skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a xoogler, stuff like this makes me wish I was back there :) I want to play a bit with this stuff and have some fun, so thanks for the Theano reference, seems cool!

WRT the DNN parameters, is it possible to try all potential possibilities (within reason) and find the best one using only cross-validation, or are there just too many choices and you have to use intuition? (from your comment I don't get if cross-validation is ok to get optimal number of layers etc. or if you have to be "smart")

Thanks for replying!
An assumption of SETI is that we're listening for slightly older civilizations which would use much more energy (many orders of magnitude more). And it's a quite reasonable assumption.

Responding would be possible, if we knew the direction - a focused beam in direction of a specific star can be a billion times stronger than our "leakage", but we can't transmit to all stars, or 1% of all stars, or 0.01% of all stars - there are just too many of them.
I think it will depend on the culture its dropped into. Norway seems to have benefited greatly from its oil but its been a curse for some African countries. Total automation could be the same.
Very interesting and easy to use tool
Their reasons are malformed whatever they happen to be. My argument is merely that they chose this malformed option over other more obviously malformed options because they hoped it would better disguise their malfeasance. If they had grouped students by performance instead it would amount to saying nothing: poor performing students continue to perform poorly, and good ones well, and excellent ones excellently.

Of course as you say, a better way to actually hide poor teacher performance would be to group everything together, which is probably what the other 49 states did and why we are not discussing them today but instead talking about Virginia. They certainly didn't choose to do something so obviously and outrageously stupid as to segregate the students by race, statistically or not.
All the more reason for me to have started in the mid-90s when it was exactly what it used to be...
It was the perfect time for Sinofsky to leave Microsoft
Accessing Gmail using TOR is not practical because the account will be blocked from time to time (asking for some verification) thanks to the different exit nodes in different countries.
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> What Petraeus and Broadwell could have used

Their brains?
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/index.jsp

There's a similar online services for UK and EU.
No. But as I pointed out above, Apache comes with 67 modules out-of-the box on Debian, which means you're much less likely to need a custom package, as opposed to the (relative) hassle with nginx. This is why I very much look forward to seeing nginx with reloadable modules.
I hope I'm not getting too off-topic, but will this course be taught in coursera or somewhere else? (I want to put a reminder to check this out).

Thanks!
Finally a use for RFC 1149

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
A 100ft diamond meteor hits the earth traveling close to the speed of light...
AFKAH
Oh. Yeah, you're right, that's a great point.
I'm pretty sure a certain president was impeached for similar issues...
> They're part of the social contract binding a society together.

This is an absurdity; what binds a society together is people forming actual relationships of mutual benefit with one another. Complex, formal institutions are an afterthought, and even more of an afterthought is paying some precise percentage of your income to the specific people who operate one of those institutions, so they can can pay others to construct roads (as though no other means could be found to facilitate the pouring of asphalt), or build prisons for the incarceration of people who ingest particular chemicals that some think are per se bad.

If anything, empowering excessively centralized institutions creates intense factional polarization which undermines societies, inhibiting the formation of substantive relationships and communities instead of sustaining them. Our present "culture war" is a clear example of this.

The sole substantive basis for functional societies is the willingness of people to participate in them. Theoretical doctrines of "social contracts" and "nations" are just post-hoc rationalizations.
Android 4.0 is reasonably similar to Android 4.2 for many people. Just as WP7 is reasonably similar to WP8 too.
Is anyone reputable selling options on bitcoins? I'd like to bet on high volatility there...
Would it be safe to say Scala with the Akka lib offers the same robustness and distributed scalability as Erlang?

Erlang is using the actor model and so is Akka.

I really want to learn one or the other as a goto functional language.

I keep looking at sites like Netflix, Twitter and Foursquare. Those seem to be sites running on either Java or Scala.

Why would they pick that instead of Erlang?
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Every school day for years was spent longing for the warmth of summer, when we would go camping on Chemo Pond with our grandparents. No joke.

