skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/17/th...

35 million Americans, ~10%, are of Irish descent. Not knowing would be unusual.
As the blog comments suggest there's a difference between a good self-study book and a good textbook for a class. The book will be accompanied by (at least) what look to be a good set of course notes.

Some googling around suggests his students are quite pleased with him. He has, according to Wikipedia's intro for him, the undisputed king of math blogs. Both of these point to him being at least a good or above average educator.
Nearly all of these contracts with Comcast or similar companies will have a postal address you can write to and cancel. Even if they provide no cancellation postal address, look up their 'Agent for service of process', this is always listed somewhere. I never call to cancel, this is a waste of time and not necessary.

I've done this repeatedly (use certified mail, or recorded delivery, the term varies by country) and it's dead easy. I have cancelled service with no early termination fees at both Sprint and Verizon, and kept my subsidized phone while continuing on month-to-month service when they raised fees - a 'materially averse' change - always read the fine print. Same thing with AT&T dial-up back in the day.

This service looks interesting but really there is no easier way than sending a proper business letter and keeping proof of delivery. Only once did a company dispute receiving my letter and I emailed a scanned copy of the proof of delivery and that was it.

It sometimes helps to remind the company that falsely reporting a bad debt onto your credit record carries huge fines and you will definitely be checking to make sure they don't 'accidentally' forget or lose your paperwork, and that you have complete documentation and are prepared to defend. Be polite but do be firm, too.
It is tempting for me to turn this into a personal attack. To decry your ignorance or delusion but because of the nobler intentions of this forum I am not going to do that.

I could extract examples from my personal life of how poverty severely impacted my quality of life. But really I think the best thing I can link you to is the research. There are excellent studies that show how a single bout of homelessness causes a person's chances of imprisonment, joblessness and social disenfranchisement to skyrocket.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=effects+of+homelessness...
>Actually, people mostly talk about how the world would be much better if NP != P.

I know I've seen some arguments stating as such. If you know of a well-founded one, I'd be interested in reading it. Personally, I don't know or have a strong opinion. Seems like either could be viewed as "better" in some way.

>But you know someone who claims to be able to solve subset-sum problems quickly. I have a graph to 3-color, I wonder if I should convert it into a subset-sum problem for them to solve. That would take some time, and I'm pretty sure it won't be worth it. I'll have a think.

Well, I actually wrote up some tests for him and he ran his algorithm against it. I also gave him a ~10MB text file containing a very large list of integers (I forget the range at the moment. I could find it if you'd like, but I'm not sure how meaningful it is.) with a randomly selected target sum. He provided the solution (which I have not verified) in ~6-9 months. He also ran through many thousands of problem instances (subset sum...in JSON arrays) with varying parameters (number of integers; range of integers) over the course over several days. I made a rudimentary plot of the parameters and timings and in my very limited analysis, it did appear that there was a sub-exponential trend (at least for the instances that he provided solutions to [:)]).

I've been searching for the results (all instances, solutions, and timings) that I had collected from the test machine, but I haven't been able to find them yet. However, all of the test code is on GitHub and packaged into Docker containers for easy deployment of the test server and basic visualization of the results. I'd guess he (the person who claims a P=NP proof and sub-exponential-time subset sum solver) would be willing to run his algorithm against the test server again.
> This assumption is reinforced at school, where children take turns cleaning and serving lunch instead of relying on staff to perform such duties. This “distributes labor across various shoulders and rotates expectations, while also teaching everyone what it takes to clean a toilet, for instance,” Dixon says.

> Taking responsibility for shared spaces means that children have pride of ownership and understand in a concrete way the consequences of making a mess, since they’ll have to clean it up themselves. This ethic extends to public space more broadly (one reason Japanese streets are generally so clean). A child out in public knows he can rely on the group to help in an emergency.

This sounds alot like a Montessori school philosophy. I've got two kids in one and that's one of the biggest things we love about the school.

The freedoms that the kids are allowed and the lack of constant hand holding is something that we really appreciate.
Could you point me to an example of non-ad content doubleclick hosts? I haven’t ever seen such content before.
Part of the beauty of FLIF is that there are no dedicated thumbnails, though.
Some kind of anti-ad-blocking script causing the images to disappear a second after loading all the other Pintrest shit?

Sorry, don't care that much.
The point is that if voters would otherwise support someone, but they can't run because an inner circle of political elites won't let them, then those people are an obstruction to democracy (slash representative republic). They aren't doing us all a favor by serving as gatekeepers to which platforms we get to support. It's also representative of their opinion of Lessig's views and platforms, which isn't a positive reflection on them, imo.

