skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there ever it a tour of machines that moved worlds, I would recommend the following:

Z1 - DT museum

Difference Engine - British Science museum

Bombe - Bletchly Park

Harrison's H1 - Greenwich Observatory
MIT Technology Review wrote a great article on this: http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/533446/desalin...
* unless you're a large enough bank.
Steps to reproduce:

1) Visit Fiverr [1]

2) Repeat

Sadly, I don't see very many ways to overcome these kinds of review factories. Maybe Amazon should start doing sting operations on these services.

[1] https://www.fiverr.com/search/gigs?acmpl=1&utf8=%E2%9C%93&qu...
Add-ons fill the enterprise gaps in Docker's ecosystem
This seems to be a simple correlational study with the added bonus that abnormal hippocampi is also correlated with pot usage.

There isn't even an attempt to establish any sort of causality here yet the article uses the word 'affects'.
> Other people in the coffee shop? High

Citation needed. I get that it's trivial to actually do, but do you have any studies that show that a lot/any WiFi is being sniffed and/or MiTM'd? The most I've seen is airports and so on tracking people via MAC addresses or the WiFi AP names they request.
That document only determines sentencing level, not years. You need to also reference the criminal history calculation and finally the actual sentencing guideline.

http://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/training/annual-...

http://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/guidelines-manua...
If they're going to discontinue their service after a couple of years (like they did on countless occasion, last one being Google Code), then no thank you.
Hell of a lot more difficult time than they are having monitoring the coffee shop's servers
If you really care, just buy a VPN connection of your own. I did, for around $50 a year - and I can connect to it on port 80, so no firewalls even get in the way. Easy.
Yeah, California already gets a portion of the Colorado River. http://www.mwdh2o.com/mwdh2o/pages/yourwater/supply/colorado...

So it's been done. The crux of the problem here is that the history of the state is all about thinking like you do -- "let's just import more water" -- instead of finding ways to live within our means in terms of available water out here. So Californians like to have their own pools and like to plant grass in their yards and like to grow Rice in the freaking desert and then whine when long term drought threatens some "crisis" which is basically artificially created. There are lots of ways improve what we are doing without trying to import yet more water. For long term sustainability, that's what we really need to focus on. My understanding is that the Colorado River is already so chopped up and whored out to the water needs of the west that it is a pathetic trickle, instead of a roaring river, by the time it reaches the ocean (somewhere in Mexico, IIRC).

There are real world limits here on "just import more." And that is a big part of the problem here. It's a desert. We need to learn to live like residents of a desert. That's the only long-term, sustainable solution.
Balanced payments is shutting down
I don't think it was about web apps at all. Web apps where just an interim thing while they were working on getting the SDK ready. I think the reason for Safari on Windows was to make sure that normal websites work on the iPhone.
One of the big downsides of Mumble, Teamspeak and Ventrillo is that they aren't made for business. This means they are really hard to get up and running, which is especially annoying when you are just just trying them out. We're actually working on something similar to these tools but built for business.

We're currently in private beta and I'd be interested to get your input on what we're building. We've got a quick walkthrough here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV7HBXuhT7Q and you can signup for the private beta at http://speak.io
It's a bird, it's a pane, it's a
Don't be silly. Laws aren't what allows or denies women to the highest boards of big companies. Principally because men prevent it.
LOL, just seemed like a big assumption.

To sum up your blog post more succinctly -- being productive is a skill like anything else, it takes time to develop.

Responding to inspiration quickly is one aspect of that skill, but it's not the only one.
Based on openvpn? or what technology are they using?
I do not want pluggable PCI-express. I do not want someone to be able to hack my password-protected computer in 5 seconds and without so much as a screwdriver.
Interesting. I know Mumble is used a lot in the gaming community, but I never thought of the idea of using it for workspace/business.

