skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most important science-fiction writer you've never heard of?
IE dies on a Nokia 630, on a S3 running Android 4.3 got a blank screen with the native browser and Chrome, just got lucky with a S4 running Android 4.4 with Chrome after some thinking time.
Show HN: Paperman – LaTeX editor with a Markdown feel
An alarmist blog post on Hacker News.
All mobile operators in the UK provide access to the end user's MSISDN, either via injecting a header or via a reverse IP API call (which gets around the SSL issue). In the UK mobile billing is highly regulated by Ofcom and PhonePayPlus, so only a small number of companies are allowed direct access to the end user's MSISDN. The relevant headers are only added to requests made to approved URLs; I don't believe O2 adding it to every request in 2012 was intentional.

To get around this a number of companies provide services that anonymise the MSISDN, so you can get a unique ID for end users the same as the Verizon header works. I don't know whether this is used by an advertising network or for cross promotion, but I would be highly surprised if it wasn't. Given one of the main proponents of mobile billing are the adult entertainment and gambling industries, I wouldn't put it past them to not have shady business practices like this.

Also Three and O2 are completely separate companies, O2 has a number of MVNOs of which Tesco is one.

(I used to work for a telecom services company in the UK)
Open-Source Software Brings Bugs to Web Applications
The more generic term for a lot of the stuff he talks about in that post falls under projectional editors and programming language workbenches. JetBrains MPS is one of the tools among many that help with building such editors. Here's a good talk by Markus Völter on using tools like JetBrains MPS.
Ask HN: Who's provisioning in the Australian region in Azure right now?
I heard it was meant to happen next week, but I couldn't help myself and had to take a peek.

I'm migrating VM's right now.
No problem. I think more programmers should know about this stuff so happy to help.
https://scontent-a-hkg.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t31.0-8/106...
I think he meant the 'decomposition' definition. You're decomposing your signal into other signals, that's the fundamental aspect. This decomposition is a linear, so you can also make it so your new components have certain nice properties -- they can be orthogonal, unitary, etc. Then you naturally get waves (complex exponentials) as the components.

And then you realize -- hey, those are exponentials -- so the rule that integrating/differentiating each component is trivial allows you to solve linear ODE really quickly.

I don't think algebra gets in the way at all -- it just makes this decomposition crystal clear. It makes generalizing easy also -- there are other nice basis like cosine basis, and so on. You can choose any N functions to decompose your N-point function, as long as they are linearly independent, you're guaranteed perfect reconstruction.
I'd say it's Markdown editor with limited LaTeX support but whatever. It's very cool.
I dunno about others, but I use TaxACT to file my taxes and it spits out a PDF of my full return. My W2s are delivered as PDFs through my employer's internal site. Everything else (student loan interest, investments, etc) is downloadable. The only tax document that doesn't come electronically is the mortgage interest statement from my (crappy) servicer so I scan it and shred it. Hopefully that gets fixed next year when I refinance.
Isn't it fundamentally just about the ability to manipulate one's environment, though?

Such capacity is the only thing I ever envy about others: the power to craft their environment and sculpt their own experience to fit their desires, regardless of content. The relative difference is entirely incidental, since I primarily notice only others who are further up the hierarchy.

Is it just me? It seems like a major fallacy to think that in general people desire power over other humans as an end in itself.

Perhaps it's the technocrat talking, but the ideal situation seems to be Unenvied Power: pure power over one's environment, with zero conscious representation of that power in others' minds.
I doubt the distortion was intentional, I feel like going back to see what cameras they used but most action cams (GoPro, etc.) have cheap fisheye wide angle lenses rather than more expensive (and complex) rectilinear ones which would represent the horizon correctly.
If you are using VMs in house, then an easy way to get going with Pushpin is to install Ubuntu Utopic and run "apt-get install pushpin".

It is also available in Debian jessie.
Google Rolls Out an Invite System for Its New Email App, Inbox
Wouldn’t surprise me if Steve Jobs had this on his bedroom wall
[edit: the deleted comment I responded to was asking why I seem to have "contempt" (possibly the wrong word) for empathy.]

I am opposed to empathy as a moral tool. Empathy has all sorts of known biases - we feel more empathy for people like us, attractive people, etc. In the west, for example, we have less empathy for black people:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3108582/

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...

Furthermore, even in the absence of easily predicted biases, emotional reactions are simply nondeterministic. There is no reason to believe they will converge to anything useful.

In contrast, principle-based morality doesn't have this flaw. If you take a principled position that poking people with a needle is bad (to borrow the example of the first paper), then it doesn't matter if you are poking a black or white person - the abstract principle of "don't poke people with a needle" is sufficient.

