skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so what's the point? WHo wants a "random" sequence like 0100101101011011011001001001010110111010010101010 - that's not random at all!
Bill, from The Bigdil
Mobile devices are pretty stingy with auto-play sounds, which is probably why this is a bit confusing for you. On desktop with your volume up, it plays elevator music and dings when it gets to the top.
I love openBSD, it's implementation of certain things is slower (like networking), but it's so clean and well implemented.

even if it doesnt' get to play with all the toys (like ZFS) it's what I'd love to default to for application servers/bastion server/firewalls etc;

my only qualm with it currently is it's reliance of X11 for ports to work- I don't like install X11 libs on my servers wherever I can avoid it. :\
>plz console.loge

lmao
KC2ZUF here -- HN lurker, active ham.

I am going to nth the recommendation to purchase a used HF transceiver. When I got my license I took the approach you did.

However, the challenge is the easy/inexpensive radios to build are mostly CW (morse code) only. Learning CW is fun, but it's one more barrier, and will keep you away from other interesting ham radio activities (like digital modes). There are solid SSB/AM/etc transceiver kits (like the Elecraft ones someone else mentioned) but they are much more expensive.

The homebrew ones also tend to be lower power, which is fun, but will make it much more frustrating to try to make your first contacts.

A straightforward project I recently completed was to build a TNC Pi (http://tnc-x.com/TNCPi.htm). That will only require a VHF radio, and you'll get to put the kit together and (likely) make your own connector cable.
Wish my company had room to take on HS interns. ScriptEd sounds like a great program.
Basically same thing as with someone who see their future.

They try to fight reality and thus make what they saw self-fulfilling.

Once you look for insurgents you only see them everywhere and then you are ruined.
Perhaps, but the further back you go, the starker the shift in reading habits becomes. I skimmed this article in 5 minutes and probably won't remember it tomorrow. Compare two centuries ago, when the only books most people had were the Bible and Milton, and they memorized every word. Or three centuries before that, when the people who could read might have to travel across Europe to read a particular book, and might commit each page to a memory palace.
Bitcoiners and other libertarians?
Using Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana (ELK) to Analyse Donor's Choose Data
Solo plans actually start at 29 $ / month, and the tool is completely free of charge for open-source projects.

We also have a free trial that allows you to test-drive the product for two weeks, and right now we don't charge at all for private repositories since we're still in public beta.
I suppose a lot of "great men" are well known because they self promote. I have a lot less respect for Fuller after I read how he stole the "transegrity" idea from one of his students.

"Bucky's warm and uplifting letter arrived about six months after I first showed him my small sculpture. In that it was dated three days before Christmas, I suppose he was in a festive, generous, mood. A year later, January 1951 he published a picture of the structure in Architectural Forum magazine and, surprisingly, I was not mentioned. When I posed the question some years later why he accredited me, as he said, in his public lectures and never in print, he replied, "Ken, old man, you can afford to remain anonymous for a while.""

http://www.grunch.net/snelson/rmoto.html
There should be a significant delay between pressing the button and starting to move, too. :-p
This is hilarious! :)
"At QuantifiedCode, we use big data and machine learning techniques to analyze vast amounts of open source code"

So it's pylint updated to be fully compliant with all the latest buzzword standards.
>Nowadays, commerce is king. Everyone is obsessed with ROI, everyone wants to hire an MBA, everything is explained in terms of supply and demand, and every relationship looks like that between a buyer and seller.

It is very important to remember this isn't akin to a natural process such as weather nor to cultural evolution. The decisions made over the past 20 years to mischaracterize education as a commercial process are, above all, political decisions and increasingly proven to be the ideological line of hyper-wealthy persons who are actively defunding and destroying public education under the rubric of "reform".
The case comes amid a wave of gay marriage legalization...

This phrase, and the title, mask the fact that in the majority of states same-sex marriage legalization came from court cases, not through legislation or referenda[1].

"America", broadly construed, is quickly changing its mind, too, but this "wave" is more a product of judicial thought than public opinion.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_the_United...
The interesting truth is that the majority of Chinese society agrees with and supports such policies. Misunderstanding that and possibly trying to save them is pointless and counter productive. In my experience there is a surprising lack of individual social responsibility (or ethical behaviour) in China unless they are aware that they are under surveillance.
As an aside, it's no accident that women's suffrage coincides chronologically with prohibition. Though it turned out to be bad policy, prohibition was a galvanizing issue that drove many women to political activism, either for religious reasons, and/or in reaction to alcoholism and domestic abuse.
Sorry, I didn't catch that part. I thought the commenter was referring to anyone.
Remind me of http://www.innergeek.us/geek-test.html
The last few paragraphs really hit home for me - The Singularity is already here... Corporations are thinking machines with all relevant constitutional prerogatives available. Humans are already in service to them, much as animals are to us.
Yeah, I agree 100% :-)

