skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this even legal? I mean are ISPs, or telecom in general allowed to identify the requester without their permission? But I imagine it will not work on encrypted connections. SSL FTW?!
Imagine how much he could have got in sponsorship money from Monster Drinks or some other competitor of Red Bull.
Honestly, GNU might have the world's worst marketing:product quality ratio.

I empathize with their goals, but the jargon limits this to an audience consisting entirely of the choir, and the tone is so preachy that not even the choir will want to listen.
"DER" Hedge Fund...;-)
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Not sure if I follow. I like to read everything on e-book - one reason being that I tend to highlight a lot, and it's nice getting a summary of the highlights.
Organizational expertise is systemic; surely many individuals knew, but the group proceeded under its collective intelligence, or lack thereof.

It takes systems—and individuals well versed in thinking in terms of them—to develop organizational intelligence that actually exceeds that of the individual. Building that type of organization is the hardest problem in business, but in my opinion, it is the only problem.
With the iPhone Apple only had to be better than a smart phone, which they did. With Android Google had to be better than a smart phone, cheaper than an iPhone, or at least just as good and they basically did that.

Today if you launch something new you need to be able to compete with the value in the iOS and Android ecosystems to draw people and that's a VERY big hurdle. Microsoft is trying their hardest but can't get it done.

There is no surprise here. Amazon's software ability and follow through is best describe as "exists" and the third party ecosystem is tiny. I'd rather have any $200 Android phone (even a low quality one) than a free Fire Phone and I like Amazon.

"Here's a phone, it has no popular apps, and they'll probably never be available!" Yeah. Same thing that killed the Pre. Same thing that's killing Windows Mobile.
It's interesting, but it's not news. Nate Silver published this information in his book The Signal and the Noise back in 2012.
Terrible title.
Two relatives burned by tech support scams, pls share with parents
BRB, checking Jackson Pollock's consulting rates.
Markua: Markdown for books and documents
I don't blame Quora (or Fountain) for trying to profit from being a centralized Q&A site. But when I'm Googling for an answer to my technical problem, I'll go to a Stack Exchange site first. As an end-user, I see Quora as little more than a newer version of Experts-Exchange: there may be useful information lurking behind the pop-up dialogs and intentional obfuscation, but it's a pain in the ass.
Twitter to open learning center for homeless next year
Or is the false sense of true security a bigger detriment?

That's a really tough call.

Cloudflare makes no security guarantees. They don't even commit to keeping your public key secure when you give it to them. That's a bad sign. One wonders how they fund their free MITM service.
I looked at it, and FrontPoint would have cost me more up front and been $2-3 more per month. Yes, they have a better system, but as long as the smoke detectors are monitored, I am happy. Having said that, no reason not to go with someone better. I just happened to already have parts of the system in the house I had moved into.
It reportedly overwrites a header sent by the client:

https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/525338284029775872
This seems like the only logical reason any sane person at Amazon thought this phone would be a good idea. It's such an obvious dud in this stage. These people aren't stupid, yet there is no way this product would ever be successful. It would be fascinating to learn just what they are thinking.
> The Fire phone’s product page at Amazon lists over 3,000 user reviews, mostly negative—the average rating is two out of five stars.

This highlights Amazons commitment to their customers. This is why Amazon will be #1 in the customer loyalty game in the long run. NO other company would keep this many bad reviews on their OWN product page.

V2.0 will be sooo much stronger because of this. Tough lesson to learn but invaluable internal motivation & feedback for the team.

