skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goal of most money-managers is to make themselves rich, and for the most part they succeed.
Searching for the holographic universe
Well, no... he didn't solve it. He just got us closer.
This is called spurious correlation. It's well known in financial / economic time-series analysis. The lesson is that you never measure the correlation between the PRICE LEVELS of products, instead you measure the correlation between the daily/weekly/etc CHANGE IN PRICE LEVELS.

A famous example of this:

The tale of David Leinweber, which is related in the excellent new book "Quantitative Value," illustrates this point about "stupid data miner tricks." Leinweber sifted through a United Nations CD covering the economic data of 140 countries. He found that butter production in Bangladesh explained 75 percent of the variation of the S&P 500 Index. Not satisfied, he found that if he added a broader category of global dairy products, the correlation would rise to 95 percent. Then he added a third variable, the population of sheep, and found that he had now explained 99 percent of the variation in the S&P 500 for the period 1983-'99.

(http://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-butter-production-means-for...)
And that is a problem, that we should solve.
Does prose not also often come with huge leaps and unstated assumptions?
I don't seem to have access to the VS plugin, but when I place a breakpoint in the Green Hills IDE it is indeed about 30 seconds for it to catch up. It works, but I do find it frustrating.
Appeal to developers, that's all. If your brand is not used by developers, nobody is going to start writing apps for your platform just out of the hobby. Plus, it takes time. Just look at iOS (2007) and Android (2008). You can't have an ecosystem by just snapping your fingers in the air.
That's a very interesting point! I would consider that a superpower. Would this also imply that humans are capabable of way more than one would normally think, given proper training?
Give Nine a go : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ninefolder...
Stop Writing Rails Controllers
This leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Yesterday, all sites reported it as Cyanogen wanting to take Android away from Google "to make it more open", as in Google has too much control over it.

And today we learn that it's actually Microsoft pulling the strings and "taking Android away from Google". That changes things quite a bit.

Microsoft will only keep it "open" as long as it benefits them (yes, kind of Google - which is precisely why I don't see any benefit in this for the user, just the major downside that will come with such a fork - Fragmentation).
You are obviously aware of my favourite; Hemingway on Faulkner:"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use."

Children may be precocious and tolerable. I recall the joy of finding new words - grownup words. Most people find it pretentious and condescending in adults. It is poor communication. Want a game of who can think of the most obscure word? Firstly I tried 'widdershins'. Let's exclude Brobdingnagian as an obvious neologism. (Not trolling - really can't see why you think it ain't?)
Replace 'aspirin' with 'vitamin d' in my question.
Nope https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/2fser0/shou...
Impress your friends with a custom animated gif search
This has saved me so much time finding gifs... :)
Drop the garbage collector. Systems programming cannot stop the world.
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We do not want this to be your everyday "buy and sell coin", as you can see on https://www.poloniex.com/exchange#btc_fldc when we arrived there, we had high value, but like all other altcoins, our value dropped.

This is the nature of the altcoins.

However, we are working on 2 projects that will give this token value:

1. Creating this as a Meetup currency
2. Creating a ebay type martketplace for this coin (and any counterparty token) to be used to buy and sell goods

We are releasing our white paper by Feb 5th and it will go into great detail on how we will accomplish this, but basically since we do not have to create our own QR scans, transaction system, blockchain, ext... we can simply input the open source Counterparty features to create a decentralized Meetup currency and marketplace.

I know that is not a lot of information, but please give me until the 5th to post the white paper here. At this point, i do not expect the non crypto communities to fully understand what we are trying to do, but this is a very appealing coin to those that mine for whatever personal reasons they have to mine.
That's not true. If you make your case for it, I'll gladly explain where you're wrong. But FFS, stop spewing bullshit.

Android:
Doesn't have the dominance that Windows has had for two decades, thus limiting the power of Google. Also, there is much less lockin for phones.
I guess. And if you disclosed what it was on the packaging then it goes away.
i would later change that and install google rom and use the beautiful microsoft hardware
These colorful, podgy toolbar icons (on Windows) remind me of Ami Pro for some reason :) http://i61.tinypic.com/2cmly5c.jpg
The directed & stereotypical bash of Christians is unwarranted (not the least of which is that the whole point of "Christian" is proselytizing, not killing). Goes in every direction; if you're going to bash like that, try the recent Greenpeace activist calling for beheading "climate change deniers" http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/01/25/greenpeace-activi...
I remember trying this a while ago and being disappointed at the amount of dependency code brought in for a rather trivial function, but the modularization is looking much better than it was last time I took a look.
On the other hand "making all financial transactions public and instantly accessible" is one of the best arguments I've heard for pushing people towards bitcoin/blockchain style accounting systems.

