skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to demonstrate some cross-browser communication app? I agree, this has a very limited application scope. I am more confused as to why the author made it when he doesn't seem to have a use case for it himself.
Wallace didn't die from a lack of mindfulness. Wallace succumbed to unexpected and fatal drug withdrawal syndrome, after he and his doctors attempted to get him off the medicine that had kept him alive for over a decade.

And what any of this has to do with this essay, I still don't know. I stand by my assessment of this thread as stupid and mean.
It's self-defeating because it degrades the quality of your site, it's self-defeating because it blocks some user behaviors for discussing your site, and it doesn't work. Rule of thumb: if you don't want something shared, don't put it on the internet.

There are a few reasonable exceptions. Stock photo sites should probably use watermarks and reduced-size images. Unobtrusively signing images sometimes also makes sense (not watermarking) as it can serve branding interests.

But trying to block browser interactions is just annoying. Don't do that, it's a great big sin against usability that violates the rule of least surprise. If it's over-done, it may keep me from easily opening links in a new tab. It also makes it hard to open images in a new tab if I'm trying to get a better look at them on a limited display.
I'm a native Arabic speaker, and I agree with you on point 10. If you've learned formal Arabic properly - i.e. attended school - then even texts from the pre-islamic era should be accessible. (Mostly poems, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muallaqat)

However, there is a definite decline in the number of people who can fluently and eloquently use MLA. Keeping this (sad) trend in mind, you will definitely find native speakers who have trouble understanding not only the old texts, but even the more silver-tongued of the modern ones. This isn't unique to Arabic. Perhaps a parallel can be found in the constant confusion between the possessives and the abbreviated verbs with English pronouns even by native English speakers.

I'm not claiming that formal and eloquent Arabic is going to die any time soon, however the rise of movements such as Masry (http://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8...) is a sure tell sign that maybe there aren't as many people speaking it as we thought there are.

And I believe something should be done about this.
The board of directors fired Steve Jobs because of the company's poor performance. It wasn't as if it went downhill only after Steve left.
Maximum firing rate differs between neuron types (i.e., cortical pyramidal neurons versus cerebellar Purkinje neurons) dependent upon cellular membrane properties (dendrite diameter and ion channel distributions, etc.), but a good rule-of-thumb to keep in mind is 1 kHz. That maximum "firing rate" is about as fast as a patch of membrane can generate an action potential (AP, or "spike"), reset, and fire another.

All that said, a relevant question to ask is, "What is the information content of a single action potential?" There is not an agreed-upon answer among neuroscientists. The metaphor linking brain and a personal computer is extremely strained: to start, it is not quite true that neurons can carry out logical functions. Neurons are firmly rooted in the analog domain and it is much more straightforward to infer polynomial-type computations from their physiology, the order and coefficients being dictated by the particulars of the scenario. Also, the current thinking is that information is encoded in bursts or repetitive APs, called "spike trains". But if we must, I'd throw out a range of 0.5 to 5 bits per spike [Rieke, et al.]. (If you want to go down a rabbit hole and explore one of the pivotal topics among people studying neural computation, look up "rate coding" versus "temporal coding". Perhaps even phrasing the question that way is misleading.)

