skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm particularly impressed with the force of this announcement - scientists haven't reached a consensus that trans fats are safe. That's it? That justifies a ban? Sounds like they're hedging their words now, so when they're inevitably wrong again they can blame 'the scientists'.
And break it for existing actual users. Brilliant.
Pagerduty meets smartbear(alertsite)
Hard fork policy discussion at Bitcoin.org
It does, and I enjoy mp4 videos and I'm not bothered much by DRM on Netflix either, but should a component like NaCl implying a binary blob be part of an open source software.. by default? Feels weird to have it included with Chromium by default. Weren't Chrome and Chromium originally separated in order to make one compatible with open source distributions, so that this sort of thing would be avoided? A conflict with Debian sounds like a pretty big one.
Jared Leto: How to Save the World’s Elephants
It doesn't really matter if YOU THINK you can keep the feelings separate. What matters is that it damages the trust and confidence that students and everyone to whom their credentials are shown have in your judgement. It's a choice between career suicide because you choose to pursue a certain relationship instead, or career suicide because your integrity is in question.
Be safe and go low-fat whole plant vegan. Statistically, the healthiest option for you.
Nuke Russia?
>The primary assets of MLABAM are intellectual property rights (contracts for content). The business is resale

You can say that about any number of startups that focus on delivering content: Netflix, Steam, Youtube, etc.

> and the revenue model is biased toward dividend type payouts rather than reinvestment for continued growth. This may make it a lucrative business line, but it doesn't make it a startup.

MLBAM has had both dividend payouts and reinvestment. They were started with a $77 million initial investment [1] and turned it into a $5 billion business in a decade and a half. You don't get that kind of growth without reinvestment.

> It started on third base not ramen.

Can't disagree, but isn't that the point of an accelerator? Isn't that supposed to be the differentiator between going to someone like Y Combinator before going to a VC? They are supposed to give startups a head start and guidance that they wouldn't normally receive in order to help them be more successful.

[1] - http://www.fastcompany.com/1822802/mlb-advanced-medias-bob-b...
LastPass is hacked
There are quite a few machine learning API services. Here are a few:

* BigML https://bigml.com/

* Dato https://dato.com/

* Amazon Machine Learning http://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/

* Google Prediction API https://cloud.google.com/prediction/docs

* Azure Machine Learning http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/

Whether or not any of them are better than the others - it depends on what you're trying to do. Different services have different strengths and capabilities, so whether or not any of them are suitable depends on the task you're working on.
Chrome for Android had the same buried "add to homescreen" thing for a long time: https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/installtoho...

Chrome for Windows has had "Create Application Shortcut" for roughly forever: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95710?hl=en

Neither indicated that a site would work well in that mode. That's a big part of the change: detection that a site meets the quality criteria + prompting.
A madman would steal a gun or otherwise obtain a gun illegally. Just like people obtained alcohol illegally during prohibition.

I'm not really disagreeing with your main point, just the "it's obvious that would prevent death by a madman going on a shooting spree".

Hell, if the US banned guns I would still own one I would just hide it better.
yeah definitely, non flat terrain, trips by bike are not the best to measure this effect =)
Honestly I think removing those movies that the user is not interested in from the list that netflix is recommending to you could be related to a scaling/optimisation/coding issue on their side regarding the results from the recommending algorithm they are using then a lack of content issue.
Then I guess we should ban being human. Even the most egalitarian people are not free from biases, nor they have consistent and stable mood. And even if a perfect egalitarian demigod were to be making decisions, someone would still find something to misinterpret in his/her actions in order to build an outrage-inducing story.

Reducing negative effects of human nature is hard as it is, but it becomes pretty much impossible when there are people with malicious intentions looking for you to do a single wrong step.
It's an incredible stretch to say that students who are voicing sensitivity about micro-aggressions and the slightest whiff of acknowledgement of sexuality are reacting out of concern for their grades.

