skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
30±3 is different than, say, 30±6 or 30±1.

If the temperature range is, say, close to freezing, or some maximum safe temperature for an activity or crop, then the error bound tells you how certain the forecast is, and whether or not an adverse condition might be experienced, for which you might want to take precautions (cover plants to protect them from freezing, ensure that they're watered for heat, say).
Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman for email communications
The Francis effect
The more I learn about Rust, the more I start to believe those who say "Rust is the new C++". It targets a similar feature set with a similar vision on performance, yet provides easier safety and concurrency.

Go does not play in that field. Go is more like the new Java: One language to build everything, write once run everywhere, and doesn't try to put a bazillion new features just because it can. The "boring" language that is actually used to build stuff.

The cool thing is that Go is a great language to spend more time on building stuff and less on the language itself, and it's the opposite of boring.
That is like saying Socrates is screwed because he never read Kant.
It was largely Matthew Boulton who fought Watt's patent battles. Edward Bull worked for Watt and then attempted to rip off Watt's steam engine designs. Watt's key insight was a separate condenser, which made the steam engine much more efficient. Watt and Boulton's license fee was 1/3 of the coal saved from using the Newcomen Engine.

Watt was not commercially successful until he met Boulton, and it is interesting to note that Watt also faced a patent problem. James Pickard had a patent for a crank to convert reciprocating motion to rotational power. Pickard wanted to simply cross license their respective patents, however with Watt's being significantly more valuable, Watt simply designed an alternate solution, sun and planet gear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism_(literary_and_histor...
Is this still true in the days of the cloud?
No offence to HMRC staff but I'm not sure if I really trust the Civil Service to decide what "generates clear public benefits" and if there are "robust safeguards in place"!
How do you mean? To all intents and purposes Jimmy Carr was "guilty" of participating in a tax avoidance scheme, and admitted wrongdoing.
There's real value in having ARMv8 chips as soon as possible. First off, the architecture is significantly improved over ARMv7. It's not just the 64-bit support. Second, the transition to 64-bit is going to take 3-4 years after it begins anyway, which just means developers are going to have to support both 32-bit and 64-bit (and ARMv7 and ARMv8) for 3-4 more years, instead of just dumping ARMv7 as soon as possible, and supporting only ARMv8. The sooner everyone is moving to ARMv8, the better.

The 8-core thing is indeed mainly a gimmick, and I don't know if Anand has real data on "Asians wanting 64-bit", or he just lumped it together with the "Asians want 8-cores" (where there is some data to support that). But I think almost everyone wants 64-bit as soon as possible, because 32-bit chips are on their last legs, and especially if you only upgrade every 2-3 years, it wouldn't be wise to buy a 32-bit one right now, or you'll see some (not all) apps start dropping support for ARMv7 mid-life of your phone.
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS vs. 14.04 LTS Cloud Benchmarks
I am with @zaroth in that the name + bird does not quite work. Furthermore the page above the fold image of the camera does not do it for me. I wish I could suggest a better name for the product but I am of ideas. 'Hummingbird' to me sounds too close to 'Thunderbird', which probably isn't used a lot, but is close enough to be confusing to me.

I also felt that the write up was written from the programmer point of view, not the user. It is all well and good knowing how it works, but, if something is to be useful you want to see what it does and have some setup steps - it is a different perspective on the write up.

Criticisms aside this does appear to be a reasonable product to solve some reasonable need. Anyone care to brainstorm some branding/naming ideas?
Can someone explain why not simply use "grep -ri license ." ?
I'm usually a big fan of online anonymity, but it seems disingenious to hide behind a throwaway when you are making a personal attack directly at a named person - especially when you are referencing internal events at the company in question.
We built a party app using iBeacons
Swedish tax records are public, but difficult to access, I think its a great system, if youre really curious you can go or call tax office and ask for anybodies tax numbers thus know how much they earn.

Its part of a transparent and open society. But there is no webservice somewhere where people can look on a map or search easily and so on.

If you take it to next level you can buy a book containing all names addreses and taxable income and capital for an area.

good system because its public like the records and not private.
I was in a similar situation to you (PhD in Molecular Biology). I end up in a job where I did not have a lab (just an office) and so decided to learn to program rather than sit around watching YouTube videos all day. What I end up doing is using code to try to solve a problem that required my molecular biology knowledge. My code was not great (it still is not in my opinion), but it worked. This is good enough for me.

While it would be nice to write code that other cs people think is cool, I solved problems that they can't even understand with code that is basic. I guess what I am saying is just start coding and keep learning so you get better.
python package python-librtmp needs ubuntu package librtmp-dev and python package cffi. python package cffi needs ubuntu package python-dev.

