skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want this to develop into a flame war, so this will probably be my last reply in this thread...

I studied math. I love math proofs. It's just not what I would expect if I would sign up for a ML class. Note, however, that I'm not complaining about the contents of the ML class, which I think were awesome, a really nice broad overview of the ML techniques. I really think I learned a lot. I'm just complaining about the homeworks, nothing else. They were not ML homeworks, they were CS homeworks (particularly, Matlab class homeworks). I don't know the contents of the real Stanford class, but believing your description, the same kind complaint applies.

You're wrong when you say that "lazy solutions" don't perform well in the real world. In the real world, robots aren't programmed in Matlab (I hope). In compiled languages, loops are just as fast as vectorized code (which is implemented using loops). Vectorized code having better performance than imperative looping code is just an artifact of the fact that Matlab (and e.g. R) are interpreted languages. (Sure, there might be some additional optimizations possible on vectorized code, like SIMD instructions, cache locality, special algorithms for sparse vectors/matrices, but this is in most situations premature optimization. Being able to write correct code and read it later beats 2% gain in performance!)
And if I offer it for free on my website but put ads on the page?
Ironically, it can often turn out that the latter is, in fact, more optimal.

Sometimes stochasticity makes better decisions than we possibly can. Do not limit yourself to logic alone—it describes such a very small subset of human possibility.
Once, I had to maintain a website on godaddy, where I only had ftp access. I hated it. We would have interns working on it, and giving them the ftp password sucked.
Having git as a proxy, hooked to sync master on ~/www and staging on ~/www/staging was awesome.
If you want it: https://github.com/ezyang/git-ftp
The (unfair) credit card roulette that they mention is a more "baller" version of this, and a favorite around certain groups of friends.
""If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged."

- Cardinal Richelieu
This. I faced an interesting paradox a few years ago when I first learned about opportunity cost. I found myself explicitly analyzing every trivial decisions in terms of opportunity cost and eventually realized that constantly thinking about opportunity cost was costing me opportunities. In other words, the opportunity cost of caring about opportunity cost is most often not worth it.
I don't think Bin Laden ever wanted to "convert" his "enemies", but rather to destroy or frighten them.

Considering the amount of money thrown into the Afghan pit (which still is a factor affecting the ability of Western countries to sustain periods of economic turmoil, and even to replenish their own arsenals -- see UK defence cuts) and the hysteric approach to public spaces since 2001, I'd say he's been fairly successful in his endeavours.

Which is not that surprising, to be fair. After all, he was originally trained by the CIA, and was backed by Saudi money and the Pakistani military.
Web designing in hyderabad
We always have unique catchy ideas that will be different from others, and able to give the website a different look. Adding illustrations and graphic inputs to your website will make it more interesting and attractive.
Why can't we have a real discussion here on HN, without our egos being hurt and without throwing around such subtle insults as "alpha nerding"?!?

I was just being honest. The exercises were easy for me. I'm sure they were not for many people. I don't care, because I don't compare myself to others in this way. In comparison to other people around me, I know I'm very smart/capable for some things, and suck at others. I'm not saying this to feel better or so that you would respect me more. I'm saying this because it's fact. The way I see it (without having to compare myself to other people), I'm capable enough to reach many goals in my life, but I would like to improve myself in many areas still.

But anyhow, you've completely missed my point.
XBOX Clone made in Unity/WEBGL + iPhone/Android Controllers
Great Republic | Buy Wholesale Great Republic clothing & accessories
Are my eyes really brown?
"IE8 is not a bad browser per se"

its not bad, but because i have to specially support it (unlike every other browser), it sucks. I for one, feel good that jquery is about to drop support. A large library driopping support will tend to create the impedus to cause others to drop support, and eventually kill the browser.
Google blocks Chrome extensions from third party servers
> anonymity is provided to everyone, although such a system would know a unique ID

Wait what? That's a failure from the start. User of such system should be 100% anonymous, untrackable, and not give a damn about personal rewards. With all the corruption leverage the cartels have, all their creativity (tunnels, submarines), and quality of business operations (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-a-mexican-dr...) I imagine surveilling local network traffic looking for unique ids and connecting the dots through data mining would be kind of a task of intermediate difficulty for them. To work at all, it would probably have to be run over Tor, but setting up Tor properly to avoid leaving fingerprints is a task for advanced internet users, while in this situation being less tech-savvy could be deadly.

Second, this system also could be used for deception. If an innocent citizen can report events and locations, why wouldn't the cartel use it to fool authorities?

Third, it looks like an offer to throw even more money into the 'war on drugs' sinkhole, only disguised as 'fighting with technology', 'technological workaround to the fear', and other BS propaganda.
The main reason was that the timing of the videos and the deadlines for the exercises actually made me do it. I would probably be less committed to a text book.