I realize this idea certainly bothers people who take personal pride in feeling empathy, who make it part of their identity. That doesn't mean I believe it to be wrong.
>But in light of recent events in Eastern Europe, the US is starting to look like a less-than-reliable backstop.

I think that Poland is somewhat satisfied with the response the US had at least in Poland and other NATO allies, which was stationing more troops there. The US is tied in how far it will be willing to go to countries outside of its NATO commitments. Ukraine wasn't simply worth going to war over Russia with. I don't think that anyone doubts the US' resolve to follow through with its NATO commitments.
Reddit: AMA from Michael Jordan on Machine Learning/Big Data
That is truly a dick move. I wouldn't trust bitcasa again or recommend it to anyone.
Note that this is posted on the community wiki site hosted by one of the community members. The application running wiki is open-source: https://github.com/meteorpedia/wiki
Never understood why it isn't just 'Click to show' the price. A click to reveal is still not great, but gives them every bit as much information for less overall UI pain.
Nice demo. Hopefully the time will come when we will finally have a proper Latex editor that is easy to use and has an editor that makes it a joy to write with (think of iA Writer)
You seem to make an awful lot of assumptions about someone asking where to buy lasers on an semi-anonymous internet forum, in 2014. Worst advice ever? I guess because you've only seen lasers catch fire, both these statements can be taken as truths.

Irrelevant anecdotal evidence and exploding CNC straw man arguments aside, lasers are dangerous and in ways that aren't familiar to most. I certainly encourage pursuit of any worthwhile scientific or engineering endeavor, but just like I don't want intern doctors treating Ebola patients without prior explicit experience or safe equipment, I prefer not to find out what accidents a handheld device that can blind someone from miles away bring from the hands of a novice internet laser DIYer.
This is a known attack on the tor ecosystem, and why the tor project keeps a list of these bad relays so they can be routed around [1]. As the article stated, it's why it's important to use https as much as possible, and also why things like signing and/or hashing any sort of downloaded file is useful. If it's signed and hashed, it makes it a lot harder to sneak a malicious program in this way.

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/badRelays
The New NoPhone
Yes, it's a week or so old and means that user flags killed a story or comment.

I don't understand your question about retroactiveness; can you explain?
Every time I see a framework like this I ask myself: if I outgrew this, how difficult would it be to migrate away from it?

I'd love to hear if anyone has used meteor for something read and if they've had to deal with migrating to something else: how they've done it, and what issues they encountered.

For example, I love angular, but migrating away from angular after using it for one year would doubtless be a very painful process.
This is actually true I think. One of my high school classmate graduated in EE or EC with no CS background/courses and much interest or knowledge in CS worked in Knox right after college. Of course, I can't generalize based on just one case, but it does make me skeptical about the product.
Best new feature is real-time selfie. Now I want one!
One of the listings on the front page specifies a relocation to Saudi Arabia. How is that a "Boston technology job"? Perhaps some moderation is in order.
What would be the opposite of angular, i.e. easy to migrate away from? Backbone? (Because it is less opinionated than Angular?)
Ah, I see. My taxes are complicated enough to require a CPA, which means I get a thick envelope full of papers back from him that I promptly stick in a box and hope never to look at again. (Until recently when I started working on thr mortgage preapproval process.)
Science - envy my article count and journal impact factor.
Procurement and Config of Sun Fire V240 and ALOM
Title is off by a factor of 10.
Tech companies haven’t gotten past sexism 1.0
On the other hand, comparing yourself to others can be useful in giving yourself direction and ideas.

For a simple example, when I visit friends' houses, I am often taking little notes. "Oh, I love this sink. Hey, the placement of the washer is great." It gives me ideas, real-life-examples, for how I could improve my house to my own liking.

The same can be done at a personal level. Anything you admire about someone can be taken as a role model. Not because you want to outdo them. Rather because you want to be more like them.

Others may disagree, but I find other people very handy for "window shopping" life decisions and lifestyles. Does this guy seem fulfilled? Does that guy have trouble making rent? Which one do I want to end up like?
This is unreasonable. AIs need not be simulations of people, or even like humans at all. Humans are just the first intelligences to evolve, from iteratively improving something that guided locomotion in fish. We are far from optimal. AI technology improves every day and most of it looks nothing like neuroscience, let alone physics simulations.
To be fair, half of the stuff I throw out when cleaning each year is stuff that I already got my use out of: old tshirts that are getting frayed, worn socks, old underwear, old towels, inner shower curtain, clothes that no longer fit right, worn/stained bedding, stacks of papers, half filled notebooks, felt pens that have the tip worn down (I write too hard/poorly), etc.

What's amazing to me is the volume of "long term consumables" I seem to go through - eg, things that I'm not wearing out on a weekly rate, but nevertheless, and wearing out on a quarterly/yearly rate.

