skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or disabled due to wind speeds being too high.
What city are you in? Here in Boston, my experience has been that the uber drivers are more likely than the taxi drivers to know how to get where I'd like to go.
> Sometimes I comb my hair, or bite my fingernails. What if part of it fell on the floor and some random person steps on it. Stuck on the bottom of their shoe. A bunch of coincidental stuff comes up and my DNA is tested against a fingernail/hair under victim's shoe... match. I'm doomed.

This is a plot point in the film Gattaca. I'd recommend watching it if you haven't already:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca
I think it's because insurance models stop working once the probability of an accident gets extremely small and the possible damages of any accident get extremely large. An insurance claim of hundereds of billions would wipe out any and all insurance companies instantly.

Insurance companies have to make statistics based rational decisions, but society as a whole is always forced to make decisions that cannot be statistically proven to be rational in an economic sense.

There is no way to take out insurance against some virus strain escaping a lab and killing 90% of the world's population. There is no way to insure against the effects of a worldwide bank run. There is simply a point where insurance stops working and politics has to kick in.
I recommend checking out the book "Pragmatic Thinking & Learning". One of the main points is that learning is a skill itself, and that you should practice and learn about learning. You will want to look into study skills classes in addition and I would also recommend practicing meditation. I would meditate before doing difficult assignments and it reduced my fear of failure, my general stress level, and negative thoughts (i.e this is too hard, I'm not smart enough, etc) One aspect of meditation is that it is a method for practicing focus. Focus is also a skill and can be improved. Learning these facts my last year in college made a significant difference in my academic performance.
It does start immediately when the countdown happens, it just can't do it quickly enough for the number of tiles there are.

There's three modes in the game: Escape, Survive, Explore. The Explore mode uses a much smaller radius and no countdown, and doesn't suffer from the same issue. Instead of thousands of tiles on the board there's hundreds.

It was interesting playing with different mechanisms for drawing the tiles though. Between pre-generated letters, real-time letter drawing and everything in-between, the solution we have works well on most models of Apple devices.

Some of the issues were also with how SpriteKit did certain things (such as how inefficient cloning a text node object is)
Game's over - result is now null.
U.S. releases images said to implicate Russia
Bear in mind that DNA test != full sequencing.

I'm a bit rusty on my combinatorics, but borrowing from wikipedia[1] "if n(p;d) denotes the number of random integers drawn from [1,d] to obtain a probability p that at least two numbers are the same, then:"(...)

We have stated above that n=2, p=1/2(10^(39))=1/(2e27), so we have:

p ~ 1 - ( (d-1)/d )^(n(n-1)/2))
= 1 - ( (d-1)/d )^(2(2-1)/2)) # -> 2/2 -> 1
= 1 - ( (d-1)/d )
p-1=-(d-1)/d
(p-1)d=-d+1
pd-d=1-d
pd=1
d=1/p
d~2e27 #Yeah, I guess this should have been obvious, in
retrospect

For n=20k=2e4:

p(n=2e4,d=2e27) ~ 1-((d-1)/d)^(n(n-1)/2)

Which is so small that in Python I had to use the Decimal module to
compute p~1e-19 or so.

However, this assumes an even distribution across the possibilities --
and we've approximated the number of combinations based on the statement
of collision probability -- not based on actual number of base pairs, or
based on some model on how these are likely to be distributed... (eg: if
we test for sex, but only sample males -- does that mean we loose a
certain number of possibilities? How about caucasian vs other races? It
depends on what markers we are testing. Further we know that some
markers are likely to match, because there's bound to be some common
ansecstors among some members in the sample etc.)

Note that the math above might be entirely bogus -- I'm off to bed, so
I'd assume I've made some silly mistakes...

[edit: On actually reading the article, it could appear that the quote on "two billion billions of billions" are indeed meant to indicate he likelihood of someone sharing the same DNA, rather than the likelihood of two samples testing as similar.]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem#The_generaliz...
Lyft is absolutely instructed to be chatty. Along with the fistbumps, passengers defaulting to the front seat, and the pink moustaches, it's very much part of the experience they offer.

