skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't we all do that? We install code from github, we run curl commands and pipe them through bash, we use apt or yum. How many people actually look at the code?
All very true! Pie menus aren't good for dynamically generated lists, or very many items.

To handle those inevitable cases, the jQuery pie menus (and other implementations [1]) can support a hybrid mixture of directional pie items and traditional linear items, by simply adding multiple items to the same slice.

[1] Pie Menus on Python/GTK/Cairo for OLPC Sugar:
http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/128

Multiple items in the same slice are just laid out vertically (or horizontally, or even diagonally) in the slice direction, and they can track based on entering/exiting rectangles just like a linear menu, or by the distance (like a pull-out font size menu, etc) [2].

[2] Pull-out Font Pie Menu:
https://youtu.be/R5k4gJK-aWw?t=2m10s

I've also tried various forms of spiral scrolling [3], paging [4], and weird springy things [5]. And also limiting the maximum number of pie items, so the first eight "most important" items are assigned to different directions, and subsequent items are laid out below or above the menu as linear items.

[3] Scrolling NeWS Pie Menus:
https://youtu.be/kxkfqgAkgDc?t=2m34s

[4] Paging ActiveX Pie Menus:
https://youtu.be/nnC8x9x3Xag?t=4m44s

[5] Weird Springy Thing:
https://youtu.be/mOLS9I_tdKE?t=2m49s

Some people remember things spatially, and other people don't. The Greeks invented a spatial memorization technique called the Method of Loci. [6]

[6] Method of Loci:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
> impression that many have that the NYT crossword is "elitist"

If that's the case, I imagine it's partly due to it not being widely known that the difficulty of the puzzles follows a set schedule[1]. People pick up a Saturday puzzle, very reasonably suppose that future puzzles will be similar, and write off the whole business.

[1] Easiest on Monday, ramping up to hardest on Saturday, with Sunday somewhere in the middle, for anyone else unaware.
The prevailing view that corporations benefit society the most simply by focusing on profits for shareholders is almost entirely philosophical (we cannot prove this, although many economists would probably like to).
It doesn't look like this project has gotten past parsing, since all it appears to do is dump an AST.
Fair enough, I just wanted to note that people can also watch the CS229 lectures online.
If they're anyone-can-spend scripts superficially, then old nodes will accept any attempt to spend, not just those of the actual intended recipient. Because they doesn't recognize the softfork rules that restrict who are supposed to be able to spend. To determine that you need the additional signature SegWit data, and only SegWit parsing nodes will understand the difference.
You are missing my meaning. By 'software', I mean the software that runs the self-driving trucks; both the companies building and using self-driving trucks could and would be liable, no matter what is 'in the fine print'. There is no operator, so blame has to go somewhere.

There are already safety devices on trucks, but since there is a human operator, much of the onus of using or installing those is on the human, not the truck manufacturer or trucking company; and again, you're missing my point that with no driver, the liability falls to the producers of the self-driving software.
In upcoming Yahoo talks, Starboard to push for control of board
Postmates has hired Silicon Valley bank that gets companies sold
> On the contrary, it gives your code clarity, consistency and predictability.

Well, when a product I worked on gradually migrated from event loops with callbacks to threads, clarity, consistency, and predictability made big improvements. Some callback usage would have been better with C++11 or C++14, but it's still way worse than what you can do simply by having variables go in and out of scope on a stack.
(Disclaimer: I have only seen part of the material, for both courses) This seems true in terms of difficulty, mostly because CS229 assumes a much stronger math background and provides more of the theory for a lot of the ML techniques being used. However, if you want to know the "technique space" of usual ML algorithms and when/how to apply them, the Coursera course seems to be 70-90% of the way there in terms of breadth of the material (with a bias towards the most commonly used methods, so perhaps 70% of the techniques, applicable to more than 90% of the use cases).

So, if you want to do ML in industry, applied to common problems, the Coursera course will get you there. If you want to become an ML researcher, the Coursera course will fall way short of that, while CS229 might be at least a first step (followed by CS229T/STATS231 [1]).

[1] Lecture notes online, too: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs229t/
Beware of the exclusion from the study before you start ramping up your allergic child's peanut consumption:

"This indicates that peanut consumption may not be possible in some children who meet the LEAP eligibility criteria. In addition, the LEAP study design excluded 9.1% of the infants who were screened (76 of 834) because large wheals (greater than 4 mm in diameter) developed after the skin-prick test21 that were probably associated with peanut allergy; the safety and effectiveness of early peanut consumption in that population remain unknown."
How you would even go about tipping housekeeping in a hotel?
You're a true hero for sharing this.
Cool car, but the title is a little off considering...

>>The communists had only been running the country for a few years when this thing came out in 1956, so it’s really an old capitalist/Paul Jaray design that ended up being made by commies, but it’s pretty damn cool that they kept it going until 1976.

The "commie" talk in the article is right out of the 60s and is a little off-putting for a piece about a car. I'd say this sounds like Jeremy Clarkson but I couldn't see him using the phrase "..grim and serious ideology covered in human blood" with a strait face.
The problem with strict liability is the same problem with thing like mandatory minimum sentences. It ties judges hands to address the actual circumstances of an event, and without exception forces at least equal penalties on people who frankly, don't deserve it. There is no balancing point in this equation either. politicians always wanna be "tough on crime", and the latest case where some horrible monster gets a lighter penalty for nuanced reasons the public isn't interested in understanding is sure to result in a push for mandatory minimums and strict liability.

Consider the case of something like a child porn thumbnail on your pc. Where did it come from? Might have come from a Google image search, and you are totally unaware of it. However because child pornography possession is a strict liability crime you could be looking at years of jail time.

A law without exceptions is tyrannical no matter what its form.

The answer to perceived "bad guys getting away with it" isn't always to force harsher penalties regardless of circumstance.

The law is not, and never could be a fixed computer program you run that evaluates the fact, and spits out a just resolution.
Interesting, I'm familiar with information theory but not in the context of financial markets. I'm a little confused though because I assume you're referring to the channel coding theorem (mixing a signal with random noise), but that seems like begging the question to me. Don't you have to make the assumption that the market is a predictable signal with noise for it to be applicable?

I'm sure people employed to predict the stock market believe they are able to predict the stock market, but as far as I'm aware it's an open question in academia.

Also, I should point out, although I do believe markets are random, the intent my original post was more to point out the parent's argument by authority.
Related: If you haven't read Edward Tufte's take down of the PowerPoint slides from the Challenger test data, I highly recommend checking it out: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
I don't know about postwar planes, but at least some of the WWII war birds had notoriously poor seat adjustments. For example BF-109 had a seat that doubled as armored fuel tank. It's bit tricky to add adjustments to such heavy piece of furniture, so they didn't.

The thing here, just like you pointed out, is not to tailor the seat for average nor individual, but a range that suits most individuals.
Not that it needs to be said, but I posted this to spark discussion, rather than because I wholly agree or disagree with it. I personally think people should just study what they want whenever they want to, and for many people that will include neither calculus nor advanced statistics, and this is perfectly fine. Of course, others will want to study one or the other or both of those, at some point when they're young or maybe only developing an interest in them when older or whatever, and that's perfectly fine too...

As for the idea, implicit in so much discussion of this sort, that the workforce demands we all become data scientists... eh. It's not nearly true, and if it were, what a sad world that would be.

Tl;dr: Calculus is great. But only for students who have some interest in it or its uses. Down with mandatory calculus! And down with mandatory statistics as well! Freedom!
Stephen Hawking tells Google ‘philosophy is dead’
It is insane that we make people huddle into dark alleys and underground societies, simply to have agency over their own lives.

I know and understand the main arguments against assisted suicide. The idea that it would pressure people into taking their own lives, in order to please others. With respect, such arguments are nonsensical. People feel external pressures every day to do things that they may not want to do. Pursue careers they may not enjoy. Get married when they may not want to. Have kids even if they don't want to. Should the government step in every time and ban the activity entirely, simply to ensure that no one ever gives in to peer pressure? Of course not.

We recognize that freedom, liberty and individual agency, trumps any concerns about peer pressure. We recognize that our life decisions should be in our own hands, and not in the hands of big brother. It's time we allowed people full control to end their lives on their own terms, and not on the terms forced upon them.
"Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders". I am reading it now, very entertaining and you'll learn thing about management styles.
True, though to some extent I'd expect the moderation and reviews of people on Github or apt would be stronger than that of the average wordpress user.
It is a curious coincidence how the effective final day of public domain in the US demarcates the public domain Sherlock Holmes (England) from the perpetually-copyrighted Mickey Mouse (US).

I find it kind of offensive how Disney has been putting Steamboat Willie on its opening credits, recently seen in Zootopia, flaunting its perpetual copyright in our faces.
Julia is general purpose and really fast. You can make desktop and web apps in it.
I am reminded of Aaron Swartz wearing the "My Free Software Runs Your Company" shirt: http://assets.bwbx.io/images/icUNrxSKG6Pc/v1/-1x-1.jpg
Bram Cohen doesn't hate Bitcoin. He's fascinated by it and someone skeptical of its future; when you attack people for having moderate views that acknowledge real risks and limitations you increase the perception of Bitcoin as a ponzi scheme.

Bram, like almost all other technical experts holds a collection of views that you disagree with. He's never been paid by Blockstream.

Your claim with respect to blockstream's finances are incorrect, and you know they are incorrect since you were previously corrected on them; I can only assume that you're continuing to repeat them in an effort to intentionally defame Blockstream. You should stop.
Firstly, not all soft forks introduce extra data. Some are simply about minor policy.

Second, soft forks have been the standard since the beginning, and everyone understands that minors can set their own rules.

Third, non upgraded nodes, if they follow the longest chain, do not break. If they mine themselves they'll get orphaned, but that doesn't break them as long as they wait for a couple of blocks before accepting transactions as valid.

Fourth, soft forks have traditionally repurposed non standard transactions, which shouldn't be issued by anyone expecting consistent behavior. Segwit uses anyone-can-spend which are non standard, and as the bip says "Wallets should always be wary of anyone-can-spend scripts and treat them with suspicion."

Fifth, anyone can "notice" by virtue of the block header changing. A majority of minors can reject transactions, that's not deceitful in any way.
I was recently playing the 1995 space exploration game Ascendancy. One of the structures that you can build on a planet is an internet. The effect of building this on a planet was to double a planet's total research output. That's how the internet was viewed in 1995 by starry-eyed game developers.

I wish we returned to that 1995-era optimism of what the internet was about. An internet should have made traditional journals obsolete. It shouldn't be taking this long.
Right, just hook an event handler on to a CC form. Couple lines of code.
which currently goes to Egypt

Do we know that it all goes to the national treasury, or is part of it skimmed along the way? After all, given the additional extortions (local crews, cigarettes and other goods), I'm wondering if it all really goes to benefit the country.
Hi, Which developers don't want Bitcoin to scale at all.

I think that it's critical that when the founder and lead developer of Bitcoin "Classic" makes allegations like this that they back them up concretely.
They're non standard and therefore don't get relayed by old nodes. They won't make it into the longer chain because we're assuming the fork is activated. So what does an attack look like, exactly?

If someone blindly accepts non-standard zero confs they've got bigger problems.
>> with no driver, the liability falls to the producers of the self-driving software.

Not really. The owner of the truck is also the operator. Trucking companies are sued for damages caused by their drivers every day. If a truck company chooses to use particular software, as they choose a particular driver, the trucking company will be liable. They are the one that decided to put the vehicle on the road. That's why they must carry insurance and why that insurance attaches to the vehicle regardless of who is driving it on a particular day. Swapping out an employee-driver for a robot won't change the situation.

Even a truck that is stolen, a truck driven by someone the operator doesn't want behind the wheel, can result in liability should the operator not have taken reasonable steps to guard against theft.
The NYT crossword has a steep difficulty curve increasing over each week. It took me a few years of regular solving before I could consistently finish a Saturday puzzle. If people are only seeing the NYT puzzles on weekends, no wonder they think it's elitist. Try a Monday puzzle!

(Also, the obscure 1930's opera references have been on the decline since Will Shortz took over for the late Eugene T. Maleska. Maleska was an admitted elitist who filled the puzzles with high culture, while Shortz prefers misleading wordplay. You see a 5-letter clue, "Pentagonal part of a diamond", and it takes a while for the baseball reference to click - but once it does, PLATE is the obvious answer.)

I've looked at the USA Today crossword a few times, but found the quality relatively poor. Lots of dull clues and obscure three-letter words to make the fill fit together. No wonder he got away with plagiarism for so long, the people who'd notice wouldn't bother sticking around long enough to find anything wrong.
USDCHF Targets More Bear Pressure on Weakness
What about tipping for a haircut?
I've used web interfaces when I've wanted to put a GUI on Common Lisp. Seems pretty workable.
This sounds like a good application of the [Citation Needed] tag. At least it calls for some examples, rather than a sweeping generalization.
And yet we have suicide prevention hotlines. Go figure.
It is really surprising the amount of paranoia and thought that goes into software security compared to pretty much everything else. A driver's license is mostly a laminated piece of paper with some holograms. Social security numbers are 9 digit passwords you share over and over again that can't really be changed.

I was recently asked to sign a receipt at a store when I'd used Apple Pay. My phone uses a fingerprint reader to authorize a one-time-use token for payment that's transmitted in a cryptographically secure way. But that signature - that's the real unfakeable proof.
GNU Icecat. https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
But you did exactly the right thing with the relevant follow-up rather than a separate submit.
How do you down vote, an ignorant american article?
Another language that's basically Python 1.5...
Commuting Takes Its Toll
That's a big list of features, and essentially all of them, or the general ambient complexity that you're handwaving, have been hit by software written in a threaded style. And it wasn't a hindrance. Quite the opposite.
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years ago yahoo was good to work with today yahoo is very bad company they do not provide secure side nothing is secure first of all your account is not safe and secure your email is not secure your name your password the bad guys can easily get into your account and stole your email ruing your email. I got rid of yahoo I do not need all those bullshits they offer when nothing is safe and secure. I have better side.
I've seen exactly this happen at Amazon.
Don't complain that interviewers haven't read your resume

I disagree. If you're going to interview me for an hour, the least you can do for both of us is to take 10 or 15 minutes ahead of time to familiarize yourself with my background.

it is your job to tell the interviewer about the relevant parts of your resume

Again, I disagree. A resume is only a very cursory overview. You can use it as a starting point to probe me about it, to at least determine if I've actually done what it says or if I'm just a buzzword bullshit artist.

IMO it's very shortsighted for someone to ignore a resume before conducting an interview.
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> release a "lying-dormant cyber pathogen" into the county's computer infrastructure

I'm reminded of Phone Losers of America.

http://www.phonelosers.org/media/book/phone-losers-of-americ... (pdf)

--

“Circle K, this is Larry,” he answered, sounding extremely bored.

“Hi, Larry. This is John from Visa. We've been having some issues with the
credit card network tonight. Has your manager told you about this problem yet?”

“No, I don't know anything about it,” Larry replied.

“I see,” I said. “Well, there's a major computer virus in the network that processes
credit cards and I need you to unplug your credit card machine immediately,
before the virus reaches you.”

