skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's borderline naive to believe that the best teams don't dope anymore. E.g. the ascent times prove that the winners in the last years cannot be undoped.

Mount Ventoux:
2013: 59m:00s Chris Froome 21.86 km/h
Such a time is not possible undoped. See e.g. http://sportsscientists.com/2013/07/froomes-first-mountain-p...

But same as Armstrong or Contador only the best do it the best way, and will not get caught for some time.
They kinda do. The FAA puts a TFR in place around wildfires and other areas that should be off limits to aircraft. You can view the current ones here: http://tfr.faa.gov/tfr_map_ims/html/index.html

It's not specific to drones, but the data is out there.

I wouldn't be surprised if some drones start automatically restricting these areas, just like the latest DJI quadcopters use a geofence to keep folks away from airports.
Yeah, but I guess the MacBooks or even MBPs with Intel graphics can't offload much of the work
Why are archaeologists concluding that this was used for religious purposes? Why is religion always the central theme in those old findings?
Sky most likely has similar protection as the US team had in the last decade.
> I also don't understand why anyone wants to use their phone as a music player. The idea of that sounds needlessly awkward and they'll fill their device's HD up with largely useless music.

So what's the problem with filling up most of the space for music? The only reason I needed storage space in the first place was to put music on it. Everything else (contacts, apps, etc) use up less than 5% of the total used space.
Disclaimer: I'm a civilian

If you generate value for an organisation by making a Web site work for them then I think you are a programmer!

By the same token, if someone could lose business/data as a consequence of a serious software error on a system you have implemented, then you are certainly a programmer and you have a lot of responsibility.
[1] -- First, you need to learn machine learning(ML) basics. Andrew Ng's course on Coursera is a good start:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/home/info

It doesn't teach you ML with Python but it is extremely important to learn the ML concept without any programming language in mind. In addition to that course, any Google search will help you a lot. There are a lot of good explanations of ML concepts on various websites. If you don't understand how algorithms work, you will end up with copying and pasting example codes without knowing what you're doing. You need to imagine what you want to do in your head before you type any letter.

[2] -- Once you have the initial introduction, you can use Python to implement ML concepts. Fortunately, Python has a very easy to learn ML package: Scikit-learn (http://scikit-learn.org). It's free and is used by various companies such as Spotify and Evernote. Scikit-learn has a great documentation and many examples that will make the whole learning process exciting.

[3] -- After you feel comfortable with ML in Python, if you don't have datasets of your own, you can find a lot of datasets on UC Irvine's machine learning repository: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/

The more you practice, the more comfortable you feel with playing with data. To cover a ML technique very well, play with every single parameter of the scikit-learn functions of that technique by using the same dataset. Also, always try to include visualization of the data (scikit-learn has examples with matplotlib to learn from how to do it) so you can actually see the changes of the implementation when parameters of the function change. This will make everything a lot easier.

Good luck!
> (asian Americans also earn more on average than white Americans, are whites being discriminated against?)

Really? Seems like an unnecessary thing to say.

If you take a closer look at the numbers, this isn't really the case. Asian households are larger, so median incomes are larger, and Asian-Americans tend to live in about 5 states, which have on average higher costs of living (and as a result higher median incomes).

Source: http://reappropriate.co/2014/10/how-both-bill-oreilly-and-jo...
R.I.P. Oink.
The Excel Spreadsheet using person that happens to need access to their Office 365 documents through their Android mobile phone could install Cortana to make their busy lives theoretically that bit easier. Other than an imagined use case like this I have no idea why anyone would want this on their phone.