Here's a side note that may be of interest: during an AP, the trans-membrane voltage swings from approximately -100 mV to +100 mV (very rough figures). If you consider that this potential difference is applied across the 3 nano-meter thick cell membrane, the resulting electric field is very close to the dielectric breakdown voltage for phospholipid membranes. Our neurons are constantly operating within a factor or two of literally destroying themselves! (The preceding paragraph contains very back-of-the-envelope reasoning. To be more rigorous, I'd have to dig out my notes and reference materials, but the general point nonetheless holds.)
Not at all. An unpunished illegal actions is still illegal; you are not _punished_ if you are not caught violating the law. Your phrasing is more pithy, of course.
In the current legal environment, my guess is that a technology with patent licenses is nearly worthless compared to a technology with patents. Note that if someone wants to license webOS, naturally they license the patents. But who would want to buy the business but not the IP? That’s like licensing the operating system, being responsible for maintaining it, and paying a massive fee for the license up front. Such a business would be hard to run and hard to sell since you aren’t buying the IP and therefore can’t resell it.
Note that this is from 2008, so some of the code samples are out-of-date (e.g., case is now part of clojure.core).
Not necessarily .. reentry vehicles have been able to maneuver as far back as Gemini by rotating (they have a slight amount of lift) -- this works best in the upper atmosphere where small velocity changes can make large changes to your landing zone. Both the US and Russia designed maneuverable warheads to evade each other's ABM systems.
I don't see anyone else around with a Mach 20 assassination missile. Call it circumstantial evidence if you like...
Michael Fogus has also done some work porting On Lisp to Clojure. Chapters 2-5 are here: http://blog.fogus.me/tag/onlisp/

Halloway picked up where Fogus left off.
You can make a cross domain POST with an IFRAME but would not get the response directly. Having to use parent.postMessage, the window.name hack or polling with JSONP depending on the browser. Possible then, but not so easy.
No, they aren't. د and ض are pronounced as dal and dahd respectively. I know this because I'm a native Arabic speaker.

http://arabic.speak7.com/arabic_alphabet.htm
Hiding the Lockheed Plant during World War II
We had a tester/QA person like this for a project, an older lady who knew the domain at hand, but not so much about computers. She'd find the craziest bugs and produce amazing stack traces, mostly in the last week before a release was to go out. By the last week before release, it took the program manager 2 minutes to see that the bugs were not worth fixing...
I found your article interesting but I was really distracted by your characterization of DLI students as douchebag fraternity boys who love The Fountainhead and think all Arabs are "scary men in turbans." Totally doesn't jibe with the guys I know.
I agree with your analysis I just think your previous comment had an unavoidable political message: the implied message was that there is no problem and intervention is not needed.

Your scenario of giving people a stipend seems politically unlikely. The trend, which shows no signs of abating, is for the American standard of living to simply diminish unrecoverably. This has been happening for 40 years.

The average American's lifestyle is moving toward the average Chinese lifestyle. That trend will continue without political intervention.

Political intervention will not occur as long as the intellectual class (e.g. you and all the people you influence with your adept analysis) remains politically neutral in their spare time.
My Summer Internship At A Startup
Here's an analysis of my experience working at a startup over the past summer. There were good, bad, and "wtf?" moments but I still enjoyed it nonetheless.
He died of complications resulting from depression. Call it what you want.

The GP was stupid and mean, and I'm not trying to dispute that. Shoot, I called him a douchebag.

But it remains true that mindfulness can help with depression, while this speech is about thinking about mindfulness, which sadly doesn't help with anything. Mindfulness is a practice, not a philosophy.

From my perspective, that's tragic.
plus: http://www.youtube-mp3.org (just found this)
This is exciting, because it opens the door for space elevators that don't rendezvous with a stationary point on the ground, but with hypersonic planes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-rocket_spacelaunch#Hyperson...

http://www.enotes.com/topic/Tether_propulsion#HASTOL_.E2.80....

This puts the tensile strength necessary into the realm of existing high-strength polymer cables.

If we could build a robust fully-reusable space plane that can go Mach 15, and we could also find a way to rendezvous it with a rotating tether, we could free ourselves from the nastiness of the rocket equation and achieve inexpensive space access.
To continue with your example, take cases where a (finite) collection of discrete objects is summed over (unioned over, whatever).

You'd let N be the number of such objects, and then twenty following pages of text would contain summations from 1 to N. This is more compact than summations from 0 to N-1. And in a certain sense, there's one less "token" to remember (i.e., if you start at 1, you have 1 and N to remember, but when you start at 0, you have N, 0, and N-1 to remember).

