skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't try the app (stuck on a Gingerbread phone) but it seems fun. I'm eager to try it.

As far as I can tell, the user chooses the location of triangle vertices, right? It would be interesting to try a genetic algorithm there though it probably fits best in a desktop version.

Also, did you experiment with Voronoi diagrams instead of triangulation?
The retail versions of modern consoles enforce cryptographic signatures on everything, so nothing will run on them without going though MS/Sony/Nintendo first.

Officially licenced developers have special devkit systems with more lax security.
My only feature request is GUI-less builds, to match running it GUI-less. This would significantly cut down on dependencies and also reduce compile time.

I notice there was a discussion about this on inkspace-devel years ago, but it yielded no results from what I can tell.

http://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/20403131/
Why not PyQt ?
The conspiracy theorists are right. Nations really do go to war over oil
I don't think anybody's against vaccines, but against vaccines made with compromises to lower costs, allow for mass production, and cheaper administration. Having cheaper ingredients with the premise "What could possibly go wrong?" is what most people are against and also giving many at the same time and not ensuring health status is also a cost-lowering move and not a science-based one. So, the anti-vax movement has some wins like removing ethylmercury (actually, I assume that as it could just be a coincidence), which, as far as I know, is still in the pretty useless flu vaccines. My kids get vaccinated, but they don't get more than a shot at a time and no two shots without at least 2 months of space between them. Also, we always pushed to have them as late as possible and, thankfully, our pediatrician was okay with this schedule.
Basically, do it the way Spivak does. Funny thing is in freshman year we were taught to do just that, but then abandoned the formality pretty much immediately after.
I wonder if Brenden Eich would go back and hide his Prop 8 contribution. Mozilla (and hence the rest of the technological world) would be better off if either it was hidden or the backlash was less unreasonable.

It's not just governments and corporations that misuse information but even society.
>People must always have a choice to vaccinate or not, forcing it upon them will do nobody any good because it will only increase the distrust of government.

>That said, if you don't vaccinate, you are a threat to the public and I do think you should be banned from public schools, public transportation, public gatherings and should have to explain to anyone you physically interact with that you are a risk to them and their family.

Not following what you're proposing. You don't want people forced to be vaccinated, yet you want to forcibly confine them to their homes? What if they don't comply and get on a bus/subway/train/plane or go shop at a supermarket? Forcibly throw them in some special jail just for them?
Could anyone with first-hand experience of TLA+ comment on how practical it actually is?

I've been toying with idea of trying this for a not-quite-trivial (programming!) project I'm working on, but the documentation and UX have so far kept me quite skeptical of using this "for real". The fact that I also can't turn the proof into a program in a semi-automated fashion also seems to indicate that there's at least some barrier where the "doubled" amount of work would be justified. (I'm more inclined towards something like Idris or LiquidHaskell which seem to support practical programming better and will probably let you get arbitrarily close to "proof" in any practical sense where proof will matter.)

I take it that this was mostly about mathematics and not implementations of programs, which may not quite have the same trade-offs. I still would like to hear from anyone with direct experience :).
It reminds me of how search engines know about things like shopping cart exploits right away because all of a sudden there are thousands and thousands of queries for a particular shopping cart software package being used on a web page.

Personally I agree with Matt that this is a not the usual kind of thing. Clearly Chipotle could anonymize their sales with dummy purchases but the actual numbers would still be there. Like a search engine, for the data stream (credit card charges) to work you are forced to put enough information in the transaction to identify it.

This is also something I see happening with IoT type technologies, when it becomes possible for someone to collect data on their own at thousands of locations for relatively small numbers of $, like the helicopters trying to estimate oil availability, you'll have data streams that can inform economic activity. Imagine something like a cellphone sized thing with a camera that just counts customers using OCV to note blobs at the counter, in a restaurant and texts a tally once an hour. Seems ridiculous but its quite possible to do, and much more cheaply than just repurposing disposed cell phones (although that works too).
It's astonishing to me that people would even believe, given the tremendous changes humankind has affected on the planet, that humanity hasn't already had a massive impact on the way global climate systems work.

Just because climate change has happened in the ancient past without human intervention doesn't mean we can't be the cause of it now. All of that carbon that was sequestered underground for millions of years is now being injected into the atmosphere - how can you believe it won't have an impact?
You could do the same with LA. "Greater LA" also includes the Inland Empire, Orange County, Riverside/San Bernadino. Total population (according to Wikipedia) is around 18 million.

