skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
World News: Obama Vs.Romney is the USA headed for a Race War?
Thanks!

"Sensor array" would be a bit of a stretch in this case, but it has two switches near the battery that I hit with my finger at the beginning. Hitting this causes it to back up and turn left. Hitting the right sensor would back up and turn right. I meant to put some sort of "whiskers" on them, but never really got them to stay on the switches like I wanted. In theory if it bumped into something, it could correct it's path and keep walking.
I agree. Paper is under-rated by geeks. I use a Muji A6 dotted paper notebook because the grid helps me draw boxes but is light enough to also let me ignore them when I feel like it. Some of them come with an elastic band on the cover to help keep it closed. The paper is cheap enough that I don't feel like the ideas have to be important to write down. I find that I am a bit reluctant to write in a super nice notebook.

http://www.muji.us/store/stationery/notebooks/pp-cover-doubl...

I keep a Frixion erasable pen hooked in the spiral part of the notebook.

http://www.pilotpen.us/Brands/FriXion.aspx

The only downside I have found is that if you freeze the notebook your erased writing will come back! I thought that the friction from rubbing destroys the ink, but it seems like it just transforms it into a new stable state. It's a really interesting fluid.
Extremely misleading title. Maybe the utility to download and flash the device only takes one click to use, but we can't just ignore the fact that you have to actually get the device in recovery mode etc to even reach that step. I like that my nexus could potentially have ubuntu on it, but I think it's important to not purposefully misrepresent the steps it would take to get there.
OT, but interesting to see that Norvig pronounces FAQ eff-ay-cue not fack.
The logical convolutions you have to go through to make Ayn Rand into Hitler are absurd. Marxism has easily killed ten times that number, many by accident, many intentionally, yet few hold Marx personally responsible or would find his face a repugnant symbol of death.

You're allowing your opinion of an ideology to turn it into nazism, but in so doing you must overlook what makes nazism unique: that it does indeed advocate murdering people simply for being different as a solution to problems—and that it actually did murder millions of people directly. Ayn Rand did not do any of that. At worst, she advanced a philosophy whose overzealous application by unscrupulous people with power led to deaths. If that's enough to make you Hitler, nearly every philosopher or novelist is, or would be if they were simply famous enough.

In short: calm down. She's included in the image because her novels are in the 100 Most Influential List put out by some non-profit. Not because she was a saint.
How it compares against http://code.google.com/p/jsuri/ ?
I too have seen one in the flesh, and I was very impressed. I've been trying really, really hard not to buy one of these, but I think it's coming sooner or later.

(I love my Cintiq, but I'd love it more on a retina MBP screen.)
Your statement reminds of some colleges here in India which admit only the best students and then claim to produce the best results.

The fact is you can build a hub where the best can gather and produce the best results. You can then claim that you will take in the best, because the results or so. This can go on in a never ending cycle.
It is also a common expectation that if you put a newline in an e-mail message, even without a blank line intervening, that the person who receives the message will not get the two lines pasted together to form a single line. The problem with the newline behavior of markdown--and to a very real extent this is the only such feature of markdown that has this bug--is that the text you are looking at looks nothing like the text that ends up being rendered.
Racket's goals appear more pedagogical and the effort they put in (which is bloody awesome for a relatively small team, btw) on the pragmatic aspects is to the extent necessary for teaching.

If we, again, ask whether Racket (or any of the features in it such as delimited continuations) can help solve the problems that the Go team wants solved, I still need to scratch my head a bit. For example, V8 has overtaken mzscheme w.r.t. speed and you would (rightly) ask for a comparison with Node today for a class of server applications. (Being a PL buff, I'm pretty familiar with Racket/Haskell, having written and deployed a Scheme interpreter myself.)

I offer another categorization - Go is to design where Racket/Haskell is to research. A good part of design work involves intelligent trade offs. In PL research, you're interested in ideas, new ways of thinking, insights, optimization techniques, etc. You're not (usually) interested in taking a new idea and packaging it so it is digestible to a certain class of programmers. Constant factor speed improvements are also not usually interesting to PL research, but very welcome to the pragmatic programmer. Syntax design, for example, is seldom the highlight of a PL research project.
Inside DreamWorks Studios' data center
And he, in turn, attributes it all the way back to a calendar he saw on a wall in the 70's or 80's.

Clearly this idea has been kicking around for a while. I used to be very interested in chess variants. I'm a little bummed I didn't hear about it "back in the day".
That's Fox News quality quoting there. How about not taking it out of context.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Pretty sure the US military counts as political.
Also, poor people in Dorchester shouldn't complain because they have it much better than people in the developing world.