So:

sudo apt-get install python-dev
pip install cffi
sudo apt-get install librtmp-dev
pip install python-librtmp
https://www.youtube.com/user/GreshamCollege
HN-banned? Why? How? By whom? When?
I understand that IF you have a spouse or kids, it's your responsibility to take care of them and provide the best possible environment for them to flourish.

But it does not follow that it's one's responsibility to marry and have kids. There have been plenty of people who contributed a lot to society without ever marrying or raising kids.

You're right that managing a family is shorthand for being responsible. My point is: why use a shorthand when you can simply ask "So what are you doing with all the extra time you get because of not having a family?".

Ask, don't presume.

(I am not even getting into the whole philosophical debate of whether "work == virtue". The subtext in comments like the above is: "Oh, you're living a comfortable life with no responsibilities? You should work hard and suffer like the rest of us!" )
Amazing robotic dexterity from Honda's ASIMO
Since working memory is so important, will there be any policy to get children to practice that while they have the extra mental plasticity? Learning languages takes skill, effort and dedication, focusing on the skills part early would give a good return on the teaching investment.
SystemVerilog coding guidelines
Off topic: Did anyone else notice that the bbc.co.uk website is asking for a certificate for identification?
Ask HN: Who do you use for offsite data backup?
Wondering who you guys use for backups?

I know tarsnap gets a lot of publicity here, but as it just uses s3 (and i have mostly images/videos to backup so the compression that tarsnap offers won't really help).

Any decent alternatives than just using s3?
Thought exercise: If you get 4x the equity/options, you only need to work 1/4 as longer as you would under the old regime. This means that if you get fired after the first year, you're in the same boat as if you had stayed for all four years under the old equity split. What's important to solve to make this work is some clause like the 10 year exercise window.
Pretty much. From last year: http://www.hotchips.org/archives/hc25/
Scroll down a bit for "The Chip Design Game at the End of Moore’s Law" by Robert Colwell at DARPA (formerly Intel).
Direct ASIMO demo video link:
http://condenastl3cdn.cust.footprint.net/videos/53501be36970...
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Ask HN: is it wrong to sell a software product you made to your employer?
I've been running up against a few issues within the company I work for that I think could be served well by building software to help manage the issues we face. I'm introducing a level of vagueness because I don't really want people to figure out where I work, but the issue at hand has to do with how my company releases data to our contract manufacturer. (We're a hardware company that builds product in China.)<p>On the one hand, I think I have a unique position to help develop the solution, since I'm one of the ones who has a front-line view of the problem and a modicum of notion how to solve it. On the other hand, I can see this as a problem that other companies would likely have, and would pay to have solved - in other words, a pretty decent business opportunity.<p>Does it represent a conflict of interest to build that software in my spare time and then try to sell it to my existing company as a solution?
Web Development for Everyone (using APIs)
I like that there are at least 3 different technologies for accurate styluses on Android: there's the active digitizer based pen, like Samsung's S-pen, there's this ultrasonic one from Qualcomm, and Nvidia's chip-based inexpesive solution. Too bad Google itself doesn't seem to be too interested in this area too much, even though it could be a pretty big competitive advantage against Apple's iPad, so we're only seeing random tablets that support them.
This article has a section header "Health benefits of open water reservoirs". http://southeastexaminer.com/2013/07/open-air-reservoirs-and...
Looks like the uk government has found an entirely novel angle on the concept of "transparency"!

Between that and the NHS data and their reaction to Snowden, the meaning of transparency in the uk is clearly "we'll release all your private individual data while keeping secret everything that we do"!
Do you happen to remember the name of this startup?

I have been thinking of experimenting with automated driving. Have started reading up on computer vision and found some encouragement from things like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcm9NpMNi68
The awesome, web-powered future of television
I wouldn't say that sam has now become a finance guy, finance has now simply become one of the things he does now as well.
How to divide learning time
Thanks for that explanation. I have been thinking of experimenting with automated driving with cameras and got encouraged by things like these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcm9NpMNi68 . But yeah, I can understand how ideal conditions are very different from the real world.
Mother tongues are special. Generally immigrants will do better at foreign language(s), if also getting proper education in their mother tongue. There's also been studies with brain scans showing that even "bilingual" people usually have one mother tongue, and treat all other languages as "foreign" (separate parts of the brain deal with the two "groups" of languages).

On a more anecdotal level, I had a funny experience when I went to Japan -- I was somewhat passable in French before I went, and after about half a year of being in Japan (before I had really become fluent in Japanese) I tried speaking some simple French with a French teacher. It was impossible -- every sentence started in French, and ended in Japanese :) After I got better at Japanese, my French started coming back too -- but I'm still hoping to spend a month or two in France to really get it up to a usable level. Interestingly, I didn't have any problems with my English while there -- probably because I was already fluent in English (my mother tongue is Norwegian).
Knockout templates also represent your UI at any point in time. The only significant difference as far as I can tell is that React feels strongly that pure JavaScript (with an optional preprocessor that lets you type HTML in your JS) is a better way to organize UI code than templates with bindings. With Knockout custom bindings, this difference becomes much smaller.
Being European Union members certainly helps.
We also don't see many 8 core chips on the desktop market. Chicken and egg problem.