I agree that you can draw the line arbitrarily to support whichever city you prefer as "winning". My sense is that a) if the City of Los Angeles consolidated as NYC did over 100 years ago it would have the highest official population in the US, b) if you do a more fuzzy "metro area" analysis the result is up for grabs depending on how you choose to draw the borders.
I'm curious about what the makes the colour reproduction useless. Based on the low contrast comment, I'm guessing it has to do with the log color space?
Brainfuck in Elixir
Monetizing? what's that? Currently nothing super innovative. affiliate and ads
We're using Datadog to monitor job stats on a busy RabbitMQ host and it's fantastic.
AWS SDK for Go
The more you simplify the law, the more complex the application of the law becomes.

Murder occurs when a person, of sound memory and discretion, unlawfully kills a person, with malice aforethought.

Seems simple the there are hundreds of cases that tell you what exactly the limits of these elements are. Is being drunk sound mind? What constitutes malice aforethought.

The law is complicated because reality is complicated.

The civil law system keeps it a bit less complicated by not using precedent from old cases. But that means the application in your case is harder to predict. It is your judge making the gut call instead of a history of judges.
I can speak from experience that the surveillance revealed by Snowden is already impacting the severity and tone of my political discussions with friends and colleagues. We are (mostly) pretty keenly aware of the fact that our conversations are going into a database somewhere, and will likely be processed by some algorithm later.
> Cofounders rarely have experience managing anyone or anything.

This might be true if you're talking about a startup run by a bunch of 20-somethings with no experience. These are certainly en vogue in Silicon Valley today, but hardly represent all startups.

> Cofounders often think they don't need management because they're all on the same team, working towards the same goals.

This is a sign of an inexperienced, naive founder. No entrepreneur worth teaming up with believes management is unnecessary.

> Startups are high pressure, and pressure makes people make bad decisions and lose their tempers.

Notwithstanding the fact that if your startup is a pressure cooker, you're doing it wrong, it's dangerous to believe that all people react the same way to pressure and stress. Pressure and stress lead some people to anger and poor decision making. Start a company with these people at your own risk.

> Deciding to start a company from scratch with the goal of building a billion dollar business takes ego.

Most successful businesses aren't started by people who are focused on building a billion-dollar company. If that's your overriding goal, clashing egos will hardly be your biggest problem.

Incidentally, while it obviously wasn't the intent, this post demonstrates some of the advantages of founding a company solo. It worked for Sam Walton, Ralph Lauren, Richard Branson, Sara Blakely, Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar, Michael Dell, Ross Perot and countless others.

Investors like YC don't look on solo founders favorably
and have helped create a narrative that has deterred some entrepreneurs from taking this path (and created the inane "seeking co-founder" environment), but entrepreneurs should understand that investors have motives for wanting multiple founders that are not necessarily aligned with their interests.

For seed stage investors particularly, multiple founders is a derisking mechanism. For instance, there are a lot of smart, talented folks out there, but it's still hard to find exceptional founders capable of competently wearing multiple hats. On the flip side, hiring exceptional employees is expensive. A company with just $120,000 in funding can't hire a good developer, product manager and sales or bizdev person. This creates significant risks for seed stage investors. The solution: seek companies with multiple founders who split key roles. Since founders at this stage essentially work for ramen and equity, having multiple founders is like a cheap insurance policy for resource risk.
If this is just a terminology debate, O'Hagan-style misappropriation theory cases are called "insider trading" cases by nearly everyone, including the SEC[1], the Justice Department[2] and the SDNY (a judge recently issued an opinion discussing "insider-trading cases prosecuted under a misappropriation theory"). They are usually contrasted with "classical theory" insider trading cases.

[1] http://www.sec.gov/answers/insider.htm

[2] http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/December13/Wei...
Retail consoles only run code signed by Sony. When you become a licensed developer you get special consoles called devkits that can (among other things) run unsigned code.
So I wonder how much insider trading occurs via government spooks analyzing surveillance data that we don't know about. I doubt the SEC would be able to make a public lawsuit about this .
DAE pedantry?!?
Exactly. This is the reason I keep an old laptop with MS Word running for myself. Fix this and I could go 100% LO.
>There is limited scope for someone to tell other people what they need to do.

A well run project would be soliciting UI changes, mock-ups, demos, etc. They would be planning it out, have an implementation schedule, etc. Frankly, the idea that designers waltz in and yell at humble nerds is more than a little overly generous to the broken Linus-style FOSS management style.
I think this is the only way to do a push email app on iOS with support for third party email accounts.
Is that a fact or an opinion? The "text of the article" that supports that conclusion is a quote from Googles attorney, not an unbiased source.
Sometimes fancy extra features too- I believe I've heard of (and seen photos of) devkit systems that interface to a PC for uploading code and/or debugging.
I once had to open a CSV file with about 2,000 columns. Excel failed me, OpenOffice/LibreOffice failed me, only Gnumeric managed to open the file.

