skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another way to say what you're proposing is to use a linear predictor, and to train it by globally optimizing 0-1 loss (just the number of mistakes that you make) on the full set of data that you have. Even ignoring computational issues (this can be shown to be NP-hard), you seem to be making several mistaken assumptions. I'd really recommend reading some basic stuff on generalization, but a couple of the mistaken assumptions are as follows:

1. That the particular input features that you've chosen are somehow the only possible choice. But who's to say that you shouldn't add new features which are the square of each original feature? Or maybe some cross product terms, like the product of the ith feature times the jth feature. Or maybe some good features to add would be the distance from each point you've seen so far. Etc. Continuing down this path, you basically get to the question discussed in the OP about choosing a kernel for SVMs. This is just one example where hyperparameters come into play, and you need some method for choosing them.

2. That a linear predictor is impervious to overfitting. Consider the extreme case (which comes up often) where you have millions or billions of features and far fewer examples (e.g., if features are n-gram occurrences in text, or gene expression data). Then it's likely that there are many settings of weights that fit the data perfectly, but there's no way to tell if you're just picking up on statistical noise, or if you've learned something that will make good predictions on new data that you encounter. In both theory and practice, you need some form of regularization, and along with this comes more hyperparameters, which need to be chosen.

Finally, by your reasoning, it seems like you would always choose a 1-nearest neighbors classifier [1] (because it will always end up with 0 error under the setting your propose). But there's no reason why this is in general a good idea.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-nearest_neighbor_algorithm
Using Twitter To Identify Psychopaths
it's easier to mentally execute a tree than it is a stack.
Timehopping into Nostalgia
> Its not hard

For a post calling out (among other things) bad punctuation, he could have proofread it more carefully.
What exactly do you need a CRM for?

Right now, I'm using notepad (please don't laugh) to keep track of who I'm talking to, what they've said, and what leads I have to pursue.

What other benefits does a CRM provide when you have less than 100 contacts?
How did you hone your skills for years? Have you been working with other lock providers? Or other methods, or just the process of reverse-engineering the software that hardware interacts with?

You are cool, you know that?
Beter yet, mix in a random data field from the user record into the reset link (have it signed with HMAC), and regenerate the random each time reset it done. This way no reset link can be used twice, and no db writes are done when reset link is created.
> I don't need to know if I'm doing 110 or 111, but the position of the needle will tell me at a very quick glance if I'm venturing towards 120 or slowing to 90

You're not the first to say this here, and it honestly has me surprised. My Civic did away with the needle entirely, and has a numeric digital display. I have not even once missed it. Acceleration is something your body can easily gauge, velocity is not.

If you're at 110 kph and you can't tell whether you're slowing down or speeding up, we have significant physiological differences.
I don't see anything ridiculous to a post titled "How we got 50 men to go to our craft fair" or "How we got 50 men to our nursing career fair" or even "How we got 50 men to stop being sexist assholes".
Two counter-arguments. First, it's not "sell", but "give for free under a subpoena". Second, it's not causation (they're doing it so they can gather info), it's correlation (they will gather info when they're able to).

The end result's the same, though.
Are the pictures not hidden on mobile devices? On desktop, you have to hover over them to remove the opacity.
An indictment of VMs in general, then. They're almost universally targeted at supporting a particular language, and cause problems when more advanced concepts (such as cutting-edge type systems) must be implemented.
If you want to have security at the network layer so that only certain users have access to the finance server, or if you want to ensure that your web server always has higher priority than your email server in getting out to the internet, or if you want to make sure that your password server at Yahoo can only send and receive encrypted traffic; these are the kinds of things that are made easier, cheaper and more manageable via SDN and by extension Nicira. All of these things are quite difficult to accomplish in large networks.
One of the best posts I've read on HN; great analogy followed by awesome super succinct explainaion.
>>According to District Attorney’s office spokeswoman Debbie Garlicki, Venusto could face up to 42 years in prison or a $90,000 fine if convicted.

Something about that statement just seems absurdly wrong. Maybe it's the 42 years of prison or $90,000 for changing her child's grade.
I thought TCP over TCP was a sin?
The whole site is about giving money to people on Github. I'd usually agree that enforcing a certain other secondary login to sign up can be a bad thing, but for a product so tightly coupled with another service like this, I think it's okay. At least for the start.
Absolutely not. When core Guice "isn't enough", I just grab one of the many great tools that integrate with Guice (Jersey is one example). My DI tool remains my DI tool, and I use a library that provides bindings for it.
What is your product and what did you used to use?
Tremendous Day for Nicira And The Networking Industry
First: I really like the idea of Gittip.com. Congratulations on getting this far.

