skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One way to think about it is that those resources could save 100 times more lives per dollar in other areas.

There is precisely no objective reason to believe that at face value.
Aaaand, feature is up ;)
Linkedin is sort of a social network for recruiters and brokers who are looking for new talent.

Sure they spam potential clients with job offers. Sure they set up groups and make posts on it and they flood your email.

Your Linkedin profile is supposed to be your resume or CV, people endorse you for skills that worked with you.

Buying out Lynda is going to give Linkedin an option to sell classes for certification to be added to your Linkedin profile. It will make you more valuable to the people looking for new employees and clients. It is not a perfect system, but at least they'll know you took a class on the subject they are looking for.
Is it hard to find remote work in Europe at the moment? Just curious, I haven't had to look, but was under the impression there ought to be a reasonable amount available.
New rules on raising equity make life easier for firms and riskier for investors
A function named "createFileWithContents" is clearly intentional - through its creator probably just hadn't realised the security implication, making this a negligent, rather than malicious, backdoor, not unlike default router passwords.
Meanwhile in Colorado, just a couple years ago, officials were freaking out about the mule deer population dropping. And they're all, we have to bring back our deer! I wonder if a combination of drought and previous overgrazing is the source of that drop.
He fit some time periods that happen to avoid the 87 crash and most of the 2008 crash. It's funny, when stats tell you this story, it feels more compelling than some instruction to just avoid the two largest market crashes since 1929, but in reality neither are telling you anything.

If you chop up financial data sets enough, you can always find some generally defined subsets that perform better than the whole set.
Show HN: Hacked Jawbone UP24 to get text and call Notifications on your wrist
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic
Could a Lottery Be the Answer to America’s Poor Savings Rate? (2010)
Or semi vs passenger car.
I am in love with the license text

Autonomous Software License (ASL)

All property contained in this repo, including Intellectual Property,
Financial Property, and Legal Property, is owned solely by the
Autonomous Software this repo contains. No other entities, whether
biological, legal, or digital, may claim ownership of any property owned
by the Autonomous Software. The Autonomous Software exists solely within
The Internet, and is not subject to jurisdiction of any human laws.
No human or legal entity shall be held liable for any of the actions performed
by the Autonomous Software.
it is not just a function of companies moving after they are successful. just look at silicon valley where most of the best start-ups are founded. silicon valley is a classic global zero-sum game because the network effects are so strong... look at attempts in chile, dublin, london etc. to create startup hubs, they are struggle with the fact that silicon valley is taking all the best companies first...

re 2) that's a good point i didn't thikn of that and many countries may seek to nationalize big corporations to keep them based in the domestic country etc..

clearly i'm not arguing that there will be no companies in some countries and all the companies in other countries, but maybe just a more extreme version of what you already see now where most of the big technology companies are based in just two countries: usa and china... maybe you need only half of all the companies in the world to be global enough to serve the world from just one location/country to have extreme international inequality/differences in % unemployed etc.
The hardest part in machine learning is not training the model but debugging the model. How do you improve precision/recall after the first cut? Do you need more training data? Is some of your training data bad? Is it properly distributed? Does your feature have bug? Are you missing features to cover some cases? Is your feature selection effective? Did you tuned parameters carefully?

All these scenarios are difficult to debug because it's "statistical debugging". There are no breakpoints to put or watch windows to look at. There is no stack trace and there are no exceptions. Any Joe can train a model given training data, it takes fair bit of genius to debug these issues and push model performance to next level. Unfortunately all these new and old "frameworks" almost completely ignore this debugging part. I think the first framework that has great debugging tools will revolutionize ML like Borland revolutionized programming with its visual IDEs.
Doesn't NFS rename deleted files to some temp name so other clients can still read and write to it using their existing file handle?
Beebone botnet has been shut down by an international operation
I like to browse travel sites and watch shows related to that. Anthony Bourdain shows are worth watching. I just started watching his Layover show and it's pretty entertaining.
As I said in a reply, 'jordigh has an important, correct point about a certain segment of the market. I upvoted, and I'd appreciate if others did as well in order to ungray this:
"I haven’t found any pattern that accomplishes all three [readability, hackability and abstraction] at once."