I guess what I'm saying is that it would make more sense to me if OpenBSD and Linux were both on the list. As you also mentioned, flaws existing in programs is inevitable, so unless the defect rate, normalized for usage, is significantly higher in one case, it's not good evidence for the quality or security of one over another.
Considering we (and around the world) still fly jets from the 1970's and prior (although heavily updated) I'd say we have a handful of decades of human operation left.
MBA's probably supply quite a few of these.
ESPN aired eSports for the first time ever
The data we use to evaluate marketplace traction
I believe there was some discussion of using the same strict declaration as javascript ('use "strict";'), but there's already an "easter egg" in PHP that causes your program to exit and prints out something like "I think you're using the wrong language."

For some reason, this Easter egg was deemed too important to displace with an actual language construct.
A Search of Ice and Fire
No, it's not. The animations add no information that isn't conveyed by the graph already--it just creates a delay before you can see the information. And changing the behavior of core functionality like the keyboard/pointer will confuse people, and on this page there is nothing to be gained in return.
A Simple Bitcoin Analogy
Let us not forget that the "backup" engine program was cut

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/16/house-votes-to-kill...

Not looking like such a great idea now ehh?

Oh yeah, we're supposed to forget these things.
I have no idea why I have my address. Thanks for pointing that out, will definitely remove that in future. I guess it's at least useful for companies to know which country I am currently residing in.

I've heard mixed things about personal details including age, gender and nationality. Some argue that it's a problem for companies with regards to abiding with discrimination acts (especially US). I include nationality as most of my applications are abroad and my nationality gives some indication of visa requirements.
Too sluggish. It would crash.

There's nothing preventing one from using a single turbine for lift (or a cluster of them near the center of mass) and some sort of reaction control system (possibly taking bleed air) for stabilization and attitude control.

I've thought about that for a while, didn't actually went as far as doing a feasibility study or actually building the thing.
The Navy is already running a big competition for their carrier based unmanned vehicle (UCLASS)[1]. This competition is part of the reason why, I think, there have been regular press releases coming out from Boeing, Northop, et al. and the Navy regarding drone capabilities - carrier landings, mid-air refueling, etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_Carrier-Launched_Airbo...
And hackernews wasn't full of snarky one liners. Did you even read further than that before you just had to get your comedy 'out there'?
Options are sometimes more liquid than the underlying stocks, allowing you to hedge when you wouldn't be able to directly. Consider a case where you want to short a particular stock. Shorting a stock requires borrowing it first, but some stocks may simply not have many people willing to lend. Often you can still get puts on hard-to-borrow instruments to hedge your position. There will be a premium for that insurance, but it may be worth it depending on your position.

Options also allow you to bet on more specific stock movements. Maybe there's a merger rumor and you think the stock will either go up (merger goes through) or down (merger fails). You couldn't make that bet with a static position on the underlying, but you could buy a put and a call (straddle).
Funny, I thought the geek code was "RTFM"
As seing six days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9416993
You are right, and I basically do that and mostly write that kind of comment only to threads where I don't have an idea if I want to read it or not, even after skimming through (the first page) of that kind of article.

Look. No matter how wrong or stupid I act, If 10k people watch your link and everyone spends a second considering if they should click it or not, then that's a lot more time compared to choosing a title that says more about what to expect after the click, right? So even if I'm the biggest douche on the planet, we might still agree that it's worth for a link poster to spend some time about its title instead of just copy&pasting the article title.
Fred Wilson: Bitcoin Regulation Could Make Silicon Valley 'next Wall Street'
I strongly recommend watching the PBS series on the topic: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition.
The title is misleading. "America Changes Its Mind" sounds like it's talking about people's opinions, but the data presented is about legal status at the state level. This is misleading because there's a strong discontinuity there, and the speed at which states legalize something doesn't have to be related to the speed at which opinions change.

For an extreme case, consider some issue where opinions are evenly spread out among all the states, and it very slowly changes, at a rate of, say, 0.5% per year. It would take two centuries to go from all-against to all-for at that rate, yet once you pass 50% you'd expect all the states to switch over more or less simultaneously.

The real world isn't so clean, but the same idea applies. Looking at the data, the recent examples of marijuana and same-sex marriage are changing faster, at more like 1-2%/year, but you can still see that the rate of change in state legalization is way faster than the rate of change of public opinion, as one would generally expect.

A couple of random pages with relevant poll data:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/117328/marriage.aspx

http://www.gallup.com/poll/1657/illegal-drugs.aspx
> Because those engineers produce more value for their employers than the factory workers.

