skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iCal support is coming soon. Stay tuned!
No, a credit score is a measure of how likely you are to repay an debt, as relative to your peers. The higher your score, the more likely you are to repay the debt based on your history. (Not taking into account the size of the debt in this calculation, which cannot be determined by a single factor.) The score is a scale, where the bulk of the population rides at or below the mid-point, and the very few ride at the highest score.

This is differentiated quite effectively from what makes a "profitable" customer. Which, I think has something to do with what the OP was alluding to... Generally, a profitable customer doesn't pay the full balance off every month, and is slightly late once in a while. A profitable customer may have a low likelihood of repaying a debt, and the risk may outweigh any potential profit.

Notably, if you're low-risk, you'll find it much easier to be extended credit up and to certain amounts, even if your behavior does not appear to be particularly profitable.

That being said, when you specifically request that someone offer you credit, you increase the potential risk to the next lender. Which is why most of the credit card arbitrage plans require you to make massive bursts of applications at once, and then back off for a while - gaming the fact that it takes time for each lender to report its data back to the clearing houses.
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1.) Okay.

2.) Singularity as in breakdown not as in single. You purposely muddled the meaning to make your quip work.

3.) Moore's law fueled as in AI gets interest on their intelligence. Recursive as in AI makes smarter AI makes smarter AI...

4.) Science fiction or not i find it unlikely.

5.) Bayesian. Look up prior.

6.) 2131 was tongue in cheek.

7.) Thanks ;) You actually never address my main point though.
I still don't see what's preventing them from shipping Core i7 Ivy Bridge Mac Pros now.

I wonder if the near future of the Mac Pro might be headless, providing storage, CPU and maybe GPU horsepower and advanced legacy I/O for an iOS device, which serves as the principal UI.
Schilling says collapse of 38 Studios cost him baseball fortune
Or the one from School of Rock?
Why .nz?

.co.uk I could understand, .com ,being the main site, would be an honour, even .de would be subtly ironic - but I can't see the connection with kiwis

Does each Google fiefdom get to do it's own toys without the express command of the chocolate factory?
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Curt Shilling on 38 Studios
FWIW, Marco said on Twitter he already received credible-sounding emails claiming that both predictions are wrong: http://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/216244550207942656

EDIT: He clarified further saying no retina iMacs and Ivy Bridge instead of Haswell Xeons: http://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/216249589949399041
Applying the Turing Test for sociology research
the last time he posted this was in response to me, so I'll join the discussion here to avoid duplication. This was his response when I asked for some clarification:

>My problem with Go is that it does not have sum-types and pattern-matching. This means that branching (conditionals) in Go do not gain any type-information. And that means that programmers have to manually keep track of the invariants that hold true in each of their conditionals, and if they get them wrong, they get no help from the compiler.
OCaml is also used extensively. I believe Jane Street Capital's entire codebase is in OCaml.
Thanks for the quick and reassuring feedback. Good luck with this new approach.
Perhaps a bit harsh, but I have to agree on the usefulness factor. Obviously the UI looks excellent, but it doesn't matter because the data is wildly off for both areas that I've commuted and seems to be a widespread issue based on other comments.

They probably should have focused on getting better data before launching. Garbage in, garbage out I guess. I hope they can improve the integrity of the data because it has a lot of potential.
I'm not. There's lots of us. I'm planning on getting together and having a Mad Max style Thunderdome throw down at some point to get this all worked out.

I'm the Kevin Clark from Powerset (and subsequently Bing).
Awesome looking product and a good story of down-to-the-wire work. Great job guys.

Couldn't help but notice your logo is sublimely similar to these guys - http://www.cue.com/

Probably wanted their domain name too :) Ah, well. Have you had any problems there? I'm always curious about name clashes and how they're dealt with.
Suicide isn't exactly something new -- Romeo and Juliet stand out as good examples. And it had to be common enough that the Catholic Church felt the need to oppose it. Or think about Great Depression stock traders jumping from windows.

