skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That happened to me too. Are you using the Disconnect plugin for Firefox (or something similar)? I had to whitelist the site in Disconnect, then it worked.
There's no need to shelve the entire visualization simply because the metrics are not relevant (I hope). It looks like it's built with D3, so it shouldn't be too much effort to swap out the data with something that actually does have value.

By the way that's seriously misrepresenting the file drawer effect. Your effort has been spent building the visualization, not doing independent research. If you spend some time on statistical analysis of something that can be reasonably expected to be correlated and find that it's not, please do publish that information. But that's simply not the case here.
What about dynamic routes, like user profiles? Also, the ease of just letting you guys automatically take care of it would be ideal (especially if I was paying for the service.)
I've used this a few times to debug running processes that were having small issues that weren't bad enough to restart the system to put in a proper manhole, but bad enough to be affecting users. Worked perfectly to figure out what was going on, and to patch the naughty method.

It's one of those tools that you'll be glad exists when the need arises, but you'll feel a little dirty using it.
You could also simply work with Crossfilter [0] and D3 [1] directly. They're both great libraries, and learning their APIs independently seems more valuable.

[0]: http://square.github.io/crossfilter/

[1]: http://d3js.org/
There was a mildly annoying effect somewhat reminiscent to pop-in seen when terrain geometries go from lower to higher detail in video games. It was particularly evident here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOpwHaQnRSY#t=170

It would, I think, be even more distracting if the video was higher resolution.
wow this is incredible!
Your response is ripe with irony.

'A world where multi-verse and string theory are sooner accepted ...' indicates a world where there is agency, and thus will. We won't even go near your normative subjective ideas about the 'good'.

You can't both deny the existence of free will, and castigate those whom with you disagree. If you're right, then none of us can be wrong -- certainly no more than a plant or a rock or the moon can be wrong.
Honest question. Why would I want to use this? I am already quite happy with awk,sed,grep, etc.
Indian telecom Trai floats plan to put fee on free apps, including WhatsApp
>If someone makes it through the airport screens and carries the virus into a city, the epidemiology could become overwhelming before we know an outbreak has begun.

Could, but very unlikely to, as Ebola doesn't spread as easily as cold or flu viruses.

Most of the outbreaks in Africa, where numerous dangerous practices such as hospitals reusing needles helped spread the virus, have had only a few hundred cases. The latest outbreak is pushing towards 2000 cases but local practices that don't exist in the West are contributing significantly.
If McDonald's isn't providing jobs, then there's little incentive for allowing one to be built in your community.

McDonald's corporate would rather build more stores, than reduce overhead for franchisees.
How Times Square Works
Thanks! I was seeing blank page because of Disconnect. Unblocking just Google tracking without whitelisting the site worked too.
They are specifically targeting CFD applications, and so the cited FLOPs count might be misleading (but I don't know enough about optical computing to say for sure) I will comment on why I think this is so.

If this tool can perform very fast fourier transforms then it will benefit many simulation codes which rely on an approximation technique known as spectral approximation. In that case the huge FLOP/s count will only be realized in "high orders," that is when these spectral methods are pushed to their limits - in which case much existing research today breaks down and the methods can simply become unusable by e.g. yielding a 'theoretically' invertible matrix that has a numerically infinite condition number; no amount of fourier transforms can dig you out of that hole. This problem is not fully understood in the spectral method literature, and it rears its face in many different ways depending on the problem context.

GPUs have a similar problem, their ability to churn out dense linear algebra operations at high scale is so good that the vast majority of algorithms have a huge memory bottleneck, not a FLOP/s bottleneck. The result is people rarely see the insane promised 100X speedup of their simulation codes because they rarely are one massive dense linear algebra operation such as a matrix-matrix multiply, but rather a combination of small dense linear algebra ops + memory bound operations like gathers and scatters. Ironically spectral methods also work very well on the GPU in high orders, because they effectively replace memory bound operations with dense linear algebra operations - which the GPU eats for breakfast, but again: high orders -> still an unsolved area of simulation mathematics; a lot of things happen which we don't have the answer for and they frequently disrupt the method from being applicable.

As someone who uses spectral methods every day I would love to see this optical device work and therefore hopefully really push research hard on resolving some of its problems. I suspect its initial use will be limited to specialized problems, however.
but if you ask those in US they might say for worse.

American here. I definitely wish it was easier for high-skilled people in other countries to obtain documents for working here.
I wonder why we never see articles about the gender imbalance in investment banking, underwater welding, or trucking.
The point of comfort for the U.S. is that ebola transmission currently requires direct contact with bodily fluids--not that it's easy to diagnose.

