skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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IAmA Andy Gavin
Hipster (like Path) uploads your address book emails to its servers
It's not a proof, but you can figure it out by considering some simple cases such as 2/3 vs. 3/4.
RRE Ventures looking for Pinterest API based startups
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If you had enrolled in electrical engineering then by half way through second semester of first year you probably would have been having lots and lots of light bulb moments. Complex numbers and fourier series and transforms rapidly become like oxygen for EEs. Essential but consumed almost without noticing.

You suffered from the university's lack of bandwidth -- only so many lecturers, only so many lecture theatres, many other competing classes. They try to find efficiencies where they can -- e.g. by giving all of the engineering departments a common mathematics curriculum.

That curriculum is almost certainly driven by the needs of the EEs and ME/CivE's much more than chem and software, and I'd guess software engineering is looked at is if there's really no maths required. After all, software engineers just program and write documents, don't they? The truth is of course that there is just as much scope for maths, if not more, in a software engineering or computer science course, it's just a whole other type of maths that's needed.
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Preface
Machine Learning for Hackers: Email
How This Book is Organized
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
How to Contact Us
Using R
R for Machine Learning
Further Reading on R
Data Exploration
Exploration vs. Confirmation
What is Data?
Inferring the Types of Columns in Your Data
Inferring Meaning
Numeric Summaries
Means, Medians, and Modes
Quantiles
Standard Deviations and Variances
Exploratory Data Visualization
Visualizing the Relationships between Columns
Classification: Spam Filtering
This or That: Binary Classification
Moving Gently into Conditional Probability
Writing Our First Bayesian Spam Classifier
Ranking: Priority Inbox
How Do You Sort Something When You Don’t Know the Order?
Ordering Email Messages by Priority
Writing a Priority Inbox
Works Cited
Books
Articles
About the Authors
Ask PG: What programming languages do you know?
You have made it clear which languages you don't like [1].

So I'm curious, besides Lisp, which programming languages have you learned or tried learning?

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html
It's just an ugly way to do a mapping. I used to have some mappings like these in my rc, but I removed them in favor of similar ones that backtrack instead. If the author wants "jj" to be <ESC>, it can be done without the lag: You just check the previous character on 'j' and then take action accordingly.
Even with a completely original logo, Coca-Colada would be a clear violation of trademark law. Similar names within the same industry will generally be deemed to cause confusion, which is what trademark law intends to prevent.
Understanding JVM Internals - Java Tech Article
I think people without kids, when their friends with kids say they're so busy, don't realize is that all the work with kids is sporadic. You never get to get "in the zone" when child raising. I can't just change diapers for half a Saturday afternoon so I don't have to change diapers all week.

When kids are first born they need to eat every 2-3 hours including night-time. And a feeding can take anywhere from 15-45 minutes, with a diaper change per-feeding. If you're in the boat that Jeff or I were in you were very fortunate if your twins were both on the same schedule -- offset schedule twins are exhausting and relentless.

Oh, and 50% of twin births are C-sections and my wife was no exception. So her only jobs for the first six weeks were to recover, breastfeed, pump breast milk, eat, and sleep. Daddy took 6 weeks off work (3 unpaid) and pretty much had to do everything else until my wife recovered from her major abdominal surgery.

Not asking for pity or sympathy. I'm just saying that I don't know how people handle newborn twins without help from friends and family. It would be impossible.
Where's the sexism in my comment? I'm not assuming that straight women are doing all the cock-sucking, nor am I neglecting the existence of gay men, lesbians, bisexual folks of all stripes, asexual people or other people who just plain don't suck cock. I'm just assuming, to a first approximation, that their contributions toward aggregate cock-sucking cancel out. If roughly half of the world has penises, then some half, and not necessarily the _other_ half, of the world is sucking them.

I'm not trying to be snide, I just suspect you're assuming a reading of my comment that I don't endorse. Plenty of people besides straight women suck cock, and the world is better for it.

I'm merely pointing out that the term "cocksucker", when used as a term of derogation, is actually pretty unsavory.
"As I understand it, there are no performance issues."

It's one thing to "work" in the hacking sense, and another to "work properly" in the Apple sense.

http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2656999&cid=38...

There's a difference between running and running as well as on the 4S. The demo of noise reduction is impressive.
http://www.audience.com/demos/transmit-noise-en.php [audience.com]
It's easy to see why with that noise reduction, Siri would be much more accurate than without it, in real scenarios.

Apple obviously wants Siri to be judged on it's best performance. They have a reputation for quality to maintain.
Relatively few people here have a problem with Pinterest making money; the problem they do have, is making money by modifying the links the users are posting without disclosing that modification.

