skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'd always love to have more types of data, but we haven't yet prototyped anything that uses additional sensors. At the start we really thought that reliable heartrate and bloodpressure sensing watches would be on the market very soon, and we kinda designed the early versions with that in mind. As the product developed, we were surprised how much useful status information and trend analysis could be done with just activity and location data.

The long term trend analysis of this kind of data interests us a lot, in the simple case of activity levels, most seniors go through a very gradual decline, and there's no point at which anyone recognises the need for intervention and a change in exercise habits. I think if people had the analysis more readily, they'd see this and it could have quite a positive outcome by prompting people to make changes in habit to recover their former activity levels. The same analysis should work equally for chronic conditions, and if you can merge information about medication then you should be able to recover a very complete picture.
Stupid question maybe, but if you can create mass from photons, wouldn't that start to affect the shape of the universe if it happened enough? Could you use this, in theory, to turn an ever expanding universe into one that contracts? Just keep turning energy into mass?
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The point that most of you are missing is that the NSA's intelligence gathering activity and activities of that class are completely unrelated to these charges. They are being charged with economic hacking activities. Trade secrets were being lifted and handed to Chinese companies. An analog would be like the NSA harvesting data from Samsung and then passing it to Apple, which is the type of stuff that we have no evidence of thus far. Regardless of your feelings on the NSA's actions, this isn't the same type of "all countries hack each other" activity.

And if you think metal and solar companies are the only one suffering these sorts of attacks, you're crazy. I think it's just that the other victims don't want to be named publicly for a variety of reasons. This sort of activity is a serious problem, but you can't just file charges all willy-nilly. Fortunately the U.S. already had economic actions in motion through resolution channels pertaining to the dumping of solar tech, so it makes this sort of thing much easier to do I think.
Sometimes I've heard people bitch about the US-centricness of the Internet and how it can be difficult to enter structured data (like phone numbers or addresses) in a format that isn't compatible with US standards.

It's interesting to see that problem from the other direction. That site is useless for me because it can't easily decode US addresses.
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Can it cause issues with other living organisms in water?
I could take you around Boston and identify a number of scenarios where a bicycle following different rules makes things more dangerous. Here's one:

http://i.imgur.com/JRQCRG9.png

The Saint Mary's and Mountfort street intersection in Boston. There's a very long red light for cars traveling east. A portion of the light is for traffic coming out of St. Mary's street (which is usually only a single car or two), the rest is for pedestrians (primarily BU students), who tend to move efficiently and are easy to see and avoid if you are on a bike.

While the light is red, the entire area marked in green almost always empty (safe). The smartest, safest move for a bicycle is to approach the red light and slow down, making sure there are no cars coming from the north or south, then proceed through the intersection (slowly, avoiding pedestrians), through the green area and onto park drive by themselves, without having to compete with the cars that will be merging (and while oncoming traffic is also conveniently stopped).

What's the point of signage if you create a broad exemption from following them?

A broad exemption should coincide with a recognition that the rules and signage are inadequate and need to be updated where possible. For example there's a one-way street a short way from the picture I posted (Essex St, Brookline) which was recently amended to say "One-way (except bikes)." That is, the signs and laws were adjusted to accommodate the unique characteristics of bicycles.

There are a lot of one-way streets that can easily accommodate bicycles. Meanwhile there are some one-way streets that really should not be taken in the wrong direction by either bikes or cars. But until the signage adequately distinguishes between the two, bikes are just going to ignore signs if they can get away with it. (And it does happen-- I forget which street but there's a street near Harvard Square that is clearly marked "NO BIKES THIS DIRECTION, USE <street> INSTEAD"
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The company behind Muse.
It could have been shortened even further to just "". Then there would be nothing misleading in the headline at all.

As it is, the headline suggests that some plane accidentally crossed the Kármán Line, has been floating out there for nearly 2 years, and not even the pilot or ATC could work out how it happened.
Ironic. I guess.
what is this doing on the HN front page?
In fact, Feynman diagrams are spacetime diagrams. (They are commonly computed in momentum space, i.e. Fourier space, but you can also do them in normal position space.) When you draw a Feynman diagram, the vertices correspond to actual points in spacetime, which are then integrated over a la the path integral.
There service seemed... confusing. As you say, though, their cert is not included in win/osx, which makes it kind of useless re: client logins.

