skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're absolutely right. Being in the Higher Education space, dealing with IPEDS and most of the gov't supplied data is abysmal.

18F seems to have cleaned it up significantly.

What's most problematic, IMO, is seeing users choose expensive career paths that's marginally better than their current situation.

This tool and data don't directly answer that, but it's a huge step forward compared to what I've dealt with.

Now if more college-seekers actually looked up this info...
For the curious, yes this is actually a thing [1].

[1] https://github.com/napkinjs/napkinjs
http://www.investopedia.com/

Don't worry, it's perfectly fine to not know what these things are.

Maybe you haven't been working for long enough (or at the right companies) but I think people usually pick up an interest for this kind of stuff when they want to know what to do with RSU (Restricted Stock Units) or Options that they've gotten from a job. Some also get interested by the idea of having your money work for you (to make more money), instead of just spending money on things that don't bring return.
No, it's high school math. The kind you learn before university. secondary school == high school in many places.
Science for work, art for a hobby
How Instagram Links Your Photos to Your Credit Card Purchases
I would add statistics to this list. Science and pretty much all the numbers quoted out there are based on statistics.
It’s hot outside. Could this machine be the answer to global warming?
The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson.
AR plays a heavy role in it (and it is my favorite Stephenson novel).

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami.
I can't say much about it without ruining it.
Or Bill Joy: vi, c shell and large parts of BSD.
Seriously, have you ever had any recommendation engine produce useful information? Netflix can't do it for movies, Apple can't do it for Music, Twitter can't do it for information, and LinkedIn can't do for people or companies.

Taking this repeatedly-failed concept from consumer nonsense and applying it to financial products is just idiotic.

Moreover, it's OLD data. It's annoying enough when I buy a four pack of 9V batteries for my smoke detectors and Amazon tells me that other people bought C cells and Tickle Me Elmo. Gee thanks!

But this site is the equivalent of buying a winter jacket and having Amazon tell me that other people are buying swimsuits.

Bad site, bad idea -- and as, usual -- pandering, platitude financial advice at the top of a HN comments thread in a thread about real issues that affect real people.

Yahoo Finance had "related companies" 15 years ago and it's equally useful. Why does this site even exist? To get karma points? To get bought by some C-list online investment company to help them sell their unethical products?

Real hedge funds (and even casual nerd investors) have stuff that makes this look like the child's toy that it is. And every financial site has moved into "managed portfolios" for a reason. Fidelity, Schwab -- even Vanguard.

Or you could use this random blue site and hope their Ruby scripts didn't choke scraping the SEC website. Your money, your choice I guess.
Don't fall back. If you don't have a reasonable enough environment to get a PRNG, you should halt and complain very loudly.

As for actually generating random numbers, here's a good explanation from 'tptacek: http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-random...
I hope you don't mind, but I'm only going to address one thing right now. If the conversation continues, I will continue to discuss more with you.

Lets start with (A). You are correct, the way I described it does not explicitly explain how it is intelligent. Lets adopt the strictest definition of intelligence which is the ability to predict.

When I refer to capitalism here, I'll be referring to capitalism implemented, not the theory. Capitalism is intelligent. It is made up of people which are intelligent. These components are at times working together, and at times working against each other. Much like your conscious mind and subconscious mind. Conflicts are resolved in the market or through the state via legislation and trials. The results of components working together and resolving their conflicts is how capitalism has decided to behave. Having behavior is not sufficient for intelligence. A virus has behavior but is not intelligent.

So does a capitalist system make predictions? One example should be sufficient to make the answer to this question yes. If I can show that a capitalist system makes predictions, then I will have proven that it is intelligent.

Lets use America for this example. One thing American Capitalism seeks is to mute the highs / lows of the inherit booms and busts in-order to increase the level of stability of the economy. The Fed watches the rates of lending / borrowing to predict bubbles and raises interest rates to slow / stop the growth of bubbles. Once it has popped, and lending/borrowing slows, the Fed then lowers interest rates to promote lending / borrowing. I know this is not new info for you. I just wanted to be thorough in my response.

So American Capitalism predicts bubbles and acts on those predictions. Thus, intelligent.

You might say the Fed isn't capitalism. Which would be true. But your brain isn't you yet it is the component which makes you intelligent. The Fed is part of America's capitalist system.

You might say that capitalism does not involve government. Which I would say, pure capitalism doesn't involve government, but the active capitalist systems we have today do.
The Lisp Machine project had way more than 2 people, and something more than 2 full time equivalents.
Special thanks to Domingo Alvarez Duarte 'mingodad' for submitting the first community pull request. Merged in three minutes!
Uh, was there not some Linux distro for Android development with a similar name or I going old and senile?

