skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you don't have any Windows-only applications keeping your younger-than-double-digit children on Windows, well then now is your chance to put them on anything-other-than-Windows.

My own children are still using computers with Windows 7. They play Spore (Windows only), Sims 3 (Windows only) Minecraft (Java, so playable anywhere), Osu! (no idea, really), and a couple of other games. I have no intention of upgrading Windows on their computers past 7. Take a look at your options, you might be surprised how easily Windows is replaced with anything else.
Interesting! Would it be accurate to say that as the amount of computing power and memory per CPU has increased over the years, so also has the percentage of scientific problems where a single simulation instance will fit on a single CPU? Certainly if you can do so, it's more efficient (in both machine and human resources) to partition by one job per CPU.
Nothing, really, but if that person gets into an accident, the insurance will probably be canceled immediately.

When I was younger, my dad had my car on his insurance policy, but didn't tell me that it was cheaper because he said I lived at his address and only drove in the (rural) area he lived. When I had a minor collision in a parking lot, we both found ourselves without insurance.
Hyperbole much? You can still simply not log in to Chrome and/or Google Search. But if you want to be logged in by default, then you'll have to tell the browser when you occasionally don't, no?
Hickory (YC S15) predicts when you are going to forget something
More than likely. I am just trying to get them to think outside of the specialized box they are stuck in.

With the wide spread of fiber cable(faster internet speeds), I see it being very do-able form of computing in the near to soon future. We might as well help push the Moore's law mentality a bit further.
I've been unable to find videos of the Start6 presentations (Jan 2015), but the list speakers is interesting:

https://start6-2015.mit.edu/speakers/
I think that's disingenuous.

It's not disingenuous, it's just plain incorrect. :)

The panda algorithm is believed to specifically target duplicate content.

My dictionary website was Panda-penalized because it showed citations of slang use from books, news articles, TV shows, movies, etc. The citations were loaded via AJAX.

I have more details in a prior comment on this post, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9977372
Google Quietly Distributes New Version of Glass Aimed at Workplaces
There's some work in SAR stuff on that sort of thing. One sketch of an idea would be to iteratively estimate the measurement including multi-path from what you think the surfaces look like and then remove the "surfaces" that are explained by echos off of single surfaces. The goal would be to get images that explain the measurements you take using the fewest number of surfaces.

This is trickier than normal imaging, because if you ignore the multiple reflections you're basically just inverting a matrix (a fourier transform in the case of single line imaging). With multipath the measurement becomes nonlinear in your scene and inversion isn't as trivial.
It took them 21 days to announce this? It's a in-depth post and kudos to them for that, but I'd also like to know _when_ the actual intrusion was (on July 9th when they detected it? Months before?)
Synthetic is cheaper.

> "But most of the caffeine used in soft drinks is actually synthetically produced in Chinese pharmaceutical plants."

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/13/289750754/wak...
Good question! We found that non-technical people who have only an idea and a drawing on a napkin tend to get yelled at a lot when they ask for help. We always "murder" ideas in a friendly and respectful manner.

We give away a handful of free reports every week. You only have to pay if you want your report quickly and/or don't want it posted publicly on the site.
> some sites take more power to render than a 1080p stream!

This is an interesting aspect of Optimisation. If video decoding were developed using similar standards to the bulk of software it would only be capable of displaying a slideshow.

Video gets massively optimised (at all levels) because the alternative is 'No Video'. It is a good demonstration of the gap between the performance of software and what it could be. Most software can get by being a little bit sluggish so we grumble and suffer but it is not a deal-breaker. What we buy with that performance hit is easier development.
I think there was a sense that the "new" Microsoft was trying to be a bit more humane.
The thing is, this is not a self diagnostic. See: https://guillaumepaumier.com/2015/02/22/2014-in-review/#atta...
And it would be discriminatory to give the job to the women purely based on her gonads in such a scenario. Benevolent sexism is still sexism, but it seems people only care about it when it comes to holding doors rather than holding jobs.
The point is that "this is unique enough" is not a good standard when the data is sketchy or even subject to manipulation. The corporate ID numbers otherwise being discussed are unique by fiat.
OwnStar – hacking cars with OnStar to locate, unlock and remote start vehicles
Ahh...usenet. I was on usenet a long time...early 1984 [1] until a couple or so years ago.

Every time I have to deal with some crappy forum software on the web, I remember how much nicer newsreaders were, and wish people would do web based forums by using an NNTP server and providing a browser-based NNTP client for it, and would allow people to use their own clients if they wished.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/net.unix-wizards/CYh...
I appreciate the level of detail that PagerDuty went into with this announcement.

I presume they wanted to have all of the facts before they notified customers, but it is totally unacceptable that they waited 3 weeks to notify me about an incident with confirmed external intrusion and confirmed theft of customer data (including my own).
> "But most of the caffeine used in soft drinks is actually synthetically produced in Chinese pharmaceutical plants."