It would do all sorts of weird things to the theory of the firm forcing internal transactions to maintain information asymmetry.
http://vicarious.com/

As I'm sure you're aware, Dileep George left Numenta to start Vicarious. He seems to be taking it in a slightly different direction with a focus on Bayesian-style probabilistic inference - something which may simplify the HTM framework for mainstream use. This looks promising and has considerably more funding, but there is apparently little focus on how our intelligence supervenes on our brains at Vicarious....
There exists a third party library called goamz which has been forked all over the place when people have needed to add random features not found in the original version. It works well but hopefully you don't need a set of features that require you to import multiple versions.

Hopefully Amazon's version will be comprehensive and idiomatic.
At this point people have been hearing "if WP just had more apps it would be a huge success!" for over three years. If that were true then why don't we see app developers porting apps to Windows Phone in anticipation of the great change?
You can already do that: http://golang.org/pkg/runtime/
If Google wanted to do this they have much more powerful tools at their disposal than Wallet transaction data.
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There was a bit of a green hue in places in the original, but not as pronounced as in the "green-ray" version.

When I first saw the blu-ray version I had to check my TV colour settings to make sure no-one had been fiddling with them (colour saturation, temp etc). It was quite jarring on the eyes, and that was even after three or four years of not having watched The Matrix. As a non colour blind viewer my reaction (after checking the TV settings etc) was, "yeesh".
Absolutely! The more information a type system can express the less likely it is to guess correctly at what you want just based on your value-level representation of intent.

Which is really fascinating when you think about it. It basically expresses (what we all know) that your code captures only a fragment of the intent of your efforts. Good types can capture much more intent.

So to that end, people explore interactive development. In this scenario, you provide a (potentially partial) type corresponding to the programmatic intent you desire and the compiler conducts proof search to find programs which satisfy that type!

The types are actually more informative than the programs and it provides some evidence that we'd really rather be writing at higher-level typed languages and letting the implementations fall out naturally rather than writing the implementations and hoping that inference can build the proper types.

Or something like that.
Doesn't CloudMagic collect data in their cloud to offer push as well ?
Living in Costa Rica I've experienced some pretty big quakes including a 7.6 - equivalent to 3rd biggest in 150 years in California - and a bunch of 6.x's. My monitor wobbling is usually my first indication there's a quake, but I don't think there's enough horizontal momentum or force to make it fall over.
This is the year we find out whether new media can scale or not
Ask HN: How many upvotes on HN are really people trying to collapse comments?
Look out for fake hotspots and things of that nature 'hackers'.

Such a ripe group...
Jenn Schiffer also has an absolutely hilarious blog, CSS Perverts: https://medium.com/cool-code-pal
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The Mac OS X Help menu has this type of search, provided that all application commands are in menus.
Under the assumption that protein folding does get solved, we will simply transfer to the next humanitarian distributed computing platform out there.

We would not even have to decide what this is, we could leave it up to the holders of FLDC. We have a voting system (something that a traditional Altcoin cannot do) that allows us to distribute vote tokens to FLDC holders. http://foldingcoin.net/fldc-voting/

I hope protein folds fun out, then we would understand damn near everything about the human body, then i guess my next vote would be to help SETI and discover the aliens :D
Vacuum tubes in a chip
Thanks! I didn't even notice the live video option. How is that done I wonder? Is it all happening client side in Javascript?
Sounds like a good way to get a bunch of terrible, unsupported apps into your ecosystem. Not sure that would help things.
Yes, patriarchy / sexism has deep biological roots, also encompassing other divides like introversion / extroversion. Other social divides like class are involved too, all of these things with their own biological underpinnings.

This stuff is messy. At some point, trying to tease out the exact evolutionary roots becomes an exercise in intellectual masturbation. We have the ability to change them now, so we should, because everybody's lives are being made worse for them.
There's a question in the middle of that post that's easy to miss. Maybe people here have some insight on it, so I'll ask it again :-)

Are there any other digital board game conversions based on command languages? I'd love to know of any other examples than the few listed in that post. (I'm specifically interested in board games, since for those the game design is generally already fixed. For a native computer game the implementation details like this and the game design go hand in hand).
I think you can turn off the Ribbon and show the Formatting toolbar in Office 2008 and 2011 for Mac. Yes, this is Mac-only.
Use pentatonics! Most other choices will sound poor.

How would you render (do (blah bler) (bip bop)) to make it different from (do (blah bler bip bop))? Emphasis?
I dunno, Microsoft seems to have a phenomenal developer attitude these days. The marketshare is just too small to bother, in my opinion.
He was the first to prove that a finite bound exists. This is a huge, huge deal, since taking the answer from immensely large but finite to 2 is much easier than establishing a finite bound in the first place (as evidenced by the rapid decline in the bound from 70 million to somewhere around 250 in the last year). So, I wouldn't call it "just" getting us closer. It'll probably be proved some time in the next decade or so, and the conjecture was first made in the mid 1800s.
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What motivates us at work?
Here's a potentially new argument to bring to the table, in addition to the usual: putting aside criminal or embarrassing issues, saying that you have nothing to hide is saying that your data is worth nothing.

