skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hedge Fund executives, Enron executives, etc all have had less bail than this guy,yet were worth considerable amounts. Also, a net worth isn't how much cash he has laying around. How terrible would it be if all this occurred and they found him not guilty? He would have liquidated his business for nothing. Still seems unreasonable.
Gaza's war: Social media connects people to the outside world
Create an off canvas menu with CSS only
A Haskell program to check the vezin (prosody) of Ottoman Divan poetry
This may be a wise time for you to go read the thing you're up in arms against.

http://www.hackerparadise.org/conduct.html
Popularized by apps like Facebook on mobile, the off canvas menu allows to save valuable real screen estate by toggling the navigation into view only when needed. We will dive and explore one way of achieving the effect using some overlooked CSS properties.
one man's "barely scraping by" is another man's "I've got everything I need".

I've got a house, reliable transportation, health care, food, a great school for my kid, and lots of family nearby. My cost of living would go way up if I ate out more, bought all new furniture, or spent big money on activities for my son, and then it would seem like I needed a lot more money.
> I don't want to mingle with people who need to be reminded of basic decency.

Neither do the people who are being harassed! Unfortunately, such people exist, and the policies are designed to address their actions and how they affect the people around them.
Why Nobody’s Shopping On Your Funeral Ecommerce Store
as this is focused on a slightly different segment with different "users" than what's already out there (established startups and companies vs new startups), we figured we test the market and get some feedbacks from both side of the market to test if it's needed/wanted and how it should function based on both side's wants, needs and objectives. It has proven very useful to define beta features as well as to help us develop a vision around it
Great results but looks expensive. I wonder how many minutes of processing per minute of video.
"Pick a date, any date."

"June 12, 2145."

"A Saturday. In Vancouver, sunrise will be at 5:12am and sunset will be at 9:24pm. There will be a third quarter moon."

"Wow."

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=June+12%2C+2145
Wark defines hacking 'as an “abstraction”, the construction of different and unrelated matters into previously unrealized relations. Hackers produce new conceptions, perceptions and sensations hacked out of raw data. Everything and anything is a code for the hacker to hack, be it “programming, language, poetic language, math, or music, curves or colourings” [3] and once hacked, they create the possibility for new things to enter the world. What they create is not necessarily “great”, or “even good”, but new, in the areas of culture, art, science, and philosophy or “in any production of knowledge where data can be extracted from it.” Wark argues that (new) information comes from the hack. It doesn’t matter if you are a computer programmer, a philosopher, a teacher, a musician, a physicist, if you essentially produce new information - it’s a hack [1]. In this sense, hackers are creators and they bring new ideas into the world. The aim of the book is to highlight the origins, purpose and efforts by this emerging hacker class, who produce new; concepts, perceptions, and sensations out of the stuff of raw data.'
This article can be seen as a very good explanation of why exceptions are a valuable feature for a language. In python, mentioning one of the languages exposed in the article, I would return the created object and throw an exception on error.
I have an asus zenbook and it was super easy to install ubuntu (also single boot) and no driver issues at all.
Social engineering for fun
Regardless, it's the simplest method and very general.
Finally. A decent ORM for angular.
I've always thought social media at its core as anti-social.

Some of us may have had pen friends, but comparing social media to that is lying to oneself. The way social media encourages us to act is akin to dogs leaving their mark on the wooden poles near the street. Sure, some may pay attention to the mark we've left, but for most parts it's just masking out the previous one-way communication attempts.

And if anyone gets noticed more than the rest, maybe they merely manage to make a bigger stink.
There are lots of people who work but don't need (and aren't worth) survival wages -- high school kids who still live with their parents, for example. Should they be unemployed and therefore unable to gain real-world working experience because they're not worth survival wages?

There are lots of others who need, but aren't worth, survival wages -- like my autistic friend. He partly supports himself working, with the rest coming from government programs. Should he be unemployed and therefore be 100% government-supported instead of 25% government-supported?

It's good that minimum wage and living wage are not the same thing. Let's stop confusing the two.
It's not like US law doesn't apply at all on Indian reservations; the exact contours of the application are wildly unprincipled, but they do stick when the feds want them to.

Besides which, "money laundering", "conspiracy", or any of the other catch-all felonies are broad enough to encompass any of the practical steps to engage in such a project.
The 1080p IPS screen of the T440s is supposed to be really good, I guess the complaints are about the 1600x900 TN version?

Here's a review of the screen:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Update-Lenovo-ThinkPad-T...
To answer specifically for Hacker Paradise, "who gets to enforce the code of conduct" is something we have been discussing internally. Casey and I are very much hoping to be part of the group, and as such we are in a somewhat biased position when it comes to addressing any issues that arise. One idea we've been playing with is having a remote neutral, third-party ombudsman that anybody can email (anonymously, if they prefer) to address any issues. The ombudsman would then ostensibly do some investigation and bring the issue up with us if it feels appropriate.

