skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it doesn't depend on human analysis. It depends on the algorithms you use for solving it. E.g. Calculate one solution. Variate coordinate. Calculate again. If better optimum, mark this as top choice for now. Calculate the improvement to past value. Iterate until improvement change is negligible or answer is good enough sufficiently.
Of course, this can take a lot of time and CPU power (even too much), and can end up in a local minimum if you don't variate the starting point and coordinates enough or include some random changes as well so that the whole ensemble space is well covered. This may (and sometimes strongly does) also depend on the random number generator's biases and it's quality of true randomness that you use in variating the coordinates.

You can keep a list of several local minima, maybe even see to it so that they are not "close" to each other (or equal to each other) when the algorithm goes through the area, so that it avoids already known local minima and tries to just seek more.
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Hi all, HN newbie here :). I was invited as a YC finalist back in April for our business which revolves around measuring shareholder control. Some of you told me you thought the community would find the link interesting, so I’m happy to oblige:

http://www.rotarygallop.com/2/post/2012/06/ownership-and-control-at-square.html

While the headline is Control at Square, I hope as fellow entrepreneur’s you’ll takeaway a few more broad points:

-Unless it is zero or greater than 50% , your percentage ownership reveals exactly nothing about your control.

-Sophisticated entrepreneurs and venture capitalists know this much, which is why they often advise letting control take care of itself. What they don't know is that the story doesn’t end there. (Almost no one knows this including activist’s investors I've worked with who take over companies for a living.)

-Control is not soft and fuzzy. It is definable, measurable, and manageable. Just like all the other metrics that drive your business, you can measure it, make decisions and move on.

Talk to me in the comments!
Honestly, CSS. It's so different from programming that I can't wrap my head around it.

Ask me to write a simple web page and I'll have ~10 tabs open to w3schools.
Depends if you can calculate the gradient and whether it it's known and defined. So, this all depends on the function in question. And also, the words "perfect accuracy" begs a definition here. How many decimals are we talking about here, or are we talking of all the "optimal solutions" or just one optimal solution, etc.
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It is deceitfully simple at a glance, but to make a useful design with it is hard. There are so many hacks to get it to do what you want and hacks to work around bugs.
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Then you at not using the functional programming constructs available to you and have poorly decomposed code. Deep nesting is a major code smell.
Yup, hence the (anti-)same-sex marriage campaign.
more research paper from WEIS2012
( Information Security Workshop - econinfosec.org )

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4136417
So I guess I'm not sure what compelling case there is for Metro on the desktop then. What does it give me that the old UI didn't?
"In America you go to party. In China, party come to you!"

(post Soviet and all)
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This, mixed with drones with cameras like the ones used here: http://vimeo.com/36341233 makes some pretty exciting cinematography possible
The example data sorta looks like a MongoDB collection.

I kinda err towards using basic data structures rather than whipping out my own class but I'm not sure that's valid. What would your key-value store class look like?
Roads still work because they are too expensive to replace. GPU's and bread are not, so your argument does not make sense.
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Irrelevant.

What will happen though, the US has peaked in power, will censor more sites through DNS, Asia and Europe will be fed up at some point and the internet (DNS) will break up. In the long run power will balance itself with the amount of people in countries and economic power.
I must ask, have you watched Community? Otherwise, they have successfully coined the phrase "streets ahead" to the point were people actually are using it seriously, and that would be cool.
On the other hand, astonishing reading the blog post:

"First, China is proposing "to give countries authority over the information and communication infrastructure within their state" and require that online companies "operating in their territory" use the Internet "in a rational way"- in short, to legitimize full government control."

It's ok if the US censors sites and takes down websites by changing DNS data, but it's not not ok for other countries - and I do not express any opinion about China in this - to request this to do?
He ported the OpenGL 1.3 app to OpenGL ES by implementing the missing parts of the API that he needed inside the OPenGL ES API (albeit, as some people have pointed out, imperfectly).

That is not the same as rewriting an app to conform to the new API. There is, as you say, a HUGE difference.
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Well that's suck. Reading between the lines a little.

0) Wire faults happen, stuff breaks, that isn't fixable. No problem.

