skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> our human intelligence performs far more sophisticated operations than are possible given the number of neurons that exist in our brains

This only holds if you presume those operations are being performed in the same way as a computer, rather than the incredibly imprecise rule-of-thumb heuristics they actually use.
Considering this as JSFiddle or Codepen alternative, I would find difficulties in using it, having in mind all of these projects that Mozilla killed lately.

I hope that Mozilla will finally figure out exactly what are their goals. They won't gain trust by releasing something promising and dropping it while after because it didn't match their expectations.
In Ukraine people like to eat salted raw pork fat called 'salo', and of course no one tries to hide its appearance. It looks like this: http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4420/12481978.15/0_5e518_b2c0...
"Your client does not support HTML."

Yeah, thanks. I'm doubly ecstatic when the unsubscribe link is in the HTML version and not the text version.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Our biographies are the same up until to the data science part.

I hadn't really thought about these bootcamps. I'm skeptical, not only because the tuition is most of a year's stipend; but your numbered points are persuasive.

I think software engineering is an obvious target. Maybe that's still too broad. There are aspects of data science (here is another word for me to define) that seem interesting.
Interested in learing about the architecture and internals & can't dig anything up. Any doc links you can share?
A (search) use cases:

- I want to find an organinization with a project with similar goals and objectives.

- I want to find other objectives linked to indicators.

- I want to say "the schema:Project described in this schema:WebPage is relevant to one or more #GlobalGoals" (so that people searching for ways to help can model similar goal-directed projects)
And I can't submit to a pat-down search due to my crippling social anxiety.
That is not why they published the Unibomber Manifesto. They published it because it was news.
There's all the ways people sell software on Microsoft platforms.

Adobe has managed to get thousands from users without any 'help' from Microsoft.
'Binary bandit' has been stealing 0s and 1s from Philadelphia homes
There is a datacenter in AZ that takes advantage of low cost night power. They have giant underground tanks full of a proprietary solution that they cool down at night, and then during the day the use it to keep the DC cool. My guess is it's just antifreeze and water, mineral oil, or something similarly boring.

It turns out this is pretty cost effective.
This was added after the blog author was called out on misrepresenting the truth. In the first version, they did not mention the fact that the original writer had resold the piece to AJ, implying AJ were just ripping them off.
Based solely on what I personally know, which is terribly incomplete, I wouldn't be alarmed by a felony conviction but no custodial sentence.
The greatest danger i see with this kind of technology is for beginners, that think nosql means you don't have to be proficient with normalization, transaction, or sql basic language structure, before you decide to go with a nosql db.
FWIW, I use Firefox on Android, and I'm extremely happy with it.
Ask HN: Why do mail clients not support modern standards?
Why do mail clients not support modern standards like box-shadow or border-radius or even basic floats?
Why is dualism's patent absurdity obvious?
The fact that it was people like Bruce Schneier who got access to the document, and not, say, Bruce Leidl, is a big part of my problem with the process used to evaluate the documents.
This is because nil is not the same as SomeInterface. They are different types. In the above example, the correct code would be this:

fmt.Println(bar.(SomeType) == nil) // this will print true

You need to explicitly convert the interface to a specific type (as above) before you can compare whether or not it points to a concrete value. Since SomeInterface could point to any type (by implementing all the members of SomeInterface, you can make any type be of SomeInterface). This is because variables that have a interface type are never nil.

I wouldn't call this a design issue, I believe this was done very purposefully and it makes perfect sense to me and other long time Go developers. The biggest problem I've seen with learning Go is for others coming from Ruby / Java / PHP / etc languages, who have this expectation of what "null" is (or nil as the case may be) and what "interfaces" are. The key to learning Go is to come at it with the thinking of C/C++.
I became so much happier when I realized how much my education-minded parents and my environment gave me a leg up (even in the economically declining Eastern Europe of the time). Helped me chill out a lot and feel less pressure (and hence have much more actual productivity).

Starting advantage does not mean you are not working hard now. Just means that you should do good things with that advantage. Make it shine!
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I'm surprised we don't have that happening in places like China or Saudi Arabia. I wonder what the Huawei compound would look like.
This is the kind of thing that I think could be really amazing, or a total dud. I'd definitely need to be able to try it out before I throw down over a hundred dollars.
All they have to say is "Change the column to (BIG INT) noob".
Introducing Test Doubles
I see a lot of talk and little substance.

"You can have 128bit security with a 4 digit pin"....

No, No you can't. A 4 digit pin is 14 bit security. Any system is only as secure as its weakest link.

It's not a password it's a pin...
Dear god, how have we not got past this yet.

While it's good to see an acceptance that iot is fundamentally unworkable on current infrastructure. I am a long way from being convinced this will be it's saviour.

EDIT:Furthermore:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-milagro-crypto/blob/mast...
/* Client and Server are issued secrets by DTA */

HELL NO.!.!.!.!.!
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Ever since the last rock band I played in, the thing I enjoy most now is dreaming up various stunt bands with funny names. "Wouldn't it be fun to build a band around [this or that name or concept]." But I'll never actually do them, because I know in very concrete and experiential terms how much hassle is involved in putting a band together, rehearsing it, keeping it together etc. and how it always seems to take some unpredicted course, sometimes for the better but usually for the worse. Whereas my ideas in my head just stay how they are. Never realized I was a Gnostic whose thinking has respected philosophical underpinnings. I just thought I was a lazy perfectionist.

So, bands like Donnie K'Bob and the Shawarmy Gyroes, Fat Man and the Little Boys, Messmaker, Paper Jam and Proper Fucking English will just have to live in my mind. Sorry to disappoint all you thronging millions out there. That doesn't stop someone else from coming along and ruining those ideas of course, but I'M not gonna be the one!

Edit to add: Rickety Chair and the Loose Stools
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Except for when clicking on hyperlinks doesn't work until the next update!
Miss it no more: https://github.com/OpenLiveWriter
Part of me wonders how much of this program is influenced by Mormon culture. There's this thing known as ward council where they discuss people in the ward (congregation) who have unmet needs, and what can be done to help. Reading the article the similarity popped out to me right away. This program seems like an extension of that on a grander scale.
I work on mostly distributed systems too and that's why I'm in the DRY camp (but only after the 2nd iteration kind of thing -- mostly). That's where the experience pays off.

I think DRY is taken to extremes and you get that one-line function that does nothing meaningful except rename append or something equally trivial (rename append then append space).

I like small code bases. I like only have to make one bug fix. I like being able to rewrite large chunks of code (like entire protocols). And DRY lets that happen. But I also like readability, and something that can fight against DRY I realize.

I'm a pragmatist at heart. And coding is really a craft. So all these maxims have their use, but it just takes experience to know when to use and break them. But overall I see DRY as one of the more vital.
It is only in extended moments of rage and sadness that I've considered the non-existence of the universe an attractive state - and then been angry at such megalomania. Perhaps its because I'm Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic[0] that I've never been sympathetic to ideas of nirvana, but only considered idleness/rest/meditation/sleep as a means to some end. To embrace it beyond that seems suicidal and mentally ill.

[0] http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2010/10/wester...
And then one day you realize there are bugs duplicated all over the place and you pray that nobody hits them.

I'm not religious about DRY, but it's not a bad thing when kept in the toolbox with KISS and YAGNI.
"We're not corrupt, just incompetent"

Get external auditors to come in and look at the system. Unless the data is corrupt, there is a way of getting it into a useful and queryable form. It would be a shame for this investigation to quietly die because of prevarication from some gifted bureaucrats.
Science was so much elite, now it goes OpenSource (say BioHacking)! There is this "official" science treadmill, paid and with reputation. And there are thousands of scientist that quit, some continuing in their garage. Eventually, they get a place in industry. And as the cultural shift continues, they will come back and publish their results. Platforms for such scientific exchange already exist. Prior art is key!
One thing, this would discourage immigrants to become citizens, as they most likely will take a pay cut once they become citizens. This might create a permanent class of non-citizen residents.
Benchmark’s Bill Gurley says he’s still worried about a bubble
Thanks for commenting! The whole technique is foundational Bayes. Doesn't use MCMC, but still bayes even with the use of credibility intervals. I don't make much of a use of priors to your point and that can definitely be seen as somewhat controversial, but each window is aggregating information on all of the hypotheses given all of the data. That's why I qualify it as "bayesian". How do you typically qualify bayesian vs not?

To your point of the issue with false positives... yep! :) It's a very simplistic naive approach. I read over the article you linked to and I think the results are fairly similar except that my (again very simplistic) technique finds many change points if they exist... and possibly even none. So what I'm doing generalizes more.

The sequential nature of what I'm doing bothers me too, so I'd love pointers to other articles doing something similar.
The results I've seen aren't that bad - within spec, and unlikely to cause problems for anyone else (especially on UHF/VHF - if this were HF it'd be different). The receive sensitivity isn't great, but they are a fantastic starter radio.
I've been using BOINC for years now on my Android Phone, it's App is amazingly well written, but it's missing one feature: Finish on AWS.

The idea came to me recently when I had a Task that was 70% in completion but only hours away from its overdue date. At that moment some part of me would have paid 5$ to see the task finished on an AWS instance so the work of my trusty little phone wasnt for nothing.

It's wasteful and stupid from a personal point of view... But it triggers the same feeling some mobile games trigger + I wouldnt buy virtual crystals but actual scientific data.
People don't need to have played the game to be aware of lemmings, though their reputation for suicidal behaviour appears to be based on a myth spread by Disney.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/lemming-suicide-is-a-myth-that-was-pe...
American football is very similar in terms of locking people into set states regularly?

It is interesting in that it allows you to create many set plays, where is other football variants are too fluid and only occasionally allow for set plays.
When you have to change something like that, it's time to write some tests.

So what do you do if that's not practical? See my other comment in this subtree where I give more background information. Sometimes the cost/benefit doesn't work out at that moment. (And believe me, we would've loved to refactor that whole thing!)
Not sure why that's not working for you. Let me download it from the chrome store and see. it's working for me on chrome osx 64bit same version of chrome.

Perhaps try restarting chrome and if that doesn't work you can try uninstalling the extension and reinstalling it. I just got the extension from the chrome store and command-shift-E worked fine. there is also the possibility that you have command-shift-e shadowed by another command(system wide shortcut or another extension). try going to chrome:extensions and going to the very bottom and selecting "keyboard shortcuts" and changing the one labeled "Toggle or activate a Tabist tab" the Tabist entry.

feel free to email me at the email in my profile if that doesn't work or if you figured out what the issue was.

cheers!
Meditation has been a weird journey for me. Took a few tries to find something I'd stick with, and so far, it has made it easier to stop thinking about some things. Basically, meditation for me is a time to detach from my thoughts. Give myself something to concentrate on (drums for me), and do that for 20 minutes daily, and when the mind wanders, just go back to the sounds. And after a while, it is like your mind gets more used to doing that - I don't dwell nearly as much. It isn't perfect, but better.

Some folks find mediation makes them feel worse, depending on the technique and what is going on inside the person's head. Some of the repeated thoughts can happen in depression and anxiety. Meditation combined with either illness can be weird - some folks get a lot out of it, especially if they have comparatively mild symptoms, and some find it makes it go awry, for lack of a better description. Also, for females, hormones can cause sticky thoughts sometimes. This sort of thing might make medication a better first helping choice than meditation.
How is Scrollytelling in this business without realizing that news outlets frequently syndicate their content in this way? Why put the reporter in the middle like this? It's bad form.
MMA has the issue of not having enough data. Fighters only have matches every few months - the wear and tear is too high to have them fighting multiple times per week for half of the year. Another example of this is football - a 16-game season isn't even close to getting the data required to make good analysis.

As a result, even sophisticated commentary on football and MMA tends to be a crapshoot.
Some crazy dependencies. It would be cool if there was something like this completely local, an SPA for the UI and LocalStorage & IndexedDB for persistence and docs.
How to think about science and becoming a scientist (2012)
For at least the next 4 years (barring impeachment), there is no chance that Snowden can set foot in the US without being immediately arrested and prosecuted.

I think I understand where you're coming from.

I don't agree: I don't think the Post's culpability in spreading Snowden's leak controls the appropriateness of charging Snowden. I think the two are separable issues. I understand why you don't.

Further, I'm closer to the Post editorial's position on clemency for Snowden than to the ACLU's (absent substantial new information about what Snowden did, I'd be unhappy if he spent time in prison). While I could quibble with the examples the Post chose to illustrate their position, I find the logic mostly agreeable.

Regardless of what they've reported, I think it's incumbent on the Post's editorial team to publish their genuinely held opinions on public policy issues. If they believe what they wrote, I think it's important that they published it, instead of pretending that their opinion is different to retain consistency.

But after reading everything you've written, I've come to the conclusion that regardless of the Post's position, it's a badly written editorial:

* It uses dumb examples (like PRISM) that don't fully support its argument and so you can't really reach an informed conclusion about it without a lot of previous context.

* By failing to mention the Post's own role in the story, the Post loses more or less all its credibility, which make the Editorial toothless.

Like I said, I get why we disagree. Thanks for taking the time to talk about this!
In what way do you feel the limits of your imagination?
I don't see a major problem with the difference between your own and other consciousness. Let's say you are American, and had never travelled abroad. You've only heard tales of France and Japan from others. Do you suspect that other countries have a fundamentally different nature to your own?

>So you have the question of why I can only directly perceive that emergent property in exactly one brain and not others

You are the thing carrying around that brain and sense organs, and the plumbing thereof. This is a unique situation, hence the uniqueness.

> Likewise you'd have to explain why the emergent property is apparently continuous through my whole lifetime over which my brain changes enormously.

Emergent phenomenon can be very robust, such as Jupiter's spot which was observed 340 years ago, or the common orbital plane of the solar system, which is billions of years old.

Also, your consciousness is not continuous. You turn (at least some of) it off when you go to sleep. Very curious! It's at least robustly bistable!

> Finally you'd have to deal with the hypothetical case where I am duplicated molecule for molecule and then ask which consciousness would I have direct access to, the duplicate or the original.