I have a feeling that Cortana et al. will be like Dragon Naturally Speaking, exist as a product for a long time without ever picking up momentum. I don't see people using Siri/Google Now! except for novelty value, I can't imagine people moving from Siri/Google Now! to Cortana at all ever.
I once met a guy who encountered major emotional pain when his wife left him, and had to go to therapy because of a running addiction. It was also causing physical health problems like purple swollen feet. Anything can be addictive "compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli, despite adverse consequences" is the definition. Lots of people have used drugs to propel their career and avoided addiction. For example, Steve Jobs said taking LSD was one of the most important things he had ever done in his life.... Although I've never heard of an LSD addiction, there's lots of profound people who used cannabis habitually.
There is something wrong with your thinking, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Let me try:

Either you assume a prior distribution of salaries or not. If you don't, then you don't know mean salary, and so group of any size will not tell you if you're anomaly. Because they can all be anomalous as well.

On the other hand, if you assume a prior distribution (which is pretty much what Bayesian statistics does), then even one sample will modify the prior, and you gain information (i.e. "suggestion that you're anomaly or not").

Of course more samples is always better, but if you can make conclusion from multiple samples, then you can make conclusion from one sample.

It seems to me that in the first case, you're saying we cannot assume any prior, but in the second case, you're doing exactly that - assuming that there is a mean - 1st moment of the prior distribution and maybe even other moments - which indicate whether an observation is anomaly or not.
since I made these, I can answer. You have to accurately account boundaries of forest lots in order to correctly perform operations there. Every lot had individual economic purpose and program of development. There were 10-year plans, so basically every 10 years you produce a new set of maps.
Reddit’s plan to “contain” hate so ass-backwards bigots beg to be “contained”
EDIT: Just a bit more context. Neil Young has been trying to sell an 'audiophile' grade audio player. This post seems like nothing more than trying to stealthily promote the supposed virtues of his own product.

I'm sorry but what an utter absolute load of crap. Especially given this:

http://gizmodo.com/dont-buy-what-neil-young-is-selling-16784...

Read some of the comments down on his Facebook also. His fans are not happy (rightfully so).
Right. This is similar to how bolted connections work. Bolted connections must be tight enough that, when loaded with a force pulling the bolted connection apart, the bolted surfaces still have pressure pushing them together. Wikipedia has a good explanation of this.
I just finished my master's thesis on optimizing lacing patterns for bicycle wheels using evolutionary algorithms [1]. To do that, I had to thoroughly investigate how they work to be able to write a wheel simulator. It's quite fascinating the forces a spoked wheel can withstand, given its simplicity and weight.

And damn, "truing" a wheel to make the wheel round, not wobble and have equal forces on the spokes is an art. Even done iteratively with small changes one often end up making some part of the wheel worse when fixing one part.

[1]: http://master.matsemann.com/
With all respect, I have to redirect you to public libraries in Russia or for example Latvia. There was no Internet before 1991. Easy prey is 1: 2 500 000 school political atlas of 1980. There is no city of Daugavpils on the map of Latvia (2nd largest in Latvia), but smaller towns are mapped. Why? Daugavpils was military important.
The fish shell has a man page parser that you may be interested in: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/blob/master/share/t...
I'm afraid that is incorrect. I own many disco ones, and the bass is what they're for. The grooves are spread out and it frequently runs at 45 rpm. It's pretty obvious if you listen to one vs the 33 version.
You did a great job improving the language.

For me, CoC is where programming meets politics. Whom gained benefit from their current position is likely to impose those rules to protect their now interest.

Pretty much there is a soul behind each language, Ricky Hicky for Clojure, Guido van Rossum for Python, Matz for Ruby, and Rob Pike for Go. Those people are not insecure, and I never felt them to be so aggressive.
Thanks now fixed.
There are lots of ugly problems with airless tires; another beyond the ones you mention is that servicing the wheel gets more difficult. A lot of Bobcats shipped with foam filled tires and you virtually could not separate wheel and tire without chipping the tire away. These wheels + tires were also harder to get on and off because not the weight; on a road vehicle I'd imagine the potential increase in weight will also make balancing difficult to impossible.
I actually use Siri daily, but only to set reminders and turn on alarms, two incredibly trivial use cases.