Very few people have the incentive or funds to get either the hyperthreaded i7s (which don't really have 4 cores), the 8 core Xeons or the 8 core AMD high end parts.
Having built something similar [1], the reason I didn't use "grep -ri license" is that I wanted to generate the list of licenses for both my project and all of its dependencies. Using grep would still require matching up each project to its own license.

Another problem is that the license file doesn't necessarily state the name of the license, which is often what you're looking for. (My package compares the text of the license to saved copies of common licenses, and picks the closest match, assuming any are a good match.)

[1] https://github.com/mwilliamson/node-license-sniffer
OVH has two VPS offerings: 'Classic' which runs OpenVZ and 'cloud' which runs on VMware, and also is priced higher
I'd rather an all or nothing approach to these kind of information sharing arrangements.

If information is to be shared, it should be made freely available to all, not just to corporations that are able to shell out large sums for it.
I didn't say that, at all. I suggest you re-read.

To clarify for those that are a bit slow(er):

Their development skills convinced me they were good developers, their social skills just correlated.
I feel you! My motivation is to develop medical device prototypes. I've had considerable luck so far. My friends and i developed a gait analyser for the paraplegics with an electrical simulator that could enervate their affected muscles. The current way that this works is most of the equipment is manufactured abroad and becomes too expensive For people who live for less than a dollar a day. There are so many problems that could be solved and automated. Which would be easier to go about if i knew what conceptual knowledge is imp . Thanks
Just tried their grid control. Truely impressive work. Wonder how and if it will be integrated into other frameworks now (think angular-ui like project).
LLVM ships with lli, which can interpret LLVM bitcode generated by clang, a C compiler.
How do you handle URL routing (what happens when I click "view tweets" on a user page) and generation (how do you generate the src attribute on the "view tweets" `a` tag)? Are you using anything special for handling URL history and push state?
This was partly an instinctive decision, but I think it's too easy to go mobile. Part of the reasoning for having a tangible card is the novelty and the failproof factor behind it.

No advantage, but no disadvantage either.
Solar Power Satellites: A Visual Introduction
I wasn't talking about myself, or Google.

I wasn't even on a PIP at Google.

You launched a personal attack on me for no reason. The conclusion I'm left with is that you're probably an asshole.
Would your company allow you to develop the software on company time as part of your regular work?
http://www.senditonthenet.com/ looks good, but requires recipient to register a new account.
It seems to me that Knockout's custom bindings provide the same reusability as React. The only difference I see is that React recommends their JSX preprocessor to allow HTML right in the JS, whereas Knockout custom bindings require building elements using the JS DOM API or hooking up some preprocessor manually.
Apple Maps satellite image believed to show Loch Ness Monster
Interesting write up about Writght brothers and Santos Dumont.

http://www.cnet.com/news/were-the-wright-brothers-really-fir...

Disclaimer: I am Brazilian and I learned that Santos Dumont was the first one when I was little in school.

I just find it interesting and wanted to share, No sides or flame wars.

He was Brazil's Leonardo Da Vinci I guess.
> Promoting disclosure doesn't make sense anyway since once an invention is commercialized it can usually be reverse-engineered.

Well still don't know for sure how people built the pyramids.

It is difficult to imagine a world with guilds and trade secret like the middle age. Everything from the simplest element to the most complex is only available to selected member of the guild. But the accumulation of undisclosed tech ends up mounting and make reverse-engineering much harder.
I had to cut the Knockout-specific slides, but I do cover this topic in depth here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3KksH8gfcQ

tl;dr it's about expressiveness
I'm doing something similar[0] like author is doing and for URL routing I use Director[1].

[0] https://github.com/daGrevis/Hendrix

[1] https://github.com/flatiron/director
Karmawhoring on reddit and the Front Page’s Econometrisation
Explanation for the 2048 AI
From link:https://github.com/ov3y/2048-AI

I cant find any way to contact Matt Overlan or Ov3y, the creators of the Ai , so I suppose if they run into this, theyll answer me: How do you explain to a total LayMan(CaveMan) how the algorithm works, thats cause though I know coding, I cant learn JS so fast and only for this, cause I plan to create my own such solver in C, which I'm fluent with. So, Thanks in advance...
I think that's on the same hand. ;)
The labor pool skews young in SV and NYC, possibly because the only way to keep the cost of living down is to have multiple roommates, which does not work for someone with a family. In more suburban places, the age distribution seems in line with an industry that is as new as software is.
I'm subscribed to ~200 youtube channels, and I highly recommend veritasium, Brady Haran's network, CGP Grey and minutephyics that others have already mentioned. Here are some other channels that don't seem to have been mentioned so far:

