skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could be of so much help when MarsOne guys stranded on Mars will need to know if they can eat their bananas! For once there will be some science in their project.
First reaction I had, too: "Lycos is still around?". Yes, looking at that site's About page talks about their iconic status as search engine, then media agency.
Elon's hyperloop is extraordinarily different. It uses an electric hovercraft in an soft-vacuum sealed tube that is integral to the design in order to achieve high speeds for intercity travel.

This is just using stock subway cars on a stock subway track with a stock compact subway station platform. Inna tunnel. In order to get a regular route travelling from inner suburb to city center to inner suburb. The only distinction from a normal subway is that it eliminates at-surface options like shallow trench-and-cover tunnelling, and near-surface concerns about subsidence, soil composition, and underground things, in favor of having the only horizontal cut being the deep tunnel, entering the Earth on one side of the city and exiting it on the other at terminal stations. Tunnel boring machines have only gotten big enough to fit both tracks and a station platform and elevators, recently, so previous deep-tube tunnelling had to do two or three single-train-diameter tunnels, and separate excavation of stations using manual techniques, which is a whole other degree of difficulty compared to digging the equivalent length of tube with the single TBM.
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Actually, I think you should give your honest opinion, but failing is the best learning tool. I had a business partner a few years ago (also a friend) that I wish would have failed a few times before we partnered.

The issue was that I had a few failures under my belt and knew what not to do..but I had to constantly battle against his ideas that were very likely to fail, but he just didn't know because he lacked experience. It eventually led to the shutdown of our business (which never really got off the ground).
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Can you elaborate on this a bit? I'm not that familiar with react itself, having only used it through om, but I built a proof of concept that let me work with SVGs via om with code like:

(defcomponent circle-view [data]
(render [_]
(let [size (get-in data [:circles :size])]
(html [:div.circle
[:svg {:height size
:width size}
[:circle {:cx (/ size 2)
:cy (/ size 2)
:fill "yellow"
:r (/ size 2)
:stroke "green"
:stroke-width 4}]]]))))

And it seemed to all work fine? (Using sablono obviously)
I figured this was going to happen years ago. Any suggestions for a replacement?
"...the Gotthard base tunnel 'broke all the rules' and the excavation was finished nearly a year ahead of schedule."

I'd like to know more about this.
Off the top of my head I recall only Vagrant (https://bintray.com/mitchellh/vagrant/vagrant)
I don't think a cartoon has challenged my thinking this much since an old Calvin and Hobbes snippet from my childhood. Damn, I might need to check out of the game for a while! Good link~
Ok. let me put it this way. If it was YOU under the bus, would you appreciate it if the bus was lifted off you?

Funny how when I put it like that - suddenly the answer becomes "obvious" to you.

It's cold blooded "logical" (to an extreme) people like you that are often a menace to society.
Or just kick the door down.
I had no idea we now eat a different banana than 50 years ago!

excellent article
I remembered Lycos just recently after I discovered their headquarters driving home one evening. I used Lycos quite a bit back in the day. I poked around their website. They apparently own HotBot as well, which actually still exists. They still run Tripod and AngelFire. Blasts from the past.

I tried out their search engine, which actually wasn't half bad. Their e-mail service seemed okay in some respects, but they don't have an app and you actually have to pay for POP3/IMAP, which extremely prohibitive nowadays, especially considering their competition.

As far as these wearables are concerned, I'm at least a bit curious about the ring. Not sure how useful it will be, but I wish them the best.
yeah we were making a shared todo list and somebody came in just killed it. I cant load the page anymore. good times :)
Wow, 1984 is here.
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If you're using AngularJS, I highly recommend you look into angular-formly. This is a fantastic introduction to angular-formly. There's a lot more power/flexibility behind angular-formly than this article covers, but as the author of the library, I can say it's very good. Learn more at http://learn.angular-formly.com
> So if we're going to ignore the year, he might as well make all of his predictions just be "eventually, we'll accomplish X". The cognitive dissonance of Ray Kurzweil is impressive.

So there's no value in being close? Being off by six years is the same as being off by eight centuries?
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The post says Chinese culture, not Chinese people. Discussing traits of a certain culture is not racist in my opinion.
Such bull. Its inconsideration plain and simple.
Of note, the further below the surface train stations are, the more inefficient they are, especially for daily use and commuting type lines. It takes time to get that far down in the ground from the street level. It's less of an issue for long haul transit of course, but in that case there's few stations and they can be big downtown stations anyways.

As someone who grew up in Washington DC and moved to NYC, it was immediately and obviously noticeable. The ability to just hop down a few stairs and jump on a train is a major improvement to convenience. The multiple levels, elevators or long, long escalators, and so on, can double or triple the amount of minutes it takes to go 3-4 stops.
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>Person stewing about it: stews on silently.

