skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See also:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cargo%20cult&sort=byDate&prefi...
I have been trying to use Android voice for five years and have been shocked at how many words it completely mangles for me. Just completely wrong. This has surprised me since I am Canadian, live in the USA and have a generic American TV accent.

The failure rate is high enough that I rarely use the voice feature, despite the fact I have problems with my hands that make typos a constant irritation. I know I am just an anecdote - the strange thing is that my voice and lack of accent should be the easiest thing for Android to navigate.
When you are currently employed, it is understood that you cannot ask your current boss for a recommendation. So long as the new employer does not know that you are under the ax, you will not have to give this reference. In jobs after that, you may or may not have the option of using the Disney boss as reference, but that's a long way off and uncertain ...
During 2nd Iraq War, some newly arrived Apache helicopters were mortared while they were in hangar area and destroyed. US commanders were mystified because they were in the middle of a huge base and the insurgents couldn’t have know the exact area they were kept in.

And than they discovered that some troops has taken selfie with Apache in the background. The photos unfortunately has GPS location embedded. Insurgents found the photos on social media, figured out the GPS data, and figure out exact location of the Apaches.
Disney fires 250 tech workers and replaces them with H1B workers
Meh. It's always been there. It's just that the internet has allowed us to see it better.

Also, this definition of 'far' left or right (at least here in the states) is not all that far, historically speaking. Far right would be a return to religious law, banning of contraception, a return to a theocracy, etc. There are countries like that, and we view them as nuts and places you dont want to live in. Far left would be a total communist state (I think) and we all know those are equally as bad. Yet, people do live, love, have families, die, fight for, and defend those countries. Something else must be going on, right?

Again, there is a trap of viewing politics as a 1-D continuum. Granted this is better than a 1-D binary, but politics has as many dimensions as there are people, if not more. We all have opinions, or have the idea that our ideas are not important.

What is most important is that we VOTE. If we think these people are too far right or left, the best way to do something about that is to VOTE and participate in your community.

https://www.opencongress.org/people/zipcodelookup

http://www.civiced.org/resources/curriculum/lesson-plans/456...

https://www.gop.com/get-involved/

https://www.democrats.org/projects

and many more.
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Thus creating 1000+ more Americans uninterested in fixing the immigration system
Platzi is branching out into more areas! Sweet...
True, however Amazon has been constantly investing in new warehouses, infrastructure, adding new products, expanding their current offerings, etc.

I can't think of a single unique or new thing GoDaddy has done in the past 10 years.
You can always tune this by gradient walking to the minimum of HN complaints.
This startup is bridging the gap between today's web and tomorrow's VR
On a contrary note, someone famous said that it's better to set you life's goal as a very hard problem and chip away at it. Every decade you will see the progress you made and will keep you focused. The argument is that if you keep short achievable goals then there is a transition period between goals which are tough and perhaps in hindsight it may look like a sail in the wind.

A very comprehensible example for me is Don Knuth. A part of his drive is his ambition to finish the series of books.

Having said so, there is no panacea and I think it very well depends on how one's system is wired.
But don't we have extremely straight forward math that can convert bonds into equivalent terms? If I'm 3 years into my 10 year bond, and the rate changes the choice isn't hold - not hold, since I'm effectively making the same bet as if I had the net present value of the partially paid out 10 year bond and I was evaluating 7 year bonds.
There should definitely be a bigger dataset version, the teste data is a very small fraction of the available memory.
What You Learn from 1,000 Days of Meditation
I disagree.

> "hacking has left teenage basements and has become weaponized and used by governments around the world"

Source? Particularly with respect to "weaponized". The worst I saw was North Korea alledgedly being responsible for pirating a crappy movie, and a 10 minute shutdown of github a few months ago.

> "Military self defense."

Who and what are you afraid of? And how does this policy help with that? No truly dangerous information would ever come close to US borders. This, just like massive traffic collection, can only be said to be an invasion of privacy for the average man. The people we'd like to catch were never at risk at all.

