skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Because people other than the government might want access to data you would rather them not have?
First of all, this is an amazing app. It uses many SVG animation. But the drawback about SVG animation is when it comes to cross browser support, especially safari. You will have many issue working in safari browser. That is one of the reason i still pending to implement cool SVG animation and UI in to the real project development. Last but not least, Good work, keep it up.
It's also proven to be a challenge in Amsterdam [0]. In The Netherlands (the North-South Line) due to the 'soft' (marsh-like) ground.

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[0]: http://www.dutchamsterdam.nl/691-amsterdam-north-south-metro
Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9653389
All feedback from startup founders welcome!
Hello all, we have computed some data to better understand where people in Tech would like to work abroad. We thought we would share the data with everyone. Hope you like it :)
"Error, please check all parts of the form are filled" - didn't work on iOS mobile. My alerts! NOooooooooooooooooo!!
Yeah, because training them from 2003 to 2012 to the tune of $25 billion plus didn't make them a competent army, so another 3 years would clearly have gotten the job done.

In reality, President Bush is an utter moron responsible for the largest foreign policy debacle in the last 50 years. He upset the jenga tower that is middle east politics and we're going to be living through knock-on effects for a long time. In particular, Iraq isn't a single country; it's 3 countries held together by military force papering over long running ethnic/religious/tribal feuds. Plus oil.

Also, when Paul Bremer dismissed much of the iraqi military, one of his generals essentially founded Isis [1]. More idiocy courtesy of George Bush.

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3028529/Saddam-Husse...
I regularly see Name.com, Namecheap, and Gandi as answers here.
Beautifully designed, and props to the engineers for keeping everything so snappy, even with all the animations. Really quality work.
Thank you for the great work.
It's a great project, but that article is a bit deceptive. The breakthrough video is from 2010. Official opening is a year away. The tunnels are finished, with track, power, and signaling almost ready.[1] But the connections to the railway system at both ends aren't ready yet.

As tunnel projects go, it was a long drive, but not an unusually difficult one. Mostly hard rock, some water problems, but not too much water. Many tunneling projects are more about keeping the water out and the roof supported than digging.

Surprisingly, it was just a 4 TBM job, two tubes cut entirely from the ends. Although there are several vertical shafts down to emergency stations, those were not used as TBM starting points. Each TBM had to grind forward for almost 14 years.

[1] https://www.alptransit.ch/en/status-of-the-work/railway-infr...
Too bad my country's Apple store doesn't have refurbished products :(
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Quepid – evaluate solr search
If they include the Koralm Tunnel on the list, which is under construction, they could as well add the Brenner Basis Tunnel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenner_Base_Tunnel) :)

When completed, it will be the world's second largest tunnel, only shorter than this one.
wow, I was kind of shocked when I realized that just now.
HP Destroys a Dream Computer to Save It AKA the Machine
Sad but not expected. It was really powerful but, like most people, I stopped using it years ago. It kept breaking either due to the sites I was using it with changing things or the service being neglected (and my limited ability to understand how it worked!)
Have you tried IFTTT? Not sure what your usecase is, but that might do the job.
Maybe they're focusing on YQL instead, if it does offer similar functionality.
If I was looking for a replacement, maybe I'd look for an RSS aggregation plugin for WordPress? Personally, I have my own PHP code that will slice and dice feeds however I want.

I got about halfway through building a "news blend" app where you tap just the categories you want and it would blend all the latest articles from just your categories into one news feed and email that to you daily. But we never finished it.
Condolences and goodluck, I too would like to see a series of articles on what you've learned, the conciseness of your writing is preferred to what I find in publications.

As an aside: Guess it's time to put a credit freeze / lock on my record so the scammers can't hijack things. Lame that the agencies can charge us for this self - protective measure.
It's my opinion based on working with OrientDB a lot and ArangoDB a bit for the last 12+ months. I used to be a big cheerleader for OrientDB, but now I don't recommend it. I'm sure Luca will have some comments but he's interested in selling his product.
Snowden met with Argentina's president in Moscow
This is really important. I've seen so many people just thrash at problems because they did not have the math to solve it. It's not so much that they didn't take the course or whatever, but that they didn't even understand that there was a systematic way to find the answer.

You almost can't be a programmer these days without knowing about data filtering and validation. And I can't tell you how many ad-hoc ways I've seen people try to filter data that was worse than useless - it harmed the quality of the data.

So, linear algebra, robust statistics, optimal and non-optimal estimation, and some classification theory will take you a very long way in many jobs.

If this isn't clear - PageRank (the original google search algorithm) is just applied linear algebra. Netflix recommendations? Linear algebra. Spam filtering? Bayesian filtering. Medical imaging? linear algebra, Bayesian filtering. It goes on and on.

