skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is amazing.

There is no direct connection to his brain, so he may not b controlling the arms by just 'thinking'.
It looks like almost using smaller muscles to control the arms, but using the nerve connections themselves.
Also, he controls one pivot per action - so he moves the shoulder, then the forearm, then the hand, then the fingers with rests between each step.
Квадрант денежного потока или виды доходов
How is your fist point an appeal to emotions there's nothing evocative at all. If you have multiple below living wage jobs you've still a fixed amount of time in the day you can work just now you're being paid less for when you do work AND have higher transportation costs by definition. Maybe job security is an advantage as you won't get fired from everything all at once.

You keep repeating how the suggestions will make things more expensive for poor people. We're suggesting to pay poor people to not be poor.
The 122 in particular should be almost halfway between 100 and 150 but theirs is much lower.
I have people working with me on Appointment Reminder. This is a very recent thing. Writing about it today, actually -- essay will be out to the mailing list later about sales processes.
I am quite new to Go, but I have been happily using this for a few months on a personal project. I really recommend looking at https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx which is a library extending database/sql to simplify going from query->struct/slice and it also allows for named parameters and prepared statements.

#go-nuts on Freenode is a great place :-)
A very interesting requirement. Thanks for noting it.

I'm setting up a blog on Artificial Intelligence (which inherently includes Machine Learning) focused on the contents of the AIMA book (by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig):

http://ai-maker.com/

How would you like it to be? Code will be developed in Matlab, so the math depth is rather convenient using this tool.
They don't "believe" they are ill. They actually are ill, just not from a parasite infection. The itch is real and causes distress.

There is an ethical problem in offering lab tests to people when you know that most of them do not have parasite infestations. And it doesn't matter what the results are - they will only serve to strengthen the delusion. A negative result will just be interpreted as "science doesn't know how to test these fibres".

We see this very clearly in people with "health anxiety". Imagine a fit and healthy young man who walks into an ER department and says that he's having a heart attack. Traditionally some doctors would have steapped that man to a bunch of machines and talked anout the results, and then said "see? You're not having a heart attack." This attempt at reassurance is distorted hy the mental health problem into "they wouldn't use all these machines and order these blood tests if there was nothing wrong".

The modern method would be to let the person sit with their thoughts for a few moments - "yes, you might be having a heart attack"; to examine the evidence for that and how strongly they feel it ("I am out of breath and my chest feels a bit tight and I'm a bit dizzy"); then to examine other stuff ("I don't have any pain, now that I have been carefully breathing I don't feel as bad. I know that I have an anxiety disorder that can cause me to panic. Maybe this is not a heart attack but a panic attack.")

This sounds trivial but it is strongly effective for a variety of mental health problems.
GP is not just expressing an opinion, they're expressing it in a fashion so destructive that it seems likely to be a deliberate troll. "icky syntax" is an opinion that the author should have known was unpopular, expressed aggressively as though it were a widely recognized fact. "I have looked into the alternatives and they all seem to be better" provides zero information and just fans the flames; someone trying to be constructive would mention specific alternatives and specific things they thought was better about them.
Additionally, are you willing to bet that there are no buffer overflows in gcc, sed, awk, and whatever other tools you use to build software from git on a regular basis?

Heck, some of the Google security guys have been discovering lately that you can pwn someone just by getting them to run less on a file. How many people start by doing "less README"?

Git should ideally not have this vulnerability, but panicking over this seems overkill. If you want to suck down and work with large amounts of code from a possibly malicious source, you get into virtual machines territory.
At least Rob Pike seems to be using it.

https://github.com/robpike/ivy
Specially given that Python isn't the only language that does it.
Google Claims 2015 Will Be a “Moment” for Surveillance Reform
Nice overview of the Ocaml module system. By the way, just wanted to say thanks for maintaining the Ocaml/Opam PPA, and for keeping it so up-to-date. Has made installing and working with Ocaml much easier for those of us on Ubuntu and distros based on Ubuntu.
Nuts and seeds are even more concentrated. Nut-rich trail mix has almost twice the calories of a bowl of rice.

