skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some Drake University students and I have been working on wrapping the three.js library for 3d webgl graphics and are nearly complete [0]. We also implemented a simple webcam widget [1]. Here's a live demo illustrating both, using the Sage Cell Server: http://sagecell.sagemath.org/?q=qjjurl (you may need to click Evaluate once, and you'll need to click the permission notification to allow the browser to use your webcam)

[0] https://github.com/jasongrout/pythreejs

[1] https://github.com/jasongrout/ipywidgets
Yellowstone Volcano Eruption in 2014? Are Animals Fleeing Park As ‘An Alert’?
I'm probably older than you but, based on your question, far more experienced in the field.
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His $1,000 didn't do that, a majority of voters did.
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I think you mean extraterritorial jurisdiction. Extraconsitutional orders would be... against the U.S. Consitution and illegal :-)
You are deliberately taking that quote out of context to make a stronger point. Eich gave money multiple times to particular candidates. Those candidates may be opposed to homosexual marriage, but that in no way implies that Eich's donation was for the purpose of blocking homosexual marriage. Eich could have liked them for other reasons and not even known, or cared about, their stance on marriage.
I wonder how concerned Nest has been with the retrofit market, compared to the markets for large remodels and new construction. I think they have to service the retrofit market, the question would be how much of their business they think they can build there.

In those situations the big energy saving lever is insulation, but I think for people already spending a bunch of money, the convenience features would be more interesting than the price. And for much new construction, they just have to convince the builder to use Nest, not the buyers.
'Breakthrough Stem Cell Study Used Falsified Data
So does this mean we'll never have supercomputers running simulations with JavaScript?
This is pretty much exactly what we're trying to achieve with Gingko.

It's a full tree editor, that is being used for everything from PhD theses, to television screenplays.

http://gingkoapp.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egCKZHsICm8
> i.e. acknowledging that for some uses, building a full shading model and trying to mimic reality actually makes the image worse rather than better.

Think all 3D computer games before, like, 2010. Part of me wishes they made this realization; the other reminds me that we wouldn't be where we are today without a decade of crappy-looking games.
Except they're explicitly urging for Firefox to be boycotted, so they certainly have a bone to pick.
Why not 1/(1-|x|)?
Someone should create a library where all your data is stored in a BTree. Think of it! Huge data sets, small data sets, everything scales in this system. And even better, they can create a language-agnostic API to a small server that just stores the btrees for them and gives them back on request. We could call it a database, but that would require we use indexes correctly for once in our lives.
BTrees are cache-aware, and, in a sense, cache-oblivious.

There are more interesting structures, like fractal tree indices, which are cache-oblivios in the very formal sense.

My own opinion is that Btrees are nice, but not very effective in current world. Structures like LSM trees can be more effective. And you can construct high efficiency search structures over runs of LSM tree which will mimic Btrees.
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Indeed, I recall the mercurial maintainers discussing a move to git in all seriousness.
The widget capability in this release might give the interactive side of Mathematica notebooks a run for their money.
I guess what you're saying is instead of a one size fits all solution where you have one huge OS that supports a variety of different hardware configurations, if you broke down your software-hardware space into some standardized hardware configurations (like the Rasberry Pi) then it would be easier to build a much simpler OS for each such configuration.
What use is replication if the data itself has been mangled by MySQL? The significant arguments against MySQL revolve around it doing a poor job of enforcing data integrity. You go on to claim he hasn't bothered to read the documentation but give no evidence other than wild fanboy accusations that you have read it either. There are plenty of assertions in that blog post, none of which you refute; from which I can conclude you have no arguemnts against what he actually said.
Yeah, I reckon the only houses that wouldn't have one are ones owned by someone who was too cheap to splash out for one of the existing wireless thermostats.
No one is making that argument. The GP comment said "it's close enough" to the situation in Uganda for his purposes. Goscarsno just claimed that that's not true at all (which I believe is correct - the situation in Uganda is objectively far worse.)

No one is making the argument that you are objecting to or using a worse situation to justify anything.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Strawman
I recently tested this app when I had no internet in South America and I was able to communicate with other members of my group who were nearby in the hotel, but different floors. It was cool and it definitely has potential for any off-the-grid situation, especially if it can do proper multipeering. I wonder how this will do at a place like burning man.
A better comparison would be to Cyphertite (https://www.cyphertite.com/), which is somewhere on par security-wise.

CrashPlan and co. are somehow secure, but still not really open about their crypto (and some of them use quite weird one).
"The wisdom of crowds is a very important part of this project, and it's an important driver of accuracy," Tetlock said

This part threw me off. But overall, crowdsourced estimates could be a useful tool, provided everyone is actually trying to guess correctly (ie national pride, monetary reward, etc)
cperciva hopes, by strict attention to business, combined with moderate charges, to merit a fair share of patronage and support.

