skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could also argue that Safari on desktop is more likely to be updated as well since it is generally accepted that Mac OS X has a higher adoption rate of new versions since:

1. enterprise use of Mac OS X is pretty small, and its generally enterprises that are slow to upgrade OS/browser, etc (albeit for generally valid reasons)
2. OS X upgrades have been free for some time now.
Donkey Kong Remixed for the Tandy CoCo 3
This equation models the amount of weight lost for various percentages of change:

0.99 * 100 - (0.99-x)(100 - y) = y

This assumes that you are starting with 100 pounds of potatoes at 99% water weight.
Here's a WolframAlpha link:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.99+*+100+-+%280.99-x%...
We marry quantitative data from our data teams with a gamut of user research from our marketing and customer experience teams. We use our qualitative data to check what our quantitative data is telling us, and vis versa. There's generally enough eyes on our statistics to keep them from turning into damn lies ;).

Edit: my views not the company's, bla bla etc.
The old 'you make your own luck' phrase applies to you.
not so familiar with ASP.NET, but yeah that sounds about right. The key is it runs in the browser itself, rather than being a bundle that's compiled and moved around at build or run time.

you take all your standard html5 stuff, bundle it in one file, and serve that to any client that wants a video player. You can, of course, play minification games or whatever to reduce the number of files - but the pure form is, one include == one component.
Remember the notice board of your college that used to be at main entrance - the common notice board?

In my college, the notice board was the best source to know what is happening in various departments of the college. Who is winning in cricket, which dept is participating in which tech fest, the new books arrived in library, which dept will be conducting the next quiz and the like.

Did other notice boards of different departments lost their significance because of the main notice board?

I think no. The main notice board use to highlight some key news from different dept. In order to dig deep, we gotta go to the dept itself.

Similarly, Twitter and Facebook are a kind of notice board where you can get the key news that are trending but in order to dig deep you have to go to the main website itself.

This is it. These websites are great way to get your content distributed. I don't think they gonna become content generator anytime soon.
Scott Hanselman interviews his father:

http://www.hanselminutes.com/98/scott-interviews-his-dad

It's worth a listen just for the story of how Hanselman got his first computer, a C64,
I really doubt that most people see Bitcoin's features as pluses rather than minuses.

I have always thought that the financial institutions we have in mainstream currencies are institutions that societies want. If ever Bitcoin goes mainstream, the Bitcoin economy would end up a lot like the world economy when it was gold-backed, albeit one where the transaction costs were not physical but hidden in the work done in blockchains.

It seems to me like people are mistakenly thinking that Bitcoin's lack of financial institutions are a property inherent to the currency rather than the simple fact that Bitcoin is a currency that is not mature enough to have actors sufficiently invested in it to want to create regulatory institutions on top of the currency.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me easier to regulate Bitcoins than say, gold. It is far easier to trace and verify the provenance of Bitcoins than that of gold, and hence far easier to classify Bitcoins into "clean Bitcoins" and "dirty Bitcoins". A cabal of influential institutions can simply refuse to deal with wallets and businesses that deal in "dirty Bitcoins", and that can serve as a basis of institutional regulation of Bitcoin as a currency.
blushes

Actually I meant 45 kg and 9955 kg. I adjusted the numbers several times looking for values which would come out with round-ish quantities but %U235 values in the right ranges for HEU and DU.
Sounds like you had a bitter experience.

Yes an individual job post could be a scam, for example a recruitment company instead of the hiring company. This would be super-rare I'd think.

However the whole system is clearly not a scam, and is amazingly beneficial to the community.
Yale-Loehr must be so proud.

Deferring to the torture risk in Belarus is such as an obvious bullshit. The only way they can torture there is by forcing you to eat their organic condensed sweetened milk.
I actually tried a modified OCaml implementation of a very simple test. The issue is probably due to bad seeding/initialization: if I use the given static seed, it passes, but if I try to provide any other seed, it fails on at least one test.

