skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today I learned that people gamble on dominoes. Not that I agree with gambling, or with it being illegal, but I suppose that is more justified than just playing dominoes.
Tensō is a REST API facade for Node.js
I know wages for programmers are low in Japan, but 200,000¥ a month for automotive programming? That's about $25k/year.

Would a company really be willing to help with relocation or a visa for that?

Anyway, I'm not looking right now, but maybe someday.
fragment describing the gist of the experiment:

"The [entering] microwaves are so far off resonance with the [superconducting] circuit that they cannot drive it between its ground and its excited state. So instead of being absorbed, they leave the box bearing information about the quantum system in the form of a phase shift (the position of the troughs and peaks of the photons’ wavefunctions).

Although there is information about the quantum system in the exiting microwaves, it is only a small amount of information.

“Every time we nudge the system, something different happens,” Murch said. “That’s because the photons we use to measure the quantum system are quantum mechanical as well and exhibit quantum fluctuations. So it takes many of these measurements to distinguish the system’s signal from the quantum fluctuations of the photons probing it.” Or, as physicists put it, these are weak measurements."
> Even today, if you're designing a truly novel algorithm, you're very likely to spend the bulk of your time not coding, and then coding only at the end as a sort of check to make sure you ideas work out.

If you cannot code, you cannot check that your ideas work out on a computer.

> Which is to say, from my observation, coding-as-problem-solving is not very effective until after you've thought things through in more general, mathematical terms.

I don't see how that relates to my comment, I specifically referred to 'writing' an algorithm, as in implementing the algorithm in code, not devising the algorithm in the first place.
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It seems the real issue is the cult of personality that develops around these people. It happens here on HN as well. There exists a large cadre of people who rally around certain well-known community figures and eventually morph into sycophantic zealots.

The positive-feedback cycle stemming from early votes serves only to create an illusion of consensus, and many impressionable users begin to form thoughts like "that many upvotes can't be wrong" etc.

That, IMO, is the real problem with up/downvote systems.
I feel the exact opposite about physical books nowadays - they are nice to read, but they're practical only at home. When traveling, the bulk and weight matters a lot, and books are too heavy to lug around. Take a Kindle or something like that - it's smaller and lighter than any book; the full sized books can wait for you back in your home.
Completely -- that was one of our inspirations.
If only it had 4-8GB RAM. I could actually see myself do stuff on it other than play games. It comes with a stylus and SD card slot! That's almost my whole checklist for a dream tablet:

1. stylus with good support

2. SD card slot

3. powerful hardware

4. lots of RAM

I can't understand why they put so little in.
Click on them to check their wiki page!
most of them are philanthropist!

phi·lan·thro·pist: the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.

ARE THESE CUNTS ON CRACK!!! WTF ARE THEY SMOKING..I WOULD LIEK SOME!!

The audacity to call yourself that is FUCKING mind-boggling
CxOs and senior level executives are another piece of our target market and we have been engaging heavily with them as we move forward
The Miraculous Face Transplant of Richard Norris
This only works if you're hosting your static site on GitHub.
>> In the general case, it's really easy to detect

> Why do you say that? I've worked hard on this problem and would not call it easy.

Are there reference data sets for this problem? If not, you or reddit should publish data sets.
I thought they were referring to Neil deGrasse Tyson, which made the title highly implausible.
Agree-have to feel comfortable with numbers to do anything at all.
It is even worse than that when negative results are not published. This is because a study can keep getting repeated by different parties until they get that p-value. In other words, if you never publish a negative or inconclusive result (or stop studying once a conclusive result is published) then given enough time you /will/ get a positive result for every single plausible hypothesis.
Well, a committee of scientists that know better than you think results will be worthwhile and disagree.

I'll take their word over uneducated ethical argument. I apologize for being presumptuous about your occupation and field of research.
I think what worked in our (India) favor, despite the dearth of good teachers was the fact that Computers was an available subject in the nationwide standardised exams. Most of students who wanted to pursue Engineering loaded up on computers because it was easy (& fun) to score (compared with languages at the very least).
You should up the contrast on the up/down arrows for users like me with a poor quality display. I missed them completely at first. They just looked like two white circular cutouts.
I wonder if the HN countermeasures are stronger than Reddit's. For HN submissions to have much of chance of sticking around you really need a few quick upvotes.
I must say the writing in this is pretty great.
The moment when he described viscerally a perhaps mundane action - laughing - I paused and realized that I had never read such a description of laughter ever. It was as if he was dying, I was genuinely afraid for him and confused what was happening.

Great read on an interesting topic, phenomenal writing.

