skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since then, the material has become increasingly popular. Municipalities across the country have floated multi-million-dollar bonds to pay for new fields. Local leaders, some facility managers and companies say that turf costs less than natural grass to maintain, and can withstand heavy use year-round.

Given the relatively high costs of installation, it ought to be possible to cross-reference public expenditures on artificial turf and changes in health trends at fairly high resolution. Interestingly, baseball, which pioneered the use of artificial turf, has now largely abandoned it and gone back to the real thing: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/22/sports/soccer/22iht-ARENA....
I just downloaded it and tried it. It is not P2P but cloud based. They said on the FAQ that those "Xims" (galleries) would expire after a while.
This cuts both ways.

> Looking back, I can’t believe I jumped in knowing so little.

I also have this feeling about my first few client projects, and it was to my detriment. The fact that I was technically able to deliver something to spec convinced me that I knew what I was doing. There have been times when I've wished someone had told me back then: stop just making things, and learn how to code.
'has traditionally been mastered for 'ideal' studio conditions' - really?

I thought things were mastered for the format often times...
FWIW Venezuelans on reddit and other internet forums are very skeptic about this. They say it's just a more convoluted way to get USD.

http://redd.it/2iocr5
Not long ago, it was the Chinese who were apparently using Bitcoin to bypass currency controls, and that was to be the 'big thing' that would propel bitcoin on to greatness.

Now that effect seems to have petered out and the hype has switched countries... why will it be any different this time?
If you don't like reading just a press release, the scientific paper describing this concept is at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920379614...
So uhhh. How do you pronounce Xim?

KS-im? Zz-im? SHim?
Will you be offering cards with any rewards program?
Raspberry Pi-based kit teaches kids to program
I agree with you in that this is an excellent and demonstrably valuable use case for Bitcoin - we saw the same thing happen in Cyprus with the protests there.

I don't think I agree about this meaning there will be a bright future for it. Venezuela and Cyprus are unstable, extremely corrupt governments. Bitcoin thrives in that environment. A bet on Bitcoin seems to be a bet that those kinds of environments will endure and are inevitable, which is vaguely reminiscent of 2nd Amendmenters and the way they want their guns because it'll help them defend against the "corrupt, evil police state".

The problem is that America isn't actually a corrupt, evil police state and neither is it truly on the verge of imploding. I would bet against Bitcoin, at least in America, for this reason.
This was discussed on /r/oculus and it was suggested that Microsoft could be overdriving the infrared so it's for eye protection
> While in jail, weev spent much of his time in prison in administrative segregation – a brutal form of incarceration that is considered torture by many psychologists. After the director of prisons in Colorado spent 24 hours in a solitary cell, he set out to eliminate all solitary confinement in the state. In weev’s case, he spent most of his time in a roughly 6×9 cell with one other prisoner.

Weev has admitted that he spent much of his prison time prominently doing things associated with white supremacism. It would not be surprising for someone doing that to end up in administrative segregation for protection from black and hispanic prisoners.

Whether or not a white supremacist with weev's personality would face a serious risk from non-white prisoners would probably depend on how many other white supremacists are at his prison. If one of the white supremacist groups that operates in prisons (Aryan Brotherhood, Nazi Lowriders, DMI for example) had a strong gang at his prison [1], then being in the general population could be safe.

I want to know what the poor bastard who was in the cell with weev did to deserve that cruel fate.

[1] and assuming he could stop being an ass long enough to get on the good side of the local white supremacist gang...
According to the way it was pronounced in the video on the bottom of the page, it's Zim.
Who is making tens of thousands per week? Outside of selling exploits to government agencies or cybercrime.
Or is that what you meant?

AV jobs pay shit.
An interesting idea, but it may be short-lived. They're essentially using a 3D printer as a poor man's 3D hologram system. Very nice application of the technology, but once we commercialize actual holograms it'll be obsolete - in much the same way slides were replaced with monitors.
That's what Reddit says. (http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2ik43h/belkin_fi...) Belkin, though, didn't say that. Some people thought that Belkin did a remote firmware update on the device. Belkin's own site indicates that firmware updates must be performed through the device's web interface, which, hopefully, can't be reached from the outside network.

Belkin routers apparently talk to "heartbeat.belkin.com", which is really an Amazon AWS instance.
natural rights are arbitrary and we decide what they are as a culture. god didn't pass your right to free speech to moses on mount sinai. i'm not arguing for guaranteed credit (as i already oppose capitalism) but i think guaranteed housing is both noble and easily achievable in the developed world
Honestly what it really boils down to is resources and money ("resource" can also be described as "money" therefore really money and money).