I imagine most suicides were categorized as accidents, back in 1900.
How would you get in and out of the upper (or even middle) floors of a 3000 story building? Atmospherics would be a serious concern at 10 miles up. Sounds like the kind of project the North Koreans would start and then abandon when they ran out of money.
In addition to the good points you make, I've heard that top people within Apple are increasingly assigned to the iPhone and iPad, and there just aren't enough (human) resources left over to design new desktops (to Apple's high standards).
Chrome, OSX, Version 19.0.1084.56 fails

edit
Version 22.0.1183.0 canary works, as does Firefox 13.0.1
Don't know if you're agreeing with me or misreading me. TF2 is five years old. There have been (at least) 2 full games in between Halo 3 and 4 in the same time span and probably five in the Call of Duty series. So TF2 is exceptionally long in the tooth for a money-making shooter. Which is great.

Counterstrike is also another anomaly...but is it a game that Valve is putting in real resources to update? Maybe I should've said, TF2 is a relatively old for a first-person shooter that is still being actively supported.

Hell, they're letting their in-house economist study it. That's pretty good support in itself.
New Zealand is ahead of the US and UK. Google's Doodles are timed by local time and locality. So NZ gets them before the US does.

EDIT: Actually, it's quite interesting to look at Google's page about doodles. Most of the doodles will never be seen by you, since they are country-specific.
> so, all in all, you have no fucking clue what you're posting about.

Your response would have been better without this.
Yes, often. Thanks for the links.
Nielsen.com's figures for website usage in the US during May 2012
Basically, the idea is that when you branch on a conditional, information is gained. This information may be represented in the type system and used by the compiler to verify safety, or it can be ignored. If it is ignored, the language is said to have "boolean blindness".

Example:

if (ptr == NULL) {
... a ...
} else {
... b ...
}

In branch a and branch b, different invariants about ptr hold. But the language/compiler are not verifying any of these invariants.

Instead, consider:

data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a

This defines a type "Maybe", parameterized by a type variable "a", and it defines two "data constructors" that can make a Maybe value: "Nothing" which contains nothing, and "Just" which contains a value of type "a" inside it.

This is known as a "sum" type, because the possible values of the type are the sum of all data constructor values.

We could still use this sum data-type in a boolean-blind way:

if isJust mx then
.. use fromJust mx .. -- UNSAFE!
else
.. can't use content of mx ..

However, using pattern-matching, we can use it in a safe way. Assume "mx" is of type "Maybe a":

case mx of
Nothing -> ... There is no value of type "a" in our scope
Just x -> ... "x" of type "a" is now available in our scope!

So when we branch on the two possible cases for the "mx" type, we gain new type information that gets put into our scope.

"Maybe" is of course a simple example, but this is also applicable for any sum type at all.

If your language does branching without giving you back any new type information, it means you have to manually track the invariants and conditionals your program is in. If you get it wrong, your program will die at runtime. Instead, the language can almost always provide you some kind of proof that you can pass along of the conditional's truthness, which makes it safe to rely on it.
So... am I the only religious person on this website who is also very scientific? I mean, I believe in evolution, and in my opinion the two concepts have always been complementary rather than exclusive (but I won't start a debate). Just curious.
At Circle [1] are doing practically all of our HTML on the client side. Our server exposes an API using Noir, and we had to build a lot of our own stuff on top of that, like authentication. I added coffeescript and hamlcoffee support to dieter [2]. HTML emails are templated in mustache.

[1] https://circleci.com
[2] https://github.com/edgecase/dieter
I humbly accept this correction.
Note I replied more elaborately to the parent comment. Please reply if something is still unclear.
Sites that sell on Flippa typically sell at a discount, a privately negotiated sale within your industry will almost certainly sell for more. If you end up going to a broker or a site like Flippa it sends a strong negative signal that you can't sell it directly which has a significant downwards impact on the price (also the people likely to buy in those scenarios will lack the value-add that an industry player would have).
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I got to the landing page and didn't know how to progress either. Why not just add some visible buttons/overlays for next/previous?
Well, the crux with my example is that the dart lands exactly on 0.4. There is an infinite amount of real numbers between 0 and 1, so what is the probability it would land exactly on 0.4? Zero, of course. But that still doesn't make it impossible.

