skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Yes, it is about attracting those women whose hair is the color of the midday sun and eyes are the color of the ocean, and it is about having sex with them. "

No-no-no. That's the wrong attitude.

I think the key is this -- women are animals, just like men, with slightly different genitals. And they should be treated like men, not put on a higher pedestal.

I'm sorry, girls, but if you think that just because you have a vagina you're somehow better than the rest of the world -- you are wrong. The worst possible legal thing you can do to a man is not have sex with him. And if you think having sex with you is the best and indescribable pleasure one can have -- you are wrong. Sex is not as fun as it sounds, it's a physical workout, it gets tiring, there's sweat and weird noises and everything. It's overrated. Get over it, not everyone is dreaming of you everyday of their life and you are not the fantastically beautiful cute cuddly thing you'd like to think you are.

You wanted equal rights, have fun.

Now, this is a question you want to ask yourself "Would I treat her differently if she had a penis?" If you say yes, you are biased and you need deep introspection into yourself and your life-values.

I'm tired of all this miserable bullshit where people take things like color of the skin, or genitalia, or height, or whatever into account to justify their own laziness, incompetence, mental illnesses and whatever personal problems they have.
Humanity is already replaced by machines of our own creation every thirty years or so. Would it necessarily be so horrible if we started making them out of metal instead of meat?
Its some really positive improvements. It will be interesting to see if the UI evolves more rapidly to a better place than the iPad UI.

Support for USB devices is an interesting thing from a number of perspectives. I don't think it puts ChromeOS in jeopardy but I do think it means some great differentiation from the iPad. Looking at the Cellbots [1] stuff that has been done with Android I can imagine some cool things with a tablet and the even better capabilities.

It will be interesting to see what they do to replace Skype now that Microsoft has a plan to own it. Without the equivalent of 'facetime' (and yes I fully expect Microsoft to limit your rights to run a Skype client on any 'mobile device' that isn't running Windows Phone) they will need a replacement. Fortunately they have the video engine in GTalk.

[1] www.cellbots.com
I think Griffiths EM/QM texts are fine if your not studying physics. However if you are they just skim the surface of material and this is were I think a lot of the bashing comes in. Physics curriculum (presumably like all) are a constant stepping stone and when your senior level professors expect you to know Clebsch Gordon coefficients in detail and Griffiths QM didn't then some questioning about his texts start to rise. In my opinion I thought Sakurai's QM was excellent in delivering a solid foundation in quantum mechanics
Here's a tip I often use for myself. When my argument relies upon "everyone being stupid". I really should take a second look at my argument.

And I agree, working with someone so cocky is a bad idea. Because if you ever do follow his advice (against your better judgment) and the projects fails (as it likely will), it won't be because of his idea, but its because you were stupid too.
Is there any doubt he did it?

It's interesting that you would ask it that way. The only evidence I've heard of existing against him is just an unauthenticated plain text file provided by a convicted felon.

Possibly there's a solid case there, I'm just saying I haven't heard of it.
For what it's worth, LifeHacker liked it: http://lifehacker.com/5800500/first-look-at-google-music-our...
I believe the problem is the training algorithm, backprop, not the model (NNs). "unstable fixed point attractor of Backpropagation through Time", as you said.

Ilya Sutskever in Geoff Hinton's lab has had great success recently using hessian-free optimization to train recurrent networks. He has trained character-level RNNs on Wikipedia, and they can generate very long sequences of quasi-plausible text. In particular, it seems like they can remember many symbols.

See his most recent pubs: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ilya/pubs/
Imposing timing on meetings is irrelevant at best and destructive at worst.

The real reason these Agile, Googlesque meeting techniques dictate a time is to force attendees to prioritize. You can't dick around in a 15 minute meeting. However, by artificially imposing a time limit you also curb productive discussion. Fact of the matter is, some decisions take longer than 15 minutes to come to.

Instead of focusing on the time a meeting takes, focus on what needs to get done and who needs to do it. Create concrete objectives, then give one person that responsibility: "John will assign work streams to all team members" vs "Do work planning". No ambiguity - success on an objective is binary.
Somehow, the comment threads get flooded instead.
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Just for argument's sake, let's assume your right - that subconscious idea leakage is unavoidable. Now ask the question, "how did the entrepreneur come up with the idea?". The thoughts any any individual has are a function of their environment (that's the abstracted version of your theory :). There are lots of people having lots of ideas all the time, many with in similar environments as the entrepreneur. The net result is that if the entrepreneur did not allow their idea to 'leak' into YC's consciousness, some other person in YC's environment would do so within a short period of time. So there is no loss to the entrepreneur of exposing the idea to YC, aside from a small chance of a small time shifting of the 'leak' (only if they really are the first person to expose that idea to YC, which is statistically unlikely).

