skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most transparent administration ever?
The obsession over Bluetooth-this and WiFi-that continually drives me crazy. Home automation companies aren't investing in the sort of technologies we NEED because they're more focused on the sort of technologies they can SELL.
Agreed, though that keyboard would drive me nuts.

I stick with the basic non-mechanical cheap-o keyboards with what I call the "classic" layout- no weird shapes, no playing around with the "Insert", "PageDn", "PageUp", etc locations. This way, when I move to another keyboard or go to help one of the vast majority of people who use a "classic" keyboard, I'm not clumsily typing like it's my first day using a computer.

My family had an IBM PS/1 with a Model M variant that was clacky as hell and honestly the feel wasn't something I'd want in a keyboard. I do recall really liking the feel of the Apple Extended keyboard.
There isn't a law that says you can't hire felons as programmers, but there is a stigma. In some industries, such as banking or military contractors, there are probably regulations that would prevent felons from being hired.

As a felon, I was rejected from an internship at IBM, but I was able to get hired at startup-type companies.
they won't be hired by anyone because they have a sentence in their books

I think you meant that some people prefers not to hire them, which drives their prospective wages down and, in turn, makes them more attractive candidates to people will hire them, like me.
I noticed that I had a typo. I meant "data is fixed" not "hand is fixed," but I guess it was clear anyway.

I see your point. Thanks for the input.

I do think that P(hypothesis | Data) - the Bayesian way - is more intuitive than P(Data | hypothesis). I also think that the confidence interval is often misinterpreted as a credible interval. But that does not mean that the credible interval is the right choice for every analysis.

From a purely practical sense, the data is fixed when you have your sample or have collected your time series data. This is the data you have and you can observe it. I do agree that the data may change when you collect more samples or get more history. But the Bayesian framework is set up well to handle that, as today's result can be tomorrow's prior.

Having said all this, I don't think this debate takes away from the use cases outlined in this post. This is not meant to read as "Bayesian versus frequentist" but rather to highlight some important benefits of Bayesian analysis. For example, if I am building a pricing model that will be used to make actual decisions and my classical model is spewing out strange coefficients that do not seem to be consistent with external data and common sense. I want to infuse that model with outside information before I use the model to make real life decisions, or just shrink it. Bayesian regression gives up a structured and transparent way to handle these types of situations.
What an egregiously terrible HN title.

The article's real title is Obama to urge tech firms to share data with government.

The word "order" occurs once in the story, referring to an EO the President is signing that (wait for it) urges firms to share threat info with the government.

The US President has no authority to order firms to share data with the government. And so he hasn't.
MongoDB urges customers to apply restrictive measures after unsecured DBs found
The hallmark of a successful development program is to simultaneously convince you of two things (1) the school is of the highest quality and (2) it is drastically underfunded. Yes endowment funds are earmarked, but in most cases they're going to fund things that would need to be funded anyway (scholarships, professorships, center & department expenses). One of the strengths of a large endowment is that it increases the share of general funds that are discretionary, giving them room to do things that alumni don't get excited about, like cutting the grass and (yes) making campuses accessible to those with different physical capabilities.

But, in any case leaving aside MIT's 5th largest endowment, it's only one of the factors in determining whether a school is well off. One could also look, say, at the budget. Or research funding.

By just about any metric one could imagine, MIT is one of the richest schools in the nation.
This is not a fair statement. I didn't say the kernel should have been using semver 20 years ago, I said they should use it now. It exists now; it's good.
>you'd be taking a step back from the MS Natural keyboard

Not so fast; your story sounds just like mine, but in reverse. I used a MS Natural keyboard for a couple of years, and over that time I developed significant wrist pain. I tried a lot of things to alleviate the pain, but in the end I had a conversation with someone who suggested buying a narrower keyboard and keeping my mouse very close to the edge (thus avoiding stretching my wrist too far for mouse use).

I ended up buying a tenkeyless mechanical keyboard with Cherry Browns[0] and losing the wrist pain.
[0] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007VDKLLM/ref=oh_aui_searc...
I found pgfplots delivers great results for plots in academic papers written in latex and also enables reusability. You can reuse templates for similar plots and simply switch out the .csv file containing the data.
Nice animations. I think you can use the pseudo elements to make user code even cleaner.
The incentives for in-house work are different and better (like, "let's just check off everything in the contract whether or not it suits the client needs" is not something an employee would say).
> What "massive amount of wealth extraction"? Are you just making shit up?

I think he was probably just confused about how HFT works, since unless you're familiar with it it is very easy to assume it is screwing someone.
With Porches and Parks, a Texas Community Aims for Urban Utopia
The rare case in which the comments are more entertaining than the article.
Sad to hear you don't like the feel of that one, I've been considering getting one for a while.

