skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work there. People complain that they use deceptive practices, like a low intro rate and then very high cost automatic renewals. About 3-4 years ago they were bought by some private equity firms and they have been in the process of basically rewriting all their products. I was involved in a one year full rewrite which was later scrapped in favor of reselling Office 365 instead.
So, what's the catch? how are Dwolla going to make money on this?
Vinod Khosla: Failure does not matter. Success matters
Terrorism is modern day McCarthyism.

Yes, sure. But it's modern day McCarthyism viewed through the lens of loss of profits from the collapse of the Soviet Union. That is, without a Russian Bear to scare people with, the US intelligence community can't get money at will. Once Osama bin Laden was shot to pieces, Al Queda lost a lot of its terrorizing power, so now it's "ISIS" or "ISIL" or "Islamic State". There's Al Shabab and Iran and probably some others to have always been at war with waiting in the wings.
The counter-coat-hanger-ziptie method is great, and I use it. But for the sake of safety, I recommend a thin ziptie - something that would break under the weight of an adult. It's still plenty strong enough to prevent the door being un-coupled by a coat hanger, but weak enough that an adult (inside the garage) could make an emergency exit.
Doesn't load (2 minutes to get the loading bar at the top to fill, then it just sits and nothing happens except my CPU fan spinning up. Adblock is already off, since otherwise it didn't do anything)
that and not much blood becomes a whole lot if you remove pressure on the wrong place.

wait for the ambulance and help then, if they need it.
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Completion of Crossrail’s tunnelling marathon
Perceived quality issues aside, Precursor appears to be free for public projects. The site you linked contains the following text:

"The Free Plan includes 2 projects (limited to 300 objects) and 5MB of storage to get you started."
I've never heard of anyone ever getting "Banned" for running OS X in any sort of VM, or on non-Apple hardware for that matter.

The Air isn't "useless", but it isn't really intended as a development machine. It prioritizes size and battery life over horsepower.
If everyone did that, advertisers wouldn't make money. That only works because most people do listen to the ads.
Opposite. Funds will flow to treasury auctions for two reasons. First, liquidity has to flow and will to the safest destiation; and second, account surplus countries (eg. China) have to recycle dollars to maintain their surplus and will have no options apart from treasuries.
I think there is a bug in the program. Dropping 900,000 needles gave pi = 3.139 which seems pretty bad
I don't think I've ever seen a 'smart' ring before. It seems much more convenient than carrying around a fob or smartcard, if they could make it low profile enough.
To peel out, I'd say.
The ClojureScript Environment of My Dreams
I love Meteor Toys, so handy for development in a Meteor app :)
I'm here: https://codepad.remoteinterview.io/#?roomid=UpHnDhPnNU. Who wants to code?
Does this work for you? https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=forum/tm...

It works here with Firefox+noscript, but in w3m it messes up when you read an article and forces you to a "need JS" page. I might have added some other hack somewhere in FFx ages ago to get groups working that I've forgotten about.
> I've written about this at length in the past.

Link? ;-)
Happy to see that they have improved their Python support!
Banana killer on the march fuels risk of fruit's next extinction
Well, shoot -- I dropped out of high school and it turns out a GED isn't equivalent to them.

But Finland would work! http://www.studyinfinland.fi/how_to_apply/eligibility_criter...
Yahoo announces plans to kill off Maps, Pipes, GeoPlanet and more
https://ringly.com/

Never seen anyone wearing one before, but my wife tells all her friends about it simply because the concept is so weird.
The airport contributes to the overall image the rest of Germany has of Berlin: A subsidized place where politians hide and everybody else has an art (or nowadays startup) project going on and real work is only done when punks gather on May 1st to throw stones at the police.
Software to spot extremism among pupils
Excellent set of tools for developing in Meteor!
I wish VxL was better documented, because it has much nicer code than OpenCV. The lack of documentation also seems to have lead to its abandonment.

http://vxl.sourceforge.net/
Are there any arduino-based garage door brute forcing projects?
Interesting. As someone from the industry, which other companies would you recommend?
Precursor – Prototyping and team collaboration should be simple
What I thought this was, and what would be fascinating, is a tool that you give both the post and context, and it predicts the response and posts it at the ideal time.

