skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a first timer, going with people is preferable, not just for safety but they can show you how to camp comfortably. Solo for a beginner would be fine if carefully planned. Head somewhere with popular/easy to follow trails, comfortable weather and reasonably close to civilisation to mitigate risk. Camping can be such a valuable experience, though it's only fair to say some people hate the roughing it side of things.

I noticed you've posted an SMH link. If you're in the Sydney area I'd be happy to take you out. I really enjoy introducing people to the outdoors. I'm an infrequent camper these days but still head out a few times a year.
You can programmatically put statements together, and manipulate them like real values. But that doesn't mean that pure simulated execution has to be a part of the API :)
You can definitely say nothing, or just keep saying "I'd like to see a lawyer". An overnight stay at the police station is not a big deal compared to saying something stupid that you'll have to deal with for a lot longer.

Also something to keep in mind is that it's not illegal for cops to lie to you.
In the UK we have a housing crisis so acute that even "well paid" professionals are paying 50%+ of income on a 1 bedroom flat. [...] When and how will it end?

The UK makes it prohibitively hard to build new housing, and, consequently, in the face of a rising population and not-rising housing supply, prices rise. It will end when the UK liberalizes building: http://www.buzzfeed.com/dlknowles/britains-dysfunctional-pro... .
Back when we still used Shockwave and Flash on the web, I often used Pong as a quick test to see if designers could program Lingo and Actionscript to a useful level, and how elegant their code was.
New version of Google's self-driving car hitting streets this summer
7. Reputation and Respect. We all love those letters after our name.
Please don't respond to trolls, and especially not by inflaming the thread further.

Instead, please flag trolls' comments by clicking on the timestamp to go to the comment's page, then clicking 'flag'.
An equally valid reason, I use the Bluetooth Apple keyboard for the same reason.
مقاول حمامات سباحة – مؤسسة فهد المسيليم للمقاولات العامة للمباني
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Looks very interesting and well written.

I do have a question about baysesian statistics. What does a probability of 1 mean? What does it mean that a person is completely sure about the outcome of an event?

For a frequentist 1, means that every observation in the past has been the same, and then you have to decide if there are enough observations to infer about the future.
It looks like the result of combining the first volume of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_of_Theoretical_Physics with SICP.
Just a comment: They'll had always a win, by sacrificing the possibility of both of them guessing right.
With built in gps, Sony smartwatch 3 (android) rules
At first I was amazed they'd managed to get it to run on a phone too, but it seems this new one uses quite a different technique which gets nowhere near as smooth results.

The new technique is described here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hype...
Everybody wants to be Elon Musk but the way post-industrial unregulated capitalism works leads to a handful of Musks and their corporate entities controlling, well, pretty much everything, and fierce competition among the masses for scarce resources. AKA feudalism.

The era of the middle-class was a blip on the historical radar. Feudalism ruled supreme for thousands of years and couldn't be clearer that we are currently backsliding into an era of "digital feudalism".

It's not like Google, to name the obvious example, is really hiding their intentions. Larry Page just a few weeks ago said he thinks government is becoming more irrelevant and "outdated" and nobody even blinked. Well who's going to replace the outdated dinosaur government? The writing is on the wall. Anyone who seriously believes in the pipe dream of a libertarian utopia is a deluded fool. The innocently named "Internet of Things" is bringing the big SV players into every corner of every home and it's not about controlling your toaster with a smartphone, but it most certainly is about control. How exactly things will play out is impossible to predict - I mean a 2010 podcast of academics and students discussing Facebook Twitter and MySpace sounds quaint and old-fashioned - but history shows what happens when power is concentrated in a few hands. And the USSR was supposed to be a Utopia too...

