skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO the hardest part of programming is identifying and fulfilling the ephemeral requests of users who aren't sure what they want until they see the thing they told you to build for them and realize it's not what they had in mind.
Such a bummer. I really liked David Carr. He's a great journalist and his personal story is incredible.
Buru Buru Ph. II in Buru Buru ;-) The tone of the article rubbed me the wrong way, had a bit of that "White guy who discovered Mt. Kenya" vibe. I may have unfairly read some of that into the parent comment. Well aware of 58 as well.
Anonymous seems to have hacked its Google search results
Money, Money, Everywhere, but Not a Cent to Spend
That's not what the first amendment says. A lot of laws have inspiration in religion (and tradition)—people believe X, and so want laws that support X. But if X gets passed as a law, it's because people support X, not necessarily because it comes from a religion. What we're seeing with gay marriage is, people are studying the matter, and finding out that the only reasons against it are religion, and tradition. And those aren't sufficient. So laws against it are being overruled.

But that isn't to say that religion has (or should have) no influence, because it influences the believers, who then support laws & lawmakers. Nor is always it possible to separate the beliefs that someone holds for religious reasons, vs. beliefs they hold for other reasons. But it does mean that a law needs more than religious reasons to stay on the books. Thankfully, gay marriage seems to be one that is mostly held for religious reasons, so laws preventing it can be dismantled (versus, say, marijuana prohibition. It's more than just religion, so it's harder to dismantle).

But if all you take away is that people against gay marriage aren't driven by sociopathic malice, then that's still an improvement.
Node.js Express Patterns
>>Amazon prime customers can upload pics for free now [1]. Why not use one of the free ones like Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive etc...

All of them have space limitations - and I have over 400GB of pictures backed up to Picassa. So if I am not paying google, I would be paying Amazon or Microsoft or Dropbox or someone else. And my main point was - what happens to data on all of these paid-for services once I am dead? Amazon Prime backup is "free" as long as you keep paying for prime.

And yeah, CDs become unreadable after sitting in their envelopes for 10 years. Not all of them,but mine certainly did.
I was working on an assembler/linker in C last night.
You can find this authoritative ignorance of unknowns in more recent writings too. It's interesting to read a pre-1960s geology book - before continental drift was proven - and see how they explain continent formation. They'll often present some totally wrong theory without any trace of doubt. Another example is pre-1960s biology books that talk about DNA and give it a bogus role.

To be clear, I'm not criticizing these books for not having the answers, or even for being wrong. It's being confidently, authoritatively wrong that is concerning. It also makes me wonder how much of what we read now is also authoritatively wrong. (I have my suspicious about cosmology.) A counterexample is the book "Molecular Biology of the Cell", which is good about explicitly pointing out what is unknown rather than papering over it.
3D print a foc.us TDCS headset
Also remember that everything Google has ever pushed through has been above UDP/TCP, because it's far easier to push through changes on top of that than not. There's a reason why QUIC is being developed on top of UDP instead of as a transport layer in its own right.
I don't think old APL's had first class functions.
While the article gives some background, here is a bit more from the wikipedia article about Sergey Aleynikov [1]:

>Sergey Aleynikov is a former Goldman Sachs computer programmer. In December 2010 he was wrongfully convicted of two counts of theft of trade secrets and sentenced to 97 months in prison. In February 2012 his conviction was overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that entered a judgement of acquittal, reversing the decision of the District court.

