.com/

tech -- https://lobste.rs/

finance (one more) -- http://www.streeteye.com/

biotech -- http://news.harlembiospace.com/

Others -- http://skimhn.com/ http://hckrnews.com/﻿

(please add more)
I like how in this presentation of time progress the (angular) speed will increase with progression of time ...
There should be an epilepsy warning! @_@
Can't tell if you are trolling. On my 5s it seems pretty smooth.
Any more science related news aggregates like this?

F*ck it - list all the great aggregates like Hacker News.
As FYI (you may already know this @morganherlocker, so this is for the n00bs) there is a controllable LED built into the UNO (and similar boards) attached to pin 13, so this is possible without any additional parts. In addition to LEDs and a breadboard, some push buttons, and maybe a photoresitor or a rotary potentiometer to play around with analog inputs are all good starting items.
Ordered 3! Great suggestion!
http://panjiva.com/ (port authority data), http://www.buildzoom.com/ (contractor licensing boards), and http://enigma.io/ (aggregating and cleaning up many sources) come to mind.
I usually go for DyGraphs. Simple + easy to use + lots of configuration + excellent docs
OP here. I think having forums, where a book is discussed chapter by chapter, could help. You could pick whatever book is already being discussed, and join the discussion after you'd read that chapter.

There might also be the opportunity for people to self-organize around a particular book.
Posting this here because I thought the many people who posted here, on github, and on twitter might want to know that there is a scholarship fund being started in Jim's name to help pay for CS education. The fund is being administered by the Cincinnati Scholarship Foundation. If you're a ruby developer, you know who Jim is, and you use his work whenever you type `rake` or use Flexmock.

More information on Jim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Weirich
What's the Best IT Risk Assessmsent Method for Your Org.?
I don't think we know what the relationship between Google and the NSA actually is. I will say that I operate under the assumption that Google gives the NSA whatever they ask for up to and including access to raw streams of information.

I agree with the decision to require TLS, but I don't know that it does a lot with regard to the NSA, and moreover, I don't trust them anymore not to turn over information in bulk.
Actually, 60 is the edge of bradycardia, unless you're really, really fit. Anywhere from 60 to 100 is considered normal in adults.
I apologize for implying you didn't understand the culture by asking if you have been there, I didn't mean that in any way.

In any case, alot of my family are middle class and can't find decent jobs. The competition is very high and programmers are a dime a dozen. Technically educated doesn't mean they enjoy it. Most consider it a job to get by. Some find it to be a passion. The ones who see it as a paycheck are far more likely to rip a site off and the culture is such that it doesn't seem wrong. "Someone else's problem."
There's the official arduino command line tool:
https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/blob/ide-1.5.x/build/shar...

But you need to use their (terrible) IDE for writing your sketches this way.

You can also use avr dude; there's a sample makefile available here: http://playground.arduino.cc/Learning/CommandLine#.UzQ_ca1kF...
I mean for the general case. Sure, more datasets may be tab-safe than comma-safe. CSV doesn't need quotes if there's no commas. TSV needs quotes or something if the data contains tabs.
You use a breakout board to get the connector you need to hook it up to your computer. So for the 5v mini you would get something like this: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9716

You then either solder on some headers and connect it to the breakout, program it, and then disconnect it when done or do some funky alligator clip madness to connect the breakout to the arduino.

Note that the pro already has the pins waiting for the breakout to be connected.
This slightly reminds me of the movie named idiocracy.
Unfortunate name choice: http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/
WebScaleSQL | "We're Gonna Need A Bigger Database"
I do a lot of online reading, plus PDFs and books. How easy is it to transfer something to Kindle for reading at the moment of finding it online on a computer? We can take Wikipedia articles and PDFs as examples. (PS: A non-cloud based transfer solution where they cannot track what I am reading is more preferable to me.)
Uh, did this guy answer his own post?
How Vintage Tech Helped Us Track the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet
VR: Palmer Luckey's Quest to Change the World
WebScaleSQL: A collaboration to build upon the MySQL upstream
Hey, this is the GM of UpCloud. Feel free to ask me anything or e-mail me. You can find my e-mail from our company page under contacts.
Please. Moving to the back of the bus is >> denying marriage? That institution that has repercussions in housing, taxes, rights throughout our society? Vs where you get to sit?

Every 'right' is a social construct. I'm beginning to think you're trolling.

And nobody is requiring churches to do anything. This is straw-man nonsense put out by the fearful.
Brain-computer interface racing, exoskeleton racing in the coming Cybathlon
This could probably be explained by a sufficiently detailed computer simulation of human society.

Some people, those with the lowest amount of faith in unsubstantiated beliefs, debunked homeopathy according to their own standards. They proved that it did not work better than the placebo effect, one of their existing and well-substantiated beliefs, resulting from a through examination of the simple question: "What if the effects of this treatment are all attributable to the patient believing that it should work?"

