skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coursera offers a data science specialization:

https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1?utm...

It's cheap [if you want the certificate, free if you don't] and provided through John's Hopkins.
It’s time for Asian American men to stop being the “Model Minority” in tech
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Being an exception doesn't make what he said not true. What he said is absolutely true for the vast majority of new programmers.
Samsung spends significantly more on marketing their mobile devices than Apple does. Not just a little more, a lot more [1]. Not just advertising, but deals with carriers to pay bonuses to retail staff for selling the devices. Microsoft doesn't spend quite as much promoting Windows Phone and the Surface, but it's still a lot more than Apple [2].

Marketing, at best, gets customers in the door. It doesn't generate brand loyalty or repeat customers, and marketing alone certainly doesn't sustain a company or product line for years (or decades!) on end. The "Apple is all marketing" trope is usually invoked in discussions that are more about tribalism than analysis, by otherwise-rational people making a conscious decision to not accept the fact that there are other rational people in the world who see value in things that they don't.

I'm sure there's no shortage of people who will read this and immediately have a knee-jerk reaction along the lines of, "yeah, OK, maybe Apple spends way less on marketing than those other companies, but that just proves that they have magically effective marketing, because there's no other possible explanation for their success!" If there is a litmus test for rationality, they just failed it. A more plausible explanation is that success in business is a combination of a lot of different things- every company/tech/device/platform has a unique fingerprint of pros and cons that help it or hurt it in different market segments, and there is no perfect combination of any of those things. It's the ability to say, "I don't see value in this, but I can see how other people who care about different things might like it". This is an incredibly valuable ability to have, and people should be actively cultivating it if they want to make a positive difference in the industry.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732409640...
[2] https://twitter.com/asymco/status/396253597551570944
Very nice, I always do something similar myself
Crap like this makes me actively not want to listen to you and reflects badly on Kaya. If you want to effectively promote something, give an honest account of its advantages and drawbacks and let people judge for themselves whether it's going to be the future of programming or not. The presenter of this talk understands that and doesn't try to oversell it, simply describing Kaya as "declarative reactive"; you should respect this and not make their work look crankish because of the way you, not they, choose to present it.
Great suggestions! However, any discussion of Greg Egan is not complete without "Diaspora"! A novel about a world where most humans' minds have been scanned into a benevolent, human-operated machine world like The Matrix. Best book about those concepts I've ever read.

It explores (with an intriguing plot) questions like, "What do you do with yourself when you control the matrix and, furthermore, can rewrite the code that is your own mind?"

"How do senses and perception work in a digital world lacking all physical constraints? In what kind of environment will people interact? Will they have physics-simulated bodies or just be abstract shapes?"

"How does the nature of space exploration change if you can slow down your mind until the orbit of planets is your day/night cycle?" It goes after these questions in a believable hard science fiction way. The remaining normal humans meanwhile see those living in the machine world as a deception or trick of evil robots, causing the digital humans great anguish since they wish to relieve the others of their pain and suffering. Beautiful and mind-bending.
An extraordinarily secret government blacklist just got a little bit less secret
It's about as good as any online backup system. It's much much better than raid.

If you want to be picky you shouldn't rely on backups unless you have multiple independent backup systems, at least one offsite, at least one offline.
I meant Greg Egan.
Remedy: Refund.
My wife and I are both very secular. We were together for about four years before we decided to get married and then another year before we actually did. There were basically two reasons why we did it.

1. There are obvious legal and financial incentives which lead to our decision to have a legal marriage. You can easily share property, finances, death benefits, etc. Being able to jointly own property without doing a ream of paperwork as well as be on each others insurance was quite useful. After a few years our finances were already very intertwined and both of us had supported the other through periods of unemployment. It had become impossible to separate our personal successes and so we decided to essentially merge our financial and legal entities. Some married couples keep separate bank accounts and maintain a lot of separation, but we did not.

Also, a pair of people is far more stable than an individual. As I mentioned we have supported each other through unemployment and I supported my wife when she became ill. From a purely economic and social standpoint our marriage is a way to hedge our risks. I support my wife when she struggles and I know that she will support me if any ill ever befalls me.

2. We wanted to proclaim and strengthen our bond through a marriage ceremony. This was the reason we decided to do a social marriage. We felt that there was value in clearly proclaiming our intent to live together indefinitely in front of our family and friends. The act of clearly stating something out loud to witnesses can have a powerful psychological effect and it forced us to confront any doubts we had and think into the future to decide whether the course we were on was really one we wanted to pursue. Basically, the marriage prevented us from simply coasting into the future and forced us to make a clear and conscious decision about what we were doing and then we reinforced it by announcing that decision publicly.

