skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might not be a coincidence about the reason but probably coincidence about the timing. I am fairly sure that the Chinese government has sources which bring the news faster than WP publishes them :)
You've just made me very happy.
>Sorry, but "field"? What "field"? 'Machine learning' in 'computer science'? That's not a 'field'; it's a really bad joke.

Ok then. I guess biology isn't a field either because I don't like their methods. They are too messy and impure, and really it's just applied physics. (Mildly relevant: http://xkcd.com/435/)

And sorry I meant overfitting is the equivalent of the "cook-book" problem in machine learning. Otherwise it's fairly easy to try a model against test data and see how well it performs. No need to guess whether the underlying assumptions of the model are true, just see if it works.
Usually the claims build upon previous claims. You start out with the general and move on to the specific, often citing previous claims with language like: 4) An unumthingamajig as in claim 1 with added... to...
Deleting one of the early claims is likely to remove the foundation from some of the later ones. But sure, we mustn't judge based on what's no longer there.
> My point is that Facebook and Google would've been the dominant actors on the Chinese market today, not Weibo, QQ and Baidu, if the CCP hadn't been actively working against the US companies.

To some degree I agree about this assertion, but you made some factual mistakes:

* The C2C (copy to China) relationship is Twitter -> Weibo, Facebook -> Renren and Google -> Baidu.

* QQ is an IM and the western equivalents MSN, Skype etc. were never banned in China. Also, QQ gained its popularity quite some before the GFW. I believe this is the most legitimate story where a Chinese product wins not due to GFW. Another such story is eBay vs. Taobao.
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Keepass wallet stored on a secure, internal network.
Consider system76.com
For U.S. Companies That Challenge China, the Risk of Digital Reprisal
For the rest of the countries we rely on publicly availably proxy servers (marked non-truested).

Which organization is running publicly available proxies servers wittingly? Answer: none.

I wouldn't base an application on exploiting mis-configured proxies around the globe.
Most of the "responsibility" is dumb things that don't actually need doing; more equal households are generally more equal not because a man's doing more but because a woman's doing less.

US employers make it hard for professionals to work part-time and hard for those who do to get promoted, so it's probably better to have one partner focus solely on gaining income and the other taking care of the household. AIUI the evidence is that both men and women are happier when they adopt the traditional roles than when they reverse or try to balance them.
Just a sidenote, but why do some software projects consider 0.11 higher than 0.7? I remember when jQuery did this it broke tons of plugins that used a simple numerical comparison to see if the version was high enough (which seems sensible enough to me).
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Dude, when you figured out you were banned, what maked you think that posting the same comment under a new account is a good idea? Try taking a hint.

By the way, that's the naturalistic fallacy you're pushing, and it's horseshit. Horseshit you have elaborated into a self-justifying worldview. You might ask what's so wrong with your life that you need to spend your time like this.
The single most common mistake I see managers making is assuming that their job is to manage the people rather than the project, closely followed by trying to micro-manage the project itself. Trust and delegation are key to all of this.

A good manager looks after a project not its people, concentrates on the big picture while letting others deal with the small details. A good manager achieves this by delegation.

Assuming you've hired the right people in the first place you should be able to let people get on with their jobs — if you try to do their jobs for them you will fail through lack of expertise or lack of time.

I would add that iteration is also key - a manager should check on a regular basis that what has been planned is what is being done and that if not ensure there is time to change what is being done as early as possible. Good staff and good managers appreciate that some things will take a few iterations to get right but it is better to iterate than to take the first version of everything (and foolish to plan for this) - not iterating leads to over-design and slow progress as everyone desperately tries to second-guess all the situations their work might have to cover.

Iteration is also the best way to get a feel for individual workers' pace and abilities.
Yeah, I'm working on a userscript to add some hr's or something between the results, its so hard to read!
I wrote this several years ago. I still work with developers when I can to help bring their games into better shape for color blind gamers.