Obviously it's a matter of degree. The poster is complaining about a real phenomenon.
I literally wrote an entire app just for this exact use case.

https://www.marginalia.io

There's a REST api and an email API. You email ideas to a special address and it creates notes for you. You can append further refinements when it replies with a note-unique email address.

You can sort notes into projects, add tags, search, sort, and export to plain HTML or PDF.
Log every single action, decision, call, message, visit, and fault in detail. Log it with structure. Log it in JSON.

Now go start playing with RecordStream:
https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream

You can perform any post-facto analysis you can dream up - tomorrow or three years from now.
Maybe a 'Z' for end of the line. ZZZZZ...etc. Like take a nap.
I think that's a bit too much functionality to put down as "sugar".
I checked how much free space there was on the display model at the store.
It;s been more than a month, perhaps not this particular one, but I have reported to them on twitter multiple times that their SSL certs are dead. Their IP to geolocation is also way off, something they don't seem to care about.

I think the worst was I contacted them on twitter about several hosts that were hammering one of our mail servers, around a million lookups for usernames a day for each domain.

I blocked the IP's, problem solved, but wanted them to nuke the accounts. They said to send in the relevant data. I nicely formatted all the data, snipped sections here and there, and tar'd the files.

Emailed them in and was told they don't know what a tar file is. Sent them in gzip, they can't open them. Finally said screen it and posted the data to pastebin in plain text and sent them the raw link. They didn't know what to do with it.

At some point, I just gave up.
I think a Trello board works perfectly for this.

Whenever my business partner or I have one of those "WE SHOULD MAKE A GITHUB FOR BIOLOGY!" moments, we put it on a Trello card in the "Someday" pile, tag it with the appropriate categories, and write all our thoughts on the card. We've also got "soon," "doing," and "done" categories, but we mostly use the board as an idea bank for those "Somedays."

We call it the "Vox Industries Ingenuity Bin."
Brilliant validation tool!
You seem to have missed the point of me providing that number (something I take some of the blame for, as I was explicitly mixing two arguments; I did go out of my way to attempt to differentiate them, however): I was demonstrating that even at an incredibly large extreme with regards to absolute revenue, the percentage margin doesn't really become affected; when I was moving tens of thousands (as opposed to millions) of dollars, the answer would have been the same: you can double my revenue, but at 1% you are talking about most of the magin that I'm currently playing with for my not-entirely-uncommon business model (where my upstream obligations, fees, and taxes, scale nearly linearly within my plausible target price range, with respect to the ticket price of the item being sold).

It isn't because I would be an "enterprise company" that I would need special pricing, it is because your pricing model makes a fundamental assumption about the kind of business model that the other person might be engaged in: if you had a "percentage of profit" model--even though you would still be in the "this is too expensive: I could hire a full time developer and a CS grad student at less than this price to get 90% of the benefit" regime--you would no longer de-facto price yourself out of various markets.

(FWIW, my experience on this is that I was a CS person with an algorithms fetish who was recently working with a long-time machine-learning specialist in a weirdly-related-but-not-even-remotely-competing area to your company. The result was lots of conversations both internally and with various of our clients with regards to how to price such a service: the result is that I have seen both a lot of failure modes of advertising and of asking for "percentage of revenue". This is, of course, in addition to running most of my current business on a "percentage of revenue" basis, and seeing the kinds of problems and misunderstandings it can cause.)
Katy.
I haven't seen anyone else point this out, so I will - that background bugs me to no end!

Here's an alternative image, in half the filesize, that is much easier on the eyes: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/291229/anywhere2.jpg

And this is what it looks like: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/291229/copybar.png

Whether or not you use it, thanks for the write up!
By Norvig's calculation, the swing voters in the 2000 election voted wrongly, costing the country $600,000 each. Much more rational and patriotic to not vote, then.

Also, remember that Bush presided over two terms, winning two elections, and the majority of the "cost" was in the second term and thus not a direct result of the close 2000 presidential election he's analyzing.

Conclusion: Norvig's analysis in this case, in contrast to his technical work, is not worth the paper it is (not) printed on.

Moral: Political speech is usually politically motivated, and is generally not as strongly based in rational analysis as the speaker would have you believe.
> You need to be aware that every tool of this kind comes with at least 30K of javascript and at least one additional request.

Chartbeat's JS is only 3k gzipped (http://static.chartbeat.com/js/chartbeat.js). We work very hard to keep it as small as possible while providing as much utility as we can.
And on top of that, any registrar I have ever used sends me email alerts to let me know they are about to expire. A lot like domain names.