(I know I'm going a little overboard with my praise but I was always a sucker for words)
> I teach introductory programming to college freshmen. We usually spend the first few classes talking about, writing, and refining algorithms in clear and simple English before we even start talking about the programming language they're to learn.

Explaining algorithms to someone in clear and simple English will enable them to understand those algorithms, but a computer does not understand English. To 'write' an algorithm for a computer to perform, you need to code.
I think that's the point of the parent post's reference to a bubble bursting, the fallout from which might include a sudden loss of credibility and power for the American elites who want to prosecute Snowden. And I think it's true that this is probably the only way he'll ever be allowed back to the U.S. as a free man.
From that thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529580
Ubuntu, making heavy use of virtual desktops.

Chrome / Terminals / gVim / irc

I generally have one desktop with my browser, one with one terminal and (multiple, usually) gVim instances, where I do my git commits etc. A third where I have my server running with logs etc. My team keeps up on irc, so I keep that on my server/log screen. I use my fourth desktop for various other apps, spotify etc.

I don't like windows being behind other windows.
> I specifically referred to 'writing' an algorithm, as in implementing the algorithm in code, not devising the algorithm in the first place.

That's confusing usage of "write an algorithm". There used to be a distinction between "programming" (creatig program structure; sequence selection iteration and all tha stuff) qnd "coding" (taking those paper notes and translating them into the particular programming language being used).

It's easy to find people who could create an algorithm but who cannot also code. For example, you can create an algorithm, but you know nothing about {insert the name of a language which you know nothing about here}.
What oath? The only oath he was required to sign AFAIK is the Oath of Office: one defending the constitution, not the corrupt inbred military-industrial-complex that's grown up. His oath read:

"I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."

Source: http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/did-edward-snowde...

I don't know one way or another about a Medal, but this man has upheld his oath, and he did not allow reservation or evasion to deter him in it discharging it's duty. So help him.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: JavaScript (expert), ASYNC, Node, Express (although I prefer hapi,
but Express pays the bills), Angular, SQL, MongoDB, Backbone, PHP, (and obviously
jQuery, HTML, CSS...)
Resume: github.com/vhalbwachs
Email: vhalbwachs@gmail.com
Tagline: "The real deal"
The main argument against QoS-style throttling is not the bittorrent example, but rather the example of Netflix and friends - cable companies have a vested interest in throttling by content type in order to limit quality of online video services and sell their own cable TV/video on demand.
The only reason Snowden is in Russia is because the U.S. government revoked his passport while he was in Moscow. So if you want someone to blame for that, look no further than the State Department.
Clojure Destructuring Tutorial and Cheat Sheet
I've also noticed that when someone disagrees with one of the types of people you're speaking about, they tend to get downvoted very quickly - even if they present a well thought out critique that isn't rude or negative whatsoever.

Not all the time - I'm sure there are plenty of counterexamples - but enough I thought it was worth pointing out.
That sounds exactly like http://telehash.org/ !
> You never followed directions until you learned how to program?

Of course I did (sometimes reluctantly). Before I learned programming, I couldn't 'write' an algorithm in a file and get a computer to follow those directions instead.

> I learned addition, multiplication and division algorithms before I even got a computer.

I know, subtraction is so damn hard to get right isn't it.
Great live coverage on the event!
Twitter's User Problem: Fastest Gains Are People That Don't See Ads
Interesting idea. Why not put your comment on the website somewhere? I scrolled through several screens of animations and still had no idea what your app did.
> Well, a committee of scientists that know better than you think results will be worthwhile and disagree.

The article stressed that green lighting the research was a hugely controversial decision. I'm also pretty certain there are a huge number of scientists who do research on animals are wouldn't be comfortable with this research.

Also, I think the parent was rejecting the deontological framework in which the decision was made, rather than calling into question the resulting calculation by the ethics board. So an appeal to the expertise of the panel doesn't make much sense.
A slight but important difference is that Reddit idolizes semianonymous users, while the most-respected users on Hacker News have fully-transparent identities.

The identity of the idol, and the lack thereof, can change the perception of this funny super-commenter completely.

Source: I gained internet notoriety through my comments on TechCrunch under my real name. As far as I know, I don't have any sycophantic zealots.
Players have a stronger foot. But it's not particularly difficult to use that foot to strike the ball to one side or the other. It's a different technique, but it's one that every professional footballer has inevitably mastered.
In this case with Undian, the person who was arguing with him had all her posts systemically downvoted and was harrassed.

It's worth noting that Hacker News disables downvotes on submissions older than 2 weeks.
> So, you say that US has the right to support one side, including an anti-constitutional coup against democratically elected president, and Russia has no right to support the other side?