Of course, the fact that its on-board ARM processor can be hacked to run Snake on the backlight LEDs has no impact on my choice (see http://spritesmods.com/?art=rapidisnake). It's fun to contemplate the complexity of something as "simple" as a keyboard when things like these become possible.
Which topics get the upvote on Hacker News?
We've expanded the wording of such threats from terrorism and cyber warfare to now cyber crime. While I'm glad we're not weakening terminology for more serious threats, it's concerning that we're now asking for broad partnerships to go after (petty?) crime.

Just like how legislators should be wary of what constitutes a criminal offense, in light of Eric Garner's death and similar tragedies, we should be careful about what we're having the federal government monitor.

And in some respects, I think news of things like PRISM was hard for people to fathom, whereas this will be pretty clear to anyone: the government is watching. And people are already acclimated to this. Eventually the government will be able to argue in court that nothing on the Internet has a reasonable expectation of privacy and that all surveillance is constitutional.
If the power is off, no thermostat will be able to start your furnace.

What's scarier is the thermostat going down at inopportune times. Last January Nest pushed a firmware update that bricked some units...right during the coldest night of the year for us. My early adopter neighbor was up at 2am rewiring his old Honeywell dial to keep his family warm.
Two of the better keyboard websites for perusing details and opinions are DeskThority (http://deskthority.net/) and GeekHack (https://geekhack.org/).

For those wanting real-time guidance, point your IRC client to the FreeNode network (irc.freenode.net) or go to their webchat here:

https://webchat.freenode.net

...and pop in to the #geekhack channel.

These expert sites and chat rooms can be a great help because there are a lot of potentially important details about key switches, layouts, firmware variations, key cap styles / materials and other characteristics that you may want more information prior to making a purchase.
>How is this different than any other point in history?

I would argue that for the first time in history, we're not limited by storage space.
I live with my wife and two kids, and I'm the only one that cares about the size of the heat and electric bill. I know the lights are on because they've been left on every night since we've lived there, and if I don't walk around the house every night before bed and shut off the lights, they're still on in the morning.

I don't know a single person with kids that doesn't have to do this wonderful nighttime ritual - visit every room in the house and set the electronics to the correct setting. It's very simple and I believe a computer would do it better and faster.

I agree - all this automatic light dimming for movies and "scenes" seems like a gimmick. But I'd love to have a button on my phone that switched every light in my house off as if I had flipped a switch.
I like the theory of it integrating with the thermostat's auto away feature, so it can detect you even if you're not in the same room as the tstat for a while. It needs to be connected to mains for it to work in real time though, so that combined with all of the problems it has working as a smoke detector convinced me to not get one.
First, you're talking about a very short timespan right at the beginning of the digital age. Even if we were to lose everything, a missing 20 years timespan (1975-1995) of videogames wouldn't amount to a digital middle age.

Second, https://archive.org/details/messmame
Well, finally. I mean, prisoners are kept without computers in their jail cells usually, bored out of their minds. Instead, they could be reformed by giving them useful work!
Will this be more secure than Adobe's Flash, since that already runs in a separate process?
click bate
Argh, this is in the territory of click bait.

I thought it would be about building side projects, but it's actually about making marketing-based choices for wording and UX. (And that's not really about 'building a product' as I'm used to it).

Also, I think it needs the (simple) feature of letting users pick the times the emails are sent. 4am is only option for west coast people, and I'd prefer not to send an email to my SO in the middle of the night.
Generally, any OTR based chat service should be a step ahead of NSA.

For a more traditional medium like e-mail, I'd recommend that you look into protonmail.ch. Couple that with PGP and it could take you pretty far.
Sideproject Retrospective: bitarca.de
Any modern-ish scientific writings like these (18th century onward) where the English, although awash with fluffy phrases and words that make any writer cringe, is readable enough to where one can grasp the gist are a pleasure to read. People spoke with such authority and a matter-of-factness that nowadays is laughable. The concept of there being unknown unknowns must have never registered for so many of the day.
Ransomware: Cyber-hijacking Malware now has a new deadly face
check out Unicomp. They own IBM's old production facilities. http://pckeyboard.com
I've been into the home automation thing since before forever. There have been many periods of excitement over the years. They come and go. As a result I have to admit to a high level of skepticism about the current period.

The companies that generate and are influenced by this excitement tend to make two main errors.

1. They don't understand that without an open standard for controls and sensors they are just fooling themselves. No one is going to permanently install something in their house that is sure to be useless in 10 years.