This could work by training an ML algorithm over the reddit corpus (especially the contextually relevant stuff -- the subreddit) and metadata (including post time, among many other factors).

Even more impressively, it could suggest modifications, ala crystalknows.com. Does anything like this currently exist?
Tell that to the gay guys ISIS is throwing off buildings
Using repl.it with Python3
Even if we leave this aside, the intricate role-based access control paradigm of SELinux has since had plenty of competition with alternatives that provide the same benefits with significantly less cognitive overhead (AppArmor, Smack, Tomoyo...)

SELinux is very much geared in mind to the often baroque security protocols of government agencies, defense companies and certain enterprises. It may be cryptic for many other use cases.
I like it a lot but it's unusable for me as I need to make things that are longer than the screen (often much longer), yet this forces me to work within size of the screen.
Pentagon Responds to FOIA with Ultimatum
If you ever wondered where the smell on the DLR at bank comes from.

http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2014/02/02/how-a-tube-statio...
I was once in an exam hall and middle-aged female primary school teachers were in the next row writing a trivial (non-degree) exam on primary school mathematics education or something [^]. They were brazenly passing notes to each other even though the exam was open-book. Cheaters gonna cheat.

[^] With teachers like that, it isn't surprising that South Africa is so poorly ranked at maths.
Takeaways from “Measuring micro-services”
Thanks for the snarky remark, but I posted that post via Tor from inside the corporate firewall. In fact I mentioned that I use it the whole day. If that doesn't prove it works, I don't know what should.

The whole point of the Tor network is that anyone can access the Internet through it uncensored, regardless of countries' or corporate firewalls.
Back in 1998 the "Java Ring" from Sun Microsystems was designed for this purpose, and though it never became a mass-market product it got a fair amount of hype when it was new:

http://www.javaworld.com/article/2076641/learn-java/an-intro...

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/javaring-wearable-computer/
PayPal responds to fury over robocalls, will now allow users to opt-out
How a tube station gets its fresh air though an old toilet
There's also Logbar, which I hear is absolutely horrible.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1761670738/ring-shortcu...
I think the obvious right answer is to not have null in the language, and use an option type instead. There might be a better solution, but I haven't come across one yet.

Of course, it's too late for Java now. They have an Optional<T> type, but removing null from the language would break backwards compatibility. Of course, that means that a method that returns Optional<T> might return an Optional<T>, or null, so now you have 2 things to check instead of one :).
Definitely alive.

(a designer in a big company)
You should be able to make things as large as you like--the canvas is infinite.

To pan, you can scroll or hold space and drag.

To zoom, hold alt and scroll.
Adding Socrata to the Mix
Here Active Listening – wireless ear buds
Yup, that's why Balsamiq is particularly good for this kind of work.
I have mixed feelings here:

1. This is just wire-framing, not mock-ups. Adding mock-up features will take away the realtime-discussion-ness of the product, so that's that.

2. Wire-framing is essentially a brainstorming exercise. I'm not sure if it's actually very worthy to do initial brainstorm together.

3. But, what is valuable is that once you brainstorm, to show that to coworkers and let them make edits in realtime to discuss.

4. However, this product is fully focused on making the brainstorming part collaborative, not the review part. So much so that for the review use case, I can use it for free.

So I don't know. I'd still like to explore and brainstorm alone. Things must pass a threshold before they are shown out. Maybe there is a market, but I have never started on a blank canvas with a coworker.
Valve officially pins down a Steam Machine launch date
Heh, maybe Java 9(10? I have no idea what number they are currently working on) could forbid types that return Optional<T> from being null.
Yeah now that I google it apparently there are a few. Sadly they're all exactly the product I _don't_ want: One more way to receive notifications, or try to interact with my phone from a really small device.

