skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. I was on the fence about listing testing as another form of debugging. Didn't feel right, but maybe I will write a separate article on that at some point.
> Well that certainly depends on your particular interpretation of the widely overloaded term "overweight."

Yup. The problem with the BMI is it doesn't take into account the variety of lifestyles people have.

For example, a lifter is going to weigh a lot more than the average person simply by increased muscle mass and would probably be considered overweight or even obese by BMI standards.
Same. I was looking for how he was able to survive financially and quit his job. It just seemed like many paragraphs of bragging and rambling (and boasting about his speaking/blogging engagements).
A Doble engine powered this airplane:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw6NFmcnW-8
One thing missing in mainstream reporting on the events at Reddit is the Southern Poverty Law Center's recent report [1] criticizing Reddit as a prime online source for white supremacist recruits, in part because it presents racism as normal and banal.

[1] http://www.splcenter.org/Black-Hole
An on-die accessory FPGA doesn't amount to much if
it doesn't get used

I know! It's the usual chicken-and-the-egg hardware+software problem, right?
I think it's fine. Although it should show either a fit man or woman, depending on what sex you choose. Something to inspire you with the will the continue on the iron path.
I've built up a solid work-life balance with an amazing girlfriend, a wide variety of interesting (and close) friends, and some cool hobbies. I'm content with not being considered by employers who don't respect that.
Oooh, I like the rear airbag idea!
>> I don't miss ESPN at all.

I barely watch it now. The only reason I have it is its included in the DirecTV package we get.

Since they moved MLS and the Premiership to ABC and its affiliates, and Hockey is no longer on ESPN either, I hardly watch it anymore. I used to be a huge Sportscenter fan, which used to be 30 min and really informative. Now it runs more than an hour and completely disorganized, and barely watchable.

I agree - good riddance.
>> Should a cop get a ticket for chasing a speeder?

A cop does not get to go speeding on the highway in order to sneak up on speeders from behind. (s)he does get to break the law a bit (speeding) once a speeder has been identified in order to catch them. Unfortunately the justification for this seems to be that it's the most practical way to catch them. I don't mind the practice, but I'd prefer a better justification. Got one?
It should be what works for you.
Slovakia, Europe
he multitasks all day, from 6am to 1am. Not a really great way of life.
Hmm... of course it did. It's not a human. The green light vs. stopped traffic can't mislead it the same way a human can be misled through inattention.

The car behind the self-driving car didn't stop though, which lead to the incident. Presumably because it didn't pay attention to the fact that the cars in front were not moving despite the green light.

I'm not sure I understand where this thread is leading.
Reading apps on my phone have completely rejuvenated my fervor for reading again. There's tons of free books out there, and there's several services that let you pay a monthly fee and then read all of the books you want. I also know that my library checks out digital books as well.

Having a book on my phone means I can snatch some reading time whenever, wherever- waiting at the dr's office, at lunch, while on public transit, whenever. It's awesome.
I'd say 15 minutes from the call
I understand where you are coming from, but the dentist analogy does not fit.

Software development is a creative endeavor in a constantly changing field, and unless I'm asking my dentist to do experimental tooth enhancements, I wouldn't consider her job nearly as creative.

I would never hire (and have never hired) a designer who didn't have a portfolio. I would never hire a developer who didn't have any code to show me. Most code available to show is only open source these days - as companies don't want their employees showing proprietary source to 3rd parties.
When I encounter another's Perl code, I run 2 things, (1) Perltidy to reformat the code, and (2) Perl::Critic to identify poor coding practices or insecure code.

https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Perl-Tidy/bin/perltidy

http://search.cpan.org/~thaljef/Perl-Critic-1.125/lib/Perl/C...

If you have trouble reading Perl, run those 2 programs and you'll greatly improve its readability.
When I read #1? Wow.
It doesn't matter who made it. We consider distributing it to be a horrendous crime and yet here's the FBI, distributing it.

Next you'll say that the FBI should be commissioning terrorist attacks in order to bring in more terrorists. Oh, wait...
"It would be useful to keep a diary, but I don't like writing unpaid. I don't like writing checks without getting paid."

— Christopher Hitchens, 2010

I understand the rationale behind asking what you've built without being paid, but if you're hoping, by that question, to identify people who are really smart ... then isn't it really smart to figure out how to get paid for your work, rather than doing it unpaid?
Microsoft Boosts Dynamics CRM, Buys FieldOne
Show HN: Zencastr – Record your podcast guests in top quality from their browser
A Google Self-Driving Car Was Rear-Ended Once Again
The FBI guidelines for undercover activity, including a specific discussions of permissions required to undertake criminal activity, and which activities are not allowed, are covered here: http://www.justice.gov/ag/undercover-and-sensitive-operation...

