skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The original decision to drop it was based on telemetry showing the majority of users never touching bookmarks.

Advanced users often deactivate telemetry (for privacy reasons). So you the telemetry statistics cover the normal users. For example: Microsoft made the same mistake and trusted their telemetry statistics too much. That's why they made (in retrospect) stupid and rather unpopular decisions in their recent products.
Vaccine trials are essentially this. You give some percentage of the population the vaccine, and you compare their survival rates to the rest of the population.
This is faulty reasoning. To think that the female reproductive system developed prior to the fetus (in order to pave way for nurturing of the embryo) is implying evolution is a purpose-driven, goal-oriented process - a line of reasoning not too far from "intelligent design".

Not to mention the egg-chicken dichotomy is absurd. There was neither a "first chicken" nor a "first egg".

Single celled protists first developed sexual reproduction about 2 billion years ago as a means of producing genetically variable offsprings. It may be assumed both the offspring and the reproductive machinery of the parents developed concomitantly as life was making a shift from uni-cellularity toward multi-cellularity.

As for mammals (which includes us humans), the placenta, which serves as an important barrier between the mother and the fetus (only letting nutrition pass through), is of viral origin. Placental syncytiotrophoblasts SCT-1, SCT-2 proteins are derived from endogenous retroviruses. Our genome is full of fossils of viral DNA - accumulated over several millions of years. If these viruses had not apt-get install-ed biological chroot jails, we would not have been born at all.. (obviously some other modes of reproduction may have been developed)

Carl Zimmer has some interesting write-ups on this topic:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/02/14/mammals-ma...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/science/12paleo.html

For those interested in evolution of sexual reproduction and "viro-biome", I recommend Carl Zimmer's Planet of Viruses and Matt Ridley's Red Queen.

I agree the article is a bit sensationalist. Look at it in this way: had it been a boring, academic, science-journaly piece, many of us wouldn't have waded through the article at all... Obviously the target audience for that article (and the site) are general science-buffs and not only embryologists or molecular biologists. Personally I think some dramatisation (to make the content more appealing to general audience) is acceptable - so long as the subject matter doesn't deviate too much from reality.

PS: apologies for my broken english :)

PPS: Re: the chicken & egg question - the egg came first because reptilians laid eggs. Chickens, and birds in general, are descendants of dinosaurs.
Meh, that's a way to talk about it but the standard type system of Haskell doesn't include subtyping like that. It's possibly you could apply a subtyping analysis to Haskell, but it's certainly non-standard and I'm not sure what you really, literally gain.
Hm, cannot reproduce, sorry!
What an actuary does depends, other replies indicate that actuaries don't do as much programming as I thought they did. However, I do a lot. At the moment I'm mainly responsible for building a large cash flow model (40k lines of VBA).
Thanks. Hopefully this helps, tested it in the XCode simulator: https://github.com/stevekrouse/hs.js/commit/3558d2575a194d73...
Do you think crowdsourcing $300B/year is going to be (A) feasible, and (B) more capital efficient than having a bunch of experts attempting to extract maximum value from their revenue stream?

I think crowdsourcing can certainly play a role (and in effect the NIH is a big crowdsourced entity, and accounts for a huge amount of pharmaceutical research), however it does not seem like a full replacement.
I just got mine. What seemed odd to me is that the From name was Kindle Direct Publishing, and it is an amazon.com address, but the site is called "Readers United."

I appreciate Amazon's position here. There have been some other posts on HN where a few folks have made strong points in favor of Amazon. But I don't like how this site is presented as a readers effort with that name.
You might want to run that json through a prettifier.
Top gov't spyware company hacked; Gamma's FinFisher leaked
The movie ticket vs. book price example in the article above seems like it comes from the article below. This is a great read regarding the history of the paperback. I know this is a complex issue, but I really do feel Amazon is on the consumer's side. $15+ for a non-transferable ebook is ludicrous.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/12247/how-paperbacks-transfor...
Yes, such a thing exists for text files: There are techniques used for near-duplicate detection (MinHash), and then there are latent topic models (e.g. using lda, lsi, autoencoders) which map documents onto a lower-dimensional ("semantic") space which is supposed to give a similar representation to semantically similar documents.
May I ask how big your company is? I'm quite surprised to hear you're the only one that codes. In our risk modeling of 15, 10 code daily.

If I understand correctly tvsift shows were you can find streaming services for a particular Tv-series, am I right?

Looks well done, I like the filter. Unfortunately for me the links below the series are not working for me on iPad (latest iOS).
Leverage = $380 million.

Now the judge tells them "you have much more leverage". So tey have to work out how much more leverage they have. 5 times the leverage would be $1.9 billion.

