skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't attempting to address it, I was merely pointing out the hypocrisy in ignoring Apple's misconduct while avoiding Samsung products because of their "scumminess." But you knew that perfectly well, yet chose to ignore it. Good response. Five stars. Very helpful.
The reason that -- at least on the Sauber -- the speed is displayed so large is that it's the number that's changing the most rapidly. It isn't a primary piece of information, but when the car is accelerating away from a corner, the driver needs to be able to discern acceleration by way of more than just the seat of his or her pants. With the immense amount of torque available this year, being able to optimize that acceleration out of a corner is absolutely paramount.

The "marks to hit for straightaways or (...)" are visual indicators on the sides of the track, showing the distance to the corner. Part of what makes these drivers the best in the world are that they're able to hit -- mostly -- the exact same braking spot coming from 300kph down to 60kph lap after lap after lap, without a computer telling them when to brake.

Coincidentally, that row of LEDs on the top of the wheel is supposed to tell drivers when to shift, but teams found out a long time ago that the visual indicator wasn't being processed fast enough by the drivers' brains, so now drivers get a little beep in their ear when they're supposed to up/downshift.
It's also odd there's no mention of Logistic Regression.
That's what I thought too, right after "Insert Dave Morin joke."
mate you could do this anywhere, there's people building cool software all over the world. See if you can find someone in Israel or Brazil or The Netherlands to sponsor your summer!
The display is used for a lot of things, not just for speed. For example during saturday qualifying drivers usually have the time difference of their laps to the leader on the display, and it gets constantly updated.

It's quite interesting to watch cockpit cams and see the effect any little mistake or different line has on the lap time. You can also often see differences in brake balances between drivers and more on them during the race, can be really interesting if you pay attention to that.
A Bit Off Topic: If anyone has interest in how it was before smart steering wheels, here is a vid clip of the master Ayrton Senna at Monaco in real-time as it happened.

http://youtu.be/rh6bwZ4ooTI

It is deemed the best in car F1 vid of all times by fans. It is raw and not sped up.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus, so I voted for both Samsung and Nexus.
How much water does this thing use?

Where are they going to get the water? They have already over-allocated Colorado river water and are currently sucking the aquifers dry in the area (water that fell during the ice age).

Solve one problem, get another. But maybe there is a net gain... I don't know.
Djibouti: A Nation High On Drugs (2013)
I have an iphone 4 running ios 5.1.1, jailbroken. It's great. It runs incredibly fast after four years: Cydia has a good cleaning app, and a speed increase app that removes animations. Mine look faster than ios 7 apps on new iphones.

I disable safari, and hardly use apps. I just use it to text message, call, take pictures, make calendar entries, check the time, and occasionally take notes, though I prefer a paper notepad for that.

I'm sometimes asked why I have a smartphone at all, but I like the UI, and it does everything I want to do very quickly, while looking nice.

I don't really want to upgrade, but there's no option to buy my current configuration again if this breaks.
So are we ignoring that the Nexus 5 has an LG logo on the back of it?
I made a Greasemonkey script that draws them (subtly) right on HN. Looks like this: http://cl.ly/image/0G001m393p3V/hn_poll.PNG

Script here: https://gist.github.com/ingmar/5564603
As long as you're nit picking, I'd suggest you re read carefully what you wrote, because it is wrong.

What you meant to say is that on a set of measure zero, the paths can have points where continuity is not satisfied. But you did not say that.

In any case, the version of Brownian motion I studied was the version that excludes this null set. ;-)
Entrepreneurship,conspiracy,love and murder: Masala Dosa to Die For
bool b = x < y;
The original swipe at Samsung was unqualified mud-slinging. Useless name-calling, so not sure why you're defending it.

"Scummy company" what the hell does that mean?

Every tech giant operating today has an ongoing responsibility to their customers for all sorts of concerns from environmental, legal, competitive, relentless pursuit of profit over quality, marketing spin, eco-system lock-in, the list goes on.