It amazes me that these SSL errors stay this way so long. Even google has been guilty of this in the past.
Ideally, the information in the certificate is vetted by the certificate authority. So, if you have your company name, physical address, and contact info in there, the CA would have actually conducted some checks to make sure that information was correct and not fraudulent before certifying it. That vetting process costs time and money. Unfortunately, nobody can detect whether it has happened so now we have $5 certs that are essentially unvetted (uncertified certificates?) because people are only interested in the encryption component.
I would guess that 99% of users don't know the difference between expired, hacked, bad, or any number of things. They just see "ERROR" and stop dead.
It goes back to a lawyer's duty to prosecute his case fully. I'm in violation of my obligations if I don't argue for any justifiable interpretation of the law that might favor my client--I don't get to not do so just because I don't think that interpretation is the correct one. It's not my job to pick the correct interpretation, that's the court's job. That's pretty much how the DOJ views their obligations to Congress.
I have a laptop. I want a tablet. Something I can watch a movie on in bed, but also dock to a keyboard to work. Tablets with 4GB RAM and 128GB drives have been available for years. Nobody bothered to release one for Windows 8's launch, and Surface Pro which also fits the bill isn't coming until after Christmas.
Android? Meet Chromium OS
This works very well on my iPhone.
16GB will go very far with your minimal Linux OS. 16GB is below the minimum system requirements for simply installing Windows 8.
Why "Windows RT vs iPad" Is Mostly Senseless
Do Indians count as 'Asians' in the American vocabulary? If yes then I can shed some light on why they become so successful.

The people who immigrate to the US are basically as somebody mentioned in this thread can pass the 'American high pass filter'. This is true. For a long time here in India, the only employment arena's were civil services(government jobs) where there was absolutely to growth, Medicine, Or Engineering. But either way you had to depend working on a public sector company, which are basically massive bureaucracies whose whole intention was to run a massive payroll for to provide people with jobs. So you had only a few options in your career as an Indian.

Obviously those Indians when they immigrated to the US prospered, there is a big reason for that. Starved for opportunities, growth and wealth here they pounced on anything and everything they got and made very good use of it. Its called 'milking the opportunity', however most people I know have told me although they got what they wanted, 'It was not worth it'- any Indian immigrating to the US is basically immigrating for his kids. His whole life is likely to go towards building that platform for his kids so that they can lead a better life. He has to start from a scratch, he needs to build a family, connections, social circles etc. Nearly everything you can ever imagine has to start from the scratch. And that is difficult you are likely to go into your late forties to early fifties doing that.

That scenario is rapidly changing today. Besides, most of the 'developing countries' you can talk of are doing very well today. Recently a relative of mine who has immigrated to US had to fly down due to a family medical emergency. He was shocked and surprised to how much Bangalore has changed just in 12-15 years. He even admitted that reasons why people left India to go the US are quickly drying out.

Indian is seeing a unique period in its growth, I mean the youth even a decade back used to look our growth story as a momentary spur and 'Nothing much is going to happen in this country' attitude. That is rapidly changing. More and more people I've met are confident about things here. There are start ups coming up all over the place, People are more open to taking risks. Basically the Indian economy and country as a whole is maturing rather rapidly. Infrastructure development is massive, and I can tell you in another 15-20 years India would have prospered so much it will make current day immigration decisions look bad.
I use Dokuwiki https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki and keep them in a GTD style someday/maybe list.
A folder in Dropbox, containing each idea as either a text file or a folder of its own.

Sometimes the whole idea is one line as the file name. The content of the text file is the details of the idea. If I wrote some script or collected some information for this idea, it'll be in its folder.
Or you know... just compensate in old good personality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Ixzp94ksw (Asian guy in weelchair doing pretty good)
3-minute ego test
5 months to be exact :-)

Pretty sad for a company selling internet access to be so naive about basic things.
Workflowy (https://workflowy.com/), which is a web-based outliner. Good because it's fast.
Wow, this presentation is very easy to step through in mobile Safari! I like the style a lot.

I wish I had the speaker to give a little more with each slide though.
Emacs, org-mode, org-capture, and a global keyboard shortcut that pops up an org-capture buffer when I have an idea. I just type it in, hit a few keys, and it goes into a nicely-formatted file with all my other ideas. Hitting slightly different keys will capture appointments, todos, read-this-later links, book recommendations, and the like.
CNBC Exec's Children murdered after reporting Bankster lawsuit, story taken down
Look. It's not that hard. Don't like the story don't click the story.
Acquisition Metrics Beyond Customer Lifetime Value
You mean small selective sampling mixed with faulty reasoning.

Immigrants are usually self-selected hard working, smart and relatively rich (otherwise you can't afford to emigrate), risk taking people - because you'd otherwise have a lot of trouble surviving in America. Stating "Asian-American" success, is like stating "Harvard-American" success - your sample is already biased.

