skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Math paper retracted because it “contains no scientific content"
Because being a niche underdog is different from having saturated one market and looking for a different one.
No, it started as a Minix clone by Linus.
I put those drasted things on my blog... and took them off when I re-did it. God forbid that I spend hours fine tuning the loading of my site only to have some facebook script take up 12 connections loading 6 different iframes into the client.

Buttons make your site slow. The only button I have on my site is a twitter follow button. And I kept that in there, begrudgingly, because it waits for onload before it starts downloading all of its crud and is a one-off cost.
Just in case you are being sarcastic, it is completely legitimate to put down a large number of exemptions if you know your tax liability will be very low for other reasons, and you want your employer to withhold less money.

In fact you should tune the process - if last year you had a large refund, then this year add more exemptions till your refund is as small as you can make it. (Technically you can go over if you want, and be required to pay, most most people don't like that.)

The easiest way to calculate it is do last years return with varying numbers of exemptions and compare the tax liability number (not the final number which includes payments). Use the real return as a baseline, then keep adding exemptions till the increase in the liability matches your refund, then use that number on the W-9. Perhaps that number minus one.
OK, I don't mean to say that every G+ user wants this, mind you. But that a substantial number do is pretty obvious by the posts to the ticket about this, and observing how people interact with other, similar social networks. Does anybody really think that people wouldn't like to be able to use TweetDeck (or whatever) with G+? Or programatically interface with G+ from their blog, or whatever? I may ultimately be proven wrong, but I'd be shocked it a proper study did not show strong demand for a write API.
I know a large number of librarians, some male and some female, and have had a discussion with most of them about the dearth of men in their profession. Most of them are concerned by it. So now we both have anecdotes, hooray!
> There are actually legitimate uses for patents

Whatever patents in general have any legitimate uses is at best arguable (see http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/against.h... ), but that software patents are a complete and utter disaster that doesn't benefit anyone other than trolls and lawyers has become quite clear by now.
Their argument (which I disagree with) is that creating Java applications is far different than creating a JVM and class libraries. The latter must be licensed. So in their view, driving developer adoption of their language increases the potential for licensing the implementation specification.

But let's be honest, OpenJDK is gonna be all there is (sadly). I liked the direction Harmony went, and it was very strict about the legality of what it developed and used.
Apropos.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/facebook_likes
Drew Curtis: How I beat a patent troll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGAOCVwLrXo
NASA is facing massive budget cuts.

NASA is part of the government, not a for-profit corporation.

Assuming NASA actually contributes something positive, when did it become wrong to actually volunteer your time to the pursuit of science or promotion of learning for the public good? I'm really surprised at what seems like a general eye-rolling response when most geeks recognize the value of NASA.
There is no interaction on his posts - it's just added noise.

Fine, then the people who find it to be noise can un-circle him. For the class of people who are largely interested in the same topics as Charlie, it isn't even noise in the first place. Honestly, I don't see this as much of an argument against allowing the Write API.
No, it their product to distribute as they please. IBM and others have paid for theirs so the thinking is Google should pay too. In particular, the licensing on the phone / device edition has always been different.
"We don't want API-driven auto-junk filling our streams!"

Nobody does, but - again - we're talking about throwing the baby out with the bathwater here. Not everything posted via API is "junk."
nice!

years ago i got my hands wet with some rudimentary text classification and grouping techniques. it was when google news came out, and it was fluffier than i like my news to be (it has since been tuned a lot better). so i wrote my own.

i wrote up my (admittedly naive and simplistic - but effective) methods here:

http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=3988...
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Probably because not all their software is open source. Google would not like having to open source maps and gmail as gpl because the runtime was.
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Liberate Your Pics: OpenPhoto Brings Its Photo Sharing Platform To Your iPhone
The lawsuit is not about building on top of Java; it's about building JVMs. Sun said all along that if you build a JVM you need to be compatible and in some cases you need to pay.
Women are good and average and safe (genetically speaking).

Men are more distributed in the extremes: both extremely bad and extremely good.

Just think of this: Why the number of people in prison is mostly males instead of half male and half female? Should we try to 'correct' this too?

This is not a problem of society, but a consequence of different reproductive strategies.
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It’s much easier to get hired as a male nurse and those who are responsible will always be looking for more male nurses.
Oracle has certainly disgraced itself with this case, but as the article makes plain on the first page there is a clear legal basis for assuming that Java development is safe from Oracle's interference in almost all use cases.
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They have specifically addressed this. By having a GPL-based set of libraries to implement from, they would then be forcing this license to their app developers.
> the hope is that by putting a finger on the scale in favor of equality of opportunity, eventually society (after several generations of induced equity) will actually become equitable

Admirable principle, are you actually consistent with it? For instance, tall people get paid more (six inches = extra $4,734! [1]) and obese people less [2]. If it turns out that the combined adverse effect of being short and overweight is larger than that of being female, are you prepared to make affirmative action in favor of short, overweight people your top priority?