Pick something and discuss. Or stay silent.
BlackBerry Z10 here. Love the new OS, happy with the hardware, very impressed with the browser fork.
Surprisingly enough, before the 2014 season with brake-by-wire, drivers would have to adjust the brake bias (forward vs rear) by moving a little lever down next to their knees. They'd be taking their hands off the wheel all the time.
[Jolla](http://jolla.com), and loving it :-D
No, no! We don't want that!

What we want is differentiable everywhere but where the derivative is not Riemann integrable!!!!!! Everyone should
have one of those, just to carry around.

We might keep in mind that a function is Riemann integrable iff it is continuous everywhere except on a set of measure 0. So, we want the points where the function is not continuous to be of positive measure!

Much more than you ever wanted to know about
continuity, differentiability, and the Riemann
integral!
It’s on: Google, Facebook, and more slam the FCC’s plan for Internet fast lanes
MailChimp is under DDOS Attack
you can do that with itunes
Yeah, that's definitely true! However, the only reason I mentioned SF is for conveniency as I live in California. There's brilliant people everywhere, and I would be glad to work in places like the ones you mentioned if I had the chance.
Kind of confused here: I was under the impression that timestamp with timezone only did the converting to-and-from your system timezone, but still always stored in UTC. Is that incorrect?
Online Learning: A Bachelor's Level Computer Science Program Curriculum
This might help iphone users: http://teleapp.me/
USCIS doesn't offer jobs. Just a work permit. They will interview for jobs like everyone else and have a chance of getting employed. It's just that instead of making it illegal, they are now issuing permits.
I'm not sure why Khat is scheduled in the US.

I've chewed it before and wouldn't call it a "drug" in the sense cocaine, marijuana, or alcohol are. I might compare it to a very strong caffeine or tobacco without the dizziness. Defiantly didn't seem worth outlawing although maybe it is addictive. I only chewed it once or twice so don't know about the addictive properties.
The common scenario I see here in Asia is a corporate provided phone (free business calls and the only sanctioned way to access corporate email, but invariably crappy, old, cheap and/or blackberry) plus a new smartphone (Samsung in ASEAN, iPhone in greater China) used for friends, family, apps etc. Very rare to encounter someone in a business meeting who does not have two phones.
As human beings, we learn by observing the fates of other human beings.

When we encounter a fate that is easily recognized, and assuredly an unenviable fate, there is no ambient curiosity gifted to us by our ignorance. We've seen this movie before, and we know how it ends.

The normal psychological response to this sort of thing most certainly is not: wash. rinse. repeat.

You can't spend too much time on the frontlines in a pitched battle like cancer, and find yourself filled with a burning desire to experience the struggle first-hand. Jack Kevorkian's form of therapy isn't the greatest idea ever conceived, but for special circumstances, it might sometimes apply. One critical detail of supreme importance, to keep in mind: As a permanent decision, it should never be applied to temporary circumstances.

Within the specific context of this anecdote, and the benefit of the author's recall serving us as hindsight, I think, the moment when he noticed the sclera icterus was late in the game, but a conscionable moment for non-theraputic intervention. Arguably, she had already passed her own threshold moment, when she started eating oxies like candy, and wryly deflating strangers attitudes with a malign gallows humor about the fact that her apparent pregnancy was actually a side-effect of terminal liver failure.
Ya man. You might have a better chance of lining something up if you post your github profile or a link to some of your side projects so people can see what level you're coding at
Slashdot was fun back in the day (Id 64578), so most sites do that progression. I think HN has changed in that general social stories show up more. I do think the weekends are a bit weirder now.
Computers racing computers is pretty exciting to some people.

http://arewefastyet.com/

http://speed.pypy.org/

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/
Why do you say that? I quite like Samsung...
There is a helpful chart here of the revolving door between the FCC, CTIA(cellular lobby) and NCTA(cable lobby): http://baselinescenario.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/fcc-roun....
Oh huh I didn't know about office online. I was going off of Google's support site which says "The Chromebook doesn’t work with some types of software you may be used to, like Microsoft Office..."[1]

[1]https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/3265094?hl=en
Agree with your "slam dunk" argument. Though net neutrality seems utopian in principle, from another perspective the providers with the infrastructure seem to be simply asking for the market to decide the use of their private infrastructure than some abstract principle.