(stolen from tom)
How programmers should write their resumes
You could mitigate the bus factor of 1 yourself by using more than one backup service, which is good practice anyway.
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Hacker and kiteboarder here

This kiteboat is very impressive and powerful. The kite area is 25sqm and you have a lot of powerful wind in SF. I kiteboard in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - where the wind is not so strong and my kite area is only 11sqm.

I wonder what were the decisions involved on choosing 80m flying lines (regular kiteboard is 30m) and only 4 lines instead of 5 lines (safer and easier to relaunch)
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Value Types in JavaScript
For the case of people attempting to sign up a second time with the same email address, don't change anything shown from the webpage. Instead of sending a verification email, send an email informing them that someone is trying to sign up again with the same email address, and include an expiring password reset link in that email. If you see too many users forgetting that they've already signed up, and getting frustrated by filling out too much data in forms before finding out they've already signed up, then consider moving the email verification step earlier in the signup process.
Now actually selecting the outliers, the people that, on average, made really good predictions despite access to limited information, and data-mining their features set (psychological traits, information diet, background etc.), THAT would be an interesting study...
OK think I've sorted it:

https://www.squaremarket.com/about <- Ghetto-ass Bootstrap site made by Oxford grads, using weird concept of 'squares' that you buy to win the auction. No mention of any relation to 'square' of 'square device iPhone POS' fame.

https://squareup.com/market <- What most people would call 'Square'.

Looks like you're right, I have no idea where 'https://www.squaremarket.com/about' came from. It looks like they have a product with the same name and something got confused somewhere.
Have you tried looking at this situation from a different viewpoint?

The responses of many of those people who are against Eich in this case can best be described as "vile, hateful and vicious", to use your words. Their calls for him to lose his job, or for Mozilla as a whole to suffer boycotts, can be described as an effort to "enforce misery, shame and frustration".

The problem here is that we have some people claiming to be against discrimination, yet they in turn have absolutely no problem engaging in such behavior toward Eich.

I think that this sort of hypocrisy really undermines their cause, and most of them don't seem to realize this.
Strawman much? That's certainly not a fair comparison.
Maybe I'm just jaded, but I do not see "marriage" as synonymous with "love" in any way (and historically, it often hasn't been).

It's a culturally significant ritual and definitely of high symbolic importance for a lot of people, but that's as far as I can say.

"Vile, hateful and vicious" views would be doing something akin to what Pat Robertson does. The most you could say about Eich is that his views are objectionable, but they do not seem to be at any focal point of his ideology.

The tactic of "social justice ad shitstorm" does not work in doing anything besides inflaming people's prejudices even more, raising other people's sense of moral superiority and giving a headache to anyone else who doesn't feel like viewing `Outrage Porn #{MAX_INT}`.
Big congrats to Micha and team at Open Garden for this app. Really good work!
Because the fundamental question of the web is Why Wasn't I Consulted...

http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html
well, we can all talk about what's a better way to move forward. I believe that just like the issue of "interracial" marriages, the issue of same sex marriage both share one thing: the march of normalization is strong. People get used to it, also those that didn't want to. For this reason I think the best way to go forward as a society is reconciliation, tolerance and not mobbing.

"Either you are with us or against us" is a harmful doctrine.
Hopefully with the arrival of the pCell [1] technology, the Wi-Fi Alliance will start working on even longer range and lower bands for Wi-Fi than the 2.4 Ghz band. Lately they've only focused on short ones, but to make Wi-Fi meshnets work we need Wi-Fi that's longer range and doesn't suffer from interference.

As for FireChat itself, the disappointing thing about it is that it doesn't seem to encrypt the messages. So if there's someone listening within range, they can get that conversation. Obviously, this won't be a huge issue in the early days, but I hope they do intend to fix this eventually.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6NEnLvhFCk
Since CrashPlan uses blowfish-448-cbc-sha1 (a weird choice) and may (I'm uncertain on this) have ability to push configuration changes from remote, I've considered that possibility, because of CrashPlan's "unlimited" offer.

Unfortunately, it's barely usable due to recovery issues. You can't mount CrashPlan as a filesystem (well, without ton of reverse engineering), so that's not an option unless you're satisfied with all-or-nothing recovery without possibility to pick and restore just certain files of interest.
Same rules apply to other institutions e.g. investment banks and recommendations. Everybody sticks close to the herd.
How about tons of useful stuff then?
How does this forecasting market compare to something like Intrade?
Go play with ASP.NET WebForms, then do the same thing in any MVC equivalent. Abstracting away the way the browser and server and HTTP work just leads to painting yourself into a corner where changes that should be quick take waaayyy too long.

