skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: I don't see a tech bubble
5 Tech Companies Spending More on R&D Than Apple Inc
probably a "real" apple tree. Most apple varieties are created by grafting a branch of an existing variety onto a new tree. Thats why despite genetic variation, they taste pretty much the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafting
It uses Bootstrap, Angular, Google Places API, hosted on App Engine (Python backend).

Funny story about how it came about, actually. I built a really crude version of it last year the night before flying to Hong Kong for a holiday. I realised I hadn't done any research about good places to eat in HK, so I stayed up all night trying to get something functional up in time, figuring that I would sleep on the plane. That was a really bad idea, because it turned out that I could barely manage to get any sleep on the plane.

I've been making it a bit more usable over the past week or two, showed it to my friends on facebook over the weekend, and decided it's ready to be shown a bit more widely.
Twitter's twists and turns _ can it keep flying?
Tech 'productivity' is a lie
This is a great example of when it's more important to stick with a familiar interface (i.e. the calendar) than to go with something that is "designed for touch".
Re: UACMe – Defeating Windows User Account Control
5 blades with a lotion strip similar to other multi-blade razors. They're sold in 4 packs with their main selling point being that they are half the price of gillette razors while being the of similar quality with a much nicer/weightier handle.
mingw, mingw-w64, and msys2 are still there. Kind of a big deal because their package managers use SF mirrors.
Steven Pinker's Better Angels of Our Nature goes over all of the probably reasons for this in its general survey of the correlation between violence and civilization. And he's mentioned for the Leviathan theory, but that is only one of the areas he touches on. It's the most credible explanatory frameworks for violence that I've come across.
Agree! Like they say: You're probably going to be the only one bleeding on the bleeding edge.

Choose whatever takes you to MVP the quickest. Avoid the #beliebers in the echochamber[like this one!]. Choose something that you're familiar with, and probably aren't immersed deep enough yet. So that there is still ground to cover. Usually there is always much to learn.

Focus must be on the MVP and not on the quality of the framework or the hipness of stack. Those things are unimportant until you're ready to hire. Once a bit more stable then play around. Contribute into the system. Push it forward. Avoid stagnation. Have beer. :)
This is one of the trouble spots I have with Go.

Say I have 3 members that must be set, and 5 optional members. Go's solution is to make the 3 critical members private so that someone using this struct will probably figure out they should use a construction function. And doing this means replacing all code that creates my struct with calls to a 'New' function. With all this friction, people aren't likely to do the right thing.

At least in C++ with public members I can initialize appropriately in the constructor. Of course littering my code-base with public members would be bad practice in the first place.
We do this all the time, at-least for past 5 years or so while implementing our opensource project.

We login to same server to do :

#create a screen

screen -S chat

#Both of us will join the screen:

screen -x chat

#Now we can see each other typing. Make typing easier do:

write pts/<id> username

#Make sure there is another login and use that pts <id> above.

After we typed our lines, to indicate I'm waiting for his response. I'll adding 2 or 3 newlines.

That's it ! :)Simple chat over ssh.
One thing to note is that crime in pretty much all of the all of the wealthier countries have decreased in the last few decades, and this this is not a specifically American phenomenon: http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21582041-rich-world-s...
Jstylo might be what you're looking for.
https://github.com/psal/jstylo

The same group also has created a text obfuscation tool called anonymouth that helps you obfuscate your word choices, but it has still yet to be released.
https://psal.cs.drexel.edu/index.php/JStylo-Anonymouth
> Max pooling tests if a feature occurs anywhere in a certain area, rather than being sensitive to the exact location.

From Geoff Hinton's AMA on Reddit: The pooling operation used in convolutional neural networks is a big mistake and the fact that it works so well is a disaster.
With great power comes great responsibility...
Interesting post but in my opinion, softwares (Robots) will never be as good as people (Humans) to understand languages. This would be great to have a platform/software using the "power of people" in order to improve language understanding. 'Language is used by people for people'. What do you think?
Huh, I didn't know Go has a concept of implicit default value. In that aspect, zeroing out in struct literals also makes sense.