You could pretty much live off muesli after the apocalypse. (Until it runs out, anyway.)
> it is pure coincidence that all models up till now have booted

This sums up my hatred of electronics.
Show HN: “Practice Makes Python,” an ebook for after your first Python class
Déjà Vu, Anyone Remembers the 1998 Russian Financial Crisis?
Почему начать свой бизнес
The documentation is here, for anyone who is equally confused as I was:

https://google-glog.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/glog.html
I agree with the conclusion, but I think the method is very risky to apply to UK and China. The way family names are transferred is a little different in China (e.g. a wife will not take the husbands name). Also some names like Wang and Zhang are just very, very common. Finding Wangs in the elite in every generation might therefore say nothing about social mobility. They might have accounted for that or not, I don't know. It's just so different that I still wouldn't trust the results, because in such vastly different systems how can you know if you have forgotten some factors?
Ask HN: Where can I blog anonymously?
I am looking for a quickly setup-able blog where I could blog anonymously.

Wordpress does seem to be one of the best options but the free version seems to be filled with ads. Maybe I should use something like Medium/Tumblr? It would mostly be text information with a couple of graphics, charts, tables.

But maybe there's a better option?

The blog would not be anything illegal, just some controversial blogging that I might want to be traced back to!
On this topic, Mixpanel at this stage is the magic blend of:

* Track record of consistently impressive revenue growth.
* Impressive current level of revenue.
* Comprehensive plan and organization in place to continue growing revenue.
* Large and expanding market.
* And bonus points, doing all that while simultaneously generating vs burning cash!
> I want to make something relevant to and appreciated by an audience, and programmer culture seems to be unwilling to do that in a deep way.

Being a language designer is rough like this.
US tries to strike deal with EU for immunity over online security breaches
Ok, I'll make it easy then and just sequester your hard drive. Oh, it's encrypted and you won't give me the key? I'll throw you in jail.
If you are designing your own ASIC from scratch this is exactly the kind of problem you face all the time. It is VERY hard to simulate every single corner case.

If you are designing a board with other people's chips on, where are you going to get the simulation models from?
Come on, be creative. One of these things crawls out, finds the patch (or smells it from below the skin), crawls back, puts on a notice/chemical marker "this is not the way out", and none follow. Of course you won't find any when you take a look after a day or two. It isn't that hard to procure a new epicycles for every argument against your theory.

And yes, if _this_ is real, it should be easy to get hard evidence, but also:

- sufferers will see evidence where others don't see it. That (IMO) is the whole thing with this disorder.

- if you look hard enough, you will find something with every sufferer. That MD may actually have suffered a mite infection, somebody else will have lived near a chemical plant, have been to some corner of the earth, will have some very uncommon mix of genes, etc. that's what I read here, too. Every person mentioned has his own variation of symptoms and his own snake oil way to decrease the symptoms. I hope the organizer of these conventions isn't in it for the money, but I fear otherwise.
A module for simple and fun validation in Node.js
Lisp would be even better, as he would get the speed of compiled language.
>I wonder what it'll take to open up those baseband processors.

Project OsmocomBB: http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/
if you are running a business, and so have business purchases, then obviously you need to be aware of tax regulations.

It's very common among people who have their own company to buy things like TVs and computers as business purchases and then just kind of end up keeping them in their living room.
And don't forget football.
Nicholas Negroponte on the Future of Learning: Nanobots Will Hack the Brain
I'm very surprised that more people haven't picked up on just how revolutionary this is. Coupled with well defined experiments this can radically change science.
I'd be interested in reading that. Reply with your blog and I'll check it out.
I once tried to install OS X with case sensative filesystem. Turns out Photoshop for OS X does not work in that case. Had to go back to case-insensitive.
Not sure how many other apps have the same issue.
Why is it hard for Yahoo to make more money?
Finland, Mauritius
Another little bit of history

LONG-TERM CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, 1998

The collapse of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Market (LTCM) occurred during the final stage of the world financial crisis that began in Asia in 1997 and spread to Russia and Brazil in 1998.

