skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's right. But this hasn't trickled down to the consumer market yet.

Maybe there is a market for a pro-sumer home router or cable modem? It would cost more than your typical Best Buy Netgear or whatever. But it would implement L3 forwarding in hardware and have advanced congestion control and QOS.

My guess is the market research has been done and consumer router manufacturers have determined that not enough consumers are willing to pay for things they don't understand.
I'd genuinely like to exchange some money for some trillion dollar notes....It'd be great playing Monopoly with them eh :)
The old expose has better keyboard support. Using the arrow keys I can almost always select the correct window with the first keydown.

Thanks for posting this.
Gelman is also a political scientist and many of the book's examples are about elections and election forecasting, probably not topics the Chinese government likes citizens reading about.
I posted this because I'm curious to see how the "Android will win because there will be a race to the bottom" crowd responds to it.

$49 is still a lot of money for some people but those people generally won't buy smartphones (if $49 is a lot to you than you probably aren't going to be able to pay it monthly for a data plan). So even if free Android phones flood the market I don't see it making much of a difference.
Try ":source mswin.vim" - I think that should give "normal" style copy/cut/paste behavior - note that "old" ctrl-v becomes ctrl-q with this change.
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Sure, but at least then I've done what I can on my end and can blame any remaining problems on my ISP with a bit more confidence :)
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I'm not sure about #2. Is it really that good idea to extend types? Or to be precise — to extend non-abstract classes?

It leads to unintuitive behavior:

>>> IntField(5, 'abc') is IntField(5, 'abc')
False

whereas

>>> int(5) is int(5)
True

also:

>>> IntField(5, 'abc') == 5
True

not to mention:

>>> IntField(5, 'abcd') == IntField(5, 'xyz')
True

IMO this would be better, more flexible approach:

class MyIntField(object):
@property
def val(self):
return self._val

@property
def name(self):
return self._name

def __init__(self, val, name):
self._val = val
self._name = name

def __eq__(self, other):
return (self.val == other.val) and \
(self.name == other.name)
3DTin does use Web Workers. However the smoothing algorithms generate too much data if there are lot of cubes and/or the smoothness is high, that makes the tab/browser unresponsive. The problem of vanished parts of the model at higher smoothness is a known one (happens when WebGL is the backend). I've further optimizations planned in the near future that should improve the performance gradually and fix the bugs like vanished parts. Stay tuned. Thanks for the feedback.
-3DTin Developer
I don't mean to imply that Lispy languages with non-sexp syntax won't catch on. Python, Ruby and Lua seem to have pretty Lispy semantics, for example. I also do not mean to imply that DSLs or implementations of existing language standards that compile to sexps and get passed to a Lisp runtime to execute won't catch on. I believe Maxima is such a DSL.

What I do mean is that a general-purpose replacement syntax for existing Lisps that isn't mainly written in terms of data structure literals won't catch on. Note that I didn't say lists there; Clojure has added vectors and maps to its syntax, but retains a very Lispy overall syntax.

I'm not sure if a new language explicitly designed to be a Lisp in everything but front-end syntax will catch on. New languages usually catch on when they present a good solution to a problem lots of people have on a silver platter. They're a lot like startups in that regard.
This is all kinds of awesome. The "old" exposé was The Right Way™ to do it.
does actually preserve the typical web interface, rather than dump the presentation into a flash interface.

Good thing?
While the thought that there's something in this book that is being censored is an appealing story, it's also a less than likely explanation.

My guess is that the chinese publisher didn't want to pay royalties, and this was a convenient way to get a good quality copy of the book for printing without having to share profit.
This is a great intro to Open Source Hardware.
Would you stop with the fear mongering. It's financial illiterate comments like this that confuse the issue for everyone.

btw, Core inflation rose 0.8% YoY. Zimbabwe here we come!!!
I missed this on the first posting, just caught it because you linked it from another thread.

There are lots of possibilities on where you could go from here, for sure you need to work out in detail why you failed, so nuts and bolts items listed which would translate in to "If we had know this we wouldn't have started this particular project" or "If we had known this our chances of success would have been better". What use is time spent if you don't really absorb and integrate the lessons you might learn from failing.

Then, take some time off to recharge your inspirational batteries, and - and you're going to hate me for this - try again. But this time with a better plan, with a better way to evaluate the people that give you advice, with a product that you yourself will be the first users of, or that you will be able to sell to a paying customer before launching.

Obviously you have skills, now you need to put them to the right use, it's no point trying to use a saw as a hammer or the other way around and it reads to me as though that was what you were trying to do.

Joining an early stage start-up with experienced founders sounds 'easy' but there are not that many 'early stage start-ups with experienced founders' around, most of them are just like the one you yourself ran and you'll end up being the more experienced employee with a bunch of clueless founders if you're unlucky :)

Maybe take on a regular job and use your spare time to get your 'start-up 2.0' off the ground, some fairly dumb day job is an excellent way to keep your head free for the stuff that you want to do while being able to make ends meet. That trick worked wonders for me in the past, I think that it still is applicable today.

Best of luck, whatever path you choose, your other options are not bad but once the start-up virus is in your blood it is very hard to get rid of it ;)
It is a model that was released 18 months ago, already has a newer version available, and will have yet another newer version available in ~six months time...

You can't expect prices of old iPhones to stay high permanently.
I am suprised this has not made the front page of HN..this is a really interesting article in the popular@HN education bubble saga....
Yes seriously? I open the page and immediately the main content is this person's contact information. "What's this have to do with the main topic?". Oh wait it's all the way over on the right. Guess where most people avoid looking at:

http://www.squidoo.com/heat-map

Because that's where most ads are. It's not about the amount of content, it's about putting it in the right place.
awesome. love it. it's almost like having lawnmower man right in the warmth of my home.
Iteration in Scala - effectful yet functional
This would make an awesome android app
I still remember one of the VCs at my first startup telling us that the way we should think about potential board members is whether or not we'd be comfortable calling them at 2 a.m. to ask for help after a disaster had happened. The board and the executives can create a culture that either encourages or discourages honesty; and the rest of the company will model the founders' and executives' behavior.
Why would they have changed it if the new way weren't better?
I work for a government department that condones the "cover-up" culture. We maintain a website and monitor web analytics, yet we never report on areas where the site is doing poorly or could use some improvement. We report on the metrics that do not really measure ROI.

As a result, the website never improves or really evolves with the current trends in web development. It really makes me wonder about the usefulness of having a website if the cover-up culture is valued more than accurate reporting, even if that reporting isn't always the story that upper-management would like to hear.
Yes, it should work find in Opera too (except Opera doesn't support WebGL, so it will use Canvas 2D, hence will be comparatively slower). It's not on supported list, because I don't test on it regularly.
-3DTin Developer
I thought new accounts don't have the ability to down-vote.
Sorry, but I respectfully disagree. You've oversimplifying the complex subject of nutrition.

It is now known that it's not as simple as "calories in - calories burned = weight gain or loss". The body burns more calories processing some kinds of foods compared to others. The body is less efficient or less encouraged to convert some kinds of excess calories into fat, depending on the source of the calories. It is becoming more clear that insulin plays an important role in a large percentage of cases of obesity, and it turns out most of the most cost effective foods encourage the body to produce the most insulin (and, almost paradoxically, also encourage hunger).

Your own example demonstrates my previous point. I would need to eat 18 (!) of those salads you suggested, every day, to merely maintain my weight. Or 5 Big Macs. It's obviously an extreme example, but which do you think poor people would choose? Buying cheap food can make the difference between paying the rent and living on the street.

With all due respect, it's ignorant and offensive to blame poor people for all their problems. Having an adequate amount of money makes an astonishing difference in your ability to achieve good nutrition, lower your stress, pursue advanced education, get enough exercise, etc.

I know it's popular to blame all poor obese people for their own predicament, but it's simply ignorant.
Hacker News is a good example of how to make a site "bland" and yet instantly recognizable, I think.
Perl/Tk has ZooZ (http://search.cpan.org/~aqumsieh/ZooZ-1.2/). But it hasn't been updated in a while.
Sure, there are people crazy enough that they would ban books on evolution, just are there are undoubtedly people who are crazy enough to ban books on creationism. Those are probably not even near the top of the list of crazy things people wish they could do.

The reason that it is the case that "things are this crazy in China" is that there is a difference between the existence of people who would probably enjoy implementing crazy policies and the actual implementation of crazy policies.
As Jim Gettys explains, this actually a complicated problem and while traffic-shaping on one end of the pipe can help, there is nothing you can do about your head-end's buffers or your stupid middleware buffers.

This is really a more frustrating problem that won't easily be solved. I suggest you all read Jim's original posts on the matter as they are enlightening and explain how TCP windows work and how your ISP configuration can mess it all up.
Bayes: Radical, Liberal, or Conservative?
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Just change all your info and let it lay there. Thats how I quit facebook.
I have to call out the whole referenced article as BS. The situation is that Rene filed the complaint, and after Apple complied with Rene's request, Rene then blogged that Apple was being mean by removing the app, as he had requested.

Sorry but there is no honest interpretation here in which Apple is the bad guy and long winded articles claiming so because they only tell half the story are dishonest.
Hi Guys,

I am from China, and of course the Bayesian is taught in China. Only in the culture revolution time, this crazy thing may happen; but it's long time ago when Mao was alive.
Now China is a modern society; of course, the Bayesian theory is taught in schools; otherwise how could they send the spaceship to the outer space and have the fastest super computer in the world so far.
you are smart hackers, not a bunch of kids controlled by traditional biases.
As to censorship, that's right, china has notorious censorship. I guess the author's book must have some contents/examples regarding political issues; not Bayesian itself was the reason for the book being censored.
These days, when people talked about censorship, I always think of wiki-leaks ......
America definitely has its share of problems, but is it fair to say that they're worse than, say, China's or India's? I'm bullish long-term on China and India, but even more bullish on America.

This seems to be a "buy when they're blood in the streets" kind of time as far as America's reputation goes... buy low, sell high.
This looks very interesting...we have several CL products that might benefit from having JS as a scripting option.

I'm curious about the "clever tricks" used to overcome things viewed as weaknesses in Lisp...any details? Thanks.
Most of the time I use Chrome's console and node in a terminal.

If I'm in Emacs I might fire up swank-js[1] which lets me interact with standalone JS interpreters like v8 and Rhino, but also contains a server that bridges the gap between the major browsers. Simply open up a web page in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, or Opera and then interact with that browser's JS engine from Emacs.

[1] https://github.com/ivan4th/swank-js
http://tutti.tobyho.com is definitely the finest.

You get an interactive console, and you get results from all browsers you want to test, immediately.
20€ worth of government work.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ev2zb/i_run_thathighco...

Shortly, fake it until you make it
Silly robots, Google Instant promotes spam, not relevant search results. . .
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That's a good suggestion. Thanks. Not sure if hotkeys like WinKey or ⌘ can be detected in javascript, but ctrl+drag seems doable.
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That seems absurd on it's face. If there is no one to consumer what exactly are the producers selling?

So a loaf of bread is eaten just so that it can be produced?

Also, the developer I mentioned is in the top 3%, not the top 1%. Does that substantively change the nature of my assertion?

Lastly, when discussing CEOs who fail to turn a company around, you are comparing CEOs to other CEOs. Similarly, while most programmers are more productive than most secretaries, most programmers are not that much more productive than other programmers. (A few are, however, just as in the case of CEOs.)

Unless you believe that a company would be better off making the secretary into the CEO, it is ridiculous to assert that the CEO is less productive than the secretary. Less productive than the competition at his level != less productive than the janitor.
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Reminds me of a tip I got from several business school professors. "Aim to take a large fraction of a small market rather than a small fraction of a large market."

Products get virally reinforced. If someone hears about it from one of their friends once, they'll forget about it. If they hear about it twice, they'll remember it. If they hear about it three times, they'll go check it out. With this in mind, it makes sense to start with a nucleus of customers small enough to maximize the chances of the third case happening.
The article is correct. Rene complained to Apple that this VLC GPL app should not be on the App Store because of the GPL terms.

So Apple removed it. Adding drama or feelings is beside the point. Rene is a child if he thinks he's going to change anything with this act. If he wouldn't have said anything, Apple wouldn't have cared. It's not Apple's job to make sure the GPL is followed, just the App Store terms.

It's funny to read about people like Rene trying to 'change' Apple. If you don't like it, find another device and App Store platform for your highly restrictive GPL apps.
Tor has cover traffic.
So does this sound viable?
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Maxima (http://maxima.sourceforge.net/), one of the packages used by Sage, is a quite capable computer algebra system (written in Lisp) with a very long history. It's descended from Macsyma, which was created at MIT in the 1960s. If you look through some of the Maxima source files you'll find modification dates from the '70s. That has to make it one of the oldest still-active software projects. Heck, it's older than Unix!
I remember fiddling around with this a few years back, I even made my own shaping script somewhat based on wondershaper (http://www.carlos-rodrigues.com/files/unmaintained/ctshaper/ - which probabyl still works).

At the time I could get a huge improvement in interactive response and concurrency on my 512Kbps/128Kbps DSL connection. Without it it was impossible for be to be playing some online game while another computer in the house was downloading something.

The benefits diminish as bandwidth increases, as concurrency gets much better without any measures. So, the black art of traffic shaping becomes much more difficult.
I had a project recently that had requirements similar to what you are describing, and I went with s3 + zencoder, and it worked wonderfully. This was my first time working with zencoder, but I've used s3 a lot.

What I did is send movie uploads directly to s3 via swfupload so my Rails app isn't tied up with uploads. When the upload is done I use a JS callback to set the location of the uploaded file (bucket and path) in a hidden field that gets set in the ActiveRecord model when the form is submitted. If that attribute is present at creation time, a call is made to zencoder to start the encode. Then I use flowplayer to show the encoded videos.

It's a straightforward implementation, and it works well. I've been pleased as punch with zencoder, and I'd definitely recommend them. You might also want to look at http://www.pandastream.com/ ... it looks like a great alternative, but zencoder's pricing was a better match for this project.
Nice-looking site!