The situation we see on campuses now is the result of the collision of gender feminism with the emotional state of young adults raised by helicopter parents.
That's a good answer. Here's one more example from the visual effects industry. This is for parallel evaluation of potentially complex dependency graphs in an interactive character engine.

http://www.multithreadingandvfx.org/course_notes/Paralleleva...
WWDC: Too Much Info, Too Little Time? Check Out This Roundup
I know what you mean but if a web page just has to to request "run me as an app" to get unsandboxed access then you know every popup from every shady site is going to have a go. It will kill the feature as dead as ActiveX plugins. I want to have the cake and eat it.
First, drop the bad attitude. I already know calculus, so obviously I won't disagree with what I already know.

But this:

> If the message sent is "we let anyone qualified in without even looking at who you are", that provides incentives for anyone to acquire education.

and this:

> Given that Asians can't get accepted because of their race, yet keep trying

I don't know to be true. So yeah, you'd need to prove them to me before I agree to them.
Free to try basics, then starts selling subscriptions since it's "Made by codeschool".
and yet only 100 years ago, it would've taken you months to travel across the continents to the otherside of the world...how quickly mentality changes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E
The same thing can be said for alcohol. These facts aren't hidden.
How to receive a million packets per second
RSS Feeds on your Kindle daily
I would imagine the risk of hitting a stationary object is lower than the risk of hitting an object moving towards you. Curious to know if this line of reasoning of taking the least risky option was a defense to driving his car into a tree.
What Makes FC Barcelona Such a Successful Business
This. Single-engine plane flying around in rough terrain? Hope you don't have a mechanical failure, as you're in for a bad time if you do.
I agree that all factors should be taken into consideration. But to counter I ask, if great things can be done poorly, should they not be done at all?

Not to suggest that palm oil is a "great thing"; I'm generalizing my counter to the source's argumentative approach.
(author of the original post here) Raft can be pretty relaxed about heartbeats. It doesn't, strictly speaking, require every node to talk to everyone else. All you really need is some health signal about the other nodes so you A) don't call an election while the leader is still alive and B) call an election promptly when a leader disappears. As a first step, we've reduced our heartbeat traffic from one per group to one per node, and we can reduce it further (e.g. by having each node send heartbeats only to a subset of its peers and sharing the results to other nodes).

Also, we are using both Raft and two-phase commit: Raft manages the consistency of individual ranges, but transactions that span multiple ranges require 2PC.
Yes probably cheaper than acquiring the property rights for above ground in that area.
I would make a stronger statement: numerical algorithms (computational continuous mathematics) are seriously neglected in favor of combinatorial algorithms (computational discrete mathematics).

Take any undergrad algorithms class: 99% of it is combinatorial. There's an equal (probably larger) parallel universe of numerical thinking and numerical algorithms which is either not taught, or taught as a secondary class under the names of 'numerical analysis', 'scientific computing', and so on. None of stacks, queues, trees, and graphs are going to help you out when you have to discretize a differential equation or solve the resulting linear system with correctly enforcing the boundary conditions. You could ace an algorithms class and not have a clue how to begin tackling those kinds of problems.

This is especially relevant today when machine learning is heavily dependent on computational linear algebra and other numerics, and a typical CS student is not trained for that.
losing muscle mass = losing weight

What you are defending is fitness, what we are discussing is weight loss

If you are 580 pounds heavy, restricting the number of calories you consume is far more important than making sure x% of your calories are from fats/carbs/proteins.

The only bearing food choice has on this matter is how full you will feel, and that is matter of personal preference and a small bit of choosing more protein rich foods, but if you don't mind feeling hungry you can lose weight just as well on 3 snickers bars as 3 chicken breasts with rice.

see http://www.boredpanda.com/what-200-calories-look-like/ for a visualization of how healthier foods will make you feel more full.
for example, 200 calories of M&Ms is 40 grams, the same number of calories from apples is 385 grams - almost 10 times as much physical stuff occupying your stomach
Despite three randomized trials, "there is no evidence that these persistent subjective complaints represent ongoing active infection or that repeated or prolonged courses of antibiotics ... provide any benefit."

