skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well-stated. I think there are multiple related effects like this one that conspire to make spurious correlations extremely tenacious in practice.
I like the idea. Don't know if I would use it but I like it.

That auto carousel is annoying like hell.
Of course I meant that.

What I really meant though was that as a group of people there was enough respect, tolerance, humour and self discipline in the group that we could put up with any circumstances that we were asked to.

If you took an office full of the average hackers on here and put them in a mildly uncomfortable situation, they'd be bitching and stabbing each other in the back in days.
kind of unusual that this blog post is by the president of MaxCDN

It makes a lot of sense for the president of MaxCDN to make a blog post like this. Bob the developer decides to learn about how CDN's work and happens upon this blog post. Cool, Bob just built his own mini CDN network for fun. Now Bob understands that his CDN, though a fun weekend project, is definitely not production ready. What does Bob do when he needs a CDN he can put into production? He goes to the guys that established themselves as authorities on the topic: MaxCDN.

Content Marketing 101: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/02/09/why-i-dont-host-my-own-b...
Sign me up. I can imagine this being a massive relief for dual-income families. It'd basically bankrupt the day care business, too.
Good point. I didn't notice this distinction (I'm not current an iOS user). Although they claim you're communicating with humans, so they could potentially just be using iMessage at their current scale. Or the screenshots could be from a simple fully manual demo.
Unless they've recently and very quietly changed their policy, the Express versions also don't support plugins.
Not Stingray, but cell (and license plate) analysis was mentioned in a recent article in the NY Daily News regarding the white flags on the Brooklyn Bridge.

> Investigators could find names through cell phones if those involved made calls while near the Brooklyn Bridge in the wee hours Tuesday. Cops are analyzing data from the two nearest cell phone towers, the sources said.

> Security cameras and license plate readers also tracked cars that were on the bridge at the time of the heist-and-hoist, a third police source said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/dna-flag-brooklyn-bridge...
like who from the books?
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You make it sound like it would be better not to open source code at all.
I'm more than a little bit concerned that the article doesn't point out the serious risk of running a single DNS server for the records.

I get that they're trying to keep things simple for their demo, but unsuspecting folks following this guide are in for quite a shock when their GeoDNS is taken out by a single physical server fault.
They're not. "Jarvis is a tech enabled person. You will be assigned two US based, college educated personal assistants..."
Well, Jeeves. The gentleman's personal gentleman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeeves
One minute of sit-ups or push ups will be very effective. My mother gets covered with aches and pains anytime she drags a rolling suitcase through the airport because it is the only time she articulates her body. Even a few push-ups, daily, would give her a massive improvement.
Cool article for understanding the basics of a CDN. What sort of page load improvement can one get by adding geographically distributed servers?
it's not hard to set up a proxy and just sniff the traffic to reconstruct the protocol
My family owns a coconut plantation in Fiji and we've been in the copra business for over a century.

I've never seen pink coconut water.
No. They need probably need to get a "Special Temporary License" like the Burning Man cellular folks do, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBTS#Burning_Man

or be operating in a time of national emergency in an emergency response function.
Unreadable; behind a paywall. Flagged.
The intention of the statute in Aereo is to cover things that act like cable companies. Similarly, the intention of the 4th amendment is to protect information that people try to keep private. Where I think I disagree with many people on HN is whether it is reasonable to believe that information on the internet as it is structured today is private. It simply wasn't designed that way. Our protocols and services leak private data to whoever exercises a little ingenuity in listening to it. Many leak private data by design (data mining for advertising, etc).

In other words, I don't think the folks designing internet technology should get a free ride for 4th amendment purposes, that any internet technology should be considered private regardless of the technical reality. I think you have to concede that data sent in plain text, protocols that don't even try to avoid MITM attacks, services that mine user data, etc, shouldn't receive the same protection as services where real effort is taken to keep data private. I think this is educated by the technology and consistent with the intention of the 4th amendment that the expectation of privacy be objectively reasonable.
Hey, I was working on a project similar to that a while ago that interfaced with google voice! However Google voices api was deprecated and my project never really got any further. Here's a link to the git hub repo https://github.com/janbro/J.A.R.V.I.S

Edit: Scratch that, my project was nothing like their's, my JARVIS was meant to be a fully autonomous sms personal assistant. Apparently this is a service which assigns you two human people you text for things who are "aided" by artificial intelligence and futuristic tech, whatever that implies. Their FAQ page says a bit more about the service, although not enough for me to want to subscribe to it
Couldn't you just use cloudflare's free tier?
Few comments have made me want to downvote as much as this one. I still have another hundred or so points to go until I am allowed so I'll have to settle for explaining to you how much I disagree.

