skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think parent was talking from end users' perspectives. They will be conditioned to not wanting to try out a new service or new app as even if they can get some value from the service/app now, there is no guarantee they will have that value next year (or months in the current climate).

I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. As users become more skeptical with the new shiny services, it'll be harder to acquire users. And it'll be an advantage for the "real" startups with real users and real revenue.
The deal-breaker for me with wxWidgets was that it "hides" many things in its widgets: for example, I couldn't easily change the color or font of the text in a tabbed widget's tab in python, as those were private variables in the C++ implementation and there were no handles to change them.
You might want to consider using kernel density plots rather than histograms, as histograms exhibit aliasing artifacts.

In general, binning/bucketing can be seen as filtering the empirical density function of your dataset with a box filter and then sampling. The frequency response of a box filter is the sinc function, which has a lot of energy above the Nyquist of this sampling rate. Kernel density plots with a gaussian kernel, on the other hand, can be seen as filtering the empirical density function with a gaussian filter and are thus approximately bandlimited.
In some small towns in Argentina, taxis pretty much replace buses. You can hail a taxi in the street, and even if there are already people in, they'll ask you where you're going. If you are going the same direction as everyone else in the taxi, you can get in. It's actually very convenient and cheap.
According to game theory in a two party system the two candidates will tend to converge in the middle (assuming single issue distribution).
> did they act in your interest?

To address this, we have to reintroduce the complexity that I had omitted in my comment: there are other people besides me and the (figurative) person I was addressing.

I think the honest answer here is that yes, the CIA staff did what people wanted, likely in violation of what the law actually was, because they saw it as their duty to undertake such tasks when the public clamored that they needed safety from a dangerous world, everything else be damned.

One of the hardest and most interesting questions about government is how do we stop ourselves from making collective bad decisions on effectively a whim in a moment of weakness/fear/etc?
One card. Three is too hard and I get stuck too often.
Great hackathon. Really didn't like the expo style presentations though.
> 90% of our checkin users have moved over to Swarm and continue to check in.

That's an incredibly high number, so I'm guessing it doesn't mean "all users ever", but rather "all users who check in at least once a day"?
The Intel Celeron processor is what finally made me interested in the latest Chromebooks. For development, ARM is still a pretty painful thing to have to deal with.
You guys have good blog posts as well. Do you know anything about implementing fairly complex authorization (role based) for angular?
Was wishing for the Mac version to be free, but then remembered the Mac version is probably 68K (instruction set).

But still, had so much fun playing this on my 68030 back in the day (just before Apple made the 68K to PowerPC transition...)
Also, see Wordpress[0][2] and Vanilla Forums[1][3]. They both offer an open source version that you can download and self-host, and a commercial offering which they host and you can customize through a limited set of themes and plugins.

Open source, community edition:

[0] http://wordpress.org/

[1] http://vanillaforums.org/

Hosted version with customization via themes and plugins:

[2] https://wordpress.com/

[3] http://vanillaforums.com/
ReplyAll Converation: Do Lawyers Prefer to Work With Startups
I have a simple distinction - grassroots = made by people who genuinly care, astroturf = made by liars and cheats. I find it to be a harmful practice with huge externalities - namely deteriorating people's trust in grassroot movements and communities.
In www/GGI/SecureLink/secure_link.php, I present to you the password of the year:
$SecureLinkKey="finfisher!@#$%^"; // Set to random string used to encrypt links
Providing the signature of this new `map` function (e.g. as in Haskell's fmal http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=fmap), would certainly go a long way towards helping people understand what this `map` does.
Some people play down to the level of their competition.
I have no idea about the legality, but it could make your life difficult if you (or someone close to you) want to get a security clearance at some point, or have one and would like to keep it when the time comes to renew it.
I've sent this comic to a few friends of mine in the IT industry and we always laugh about it. Really the goal is to try to stay a little bit ahead of current Rainbow Tables and use safe browsing practices. Also hope that the websites you use actually have semi-decent security and sufficient password complexity requirements as well....there are still too many sites (I'm looking at you banking industry) that have a maximum password complexity that makes me want to cry because of how dated it is.
The article is probably right about it being difficult to define what is in the best interests of a large group, but it seems pretty obvious that civil-rights movements are by definition in the best self-interest of the majority of their members. (Think the women's suffrage movement of the early 1900's, the racial equality movement in the 1960s, or the current marriage rights movement for LGBT couples.)