So there are real benefits to having a marriage which are entirely non-religious. I do sometimes wonder about the gender issues and what is biological vs. rational. We do not plan to ever have any children, so our marriage isn't to provide a stable environment for them.
Yet another woman in gaming has been driven from her home by death threats
Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"[0] could also be taken as an alternate history novel. It was written in 1889.

According to Wikipedia, the genre goes back to about 27 BC, when "the earliest example of an alternate (or counterfactual) history is found in Livy's Ab Urbe condita (book IX, sections 17–19). Livy contemplated an alternative 4th century BC in which Alexander the Great expanded his empire westward instead of eastward; he asked, "What would have been the results for Rome if she had been engaged in war with Alexander?""[1]

Another classic take on the past not being dead is Lovecraft's, such as in "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward"[2] and "The Rats in the Walls"[3].

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_A...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_history_%28fiction%2...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_of_Charles_Dexter_War...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rats_in_the_Walls
Some people would argue that this is the meaning of "dog fooding"
As Microsoft surpassed Apple and of course Amiga to become the absolute necessity of practicality that they are today, I don't think they cared as much about what the "cool kids" wanted.

I think it's apparent and I am thankful that Microsoft didn't copy Apple's UI and instead went with a much more practical and utilitarian approach than Apple. This along with Microsoft's business model obviously works better for the mass market and has stood the test of time whereas Apple has capitulated many times both on their UI principles and on their business model.
> I think we tend to overrate inconveniences that affect us personally and underrate inconveniences that affect everyone else.

that's true (everywhere).

> A place that caters to slow walkers and cyclists sounds worse to me.

and you're no exception.
Maybe I was being too harsh.

It wasn't my intention to use 'bro' as a derogatory term.
Okay, I understand. Thanks for clarifying. You're probably right, a lot of people do want to avoid going through the TSA lines, as evidenced by the Wikipedia article about the TSA that I linked to. However, the person I was replying to said their coworker was driving to avoid ebola, which indicates that they're not avoiding planes due to dislike of the TSA, but rather to increase their personal safety. Which could end up backfiring, because the chances of being in a serious car accident are much higher than being in a serious airplane incident of any kind.

I get what you're saying, though.
I'm not sure hailing this as a triumph for democracy makes much sense. "Estonia Decided!" alright, but they decided against it by a large margin. Most Estonians are not in favor of gay marriage being recognized, and have been demonstrating against the bill for weeks. Parliament pushing through a law the people don't want isn't Estonia deciding, it is Estonian politicians deciding. http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=h...
Not really. If you look at the intention of Barack, he totally wanted to codify into law, using normal channels and the full power of democracy the detention, execution and "enhanced interrogation" of WoT suspects.

Not sure what is worse. Democratically passing new bad laws or subverting the constitution via underhanded techniques. I guess the former is depressing and the latter shows mal-intent?

Burn down the Reichstag or get 3/4 majority to nullify the 4th?

I'd argue that it should be a constitutional offense to weaken the constitution using non-constitutional means. Attempting to rewrite the rules of the game during gameplay should get you autobanned by punkbuster.
I can't help but feel that there must be some other underlying variables and the ones they measured are just reflections. For instance, the culture -- I'd imagine Mormons tend to not get divorced, have lots of attendees without spending a lot of money, and they seem to really be into marriage, so perhaps some of this could reduce to just "be Mormon".
Try learning something jackass: http://timelessrepo.com/json-isnt-a-javascript-subset
The "grave damage to national security" wasn't something an official said. It was a warning inside the document.

Certainly there are instances where this is the case. I can think of a few others to add to your example.

But there's no good reason to assume that all invocations of classified and politically or strategically sensitive material are excuses to cover up incompetence, negligence or breaches of law. And in fact in this case I'm not sure what it would be covering up. What's listed here is hardly incompetence nor negligence and the argument for breach of law, while slightly stronger, wouldn't pass a smell test.
Foxxconn opens a hardware accelerator in hopes of finding the next Big Thing
When I told my father I wanted to get married he just asked, "Do you get along?" I think that's the most important question if you're expecting to stay married for the rest of your life.

Many of the things cited in TFA are symptoms of not getting along.

Also, I recommend always assuming you're the one who's wrong when there's a disagreement. You probably are, and if you're not it still works out better :)
Someone?
I green wave that goes 30 MPH, instead of 45, sounds like a good idea if you want traffic flow to be pedestrian friendly, though. Race car drivers have to stop, until they learn to just cruise.
I go back and forth with prefixing my own blog posts - especially the softer ones, like this one on preserving technical knowledge http://thomasleecopeland.com/2014/10/01/preserving-technical... - with disclaimers like "I think" and "from what I've seen", and so forth. Saying "I think" in a blog post that I wrote feels redundant; of course I think this otherwise I wouldn't have written it. But more frequently it's an accurate reflection of how I feel about a topic. In the post above, I'm not making a dogmatic statement that "diagrams are bad", but I'm saying that face to face interviews have been more effective for me.
As I said, all the concrete numbers in what I wrote are crude order-of-magnitude approximations. The original question was whether a quantum computer with just a few qubits would be comparable in power to a conventional desktop computer; the answer is a clear no whether the point at which quantum computers become genuinely useful is at (say) 100 or 1000 qubits.
Nice idea for taking the class attendance register at College/school.

