skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only use casei can think of is not knowing how easy branching and merging is with git. Or someone coming from svn thinking branches take up a lot of disk space and time. Stashes are meant to be local.

Its pretty easy to turn one into a branch too if you feel you should make a stash available over the net.
This website is actually an artwork by Dutch/Brazilian artist Rafaël Rozendaal. More websites/artworks: http://www.newrafael.com/websites/

As you can tell by the link I posted you can see his work consists of a lot of websites (you can actually buy/own them!) although he also makes "offline" work... Two of my favorite websites:
http://www.fallingfalling.com/
http://www.muchbetterthanthis.com/

I can also recommend his app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2nKns9_fM8

Needless to say... I'm a fan.
Think I might start a kickstarter to fund PostgreSQL-SQLite replication over WebSocket. Good idea?
I find even moderately long nails make throwing pots on a pottery wheel nearly impossible to do (well). So you can add no-fingerprints + short nails to the list under potter.
This is a pretty good survey book. It's a little chaotic and I wish the examples given were a bit...better. But it's very good for the price. You'll want to dive deeper with different texts though.
CartoDB[1] allows you to put your data on top of rich base layers. Use Mapbox or any other basemap provider. You can even create maps without a background.

Their Javascript library code is on Github[2], and they encourage people to collaborate. But it doesn't seem to have a license, I couldn't find one in the repo.

[1] http://cartodb.com/

[2] https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb.js
You mean Ninth Avenue?
The C. elegans Lifespan Machine
I think there's a large difference between copy-paste and what you're describing (which I'll dub 'manual transcription'). I have no formal training in learning or cognition, but I do have quite a bit of personal, anecdotal evidence to suggest that manual transcription is far more useful, from a pedagogical standpoint, than straight copy-paste.

Rather than take a boring example from my programming career I'd rather draw from my brief mathematical studies in college. In undergrad I was taking a course on Real Analysis. The course redefined, much more rigorously, certain concepts that I had understood at a much higher level--think the limit, derivatives and the Riemann Integral. Suffice it to say that these new concepts challenged my understanding of introductory Calculus, and when I was tasked with writing proofs based on the underlying concepts (e.g. neighborhoods), I struggled.

In what can only be described as frustration I decided I was going to start copying the proofs over and over. I repeatedly transcribed half a doze proofs for a few days straight (I did each one a few times each night). A strange thing happened. I began to understand the proofs. By that I mean I started to understand the intuition required to make the transition between each step of the proofs. At that point I found the material much more accessible. Reading the book was easier, the lectures made more sense, I could do homework, and consequently I could complete the exams.

I like this example because there is no copy-paste alternative. I had to engage with the material, but I chose to engage at a very mechanical level. Still, there was something about the process of reading and writing that aided in understanding the material.

I don't believe you can get that with copy-paste unless you find some other way to engage with the code.
> the OS happened to upgrade the SQLite3 library

I don't think this actually detracts from your point, but, are there cases where that can actually happen? Isn't SQLite always statically linked with the applicaton?
I'm inclined to be interested, but correct me if I'm wrong: Is there not potential for copyright infringement if code is copied to this repository? I understand what you _intend_ to do here, and that's awesome, but I'd be careful about _how_ it's done. Cheers.
I think it is the opposite. Star Trek was hopeful in a time when a real threat of nuclear war loomed, Vietnam was showing the horror of war on TV every night, there was civil unrest (both anti war and civil rights), JFK has recently been assassinated, and RFK was about to be assassinated. It was a hopeful alternative to the present of that time.
"What does a neural network actually do?"

This is a fundamental Question:
Can we really say and predict what a neural network does?

Contrary to an engineered / constructed algorithm a neural network is 'trained'.

Whenever we will present a 'known' input pattern it will reposnd with a 'learned' response.

This however introduces interesting problems: How can we _debug_ a neural network? How can we debug a correlation? Sure we can tune its paramters, we can train it some more to again show the desired response. But reaching this point we just abandoned knowing how the intrinsic algorithm works in favor to just focussing on the result.

Okay - now if we follow this argument - this would lead to: If we simulate the whole brain by simulating the neural network, we won't gain any knowlege about the intrinsic workings of the brain. We won't find any enlightenment about the innermost algorithm _represented_ by the neural network we call our brain.
Peak PC. Intel Fork
Hinton's DropOut [1] and Wan's DropConnect [2] have ameliorated some of the overfitting issues present in traditional NN's. In fact, DropConnect in conjunction with deep learning are responsible for new records being set on classical datasets such as MNIST.