UPDATE: Ah, how ironic, I guess I was looking for BBQLinux. What happened to this project?

http://bbqlinux.org/
Digression, nice 'experimental' flag.
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Good points man. Sorry you feel that way. I'm an ever optimist.
Can't we just kill half the cells periodically until there is no more cancerous cells ?
Or someone will catch it and discard the result which is often often what occurs. For example, with java throw an exception in an executor task (an assertion failure for example). What do you think occurs?
For me a big thing is avoiding error prone inconsistencies and other footguns. The less footguns a language has, the better.

For example in objective-c, most of the language deals with nil items without crashing or errors, except for a few APIs and collections. This abstraction mismatch in collections causes runtime crashes and is a language footgun.

Swift fixes this footgun with optional types, but objective-c could of made it's collections nil-safe and apple could of just declared in the company that your apis have to be able to handle nil arguments, no exceptions. The new nullable annotations are an ugly patch to just help transition to swift and still do not fix the footgun.

Java's NPE is another example of a footgun, and C++ & C have footguns everywhere that generate billions of dollars of security industry work.

What would you call the footguns of lisp & golang?
It's not as complicated as these guys are making it out to be. If you want people to trust you, stop doing things that violate their trust. And accept accountability / responsibility when you do the wrong thing.

IOW:

1. Stop the indiscriminate mass surveillance which ropes in data on people with no warrant.

2. Stop supporting the whole "parallel construction" nonsense which lets illegally collected data influence criminal trials.

3. When people like James Clapper commit perjury and lie to Congress, they should be fired and/or fined for their actions.

4. Quit with the nonsense rhetoric about how revealing the slightest detail of what you're doing, and how you do it, is somehow begging for a terrorist attack. The American people can handle a measure of risk - we have backbone. But we expect our government to be transparent and to be accountable - to us.

5. Stop the industrial espionage on foreign nations. Surveillance to detect threats is one thing, surveillance for economic advantage is quite another.

6. Stop using backdoor agreements with the UK and other nations (the "Five Eyes" in particular) to skirt around US law regarding what you can and can't do.

7. I'm sure there's more, but the above would be a good start.
> And more underscore variables?

Variable names and function names are supposed to use underscores and not Camel Case in Python. I wish people who are writing tutorials teaching people Python would at least glance at PEP-8.
You should consider writing up something with examples. Given how it's implemented (unboxed directly typed mmap'd arrays) it's hard to see how much slack there could be in it. I and many others are beginning to experiment with Q and Kdb and your learnings might spark valuable debate - and perhaps saved time. :)
Every county in America, ranked by scenery and climate
Its like a Terry Gilliam movie.
I'd characterize OCaml's tools as a mixture of best-of-breed (Merlin, OPAM) and oh-my-god (build tools, debugger). The language itself, if you avert your eyes from the standard library, is pretty damn good though.
Sounds good. I'm on book 12 of the "Wheel of Time" series by Jordan now, plus all the non-fiction I'm reading. But maybe after I finish WoT I'll binge on PKD for a while. I did enjoy VALIS quite a lot, even though it was pretty f'in weird. :-)
Google reveals plans to increase production of self-driving cars
If you have 5000 euro and a good CV you can apply for a job in a European country.
So... never?
I thought that I can make coding challenges using github & circleci. I find it quite exciting, please share your thoughts.
Suit filed against Chicago Internet taxes
Infinite interstitial ad loop.
Mozilla quietly deploys built-in Firebox advertising
On the other hand, perhaps you are biased in favour of the math relevant to computer science, such as number theory, graph theory, and cryptography?
"that your estate will be able to afford the procedure" reads to me as being about revival? Which ALCOR etc don't attempt to cover.
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10204523
Cool, but for some reason in seems to eat SPACE to page down.
A very nice idea, In this post, http://leonjza.github.io/blog/2015/09/10/canarytokens-the-ma... Leon Jacobs jots down his findings when investigating the documents generated by this project.
Knuth had help from his graduate students. Some of them did their dissertations on work they did in TeX and I think METAFONT too.
John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering (2012)
How does this compare to something like NeDB?
Certainly the present UK Conservative Government think it's great.
So before learning Haskell, you wished you had already known over 325 pages of what? That seems like a motivation to not try to learn it at all.
That's the beauty of open source !
Cheers !
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The problem with verbose code, is missing the small difference in the boilerplate and creating new bugs.

It's the same problem with copy/paste code. With copy/paste code, it often has small changes that you can miss easily. You have to read every line of code to not miss the small variations. If the person bothered to generalize the copy paste code a bit, you can cover all cases in one spot, and be less likely to miss problems.
This is a great article.

I visited Islay in 2012 and toured several distilleries, including Bruichladdich. I was already somewhat of a fan based on their unconventional marketing and experimentation, not to mention the incredible Port Charlotte releases, and knew some of this story, but this article filled in the details.