I wrote a webapp targeted for gamers to easily setup temporary Mumble servers (http://guildbit.com). So I'm sure someone can build a service similar to wrap the Mumble API for workspace users. Similar to Slack with IRC.
Can you describe an actual problem with his outline? I think it is very good to get this sort of first hand advice. In my experience it is very hard to find an accountant that understands this stuff well.
Apple's Tim Cook offered liver to dying boss Steve Jobs
OR, you can use any other VPN service.

That is, if you believe the company that is operating behind it.
Feel free to contribute to the NEON guide
Just to be clear, I asked the person that was quoted what he thought about it as I posted it and he seemed pretty relaxed https://twitter.com/sachinag/status/576145655120277504 but I still thought it was better to remove it.
Heh, I was going to add that another big advantage of working from home is that I can go to the gym at lunch time.
I'm well aware of how it works....I didn't say that points=years. First, 36 points (the amount he will likely have - 30+6) gives him a recommended range (if he has no criminal history) of 188-235 months. I only said that he is off the charts in terms of loss. Second, guidelines are exactly that - guidelines. A judge could easily look at his conduct and say "this is the most I've ever seen for an intended loss; therefore the statutory maximum (40 years) is warranted".
> Keep in mind, for a human mission, you want to minimize time, rather than deltaV. Gravity assists will take a lot of time, as you spend a lot of time waiting for the encounter.

True, but we could throw the big ship with all the supplies into a flight path that gains a lot of momentum around the inner planets and intercept it with a much smaller craft only loaded with enough fuel to get the astronauts to the transit ship (and back, if necessary).
I would love to see the standard errors on those numbers.
This issue is charging the ankle bracelet, not the roomba (which connects itself to a charger as you point out).
Marin Mersenne – A Priest at the Heart of the Scientific Revolution
http://screenhero.com/ is perfect for this, soon to be integrated natively into Slack.
My apologies, sometimes I forget we all come from different backgrounds. But if you start by reading Cecil Rhodes' will and think through what that might mean, you might start to understand why I think it doesn't matter if it is an American company or not.
For having a remote whiteboard, shared OneNote notebooks on a Surface Pro 3 is fantastic. It's not 100% realtime sync, but it's close.

Except that nobody else has a Surface Pro, so the only time I've tried it was with a friend with a Bamboo on the other end. Maybe someday.
It looks like it won't help much, but landscaping should stop. Double stop. Triple stop.

No need to waste water in there, and comply with neighbor whatever regulations.
No, but you do become legally responsible for your own health and wellbeing in significant degree. You're able to move out on your own, join the army, smoke, etc. You're also at an age where you can make informed decisions things that may affect you in the future, one of which is possibly causing yourself some level of impairment in exchange for using a drug.
That's true. I wonder how he could take those short vacations. Maybe he was on a Spanish non lucrative visa?
I've visited the Technikmuseum in Berlin too, the Zuse exhibit is fascinating. A history I never knew. Honestly if I didn't see the things on display I'd doubt it a bit. But the mechanical computer parts are there.

The fine article linked here is down at the moment, so here's a few other links of interest.

Berlin museum: http://www.sdtb.de/Mathematics-and-Computer-Science.1256.0.h...

Chess computers: https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Konrad+Zuse

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse
The monitor needed to be charged as well. So while the roomba would be charged, the monitor could very well die and cause the same suspicion as if it were off.
But part of the advantage of remote-work is that you can be in two or more conversations at once, that you can be in two or more 'places' at once.

No?

Seems odd to use a location metaphor, when online you can be in more than one place at a time.
And what about John Atanasoff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vincent_Atanasoff
Regarding targeting the web, you can't do this directly with RoboVM, but you can use GWT to do so. This means that you can target Android, iOS, and web with Java. You would have shared code that all platforms could use, and then build the UIs natively.

