skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have several in-progress.

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling [5] (Kindle edition)

2012-06 issue of "Analog Science Fiction and Fact". I'm so far behind the current issue because I switched to an electronic subscription when a few years ago. At the time, it was only available from Barnes & Noble. The Nook app on iPad was pretty terrible, and I don't like reading on iPad in bed, so I fell behind. When it became available for Kindle [6], I switched my subscription to that, and converted my Nook issues with Calibre, and am now working my way through the backlog at a casual pace.

"Logical Chess Move by Move" by Irving Chernev [1].

"Build Up Your Chess 1: The Fundamentals" by Artur Yusupov [2].

"Understanding Copyright Law" by Marshall A. Leaffer [3] (Kindle edition).

"Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond [4] (Kindle edition, via Kindle Owner's Lending Library)

I've also been re-reading "Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories" by Arthur Conan Doyle [7] (Kindle). Generally what has been happening is that a PBS station here has been showing the 1984 British "Sherlock Holmes" TV series with Jeremy Brett as Holmes [8]. I'll watch that, and then often will re-read the corresponding Doyle story.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Logical-Chess-Explained-Algebraic-Edit...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Build-Up-Your-Chess-Fundamentals/dp/19...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Copyright-Law-Marshall-L...

[4] http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies-ebook...

[5] http://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Half-Blood-Prince-Book-eb...

[6] http://www.amazon.com/Analog-Science-Fiction-and-Fact/dp/B00...

[7] http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Complete-Stories-Volum...

[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(1984_TV_series...
Another good one is http://www.circaa.com/.

Also, I had worked on something similar: http://pollengra.in/showcase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpUNA2nutbk
News flash: startup working on email product says email will last forever.
Why's that? At least within the US I can easily port a number between providers. But if I want to stop using Gmail and switch to Yahoo, I'm screwed. All of my accounts use the gmail address for my login, and most have no visible mechanism for changing it.

I don't change my phone number because it's easy to keep it. I don't change my email because the address is tied to a specific provider and getting everyone to switch to using my new one may be impossible.
Tails 1.1.1 is out
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Whoops, thank you!

http://robotzeitgeist.com/tag/bayesian-inference-engine
The Gentle Art of Patch Review
Or just password recovery with trivially discoverable personal details. To a determined attacker, your mother's maiden name, the street you grew up on, and the name of your first pet are not hard to figure out.

Information like that isn't even secret, the whole practice of using password recovery questions needs to go away.
I'm confused. The description of the problem doesn't rule out an issue with IBrute (targetted attack on usernames, passwords) but then they state it wasn't an issue with ICloud or FindMyPhone.

Is this to suggest that its social engineering or just a password reset job? I don't otherwise see how an attack on usernames and passwords translates.

I guess the thing I'm really trying to figure is that if it was IBrute (which personally I would find an embarrassing failure) would they actually admit it?
When Google Wave appeared on public I really liked and believed it would replace the email. I think one day the, now open sourced, Apache Wave Project will rebirth with:
- a fast user interface (today really sucks);
- decentralized and easy to install servers;
- Features that are missing;
every city? I haven't seen this claimed before, only for about four US cities.
Show HN: Comparing NBA MVPs, my Labor Day weekend project
Home Depot’s credit cards may have been hacked
Caltrain is often behind schedule. Trains have break down or hit cars. It's a huge pain for daily Caltrain commuters. See: https://twitter.com/Caltrainstatus
I did the whole 12-16 hr work day for nearly half a decade out of school, including the weekend. I even skipped out on vacation for 3 years. I really enjoyed what I was doing.

Having lived that life style, it doesn't leave you with much free time. Dinner with kids and spouse? Exercise? Cooking? Errands? Creative hobbies? 7-8 hours sleep / night?