The only misleading part I'd point out is that the article implies that malting barley on Islay is impractical in general, but several distilleries do malt their barley on the island, notably Bowmore, which malts it on their own floors. Many of the others get their malt from Port Ellen Maltings, also on Islay.

I'm really looking forward to cracking open the Octomore in my cabinet...
I might be wrong about this but I'd say that the majority of websites out there would break without Javascript. That's not to say that you can't "gracefully degrade" functionality if Javascript isn't enabled, but from my perspective the bigger problem isn't with losing users - it's with having your content harder (or impossible) to crawl by search engines.

I'm going to have to change a few things around for Barter Hack so that the listings show up in Google. Google Bot can run -some- Javascript but I doubt it will be able to crawl a service like this.
New radar image of rumored Nazi ghost train
"In what kind of bleak world would no one be willing to pay for a probable return to full health?"

This one.

People are dying now because of diseases we have basically eradicated in rich countries. The choice you're talking about making, saving a life for a few weeks worth of your own salary, is one that is already available to you and many others. What are you doing about it?

Now, I think you're right that it's horribly wrong to be letting people die when it's so easily avoidable, and I donate half my salary to help make things better, but most people don't think this way--most people just spend their money on themselves. Which means that if you're relying on the generosity of others to revive you you're probably going to be out of luck.
What's strange about this? Homo sapiens evolved later.

Also the dates depends on your definition of human-like. Homo erectus migrated to Euroasia 1.2 mln years ago already.
I agree. There were slower but cheaper lines that were just eliminated, and now it's too expensive (for some people living there) to go to some places by train.

My point, though, was about the trains that are made in my country, not how they make use of them.
1) Aside from significant increase in cost and experiment turn-around time, there's a more basic question: if you don't use a replicable and scalable model of the disease, how do you induce the cancer you're interested in studying? Wait around for one of ~5000 mice to develop pancreatic cancer?

2) There's already significant efforts underway to sequence many thousands of human tumors (e.g. you probably know about TCGA). Once the cost drops a bit more, then it might be feasible to sequence all tumors. However, a pathologist can still tell you quite a bit that's hard to reverse-engineer from sequencing (e.g. does the cell look like a melanocyte?). Classifying by tissue of origin (+ the ontology of cancer subtypes) does actually capture a lot of the variation between cancers. Sequencing adds a little on top of that, but surprisingly not as much as people hoped. For example, how often can you predict actionable drug sensitivity from RNAseq or WES? In my experience so far, there's only even the possibility of clinical benefit in a small number of special cases (e.g. BRAF V600E).

3) Newly diagnosed patients often have great treatment options! Do you really want to RCTs with placebo arms on stage I breast cancer patients?

4)
"Go all out on the immune approach" there's been a huge boost of funding in that direction (by the NCI/NIH and private donors like Sean Parker).

"with an emphasis on developing treatments with minimal side-effects that can be given to healthy people as a preventative treatment." That's an interesting idea and I don't know who's working on it. Write it up as a grant proposal and send it to the CRI?
Perhaps it could be a deeper understanding of the subject matter, and the ability to apply the material to other topics. In the case of sculpture and mechanical engineering, there are many skills that overlap.

Application of studies and science is really neat too, I always reuse things that i learn to my car restorations, comes in handy to be sneaky.
Yes. ...?
The problem is that they cannot do that easily. It's no longer a little company, it's a giant with it's own clauses and rules. Maybe founders want to do good, but now, they are stuck with this big behemoth of a company they created and unfortunately, they live in denial that they can do good, despite the fact that the primary goals have shifted towards making money at all costs.
I didn't say they understood the math they were using and lost it, I said they used math and lost it. Obviously if you always understand what is going on, you'll never find yourself up shit creek without a paddle.
Not exactly free, but the places you visit can be observed with the naked eye from public property, and a network of cameras feeding into ANPR and facial recognition would be a hell of a lot cheaper (and more reliable) than a mapping product.

Not to mention that realtime traffic data and intelligent routing around congestion is only workable by tracking individual vehicles on the road and recording how long it takes them to get from A to B.
That's a little pessimistic, and doesn't sound right to me.

There aren't that many companies in cryonics, but they've been around for a long time (30 years I think?). And there are things you can do to verify - e.g. visit their preservation rooms, etc. And people have done this.
Sorry for offtopic but anyone know performance benchmarks LLVM vs BEAM ?
I only know topsy.com, never used their api but they're twitter's only valid partner on trends and stats etc. http://about.topsy.com/support/api/ i hope it helps.
If my guard clause is doing the same thing for 20 lines, it increases readability. Could be an optimization point too!
Meh, people always get bent out of shape when a statement makes them think. You feel guilty because your mind associated it with something inappropriate.

