skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relevant, Hindsight Devalues Science: http://lesswrong.com/lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science/

>Daphna Baratz exposed college students to pairs of supposed findings, one true ("In prosperous times people spend a larger portion of their income than during a recession") and one the truth's opposite. In both sides of the pair, students rated the supposed finding as what they "would have predicted". Perfectly standard hindsight bias.

>Which leads people to think they have no need for science, because they "could have predicted" that.
Yes, that's what I meant by my third paragraph (the one following the question you quoted, answering it).
Precisely for this reason there are actually places in Holland where people can have their ecstasy pills tested, so that they know exactly how much MDMA and what other stuff is inside.
Bill Clinton at Google Zeitgeist 2014
This is great! A few things that might be nice to add are the ATmega32U4 (on the Arduino Leonardo and Micro, among other things), the ATtiny85, the ATtiny84, and these resonators: http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/AWSCR-8.00CV-T/535-...

For hand-soldering, it might be nice to include 1206 packages in addition to 0603 ones, although I realize that would make the list much longer.

Another good reference for this kind of thing is the Fab Lab inventory: http://fab.cba.mit.edu/about/fab/inv.html and it might be worth looking that over to see if there's anything that seems worth adding.
readme.io: Beautiful Documentation Made Easy
I wanted to like FireChat, as it was previously possible to use it entirely offline, in a purely P2P fashion.

While this is still possible, you are now forced to first create an account online, and subscribe to a bunch of internet-based channels, before the app will let you use the P2P portion.

This is frustrating. The market is wide open for someone to make a pure P2P communications app that doesn't require internet access at all, even initially.
I live in Houston, and have been in the tunnels a few times. They connect a lot of the bigger office buildings downtown with a lot of assorted restaurants and fast food. The thing is that the tunnels, and most of downtown Houston, are very business-centered, and have almost no activity outside of normal business hours. Downtown in general has been picking up some in the last few years, but activity in the tunnels is still basically nonexistent on evenings and weekends.

There are some human-scale areas here with more regular activity, but they're relatively small and widely separated, and public transit is pretty limited.
This is a really fun competition and it really highlights how friendly and light hearted the community can be, while showcasing how easy it is to be productive in clojure. Can't wait for next year!
Consumer Credit Monitoring Company Credit Karma Raises $75M, Valued at Over $1B
The article and comments ITT suggest that it is not like the existing "Creative Cloud", but instead works like VNC, or perhaps renders UI locally while doing all the actual image editing on a server. If it was all client code, there's no way it would run acceptably on cheapo Chromebooks (because Photoshop is a behemoth, mind, not because it's inherently impossible to edit graphics on a low-end device).
a few questions for you:

1) what difference would it have made, really, had apple distributed that first patch (that fixed one of 6 CVEs) instead of waiting for the second?

2) what attack vectors have you identified against an OSX system that exploit this vulnerability? (note that their dhclient imlpementation is not actually affected)
Google is pretty limited in the functional languages as a main tool for your job category. It's easy enough to sneak in functional things here and there, though.

Standard Chartered, where I worked before doing FP, is looking for Haskellers every now and then. Contact me (see profile) for some more info. Citrix is still using OCaml in Cambridge, UK, as far as I know. Not as much Haskell any more as they used to.
The U.S. imported more oil for a while, decreasing domestic production, and then recently began importing less oil and increasing domestic production again in areas that had been left as reserves or hadn't been commercially feasible before the record high per-barrel prices of oil a decade ago (see e.g. http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/01/us-drilling-boom-brings-net... ; there are other sources available online if you don't like AEI).

So we have to look at world oil production, not just domestic. And, although world oil production is still growing, that growth is clearly in decline as most new sources for oil require far more effort to extract than in the past (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_Oil_Production.png).

I'm not a peak oil alarmist. It's entirely sensible to expect that as oil becomes more difficult to extract, its price will go up, and as its price goes up, new sources of oil will become more feasible to engineer.