I just don't buy into the fear, and I see the consequences as huge.

Terrorism is modern day McCarthyism.
Have you considered a Mac Mini? I was in the same boat (main dev machine a linux/win dual boot) and a mini fit my needs perfectly.
Apple's refurb store (U.S.) has a July '14 MBP Retina with 16GB RAM and 256 GB SSD for $1,609. I bought a '13 model last year for about that price, and it's been a fantastic machine. The refurb units are indistinguishable from new.
> It's the psychological and mental effects of the above advice.

Actually, the physiological effects outside of weight loss/gain are also different.

> If person A feels physically sick and completely unable to function while in a 500 calorie daily deficit that's a very different outcome than person B who barely notices that exact same deficit.

And its probably a sign of a very different physiological response, not merely a "psychological and mental" one.
Only 5 of them work in Firefox.

Look at the list: "Support: Chrome, Safari".
OP may have rounded up a bit but in Europe it costs around €2850 ($3200).

- http://store.apple.com/fi/buy-mac/macbook-pro

- http://store.apple.com/es/buy-mac/macbook-pro

- http://store.apple.com/pt/buy-mac/macbook-pro

- http://store.apple.com/it/buy-mac/macbook-pro

- http://store.apple.com/ie/buy-mac/macbook-pro

....
I prefer to keep my bananas out in the open, it's better security when everyone knows about my bananas.
Women as a venture? Part of venture capital is Risk Assessment:

Market Risks: very low, women & diversity add value and sets firm apart

Technical Risks: neutral, women are as capable as men

Operational Risks: very high, as Ellen Pao demonstrated

Financial Risks: high, lawsuits can be costly
You don't buy an Apple product for the hardware performance, you buy it for the OS.
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Are there any plans to move it out of sourceforge?
We are truly mystified as to what prompted the change
of heart, and it's deeply disappointing to see Twitter
kill a project they had supported since 2012. It is
also disturbing to us that our feed was cut almost
three weeks ago and our only direct communication came
from Twitter last night, when we were told that their
decision was not something that we could appeal, and,
most surprisingly, they were not interested in reviewing
any of the email conversation from 2012. Clearly,
something changed — and we’re not likely to ever know
what it was.

The cynic in me says that some politician has leaned on a friend who knows someone high up in Twitter.
How-To Copy Data from S3 to EBS
I can see this being useful for sharing 3D models and perhaps some items in augmented reality commerce, but I doubt it will have much of a role to play in serious VR
Geezzz, I'm kicking myself now for changing my occupation from "engineer" to "hacker" on my 1040. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
The problem there is that the community colleges are generally two-year only, and the quality of the education varies from community to community.

The four year equivalent would be a state university, which have the same issue for quality. They're definitely cheaper than the private universities, though.
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Which should I consider more insecure: my garage door, or the deadbolt on my front door? I wonder how commonly lock picking is used in crimes. I've picked a lock before myself, but I have no real idea how effective locks are in stopping people that want to commit house thefts.

I expect an automated garage door opener is much easier to use than a lock pick though, and probably easier to produce and distribute than lock picks. So I shouldn't consider garages as secure.
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Every programmer should know? None.

Middle school maths is "good enough" for the majority of programming jobs (85%+). There are of course niche programming jobs in: finance, statistics, AI, CS, gamedev, and so on but if you look at the programming industry as a whole those jobs are a tiny proportion overall (the majority are "boring" enterprise-style developers and web-developers: Java/Tomcat, ASP.net/MVC, PHP, RoR, and so on).

The thing is that the "boring"/average programming jobs are the silent majority. You'll likely read in this thread tons of obscure topics and how they apply to obscure jobs, but the reality is that few programmers work in those industries, but nobody [else] is going to post just to admit that for their job they don't need any maths day to day because it is boring and redundant.