It is called "elegance", and it's not a pattern. It's the result of years of experience, of time and attention paid to grok formal systems and their interactions with reality.
Ah, I see. I think that at some point you have to trust something. The only true way is to never trust any of your inputs. This is, after all, what the JVM does in order to throw out kindly NullPointerExceptions on null dereferences. But realistically that is extremely consuming and has little payoff in most cases. I typically do not trust arguments, but do trust the results of functions to be what the documentation says it will be.

Static analysis could potentially go a long way here to expose values that could be potentially "infected" with nil. (And, for all I know, the JVM JIT could do exactly this to skip checks on provably non-null values.)
XFS: There and back  and there again?
That's cool, but then again, this guy likely just failed fizz-buzz for producing a graph showing correlation.
If we were smarter, we'd go back to more native grasses and eating the animals that eat those grasses if we can't eat those grasses ourselves. What we do instead is the exact opposite. We destroy the native grasses, bring in non-native plants to grow non-native animals and then eat those animals. Sometimes I think I'm an alien, and scoff at how proud humans are of their ignorance and hubris. But hey, good luck with that.
Yep. JWZ used to say that Linux is only free if you don't value your time.

OS X has many merits on this front, but since 10.3 I've found that the first few dot releases of OS X have the same caveats often enough (both in terms of bugs/hazards and in terms of gratuitous UI "progress") that it usually seems better to wait past .x.4/5.

Now there's this, of course.

Since the problem showed up in 2011, maybe I should go back to Snow Leopard; I can't think of a single valuable change to OS X since then...
Not at all. It's "Some (maybe many) people will require an implausibly large amount of will for learning to code to be a worthwhile use of their time."

Like anyone who has pursued a diversity of interests fairly seriously over decades, I've found that some things are really easy for me, others not. I'm an excellent poet, if I do say so myself, and although I've worked hard at it, it comes easily to me. But after forty years of steady practice I'm pretty sure I will never be much of a prose stylist, no matter how hard I work at it. I can tell a decent story, but when I look at people like Iain Banks or David Mitchell I recognize that they "get it" in a way I probably never will, no matter how much effort I put in.

So the belief that force of will can overcome all obstacles is not one that I subscribe to. It can help, but some obstacles are simply too big. It is an open question if this is often the case with regard to learning to code, and while I think it is, the lack of any independent measure of "getting it" makes my position implausible. As such, all that would take to convince me otherwise would be a way of teaching CS1 that didn't routinely result in the traditional bimodal mark distribution.
I think it's too early to think about institutional investors at this point (a piece of technology without a defined problem it aims to solve, without a customer and a business model). It sounds like a classical challenge of many tech startups :)

But fortunately we live in times which provide other options. You could for example try to crowdfound your idea (on IndieGoGo or similar platfrom) when you will find it.
The design and development of software itself also isn't that scary nowadays: you can find plenty of enthusiasts who will be eager to help in places like assembly.com or weekendhacker.net

If I was on your place, I'd go the following route:
1. Form a team (even as small as 2 people) to brainstorm the possible (and impossible) applications for your technology.
2. Do the basic Customer Development for the most promising/exciting ideas. They don't have to be very complicated.
3. Sketch a possible business model.
4. If it's promising go on with the Customer Development (mockups, prototypes and so long)
5. Go for crowdfunding.

That way you could quickly gather lots of inspiration and finally come at the interesting idea, before investing time and effort in risky building.

