skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i wonder who is behind this massive hack, is it a positive or even worst group?

i wouldn't want to be in the private pictures leaked once the world knows you are responsable for torture and murder of potential innocent people, very nasty karma
Leaving aside the committee preference, what value do you perceive in the fact that it's a standard? It can't be that browsers support it, because they don't. Sure Mozilla will probably get there within the next several years, and Chrome won't be too far behind, but forget about Safari and IE. So you'll still have to use Babel or something like it. Please note, there's nothing wrong with requiring a tool chain, which we already need anyway for minimization, compression, cdns, etc. But once we realize that, we realize that coffeescript is just the same as ES6 in that respect.
I'm assuming those are screenshots taken by the hacker in which case, it makes sense since activating Office/Outlook will phone home to MS.
Presumably the people actually having sex believe that having sex is alright, so no one is really forcing their views on them. People don't have to hold the same values their parents hold now for them.
Sure you could find a city in Mexico that would look like Disneyland next to Chicago. But compare Chicago to Ciudad Juarez and the murder rates are about the same (457 in 2014 in Chicago, 424 in 2014 in Juarez). And a few years ago (2010) Ciudad Juarez was the murder capital of the world with over 3000 murders.

Mexico as a country still has about twice as many murders per year as the United States while having less than one-third the population. Mexico has FAR stricter gun laws btw.
When is HN going to get a penalty filter for all these health fad/craze links? They just bring out all the crazies and the articles are typically inconclusive at best and opinionated and divisive at worst.
Measure Allocations (and here's how)
Show HN: Ryd.io – Manhattan Blocks Clustered via Taxi Drop-Offs
http://ryd.io/

As a capstone project for Galvanize's data science immersive I took another look at the NYC Taxi data set. A ton of analysis has been done on individual rides/cars and I was curious about what story would be told by looking at this data through the aggregate.

Through the clustered map you can identify different 'personalities' of the city with a birds eye view. Check it out here http://ryd.io/cluster_map

I've just spent past couple weeks working hard on this project and would love to talk to anyone about it if they are interested.

After the conclusion of the program I'm excited to join a new data team and work on awesome problems.

Feel free to contact me with any questions

Tech:
Backend - Python, Flask, Jinja
Front - Bootstrap, leaflet, ajax
Graphic - Originally in matplotlib/Cartodb and styled in photoshop
Data Analysis - Python + stats packages

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You have misinterpreted the point of my post. The initial post was:

>"if something survives a really long time (thousand of years scale) it is very likely to be of use."

Whereby time was the factor by which something is considered 'of use'. The things you've mentioned evolution, the wheel, research papers etc. Have more concrete evidence than just time to back them up.

Although on the topic of food, do you have any evidence to support that?
It takes 150 days to peer review manuscripts in PLOS journals
clickable - http://ryd.io/
People who say things like this make it much easier for people who work at places like Gamma and Hacking Team to rationalize what they do.
Yes exactly. Piecing together the state of all the foreign tables across the system at a specific point in time is difficult/painful.

This is one place where document stores really shine as you generally keep everything in a single place. When you update a document you don't have to worry about the values of all the foreign keys, you just save the current version which contains all your values.
Exactly - if an infinite number of monkeys sat typing at an infinite number of typewriters, eventually, one would produce the entire works of Shakespeare...
>>physical good

What an interesting opinion.

The value of a thing comes, in part, from the labor to get it. His employer paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to make this code. On the other hand, stealing it, unlike a car, results in a duplication with the original still in working condition.

Was anything lost, physically no, but he did commit a serious breach of contract rather than theft.
By that token a substantial proportion of the tools I rely on on a daily basis are dead.

(not least if you consider the actual contents of the linked article, which makes it clear that by "finish" he means to make it functionally complete, not to stop fixing bugs or e.g. ensuring it still compiles)
A New, $250,000 Startup Competition for Berkeley Students Takes Shape
You're not married, you sleep in separate rooms.

Do the criteria require one of a civic marriage, a religious marriage or both? If the latter in isolation is acceptable, as it has no legal power, would domestic partnerships then also be an acceptable alternative?
Unfortunately the "friendship" is not mutual :(
It's very possible that I've made some unfair assumptions. Could you give me a more fair representation of what goes into the mind of someone selling surveillance software to Sudan or Omar?
We do have the NHS though.
Anybody used decimal floating point?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal64_floating-point_forma...
Why one liner haskell elegant, but haskell project seems ugly？
hahah I should have thought of that!
Ok, yes, my example was not the best one.

But at the same time, consider things like UTF-8, localization, etc. They appear at the least expected moment and someone has to do something unless the tool becomes useless.

I understand you get the idea, though.
I don't agree. Aleynikov did not win on the aspects of the case that folks in the tech industry rallied around (e.g. copying open source code). He won on narrow issues of statutory construction: 1) The National Stolen Property Act does not extend to intangible property; 2) The Economic Espionage Act does not encompass code used internally for commercial purposes, only code sold or licensed in commerce; 3) New York's law against unlawful use of secret scientific material did not apply because trading code wasn't "scientific material."

I think Vance should have left well enough alone after the first prosecution failed, and the New York "scientific material" charge was clearly the weakest of the three. But the federal prosecution was perfectly reasonable. The statutes at issue were intended to make that sort of conduct illegal. But they hadn't been updated for the digital era. Had Aleynikov made photocopies of the code instead of uploading it, the first conviction would have been upheld.
Would love to hear an explanation of where I'm wrong along with the downvotes.
> Believing in absolute moral rightness of "humans" is crazy talk.

True, but I don't believe that. The moral righntess of the human operating the button only needs to be better than that of the automated system.

I believe the humans pressing the button will be better than the automated system more often that not, because they are involved in the situation and would only use it if they perceive the robot to behave in a problematic way.

> What if they capture war robots with punch-the-red-button-to-become-new-master overrides?

If they aim the bot against you, you should be able to press the red button and avoid them killing you.

If they disable the red button so that you can't use it, how is that different from the crazy violent people programming a bot without an override in the first place?
Rising property values doesn't sound that bad compared to actively helping repressive governments to hunt, torture and murder the people speaking against them.
Why wouldn't you want to rip out your starter motor, alternator and normal battery to replace them with this? Get some wins back with regards to weight and cabin space. I'm assuming some steady use would help keep the battery in good condition as well as ensuring it's tested and ready to go by definition.

This being an emergency only thing how does it last? If it needs a new £5000 battery every 5 years just to sit there in case I can imagine many pilots just not being able to justify it. Given the target market.
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I have several projects that haven't been updated in more than a year which are still maintained in the sense that if there are bugs, I fix them. They are rarely touched for a simple reason: They do what they're meant to, and they still work.

I wish more software took that approach. Far too often software quality drops after a while as developers keep piling on the features.
Well observed. The problem with client to server RPC is that it's difficult to scale horizontally. When using pub/sub, on the other hand, you are giving control to your data consumers (frontend clients) so you don't run into issues of having to get references to specific users from your server (what if that user is connected to a different process/machine and not the current process?). I did a presentation a few weeks ago at my local JS meetup group which explained the issue better: http://slides.com/grosjona/realtime#/
Interesting. The issue I was getting was that it would like tweets that were "@MyFriendWhoHasAUserNameLikeZXCVBNMQWERTYU hey". Should I just strip it of the word "@____"?
Dumb question: how is this Google's core business?
Indeed national averages during that period trend similarly.

http://www.cdc.gov/teenpregnancy/about/birth-rates-chart-200...
Then why did replacement subreddits with explicit rules against harassment and measures to prevent it get banned?
Your statistics on violent crime are apples to oranges. UK figures include any incident where a person was touched by another person even if no harm was done. US figures are very limited to rape, grevious bodily harm and assault.
"do the needful" == "do what is necessary"
Abandoned or stable? If it has no dependencies and a small feature set, it may just be done. "Stable" is a good thing.
Yeah that tweet was a let down. I guess the best resolution is that pangrams (or things with many unique letters) are hard to come by?
Uber: fuck the law
> Except it takes months to recreate code.

No. For a neanderthal leadership it doesn't take months to recreate code. It usually takes forever.

Goldman Sachs and many such large corporation, including the US Government, are led by a bunch of dinosaurs. People who do not understand what code is.

What they understand instead is bullying, setting an example like some sort of public execution, owning people to the point of slavery etc. They know what it means to prosecute and destroy lives of individuals. And enjoy parties and drinks on the side in the evenings.

And this is just one example of that tyrannical trait.
Pitch a Tent, Shun
Agreedo on increase in the pricing and removing the free tier. Free tier is where you will spend all of your time in support with not much to show for it. Maybe not $100/mo as that will prevent most of the mom and pop shops, maybe move the free tier to $20/mo and the real deal to $99/mo. Pricing is hard.
This was my first thought as well. Also, christian religions that openly accept homosexuals are banned? That seems more like this is for a subset of Christians and not all Christians.
The Hyperloop is much closer than people realize
> What is true for Google's code is also true for any complex system such as trading software.

I'm not sure that follows. Many trading companies operate as black boxes, and there are a hell of a lot more of them, and they have much fewer employees, and seem to exemplify a "get rich quick" attitude.
And a Scala job has been placed in a town called Scala in Italy, not far from Naples.
My belief is that this is mostly this is Google implementing a variety of anti-spam measures rather ineffectively. That and a general consensus that "running your own email server" is a somehow seditious act.

Like Jacques I've run my own mail server for decades, from sendmail, to qmail, to postfix there hasn't been all that much to worry about other than dealing with folks who would try to break into your system through bugs, or exploit your server to send spam.

But Google is such a tempting target for spammers, probably carrying a notable fraction of all the worlds email. Once you get "inside" you can deliver your spam to millions, if not billions if you're careful. So I understand their problem.

That said, it would seem possible to set up a system for "whitelisting" yourself with Google, something like Clear for travellers, an API key perhaps. But that would actually increase the cost of running gmail and that would cause it to lose even more money and well that is something Google can ill afford these days. And I realize that Google is unable to post strict rules "if you do this we will accept your email" because, well spammers would do all those things.

We are but collateral damage of the battle amongst those who would exploit the network for gain.
Also, the GMA series of graphics chips were actually integrated into the motherboard rather than the CPU. By going with processor graphics, Intel has managed to reduce by at least one the number of chips that goes into a system, allowing for even smaller designs than before.
In which case perhaps the reasonable solution is for you to get a different type of chair, rather than trying to modify your old chairs to fit the changing requirements.
Yeah, I can't wait for some of the more conservative Christians looking to find a "sin-free" operating system to dig around and start reading some of Terry's more... colorful writings.
What access does Apple have to travel data?
Thank you!

The IMF analyzed the 2014 primary surplus and found it illusory:

* They counted revenue sources that aren't conventionally accounted for in primary budgets

* They undercounted liabilities, notably from tax refund and pension payables

* Some of the unorthodox revenue they counted were privatization proceeds, which turned out less lucrative than projected

The IMF's trued-up numbers suggest there was no 2014 primary surplus.
No True Scotsman, etc.
What is the GCM in AES-GCM? [video]
Technically the recession is only when GDP drops for at least two consecutive quarters, what follows is the recovery phase. It's just common phrasing to call the whole period the recession or depression. In your example, there'd be a 1-year recession with a 90-year recovery.
Quite unusual for the finance industry : a small win for capitalism and loss for crony corporatism.
I'd at least design a vtol aircraft with 2 props to not get the axial roll torque of the single engine aircraft.

Any plane with thrust-to-weight >1 can fly vertically, but flying vertically and taking off vertically are two entirely different things. For example, the ability to convert engine shaft horsepower to usable thrust is very poor at zero airspeed. The V-22 osprey shows that it's both possible and difficult to take off vertically with propellers.
> There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
You would sell it to someone interested in gaming it.
If you look at his progression, a lot of it is also about shaving down the size and complexity. E.g. the AMQP -> 0mq -> nanomsg chain which is a journey of cutting complexity.
Well, TfL does claim that congestion is down about 30% versus predicted congestion, or about 10% versus baseline congestion since before the charge. I know cycling is still perceived as dangerous there but according to the numbers, fatalities per cyclist journey are down significantly since the congestion charge began. If you think London cycling is dangerous I invite you to join me in San Francisco for some perspective.
Say if they use depo provera injections as the long term contraceptive it could very well reduce their willingness to do it. And help with [painful] periods btw.
Trustee Extends Online Deadline for Mt. Gox Claimants
Doesn't Meteor implement pub/sub using DDP?
If you liked this, check out Dave Rat's blog - http://daverat.blogspot.com/

He's the sound guy for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, among others, and it currently testing out a double line array system - with separate systems for vocals and instruments.
I'm convinced that there is a highly vocal group (of young men, most likely) that are hell-bent on breaking Internet communities and even corporeal communities with their grotesqueries. And when they're challenged, they howl "but you're censoring my free speech!"
The Philae Comet Could Be Home to Microbial Alien Life, Scientists Say
It may correct itself as you zoom in. It seems to group geographic areas together in somewhat centralized locations to avoid having too many bubbles at a particular zoom level.

If you zoom in on the east coast of the US, for instance, jobs are grouped between NYC and Boston and the location of the bubble doesn't make much sense until you zoom in further and see them separated.
> the software development industry should stop doing such a disservice to
> itself, and start funding more scientific studies in software
> development.

Yes.

> hypotheses like 'naming things is hard - we should stop doing it' are given
> way too much credibility with nothing to back them up.

Also yes, but let's separate generating hypotheses and discussing them from giving them credibility. It's a net win for people to share their shower-time hypotheses with each other. It's a net win for sites like Hacker News to feature them so that the "long tail of thought" can stretch ever longer.

But as you say, we need to keep some perspective and grant that these are hypotheses. For example, a lot of times, people try turning a dial to eleven:

Long iterations are hard, what's the shortest iteration cycle? What if we try releasing every two weeks?

Code review is valuable, what if we review 24/7/365 by pairing or even mob programming?

Long methods are hard to understand, what if we make a rule that they can be no longer than five lines?

And so forth. And they get good n=1 anecdotal results. My hypothesis is that there's a Hawthorne Effect going on: When you turn a dial to eleven, you find yourself forced to observe and think about what's going on very thoroughly, and in the process of doing so, you get better results.

Then you keep doing that, and eventually the new way of doing things is internalized, and you stop being forced to think very hard about things, and you regress to your old level of hand-wavey productivity/quality/whatever.

This little pet model of mine explains why things like this keep popping up, why they are often valuable exercises, but also why, as you say, we should do some real measuring before pronouncing that we're DoingItWrong™.
Plants that may be "behind" this plant in the path of direct sunlight are starved of sunlight by the increased absorption. Thereby reducing their ability to compete for other resources.
Greek people withdrawing money (and mostly getting it out of the country) show a lack of support to their country. This excerbates the problems of their financial system. It also begs the question why the rest of europe should schow solidarity with a country if its own people dont.

Voting against austerity and restructuring policies is not standing behind your goverment/nation. Trusting it with your money is.
See his comment in the comments on what he thinks about how to decompose nanomsg, it's quite interesting.
Cortex [1] is a case study of the workflow of CGP Grey, who makes really great YouTube videos that the HN community would probably enjoy. It's slated for 10 episodes, and currently episode 5 has just been released.

I also really like Hello Internet [2], which is done by a couple of guys who make YouTube videos for a living. Usually not super tech-oriented, but they almost always have interesting discussions. It's a fun podcast.

[1] https://www.relay.fm/cortex

[2] http://www.hellointernet.fm/
Wait, if it is just text then how is it "beautiful"? Don't you need fancy faded images and "creative" scrolling methods for something to be "beautiful"?
with the car analogy, you're depriving the owner of any and all use of it, and also of its resale value.

with code, you are only depriving the owner of exclusivity, and then only if you use that code in the real world. and even then, it only becomes material harm if you actually use it to compete with them.

it's vastly different.
thanks for doing this. much easier to digest.
At least it's honest. You know exactly what it's all about.

Unlike what we have now where you are publicly shamed for your religious beliefs and the people doing the shaming not only deny it, but somehow think it's morally correct.
Android-Transition-easy creation of view transitions that reacts to UI
Hi Sargeros,

I actually started as an intern, knowing next to nothing when it came to Image Processing. If you are motivated and willing to learn, there might be something we can do. Send me your resume at jean [at] stupeflix.com.
Most women do follow the stereotypes, however. That is why they are stereotypes.
It hinted at an entire class of explanations.
I'd argue the converse: when you are benchmarking a CPU intensive application, the GPU is mostly idle and not generating much heat, giving you margin to push the CPU transistors harder.

GPU designs are also much more regular than CPU designs, so heat is spread much more regularly rather than in a few hot spots. The regularity also makes it easier to transition to a new node.
How old until she is allowed to make her own choices as to who her sexual partner is? 18 seems to be the answer (most states are under 18, but if it crossed state lines it is upped to 18 as the federal law is 18).
"thousands!"
I've spent half a year of my professional life programming custom business rule engine and my experience aligns with a sarcastic note I've read somewhere: "Business builds business rule engines so they can change their rules and workflows without the need for expensive programmers, but in the end they need to hire even more expensive Business Rule Engine Programmers".

Declarativeness of the system was really nice and named rules really made sense, if the actions you can take are really meaningful. It was more like naming every function set while doing FP.
I am not willing to condemn my 100% accepting religious friends because of that guy who shouts at traffic with a megaphone on the weekends.
Same here, but in a much shorter time frame of four years as a developer. Javascript isn't even on my radar right now at work or even at home.
quotes from the TempleOS charter:

* God said 640x480 16 color graphics is a covenant like circumcision.

* God said to use a single audio voice -- a single frequency with waveforms and,
maybe, amplitude envelope.

(it's linked in the original, but just in case:

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/Charter.html

seems he thinks Jesus was a Commodore 64. I'm not into judging people's religions but I will say that's definitely an unusual interpretation of the relevant texts.)