Now if v2.0 isn't on AT&T, I will try it ....
True story: My ex was a teen as one night she saw from the window of her room a huge (bigger than more cars) round glowing object in the middle of the street, standing on three thin feet, producing some strange beams to the neighbouring house. After she marvelled the sight for unknown time, she run to her father to tell him. The thing (conveniently for such stories) disappeared. It was winter, he didn't believe her, but he didn't tell her that, he wanted that she sees herself. He told her to get her coat, he took his and they went out to the street. "You know, if the thing was there, the snow would be missing there where the feet were," he told her, "so where was the first feet?" She showed him the point, and there it was, the round print in the snow. "Uh, um, where was the second?" Again, there it was, the second round print in the snow. "Well somebody could have made them intentionally," he said, his voice sounding less certain than before. The third print, I don't know if they haven't looked for it or haven't found it. Still she had never understood what that could have been. Hallucinations don't leave the marks on the expected places. She haven't had hallucinations before or after. She was mostly embarrassed to speak about it afterwards, a few times she attempted to, others didn't believe her. I also have no idea how to explain that event. And I'd be the first to doubt other people, however she was never hot on UFO's and is also very down-to-earth person. Technically it wasn't even an UFO -- she never saw the thing in the air. But it's quite unexplainable, I can claim, knowing her. And it has a lot of turns the typical UFO stories are made of. She calls the event "my UFO observation."
We have built a site that may help a lot of families in Crisis
Waiting for a Google street view car to make its rounds.
I wasn't explicitly taking a position on that issue, but rather suggesting that the "who" is more important than the how.

"Co-leads" can mean different things, and in any nomenclature having two funds in roughly equal positions in an early-stage round can be great... and can also have unintended and significant consequences.

If you're not aware of these nuances, please add a seasoned advisor to your team asap.
They have numerous in-line citations from contemporary, independent news sources: plenty of information to determine the truth yourself. :)
It's a Microsoft Office OLE bug. If you're running OpenOffice or LibreOffice, you should be OK.

(The last Microsoft Office product I bought was Word 97. The free stuff has been good enough for years now.)
I still find it astounding that high-ranking execs at Amazon could have thought that this product had even the slightest chance of being successful.

If the Kindle Fire tablets had all cost the same price as an iPad, I seriously doubt they would be enjoying the popularity that they have today. It would appear that the thought process leading to the existence of that Fire Phone was that the Kindle Fire's success has less to do with price and more to do with Amazon.com ecosystem integration!
Everst averages $35K to $50K. A breakdown of individual expenses involved: The government permit is the largest individual cost.

http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2014/01/06/everest-2014-the-...
Embedding xls in ppt sounds like a good idea. At the moment, though, the only two use cases I can think of are: (1) Inadvertently generating Powerpoints that are far too large, or (2) Making it easier for attackers to take over your system.
That's probably due to the 15 odd years of a lack of micropayments on the web, though. I'd pay $2 monthly for every one of the (very few, maybe 15-20) sites that I visit in return for privacy guarantees and no irrelevant advertising.
Sorry but comparing a dictatorship to Facebook is a little off, by any standards.

Yes, there were several projects that opted for a decentralized version of Facebook and all of them failed to gain any traction. Why?

What are the facts that are already happening related to Facebook that affect the populations?
It's worse than 'can technically look at it'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_Communications_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...
You forgot its top party school status... UCSB was an all around awesome college experience.
Well, pulling strings to get free press on Wired (and Hacker News) will help.

I hate these manipulative articles.
My Thoughts on NgEurope 2014 and AngularJS 2.0
We changed the title to a more accurate and neutral sentence from the article (adjusted to fit the 80-char limit).

Normally we'd be inclined to leave such a title intact, but this one is particularly misleading. The article doesn't even mention Quora outside of one perfunctory list of Q&A products.
If something was broken, it was the designer of this page.
Nvidia  grass simulation
This is the kind of explanation I was looking to post on here, but couldn't quite formulate it right in my head. Yours is very clear.