Personally I quite enjoy living in tumultuous times but it's worth remembering the Chinese saying "may you live in interesting times" was used as a curse ;-) Don't be evil, now!
Many people say there is absolutely zero aggregate difference amongst various countries in terms of both governance and culture. Could something like this, on such a scale, actually fly in a western country?
Lots of great advice on hacker news lately. Whether it's to start embracing your time alone and doing activities on your own, or learning by doing the things which most excite and fulfill your desires, I'm enjoying it.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather use the tool that I don't have to hack the training wheels off of first when I'm trying to update 100,000 machines to mitigate a critical security issue.
Please resist complaining about downvotes, as the site guidelines ask. Most unfairly downvoted comments get corrective upvotes after a while—that's what happened in the GP's case. Comments like this one, though, just add noise.
Propagating Weak Keys Is a Problem Even If Errors Are Honest
I don't care if you don't need to know about cancer. We all do!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9182332
When was there ever an event where people were cheering that hard for Steve Jobs? It's moments like the one seen at the end of this trailer that detract from the historical accuracy of the film.
Yes, that was the one I meant. Sorry, I forgot that there also was a band just called Riot.
Starbucks increases neighborhood, home values
So they don't actually need analytics at all, it's just marketing people trying to preserve their jobs.
For me the big problem isn't battery life, it's cats deciding to knock the mouse onto the floor and hide it. A wired mouse makes this very easy to fix!
Cold Calling Techniques for Daily Deal Site Owners
I doubt I'm the only one to confuse the Pascal architecture (successor to Maxwell) with the Pascal language.

This will make all of the stuff in Caffe (C++?), Torch (C) and Theano (Python) faster by inclusion of cuDNN, a low-level CUDA-optimized library of deep neural network primitives.
There's always [(a, b) | a <- toss, b <- toss]. It's not as Haskell-y, but it's simpler.
I live in a Middle Eastern country, and as I understand in East Asia it is pretty much the same:

People here very much discriminate against candidates based upon race and where they were educated. I would go so far as saying a Western candidate, fresh from completing their course from a Western university would be chosen over an Indian candidate with a similar level degree from an Indian university and 5 years experience.

There isn't much you can do to change your race, so a lot of people opt to get fake degrees from 'Western sounding' universities. The show they have setup is pretty tight, you can even phone up to 'verify' that they were in-fact a student.

(Just to clarify I'm a Westerner with a Western degree so this isn't jealously or anything like that)
The only information each person has it their own coin, so their strategy is a pair of functions (f,g) from bits to bits, where either fx=y or gy=x (or both) for any bits x and y. There are only four possibilities for f, so picking, at random, f=id, gives g immediately.
Reminds me of Dr Ebert's hat problem: http://web.csulb.edu/~tebert/hatProblem/nyTimes.htm
I wrote an editorial on Mediatek[0] that you might be interested in. I disagree with Mediatek being "open" though, they're so closed source that they basically violate GPL.

The rooting is definitely to do with company culture though, the Jiayu S3 I recently played with[1] (and has become my daily driver) actually has a root toggle in the settings menu. Great stuff.

[0] http://www.neowin.net/news/the-qualcomm-reign-on-smartphones...

[1] http://www.neowin.net/news/review-of-the-jiayu-s3-hands-down...
I would assume that they are misusing the term. Accurate transistor models are more often used for simulating analog circuits, I think.
I have zero respect for someone who would take a role like that.
Startups are making a big wave the cost of starting one has gone way down
Because that land was controlled by Sweden before 1700s. But in any case, the article I linked to is written better than I can explain and also links to other relevant info if you are interested.
I just moved to a new city a few weeks ago and have started going to music shows weekly. Shared experience is a great way to connect with new people, not just enjoy something together with friends. I just met a new friend yesterday, and have had nice conversations and interactions with a number of other people that either turn into just a nice one-time experience or a potential friendship.

Sporting events and music shows are, I've found over the years, great things to go alone to. It might be a bit intimidating to start talking to a group of people, but approaching someone who's by themselves (or even a small group) can lead to a nice conversation or potentially something more lasting.
Getting enough sleep is the most important factor in productivity for programming or other "brain" work. Caffeine is not a real substitute for sleep.

