skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working on Firefox on Fedora, I don't think it would be a distribution related issue, are you using the latest version of Firefox? On Fedora at least it does not update until done by the system package manager (ie. no silent updates like Windows)
Why not always use a secure line? Latency?
That's very useful advice, thank you. I wonder how I might further facilitate the discussion part of it. List of "unanswered questions" (taking advantage of the fact people like to help others in an intellectual setting, generally speaking) and having a "paper of the day" come to mind, among some other things. On that idea of narrowing user segment, I was initially of thinking for it to be just targeted for the "hacker" community (computer science, math, psychology articles seem pretty popular here), but I figure if that does happen it'll just happen naturally without restrictions/limitations.
Missiles in video appeared to be Ukrainian - people identified street and city, calls has strong indication of being mixed up from several sources, OSCE dismissed all talks about obstructing access to the crash site.

So the reasonable thing to do now is to wait for ICAO verdict. Regardless of who actually hit the plane, Ukraine is still to blame for directing it to fly over the war zone.
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> Feels like Java felt 17/18 years ago, but only much more accelerated.

The article mentions that Swift wasn't tested by building a nontrivial application prior to release. It's worth mentioning that Java was tested this way: Sun built HotJava.
Because the person on the other end may not be calling from a secure location.
Tech guy.

Yeah, good point, I'll consider adding more entrepreneur-centric info on.

(Out of interest, which TV shows? Or was just figure of speech?)
Source at https://github.com/atleastimtrying/rubber_duck
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> red and green are some form of standard for secure/insecure notifications.

They are. If you look at photos that the military/government publishes of facilities, the secure stuff is always red, and the public stuff is always green (well, always is a strong word. It is occasionally black). (I was going to include such an image now but I can't seem to find a search term for it that will find what I want.)

I agree, it seems a little backwards, but I guess it's a piece of domain-specific knowledge you don't forget once you've acquired it.
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Yeah. I'm running a small accommodation/guesthouse business in Hong Kong and our demographic is 18-35 expats, mostly European. First contact method is 10% voice / 20% on SMS / 70% on Whatsapp.
Or put another way, the other person might be calling from a normal phone.
Corporations are defined by a state's laws. A corporate charter is granted by the government. The reason corporations look like feudal societies is that the first ones were formed by feudal lords to harness the power of the merchant class that operated outside the feudal system, essentially granting monopolies. I recommend the first couple of chapters of Life, Inc by Douglass Rushkoff for a good overview of corporate history
This happened with MSC Napoli in 2007 - there were stories of people scavenging motorbikes from containers!

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

And earlier this year too - cigarettes this time:

http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/fpfalmouth/11031368.Cor...

I'm lucky enough to live in Cornwall and I'd never heard of the lego thing, very interesting!
Did they? If so, that's a huge improvement over the iOS 7 beta release.

Although I suspect that it does nothing for those who add reviews through iTunes on the computer rather than through App Store on the device!
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> and steady hard work towards better Russia

What's your plan? How do you organize? How do you persuade people? How do you plan on gaining power peacefully?

> and progress so far proves that it's working.

What's your track record? How do you measure progress? This post-2006 Putin era can be just a temporary setback, but since he (and the Kremlin and the Duma) rolled back so many laws and principles, that it seems to be a seriously hard blow, very hard to stand up from for at least a generation to come, and when progress will happen, it'll be probably because of exogenous factors encouraged/forced it.
"How would you design a pinger suitable for shipping containers so that they could be located after being dropped overboard?"

You don't. Black box pingers have a range of approximately 5k meters. Which complicates matters if your depth is in that range.

And for what purpose you'd want that again? Claim the insurance.
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This looks like it would be a nice book to put on a coffee table. Alas, it appears it's not available as an actual physical book.
It is in poor taste to put words in someone's mouth and proceed to 'debunk' said words.
Version about rebels taking passenger plane for AN-26 seems plausible, considering that rebels themselves seemed to believe it in the first minutes after the event (I am judging by the reaction of their mouthpieces on Russian internet which I happened to see with my own eyes).

Anyway that's not the point, the point is that even if (people may still doubt) the rebels downed the plane, at worst they thought of it as of an Ukrainian military plane, ie they had no intention to kill noncombatants, it was definitely not an 'act of terrorism' as Ukrainian govt wants to paint it.
I think coursera actually started tackling the issue by offering "specializations", i.e. the "Data Science" specialization[0] is a set of 9 small classes which should in the end provide the student with the tools needed to be a "junior number hacker" or something like that.

It's not a full CS curriculum, but I'd think vertical narrow "mini curricula" may be good enough.

