skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a nice counter example to this. I've travelled extensively in South and Central America. I met a guy who had been robbed twice in Rio, one week apart, by the same guy, at the same time in the evening, in the same place.

I also had the feeling though that some people are just magnets for trouble.

Personally, I always travelled with two wallets. One real one stashed in belt and the other with 10 USD in it. People will walk away 99℅ of the time with the $10.
Yeah, it was posted about a month ago. It doesn't seem to actually be a good strategy, though.

How To Marry The Right Girl: A Mathematical Solution

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7888215
Oldest case of Down's syndrome from medieval France
I hope that they go for consistency instead of breaking the mold for the sake of breaking the mold and standing out -- the last thing I want is a dock full of randomly weird icons.
Well Twitter is where everyone goes now when something is broken. I'm not sure its the right solution but it's part of the way there.
Couldn't you just use Scala as a better Java in that case? Or do you just generally like wasting lots of vertical space on braces & monstrously verbose and sparsely distributed code chock full of boilerplate?

You must not have used a modern IDE. IDEs such as IntelliJ can fold a lot of boilerplate [1]. Besides that, modern Java IDEs offer so much functionality for refactoring, code generation, etc., that it's often hard to be more productive in other languages (I have used C++, Python and Haskell for years, but I am more productive in Java after using it for work the last 1.5 years).

Scala simply doesn't have the same level of support in IDEs as Java does.

[1] http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IntelliJIDEA/Folding
Can I use it to monitor source code changes of a Google Code projects, eg (https://code.google.com/p/dcef3/source/list), or a github project? If not can anybody recommend a good tool for this kind of task? Thanks.
I mostly do this, along with a little hack for certain commands I need, such as mercurial: I have a virtualenv under ~/opt/venv/py-2.7-misc, and make a symbolic link from ~/opt/venv/py-2.7-misc/bin to ~/opt/pybin -- and then my .bashrc checks for a ~/pybin and adds it to the PATH if it exists ( [[ -d "${HOME}/pybin" ]] ...).

So I can just go "pip install -u mercurial", or "pip install <some useful utility>" without worrying too much. And (my) "hg" is in my PATH -- and I can still run stuff in custom virtualenvs on a project basis, just as you say, by specifying the full path (./proj/venv/bin/python ...).

I've never understand why people use anything more complicated.

I do see occasions where activate is useful -- certain packages, I think scipy and pygame are among them -- are not only rather difficult to install via pip, but also tend to be very picky about their environment. Normally I get by by just installing those (and other packages with strong c/c++ library dependencies) via the package manager though.
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So many reports of other airplanes going missing on IRC that morning/day. Where were you on 9/11? “On IRC.”
Roughly map the topology of the ground in the background of a photo, then use clever algorithms to match that topology with real world maps of terrain.

Automatically match iconic buildings to those in a database.

Have a list of features that are different from nation to nation, or region to region, and match them. Electrical outlets, road signs, road markings, fire hydrant colors, and match them automatically.

Have a list of different geology. Light coloured rock in this region, reddish soil in that region, very flat terrain, very undulating terrain.

This is what comes to mind in one minute of thought. None of these would be effective on their own, but combined you could probably get surprisingly close.
What is marriage? I thought that one of the primary concepts behind it is that it's a "commitment". (If it's not that, what is it?)

However, if you change that to "we'll keep doing this until we don't feel like doing it", that's not really much of a commitment anymore, is it? After all, doing something you enjoy doing until you don't feel like doing it anymore, is pretty much what you do anyway, by default.

What is marriage, really, except a promise to try and keep going and work things through, even when you don't want to anymore?
What really gets me is that MS almost fixed that with powershell -- and then made the defaults policies so restrictive that you need to go through hoops to actually be able to use the thing. I do get that it's "really powerful and lets not create another set of visual basic script viruses" -- but the UI is just horrible. Maybe it's better in 8, but last I checked I think you had to go into the policy editor and choose between "safe - no powershell for you", "safe-ish - only signed powershell (still no powershell for you) and: open season on shooting your feet off: powershell always, everywhere, all the time.

Don't get me wrong, I still prefer living with bash and a full GNU system -- it's just sad about what MS did (or didn't) do with their command line tools since 2003ish and on.
Google Play Install Error 400, 403 and 500
I have just submitted a game named "Gago Bird Soccer 2014" to Google Play. I got a few complains that the installation failed. We got 3 error messages namely error 400, error 403 and error 500. Anyone know whether the problem is with the game or server or the gadget itself? Most of the time the installation is successful though.
Until that runs out, too. Only pushes the can (or barrel) down the road.
Show HN: Supercharge your sales team with Sparta
It's easy to make consistent icons as long as you don't mind them being ugly. What's hard is striking a balance. Apple used to have this balance: reasonable consistency yet beautiful icons with a touch of delight and sense of workmanship.