Who knows, maybe Haste will be different, but I really don't think so.
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This was the only April Fools gag that I even chuckled at this year. Good stuff :)
Do you think that these actions are actually furthering the cause of gay rights? It seems to me it's just an emotional reaction to want to "punish" the "hated enemy" [1]. And people on the other side will have the opposite reaction and further their bias against marriage equality supporters.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/gw/politics_is_the_mindkiller/
Lots of interesting points, but I disagree with the logic that "we are not designed to handle more than one layer at a time" necessarily implies that a tree-editor is impossible/undesirable.

Yes, we are only built to think of an idea/code/story/essay at one "level" at a time. You are either thinking about the overall structure of the code, or a particular line. A particular scene, or the overall plot.

But that's precisely why a tree editor, one that separates the levels for you, is so useful. You can always "zoom in" to the details by going right, and "zoom out" to the big picture by going left.

Have a look at Gingko, for our approach to solving this problem: http://gingkoapp.com
funny, I just checked your profile and noticed you are also in Switzerland :-)
I use only one SaaS service e.g. Anturis (http:www.anturis.com, an IT infrastructure monitoring solution and I have to pay about $40 a month. I think that is is not much at all for quality service.
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I saw this and was going to comment, it's outrageous. I don't know anyone who doesn't have a thermostat. I've lived in 5 houses myself and always had a thermostat.

I'd love to see the data on that claim.
Paying money to influence policy that oppresses a group of people isn't your "personal" fucking life. It's personal only if it doesn't affect other people. I really really respect this dude, he's straight up legend. And no, I don't think he should quit as CEO of Moz, that's totally unrelated to his politics, if that was your point. But I do think it's really annoying when bigotry is supported in the name of inclusiveness. You think it's okay to ruin someone's happiness with your megabucks, yet you talk about inclusiveness? Get the fuck out. This interview is bullshit.
I never understood how a Libertarian can be against gays. Maximum freedom and small government but not in someone's bedroom?
That link actually reads:

big·ot
noun \ˈbi-gət\

: a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. : a bigoted person; especially : a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group)

Full Definition of BIGOT
: a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance.
I love tarsnap. Thank you Colin! :)

$ tarsnap --print-stats
Total size Compressed size
All archives 535 GB 233 GB
(unique data) 1.2 GB 438 MB
One thing that I really enjoyed about this article was its description of "the wisdom of crowds." Typically that phrase shrouded in marketing bullshit that just boils down to the idea that groups are always smarter than individuals because magic. That idea on its own is really counterintuitive and hard to accept.

It was a good call to talk about the scientific basis for the idea; I wish more places that relied on crowdsourcing would do the same thing.
Link in the OP is 404ing for me.
Oh, I agree. But realizing what they are can help you deal with them better. My GF and I are pretty romantic, we like to go out and love fine dining... So on v-day we have steak dinner and watch a movie at home. If we don't have a great house party to go to on NYE, we'll head out of town and just spend the night wandering around some other city.

The one time I went to an organized party on NYE, the bathrooms were all vomited over by 11pm.
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> Now all the Mozilla employees who want to rise through the ranks must have personal views that conform to public opinion in the USA

You do know proposition 8 passed? which means brendan's view corresponded to the majority of voters... support of gay marriage is hardly "public opinion in the USA"
A lot of people believe that about every issue and on both sides. And we aren't talking about some small minority of bigots, it's the majority of the population. You can't just say it's not an issue in 2014 because it very much still is.
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I've been the only engineer in meetings often. At one company I regularly attended senior staff meetings (President, CFO, VPs, etc.). I observed all the traits and foibles one might expect in a Dilbert cartoon strip. During one heated discussion they were arguing over the implications of some data that one of them had drawn on a graph; I had to walk over to the whiteboard and explain that the reason they couldn't interpret the data was that they had reversed the X and Y axes on the chart!
Eich contributed financially to actively discriminate against people based on an attribute they cannot change, just like gender or race.

Those of us "discriminating" against Eich are doing so based on his voluntary behavior.