When and whether to take in caffeine depends somewhat on your own situation. I am not a morning person. Morning caffeine helps a great deal as far as getting into the correct mindset, and I end up drinking a few cups of French press (or a double espresso) in the mornings and don't usually need to take any for the rest of the day. I sometimes take tea in the afternoon, but some of that is because I enjoy the break rather than a need to manage alertness.

I also worked previously at a company where half of the programmers would take an actual 30-60 minute lunch together everyday and this break in the middle did alot to help both the desire to be at work and actual productivity as there was rarely an "afternoon slump."

IMO, the best way to ensure productivity is to get enough sleep and take small regular breaks of ~5-10 mins every couple of hours, whether to get coffee/tea or just a drink of water and a short walk. A lunch break is also good if you can manage it. The mind works more efficiently if you don't force it to tackle too much at a time. Stepping away from the screen for a few minutes and just walking lets your conscious mind rest while still letting subconscious mind work on the problem.
Probably cultural. Where I'm from (NZ) chairs sorta belong to the table; you wouldn't take a chair from a table or hang your jacket on it if there's someone else sitting there, at least not without asking first.

I had a similar experience in a food court in Bangkok. My wife and I bought our food and sat down at a table that had some bagged food on it (since there weren't any clean tables available). Assuming it was someone's leftovers that they neglected to trash, we just moved the food to the side since there wasn't a rubbish bin nearby.

A few minutes later someone came up and angrily told us that was his table and it was his food, and he demanded we find another table.

Really confused but not yet learning our lesson we moved to another table and moved some more food aside. Another man yelled at us, this time even angrier.

Seems it's pretty common for people to buy one thing, take it to the nearest empty table to 'reserve' it, and go elsewhere and get more food.

I guess when you're in someone else's country you just have to realise that you probably are the asshole and apologise, even though it doesn't make much sense :S
So you have no respect for a researcher who took rhe stand against Microsoft in the Microsoft antitrust case?
Funny considering how terribly drug addiction is handled. Many people choose to be addicts and are very content with the tradeoffs, if any, they make.
i agree - i think it is important to not look at your phone or a tv (when you are out), the reason you are out is to presumably meet people and have fun. the easiest way to avoid this issue in my experience is

* make sure the bars you go in are crowded.

* given (1), always look for a long line for a drink, it gives you a lot of time to start a convo

* never sit down, always be standing (makes it it easier for people to approach you)

* go out later at night, people are more intoxicated and are more willing to talk (for better or for worse)

if a random person asks me if i am alone these days, i usually just tell them i am waiting for a friend that is running late and they drop it - but if i follow that check list, i never run into that situation anymore anyways.

I hate sports and dont follow them so I can never use them as a conversation starter. i live in NYC and this works in the Lower East Side / East Village / West Village - San Fran might be tougher - not sure
I found this one of the most useful books I've read, but less so for the physics (which was mostly an intellectual curiosity), and more so for understanding how to write good code.

In it, Sussman shows you how to:

* Write a Lagrangian

* Symbolically convert it into Lagrange's Equations

* Compile those into native code

* Numerically integrate the with an optimized numerical algorithm to get a path of motion.

And all of this, with beautiful, clean, concise, simple code.

A-fing-mazing.
> because it's not enough to do much with in the first place.

Uh...I mean, $10k would pay my rent for slightly more than a year (I don't live in SF). That's more than enough time for me to find a new job. On the other hand, $1,000 would pay my rent for less than 2 months. That's plenty of time for me to get evicted and be out on the street.
are you drinking when you go out or no? also - which neighborhoods did you try ?
As someone who has rewritten pacman for fun, it's not great. The tool itself works well, and quickly, but the package format is... interesting. Provides seem like a bad afterthought, and package signing being opt out and constantly breaking is interesting, at best.
Mozilla-backed Rust language stabilizes at version 1.0
But what would happen if we actually succeeded in preventing aging and death? Death is, as far as I can tell, not an accident or some kind of cosmic tragedy. It's the constant, forced renewal that makes biological and social evolution possible.