Math is not mandatory to be in the field, but there are a vast number of really interesting jobs which you have no hope of doing without a fair amount of math.

This is why I feel so sad when yet another "college is for suckers" thread starts on HN. It takes a lot of concentrated work and practice to develop the math skills and to learn to apply them, and college is the last chance you have to do that in a concentrated way. You just might learn about eigenvectors and invent the next PageRank!

graycat always has interesting posts about how he has used in his career - do a search.
Considering Schneier has been outspoken for decades about the importance of open source cryptography, I asked if he recommends that other people use BestCrypt, even though it’s proprietary. “I do recommend BestCrypt,” Schneier told me, “because I have met people at the company and I have a good feeling about them. Of course I don’t know for sure; this business is all about trust. But right now, given what I know, I trust them.“

Uhh what?

So following that same logic, if I know people at Microsoft who wrote the code for BitLocker, and I trust them, I should trust BitLocker.
Err, Europe has credit bureaus too:

http://aei.pitt.edu/33375/1/ACCIS-Survey_FinalReport_withCov...

Jump to page 31 to see what is stored by the bureaus in each country.
People have been asking this same basic question for years - heck, vast swaths of literature have been devoted to this basic question. The shortest answer I can come up with is that, if you look at it with a wide enough lens, the world fundamentally sucks. War, terror, corruption and the like are part of the human condition so as long as we exist, so will the darkness. In my mind, the key is to turn off the news, shut down a web browser and simplify, but my key likely won't work in your lock.

Have you ever read The Sun Also Rises?? Hemingway struggles with similar questions and he's a far better writer than I am!! :)
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29 Things to Check Before Launching a Magento Website
Indeed. If I may ask, which sort of development do you do? Web or app? How much ram do you have? And shich ssd size did you choose?

Thanks
Sure. It's just that until and unless they have a manufacturing process that can produce at least, I don't know, hundreds of actual products a week, we should be a little skeptical that they'll succeed where lots of people have failed.

If the timeline of a technology looks like:

-----------------------------------+++++++++++>

Where the -'s are failures and the +'s are successes, then there are a lot more points that aren't the first plus than that are.
Apple censors a album on iTunes, the cause could be racism and sexism. (pt_BR)
wow that is actually pretty cool. my girlfriend is a huge tech / style nut I would love one of these. did not see shipping expected dates. any clue?
This is a much more accurate than the old "Locks keep honest people honest" saying.

If you consider yourself an honest person, ask yourself how many times you've tried to open doors to random houses as you walk down the street. If you found it unlocked, do you rob the place?

If you need a lock to keep you honest, you may want to reevaluate your values.
(You may have to give in to the temptation to try aluminum foil for a while, before you see what I mean about it being a pain in the butt to work with. It sounds so easy!)
Several reasons I can think of. For one, no one at Yahoo seemed to understand what Pipes was for (part of a wider problem where Yahoo didn't seem to know what the company was for).

For another, Yahoo legal prevented us from doing any kind of long-term storage of RSS feeds. That made the service far less useful than it could have been.

Finally, they didn't give it any resources at all. Management was too preoccupied with the failed Brickhouse project (internal startup incubator) and the host of failed ideas that it spawned.
I'm surprised people need snopes to figure out it is satire.
Nazi...
It's very sad, the amount of apathy in China nowadays is unbelievable.

I don't know the exact time when the tide start to shift, but I remember people were much less litigious in the early/mid 90s. It took less than 20 years for a society to make such dramatic shift.
Windows 10 has open source IoT framework AllJoyn support out-of-the-box
I already have the tech after 3 years experience building this. I can rebuild it for you. Contact details in my profile.
Even if the speech-to-text doesn't, the natural language understanding does.
Well obviously that should be a backlog item to grow a user community by allowing users to upload modules.
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Thank you for commenting. Do you think I should go for the 16gb of ram, or would the 8gb be enough for ios dev? Assuming I don't plan on running any VM in it
I generally like and agree with FirstLook/Intercept articles but this....

> Microsoft, after considerable prodding, provided me with answers to some longstanding questions about BitLocker’s security. The company told me which random number generator BitLocker uses to generate encryption keys, alleviating concerns about a government backdoor in that subsystem

And then to answer it:

> Microsoft told me that while the backdoored algorithm is included with Windows, it is not used by BitLocker, nor is it used by other parts of the Windows operating system by default. According to Microsoft, the default PRNG for Windows is an algorithm known as CTR_DRBG, not Dual_EC_DRBG, and when BitLocker generates a new key it uses the Windows default.