The Tea Party seems a little harder to tell. Some are obviously in it for fiscal self-interest (upper and middle class people that want lower taxes). However, there are some in the Tea Party because they fear government intervention even though they obviously benefit from Social Security, Medicare, etc. (At least some of that is caused by fear mongering and twisted truths from Tea Party leaders.)
After denying it had a drone, San Diego apologizes, releases docs
For those who don't get the reference, it's a fantastic book by Charles Stross that you can get for free from his website:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
I'll try to explain, forgive my peasant understanding (Single course on induction motors and actuators in Uni years ago)

The limiting factor for distance of induction charging is the strength of the magnetic field per unit area or flux. Technically you could create a magnetic field large enough to pass through an entire house, I can think of two big problems with that off the bat however. First, the Magnetic field strength drops as the cube of the distance from the source. The further you are, the less effective the charging at the same power rate. As well the magnetic permeability of air is so small (µ_0 = 4π×10−7 V·s/(A·m)), this is the reason why iron cores are used in transformers as you would lose a lot of flux to the surrounding area unless it is channeled through a permeable material. The second reason is that there would be unintended effects on other conductive materials located within the magnetic field, eg computers, copper piping. The energy losses by induction charging are usually very very high when compared to charging by traditional means (Cable).
But how do you know it's out there if you haven't seen it? Anyone from the HN crowd has seen this closed beta feature?
They say it's out there in a blog post, so it must be true.
I remember I printscreened that particular game, but it was almost twenty years ago and no, I guess that computer is in some dumpyard somewhere in the abyss of my memory.

Thanks for the link. Good to know I was really good at that.
"Closed beta" as in developer testing.
Yep, and still totally possible by just booting into ChromeOS and firing up Chrome. But we want these kids to have the opportunity to explore a full operating system and see what makes the machine tick. It's also really important to us that kids can learn to program without a full-time internet connection (not all of our recipients have internet at home), and Ubuntu allows for that.
All Data Are Belong to AWS: Streaming upload via Fluentd
How big is Qt's commercial market? Any breakdown by license fee and professional consulting fee?
Samsung's experience says otherwise :-)
Oh, hey, listen, I'm not throwing stones. I've done similar things myself when I had a press release opportunity timed with a trade show or a feature piece or something - but the product wasn't yet ready to ship.

So you announce, say it's in early beta, or early access, or in "sneak preview" mode and go from there.
Or just don't use Skype. You have more to fear about Skype than just FinFisher hacking you.
60 hours/week x 50 weeks/year = 3,000 hours/year. $50,000/3,000 hours = $16.67/hour.

In any case, I don't believe that these companies will give overtime. In fact, your glassdoor link doesn't show any company paying over $30,000/year to their night workers, with the average being around $25,000.
Ok, I've given Source Code Pro about a week and I gotta say I dig it.
looking at the file list most of the interesting stuff end with .gpg so if the key is not included it seems like a waste of bandwidth.
WordPress and Drupal teams collaborate for simultaneous security releases
That's rad. Minecraft is such a great gateway for getting kids into programming, it's awesome to see educators taking advantage of that. Does your friend have their curriculum available anywhere? I'd love to take a look at how they ran it.
Expected an Apple II; was disappointed.
I've had no success even starting it on uTorrent on windows. Transmission on my vm is happily chugging away though.

The biggest file in the torrent is
FinSpy-PC+Mobile-2012-07-12-Final.zip (a hefty 33.75 gb)

Even though it's over 2 years in age, I hope that all the programmers out there, hackers, enthousiasts, employees of antivirus and antimalware companies turn this stuff inside out to see how it works and harden the world's software to make sure we can get better at protecting ourselves.

I've already found that the browser injection works either by either running a malware .jar file or installing a malware .xpi

Needless to say here on HN ofcourse, but i'm going to do it anyway:
If you haven't done it already, GET THE JAVA RUNTIME OUT OF YOUR BROWSER
That's incredible. How could he beat his own record by a factor of like 6x? Was he not really trying before or did he learn something special?
Big Data for the Spirit
Their labor has value to themselves. So they can always go farm/forage for food.

But to actually rebut your comment:

"if machines make labor cost less than a living wage, then you can't survive by selling labor."
If machines reduce labor cost, then the cost of goods reduces as well, making goods more affordable for poorer individuals. And consequently, reducing the amount of money required to be able to survive. You have to understand that none of these things function in isolation, but as a balanced equilibrium.
What is the difference between Terminal, Console, Shell, and Command Line?
I was never able to, but I didn't do a careful search for it. If only every city used that same bike icon to show you where the sensor is.
I'm sorry, but from the OP I can't be at all sure I can understand notation such as:

;;reducing function signature
whatever, input -> whatever

or

;;transducer signature
(whatever, input -> whatever) -> (whatever, input -> whatever)