My commute last for 30 minutes on a bicycle, I would like everyone to have the option to leave at a reasonable hour to live their life. If they want to continue working, that's cool too. But the impression I get from the Japanese culture is that it isn't so free to do so. It is 'expected'. I heard that Japanese employees don't leave until their boss leaves, which could be an ungodly hour. Having lived the extreme, my personal opinion is that balance is best.
The author mentions jokers breaking out of his Atari demo loop written using BASIC.

I first learned BASIC on the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1. As a child, there was a favorite jokester demo loop involving Qbasic with Windows. I'd visit a department store, break out of each store computer's demo loop to DOS, and then type up a simple Qbasic loop with random SOUND calls where I had painstakingly tested and memorized random frequency ranges and delays to simulate the sound of water running.

Returning these computers to their store demo loop left a sea of scratched heads in my wake.
It certainly looks like multiple leakers and multiple sources. There are various "official" bitcoin addresses, connected to different leaked content. Most of it looks pretty amateurish. Probably after the first guy started getting paid for leaked files, a bunch of other script kiddies jumped in.
"If you move any subset of your user group off of Windows, you'll be saving money."

Unfortunately, that isn't quite guaranteed, though it may well be the case. Depending on the circumstances, I could see the rise in cost of support for a heterogeneous setup exceeding the savings of foregoing some Windows licenses. Certainly that's going to be the case in the degenerate case of hiring a Linux sysadmin to switch one computer from Windows to Linux while retaining your Windows sysadmins for a pile of other Windows computers.
Every day on Caltrain includes unexpected delays, and it's interesting to look at how those delays affect the system. Check out the linked visualization of Boston-area trains: http://mbtaviz.github.io/ - a single day had two major train problems.

Caltrain also runs extra trains for special events such as baseball games. Those are planned, but not on the regular schedule.
It would be interesting to see an alternative to Twitter that is as open as email is. eg: A microblogging system that is built on open standards in a distributed and federated way. Where no-one owns the platform and protocols.

In the beginning of the internet a bunch of open system emerged: Email, IRC, DNS, ... Nowadays it's mostly businesses that launch proprietary solutions to make $$$. What has changed since those early days?
The truth is, majority of worker stay very long hours in the office, because leaving on-time gives you the notion that you are not getting enough work; hence you would be treated as you are slacking off.

Also, there's often unspoken rules, for example, someone leaving earlier than their boss being rude.

When they were in growth (back prior to 1980) where lifetime employment and salary increase by age were common, there was at least some incentive to put up with that, but they are now gone as the thing in the past, they are just getting the short end of the stick, as losing your current job might mean that there aren't any other jobs. (Getting hired in Japan outside of new hire -- that's something other than right after graduating, can be very tough.)

Now, having said that, of course, there are people out there who have more liberty in deciding how much they should work each day, and doing it as their choice, but considering this being nationwide issue, I wouldn't think that's a majority.

Note: If you are someone from outside of Japan, you will get some perk as a foreigner, that you are not expected to go along with the above. Merely appearing like the Japanese would lock me into same expectation as Japanese. (Which I envy "foreigners" every time I visit Japan, as my mindset is as foreign from Japanese.) Japanese people usually don't really discriminate foreigners, but they do have different social expectations. (Just you never can be "one of them.")
They seem to have specifically ruled it out later in the statement, as iBrute was targeted at Find my iPhone:

> None of the cases we have investigated has resulted from any breach in any of Apple’s systems including iCloud® or Find my iPhone.
My guess would be that they found someone an address of someone with ties to a celebrity, compromised their account through security questions, and then found more personal information and iCloud accounts by going the contacts of each person they compromised.

That was my suspicion from the start, security questions tend to be the easiest way to compromise accounts since finding someone's mother's maiden name isn't hard to do anymore.
If you can't save enough to not live from check to check, what are the odds that you're going to come up with the money every time that you borrow vs. the odds that you become a revolving borrower borrowing a steadily increasing amount to cover interest payments? Also: poor people don't have low interest credit cards.