We're still thinking through this - one month to go until the retreat begins - and would love to get HN's input. Has anybody tried anything similar? As an organizer for a ~15-person group and a white dude, I realize and acknowledge that some inherent bias exists. We want to address it as effectively as possible.
As a fat white dude with glasses I approve this.
This. It seriously frustrates me when I see new wire framing tools pop up for iOS since just using Xcode will be about the same speed (if not faster) to set something up with and its now something a developer (or yourself) can just modify without rebuilding everything.

I'm a fan of pencil and paper sketches to begin and then code after that. Xcode makes it so easy to visually design things that I don't even mock things up in Illustrator or PS any more. And this is coming from someone who has a graphic design degree and works as a professional software (mostly iOS) engineer.
You've seriously misunderstood what I was saying. Its not a matter of stupidity, its a matter or rigidity.

As you mature, specially through puberty, you experiment with many different personalities. You gauge your environment and try to figure out the type of person that will be most successful in your environment. All of these personalities are represented by competing neural networks especially in your prefrontal cortex.

But obviously exploring different personalities, characteristics, ambitions, and developing different interests has to slowly be focused and narrowed into something that you can pursue with full confidence. Biologically, this is one of the reasons that when you loose a neuron you don't ever get it back. And the growing age till just after puberty is the fasted period in which your brain sheds neurons that pertain to competing networks that don't pan out as well. There after, neuronal loss averages out to a steady constant but a rate which contributes to a fairly significant loss of the number of neurons for todays life expectancy.

Now if it wasn't already immediately obvious to you, the number of neurons is very directly correlated with intelligence. It isn't the only factor but it definitely is a hugely important factor in terms of capacity of intelligence.

> But the worst idiocy is thinking whatever age you are is superior to any other.

I must say, that perhaps an even worse idiocy is when someone quickly reads something and responds brashly without actually bothering to think.

It isn't a matter of superiority. Its a matter of evolution. Certain advantages rest with certain age groups. Yes is a fact that the capacity for a young adult absorb completely new material is very likely higher than someone of a much older senior. However, a much older senior has the advantage of experience which allows him her to gauge new material as something worth wasting time over.

But as cultures evolve, as philosophies change, age (and by "age" I hope I've already made clear that I'm referring to effects of age on total neuronal loss) makes it difficult to change at the same pace. Do you think its just chance that a younger person brought up with the same strong cultural exposure as his/her equivalent senior end up having much easier time accepting new cultures, ideas, peoples?

Just because you believe "people of all ages can be stupid and ignorant and pigheaded and whatever negative you want to throw out" doesn't address the serious problem of needing to understand how the brain ages. Its biological fact that neuronal cells, unlike other cells in your body, ARE NOT replaced by new neurons (though there is some evidence of very slow neurgensis in various parts of the brain). And its important for you to understand why that is because its servers a very important function. Biology didn't anticipate such long life expectancy on its discourse of evolution.

> I'm sorry people's attitudes aren't boolean they are floating point.

What on gods green earth are you on about there?
Webrtc iOS browser. Source Code Refused
Start by interviewing all your living relatives for birth dates & places, marriages, deaths, etc.

Look into local archives, church records. Then go on-line at FamilySearch.org, Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com, Cyndislist.com. Where you go will depend on the country of origin of your ancestors.

Keep a careful record of your sources. You might have to revisit them when you come across contradictory information.

There are many free programs to record your information: Legacy, RootsMagic, Ancestral Quest.
I said people were good at picking out patterns, not that they were necessarily good drivers.
It's an article about how a group running a retreat targeted their message to change their customer demographics, no more no less.

Whether or not the mechanisms for doing so have sound philosophical and social underpinnings is quite beside the point--they did X, Y, Z, and it appears to have worked.

Go piss and moan about gender (in)equality elsewhere.
FWIW: I have intelligence and conscientiousness. What I don't have is physical stamina and mental focus. I was one of the trop three students of my graduating high school class. I have yet to have a successful paid career (I was a homemaker for a long time and full time mom and I was successful at those things but I am now divorced).

One of the things that middle and upper class kids get is good medical care, good nutrition, early intervention for speech problems and endless other things which make it possible for them do sustained work of the sort that pays money. I actually grew up with a lot of advantages. My misfortune is largely being born with the wrong genes as I have a serious genetic disorder. Because I am smart, hard working, and have a long list of other "virtues"/resources, my situation is gradually improving. But it has definitely been a very long haul and an uphill climb -- made all the harder by the fact that many people who are already successful do not take me very seriously. This has helped to keep doors closed for me in ways which I find enormously frustrating.
Marka.js
The only working ios implementation designed by sony ericsson labs. They pulled it from the app store for unknown reasons and will not release the source code for learning....
The result is quite simply breathtaking. It looks like something shot for a movie using a stabilised dollycam, the fact they were able to achieve the same thing using nothing but a GoPro, their software, and likely a week of post-processing on a high end desktop PC is simply amazing.

