skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, talk about div-itis.

And the source has almost the entire thing duplicated again, but commented out for IE < 9.

Is it bad that I read the title as: "Adobe Misuse promises code-free Web site design" and came to check what new horror they have unleashed?

Although an HTML gui is probably something that is needed.
Any word on whether the course materials will be available in the future, or if the course itself will be offered in the future?
These sorts of developments must really bring hope to the masses of underemployed law grads I've been hearing about.
if Excel's performance could be improved, it would become the best tool for some scenarios

Where have you found Excel's performance to be inadequate?
So refreshing to hear a wealthy man like Mr. Buffet say this! Helps President Obama too.
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Nobody knows if a protest is going to turn violent before the protest happens. Even if it did, you still have the right to peacefully assemble until violence begins.

Worst-case thinking and CYA-syndrome are poor strategies. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/05/worst-case_thi...
Not back to 1996 they don't (the first year of online SEC filings) which for those of us interested in doing panel studies we'd love to have. You can purchase it for ~$20,000 for a small institution, I'm not sure what an individual license would run.
What is interesting is that the patent defense isn't just about Android... Motorola has a bunch of video patents that are now not problems for WebM. Given the MPEG-LA patent pool, probably not much that can be asserted for MAD, but they've at least defused a number of bombs previously pointed at WebM users.
Discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2886047
I get the sense you were really looking for star power, judging by the speaker list.
I do think you should be careful how Startup Bootcamp deals with this fact as an organization, though. There's a difference between "virtually all founders are male" and "virtually all famous, well-recognized founders are male."

From MIT alone, I can point you to recent YC company Venuetastic, and their two female MIT founders (Helen Belogolova and Christine Yen). I can't imagine they'd both be busy.
Also, the CEO and Founder of the startup I work for, Smarterer, is female. We're right here in Boston and were recently funded by Google Ventures. There are more examples for sure, but you get the idea.

I understand that there are tradeoffs to be made between getting the hottest and most famous speakers, and getting a variety of perspectives. Kresge has 1,200 seats, and you want - need, even - to fill all of them. That said, the echo chamber that is Silicon Valley does have a habit of amplifying the male voice over the female voice. To acknowledge that fact, and perhaps be proactive in trying to compensate for it (did you try Jessica Mah, for instance?), would do a better job of satisfying those who are giving you said flack.
Sorry. After reading
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I am even more sorry.
What about every other ad-supported site on the internet? How on earth are you concluding that having an audience makes you a "paid and bribed shill"?
Twitter has implemented a decent solution for that, which most clients (including the website) respect - it includes a display_url parameter along with the shortened URL in tweets fetched via the API.
Flagged for utterly inaccurate title!

They are being sued for creating free-speech blocking, and people tracking, technology.

Jailing and torture may have been done by the Chinese, but it has nothing to do with CISCO - not even indirectly.

Submitter did you even read your own article? Not even the people filing the suit are claiming that.

And I quote:

"They aren't just selling routers to a corrupt regime. They are selling the technology, training and software specifically designed to monitor, censor and suppress the Chinese people," said Mr Ward.

"And they are doing so knowing full well how the CCP treats dissenters."
That's pretty much an assumed feature of any URL shortener these days. Many folks use them precisely for that sort of analytics.
Citing Florian Mueller as an authority on anything destroys any credibility the article might have had otherwise.
Gotta love how Hacker News is listed under Press, which leads to this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2824780
But: BeOS couldn't print. End of story.

(I don't recall the details, but there was little to no printer support; certainly nothing comparable to classic MacOS. For Apple's core market at the time, that was the kiss of death.)
And the problem with you guys isn't much more complex than being "arrogant idiots".
Complicit = guilty
It took me most of the way through that video to realize that one of the doors was open. It's frightening that the door malfunctioned and that the sensors apparently aren't working (or don't exist).

I've ridden Muni only a handful of times. On one of them, a homeless man threatened to cut my throat with a knife. Admittedly, it was because I stepped up when he began screaming at a non-white person (Middle-Eastern, perhaps, with some variant of head scarf) and her toddler.
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Thanks for posting the other two course. I can't wait till October.
The Machine Learning course has a great a playlist on youtube as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzxYlbK2c7E&playnext=1...
It's a tough choice. Honestly, I'm probably better off in the Norvig class. It's been 15 years since my college AI classes.
In some sense some of experimental physics is getting "outsourced" already. For example (my understanding is that) there are many physicists working on experimental data coming out of CERN who are not participating actual design/running of the system. In that sense they are outsourcing the work to specialists.
> Once it's fixed (I'll let them know about it tomorrow and I expect it'll be rectified in a day or two) I'll update this page, but until that time, try it for yourself.