[0] https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1?utm...
That's a bit old news. 4.1 has been out since May.

https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/releases
Yes, for a secure, encrypted phone call, both ends must have equipment that uses the same encryption system, else it's impossible to decrypt what the other end has encrypted and vice versa.
pinger suitable for shipping containers

Locating things underwater is a tremendous pain because it's radio-opaque. So you have to spend a lot of energy on sonar.

Having a power source for such a thing is a tremendous pain: you want a lot of capacity and low self-discharge. Ideally the battery would be chemically or mechanically inactive until underwater. Compare for example the wet cells in the early radar anti-aircraft shells that were inert until fired out of a cannon. Doable, but it's not going to be cheap.

Also, it's going to be expensive to fish up the container, and the contents will generally be destroyed and worthless. Realistically this is only going to be worth it for (a) things too toxic to leave lying around or (b) gold.
comercial break -- was: "it´s all been done before" not a songtitle, from the Musicband 'Astromill' ? sry, too early in the morning ;)
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“I am not sure how I got the loan,” Mr. Durham, age 60, said.

I don't think either he or the lender had any idea how it was going to work.

Subprime booms are "push" credit: there is so much capital around chasing decreasing returns, that it's being put into riskier and riskier loans.
More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
I remember the Napoli too, went and had a look out of curiosity. Also not heard of this Lego incident! Of course shipwrecks, and even wreckers have an illustrious history down here.
I thought lego was little rectangular bricks?
So giving up and getting side-tracked into pious and in the end pointless sideshows.

There are already projects aiming at that ie the fon platform.

"shareable electronic freedom" seems to be they are looking after first world teenagers who don't want to pay for content.
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side note: is the title correct grammar? As someone who grew up with "Legos" plural and subsequently had the correct "Lego" plural beat into me by the Internet, now this curveball.

Don't Lego "keep" washing up? Why would Lego "keeps" washing up? Is it an amorphous blob like an oil spill? Seems to me more like fish.
Agree with others that Barto & Sutton is dated, but it's not obsolete. I was chatting a couple weeks ago with one of Sutton's former students, who has since Made Good in both academia and industry working on AI, and he said that the B&S book is all you need to be able to read the literature, so it's still a good place to start.

Apparently Sutton was going to do a second book, but has since retreated to a second edition. I'll take it though. :)

The Barto and Sutton book is available online too,
http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book.html
although the printed copy is a high-quality publication so maybe worth it.
Yes, it's the official color-coding. In the sidebar at the right side of the article about the phones, you can see a box showing bars in five colors that represent the different classification levels, with green being for everything that's unclassified. Red stands for Secret, but in this case, where it's just secure/non-secure, or actually: unclassified/classified, red is used for classified in general.
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Hi HN, I'm doing some research on how people are using spreadsheets on their phones. If you're one of them, I'd like to talk to you.

I'm curious about which is your preferred spreadsheet app, what you use it for, and if you're facing any problems.

My email's in my profile, but I'm happy to email you or talk on skype. Thanks!
I can certainly not say you're view is wrong and I didn't know of the group membership (thanks for that). Still, my 2ct

Motive: The motive "mistake" is a motive that works for both sides.

Identity: The membership in the groups "Russian" and "former FSB" is at most an indication. "All former FSB members that are Russian shoot down passenger air planes" holds as much as "All Germans kill jews" and "All jews kill Palestinians"

Murder weapon: The thing is, I assume Western media is as biased as Russian media. The very fact they rarely even consider Ukrainian govt participation (as they should also with the Maidan sniper shootings) makes me wonder what side I should trust less.

This view is partially based on the WMD allegations in Iraq and the use of chemical weapons by Assad, both of which can be considered "false flags". Re Assad, see http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/29/world/middleeast/new-study...
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Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them[1] by Donovan Hohn is a great book about a container of toys lost in the Pacific in 1992 and their subsequent travels around the world.

Oceanographers have since learned about currents from tracing them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Duck
>Aren't they crimes?

Absolutely and it's unlikely that those incidents resulted in sanctions against those countries.

It just highlights how hypercritical the US, Ukraine and the rest of the international community are.

All three of these states commit crimes - none of them should be excused.
This was a surprisingly relevant story for me - I'm just decompressing after a "Marine Hackathon" held over the weekend in Singapore [1]. It was an all-too-brief glimpse into the vast container transshipment business, and the operations of the enormous port here : The quantities of goods that flow through the port is amazing [2]. i.e. more than 1 20 foot container per second 24/7/365.

[1] : http://www.upsingapore.com/smart-port-hackathon/
[2] : http://www.seatrade-global.com/news/asia/singapore-port-hand...
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Tinder is using background location services (iOS 8 Screenshot)
iOS 8 beta has some new privacy features.
The first app which taps into the trap is Tinder.