But, so much of oil production and consumption and everything associated with it is horrible and disgusting and a potential ecological and economic disaster waiting to happen. (...Deepwater Horizon...)

We shouldn't need peak oil scaremongering to move us off of oil dependence quickly. It should make sense to do so anyway, especially as other technologies continue to improve.
Police Radios (and GMRS, and FRS) are not neighboring bands to 802.11
In context, wasn't he implying that oil production would peak forever, not just that it would drop in the 1970s?
Bettermeeting – Create Automatic Meeting Recaps
Hi HN,

I'm working on a new piece of software called Bettermeeting and I wanted to send it out to the community to get everyones thoughts. Bettermeeting is an agenda and note taking system that helps you manage your meetings and automatically create actionable meeting recaps.

We are prelaunch but will be rolling the software out to a group of users in the next few weeks.

You can see screenshots and our marketing page here: http://bit.ly/bm-hn

Any thoughts on the idea?
Accepts international applications.
Mix of government(no equity) and accelerator(equity) funding.

Startups get up to ~85k usd funding from government for R&D, no strings attached.
Startups get invested and accelerated by accelerators (capital/equity varies according to accelerator)

Here is an explanation about the program. [1]

[1] http://www.startupbrasil.org.br/programa/?lang=en
By the way, check out the sheer size of the protests via drone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ7r8qi3NIY

Near the middle they fly higher and zoom out and what you thought was large before turns out to be massive.
If in one jurisdiction you can legally say everything you can say in another, and then also say other things too, then the first jurisdiction unambiguously has more free speech. There's not a lot of nuance, just a total ordering, from more free speech, to less.

'Hate speech' restrictions aren't primarily "about defamation" or even threats. Those are already handled by actual defamation and assault law, with stricter standards of harm.

'Hate speech' rules add extra penalties based on motivation or message. They aim to penalize when listeners are simply offended, and even when the speech is trivially true. For example, most verboten slurs against group X, when unpacked, simply mean "I see you as X and I dislike X" – which is almost always a self-certifying utterance, and reveals more about the speaker than the target. So let them speak.

Phrases like "Free Speech Zones" are a lot like saying that free speech is a 'nuanced' matter. Such words are a hint that something that's actually censorship, and unfree speech, is trying to pass itself off as 'free speech'.
> Intel turns to orders turns to BOOMs.

Ok. Mock trial turns to conviction turns to execution. What is the qualitative difference?

> We try to control the odds?

Failed to see how we fundamentally control the odds better than some king's court.

> The men blowing things up by remote control aren't executioners. They lack something the executioner has; They don't see the people they kill.

Well maybe they should see the people they kill.

> Your comment doesn't belong here. This article is about executioners. The men sitting in those comfy chairs aren't executioners.

So far none of your descriptions failed to differentiate them from executioners. What they are then if not executioners?
It wasn't dropped, I wish people would stop parroting that line. He was indicted in two separate jurisdictions, NY and Maryland. Maryland indicted him for 'Planned Violence' which includes one count of murder for hire. The NY charges are the ones that he's currently facing, the Maryland charges are still in the wings.

http://freeross.org/correction-of-our-report-on-the-indictme...
But the Watch is where Apple’s chips / hardware / OS vertical integration will really shine. That’s because with wearables, there is a sort of third axis beyond performance and power: volume. The Moto 360 is double the volume of the small Apple Watch, an unpleasant difference and one that almost no one will stand for at a given price tier when holding the two devices. If wearables follow fashion, you could make a case for Apple owning this category.