We also spent a lot of time on Phillips Lake, Green Lake, and Pistol Lake.
That's true, the question is how quickly will he be able to return a similar amount to the fund?

Yes, the next three years might be low but it will rise again and the question isn't just when he can start paying back into it, but how quickly can he get it back to it's current level.
Clover Payment Service to Shut Down
I just received this email from Clover announcing the end of their service. http://i.imgur.com/ztP7W.png

In March they had just finished a 5.8 M round. http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/08/clover-raises-5-8m-from-andreessen-horowitz-launches-as-a-one-click-mobile-payments-platform/
That sounds like good advice. I'm certain they are aware of the problem. I had emailed the guy who owns the domain before any content was put up and I told him what our website was and what it did and he told me that he knew the teamsnap guys and that they run a similar site (although he refused to sell the domain). So he had explicit knowledge and I have emails that indicate that.
It's not about raw performance. It's about getting shit done and keeping shit highly available. In large systems, shared data isn't mentally optimal to work with (see: every multithreaded program with shared data segfaulting for some unknown reason this very second).

We can always drop down to C or asm to make ultra-shared data structures with minimal overhead. We could always do that. But people end up wanting to spend their precious lives making a difference in the world and not checking the return value of malloc thirty times per day.
Ahh, I remember seeing this video back when it first surfaced. One of my favorite comments I saw somewhere (maybe slashdot?) was that robotic capability is usually insufficient for something like dribbling a ping pong ball ... until it isn't, at which point it can do it hundreds of times a second flawlessly.

I'm sure I've paraphrased quite liberally with the comment, but hopefully the intent stands. With sufficient engineering we should be capable of many many things quite soon.
Immutable message passing is an abstraction. In a optimized virtual machine it may well be implemented by leveraging cache coherence. The sender process writes memory block. This places it into its local cache. Then the receiver process reads this memory block. This uses cache coherence to sniff the block directly from the sender's cache. This is awesome way to leverage parts of cache coherence protocol that play well with immutable memory blocks. It can also scale well if sniffing is not a broadcast. Cache coherence can quickly get ugly when a cache line is contested for writes--be this false sharing or a spin lock. My point I guess is that immutability and message passing promotes awesome parts of cache coherence and limits the need for the ugly parts.
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This is why peer reviews are so important. Simply running code through JSLint and then making sure its formatted correctly is only step one.
This video helped me when naming my company: http://youtu.be/blTOv3oXdbk?t=1m25s

It may seem like an icky marketing video at first but there's some good stuff in there.
Shouldn't the percentage of savings go down if you adjust for inflation (i.e., larger savings)?
Definitely will!
The 920 is a great phone, but FYI in UK the price is almost exactly twice the Nexus 4:

GBP 554 Nokia 920
GBP 279 16G Nexus 4

Out of interest, would buyng the phone outright from AT&T mean it's unlocked? Also is the phone available in the US from a non-carrier shop?
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There is a difference between "free speech rights" and not taking responsibility for your free speech rights. Just because you have free speech doesn't mean you can (or should) be able to just quote anything or anyone without being accountable for it. If you feel like you should be able to retweet "crap" that's being said about someone without knowing the facts (defamation of character) you should also be man enough to be accountable if it turns out you were wrong.

Free speech isn't a licence to kill.
How many were sold? I can't (easily) find numbers on what the available stock was.
That's certainly one way to get to know somebody who works at Twitter.
Thanks so much Matt, will check these out. Any ones you like?
> But people end up wanting to spend their precious lives making a difference in the world and not checking the return value of malloc thirty times per day

So true!
You won't get risk-free 4% return after inflation, but you can (probably) expect a 4% annual return on average if you put your money in the stock market. At least this is the assumption that the Norwegian Pension Fund, the world's largest stock market fund, operates with. Although it has been discussed to reduce this number to 3%.
Why Steven Sinofsky is out at Microsoft - Several plausible reasons
Patents have bad reputation with the tech community, which means that if now MS presses hard Linux and other products it will have trouble hiring good devs later. But if they just support and milk their existing products they don't need good devs so much.
Ability and permission are not often link like this in real life.