I'll admit that I only deal with that many columns on very rare occasions, but it does come in handy sometimes.
Fortunately websites can run javascript now, allowing you to do virtually any dynamic thing you need. Counters in particular are an interesting example, because they were inserted as images into websites long before the idea of a dynamic website was popularized.

You can see many of the things you can do just on the client in our apps list: https://eager.io/apps. We don't have a counter in there yet, but it's certainly possible.
Can you let me know where I made an ad-hominem? None was intended, but I'd like to correct that record.

Edit: ah. Everyone assumed I was talking about ggparent's spiritual beliefs. Amazing how a sole personal pronoun can alter intent.
"I think most of us, including my math-phobic Facebook friends, would find the second version easier to follow and understand." I guess I'm in the minority. I preferred the words (though the translation was a bit ungainly).
I think Capital One will package this and be selling it to hedge funds before the year is out.
Material Properties Faceoff: RepRap vs. Commercial 3D Printers
An interesting project would be to implement a policy extension, one that would check where container image has the right versions of certain packages and would refuse to start a container with outdate JRE, OpenSSL or anything more recent...
I find myself agreeing too, but tentatively. What exactly is the argument for insider trading laws in the first place? In the absence of such laws would managers have the wrong incentives?
The "refresh" button randomises as much as it can, but you can prevent a section from being randomised by "locking" it (clicking on the tiny lock icon).

So you can pick a size, lock it and hit "refresh" as much as you wish. I'm glad that you like the app, cheers!
Some discussion from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8957090
The purpose of the law is precisely to make Eric Schmidt say what he did. In general, the law can't hope to prevent undesirable conduct, but only create social norms that prevent undesirable conduct at scale. Laws against murder won't stop jealous lovers from killing spouses, but do stop people from turning murder into a business. They won't stop casual drug use, but do stop Wal-Mart from getting into the meth business. Etc.
Kudos to Datadog. I'm not a current customer, but when I took it for a trial run several months ago I found it to be visually appealing, reliable, and intuitive. It didn't have some of the advanced features that you would get with Hosted Graphite or Librato at the time, but it was a very strong contender. All of us will benefit from the high-quality competition occurring in this space!
Show HN: An experimental Chrome extension for page manipulation
I can't help but compare the investment timing & structure of fusion research vs recent renewable development. Fusion has had many years and billions of dollars of investment and it still hasn't been cracked.

I hope fusion succeeds wildly. But, grid-scale storage has just recently started being a focus, and I note that it, like renewable investments, can be made on a much smaller, much more distributed scale. Payback starts when a grid-battery economically succeeds in a niche, and small successes will shift more capital and R&D into that area, and there are already some small scale successes in the grid battery market.

If either area is at all physically possible, I think just because of the structure of investment/discovery/payback cycle, that grid-batteries will be available quicker. The "search function" for grid battery tech will execute much faster. Recent "small" fusion investments may change that, but I strongly suspect those small fusion projects, even if they succeed at their near term objectives, will still have many fundamental long term problems to solve, and so would be longer iteration time technologies.

Regardless of how we individually assess the chances of success, civilization really needs research in both areas and more because our current civilization runs on processes that aren't sustainable long term.
Some formulations of protein folding are NP complete. That doesn't mean those models always correspond to reality. There's no evidence that nature is solving an NP hard problem when folding proteins (See the paper NP complete problems and physical reality by Scott Aaronson)
We're getting HUMA soon (or we already have it, I forget) on PCs. But there are still going to be important differences vs. the consoles. We use DDR3, the PS4 uses GDDR5 (yes, for system memory). The Xbox One SoC has eDRAM.

Edit: looks like hUMA is out in the PC wild

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/amds-h...
I still rarely see an accurate representation of the thought process of those who don't vaccinate. There is this impression that it is ignorant people who don't understand how they work, or don't understand herd immunity. There is also an impression that it is all or nothing - people either take all vaccinations, or none.

While there are extreme cases when parents think like this, for the vast majority, that is not a true picture. Most parents I know who skip vaccinations do so in a much different manner. I know of almost nobody who skips the polio vaccine. I do know people who delay it, though, not wanting to put it into an infant. MMR is taken by many. Chicken pox... not so much. HPV... not so much. But many parent simply want to let the kids grow up a couple years before doing the vaccines.

It is a risk calculation. Polio is devastating, and clearly worth the small risk presented from a vaccine. As the diseases get less and less damaging, more parents decide that the risk is greater than the potential reward, and do not choose to get that specific vaccination at that specific time.

And while the percentages of children who have adverse reactions to vaccines is small, they do exist. As a purely anecdotal story, my neighbor's child developed shingles after getting the chicken pox vaccine. They were told he may have lifelong problems because of it. Now, the doctors were astounded, and said it is an extremely rare case, practically never heard of before. But it did happen, as do other rare cases, so flat out denials that problems never happen come off as ignorant, and destroy trust between the two sides of these arguments.