I'll try to find a more complete/better tested port, or try to do it myself.
United Airlines awards hackers millions of miles for revealing risks
Looking at the documentation, it appears that Photo DNA is available as a REST service, once they vet the requester. So you have to set it up on Azure, but it appears that you could run your application on Amazon Web Services (for example).
Thanks for the link. I didnt know that, about Snapchat's CEO things.
ah cool, I have been working for days without checking twitter or HN etc. messaging you this evening
This is not an implausible basis with which to start a new list on Wikipedia. It is original research, but it will likely be let in.
I wonder where you would go about obtaining high resolution market data? e.g.

[ticker_symbol, buyer_id, seller_id, volume, price, time[]]

I'd like to find a way to visualize the algorithms, along the lines of http://content.stamen.com/visualizing_a_day_of_financial_tra... or so. I don't care about the specific securities or trader identities, I just like finding patterns in noisy data.
It's not; I think you're parsing 'expect to use' differently than intended.

"sites that you expect to use such features on"

This means "sites on which you expect to use such features"

Not "sites where you expect them to use such features"

The preposition is key to having you be the one using, not the site. It doesn't have to go on the end, perhaps, and you could rewrite the sentence without that preposition, but simply removing it would leave you with an entirely different meaning.
related: http://spikedmath.com/334.html

(there's also a followup, at http://spikedmath.com/335.html )
I'm really sad neovim didn't call themselves vi improved improved, or vii. It doesn't just carry the naming tradition of vim, but is also one more than vi.
I thoroughly despised this movie. To me it felt like a celebration of a sadistic abuser mind-raping a kid, and never being punished for it. No music teacher I know would have gotten away with what Fletcher did without going to jail.

This is not how you teach jazz. This is not how you teach anything.
Doesn't spoofing the IP portion of UDP require a compliant network provider? I thought most upstream links would look at a spoofed packet and say, "Hey... no."

Not that this makes it impossible, just more difficult.
Let's say your program takes 100 seconds, of which 99% is spent in f(). Then if you optimize f() such that only 98% of the total time spent in f, then:

orig_time = 100
orig_not_f = 0.01 * orig_time = 1
new_f = 0.98 * new_total
new_total = new_f + orig_not_f
new_total = 0.98 * new_total + orig_not_f
new_total - 0.98 * new_total = orig_not_f
0.02 * new_total = 1
new_total = 1 / 0.02 = 50
From May 5th 2012
Not just that, it's just 400 lines. Has the author ever seen production C++ code? This is high-quality easy-to-maintain code in comparison. Come on.
First, Keybase is not just a website or app. It's an API, which happens to have them. Look at my keybase proof at https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mirimir The key is at https://keybase.io/mirimir, but it could just as easily be at http://mirimir...onion or wherever.

Multiple identities are trivial. Mirimir is just my primary persona for advocating privacy, anonymity, etc. Keybase links Mirimir's public GnuPG key to a few social accounts, and to an email address. Anyone who cares can validate all of those linkages.

I have another Keybase account under my true name, But it's linked to an entirely non-overlapping set of social accounts, with different friends etc. And there are other personas, similarly compartmentalized. Some of them never use English, for example, and display zero interest in privacy, anonymity, etc. Some hang out only on Tor hidden services. And so on.

While most of my personas are fully compartmentalized, a few are related. Mirimir, for example, looks like a simple pseudonym. And there's no reason why those "with nothing to hide" couldn't just use weakly compartmentalized pseudonyms. Facebook, Twitter, Hacker News, Reddit, etc could host the relevant keys, and all rely on the keybase API and proof structure. Facebook is already using GnuPG keys to secure system messages to users.
The rise of the highly talented and compensated independent worker
It is hard to imagine a less ethical or moral action than preventing a terminally ill person from trying drugs that offer some hope.
yes, why wouldn't you just freeze the account, and mail out something to the last address of record (assuming it hadn't just changed)? crazy...
Coping with context-switching madness
Meanwhile, Google is doing what Instagram dreams about.
No.