As a middle-class 40 year old who has spent time in his life poor to the point of homelessness, I've never had a credit card or understood the necessity. I understand that people with money use them for the promotional treats, but for people without money?

Money should be borrowed in order to purchase capital IMO, not to paper over poverty until a catastrophic bankruptcy.
Massive DDoS attack happening at the moment
Good point on the target market...I think I'm looking for the people that either want the convenience and ease (and perhaps are even willing to pay more for that), or for those that are looking for your pretty basic stuff. I feel like, if you are a ....say, dog walker, a $15 logo will suffice. Same with the website, nothing is necessarily wrong with a template, per se, so long as it does the basics. In the end, it's about empowering people with their budget. If a user doesn't want a WP theme, perhaps they can say "I want a custom website (no WP theme) with 10 pages for $1,500.
Physicists Peak into the Sun, Confirm Existence of Neutrinos Created by Fusion
Why hasnt the imgur for video arrived yet?
If anyone wants to setup 2FA for their Apple ID here's their support page on it: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5570
so instead of pointing your designers to a .html file, you point them to a .jsx file? not seeing the issue.

also:

var MyComponent = Reate.createClass({
render: function () {
return require('./template-designers-are-not-scared-to-touch').apply(this);
}
});

but this is a silly separation
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I'd agree with that - on the press flaming that Apple are getting though - Im just not buying it. Really feels more like a cloud storage hack than iCloud, right?
> Email: Fastmail

I recently migrated to Fastmail, and I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was. Fastmail automatically imports your emails from Gmail, and it took me so little time that I kicked myself for not doing it before.

> Calendar: iCloud

For those of us who don't use both OS X and iOS, this isn't feasible. Fortunately, though, Fastmail also provides a calendar service. It synchronizes with Google Calendar in case you still need to use Google (e.g. for work), and it was also a seamless switch.

As for a client, I was very surprised by this, but I've actually found that the latest version of Mozilla Lightning[0] is the best calendar interface. Fastmail's is okay, but still in beta (it's less than a year old). Setting up Lightning to sync with Fastmail's calendar took just a minute, and I actually like the interface more than I liked Google Calendar's[1].

Thunderbird is an okay mail client (not a terrible interface, but not a great one), but even if you don't use Thunderbird for mail, I would recommend trying out Lightning for calendaring.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_%28software%29

[1] It's okay for viewing events in the week view, but there are a lot of UI quirks and bugs that catch up with you after daily use - this one is the most pernicious, but there are a number that are simply annoying as well: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/how-google-calendar-... [2]

[2] Since I know people will ask - I consider this a UI issue because it's fairly easy to imagine a minor UI improvement that would indicate this unexpected result of Quick Add (and others) before clicking "Add" without sacrificing this functionality in case it is desired.
Doesn't have to be perfect, just has to be good enough to win.
I like the word "boffin". It seems like it is used to denigrate others less frequently than similar words (including "engineer" itself, which in some circles and situations is implicitly understood to be an insult).
Dont waste your time.
I'd add one more thing to ubiquitous, distributed, and federated, and that's free-form.

Quite a few of these email replacement services seem to add a bunch of stuff specific to some particular use-case. It might make it nicer for that particular use-case, but as soon as you need to do something outside of what's anticipated, it grinds to a halt. That means that any organization that uses something like that ends up using 3 or 4 of them, in addition to email. At that point, it's easier to just use email for everything.
We are essentially a middle man, and I don't want to try to hide that. The value we are providing is removing the headache from selecting the right contractor. So, for PROJECT X, you may be able to look really hard on Odesk and get it done for $200. Maybe you pay $350 or $300 with us...but all you had to do was submit it and wait for the results. No selecting contractors, filtering. AND, I think it's important that we assume that "not satisfied" risk. It's part of why people may pay a premium.
Understood. My second question then is just asking whether Apple have a reputation for truthiness in this arena. I genuinely don't know, I'm asking.
The question in the OP concerns approximation of the f(.) in:

y = f(x)

where the input "x" is d-dimensional (say).