(always trying to convert friends to a saner OS - with some success - but that's a slow process :/ )
Wait.. How is that acceptable? The first visit seems the time that you would need the tooltips the most!
I completely agree. I've worked at the large companies where we were stuck with Python 2.5 because of LTS versions of distros in production (around 2010).

I work at Continuum using our Python distribution (Anaconda[1] and Miniconda[2]). We sell it as the Data Scientist's answer to python, but as a sysadmin, I really think it is the answer administrators have been looking for. It installs into one directory that can be blown away if needed. It provides virtualenv-like environments except it you can isolate different versions of python or any binary. You can "activate" your environment, just by setting your PATH to find the env's bin first.

The conda package manager installs binary packages, so you don't need to compile c-extensions on each machine. Conda allows you to build all of your packages for each arch. Binstar is our alpha package hosting service that lets you host packages and it has a multi-platform build service (super-alpha). And you aren't limited to Binstar if you want to host your own repos -- the commands are built into conda.

If you want to distribute non-python binaries, you can do that as well. I'm using conda to install node and node packages. I really like using conda for node binaries, because I can build them using npm and then I have a way to push versioned node binaries to production. (Internally, we've built most of the R packages, postgres, mysql, mongo, nginx as conda packages to provide non-root users a way to install normally root-only software).

[1] Anaconda: http://continuum.io/downloads
[2] Just python: http://conda.pydata.org/miniconda.html#miniconda
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i'm not sure why this is on the front page as it seems very obvious. but i occasionally echo json-encoded data directly into the script to aid with quick rendering/low latency, minimizing # or requests.

things like initial data points for a js chart are a good example of when this is useful.
Khanna wrote a report on copyright reform for a GOP committee that got him ultimately fired:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4797036

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4882364
Currency - dollar.
hm... what is the right pricing?
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The screenshot they posted on top of the blog site is very illustrative. Although I may be used to the "Google Maps look", the OSM map displayed there is much harder to understand. I can't put my finger on it exactly, but there's too much color and detail I'm not interested in when looking at a map. This feeling does not occur to me when I use Bing Maps or Here Maps either (and I have used these quite a bit in the past).

Let's hope the increased use of the incredibly detailed and free OSM data will one day lead to better applications that make use of it. User experience comes first.
I learned Django / Python on the job (coming from Perl).

My colleague was always ranting about how much better Python was than Perl. Having inherited her code, I was writing far better code while learning Python than she was after doing a PhD in bioinformatics (~4 years?).
I would counter that and say, "An 'Open Standard' created and then implemented by 1 party is no different than a closed standard".

However, Khronos[1], the entity that makes opengl, also made the webgl standard. The fact that mozilla hasn't done as good of a job implementing it as google has doesn't magically negate the fact that it is still an open standard (that mozilla has actually implemented, just poorly).

[1] https://www.khronos.org/webgl/
Hi, I'm just here to confirm Muphry's law[1].

You missed an indefinite article here: If you are looking for job in your native language, ...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
It's a bad marketing term as well. Just makes me think of coughing Victorians...
Map data is of utility to everyone, of course it should be free.
Have you considered picking up freelance node.js work? I run a website called FreelanceInbox.com that is designed to help freelancers find quality leads without having to spend time a lot of time searching. You could probably handle small projects and develop your skills that way.
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And here's how to use Common Lisp reader macros to implement JSON literals: https://gist.github.com/chaitanyagupta/9324402
I second this. His emacs/elisp docs have been exceedingly helpful for me in the past, certainly helpful enough to warrant a donation, regardless of any reputation for being difficult to work with.
We first created the World’s Worst Email (and mailed it to our subscriber list) as a gag. The idea was to shine a spotlight on the value of design in email marketing by putting good content in packaging. To my surprise it has sort taken on a life all it's own.
Are there not existing Chef/Puppet recipes that will do this for you?

I guess it gives you a nice web front-end, and maybe a bit of confidence that the configuration was designed by a professional?
https://laracasts.com is a website run by Jeffrey Way formerly head of web development at TutsPlus and a brilliant teacher. He has a number of lessons available for free at https://laracasts.com/tags/free including a series of lessons taking you through most of the basics (https://laracasts.com/series/laravel-from-scratch/episodes/1).

It's only $9 a month which imo is great value. I'd take a look through the free lessons and if you like what you see sign up for a month or 2 and start building.

In addition to this Dayle Rees has an excellent book which can be found at https://leanpub.com/codebright which takes you through all the basic stuff and more. I personally prefer Laracasts as I am more video inclined and Jeffrey is an incredible teacher but they are both great resources.
I've dropped her a message (kcushing at google dot com) and I suggest you do the same.
I would set some alerts for craigslist job listings in the larger craigslist markets.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sof?query=node.js&is_tele...

