skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I'm re:dash project maintainer/creator)

Embedding is something that we want to add, although currently not a priority for us internally. You can follow #320 [1] for updates and details on when it will be implemented.

Also, if you just want to try re:dash out there is a Vagrant box [2] and GCE/AWS images [3].

You can always ping me for help or details, either through the mailing list, GitHub Issues, Gitter or just by email (arik at arikfr dot com).

[1] https://github.com/EverythingMe/redash/issues/320
[2] https://vagrantcloud.com/redash/boxes/demo
[3] https://github.com/EverythingMe/redash/wiki/Setting-up-re:da...
Lack of Title II regulation is what produced the current cell phone and cable market. Cable companies and cellular phone companies are explicitly not regulated as Title II utilities. That's how they're able to get away with traffic discrimination - they're free to treat different classes of traffic (e.g. traffic from Netflix) differently.

With Title II regulation, they would be classified as a common carrier and would have many more restrictions in how they could discriminate among the various kinds of traffic that passes through their network.
Only you can answer that for yourself. I have a Sony A700 which is very similar to the 40D in both sensor performance and features:

http://www.dxomark.com/Cameras/Compare/Side-by-side/Sony-A7R...

I could definitely use the 2 stops more dynamic range and the 5x high-iso performance for day to day shooting. I'd love to have the good video as well sometimes. The 3x resolution wouldn't be too bad either from time to time, although it would take a bigger toll on the processing side (storage for the files and CPU usage for the raw conversion).
Are you forgetting about how Comcast heavily throttled BitTorrent before the same sort of public outcry caused them to walk back their strategy?
Head of Google’s Web Spam Team Matt Cutts Extends Leave into 2015
As I was interested in Alexander's philosophical and religious thoughts I came across summaries of it at the "Grothendieck Circle" formed by some academics among them Pierre Lochack and Leila Schneps. http://www.grothendieckcircle.org/

"In 1990, he gave away or destroyed all his papers and disappeared into the Pyrenees Mountains. For some years, no mathematicians knew where he was.
Pierre Lochak and Leila Schneps, two French algebraic geometers, heard from a former neighbor of Grothendieck that the “crazy mathematician” had been spotted in a nearby town. They tracked him down and found him living alone, doing organic farming. They maintained contact with him for several years, but now, Schneps says, “he’s not in a state to be visited. It’s not possible to not quarrel with him – or rather, for him not to quarrel with you.”
She hesitates to call him crazy, though she admits that in a technical sense, that might be true. “His mental state is very, very special.”
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sensitivity-harmony-thin...

I was reminded of the philosophical work of Buckminster Fuller and Alexander's Flora/Lucifera janus figure reminds me of Carl Jung's Philemon figure. So I wonder why he lists Freud instead of Jung as 'mutant', also Marcel Légaut, Teilhard de Chardin and Rudolf Steiner are on that list.

http://www.ihes.fr/document?id=1723&id_attribute=48
http://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle...
http://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle...
http://xahlee.info/math/i/Alexander_Grothendieck_cartier.pdf
It was supposed to run all the way to Beijing as originally envisioned. Too expensive, though.
I applaud for this move, but I do embedded linux, need checkout NetBSD which is typically the embedded BSD, the concern is about all those drivers' support.
The carriers are not permitted to perform any filtering. Legal or illegal content needs to be dealt with at the consumer and provider end. Like it is done now.

I don't want a Chinese firewall.

I though we already have legislation in place to define them as "Common Carreires" absolving them of any legal responsibility when illegal content crosses their pipes. However it requires them to not perform any filtering.

I have the feeling we are making a new law to permits ISP to filter and not be legally responsible if illegal content crosses their pipes.

Why can't we just define carrier's as common carriers?
It has been mentioned before and there have been redesign options put into the mix - http://red.reb4.me
Better yet, IIRC TGV achieved 380km/h 35 years ago.
It depends where you live. A taxi from my apartment to the airport is about 145RMB and takes about 45 minutes. Subway plus maglev takes 60 minutes, and costs less than 50RMB (maglev is 40RMB if you have a subway card).
Absolutely, but the claim here is entirely different, "my application used less memory when running on FreeBSD". While within the realm of the possible, it is more likely it is running on a completely different configuration, or "memory used" changed meaning, or both.
These concerns sprouted from the White House's comment that ISPs should not block legal content.