Personally, I enjoy talking with my drivers most of the time. If I want a quiet, professional ride in the back of a lincoln towncar, I opt for Uber Black.
That doesn't explain why it doesn't have a native log-in, though ( even though the preamble says it will ), or support a general protocol such as OpenID.
every company eventually goes to the dark side and does something like that, unless it dies before and then nobody knows if the data is gone or not. I'm not sure how its unfair. Pretty sure their 10000 lines clauses will indicate something saying they own all this data, including your location data, etc and reserve to use whatever they want with it.

also at the minimum they should make clear the passenger (you) is going to be rated IMO. Maybe that'd solve the issue of passengers not being courteous or whatever.
TL;DR: Gartner predicts Javascript.

Gartner. Others disagree.
So because some people are colorblind or just blind lets not do it. Great logic.

I think we should also disable voice calls. Some people are deaf.
Usability testing is a bit of a luxury for a two-man team...
Now with libcloud (http://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/compute/drivers/) you can use multiple platforms in order to get all continents represented.

Including Africa (http://kili.io) where I'm at.
* Complimented the driver on his/her looks
* Brought cookies
* Always punctual
* Provided shoulder to cry on when required
I don't definitively know what caused it, but I did notify my local Apple dev relations team while it was pending review.
Not all ads are for products you don't objectively need. You do likely need life insurance.

I would want to be informed if/when somebody made a cheap razor that actually works for me. I would want to know if somebody made a better vaccum robot, or made it cheaper. I don't objectively need a new smart phone, but I would want to know about it so that I could anticipate what my users would want to get.
While this is likely to work much of the time, it wouldn't take a particularly strange algorithm to break it. Consider an average rating that is just the arithmetic mean of your last 10 rides. Your rating going up would just mean your most recent rating was better than the rating 11 rides ago that it displaced. If you got a 2 11 rides ago and a 3 on your last ride, your average rating would go up despite getting a below-average rating.
awesome. Thanks for posting. I had that as one of my todo's in the blog post. Feel free to reach out to me if you want to help with a follow up post!
If your theory of reddit is based on the front page reddits, then you have no theory of reddit.
Ask HN: What makes a good explainer video?
Hello all,

I am launching an app soon and I am considering placing an explainer video on the app's website homepage.

My question is two fold; what makes a good explainer video? (and also is it still relevent?)

From memory, I remember lots of startups using them a couple of years back however now it appears the background image with explainer text/grahpic is preferred.
Can you give a citation of how much methane leakage occurs?
For a more relevant discussion, see eg:

http://www.councilforresponsiblegenetics.org/GeneWatch/GeneW...

Keep in mind that doing 20k tests, there are likely to be mistakes made. In the case of a false positive (or a disputed positive), that shouldn't be too much of a problem -- just run the test again, perhaps using multiple labs to check the results.

For a false negative match -- you've just missed/"cleared" the probable perpetrator. Such an error is unlikely to be caught (I'd imagine) -- on the other hand if the error rate is low (say 0.5%?) -- the chance that an error is made when testing that (presumably) one swab that is from the suspect, is pretty low, even with 20k tests.
In that case, the problem lies with the subreddit, not reddit in general.

In good subreddits, moderators will make sure eachother don't go too far; other moderators can see all actions you do in a nice interface.

I wish, though, that the moderator actions log was open to the public. That way, people could see which one is abusing their power and get some traction to get that mod removed.

In any case, you can always go create your own competitor.
Dependency Injection with Go
Just because one like the soundtrack does not mean one wants to play the game.
None that handle digital signatures and online filing, sadly.

For example UK HMRC tax returns must be done using Adobe Reader.
Calling bullshit on this one. Smelters do not work this way, they buy electricity in bulk and is a 24/7 operation.
As opposed to currently giving no indication to anyone, colour-blind users included.
Hah! I'm working on a side project to solve this problem: http://www.renewalmonitor.com/

The idea is that the service will monitor things like domains and ssl expiry dates and then alert you in an increasingly obnoxious manner as the expiration date gets closer.

