skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at it from another angle, configuration changes are often a source of problems.

So here the plane has two aerodynamic configurations, aircraft mode and shuttlecock mode. (Technically being carried is also one, and being a rocket vs glider is debatable.)

Now the wrong mode was entered at the wrong time, more precisely at the wrong dynamic pressure (altitude and speed) and disaster struck.

It'd be nice to avoid having to have such modes but with current power sources it's probably unavoidable to have some. Staging is a mode change as well. (If you were powered by say, antimatter, you could make the rocket a big stainless steel ball with just a powerful engine that could take anything and fly in any attitude, almost at any speed at any altitude without breaking up. Aerodynamic moments would be tiny.)

Airplanes also have mode limitations, like that you can't extend the landing gear at high speeds.
You have to see ISIS for what it is. They are teenagers in tin shacks and caves with yesterdays cell phones. If you legitimately fear them you are misguided. They exist to push you, you make you buy into the current status quo. Who are they up against? The most powerful and technologically advanced military ever in the history of the world. That military spends more than the next 5 largest ones combined. Its like Urkel vs Bruce Lee. They don't stand a chance. Sure they might blow up a shopping center or two, but the fact is law enforcement kills more people in than ISIS ever did.

You want to end ISIS? Sorry there isn't a quick way to do so. Build a school for women in one of the countries they inhabit, protect it with drones and soldiers, build power plants, and give them internet connections. Change the culture, not at the end of a gun but with sandwiches for their hungry, water for their thirsty, and knowledge for their curious. Do this everywhere we are invited, and then do it in the places we are not. Then in a few generations took a look the world you have created, I promise you it will be a better one.
Good work!

The pencil tool could be a little more smooth maybe? Like, when making circles?
>> That's something remarkable and we should have examples of it documented.

Why though? What is gained from its documentation?
This app doesn't render correctly on my chromebook.
This is cool, in concept. But there's no way that drawing all the shapes manually is an improvement over my existing system for creating annotated wireframes using Balsamiq (https://balsamiq.com/) and Red Pen (https://redpen.io/).

While I certainly do like feedback from the team, I don't want other people marking up my wireframes in a way that makes it impossible to tell who drew what / said what.

Site note, the latest version of Balsamiq is REALLY great. They added a bunch of simple things like Font Awesome Icons, and the ability to keep all the project wireframes in one file.
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How I tracked FBI aerial surveillance
Glyph, a versatile SVG icon set
Ask HN: What are some important math topics every programmer should know?
I'm a self taught full stack developer who's flunk out of high school and did not have the chance to study "advanced" maths such as calculus, statistics and probability.

In 10 years of experience I never felt the need for any of it, and a recent contract requires, for a simple feature, the basic knowledge of derivatives (given a polynomial curve, graph it in a dotted line when it falls off from the local maxima).

I've started catching up on courses on Khan Academy and having a great time. My question is, which math (or physics) knowledge have you actually used in your programming career, and think it's mandatory for software engineers to know?

PS: If anyone from Khan Academy is reading this, thank you for your project, you're doing a great service for humanity.
Many of these work in most browsers. Google's fonts API only serves CSS and font files specific to the browser. Open the following links in different browsers and watch it change: http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Rancho&effect=shadow-...
Your question is fine since it has a very obvious solution criteria.
I like the tool selection mechanism. One minor suggestion there: allow me to make more quick, "jerky" gestures to select a tool by not limiting the size of the circle when I click/release really fast. So I should just be able to right click and flick to the right to get the rectangle tool. It's a tiny detail, but one that might be fun to implement :)
Yeah, I'm having a problem with the boring part, so really hoping I don't lose focus. :)
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Nice parser collection. But there a more powerful NLP libraries out there for JS:
https://github.com/spencermountain/nlp_compromise
How to provide conditional broadcast message delivery for your apps?
Sorry about that! We've only tested with Firefox 38. I'll see if I can install an older version and try to fix whatever bug you're hitting.

In the meantime, I'd be interested if Chrome or Firefox 38 works for you.
Demystifying LSTM Neural Networks
Thinking that getting onto PH is a such a big deal is more of an indication that PH is horribly broken.
Love it!

Running it on Chrome and switching to another tab causes a great effect. Not sure whether it's built in to the site or a consequence of some kind of throttling.
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There are whole categories of useful and interesting software that Apple refuses to sign.