Interestingly, it was actually learning quantum mechanics that made me understand the Fourier Transforms much more easily. You're always projecting the wavefunction into some basis, so the cosines and sines are just one particular basis.
I'm sure Firaxis put a lot of effort into their backstory, but I don't see how the geopolitics for Civ: Beyond Earth is any more plausible and meant to be take more seriously than any other pop sci-fi work with a dystopian result for humanity. Nuclear war, environmental collapse, things fall apart- that's the stuff of speculative fiction for decades. In fact, the original Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri game had it in the background as well, though less explicitly.
Seems like the article actually is an experiment that tries to find out in how many ways you can misspell the word Porsche.
Universal TLS can't come fast enough.
Some great Design hunts featured on PH
To put this in perspective, if the average school room globe diameter is 0.3 meters, Alans peak elevation was 0.97 millimeters above the surface of the globe...
Would thinking of the fourier transform as breaking a signal down into basic elements (like atoms) and figuring out how much of each atom is in the signal? Each different value of "K" then is like using a Ph strip to measure approximate energy b/c that particular strip reacts most strongly to a certain k.
Given their initial reactions on Twitter, I don't feel bad if they get taken to court over this. As others have mentioned, they only agreed to rapidly reverse course after Microsoft put them in time out.
Windows drivers can opt to mark the device they are responsible for as "non operational".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_Manager#Error_Codes

I think it's the #43 I've seen from time to time: "Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems."

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725873(v=ws.10)...

They get a special icon in "Device Manager", and, if I remember right, the statusbar-thingie that dances around while newly-connected devices are detected will put up a bubble with an error message.
These guys did it right. You first build a simulator and publish a paper and then join a hedge fund for $$$$$$ and actually try the algo.
Agreed a layperson could benefit, but karpathy insight is also very nice, it allows to leapfrog from elementary linear methods to a good intuition of the real thing.
In practice the two terms do seem to be almost synonymous, as functional data structures have to be persistent, and so efficient functional data structures have to be efficiently persistent.

But it's possible for a persistent data structure not to be purely functional. Here's a realistic example. A trie can be updated functionally, as this article describes. However, when the trie is initially being constructed, so that there is known to be only one variable holding a pointer to the root, it is unnecessary to use functional update to add each node (which would generate a lot of garbage). The nodes can be added by side-effect, and then once the trie's initial state is complete and its root pointer is exposed for use by the rest of the program, subsequent updates can then be done functionally.
I agree, the "magic" part is the proof that the sine and cos signal vectors in the Fourier basis are orthogonal. But it's actually a very simple proof.
Show HN: Flownote – Simple Note-Taking Software
I think, in general, it's prudent to not open any files from strangers unless you're expecting said files.
No. This is not a doomsday scenario.

All it takes is one bad chip in a critical location in one instrument and that instrument is down, or at least rolled back to "limp mode" depending on which feature the chip supports. That instrument may be processing hundreds or thousands of patients a day if it is installed in a large medical lab. Do you see the problem here?

Sure, an Emergency Service Call will take care of the problem, but that can take hours (over a day in some locations).
15 mph is 20% faster than 12.5 mph. A 20% difference is arguably significant in the context.

Going 20% faster on a bike relative to 12.5 mph requires more than 20% more effort, too.

8 is also 20% of 40, so 20% faster is like the difference between a ho-hum 48 minute time for a 10 km footrace, versus just cracking sub-forty. 20% faster can be a huge difference in fitness level.
Blacklight – Ruby on Rails Discovery Interface for Solr
This means that they are doing deep packet inspection and re-writing the actual packets sent over the network, right?
sniff I smell an Austrian!
I've seen it done. Never done it.

My main concern would still be the cognitive overhead of my looking at it. Or, is there a way to see a "global" / according to all processes? (That make sense?)
GNU and the GPL entirely changed the face of computing. Your branding expertise is untested.
I'm not sure. They seemed to be taking the phrase "sensational risk taking" and evaluating the two parts separately. That is, considering whether risk-taking is good, and also considering whether making something sensational is good.

They argued first that risk taking is necessary, and then on top of that, gave an argument that sensationalism can have some positive consequences.