Couple that with things that I realize need replacing (old dishwear that's accumulated stains/damage/missing pieces), that I've lost a bunch of silverware but still have a pile of spoons, etc and you end up with a fairly sizable selection of stuff every year, even though all of it makes sense both to have bought in the past and to get rid of now.
ignoring the time value of money
$12.5B purchase
- 3B cash on hand
- 1B tax credits
- 2.4B sale of desktop boxes to Arris
- 2.91B sale to lenovo
==========
3.19B

and google kept patents, etc. Plus there are potentially -- reporting varies -- up to another $.7B/year they kept it of tax offsets I didn't mention, so subtract another $1.4B [1]

[1]
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/12/22/did-motor...
Wow, you guys all seem to have extremely different experiences with amazon than I do.

I buy everything I can on amazon, I love having prime (it would be one of the last things to go if I was cutting costs heavily).

I also have no problems with the search. Anecdotally, I see more and more people I know signing up for prime and doing most of their shopping on Amazon. From my perspective, Target/Wal Mart should be really scared of this.
virus.exe? seems legit.
How does it know that web is the one to built with linking from other commands? Also if there is no Dockerfile the web in the README is not running in docker, how is the env being filled by the linking process? Is it hardcoded?
Jet engine on planes have a pretty serious thermal signature as well. That doesn't mean stealth technologies are useless.

I suspect invisible in the general case involved some poetic license. But improving the thermal characteristics even in limited circumstances is pretty valuable.
Operators were first introduced in programming languages for arithmetic, .e.g. Fortran, but they've evolved beyond that. As an example, Scala gives precedence to operators based on the first token in the op, so e.g.

*>> has higher precedence than +~< because * "beats" +

Golang treats

* / and & as having the same precedence, and ditto with + - and |
What are the typical use cases for SSDs like these?
It's Polish. For much of the year there is a reasonable supply of snow for cooling too.
James Clapper, is that you?

Perhaps you like to play fast and loose with the definitions of common words like "almost" and "certainly", but there is a wide gulf between "many people" and "almost everyone".
> What is the mortality rate of the flu versus ebola? When I assess risks related to ebola, I tend to favor a more cautious approach, because the mortality rate is so high.

I think that raises a several good points. A few considerations:

1) The 'proper' way to evaluate risk, as I understand it, is (likelihood * cost). A 10% chance you'll lose $100 costs you $10 each time you take that risk, over time.

2) I agree that some costs are so high that the math works poorly even with low likelihoods. A 1% chance of death is far too high a risk to take, unless there is some high payoff such as saving someone else's life -- a risk the infected doctor and nurse took.

3) The cost of Ebola is that high, but the likelihood is so infinitesimally low that it's still not worth worrying about. You'll add more life years exercising or simply reducing other risks with the same time spent thinking about Ebola. It's a complete waste of time (I realize the irony of writing that! :) ).

4) There are many more equally deadly and far more likely risks for healthy middle-aged people: Lightening strikes, natural gas explosions, being shot in the head, carbon monoxide poisoning, food poisoning (of certain kinds), other contagious and non-contagious diseases, etc.

5)
> When an individual spends time with ebola patients, they should be advised to avoid situations where they would expose a large number of people to the pathogen ... This seems like an unreasonble amount of risk to me.

Generally I agree that we should minimize risks, but again I'm not sure there is one here:

* It's very possible that it's very safe. Nobody in the United States (in fairness, that we yet know of) has contracted Ebola in this manner from the infected 3, though two of them spent much time around others. Also, wouldn't Ebola be rampant in the hospital where the infected nurse worked, if this was a risk? Wouldn't it be rampant among medical staff in W. Africa, given the prevalence in their environment (higher than flu in those facilities)?
* HIV spreads via bodily fluids but we don't quarantine the infected or their caregivers. However when HIV first become known, people were afraid to be near the infected (resulting in a lot of discrimination). I think we should not repeat that mistake.
* I would guess that hospital workers encounter many contagious, deadly diseases, yet nobody worries about those spreading.

People want to treat Ebola differently despite many similar and much greater risks. That's why I believe it's fear and not real risk that drives it.

Anyway, I'm approaching redundancy. Good talking to you!
There exists a bidirectional parser that converts between wikitext and HTML/XML DOM with RDFa. It's called Parsoid[0], and it powers VisualEditor, as well as a number of other applications.

[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid
This seems like a low priority consideration. Personally I would try to choose a framework that will last you longer than a year!
I'm definitely aware of that. But I am also avoiding the other extreme. For years I was cutting "stuff", largely because I was moving constantly. Then I bought a small house and stopped living with other people, and found that a barren house is its own brand of distressing.