My MVP has just needs a few more finishing touches and then I'll send it live. In the meantime, you can signup on the waiting list.

Cheers.
Ask HN: How to convince someone to do A when they really want to do B?
I am trying to recruit an engineer who really wants to do game development, 3d graphics, etc. We are mainly a Python/Django shop as far as back-end is concerned. There is some Java stuff to be done down the line but it won't be open for a few months at least. My selling point is that the stuff he will learn will be pretty much transferable. He will get to be working on something really cool that touches a couple of thousands people in a very significant way. We are making impact at a relatively larger scale on each and every user of our product. But this person is so much tied to a very specific domain. What would you do if you were recruiting someone like this person. I come from a web dev background so I have always been open to learning new tech with product goals first in mind.
learned proper english + all the above
This is great news. The max was previously 15 min, and you could set it by contacting AWS Support.
Yo'ed: dispatch actions when someone YO you
The actual article title is "Graphene / Lithium Ion Capacitor Kickstarter BS". The submitter's title makes a claim about the state of mind of the person behind the Kickstarter that requires knowledge that the submitter does not have unless he knows the person or has psychic ability.
Dynamic CDN we built at Wingify
Not sure whether this will meet your need but i found voxeo[0] pretty good for voice related stuff. I had to discontinue my product idea due to the fact that they don't have instantaneous voice to text which was bummer for my project
[0] www.voxeo.com
Why do you want this particular guy so badly?

Game development is for suckers, but you're not going to have any luck convincing him. Give up and move on.
On Lock-Free Programming and Concurrency
A blog article I wrote on this topic a while back.
If you hit plateau, you can make yourself into novice again. It is explained in Hypertrophy-Specific Training: http://hypertrophyspecific.com/hst_index.html

I also think that you will find some more answers to your questions there.
So, where is the letter from Microsoft to it's Russian partners?
How does this perform in comparison to Riak (cluster, v2.0)?
Think about including tmuxomatic in so I can start

t template <tmuxomatic template>

or similar. Then you have a winner.
What is CSS specificity hierarchy
Tor received over $1.8m from the US government last year
Make Every JavaScript object have fast properties in V8
"For them to have the record they do in the playoffs given their expected talent level is something like a 17% shot on chance alone."

Not an expert on the subject, but baseball doesn't have and explicit chance component, so please explain what you mean when you say "on chance".

I assume, embedded in your definition, will be statistics about the same teams playing each other or something. However, it seems like it would be hard to apply these statistics to refute someone who is saying both that "the A's are different" and "championship games are different".

For instance, if Michael Jordan wins 100 one-on-one games of basketball against me, I could come out an say "Yes, but if we played on the International Space Station, then I'd win. ISS games are different.". To refute that you'd need a body of evidence of basketball games on ISS. Let's say you have 5000 games of history on the ISS, where the players' success rates are almost identical to those on Earth's surface. I could still say "But I'm different. Everyone else tries to play ISS basketball like Earth basketball, but I have these cool tricks.". Controlling for both of those things seems to require having lots of data about me playing on the ISS.