Oh they "told you", great I guess we will just take them at face value and move on case clo... FUCK NO. Are you fucking kidding me???? MS may be getting better over all as a company by security/privacy is something I still don't trust them one bit on. That's not to say I think Apple is some bastion of privacy but MS has been in bed with the government for a LOT longer and hasn't been anywhere near as supportive of privacy/security as Apple has been as of late.

This ENTIRE article is supposed to be take on faith and I'm sorry but that's not good enough. It's one thing to say "Some encryption is better than none" or "It will protect your from run-of-the-mill thieves but not the government" but to eat up everything MS said as fact is insane...

And as one more gem:

> I asked Microsoft if the company would be able to comply with unlocking a BitLocker disk, given a legitimate legal request to do so. The spokesperson told me they could not answer that question.

MS knows what side their bread is buttered on and let me give you a hint, it's not the consumer side.
If you take regex as user input, you should use RE2:
https://github.com/google/re2

Even without this vulnerability, some regexes can be painfully slow.
Kaggle is a website on which users can submit statistical models/programs/predictions into competitions, often involving rewards and many competitors.

The goal is usually to make interesting and insightful models based on a sample dataset. Overfitting occurs roughly when you tailor your model too specifically to the sample data. For instance, a regression with 10000 parameters might fit the data really well, but only because we included so many useless parameters.

A poorly designed contest on Kaggle had a submission that deliberately overfit.

If you're curious, there are many ways to address overfit models (look up model selection or AIC)
I guess we're spoiled in Switzerland.
I have considered it, but for a "little" more I would have a lot more portability.
Ah, but consider that the fundamental cause of such comments indicates the opposite of defeat!

Where there is cynicism, there is knowledge of reality instead of illusion. Where there is sarcasm, there is an implication that a better reality is possible, and perhaps deserved.

A sarcastic cynical reply to a problem of government is an indicator that someone has identified a problem, and can envision a better world if it were fixed. They are waiting for a call to action, a plan, or an effective way of participating.

Imagine a world in which every action of the government were met with widespread cynicism and sarcasm! It'd be akin to the ultra-pessimistic attitudes of Russians before and during the fall of the USSR-- a public unwilling to give their government anything other than derision is in the active process of reformation.
Imagine, if you will, that there was a law saying that we could only grow 7,500 androids per year, and then only to do jobs we couldn't do with humans.

Then companies play games and replace existing teams with androids, using up 7,000 of the available slots. The net result would be a shortage of androids for one-way space exploration and the other original intended purposes.

This is the situation today. We have a rapidly growing need for software engineers in startups, and some people say that we need more visas for companies that are actually creating new jobs and growing our economy.

But it's very hard for startups to get H1Bs when companies abuse the program for replacing existing workers.

I'm not saying that companies shouldn't be able to replace existing workers with immigrants, but if that's what we want, we should say so and loosen immigration policies in general.

As it stands, this behaviour is essentially Disney stealing slots from startups.
Yes, we haven't run into that problem so far, but I know Illinois has pretty strict rules on this.
Thanks :)

Pipes's interface is primary the work of Jonathan Trevor, with lots of help from Daniel Raffel, Ed Ho and others.
> It took a lot of active mismanagement and folly to keep Pipes from living up to its promise.

I feel like this unique blend will be Yahoo's lasting contribution to the field of management theory.
I'm always sorry to hear these stories. I hope you'll write it up and blog about it, if only to help other victims. Navigating the byzantine world of credit bureau fraud is something many US citizens find bewildering.
Amazing! I think you just raised the bar for UX. The level of detail is OCD crazy.

Any chance you can share how you got to such polish? the workflow of modeling the animations and UX? How you concluded SVG would be best? tooling you used?

Amazing!
It really would be oh so nice to have something that can ingest RSS and Tweets and then apply filters to them while visualizing the logic through a graphical interface. Maybe even some fuzzy machine learning to use in building filters. Some more advanced dupe technology would go a long way. People would be building their own techmemes in no time. You could build ranking systems that award bonus points if something like longform or techmeme mention something.

Maybe im dreaming about a free version of Percolate, which I have heard is really cool.
What you are missing is that if the government has access then ANYONE can have access. That's the problem with backdoors ANYONE can walk through them. If I encrypt data I want to be the ONLY person who can decrypt it. If not then it's no better than security through obscurity.
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Animating on the Apple Watch: Making the most of image sequences
>Then why would it make them unelectable?

Because enough of the public is bigoted and fearful of personal differences that through out history many traits such as Polio, being Catholic, being single, being black, being a woman, being gay, and being a transsexual have been and some continue to be big enough deal breakers to enough people that a candidate will not get elected if they openly have that trait, regardless of how preferable they are to the public's best interests.