Sadly, it will never be fixed. This is not a bug to them. They are forcing every url on twitter to go through t.co for click tracking. It is no longer possible to put a url into a tweet without going through t.co, unless you leave off the http, which makes it unclickable in a lot of clients.
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It streams the dataset into memory 256K (more for longer rows) at a time. It doesn't load the whole dataset into RAM unless it must eg for a join, sort or grouping.

I don't currently have plans to push projection into the read phase, but the phases are all pretty close together :) so maybe it wouldn't be required. How massive is "massive" for you? 10s of K? Megs?

R17 is not currently open source, but I haven't ruled it out.
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I've no idea how those behave with utf8 data.

I'm more interested in what the memory settings do to the benchmark. After that, I'd want to see EXPLAIN ANALYZE.
How do you test your mobile websites? Apps?
I'm fairly new to mobile development space. I had an issue recently in which my site wouldn't work properly on some devices. Seems something about my javascipt didn't work.

Regardless of the specific issue, it worked just fine on my Nexus, a BB, and iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4. But then we got reports from the field that it wasn't working on some other iPhone 4's (which is weird, yeah) and multiple Driod models (Verizon Android phones).

How do you test/manage your sites across different phones and platforms?

Our site needs GPS and data, do you buy sim cards and swap them between phones? How do you test Verizon?
Are there big differences between T-Mobile Android builds and Verizon Android builds?

I'm looking for 'the best' way. We can afford to buy a few phones if that's the best way, but would like not to end up in a dozen contracts if I can help it.

Also, what do you use to measure client-side rendering time?
Good for him, but I hope someone up takes up his mantle.
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Some people question if it's systems like BATS that encourage market volatility because of it's preprogramed buy/sells on penny fluctuations.
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When I meet folks I'd like to get in touch with professionally, I generally give them my e-mail address and try to connect on LinkedIn after reminding them who the hell I am. Facebook is right out - to me, it just doesn't send the right message. I haven't got anything incriminating or otherwise inappropriate, but "friend" doesn't seem like the right label to apply to a job recruiter in a city I'm planning on moving to, for example.

I have no intentions of ever using Twitter, and I am actively trying to reach a point where I can function in the modern world without a phone number.

I have never heard of bump.
I'd love to sign up for both this and the ml class (though, I think I will sign up for the ml class...).

However, I've already committed to the AI class, and in addition to my regular coursework (Entering second year of uni, go me!), I don't think I'll be able to handle this.
I just don't understand how shutting down congress will stop a single color copyright infringement from happening.
It's not splitting hairs at all. The two represent diametrically opposite degrees of moral achievement.

"Do no evil" is a declaration of hubris or wilful blindness: no moral agent fails to do evil at times. An entity that did no evil would necessarily be incorruptible, immune to dilemmas, and in most ethical systems, omniscient as well.

"Don't be evil" is an almost comically low bar. Almost nobody other than comic-book villains, and perhaps Jeffrey Dahmer and certain pedophile priests, is evil according to the moral code they aspire to live by. The only reason it's even worth mentioning is that Google was born in a world dominated by Microsoft and Doubleclick, which were generally agreed to actually be evil, and Google aspired to do better. "Don't be evil" is satisfied by having the tiniest modicum of ethical achievement.

In short, the distinction between the meanings of the two phrases could hardly be more pronounced.

Anyone who claims that Google aspires to "do no evil" is excluding themselves from any serious discussion.
Twitter's description says wrapping only applies to links of 19 characters or longer.

https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/1062

Sounds like a bug.
My G+ stream has at most one post every week.

My Facebook stream has about 50-100 posts a week.

So I don't know if we just cancelled each other out. But to me, G+ is pretty much dead.
The title of the article is "Fighting China's Golden Shield: Cisco sued over jailing and torture of dissidents".

The HN submit tool wants < 80 characters, I figured that "Cisco sued over jailing and torture of dissidents" is more informative than "Fighting China's Golden Shield".

I've been warned before by pg about "editorialising in the title" so I reused the title of the article verbatim. If you have a problem with that, take it up with pg
Kinda paints a rather troubling picture of one of the biggest tech companies in USA.