The main reason why he is suing the FBI is beacause:

>On June 20, 2014, upon reviewing the evidence, Justice Ronald Zweibel published a 71-page opinion in which the court ruled that F.B.I. “did not have probable cause to arrest defendant, let alone search him or his home.” The arrest was “illegal,” and Mr. Aleynikov’s “Fourth Amendment rights were violated as a result of a mistake of law.”[2] Besides finding that he was arrested illegally without probable cause, the court blocked the majority of evidence passed by the F.B.I. to prosecutors at the NY State DA's office, as that property was supposed to be returned to Mr. Aleynikov upon his acquittal.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov
[2] http://dealbook.nytimes.com//2014/06/20/judge-throws-out-evi...
In my neighborhood in Brooklyn, It seemed I could choose from some pretty slow DSL from Verizon or cable Time Warner (turns out to be pretty slow a lot of the time). Then I found a smaller company offering much faster Fiber connections for the same prices as the DSL or Cable. So I called them up, and while they do service our street, they are specifically not allowed to service our house. I assumed the worst—two companies dividing up territory. Ended up with some pretty terrible Cable internet that gets decent speeds around 1AM when I am either asleep or out of the house. Rest of the time it crawls.
This is awesome! I just signed up. A couple of questions:

- If I want add my own app, will there be docs/examples on how to do that? I'd love to have my own app to deploy something like Jenkins.

- What are the backup options? If I want to grab a snapshot locally (just b/c), is that possible?
Whoever loses, we win?
I would find out the medium term goals of the organization, and find all the resources I would need to accomplish some of them - people (on LinkedIn, Meetup.com), courses (Udacity Nanodegree, Coursera Specialization, Thinkful, etc), books (Such as Intro to Algorithms, etc).

And then draft a comprehensive plan to make this happen. If you do this, then you will become truly irreplaceable for your organization.
Several people have mentioned the Internet Archive. They're doing god's work and you should give them money [0].

But I think that dapper Vint "One is glad to be of service" Cerf is referring to how difficult it will be for far future historians to piece together records of daily life in the 21st century, especially from the view of individuals. Think of Da Vinci's notebooks, the personal journals of artic explorers, correspondence letters from great artists and statesman. Now imagine that those things are stored on floppy disks in Office95 .doc format. We'd have a hard time viewing that media today. In 1,000 years it might be impossible. A lot more will be lost to history than what the Internet Archive is currently storing.

I can't think of a great solution. When I watch some historical documentaries, it seems like every other scene is based on a quotation from a letter or an old photograph. We don't print those things out any more. They'll be lost, completely lost, when email services and social networks finally shut down. And even if people download personal backups, most file and physical storage formats have a shelf life measured in decades at the most. Letters can sit around in attics for lifetimes, undisturbed. A file formatted for a Commodore 64's word processor program might as well be written in a lost language and then one way encrypted. I'm not sure what to do about it, but it seems like a damn shame.

[0] https://archive.org/donate/index.php
As I child I could spend days in Deutsches Museum for that reason.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Museum
Go backpacking for a year, join the grape harvest in France, then Australia. You meet some cool folks, get a work-out, and drink some great wine. Serious career stuff will await your return>

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jan/22/grey-n...
But is Sriracha actually a type of sauce in Thailand, or is it just the name of a city? If it's the latter I don't think this would apply.
And they just bought CodeSchool which I've been pretty pleased with. Not sure of their integration plans yet, outside of CodeSchool offering some pluralsight videos.
This is the real reason I was fired from Golden Corral in my viral video
i am using it with VIM while code. It is helper, so I don't see anything that would prevent you from using it while code. If you thought about incorporating it into deploy process - i don't have that kind of experience.
A nit: informed traders are the apex predators in the ecology that market makers live in. In the literature, market-making algorithms are designed around hiding from them. HFT helps informed investors even more than it helps index funds.
Am I the only confused by the crazy delay mentioned in the article from the "Robots"? The processing can't be all that intensive, and I can't imagine a setup where communicating simple on/off commands to specific devices should be so costly as tens of seconds. I would understand a general delay from sensing the triggering event (i.e. opening the door), but that hardly explains the delay in between all the lights as shown in the gif.
I can't tell if this is madness or genius.

Whats the use case? If the refresh takes a long time, is pull-to-refresh the best UX? If it doesn't, then you won't get a good game in?
So basically this is the second coming of the Patriot Act.
It is a new law that just passed last year, and I'm not sure if it has taken effect yet.
The is an atom plugin available: https://github.com/artoale/atom-tern
Yes! Dramatically improved services and pricing from Comcast and Time Warner have followed Google fiber and municipal broadband wherever they pop up. Imagine that...

