skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because nobody is building any of the components for Mars Direct. However many of the components for these missions either exist already or are currently in active development. To do Mars Direct now you'd have to factor in the cost of scrapping everything that's currently in the works and developing Mars Direct from scratch.

I appreciate your POV, Mars Direct is a compelling plan, but it's weakness is that none of its components except the launcher are any use for anything else except another Mars Direct mission. Anyway it's a bit unfair to thrash these guys for wanting to work within what is already actually happening.
Hacking Team Project X: Mass Intercept of SSL [pdf]
A known bug is that the counting machines doesn't validate the number of votes per ballot, so you can cast multiple votes by rewriting the RFID chip with a NFC enabled phone.

And even if they address that particular bug, because of the inherent nature of the political process, parties' representatives will always want to count the ballots by hand to prevent fraud.

EDIT: As of this moment there is no way an argentine political party would accept black-boxing an election.
That is rarely true, and also besides the point: if you report the flaw and they acknowledge it, what does verification matter?
I don't trust them either. When I check into a hotel/motel; I ask for no maid service. I do ask for an extra set of linen though. They always look at me like I'm crazy. Even when I ask though, some establishments clean my room anyways? I can't prove it, but I feel I have had stuff stolen form my room. I just saw a commercial for a new Los Vegas hotel. Their sales pitch was we clean your room 2x daily. I said to myself, "I'm not going there." When I bring a few grand worth of stuff to a hotel, and decide to take a chance with the maid service, I lock my stuff up in a large Pac Safe made for Backpacks.
Best of both worlds: Polymer and ES2015
What about design and testing? Now you're excluding people who aren't devs.
Agree with both.
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It's available on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpgV6rCn5-g
look back and laugh at how long we were able to just shrink transistors within the 1 plane, totally ignoring all depth? Remember, moore's law is about transistor count per square inch. I'm kind of shocked we don't use 3D chips, though I understand heat is an issue.
The new Google Patents, with machine-classified technical literature
Yes.

Look here: http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/developer.do

This isn't quite the same sort of work, but it will do as a rough guideline. Look at the average rate outside London: £350.

So, what does this work pay by comparison? £3000/25 days=£120/day. Not enough! The page above suggests £300-400/day is a usual daily rate. So you could use that as a guide. 25 * 300=£7,500; 25 * 350=£8,750; 25 * 400=£10,000.

This isn't the sort of work I normally do, so I'm not hugely familiar with what people tend to charge - but I think £10,000 might even be a bit low. There's possibly people who've done this before laughing at the very idea right now. After all you'll be shipping on 3 platforms with payment/videos/online shop, and in only 5 weeks. If you're going to need to pay somebody else to do anything (artwork, programming), that is going to eat into this sum at quite a rate. Don't forget hardware and software costs too.

Aside from the scope, there is also a good possibility that more people at the client end will want their fingers in this pie once it gets going, and that will delay things further.

(Apologies if none of the above is news to you. I just assume that if you're contemplating doing this for £3,000, then it's something you haven't done before.)
What Startups Can Learn from Watsi’s Wildly Successful Email Campaign
From the sound of it, it was going out to replace a plane that needed maintenance. Which is a thing that happens; just a couple weeks ago, IIRC, Delta had to pull a 747 out of a "boneyard" storage facility and fly it to Seoul to replace one that took a bunch of damage (mostly hailstones) from a thunderstorm.

Also, schedules are built around keeping the plane in the air as much of the time as possible, which sometimes means there's a mostly-empty "positioning" flight to get a plane to where it needs to be to carry a full load. I know with US Airways, for example, you can sometimes randomly snag a seat on a widebody international plane between Philadelphia and Charlotte (usually coming out of maintenance and onto transatlantic service, or switching which hub the plane operates from), and on Delta you can occasionally fly a 747 domestically between Atlanta and Detroit (to get the 747 in position to fly from Detroit to destinations in Asia).
I suspect most people would just comply without realizing they're able to decline. Particularly if they're in a foreign airport.
Conductor: A framework for testing distributed systems
Its actually a very complex area and the setting of inflation measures is open to gaming and political pressure.

For example The last UK government didn't like the new CPIH index and the ONS (office of national statistics) was told to go away and try again.
Why Company Values Should Come Before the Product
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Ad 1. Someone tries to exploit Internet Explorer. You see a command line which is subprocess of web browser (unlikely normal).

Ad 2. a) 16 days ~= (31337 4) / (700 * 109 * 3600 * 24)
b) 10 days ~= 95 9 / (700 * 10 9 * 3600 * 24)

Ad 3. Lorem~Ipsum (Base64)

Ad 4. Yes. One of the programs guess the same as random, the other guess the opposite of random.