"Rape my X" is likely in reference to the window manager. I don't see an ethical problem with metaphorically raping computer software, especially when KILLing is taken so lightly...
Many people intentionally do the not-popular thing. Some of realize later, and tell ages hence, that the majority made the right choice, and that our renegade choice made all the difference in our lives.
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> For "solid" tumor cancers like breast, pancreatic, prostate, and skin cancer, we're still struggling to make a dent in the death rate.

Actually, we are not "struggling" on breast cancer. The death rate comes down a reasonable percentage each year.

It's just that a small percentage compounds slower and slower once you take out the low hanging fruit.

As you point out, the problem is that cancer isn't just one disease with one mechanism. Even "breast" cancer isn't just one disease with one mechanism.

So, it's not terribly profitable to go after say "cancer X with mutations P, D, and Q". This really needs government funding.

We'd have been far better off with a governmental "War on Cancer" than on any of the other "War on X" that they've done.
Wow i had forgotten about this tool. This was so cool to put at debug point at OS level. Well i mainly used this to bypass registration steps for tools which required a paid license key or passcode :P(Replacing the cmp ops to noop or jmp to success).
I wouldn't voluntarily touch K/Q ever again, but if someone else is interested in doing a blog post: try implementing any iterative machine learning algorithms. The separate compilation of primitive operators requires creating many array temporaries that on the one hand, Matlab's JIT can fuse and, on the other hand, NumPy provides a richer set of compiled functions to work with. K/Q lets you (tersely) express complex array computations using just its core operators, but all those array constructions add up to comparatively bad performance.
The Man Who Wants to Encrypt Everything
I'm more worried about the centralization of the Internet. That's why I run my own servers (web, email, dns and FTP) and don't rely upon other companies to host my data.

Unfortunately, I am one person, and most don't care (http://boston.conman.org/2015/02/25.1).
Haha, I could agree with that. I think though the problem with calculus is that it is so cumulative, so doing badly in one year leads to the next etc.
Did upvote your sincerity.

I've work with complex and critical linux firewalls, and I love some AWS networking aspects...

Your comment was like a fresh air of sincerity. We all need to deal with domain specific issues. You need to be practical to keep going on.
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SoftICE was one of the most amazing utilities out there both for debugging as well as reverse engineering. The Wikipedia page is spot on about WinDbg/KD, but pretty out of date re: modern tools. Ollydbg2 came out more than half a decade ago and supports all the 64 bit registers and x86-64 instruction set. Immunity Debugger took the place as the defacto standard, and most modern scripts and tooling are built around Immunity for dynamic analysis and IDA Pro for static analysis. IDA Pro adopted QT natively, so the plugin communities are extending the hell out of what was already a great tool, and there are good plugins that export annotations/symbols that Immunity can consume so the union between static and dynamic analysis has never been smaller. If you don't have an IDA license, Immunity combined with Radare (read down) is still pretty powerful to play around with. Either way, the reverse engineering stuff out there is quite simply amazing.

https://github.com/aquynh/capstone

https://github.com/REhints/HexRaysCodeXplorer (this is CRAZY useful if you bought the Hex Rays license with IDA)

https://github.com/ynvb/DIE - makes IDA even better ("DIE is an IDA python plugin designed to enrich IDA`s static analysis with dynamic data)

https://portal.cert.org/web/mc-portal/pharos-static-analysis... - I haven't used this yet but Pharos is a static analysis tool out of Carnegie Melon that's particularly useful for C++ gen'd code. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/sei_blog/2015/08/the-pharos-fra... Walks through some feature set. HexRays is great for somethings but when you F5 some block, you really are left wanting. This looks like it fills the gap quite nicely.

http://www.radare.org/r/cmp.html - Comparison beween IDA and Radare (admittedly unfair, even titled so, ha)

There are dozens of plugins I use which are just python scripts mapped to keyboard shortcuts so I don't even remember what they're called. Someone else is going to have to jump in because I'm not on my work machine and can't look it up.

You lost Ring0 with the demise of SoftICE, but the RE community is more active than ever. Just watch a few CCC talks if you're not convinced.

Just a note guys: I know you can pirate IDA but some companies just "do it right" and should be supported. I buy from Adafruit even though they're more expensive because I support them. IDA is one dude, who's responsive within the community, who goes out of his way to be nice and implement bug fixes and feature enhancements. I try not to get all preachy, but pirating IDA isn't stealing Visual Studio from Microsoft- you're ripping a dude who's contributed a lot to the community and even offers a free (granted less featureful) version.
What Director Comey doesn't seem to understand is that just like the TSA luggage keys there is no going back. Unless we can trust every person who could possibly hold the backdoor key (for all time) it's just a matter of time before everything encrypted with it is unencrypted.