But I strongly object to the tip amounts. Without going into too much detail, $0.25/week is not something I'd really consider a tip for a barista making my coffee, my dry cleaner, or any of the other myriad service folks I interact with on a regular basis. $0.25 will get you about 10 minutes of on-street parking in many cities; it might take longer to get your coffee. I'd guess that my attorney, physician, or my lawn guy would not consider $0.25/week a genuine "thank you" gesture as much as "hey, I have this quarter in my pocket." Personally, I think programmers are worth a lot more than most programmers think they themselves are worth.

Every other day, there's a HN post about some clueless business guy looking for technical co-founders. The HN community rages about how business people always undervalue their technical contributions. And then here's a project where programmers will tell you that a good project is worth $0.25/week. It that's true, maybe the "clueless" business guys are right to devalue technical work.

So while I really like your idea, I really do wish you'd reconsider the worth of programmers who contribute to these projects. I'm trying to be as constructive as possible here, because I think good things can come from what you're doing if you don't advance the notion that good programming in any meaningful quantity is worth $0.25.
It's not about the language their implementation is written in (although many people find MLs and Lisps to make compilers and interpreters much easier to implement), it's about the machine that their implementation targets. The JVM imposes many restrictions on and makes many assumptions about the behavior of client languages as a direct result from being built to host Java. I have no doubt that the CLR is similar. Javascript and Ruby are not typically compilation targets, bar things like ClojureScript.
From the article: In other words, American law is designed to enshrine access to guns, while Japan starts with the premise of forbidding it. The history of that is complicated, but it's worth noting that U.S. gun law has its roots in resistance to British gun restrictions

Which is utter nonsense.

British gun restrictions mostly got tight after the 1987 Hungerford massacre ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungerford_massacre ); prior to that point, ownership of handguns and semi-auto rifles like Ryan's AK-56 (semi-auto Chinese AK-47 clone) was legal, with a license. Go back further: guns weren't licensed at all prior to the Pistols Act of 1903 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_King... ). Many rifle clubs historically existed, able to trace their origins origins to the early 19th century as semi-organized volunteer militias ready to defy a Napoleonic invasion. In other words, see also the 2nd Amendment to the US constitution, British-style, in the shape of organized militias.

TL:DR; Author of article is mistaking the current-day UK political consensus for a long-term historical status quo. It just ain't so.

What else are they getting wrong?
Offhand, do you know of any material that delves deeper into that taboo topic? Sociologically I find it really interesting but like you said, it's not a popular subject.
a few years ago i moved into an apartment in NYC that somehow didn't have a phone line. at all. like there wasn't a wall jack in the entire apartment. (it was a hundred-year-old building, i have no idea how this was possible.)

i discovered this when i finally gave up on cable internet (insanely unreliable there) and needed about five calls and three visits to get verizon to understand that someone would have to drill a hole in my floor and run wire into the basement before my DSL could be hooked up, because yes, i really didn't have a phone line.
I'm delighted that Mike's carrying this forward - it's a lot more effort than it seems.

I'm without a stable internet connection at the moment - travelling a lot and about to start renovating a house in rural France. Trying to juggle three guests and a shaky connection is just too much.
VCs are interested in spending millions on programming language R&D? Where do I sign up?
Interesting analysis. Two comments:

(1) Within a product, does it make sense that pricing has to converge near zero? Adding a notebook analysis may illustrate that this is not always the case.

(2) It may be interesting to look at the interaction between products, rather than focusing within each product and answering what drives the purchasing decision for each product. For example - it seems as though the iPod would fit nicely into the "Insert iPad Mini Here" triangle; however, are the purchasing drivers for the iPad and iPod congruent? Would one trade up or trade down between the iPod and iPad purely on price?
That's not how self checkout systems normally work - they build up their own internal databases of average weights over time. This has a number of benefits - it saves time and money for the store (you don't have to pre-program the machines with weight values) and it also allows for varying tolerances by item.
"Programming" itself is not the hard part or really what you should worry about, and by that I mean syntax and grammer. What really matters is knowing how to solve problems through programming. To get that knowledge you have to write programs and solve the problems that present themselves. It sounds like you can take your time, so I'd say just write something, maybe a small website in python or a cli-tool, and then when you come across something that gives you problems ( HTTP Caching, or building node trees ), study up on it and then implement it.

Don't worry about learning the right tools, just build things and find the tools - programming language(s) - that gets the job done the best for you :)

Also a note, reading source code is a great way to find out how the experts get the job done, so you can always learn from them by perusing github or a GNU project :)
Austrian driver allowed 'pastafarian' headgear photo
Nicira lets you have more than 4096 VLANs.
To clarify is he calling himself "a founder" or "the founder"?

