skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can have an accurate step counter at a low price. The problem is that the step counter is being sold as a device that knows how well you sleep and how many calories you burn.
Whether it's academia, government organs, charities, or other ... if you want funding for your research, you have to find someone who:

a) has money, and

b) is willing to finance your research.

If research is done with tax money, it's understandable taxpayers will want a say in it, and their ever-changing whims will be reflected in what they choose to fund. Since this involves politicians, you can expect consequences in that direction (i.e. a political angle even when there needn't be one, involvement of K Street either for or against you, etc).

If research is done with other resources, again, it's a matter of finding someone who has money and is willing to let you use it. So networking, and getting to know generous wealthy people, or wealthy people with a motive to give for a certain kind of research, is a smart way for someone in your org to spend time.

This doesn't necessarily sound so bad; it sounds like it's simply the way the world works.

Even Columbus - who financed his exploration with European monarch's money - had to justify it as financially worthwhile for them to do so.
How smart are your tweets?
Scary to put it lightly. You'd think that we would be more careful with such things. I could only imagine who actually found the sample, and if they even realized what it was without Googling. An even worse thought would be if they were to just throw it in the trash.
Would Walt Disney have survived the Shark Tank?
The links to Python and Node versions were also helpful. The comments in the Python version [1] were especially helpful at explaining what was going on.

1: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576564-walkers-alias-met...
That's not solved by making them implicit. Then you need to keep even more in your head!
OMG! what an awesome throwback!
> massive social upheaval and eventually leading to revolution if ... the ruling classes refuse to redistribute voluntarily.

The sad part is that his conclusion is only incorrect because the ruling class figured out (more plausibly, stumbled into) a strategy for doing precisely the minimum amount of redistribution required to avoid revolution.

http://www.guernicamag.com/daily/anya-groner-the-heart-you-s...
How is pointing out that Europe lives out Muslim values (not Islam itself) better than Muslim countries "politically correct"?

What it is, is an incredible indictment of "Muslim" countries. They aren't producing what their religion says that they're supposed to produce.
2.5 days of lawyer time at $350/hr comes out to be $7000 a year which is a lot of money to most laborers. Even if the distribution of lawyer time is skewed, it's still a very high number.
Alexandra C. Grant wrote a paper comparing different methods of improving the current CA system: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2012-716.pdf

But unfortunately she does not take TACK/pinning + Convergence in consideration.
If you have the target's credentials and access to their machine, then this extension is the least of the target's problems.
Yeah, I reported a simple security breach in Outlook.com to Microsoft three weeks ago, and it seems they still haven't fixed it yet. Way to go Microsoft.
Not defending google. Actually just slightly ranting on a tangent... Google today is not google 5 years ago. There are different employees, different managers, etc. To say that google (an entity with a single agency, as if it was a single person) "hustled" us by going through these changes is just not an accurate statement .
Velocity and Working Software
Host Gitlab on DigitalOcean
Function hello(ByVal name As String) As String
Dim greeting As String
greeting = "Hello" + name
Return greeting
End Function
So... who is Company X?
Great idea, thanks!

I'll add several tips describing what user should be shooting for.

Like, for example - there's no such thing as one-genre-movie (at least based on IMDB stats). It's much better to try and pick at least several genres that might work for your movie.
I hope the "brightest minds" realize the negative sentiment
the mere mention of Google is eliciting? I honestly couldn't even read the article because of how they exploited me. At first--it was innovative; now they are just irratitaing.
If mturk becomes too successful, it'll draw political attention and suddenly minimum wage laws will apply and the business model will implode. Leaving it in a state of neglect until Amazon figures out how to fix that problem would be a strategic solution to that problem.
Java's "write once, run anywhere" comes with a lot of costs that many programming language designers aren't willing to pay. It's not just about the JVM (which by itself prevents Java from running on some devices), it requires Java to adopt a "lowest-common-denominator" approach when it comes to supporting platform-specific features, and often go to great lengths to appear to support features that are easy on one platform but hard on others. As an example, look how long it took Java to even support something as basic as PIDs thanks to cross-platform compatibility concerns. Given that .NET has plenty of excellent languages in its own right, I suspect it will be a long time before we see another language willing to restrict itself as heavily as Java has in order to attain this utopic ideal.

