skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A huge amount of time and money is wasted whereas a programmer could look at the code and compare with the paper pretty quickly."

Maybe. It might be faster and easier to analyze the data using their described methods and your own code and see if the results are the same.
I don't know about CNN, MSNBC, or Aljazeera, but Fox News admitted to fabricating stories and lying in court (bizarrely, they won the right to lie and call it news in said same court).

http://ceasespin.org/ceasespin_blog/ceasespin_blogger_files/...
http://digg.com/news/entertainment/the_daily_show_fox_news_l...

(I'm for totally ignoring CNN, MSNBC, and Aljazeera as well if they admit to intentionally misleading the public.)
For those wondering who Steve Losh is. He's the creator of a few vim projects and is writing "Learn VimScript The Hard Way".

http://stevelosh.com/projects/
Fact-checking is one way to put it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
Allright - it's GPL licensed. So Apple violates the GPL everytime someone loads the app from the App Store, because of their "you're not allowed to redistribute the app" rule.
This was the reason why VLC got pulled from the App Store, I'm wondering how long they will hold up...
It does look and emulate a magazine page somewhat, but updated for the internet.

There are no speed issues on my laptop browser or ipad...
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This and the 4S are different enough that a comparison is hard (as someone that's contemplating either an ICS phone or a 4S soon, I'll vouch for that) - I think "competitive" is a good way to put it.

Siri and the tight integration with Apple TV (specifically, the ability to mirror) are way ahead of their Android equivalents. The countless docks and accessories for the iPhone also give you a lot of options.

The camera looks to be a worthwhile advantage for the 4S - the motion-stabilized video in particular really stand out and make video actually worth watching/sharing.

People dismiss this as pedantic, but iOS's app advantage is still worth noting. GarageBand and iMovie are easily the most sophisticated mobile apps I've seen yet - Android equivalents (there really isn't one for GarageBand) aren't in the ballpark. If you're bored, $.99 will get you a great game optimized for the newest hardware like Scribblenauts or Shadowgun - Android looks to be at least a year behind. There always seems to be an Instagram/Orchestra/Oink with no Android equivalent.

But how do you weigh that against a larger screen that looks far better for reading and video? Similarly, this makes Android's already far superior Maps more useful. And I could see ICS's live voice transcription being just as much of an advantage as Siri. These are arguably more common use-cases than the Apple advantages I just listed.

All this to say that I wish it were an easy choice which were superior.
Fair point, I may have over-egged it a bit with "exactly."
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… replaced by physics as we know it with slight changes!

(If the effect is real. We will have to see.)
I use LinkedIn and I can safely that my profile is pretty inaccurate in a couple of areas - mostly pertaining to contract work. Oh, I did the work, but LinkedIn doesn't adequately represent my network.

And it's waaaay out of date these days.

Make tying to LinkedIn an option and it might be worth something for those of us who don't really see the value of it.
Really ? That's your dealbreaker ? MTP has been supported for long time on Linux… Just tried it on gnome and kde, no problem.

BTW, MTP has great advantages from an engineering PoV: you don't have to use a crappy FAT filesystem on your eMMC. You don't have to give full control over an essential piece of storage to another OS, so you can continue accessing data/apps installed on the storage.
Strength is the key part they didn't mention. DARPA probably wants that bit for themselves :) However one must assume this has some strength, otherwise what would the point be. Very cool stuff
As Gerald Jay Sussman would say - computing is alchemy.
Doesnt HDMI v1.4 have Ethernet built in? Surely you could figure out some PoE deal...
I would say that what you describe is a MUCH better situation. If you have 100 small bills rolled into one, it's easier for representatives to say "I voted for this part, not that," or even, "I didn't see that part of the bill." With many smaller bills, it makes the tit-for-tat more explicit.

Representatives could still trade votes if they wanted, but we would have more visibility into the process. What's bad about that?
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This is roughly correct. Please do not confuse Pelosi's temporary and minor objections to the bill as written with any sort of principled long-term objection to the concept behind the bill. Pelosi supports copyright maximization as much as anyone; she's just attempting to find some minimal accommodation to stop Silicon Valley from squawking so loudly.
Ah thanks. That is something positive at least.
Asking for the source code of the OPERA analysis is similar in scope to asking for the source code to gmail. Unless you made a very specific request and explained how you would be qualified to review it, I doubt they are taking you very seriously.

Furthermore, I doubt anyone at OPERA is in a position to even fulfill your request. The minimum number of separate systems with exclusive sets of code is three, and probably more than ten.