I'm not saying no to the fact that it could have randomly landed there, but given that the probability is 0, I am saying that it is possible there is something else we have not discovered that provides a more probable explanation than chance.

*A different type of analogy is the old spontaneous generation theory for maggots in meat. For a long time, people thought they just randomly appeared. Upon closer investigation, it turns out there were other, more deterministic processes going on.
Your reply seems out of place with the context: as far as I can read, the goal of that phrase was "if you have serious performance issues du to your scale you will be excited by these languages, of which Clojure is in the set".
The hidden mistake
Yes, that is what I gathered. I mist can't see this being something I would want to use.
The first one I clicked on was dead... the procedural city generation one (http://gamr7.com/) :(
The video alone looks cool enough to share...
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A Turing Machine on Google.com in Alan Turing's Honor
Considering the Catholic Church finds no contradiction between evolution and the faith, I too would say evolutions importance to the existence/non-existence of God is overrated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_evolution
Mitos
<A HREF="http://www.losmitos.net/2012/06/los-mitos-etiologicos.html"> Los mitos etilógicos</A>
Only if you also eliminate senescence -- cells generally lose the ability to divide over time, and a whole bunch of creeping malfunctions result in us breaking down towards a limiting age of 114.
If anyone is interested to read more on this topic, there is another recent, closely related and perhaps slightly more accessible paper ( "High-Level Invariant Features with Scalable Clustering Algorithms" http://bit.ly/KDuN04 ) from Stanford that also learns face neurons from unsupervised collection of images (disclaimer: I'm co-author). It uses a slightly different model based on layers of k-means clustering and linking, but the computation in the end is very similar.

I'm familiar with both models so I can also try to answer any questions.
This is very optimistic to the actual commute times in Atlanta. They are off by a factor of 2 or 3. Not sure as to the cause but the vector mapping in Atlanta is terrible, so is most likely routing problems or the like.
Men tend to do better than women in female-dominated fields, it's been called by some the glass escalator: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2012/05/21/a-new-o...
I think the general pattern is to go for drinks with potential buyers (typically bizdev people at your competitors) and drop hints. If they're interested they'll bite.

Avoid giving away too much information at the early stage though to any interested party, whoever you end up selling to won't want the sites core stats to be known to all the competitors.
Sorry, but having had some dealings with Ada many years ago I'm sure Go is little like it. Go has CSP in its ancestry, what with channels and goroutines, and both are fundamental to it whereas Ada has nothing similar?
While that's true, what enabled Flame to use that to sign code was a chain-of-trust mistake as nl pointed above -- and there's no guarantee that such chain-of-trust mistakes will not happen in the future.
Just shows me how broken this language is to the core.
MongoDB on Windows Azure v0.5 is released
Happiness Will Not Be Downloaded
But the TF2 of 2012 is nowhere near the game that TF2 2006 was. Valve has poured a ton of time and money into continual development of the game and content.
I'm not from the US, but I find this surprising after hearing all those stories of unemployed illegal immigrants who were able to get huge mortgages with no questions asked.
I honestly think you should avoid this. We did this, and it's a nightmare, and we had to get rid of it.

Rails works very well if you stick to defaults. Each time you veer a little bit further from the defaults, things start to break (or at least require a lot more advanced knowledge to keep working).

We had a front-end in in JRuby-on-Rails, backend in clojure, in the same app/process. We had a "middle-end" which translated clojure->ruby and ruby->clojure, allowing us principally to use futures for parallelism and queuing. It worked really well at the start, but had tons of bugs. A nasty example was that we did email in SimpleMailer in Rails, but it was triggered from some backend functions, which in turn were triggered from the front-end. That meant that Ruby objects were being used in two different Ruby runtimes! Bugalicious.