(Personally, I don't really think it's worth it--many libraries that need to get stuff done in Java end up using JNA anyway, negating this supposed advantage. But it's certainly much better about it than ostensibly cross-platform languages like Ruby are).
There is a great article on engineering a whole bunch of increasingly good solutions the discrete random sampling problem.

http://www.keithschwarz.com/darts-dice-coins/

And the corresponding HN discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3401510
5 Awesome Hardware Products That Will Change Your Life
Filled with interesting factoids about how Walt Disney really made it all happen. And it mostly does not sound like a sound business plan yet was pure genius in some sense.
Bitcoin in America
I'm pretty sure anyone that speaks a Romance language may recognize 'variola' as smallpox. I guess the original label used the Latin name. Also, in a CDC laboratory, I'd bet dollars vs pennies there's already a protocol for handling "old badly labelled samples" that includes "not opening" and "not misplacing".
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The gym misspelled your name and your bank told them off? I'd love for some amount of the infamous Japanese formality to become more commonplace here...
>Would you not agree that it's better that Google be involved in the Verizon (or any telecommunications company) proposal rather than be absent from it?

Yes, I would not agree?
Agreed, especially since DO & Linode are fighting over the same marketspace.
I have said this before. But it may be worth repeating:

"The problem is that the worker who is going to be out of a job doesn't own the company that buys the robots to replace him/her. Ever heard of a lights out factory that has all the former assembly line workers at home with full salary? Didn't think so."

The way capitalist societies are structured doesn't really allow for income distribution that way, the way I understand it.
Wow those projects are really cool. I hope they all work as well as they look.
Very untrue. Apple's target demographic is the arty/greenie/little-bit-leftie. Remember the furore over the factory conditions in China? A large part of that was targeting Apple rather than other vendors because Apple were seen as being egalitarian (for some bizarre reason) and hence above that.

Apple certainly does have a pretense of caring about people, society, and it's own customers... but only if they're using all Apple gear. Apple's whole 'curated garden' approach is about this. I mean, how can you say they have no pretense of caring about their own customers when they're the only hardware vendor with plenty of branded retail outlets that dispense plenty of free tech support?
This looks exactly like Hubski's layout, but it isn't so rounded. Aside from the comments link being too low-profile and all other info besides the title being squished and inline, it's alright I guess.
What account is this that's hitting the limits? Or what application?
You should probably include your contact, and twitter handle?
You're mixing two numbers.

Lawyers time by the above calculation = actual hours spent working by lawyers

$350 = rate for BILLABLE hours by the higher end of attorneys

Lawyers don't bill 8 hours for 8 hours spent working. There is a lot of overhead.
No app, just a simple feed that we post tweets to from various sources via API. Further details will be gladly discussed with @support staff.
Hi, creator here. I made this app using Express + Mongoose and the great Hackathon Starter framework (https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter), all hosted on OpenShift. I basically got a lot of college data from the IPEDS database and made a form so users can submit their SAT score and figure out which schools to apply to. Safety schools are those that you have a great shot of getting into, Match schools are those where you fit the median profile, and Reach schools are that you have a lower chance of getting into.

I thought it'd be useful for kids who want to explore schools to apply to for college. The app is very barebones, but I had a lot of fun dipping my toes in web dev and learning some new technologies. If people like it I'll work on adding more features like entering your zip code/GPA to get a much better admissions profile. Admission at most colleges is based on your transcript and scores, and most kids stay in-state, so both of those would be pretty useful data points.

I'd love any feedback!
Possible Work around?.... Create second twitter account, and announce it from the first twitter account periodically. Make new announcements on second twitter account.
Included, my personal handle is @yuvadm
Uber Will Stop Charging Ridiculous Prices During Emergencies
I think the README mis-describes the performance comparison with the naive "huge array of samples" method.

In particular, both methods are O(1) after a precomputation step. What the Alias Method appears to get you is a significant reduction in space required.
>which would make me look for a new internet company immediately.

It's nice that you have that choice.
Google is responding by building it's own physical network infrastructure nationwide. Google Fiber is a big middle finger to the telecom industry. If Google is good at anything it's protecting Google.
Messaged some friends who used to intern at Twitter and know people. Good luck!
We'd rather not fragment our content in this way, and even if we did, updating our automated scripts to handle this scenario wouldn't be trivial.
US CDC says finds smallpox vials from 1950s in FDA storage room
NSA’s misguided mission
If anyone wants to help me out here is my referral URL:
http://sublimetexttips.com/giveaways/sublime-text-giveaway/?...
okTurtles is one of several middleware options that runs on top of Namecoin, implementing the domain record spec. It advocates using someone else's trusted server as a data source, but does not at this time implement any integrity protection for data in transit.

http://www.freespeechme.org/ is a more mature and more secure.

Edit: DNSChain does not appear to provide certificate validation for .bit domains in common browsers at this time. It can serve DANE records, but the browsers don't currently verify them and the existing browser extensions for adding DANE support require DNSSEC which DNSChain does not provide, unless I'm missing something.
Updating file limits on running Linux processes
Do they think Reservoir Sampling known then? ;)
بالصور دموع مشجعات البرازيل فى مباراة المانيا
What about the below stats live from Ghaza? I think these Palestinian's twitter API quota has already been reached and went beyond any limit too.