I'm not opposed to using it more but those are the only things that work reliably for me, I'd get over it disappearing pretty quickly.
Thanks for introducing me to the "No true Scotsman fallacy".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

I guess you were pointing out that he's attempting to defend passing harsh and quick judgement on people by pointing out the 'exception to the rule'?

"Judgement is not bad... this judgement was bad, but really true good judgement is never like this!"
this totally makes sense - you should work for comcast!
What? The USSR was one of the creators of the framework IP protection conventions. Russia is legal successor of the USSR and paid its foreign debts by the way. So what Mapstor does is plain ripping off Russian IP, since maps in question were produced after 1971.
UPD: and Belarusian IP rights too. To be exact - legal department of the 5th Cartography Enterprise must file DMCA complaint agaist Mapstor and alike in such a situation.
Please do not think you can violate IP property of the USSR. otherwise, your own heir will feel uneasy when such best ripping practices will be applied to them. Inherited property is still a property, isn't it?
> Because trying to find those is literally impossible.

Well, 'nearly' impossible. Google 'FLAC streaming service' and you'll find tidal.com. I don't know if there's any other. If you don't pay for music downloads, then finding them isn't a problem [1] but rather troublesome.

Most people don't know FLAC exists and they don't care about sound quality. Take a look at the top 100 music torrents on thepiratebay [2]. None of them is FLAC.

[1]: https://thepiratebay.gd/top/104

[2]: https://thepiratebay.gd/top/101
Rent-a-bikes in my city actually use airless tires, so they seem to already exist for this purpose. I don't know what is inside, but from the outside they look like normal bike tires. The ride is noticeably less comfortable though.
I've tryed it on a very simple makefile and after some testing found what trigger the message. It is simply a line with an "echo" command. It seems that make try to run it with "/bin/sh".
I've never seen an ad for one. Most of mine were distributed to DJs only. Another nicety with the DJ ones is they didn't have pops and clicks when new. Sometimes the flip side was the same edit - in case you damaged one side, use the other!
oh I am. My mother in law spent her entire youth drawing that exact maps.
Oddly, I like the smell of the vinyl. In it's own way, it's like the pleasant smell of a book.
http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0671/2309/products/57_5726a...
> He's a complete cunt. Men like him did very great harm to their patients.

This is an interesting viewpoint. I didn't get that at all from the reading but the truth is I know very little of psychiatry. It seemed to me to be about empowering people to make good decisions. It's funny how quickly I was to make my own judgement: "This guy knows what he's talking about! Life can be better!"

But then I read your comment and the other one critizing ths guy, thought some more, and wondered if it were possible I was missing some stuff. I know for one I was a little off-put by the reference to 'illegitimate children are wrong' and perhaps he was off-base in this "... would never actually kill himself" thing too. But again, I really have no point of reference. I just know that I am incapable of making a proper assessment of this piece or of the author. I swear the more I read and learn the more difficult it can be for me to actually understand anything.

Anyway, I did some reading on the good ol' Wikipedia and read his talk page.

> What we have here is a pseudoscientist (Dalrymple) making claims in a range of specialist (social-)scientific areas such as addiction, narcissism, and rationalisation/excuse-making without apparent knowledge of the state of the field and in a manner incompatible with the field. He has been mostly ignored by scholars in these areas (source: Google scholar search) and when referred to is criticised. It violates neutrality that he is portrayed without any criticism and with the appearance of scholarly credibility.

Take that as you will... but you made me think, at least. Thanks for that.
Triangular ones are better than square ones, too. One less bump.
Tell HN: Hello
Hello All,

My name is Mohamed, and I am a jail guard!

After a year or so reading HN, I finally made an account! This place is overwhelmingly full of smart people, and I sometimes feel out of place! I have learned a great deal from all of you. With this said, I am embarking on a two year journey to apply to YC in FALL of 2017. I have given myself this arbitrary timeline to motivate myself.