The one that's more compact tends to be discipline-specific.
Isn't this about cost? It's cheaper to have a router filter out an IP address than it is to have the router inspect the traffic and filter it based on URL.
I never mentioned DNUs.

The 125 was treated in the Congress because of public rejection. It doesn't have to do with free speech but the grandparent asked for examples of attack on private property.

The pension funds were the response to the failure on the 125. I'm not saying she did it by herself, but we are talking about a government, it was the government project.

Football TV contract was violated and instead of defending the private property, the government supported one side when at least should have been neutral. You would say this is proof of nothing but I just heard Arujo and J.Ricardo praise Cristina's "inquietud para que todos puedan ver todos los partidos".

As for the "long list", that's a subjective point and I respect your opinion.
It's of course not OK to lie and get caught. If the board wanted him badly I am sure they would have found other ways of keeping him around - fines etc and worst case hiding it or downplaying it. Things aren't that simplistic at corporate board level of a multi billion company.

Fact of the matter is that he was going to be shown the door - if not for lying then for job performance. He just wasn't doing the things the board wanted him to do. That never ends well.
"abd" means also servant as in servant of god (Abdullah).

Also in slavic languages "slovo" means word, so "slaveni" are ""people who speak (the same language),".
But it become "sclavoni" in late latin, since appareantly many slaves were slavic?
Should I avoid learning any language which has derived from latin because I'm slavic?

Words have ancient roots, in times where there wasn't yet the concept of political correctness and we still have traces of it in every language.
I have seen scope change been an issue on 10k projects as well on multi-million dollar projects. All of which in my history would have been better off with an hourly billing.

The number of bodies were talking about makes a big difference, and the larger that number is the more a fixed rate person/week makes sense. Just like the larger consulting firms its all about placing a lot of people for a long time, +/- 1 week here or there won't matter. You mitigate the risk and it makes sense to take it on spread across the team and only as granular as weeks. Agreed your system works really well with those scenarios.

I interpreted the the original post was an individual who provides consulting service where 1 week could make a difference, 20% overage on a 1 month project. The companies aren't necessarily tiny, but maybe the departments within those companies (read budget) he consults with are limited. In this scenario I would favour a good hourly rate over fixed price every time.
The main reason unemployment stats look that way is because people give up looking for work and are no longer counted in the stats.

Data is not wonderful when it is used to confuse and deceive rather than enlighten. Data becomes a tool of enslavement when a word like "unemployment" takes on an operational definition that does not reflect the public perception.
In addition to this, I recommend A Perfect Vacuum and Imaginary Magnitude, which both fall into the category of "books of reviews of books that don't exist".

I've never been able to get into his novels, though. Mind you I'm not really a fan of science fiction per se.
Congratulations. You've discovered TDD without the tests.
A flexible, scalable, relational data mining language
Widely used data mining systems are expensive in...
...time (configuration, tuning, indexing, query run times)
...money (licensing, hardware, services)
...flexibility (must discard or index data to make queries tractable)
...or in some cases all of the above.
r17 is our response to these problems.

Language features

* Built-in concurrency, including cross-machine concurrency.
* Strong type checking at stream-header-read time.
* Complex data transformations including 'if/then':
rel.select(
(if (str.starts_with(name, "Johann") || (j_i > 0)) then (
"Another Johann"
) else (
"No Johann"
)) as johann_nature);
* rel.select can refer to the output of the previous record transformation, allowing accumulator-like operations.
* Perl-compatible regular expressions.
But you just proved the point I tried to make earlier. You refuted Wallace on the CONTENT of his speech, not on the fact that he eventually committed suicide.

I'm a longtime meditator and a big DFW fan. I generally agree with you. DFW is NOT spot-on.
English has homonyms too. Besides, the same word is also used to mean "worshipper".
In any case, you may like the book I linked to in my post.
Not exactly - you like the 4:3 aspect ratio, but I prefer the 16:9 because he margins on most documents are too wide.
I'm okay with what I get.
What is sad is that people are going to see your post and think that unemployment is actually falling.