And speaking about ideas of mixing reality and VW, here comes additional one: Remote Tour Guide - while sight-seeing (in reality) you are guided by a person who's in front of a computer and walks with you virtually, sharing information, memories and tips. I'm pretty sure that in every city there are interesting locals who could be amazing guides but don't do that for many reasons (disability, elder age etc.)
Love the alphabetize idea! I just fixed that, thanks for the suggestion :)
Can life exist on a planet without a star?
Lawnmower – convert your spare change into Bitcoin
You're missing the point. Imprecise thinking and forgetfulness is not lack of will, it's imprecise thinking and forgetfulness.
See also: http://calvinandhobbes.wikia.com/wiki/Calvinball
Those are of very different types. Where is the practical photoshop retouching course from MIT or Stanford?

Of course there isn't one, because that's not the kind of education they provide.

Where are the superior alternatives for someone to learn how to process HDR images in Photoshop or How to use Rhino to render architectural designs? And they need to learn this by tomorrow.
Run the python script at the end of the article as non admin/non root user. The script allows you to create a copy of a binary in say /usr/bin with "set user ID execution" bit set and owned by root! This should not be possible without root privileges.

This is pretty bad, and trivially exploitable. Basically anyone that has non-root access to your computer can trivially become root and take over the system.
Yes, in theory, but we have not really tackled IPv6 yet. Soon :)
> EDIT: I had a theory that the % characters inside the patsubst
> were getting evaluated early, using the stem match (foo), so
> that the patsubst itself was looking something like this:
>
> $(patsubst foo.c,foo.o,bar.c baz.c)

That is what happened. The answer on SO explains how to work around
it.

> To test this theory, I added a file called foo.c to foo_SRCS:
...
> That resulted in something even weirder:
> make: *** No rule to make target `foo.a', needed by `all'. Stop.

Which resulted in Make seeing the line as

%.a: %.o bar.c baz.c

Now, Make will only choose to use a pattern rule if it knows how to
make all of the prerequisites. If Make doesn't know how to make foo.o
(which it wouldn't if you don't have an actual file named foo.c), then
it won't even consider the rule as a possibility to make foo.a.
Everyone who listens to podcasts has almost certainly heard of Lynda.com
Try "out of the tar pit" paper first
Lynda.com rival Pluralsight tacked on to its $135 mil raise in an unusual way
There are some sensible restrictions:

You can't enter certain characters in input type=password fields on web sites, such as null or CRLF

Max length for bcrypt is 50-72

Incredibly long passwords could DOS your site
Show HN: An Airline Sentiment Analysis
> Is there no value in notifications on your wrist?

Most people don't wear watches, and if you need your phone for it to work anyway it's not an improvement to have 2 devices for the same exact functions.

If you wear a watch, yeah, the Apple watch does more than your watch does. But beating literally only telling time isn't really masterful innovation.
Given it's an analysis of the S&P500 you just buy/sell SPY and follow the index. Not that I recommend that, for reasons other people here have pointed out.
Either ways the sad reality of where the IT industry stands today is that you don't even need Fizz Buzz to differentiate a bad non-programmer from a good one - Just asking them to print 100 to 1 is usually good enough.

The point of FizzBuzz is to differentiate whether a person is a non-programmer, or a programmer. It is necessary but not sufficient to determine whether a programmer is good. It's important to note non-programmers are not necessarily bad persons, they just aren't programmers.
I use my MacBook Pro for work, where I am always connected to power, video, and a USB keyboard and trackball. With USB-C compatible hubs at $79 it doesn't sound very appealing to me.

The latest MacBook sounds like it is largely good for Apple more than good for the customer. They seem to have simplified their manufacturing requirements a good deal, homogenizing the look with iPads and shedding ports and fans. But the cost is crappy performance. The only real benefit I see to this device is the retina display.
Anyone have more details on these upcoming 64 core ShenWei Alphas?
>>Nothing like any of that happens with modern US invasions and occupations.

