skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool. I was implementing Hangman a few weeks back and I figured out the first strategy, use the frequency distribution for the specific length to initiate your guessing. However, I thought about but discarded the second strategy of conditioning on the previous wrong/right guesses and selecting words and then doing a histogram of the letters. Thinking back, I find it interesting that thinking about it from a complexity point of view made me dread that approach because it becomes significantly more expensive to do the recomputation of frequency distributions compared to blindly uses the naive independence assumption and I was not sure how much of a win I would get by adding that bit of optimization.
I like this post - I think it's really logical and fairly complete.
A couple of comments - Firstly I think a completely hands-off approach to market/customer research is dangerous. I think you need to actually talk to prospects to really understand how they think about problems and pains. Surveys can give you clues where to look but they are not enough. Secondly, I wouldn't think of "competitors" as just other products in the space. Other alternatives could just as easily be "do nothing" or "do it manually" and if it is then you will need to differentiate between your offering and those alternatives too. Lastly, when thinking about marketing tactics, it's important to think about tactics that will work for your target markets specifically and not just all tactics that might work for any market.
That's pure conjecture. We can't exactly run a parallel reality where the US didn't nuke Japan to see how it'd've turned out differently.
I'm under 100. I love Stack Overflow, but the reason that my reputation is so low is that when I'm in software development mode, I'm usually so busy working that I don't have the time to (nor rarely think about) go back and answer some questions. Maybe one of these days when I have the time to step back and think about software development outside the context of a project, I'll go back and chip in. God knows I use it often enough every day.
I still use Google. DDG is really quite nice, but I find I get more relevant results on Google.
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Yeah, getting indexed seems like a problem with DDG sometimes. Is there a way to submit a sitemap.xml or something similar?
I find wolfram alpha to be the most useful in some situations, otherwise I use Google.
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I came to say the same thing. The moment I see that question mark, the skeptical side of me comes into play.
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Figures. MTV? (xoogler here)
80% DDG (primary), 10% Google (fallback), 10% specialized search engines (MSDN, AS3, Hoogle, etc.).

Typically, for general searches, if DDG doesn't give the results I want, I add !g to my query to search Google. (Usually searching for error messages works better on Google, for example.)
Note that while the iPad does indeed have a capacitive sensor element about every 6mm, the resolution when using a finger or stylus equals one pixel.

The reason all those stylus balls are so big is to always be close enough to a at least one sensor element.
Corruption wasn't a killing problem for USSR. Inefficiency was.

There wasn't much to be stolen. There wasn't much to be earned either; hence the inefficiency and the lack of determination.
Company start-up name ... maybe ... Umbrella Corporation
I made no attempt to hide my editing. I stand by it, too -- I only stated explicitly what you were implying.

You followed the dichotomy "Let's compare Chile to North Korea" with the dichotomy "Free-as-possible markets [or] the alternative", in a context where the parent comment had already associated Chile with "free-as-possible markets". Are you now going to insist that you were not intending to associate North Korea with "the alternative"? Because I find that pretty unlikely.
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Making money with a search engine is a solved problem. Making a search engine worth switching to is not-- that's what they are (and should be) focused on. I'd wager their investors are telling them the same thing.
While the results could sometimes be more relevant, being a "hipster" is by far not the reason many people use DDG. I originally switched because I cared for my privacy, but I stayed for the awesome features, like the bangs and often insanely helpful instant-results (I can't count the number of times my queries were answered without clicking even a single link).
Google has been annoying me lately. I'm willing to give this a shot. Good luck DDG. Resetting Chrome default search engine now.
Nice generator, very convenient to use
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The strategy given isn't to solve the puzzle, but to get at least one letter on the board. So if you look at the table at the end, the worst case is a three-letter word that only contains a K out of the letters given, which is the worst case scenario on that entire board. Assuming your opponent sticks to the dictionary there is no way for them to ruin this strategy, only push you into the worst cases given, which once you figure out what's going on will play to the guesser's advantage, not the word-chooser.
There is a small advantage to having a high rep score, but I haven't noticed it being that big a handicap. Usually the difference is that people with low rep scores just haven't learned how to write a good answer. But given equal quality answers, I haven't noticed that low-rep people are at all that much of a disadvantage. Obviously I can't say for sure, but I really have to believe that either a) you're giving answers on topics that have built up a bad SO community around them, or b) your answers are lacking in some area other than factual correctness.
Holy crap. The same paradigms introduced by Backbone are copied by that project with some minor terminology differences (eg Backbone's old name for a Router ("Controller"), a Collection is a ModelList, initialize vs initializer). Of course it's tightly bound to YUI's object model (Y.Base, Y.Node, YUI dom abstractions vs jQuery-like).
so i have exactly 100 points, what do i click: 1-100 or 100-1000?

clicking 1-100.
I was thinking that "subject to the approval of the carriers" was a legal requirement, along the lines of anything that could alter the operation of the radio would have to be approved. The hope being that a thin layer that deals directly with the hardware could be subject to approval, but the rest of the stack could be updated without approval.
On further reflection, I suspect it's more of a contractual obligation, and that neither party is all that interested in keeping 6 month old phones up to date. It's a shame, because Android developers can't reasonably expect ICS to be widespread for at least a year or longer.
of course they are.

