skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pardon me to interrupt strive for greatness, but the world I live in is massively interconnected, and it's becoming more and more every day.
Even if you try hard to avoid it, you have some impact, mixed with impact of other people. Yes, it might be local, and in some really unfortunate situations it might really eventually +-die, but let's focus a bit on average joe.

The world I see does indeed need to improve a bit, on all possible levels. If you strive to improve mankind as a whole, or at least big parts of it, please go ahead and do your best. Just don't neglect that personal, "local" aspect as so many do these days (ie crappy parents raising even crappier kids). This world also needs happy, balanced and positive people, not only depressed, exhausted overachievers (or overaimers) I see so often around me.

I tend to focus locally (friends, family, coworkers), and let the effects seep wider if possible, on their own.
One example - 2 weekends ago, I took my girlfriend to Mont Blanc with guide, on skis, and on top, after gruelling march on skis, I surprised her proposed marriage. The reactions from people around, but also total internet strangers were overwhelming, quite a few wrote that in these (for them) depressing days, seeing this gave them positive energy and hope (for life, relationships, people around etc.).

Did I change the world with it? Of course not, I am not the first nor the last guy that did it. Does this have some, maybe minor but positive impact on other people? Definitely yes. Enough drops in the pond can also have an effect.
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That's a protoype browser engine rather than a product installed on millions of users devices. The fact that this relatively minor project found that parsing error through basic testing at prototype stage actually supports the position that Microsoft should have found this before.

https://github.com/servo/rust-url/blob/1f08064eda8c2873bd64e... - has the string http://: in at several places - are you telling me that MS wouldn't be expected to run similar test data against their URL parser in Skype prior to release?
You can do a CNAME to your azure subdomain.
Apple to Unveil Tool Kit for Watch App Developers
yup. I was excited to read this until....oh no....hot pink comic sans. Had to close me eyes for a second to recalibrate. Don't make it such an effort to have to get over the barrier to the knowledge.
I didn't read it that way. To me the article was not a feel good story about heroic passers-by. It was about the mechanisms of spontaneous coordination of a crowd of people in a shocking situation. Whether they did the right thing or not is not really the point of the article - it's more interested in why they did anything at all.
Google plans $300mn data centre investment in Douglas County
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> Somehow if we can get out of the hyper rationalist maximization seeking robot mentality, an answer of some form may present itself.

If you have to be less rational to accept an answer, doesn't that imply that the answer is wrong?
It's a problem which is common in the transport sector to decide on where to build warehouses. Unfortunately I don't have recommendations that are open to use, most seem to be custom in-house solutions.

A big question is what you are optimising for? If it's average time, it could be that it is far for everyone. Or are you employees living in clusters that can carry a heigher weight? You already talk about different staff carrying a different weight. etc. etc.

It's typically not even easy to properly define the problem :-)
> What's your startup?

Extremely distasteful.
https://github.com/loadfive/Knwl.js/blob/master/experimental...

knwl.english.prepositionalPhrases = [
["about"], ["below"], ["in", "spite", "of"], ["regarding"], ["above"], ["beneath"], ["instead", "of"], ["since"],
["according", "to"], ["beside"],
["into"], ["through"], ["across"], ["between"], ["like"], ["throughout"], ["after"], ["beyond"], ["near"], ["to"], ["against"],
["but"], ["of"], ["toward"], ["along"], ["by"], ["off"], ["under"], ["amid"], ["concerning"], ["on"],
["underneath"], ["among"], ["down"], ["on", "account", "of"], ["until"], ["around"], ["during"], ["onto"], ["up"], ["at"], ["except"],
["out"], ["upon"], ["atop"], ["for"], ["out", "of"], ["with"], ["because", "of"], ["from"], ["outside"], ["within"], ["before"], ["in"],
["over"], ["without"], ["behind"], ["inside"], ["past"], ["away", "from"]
];
Can't Android Google voice keyboard be used as a speech-to-text interface and then the text can be used to trigger a command in a similar fashion?
Now it depends by what you mean by that. Many people's idea of financial security is very different, some see it in ability to live comfortably with materialism, others see it as not having to worry about the next meal and your shelter.

If the financial security is materialistically based, I feel working more for that will be regretted.
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I actually got caught on one of these from Adobe - I was doing a flash install, that I'd done many times before, and so was on auto-pilot. It's a bit like clicking send on an email and then remembering you needed to add an attachment (thank you Mozilla for attachment reminders!); a split second after clicking I realised that what I'd clicked on was not the normal license or whatever - by that point it's already installing.
I think I ask this every time the topic comes up but I'm on a quest to answer my electronics questions without learning maxwells equations!

What happens when you pull the plates of a charged capacitor apart? Does it gain energy or lose energy, how much?