That's at least how I understand the text, and I find it very honest of the judge. I guess she can't give them the exact sum she thinks is appropriate.
Lots of social media sites (like Google+) have much better gif support over things like webm. With G+, webms take like 15 seconds to open their fullscreen viewer, click play, wait for buffering, then watching it. Gifs just play right in the stream.

I'd personally love to see wider range support for animated webps, but I doubt that's going to happen for a long time, if at all.
This week I learned that C99 and C11 have an FP_CONTRACT pragma, that can be set "off" for this reason ( http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf , section 6.5, paragraph 8).
It's definitely on the todo list and will definitely be done when I sit down to work on the map (thanks NYC for the PLUTO data!). I just load it up through python and it prints prettily enough for me, sorry for being lazy. Also, if anyone has any insight into the completeness of the data, please let me know (i.e. if your address isn't in the data but you are a happy(?) customer of Verizon FiOS). It is a skimpy list, but I'm used to low expectations being surprisingly disappointed so I'm not writing it off yet that it isn't complete.
It'd be like having an awful cafeteria at work. Working for such a company makes you feel like an unappreciated peon.
Certificate pinning is a best practice(Google does it for their apps) and deserves to be supported in the SSL api provided by Android. This is my favorite thing the proposal.
Thanks for posting this here. Let us know if you have any questions/comments. we think it's a step in the right direction and an interesting solution for consumers. But also for hackers thanks to the specs and the price.

jock [at] itusnetworks.com
It seems like this is the real clinch of their message:

[Hachette] believes they get leverage from keeping their authors in the middle.

e.g. they are accusing Hachette of putting pain to their own authors with the hope of said authors mobilizing against Amazon in retaliation
Interesting, I had no issues with GMail and Hotmail/Live/Outlook.com but with Yahoo. A handful of Yahoo user that mark their own registration email as junk is enough that Yahoo add the domain to their junk filter. It doesn't help that Yahoo has a very prominent "Spam" button in their UI (in GMail & Outlook it's on a drop-down menu).
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"Show HN" is restricted to things that the poster has made (I assume you didn't make this?) so we took that out of the title.
Python pip is down
Thanks. My side project found a new home :-)
I guess so. I got a bit fed up with parsing text too and got side-tracked to more graphical things. Initially to Elm [1].

It's not exactly Haskell but Elm is a fun way to get into Functional and Functional Reactive programming while drawing some things on screen and making them move.

There are probably more graphical tutorials for Haskell too. I recently found some good examples for Gloss [2] and am moving from Elm to that right now. There is an "Elm for Haskell" called HElm [3] too.

[1]: http://elm-lang.org

[2]: http://gloss.ouroborus.net

[3]: http://helm-engine.org
Same here hehehehe :-)
Amazon's position on this never really made much sense. If Amazon wanted to make the paperback books analogy, then the real disruptor is the 99 cent Kindle Singles which Amazon sells. If Amazon's predictions come true, then cheap self published books will take over from expensive, publisher published books.

If Hachette wants to price their books at $15, why shouldn't they be allowed to? Any business in America should be free to shoot it's own foot off, that's their right. Where does Amazon come in telling Hachette how to better run Hachette's business?
Of course, I put all my thinking about AGI into those two sentences and now you have crushed my dreams forever.
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Link to the website is here[0]. This certainly looks like an awesome event to attend.

[0] http://hillhacks.in/
GitHub's Web component extensions to the standard time element
What's artificial is that it's based on an agreement between two producer not on market discovery of price by the consumer. Do you understand how markets work?
Ding, we have a winner. The entire state of the economy is predicated on the effects tax policy has on where money is safest, and where money is least taxed, and of course the money goes where the optimal returns for the lowest risk are.

And those are not in entrepreneurship.
A lot of his citations are of systemic disruption - in the case of McDonalds, it was disrupted because people stopped taking their diet for granted, and McD's got called out on their atrocious menu.
Well, so, what makes Nigel Richards the best Scrabble Player on Earth? The article does not even answer its own leading question, which is enormously disappointing (though it is otherwise interesting). There are a couple humorous quotations, and literally two or three sentences that could be interpreted as conjecture as to why Nigel Richards is the best player by such a phenomenally large margin: some loose statements about knowing relevant probabilities.

This article was a perfectly interesting read about how Richards utterly dominates Scrabble, but unfortunately plagued by a totally misleading headline: I was expecting an answer.
Ubuntu: notifyOSD ignores the expire timeout parameter
I can't argue with your experiences and I guess I have been living in a bubble. With all the legacy data we have (the company started using IT in the 60s and the coverages are until the end of life... AS/400 is still in active use) data munging is a task in itself.

I fully agree with your last sentence! May I ask what you're working on?
This bug just bit me.

"Why is my --expire-time setting not working? It's almost like it's being ignored ... oh, it is."