Of course I'd love to live more than a paltry few decades, and I'm desperately afraid of losing my loved ones someday. But to just end death - assuming we had the means - would be robbing our descendants of their birthright and put the brakes on the main force for human adaptation. I honestly believe that the death of individuals serves a key role in the health of our species as a whole.
Well... it's used to invert the scalar multiplication and compute the discrete logarithm - with a notation similar to other comments:

Easy: given int n, point P -> compute Q = nP

Hard: given points P, Q (known to be nP for some n) -> compute n

This said, similarly as RSA vs factorization, DHP vs DLP (and other problems) are only assumed to be equivalent, meaning that one could find an easy way to break DH without computing the DLP.
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No it doesn't. The proof for amortized O(1) only works if you double the array size on every expansion, which only happens until a "ceiling" gets hit and then the slice expands by less.

This results in O(n) complexity.

And this is assuming absense of memory pressure, if there is memory pressure it will very quickly becomes O(n^2) complexity, and god help you if it hits swap.
Torch (7 at least) uses Lua as the language you program in.
It's funny you mention this. Myself (and a quite few other Bay Area people) were at the filming for this film at the De Anza theater. Everyone was so bored and desperate to be on camera that they were cheering at the top of their lungs and flaying their arms about every time the camera turned on.

I remember thinking how absurd it was, but we were all bored so what the heck!
I wonder if the fabric is machine washable.
Absolutely. That makes him even worse.

"Antitrust" is a bogus concept.

It is never and was never in the public interest.

It is also a massive violation of the rights of companies and their shareholders.

Consider that if Windows/IE were really that bad, people would have just switched more readily to a Microsoft competitor. Desktop-quality Linux would have come about/come about sooner, or something equivalent.

This is an example of the point that there is no such thing as a monopoly unless it's created through legal channels (i.e. is granted by the government).

There is no business that can't be competed against with sufficient capital.

And the global economy accumulates spare capital over time (because in the net, the species produces more than it consumes).

Even "natural monopolies" are a function of a mistaken way to implement property rights, as opposed to being "natural." Because you can always build underneath or around whatever is already there.

edit: This is a serious intellectual comment that deserves to be read. It also matters a lot for our industry. Consider Google in Europe right now.
Poor mental health, which indirectly affects everything from the jobs they do, how they treat one another, poor health habits, everything...
1-hour interview with the CEO of Doomlaser. sentient AI discussed. Talk: 4m50s
Here's one of their sites: Columbiana University.[1] The name is similar to the Columbiana campus of Kent State University, but the two are unrelated.

CNN's IReport site, which publishes press releases without checking them, has one of their bogus PR announcements.[2]

Our SiteTruth system is not happy with their site.[3] "No street address found on site ... Secure certificate: No valid certificate. ... Rating: Site ownership unknown or questionable (No Location)" When a site that's trying to sell you something comes up like that, it's not good.

[1] http://www.columbianauniversity.com/
[2] http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-982469
[3] http://www.sitetruth.com/fcgi/ratingdetails.fcgi?url=www.col...
DataCafe.Biz: Trade Your Feelings for a Cookie?
Maybe I'm reading it wrong but according to that there is ~10m shares outstanding at a price of 0.00028btc per share. Doesn't that make it worth around 2800 btc not 2.8m?
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Uhh no. Using illegal methods to catch bad guys is bad. So no, parallel construction isn't acceptable. At all.
Interesting. I didn't appreciate that the word "epidemic" has such a broad use (from Wikipedia):

An epidemic disease is not required to be
contagious, and the term has been applied
to West Nile fever and the obesity epidemic,
among others.