It's also a question of negotiating power.
Ask HN: Where do you look for a job? Why do you pick those places to apply?
OT but took a while before I realised the table was actually a representation of a map and not according to some other taxonomy.
You might be interested in su3su2u1's teardowns of HPMOR [1] or at least his review of the finished story [2]. The main takeaway is that MOR!Harry does not, in fact, employ any "Methods of Rationality", usually leaping to "obvious" conclusions without any experimental evidence whatsoever. The author then opts to make the fictional universe fit these conclusions instead of the other way around. Not only that, but most of the science/rationality references are either wrong, incomplete or not applicable to the situation. So despite having entertained me most of the time, HPMOR is not what I would call a praiseworthy piece of writing.

[1] http://su3su2u1.tumblr.com/tagged/Hariezer-Yudotter/chrono
[2] http://su3su2u1.tumblr.com/post/113649628443/hpmor-full-revi...
3 (Nearly) Effortless Ways to Keep Code Clean
Show HN: An opinionated approach to have type safety in native JavaScript
Cash for Cars Auckland
That is an interesting definition of "progress."
war's selling but who's buying?
A lot of people around Tidal are looking for someone to blame for its launching.
The article hits a couple of reasons that resonated with me more than Tidal did:

* The only marketing I've seen for it tells me what the service is for has shown it as a service to make rich artists more money.

* I'm already at the limit for the number music apps and such I want installed. I'm already split across Google Play, Amazon, Pandora, and iTunes. As a consumer, the last thing I want at this moment is yet another suite of new, buggy apps for music.
Libsass 3.2.0 released. Biggest release to date
People usually want to hire experienced lawyers. So there is a large pool of recent graduates and a small pool of those experienced.
I think you need something tangible. There is lots of cool sounding things here but no links, github profile or code samples. To me, that is a big issue. You say you have the experience, now show them.
Let's face it: we are not going to avoid mass data collection and scoring in the west either. The technology is just too cheap to not get people tempted to do it.

The least bad defense probably is to subvert this into a kind of peer to peer panopticon as much as possible. Everyone sees and rates all kinds of aspects of everyone else explicitly and publicly.
Scrolling by arrow key worked as normal for me (Firefox 37.0.2 on OS X). But I do agree about requiring javascript for a rather pointless bunch of animations - they could at least serve up the static images when javascript is unavailable. Its presence even led me to think they would be interactive - I tried clicking on my state, thinking it would be highlighted in the graphs below.
My favorite type of article, thanks! Even better when the stuff they're using is open source so I can check it out for myself.
How to interpret your own genome using (mostly) Python. – PyCon 2015
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Good point! When asking developers about their use of static code analysis to ensure code quality we found that most development teams use such tools only sporadically or not at all, and just very few teams have a systematic process or set of guidelines for ensuring code quality throughout all of their projects. So while some technologies already exist for this, we definitely think that there's room for more.
Show HN: Getting started with Go and Martini
The statistical way of approaching this problem is to sample from a Von-Mises Fisher distribution with k=0:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Mises%E2%80%93Fisher_distr...
Ah, I didn't know that.

I imagine there is a trend where, in higher dimensions, coordinates have a greater tendency to be near zero?

In a 0-sphere, x is either -1 or +1. In a 1-sphere, each of x, y, is (informally speaking) more likely to be near +/- 1 than near 0. A 2-sphere gives us uniform distribution for each coordinate. So I suppose that the coordinates of a 3-sphere are more likely to be near 0 than near +/- 1, and this tendency is more pronounced, the higher the dimension gets. (?)

n-spheres are funny things. Intuition about them is often misleading. (See, for example, the comments expressing skepticism about my original uniform-distribution observation.)

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EDIT. Ooo, some interesting questions here. What is the limiting behavior of the distribution of x on the n-sphere, as n -> +infinity? I imagine the graph looks like a narrower & narrower spike at x = 0.

Now, suppose we scale the graph of the distribution horizontally by some appropriate function of n. That is, let f_n be the probability distribution of x on the n-sphere. Is there some function g:Z -> R so that the function x -> f_n(x / g(n)) has a limit as n -> +infinity? Does it approach (wild guess) a normal distribution? If so, is this fact (even wilder guess) a special case of some kind of central-limit-theorem-ish statement that holds for geometrical objects?
>> Complexity is not synonym with intentional or unnecessary obfuscation.

Certainly not, no, which is why I see a difference between the complexity of chess and the obfuscation that goes into some high literature.
Yes, the fact that i.i.d. Gaussians give a rotationally symmetric joint distribution is a defining property of the Gaussian.
[Playing Devil's advocate here, just to offer alternate perspectives]

> How did they get to this point?

Having a dictatorship as a government tends to lead down this path.

> What goes on in the mind of the person sitting in the "idea room" when they first thought of this?