Being part of a team and calling himself "the founder" is a dick move and you need to talk to him about it.

If he is calling himself "a founder" you need to chill. There is no difference between a founder and a cofounder. If it is so important to you start calling yourself a founder too.
Hey ilaksh, some of what you have said is actually a big part of the problem. At professional events, you should refrain from seeing women there as holding the potential for interaction outside of a professional setting. Sexualizing women you meet in such contexts is NOT okay.
I would say that instead of worrying what could happen, just go ahead and do it. Sure, it might not be right the first time, but most bugs can be fixed.

P.S: Don't forget that Google is your friend
Week 2 of the Summer of Love: Researching Comments
Like I'm sure almost everyone will say, just start making stuff.

Build until you hit a wall, then figure out why you hit the wall; Did you take a wrong turn? Did you a ladder? Or maybe a Hammer?

Build, build, build. Keep learning. Learn another language. Do things out of your comfort zone. Once you think you know something, try to take another step forward.

Don't be afraid to fail, don't be afraid to ask for help.

Above all else, just keep going. And never listen to people who discourage you because you aren't doing it "right".
It is, but Nicira does IP over IP.
Beauty Tips and Tricks in Urdu
Beauty tips in Urdu and roman english about Face, Complexition, Hair, Skin, Nail and much more.
Sally Ride, first American woman in space, dies at 61
Why You Shouldn't Raise Money For Your Business
So basically the recommendations boil down to "pretend youre using Haskell a work" :-)
Complete failure? Are you arguing that the products that came out during his reign are below par? Above par despite his supervision? Not worth the psychological damage he did?

I doubt Apple would be where it is today if he had played mr. Nice.

Also, is there data that supports a claim that, e.g. churn was higher under his leadership than under other managers in similar situations? I am not aware of any, and it would not surprise me if there is data supporting the claim that churn was lower (in some sense just as Napoleon was able to breed loyalty, even though he led his soldiers to war again and again). For example, from what I have read about Steve, when working for him, he could be very harsh, but you would not have to worry about being shot in the back. That is worth something.
This is really cool. I look forwarding to support people in the Django community who make invaluable apps through this.

I would prefer if I could reward people for specific repos, though. Otherwise people, myself included, will probably be clueless why I am receiving money, and as a result it won't create an incentive to improve a particular product.

The text could read.

Hey, I just met you,
And this is crazy,
But here's my money,
So keep working on django-registration maybe.
Don't be silly. Nobody in the real world reads Hacker News.
Right, but people who are still at Google are usually there for reasons other than the money. They like their coworkers, or they believe in the company's mission, or they feel that they are not in a position to take a big risk in their life right now. If they jump from Google to Yahoo now, they are taking a risk, moving from a company with strong product/market fit in their core businesses to one that's an also-ran in their core businesses, and for - tripling of their stock options? If they're willing to take on that sort of market risk, why not jump to a startup where the stock could potentially go up 3000x in the next few years? Or a fast-grower like Twitter or Facebook where the stock might triple, but the company already has product/market fit and doesn't need to stumble around searching for it?
I'm shocked that so many people get their news from drudge. That website is god awful to navigate, and is most definitely not a place to get unbiased news... I clicked on eight random links, and two of them took me to pages where there were stories complaining about the "liberal media". What a joke.
Agreed. I've added a +1 here:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/80
If your store didn't get bombed you would think it very effective.
A friend of my cousin saw the title of the link, then he said "What do they mean? Do they also talk about gossip in here?"

...
I saw that listed on the wikipedia page. It looked hilarious. But none of the languages listed looked 'practical' other than simply ports/translations of existing languages. I was really curious to see if there were popular and different languages being used in other countries. To me that would be fascinating.
Agreed, 25c is too small, min should be $1.
Also I think the sweet spot is between $1-6, IMO there should be multiple options in the middle here.
Sally Ride, First American Woman In Space, Is Dead
I have no current use for it so I can't help you, but I know if I was to make an e-commerce site, I would use Shopify. Your offering looks very useful, so I asked for future reference :)
What the new iPhone connector means for your old accessories
Well, Greylock invested[1][2] in Typesafe, the company backing Scala.

[1]: http://greylockvc.com/2011/05/12/why-we-invested-in-typesafe...

[2]: http://actu.epfl.ch/news/epfl-professor-launches-typesafe-wi...
So - by supporting the fact that Israel is illegally occupying Palestine, I'm supporting terrorists? You can support someones cause but not necessarily means. There is a huge difference, and by even suggesting that they support terrorism you are stepping way out of line.
>Pandora gives me a bunch of bands that sound like bands that I like.