Someone might find connections about you that you didn't know, like the fact that you are more willing to pay higher prices for the same product when you and your partner are trying to have a baby (just saying hypothetically). I don't think that information should be free. At the very least, I'd want to charge.

Someone might find out information about your children in indirect but legitimate ways. Perhaps your son is more likely to nag you to buy some product based on some controllable factor. I'd at least sell that kind of information for no less than $500. That's an iPad.
It's awesome that they reached out to the authors of a promising community project[1] and adopted that, rather than building their own project from scratch. AWS' first-party client libraries are generally awful, but I think this one stands a chance to be very good.

Also, the current situation with goamz is truly horrific. There are multiple independent forks of the original Canonical Launchpad-hosted version, each with their own subtle differences in usage, interfaces and feature support. None of them feel like idiomatic Go.

It really would be unlikely for this now AWS-supported project to end up doing worse than the status quo.

[1] mainly Coda Hale from Stripe, where the project originated: https://github.com/stripe/aws-go
I scrolled through the comments looking for the obligatory hell freezing over snark remark.

Cyanogen is arguably the only creditable opposition to the Google Android hegemony. It's nice to see MS recognize that and support it. Too bad MS shut down the Nokia Android fork in its nascency.

It would be interesting to see if they can get more windows and windows phone compatibility into Android.
Great article, thanks very much for posting it. Nobody else seems to have captured the relevant terminology: "cointegration" and "stationarity". Those perfectly captured it for me.
aws golang sdk's have been around for a while and I've found several other which are well tested and maintained such as https://github.com/goamz/goamz. It's awesome that aws finally decide which library they're officially adopting but I found frustrating that the library is poorly tested and it will take while until it becomes the official. It'd be great if all the other sdk's contributors start working on the same project.
This is cool. Most impressive thing for me is how wildly different the three works (& thus approaches/challenges posed) are. Curious how Cassatt will be tackled.
Microsoft just bought part of a linux company. Wow, things are not as I remember them.
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Functional Reactive HTTP in Node Part 1
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We actually just had a double spend try and happen to us. I cannot show you the links, because the blockchain already ignored them.

What happened was:

We run a fundraiser for helping in the expansion of foldingcoin http://foldingcoin.net/fundraising/ and we use a company called Vennd.io to help in this fundraiser.

What happens is someone will send BTC to a certain address, and in return they are given an amount of 1 FLDC per every 0.00001 BTC they donated. Someone recently tried to double spend a BTC transaction to trick Counterparty into giving them double the FLDC in return for their BTC. However since the double BTC was denied, so was the double FLDC.

I tweeted about it, but its no longer in the blockchain, here is the tweet https://twitter.com/FoldingCoin/status/558704804449771520 when it was solved, and here was the first tweet about the actual transaction https://twitter.com/FoldingCoin/status/558073025468567553
The GC is more of a cultural issue than anything (what with Oberon being perfectly fine), but it will have an impact as a result. The runtime will be an overhead, though it does have a malleable library interface, apparently.
Dutch news has been interrupted by a man with a gun. Wanted to say something
That was the Nokia X series right? I'm afraid it had the rug pulled out from under it.

I think this is a smart investment but the handling of the Nokia brand has been pretty bad if you ask me.
Chicken & egg problem. Being the first risks being the only one to move. Then you don't don't get the big push to profit from and you diverted resources away from your other projects (assuming that the kind of app developers needed for that would port their existing and actively maintained apps)
is expect still the default tool for command line automation, or has it been superseded by something else?
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Монография о великом русском художнике Федоре Александровиче Васильеве (1850-1873)
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Вся художественная деятельность Федора Александровича Васильева была направлена к воспеванию своеобразных красот родной природы, что было одной из главных задач русского национального искусства. Васильев выбирал для своих произведений самые характерные, самые действенные темы. Он воспевал раздольные русские равнины, прославлял «великую труженицу» Волгу, создал прекрасные пейзажи Крыма. Основа работ Васильева – их жизнеутверждающее начало.
Васильев - не только исключительно яркий талант, но выдающийся пример подвижника, целиком отдавшего себя искусству, не переставшего работать до последнего своего часа. Вопреки трагической краткости его жизни (он умер от чахотки в возрасте двадцати трех лет), наследие художника весьма обширно, а его вклад в развитие русского искусства необычайно весом. Проложив новые пути в русской пейзажной живописи, достигнув большой глубины в передаче человеческого чувства в общении с природой, он оказывал влияние даже на старших своих современников - И.И. Шишкина, И.Е. Репина. Выдающийся русский художник И.И. Левитан считал Васильева одним из своих учителей.
Оставленное Васильевым наследие можно считать огромным, особенно, если учесть его раннюю смерть. Новизна мотивов и, часто смелое по приемам, их
решение в картинах, рисунках и сепиях, дают достаточно ясное представление о стремительности развития творчества этого художника, в особенности, когда знаешь, что из семи лет его непрестанной работы три последних года прошли в борьбе с тяжелым недугом, рано оборвавшим его жизнь.
In his book What Technology Wants Kevin Kelly spends quite a deal time talking about the Amish. It's a good book asking an interesting question.
Am I the only person who actually likes WP8 as a platform?