Then again, we can make the same argument about utility providers. If a private electricity provider asks for a share of the payment of the video being served using the electricity that they supply, where should this stop?

I'm beginning to think that we'll eventually end ip with a middle ground where some usages of communication infrastructure are regulated (such as emergency response) and some others are in the market.

While folks are arguing about whether such a breakage of net neutrality will be bad for consumers, are there at least any reasonable market simulations that point out good/bad out omes for each party involved, includin consumers?
Just yesterday I watched Mike Bostock remake this example live at Edward Tufte's seminar in San Jose.

In the talk, he emphasized the importance of incorporating Makefiles into the workflow more than the text of this tutorial does. It basically documents exactly where you got the data from and what basic transformations you applied to it. The NYT uses this to streamline their process of developing graphics--so if, say, a graphic from six months ago needs to be revisited again for a new story on the same topic, nobody has to fumble around trying to remember where the data came from, etc. I got the impression that this was the advice of someone who had been burned by not following it in the past.
Figure it out for yourself
Show HN: An Open Sourced Cards Against Humanity Clone Raising $ for Make A Wish
The nexus in the poll refers to the Google Nexus range.
Lighten up people. I understand the frustration, but OP is not ALL of those posts you're referring to. He's one guy that posted a link looking for feedback.

OP: I like this and think it has a nice, fresh look to it. Look forward to playing around with it. Thanks.
Are you a backer? We've been sharing this information in the backer updates. Some of this is also to be found on our youtube channel.

With respect to the budget we currently have $230,000 left in the bank. We'll publish the financials when we are ready to ship.
And with Windows Phone.
This list is very odd; LG Samsung and HTC have all made Nexus devices.

Motorola phones could be Android, Moto (whatever their OS was), or even incredibly old phones.

It's partially a list of manufacturers, and partially a list of brands.
Moto G, I really really really really really like the physical phone. Love the small size (compared to the slabs people are carrying these days).
Some of google on the phone annoys me, other of google I like. Installed Firefox, works fine for the very little that I use it.
Nobody knows, it's a big mystery. It's mysterious partly because it shouldn't exist. If you do the math a very high energy proton should have a reasonable upper energy limit. Because protons are charged and at high enough speeds the cosmic microwave background actually slows them down (because it becomes significantly blue shifted). So that means either this particle came from our own galaxy over a short distance or something else is going on that we haven't accounted for.

There are candidates for what would give rise to such a particle, but observations are sparse so we haven't had much chance to test any theories.
Very cool. Thanks for the in depth answer.
Yes I meant to say differentiable, brownian motion is always continuous. But with probability zero, brownian motion can generate a differentiable curve.

Take the typical random walk construction as the limit of a piecewise continuous curve. I.e., 50% chance of being y=x, 50% chance of being y=-x on [0,1], then subdivide. With zero probability, the walk can converge to a straight line x=t, which is certainly differentiable.