Simple version: even if subconscious-idea-leakage exists, the likely cost is vanishingly small, as your idea is unlikely to be new to YC. If it would have been new, then withholding it only buys you time until the next bright person exposes the same idea to YC.

If you believed in conscious/active idea leakage the numbers would look different. I feel confident that no such leakage exists - it over estimates the caching capabilities of those involved ;)
Ask HN: Theory for Keyboard Shortcut Layout
When playing the computer game Starcraft 2 it is reasonably important to have a good hotkey setup to enable quick, clean control of your buildings and units. (Analogous to Ctrl+C to copy highlighted text.) I am trying to find a set of guiding principles which would allow the creation of an 'optimal' hotkey layout. Does anyone know of any research work on this problem?

I haven't had much luck searching for "Industrial Design" and "shortcut layout", but perhaps that is nonstandard terminology.

The most useful reference I've found was a website which outlined the story of a programmer who remapped his keyboard from QWERTY. In that case he guesstimated a cost for each key press (eg, pointer from 'f' to 'r' is 1 unit, from 'f' to '5' is two units), calculated the frequency of each character used from a collection of sample code, and then used a genetic algorithm to find an arrangement which minimized the cost.

This seems like an interesting starting point but I am concerned it might give a solution which breaks some higher level principle. For instance, in SC2 there are sequences of actions which occur together frequently, maybe it has been shown that it is best for one finger to push all the necessary hotkeys in the sequence or perhaps each hotkey should be given to a different finger. Is it better for the hotkeys associated with qualitatively different targets to be physically separated on the keyboard or is key reuse ok? Etc.

Thanks for any useful references or suggestions of appropriate keywords I should be searching for.
It bothers me that as a generation, we are rejecting our parents way to play the game, when instead we should be rejecting the game.

Humility and willingness to work hard without complaint are the most valuable things my parents gave me.

Definition of success in terms of material wealth, academic prestige, and public recognition were the most damaging.

Our parents' generation sacrificed so much for us and emphasized these things so that we wouldn't know the poverty that they did. Maybe they didn't realize how well they would succeed and that in doing so they would leave us impoverished in much more deeply profound ways: intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. I can't blame them, but our generation's discourse needs to be about more than worldly success. It needs to shift from tactics to strategy.

Our parents gave us what they could; we need to give our children more.
Is it copyright assignment or a contributor license agreement? They're very different. In the former case, you disclaim all rights to your own code. In the latter case, you're making it possible for another entity to relicense your code while retaining your own IP rights over it.
You are looking at the cubical of an average systems administrator. You notice a few items scattered around the desk (the computer is locked down and cannot be taken)

Random Books:

Pointers on C
C Programing Language
Unix Power Tools
Sed and Awk
Classic Shell Scripting
Unix in a Nutshell

A set of index cards (half size 2.5x3) with lists for next tasks for each project/issue being tracked.

A couple of notebooks

A coffee mug and a cup of water

A green marker for the Whiteboard

There is an exit to the West.
For intelligence to evolve self interest, there must be emotion and some reward for self-interested behavior. These things did not evolve in living things in a vacuum. It benefited organisms by enabling them to survive and reproduce.

For organisms designed to reproduce, and whose parents are designed to die and get out of the way of its offspring, things could evolve in an undesirable direction.

You don't know whether man's best friend is evolving or a wolf. We do know that selective breeding affects the outcome.

But it really is more desirable to make drones you control.

In any case, we'll see people modifying the human genome so offspring can't disobey their parents before we'll see robotic intelligence competing with us.
1. Range on a string iterates over Unicode code points (runes):

s := "Какая-то строка"
for _, rune := range s {
// do something with rune 'К', 'a', ...
}

2. Converting to []int gives you a slice of runes:

s := "Какая-то строка"
runes := []int(s)

sub := string(runes[:8]) // "Какая-то"

however, slicing a string directly will slice it by byte:

s[:8] // "Кака"

3. With package utf8 (http://golang.org/pkg/utf8/) you can manipulate runes manually.

While this is all not intuitive (you have to know what does what), I find it rather easy.
Reddit was having that problem in some subreddits, so they created a subreddit just for those posts: http://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia
"read share the vision of bringing software innovation and products to our customers" as

Grab a piece of (someone else's) software innovation and products and sell those to our customers.
You missed the central point of the statement:

This is what he prefers, what he stands for, and what he is selling: the courage to pursue anyone you want, and the skills to make the person you desire desire you back.