This is pretty much the approach that Google use with Inbox, except they used j2objc instead of RoboVM.
Holy fucking shit! I would have given my left nut for these in the 1970s.
CERN: Playing with Fire, Stephen Hawking Warns
1Password does dropbox syncing. The intended use-case is to point this at your dropbox sync'd password vault. The actual password vault is just a bunch of json files though, so if you have those files sync'd it should work.
Google C.F.O. Is Retiring to Spend More Time with Family
I was recently on Amazon looking to purchase an item. Apparently not a lot people buy this item online, so there was very few number of reviews.

I got curious if the people reviewing these items are genuine buyers or otherwise, so I click through to one guy's profile (verified purchase). Turns out he posted hundreds of one liner reviews for a plethora of esoteric products(all verified purchase) all on Jan 12, 2015.

They are out there.
True, but this is because a large number of credit unions don't issue Visa / Mastercard credit cards directly; typically they do it through their banking partners (who are registered as banks as opposed to credit unions who for almost all cases are not banks), if they do it at all.
The UBOS Shepherd Rules Their #IoT Device Flock with a Staff
Could it possibly have anything to do with 85% of corn being produced coming from Monsanto seeds?

http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/can-we-feed-our-world-without-mon...

They do spend millions of dollars lobbying the government every year.

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00000005...

Soy seems to be in a similar situation to corn.
> When I was doing AS3+Python there was literally NO shared code

What does shared code mean in this context? Can someone give an example?
When iOS 8 came out Apple announced a MAC addresses randomization feature to prevent device scanners like this one. But after people tested the feature it turned out that the scheme only works under a very narrow set of conditions that makes it nearly useless. I haven't heard if this has changed in 8.1 or 8.2 but hopefully Apple will move to stop these shenanigans, as well as Google's Android.
CobolOnCogs [1] was purely a joke, this is an actual framework (also a joke, but with actual functioning code [2]).

[1]: http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM

[2]: https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
So, here's the thing about Amazon rankings. They're not a meritocracy, and you might think that good reviews help you and bad reviews hurt you. They do/can! But it's closer to SEO than that. Amazon ranks things by what sells, and yes, higher-ranked things sell better, but it's more complicated than just that. Not everybody finds Perl books by looking in the Perl category. I'm looking at the third book you highlighted, about PHP. Its sales rank is 38,xxx and yours is 2xx,xxx (btw, and you may know this - the sales required to move up rankings increase exponentially, so this difference in ranking translates to quite a few sales per day). As long as Amazon believes it's about Perl, even if only tangentially so, it will rank higher in Perl than you because it's selling better. It's in their interest to market what sells better for them.

I learned this from fiction, but it applies to nonfiction too. First of all, books are categorized by what you put in the keywords section in KDP, if they're self-published, or by whatever your publisher put in there if you're not. Let's say you write a book about Perl and cooking. It may outsell pure Perl books because more people like cooking than Perl. It might be a great cooking book but a poor Perl book - or maybe you're lying about the Perl thing, and it's just a cookbook. But it'll top the Perl category as long as Amazon believes you that it's about Perl, and among the Perl books, it will have the highest sales rank.

Unfortunately, what I bet is happening is that this book is legitimately somewhat about Perl, and the author tagged it as such in the keywords. But its sales aren't coming from winning the Perl category alone; they're coming from that and PHP and beginning programming and generally from being ranked in multiple categories.

Your best bet to get your category back is to try to convince Amazon it's not about Perl at all. Good luck - I didn't look close enough to see if that's a reasonable claim or not.
Check out this research I'm doing on the Swiftie fan base
That is a good summary. A friend of mine is looking at putting a passive desalinator on the ocean floor off the coast of Monterey. Basically its a pipe with the permeable membrane surrounding the submerged collector. The pipe carries fresh water to the surface and as you pump out fresh water, the pressure of the ocean at depths of up to 1000 meters pushes in more water through the membranes, desalinating it in the process.

The challenge (other than just building the darn thing) is whether or not the current flow is sufficient to keep the brine levels down around the intake port.

