skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't effective government a system which can maximise the following function?

G = SUM(Fi(W)) from i to WorldPopulation

Where W is the physical configuration of matter in the world. Fi is the function associated with citizen i that defines his notion of 'goodness'.

Bad government is one which tries to maximise an alternative function:

G = SUM(Fi(W) * Di) from i to WorldPopulation, where Di is some factor for each individual and where some Di are much greater than other Di. i.e. some individuals have much greater say over the configuration of the world which is chosen...
Wait, what? Do you have any references for that? My impression was that Go creates new threads for new Goroutines when the current ones are blocked. Is that not how it works?
Sure, I started off with Andrew Ng's course on coursera. Then I started with the book called Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell. I also have the PCI book to supplement Mitchell's book with code examples. I got Bishop's book too but to be honest I'm finding it a little harder to follow than the others.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4071860
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To be honest, who cares about the hardware design here? This is very obviously a fake (or a cheap Chinese ripoff). Outside of China, nobody in their right mind would release something that's such an obviously MacBook Air clone.

What's interesting here isn't the actual hardware (which either doesn't exist or is cheap crap), it's the concept.
The video course is being worked on by me while I write the book, so expect it to be rough around the edges.

But, I say try going through the HTML version online, and as you do get stuck write comments to ask me questions. That's why I put it online for free, so that I get student feedback while I write the book.
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Yes I guess that would be more appropriate. Again, it comes down to the "give it the right inputs" argument. At some point you have to trust the user of the function to call it correctly.
It would be long story. Basiclly the DM stopped other contrys from devaluating (they had agreed to that). So most of all france wanted to get ride of it and have contoll over the euro. The would only vote for reunigicatin if germany agrees. This stuff is not well documented but it not a conspirecy theory either. I will update the post with some soures latter.
I've known quite a few people who had very responsible day-to-day jobs conducting scientific testing who didn't have PhDs. I'm not sure I would exclude them from the category of "scientists".

Is science only science if it is aimed towards publishable research (which is clearly the academic view)?
You have "contacts" on LinkedIn, on FB everybody refers to people that you are connected to as "friends". That's because languages do evolve, and yes, FB is now part of almost everyone's life, either directly or indirectly, so it's no wonder that it influences the way we speak
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw -
Maxims for Revolutionists -
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26107/pg26107.html

In my opinion Eric argues against his point simply by making it.
I think a lot of these people who create concepts of its features that exist on WP7 or Android etc. should just switch to that platform. [...] It's just that there's a chance they can cause more problems than they solve and become annoying.

Sure there's a chance of that, but the question is whether that actually does happen, and you'd have to examine it rigorously (ideally with a working prototype) to know.
I was going to order until I realized it was actually going to be $87 not $49. This is only the first of many of these devices that should be coming soon
I really think the author could have been able to express his point without the need to call any other book "buggy." Great books are able to claim "that pedestal" alone without this kind of references.

That "finely honed eye for defect" you refer to, you can have it after going to any great C book (including K&R C). By the end of the book, you should know what things were wrong before on the way.

Reflexion is something you do while you are reading.
Just wasted about 20 minutes of my life playing with this. I would really like to know the technology behind. Is there some sort of ML going on, or is this human trained? Either way, very entertaining and scary accurate.
Zero to Coder - Phase Zero. Installing Ruby on Rails.
Try going through the HTML version, and drop comments when you hit problems. That'll help me make the book solid.
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I watched the intro on udemy. Very cool.

You talked about installing xcode. For newer osx versions, people may be able to install just the [command line tools for xcode][1], which is only about 170MB or so. It might save some people from waiting around for the full xcode.

[1]: http://kennethreitz.com/xcode-gcc-and-homebrew.html
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"My goal is to slowly gather Team Members in our Portland office but leave our Video Production and Teaching in Orlando (it’s affordable there and the office is established, so no need to move it). Alan, my Chief Product Officer, is moving his family to Portland as well so we can work together daily."

So is the eventual goal to just have several different offices but no remote workers?
The gov't seems to be taking it as fact.
It's really easy to compile your own binary (if you have Xcode or the new separate compiler from Apple). Grab the source, "./configure --with-ns && make install", and Emacs.app appears in the nextstep/ subdirectory of the source tree.
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I have a hunch that RMS will be of great interest to historians, probably more so than Steve Jobs in the long run.

The overall GNU/Linux/OSS movement/project is the only thing I can think of where a work of such magnitude has been carried out on a global scale and has not been orchestrated by a single entity such as a government of corporation.

