skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing. I hadn't realised it could do things like permitting all callers from a certain area.

For what it's worth, I've had the occasional issues with both business and personal cards being used abroad -- usually when someone forgot to tell the computer about the foreign travel they had been duly informed about weeks in advance -- but I have never had anything but a real person call and then, if I wasn't able to answer, leave a real message. I guess some places might use auto-diallers for this, but it doesn't seem to be the norm in the UK if my experience is representative.

Actually, an absurd proportion of these people call, and then if I am there to answer, the caller starts by announcing that they're from my bank/card provider and then immediately dives into "Before I can talk to you about this, I just need to ask you some security questions to confirm your identity...", but that's another story. :-)
The S in REST
That's oddly specific. Why cut it off at the year? It looks like their model is accurate enough to tack on months and maybe even days to that number!
A bus station is also where a bus starts. Ditto for trains and train stations. ;)
So write a lisp parser, then dump the result into this. I like that they didn't include a parser in compacted code, such a parser wouldn't be very interesting.
I suppose someone could get bold and attempt to do some scraping. Of course, my money would be on SouthWest stopping this behavior as a violation of their terms of service.

Here is their terms of service:

https://www.southwest.com/html/about-southwest/terms-and-con...

They explicitly take ownership of the content, mention that the information is only for non-commercial use, exclude use of the information on their site for commercial use and additionally use for any other purpose. In case their message is not clear, they go even further and list a variety of prohibited activities.

The language of their Terms & Conditions is rather broad. It looks like virtually any activity on their website as a violation. Perhaps that is now the norm.
How Douglas-Adams funny would it be if the mega black hole had somehow been created by someone spilling their coffee on a keyboard at the CERN LHC
If you look out to 2020, and assume 5G will be ready, what you'll get in production is nowhere near 1tbps. You might see 500mbps - 1gbps commonly deployed across the US and Europe during the 2020-2025 time frame. Deploying the initial infrastructure was very expensive, but now it's in place. That's part of the reason why the US was able to transition relatively quickly to 4G LTE, there was no need to build 200,000 towers again.

Data caps will rise substantially over the next five years. By 2020x, they'll be commonly at several hundred gigabytes at 5G speeds across the US and Europe, with unlimited data at lower speeds as a universal feature. No doubt numerous carriers will offer variations of unlimited data.
They are using tricks. When I tried the first time the pdf was blurred and the page automatically opened the payment menu. On the second try it showed the entire pdf, disallowing download.
Code is Temporary
Why would this surprise you after ACTA?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agree...
For clustering and management, you might try running RancerOS with Rancher the company's orchestration tool.
Indeed, and a similar shiver down the spine when they talk abstractly about "reform".
If those are actual pics of the Lizard Squad, that was incredibly dumb.
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/25/google-dev...
"Today we have virtual reality so advanced that it’s difficult to be sure if it’s virtual or real"

That's over-stating things a bit. The advancement from pong to VR is massive, but VR where it's difficult to tell whether it's real? Probably still decades (or more) away.
MOST COMMENTATORS ON THIS THREAD ARE WRONG

Wow. As a non-Googler, Mountain View resident who owns a home, I can say that the vast majority of the commenters mischaracterize problem, Lenny Siegel and the MV City Council, Google and everything.

I should also add that I regularly attend CC meetings,etc.

Basic background:

1) Google until recently basically ignored Mountain View south of 101. Until recently Google didn't own anything south of 101.

2) Google is not going anywhere. Mountain View is right next to Moffett Air field. This is where Larry and Sergey park their 767 ( http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/11/googles-3-top-executives-ha... ) - Maybe Sunnyvale would be an alternative but I really doubt there are too many spots where L and S can be in walking distance of their 767. Furthermore Google is leasing a shit ass land from NASA to expand on.

3) Its not just Google: Google, LinkedIn, Intuit, Symantec, all have HQs here. Microsoft/Nokia also have their research centers here.

4) Google, et.al. subsides all services at their HQ as a result outside retail/restaurants have pretty much died north of 101. This results in local business owners/voters complaining to city council.

5) Google woke up to the political problem when MV CC told Google that they were not going to be allowed build a connection bridge across Stevens Creek Trail for buses. ( a trail that MV residents worked 25 years to create )

6) Google land purchases have resulted in increases in real-estate taxes, however Google generates NO sales tax revenue for the city. (same problem with the other companies)

7) Land in North Bayshore has gotten so expensive that there is serious talk about putting a building on top of the VTA North County Maintenance Yard.

8) Mountain View renters have seen Y/Y increases of about 20-25%. A 2 bedroom/2 bath apartment goes for $3300.