You won't have a potato anymore. But you won't have water anymore either.

You'll have a black hole.
The first actual RFC on HTTP was RFC 1945[1] from 1996. However, HTTP had been in use on the Web for a couple of years already when it was published.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945
Flirtey cleared for take-off in first FAA-approved drone delivery service
I disagree; I clicked this to read it and was dismayed to learn that I had read this YEARS ago. Most posts are brand new content, so all old content should be marked, I think.
Oregon now lets you legally possess more marijuana than any other state
Wow I love how Japanese tech companies are willing to embrace futuristic imagery. That HAL for disaster recovery looks like something straight out of a game. e.g Halo.
Try kakoune[0]. As far as I can see, it's stable today. Just try not to think about how the name sounds shitty.

[0] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/
"Your mom is on LinkedIn and Facebook, downloading toolbars." I laughed too hard at this. To be honest I still am.
8 Effective Ways to Become More Influential
We literally have a slack channel #war_room

For serious issues, we all jump on a hangout to hash it out.
I would be interested in hearing more. I find it interesting but haven't had any practical experience, so it would be nice to hear from the other side.
Fiber optic line intentionally cut causes 911 outages
This is the premise of an old bit of code called Pepsi.c. I recall having juvenile fun with it. Many Cisco routers at the time had these ports open. http://www.hoobie.net/security/exploits/hacking/pepsi.c
Ask HN: What to watch after How to Start a Startup?
After completely watching How to Start a Startup[1] 2-10 times (depending on lecture) and reading and watching all the readings[2], what should I watch now?

A. There are plenty of reading resources (many shared on HN), but I am looking for videos.

B. There are plenty of great talks (but what I want is detailed videos (instructional) just like HTSAS)

C. I haven't read (m)any books on the topic, do you recommend that I rather do that? In that case, please make my work easy and give a ordered list of books (ordered to complement HTSAS).

[1]: HTSAS: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/

[2]: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/lists/readings/
> ...there are some bugs with the fuzzy finder I use that cause file corruption...

Having your text editor corrupt the file it's working on sounds like the absolute worst case scenario.

Is this fuzzy finder thing some third-party plugin? Do you have any idea why it corrupts the files that you point it at?
Incredibly reliable device

You never had to adjust the alignment of stepper motor in the 1541? The drive would "get out of alignment" because the copy protection on the commercial games would jam the head in the extreme edges of the drive. This was where all the noise the drive made while loading copy protected games came from. It's true that the device was generally highly reliable, but the user groups I attended had learn-to-align-your-1541 lessons regularly.
Redecentralize Alternative Internet
What are some examples of open-source project that are in daily use by millions of folks that don't have some spaghetti code? I am sure there are some out there, but I really can't think of any at the moment.
To answer the title if not the content of your question:

* AI is something that potentially poses an existential risk to humanity, ie, it might wipe out our species.

* AI is a trendier topic to write about than other things: there's lots of possible pop culture references, the general public doesn't need to feel guilty about it

In comparison, something like climate change probably doesn't pose an existential threat to our species: it may just merely wipe out a fraction (20%? 80%?) of the human population over the next hundred years.

Edit: to be a bit more on topic, do you think there are very dangerous technologies around these days that would have been very difficult to anticipate / seemingly ludicrous to consider back 100 years ago? Would the development of nuclear weapons in the cold war have seemed like a serious concern or viable development in the 1850s?
> A chunk of it was high-frequency traders making money off themselves

What in the world? How is that even possible? Can anyone explain?
Google's Data on the the Right to Be Forgotten
I've also noticed delays when using 'o'. I've always wondered if it might be related to syntax highlighting.
Of course regarding a DMCA style notification, an end user (IP Holder) won't necessarily know the origin ISP, only CloudFlare. In this case, I think CloudFlare was the correct target, as end users are getting the content from CloudFlare even if relaying as an intermediary.