[paywall] http://www.uptodate.com/contents/clinical-manifestations-of-...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=11450676
N Engl J Med. 2001 Jul 12;345(2):85-92.
Two controlled trials of antibiotic treatment in patients with persistent symptoms and a history of Lyme disease.
Klempner MS1, Hu LT, Evans J, Schmid CH, Johnson GM, Trevino RP, Norton D, Levy L, Wall D, McCall J, Kosinski M, Weinstein A.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=12821734
Study and treatment of post Lyme disease (STOP-LD): a randomized double masked clinical trial.
Krupp LB, Hyman LG, Grimson R, Coyle PK, Melville P, Ahnn S, Dattwyler R, Chandler B
Neurology. 2003;60(12):1923.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=17928580
Neurology. 2008 Mar 25;70(13):992-1003. Epub 2007 Oct 10.
A randomized, placebo-controlled trial of repeated IV antibiotic therapy for Lyme encephalopathy.
Fallon BA1, Keilp JG, Corbera KM, Petkova E, Britton CB, Dwyer E, Slavov I, Cheng J, Dobkin J, Nelson DR, Sackeim HA.
Great work! But is there any reason that you didn't build on top of the really nice V8 binding https://github.com/ry/v8worker instead of Duktape?
EU ruling holds website responsible for offensive user comments
I don't think time has anything to do with it. Rather it's the solvent in the dry erase marker. I used to use dry erase markers to remove extension numbers from the little tabs on 66 blocks back in the days before IP phones. Sometimes those numbers had been there for 15+ years.

So, my advice would be: if one brand of dry erase marker doesn't remove your permanent marker mark, try a different brand. I think I used Expo.
Something like half of the recruiter emails I've been getting lately have been to the email address I have posted on github. One of them actually appeared to have scraped my commit history which was mildly creepy.
So this now reached it's funding goal with 30k bakers, why does that confirm the market exists when Yakuza selling 50k copies is considered a failure ?
And when people don't do that, the government has a reason to get bigger... And that's what we have, a complacent populace.
Americans take too much pride in their mindless banter. It can be obnoxious.
1000 m ahead a group of 5 people walks the pavement along the road. Should the car slow down so that it can stop on time if they suddenly try to cross the road?

If so - self-driving cars will be going much slower than manualy driven cars most of the time, which will probably hurt adoption.

I would like this to be the case, but I guess car companies will agree to some compromise to speed up adoption, and corner cases will be there. Should the software ignore them, or plan for them (= "planning to kill you").
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/marshva...
The original link is in german. I will post a link to an english version asap.
California's Crazy Water Laws
Trans fats had been ruled not fit for human consumption. There are few ingredients that have no consequential benefit to ingesting. Even drinking alcohol has some benefits, and nicotine is the most widely used nootropic in the world (though I can't defend cigarettes, they're categorically bad, but on the way out in society).
Patching an application from a device driver
Thanks for the link. Matches my experience quite closely:

1) They refused to set the rate I asked for. It was "too much for someone from Eastern Europe", so they set it to half that.

2) Despite going along with that, I never managed to get any contract through them - probably because they don't focus on C# that much. Even when I find something interesting and apply, I usually don't hear back for at least a couple of weeks.

It is extremely possible that I'm just not a good fit for the jobs, or that I am indeed asking for too much, but so far my experience with the site has been... underwhelming.
On Software Development and the Book “Applying UML and Patterns”
> it's not improbable that they might be in a situation where the computer has a choice - hit someone standing on the side of the road, or don't hit them,but potentially kill everyone on board of the vehicle.

What makes you think this situation is probable? How often does it currently occur for human drivers? Ever? I don't have statistics at hand, but what exactly is the incidence of pedestrians who are not in the roadway getting hit by cars? And how many of those were caused by driver error that wouldn't exist for a self-driving car rather than a forced choice?
It's showing fine for me (Firefox on Windows 7)
I guess we should ramp up electric vehicle production to eliminate the need for those biofuels.
These Stirring Portraits Put a Face on Homelessness
Oh absolutely. I think this is a huge step forward - I'm mostly just moaning at a lack of cross-platform compatibility in a situation where it would be a huge deal.

What was the rationale for not having a document.addToHomescreen() function? I can see it being open to abuse, but not any more or less than pop-up windows (especially when limited to only being called within touch events and so on)
[Discounted] Real World D3.js
Is this a common unit of measurement for people's weight?

Stone is standard in the UK for expressing people's weight, which is why I mentioned it. I've never met anybody that weighs themselves in pounds. (I bet I'm not the only person who isn't even sure how many pounds there are in a stone.) Certainly few people seem to have a good instinctive sense for whether a given amount in pounds is about average, a bit light, or a bit heavy. Which is why I thought UK readers might like to know how many stone there are in 166 pounds, but evidently not ;)

I have a couple of friends who've gone metric and weigh themselves in kg. That's as avant garde as it gets.
An optimal portfolio of pokemon
This article fails to note that a lot of the paranoia is driven by the slow infantilization of 18 year-olds since the author was in college. When the author of this article was in college, pre-AIDs, therefore probably late 70's or early 80s, an 18 year-old was allowed to drink and would largely be considered an "adult." If you weren't in college, you were likely working full time, and not living with your parents until you were 26. You probably had an older brother, cousin, or uncle who was drafted sent to Vietnam at around 18-19 years of age.

So back then when you hooked up with a professor, people probably thought you were stupid, but you were an adult and you owned your stupidity.

Today colleges totally infantilize their students and it has become more like extended high school (lots of homework, attendance taken, strict rules of social conduct, etc.) than what the author experienced 35 years ago. But to be fair, it is not just colleges, what society expects out of an 18 year old has changed dramatically as well - so the way power dynamics are looked at on campus today sort of makes sense.
Worse they are implementing it incorrectly. Apparently placing a normal favicon tag after the Apple one would fix the issue and Apple suggests doing so.
> The problem is the heartbeat; you can't have every node talking to every other node every few seconds.

The node does not have to talk with EVERY other nodes.

> What we really need is someone smart to come up with a consensus algorithm that doesn't need a heartbeat.

Well. Most consensus does not require heartbeat. Heartbeat is just the simplest way to detect a potential failure.

> if you want a system that runs fast

Consensus might affect the commit latency. It wont affect throughput that much though. But if you do not care, you can simply write to a consensus system without waiting for the commit. You can still get the serialization and replication.
They aren't. The Kickstarter has no affiliation with Sony.
Statistically, eh? Got a cite?
Only if you want to look emaciated.
It looks better than I think you originally gave yourself credit for.. I'm probably going to try to use this.
Typical for apple I have spent days trying to sort out the NTP fiasco that apple introduced in mavericks.

Networked macs lose connection to the OSx Server as clocks drift apart and kerberos authentication fails
Sounds like a law abiding way to go!
That objection doesn't make sense if everyone is moving in the same direction.
Another request to add to OP's post - could you also add how you got started, especially if it is SaaS? Meaning, how did you get the idea first for your service/product?
Bloodstained, a Castlevania-ish remake, notes that the Kickstarter money is to finish the funding while the remaining 90% came from external investors. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iga/bloodstained-ritual...
Raspberry Pi Motion Sensor with Realtime Web Alerts Tutorial
NaCl doesn't imply proprietary any more than a JavaScript engine does. The downloaded code is bytecode at an abstraction level a bit below C but quite a bit above assembly. It's not substantially different from a freedom perspective than code compiled to asm.js or just minified JavaScript. Both are usually proprietary and require reverse engineering work to decipher.
Add in iPhone and iPad for another interesting comparison: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Apple%20watch%2C%20Ip...
> All sorts of high-quality stationery are becoming impossible to find.

I'm starting to feel like a weirdo looking for decent bookmarks.
Old-growth forests have a completely different ecology than forest that's been clear cut - and it takes decades if not centuries to recover.

If you don't care about the ecologies of forests, then maybe you don't care about whether or not we cut down some old trees. But I think you should care about the ecologies of forests, because forests have huge impacts on climate, atmosphere, water quality, erosion, and much much more.

The "old-school" logger mindset is that the forests would be better off "managed" by humans than left by itself. That is, it would be more productive. But a century of data is showing that this is not really correct. It's only in the last twenty years or so we've come to understand that long-term problems these things create.

For example, clear cutting tends to completely wipe out the biodiversity of that location. Even if they are re-seeded / re-planted, they tend to only be re-planted with one type of tree. Of course, when you start from zero, the biodiversity does increase quite rapidly, because it has a lot of room to grow, but like I said earlier, it takes decades if not centuries to fully recover.

In the PNW, clear cutting has been linked to increased risk of landslides.

This is a really big issue, and I won't even try to give it full voice here. A really good book on this issue is "Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem" (http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Forest-Biography-Jon-Luoma/dp/0...) It's based on the best research available at the time (1999, I believe).
Technically SVG doesn't require a colour. In absence of a fill colour renderers will render shapes in black anyway.

Furthermore, SVG supports masking already: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/masking.html#Masking – although the use of black there would mean transparent, not opaque. Wouldn't be terribly bad to align the feature with the spec in that regard, though. As far as I understood it, the intended result is essentially a single-colour image, masked by the given SVG.
I've been a professor for close to ten years now, and I can't tell you how strongly I disagreed with this essay. Maybe it's a generational thing: a perception of what's acceptable in life even outside academia. For instance, she says,

> "Somehow I don’t see the publishing industry instituting codes banning unhappily married editors from going goopy over authors,"

but from my perspective, the story she relayed showed exactly why publishers should (and, I think, often do) fire or strongly sanction any editor who abuses his or her position in that way. Part of the author's point seems to be, "We need to prepare students for the dangers of the world out there," which I think is entirely sensible. But her proposed solution appears to be, "Make sure that college provides practice fending off unwanted advances by people with power over you," while I'd much prefer, "Make sure that college teaches them those advances aren't acceptable."

Don't get me wrong: I think sex can be awesome, and I think a whole lot of people are way too eager to make rules about what other consenting adults ought to be able to do. But the thought of a professor putting a student in a position where they fear the consequences of saying no (when they might be counting on that professor for a good grade or a recommendation letter) just horrifies me. Professors: if you want to get it on at work, you've got plenty of colleagues to choose from. And if there's some student you're convinced is your soulmate, just cross your damned legs for a couple years.
You scoring points against the Center??
This. On your home computer, use whatever you want. If you're using all sorts of foreign environments, you're going to want to use whatever is common to all of them so that you don't fumble around badly trying to do basic tasks. Learn vi. You don't have to like it, you don't have to use it on your home system, and you don't have to learn the eleventy-billion vim-efficiency-hacks floating around the Internet. But learn it well enough that if you have to ssh into some server that only has vi installed on it, you aren't rendered completely helpless. Even "Notepad Capability" is fine.
Ah. You're right. Thanks for that.
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Point 2 is referring to fulfillment of Kickstarter costs, not translation. Backers on Kickstarter receive rewards with their pledges, which someone has to pay for, including shipping on not just games but also t-shirts, art books, and other novelties (most likely internationally). Part of the money earned will go towards that.
>> WUWT is a climate change denial site run by conspiracy theorists.

"I disagree with their position so I will slander them."
Why did you need to take the chalk into the steam tunnels just to spray it?
They are the primary reason.