I don't think there's any real equivalent for hard drive firmware.
>> Schonefeld

I was there recently and it was fine. It wasn't one of the best airports I've been to but no particular issues and decent transport links to the city.
Wikileaks posts 'largest leak of trade negotiations in history'
JS lib inspired by Prelude (haskell)
ID handling 101 - just because it's made only out of digits, doesn't mean it's a number.
Care to elaborate? =P
There isn't doc yet, I'm working on it, just to get a taste if people would like it, and/or if there's big flaws to fix
> it deals directly with the repo database

Does this mean we have to rely on your code to be fully compatible with the repo database? I mean git is obviously tested and true when it comes to modifying the database, so I trust it.

Now I don't know anything about the formats used, so maybe it's not a big issue. But for such a critical piece it's quite important.
Google Font Effects in use
3rd world or government driven contract, there is not much difference in the stereotypical outcome but I tend to think the 3rd world is much more upfront about expectations.

What qualifies however? Would California's dream of high speed rail qualify? It will easily cost more than expected and take way longer. The Big Dig qualified but does metro transit authorities spending 100 to 200 million per new mile of light rail on forever delayed programs count?

how many billions have to be wasted before we come to realize there are better options.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfitting

Ideally, your final test data set should be completely separate from training data. Because even limited exposure quickly renders that test data meaningless.

PS: In the end it's much like taking the same test with word for word identical questions a second time. Yes, it's a test of something, just not the intended subject matter.
Excel really is horrible at handling anything that needs to feed into a software system that isn't also built on Microsoft technology. Just yesterday I was trying to get a coworker to manually order some rows in a database that I had exported to CSV by date, the problem was that some of the dates were just month-year, and some were month-year-day.

Excel insisted on formatting the columns as dates and the month-year rows would turn into month-year-day columns, turning the year into the day and using 2015 as the year.

I told him to just open up the file in a text editor, as I didn't feel like trying to figure out Excel's interface for him or coach him through an LibreOffice install.

If the person I'd needed the info from was not in the organization, as this situation had been, I'd have considered the approach unworkable and figured out a different way to get the info I needed, as they did. Figuring out and teaching people how to use Excel is not how I want to spend my time.
"Are you sure? In their final days in office, lame-duck Presidents can (and do) use their pardon powers in ways that would be politically-unthinkable at any other time."

Clinton's last-day pardon of Marc Rich comes to mind...but then again, Rich was a contributor to his campaign so the pardon was just more DC back-scratching.

What possible motivation would exist for the president who continued (and expanded) the Bush-era surveillance state to pardon Snowden? I see none.
> Virgin Galactic keeps having multiple crashes.

Uh, what? This is the only crash they have ever had. They did have an accident on a test stand in 2007 when a tank blew up, but that wasn't a crash.
Thanks for the link to hiccup. In your code example, shouldn't that be a 3 instead of a 6?
If that was true all Muslims would support ISIS but they don't. The ones that do largely come from and are based in the section of Iraq that got most massively screwed over in the US lead invasion. You're telling me that's purely a co-incidence?

There's no excuse for what ISIS does. No reason is strong enough for the kind of barbarity they practice, but characterising it as purely senseless and ignoring the actual reasons behind it doesn't help either. The actual reasons they do what they do may not be sufficient or reasonable relative to their actions, and may not actually align well with their rhetoric, but they do exist.
Here the text is formatted better: https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1636
Maybe getting us all to go to the site was the prank? Well played!
There is a lot of CCTV, but we also talk a lot about privacy. The argument "If you've got nothing to hide why do you shit with the door closed?" is pretty common here. We generally don't point CCTV at someone's house, and those CCTV that DO point at private property are usually dealt with quickly. After a complaint the police will just tell you to point it somewhere else. They are for protection, not for spying.
Any chance you have a screenshot?
The way around it is, rather than opening the CSV file directly, to create a new blank workbook and import the CSV file using Data --> Get External Data --> From Text. This opens the Text Import Wizard and from there one can define the datatype for each column - set it to Text (instead of the default, General) and it won't be interpreted as a number.

Another way is to rename the .csv file to be .txt instead, and load it in normally. This triggers the Text Import Wizard upon opening, and the rest is as above.

Also to do this programmatically, one can use the VBA function Workbook.OpenText, and specify the data types via the FieldInfo parameter.
One important thing to recognize here is that this isn't just unfair play (in the sense of trying to win a competition by submitting multiple entries). It's a loss for all players. The point of having distinct test and training sets, and not training on the test set, is to ensure that your system can generalize (IE, work on things it wasn't trained on). If you don't do that, you're not making progress, just memorizing examples. Example memorization is fine on its own, but it's not really a true improvement.
If interest rates begin to rise, this can really be a serious problem. If people start liquidating their bond mutual funds and etf's and there is no liquidity in the underlying bonds, there will be a large dislocation.

