skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I have lost count of the number of time I have stopped for pedestrians at crosswalks in Oakland, only to have a car blow past me, sometimes coming close to hitting pedestrians I had stopped for."

Are you kidding? "Why should I have to stop? Vehicles run red lights!" I'm seriously struggling to determine if I'm unable to pick up on your sarcasm... but really, I know you're absolutely sincere.

"So why don't we tie a law legalizing the Idaho Stop, with a law mandating cops enforce traffic laws against bicyclists?"

Your sense of cause and effect is seriously damaged. Are you honestly proclaiming with any sincerity that cycling "radical" groups like Critical Mass, etc, will be suitably satiated by the legalization of the Idaho Stop that they'll feel that they now receive fair and equitable treatment (when in the past, that wasn't necessarily not the case, but rather, 'everyone harasses us')?

Oi.
Ah; I must have missed the part where somebody stated that an action's morality is solely determined by whether or not that action is classified as a crime. I agree that that's a silly metric to use as the sole determination of the morality of an action, but can you do me a favour and point to where that was stated? I'm having trouble finding it.
While I agree it's not the majority, as with the case of drivers and h-bombs, just a few can ruin your whole day.
Both probably ;-).

Most likely just the crack...sometimes they come with additional crap and people (who are none the wiser) click on it and get something bad installed.
Geeks and money
Antvr: All-in-one Universal Virtual Reality Kit
If I did the math right, Instagram when Facebook acquired it, was worth ONE FIFTH today's Pinterest.

Does that make sense to you?
The FCC is able to impose net neutrality on ISPs, but in order to do so, it must classify them as a common carrier, which it still has not done. The last net neutrality regulations were shot down because the FCC was treating the ISPs like common carriers and still technically classifying them as information service.
Which speaks to another risk of cloud computing: business continuity of your cloud provider.
From the how section ... 5 minutes seems like an extreme exaggeration, especially for connecting a sensor to the door and a trigger to the back of the motor.

Setup:

- Power to the wall.

- Trigger to the back of the motor.

- Sensor to the door.

- Use your home wifi network.

- Open the portal website or app.

Total time = less than 5 minutes.
I'm a burly bearded man. I check out the "geek", "technology" and "science and nature" sections. I also search for camping gear and kayak pics on the Pacific ocean that remind me of my time kayaking from Anacortes, WA to the San Juan Islands. I have also posted my own very humble nature and landscape photographs on Pinterest. Pinterest is trying to "attract" males, but males need to think to use Pinterest.

Edit: Add link to article that made me think of Pinterest differently: http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/4/15/scaling-pinterest-...
"inbound strategic proposals"?

god/alternative-deity help them.
No joke, they took away our ability to use chat support a few months ago.

Why? Because we're such an important client, that they want us to have a more personal relationship, by forcing us to interact over the phone. I wish I were kidding.
Part of the motivation behind PgREST is to get a reusable and generic enough upsert implementation as a stored procedure; see https://github.com/pgrest/pgrest/blob/master/test/upsert.ls for details.
Could you use a Creative Commons licensing scheme like Stack Exchange?
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Hahaha, that's awesome.
Whelp, that flipped my opinion.
A little similar to this kickstarter ... in fact this guy needs another $600 for his goal in 7 days.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1916007507/lift-the-eas...
I would think git's distributed nature would make this a lesser issue. You would just have to set up another remote target and push/pull from that (say on AWS or some other provider).
GDOAAS
An explorer on the entrepreneurship road, it is my children who gave form to what was just an abstract idea. The desire to be there for my kids deems necessary that I be my own master. Plus I love the freedom to generally work on what I love. Of course, this is not possible without the support of my spouse and his job :)

Also, time will always be a constraint. You need to be very focused and prioritize well. Distractions have greater penalties. Currently the kids are toddlers and I basically get only 2 hours of solid work a day. But there is so much one can accomplish if one stays focused.
A better comparison would be: You find an online blackjack service that uses pRNGs, and can reverse the state of their decks in real time. Do you (a) notify the company or (b) play a bunch of blackjack and clean out the house?