0.5) A cable fault that can take out your redundant pair of substations... means you do not have a redundant pair of substations. (sometimes you have to go to war with the army you have, not the army you'd want).

1) Faulty generator fan?
a) Was this generator periodically run with a dummy load? { okay maybe a chicken fell in the fan or a weasel ate some control wires or something... }

2) The power circuits were never tested after a breaker got installed/reconfigured, and manual validation of configuration failed to find a discrepancy between plan and as build.

3) some back end parts of the EBS are probably A/B pairs and subject to split brain issues.

This is why you always need to test what you run, and run what you test...

Kudos for the write up. I see lots of electrician overtime in the near future.
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Objective C... It is the weirdest language I've ever seen.
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besides brainfuck =p
Yes, this is how it's played. It really is a fun little game, especially if you and your opponent are the type of people who over-think things. Try it sometime!
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If you want to downvote it, go ahead, use whatever reasoning pleases you. But please be careful about quoting a post calling on others to downvote. Campaigning for upvotes or downvotes is frowned upon, it breaks the entire premise of "The wisdom of the HN crowd."

If you feel this person's anecdote is not helpful, it miht be better to reason against it directly rather than engaging in meta-debate. You risk re-opening a debate about that post rather than the current topoc.
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Its nearly a year since Panos put up his blog post on cheating, which was discussed on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2774254

With online courses which confer degrees/certification to students from all over the world, there is far too much of a vested interest in optimizing to the shortest path required to get the degree. Its no longer a subject pool of auto didacts, but a subject pool where auto didacts are the minority and degree/certifacte focused individuals are in the majority.

Many students aren't like that - but if they come from a background which doesn't give a damn whether you learned something as long as you got a degree/cert from X uni.

If in the end, if the shortest path is just doing the test, turning in the Homework, and ticking attendance, then someone will be doing it for a price. They already are doing it in colleges.

The scale of it in turn makes peer review, or group work, complex projects which require active scrutiny, hard, if not impossible to execute.

I don't see how this can't end with course material being put out by one group, and standardized testing being done by someone else, a la the CFA or other certification exams.
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It's heartwarming to know that you're in such a good positions that you can walk away from a VC that shows interest.
Try to experiment with something that you would like to learn! Maybe you could experiment with node.js directly to get a feel for the core of a lot of these technologies.

I see a lot of people using redis to store these kind of metrics, I guess that it should be very fast and if you're only storing one month it'll probably easily fit in memory.

Meteor also looks very interesting for this kind of stuff if you just want to get it done and don't mind them handling most of the magic for you. Especially now that the first version of auth has been pushed to the github branch and you won't be doing any complicated user-level authentication.
Cameron, not Cameroon (although that's also a valid last name ;)

But yes, indeed, it is good to see things changing. And cross-party support, with the exception of the Euroskeptics.
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This kind of reminds me of the Danish Christmas calendar (a TV-show with an episode for each day in December until the 24th). In this show all characters were played by the same actor, Anders Matthesen[1], a Danish stand-up comedian, actor and rapper.
The show was named "Jul på Vesterbro" and in many of the shots characters sit side-by-side and interact. Along with this, there were camera movements and minor visual and sound effects. To do this, the camera was mounted on a robotic arm which could move in the precisely same way. For each scene and for each character, Matthesen would do the acting and then in the editing room they would cut the performances together.

I can't really find any sources on it, I only remember a Danish documentary about the creation of the show.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Matthesen
In other words: always claim to have a fifty billion dollar market. You'll get a higher response rate from gullible VC's, and people who would try to invest at a multiple of your earnings will filter themselves out ;-)
Sorry. Professor Wulf sided with the board's agenda? That wasn't apparent in his resignation letter. It seemed like his resignation was a response to the board's removal of Sullivan.
Probably http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge
I know it's a little off-topic. But that camera looks a lot like GLaDOS from Portal, looking right at me.
I am struck by the relative peace, prosperity, and safety of our time

in Europe.
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At first glance, the conclusion of the paper seems very intelligently plausible however I believe understanding such reasons will be more accurate from qualitative rather than quantitative research.

It should me noted that the particular format of scam discussed in this paper (the templates/models are called formats) is along the line of inheritance and criminal government officials. However, it does not address other formats such as lottery/employment/relationship scams to mention a few.

