skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> bigger problem is what to do about "legal intercept" features. Especially when selling equipment to countries with regimes that want to misuse them.

As an Iranian (whose government routinely and 'legally' intercepts everything and everyone), I can't agree more with this sentiment :)
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I wrote something like this as a user script that works in FF(w/Greasemonkey)/Chrome/Opera a while ago [1]. The idea is to remove individual stories or add filters rather than removing everything like the OP. My script is based on VI-style shortcut keys though so that may influence how useful you find it.

[1] https://github.com/dnewcome/hn-plonk
Yes! Like others, I see a problem.

You have a big assumption: Product X will be valuable enough that people in group Y will pay for it. Your way of testing that assumption is to spend 5 months coding plus N months trying to sell it.

So at the end of 6-12 months, suppose you discover that Product X is in fact not valuable. All of the coding time and a substantial portion of the marketing time will be wasted.

Ask yourself: what's the cheapest possible way to test your core assumption?
Here's a link I've posted before displaying the current amount of energy produced by the various sources. The amount of land that we'd have to devote to solar to make a meaningful contribution would be unsustainable.

https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/content/energy/energy_archive/en...
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especially if you're using a car for delivery! Imagine at rush hour in the morning. Why do you think they use bikes for couriers? You should get a couple of bike punks and pay them cash. These guys will be productive!
But what would the case be for an American grandmother under 65 without insurance or relatives who have the means to pay for the hip replacement?

EDIT: For those interested in the wait time stats for Canada, the CIHI has statistics compiled annually.

http://waittimes.cihi.ca/
If the project is on github, you can just link to the repo for hosting.
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It sounds like you're just saying that if you want to know the frequentist properties of an estimator you have to be frequentist. That's a tautology.

The harder question is whether there are any decisions you'd prefer to make using a non-Bayesian procedure. That's basically a tautology in the other direction though.
You can always get your data if you do backups - like you should in any case - so that point is moot.

So, you're paying and giving up on a nice webmail client with two-factor auth (how many providers offer this?) for "finding out what happen". I don't think it's a great deal.

I'm not a Gmail apologist, by the way - I think there are valid reasons not to use it, like not giving Google a copy of your whole life - but I don't find their policy for when "shit happens" a real problem.
> End user systems could be responsible for keeping track of what time zone the user is in, and could convert as necessary.

That would require routine updates to the timezone database, which is a bit more complicated than NTP. (Yes, DST rules change all the time. The U.S. changed its rules just a few years ago.)

Hopefully, the rise of cheap and powerful ARM SoCs will make it impossible for device manufacturers to make excuses about not running a proper OS on their machines anymore. I would love to see more Linux and BSD on medical devices.
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Apple and a number of publishers have already settled with the EU Commission [1], which began an investigation before even the DOJ. From a legal standpoint this is not an admission of guilt. Apple believed that either a) the legal costs of mounting a defense were about the same as the potential damages, b) they could not win in the European Courts (this could be because of the interpretation of their anti-trust laws), or c) the PR debacle would harm their brand and reputation too much. I would pick a combination of B and C in this case, though mostly B.

As far as the DOJ anti-trust division is concerned, their job is to investigate and prosecute companies that allegedly partake in anti-competitive behavior that adversely affect consumer prices. They saw a rise in prices as competition increased, which is contrary to how price dynamics are supposed to work in an increasingly competitive market. Given that the source of this rise in prices was due to simultaneous pressure from publishers on Amazon to switch to an agency pricing model from a wholesale pricing model, it makes sense that the DOJ would investigate. This suit will likely take a few years to come to a conclusion.

[1] http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3353332&#...
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What i wanted to say is that 20kloc is a lot even for C. (Specially for "only" generating the parameters.
Diggum sad that it was more like 2kloc which sounds resonable.
> That's not awful design.

Exactly!