If you had a fever and went to work, and it turned out you had ebola, it's still unlikely you would infect your coworkers, because it is rare for American workers to directly contact each others' bodily fluids.

Think of ebola like AIDS that kills faster. That's the right mental model for how it is transmitted. And, it's a good reminder that we have decades of practice managing diseases transmitted that way.
> That's obviously linkbait

This is a whole new meta that my brain is really having a hard time grokking.
(hm can't edit) Anyway, I thought about it more and realized the rain (100% humidity I suppose) probably skews that figure. When it's sunny, it's actually quite dry here as evidenced by my hair staying put, where on the east coast, I'd normally look like a chia pet.
I used to be a certified apple trainer, this really paints their training program in the best light possible, it interprets fairly normal corporate training stuff as original ideas.

Most of the training programs are just like any well made otj training, the comment about employees signing up for job specific courses is misleading, while they had some optional courses, it was just like any online course management system, a simple way to manage initial and ongoing job training.

In Apple's defense, their otj training was still better than any subsequent company I have worked at.
The term “co-creator” (at the end of the article) jumped out to me as an ideal way to treat all employees of a company. If everyone’s ideas about company processes are valued and integrated, that creates an atmosphere of respect and allows everyone to invest in the success of the processes. Sounds like a great work environment.
And Buzzfeed reporters are being interviewed on NPR about Ukraine (I think) and other serious world locations.
I found the same for the ability to divide numbers by 17 in my head... it really didn't get me a lot of action.
This looks amazingly cool. And it just happens that I have a specific and imminent need to work with visualizing semantic networks, making this very timely and appreciated here.
Obligatory +1 for launching in Vancouver!
Does anyone else find it sorta ironically odd that one of the masterminds behind this great stuff is now a .... gasp Facebook ... employee?? my heart kinda aches.
I was expecting a bit more from the article, but I noticed couple of things:

1. The program was established in 2008, which I think is relatively late and coincides with Jobs rapid deterioration of health. I guess Jobs was deeply concerned about the long term prospect of Apple.

2. As novel as the idea may seem, it didn't sound too different than garden variety internal training programs offered at larger Fortune companies.

3. Sounds like Apple HR is growing. I'd be interested to find out what percent of employees fall under HR, before and after 2008.

It should be noted that Jobs was never big on performance metrics.
Would it be possible to do something like this for audio? It would be incredible to sample an hour-long album or mix in minutes.
It's the EXACT headline from the article! Maybe HN should penalize people for complaining about the titles of submissions, because it seems like no matter how someone titles their submission, someone is going to have a problem with it. Complaining about "headline editorialization" doesn't do anything to fix the problem.

Downvote and move on. We don't need to have this stupid conversation every time.
That looks really really nice. It's like it was built with javascript in mind rather than strVisualBasic i6.0 ;). I'm going to rip datatables out of my current project and put this in.

Have you considered (or implemented) col or row spans? A particular dataset I have to work with has multilevel column and row titles - so I've avoided using datatables for that.
Building Node.js applications with App Engine and Custom Runtimes
There are varieties of compatibilism (the view that determinism and free will are compatible) that do not require the existence of souls. I'd suggest taking a look at Daniel Dennett's _Elbow Room_ for one example.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has an article on the subject: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/
Hasn't this been going on for a while?
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I don't follow.

How does free will+determinism imply an outside influence?

I see no convincing reason that an entirely deterministic thing can't have "free will".

Though I don't remember ever having found a definition of "free will" that I've found satisfactory.

I don't think compatibilism implies a belief in anything "supernatural" though.

(quotes to indicate things potentially not being exactly the right term, or other similar indications)
10% of Android Banking Apps Vulnerable
Does anyone have experience with both StumpWM and i3? How do they compare? I'm happy with i3, but am curious about other similar window managers.
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Will it build with a modern compiler?
Hondas are very common in Massachusetts.

Hondas seem to be more expensive than comparable cars from other makes (They do seem to last longer though).

As an happy honda Element owner, after they canceled that model I'm starting to wonder what my next car will be.
I'll be the immature one and say I'm curious how funny porn would turn out with this speeding it up by 10x. They don't show much of how it deals with people and I imagine the results would be terribly funny looking- but perhaps awesome.