If we go from what we had to rulers and paint by numbers we might as well forego design altogether and just write a computer program to generate all icons.
How the RFS works? i see that there are different "calls", but if i click to "apply" the deadline was in march.
so, what should one do to apply?
Happy wheels today
I don't know apple, could you maybe stop spending all your time on the aesthetics of your OS and actually fix some real problems? How about the fact that SMB doesn't work [1], or that you've broken large parts of Dtrace? How about not panicking when someone plugs in an external monitor, or providing symbols for core dumps [2]? This is the reason no one uses Mac OS X for anything serious.

[1] http://blogs.computerworld.com/mac-os-x/23872/essential-os-x...
[2] http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-05-23/osx-10.9.3-is-to...
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I use it all the day, everyday, and I'm doing serious things on it. I can't see how using Linux or Windows will help me better.

But you're right, OS X is a consumer focused OS with a strong emphasis on look & feel. For the better, or for the worse. At the moment, and during my 6 years using it, I only saw the better.
I'm interested in EA's claim that data for mid and late game players showed "non-spenders did not reach these points substantially slower than spenders" given that the entire judgement seems to suggest it'd be impossible to progress remotely quickly. How could they have that data, assuming it's not possible to just make up data and have the ASA ignore that, and how come it was never discussed in the upholding?
I really don't know if culture twist our interactions toward mind games or if it is a natural law (that may be amplified by immaturity or society too) at first, as a shallow way to test before going deeper.
If you accept a non-compete clause, you are part of the problem.

That's a bit harsh.

The company knows what it's doing. Employees often don't. And in tech, there are no unions or widely-subscribed (and non-employer dominated) professional organizations to push back.

As Adam Smith notes in his Wealth of Nations (book one, chapter 8):

What are the common wages of labour, depends everywhere upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests are by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little, as possible. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower, the wages of labour.

It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms. The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3300/3300-h/3300-h.htm#link2H...

There's a reason unions exist, and even more reason why companies and their owners fear them.
I was tempted to make a similar game infrastructure design decision recently, namely, faking players in game highly dependant on reaching critical volume of players, in attempt to alleviate problem of players waiting too long for their next opponent.

I, of course, said 'no' to myself, and then tried to work around it, and [some technical difficulties ommited] we now have awesome feature presented as Special Encounter where players play against NPCs, but still weighed similarly to plays against real players.

Being plain evil is easy way out, with higher risk assigned to those decisions. But somewhere in the problem-solution space, there's an ethical solution begging to be found, frequently better performant than the obvious evil one.

Unrelated, how long did it took you to fold a company? It's a lengthy and painful process here, even if you're profitable and without debts to anyone.
'accelerated vesting'.

Keeping employers honest with a contract in place is a lot easier than without.

Anyway, you seem to be stuck on this being equal so I have no illusions I'll be able to convince you of the differences.
What is the likelihood ebola could mutate into something that could be spread by aerosol?
Indeed, the goal of DRM is to transfer the liability to someone else. If you make a product that plays back DRM'd content, you don't want to get sued when someone figures out how to use your system to pirate stuff. So you ask the copyright holder what to do, and they say "buy solution XXX that's already approved", and then you do. Then you're happy, because you don't get sued, the chip manufacturer is happy, because you have to buy their chips (and whatever other fun add-ons you may need for your product) from them, and the copyright holder is happy, because the chip company's lawyers convinced their lawyers that nobody can pirate stuff.

Meanwhile, it all works because nobody cares to break your DRM because audio is already widely distributed in lossless DRM-free formats (CDs), and Blu-Ray DRM is already broken. The pirates don't want Netflix's 5Mbps stream when they can just buy a Blu-Ray and get a 50Mbps copy instead. (Similarly, they don't want Spotify's Vorbis stream because they can just source material from the uncompressed CD.)

(Piracy works because it's a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_cow_problem)
What video cards do you use with your current setup?

It wouldn't take much carpentry to set them up in landscape, maybe with a cinder block or something in the back as a counterweight.
Indeed, the general populace already works more than it needs to.
What might be nice as well is to put a Py3K alternative alongside any red libraries, where applicable.