Ad 5. QWErty
This is first and foremost a PR stunt by the BA City's goverment to push a goverment "innovation" bullet point.
Has anyone done this before? Looking at this page it doesn't really list where to mail a check to or who to make that check out to.
Definitely agree that those long lists that tell you to first become awesome at combinatorics, linear algebra, then learn all about statistical inference (that is, not actual statistical procedures but the mathematical underpinnings of statistics that would enable you to construct and evaluate methods you invent yourself), then move on to stochastic optimization... those are really more about machismo than about actually helping people to learn data science. Sure, linear algebra is helpful, but whether it's fundamental really depends on the kind of data science you're keen to do.

I also generally dislike /r/machinelearning and /r/statistics because they seem to have been taken over by people who will tell you to either get a PhD or get out.
But, for me, just learning whatever I thought I needed to help me solve the problem at hand got me stuck really fast. There's so much statistics where you really just have to learn it first before you can start to see when and why you'd like to use it.

It never occurred to me to use hierarchical modeling and partial pooling for a certain set of problems until after I'd read Gelman & Hill. I never thought that inference on a changing process might require different techniques from the techniques for stationary processes until I had to study Hidden Markov Models for an exam. Heck, when I got started with data analysis I didn't even realize that the accuracy of most statistics improves proportional to sqrt(n) and so the next logical step in my mind was always "get more data!" instead of "learn more about statistics!" (If you look at the industry's obsession with unsampled data, data warehouses that store absolutely everything ever and map/reduce, my hunch is I'm not the only one who lacks or at some point lacked elementary statistical knowledge because it just never came up on their self-motivated, self-directed learning path.)

So I think the ideal learning path incorporates a bit of both: learn more about what excites you and about what's immediately useful right now, but also put aside some time to fill out gaps in your knowledge – even things that don't immediately look useful – and make some time for fundamental/theoretical study.

(x-posted from DataTau)
Went on a double date with another guy who was a PhD chemist. He made an offhanded remark about glass being a liquid, and trotted out that saw about ancient cathedral windows being thicker at the bottom.

I explained that that was actually untrue, and explained the crown glass method, and that a small percentage of those panes are thicker at the top. He just gave me this scornful glance and said "I've got a doctorate in chemistry, I think I know a little bit more about this than you do." I was so mad! No, dingus, you don't. You study membranes, and you've never read anything about glass. But I didn't want to start a fight, so I had to just let it go.
No, you may want to run multiple threads, most people want to use their computer. Most people are not limited by their CPU (or even memory these days), the limits are IOPs which an SSD can help with or the speed of their internet connection. Most computers can run 2 or 4 threads at the same time already. Just look at your average Windows computer, even when it's busy, it's probably because 1 core is in use and the program doesn't multithread in a decent manner because it is very hard to program that way.
This is starting to happen with things like google material and similar UI libraries that try to standardize appearances across devices. It isn't as granular as you are asking but I actually like that aspect. Delegating design and display to the browser isn't ideal for a lot of reasons. I would like to exercise control over how my content is displayed and regularly load in reset sheets for css. Display is something delegated to a framework not a browser (my opinion).

I think that <something/> should be in charge of handling representation and we are seeing that with ui frameworks that standardize displays across devices and applications.

> background-color could be completely replaced by a 'contrast' tag

What? There are many different colors on websites and users are lazy. Also, css should ideally be for styling not positioning, but it is one of the only options right now.
I just read about how they were delaying the AVX512 until 'Knights Landing' (Xeon Phi) and with Haswells mediocre improvements Intel has really not come up with anything substantial in years. Hopefully the recent Altera acquisition will help them innovate
Such is the nature of cruft: it accrues. Like barnacles, the longer you sail your ship the more of it you will find encrusted on your hull. Eventually you have to roll up your sleeves and scrape it off, and when you do, you will briefly be able to enjoy a cruft-free state. But once you leave drydock, it will start accruing all over again.
There is no thing such as an unexpected outcome by e-voting for those in power.
Create an Ajax Coupon / Discount Code Box in Magento
So, without knowing anything about how those scores are calculated, I'll point out that currently, desktop Safari (which is much less problematic than iOS Safari) is just behind Edge, a browser that isn't even at v1.0 yet.

Even the most literal "new Internet Explorer" -- Edge -- is a more standards-compliant browser than Safari, which has stagnated far behind every other competitor in the list.

So yeah, I don't mind saying it again: Safari is the new IE6.