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1207.0580.pdf
[2] http://cs.nyu.edu/~wanli/dropc/
Hyper Time
Making the Repl sing electric
Btcd Beta Announcement
It's not a question of can, it's a question of should. If any engineer on my team came to me and told me he was building a CSV reader/writer, I would seriously question his judgement as an engineer[1]. My thoughts would be that either he isn't capable of seeing obvious challenges in building a "simple" CSV feature or he isn't able to prioritize his time well, focusing on useless toys at the expense of getting important work done.

1. Of course there are exceptions to the rules: perhaps the CSV is malformed or there are special considerations in the backend, but the general point stands.
Good article, however the author overlooks the most important factor of any "exercise", "training", "diet", "strength/size building" program.

Diet.

Starting Strength is a great strength program, however if you are eating garbage you are still going to look like garbage. Someone doing a fad exercise routine and eating right is going to have better results than someone doing an optimal training routine with a poor diet.
The hamster doesn't run on the wheel because it thinks that being a fatty is deplorable, but because it's become mentally ill trapped in its cage.

Wild mice actually enjoy running on exercise wheels:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2014/may/21...
Wild mice actually enjoy running on exercise wheels
I feel like you should give a little shout out to the folks over at Wordnik https://github.com/wordnik/swagger-ui for putting together such an awesome API browser.
Yes, of course she does. But programming also takes it's own learning curve on top of it all.
Previous discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7788162
I agree with most of what you said but:

> Karpeles seems to have a history of lying. He was caught in a lie by his employer in 2004

Everybody "has a history of lying", because everybody lies. One incident of lying to an employer about IM'ing (or using Facebook or HN while at work, which almost every HN user has likely done) does not a future fraud make.

Lying is universal - we all do it. Therefore, the wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage,
and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling. - Mark Twain
> Once admitted [to the hospital, Yarima] sprung herself out of bed and attempted to give birth by squatting in the corner of the hospital room.

That one was probably highlighted to emphasize the weirdness, or scandal, or ick factor, just like the first excerpt. But this is most probably one thing the Yanomami got right, as a simple matter of physiological fact.

I have recently learned from my manual therapist that lying in the back like we do in the west by default is the worst possible position for giving birth, for various reasons, the most obvious being that gravity doesn't work with you in that position. Apparently, this position is widespread in our countries because it is more convenient for the doctor.

Squatting on the other hand is one of the best positions, leading to less pain, much faster birth, less risks for both the baby and the mother… Even if you're a cold heart cynic, this would be one easy way to reduce health expenditures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childbirth_positions

http://www.givingbirthnaturally.com/birth-positions.html
Good luck.

Between easy fear-mongering ("Do you want criminals on the street?", "Representative Smith let that murder out, he could have prevented this", "Senator Bill is soft on crime!") and the huge number of jobs who depend on this nonsense (prisons, police, lawyers, bail bonds, half-way houses) I fear this will never be undone.
That's fair but I guess I was looking for a stronger statement from them because even for new minor point releases, the sqlite.org home page says clearly:

"Version 3.8.4.3 of SQLite is recommended for all new development."

Every time they change the "z" in v.x.y.z, they'll still state "is recommended for all new development."

So, it seems like they could just clearly say, "SQLite4 is recommended for all new development."

...unless there's some architecture tradeoff (unrelated to backward compatibility) that still makes SQLite3 desirable over SQLite4.
To each his own but I find it easier to get fit as a side effect from practicing a "regular" sport, like swimming, climbing, running, boxing etc... I feel it's less artificial and much more entertaining.

However, not many sports can give you those huge muscles people get from a proper strength training with high protein diet.
> CPU mining is so slow in comparison to ASCI mining that the attacker is probably making pennies on this

Given that a decent proportion (most?) of people downloading and running a modern PC game like Watch_Dogs will have high-end discrete graphics cards, it seems odd that the malware doesn't take advantage of GPU mining.
"You Can Get Student Loans Forgiven in Bankruptcy, but It’s Far From Easy"

Link title...
Matt DeHart claims he's wanted for working with Anonymous
Great explanation. I still continue to be amazed at how tiny the circuitry in ICs is -- the TL431's die is only 1mm^2, and is on an older larger-size process, but already contains over a dozen individual parts. The same area in a modern nm-scale process would fit a few orders of magnitude more transistors.

You can find plenty of examples of CMOS digital ICs reverse-engineered but analog/bipolar stuff tends to be rarer; here's a bipolar digital IC (RTL logic), in which one of the transistor's connections has suffered catastrophic failure: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/small-teardown-an-old-t...

I wonder if most/all of TL431 produced have the same layout, and not just ones from TI. There's a noticeable absence of any copyright date/manufacturer logo on the die.
and SSH and IRC...
Ask HN: Startup investment runway and taxes
Let's say you get into YC. You are a new startup with $120K investment, 2 cofounders, each paying themselves a $2K after-tax monthly salary with biz expenses around $1K/month.

