skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cobra Effect: when a solution for solving a problem could actually make it worse
Wow, I had no idea the Safari Inspector was so bad. Because I've stopped using Safari at all..it's performance even on my brand new MBP is atrocious...maybe it's because of how the loading bar painfully crawls across the browser, accentuating the load times. Or maybe it's just the crashing.

I'm glad I didn't try the inspector...it would've driven me crazy but I wouldn't have guessed that they just killed the inspector
Yeah but that doesn't mean it'll stay that way forever. I'm personally for actual standards, so all browsers play by the same rule.

Not you must use company X's product, no matter how good it is. Because once they'll get 99% of the market, they'll trash it in the name of profit. It's inevitable.

That's why i don't like "chrome only".
>On the other hand, two is a very limited choice.

Oh I certainly agree.
Really though, unless you have a strong understanding of both calculus and statistics you'll never be a "data scientist", you'll just be a library jockey.
Indeed, PGMClass is "the" Bayesian class.
Skeuminimalism
The advantage of big cities
Sentence number two pretty much sums up the article: "Though I haven't been lucky enough to review one yet, I feel as if they'll take the market by storm..."

Pretty sure ZDNet is trolling us, and if so good for them because I fell for it and clicked.
All Tech CEOs and Product Leaders Should Be Deeply Technical*
First Microsoft Surface ad airs on national TV ahead of October 26th release
You are correct. However, these days significant portions of our communications are carried, curated, and distributed only through corporations - to the point where many people rightly feel those corporations have at least as much effect on our life as the government, without being held to the same standards of course. Expecting only governments to honor rights such as free speech does feel a little anachronistic in a world that's increasingly controlled by powerful economic interests. Restricting the obligation to honor human rights to governments is starting to look like a giant loophole, a legislative bug emerging from a legacy system.

Though I do not share these concerns as far as message board moderation is concerned, I believe there is often a good reason why people tend to invoke free speech instinctively in these cases. The expectation is that basic rights are not so much special allowances patronizingly handed down from the government intended for an increasingly narrow context but should instead be understood as innate personhood rights enabling people to live a free and dignified life.
"U.S. Consumers"

So does that imply if the consumers were not in the U.S. this would not be newsworthy? Or am I reading too far into the title?
$60 million dollars for a sales exec! WTF!

Am I the only one that thinks this is completely ridiculous?

Yahoo! needs products and you could've hired 250 highly paid full time developers for 1 year for that cash. Hell - you could've pouched a nice sliver of Google.

I mean doesn't Yahoo! suck at engineering and not sales as compared to Google? They're second in search and still pulling billions - I thought all they needed were more products?
Jolla CEO steps down to focus on Sailfish ecosystem
Where did you go? Because UofT, UBC, McGill, Waterloo, etc. are up there in the rankings with GATech.
In general, absolutely. Redis tends to have very high write IO compared to your average DB though, so that's a definite advantage when gathering very-frequent actions.
I think the idea is... at the moment there is this elite few people that actually have the entire skill-set of 'data scientist,' to one degree or another... but we need more of them. And the way to achieve this isn't to say, "Get a decade's experience across an enormous area of math, computer science, domain experience, and then come talk to me." The way to achieve this is to make data science seem more approachable than it is at the moment... in the hopes that it will be more approachable as we build courses like the one you critique.

This of course devalues your own skills, as you are one of the elite few. Unless you start writing textbooks. Which you should do, if you're one of the few. And self-promote like hell. If that course doesn't cover it - what does? Do you acknowledge that in a few years some shortcuts might be possible - that budding data scientists might not need to hae read every book that you have? I bet if you try, you can make your own shortcut in the form of a book.

Which is followed by a link to my own book on this topic, Agile Data: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025054.do which attempts to demystify as much as teach.
No worries. In my experience, most businesses don't have backups, or adequate ones, usually because it's not a high enough priority (either because of funds or time) up until disaster hits.

I've mostly gotten over giving people grief for not having backups when fate finally catches up with them, so that's why I was asking.

I don't understand your last sentence.
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Having just completed a Paypal integration for a Backbone.js app (my.jetbets.us), I can pretty confidently say that what Paypal needs is a much better-documented API to interface with a dramatically simpler set of products/pricing plans.

There are like three ways to do everything with Paypal, but it is never clear which of those ways works with the plan you are on, or which of these ways would be "best" or "simplest" or "cheapest," or even why they are different.

The "Square"-ified home page looks nice but my god they make it hard to use their product.
I have bought a couple satellite images from the USGS. The prints are large and very beautiful (and cheap). I would suggest checking it out (sorry for the horrible looking link):

http://store.usgs.gov/b2c_usgs/b2c/display/(xcm=r3standardpi...
Tapeworms are carnivore parasites. Regular tapeworms come from eating a cyst in pig meat. The tapeworm eggs that give rise to those cysts you mentioned come from human feces.
RAM-wise you could emulate 1000 instances of the low-end A500
on a RPi now...