This seems very simple too. There are two copies of you at the instant of duplication, which diverge from that moment on. You1 would have access to the consciousness of You1's nervous system and You2 that created by You2's nervous system. This question is only difficult if you insist on something other than the bodies being involved.
Not sure about the rest, but I know Mike Dailly is still in the industry, working for YoYo Games, makers of Gamemaker: Studio. They currently have a humble bundle going on, $15 gets you the pro version and html5, iOS, and Android export modules. If anyone's interested in getting their feet wet on some game prototyping, I'd recommend it.
More fun : Mozilla was a precusor of web based editors with Bespin but the project was fucked up in a typical Mozillan way. It's the basis of Cloud9 IDE now
Spark with Python is pretty good. You just install it, then use a python shell or scripts. You don't really need to get into the Java side at all.

I'm not sure the size of the install should be the primary thing you are concerned about.
You can certainly say that for yourself, but ascribing it merely to "hard work" for everyone is facetious.

I didn't work hard at all. I've never had a class which seriously taxed me mentally and until college at least I could get As without even trying at all.

Even more directly, on my first time taking the SAT (with 0 prep) I scored better than anyone else in my class, including people who had studied like crazy and gone through extensive prep courses.

Thinking that I'm anything but incredibly lucky would be arrogant of me. That being said, I do dislike the "gifted" terminology, primarily due to its theological and duty connotations.
Fat is good for you. Cut the carbs if you need to lose weight. Meaningless source of food.
I'm only 25. It's practically unheard of for people to get pregnant this young on purpose (at least in Toronto).
I'd take it further, baseball creates more discrete events to analyze than tennis. A strike, ball, and hit by pitch are all independently quantifiable (and represent only a tiny subset of pitching metrics) compared to the outcomes possible in tennis.
> sometime in the next 12 hours [...] a crappy experience

How perspective changes. I remember when ordering anything meant "4-6 weeks for delivery".
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The problem with Beam is that it is an abstraction layer.

This sounds like a stupid comment, but when the underlying services are all evolving as quickly as they do in this space programming against an abstraction layer means you need to wait for (often sorely needed) new features.

(Frances Perry is an engineer on Beam at Google, so it would be surprising if she recommended against it)
Pretty sure some of those dependencies are dev-dependencies
Probably not, the lemmings jumping off cliffs myth was from was at it's peak in the 50s when a disney movie crew filmed lemmings falling off a cliff with the crew pushing them over it out of shot.

If anything like that was attempted today, the person in charge would probably have to go into a witness protection program.
What’s your water footprint?
Because really - it's just email and should be plain text.
> To the imminent downvoters, I'm not offended; I expect it with an unpopular opinion

This is the modern way to ask for upvotes.

Ask for upvotes straight out? The community saw it one too many times and doesn't anymore.

Mention you expect downvotes and that it's an unpopular opinion? People agreeing with you, which there almost always are anyway, will show you support while making potential downvoters think twice.

I was going to upvote, but never mind.
I also very highly doubt a very high IQ is predictive of science success - those are simply the folks we hear about because it is more popular than bragging that a philosopher or a musician is such. All three can be brilliant, but their minds simply work in different ways from each other.
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I agree - for me, baseball is great as background for other activities. For example, say that you're at a party with your friends. You have conversations that are happening, maybe some beer pong or cornhole or similar party games, and you have the Red Sox in the background. If you hit a lull where your conversation partner goes off to the bathroom or you just lost at beer pong, you can walk over to the TV and relax for a few minutes.

Similarly, bars often have baseball games on for the same purpose.
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Snowden's revelations cost Amazon billions of dollars in AWS fees. In fact, it cost tens of billions of dollars to Silicon Valley companies over the past 3 years. This is why all these SV companies hate him so much.
The server doesn’t have your password (just its hash), so it can’t derive a key from it.
> font-size: 1.9rem;

I know it's hip these days, but seriously: 2 times my browser's default font size does not improve readability for me.
Because if something occurs outside the current laws of physics it does not mean it's not natural, rather that the laws of physics need to adjust and take it into account.
Horizon uses RethinkDB, you can still build around RethinkDB directly.
'MakerPad' turns smartphone into user-friendly design system
I think elimitavists like Dennett don't deny that things go on, just that consciousness, in he form of this magical thing, doesn't exist. The demonstration of that being that many of the things people believe about consciousness that make it so magical and hard to explain simply aren't true. People are often mistaken about their own consciousness, so perhaps the remarkable mysterious thing that we can't explain doesn't exist. Instead there could be something much simpler and explainable, much in the mold of explanations that Dennett gives. The catch being that many people simply claim that the thing that Dennett can explain isn't consciousness because it doesn't do the magical things they think consciousness does.