If it's free you are the product!
Unbelievable they have not only your complete Facebook Graph + Girl/Men Likes but your location profile as well!
The "argument from fallacy" is sadly missing.
Is it just me, or is the radial control counter-intuitive? The control suggests that you change the value by moving in a circle. But, the actual motion required to change the value is more like a vertical slider.
They wouldn't blindly install domestically built units

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2648404/Germany-inve...
This is Tom Clancy-ish bullshit fantasy.

In the modern era it's not possible to be completely safe from attack, the world is too interconnected. Our safety is partly dependent on the absence of major power vs. major power popularly supported animosity. A modern version of total war would not look like the WWII version of total war, or even the Cold War hypothetical WW3 version of total war.

Instead it looks like economic war, trade war, sabotage, cyber war, espionage, and guerrilla warfare/terrorism.

Want to hear a funny joke?

"How many lasers does it take to stop a nuclear bomb being exploded in a shipping container in the port of a major population center?"

...

"Give up? Here's the ans.." zzzzrt FLASH

The punchline is you're dead.

Want to hear a funnier joke? How vulnerable is our critical power, fuel, manufacturing, transportation, water, and emergency medical care infrastructure to sabotage? Here the punchline is: we're fucked.

You can't use laser weapons to conquer the 21st century Earth, at best you can use them as part of a deterrent. The moment you become a hegemonic asshole then you end up being a major target for asymmetrical warfare. Look at what happened with Russia vs. a teeny, tiny group of folks in Chechnya/Dagestan. Not only were tens of thousands of Russian troops killed in brutal urban warfare but hundreds of Russian civilians were killed by terrorist attacks within Russia proper. Chechnya has a population one one thousandth of China. Imagine turning China into a new Chechnya by attempting to conquer it with violence. Anti-ballistic missile lasers don't help with car bombs, they don't help with assassinations, or kidnappings, or sabotage.

Moreover, there is too much mutual self-interest against a major military confrontation between any of the major economies of the world for anything of the sort to be likely. The major conflicts of the 21st century are, as now, likely to be of a much different nature.
> Is it an amorphous blob like an oil spill?

That's certainly how it works in the Lego Movie!

The title sounds fine to me. I would say "a Lego block" rather than "a Lego" too, similar to how I wouldn't say, "an oil". So calling it an "amorphous blob" sounds about right.
I had a similar thought. Though the author certainly doesn't reach Solomon's conclusion.
well yes, but they pieces aren't just bricks now. They have all sorts of special shape pieces, not to mention the Lego character accessories like flippers, swords, mugs etc etc.
few days late, but thought I'd share my anecdote. several years ago now, I was on a road trip through the largest island of Japan, Honshu, and was staying at a cheap roadside motel in the middle of nowhere. My girlfriend was having a shower, and I walked out of the room without the keycard as you needed it to operate the lights etc in the room. off I went to grab a few cold drinks from the vending machine, and then suddenly realised I had no idea what room number or even what floor our room was on. Despite what she says, my girlfriend is fluent in Japanese and I'd always relied on her to do all the hard work, and spent maybe 3 months picking up a bit of the language a few years previously.

Well, I had no choice but to go to the front desk and explain the situation using the full range of my vocabulary. As a few people have already mentioned, native Japanese speakers tend to treat you with a mix of awe and pity when you clearly can't speak the language but nonetheless attempt it. But exactly as the article described, I concentrated on saying what I could, not what was necessarily correct. I actually surprised myself, and my girlfriend when I eventually returned to the room and explained why the cold drinks were now tepid.
I find those "logical fallacies" lists more naive and inapplicable in any intelligent conversation compared to regular bad reasoning.

"Logical fallacies" are not formal logic, and when we're discussing we are forced to make tons of assumptions that are not "logically" guaranteed. Conversation and assessement of a complex reality has far more nuances than what can be handled with a "fallacy list".

The "ad hominen" for example is a very useful guide, because in real life, WHO says something tells us a lot about their motives, interests, possibility of hiding the truth etc, that merely WHAT they say.