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TommyEdisonXP - A jovial and friendly blind guy, who talks about, and answers questions about, how it is to be blind:

https://www.youtube.com/user/TommyEdisonXP

Arvind Gupta - He makes simple toys out of cheap materials, and explains the physics behind the toys. He does this full time, and works to popularize science at a premier Astrophysics and Astronomy research institute in India.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT7EcU7rC44DiS3RkfZzZMg

Grand Illusions - Like Arvind Gupta, this guy has collected toys and curiosities from around the world, and has dedicated a channel to document them:

https://www.youtube.com/user/henders007

Backyard Brains - They perform simple and interesting experiments on nervous systems of organisms:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCICLIvkj29GG63NpA3K2Elw

Bite Sci-zed - A brilliant science channel run by self-confessed science nerd, Alex Dainis:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzl8GEjZbjgtVj0ppupdBbg

smalin / Music Animation Machine - Brilliant, brilliant visualizations of western classical music pieces, that help you understand the structure of the music much better if you're a beginner:

http://www.youtube.com/user/smalin

http://www.musanim.com/

For example, see the 2nd movement from Beethoven's 9th symphony: http://www.youtube.com/user/smalin

Talking Animals - Human voices dubbed on viewer-submitted videos of pets. Funnier than you might expect!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCreVub8zOW6R2zg15FfBq4A

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I haven't sampled the following channels very well, but they seem promising.

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Backstage Science: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP16wb-IThCVvM8D-Xx8HXA

It's Okay to be Smart: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH4BNI0-FOK2dMXoFtViWHw

Household Hacker: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI4I6ldZ0jWe7vXpUVeVcpg

The Slo Mo Guys - As seen on TV: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUK0HBIBWgM2c4vsPhkYY4w

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Youtube "Leanback" for discovering channels and videos. Slick interface, but doesn't seem to surface quality content. Seems to just prioritize trending items.

https://www.youtube.com/tv#/menu/LNroot,0,LCdiscover,-2,LAba...
The medical records of every NHS hospital
patient in the country have been sold for
insurance purposes, The Telegraph can reveal.
[...]
a report by a major society of actuaries
discloses that it was able to obtain 13
years of hospital data [...] covering all
hospital in-patient stays between 1997 and
2010 to track the medical histories of
patients, identified by date of birth and
postcode.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10656893/Hospit...

And the best part? It only cost £2,200.
Google accused of playing favourites over Heartbleed security bug disclosure
In what way is avoiding tax through a legal vehicle guilty of a crime?

Do you volunteer extra tax when you don't have to?

Tax avoidance/tax efficiency is not tax evasion.
Yes - I keep getting this. It's rather peculiar.
Some mood disorders come on gradually and get worse with time. Others hit hard in the teens and 20s and become less severe in adulthood, sometimes remitting around 50. Treatment helps, exercise is important, and the most important thing to remember is that there's no silver bullet but that a multi-pronged approach (medication, CBT, exercise, yoga/meditation, cutting toxic friends and making good ones, good sleep habits, avoiding drugs including alcohol) can make your life a lot better.

My genetic pattern seems to show more debilitation in the 20s. Unfortunately, some people don't recover from the damage (to health and career) done in that phase. I seem to have made it through the worst, though.

It was in my late 20s that I learned to live with an unstable mood. Sometimes I'll have a panic attack (10 minutes of extreme adrenal excitement for no reason) or a depression attack (an intense 2-4 hour bout of depression that, while leaving me exhausted, seems to leave no lasting mark) but I take a zen approach. Yes, this is actually happening, and it's just emotion. Easier said than done, for sure, but it's an ongoing practice.

Panic attacks I think of as a stern, somewhat obnoxious teacher whose motivations I haven't figured out yet. What makes panic scary is that it can imitate pretty much any physical disease. Phantom smells, visual flashing, chest pain, balance problems, paresthesia, vertigo, vomiting, blurry vision. I've had pretty much all of that shit. Over time, you learn that it's not dangerous. Then it becomes an annoyance (like a traffic jam) rather than a source of terror.

I don't think of myself as disabled by it. Most creative people are on the bipolar spectrum (although two thirds are probably sub-clinical). I don't lose work time to it, and my "never flake" rule keeps it from being too disruptive. I think of myself as traveling the same road as everyone else, but in winter rather than summer. And there are things you can see more clearly when the trees are bare and the air is crisp.
Citations begin as Lyft ride-sharing gets rolling in St. Louis
Great Product With No Managers And A Work-From-Home Culture?
Being sorta useful in vim
Mono can run .Net apps on lots of platforms. I'm running the same Tomboy (note-taking) binary on Linux and Windows.