This 'reason' given in the conclusion might be one data point but far from being 'The reason' Why Scammers Say They are from Nigeria.

Thanks submitter for putting the quotation marks around Nigerian scammers because I did not see anywhere in the article that certified the letters calming to be from Nigeria were actually from Nigeria.

A final note: Scams (including those originating from Nigeria/by Nigerians) are of international dimensions; therefore assuming a scam would have to be unraveled eventually since the money MUST be eventually sent to Nigeria is false. Therefore there is no compulsion to always eliminate those that are false positives to the word Nigeria. Other false positives can be used without eliminating the very same people all the time.

TL;DR

The answer to the 'research question' would be more accurate/inclusive if got form a qualitative method than quantitative.
This 10,000 times figure is meaningless because it is theoretical; in reality that energy comes in diffuse rays which make it very difficult to capture anywhere near the amount of electricity that is actually needed. Hence the need to turn on coal power plants, which are harmful to the environment (very unwise to have turned off those nuclear plants IMO). Therefore, we SHOULD worry about efficiency, to avoid such things as much as possible.
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There are similar voices about the reconstruction for my German (chosen) home: Cologne [1]

It's a huge mess of different styles, one building uglier than the next. If you're in Germany and want to see a beautiful city, visit Dresden.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne#World_War_II
Both iMessage and Whatsapp are using XMPP which does in-fact support store and forward of IM messages - hence it's being used by these services.

The only additonal part is the background notifications which use Apple's (or Google's on Android) proprietary system. But once you start your client app, they connect to the server via XMPP and use that for message delivery.
What I've seen of Graeber's stuff is interesting. Economics is too important to be left to the economists.

But I've always regarded sociology as undisciplined and people studying it unrigorous. I haven't missed much by those rules of thumb.

A number of Sullivan's books were written with one Elizabeth Warren. When other academics tried to examine their data they came up short. Look her up if you like, but you're more likely to learn more elsewhere.
"just when sunburned Germans reach for their air conditioners"

I hope the rest of the article wasn't researched as "good" as this.
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Dirty little secret time - me too. I have moved around a bunch since then, and thats the case at every major metro "in the south." Norfolk considers itself the dividing line with the "real" south (which obviously starts in North Carolina), and guess how people feel about Raleigh? Even by the time that you get to Charlotte or as far as Atlanta, there is a feeling among most people that one is outside of "the south."

Know what? They are.

I would encourage you to compare any east coast city against any other. Then I would encourage you to compare an underpopulated area in Maine against an underpopulated area in Tennessee.
So, the paper argues that we all should reply to these scams, in order to make economically infeasible for the attacker to promote this kind of attack - drawn them in noise.

On the other hand, increasing noise will lead to even more sophisticated attacks and increasingly cunning attackers - evolutionary pressure in action.

What to do ?
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That's the one! This drama deserves a well-written article that captures the scope of this scandal.
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I agree with the top-voted comment. Consumer seems more like a lottery to me; B2B seems more repeatable in general.
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Thanks. It contains many methodological flaws as well. :)
Expensive things are more likely to work? I can tell you've not worked long in this industry, my friend.
Surprised nobody has mentioned CloudMagic as an alternative to Greplin. Searches are much faster than Greplin and it has native Android Apps and extensions.
> Right, all your SMS conversations now run through their servers.

I may misunderstand but all of your text conversations are available through their servers while they still go through your phone. You can still just directly send a text from your phone, right?
http://vimeo.com/43455552
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A similar game: both players pick positive integers. The one who picked the larger one wins but only if it was larger by no more than 50.
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I believe it is a mistake to see the victims of cons as unsophisticated. Or rather, doing so makes one more susceptible to being taken - consider how Madoff operated.

I watched a coworker send money to Nigeria once for a Teacup Yorkie - $900 for a pedigreed dog including air transport seemed like proof of the victim's internet shopping savvy and unsolicited warnings from the workplace were ignored.

What was amazing was how well the scammer read the victim. The dog was to board a 10 am flight and arrive in ATL at 2:30. The email arrived at about 10:15 notifying the victim that another $400 was needed for customs but that the dog could still make the flight.