> to suggest that this is not a worthwhile goal essentially means that you think the status quo is fine because it affords you certain advantages that you did nothing to achieve

What if you think it's not worth your while because it's being promoted through ineffective, destructive methods?

[1] http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200310/tall-people-g...

[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8337512.stm
Or your coworker with a child with Down's or a customer with a sibling with Down's.
I don't see a reason that "normal" investors would be at an arbitrage disadvantage if trading on an exchange that was discretized to, say, 100ms. Arbitrageurs would still have an incentive to keep the prices on the "slower" exchange in line with the "continuous" exchange's prices, trading at the discrete ticks to exploit price differences. So, price differences past an epsilon shouldn't persist for more than a few ticks, which is more than fast enough for most non-HFT investors, who don't typically make trading decisions with anything close to sub-second precision anyway.

I think a bigger question mark with my admittedly offhand proposal is whether discretizing might actually increase gaming opportunities, since the change could do non-obvious things to the strategy space. On the other hand, it might also remove existing market-gaming opportunities (which are fairly poorly understood, and axiomatically assumed not to exist by the idealized equilibrium analysis economists typically use). Alas, current game-theory solvers don't scale up anywhere close to well enough to give solid answers in either direction (real markets are a bit more complex than 4-participant games iterated over 10 timesteps...).
A tutorial will be coming soon.
A mild tangent: When the Internet was being rolled out beyond the initial research labs it ended up being part of the library's remit. Thus there are a bunch of women of a certain age who were there at the early days of the Internet who know a lot about protocols and netiquette etc.
They tried this before. Doesn't anyone remember Google Buzz (and before that FriendFeed)?

You end up with streams of auto-posted Twitter junk.

Maybe at some point in the future they will develop algorithms that filter out this stuff to the point where it is useful. At the moment I prefer it the way it is.
I don't know that there is any reason to think these social outcomes are rooted in genes. It looks to me like it's rooted in something else. Care to share where/why you got the idea that it is genetically determined?

Thanks.
If you're starting out, I would recommend Clojure first. ClojureScript is basically the same language, although there are large pieces missing (since JS is single-threaded the only managed reference supported is atom, there is less support for runtime reflection like docstrings and exploring namespaces dynamically) but right now things are a bit rough around the edges, although they are getting better rapidly (see: ClojureScript One). It's just that when you get stuck with some issue with ClojureScript (like a browser connected REPL barfing on you or debugging the JS that comes out of the ClojureScript/Google Closure compiler, or understanding how macros work) I think it really helps to have a solid grasp of Clojure. See this for more details, although it might not mean much to someone new to Clojure: https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Differences-fr...

That being said, if you have some desire to experiment with alternatives to JS in the environments that is has traditionally been the only choice, ClojureScript is a compelling alternative, and ClojureScript One is an absolutely fantastic place to start. I have really enjoyed working with it and with ClojureScript in general, and huge props are deserved to those making it a better experience, because it's come a long way very fast.
And who in their right mind would want to build software on top of the JVM if what you say is true?
It's all very simple. All we have to do is go back to the beginning of time and remove the systematic oppression of women. Then viola - Equal playing field!
That is today's version. 20 years ago the equivalent of an iPad 3 was $400,000 dollars and consumed 3 kilowatts continuously.
OpenJDK would completely suck on a phone; the memory overhead and startup time are about 10x worse than Dalvik. And fixing the overhead requires eliminating JAR files, which breaks compatibility.
How does this make sense? It seems to be assuming that the conversion rate is independent of the product's price, the product's quality, and, perhaps even more crazily, what the product is and how it relates to the search term.

Am I missing something obvious here?
You've missed the huge difference:

Gmail isn't open source - Open APIs/Open Data is not Open Source. People use the Gmail service they allow external integration to broaden Gmails reach/ecosystem - this makes the Gmail service more attractive.

The fact is they'll never Open source the Gmail client which is their secret-sauce/USP that others are looking to replicate. Like twitters application platform, that is not something anyone should ever expect to be given away - its bad business.
Kudos for the good things they've done, sure. And criticism for the bad things they've done. But "OSS's best role model"? Laughable. That was the post I replied to.
Why are those free speech cheerleaders always to opposed to people freely talking to each other, telling each other why they think something is or isn’t a bad idea?
I agree on all points except the endorsement of Etsy's initiative. I understand that affirmative action-type efforts can lead to changes which are favorable to the oppressed class, however they are still inherently hypocritical in that they shift that oppression to the opposing class. The popular argument is that once this has been done enough times, the two classes will end up on relatively equal footing and society will in the process undergo a fundamental change which supports this equality going forward.