But isn't all this rhetoric and fear mongering just here to promote a continuation of the zero interest rate policy? Japan's been there for 20 years and we're only at year 8...we've got to maintain zirp forever now. The list of terrible things that will happen in a rising rates environment is quite long.
Famous article about someone who worked with hospice patients and the question about what they regret the most:

http://www.hospicepatients.org/five-regrets-of-the-dying-bro...

It's pretty interesting, although none of the five will shock you.

Good for you for focusing on creating the life you really want. Too often people sleepwalk through life, only to wake up in their 40's and discover they've lost so much time and are disenchanted with the decisions they've made.
This is totally true. The problem is that because bonds don't trade often, it's hard to make an index ETF based on them. You're basically asking something to be revalued multiple times a day when the holdings might get their price updated (via a trade) once a week or even once every month.
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The Pimsleur Approach Profits on Outdated and Questionable Methodology
Ok. This is what you do.

Find something, figure out some way to require an internet connection and subscription fee to use that thing, then sell that thing as a service.

Tire pressure as a service. Coffee cup as a service. Toilet as a service. Locks, mail, trash, we'll have a guy come by and tie your shoes for you - no scratch that, Uber for shoes. Doesn't matter what it is, as long as you convince people that having you and your app do it for them is simply better.
Do you have a link explaining how the equivalent of these contests are run in the cryptography community? I'd love to read more.
Why not keep the validation data secret, give the teams both the training and test data, and make sure they know that their pre-validation submissions are running against data they already have---they're really just testing the submission process?
Pardon my ignorance, but what is a graph database?
It's disingenuous to equate fraud -- cheating in a zero sum game -- with violating a purely manufactured right like copyright.

Unlike fraud, the ethics of violating copyright are highly situational and quite complex. A recent example of mine:

I purchased a very expensive publication; my purchase included a PDF copy that was (unbeknownst to me) DRM-locked with very onerous DRM.

- I fired up IDA Pro and broke the DRM so that I could read the PDF without their invasive DRM; I have no intention of distributing the results. This is actually illegal, and in violation of the license under which I was granted any rights to the PDF. Was this unethical?

- If I couldn't break DRM on my own, would it be wrong to download a copy from the internet?

- Given that I own the physical book, if my purchase hadn't included the PDF, would it be wrong to download a PDF of it?

- If I wanted to know what was in the publication before I paid a great deal of money for it, would it be wrong to download it?

- If I didn't have the money to pay for the PDF (as was often the case when I was a teenager and where I learned to crack software), would it be wrong to download for free -- but not distribute -- the PDF? How wrong?

... and so on ...
Not just pollution: NYT journo was fleeing a reeking, stinking country
Me too. As in "Gentlemens! Start you pranking!" read in a Borat accent.
Your racism is showing, and it's ugly. Please tuck it back in.
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Ha! Very true. I've sunk well over a thousand hours into Dungeon Crawl Stone soup, and hundreds into Spelunky, Binding of Isaac, and other roguelike/lites.

I don't think I'd consider them better games than Braid, however, they just have (much!) more replayability/content.

(I would consider them better than Limbo, but that's neither here nor there).
There are something like a billion Muslims who treat the Qur'an and the sunnah with equal reverence but somehow manage to get through their lives without beheading anyone or pillaging any cities.

And there are plenty of people who have been screwed over by US foreign policy but who, again, somehow manage to refrain from committing atrocities.

Terrorism generally seems to spring up where there is both a big political grievance and some kind of ideological foundation to hook it onto. That's not an absolute requirement (e.g., I don't believe the Tamil Tigers had any ideology beyond their nationalism; on a much smaller scale, the occasional cases of Christians blowing up abortion clinics aren't very political) but generally that partnership is what does it.

And when that's the case, it's misleading to blame the terrorism exclusively on the ideology or exclusively on the political grievance.

Groups like IS and al Qaeda, so far as I can tell, really truly do believe that what they are doing is justified by Islam; and they really truly do believe that what they are doing is a necessary response to US intervention in the Middle East.
To each it's own. I like to enjoy a good meal every now and then, but day-to-day eating is mostly an annoying necessity. I have better things to do with my time.
I didn't know that about Apple Pay (not an apple guy). I concede that that system is faster, more secure and more efficient. You win.
Except a car costs $30,000 and a Kayak costs $300 with much lower running costs. Virgin are not trying to be the first to get into Space, they're trying to reduce the cost and make it more affordable.
> I'll take that chance considering the stakes.

