skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the national anthems of countries such as Italy and Turkey, similarly to O Canada, lyrics reference “men” and “sons”, omitting women and daughters. Italy may be feminine, but “every man has the heart and hands of Ferruccio” in the Song of the Italians.

Flagged. The article is an awful stylistic exercise. I'm Italian and I can assure you our anthem is all but sexist. I'm for gender equality, not the obsessive compulsive need to mention each and every gender in each and every media in perfect ratio.
This is an integration between HipChat and Sketchboard.io. Short intro video about the integration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk8cciaPAf0

Integration allows you to start real-time team sketch diagramming from HipChat. Upload sketch snapshot back to HipChat room to continue discussion on HipChat. Add HipChat users to your Sketchboard.io team.

Example /sketch commands:

"/sketch Awesome Idea" - creates a board with a name

"/sketch add @UserName" - adds HipChat user to Sketchboard.io team

Example public boards created with Sketchboard.io can seen from https://gallery.sketchboard.me
Recursive CTEs are a cool feature, but it's a shame the syntax is so awful. You really have to work to understand what the query is trying to do.

Other query languages that make recursion much more bearable are SPARQL (on RDF data), Cypher (Neo4j) or Datalog (Datomic, Cascalog, etc). Would love to see more of those query languages being used.
To get around the pay wall, do a google search for title or follow this link:

https://www.google.com/search?q=YouTube%3A+1+Billion+Viewers...
The best interview I had was with my current employer. It was a half hour of discussion, some white boarding (just FizzBuzz), then an hour of "pair programming". What was great is that the three of us sat together, I wrote the code, but we asked each other questions and talked through it. It felt more like a real world scenario than a test. It was relaxing and enjoyable.

I'm curious if anyone else has had the experience of a pair programming exercise for their interview?
OK, I think I more or less got it and I can answer my own question... correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the interpretation "What? If out of every 100 random samples, in 95 of them the parameter is in the interval, then surely the probability of the parameter being in the interval is 95% by definition?" is flawed because we are not talking about the same interval every time, right?

If I have a variable that is always positive, then I could have a weird procedure to generate confidence intervals that gives me the interval [-inf,0] 5% of the time and the interval [0,inf] 95% of the time.

This would meet the definition of confidence intervals perfectly, and yet when I get [-inf,0] the real probability of the parameter being in the interval is 0%, and when I get [0,inf], it's 100%.

I wonder how large this discrepancy may be in practice (as this is obviously a made-up extreme case).
My point was I think he/she/they misuse the term "BSD license". As far as I know the "BSD License" is a pretty well defined thing, and not this thing. (I might be wrong, therefore the question in my first post; -I try to be careful.)

Furthermore it seems they don't reply to tickets or mails about selling an exception.

It's kind of like a candy store right outside school carrying a big "Teachers only!" sign : )
It definitely is strange that we still see these interviews when they don't do a particularly good job in terms of predicting success on the job.

On the other hand, I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum from the author I suppose, I actually really enjoy interview questions. If anything I wish I would encounter those sort of questions day to day, but sadly real programming is much less demanding intellectually for most of us.
UK police move to take down Islamic State how-to guide from internet
I think there are lots of AI competitions where you can join and make your name.
It is in my experience. Try dating outside of an app. It's pretty amazing the social changes that I believe are a result of being able to date almost exclusively through an app. Friends of mine mention that people don't ask people out in person anymore. One friend came back from France and was amazed to have people ask her out in person. She said it felt almost shocking and archaic. So, yes, computers are changing our social character, and likely our personal character as a result of their increasing presence in our lives.
Heh, something like that, thanks.
Adding anecdote: I know of a team that uses test-driven hiring, and they have found it to be a good indicator for subsequent performance.

For javascript, you can probably set up a qunit jsfiddle (e.g. http://jsfiddle.net/IrisClasson/RMh78/)
ShouldIUseIt
Have you been wondering whether you should use a Github project or not? Then you must definitely check out our latest hackaton app shouldiuseit.org It might help you make those decisions. It sure helps us!
Couldn't agree more with almost everything in the post (the one exception being the comment about salt stack) - very exiting times ahead.
Google now converts Flash ads to HTML5 automatically
You're barking to the wrong tree, dude. I'm italian too and I know what you mean. I'm just looking for others opinion. :)
kvikkalkul sounds Norwegian rather than Swedish. It'd mean "fast calculation", more or less.

