skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quadrotor Uses Google's Project Tango to Fly Autonomously
You don't have to be a government to spend half a billion on a system that never works.
AngularJS : How-to-generate-code-coverage-for-yeoman-scaffolded-apps
Interesting. This might have come from the Google+ development team, as this and something called "jsmodel" are part of that product. You can see traces of both of these in the DOM of plus.google.com
Given the leaked Google Rating Guidelines file, Metafilter's design, and running multiple blended Adsense units, it would be marked as spam when manually reviewed.
I use those crystal deodorant stones. My usage of those goes way back, regular deodorants gave me allergic reactions.

Water + occasional baking soda and apple cider vinegar for my hair is what I use.
Recent replications in psychology
Big Date needs big models
Biases in grocery shopping
For what I think are probably good reasons, they moved the comments here: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/how-to-c...

However, I want to just (happily) note that most of the comments are positive - I'm guessing it is a function of the Atlantic's left-of-center-skewed readership (I could be wrong..) but anyhow, comments are not closed anymore I guess?
> I don't think it's anyone's position that something could be mute and immotile yet conscious,

Until someone tells me what consciousness is, that's impossible to say one way or the other.

Do you know what it is? I can make some vague descriptions myself that I think are supportable (it's related to intelligence), but past that I'm willing to admit we don't even have a starting point to work with.

It seems to me to be the modern not-quite-atheist-hipster soul. The term is used most often when someone wants to prove to me that it's a sin to eat meat (that chicken was a conscious being!). I see quite a few headlines that are mangled, claiming that a neurologist has proven the honeybee or an orca to be conscious, but when I read the articles themselves it always turns out that the MRI machine has similar readings to those of a human.

None of this is meaningful.

> As far as applications, one of the early uses of a practical theory of consciousness may be to determine the effectiveness of anesthesia on a moment by moment basis.

If we're daydreaming, sure. But that's one of dozens. We're probably looking at the basis for AI too, if we get one. Whether or not that can be accomplished in software. Education will benefit... you'll be able to determine whether a student is learning, or how best to accomplish that. Intelligence testing, personality tests (don't elect him, he only scored an 8 on the non-sociopath test!), lie detection, etc.

But I've yet to see a theory of consciousness (debunked or not) that could lead to any of this. Even if the author is wrong, and that theory is correct... even if it is only preliminary and needs to be polished, where will it give us any of this? It doesn't even point us in the direction of a more complete theory, and none of them do.
This really is a false dichotomy. Being able to set different default apps isn't a huge thing to ask, doesn't alienate huge numbers of non-techies, and doesn't make an OS that does let you do so for tinkerers only or something. Conversely, asking for better UX for selecting which app to use doesn't imply that it's a bad idea that can only be serviced by a million knobs and buttons and so should be abandoned.
Looking for mentor in director / vp product role mainly for career advancement advice.
How does this compare with RX.js where they use the Observable setup to work with collections of events? Like that Netflix talk that was up here last week?
It would be nice if certain websites we all use every day supported v6 better...

firstmillion:~▻ host -t AAAA news.ycombinator.com
news.ycombinator.com has no AAAA record
firstmillion:~▻ host -t AAAA twitter.com
twitter.com has no AAAA record
firstmillion:~▻ host -t AAAA cloud-images.ubuntu.com
cloud-images.ubuntu.com has no AAAA record
firstmillion:~▻ host -t AAAA ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com has no AAAA record

...
Interesting article, but as it mentions, this is the latest in a series of breakthroughs in cancer treatment. What is missing for me in there is any idea of the number of people that this could affect.

Medical statistics ( http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/cancerstats/surv... )show that overall cancer survival rates have been improving according to a linear trend - by an absolute amount of ~0.65% per year.

This would put the date at which cancer is "cured" at somewhere in the 2090s. So, are we talking about continuing this trend or surpassing it? How much of a step forward is this and is it likely to be applied trivially to other forms of cancer?
Thanks for pointing out the lack of precision in my preceding comment; by using the phrase "could offer" I erroneously implied a conviction that no such capability was possible. I've edited that comment, replacing "could offer" with "offered", to correct the problem.
True. Whether or not one might feel that his actions as an IDF commando were heroic, I think we can agree that standing up to terrorists on one's plane is heroic.
Yeah, there's no way to tell. Nobody has succeeded in the space so far, and that's because it is extremely hard to draw people in with "a functional address" as the main premise. Even if it's an address with which to do things that weren't possible before, it's still an address, and it's boring as fuck. Nobody cares about address update feeds, or any other gimmick you'd find in Foursquare's garage.

I am pessimistic but excited as a technologist and entrepreneur. Maybe there's something us and many others have missed that the team here will see. Myself, I would definitely look more in the direction of services like M-Pesa and Facebook than e-commerce or government. That's my two cents.
A naturalistic fallacy is simply appealing to "this is way it is before we do anything". Others have presented the counter-evidence - i.e. human hygiene and life-expectancy and disease rates got way better with the introduction of hand-washing and soap.

I'd think carefully about your anecdotal evidence. The social contract is we don't comment on matters of hygiene directly, and I know I couldn't smell how bad me and my schoolmates smelt after a couple of days field-trip out camping. That didn't mean we didn't.
Considering that APNIC was iirc the first to run out of IPv4 and certainly a growing market, it seems odd that most countries there (edit: in Asia) have basically no IPv6 adoption.
That wasn't the responder's point. The point was that even people who do (at least by their own report) believe in the inherent equality and humanity of men and women (along with all other marginalized groups) can still be jerks. That's why we should focus on jerkitude, period.
I personally do very well with Clojure / Incanter

While I must admit I never worked with R (so I don't know what incanter is lacking), I do know that whatever problem needs solving, it won't be hard to solve in Clojure.
Two specific advantages of Clojure / Incanter are the clojure-inherent concurrency stuff plus access to all Java libs.
By "cold email", does this guy mean what most of us would call "spam"? I can't tell how what he's describing isn't just spam.
I'm not claiming that Coca Cola has its own police but suggesting to imagine a hypothetical Coca Cola which has police at their command, and a hypothetical employee working for a such company, who just took secret documents, contacted a journalist, then making a "let's not drink sugar water" event, and then to try to imagine if his behavior could trigger such police to investigate him more and maybe in the process discover what he did. Sorry if it wasn't clear enough.

Snowden organized a "let's use Tor" event after he apparently already downloaded some secret documents and contacted a journalist. And the top commenter disputes the claim "That was a huge risk for him to teach a crypto party while he was working for the NSA" falsely claiming that the article "keeps saying in many words that the NSA would put Snowden on a boat to gitmo if they found out he hosted a CryptoParty." It doesn't. But I also claim that it was a potential risk for him as there was some chance that somebody in charge for security starts to investigate what he does or already did.

And if I understood other sources, at that time Snowden actually worked for a private company (Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.)

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230462680...

which had the contracts with NSA. Still, apparently exactly working in that company gave him access to the secret documents he wanted to take.
Datazenit is moving to Scala
Those old timer engineers thought of everything!
I hate to be a cynic, but with as many people as MS employees, as important and as they are to the US economy and control of the worlds "information services", I believe this is just as likely to be a joint venture showing "See! Microsoft is on your side and has your back against Big Brother". (The other partner in the joint venture of course being Big Brother). I doubt many internationals will drop their suspicion from this event.
Breaking lease is far simpler and cheaper than selling. It's never taken me more than 2-3 weeks to find someone to take over the lease whereas it can take months to sell a house.

Because of this ease whenever I move jobs I always move house to be closer to work (after passing probation) because in my area changing jobs can easily add an hour a day to your commute.
http://www.salon.com/2010/07/01/godwin/
Hmmm, it seems there is a nation even nuttier about antibiotics than we Americans. I've taken antibiotics twice, for a few days each time, since I lost my spleen: wisdom teeth and a three-week sickness. Perhaps for that reason, I completely recovered from my three-week sickness within hours of taking the first pill. IANAP, but I really wonder about a standard of care that includes two years of antibiotics for a common, uncomplicated condition. What if the newly-asplenic actually got an infection while on that regimen? How would they be treated then?
really far out there: Google has a search by image, maybe reverse that on an image and see if it is like one on a page with relevant keywords?
This is unequivocally accurate. I own three investment properties plus my own home. Each one is profitable, including the house that I live in.

It seems to me that the majority of this argument is that rents will not increase. That is a fallacy. All else being equal, each time you move from a place, you will likely be paying more rent because of the inevitable march of time.
Python threads are real OS threads that are scheduled by the kernel. Yes, there is a GIL, but it is released for blocking IO. Granted CPU heavy loads in threads that are pure Python are not great, but there is a subtle difference here most people miss.

The multiprocess module solves this and has almost exactly the same interface as the threading module, I'm confused why the author paints it as more complicated.

That said I have nothing against R, or the use case the author presents.
And here I thought Rosa Parks was a racial issue, not a gender one.

While I agree that feminism has had some positive effects, I take issue with feminism taking credit for "anything a woman has done ... ever".

Did feminism invent programming and find the first bug ever?Or was that Ada Lovelace, because I'm starting to be unsure...
Actually you can also see traces of the jsaction attribute in the G+ product. G+ isn't using this from the group up though. It has a pretty long history at Google, so I'm not even sure where it came from. Should have been either Maps or Search.
>rheumatoid arthritis drug that stopped the immune system storm

Damn...that must have been some industrial strength RA meds to work that fast. Plus that is quite a leap of faith even in isolation...those meds don't always drop the white cell count as expected.
Is it just me, or does this not seem "tiny" at all? It seems to require a bunch of Closure modules, and on top of that the source itself is hundreds of lines (albeit with comments).

Nitpicking aside, it looks like an interesting approach to decoupling the DOM from your event handlers. Personally I'm happy sticking with the standard on{event} attributes for really simple stuff.
People need monetary incentives to fight against the worst disease on the planet? Helping millions of people is not motivation enough?
Strictly speaking, that is an "appeal to nature", which is a different thing than the naturalistic fallacy.
How is it unreasonable to buy a phone and expect it to work? Anything less than that is either the carrier screwing up a phone that works fine or HTC screwing up by not having a phone that works without the carrier's help. It is bad user experience, which is what his post is all about
I edited my response to clarify that I've had spontaneous compliments on how I smell, particularly since I switched. This is without people knowing I don't use soap.

And I thing hand-washing is good. We have clear evidence it works.

But is there any evidence that washing the whole body with soap on a daily basis is beneficial? The counter-evidence you speak of refers only to hand-washing.
You need to be able to show a business benefit before making changes like that; right now changing to ipv6 would give no benefit, require replacement of existing hardware and create additional troubleshooting load.

Until that changes there won't be widespread adoption of ipv6 by businesses.
I like they are putting this on Github instead of (or on top of) Google Code
You can usually work out the IBAN from bank name + sort code + account number.
Entrepreneur inspiration: why I'm going back to school
I'd argue that the author's views are too concerned with intuition. If we reduce consciousness to a scale rather than a binary property; of course a thermostat is somewhere on the scale, it simply has such a small value that it's not worth considering - leading to our philosophical intuition. There's nothing magical about our level of consciousness; as unintuitive as that may be. Aaronson argues that the model must yield to our intuition, but if the model is consistent and explains our observations, our intuition should yield to it. - the obvious analog here being quantum mechanics

In regards to saying "both that the Hard Problem is meaningless, and that progress in neuroscience will soon solve the problem if it hasn’t already," neuroscientists and mathematicians too often overlook the Turing test here. It's consistent (if not accurate) to say that the "Hard Problem" is ill-defined, but maintain that we've clearly solved it if we can comprehensively beat the Turing test. That's what the Turing test was designed for, knowing that we've created a conscious machine because it's indistinguishable from a human; even if we can't decide on what consciousness is.
I imagine that 90% of that is dealing with the all of the various insurance providers and plans across the states, i.e., glue code/integration logic.
Founder Rachel Baker Opens Up about Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Apple’s Beats Deal Is Happening, And It’s A Dre Acquihire
Front end developer search
We are looking for an awesome frontend dev in the portland area. We work with great brands and have a lot of fun. What are we doing wrong? We find some great talent but they all get taken by big dev firms. We are a small company that is looking to grow but just can't find the talent.
addendum: this was teasing and perhaps a bit snarky, but there is no rational analysis in which the parents characterization is typical of feminist practice or rhetoric. Which is a very different thing from finding someone who claims the label "feminist" and espouses these views or any other.

This sort of characterization by outliers and strawmen (women?) is ridiculous, but also damaging to the possibility of reasonable discussion. Shame on you for engaging in it.

That said, it was silly of me to engage in this sort of discussion here, it's not likely to go anywhere useful. I should probably just delete this and be done with it.
I am not saying this is "actual feminist space". All I am saying is that indoctrination is visible. If this was "actual feminist space" everyone that doesn't agree with them would be instantly banned (and reported to ISP/Police for hate speech).
Unicycles have been mentioned several times, so I thought I'd post a link to my page on learning to ride one. It was a work in progress, and no one ever asked for more. Take that as you will:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/LearningToUnicycle.html?HN0

Added in edit: email in profile if you want more!
Sources: Vegas Downtown Project entrepreneur Matt Berman has died
I have used the Cloudflare service. I had an issue with their IPv4 -> IPv6 in their Dallas datacenter that got resolved after chatting with their CEO on Twitter. Since then I have always also added an IPv4 fall-back as well.

I can wholeheartedly recommend Cloudflare though :-)
I feel like this whole comments section just fell out of a time machine, which isn't surprising, as this article does as well. This would fit in well with all the 2011 "UX guy roughs it with Android" stories, but it feels weirdly archaic today.

In today's world, it's like writing a story about the time you went to Kmart instead of Target and barely lived to tell about it. They didn't even have price scanners on the end of each aisle! Who cares?

If you're a mobile developer (and do it all, apparently), you should have "lived with" an Android phone years ago. Talk about UX issues (and how about something actually interesting: as a new user, you might have insight on how people should be doing good UX for apps on Android), but leave the drama behind. Talking about it as some horribly broken experience you lived through sounds ridiculous to anyone who actually uses Android[1]

[1] Exception made for the 17.3% of people on Android before version 4. That would be a journey still filled with terrors https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
It worked - I have always used unlocked phones and you do get voicemail notifications without doing anything further. (There are still possibilities of issues if you bought European model it won't have US Carrier's APN Settings etc. but that's hardly reasonable to expect.) He wanted T-Mobile VoiceMail app to be bundled with it and also WiFi calling - both are carrier specific features which would have worked fine if he would have bought the right phone -T-Mobile HTC One. Expecting that to work on an unlocked, carrier unspecific phone designed to be LCD on as many GSM carriers is nothing but unreasonable.
My friend from college was a navigator on a 4 man crew aircraft called the A-6 I believe. Literally his only function in life was to be able to navigate the plane back in case the GPS failed (using maps and a compass and what ever else). So to combat boredom he would take his laptop up on every flight and watch movies and bullshit with the rest of the crew.
Theres no real pressure here at the moment, so they won't do it in any hurry. Its not like theres a massive growth in houses being built.
The most popular choices seem to be:

Machine Learning: a Probabilistic Perspective, by Murphy

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/MLbook/

Pattern classification, by Duda et all

http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Classification-Pt-1-Richard-Du...

The Elements of Statistical Learning, by Hastie et all. It is free from Stanford.

http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn

Mining of Massive Datasets, free from Stanford.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds.html

Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning, by Barber, free available online.

http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=...

Learning from data, by Abu-Mostafa.

It comes with Caltech video lectures: http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, by Bischop

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cmbishop/prml/

Also noteworthy

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, by Mackay, free.

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.html

Classification, Parameter Estimation and State Estimation, by van der Heijden.

http://prtools.org

Computer Vision: Models, Learning, and Inference, by Prince, available for free

http://www.computervisionmodels.com/

Probabilistic Graphical Models, by Koller. Has an accompanying course on Coursera.
Those situations are also where they are exposed to viruses and pathogenic bacteria. I don't think you make a very good case that exposure to a "healthy" but unfamiliar skin biome is likely to lead to illness.
>Can you imagine Condolezza Rice or Hillary Clinton

You say this like these people are shining examples of people doing good for mankind. They're run-of-the-mill politicians. I couldn't care less about their porn or political careers. I'm sure the void would have been filled by someone.
Ok, this article needs some dismantling. Huge amount of straight propaganda.

1. Or it was other way around. Women in workforce => Feminism.

3. And installed laws such as VOWA, installed Diluth Model etc etc.

5,6. More half-truths and lies. The only contraceptive that gives men power to control their reproduction is condom, which was invented long before Feminism. Pill and other forms of contraception are empowering ONLY women. "Men get abortions too" is beyond manipulation. Idea that by helping small group of LGBTQ folk Feminism is saving ALL the males is repeated few more times in this article. Ridiculous.

7. Beautiful manipulation. Indeed, this change of definition allowed persecution in cases where male is a victim. Still, it is not possible to persecute "envelopment" as rape.

10-17. Feminism also cured AIDS, send humans to the Moon and granted eternal salvation in afterlife.

18. Clearly, before Feminism women never left kitchen. /s

20. Imagine that? A Movie! Damn, Feminism is literally anti Hitler!

21. Hey, I fought against Putin's second, third and fourth term. And I failed miserably, just as Feminism in this particular case.

21. "Feminism teaches us that nothing is objective, not even science." Enough said.

Men does not need Feminism, they need their own movement. Otherwise we get such gems as this one: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Allies
HE is supposed to be the holy grail of cloud computing, but last time I looked at it, it was dog slow. I glanced at the site, but saw no performance figures...
HP still has 320K employees? Amazing
i doubt there is any personal bias (from the author of the blog post). The OP has been an active and prolific member of both the Python and R communities for over a decade (don't know what his interest, if any, is in Julia).

i have never met Dr Matloff, (who i believe is a professor at UC Davis), but i have read/studied a fair amount of his work over the past 5-7 years, which includes excellent extended tutorials in python on various topics such as co-routines, discrete-event simulation, and simulation using simpy. He is also the author of a book i highly recommend called "Art of R Programming"
It is 2.5KB to 6KB (depending on enabled flags) gzipped which is still in the realm on inlining into the HTML – thus avoiding a roundtrip for enabling event handling (even if all the handlers do is download the modules that have the actual implementation).
I don't see anybody claiming that you have to be.

It is generally an environment and context that can lead to resources being expended in ways that would be very unlikely to happen in more commercial settings, however.

Businesses do tend to avoid such mishaps in the first place, or at least manage to stop them earlier.
"If officially confirmed, Berman’s death would make him the third Downtown Project figure to have died suddenly in the last 18 months, following the deaths of Ecomom’s Jody Sherman in 2013 and Downtown Project employee Ovik Banerjee earlier this year. Sherman and Banerjee‘s deaths were both ruled suicides."