skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh, essentially everyone? I have a small VoIP company and we were handling around a billion calls a week. You have a really terrible selection bias if you think people aren't using audio calls. In fact, audio calls are on the RISE because of easy and cheap international calling. We have clients that have customers that literally leave their phones open to their families 8 hours a day. Just on and walking around the house.
We use a reverse geocoding service. The goal is to provide an address that is close to you (within 50 or so metres) which is better than the alternative of what responders currently get when you call and do not know your location.

Within the app itself you can move the pin (a la Uber/Lyft style to update the address) you want to send.

Here is a bit on the current status of Wireless Enhanced 911

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E911#Wireless_enhanced_911
Imagining Heritage: Selfies and Visual Placemaking at Historic Sites
google says 121.4 metric tons = 267,641.186 pounds or 4,282,258.98 ounces
My hometown of Spokane, WA just opened the first legal marijuana store all of two days ago. They sold out right away, so... the demand is definitely there.

What will be really interesting to see is how the state can compete with the existing growers/dealers RE: price. Right now to buy marijuana legally in Spokane it's about $700/oz. Your friendly neighborhood dealer will have it for $200. As it is now, there's not a lot of incentive for the old growers/dealers to go legal, because it'll cut into their profits (and their customers won't want to pay more anyway).
Salesforce must have been getting scared
I think you've misunderstood. Out of state visitors aren't necessarily trafficking. They are coming to indulge. The retail prices are prohibitively hard to turn a profit from resale, even in the most lucrative non-legal out of state markets.

I met an oil guy from Texas who had come into the state on business and had purchased some pot for himself. Due to the nature of his business he couldn't actually smoke any.. he just wanted to buy some for the novelty, to give away to others.
Hey the app is able to either stream or download songs.
Do you think he should have recommended a book that was otherwise hard to get? I think people here, after reading this article, would have thought it ridiculous that the book wasn't available on Amazon.

My guess is that it is legitimately was his favorite book (he's known for his voracious reading and recommendations) and he wanted it to be read by a lot of people. So he pitched it to the publisher and the WSJ to get it done. I don't see what's so bad about that. I hardly think he's motivated by money or fame right now.
I don't care. SSL is probably good enough for a few pages that I want protected and I don't care about the rest. I haven't thought about it. If people express a strong preference either way I'll try to remember.
Ask HN: Anyone know what happened to Origami.com
They were YC, they were going to develop the family photo album or something... I signed up for pre-release announcements... now they are no longer in existence?

Anyone have the story?
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generally a linear function takes the form of:

v(x1,x2) = C1 * x1 + C2 * x2 + C3.

C's being "coefficients".

In your case, v(x1,x2) = 0x1 + x2 + 0

i.e. C1 = 0; C2 = 1; C3 = 0

suffices, where a result v > 0.5 indicates A and v <= 0.5 indicates B.
I think software devs need to get used to the fact that if the app they are designing is primarily used to facilitate or encourage piracy, then these type of takedowns are going to happen.
there's a lot of energy/activity with the strongloop project - I am looking at that as well... and now Cognito will demand my attention, too :)
Congratulations to Spenser and Curtis!
It's against feminist interests to do so.
To make it easier to visualize, it's a little over the carrying capacity of a Boeing 747-200F aircraft
The areas around Colorado are almost entirely unpopulated, most people going to 'heavily visited mountain communities' are either local to Colorado or travelling in from a long distance.
Great question, and one i am not totally sure of myself. I guess the question is: if an event doesn't have any handlers listening for it, does it get queued and processed regardless? This is something I've often wondered about myself but never properly tested/been sure about.

My _guess_ would be yes, this would work. Regardless of how fast the file loaded. One way to test it would be to stick a large while loop between readastext and addeventlistener to block the stack for a few seconds and guarantee that the file is read before the handler is bound.