It's not wrong at all to put what you want on a pedestal. It seems pretty obvious to me that when you desire something it's because you value it.
Yes, if nice == more efficient. Who's to say he would have even thought of leaping into the tech industry had he not been in med school?
So, the tl;dr of the miserableness followed by my commentary:

1. Have to use the Music Manager to upload music; no drag and drop (Yup, that sucks)

2. Somewhat buggy phone app (Sucks)

3. Looks too much like Grooveshark (Uh, I guess? Only so many ways to skin a cat and make a music player)

4. Caches music, and they banned Kongregate for caching Flash games (This is a pretty big stretch, especially since the linked article doesn't even come close to supporting the claim caching was the reason for the ban)

5. It uploads files from iTunes, and Apple has shown a history of disliking that with Palm (A: Who cares if Apple gets mad about what I do with my music I legally purchased B: There is a pretty big difference between uploading music you've purchased from iTunes and iTunes allowing non-Apple products to sync with it)

Seems like sensational linkbait that has a few legit complains and a lot of filler.
How is that the wrong attitude?

I think you should read the original article that quote is from (http://nymag.com/news/features/asian-americans-2011-5/) because the remainder of your comment makes it clear you didn't understand what you've quoted. It certainly has nothing to do with putting women on a pedestal, in fact, it's quite the opposite.
all that said, I think there really is a benefit to document dbs: maybe you don't care about second order applications yet.

If you don't care about second order applications yet, then you don't have anybody asking questions about what's happening in the business yet. Make sure you're equipped to answer these questions, whether via relational queries or map-reduce jobs or whatever. Also make sure that you can turn around requests for a lot of different kinds of these queries, both scheduled and ad-hoc. Business folks call this "reporting" and it isn't optional, because it's one of the business' main ways of staying grounded in reality. Is the new marketing campaign working? Are the demographics of our users match our predictions? How did last week's outage affect customer retention? The worst case scenario is when the answers to those questions are nonexistent, and the second worst case is if they're hidden in log files, but after those two the worst case scenario is if the only people who can write queries against your datastore to answer those questions are the hard-core developers who ought to be adding new features or working on infrastructure.

So however you store your data, make sure it isn't rocket science to write the queries that the business guys need to answer their questions. Otherwise your rocket scientists will be wasted answering marketing questions like, "How many iPhone users who purchased our service in February used it in both March and April?" instead of improving your technology.

P.S. I believe reporting is a major motivation behind the SQL-like languages that pop up for non-relational databases, but my experience with the problem I described was actually with a very large and complicated relational database, so SQL is no panacea. It took us a long time to create a reporting team that was self-sufficient enough to shield our senior database developers from the flow of menial reporting work.
Awesome thank you for the link!
Prolonged isolation causes measurable damage to the brain. His "exercise" consists of walking slowly in a circle for one hour; no other exercise is allowed. He has to answer the guards' question, "Are you okay?" every five minutes. Imagine how disruptive that would be to your thoughts, having to answer that question every five minutes for over half a year. He can not sleep whenever he wants: Sleep is only allowed between 8pm and 5am. If he goes to sleep at any other time, they wake him up. If he happens to turn away from the camera or is completely covered by his blanket during sleep, they wake him up. He has been made to strip publicly for no reason. He has been made to sleep naked for no reason. He has been denied sheets and a pillow for no reason. They have denied the Red Cross' request to make an official visit. He is being treated terribly.

Edit: Sorry, it was the UN Special Rapporteur for Torture, not the Red Cross.
Question, relating to email etiquette.

Do people send "thanks" emails at the end of a discussion? Sometimes I'll have a discussion with someone online. Sometimes there's no more to say, and I always wonder if I should send a "thanks" email. No content, but just something to close the loop and a minor show of gratitude. But it seems wasteful. In a verbal converation it's a no-brainer to just say, "thanks for the time", but in email its not clear if its better to do it or to just end the convo by not sending another.
It's more than just the plumbing. Emotionally/hormonally women are different. Everyone should be treated _fairly_ but not interchangeably.

After a deep (albeit brief) introspection, I am quite happy to pull out chairs, open doors, offer an arm on the stairs, and date women.

[note the submitted link seems to be down I have yet to read the article]
Sure, and if there was a denial then I'd be inclined to believe that, but as far as I know there hasn't been one. Even his many supporters are crying out for him to be treated well in prison, I don't think there have been any of his supporters claiming his innocence?
It's a wrong attitude because it implies that having sex with a white woman is somehow an achievement in life worth respect from others. I disagree.
I think there is speculation that he'll get extradited from Sweden, though I don't know the specifics of why that is.
Microchip also announced a PIC24-based board: http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_P...
Time Warner is complaining that they don't have the manpower to handle the subpoenas: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/time-warner-... I don't know why they don't just staff up and bill the lawyers, but they don't.
I've heard Carpalx [1] works well. In general, you want to feed an optimization algorithm the "text" that you would be typing. Maybe you could run a keylogger on one of your SC2 sessions and use that for input? That would help with hotkeys in sequence, as usually typing with different fingers is faster (compare "df" to "aa").