When in reality, those statistics have been cooked. Those numbers don't include people who have given up looking, the underemployed, part-time workers, or even suicides.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is part of the problem. Their measurements are deceptive.
Your point stands, I'd like to clarify that the HTV-2 vehicle[1] is an unpowered glider, boosted to cruise velocity by a rocket stage, not a scramjet. Unfortunately, most of the popular news reporting has used the term "airplane" which usually refers to an aircraft capable of powered flight. Although the eventual goal of the FALCON project is to develop a scramjet-powered strike aircraft, the current record holder is still NASA's X-43[2] with a maximum attained speed of Mach 9.68.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Falcon_Project

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-43A
It's an interesting thought, but doing this for anything on any real scale is going to bite you in the ass when it comes to use cases.

Unless you program every single view/controller out with no model, which means you're throwing together reams of code with no way to test it.

Interesting as a first step if you're stuck, though, but I don't see a lot of worth in this over pseudocoding the app as a design step, either.
Either way, you are a murderer.
Didn't load for me - the bookmarklet is stuck on "Getting data from Delicious".
Congrats Steve and Jared!
It is true that non government employment has increased but the decline in the unemployment rate has a lot to do with a decline in the participation rate. One needs to look at the participation rate. Around 125,000 jobs per month need to be created in order to keep up with the increase in population.
"but it actually impoverishes the uneducated masses because they no longer have jobs and cannot afford higher education."

Minimum wage laws mean it is illegal to pay someone a fair wage for menial work. Ergo, the uneducated no longer have jobs. The work must still be done, but as it is illegal to hire a person we automate the process.

Higher education is free. Libraries, Internet, ... MIT has all curriculum on line for free, along with many other schools. Certification is what's expensive, and so long as people are willing to commit to stupid huge loans the prices will keep going up.

As an instructor I am astounded at the percentage of students who just will not do the work. It's not that they cannot afford retraining - there is a host of funding options, and if you're paying list price you're doing it wrong - it's that they want certification without education.

The safety net is being abused. Between outlawing viable poverty and wanting benefits without effort, only a small minority are willing to be productive and gain the benefits thereof.
What killed the TouchPad more than anything was lack of differentiation. If they had been $400 from the start, they could have been "the iPad, but cheaper". They could have started with a 7-8" model. They could have targeted specific niche markets or verticals en masse, preloading them with use-case specific apps and selling thousands of units at a time to big orgs.

As it is, the webOS is a brilliant OS which HP completely squandered. I hope it somehow lives on via skunkworks or homebrew; I plan on keeping my $99 unit, as the browser and e-book functions will keep it useful for years to come.

(Side note: it's also occurred to me that webOS is perfect for large-scale touch computing, of the "big-screen drafting table" variety. Why they haven't pursued this instead of touchable iMac knockoffs is beyond me.)
Top down development existed far before test driven development. This is just top down development instead of bottom up development.
This is just top down development.

Works great in many cases instead of bottom up development. It really is a design methodology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-down_and_bottom-up_design

You just happened to be designing as you were going along coding
Erlang is "let it crash", which is not exactly the same thing, but it's quite close, and just as interesting.
It's harder to administer a blog yourself than to host it on Blogger. Can you host a blogger.com blog from your own IP?
Great point, didn't realize that webOS was actually worth some money, they definitely should sell it off.
NLP, Text Categorization, Unstructured Data is a huge field.

I worked in a startup, whose competition was Autonomy's consumer internet spin-off in 2001
I found this a while back, (https://zetabee.com/cashflow/demo) Quite useful, exactly what he's proposing too.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2333570
Travis Kalanick (founder of Uber) on "The Original Social Network"
Wait. 3 minutes at Mach 20 will get you from SFO to PDX easily, though I suppose it will take longer than that to take off and land.
I acknowledge that what I'm doing is "about as top-down as you can get" in the article.
Real Life MasterChief and SEALS Team 6 Troop Leader Dies
Skype Acquires GroupMe
Does the experimental setup for the human judges sound fair to you?

