skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not my repo, so all creds go to the author: https://github.com/1j01/

But to reply to your question,
what really amazed me a year a go was this demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKPYx4CEIlM

After watching that, I feel in love with all the possibilities that comes with interactions one can do with anything that is represented in a virtual 3D environment.

So instead of learning Three.js, I started to work with Unity since they are multi-platform and have UnityScript which is a lot similar to Javascript. Due to my background as a web developer, it was a very comfortable transition.
The brain needs glucose to function not sugar, which is one glucose and one fructose.
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Random! I don't remember the details, but we spent a good half hour looking up probabilities and marvelling at it. I think at the time nobody realized just how unlikely it was, should have saved the inputs :(
I assumed for the first half it was going to turn out to be a psych experiment (and there were several other compsci students getting similar "contracts") -- especially as the hurdles he was jumping were clearly intentionally set up.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10598065 (301 points, 1 day ago, 210 comments)
But it is bad for Westerners. The construction boom drives up the cost of steel and concrete for everyone, for example in San Francisco increasing the cost of material for the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge by 18% in a single year.[0]

China's construction boom has been contributing to China's ability to buy Western debt and Western products, so when it all comes crashing down, it will be bad for your lifestyle.

Also, it significantly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions.

We all pay the cost of China's construction boom, so it's rather disappointing when it isn't used for anything.

[0]http://www.citylab.com/politics/2015/10/from-250-million-to-...
I agree so much. Starbucks and co are definitely not what I would consider coffee shops. I drink coffee because it has an effect on me (as well as a delicious taste, no caramel syrup required), and I can feel its effect very quickly. Starbucks coffees have the same effect on me as eating sweets; no wake-up effect, just a guaranteed sugar crash in a few hours. I was never a fan but I avoid it completely these days.
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Comcast has a history of being a video streaming/television company. The want to be a television company. The problem is, their customers don't want them to be a television company, they want them to be a utility: simple, reliable and commoditized, like electricity and water. They have the natural monopoly (wires and rights of way) that makes a utility, and internet access is a utility in the same way electricity is. But video streaming is naturally competitive and the only way they can have an advantage there is by sabotaging their utility side.
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I dislike Comcast as much as the next guy, but how is this any different from the On Demand services they've been offering? Because you can use it on tablets and laptops? What if they added functionality to their cable boxes that allowed them to stream the video to devices over the home network? Wouldn't that be the same thing from the consumers point of view? It seems like the issue isn't as obvious as it appears...
As another Android user, this looks beautiful. Love that you focused on highlights/notes portability -and Goodreads integration to boot- but kept the UI so clean and minimal. Makes me miss iOS again. I would pay 2x as much for this on Android. Well done!
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Build from source is the only option here for 2.8.16 I guess? No pre-built binaries yet.
Try watching "The Best of Youth" (La meglio gioventù), it is fantastic.
>So it's not all black & white like you're making it out to be.

I'm not saying it's black and white. More of a greyish fractal, however, what is free will?

This is roughly what I've come to believe on free will:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will#Free_will_as_a_pragm...

No one can deny we 'make' choices based on the way we think, feel and the environment we are in. And the way we think and feel is determined partly by environment, but mostly by genetics. You can look this up. 2 pairs of Colombian identical twins got mixed up. One set grew up in practically medieval lifestyle in a rural province, the other was raised in the capital. Despite completely different environment, their personalities were remarkably similar. From adoption studies, we know that something similar is the case for intelligence.
I've used it for sensor fusion projects, using multiple smartphones as sensing devices all connected back to a main PC.
Yes it is more work. 10 times the work seems high though.

Keep in mind the cost of producing and transporting and selling herbicide when considering total "energy consumption". Not to mention in some cases removing it from the water table later.

Driving a spray tank also compacts the soil. But you do probably more trips when cultivating over spraying. Drainage problems depending on soil type.

You are right on one thing though... there are no simple solution. Appreciate the comment.
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Not just abroad. In the latest decades the cultural production of Italy has been, on average, rather embarrassing. As an Italian, I have developed an easy heuristic: if it is an Italian title (either book, song or movie, whatever) it is likely to be bad. Exceptions exist, but they are rare. It is true that what gets exported from a country is usually the best, so one probably encounters the local bad and the foreign best, but cultural production of Italy certainly was better once. It is as if my country has suffered some kind of creative collapse.
The language cannot force it but can encourage it. Having to make the choice between private and public is worthwhile I think.

> being able to do dir(lib) and see the namespace that is in use is a good thing.

It is, but it is most useful when what you get a curated list of members (__all__) intended to be public.
I'll take the other side: I think it's almost always better to link to studies rather than to secondary sources reporting on them. I haven't looked closely at the study or the Vox article yet, but my experience has been that there's a major mismatch between study and the commentary more than half the time and it's always the study that's closer to truth.
If uncle Hitler has taught me anything, it's that people who aren't blond-eyed blue-haired Aryans are dirty non-European foreigners! /s
Announced on: https://blog.twitter.com/2015/hard-decisions-for-a-sustainab...

And went live this weekend. Surprised it didn't make any headlines.
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I have a friend working in Japan who tells me his coworkers spend a lot of time just sleeping at work. It doesn't seem to be frowned upon. Apparently they are extremely inefficient, doing long hours, sleeping little and suffering from it during the day at work.
At this point, androids kernel is really just a fork of Linux that's wildly more popular. I'm not sure why they need to abide by anything unless they want to.
It's definitely an interesting experiment. The conventional wisdom has been that governments cannot respond correctly and efficiently to economic demand. And, I think that's the real reason why most westerners raise an eyebrow.

In some situations, it does seem to make sense for governments to step in and alter market forces. You see this in the U.S. in cases where there are inherent monopolistic factors, or when capital requirements are extreme, or risks are too high, or when market actors cannot coordinate quickly enough. But, who knows, maybe it will work out in China's favor.

Personally, as an outsider, it seems really crazy what they're doing. I wouldn't want the government influencing where or how I should live. And, the scale of what they're doing is causing ripples in the rest of the economy.
"A remake of the Windows pipes screensaver (sspipes32.scr) with Three.js

Includes Utah Teapots and candy cane!"
That adds another twist :-) I just thought it would be amusing to think about different metrics and human perception. In the metric of keystrokes needed the encrypted file is closer to Bob, whereas in the metric of time needed the empty file might be closer. Human perception intuitively thinks the encrypted file is closer, but it might be wrong.
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It just came in as a total surprise for me (and I guess for Mashable too, although they did write something about it: http://mashable.com/2015/09/23/twitter-share-counts/)
You mean if you have the file you need less information to retrieve Bob than if you don't have the file? That's certainly a valid way of looking at it.
We had one while I was a kid. It was pretty great, actually. We may have actually had two (an upgrade) now that I think about it. The funniest part was that it was a two-sided format, so you had to "flip" the movie over at parts. It got to the point where you knew the breakpoint was and instinctively starting walking to it just before the flip point. Longer movies took multiple cassettes.

For a kid, it was pretty easy to use.

Another great thing was the large crates required to store your collection. It was very satisfying to try to find your movie.
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Wow, this is pretty cool! I think more and more people will start to use atom as more projects like this start to come about.
How does OpenStack stack up in this regard? A step in the right direction?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStack
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Related C3 presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktnQ7nBCuqU

I think that's the one where "The US sattelite activates its thrusters, moves close to a sattelite used by most of the Middle East for communications.. it sits there for (N time), then moves away".

The sattelite wars have already begun.
Does Slackware have notable practical applications?
That is a lot of coffee!
The ISS is also a big lie. They shoot spacewalks underwater here on Earth. There are many videos showing water bubbles floating around while the astronauts do these supposed "spacewalks".

Also, why hasn't anyone asked NASA how they send better-than-HD images from Mars over 140 million km? There is all kinds of serious space radiation between here and Mars. What error-correction do they use? What protocol? Shouldn't we know this? And don't give me any "national security" BS excuse.
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not downvoting you, but searchengineland is actually a very good/reputable site. It is very believable that the original submitter found this out through them. (IE: this isn't spam)
* Kubernetes is not written in Java

* There is no one size fit all, just like never ending Ruby vs JavaScript VS Java.

* Kubernetes just hit v1.0 not long ago.

* Seem like you already wrote the functionality you want, now what is the problem?
Ok. I thought so because you mentioned wireless keyboards transmit less data than a video signal..
178 gallons per person per day is a huge amount! That's 673 litres, which is well over four times the average water consumption in the UK. http://www.waterwise.org.uk/data/resources/25/Water_factshee...
Twitter announced it about 7 weeks ago, here is my post on background and links to their announcements http://buzzsumo.com/blog/twitter-share-counts-in-your-browse...
It's anti-competitive to use one business to over-subsidize another to get market share. Bundling IE, anti-competitive. Dropping the price below cost in a town that's getting fiber from someone else, anti-competitive.

Comcast improving price or speed or caps over their entire network is what everyone wants.

