skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact there's a Google News Labs team is only one of the many points I have to conclude that the space is heating up, so maybe that's not fair. But it's definitely (almost tangibly) different than it was even a six months ago. The level of interest in the space compared to last year is seriously something along the lines of 10x. Two years ago nobody cared.

As far as newspapers go, you're right - the important thing is controlling the channel. Google, FB, and Twitter all want to control that channel, but they need the data in order to do so. Reliable, verified breaking news data is much harder to come by than one would think, especially at scale.
Can't take credit for the idea, one of the founders is a Rugby player and had his clock cleaned on the field one too many times.

Data is my thing - there's a number of these types of products out there (Shockbox et al), the issue is that they all keep the algorithm quite close to their chest (fairly, I suppose!)

My role (in addition to helping out with the hardware) is the ecosystem around it. It's BLE capable, so while we can't make a diagnosis (all kinds of legal issues there), the hope is to aggregate impact data, improve the detection algorithm and be able to feed it back to the device as it improves - We're currently using a TI MCU that allows us to OTA update from the app.
I've been using Mailbox for quite a while, and I find the concepts and design of it to be quite good.

It's just a shame that it's tied to gmail and forces you to use Dropbox. Makes it useless for many of us at work.
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A DRM exception for farmers? Why them and not the rest of us?

Farmers are the classic American go-to for everything politics. Be it guns, corn in Coke, pollution standards, healthcare, immigration ... everyone is ready to pity the poor farmer. I understand the rational. Farmers make the food we eat. They also embody an American fantasy harkening back to the old west. But this is also who I see red flags whenever I hear farmers brought up in reference to a law.

Farmers are the purchasers of equipment used in their business. Why give them a pass to bypass DRM but not the fishermen? Fishermen make food. Maritime law affords them special treatment in a similar manner as land use laws treat farmers. Surely fishermen have an equal tradition of self-sufficiency and are also deserving of an exception. And then come the taxi companies who have long maintained their own fleets. Soldiers? Surely we first need an exemption for the armed forces.

I cannot think of any profession without a tradition of maintaining its own equipment. That's probably because DRM is new tech. So it's impossible for anyone to have a tradition of accommodating and obeying DRM. As we all suffer it, we should all be free of it. No exemptions.

Let us instead pity the poor metal worker whose CNC machine cannot be moved across the shop floor without triggering its GPS-dependant DRM.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140109/03060325817/lates...
There's a nugget of truth here;

'some developers are reporting signs that Apple has built this new app using something called UXKit, which sits above the Mac’s familiar AppKit frameworks and strongly resembles UIKit on iOS.' from http://sixcolors.com/post/2015/02/new-apple-photos-app-conta...
Is it weird that this would make me feel ever so slightly better that my info got hacked?

I mean, I'm not a government worker or contractor. Even if I was, my password is randomly generated and not used elsewhere. If it wasn't for profit hackers, identify theft with social security numbers is perhaps less of a concern. And my password was randomly generated, so they can't get into any other accounts, so identity theft and fraud based on it is probably the biggest threat.

I really wish there was a good health insurance company (or a single payer system) I could switch to, but anthem is honestly the least bad company currently available to me.
Wow. really? That sucks, but I'm guessing it is a marketing fail on Dropbox's part.

You were probably logged into Dropbox with the browser you were using? So they showed you some promo crap instead of what you were trying to see.

The link is (supposed to be) a public link to a screenshot of their app that shows the "Add Account" dialog, with only two choices: Google and iCloud.

EDIT: oops this was supposed to be a reply to thanksgiving
Perhaps GPG should annually auction off which nation-state security service or online advertising company's public key gets automatically added to the recipients list for each encrypted message? </cynical>
old news indeed.
That's very interesting. What are some of the problems with getting reliable news data at scale? And what's the value of getting it? Specifically, how will you make money?

Sorry for the prying questions. I'm not dismissing. Just the opposite: I'm quite interested to see whether it could work.
The ironic thing is that failing to publish schematics and bus interfaces is nothing more than a temporary inconvenience to competitors, especially (but not limited to) the Chinese. They cloned a whole goddamn Apple store, they can clone your tractor. That's what they do.

It does, however, encourage planned obsolescence by keeping you from maintaining your own out-of-warranty farm equipment.
And ActiveSync!
Knowing (or rather finding) content that is important/reliable (signal:noise ratio), and knowing what content is accurate.
I haven't had a single issue with the Mac client... Their primary concern isn't this application, but I agree it could probably use an update for stability
> If you think being gay is due even in part to environmental factors, then reparative therapy would have to be able to do something according to your hypothesis.

This is false. Even if sexual orientation is due in part to environmental factors, that does not imply mutability once established.