Oh, and while you're on that page you linked, click over to "mobiles" and observe that even Blackberry scored higher than iOS (i.e. Safari, since you can't really get any other browser there).
I routinely use HTTP/1.1 pipelining from the command line to retrieve 100 assets at a time. But these are assets that I actually want: i.e., the content.

Somehow I doubt that the 200+ "assets" coming from 1 or 2 hosts automatically when using a web browser authored by a corporation or "non-profit organization" that is connected to the ad sales business are going to be "assets" that I actually want.
They all suck. It's a race to the bottom. Delta is at least upfront about it and their FF program IMO is overall the best (behind American) depending on your geographic location and actual desire to fly (and not run miles like your life depended on it).
> past, present and future are no absolute things but only defined relative to the moment in time one calls present and therefore there are many pasts, presents and futures.

That's basically what I meant when I said "(P3) is more accurately phrased 'it is impossible for a moment to be in the past and the future, the future and the present, etc. simultaneously'".

> only true if one is referring to the past, present and future defined relative to the same present. Today is in the future of yesterday and in the past of tomorrow.

That's basically what I meant when I said "(P4) is better phrased 'every moment is at some point designated future, present, and past, but never simultaneously'".

So yeah, I think we're on the same page :)
Just don't discuss this one at the dinner table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
Fixing Small Business Digital Marketing
That only satisfies the demands of the consumer. A functioning economic system needs to also reward the supplier and at a bare minimum cover their expenses.

The answers are right in front of us: just treat digital media as property and follow the same model of copyright that's been working for over 300 years. The issue has been that tracking ownership and the accounting around payments wasn't able to keep up when things went purely digital. These were tasks that were at one point fully monopolized and facilitated by government and still are to some extent with things like SoundExchange.

Right now the only things worth owning are shares in the aggregators, not the actual media itself. Digital media is no longer even remotely aligned with the interests of authors.

In music for example, Sony didn't directly license content to Spotify, it wanted equity in Spotify itself. Whatever deals are being signed are done without the consent nor consideration of the authors. Tidal is a service where a few artists realized they need to own equity in the aggregation service because their ownership over songs and recordings has become worthless.

Intellectual property is a fantasy. It is a legal construct. The only reason we've ever had a vibrant market economy of books, music, and movies is because we set up the legal and accounting frameworks to make it possible.

Whatever mess we've created over the last 20 years is really starting to show it's ugly side, especially in relation to music. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a wholesale musicians revolt when it comes to digital media. Vinyl sales are up year-over-year for coming on a decade now.
You mean like a RSS aggregator and reader?
Obligatory: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com

I'm glad I got off the train as web sites became web apps. I made one of the latter, though it actually was designed to complete certain tasks as opposed to being a container for content.

Websites now seem to be trying to emulate native apps - not just in terms of cramming a bunch of UI into a page, but also in the closedness. I hate how 95% of content sites bury the hyperlinks to anything that takes you off their site, including the source.
Almost certainly not.

Although it was different in the past, all the US carriers now differentiate between miles earned by actually flying (in the industry and the frequent-flyer community referred to as "BIS", or "butt-in-seat" miles), and miles earned from all other associated programs (credit cards, affiliate shopping, etc. etc.).

Only the mileage from actual flying counts toward frequent-flyer status, lifetime benefit thresholds and so on.
Did the BBC forget a comma in the title? I'm having a hard time parsing it.

Edit: or perhaps a dash? Really it's just a horrible title all around.
Barret Brown: A Visit to the Sweat Lodge
ASK MODs: WTF is going on with submission limits?
I submitted one (ONE!) link and slightly before that I made one (ONE!) comment on a thread.

I try to submit a second article a few minutes ago and I get the 'you are submitting too fast' message.

Really? That's too fast? One submission and one comment, that's it, that triggers he 'too fast' message? What the hell?

Best part - I had to create a throwaway account to even ask this question.

Hey thanks for not even answering my question... you guys are awesome!!!
Analog and "non-exact" computation is not something that sounds very useful. The only reason we've been able to minimise so much is the tremendous noise rejection of binary systems.

Besides, modern computers are spending most of their time on actions of marginal or negative utility, mostly data-bureaucratic rather than computational.
And Le Care was a real spook (SIS) - he had had to leave because he was burned by Philby.
CNN is a fairly reputable news organization, and a pretty good example of how broadcast can have a strong digital presence. They're going to be mimicked by other news organizations without a doubt.