This is also just the nomination, not having him compete as a second candidate in the general election, so whoever would likely beat him would likely still go on to win the nomination. Keeping him out only directly serves to silence him; it's not like Bernie would end up beating out Clinton for the nomination as a result of letting Lessig run alongside them.
I find this issue to be crazy yet creatively stimulating at the same time... I have spent tons of hours trying to find alternative spellings of my startups in order to find available URLs. I just sit on the GoDaddy app searching. One thing I noticed is it seems that GoDaddy engages in squatting and reselling as "Premium" URLs...
"It is not an attempt to garner page views using Apple keywords"

Yes, it is...
Well I guess it's his software, he does what he wants with the license. OpenSource and free information are not requirements on the internet. It's part of everyone's freedom to do what they want with what they create. I find it interesting that the license is used to communicate political ideology tho. It's some new kind of activism (to me at least).
They bill for services they haven't provided. Let's say you order Comcast October 10th and tech arrives and installs everything October 15th. When you get 1st bill, it will include October 10-15 period, when you actually did not have any service and were waiting for one. Happened to me recently.
I think this can be a subject of class action lawsuit.
Seeding /dev/random with with with a $10 SDR receiver
Pushups alone won't keep you fit.
AdBlock Plus does the same stuff, you might consider switching to uBlock for Safari.
Google filing making Alphabet “merger” official
Developers link against system OpenSSL, so Apple can basically never upgrade it.
> "They should be contributing their changes back to OpenSSL versus forking".

I suppose that this attitude comes from people who think the fork happened solely because of Heartbleed, when the real reasons are a little more intricate[0] but the straw that broke the camels back was the discovery that OpenSSL had known about certain bugs and let patches to fix them rot in their bug tracker for years. It's hard to contribute changes back when a project won't take patches.

OpenSSL could have taken LibreSSL's changes if they wanted to, it's all public in the OpenBSD source tree, but they haven't.

[0] http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/origins-of-libressl
Realtek RTL2832U – The mystery chip at the heart of RTL-SDR [pdf]
There are two clear groups (Police and Bikers) but also many subgroups. The bikers subdivide into three: Two gangs and a group consisting of several non-affiliated people. The Police seem to have a clear narrative. The other three groups present conflicting narratives. One might think that the clear narrative makes the most sense. To me it does not.

Given what happened (a chaotic firefight at a bar) I would expect a great many conflicting stories to emerge. That's what happens in chaotic situations. So the conflicting accounts from the various biker/bystander groups is in a way a confirmation of the events. It is the police's polished and consistent narrative that seems out of place.
No, the number of events
is necessarily also finite or
uncountable.
Indeed, it is a nice exercise
that there are no countably
infinite sigma algebras
(extra credit for a solution!).

It's just can't take uncountably
many events, take their union,
and assume that the result is
also an event.
The fact that Shannon entropy is still relevant in numerous modern mathematics research is amazing.

Apart from minor typos that make him a "sloppy mathematician", he is a good educator based on my personal experience taking grad. courses from him. He's not the passionate high school STEM teacher type, but he offers great insights. I think which textbook he used is somewhat secondary. For courses he had taught before, he usually pick a standard text and teach based on the material he wrote in his blog post, including exercises.
Maybe hooking Neutron into Docker can get you there: https://developer.ibm.com/open/clampify/
Could a 6/1 product launch cycle be better than Google’s 20% time?
All those probabilistic programming languages will become exponentially faster once we have feasible quantum computers, since BPP \in BQP. We currently use a weaker inclusion, BPP \in PSPACE, as the core execution model.
I had to open a Comcast account after a roommate moved out. His checkout/my opening was very straightforward until the modem that worked for his account didn't work for mine. The "new system" that our account was directed through didn't accept the exact model for our modem, forcing us to get another one. And there is no way I would use their modem/router setup.
True, but every little helps, and I bet it improves productivity and concentration
No, the absolute best filter is being a convicted federal felon. The few that I've worked with despite this fact have actually been pretty decent.
Is the next thing the "studio desk" with small kitchen and bathroom attached? Why commute after all? Live at the office.
Automated mobile testing with Python on Appium
Cardio?
I don't see a lot of value in this article. There is no "before/after" statement that you could actually compare and no science reference, behind the idea of activity/every 30 minutes.

> You don’t even need to do push-ups for the technique to work. If push-ups are not your things try stretching, walking around the building or do any other short activity to mix up your day then repeat. Repetition is the key!

Yes, moving yourself every half an hour gives benefits, but does it count if you just go to the toilet or go out for a smoke?