Why isn't a van degraff generator violating conservation of energy? It seems like it adds charge linearly until the breakdown voltage?
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Another solution would have been to allow other researchers unlimited access to the test server as well.
Downvoted? It is a 2000 words essay. We all lost someone special, me too. I was wondering why this essay showed up at the top of YCombinator (and more when it comes with religious stuff).
Analytics are usually based on aggregating discreet events. It's based on irregular time series. Metrics and sensor data are usually regular time series. That is, series where you have samples taken at regular intervals of time, like once ever 10 seconds.

When it comes to querying regular time series, don't have a huge number of points to aggregate across a single series, where analytics can have millions in a single series that you're looking at.

Then there are other types of queries that you need in analytics that don't make sense in metrics like getting sessions and calculating funnels.

InfluxDB is still useful for analytics today, it's just that in some instances it's more basic and crude compared to what you can do with things like MixPanel.
Trying to help is better than the "I can't help; not my job" attitude you seem to be proposing.

"Due to the risk of crush syndrome, current recommendation to lay first-aiders (in the UK) is to not release victims of crush injury who have been trapped for more than 15 minutes."

So crush syndrome is not relevant here. There's a reason why it isn't well known - because the naturally obvious thing to do is the right thing to do here (after first stopping the bus and calling an ambulance)
Rolling resistance normally has a component proportional to speed as well as a constant component. (Aerodynamic) drag is normally modeled as proportional to v^2
Suddenly I feel I'm back in 1995. Bring on the dial-up sound... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0
A major company spending so much, even risk their reputation, on a competition in a field where computer already achieved better than human performance. I start to feel that maybe the industry should start looking more on other new application of deep neural network (e.g. reinforce learning by deepmind). There is still a long way to go before we can achieve a thinking machine.
> Or will it be that you didn't spend nearly enough nights at the office fixing your social media startup's bugs?

That's kind of an unfair comparison like saying that you might regret not spending nearly enough time telling your kids to clean up their rooms. I won't regret the tedium of work, but I may regret not spending enough time in whiteboarding sessions with colleagues that I respect.
I'm curious what's the government restriction to photography of the assembly process. Is this an export controls thing?

First, you can already see this stuff on youtube. And second, there are some advancements here but they seem of more commercial interest than military. And third, they're still having engine trouble (they just did a major tech pivot) so it's not clear you'd want to copy it anyway.
In a globalized world, institutions need to tighten up their safeguards against cheating, fraud and dishonesty. In much of the world, cultural attitudes toward cheating are a lot more relaxed than some of us presume.

There was a story about Indian students' rampant cheating at US colleges, that was presumably flag-killed off HN despite the horror stories that were emerging from academics. I've read about Australian universities basically selling degrees to foreigners who can't speak English and get admitted fraudulently. There is a currrent story about fraudulent admissions to US colleges by Chinese students as a result of massive SAT cheating. I'm not picking on Asians: Switzerland seems to have its fair share of scoundrels, as the FIFA scandal reminds us.

We need to acknowledge that gloablization sometimes brings unwanted side-effects and deal with these head-on.
something weird happened , loading the url asked me to download a file f.txt ?
It's OK I learnt a new word today too.
Talk about transparency, thanks for sharing this so quickly Salvatore.
Background:

The technique is actually pretty fascinating. This is something that's been well understood by the cryptography community for decades, but is somehow just recently being fully appreciated by the ML community. See here:

http://blog.mrtz.org/2015/03/09/competition.html

https://www.kaggle.com/c/restaurant-revenue-prediction/forum...

Summary -

Submitting guesses to a system that gives you back scores for your guesses, will quickly leak out enough information that you can reverse engineer a huge number of hidden numbers/labels in surprisingly few iterations, e.g. 700 iterations to covertly extract 10,000+ real numbers with high precision. This surprisingly rapid convergence is a bit reminiscent of the birthday paradox.

Further, this not only lets you win the against the "test" dataset, as apposed to the final "validation" set, but this allows you to significantly increase the data available to you to train your model on, since now you can train your model against both the "test" and "training" datasets.

Layman summary -

ML breaks datasets into 3 partitions "test", "train", and "validation". In cases where they're evenly split, this technique can double the training data you have access to, which is a massive advantage in ML competitions where scores differ by tiny amounts.

Moral judgement -

My opinion, this moral argument is misdirecting the attention from where it needs to be. Yes, it's bad what occurred here. But at this point, in 2015, and with tools readily available to crack this problem effortlessly, it's inexcusable for contests to allow so many scoring reports against their validation sets anymore. It's no longer a question of whether contestants will do it, but how many of them will. We'd might as well just let people self-report their scores on an honor system, if we're going to be this overly trusting.

Try creating a contest system like this in the cryptography field any time in the past 3 decades and you'd be insulted and laughed out. Allowing so many scoring reports against the validation set is fundamentally flawed. The only solution is to globally limit calls to the scoring api.