I'd be somewhat squicked if I saw that paragraph in the T&C when I was signing up, but at least I'd know and be able to decide if it was worth it. But by going ahead and not putting that disclosure anywhere; Pinterest has shown that they don't respect their users. And that may be somewhat poisonous to their prospects (or not, Facebook being the prime example).
I find the downvotes interesting. It seems that some in the HN community are OK with crime and intellectual property theft. Sad.
I'm so sorry, I was incorrect. I briefly owned a Nexus S which had an unlocked bootloader. I currently own a Motorola Photon, and even though there are ways to flash the bootloader, doing so cripples 4g (I believe this is by design).
I stand corrected. I made an assumption based on a bias and lack of info. (aka "never mind")
Sometimes my muscle memory winds up telling me it needs. That's how I wound up mapping both jj and ;l to Esc. The first gets used when I've finished an insertion and am about to pause to think (it feels more emphatic) while the second gets used when I'm in flow and know exactly what I'm going to do next.

I once read a thread discussing the topic of Esc replacements and was astounded to learn that some people had reinvented chording: they mapped all the permutations of h,j, and k into Esc replacements and then simply banged all three at the same time to exit!
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How To Optimize Your Print-Based Portfolio
Print portfolios are not dead. While an online portfolio certainly is extremely important in today’s digital age, a print portfolio is still equally important for showing that you know how to design for a project that will be sent to an online printing company.
A change we don’t hate, Facebook updates photo viewer
If I were an evil-state-attorney-general, I'd be calling up Path and saying "Here's a list of names (unsaid - of suspected drug dealers), please forward all of their details and contacts, and the details and contacts of anyone who lists them as a contact. Thanks"
We built UnifyPhotos - http://export.goyaka.com a month back, which moved photos from Flickr to Facebook. We moved more than 850k photos.

I can say that the API limiting here is an implementation issue. Instead of querying information about each photo, if you could pass meta information (date_upload,geo,date_taken,icon_server,original_format, url_sq,url_o,url_m,url_b,description) while doing photosets.getPhotos, you don't have to query for each photo.
Yeah, it's also the first DIY tDCS device I've seen that tackles the current control issue. I think it may need a bit more in the way of failure-mode safety features, but it looks good enough to try some brain hacking.
I think the idea was to spend a little bit of time/effort on each of the causes responsible for your issue. Over time, causes which need more fixing will crop up again and again and on average you'll spend the right amount of time on each one, without over-investing in any of them.

That's my interpretation, anyway: Imagine that you have 20 different issues related to training, but that you have the same conversation about training 20 times :)
Startup idea: Do we value our laundry more than our privacy?
I dont get it, they say hundreds of emails and they only link 2? I would like to view some more, most news sites link back to Haaretz which again only 2 documents
For context, this submission's original title on HN was "LinkedIn Acquires Contacts Start-Up Rapportive (YC S10)". About an hour ago, it was changed to "is acquiring" to better reflect the linked article's headline on AllThingsD, as I'd suggested above.
The fact that the OP is confusing a positive claim: "states often exhibit little or no regard for the people outside their boundaries" with a normative claim "states _ought_ to act that way" is plainly evident.

That counties and countries are two different things is also obvious, but you need to offer reasons to believe that they are morally distinguishable with respect to economic growth and immigration.
It's been tried http://khulaproject.com/

I don't think it's a particularly viable business, it might be a good feature of a larger business that was focused on helping customers navigate the complexities of modern life; but on it's own, the value in one instance is too small to motivate purchasing.
Ask HN: How are API developers building beautiful documentation?
I'm currently trying to build nice, clean and engaging API documentation for a service I'm working on but have reached a bit of an impasse. As a backend/architect guy I'm looking at things like https://parse.com/docs/rest https://gocardless.com/docs/api_guide and http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone (for example) and they're beautiful!

Is anyone using a tool or CMS to generate these types of API docs (single page w/scrollspy) or are they built in-house with a designers touch?

Would rather be focusing on content over rolling my own, so any help appreciated!
As a general rule, money paid pursuant to a settlement agreement is gone for good. The bar for duress is pretty high--specifically, it usually (always?) requires a threat of bodily harm.

And, even if you could somehow prove a settlement agreement to be unenforceable, what would be the point? For one thing, you'd cancel the release of liability you obtained. And secondly, you already performed your part of the agreement (paying the money). In general, I wouldn't see any benefit in this course of action.
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the missing piece is next protocol negotiation. we're working on releasing this code soon. expanded support in finagle (github.com/twitter/finagle) is also forthcoming.
I don't see this as a problem at all. From a user perspective, I would much rather see this than flashy banner ads polluting the experience.

