skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a Prospect Asks for Customization it Means He/She is Not a Real Buyer
Wild guess- Illegality makes them feel less responsible (or irresponsible), sort of like an Act Of God.
OpenSignalMaps? OpenBmap? Cellhunter? OpenCellID?

If you've got an android device, OpenSignalMaps and OpenBmap have clients to monitor wifi/cell towers although I prefer OpenBmap for making their data available for download again ("open"SignalMaps just makes maps for website/client).
Contribution to Female Entrepreneurial Ecosystem helps Fund Raising
One of the people I most admire is Vinod Khosla. He got Sun Microsystems one of their first contracts by camping out in the lobby of a customer (they wouldn't take his meeting) and meeting them on their way out daily to tell them why they should do business with him. He did the same thing to get into Business School at Stanford. He was rejected but just came anyway and after hanging around for two weeks, somebody dropped out and they let him in. Persistence pays.. but yes, the trick is to do it in a respectful manner.
Which language to learn is a matter of taste. I personally think Scheme would be a good choice.

Learning the mathematical background first might be a good idea if you're a mathematician. Otherwise, getting at least some practical exposure in a language may cause the math to make more sense to you, should you decide to study it later.

For Scheme, some good books include: The Little Schemer and Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.

A good sample project might be to build some sort of language intepreter. For Scheme-based ideas, take a look at the book Essentials of Programming Languages. One of the early projects in that book is to build an arithmetic expression evaluator; by that point, you should be well on your way to thinking functionally.
There is really nothing insightful in this article. It's a list of a few banned apps and them throwing up their hands saying "who knows!?"
They both have problems. But I too thought the left one (while amateurish designed) sucked less that the right one. Right side had too many font styles, not enough whitespace, "towards center" justification (which makes me think of web equivalent -> rotating flaming skulls!), no clear path for my eyes to follow. My biggest complaint is utter lack of left right (horizontal) balance.

Maybe that is good print design (a subject I quit paying attention to in the 90's).
Sony says 10 million credit card accounts have been exposed in network attack
It matters sometimes.

A while back, I wrote a program to solve a puzzle. The more complex the puzzle, the longer it took to solve. Today, I might come up with a better algorithm, but back then, all I could find was a brute-force approach. The most complex puzzle I had seen at the time was taking hours to run.

The program was written in VB6, and it was just wasn't mean for CPU-intensive programs like that. If I were to write that program again today, I'd be looking at optimizing the code for speed, starting with the language.

So yes, the question -does- matter. Sometimes.
There is a strong correlation between school funding level and student test scores.

I'd be happy to look at the examples you can find citations for. In my state, Minnesota, school funding was largely equalized statewide in the 1970s. That political feat was lauded as the "Minnesota miracle," and got our then governor on the cover of Time magazine as a can-do, innovative governor. With special funding adjustments for high-poverty areas and special funding for school districts to promote racial integration, the inner-city school districts of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the two largest school districts in Minnesota, actually get MORE funding per pupil than most other school districts in the state.

But after a generation of this experiment, the results are disappointing. On the whole, schools anywhere in Minnesota are probably better than schools in most places in Mississippi, which is why many observers are guessing at the macro level that funding makes a difference.

But within Minnesota, both the Minneapolis and St. Paul districts are laggards in academic achievement, and most disturbingly to people like me who hope for all school pupils to learn and thrive, the "achievement gap" between "white" pupils and "pupils of color" is wider in Minnesota than almost anywhere else. That last observation is especially disturbing because Minnesota has no history of de jure school segregation or of impairing the civil rights of black people. (The first black graduate of the University of Minnesota graduated before my late grandfather was even born.) Something is seriously awry in the Minneapolis Public Schools, despite adequate funding, and when I read in the local newspaper, as I did a few months ago, that a union-endorsed candidate for the Minneapolis School Board has NEVER lost for as long as the schoolteacher union has been organized as a collective bargaining unit, I think that more than just funding levels are a problem here.
"Product management is everybody's job" that's true for perhaps the first 5 employees. And big companies sure they have managers.

I'm still left puzzled for the companies in between.
If you want "the reasons" see the Help page -

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/help.php#implementationx
In my experience, the reason is less due to speed and more because there's a perception that training algorithms for things like RBMs still involve a certain amount of "black magic" in tuning parameters, deciding when it's converged, etc, in contrast to linear/logistic regression or support vector machines, where you can basically turn a crank and get an answer out.
Fair point but a bit exaggerated, in my opinion. You won't see an "exodus from Android", just from that particular phone that comes preloaded with unremovable crapware.