Or, in mathematics there is some notation

f: A --> B

where A and B are sets and f is a function. This notation
means that for each element x in set A, function f returns value f(x) in set B. Seems clear enough. Maybe the notation in the OP is related? How I can't be sure I can guess at all correctly.
For the driver problem: You should look into DKMS. That's a better stop-gap than holding back the kernel modules. What DKMS does is to re-compile your kernel module each time the kernel is updated. It can also move aside kernel modules with the same name in the base kernel. See http://linux.dell.com/dkms/manpage.html
Maryland commission rules Uber is 'common carrier,' will face regulations
How to create a MVP for an app without coding [free course]
FYI you can go into iOS preferences -> General -> Background App Refresh and turn off apps that you don't want to run in the background. I've done that with Swarm with no problems, and you can do it with other apps too (Facebook?)
Show HN: Spypatch – Secure Your Camera
Maybe it's the fact that I can actually watch all the launches now, and things are making the news. I'd never hear about the launch of anything in the 90s. It was all too mundane or routine to even get a note in the paper apparently.
Wouldn't the sequence numbering differ?
Congrats Gummi! Returning to Google to pull another Siri.
WordPress, Drupal XML Blowup Vulnerability Discovered
Constitutional amendment for data privacy passed 3-to-1 in Missouri yesterday!
Hmmmm... my gut reaction is to consider reframing the question.

Do you really need to know the shape of the distribution, or is it sufficient to know, say, various percentiles (e.g. 50%, 75%, 99%, 99.9%). If you're looking at metrics like response time usually 99% is all you care about. If this is the case there are efficient algorithms to estimate these values from streaming data using O(1) space with high probability bounds on error.

If you just need counts indexed by some key, then the count-min sketch might be sufficient (e.g. http://www.auai.org/uai2012/papers/231.pdf)

Finally, if you really do need to know the shape of the distribution should you be considering kernel density estimation (KDE) instead of histograms (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_density_estimation)? Most people would argue you should. Looks like there are streaming KDE algorithms, though I don't know how practical they are.
Best practice for this kind of leak is widely distributing encrypted files and then later distributing the key.
Uber is more established and Lyft has been the energetic 'new kid on the block.' Maybe it's because they are perceived as another startup and Uber is not? If they sustain their growth or at least keep strong market share in their locations they won't have that issue. I would give it another year though.
Why Static Code Is Bad (2013)
Rosetta arrives at comet destination
I suppose it has to be asked. Will installing Origin or this specific title result in the installation of intrusive and undisclosed DRM software on my computer? If so, can the game title still be played after removing Origin and any bundled DRM?
The unscientific origins of our obsession with viruses (1995)
Or just sensors?
I doubt that the McDonalds grill is cleaned at all during the day. If that were the only issue, you could get someone in every night and clean it/restock it. You certainly don't need AI to bag a meal (or even just _I_ for that matter).
I'm just trying to say that really a lot of the work can be replaced already but they haven't done it yet. Why?
I did come across DKMS during my research on solving the problem, and spent some time trying to figure out how to get it set up, but fizzled out in my attempts to get it working. Do you know of any more extensive tutorials on the matter? Real-world examples would also be hugely helpful. I couldn't find much. Thanks!
Accuracy shouldn't prevent us from telling stories about the future, stories that could inspire, and give us some direction about the possible future, even if some of them are wrong ,because some could be right.

And heck, i'm pretty sure there would be decent readership for such stories. But there aren't none as far as i can tell.
I had a second batch pre-order but bought a.. competitor board after the price increase.

some general thoughts on longboarding as a last-mile vehicle:

- to get good speed out of it you really need a bike lane

- I use a gun lock on the trucks, but it's hard to find a good spot to tie it to.

- carrying around 15 pounds is a pain, but I have a feeling reducing weight would also reduce stability

- it does get a lot of attention ("is that an electric skateboard?")

all in all I feel like it would only work for commuters with a good bike lane between home and work. Random destinations is just too much work.

I've had a lot of fun in parks though, just cruising and enjoying the boarding experience.
I can't use OpenGL on my croutonized ARM ChromeBook. I've installed ARCH on it, but still can't get proper OpenGL support there.

No problems with my intel based ones (HP Chromebook, HP Chromebox, and ACER c710).
To supervise what exactly?
> 90% of our checkin users have moved over to Swarm
Really? I find that extremely hard to believe that 90% of users would download a second app. That would be a super huge success if true. Or how do you define 'checkin user'? Someone who checks in every day? At least once a week? etc
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The title says San Diego, but the article references San Jose. Can we get the title corrected? I don't think San Diego has money for drones, unless ComicCon generated more tourist revenue than I thought. :)
babby's first scroll-hijacking landing page. In addition to shit usability, the heavy dependency on jQuery plugins is a big clue.
You can use progressive jpegs without progressive rendering. Google images isn't even using this, they are displaying a very low-res photo immediately, and loading a higher quality one in the background.