9) The city planners have gotten so many building requests that the city has no staff to deal with the requests.

10) The school districts have real problems keeping teachers - turnover for some schools runs 6-10%.

11) Non-tech workers are being forced out - you know people like teachers, waiters, security guards. The MV Building inspectors have found entire families living in a single room ( http://mv-voice.com/news/2013/07/26/high-cost-housing-create... )

12) The 3 new city council members are all pro-housing. The anti-housing candidates were rejected. Therefore comments along the lines of : stop whining and do something - well the new city council is doing something. Specifically, demanding that more housing gets built and less office space. We are trying to make room for the new people. In many cases these are our children.

13) Google to its credit is starting to throw some money at Mountain View Capital Improvement Project list to help out.

14) Google, Mountain View are working out a traffic management plan to reduce solo drivers - the whole of north bayshore is only accessible by 3 roads. Residents who live in north bayshore right now cannot get to/from their house between 8:30 and 10 and 4:30 and 6.

I might add more to this list but I think this is a good start.
First full body transplant is two years away, surgeon claims
What part of the country are you located in? I can get full 4G LTE speeds in the middle of nowhere Appalachia where my brother lives, via AT&T. Streaming HD video on my phone there is a non-issue.
That's not going to happen for multiple reasons.

First of all, iOS market share in 2014 was 15%. You can actually stop reading here if you like.

Second, we only use tens of apps, but most of us use hundereds if not thousands of websites per year, because most provide content, not applications. Installing an app for each of them does not scale.

And third, apps are currently uncrawlable and hence there is no way to search for server side content inside and across them. It's not unimaginable for the App Store to solve this one eventually.
> I believe I am not alone in holding the opinion that public funds should not result in private gains

How the heck could that ever work? When a commercial vehicle uses a public road, public funds are resulting in private gains. When a city transit system buys a bus from a for-profit bus maker, public funds result in private gains.

Most of what public funds are spent on results in private gain.

Did you phrase things more expansively than you meant?
Fair enough in theory. But in my experience both the research and the commercialization efforts leading to patents are paid for via grants. Perhaps that would be a fair trade, since the University provides the opportunity for all of this to happen, except that the University usually also taxes the grants to pay overhead. They have their cake and eat it too.
San Francisco, both AT&T and Verizon. It's terrible here.
Right here: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4160266,-122.0710641,17z
I'm a guy. I get called out on it when I get stuff wrong, but that's about it. I'll accept that there people who will attack any male voice just because they're sick of hearing them, but they're certainly not the majority in any conversation I've been a part of, especially on HackerNews.
Some people's time is important. Teenagers with lots of time and little money can futz around with being a pirate.
That's disappointing. I hoped this would be done using WebRTC or something end-to-end.
Either way the British Empire being helped or hindered by Catholicism (or the lack there of) is mostly conjecture. Its like trying to argue if the Romans had abolished slavery they would have landed on the moon in 1462. Without time traveling and alternate histories to explore we will never know.
How to Consistently Write 3500–4000 Words per Hour
I think there's a disconnect in our statements. By music, you seem to refer to the artistic, creative, performance oriented activity. My reference, as I thought TFA was about, was to the notational aspect of written music. Listen to Bach if you want an example of "juggling abstractions at different levels of zoom".
Lenny actually supports housing right next to offices.
They wrote Torch7...
That assumes the network is always good and services are up. Welcome back to eventual consistency (or none at all)
It's a balance, but the answer isn't always to add more parameters. Like, just because you have a parameter called PassingAbilityWhileRunning doesn't mean it will actually reflect passing ability while running if your model is too complex to understand. Maybe that's a bad example, but you get the idea. An attempt to add nuance can instead add confusion and make the game worse. But like you said, you undoubtedly end up with a fuckton of parameters if you want to have a somewhat realistic game.

There's no perfect answer, but it is definitely a good thing to resist adding parameters as much as reasonably possible.
I'm being serious when I ask this: how did you not see stuff like this coming? Especially the second time around?

I mean no offense by this, but I may never understand how so many intelligent, thoughtful people managed to become so fully convinced of such a naive narrative.
You can use Xprivacy with Xposed to feed an app fake or empty data on a permission by permission basis. This works better than blocking permissions because sometimes apps don't fail gracefully when a permission is denied.
> why do you believe whatever makes us smart cannot be replicated by a computer program?

Turing's Universality of Computation actually guarantees that whatever is feasible in the physical world can be replicated as a computation in bits. However, I don't share the belief that AI research is anywhere close to achieving this in the most general sense of intelligence. Most AI researchers seem to agree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9109140

Did you have a chance to look at David Deutsch's work on this topic?

http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/david-deutsch-artificial-...