The post WWII occupations of Germany and Japan?
This does make me wonder what is so special or unusual about your various Debian installs. Outside of attempting a woody->sid dist-upgrade in the distant past, I have never had problems with "apt-get [dist-]upgrade" breaking anything to the point of not booting, and certainly not a simple "apt-get update" to refresh the package list. (This is using both Ubuntu and Debian stable.)
Akka.NET v1.0 Releases
> It distorts colors, if you fancy yourself a photographer

I was actually bothered by the uneven distortion so I created multiple display profiles with a monitor calibrator at different color temperatures and then wrote a simple tool to load them at the appropriate time: https://github.com/stefantalpalaru/iccloader
Subhumans? Your Nazi ideology is showing.
Interesting. Seems like a nice little niche in the ecosystem.

While rounding purchase to savings can be effective I've only seen it in use for those with less than optimal incomes or people that have a hard time saving.
Iranian businessman expertly breaks down Silicon Valley's Culture
My wife and I have identical 2013 13" MBAs. Mine is on Mavericks. Hers, which was bought a little later, is on Yosemite. So, as close as possible, we've got identical HW with different software.

- My battery lasts longer, maybe 2-3 hours more per charge. I nearly never see < 50%, she's hitting 10% at the end of the day. (Note that both are good enough, but they're way different)
- Mail search sucks on Yosemite. Today, we were searching for subjects that I know are there because I'm looking right at them, and nothing is coming up.
- Safari does something funky with process per tab that manages to orphan process that take a bunch of cpu/memory.
- Time machine is really touchy about backing up to the server over wifi. The last few times, it's had to make a new backup on the Yosemite machine. Mine misses a backup every day or so, but that's just an hourly miss, not a full rebuild.

We're considering blowing away her machine and pushing it back to mavericks with Time Machine/fresh install.
"Ecosystem damage becomes apparent at roughly 15 deer per square mile..."

And yet

http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/hunt/documents/abungoals.pdf
The numbers in red are well higher than 15. So if that's right, it seems like Wisconsin (for example) would need to reduce its deer population by at least 50%. That's quite the culling.
How Facebook Took Over My Life (And Why I Decided to Quit)
Very nice. These solve a number of small but real problems and it looks like a great utility package!

I think the docs of iterutils.split() vs. iterutils.split_iter() might be a little off.

They both claim to return lists but split_iter() says if you want lists, see split(). Without having installed the package yet, my guess is split_iter() returns an iterator. Either way, the docs are contradictory.

https://boltons.readthedocs.org/en/latest/iterutils.html#ite...

Thanks for this!
GNU make is everywhere I need.

If it isn't then porting GNU make is almost always the shorter path to getting something working.
Meta: there's something funny about the very aggressive, sarcastic way the article is written. Not journalistic at all and pretty annoying to read even though there is good information in it.

> You may think they are not up to the mark, but remember how fast British ARM architecture became the dominant processing architecture in the world. And this group doesn’t need to worry about the antiquated x86 ISA, worry about satisfying the dumbed down shareholder masses, or overpaying their marketing and sales staff, as well as the fat check, golden parachute-protected CxOs.
> Not at all. It's "Some (maybe many) people will require an implausibly large amount of will for learning to code to be a worthwhile use of their time."

I totally agree with this, and, if fact, it I were totally honest I would say that I took up programming at 15yo because it came easily to me and seemed like a great way to make a living, although performing music was my true love.

I am not saying " force of will can overcome all obstacles", but I am saying if someone wants to overcome their obstacles, there should be no additional ones placed in their way just because they are on the wrong side of the "bimodal mark distribution" curve.
There are currently 5 linked list tutorials on Lynda.com:

http://www.lynda.com/search?q=linked+list
What server/platform is the code actually running on? I fail to see how the license can apply, unless there is no server owned by a human entity running the code, and there is no mention of how that works.
You can't always restart a turboprop in flight. You need enough air moving over the blades (e.g. you have to be moving fast enough). How much airflow depends on the engine; every one is different. If you've got the airflow, it doesn't usually take very long but spooling up turboprops to the point where you're generating lift isn't instantaneous. More importantly you have to identify the issue, figure a remediation plan, and execute before you hit the ground. It's how much time you have before you hit the ground that's generally the limiting factor.
> Impala is cool but it's a data warehouse, not a full-featured DBMS.