I'm not sure how much work it'd be but it might be useful to see how much Py2k library functionality can already be achieved in Py3k.
Okay and I have somehow said something terrible because I didn't pick up on this hilarious dubious sarcasm in a post about benchmarks.
The interesting part of the product is that it can be useful even to people who don't own Bitcoin or don't personally care about Bitcoin.

Assuming that modern malware includes modules to drain Bitcoin wallets found on infected devices, and that any hackers will drain a Bitcoin wallet they find on a server they get access to, placing an unprotected wallet on any device should work well as a "you've been compromised" canary.

But marketing any security or backup product is difficult, because people start caring about security and backups only after they have lost their data once.
Chimps from controversial lab move to retirement home
T-Mobile’s all-caps
How Ukraine's IT outsourcing industry is impacted by revolution. Numbers
I think there may be a typo with the first example:

newtype ID a = ID Int deriving (Eq,Ord,Show)

Should possibly just be:

newtype ID a = ID a deriving (Eq,Ord,Show)
Facebook Plays Short and Long Game with WhatsApp and Oculus Rift
Yes I thought everybody knew by now that intelligence is pretty much insignificant when you're up against somebody with years of experience at something.

There was even a very popular pop psych book about it that everyone has read (Outliers).

Your high IQ might get you good grades in elementary but gaining skill (which is what you're all talking about) is done through practice.
With rise of RethinkDB it would be lovely to see similar post on it.
Loading and caching data between (Backbone) AMD modules
http://watchthatpage.com
No access to non university based researchers. Useless for me.
Soundcloud Set To Copyright Sound
If you buy premium, you can listen to it from other players, for example: http://www.clementine-player.org/
I could imagine that independent SIMD units require more additional resources like instruction decoders and branch units, whereas in the warp/wavefront model, many ALUs can share those units, saving die space and energy. If the executed workloads are mostly coherent, that resources are wasted.

It's interesting that ARM switched to independent ALUs/SIMDs, because if I understand it correctly, that is exactly what PowerVR was doing with its SGX architecture before switching to a wavefront-like execution model. In a way, they are going in the opposite direction.
Really depends.

Absolutely not for a first time, you're right. For me though, as I became more comfortable with the altered psychedelic state of mind, being around people became much easier. I wouldn't want to be trapped at a party, but I've stopped in at them for 30-40 minutes, had fun, and then left to move onto the next thing.

The important part for me is to have options, whether that's a ride back home, a nearby park, someone to take a walk, an Ipod and some headphones, etc.
IIRC at least znc crashes, other clients like xchat start having rendering issues and some (I think irssi) completely disregard content after the 512th byte
Ha. How fun :)

We take different aproaches though.

Repo link for reference: https://github.com/tbug/vpython

Mine expects you to know virtualenv and how it works, and also that you explicitly install it. Same goes for dependencies.

My needs where to avoid sourcing the virtualenv, so i wrote the tool to fix just that.
Also, i built mine to resolve symlinks and be usable as the shebang in your python scripts, which is pretty neat when writing command line tools.
i liked the article, i think I'm going to go out and get another screen in the next week.
Your worries are completely unwarranted. Apple's direction for OSX is a trend setter. Due to sheer exposure, whatever Apple makes, becomes fashionable and most developers try to imitate it (usually that's good, sometimes it's bad). Case in point, while iOS 7 icons weren't something to call home about, many developers quickly redid their app icons as flat white shapes sitting on top of eye-gouging gradients.
HAHAHAHHAHA I remember how cool people were during Orkut times. My name would have been J()#|\| $t3\/3
I have a pair of AMD Radeon 5700 Series cards (apparently released in 2009!), which seem more than up to the challenge. One thing to consider is that with 2 graphics cards, you needs at least a 550W power supply (I had a 500W power supply that died trying its best).

Unfortunately my carpentry skills lacking, and the Dell Single Monitor Arm [1] are NOT suitable for mounting 2 monitors on top of each other (not enough height).

[1]: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l...
I was poor, and now I'm moderately well off. You are really underselling how much it sucks to be poor.

> All the money in the world won't prevent you or a loved one from passing due to an untreatable illness.

Death of a family member is much more likely to happen if you are poor. Too bad you can't afford that unreasonably expensive surgery.

> All the money in the world won't buy you friends or genuine respect.

This is such a first world concern. Boo hoo. Also, yes, money does buy friends. When my family went bankrupt most of our friends turned their backs on us. This is a common occurrence. Ask a homeless person what happened to their "friends" when push came to shove.

> It can't buy you love (though it can buy you sex).

Not being poor is more important than finding love. If you want love, have some kids, and love them.

> Furthermore, you don't need to be rich to avoid the hardship of being poor, you just have to make a sufficient amount to afford quality housing, food, health insurance, and minor luxuries.