I don't think the people who pitch these ideas are always the negative power hungry types - though with the media constantly pitching fear as they do in North America, it's easy to see how we'd immediately jump to that conclusion. My knee jerk reaction is incredulity, but stop and think about it for a second... their brainwashing is no different than happens in our Western "Democracy." We talk about the "freedom" we have, but our behaviour is manipulated by the media, advertising, consumerism, the society around us which seeks to enforce our buy in to their values. What's the difference if it's peer pressure making us conform or the Government? The end result is the same - it makes it a struggle to maintain independent thought, and upon reflection, is it really independent thought anyway? Are we truly free? Cases can be made for both sides of the argument with both sides claiming the other is deluded.

There are many negative personalities in society, those that don't toe the line, those that don't care about the effect their actions have on others, those that would do whatever they please and to hell with everyone else.

I can see how in some skewed perspective, one might consider "what if we can make people conform to the way we think everyone should behave to make our society a better place for all." Unfortunately, as they say, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I could see it bringing harmony to society if everyone bought into it, however, I think it's much more likely to end up in some Demolition Man style dystopia where those that conform live in the open and those that don't wish to conform and want freedom live in some alternate reality, hidden from mainstream society.

Hopefully Taco Bell doesn't win the franchise wars or they're all doomed :P
I've wondered about this too. I agree that a newly minted JD really isn't typically ready to be a lawyer (they don't do residencies like physicians). But then I read about how much legal help an untrained (legally) but highly literate person in prison can provide to fellow inmates, and it does seem that a new grad would be better than what a lot of people get. Especially since a court appointed lawyer is only available to those who can't afford it under narrow circumstances. There are plenty of things that can lead to prison in a roundabout way that don't qualify for a count-appointed lawyer - and even if prison isn't in the cards, the stakes can be unbelievably high.

Part of the problem, I think, is just how little money many people who need legal help actually have. My guess is that there's a cliff between $150/hr and the next tier that people can afford. In other words, they can pay for the "expensive" lawyer ($150/hr isn't particularly high for a legal bill), or they can't pay at all.

I do think that completely restructuring the system for joining the bar might accomplish this. In other words, allow law to be an undergraduate major, or perhaps allow people to test in through self-study. Find a way for people to join the field without going very heavily into debt. That might make it possible for practitioners to get their fees down, while still offering a service that is immeasurably better than no lawyer at all.

Still, pretty hard when you're multiplying by zero, which may be the case here.
That is, unless the author considers "America changing its mind" and "judicial thought" to be the same thing. I immediately picked up on this as well, the common theme being what federal and state courts thinks.
Ask HN: How can hackers help Nepal earthquake?
- Electricity and Communication Problem: From the reports, it seems like some mobile networks and internet services are working, but the lack of electricity makes hard for people to stay in contact. Once their battery on their phone is dead, they are out of contact from the rest of the world. Is there any way we can help?

- Travelers: Foreigners in Nepal are trying to return to their home country after the tragedy. However, many of them are stuck in Nepal because there are only limited number of charter flights operating in Kathmandu at this moment. Maybe it could be a good idea to create an website where people can share information about flights and ways to get out from there.

- and more
Check out: http://www.broadband-hamnet.org

The amateur radio service has overlapping frequency allocations with ISM/WiFi.
In this case, "servicing" was probably referring to a heavy maintenance check.

There are several different tiers of checks, ranging from short frequent ones, to expensive, time consuming, infrequent ones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_maintenance_checks

Usually, older aircraft that are being phased out are mothballed shortly before their next heavy maintenance check. And the resale value of used aircraft, especially older ones, is heavily influenced by how soon the next D check is.
The Economics of Unit Testing
Actually we build our own code checkers using a custom query language that we have developed, so while we use a lot of buzzwords we actually do the things they stand for ;)

We are pretty open about our methods and technologies, check out e.g. this talk from the PyCon 2015 for more details on our approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN0kNQLDYCI

Slides are available here: http://www.slideshare.net/japh44/talk-handout-46938511
Cincinnati revamps its city with a data mindset
That's good to know! I would interpret it differently, though.

The idea, as far as I see it, is that you don't use title changes to increase the attention, e.g., avoiding to use upper case. But you should certainly use the title to increase the information density, e.g. 'translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X,"'.

But I see your point.
It seems every week there is a new javascript framework.
> Rather, those people were the communists, Stalin-defenders in the 60s

I think you'll find a lot of them were rather Trotsyists rather than Stalinists[1] which made the leap to the right during Reagan's early anti-USSR years somewhat easier as they had a long term hatred of the (post-Stalin) Soviet Union.

But yes, they were still assholes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
Nope. And I always carry materials on my interviews even if I'm not asked to. It's not much more work to carry a small 3-ring binder along with the notepad and resume folder I typically carry to an interview.

(Protip: always carry extra copies of your resume to interviews. There's always someone that is missing theirs and it's nice when you hand them an extra copy)