Your argument is a logical fallacy that I see a lot, but doesn't have a fancy Latin name. It is a combination of appeal to authority and circular reasoning so I'll give it a name right now: the Authority Circle. It has the form of:

"I believe X person/company/country is doing something dumb/bad/foolish."

"If it wasn't a good idea, they wouldn't be doing it."

This assumes that person X is smarter than you, therefore the fact that they are choosing to take an action is evidence that it is good. This is a lazy and unconstructive argument and you should be ashamed of yourself. (Unless you are a Wall Street shill doing PR spin. In that case, well done.)

So logically your argument is not well formed; what about factually? The behavior we see in investors is incredibly focused on short term gains and why not? There is no benefit to long term success to a public investor. Once the company (a small percentage of) their money is invested in flames out, they can simply invest in another company and drain them dry until it is time to bleed another one. (Hopefully unloading their stock to chumps along the way at the right time, before anyone realizes they are being sold a sick cow.) We know from history that unless government regulates the stock market, it is a short matter of time until the house of cards collapses. Today, the most long-lived publicly-held corporations are the ones where the CEO has the power to say "no" to intense investor demand for short-term gain. (We are waiting to see how long Apple can survive this now that Jobs is gone.) Everything we know tells us "yes, investors are indeed that stupid."

You have offered no new or useful facts or reasoning to this discussion. I give your comment a 0/10 for your unhelpful waste of everyone's time.
It's obfuscated and very complicated.

http://imfreedom.org/wiki/IMessage
I remember fondly the day that I made a social network for a secret society. Can't say who... ;-)
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"This wasn't really scheduled for prime time, but started taking off"

:) You submitted the link to HN and that comment makes it seem like the post accidentally took off!
If you have realtively low usage, Amazon CloudFront is already pretty cheap.
It is kind of fun to imagine fleets of riderless bikes shuttling themselves around cities to meet demand. HubWay, CitiBike, and similar services would love that; I don't have any citation, but I would guess that manual shuttling and redistribution of bikes is a significant portion of their operating cost.
It must be kind of hard, because nobody has reverse engineered it enough to build a reimplementation of the client.
tl;dr:

Study attempts to determine whether high intensity training (HIT) consisting of 10 6-second sprints w/ a one minute recovery between sprints performed twice weekly improves metabolic health and decreases type 2 diabetes risk in untrained middle aged (35-58 y/o) people. It appears yes.

also, a bmi of 29 (yes, yes, all you bodybuilders and powerlifters and strongman I know all about it) is tubby but not quite obese. It's kind of shocking how little effort this is. [1] is a good visual illustration of what a 29bmi looks like

[1] http://www.fourhourfit.com/results-and-tracking/pat-p90x-res...
Good point - it seemed obvious. We'll cover different options for that in a future blog post.
I think iMessage is a smart choice. it lets their customers communicate via a Mac, iPod, or iPad in addition to an iPhone. Text messages also cost me money, so not having to worry about that is another selling point.

It also makes scaling their side of the system easier. Instead of having some sort of CRM/SMS gateway system, they can just hook however many Macs they want to to their account, and all messages sent to it will get copied to all of them. This makes it easy to hand off a communication session between agents in a way that's transparent to the users of the service.

Of course, the downside is that it's an Apple-only protocol, so they will be prematurely excluding users of non-Apple devices, but maybe that's a tradeoff that the company's willing to make at this time.
> I'm not a racist, but when a country has almost no IP protections and artificially limits access to international competitors via a firewall, it sets up an environment where copying other peoples' work is a very low-risk and profitable proposition.
This is my 4-year, off-and-on passion project. All suggestions and feedback are appreciated. I'd especially welcome product/feature-based ideas about how to overcome the enormous cold-start hurdle.

Note: Re-posted with permission from Dan. Last week's post got dinged by a semi-false-positive algorithmic penalty after only a few minutes.
The service sort of implies otherwise. If it's a phone number they'll get texts and iMessages. If they're using the feature that forwards iMessages to an AppleID the SIM must be in an iPhone, and I hardly think they'd reply to every SMS from a single iPhone.
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I'm not sure if the Stingray is a passive eavesdropper or a MITM, but it can be configured to record phone call content. http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/fishha...
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Level 21 is impossible indeed :)
I don't understand all the downvotes since the your comment is spot on. The US market is currently very toxic for security/privacy-related enterprises.
More relevantly, Google pulled out of China in 2010 after refusing to comply with censorship requirements. They had a 31% share at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China
Black touch screen digitizer LCD replacement for iPhone 4S
I love coconut water!
That's very cool. Brian Cox did a variation on his programme with an added hot water bottle on top : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWxfliNAI3U
Can someone tell us what kind of "artificial intelligence and futuristic tech" these guys have?
it can be quite a lot. you can test using a CDN or a setup like this and the tools over at www.webpagetest.org (from Patrick Meehan - who is awesome) from different locations.
Distribution always take time. Even if LPP [1], achieves what they are attempting which would be a complete game changer, it would take time to distribute the fusion power plants. Or one of the other projects succeeds, same thing. In addition, the first application of fusion will be for buildings. Most base power comes from coal and natural gas not oil. So I think the Middle East will be okay for awhile. The sort of power plant LPP is developing could theoretically be used for large vehicles (trains, large planes, large ships), but you still need oil for cars, trucks, and plastic. Even then, it will take many years for the vehicle fleet to switch over to fusion or any other non-oil power source.