It's early in the morning and I had no caffeine.
Amazon, Netflix and tech giants defend net neutrality in letter to FCC
I wrote SocketCluster. I haven't tried that yet, it would definitely be interesting to test.
I understand this is a toy project, but he is put in a position in which he educates people how to use these methods and gives the wrong impression. The next guy might use this flawed logic while creating a tool for disease prevalence prediction.
I'm guessing tenure-track positions in the Philosophy faculty are very much a buyer's market. The candidate didn't seem to appreciate this.
Yes, amazing. About to work on stats caching and that Ranges datatype will be suuuper useful for using ranges of timestamps when caching a stat every week, month, etc.
More than that, he was scraping private resources that were freely populated. He was not robbing content creators of their money. He was circumventing a paywall to what should be free data.
Universities Sometimes Look a Lot Like Patent Trolls
Actually, Terms of Service violations fall under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, since ToS agreements can lay out under which circumstances that authorization for access to computer systems is given. That sort of obscene generality is the reason for proposals such as Aaron's Law, but to my knowledge there are no such protections today.
In case you want to spread the importance of this to the general public, there's a simple video from vihart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAxMyTwmu_M

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7711635
After hours trading can be subject to the whims of less-seasoned investors. Consequently, veterans on Wall Street sometimes deride after hours trading as "amateur hour."
Piet: A programming language where images are the programs.
Heh, I've always called this the map makers trick (found an article about it here: https://theweek.com/article/index/241967/trap-streets-the-cr...) although I guess that is specific to putting a small amount of fake data in your dataset to prove someone else used it. The hellbanning metaphor does fit for return large amounts of poison results.

It could be like spiking trees I guess, but that depends on the potential for harm. I just looked it up and was surprised to find that only one injury has ever been reported due to tree spiking. I guess it's a better talking point than actual tactic.

And like lukejduncan said, this is definitely done in practice.
I'd go out on a limb and say that anyone who's been President of the United States is smarter than you (or almost everyone). It takes a lot of intellect and masterful knowledge of the political and social systems to become President. However, is George W. Bush smarter than the 42 other Presidents before him?

I'm glad that the author of this article didn't try to justify that claim. He definitely had more resources and technology available to him than the previous 42, so one could argue that a bit, but as far as raw intellect, I wouldn't say so. That's a hard argument to win.
I'm not sure I'd call this a refusal, they've only just released it and it was born from a personal project where they didn't need to create a generalized portable solution. This project may be useful to others as is which is probably why they released it.
Its an interesting UI case. Everything happens so fast, there is no time for modality so every function needs to be directly accessible at the top layer. You end up with a steering-wheel full of single purpose buttons and knobs.

It kind of feels like the old days when you'd get "mission control syndrome" because the controls were tied to actual relays that actuated functions so they could only do one thing. In this case, its entirely justified.
Ask HN: Who created crowdfunding?
Digging through wikipedia, I turned up Brian Camelio[1], who founded ArtistShare in 2001. It seems he's listed as a potential "father of crowdfunding" but I wonder who else was integral.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Camelio
I think the money type is awesome! Under the hood it uses int (I believe int32 even on 64bit) so it takes 50% less space than decimal.

So if your only dealing with US currency, why not love the money type?
I am still on Galaxy S2 but running Android 4.4.2 (Slim bean ROM).. And people still stop to ask what phone it is :-)
Yes, of course there is a niche. But F1 targets a very broad audience.
Windows phone?
Google does not manufacture their own phones, the samsung galaxy nexus is most definitely part of the google nexus line of phones.
Aww, nothing for “I don’t have a smartphone” or “I don’t even have a phone”?
What is the price? I assume the price is in the 5-10k+/month range, which is a reasonable amount for data like this.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/datatype-datetime....

The postgresql manpage says it loud: don't fucking use timestamp with timezone.
It is bounded to political decision that makes it unusable compared to an UTC TS.
Plus good practices says: store UTC present in local

Does any one Read The Fantastics Manual these days?
And soylent green is ... nevermind the taste is amazing
I haven't witnessed a process that is more stupid and bureaucratic as the H-1B-to-permanent-residence application process. The full thing is based on farce and it makes no sense whatsoever. I still cannot conceive how going through this process can be the law.
At iwantmyname everyone has the same salary
I have to say, I stared at this question for a while. I have such a large reliance on using the console as a scratchpad, before ever even opening a script file, that I don't think I've even considered the possibility that one could do front end development work without it.