George Soros didn't hack anything or steal anything; he made use of publicly accessible information to make a gamble and he won big. The consequences of that win were certainly crummy for a whole bunch of people and it's terrible that a lot of innocent people were put in that position, but to compare Soros to a criminal is pretty disingenuous.
Someone is delivering a package for you that you want to store in your garage while you're at work?
Thanks for the insights.

> Work that serves absolutely no purpose other than putting food on your table might fall into this category.

Have you read 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'[1]? The discussion on the concept of Value may challenge this idea that you have put forward.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_M...
Nah I will stick with MSE because the alternative for me is not to use an antivirus. If you ever want to know how to bring a 8-core i7 to its knees, install Norton. MSE is the only antivirus that is lightweight, stays out of your way and the least annoying of everything out there and not to mention its free with no ads. Sure, it doesn't have an heuristic scanning but it did once do a good job of detecting a malware that both Avast and Norton missed, which is good enough trust for me. The best feature is that it doesn't have a girl screaming "Avast, Your database have been updated." or "Your license is about to expire in 90days unless you pay $$$" every 4 hours.

Don't download anything sketchy, keep an updated version of your browser, don't run yourself as root and your should be fine for 99.9% infections out there. For the rest just keep MSE around.
The difference is that past performance is a good predictor of future results for college education.
Given your background it's surprising you don't realize how many file formats are Turing-complete and thus capable of mischief.
Those are probably 'full nodes' to participate in the network as a miner or casual user you don't need to run a full node.
SV Angel Leads Pinterest's $5 Billion Round
If you have your Mac set to never sleep/are using Caffeine for instance, then it simply puts the display to sleep, the rest of the computer keeps on humming along.

Not entirely equivalent to closing your MacBook.
Lunar Iditarod – A dogecoin lunar lander challenge
The future belongs to the sky empire.
I agree, but this is a tricky matter.

By one side, simply the best way of achieving any measure of success requires a lot of work, that's easily seen rationally; many other sacrifices we make though don't generate meaningful results. But we associate the effort required to perform all those, so to have enough morale to perform hard work by accepting sacrifice, some may need (irrationally) to perform other kinds of sacrifice.

Let me clarify this in the east asian setting: sometimes just prizing the result (good grades, acceptance at university) will not actually provide good results because kids (and people in general) are not perfectly rational and can't clearly make a best strategy to their goal. So people start prizing the necessary (but not sufficient) steps to reach the goals, namely sacrifice -- which leads to the stupid biases of putting unproductively much study, working an unproductive number of hours, and so on. Another reason there may be a bias toward sacrifice is that the other side is usually much worse (i.e. major unwillingness to put up work), so society overcompensates.

So even if you look at it rationally, it may make sense when you take into account our psychological quirks. Of course, it's all the best that we don't have those to begin with, and I figure a great part of our learning is simply bypassing those natural barriers, optimizing for results.
I did most of the course and was pretty new to FP. I have no plans to do Scala development, but the course did help me become a better programmer in the languages I do use.

I've been a developer for 10+ years but have been ignorant to FP. It just opened my eyes a little bit.
You forgot the top two other pieces of advice - Make sure you have a decent adaptive firewall, and run anything even slightly worrisome in a virtual machine, never on your main operating system.
OR they could have just used the string from EICAR test file [1].

Since I don't use bitcoin, let me ask, does everyone have to download the whole blockchain to their computer in order to mine or receive/sent the coins? Wouldn't the blockchain be in XX GB size by now?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file
You can still use CC software, you just can't update or have access to their shitty sync software.

But all the apps work, they don't require an internet connection (for 30 days at least), so it's not the disaster everyone is making it out to be.
This freaks me out. Live Chat is my life-blood, especially given my schedule and number of clients. Particularly regarding issues with my Sites customers.
I really love how their tagline says "Zero Setup" with a 5-step setup guide.
Amazon leaves mysterious giant orange locker in downtown SF
It really is the moments like this when I look at my stack of Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, and Darktable, and am glad that I invested in the alternate solution.
I'm surprised that not requiring a warrant for content is a thing. My understanding was that warrants being required for content was statutory.