I have no idea how practical that idea really is (he's pretty enthused of course) but I liked the notion of using the pressure difference between the ocean surface and at depths to do the reverse osmosis work for you.
“It is possible that the abnormal brain structures reveal a pre-existing vulnerability to marijuana abuse,” Smith said. “But evidence that the longer the participants were abusing marijuana, the greater the differences in hippocampus shape suggests marijuana may be the cause.”

Correlation, sure, but correlation with length of usage. Definitely a more interesting angle than simply usage <-> deformation.
I know it's on the web, and has to work on tons of browsers, thousands of devices, but "15-20fps" have never been acceptable figure in console game development.

Hell even 30fps is not acceptable for some games (fighting, racing, first person shooters).

So having 60fps in the browser is incredible!
I would say the opposite based on all the people of I have spoken to about it in Sydney over the last month or so.

Noone is saying they shouldn't be punished for their crime, but all indications are that the two Australians currently on death row in Indonesia have been genuinely reformed during their decade in prison.

One is now a pastor, and the other has completed a fine arts degree. And many of their fellow prisoners speak highly of them. Some Indonesian prisoners have even offered to be killed in their place.

I think the outrage about their imminient executions is due to the fact that Indonesia is about to execute two men who have shown they can both be valuable members of society.

The Australian government is now offering to pay the costs of keeping them in prison for life, but I doubt that will have any sway with the Indonesian government.
I usually have a hard time connecting to VPN over public wifi, even when I use servers that are designed to be connectable even if there's a firewall in the way. This is true of servers I've set up myself and it's true of servers from commercial VPN providers like HideMyAss. Even if there isn't active manipulation or blocking from the firewall, it just seems that the connection is rarely strong or consistent enough to keep the tunnel from breaking all the time.

I have had better luck with a SOCKS proxy hosted at my home, but it's still not as good as VPN.
Having the tools is one thing, having an OS that you spend 60%+ of your waking hours on which is a pleasure to use and makes you happy is another.
>Medicine dosage is critically important, but do you mean to imply any poison can be good for you in small enough amounts?

He said "the difference between a medicine and poison".

Not between "poison and a medicine".
We're pretty comfortable with rebase before merge being part of EE only. Someone suggested making an option to select the type of merge you want (ff, no-ff, log, rebase or squash). If someone would submit a good implementation of that and reference this comment we can open source everything. Edit: removed the work probably to make this a firm promise.
Some ISPs are in the advertising business to some degree, with DNS redirection and even sometimes direct ad injection. One of the other things the VPN will do, semi-ironically, is prevent this.

I suppose Google's philosophy on advertising is similar to how they feel about operating systems: if they can't make money on something, they want to ensure that no one else can, either.
Are my taxes going to support more yuppies in California? How about they live somewhere else instead.
Like If you can really & absolutely trust any other VPN provider. The better thing to do is to have 10 VPN servers and re-route traffic among them :P
I write C/Scheme/Clojure/Haskell:

Cocoa Emacs with Evil-mode, iTerm 2, tmux, Vim for quick edits, git.
from the video's description

>As of March 12th, 360 degree video playback is supported on Android devices and the Chrome desktop browser. YouTube tells us that they will soon support more browsers and platforms.

Looks like they're going to support newer browsers soon
Yeah, I know. "Ubiquitous" is a bit exaggerated. But now there's enough WebKit users out there that developers can't afford to ignore them; especially on mobile, so the strategic importance of Safari for Windows is diminished.
But if you are the developer it's your fault, not the boss fault. This is why many leave before it bites them.
Everything else aside, this is a beautifully executed hack.
So you keep some in reserve and go read-only when only x remain. Why auto-brick on next power cycle?
Ask HN: Web Developers, what is your average workday like?
It's worth noting that Balanced Payments was YC W11, which probably made the transition to Stripe a little smoother.
I wouldn't say that this is necessarily a 'debunking'.

