skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corruption is illegal, but that isn't what you asked. I take back what I said about it being stupid though, I've given it more thought since then, and I was stupid for saying it was stupid. It's actually an interesting question.
Looks cool. I've always liked the detailed introduction to A* and comparison to other methods: http://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction....
Recently I found myself in trouble when abroad because I had no secret code on my voicemail. And My carrier flat refused to do anything without a code when on a different network. I guess it is to prevent this kind of things (I could set a code on the carrier's website).
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
That still leaves the possibility that Bitcoin's rules (semi-fixed block reward and 21M BTC limit) are bad and some other altcoin will have much better rules.
This study[0] shows that it takes about 4 hours of complete inactivity to see a large decrease in LPL (lipoprotein lipase) in the legs. It then takes about 4 hours of low intensity activity to replenish previous levels.

Of course, then the question becomes how much low intensity activity do you need during the day to offset sitting. If you avoid sitting for 4 hours straight, do you avoid most of the bad parts? Is standing alone enough low intensity activity to keep your LPL going or do you need a treadmill desk? Could you go 3 hours sitting, 1 hour walking, repeatedly and still have good LPL levels?

The research is only clear on one thing: don't sit for 4 hours straight. It'll take 4 hours of walking around for your LPL levels to recover.

[0]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12815182
>So maybe I'm too optimistic, but I don't believe rapid change is the answer we're looking for.

You're right. Rapid change without direction only causes destabilization, and destabilization, whether it's politically or economically, is not something the US or EU could withstand well currently, and would potentially drastically weaken our joint position in the short-medium term internationally.
US research ethics agency upholds decision on informed consent
The development of a (good) web-server in pure python likely still requires knowledge of language internals. If depending on libraries, it just depends on the libraries. Web frameworks with "Batteries included" seem rather rare on the C shore, though, maybe because statically compiled languages are in general not used as frequently in web-development. Therefor it's an unfair comparison.

To leverage C's power, libraries should also tend to stay general enough, too, no?

Most compilers or interpreters are complicated under the hood. Fixing a bug in the compiler to get your code working (and submitting a patch), that's mastery.
Most people have no business using a pneumatic nail gun. No business at all. You won't hang pictures any faster, and your doghouse will probably look the same. Technically, everything done with a nail gun could be done with a hammer.

But if you didn't know what a nail gun was, never imagined the thing, could you imagine framing a 2-story house by hand? A large house might need teams of arms & hammers. Dozens. You wouldn't even see construction as the same kind of thing: more of a coordinated work of labor, like aisles of rowers on a trireme.

If I can type so fast I can think out loud into the machine, the flow changes. It's likewise hard to argue how a REPL changes much anything, since saving & recompiling is fast, but I think flow is rather important.
My colleague and I would love a shot of University Ave!
edward snowden did some heroic things, and one of the most important ways we can celebrate and extend the work that he has started is by working for justice.

choosing to give up your agency to do something about these problems is one of the reasons they persist. people think we can't do anything about all of the bad things we see in the world, but we really can.

courage is contagious.
I have recently gone back to film. You can get pocketable cameras e.g. Ricoh GR1s which destroy almost every DSLR made today in the quality of the final result. Sure the top handful of cameras are better but they are also unwieldy for say street photography.

I think film will only truly serve no purpose in about 10 or so years once a few more technologies like Sony's curved sensor come into fruition.
> supporting interaction or encapsulated state

I don't know what you mean. Could you give an example of this? What would you like to be able to do?
Another benefit is standing desks are a boon for in person collaboration. For whatever reason, my co-workers prefer to come over and see new features on my screen where multiple people can stand without feeling like they're looming over me.
Everything that you have mentioned is good. I would really focus on understanding a wide range of traditional statistics, ranging from various descriptive and exploratory techniques, to dimension reduction and latent factor discovery as well as a variety of regression techniques. Then dig into the whole machine learning space as you already suggested.

I would also get very comfortable with SQL - much of the data that you will work with in an enterprise setting will be accessible through SQL querying or some close variant.

If you come from a programming background Python will be more sensible and accessible for you as you learn. If you come from a more classical research background then R will generally be a more comfortable place to start.

Enjoy the journey
You don't even necessarily have to move to find that, just move in time (granted, past a certain number of years that becomes impractical, given lifespans). It's particularly striking here in Scandinavia, which has had relatively stable genetics over an extended period, yet extremely variable societies resulting, with different traits rewarded or discouraged at different times. It was (to generalize) once a warrior culture, then a hierarchical aristocratic culture, and is now a peaceful egalitarian culture, all with roughly the same genes involved.
I'm not trying to be negative in any way, because this is awesome. I really believe there are so many ways to interact with machines that we haven't figured out yet.

But ... can't you achieve this level of efficiency, maybe even better with a combination of auto completion and snippets?