Replace 'sfbay' with various cities and see what you get.
http://www.scout.me/app

This page shows all 4 platform apps. What I am missing?
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I'd multiply that by at least 5 if you're in the US and you're any good.
I'm not an expert in this field, but as far as I know ZRTP trust is bootstrapped from the signalling channel (in this case your XMPP connection). So a MITM there could also MITM your voice/video.

And again, your metadata and signalling would still be exposed without encryption - along with your IP addresses (ICE candidates), etc.
Pretty content free, new tech could be scary kind of thing.

By and large, the good things that come out of IoT will be larger in number to the not so good things, by virtue of the fact that folks are generally designing these things to do useful things. We know that because every technology that has been developed, its intent leads to a skewed distribution of 'good' or 'bad' uses. For example 'cars' many more 'good' uses than 'bad' uses, 'bombs' many more 'bad' uses than 'good' uses. Some things which are just a basic discovery like 'plastic' about an equal number of good and bad uses.

I am completely not persuaded that "developing nations won't benefit" as a stand in for 'bad'. There are two ways that argument fails for me, if this stuff is going to be a huge enabler, why is the article so glum? If its going to be a huge problem isn't not having access to it a benefit? That there will be groups where it will be structurally impossible for them to get this technology at the same time is probably a good thing from a future planning perspective.
Do you have experience in Rails? Honestly, Laravel just feels like "PHP on Rails" to me. It's a full framework like Rails, so it takes some getting used to. The Code Bright [1] tutorial was great for learning the syntax, and the Laravel documentation [2] helps during development

I'm not sure what your idea is, exactly, but once you get Laravel up and running it's fairly easy to do what it sounds like you're saying. Create a Model to interact with the database, create a controller for your routing, and then a couple of views for your form/success page/etc.

[1] http://daylerees.com/codebright
[2] http://laravel.com/docs
I'm thinking of finding a remote job too. However, I'm inexperienced and a friend of mine said that people don't tend to hire remotely for junior level positions. Is this true?
One solution might be for them to maintain their own error-checked database, and then provide a website and map overlay ontop of OSM, pointing out where the discrepancies are between the two. Then local mappers could go around and confirm the corrections.

I do think in the long-run OSM will need some error-checking processes if it aspires to be a definitive database. At the moment, I could quite happily subtly mess up a motorway junction in Japan, and most of the OSM mapping software would have no way to knowing not to package it up and send it out. Vandalism is not an issue now, but as the dataset becomes more popular, I think some mechanisms will need to go into place to protect its integrity (particularly for major infrastructure).
Yes, it's infinite velocity. When you compute an amplitude from a Feynman diagram, you sum (integrate) over intermediate particle paths that are superluminal. The math is structured in a way that these contributions cannot actually be used to send signals, but the contributions are crucial and cannot be discarded. Essentially, they represent the relativistic generalization of the effect where one particle in a Bell pair "influences" another over a spacelike separation, but in a subtle and spooky way that cannot produce superluminal signaling.
Ok, thank you for the explanation. I can see how this would be more helpful for people without as much experience.
I honestly thought it was a very public 'secret' that China and Chinese companies 'adopt' much of their technology from elsewhere. Why else are we advised to travel with (essentially) burner laptops and phones when in China?

Is that not the case? If it's not, is this really the first time the US has had ample evidence or incentive to move forward?
Wow, speed is great. I'll definitely check it out. However, the second statement still seems to be valid: OSM is still at the street name level rather than street number level.

I read some MapQuest's document saying that Mapquest actually took points on a street and interpolate all the numbers. Maybe OSM can do the same. Eagerly waiting...
http://regio-osm.de/listofstreets/index.html uses streetname lists from local governments to see if anything is missing, spelled wrong etc. There are usually always a few errors.
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Well you have no proof whatsoever of your claims. No question that it's a healthy thing to consume, but saying it will change lives from day one without changing anything else is just a very bold statement to make without backing it up with anything.
Kudos for the recipe though.
I still don't see how that is the case with your examples.