IMHO Ginny Redish is the woman leading designers and communicators out of the illusion of aesthetic masturbation and murky messaging toward clarity of signal and plain comprehension. I highly suggest that anyone using the web to communicate read her book "Letting Go of the Words":

http://www.redish.net/books/letting-go-of-the-words
There are different sources of errors, usually categorized as statistical and systematic. The statistical error will decrease with higher statistics but the systematic error will not. An example for a systematic error would be the error of the energy calibration.
In the paper they claim for one of the measured ratios
R(D)=0.440+-0.058 (statistical) +- 0.042 (systematic)
and the result would at best get about sqrt(2) as good if you would get rid of the statistical error. (Assuming the errors are uncorrelated they combine as the root of the squares).
How? I thought you could only have one patch series going at a time.
This makes more sense, writing and debugging 20,000 lines of C code in four days is a little crazy.
Spoiler: One of those is, HN will break it.
Why on earth don't the schools run this service themselves? Instead of confiscating the phones, hold onto them in the same way the third-party companies do. They're always complaining how they don't have enough money.
It's Sunday so I've had sometime to think about this and I'd say give it a whirl, but set some goals/paramaters. I will only try this for x months or loss x amount.

I'd get creative in how you can generate revenue too besides the demand/customer few. Right now people in the comments are focusing on the scale, well it's a hard product to arbitrage, but

1) Could you sell space on the cups for ads or other start ups? This might be the one time QR codes could work!. A Well placed QR code on the cap??

2) If you try to cut your costs (ie the coffee) look into a starbucks gift registered card, every x number of coffees you buy you get a free one. Also, once you hit a certain threshold you can customize (add flavors) to cups of coffee for free. Still charge the customer for it, but you get it for no additional cost.

3) It doesn't have to be Starbucks. I'd try partnering with unique coffee shops and try cutting a deal with them. They get people aware of their coffee and grow their customer base.

4)Or just simply use this to meet people doing interesting things. Who doesn't have time to get coffee in the morning--people who are doing things. Who can offered to have someone delivery coffee to them? People who've made money doing something.

Best of luck, interested to see what you do with this!
Someone found this solution? I would love to see it.
On what basis are you disagreeing with #1? Experience? I'm on company #5 right now and I'd say he has it about right.

There are in fact plenty of businesses where a quality product is not particularly necessary. I'm sure you can name some.

Even when quality is important, it is often not what a coder would identify as quality. As long as your customers receive what they perceive as quality, you've got a business.

And even when you're talking about the kind of quality your customers are seeking, that still doesn't cover all of the time and attention you will have to spend on things that aren't code.
I assume they can order and deliver more than one coffee at the same time. By using bags, delivery boxes or something.
me too... I had absolutely no idea what it is. It's funny to think that people can build a site and forget to check for things like that.
Not really. Kohana uses static methods to create objects extensively. Laravel looks largely procedural to me with static methods updating static classes.
Another approach is to have the safer language compile down to C. This is the approach taken by various Schemes, like Chicken Scheme.

The Stalin Scheme compiler, "often generates code that outperforms handwritten C and Fortran code".[1]

[1] - ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/qobi/research-statement.pdf
On this Memorial Day weekend, a military-themed example of how an analytic solution could improve a computed solution:

"The US army in Korea is equipped with Paladin anti-artillery guns that can trace enemy shells back to the guns and fire shells at the enemy guns with pin-point accuracy. However, it takes for the Paladins about 10 min to locate the enemy guns, during which time the Paladins would be targeted by the enemy guns Gen. Thomas A Schwartz, a former US army commander in Korea, stated that the US army in Korea would be destroyed in less than three hours."

http://www.rense.com/general37/nkorr.htm
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Not to nit-pick to much, because I agree with your basic point, but I think the ultimate test for a product is does it profitably deliver value. Every scam artist in the world is profitable, and I see too many people go wrong by pursuing pure profitability. Coughzyngacough.
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Wait, I was looking to Understand the Math Behind it All, instead of a light overview of the definitions. Does anybody have a more in-depth reference?
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I would say this is a more appropriate recommendation - http://www.amazon.com/The-Four-Steps-Epiphany-Successful/dp/....
but imagine if that was all you had; no basic, just lisp. would be an interesting parallel universe.
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Psychedelic drug abuse is so widespread because cure to addiction of such drugs is not a priority by drug companies and government. They are also not so interested in research in these drugs. These problems are result of our own ostrich response.
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You're arguing with something he didn't say. Nowhere did he advocate non-native UI widgets. He's just saying that in the eyes of your audience, your product should look better than the competitors.
I look at the kind of stuff posted here and on TC/Endgadget and those kind of sites, and most of the stuff we read about doesn't even come close to the kinds of things Tesla was working on. In today's world, what are the things that are "most important to the human race"? How do you even judge that?

This is excellent, please report back.

