skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rose also worked for Google Ventures, so he has connections.

He moved to Google after his startup Oink/Milk crashed and burned, of course.
Yep. There's a package with the method transformations already applied – https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash-fp
Honestly, that sounds more like CYA than anything else. If they use crash reports to say that OS 10.12 crashes at 1/5 the rate of 10.11, then they're using your data for marketing/advertising.

I'm willing to hold my scorn until they start saying "nmrm2's Mac has never crashed!" without clearing it or compensating you.
There are many opportunities where you can make money here. Think about an arbitrage service in case of a dispute. Or an escrow service. Or a reputation service maybe?

I think that the can be only One marketplace since it relies heavily on the network effect. For OB to be first and biggest is a big deal.
It was also allegedly in "final talks" to be acquired by Google for 200mm at one point according to insiders.
Data Science Weekly Newsletter – Issue #81
I also have mixed feelings about Kevin but he also had Pownce (which to this day I still think had some legs) and Revision3 which he helped start. I think its fair to consider him an entrepreneur he's actively helped get more companies off the ground then almost anyone else I can think of.

He always came off more as a personality

To his credit he did start as a TV personality... ;-)
Interesting, I was able to read the article just fine on my 2011 Kobo touch. 800 MHz ARM Cortex A8 and whatever Webkit was around in early 2011. The border animations are off but all the text and plain images work.

Whatever effects they're running, they did an impressive job with graceful degradation.
Here is a great short documentary about a similar "pre-fab" approach to building a new tall building in London:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5RgRboBE2Y

I think it took longer than 19 days, but they had more limited space and time to work each day, and (almost certainly) more stringent standards for safety and quality.
Just how open will Apple allow Swift to be?
Apple's New Selling Point Is Privacy
Let's emphasize, that was printed on "9/11", with a photo of Ayers standing on an American flag....
FlowHub
Let's talk about the real travesty here: making the data available ... in RTF format -__-
I hope they go after the "Smartmaker" scammers as well, Dimitri Albino and Harold F. Timmis.

http://kicksucker2013.blogspot.com/2014/09/be-maker-smartmak...
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (1955) [pdf]
I originally read the paper and fought with the implementation for OCR use cases. And that was stupid / short-sighted. My problem wasn't a big result set though, it was the size of the automaton at N >= 3..

What I usually need: Fuzzy results, with a quality/rating. Given a database of all customer names, give me the best matches for the OCR result. Same for 'all streets in Germany'.

Since these input words can be quite long, N = 3 (or higher) might still provide decent quality (3 errors in 15 characters might still be interesting), but the automaton explodes in size.

On top of that, ignoring the ~high~ number of edit operations I am interested in: I usually want the real distance, not a short-cut/cut-off. So not 'Give me all results that have less then 3 errors', but 'Give me the 100 best results, ordered by quality (errors/length)'.

Or - and obviously that's always a valid option - I just failed to make that work in any decent fashion.
Wow this only got 9 points. Prediction: in the next couple days to a week a blog spam article giving 1/100th of the information in this white paper will get voted to the front page.
What's up with the snarky slogan?
I'm curious why the FTC went after this particular Kickstarter. Was it seen as an "easy win" so the FTC could test the waters of going after other Kickstarter scammers? Will this expand outwards to include other crowdfunding sites as well?

I'm always amazed by how quickly some of the popular Kickstarters are overfunded- like the one recently that was basically a complete rip off of Google's Project Ara. Why would someone invest in that? Why would anyone even begin to think that a small no-name company could possibly pull off something like that? Why would someone give them money?
This is meant for self-driving cars, right? Because I can not see this happen with human traffic.

I was also waiting in the video to see busier traffic simulations, but didn't see any. I suspect the model of keeping distance then breaks down completely and creates lots of congestion, ifnot collisions (if the road is full and you need to evade an oncoming vehicle...). On the upside, you use the whole road dynamically instead of only a fixed few lanes, that is a nice improvement.
The photo is also credited to AP (which makes it's appearance elsewhere coverage more than reporting).
The platform isn't centrally controlled, but that doesn't mean that companies can't offer services to users on the network.

It's similar to Bitcoin, which has no central control, but now has an ecosystem of businesses that support Bitcoin users.

Our goal with OB1 is to build the OpenBazaar network and gain large adoption, and then offer those users services (such as dispute resolution, store hosting, search).
Here is the Wikipedia entry as a TLDR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_...
I'm not saying the criticism is invalid; I'm saying that when you're part of the media, saying "the media refuses to deal with this issue" is wrong.

(And I'm sure I could find a bunch of articles from other mainstream media outlets saying the same.)
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They have certainly made mistakes in the past (health clinics move people 50 miles to receive treatment for AIDS and send them back to die for diarrhea because their focus is too narrow).