Sources:

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Fights-Google-Fib...

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/comcast-time-warner-take...

http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/pressured-by-google-fiber-t...

http://www.provobuzz.com/comcast-makes-pathetic-attempt-to-b...

http://www.muninetworks.org/content/comcast-reacts-google-fi...
Chinese Imams Forced to Dance: “our Income Comes from the CKP Not from Allah”
It is worth remembering that part of the case against Mr. Aleynikov involves his use of "subversion" software, which sounds, well, subversive.

From the Vanity Fair article[1]:

"The Web site Serge had used (which has the word 'subversion' in its name) as well as the location of its server (Germany) McSwain clearly found highly suspicious."

[1]http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman...
H2O Wants to Help You Create AI Apps Powered by Deep Learning
"Cybersecurity industry veterans said Obama's anticipated order would be only a modest step in one of the president's major priorities - the defense of companies from attacks like those on Sony and Anthem Inc.

Obama has proposed legislation to require more information-sharing and limit any legal liability for companies that share too much. Only Congress can provide the liability protection through legislation."

The bottom line is that all Obama is really doing is not only promoting data sharing between the government and key private corporations, but effectively indeminifes them from obtaining and processing such data.

"Businesses are unlikely to share a lot of timely and "actionable" cyber intelligence without liability relief, said Mike Brown, a vice president with the RSA security division of EMC Corp."
Not entirely sure what you mean by release schedule. I found this[1] list which lists releases and dates, but (unless I'm being thick,) it's not like they're minor-bumping every x months, it seems to be arbitrary.

And if it's arbitrary, I don't see how it matters. If I'm looking up the release date for 6.3 then I may as well look up the release date for 2.6.32...
I want to make a pull-to-refresh that smiles while it's being revealed or during its refresh animation and frowns/cries when it scrolls away.
Thank you very much!

1. There will be (basic) developer docs very soon. We'll make sure to send a link to everyone who has signed up.

2. Yes, you can download snapshots of your data at any time. You can't upload them yet, but that's coming.
Who’s going to sue the FCC over net neutrality? Probably the cable lobby
"Qwest"---Century now, right?---has never been very serious about this, but then again I've read that unlike AT&T and Verizon they also didn't try to compete with the cablecos on video. So as I recall they didn't put egregious caps on their slow offerings.

Right now I'm in one of those locations that's outside of any city (but only by a hair, part of the property is inside one), so it's only AT&T. We could in theory enjoy ~1.5 Mbs down after a DSLAM upgrade some time ago, but we don't bother because AT&T, to protect their U-verse video offerings puts strict caps on DSL. Even in small-medium sized cities/metro areas like mine (Jopin), where they don't offer U-verse (besides that brand for new generation DSL), and pretty clearly never will. 150 "GB" as they calculate it, $10/each 50 GB over.

Now, having started in the bad old days when 1200 baud was fast, and if you were lucky you could get 2400 baud or greater on a direct link, I'm only so unhappy, with my parents disgruntled by this limit on Internet video. But we're certainly "roadkill on the Information Superhighway", and I don't, for example, see this being addressed by the White House/FCC proposed 300+ pages of new regulations. Then again, they're not yet public, but even the most positive descriptions indicate we're SOL.

Oh, yeah, the price keeps increasing, right now it's $39/month as long as you have an also expensive voice land line (all told with the nickle and diming taxes, another 30+ dollars).