I am not worried.

1. http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/
Young college grads' wage growth is falling farther and farther behind
Or you know - Russia could stop meddling in Ukrainian affairs, stop shipping arms across the border, etc.

FYI: it isn't right when we do it either.
It's easy to be dismissive, but the West has nothing like Alibaba: think Ebay for businesses selling to businesses. Which is why its IPO seems likely to top $20 billion.
thanks! I'll see how you fixed the problem and try to add it to the boilerplate
itchy trigger finger :-) didn't expect people to respond so well on a Sunday.
I'm glad they only resort to these kinds of tactics when there is a clear threat to public safety. /s
CloudFlare's hit rate is predictably terrible for large binary files. We actually use DigitalOcean + Varnish + S3 for serving downloads from mods.io, since the files are relatively big and the site has such a low margin. Traditional CDNs (we were using Fastly) are not scalable cost-wise for that particular site.
The easier answer is that the screenshots are faked and not actually sent through the service; they probably just renamed a real contact who happened to have an iPhone 'Jarvis' for the purpose of making screenshots.

All the screenshots have timestamps a few minutes apart showing a plugged-in iPhone with an increasing charge over the course of a few minutes.
We all know it was Tim Hortons.
Yeah, I was surprised by the fact that such a short duration of exercise (11 minutes of exercise twice / week) could have such a large impact on health. I wish there were more details on how much exercise each group had before the study -- my question is whether HIT on its own is good enough, or does it require normal exercise as well?
It's called marketing and as evidenced by MongoDB, people will believe anything you tell them. Web scale my ass Mongo.
Collecting your trash can and inspecting the contents isn't a 4th amendment violation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_v._Greenwood
participants where untrained
Selling Suarez had very little to do with making a profit. If Suarez had wanted to stay at LFC, he would still be there.
A new project stashes carbon dioxide in the form of minerals
Small typo on step 2 of the signup:

"We collect your card now though, in case you want us to purchase things durring the trial." (should be "during" instead of "durring")
People. From the bottom of the page:

>Light Speed, Meet Human Intelligence // College-Educated & US-Based

It's college-educated people based in US answering SMS questions around the clock. No fancy-fancy, or even fancy of any sort.
No of course not because whenever somebody whispers 'union' two-thirds of the workforce break out in hives.
Same here, I'm assuming that's what the name is borrowed from.
I discovered while working as a research assistant that the post docs made about the same amount as I did and less than the secretaries (they had a union.) During my child support hearing the lady at friend of the court gave me the best unintentional advice I ever received while explaining why I had to pay my ex-wife more than I could possible afford on my salary. She said "You are making much less than someone of your skills and experience should."

And so I was forced to change careers. Doing research was fun, but if you want to do it (or make pottery or be in a band) professionally, then I recommend your spouse has a real job.
Not sure why was this down voted. I will clarify. By Android application I mean, a server side application which listen for incoming texts and respond to them via text msgs.
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I'd recommend CloudFlare if you want AnyCast geo-DNS, and a free CDN. We don't charge for bandwidth or our DNS service.

Disclosure: yes, I work at CloudFlare but the previous details are simply facts.
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>Would it be possible to determine if your phone was connected to a Stingray instead of a regular cell phone tower?

Yep.

https://opensource.srlabs.de/projects/mobile-network-assessm...
Thanks for the summary; found it when I was looking up more info after looking at the other article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8094119)

Most of the commentary from there probably pertains.

One thing I noticed in this study is that (unlike a few other articles where I couldn't find the primary sources), they didn't do a warmup period:

"The HIT training protocol was similar to that used previously by Jakeman et al. [20]. 16 sessions of HIT were spread over an eight week period, with one or two days of rest between each sprint. There was no warm-up or cool down in the training sessions. Each training session consisted of 10 repeated 6-s all-out cycling efforts against 7.5% of body weight for males and 6.5% for females (Monark peak bike Model 894E, Monark Exercise AB, Vansbro, Sweden), added to the bike once the participant was cycling at 100 rpm with 1 min of passive recovery between sprints." [emphasis mine]
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Law enforcement are permitted to lie to get private information, e.g. in an interrogation. They would need to have at least probable cause if not a warrant to conduct that interrogation though.
Conventional wisdom says that you're not really working out unless you spend 10-25 minutes on warm up, an hour or more on working out, and some stretching to finish off and/or a cool down. That isn't even counting the time to go to the gym or the park, or the shower afterwards. No wonder people are inactive.
A downvote when requesting the facts. Interesting.
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While I agree with what you are saying, I'd like to add a bunch of addenda (caveats?).