Seriously, my Lumia 520 is the best cheap phone I've ever bought.
Not surprising, because the kernel is convoluted on the pixels

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution

Now, to what's happening, you're basically applying a FIR filter to each pixel, so that each one depends also on the frequency information of adjacent pixels (in 2 dimensions)

If someone wants to know more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_impulse_response
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-transform
Perhaps you could anonymize the data?
Ah, I have seen DrTon's commits on the project. He has been rather prolific in the last several months. I'd love to connect with you outside of HN and hear what you are working on. Shoot me an email (in profile) if you see this.
Yep, it got them tons of pong games and stuff like that.

FWIW, Microsoft was giving out a lot of free developer devices, too.
http://www.litres.ru/aleksandr-ermolaev-2/ludmila-knyazeva-2...
I haven't seen anything else in use anywhere. I believe it's still pretty much the undisputed king.
Dissent is much more effect when it's done out in the open. Right now anyone can stand on a street corner and state whatever views they hold, start a website, hand out flyers or express any idea using any number of methods. That's the key to democracy, not whispers from secret sources who refuse to name themselves. We reduce democracy when we force dissenters to use privacy as a shield instead of allowing them to use the first amendment as a weapon.

It doesn't matter what the soviets or any other country did. Democracy is and has always been about the right to open expression. If we lose our right to publicly discuss unpopular ideas then privacy is the least of our concerns. Private communication matters in a state that is already telling people what to say and what not to say. We should all be willing to make great sacrifices to make sure that never happens where we live, not planning for what happens when it does.
It applies for computer services as well. You're more likely to be abused by your clients (blamed for problems unrelated to you, called at odd hours of the night for no good reason, yelled at, etc.) or fired in favor of somebody else if you give them your services for cheap or free than if you charge a lot.
ProductHack: Don't Build It, Sell It
Haskell `do` notation considered harmful
Comcast Changes Guy’s Name to “Asshole” After Wife Tries to Cancel Service
I'm surprised it took this long for a big phone player to pick up Cyanogen, but disappointed it's MS - I mean, obviously they could have use for Cyanogen, but it will never be part of their core business. Lenovo should have thought of it first.
Why not 100Mbps D&U ?

The ISP's in the US are atrocious. It's only thanks to Google Fiber that we're really starting to see a difference. And that's 1Gbps down and up!
I recall fiddling with an HTC HD2, able to run both WP7 and Android ROMs (Froyo I think?). What a great device.
oops, yes, i misread your argument. agreed, porn would definitely be a "major art" by that criterion. (and really, who's to say it isn't? it's an orthogonal classification to good/bad art.)
Very informative post!
Yep. And that's why, if it isn't your first rodeo, you can end up in a weird headspace as an early employee, because cofounders may act like they know a lot of things they don't (including how to lead), and you know that they are still learning.

You kind of have to top from bottom sometimes.
https://github.com/WhisperSystems/whispersystems.org/issues/...

Moxie saying "Every lawyer we've spoken to has confirmed that [having a warrant canary] would not work." Which isn't surprising. When the government tells you not to communicate something, you aren't allowed to communicate it. Not not not not communicating it isn't some clever loophole.
Based on recent developments with both Google and MS in the past few years, I treat them with the same amount of trepidation.
It's very good. I'm making this comment from a Dell XPS 15 purchased last week.

I go rid of Windows 8 and installed Debian + XFCE.

Everything just works, no hardware driver hacks.
What's always great fun is when the cofounders are new, and are married!
“I don’t want to fight old battles, I want to fight new ones.” - Satya Nadella
It does disclose it, it's just that most people don't know that "homeopathic" means "this is just water."
my favorite - Kandinsky styled maps .. ( not javascript )

"Mapbox Studio, More Kandinsky than Matisse"

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2014/09/mapbox-studio-mo...

map: https://api.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/gmapsmania.6e688409/page.htm...
Stay classy Comcast.

On that note: who fears the two hellhounds TWC and Comcast coming together? I shudder at the very thought.
Yes, of course. I recognize that science is not about belief - my point is simply that this joker is making claims based on belief - how could he not even consider that humanity would have an impact on the global climate?

I picked CO2 as but one of many changes humanity has wreaked upon the earth. The list is of course vastly longer than just that.