A large fraction of humanity, probably an overwhelming majority, has not been trained to examine the world scientifically. Many have been indoctrinated into religions or nonscientific pedagogies from a very early age. For those people, it is not sufficient to prove that a treatment does not work better than placebo to stop using it. It must be proven to not work at all.

Clearly, homeopathy activates the placebo effect. Thus, scientifically minded people reject it as a treatment. For everyone else, they find that it either works for them, or they can move on to a different placebo that does work. They may be wondering why scientific people work so hard to debunk placebos, because they are really just limiting the number of placebos they could be using.
LOG.OS (Greek "logos») central operating system of the "written word"
This sounds like a political dismissal of an inconvenient tool. Can this be just temporary? Like YouTube being "rehabilitated" after those local elections?
This is amazing, thank you. I've been waiting for something like this for a while now. Hacker News gets some biotech stuff, but not very much.
$2 per hour are cluster compute instances with 2 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs (“Fermi” GF100) GPUs.
g2 instances are smaller with NVIDIA GRID GPUs (“Kepler” GK104).

- G2 popular use cases: Game streaming, 3D application streaming, and other server-side graphics workloads.

- CG1 popular use cases: Computational chemistry, rendering, financial modeling, and engineering design.
Spatial Data Structures for Better Map Interactions
Yeah… The site needs work. So does some of the intro documentation (there are a few good books on it, but I mean on-site intro documentation). We're working on these things, and hope to have something awesome to show in the next few months.
It has the same philosophy behind it, SimpleRT is simpler for now, has only a JS API and it's not meant to be used in production, just for development purposes. No signup needed, just use it and play around with it. We'll see how it evolves
Turkey also blocked Youtube after Twitter
I'm actually more intrigued by this part

"an encryption methodology that I suspect the NSA can probably defeat anyway."

If the premise is "I don't need security, because the most powerful intelligence agency in the world can break it anyways", then why not go ahead and give us the PIN for your debit card anyway.
Maybe not A/B but researchers have sent out identical resumes with different names on them to see who gets called.

http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/spring03/racialbias.htm...
Q: Can I use an Arduino board without the Arduino software?
A: Sure. It's just an AVR development board, you can use straight AVR C or
C++ (with avr-gcc and avrdude or AVR Studio) to program it.

From: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/FAQ

As a side note, if you are feeling fancy, you can build your own firmware based
on LUFA and load them into the Atmega chip the boards have as an USB-to-serial
converter. That opens a world for pretty cool hacks too.
Built it and they didn't come.
How many people have built something and no was is using it? On the flip side, did you come up with and idea only to change it or scrap it because you talked to customers first?
Salicylic acid is natural! It comes from the bark of the willow tree. It has been known since ancient times, presumably they used to consume willow bark. We then figured out the active ingredient in willow bark. However, asprin is acetylsalicylic acid, which is produced form salicylic acid to remove the side effects of salicylic acid.
SimpleRT has only a JS API for now, but it will support other languages in the future.
Downvoted for stating the truth, I lol at thee...
You should call up Google and tell them you'd like to buy my personal data, and you'd like to get a price quote.

If you don't think that would work, then perhaps your comment needs to be revised. If it's not an open market, then which third parties do you think Google is selling user data to?
WinAVR is the windows suite. Compiler, Debugger, and Programmer compatible with the bootloader already on the Arduino.
Language-learning tools
الوظائف والمهن المطلوبة للسفر الح2014ج للعام الحالى
I want one that keeps the data "only" locally. Is there such a thing? :-)
Points (which are a game specific metric) have absolutely no relation to anything I posted. I didn't even mention them at all! It looks purely at game outcomes given the initial starting conditions.
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they say i am a naysayer so pardon me. but may I know who is your 'paid' audience? and ever wondered why don't people like Yahoo!? widgets! and you have built an entire startup around it. remember iGoogle? it nearly didn't work well either.

Apart from this, I am loving the website (UI/UX), and it's the only reason I am sticking around, and perhaps get addicted to it. :)
Sr. UI/UX Designer - Tesla Motors
CoreOS Update: btrfs, docker 0.9, add users, writable /etc, and more
I had the idea for a "blind" job search/interview site that cleans applications of race, age and gender information. I'm not going to build it, but I think it would be great.
The risk is lower, but still high. The last estimate was a 16.5% chance of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake in 100 years[1]. I expect the probability will be revised to be higher in the seismic hazard assessments due to be released this year.

7.0 doesn't sound big, but keep in mind, the epicenter would be quite close to the surface and likely to be right in the middle of a highly populated area on the Wasatch Front (Salt Lake City, Cottonwood Heights, etc). Also, many buildings in the vulnerable areas pre-date construction codes that take seismic risk into account. For example, it wasn't until the late 70's that they started reinforcing masonry construction.