Up until very recently there were simply not enough hazmat suits, not enough burn-able bedding, not enough people (who wants to work with Ebola?), not enough disinfectant, and heck even clean water in SOME areas.

Then you have to consider how damn hot it is there, so a $5 hazmat suit may not cut it (this article covers that). Now you're dealing with suits costing tens of times more than that for basic AC, just to allow the people in them to work longer shifts.

You also have a lot of local population pushback. The hazmat suits scare people, and all locals see is Ebola patients go into treatment and die. There is a lot of suspicion that Westerners are getting people sick to kill them, so they hide away family members until they get infectious.

What can be done? Money, and resources. It isn't a magic bullet but if you train a metric ton of local people and give them everything they could possibly need it would at least slow the spread if not reverse it entirely...

PS - This article is exactly WHY I am not legitimately concerned about a wide-spread infection in the Western world. We are simply too rich, we have or can acquire the resources, and even your average Joe Smith on the street can Google how to protect themselves from Ebola exposure.
Yes but it's not yet available. The current service only provides a fixed domain but we will extend the API and provide tools to allow you to specify a custom domain. Offering the ability to domain adapt all these services will be a key differentiator of the Watson services. Stay posted!
I thought for sure this would be a really efficient text editor.
I tried it out - the person you're sharing the Xim with can also control the slideshow.
Humans are rarely stupid, unfortunately.

Better to remain 'agnostic'
Change is a constant in this industry. Over the years you'll get used to retiring skills from your toolbox when they're no longer useful to you. Adding new skills is just as important.

I know that OS updates and SDK changes can often feel like a blow, but it's just a natural progression of the industry. We're all in the same boat with you. Keep on pivoting, keep on learning, and keep on adapting to the new environments you find yourself in. It's, for better or worse, part of the job.

You're in a great position to soak up new information, try to be a sponge; but don't let yourself get emotionally attached to the language-of-the-week or framework-of-the-day. They're all just tools.
New programmers take a look if interested
I'm interested in having a small game development group where we communicate share data ideas and put ideas in motion. Starting off game development program in c# and targeting windows/windowsphone (anyone is welcomed doesn't matter your location). Contact me via email if interested - footballer4life199@hotmail.com
we've been in this market for a year or more with masked cards: https://www.abine.com/maskme/features/cards/
basically a better "paypal plugin" for those of you who used that. the principal is tokenization for not just credit cards but email, phone, etc. happy to answer any HN questions..
As short as possible, people don't get undeserved hate, but self promotional brands get the burning hate of 10000 suns.

Some of those self promotional brands are multinational megacorps and when you divide the internet hate machine between prez, CEO as you list, plus board members, major shareholder investors, 10 thousand dealership owners, 10 thousand service dept managers, probably 100 thousand salespeople, the average "GM dude" gets a middle finger from the internet hate machine about once every decade and just kinda brushes it off. When the self promotional brand is one woman as the face of social justice warriors (generally speaking, not the specific lady from the article, although we know who I'm talking about), she's going to take the full impact square on full force no protection. Its going to hurt. GM can take a GM sized punch and laugh it off. One nice normal lady cannot take a GM sized punch. She, as a basically nice person, doesn't deserve it at all, but brands will be brands and culturally we think its OK to hit a brand that hard. And she wants to be a brand, so the painful result is not exactly surprising when it happens...

You wanna be as big as GM you better be able to take a GM sized punch. Nobody in the general public understands the difference between her financial statements and GMs statements, they just know her and GM are both on twitter, and we all know what twitter is for, so the guy who was screaming at GM for taking .gov bailout tax money last night is going to be on her case tonight, with 10 million of his "friends" and she's not going to like it.

"I don't consider ... bashing ... a net good"

Any mistake in my summarization of your position is my own. Given that disclaimer, the sound you just heard was every clickbait journalist and sports writer and PR dude in the world just disagreeing with you.

Members of the general public making an emotional connection with a brand is idealized because optimistic people assume it'll be like a laughter filled life long infatuation of a love affair right out of a sappy hollywood romantic comedy movie, forgetting that too many intense human emotional relationships end in hatred, murder, insanity, beatings. Not that many, thankfully, but enough to be a problem when you scale it to a 7 billion person marriage. If you use techniques that give people an emotional response to a brand, you might not like that response... And if you're GM sized you don't care, but if you're one human female sized that punch is going to sting a bit.

(Edited to add, think of social media as a multiplier. You can have the force of a billion dollar brand, if you're lucky and play it well. The bad news is if you don't play it well, you WILL have to be able to take a punch like a billion dollar brand. And that'll hurt if it all lands on just you. And the Billion Dollar Brands like it that way, who needs competition from the little people?)
It was every 50 years, not 7. And it also stated that prisoners would be freed. We don't actually do everything the bible says to do... thankfully. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(Christianity)
this is actually a serious issue were they to get popular and i wonder how Apple Pay is addressing it. the namespace is not that large.
Amazon/Google might be a little annoyed if every Belkin router on the planet started pinging them.
This gave me a hell of a time the other day - I was perplexed as to what was happening and equally perplexed when it started to work again.

