skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a better suggestion than most of the article. Especially alongside a classic guideline like: "code to interfaces, not classes".
Interesting, looks like pg killed this story.
This is all good stuff. Thank you.

Themes are a good idea. A printout mode is also on my list of wanted features. It's a bit tricky to implement because of the collapsed sections.

You are right, the book title is currently visually competing with the top graphic banner and it is a little awkward. This is the result of trying to do a landing page in a textbook oriented format. I should find a better solution to this.

As for the wake turbulence pic, Bookvoid allows me to float graphics left or right and have text wrap around them and it looks better on large devices. However, text wrapping around images sometimes end up squeezing text too much on smaller devices. I will try to find a solution, maybe conditional css or javascript that allows me to achieve best of both world. Good catch.

Interesting take on the Bookvoid name. I had difficulty finding a good name. In the end, the color scheme and name were inspired by an artist I like: Yves Klein http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Klein#The_Void
> I believe that I can produce a multi-armed bandit algorithm that has logarithmic regret and will work in the face of ever varying conversion rates, as long as there is a consistent relative difference between the versions.

That sounds interesting. As you undoubtedly know, there is a lot of literature on multi armed bandit problems and also on the non-stochastic multi armed bandit problem. The latter has the advantage of not assuming anything about the way in which the sequence of rewards is generated.

There is a a line of work in the non stochastic setting which sounds related to what you are describing. It's called the problem of tracking the best expert: http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~mark/papers/track-long.ps
The idea in this problem is to do well as compared not to the best fixed action but rather the best piecewise constant sequence of actions. There are many variations of this problem, but the basic idea is that you can have low regret as compared to a changing sequence of actions so long as that sequence doesn't change too "quickly" for some definition of quickly.
The future digital music
>If you want real news instead of propaganda you have to watch RT or Al Jazeera. Both of which condemn the US and Israel. Not Iran.

You realize that both RT and AJ Arabic are very, very anti-US biased? Especially RT?
The problem isn't with 1 resource. It is with 2 or more, right? You successfully allocate the first, but the second fails and so you have to go back and deallocate the first. The goto strategy avoids code repetition.

RAII is the best part about C++!
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If you do your indentation "wrong" and nothing breaks, then you will do your indentation "wrong". That's why I find whitespace-sensitive languages easier to read, YMMV.
My original response was more thoughtful, but I felt that summed up my point better.

The question is not what's possible, but what's likely and how much it will cost. If the likelihood is low and the cost is small, then you cannot justify extravagant preparation.

An attack against civilian infrastructure is terrorism no matter who does it. It may be a singular event, part of a chain of attacks, or a prelude to a full-scale military offensive. It's still terrorism, because it terrorizes the civilian population.

Irrational fear should not dictate our budget priorities. We can certainly take some precautions, and develop contingency plans. But at the end of the day, if someone is capable and determined enough, it's going to happen, regardless of how many much money and how many contractors and consultants we throw at the problem. The best we can do is take it in stride and rebuild.
Cool, this is a useful mashup. One more suggestion: filter for movies available on Netflix Streaming.
In other words, does it make the economy more efficient? I think so.

This kind of reminds me of articles from the 70s + 80s wondering if computers will steal jobs. Sure, but they also made jobs. Services like airbnb might take money away from hotels, but then give it to enterprising people that have extra space to rent. Overall, I can't imagine how that's not a good thing.
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Tech We use: for our own projects, Haskell. For JVM based clients, Scala. For iOS related work, some blend of obj-c and rubymotion (though Haskell might be viable in the near future). Also computers, those are important. (these are just the main tools. We believe in the right tool for the right job)

Current general areas we are working in:

• Machine Learning/Data Analysis/Mathematical Modeling (we think that there is plenty of room for improvement over current tools in this space, both in how the data is handled and how the analytics are performed)

• DSP as applied to both sound and radio, in conjunction with some interesting questions about how to do robust fast peer to peer sharing on mobile devices over a local network and/or via a custom rf transport layer. (there is more than one project in this blurb)

• mathematical modeling of the traffic dynamics of the modern city. (and several other projects in our queue are in the operations research/optimization space).

• a few of our projects also have a wee bit of hardware/device design components that are needed to make the deliverable wellposed.

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these are just the projects on our deck now, both it and the roster of great organizations we work with are growing and we hope to grow to.

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I found it very interesting that MAB-90 was outperforming RAND on both convergence speed and average conversion rate in the first experiment. This seems a very interesting result, albeit not the one you might be looking for in the article. I find it rather disturbing that this dataset was removed in later experiments. It actually seems to provide a very valuable insight namely: Multi-Armed Bandit strategies might be better than A/B testing but the exploration factor should be far higher because of the need for rapid convergence to significance.
Rotten Tomatoes focuses exclusively on English language reviews from "approved critics"(http://www.rottentomatoes.com/help_desk/critics.php ), so it's not that much of a surprise that there aren't that many Japanese anime films rated there. Since the 90's, the only major theatrical releases in the US have been Studio Ghibli films, and that's because Disney handles the US distribution.