LTCM was a hedge fund set up by Nobel Prize winners Myron Scholes and Robert Merton to trade bonds. The professors believed that in the long run, the interest rates on different government bonds would converge, and the hedge fund traded on the small differences in the rates.

John Merryweather, head of LTCM
John Meriwether, a Wall Street trader, headed LTCM
But when Russia defaulted on its government bonds in August 1998, investors fled from other government paper to the safe haven of US Treasury bonds, and interest rate differences between bonds increased sharply.

LTCM, which had borrowed a lot of money from other companies, stood to lose billions of dollars - and in order to liquidate its positions it would have to sell Treasury bonds, plunging the US credit markets into turmoil and forcing up interest rates.

So the Fed decided that a rescue was needed. It called together the leading US banks, many of whom had invested in LTCM, and persuaded them to put in $3.65bn to save the firm from imminent collapse.

The Fed itself made an emergency rate cut in October 1998 and markets soon returned to stability. LTCM itself was liquidated in 2000.
> The forcing of every job to be "living wages" removes a part of the labor force that is willing and able (due to parents or other income) to provide services for less money.

This, and I think every one of your points, can be sufficiently addressed with one word: Australia.

My 19 year old unskilled housemate gets paid minimum wage $21.08 per hour as a casual.[1] She works 4 days a week and supports herself just fine. They say the cost of living is high in Australia, and it is -everything is expensive here- but we have options: we live in a share house and pay $100 a week per room (four of us) including electricity and Internet. She doesn't own a car, and doesn't smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol. Financially she isn't struggling at all.

The minimum wage for full time employment is $16.87 per hour, which includes 10 day a year sick leave and 20 days a hear paid leave.[1]

Also, because everyone here is paid a 'living wage' we're able to afford to pay social welfare. 'Newstart Allowance' is paid to unemployed job-seekers at $515.60 per fortnight.[2] It isn't a lot, below the poverty line apparently, but it is enough to rent a room buy food.

I do not think any of your arguments hold water.

1. http://www.fairwork.gov.au/about-us/policies-and-guides/fact...

2. http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/enablers/centrelink...
Tax Fairness and Tax Efficiency
Or it means networks of privilege are remarkably persistent.

Or perhaps that you can't tell anything useful from surnames without doing a full genealogical survey just to check that these 'winners' are actually related.

The suggestion that a talent for social climbing is innate is perennially popular with a certain segment of the population.

Wilkinson and Pickett (2009) make a good counterargument.
>The expertise to find these kinds of exploits is hard to develop individually.

Yes, but numerous people participating in the Osmocom projects have that expertise. Fortunately, they're interested in building an open-source baseband processor (among other cool things), and not in hacking into anyone's private communications.
Arbitrary precision is handled by https://golang.org/pkg/math/big/

He isn't implementing a bignum package, this is all about the APL interpreter.
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http://www.metacademy.org/ is a great source. It tells you what all the prerequisites are for everything as well as where you can learn them and what their prerequisites are and so on.
Centos Atomic servers will get weekly atomic updates
Nah, I sort of agree. I graduated with almost 4.0 for my masters. There's so much more I am learning now - things everyone who didn't do well in school learned - humility, balance of life and work, ability to adapt without explicit rules, implicit socialization and direction, ability to self direct, ability to group direct, ability to lead, ability to learn things not traditionally used as metrics of intelligence. Education gave me a beautiful foundation of knowledge, the concept and form of theory and knowledge, and a strong love for it. It didn't teach me how to live, nor could it teach me how to think outside the bounds it defines.
Wikileaks.org users at risk due to a Web vulnerability
We have been made aware of a potential security risk with open source software Wikileaks is utilizing which uses a flash library to display PDF files. Two vulnerabilities XSS and content spoofing can be used by malicious users. Whether to affect the privacy of users of wikileaks. eg: Using Flash components specifically to decloack behind Tor network users OR link to external content to discredit Wikileaks, something Wikileaks should avoid given the nature of the content published on Wikileaks servers. Given the fact that most browsers use plugins to enable the reading of PDF's, we strongly urge Wikileaks to link directly to PDF files instead of using third party software that could put users at risk