With Best Buy, you have to go get in your car, drive 7 miles to the store, browse for 20 minutes to find what you are looking for, then drive 7 miles back. So on top of $4 you probably spend on gas, you end up wasting an hour of your day just to get something.

With Amazon, you get the itch to get something, do a quick search, add it to the cart, and get it shipped + you can read reviews to find out if the item sucks.

And of course Amazon will tend to have lower prices...and with Prime, you'll have it very quick.

The only thing you'd go to Best Buy for, is if you have an emergency, and need something asap...and there aren't a lot of items that you can't wait a day for to avoid wasting an hour at the store
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Did anybody try this in a multiuser Wordpress install?
The thing that worries me about DDG is their reliance on others' search engines.

If there was ever a true defection from one of the big guys' services to DDG (i.e., if DDG was actually blowing up), it seems to me they'd just replicate many of DDG's features for their userbase and DDG would wither, or even just pull DDG's access to their search engines.
I think he's talking about the OSX built-in Spotlight [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(software)
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Pretty sure he means that while you can draw smaller than 6mm, you won't be able to position it accurately. I've tried using capacitive touchscreens and styluses, and they are not precise at all.
Database/webservices in cloud
Anyone know if there is a free solution of a database and webservices (to manage the db) in the cloud ?
In 1962, there was the Cuban Missile Crisis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

In 1983, the Able Archer got the Soviet hierarchy in a tizzy. They misinterpreted a NATO exercise for an imminent attack. Reagan's announcement of SDI (more commonly called "Star Wars") lead the Soviets to believe that the US possessed technology that would shoot down any retalitory Soviet nuclear missile strikes, while permitting the US to fire nuclear missiles at will - thus defeating Mutually Assured Destruction. Add this to some jokes by Reagan such as the remark "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." While the "5 minute" remark happened the following year, it was in character with Reagans other remarks about (and hostility towards) the Soviet Union.

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RYAN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83

To the Soviets, this exercise looked too much like a repeat of Operation Barbarossa, where the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union causing about 20 million deaths during WW2.
Should I start buying IBM or Intel's shares? They have to replace the servers right?
Waaaaay back in the day my favorite search engine was Excite.

Truthfully, I don't see a compelling reason to ever switch away from Google. I always find what I'm looking for there.
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Using an extension to block may be vulnerable but the builtin click to activate is different. No API involved, I can go to youtube with click-to-activate turned on and it doesn't even spin up a plugin process until I click.
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Did you read the article? It's not related to the virus's genome, it's related to the RNA that genome produces, which the interviewee contends is always doublestranded. In fact they specifically address DNA viruses and herpes.
A good rule of thumb for mainstream media news reporting, but not for blog posts, scientific papers, books, or other such categories.
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At Ion Torrent we are working this problem as well. We are always hiring too http://iontorrent.com All of our software is open source http://github.com/iontorrent
I only have 477 points on SO, yet when I sign up for other stack exchange sites I immediately get 100 free points. The bar really isn't that high. It's just designed to force newbies into those specific activities that one ought focus on first: providing good answers to questions, and asking good questions.
Ah the world isn't fair is it? Oh yeah and you're welcome ;-)
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I switched to DDG due to them being majorly transparent and them caring about my privacy. Also wouldn't you be a sheep for using Google seeing as it is the most used search engine on the web?
Correction, they support right-click if you enable it. One-click is the default, and most users never change it.
I know about those, but I don't see why blame those all solely on USSR.

It's like the horse is finally dead and it's now safe to kick it.

Also I'm not sure there is anybody to blame. All those crises were resolved as if actual adults were behind it, contrary to most of previous crises in the history of manhood. I'd say we've passed that exam collectively as a race.
It was a shame when Circuit City went under. However, is there anyone on the planet not affiliated with Best Buy who wouldn't love to see them go bankrupt?