This is just absurd. The linked article, the majority of comments and your own comments are not silent at all.
Honestly, at this point, the only solution I can see is to end the NSA altogether. It is clear that it cannot be in check. It is also clear that it mocks rule of law. If the US still likes to call itself a country ruled by law, this is one of many necessary steps at this point. Otherwise, let's call the situation as it is: we do not live under rule by law. It seems that the ambiguous wrath one faces when pissing off the king (NSA, gov't, big corps) today is no different today than it was under feudalism and that in fact, while other countries actually make an effort and succeed at being ruled by law, the US is not even making an effort. And we have the gall to call out other countries on their human rights abuses. What a disgusting, primitive, uncivilized, and sick country the US is these days.
Was reviewing the commercial Pimsleur and Michael Thomas options and stumbled across this very-intro-level freebie which may be of slight help:

http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T...

Good luck!
They do have a lot of data for scoring purposes. It's the private data set that will be used for the final scoring.
You cannot compare averages because the users who choose to pay to kill ads will not be randomly selected. No, there will be massive adverse selection -- the users with lots of disposable income are the ones that make advertising lucrative, and will be exactly the ones who pay to opt out of it. The averages massively understate what they would have to charge.
Includes http://assets.absolutdrinks.com/api/addb-0.5.2.js

From Absolut Drinks in the source. And it's collecting phone numbers? ...

Not sure this is the purest of intentions. Not sure it's not though.

[Edit - Looks legit and unaffiliated :) ]
On the 4th page towards the bottom, Kaggle says they will host the team's writeup "soon"; this was 26 days ago. I do not see it on the Kaggle blog [1]... still coming? Or did I miss it? (I scanned over the titles for the previous month and ran a search on BAYZ. Despite the topic I don't think the "Microsoft Malware Winners' Interview: 1st place,
"NO to overfitting!"" post is related.)

[1]: http://blog.kaggle.com/
A while back when I used to work a lot with this stuff I wrote a library to do a lot of sentiment, tokenization, and part of speech tagging based on several corpus I came across when I realized natural didn't have what I needed at the time.

https://github.com/nyxtom/salient
Wow, is that your take from the article? It just goes to show you can't please everyone.

I wonder if you would feel different if you were the one UNDER that bus?
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What a strange article. Is there a translation or cultural context? The part about the Japanese "los[ing] face" or the reference to Russian civic culture are two of many puzzling bits.
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Solving real problems is tough.

Monitoring a relatively docile citizenry to ensure it doesn't create a threat to those in power is much easier, especially if you can scare them into it with the terrorism boogeyman.

I'm sure there are individuals and even small groups within the NSA and FBI doing legitimate work to track down and neutralize real threats to the United States. I suspect, however, that they and their budgets are greatly overshadowed by the Keith Alexander types who see their organizations as an authoritarian playground and a stage for creating further personal private-sector opportunities.

There was a time when working in such agencies, if acknowledged, was a badge of honor. Now, it should be a mark of shame.
There are quite many choices if you look around, in uni we used http://cosketch.com for math alot and i was very happy with it, it looks a bit outdated today but the workflow is better than most similar tools i've tried, very quick, non intrusive, keyboard shortcuts etc. Only drawback is that things are not saved permanently and it doesn't have many widgets if you plan to use it primarily for mockups.

Another good tip, if you trust your friends, is just starting a remote desktop or teamviewer session. Then you have full access to proper tools like Word, Photoshop or IDEs.
What's the other explanation then? Culture? Why don't we see higher rates of serial killers in other races born in the United States?

It's very possible for many differences in behavior between races to be genetic in origin, in fact it's the more logical hypothesis versus the alternative which states genetics doesn't influence behavioral differences between races.

Think about it. If genetics influences physical traits from height, skin color, facial features, and even athleticism, what black magic in this world makes it so that genetics doesn't even touch behavior or intelligence?

>It's hard to imagine a protein causing such complex differences in behavior while affecting nothing else.

It's impossible to logically deduce a conclusion from the bottom up. We simply currently don't have enough knowledge to know how proteins scaffold the entire human neural network. With highly limited knowledge, we can only look at the problem from the top down. That being: genetics is known to influence physical traits, therefore it is logical to conclude that it also influences mental traits.
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I am talking about meetings, not general work. Meetings mean you hold people up
. General work means you probably won't. The article also talks about meetings, not general 9-5.

If your coming to work too late affects people then you should fix it. If it doesn't but is an abitrary rule you just have an overbearing boss, so fix that.