There's also Plankalkül by Zuse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl
I used to live on the Isle of Dogs - just down and to the left from the intro photo on that article - on the Thames waterfront, albeit in a relatively modern 15-storey, multi-building estate.

I was always torn between wanting more access along the waterway edges - it would make a fantastic bicycle route into town, as well as further outwards - and wanting more privacy / protection from the kinds of idiots that thought partying in front of a residential building at 3am was acceptable behaviour. By partying I mean music, shouting, glass bottles being smashed, and so on.

The estate was in on-going 'discussions' over the previous several years with the local council about gating half the street, and consequently access to the foreshore. It was moot in terms of providing east-west access, as estates left and right had already gated their access. And it's clear this is one of the problems being described in the article - the 'let's make it less appealing so you want to _use_ it less so you can _lose_ it more easily'.

I'm back in Australia now, where I believe (IANAL and the information may be apocryphal) access to all tidal foreshore up to some distance, I think 30 metres? - was provided by law with two notable (military) exceptions. Whether that's the case or not doesn't affect the fact that it's practically impossible to obtain public access to foreshore areas in and around our capital cities.
I think the idea is average. If you search on Google, you'll likely find a code snippet for most questions. StackOverflow has the advantage of comments and opinions, which add more value, instead of just a block of code. Right now, you have no content, and the idea looks like an afterthought added to your existing site. If you want to give this a try, then...

1. Get a catchy name, like Snippr.com.

2. Setup categories for different programming languages.

3. Write code snippets for the most common functions people are looking to find. For example, visit Google and type... 'PHP how to', and you'll see frequent search terms, people wondering how to connect to a MySQL database, how to send an e-mail, how to upload a file, how to get the current URL, how to redirect to another page. People are looking for these answers, and they're easy to write. You can write hundreds of these snippets in a day and start building content.

4. SEO. Right now your links are http://volatileread.com/UtilityLibrary?id=1084. They should be http://snippr.com/php/how-to-get-the-current-url.

With that being said, I don't think it'll work. People don't open their browser and visit a site of code snippets. Instead, they have a problem, and they search Google for the answer. Showing up on the first page of Google for these common terms is not an easy task. You're competing with successful sites that have existed for the better part of a decade. I honestly don't think you'll be able to outrank them, and therefore you'll receive little to no organic traffic, and that's the traffic your site will rely on.
"internet of things" gets through the b.s. filter. Kindly fix. Thank you!
What do we mean when we say the word “food?”
Scunthorpe*. References to that problem always greatly amuse me, I live literally down the road.
Wireless – Minimalist Bootstrap UI Kit
In iOS, there are about 10 permissions (location, contacts, calendars, reminders, gallery, bluetooth, microphone, motion, twitter and facebook accounts).

In Android, about 150.

There is no mapping 1:1. Some things iOS does not allow at all (wifi information, sd card access). Some things iOS allows by default, with no way to deny it (internet access).

The iOS approach would not scale, the user would be burried under confirmation dialogs. And that's just the initial confirmation, there has to be UI, when he changes his mind later.

Those, who claim that iOS approach is superior are showing their ignorance, that they newer thought about the way, how the user would set matrix of this amount of permissions with many apps, without getting lost (hint: many are getting lost just in the current system. Imagine, that they would be able to toggle anything. And imagine, what the developers would say about that).
it crashed when i tried.

500 - Server Error

Retry gives
Forbidden (403)

CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.
I think this is the intent of the linked project. The wording is wrong; you can't say "GPL except for commercial products" but I think he intends to use the word "commercial" to mean "proprietary", in which case it works.

It's unfortunate because there are tons of commercial products that use the GPL (including my own product), and this perpetuates the old tired trope that libre licenses don't work on products you pay for. But my suspicion is that it's just sloppy wording rather than attempting to add an invalid clause to the GPL.
7 awesome paid iPhone apps that are free for a limited time
This 15 year old is making 500K a year in the babysitting business
In Croatian "Quicksilver" is called "Živa", which also means "alive".
This makes me feel like the fictional Babysitters Club didn't have a solid enough business plan.
Blockchain use is the only similarity between DCoin and typical cryptocurrencies. As for the mining, more precisely, how exactly new coins are created, I’ve written in this article: - http://dcoin.me/en/story.html, you can also read more here - http://en.dcoinwiki.com/Promised_amount.
You can learn more about how blockchain is constructed here: http://en.dcoinwiki.com/Block_Generating_Miner
Thoughts? I built it a couple years ago! :)

Works almost exactly as you said, although you quickly run into problems with how much data you can store in javascript before the page blows up.

http://www.senditonthenet.com/
Most hardware these days has schematics and designs consisting of software. It's a fairly clear mapping between the source files and the compiled files (usually gerber files for circuit boards, EPS or DXF files for case designs, etc) that the terms of the GPL can still apply to.
OSX Chrome 40 64bit issue: Pasting text copied from anything that support formatting via html will retain font/size from copied text and thus BS font will not being used. Even Cmd+a and removing the text will retain wrong font.
There's not much point for a development/test platform for the Pi in the first place given its ridiculously low cost.