Just mild concern about the biometric data being stored centrally.
One critical note to

"The particularly scary part here is that the average cost of a wedding in the U.S. is well over $30,000, which doesn’t bode well for the future of American marriages."

Since wedding costs are not Gaussian (quick guess exponential), the mean is not very informative. Even misleading.
Maybe, but when it comes to child's health, even the most calm and pragmatic of parents will freak out.
Remedy: Ban magnets in toys
When you speak in front of a crowd of people and are arrested by police for the things you're saying, that's censorship.

When the crowd boos you off the stage before you're finished, that's not censorship, it's other people also asserting their rights to free speech. Perhaps you should reconsider what you're saying or find a new group of people to say it to.
Can anyone clue me in as to why (ex-)soviet regions have such an adamant opposition to anything other than heterosexuality?

I'm an odd case I guess since I'm an American who is both gay and deeply interested in "all things" Russian. (My boyfriend is even more so since he's currently studying in Rostov).

I had the opportunity to visit Tallinn and St. Petersburg (along with Helsinki and Stockholm) last year and the perceivable difference in atmospheres was quite significant between cities.

I suppose it's difficult to describe, but the western cities (like Tallinn) felt so much more easy-going and "happy" compared to St. Petersburg (even though every Russian I conversed with was deeply proud of their city).

I'm sure I subconsciously projected my own biases onto the cities before I visited them, but I also feel as if there's objective credibility to what I observed (i.e. that you can "get a solid feel/understanding" of the city just by being there).

I just don't know why eastern countries like Russia have always felt so hostile towards same-sex individuals.

Thoughts? Comments?
Maybe, but when it comes to child's health, even the most calm and pragmatic of parents will freak out. Remedy: Ban magnets in toys
Rejuvenation Biotechnology: Toward the Indefinite Postponement of Menopause
Muggles Guide to Harry Potter
I think you replied to the wrong person. I just happened to see your comment when looking over my "threads."

And it's not a scraper. :-) Here: https://github.com/BurntSushi/goim
so? is this really worthy of being submitted to hackernews?
Why isn't in the case that if something is clearly being used for illegal purposes the police can't probe it to find out who owns it.
That font is awful...
Relevant recent xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1431/
I still have almost every story and book he has written. I especially enjoyed "Grumbles from the Grave" where talks about pushing the envelope to see what he could get away with. It made some of his more extreme viewpoints in the later books make more sense. He was trolling people.

Moon is a Harsh Mistress is my favorite of his, because it is a fun multi layered story. And we are almost at the day that Adam Selene could exist. I saw a Simon Jester reference the other day, made me laugh. I have read BattleField Earth a couple times, it is a massive book. L. Ron writes in the introduction that he wrote the book for himself, that he let his imagination run wild. L. Ron has quite an imagination (see Xenu), and the book is a long fast roller-coaster.

Has anyone else noticed the similarity between DD Harriman (The man who sold the moon) and Elon Musk?

Also he had a version of the internet thought out in 1938 "For us the living" which relied on an intercontinental series of tubes. Maybe Ted Stevens got his information from that. That book has many of his major plot lines jammed into one book. Not the best, but interesting to see the V1.0 of what became the Future History ideas. I read it right after the banking problems in 2008, so it was timely to read Heinlein rant about banking in the book (he disliked fractional reserve banking)

/fanboyoff now.
Is there a reason why we often have shitty nondescriptive titles like this? I almost always have to click on every link on the frontpage because it is impossible to predict if I might be interested in the article/webpage behind the title or not :(
Has anyone tried applying? Or was anyone accepted to this program? Would be great to get some insights
YMMV. Other churches promote killing everyone that don't believe in the same god, or believe in the same god but have a method to pray, or has other social habits.

I think that it's not a problem of a specific religion. Most religion has peaceful periods but 300 years later the "same" religion has a violent period and 300 year later the "same" religion is peaceful again, ...

And sometimes, some members of the same church are peaceful and some are violent. It's more complicated.
This rings true. I had some relations with Microsoft last year and it's incredible how inward-looking they are. They spend most of the time telling you how great everything Microsoft-like is or will be, and don't seem to be well aware of the outside world.