Also, I will pay $$$ for this to use with my motorcycle footage from GoPros.
The world can be deterministic and still allow free will with respect to a real observer. In some sense it doesn't matter if a person's actions are in principle predictable when there is no observer who can actually make those predictions. You'd have to measure and simulate the entire universe to predict a single particle's future.
Entrepreneur who succeeded on his own: his story and the tools he’s using
Takes me back to high school. I used to sit in my room for hours working on keygennerators.
I find the service great. Though I wondered why I see the hashbang in my adress bar. Is it better for SEO? It's usually used as fallback solution for HTML5 history (pushstate, etc).
That is because Seattle's humidity quickly turns into dew:

http://www.komonews.com/weather/faq/4308492.html
They announced that GameMaker studio was free for the Windows version. https://www.yoyogames.com/news/227

Some alternatives are Enigma (http://enigma-dev.org/)

Or Game Develop (http://www.compilgames.net/)
You can do those kinds of quick reports in text files conveniently in emacs org-mode nowadays:

http://orgmode.org/org.html#The-spreadsheet
Contaminated vaccine?
Why “The Right to Be Forgotten” should be a basic human right
I find that really hard to believe. I'm a designer / junior front-end dev & I would laugh at 80k now that I'm in SFBA.
This article is starting to bug me.

First, the author makes the claim that the team was given the McDonalds for use for this particular mission but that, as far as I know, is false. They have had the space for some time while they were restoring lunar orbiter images.

Second, the team's/company's news updates show that they had to buy more equipment than an old radio, a mac laptop and some parts to fix a broken tv, specifically, a software defined radio (sdr).
How do I compare NoSQL Databases?
The title wasn't link bait -- it was a journalistic choice by the New York Times author to mock BuzzFeed.

Once again, I think you guys made the wrong choice. Once again, I'll point out that if you want to do heavy handed moderation, you need to spend more time understanding why something is the way it is, which means you'll need to spend more time doing it.

Once again I'll point out that this is why we didn't do heavy handed moderation at reddit -- it's just too hard to get it right.
It wasn't link bait. See my reply above.
Yep, you have to make a separate request to the github API to actually get the address.
As a result, any company invested in by Andreessen Horowitz is now of lesser value, lower integrity, and less worth of promotion in my opinion. We can talk and discuss and debate "free market" and monetizing content and whatever other rationalization you have for this investment, but in the end, BuzzFeed is not real journalism and does not conduct itself ethically (looking at you, BuzzFeed writers taking content from Reddit and only sometimes giving credit), and as a result, I think that's a message AH is sending, "integrity, ethics, and quality is not important, just $$$"

Edit: once again, anything that goes against the grain of the HN-hivemind is being downvoted without explanation :-) For a site that prides itself in not being Reddit, HN sure acts like Reddit wrt downvotes.
This was an unusual case, that was made more unusual that the headline was changed to make it even MORE confusing.

That's why I added the clarification note.
Ask HN: Is there an app that can predict traffic based on data from Google Maps?
Google Maps can only predict future travel time for public transport. Is there an app that does this for traveling in a vehicle based on historical data?
Either you enjoyed (re)reading them, so it was worth the time investment, or you didn't enjoy it and you shouldn't read it through at all?
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Why Knowing how to Code won't Save Virtual Citizens
Presumably end users are already paying for bandwidth...they want the app provider to pay as well? Isn't that double dipping?
ANU Scientists create a Tractor Beam on water [video]
> Present day electron based CPUs already compute at the speed of light!

No, speed is still below c, which is why on high-frequency signal routes on PCBs the traces must be length-matched, sometimes down to tenths of millimeters.
Wrong. This is a stupid worthless comment. Everyone who contributed to it should be fired.
Really great read. Agree with almost everything written. The only part I'd find hard to implement would be the pre-meeting meditation...
I've tried once to have a colleague, a certified Yoga instructor, to have short Yoga sessions in the morning with everyone, but it quickly became a joke, not a real thing.
We consider free will important because we like to think we make our decisions based on our own individual identity, rather than physical properties of the universe that predetermine what we will do.

Even if free will exists, our mechanism for arriving at a decision to do one thing over another thing pretty much needs to be context-dependent - i.e. we make that decision based on some line of reasoning (whether correct or not).

At the same time, everything we've experienced and consider to be part of our own individual identities, the stuff that defines our free will, is incorporated as a part of that context. So many people argue that free will and determinism are still pretty much compatible.

Nevermind all the other crap we like to pretend doesn't influence our decisions like whatever crazy hormones happen to be elevated at the time.
I was thinking of John Carmack :-)
No. Why would it be ironic? Facebook has a huge amount of engineering talent.
Or is it more relevant to say "this is HOW I want to learn"? I'd contend that one of the best ways for a person to learn about technology / engineering /computing / ... is to open things up and see how they work.