People are stupid, and honestly if hiding the fact you have polio is the only way you can get elected and help the country you live in, then damn it you should hide the fact you have polio for the time being. And later when you do reveal you have polio maybe people will become a bit more accepting, and realize how little that really mattered.

What I am saying is that your pure transparency model would be great for a theoretical democracy where equality and rational thought actually existed, but for the world we have, the democracy we have, transparency isn't always best.
It's being talked about like this is a new finding, but it's been discussed on various fora for the better part of a decade.

For example:

http://forums.radioreference.com/547816-post2559.html

The author's quip (while simultaneously claiming to "scoop" this):

"These forums were usually conspiracy/paranoia/gun rights types of sites, but maybe they were right this time."

Well, that's helpful.
Well the bootkit is undetectable to the compromised OS, but not to another OS booted safely from another boot device (such as a USB stick).

As the author explains in his slides, only the first read of the MBR will return the bootkit. Subsequent reads will return the legit MBR. So a compromised OS attempting to check its own MBR will see legit data. But an OS booted from another boot device can read the MBR one time and can immediately see the MBR contains non-standard code (eg. not the standard Windows or Grub boot loader) and can conclude it is compromised.
I don't see the ripoffs... I mean it's an online code editor... Many of these around, many way before you.
There are lots and lots of people with a legacy, granted few of them may be mentioned on a day to day basis, but when the talk falls on specific topics that is another matter.

For one Lincoln was around that time, so was a host of others that are famous.
Also, to be fair...someone has to write code to turn the text config file into bits in memory.
It would be really helpful to make the url easier to read to a candidate over the phone. Sometimes we don't get to correspond over email.
Why not both? Take the deal and start looking for a new job immediately and leave when you get it.
Right, that works to some extent. However there is still an upfront cost of drawing each component I want to use.

I think share-ability is important (seo/community, think of github repos). I'd like to do something like google for "precursor datepicker" view/fork or 'save'/star/insert it or maybe search in app for "datepicker"s.

That just my two cents, I think it creates a community and then as a whole everyone benefits, while the tool still remains uncluttered (the workflow remains the same, but components could be incorporated). Consider this: I could have say 4 tabs open which I then copy & paste some components I found into a mockup I'm working on. No searching in app, no component drawers, just simple copy & pasting between tabs.

Also, tracking a clipboard doesn't really classify something as "important", I mean, won't that list just get cluttered, I don't necessarily want to look through 20 copies to find the one time I copied the whole component. And workflow to update it might be a bit weird, do I edit it, re-copy it and re-star it, delete the previous staring?

Really, just my two cents, food for thought, great work, I'm sure you know better!
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> I guess what you say is actually what that means. Not a literal deathbed realization.

Then why not just say that? Compel me to self-improve. Don't guilt me in to some existential dread.

> On the other hand, your whole biology, tweaked by million of year of evolution, made it so that taking care of people around you is very often the best bang of happiness for buck.

Evolution compels you into procreating and taking care of that offspring. But there are many more motivators than good feelings. As long as you passed on your "legacy", it doesn't matter whether you did it out of joy or out of fear and worry. As far as the cause and effect of evolution is concerned.
Sorry but that's too much fluff and mozartesque stereotypes. Culture, liveable – yes, but not in a hurry or creative idling most of the time is just plain outright made up.

(Austrian here)
The equipment will be meant to generate revenue. But it can only generate revenue once I learn how to develop for ios\osx. And I can only learn it by having a mac.

I don't want shinny. I want something portable (hence the mbp or mba) and powerful enough to do what I want.
Dividing up equity is an ugly issue, because sometimes it's more about availability of talent, contract clauses, time (4 years is not a lot of time). Best to get it right the first time.
This technique absolutely works for methods. And again, this shows the elegance of having simple features that compose, rather than building a monolithic OO system.
Let me just tell you and anyone that worked on the team, thanks so much for it. You saved me hours of work and let me do it really damn well. This is a sad, sad day. I used Pipes extensively and ironically enough at Yahoo for some features/prototypes on News and Search. It was such an elegant and powerful app, I really wish Yahoo had given it more love.
Same reason you lock your front door despite the landlord having a spare key, or the lock maker having a master key. You're screwed if the landlord or a rouge lock maker employee want to get into your place -- but it's good protection against everything else.
Tegel is the only airport that I know that doesn't place barriers forcing me to walk through all the duty free to get from point A to B. You can land in Tegel and be in less than 10 minutes.
Yes, that's what /s means.