Logically, this does not imply that ISPs have to start filtering for illegal content, but that is nevertheless what people started worrying about.
Thoughts on OS X Yosemite, Arch Linux and Xmonad
Thats cool. Here's the somewhat equivalent in C++:

struct square
{
int x;
};

struct rectangle
{
int x;
int y;
};

boost::variant<square, rectangle> to_shape(int x, int y)
{
if (x == y) return square(x);
else return rectangle(x, y);
}

std::vector<std::pair<int, int>> unknowns = {
{5, 4},
{3, 2},
{4, 4}
};

auto shapes = unknowns | boost::adaptors::transformed(boost::fusion::make_fused(to_shape));

Of course, the structs are not polymoprhic and can't be printed out. I just left that out because it requires a little more code to do that. Obviously with haskell its much less code.

I would very much be interested in the dependently typed version.
Wow, that is really a pity.

We have trains here in most of western europe that do about 200mph, but most long-distance travel is at 150mph. So yours are really WTF-worthy, especially considering how dense the population on the east coast of the US or around the SF bay area is.

(Trains I’m referring to: ICE 3, TGV, Alvia, Railjet, etc.)
SHOW HN: Find all the links sent through iMessage from terminal
People rarely care about government decisions that do not affect them directly. People are generally blind to secondary effects of any government policy. Price control and Minimum-wage are prime examples.

Facebook or Microsoft are not entities in themselves but they represent their investors which are just people just like you and me. Whatever these companies do essentially represents the will of those people. It makes perfect sense for their lobbying because they are the ones who are likely to get affected in long because of increases cost of their services and reduced credibility.
It would land heavy side down both initially and after a bounce, no?
Unless I'm missing something, for this to be useful, at least to normal people, there would seem to be a huge step missing whereby every object in the world has to be modelled and put in a database. Also you'd have to be able to locate your 2d objects in the 3d database, but that is at least theoretically tractable I guess.

Edit: It sounds cool, but maybe a bit misleadingly advertised.
The biggest 'improvement' they did to IE in GDR1 is faking user agents so mobile sites think it's an Android browser so the site appears correctly. At the moment, IE on WP does 100/100 in ACID3. It does not support HTML5 as well as Chrome on Android though - but I really doubt that that's the main reason why Google stuff does not work well on it (as the previous example shows it as well).
Russia Set to Launch Government-Run Alternative to 'Unreliable' Wikipedia
from culture and i may say Collective unconscious as told by jung (but it's my point of view)
"The neighborhood was targeted by the city as a "food desert," although corner stores are common and discount-grocer Aldi's is just down the street."

My corner shops and my local Aldi must be unusual. No problem sourcing fresh produce at reasonable prices (UK).

I wonder if anyone is looking out for the corner shop people.
1) As I've already shown and will continue to show in this post, Snowden's own documents refute this. Snowden clearly didn't have time to look at what the documents he spidered actually say.

2) Xkeyscore is merely a database and does not constitute new surveillance. Snowden's documents show that it contains fewer sources under Obama (no more email metadata).

3) The NSA significantly reduced the scope of its upstream collection under Obama in April 2012. http://fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/fisc0912.pdf&ved=0CB4QFjA...

4) A datacenter does not constitute new surveillance, whether it's built or not (not).

5) Your article says that Obama's DOJ found pre-Obama abuses, once again, the exact opposite of what you claim. Your claim that Obama lied about taking steps to fix this are unsupported by any of your links. Simply stating something does not make it so.

6) There is no proof that the overflights are recording data from anybody other than the targets. You're engaging in wild speculation here.

7) According to my link above, this claim is false. The NSA shut down any ability to assist in parallel reconstruction with upstream data in 2012.

8) There is no 8.

9) Again, false. No journalist has ever been prosecuted (or persecuted) with the espionage Act. http://blogs.reuters.com/alison-frankel/2013/06/24/journalis...

10) More unsourced claims. What expansion?

11) There is no evidence that the Stingray records data from anybody other than the target. http://m.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-23163

Where does this leave us? Three counts of reduced NSA powers (email headers and other upstream collection and phone records) and zero counts of increased powers.
I have a seething hatred for weev, his clique and anyone who behaves similarly. I hope to think they're a small minority of people but it's amazing how many women they've tried to turn off tech with their idiocy, their defamation, their death threats and their abuse.

When I see what happens to women in tech and a lot of the abuse they have to withstand, I admire those that can stand the trolls. I don't think I would be this resilient faced with this abuse.

I wish we could be in a world where everybody would be accepted in the tech community regardless of gender, race or sexual orientation. I hoped before that due to the relatively higher education level of tech workers, people would be more tolerant but it seems that's not the case.

PS: Now, in the case of weev and his AT & T conviction, I of course support reversing it and support the work that EFF is doing defending him but that's despite weev. It's because, in this particular issue, he's innocent. That doesn't stop him from being an horrible person.
On the Origin of Celebrity (2013)
>I suspect such trains will only be practical in the 'real' world by having them in some sort of fully enclosed track.

Reminds me of something[1]... :-)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop
Yes, this is so true.

It's difficult to be against things on principles when the outcome is desired, but I'd argue that's the only 'right' thing. I.e. lobbying should be condemned even though the outcome may be in line with ones interests (reducing gov-spying in this case).

This illustration comes to mind:
https://mayday.us/campaigns/illustrations/be-a-good-politici...
Well, as a weapon it's still considered useless.
Compare ISPs (not common carriers) to USPS (common carriers).

USPS has a whole bunch of law saying what can or can't he sent via postal mail. They absolutely do filter the post - not very well but it happens. https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/aboutus/laws.aspx

What it seems people are asking for is that ISPs never filter any traffic at all for any reason and also never suffer any consequences for not filtering that traffic.

Giving Internet carriers "common carrier" status is likely to include laws that make them gather evidence and prosecute people involved in online gambling; child sexual exploitation; pyramid schemes; lottery tickets; credit card fraud; extreme pornography; etc. giving them common carrier status is likely to lead to more, not less, intrusive monitoring and filtering.
Ah yes, all the keyboards in Singapore are Dvorak :p
Show HN: Online WordPress theme builder
The theme builder has a focus on mobile-first responsive design. It makes use of machine learning algorithms to select the best combinations of creative elements built from a data of 20,000 websites and premium themes. We plan to open source it on github. You may build yourself a theme.
It had a flywheel in use at the time, which was used to stabilize its flight relative to the surface, but it induced a spin ..
You should mention that the train was junk after that, and the rail track too. Very expensive marketing.
Couldn't these new rules be applied to the Chinese ISPs and have no affect on how that internet is run? What is filtered now would still be filtered and I don't think you can say that the Chinese have net neutrality.

Or am I missing something?
The Comfort Women and Japan’s War on Truth
You can already do it. Use content aware fill to cover your object, then find a 3D model of your object and composite it over the top. Afaict this is intended to streamline that process a bit, but it's basically something you can already do, eg using Gimp + Resynthesizer and Blender.
Ask HN: Which are some of the good certifications for Technology Architect
I have heard about the Oracle, IBM, SalesForce certifications, they are very much focused on their respective platforms.

Are there any good certifications out there that are of value and help me learn the intricacies of a Technologist?
Experimental Realization of Quantum Artificial Intelligence
To maybe save some from reading through this rambling who like to stay away from the topic: It does not seem to be about women in tech generally but seems to boil down to the work of a few socio-/psychopaths caught in a feedback loop.
Horrible people are the best touchstone for principles. If you can stand up for the rights of horrible people then you're probably doing ok.