The Higgs mechanism was one possible model which the standard model required, the others have now obviously been disproven thanks to the LHC. If no one had proposed this particular model, we'd still be wondering how fundamental particles gained mass and have another unexplained experimental result with the peak at 125 GeV from the data at the LHC.

Similarly, GR and QM are both extremely well tested, however GR has dark matter and energy to deal with, and we still have no real idea what that is. This could potentially point to GR being wrong, however none of us are able to come up with another theory of gravity that could incorporate this and be better than GR at this stage. If a theory of quantum gravity (or just gravity) came along that could explain dark matter quite effectively then it would be hailed as a better theory than GR.

The reason string theory and loop quantum gravity are considered completely speculative is because their predictions are so far beyond our grasp that even in the relatively far future we still have no way of confirming or denying either of them. Had they predicted things that could've been confirmed within the next century or so, I'm sure we'd all be rallying to try and confirm them. They aren't speculative so much so because we don't know which of GR or QM is wrong, but because their testability is quite precarious at this point.
If you have quite low usage yes, and if you have quite high usage you probably won't be running a CDN on DigitalOcean anyway, but there's an in-between point where CloudFront is pretty expensive (by about 10x over the roll-your-own solution, depending on some assumptions about traffic).

If you build a smallish network of, say, 10 of the $10/mo, 2-TB-traffic DO servers, and can manage to spread the load such that you use an average of half of the free allocation, you pay $100/mo for 10 TB. Cloudfront would charge you $1200/mo for that data transfer. Obviously it's not the same level of reliability or ease of scaling, but it's cheaper enough to be vaguely intriguing—$1200/yr versus $14k/yr is non-peanuts!
Hmm, if you mean forms on the front-facing website, currently no. You can inject data into your firebase following our json formatting guide though. If you go that route, the possibilities are pretty endless.

http://www.webhook.com/docs/importing-custom-data/
HIIT training programmes in highly trained endurance athletes. (abstract)
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What are the thoughts of current mainstream economists on "basic income" proposals?
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Why didn't any documentary website think of this before?
iMessage (well, Messages.app) is scriptable on the Mac via AppleScript (see https://github.com/lazerwalker/hubot-imessage). Figuring out how to scale it might be tricky, but for the time being they could be using some Mac scripts to intercept the iMessages, shoot them off to the appropriate assistant via some other interface, and then send the resulting iMessages back through the same Mac interface.
I can't conceive of who would sign up for this given how little information there is on the site. I can't even find the pricing. The FAQ is short, vague, and even feels deceptive (re: "futuristic tech").

Where is the legal? Where are the examples, demonstrations, etc.? No, no, no.
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Still not sold on the idea of a company whose revenue source is targeted ads caring about their user's privacy. I think this is a good direction for Facebook to go, but to assume they now have the user's privacy at heart is probably too far. At best, they are controlling the user's data better so people not paying for ads don't get free information.
Can do!

https://github.com/jeresig/jquery.hotkeys

I've seen some annoying pages that actually intercept ctrl-s or ctrl-p to do some custom saving or printing function, too.
This is a really elegant game. Kudos to the designer. It's quite admirable. It has a life/death property like Go: the game seems to be about recognizing which configurations are dead and avoiding them.
Lot of mentions of whether or not the person is sedentary/just starting off. I'm no expert in these areas, but an interesting additional bit of info on HIIT in highly trained individuals:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11772161
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The article initially claims that

>Once these devices connect, the stingray can be used to actually eavesdrop on conversations, text messages, and web browser activity.

Yet further reading shows that "all" it can do is triangulate your position, something no where near actually intercepting data.
This is a result of the whole lean movement. Validate your idea with customer feedback before you spend a bunch of money. Yes it means things will be a little smoke and mirrors to begin with but that doesn't mean the founders are not capable of delivering what is being proposed.

They may have thought through all of your questions but decided not to have firm answers right now in order to validate the idea, and not the technology.
I think it's not so much that the Higgs was logical; the difference with Higgs is that the Higgs was conceived as something testable from the start (I'm assuming, but it doesn't seem like a big leap, considering that particle physics has always been driven by experiments). The really big problem with untestable ideas is that they are not even science. Untestable ideas about physics are more like a peculiarly abstruse art form practiced by physicists.