With python and vim, I use jedi-vim[0] and neosnippet[1] for textmate compatible snippet completion.

0 : https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi-vim
1 : https://github.com/Shougo/neosnippet.vim
Formula Negocio Online Do Alex Vargas Funciona Ou Não. Posso Confiar?
Sort of embarrassing they had the picture from last year's keynote listed as the one from this year.
I hope we trend towards open, public APIs that make which interface you build or use just a personal choice that others don't have to live by.

One example is HN, they've recently released an API and when that is full-featured apps and alternative sites built on the API will be able to completely replace the HN website for anyone who want them.
Why is he using Google Hangouts? That sounds like trouble.
How about various angles views of a tennis court that is no longer in much use as originally intended? Maybe no nets or deteriorating nets, lines barely there, the play of life on the court. Could include people using the court in unusual or usual ways. Or taking off from this and using your own ideas of seeing an athletic arena/field in different ways.
What a nice reminder to look more closely at implementing a language of two with rpython. I remember being fascinated when I first read about a prolog implementation, I believe it was this one: https://bitbucket.org/cfbolz/pyrolog/src/653f1c4febf83b92d38...

Paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.103....

Other(?) paper, more about pypy and jit: "Jitting Prolog for Fun and Profit":

http://bergel.eu/download/Dyla2010/schneider-prolog-jit-fina...

At any rate, I remember seeing how (seemingly) easy they'd implemented something like Prolog (which, to my mind is a complex thing, but that has more to do with the nature of Prolog-like systems, search, cuts etc -- than with the language being particularly complex). Great to see that someone that didn't initially come from within the pypy sphere found a use for it "in anger" -- and to see that it's a viable tool.
Recently, I've been noticing this kind of moving goalposts from bitcoin critics a lot. From outright rejection of Bitcoin a few years ago it went to "blockchain is a great technology but not the currency" or "yes, many places accept bitcoin but they immediately sell it so it doesn't count" or "bitcoin shows great promise but it will soon be superseded by a superior cryptocurrency"

Personally I see it as a gradual acceptance of a new technology by the public.
Any tips on market validation for iPhone and Android apps.
Sure, but none of those metrics are dependent on the particular service in any real way. They're either a) properties of an individual car+driver or b) properties of the city/traffic situation/environment in which that driver operates.
For GPS, in addition to the time-dilation effect due to relative speed of the satellites with respect to observers on Earth, there is a second, smaller (iirc) effect to take into account: that of the different position in a gravitational well, which is a purely GR effect.
Your render loop looks like:

while true:
renderP()

Now, renderP will get executed afresh each time. Assuming no static data, if you want any state at all it must be global to the loop; e.g.

var state = initValue
while true:
renderP(ref state)

Immediate-mode UIs suffer from the same constraint, and really, the author is getting most of their liveness by being immediate.
Most of these comments follow a similar pattern:

<Single Anecdote>

Therefore, I believe that my experiences are
fairly representative the entire population.
I'd like a picture that evokes "party" or "meaningful place", and it would be nice if I could constrain it to a portrait view (like the iPhone held vertically)

Thanks!
Edit: Feel free to email me about it.
It's not a question of transparency, it's a question of how you can most remove the human element from government. There ought to be quantifiable measures of success that you can use to say "this is a good government" and "this is a bad government".

We've demonstrated pretty well throughout history that humans when aggregated into large groups are basically incompetent- especially when power and money are involved.
It's not "spamming", it's growth hacking. Get with the times, grandpa!
CALEA, the Stored Communications Act and Section 215 of the Patriot Act all compel corporations (via the Department of Commerce) to build data and key escrow services into their products.

For example on modern Windows systems bitlocker keys are automatically uploaded to the (automatically created for you) Onedrive account associated with the Microsoft Account created during your install and Onedrive is on PRISM.

Searching for 380/286 classification patents in the US is one way to figure out some escrow mechanisms and companies, though it is not exhaustive nor does it only include federally-inspired escrow.

All of this is remnants of the Clinton Administration and alternatives to the failed Clipper Chip, then increased in scope by the Bush and then Obama administration. There's a decently history that only captures the broad strokes up until the late '90s here:

http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/DOC_0006231614.p...
Several good articles on newrelic.com
Plug it in!!
Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) in Ireland specializes in semantic research: http://www.deri.ie/
Fluxus: a Scheme engine for livecoding
So, looking at what you guys are doing. At least based on your design from four years ago, have you looked at what the open computer project is doing?

At 4U, you guys can fit 45 drives in your case. The equivalent OpenCompute Knox would be 6U, at 45 drives. They have a different backplane arrangement, and more redundancy than y'all, so I expect it'll be a little bit more expensive, but at the benefit of not having to manage your own supply chain.
I don't say this often, but I really hope this guy gets prosecuted.
Also see:

http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/
Apple Pay charges 0.15% and the credit cards 2 to 3%. If the costs were really revealed to the consumers, I wonder how many of them will opt for the convenience versus entering a PIN with a debit card, use a check or pay cash.
Ah yes, the "unfollow from blah.com" feature gets very thoroughly used by me.