Another proposed solution -

Allowing everyone to see everyone else's guesses & resulting scores against the "test" set, so that everyone is on equal ground for reverse engineering the "test" set, and then globally limiting the number of scoring attempts so that the test set isn't reverse engineered too significantly.

Overfitting the "validation" set actually is not a problem either way, because none of these contests are dumb enough to let anyone score against the validation set at all until the contest submission deadline is over.
The E3 visa for Australians makes it really easy for us to move to the US.
My thought is that it's more difficult then ever to make high tech games. There's very little games coming out now that push the limits of what's possible.
It's almost like complaining there is too much water on the moon.
I can understand how you feel that feelings (yours personally? others'?) were not respected. Especially very short comments can sound terse to the point of sarcastic. However, the tone that you're bringing here is not quite appropriate. You seem to be raring for an internet argument: you're taking offense at pejorative labels in posts which don't have pejorative labels, and trying to go badass-philosopher on equivocations (they said "It's good practice", you criticized "It's always good practice").

So, I know who, roughly, the affected parties are here. But if you look close, that's not actually contextually obvious. People who don't know who the affected parties are click "Back" and then look at the comments, because Sheryl Sandberg is very unlikely to tell Facebook exactly who she is, who her husband was, and how he died. So they will come to our HN comments with a, "not to diminish anybody's grief, but who is this and why do I care, again?" approach. A simple comment of "her husband was a Silicon Valley executive" is great there. I mean, maybe I'd have added "and she is the COO of Facebook" too, since I've personally never heard of the companies he was a part of, but I remember hearing about his death a while back.

It's just supremely ironic. Here you are, inappropriately critically analyzing the appropriateness of critical analysis and disrespecting the real expressions of others' feelings while decrying how the Internet disrespects the real expressions of others' feelings.

I'm totally with you that there is a deep sympathetic response here where you and I both imagine living without that love that we're presently consumed by, or forcing someone else to live without that love. Yes, our feelings are real. Their feelings are also real. It's not the time to perceive slights in terse comments and expand short sentences into philosophical analyses. The phrase "which brings me to your second point" should be barred from this context. It's not just us and our sympathetic grief; they and their confusion are also very valid responses to a totally-ambiguous out-of-nowhere post.
Confirmed.
But Cmd+D in the map view is excellent, not useless.

Compressing the mapview (less white space)
or zooming (Ctrl-+/Ctrl--) would be nice.

I never tried SourceTree, but used to work with macports gitk, which started missing redraws lately. There is no comparison.

GitUp is excellent.
Well, somehow it nonetheless works for a whole lot of women/people in general; the statistic I've read is that the average gun fight occurs at 7 feet of distance. And of course one of the points here is that a gun is an equalizer for people with a strength difference.

Consider the Zimmerman-Martin case. Martin, taller and with the advantage of hitting first, was on top of Zimmerman, pounding his head into a concrete sidewalk, and Zimmerman nonetheless was able to draw his gun and shoot Martin.
Just like how I listen to all of my podcasts between 1.8 and 2.2x I would want my phone's spoken responses to default to a high speed.
In your example I'd probably have the direction in the measurement name. e.g.

{
"name": "network_bytesin",
"tags": {"host" "example.com"},
"fields": {"value": 50}
}

For fields, you generally only want to put two pieces of data together in a single point (thus in two fields) if you're always going to be querying them together. Either by pulling the values out, or filtering on a WHERE clause.

Unrelated to this, we've created a line protocol to write data in and it's a much more compact way to show a point:

network_bytesin,host=example.com value=50

Details here: https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb/pull/2696
As always we're oscillating. I too am thinking the older wilder web had something that has been lost nowadays. Everything is very similar even if cuter and more interactive. There were a lot of curious 'design' and aesthetics before.
"Trust and you'll be trusted said the liar to the fool."
I can confirm that it is awesome, I use it for http://www.araprototype.com for a long time now :)
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And that's different from Google recording all of your searches how?
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Yes. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-30/bond-trade...
My guess is it's Richard Branson's knack for self promotion.
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We don't have those recommendations at the moment. We'll be putting that out over the next few months after we release 0.9.0 and some point releases after that.

Out of curiosity, how many metrics are you tracking in Graphite? What's your sampling interval?
"in" + word-starting-with-capital-letter.
That would turn the competition into an exercise in overfitting.
"Instead of handing your payment to the clerk, or setting it on the counter by the cash register, here you are generally expected to put your payment into a tray that is presented expressly for the purpose. The clerk takes it away and returns it with your change."

Either I'm missing something from the context or author is mistaken. Trays and boxes in multiple forms and sizes are used everywhere in restaurants in Europe and ex-USSR countries.
In banks and similar facilities people usually hand over cash via some special trays built in the counter because of the glass separating customer and clerk.