However I would say that while default zero is better than garbage value, failing to compile is even better than default zero. (e.g. the compiler refuses to compile `var i int` in the first place) But I guess this is a matter of preference.
I mean primarily the learning.
Pro tip: just get an old fashioned safety razor.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003LW4L2W/

It will last longer than you do and gives you a perfect shave. A box of 100 blades will last for years and will cost you almost nothing.

All disposable razors, including Harry's, are overpriced.
A few more thoughts on the matter of whales:

On Kongregate, 2.1% of users buy virtual goods. Of these, about 4% (the whales) have spent over $500 and bring in about half of Kongregate's revenue. Top spenders often spend $50K-$80K.

Emily's premise is this: that people who spend lots of money on games (whales) are people who healthily enjoy the games as hobbyists.

Her most interesting points, in my opinion are as follows:

We think whales are bad (but shouldn't) because they spend their money on virtual goods:
"Spending $5-­$10k on specialized PC Gaming rigs that improve your skills and enhance your competitiveness is not really that different from spending money for in-game items that do the same. But I bet you all ﬁnd it a lot easier to contemplate."

We think whales are bad (but shouldn't) because we don't think games are a legitimate hobby:
"The bias against games is so insidious that even within the industry we’ve internalized it enough that we question someone with means spending tens of thousands of $s on a game, especially when you combine it with the low value we place on mobile and PC games and especially virtual goods. And so people jump to explanations like “mental illness” or “evil games manipulating players” when the real explanation is that they are rational, wealthy people who are dedicated fans investing in a particular game."

I personally don't agree with her though. We would have no problem with a person spending $10K on software. The issue isn't virtual vs. physical goods. The issue comes down to if games are a legitimate, healthy hobby or not. I would argue that they are not, at least for most of those who are whales. I don't have time to flesh this argument out tonight though.
In that sense nothing is faster than Dijkstra's. There are problems for which A* heuristic fails completely, and Dijkstra's is better. JPS exploits a more specific structure of pathfinding just like A* exploits structure given by an heuristic. We have to be very careful to the setting when we say something is 'optimal'.
In the early 60s and crime kept increasing every year until it peaked in the early 90s. Its been on a steep decline ever since. There's some interesting graphs here - http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/06/16/a-crime-puzzle-violent-...

Murder rates are plotted with lead exposure here - http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/05/us-murder-rate...
Their "contrast" section belies their determination, since the text there is grey on a white background, and true black on white would unquestionably be more readable. (looking at UI designers more generally:) I'm so sick of UIs that have repetitive, huge, contrasty, readable headings... only to have the core useful text be grey-on-something, tiny, possibly italic, and so on. Idiots, and they are legion. More subtle issues like older folks having lower visual resolution, and many folks (men mostly) having significant color blindness, never seem to occur to UI designers as a problem.
The NSA probably has such a table.
I'm partial to #9, but it's great that they review so many in one piece.
psutil 3.0 is out
That's a misleading number. Those devices embody a huge amount energy, which China supplied in the form of coal.

It'll be decades before they pay it back, in the meantime they just caused more CO2 in the air.

Nuclear would have been better.
Lots of gems of good advice here!

Not sure I agree about #7 though, as I prefer the more
explicit and log friendly approach of not returning function call results directly.
The outlier had nonlinear dependence. It was the file that proved the point. Why do you want to remove it from consideration?
Xfinity Security System – Open to Hackers (Major Security Flaw)
just want to ask if there's anything a home user could do to detect unusual routing behavior/phenomenon? I'm envisioning something like a browser plugin that logs/monitors outgoing connections and traceroute data

With that, instead of just looking at 404s we can make more informative observations like this request got stuck at this node, or that request is routed through a new node which has never been seen before recently..
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Yep. In particular, if demographically whales are (as subtextually claimed on slide 12) functioning upper-middle-class professionals like business owners, engineers, doctors, and CPAs, then there doesn't seem to be any meaningful harm in it.

