skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have large monetary incentives to cut corners when it comes to QA and picking a distributor. One big thing stopping them is oversight, which is perfectly reasonable to impose on data collection policies. But what do you need to do so? Proof that the imposed policies give a good guarantee.
It's not nearly that easy.

It would be good to know what the minimum size is. If all you want to do is put a cube on the screen how large is the JavaScript blob you have to download?

Then, most games have tens or hundreds of megs of data. Does Unreal do anything to help this? An ideal HTML5/WebGL game engine would have many of the features of flash letting the game start with a minimal amount of data and downloading the rest in the background and/or on demand.

I know of no WebGL game engine that handles that in any graceful and developer friendly way though I'm sure it will come at some point.

On top of that you need to deal with where the user is coming from. Are they on a phone or tablet with only touch controls? A slow desktop? A fast desktop? Do you handle both mouse and touchpad?

I've seen almost no games handle these issues. Almost all assume you're on a desktop with a mouse which might be true for gamers but is not true for most people browsing the web (mobile or desktop).

For mobile you could check and tell them to download the app.

Does Unreal deal with any of these issues in a dev and user friendly way?

Until then though most Unreal->WebGL or Unity->WebGL apps will probably have relatively poor user experiences.
This article skews towards trying to make a political point, but it does so at the cost of truthfulness. It lays an elaborate case before the reader, detailing the woeful state of NASA interplanetary science and the assumed perfidy of a stingy congress.

This is a narrative that has only the slimmest hold on reality. Congress has done reasonably well at keeping NASA funded, with some occasional road bumps here and there. And certainly at a lower level than what many of us who value planetary exploration particularly highly would like. But still not too bad all things considering.

The real cause for the pinch in planetary science is NASA itself. It has indulged in undisciplined budgetary behavior and project planning at the cost of diversity and robustness in its science missions.

The major cause of these problems is something that is not mentioned once, even in passing, in this entire article: the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). As of right now JWST is more than $7 billion over budget and 8 years behind schedule. That $7 billion compares to: 1 Curiosity rover ($2.5 billion) plus 2 Dawn double asteroid rendezvous missions (2x $500 million, 4 total asteroidal bodies visited) plus 1 Cassini mission ($1.4 billion) plus 1 New Horizons mission ($650 million) plus 1 Kepler mission ($550 million) plus an entire extra billion dollars. That's an exciting panoply of opportunities, and imagine those figures in the context of similar classes of missions. Ion engine powered comet-survey missions, planetary landers and rovers, Kuiper belt flyby missions, survey missions to Neptune and Uranus, exo-planet searches, and so forth. To say that NASA's space science missions have been sucked dry of funding is to ignore why and toward what end they have been.

Make no mistake, JWST is a remarkably ambitious mission that is likely to be as groundbreaking as Hubble was, but it is absolutely squeezing the life out of the rest of NASA right now. It would be nice if congress would provide even more funding for NASA so they could go forward with JWST as well as other missions, but to implicate congress as a villain depriving NASA space science of life is to ignore the reality of the situation. This is a self-inflicted wound.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/08/science/la-sci-sn-aa...

http://blogs.agu.org/martianchronicles/2012/02/14/proposed-n...

P.S. Moreover, the doom and gloom tone of the article is unwarranted. Regardless of either NASA budget mismanagement or congressional stinginess the capabilities of NASA in regards to exploration are set to vastly balloon due to the incredible reductions in launch cost on the horizon (from SpaceX and others).
Was hit by the nostalgia of reading Hackers [0]. What a great prank but quite an extreme dike.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Anniversar...
Media Lab students make a robust, chainable, cardboard CNC for $70
I wrote the course myself, I hired a local freelancer that I know to film the video. I also programmed the site and design it myself. I hired a freelance editor too (who I've worked with for 10+ years).

So the videographer was a recommendation from a freelance friend. My editor I've worked with in collaboration on many client projects, so I know her work is amazing.

The site runs on WordPress, payment through memberful.com, emails go out through MailChimp.
Taxes are skewed against people who make high annual earnings for short amounts of time, and you also have to take 10% or so out for your agent.

You'll still come out ahead with the baseball career, just not by quite as much.
GPG and Me
Yes, but the converse is not true - you can apply for permanent residency having stayed for less than six years.
Leonard Nimoy Hospitalized for Severe Chest Pains
Of course definitions matter. My point is that your definition is not specific enough to be useful.
I didn't know this worked against web fonts as well. Is there any chance you could share your webfonts config in its entirety? Maybe post it on github or some whee? I'd be hugely grateful :)
Should a carebot bring an alcoholic a drink? It depends on who owns the robot
An intro to OTP in Elixir
On the one hand, I would love the idea of the companies running such services to be incapable of accessing my data. (No, I am not concerned that this would make clear the tenuous nature of their business model.) On the other hand, I've BUILT such services. And I know users. There are a great many users out there which practice the most aggressive and astonishing levels of stupidity when it comes to their own life. I mean, it's breathtaking. It can tempt some people into active pursuit of genocide, simply to erase the shame of sharing a species with such people.