I think this (breaking the response into responses to the two parts) is probably quite distinct from a straw man, and except for potential problems from not specifically covering the interactions between the two parts, seems probably valid?

Unless they edited the post since you responded, which I can't tell if that is the case or not.

tl;dr: I don't think they were acting as if you said that?
Security is an odd area. In selling (and implementing products), as well as helping a friend launch his Cloud security business - the market has a huge issue for startups if your approach it incorrectly. As opposed to areas ripe for SaaS penetration, security solving traditional or incremental problems face a large resistance because buyers/stakeholders "won't get fired for choosing Netegrity/Oracle/<largeco>" if something goes wrong. They can always blame it on the consultant implementation team. Plus, there's a large risk to an organization using a new player to solve an old problem. Phishme (not associated, but have friends who know them) took a new approach (email phishing) which wasn't offered by large players. We found this out a hard way in a startup, along with long sales cycles and requirements. For a security offering, the Mach37 accelerator can be a good place to start.
Demo: http://demo.projectblacklight.org/
Not to mention that he's assuming the cost was different. Many companies have to deal with counterfeit parts (we have) and often the only difference is that they either outright refuse to work (good!!) or fail early (very bad).
As innovative as Amazon are in the online commerce space, I think everyone called this from the start as a massive failure. You would think with the trove of information that Amazon have as well as the incredibly smart data scientists they employ they could have analysed their treasure trove of info to see that a phone with restricted access to applications, sub-par hardware and overpriced retail cost would not sell very well. Heck, even without analysing any data, you would have the answer. What makes this situation even weirder is Jeff Bezos is a notorious data-driven decision maker. He is a numbers guy, he does not usually make decisions based on impulse or the need to compete, so I do not know how things got to this point.

Does this mean that Amazon are out of the smartphone business because of one failure? Not necessarily. Amazon have the money, the power and means to release something spectacular, but they will need to learn from their mistakes as well as their competitors and go back to the drawing board. I honestly would not be surprised if they already have a new phone in the works already.

One area Amazon could beat their competitors on is price Even though you can already buy a whole bunch of affordable Android phones, they usually come with horrible hardware and are made of the cheapest materials possible. If they can release a phone with a decent camera, proper unrestricted Android OS, plenty of RAM, removable battery, great GPU/CPU and get the cost low enough that it wipes the floor with Google's offerings and price point, we would have a viable fight on our hands.
According to Ars Technica, it's free:

> An Apple customer service representative told Ars that Apple SIMs are available for free at Apple retail stores.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/10/att-locks-multi-carrier...
I'm sure it's just an oversight, but that's actually 6622 underpaid hours, not 662. In other words 165 man/weeks or slightly over 3 man-years. I think people are annoyed about the fine because it basically sends the message that you can pay people only 15% of the minimum wage and if you get caught the fine will be just about 50 cents an hour, or ~8% of the amount stolen from the employee. That's less than what I pay in sales tax when I purchase goods from a store.

Now you're right that it's better than large sweatshops where hundreds of people may be underpaid. And it may well be that these employees were put up by the company and din't have to spend anything on rent or food, so while they were only being paid $100/week to work here they might have been coining it by Indian standards. But as I said above, even after the payout and fine the firm got a bargain! How much would you budget for 6600 hours of IT department grunt work?
There's a library for lisp called readable lisp. It has three features (http://readable.sourceforge.net/)

1: Indentation instead of parentheses

(defn [a b]
(+ a b)
)

Becomes

defn add [a b]
+ a b

2: Function names before the parens instead of after

(add 3 5)

Becomes

add(3 5)

3: Infix operations

(+ 3 5 6)

Becomes

{3 + 5 + 6}

(Note the curly braces instead of parens)

These combined make Lisp code a whole lot more readable:

(define (factorial n)
(if (<= n 1)
1
(* n (factorial (- n 1)))))