I'm not very good at creating a "warm" house, but one thing I do know is that empty rooms and bare walls are not it! So I am not afraid to have a little extra "stuff", for example my $10 pair of ice skates. What little annoyance they provide (Where does one KEEP ice skates!?) is easily repaid by the fun they provide pond skating each winter.
Another posted noted that the prototype is based on a CV-90. That's not really a tank at all (Wikipedia calls is an "infantry fighting vehicle"). For those in the US it is roughly comparable to the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.

It has a 550hp Diesel engine, which is much easier to cool than a 1500hp turbine.
Related discussion 130 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7901991
BRB, working on the marketing copy for my Antibiotics Diet for Weight Loss (TM).
Re-entry is just re-entering the atmosphere.

The use of atmospheric braking is a common, but not required, part of atmospheric re-entry.

It is theoretically possible, if highly inefficient, to lose orbital velocity by using propulsion and re-enter from orbit without using atmospheric braking.

To answer the original question, re-entry occurs when the atmosphere is first left and then re-entered. The definition of where this boundaries lies is ambiguous, but most definitions put it in the 80-120km range.

So Alan reached 1/2 to 1/3 of the elevation that would have been required for this to qualify as re-entry.
Yep, I wrote most of it way back in the day and then someone else took up the reigns, I don't think it's been updated in a long time. It's definitely not 0.9.4 compatible at this point.

I'm working on an alternative template engine for Meteor now based on django. Currently in a big branch that's moving slow since I'm pretty busy at my regular job.

https://github.com/btipling/djanglets
Maybe it's not so much about being completely invisible as being hard to localize by thermal imaging?

For instance, if they can dump most of the heat into the air, so that what the thermal imager sees is a big blob, then if you had several tanks advancing as a loose group, so their thermal blobs overlapped, someone trying to use thermal imaging to aim an anti-tank weapon might not be able to tell where to aim to hit the tanks instead of the spaces between the tanks.
Learn to walk using genetic algorithms
I have had great success with a small filing box, perhaps the size of a backpack. I toss half-important documents in there (vehicle service records, key receipts, contracts) and forget about them.

Every couple of years I spend ten minutes flipping through. Documents that are laughably obsolete are promptly tossed, and the box goes back into the back of the closet.

Perhaps an important circumstance is how little paper I deal with, though. There is no temptation to file all my bank records, for example, because they are already all electronic.
Essentially I'm asking if it applies to all posts or only posts after the feature was added.
Nothing beats being told that what you just did is in fact not feasible ;) Check out this page:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid

This is the bidirectional conversion engine between wikitext and HTML+RDFa that powers VisualEditor and several other tools. It tracks source range to DOM structure correspondence as proposed in the post. At this point, the IDE is basically a user interface and performance problem. The conversion is readily available through a REST interface, but on the largest articles parsing from modified wikitext to HTML can take around 10 seconds. Most of that time is spent in the expansion of the myriad of citation templates that we like people to add. It is possible to speed this up to something more usable for an IDE, but it's not trivial.

You might also be interested in this blog post about some of the challenges we encountered while building Parsoid: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/04/parsoid-how-wikipedia-c...
Meteor is a totally different way to write web applications. Between the merging of the concept of front-end and back, the distributed data protocol it uses, the live templates, there's nothing really else out there like it and no, migrating away from it will not be easy, but if you're a transient nomad with frameworks I'm not sure you should really use any framework.
The Thin Edge of Food Delivery
http://gskill.com/en/product/fm-pcx8g2r4-480g

GSkill's website claims it's in MB/s as well.

EDIT: Oh, I see the mistake. It's 1,900 MB/s not 19,000 MB/s. ;P
I don't know how Mathematica implements it internally but arbitrary precision arithmetic generally is a well documented subject:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary-precision_arithmeti...
Insane gaming rigs, maybe even servers (CDN's, content servers, etc...) if they can stand up to thrashing and take a beating.
>In contrast, principle-based morality doesn't have this flaw. If you take a principled position that poking people with a needle is bad (to borrow the example of the first paper), then it doesn't matter if you are poking a black or white person - the abstract principle of "don't poke people with a needle" is sufficient.

I'd rather live in a world where I risk being poked by someone who hates me than in one one were I'm spared not because of empathy or kindness but only because of some abstract "principle" of not poking people.
Because we are humans, and care about our children? I don't have kids, but I suppose we will both understand this when we have one.

Children are an excellent argument. Many revolutions started because students were beaten by the police (or sent to war), and it made their parents angry. Children are other people in the world we care about the most, and only by caring about other people a just society can exist. So take it as a road to privacy regulations.

I wish engineers understood this better, and wouldn't shy from doing the same. The argument "think about the children" is often invoked by conservatives in support of authoritarian policies, but there is no reason why it can't be an argument for democratic and liberal positions.