Something that has been tested on this scale and succeeded as well as it has is likely to be spread to other areas of life. Once Stallman dies , he will be remembered much more fondly than we think of him now and it would not surprise me if he became the inspiration for some future ruler or political movement.
heh heh. Who would have expected mercy and respect from the guy that made the (paraphrased) "pro-mo-fo" website (first saw it at Atlassian conference about 2 weeks ago, pretty funny though perhaps a bit rude). I think the guy is more than willing to point out any practices now deemed harmful, tradition be damned. I'm over it.
The box hints at the size of the power brick. Yuck.
No, we'll always have remote Team Members. It allows us to hire the best people in the country.

We'll just have a concentration in Portland and Orlando.
Like anything, you cannot predict the future. You might find your perfect dream job as a result of having the certificate. You might just as easily miss out on the opportunity to take your perfect dream job because you're busy acquiring the certificate. Anything can happen.

My personal advice is to ignore any future advantages that may or may not come as a result and focus on doing it because you simply want to do it. If you enjoyed the process and feel fulfilled at the end, it doesn't matter what may come as a result. If you need to work hard to sell yourself on the idea of doing it, it is probably not worth doing.
Never heard of Trinet before but it's definitely a tool to consider.
No doubt you feel the same way about Rick Santorum.
My programming started on windows trying to learn java (classpath? wth is a directory??), then to dos prompts and rexx scripts, but I didn't really hit my stride until a neighbor helped me install TurboLinux.

I spent the next few months at the console (configure X, what am I a god?), with emacs, and gcc and it was glorious.

I still remember the day when I figured out I could declare a function in one place, and then define it in a different .c file, compile things individually and link them and it would work!

So yes, I agree I think everyone should learn C, since it's still the best, thinnest model for the Von Neumann architecture a typical computer provides you. And those early painful steps with C have really served me well when it comes to visualizing the mechanics of a problem
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"On San Fransisco: If you want amazing food, beer, and weather, there’s no other option."

Austin, TX? Then again my opinion is biased considering I live there.
On Firefox, never goes past "Pointer found, pointing". No image loads, works on Chrome though.
I'm not a fan of the new UI... it's a much worse experience if you're coming in late & catching up.
The story you are telling yourself about who and where you want to be often answer the what to do question. I like both the "farming is a fine future" and the "hang around people with ideas" advice already mentioned here, but I think they are at odds. Farming is definitely a good and important profession, but it is very hard work. People may not look at you as unemployable at 40, but your body will ache with the required labor. Also, rural areas tend to be self-normalizing, and there is little ability to dream.
Ask your friend how he feels in his community. Does he like going to breakfast with the other farmers at 5 am and gossiping about crop yields, seeds, and prices? Or does he miss the buzz of a city? If he doesn't know, invite him to come visit for a weekend to see how he feels. Sometimes you can figure out what to do based on where you want to be.
I had a lot of problems with chairs, I couldn't seem to find the right one. That is when I realized there wouldn't be a right chair. I converted to a standing desk, haven't looked back since.
It would get more creepy, the more media spins Facebook as a privacy nightmare and the more tech-minded users persuade their friends that Facebook is leaking everything, which they are not. There is a privacy problem but not to the extent most people wave hands about it.

It's funny when you think about it, in the earlier years, you had the network search tool. Basically all profiles were public and you could search based on age, country, gender, university... everything. I could literally narrow down searches to people on a street. Was it really more private then? No? Then what changed? At what point will privacy be fulfilled and can one really call it a social network at that point?

There is Diaspora, if privacy is really what users want then, why haven't we seen a massive conversion to Diaspora?
You know what would be nice? If they added links to Amazon Streaming and Netflix when available. Some sort of nod towards paying for content.
If Germany left the euro, then their currency would skyrocket relative to the rest of the Eurozone, making their exports much more expensive, and it would absolutely devastate the German economy.

Huh? According to you, Germans currently work hard building products that will be enjoyed by others in the Eurozone.

Why would it be bad for them if that situation reversed, and suddenly they were able to purchase the fruits of other's labor? That's like saying it would be bad for me if my stock portfolio suddenly increased in value, and I were able to hire a cook rather than cooking for myself.
One thing I LOVE about C is that it's so easy to create APIs that other languages can use. For instance, if a C library exposes a good API, you can call it from lisp quite easily with CFFI. This gives you a large advantage: the low level, raw speed of a C library paired with the high-level forms of whatever language you choose.