Reversion to the mean always kicks in. Give immigrant Asians 30 more years - and you'll see them well integrated and achieving the same as average Americans.

People centric exceptionalism is vastly overrated - what's more important is the wind at their backs (cheap resources/labour/stable society/technology convergence) and the benefits they receive when they are born (rich/schooling/health/connections).
His reasoning is actually quite flawed. Even if you believe there is somehow a black and white $7.7 trillion value difference between candidates, betting on such long odds still isn't rational.

If we assume (using numbers from the article) that a vote costs $20 (an hour of our time), the odds are 1 to 10 million, and the payoff is $7.7 trillion (even though it's the country getting the benefit, not the voter) then the Kelly criterion* implies that it's only rational to vote if your net worth is more than $200 million. Somebody making $20 an hour probably isn't worth $200 million, and so even if voting did have a positive expected value, it's not a rational strategy.

TL,DR: There is more to betting strategy than expected valve, and no rational gambler takes a bet with 1/10 million odds for $20.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
I see your point.

I was thinking more in a softer sense, where that might not work. Around here people are /very/ conservative 17% retirement population, 20%+ work for govt, a large chunk of the rest for large govt owned businesses (crown corporations)
That is partially incorrect. There is no such thing as a TLD with more than one field. In "http://www.google.com.br, "br" is, in fact, the TLD, while "com" is the SLD[1]. So the 'tld' behavior is fine.

The "sub" behavior is awkward, however. It would make more sense to just have a numeric way of accessing the domain parts by index, just like they do with extracting the path elements.

As for "host", well that is just completely the wrong behavior. Since the parameter is "host", you would expect that to give the hostname. But the hostname corresponding to an internet URL is simply the fully qualified domain name. I have no idea how the behavior implemented would be useful in the first place, but it certainly shouldn't be called "host".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_second-level_domai...
Physical disabilities garner sympathy, being non-white does not.
Is it still an interesting game to play?

Don't get me wrong, it sounds interesting, but with such games you usually only know for sure once you've tried it.
Did I claim China was freer than the US? I didn't mean to, and would have been outside the scope of the point I was trying to make.. which was American's are tolerant of censorship.
Old notebooks from school or my head.

I figure if I forget it probably wasn't that important in the first place.
A Pause to Take in the View Before Building Again
Or rather it's using the jquery namespace for a utility function much like many of those provided by jquery, like isnuneric for example.
Programming Mother******
https://twitter.com/raganwald/status/262370665636716545
If good enough, with other people.
They were not even mad when he stood up to reveal he is not actually disabled; and there are another bunch of videos when they dress as ridicule as possible and still get away with it.
Try using Windows Powershell. I think some common Unix commands are supported.
I'm a huge fan of Evernote! I use it almost everyday whenever a new idea pops into my head. I have installed it on my laptop and my mobile. Highly recommended.
I keep an evernote notebook for ideas, and drop photos and various ideas into it over time. I revisit every few days to organize and cull the really bad ideas. The ones I keep returning to seem to bubble up to the top.
Fischer-random is excellent.
CompoHub lists all game developer events on a neat timeline
Maybe students asking for $35-40/hr because big companies like eBay (in the bay area) pays ~$45-50/hr to interns and students are looking for that kind of money.
Now that this has been out for a few days, can anyone speak to the performance?
I seriously hate people who keep saying we need to chase 'big ideas'.

Why?

Because big things have small beginnings c.f. the universe, earth agglomeration, the sun, galaxies, life, humans, civilisations, businesses, technologies and AI. Everything snowballs - nothing just magically appears from nowhere - it's all just a combination of incremental past states.

People who don't understand how things are made feel as though all we need is more "eureka moments", geniuses, "innovation plans" and "big all encompassing goals" when this is not how innovation works at all.

Innovation is directed evolution of the adjacent possible via the convergence of many secondary composable technologies and ideas and hence is messy, arduous, long and always incremental. Chasing big ideas is like building extremely complex software using the Waterfall method - it just doesn't work too well.

What people should be saying is that we should "reduce the cost of failure", "speed up the iteration cycle" so that a bunch of small trivial composable ideas can quickly be assembled into something extraordinary - like the repurposed cells that create a human, or the combination of engines and wheels that make our cars.

People who chase 'big ideas' miss the DNA for the forests.

You have to work on making DNA before you can build the trees.
It's not the citation in the paper, it's the two or three lines the reference itself takes up in the references section. When we publish papers, we are always pressed for space, and we always have to decide what we have to cut. I can't speak for where you publish, but in computer science conferences, we have page limits.
I hope this is an indication that they are serious about improving the interface. There is a lot of room for improvement.