skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in the same state of mind as you are in. I am a college student majoring in CS. I thought that all my programming projects were easy and only took me a short time to complete each one. However, I also thought I was a average or terrible programmer from looking at other peoples code. Then I realized that there will always be a better programmer out there, either because they have been doing it longer or they are just naturally better. You have to see that you are still a good programmer, but there will always be someone better. Just keep programming, and try to set a schedule for the time management problem and reward yourself for sticking to it.
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The news seems to have died down (or at least it seems as such)

What is the severity level of this situation at this time? I haven't seen any good news, and thus I am inclined to believe that we will see this meltdown here shortly - but I cant tell..
This is so white! lol I can relate because it's how I first approached music, but most mature musicians in the Western world begin with rhythm, yet there is no mention of rhythm in this article.

Rhythm is our soul, get some soul, crackers!
rvm install jruby-head
East Timor Govt Opens Financial Transparency Portal
Thanks, it was a joke.
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Tell him to put a QR code on the flyer. Link the QR code into Google Analytics and some sort of reward for the user decoding it.
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I have not read this article, but RMS surely would argue that without a completely open stack, you cannot really know what airplane mode does. You can check that it doesn't broadcast at any moment you want to check that, but how do you know it doesn't switch on for 5 seconds every 4 days, 13 hours, and 52 seconds, except for Thursdays or in March? Also, how do you know that it isn't listening for secret commands all the time?
Facebook's deep penetration of the social graph combined with their uncontested dominance of highly specific targeting information definitely makes them a force to be reckoned with. They need someone that can execute though. Would be interesting to see them swipe a few of the top guys at either of those places.
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Have you tried it yet? Jruby will try to spawn a second independent interpreter in its own thread on the same JVM rather than actually forking an OS process if it detects that you're spawning another Ruby process. This is not without its drawbacks, but can be surprisingly handy. Your message passing code might Just Work with no alterations.

There are ways for JRuby to do an actual real live OS fork, but they aren't especially pretty.
Does that help (who pays for damages in accidents - copyright owner could claim loss of 400000 sales)? Also even in the private directory he probably wasn't allowed to own it.

I am not judging him, I am only concerned for him.
If you don't understand economies of scale or network effects, why are you commenting on this post?

Ahem. Network effects refer to the network, not to the individual provider. As a customer of Verizon, for example, I can participate in the same network that ATT customers use. My ISP is PennTeleData, and I'm fairly confident that this is not the way you're moving your data. Yet we still manage to mutually benefit from network effects.

Economies of scale are a positive effect of larger entities. But this is weighed against by the dinosaur effect, shall we say, that prevents them from changing business methods or products in an agile fashion. Or perhaps you believe that Microsoft should be the only maker of software?
Oops, that was you too - thanks for the correction.
No. The JVM spins up several threads, even when running a single-threaded Java program. Threads and fork() do not mix well together, and using threads is heavily entrenched in the Java world. I doubt Oracle intends to do the work to make fork() work.

As far as rewriting your code, would it be that difficult to change it to use threads? They don't FORCE you to share state, and there are powerful primitives for message-passing in java.util.concurrent. As long as you're not abusing global variables in Ruby it should translate over just fine.
JSONKit is less stable than yajl/touchjson/json-framework is. I was seeing 2-3 crashes/day in it when I last tried using it[1], switched back to yawl and haven't had any crashes in json parsing since.

1. About three weeks ago.
Why can't a group of people decide what they want for themselves democratically? Why not let municipalities be free to provide internet as a utility (like roads, electricity, etc.)? After all, this doesn't mean they all have to do so.
anyone use the lynda.com videos? How was it?
> It's just plain disingenuous to claim that Obama is less in favor of openness than Dick Cheney.

If you want to prosecute to Julian Assange, you are not for openness in Government. If you put Bradley Manning not in jail, but under the jail, and refuse to let even Congressmen like Denis Kucinich even visit Manning to witness first hand the conditions under which he is being held, you are not for openness in Government. http://antiwar.com/radio/2011/03/12/rep-dennis-kucinich/
If you fire State Dept Spokesman P.J. Crowley because he makes an off the record comment at MIT about the deplorable treatment of Manning, you are not for more openness in government. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/

I voted for Obama. In many ways he is a huge improvement over Bush, but let's be realistic, and face the facts.

Lastly, there was an article about whether Obama has lived up to his transparency pledge on NPR yesterday.
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/15/134540530/has-obama-lived-up-t...
nek4life, where are you from St. Jay? I'm from Littleton myself and was pretty dumbfounded when I found the Caledonian Record as the #2 result on the front page of HN.

I actually just signed my grandmother up to their service here and all it is, is a paid subscription to pdf copies of their newspaper as they release it. Theres not exactly much to protect there and worst case scenario is that someone gets some free copies of the paper. I don't think its such a big deal for them to be a little lax with password security given what you get behind the security wall. (as long as people aren't using that same password everywhere ... which may be the real problem here)
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Could you please comment on why a Python machine learning developer should use your code and not, say, Shogun or scikits.learn? In what use cases would your code be preferable, or dispreferred?

How does your k-means implementation compare to that of scipy's?

Why not push your code as modules into scikits.learn? Their library is designed to be many loosely coupled components.
Isn't the iTunes store incapable of handling inapp purchases from someone as big as Amazon? Also, wouldn't Apple's new privacy policy play serious havoc with Amazon and Netflix?
What is the advantage of this library over MDP? (http://mdp-toolkit.sourceforge.net/index.html)
But read the article. This specifically affects web apps run launched as fullscreen applications from the iPhone home screen, as opposed to other applications making use of UIWebView.
Unfortunately, it seems to be a catch-22. If you don't involve doctors in the design, you'll end up with something that doesn't cover enough ground to be usable, if you do involve them, they'll mistake their (admittedly large) domain expertise in medicine for expertise in system design and bike-shed the thing into boondoggle territory. Any standard is going to be a tough proposition.
FWIW, Josef Oehman has posted some explanation on the original blog post:
http://morgsatlarge.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-wo...

I think the primary problems here are insufficient concrete information, and also masses of confirmation bias in both directions (leading people to essentially find whatever they want to find in a mass of conflicting information.) At least the information should become increasingly clear over the next month or two, which should cut down somewhat on the second problem.
To extend your metaphor, yes, the Twitter executives probably feel like that. However, it is not the fault of the third party developers that Twitter can't be arsed even to get it's own bucket and take a turn milking the cow.

Moreover, in that metaphor, a lot of the third party devs have been bringing grass and other tasty treats for the cow, looking after it better than the Twitter execs, who would have been happy just to let the cow wander around uncared for until it fell in a ditch somewhere.

At the end of the day, yes, it is their cow, but they are acting extremely ungratefully to the people who helped them build and popularise their platform.
This is not for a hospital. Its for physicians in private practice. It's $700 per physician per month and hardly anyone is signing up. I'm sure for very large groups there is discount pricing and they must be signing up, but for smaller groups or solo practitioners this is not a reasonable option.
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If you put the effort in, you should have released it. Because hey, money.
People are always talking about "the new", but the hardest thing any one of these groups will face is complete buy in from the required health groups. Although these innovations may offer something new, they are coming in to an already crowded space. And a lot of the big players have strong relationships with their client base.
Making sure that the solution allows for ease of integration with other IHE/EMR solutions is a big thing. Staying with the standards, as absconditus mentions, is a plus. If Drchrono can partner with a big player in the IHE space and provide a specific use that they are missing they will do well. All of these will break down the reasons for rejection by a client.
This was the first thing I thought about when it all kicked off. I watched a video on one of the news reports and when the earthquake hit, staff in the stores instead of hiding tried steadying shelves to stop things falling off.

We honestly have a long way to go.
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I disagree. A disk can be full with no critical service ever failing, especially if it's something like a root disk but the app is on another device.

For memory, depending on the definition of "full," it, too, can be just fine. Even having something like individual app servers die and get restarted by Apache isn't such a bad thing if the cause is a slow enough memory leak.
Kindle is a publishing app.
I understand why a roadmap could be handy to have, however, I can't help feeling that a roadmap is much like a business plan in that it sums up what you would like the future to look like, not necessarily what it's going to be. Things always turn out differently.
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I was looking through some code and found this class recently. It almost reminds me of a class I saw called a speed up loop. This however, is obviously more important to the grand scheme of politics eh!
Readability (and Sony's book reader app) were both rejected as new apps, not as updates.

It sounds like nit-picking, but there is precedent for Apple allowing grace periods to existing apps with undesirable behavior while rejecting new ones, indeed, I think they even mentioned this after announcing the in-app purchase changes.
Thanks travis for the comment. Building it for the museum is a good idea. I don't know if all the museums have this barcode on the exhibits. Also, along with each exhibit there is generally a written description. But the problem is that its very long and no one cares to read the full stuff. So, may be the main focus should be to present the idea in more interactive way.

I guess the main point here is about to focus on a particular target audience. I will definitely consider your comment regarding this.
What's the purpose of the period supposed to be?
Why would you use my code instead of others? None of the packages covers all of machine learning, so it depends on what you're looking for. I focus mainly on supervised learning and kmeans. I want my algorithms to be as scalable as possible too.

Other projects have other priorities/functionality.

I like my interfaces better too, but I might be biased by being so much more familiar with them.

"""How does your k-means implementation compare to that of scipy's?"""

I think that my code is faster: http://bit.ly/e8VOXy and it is probably more scalable.

Scikits.learn has more functionality in certain aspects. So, if you need those, use it. I started milk when there was no scikits.learn. The interfaces are different and they work together here.
The last time I had to get a prescription it was passed electronically to Walgreens by the Dr, no need for any paperwork.
I'd add Consumerist to this list. They live for this kind of stuff.
The VA are a very special bunch. A lot of hospitals are now forward thinking in terms of solutions. Sometimes to much so. I have often had to deal with "buzz word" syndrome, explaining why Web Services, SaaS and HL7 3 are not necessarily required components of their EMR solution.
Oh, thanks. I had thought Readability had been on the store for a while before.
I used to do this for small businesses in 02, and I still do it for a taxi/limo company. Set up multiple marketing campaigns with independent phone numbers, web pages, deliverables , etc. I even went so far as creating separate corporate identities in order to test new marketing ideas & strategies. Now, I use google voice and a combination of local and toll free numbers. Works great and sometimes, better than analytics. #mmedia
Full screen web apps fail to use Nitro acceleration in Apple's iOS 4.3
How about because the Japanese have been living on that island for what, 30,000 years? I think they have a sense of longevity in their culture that we could all really learn from.
The summary is missing a couple very important points

1. There a ramp up of deliberate practice time in all experts developments starting from 20-30m a day to the noted 4 hours a day.

2. There is a ramp up in skill level of the teachers of experts starting from parents, to local experts, to recognized experts, to the tops of whatever field you're trying to master.

You can't just increase your skill, you need a better coach.

These points are not made clearly in Ericssons paper. Please check out (http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Expertise-Performance-Handbo...) for a more complete and useful overview of the topic.

More interesting by far than hacking yourself is investigating the neural basis for why this method of learning works. Expertise is not special, but a special case of normal learning. It's noticing what you could be learning rather than what you need to get by. Once this is accepted you can recognize the common thread of skill, information and descriminatory ability aquisition throughout the animal kingdom. Heck you can train Aplysia to be an expert! It's all based on fundamental properties of neuronal systems and that, frankly, is amazingly cool.
exactly. also, social norms don't blend well with market norms... nobody (sane) is going to pay to talk to their friends.
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And they said that print news was dying due to the industry's inability to innovate... Pfft!
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I worked at Xerox when they did their rebranding. At a big company meeting I saw it and said, "seriously?"

Not only is it bland and generic, but my eyes keep thinking that the sphere is "off" somehow. Something about how they drew the lines on the X tricks my eyes and makes it look not-quite-spherical. Like they got the CEO's 15-year-old nephew to Photoshop a sphere.
I'm an ex-flash developer (8 years). I can tell you it's bad. I could find many ways of crashing the browser a few years back. And just reading this article, I went about:plugins in chrome and disabled flash for now.
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This reeks of insider fear based-decision making. Within the walls of Rolodex headquarters, you figure (probably correctly) that a lot of today's young people don't know what an actual Rolodex looks like, and therefore that they won't understand what the little icon in the logo means. Besides that though, the company isn't even about those old Rolodex address index holders anyway! So much breadth and depth in today's Rolodex, who cares about the core product. Fear, and inside thinking like that end up getting you into "Rolodex: We're more than just the Rolodex!" territory, or worse, the land of "Rolodex: Forget the Rolodex!"

IANAM (I am not a marketer) but the history of a company, especially companies around long enough to have a history, is as important to me as their present when it comes to marketing and how they position themselves. Rebranding to try and move past your history is very frustrating to me as a customer when it's a negative history (eg Philip Morris renaming and refocusing a ton of itself over to the name "Altria") but it's just straight up baffling when its a positive history!

Rolodex made a product which filled a need so successfully that their brand name became a generic noun! And their solution to confidently presenting themselves in the modern world is to erase all record of that success from their branding?