I would imagine that it's similar for the vast majority of foreign films as well.
Slight correction: The BBC is not funded by taxpayers, but TV license payers, that is to say by people who chose to watch TV. While I won't argue that the BBC doesn't have biases, they aren't as simple as "like a branch of the civil service".
Hey,
Really nice initiative. Some quick feedback.

- I would really improve the quality of socks. Especially design wise. I would have subscribed in an instant but then looked at the lineup and was dissapointed.

- Lifestyle business is as much about the experience as it is about the product. Make me feel happy. Everlane is one of the best online experiences I have seen. Especially since you have a simple proposition and only one product to sell you can do a lot in the experience factor without making things unusable.

- Use better product photography

-I love the "How it Works" part

- I think you are already doing but use your blog as the bandwagon for raising awareness and interests in socks. Maybe even push content from other sites about socks? Like this one? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/fashion/in-silicon-valley-...

Feel free to ping me @tuhin for more design related and experience feedback
Yes, you're quite right; I thought that was a particularly ugly patterned carpet he was standing on. I think that says more about British carpets than anything else :)

Looks like their wire floor is a bit more permanent than the design I was using; my microphone was on a rotating boom that could be swept 360 degrees from outside, and my sample mounting was a pole down to the real floor, so we could have the absolute minimum of interference from the mountings.
The sources aren't named, but it would be a pretty major, major slip-up to specifically claim to site NSA advisers if it were made up out of whole cloth. As in, career ending for the writer. For example, "...according to members of the president’s national security team who were in the room." Journalists don't drop phrases like that lightly, and you don't have access to several NSA members and high-ranking US officials unless this leak is 100% sponsored by the Administration. It clearly was: one can tell by the quantity and range of officials that were interviewed who demonstrate, at points, first-hand knowledge of the situation.

Now, the question of whether these NSA advisers are -lying- as part of a propaganda campaign is a fair question. I wouldn't be shocked if they were, but everything that I have anecdotally read about Stuxnet and just using common sense, tells me--a layman on the outside looking in--that there is a pretty decent probability this is true, or at least pretty close to the truth.

Clearly, the timing of this is politically relevant. The President wants to take credit for it to boost his domestic stock in the runup to the election.

He can repeat these two key points whenever he is questioned on foreign policy:

1) I killed Bin Laden
2) I'm the guy who set the maniacal Ahmadinejad's nuclear ambitions back. The guy who is preventing the destruction of Israel.

Regardless of your political persuasion, these are potent points that have a chance to resonate with the electorate.

(fwiw: I'm not particularly in love with the NYTimes. I don't have an affinity for any particular newspaper anymore. I'm not defending the newspaper, just pointing out the likely reality as I understand it)
> "why are you skeptical that iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons?"

Because the only people saying they are doing so are the same people who've been claiming Iran was six to eighteen months away from having a nuclear weapon since the 1980s.

And everyone whose job it is to collect and analyze intelligence on the matter says they aren't.

And I find it pretty hard to believe the US and Israel can simultaneously have sufficient capability to craft and deliver something like StuxNet to affect actual damage to the Iranian nuclear program (to say nothing of the targeted assassinations) yet somehow insufficient capability to make the best estimate on whether or not there's a weapons program.

How could the people who know which homes/cafes/shops frequented by which scientists, working in which labs, running which operating systems, using which software to drive which hardware have a worse intelligence picture than chronic war agitators and political mouthpieces with a track record of being willfully deceived by charlatans and war profiteers?
Don't worry, you'll be able to run RISC OS on the Raspberry Pi! Maybe they can deploy that into the ailing NHS project (it's probably about all they can afford now @ $35/board).

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=11...
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Please send a resume, and tell us who/what are your major design influences and why?
When the New York Times prints:

“Should we shut this thing down?” Mr. Obama asked, according to members of the president’s national security team who were in the room.

It is generally safe to assume, whether you admire the NYT (like me) or don't (like 'patio11), that there's an actual source with a credible claim to have been in the room with the President who did in fact tell David E. Sanger that this happened. People have accused the NYT of bending the truth in lots of ways, but misreporting a White House meeting is not one of those ways.

I'm annoyed to have to write this, because I'm one of the people who thought the Stuxnet thing was marvelously overhyped and unlikely to be true. Friends of mine who are much smarter than me thought the worm might have just been a cover for direct sabotage. Nope; it seems like the government was exactly as simultaneously savvy and idiotic as online pundits had claimed it was.

Depressing.
A huge difference is how international the audience is. I have friends in many countries, with some of the same taste in shows, and we can't talk about the episodes we each just watched if we're watching on the official schedules.
Troy Hunt analysed the passwords of the Sony and Gawker compromises and shared the results in July 2011[1]. The analysis is worth reading and contains pretty plots that can be digested in a glance. His other blog posts at [2] relating to password security are also worth reading.

[1] http://www.troyhunt.com/2011/07/science-of-password-selectio...