Seriously? You're commenting on an internet forum. There are no "stakes." There is no reason not to be civil.
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>* It is hard to believe that ISIS exists in the modern world. They are so depraved that they make the Nazis look like good guys.*

You'd be surprised who's worse. Hint: they look like "good guys" and pretend they have the moral high ground.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis...
> I think the universal truth is that people have their own lives going on, and you need a way to sync up in order to accomplish goals with other people. That's why we set times for meetings.

What is not universal is how much value people put in a schedule. And how lax these schedules are. If there even is a schedule.
Yeah but the difference is that (non-index) mutual funds can actively allocate to different bonds so they have some protection against that. ETFs and index funds are in big trouble.

For them, it's the equivalent of having people buy and sell an index of classic cars. If there is a big sell-off then you can't really expect to get a great price on selling all these classic cars when they might normally be bought or sold a few times a month. Being a forced seller is never good....
> I know the name is a movie reference. Still doesn't make sense to me.

It should, since you recognize the reference, and the name fits perfectly. For me, Soylent Green pretty much the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about this type of product.
CoackroachDB: scalable, transactional, geo-replicated data store
How did you find the process of working with React for this project compared to other js libraries
If it had Norwegian I'd sign up and pay real money.
He means to say that Natural Language Processing isn't just scanning a text for patterns, like this library does, hence it's not a NLP library in the strict meaning of the term. It's an interesting project but it's really a parser, not a NLP.
As the quarterly appearance of Ray Kurzweil to make a fantastic prediction of the future is upon us, perhaps a review of his previous predictions is in order: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzwei...
original source is here: https://storify.com/jjwiseman/tracking-fbi-aerial-surveillan...
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In better news, Switzerland just announced the date for the opening of its biggest infrastructure project ever :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel

edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9659697
Thanks for sharing this perspective. No offense to you intended, but it sounds incredibly outmoded. Negotiators come off as childish and petty. The idea that terms of an agreement that will have material effects on my life should be decided without my input is patronizing and offensive.

This is 2015. The web has been around for nearly a quarter century, and TV news pundits even longer. Statecraft needs to evolve and adapt, not by ramping up the authoritarian penalties for violating secrecy, but by developing processes and attitudes that can thrive on transparency.
IMO the fundamental problem here is telling apart great ideas from no so great ones (if it were easy, the people with genuinely great ideas would easily secure funding). Unfortunately, it's generally not possible before the idea is realised - all great ideas seem very risky at the beginning, some even look downright silly. There are no safe horses to bet, and this affects both VCs and you as a developer willing to devote afternoons to someone else's idea.
I had "parse error", but with faith I suppose you mean fate?

Well, I was painting with a broad brush, of course. Sorry about that. There are many very different 3rd world countries. Botswana is different from Zimbabwe even if it is not that far away, but generally, in the 3rd world, you can expect delays and that things are mañana or insha'allah. And many countries have autocratic leaders who wouldn't put up with fire regulations delaying an important project. Yes, it might be acceptable that the project is delayed because the material for runway pavement was used to build the road to El Presidente's summer house so he can get there when he wants to avoid Scorchio. But it wouldn't be acceptable that he doesn't get to cut the tape in an opening ceremony because some stupid says the smoke eviction ducts in the terminal are built wrong.
Apparently this is made with Om (Om makes React available to Clojurescript).
Why do you say that? For us, it was an effort and it's already helping us generate leads. https://startuplister.com/product-hunt-tips/
Ah! Thanks, that clarification makes way more sense.
Think about it from a historical perspective: religion has always been a tool used by the powerful to motivate the masses and mask their own agendas. Think about the Roman emperor Constantine, who converted his empire to Christianity. Most would argue it was an attempt to preserve the integrity of the empire so he could maintain power. How different is this from a radical group in the Middle East using religion to motivate other to join their cause? Or using Islam to cover up their actual political motivations?
No, one side is an author/content creator who has not been compensated.

The other side is a person who is capable of rationalizing theft because it is a minor theft.

The theft isn't of an object, it is theft of compensation due to a creator. Duplication isn't the issue.
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Sorry, I didn't think of it. I've mentioned it multiple times on HN, but you're right, I should have added a disclosure.

Seriously didn't mean to be pushing Juju, I was just surprised at how similar it was to Juju. I had always sort of assumed it was Google cloud only, and/or containers only, etc.
Actually, not for the first time? But this time it might be believable.
Is there a better alternative out there that isn't a web forum?

My projects have been stuck on Google Groups for a long time, and I want to escape.
If you choose a color of brown, but a preference of greener, you'll get the notification right away ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_database