[1] http://www.livescience.com/28782-utah-bigger-earthquakes-was...
Twitter Now Lets You Tag People in Tweets Without Using Any Characters
Just to add a little from my experience: I went to study English to Canada about 4 years ago (I'm Mexican) most of my Asian class mates would choose to be called James, Michael, Sophie and what not instead of their actual name exactly for that reason.
I used to live in TX and a guy I worked for had a story about when he was growing up there was a family who emigrated from Eastern Europe to his down in South TX. They decided to start over with a good American name. So they changed their name to Gonzales.
But OTOH having "the same precision" means loosing accuracy. This is a common case in computer games, especially with outdoor worlds like space simulators. When you move away from the world center, you start loosing significant digits on the fractional side and your calculations soon turn into nonsense. When you go far enough, the difference between two consecutive numbers can get as high as 0.1, at which point everything falls apart.

KSP scene has even a fun name for it, Deep Space Kraken [0].

This can be of course mitigated by subdividing the world (octrees and stuff) and stacking coordinate frames (though for some reason nobody seems to be doing that), but you said that floats are good "for arbitrary inputs". And if you have small and big floats in your computations, the result might quickly stop making any sense.

I admit I'm confused about the topic, any clarification is welcome.

[0] - http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Deep_Space_Kraken
(I am the author of GNU ease.js.)

Wow, quite the negative response here. That said, this is something I was wholly expecting from the JavaScript community, so I am not swayed; I'm merely providing something that I found to be useful in the hope that it is useful to others. So thank you to those who recognized that.

I feel that many of the negative statements here could have been addressed if the posters had taken the time to understand why the project exists:

http://www.gnu.org/software/easejs/manual/About.html

The framework exists for those who wish to have the benefits of Classical OOP using JavaScript without the need for a compiler; it provides a standalone library for something many frameworks currently do, but do so incompletely: their own class systems. If there is a feature of ease.js that you do not like, you are not forced to use it; it simply generates prototypes. Language and paradigm flamewars will always exist, but let's be respectful of those who want to "program into" their language (as Steve McConnell put it).

Note that GNU ease.js was created when Harmony was just barely getting off the ground, and it is still not released. Even after it is released, there will still be users who do not have the newest features. Part of the reason for GNU ease.js is to address the issue of consistency across all browsers. It works in IE 5.5 (although that wasn't intentional)---you don't have to worry about whether or not ES6 is supported. ES6 also doesn't address some concepts ease.js does.

http://www.gnu.org/software/easejs/manual/Implementation-Details.html

Let me be clear---I have a strong understanding of the prototypal model, and it does have its uses and elegance. For those who want some of the features of GNU ease.js without the framework itself, I provided both the above link and this paper which demonstrates how OOP is generally done in ECMAScript (and its problems):

http://mikegerwitz.com/docs/coope.html

GNU ease.js encapsulates those hacks. There's value in that alone.

To answer some of the Harmony-related questions: here is a reply to a question I received from another GNU hacker:

http://www.gnu.org/software/easejs/misc/easejs-harmony-reply.txt

With regards to the licensing: RMS asked if I'd be willing relicense under the GPLv3+, because of their campaign against proprietary JavaScript. Let me be clear on this matter as well: I am an avid free software activist. I hope that people will find GNU ease.js to be useful, but only if they are writing free software.

http://www.gnu.org/software/easejs/whyfreejs.html

Thank you, conductor, for posting the project---I appreciate input from the community regardless of its tone.
SafeTcom – TO PROTECT ALL CHILDREN EVERYWHERE
SafeTcom is a wearable telecommunications and remote monitoring device that is specifically designed for use by children. It is a revolutionary phone that can be worn by kids from the age of 5 and over. Being that the device was designed to be used by children, SafeTcom is built to withstand anything a child can literally throw at it. It features a touch pad with two speed dial buttons that can be tailored by a parent to meet their specific needs, and its design makes it simple to operate.
The ones that are cheap and I have loved a lot are the Sennheiser HD 201. They are over the ear, not very loud and have decent noise cancellation.

http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-Lightweight-Over-Ear-Binaur...
Well, there's http://www.scicombinator.com/
I haven't personally done this yet, so I'm not sure if there is more to it, but there is a program called AVRDUDE[1], used to load the firmware onto the boards. I know that the Arduino IDE uses this behind the scenes. I'm not really sure about the compilers involved. Basically the Ardunio environment is just the toolchain and a bootloader. I know that there are a few different bootloaders around for the Adrduino compatible chips (such as the Adafruit "No-wait" bootloader[2]) to look for inspiration.

[1] http://www.nongnu.org/avrdude/
[2] http://learn.adafruit.com/arduino-tips-tricks-and-techniques...
This reminded me of Commodore founder Jack Tramiel who originally was called Jacek Trzmiel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Tramiel
Nice work, look forward to adding to the new community.
It's not software, it's a data structure.
Find the perfect coder by starting with a small code task
My be because there are many government homeopathy colleges and hospitals.