My unease about F2P monetization is that my sense of the demographics is that it tilts more towards "people with undiagnosed depression" or "the Vegas slots demographic."
B&Es are a lot tougher when you've got a bum knee and arthritis in your hands.
Figured I'd chime in here since I developed an algorithm recently that could be applied to this problem with some basic ML.

Basically the first step would be shingling the text (choosing a sampling domain) and generating a MinHash struct (computationally cheap) which can then be used to find the "similarity" between sets, or, the "Jaccard Index."

If you're clever about this, you can use HyperLogLogs to encode these MinHash structs gaining a great deal of speed with a marginal error rate, all while allowing for arbitrary N-levels of intersection.

If you're looking to build a model to analyze two (or N) text bodies for stylometric similarities, I'd approach the problem in two steps:

1) Minimize the relevant input text.

- Use a bernoulli/categorical distribution to weight words according to uniqueness--NLP and sentiment extraction techniques may also help

- Design a markov process to represent more complex phrasing patterns for the text as a whole

- Filter by a variable threshold to minimize the resulting set of shingles/bins/"interesting nodes" into a computationally-manageable #

2) Use an efficient MinHash intersection to compute a similarity vector (0-1) for the two texts.

I think given the prevalence of training data (I mean, what's more ubiquitous than the written word...) you could probably tune this to a reasonable accuracy and efficient complexity.

Just a 5m thought exercise, but if anyone else has ideas I'd be curious as well :)
I am getting a 404 as soon as I click on any of the links
AeroGlass looks still very nice and fresh in Windows 7. Windows 8x/10 theme is too flat for a desktop OS and the color choices imo plain ugly. Microsoft removed most of the complex transparent effects because the Nokia/MS WinPhones 7-8 devices were too slow to handle them, that's why the desktop has to suffer as well. The iOS 7-9 and OSX themes have a lot better colors.
Great summary of the theories, with impressive breadth and depth of scholarship. This sort of article goes to show how complex the world is, and how hard it is to definitively prove sociological/economic theories. Even when one study seems to give very good evidence, another might come along and cast doubt on it.
Another idea to add to the list: There are often a dozen murders a week in places like Chicago. How long is that sustainable? Maybe the gangs have killed their selves off?
Why is cultural evolution never discussed as a possible reason?

We know cultures change. When we note that acceptance of gays has become mainstream or that smoking has decreased or that people get married later, we don't presume that it has to do with abortion rates or leaded gasoline -- we just understand that cultural shifts happen. But when it's crime, we rack our brains looking for the one single physical reason crime dropped.
Because most types of crime won't make you financially or socially successful.
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That would be #9 on the list.
The amount of fear is a function of risk * significance of loss. Crime is down, but we have more than ever to lose. That's why millennial parents are so fucking crazy. Much more to fear when you're investing a million into each of two kids than back when you invested a fraction of that over five kids.
The arrows are weird and the less-than-normal function keys are suboptimal (and I've used these keyboards long enough to run into some very rare firmware quirks and odd choices made by the maker). However, since everything else is so AWESOME - the hand position, being able to do CTRL+ALT with one thumb while keeping all the fingers in normal position and being able to map the other two mod keys to ALT, META, and then CapsLock to Hyper (for window management only, in my case)... oooh, this keyboard rocks for most things, including coding and gaming (assuming the game supports changing your keybindings to optimal keys - WoW does, for example). I think I have four of them, and my girlfriend prefers hers to normal keyboards. They've totally eliminated my incipient RSI. (rave, rave, rave). However, I do wish they'd fix the little issues that remain in some future board, so I don't have to keep musing over whether to buy a Maltron to compare.
Cameras everywhere. Improved abilities to track illegal gains. See, mass surveillance works!
Ask HN: Is it possible for non-Ivy grads to land a job with a top company?
Well the question is simple but first a little b-info about me:

I went to Cal state school and graduated with 3.73/4.0 GPA.