Here's the library we extracted, if you really want to use this: https://github.com/circleci/cljr. My cofounder Allen talked about the experience at ClojureConj/west: https://github.com/arohner/clojurewest2012-slides/blob/maste...
If anything, TF2 is more fun to play NOW then it was back when it was first released. New weapons are very balanced and new maps are well-designed. Even the cosmetic items (which don't add value to the game) are beautiful.
If the startup succeeds: great! Of course, success or failure depends on whether you have a good idea and can execute it.

If the startup fails: you're broke and probably deeply in debt. Hope you can find a church to take you in.

If you don't try for a startup: You still have a buffer of money to fall back on for a time. If you were "insanely employable" before thinking about a startup, you are employable now and can get a good job before the money runs out. If not, you would have been in even worse shape if you had tried to launch a startup and it failed.
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Of Self Discovery, Coherence and Résumés
It seems to line up pretty well if you consider it round trip commute time.
They should have a splash screen saying: "Now booting Ubuntu Linux. If one of the next screens says "Welcome to Microsoft Windows", your system is probably infested with malware.
You have to assume anything you do is public and can be used in anyway possible, unless you've been told otherwise.

Right or wrong, that's the nature of these things.
You can use the alternative syntax: c('hello', 'foo', 'bar')

Usually, "c" will be called "logger_service" or "metrics_service", thus reminding you that you are talking to a remote service, but its obviously just a convention...

Yes I know, people dont like convention, ee had cases when this illusion of a local call leaded us to do bad shit, this is true.

I think its the trade-off of any abstraction. More power under your fingers-tip mean easier use for good... or bad.
> "The "no true Scotsman" fallacy is about moving goalposts"

More specifically, NTS is moving the goalposts based on irrelevant criteria.

There are times when the goalposts are in the wrong spot, and it's appropriate to stop the main argument, take the time to get your definitions straight, and then move back to the main argument with appropriate goalposts. If you realize that two parties are using different definitions, it's completely appropriate to argue about which definition is correct (possibly "the correct usage for these purposes" rather than "universally correct") before returning to the larger argument.
Mac Pros use Xeons, not i7s. But yeah, the big question is why they aren't using the Xeon E5 that's available now.
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I don't particularly like the writing style, but at least they are covering the case. Where is the coverage in the rest of the press?
Syntactically ZeroRPC calls look mostly the same as local calls, but semantically we don't hide erroneous states like you might expect a typically opaque RPC layer to do.

If an RPC call times out, you get a special exception that you can check against. Same with heartbeat failures.

"Recover" might be bad copy; what we mean is that ZeroRPC cleans up pending results. It is up to you to figure out what to do to fully recover. You have to develop with this in mind, but the trade-off is that failures are not hidden from you, and you have full flexibility in deciding what to do in failed states.
> Nuclear power is like the instant disruption factor in the balance of power.

I used to believe this, but now I think it's no longer true. It's a case of aspirant countries looking up to the nuclear powers, and drawing the wrong conclusions.

Nuclear weapons are the end-product of a system and process. There's a notion that to surpass the master, you need to ask what the master sought, rather than copying what the master did. In some way, this pursuit of nuclear weapons is cargo-cultish.

How much more secure would Iran be if it had invested money in offensive and defensive cyberwarfare, instead of nuclear?

The problem is that the talent required to drive that doesn't want to live in Tehran, when they can live in San Francisco, New York, or Montreal.
Including a major one scheduled to release today!
Exactly. The whole conception of Microsoft is atavistic.

Wishing for the return of Microsoft reminds me of older disillusioned Russians after the Cold War fondly reminiscing about the Soviet Union. Or Hobbits hoping that if only Morgoth would return, he could counterbalance the power of Sauron and Mordor: because the only thing better than facing the Dark Enemy of the World, is having two Dark Enemies of the World!
Seems inaccurate for my commuting times to various points in the metro as well. Looking at Broadway running east-west to the north of downtown, its a major thoroughfare that can take you to several major highways but its not being reflected.
I've flagged your comment. Please remove it.