My story is :

I go to the gym every work day for only half an hour, first thing in the morning ( I'm web-dev freelancer @ home / office ). Before I started doing that I had less energy and significantly worse mood. I also removed 3 kilos for approx. 1 month, without any diet. It's cool.
Why do you say it is a net loss? Maybe the server could signal the end of file based on some request parameters (the resolution of the image).
"(1) I want to protest against American imperialism, which I regard as the cause of most of all evil in the world: wars, tyranny, poverty, migration."

Having lived in a REAL totalitarian country in the middle east this always amuses me.

The way to view international geopolitics is purely from the perspective of game theory. If america wasn't as "terrible" we would be ruled by either the Russian or the Chinese. If the British had their way they would have loved to keep their colonies.

More often then not - real life decisions is not trying to get the most perfect outcome but choosing what is the least evil or harmful.

I can understand the reason for protesting. But this person seems completely unaware of modern biology. There is no "european" gene or "american" gene. Neither is there something called as a "syrian" gene. We do know that there is a homosexual gene - which means that homosexuality is natural. While nationality is not.

I would be interested to know his views about the german refugees during the 2WW to places like China/India ( while their european brothers ignored them ) and even the middle east ! Those immigrants even created there own large country last I heard.

The refugee crisis in syria is also a small drop in the bucket compared to the real refugee crisis humanity faces due to climate change. Large parts of London, New York. Since more than 50% of people live near coasts by next century most of us would be refugees anyway.

Are we going to play who is the last man standing or figure out a humane way to deal with this problem ?
The "About", "Documentation" etc. links at the bottom (footer) don't work for me unfortunately; is it just me, or are they so for others too?
I would run the other way if this was advertised as a plus at a company.

To me, "We have nap desks!" denotes a certain expectation of working unsustainable amounts of hours.
It seems to me that, while wealthy, these fuerdai kids are uncomfortable bordering on neurotic.
They're mainly notable because of their connection to their parents, and anything that they do accomplish is suspect because they never know if they got (hired|admitted|published|married) because someone was trying to curry favor with their folks.
Attempts to branch out, to find wealth and power on their own, are not usually successful, especially when compared to their parents[0].
Their whole identity seems to be formed around "being wealthy", yet that wealth is based on things that they have little control over.

Thus the concern that at some point the money's going to stop flowing, whether because their parents fall out of favor with the government, or because a popular uprising takes place.
They talk about emigrating to the US[1], or how philanthropy is really just a way of ensuring social stability.

In contrast, first generation rich people[2] seem to talk as if business were interesting (if not downright fun), and only discuss emigrating as some sort of inside joke whenever Obama wins an election.

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0. Although maybe that's because they're starting fashion lines, concierge agencies, or magazines, while their parents run toothpaste conglomerates or shoe manufacturers.
Missing opportunities because they're not sufficiently exciting, and then rushing off to compete in already crowded (but sexy!) businesses seems to be universal.

1. I thought that Britain was supposed to be the top destination for fleeing oligarchs and their scions? Is there like a Yelp for billionaires? Maybe Berezovsky left a bad review?

2. Jim Clark from that Michael Lewis book springs to mind, or any character meant to represent capitalism from Ayn Rand.
This is a false dichotomy.
If the disuse of his product is his goal, I can imagine that after such ravings, he'll have little need to pursue it much longer.
Are biker gangs on the rise following Sons of Anarchy, which depicted outlaw biker gangs in a semi-glorious(?) light, or are they just getting more media attention?

The Hell's Angels and such have been around forever, but I never much heard about them until a couple of years ago.
Cancelling my Comcast service for cable television and internet involved these steps.

1) Gathering up all of my Comcast owned equipment (cable boxes and remotes, but importantly, NOT my cable modem, which I owned outright) and going to the local Comcast office. There I waited in a long line in a crowded, un-airconditioned office (in the heat and humidity of a hot August day in Maryland) for almost 2 hours. Then handing over the equipment and marking my account as cancelled took 25 minutes.

2) Calling the Comcast support line after they tried to bill me at the end of the following month for not actually supplying service to a home I no longer lived in. I was placed on hold for almost an hour before finally speaking to a representative, who told me that she didn't understand what the problem was because Comcast had no record of actually sending me a bill for the month after I moved.

3) Receiving a call a week later demanding I return my "Comcast owned equipment" before I could receive a refund on my deposit. I countered that I owned the modem outright and had merely given Comcast the MAC address of the modem so that they could authorize it on their network. The representative demanded that I prove that I actually owned the modem. The receipt I emailed from when I purchased the modem was not enough for them, they demanded "more proof" but could not actually offer an example of what proof I could offer. I hung up on that representative and immediately filed a Better Business Bureau complaint (I know, the BBB is a bit of a racket, but sometimes it gets some results).