There has been a massive influx of hopeless and useless junk in my Facebook feed. Why do I need to click it off? Why isn't it opt-in?
It's good to see the concept was named. Having a name for idea empowers.

While the hypothetical defense (in the privacy protection context, not DRM) to close the Analog Hole would be to train human brain to make it consume encrypted stream and decrypt inside the skull, I'm disappointed to see that the trend is reverse. It's a pity that the above term is not brought about when discussing keepass/lastpass kind of tools that IMO do a disservice to personal security. They perversely expose your entire secret space to be vulnerable to Analog Hole.

I know it sounds like dangerously off topic but I feel that the "Snowden case" begs the call for action. Snowden's response on "how to defend yourself" in June 2013 was: strong cryptography. Today his stance is less optimistic since encryption is never really end-to-end. That's why secret management seems to be the paramount issue of individual protection against totalitarian state.

Convenience-over-security services don't make a good job here.
The picture is from this year's keynote, as that's the blue shirt he was wearing this year. He wore a black shirt in 2013. It's just the slide in the background are of the older phones.
Styling console.log output with CSS
Pictures of the ocean, the bay, or from some hiking trails all might be great for a landing page.
The article is silly, and so is your response. Functional programming most usually, the vast amount of time, refers to a declarative style of programming which involves using functions in the more mathematical sense, which means that one tries to avoid state and side effects. Not necessarily as a compiler-mandated thing, but as a convention. Does one still make "functions" from time to time which are really about mutating state and/or side effects? Yes, but then you would say that they are doing a more procedural/imperative style at that point in time. Like java can be procedural, if you try hard enough.

"[...], and all other languages do not." - Demanding that other languages - which might not self-identify as 'functional' - not have something seems like a futile demand. Are those languages just gonna be banned by the almighty FP wizards? :)

I've never seen things like the syntax of lisp, the homoiconicity of lisp, the lazy evaluation of Haskell, be equated with functional programming as a whole.
Some of these things in your list were proposed specifically because the Semantic Web technology inventory had failed to produce anything useful.

Well, that's one possible narrative one could believe in. Another would be that a lot of people engaging their NIH tendencies invented a parallel technology track, covering a lot of the same ground, and offering no real advantages, just because they could. shrug
I meant that someone should submit it as a story.
It doesn't matter what our parents think. Most of our parents, despite their big careers and degrees, are zombies brainwashed by television, and think they are informed by watching the news and reading the new york times. They are, for the most part, lost. Not to mention, they will be dead soon.

What matters is our generation, and the generations after us. Edward Snowden, Bill Binney, Thomas Drake, and others have made the information available so we can know the truth, and act accordingly. People are now able able to choose, rationally, based on factual evidence, what side of history to be on. The true revolution begins in people's minds, after all. We are in a position to choose between an enlightenment and a dark age.
Eliminate Phys Ed? Nowhere in the article says so.
I have few photos on 500px.com/genbit
Off topic, but Snowden's face seems to look "fake" in an interesting way... maybe it's makeup, the lighting, video compression, or a combination of those things... and his out-of-sync audio seems to enhance the synthetic feeling - for me anyway.

Of course his physical appearance isn't important to the topic of the interview, but maybe a part of me wishes that Edward Snowden was really a CG persona/face created to represent an anonymous group of whistleblowers.
How about a photo of a man doing a handstand right next to a pickle that is on the ground.
Nice. It could do with something to disable accidental text-selection (see "user-select" css property)
Great, Day or Night? University Ave Palo Alto, I assume? Anything specific?
It isn't just about what users 'might want to read'. Between experiments done that changed election results in the 2010 Congressional Elections ("Here we report results from a randomized controlled trial of political mobilization messages delivered to 61 million Facebook users during the 2010 US congressional elections. The results show that the messages directly influenced self-expression, information seeking, and real world voting behavior of millions of people. Furthermore the messages not only influenced the users who received them but also the users' friends, and friends of friends."), the Facebook emotion experiment with direct financial ties to the DARPA Minerva Initiative, and partnered censorship, and censorship partnerships with governments worldwide I don't trust Facebooks to be stewards of the information I'm encouraged to read.

http://jhfowler.ucsd.edu/massive_turnout.pdf

https://stallman.org/facebook.html
I would really like to see this photo re-made with higher resolution:

http://www.officialpsds.com/images/thumbs/Paint-Brush-psd503...

It looks like plasti-dip on a brand new paintbrush, and I really like the way it's cropped.

