skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MetaFilter should definitely nofollow their external links in the comments. That makes sure that spammy/unnatural links do not count as a vote (which turns MetaFilter into a bad neighborhood as far as search engines are concerned, and attracts the spammers).

... <a href="#">Sample</a>, an Indian online pharmacy. I have not ordered from them myself. ...

They should look real hard at their site structure and which pages they allow to be indexed. Too many vague subdomains, and 'posts tagged with...' in the index.

I wonder what their user metrics show to Google. I don't think Google is penalizing sites based on a mere hunch, or won't notice that a site like MetaFilter got hit by an algorithmic update.

This site is someone's child, so it's hard to be too critical, but the view that MetaFilter hosts the quality content of the internet is far too rosy.

Pages full like: http://www.metafilter.com/67307/Gampoumlmbampoumlc Which are veiled spam pages. Pages full of inane babble about medical issues or personal drama, with the credibility and authority of a Yahoo Answers page. Just because people paid MetaFilter to post, and a site is heavily moderated, does not mean it adds anything to the search results for most generic search terms.

Then most links or interesting stories are from elsewhere on the web. MetaFilter is kinda like trying to rank with the old Digg comments: not the best place on the internet to read a discussion surrounding a topic. Why deserve to rank for linking to a funny or controversial news article, and riling up 15 comments or so?

In the end there may be far more natural reasons for this. The user signals showed something was wrong with the site. People bounced a lot (be it the design, be it because you can't comment without paying, be it because 15 random internet comments have little value). In the meantime Reddit and other sites grew to large communities. You don't see Reddit comment threads ranking all too high either, unless they are really special, popular or significant, like the president doing an AMA.
"Sense and avoid" is the current holy grail of UAV research.

Restricted zones have some interesting effects. DJI, a Chinese multirotor manufacturer, recently introduced 'no-fly zones' around airports for their ultra-consumer-level uav, the phantom 2. An unfortunate side effect, in the UK at least, is you are now unable to fly your phantom 2 in areas where it is perfectly legal to do so. I believe this limitation also effects where you can place waypoints on their more advanced autopilots.

They also prevent you flying over or near Tienanmen square...
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Nest Recalls Its Smart Smoke And Carbon Monoxide Alarms
That drone means more drone manufactures, more efficient traffic, less co2, more free time and more artists.

Although, in this case: it probably means one more RC-drone controller and not much else.
not everyone is guilty. most people there work on stuff completely unrelated to the unconstitutional crimes they commit. it is also well known that soon after he found out the true extent of the invasions of privacy he did try to change the system from the inside. it was only after it failed that he decided to leak info.
Just an advertisement, and a good one at that, looking at the amount of news coverage it has managed to attract.

People here are using RC Quadcopters (which is what this is likely to be) even for things like wedding photography :D
It's an ethical issue because it's likely that they have emotions. For instance, there is not a widespread movement for the ethical treatment of rocks. If science moved that likelihood close to certainty, the animal movements would gain lots of traction, which is what might be happening already
I do not understand why the Guardien would ever give up the information voluntarily. If they believed they where acting in the public interest, returning the data voluntarily would be an admission of guilt. The UK was best served by retaining the information and holding the Government to account. Naturally the Government have a resposiubility to oppose the release of sensitive information. There is an inherent unavoidable conflict. But that does not mean that either side actually acted improperly.
Relying on vague memories for such broad judgements. Seems like a sound philosophy to me ;)
Dunn is correct in his thesis, though it's nothing new with respect to the fact it's been happening in offline retail since forever. It's a given that companies who sell their own stuff will have better gross margin than those who sell other people's stuff.

A relevant comparison right now would be between private label and mass merchandising i.e luxury brands and discounters. Both are selling in essence commodity goods and both are doing very well right now but adopt a completely different approach to retailing.
It's in Poland. There is no out-of-pocket maximum - my dad pays literally nothing for the drug. He also had to have two operations to remove parts of his stomach,and then stay at hospital for a month at a time - also paid nothing. He also doesn't have to pay national insurance because due to his illness he qualifies for an exemption. Even if he didn't, he would pay less than $1000 a year for national insurance.
No, good password is infeasible to brute-force (not "decrypt", hashing doesn't encrypt anything; I invite you to research the topic you're talking about) even if you use non-salted SHA-1. Slow password hashing is there to protect weak passwords.

In the event compromise like this, you need to change password regardless, because you can't be certain if, for example, attackers had access to server memory (remember that password is kept there before hashing?) or not.

These sorts of one-size-fits-all responses to security is why the state of security to day is so bad.