The market tends to autocorrect itself pretty quickly for this kind of thing.
Agree. In cases like this, organizations will seize on any language or phrasing that implies "not our fault."

Of course just because something is illegal does not mean you shouldn't be trying to prevent it. See: money, banks, theft.
No editor is ugly with Monokai and Inconsolata!
'I do not really have a resume and even the one I have put together just consists of the companies I have owned over the years basically.'

Sounds like a resume to me..
That's an orthogonal distinction. The methods thus far have typically been parametric, in that there's a fixed network topology and the learning algorithm adjusts the (fixed set of) weights on the edges. There's no reason, though, why you couldn't have a nonparametric version that adaptively chose the number of hidden nodes in the networks and the connectivity structure.
It's even worse. If you get any free games during those 30 days of free membership, and then you don't subscribe, you lose the games. (Games you buy at a discount are still yours, though.)

So at best this is a slight discount on a few games, for most of the people. I'm guessing most of them won't even use their benefits at all.

The insult to existing PSN members is even bigger. They're given us 30 days free, right? Guess how many days we'll have missed during this incident? During that whole time, we get no benefit from the service, yet we've paid for it. The free 30 days probably won't even cover the missing time.

I am currently a PSN+ subscriber for both the US PSN and Japanese PSN... But I won't be continuing my subscription for either.
Please be careful before you go out and drop acid thinking it'll make you a better developer. Psychedelics like that are powerful.

And by powerful I mean I've had bad trips where I thought I was being raped, and hallucinated a giant penis staring at my face for eight hours.

On the other hand, acid is one of the best drug out there if done right, it unclutters minds.
Yes! Also, even when you do care about performance, general performance isn't ever the same as specific performance.

You have to optimise to your use case, not some arbitrary general use case like "render a Mandelbrot set" or "calculate pi". If I have a slow On^2 Erlang algorithm, then I'm a lot better off looking at ways to rewrite it as Olog(n) instead of scrapping Erlang and moving to Java because it had a better score on the programming language shootout.
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Apply for jobs at a few interesting companies and just see what happens?

Yes. What's the worst that can happen? You don't get a job? Well you don't have one now, anyway.

Edit: maybe should say "employment" not job. You sound like the sort of person who is working on things, regardless. So if you want to try working for someone else, then apply. There are definitely some employers that won't consider you because you don't have a degree, but there are many others for whom your actual accomplishments are much more important.
Would this be the same CEO that would fire people if they couldn't justify their job in an elevator ride? Or the Steve Jobs who denied his daughter's existence until it was painfully clear she was his (going so far as to force her mother onto welfare because he refused to support her)? Or are you talking about the Steve Jobs who paid lip service to improving conditions at Foxconn while not forcing them to improve anything (I think there's been 3 suicides so far this year)?

I own Apple products, I love my Apple products, I love Steve Jobs' talent for creating them. But let's hold off on beautifying the man shall we?
A Single Gene Possibly Responsible for Cortical Tissue Formation
Sony Apologizes For the Playstation Network Breach
Depending on the level that your first exit was at, it sounds like you were missing the essential "first few jobs" where you figure stuff out. For me, my first few jobs were frustrating enough to motivate me to build side projects. In fact, I think the day jobs made my side projects more successful and more rewarding. If I were you, I'd look for a job in your industry and pretend you don't have a savings to fall back on. Then maybe you'll find what you're looking for.
The scales strike me as value-neutral until you get to the extremes. You don't want someone who's constantly reinventing a newer, hotter wheel because they're too inwardly focused. Neither do you want someone who's so dependent upon existing solutions that they're incapable of writing their own code.
It's kind-of fun having "C" at both the top and bottom of a performance table -

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/compare.php?lang=cint

But let's note that here CINT is only being used as a C interpreter but a CINT script can call compiled classes/functions and compiled code can make callbacks to CINT interpreted functions - which I'm sure you understand would make it a lot faster.
People went rabid went some apps started showing ads as notifications. They will continue to do so for any app that implements it. This is going to police itself initially, and I'm guessing Google will do something about eventually.
This should really be a wiki - tricks, techniques and shortcuts for all kinds of social situations for the autistically spectralized.
i grew up close to these roots. glad to see Theo de Raadt and OpenBSD are alive & kicking it!
Today, I might come up with a better algorithm, but back then, all I could find was a brute-force approach. The most complex puzzle I had seen at the time was taking hours to run.