This is JUST my opinion, but if you want to learn obscure topics, you're better off spending time learning CS topics (e.g. floating point number representation/bugs/limitations, encryption/hashing/etc, binary representations, assembly, kernel inner workings, CPU inner workings, and even borderline electronics). While advanced maths has a place in some jobs, advanced CS topics seem to be useful even on the web-stack/enterprise-stack to understand where bottlenecks might be materialising.

Maths is not useless. But most programmers won't use a lot of it day to day, if for no other reason that they have a library which does it for them (and they'd be foolish to reinvent the wheel).
> The person is retrieving their information from another's head. They're using a social storage mechanism. This works fine in the classroom, it works OK in the workplace. It works well in most situations. The only place it breaks down is during testing.

Many tests verify a skill rather than knowledge. If you're cheating then you're masking your lack of skill by using another person's skill as a crutch. If you're later given the relevant qualifications and end up in a situation where other people expect to be able to rely on you having the said skill then you're likely to fail these people. Bad.

In today's world, remembering specific pieces of information locally is less of a concern, I agree, but for basics it still applies: you may be able to learn it from colleagues or internet when you need it, but there is still a limit on your "input bandwidth".
Dwolla is a fantastic idea and provides a great alternative to credit card networks for payments.

One of my sites uses Dwolla as the sole payment processor and also we piggyback off of their verification process to weed out bad actors. I figure that since Dwolla is built off of US banking networks, their user verifications are subject to regulations under the Patriot Act, so probably is good for filtering out the riff-raff from our platform.

Ben Milne seems like a good & thoughtful CEO with a long-term mindset, which is refreshing to see in the tech startup culture.

My biggest gripe is that I constantly get complaints from people outside the US because they can't use Dwolla, and I hate being accused of neglecting our international friends.

I guess my other gripe is that I have thousands of dollars worth of transaction fee credits from referrals... guess those are worthless now :)
Another Bloomberg report that sums up the fears spreading through the "bond market":

Bond Rout Wipes Out 2015 Gains as Traders Stay Glued to Screens

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-03/bond-rout-...

Bill Gross of Janus called German Bunds the "short of the century" and it looks as if US and JPY are equally vulnerable. $TLT down 15% since Jan and I believe it still has room to run on the downside.

Now, interestingly, just this week Gross cited another "short of the century", calling for a top on Chinese Internet Stocks in the near term. But with another 25 IPOs coming down the pipeline this one will face a lot of headwinds. Man, I heart summer volatility...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-03/gross-s-ne...
Criminals use lock picks when you don't want someone to know that they broke in. Most criminals are the "snatch-and-grab" type. They are more likely to look for an unlocked window or just break a window.

Oh, and deadbolts are pretty easy to pick.
More interesting is the first comment in this URL:

You should have removed the gear when you Photoshopped that picture of a parked F-22. Update: that's the Mojave Desert, and the original photo is of the first 'raptor' prototype parked at Edwards AFB. - qzpdljpn
You're equating finding a different job from your current one to winning the lottery?
This recent Econlog podcast has a good discussion of megaprojects and why they fail:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/05/bent_flyvbjerg.html
Getting Started with Elixir Processes
That's where the "compensation" part of the original article comes in. If a company's doing this strategy right, they make it up to the customer in some generous way - "We'll give you a full refund and your next purchase is free" if the shopping cart says something is in stock and it isn't, "We'll pay for your remodel" if someone trashes your AirBnB, "We'll give you a free ticket" if you get bumped from a flight.

What some of the smarter big companies have realized is that emotions are fungible, and they work on a "last writer wins" basis. If you do something really nice for the customer after inconveniencing them (and it has to be more "nice" than the initial problem was "nasty"), they remember you making it up to them, not the initial problem. That shifts the cost of compensation back onto the company, which gives them an incentive to improve their systems, but also lets them trade-off occasional hefty compensation charges against getting 100% consistency & availability, which is impossible.
This is a comical level of rationalization from someone who is obviously still in school (and if not, I don't even know where to begin...). The whole point of taking a test in school is to see how well YOU know the material, not how well you can look stuff up or ask other people for help. If you have so little respect for the material or education, just drop out now, because you're wasting your parents' money and you clearly think you're smart enough to make a living without the things that school is offering you. What the hell is even the point of going to school if you're just going to "collaborate" your way through it? Just skip the pretense and go get a job someplace if you don't need the knowledge.