I'm all for people writing programs/apps in C++, but I kind of cringe when I see a library in C++ because it's a harder language to wrap around.
That still made more sense than Ireland.

For the last 40 years if you built property in Spain people from Germany/UK would buy it.

How did Irish banks expect to sell more new houses than they had people?
Blurry, from way back, and with running commentary. No thanks.
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I find it often quite sad if people are called upon to change their behavior for public relations reasons. In many cases I feel people are asked to undermine their integrity.

I say screw public relations, stand up for what you believe is right! If free software needs a more agreeable head figure, why don't they hire Paris Hilton or whomever?
After reading Sanger's NYT piece, I am becoming more and more concerned about the administration leaking/deciding-to-release information about Stuxnet. As this article shows, once the cat is out of the bag people can start learning all kinds of interesting things about your intelligence activities.

Usually such covert acts which could be considered an act of war are separate and disjointed. You find a spy in East Germany and it's a one-time incident. But with technology, you find one op and you start pulling the thread and all sorts of ops come out of the woodwork.

I'm a libertarian and definitely support a more open society. But I also believe that any government must keep secrets on occasion. Whether or not Stuxnet (or any other sort of cyber-warfare) was a good idea is a separate issue. My concern is that, from a technology standpoint, there may not exist the separation of operations that is critically necessary for continued intelligence activities to be successful.

Or, to rephrase, Stuxnet wasn't just the ratcheting up of cyber-warfare in the particular arena of nuclear non-proliferation. With the acknowledgment that the U.S. is responsible, and the way deconstructing one operation can lead to exposing another, it's ratcheting up the stakes for all intelligence-based cyber activities in all arenas. When the eventual shit storm comes, the U.S. will be the one that gets the blame for it (fairly or not).
I said I liked Airbnb, so you can safely assume that no point I raise is a cryptic barb at them.

I think Airbnb has no incentive right now to try to ensure that listings are legitimate or authorized, and that that's a problem.
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a couple of others:

http://www.macrumorslive.com/

http://live.theverge.com/wwdc-2012-live-blog/
And in cases like that, I don't see much of a problem with Airbnb. I'd just add that cases like that aren't the norm.
http://apc.io/about/

There you go.
I can't believe the Aero interface won't be an option - Does anyone really believe Microsoft has forgotten where their corporate bread is buttered?
Soon as I tuned in he was caught and camera confiscated. I would use the term lol, but it's a little crass.
I'm actually really happy when acquisitions go down like this. That is, when they keep their product running long enough to make the transition easy (i.e., not Meebo) and open source the product.

Particularly that last piece because it opens up the market to be commoditized. The secret sauce of getting a web-based viewer of a remote iPhone Simulator session is now available for anyone. And now a bunch of competing services will likely pop up (because all the hard work is done) and that means a price war. The consumers of these services are ultimately the big winner.

I hope more deals like this happen.
You don't manage 40 people, even on site.

However my manager gets along managing me and 5 other employees, all remote, no problem. We have a weekly group call and an individual call every one or two weeks, and we supply a monthly email giving brief details what we did over the month (no more than 20 or 30 lines). The rest of the time we chat on IRC and by email as necessary. We meet together once or twice a year, usually combining that trip with some other event such as a conference to reduce the number of extra airfares.
I think another problem with teaching java in university is that pretty much everything is defined in detail. I have seen students that were taught java write ocaml code that expected a particular order of evaluation of expressions (which is undefined (implementation defined) btw).
I believe he was employed by the Open Source Initiative (which he co-founded) for some years, as its President. So indirectly funded by the companies that donated to OSI.
I'm getting a sort of deja-vu feeling, this thing reminds me of all those desktop docks for laptops that appeared during the '90s when I was a kid.

I remember it seemed really cool, but in practice it was a pain in the ass.
This is how I solved Facebook's over sharing problem: I don't use Facebook apps. If I need to, such as for business, I run it through a dummy account.

Had Facebook taken the path of not fucking around with privacy settings, I might be more open to Facebook's apps. However their intentions are clear, given events such as: automatically opting in to new email alerts even through I've disabled all other Facebook e-mail alerts, continually changing the privacy settings page resulting in the removal of past privacy options, allowing "friends" to add me to groups I wish to be no part of, un-hiding comments to my page which I have marked as either spam or offensive, and so on.

The end result is a Facebook which I use to look at photos and tell girls to Skype me and not much else. While I may notice these things right as they happen, for other non-technical users their happiness with Facebook slowly erodes away and they can't quite pin point it.

As Facebook continues to add more and more "noise", the chances of a competitor being able to beat Facebook at their own game increases.