I bet that you could come up with a better algorithm now, even in VB6 if you had to, to get the run time down. I've seen people take "optimised" C solutions that run in hours and make them run in minutes, just by rewriting the algorithm and rethinking basic assumptions.
"data flows in Qubes OS seem to be currently loosely defined or discretionary at best (it is up to the user to move data among domains and there are no hard rules of what can and cannot be accessed and/or copied to/from different level security domains)."

This is a problem. As Vista showed, if you bother the user with too many details, they'll just open it up wide open and let everything through so they can just get their work done.
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Interesting you mention work life balance. When I interviewed with OPower in fall of '09, I was told engineers put in somewhere around 60 hours/wk...
The companies you have owned should make up your resume.
Sometime, even user choice is not acceptable because the feature is so obnoxious.

"Check this box to install malware: X"

For me, AirPush is in that category.

Come on asherisaac, be honest and imagine that you leave the company you work for so you can assess its business model more objectively: do you still think it's okay? Honestly?
Professionally, it depends on what you've done - in terms of resume the list of work you've done for people is exactly that.

Personally, the downsides tend to be limited to activities where you want to get credit - for example, buying a home or similar where they want to see that you're capable of making income.
"Accidentally sold it"?

How does one accidentally sell a company?
Actually you can interpret unsafePerformIO as: "Dear compiler, I know you can't prove that it's safe to call this function here in a lazy setting. Please trust me that it is. Sincerely, the programmer."
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But he wears a turtleneck and jeans and says stuff like "one more thing."
tl;dr: not everything critical of Apple is trolling.
After several years of TextMate, I recently switched to Sublime Text (http://www.sublimetext.com/). It's more or less TextMate 2: same philosophy and aesthetic, same bundles, much better performance, split panes, lots of nice features. Sublime makes we want to write and code more.
It's kind of a bummer that you included the Foxconn example, considering that there have been several articles pointing out that Foxconn is huge and, statistically speaking, they have a lower suicide rate than the national average. In other words, working at Foxconn makes you less likely to commit suicide!

That example kind of casts doubt on the others, which I hadn't heard of before (but wouldn't be surprised by, either).
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Not sure if it's sarcasm or not, but I do that often without any drug influence whatsoever.

Edit: ok, I scrolled up and now I've got it. I'm a bit slow today, maybe I need some stimulant after all...
Not sufficient. Does the notification showing the ad show which application it's coming from?

As long as you don't implement this, you are being disingenuous.

Not that I really care that much, to be honest: I bet that AirPush will shut down and be completely forgotten in a matter of months.
Thanks so much for the feedback. About the matrix, separating the important from the urgent is a learnt skill and probably doesn't come naturally like you said :)
Here's the background:
http://sandglaz.com/blog_posts/3-The-Urgent-Important-Matrix
And here's how we use it with iterative development:
http://sandglaz.com/blog_posts/10-The-art-of-product-backlog...
Did you see the documentation in the wiki? I ask because it took me a while to find it initially, and even then, re-locating it was sometimes difficult: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/%5BHowTo%5D-...
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ha! I can't tell if this is a joke. Maybe you didn't estimate your edge correctly, or didn't have one? Or is this really dry British humor, as your handle leads one to suspect?
The author seems to think that people who are nitpicky before sale use their feature requests as a way to avoid making a purchase.

The solution, from my perspective, is to have individual feature requests be bankrolled by the requestors. Tie features directly to dollar amounts, and ignore the totally oddball. Or you could price them to the point that the customer wouldn't buy them (or you're laughing yourself silly all the way to the bank when they do).
> Or are you talking about the Steve Jobs who paid lip service to improving conditions at Foxconn while not forcing them to improve anything (I think there's been 3 suicides so far this year)?

Foxconn had 920,000 employees in 2010, according to Wikipedia. China's suicide rate per 100,000 people is 6.6. If there've been 3 suicides thus far, they're tremendously below average.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...
Actually, most of the team came from other engineering backgrounds. Ginkgo is a great place for engineers to learn to hack biology.
They, and their users, are in fact the victims of a serious crime. Why analyze it further? Is there someone on HN who thinks Sony has no culpability for their own security failures?
Disclaimer: I work at American Roamer.

We actually track the marketed patterns that the carriers around the world say they have. In my analysis a lot of these open source ones are pretty messy datasets that wouldn't really add to our products. Although there are a few datasets here in the comments I haven't been exposed to before so I'm hoping they are more useful.

http://www.americanroamer.com/
A lot of the 'requirements' are more on the way of suggestions. Most companies only expect you to know some of the things they list in this sort of situation, anticipating that you can learn the rest if and when you need it on the job.
[video] Queueing theory and Erlang (The Mathematician)
Ask HN: What should I do with this domain?
I bought itmustsucktobefat.com and now I don't know what to do with it. Any suggestions what kind of site I should make with it?
Precisely. The burden is on the programmer to provide the evidence that the conditions for calling `unsafePerformIO` are satisfied. (That is, that any side effects are hidden).