- 447 heavy rockets,
- 374 air strike aggression,
- 39 marine bombs,
- 111 targeted homes,
- 17 homes completely destroyed,
- 95 homes partially destroyed,
- 2 masjids attacked,
- 1 hospital attacked,
- 1 ambulance car attacked.

I can understand war, I understand loss and fear, but I can't understand how such a silly thing has reached Hacker News's front page.
I believe/hope you are getting confused with Palestinians in the West Bank and Arab Israeli's (who may or may not be of Palestinian descent). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel

Palestinians vote(d) for their own leadership. I live in Australia, but I'm not an Australian, therefore, I am not permitted to vote here. I am unlikely to ever gain citizenship here, therefore, I will never be able to vote.
Linode will be in the next report. We chose the services and began working on this report before Linode announced their infrastructure upgrades.
The internet helps globalize the digital labor market, competition from people that live in countries with low costs of living will drive the wages down for jobs that can be done from a computer and bureaucrats will be replaced by efficient databases, humans and paper are not very efficient.

This is natural evolution, IT wages bubble will burst because anyone with the proper education in any place in the world with lower expenses will be able to do it for less.

I hope the same happens with education, internet will change humanity in ways we can't imagine right now.
It's a bit radical, but I am tempted to test it. :)

I am wiseleo on just about every website and gmail, so feel free to send me an instant message.

For me, seeing an executable test spec for the first time was very surprising and revealing. There is an entire book "Refactoring: improving the design of existing code" that teaches you how to name functions so your code reads like English.

After all, this is valid Jasmine from near the beginning of my test suite:

it("should return an array containing at least one object", function() {
expect(menu.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
});

It reads like English. If you can show that code can be written like this rather than like typical code, you will notice an immediate jump in confidence.

If you show that in Rspec, where the alien-looking

function (
) {
};

is replaced with

do

end

and expect('should do something useful') becomes expect "should do something useful"

it becomes even more approachable.
Any plans for a self-hosted installable version? This is something that we can use, but we won't use it as a service.
FYI, Privacy badger is what caused my browser to whitescreen, as it was blocking the pass off to google docs
> Specifically, I'm not convinced "all of the null pointer bugs" would have simply been erased and replaced with good working software. Rather, I tend to think they would have just been replaced with similar bugs.

This reads to me like eliminating null pointer bugs would just create a void that something else would fill? I don't see how that would work, at all. Is eliminating a null pointer exception going to introduce a divide by zero exception/bug? Is it going to introduce program logic bug? ...

If you're thinking about unwrapping a nullable value and throwing an exception if it really is null; I don't think of that as a conceptual null pointer exception, at least not in the usual sense. It's a deliberate decision along the lines of "I know [because of the control flow up to this point] that this value can not be null" or "if it is null, just throw an exception". It is NOT "this value can never be null... I think... well let's check the documentation, OK I'll assume that it isn't being misleading (documentation can easily 'lie' about a value being null in a nullable-by-default language, since non-nullable is not expressible in the language).

In a language with nullable-always, you can always pass a value (probably reference, but still) as null. In a language with explicitly nullable types, this is impossible. That's why unwrap functions throw an exception if the value is null: there is no other way to handle that case in a typed manner (well, I guess you also could loop forever...). In a nullable-by-default language? It is always fine to pass null. And it will not necessarily fail if a null is passed that shouldn't have been passed: it will only error when the reference is (tried to be) dereferenced.
I've used both photoshop and gimp a lot. If I had to use gimp for my day to day photo editing software I'd be _severely_ hampered in productivity.
How a TED talk inspired me to take a mid-career sabbatical
I just got in the habit of "reverse pinching" before trying to click anything.
What Goes Into the Making of Animation and Illustration in an App
This kinda makes sense. If you don't want to be subject to the whims of the US taxpayer, or the corrupting influence of Congresscritters / K Street, then you need to go elsewhere (charities, individuals, businesses) to get funding for your research.

Of course, educating taxpayers would be helpful, so they can make better decisions. Along with educating Congress critters, and as far as K Street goes, either finding sympathy (unlikely) or planning to send some of your money there (more likely to work).

Compared to those 3 challenges, finding a benefactor sounds a whole lot easier!
That does work for domains within Namecoin, but it cannot be used for ICANN TLDs. People have suggested pairing schemes to allow domains under other TLDs to be associated with Namecoin records but I have yet to see one that is secure (they all rely on honest miners).
A bad car can easily kill you.

IMO, a large part of that difference is from how involved the State government is when selling a car. Property can also have far more limitations like a local homeowners association or right of way easement. Still, taxes can also be vary complex but few people need a Lawyer to look at them.