I took a look at Snapchat's law enforcement guide[0], and it does say that they will turn over everything they have with only a subpoena. However, the records they say they will provide all look like metadata, not content. The guide mentions "Log of the last 200 snaps sent and received (similar to phone record)", but I believe they are talking about metadata associated with the snaps, not the pictures themselves. "Phone records", in this context, refers to phone metadata (logs containing numbers called, etc.). This Techcrunch post[1] also says that Snapchat deletes photos from its servers as soon as they are delivered.

If the reason that Snapchat doesn't require warrants is that they keep fewer records than other providers, and don't have the type of records for which a warrant is required, that should not be considered a privacy negative for them.

The EFF's report also claims that AT&T and Comcast don't require a warrant for content. However, that isn't because either company has been implicated in actually handing over content without a warrant; it's just because they don't explicitly mention requiring a warrant. But, again, as far as I understand, requiring a warrant for content is in the statutes.[2]

[0] https://info.publicintelligence.net/SnapchatLawEnforcementGu...
[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/09/actually-snapchat-photos-ar...
[2] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2703
I think you guys may have missed something. The protagonists feels a lot of emotion, but they mourn in a sad and silent way. They spend the whole story trying to get over what happened to their family. Its far from clear that the Internet is best, or that anyone is doing the right thing.

I'll give you that Doctorow's novels celebrate technology; birds are also going to fly, and fish are going to swim. And when a nerdy sysadmins write about nerdy sysadmins, the story will have a certain bend to it.

Its cool that you guys didn't like it, maybe you could express that in a way that isn't pedantic.
It's sad. However instead of ditching it entirely I have moved to a combination of MSE for real-time protection and Malwarebytes as backup, which I run every month or so to get anything that might manage to slip through.
Comparison with SoftLayer re: dedicated servers?
Yes, they do. And yes its quite large! Over 10 GB.
Testing Improved 4K Display Support in OS X 10.9.3
JSON doesn't really fit very well into Erlang structures (at least in r16; I haven't played with r17 yet); so I don't think not using it is that crazy.
Parse was on AWS, at least before the acquisition, if I recall correctly.
> Make a few symlinks from your home directory to the directories you use frequently. Instead of doing cd this/that/code/python/project/ you just do cd ~/project

If you are using ZSH, you can just append paths to the $cdpath environment variable. This will allow you to "cd name-of-project" (assuming you've added your project directory to $cdpath). No need for a mess of symlinks in this case.
What Investors See When They Look At You
Wow, this sounds like a bigger issue than bunchy top.
The Internet's 51 New Regulators
Show HN: navigator.hardwareConcurrency polyfill that helps you scale parallel JS
No they don't. Mining software that connects to pools is independent of having a blockchain copy. There are also several bitcoin wallet implementations that don't require a full copy of the blockchain.
Not sure about mining, but I would assume yes the blockchain is needed.

In order to have a wallet and just use bitcoin no the user does not need to download the whole blockchain depending on the wallet software. There are wallets that use public shared remote servers to access the blockchain that are reputable in the community.

https://electrum.org/

https://multibit.org/

https://darkwallet.unsystem.net/ (don't use yet, alpha)
No because we work primary in Flash. Flash is not backwards compatible, and we have custom applications developed for flash.

CC is much larger than just Photoshop.

Also internet outages don't usually affect CC.
Good stuff. Most importantly, it highlights Cmd+Spacebar. It's amazing how many of the non-hard-core geeks know about Cmd+Spacebar on Mac.