I did three internships with 3 fortune 100 companies (non of them in technology) and for the past 2 months I've been trying to land a job with a big-tech company to no avail.

I have the experience but it seems i don't fit the mold because I didn't go to Stanford, Berkley or some other "Famed" school which apparently make me a second-class job candidate.

I should add that I didn't even get an interview with any of the companies that I applied to.

So now my question for those no-name school grads is how did you do it?

Should I just take up on my offers from other companies and forget the valley?
Arab women show the way with computer science aptitude
They missed a theory: fudging the stats and failing to report crimes. Excerpt from an interview with David Simon:

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They [the police department in Baltimore] cooked their own books in remarkable ways. Guns disappeared from reports and armed robberies became larcenies. Deadly weapons were omitted from reports and aggravated assaults became common assaults. The Baltimore Sun did a fine job looking into the dramatic drop in rapes in the city. Turned out that regardless of how insistent the victims were that they had been raped, the incidents were being quietly unfounded. That tip of the iceberg was reported, but the rest of it, no. And yet there were many veteran commanders and supervisors who were disgusted, who would privately complain about what was happening. If you weren’t a journalist obliged to quote sources and instead, say, someone writing a fictional television drama, they’d share a beer and let you fill cocktail napkins with all the ways in which felonies disappeared in those years.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/29/david-simon-on...

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Slide 12 isn't a convincing argument that these people are okay, but of course it doesn't indicate the latter either. But even if these people are upper-middle-class professionals, there's still a chance that their action stem from things like depression/addiction. My hunch would be that the cause of the big spending leans more towards addiction than well-reasoned spending on a health hobby, but without data or evidence that's purely a guess.

It would also be interesting to look at the group of whales in general. Perhaps the very top 20 spenders are all well-balanced, healthy individuals with large incomes. But what about the rest of people who are spending large amounts of money? This might be where struggling individuals are more likely to be found.
#8 is pretty great in that you can assign methods to custom types but not builtins.

As an example, say I have []Card. If I want to sum all cards with a certain color then I could

Sum(cards []Card, color string)

but that is not great. Rather, I could use

type Cards []Card

and then name a method

(cards *Cards) Sum(color string) int

The benefit is that any []Card can now have Sum called on it without any explicit casting.

I've been using this and find it to be clean.
I guess there's a PDF for each video? https://www.google.ie/search?q=objectmentor.com%2Fresources+...
Cultured Code's date picker for Things has been my favorite: http://culturedcode.cachefly.net/things/videos/things-iphone...
Graduation speech dedicated for young immigrants. “We belong”
I'm only familiar with parallel construction being used in reference to very recent events, so it's not clear to me what you are referring to.

Are you saying the evidence was there before, and they only started using parallel construction in the 90's? Or did new ways of getting evidence that required parallel construction appear?
Why has no one created a bot for this?
Android be like: been there done that
It's not specific to Magna Carta, but I enjoyed Dan Jones' The Plantagenets, which provides context to how the original document came to be, and how the re-issues were forced by the waxing and waning strength of the kings who followed John. It's an enjoyable book.
What advantage is there to shipping a single asset?

On the web, use the "srcset" attribute on img tags. If the device supports @2x, it'll fetch the right version.

On an iPhone app, any advantages are far outweighed by the headaches of resizing "@1.5x" assets for each device resolution.

Now consider the iPhone 6+, which has @3x resolution. At 1.5x it feels blurry.