You see, I am a total noob. I'm about to enroll in an online coding bootcamp. This is to grasp enough CS/coding experience so I can graduate from the proverbial 'I'm looking for a technical co-founder' dilemma, and to build the MVP on my own. What I become, for better or worse, is how I will attract the right people to tell my story and grow a company together. In the meantime, I am working on myself first and learning each day from all of you. I am excited to begin this marathon I call starting a startup.
Siri serves 1 billion requests a week, according to Tim Cook. That's about 1000 per second? Could all be novelty attempts, I suppose...
Energy companies use billions of liters of the province's surface water for fracking natural gas, and only paid slightly more than a dollar per million liters

That's on top of what the bottling companies use (hundreds of million liters for bottlers) for a few dollars.

This pricing does not look like water is a sparse commodity and so much on the difference it makes not to water your lawn.
> the needle picks up feedback from the room

But that's a bad thing. I learned to isolate the turntable from the speakers when playing disco. Also, had to walk softly else the needle would skip.
Beyond the issue with unsprung weight, that seems like a truly awful trade-off. A run-flat still needs to be serviced if punctured and is still vulnerable to sidewall damage and potential blow-outs. If you carry a full size spare (I sure do) in the event of most tire failures, you still have the ability to get much further down the road with less drama.
How many boys or girls have you dated? 😨
Does anyone believe Neil Young, an aging rocker, can actually hear the difference? Old age + decades of loud music = hearing loss
It is actually VERY impressive if you account for distance, background noise etc..
It is transferring several gigabytes of data across solar system.
Actually I keep aset of Soviet military maps for Afghanistan. If you are interested, We can make some field experiments if you are ready to get to Bagram with Trimble GPS. It is now controlled by USAF, so you can feel certainly protected.
Thanks, I didn't know that car insurance wasn't mandatory in all the States. That could be the reason!
Thanks, that does look interesting. Will give it a spin as soon as I get a chance and compare results.
Google Apps has a few more knobs at least: https://support.google.com/a/answer/2368132?hl=en
I'm a qualified wheel builder. It's not that difficult, just takes up to a couple of hours per wheel. Of course, they are mostly laced by machine nowadays.

Building your own is good fun, plus you can do specials with fancy lacing or unusual hubs (such as hub based dynamos)
I don't doubt that drones can serve a useful purpose for emergencies. But why exactly do we need ordinary consumers "experimenting" near active fires to know how to do this.

And how are ordinary consumers ever going to be privy to all of the information to safely operate drones near emergencies e.g. the precise location of emergency planes/helicopters/drones.

Consumer drones IMHO have no business being anywhere remotely close to an emergency where lives are at stake.
I notice you found the regular lacings. Did you explore more fancy designs such as Crow's feet?
Conversely I've never had any trouble finding Flac-encoded torrents of any track I've wanted. There's just no way to pay the artist (usually) for them, because for some reason record companies think CD sales are worth protecting.
Yeah, for 'open file' kind of stuff it would be better to have a real sandbox (I think Windows began doing something like this, not sure if in Vista or 7, that if programs wanted to write to certain restricted places they can - but this is written to their sandbox, so if they read it later they can get the files but with no effect on the system files)
Yeah, I might have been stupid. It has nothing to do with the carrier frequency (I was thinking low frequency vs high spacecraft speed, instead of propagation speed vs aircraft speed).
Not to mention that watching a circular tile spin at a rate slow enough to actually track with your eyes has a certain beauty to it.
> not sure how powerful it would have to be to get the data at, let's say 32kbps

My back-on-the envelope calculation says the probe would have to emit with at least 6 times more power for that than it emits now (and I can be way off as I'm not taking into account all the competing noise at that distance). The RTG produces around 200 W for everything on the probe, and I estimate just the cost of the fuel for the current RTG alone in tens of millions. It's simply not worth optimizing for the fast burst when you expect the probe to be able to communicate for a few years more.
> j) depending on the type of music, the mastering won't be targeting mp3 players with earbuds but instead big club systems, so if you have good speakers, it might be easier to find the mastering you want on vinyl.