Someone told me an investment firm took AWAY computer mice from all employees because using just keyboard makes you 20% more productive (I think they were all Windows shop). And I believe the 20% figure.
That's what you get when a business has a monopole on a market.You're now free to go to competition... not.Put the industry itself is responsible for this.
If you use a client such as Electrum, it uses a server based model to index the Blockchain. The advantage of this is primarily "instant" start up time of the client.

https://electrum.org/
Docker Tutorial- what a Dockerfile is, what it is capable of doing.
Check out Carbon Copy Cloner [1] if you haven't already. It will create a bootable clone of your drive, with deltas and versions and all that good stuff. During fast-moving projects I usually clone daily. In the event of a drive failure I can simply reboot the Mac from the clone as if nothing happened, cloning back to new internal drive (or machine in case of theft).

[1] http://www.bombich.com/
> The big advantage is that you can quickly scroll the history with the mouse...

I've not found that to be faster than <CTRL+F> or <CTRL+B>. Same keys as in vim. I haven't found the value in using iTerm over terminal + tmux (same could be said for those that are more comfortable in screen).
You are right, those too. I would also recommend Sandboxie[1], not sure on its effectiveness but the convenience to just right click and run apps in its own sandbox is huge. Does anyone know an open source alternative to it?

[1]http://www.sandboxie.com/
My children are fascinated with mirrors. I have observed them staring at themselves for minutes on end. Whether it is vanity or curiosity - I don't know. At one point I had to put newspaper over the mirrored wardrobe doors to break the habit of walking into a room and ....stopping and staring at the mirror.
TMUX provides this.
Pinterest disturbs me somewhat in that it is the distillation of what society has become these days: pure consumerism.

'These are the things I want'.

Actually it's quite clever, on reflection, to have found a way to make money from consumerism without actually selling anything.
What we fear – An opinion on “Everyone Should Learn to Code”
Yeah, I hope Geekdom isn't affected. Best startup co-working space in SF IMO.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7753589

MS Security Essentials reporting false positives in the Bitcoin blockchain (microsoft.com)
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Why do you think solitary confinement would cost less?
For a while, some security suites would freak out and terminate an IRC connection if they saw the text "start keylogger" show up. You could get people to drop by saying it in a channel, for instance.
Hello. I am interested to read more about the potential sources of variation in measurement with an NIR Spectrometer.
Specifically the effect of environmental conditions and of nearby system interactions, such as ambient radiation, ambient temperature, temperature of instrument or workpiece, contamination on the surface of the workpiece, complexity of workpiece composition, etc. Could you help me with some reading suggestions?
Thanks!

Odysseas
Please tell me he will still be teaching his machine learning course.
Isn't this just an arms race, though? What's to stop people from doing this again?
Many garage door openers made in the past 15 years were made by the same company, whether they're branded LiftMaster, or Chamberlain, or Craftsman or Sears. You can add remote opening, status and smartphone control to any of them with the LiftMaster MyQ retrofit kit.

http://www.liftmaster.com/lmcv2/accessoryfamily/213/myq-enab...

It installs in about 5 minutes: you just remove your opener buttons and move the two wires to their new buttons, which talk to their gateway. That's even less setup than this one (no attachment to the opener or the door). As a big-name commercial project, it's a pretty closed system, though. There's a JSON API, but it's not meant to be used except by their web/phone apps. There's a plugin to add it to Vera home automation hubs, but I worry about the longevity of it since I think such a thing is still against the product's TOS.

They also have the newer "Universal Smartphone Garage Door Opener", which works with pretty much any brand (adding Linear, Genie, Overhead, Stanley, Wayne-Dalton) since it appears to use a light/IR sensor to detect open/closed state and acts like any remote opener to control the door.

http://www.liftmaster.com/lmcv2/accessorydetail/19898/liftma...

The only reason I bought one was because none of the do-it-yourself or crowdfunded options were so plug-and-play, and I don't have the patience for wiring up weird circuit boards to the back of my openers and hoping they work. I also care a bit about obeying local laws that say a remotely controlled garage door must have an audible warning before it's closed, so that you don't accidentally crush a child you can't see is playing under your door. Most of the DIY stuff doesn't have that, LiftMaster's does and it's a bit like a smoke detector going off for 5 seconds before the door starts closing. There's no sound if you close it any other way (wall buttons, a normal remote in your car).