I think the appeal here is to add GPIO directly to a PC simply because having one computer is simpler than having two, and there are a lot of cases where you'd like to just toggle a pin here and there without having a middleman machine.
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> ...most of their activity will be devoted to the perpetuation of the organization, not to the pursuit of its ostensible objective.

aka, the tyranny of the bureaucratic overhead equation

Δw = p ln (st / sg)

w := "useful work towards the objective"
g := "the group of people doing w"
p := "effective productivity of g"
sg := "total size of the g"
st := "total size of the organization (sg + bureaucracy)"
Maybe Asimov's 3 visionary laws will come in handy soon:

1.) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2.) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3.) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

... The only problem is the robots then started interpreting the laws to their own advantage.
It tells a story of a hasty late strategy decision making.
The ice caps are disappearing, just at a slower rate, the Northwest passage is now open for shipping:
http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/cargo-ship-is-first-t...

Climate scientists admitted they didn't have a complete model and worked to improve that. Satellites are being launched to add data to the model:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2014/0629/NAS...

Ocean currents have been found to be storing up heat:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6199/897

The earth is an organic system, one that adapts. Nobody can truly know what will happen, the body of evidence and the majority of scientists agree that changing the balance of CO2 is not a good thing.

One persons hypocrisy does not invalidate everything else. Plus how do you know he's not offsetting his carbon footprint by planting trees?
Show HN: Yet another request limiter for Nginx (GitHub.com)
No, you're not. I recently deleted all my Vim plugins from my .vim. The only ones I've occasionally missed are surround.vim and a commenting plugin.

Integrating tools to Vim is its Achilles heel. In particular, there's no reasonable debugger integration. And interaction with long running processes is difficult.

I use vim, cgdb and tig (for git) inside tmux. With cscope and ctags for code navigation, this gives me all the "IDE" features I need without any clumsy plugins.
Good, if they can't get any orders from the Chinese government, they have less reason to dance to China's pipe.
Nano-Architecture
No comment on the license itself, but I did have to pay to use it.
Quickcalcul?
Trying to circumvent a company's hiring process by cold e-mailing ALL 730 employees at a single organisation; as well as calling out busy people who couldn't respond to your cold e-mails or couldn't take time out to meet with you personally by full name, position, and company in a self-promoted Medium post seems a highly negative signal and poor form, especially in Silicon Valley. This is likely the reason most of these companies passed.
Google Removes “Launchpad” Apps After Trademark Complaint
Haxe-to-PHP
Do you use Haxe to write/generate your own PHP code at work? I was wondering if there are folks doing so. Would it be advisable for someone getting back into writing PHP code? I have stopped writing PHP for sometime (joined the python/django/foundation bandwagon) only to be pulled into a project requiring PHP and must use Haxe. I now want to look for other jobs in the PHP market but I was thinking no coy would hire me to use Haxe-to-PHP for their works. It also looks like I need to master the Haxe programming style at the expense of PHP. I have developed numerous apps in PHP4,purely OOP, in the past but Haxe (though cool) is just in a way different.
WhatsApp Web Works on Firefox and Opera
>AOL, MySpace, and Geocities effectively committed suicide.

Can you further explain this?
I was disappointed it didn't censor "Meticulously hand crafted" or "Made with love in San Francisco". Otherwise, rather lovely.
If you integrate CtrlP with The Silver Searcher you get a really nice speedup as well.
Stingray use proves a case’s undoing
I'm a believer in the William Golding (Lord of the Flies) view of humanity - that the baseline character of humans is quite different than what you see in modern humanity and that what makes us who we are comes from social controls and not instinct.