This sentence is completely false.
Don't forget to shut down the app when going to the opera, because it will eventually yell "Polo" at the most sensible part.
> if you live in a swing state

This is toxic to democracy. People should vote no matter the state where they live otherwise it is only a tiny sliver of the swings that decided who rules the country and this allows for the money influx because you only have to buy/brainwash that sliver.

If a modern democracy manages to have 80% voter turnout you will be surprise how many safe seats will be not so safe.

So just vote - no matter where you live. It is your civil duty.
If I remember correctly, Steve Jobs didn't use soap in the shower because he didn't shower at the time.
It would be useful to have entire list of what they have destroyed, but these three listed components are:

keyboard controller - random chinese ASIC that probably contains MCS51 core and some kind of non-volatile memory (with no meaningful way to ascertain whether it is flash or mask ROM) => it is data storage device

"trackpad controller" - actually serial flash that trackpad controllers apparently boots from => data storage device

"inverting controller" (seriously, wtf? :)) - simple analog chip which probably contains <1k transistors, but it's datasheet says it is "programmable" (by means of few external resistors, so it does not actually store any data), and was probably destroyed in order to destroy everything that stores data or is "programmable".
Oh noes, robots are stealing our jobs. I wonder how did we ever gotten off from hand picked cottons, horse-n-buggy, and all that time-consuming manual labor of olds.

How did a luddite ended up on a tech forum anyway? Did someone fixed the irony device? He could've at least waited to read this news from the good old newspaper to support his local economy.
Thanks to this research I feel slightly less weird for preferring to run on a treadmill.
It's not exactly a measure, but I recall Ken Thompson saying that good code makes it easy to change or extend a functionality. (I think it was in Coders at work from Peter Seibel).

If you want to derive a quantitative metric from that, I guess you could take the average number of lines/time required to change or extend something.
The 99 year lease is basically identical to ownership as people are exchanging the "lease agreements" like property titles. China hasn't decided what to do when the lease is up but in general it is highly unlikely they'd make you renew the full lease. Most likely they're going to start charging property tax.
It doesn't contradict the impossibility result because the homorphic circuit evaluation cannot output a decryption.

With FHE the untrusted party can (usually) provide inputs (e.g. you can give them encryption of 1 and 0 that they can supply at some point in the circuit). But they cannot get _any_ non-encrypted output from the function without knowing the encryption keys (which would let them see everything).

FHE for secret operations is very straight forward. You first define a universal circuit— that is a circuit that can compute the result of any circuit (of the size) depending on its inputs. You then have the FHE environment run that universal circuit with the operations you really want specified as an input.

The result precluding blackbox obfuscation is really more about the formalism than a true practical impossibility, see Gentry's recent candidate indistinguishably obfuscation for NC circuts, which he boosts into full obfuscation for arbitrary circuts by implementing a pair of homorphic encryption decryption circuits under it.
For the record (Twitter was a poor medium for explaining this) I also have no beef with you - I just unfollowed because practically, seeing Shanley's tweets in my feed just makes my life less good by rubbing in my face that such people exist and have influence in the world. I can't do anything about the fact that people choose to follow anger, hatred and fear - but I can at least opt out of seeing those followers across my path.

The mute feature isn't quite enough for this, since naturally people who follow Shanley will tend to retweet other related topics that have the same tenor. So unfortunately the best thing for my blood pressure is to simply unfollow people who have joined this movement.

Which is all a big shame, because I am a fervent believer in equality (gender or otherwise), and am just as violently opposed to people who discriminate against or insult women just because they're women as Shanley is. However, I am equally hostile to people who discriminate against or insult men just because they're men.
Ive been given a static ipv4 and a big ipv6 range from my isp, problem is despite getting the latest and best router
http://www.asus.com/Networking/RTN66U/

I cant get ipv6 to work with this router, tho if i connect laptop directly to the wan cable i get an ipv6 address without issues and can use google via ipv6 etc

If a slightly unshaven geek like me cant get ipv6 to work easily what hope is there for rest of the world :(
>Also no ads or commercial content

A bit of nostalgia: http://www.arachnoid.com/freezone/
You might be able to do this with independent component analysis (ICA). There is a block in sklearn, but you would have to write some Python.

Alternatively, you might look to see if the speakers are in separate channels (if recording is stereo). Then it would be really simple - just take one channel out and resave as mono!

If you have a sample I'd be curious to take a look - sounds like an interesting problem.
Title is misleading. This is just an Ad. Shame that it got covered by some Indian sites with credibility. http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/top-this-mumbais-fra...