Just because we observe somebody being a dick on the internet, does not give us permission to stalk them, expose their personal information (even if it can be freely found on the internet), round up a lynch mob, etc.

This is very bad behaviour on your part. This sort of thing can ruin lives. Please take it down.
Some liar..
I've read it as "Interactive visualization of commute times for all US citizens." the scary thing is that in another ten year this may well be reality, given the path we're on.
I may be mistaken, but I believe type switches in Go address this criticism:

type Fruit struct {
Name string
Species string
}

// define a method on Fruit structs named Rename
func (f *Fruit) Rename(s string) {
f.Name = s
}

type Candy struct {
Name string
Company string
}

// define a method on Candy structs named Rename
func (c *Candy) Rename(s string) {
c.Name = s
}

// any type that defines a method named Rename is also
// of type Renamable.
type Renamable interface {
Rename(string)
}

// produce something that implements Renamable. Its
// fields will be unknown, but the method Rename will be
// known to exist.
func SomeProducer(...) Renamable {
...
}

x := SomeProducer(...)
// at this point, x is of type Renamable. We do not
// know what fields it has. The only thing we know is
// that it has some method named Rename that takes a
// single string for its only argument and returns
// nothing.

switch t := x.(type) {
case Fruit:
// T is of type Fruit, while x is of type Renamable
fmt.Print(t.Species)
case Candy:
// T is of type Candy, while x is of type Renamable
fmt.Print(t.Company)
default:
// some other type.
}

it's in the Switch section of the Go spec: http://golang.org/ref/spec#Switch_statements
According to this I love an hour from work. Wrong by about 30 minutes.
Anti-competitive includes future harm. The way bundling IE was found anticompetitive by US and EU courts. Specifically, it is illegal to leverage monopoly in one market to gain entry to others - because history has shown that this is always abused and eventually harms society.
I think it's interesting how accidents have decreased along with diseases. I imagine it has something to do with better technology and regulations.
I wrote congress re: SOPA, & this is the reply I got.
Definitely. See my comment above about why not to do it in a single process.
This makes is even more mind boggling that AMD isn't opensourcing their own driver.

I'm sure a lot of the current driver problems could be fixed quite fast.
Sun exposure cuts pancreatic cancer risk by 50%
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This is an awesome one

http://nadinepereira.com
Microsoft's Surface Could Kill HP, Dell, Other PC OEMs
For every hour spent working on your blog, you should spend about a week trying to understand your customers needs and figuring out how to better serve them.

But your blog is (or should be) one way to have a conversation with customer (or potential customers, at least). Blogs aren't just for pushing stuff out, there should be a measure of interaction as well. Ideally, a blog post should spark a discussion...
But these code bases aren't nearly large enough for it to be a problem for a reasonably sized team armed with decent tools to disassemble and analyze them if the goal is to figure out the techniques used. It might be their reason, but if so it's a damn stupid reason.
Yes, "requires" was too strong. I should have said they go well together. I was trying to get at the fact that it's highly common for large-scale work to be unsupervised.
Localist announces white label social calendar app
An app built on top of an API (ala Twitter) that can be put in the app store with the customer's brand.

Are there any other SaaS companies doing this?
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As far as I can tell, this must be the case. I'm just north of Boca Raton, FL and from where I live to work is about 8-10 minutes, not the 25-30 this is saying.

EDIT: The only time it has taken 30 minutes was when I had to wait on two trains.
There is actually another talk from Clojure/West on this topic that will be posted later on...
I can't believe he slipped my mind. However some bunga bunga and a bit of fraud doesn't compare to killing your brother in law.
"least interesting" or "smallest amount of money" ? They're not necessarily the same.

In the article, Matt Taibbi says it's "a business worth $3.7 trillion". A few percentage points of that is still interesting amounts.
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