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_a_new_way_to_explain_...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Beginning-Infinity-Explanations-Tr...

Although Deutsch is not as charismatic a speaker as Kurzweil or as lucid a writer as Bostrom, his arguments make the most sense to me, given my limited experience doing AI research at Stanford. It would be interesting to know your thoughts on Deutsch's theory that the ability to create 'good' explanations is what separates human intelligence from the rest. (maybe through another blog post?)

P.S. Since I have your attention here, I took CS183B last quarter and it was really fun. Thanks!
Also, in Mexico, when they write: $ 3.860, they mean 3 pesos and 86 centavos. On CFE site they say that 1KWH cost 3 pesos and 86 centavos. So I am not sure where they got the 4000 USD/month in Mexico.
I leave in Mexico and pay around 900 pesos (60USD) for 3 months.
It's a nice idea, but power vacuums tend to be filled.
My point was that the C++ version had been tuned over several years to get as much performance as it could. Replicating the C++ code in java wasn't the optimal strategy for performance in java, but it was the optimal strategy for getting the correct results. There are many optimizations I could have gotten by rewriting the java code in a manner that took better advantage of java's strengths, but alas the project is in other hands now....
As a Mountain View resident, we are not a monolithic grou. But you are wrong in your view - my proof? All the pro-housing candidates got elected.

In fact almost all the candidates were pro-growth, pro-housing - the only real fight was where in the city the housing should go.
Then how is your service any more secure than any file upload service with ssl? It just seems misleading, whats the point of a safe when the key is glued to the door.

An encryption service that requires people trust its owners just isnt secure. You could be perfect with the utmost of integrity even under insurmountable legal pressure, but even then, if your system has a way of knowing the keys its leaving the door open.
Great overview of what's going on behind such "trade" agreements: http://economixcomix.com/home/tpp/
What do you think of http://lesswrong.com as a community?
10% of Mountain View residents are Googlers.
This articles makes sense, but it's hard to step back and be so reflective without being victim of analysis paralysis. Many times, you build a toy, something you like, and it turns out big. If you over analyze it, you may not build it because you can't predict the future no matter how well you think you can.

In many cases, analyzing your startup idea with such a complex framework will stop you at your tracks.

I prefer to follow the basic rules PG laid out (there are some overlaps) in his article on startup ideas.
Lasers Could Boost Engine Efficiency by 27%
... by igniting air fuel mixture in the middle of combustion chamber:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/fossil-fuels/lasers-could-boost-engine-efficiency-by-27
Google's New A.I. Ethics Board Might Save Humanity from Extinction
Kickstarter project aims to number crunch to the exact value of Pi (humor)
Q&A with Shane Legg on Risks from AI (2011)
The advert wars
Ask HN: Have you read any blog posts/articles that completely changed your life?
I understand that many of us read books or watch movies that have such a profound effect on our lives. I was wondering if shorter, more-focused publications do the same. Have any short reads such as blog posts, news articles, or even Twitter updates changed your life in any profound way?
In overturning conviction, Supreme Court says fish are not always tangible
If it's text only, there's also zerobin (http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin) that has a lot of features and the added bonus of not storing the key on the server (it's using the anchor part)
nah, I had to stop reading when it said that First Mover Advantage was the key to success.

That's been so thoroughly debunked (try and think of a single successful startup that was First Mover with its business model). The First Mover spends all its time educating the market, the businesses who follow soon after can take advantage of that.

Really nice writing though :)
That is not the same paper. The preprint you linked was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, and discusses a different quasar (SDSS J013127.34-032100.1, at a redshift of z=2.5). The Nature paper is about SDSS J010013.02+280225.8, at redshift z = 6.30. The author list is similar, so it is likely the same team. But the arxiv link is a different discovery.
I'm strongly in agreement with Justice Kagan on this one.
>It was even detectable with a relatively small telescope, though researchers in China did have to ask for help from astronomers in Chile and the United States to get a higher-resolution look.
In mobile, disruption comes from above
I feel like this has been posted before--I recognize the aperture demos--but I can't find the thread. Any ideas? Did this change names?
Does anyone here have experience with Tresorit? [1] They claim to offer something similar in terms of secure sharing, but with zero-knowledge encryption, i.e. without storing keys on the server. [2]
Trouble is that the service seems very new, so not many reviews exist. The client being closed-source doesn't help, and I'm not in a position to evaluate their bounty program.