But don't let this deter your from building the small things like a jquery testing framework. One framework at a time, thats how actually you get to building things that matter.
The most interesting part is that a sound generated by a pseudo-random process is copyrightable.
If itwere 20k lines, he would probably have said something like

"it was a 7 line Perl script that generated 20k lines of c that generated inputs for whatever"
Did that for me as well.

debian on the other hand works fine on the same hardware.
RCommander is quite helpful:
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/
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32bit; I had this for a while during testing but not with recent kernel versions (HP recycled workstation nvidia GT520 graphics), seeing similar on Debian Wheezy with same kernel numbers. I think we sometimes forget the OS is Gnu/Linux and the rest is packaging and customisation (nice though that is).

11.10 I had proper black screen kernel panics on the EeePC netbook, again only during testing.

I might run a live session on 64bit and see what happens.
Different kernel version I suppose.
"... calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance".

One would think that an approximate solution would be good enough. How accurate does a projectile have to be, especially a nuke?
If you didn't factor those in, then the cost would be almost nothing, even when compared to coal. Almost all the cost of nuclear power is in the construction and decommissioning.

When you factor those in, it becomes more expensive than coal, and slightly cheaper than oil or gas.

Also, airplanes pack very little punch compared to other things like internal steam buildup that plants are already hardened against. In a properly designed plant, you get airplane tolerance effectively for free.
You could:

1. bundle your offer with a subscription to a newspaper. Possibly with a large subscription purchase, you'd save enough money that your customers would get a deal for coffee AND the paper while you up the revenue.

2. add breakfast! smoothies? Breakfast burritos? Those take time, are usually pretty healthy, and are highly portable.

3. send them a morning playlist??? like a new jazz/downtempo CD of their genre preference to get ready with while they wait? If I'm busy, which is what I'm going to have to be to use your service, I probably don't spend a lot of time getting new music.

4. have really really good looking delivery people. Nothings gonna make someone get ready faster and better in the morning than that. Hire college sororities/intramural soccer teams?

5. market yourself to startups that want their folks to come in before just getting free lunch--like a jumpstarter for their day. Maybe they'd pay a bit to see if you can get their engineers in by 9:30-10. 15-20 bucks for an extra hour or two of work sounds like a stellar rate for a top flight hacker...

Honestly though man, I'd use this as a vehicle to learn about starting up and not as the roadmap. Take all the gravity out of the situation. This should be a fun experiment to learn how you and your team operates, how you adapt when you're not getting traction, nothing more.

I respect the hustle, but this most likely will not work out. If I have time to wait for you to deliver coffee, I have time to make myself some.
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Kohana uses things like, $foo = Model::factory('Bar');

which does nothing more than

static function factory($model_name)
{
return new $model_name . '_Model';
}
Well, the process is not pseudo-random but pseudo-randomised.

But I agree with the sentiment, that's really interesting.
I still remember this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2545823
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The sound itself isn't a 'sound' but a performance. Hence copyrightable. The process to create that performance could be patented.
Copyright infringement of registered images may also be subject to statutory damages.

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Squats, deadlifts, bench press, overhead press. But maybe I have a warped sense of 'fun.'
Well the original USENET was killed by it's lack of web features.

And file sharers, and spammers...
The author makes the point that companies don't admit mistakes because they fear the stock would plummet. I don't think that is entirely accurate, or if it is, the stock plummet is incidental to the actual risk that comes from admitting mistakes: investor lawsuits.

And regarding start-ups and their propensity for owning up and apologizing, I've never really seen much in the way of sincerity from the likes of Path or those in similar flare ups. It's just that an apology is the quickest and cheapest form of damage control when the fickle masses and page view hungry tech bloggers are crucifying you on twitter.
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What stack are you using where deployment options are a moot point? (Note: Heroku isn't just Rails, it supports Python as well now)
Exactly, because of how its autoloader/class finder works.
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I can't tell if the problem was fixed by installing the vanilla kernel or reverting to an older Ubuntu kernel. Does anyone have ideas?
That's why they invented the biathlon--the perfect combination of cardio and shooting stuff. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon
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Right, sorry, I misunderstood. You are right and this was explained well by yk a couple of posts below.
"Apples (sic) position for years?" Apple has NEVER held the market lead in smartphones. They've been a minority of the market since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007.

And your description of the "niche that Apple occupies" in nonsensical.

Yes, Apple has had a major advantage for years; the iPod was very well designed, as was the iPhone. And funny enough, you should be impressed because they've already thought "of the next big thing(tm)." It's called the iPad. You might have seen one here and there.