#GIYF
As recently as 2008, Scania and Volvo were eyeing steam for powering trucks: http://www.nordicgreen.net/startups/article/ranotor-develop-...
My medical friends spend quite a lot of unpaid time studying, or at conferences.

The accountants I know spend a lot of unpaid overtime meeting clients (networking being the key professional skill for Big 4 accountants).

Pretty much every profession has some kind of out-of-hours way of progressing their career which some people chose to engage in and some people don't.

The problem is that in every field you are competing against people who are willing to work 18+ hours a day, 7 days a week pushing their career forward.

You either need to match that or find some other way to compete that doesn't require as much of a time commitment. Or be happy that the market is hot enough that even without working too hard you can still get a pretty good job!
> If I am not mistaken, the organizations that oversee the casinos are private sector.

You are mistaken, at least in America. Except for those Native American run, casinos in America are regulated by some form of a gaming control board.

To my knowledge, this is true of pretty much anywhere that has gambling as an industry, though I wouldn't be shocked to find out that Monte Carlo or somewhere were wholly unregulated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaming_control_board
This all depends on your frame of reference.
Regulations that attempt to guarantee total security while favoring entrenched interests are exactly why the current horrible taxi cab situation exists.

Freedom to compete is like bleach to the pathologies of entrenched lazy players.
Google bringing container expertise to OpenStack
AFAIK, local MLB games are still subject to streaming blackout, lest they hurt the local (often team-owned) sports networks' massive revenues.

Since, as you rightly point out, they're the vanguard here, when MLB figures out (contractually, presumably, not technologically) how to get local games streamed, that will be a watershed moment.
The weighting concept sounds great. I'll use this for my next Euro-trip! Thanks!
Show HN: Zero – an HTML5 game about modular arithmetic and prime numbers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUg_ukBwsyo

( 1925 Doble E-20 Steam Car - Jay Leno's Garage )
Saying a movie is good and saying the screenwriter is good at their job is two different things.

I'm going with the classic definition; good as in "satisfactory in quality, quantity, or degree" or "of high quality; excellent".
Many Android and Apple Apps allow brute force attacks
Well, to be fair, lots of computer technology advances were associated with advances in applied physics. Die sizes, MEMS, battery technology, etc.

Maybe you mean more theoretical physics? I don't really have enough knowledge to be useful there.
Well, you could certainly argue that python has the best machine learning libraries. So it's at worst a relevant programming language to the field.

edit: +1 to Andrew Ng's Coursera course though!
Dutch ING bank blocks EUR-BTC transactions
Step-by-step guide, with source links and references?

I don't think that's necessarily something one can (or ought to) expect to order up on Hacker News.
he's really context switching constantly.
Unity CEO: “Seeing Monument Valley in House of Cards Was Awesome”
I use the WebRTC and Web Audio API to capture the users audio from their microphone, compress it in chunks, and then upload it to the hosts dropbox account. This all happens in the browser. The server simply serves the app and sends some websocket messages back and forth so the host can start/stop the recording.
It is in the interests of society that its police be held to the same rule of law as everyone else, or to an even higher standard.

But in this case, it is equally legal for a prison guard to hold a duly convicted criminal against his will as a private citizen, because the criminal's right to roam free was suspended by judicial order in the sentencing phase of his trial.

The logical standard for permitting police to engage a fleeing suspect with a high-speed chase is by determining that the suspect would present a greater threat to the public if allowed to escape than the damage that could occur during the pursuit.

Since innocents have been killed in the past by both fleeing suspects and police pursuit vehicles, one might suspect that police would only start a hot pursuit for known-violent murder suspects, and for everyone else, radio in a description of the vehicle and its passengers so that other cops further ahead of it can block traffic or throw down spike strips. Unfortunately, this is often trumped by the de facto "adrenaline standard".

The fact of the matter is, cops who speed can be ticketed for it. But then the cop who issued that ticket to another cop is overwhelmingly harassed by her peers as a "traitor" to the cop culture. (search: florida "donna watts" "fausto lopez" 2011) The net result is that police are held to a lower standard of law than everyone else, and that creates a culture of corruption.
Thanks for the link - it was long but very readable.

Here is the summary of why the courts decided against the government:

----

a) [s1 of DRIPA] does not lay down clear and precise rules providing for access to and use of
communications data retained pursuant to a retention notice to be strictly
restricted to the purpose of preventing and detecting precisely defined serious
offences or of conducting criminal prosecutions relating to such offences; and

b) access to the data is not made dependent on a prior review by a court or an
independent administrative body whose decision limits access to and use of the
data to what is strictly necessary for the purpose of attaining the objective
pursued.