The best answer for you question, would be that throughout my career, the number of situations where I could directly edit a source javascript file, write-run-test-iterate in a typical software development cycle is in the far far minority of the amount of time I've spent writing javascript.

The vast majority of my time, iterating changes to javascript files is non trivial. Some examples include

Major CMS / CRM systems I've worked on where, even if I have all relevant source code, even finding the location where the page's javascript is generated or stored is non-trivial.

Major CMS / CRM solutions where making a change to a single javascript file can result in a 20 minute process before you can see those changes reflected in the browser.

Situations where I simply do not have access to the source code, but am none the less manipulating javascript on the page (for example, custom WPF applications that inject js into every page visited in the wpf web browser)

Or my current situation, where my company hosts some ~30 different web applications, and fully understanding the processes involved to get to the final page state where I will be doing my work is non-trivial.

---

But perhaps the best reason, is when debugging. With javascript, I can simply navigate to the problematic page and say module.function = myNewFunction();

If I start by copy pasting the source for the problematic code into myNewFunction in the console, then I can iterate my changes with 0 regard to how the javascript is served to the page. All my changes are instantaneous, and don't even require a refresh to see take effect. As such, my development time is usually much faster than constantly editing a source file, particularly if that backend framework doesn't update its js when noticing file changes, and is massively faster in any of the situations listed above.

But the real key is that once you get used to working in this fashion, it starts to make sense to use the console as your scratchpad to flesh out ideas before ever actually writing real production code whatsoever, in any situation. It just becomes so nice to be able to flesh out your js ideas on the fly, with 0 regard to framework, and against your target environment.

But this workflow is entirely impossible in chrome, because every time you want to run your script, you have to hit ente, and every time you need a new line you're shifting, and then you're up arrowing over versions, etc, etc. With firebug, I can just continually edit the text in the console until I'm happy with the results, and then I can keep that on the screen and use it as a reference while I write my (hopefully much nicer) real production code in a source file somewhere.
I'm still running my T-Mobile G2 (HTC Desire) which I got in 2010. It's starting to get a little old and act a little odd sometimes but I hope to keep it for a year or two more.
My understanding is that web sites shouldn't be crowd-funded because they have no end, given the need for ongoing hosting, as opposed to products that are a discreet "thing".
Postgres developers disagree and recommend numeric. It was once deprecated and then un-deprecated.

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b42b73150805270629h309f...
It did seem to me that this was an interpretation that he came up with after he tired many different pipelines and "flipped all the switches". There are many sources of randomness that warrant using statistical methods. But it feels strange to me to see people use these tools without giving much thought to parameter stability, parameter significance, causality, model selection in general.
Is there a way to get the same type of JavaScript decompressor as present in Google Chrome? I know there is a plugin for this but it doesn't do the most important: when you decompress the JavaScript, the console file:line details match the decompressed code. So you can click to jump to legible JavaScript when debugging.
Negotiated Out of a Job
It'd be nice to compare it with:
https://github.com/automattic/socket.io-redis

I wrote an example application using it here:
https://github.com/guille/weplay
Looks like 80legs that you mention rebranded themselves as "Datafiniti" at some point recently.

http://blog.datafiniti.net/?p=230
I wonder how smart someone like John Kerry really is?

I mean, if you sat him down in front of a page of logic puzzles how would he do? I have a hard time believing he would do really well although I could be wrong.

It seems like the main qualifications for a politician are political sense and looking good in a suit. But I don't disagree. Most people who make it to president have to be reasonably smart.
I am wondering if PaintCode would allow my designer to draw up a complete UI - e.g. all screens so I could just use that.

What I do now is I get the designs in some sort of intermediary format, e.g. InVision or whatever, then I have to go and measure everything and all the pixel distances, then re-create it in Interface Builder. It's retarded.