Note that everything doesn't come down to "if I'm not bringing corresponding value, they should fire me". It's that attitude that'll do you more disservice in the long run.
These complex sort of projects are the ones that could really do with small neat introductionary blog posts where simple features are demoed with code demonstrations..etc. this is so much more needed than more ruminations on JS libraries but also so much harder work for the blog authors I guess!
Very accessible writeup from the standpoint of a casual observer. Is there a strong counterargument for increasing max blocksize?
Medicare opens largest collection of medical data in the world to entrepreneurs
Interesting article, though the final graph and analysis is a bit goofy. He arbitrarily fixed the price of specialty coffee, and then asserted that specialty coffee allows more stability. Well yeah, if you magically remove a major source of variability then of course things are more stable.

In reality the larger margin on specialty coffee should provide the farmer with more breathing room. But I doubt that it's the sure thing he's made it out to be.
I'm amazed they raised any money. Even if it worked perfectly, the thing is so big that it's going to rub the skin raw on the palm and adjoining fingers.
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Not sure about England, but if this were in the USA, as soon as you involve yourself, you're opening yourself up to a potential lawsuit, especially if there is an injury involved. Plaintiffs will go after everyone they find, even those only peripherally involved.
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No, they aren't going to win. The public leaderboard tests people's submission on toy data. Typical for contests like these. The real contest will be determined using realistic data, which is kept secret until after the contest is over.
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In Objective-C, you generally don't treat messaging-to-nil as a failure but a common occurrence. It's a different approach to API design, really.

I write much more Obj-C than Java, and I'm always kind of surprised going back to Java that null is such a big boogaboo all over the place. Considering how much influence Obj-C had on Java, it's a shame Sun didn't adopt "benevolent nil".
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>What a disgusting, primitive, uncivilized, and sick country the US is these days

Plus it is hard to get a visa.
Thanks, we updated the link from https://threatpost.com/using-a-toy-to-open-a-fixed-code-gara....
What's the advantage of Jooby over Spark[1]? The latter seems more concise and doesn't require the use of initializer blocks[2] (a not-very-well-known feature of Java).

[1] http://sparkjava.com/

[2] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/initial....
Some beautiful documentation!
Anecdotal but whatever: I used to have what doctors diagnosed as IBS for about 10 years. Mostly it was constipation, lots of pain, cramping so bad I want morphine. I even went to the ER mutiple times cause I thought I was dying.

One day at the ER a doctor said "lets just do a CT scan" and he said "your appendix is fucked. we're taking it out". What's weird is I never had any pain in the right side of my abdominal when they pressed on it, even that day when they said it needed to be removed.

It's been 2 years and I feel like a new human being. Never had a single problem since.
Sure, but in this instance you can 100% know what you need--a shipping fulfillment provider for B2C sales. There are hundreds to choose from, they didn't choose one.

They are happy and proud, but their slow shipping and fulfillment disappointed much of their customer base and surely cost them a lot of sales. I'm not even a customer and I knew that they were a clusterfuck. Their $500 hack probably cost them at least 100x that in revenue.

Hackers are great and valuable, but sometimes you don't need a hack you need competence.
Thats some beautiful documentation
Perhaps people, not just HN, just aren't interested in those topics. Show me one forum where those topics are popular.
Trust me, people stew about it a lot more than they speak up at the time.

Which is why they are probably coming out of the woodwork now :)

Also how did you figure out a majority of potential commentators aren't silent?
Here is the public leaderboard for the now-completed contest, where they are in first place out of 2,257: https://www.kaggle.com/c/restaurant-revenue-prediction/leade...

Here is the private leaderboard, which I believe represents the actual score of the contest, where they are in place 1,962: https://www.kaggle.com/c/restaurant-revenue-prediction/leade...

That's, ah, not in the prize range, to put it lightly.

There's no problem with the contests here. It's just a particularly vivid, and entertaining to humans, demonstration of the well-known problem with overfitting.

If I am reading this correctly, the green numbers to the left of the teams in the private leaderboard represent that team's position relative to the public leaderboard. Note they're quite large... the 9th place team in the final scores jumped 1,058 positions! That's nearly half the field. If this is typical, and I have no idea (reply & let me know!), the public leaderboards are basically a joke.
Exactly. Lots of people don't realize that most of their door locks are there to keep "normal" people out, because dedicated criminals are typically going to find a way in.
> because a lot of their peers do it

Then just shut down the office and lock the doors at 6pm. This is how things are done in Europe and we (and our families) are pretty happy with it.
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"almost an order of magnitude" is exaggerating a little.

http://www.vpcalendar.net/average-vacation-days-by-country.h... pegs it at just over 3x at the extreme.