----

My personal interpretation of the reasoning in the ruling is that while a more broad data _retention_ framework is OK for practicality reasons (i.e. it is not practical to know in advance that a person is suspected of a serious crime, nor is it practical to restrict retention to only such persons as it may be necessary to look at data of other people as part of an investigation targeted at a person suspected of committing the serious crime), it must be accompanied by protections at the _access_ level (i.e. such access must be tightly restricted and judged to be necessary by a qualified independent body based on the facts of the specific case).
> It is true that the technology poses some difficult problems, but one cannot help but be curious how efficient a steam car might be with the benefit of modern materials and computers.

It's easy to shrug off questions like this, placing them in the category of "if it were feasible, someone would obviously be doing it already", but it's still interesting. Having read a pretty extensively about how steam locomotives work, and some additional reading about steam power in general, it's interesting to read this article and catch small windows in to the overall progress of steam during the era. For example, reading the remarks about closing the steam circuit reminds me of the progress made in condensate and heat recovery developed in steam power at the time. Really remarkable to see that in something as small as a car.

As an academic exercise, I think it'd be really cool to develop a "steam powered auto challenge". Of course, no one is going to get behind it because steam is not a green technology, but sometimes we can learn important lessons from the past. Working on a completely unrelated technology and studying its progress can teach us lessons about the development of current technologies.
The ACM published algorithms in ALGOL in the Communications of the ACM beginning in the 1970's and continuing on from there until the feature moved to the
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software. Programs intended for the Burroughs 5000 and 6000 series machines were mostly written in ALGOL 60, as was the operating system. The Computer History Museum has been collecting programs for historical purposes. See, for example, http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/source/nu....
Published 24 October 2006
use lolpython https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE
How we store 400M phone number data with fast lookups
The electorate wished to be ruled by these people [...] MPs are a symptom, not a cause.

In that case, would you say the general public are emotionally unsophisticated, intellectually misshapen prunes who value money and prestige over progress?
> What are your interests?

> you don’t care that they like cats – what you want to hear: they love their hoodie and their code

Well, speak for yourself. I look for people with outside interests beyond just programming. If the only thing they have going for them is their code, their ego and emotions are way too wrapped up in what they produce. They can't take criticism about their work as well as someone who has other things going on in their life. I'm not saying passion is not valuable; it is, but there needs to be a balance.

I understand that hiring someone with no life or interests outside of code and your company is a great way to build a cult, but a great way to build a company is by ensuring that it has a culture. That happens by hiring interesting people that have shared values and outside interests.
High Availability for PostgreSQL, Batteries Not Included
he knowingly and purposefully accessing systems and information he knew he should not have been.
I'm not sure there's been any acceleration of discovery in the hard sciences.

The 30-40 years have seen tech advancements roughly in line with Moore's law, which is fantastic. But that's the result of engineering advancements. There's no precedent I'm aware of to expect the same results out of the hard sciences.
Does it, though? Would you also say it would make more sense for the lowercase B to have two enclosed spaces instead of just one?
>Also I don't get it why they use so many languages at once (Java, Kotlin, Groovy) and I think some parts are in C++
They seem to be mainly a Java shop. They probably use C++ for some performance intensive tasks where it makes a difference.
Since they are creating Kotlin, they are starting to use it for their codebase as well.

Their different IDEs seem to be built on the same java core, but with extensions in the target language : Python for PyCharm, c# for ReSharper, ....
What’s It Like to Be a Teen Working in Silicon Valley?
Will /politics be removed completely?

I only ask because most comments in these articles are clearly bigoted toward: reoublicans, christians, anyone successful.

Just knowing the history of reddit, those will stay becaus3 the community likes hatw toward specifix groups of people.
Check the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, http://www.cpan.org/.
The future is seasonal packages over streaming by sport. I would probably subscribe to the Tour de France (oh wait, already do that) and college football (want this).
A Yabloesque Variant of the Bernardete Paradox
Very cool! what tech stack did you use to develop it?
If the animal instinct of greed shows us anything, we can probably rest assured that no matter what the average quality of life, many people will want more, even if for no reason other than to show off. I imagine there was a time, long ago, when simply having shelter, food, and physical safety was sufficient to be considered successful in life.

I have seen people who would be basically satisfied with playing video games all day the rest of their lives. There are others, such as some junkies, who would feel mostly fulfilled as long as they have their fix. Ambition is a curious thing. Although it would seem that most people have ambition, for some people this ambition is directed toward the most useless things.

For those who dream bigger, or at least more grounded in reality, there may always be a goal that would drive them to work in one way or another, despite having basic needs met. Like most lines in society, such as where to draw the line between legality and illegality, opinion will differ from person to person. The consensus, or average, will probably shift as a particular quality of life becomes the norm.