However, physicists do make extensive use of unit tests, so that may be some consolation.
It's simple. For programmers, code is king. For scientists, data is king. Code can be recreated. Data is irreplaceable, so that's what is important, along with method.
>Of course, facts alone can't talk anyone out of being a nutty extremist, as anyone who has browsed reddit will attest.

I imagine they are more concerned with providing counterbalancing opinion to readers of the blogs, rather than trying to convince the bloggers themselves.
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Is there a room in your office filled solely with used laser toner cartridges? Do your employees merely dump printer cartridges into the trash when printing
There is a lot of open sourced apps in the App Store, so i'm guessing is not.
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" discount their results without having to redo their experiment, potentially saving years of work and millions of dollars."

Or you could just analyze their data using their described methods and your own implementation.
Under this system, how can a new party gain traction? Can they spend their own money if they don't have public funding? And if so, why would established parties NOT spend their own money if they have more than public funding will provide?
Bell's theorem proves that your "rational" theory with state that exists but can't be observed can't work: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_theorem

Note: I'm pretty physics-clueless, so take this with a grain of salt.
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Consider the situation in which most subscribers of Comcast in your area wanted to switch..if there are enough of them to build a business, that strong 'latent' demand is a market waiting to happen.
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Is there anyway that HN could add subdomains to domain that is displayed near titles.

Otherwise I can't tell if this links to Google or to some random person's Google Plus account

For example,

The best data scientists are curious and entrepreneurial (google.com)

Determine someone's height using Google (google.com)

The first goes to Google Plus, the second goes to Google Search, I would think that I am not the only one who is mislead...
In the UNIX world execute permission on a directory means that you can CD into it; with it removed the directory cannot be accessed (i.e. you can't get a list of the files in the directory)

Strictly speaking, you can get a list of files in the directory. i.e., opendir() and readdir() will not return "Permission denied". However, you can't access any of the files within the directory.

BTW, sounds like something you'd see in an Adobe installer.
Every company with more than a few hundred employees has enough projects in its pipeline for a couple of years. Copying an unproven product, no matter how great it looks, probably won't get pushed to the front of the line. Now, reversing the question, what if one of these companies launches a product similar to yours before you do?
That's very naive. It would be that someone's staffer who broke the law, that staffer having the good faith belief, and the representative would have good faith belief in his staffer. By the transitive property of good faith belief among people in politics, that would make them all clean.

However, when your 8 year old daughter who shared an Miley Bieber mp3 had good faith belief she was ok because everyone is doing -- that is untrustworthy, and the fact that you have good faith belief in her intentions does not clear you of anything. You'll go to jail or pay a hefty sum.

That's how laws really work. Not the way they common knowledge assumes.
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It's the combination of things like this, and SOPA that get me worried. They're well intentioned, and I agree with those intentions. But when the US government is simultaneously fact-checking, and website-regulating, it's not too much of a stretch to require US websites which are "confusing or harmful to consumers" to provide "correct facts" about the US government, instead of just posting online in forums.
€120.7 billion for the year 2007. From wiki.

It's not so much it just has budgetary powers, but it must also approve most of the EU directives: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament#Legislative...
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Looks a lot like Shapecatcher for Unicode: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3222964
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I don't think accounting for price is equivalent to him cutting slack for the Fire.

However, to answer your question:

Any Android or WebOS tablet on the market still.
The Nook Color
Older Kindle models
iPod Touch (Same price class, similar features)

Yes, the iPad SHOULD be in the conversation, but just as it defined the tablet market, so too did the Kindle define the e-reader market. It's a brand new market, and I have a hard time believing it's never going to evolve or see a worthy competitor.
I don't know what version of the GPL they are licensed but all they need to do is release their code and they are compliant. I think VLC didn't like the DRM wrapper around their software (or whatever Apple does), demanded the code for it, and were told no. If I can take the code and compile the software, then I'm good. I don't need to app store code to make it work.

You can have GPL'd apps in the app store. The VLC guys are just more demanding than the license itself. I guess there could be some issue with GPL3 and its DRM restrictions, but this should work with GPL2.
I think that having all of this in one file is too crazy. I suggest putting some of the stuff in the appropriate files in ftplugins, etc in your ~/.vim directory.
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Once you hit 500 karma it "unlocks."
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Can we now have a long discussion about profanity in dotfiles?
Cool! Can you put the graph and the text on a single page, and make them both bigger?
You're implying a controversy here that simply does not exist. Firefox never had support for h.264 to drop in the first place, because the licensing model is (justifiably) unacceptable to Mozilla. And Google is still entirely committed to WebM. It's just that dropping dropping h.264 from Chrome requires quite a bit of coordination to ensure that the vast majority of content remains accessible--particularly with regards to Google properties.
A little irony here: My work's content filtering app blocks this (http://www.tumblr.com/protect-the-net) pages' content.
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As many classical metaphors for quantum mechanics, your explanation is intuitive, convincing, and demonstrably wrong.