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/13/289750754/wak...
Since the global passive adversary is now a reality (NSA) it seems like Tor is broken by design.
I wouldn't trust a Brit to report the figures for the US Department of Energy. The DOE's budget is 20 Megawatts
[source: http://science.energy.gov/~/media/ascr/ascac/pdf/meetings/20...]
>Things I'm thinking of are, (would like to hear from the experts any hints, tips or links):

I mean, if you just want to replicate what they did, that's fine, but it kind of misses the point of it all. Science is about finding something new.

Why spin your wheels redoing someone else's work, when you can push into new territory? Science is all about having a question, and then just "learn by doing" until you find an answer.

>Things I'm thinking of are

GWAS data is messy, and usually has already been picked clean by the time it has been published. They do get pretty sophisticated with the stats analysis though.

The Cannabis reference sequence is awful (I should know, I was the first person to make an assembly). Plants have really really complex genomes, and there isn't the research interest to improve the references. This, combined with the fact there is almost zero available RNAseq data would make this project difficult. Yes, there is some RNAseq data, but to separate signal from noise you'd need several technical replicates, which we don't have. As for phylogeny, the macro phylogeny is pretty well known from 16s sequence, and we don't have enough individuals to tease out interesting population structure. Genome annotation, in the absence of molecular work, is always boring because it can only find what is already known from other organisms.

Most all of that experiment you linked was molecular work. They PCR'd up some genes and transformed them into yeast. They didn't use stats to identify genes because the genes were already well known and sequenced. After that it was just a matter of putting the genes in front of a high output promoter and thats that. If you had RNAseq data for that experiment, which we don't, you wouldn't be able to see the difference in regulation because the transgene isn't part of the yeast reference genome. You could do a de novo transcriptome assembly, and then it would probably turn up, but it would be hidden among 5,000 other novel/incomplete transcripts. This is all beside the point, because, if you know the gene you transformed, then why do RNAseq at all? A Q-PCR would give you a more accurate result at 1/100th the cost.

Sorry to shoot down all your ideas, I think your initiative is great. There is A LOT of sequencing data out there, I am sure you can find a set with some fruit still on it.

Maybe start thinking about questions that are important to you, personally. What organisms are important to you? What resources are available on the Sequence Read Archive? What question has yet to be answered about the organism?

If you want someone to bounce ideas off of, I'm happy to help.
Minor point: the screenshot shows "Wiley E. Coyote" but it's actually "Wile E. Coyote". Otherwise, seems like a much-needed service. A lot of what lawyers are used for is little more than mail merge, so I'm happy to see this aspect of their work being commoditized.
Some police officers' behavior is abhorrent, and these videos will lead to some positive societal/policy change (body cameras, etc.)

There's an unfortunate side effect though. Society is experiencing a systemic loss of trust in our police forces.

Why? Even though most police officers are honest and good, and they're making the world a safer place, our brains aren't great at separating what we see from broader patterns.

The news/internet is surfacing the most extreme examples, and if your brain is comparing the 5 awful things you saw cops do with the occasional "normal" interaction, you're going to start lowering your perception of police.

Many people are a bit nervous when a plane takes off or lands because airplane crashes are scary, and even though the rational part of our brain might know the stats (planes are incredibly safe, much safer than cars) we can't let go of it.

The cop that pulls you over for a ticket is probably not going to shoot you, but because of seeing these videos it seems we're all more anxious, rational or not.
This is why I'm hesitant to say that sports should just legalize doping. It will trickle down from the pro level and have extreme consequences on the young athletes whose bodies are still developing.

"Natural" forms of athletic enhancement (pre puberty rigorous training) lead to stunted growth from the stress and impact placed on growth plates. What happens when the only way to get ahead is to gamble with Human Growth Hormone and steroids pre puberty?
Congratulations on illustrating the problem of sexism in tech so well.

Your interest in the content they host has zero relevance to the technical challenges they face as a platform and heavily trafficked website.
Oracle Solaris Zones Gets Docker Support
Coding schools offer a fast-track shot at IT jobs and aim to fill skill gaps
Don't take this the wrong way, but... this is hardly news. From top of the Tor Project's "Who uses Tor?" page:

"Tor was originally designed, implemented, and deployed as a third-generation onion routing project of the Naval Research Laboratory.[0] It was originally developed with the U.S. Navy in mind, for the primary purpose of protecting government communications." [1]

The article you link to quotes one of the original TOR authors, but fails to link to his words. They're here. [2]

Even if Tor hadn't originally been built by the NRO, spooks would still be using it for their "open source" intelligence gathering: it is effective, well-built software that protects against the threats that it claims to protect against.