I have to believe there is an alternative method for creating that change in society, though I unfortunately cannot think of one.
Thank you, I haven't heard that explanation before, it makes a lot of sense. So the normal transaction fee that you or I would pay is an additional fee by the broker, rather than a direct market fee?
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A couple of startup could have used people with better PC filters to keep them out of hot water and keep them out of the news with bad PR.
Know of any good shops in Frankfurt, Germany?
I am an American Java Jockey (with client-side experience to boot) moving to Frankfurt this summer and looking to find work at:

1) At an American company with offices in Frankfurt
2) A company/startup looking for Remote-only devs
3) At a German company/startup in Frankfurt that is English-speaking and will sponsor a work permit

Does anyone know of any such opportunities or have any advice? Much appreciated.

Brett
brettchatman@gmail.com
brettcdev.com
Stanford Coursera current offerings are comprehensive. Udacity is getting there.

PS - Computer Science related courses only
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Everyone? People generally like JVMs to be compatible. Since you're not making a specific argument I don't really know how to respond.
I'm not entirely sure yet :)
Great drawing of a flower
Something so beautiful in just a small piece of paper...
Do you meet with all mentors/advisers at the same time/place?
According to Apple, an iPhone includes "Apple Earphones with Remote and Mic":

http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html

The standard set looks a lot like plain white earbuds, but there's a tiny clicker thing on one of the headphone wires. In recent models that is (1) a microphone, (2) an up/down volume control, (3) a sort of generic action button - single-click to answer an incoming call or hang up an active one. When listening to music, single click is pause/resume, double-click skips to the next track, triple click backs up a track. press-and-hold gets you Siri.
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Really? Sure, I don't find his content appealing, but I don't think that has anything to do with the manner in which he posted it. Replace all those tech articles and RT's with links to bacon (or zombie) related content and Mr. Kindel has a shot at being voted president, no?
The GPL on OpenJDK does not infect apps.
I'm surprised it's handling the traffic (so far).
In fact, some traders have a negative fee--huge providers of liquidity are paid to always be there in the market.
You could argue that enforcing a TCK before you can legally call your product a Java Virtual Machine helps ensure consistency (whether or not the JVM you write is open source). The real problem is the FOU restrictions in the terms for the TCK to be called a "Java" implementation.
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The lower right demo of the ocean sunset has an oddly familiar rhythm (and disturbing) to it.
At first glance I interpreted the title as "Clustering-related stories", as in "Stories about clustering" which I thought was a very cleverly self-referential title. Oh well...
You can try to make it easier (probably a UX challenge) but most people don't take the time to be meticulous with setting up their filters. e.g. Gmail filters, Twitter lists, etc.
I am actually surprised one of the Android-based companies who isn't winning doesn't make an attempt at that market. It gets you the market share and makes it easier to upsell customers on your "premium" versions.
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Vanilla OpenJDK is a resource pig, yes. But one could start off with the OpenJDK code base, drop JAR files and perform other wildly-breaking changes, and end up with a GPL-licensed Dalvik. Claiming current Dalvik as a derivative work of OpenJDK would be dubious, of course. But my point is that a path exists that should be able to morph the Java technology into any new GPL+classpath-licensed system regardless of Oracle's whining, yet it seems like this option is never considered.
Don't quite follow the logic in your argument here. Correlation != Causation failure?
In vim just do (copy and paste it if you don't know how to get the initial ⁏):

:imap <buffer> l ⁏

and whenever you want an inverted semi, type l. For best effects put that line in your ftplugin directory, in semi.vim (or whatever your autodetect filetype name for semicolon is).

some people like to map j to ⁏ and k to ;, other like to map f to ⁏ and j to ;, but this is all just homerow keeping. I'm a purist, i like to keep the mappings minimal.
I actually wish the local gas / electric company would start running fiber to people's homes. They are ok with the economics of commodity products and already have access to the home.
Startups and Students: A match made in heaven?
when you are a BIG studio, and want to hire the best guys, they will only work if the union allows. and for the union to allow your production has to use professionals from all other unions (guilds).

And that reciprocates so many jobs that everyone i know pays (or are making ends-meet to pay) the union (most are something like 5k for actors, 20k for photo, per year).