Same way, "appeal to authority":

A is an authority on a particular topic
A says something about that topic
A is probably correct

It might be a "fallacy" as far as absolute logic goes, but with the time constraints we have to make decisions, and not being able to master all fields and be able to check the veracity of facts in physics, medicine etc ourselves, it's a very useful guide. When I'm bleeding to death and enter the ICU, I'll sure trust the doctor as "probably correct"...
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> I would like to see something like Oberon’s support for renaming identifiers on import in some Lisp dialect someday

I couldn't find any specifics on how it's done in the linked PDF (modules are described at the end, 11 section), but I think both Clojure and Racket do this already. The `require` mini langauge in Racket is very rich and allows for prefixing, renaming, selective import of identifiers and so on: http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/require.html#%28form._...
The marketing behind this phrase has been quite successful. Even 45 yrs later, a paraphrase of Armstrong's quote is splashed in about a million locations on the most lucrative advertising real estate all across China: “向前一小步，文明一大步。”
But they still would mostly have the "universal snapping mount"?[1] I also had the feeling this wasn't legos, since that mount doens't appear.

(Ok, maybe not swords which go in minifigures hands.)
While some of these things may be less admirable than others (especially to my more science-oriented side), I find it helpful to read the ideas first, process them, then determine if the person's credentials and experience are relevant (in either direction). Being a life coach (even a holistic one), likely has put the author in the position to have seen this happen several times, and her advice here makes a lot of sense as a result.

She's not discussing how to channel your energies or talk to animals in this post, so I'd encourage you to look past the credentials and debate the ideas.
It was an educational graphic novel produced the by CO-OP group in the UK:

http://www.co-operative.coop/our-ethics/our-plan/co-operativ...

You can read the whole thing online in a (slightly) animated Flash version.
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Unfortunately not.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Equationo...

If you look at the bottom right part of the image, you will see that time difference cannot be uniquely determined from declination. Declination will narrow down the time difference to two times of year, which have very different time differences, but you will need some other information to determine which of the two times of year it actually is.

For example, when the declination is neutral, at the equinox, it may be the spring or autumn equinox. Those two times of the year have different time differences - one is plus seven minutes while the other is minus seven minutes.
I liked that what is often invoked as "Appeal to Authority" is here called "Appeal to Irrelevant Authority".

I probably liked that because appeal to authority is the one I get called out on most often, and now I can post a link in reply, from a Real Logician.

Which would be begging the question, of course, but at least I'd be mixing it up a bit.
Actually no -- it's the neural network + biases, start values that's good at playing tic tac toe. The neural network code itself is not "hard coded" for any specific task.

You could use the same neural network with different inputs to do other stuff, like recognize characters, and all kind of pattern matching / classification.
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Yes, this is Lego, actual genuine Lego. They come in a wide array of shapes.

Not entirely sure why you think this matters?
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I did my GCSE physics project on Reynolds' number, many moons ago. The actual experiment itself was simple, but the hard bit was creating several-meter long hollow glass syringes in order to inject die into the flow tube well into its flow, in order to avoid turbulence where the header emptied into it... ended up dangling borax glass tubes off the roof with a 1kg weight lashed onto the end, and then blasting the centre with a blowtorch - serious fun.

Anyway, long story short, it's a really interesting experiment to run, Reynolds number (for water, at least) can be deduced by a teenager with about £100 of equipment, and the boundary between laminar and turbulent flow is a mysterious beast indeed.

One interesting artefact was inducing turbulent flow in speeds "too slow" for turbulence, by increasing flow to the point where turbulence triggered, then decreasing flow to the laminar realm again, yet retaining the turbulence indefinitely. Interestingly, this low-speed turbulent domain required a smaller throttle on the header tank to maintain the same flow rate - i.e. the turbulence decreases resistance to flow in the tube. Something that pipeline engineers could/should/maybe do employ.

Had to pay for a new floor at the end of it all, as there's no tidy way of running this one.
I've used Google Spreadsheets for opening excel files in emergency situations.

This would only work well if we had real keyboards back into the phones...

Ideally like in Terminator :) http://img.izismile.com/img/img6/20130107/640/atm_hacking_at...
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Form my own journey I would say that a good place to start for graphical models might be "Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning" by Barber. It's free (http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=...). I haven't read through it, but I've heard good things. However, it doesn't cover some basic things like SVM, RVM, Neural Networks...

For those I'd suggest "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" by Bishop. I've read throughout this and it's really well organized and thought out. For more mathematically advanced ML stuff I'd suggest "Foundations of Machine Learning" by Mohri. For a good reference for anything else I'd suggest "Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective" by Murphy. For more depth on graphical models look at "Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques" by Koller.

On the NLP front there's the standard texts "Speech and Language Processing" by Jurafsky and "Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing" by Manning.

I also like "An Introduction to Statistical Learning" by James, Witten, Hastie and Tibshirani.
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Good suggestions for staying in the game.
Everything pictured on that page can be connected to something else in one way or another. The lifejackets you put on by taking the dude's head off then on again. The "dragons" are missing the top part of their heads.
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