I'll try and take a look when I am back at a computer if nobody else responds either way :)
This is pretty amazing. I spent grades 5-12 worried about bleeding through to my pants in school. There's already so much going on at that age, dealing with 'learning to be a woman' was just more anxiety.

Even as an adult who can typically tell when my cycle is about to start I still end up with stained undergarments and sometimes pants. The worst is at night when things move around and you wake with stained sheets and ruined pajamas.

Considering I have cheap cotton underwear that is 2-4 years old, if these prevent leaking as they claim they could potentially save me time, anxiety, embarrassment and money.
My guess is that a majority of visitors consume what they buy within Colorado. There are pot-tourism operations springing up, such as ski shuttles from Denver Airport that provide marijuana for the ride to the resort.
If it prevents leaks like they claim it would be a huge improvement.
Reefer Madness was not a documentary. Going crazy? Robbing and killing? Arson?

You've clearly never smoked pot.

EDIT: As pointed out by the replies, I clearly didn't do my research before responding ;) Apologies.
For one thing, Binney also points to NSA intelligence failures in the same article, and if NSA is missing major activities of other countries (the Russian intervention in Ukraine) and nonstate terrorist groups (the "Islamic State" capture of much territory in Iraq), then surely NSA doesn't have the time and resources to analyze all of the data it gathers, and maybe it is not gathering as much data as some people claim.

I do not mean this as an ad hominem, but just by this statement, the rest of your arguments comes off as absurdly naive. Have you considered that perhaps the NSA and all the other "alphabet" organizations don't actually care much about accomplishing their stated goal, but are instead working tirelessly to amass power and influence through the machinations of the state? The linear way in which you assess personal and organizational motivations is simplistic to the point of uselessness.

Very few people or organizations with power are doing what they say. Instead, you must ascertain their intentions by what they do. This is politics 101. There are countless examples of this throughout history, but now is neither the time nor place to enumerate them all.

The real question to ask is, how in the name of Alan Turing's ghost did the NSA, CIA, FBI and the rest of the spooks with all their capabilities not find Osama, or Saddam's WMDs, or the Russian invasion, or...? Hint: it's not incompetence.

TL;DR: First order analysis of intention based upon a person or organization's stated intent are rarely correct. Instead, empirical modelling of behavior over time is required to ascertain true intent.
Indeed, if I got FU money there's a bunch of books I'd release as cheap sets, with corrections and updates, in multiple languages. (Around stats and science, mostly.)
Especially when hosted by a company residing in a G8 nation.
Awesome. Mixpanel's pricing is outrageous, especially their People analytics.
It probably can't be bought. Most insurance relies on there being some kind of probabilities associated with different outcomes, and that the insurer can sell enough policies such that they capture the law of large numbers and the idea of an expected outcome is valid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value

If Flytenow wants to cover this, they're going to be self-insuring and the policy is only good as far as the company has cash or credit to pay legal bills.
Yes, there is! The fallacious belief in a company "culture" that is signified by what candidates wear isn't benign, but it isn't the worst implication of "culture fit". Intolerance of normal work/life balance, of different mentalities about software development, of comfort levels with intoxication, of different management styles, or just of meaningful diversity --- those "culture fit" pathologies are much worse. And if the company you're thinking about working for filters based on candidates wearing suits, it's more likely than not that some of the more malignant pathologies are also there.
Mmm... no, I don't actually think GCHQ trust the Plods anywhere near that much (i.e. they are not cleared for relevant SCI; usually not even TS, just C or S!). If they do (and they might, these are just my impressions) I'd be quite surprised.

The NSA definitely work closely, frequently and directly with the FBI, DEA, CIA, and many other US Government agencies, especially since 9/11 and all that "fusion center" business. We know that. They're quite proud about it.

But the old boys from Cheltenham are very conservative indeed, and though they work frequently with The Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), I think they rely on the intelligence agencies to do liaison with any law enforcement (notably MI5 with certain branches of the Metropolitan Police) and that only happens in pretty rare cases, nearly all of which are espionage-related or terrorism cases that I'm aware of (drugs are considered a Police problem, not an MI5 problem - we have no DEA analogue).