But... if you are going to build a service used by the public, you really have to face the fact that these ARE the people you wanted to be useful to in the first place. And with that, you had better be able to log in as them without asking anything more than just their name. Anything else is simply far too high of a cognitive load to place on them.
I'm not sure why you got downvoted for this, but I wanted to say that the point you're trying to make is not in vain. Different people have different risk tolerances, and even enjoy different levels of risk: and, of course, we combat fear of risk by having knowledge of what the real consequences are and what our limits are. Some of the pieces that highlight Alex Honnold's work [1] as a free solo climber bring to fore a very similar experience: the emptiness and clarity inside you of knowing that you must focus 100% on what you're doing is said to be quite liberating.

[1] e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itIRdx1pJ2I
I think we are talking late '60s here. Perhaps we are better off now with accessible electronics.
Reddit to ban posting of “revenge porn” images
Hmm... it seems to me that's a specific of that kind of business. But it's good to know about these failures, and their circumstances.

Great thread. Thanks!
Should be tagged (1994), although it appears the earliest version of this story goes back to Dec 1990!

http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-2.2.1.dos.txt
I've heard this from FB employees before. Usage is logged against the employee record for audit purposes and can only be done from within their offices.

I can't remember if I'm thinking of FB or another service, but I seem to recall there even being multiple levels of impersonation, so employees masquerading as users for debugging purposes have to explicitly request write access or messages access, but I'm not 100% on that.
access competition, please, pretty please...

anything else isn't satisfactory and may have worse unintended consequences (or intended consequences, depending where you sit)
This strikes me as blatant FUD. Where is the evidence that my DK2 will damage me somehow?
Game Theory lost all credibility when it advocated nuking Russia pre-emptively. Besides, most game theory studies don't even consider the possibility of self-destructive action, let alone evaluate whether they're actually advocating such a thing.
FORTRAN is still heavily used in high energy physics, although it's not a field known for being lucrative.
>You're confusing theoretical math vs. applied math. Google doesn't benefit from algebraic topology.

Not yet, maybe. But it does benefit from number theory, which was considered to have no practical applications until people realized we could do encryption with it.
Completely wrong on both counts.

Open source software does not necessitate any price requirements, but rights to redistribution, modification and running for any purpose without restriction. The definition you gave - "source is available and free as in beer" can still very well apply to proprietary software, if redistribution is forbidden. There actually is such a thing, it's called "shared source" by Microsoft.

Free software is any software that satisfies the four essential freedoms [1], of which being copyleft is absolutely not required in any way.

For all practical purposes, OSI and FSF standards are equivalent. They differ in that the former is more oriented toward pragmatics and business, whereas the latter toward ethics and philosophy. As a result, the FSF tends to encourage copyleft more than the OSI do, but they do not necessitate it by any means.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
To be honest, I hadn't heard of Ghostery - I've tweaked the code to work with it (just installed and tested it).

Cheers!
The long season not only fits baseball's cultural niche as the lazy Summer, lose-today-but-lick-'em-tomorrow sport, it also has the nice effect of reducing the significance of lucky breaks and hot streaks. The season's long enough to have a long run: Better teams win and worse teams lose. Players' individual statistics are at least stable enough to usefully model and predict overall team wins.

I love the excitement and unpredictability of NFL football as much as the next red blooded American, but there's something a little bit unsatisfying about a team's entire season routinely hanging in the balance of a single referee's call or a ball bouncing right instead of left.
Oh, I was mistaken. I thought it was available for anyone to browse, and you just couldn’t use it unless you bought a license.
I've changed the way typekit serves fonts (no longer async, but at least it loads the fallback).
Not a very grabbing blurb. Who's the author, why does his opinion mean anything? Why are there 3 articles? Who are the authors of the other article? In short - why should someone read this that doesn't already agree fully with the conclusions presented?
That's different from what is being referred to, which is (very briefly) described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametricity#History.

Edit: Ah, I didn't realize that there was an edit involved in the post you were referring to. At any rate, things are hopefully now clear to all.
Yes, i'm on the french App Store and it's available
As someone who trains human rights defenders and journalists on this stuff...I couldn't agree more. Often things end up being an unfortunate tradeoff between trying to get PGP working for people and having to settle for something less. Particularly in the developing world, which lower computer literacy rates - this is a significant problem.