EDIT: It's weird, I'm so conflicted about 'weev'. I have serious problems with him going to jail the way he did (and I know he's been released), but at the same time I feel that I'd probably be A-ok with him serving jail time for the wanton destruction of other peoples lives (and then pretending he never did it whereas he first proudly claimed he had) that he inflicted with so much carelessness, some of which is detailed in this article.

He's right up there with the child pornographers. I recall my frustration with the way /. got overrun by weev and his buddies in their eternal quest for negative attention and griefing. Total jerks, the lot of them.
Google Chrome adds a competitive edge in the browser market. We need that competition. You want them to be nice? They're being nice to consumers. Do they collect data about which sites we go to? Well I'm pretty sure that they have opt-in programs for that but that's not by default. Unless you can show otherwise.
A Plumbing Problem for the Internet (and the Stock Market)
Apple Pay Gives Glimpse of Mainstream Appeal for Mobile Payments
JavaScript is not even a good second or third language. Of course it is easy to cut and paste code and hack things. But when it doesn't work right you will go crazy trying to work out why.

To be good with JavaScript you need a rather substantial and solid grasp of CS fundamentals and how they are implemented in languages that are stricter about what they will accept and how.

In JavaScript there are too many situations where it either does something totally unexpected (well actually totally logical, but you need to know some pretty arcane stuff to see it that way) or it just fails silently or less likely with a terse exception.

For a beginning programmer that is very little feedback to help with overcoming the initial roadblock. Sometimes called the "getting helloworld to run problem". Trying to learn JS in a browser context is made even more difficult because you need to grapple with the DOM - it is not easy to grok at the best of times.

If you decide to ignore the advice in this and the other posts and go ahead learning JavaScript as the first language, then I suggest getting a very good introductory book and perhaps using Developer JavaScript Console. The debugger is good in that you can single step code and watch variables as they change. You will probably need to take copious notes to understand what is going on.

To be a competent programmer is more than learning a language, it requires a solid foundation in computer science and software engineering. Whilst these topics can be learnt from a book, most people need guidance from those who have acquired such knowledge. Whether they can be bothered answering newbie's questions is another matter.
Reddit's front page algorithm optimizes for an ill-defined 'freshness', which is... not nearly as good as it could be.

As far as the "Apps like Quora but in real time?" post, it's a terrible title, but actually Google thinks there's some merit to the idea (if you actually read the post), and is trying to execute with Google Helpouts: https://helpouts.google.com/

Additionally, it's sitting there with one single point, which it started with, which is hardly a ringing endorsement by /r/startups.

I mean, you can see a similarly low quality of posts here by browsing new: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

The quality on the top posts for the day on /r/startups vs the front page is generally higher, too: https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/top/?sort=top&t=day
60fps video works in Firefox Nightly, though it still has issues if the connection has troubles. The about:config property is media.mediasource.enabled.

Tracking bug is here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=mse
Mark Zuckerberg Adopts Obama’s Approach to Dressing
Some details from the paper (from 2011):

* "Eighteen shores across six continents were contaminated with microplastic"

* 56% polyester, 23% acrylic, 7% polypropylene, 6% polyethylene, 3% polyamid

* More microplastic in densely populated areas (statistically significant)

* At sewage disposal sites, which weren't used for 10 years at the time, the concentration of fibers in the ocean was >2.5 times higher than at control sites. Polyester (78%) and acrylic (22%) made most of the difference.

* Effluent from sewage treatment plants was tested, and contained similar proportions of polyester (67%), acrylic (17%) and polyamide (16%). They state that this suggests fibers at shores and disposal sites are mainly derived from sewer through washing clothes.

* Proportions of fibers used in textiles are: 78% polyester, 9% polyamide, 7% polypropylene, 5% acrylic. Again, these proportions are similar.

* Because people wear more clothes in winter, and wash 7 times as often, they expect more fibers in sewage in winter than in summer, but did so far not test it.
If you look at the example in the readme on github - the order is the same as the order of the childElements :-) So it's totally up to you. If you want to see an example with infinite scroll as well - https://github.com/eiriklv/hearsay-frontend/blob/master/clie...
Ask HN: Which .NET applications might be (better) on Mac/Linux soon?
When I read about Microsoft open-sourcing .NET, my first thought were: Cool, finally Pain.NET might run on Mac OS X soon.