Wonder how the memory bandwidth and DMIPS numbers are
compared to a m68k.
Narrowcasting
Some Startups are so intimately defined by their founders that they can only be conceived by them. Guillermo Zambrano and his brainchild Radiolobe is one such pair.
Popups in your notifications and system bars :|
It doesn't really look like the developers on this site are making much money. Tipping just sort of adds insult to injury, in this case.
Well thanks for the insights. I'll keep triggers in mind when I come across a problem like this in the future.
There are different classes of skills. For lots of organizations simply adding someone who can run a MongoDB mapreduce into a t-test (or SVM or whatever flavor you like) and print out a bar chart is going to be an upgrade.

To fill that kind of need we can use a lot of bodies with Coursera degrees.
Craigslist testing housing map search in San Francisco
I'm in New Zealand and haven't been into a bank once in 6 years (well, I did once but then found I could do what I wanted on the phone, so did). My wife and I have bought 2 houses and sold one 1 in this time. Papers signed at home by roving bankers and everything else by phone, email etc. Some things might require contact (business stuff?) but my stuff doesn't.
And probably database theory, probability calculus, matrix analysis, graphical models, stochastic processes, information theory, &c &c...
I think that people who might consider IT to be a meritocracy are blind to the fact that the things we measure are determined by the people with power, and thus it's a self-perpetuating sort of hierarchy.
Pinch to zoom (double tap) doesn't work. (pinch to zoom actually work, but in noticable increments, not smooth.)
It was posted in this branch once (where it's relevant) and as a direct reply where I first noticed, read and appreciated it. One extra mention is pretty easy to ignore. Not as though it's someone spamming their own blog.
Ok, so it's eye candy and the built-in dictionary from what I can make out from your post.

I agree with the dictionary, the icon and to some degree the right click menu - two of those features I hardly use however. The toolbar looks just fine for me, I don't need uniform toolbar styles over all my apps. iTunes, for example, breaks the OSX style as well and it's an Apple app. Graphically Chrome looks much cleaner to me than Safari, but I guess that's all subjective. I have to say though, that they did some graphical updates lately I don't agree with at all - noticeably the removal of the "plus" icon on the new tab button as well as the change of the tools button icon from a recognizable wrench (or whatever it was) to a generic list icon.
For me:
- Really good articles and content posted and upvoted.

- Good quality comments and lots of expertise from individuals from every sector of tech.

- No trolls / bs comments like most anonymous forums (ok, a few, but they get downvoted quickly).
> 70% in San Jose County

Santa Clara County? :-)

> LA County

Sorry, I guess we're a bit overly fussy out here. That one would be Los Angeles County. (Not that you couldn't call it LA County, just doesn't sound quite right. It's not uncommon to abbreviate the city to LA, but not so much the county.)
COO is slightly different, if that is in fact his role. at $20B mkt cap, $60MM is like a 0.03% stake in the company. Basically a rounding error. In the last 10 years, people learned that value destruction is the same as creation, when it comes to leverage in these scenarios. If you don't pay them $XYZ, they will destroy value or sit idly by as entropy does it for them. The mathematical equivalence of marginal productivity (what they teach in school) and marginal malevolence (street smarts) is elegant in its simplicity. That's how the game is played. One of the downsides of "maximizing shareholder value" as your guiding principle.[1]

With that in mind, look at a comp for COO pay:

Exec Comp Consuultant > American businesswoman and the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg, has an estimated net worth of $1.6 billion

Not justifying it, just pointing out the facts.

______

[1] A Mature company is completely different dynamic than a (0,1) innovation scenario/startup, IMHO. And there are more and less sophisticated ways to understand even "Maximizing X value" at the Board Level, stage agnostic.
Rebase is the reconciliation between feature branches and continuous integration. As soon as someone merges to the integration branch, you rebase off of it, and you're integrated. Fix any merge conflicts at rebase time and now your merge can just be a fast-forward. That way, every feature branch contains the state of the integration branch, if that feature branch were immediately merged in. In other words, every feature branch is an integration branch.

The difference is that instead of having dozens of half-features in the integration branch at once, you have an integration branch with no dead code that you can actually ship (continuous deployment, anyone?) because your fully-integrated feature branches only make it in when they're ready, no matter how big or small the feature might be. It also means that experiments or major new features can be worked on and then discarded, or simply shelved in favor of higher priority work.
Yes that's true. That's the only feature mentioned here that I do miss as well on Chrome.
Bad choice of name >.<

SOL (meaning Sun in Portuguese) was a VM built a PUC-Rio.
It was the predecessor to Lua (meaning Moon in Portuguese).
He could also use something like Lastpass to store/track it all.
Great explanation. I saw that wild swing and when I hovered over and saw it was Alabama, I immediately said George Wallace. He might still be winning if health (and death) not got in the way. He even got around Alabama's consecutive term limits by having his wife elected governor.
these are great and all, but they're all exactly the same.. this is what water carves pretty much no matter what you do. everything is either glacial, a mountain ridge, a river, or a coastline. i was hoping for at least a few spectacular phytoplankton blooms or something unexpected.
Gosh, how incredibly helpful.
>They had an illegally acquired monopoly on the OS. Therefore they were not free to use this monopoly to reach into other areas.