Some problems (i.e., choice of "f") could be easy. Maybe f only depends on one element of x, for example. There would be no curse of dimensionality in this case. Same situation if "f" depends only on any fixed number of elements of "x".

I think this is roughly what you mean by "dimension of problem domain." Fix an "f", that defines a problem. And you're right, efficient solution of that fixed problem is important!

My remark (which is also in the last paragraphs of the Cybenko reference cited in the OP) had to do with increasingly difficult problems.

How to get such a sequence of problems? Suppose you take a simple function like

f(x) = exp(-0.5 * dot(x,x))

i.e., the Gaussian, and approximate it with a linear superposition of 1-d sigmoids (as a neural net would).

The question is, is there an explicit dependence on dimensionality, and is that dependence exponential in d?

And of course, for more general function classes (not just the single Gaussian function above), is there such a dependence? If it is not exponential, that would be astonishing, revolutionary.

The reason this setup ("vary the problem size") is interesting is that we would clearly like to use neural nets for increasingly higher-dimensional problems (e.g., learn appearance of 32x32 cats, then 64x64 cats, then ...).
+1 on ScalaJS. It's pretty amazing piece of technology (Thank's team!) using it in combination with David Barri's bindings for ReactJS[1] and Li Haoyi's uPickle[2]. It makes for elegant solutions with a shared codebase.

[1] https://github.com/japgolly/scalajs-react

[2] https://github.com/lihaoyi/upickle
wow this reminds me some years ago I toyed with a mash-up language for the web. The whole idea was attempt to combine css declarations vs js imperative.. code looked like this.

<script type="text/x-dont-remember-what">

.button:click {
this.addClass('foo');
}

#foo a:click(e) {
this.hide();
parent.show();
e.stopPropagation();
}
</script>
"When is a startup no longer a startup?"

There is really no dejure definition of a startup as it is. Not to mention that the site doesn't even give its own definition of what qualifies to be listed on the site.
Home Depot Investigating Potentially Massive Credit Card Breach
It seems like it would be a feat to gather all the user IDs of these famous people in the first place. I'm guessing there's a black market just for that? I used to work on a service used by quite a few famous people, if anybody on the project was unscrupulous, it would have been easy to pass those emails and other personal information on to a hacker.
Apple Denies Any Breach of Its Systems in Celebrity Photo Hacking
I really enjoy React's concepts. I have but one nit to pick with it and it's meta: mixing grammars in a single buffer really hoses syntax highlighting & indentation in emacs.

I'd much prefer to be able to "require" the JSX where I need it and have the right context passed to it. That way all the editor-specific nonsense can just be avoided.
And the reality is that there's a vanishingly small percentage of that archived email that is of any use to you or anyone else. I don't have anything before about 2001 for reasons of isolated proprietary mail systems (e.g. minicomputer-based), disk failures, or just not making the effort to archive. I do have about the next 10 years saved but it's sitting in Outlook on a retired Windows system I keep around for such purposes--but there's no easy way AFAIK to translate it to another format and it's not something I'm inspired to devote great energy to.
I had no idea that Apple supports two-step verification.
"Apple Maps"? This is shameless.

Not sure how to reconcile that with the seemingly mandatory PRISM invocations, the post was almost stomachable up until the Apple cameo especially with the recent privacy headlines. At Least recommend something that isn't a huge downgrade in functionality, an OSM client or something.

I'm sure that Apple adding DDG to Safari is the reason for this thinly veiled reciprocity.

Privacy or not these are people selling their wares and they are willing to be sleazy about it, this is not unlike the bullshit post about the fake cell antennas and the magical ROM that detected them that is making the rounds, it's disheartening.
I really think this is whatever that bias is where we rewrite our memories to match how we feel about the past.

As long as we're taking random samples, let's see what, say, November 2010 looked like:

https://web.archive.org/web/20101119073443/http://news.ycomb...