[2] http://www.troyhunt.com/search/label/Passwords
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to start the conversation shoot us an email at inquiries@wellposed.com

Note: while we're language agnostic (all are feasible), we favor Haskell, English, and Mathematics
Sorry to flog this horse some more, but Natty was the Windows 8 of Ubuntu. I like the 3-letter option better.
on my internal to-do list
I wish Netflix UK had an API. It looks like we are not getting one. There doesn't even seem to be a way to get a list of the current films available, and the new ones which appear.
I would take their employment contract to a lawyer and have them look at it.

In my experience, they either want everything, or they allow you a certain amount of autonomy. In the latter case, it often boils down to time and equipment. If you do things on your own time, using your own equipment, then you're probably OK, with various conditions. The most common condition (in my experience) is that what you're working on must not be something that could be construed as being related to the company's line of business, past, present, or future (which is intentionally broad).

Another thing they might have is a disclosure section, where you have the option of listing inventions or other IP that you want to claim as your own. This would be an attachment, like Appendix A. I'm not sure what the best approach is here. Again, something you should discuss with a lawyer.

Certain states have laws relating to this, which preclude overreaching on the part of the employer. For example, California Labor Code, section 2870. Here's a good link:

http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/19422/if-im-working-...
I suppose Japan could have used strategic nuclear attacks, against the island gains the US forces were making in the Pacific, and potentially nuking our fleet groups.

They probably could have nuked Hawaii as well with some effort, and pushed the US forces even further back to shore and reduced our visibility / force projection.
Appreciate the feedback. Just had an internal discussion here and we all agreed that even though it may convert better, we don't want customers to have that feeling of shadiness when they get to the checkout page. We've changed it.
This -

if (!test()) {
handle_failure();
} else {
// do lots of work
}

is just another incarnation of

if (NULL == v)

i.e. it sacrifices a natural flow of code and makes it harder to follow for something of a superficial value.

Also this -

if (!test1()) {
handle_failure_1();
return false;
}

is fine unless the function needs to do a cleanup, which is pretty much always the case, and which in turn means that the { } block with grow with every if and it will include a lot of redundant code.

A far cleaner and easier to follow approach is to use if-goto, whereby all cleanup code sits at the bottom of the function (where it naturally belongs) and the flow jumps to the appropriate part of the cleanup on failure. The only exception is when there's no cleanup needed, in which case it can do if-return.
I've seen a lot of heavy nesting caused by the belief that functions should only have one return statement. Ex:

// Original
function render() {
$return = null;
if($condition1) {
if($condition2) {
$return = 2;
} else {
$return = 1;
}
} elseif($condition3) {
$return = 3;
} else {
$return = 4;
}
return $return;
}

But I'd rather read:

// Refactored
function render() {
if($condition1 && $condition2) return 2;
if($condition1) return 1;
if($condition3) return 3;
return = 4;
}
This seems to be a poorly titled piece, when the real insight is simply that government regulation has stifled innovation. If you compete because you've sidestepped some of that regulation then it's not really surprising that some of the things you liked have also gone as well.

Basically governments need to step back a bit, before they're completely swept aside.
Show HN: We made Supermodel.js to track Backbone model relationships
I know, and I love that such in-depth and approachable analysis is a part of our community, but I feel compelled to tell him that it would benefit himself so much.
Lunk.it
Terrorist victims in 2001: 3,000 ... Cancer deaths in 2001: 550,000

I don't think it's fair to the families of the victims, to the people of NYC, or any peaceful, healthy person who has that threat in the back of their mind when minding their own business in public, to equate a cancer death with a death caused by a crumbling skyscraper, a burning skyscraper, or jumping out of a burning, crumbling skyscraper. I know cancer can be just as ruthless and indiscriminate, but it never has struck in such a concentrated, evil manner.

The only thing that's disproportionate is how we react to terrorism.

Are you implying that we shouldn't react disproportionately?

That's not to say I agree with the current level of disproportionateness or that we shouldn't be spending billions of public dollars combatting a disease that's claiming more and more people because they are now living long enough to acquire it.
I have gradually increased my airbnb rates while maintaining a constant level of occupancy from $35 to $90 over two years, so at least from where I'm standing it doesn't seem like a race to the bottom.
With politicians involved, this kind of article (i.e. a reputable leak) is more dependable.
The recently decoded tomato has 7,000 more genes than a human.
Rails 3.2.5 has been released
I wonder if the researchers realize that people sometimes intentionally maintain weak password, since they are easy to remember and it's an acceptable risk for the account to get compromised.

For example, if my Gawker commenting password is 'hello1234', and it gets compromised, what's the worst that can happen? My Gawker commenting account turns into a spam feed? Oh noes my life is over!! 


For some applications, weak passwords are perfectly acceptable.
Cost of Motorola
China 'arrests high-level US spy' in Hong Kong
I can attest to this. We have an anechoic chamber here at Michigan State and I've also been in the testing chamber at EV (Electro-Voice). Hearing the blood in your head and ears is quite odd, but the disorientation from not being able to place yourself in space is even stranger.
Awesome, I wouldn't have thought of this.

But to pick nits, it could be argued that you're using md5 as a trial/error "compression algorithm" without including its source.
Or pattern matching, if you're lucky.
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