There is simply no way to describe the underlying mechanisms of this world using classical physics. However, since our brains are used to the classical picture, the metaphors seem true at a glance.
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I'm not a satirist, and this is not TV, but:

congressman: Good day, sheeple. With prompting by the content industry, we are considering beheading everyone, because it has been shown that everyone sometimes plays back a tune in their head without paying royalties. We've tried to get you to admit and pay every time you do that, but that didn't work, and we have to do something -- it seems only beheading would solve the problem.

(people frantically writing letters)

congressman: Seems, from everyone's responses, we've gone too far. We've asked our content industry overlords, and they will apparently be ok if we only cut everyone's ears to start with, so that no infringing content can get into people's heads. But if that doesn't work well for music, we're not just going to take your eyes out to avoid infringing on videos -- we'll have to do the full beheading thing then.

(people sighing with relief) Well, that's a reasonable measure.

--

At least, that's my impression of the effectiveness of writing these letters. Congress just keeps introducing horrible bills, and the people have to win every time (which they hardly ever do), because every one of these bills includes the cumulative effect of the previously failed-to-pass bills.

EDIT: prompted->prompting, out->eyes
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On one hand there is a lot of pirating of antivirus software, and yet to some extent P2P does increase the need to have it installed on one's system (which may increase demand/business).
If you want the power button on the top, then just rotate the device 180 degrees. It works fine that way.
Fun concept. Does make me wonder about ChromeOS, though- everyone is going to Android, even for full computer devices. I don't blame them- you can install apps and do all sorts with Android, wheras ChromeOS is just a glorified browser.

Taking bets on when Google mothball ChromeOS for good.
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Yes, it is. "Circle jerk" is a term used to denigrate someone who gives (in your view) unnecessarily effusive praise by comparing it to an adolescent sexual behavior. If you feel the praise is unwarranted, you're welcome to express that feeling -- and if you have evidence to support this, you're welcome to present it -- without the insult.
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you shouldn't redirect for pages either, 404s exist for a reason....
Cool idea, although it might turn into a Catch-22: once people know what the best times to submit are, those will no longer be the best times to submit. =)

You should label and explain the axes and sliders. I have no idea what the numbers mean, or what the "pickup ratio" is.

Also, instead of linking "bad" below the chart, you should make it bold and link the word "submit" instead. I thought clicking on "bad" would take me to an explanation, not the HN submit page.
Particles don't know anything. The way we see anything, even with our own eyes, is to analyze reflected photons. You can't see something without hitting it with something first and analyzing what bounces back. Obviously, if you're bouncing photons off something, you're going to affect its state. Usually this effect is negligible, but in the case of trying to watch individual particles, well, it's no longer negligible, it affects the experiment.

The problem is people tend to assume observation is passive, they think seeing something does't affect it; this simply isn't true at all. Eyes only work because the sun is continually spraying and bouncing photons off everything. Sight isn't passive at all, you need a photon source spraying photons everywhere, like a flash light.

What's strange about the doulbe slit experiment isn't that watching forces the particles to act like particles, that's the expected behavior all the time, the same as a single slit. What's strange is that when you don't watch it, you get the interference pattern indicating a wave that isn't acting like a particle. That's not at all expected and indicates the particle is going through both slits and interfering with itself. I'm a total layman as well, but that's my take on it.
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The wealth disparity we see today between the 99% and the 1% is due to our failure to price goods and services properly. Market forces, supply and demand, the entire concept of economics upon which we use to price goods and services today is wrong. If everything were truly priced appropriately, where an equal value of goods and services is exchanged from one party to another, how can there emerge the large wealth disparity that we are seeing today, or any at all for that matter?

My proposal is simple: goods and services are worth what they are worth, and consumers and merchants should be paying VALUE price for products, not MARKET price. The concept of market price was invented, perhaps intentionally or unintentionally, to shield the eyes of the consumer from the blatant over-valuing of a product.