[1] https://tresorit.com/features

[2] https://tresorit.com/files/encrypted-link-whitepaper.pdf
OK. Let's assume that key lives on Google's servers. Then, Google must send it back to the Android device that it cannot trust unencrypted (possibly in a httpd session, but that is irrelevant for this discussion. The pipe may be secure, but you poor the data in a pool that isn't secure)
Not if they can control Web standards this way. It means they have way too much influence.
Where I work, they told us upfront "you can have your work email on your personal phone, but if we need to do an investigation for any reason, we're taking your personal phone". And they happily handed out work phones.

Of course, I've worked in security in other companies where employees had their work email and data on their personal devices, and in the event of a security incident we were not allowed to touch their personal devices even though there was work data on it. So it goes both ways.
The explanation of how os-specific routines are used to set up an environment to call a single amd64 routine was fascinating. In general I'm super interested in the process by which an executable file results in a computer doing something.

Articles like this are why I read hacker news.
and, more recently, Color.com.
The growth hacking myth: Why we all need to slow down
> Things like this make me very skeptical that the accepted model is correct.

To which "accepted model" are you referring – the cosmological model for the Universe, the determination of black hole masses, the formation and growth of supermassive black holes, or something else? As @nilkn notes, this discovery is in conflict with existing models of the formation and growth of (some) supermassive black holes, which is a reason this paper is in Nature.
Lenovo Website Hacked Amid SuperFish Malware Scandal
sorry for barging in. The same mesosphere which created the Chaos web framework?
I agree with the need for reflection, both in professional and personal settings.

However, you can see how in some places code review degenerates to a sort of rubber stamping process where little value is added.
Top link on Google: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=YouTube...
Paywalled, does anyone have an alternate or can provide a summary?
Wow, release notes look great. I'm so impressed with the whole Django ecosystem - I'm yet to find a problem without a good answer on SO, there's a package for most of the repetitive stuff when building a web app. I tried to follow the development process on GitHub for some time and while it was a valuable experience [1], it can be like a side project on its own, just to keep up with all the issues and bigger commits.

Anyway, I'm incredibly thankful for all the contributors. Learning and using Django let me meet great people, experience new things and had quite an impact on my life. Yay Open Source! ;).

[1] In general, I think that watching big project on GitHub for just a few weeks can be better lesson than reading a book on the topic (it depends, of course, but it's a great learning experience nonetheless)
Simple. I'm an introvert. Having another human by my side all day long does not just sound exhausting to me, it sounds unbearable. It completely turns the joy of programming on its head for people like me who need alone time to recharge.
With T-Mobile LTE in San Francisco, I get 20Mbps+ in a lot of locations, including about half my residence. (Unfortunately there are also a bunch of very-weak spots with low bandwidth and multi-second pings, and far more dead zones along highways in rural areas.)
What kind of adversary would be defeated by Sharelock but could overcome TLS?
We aspired to create a service that is similarly secure to a file upload service with SSL, but more usable at the same time by not tying the user to a partcular data exchange mechanism (you can sent the sharelock URL via e-mail, Tweet it, or publish in a New York Times).

Having said that, exposure of the user of sharelock.io can be argued to be lower than in case of a service which durably stores user's data. While sharelock.io keeps the cryptographic credentials, it does not durably store users' secrets or ciphertext.
yeah, check the downvoted link I posted below.
Gates & Allen were able to generate revenue almost from day one, to cover expenses for the business.

Your theory is also decimated by Paul Allen.

Those two never had to worry about starving to death, because they made sure to generate sales from the very beginning. Microsoft was started for peanuts, they lived on peanuts in New Mexico, they drove sales, and that was that. It would not have mattered if it was two Paul Allen's coming from a middle class background, or a Gates and Allen. One thing mattered: sales.

You know why Allen wasn't afraid, despite lacking the Gates family money? He knew he had the ability to go get a well paying job at dozens of companies, he had a valuable skill.
Could be worse. I still remember when Microsoft maintained both "Windows Messenger" and "MSN Messenger" as separate apps with separate update schedules and version numbers even though it was the same product. That was confusing.
I'll say it. We're running in a virtual machine. There.
Property taxes, with valuations at the current price, would be the natural check against underdeveloped land.

Instead, we have Prop 13...
I'm pretty sure Java's Swing uses a similar approach.
This theory is invalidated by Paul Allen.

They didn't have to worry about staying fed and sheltered, because they generated revenue immediately. They built a real business.
So, uhmm,

def parse(s): return json.loads('['+re.sub('([")])\s*(["(])','\g<1>,\g<2>',re.sub('[^()\s]+','"\g<0>"',s)).replace('(','[').replace(')',']')+']')

works for python, I'm assuming javascript has something equally small
I am wondering that what kind of real life problems could be modelled this way.