2. They don't understand that people don't want to control everything ... they instead want to not have to control everything. Being able to control a light from your phone is not really any better than being able to do it from the light switch. People instead want the light to just do the right thing without having to think about it. They don't want a thermostat controllable from a phone. They want a thermostat that makes it so they are comfortable and not paying any extra money they don't have to. As a result, the home automation people actually want is a much harder problem than what everyone always seems to assume.
Sriracha CEO on why he chose not to trademark the brand
My understanding is that modern tank water heaters are extremely efficient, 96%+ so I don't think they use that much energy these days?
The Hotel Room, the Laptop and the 4th Amendment
Agreed, even more so because RedHat doesn't just backport security fixes, but also features (one example is the btrfs stuff in RHEL6, which, according to a developer, is from Linux ~3.8 IIRC).
However, in practice, especially in old ages, language and culture relates quite closely to peoples. Inventions that make life easier, are the kind of things that spread relatively fast between civilizations.
Thank you. I did not know about this, I've been using the long version. nitems is defined in sys/param.h in OpenBSD and FreeBSD in case anyone is interested.
Check out the TEX Yoda. This is the best description page I could find for it: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/tex-yoda
Well there are many who thought V for Vendetta was a bit over the top when it comes to a government wanting to monitor its citizens.

As for his speech he plans to give, I still see more face time to present a message he wants us to believer versus the actions they are doing behind the scenes and will continue to do forward. Its the typical "fake plausible dependability". The head of the organization says one thing while they know full well zealous members will do something else
Your charitable cause is putting some people at a disadvantage then. If your charitable effort somehow must discriminate, it should do it in favor of the less-privileged group.
I'd like to plug my Veusz scientific plotting package and python plotting module - http://home.gna.org/veusz/ - you don't have to worry about coding unless you'd like to script your plot (and the saved files are scripts, so you can just copy and paste).
I agree that Trader Joe Dijon is outstanding. I would characterize it as equal to GP. However, Stadium Mustard is still top dog in my book.

There are many Trader Joe's products that I think are top quality, if not the best of their kind. If you have a Trader Joe's in your area and you have not sampled their wares, you are doing your taste buds a disservice.

Also, thank you for the recommendations!
Wow I was annoyed at how few information was available at the actual product on that page. Then I saw you linked to the pro page with only "Pro" related information.

The real homepage is here: https://blockify.co/ :)

(just three free blocks? Really.. :()
The BBC have altered the article including the title since copy/paste.
iMessage just got secure: Apple expands iCloud two-factor authentication
Roy Moore has the support of the KKK
Rocket Internet Raises $670M in Share Sale to Grow
The irony is that Google have also participated in acquishutdowns and data deletion. They still have the Deja archive online, but I think it's reasonable to worry whether they might just bin it at short notice like Google Reader or Wave.

"Never trust a corporation to do a library's job"
https://medium.com/message/never-trust-a-corporation-to-do-a...

An example of acquishutdown from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8472047
Create an Ubuntu Application Indicator in Python: Step-By-step Guide
More like "one very simple model within game theory fails to explain everything in biology." There's nothing here that invalidates the whole of game theory. If the payoff matrix doesn't match reality, then the theory will make inaccurate predictions. Some models do predict cooperation (like the snowdrift game mentioned in the article). It just depends on what the incentives are.

Also worth mentioning that while the classic game theory approach is to calculate the optimum strategy, there's also evolutionary game theory, which looks at what strategies could actually be found by an evolutionary process. They tend to be the same, but not always.

"Choosing among a set of games" seems to me to be just a bigger game. "Known histories" can include any iterated game, which is a basic part of game theory. It's also studied a lot in the context of poker, where the challenge is that if you deviate from the game-theory optimal strategy to better exploit your opponent, you open yourself up to exploitation.
This is a wonderful keyboard (although not mechanical). Having a split/angled keyboard has done wonders for my shoulders/wrists.
The simple fact that they aren't there takes a lot of the wind out of his sail's IMO.
Show HN: Picfit, an image resizing written in Go
/r/MechanicalKeyboards has a very large and active community, with a great wiki that documents everything you may want to know before making the big jump:

https://reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards

https://reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki
Turning on your lights with a phone app (routinely) is obviously terrible.

But I would like to be able to turn on my outdoor front door light from outside when I get home after dark. And I'd like to be able to grant access to people remotely.