I'm all rose-coloured glasses and nostalgia when it comes to dying brick-and-mortar stores, but let's not pretend that Best Buy isn't a silly place.
No, viruses aren't just free floating strands of genetic material, they also have a sort of molecular syringe that they use to get through the cell wall and to protect them in the environment outside the cell. The genetic material itself won't be that dangerous after the cell dies.
I know very little about genomics and biology and would love it if someone who knows more could answer my silly questions to help me understand this more:

- This has genome data from 1,700 people. In theory could a company build a machine that read one of these "files" as input and made a baby as output?

- It says the dataset is 200TB. If 1 person has 3 billion dna bases(which I understand can be 1 of 4 values or 2 bits), it seems that even uncompressed the dataset would be 6billion bits (<1GB per person) and so only ~ 1.7TB uncompressed for 1,700 people. What am I missing?
I would think a simple store receipt would be able to settle this. Maybe one will turn up.
I don't think anyone is going to lament the loss of a physical showroom. Especially when online prices are so much better. That coupled with online retailers abilities to provide superior and quick return policies and virtually free shipping, it gets harder to keep supporting the BB's of the world.
If a BB employee can explain to me how their $30 HDMI cable is far superior than the $1 one I bought of Amazon, then perhaps I would shop there more. Also, having a good ole Micro Center nearby gives my one less reason to shop at BB.
I came on to inquire precisely that. This would most likely kill the good viruses, too. What are they going to do to counteract those virii death?
I participate, but only to the extent that I participate on other sites, which is quite low.
Nope. They explicitly say they do not plan to accept sitemaps.
I wish you guys:
A) Have an office in Canada
B) Will continue to hire into next year, when I graduate.
Chrome (currently available as a beta on ICS android devices) does this.
So you you work at a company so censorious and distrustful that it expends labor and money to make sure you don't view any content with the dreaded F-word in it. And the OP is responsible for tuning her content to this company's perceived needs... why, exactly?

I'd be curious how the management of this company (and others like it) feel about the actual content of the talk - sustainable pace vis-a-vis productivity & all that. I would not be at all shocked to find out that there was an inverse correlation between employee distrust and a GTFH ethic.
the thing is that noone really cares about you enough for you to worry about your privacy.

Hell, even celebrities don't get their Google search histories published in Tmz...so you have nothing to worry about.

And if you are planning to do something illegal, then using a different search engine won't help you one bit
Can you be more specific as to what you mean/want in this area?
I think the idea of describing a startup as "like X for Y" is OK for some but in general I agree that it comes across as not being particularly innovative. I think it makes sense to give prospects a frame of reference for an offering but there are other ways of doing it aside from defining your entire company in comparison to another one.
مسلسل اكون او لا الحلقة 21 
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http://video.qlbak.com/10676.html
It annoys me thoroughly that this stuff exists, but if some journalist is going to stick it to me anyways, at least I have a choice as to which strap-on their going to use.
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It was definitely ~#20 when I checked, it was below the page (I had to scroll then ctrl + f to make sure I found it) but now I can't even find it any more, the only thing I can find is "minecraftnews.net" which is around #30 and is a rip off of our site.

Here is a screenshot of the results I see: http://i.imgur.com/qIc1J.png

I've visited google from a VM that has never used google before and I see:

#1 minecraft.net
#2 minecraftwiki.net
#3 wikipedia.org/wiki/minecraft
#4 Minecraft fan made trailer (video with ~8m views)
#5 minecraft.org (fansite)
#6 minecraftforum.net
#7 Minecraft android app (official version of the game for android)
#8 Minecraft on Facebook
#9 IGN Minecraft review
#10 Minecraft.com (a site capitalising on the domain but offering no Minecraft content)

Google is certainly not perfect but they are a mile better than DuckDuckGo, which does not even include the official Minecraft forum which is linked from the wiki, from the official Minecraft site, from almost every Minecraft Youtube video...

Wait I just did more "investigation", DuckDuckGo cares about capitalisation. What the hell? "Minecraft" and "minecraft" have different results and even the pages differ. Sometimes I can find minecraftforum.net listed for "Minecraft" (but not minecraft) and sometimes it just doesn't show at all. That's on typing in my search and refreshing; seconds apart and the results change.
I have never seen this. Are you sure it's off by default?
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There are alternatives to DuckDuckGo, but not Google?? :)

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alternative+to+duckduckgo

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alternative+to+google
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26 rep there, 2016 karma here.

Scrolling through the thread I see a lot of people saying exactly what I was going to say about the difficulty of participation, (Can't upvote, downvote, or comment at low levels of karma) and the lack of questions that can be answered; so I won't rehash them.
> I can't downvote an answer that is patently absurd. I can't upvote an answer that is right. Apparently that's because I have to prove myself first.