Interesting angle.
Thanks! Great suggestions. Stay tuned for updates to the list.
What about the handful of 10.5 machines still running?
We hear stories like that all the time. That's exactly the trap we trying to help designers avoid.
It's still a little premature to make that prediction. This graph (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/US_Crude_...) from that Wikipedia article shows a dead cat bounce. It's still too early to say whether that bounce will top the record production number in the 70's.
Your implementation of momentum seems off, you just add a multiple of last error, instead of adding exponentially declining contributions from the past. I think you want

double dW = alpha_ * val_[l][j] * D_[l+1][i] + beta_ * dW_[l+1][i][j];
W_[l+1][i][j] += dW;

If you want to get an output class probability, softmax is the standard way. Minimize KL-divergence instead of squared error.

You don't seem to be doing any regularization. It could maybe give you better generalization.

I think you could get a speedup by doing your linalg with blas, I guess this would complicate the code though, making it a tradeof.

Training on multiple threads and averaging is a nice touch. It would be interesting to hear if (how much) it improved your results.
@teganandsara

PROBABILITY FEMALE: 0.003

PROBABILITY MALE: 0.996

I would say this doesn't work very well.
Absolutely - we'd love to start collecting and highlighting CPL based projects.
And what about the other stories about bad cabbies and other people's not-so-good experiences with the traditional system?

I reckon services like Uber are a good way to shake up the in-inefficiencies and built-in-slackness that accumulates within a protected service industry. There is absolutely nothing stopping the "real" taxi industry adopting apps and tech services to counter Uber -- in fact they would be way ahead in other more "background" aspects such as insurance, vetting drivers, heck, even brand name awareness among the general public. For example, we had taxi companies put out apps here in Australia long before Uber. In my experience they have been about 90% reliable (this was in the early days) and I'm certain they have improved now. And the taxi companies definitely have the pockets and data to drive this.

Once the shake-up is complete a set of equilibrium should be established -- as services like Uber would also be forced to implement proper checks on drivers, etc. At which point the idiots spouting off $18 billion figures should wake up from their dreams.
Well i don't see US oil production ever exceeding 1970 levels despite a few minor upticks on an otherwise clearly downwards trending line. Until oil production exceeds that 1970's level you can't say he was wrong.

I think the main issue is that the article confuses worldwide oil production with US oil production. US oil production undeniably peaked in the 1970's. Worldwide oil production did not. The claims made about peak oil were specifically made about US oil production. The claims were proven to be 100% correct.
Drone Shows Thousands Filling Hong Kong Streets [video]
Indeed; this is the principle behind the fire piston http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_piston
Peak Oil as a model of disaster is not so unbelievable. When you have a steadily growing production, say 7%, of a finite ressource that uses a growing amount X of the finite ressource Y each tick, you can arrive at the point where in one tick you use up all that was remaining of Y.

In reality, it's not so simpel because there are untapepd sources that become available with higher prices and technological advances, and governements like the USA have proven to be willing to trade ground water plus security against oil and gas. But the peak oil model could still hold true - we just don't seem to be able to predict the when.

And the production is distributed, so the wells won't stop at the same time, so prices could indeed regulate the transition a bit. But that only works if that process is slow enough -> peak oil doubts that.

Edit: hihi, downvotes. Guess I made many hidden attacks -.-
> It is not like the water is collected on your land

You jest, but people have gone to jail for collecting water on their own land.

http://offgridsurvival.com/rainwaterillegal/
The News 1.0 – DN and HN Windows 8 App Client
Mullet Design – Designing for emotion in productivity apps
Hey, I'd like to hear more about this "appliance distro". E-mail me? (kenton@sandstorm.io)
I don't see why not, they're already conducting aggressive SIGINT operations against it's own citizens!
Hmph, the other thread fell off the front page, but:

There is a handy zsh script (zsh is in /bin on OSX by default) to get the Bash tarball from opensource.apple.com, apply patches 52, 53, and 54 from ftp.gnu.org, build it, and then prompt to replace /bin/bash and /bin/sh. Xcode is required, and you have to run "sudo xcodebuild" once to accept the EULA.

https://github.com/tjluoma/bash-fix

This is the easiest way I've found to patch the system-level /bin/bash AND /bin/sh binaries.
Drugs are social, most people who buy from SR will have at least one friend who know where they got them and would go out of their way to warn others.