A quick Google search says that restaurant didn't have even a homepage!
Which is a confirmation that you cannot properly estimate risk/effort involved; the knowledge of the scheme they used to store passwords is useless for you, or even harmful.
>>Well many of the diseases we had are relatively recent on an evolutionary timeline

Many of the diseases have diagnosis and classifications only in the recent times. Before that it was just that a person would fall ill, and then die.

Now we have the most detailed and granular classification, hence we feel the diseases are appearing now.

But I think most diseases existed back then too.
Right at the end after the qc delivers the pizza and takes off, the shot pretends to be from a camera on the qc itself, but the shadow of the qc remains fixed size and sharpness on the terrace. Looked doctored to me.
Using Bitcoin To Send Money To Uganda Would Be Awesome, If It Actually Worked
Ask HN: Can you view/intercept/snoop the commands of a python interpretter?
I'm working a project where I have a Java process from which I'm executing a python process on the machine (Linux) and stream the commands to the Python interpreter via stdin. Python returns my results via stdout. I was wondering if I can view the commands being executed by the interpreter from outside of my Java process?
I saw on stackoverflow that you can view the commands in the history with readline.get_current_history_length() readline.get_history_item() but when I fire up the interpretter and try to look at the history I only see the commands from that current session of the interpretter.
Can I somehow listen/snoop/view the commands being executed in python from outside of the python process is running them?
Interesting - I've never tried Viterbi training. Maybe it is worth implementing after all. I plan to do a hybrid DNN-HMM (or whatever it is called now) with pylearn2 in a followup post.
Seriously? Don't ever go by India media. as mentioned by other it is just an ad. In reality people will throw stone at drone eat pizza and give the parts to their children to play
Exactly. We could have a government program to develop nuclear weapons (I wonder if the director of that program made as much as the CEO of Novartis), but we can't have a government program to cure cancer.

There's something wrong with a system where the primary purpose of institutions who fight disease is to make money. Super-valuable research is treated in the same way as making widgets or developing Facebook games -- all that matters is how many dollars it generates for each $100 invested. I find it simultaneously outrageous and ludicrous that the yardstick against which the CEO of Novartis will be judged is how much money the company made, not whether it cured freaking cancer.
Because facebook doesn't want people using a browser that is hard to track.
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Another problem we'll have initially is safety. Drones might pretty cool and useful, until one drops from they sky and mauls pedestrians or vehicles.

So, at least in areas with a lot of people, the same places where small drones can be very useful, there needs to be quite a large built in safety. This means encrypted communication for drone control, resilience for radio jamming, quite a lot of built in autonomous abilities to handle anomalities. And probably some big physical changes to lower potential damage. Don't underestimate the damage small fast spinning propellers can do.

Initially this might mean drones either get banned, or get banned after the 1. incident, slowing down adoption and increasing cost to make them safer.
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Even if someone is flying it remotely, this would beat all the conventional delivery times hands down plus energy efficiency. Well worth pursuing in my opinion.
Great read! The cloud services on the Sidekick worked so well that T-Mobile would routinely tell customers to hard reset the phone when even a minor issue occurred.

That was all great until a storage area network upgrade failed and destroyed all data for many customers. When those phones stopped synchronizing, T-Mobile recommended a hard reset. That meant the data was gone forever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sidekick_data_loss
Performance MX (http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/performance-mouse-mx) is still my favorite mouse for more than 4 years. I still haven't found anything better. It has few extra buttons, good battery life, good DPI, scrollwheel that you can set to two different modi and it lies well in my hand.

It's a little pricy, but it's worth it.
Hi, thanks for comments. In fact invoicing will be free. But we want to build another set of features around this like powerfull time tracking, and charging that. So it will be like freemium model.
"The interaction between down payment rate and mortgage insurance rate also reveals a limitation of our user interface: On the one hand, it’s nice to have all the variables decoupled so that you can set and explore them independently. On the other hand, many of the variables are not independent. If you change one variable, you may need to change other variables to maintain a realistic scenario."

Well I'm not sure I'd call this a 'limitation' of your UI. This is actually a very common issue when designing user interfaces for models (I have been doing this for a living for almost 15 years). There is a continual tradeoff between the positives of the software ensuring internally consistent, and realistic, values - and allowing the user flexibility for edge case exploration. And then there are issues like discoverability, speed of use, technical limitations, etc. - as always.

One of my favorite mental toys in this area is: devise a way for a user to assign a fixed amount (call it a 'budget') to several categories. For a simple example, consider a budget of $100 over 5 expense categories. But it should also work for allocating a road maintenance budget across 25 districts, or for assigning a weighting to the importance of policy objectives (ecology, health, economic growth for example).