I hope we see this technology actually become readily available. There might still be work to be done, but in general if they can reproduce the demo videos with other content then they're on to something people would want.
Facebook Bans The “Like Gate;” Pages Have 90 Days To Comply
This is incredible! If you want a good look at how it handles moving objects / people check out the part at 2:15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOpwHaQnRSY&t=2m15s
I think by saying anything more reductionist will lead to inappropriate conclusions without reading the abstract. It's an interesting article although perhaps a little early to conclude that Triclosan is bad.
It might be useful to remember how the conference organizers handled that incident:

> Both parties were met with, in private. The comments that were made were in poor taste, and individuals involved agreed, apologized and no further actions were taken by the staff of PyCon 2013. No individuals were removed from the conference, no sanctions were levied.

But let's grant for argument's sake that this was an example of public shaming that cries out to the very heavens for justice. What are some others? Just to balance out the huge number of reported harassment incidents from tech conferences, and the bigger number that must go unreported.
The videos don't load for me (due to mixed content, I believe), so here they are:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA4Za3Hv6ng

The hyperlapse of the climbing video looks like an FPS game from a decade ago with texture refreshing as you get closer.
In the case of adopted children, the success of the biological parents is a better predictor of the child's success than that of the adoptive parents.

So -- success of parents, yes, it's a strong predictor. During formative years, not really relevant.
I have one of the Dell XPS 13's, and while the machine itself is great, you should take note that the power adapters are Dell-specific. I noticed this after my original power cord got cut and none of the replacement adapters I purchased worked. Dell's adapters send a signal that is picked up by a chip on the motherboard that will disable charging unless that signal is detected. This check is beneath the level of the OS or even the BIOS. Effectively, that means that you're stuck paying a Dell markup (which can be substantial - 100% was what I saw) for an official charger.
It's more complicated. For each obscure subject, there are one or two users that are experts or at least have enough knowledge. The problem is that there is a big amount of enthusiastic, that are exited about the new possible result and forget to see that it's almost sure a incorrect result. In some threads the enthusiastic user overhead the experts. A typical subject (without political interest) is faster than light travel. Or in other words: http://xkcd.com/955/
This is so insanely cool. I plan to get a GoPro some day soon and will take it on hikes in the Pacific NW. If I could turn my hikes into beautiful time-lapses like these, I'd be blown away.
Thank you for taking the time to address my concern.

I'm glad we both think it's an important issue in spite
of what some other commenters have said.
Hey this is a dumb question, but what exactly does "responsive" mean here? Is this a technical HTML/Javascript term? Or does it mean simply "fast"?
Just a request that someone eventually post an answer (unless the answer is something ridiculous like blindfolding all the cows, in which case, I don't care).
A general comment, likely grounded more in my own frustration and :

When did we become so concerned with awesome vacation getaways with code happening and less with, you know, programming?

I think it's awesome that there are people who have the free money/time/resources/independence to go spend 12 weeks hacking in the tropics, but unless we see some baller results I can't help but shake the feeling this is an experience for trendy kids and not for the hardworking, overweight, overscheduled neckbeard.

I hope you folks are able to publicize a bunch of cool stuff that comes out of this! That might give it a bit more street cred.
If that char* is just a pointer into a static array which maps error codes to strings, I'd generally prefer to use a separate API to do that.

If it's a freshly allocated string that needs to be freed by the caller, well, that's one of many reasons I never enjoy my time with C.
It appears as if the mountains are loading in the background (like in a video game) as you get closer to them.

Awesome idea/execution!
(Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors).

For decision trees, the only thing that's available at the moment is a half-baked ID3 algorithm, but I've been looking at CloudForest and it's a very impressive piece of work.

Performance isn't very good yet: this is due to some data representation decisions, but it now supports grouping attributes which will allow us to optimise to acceptable performance levels (I have a prototype KNN version which achieved similar performance levels to this guy's Rust[1] implementation).

[1] http://huonw.github.io/2014/06/10/knn-rust.html
It does look like a Windows Phone in that slide: https://twitter.com/Web3DConsortium/status/49853303671188685...
Inside Nintendo 64 (1997)
Tree-views aren't sufficient for genealogy, sadly. Cycles can and do occur.

For example this classic question [1] contains an example:

"The problem is that he has two children with his own daughter, and, as a result, he can't use my software because of errors."

In my family past I've seen some strange things too, but nothing quite on that order.