I'd love to know why that is considered a good idea, where the thinking comes from, that genericizing is the solution to your specific success becoming outdated. Specifically for companies who have moved beyond the image in their logo representing a specific product to people.

If your problem as a company is that to MOST people your logo represents something arbitrary (for instance: a Rolodex file, or a tied parcel package in the case of UPS), why is the solution so frequently to start using a logo which represents arbitrary nothingness to ALL people?

If you're going to have a logo made of arbitrary swirly shapes and imagery which mean nothing, why not at least stick with some arbitrary swirly shapes which -- for some people who have been around for a while -- represent a specific past of innovation and cleverness? For the rest of their customers, at least with the old logo they have a clever story of the history of the company ready if asked. Instead, "Rolodex: We make nothing, we stand for nothing. How did we get here? We don't even know." Baffling to me.
A guy in my class parked a shiny bike not locked for a month. After a month when he came back it was still there. The chances of this happening in Amsterdam are very slim. Even if you only lock your bike to something with a big chain somebody with a metal cutter will come and get it if the bike is shiny. And better lock both of your wheels and the frame through the chain or else you end up with a bike without wheels. Unfortunately the steering wheel and saddle are not so easily locked.
> as long as people aren't using that same password everywhere

Most people do reuse passwords. That's the reason this is significant. It wouldn't be newsworthy if a service like this screwed up and made getting free copies of the hometown newspaper easy.
So have the people of England, what's your point?
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I could see that possible being a concern where the reason why people are upset isn't obvious, but this is not one of those cases.
Same reason nobody vandalizes vending machines, even when they're quite literally in the middle of nowhere along the side of an unfrequented road in the countryside.

Same reason it's unthinkable for a Japanese to take fruit or berries hanging outside of someone's yard, even when it's falling off the branch and rotting on the ground, and yet they'd hardly think twice in their downtown drunken stupor to steal a bicycle to get them home after the trains had shut down for the night.

They have different social norms there.
The Japanese have a lot of respect. When I visited a common thing said was "If you leave your wallet on the street and come back a day later, it's likely it will still be there or in the closest shop."
I think what OP is referring to is when light hits glass, some times it is reflected and sometimes it will move through the glass, depending on the angle it makes with the surface of the glass. So the signal is probably bouncing around inside the glass so the phone is able to pick it up.
I think you mean the colon.
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Japan certainly has social mores that discourage petty crime.

There are also practical considerations at play. The damage is so severe that there's not much left to loot, and there's and nowhere for looters to keep what they steal.

The article makes comparisons with Haiti and Katrina, but the damage in Japan is more total than either of these. In many towns there is literally nothing left.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366395/Japan-tsunam...
I assume someone has already emailed this guy?

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He has three grown children and lives in Lyndonville with his wife.

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People respecting people, even in great tragedy and chaos. Refreshing.
In regards to #2, I'm not sure how moving the location of secret meetings with lobbyists is "working in the right direction."

As to #3, how can you claim that "the guy's links actually say the opposite of what he's claiming" and agree with him about his third link?

Absolutely agree with you about #1. FOIAs have definitely gotten better.
Series F is often actually a series seed or A stock instrument. I write more about it here:

http://blog.eladgil.com/2010/03/vcs-starter-stock-why-how-to...
I think 0-day means something a little different http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_attack
Myspace's new logo is perfect.

Empty, vacuous, without clear meaning.

Could not possibly summarize the company or product better.
From Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!; Feynman and a colleague are staying at a traditional Japanese hotel in Kyoto:

The next morning the young woman taking care of our room fixes the bath, which was right in our room. Sometime later she returns with a tray to deliver breakfast. I'm partly dressed. She turns to me and says, politely, "Ohayo, gozai masu," which means, "Good morning."

Pais is just coming out of the bath, sopping wet and completely nude. She turns to him and with equal composure says, "Ohayo, gozai masu ," and puts the tray down for us.

Pais looks at me and says, "God, are we uncivilized!"

We realized that in America if the maid was delivering breakfast and the guy's standing there, stark naked, there would be little screams and a big fuss. But in Japan they were completely used to it, and we felt that they were much more advanced and civilized about those things than we were.
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I've gotten so used to Github style pages that I expect to scroll down and see some examples, documentation and links. I actually found myself frustrated when I scrolled down to find nothing but a copyright notice. Even this site's github only had a changelog. Not a knock against the site, I just don't see much in the way of selling me on the library.