http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/security-support/608/-flexpaper-pdf-viewer-used-on-wikileaks-org-presents-security-risk-for-users/32700/msg66862#msg66862
"no better fix" - what? just Implement memset with assembly, then let gcc emit calls to it.
OpenBSD uses OpenCVS, which would be safe from such a vulnerability by virtue of being non-portable and running only on file systems that OpenBSD supports, which are all case-sensitive. Thus this is yet another example of the security benefits of writing non-portable and maintainable software.
I thought that was the typical response - get rid of everything they could have ever come into contact with.
Stleem: Matz' Streem concept implemented in Common Lisp
chiragchirag78, down to single digits... wow, had that been a real person, that would have been quite a blow to the ego!
Taylor: Swift package manager (experimental)
That's not super helpful as long as Apple still forbids app store submissions built with beta tools.
> There is a maintenance mode in every cell phone that allows it to be remotely turned on, that is, used as a listening device, without your knowledge.

Sounds tin-foily, any references? This conspiracy theory has been making the rounds for a long time and there's no evidence for it so far. Some problems immediately come to mind:

- would eat phone battery quickly to keep radio listening for these things

- would be vulnerable to discovery, eg leaks from phone industry engineers, reverse engineering by tinkerers, etc - yet has stayed secret for a long time (assuming this isn't a new thing)

More realistic would be exploiting a bug in the phone baseband firmware to get remote code execution, and then reprogramming the phone to do what you want. And reason enough to treat phones like you observed.
Similarly in Australia [1]

[1]http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/private-school-no-go...
I was looking for a great hot-spring retreat for my vacation to Japan.

I have to say it's looks awesome and I'm really tempted to just go to this place.
It doesn't even support logging anything other than strings... I would just call it "print string lambda" ... Why is this thing on HN?
2014 World Productivity Report
It depends if it includes breastfeeding and snugging or not.
Narrowing the notion of a runtime in Rust
Most software products exibit all kinds of similar behaviors to his "A-G" list. The "pure coincidence" thing is how most libraries work in your code.

However, software is usually evolved rapidly to avoid triggering design problems.

The solution should perhaps be moving more things off hardware and into software.
Exercise/ yoga can be really helpful. You wont realize right away but it will get you going again.
Easy PGP messaging through the browser
I found this to be a thoroughly enjoyable lighthearted piece of reading. Bravo!
People post about stuff like this all the time; somebody will read anything.
An Obviously Fake Guide to Building an H-Bomb Was Used to Legitimize Torture
Toolyo’s Mission
excellent point - thanks. That makes absolute sense - I'm still wondering how to overcome that though.
> It's just a percentage. You don't need to be a business to understand that.

What you have to understand is the process to claim it back, i.e. the fact that businesses and business owners effectively don't pay it.

> the actual costs are the ones that consumers want to see

Of course, which is why VAT is so clever: effectively, it's so easy to ignore that most people do just that and don't realise that they're paying a tax that businesses and rich people simply don't pay. It's the best type of hiding: in plain sight.

The American approach is more annoying, yes, but it's also more transparent: the consumer is forced to feel the full weight of tax, and can perceive how businesses are completely unaffected by it.