On the other hand, AT&T i.e. SWB is a freaking telco, the service is rock solid. Everyone of my friend with cableco Internet service has notably worse reliability, enough to impact e.g. working from home.
How many consumers are capable of evaluating drug safety and have time to do so? This is a real problem requiring time from a limited number of highly skilled professionals and easy proposed solutions are naive.
What a pantload. This order is about DHS "legally" having access to corporate data instead of the usual method of tapping network pipes while also protecting those corporations from lawsuits.
Refreq – See the music, hear the images
I concur. It's all economical. The main objective of this experiment is to be able to have a captive, subsidized workforce yielding the best return on investment.
I'm in North Austin. The moment Google Fiber becomes available, I'm dumping Time-Warner. End of discussion.
Gravitational Lensing by Black Holes in the Movie Interstellar [pdf]
Mattel and Google making $30 VR headset
Yes but the subset from Safari Books Online is quite restrictive. I ended up having to get Safari separately to access some of the books I wanted...
Simplifying F# Type Provider Development
This is a fascinating question and (last time I kept abreast of the literature, admittedly about 8 or 9 years ago now) seemed to be an open one. DNA evidence can only tell so much because it only hints at the spread of technologies, languages, or the "Neolithic Package" of domestication practices and tools that revolutionized European prehistory. This article seems to have a more up to date view than the work I was familiar with (Cavalli-Sforza's):

http://arheologija.ff.uni-lj.si/documenta/pdf30/30richards.p...
> No, the "natural supplements" industry has carved out for itself a huge exemption from most of the regulation that applies to drugs, on the one hand

The FDA's own website contradicts you here:

http://www.fda.gov/Food/DietarySupplements/

The FDA, on their own website, says it's their job to make sure that supplements are unadulterated and not mislabeled. If 80% of supplements are in fact completely fake, then I don't see how you're using the problems of the supplement industry to show how well the drug industry is regulated in comparison.
And the situation won't get better with new net neutrality rules...
Self Taught Web Dev -What Should I Do?
Hi, I need advice about my career direction. I'm going to be very honest about everything, i feel i'm my own enemy here & pretty lost, but i'm sure of one thing that i love learning.."sorry for the essay"

I'm college senior, live in NYC.

For last 4.5 years I've been learning web development. (11th grade upto now). I taught myself photoshop, illustrator, html/css3(by heart), javascript, jquery, less, bootstrap, underscorejs, phonegap, chrome extensions, git, some linux, gruntjs & concepts...encryption, security, caching, scaling.

I'm learning nodejs/express/mongoose & apis

I've made few extensions for chrome but never published them. ( 1. take urls of all tabs open & send them to a mailing list, 2. timer that reminds me to get up & exercise after 20 minutes, 3. list of pre written messages that U can email).

Yesterday i started & finished email scrapper for gmail. my brother, a seller on ebay, wanted to personally send email to all his buyers in one go.
Using nodejs i made a scrapper that reads all emails, save body in string, extract emails into an array & make .csv file.

But never did paid work. in ads i see salaries from 30k to 190K for experience 2 to 5 years. Where do i fit?

I don't have portfolio, or contributed to open source, or go to meetups, or resume with dev experience or much experience of anything.

why not? i don't know. I've searched for role model/mentor but no, i can't even do that. My most projects don't get completed because only one thing which i couldn't figure out, & could be explained to me by 9 min in person help.
But I want to be self supporting adult and get tangible experience.

I've seen comments here like "i was intern in college & making $xx/hr" or "people just know syntax make more than this".

perhaps share Ur story how U got the job. What i fear is that i get stuck with bad small company that barely cares about its website & pay accordingly. I need to know what to do to get that 80k job.
If your users have time to play a game while data is loading, you're doing it wrong.
‘Dramatic Improvement’ in US and European Intel Sharing Because of ISIS
That sounds good my friend!
I hope he can, sooner or later, put these legal battles behind him and return to programming. He's a pretty good Erlang coder: https://github.com/saleyn

This, in particular, is extremely useful for anyone using Erlang to interact with external processes: https://github.com/saleyn/erlexec
lucky you! In France (where we're located), the average referral bonus is 700€ - for any kind of company. We'd love to know about the size of your company and referral bonuses for other positions (to get a better idea)?
I've been using this for a few months now and it's amazing. They're moving crazy fast to support ES6 features, and the interface for writing a new rule is great.
The article: "This fact is applied to the offspring of great geniuses, who are supposed to be thinking of something else when they beget their children, and hence their descendants are often much below them in intellect."