And if the caps had anything to do with infrastructure costs, they should be doubling every year or two. Instead we're up from 250GB in 2008 to 300GB in 2015.
Transcript of a Donald Knuth interview (2006)
I agree with the author that writing your own snowflake PaaS is a mistake. I work at Pivotal on the fringes of CloudFoundry; OpenShift Origin is a competing system. Either way, you should be using a full PaaS instead of rolling your own.

But this is the bit that surprises me:

They get you hooked for free and the next level
is $1,496 per month… wtf! MongoLabs is little
better.

$1500 per month, versus weeks of engineering time spent tinkering with and upgrading and bug-fixing and trouble-shooting and security-patching a hand-made solution is a fantastic bargain.

Supposing the author was running on Pivotal Web Services. It would've taken less time to add a MongoLab service (about 2 minutes, 3 if you include a re-stage) than to perform the CloudFormation calculation (say, half an hour, resulting in no running software).

PaaSes like Heroku, Cloud Foundry and OpenShift are feature-complete for the cases that application engineers and operators care about. If you roll your own you're directing effort to something that doesn't provide user value.

If I walked in on someone at a regular dev company rolling their own operating system for a web service, I'd be surprised. Writing their own programming language? I'd be skeptical. Oh you built a new HTTP server? Why? Outside of a research environment, why are you doing that?

And so it is with PaaSes. The marker was passed years ago. We don't need to go on these spiritual quests any more.

Disclaimer: I work for Pivotal, which donates the majority of engineering effort on Cloud Foundry. I'm actually in Pivotal Labs, the agile consulting division, which is where I morphed into a lay preacher for just-using-a-PaaS-dammit.
This is remarkable. How long did it take you to finalize the project ?
An important thing about the Amiga demo scene was that those constraints were also the edge of what was possible in home computing. So they were approached in a different spirit from say, someone writing a 64k demo on a pc with 8gigs of ram, or running demo effects in the browser.

When I watched demos in the Amiga days it was because I wanted to see something new that had never been done on a computer before. Seeing a great demo effect was like discovering a new superpower in your computer; it opened up new possibilities.

Being on the limit of what is believed to be possible is, I suppose, formally the same as being within a constraint, but the spirit is completely different. It was about pushing back boundaries.

Over the edge of that boundary, there was nothing, just mythical SGI workstations somewhere in the far distance :)
Matt, a bug report - http://imgur.com/QMDeGvr

Note where the charge indicator is at.
Eric Hameleers is a awesome. As a Slackware user his blogs and tips have been helping me for years.

"we are well equipped to keep systemd out of our distro for a while" Win!

This certainly isn't the first live Slackware though. Slax is how I first came to really experiment with Linux internals. It was a cool little tiny distro on a live USB. I was able to take stuff apart and build my own kernel etc without borking my real machine. I made several derivatives and even re-wrote the "live scripts" when the author took a hiatus around 2010. I learned so much from Slax.
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I use Das Keyboard professionals, the ones with labels on the keys. I have one on my Linux system and one for my Mac. I have nerve damage from cervical spine surgery that makes many of my fingers numb to varying degrees. My typing accuracy is much higher on a mechanical keyboard with both tactile and audio feedback. I also got work to buy me the version with Cherry Brown keys, which are a little more quiet.
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1. Thinkpad X201.

2. Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000.

Symmetrical Alt & Ctrl [or X- & M-] are a requirement. Xah Lee's Keyboard info is invaluable... http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboarding.html
can any experts explain the difference with their low end $350 model?

http://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=13860

I have no clue what I am looking at in difference other than the $350 one is open metal frame and the $400 looks like a wooden box. The $400 one was recently $500 so I assume it is a better value?
A short discussion about these on HN a month or so ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10364797
That's great!

We had an HP server that was _randomly_ losing network connection with the virtual machines hosted on it!

Couldn't ping them, nothing, but you could log on through the hypervisor. If you rebooted the VM it'd be fine for a week to two weeks.

This server was pretty new from HP.

After some research, calling HP and MS, it was determined that it was a setting on the NIC that was causing the problem!

There's a KB on it now on MS's site.
I agree with your assertion that R is slow, yet quick to develop in.

I recently had to loop through 1.3Gb of data (5000 files) and merge just one column from each file into a new dataset. It did so in ~2 hours. Yet the loop was just ~5 lines of code.
The author is correct. We should be running stateful containers, but until the the software is ready the default advice quite rightly should be not to unless you understand the implications.

For example we run ceph and use it in kubernetes. We obviously only run replica sets (the kubernetes feature, for those uninitiated) of 1 for these services. There's also some rough edges with locking for dead nodes, but it's definitely good enough for running the likes of Jira or Gitlab have single points of failure pretty much whatever way you scale them (unless you build a HA nfs server first).