I was thinking more in terms of identity management. If I could wear a subtle ring instead of carrying around 3 key fobs and a smart card, I'd be very interested. Especially if I could somehow do password manager/ssh keys!
My favorite analysis of Buffon's needle is this one, which pulls out the correct probability of intersection without any calculus -

Consider a straight needle of length L dropped onto lines spaced 1 unit apart. It is clear that the expected number of intersections is proportional to L. If you joined two needles of length L/2 (possibly at an angle) the expected number of intersections is still L, by additivity of expectation (note that we don't need independence). By induction, the shape of the needle doesn't matter, and the expected number of intersections is proportional to L.

We can work out the constant of proportionality by considering a needle shaped like a circle of radius 0.5, which has circumference pi, and is guaranteed to intersect the lines in two places. Therefore

2 = C * pi

and hence C = 2 / pi

Now for a straight needle of length 1, we can never have more than 1 intersection. Therefore the probability of intersection is the same as the expected number of intersections, which is seen to be

P = (2 / pi) * 1 = 2 / pi
That's a really Apple-apologist answer. You're essentially justifying it because it makes "business sense [to them]." Of course making more money makes business sense to them, that was never in question.
Does this require a network connection? I'd love to start adding speech-to-text interfaces to my apps, but most of the stuff I work on needs to be able to work without the network, and most of the speech-to-text engines these days are SaaS products in some form or another.
"what if your computer breaks?" is a poor reason. The real reason is to get an estimate of results in your head so you can cross-check the computer for mistakes. How much ice cream to feed my city of 30,000? If the computer says 7.336E9 kg, that's a problem.
https://www.dwolla.com/pricing
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> that's $8.75M in trading fees, per week.

But those fees go to the brokerage (Tradier?), not them, right?
May be it's just me, but making a facebook post about it just after your "official mourning period" is over doesn't look like genuine mourning to me.
The "source code" of http://samy.pl is quite interesting

/*
No source for you!
*//
/.source.replace(/.{7}/g,function(w){document.write(String.fromCharCode(parseInt(w.replace(/ /g,'0').replace(/	/g,'1'),2)))});
I've been using pocketsphinx with this neat Ruby gem[1]. It's really easy to use but has low accuracy (understands me correctly maybe half the time). I'm curious to see if Houndify does any better!

[1] https://github.com/watsonbox/pocketsphinx-ruby
It is, but the point was more that bringing in an outside person who may be less invested but has some skill that falls outside of the team's existing range isn't necessarily going to decrease your chance of success. We have advisors and incubators for a reason.
Yeah, my X on Linux is wonderful, but pretty far from what is offered elsewhere (or typical on Linux), and I have no confidence it would be a good X for any particular other U.
The Buffon's Needle method converges to pi very slowly. (There's a statistical method for estimating how slowly, but I don't know it; maybe somebody else does?) There was an incident where someone claimed to have done the experiment (I think while in a hospital for a while) and gotten a decent value, and mathematicians later rejected the claim as implausibly accurate!

One gimmick that people have mentioned is that if you don't choose ahead of time how many trials to do, you can stop the experiment when it looks like the value so far is near what you know pi should be. That allows some people to say "I did 47200 trials and got a pretty good value!", but it doesn't mean that they would have gotten such a good value without choosing when to stop.
Tangential, but...

> build an Anki deck

This is a giant pain in the ass and the public decks generally seem to be low quality (and painfully out of sync with whatever else I'm studying). I'd happily pay Duolingo for an Anki (or equivalent) deck they match to their lessons.
The manufacturer may need to push updates to consumers who aren't comfortable opening their computer. The set of people who want to install alternate firmware is however included in the set of people willing to physically open a computer.
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Funny, a recent qemu exploit, Venom, was mitigated by sVirt, which is 100% SELinux based:

https://securityblog.redhat.com/2015/05/13/venom-dont-get-bi...