(and FYI, most sites that optimize their images (e.g. Facebook) use progressive jpegs for efficiency).
That's a good number, how do you define a "checkin user"?
I'm about as anti-suit as they come but this is patently false. A well tailored suit is about as forgiving as they come.
a la Haskell:

;;reducing fn
x->a->x

;;transducer fn
(x->a->x)->(x->b->x)
its a little late for that.
Does that hold for individual pick-up's and drop-off's, though? I take UberX to and from Reagan in D.C. every time. Can't imagine it's a huge leap to gather groups together the same way.

I have to believe the airport shuttle business which is huge, is going to go away at some point. Last time I took one I chose to pay with a credit card at the time of departure and the driver took my credit card and read it over a phone to a dispatch agent in front of an entire group of people who were forced to wait while it was authorized (this process was repeated for about two or three other people). I'm not even sure this is legal, but it certainly isn't optimal.
Dictatorship simulator cuts too close to the bone for Thailand's dictator
Reading all the suggestions here sparks my interest in an idea I was tinkering with last year after I moved into a big house and I wanted to monitor and control everything through the web / phone app. In addition, I wanted useful stats about everything (a lot were mentioned in this thread). The main problem I was trying to address was building a centralized system that would communicate with devices built on different protocols (Zigbee, ZWave, Bluetooth, etc.) and allow them to communicate with each other via the central controller.I started to work on it, but got caught up deciphering various protocols and have been trying to validate the idea before venturing further into it. I hate the idea of owning several independent systems and want something that's unified - at least as far as monitoring goes. It sounds like there is a need for smarter homes. I would love such a unified system at home. I've also considered creating hardware to facilitate certain use-cases.

If anyone wants to collaborate on this, it would be fantastic! I was planning on making it open-source and free for home use. It wouldn't be a bad idea to simply solve some of the use-cases for folks on HN.
Tutorial: Use the Sinch SDK to build a phone calling app in under 30 mins (iOS)
I think you want to automate the whole 'food chain', end to end, to make it profitable. Else you have robots AND employees, which costs more than one or the other.
Well, there are a lot of 'larger' men that look good in a suit. But they probably go for a double breasted one and tailor it right.

But even when I wasn't at my best, most suits are very forgiving in that area, it just needs to be tailored to your build (and not off the rack where they expect your shoulders, chest, hip be a certain generic proportion).
Reflecting back on one year of Kaggle contests
I wish they could just spin off a QT3-era widget library for cross platform desktop only stuff. All the new QtQuick declarative and mobile stuff just confuses me and gets in the way. Believe it or not, Qt used to be a small and lightweight library.
Do people remember Edubuntu? Maybe there should be a version called Codebuntu.
I'm not. Too many eyes on this now.
So the best way to distinguish between "open" companies that are hip to "hacker culture" (whatever that means) and "rigid" corporations is to look for a bounce house or t-shirt cannon?

I guess you can't fool anyone with a foosball table these days?
Hell yeah! This is a great initiative.

By university, many students have already set their minds against a career in tech. We need to reach kids earlier, when they are motivated by curiosity instead of social pressures.

This came up the other day. A 19 year old kid came to my door working for the electric company. We ended up talking a bit and he asked what I did. I explained I'm a designer/developer and I work from home. For him, that was a total mind blow and he explained how he always wanted to be a game developer. I suggested that he should try and that his current job was just a temporary thing he could use to invest in getting better.

The thing that bothered me, though, was that he didn't even think that he could do that, purely based on where he was from and what he saw around him (he alluded to being from the south side of Chicago). Stuff like Codestarter is a great step in the direction toward teaching kids of any background that they can do this stuff, just like everyone else.

Personally, I'd like to see something like this but with a more down-to-earth "here's what they told you and here's why it's wrong" lesson up front.
> If one person in every family made their in-laws grumpy about the CIA torture scandal, then the entire nation would (at least once, over the course of months/a year) have an actual discussion about the situation. That discussion then goes on to inform their views on various topics, including who they should vote for in the next election.

No, no, no, no, no. Things don't work like that. Even ignoring the backfire effect another commenter mentioned, you have this huge campaigns, PR and media machine optimized for politicians to make people have discussions politicians want. Media are actually mind-controlling nations and the funny thing is, people will tell you that they know it, and yet they act as if they weren't aware.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8142487.
You've seen GoldenEye too many times. Evil is selfish, not indiscriminate. Terrorists generally want control over some general area (or their own lives). They don't want to destroy human society. Society is what gives them food, shelter, and all the other things people like to have.

What you're describing would take not just one person who wanted to destroy all of human society, but quite a few of them.
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I've had security clearance (DV in UK) and a rapist axe murderer could get it. They have virtually no info on anyone and pretty just base it on your likelihood of compliance.

Its easy to game.
PE102 – a Windows executable format overview (updated to W8.1)
Maybe I'm missing something in the article, or disclosed elsewhere, but we don't know who s/he is. If the CIA put Thorium in their sushi, we'd have no way to connect the dots.

Edit: I think they'd be far more likely to prosecute them than assassinate them though.