Having said that, I prefer learning from notes. Not text books, because they are usually way too verbose, but during my studies, I would usually skip lessons (and save 1.5h on commute), and study using my classmates' notes.
Custom Clothing | Custom Jersey
Welcome to i2icustom.com, here you can get latest designs of Custom Clothing wear uniforms, custom hoodie, personalized jersey, Fishing Jersey and many more.. Also we design exactly what you want. To know more about custom wear, visit our website.
I'd question the assumption that ftp was ever the old ftp, if by "ftp" we mean "deployment channel to production services". As soon as your web site is complicated enough to need a database, you have database migrations or their moral equivalent to worry about as part of the upgrade process, an simply dumping files in a directory somewhere doesn't cut it
I think it may be quite a new take on online gaming, do you agree?
Am I missing something, or is this just another Instagram clone? You upload photos, share with friends, and they comment on them?
> Music performance is one of the hardest things to be satisfied with every time...

Even the greatest Jazz legends would typically say they only had a handful of performances in their career where they were really satisfied and where everything came together and worked perfectly. And these were musicians who practiced hours on end each and every day, on top of performing. Truly humbling.
Pythonista - an iPad editor and interactive Python prompt
keep in mind that it really is all about execution - not just the programming, but design and marketing. all those and timing and strategy.
The first thing that came to mind after reading this post's title was insecurity (e.g. .git directories accessible in the wwwroot)

Isn't that what FTP is most known for - being insecure?
Twitter owns Whisper Systems. So it's really Twitter releasing it as Free software. Same with the Text Secure application.
Using post-commit hooks to handle your deployment for you can have undesired effects if your scripts aren't perfect.

I would recommend looking into continuous integration over this method. I've been using TeamCity for just over a year and it is fantastic for a staging environment.
Digital Eye Glass Inventor assaulted in Paris McDonalds
I could argue the opposite; beautiful experiences don't dominate the corporate world. Case in point: .NET + Java

This is, of course, a dystopian view of the future.
Yes! This is most of what I take from the ideas of Zen: that trying too hard at something ruins the final result.

How I describe this to the gaming generation is through a common shared experience. Remember that one time you spent 3 hours trying to beat that one level in that one game, then finally got frustrated and gave up, only to return the next day and beat it on your first try in 3 minutes? Zen.

The paradox makes no sense logically, yet it exists.

Moral: don't get in your own way—stop thinking too much about why and how and just do!
Trust but verify is absolutely the way that games using client side movement prediction work, and games without client side movement prediction feel terrible to play.

World of Warcraft has problems because they don't do much of the verify part.

The kind of problems you are seeing in this Diablo 3 video are avoidable, and solving those kinds of problems are essential to making a networked game.
If only it worked on my coworkers.
A recording of his comments can be heard here: http://sciblogs.co.nz/tosp/2012/07/13/podcast-the-fight-for-...
Umbrella company services
And the architect's eventual spot is CIO (a CXO title as useless as "architect")
The strategies should be followed for a successful logistics business
A company's internal capabilities may be sufficient enough to handle supply chain logistics. Consequently, the need to employ external parties may not be necessary. In other words, when the technology, infrastructure and core competencies within a certain company have not been surpassed, then it is advisable to continue utilizing internal logistics expertise
I personally think the H1-B is not at all the problem. The same recruiting issue would arrise with a US candidate, only they would have the option to take time off on their own to learn technology X to fit recruiter filter.
The person posting mentioned he already has a H1-B, transfers are effectively very quick and easy, and nothing precludes from defining a job utilizing the candidate's experience while providing for iOS training, lawyers handle that on a routine basis.
US Immigration is a nightmare (I am the first to know it), but in this particular case, what you pinpoint is a non-issue.
Friv
can anyone recommend a tutorial for diving into git?
I'd be quite positive that these "dossiers" are compiled specifically to correlate HUMAN->SN->DL|Criminal Record|[ONLINE WEDSITE]USER_NAME

I am positive that the NSAs current charter is to associate the real people to the virtual AMONG MANY OTHER THINGS.

So, with all that said - I have met and talked with a range of NSA personalities and they are the blackest of the black hats. DO NOT TRUST.
If this were true, we wouldn't really need to conduct the census (http://www.census.gov/), right?

Perhaps the NSA has tools like pipl or spokeo to build dossiers, but not that it has every person on file, right now.
Blow Molding Machine|Blow Moulding Machine
Depends what you mean by dossier I am sure the NSA has a definative list of all Us residents names and SSN's but thats not a dossier in the same way That the FBI under hover had about anyone even sligtly progressive.

Id be more worried by the fact the in the USA its common practice to register with the govenment what political party you support.
Make no mistakes, if being tagged in into a certain stereotype helps get a free cover for doing something wrong its likely to be abused.