You are theoretically there to learn your field, not to learn how to work "collaboratively", which is a vague enough description of cheating that it could be used to justify anything. Hell, if I rob a bank am I not just "sharing"? This whole concept of "theft" in finance is so outdated!
Yeah, I got that part. I was pointing out that this array of "adverbs" really contains adjectives.
But SourceForge does such a good job of packaging their installers with Value Added Software(tm)! Why would they want to leave? /s
I.M.F. Urges Fed to Delay Raising Interest Rates
>I'd love to know why the driver couldn't just back up?

Manual gear start on a slope in a large, heavy vehicle is probably not going to go well, forward or backwards, when half and inch or 1cm is at stake.
Take this with a grain of salt as it is speculation, but I'd be very surprised if there were not plans to vacate SF eventually.
Web Essentials (http://vswebessentials.com/) supports Emmet.
For all standard transactions, Dwolla seems to handle micro-transactions much better than BTC ever hoped to.

Even BTC has a built-in transaction cost with every transaction (only a few pennies, but that's still more than Dwolla).
It does, but I think the past performance is probably legitimate: the hopscotch nature of the Imagenet gains (in which it seemed like every month a different deep-learning team would turn in a new record) means that we can be confident that the overall performance curve of all teams is genuine unless they are all colluding, and this particular method of cheating previously can be ruled out just by looking at the submission scatterplot and cumulative submissions in the official statement ( http://www.image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/announcement-June-... ) - we can be sure that competitors and previous records did not overfit like this because there just aren't a whole lot of previous submissions to the test set.

So now the record is probably more like 4.5% than the 4% or whatever Baidu's final paper was claiming. To keep this in perspective, that's a few months or a year of progress, the Imagenet record is still human-equivalent, and deep learning is amazing.
I have 3 year old mb air, i made the mistake of getting the lowest spec version, but even then I'm still able to do lightweight RoR development (sublime, rails s, guard, chrome all running at once).
I think people are upset about this not just because extra software is being requested to be installed during the desired installation (it's not just an ad, it's an embedded installer), and not just because SF is trading in on their past reputation, but also because of the type of software that is being installed. Malware is too strong a term for it, it's possibly adware, but definitely junkware. It's software that purports to "make your system run faster" and the methods it goes about to accomplish this may actually make it run slower (clearing the system cache) or even cause corruption (clearing the system cache incorrectly). The software may actually cause problems on your computer while making unsubstantiated claims of helping it.

To be clear, I personally wouldn't mind advertising and installing software from an installer if some minimum criteria were met:

1. The software being advertised was actually checked by someone to confirm it had some use, and was not in fact detrimental to the users.

2. The accept/install button was not put in place of the button that moves the install process along normally.

3. A separate installer window was launched to make it obvious what was happening. No quiet background installs allowed.
In my opinion, the way to move into iOS would be with a small project that is adjunct to some larger project. If a person has never done commercial development for iOS, owning a Mac or taking Code Academy's Swift course doesn't really count for much in terms of professional experience anyway. YMMV.
Agreed, and it is not just one person pointing this out: http://www.utne.com/media/us-officials-say.aspx

Lot of journalists have been pointing this out about NYT for a long time. (This is not to say NYT only trumpets what us officials say, just maybe, they don't always provide enough context an skepticism.)