In fact I don't remember a single restaurant in 20 or so countries where I could go to the counter pay there directly or leave cash on the counter. In every case when I tried this (I wanted to speed up things) I was told to go and wait for the waiter, who will bring a tray where I will put cash or card (in cases when card terminal in not wireless).
Used in France too, in a variety of sizes and shapes, from a rubber mat on a counter, to a small plastic bowly thing with a clip (securing the bill, or banknotes) in restaurants (in which case the back and forth protocol for change operates as described in the article).
I have to wonder how income distribution is currently in China, the only change appears to be the addition of industry leaders to what likely before hand was only party leaders.

Still the amount of money that moves around so quickly brings up the concern of possible fraud. How stringent are their controls on the market as compared to Europe or the US?
Fire animation is the new blink.
Is this only an issue if you are defining the BSON _id ?
I am a fan of Emmet! This helps you with coding-on-steroids.
A new Facebook scam in the wild aims to steal sensitive data
How many murders can you cite ordered by the management or even committed by the rank and file of Fortune 20 or so companies (equivalent to the United Mine Workers or Teamsters I mention in two incidents in another reply in this sub-thread)? Any comments from Jimmy Hoffa?

Post-WWII is a strong period for unionized employees and companies, with much of the competition suppressed by war time damage, and the playing field less tilted toward unions by the Taft-Hartley Labor Act of 1947. Post-post is after that, when many if not most unionized US industries declined, e.g. steel and auto.
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Ah, brilliant! Thanks.
Show HN: Tiny kanban board to track your job applications in single place
Nothing good can come of this
sed -e "s,NLP,some hardcoded parsers for English-only dates/emails/links/…,"
It's a mystery to me why, in this day and age, anyone is making firmware-upgradable hardware and not checking a digital signature on the firmware upgrade.

I mean, 20 years ago there might have been space constraints, but these days that hardly seems like a worry. So why isn't secure firmware the standard?

Or will it take some malware being publicly released to get the hardware companies to take notice?
What's more important, winning a competition or improving AI for the entire world? Do the ends justify the means? I Don't think we should be too hard on Baidu, considering they are attempting to improve their algorithm for the interest of humanity (or evil AI that will bring an end to mankind, depending on how you look at it).
dd/mm/yyyy and yyyy/mm/dd are as valid as each other, since it proceeds in either increasing or decreasing unit size. Having dates as mm/dd/yyyy makes about as much logical sense as writing: 10492 as 49210.
Not everyone is into retrocomputing, but CDE is huge, if not very active.
"Or will it be that you didn't spend nearly enough nights at the office fixing your social media startup's bugs?"

For me, that quote would ends all auruments.

(I had a liver scan a little over a year ago, over some vague(probally psychosomatic?) pain in my upper right quadrant. Driving home from my primary care's doctors office with the ultrasound script in hand, I took a detour and went to the beach. I called certain family members and just told them "I just wanted to say hello." The whole day was kind of a blur, but I didn't take any part of that day for granted. I splurged and got an $8.99/lb salad. It tasted better that day? All my aches and pains went away that day. It was a bad day, but a wake up call. I ended up being o.k., and started to take life for granted--again. I won't die wealthy, but I will die knowing I treated kind people well. I don't think I will ever overlook the selfish, narcisstic one's though. I will die knowing certain people do awful things in order to "get ahead" in life. I will never forgive them completely. Yea, I have a sister who trampled on family in order to get ahead. I don't hate her, but I honestly don't knows how she can enjoy it all--when it was gotten so ugly?)
This rootkit is designed for a major brand of hard disk and can infect the firmware from within the operating system (no physical access required), it's also completely undetectable to software running on the host computer.

Skeptical about this -- especially the claim that it's "completely undetectable". One of the projects[1] we've worked on for 01.org now ships with UEFI SCT[2], which was designed to address this very issue.

Flash LUV to a USB and run the suites.. the tests will write to a folder on the USB, both "raw" and "parsed" results, so you can essentially have a log[3] of any issues.

[1] https://github.com/01org/luv-yocto
[2] http://firmware.intel.com/blog/linux-uefi-validation-project-incorporate-uefi-sct
[3] https://01.org/linux-uefi-validation
> ^, \A, $, \Z, \z are standard across many languages, based on PCRE syntax.

Uhm... No? ^$ have always meant beginning and end of string, not line,
unless you turn on a flag. Not by default. You can check PCRE's
documentation if you don't believe me. And then, there's Ruby:

irb(main):005:0> "foo\nbar".match /o$/
=> #<MatchData "o">
I like to contrast this with a few links which were posted here a few days ago, regarding how Google is now a design-driven company.
I'm missing a spinning skull GIF, a permanent under construction sign and blinking pink text that scrolls incessantly.

GooGleoCities, perhaps?
Damn! Blink effect is missing. Will have to wait for the next version/update. :D