[1] - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6163683/cycles-in-family-...
Vancouver tech surges as U.S. immigration reform idles
left side video was shot here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Altona+Town+Hall/@53.54767...
Are curved fences allowed?
3-D sketching system revolutionizes design interaction and collaboration
I think what he was saying though, which I'd agree with, is that in most places if we assume a minimum livable wage to be ~10$ (which is a generous statement, I think), one barely comes out at ~20k (napkin math) yearly. Yes, you may be able to cover the necessities, but you mentioned healthcare, if you had an unlucky year where you were responsible for the maximum of your copay, that would probably put you into savings? Or if there was an "act of god" that wasn't covered under, say, car insurance (to give an example that nailed me recently, a hailstorm), there's another few k.

As some sort of point to all this, the discussion on livable wage needs to encompass the fact that there are some big holes in our financial system that people can still fall through that will hamstring you for years to come, even if the base wage is technically livable.
But still cheaper than the specialist hardware and its operator... Probably.
Very moving story. I hope that the DNA matches. But still I think this is off-topic.
fn + key
Video: http://www.hyve3d.com/uncategorized/hyve3d-at-siggraph-2014/

(Short) paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2656325&picked=formats&CFI...
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=January+2%2C+218129

sunrise: not reached :|
Well, it still exists: http://www.filemaker.com/

At its peak, FileMaker did around $100M in annual revenue, and was eventually acquired by Apple. It operates independently. Many people still use it, along with Microsoft Access, and there are still consultants who make a living off of it.

FileMaker never really made the transition to the Web, though. (They added “Web publishing” features but, as far as I understand, never became a true cloud app.

There are some cloud databases and “app builders” online, such as Zoho Creator, Intuit QuickBase, TrackVia, and Knack HQ (to name just a few). To my knowledge none of them have very wide adoption.

IMO the motivation behind all of these is good, but a different approach is needed—which is what we're doing with Fieldbook: https://fieldbookapp.com/demo
What are some others?

Why is the one example not enough to prove my point? I could name a hundred and you still wouldn't be happy. Why bother.
I want to put something more meaningful into this comment, but all I can think to say is that this is really amazing. Well done!
Tim Cook Will Have To Prove Himself This Fall With The iWatch
Twitter’s Small Chance To Maim Email
How I deleted 1000 lines of code using Backbone Directives
This I don't mind.

What frustrates me is when searches "correct" things for you, and especially when there is no way to prevent the "correction".

Case in point: Google. As far as I can tell there is no way to search for something on Google without it "correcting" it for you. + used to work, but it no longer does. Quotations used to work, but that no longer does either. Sometimes it pops up "Search instead for <search term you actually entered>", but not always.
Ask HN: Is getting a PMP certification a good idea?
I'm noticing a lot of overseas jobs, especially in the the Arab Gulf countries (UAE, Qatar, etc.) require it for various project manager roles and, in turn, are paying about $100k a year.

Does anyone have any info on this? Does it carry the same weight in the US?
Haha, I was just going to post that. It really gives off a mipmapping&LoD game/progressive-loading effect. So weird.
I have a Lenovo Y500 ideapad and my partner has a Lenovo thinkpad edge (e530?). Both are great.
BTW ersatz has recently started to offer a deep learning cloud service, which it claims is very easy to use. Has anybody used it ? how is it ?
Mattermark is hiring machine learning developers
2. Friendly AI seems to be a solution. Depends what will happen. Either we will have an intelligence explosion, and the "winner takes all" scenario that it implies —in which case all we have to do is ensure the first AI is Friendly —yeah, piece of cake… Or, we won't have intelligence explosion, and I don't see how to avoid the Hansonian outcome either.

(Those interested in guessing what is more likely to happen may be interested by the Yudkowsky-Hanson debate.)

Cryonics: agreed. I wouldn't bet my life on it if I could help it. Cryonicists often say that cryonics is the second worst thing that can happen to you (just after certain death).
From the paper listed on the page it looks like it takes about 305 hours to process a 10 minute video. The vast majority of that is during the "source selection" phase which takes 1 minute per frame of video.
Bloody amazing! Fantastic work! Release it. Release it soon. This is something that everyone would want.

I see they have listed a Windows app coming. Is that Windows desktop app?
Hacking group wants to play nice with automakers
I don't have a TV (well I do, but it's not hooked up as a TV, it's simply a computer screen that I watch a couple of movies a month on). I have never had a facebook account and I detest smartphones. I have a simple flip open phone that cost $15 and I had texting and the mobile browser turned off. (I do however have a nexus 7 which I like but I don't carry it everywhere).

I get by just fine.

I watch people fiddling with their smartphones everywhere I go (my girlfriend is one them... she can't sit through dinner without texting or taking a picture of the meal and posting it somewhere...does anyone care?) and wonder what they get out it.

I love computers and technology. I love to sit and code for hours. I love reading HN and posting irrelevant comments like this one. But then I stand up and walk away and HN doesn't follow me. I might be getting old but I just don't get it. I simply couldn't handle being connected all the time.