:(
Internet speeds by state
What is this? I'm on a phone and it doesn't really say. Seems interesting though.
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Hmm. I have a hard time naming specifics. I enjoy math when I understand it, but I have the hardest time in Calculus of any of my classes. I was near the best in my class in Biology and Chemistry but I didn't really enjoy them- if I did I probably would have gone to the larger UC than the smaller liberal arts school I'm going to attend. Everything else was a mixed bag. I enjoy writing when it's on something I'm interested about, I dislike it when it's rote, but what I'm interested in is usually fleeting. That tends to apply to motivation too. I can get aroused for a lot of work in one case, and in another similar case I can't be bothered.

I guess my favorite piece of work in the last two years was a project in regular economics. We were divided into groups and ordered to create a business model in report style. We created Fatoline.

Fatoline was dreamed up in response to an unsustainable America. This unsustainability is rooted in the suburban commute lifestyle- people drive everywhere, consuming vast amounts of gasoline and gaining weight. The Fatoline company has two public fronts, its liposuction service and its gasoline service. We take the fatty liposuctioned tissue, put it through some huge centrifuges, introduce some modified lipases (modified through science magic) and heat and boom, we have gasoline, which is sold through our other front. This keeps the automobiles running, the people skinny, and keeps the suburban structure of the U.S. stable. Only now, instead of nasty foreign oil coming in, we have the wholesome, local fat-conversion company keeping our lifestyle afloat.

Unfortunately, after crunching the numbers, it turned out that for this system to work, each person would have to produce some obscene amount of fat each year, somewhere in the thousands or ten thousands. No matter though. Once we figure out how to get people to be able to get that big, the dream is definitely alive.

I guess I liked the project because it involved a little bit of everything.
MITM isn't the only threat to Internet users. I can see three levels of security, each of which provides more security for users but less convenience for server operators:

1. Opportunistic encryption without certificates or identity pinning -- protects against dragnet surveillance and packet sniffing, but not MITM.

2. Encryption with pinned self-signed certs -- protects against second connection MITM, but not stolen certs without some revocation design.

3. Encryption and identity verification with CA- or WoT-signed certs -- protects against first connection MITM except by powerful adversaries.
There are even more interesting implications of the "war": women are fertilized inside the body so that fathers can not be sure whose offspring a child is (because the fertilization can not be seen, other than with eggs, for example) - otherwise they might kill the offspring of other fathers (our ancestors would have, that is). Furthermore, women try to hide their fertility as much as possible, other than most other mammals. Iirc that is for the same reason: since men can not be sure when the woman was fertile, they can not be sure who made her pregnant. But if they don't know when a woman is pregnant, why even have sex? And that is why sex is fun. We take it for granted, but apparently it is only fun for very few species.

I recommend "Why sex is fun" by Jared Diamond for a fun read... I hope I have remembered correctly (it's been too long since I read it).
I'm an artist (well, a student really) with an interest in mathematics and computer science abstractions. I like to create work related to and inspired by technology. Given how important these fields of knowledge have become I believe that creating artwork from them is an important way to reflect on the state of contemporary society. I guess I do consider myself a bit of a hacker (I design my own circuit boards and write my own software for my projects), but I'm not really affiliated with the tech community outside of the internet and mostly hang out with other artists.

edit: I guess it kind of goes without saying, but what I get out of HN in particular is a combination of keeping my foot in technology and reading interesting news.
See Zurb Ink, which is also open sourced, but might be a bit closer to Bootstrap as it also has a framework.

http://zurb.com/ink/
It's been awhile and no clear sign they are sending out the invites yet...
I recommend reading Orwell's full essay here: http://vintagepenguins.blogspot.com.au/p/review-of-penguin-b... It's well written, because of course it's Orwell, and while he was certainly wrong in 1937, six years later he was cheerfully writing to Penguin about the best books for them to reprint: http://georgeorwellnovels.com/letters/letter-to-penguin-book...

Meanwhile, George Bernard Shaw was saying the cheaper books were, the better, and J. B. Priestley was calling Penguin "a grand publishing feat." Amazon is rewriting history when they say the literary establishment hated paperbacks.

And, of course, Orwell was the last man in the world one could reasonably accuse of being a pawn of corporate interests. He was a revolutionary and a socialist who went to Spain to fight against fascists. He was uncompromising in his examination of even his fellow travelers: 1984 is a criticism of the Soviet Union and abstract leftist thought.

Finally, if you're going to invoke Orwell, you should have the intellectual honesty to link to both people who agree with you and people who disagree with you. You should also not call yourself Readers United. I'm a reader; I have some sympathies with Amazon, but I am not united behind this any more than all authors are part of Authors United.
Though it says "Chrome Experiment", it seems to work mostly okay in Firefox, but occasionally some things seem to be missing from the view.
Friendly NoScript user reporting in: I only see a blank white page!
Java is easier to learn which is an employable skill in the job market at present, there are many parties, not just Oracle with vested interests in the language. It's not going anywhere in the near future, but without anything new, Java might sound old.
Part of the issue is that sometimes reducing transaction costs gets them so low that the activity ends up being done by the individual rather than a business entity.

