skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple i might consider buying:

Seaboard: https://www.roli.com/seaboard/

EMR pickup: http://zvukolom.org/instruments/elektrosluch/

and from Stanford a Flowbee: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/ge-wang-who-has-the-most-high-lev...

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/groups

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(these are all interesting, but I'm going to stick to piano, clarinet, mandolin and cello, i think)
Do you have a feature where matches are only permitted for people with a relationship of "single"?

Probably another way to avoid the suggested trolling(which might occur) that others have mentioned.
I agree it's not a great picture.

One of the things that makes it a poor choice is that one of the people is probably female but she's been cropped almost out of the image.
> no idea how to work spacing on comments here

* Blank lines create new paragraphs,

Blank line followed by lines with
leading spaces create pre-formatted
text - intended for inserting code.

Under most circumstances, asterisks around text creates italics, the exception is when the asterisk is surrounded by space.

-- https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Building mindfulness into the Asana culture
Check out Flinto — no templates, but excellent for adding interaction to hand-drawn wireframes and prototypes.
Most of these topics have scant literature, or what is there is very theoretical in nature rather than something directly reducible to practice.

Greedy routing theory does have a lot of literature around it because it is used a lot in Layer-2 and Layer-3 packet routing protocols to optimize aggregate throughput of inherently decentralized systems. A lot of the robustness of modern IP networks are explained by this. However, above Layer-3 and particularly at the application level you almost never see properly designed distributed protocols; the people that design L2 routing protocols are not the people that design distributed systems and the knowledge is not transferred. (Admittedly this is a difficult mathematical area to understand with a lot of open problems. I know just enough to make good design decision but otherwise do not understand the underlying math.)

I've stated many times that the HPC algorithm people could learn a lot from the people that design distributed databases and that distributed databases theory can learn a lot from the people that design massively parallel HPC algorithms. As far as I can tell, those two groups of people do not talk to each other. I just happen to have done considerable R&D in both fields so I see what people in both domains are missing.

I've recently been tasked with writing about some of these topics, which should be interesting. My intent was not to bash or gloat but to highlight the point that we can do much better than we (or even I) are currently doing with distributed systems.
sorry for late replies guys, we got low karma and can't reply as often/fast as we'd like. thanks for the feedback/input. would reduce signup friction too, nice!
Regardless of what he did, $1.6 Billion USD is insane. I'm sure whatever he did, he deserved jail time, but that bail amount would be very hard to stick here in the US (seems a lot like extortion to me).
To be fair, most of these classes come with "laws" instances are supposed to follow, which are not encoded in the language...
Imagine if you were sampling the amount of black area in a checker board.
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Data and Visualization Tools to Track Ebola?
Not so insane when you consider the fraud he is accused of amounts to ~4 Billion USD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_India_Pariwar_investor_f...
Wonderful piece. A small typo: "Fuctor" in the first code sample.

Edit: I think "dependant" is also a typo. Apparently in British English it is used to mean a dependent in the sense of a child who relies on a parent for support, but when it's used as an adjective, "dependent" is still the correct spelling, even in British English.
I was hoping that this article would be about LSD, which has been clinically shown to be efficaceous in resetting several psychotropic behaviors. Disclaimer: I have never dropped LSD myself.
Sure, I understood that.
The advantage of Monte Carlo isn't that it's the best method, it's that it's so simple. You just sample random points and see how many are in the circle.
Where do you source the data if you're interested in getting started in your own family history and your personal archives are fairly limited?
Best birthday present ever
Ooh, exciting.

Although my needs always seem to be shifting, because I'm back behind a NAT (and carrier-grade NAT as well) now so my new trial is finding a way to punch-through that and put all my devices on a common VPN before I get round to setting up CardDav/CalDAV servers for myself again.
I think blaming the W3C is absolutely correct here as well. The W3C has a principle to defend: The open web. And they are simply throwing it overboard by allowing this. TimBL even made a statement in favour of it. Yes, refusing to accept the standard won't change the reality because Google, Microsoft, and Apple are in favour of DRM and they'll do it no matter what the W3C will say. But at least the W3C would stay true to the principles of an open web.
Bug 64116 – How does one fix journal corruptions?
Distroshare – share customized open source OSes such as Linux, FreeBSD, etc.
Agree with this, as he says pumping another post into the internet.

Last proper break I had was in an 1997. Went to see a friend but didn't make it. Stopped off at an interesting looking charity shop (thrift store for my US cousins) and bought a copy of Calculus for the Practical Man. Got rather into it eating a petrol station sandwich and ended up staying in a Travelodge for a week with myself and a pencil and my old Nokia 5.1 turned off.

When I tell people this they assure me that I'm mentally ill but it was like you meditation focussing on something intently without distraction for for that period of time even though I've never used the knowledge gained.

Now I have a family so I'm good for an hour here and there but sometimes I get up in the night for distraction free time and sleep on the job ;-)
I'm much more excited about live-coding environments that foster new structural forms, like Extempore and its siblings, over Tesla coils and triggering techniques that are much, much more in line with traditional innovations.

Machover's Biomuse is over 20 years old and dot-matrix Star Wars is at least 10, and I don't really see those progressing beyond gimmickry, or at the high end engendering loop-pedal and sample-trigger (MPC, et al) artists that tend to hew to standard forms. Sadly, the heretofore promises of computer environments such as MAX/pure-data and even Ableton (when stretched) have caught their more experimental practitioners in a vortex of randomness, likewise let's-see-where-this-goes algo composers under compiled environments like SuperCollider. I'm all for the death of the author, but the book still needs to be legible.

Of course, all of this speaks only to my own preferences. None of us can predict the future.

Suffice it to say that I think the most meaningful musical statements tread a line between tool-exercise (because-I-can sound generation) and songwriting, and playing AC/DC with a Tesla coil really doesn't say much in that context. Now, treat a Van De Graaf generator like headphones so that the person touching it can experience the sensations of static electricity as a component of music, as a frequency-oriented tactile instrument, and I might start turning my ears (and hair) toward the welder-tunes crowd.
what do you think of the flowbee?
Migrating your Django Project to Heroku – Real Python
jordan rudess of dream theater is really into the seaboard
Innovations may be happening, and perhaps it's unreasonable to expect major leaps, but none of these incremental innovations seem big enough to make anyone stand out for very long.

It goes against the whole idea of open source hardware, but making the fruits of your R&D labors available for anyone to copy also ensures that even if you are innovating, you don't have much of a window to differentiate yourself within before your competitors catch up.
Free Photo Editing Software Lets You Manipulate Objects in 3D
Amazon blocks Disney DVD pre-orders amid Hachette spat
How many of the 47% were also feminists?
To estimate probability distributions, you need data that is non-random. Non-random means there's a pattern. That's another word for correlation.

In using those methods you may never calculate correlation as a number, but when those methods find something you still rely on the fact that there is a correlation.
> The advantage of Monte Carlo isn't that it's the best method

I feel like you didn't read a single sentence of my comment, because that's exactly what I said I was not saying.
So he discovered the Either monad (?!)...
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what is "the right direction"?

That sounds very flexible to the whims of the politician or populist movement at the time.
I use a Dell XPS 13 and it works like a charm :)
Irreplaceable core product value
TR-069 allows many home routers supplied by ISPs to be compromised en masse
I would love a software that did this, but without so many options, in a more freely way, a tree-view, you know.

Who are the people using this? Why they need so many options?
Original defcon presentation at http://shahart.al/I-hunt-TR-069-admins-shahar-tal-dc22.pdf
How I accidentally gave away my game for free
Starting doing better personal archives now so your descendants will have something to work with.
Generalized Threading Macro in Clojure
Yes, I don't check if the same user logged in with a different social account.

Modular enough for my needs. I tried https://github.com/mattupstate/flask-social which seems to be a more structured approach but couldn't wrap my head around it.
Nitpick (since I don't dispute your main point): Parents aren't the sole source of influence in a person's formative years. Kindergarten, neighborhood, peer group, school are just as if not more influential. In fact, some promising ways to inject higher quality human capital than some families are able to provide on their own rely on those other channels.
The DRM mechanism can't really be open source. You could simply change it to write the unencrypted video data to the disk if it were.

A plugin DRM module will also have to do all of the video rendering and displaying. Because if it just hands the unencrypted stream back to the browser then you could change the browser to simply write it to disk.

The relevant DRM mechanisms will come from Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Adobe. Both Apple and Microsoft have no interest in supporting GNU/Linux. You won't get their DRM on GNU/Linux no matter how simple it is. Google seems to ship their DRM now on the GNU/Linux version of Chrome. But I don't know if the license allows using it in other browsers. Which would be hindered by the fact that Google uses their own unspecified PAPPI. Adobe wants to provide a DRM module for Firefox EME mechanism. But we all know from enough bad experience how well Adobe does GNU/Linux support. Flash on GNU/Linux was even worse than on any other system until they simply stopped it. They recently even stopped distributing Acrobat Reader for GNU/Linux. So yeah, great hope there. Even if they compile the module for GNU/Linux because Mozilla asks them to then we can expect the typical Adobe software safety and quality... Remember HTML5 was supposed to rid the world of Flash, Silverlight, and such things. Not force those binary blobs into the spec.
It's not like his machine itself killed the fish, the rain did. The warning system he set is what failed. If he hadn't built it, the fish still would have died.
1) The editorial guidelines (http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Meta:Editorial_guidelines) state:

While citations are preferred wherever
possible, we do not require them. Much
of our wiki is primary source material,
sometimes added anonymously in order to
avoid backlash against the whistleblower.
Original research is welcome.

2) The Geek Feminism Wiki, although simply referring to itself as "feminist", subscribes to a particular form of third-wave poststructural feminism that is not so much concerned with equity, as it is preoccupied with dubious and subjective gender politics. Indeed, their editorial guidelines outright say "[We]... accept each person's self-reporting of their feelings and lived experiences as valid". Ultimately, this leads to a lot of bias, misrepresentation and is only a specific feminist viewpoint.
Molds are extremely complex objects, amongst the most complex mechanical objects that I've worked with. The precision to which they are fabricated, the thermal management to allow for fast cycles and high numbers of product produced from the same mold are absolutely incredible. The principles are simple but moldmaking is an absolute art form and unless you've seen a moldmaker at work at a reasonably high end facility I don't think you should be throwing out price points and opinions.

50K is actually very much on the low end for mold making, of course everything depends on size, expected # of products, cycle speed. An sizeable edm produced mold of tungsten with copper laminate for heat management is going to be a lot more expensive than a small mold for a protoype run where speed and number of products are not critical.
Doing so would reflect poorer on the OP actually.

Maybe this business succeeds, maybe they fail (they are a startup, and most startups don't succeed).

But, the OP will always need a job. And quite frankly, getting upset over a termination and coming online and bringing major flak to the business is a sure-fire way to get the OP rejected out of any HM's stack if they know what they are doing. Why would I want to hire someone who has a history of flaming previous employers? It doesn't matter the reason they flamed the previous employers, it's the fact that they did it at all. That goes double for anyone who is trying to get hired into top executive positions, such as COO.

It's not personal, it's business... and if the OP can't distinguish between the two, then he's not ready for top level executive positions.
I've thought about getting a 3d printer to mess around with for a long time. But before I drop the money and spend the time, I sit around and try and figure out what exactly I'd do with one once I had it.

I don't really have any useful modeling skills, so I'd be reliant on 3d models I could find elsewhere. So I go to http://www.thingiverse.com/ and to be honest, even at the price of free, I can't find a single thing I'd ever be interested in having sitting around my house. Almost every object available is a novelty statue made by a fan of some geek favorite property, or some incredibly specific part for things I don't own.

I mean, do I really need to invest a couple hundred to a couple thousand dollars and hundreds of hours of my time to print off a low quality t-slot hinge when I could just stop off at my local home deport and pick up a high quality metal hinge for $2.95?

In almost every case where I think it'd be cool to have a printer sitting around in the off chance I really needed to spend $3 in ABS plastic and spend a half hour assembling a lens cap, I can usually find an actual version of the part cheaper and higher quality on-line somewhere and I don't have to muck around with anything.

I'm obviously the wrong kind of audience for 3d printers as they are now. But I don't think I'm that atypical of the general audience that's out there. The economics and ROI on 3d printers don't remotely work out for anybody who's not a tinkerer. Until I can start printing off exact-to-quality copies of my favorite shoes for 1/3rd the store price, or entire working keyboards I don't have to assemble and find electronics. I just don't see much of a general market.
you could start with various hardware compatibility lists, but the only recent recurring issues i remember is with some wireless chipsets, ATI graphics chipsets and off-brand printers.

And my HP Pavilion that i couldn't get wifi to work on, seems ot have made it onto this list anyway: http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/make/HP/?categor...
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Take a closer look, Jannic. I did cite that page, created in 2010. The version I referred to was from 20 March 2014 (date also found in the list of references, in line with the requirements of this particular journal)
That just means you can't sue them. I'm sure any service can think of has a similar warning in their ToS. Did he have any reason to believe Twitter was more likely to fail than whatever alternative?
SkyBox (aquired by Google) is one step further with their satellite videos:
http://www.skyboximaging.com/
but it's good to see some competition.

It looks like it's just question of time (and privacy) until we have Google Maps with satellite videos.
Breaching experiment
You fucken nigger.

My operating system is done.

God said 640x480 16 color was a covenant.
Regarding ship times, it seems to depend on the industry as well as commercial vs enterprise software as well. New products and old products make a difference as well. On new products, I think you are generally correct but on established products companies can get by doing this.

The first company I worked for professionally was enterprise software and the market leader in the space had a tendency for years to knowledgeably ship poor quality products at specific times either due to legal reasons or financial reasons. They would try to staff up for releases and use contractors and all sorts of techniques to actually make the releases semi-legitimately. There was an unspoken acknowledgement not to use those versions though (actually I think they actually put a sleeve in the DVD saying not to install it in production once and to wait for the next point release coming in 2 months). I left them and became their customer and currently use 7 year old versions because the latest versions break things we need but its known that you never install their shipping version and wait for at least the first service pack.

I know in one case some customer contract/government mandate specified releases must be made by end of calender year so regardless there was a release regardless of current state of the project. The other cases were usually financial and it was due to something like if the DVDs physically shipped by end of quarter then revenue could be recognized in that quarter. Since this is enterprise the customer may or may not pay at that time since they are usually just paying yearly support but its the accounting games that are played that forced the time. In my current company we use standard accounting practices and our VCs have told us that if we are not using "creative" accounting we are doing it wrong so revenue recognition times or invoice time sneak in rather than collection time into the books.
People are horrible at driving in any kind of bad weather. They speed through foggy conditions where they can't see 50 feet in front of them. They drive too fast or erratically on icy or snowy conditions, or they just flat out don't know how to handle the conditions and swerve/oversteer.

If people were any good at it there would be no increase in crashes during winter, foggy or wet weather conditions.

Self driving vehicles will have the same issues with seeing in the visual spectrum in bad weather as humans but they will also have the advantage of IR for example in knowing if something is in the fog/snow in front of them and how to react to that.

You also remove the emotional component. Humans in really bad weather tend to either ignore it(which is risky) or drive scared(which leads to over reactions which leads to accidents). For the second case things like over correcting, slamming on breaks, swerving, etc all lead to tons of accidents that are easily avoidable.
The Deal Truck is Live
Apart from an extremely strong correlation.
Charities should not be in the business of enriching their employees. They should be paying as little as possible.
Accessing a Secure MQTT Broker with Android
Hi guys, I built this experiment last week and announced it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8117100

It was very well received, thank you! (What’s Deal Truck? Jump to the bottom of this comment.)

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Hacker News has a history of sharing stats so I’ll join in the tradition. (Early HN folk will remember great posts from @patio11, @balsalmic and Markus from PoF.)

The post reached #3, attracting 9,950 uniques, 850 of which were in San Francisco. This resulted in 68 new text message subscribers and 6 pickup requests, almost exclusively furniture.

I rented a 17’ U-Haul truck and am currently on the streets of San Francisco. I used Craigslist to find someone to help on the truck. I’m paying him $200 for the day.

Rental trucks are surprisingly cheap – I reserved a 17’ truck for $30 + $2/mi. I'm a sucker, so paid $14 for $15k cargo insurance.

After years of native mobile development I’m using a vanilla web stack. Rails 4, Bootstrap 3, and Twilio. The app is built for mobile, thanks to responsive layouts and text message alerts. Build time was a little over 1 week.

Happy to answer any questions as I get a break between pickups!

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What is Deal Truck?

I'm renting a truck to pick up anything you want to sell. Furniture, appliances, etc. – anything of value that fits on a moving truck, as long as it works, is in good condition, and isn’t something you'd typically donate.

At pickup, we photograph your items, put them on the truck, ask for minimum selling prices, and notify SF folks of the deal. Highest bidder after 90 mins gets the item delivered. We have 100’s of interested buyers in SF.
Can we ban articles with the word "hacker" in them. It's annoying as fuck.
Too many not-russian nations. Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan, Georgia, Dagestan - they aren't russians. So photos with their national wears shouldn't be signed as 'Russia'.
New Zoo Concept Gets Rid Of Enclosures
I agree although I wish there were paraphrase quotes, or some way to make paraphrasing clear, because it's very useful.
Thanks - will look at that!
Interesting about Germany and the increase in human trafficking. When they chose to legalize, I thought may be this is a good thing.
Second paragraph:

"But beware the false break. Make sure you have a real one."
A small anecdote on this point. I first sent the article to a journal where the editors insisted that I say something about Bunge and the other German scientists involved in the early history. I refused, because it would have taken attention away from the main topic of the article, and sent the article to SSS instead.
In short: no.

Today's programmable Internet is an existence proof of this answer.

In the 90s and early-2000s there were a lot of attempts to codify machine-discoverable protocols: WSDL, SOAP, etc. There are still a lot of people that are sort of obsessed with this idea. Three things have happened:

(1) the weight and complexity that's come along with those protocols has been larger than the value they bring. Auto-generating proxies just isn't that helpful when you still need a human brain to figure out how to connect things together and make them useful.

(2) The growth and success cloud-based apps shows that better protocols are not a necessary factor on today's Internet. This does not deny that better/faster/richer protocols could improve things, it's just not clear that's a critical-path problem. It's just not hard to look at REST docs and wire shit together, regardless if it's optimal or not.

(3) Layering app-level use cases over HTTP (HATEOAS, OAUTH) works pretty well when you're navigating known domains.
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Is HBase’s slow and steady approach winning the NoSQL race?
Bringing MQTT authentication and REST together
This is the "good kind" of information leak ;-)
Digital Organisms