None of that means the post to which you responded is right. But if the claims "the A's are different" and "the championships are different" both seem plausible; and if the A's record in championships is poor compared with the regular season; then you should dial back the confidence a bit.
Submitting data to wigle.net using their Android app is one way to start building enough cell tower information to make this very visible.
They started on mobile games way before iOS or app stores though. And millionaire family for funding. And they did AB as a side project while doing many other games for pay for other publishers. And AB didn't get a anywhere in the asp store at first, picked up months later due to marketing tricks & luck & relatively early days of iOS games.
Thanks for the heads-up! Would be a fun project to revisit
This wikipedia article[0] is a nice entry point about the possible futures at geological and astronomical scales.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
I'm sure this is so annoyingly introverted of me, but where's the off button for the chit chat if I just want a (usually) cheaper ride downtown?
I've known him for last 8 years and we can work well together. But lately he's been a lot into game development stuff. And he is pretty smart and humble.
Ok, so if I understand this correctly, in order to be certain I'm not tracked, I need to host my own back-end server? And the server stores the comments? And if I'm hosting my own server, I'm likely to end up talking mostly with those that sign up with "my" version of this? And if I want it to work in eg: Firefox I'd have to port it? Finally, wrt. tracking -- if the comments are stored on the server (and that's a REST service or something like it) -- wouldn't it be trivial to log activity at the routing level (eg: ha-proxy/nginx/other front-facing web server)?

This isn't meant as negative criticism, just trying to figure out if I've understood how it works correctly? (Note, I appreciate that the source is available, but obviously I can't know that the source you share is the source you run on your back-end. So we're back to trust, which is fine in my book).

[edit: re other clients -- the most straightforward thing to do would be to make an iframe(or js)-based proxy service (a la stumble upon) in order to enable any browser, I suppose?

I've thought about something similar, and I wonder if an XMPP back-end with one "room" pr url and the server-side log-extension might work? That should then make it trivial (unnecessary!) to enable better clients than web-only -- ie use a command line xmpp client to participate in the discussion, rather than forcing the use of the web browser. I realise many people think using the web browser is an advantage -- I generally find GUIs built on top of browsers to be slow and not very efficient. Extensions less so -- but the problem is of course that you'd have to port to Firefox, Opera, Webkit and IE (along with mobile variants) -- to achieve parity with systems like disqus etc]
GOG.com adds Linux support
Watching TV in Australia: The Australian Delay Under The Microscope
Probably because people who dislike are more likely to talk about it, and well, silicon valley is in California.
Their arguments against the Big Bang make for interesting reading - http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/cosmic-connection/plas...
Did you look at your own graph?!

Demand is reduced almost by half at night.
Because thorium reactors don't exist?
fucking christ

Dude claims he's going for an elite total (combined 1642 raw) at 220 while training for an ironman. That's insane.
GSM has cryptographic challenge-response authentication, but only handset authenticates itself to the network, not the other way around. Also, network can just not require authentication at all (which is how devices like this work).

Having authentication credentials preloaded is impractical for both GSM and UMTS/W-CDMA, as authentication uses secret shared key that is (should be) unique to each customer.
Apple to Buy Radio App Swell for $30M
Sure. But to clarify, it seems like for most people, the ratings they receive consist of mostly 5s, with rare outliers (anecdotally in this thread, it seems most ratings are >= 4.5 and most are ~4.8). In that case, the odds of one outlier pushing another outside the moving average window is pretty low.
Mojolicious – Perl real-time web framework
Interview with UFO researcher and author Jacques Vallée
meh. TTY programming was hard in the 90's, and then it was done. If you find it hard now, you're probably still just learning all about it. Its an old, well and truly solved problem. The slayers of yesterdays TTY dragons are todays WebSocket hackers, I surmise.

Still, I think the TTY - and UARTS in general - have a lot of utility in this day and age, warty dragons and all. I've got a terminal server in my lab just for the case of wiring up the small, light, cheap, efficient embedded systems which still depend on the dragons to deliver the fire. Nothing quite like having a functional 9600-baud term you can tap into with an Oscilloscope and work out what the bits mean .. try doing that with a JSON-based interface. ;)
In general the internet is just spam, black hat SEO and worthless garbage.

In general blogs are abandonded after their first post.