The other side of that coin is the "commoditize your complements" thing. If you make X cheap and people who have X want or need Y, whoever is selling Y is going to grow like a weed.

So that's kind of what we're seeing. Things either get so easy that you don't need to find somebody else to do them, or they don't while everything else does, in which case that thing becomes a bottleneck in the low transaction cost economy and the entity providing it turns into a giant business corporation.
I run an open-source Go library that also does packet capture/encode/decode (http://code.google.com/p/gopacket). Would you be at all interested in adding results for gopacket to your benchmarks page? If so, I'm happy to write up the code to actually run the benchmarks, then send it over to you so it can be run on your benchmarking machine.
exactly. It does show he most likely is the best player, but I too was expecting some interestng theory about how his brain works. That he's somehow capable of some algorithms other humans cannot even grasp. Or something like that, you get the point.
Navdy – Projecting Your Phone on Your Car’s Dashboard
A simpler UI (easy as or easier than bookmarks) for saving a page for offline viewing might help with this.
The demo in the video is based on a high-speed (1000+fps) recording by a special camera, not on 'normal' video.
I wonder what a button that means "decades long hiatus not predicted by any of the IPCCs models" would look like? How about one for "climate change is obviously a real thing, but we understand so little about it that legislating about it is likely to be counterproductive, and lower the living standards of people everywhere"?

Actually my Land Rover key fob probably covers both of those quite nicely.
What an incredibly well done presentation.
There are good reasons Timsort is used by the stdlib, namely that real world data is often partially sorted. Of course you can manufacture cases in which sorting a numpy array via mergesort is faster than timsort on a stdlib list, but that doesn't make this headline appropriate. The author literally has one example. That's not how you characterize an algorithm. Is he unaware of big O? I wouldn't mind seeing a thorough review of the implementation and behavior differences between these two algorithms, but this article isn't it.
There are more comments on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8156303
Watson for CRM.

The pitches are at the level of "a pipeline off tools" + "a new level of automation", getting to detail elicits a "call with the team" which involves a discussion about "the pipeline of tools" and a possible POC, which has not happened.

We actually had a Question Answering system research strand ourselves which we couldn't really get anywhere with and I killed (mea-culpa) because of Watson, Google and Siri. I thought that we had no chance of making any headway against such strong competition and imagined that QA tech would be available in the contact centre and on the Intranet in short order.

More fool me! I've been embarrassed ever since.
that's really cool, but the font contrast is killer (bad) on certain parts in firefox nightly. I signed up; I can never seem to get as consistent with chess play as I'd like. I'd be thrilled if this helped me achieve those goals.

example : http://i.imgur.com/cqNPcgf.png . The light blue is really difficult to focus on using a laptop panel. I found myself cocking my head to see it more clearly. It may be more the font than the color. I don't know. The more I look at it the more it's the grey that bothers me rather than the blue. I can't put my finger on it, but something hurts readability for me.
Use console.group() to display collection data
This is pretty nicely done. http://summitdublin.com/
This. Can somebody please explain what we are looking at? For instance: what is an attack? How do they distinguish between an attack and normal traffic? It list companies. Are those ISPs? etc.
We've been building visualizations and machine learning based tools with Thorn for the past few months.

Really excited about the hackathon-- feel free to shoot any questions our way at zelliottm@gmail.com or nate@formation8.com with the subject Thorn Hackathon!
i just read the comments here on HN for ~10 minutes and i'd say most all were positive and in the brainstorming spirit. what do you mean "hatred"??
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8123213.

We're trying to prevent this from showing up very often. Perhaps you could email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can track down whether you should have been seeing a captcha at all?
Your eyes wouldn't be able to see a 2000 Hz vibration, most vibrations that we perceive as sounds (except from the very low vibrations) are so fast that even with a huge amplitude they'd be just a motion blur for our eyes.

Now, a 2000 fps camera can see things that a naked eye can not.
All of the reasons of unhappiness according to Freud had to do with expectations. We need a philosophy of expectation.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Looks great, but you should definitely describe the purpose of the service on the front page. I had to dig around in the footer to find the 'about' page for details....
Brian from Weave. Great feedback - we're testing a couple different ways to address this.
I have issues on occasion with yahoo, but it is only for a week or so at a time. Microsoft consistently gives me issues. Of course all my test emails to my hotmail test accounts go through without any issue. From what I have been able to determine the filter only appears to be trigged on a certain percentage of email accounts.
Thanks! Glad we're getting you some good meetings.

We're releasing fixes every day now, feel free to hit me up at brian@weave.in if Android bugs continue to persist. We'll get them fixed.