To be fair, at least Whisper Systems and the Guardian Project are doing great work to try to make encryption in various implementations work better for the average user. And let's be fair, groups like these and the LiberationTech community runs on a shoestring in comparison to even one large commercial tool.
Name the variable for the go/no-go switch to take a job or hire an employee
Then other companies offering other services can be created, there's no shortage of what the savers might want to do with their money once they start spending it.

I think having a high savings rate, all else equal, is actually a boon. Low time preference means that more ambitious, longer term projects can be realized. This raises the wealth of the population overall, further increasing the fraction of money that can be saved, and creating a virtuous circle of civilization.

By not eating all the food they had and saving it, the first humans were able to not go hunting/gathering for a while, and dedicate that free time to building better tools. Those tools further increased the productivity of hunting/gathering, and enabled them to save an even greater portion of their food, freeing even more time to build even better tools, etc.
Smart rear-view mirror runs Android 4.2, has dual cams
Their focus is on getting the dropbox application working under pyston. It would probably take contributions from someone outside of dropbox to make this a reality. Presumably it will be easier on pyston than with pypy since pyston has designed in better compatibility with the CPython C API.
Its almost impossible in Florida for a creditor to garnish your wages, as you have to agree to it.

> Florida law does provide an exemption which is specific to wage garnishments. This exemption is not automatic and must be claimed by filing an affidavit with the Court when you are notified that the creditor intends to request a wage garnishment. If you properly claim the exemption, your wages cannot be garnished by a judgment creditor if you are head of the family and your wages are $750 per week or less. If you are a head of family and your wages exceed $750 per week, they can only be garnished by a judgment creditor if you have agreed in writing that the creditor can garnish your wages. To qualify as head of family, you must provide more than one half of the support for a child or other dependant.
The example on first page is impressive in itself.
I think the most important piece of information to come out of this article is "More than a fifth of borrowers of federal student loans go into default, but people who default tend not to announce their status publicly."

This, to me, seems extremely high. Does anyone know what the default rate is on other types of loans?
The FCC fines people for broadcast obscenity. It requires the 'v-chip' censorship technology in televisions.

The FCC enforces telecom system wiretap rules (CALEA).

The FCC's decisions on mergers and spectrum auctions often amount to giant handouts to politically-favored corporations.

Had the 'Clipper Chip' been a mandated encryption technology in the 90s, the FCC would've enforced its use. The national internet blacklists of the UK and Australia are maintained through their local equivalents of the FCC.

Title II regulation was designed for the plain-old-telephone-system monopolies, where there was even less choice (one provider!) than the very worst of current local broadband markets. The internet, without any FCC rules, thrived and completely eclipsed that slow-moving regulated market.

But after this 'reclassification', new federal rules will limit what ISPs can offer and charge, regardless of what paying customers prefer, under the 1930s telephone/utility model.

Upstart services offering novel cross-subsidized speed/latency improvements will require federal pre-approval or risk outright prohibition.

ISPs will have to keep a DC commission staffed by loyalists of the two national parties happy, or else discretionary interpretations will go against them.

This is not a victory for either the internet or the "little guy".
Nice post, couple of bits of feedback:

When you talk about "fit" it sounds like you mean fit to the training data, which would obviously be a bad thing to optimise hyperparameters for. From the github repo it sounds like you are using a held-out validation set, but maybe worth being clear about this (e.g. call it something like "predictive performance on validation set").

When you've optimised over hyper-parameters using a validation set, you need to hold out a further test set and report results of your optimised hyperparameter settings on that test set, rather than just report the best achieved metric on the validation set. Is that what you did here? Maybe worth a mention.

A question about sigopt: how do you compare to open-source tools like hyperopt, spearmint and so on? Do you have proprietary algorithms? Are there classes of problems which you do better or worse on? Or is it more about the convenience ?
It certainly has for me - the hump is likely bigger due to how new it is. Its hard to settle into a good flow when there are 1000 possible flows to get into.
US to provide work permits to spouses of H-1B visa holders from May 26
> What Kahnemann and Tversky observed is that people don't even choose consistently. It depends on how the choices are presented. For instance, whether the subject frames a choice as a loss or a smaller-than-expected gain. So, no matter how you define a utility function, it will not always be maximized.

I disagree, I think you are assuming that people accept questions at face value and unfailingly trust the experimenter. Then equivalent but differently-stated problems would be equivalent, and you would reach that conclusion.

But when people use heuristics, those heuristics are grounded in their experience, and are like a prior on the meaning of the question. Stating the same question in two different ways and getting different answers means either that there is no utility function, or that the "utility function" depends (through model uncertainty, for example) on the exact phrasing of the question.

My point is that these discussions are very closely tied to the kinds of assumptions you make about how people reason, what is rational, and what inputs the utility function has. Kahneman and Tversky got around this problem, I think, by doing something eminently reasonable: postulating a clear and unambiguous definition of a utility function. But the concept of "rationality" is richer than that, so the conversation should not stop there.
Thanks for the link, that's exactly the context that I needed.