To answer your question, I don't think it should be allowed in principle - probably not for anyone but particularly not for minors. The effectiveness of the treatment has not been established at all, for one, and it causes a variety of disturbing side effects in people in the form of serious mental health issues, regardless of the outcome of the 'treatment'. For that matter, since sexual orientation is not a mental health issue in the first place, it's impossible to justify treatment even if it is effective. If reparative therapy were a pill, and I were the FDA, there is no way in hell it would pass human trials. In fact, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't even make it to human trials.

This is complicated somewhat by the fact that psychological treatment (i.e. as opposed to psychiatric treatment which involves medication) is more lightly regulated in many jurisdictions, if at all. Perhaps that should also change. But especially in the case of minors, and especially for reparative therapy in particular, where in the overwhelming majority of cases parents are clearly not approaching it from the perspective of what's best for their child - no it should not be allowed.

> How about convincing you they weren't doing it deliberately, but instead were chasing ratings using controversy and not caring about long-term societal results?

I don't think that's exclusive to using media for social control. In fact, it's sort of an important part of it, since you need everyone paying attention and giving all the bullshit the undue consideration it totally doesn't deserve.

To be clear, I don't think there is a single grand conspiracy to bring all of Western civilization under the control of a handful of oligarchs, and that this conspiracy involves media control. Rather, I think that various psychopaths in positions of power are involved in various petty conspiracies with other psychopaths, and some of these people happen to own media organizations. And, probably some of them have also convinced themselves that in fact they are involved in such a grand conspiracy - it would be something to point out and laugh at if the effects of it weren't so awful.
Just so no one is confused (like I was for a long time), essential oils are so called because they are obtained using plant essences, not because they are essential to us in any way (though they may now be!)
Affero GPL would be a much better choice.

GPL lets anyone running a webapp pretty much ignore everything in the GPL license.
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I still fondly remember how long my original Newton MP100 lasted on 4 AAA cells... An order of magnitude longer than my iPhone6 lasts on a charge.
"Sophisticated attack" = Norton Antivirus didn't stop it.

"Chinese" = we saw an Asian IP address.

"state-sponsored hackers" = This is war!

"Sophisticated attack by Chinese state-sponsored hackers" = force majeure.

Force majeure = We don't owe you a penny.
Nice! If anyone wants TV shows & episodes as well as movies, plus all the sources, Guidebox.com shows you both. Guidebox also support 150+ apps/sites including tv networks, hulu, all the digital media stores, etc. and provide a Developer API. I made the new iOS and Android apps which take you to the right app to play the movie or show you choose (or the app store if that source app is not installed.)

http://vlad.github.com

is my portfolio with some screenshots while the apps are pending review, but you can visit guidebox.com to start using it today.
If you mean XML literals, they're deprecated now. I don't know whether the macroized XML interpolator has landed yet.
The QZ article gets much of its information from this March, 2001 oral history interview:

http://authors.library.caltech.edu/5456/1/hrst.mit.edu/hrs/m...

His recollections are very detailed, and you can clearly see what a genius John Goodenough is. Many early computing and defense industry interviews have a similar feel as this one -- so wonderful to read and be inspired by material like this.
Contexts is the perfect companion app for Amethyst
Have you applied to some of the relatively large corporations? Maybe something more IT oriented than development oriented?
If you're coming from web development and used to using virtualenv, anaconda has environment management too. Run $(conda install conda-env). You can still pip install things into conda environments too. you'll probably want to $(conda install binstar) and search for various packages with that don't come in stock anaconda. For example, you can $(conda install --javascript node)
Somewhere with better weather and better connections to the rest of the world.

I spend most of my money on travel, motorcycles, food and fine wine (in particular, aged fortified wines in the 3-digit price range). Food is the only one particularly affected by PPP. A typical meal out for two costs £60 to £200, depending quality and wine bought. I'll spend more on a special occasion. But living outside London, I'd have a harder time finding great places to eat. My experience from touring the UK is that there are more hearty, good value options especially as you go north, but fine dining gets scarcer.

Travel is really important to me, touring by motorcycle specifically. But the south of England is very flat, and the fastest way to the continent is a train to France. Once you land in France, you have to cross it to get to wherever you're going. Alternately, one can take a ferry and suffer excruciating boredom only marginally worse than a motorway.

Almost anywhere in central Europe would be better for biking - southeast France, northern Italy, southern Germany, Austria - or northern Spain, if I didn't want to leave the country for some of the best roads in the world. More snow in winter, mind, but I could live with that. Certainly, the roads in the UK are among the worst in western Europe, outside of Belgium and possibly Ireland - though Ireland has had a lot of investment, they've built some very odd roads.