Also, Cisco intimidation tactics:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/cisco-resorting-i...

A pound of flesh: how Cisco's "unmitigated gall" derailed one man's life:http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/a-pound-of-f...
So what is the non-intellectual-purity argument for why Javascript dependency is bad? I've heard people talk for years about why it's so important to support noscript, but tbh I feel like this is the year 2011-- the internet is not (only) a set of hyperlinked documents any more, and javascript is an essential part of the experience on many/most non-trivial websites. (note: not trying to troll; I'm honestly curious)
last I looked, xen was culled from openindiana (then the only functional Illumos based distro) - this was back in the days when we thought xen was dying, back before it was pushed upstream in Linux.
for what it's worth, if you take the ML class, you will learn most of the things you would learn in the AI class and more - although it does get a bit rigorous, and will take more time than the AI class would.
Warren Buffett doesn't have a significant income, so once again he's advocating taxes for other people.

If he holds true to form, he's also got a way to make money from other people paying higher tax rates. (He has investments that depend on the estate tax and has arranged things so his estate won't be taxed.)

If he think that his tax rate isn't high enough, he's free to write a check.

How about a tax that will hit him? For example, he likes to hold stocks "forever" and does a lot of tax-free exhanges, so there's "never" any tax on the gains. Why not require holding companies, like Berkshire, to do a "wash sale" and pay the resulting taxes on the oldest 5-10% of their portfolio every year. That way Buffet would pay some of the taxes that he thinks other people should pay.
Now this, is a great concept. Congrats on having the best idea I've seen so far this year guy.
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so you are saying this class is more practical and that one is more bent on mathematical theory?
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I think it does make more sense. Does it make sense why those of us who have responded don't read your first comment that way?

(I appreciate the clarification, btw)
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Last year my federal tax bill — the income tax I paid, as well as payroll taxes paid by me and on my behalf — was $6,938,744. That sounds like a lot of money. But what I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable income — and that’s actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of the other 20 people in our office. Their tax burdens ranged from 33 percent to 41 percent and averaged 36 percent.

Sounds to me like he's saying "I should be taxed more than $6.9 million." He's rather specific at the end of his piece:

But for those making more than $1 million — there were 236,883 such households in 2009 — I would raise rates immediately on taxable income in excess of $1 million, including, of course, dividends and capital gains. And for those who make $10 million or more — there were 8,274 in 2009 — I would suggest an additional increase in rate.

From http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-...
>We are in the midst of the intellectual property Cold War, and it's fascinating to watch.

I find it sad to watch. Any hope of patent reform in the US got a lot bleaker in 2011 due to the billions being spent on defensive portfolios, especially in the mobile space. There's no way these companies are going to let any legislation pass that invalidates their 'investments'. The best we seem to be able to hope for is that Google uses theirs defensively only, or adds them to copyleft-style patent pools like openinventionnetwork.com or openpatents.org. I harbor little hope that Apple or MS would do the same.
As long as you're meeting your business goals and not frustrating blind people, you're doing it right, JavaScript or no JavaScript.
Ah, OK. Vertex Texturing is an extension. It's not part of the WebGL spec and only certain hardware supports it. Unfortunately, it make really cool effects a lot easier. So, demos keep using it. I wish they'd stop. It's giving WebGL a worse rep for compatibility than it deserves.
We use Heroku with a Cloudfront cdn and we wrote a small ruby script that uploads our assets to cloud front, pushes code to Heroku, and runs db migrations.

We just thought rolling our own was the easiest thing to do given the simplicity of the Heroku deployment process.
Ahh, got it. Perhaps naive would have been a better word, although I recognize that in some circles that can be a larger insult. And for the record, I think that their plan for this 5% is much less deceptive than options in an S-Corp can be.

The disparity for me is that Jason makes this claim, "And since we have no intention of selling 37signals or going public – the two scenarios where options/equity really make sense – the complexity became too hard to justify."

My claim is that that statement is disingenuous because it posits the following argument; The company will never be sold, thus options or equity would never be liquidated, so providing equity or options doesn't make sense. The implicit claim on which this argument rests is that they will never sell the company, and that claim is neither supported by a structural contingency on the company, nor supported by a statistical comparison with the ways in which LLCs are dissolved (granted medical practices and law practices seem to dominate in this area, and can skew the results). In my opinion, it deceptively leaves that impression rather than being 'up front' about what are the real constraints.