But, small indie movies, just shoot for a couple days and nobody has any pay. They usually gets people with little experience via email chain and facebook noise.
If that's part of the reason, it's probably very small. Google was always a threat with Google Voice. Which is much better integrated into Android phones, and easier to use as a call replacement than anything Skype has to offer into Windows Phones. Yet, every carrier store is filled with Android devices.

I doubt that's a strong reason.
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Anyone can share stats of the traffic those buttons bring BACK to your site?
there is a "porn" folder ^^
This is why I'm thankful for the new responsive web design initiative. Same page, same resources, no more or less round-trips, just a different layout tailored to your screen size and density.
Well, C++11 has native threads now and OpenMP looks like a good alternative to Cilk.

Any performance reason for which one would prefer Cilk vs OpenMP ?
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I'm creating a platform called Polyp, so everyone can write asynchronous server programs in Semicolon.
Sure. Check your email :)
Better Looking Hacker News
If I made a website, just like Hacker News, but looked much much better, would you convert from Hacker News? I've noticed that Hacker News is just a basic website and feel like I could do better. Don't get me wrong...I LOVE Hacker News. I just feel I could do a much better job.
Good question. I wrote this from the vantage point of developers, for whom NDAs is a different situation from that of investor types. There's intrinsically more precedent for an NDA to be rejected by someone potentially writing the checks than by someone potentially receiving them.

Accordingly, I reckon that this idea is much more well-trodden for investors such as yourself.
Wheel chair Tai Chi
Probably good for office chairs too!
I wonder if a ruling that favors Oracle will taint JVM-based languages such as Clojure?
Oh, PC filters are a good thing, I'm not trying to claim otherwise. I was just trying to clarify what seemed to be a misinterpretation of the author.
Google wants to build content in Google+ organically.

It's the longer & more difficult way and I applaud them for it.

If they open up a WRITE API right away, it's going to be exactly like Google Buzz.
personally I would have to say Apple. Not sure why. Just a feeling.
Twitter isn't open source either. In that way they are similar to Gmail. Twitter is also headquartered in the US, same as Google. There are innumerable other ways that they are similar.

There are also some major differences, such as the one I described about interoperability. Another difference: unlike Gmail, Twitter's "secret sauce" isn't their website. It's their walled garden social network. Twitter could open source their whole website's code, and it wouldn't much help anyone build a Twitter competitor. StatusNet is already pretty nice.

Also, since we're veering way off topic here, note that I am not arguing that Google is "OSS's best role model", like you said about Twitter. I'm just using Gmail as an example to illustrate how Twitter's walled garden is different than how email works.
What you're implying is that the JVM is a proprietary platform. I think most people have treated the JVM as an open platform all these years (or they trusted Sun to effectively treat it as such), and I bet many of them wouldn't have used it if they'd thought it was a proprietary platform where the only allowed implementations have to be approved by Oracle.

You seem to be implying that it's no big deal if it is proprietary. I disagree.
To mangle a famous quote, "The greatest trick privilege ever pulled was to convince the privileged it didn't exist."

One of the toughest problems with structural inequalities is that they hide themselves from those who are benefited, largely because they are not directly and adversely affected by the inequality. This is exacerbated by the fact that on the whole, privileged people are not bad people, and coming to grips with how much the system favors you by virtue of being born into the right family can certainly make you feel like an undeserving wretch, profiting off of the misery of countless others. It is vastly more comfortable not to think about these things, particularly when thinking about them often makes you feel even worse when you realize there's no easy way to correct them.

But that discomfort is one price we, as privileged people, should pay. We should live in a shameful awareness of how we benefit from a system that undervalues and exploits people to greater and lesser degrees. We should recognize that denigration of things through sexist, ablist, racist or heteronormative language is an expression of indifference to the suffering of people. We should live our shame because it cannot match what we collectively allow to happen to other people, because otherwise we are passive participants in the continued oppression of other people, and because maybe being painfully aware of what we are doing to them will also make us aware of steps we can take to end the structural oppression.
How many would like to be doing something like this but cannot have customer or product data in third party/"cloud" storage?

Is there anything like Trello that can be run in-house?
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The A/2's were always a bit twitchy
Oops, my bad -- I didn't know OpenFlow 1.2 had been released because openflow.org hasn't been updated since early December. (I had it bookmarked and checked it occasionally just to see if IPv6 support ever got added.) The last I had heard/read, IPv6 support was just a proposed feature for a future spec...
I have struggled with this dichotomy for many years. I still feel that "affirmative action" is inherently discriminatory. But I too can offer no alternative to foster change. Considering the circumstances http://www.samefacts.com/2012/04/msm-mainstream-media/womens... I reluctantly accept that the end justifies the means.
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