I recently worked with the developer of 2x0ng [0] to create a color blind mode for his fun game.
It started with solid blocks of color [1] and ended up with patterned blocks of color [2] that resulted in the game being playable by color blind individuals.

[0] - http://blocky.io/2x0ng.html

[1] - http://media.desura.com/cache/images/games/1/22/21729/thumb_...

[2] - http://imgur.com/a/098zC
Next time just do a hard refresh. Hold Shift + click the refresh button
Am I the only person out there who hasn't got a clue what the point in suspend / hibernate are for. Whenever I use them, it seems to take longer to boot than a complete restart, and half of the times it doesn't boot, and if it does, there is a good chance something is not working.
The RSS icon was mistaken for the ASS icon
Fireflies. Could be that there's a bacteria involved somewhere, but bioluminescence for communication is a thing.
No. Actually any Windows 8 computer bought by Chinese government will be downgraded to Windows 7.
Of the two of them, it looks to me like dingaling is far more interested in getting this added to OSM.
Wireless 3D Printing from your iPad
Interesting, given that the US Government itself does not run windows 8 yet.
Because 11 is higher than 7. It's not version 0.1.1 or version "dot one one", it's version "dot eleven". Eleven is a bigger number than seven is.
I discovered this bit of gold while penning a history of the RSS icon we all know today: http://blog.embed.ly/post/85921629116/how-mozilla-changed-th...

"and why
does the browser say 'ASS' in the lower right corner
is it some new website rating system?" -- Peter on https://web.archive.org/web/20041022084812/http://dhruba.cod...
Actually, the final paragraph of the article directly addresses this point:

"Taxonomically speaking, this is unfortunate. The coati has no more relation to an aardvark than to any other vertebrate, so the name is misleading. But language, unlike taxonomy, is particularly susceptible to Wikiality. The nickname began because Breves wanted to retroactively prove that he had seen some kind of aardvark at Iguazu Falls. He was more successful than he ever could have imagined. Search YouTube for “coatis at Iguaçu Falls,” and you’ll get an amateur video, posted by someone Breves has never met, titled “Coati - (Brazilian aardvark) at Iguaçu Falls, Argentina.” Breves made his own reality, and, thanks to Wikipedia, we’ve all accepted it."
Looks great. Excited to try it out.
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For OS level auth, you'd want to use sssd, which will handle most failure conditions:

https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Enterprise/Authentication/sssd
You can combine it with Vagrant as well. I used to use Vagrant with Virtualbox, but using the Docker provider, the development is much faster. The config files we are using is public and open source: https://github.com/czettnersandor/vagrant-docker-lamp

However, if you don't have Linux, Vagrant can start a Virtualbox image with Linux and run Docker in it with a little modification in the Vagrantfile
But my team was cleverer: we were editing wikipedia.

Speaking as a game programmer: The thing about computer moderated games, is that they foster the idea that, "If the system allows it, it's alright." There are entire national banking systems that have fallen under such attitudes.

(Sometimes you just have to get real and handle dice and cards on a table top.)
I'm a little surprised at the $250 minimum for the verified track.

While that's a tiny fraction of what one could expect to pay for a typical certification prep class and likely less than a single credit hour at an accredited university it's quite high relative to the norm on edX.

I've taken some very good courses on edX, primarily from MIT and Berkley, none of which have required even half as much as a minimum.

Still, I intend to give this a look when it launches.
It can both be that the NSA has capacities that the Chinese envy and that the Chinese have capacities the NSA envies.
Its a pretty noble mission. I wonder what the salvage rights are. Which is to say if NASA abandons a spacecraft, and you bring it back into service, are you now the owner of it and its data? Would the original science team be able to tell you what to do with it? Even if you didn't want to?

That said, I was really disappointed that the dish antennas were dismantled at Onizuka AFB [1] (aka the 'blue cube') they were originally part of a group of space craft communication satellites and could even track things in LEO (fun to watch a giant dish following a satellite)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onizuka_Air_Force_Station
Cork researchers further understanding of how gut bacteria regulate weight gain
> Are you seriously comparing the NSA to China?