The same thing happens on sites such as RetailMeNot.

Good on Pinterest for monetizing and they should continue being aggressive and explore other opportunities.
I'm reasonably new to the world of design, and would love to get some honest feedback on my site: http://joshnh.com

My main focus has been readability; I want to make sure that that hasn't negatively impacted other aspects I may not have considered though.
This is unacceptable BS.

Sorry I don't have more to contribute. I'm just really disgusted by this.
Ask HN: Is this a good format for minimum viable products?
This past week, I've been creating sites such as http://frostchat.com and throwing AdWords campaigns at them to test a few product ideas.

Looking at the landing page I just linked to, do you believe it's an effective way to gauge the public's interest in a product (combined with AdWords data), or am I ultimately just wasting my time and money?

This is the first time I've done something like this, so I'm sure it can't hurt to gather feedback on the landing page that I'm using to gather feedback. :)
Transactional Synchronization Extension coming to Intel processors
My general rule of thumb is that any thing which talks about a Big Five personality trait (like Extraversion, in this case) but does not cite any studies is not worth reading.
Does Stack Overflow also do this, at least with Amazon links? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong because I wouldn't want to spread misinformation. But IIRC Amazon links turn into something like "rads.stackoverflow.com/..." which I always assumed were affiliate. I think it's pretty reasonable, as others have pointed out.
This Machine Learning in Action from Manning uses python instead of R:
http://www.manning.com/pharrington/

PS. Attended Machine Learning class in hacker dojo with the author, he's a bright guy. Hopefully the book will be as good.
I'm sure Linus himself would tell you that he would own that as a minus of linux and that it's far outweighed by the positives.
That doesn't make it right. Privacy is privacy. What happens when their servers get hacked and all of that info is out in the open? This ranks way up there with storing passwords in plain text. OK, sure, the entire team isn't at fault, but one or a few people are. I would not want those people making decisions that could take down my business. No way.

Downvotes me all you want. The fact remains that, if you asked a teenage girl if it would be OK to grab her address book without consent it is very clear what kind of an answer you'd get. Why is it that a bunch of smart adults think that they can get away with it then? The apology is bullshit. They knew what they were doing and got caught.

As far as only HN caring, I'll bet that users of this app would disagree with you on that point. How many people do you know that are OK with a company of strangers secretly downloading their private data onto their servers?

This, in my opinion, is a very serious transgression.
using R seems a bit strange to me -- i have nothing against R (use it regularly), but not exactly a "hacker" language. this seems like an ideal book for python, but R?
1. Nothing, but I had 5 bullets to fill and he thankfully served the stereotype.

2. Anyway, skipping the bullets now.

What bothers me about this "presentation" is that it's the prototype pointless "biz-speak" ramble that many of us have to deal with every day.

He packs a nugget of truth ("when shit happens, ask why!") into a truckload of superfluous verbal padding and tries to sell it as some sort of great revelation, all the while completely ignoring the reality of the situation™.

Over here in the real world root-cause analysis falls under common sense for every engineer worth their salt. We are naturally inclined to fix problems at the source, simply because we don't like fixing stuff in the middle of the night, because we hate fixing the same thing repeatedly, and because we like paychecks.

However, his video lacks the tiniest bit of acknowledgement of reality, where the answer to the third 'why' usually amounts to something like "because the boss decided to outsource this" or "because the deadlines make no sense" or "because 3 people are doing the work of 8 here" or "because the product manager is incompetent" or "because they wouldn't listen when we told them 5 times this would happen".

Yes, these are people-problems, too. But you rarely see those addressed, presumably because these shiny polished biz-school fortune cookies tend to
conveniently ignore how the fish, more often than not, stinks from the head.

I could go on for a while on his rosy misconceptions about "proportional investment at every stage of the problem" (duh! can it be that simple!) and "training", but this is getting too long already and I'm going to be voted to -8 and beyond either way.
> I'm merely pointing out that the term "cocksucker", when used as a term of derogation, is actually pretty unsavory.

What the fuck
> How am I supposed to decide whether the book A is better than the book B for the topic I am trying to learn? Do I need to know something before getting into this other topic? How I decide the path I need to follow to reach a certain knowledge? Those questions are (almost) always solved with somebody guiding you through the process of learning.