If you seriously think that Apple is successful because it builds fancy products, that their walled garden is anything but a success, and that there is "only little space left in the niche" for Apple to grow in, you haven't been paying attention.
This seems like a curious choice of potential business when no US-based store will deliver a $3.50 product on a regular basis despite having access to large pools of labor at arbitrarily low costs, while if you're capable of typing in "git push" to get that website up your presumed opportunity cost is rather high. Consider carefully whether you are likely to have a competitive advantage in delivery operations over an entire nation of savvy chains and independent operators with high tolerance for jobs that suck. It strikes me as unlikely.

If you really, really have a burning urge to do this, be ZeroCater for coffee and sell any three startups on doing an office-wide coffee run every morning for only 15% the cost of a new engineering hire. (P.S. Note how I do not anchor costs around the price of coffee.)
This is how PHP dies. You end up with 100 frameworks, and it's impossible to hire anyone who has experience with the framework you are using.
maybe I am misunderstanding your question. Can you give me an example?
The real question (which I haven't researched) is if (specifically) wind power is sustainable without government 'alternative energy' subsidies.
I've also experienced locking problems in 12.04 that were very easy to recreate with a proprietary OpenGL-based program. We reverted back to 11.10 for now.
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It doesn't work well in either place. It fails in the city for the reason you mentioned and fails in the suburbs because people live too far away from each other for them to attain any kind of useful economies of scale.
> I'm talking about people involved in FOSS (system programmers, embedded developers, devops mostly).

I would love to get into this circle. Do these people share publicly? Where can a person hang out to meet the people who are in these circles?
YouTube views on a 20 minute video are a terrible metric. Many people are going to start, notice the length, and stop watching. A better metric would be to compair the average +1/like/fav and shares of posts to each site.
As I said, my Bayesian theory is rusty, but there are no "frequentist properties" of an estimator. Frequentist inference is inference -- it doesn't make guarantees about the underlying thing it's approximating, it provides guarantees about its approximation.

The key here is that Bayesian and frequentist procedures provide different sorts of guarantees. Frequentists optimize for \theta, the possible set of things that could describe all of the data X, while Bayesians will assume a single describing function \theta (this might come from an "expert") and simply optimize the expectation conditioned on the data. Neither is "wrong" but in the case of the bootstrap, the result is calibrated in a way that Bayesian inference simply never will be (if it were, it would be frequentist).

EDIT: As per your second question, actually I think it's not more interesting. A classifier is a type of estimator, so all of the general frequentist guarantees actually still apply to decisionmaking.
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Ubuntu releases are known to bring regression with them, that's just a fact.
Should someone who purchases a Coca Cola be limited to just 12 ounces? Coca Cola should be unlimited -- if I want to drink over 9000 ounces then I should not pay more than someone who just wants a sip. Right?

Perhaps I ought to start my own soda company that doesn't employ usage-based pricing.

Perhaps those opposed to this or that in an industry ought to start their own companies doing the way they think it should be done.

Uncapped broadband is contrary to every other utility pricing model. You pay electricity, water and gas based in usage: why should broadband be any differently.

Throttling, however is NOT good. If you pay for unlimited anything, then you should get what you pay for.
Thanks. Just yesterday I came across this first paragraph in a paper I now see is by Jordan:

"Statistics has both optimistic and pessimistic faces, with the Bayesian perspective often associated with the former and the frequentist perspective with the latter, but with foundational thinkers such as Jim Berger reminding us that statistics is fundamentally a Janus-like creature with two faces." [Janus is a Roman god with two faces]

In my current project (stroke and [since the leap] gesture recognition), I'm using the covariance matrix of a training set and the difference a feature vector from the mean to calculate the mahalanobis distance of the input vector from the training set. I plan to use this same covariance matrix in the Gaussian density estimation formula to generate a probability distribution function (and then use the likelihood function instead of mahalanobis distance). Still trying to mentally connect this to the bigger-picture stuff though.

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/papers/berger-festschrift...
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I really like this, simple and to the point. Sadly I am not in the US to try it.
Cf the windows sounds by Fripp and Eno:

http://www.loosewireblog.com/2006/11/fripp_eno_and_t.html
thanks. i haven't used firefox for 3 years though.
Except the scientists behind the loose cable up front said "we don't understand these these results, we think they are false, please help us figure out why". At no point were they published for legitimate consideration.