skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing in that article that the layman can use to predict anything, i.e., the reader will not be able to answer any questions afterwards that aren't directly addressed in the original article. That's a sign that those sorts of explanations give the feeling of understanding, but don't actually impart knowledge.

If someone writes "there's a war in Syria", then the reader can accurately predict that there will be an above-average number of bombed out buildings, and probably lots of refugees on the border. But if someone writes "Rabi oscillations are when very tiny things flip back and forth", there are no non-trivial questions the reader can answer. The reason is that the reader knows roughly what "war" is and what a country is and that "Syria" is a country. But when you tell them tiny things are flipping...all they know is that tiny things are flipping. (Ask "do you think you can catch the tiny thing on it's edge part way through it's flip?" Or "Do the tiny things flip faster or slower than sound waves?" The reader will have no idea.)

In other words, "Energy makes it go!": http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm
Haskell Game Server – Part 2
You can tell from identity politics in the brackets who is people and who isn't people. Why not just say what you mean?
No that's not really what it does. You can edit code separately from the REPL(which is also directly available), view plots, examine some data objects, view help/command history/etc. Essentially it's like an IDE for the R language, it doesn't turn R into like an SPSS GUI type interface.

Edit: the closest thing I can think of in RStudio to that is installing the manipulate package which allows adding sliders and such to plots for some custom plotting controls.
> Scripture or not, followers of Judaism surely must have some common beliefs which can be articulated and examined.

Articulated -- definitely. Examined? I don't see how. How do you examine the belief that one should not light a fire on the Sabbath or that one should eat matzo on the first day of Passover? Jewish "belief" is simply accepting the obligation to follow a long set of rules. Prominent Jewish philosophers explicitly say that those rules have no purpose or consequence (though others disagree).
Agreed. Jeff Atwood's not a bad guy, but the way he acts like he's going to lead web forums to the promised land with Discourse is really grating, particularly when all he's really doing is making them more obnoxious to use.

I guess I could make a Slack/IRC comparison, but maybe I don't need to go there.
But CSS animations are...rough currently, not standardized, and don't have about a decade worth's of knowledge behind them. I can sure make a element fade in on a webpage with CSS, but there's already a billion ways to do it in JQuery on StackOverflow, so it's a lot more appealing to use Javascript at first.
They dont see too bad when I was with them but interestng read
Interesting. I was on a Lufthansa flight last week and they had a call asking for a doctor/emt/paramedic on the PA, however the flight was not diverted. I'm not sure what happened. This was on an 11 hour SFO-FRA flight.
@Guilhermeperfeicao
When refinancing houses, I always performed detailed analyses. With a good model, you can compare every deal offered. The key input is your expected life of the loan. You'd pay very high fees for an interest rate reduction if you really thought you'd keep a loan 30 years. But that is not very realistic.

I found, remarkably to me at the time, that at a single particular loan life, the APRs of a single lender all converged very accurately to a single interest rate. This told me two things: 1. Choosing a realistic loan life was key. 2. Many of the choices (points + fees vs. interest rate), were for most people illusory offerings to give the illusion of choice.
If you want to get a bit more general:

- lm can fit linear models

- anova can be used to compare nested linear models -- is the more complex model significantly better?

At this level you start to see a real language of statistics, as opposed to canned routines.

Julian Faraway has some great books:

http://people.bath.ac.uk/jjf23/
No such thing. You can game any metric.
> But it shouldn't really be an issue because of progressive image loading. At the very least, the text should always load first. Back when I had dialup, it could take ages for a page to load completely because of the images. You could watch them slowly fill in, line by line. And if you didn't care about them, you could ignore them.

I remember the dial-up days too. You could only read the text around the images while waiting for the images to load.

Now we sort of have the opposite problem when pages use huge unnecessary web fonts; you can only look at the images while waiting for the font to load so the browser can render the text.

(I found sending fonts.googleapis.com to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file helped a lot in that regard. Wish my browser had an option to block all fonts, though.)

FLIF looks like cool tech, but I won't hold my breath until it has wide browser support.
> I think it is because people ... get bonuses and paychecks for creating stuff more than tearing down stuff. ... You'd produce a better perception by claiming you added / created / built, rather than deleted.

It's not about creating vs. removing "stuff". It's about value and advancing business objectives.

That's to say that your citation doesn't carry weak perception b/c it mentions removing stuff, but rather b/c it fails to mention the value that created. A better way of wording it might be something like:

"improved [site performance, or dev efficiency, or something else] by XYZ% by removing low-use features, without sacrificing revenue or customer satisfaction."

... b/c simply removing features (regardless of LOC) used by 10% of a user base, in and of itself, doesn't offer any justification or value. I'm not saying it can't, just that I'd be concerned if that happened without strong rationale and a measurable net positive.

And the same goes for adding or building stuff. E.g. If you wrote a project management system at your previous job, focus on citing the number of hours or projects it tracked, or how it reduced the number of meetings required. The fact that you "built" it isn't as interesting as the value it created for the team/company.

So if positive perception is what you're after, focus on presenting measured value. Then, whether it was created by adding or removing is a non-issue.
Rokham, please accept my best wishes for you for this new year. May you get enormous success this year and achieve wonderful thing.

This article of yours is the first article that I read this year and it is really wonderful. You are right here:
>The only reason behind having a life-long vision is how deep a purpose runs in you.

However, I believe you are slightly wrong where you are saying that the guy should think about long term regarding his new partner. He is sort of rosy about her.

Why I am saying so is because relationships are kind of tricky. And thinking about too long term can kill that.
Nope. I was here first. You are a suit and this place is run by suits. A man is dead because a fucking PC techno-fascist censored a thread when a hacker desperately needed his community.
I try very hard to avoid any collective identity for myself, even to the extent where a lot of people would say "I am a [verb]er," I consciously prefer "I [verb]."

The collective identity mindset opens people up to manipulation, guilt by association, and undeserved praise by association (which sounds nice but can lead to poor decisions based on a distorted sense of self). Any benefits are comparatively small. You can still go [verb] with the [verb]ers without merging your identity and worldview with theirs.
My only concern about this is that a lot of the technologies identified as "adtech" on that diagram just... aren't:

* Vimeo

* Hootsuite

* LinkedIn

* UserTesting.com

Marketing != advertising. The overall point is really valid, but this is a dumb way to back it up.

It's bad enough to just take the ad-serving parts of the diagram he uses, which add up to hundreds of technologies (or use Ghostery on any news site).
If the company goes bankrupt, though, can't a bankruptcy trustee go after the employee to try to collect on that loan?
This would seem to me to be a good reason to not have designers on staff that outweigh the needs of product development. If your designers are looking for change for the sake of change, you may have too many designers. I think Silicon Valley has gone a bit overboard on designers in recent years.

Google has a "VP of Design" now, and the one commonality of his tenure has been massively increased page load times, and buttons moving to different places regularly for no apparent reason.
Ian Murdock, father of Debian, dead at 42
Pretty much, the basic HTML version of Gmail they strongly advise you against using is closer to the Gmail I want than the Gmail that they push by default.

Heck, that goes for most of Google. Look at this beauty: https://www.google.com/?noj=1&gws_rd=ssl Why is this not still the default google.com?
What it’s like to house-hunt in Silicon Valley
Here's to a sweet sixteen ;)
Beacon Technology
- There's a batch insert interface but N connections are established to insert N records... if one of the inserts fails, the behavior of the other inserts is not guaranteed

Whoa, that is bad. If you don't understand what a transaction is, you have no business writing a database library.
A lot of times, that's just more effort than I want to deal with. I have Privacy Badger on a PC or two, and have reported things broken... probably a dozen times because I forgot I was on a computer with it enabled.

We shouldn't try to fix badly bloated websites. We should RIDICULE badly bloated websites, and take our business elsewhere.
Yup, I'm sure the countermeasures you can think of in the time required to write an HN post will be secure against technically-advanced nations' militaries.
No, the non-recourse note is collateralized with the stock.
Yes, but the US is widely regarded as a, if not the?, leader in higher education. So if you're keen on understanding the intellectual currents of education in your piece of the world, it's wise to keep abreast of the currents in the US: they will show up in your fine part of the world in time. I'd guess in these days, the time between 'major American idea' and 'hits the rest of the world' is under a year, if not under a month.

I am not sure how distant the third and fourth tier Canadian schools are from the US paradigm, or how independent they feel. I'd guess they follow the lead of American universities pretty closely.

I am super comfortable saying that many UK academics have been lamenting the same thing for the past decade and more; I used to belong to an online academic community with many UK members (also in the Classics) in the 2004-2008 timeframe where the song was being sung with a different verse (but same chorus). If the UK and the US are singing a song; Canada, Australia, and the rest of the English speaking world aren't going to be far behind.

Particularly in the Anglophone world (I can't speak to the others, I am sorry), ideas are shared very fast, and often the US is granted leadership, whether it should be or not. Having been deeply involved in the US university system, I would regard a great deal of the modern innovations in the universities to be a tremendous waste of non-intellectual effort, in many cases for the purposes of boosting the support staff (Gotta embiggen the headcount kingdom) or for comforting the tender feelings of immature children.

I don't mean to lay all the blame on the universities; and none of the blame should lay on the student's shoulders; those who are older and have the reins of power have driven the cart to the ditch. That the load of the cart fell in is not the fault of the load, but the driver. A great deal of blame sits squarely on the United States electorate's shoulders; a non-trivial portion sits on the k-12 policymaker's shoulders; and the rest of it can be shuffled off to the flow of history, parents, the media, and the usual human condition.
Standard 4 year vest. Vesting doesn't really change.
Perth man lodges complaint after copping massive Uber bill on New Year’s Eve
Or you know, you could just hire developers who know more than one programming language.
They were DDoSing HTTP amongst other services, so, yeah, there was a response via the websites being hosted. That's where the overages came from.
Right, and my point is that options aren't the only thing possible.
Well, when I write PHP/MySQL apps without all the plugins and libraries and crud, everything it sends to browsers is pure HTML. Manipulating the output can be done with server side code. It's just not as flashy and shiny.
"I have often thought that the technology of the TV game-show should be adapted to
the lecture theatre. Each seat would have a concealed button which the auditors could
press when they wanted the lecturer to slow down. "

Is there a mobile app that can do that easily?
RoboVM might have been an option, in that case.

Not ideal, but perhaps workable.
I'd certainly consider a "major loss" of your customer data, not just once mind you, and on top of that admitting to having an "unstable" product certainly very "problem riddled" for a data analytics company that people put their trust into. Those are MAJOR issues that should not happen if you really cared about your work and were't so ready to give up at a moment's notice as this reads.

I understand YOU may not have a problem taking a risk that the owner may just decide to "give themselves permission" to walk away at any time as if it were nothing, but do you work for a large enterprise looking to dedicate lots of money and effort into a platform like this? If I were, I'd definitely be heading to their competitors right now after reading something like this. If I were a competitor, I'd be marketing to this and headhunting their best talent using this to demonstrate how easily it could all fold up on them at any time.

There are many others, especially current customers and even employees, that would almost certainly interpret this company's blog post as very disconcerting at the very least. Mostly because of the ease with which the owner seems to be able to just give up, walk away and accept complete failure along with rationalizing their selling of a self-admitted "unstable" product and justifying the "major" loss of customer data by saying they "give themselves permission" for these things to happen, apparently quite regularly.

Using their own words, not mine, it seems to fit that "problem riddled" description quite well.
Hiking Minimum Wage an Inefficient Tool to Fight Poverty: Fed Research
I've found Google's Pagespeed Insights[0] to be a great resource for keeping obese sites in check. Their site will give you stats on load time as well as instructions on how to optimize that time, which is very important especially on a user's first visit -- e.g., I will bounce from a new site in X seconds, but may give an established site (think Amazon) X + Y second time to load.
It's easy to miss how important page load is when you've been working on a site a bunch, but every extra second of load time has been show to impact sites' bottom lines [1].

0 - https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
1 - http://www.fastcompany.com/1825005/how-one-second-could-cost...
How does shaving keep Marines moving forward?
For pruning your CSS: http://stackoverflow.com/a/3113120
It is extra-frustrating as titles are written for audiences: this title, in the context of Scott's blog, is amazing. This is an awesome title for someone who is looking through your new content and is presumed to have pre-decided to read the article. In the disconnected context of Hacker News, it barely works: I only clicked on it because I love programming languages and it involved syntax. The article, of course, had no syntax. It turns out I am glad I clicked on it, but it was complete luck. As a content author, I would personally choose a different title for content on Hacker News than I would choose not only on my own website, but for different individual subreddits. On Google+, at least when it launched (I didn't pay much attention to it later), the format didn't encourage or really even support titles. I posted something there (a commentary on some aspects of Google+), and of course submitted it to Hacker News with the title I would have given it were I to give it a title, and I seriously had people who didn't notice I had written the article (which came up when I responded, and they apologized) saying I had editorialized the title somehow... it is utter madness. I don't even know what to do anymore when I post articles: if I expect Hacker News to be an important consumer of my content I have occasionally added an awkward note under the title saying "this is what the title should be on Hacker News". :/
Truth. For me, coming across the RFCs was better than finding a treasure chest. So much knowledge. And better, so much wisdom about systems design.
The downside is that if by pasting or typing you end up with too few or too many }s, the entire rest of the file gets messed up, nesting everything under the current function or ending a class early - in the eyes of the compiler, making it
produce a torrent of meaningless error messages, and of the editor if you hit the reindent shortcut. This happens to me all the time in C, and significant indentation totally avoids it.
Hm, I thought IRS treated stock purchased with a non-recourse note as an option (since there's no risk to the employee). If that's true, then you can't take the 83b election. That is, unless you convert to a full recourse note, but then you're back to the employee cash liability thing again.
Software Glitch Mistakenly Releases Inmate, Who Then Murders Teen
And then you have http://okmij.org/ftp/ , S/N ratio : NaN
Hacking Madrid: Can a technological revolution overcome Spain's political elite?
Best wishes! I truly hope you make the most of this new year and I aspire to do the same. Good luck to us all.
Musk: Falcon 9 back in the hangar. No damage found, ready to fire again. [Image]
I've been using sails for about 18 months, this has me pretty worried and I've experienced a lot of the issues (bugs, long delays on issues and pull requests) others have described. What other nodejs stacks (hapi + ORM?, kraken + ??, etc) do others use to create server apis without having to write a ton of boilerplate for each route / model?
The apparent force, which is what we experiment with, is much less.
Find me a company that actually is excited by a resume like that, and they'll rise to the top of my search when I look for my next job.
rote learning is incredibly powerful. it's one thing to understand what you need to do, and it's something else to have it at the tip of your fingers all the time.