You are suggesting a false equivalence.
Definitely over-engineered, doubly so if this class has no interaction with any other classes...and it doesn't appear that it would. It seems the class does a single discrete function, so I don't see anything wrong with one easy-to-read method as opposed to needlessly abstracting it out into n parts.
It's hard to even imagine a radiator-based central heating system (whether gas- or home heating oil-fired) that doesn't have one of those cheap little bimetallic-strip thermostats, at least. Now lots of UK homes don't have per-radiator thermostats, or don't have central-heating timers: maybe that's what Nest meant to say.
Luckily I speak French! I clicked the link and the headers were in French, so I went to my Google Account page and everything was in French... except when I clicked "Langue," it was set to English! Freaked me out for a minute. Thought it was a dangerous and late April Fools' joke.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.servalproj...
contributions to political campaigns would be considered "private life"

What even is the difference between personal & professional life? Performing actions during working hours, or while simply being employed by the company?

I feel this lack of demarcation is a big part of the argument, it's such a fuzzy and wishy washy line that nobody agrees upon.
I need to know more. If the questions are all yes/no questions ("Will there be a significant attack on Israeli territory before May 10, 2014?"), and the sample set is large enough, you would -expect- there to be some outliers who mostly got things right, by pure chance. And even outside of that, I want to know what sort of average the CIA agents were batting; if they were hitting just 50%, I would -expect- nearly any sample size to have an outlier who did better.

That is, to borrow the old get rich quick scheme, take a list of 1024 addresses. Send to half of them "Stock X will be higher on (date) than today", and to the other half "Stock X will be lower on (date) than today". Repeat with the set you sent the correct 'predictions' to, and continue repeating until you're down to four people who you've sent the correct prediction to every time. Suggest they sign up for your premium stock tips newsletter.

All you're doing is playing statistics, you're not actually demonstrating any predictive ability.
Computers may have been invented out of intellectual curiosity, but they were produced for war. Now what?

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber -- just the glasses should be enough to tell you this man might be very evil, and he is indeed "the father of chemical warfare". But wait, he's also responsible for the discovery that allows huge numbers of people to live. Now what?

Let's simply assume Brendan Eich is a very evil man, that prop 8 is just the tip of the iceberg. Well, but, Mozilla. Now what?

How about this, if you propose to throw the baby out with the bath water, find us a new baby first? Let's use computation machines invented for love, let's use fertilizer invented by someone who had at least contact lenses, let's use browsers and languages made by catholic priests who secretly marry gay couples and get hunted all over the world by the pope for that.

I'd be down with that... but first they need to exist. Until then, to let billions of people starve, or to give even more of the web up to Google and Apple, is not actually morally superior to the alternative of realizing that life is messy, humans doubly so, and we don't just owe a lot of what we take for granted to saints, but to the whole spectrum.

> "those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame and frustration".

That in itself is a rather vicious and dehumanizing view. It's awfully convenient to have people who are pure evil while you yourself are pure good -- it's also nonsense.
If you're using Tarsnap, and you hear it fails, then quickly make a new backup somewhere else. The chance of your primary storage failing during that unlikely and limited window seems low.
I would think that people who already thought SVN is great probably continued thinking SVN is great, and people who thought otherwise, continue to think otherwise. I currently have to use both in my job, and look forward to when our conversion to git is complete.
In the case of a freelancer your are optimising your prices so that you can charge more while optimising your skills/performance so people need less of your time.

You can make money by working more effectively and efficiently while still charging less for the same "product".
That is the point of the post.
I'd venture to guess it's the majority opinion within the tech community, where all of the backlash seems to have started.
This is not a good reason to use a less secure browser.

Let's face it, Mozilla Firefox is more open and provides a higher level of control over Javascript (a very common thing used for launching browser exploits) than Chrome.

So essentially this author is compromising with their security due to the personal opinions of a CEO. This to me is not a good reason to switch browser.
This.

BDD is about the conversations - getting people together with a business mindset, a dev mindset and a tester mindset to discuss what needs to be built.

From that discussion you get a good idea of the business requirements - and hopefully some examples of how they should play out.

The person with the business mindset will have some of those examples that are important for them to be automated as business facing acceptance tests. The one's you write in gherkin.

The person with the testing mindset will have a bunch of ideas about how you can break this. Some of those will be important enough that they should become business facing tests, but often the group can decide that these would be better tested by unit tests.

We call this meeting the 3 amigos.
His website has a new design. Nice.
"In fact, Tetlock and his team have even engineered ways to significantly improve the wisdom of the crowd"

Does anyone know what these methods might be?
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It's totally unclear what they are actually doing.

Are they averaging everyone's answer (wisdom of the crowd)? Are they looking back at who got lucky and declaring them "super forecasters" (and then seeing large regressions to the mean)? Did they have separate periods of testing to try and control for this? Did they have a control group of similar size just flipping coins?

The way this is written it sounds like someone used a Gladwell book as their entire science education.