I'm not sure, whether my hopes are justified, but I bet there are quite a few nice applications out there that are on .NET and are either not at all available on Mac/Linux (Pain.NET) or with limited native support on Mono (e.g. KeePass).

Which .NET applications do you hope will get run (better) on Mac/Linux soon?
So why doesn't XMPP federation work then?
There are many "enterprise" programmers who don't know how to program. These are not the people who are going to scale your startup. If you think they are, you're going to probably go out of business finding out the cost of B and C players.
My wife took the time to explain this paper to me (since I rarely read papers related to biology) and it sounds extremely interesting. She was very excited, since tech like this could potentially be used to react to epileptic seizures for example. We can have new control systems added to our bodies which opens up a lot of possibilities.
+1 (wish I could have clicked +10) Python is increasingly being used in first programming language courses at many top-level universities and colleges. Learning good code structuring habits has considerable value down the track.
Security “Front Doors” vs. “Back Doors”: A Distinction Without a Difference
Stairtower: A schema-free JSON document store, with RESTful API, written in PHP
Unofficial Demake Port Of Super Smash Bros Arrives On TI-83/84 Calculators
70 tabs is perfectly normal.
Monsanto will be dragged into the debate, evidence or not. Some public scrutiny might do them good though.
Some problems of recursive descent parsers
Rick Brewster, the creator of Paint.NET, damped my hopes already:

"This affects nothing for Paint.NET at this time."

Source: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/30284-microsoft-...
Defender of Light – Coming to Android 30 Nov
You sound like you're probably part of the problem.
But they are in the same repo because they are tightly coupled. Some of the code is shared between kernel and userspace for example, and stuff is versioned to match, as the BSDs do not have the strict userspace compatibility guarantees that Linux does, so things do change (though there are compat shims).
>That said the only other remarkable thing was how shaky the video was at 500km/h if the train was really moving around that much it wouldn't be too sustainable.

I wondered the same, but have a feeling some of the shakiness was due to having zoomed in quite a bit on a camera without any kind of image stabilisation. In the video, the image of the speed indicator is very shaky but then you realise it is zoomed in on the screen at the other end of the train car. So maybe it's not quite -that- shaky as it may seem.
Teaching is incredibly rewarding. Depending on your qualifications you might find an institution willing to put you on their payroll but if not you can always advertise yourself as a private tutor.
Isn't that what the 'although' in the sentence means? That the neighborhood was designated as a food desert, despite having stores that sell fresh produce?
>it can hardly be worse

I'd check that assumption. There's plenty of evidence to show that government does a poor job regulating companies. Often times it's the companies that control the regulations.
>There is nothing sinister about allowing illegal traffic to be blocked.

Isn't this what China says?
I'm not a doctor, but back when my doctor and thought I might have true bipolar disorder (vs. as it turns out "depression of a bipolar nature" that only goes manic when I take the wrong drugs), I studied up on the disorder.

What's prescribed for people with is are "mood stabilizers" (and all of them but the "gold standard" of lithium were originally developed for other indications like psychosis and convulsions). So people who have true bipolar disorder by definition have manic phases, and they need their mood stabilizer all the time to deal with both that and depression phases.
Uh... Please elaborate?
Flagged for rape joke:

http://neologisms.rice.edu/index.php?a=term&d=1&t=13903
Do the simulations include the asteroid belts? Wouldn't those have a stabilising effect on the rest of the bodies in the system?
Animal models of depression
Look at "hello world" in Javascript and Python. Then look at "ask user for their name and display "Hello user's name"" in Python and Javascript.

https://wiki.python.org/moin/SimplePrograms

name = raw_input('What is your name?\n')
print 'Hi, %s.' % name

http://www.utexas.edu/learn/javascript/example1.html

var who = window.prompt("What is your name");
document.write("Hello " + who);

The complication in the Javascript example are the window.prompt and document.write parts which make Javascript harder for beginners to learn.