some of my friends in the fuzzy field - policy making, legal - have such impressive recall when framing problems and solutions that right away they are already thinking of the knock on effects of various solutions several levels deeper.
it doesn't seem to be working. it's stuck on a "do you want to delete this idea" opened in front of a "congratulations! we wish you the best of luck" opened in front of "after you click launch..." (at this point, I stopped deleting div elements to find out what's behind dialog number 2)
What's more is that standard `npm install` install order is ALWAYS alphabetic. Which causes some packages, purely arbitrarily, to influence directory structure.
> Why do you assume GP is a dude?

...its the gender-neutral "dude". :-/

"Dude or dudette" doesn't just have the same satisfying punch to it.
The Times of India’s toxic comment sections
For custom plotting controls, you can just use shiny. It is awesome. Check out the shiny gallery and you will see that.
It's different with only two people than it is with multiple. When there's only one other person and they don't act the next day, then the logic works. But when there are numerous people and there is no reason to start counting, then it doesn't extrapolate out.

Put more clearly: Foreigner says "blue eyes!". n is 2. If you have blue eyes and you don't see the other blue-eyed person top themselves, you conclude that you also have blue eyes as does the other person, and it's belly-opening time.

But when n is 100, that initiation is missing. No-one tops themselves the next day? Hardly suprising - there are a hundred of the buggers. There is no reason to start counting, no "hang on, why didn't ol' blue eyes over there kick the bucket?".

And, given that these are humans and not cronjobs, no-one is going to be patiently waiting day in, day out for 100 days to see when they'll all kill themselves. Drama can't even fester, since the tribesfolk are forbidden from talking about the issue. Life goes on, and over three months later, the foreigner's statement wouldn't cause a bloodbath :)

TL;DR: if you want to make a fancy logic puzzle, don't use 'humans with bizarre rules' as your subjects. :)
Interesting discussion here (for some definition of "interesting"):
http://www.proformative.com/questions/exercise-stock-option-...
I counted the containers when it came into port, looked like it was stacked 7 high above deck for (2321+19)2*7 TEUs above deck, how much of the capacity is below the deck line and how many containers can they stack above deck? 9?
You're right, but one of the main issues is that you probably don't have enough strength in your lip muscles and throat to keep the air in without outside pressure. A single ATM of pressure is easy to leak, and your body is undergoing some real nasty expansion problems; As the sibling commenter notes, too, holding your breath is likely dangerous, as your internal chest cavity may not be able to apply enough compressive force to hold the air in. (And microscopically your lung will try to inflate excessively, leading to internal bleeding, I think.)

There's a really cool idea for a spacesuit that's basically just a fabric wet suit that's just really compressive (via electromuscles or cinched bands or w/e). That way your body gets the ability to hold onto the gas in your lungs without the risk of your lungs attempting to expand out your gut and throat.

It's an interesting idea though: what if you could train your abdomen and chest to compress a lung full of air in a vacuum? Then you just gotta keep your mouth and nose shut somehow. (It'd be really difficult - it'd take a force like trying to inflate a car tire with your mouth. Possible, but seems hard.)
I read http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6564 earlier this year and tldr they trained a deep net bot that managed to hold about 1-2d on KGS. Since there's no searching going on, that's pretty good, though not as good as CrazyStone or other MCTS bots. (I hadn't heard they went from 6d to 5d, but sure enough http://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=CrazyStone I wonder what happened?) I suspect combining the two methods will yield even stronger programs, I've heard some folks at Facebook and Google are each working on their own Go bots based on deep learning. If some company spent a few years building dedicated hardware like Deep Blue I even bet they could beat 9d pros with current methods. Go is close to falling.
What do you recommend to build business dashboards in R? By pulling data from an api or sb for example
Happy new year! Best wishes. May this year will turn out to be your best year of the life.