On another note, part of the drive for gain is based on how one is perceived by his or her peers. If one feels unwanted or unappreciated, he or she is more likely to feel unfulfilled. It could also be said that capitalist consumerism drives this feeling of unease, which may keep pushing the minimum acceptable quality of life further and further. On the other hand, if this feeling can be alleviated, such as through religion, drugs, or virtual reality, then this drive for gain may cease.
I'm kind of amazed that reddit doesn't have a "killfile" or "ignore" feature after 10 years. It's one of the simplest things in the world, and for some other discussion sites that don't offer it I've built it myself as a User Script.
I don't really think anyone is being hugely insulted by people calling or not calling Zynga a pioneer.

This is some outrage culture shit right here.
But the article points out that not all of their neural structure is in their discrete brain case. Part of the machinery that drives their intelligence seems to be in their limbs.
Perhaps this is a cultural thing? Over here green means proceed with caution.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

> GREEN means you may go on if the way is clear. Take special care if you intend to turn left or right and give way to pedestrians who are crossing"

You seem to be saying that people are shitty drivers and that we need to either just put up with it, or fit our cars to stop some careless inattentive idiot from driving into us.

Fuck that.

Bad drivers should learn to drive.
"So you have to wonder, what's really the point in measuring weight? Why not measure what really matters, the size of your body!"

I do have to wonder, why is it that the size of your body matters?
Indeed, that is explicitly permitted. Weird how they consider it indirect. Reading through 11) I thought indirect meant other things.
I've been looking for a site like this for so long! <3
Thanks josh! It's always good to remember some of the lesser used functionalities, such as meteor debug.
Allowed by whom?

The government.

Ah. Well, I guess if it gives itself permission, that's okay then. We wouldn't want them to need consent of the governed or anything. They might say no!
Case 2 is being given a large lists of doors thousands you can go into, following the list on floors 1 and 2 noticing door, and then going to floor three and going through a door without verifying off your list.

And Case 3 is like the police breaking a lock to enter a door and then insisting they didn't break the lock. They may have legal authority to break the lock, but they still broke the lock.
Repost (https://hn.algolia.com/?query=aerosolve&sort=byPopularity&pr...) but it's an interesting library, so worth looking at if you missed it the first few times it was posted.
"Introdocution to Statistical Learning" by Trevor Hastie et al. [1] They have a free online class through Stanford [2] Sign in to their system and you can take the archived version for free.

ISL is an excellent, free book, introducing you to ML, you can go deeper, but, to me this is where I wish I'd started. I am taking the Data Science track at Coursera (on Practical Machine Learning now) and I am kicking myself that I didn't start with ISL instead.

Now, I know you specifically asked about Python, but the concepts are bigger than the implementation. All of these techniques are available in Python's ML stack, scikit-learn, NumPy, pandas, etc. I don't know of the equivalent of ISL for Python, but if you learn the concepts and you're a programmer of any worth, you will be able to move from R to Python. Maybe take/read ISL, but do the labs in Python, that might be a fun way to go.

Lastly, to go along with ISL, "Elements of Statistical Learning" also by Hastie et al is available for free to dive deeper [3]

[1] -- http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/

[2] -- https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesandScience/S...

[3] -- http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/
Huh. Never new about meteor debug. That's pretty awesome.
Neither of those have my 2012 Forester :(
Межкомнатные двери Мариам
New service for web content change notification
As a PhD in physics - progress in pure physics is slowing down (or at least progress per scientist).

The delay between a discovery in physics and a Nobel prize is getting bigger and bigger [1]. It's true for all fields, but the effect is particularly strong for physics.

'''It is safe to say that late 1920s and early 1930s were the “Golden Age” of 20th century physics, when the progress was lightning-fast and new discoveries lay like low-hanging fruits. In the 1940s Dirac commented bitterly, in view of problems quantum field theory was having at the time: “Then, a second-rate physicist could do first-rate work – now, it takes a first-rate physicist to do second-rate work”. Every physicist would love to live in such “interesting times”, when a new unexplored scientific territory opens up.''' [2]

So, its started decreasing quite some time. Also, as there are more an more people involved, the brainmass gets diluted. As of now there is no chance to get a photo of a concentration of luminaries as from the famous Solvay conferences [3].

So, if you (like me) read Feynman lectures of physics and know physics from 1920s-1950s, you are likely to get disappointed by the current pace.

...and just compare to recent progress in machine learning, when we can play on our computers with things, which a few years ago were thought to be out of our reach.

(But it shouldn't be surprising, technologies and science do have their growth time, and usually it's finite time.)

[1] http://priceonomics.com/why-nobel-winning-scientists-are-get...

[2] https://woodtickquarterly.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/graham-fa... (BTW: I recommend this book a lot)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference