skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Url changed from http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/2015/10/11/without-human..., which points to this.
I think the 80's geek / nerd image is history in the age of starting strength, stronglifts and /r/fitness

Only a matter of time. Somebody should update the jargon file.
The article says Dell intends to pay $25 per share when the current trading price is $27. That's not a premium, that's a discount.

Edit: Looks like I misunderstood the terms. It's $25 plus a tracking stock for VMWare that is valued at $8 for a total of $33 which is a nice premium.
Eastern United States? Asia?
How frequent are studies being funded at that level? Based on the numbers on your website, that study is almost half your total volume.

Again, using the numbers on your site:

5,615 projects created and 364 funded is a 6.5% success rate. If I'm going to be pouring energy in to single digit success rates, they need to hit pretty hard - and while you do have some successes, right now their long-tail oddities. If experiment.com takes off and you regularly get R01-sized projects, that's awesome. But it's just not there yet.

And while "big science" does not equal good science, there are some things that just have to be paid for. I'm not talking about massive grants. And I've got experience doing the whole scrappy underdog thing. It's not a zero-sum attitude - it's that the effort for crowdfunding at the moment isn't necessarily worth what comes out of it. I think your problem is that you're conceptualizing your critics as proponents of "Big Science". I funded by dissertation with grants that aren't even approaching big science-type grants, but they brought in way more money than most of the projects on experiments.com, and required, combined, four pages worth of proposals.

> Yes, I vehemently believe it's a good thing. If we ever approach the levels of science literacy needed to create the adverse effects you're hinting at, then that would be fantastic. And, not knowing what's worth funding isn't a citizen's fault, that's on the scientist. If scientists were more vocal about their work, new opportunities, and big challenges, then of course the public would be able to identify what's worth funding.

Would they? [Citation Needed]. I'm about as science literate as the average citizen could possibly be expected to be, and as I said, I've got no idea what's worth funding in fields well past my own.

As I've said, I really like the idea of experiments.com. I've considered it in the past. I'll keep an eye on it in the future. But right now, suggesting it as an alternative to traditional funding streams, or even industry funding is, at this point, just not realistic.
Cybernetics is not control theory. Control theory existed some decades before Wiener and Ashby, and continued to develop separately from cybernetics. I am very interested in both fields, though less in modern cybernetics which is mostly philosophy and 'poetry' or something like that.

What I'm asking why this book in particular is relevant today.
I was thinking about the details. We have good enough microscopes already resolution wise but to cut up a brain fine enough and picture it with existing electron microscopes would take ages, probably centuries with current tech so it needs a speed improvement more than anything. Also a 20nm scan could produce an awful lot of data ~ a billion TB which could be an issue even allowing for Moores law. Still there's quite a lot of research money going it to this stuff.
Not for most (or at least many)

Airbnb, Xiaomi and Palantir are probably profitable now. That's 3 out of the first 5, and I suspect that is broardly correct for most if the list.
PIRC and WWF produced an interesting report on this topic a few years ago: http://assets.wwf.org.uk/downloads/think_of_me_as_evil.pdf
That was quite an article. Then I went to read the local newspaper and it was about how a man got charged for taking a naked stroll.

The news gave people what they want, shock and kittens. Blogging rules.
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Some parentes care about education, but a surprising share of parents don't. School privatization experiments show that good schools become a little bit better, but the bad ones become a lot worse because the parents that choose bad schools just don't care.
Depends where the root of the problem lies. Does this story accurately reflect the environment? And if so, is it only this department's chair who's pushing out the innovative professors? Or is the university, at a higher level, pushing out innovative teachers? If the latter then I'd agree with the above, donate elsewhere: administrators are the ones making all the decisions. It's an uphill battle to change that. Giving them money in any form won't help solve this problem. There are plenty of other institutions to support.

On the other hand, there's clearly more to this story, and the school and department should be given a chance to respond before we pass judgment.
umm.. 2.0 is much more than cleanup. The pipeline aggregations are huge (it's already really great for analytics - pipeline aggregation bring it to an entirely new level.) Also the doc_value by default will help many people store much bigger data with less memory without thinking about it (you can do it now yourself but you have to know that you should). It's also has better stored compression options that come with the move the Lucene 5. This is a major release.
Do that the other way around and I think you have the right idea. Make ads only viewable when wearing special glasses.
So it seems that Sticky Password offers a 50% discount in regards to what happened to Lastpass: http://blogen.stickypassword.com/looking-for-an-alternative-...
They already lunched their compression technology for security market under name "senturix"

http://www.senturix.com/
I think it's better to call it a specific American subculture than "nerdy". All kinds of people have that level of obsession with other things like fashion, but they have their own communities that respect them for it.
Seam carving also has lots of other applications. One thing I found it very useful for was separating letters before running OCR on the individual letters. I was writing a web scraper that needed to get past a captcha and it first isolated the letters using "seam finding", and then ran them through a neural network.

So much faster than haar-cascading.
Unfortunately for the author, the numbers simply don't support the narrative she wishes to paint:

> The percentage of women studying computer science actually has fallen since the 1980s. Dr. Cheryan theorizes that this decline might be partly attributable to the rise of pop-culture portrayals of scientists as white or Asian male geeks in movies and TV shows like “Revenge of the Nerds” and “The Big Bang Theory.”

CS degrees took a huge jump from 5,000 per year in 1975 with 18% being women to 39,000 per year in 1985 with 37% being women. Perhaps she should ask what caused that.

I'll tell you what--Punchcards, COBOL and the PDP/Vax. Suddenly everybody put their accounting systems on computers, and you needed people who could program them or feed them data. And that required keyboard skills--which were taught to women because every high school had secretarial classes (typing/shorthand/dictation). And, right around when the decline started happening (1984/1985), those secretarial programs all got wiped out.

Perhaps if we start training women to be secretaries again, we'll fix the CS enrollment problem (CAUTION: I'm being sarcastic here about drawing stupid conclusions that fit your desired narrative).

In addition, if you look at Master's degrees awarded, you find that the percentage of women earning Master's in CS is about 28% and has bounced around that number since 1985 and been around 30% since 2001. The percentage of PhD's going to women in CS has been gradually increasing every year since 1977 or so and stands at 21% in 2010.

These aren't the statistics for a field women are having difficulty entering (take a look at electrical engineering for that ...). The fact that female CS undergraduate percentages crashed in 2005 is a bit concerning (similar downblip in EE--wonder what the issue is), but that should be a local cause that should be discoverable rather than systemic.

References:
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf13327/content.cfm?pub_id=42...
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf13327/pdf/tab33.pdf
This reminded me of my favorite professor who was also "a full-time lecturer".

Just sent him an email and cc'ed my prof. His address it linked from the root domain:

"Alex,
I just read your letter "BLOWING THE WHISTLE ON THE UC BERKELEY MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT" <http://alexandercoward.com/BlowingTheWhistleOnUCBerkeleyMath... linked to from Hacker News <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372181>.

While I've never attended UC Berkeley, nor have we met, I was moved by your letter. It reminded me of one of my favorite professors in college, who was also "a full-time lecturer," as opposed to a professor that split time between research and teaching. The quality of teaching from a professor dedicated entirely on the pursuit of education is unsurpassed. This professor was well known/beloved and also had classes that would fill up quickly. Not sure if there was statistically significant evidence in this case, but wouldn't be surprised at a strong positive correlation between prior students and subsequent class performance.

Anyways, without hearing from the other side of the lecture, what happened to you sounds like some shit. Best of luck in your next pursuit. Good people like you shouldn't have to put up with nonsense bureaucracy like that."
It is a book of some 300 pages, I skimmed it. Doesn't seem true to the promise from the introduction - "to explain control theory without much math". It is also quite long.

For an introduction to control theory, I'd recommend Astrom & Murray, and for use of control theory in studying living beings W.T.Powers.
At the risk of going off on a tangent, I think it's interesting to note that a large segment of moderate feminists would take issue with the essentialist notion that there are masculine and feminine traits.

I think this matters because it's very difficult to make any sort of meaningful progress when people seek to invalidate the experience and opinion of those they claim to represent. This is by no means unique to feminist discourse, but it's particularly evident in this case.

A problem with feminism as it currently stands is that too often it's less about improving the life of women than advancing a sociological ideology.
Sure! Point taken. What do you think it would take for it to work?

By the way the number you want is 860 projects launched. The 5,615 figure is people who've started working on a project but haven't launched. So closer to ~42% success rate.
TL;DR: waterfall is an open-loop system. In order to control it (the direction of your project, its results), you need to have a perfect model of system internals and know the input. Since you know neither, you simply can't control it. Agile is a closed-loop system, it contains a feedback loop, which lets you control the system even if you don't know the internals perfectly (and with human beings, you'll never know).

This is the core insight, though I'm probably skipping things in this description that you know implicitly when you've seen the math. The rest of discussion about agile is either minutiae of tuning the feedback loop for best results, or just marketing talk and bikeshedding.
NASA Offers Licenses of Patented Technologies to Startup Companies
Taiwan-based startup Gogoro re-imagines a cleaner and smarter electric scooter
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10369105
It would be interesting to see the power supply internalized, or externalized with a UPS battery... would probably passthrough/convert, similar to many mITX systems..
THE USB KILLER, VERSION 2.0
When a person dies, particularly at the hand of a police officer, there is a corners report. There are police reports. If the FBI one statistics on the number of police shootings, they should go out and collect that data. It exists. If a police officer shoots someone, or has shot someone in the past 30 years, I think it will say so in a record somewhere. It's not going to say "Jimmy walked out of the liquor store and got shot and now he dead. Case closed."
Though I think most of VanillaSwirls comments are generally confused, there are some biases that show up in this space.
In particular, people rate the intelligibility/clarity of Caucasian speakers higher than that of East Asians even when the audio is the same.[0]

[0]: http://www.academia.edu/6126025/Expectations_on_Speech_Evalu...

Key quote from page 444:
In a typical study in this paradigm, participants listened to 4 minutes of a tape-recorded lecture produced by a native speaker of standard American English. Some participants were lad[sic] to believe that they were listening to a North American NS[native speaker] instructor, whereas others were lead to believe that the instructor was an international NNS[non-native speaker].

[...]

[I]ndeed, listeners who were exposed to the Chinese/NNS guise perceived more of a foreign accent and scored lower on a recall test than those who were exposed to the Caucasian/NS guise even though the audiotape they heard was exactly identical (standard American English).
Trader+vincente:+Borse+Asia+ampliano+rally+ottobre,+dollaro+giù
Certainly that's the case in crowded industries like personal electronics manufacturing, but there's plenty of room for companies with new technologies or new markets (e.g. DJI with drones or Magic Leap with VR Tech)
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You're fooling yourself (or someone is fooling you). The small numbers just don't make sense. $1k-10k is such a miniscule portion of the total cost of even a grad student+. No PI with even the vaguest hint of a conscience is using uncertain 1k-10k increments as anything other than purely supplementary funding; if one project doesn't work out your student is done. In fact, I doubt that most universities would even let a professor take on/keep a student with that sort of funding scheme. And it certainly wouldn't be enough for a tenure case.

You do realize that the average CS professor in the US spends many thousands of dollars per year, just on conference travel, just for themselves, right? $5k or even $10k for a side project really isn't substantive.

+ which in the sciences is usually in the mid five to low six figure range, before the cost of lab materials, travel, etc.
The first sentence of the article is a claim without any substance and the rest on the article builds on it.

Regarding "gender diversity", I know for sure that construction, road works, automechanic, welding, mining and many other fields have "overrepresented men problem", while teacher, nurse have "overrepresented women" problem, so why focus on technology sector which is pretty good compared to those?

The answer is simple - personal monetary gain. Women see technology sector rise in terms of wages during recent years, and feminism, a.k.a "women labor union", are using their influence to gain unfair advantages for women in that particular profitable spot.

They have already reached quite good results in divorce and alimony laws, so we can't underestimate them now. This trend that puts women (and in some cases minorities) in front of others have to be killed once and for all.

Can someone from US write their senators to create a law that forbids any kind of discrimination or PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT based on gender and race? That law would be enough to basically kill feminism in terms of legal rights at least.
Old-school dictatorships were so brash and clumsy the way they punished dissent with firing squads and trips to the gulag.

It's just as effective to punish dissent by slowly but surely ruining the life of those who express dissenting opinions. That way, instead of making dissenters into martyrs, you just make them look like losers.

Very clever, China.
Why the Internet of Things Sucks
Let's not lose sight of who James Hamilton is :

From his Linkedin :

VP & Distinguished Engineer

Amazon.com

December 2008 – Present (6 years 11 months)

A member of the Amazon Web Services team. Specializes in infrastructure efficiency, reliability and scaling. Prior to joining Amazon.com, James was Microsoft Data Center Futures Architect. He has spent more than 20 years working on high-scale services, database management systems, and compilers.

And a couple of biographies :

http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/1/12/the-stunning-scale...

http://www.wired.com/2013/02/james-hamilton-amazon/
Is there any other kind of soul? It sounds like kr4 is arguing for consciousness as a higher order emergent phenomenon separate from (but built atop) thoughts.
Google makes money. Samsung makes money. Xiaomi makes money. I'm sure others do too, even if it's less than Apple.

The fact some companies don't make money is meaningless. Is it Microsoft's fault if an OEM goes out of business?

And the innovation thing goes both ways. Yes Apple popularized a form factor, but remember there still was BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Maemo, etc..., before iOS.

And every new feature on iOS 9's launch page is more or less taken from Android, some features being several years old.

Thinking about technology that developers use, very little comes from Apple. They contribute, but no one is launching their startup on OSX servers. No one is coding the next search engine in Objective C or Swift. Apple products are a shiny computer that hosts apps.

The point of the article is that Apple has an unassailable position. That's what a lot of people thought about Volkswagen a year ago. What they thought of Microsoft a decade ago. Also what we think of Google today... The point is, Apple does nothing so special that they can't be beaten.
My experience:

- uncaught exception should terminate the process... but

- cluster.js allows restating failed processes easily

- and you whole cluster should be restarted if it dies (we use upstart's respawn)

- uncaught exceptions should be real exceptional situations and bugs only, never applicative exceptions (it would be a bug)

- have the cluster master send your team an email as soon as a process dies, to maintain awareness (we use Slack notification + email)

- kill bugs, aim for 0 failures. Invalid parameters should never kill your app. An unreachable DB could, because reconnecting can be difficult, and may not succeed

With this:

- when unexpected failure happens (bugs mostly), you know it didn't kill your whole app (a single process dies)

- your cluster could loop trying to restart the app with repeated failures, and it could work and restore your app. If it doesn't, you'll be flooded in emails and you'll be aware of the gravity of the problem. Networking problems are often solved this way in a few seconds

- you will kill bugs, because of the awareness factor of emails

- and you'll have an incentive to keep your app startup time low

That's how we do it.
How come Valve isn't on the list?
In 10 years, I'll be a 50yo graybeard, and definitely not concerned about writing any such op-ed.
Apparently there is now aa student protest in his support on Tuesday... So he certainly is playing his politics well.
Charles Stross commented on these reports, http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/10/it-could...

"The gamification of social conformity, overseen by an authoritarian government and mediated by nudge theory, is a thing of beauty and horror; who needs cops with nightsticks to beat up dissidents when their friends and family will give them a tongue-lashing on behalf of the government for the price of a discount off a new fridge? ... You can see your score in real time, get helpful tips on what to do (or not to do) to grind for points, and if you're thinking about doing something a bit naughty a handy app will give you a chance to exercise second thoughts and erase your sin before it is recorded."

A 2014 Chinese planning document for the credit system, https://chinacopyrightandmedia.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/plan... said, "... its inherent requirements are establishing the idea of an sincerity culture, and carrying forward sincerity and traditional virtues."

In the 1970s, Chile tried cybernetics at a national scale, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machin...

"At the center of Project Cybersyn (for “cybernetics synergy”) was the Operations Room, where cybernetically sound decisions about the economy were to be made ... One wall was reserved for Project Cyberfolk, an ambitious effort to track the real-time happiness of the entire Chilean nation in response to decisions made in the op room. Beer built a device that would enable the country’s citizens, from their living rooms, to move a pointer on a voltmeter-like dial that indicated moods ranging from extreme unhappiness to complete bliss."
I didn't say it wasn't a major release.

As I understand it, pipeline aggregations aren't strictly necessary -- you could do it client-side, so it's more of a convenience and optimization. Doc values are another optimization. This release is full of optimizations, cleanups and various low-visibility stuff of this kind. Few actual new features.
My area (Atlanta) is a very hot market. I found my house on Cinco de Mayo, emailed my agent, and we were looking at it that afternoon. By 9 AM the next morning the owners had accepted our offer. The house had not been on the market 24 hours. If I had not jumped on that house the moment it hit The MLS system, I would not be sitting in the backyard enjoying it right now. :-)
> I know for sure that construction, road works, automechanic, welding, mining and many other fields have "overrepresented men problem", while teacher, nurse have "overrepresented women" problem,

Each of those have industry and education groups dedicated to changing the disparity.
' I take aderall (40mg) daily, slightly more recently' paranoia is a frequent side effect from amphetamines, which is what adderall is. It's very easy to slip on it and you state yourself that you are taking more than your prescribed dose. I'd recommend getting off this junk as soon as possible, I've watched the side effects first hand. You're not crazy (most likely, based on the evidence so far). If you must take a stimulant, have you talked to your doc about modafinil instead? Please, be aware of the impact a psychostimulant has on your reasoning - it's easy to convince yourself it's not the problem. I wish you well and also please make sure to sleep properly and don't take any late in the day, sleep deprivation leads to paranoia as well.
I'm on a long train ride without headphones. would you be so kind as to summarize the argument from your video?
Ok with generators then...

I'm sure some people will look at this and think that it's summing all of the numbers over 10 in xs:

sum(x > 10 for x in xs)

Whereas with this, which is explicit, it's substantially less likely they'll think that:

sum(1 for x in xs if x > 10)

Again, I don't see the point of maintaining the weakened type system for a few minor 'clever' barely-short cuts like this. Look at what that kind of thinking did to perl.

If python started throwing exceptions on all the code that treated True and False as integers, I'm pretty sure all the fixes done to accommodate that would probably make the code cleaner and easier to understand.
I suspect there is a tipping point, but that it's probably much lower than you suggest: maybe 10-25% of a single core, thus some single digit percentage of the entire processor.

Modern Intel processors can shut down unneeded cores almost completely, and frequency scaling gives you another range of efficient power reduction. It's only when you get lower than that that you are losing significant power at 'idle'.

Unlike a small battery powered device, I'd guess that the difference in idle power for the CPU is never going to be the deciding factor, as keeping the non-CPU rest-of-the-machine running will dwarf the difference. What workload would you envision as having the greatest advantage? Maybe if you were running a single instance per dedicated core?