I'm not in favor of ever encroaching IP restrictions and expanding laws... that said, in this case the CDN. At the very least they can and should block specific URLs upon request, and notify the client as such. However... a specific URL may or may not include additional/fewer query string parameters.
it runs Android. but it is an android that customized for mouse and keyboard experience.
A film about sadistic behaviour isn't necessarily a celebration of it.
s/themselves/other high-frequency traders/
As I recall, ICE market data contains the full order book (size and identity of individual orders, not just total size at each level). Anonymized, of course. I have no idea if this is available if you're not actually trading...
> These users are willing to do so many other illegal things, but the thought of being known as a pedophile or supporting pedophilia in any way, is completely abhorrent to them?

I'm pretty sure the distinction is that voluntary transactions have no victims, and DNM folks care more about morality and ethics than legalities.
Curious where this is coming from.

Safari doesn't lag that far behind WebKit and iOS/OSX both have very frequent update cycles. And has WebKit really been that bad at adopting internet standards ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_change
They could start the scrollbar at the bottom.
> and the licensing that they'd offer would likely not allow use for any purpose

Then they don't want to be in the default set of search providers. Seriously, has the art of negotiating been lost completely? Google/Yahoo/etc need that strategic placement far more than they need to enforce some minor point about their logo's trademark. Debian's social policy doesn't mena they have to let themselves be browbeat by businesses without even an attempt at negotiating.

Do you really think Google or Yahoo would just say, "No, we don't care about being in Firefox/Iceweasel's default search list."? Would their shareholders be happy about losing market share over want of a trivial licence?
This book by Nick Bostrom will help you find answers:
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies[1]

The author is the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Superintelligence-Dangers-Strategies...
The Edison has a dual core atom cpu. Don't really know how powerful it is, but it's pretty powerful for a small cpu.
I am not a visionary like the people you mentioned, but one thing that I can see go wrong with large-scale AI automation is not that the scenario of robot uprising or something, but more of software bugs that we all are familiar with.

There have been lots of cases where a bug in an automated trading system causes millions of losses[0][1], if we have a larger system that manages everything from the power grid, the gas lines, self-driving cars, your smart home, to your own personal calendar, it's not hard to imagine the potential damage if there is even a single bug.

Can be things like edge cases that nobody thought of, or simply unexpected sensor reading caused by natural disaster, etc.

[0](http://dougseven.com/2014/04/17/knightmare-a-devops-cautiona...)
[1](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-08-20/goldman-sa...)
As a teenager i would get late for school sometimes because i would struggle to get out my bedroom doorway. That damn key in the keyhole would trip me up every time. I would be standing there tapping that key until it fell at just the right angle. The amazing thing is i could not bring myself to just throw the damn key away as i never used it, the brain is amazing in the ways it can fuck with you, with you even knowing that its fucking with you.
People have tried to add async plugin support to vim, but the patches have all been rejected. Meanwhile, the plugin support in Neovim is worlds better.

Microsoft Word doesn't even accept patches, which I do indeed hold against it.
Agreed.

I remember being a freshman and having my first real exposure to proofs and pure math, a calculus class. We used the text "Calculus" by Spivak. The first actual calculus topic was one of, if not the most difficult concepts in the course: the epsilon-delta definition of a limit. That was a struggle. I had no idea about the significance of logical qualifiers and precise mathematical language like "for all" and "there exists," or what it meant to "choose" or "fix" a value, much less the ability to parse all of the those things combined in a complex statement. Even familiar and elementary concepts like absolute value and inequalities were sort of difficult in that context. We very briefly covered basic proof techniques and formal logic, but overall it was intractable at first. But one by one, you learn individual concepts and notation, such that you are eventually able to understand their fully significance without really having to think. Looking back, and after taking other courses and studying proofs/logic/sets/functions more in depth, epsilon-delta makes perfect sense.

I've learned to tackle theorems and proofs (or any kind of problem, really - in math or otherwise) by starting with working out a few of the simplest possible meaningful example(s), or just any valid example if you can't quickly determine that. If you are learning a new formal concept or idea, I find that it's often very helpful to do a few applied problems first if you have any trouble. If you can identify individual concepts used in a theorem, try to master them first in isolation before tackling the overall problem, if need be. The key idea is to break things down to their smallest units of understanding.

I find this comment by Terry Tao fascinating:

>"Ramanujan, for instance, apparently performed a tremendous number of numerical computations, and derived much of his intuition from the patterns he observed from those computations."

I think I used to assume that most of the best mathematicians could read a new theorem or idea, and internalize all of the significance and intuition by simply using logic and working only with the abstractions. People have different ways of thinking, but now I'm not sure if anyone, even a genius, can do that on a truly difficult problem. One needs to avoid blindly "plugging in numbers" or over-generalizing from examples, but working out concrete things and then asking questions, considering cases, inferring, and making hypotheses based on examples seems to generally be the most efficient way to tackle a new problem or idea.
TrueSkill the video game rating system
I can't find the one I was thinking of, and I don't want to comb through literally hours of video to figure it out. This should illustrate my point, though:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rasmus_Lerdorf

And also here where he makes a breaking commit without running unit tests first:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jsudd/you_see_r...
AT&T Customer Service Memorandum (1992)
For access to the mic and camera, that's basically what it does already: prompt for permission.

So what you're really asking for is "can the web app know my non-NATed IP address if I'm behind a NAT and my non-VPN IP address if I'm behind certain kinds of VPNs"?
What's the advantage of stopping reporting of adverse events? Doesn't that just make it easier for dangerous / ineffective (but fantastically expensive) drugs to come to market?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blancmange_curve
Possible scenario:

Cardholder changes his phone number, but telemarketers keep calling the old number. The person who now has that number receives a bunch of calls asking for the cardholder, collects a fair amount of information about him, and figures he could impersonate him.

Yeah, that sounds a bit far-fetched. But remember that when people change their phone number, they usually don't remain available at their old number for long. So someone at the old number claiming to be the cardholder could have been a red flag, too.

In fact, in the couple of years since I've had my current phone number, I've managed to learn a fair amount about the person who had that number before me, mostly via telemarketers. Where they lived, where they were planning to relocate to, where they used to shop, what their interests were, etc.

Anyway, Amex should have called the new number on the account to see if they get the same person. Unfortunately, they seem to have trusted caller ID too much, even when it was obvious that at least one of the people they were talking to was an impostor.
Patient information leaflets in the UK classify side-effects by frequency reported in clinical trials and, I think, yellow card reports.

"Very common" affects 1 user in 10

"Common" affects 1 to 10 users in 100

"Uncommon" affects 1 to 10 users in 1,000

"Rare" affects 1 to 10 users in 10,000

"Very rare" affects less than 1 user in 10,000

"Not known" cannot be estimated from available data.

This says nothing about the severity of the side effect.
Show HN: Hnwatch – Linux x64 terminal-based real-time HN watcher/reader
Your API opens up a lot of possibilities in my head too. Thanks for bestowing it upon the node community! The library I posted is a foundation layer on which I'm building a web browser for the terminal, but it's more in the style of a super-integrated Emacs web browser or old text browsers, with a consistent, accessible interface, made eye-catching thanks to blessed.
Looks like I found my new diet.
q:100 people are seated in a room. 99% of them are enginners and 1% managers. How many engineers should leave the room to make it 98% enginners and 2% managers?
a:50
The Cybernoid II theme[1] by Jeroen Tel is one of my personal favourites. Captures the spirit of those times just perfectly...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC4gaaDFjE4
Amazing work! Can it process plots with one data set (one line) with an all white background?
Out of interest, what database do you use? And how many joins do you normally do per view?

We use postgres and once you get to around 1m records, even COUNT is slow as it does a full table scan, even with indexes.