How about March 2008? (I'm picking these arbitrarily...)

https://web.archive.org/web/20080327223917/http://news.ycomb...

If either of those front pages showed up today, people would be complaining very loudly about HN's steep decline.
eg the quoted IO performance requiring a proprietary IP stack...
enables 2FA Apple: "Please wait 3 days to continue." Ugh.
I absolutely agree that long commutes are bad, but I still don't think that excuses Japan's overwork (Karoshi) culture. According to surveys Japanese employee satisfaction ranks relatively low compared to other countries: http://www.nhk.or.jp/bunken/english/reports/summary/200906/0...
Ten Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur
Among the things Caltrain has to contend with (aside from old equipment prone to breaking) are several dozen at grade crossings and freight train traffic on the same line (!)
This is intriguing. May I ask how it was implemented. More specifically, how is the data obtained?
NetBSD has a more portable jit for BPF now (not every architecture yet).
When you open most accounts these days they ask for your cellphone number. Why then is two-factor authentication not enabled by default?

IMO people are lazy. If two factor auth is enabled by default, even if it irks them most non IT people would not take the pain to disable it. Same lies true the other way round.
before I would work on anything I would get with potential customers.
> Keep it up and people will hate insular millennial techies even more.

In New York, it's not just techies using this.

It's also a pretty great alternative to driving drunk, which people end up resorting to when there is a lack of cabs and public transportation in an area. (Obviously not New York, but Uber would be great in a place like Dallas.)
It's the native apps (mostly games) that aren't compatible with non-ARM CPUs, not the Java ones.
MIPS hasn't gone anywhere. You can get PIC32 chips and boards based on them for various projects include the Open Source TenTec 506 Rebel radio.

While there's more tools and chips for ARM on small systems, I still prefer MIPS due to lower complexity/insanity of the tool chain.

It's hard to get any of the large system boards and multiprocessor chips without being an OEM.
If you can break into one person's account and get their contacts then you can recurse from there. It's likely that one celebrity knows another and so on.
A really good point there! It's on the todo-list :)
Thanks for slides. In this slide http://goo.gl/XDk0J0 you mentioned you would talk about alternatives to passing down callbacks later? Did I miss that in the deck or was that just spoken to?
This sounds like a tough situation.

I wonder how well you'll fare if you're looking for capital now, when all you've got is an alpha product, no customers, no growth, no 'functioning business' to speak of.

B2B SaaS products are often only 'pseudo saas', i.e. bigger customers pay for a customised version and personal service. Smaller customers buy the no-frills whitelabel.

Does it make sense for you to target some of the bigger customers with a great deal / customised version offering? It's possible that if sold right, the first customer(s) could effectively pay for you to take it from alpha to live product. Maybe.

The other option that springs to mind is to go do some really slick saleswork off the back of the alpha product demo, and get prospective customers to sign contracts with a really compelling introductory rate. Once they've signed the contract and committed with you (e.g. for a year) then they're off the market and your competitor will have to wait in the wings for a year. Perhaps this is a bit of a fantasy, it depends on your sales skills and the details of the offer you'd be making.

TLDR: you're in the business of selling software, not just writing it. Maybe you can catch a break by really pushing yourselves on the sales work right now rather than coding like crazy.
I find it most interesting that he doesn't use some map provider using OpenStreetMap data because that's what embedded in the DuckDuckGo search results: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=amsterdam
Study shows fruit intake reduces risk of heart disease
FBI Radio: Public Service or Self-Serving?
I think that have a pretty good record on owning up to something. It would hurt them much much more to lie about it at this point.
> "we have discovered that certain celebrity accounts were compromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions"

> "None of the cases we have investigated has resulted from any breach in any of Apple’s systems"

Don't these lines contradict each other?
Why iD's update could breathe new life into a 15 year old game
I was hoping this was suggestions for services you can host yourself. Switching from Google to Apple doesn't really change much.