We have a Nest. It was a gift. Is it useful? Sure, it's way better than our old thermostat, and it's nice that usually it sets the temperature to what we want without our explicit intervention. Is it worth the price? Well, no. But it will presumably get cheaper.
I hope the ones who are attending are there to tell Obama "No".
Importantly, in the meantime the original promoters Shivinder Singh and Malvinder Singh quickly sold the company to Daiichi Sankyo to wash their hands off the mess that they had created.
As long as we don't expect Linux to exist for another 85 years ;)
Take a look at the Overview slide of the presentation, where this information is listed for each database the author discussed: http://image.slidesharecdn.com/newsql-2015-150213024325-conv...
Amazing to hear that there is a computer museum in Rijeka. My family spent nearly three months staying right outside of Opatija while working in Croatia. We'd travel to Rijeka regularly when we needed to do any larger shopping.

My wife and I originally planned to organize a workshop or attend some meetups while there, but the tech scene is so tiny it just wasn't feasible.

We'll be going again this spring, this will be on our list of places to visit.
I switched to this. Heck of a learning curve, but it feels much better.

Getting my fingers onto the home row of a regular keyboard layout is incredibly uncomfortable now. Such a tiny oddly shaped space.
The Python-based "Bayesian Methods for Hackers" looks interesting:

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabil...
... David Cameron, who said in January that forms of communication that are resistant to surveillance measures should not be allowed.

No more whispering, folks!
Not comprehensive, but pretty good list. One thing I noticed that's missing from file storage: Mega.nz; they have free 50GB service with an interesting encryption scheme. And they should get better within the next year or so, I'd imagine.
If I may propose my own solution [0]. It has no dependencies and is quite interactive for analysis (regression, measurements, and predictions). However not very customisable and lacks a good method for handling date/time data.

[0] http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/pg/sarsby/MJSplot/index
Yes. Hate it
The Islamophobia Network Project (Islam in America)
A common pattern in embedded C is to use something like "goto fail" instead of assert, wrap your function calls in this sort of macro, and then do error handling in one place at the end of the function.

Apparently Apple is unaware of this technique...
Npm install coffeescript is evil
I also have this keyboard. I find it to be really solidly built and the lighting effects are a nice touch, but would agree that it doesn't seem to make my typing any better then using the keyboard on my macbook pro. FWIW, I originally got the keyboard with brown switches but then sent it back for blue switches and that seemed to make a big different in how it felt. What type of switches did you get?
I think we have a different definition of shakedown.

Also I think one of the hidden merits of lawsuits and original intents is to basically have two parties sort things out, with a third party to facilitate and enforce the disagreement. Believe me, as a non-law person this took me QUITE a while to get to this opinion until I see law being one of the only venues to effect change on issues such as discrimination, which at this point is something the deaf see as an issue but many able-bodied people do not. So at this point: bring in people who figure out exactly what the letter/spirit of the law, and let the right thing prevail.
Switching a water heater completely off (or below Vacation setpoint) is an invitation to grow nasty things in your tank, like Leigionaire's Disease.
Servers in the cloud are just regular servers.
This must be why Valve gets press for their environment. It is the only company (for which I have any awareness of the internal management structure) that deviates so far from the norm.

Is it because hierarchical command is actually more efficient, or because no one ever got fired (or failed to get funded) for choosing it?
same here, the name of the post should be: "The Complex Psychological Hooks I Used to Build a “Simple” Side Project"
Quick tip, directed at you, past me, future me, and all others reading this.

Don't ask for permission. Say you are doing something and then get to it.

So ... my suggestion would be to change the title / post from what it is to the following:

"Tell HN: Let's do an FPV dron/quadcopter racing event"

I'm looking for some help getting it together (sponsors/workers). Here's my email, let's make this dream a reality!
MeteorJS: Super fast end-to-end testing with Velocity
You would prefer to wait a month for a security update rather than get it as soon as possible, is what you're saying? Even when the update process is as non-tedious as Linux's?
I was having a bit of RSI pain before I got my first mechanical keyboard about 4 years ago, and nothing since then. With that said, enough other factors changed that I can't really attribute it to mechanical keyboards.

As for the keyboards themselves, I own 3 with different kinds of switches (it's kind of a sickness). One cool thing about many mechanical keyboards is that you can replace the keys, and there are a ton of different options to choose from.

I would recommend Cherry MX Brown as a good starting point (since they are non-clicky, and not too stiff). With that said, they are common enough that you should be able to find some to play with before you buy.
Brown switches with an o-ring mod are only slightly louder than, some, membrane keyboards. Also, if you practice typing without bottoming out the keys no one will notice although it's very difficult to get used to. If you take it slow for a while though you'll be able to retrain your fingers. I have no proof but I've read that it's also better for you.
If you misspell coffee-script, this is what you get:

https://gist.github.com/captn3m0/782e8d6c660a4255a349
I wasn't clear enough. I meant a race of the malaria-carrying species.
You have to admit, what they're trying to do is pretty transparent though.
Which BSD is doing date based releases?