IOW, human character is malleable and constantly changing. It's not surprising that something as significant as the Internet (not computers on their own) is changing us again.
Ask HN: How do you get notifications about a comment?
Sometimes I post a comment and I would like to know when someone posts a reply, how to do?
I would NEVER EVER EVER use an android phone for work.
Privacy management of google is catastrophic.
Get used to it. Watch Germany do the same in the future too.
Revenge-porn impresario goes after news sites that posted pictures of him
That's OS X default behavior for rich text editing controls. You're supposed to us "Paste and Match Style" instead of just "Paste" if you don't want to retain the original formatting attributes.
LizardSquad Hacks Lenovo.com in Apparent Retaliation Over Superfish Adware Scam
Combatting revisionist history
Video Marketing Stuttgart – Google+
A recipe for disaster? Comcast may soon launch a mobile phone service
Whiteboard interviews can be good, but there's "One weird trick" to getting them right.

Let the person code WITHOUT YOU BEING THERE.

Interviews are stressful. The author says "My heart rate jumped" ... his heart rate jumped because his body released a bunch of adrenaline in reaction to a stressful event.

Adrenaline prepares the body for fight or flight, and part of this preparation is re-routing blood to critial systems ... muscles, heart and lungs ... and things like digestion and higher level cortical function are not required for fight or flight.

Programming requires higher level cortical thought - which is disabled during a stressful situation.

Give the person a programming challenge, tell them to code it on a machine (or the whiteboard for the inferior option) and then leave the room and tell them you'll be back in 10 minutes.

Let them relax, then their brain can think.
> black hole mergers

Black holes can not merge - time dilation means it would take an infinite amount of time for them to do so.
Interesting article! By the way, SQLite also has support for recursive queries (and allows even slightly more advanced stuff than Postgres, e.g. ordering of results), which you can use to do many amazing things.

I recently wrote a blog article about this, where I use recursive common table expressions solve the "eight queens" problem in SQL (using both Postgres and SQLite):

http://www.andreas-dewes.de/en/2015/queens-of-the-data-age-a...
Interesting article! By the way, SQLite also has support for recursive queries (and allows even slightly more advanced stuff than Postgres, e.g. ordering of results), which you can use to do many amazing things.

I recently wrote a blog article about this, where I use recursive common table expressions solve the "eight queens" problem in SQL:

http://www.andreas-dewes.de/en/2015/queens-of-the-data-age-a...
Good catch. I'll put the font on Github tonight. Create a ticket (er even better, a pull request), and we'll add that bullshit!
I was speaking of rewriting the core of existing PHP platforms (e.g. Drupal, Wordpress, Magento) not PHP itself. To gain benefits, that could be offered by this product, a whole lot of modifications would need to happen. So not only as a responsible dev but also from a mangers point of view, it'd be risky to rely on an experimental work instead of a variety of tools that can offer me same if not more (Gearman / RabbitMQ: use nodejs for faster image processing, java for stable PDF rendering, what so ever).

Furthermore this seems to be a company's product instead of a foundations joint work. We all know that every company has a certain monetary interest in the things they produce. At some point they might want to monetize the product or parts of it and boom - you're screwed. Sitting right there in the vendor lock. And at that point it doesn't even matter if it's "open source". I don't trust these guys.
What Microsoft Is This the Altair Basic Of?
I see where you're coming from, and I agree with you in large part, specially about making your assumptions explicit.

However, I think it's important to notice that an explicit formula for your thought processes can be difficult (computationally expensive) to find. Our brains have evolved to use heuristics and "gut feelings" to make decisions, and the approach you propose forces you to throw all that away and use the much slower general purpose processing part of your brain to emulate those processes. So there's a tradeoff there.
They totally should implement a Marvin John Heemeyer Bulldozerway there.

Of course people who got hand on a part of city will try to ruin it for their profit. Build fences, destroy historical sight, build up waterfronts.

The solution is in regulation. You only buy property, but you end up owning a part whole of city experience. Preserve it or suffer.
US government developing 'precrime' system to anticipate cyber-attacks
I'm usually very sceptical what it comes to claims this amazing. But everything here makes sense. You can definitely do constructive interference at desired locations, it's just matter of computing power. If you have n+1 base station antennas, you should be able to support n simultaneous data streams at the same frequency assuming insignificant path losses.
Sen. Nelson questions use of StingRays for phone surveillance
I see some strange "dots" floating before the start of the animation, with firefox
Four years of android user. Just switch to iphone6 2 month ago.

Almost every app requests too many permissions. Almost every app starts a background process to receive notifications. which are very bad.
3D Printer Is the Product of the Year 2015
Letters of recommendation have almost no bearing on life. The only exceptions are for someone headed to graduate school, but at that point they likely have a pool of faculty members from which to choose.
Thanks for the update - I guess that means one can still get a commercial license, you just have to know where to ask.
An early depiction of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, dressed as a narrative?