It's an especially good way for teenagers to learn, before they get bogged down in the exam regime of the later years of high school, as they have insatiable curiosity and a seemingly infinite amount of time. In the hands of a curious teenager, a smart phone and an open-ended mandate to break it, could be a pocket sized, multi-year course in nearly every aspect of electronics and programming.
A recent gallup survey says 150M people would move to the US if they could, the UK was a distant second at 45M [1].

As for the lottery, how else could it be done? There is a cap on H1-B visa each year. The USCIS receives more applications than spots the first day you can apply.

[1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/153992/150-million-adults-worldwi...
If you know usa gov makes a lot of similar obstacles for foreigner companies, you will be more neutral on this issue.
I'm so happy to see action from those outside of those immediately affected. There's clearly a problem in the U.S. and whats worse is that the general public doesn't believe a problem exists due to the fact that president happens to be black. Problems can be hard to solve but its nearly impossible when people don't see it to begin with. They way this particular event happened is sad but I personally hope this opens up a much larger discussion and one that doesn't die down.
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Why the HN doesn't say anything about usa making obstacles to foreign countries?
Problem with the L1 is that as I understand it, if you are on a L1 you can't apply for a green card or a H1B to stay more permanently in the US. So you are basically wedded to the company you have the visa with.
Everything that Apple does is exaggerated. And this Picasso stuff - "Simplifying the Bull: How Picasso Helps to Teach Apple’s Style" looks like a nice PR stunt ahead of the new iPhone launch.
waze ?
An auction is the obvious solution. Submit bids with your application for the fee to be paid yearly to the USA and the highest bidders get the H1-B visas.

There's no need to raise the cap and all the Apples and Googles get all the applicants they want. Today the majority of H1-B visas go to Wipro and Infosys and the like for low paid tech grunts; Apple won't have any trouble outbidding them. And those tech grunt companies aren't doing anything valuable for the USA so it won't be any loss to have them struggle.

In fact, we should be able to drop the cap to a more reasonable 30-40,000 instead of the recent 85,000.

And we should be able to eliminate almost all the paperwork. In the current system, a US government bureaucrat tries to determine if you're qualified when you apply. Applicants hire lawyers to fake, translate, fabricate, apostille, and make up education and work experience that USCIS expects. If applicants are paying cash, we can presume they're qualified and reduce the application paperwork to one page.
Didn't the same Wikipedia page itself mentions that Mr. Jobs is also a co-founder?
That specific point was about Google. At Asana, we offer 1:1 and group Yoga sessions, and some people get together to meditate. A lot of people take it quite seriously, but it's in no way pushed on anyone.
A16Z also invested in PandoDaily: http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pandodaily
I'm not sure where to start.

The first diagram of the proof starts with "there exists some experimenter with at least some free will". That's a problem, as it uses the argument's conclusion as one of its premises.

Using a simpler example, it'd be like saying, "To prove that aliens exist, let me show you three simple steps: 1) let's assume aliens exist, 2) ...

The second problem here is that he seems to be trying to illustrate that if things cannot be predicted that we have free will. This is a common fallacy in the free will debate. Randomness is an attack on fatalism, but offers ZERO degree of control to humans, and therefore has no place in the free will debate.

Finally, if you want to see a much better argument, in the other direction, check out my Two Lever Argument Against Free Will that uses 25 lines of Ruby.

http://danielmiessler.com/blog/two-lever-free-will-ruby/
time is kind of an essential component to music...
To me, this argument is a strong defense of the "self", but does not address the "free" part at all. It is like saying that a rock is free to weigh more than a marshmallow because of the complicated history that lead it to being this rock.
An Aug 2nd tweet from John Carmack started "Onboarding at Facebook went well...". My thought was "nobody onboards that guy?!?! he onboards YOU!!" I just hope talent like John Carmack can still spread their wings in that environment and do the things that got them to that point.
But it would just be an illusion no? If the discovery were made that the universe is entirely deterministic it wouldn't matter whether any one person could, or any number of people, could produce accurate meaningful predictions. The truth alone would VERY disruptive.
That's an optimistic view, especially as they are moving swiftly in the opposite direction with their "native advertising" push. That's why they are an attractive investment, and that is anti-journalism.
Url changed from http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/11/tractor-beam-for-water/, which points to this.
jobs did co-found pixar, but the way he did it was to fund the spin out of people and IP from lucas.

http://www.pixar.com/about/Our-Story and page over to 1986:

"Steve Jobs purchases the Computer Graphics Division from
George Lucas and establishes an independent company
to be christened "Pixar." At this time about 44
people are employed."
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Propagation velocity in copper is within a factor of 2 or so of c; you would have to length-match even at vp=c, given a short enough clock period.
An interview with Uber from 2010