That's a feature, not a bug.
There is actually a wikipedia article dedicated to this topic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_l...
Isn't this what wepay.com was supposed to solve?
Portland's airport stripper convinces judge nudity was protest against TSA
They seriously had not heard of the leading zero zip code problem until now?

The bold print blames Google Docs or Excel for interpreting the ZIP as a number and dropping the leading 0. You can fix this in Excel by right-clicking the column, choosing "Format Cell" then under the Special section click Zip Code. You can even do this after you've pasted the data. In Google Docs you have to select the column and change the type to Plain Text before you paste the data. Either way not too hard to fix.
RIP Sally Ride. She was a personal inspiration as a child because I saw a woman going into space as an indication of the opening up of space to 'normal' people. She was also a scientist and not a military person.
Because the technical details of what it does is why it's successful.
My university uses Onity locks for universal access with ID cards. This means our campus (and residences) are vulnerable, too, right? Are you aware of many universities that use similar systems?
I'm running into this problem right now with S3. I have a bunch of files on a cdn that I want to store in my bucket but (as far I know), I have to download them all to my machine before storing them. I'd love for the api to accept a URL.
I haven't been working on other lock hardware, but reversing the whole Onity system from the ground up has been quite an undertaking. I described a rough version of the whole process in another comment. I've also worked on a couple other devices, e.g. the Emotiv EPOC EEG.

And thanks, I like to think so.
Once again, depends where you go. I've been in supermarkets where the self checkout registers mess up so frequently that the attendants basically rush over, swipe their card, whack something on the keypad, then disappear to the next red flashing light. They rarely check anything!
It's distressing to see Google people really are this out of touch.
"something no other country has ever faced"? For God's sake, catch up on world news or at least spare yourself embarrassment by not making such witless pronouncements.
I think cletus was trying to raise a feminist point. I certainly took it that way, anyway.

Beside that, I can agree that the issue is cultural, but I also feel it's ingrained at such a level that it may be difficult to overcome any time soon, and it's entirely to do with our perception of girls and boys as children.

The whole idea of girly girls and boys being boys needs to change before parents will stop being worried about their kids wanting to do something that doesn't conform with the appropriate gender stereotype.

I don't personally see what a collection of Barbie dolls, doll houses with fake appliances, and pink furniture, for example, does to even remotely empower a little girl. Maybe little boys might find it useful to understand the concept of housework and responsibility at a young age, too?

It would then stand to reason that there would be more women in tech because more children would have the appropriate parental support to learn about that sort of thing sooner.
No, SDN really isn't about this at all - its about segregation of the control and data planes, and in some respects about bringing a new level of programmability to the network layer. The scenarios you describe are easily achieved without SDN.
If you can convince S3 to integrate with Filepicker.io we'd put a statue of you in our office.
How so? Does it tend to stem from poor physical design, or the locking software?
2-5 years makes sense. I can see sticking to that schedule but anything older an you're probably losing out on new advancements in safety.
i'm totally split on that and i can't make my mind...

just like everyone, i hate when my bug reports get no love and I usually take the time to write a patch if it impacts me much. people that can't just write a patch, or if i'm drowned in other stuff, may benefit from this. basically pay someone to write a patch for your issue.

on the other hand, as a maintainer, i'd hate if a issue that is a wont fix for some reason would get only one person with lots of resource bugged, and he/she would proceed to offer some bounty on it. and all of a sudden that irrelevant issue would turn out to be the most popular on the project with a dozen government-contractor-quality patches being submited by the dozen by people that couldn't care less for the project.

i honestly can't decide if those initiatives are good or harmful.
Thanks. :-)

Note that we already raised the rates significantly (max used to be $1.28 instead of $24), and I'm personally looking for $2,000 per week. So I don't think Gittip understates the value of good programmers.

Here's the thinking behind the current tip amounts:

http://blog.gittip.com/post/26505682007/is-personal-funding-...

See the comment below about raising the minimum to $1, which has been ticketed here:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/180
Currently there's no other way to sign up. I believe he'll add other ways to sign up soon.
No, I meant a five… Or maybe four who knows…day work week. Please excuse my imprecise math. :-). And while I realize that there are exceptions, I would be delighted to get four solid hours of good coding daily from any programmer.
> The whole site is about giving money to people on Github

Yes. But I think the parent comment is saying that also requires that the money is given BY people on GitHub.

Scenario: I don't have a GitHub account because I work for someone that is not doing open source work. However, my own work greatly benefits from a project I found on GitHub (a PhoneGap Library, a Python script, etc). I would like to tip the people responsible for those projects.

Solution: ???????