Most languages have `unsafePerformIO` on every single computation :-)
Creating Your Own TechStars Experience
(I often get this wrong: "beg the question - assume the truth of a proposition needing proof.")

> ... I would take the most human-readable program over the most fast, lean or concise one

And some people do look at the source code for 2 dozen languages.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/help.php#why
Kelly criterion betting will always have huge swings, and there's a huge danger of over-betting if you don't precisely estimate your odds. For this reason, players will often bet an amount like "half Kelly" (simply half the bet given by the Kelly formula).
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Impressed By Slow Code
> general performance isn't ever the same as specific performance

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclusions.p...

> scrapping Erlang and moving to Java

"Most (all?) large systems developed using Erlang make heavy use of C for low-level code, leaving Erlang to manage the parts which tend to be complex in other languages, like controlling systems spread across several machines and implementing complex protocol logic."

http://www.erlang.org/faq/introduction.html#id49850
Since when has being a truly unique candidate with a previous track record of success and a genuine entrepreneurial spirit hurt in job hunting?

I'd say that should make you stand out, not hurt you in any way.

If that's not the case, there's no hope for the rest of us.
On the other claims are you capable of using Google? If you had the time to post this you should have the time to verify the data for your own piece of mind.

As far as Foxconn the company is huge but 30 suicide attempts in 3 weeks is not normal (http://gizmodo.com/#!5540045/foxconn-suicide-cluster-claims-...). China only has a .02% suicide rate and most are in the rural areas (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-09/11/content_609571...). That's 1 (Edit: I meant 1,000 here) in every 5 million people killing themselves. Foxconn has 950,000 employees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn) and 30 suicide attempts in 3 weeks!
I agree with Mark Pilgrim: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/01/21/wrongroom

Here's the basic problem: you're writing a text editor. Stop doing that. It's 2007. Saying to yourself "I'm gonna build my own text editor" is as silly as saying "I'm gonna build my own build system" or "I'm gonna build my own amusement park."
Altucher doesn't get a lot of love on HN b/c he embodies the worst of the excesses of the dot-com bubble, and his continual "Follow me on Twitter" exhortations in this piece are annoying, but most of his points in this article are actually good.
Also strongly recommend! Amazing ramble through the weird intersection of information theory, financial markets, degenerate gamblers, and gangsters. Kelly, when he wrote his paper at Bell Labs, was three degrees or less of separation from Claude Shannon, who invented the 'bit', information theory, and what everything digital comes from; Ed Thorp, who wrote 'Beat The Dealer' and started one of the earliest and most successful successful hedge funds (until his firm was busted by Rudy Giuliani); and mobster Manny Kimmel, who won a garage on Kinney Street in Newark on a bet, which eventually grew into Time Warner. Shannon built a wearable computer in the early 60s to try to predict roulette, and they would go to Nevada casinos to test out the theory and practice.

The book's web site is here -
http://home.williampoundstone.net/Kelly/Kelly.html

A simple explanation of the Kelly criterion is that if you have an edge (ie bet $5 and win $6 on a fair coin toss) you should bet edge / odds. The edge in this example is 0.1 (50% * -1 + 50% * 1.2), the odds are even money 1:1. The Kelly bet would be 10% (the edge) / 1 (the even money odds) = 10% of your bankroll. (corrected)

If you bet 0 each time, the expected growth rate is 0, if you bet 100% each time, the expected growth rate is 0, because eventually you will lose your whole bankroll.

10% is big enough to matter, but not so big that a losing streak will eventually decimate your bankroll.

If memory serves, when you bet the Kelly amount, you have a 1-p probability of eventually experiencing a p drawdown, ie if you have $10, you have a 10% chance of ever getting as low as $1 before resuming the expected long-run growth rate. (which would be the edge (10%) * the bet (10%) = 1% of your bankroll per betting round)

Been a while since I tried to understand this, if I screwed it up hopefully someone will correct me.
Mozilla is testing out using a small cluster of Ganeti VMs to manage failover for Hadoop/HBase admin services such as NameNode, SecondaryNameNode, JobTracker, and HBase Master.

This isn't an extremely high traffic cluster, and so far, it has been working very well.

Also, the Mozilla IT team has been using it in a few other systems, but I don't know the details of those.