Simply covering the 80% case can add a lot of economic efficiency.
yeah i don't think you throw random stuff in the trash, i'm sure they go into a bio hazard disposal.
pretty cool, thanks for sharing
Please, I completely understand, and trust me our views on this issue aren't very different.

My goal is to disseminate breaking news and alerts as quickly and widely as possible, to whomever needs it.
Can you send me the twitter handle of the feed? My family lives in Hadera and the sirene didn't go off for the last strike. Would be good to follow this account as well.
The New Haskell Homepage
I prefer planning over firefighting...
Sorry about the post drop... We were flagged as a voting ring as I made a post on Twitter linking to the discussion. We're back up and running, now!
The Hazards Of Probing The Internet's Dark Side (feature on Brian Krebs)
additionally it has never been harder to revolt, military technology is far more advanced these days.
Words may have multiple meanings. These can either be related, or totally unrelated (polysemy vs. homonymy). Does English take a stand about financial institutions and rivers by giving "bank" two meanings related to these concepts? Of course not, that would be absurd. Similarly, male pronouns fulfill an extra role in many languages, and this in no way implies any kind of value judgment or reflection of power structure. Please, there are so many more pressing and more serious issues to spend our energy on.
YouTube bullying indie labels? The whole story, coldly explained
Creation and conservation of computer files (C3F)
HN could easily be improved with a redesign, but an issue with many attempts is they take it too far trying to make a case.

I don't care about an article's upvotes so I'd put the comment count far left an in an orange shape whose intensity or size changed with the value. This would make it quicker to scan and find the big news stories. Then find a way to introduce a few stories from New into the main screen to get them started.
Something like https://followprice.co/
I wrote an article discussing many CA alternatives which also includes Convergence, here:

https://medium.com/bitcoin-security-functionality/b64cf5912a...

Convergence IMHO does not work. The UI is poor and fundamentally it's just the CA model with very short lived constantly renewed certificates. There's no particular reason to believe it'd work better than the existing PKI for ordinary users.
New approaches to anomaly detection
Show HN: Listone – Links pinboard for Twitter, Pocket, Delicious
But there is a difference between using the stdlib in practice, and having a good knowledge of how (say sorting) works and the different approaches even if you never need to implement one in practice. There remains value in the understanding
I imagine they introduced sentiment analysis/crowdsourced beauty opinions to filter out 'negative' photos, e.g. some highly-photographed traffic accident, or a frequently photographed homeless spot
I actually contacted @support 3 months ago about this problem, and they dismissed it as a non-issue.
It may introduce a program logic bug. Or arguably, it may have already been a program logic bug that remains a program logic bug. I would be tremendously surprised if this was close to 100% of the time, though, and even at 50% we're putting a good dent in our bugs (with, of course, plenty remaining, but that's no reason to forgo this).
The background video at the top is really confusing. It's like a puzzle - try and guess what the app does, scroll down for an answer.

This -

Visualizer transforms your SketchUp creations into
beautiful photos without requiring any special
settings, materials, or lighting.

needs to be front and center, because it actually explains what the product does. And this -

Visualizer’s always-ready camera is as simple to use
as the camera in your smartphone.

only adds to the confusion from the video. It looks like an interesting product, but it takes an effort to realize that. The page just looks and feels hectic and messy. I would strongly consider ditching the video and reworking the copy from scratch.
Not bad pay, but the real reason to work there is the chance to invest in their fund (at least, I hope they offer their employees that chance).
Nonsense. Tomte's comment points out some serious and real flaws with the design of the website that severely impact its usability. It's very constructive to point out such problems.

And pointing out such flaws in somebody's work is not a criticism of the person. Nor is it an "attack" on somebody to request that they have their house in order before trying to put the houses of others in order.
Because they determine the level of access that their customers have to their own devices based on strategic business reasons rather than for reasons that benefit their customers. They construct their devices specifically to thwart user-serviceability. Their phones don't have battery doors. They don't allow for any usage of their devices independently from their ecosystem. These decisions are aimed directly at restricting their customers, no one else. This is not done for the customer's own good, but Apple's own good.

>they're the only hardware vendor with plenty of branded retail outlets that dispense plenty of free tech support?

There's supposed to be nowhere else to get an iDevice serviced, so without them, who?
Presumably if they got hacked, they want to know how they got hacked. Perhaps there's a new zero day on the loose. It always makes sense to investigate these things.
Is your twitter feed informing about the bombs falling on Gaza? (no sarcasm)

A link to the twitter feed?
Thanks.
The most impressive part of this for me is that there is international law and oversight which was immediately brought into play. WHO representatives being invited to watch the destruction? That is both extremely responsible and acknowledges an authority outside of the US government. That mindset is far too rare in this country.
Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter – Issue 86
Point taken - graphs will be improved next time.