It's nowhere near as connected as you have over there, and that's for cultural/service-rivalry reasons as well as operational (budgetary? They're not as flush with cash as NSA are) and trust ones.

The Police and their powers under RIPA are more often on their own with that kind of thing. That's why the Government is pushing the whole emergency data retention thing - those powers are more frequently used by law enforcement (but RIPA doesn't really affect GCHQ at all).

I don't think the new "National Crime Agency" has actually changed that setup much, if at all; GCHQ seem to hold them in low regard. Old boys versus new pups, and all that.
The changing the world line and the bit about a 'week of shame' sounded like complete BS.

But leaks don't just affect panties, I've ruined many sets of sheets, expensive pairs of jeans and even a very nice dress. As a very frugal woman I would buy a pair.
Would you say the same thing about the bittorrent protocol?
Bitcoin?
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Thanks -- screwed up the google conversion when I did it. That sounds more like it.

That's an enormous amount -- basically could be visualized as the warehouse in Indiana Jones "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
> I wasn't aware of that, that's good to hear. I'm under the impression, though, that since SPDY encrypts everything, that you can't get caching at intermediate nodes unless you explicitly MITM yourself, which would reduce the utility of that feature.

Last I heard, it was quite a matter of debate in the IETF workgroup on HTTP2 the extent to which SPDY's "TLS is mandatory" approach would be adopted for HTTP/2.0 (IIRC, Microsoft at one point staked out a "we will enable HTTP/2.0 without TLS in our browser so the standard better allow it" position, and numerous parties making strong arguments that there were definite use cases -- especially internal networks -- where users would want the other advantages of HTTP/2.0 and where TLS would be a burden rather than a benefit.)

And if you are worried about caching internal to your own organization, you could, in the worst case, use a (TLS-required) HTTP/2.0 user facing server with HTTP/1.1 (non-TLS) internal servers, eliminating the need to MITM your own TLS traffic. Obviously, that doesn't help external cacheability, but you probably aren't going to usually want to send external content insecurely from an app.
Looks like it still doesn't fix the LAN scenario, where one has to wait for a server upload before the file is synced through the LAN.

With this new version, it seems like the LAN sync will happen in parallel, but the file is still confirmed only after a full upload to the remote server and thus local peers don't see it appearing immediately in the shared folder.
I don't think there is any doubt about the fact that NSA wants to store it all. Just look at the short interview/documentary with Binney that was linked from the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=590cy1biewc
From the README:

Development is done in the upstream OpenBSD codebase. A github clone
of the official repositories is kept at:
https://github.com/libressl-portable
We update this repository from the OpenBSD respositories
semi-frequently, so changes may not show up in GitHub immediately.
The GitHub repository should be used for informational purposes
only.
Ultima 4+5+6 is on gog.com for $6:

http://www.gog.com/game/ultima_456

Windows and OSX, how about that?

edit: Just 4 by itself is free!

http://www.gog.com/game/ultima_4
nice jeans + button-down shirt + sweater + decent shoes
OpenPDS = US gov-defined policy (NSTIC) for access to personal data

Sandstorm = packaging & separation of web apps from policy-managed data

Nymote & Mirage = UK systems research (OS, storage) on strong enforcement of claims similar but not limited to those being made in the above two projects
In weight, not volume though, right?
If you have a range of unicode code points that you want to select from, you can generate a random number in that range and then turn it into a one-character string like so:

let codepoint: UInt32 = ...random choice code here...
let scalar = UnicodeScalar(codepoint)
let string = String(scalar)
Or 2 times the weight of an average blue whale.
The Giant Earwig of St. Helena – The Dodo of the Dermaptera
There is no withdrawal with Marijuana (unless you smoke it with tobacco). It's not physically addicting. Now people say "well but it's mentally addicting". Well so is reading a good book.
I don't want to make Marijuana appear completely safe (it's definitely not), but addiction is not one of the resulting problems.
It's hard to believe that heavy (daily) users would be purchasing that much marijuana since it's legal for an adult to own up to six plants at a time (or twelve per household). It seems unlikely to count all of their usage as part of the marijuana market.
G7
I appreciate your point about coin being stronger in some decks than others - that doesn't change the fact that across _all_ of the games of hearthstone being played, if you go first you're more likely to win than if you go second.
Forgetting the legality of the matter for a moment: Inexperienced pilots plus small planes plus the pressure of an implicit promise to fly at a certain time is a bad mix.

CPLs get extra training and experience that GAs don't that helps them say "I know you're paying lots of money and are very important and all that but we're not flying through that".

My gut instinct on services like this is that somebody is going to die. The FAA is making an ass of themselves in the tech community with the drone nonsense right now, but these rules are written on tombstones.
It's quite inappropriate to speculate on a person's private health matters in a public forum. It's little different than being in the same room as someone, then pointing at them and asking "What's wrong with that person's funny skin? Is anyone a doctor here? Let's have a discussion about it!"
You are replying to http://www.gwern.net/ :-D My money is on him having smoked pot.
Automated Pre-Provisioned Development Environments
Okay, I'll take your word for it. Let me put on a different hat and try a different tack.

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This is the best time in your life to go to college. It will be harder to go back, later. But you're wasting your limited college time on iOS development, which has nothing to do with college and vice versa.

You will have the rest of your life to build iOS applications, if that's what you want. (In ten years, let alone twenty or thirty, it probably won't be.) But you'll only have a few years of access to a university: It costs a fortune to go, and it's hard to find the time. Make the university count, or take my original advice and get out until you're ready to take it seriously.

You need a real major: That is, one which is real to you. Based on your question, I'm not convinced that CS is it. I count three mentions of iOS in your question, and zero mentions of such things as compiler theory, concurrent operating systems, cryptography, programmable logic, deep-UV photolithography, or computer vision algorithms. If you can't get inspired by anything from that list, or if your so-called CS department doesn't offer such subjects, study something else.

(Just because you like programming doesn't mean you're supposed to like CS. CS is to programming as physiology is to playing football, and you can love weight training, passing, and tackling without necessarily loving vesicular transport and the troponin-tropomyosin complex.)

I'm a physicist so I tend to recommend sciences - physics, chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, meteorology - or mathematics, or engineering. But I know wonderful programmers who studied classical music, medieval Icelandic, and Renaissance essays. (And art, architecture, and design, of course, but that goes without saying.) Steve Jobs, legendarily, only liked one college course: Calligraphy. It doesn't matter what you study. Find something more challenging, more interesting, or more awesome.

Labs. You'll never see them again once you graduate. Take every lab course you can stomach.

It saddens me to hear complaints about electives. Elective courses are beautiful. The best of them are professionally-guided tours of other fields, custom-designed to showcase the good parts. Ask around, find out who the best teachers are, and take whatever they offer.
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>so they basically had ONE CHANCE to get it right; no room for trial-and-error.

That isn't necessarily so, but it is definitely prudent to optimize the use of their limited supplies. To be fair, I agree it's better that they had more people looking at the problem, and I agree that it was the right thing way to do it; but it isn't as though astronauts are chimps, or even that mere mortals are always unable to improvise non-standard solutions.
GOG periodically has sales for the entire Ultima milieu in one big bunch.
I've been playing around with neural nets and find that swarm optimization is particularly effective; you can train high-dimensional neural net spaces with less testing per iteration. I think this works because there's a lot of arbitrary symmetrical choices embedded in the neural net. For example, hidden layer neurons are essentially arbitrarily chosen.

Also, I can't use backpropagation for what I'm trying to do.