That Pando Daily article attempts to claim that the fact that NSA captures Tor traffic makes Tor a danger. The leaked NSA slides from which that fact comes from also reveal that NSA captures and stores (for a long time) all encrypted traffic that they cannot decrypt. [3] This means that connecting to a non-USian site using SSL/TLS makes you just as much a target as Tor usage. :)

I get that people freak out about government funding of this project or that project, but there are a few things to keep in mind here:

1) Tor is open source and is developed in the open. [4]

2) Respected cypherpunks and cryptographers have periodically evaluated the project and declared it to be effective and high quality.

3) A weakening of Tor or the Tor Network reduces its value for intelligence gathering and covert law enforcement operations.

I welcome your questions and/or comments. :)

[0] That phrase links to http://www.onion-router.net/

[1] https://www.torproject.org/about/torusers.html.en

[2] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2011-March/0... (Notice that this is an official Tor Project mailing list archive, and that the message is still visible. :) ) Extended discussion is available here: http://www.cryptome.org/0003/tor-spy.htm

[3] Other NSA slides reveal that the NSA can't actually break Tor. They have to rely on endpoint compromise or improper configuration of hidden services to unmask Tor users.

[4] https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/
Ask HN: Do remote workers need a H1-B visa?
The ironic part is that Apple is based on a UNIX, Microsoft is hawking Linux in Azure, and Linux is running most of the internet.

I think in 2015 we've gotten to the point where we have our cake and we're eating it too. Some people got used to the command line tools and love them, others have fancy GUIs that do what we'd expect. Regardless worth a read even for UNIX users.
Con la salud no se juega: Sistema de ducha infinita con solo 10 litros de agua
It did have an "off" browser action button. I toyed with the idea that once you turn it off for a site, it remembers that choice and will no longer index those sites.
Intro to Principles and Practice of Amazon Machine Learning
In addition to medication, like mkopinsky said, I've had great success keeping a Bullet Journal[0]. It keeps me on track day to day, but medication keeps me on track minute to minute. I definitely spent a lot of time in college (years before I was diagnosed) trying different productivity methods and tools, but nothing would stick past a week.

[0]: http://bulletjournal.com/
NSA director be making that smug frog face right about now
Imagine if you discovered an exploit for TLS and just listened in on a public / hotel network to tons of Windows machines sending keystrokes, calendar, contacts, etc to Microsoft in the background... At least in the Windows 95 days you had to write the key logger yourself and get it installed somehow.
Hey, this looks really fantastic, it solves a real problem for UK drivers and I think you'll be fantastically successful. However, I couldn't find any information about who's behind the site, and I wonder about the mechanism through which the insurance is provided, how is it backed?
I think I'm not being clear and may be misunderstanding you.

When I was writing signal processing code, we had four levels of engineering.

- The first was an Algorithm Description Document. This document laid out, in mathematical terms, the algorithms used for various signal processing functions in the system. It was purely conceptual.

- The second was an Algorithm Implentation Document. This document mapped the algorithms to specific parts of the hardware and software system, laying out the logical module structure and data flow. It also specified how the algorithms would be realized in code, since parts of a particular algorithm might need to run in different parts of the system. The AID was still primarily mathematical.

- The third was a series of software design documents. These documents specified the details of module interfaces, code and file layouts, and specifics about what algorithms would be implemented in what functions.

- The fourth was the actual translation of the mathematical algorithms in the AID into actual C code. Most of the engineering at this level dealt with function-level optimization and some platform-specific stuff.

Of those four levels, only the last is what I would consider "coding". It is also the least important. Anyone who can really understand the first three levels and is willing to learn can handle the fourth. As I mentioned previously, there will be differences in efficiency, but not in capability. It would take willful ignorance for this not to be the case. I think this is also what you are considering "coding", but I'm not sure; I also think you might be merging #3 and #4.

Now, most commercial projects do not run this way and, as far as I know, few have dedicated systems engineers to manage the system architecture and APIs. Thus, the software engineers building the system generally perform the work in all four of these levels simultaneously as the system builds out. Despite this, I still only consider the work that fits level 4 to be "coding", and still consider it to be the least important.

What I look for when I interview are engineers who operate very well in levels 1 - 3. If I find that, level 4 is pretty much a given absent the rare pathological case or someone with a very "academic" attitude. The questions I personally ask deal with levels 2 and 3. Those questions cover some of what might be considered coding, like API design and class layout. I do not have candidates actually generate code, though. Some of the other interviewers have candidates write small functions in pseudocode or explain existing, uncommented Java code, though.

I also need to note that we have a take-home test that candidates need to pass before they get an on-site.We have also recently added an open coding challenge which may eventually replace the take-home test. This probably covers your requirement for candidates to code, even though it isn't done in front of one of us.
> I've never understood how people can truly believe that by checking (or unchecking) a checkbox their privacy is fully protected.