For me, the worst thing about vinyl was feedback. I love subsonics at concert levels, and it's virtually impossible to isolate turntables well enough. Back in the day, it was my practice to copy vinyl to tape, and then just play tapes. That also protected vinyl against wear and crud.

CDs aren't perfect either. Mixing can be tweaked with software, however. Also, for some genres it's possible to get multi-channel WAV that's readily mixable.
This thread currently has the lame self rightness on par with reddit. Evil humans are stopping firefighters cause they are evil.

Where's the science. Can a drone actually hurt a helicopter. And did the drone controllers know they were causing an issue, I doubt it.
I worked several years in my early programming career in a big software company who developed mission critical software: traffic control software. You think they are bad ass programmers? You are totally wrong... the system (btw it was often Java or C based) we programmed on was so complicated that you need at least half of year day to day experience to know what you are doing there. And most frustrating part: There was no inner beauty in this beast! At the end you see a lot of ancient stupid code with the same stupid and dangerous ducktape as everywhere else. And the programmers there are no bad ass elite programmers... I would even say that many of them are below average young programmers because they worked several decades in their highly specialized area and have no clue about other technology (they will never be e.g. web developers). The most significant difference is that the whole building process: First there is a lot and a lot of specification (this sucks so much), then they adapt one ancient industrial system to this specification (this sucks maybe even more) and to get this thing ready for mission critical usage they do more than everywhere else Quality Assurance: Test, evaluation, verification, test, evaluation, test, evaluation, test, test, test... this sucks too. So after maybe 3-4 years they are ready and ship... and guess what... it is tested again. I'm happy I left this area... they are also very strict with software you could use, so the innovation process is F* slow there.

My advice: Change your inner attitude and thinking about programming. And the most important part: Do not care about what people think... only care about yourself. I've seen so many programmers (and I hate this attitude) who think they are so much more bad ass because they program in this and this language or area... so what? And why? I don't care and I do not need to compare myself with them.
what's the problem with slowing down to inspect the accident scene and figure out if they need help or something, I think this behavior is much better then that of those who just ignore accidents and drive away without checking if accident passengers need help.
Smell dates: get matched based on smell (seriously)
I don't have any links to the details, but I do recall that the US government put some restrictions in place to its debitors, especially on bonuses. This gave the banks a strong incentive to pay back its loans.
The problem is that "web dev" covers such a wide range of roles. "Uploading WordPress isn't web development" is a subjective statement, and a lot of people who can only do CSS and very minor code copy/paste/tweak get to call themselves "web devs." This OP sounds like someone who got in a rung or two above "uploads WordPress" and has convinced himself he needs to transform into a full-fledged ninja programmer in order to shed the image of "low level web dev." And he thinks the path to that goal is to pick something smart sounding, like kernel/crypto/driver hacker, and become it. Unfortunately, this is a bit like a kid who's taken one guitar lesson deciding his career plan is to become Eddie Van Halen.

But it doesn't matter. What he needs to understand is that there's absolutely no shame whatsoever in the "web dev" role precisely because it covers so many different levels of ability. He sees his own skills as lacking and therefore concludes that his title is a title of shame, whereas what he should be thinking about is the fact that a lot of real bad-ass coders share that title. Get better at what you do and what you're interested in, rather than chasing what you think sounds cool to others but you have no actual interest in.

OP, I know a guy who spent a couple of decades as a C/asm bad-ass and was recently forced to learn some HTML/CSS/JS in order to put a web front-end on a project. He's completely hooked and I don't think he's going back. There literally is no level of expertise implied by the term "web dev."
Profit doesn't always mean money.