I could easily find a dozen plus 0day attacks which SELinux mitigated in Fedora/CentOS/RHEL, but there is no point in responding to a troll with much more than the minimum necessary.
When I (and many others) say "piracy is not theft", it's not to "rationalize" piracy. It's to fight incorrect terminology, because such loose, imprecise use of language muddies the discussion and hinders productive discourse. Piracy is not theft, nor is it murder, nor is it rape. It is a different crime, with different costs and repercussions.
agreed, not my website so i couldnt control the name.
Just talking about how A-z includes non(standard) base64 chars
There are some nice introductory articles on Python/OpenCV on pyimagesearch.com. The author has also written an ebook.

http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2014/01/27/hobbits-and-histogra...
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Wait, this is Lycos, the search engine? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycos
That seems like a bad idea. It potentially moves the failure further away from the cause. It's nearly always better to fail fast and deal with the problem, than propagate. Obviously it'd be even better to not have null at all, or have a null that doesn't claim to honour a contract that it can't fulfil (Option/Maybe type basically).

For C# programmers I attempted to help fix the problem[1] (it papers over the cracks):

[1] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext
That’s kind of like saying “don’t get cancer” it’s true that avoiding cancer is a good idea, but it’s not really under your control.

Another way of putting it is if you talk to lottery winners you’re getting a very biased viewpoint.
So do you think calling Caitlyn Jenner by her current name is PC? How about pronouns for transgender individuals? What about gay couples who are married? Do you think it's okay to say they're not married?

I ask these questions because the more I see people throw the term PC on such issues, it's really the person who's offended is the person who basically wants to be rude or otherwise anti-social.
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I'm interested if you might have some alternate analyses that I might read. Especially if they are less handwavy but reasonably approachable.
I need a pear alert.
This is why the first rule of distributed systems is: Don't build a distributed system if you don't have to.

Unfortunately, a lot of problems eventually grow beyond centralized solutions and thus have to be distributed.
In this specific case, it's largely because sending troops back into Iraq would an admission that it was a mistake for President Obama to pull out of Iraq before their military was completely ready.
A BBC story not accessible from London! I thought UK taxes + TV license where paying BBC. Is there a mirror for this?
> Which should I consider more insecure: my garage door, or the deadbolt on my front door?

Your garage. Such attacks can be done remotely, sitting in your car. You can open the garage door; hang around for a while, and then casually saunter in. But an attack on the front door requires physical presence at the door, and hence easier to detect.
A sample:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=duplicates%20ColinWright&sort=...

There are more.
Winning by overfitting. Is that the end for those contests?

Maybe they need a "any score lower than X will be considered as a bast score", or score in other aspects of the solution (like complexity)

Or just have a lot of data for scoring purposes.
Great point.

2014 revenue: 12.5B (11.5B advertising, 974MM payments and other fees)

2014 users: ~1.3B but probably ~700MM daily users

Annual Revenue per user: ~$8.85 - ~$17 (depending how you count it)

My personal experience is that people claim that they would pay more for things than they actually would, especially when its more on principal (privacy). And I imagine just having to go through the trouble of handing over your credit card would be a significant deterrent. That's why I imagine companies like Apple are so insistent to have payment information on file to make that transaction easier.
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A woman who is relatively famous in some technology circles lost her husband (also famous in the tech community) suddenly due to a tragic accident. Her post comes at the end of a religious mourning period and she reflects upon how she has learned to accept help and work to move on after such a harrowing experience.

It's a pretty good read, and I'm sure it's heartfelt. As others here have mentioned, it's odd to see something intensely personal and thoughtful in a social media post, and it's tempting to dismiss it as a trite attempt at attention-seeking (given the medium) but I don't believe that to be the case.

For the segment of the HN community that hasn't followed the professional activities of Sheryl Sandberg or Dave Goldberg, however, the post will have little relevance other than perhaps some shared personal experiences and sympathy for the loss of the family.
The parallels with the music industry are very interesting: The music industries decided to fight file sharers with government intervention (just like what many want to do with businesses now with H1B workers). File sharers just figured out new ways of getting music for free and now we have things like Bittorrent and the Piratebay.