Where did I make such a comparison?
I don't get this contrast thing everyone is saying. My eyes are shit, and the "light grey on white" pops out fine. Any darker and it would be annoying. I really like the current color scheme.

My 'puter is a mac with retina screen - so maybe it's a monitor thing? Are there any "progressive desaturation" or "color calibration detection" tricks available to web devs in these situations?
You can also get a list of un-used CSS Rules using Chrome. In the Developer Tools, under Audits, the list will appear under "Web Page Performance."
Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 3
Vixle: A game engine that teaches kids to code
What are the Marketing Costs of a DDoS attack?
Try selecting the Classic theme in the side menu. It has blue/purple links, darker description text + full urls.
Did you just assume it would be related to the Nokia 808?
Good catch. I was wondering why there were so many people in Churchill, and Winnipeg isn't getting anything.
Is there something about a chain of trust people don't understand? A chain of trust doesn't mean a commercial body, as that implies that being commercial makes it more trustworthy.

It means any individuals or groups you can trust, not those your browser maker or software developer includes in their software in the belief that they are trustworthy. Why should relationships with faceless commercial entities whose employees you have no personal acquaintance with take precedence over people known to you believe you can trust?

Why shouldn't individuals be capable of forming the same trust networks that companies do, and what methods do companies use in forming their chains of trust that individuals can't emulate, as companies themselves depend on individual human beings to create their systems?

Did you overlook the last paragraph in the article?

The way the browser vendors, Mozilla being one of the bad guys, notify users about untrusted certificates is a major culprit. They state that the certificate is not trusted, or something to that effect, when in fact they mean that the certificate is not recognized in their trust network.
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I did the exact same thing. "How does this work? What am I supposed to do? Oh I'll press the press button!"
I've been thinking about this lately and it occurred to me that it would be nice to be able to store sensitive info in an area accessible to everyone on the project but still be able to limit access.

Currently we use ssh keys to limit access to servers and code repositories so the perfect solution would allow passwords and such to be protected by similar means.

I believe gpg[0] has a solution but I have not implemented it myself yet.

0: https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/x110.html
Thanks, the 'dark' theme seems to have the best contrast,
better than both the classic and default themes!
Level3 is without peer, now what to do?
Here's some info on a doppler shift detection of ISEE3, using ARECIBO:

http://spacecollege.org/isee3/isee-3-reboot-project-hardware...
This is great! I do something like this but is more focused to companies, basically they pay me X monthly and I'm available to help them with Ember.js.

I do not offer a signup button because I don't want to take every company, I prefer to talk with them first, understand what they are doing, and then decide if I take them as clients or not.
Show HN: AtoZ CSS
Learn CSS and sharpen your front-end skills with this 26-part video series and podcast, one for each letter of the alphabet: from auto to z-index.

http://www.atozcss.com/episodes
"The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor" is excellent as well:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Curve-Binding-Energy-Alarming/dp/0...
This is impressive.

I agree it not makes sense for Ads frameworks to be so bigger than the App itself, and the size triple effect is impacting much.

And the calculation part is interesting and make me think a while, good analysis and thanks Sean for sharing this. The suggested solution makes sense to me.

And let's see if there are Gogglers around, looking forward to the comments indeed.
Increasing Mobile Web Speeds with the GPU
Oh-my-zsh was pretty wasteful on resources (theming and plugins). The stock config in archlinux is pretty decent (good completion) but avoid OMZ pitfalls.
If that's the case then it's not about security. It's not about saving money. It's not about dependence on MS/US software.