Becomes

define factorial(n)
if {n <= 1}
1
{n * factorial{n - 1}}

To me, this made common-lisp python-like readable. Now to get it working in Clojure
Create a “Wheel of Excuses” with BASIC and the New Raspberry Pi
One note - the Apple SIM is free, according to Apple:

> An Apple customer service representative told Ars that Apple SIMs are available for free at Apple retail stores.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/10/att-locks-multi-carrier...
You got me to look up the Dan Plan guy, and it looks like he is steadily progressing.

http://thedanplan.com/statistics-2/

Don't know much about golf, but looks like his handicap is still on a consistent downward progression after well over 5,000 hours towards his goal.
Excuse for what? There are plenty of ways to show you "still got it" not involving plummeting from the stratosphere.
VPN or TLS ftw
Okay, "just lying" is too strong. But see my reply to JeanPierre.
I think it's always been this way. GNU is mostly known for its userspace base system. They have a few higher level applications like MediaGoblin, Health and Octave, but those are outliers. Then GNOME is practically a separate project these days, despite ostensibly being part of GNU.

It's the FSF that reaches the wider audiences through their guerrilla tactics.
Sure, but see: I don't think manufacturers would go after fakes and deliberately test their drivers against it.

Why? How many fakes are there? How do you make sure that's the "most popular" fake?

It's possible they do it? Sure! That, or they add features to their silicon and drivers and don't care what happens to other chips.

Yes, I'm against bricking fakes or causing random malfunctions.
Stephen Hawking joins Facebook
UCSB has 3 Physics Nobel prizes, and 6 total laureates

http://www.ucsb.edu/nobel/
Interesting, VRBO definitely changed their pricing model recently. It used to only be the $350 upfront type, so it only made sense for actual vacation homes. I know a lot of people were dual listing their VRBO places on Airbnb (because Airbnb is free), and I bet VRBO was not getting the renewal numbers they wanted.
The internet is already completely and absolutely filled with places for people to go and ask the same ol' FAQs over and over and over and over again.

Reddit and Quora are both completely intolerable to me because of the constant, micro-scopic topical navel gazing.

If Fountain doesn't address this first and foremost in their technical plan, there's no hope for the product.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fourier_transform_time_an...
Don't feel bad about the joke, that's how we think of ourselves too (I work at Priceonomics). I think it's actually an interesting advantage versus a content site that just thinks of themselves as a content site.
Agreed, if anything they already guaranteed failure of the project by attaching the GNU to the name.
"Theory and practice of a completely encrypted and obfuscated new Internet stack..."

OK.

"... enabling us to unfold a carefree digital living."

With completely untraceable digital harassers. Lovely.

The thing is, the problem they're trying to solve is real. Governments aren't angels; they're composed of human beings who are selfish, manipulative, and power hungry, and who are far too often willing to step beyond the rule of law because "the situation demanded it" (or because they really wanted to). But the rest of the problem is, the people aren't angels either, and if you give them a completely anonymous internet, they won't just use it against governments that overstep their bounds. They'll use it against each other, too, in some spectacularly nasty ways.
Readable lisp
Combine iPhone, 3D-printed clip, glass sphere to create a microscope
The kind of people that would judge a person over a piece of paper are not the kind of people that anyone would want to work for.
Nice, great addition to the discussion. Care to share examples of how you know this?
As a revolv owner, I was really pleased with the app, the hardware, and the functionality. This actually makes me a bit sad as 3 of the 7 or so radios in the Revolv hub weren't enabled, but were promise to be enabled later down the road with a software update.

This basically means I might as well go back to my ISY-99i Pro with a bunch of python glue code. sigh
My preferred way of looking at the Fourier Transform is that it is evaluating a polynomial at the roots of unity. This is why it is useful for large-integer arithmetic.
I wouldn't call it particularly deep packet inspection—they're just rewriting the http requests.
exactly. the lesson could even be "don't open * from anyone, especially strangers."

you can get code to execute in all sorts of presumably innocuous file types.