[1] http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/
I predict that in two years they will have successfully marginalized their investment into 'Microsoft Skype' - part of the OS/Office/Outlook suite.
JavaScript charting library renders SVG, Canvas, Flash and VML
Long-term solitary confinement is tantamount to torture[1], although it would currently fail to meet some definitions of torture.

Furthermore, according to Lt. Col. David Coombs, Manning's counsel:

“[Manning] is held in solitary confinement. For 23 hours per day, he sits in his cell. The guards check on him every five minutes by asking him if he is okay. He is required to respond in some affirmative manner. At night, if the guards can not see him clearly, because he has a blanket over his head or he is curled up towards the wall, they will wake him in order to ensure that he is okay. He receives each of his meals in his cell. He is not allowed to have a pillow or sheets. He is not allowed to have any personal items in his cell. He is only allowed to have one book or one magazine at any given time to read. The book or magazine is taken away from him at the end of the day before he goes to sleep. He is prevented from exercising in his cell. If he attempts to do push-ups, sit-ups, or any other form of exercise he will be forced to stop. He receives one hour of exercise outside of his cell daily. The guards take him to a room and allow him to walk. He usually walks in figure eights around the room. When he goes to sleep, he is required to strip down to his underwear and surrender his clothing to the guards.”[2]

According to an official at the Marine brig at Quantico, Va., the nudity is in fact happening[3][4].

Now, I'm not saying that all the aforementioned accusations are true, but it now seems clear that the solitary confinement and forced nudity at least are happening - over several months of illegal incarceration without due trial of any kind.

[1]: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14...

[2]: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/04...

[3]: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/05...

[4]: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/world/05manning.html?_r=1
You can equally validly argue that this will lead to a worse, less peaceful future, because some secrecy is essential for governments to function.

For example, in order to make the right decisions when dealing with foreign affairs, a government needs accurate information from its diplomats and other agents. Already one diplomat (the US ambassador to Mexico) lost his job because he provided an honest assessment of Mexico's organized crime problem and the ineffectiveness of Mexico's attempts to deal with it in his reports back to Washington. Wikileaks leaked those reports, and that embarrassed Mexican officials. Ambassadors can't function if the host country is pissed off at them, so the Ambassador was withdrawn.

The major effect of these leaks is going to be for the government to become less open. Assuming Manning is indeed the source of most of these leaks, the reason he had access to all that information was because the government was trying to be more open internally. One of the findings of the 9/11 investigations was that collectively we had enough information to anticipate an stop the attack, but because the information was spread among several agencies, no one was able to put it all together and see the connections.

In response to that finding, the government purposefully started making information more widely available across agencies, and to more people in those agencies.

Surely that will be cut way back now, with much less sharing between agencies, and information only going to those who definitely need it.
It's slightly different. Opening doors is a sign of politeness. Politeness has nothing to do with putting people on a pedestal.

Politeness can be done in a way that indicates disgust, similarly to passive aggression.
I think his outlook on achieving his goal interferes with every reasonable pick-up theory in the world, is offensive to women of other color, and is borderline fascist.

I also think he is using his race as an excuse for his problems.
Thanks for your comment joebadmo. I share your sentiments about our parents - they sacrificed so much so that we could have a good life here in America. My problem is that the many of things they taught us do not produce the results that we - this generation - are looking for (or perhaps more kindly, are necessary but not sufficient).

I want adventure in my life, an uncapped career trajectory and yes, I would like to have money. But other people might want other things too - like the writers and poets featured in the Paper Tigers article.

The important thing is recognizing what you really truly want and not letting other people's expectations stop you from going after those things.
It implies that having the skills to pick up any woman you want (in his specific case, he wants blonde haired white women) is an achievement in life worth respect. You may disagree with that, but I can assure you those skills translate to all aspects of social interaction. In the context of the original article, this is one of the ways that people can radically improve their social skills and positively impact all areas of their life.
You've heard representatives of him complaining. You've actually heard nothing from him.

His supporters obviously don't know that he's innocent, so they're sensibly not saying he is. People can't know he did it, they too should sensibly not say he's guilty.
Apologies about the site being down intermittently - I'm leaving my webhost (Bluehost) as the uptime has been atrocious as of late.
Criticism vs Interpretation of an Author's Work
site seems to be down, cached version:

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Do anti-anxiety drugs reduce feelings of unfairness?