I added two test recipes. One possible issue: When I click on one recipe and it expands, I don't see any way to "collapse" and go back to the complete recipe list (besides clicking "(User's) Cookbook"...

Since you're already integrating with Facebook, it would be cool to have some social links on each recipe, as well as on the user's entire recipe list (e.g., "Post to Facebook"/"Tweet"/"Email")...

Very nice design; what did you build it with?
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If you say that travel is your passion, then I bet you could do a great job at it and figure out how to innovate and disrupt that industry.
Sorry for getting back to this so late. The problem is that your trading choice now (if you dogmatically apply the yank) for choice later. And unlike the queen, MJ on the bench doesn't directly affect the game on the floor. While the queen actually does, even in the backrow.
WinMTR. My bad.
Oh, we're in violent agreement. The thing about the USA and Canada is that we're constitutional democracies. That doesn't mean that as people we're any less crazy than places with a different system, but our constitutions act as a brake slowing down implementation of crazy policies and providing a kind of "undo" when things go wrong.

As we saw in the FLQ Crisis and again during the G20 summit, Canadians can lock thousands of people up without due process of law. As we saw in Kansas, certain Americans can ban the teaching of established science in the classroom.

But our system at least makes these things aberrations and provides dissenters a way to rectify the problems in the courts.'

edit: I think what I'm trying to say is "Our system provides us with an undo, but it's only good when we remain vigilant against craziness. If we become complacent and assume that we as people are somehow too intelligent or too morally centered to do crazy things, wham, we do crazy things too."
Another nice Lisp/Clojure success story. http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/9203e07d197dbd29

Mentioning that, does anybody know what happened to Postabon, another Lisp startup, which went silent a while ago?
SpecTcl can output Perl code :
http://spectcl.sourceforge.net/

For pure Perl Tk, there's ZooZ :
http://search.cpan.org/~aqumsieh/ZooZ-1.2/ZooZ.pl
I believe https://guardianproject.info/apps/gibber/
does exactly this, in conjunction with Orbot
Being able to work in your field in another country is a fantastic opportunity. If you're coming here with a job and you have the ability to return home if things don't work out, I wouldn't worry about it.
Looks good, I like the idea.

Feature request: Make a calendar view for overviewing and planning.
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CMS (I'm not a programmer, but I'm learning Rails): Drupal

Monitoring: Pingdom

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Dynamically changing running Lisp code (2004)
Clicked on link expecting to see a tape based key-value datastore.
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In case you were serious, I would have you go down in flames trying to use that as a defense for all of the UX changes in Windows Vista. You have constructed a rhetorical question with no sane answer, kind of like the prosecutor asking the defendant, "Have you stopped beating your wife?" when he has never done such a thing.
Part 2:

http://bc.tech.coop/blog/040224.html

Part 3:

http://bc.tech.coop/blog/040225.html
Thought Windows was already going to adopt it in Windows 8.

I think the Mac app store would encourage a lot of adware(aka spyware) because consumers like free apps and developers would like a steady revenue stream.
of course, the Bayesian theory is taught in schools; otherwise how could they send the spaceship to the outer space and have the fastest super computer in the world

Do these things require specifically Bayesian statistics?
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Congratulations! I was wondering why Bradford's posts were suddenly becoming so focused on the news and personalisation! :)
Is this a post just to get karma? Or is it really a link that someone who owns/knows the book might not know. Let me guess...
Quantitative easing is a little "printing" to restore growth.

Running the presses as fast as possible is funding a kleptocracy through seignorage.

One makes me bemoan the necessity of the state, one makes me see that it is necessary. I can be a communist or a objectivist, but my continent's population (Europe) have made it clear that they'll still vote for a flavour of social democracy every time.
You misunderstand, I'm very much not saying that there is or will be a general policy of banning things related to Bayesian methods. Rather, thats its quite possible one mid-level bureaucrat thought that Bayesian methods were unacceptable in this one instance. Maybe he (I think "he" is a safe assumption here) was confused and really thought that this sort of math was subversive. Maybe he was worried that he hadn't banned enough things this month and his supperiors would think he was lazy. Maybe the publisher failed to pay the customary bribe. In any of these cases, though, the official reason for the ban might very well be that "Bayesian Methods are subversive".
Interesting to see that the top three categories appear to be Jews, Star Trek, and "naughty bits".
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This is very exciting. Will be interesting to benchmark and see what the performance is like. It would be great if you dynamically compile JS to java classes at runtime (store procedures in JS etc).
Actually, one of the best ways to learn applied bayesian stats, used by most machine learning researchers I've asked about this, is to read Gelman's books on bayesian data analysis and hierarchical/multilevel modeling.