> 'flat rate' or 'proportional tax' is _not_ regressive

In practice, it is. If I pay the exact absolute amount of tax on a transaction for the same good, regardless of my wealth, then in practice it's regressive because it will weight more on the less wealthy. A flat rate is less regressive when transactions differ (the same percentage of a bigger transaction will result in more tax), but this is not the case with VAT. As I said, the theory that this is compensated by rich people buying more expensive goods is just that, a theory; in practice, this does not happen n any significant scale.

> End customers have no VAT to claim back. [...] Now if you are running a business

Of course. My point is, most wealthy people will be running businesses, and hence will not pay tax on pretty much anything except the most outrageous items. Most of those Porsches and BMWs you see on the streets of London are not bought by individuals, but rather by (shell) companies such people run. They're still managed exactly like they were an individual's private property, but on paper they're not and so there won't be any VAT paid by such "end customers".

> If you are a 'n00b' employee then you pay it.

yup. And that's my point: it's a tax on n00b employees who cannot afford good accountants and shell companies. They're the only ones who really pay it all.
Google's Search Ad Policies Cost This Company $1M
This was hyper useful. Thanks!
Know your Vitamin Roulette
If a Mom and Pop store can't differentiate, why would it be good for them to stay in business?

The ones that provide something extra will raise their prices and be more expensive, and people will go when they're willing to pay the difference; look at the independent book shops in London as an example.

It's a romantic idea and all, but beyond that I don't think "local vendors are de facto a good thing" is a reasonable starting point.
> would eat phone battery quickly to keep radio listening for these things

your phone already listens for incoming call signal, this would be just another type of signal.
Longer than... 140 characters? What are you actually asking for? Be specific. NYT writes long articles. New Yorker. Christian Science Monitor. What do you want?
This may be because of an expectation of tips though? If the tips dried up they would be forced to move that pay to the persons wage.
why sorry? we can't have more than one project on the same subject anymore? let's dump laravel then, because cake came first.. tsc tsc tsc..
anyway, seems like an easy tool to work with, will test later on. thanks!
I'm the author of Memo.

First of all it's nice to see Memo here in Hacker News. Memo started simply because I wanted note taking program for the command line. I never thought that it will become fairly popular as it is now.

Your bash completion is actually a great idea. I will start implementing it in the near future. It shouldn't be too hard to do and it will Memo much more nice to use. Thanks!
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Do you speak German? Otherwise I would recommend small post-soviet countries: Estonia, Slovakia...
The unexpected side-benefits of implementing standards
The author is simply continuing the thesis he sets forth in his book.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9823893...

His basic point is many people who claim to dislike things is that they themselves have no evidence. e.g. you may dismiss homoeopathy but you have done no research nor read any research nor can cite it so what do you really know?

Whilst there is something in that, I think he has missed the point of peer reviewed science. Society doesn't work because we all know the same things. We have hierarchy and referencing and reputation. A weakness is that sometimes it can be subverted, but it will always get back on track. There is no one moment of perfect understanding
Some things that are missing (at least from the docs):

- multithreaded logging (show thread ID with each line)
- nesting (e.g. indent logged lines when entering a scope)
- logging of values other than strings (mentioned already)
- storing the results in a separate file (rather than outputting to stderr)

Also, the documentation is too terse. And, what is that lambda symbol doing in the output?
> Imagine what the film Apollo 13

Yeah, they would run out of battery juice way before reentry burn :-)
Oops, won't make that mistake again.
I prefer having to add the {}'s and ;'s, even if the spacing is the same, because they provide a clear and definite bound on scoping, which (unfortunately) often gets messed up in Python.
The TU9 could be a starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TU9

In computer science, Karlsruhe, Aachen and the TU Munich (TU -- there are three universities in Munich) are the most prestigious, although I've always percepted alumni from those three as being somewhat snobbish.

When it comes to computational linguistics, Saarbrücken is probably the very best, but Stuttgart (my alma mater) is also really good.