This has definitely spurred me to take another look at my home networking, this kind of thing simply should not happen.
Edward Snowden: Whistleblower, Criminal, Nobel Peace Prize Winner?
http://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-TL-WR703N-Wireless-iphone4-and... .. This small little fella works perfectly for me with OpenWRT and even if you are not a techie you can use the chinese default firmware which works well as well .. More info on http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr703n in case you want to install OpenWRT .. Plus this little fella just costs $30
This would be great if it was not limited to pictures. There still is not a great way to share your phone screen with a computer or another phone.
What's missing from conversation about women in tech? Men
It's interesting how often the lessons of history need to be relearned. It doesn't matter that we can trust the government of today (to the degree we can, which isn't much, in my opinion), it's never wise to give governments ultimate power. Because it means that if the government then becomes untrustoworthy the results are much remedy the situation. Moreover, our little "free" bubble is not the entire world, the governments that most of the people of the world live under are not merely untrustworthy, in many cases they are exploitive or oppressive. Not the sorts of organizations you'd want to give the ability to snoop into everyone's business.

Many folks are blessed with the fortune of living lives without turmoil or great consequence, and for those folks it may seem perfectly normal to allow the state into their affairs. But we should not force the state to be in everyone's affairs, we should not chose to live in a police state out of some fool notion that there will be less crime or less terrorism there. That's not how it ever works out.
I think its the classic chicken-egg problem like any other platform.
Thanks! The Watson research team has a long tradition with MT (this is the team that actually invented statistical MT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_machine_translation) and always achieves top rankings in many of the public competitions. But we had never exposed MT to a broad market. So bear with us while we iron the wrinkles.
Not available for any of my devices. (Note 2 etc) I guess that means somebody forgot Europeans exist?
Same thing that happens with every hardware startup with launch goals: It's 18 months late.
Not only walked in to the house but moved things around (killed running processes, added another backdoor and gave himself shell access).
I think it's more likely that AR or VR will be used for this purpose. It's already pretty trivial because they've already created the 3D model representing the data, all they have to do is throw it into a game engine.
There seems to be a large demand for a device like the Pono player, which I'm sure is great, but is not very practical - nobody needs to carry a separate player when they already have a phone with plenty of memory. Although I only listen to lossless files at home, I am certain that their benefit over regular 320 kbps mp3s on a noisy street are nonexistent. What the audiophile consumer needs is a good portable amp/DAC that would drive even high impedance headphones and that's what I like about your product.

Speaking of audiophile consumers, I tink that it would be great if you could offer two separate verisions of your product:
1. The full version that you have just released.
2. A second version, specifically aimed at people who only care about HiFi sound coming through their headphones. I don't really care about the speakers as they will never replace a proper audio system. To me they are just taking up space and it would be great if I could buy the rest of the technology in a smaller package.

One more question - I guess you'll offer Amp with a separate music player iOS app. It will probably run a few hearing tests in a quiet environment and that's how it will adopt to one's hearing. If so, will it also support various headphones? Not having to EQ the Beyerdynamic DT1350 and other cans with weird frequency response would be very helpful and will make your app bring the best out of any pair of headphones.
>A "golden key" only makes sense to me if it is exchanged for transparency of when it is used.

This is a very interesting point. Sadly it's just as impossible to guarantee transparency when using the key as it is to guarantee the security of the key :(
Is the website down? Anyone have a cache?
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The ads refer to our healthcare offering. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lGJ0h_jAp8 for an actual product. The services here are the components that allow us to build such products.
Report ranks U.S. metros based on how many jobs residents can access by transit
Ugh! You struck a nerve.

I make bread regularly. It's not a big deal, my mom did it, and probably her mom before her, etc. If we're out of bread, it's not too hot to run the oven and I feel like it, I make bread.

But then my mother-in-law comes over and can't stop raving about the bread and if there isn't any, asking if I'm going to "make that wonderful bread" and fawning over it to the point where I'm ready to puke. It's just bread, FFS. Any idiot can learn to make it.
I'm pretty sure it's impossible to write a non-trivial program without ever using DI, even if just by accident.
Rarely?

Can I live in your reality? <3
Their youtube video is a good intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRWs8L4xnUM
Shame Android app is restricted by country - can't install it here in Poland
I'm surprised that few seem to understand that Zuckerberg chose a motto with a deeper meaning than 'breaking products and code'. He meant break the systems, calcified behaviors, and system-think that ends up killing a company over the long term.