For example, the naive Bayes classifier knows the a priori distribution of review spam (which appears to be held to 50%), but do the undergraduate human judges? It would appear not, given that one judge only labeled 12% deceptive.

Likewise, were the human judges able to see examples of truthful and deceptive reviews before beginning the task? (In other words, are the human judges solving a different problem, e.g., "deception detection", than the classifier e.g., "similarity to prior deceptive reviews from Turkers").

If these are differences between the human and computer annotator setups, are they major differences? Can you spot any other big differences between the two experimental setups?
Those hacks don't work on all platform (iframe for mobile is a good example) and often require you to have very particular setting on both sites. The only way for JSONP to work well on everything is to use script tag injection which only allows you to do GET request.
No they didn't. They fired Steve Jobs because they didn't get along with him. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/06/06/why-i-fired...
Ditto, my thoughts exactly. And I DO use a lot of exclamation points, naturally.
1) It's also the first part of some of the most popular given names. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_(name) The word for slave simply doesn't have the same meaning as in English.

2) "Slave" (عبد) means black just as much as "nigger" means the same in English. Or "chink" means Chinese. It's a pejorative term. Anyone decent enough would simply say "black" (اسود) or "tanned" (اسمر).
My preference is to scope well, give the client a per-project quote and then charge hourly for out-of-scope work.

This way, the client knows what to expect to pay from the start and if he introduces changes on the way he knows it is going to cost him extra.
Awesome! While I'm a little bummed that I no longer have a good excuse to implement this and brush up on my Django/JavaScript, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
Hurd didn't pay a hooker. At worst he was having an affair with a events organiser. With full hindsight, I'd say the board wanted Hurd and consumer business out.
"in our site, where anonymity is a requirement, also the positive reviews dominate by far, which is indicating that there's much more good than bad in the world"

Or indicates a lot of fake reviews or something in between.
Cisco did the same with the Flip. Killed it but didn't want to mess around untying the IP.
Do you have any more reliable data that would contradict this data and support your own assertion that unemployment is actually increasing?
We already have the technology to shoot it down and have done for years:

http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/ekv/

Inevitably, someone else probably has it too.
Why do people want https on Hacker News?
Much of what DFW believed about the world, about himself, about the nature of reality, ran counter to his own mental wellbeing and ultimately his own survival. Of the psychotherapies with proven efficacy, all seek to inculcate a mode of thinking in stark contrast to Wallace's.

In this piece and others, Wallace encourages a mindset that appears to me to actively induce alienation in the pursuit of deeper truth. I believe that to be deeply maladaptive. A large proportion of his words in this piece are spent describing that his instinctive reaction to the world around him is one of disgust and disdain.

Rather than seeking to transmute those feelings into more neutral or positive ones, he seeks to elevate himself above what he sees as his natural perspective. Rather than sit in his car and enjoy the coolness of his A/C or the feeling of the wheel against his skin or the patterns the sunlight makes on his dash, he abstracts, he retreats into his mind and an imagined world of possibilities. He describes engaging with other people, but it's inside his head, it's intellectualised and profoundly distant. Rather than seeing the person in the SUV in front as merely another human and seeking to accept them unconditionally, he seeks a fictionalised narrative that renders them palatable to him.

He may have had some sort of underlying chemical or structural problem that caused his depression, but we have no real evidence for that, we have no real evidence that such things exist. What we do know is that patterns of cognition that he advocated run contrary to the basic tenets of the treatment for depression with the best evidence base - CBT and it's variants.

Foster favoured a world view that was 'true' over one that made him happy. He saw happiness and contentment as essentially irrelevant compared to the pursuit of truth. I believe that to be his ultimate error.