Are you saying Google's monopoly on the search engine is any different? I mean, technically it's not a monopoly, but Microsoft didn't technically have a monopoly either - there were a half-dozen other operating systems people were using. Apple, Beos, Next, etc.

And how did Microsoft "illegally acquire" a monopoly and Google didn't? Did Google just fall into theirs?
When the evidence strongly contradicts your assumptions, you may want to revisit them.

I'n here because the featured articles and comments are well aligned with the interests of technology entrepreneurs like me. HN development effort is wisely directed towards improving voting and ranking.

Making the "innovations" you describe would be like using cake frosting to put a fancy design on a grilled salmon.

I love the existing low latency/low bandwidth design of HN. It works great on my iphone in limited connectivity conditions, much better than normal websites. It's a real plus, but minor compared to the quality of articles and comments.
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I really agree. I'm using paypal at quicklytest.it at the moment and there are 3x ways to handle the subscriptions.
Creating a website for me expresses the hidden creativity in your mind. But before producing a well defined website, you have to consider a lot of factors first. To Begin with, a web designer must first consider how to have an effective “optimization”, it’s the greatest command that you have to remember in creating a website.

Next to optimization is get rid of Java script and CSS off to your page in order to have a better and faster coding process which lead to easy managing of your web content. Removing Java Script and CSS well produce greater space that speeds up web progress. Like for example, if you have a 20 KB document, eradicating the java script and CSS will convert this file from 20 KB to 15 KB, thus as I’ve said will then speed up processing.

Aside from removing Java and CSS, you should also remember to validate the code of your web according to W3C standards. The purpose of this is to prevent “accessibility issues” which is not good for search engines.
Another step is having a browsable navigation link by having an HTML navigational structure that includes footer text, links, DHTML and etc. But remember that using a Flash or Java Script is a big no because this will lead to coding blocks which can be dangerous to your web content.

Another thing to consider is your URL constructions. Please refer to Squahhot.com for more information about how Query Strings URL works.

With all this processing steps, let us be careful also with our web content. You should not duplicate your web content, or just simply copy paste it from other sources. Doing this will prioritize your ideas, and preventing similarities of content from other sources (that’s if you just copy and paste it).

With all this in mind, the last step in creating an effective website is to launch it with “Proper Foundation”. Try to check if you have applied all the necessary means such as XML sitemaps, RSS Feeds, stuff like that. A properly founded website should have no issues with regards to loading a page, browser compatibility, SEO elements, robots.txt validation and etc.
I cannot seem to grasp the scope of this language, so please if any of you fellow gentlemen could enlighten me, i would like to know:

What plans does mozilla have for Rust?

What are the projected applications?

What personal project could be an ideal use case for it?

Thanks!
There is no such thing as ivy league.
life imitating mathematics imitating life
Shrimp is already not kosher.

But the food an animal eats does not affect it's kosher status.

As a general rule species (except for fish) that [normally] eat other animals are not kosher, but even if they did eat other animals it wouldn't cause them to become not kosher.

As an example tuna eat things like octopus, yet are kosher. Chickens eat insects and are kosher.
If I have learned anything from ml-class, pgm-class, nlp-class, and now neural-nets, is that becoming a data scientist is one of the hardest things I'll ever eventually succeed in doing.
Thanks for validating I have been pursuing the right skill set. I just wish that list existed 20 years ago when I started college. Instead, I have been teaching myself off and on since 1999.
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You're seriously saying that ServerBeach's margin on $70k in annual hosting is so low that they can't be expected to pick up the phone before taking down somebody's site?

Gosh, whose fault could that be? I'd say it's the people who set those prices. Given that the first item in their "Why Server Beach?" list is "Superior Service", they should price in some actual service. Including, say, checking to see if you had fixed the DMCA issue before turning off the site.
Trolling is a mixture of things.