Move fast, and don't go in predictable directions based on existing corporate momentum. The only way to disrupt yourself is to 'break things' i.e. architectures, regular income, etc that may be holding you back from a better opportunity.
Looks good. Not Available to my devices. I am guessing it is restricted by region.

I'm in Nigeria
Belkin routers hijacking websurfing (2003)
U.S. Preparing Charges Against Banks in Currency Rate-Rigging Cases
Sure, on the router configuration page, I get that it might inform you that you don't have a connection. But (a) why only contact one company server? can't they ping anything else? and (b) why would you disable DNS if you suspect a problem with the connection? surely if there were a problem, the addresses wouldn't resolve and the result would be the same
I agree that the American government shouldn't regulate speech. I don't trust the government and I can't easily replace it, so it's worth the legality of NAMBLA that the activist groups I belonged to could exist.

But being legal and being able to exist are totally different things. If you're a business owner, you can disrupt white supremacists by denying them the use of your business. Hotels do this all the time, to the point where it's difficult for militant white supremacists groups (that aren't, say, the police) to find places to meet (maybe the police will get theirs eventually).

I'm okay with this because there are a lot more hotels than governments, and they're a lot easier to replace. If a hotel I wanted to go to started prohibiting communists from using it, I'd just use a different hotel. Or AirBNB. It's a great world we live in.

To put it in a word, the government and private entities are different, so they should obey different rules. This is not a hard concept to grasp, but very frequently people literally do not think about these things, they pattern-match on the first argument that leads to what they want. Which in this case is the ability to objectify, harass, and sexually assault women.

There is no inherent good in providing space for all opinions. Free speech is not an end in itself, but rather a means. You are confusing the two.
Never Ask What They Want – 3 Better Questions to Ask in User Interviews
> You only have the freedom to express ideas that are deemed to be acceptable by whoever holds the most sociopolitical power at any one time.

If there's any reasonable amount of support for your ideas, any at all, you really should have no problem finding work, friends, and wealth. We're not exactly at a point where LGBT rights, feminism, and similar subjects have anywhere close to unanimous support. You only have to look across this discussion board and in most newspapers to see that.

> They were calling for him to be fired for participating in a political campaign they disagreed with.

Yes, that's part of a decent protest - telling the company what they can do to get you back as a customer - and Mozilla could've chosen to ignore them and potentially lose them as customers and community members. That's fine. That would be their choice. Many companies have done so and succeeded - Chick-fil-a, as one example.

You really think that when it comes back round again, if we're nice and don't try to cause any real societal change, the (little-c) conservatives won't try to cause any real change in the opposite direction? That the Government and the media are never going to pick another scapegoat minority for society to go after when the majority is fed up again? That they'll always tell both sides of the story from a fair and neutral perspective? That's never been my experience, and history tells us the complete opposite.

The majority is always going to have immense amounts of power, and they're always going to wield it. We might as well try and push in our direction while we have any power at all (and seriously, we have far less than you think).

Here's a question: We have the right to freedom of association. Is that somehow a lesser right than freedom of speech? Or must we be forced to associate with those whose speech we find bigoted and harmful?
This article [1] is a good overview.

[1] http://www.invisiblethingslab.com/resources/2014/Software_co...
s/Customer/Comment/

HN is serving up state, BTW, HATEOAS-style, because your front page is customized to you. Only problem is (was) the expiring links - the page is stateful server-side, not just client-side. This article is about making HN more HATEOAS, that IMO makes it technically serving up more state (parameters on the URLs it embeds in the page, for one). My comment was about a way of having a more HATEOAS semantics with respect to statefulness, but less programming cost server side.
iOS (and presumably Android) has a similar functionality, but at least in iOS's case it's to find out if the device should consider this wifi to be 'working' (and send traffic via WiFi) or 'blocked' (and continue using the mobile data network).

I can't think of any reason to have this failover behaviour on a consumer router that isn't multihomed. It's not the router's job to ensure that my internet is working according to some predefined rules, when there is no tangible benefit to doing so.
Radio interview with Peter Piot (discoverer of Ebola)
If all your experience is in the corporate world, then yes, I would recommend you join a startup first while there are startups available that will take you. Even if you have to take a paycut to do so, it's likely going to be a lot more money than you would pay yourself in your own startup.

Get used to the pace, risk, and general mindset of a startup first. There is a nontrivial adjustment period between working for big companies and working for startups. So I would highly advise you to go through that without the additional stress of running the startup and working on it.
Tyupkin backdoor is used in Eastern Europe for stealing money from ATM
Is this similar to GPU programming? If not, how is it different?