In my country it was first thought that girls wearing burkha are modest of all. Until girls started doing all sorts of things wearing burkha just because nobody would even doubt them if they do it wearing burkha.

Similarly if you say 'male chauvinists' will always say this to women. Some day it will be taken for granted that even if you are actually wrong you can hide it behind and blame those 'male chauvinists'.
Shruthi Hasan Hot 
Tollywood beauty Shruti Hassan is all excited about her forthcoming Telugu film Gabbar Singh alongside Power Star Pawan Kalyan. Gabbar Singh is the official remake of Bollywood movie Dabangg… here Is Shruthi Hasan Hot In Gabbar Singh
various kinds of blow molding machine
Herald newspapers sms service for less than a dollar
The Herald's MobileNEWS now has 88c/week option
Modern Wedding Dresses with Good Quality at OnlyBrides.com.au
Are you fed up with the traditional wedding dresses? Then why not have a try on our modern wedding dresses here? Browse OnlyBrides.com.au selections of fashionable wedding dresses, you will surely find what your desired!
Rarely do I agree with the sentiment of "Stop trying to solve people problems with more technology, engineers!", but in this case I find it quite difficult not to.
Don't wait for motivation to find you; go find it today.
Graphene transistors in high-performance demonstration
Antonín Holý, H.I.V. drug creator, died at 75
the FBI collected a lot of dirt on MLK - Hoover was obsesed
Sooner or later we'll get to this point.

If there's an upside to the economic mess we're in it's that we may not be able to afford to stick to the same old failed policies.
I was actually going to ask if this is the same company my friend works for, but she was recently given a Windows 7 laptop... ;-)
Excessive Sweating Problem Treatment
Reality: Inactivity is /as strongly correlated with/ being unhealthy as smoking is.

Unhealthy people, naturally, don't feel happy, energetic, and in general up for going outside pretty much of the time, and as such are less active. You can take any handful of unhealthy people and they are likely to be relatively sedentary compared to healthy folks, but they're probably all unhealthy for different reasons.

Same with the "sitting will kill you" articles that pop up every now and then. The causality is there, it's just being drawn in the wrong direction.
I find it hard to believe this would be faster than just adding up what everyone ordered, and then either picking someone with weighted random (absolutely equivalent to the given algorithm), or just everyone paying for their own stuff (perfectly fair).
This would have lacked any credibility whatsoever if it weren't for the caps.
I'm not saying I wouldn't care. I would be a bit disappointed that you chose to pirate instead of purchasing. But I wouldn't be mad about it. Once you start trying to pass it off as your own, or trying to benefit from it, that's when it becomes something worth being mad about.
I agree the blog post should warn about it - but it can be perfectly secure if you do it correctly. I usually put all public files inside a directory inside the repo, e.g. public_html, and/or block access to dot-files altogether in the server configuration. E.g. in Apache 2:

<Files ~ "^\.">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>
Automatic backup of user uploaded images using Cloudinary
This blog post explains how in addition to safely storing uploaded images in a cloud based storage, uploaded images can be automatically backed up to a safer location, where no casual API calls can penetrate. Multiple revisions are kept for each uploaded resource for even greater robustness.
Prestige Ferns Residency
Speaking as a youngin' who grew up with the internet (US citizen and just now 24), I've never expected any privacy for as long as I can remember. Of any sort. Only an odd sense of my insignificance providing a minor smokescreen. I accept that if I ever obtained any real notoriety, all would be laid bare in due course.

When I read articles like this, I don't wonder if anyone is surprised by these things anymore. I would hope it's understood. My mind instead turns to these questions:

"Who out there expects some eventual return of privacy?" and "What degree of effort do they expect it to require, relative to what they gain?" Surely at some point it is not worth the time/effort to reform "the system", and personal mitigation strategies are more feasible.

I rarely find myself in the role of doomsayer, but I've never lived in a world where the word "privacy" didn't already have an implicit asterisk following it. So my stance doesn't feel apocalyptic, it just feels like the way the world has always been.
The NSA probably has "dossiers" on the whole world.

For example, in order to get an US Visa from the embassy they take your fingerprints. Your visa form also has a lot of data. At least that has to be centralized somewhere.

Add your online accounts to the mix and it's safe to say they have enough info about everybody.
Egerton, KU endorse AVU E-learning initiative
Notes Toward A Postcyberpunk Manifesto --- From Slashdot 1999
Mentoring Program at Horizons Unlimited
Horizons Unlimited’s mentoring program is tailored to cater your specific needs. Mentoring enables you to deal with different challenges of the organisation.
Might I suggest having some fun with one's dossier?

Like randomly doing the exact opposite of what you would ordinarily do on a daily basis. Here are some ideas...

1. Take the bus instead of driving your car.

2. Buy a pack of cigarettes if you're not a smoker.

3. Buy magazines you would never normally buy.

4. Attend a political meeting of the party you typically oppose.

5. Buy vegetarian food for a week if you're a meat eater.

etc...