1 part 'crosspost alt.os.linux and alt.os.windows with a "Mac is superior" post'
1 part 'I destroy your life for the fun of it'
1 part 'I make the people who do despicable things suffer as much as I can'
1 part 'its funny as a group cause we all laugh in unison'
1 part 'Who cares'

And yet 1 part really is serious critique. I know, because I am one.
https://www.simple.com/ your wish has just been granted. Or close, perhaps. :)
It's basically a replacement for C/C++, but safer, with more functional flavor, and better support for parallel programming. If used properly, Rust should be faster than Java or Go because it can create non-garbage-collected objects. Mozilla is writing a parallel browser called Servo in Rust.
As I argued in the comments of "becoming a data scientist might be easier than you think", the attitude that entering the field is easy is dangerous because it is very untrue. I really wish there were more qualified people in the field (do you know how hard it is to hire?), but entering it without the proper knowledge doesn't help anyone.

I'm excited about what the future brings. Many industries has seen the value in data sciences, and Universities are following (see, e.g. Columbia's new data sciences institute).
Apologies for my skepticism, my estimate is that the distant binary star system would impart a force on a planet less than 5% that of Jupiter on Earth. Could you provide more details on your n-body simulations? Such as what code base you are using, etc.
I did not have to implement a virtual machine to get my degree at New Mexico Tech, but I did have to write a compiler with an x86 backend, and some Linux drivers. It depends on the school, but Georgia Tech is well known for a reason.
Unfortunately the DMCA isn't written that way. You can't charge any fees.
That is a giant heap of bullshit. The "we have secret orders that you must obey" bit is incredible. How could privacy possibly be a legitimate excuse?

If I were in your shoes, I'd be looking for better hosting. A company that doesn't understand that service businesses require good service rarely restricts that cluelessness to just one facet of the company.
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Isn't the real skill for a Data Scientist one of scalability and abstraction, from Data? While its critical to be able to get the data and make it more plastic, for measurement of metrics, real-time pricing, or even various weak-form predictive variables, its ultimately the analysis and understanding that is Critical to monetization/value extraction. And to build a good system for this level of data transparency, you need some good high-level understanding for clarity of vision. There are lots of people good at all manner Quants, but like the interview question, how much complexity can you explain in 5 minutes? is not one all answer equally. The ability to scale from granular detail to abstract levels of organization, meaning, and pattern recognition, are critical to extracting value in these contexts.

Also, its not clear folks are using consistently the term vis a via scale/scope. Consider an anaolgue of knowledge and expertise (real estate example):

L1 Architect>

l2 Contractor>

L3 Sub-contrator>

L4 Builder/Laborer>

Is Data scientist an Architect? Or the person that builds the building? Is he the guy that does the plumbing? Although the up and coming "quantitative system analyst" probably doesn't quite ring the same tune on a biz card. And most refer to lower level quant mastery, eg. social engineering or quantitative finance, as a "black art" not a science. Without a high level vision, the concept/title seems...grandiose, until you get to very extreme levels of skill. And then it makes sense.
Perhaps you're right. There are some topics best left for others to 'discuss'. For example, common topics like Nazis, Jews, Islam, abortion, inferior women, blacks.

However, these were not topics I had in mind for ethics or such. We deal with in this community the ethics and morality of business and commerce. Along side, we deal with programmers who can do great good or great harm. These are more controversial topics I think about.

DRM
(RI/MP)AA
governments (US and others)
Immigration
piracy
filesharing technology
bitcoin
laws intersecting commerce (AirBNB, UBER)

I think you're right. In cases of people acting like a 'shitcock', doing _something_ seems rational to keep the community in check. But stopping people who only want to interrupt the community is much different than those that take hard stances elsewhere.

As an example, I use GNU extensively and am a communist (used in sense of economic policy). I also have no issue in using pirated anything. That right there probably goes against 99% of the companies present.
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Note that recent versions of Postgres can now COUNT against indices so no need to do a full table scan.
You probably would be expected to do whiteboard coding in an interview. Places like Ooyala and Evernote might not be as large as Google, but they still have a pretty high programming bar.

If you're having trouble even getting in the door, the best way to turn a medium resume into an good one is to have interesting projects on github.

Failing that, the best strategy is to apply to more companies, and to not just restrict yourself to companies even as large as Evernote. Go for smaller startups. You could try, for example, contacting every single YC startup from the past few years. A friend of mine got a dream job at an NFL team this way - he applied to every American professional sports team every year for a few years, and despite a 99.7% failure rate, his persistence eventually got him a job.
Made a backup here: http://imgur.com/a/gFKhN
Funny, but no, not everywhere. I did a project like that, though, in my undergrad years, but it wasn't a assignment, just for fun.

Instead of doing something like this, they just made us memorize the x86 instructions and their nuances. I shudder every time I think about it.
Is one supposed to "flag" what appears to be very obvious spam?
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Yup if you could bold the matches Google-style that would be awesomely helpful.
Thank you. Just added another hosting site to my black-list.
Living in a Computer Simulation
I was hoping someone else would say this. Some time ago I stopped bookmarking sites in the browser, relying instead on the principle of "if it's important, it's memorable"... then I stumbled upon Paul Bourke's page (while looking for a document/date overview for MacPerpective of all things).