What it argues is that androstadienone and estratetraenol don't fit strict definition of 'pheromone' as used in animal research (fair enough). It admits androstadienone and estratetraenol have been linked to various behavioral changes (maybe), which could be true regardless of their pheromone status (since lots of chemicals have effects). And then observes that psychology research has a well-earned reputation for not replicating and publication bias (yes), implying that maybe the behavioral effects of androstadienone & estratetraenol are just more of the same although it does not point to anything specific like a meta-analysis establishing this (ehh....).

So if androstadienone & estratetraenol are not 'pheromones' but do influence human behavior, would you call that debunking? I'm not sure I would.
"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"
Balanced Payments Is Shutting Down
Cisco FREAKs out, starts epic OpenSSL bug-splat
Cord Cutters Who Embrace Apple TV: Beware the Costs
You have understood incorrectly. Here is http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs312/2006sp/lectures/lec1... on the topic:

Amortized analysis refers to determining the time-averaged running time for a sequence of operations.

Note that you are averaging over a sequence of operations, and not any combination of inputs. As that article goes on to explain, amortized analysis is the right thing to use for figuring out the total running time of a sequence of operations.

Let's be concrete. In the case of a dynamically resized hash, the bound on an individual hash insertion when the hashing function works is O(n) because you could be looking at the unlucky insertion that resized the hash. The amortized cost is O(1) because you get to spread that expensive resize over many individual operations. If you're building a hard real time system, you should focus on the O(n) and not use that data structure. If you just want to build a hash table, the O(1) is what matters.

What about the amortized cost of many random hash lookups with linked-list conflict resolution? The distribution of buckets with different numbers of items approximately follows a Poisson distribution. From that we can estimate the average number of comparisons. And find out that the amortized cost is on average O(1).
The government is not an independent entity. Farmers (by which I include agribusiness corporations) vote and donate heavily to political causes. Further, the government is not a monolithic entity; you have the governor, various other elected officials, and then all the legislators in the assembly and state senate, plus all the people that California sends to Congress Washington DC. There are a lot of people who live in inland California whose economic well-being depends directly or indirectly on agriculture. As long as they participate in the political process, government is going to serve some of their interests because they keep electing people to vote for that.

This is the big trouble with libertarians right here. You keep being politically marginalized because you don't seem to appreciate that government is not some alien thing imposed from without, but the distillation of multiple (and often competing) collective interests. Just as 'war is a continuation of politics by other means,' politics is is a continuation of business by other means. Your 'free market' solution is only going to function if you exclude a bunch of people from the political process because their continued participation has become a major inconvenience for everyone else. As someone with technocratic inclinations I sometimes wish we could do that, because I think the farming lobby frequently epitomizes greed and stupidity. But shutting farmers out of politics would be a huge violation of our constitutional design, not to mention political suicide.
Once you have a product, free or not, which is used and relied upon by a large group of people, you do owe them something. if you don't want that responsibility then don't release your code or get out when things become serious. I get the OSS philosophy, and I like many things about it, but I also understand why some won't touch it with a ten foot pole.

"Oh, I made a boneheaded error and now your code is 100x slower than it should be? Tough sh*t, fix it yourself. I owe you nothing!"

That's not a reasonable mentality to have if you want adoption. Obviously the Ruby devs don't feel this way, but you seem to. That sort of attitude is nonsense and short sighted.
This is precisely why I no longer argue with people I don't trust to seek the truth over their own ego.
"Chief, it appears the subject has been walking into a wall repeatedly for the past 2 hours."
How Social Media Can Reshape the Education Sector
So much cool things you can do with numpy and machine learning on python, this article makes me determined to play with it.

however, I don't know where to start. I'm not particularly good at math, calculus or statistics. to me, machine learning and numpy still sounds like stuff scientists are qualified to use, people with phds. regardless I'm amazed at the stuff like this article and inclined to venture in to it.