Hey, let me sell you this apple that cost $0.04 to produce and $0.10 to transport and $0.01 to stock for $0.99. The extra $0.84 I'm taking is for profit, which not what I deserve for my efforts, but a testament of how well I can recognize the market opportunities to screw you.

Hey, let me sell you insurance, and here's how it works: I will get the smartest mathematicians to work as actuaries and ensure that you will end up paying significantly more money in the long run, since you have to support all my employees while on top of that turn me a profit, which by the way I will try to maximize regardless to your situation.

Hey, let me sell you stock, and here's how it works: it is priced as high as I can trick you into believing, and definitely not what it's actually worth at the moment, because "it's what people think the stock will be worth in the future." Firstly, why would anyone agree to even the concept of buying something now at the price it will be in the future? Secondly, why would anyone believe it when someone tells you that's what it will be worth in the future: by definition that's knowing the future, which is IMPOSSIBLE.

Profit and market valuations are why there is the income and wealth inequality we are seeing today. As long as they exist, there is not an equal exchange of goods and services, the equal sign does not hold, and there will exist inequality.
Right. The question, however, was about working in the "cloud", which usually means that you just have access to the VMs, not to the underlying hardware. VMs are great, but there's nothing like root access to the physical computer to help you diagnose hardware issues.
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thats pretty cool, as far as using/hackin HN for the best possible result (if thats what one is aiming for).

One this that got me though, in terms of usablity, is that me being at GMT+0 it was hard to determine if the far right of the graph was current or lagging?

but I'll definitely be checking this out in the future for launch planning etc.
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This isn't "fact checking", this is just more US propaganda spreading. Do you really think you're going to get a neutral, purely factual account from a member of the US military of all places?
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i'd love for you to check out my company and concept. i'd really love to hear your thoughts.
Thanks! Ouch, indeed my code doesn't work. I didn't test it, but honestly expected it to work. In fact it still seems perverse to me that Python doesn't allow consistent right-to-left scoping in comprehensions! In other words, given a list of lists:

z = [[1],[2],[3]]

Python wants me to write something like this:

[x for y in z for x in y]

instead of the more natural-looking:

[x for x in y for y in z]

Does this feel weird to anyone else? Are there any good reasons why Python can't allow both?
Definitely worth a read, some really good words of wisdom in there, and some that are common sense, but sometimes common sense really does need to be written down.
The chamber of commerce is amateur hour to Apple whereas the BSA actually has a bit of pull. There's a big difference.
I agree with the emphasis (link) on "bad"/"good" being confising, and agree with moving the link to "submit", and actually having an explination behind bad/good.

Still nice despite the catch22 though.
Pentile may be great engineering but the colors it shows are not true, and it has significant banding across solid colors. As an interface designer, it makes my eyes bleed and my graphics look sub-standard.
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That's one thing that worries me about using vim full-time: if I become reliant on a .vimrc or a set of plugins to use vim effectively, but I'm on a computer that doesn't have my .vimrc on it, I'm doomed.
If the principles behind SOPA were applied to other things,

- police would close gardening shops if someone says they saw a client bought anything that was later used to grow pot

- pharmacies would be shut down by the police for selling syringes if someone says one of these was used for drugs

- gun producers would be shut down for selling guns if one of them was said to have been used to commit a crime.

And if you think "well, in theory, but of course it isn't going to be used like that" - well, it definitely IS going to be used like that. DMCA is being used like that (and part of the reasons SOPA is being introduced is because DMCA has some fairness provisions that make it harder to abuse , even though it is very easy to use ).

Also, PATRIOT act was for terrorists, and wouldn't be used for anything else, right? That's why 99% of the times it was used have nothing to do with terrorism.

SOPA is designed to be abused the way those people cry about. Make no mistake. And you'll suffer its consequences like the rest of wolf criers, even if you wouldn't know it.
That is very wrong. A particle doesn't 'know' it is being observed. However, when it interacts with other particles, the new state of both particles depends on the old states of both particles.

For a better explanation than I could possibly write here, see http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/.
Google fanboy? Otherwise Linux would fit the bill, doesn't sound like anyone there is supporting SOPA.
Since I work daily with a group of these "data scientists", I can only assume your comment indicates that you have no idea what you're talking about.
Prey will track up to three devices with a limited number of reports for free. If you pay (http://preyproject.com/plans), you can hold more reports or track more devices.
What editor do you use now?
Does that computer have a network connection? Just store your plugins and settings in a git repo (a good idea anyway) and pull them down on whatever machine you're using.
I figured out why it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with private or public repos.

It doesn't work for projects that are under an organization. That would be nice to get fixed.