They know there are things like iPhones and Android devices, but they appear truly baffled that anyone would want one. They think it's some kind of conspiratory rebellion, that the world uses those out of spite for Microsoft.
More like Minecraft 0.5. It looks like a 2D sidescroller from the 1980s.
What's really happening with iOS 8 MAC address randomization?
Oculus Hiring Programmers, Hardware Engineers, and More for VR Research Division
> I have trouble understanding the purpose of consciousness

Arguably, you have already said too much. Consciousness could simply be regarded as an accidental byproduct of an animal that has extensive memory making and recalling capacity. You don't really become conscious until you are old enough to make memories. So no purpose really, just an accidental effect.
Please visit jira.reactos.org (registration on reactos.org required) and fill bug reports for your problems.
Why would anyone trust 1password or any other closed source password manager at all?
(Currently showing "database error" for me.)

I kind of wish list makers would include use-cases for their lists. "This is a list for people who don't often read SF"; "This is a list of Japanese, Korean, etc SF"; "This is a list of colonising SF".

I really enjoy Greg Egan and Adam Roberts (although the endings can be infuriating). Jon Cortenay Grimwood's "Pashazade" trilogy was good.

This is a reasonable intro list of Japanese SF. http://worldsf.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/editorial-on-japanes...
Ebola now threatens the whole world
Naruto subtitle english episode 381 HD 720p
Back in "the day" the rules said you couldn't go crazy with editorializing the title, but could improve it so it made sense. That rule disappeared from the guidelines about a year ago(?) and HN seemed to go to a strict "title must be verbatim" approach for a bit.

Now it seems the approach is that mods/people who run HN are the ones who usually improve titles, which I think is a good idea (Techmeme does this), although it's often not for some time after they hit front page too, sadly. Maybe they can give a more official explanation of the policy though.
Wouldn't something that uses consensus on multiple servers, at the price of more bandwidth , possibly also with replaceable IOT card on your device - to give you more options in case of something suspicious happens ?
I don't buy this. First, instead of defensive writers, I see people--though I'm not talking about this author--whining that their unclear writing is being "misinterpreted" when it turns out they've implied something dumb.

Second, while I appreciate stylish and direct writing, I'll take bloated but well reasoned writing if I have to. The world is full of writers who "have no ideas, and the ability to express them", but that doesn't help us. Precision and careful thought often push us towards difficult and ugly writing.

Edit: the worst kind of hedge is the one that makes your opinion harder to understand. I'm guilty of adding that pointless "almost" and I've been struggling to overcome that habit for a long time.
Looks less useful than http://www.passwordstore.org/.
Also, try renaming README.txt to README.md.
"I’ve also taken to toning down any rhetorical flourishes that could be interpreted uncharitably in a way that annoys some people. The result: boring writing stripped of a lot of my own personal style"

I read this as "I've become a better writer". 99.99% of the time, what you consider your unique, personal style is just bad writing.
(Kloudless Co-founder here)

Congrats on the beta release! I'd suggest making the docs available without having to sign up.

I noticed the docs indicate unsupported features for each service, such as creating Dropbox links and downloading OneDrive files. A benefit to managing the integration is that you would be able to provide full functionality for all the APIs you support. This is one of the primary reasons we chose to adopt the architecture we currently have in place.

This would also let you fill in missing features such as Event Notifications and Search even if the underlying storage service doesn't provide it. For example, we support event notifications for SharePoint.

A side-effect of this is that developers would not have to worry about OAuth tokens expiring or having to be refreshed, since token management is handled for them. UI tools such as authenticator widgets and file explorers ( https://github.com/kloudless/file-explorer ) can also be
integrated pretty easily since authentication is managed.

As you pointed out, client-side solutions provide additional security guarantees. This is one of the reasons our enterprise plan features an on-premise version of Kloudless.

I'm excited to see more development in this space, and looking forward to your launch!
> Until the public realize that they are themselves the target of those cyber security war activities by their own government, those revelations can not be damaging enough

This is entirely true. Us plebes have been caught in the middle. And the surveillance programs are not just about cyber warfare. The NSA/DHS use them for other things as well (handing off to CIA/FBI/DEA, building profiles of people, social manipulation, etc). But this article from firstlook IS about cyber warfare.

The leaked document itself says "U.S. Strategic Command - Joint Function Component Command - Network Warfare".

> Today the new Snowden movie is all over the news, while practically nobody seems to care bout those revelations you claim being really damaging

Isn't that argumentum ad populum? The news media coverage of the Snowden revelations has been horrendous, limited and misleading through and through. In fact the Snowden movie being in the news is a great example of how the public is disconnected with what's going on. It's not a "Snowden documentary" or a "Snowden lecture" or a "Snowden document analysis". It's a short hour and change person story with a bleached narrative devoid of the content of the actual documents.