Please do not underestimate how hard it is for those who are actually poor to "make a sufficient amount."

This seems like a good enough time as any to point out that there are like six empty houses for every homeless person in America. Or, in techie terms, "you thought domain squatting was bad..."
The point was to emphasize how ladders are clearly superior to knives, or even sticks. As has been demonstrated in literature[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrRFzwPE0d4&t=3m13s
Music is a very important part of human life. But in recent times, you rarely get to listen to good music, which is sad!
Nah, it is a type of numeric ID's for different types of things. The parameter 'a' is just a phantom type parameter to keep you from mixing up a mesh ID with a texture ID.
It's legal in the US (in all but three states I believe), because the spores do not contain psylocin/psylocybin. Once you start to grow them though, you could be charged with possession of a controlled substance.

Don't let that stop you though GP! It's a fun project and very satisfying to see your mushrooms finally sprouting up after a month or two of work. The risk of getting caught is low, and even if you somehow did, it would probably still be worth the penalty if they have a positive effect on your wife's headaches!
European Banking Authority's risks of Bitcoin
media compression usually isn't perfect. For starters, data is framed with synchronization bits to recover from bad transmissions and the like.

Also, audio codecs usually use prepared huffman codebooks for the final step.

For most codecs they're defined as part of the format, few (such as vorbis) prepend the codebooks to the data stream so compressors can use different codebooks if they choose to do so.

For vorbis there used to be an experimental tool that optimized huffman coding of an existing stream, giving another 4%-or-so compression with otherwise identical data (ie. no quality change).

These 4% plus framing are probably the entropy differential they're exploiting here.
From Wikipedia:

Since MIT Lincoln Laboratory's establishment, the scope of the problems has broadened from the initial emphasis on air defense to include programs in space surveillance, missile defense, surface surveillance and object identification, communications, homeland protection, high-performance computing, air traffic control, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR).

Lincoln Laboratory conducts research and development pertinent to national security on behalf of the military services, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and other government agencies. Projects focus on the development and prototyping of new technologies and capabilities. Program activities extend from fundamental investigations, through simulation and analysis, to design and field testing of prototype systems. Emphasis is placed on transitioning technology to industry.

Essentially, the Lincoln Lab is one of several labs that are part of a strategy to make best use of creative people (who can think up things, but don't necessarily want to productize/weaponize them), industry (who can productize/weaponize things, but don't want to be part of a war effort) and military.

To see why they would not hire non-US citizens, consider the first author of the "Steal this Movie" paper, who now works at a Chinese university (presumably on similar problems to the ones that people in LL and at UCSB are tackling).
That's a lovely piece of work. Congratulations.

It's always fascinating to me how far the tools of the trade have come on since my heyday. They surpassed my own custom tools of yore a little while back, and things like this were things I could obviously never do at the time - nowhere near enough storage, for a start, but I also didn't know about the compressed/encrypted distinction (that would have saved me a lot of time!).

That you can do it in such an automated fashion now, where I just paged through the disassembly and hexdumps until I saw something that leaped out at me, is stunning. I'd coded a few helper routines, and my debugger was completely stealth and I could rewind a couple thousand instructions (the secret of my success! <g>), but never anything like that back then.

Perhaps I should look into this PANDA.
PyPy-STM: first “interesting” release
I'd just love them to fix iMessage so that it works in something approaching a sane way. Messages "don't send" but appear on other devices, messages that are "delivered" never left my device, you still can't search your messages without a third party tool, attachments are deleted on file but not on disk..
"Death of a family member is much more likely to happen if you are poor. Too bad you can't afford that unreasonably expensive surgery."

This applies in the US, rather less so in many other countries. (UK resident here.)
I've been on Freenode for almost 10 years now (9 years, 48 weeks, 4 days, 18:19:12 ago), it's the only network which doesn't seem to be shrinking, though most of my old friends are gone now.
Indian Govt. draft policy to make govt. funded research publicly available [pdf]
How Big Is Space? - Interactive version
A few websites manage to reimplement decent scrolling today, but I have yet to see scrolling that's better than standard behavior. This sounds like a move to have everyone use their own scrolling engine.

Maybe we are at a point where there are too many novice user to care about interoperability, but I'm a big fan of the fact that my browser understands the content it renders and that I can run plugins to manipulate it. I daily highlight text to search for it, drag non-marked-up url's to the URL bar to open said links, change page layout for easier reading, translate words as my curser point to them, etc, etc. all features that flash pages used to break and a "canvas/webGl" world would appear to break as well.