All outside parties have the right to be supportive of whichever side they wish.

The ways in which that support is expressed are not all allowable under international law, however. For instance, Obama supports the "moderate Syrian opposition", yet the U.S. has not invaded parts of Syria and annexed it, and then sent further military forces into the remainder of Syria to fight against Assad.

> Hopefully, I gave you enough information to explain how it is possible to view the issue from completely different point of view.

You didn't need to remind me that there are alternate POVs. I'm sure that Russia has interests in Ukraine that are much different that the E.U., or the U.S., or NATO, or even Ukraine itself.

But having interests is no right to do whatever you wish. I've already expressed Obama's interest in the situation in Syria, yet you don't see him breaking down in a teary-eyed fit in international media about how Assad simply won't listen to him.

Obama is doing what he thinks he can and the situation will either resolve itself in the U.S.'s favor or it won't. But even if it doesn't go the U.S.'s way, he still won't invade. We used to be able to say the same of Putin, until Crimea (something he did finally admit to lying about, after the fact).

"Covert" action is one thing. Sending weapons and money is one thing. These are all things that are generally understood to be allowable ways for outside parties to aid (or not) belligerents. But even the things that are allowed come at the price of responsibility, which is why Obama won't give all the Super Ray Guns to Syrian moderates.

Some things, however, are never allowed, such as sending military forces to invade and annex the sovereign territory of another nation. Russia supported the rest of the world in stopping the last time a tinpot dictator tried that exercise, in Kuwait. But now Russia is the aggressor itself...
Have you guys checked out Dev Pressed (http://devpressed.com/)?
The issue with giving information as to how a voting detector work is that it would make it easier to cheat.
Agreed. I would love a 15" tablet for watching movies in bed.
A better comparison would be if a Google employee fled to China after leaking the news that Google was intercepting emails from other mail providers and hacking into other companies' servers.

(I have no particular opinion about whether Americans should consider Snowden a hero or a traitor.)
I think there is a very large difference.

Reddit doing it, although some would argue unethical, was meant to make reddit even usable. It was one of those sites where it takes a critical mass to become usable, and without that critical mass it would be very challenging to actually get it. So they faked it until they had it - and it worked very well.

Someone doing it on their own only serves to benefit them - and their karma count. The goal isn't to benefit the larger community or make the site more usable - it only is to boost their ego.

> Does it really matter if the content is good?

Unidan had a lot of very good content, I cannot argue with that. However he also had a lot of really shitty content that under anyone else would have been downvoted to hell. Unfortunately his user page was taken down so I can't provide examples. But the problem is, that this bad content pushed other people's content out of view.
An email version of this would be quite useful for team interactions with sensitive partners/clients/contacts.
> A lot of the gentrifying neighborhoods in NYC have histories that go much too far back to be attributed to the current residents

That's kind of a silly argument (Harlem's 50+ year residents were most certainly in Harlem during the race riots), but regardless that wasn't really my point anyway.

The incoming community always brings their culture with them, with very little incentive to preserve the existing culture. They have no reason to keep a Murry's around - they want a Whole Foods. The Russian Orthodox cathedral looks cool, sure, but a new luxury high-rise could be built in that spot instead.

> IMO, current residents have no more of a right to live somewhere than any newcomer.

That's also not really the point. It's not about who has a right to live where. It's about making sure we collectively don't tread over artifacts without taking a step back and evaluating what we're doing as a society. By the time we decide something has historical value and should be preserved, it might be way too late.
Fantasy World OCaml (2013)
Be interesting to see if UK animal rights tactics are exported to the US.

Protestors ignore the actual department doing the research but unleash a shitstorm of protest over anyone providing services to that department.

As more and more service companies decline the contracts the costs for the department go up and up.

UK groups were very effective at this, but there were also unacceptable forms of protest involving violence. And UK government had weird ideas about right to peaceful protest being wrong if it was effective at making people change their behavior. Thus animal rights groups are sometimes terrorist organisations (to be fair, a few of them did dig up corpses and other really unpleasant thing).

Tl:dr don't stand outside the monkey experiment department waving placards; go to the place that takes their garbage or provides their lunches or does the cleaning or the gardening or the stationery.
Here is a WebGL version, with skeleton mesh:

http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/webgl_walker/webgl_walker.p...

It works quite nicely on mobile (Android Chrome and iOS 8 Beta Safari).
The problem with your premise is that all of Freud's stuff isn't considered total bullshit. The mass media, science magazines, and materialists like to present it that way, but psychoanalytic and psychodynamic traditions (depth psychology) are still alive and well. It is, perhaps, not quite as prominent in experimental psychology (which I'm guessing is what you're talking about), but it's certainly still a force in clinical work. Humanistic, positive psychology, cognitive-behavioral, gestalt, and most other approaches were inspired by, informed by, and still use parts of depth psychology in their approaches.