I can't seem to figure out if this image is for sale, or how to buy it.
There are filters on Hangout now and the default one that gets selected even if you don't want is "Enhanced" and it clears blemishes and gives you this CG-like look.
++ These are really cheap compared to alternatives on the market.
Microsoft Azure cloud launches in Australia
It may be that the article correctly reports the majority experience of Facebook users. I try to be an outlier, and to bring in part of the Hacker News culture of recommending good links rather than crap links to my Facebook wall. If I see crap links from my friends on my Facebook wall, then I reply by calling out the crap in them (linking to Snopes or a better news source for debunking, or identifying bias in certain sources, or whatever). Several of my friends have told me that they appreciate that some of the sources they have heard about (from other friends of theirs, no doubt) are crap, and many have told me that now my posts to Facebook are essentially their news aggregator. I get stories from all over about all kinds of topics, and I post those that I find most interesting to my Facebook wall, with visibility set to "friends only" by default. The best stuff I see over on Facebook from my friends is one source of some of what I submit here to Hacker News. I try to build good online communities by learning from other good online communities. My subset of all the bajillion posts on Facebook is unlike anyone else's, but it works for me.

AFTER EDIT: Encouraging, as I do both here on Hacker News and on Facebook, informative disagreement, I'd be very delighted to hear an explanation for the early downvote this comment received. What did you not like about it? How does your experience with Facebook differ from mine, and what is your view of the article kindly submitted here?
Can you make a photo of a biotech lab (or similar)?
Vampire Porn: a cautionary tale of a single, monopolistic owner
And that is what the USA 'War on Drugs' is doing to the poorer neighbours.
I have few of them already on a storage, can u shoot me email, I'll give you dropbox link when I upload.
Tired of Facebook Even After a 99 Day Hiatus
It's just a phase. We had shitty profile apps, shitty quiz apps, shitty social game apps, shitty "like to see this stupid picture" pages, shitty bit strips, and currently we have shitty videos and pictures being shared by radio stations and clickbait sites. This too shall pass.

That said, I have a Facebook group with just my friends in it, where we organise social events, share interesting stuff and just generally shoot the shit. It's exactly what I want Facebook to be - no junk, no ads, no brands marketing to me, and no one cultivating their social presence. Just a couple of posts a day and a bunch of follow up comments from my (real) friends.
Same problem existed in accommodations with the rise of Airbnb and Homeaway and Booking.com, so we created http://AllTheRooms.com, which has turned out great. Aggregators still make a lot of sense.
If side X tries to bring new service wildly popular with customers, universally voluntarily chosen by providers, providing better prices and better service, and side Y tries to prevent them from doing this citing arbitrary laws and interests of entrenched lobbying rent-seekers, having nothing to do with actual service-providers and mostly relying on FUD and denying choice to the customers - is that big of a stretch to paint side X as "good" and side Y as "evil"?

If somebody tells me "you can not buy service from X because I compete with X and I want to charge you more while providing crappy service and I know you won't ever choose me voluntarily, so I'll buy a politician and make him take your choice away" - why would not I tell such a person "you are evil, go away!"?
Blu-ray Ripper for PS Vita
Could you please take a photo of a desk cluttered with homework and notes for me? It would appear on the landing page for a notes service I'm working on.
That's how I recall it being perceived at the time as well, that Gates's deposition came off as evasive, and wasn't that well received.
Anything with an (preferably) outdoor pool with sunlight with swimmers in it, or better yet a water polo match of some sort.

EDIT: Removed the 'synchronized' bit. Can be indoors if necessary, given the current time of year and climate.
Does nicotine boost IQ in the same way as Vyvanse, Adderall or speed? Because they don't raise IQ, they raise performance by increasing focus, which is approximately increasing conscientiousness. The effects on measured IQ are nugatory. Being able to work harder, for longer is not being smarter.

If you have access to some research to the contrary please share.
I would love a clean laptop-at-the-coffee shop picture.
Good to know - thanks for pointing that out!
> I forgive the kid who hacked my phone today.

The "kid" in question is in his 20s. In other words, he's not a "kid." He's a grown man.

Your apparent decision not to refer this matter to law enforcement is charitable, but it's disappointing that you seem to be implying that somebody who is an adult is really a child. There are entrepreneurs in their 20s who run legitimate multi-million dollar companies. There are financial services workers in their 20s who help manage billions of dollars of capital. There are attorneys in their 20s who help represent companies in high-stakes litigation. There are MDs in their 20s who have life and death responsibilities as residents at hospitals.

You're not doing a man who used a caller ID spoofing service any favors by telling him "you obviously have talents." In the real world, the bar is nowhere near that low.
Could you do one in a doctor's office (preferably with a 'doctor') with a piece of medical equipment in the background?
I am newbie of machine learning, too, I prefer Python, I think it can find answer quickly if we encounter some problem of this language because it is very popular.
How do you talk to yourself?
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