I don't really get what this site is offering, but if it were the same thing as what LiftMaster sells but self-hosted or with a much more open API, I'd have paid money for that instead.
Its not just hedge funds. The same could be said for ALL active investment managers (and even many "index" funds). This has been well know for decades[1].

Of course people who manage their own money do even worse[2]!

Luckily we have index funds and some of them are well managed (i.e. deliver what they say at the lowest possible cost).

[1] http://www.stanford.edu/~wfsharpe/art/active/active.htm

[2] http://www.traderslaboratory.com/forums/attachments/30/26024...
Well, classically at least, the + button should enlarge the window to the largest size that fits the content... Hence no Windows-style maximize feature.
The more useful feature is being able to check whether it's shut or open, and being able to shut it remotely. Imagine that you're 30 minutes from home, driving to work, and panic -- did you shut it or not? Now you can check and can close it if you did forget.
Embrace Work-Life Imbalance
His username links to the two github repositories for this project: chrome https://github.com/indutny/bthread-chrome & npm https://github.com/indutny/bthread (which has usage information). It looks like this might be a forum (with comment threads) rather than a personal blog? I don't get it.
Turn it around into a special no-Photoshop issue of the magazine, and disrupt the high-fashion industry!
I don't have any problem with individuals finding value wherever they want to. I might disagree with them, but that's OK.

I only have a problem when a certain interpretation of value becomes an oppressive social norm, i.e. when people force once another to adopt their interpretation and no other.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7753418.
The idea of having a program that is allowed to scan and check every single files/ memory blocks seems to be, at the very least inefficient and against the principle of isolation to me.

May be because I'm just biased because the damn thing used to start running every time my gaming session is heating up ...
Whenever I hear the word gumption I think of old people with dentures. Great word!
We've changed the url to that from http://www.pingwest.com/will-andrew-ng-join-baidu-idl/. We're also going to bury this story until it's confirmed. Pure rumor doesn't make for a good HN post.
The mouse is the workhorse of any type of computational work or gaming. It’s the interaction fulcrum, dictating dynamics of 90% of modern computer operations. The problem with modern mouses is that it can only do so much, not in terms of software, but its hardware designs. A "sophisticated" mouse today aside from the left and right click has between 5-25 added buttons. Some has even gone as far as adding the entire keyboard on their sides where your thumb, ring-finger, and pinkie are supposed to be resting in position and holding for control.
Big companies would tell you their products are superior and try to sell you on the limited options they can supply... But, they're wrong! They've created a problem more than they have tried to come up with a solution. The problem every professional designer, architect, engineer, and gamer faces today is simplifying software barriers, and avoid complicated gears.

My Solution? Build a better mouse, and you can work at the speed you can click. And that is the idea of QuadraClicks. See one of my earliest concept drawings below:
As you press down on the QuadraClicks, both left and right, they work the same way as any ordinary mouse. Yet, when you lift a finger, whether left or right, you'll have the option to trigger other pre-configured commands & hot-keys.

QuadraClicks is designed for real time interactive maneuvers, with highly effective clicking, and multiple configuration options. The idea is to drastically improve the efficiency of work, and play.
I used one as a civil engineer to estimate quantities of cut and fill from plans. They are quite amazing tools.
QuadraClicks has multiple dynamics built in: UpClick- Why not use the returning click, in synchronization with the downClick? Easy to use- All QuadraClicks needs is steering- two arms manage the clicks both ways. It’s intuitive/reflexive usage. This is just steer and click. Eliminates/minimizes wasteful, annoying keyboard work which makes for horrible for work and gaming experiences.
This is called retargeting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_retargeting
I'm surprised that anyone even remotely considers Buzzfeed to be "journalism". Buzzfeed is like the zester to the lemon that is world events.