This is rapidly becoming a thing of the past:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

I'm 3 years into a software engineering degree and in all honesty, I'm doing it for the piece of paper. Last semester, I attended about 10% of the classes, studied by myself and still managed to get good grades. I wouldn't recommend it to people who aren't passionate about the subject though.

One thing I hate about the 2 universities I went to (Montreal, Hong Kong) is that many teachers (un)knowingly discriminate against students who don't attend classes. This often takes the form of giving hints about the exam during tutorials, giving privileged information about which topics will be evaluated and which won't. In Hong Kong, I have even seen teachers give participation grades or require a minimum class attendance in order to pass (this happened in computer engineering/science!).
Forget Stealth Startups. We Have a New Issue: Stealth Blogs
There's a good analysis of the stronger signal here: http://resonaances.blogspot.com/
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My experience with AdWords has been that it's hard to get enough traffic to give you meaningful data about interest or conversion rates.

That being said, if your particular keywords can bring you a lot more clicks per day than I've gotten, it's probably worth a shot.

I think if you really want quality feedback on your product, though, you'll need to reach out on a human level. Contact everyone you know, people you don't know but who might be interested, etc..
Congrats to the Rapportive team! It's by far one of the most useful technologies that I use daily.
<snarky>Perhaps some peace of mind that with ~5 times the revenue-per-customer Snapjoy might survive and even thrive, where Yahoo's revolving-door CEO office with it's mandatory new-blood costcutting chestbeating puts Flickr's long term outlook in serious doubt?<.snarky>
> I'm unclear on why them having the information you cited

First of all, my wife and I actually read and attempted to analyze Path's Terms and Privacy Policy before joining. They did not in ANY WAY have our permission, either implicitly or explicitly to collect private information about our children, who are, 3 and 4 years old.

> along with dozens or hundreds of other contacts from your address book

From path.com/about

Path should be private by default. Forever. You should
always be in control of your information and experience.

I was never once asked, agreed to, or gave consent to allow anyone to collect sensitive information about where are children are schooled at, what buses they ride, where they receive medical treatment at, or OTHER PLACES I LEFT OUT OF THE ORIGINAL LIST BECAUSE THEY ARE PRIVATE TO MY FAMILY. :)

> for millions of users

"kill one, it's murder - kill 1,000,000 it's a statistic" - this isn't about your children - it's about mine. ;)

> constitutes some kind of terrible threat to your children

Where did I say this was a "terrible threat" to my children? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't - bottom line is we did not consent to it. And perhaps we just want to protect our underage children from having behaviorial profiles or credit risk assessments built up on them before they reach kindergarten.

Interestingly enough, according to Path it is VERY reasonable that I should protect my children's information:

We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information
in an effort to prevent loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure,
alteration and destruction. Please be aware, however, that despite our efforts,
no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and no method of data
transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

Combined with:

(You)...accept all risks of unauthorized access to the Registration Data and any other information you provide to us.

My risk, right?

> But maybe there's a specific threat in mind that I'm not thinking of?

Yes, there is. And I acknowledge that you might live in a world where you have no problem allowing anyone in the world to know any detail they can illicitly sneak out of your phone about you, your family, and your friends - but most of the rest of us don't.

For fuck's sake a UIKit dialog box and handler code is less than a dozen lines of code and then NONE OF THIS WOULD BE AN ISSUE.

> Anyway, just thought your response was a little over the top, and more informed by emotion than reason.

I'm curious, do you have a spouse or children?
Easy solution for the store, terminate the affiliate relationship.
You're implying that it's shameful to suck cocks. Could you offer some other reading of the term?

EDIT: I'd also be grateful to anyone who could explain why I've gotten more downvotes for this than for all other comments here in two years.
I applied for a job that had one of those idiotic 'personality tests'. They could have boiled it down to one question: Introvert or not.

I was told they thought I scored too low to consider. For some reason I had decided to answer honestly instead of the choice they were obviously looking for. One question in particular annoyed me was something along the lines of when not at work do prefer to be in a crowd of people or at home. What does not at work have to do with anything work related?
I don't think it really engages your target (ie: decision makers), particularly the general discussion example with 'lmfao' and 'breathe idiot'... that sort of thing. It really needs to pop with what differentiates it from an established product such as https://www.hipchat.com that sounds to do a similar thing (ie: how you're "developing a new way to communicate with your team online." isn't really obvious). Sorry to sound harsh but hopefully constructive criticism.
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This seems like a field that could pretty easily be commodified. I can imagine a service like the Google prediction API could meet the needs for this kind of tech for many companies.

So while it's certainly an interesting field, I wonder how many hackers are really going to need these skills.