Some tl;dr highlights:

* the 84B packets are designed to simulate the latency characteristics of 100Gbit/s ethernet on 10Gbit/s hardware

* 2 cache misses are enough to blow the time budget for processing a packet

* The overhead of 1 syscall on SElinux is itself enough to blow the time budget

* Big picture strategy: batch packets, allocs, etc
http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Forei...

So, you're paying taxes to the local government, and getting a credit towards your US taxes. You'd still file your informational return with the IRS, but they don't touch a dime of your foreign income.
Is Guido still at Dropbox? Contributing to this effort?

If he is, that would certainly make the effort carry a lot more weight.
How is this different from pypy?
Schema – JSON Resume
Computational chemistry (mostly pharma/biotech companies) employs a lot of FORTRAN codes (quantum mechanics, molecular dynamics, monte carlo, etc.). The 2-3 codes I've spent time understanding are examples of text book bad programming practices though (not to say there aren't some good ones). Also if you don't mind your input files being 80-column punch card formats.
How much did you have to dig to find a detective with homeopathy in their bio? ;)

One quack in the crowd doesn't mean that they are all quacks.

PS If you actually believe you practice science-based medicine, you may be part of the problem. Medicine is mostly a guessing game, and will stay that way until we have genome-specific-personalized-medicine with real-time biofeedback mechanisms from sensors in the body.
Walking away from mortgaged property is extremely easy compared to student loan debt.
most switches don't have one terminal internally connected to the switch body, which then may or may not be connected to ground (or some other potential) depending on what it is mounted on.
How exactly do you practice SBM? I find this difficult to believe, since as far as I'm aware there are no science based medical schools, no science based clinical guidelines, no research into the efficacy of science based treatments, etc. As far as I can tell it's just a poorly defined idea that isn't even logically coherent enough to have any real world practitioners.

For whatever flaws may exist with naturopathy, at least it's a real thing with legitimate practitioners.

edit: Also, your assertion that Dr. Auer advertises himself as a homeopathic practitioner isn't even accurate. His actual bio states, "Dr. Auer is continuously furthering his education and understanding of the body through post-doctorate courses and various seminars ranging from functional medicine, functional endocrinology, natural hormone balancing, holistic nutrition, homeopathy, herbology, chiropractic neurology, and various chiropractic and soft tissue techniques."

In other words, he is saying that he has studied homeopathy to some extent. Which if you haven't done, you're probably not a very good doctor.
That's a feature of the band not the watch.
Why Are Developers Still Building Sprawl?
Possibly because the others aren't using e-paper.
But this is the case in many social issues that are eventually "won". Only a couple of years ago the vast majority of people in the US firmly believed marijuana should remain illegal and that number has dropped enough to change many state laws. How about gay, women or minority rights. All of them were strongly opposed by the masses.
You're close, but not quite there. The ground plane of the machine was almost certainly grounded either way. But this switch likely introduces a connection to a separate ground, resulting in a ground loop. When you disconnect that loop it's not surprising at all that you would get a bit of a voltage spike in the ground plane, hence the crash.

(I was a power electronics engineer a few years ago, before getting into the web.)
An experimental python Telnet and SSH server framework
Anybody have a link to the actual text of the rules?
Wonder how long it's going to take for the application to be approved once it's submitted. Also, what restrictions are going to be present with working on the EAD? Is it unrestricted? STEM only? Will the same rules apply as if the EAD was received by the spouse after an approved I-485?
Show HN: Circular visualization using D3js
I'm eagerly waiting for something better to come up. There hasn't been anything satisfying so far, so I keep encrypting truly confidential communication with GPG, and it gets the job done.
Linux gadget with six displays – pixel art idea returns in a new shape
Study: Men looking to live longer should hit the sauna
no and that is what is so damn infuriating about this process. Republican's concede? Really, they failed to make the rules public before we are subject to them and suddenly people crow victory?

this is the same nonsense the haters did when the ACA was passed, a bunch of irrational hate because those who complained were "EVIL REPUBLICANS". Sheesh. Love being a libertarian but damned if both sides aren't dumb as rocks.
AFAIK the only way to do tracking is some combination of images and JS. All these 'blocking' plugins are redundant when those two seemingly elephants in the room are disabled.
While their are also massive inefficiencies in the private sector, the public sector does not have the same ability to fail. Those private companies need to be efficient enough to avoid bankruptcy.
It's 'derring-do', just so you know.
I expect if they did use these signals to automatically set geography, some of their user base would assume that their location is being "tracked".
Um, Daniel Auer is one of the 3 listed in the front page, so I guess he didn't have to dig much.
Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes)