skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It means that all Amazon ratings are potentially bullshit.

There's no way to generalize from one user/seller experience to all of them, but the fact that we don't really have evidence to the contrary definitely does sour the whole experience.

I generally avoid the third party sellers just because I like to use super-saver shipping to save money, but I'll go for the third party if the item is hard to find or the deal is amazing.
There's also Pixel Qi tech, which will start appearing in devices in a few months.

See http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/erica-westly/science-inc/pix...
That's funny, because "subordinate" has replaced the previous generation's "inferior" as the commonly-used term for an employee down a step in the org chart.

However, to answer your question: if someone can determine whether you get to keep your job, whether you like it or not you are that person's subordinate.
What annoys me is being thrown on to projects without asking what I am interested in doing. I don't intend to do a shit job, but you're not going to get my best work if I'm not creatively invested in my work.
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Subordinate may be too strong a word, but for the most part it is correct.

To me, a manager is someone who makes sure I can get my work done and checks on the overall progress.

And what work is that? For most people their manager sets project goals and direction.
> I don't want anything else to decide what order my code runs. I want it to run in the order I decide.

And I guess you also want to manage all your memory yourself?
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Looks like a fun project but without RDFS inferencing, may not be too useful. Without at least RDFS inferencing (and OWL would be nice) I don't know how you can merge data from different sources using (for example) different property names that have the same 'meaning', etc.
> even ridiculously expensive polenta is still dirt cheap

This is because polenta is "poor people food". My father in law looks at us badly if we give it to our daughter; I think because he grew up when there were plenty of people who ate too much polenta and not enough meat/veggies/other stuff.

Details aside, sounds like fun. I don't do lots of fancy courses like that, but once again, a nice "grigliata" awaits anyway who stops by Padova.
Hmmm, I set mine to CBA135. I wonder if that suggests I'm weird, or just color clueless.
I found the head color correction interesting. I would say he used and overall filter rather than doing a spot correction on the head. The head becomes lighter, but it's still gray, not a Caucasian color. The sky has gone from blue to a mog induced green The most interesting are the copper pipes which have gone from copper (a memory color in my book) to a bright red.

I have watched mv GF produced stunning paintings from a limited palate of 4 to 6 colors for a painting. Once she has a sketch of a painting her next major step is designing a palate for it, including the grounds, which get completely covered up to the layers that build up the image. It's really an elaborate illusion. Is violet a skin tone? Yes, when it's a shadow that complements orange red of the skin highlights.
Mine's green #66ff00. I copied it from the color of old greenscreen CRTs.

I still like that color best for coding, my shell, etc.
I responded to most of the points in a new top-level comment. As for whether there is a violation of privacy even if the conclusions are erroneous, no, I don't think that it is. Some of my colleagues argue that it is, but I don't agree with that point of view. In other words, in order to convince you that there is a privacy problem I have to convince you of the math in the paper. Merely the fact that we came up with an algorithm that may or may not be correct is not sufficient.

That FAQ question is a big red herring. Some of the objections to our paper during peer-review were along the lines of "if Netflix had esentially duplicated every record in the database, how could you be sure you found the right record? What does right record even mean?" No really, it was that silly. So it was meant to be a way to justify the fact that de-anonymization can happen even if you didn't find "the right record."
You mentioned that you were still reading about food in your college dorm. What did you read?

Also I have made a few cooking/recipe tools http://cookthing.com, http://recipepuppy.com, http://foodguts.com. I would love to collaborate to make something new.
He's complaining about hacky techniques in a Michael Bay movie? Outlandish! When have you ever been able to look at Hollywood blockbusters as serious art?

This whole thing smells like confirmation bias. There are plenty of movies being made with broader/different color palettes. If you chose to watch Transformers 2, that's nobody's fault but your own.
> (edit) I mean non trivial outside of relationships like basic math -> algrebra -> precalc -> calc1 -> calc2

What do you mean by Algebra? In university we had Analysis and Linear Algebra starting at the same time, and Algebra only came later on as a more advanced topic.
No, because that's a completely different thing.

Throwing your code at a compiler/CPU and saying "Here! you decide what order to execute this in", means I have to write MORE code to deal with that.

eg asyc/event programming => less code, less complexity, more efficient

Managing memory yourself would mean writing more code and more complexity.

So it's comparing apples to inverse apples.
This is the visual equivalent of destructively loud mastering on popular music. It's interesting to see that the same tradeoff applies to both formats: postproduction techniques add generic excitement and "pop" to an entertainment experience, at the cost of making everything look (and sound) alike, which reduces the dynamic range of the experience.

(Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war)
The way presented has very high cost of initial creation, and almost negligible setup overhead per user ('user' being a programmer who wants memory use info).

Patching and recompiling has moderate-low cost of initial creation, but also moderate-low setup overhead per user.

Plus, some of us think this kind of thing is just plain fun. :)
tptacek is right! You don't need (at this stage) to spend money on design or anything alike. If you're stack just ask for help.
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I assumed that, since they saw the demo last time, my application must be good enough already, so just make the demo better this time.
It's supposed to be a witty and slightly tongue-in-cheek article :) Clojure is one of the best success stories, but I want more than just one. I want many products like Clojure.
I don't think the author realizes how expensive it is to abandon society. I certainly would love to live in the middle of the forest with my own little hobby farm and pasture (and internet connection, of course) but for me to continue to work in a tech field, even remotely, I need things from the outside, like shingles, nails, plywood, hard drives. All together I probably need about $100k to $400k, depending on what type of living conditions I want, and that is with me still working as a knowledge worker on contract.

"Encrypted Digital Currencies" psshh. If the courts are not their to enforce ownership, the currencies will never take hold. It my as well read "Encrypted Digital Monopoly Money". The only type of currency that could possibly hold value for an semi-extended enough period of time would be some really stable MMORPG, but even there I'm grasping at straws.
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There clearly are many grey areas in corporate taxation, especially when certain laws only apply to a few large companies. However, payroll taxes are not such a beast. The rules for how much must be paid as a percentage of W2 wages are pretty simple and easily audited. Furthermore, there's a built-in cheating detection system -- employees file individual income taxes and assert the tax payment details provided by their employers. So, it's easy for the IRS to figure out where fraud is happening. Dispatching an army of lawyers to argue against the obvious is of little value.
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Right, but I fail to see how a valid artistic theme in photography suddenly becomes lazy me-too-ism when applied to film.

Art goes through phases - maybe there was that guy back during the Renaissance complaining about how all the sculptures looked the same, etc etc. This is simply the way art goes.
The only thing 1999 about Y Combinator is that the application form is mostly written in HTML 3.2 ;). Also, not everything about the dot com boom was bad. It's just taken us (as a society) this long to filter through the wreckage and start using the good bits again.
You don't really know a priori the order everything is executing in, unless you control the remote ends of all the connections and you have no timers. I've lost days of my life to timer cancellation bugs.
What about some pictures of the event? And I think this dinner party idea is extremely brilliant as a way to get his name out there. If I had a company in the area I'd hire this dude immediately.
I thought turn-by-turn navigation might be that app, free and better on android, but hard to say if there has been an impact.
would you care to elaborate on that? Needless to say I disagree with you, but I can hardly say why if I don't know about your arguments.
Mine is #bada55. Just sayin.
Did you try direct-messaging the accounts? They might (by default) be configured to email-notify the person who's registered them...
This guy pitched his business on the Canadian Dragon's Den (inspiration behind Shark Tank) and all the VC's turned him down.

It's a great novelty, and has been a hit with CND consumers ever since
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I will take a look at it later tonight. But the first thing you need to do is add this to the top of your Scheme file:

(declare (block)
(standard-bindings)
(extended-bindings))

These are statements to let the compiler optimize things, losing some dynamicism. That should increase it a lot. When it comes to tight loops, Gambit doesn't usually do as good of a job because of its garbage collector (it doesn't optimize for lots of small short-lived objects), which is planned to be fixed in the future.
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Imagine a future in which millions of families live off the grid, powering their homes and vehicles with dirt-cheap portable fuel cells.

Fuel cells are for energy storage, not generation. Something has to make the hydrogen (or hydrocarbon) to power them. Also, fuel cells use platinum as a catalyst. You know, rare expensive stuff that has to be dug out of the ground, processed, and refined before it can be shipped to factories that build fuel cells.

Living off the grid would require land for solar cells and/or wind turbines, and energy storage mechanisms for when it's neither sunny nor windy. Building this stuff requires factories (again), raw materials (again), infrastructure, and R&D. A small community can't afford these things. And that's just for basic stuff like electricity and transportation. The small communities could solve this by banding together and contributing resources to a collective pool. Some sort of federated system...

Faced with the burden of financing the decades-long retirement of aging boomers, many of the young embrace a new underground economy, a largely untaxed archipelago of communes, co-ops, and kibbutzim that passively resist the power of the granny state while building their own little utopias.

So... what happens to the old people? How do these small communities trade? I'm guessing quite a few will be landlocked. If trade is limited, how do these little utopias have modern medicine? An MRI machine needs to be topped up with liquid helium to maintain its superconducting coils (which are manufactured in factories-blah blah blah). Contrast agents use rare elements like gadolinium.