While the analogy may be overused, albeit in a different manner, Google was able to beat Yahoo not only because it was a better search engine but because it had a lot less noise. While Facebook appears to be the Google of social networking, the sheer amount of "noise" in my news feed tells me otherwise.

(A note for users of both Facebook, Twitter, bloggers, etc: the amount of "noise" you produce is directly relational to how much people whose ideas matter pay attention to you. The friends who are over sharing get blocked from my Facebook news feed. The Twitter users that tweet about their cat grooming habits are un-followed. And so on. I am extremely cautious what gets posted to my feed, and when it does, people remember what I posted.)
And how about Google? They spam that political crap on the half of the internet during campaigns ( AdSense ).
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German politics is paid for by the manufacturing industry.
They needed a weaker DM and a stronger Franc/Lira/Peseta to sell stuff.

UK politics is paid for by the financial industry - they need more currencies to trade. A stable predictable and universal currency would kill the city.

Denmark stayed out because it was forced to have a referendum and sensible people always vote against anything that politicians are all in favour of.
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> You don't understand the Germany economy

How do you know? I'm German and I follow the German economic development for several decades now.

> If Germany left the euro, then their currency would skyrocket relative to the rest of the Eurozone

You mean to the level we had before in West Germany?

Check out the economic 'failure' of West Germany some time.

> The entire situation is a disaster because the only solution really is for Germany to support the rest of the EU through the issuance of Eurobonds. This will never happen. So the entire Eurozone is locked in this death grip.

Now it seems that you don't understand European economy.
Ryan: I'd love to hear specifics about the problems you're encountering with being remote at this size?

I have a remote team and we're growing but I would like to stay that way for as long as we can so I'm interested in hearing about some of the specific issues.
So a sufficiently famous and prestigious scientist could get away with keeping all his data, methodology, and calculations secret, publishing only his conclusions, and have the world accept it all unquestioningly because of his "career" and "status"?

No wonder journalism is such a disaster, if this is all we except of it.
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The problem with the 'Open Source' movement is that it stopped the free software revolution in its tracks by opening up a third way that relieved the pressure that was building up on corporations by the growing mountain of GPL code. That ultimately has allowed corporations to coopt the work of the volunteer community and turn around and attack us with even more locked down proprietary code such as the iPhone.
"There is too much at stake for me to be diplomatically dishonest about this – it did immense damage to the cause of openness, and I had to spend a good many years remediating that damage."

Exactly what is at stake in Raymond's communication of his opinion about Stallman? If the answer is "nothing", is it worth pointing out how flawed his analysis is?
It seems like sage advice either way. Going to college certainly has merit if you are there for the right reasons, but blindly going to college because that is what graduating high school students do is a mistake many make. Many of those people would be better off exploring other opportunities.
To elaborate on this, fanaticism often looks like a great idea to those allied with the fanatics, even if they disagree with their behavior. But people should not feel entitled to fanaticism because they think they are right, because that's how you get people like Santorum. Everyone thinks they are right, after all. It's hypocritical to say fanaticism is a luxury permissible to the "good guys" and not to the "bad guys".
seems like Fedora is OK with uefi: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html
I don't know why outsourcing HR seems like a good idea for anyone. 40 employees, 100 bucks for each every month, that's the salary of an HR manager.

Don't do it yourself if it is not your focus, but don't outsource it. You need someone in-house who can not only manage the administrative paper works but also give you advices about what's best for your own company.
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Most outsourced HR has a lower bound for number of employees. I've seen them as low as 4 but they really don't like that and don't make any money. You should switch to one as soon as you can. It's a silly amount of paperwork for each employee, but all of the administrative stuff they do (including getting you healthcare plans) isn't something you should be doing in house.
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I assume he means the code breakers at Bletchley Park who were instrumental in preserving freedom in WW2.
It seems to work for me when I move the cursor off the page, though that misses the point.
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I think they are talking about pumping desalinated seawater over a thousand miles inland.
Also what's the point of high spec if they perform poorly[1].

http://wmpoweruser.com/intel-android-dual-core-so-poor-havin...
That would only be true if he thought santorumms ideas were generally good, but too extreme.
Yeah, the "half pregnant" point here is probably really good; Airbnb is probably in a terrible bind here.
Welcome to the least friendly UI ever. Anyone figure out a way to get rid of the pictures? (besides opening up Chrome's developer tools)
That's a bit deceptive though because that figure for Maine includes all the islands and what not. Maine isn't very big, there's no way it has that much actual coastline.