The question I'm interested in is if they have improved and learned.

The problem is that there is not enough information for outsiders to analyze them and scrutinize the result. Gates may spend his money inefficiently because he can't get the data he needs. They should use open data and be open to criticism to improve.
Oops, I spazzed and substituted Mirror, which I don't read, for Mail; corrected above.
Have you looked for intuitive arguments about why P ≠ NP? Scott Aaronson's blog is a good place to find such things [1]:

> If P=NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no special value in “creative leaps,” no fundamental gap between solving a problem and recognizing the solution once it’s found. Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart; everyone who could follow a step-by-step argument would be Gauss; everyone who could recognize a good investment strategy would be Warren Buffett.

Complexity theorists have also found more formal reasons why it it would be hard to prove P ≠ NP. For example, you can't use "natural" proofs, "relativizing" proofs, or "algebrizing" proofs [2]. (Conversely, in a P=NP world you'd expect it to be easy to prove P=NP.)

1: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=122

2: http://www.math.ias.edu/~avi/PUBLICATIONS/MYPAPERS/SCOTT/alg...
In social psychology research this often refers to the belief that, in essence, "hard work will bring success." For many, particularly on the right, it also implies the opposite: the poor/unsuccessful are in their situation because they are not working hard enough.

It's a bit of a confusing term, because its use from a more theological perspective (e.g., hard work is a symbol of salvation). I probably should have used a different term.
The authors of the paper note (though this MIT News summary omits) that there is a well-known algorithm for edit distance that runs is subquadratic time. In fact, it runs in O(n^2/log^2 n) on a word RAM. It uses a method sometimes called "Four Russians" or "shaving a log".

Of course, this does not invalidate the results; I mention it only to dispel the notion that a reader may get from this MIT News summary that there is no subquadratic algorithm likely to be found.

It's also interesting reading; just Google for "edit distance" and "Four Russians" and you'll find many summaries.
Did Google Just Penalize Its Own $100M Investment? The Thumbtack Case Study
Apple has open sourced a lot over the years http://www.opensource.apple.com/ I don't understand why everyone acts like this is the first thing they've ever open sourced.
Yes I would agree it has never been a better time! I was just asking to see if home taping really did affect it like people believe.

For one thing, the quality of recording interfaces and the accessibility of such hardware is really really great at the moment. I play in a few bands and being able to record practices in clear quality and listen back to them would have been unheard of 15 years ago.

As for the quality of that music, that's entirely subjective.
That's a rather fine line, or at least I consider the job of "reporting" to include gathering and selecting from all things that are relevant, which would of course include 3rd party wire photos.
> The definition of feminism has become sufficiently corrupted thanks to these people that women themselves are fighting against it.

The concept of feminism becoming discredited started happening way before the term "SJW" existed. Both from outside the movement (See: the straw feminist trope) and within the movement (from a small minority of crazies).
Inventing can be dangerous work! Those who push the limits can change the world if things work out - but sometimes things don't, in the worst of ways...
If you read the article, you would know that it is a terminal emulator written in javascript that gives you access to the computer the webserver runs on.

There is no change to the browser itself at all, just plain javascript that shows a terminal running on a remote computer.
Urgent Warnings for Real Estate Agents After Attacks in St. Petersburg, FL
How a history of eating human brains protected this tribe from brain disease
As Reddit Burns, It Powers the World
I recently got into watches and have been following the company they merged for a the past year or so. It's been an awesome resource for learning about the community and the craftsmanship behind mechanical watches. I recommend them to anyone who has an interest in watches, or just wants to see what the fuss is all about.

You're right about the passion relating to that of computer hardware. The first thing that really intrigued me about watches is the amount of craftsman ship and engineering that goes into making a complicated mechanical watch. As a software engineer, I find similarities in the watch engineering world - so I believe thats why it pulled me in so easily. It truly is an amazing example of human engineering at its best.
It seems likely that some individual learned of the existence of the historic German urban guerrilla group which went by that name, and then heard the name again soon afterwards. This plucky wordsmith may then have named the phenomenon after the very subject which triggered it.

If what you linked to isn't the guerrilla group, then what group is this paragraph referring to?
How does this fit in with offerings from Apple and Google?

Edit: Specifically HomeKit and Brillo(?)
It's over-engineered unless a big truck bomb goes off next to it, or an airliner hits it, or it's subject to a significant earthquake--in which case it will then hopefully be just-right engineered.
That is probably already true of other companies. The systems that run the traffic lights may be run by IBM, train routes may be overseen by Cisco, etc.
Most people would be lucky to be involved in creating a single thing that a large user-base enjoys and supports. You just listed 2 things. Depending on how instrumental he was in the projects he's been involved with, I'd say his track record is ok. Creating a brand around your personality and then cashing in on that brand by investing in other cool projects is just an added bonus.
This Is Not Your Normal Home Tour…
This is not correct. The end result of the step() based automaton is the same: it prunes exactly the same search paths as any Levenshtein automaton would. And the part where I described how to build the DFA gives you exactly a Levenshtein automaton DFA. The approach is different, yes, that's the point: it's much simpler and still does the job.
It was only a matter of time until they started. There are so many bad Kickstarters out there now, I won't back anything on there anymore.
The Apple Watch Does Reduce the Time You Spend on Your iPhone
All that you say is true, but there's another side of the coin.