The music industry was forced to complete and yes, they make less money, but at least they can make a living. The same can be said of American workers wanting to compete with overseas workers: Figure out how to compete or you will be crushed due to the now global marketplace.
cpdef double _hot(long ups, long downs, double date):
"""The hot formula. Should match the equivalent function in postgres."""
s = score(ups, downs)
order = log10(max(abs(s), 1))
if s > 0:
sign = 1
elif s < 0:
sign = -1
else:
sign = 0
seconds = date - 1134028003
return round(sign * order + seconds / 45000, 7)

here's the function in question, so yes a newer post with fewer votes than a minutes older post will remain on top.
First time around only got 1 out of 6 but all the others I chose were the 320 wav using cheap over the ear headphones straight out of my desktop. The second time I got 3 out of 6 correct using the same headphones but using a cheap DAC and chose the 320 wav files for the other 3. I would love to do the test with my higher quality DAC and my higher quality over the ear headphones but I do not have access to them at this time. I rip all my CD's to FLAC at home and then convert to 192kH MP3 to load on to my phone. The only time I listen to the FLAC is when I use my higher quality DAC and higher quality headphones. I have bought 3 albums from high definition websites and on only one (Van Morrison Astral Weeks) can I tell the difference between the high definition version and the CD version in blind testing. Given this I have not purchased more high definition CD's.
Thanks @palakchokshi. Yeah, have been looking into that option. My only worry is many of the smaller consulting firms who would be willing to do such an arrangement usually follow shady practices, some even exploit immigrants, so am a bit worried about taking this option. Will have to dive and take the risk if nothing else works though.
Ha.

They've recently created some new shops at Canary Wharf Tube, and there is now a fancy Neal's Yard shop right where the Gents toilets used to be.
Thank you for this detailed and informative explanation!
I find your argument as both valid and invalid. Seat belts don't save everyone's lives therefore we shouldn't use them?
They are gaming the brand name, it seems. Lycos was acquired by Ybrant Digital in 2010. Ybrant later merged with an Indian company. It's now traded on Indian stock exchange.

Ybrant is behind this. So, technically, not the same Lycos.
Classes are Expressions
How big is space? (Interactive)
A free CloudFlare account allows unlimited domain DNS services and their 'control panel' is clean and straight forward.

Unlike GoDaddy their only upsell is for their paid CDN services.
Show HN: Anythings – A Smart Devices Search Engine
If those multiple centralized databases handle non-overlapping concerns, it is not different than a single centralized server. Still a distributed system (client & server) of course, but that doesn't seem to be what people in this subthread are getting at.

An example of this kind of architecture would be to have server per country, where each database synchronously maintains inventory for the warehouses it is (uniquely!) responsible for.
Also of note is that the airplane pictured in the original article (a F-35) is not used in combat yet, nor is it likely that the limited numbers delivered by now will be rated for combat any time soon unless the US gets into a serious peer fight and actually need all their planes.
Apple Watch: Five Weeks, Third Impressions
I support using a MAC system actually and not talking security on HN :)
Why can't apps like this have a accessible demo available to try it out? Not interested enough to spend time signing up and I avoid SSO whenever I can for various reasons.
I don't know the parent's particular circumstances, but NoScript has a whitelist import/export feature.
https://dnsimple.com/

I'm a happy customer, and I also used to work with the founder, Anthony Eden. He's a great guy, and so is the product.
In other words, you don't respect the other person enough to abide by the obligation that you created by agreeing to a 9 am meeting.

If you don't want 9 am meetings, don't accept them. If you do, you're obligated to show up on time, and you are being selfish and petulant by your willful refusal to set an alarm clock because you don't like it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9659995
It is NLP just not the latest "real" as you would call it. Its just rule based.

http://www.quora.com/Why-are-rule-based-methods-becoming-unp...

And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule-based_system
They do have lots of fancy ads.
Lol It's going crazy there!
It is not currently illegal for Chinese companies to buy space in a non-China DC.
Vienna is nice for a visit, I wouldn't recommend living there.