“Oh, okay,” Larry said as he fumbled around with the wires in the back of the machine.
"Okay, it's unplugged."

[...]

“Okay, now take the credit card machine and set it far away from the phone lines,
just to make sure the virus can't get to it. If you have a stainless steel sink there,
put it in the sink because that will help shield the machine from an airborne virus attack.”
Leave the tip on the dresser?
Well in that case, it's better than it used to be:

http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/free-wordpress-themes-ultima...

The part about searching for themes in Google says that you get better results now than you used to.

As for what stops third party sites doing this? Well for paid ones, reputation. You allow through themes with lots of security issues and backdoors, and customers start getting hacked and well... people might start steering clear of you in future. So the marketplaces and theme shops have an incentive not to act like scumbags.

For free sites? Guess reputation there too. You're right that we could see this happen in some cases, but not doing the proper review process is a losing proposition for the site as well as the users.
The proscription of plagiarism is vital to ensuring that at least some of the credit goes to those who are creative, rather than those who are popular or well-connected.
For all Irish Bitcoin fans – and not only
The robots drive closer to each other. This provides "slip stream" advantages.
Since F# is by Microsoft themselves, I would hope that is not the fault of the developers in this instance.
How to store a message in the blockchain
Tufte's analysis covers the Columbia disaster in 2003.
Has this refugee crisis anything to do with the US decision to destabilize the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad regime?
Chowdhry: Major Tech Layoffs Are Coming, Fed's Dudley Is 'Clueless' on Labor
the population of the US

Yeah, all that stuff is stupid. Who the fuck cares what the capital city is for each of the 50 states? That's what atlases used to be good for, now it's an almost instant search in Wikipedia.
One of my friends went to America and didn't realise you should tip bar staff. (Rather uncommon in the UK.) At some point during one evening the topic came up, for whatever reason - and he was forced to admit that he hadn't been leaving any tips at all! Cue such a degree of shock from his American hosts that he felt moved to talk to the bar person about it when he next went to get drinks.

"Oh, don't worry", said the bar guy. "I spotted your accent straight away, and I know English people never leave tips."

Now perhaps what my friend should have done at this point was take him at his word and continue not to leave him any...
"our life decisions should be in our own hands"

On the scale of things, that's probably one of the least intrusive ways that big brother helps.

I mean, we outlaw people working for too little money, and a hundred other things before we get to something as self-detrimental as death itself.

I appreciate the libertarianism; I just wanted to point out that this is very, very far from the most egregious big-brother-helping policy.
As medicine developed, we got a chance to live, to the point that we sort of lost our chance to die. I'm too young to really worry about prolonged terminal illnesses, but I sometimes think about this nowadays, as my father passed away very recently, from lung cancer, discovered very very late, at terminal stage. He was a strong, dynamic man in his fifties, and in two months he passed away. I recall my grandfather's terminal stage which dured some five, six years, until 2010. He had many illnesses, and he was too weak to walk in his last two-three years. Comparing the two, I do not really know what to think, but in this context, after lightly reading the article linked too, I guess everybody should have the right to renounce their lives, with assistance from someone who'll guarantee a peaceful and certain death: an ignorant, solo attempt might result in getting into a state where suicide is physically impossible and pain is greater. And I sometimes think the state is way too much intertwined into people's lifes, but that's another topic.
Well from a casual following of the coin world I'd say the ship has sailed a while ago on centralization. Individual miners represent what, low 2digits percent hashing power?

It seems everyone wants to believe so hard bitcoin is the currency you'll buy bubblegum at 25c with, maybe it's more the coin you use for 100s$ type transactions rather?
What would be wrong with embracing using other chains? I fail to see anything short of a dynamic altcoin ecosystem to keep the required pseudonymous/microtx/decentralised characteristics alive.

I mean bitcoin is great and all but it can't be everything to everyone and that's okay. Let the 'real world' interface on BTC, and we'll interface BTC to what we actually use. As always.
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