What do the taxes look like? How does the investment get taxed before its used? What factors would you use to calculate the startup's runway? How much runway does the startup have?
Apple Software Update service errors due to expired SSL certificate
Exactly the reason why technology must be open and transparent. Sadly, decision makers that define economic policy and allow organizations to reach this level of misuse (or misconduct) know little to nothing about what these technologies are capable of, or to what extent they can be compromised and manipulated. Kudos to the tech makers and users who do understand for maintaining a watchful eye and not hesitating to report wrong-doing, or the suspicion of wrong-doing. How can we get these guys in office instead of the people that are currently holding back good technology while letting loose the bad?
That's where you're wrong. The user interfaces to so many medical devices are tacked on, almost as an afterthought. The devices are made by hardware people, and the software people never get a look-in (as usual). They're messy to use and make it easy to do Bad Things, and the testing (though generally better than a web-app) is still frequently lacking.
The canonical example is the Therac-25, which killed a number of people after a software bug blasted them with massive amounts of radiation.
These problems still happen now - the modern radiotherapy machines are still capable of delivering horrendous doses, but the biggest killers now are infusion pumps - which have many different, confusing interfaces which make it easy to make big mistakes really quickly (55,000 adverse events, 710 deaths over the course of just five years).

The regulators are incompetent or captured, and the nurses get blamed for the fatalities.

http://cs.swan.ac.uk/~csharold/cv/files/IHCIkeynote2013.pdf

Yes, medical mistakes are problematic, but to say it's generally the staffs fault is a gross oversimplification. If it's because staff aren't washing hands, it's because the operational procedures of the industry are bad.

Just to be clear, those 200,000-400,000s aren't all things like washing hands. They occur when there are misdiagnoses or when an inappropriate form of care is chosen, as well. Which is probably the vast majority. Doctors and nurses aren't going to get better - medical training is already some of the most rigorous around, and the bad ones usually don't make it.

What does make a difference is making things easier for them - simpler devices, better analysis, better operations procedures. Trying to place some kind of blame on doctors and nurses for killing their patients (in the abstract statistically-large-number-of-people-died case) is stupid - if it happens everywhere, it's the system's fault and not the individual's.
No Extra Credit for Delivering on Promises
A bunch of leading questions designed to frustrate the kids.

Maybe if they actually gave the kids a manual, the older kids might stand a chance. They could also have showed the kids a game or actually tried to get them interested somehow.

In fact, the kids did seem quite interested at first... until their interest was sacrificed for the sake of this "experiment", which already had a sad, foregone conclusion.
The student can still do that at a community college. You just have to take advantage of federal and state aid and the debt won't be that bad.
I submitted the title with reference to an audio recording that is linked to on the page, having originally heard it played on the radio:

http://nationalnursesunited.org/page/-/files/audilo/iorn-rad...

Rather than linking directly to the mp3 file, I figured posting the whole article would give more context.
Font rendering can differ between different OSes but it's usually not too bad.
Depends on what you consider the competition.

Compared with whatever Google coughs up, I think its big win is quality. Other Google links are equally convenient, but Wikipedia is trustworthy. And the big Wikipedia controversies have mainly been about quality failures, so I think that's most significant to readers in terms of maintaining brand value.

I agree that the necessary level of quality here is only "reasonable quality" rather than perfection. And I agree that other factors definitely helped.
I've done a lot of olympic lift training over the years and am competent at it. I am very much pro machine. The modern machines are excellent at preventing injury while providing an ideal strength training movement. The barbell stuff is these days fetishized for no good reason.

People get hurt using barbells all the time. It is easy to mess up and tweak something and then be a bit injured for a few weeks, even if you know what you're doing. It is much harder to mess up with the good machines. The barbell doesn't have any special advantages. In fact, loading up the plates is a nuisance.
Nice, but I didn't mean putting the binary files on git.
It's not easy to see changes since the file format is not text based.
I think you meant to type “ASIC mining.” Which certainly is the most efficient way to mine bitcoins; but would it really be more effective in this respect?

I didn't realize there enough ASIC–chip powered devices out there running to make that a more effective method (even considering the fact that ASIC–powered devices are roughly 50x more effective).
> no one can downvote submissions, regardless of karma

Why is that? What's the logic of allowing downvotes on comments but not on articles.

(My question has no bearing on this particular article, which I found quite interesting.)
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Sure it would. He might have still been able to commit fraud to some extent the way, say, Madoff did (eg by thoroughly falsifying his trail and meticulously avoiding any alarm-raising cash/securities move); but definitely he would not have been able to corner the market with phantom bot accounts with no transaction fees with such ease.