4) The following day I received a call from a senior customer service manager apologizing for the "mix-up" with marking my modem as being a Comcast-owned piece of equipment. I received a refund of my deposit a few days later.
I knew someone who did 500 pushups a day. He looked pretty darn fit.

But obviously you should do more. Herschel Walker had a complete body weight workout and was in insane shape.
Alternatively, the royals will just loot the sovereign wealth fund and flee the country.

Sovereign wealth funds in third-world countries don't tend to last long. Nauru would still be one if the richest countries on Earth except that the sovereign wealth fund somehow found its way into the pockets of the people tasked with looking after the sovereign wealth fund.
Only if living conditions today are so bad you might as well be dead.

Which is why I speculate revolutions might become rare, as progress has improved everyone's lot, even the lowest classes. Few people live in a wood-fired dirt-floor log cabin or wash their clothes in a tub by the river these days.
Chartio looks awesome, but I'm unable to get any pricing information from their site. Care to elaborate on the cost for a small shop to leverage this for a few dozen users?
The incentive is that you get to keep your job.
Title changed from "Twitter noob Snowden gets hammered with 47GB of notification emails".
Congrats!

On the odd Yonkis referral link...wondering if it might be a porn site jumping on the GA referral spam bandwagon [1]. Definitely the sort of thing people should filter out as these spammers can result in quite a bit of traffic that can be very misleading.

[1] http://www.optimizesmart.com/geek-guide-removing-referrer-sp...
it's wonky in IE11 as well. For example: http://imgur.com/8HP761w
Try another refresh. What you're seeing is the sheet data only.
Interestingly, the same also tends to happen in Germany frequently.

Helicopter parents tend to be more of a US-American invention.

The question is how helicopter parents will change the way the next generations behave in society, as children have to take responsibility and become independent at some point.
Couldn't this be used together with microkernels, too, since you're taking the networking out of the kernel anyway?
Call me naive, but regarding:

> why a perfect antivirus program is impossible

What does TC have to do with a perfect antivirus program? Does it have something to do with the Halting problem?
The Downside: ...
Systems administrators are rarely customer-facing unless you count as customers the staff that use the systems that you keep humming along.

You consider this a downside? Customer-facing IT Support is an absolutely nightmare. It's part of my job, and by far my least favorite part of the job, as the customer is more often an impediment to solving their problem than an asset.
I suggest doing something else instead of pushups. When you sit in front of a computer all day your shoulders tend to slump forward, and by doing pushups all day you're making that problem even worse.
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Probably that there's a difference between uBlock and uBlock Origin.
Japan has a very low crime rate, which is surely a key reason parents feel confident about sending their kids out alone.

They mention a lot of good things. What they don't mention is that Japan has a relatively high average age. It is a country full of old people.

In Africa, when too many adult elephants get killed, you see unsupervised adolescent elephants get injuries that essentially never happen if there are enough adults around. Countries with an average young age for the population tend to have more problems, generally speaking, especially with a violent angle, whether violent crimes or civil war or terrorist groups or what have you.

This is not the sort of thing where you directly observe "Specific old person does X, young people respectfully go along and we can see how it happens." It is more subtle than that. But the effect nonetheless exists.

I think it is a good article, but I think that detail is one they overlooked.
Would you say their support is worse than other similar companies of their size?
For some people, it's enough. Pushups might not keep you fit.
One nice side benefit of their usage of MagicPoint; it's easy to link directly into a specific slide.
This reminds me of a paper I wrote for a sociology class in college. Argue for or against assimilation. Like it or not, there is evidence that immigrants who assimilate better into American culture do better economically. Cultural appropriation is not wrong, it makes assimilation easier. Keeping cultures separate, and raising an uproar when whites (in most cases) take an aspect they like from a culture and use it, is counterproductive to assimilation. Since I prioritise economic prosperity, I had to argue for assimilation. It does follow that stopping cultural appropriation leaves de facto segregation in place.

The melting pot is better when everyone melts into it.
And this is in stark contrast to my neighborhood in the USA, where parents will wait with their children for the schoolbus pickup... not even a block from their own house.

Now granted, we occasionally have reckless drivers speeding down the street. There isn't as much respect for pedestrians in the USA, so I guess that's a factor.
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Studying GPL'ed source code does not "taint" anything.

This is far from my area of expertise, but lawyers smarter than me about these things disagree.