That makes it similar to most corporate places where Windows 7 is preferred and Windows 8 is "banned" because of both the big UI changes in Windows 8 that are touch and consumer oriented plus compatibility testing etc. with software.
It worked perfectly for me, weird.
https://www.secureshareme.com/

Pros:
1. Open source tool, you can run internally in your company. https://github.com/saravanacp/secureshareme
2. Very secure: it encrypts the data in the browser and the key is stored in the URL anchortag which is not sent to server at any point of time. Only the sender and the receiver has access to the keys.
3. You can also opt to send a secondary verification code to receiver's mobile for two layers of security.
4. Option to self distruct message based on time or if an attack is detected.
my best source is the sixth (according to Alexa) most popular site on the Internet

Probably not. For security reasons, hardly any distros put their names in browser user agent strings these days. Ubuntu might be the only one still doing it. For the other distros, what you're seeing in the stats is mostly old versions from before that shift (IIRC like 2-3 years ago?).

This is why the #1 Linux distro (twice as popular as Ubuntu) is "Linux Other". Ubuntu is definitely not 100x as popular as any other distro.
We wrote our own integration into Shopify.com that does RLM-based licensing (a standard in the visual effects software industry.)
Living in a paperwork-less future
I use woocommerce on Wordpress. I have a large number of products, and their cart process works pretty well. Checkout is smooth. Plentiful extensions.
Maybe we just look at different parts of the UI when complaining about the contrast.
The contrast for the search results is fine, the low-contrast is the 'The search engine that doesn't track you.', and the 3 buttons at the bottom.
As I said in another comment the theme 'Dark' seems to fix all the contrast issues for me. How does that theme look on your monitor?
Stephen King seems to disagree: "Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."
Try the 'dark' theme
So the maps did work for you? I looked up a few places just to test it out and most of them were not found or not identified as places. I am living in New Hampshire, so perhaps they just haven't done much with NH addresses yet. I love duckduckgo and I am glad that they are making improvements but I currently can't use the map feature reliably.
For fellow vimmers, using j & k also works ;-)
The Impact of Mobile Apps on Language Education
It's still early work in progress and I've only tested with a few apps so far. Also test coverage could certainly be better. If you find any issues, feel free to ping me up (@vpdn).
I've sold about a thousand dollars thru Gumroad. http://gumroad.com

I like the design. I like the simplicity. People can just use their CC like normal. They take a percentage of your sales, but so far found it worth it.

I wish it had order tracking (just a box I could tick when I shipped something would be nice) but that is irrelevant for downloads.
Do any of these services have a good workflow for pay what you want downloads?
How to hire a programmer
How  to Build a Great Knowledge Base
Brew leads to the same kind of experience as MinGW on Windows. It's just not as good as the package managers on Linux.
Do you have a company Twitter account?
Stephen King is not the ultimate authority on prose style, nor, I believe, would he presume so to present himself.
Fortunately overall it worked pretty well for me in Firefox. Very fun!

Not to get too far OT, but, I like "Built for Chrome" about as much as I liked "Built for Internet Explorer". This is a very cool app. If it needs to be built-for-x, then we all have more work to do.
I have this gripe with mapping in general - area of uncertainty doesn't seem to be plumbed well. The assumption that everything is a point seems to permeate everything.
This is the place where all the words live and the writing’s no good.

The New Oxford American dictionary, by the way, is not like singularly bad. Google’s dictionary, the modern Merriam-Webster, the dictionary at dictionary.com: they’re all like this. They’re all a chore to read. There’s no play, no delight in the language. The definitions are these desiccated little husks of technocratic meaningese, as if a word were no more than its coordinates in semantic space.

This is the article that's complaining about where all the words live and the editing and writing's no good. (Perhaps this is intentional or tongue in cheek?)

EDIT: “the clamour of pedantry” Could be the motto for the 21st century tech industry.
We also use LastPass. It has the knock-on benefit of getting everyone used to LastPass, and they inevitably start using it to manage all their passwords, and generate secure ones for all sorts of different sites where they would otherwise use the same password across sites.
Gmail says goodbye to Google Calendar invitations
There is a scholarly field occupied with the concept of citation and reference. It is called bibliometrics.
The tl:dr is that citations are a very complex social phenomenon, which is difficult to describe fully even in the semi structured confinements of scientific literature.
Both technical and, even more pressing, theoretical developments are needed before measuring "effective" citations could become anywhere near feasible.
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And the thing that China has, that the NSA most certainly does NOT have, is support of the public. China continues to make new public programs for censorship and domestic spying year after year, and there doesn't seem to be any stop to them.

China's Ministry of Public Security live listens to your connections and censors certain Wikipedia pages while you're browsing. I mean come on, the differences between China and NSA are incomparable.

The NSA barely can get away with looking at subpoenaed business records before Americans go apeshit crazy about it.
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Introducing Source Serif: A new open source typeface from Adobe
Suspend should take less than a second to resume. If not, something's gone wrong. Apple pushed in a big way to get it to a point of waking up from suspend being quick enough that by the time you've opened the screen fully, it's ready.

Hibernate will often take longer than a clean boot — because it has to read all allocated memory from storage into RAM.
As soon as I hit the page I understood what it was and how awesome that was going to be for me. This is genius! I'm sure something like that has been done before but I've never come across it until now.
Google just launched Helpouts which is a great platform for this, even if you find your customers elsewhere: https://helpouts.google.com/
Protectionism isn't necessarily good in the long term for these Chinese companies. They may not be as efficient as they could be if they were subjected to worldwide competition. If they are more efficient, then they should eventually be able to beat Facebook/Google/Twitter (I for one hope Alibaba will one day kill off eBay).
(Article author here) You know, I've never noticed that. Looking at it again I see that you're right. I believe, however, that the gameplay tends to be too fast to do proper pattern matching. Something, anyway, since I failed to ever notice the patterns.
I can't tell if your are serious. Are you saying that we have implemented all good ideas that are over ten years old?

Preposterous!
> "Taxonomically speaking, this is unfortunate. The coati has no more relation to an aardvark than to any other vertebrate,"

Being mammals, surely they are more closely related to aardvarks than they are to sparrows, carp, asps and axolotls.

Being placental mammals, they are more closely related to aardvarks than they are to kangaroos.

Looking into it further, Wikipedia claims that they are both Epitherians, which makes them more closely related to one another than to armadillos.
Ask HN:☢Toxic apps. Can one app put off customers downloading your other apps?☢
He lists the http://machaut.uchicago.edu/websters website as a way to read the 1913 Webster's dictionary. As soon as I saw that I started looking for a plugin to put in my Firefox search bar. Turns out they offer a plugin right on the site:
http://machaut.uchicago.edu/plugins
I read that as com monkey. :D
The future of scripting in Unity3D
I agree. The text color is #595959, and that's quite far from the #ffffff background.
Apple Bought Beats for the Youth
Yes/no, one exists but its unrelated to my job. Its probably worth noting that we also have sets of accounts that while password protected are essentially considered public. Those accounts are accessible to anyone who knows the well-known standard passphrase
I had a Contour as well. People asked what it was, I would say, "just like a GoPro". GoPro won the marketing battle.
What STEM Shortage?
"Sharing Passwords" could mean sharing the master account of a service you don't have ssh/certificate access to
INFOGRAPHIC: WHO ARE PRODUCT MANAGERS?
To be fair, any animals that use body language (i.e. dogs wagging tails) or sight are communicating electromagnetically (reflected light) in the same we humans communicate electromagnetically. We're not generating our own EM signals, but using tools.

I had a discussion about this a while ago with a friend. There's a really interesting video of a HAM guy who has built a system such that he yells into a microphone which then uses the audio energy to generate an RF pulse that travels out the antenna. All RF energy is generated by the vocal energy. By yelling in pulses, Morse (or whatever) coding can be generated. I think he had used to the communicate between Massachusetts and somewhere in Florida.

Our conclusion as to why don't animals communicate with their own RF energy was your answer that you can't build good antennas from organic material. Evolutionarily, though, it seems like a great advantage!