If the dossier is dry and not a useful tool for profiling you then you don't have anything to worry about. If on the other hand the dossier is more sinister in nature you can dilute its usefulness by being a different person every now and then to throw it off track.
I realized while reading your comment (and the reply) that I haven't heard of Yahoo acquiring (or acquihiring) anyone in a long time.

Why did a CAD/CAM software company acquire Socialcam? That should've been Yahoo. I think they'd do well to snatch up a bunch of small co's or individuals and make them ridiculous offers that are almost entirely stock-based.

If Yahoo came to me tomorrow and said "we'll pay you a million bucks in two years time, but it's ALL going to be in YHOO shares," I'd:

a) Very seriously consider it, and

b) Do everything in my power to ensure that the stock price goes up.
A Game-Theoretic Perspective of Cutting in Line
Seems like the US want to abuse extradition here. If he's guilty of copyright infringement, then they should be able to get him in NZ. Extradition should only be for cases where someone is physically present in a country where they commit a crime then later skip the country to avoid being caught.
The book on the Git website (Pro Git) is an easy read (at least to begin with): http://www.git-scm.com/documentation
Alternatively, if your post does get buried, it might be because you bald-faced assert that people who don't agree with you lack learning, can't accept reality, don't know what a state is, and are living in a make-believe fairy tale land.

In other words, "if you disagree, you're a big stoopid thicko". You're clearly not up for reasonable discussion, you're just soap-boxing.

Well, that and whining about the possibility of being buried, as some kind of reverse-psychology downmod defence.
What am I not understanding?
Navigation menu using HTML
Navigation bar are the most important element while designing a website. Web-developers can create user-friendly navigation bars using HTML and CSS.
Using these navigation bar user can navigate between different menus easily.
Just follow these steps to create a multilevel navigation bar
In Agile development planning, a security framework loses out
"Domestically, they're pulling together all the data about virtually every U.S. citizen in the country and assembling that information, building communities that you have relationships with, and knowledge about you; what your activities are; what you're doing."

A plot for a novel: NSA operative comes across an identity with no links to any other identity, no social network history. Just an isolated node... curious, she starts investigating and finds all avenues blocked, and her boss asks her to stop. Intrigued, Agent Hernandez continues on her own time...
Mozilla Persona (BrowserID) is a step in the wrong direction
Are you familiar with nothing?

ATT carnivor room on folsom street in SF?

NSA Datacenter (I know the bidders to build it)?

History of the US over the last 10 year?

There are lots of things I would never detail on HN, but know this - you are watched, every single bit.
Vestidos de Noiva
thanks for the links guys. we are actually working on a website to allow anyone publish ideas and connect with others who would like to contribute to it.
we've launched a prototype two weeks ago : http://gullibear.com/ and a new version is on its way.
would be the sort of site you thought of ?
Another option, in case you know the bounds of the parameter space (eg all natural numbers under 1000) you can implement this with a counting bloom filter that has every possible element pre-inserted.
I would like to see the server software freed as well.
How enforceable are they in other states? I know in the UK there have been a few test cases which seem to have resulted in the interpretation that you can only enforce one if it would otherwise be detrimental to the ex-employer (e.g. starting a new business or taking your contacts with you), otherwise people would find it difficult to move jobs within an industry because you'd almost always be going to a company who could be classed as a competitor.
Know To Post Any Image In Facebook Chat. ~ The Path 2 Be Expert Geeks
"For services hosted in other countries the law in those countries might well have something it can say/do"

The actual hosting country does not always matter. In the Netherlands for instance (i can't speak for other countries) -where- a service is hosted is irrelevant. If you market your service to Dutch citizens (you have a Dutch language version of the site, or a Dutch contact number for instance) you are assumed to abide by Dutch law and can be prosecuted in a Dutch court if you don't.
Ask HN: How do you deal with team members ego/emotions and still make progress?
I know it's kind fo vague.

What I really want to guage is how much reponsibility one feels as a founder/leader to deal with team members melting down over criticism or other factors vs how much responsibility one has to driving progress on the product.

Any thoughts would be greaty appreciated.
Dates for In50hrs - Chennai, Pune, Delhi, Bangalore Announced
Depending on jurisdiction, though. In some jurisdiction authors cannot give up some rights, such as the right to attribution, in theory at least.

In practice, what are they going to do? Ban publishing things anonymously on the basis you are violating your own moral rights?
Uh, yes they have. Have you seem Facebook's press page?
Show HN: Day in photos from Twitter
You neglected to add those all important words "wake up sheeple".

You're making extraordinary claims regarding the parallels with the Reichtag fire. I won't ask for extraordinary evidence, just reasonable evidence.
You're probably not too far from the truth:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57471570-93/facebook-scans-...