For instance, if the exchange had been regulated as a Designated Contract Maker (DCM) by the US CFTC [1] (which by the way will most likely never happen), it would had been subject to very specific and strict disclosure/auditing, price discovery, capital, risk and monitoring requirements --including for instance strict limits on account aggregation, hard position limits for very large accounts, 'surprise' audits and automated 'alerts' to regulators [2].

Furthermore, if people's complaints or whistleblowers were to persuade CFTC they had a case, they would had had the authority to investigate them, prosecute them, pre-emptively close them down and freeze their assets, and even piercing the corporate veil (eg target Karpeles' individual assets, or even criminal liability) under their broad anti-market manipulation authority [3,4]. At the very least the prospect of harsh prosecution --as opposed to simply wash your hands by declaring bankruptcy and moving on-- should have affected his cost-benefit calculus.

Again this is not to say of course the regulations would have precluded any form of massive fraud or market manipulation (which happens all the time regardless; cf the recent Libor scandal), but definitely it would have made this particular scheme essentially unfeasible.

[1] http://www.cftc.gov/IndustryOversight/TradingOrganizations/D...

[2] http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=7ccb37730775...

[3] http://www.cftc.gov/LawRegulation/DoddFrankAct/Rulemakings/D...

[4] http://www.cftc.gov/ucm/groups/public/@newsroom/documents/fi...
Show HN: My wife developed an Android app but she's too shy to post it on HN
My wife (28) developed an app to make fun of people who make the "duck face" in pictures. Any advice for her?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duckface.nua.app
That appears to be directed at individuals too, or am I missing something?
I followed the Starting Strength regime for about 7 months and had great results where I added about 15 lbs of muscle to my frame. Its a fantastic method for building a foundation of strength and muscle. My biggest complaint during the process was that it was difficult to track my progress. To my surprise none of the iPhone applications out there were very good for tracking lifts and I ended up tracking with the Notes application. Recently, I stumbled upon the StrongLifts app, which is tailored for a different lifting regime, but one that is somewhat similar to Starting Strength. StrongLifts is executed perfectly, in my opinion. If I wasn't in school, I'd try and build a StrongLifts clone retooled for Starting Strength. I think there would be a huge market for that app.

I would like to see an iPhone application that tracks your progress in the Starting Strength routine. The app StrongLifts would be a great starting place. StrongLifts has a fitness regime that is similar to Starting Strength, and is executed beautifully. I love the idea of combining a fitness program with a smartphone application.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

John Stuart Mill, on the US Civil War, in "The Contest in America", Fraser’s Magazine (February 1862)
There's no honour among thieves.
Leaving aside victimless crimes for now (drugs, gambling prostitution), one problem with US sentencing is that it doesn't scale linearly.

For instance, the sentence for petty larceny can be 6 months to a year. The penalty for 1st degree murder can be 30 years to life. I don't know anyone who would think Murder is merely 30 to 60 times worse than stealing underwear from Walmart.

I'm not one of those who thinks we should adopt Nordic style sentences. I.e. Anders Breivik should never see the light of day again in my opinion.

But sentences should be appropriate to the seriousness of what was done. Since the worst possible penalty is death/life in prison, which is ~30 to 60 years in most cases, lesser crimes such as theft or fraud should merit much smaller penalties. I.e. a day in jail, community service or payment of restitution.
"They trust me -- dumb fucks"

- Mark Karpelesberg
The Internet Is Now Part Of The Crime Scene
Defence from what? His own faulty preconceptions?
I have the same sort of, and similar length, history with weight training.

I believe that's because it's pretty widely accepted now that free weights are more effective than machines. And, the difference is large enough that even people outside of weight lifting circles have a vague awareness of this. In the 80s, it was still really popular to use machines because they were "safer" (which is not necessarily true), they isolated specific muscles for training (mostly true, but not actually optimal), and they seemed easier than learning proper form for lifting free weights (it's still pretty easy to do it wrong with a machine).

That said, my first exposure to weight training was via a Gold's Gym book that I got at a garage sale, which also focused solely on free weights. I think the gym rats have always known iron was superior to rubber bands and elaborate systems of ropes and pulleys.
I often wonder if there has been a legitimate study on "public humiliation" style community service, something like wearing an orange suit and picking garbage in a visible public location. That seems to me like something that would be quite effective in many (not all) situations.
Yeah, I think Quora only makes sense if they are bought and a piece of it is implemented within one of the giants like Google. It's an interesting new business model I guess.
This seems like the trend, Whatsapp was FB's competitor and FB just bought it.
Worked well enough, he didn't mention any problems and I heard he'd sold the laptop over a year later. The reball was ridiculously cheap too.