In the vast majority of cases, after several meetings about this, clients say 'fuck it, let them copy/paste their own values from Excel' (at this point I come in and broker a truce between the warring factions of several solutions and implement a meet-everybody-halfway solution :) ) It's one of those 'how hard can it be?' <2 weeks later> 'oops yeah pretty hard' things.
Ok, done:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/a-western-kid-living-in-communist...

Enjoy!
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Get Rid of Java Static Loggers
The underlying concepts and the approach are very similar. The idea of a non-assertion pledge (or defensive patent pool) is a refreshing example of forward thinking Businesses and Organizations that recognize the adverse effects that Patent Trolling has on innovation. Google is a great example [1]. The Open Patent Foundation takes this concept, and applies it with a different approach. Instead of choosing a specific focus or scope, we want to allow the Community (as a whole) to drive the creation of Open Patent License(s). The end result would be a set of Licenses that any Person or Organization could use and apply towards any Intellectual Property or Patents they may own. So some of them may end up being specific to Software. others may end up being specific to Utility Patents. And yet others might end up being non-specific in terms of application, but specific to a Time Period, or perhaps Distribution Guidelines. It would be up to the Community to decide what we want to use, and that is what (IMO) makes the entire concept so powerful. It is not implied to be a better approach, just a new one. In the end, all of these types of movements are positive. The end goal is to accelerate innovation and stop Patent Trolling.

http://www.google.com/patents/opnpledge/
I quite like the generality of scribble syntax [1]. It is in the spirit of LaTeX, but is programmable in racket/scheme. The downside is that it is implemented pretty much for the purpose of writing racket documentation, with little/no support for other programming languages or output formats.

[1] http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/
At university we had a software development assignment designed to test our ability to work in groups, stick to a process, etc, while building a large (ish) piece of software.

The piece we were given was runway visualisation, every year it's a challenge posed by the local airport, and it's always a fascinating glimpse into the very complex world of airport standards. An example we encountered is the volume designated as the 'runway' extends far beyond the concrete part, out onto the surrounding grass which might be supported underneath, and further out to unsupported grass.
Interpolation methods and the Hagan-West paper
Show HN: Paddle.com – An easier way to sell apps/games/content.
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Drag-and-drop to actual real mobile app
Not trying to be flippant, honestly, but you'll understand when it's you that loses the job.

Also, the folks who lose their jobs inevitably feel that the automated/offshored/whatever replacement for their artisanal skills and loving care just doesn't deliver as good an end result, and so it's one more sign of the world going to hell in a handcart as everything races to the bottom.
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Upgrading to Ruby 2.1 (and why complex regexes will inevitably hurt you)
No it's not. No one is saying buy this and don't play with your kids as well. This is one tool among many.
I've been over this topic with ZenPro before [1] and there are no such laws. At best there are some government procedures and guidelines, but no laws.

Based on his/her comments I suspect ZenPro is somewhat full of it and thinks he's still a spy.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7737493
I find it appalling that you're using the Internet to transmit your message. Have you no thought for the poor mail delivery people?
The best guess answer to that is making it so everyone doesn't have to work unless they want to via a citizen's income http://www.citizensincome.org/
The article also explicitly say you should amortize the cost of things like switching context, which switching connection is.

I never stated that n and m has to be a magic numbers. They can be can (and should be) adaptive. While n=1 does provide perfect fairness, but what if switching connection cost just as much as processing 1 request? Setting n = 2 increase throughput by 50%, at the cost of 33% longer wait until the last connection is handled. However, because the throughput is increased, any subsequent requests will be handled faster than with n = 1.

In reality you want a sane m value, the time allowed to cycle through all connections. I'm not sure exactly how to make this adaptive, but it's likely very dependent on the nature of the usage (http connections from a GUI, p2p network, or something else). As long as you cycle through all connections within m time and aren't saturating the connection, the algorithm can increase n to increase throughput.
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The most likely explanation I think is that these extra chips are targeted for implantation as part of Tailored Access Operations, or the GCHQ equivalent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations
IIRC, you do have to get an allocation from the UN for an orbit. There's the Space Law which restricts just about anybody from placing a satellite in geostationary orbit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_law), and there was another similar law which I can't seem to find atm. Not sure if LEO is restricted. IMO this law is ridiculous, no one on Earth owns space.
There's a good profile at Business Week

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_42/b41990627...
The Science of Laziness
Yes, this is true. Life expectancy of adults has gone up, but only a bit; the heavy increase in average age is due to a heavy drop off of birth/child mortality.

The average media reporting and understanding of statistics makes it seem as if a 50 year old person in medieval times was a rare occurrence, which it was not.

(at least I think this is what you were saying?)
I don't understand why did they rename the concept of basic income to "citizen's", aren't they shooting themselves in the foot by confusing people?