I grew up on the west coast of Ireland. My willingness to tolerate rainy days is no longer very high.
Over the next three years, the Linux Foundation will receive a combined total of $3.9 million from Google, Intel, Amazon and others to fund core infrastructure projects such as OpenSSL. Sounds good until you take a step back...

> Intel will invest "$300 million to help improve the pipeline for women and minorities, actively support the hiring and retention of diverse candidates, and fund programs that support the positive representation of women and minorities in technology and gaming industries."

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/intel-diversity/

> "Google Gives $775,000 to Nonprofit for Tech Diversity
CODE2040 said Monday it received $775,000 in grants from the tech giant to support the launch of free training programs for more than 5,000 black and Latino college engineering students over the next two years."

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/02/02/google-gives-775000-t...
Record Labels Keeping All the Money from Spotify, Rather Than Giving to Artists
Keurig's attempt to 'DRM' its coffee cups totally backfired
It really depends. Consider that fact that in many fields, you pay for 4 years or more of schooling in order to get the paper that gets you in the door. If an internship can do an end run around that then you come out well ahead.
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Facebook gets all of the value produced by their own developers, but the benefits of GPG are shared. If every big tech company matched Facebook's $50k, the total sponsorship would be equivalent to several engineer salaries.
I went to the Intelligence journal's website and could not find the study. My two cents: I think we should look at the methodology of the study before trusting its conclusions.

To me, the conclusions don't meet the sniff test. Drawing causal inferences from social science data is tricky, and I think it's more likely the study is flawed in one of the many ways observational data analyses are often flawed.

Regardless, IMHO we as a society should praise hard work and effort rather than lauding those who "win" the "intelligence" lottery.
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Here you go: https://github.com/quantifind/wisp
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It doesn't mean anything to compare a constant to phi unless that constant is itself dimensionless. What low level physical constants (and relations between them and phi) do you have in mind?
The communication protocol is called "ZHTTP" which works in either REQ/REP or PUSH/SUB modes. It basically wraps HTTP in ZMQ messages. We submitted a draft here: http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:33

I'm not much of a Ruby developer, but I just committed a Python example using the REQ/REP interface. It should be readable enough so you can get an idea of what's involved:
https://github.com/fanout/pushpin/blob/master/tools/zhttpreq...

To activate the realtime stuff, you send the same Grip-* headers as you would with normal HTTP.

A word of caution: while this path is more optimized, it is super bare bones. As soon as you start doing anything advanced, you may find yourself wishing you were using a real web framework (I know, because this happened to me once already! haha).
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You'd lose the thread of @replies and conversation, and perhaps any embedded media in the tweet. You still wouldn't need an account, but you'd have to visit the site.
From the article: "Why on Earth are new startups popping up, all trying to solve problems that were seemingly solved years ago?"

We should ask that question more often and expect a solid, reasonable answer from the responders.
See that wonderful spike upward in the chart you're quoting? That would be the Great Depression.

I assure you, inflation is the lesser of two evils. Deflation is much, much worse.
I've sold about 10 domains on Sedo. Their fees are high but it is worth it.

Just make sure that you instruct them to convert funds into your currency before wiring the money to you or you might be hit with fees on your end.
Well, there are 4 billion addresses but the definition of internet addressable is a bit odd with attack vectors through email and web outbound access.
If the Library of Congress is registering copyrights as proposed, then LOC has the database and the search terms will just be the work you propose to copy. It can be a simple service where you upload a few pages of text and LOC responds in a few seconds with the name of anyone who has registered copyright.
doing some quick searches comes up with something like http://www.sacred-geometry.es/?q=en/content/phi-atomic-struc... , but I can't tell if this serious or satire...

(It's true of any number that x = x/phi + x/phi^2, surely you can do better than that in a satire? )

edit: holy shit, people actually try really hard with this nonsense... http://www.ijsciences.com/pub/pdf/V2-201305-08.pdf
What's the value?

I understand companies might pay for access to that, but why? When most people get their news from Reddit, and when techies get their news from HN, what's left? It seems hard to beat a community of upvotes.

To phrase it more precisely, why is access to news within 60 seconds more valuable than access within 20 minutes? Are stock traders going to be the customer, or who? There doesn't seem to be a way to deploy advertising with this, so it's hard to understand why it will make money.

Is the goal to sell this to TV stations who then show ads after they tell people about breaking news?
My gripe is that "essential oil" is only slightly more specific than "chemical", so it's meaningless to talk about essential oils in general as a fix for anything. You need to evaluate them on a case-by-case basis for every use. An arbitrary essential oil is as likely to be a poison as a cure, but they're all lumped together in the hype. And it's not like we didn't already know that plants are a good source of medicines. /rant
Unbelievable that this article gets this guy a paycheck. He deserves it but it's still amazing. We live in the future.
No, and I wouldn't trust myself to read it either. But, there's a fair chance that someone I trust eventually will and that they'll point it out when they see something fishy.
Real estate, for one valid response to rayiner's non sequitur. ("Land is passed down from generation to generation, and few people ask: 'what's the empirically justifiable duration of land rights?'")