MDMA almost never kills people, it's far safer than alcohol or most other drugs. The chance of serious selection bias is unlikely.

More likely there is bias because sellers can edit listings without losing the existing rating.
I'm pretty sure they're not doing security updates in general for Snow Leopard anymore, so if you're concerned about security then that should be a much more worrisome to you than the fact that there's no bash fix.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/snow-leopard-updates-ar...
It Takes a Village to Read an RSS Feed
Interesting. Can you give me some examples of possible views we can expect?
If you're looking to avoid disclosing personal data, then it's a positive. On the other hand, if you're actually making use of a service, then it would probably lead to a lot of unwanted targeted information. Then, assuming a future of ambient intelligence where most people don't question machine mined data (I'd say an inevitability), you'd probably have a lot of awkward moments ensue, especially if public and private institutions hold data to be sacrosanct.
"Shockingly" - hardly. It's code written years ago and has done it's job in the meanwhile.

Recklessly refactoring it is probably equally dangerous. The article says something along the lines of "changes might break old scripts, but who cares, they are relying on bugs". This is a bad attitude, the broken old scripts might become new vulnerabilities which is what you are trying to prevent to begin with.
We recruit from any school. But I know there are some programs that are better than others. All you can do is use that as a positive signal, not a rule. A degree from a less prestigious program doesn't mean we wont look at you. I don't even have a degree.

Curious what other schools you are using as examples of positive signals in the recruiting process. Waterloo? MIT? A few others come to mind, but not many...
> neo-nazis with EU/NATO support

Apart from Putin and his supporters, who says the Ukrainian government are neo-Nazis, and on what basis?
Ask HN: Full-time Web Dev looking for side job. What are my options?
Looking for a side gig to help pay for school.

I don't want to build more websites after my day job. I would like to do something technical or related in some way though.

Any ideas on what type of gigs I should look for?
In the case of a network interruption, a command could become truncated with potentially destructive results.
With facebook working on mesh-networking we can be assured that it will be corrupted and heinous. I don't quite understand how the tech community could just simply capitulate freedom, liberty, and anonymity to a malevolent demon like Facebook.
Black Hat USA 2014 presentation videos
The mind space argument breaks down because its generally an install process which means you are just typing what they wrote in their README.md file if it seems reasonable. Its not something you memorize.
Since the goal is to rid ourselves of malaria, are there more sophisticated ways to do this that don't involve permanently eradicating some or all species of mosquitoes?

I'm sure I read, perhaps mid 1990's in a New Scientist article, a proposition along the lines of:

1. obtain a good sampling of a/some mosquito species - keep them in a sealed greenhouse somewhere, ensuring they have access to clean blood (ie. no pathogens we care about)

2. eradicate them in the wild - at the time the expectation was a 'terminator' style gene that, once introduced into populations would, after say a dozen or so generations, lead to an exclusively infertile population, resulting in extinction

3. release the pathogen-free mosquitoes back into the environment - presumably after ensuring pathogens were no longer in the population, which I suppose means at least one generation of hosts - so it could be some decades.

The idea was appealing because it means if we missed something fundamental during phase 2, it'd be possible to re-populate quickly, it could be repeated periodically if needed, and it could be performed on regional levels with good effect, especially if you toned down your expectations to 'drastically reducing prevalence of pathogens' rather than 100% eradication.
Even so, in this scenario lots of people will discover that GIMP is good enough and so its popularity will rise, interoperability may become better and more people will take an interest in working on it.

Photoshop piracy was the worst thing that ever happened to the GIMP.
Is SQLite used as the internal database for some popular systems?
One thing I only see a little bit about is the negative pressure pole created on the opposite side of the earth? I guess I need to spend some time at the library, but I've only seen this stated as a trivia item, but no further details, like was the effect as pronounced at that point given this is when the reflections outward all met up again?
> Why do you feel entitled to use proprietary software with no restrictions?