(That said, I'm Canadian - never knew the gulf in "average" vacation time was so stark.)
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Ask HN:

I'm trying to go cheap here, but I also need the grounding protection for my experiments. Does anyone here know of a good source for the use of Al foil in faraday cages? We currently use copper mesh, but that is rather expensive compared to foil, and we've put so many holes into the mesh that it is time to replace it (working in electo-phisiology). Thanks for any tips or citations.
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Oh sorry, I didn't mean to imply that none of the svg tags are present. Most of the common svg things work, but there are lots of missing tags and attributes. There's an issue for it here: https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/1032

Some of the things we had to add for Precursor were clipPath, foreginObject, mask, patternTransform, marker, and vector-effect.
Wow, I thought that brand had been folded into something else years ago. I wonder what it's like to work at the ghost of a former market leader? I used to prefer Lycos as my search engine until one day I tried Google back in 1998 or so and never went back. Ah, the 20th century...

/rockingchair
Useless insofar as it has no use for me. Pretty much everything I do requires more horsepower than the MBA can deliver.
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Thanx !
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You can click the "Make Something" button on the main page and go directly into a demo.
The advice is universal. You're picking and choosing points you don't like to excuse yourself from the commitment.

The best thing you can do right now is sit down and make a meal plan, then go shopping for it, today, right now. Here: chicken , frozen vegetables, water. Cook it all, then eat as much of that to feeling totally full, with your choice of sauce, and you will lose weight. Guaranteed. No exercise required, no limits on how much you can eat.
Why is this such a foreign concept? If genetics influences physical features, why doesn't it influence behavior? Do you choose to not take my comment seriously due to logic or politics?
I feel like this article is a bit sensationalist and lacks the other side of the story. I work for Disney IT, in the actual building pictured in the article. The layoffs in question were the result of a restructuring where many departments were shuffled and changed with an emphasis on new development work. Many employee's were reassigned and transferred, along with those employee's whose roles were removed. My understanding was that the purpose of the restructuring was to put more new development in the hands of actual company employee's with ongoing sustainment work shifted to the hands of contracted employee's. Many of the roles that were shifted to contractors included responsibilities for 24/7 call support and working general trouble tickets.

I cant really speak to the visa status of the contracted employees (I know that seems to be a lot of the focus of the comments in this thread). I do know that many of the people that were impacted by this restructuring found roles in other parts of the organization (which was mentioned in the article), many doing active development work on other projects. These employees included a wide range of ages and experience levels, so I really don't buy that agism was part of this decision. I do not know what those employees ended up making in the new roles, but I do have years of experience with the HR policies of this company and would be very surprised if those employees weren't making at or near their previous levels. With that said I really don't feel there were significant financial gains to be had by shifting those 250 roles around. I recently saw some internal figures showing that the number of non-contractor Disney IT employees has actually gone up slightly in the past year. This could be creative accounting statistics or it could be that there truly is not some scheme to replace knowledgeable local employees with less knowledgeable out-sourced employees as the article suggests. My experience and gut says the latter is more likely than the former, but that is my own opinion. I wont speculate on the disposition of the employees that are truly displaced and out of a job as a result of this restructuring, but I do feel for them, and hope for the best for them.

I've been in my IT role with Disney for only a few years (I have many more years in non-IT roles), but for me, I like the emphasis on actual development, and less on ongoing sustainment. I personally don't feel like my role or those around me are at risk of being replaced by an out-sourced team. I also work closely with some of the "managed services" folks, and appreciate that they will be handling the monitoring and calls in the wee hours while I get to create cool stuff during the day.

Disclaimer: I by no means speak for Disney or it's IT department. This is all my personal observation and opinions.
somebody did while(true) in that html. Crashing everyone's browsers.
This doesn't affect the actual contest results on the test set. Anyone who wants to overfit to the validation set can do so, getting a nice temporary leaderboard spot at the price of test set generalization, which is what determines the winners.

That said it'd obviously be nice to build leaderboards that are robust to this type of gaming. There's been some recent work, mostly driven by Moritz Hardt AFAIK (briefly referenced in the submission), using ideas from differential privacy to create leaderboards that leak only a bounded amount of information about the validation set: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04585.
Probably because it's not a real problem, they created it entirely themselves. At least they solved it!
We have available to us high-speed, high-capacity elevators now, standard in large buildings. The DC Metro's escalators were a lot of things, among them great big monumental architectural Statements; But as you and anyone else from the area knows, they were not particularly well thought-out (and we are still paying for that mistake in maintenance problems, wait times, expensive rain shelters, et cetera).

Their progenitor, as I recall, went to the great lengths of riding them aboard a wheelchair every day in a pained attempt to prove to the planning committee that elevators, which would have spoiled his precious vaulted look, were not necessary.
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