I think you're mixing up clinical psychology and experimental psychology. The aims for both will vary, and I tend to agree with you that presenting psychology as a hard science is ludicrous (but unfortunately the only way to get funding). You're also right about the political component of psychology (your homosexuality anecdote); psychology can be used as an instrument by the leaders of society for political, social, and economic gains and control. That doesn't mean it has no contribution to man's knowledge of the world.

Just because the newer approaches appear to reject older theories does not mean the older theories aren't useful. Newtonian mechanics explains phenomena quite well for everyday living. Relativity was a revolution in the field but there's a still a place for Newtonian physics (i.e. you don't have to erase the classical theory). The way knowledge evolves in these long-standing fields isn't as mechanical as I think you're claiming it to be. Science is much more complex than that.
I was waiting for over half a year for the next shield and am very disappointed it's a tablet. I liked the original shield because it allows to stream PC games throughout my house, so that I can play them on my couch or in bed. The other awesome thing is playing emulators on the go. With the tablet I can't do any of those properly, because the controller is not built in and I need to have a place to set up the tablet. So I can't play it on the train or anywhere in my house excepts my desk or my dining room table.
If you already have a tablet (or 2 in my case) and wanted this as a gaming device, then that's a bummer. It's too bad. Everything that targets hardcore gamers fails.
I believe that represents the sigmoid function.
Is there some legitimate reason to want to have A's destructor called twice on a single instance?
Pardons are granted after someone has been found guilty. So far, Snowden has only been charged of treason and since he's not coming to the US to stand trial, a pardon is not applicable.

"Dropping the charges" would be more accurate.
That is generally the way that I do it.
That's true - and as for Reddit, it seems to make people focus more on the content. Accounts like shitty_watercolour and awildsketchappeared aren't really popular because of who they are, rather what they produce.
I go out for a brisk walk. You want to do an activity that helps clear your mind, rather than impair it.
Also, the goalkeeper may have a weaker side.
One can imagine a pair of normal eyeglasses which have an IMU or accelerometer of some sort in them. When they sense they are being taken off, the users' phone switches profiles, the screen blurs, and the user moves seamlessly from glasses to phone without ever realizing what took place.

Would be a neat touch. I like connected appliances that aren't. (if that makes sense)
Psychology is very young branch of science (Freud lived less than 200 years ago) and its subject matter is vast and complex: from low level neural mechanisms to perception to higher cognitive functions to mental illnesses to human cognitive development to behavioral psychology to decision making. Take, for example, schitzophrenia and bipolar disorder. Even if we don't understand them at the lower level and don't properly understand their treatments, we have become much better at diagnosing them early enough to help people from ruining their lives. It's a huge step forward.

Or at the lower levels, consider human
perception systems. We start to understand how early layers of vision work, even if we don't yet have a good grasp of how higher levels of visual cognitive system work.
> That's confusing usage of "write an algorithm". There used to be a distinction between "programming" (creatig program structure; sequence selection iteration and all tha stuff) qnd "coding" (taking those paper notes and translating them into the particular programming language being used).

Apologies for being vague, I presumed the phrase 'writing an algorithm' was sufficiently precise.

> It's easy to find people who could create an algorithm but who cannot also code.

I rephrase that: It's easy to find people who could create an algorithm but can only target a specific architecture, human grey matter.
Another factor in "grid parity" - variable, tiered, pricing by the utility company. If you have a large family, you are likely to hit the upper "tiers" (at least for the PG&E utility company) where electricity is 30 or 40 cents, rather than 11 or 12 cents, per kWH.

Providing 1/2 or 1/3 of your electricity via solar panels starts to make a lot of sense in that case.
I'm not attacking Google in particular. It's just that the statement "Staff at [X] aren't reading peoples emails or spying on its customers" is simply logically false. Because sometimes they do it and we know it. Also, spying by the means of automatic analysis is still spying. (Also, I believe the reason it's done automatically is simply because it's more efficient, not ethics issues)
Ask HN: Any success with virtual assistants?
If so, which did you love? Any tips?
Where does it mention anything about a tourist visa?
Not to be cynical, I don't think he did. He was doing what he was doing till the time he was caught. It's not like he told the community himself.

He is just trying to play the nice guy game to save his image. His doing this is dishonest -- plain and simple. Don't get me wrong. He is really good in his field and knows a lot. I learned a lot from him and if he posts stuff, I will read it again. But this behaviour is dishonesty.