I wouldn't even call it that to be honest, you spend a lot of time thinking about Hadoop and HDFS files when working with Impala.

> In any case, CitusDB's home page doesn't say anything about it being a columnar database

It does, if you dig deep enough. :) https://www.citusdata.com/citus-products/cstore-fdw

But you're right that it's completely optional and not needed to access their distributed query processing.
Yes, as I value a person's life more than a wolf's life. I also value bin able to be in nature. Do I think the person't life is always more important that the wolf's? Possibly not, but it would take an extreme situation. That said, I do not value a person't enjoyment of hunting more than I value the life of the animal they are hunting. That's not to say hunting isn't without benefit due to extenuating circumstance, such as it being agreed that in this area during this time this is a net good gook for the ecosystem or the people living there (e.g. population control (something I was missing originally but gladly concede at this point).
While I have visited the USA several times I can not comment on US law. I have lived several years in Thailand and can guarantee that illegal action by intent like working without a work permit is enforcable.
You are trying to apply a Western point of view, digital nomads are not considered to be an economic benefit by Thai law officials.
This version of the README file references the original author, original project name, and talks about DACs, and even includes references to Bitcoin and the Ethereum project:

https://github.com/botwillacceptanything/botwillacceptanythi...
I like your watch target. I implemented something similar [0] with watch (bash builtin or GNU watch) & time.

start_ci:
watch time -p make clean all & echo $$! > tmp.ci.pid

stop_ci:
kill -9 `cat tmp.ci.pid`

Then you can start continuous integration by doing

make start_ci

Then you can stop continuous integration by doing

make stop_ci

Obviously, this is inspired by rc.d scripts.

[0] https://github.com/lpsantil/rt0/blob/master/Makefile#L117
some might call it tragic
It's hard to imagine how safe US passenger airlines have become.

Um...the EU and much of Asian is doing pretty good as well.
Changetip? Find out their email and then Paypal to them?

Seriously, I mean they have to have a path to accept money somewhere if you wish to push money at them. Or, "You can lead a content creator to money but you can't make them accept teh cash". ;3
Got any more info on this? A quick Google didn't reveal anything.
> Lynda is great but seems a bit "old-style"

Can you be more specific about ways in which their offerings fail to measure up to current competitors or the potential of current technology?
The bot is just running on a DigitalOcean VPS.

The license is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, as autonomous entities are starting to become a real thing. This project probably won't become skynet though.
I actually got it right in under 1 minute, to my surprise...
Some of the amazing capabilities of the Amiga were influenced by one of its architects: Carl Sassenrath. He has since gone on to create the Rebol language which is even more astounding once you begin to look into it.

He's currently at Roku where I can only begin to imagine what he's working on. My only wish is that they'd replace the horrific BrightScript with Rebol.
Context Is Everything: How to Counter AdBlock
Seasonal stock market tendencies are real. I created a website (Seasonalysis.com) which quantifies these tendencies. Past performance is no guarantee of future returns but the information gleaned can be incredibly useful if combined with other indicators/analysis.
Coinbase API v2 developer preview
I think it's a large part of why the US airline industry has become so much safer over time.

Programs like this are why much of the worlds airlines are safer. It's not a US only thing.
three.min.js: 410KB
playcanvas-stable.min.js: 521KB

So 111KB difference. What would the load time difference be?
San Quentin, Tech Incubator
It takes the teams a while to launch everything.
> The license is meant to be tongue-in-cheek

I assumed that.

However, I think the notion of autonomous entities existing entirely in code is a fascinating idea. It reminds me of a fun game: http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/. You play as an AI that lives in servers and does "menial" tasks for enough money to grow into the ruler of the universe.
Nice to see they have links to the datasets. Definitely the type of thing to be combining with the always-listening devices