The E. coli O157:H7 the girls acquired was foodborne. We don't routinely practice cannibalism in this state, so there was no danger of the outbreak continuing to spread once the farm in question stopped distributing raw milk.
How misbehaving at school made one man a multimillionaire
Even better, further down the thread drew houston comes on to say that he is working on a similar idea and that he could email him to chat.
Eh? Everyone knows they have a shady business. People have known that for years in Pakistan. The Pakistan Software Houses Association condemned Axact to be a diploma Mill long ago.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=economics
Ask HN: Registering an .ie domain?
I am looking to register an .ie domain for a personal project of mine. However as I am not based in Ireland (in the EU though) it looks like they might reject my application.

Does anyone have tips or experiences, registering an .ie domain and can point me in the right direction?
Thank you! I had no idea it existed
Can't Alice just always pick heads, and Bob always pick tales?
I think a lot of people experience a strange sort of complementary relationship between travelling and reading. Perhaps it's something to do with the notion of exploring new territory, both physically and imaginatively. This might be why you see lots of "shared bookshelves" in hostels around the world.

You might be interested in BookCrossing.com. You write a note inside a book and leave it in another country, and it's encouraged to read the book, and then take it somewhere else, and keep track of its progress on the website. I'm not sure how successful it is in practice generally, though. I left a book once in Ho Chi Minh city and it got as far as Bangkok, but I don't know where it is now.
Surveillance Without Borders
"Double stealth mode" gave me a solid chuckle.
This fails if Alice flips heads and Bob flips tails.
It is subsidized -- the development costs were largely born (I think, but at minimum partially born) by the public ad supported version. It's perfectly possible that it would not be profitable to run it solely as an ad-free business, but once you've already built it the profit is largely incremental. Don't ignore their strategic reasons for building it either, ie cutting the legs out from under microsoft's most profitable product office: it's quite possible google apps is not particularly profitable and the value is largely strategic.
Nice observation, and funny!

For certain evening activities it should be obvious why in company is better than solo. These occasions become cherished chapter points where we reflect and share all kinds of information. We celebrate even the smallest milestones, any excuse for cheers.

I wonder how often solo activities cause valued nostalgic feelings later? I have a cherished memory of a hike in the mountains I did alone, but no great memories of solo dining-out adventures. So if we accept the objective is to get some work done on a laptop when dining alone, or travelling alone, then that's all good. But ordinarily non-work-related dining out and travelling would be best done with someone else.

To suggest we should do more things alone I couldn't generally agree with, (depending on the activity - visiting an art gallery is great to do alone.)
I do because I've been running it since before gmail was a credible option, and it's really not difficult or very much work to run a small mail server for a few people.

I also don't like being dependent on a free service that could at any time have a policy shift I don't like. Or simply be shut down; unlikely as that seems for gmail, the internet is littered with the corpses of services that seemed solid until they weren't.
This seems to make the false premise that you need computers to make decisions algorithmicly. If someone writes out a set of hard rules as to who can apply for a welfare program, the result will be the same if a human or machine makes the determination.

Long before computers existed, people complained about "rigid bureaucracy", which is effectively a complaint that government or business employees stuck to a process (an algorithm) that had some problems.
It's common in some industries, yes, but in California at least, many of them aren't actually enforceable. A company can write an enforceable NDA, but it can't be a blanket agreement. It has to clearly delineate which information is confidential vs. nonconfidential, and establish credible policies for handling confidential information.

(Since employment is at-will, a company could still fire an employee for talking about anything the company doesn't like, confidential or not. But that's a different matter from having an enforceable confidentiality agreement.)
This video did the rounds a few years ago, and I think it nicely captures the sentiment of doing things alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs
Question, if their employees signed NDA's so does that prevent them from testifying in court against Axact? Impersonating a US govt official is a federal offense. Does the NDA prevent them from reporting that as well?
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