Insider trading laws, for example, exist exactly because only a few people having the info reduces its value, there would be no point in having them if that wasn't the case. Obviously, the value to the few having the information is increased because they can use the information to their advantage - but the overall value of something has to consider externalities as well, which in this case would mean considering at least the losses that unsuspecting trading partners incur, which already would make it a zero-sum game, so there at least is no positive value in keeping the information secret. Now, another externality of keeping insider information secret is that it leads to the market making less rational decisions about asset allocation, for example allocating capital to a company that is actually less efficient at doing its job in society than its competitor that publishes such information immediately and honestly, thus likely wasting resources in comparison to the allocation that would happen in an honest market. I mean, after all, we put quite a lot of effort into making sure that price discovery in the stock market is not being manipulated, and into creating public exchanges with public price information in the first place, so presumably there is some value to society in making this information widely available?
I wonder if the Chinese will charge a few Americans with something in retaliation.

Standing on its own, this action is pointless. As part of a larger strategy to provide evidence to justify future tariffs or sanctions, it would make sense. My guess is that's where the US is heading with this.
http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0322.html (originating from the IoT community, where XMPP is commonly, and successfully, used on embedded devices like you describe).

Just please don't mention ASN.1 again :)
Okay. AttributeError is good enough, except when it's not. Python is designed in such a way that makes you actively seek out AttributeErrors, rather than having them diagnosed at compile-time. If that works for you, then that's great, but it doesn't always work. Whether it's in the main branch of CPython, or some sort of experimental fork, or some completely distinct static analysis tool, Pythonistas should support efforts to add (potentially optional) increased static checking to the Python interpreter, because it's a good thing.

Will it fit in with the current Python ecosystem? Will it have to change the way the language is used? Maybe, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't experiment with static analysis. We're hackers, after all, and this is something that probably deserves to be hacked on.
>They are being charged with economic hacking activities. Trade secrets were being lifted and handed to Chinese companies. An analog would be like the NSA harvesting data from Samsung and then passing it to Apple

Yes, of course, the bright red line isn't international espionage, it's economic espionage! [1]

[1]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-braz...
Nope, i'm from Eastern Europe.
Yeah, iD can be slow. If you're just adding roads, the Potlatch 2 editor (available in the dropdown menu next to the edit button) is less polished, but perfectly adequate, and much faster.
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I don't call "restaurant" a place where you eat sandwiches. Cultural point, I guess.
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You're missing the point, which was that it's a pun. "Fog computing"? Come on. The only damn thing that came to mind as a possible meaning of the phrase "fog computing" was "the fog is made of computers".
> Most people don't check the copyright date on books

It depends! Would you buy a collection of essays about how to best market on the internet from 1997? Maybe, maybe not.

Other stuff is pretty timeless (hey, this Shakespeare is old!), so it really does depend on what the material is about.
I was interested in the new ICANN nominated member, Dr. Lanfranco, take on the issue - specifically in regards to the idea that the data field created by the IOT will be used to set risk assessment for health insurance, car insurance and other risk services. This may turn out to be the most significant form of social engineering that we ever embark on, and it might not necessarily be a bad thing. Though his point is that it's a discussion that we have to have before we enable those rights to the corporate-sphere.

"With IPv6, the explosion of the Internet of Things, and all the data generating apps that are there for smart phones, and coming for smart cars, smart refrigerators, etc, each and every person (and object) will begin to be surrounded by a datasphere of archived data. That datasphere will be mined by what I call the "The Invasion of the Data Snatchers". This is beyond government surveillance, and the rules and regulations about (a) privacy of one's datasphere, and (b) the terms of access (much given away via the "I accept" button on apps) are not in place. We are not even sure how they should be fashioned, and who (at what level) should administer them. The most problematic area here is service providers who have to assess risk (car, health, house insurance). We are already seeing denial of service to individuals, based on access to one's personal datasphere (e.g. cardio wrist band data resulting in denial of travel insurance). What happens when health insurance engages in health surveillance via one's networked refrigerator, and car insurance via one's vehicle? "

Relevant part of the interview here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6vacuBHYVE
I use iD regularly. It doesn't seem slow to me.

My connection is ~1Mbps, so getting the bing aerial images can take a few seconds, but it doesn't really slow my editing down.
This. I barely want to deal with the people approaching _me_. Much less people I know. And what's more I don't think being a 1st level connection on linkedin really carries that much social proofing to the point where going direct is any worse.
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He does not mean an HTTP header, just somewhere not prominent.
The CAcert root cert is trusted almost nowhere, so they are not comparable. StartSSL certs are trusted by almost all major OSs and browsers.
The server is suffering seriously, too many people playing with a very alphaish piece of software XD