Two of us working hard managed to convince the victim not to send the money - I think that the possibility of a dog flying from Nigeria to a baggage carousel in Atlanta in three hours finally made it through the filter. But it was a close call.

The victim was a savvy college graduate with a good job which required a lot of responsibility and hard knuckle negotiations with contractors and vendors on a regular basis. The attacker was extremely sophisticated in their pitch. It's why the victim trusted them and didn't verify anything.
The first hurdle is a little steep, yes. You need a shader to project your points, and a shader to texture your triangles.

But once you have those, it can scale to far more triangles.

Thing is without shaders it's still fixed-function, wich is bad.
> I couldn't get to my e-mails easily

The usability of the Universal Inbox, which groups all messages and notifications, cannot be overstated. It is just so easy to glance and see all action items, and go directly from there to the app.

For those who've never used a BB, it works like this: Say someone sends you a message or friend request on FB. Sure, you'll see a notification over the FB icon, but you'll also see a message in the Universal Inbox saying "John Doe has sent you a friend request." Clicking on that message takes you directly into the FB app where you can confirm or ignore the request.

It works the same for other apps too. If there is an upgrade available for one of your apps, the message is there; clicking it takes you directly into the App World section for that app. Quite nice.
What earlier version? GL ES is NOT GL.
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Yeah, graphics drivers are broken and inefficient, and one reason is they have to implement ALL of the LEGACY, DEPRECATED SPEC in SOFTWARE, because some people's code could break.
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> What's really sad is how the city was rebuilt afterwards.

http://dsh.waw.pl/pl/3_947

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By this email I am submitting my resignation, effective immediately. I do not wish to be associated with an institution being as badly run as the current UVa. A BOV that so poorly understands UVa, and academic culture more generally, is going to make a lot more dumb decisions, so the University is headed for disaster, and I don’t want to be any part of that. And, frankly, I think you should be ashamed to be party to this debacle!

Is this real? That's barely proper English, and certainly not something I would submit to an (interim) university President.
this is worth discussion...

I wonder what this implies down the road, maybe the biosphere is combating change in climate patterns with self-regulating feedback loops. I don't know...
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Interesting fact: a relative of mine has a pacemaker, and can feel leaky microwaves (I guess there's some voltage induced on the edges of the device, and some nerves pick it up). It turns out that almost all old microwaves (older than 5 years) are leaky, and she has to leave the room. Most new microwaves are fine.
You don't, especially an ancient one written for a deprecated graphics API optimised for SGI Graphics workstations.
No, it is correct according to the HTML5 spec to leave out the alt-attribute if there is no valid alternative text available.
The usual arithmetic conversions do cause the x and the 1 in the implicit x+=1 to be promoted to int before the addition, and the addition is performed in an int. However, since the lvalue that is the left hand operand of the assignment has type char, the result is converted back to char (which, if char is signed and the result is not in the range of char gives an implementation-defined result) and stored in the object designated by the lvalue. The result of the expression is this converted char value.

The important point here is that the result of an assignment expression (including pre- and post- increment and decrement) is the value that was stored in the object that was assigned to.

You can readily check this by examining the value of sizeof ++x (where x has type char).
Author of Roy here. Would love to hear more about how/where you think it's too far away from JavaScript. I'm trying to avoid that feeling :)

brian@brianmckenna.org

(also, I'm writing an untyped typeclassopedia for use in my compiler - I'll be releasing it soon - definitely feel that'd be a complement to prelude.ls)
Man, I have no idea. They also didn't allow us to take a lunch break during what could be an 11 hour shift because, as one of the owners told me, people weren't clocking out during the 15 minutes it took to wolf down a burger and some cheese fries. I reminded them of labor laws and they made an "exception" for me.

This was, is, a very successful burger place in Dallas and I learned a ton fom the experience.
I'm one of those people without a microwave. Instead, I have a toaster oven. For warming up leftovers, the toaster oven or stove does just fine, and most of the time it turns out better than the microwave, as it doesn't get mushy.

This is the second apartment I've lived in without a microwave, and I think I've missed it all of twice. Once, when I wanted some popcorn, and a second time when I was in a hurry to heat something up.