Also worth noting that NYT is hardly the only place that does this.
The naked racism of this comment is saddening. I'm sure we all know pockets in our societies where cheating runs rampant. Thankfully, people aren't regularly trying to act as though those pockets represent the whole.
For what it's worth (and perhaps it's worth nothing), I also experience the burning feet feeling that you describe, although it's usually just a tingle. My arm also goes numb sometimes. My neurologist says that I am having silent migraines, which is a type of migraine consisting of just the aura with little or no head pain.

For me, these silent migraines seem to occur after I eat a meal high in histamine. (A salad with balsamic vinegar produces a reliable, strong effect within a few hours.) There is some recent research coming out of Europe that suggests that histamine intolerance is very real, but doctors and researchers in the US haven't caught up to this yet.

Overview of the research on histamine intolerance can be found here: http://www.aerzteblatt.de/pdf/103/51/a3477e.pdf

Histamine has been implicated in the pathogenesis of MS: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028390810...

Anyway, if you ever want to chat about this stuff (even if it's just to commiserate!), feel free to contact me using the email in my profile.
"Adding k8s on mesos you get the next-generation cloud native scheduler and the ability to run existing workloads. by running k8s by itself you get a lightweight cluster environment for running next gen cloud native apps." @cmcluck

More references:

[1] https://mesosphere.com/blog/2015/04/22/making-kubernetes-a-f...

[2] http://blog.kubernetes.io/2015/04/kubernetes-and-mesosphere-...

[3] http://thenewstack.io/mesosphere-now-includes-kubernetes-for...
Ideas on breaking the Google ad monopoly in India
Site seems to be crippling under a load, homepage is now throwing an "Error establishing a database connection". Off topic, but another great real-world case of why static sites are smart.
Google Cache version of the page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
OpenCV installer will detect 'agree' checkboxes on screen and automatically uncheck them for you.
> If that was true all Muslims would support ISIS but they don't.

Different people react to things differently, interpret things differently, take ideas more or less seriously, and so on.

I think the reasoning: "if ISIS was about religion, then all muslims would support ISIS", would approximately equally support: "if ISIS was about foreign policy, then all Iraqis would support ISIS".

I don't think either of those if-thens holds as an if-then, regardless of the truth value of the "if" part.
I’ve tested the app on dial-up internet, and it answers almost immediately.

So the question where the speech recognition happens isn’t easily answered.
I'm still using my 2007? 2008? second hand mbp (700 eur, I bought it on 2009 or 2010), 6GB, I forgot the Mhz, with bootcamp+windows for photoshop, illustrator, After Effects, 3dsMax, and ocassionally php, js, openfl, as3.
Yeah, it's not that I'm all the time rendering full HD movies, my point is: for php and node and toying around... have you considered a 2nd hand mbp?
That is wrong.

Hands-Only CPR is CPR without mouth-to-mouth breaths. It is recommended for use by people who see a teen or adult suddenly collapse in an “out-of-hospital” setting (such as at home, at work or in a park).

It consists of two easy steps:
Call 9-1-1 (or send someone to do that).
Push hard and fast in the center of the chest. [1]

[1] http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/CPRAndECC/HandsOnlyCPR/LearnMo...
Predicting the Future of Email
What does this mean to someone with a public facing website that uses PHP w/ Apache or Nginx?
I have a real need for such a tool - I work at a non-profit (MAYDAY PAC) and we pull expertise from distributed technical volunteers.

While it's a good start, I agree it's far from "We fixed mockups" To your point: The inability to use pre-drawn UI items here is a deal breaker.
I've never heard of CrowdSurge but I use Songkick regularly. I'm also a consumer of their API. Both their website and API need a lot of work and I hope this merger and fund raise will help.
Also:

Women on average retire earlier.

Women on average take more leave.
Anyone compiling regex strings in PHP from user input should take care to use preg_quote(): http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-quote.php Otherwise, you're in risky business trusting what a user could send you.
Also,

Step 1: Select Your Avocado's Color!

☐ Avocado Green ☐ Avocado Green ☐ Avocado Green
☐ Avocado Green ☐ Avocado Green ☐ Avocado Green

would cause some user experience issues.