Nobody wants rockstars in teams, because rockstars are bad team players. That's the reason why they're rockstars.
Nonconformity (sometimes) leads to innovation.
Like it or not, a lot of the tools and libraries which we use every day and on which the internet runs, was written by lone-wolf 'rockstars' too weird and too eccentric to work in large corps.

You don't want your whole army to go over those mountains, you send scouts. Scouts are terrible soldiers, but they are quick to find a path between the trees and rocks and they come back with new information, new ideas and concepts of how to optimally win the battle.
Then and only then you bring the whole army and win.

A company, imho, should always have a small number of rockstars - impossible characters, crazies and lunatics with universe-sized egos, who have a track record of successful projects in the wild, working on insane things, alone or in very small groups, carefully managed by someone who can earn their respect - usually a lone wolf turned general.

They might be terrible programmers, they may have no education, but they have this unusual ability to see into the future and come back with interesting ideas and prototypes, which the 'soldiers' - people with solid fundamentals - can polish and transform into profitable products.

If a company innovates 'from the top', then it's trend is going to slowly be downwards towards irrelevance, because true innovation comes from the trenches and is done by the rockstars nobody wants to work with.
It's not the whole JVM -- just the JIT. What difference does it make what language the JIT is written in? It is my understanding that if Graal proves itself, it will replace C2 (if not C1 as well).
I use Intellij IDEA with vim plugin, so its a win win.
?Namespaces?
Computing the step() is extremely fast. And if that's not fast enough then do the DFA construction as I described. The approach is different, yes, but that's the point.
The self-driven car needs someone to tell it where to drive.
The self-programmable program needs someone to tell it what to program. (We already have these, they are called compilers, and they are getting better all the time.)

The question is: is deciding where to drive as hard as deciding what to program?
OK, down-voters: what do all of those MS buzzwords mean???
“Hi, I'm Miley Text me to get a job.”
I really like that you have challenges aimed at frontend developers. Something Hackerrank is sorely missing.
Kevin Rose is a god when you look at the products he was an early investor in. https://angel.co/kevin

SimpleGeo, Facebook, Gowalla, Formspring, Yobongo, BufferBox, LE TOTE, Cluster, Wealthfront, Foodzie, The Social+Capital Partnership, Buttercoin, AngelList, Greylock Partners, SV Angel, FOBO, Clever, Fab.com, Tasty Labs, Cozy, Dailybooth, Foursquare, Digg, Nextdoor, Treehouse, 19 more...
I use xcode and use wxWidgets, but I grab these manually and compile them myself. I also use the Android SDK and NDK, cppcheck cloc etc like you

I didn't realise that they could be kept up to date with homebrew?? Is that the case?

Last time I looked at MacPorts (and perhaps homebrew) I saw it as a porting of BDS/GNU tools to OSX and therefore making the OS more Linuxy to my mind. I wanted a clean break from Linuxland when I moved to OSX, hence I removed MacPorts etc. (Additionally the ported software all ran under X and not Quartz so it didn't really fit in; also, the fetched packages and compiled systems were massive in size which I didn't appreciate on a laptop that shared space with recorded audio and video etc. so space was at a premium).
Indeed it is a big chunk of change. How much is Kevin worth these days? Wonder how much is his own money?
Max Howell rejected by Google for failing to invert binary tree
I disagree. I think that extending and improving a language is good, and it's certainly not a Javascript-only phenomenon.

Off the top of my head, other languages that are considering and implementing syntax extensions include Python (e.g. "yield from"), C# (e.g. "async/await"), and Java (lambda expressions).

I actually think that it's pretty low to accuse ECMAScript of "mangling" JS syntax when they are just trying to add modern extensions that make common patterns easier. Of course this function bind syntax is just a proposal and hasn't been accepted into the standard yet. But what about it bothers you so much? What about iterators or shorter function definitions, are those also nightmarish manglings of syntax? I mean, really. The usage of Javascript is evolving from simple embedded scripts to gigantic client/server applications. It's no surprise that the language itself will evolve as well.
If police officers here in the UK started talking about having a Warrior midset there's be an outcry. It would be a major scadal that would put the credibility of the police force into crisis. (Brit here, so obviously I have no real right of a say in US internal affairs, but I visit the US from time to time).