Thanks for the suggestions. I had heard of Yann LeCun, I'm trying to do image recognition in an "different" way than CNNs, I'm going to read up on the other people in the list.
You can proxy to different ports. The point I was making is that HTTP and HTTPS do not (and cannot) run on the same port, due to the differences in protocol (HTTPS wants to SSL Handshake, HTTP doesn't know what that is). When talking about different ports on the same server, it is not guaranteed (and often not expected) that the same website/application will be running on it.
I'll add, most of my understanding was done this way: somewhat experimentally. Come up with a hypothesis of how things might work, figure out a way to prove it, and see if I was right.
Ok, who's going to make PirateHub?
Seeing as it doesn't reproduce the functionality of the Hearthstone client or server in its entirety, I think it falls in the same category as fansites such as Hearthpwn. Blizzard could probably pursue a successful takedown, but I can't see a good reason to put resources there when there are things like WoW private servers that pose a legitimate business threat.
I came really close to finishing U5 without any outside help whatsoever, but I didn't even realize there was a harp puzzle. :/
Check gwern's site :)

http://www.gwern.net/

He has experimented with lots of drugs, up to and including LSD.

By the way, a close relative does smoke pot (it's legal in my country, Uruguay) and we believe it has brought to the front some (probably preexisting) mental problems which could be described as "going crazy".

I do support legalization, but it's not entirely innocuous (it is my belief it's milder than alcohol, but then again, alcohol does bring some extreme reactions and kills a lot of people)
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One of my favorite books for certain.
I think it is worth mentioning that violent crime and property crime are down more than 10% post-legalization, that the state forecasts $30M in tax revenue, and $2M has already been created for local schools.

http://rt.com/usa/163644-colorado-marijuana-crime-drop/
> I'm going through all the Ultimas now.

Same here! I've loved the series since I was younger.

GOG.com is the best place to get them online, and even though I own physical copies I've purchased most of them from there.

One caveat: for the earlier Ultimas, I highly recommend going through the pain of installing fan-made patches that add the Apple II music to many of the DOS versions, upgrade the graphics to VGA, fix bugs, and so on:

http://ultimacodex.com/2012/04/patches-updates-for-the-gog-c...

With the MIDI patches, I'm able to play music for the early Ultimas through my Roland MT-32. :-)

You should also take a look at the xu4 project (open source game engine using the original resources: http://xu4.sourceforge.net) and LairWare's Mac-only version of Ultima III (http://www.lairware.com/ultima3/).

Responding to the article in particular, as much as Ultima VIII is reviled for its gameplay, I do enjoy the idea of turning the idea of virtue on its head: how do you continue as the Avatar (meaning, the literal embodiment of virtue) in a world where you have to do bad things for good reasons?
It's the same for popcorntime.io on GitHub: https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-app
Where are you located? And how many languages do you speak?

Here's a very specific plan:

Move to Barcelona. Once established there, try to find a job with either Computacenter, or Sellbytel Spain. They are usually always looking for people with good computer skills and that speak at least 3 languages (or 2 if you don't speak Spanish).

They have a very nice office atmosphere, and a lot of cool people from other countries work for them.
You'll make plenty of acquaintances rather fast, and the lowest level jobs (I take it money is not a concern for you, right?) have a lot of free time (Unless you are unlucky and get a job in one of the help desk with the most volume of calls) when in the office, that would allow you to do some work on the side if needed.

I worked for them 2003 - 2006, and boy was that fun (If you do follow this plan, try not to get promoted: not worth the money ;) )

Have fun!
Good primer on an important electronic sub-topic.

Anyone doing audio or other sensor-handling circuitry should be well enough versed in this so that their designs come out just as well or better intuitively in at least this one respect than they do when the equations are carefully figured in advance.
Not if there was a p2p version of the github cloud that stored files in such a way that makes a takedown attempt highly impractical. Potentially applicable: https://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/ && https://freenetproject.org/

What other tools can you think of that can replace github and make censorship impossible?
Growing your own marijuana will be similar to making your own beer or wine. It takes a lot of work and time and therefore most people won't do it. But yeah, of course some will.