The writer doesn't seem to realize just how interconnected the world economy is. Almost nothing I own was made anywhere near where I live. I can't start my day without touching something built at least 1000 miles away.
Noone took pics as far as I'm aware of. Sorry.
I should have clarified better that karma also encompasses the comment karma (i.e. votes) in addition to the user's overall karma. Even if you're not concerned with a user's karma, the score of a comment definitely affects our perception of it. A few months ago pg hid the comment karma as an experiment and personally, I did not like it one bit. I have relied on the comment karma to highlight what's good and save me the time from reading inessential comments.
Gibson's Virtual Light and his more recent works feature something along those lines.

In Spook Country, people create virtual sculptures that exist at a specific point in space that you can go see. It's "there", but you can't see it unless you're hooked into the right part of the network that feeds the information to you.
Email me at hang@bumblebeelabs.com and we'll see if we can figure something out.
Sure, you don't know the exact order your code executes if it has external inputs :) but you know that your code will execute 'linearly' and then adhere to any program flow constructs you put in, and nothing else.

You can be 100% sure that it won't suddenly stop executing here, and jump over to some totally disconnected bit of code for a while, then jump back.

You don't have to worry about a whole class of bugs which take up weeks/months of peoples time.

Not sure what you mean @ timers, I was really talking about async/event driven in general. Timers seem like an implementation specific detail on top of that. I haven't really seen any issues myself there :/
We push Ruby harder than most people ever push Python and I'm just not seeing the maturity problems you're alluding to. Maybe you could be more specific? We've got Ruby talking to chipsets, controlling WinDBG, debugging processes on Win32, Linux, and OSX, controlling DynamoRIO, running god knows how many different network protocols, calling into Java, routing raw packets with pcap, debugging J2EE container VMs, and fuzzing libraries written in C and C++.

(By the way, don't waste time with the Python C interface. Use ctypes. Ruby calls it Ruby/DL or "ffi".)
In stage lighting, actors typically are lit from two sides one "hot" (orange) and one "cool" (teal):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCandless_Method#McCandless_Me...

This is hardly a new digital phenomenon, it's done because it works. The digital editors are emulating what's been done using colored light for 90 years.
I see. My (wrong) understanding was that EM used a thread pool to do file I/O like Node.js. It appears to add the file descriptor to the event loop's watch list.
He's totally right about gauging responses. I've found the best question to ask people I've cooked for, especially if I'm going to continue cooking for them, is if they would eat this meal again. People seem to be much more forthcoming if I try to commit them to eating the meal again in the future.
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God bless the yuppie trend of glorifying the "authentic" peasant food of another culture as haute cuisine I guess :).
Me 3 it is nice to see we're not alone in our obsession cross overs :)
Hrmm... That's a good tip. I've never tried that.
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He specifically talked about the fact that when the brain has a "strong enough" bias, that's when it ends up telling you that its false error correction data is indeed fact.
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Precisely.

I'm sure this isn't wide-spread, but it still very strange behaviour from such an established company. They take down the negative reviews at the drop of a hat, but it takes a mountain of effort to get them re-instated (in fact, they haven't even been yet).

And the worrying bit seems to be that they don't even know their own published policies on the matter: if you don't follow/know your own policies, what's the point in having them? Is it all hot air?
The writer of this article is a National Review blogger. Jonah Goldberg is one of the editors.
I'm curious what your proposed solutions would be... mine are:

- remove capital adequacy requirements as they (like a paper seatbelt) create a false sense of security. Firms should compete on the basis of soundness as well as other characteristics.

- pass a law outlawing bank bailouts.

- remove restrictions on non-accredited investors, short-selling, derivatives/options trading.

- Increase disclosure requirements for financial institutions.

- Create a new financial statement called "Statement of Risk Exposure" which is a list of the firms' assets in terms of risk. If an asset is on a debt owed by another firm, then that firm's risk statement could be copied and inserted inline, recursively.
If you find a way to analyze those Ruby tweets and separate them out automatically into categories and also minimize duplicated content, it could be rather useful.
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I suppose you mean 500GB (not MB) HDD, don't you? :-) Ditto for RAM.
It's important to point out that this is reviews of the seller, not the product.

E.g. if you buy an item from a 3rd party seller on Amazon you can leave a product and a seller review.

If you only buy from Amazon on Amazon then this issue shouldn't affect you (although others might).
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Tab Toolkit is a great app.
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The economy is starved for capital. Rich folks are hoarding it.

If we don't get all that capital out of the trust funds of the rich and back flowing through the economy, yeah, we're headed a dystopian future.
Why do firms sell higher quality beers abroad?
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What is map/reduce for, anyway?
Sigh... another golden opportunity to name something the C Object Oriented Language (cool) squandered.
I don't know if you remember Telmex (the telephone company that "was given away"/"was bought very cheaply"), but it sucked, the lines were down all the time, service was really slow, you could be left without a phone line for more than a couple of days. That doesn't happen anymore.