In general does not really make sense on a place as big as reddit.
One problem to watch out for if you have effectively unlimited power, is that global warming would no longer be an indirect effect of stuff like CO2, but just a direct result of not caring about efficiency any more.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876610209...

http://www.geothermal-energy.org/pdf/IGAstandard/WGC/2010/23...
Marvelous idea!
There is almost guaranteed to be a reddit for your interest and it is almost certainly located at reddit.com/r/your_interest.
Does anyone think this is a little stoppy (there isn't a Go equivalent to "unpythonic")?
Hamas soldier interview, 27th July 2014
D. B. Cooper – Hijacks plane for ransom and parachutes away
OpenJK
Listen to Walter, you don't want to be an island of comments in this case. Following annotation standards will allow this content to be gathered and reused elsewhere, for things like fact extraction, sentiment analysis, meta-discussion, +++, it will also allow others to immortalise your content if you happen to fail.

On the other hand, maybe that's exactly what you don't want. My personal pet peeve is comments on scientific papers, where openness of this content is not only desired, it's crucial. Your situation might be different.
Economists recommending on exercise? Doesn't that raise a red flag to you?
any tips on how to get in touch with the Apple dev relations team? We generally send emails to app_store_promotion@apple.com around launches, but they don't seem to get any response.
It baffles me that the original comments for the article express so much agreement. "Exhibit A" doesn't have anything to do with mocking.
In "Exhibit B" he tries to test operations on values with mocks, which is never a good idea. Ironically, the multiplication example at the bottom shows how constructed his example is. Of course I've seen people in the "mocking world" who write code like this, but that's not an argument against mocking.
I think "Exhibit C" is actually valid, but his solution requires a self written AOP framework and the test still relies on implementation details.
Haven't listened to that one yet.

It would be sad if they fell victim to pseudoscience, but most podcasts have one of these episodes.
Problem: too much carbon dioxide.

Solution: stash it in minerals.

Problem: its expensive to go to space.

Solution: use the minerals to build a space elevator (or at least a mountain upon which to build it..)

Problems?
Amazon doesn't agree. They are currently lobbying for Internet sales taxes and have been for at least a few years: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021778597_amazonlobb...

So far as I can tell, today (the past is another matter) Amazon has no issue charging sales taxes as long as buy.com and the rest have to as well.
Fair points, but the article is only trivially about the users. It's really about revenue generation.
If they see you as a potential client, they'll still try to pick you up off-network.

That is just the beginning. Long term this will become a lot more popular both for drivers as well as for customers as they can both get more money.
It looks like your mailbox is full.
Good point. In my testing of CF, I couldn't get my requests route to nearest datacenter though CF status page indicated green for datacenters near my request origin. It always routed me to SJC irrespective of which location the request originated from in US.
I would think some people who got low scores would become disillusioned with the service, blaming the service rather than seeing any fault with themselves. Then being offended, they would be less likely to use the service or harbor negative feelings towards it.
hmm yes, maybe you are right. Thanks for sharing your two cents on the matter :-)
Exactly how much? No, because unlike CO2, methane leakage is not being continuously measured.

The fracking industry is not interested in measuring (duh) and the government is not forcing them to do so.

Here's a study that tries to hazard an estimate in leakage from one source though:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/20/fracking-...
So a driver can do nothing if someone gives him a low rating for whatever reason as he doesn't even know it happened?
What Happens When Robots Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves?
IIRC under the hood Java will 'evaluate' the methods body as a sophisticated function with 'this' in its environment.
Yes, a good read for anyone interested in codes for safety-critical applications.
I'll decide to start taking cabs again

If there are any cabs left...
This is actually more delicate than that. It is not possible to split a proton into its constituent quarks because quarks can never exist on their own. As far as we know they only appear in pairs or three at a time as in the proton.

There is also the issue of baryon number conservation. This is physical law (as far as we know) that says that the number of baryons must be constant. A proton is a baryon and neuron is a baryon but there are lots more. Anti-particles count negative so we can destroy a proton by combining it with an anti-proton, if we would happen to have one. But we cannot outright split the proton into some smaller set of parts as with an atom.
Why there isn't any Instagram or Tweets from people live in Gaza?
I am just curious. They do have internet, right?
that's a very awful and badly executed survey.
I used to have the cert (deleted a while ago), and I've never installed Steam.