In a blog post, I read that this is called "regression to the mean," and IIRC you are basically the average of your four grandparents in IQ. So he's wrong, but clever.
It would be a lot more effective if it were elegant. The colloqualisms shoehorned into that sentence do it no favors.
That's what I had in mind. You find a short scene of a movie on youtube and the signature enables you to find where it is coming from, even with a different resolution and encoding.
Not just the US. Where I'm based in (an only moderately rural part of) the south west UK, I have a choice of BT Broadband and literally no one else. (And, even more annoyingly, BT have posters on cable boxes around the smallish town I live in advertising that Fibre is available here when, in fact, it is most certainly not.)
What to Expect from Cyber Threats in 2015
I don't think so. There will always be usage cases involving a couple orders of magnitude less capacity or bandwidth than the leading edge. Lossy compression will always be appropriate for these.

Anything involving wireless is a good start. There's a hard physical limit to the amount of data you can cram over 4G or 802.11 spectrum. It's physically impossible to losslessly stream video at 4k 60fps over these, so that's why we use lossy compression (currently MPEG) and always will.
I've started taking a couple of Coursera specialization tracts:

Data Science - Johns Hopkins
https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1

Data Mining - UIUC (edit: was Johns Hopkins - bad copy/paste)
https://www.coursera.org/specialization/datamining/20

There are more specializations that you can get here:
https://www.coursera.org/specializations

It's kind of a layer on top of the free courses. I've been pleased so far. They'll also look nice in the education section of your resume, if you care about that.
Write your own book and self-publish on Amazon. Set the price at $1990. Buy your own book with company money.
Appcelerator has been very successful. However, the learning curve for complex apps can be a bit steep.

Once you've the hang of it, it's so much faster and easier, and removes so many of the platform specific quirks and limitations.

Especially for business focused apps, Titanium is an easy choice. The shops who are best at it have been doing it for years, and don't really want to give away their advantage -- most are too busy cranking out apps to write blog posts about it.

React is trendy, but Appcelerator has proven itself time and again in the market. It's really hard to have comprehensive cross-platform API coverage, React is going to be behind for quite a while.
I'm in the same boat, living in a small town in Iowa. We pay $57.95/month for the fastest package — 12M down and 512K up. If my ISP ever gets uppity, I have the "luxury" of switching to the only other provider at $39/month for 6M down and 512K up.

The price of living in a small town I guess.
The sad thing about any thread including the term "High-Frequency Trading" is that we won't be able to talk about the technology, and instead will need to relitigate automated trading.

I think we'd have been better off if the title of this thread had been "Online Algorithms in Automated Trading Systems". As far as I understand, that title has exactly the same meaning, but doesn't set off a crowd of HN commenters who have never placed a limit order jumping in to crow about _Flash Boys_.

I'm a little frustrated, since this is a technical topic that happens to be very relevant to me right now (I'm not a trader, FWIW).
What Are Neonics? And Why Does Ontario Need to Restrict Them?
Coming soon. "Watch an ad while you pull to refresh"
Is This the Most Minimal Working Desk?
It's worth mentioning the history of 'coordination' or 'bringing into line' between the public sector and the private sector here, especially gleischaltung[0].

I'm not trying to make a direct comparison, but the executive branch's "calls for them to hand over more data" are fundamentally about totalitarian surveillance and control. That may not be the goal, stated or otherwise, but make no mistake: the effect is the same.

It's worth considering how we might feel if Russia or China were calling for something like this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung edit: quotation is from poorly-titled BBC article
sure, but if researchers can cherry pick the data and studies, they just have to avoid those quality double blind studies. all of a sudden, their meta analysis of # studies shows significance!