Because without laws regulating the sale of products to private citizens, we'd have chaos? So we need some protections to ensure the rights of users? Like the rights to re-sell used software (or media) etc.

Now, that said, without such reasonable rules in place, levelling the playing field, it's hard to fault companies for trying to give as little and charge as much as they can get away with.

If you buy a hammer, you have a lot of reasonable consumer protection. If you buy a laptop many of the same rules apply -- why shouldn't you have similar protections regarding software?

A hammer isn't going to cease working when the company that sold it goes out of business (or is bought up, or refocuses on a different market) -- why should your office suite? I'm not saying one should be guaranteed upgrades in perpetuity -- but the ability to install the same software on a reasonably similar configuration should be a no-brainer, really. Or be able to run it under an emulator.

But again, these things really needs to be legislated as consumer protection, so some company can't get away with not providing some of these freedoms.
I will get you a dream job: internships
EU Research Project TRANSIT Looks at Hackerspaces and Fablabs (among Others)
That is good to hear but isn't state media now peddling that while the protests exist, they are being manufactured by "outside foreign forces" and not genuine? They are even calling for Chinese paramilitary to be sent it. That is scary.
This can't be true. If you restore your iCloud backup to a new device, all you need is your passcode. It obviously won't ask you to enter the UID of the device you previously backed up with.
But, so much of oil production and consumption and everything associated with it is horrible and disgusting and a potential ecological and economic disaster waiting to happen. (...Deepwater Horizon...)

What about all the good it makes possible? Fossil fuels made it possible to build and run the hospitals that save our lives. Try running an ICU on wind and solar power alone, without a huge, expensive and very uneconomical battery. Think also of the food we eat - while you can quibble about the merits of particular diets, there's no way that the 7 billion people alive today could get the calories they need to stay alive without tractors, fertilizer, etc. These two examples are the the beginning - our lives are made possible by oil.

While burning fossil fuels may have a negative effect on climate, is that effect so bad that we should abandon them? Fossil fuels give us such good control over our climates that climate-related deaths (everything from storms to hurricanes, etc.) have dropped precipitously over the past century: in the past 80 years, there has been a 98% decrease in deaths due to climate. Couple those facts with the abominable track record that everyone has about predicting the severity of future conditions (remember the shrill predictions of the 60s and 70s?), and fossil fuels come out ahead of everything else out there, short of nuclear.
Yes OSX is not vulnerable to the DHCP exploit.

No, the DHCP exploit was not on the server. It showed a sample payload a malicious DHCP could send to a client to achieve RCE. Also apparently some networks allow other clients to send DHCP commands so even if you trust the DHCP server it doesn't necessarily mean you are safe.
Australia, punching well above it's weight here. One 15th of America's population, 1/2 it's sellers and listings.
What are some seminal writings about ecommerce/retail/online brand-building?
I realize that the ecommerce/retail/online brand-building trifecta encompasses a lot, but they are certainly intertwined. I am trying to compile a list of seminal resources related to the intersection of the three. So far, here are a few that come to mind:

- E-commerce is a Bear (Adam Dunn)
https://medium.com/@dunn/e-commerce-is-a-bear-d233f02d52a5
- Building Brands and Running Retail (Tristan Walker and Ron Johnson)
http://a16z.com/2014/09/04/building-brands-and-running-retail-ron-johnson-and-tristan-walker-break-it-down/
- Andreessen predicts the death of traditional retail (pando.com)
http://pando.com/2013/01/30/andreessen-predicts-the-death-of-traditional-retail-yes-absolute-death/

..and of course

- Delivering Happiness (Tony Hsieh)

What other titles or resources come to mind?
And he is innocent until proven guilty. So people should stick to that angle.