I can see where it comes from, US officers are armed, and need to be so because they frequently face armed criminals. They have to deal with a different situation. The problem is that those members of the US public that are not armed and actualy have no intention of criminality, or if they do in a minor and non-threatening form, are being dealt with by armed police officers expecting to deal with armed violent thugs. That's a recipe for utter disaster.

There's no easy answer to this. It's right to support police that have to deal with life threatening situations daily. But equally the non-violent public do not deserve to face potential threats to their life and violent coercion in routine interactions with law enforcers.
The smallest 3D printing pen in the world
Regulation isn't a monolithic entity. The regulations that keep our air clean and our structures safe aren't the ones slowing everything down, as far as I can see.
Price and simplicity
Are VC's so desperate?
That's so weird, I just heard about that the other day!
Is it expected that most of the goods and services sold on OpenBazaar will be illegal, as is the situation with Tor and I2P?

If it's completely decentralised, presumably there is nothing to stop that?

What incentives are there for legitimate business to sell on OpenBazaar, as opposed to remaining on 'traditional' web channels (e.g. their own websites, Amazon).
Also known as the List monad.
Windows Live Writer Going Open Source?
It says "it starts with a bang" so I was thinking <!doctype> after <html> and <body> :)
Thanks! Thats how the idea originally started. I would like to add other challenges if the site gains users.
Thanks for the suggestion, I will look into George van Eps. I have always been into rockier stuff (think Satriani, Vai, Johnson) and blues stuff but have recently been getting into some fusion stuff (Niacin, Planet X etc.) so thanks!
> if they decide to pull the plug on certain projects, those projects are going to have a very tough time.

That looks like a problem to me.

Also, I'm not sure how the whole system works, but let's say I'm a medical researcher. I may be tempted to focus on researches that get money easier (e.g. what gets funded easier by the Gates foundation), instead of focusing on something else (e.g. cancer research). Suddenly the Gates foundation dictates the trends.

That's really some simple thinking here but seems like a valid point to me. Still, I could be totally wrong. I'm not a medical researcher.
> If you've got a fair degree of knowledge and control over what's in your environment (e.g. Things are documented or standardised, you're using node.js), I don't really see the issue.

Are you checking every single library you use for prototype changes, including the libraries each library depends on, the libraries those depend on, etc.?
Graal is not a HotSpot replacement. It's a JIT for HotSpot or an AOT compiler for SubstrateVM which is a separate JVM altogether. If Graal matures and proves itself, it will become HotSpot's JIT. And Substrate may or may not become a product regardless.

And project Sumatra -- while cool -- was never a big influence over OpenJDK's plans. Being able to run streams on GPUs is absolutely awesome, but not the number one priority for the majority of Java users. My point is that Sumatra wouldn't have played a significant role in the decision of when to make Graal HotSpot's default JIT.

BTW, you don't even need Graal to be the default JIT in order to support Sumatra, anyway. Graal as a plugin (JEP 243) is good enough for that.
This was posted about an hour ago where it was upvoted by sockpuppet accounts and received sockpuppet comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9699768
At this point I'm sure he's done well enough as an angel investor and with Google Ventures that he doesn't have to do the whole founder thing any longer. So I respect that he tries these little projects and then gravitates toward what users respond to.

It's a nice counterbalance to the obligatory "we must be changing the world" emptiness that is so often spouted. Some people just want to work on cool projects with people they like. That's OK.
Most of that doubling will not be in the US (or other developed countries). It will mostly be in India & China with Africa following not far behind.
I'm sorry Max :( learned my lesson.
alpha fusion (He nucleus) is lower energy than proton fusion
Show HN: I made a plain-and-simple Python logging framework for the rest of us
It's certainly pedantic, my point is more that coverage is a clearer description of the process of printing stuff off the wire, not so much that reporting is the wrong word for it.
U.S. lawmakers vote to scrap meat labeling laws
Then you should hire people to clean every half an hour.
Copy these files:

https://github.com/soegaard/mathbook/blob/master/mathbook/ma...

and

https://github.com/soegaard/mathbook/blob/master/mathbook/de...
It looks like the source of the test is out there for others to compare/review... which is far better than many of these types of tests do. I'm not an ArrangoDB person, I've done a bit with other NoSQL variants, but will say their approach is fine. They don't even come out on top in all the tests...

It's mainly about showing how they compare performance wise, so that they can concentrate on selling based on features. Which is a pretty fair approach, and I wish them luck.

Also, in looking, it seems that they have pretty broad platform support as well.
It seems like there was actual fraud in this case, where he wasn't spending the money from the Kickstarter on the project.
It's much harder for God to be invisible than visible. Kinda hilarious, actually.
He didn't know that 9/11 was going to be 9/11 though...It's dickish, but it was planned to coincide or anything.