I would completely believe him if he said instead "The Articles of Organization for the LLC specify exactly how any proceeds from the sale or dissolution of this company are to be distributed, and we are loathe to change them. Thus we don't really have an option here." (no pun intended)

And again, I think its really impressive that they came up with a way to share 5% of the proceeds when the company is sold. I merely suggested some ways they could make it 'look more' like what other people get in terms of equity and options by both allowing people to keep accumulated time after leaving the company and by having those 'units' represent a similarly sized chunk of the company.
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Rightscale scripts to provision new machines and Fabric to do the software deployments. We pushed a tarball up to S3, downloaded it to all the servers, untar the new deployment into a new directory, and then swap the symlinks/restart nginx either in a cascading fashion or all at once with a maintenance page depending on the complexity of the deployment (and if database changes were needed).
I would say that the AI class is a good overview for the field of AI - but Machine Learning is a good in-depth discussion of the machine learning approaches, which will generally also expose you to a lot of other related AI concepts.
Nah, I don't think she (or you) should be required to be interested in your job.

I sometimes try to explain things to my girlfriend to see if I actually understand them. If I can make her understand the concept--then I feel like I know what I'm talking about. She'll listen and play along, but it's boring to her. Thats fine. She's a law student and I do the same for her, but I think contracts and crap are as boring as she thinks algorithmic trading is and that's fine too.

We both spend all day with people who love that stuff. After recapping our days, there's plenty of other fun stuff to talk about and do. The key to making it work is we are both able to tell when the others eyes are starting to glaze over. Before you try forcing it, try to imagine a two hour discussion about paint brush selection or something you could really care less about.
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Thanks. I looked through the ML class stuff, and I'm sold. Really looking forward to it.
The title is:

Cisco Sued By Chinese Political Prisoners Over 'Golden Shield'

It seems to have a second title though, but the first one is much more accurate.
I took CS 229 years ago as an undergrad and still think about things from it all the time.
You probably won't hit a limit, CPUs are fast and even "slow" Ruby can do quite a lot.

If you do hit the limit though, and have exhausted algorithmic improvements, you've got your Ruby as an acceptance test for your C++ which will make it unimaginably easier to write correctly.

If you tried to do it up front you'd blow up the requirements, if you do it after you've profiled your real-world code you may only need a few lines of critical code.
Is MG ever insightful about anything? I'm not a regular reader, but every time I do read his articles, I feel the deja-vu of reading game console fanboy forum 'debates' from the early 2000s.

That line about smartest or dumbest is silly, not the least b/c it could be both at different times (maybe a terrible idea now, but turns out to be a brilliant one five years from now, or vice versa).

How'd he get that job with Techcrunch again?
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Obviously if you are a business owner then you will surely go ahead to grab the opportunity but have you ever wondered if you are the only one in the line.
yep, although it doesn't compare to the people you meet at the event.

Live: http://www.justin.tv/startupbootcamp

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/startupbootcamp
Or Samsung just got an incredible developer.
S3TC(DTX) and PVRTC have patent problems. The Khronos group is working on designing and popularizing new formats that aren't patent encumbered. So, far they best we've got is ETC -which doesn't support alpha channels and is not yet supported by PC hardware...
not sure if you saw it in the other thread, but you can check out http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs229/materials.html for some old course materials.

this is easily one of the best classes i've been able to take - as i said in the other thread, i was surprised to enjoy a 3-hour midterm! i think it's awesome they're making this available to more people.
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Every time I read one of these anti-China articles, I secretly chuckle at how I've never once met a Chinese citizen who has felt oppressed, in China. The chuckling goes a step further when someone inevitably responds, "they just don't know they're being oppressed!" Yeah, there are a few cases that are less-than-acceptable by our standards, but what do these people expect, when they try to cause a Cultural Revolution 2.0?

Anyway, back on topic:

I can't imagine Cisco losing this case. They're competing in a market, and not trying to torture people, or enable it. If they win, essentially any company providing supplies to China could be considered aiding in torture. Ridiculous.
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Yes,

But the thing with science is that a scientist has historically been considered as not just someone competent enough to run a given experiment but also as a "seeker after truth". And this does mean something, it means that the scientist someone who you can trust to some degree to run experiments honestly. And that trust has been broken on regular intervals and that trust gets verified by repetition sure. But the basic "integrity" might just be something that is hard to outsource in the fashion of IT outsourcing. But then again, it might also involve a loss that various companies are happy to accept.