You mean besides the fact that collecting personal data without your consent is illegal?
Same here. I could run just about everything I needed (notably, 1Password and µBlock) and be very happy with Safari if it weren't for the inexplicable lack of favicons on tabs. There are some SIMBL hacks and such, but I just want that simple feature built in.
That seems rather surprising they would drop you after one accident. I mean - if they were mad that you lied where you drove - how did they know that it wasn't a one time thing like visiting a friend? I would find it rather silly if you had to call your insurance company ahead and ask for their permission to drive outside of the area you said you would be driving in.
I have memories of being in a school bus during the summer and driving through streets with open hydrants. Without fail, the kids manning the hydrant would grab a can and use it to direct the water towards the bus. The first time it happened, we all got wet, along with our books, papers, calculators, etc. After that, the bus driver would stop the bus and we would close all of the windows before going through.
I don't buy it. My Windows 10 machines will be Ivy Bridge, Broadwell, and soon Skylake-powered desktop processors running with gobs of excess computing capacity. Voice recognition should be feasible with this hardware, as it has been in the past with Windows 7 and Windows 8's often-ignored voice transcription feature. Furthermore, even if the performance were slightly worse, I would gladly sacrifice some performance for local execution with local data.

Now, I expect that such a local agent would need to have quite a bit of fine-grained control to satisfy privacy concerns (e.g., do you agree to allow me to send your query about films in your zip code to the MSN Movies site to get showtimes?) But I feel the actual processing of the day-to-day personal assistant features is not only eminently feasible on my desktop, but most likely also on my Surface or laptop.

The cloud is pernicious and voracious, its dominion grows quickly enough without needlessly exaggerating the necessity of offloading computation like this. Local computing devices—especially those that conventionally run Windows (desktop PCs and laptops)—are extremely capable.

Cortana is a cloud agent not because of requisite processing power. Illusory local processing deficiency is just a convenient justification for why it doesn't run locally.

But then, I am a strong advocate of personal compute servers and mainstreaming secure private networks. So I am obviously fringe in today's culture that embraces the centralized cloud.
Shouldn't Windows at this stage just fork and split in to two? One can be the dumping ground of all kind of social/phone/tablet crap where consumers sign away their unborn children, and the other for businesses and people that want to get stuff done?
Amazon Hires “Top Gear” Team, J.Clarkson, R.Hammond and J.May for New Show
Really? Pinterest is ranked #16 by Alexa in the US for internet traffic[1]. Do you really think running such a site with that much traffic doesn't require top talent?

[1] http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US
Sure. The way around that is to simply not allow users under 13 to have an account. If a user lies about his age in order to get an account, Microsoft is no longer liable.
I LOL'D.
Absolutely no one wanted it. No one asked for it.

We were spun a load of marketing disguised as listening and attention. This turned out to be exactly what Microsoft wanted which was another aggressive move against customers both business and consumer. Despite all this the noise and confusion and dubious love for the products is shining out of the arses of every non technical news source.

What did we expect?

I've left the party now. Closed my MS accounts, cancelled MSDN and AP subs, rolled out CentOS 7 on my laptop and have moved the remaining windows dependencies I have to a VM. If you don't like it, now is the time to make it known.

This is after using MS products since about 1993. No more loyalty or milking.

The software industry is moving away from the model of servitude to a vendor. Good riddance.
This is true. Especially for small businesses that don't really need a mobile app. For example, a corner store in my neighborhood asked me to download their app. Why would I? It had no special functionality, just list of their products. I would just check their website (Which is ugly btw) instead of wasting 12MB on an app I will not use regularly.
The information I've seen about Sibyl (the Google ML system, not the genomics package (http://sybil.sourceforge.net/documentation.html)) says it is basically doing logistic regression using a parallel algorithm (Collins, Schapire, Singer) with a transpose on each iteration. Without knowing more about the problem sizes and data sparsity/irregularity, I expect the transpose to be a significant expense. I'd be happy to read more if you have access to further technical information, but it's not clear how this comment relates to your previous question about CG and deep learning. As it relates to HPGMG, I think my previous response covers the important performance dimensions. I'd be happy to discuss further over email.
^ Real talk.

This
https://cloudup.com/clkR99FLNgC/f is becoming a nightmare - I'd also value how other people keep their notes organized and understood.
True, but... you obviously don't have kids! ;)
So it's basically still in same ballpark as other cloud providers with pro's and con's. You've just added some logical isolation, extra functions like authentication, and procedural/policy protections for customers as a differentiator, yes?
From a developer point of view we try to keep changes required for existing apps to be ported to a minimum. To achieve this, we use docker as well as an heroku inspired deployment approach.

Sandstorm have their own containerization.

You can see how much porting effort is required for Cloudron, by looking at our current samples of ported apps https://www.cloudron.io/documentation.html#samples