Compare them to a local TV station's site, and what you'll see there is basically video clips dumped onto articles or section fronts. CNN takes the trouble to write news copy alongside script (or are at least pretty good at rewriting) because you can't just repurpose TV script for a news article.

And in other news, http://www.cnn.com/cnn_adspaces/
Chips are 3d, Intel for example uses 13 layers. There are massive heat and cost issues when adding layers, but flatter chips have latency issues. Stacking chips is also common in cellphones and other low power designs.
If you want to learn about data science, read this book: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/

I have been going through it and I cannot think of a better resource.
Give me a million dollars and a Get Out of Jail Free card and I'll show you it's perfectly possible. If anything security teaches us, it's that everything is vulnerable if the attacker is determined enough.
A taxy costs you $1/mile minimum. If you think 1 cent per mile in an airline is a good exchange rate I have a bridge to sell you...
How about accept-and-randomly-lose? I'm a big fan of RFC 748 [1]

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc748
I don't think so. They are delaying changes to their chip making process.
My understanding is that Aviva provides life insurance and pensions to millions of people. If they were to go under, many non-rich people would suffer greatly. Just so this one already rich guy could further "stick it to the man."
> Are you saying that it is safer to go to streets, than to order online?

I fail to see how giving out your personal address to random strangers on the internet is somehow preferable to a face to face transaction that insulates the drug dealer from where you sleep and keep all your valuable possessions. I also reject the implication that one must necessarily turn to "the streets" to buy recreational drugs. Most habitual drug users have a relationship with their drug dealer(s) and don't troll "the streets", cash in hand, looking for someone to satiate their fix.
Yes, the step 1 that nobody seems to mention is that you need to have a question that you're curious about, which data analysis may be able to help you answer. The reward is having some answer to that question, with an argument for its validity. Instead of links to a bunch of datasets, I'd love to see a site that collects questions with the potential for data-driven answers. This perhaps exists somewhere.
I am happy never to have to board a United flight again, thanks to US Airways exiting Star Alliance in the AA merger.

Especially with United's latest performance report indicating less than 1/3 of flights operate on time now.

(granted, I still have to avoid AA's hubs like the plague since they shut down for days whenever there's a hint of rain within 500 miles, but at least US Airways is still plenty reliable)
Manufacturing process is the main issue. Too many layers and it's impossible to keep flat enough to build the next layer on. Chip-on-chip is however becoming widespread, keeping your DRAM nice and close.
This isn’t about the protocol, but you should know my code for this is really sloppy because it was my first time attempting to use vim and literally everything was hard.

Ahh, Vim. It makes me happy to know that more seasoned developers than myself have issues with it as well.
In many ways it's just a new word for the same thing, but there's a few key differences. The main difference between traditional statistics and data science is strength in programming. Data scientists are also expected to be more well versed in statistical modeling than your average programmer or data analyst.

With that said it's not really a new thing, people have been doing data science for decades. The demand for people who can program and also do more complex statistical modeling has skyrocketed so I think that's why there's a new name for it now.

Part of the problem is that even with this definition there's a wide range of abilities present in data scientists. A long time computer programmer who has dabbled in statistics and a long time statistician who has dabbled in computer programming would both be data scientists even though they bring very different strengths to the table.
Moore's law plateaued years ago. Sure they are adding more cores but thats because they have made no progress on the clock speed in nearly a decade. FPGA's are going to be the next go to for performance until cpu clock speeds improve
The problem is good people getting dragged into the pit with/by the bad. Every poverty stricken area has a few good kids just wanting to do the right thing and get out of poverty.

What if we could separate them out, shield them from the negative influence of shittyness and let them flourish?

The only solution is to move them away from the bad because the negative influencers and influences are everywhere, they're in the environment, the school, the home, even the media they relate to.

A boarding school style program would work perfectly. Or a housing project with verified "good" kids and their families. The area could save money on policing and push that straight to education.

As those kids grow, they feed back into the program, becoming tutors, educators, and investors themselves. Giving others in poverty area positive role models to relate to. In other words, removing the downward spiral and replacing it with a positive feedback loop.
Pandarize your Spark DataFrames
How to Turn a Few A/B Tests into a Revenue-Generating Optimization Program
That's strange. I get much different figures. https://veuwer.com/i/2uys.png

Perhaps they're working on it?
Random Structures from Lego Bricks and Analog Monte Carlo Procedures (2013) [pdf]
There are small fees associated with redeeming miles on most US airlines.

British Airways is also notorious for applying "fuel surcharge" fees (payable in cash only) to mileage award tickets, running into the hundreds-of-dollars range when redeeming miles for business-class or first-class tickets.
I always thought it is just glass...