He transformed that company (albeit being a monopoly) into a fairly good one. With the excess cash he generated he launched a mobile phone company that is one of the world's largest, and invested in numerous other businesses transforming them from badly performing ones into better businesses.

He was certainly lucky, smart and well connected when he bought Telmex, but all the execution afterwards was not easily handed to him.

Personally i'd love if his companies ran the water distribution or trash collection, he'd probably turn them into better performing and less corrupt businesses.

I think everybody expects so much of him, but he doesn't care, he is wired for making money and an excellent example of a pragmatic businessman. Compare him with the Russian oligarchs and you'll see how bad it could be. I really think he is a good and well meaning man.
http://github.com/lifo/cramp

It works best in Thin (EventMachine) or Rainbows! (Fibers).

If you are doing I/O you should use NeverBlock (http://www.espace.com.eg/neverblock/) they've even implemented a MySQL driver, the best part is they're 'drop-in' so you don't have to learn a new API, they just hide the async calls from you.

Fibers I think are closer to Erlang style than the event loop, and much more straight forward to program.
What exactly does VMware do? Is it like VirtualBox but better ? Closed source? Hardware solutions? (Congratz to antirez!)

EDIT: Looks like they do a VirtualBox type normal host + guest servers as well as a bare metal host setup. They have multiple open and close source versions. None of this is clear on their website which is very enterprise and unnecessarily complicated.
That's strange. I always get a headache when I have to think about order of execution (e.g. in C or Ocaml). Haskell (which is not parallel by default, so it's slightly off-topic here), manages the order for me, and I feel I have an easier time writing code, less code.
His father was born in Lebanon. Slim was born in Mexico City, Mexico.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Slim#Early_life
Glad to see I'm not the only one here who's interested in cooking--though I doubt I'm anywhere near as good as the OP. I started to teach myself how to cook a couple of years ago and it's turned into a great hobby that's also saved countless dollars from fast food. I've been thinking about compiling my notes into small website to help out others who may also be intimidated by cooking.
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Yes. But too late to edit it now.
Mark, you could use the RDF::Sesame plugin (http://rdf.rubyforge.org/sesame/) to interface to Sesame, which does inference for you. There is also an in-the-works RDFS gem (http://rdfs.rubyforge.org/) that will provide RDFS++ natively in Ruby for any RDF.rb-compatible graph or repository.
I just started using Clojure this weekend with Vim. I am not sure why the author of this post didn't use VimClojure with Nailgun, but it works seamlessly and lets you have rich-SLIME like interaction with a REPL.

The only thing I wish I had was a paredit like mode, but you can't have everything!
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Thanks for responding. It helps, I was so tempted to argue with your points as I had misread them.

I feel strongly about the primacy of privacy because the problems of prejudice are so severe. But the transparent world approach has a lot of depth to it, and I'm nervous and excited to see where it leads us, since like it or not it the technical and social changes we're seeing are creating so much data.

Here are the issues I think we have with this particular data release. I understand they may be resolvable though, and while I argue against accepting privacy problems like this right now, I would definitely love to find out that we can shift to a more transparency society without reservation and without the level of abuse that I fear:

-- Information asymmetry, since most people don't typically keep the type of statistical skills, computing power, and even secondary data sets for cross joins and comparisons around. Information asymmetry is a widely recognized concern in social behavior and commercial law (i.e. insider trading & real estate contracts)

-- Ethical concerns seem to constrain us to taking people's own privacy expectations into account. Originally privacy loss didn't seem to be a problem, but the situation changed when evidence emerged to the contrary

-- History shows us that governments frequently overstep their bounds. Rather than argue recent events which are more clouded by emotion and the narrative of the day, I think most people would agree that the FBI in the 60s was quite abusive in their gathering and use of data

That said, transparent world all the way. How do we get there?
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Say thank you to Julia for me, she was an invaluable help in the kitchen!
Duck lasagne was my fave. Tx Hang!
They can be automatically preempted if you desire, see: http://github.com/nothingmuch/coro/commit/54902809d8d3ad054d...

Usually people dismiss Coro because they want to take advantage of multiple cores without running multiple processes. But the reality is that you'll see a maximum 8x speedup if you run 8 OS threads, but if you rewrite your critical section in Haskell, you'll see a 50x speedup. So really , Coros are exactly the right abstraction for "scripting languages". IO performance is great, and expressiveness is great. Speed can be gained in other ways.
I got one of the regular Dell Studios (Windows pre-installed) mainly because my System 76 laptop died and I needed a replacement that day. I installed Ubuntu immediately and I haven't had any of the compatibility and configuration nightmares that I've had on previous Linux laptops. So, if you're willing to look beyond their Ubuntu line.