But forgetting that, would @2x users notice? They won't be able to articulate something is wrong, much like if you pick a suboptimal line height, they won't be able to articulate "it's less legible." It's all these little things, combined, that make a project feel amateurish.
This article reads like a PR piece. The reality is that in order for EA to truly change, it needs to go private. Until it does, it will always be forced to make big sacrifices for short term profits to meet quarterly projections whereas companies like Valve don't have this weakness. They can act for the long term.
Literally described, in detail, with analysis, arguments for and against, and statistics in TFA.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/upshot/perceptions-havent-...

"These trends aren’t caused by changes in our willingness to report crime to the police. We see an even more significant decline in violent crime in data derived from surveys asking people whether they’ve been the victims of certain crimes over the past year. The National Crime Victimization Survey reports that the rate of violent victimizations has declined by 67 percent since 1993. This reflects a 70 percent decline in rape and sexual assault; a 66 percent decline in robbery; a 77 percent decline in aggravated assault; and a 64 percent decline in simple assault. This survey has nothing to say about the decline in homicide, for obvious reasons."
That's good advice. I haven't gone through U.S. customs but I have been through Canadian and European customs, and both times the people at the border were very polite (they did have a dog sniffing my luggage, but nothing beyond that).

The chance of them making trouble is small, but I would try to implement some measure others suggested just in case (having a Windows dual-boot or something).
CoreOS Running on xhyve Hypervisor
[Paywall] in the title would do it
We use the Rendr library, which is built on Backbone: https://github.com/rendrjs/rendr
I think its due to the rise of endocrine disruptors in our food chain. That should definitely be looked into.
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Doesn't look like it was too bad of a way to add an "easter egg" - https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commi...
Since I've got sensitive skin, I've been happily using a beard trimmer to "shave" my face down to a fine stubble for years. Can't see what additional benefit perfectly smooth face skin would buy me. It doesn't even last a full day.
I worked as a coder for six years with no degree after dropping out of physics at UCSC. While it was a contract I did work at apple. A couple years after I finally did graduate from ucsc I was a "white badge" senior engineer at apple.

A friend who has an english degree from Cal State Northridge is one of Intuit's top marketing people.

the notion that a Stanford or Berkely degree makes on a better engineer is laughable however yes it is a common misconception.
You could use this: https://github.com/kryptographik/ShuSSH
> the lifetimes and general scope management can make your life hard -- and certainly harder than conventional GC languages.

Except you have to solve those very same problems on your own with every other type of resource that is not called "memory" in other languages.

Ownership is a huge problem, having built in primitives to handle it is a benefit. Having or not having GC is almost (but not quite!) a separate discussion.
I can't speak to averages. I can only to my own experience here in the midwest. I've had no problem getting $75/hr for ongoing long term projects, and have friends who are in the same boat.
Fear of prosecutorial discretion and the U.S. Legal systems inability to differentiate between criminal hacking and violation of TOSes?
Run rate isn't an awful metric for a hypergrowth company. Billings or bookings isn't too bad for a SaaS company, to highlight which revenue was earned the most current year. The challenge is the terms aren't defined by GAAP, so company to company comparison is difficult.

The metric I've seen most abused is the Adtech example they've highlighted. Companies report "Managed" or "Gross" revenue, of which they only keep 15% "Net" to pay their bills. The latter is more meaningful.

In the end, any one metric can be gamed. This is why it's important to look at the metrics in total. Of course if someone is really cooking the books, they'll just make up all the #s. That's the hardest nut to crack.
I built my own portable mechanical keyboard for precisely this reason; I got spoiled by a nice board at home only to be filled with disappointment every time I went out for a change of scenery at the coffee shop. Now I've got something that almost fits in the pocket, has a nice split angling of the columns, and is designed to work with Emacs from the ground up. (lots of thumb keys)
I've grown several blackberry varieties in the bay area and currently have a thornless loganberry, which I highly recommend. Blackberry is one of the easiest plants to grow and it won't be easy to eradicate it once it's settled. However, I wouldn't depend on rainfall if I wanted a lot of berries.
Rust, Go, or any other new technology. Hell, maybe even some React, (Angular.js is old school)