Copyrighted material is the ultimate example of "You didn't build that." That's why it's a temporary bargain with the public domain, and not an entitlement.
It's getting easier all the time, though. The interpolators (q etc) are great!
Thanks for this, probably enough to get started.

The plan was to create a Rack-compatible injection point that uses ZMQ instead of HTTP which could be used with any of the standard Ruby frameworks, rather than getting too bare-bones.

I'm not sure whether there are any real wins here though.

Although my real use case is to take queries from Pushpin and put them directly into a persistent queue for processing by workers before them pushing the responses directly back at Pushpin so that we can do a zero-downtime deploy, even if the workers are down for up to 55 seconds (with long-polling).
2 months to rewrite complex distributed systems into relatively more error prone c -- where you are most likely doing lots of things with raw pointers or carefully laying out ram to optimize strides -- seems to me an aggressive schedule. My experience with a somewhat comparable project was perhaps 2 months of dev work, and 1-2 months of bug chasing, with sporadic bug chasing for a while longer.
>What can I do

You can make better quality stuff. Keeping the messaging protocol a secret hurts customers more than it helps you.
His power is strongest 'before' the deal goes through.
> I just noticed these are government and not private
> analysts making the claims, so my comment is now a bit
> cynical for my own taste...

Not for mine... casting these issues as a threat to national sovereignty is a great way to raise defense funding.
Totally. In fact, the fourth thing I think of - after aromatherapy, perfume, and flavouring - is the use of safrole (from sassafras essential oil) in the manufacture of MDMA...
Wouldn't this also have been super annoying for events that went past midnight and spilled over into the next day?
The use of the term "strenuous" running is also misleading; it may make people think that "running hard" is harmful.

In terms of this study, it means running four hours a week; probably 20 miles a week or more. That's not a level of activity that most people are in danger of crossing.
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As someone else pointed out 2.75%-2.9% is common, often thre is a charge per transaction too (on the order of 25cents after it's all said and done). The fee can change based on the card type (the merchant pays a higher fee on rewards cards normally...someone has to pay for rewards!) and international purchases can have additional fees. Charges backs can also bump up fees, ditto for outsourced fraud protection.
>Haskell requires that the two operands and the resultant type share a type.

Most physical unit libraries simply describe a "unit-ed" multiplication/division/etc operator, so you write code like

let v = (5 ~* meter) / (1 *~ second)

This division operator would replace the standard one.

This requires using Haskell extensions that support dependent types, but the libraries certainly exist.

I've used "Dimensional" before.
Well it's available but you have to purchase the study: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289607...

Here's anther another similar study I found that cites the intelligence journal study and can be read without a paywall:
http://www.bostonfed.org/economic/cprc/conferences/2008/cfrg...
(def fib (map first (iterate (fn [[a b]] [b (+' a b)]) [0 1])))
vias are normally riveted (good enough).

Not even close.
Tech definitely.
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I was thinking the same thing. It would be nice if there was some donations hub for open source projects with some sort of mixed Patreon/Humble-Bundle mechanic were you could donate N bucks to X open source software projects, one time or in a monthly basis.

The difficulties I see with this approach is 1) getting a trustworthy intermediate and 2) how to select the projects to allow the donations for. But 2) shouldn't be that hard because the users could, in the end, pick who they want to donate to.
Accuracy is over-rated for breaking news. The trend to try to fact-check every tiny piece of information as it comes in is a red herring.
And what would make it almost the perfect crime is that if Germany thinks the gold's gone, it's arguably in their best interest to just keep quiet about it. As long as everybody think's the gold's there, Germany rolls along just fine.
A fascinating thought concept - what if command-driven economies have failed only because the technology was not yet there to support accurate visualization, allocation and communication?

What a loss that the Chilean experiment was never fully realized.
The thing is from my experience, most computational individuals would be strongly opposed to FP. They may not have been raised on for loops, but once they learn about for, good luck on having them warm up to the idea of map and reduce.

I think the only way you'd succeed is by snatching their young before they go down that path. I don't really see many people warming up to new things aimed at them like Julia or even not-so-new stuff like numpy/matplotlib and friends. If it isn't Fortran or C or matlab, it doesn't ring well with them. Of course, the new kids who don't know programming (or physics yet, perhaps) are ripe for indoctrination of your religion as opposed to theirs.