Before that, we were running test clusters with just fleet, using custom bash and etcd for service discovery. Works fine, but you're probably better off with frameworks.

Now where things can go horribly wrong is you decide to use a clustered database, run it in kubernetes, thinking it's fine since you can't mount external storage for replica's but you have 3 nodes over 3 zones and you have backups. Kubernetes will quite happily schedule all of your replica's on the same host, meaning a single reboot and you're dead. There are hacks around this such as defining a hostPort, but of course if someone updates the RC you could happily be restoring to backup. You could run two multiple replica controllers to get around this and that'll allow you to mount storage again but that takes a way a lot of the elegance of the framework.

Point is, you can do it, but you'll need a bunch of uglyness and you'll need to be careful. If that doesn't sound great, way until the software properly supports it. :)
About 2 paragraphs in, I was thinking, "Tell me this is not a story about someone who spent weeks figuring out that his compiler had been compromised."

Ah, well. The legends of self-modifying compilers are old at this point: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomps...
> $1500 per month, versus weeks of engineering time spent tinkering with and upgrading and bug-fixing and trouble-shooting and security-patching a hand-made solution is a fantastic bargain.

That's only true if you look at it from the point of view of an enterprise, a startup with VC funding, or generally a "rich" company. If you're a cash-strapped startup/small business with only a few thousand dollars profit per month, $1500/mo is a huge deal.
it's a nice linux distribution. The packages are usually very stable and well tested. It does the job on the desktop and on the server.

In that sense it is practical, not sure if "notable" as there are many other more popular distributions these days.
Yeah saying that there is bacteria on something is pretty meaningless. Bacteria are everywhere. It's what type of bacteria that makes the difference
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There is a nice book by Brett Lantz called Machine Learning. The first edition (which I have) built machine learners in R, I assume the new second edition does the same.
I thought the solution to this would be simple. Shouldn't we just price water on an exponential scale. I.e. normally water costs $X/gallon, and under some threshold, that price is constant. However, once you exceed that threshold, the price PER GALLON increases at an exponential rate.

If the wealthy want 5 pools + water slide, great! They pay a hefty sum and that money gets plowed into better water infrastructure.

It would have 1 of 2 effects, the super rich end up using less water (which we want) or they pay HUGE amounts of money that get plowed back into the community. If water is that scarce, this seems reasonable.

Why wouldn't this work? We'd have to get some laws passed or we need the 411 different water districts would have to enforce this uniformly?
Management will inevitably and naturally gravitate towards full supporting v1 and only maybe half support v2.

Initially v1 is better because it is here and it works.

Later on, when v1 becomes a bigger mess with just a few critical additions, v2 will be worse because: v1 was supposed to have the faster development rate, right? Now we can't afford v2.

Management's initial love for v1's speed of delivery will make it impossible for v2 to actually deliver anything useful (with comparison to v1's current feature set.)

I find this v1/v2 idea ridiculous. I also find the idea of v1 programmers vs v2 programmers too apologetic. There are cowboy coders who write spaghetti code and are damaging to well functioning teams. And then there are real professionals with varying degrees of meticulousness. But real pros always end up defending and building v2 software.

That doesn't mean spike experiments and prototypes are bad. It is just that you don't present them to a management who's likely to try to promote them to production status. Good management would recognize prototypes as prototypes and demand production quality code for production.

I guess my point is; there are no v1 or v2 programmers, there are v1 or v2 companies/managers.

Fire Mary. Communicate reasonable constraints with Melissa and stay out of her way. She doesn't need your mentoring.
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I can think of many applications of data. For example can to improve the learning rate of MOOCs, how to teach effectively, how to detect great performers (for example for hiring), how to meet the kind of people able to inspire others (analyzing cliques in graph of social relations), how to get feedback, how to get a first impression of what products are the market demanding and how much are they going to pay for it, and many others. A gold mine for those that can extract the real value and significance of data, that is data analysts.
I'm a little at odds on this--for production quality analyses, (and only for analyses) R is excellent.

However, in my experience, for the data munging required as a preliminary to the analyses, R is worse than bad. It's as if satan himself designed a language.

I find that what then happens is this: data scientists/statisticians/[your favorite word here] become reliant on programmers to clean/format the data to do the analyses.

This is all fine, but those same scientists are then put off learning python, where they could do all of their own munging, and probably 95% of the analysis they need to do, and where they could further add value by writing programs that are easier to production-alize.

Job security for those who know how to write production code, I guess.
Somebody should tell these guys about hbar.

Just kidding, it is interesting that this series showed up in QM. Terrible article title though...
I'm the organizer of the Dallas R Users Group. I've compiled a list of helpful resources for beginners.

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