Yeah, that's kind of the idea. Why would anyone trust you until you've proven yourself? Do you just want privileges handed to you?

> If I write a response (that damn sure answers the question), it sits at zero, because its usefulness appears to be directly dependent on my reputation, of which I have none.

Who in the hell is going to look at your reputation score before voting on your answer? You only have to help one person (the one asking the question) to get an upvote. Trust me, no one cares what your reputation score is.

> Just flipped through the list of opened questions, and I can easily answer 80% of those without thinking. But I won't, because I don't like how SO is treating me.

That pretty much tells me everything I need to know about you. If your comments here are any indication of the kind of contribution you can make, then thank you for not bringing your bullshit to Stack Overflow.
Perfect Dark benefited greatly from the N64 expansion pack, and was a lot less fun without it. I'm not certain it was better than Golden Eye (mostly because I found the second level very frustrating) but it had better graphics and a much more ambitious style of play.
Pinerly is an awesome tool for any brand, blogger or business to get the most out of Pinterest. I'm biased though :)
These paradigms weren't introduced by Backbone - they are the standard MVC(Model/View/Controller) constructs in use across many technologies.
Some of links can be found from here too: https://kippt.com/karrisaarinen/yc-application
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How would you like the documentation to be improved over the resources that currently exist at Backbonejs.org?
I thought I'd give DuckDuckGo a try, thinking a search engine must be good to have people start using it, when Google does such a bang up job already. Seemed fine at first. Then I typed in my own name, and unlike Google, DuckDuckGo decided to post some other guy with the same name in MY number 1 search result position. I think I'll be switching back now.
I don't know what effect hiding votes would have on SO, but suspect it will be an interesting experiment nevertheless.
I have indeed faced some of the newbie problems, though my complaints usually are around the comment everywhere, and editing other answers privilege. There are lots of answers, i see i can improve by asking a explanatory question?
I understand why editing others' answer has that requirement the the comment everywhere seems too much to me.
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First, "The Shock Doctrine" was a book before it was a political documentary. Recommending the movie but not the book seems a little silly to me.

Second, I can't recommend it as a serious work. I've read a lot of Klein's work (two of her books sit here on my bookshelf) and I walked away each time rather unimpressed. In this particular case, she takes something that can be universally condemned (deliberately creating or taking advantage of disaster to pursue corporate interests) and uses it as a weapon against those who advocate free markets. This is a blatant misrepresentation of that ideology, the chicago school, and Milton Friedman. In short, Klein builds a great case against corporatism, rent-seeking, and government sponsored elitism and then beats those lobbying for freedom and equality over the head with it.
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I haven't looked at the data yet, but I suspect the large data size is due to full sequencer output. Next-gen sequencing methods produce a LOT of noisy overlapping data that can later be reduced to high quality contiguous sequences.

When compressed relative to a reference sequence, a ~3.3Gbp human genome can be reduced to ~3.3MiB of data[1].

For more information about the methods currently being used, check out these videos from the WUSTL Genome Center:
http://gep.wustl.edu/curriculum/course_materials_WU/introduc...

1. http://dhruvbird.com/genome_compression.pdf
I remember the time you helped me with some canvas stuff. Thanks again. 12K is well deserved :)
Pinch.
I respectfully disagree that you believe that's the definition. The presenter gave this talk and put it on the internet, with what I can only presume is her actual name. So I'd submit that she said things she has no problem with her clients/customers/employers seeing or hearing.

My guess is that when you use the word professional you mean things that you would say in front of your clients/customers/employers, and that's what irks me about the term.
1000 genomes includes many datasets including sequencing. That said, I'm sure most of this is sequencing data. The way sequencing is done is using billions of reads (usually b/w 50-100 nucleotides long), that are mapped back to the genome. Average coverage of any individual nucleotide is usually 30-50x. What people usually shared are compressed versions of the mapped reads that show all the sequencing information. The reason why this is done is that due to the limitations of the sequencing technologies, how you call particular mutations, structural variations, and deletions depends on the algorithms you use to reconstruct the genome. Thus the raw data could be in the form of compressed reads, or the compressed mapped reads (or in this case, likely both). Even this though is a vast reduction in size for the raw data, which are usually images that are used to call each base, which are usually 1000x larger than this data set; these usually aren't stored now for obvious space constraints.
To me, the most interesting part of this video was the graph of worker efficiency as a function of hours worked per week, which can be found here as part of a fascinating study: http://cmdept.unl.edu/drb/Reading/overtime1.htm
http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2832

A superb example.
alternativeTo seems to call it googlecom

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alternative+to+googlecom
http://alternativeto.net/software/googlecom/