So the problem with most of the comments I am seeing here is that they are bypassing the actual thought process of people who skip vaccinations, and killing avenues for potential discussion. If you want people to engage in honest discussion, you need to engage them on the risk/reward basis, providing education on the actual risks of vaccines vs. not.

The whole attitude of "If you don't vaccinate, you are an ignorant idiot." is not a good mechanism to improve communication, and does not produce positive results for anybody.
I'm also a long time Inkscape user and it suits my need perfectly. However, I'd rather be able to edit the nodes of an image to clip it, as in Corel Draw, instead of having to commit to a shape, combine, and set the clip onto the image. But that's a minor problem.

Another reason why Inkscape rocks where other vector editors don't fare as well is in their understanding of Bezier curves. It's right on, just like in Corel Draw. One example of a program that does not get Bezier curves right is Adobe Illustrator. It's impossible, or very very hard, to draw a rectangle, make the top two nodes cusp, and curve only the top side. I remember reading in forums where people were trying to do that and long time users were admitting that it's complicated. However, in truth there's nothing complicated about it, as Inkscape demonstrates very well.

Fine control over nodes is the reason you want Inkscape. Illustrator gets on my nerves because it's so roundabout in this regard.
China Clamps Down Still Harder on Internet Access, Blocks VPNs
Reddit Complied with 58% of User Info Requests, 31% of Takedown Notices in 2014
Certainly, I too was restricted at my company: no shorting (of any stocks!) and no buy/selling of stocks x-days before earnings announcements. A part from that, you could trade without any other contractual restrictions. The determination of material information wasn't not decided by the company... and I guess it's something that is is only brought up in case of an investigation.
>> if Capital One had terms and conditions that said, "we can use sales data for unrelated purposes", they would be able to trade on that information themselves.

And then the employees wouldn't be guilty of insider trading. They would only be in violation of some agreement between them and their employer. Right?
Ask HN: What tasks do you regularly automate or use digital assistance for?
Do you regularly use Siri or any other digital assistant (e.g. Jarvis) or automation services like IFTTT, Alfred and for what ?
Good question. ER doctors hate when software gets in the way of their clinical decision making. We deliver recommendations to the front line managers but they decide what to act upon. One of the most frustrating things for the doctors often is when they are waiting to treat the patients but can't because there are no beds, or not enough staff or labs are not coming back. Our software anticipates those problems and recommends taking out those bottlenecks in advance.

Our hope is that we will make the day of the staff in the ER much less stressful and allow them to focus on spending more time with the patients.
Hero[0] (2002) has each section of the movie tinted differently, it's visually outstanding (and a pretty good movie overall)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_%282002_film%29
McCain to Kissinger protesters: 'Get out of here, you low-life scum'
And So We Meet, Again: Why the Workday Is So Filled with Meetings
> In the fall of 2011, Google was able to tell Appelbaum that the government had sought data such as the IP addresses of the people he e-mailed with,

Google needs to store your plaintext email so it can make money by showing you ads, but its data retention policies are both unnecessary and outrageous.
Oh well. I guess if you want "neologism" to mean "any word invented in the past 300 years", that's your prerogative, but I take a very different meaning. One interesting side-effect of that interpretation is that "neologism" becomes autological, since it was itself coined in that period.

It's true that there are sometimes nuances lost in the conversion from large to small, but there is far more nuance lost once your partner doesn't know what the hell you are saying. For you, Brobdingnagian might have some special nuance (I'm picking on that word because it is ridiculous to me), but to your partner it has no nuance or flavor -- they have no associations with that word, nor any grasp of any subtleties of meaning -- in fact they don't grasp the meaning at all. So if you are trying to get something across, it's simply a bad way to do it.

I mean, don't get me wrong -- I don't want to deride big-word-users. If you want to do to because you like it -- that's obviously fine. Also, if someone does happen to have a thing with Brobdingnagian, I guess you might have just made their day a lot better. But at some point, you have to acknowledge that obscure vocabulary is more of a hindrance than a boon to communication.
How does your company secure freestanding monitors against earthquakes?
Hi all. This has been on my mind lately, since around our office I see more and more people doing the stand-up desk fad and putting their expensive Apple monitors on basically wooden Ikea platforms. (and we are in Bay Area earthquake territory)

Seems to me in an earthquake, all of these expensive monitors are ripe to be toppled from a large height, straight off those platforms since they're completely top heavy. Not like the old days when at least the desk formed the majority of the nearby surface below, or CRTs were just unmovable.

Do you have any specific way of securing monitors like this? Or have you thought about what to do?

Would be interested to hear your comments.
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