If I walk up and stand two feet infront of someone I have given them the ability to try to punch me in the face, I have not given them permission to do so.

If I utilize a computer repair service and I grant them remote access to a computer at their request I have likely given them the ability to run the equivalent to rm -rf /, but I have not given them permission to.

I can grant a friend access to my house by giving them a key that does not mean I give them the permission to do what ever they want in my house.

In the above three cases there are legal consequences for a party when overstepping their permissions.
Glad I'm not alone. Not that I'm saying all realtors are this way but we get a lot that have the "my way is the only way" mentality. It doesn't help that the real estate industry in general can tend to be a bit old fashioned. I would say 90% of all of the MLS systems I've seen require ONLY Internet Explorer in order to use it! I've never looked at any official demographics of realtors but all of our customers tend to be woman in their 40-60's that use AOL as their email address and Internet Explorer 7.
Seems like an obvious thing to do with such a huge database of products/shops. As always with Shopify they also mastered the design and UX. Nice!
Actually we weren't looking for a unicorn since we have a designer (me actually) we were looking for a frontend developer which actually broadened out to a developer.
I think you're looking for : http://coursetalk.org/

Good luck !
I really like this name. Thanks for the suggestion!
Thanks for the heads up. I was curious as to what the outcome was. It sounds like applications are really looked at in depth. That's really good to hear!
Ask HN: Subletting office space 1,500 sq ft in SOMA
Renting office space in the heart of soma has been a total pain... Anyone renting out or looking to rent out about 1,500 sq ft in soma?

The reason I'm asking is because:
1. We need about ~1,500 sq ft for about 12 months.
2. We found an office that is double that size for 12 months so we can sublet it to anyone who's interested. Rate is industry standard <$40 psf triple net

We are a healthcare software startup. Profile here: http://goo.gl/MUX02. Please let me know if you're interested. info@blueprinthealth.net.

This is my first post on HN so apologies if I broke any HN etiquette rules. Cheers!
I think as long as you are providing valuable and relevant information to the user, that it is fine. In this case, AirBnB connected people who were looking for renters, to an excellent service that furthered their goal.
Sure, and it behooves the Federal government to be certain those tax dollars are furthering their goals.

It is fascinating to browse around the "report cards" issued under NCLB for schools in, e.g., Illinois:

http://schools.chicagotribune.com/
For me, running helps a lot.

When I run I have a constant inner monologue of "don't stop, don't stop, don't stop" for 45 min.

It never seems to get easier, but I know that I ran successfully yesterday, and the day before, and the day before ... hence, I should be able to do it again today.

Then, there are also the physical / health benefits.
Here come the humanoids. There go U.S. jobs
Can someone be there in spirit for me? I'm from the Tampa Bay, Florida area.
> language by smart and passionate people [...] compared to the common nonsense, like Java or, god forbid, NodeJS.

Are you implying that creators of Node and Java are stupid and lack passion? It seems like you are... And it's a) not relevant here at all; b) simply not true.

> It is due to inability to acquire and maintain an appropriate mindset.

It's debatable, but I tend to agree here.
I don't see the harm in them trying to help wanting people connect with a useful service that solves their needs.
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Of course, if men are making the rules in the first place, you no closer to having a government of law.

The closest we can come to having a true government of law is for the process that generates law to be rooted entirely in natural law theory, where the law is "discovered" instead of created. Common law and equity are at least traditionally an attempt at this, but any system that makes room for positive law, or contains any sort of legislative institution, can't even be described as an attempt at a government of law.
Yes, but when you make $0-40k/yr, you have a really low tax rate.
Or, for the sake of discussion, why wouldn't your big red button pusher take home a majority of the profits? Without them, what do you have?

As I understand it, your scenario is how unions justify their continued existence.

(If you're not already an American Republican, you really should look into it. trollolol...)
This is why I always walk half a block to pick up a cup of coffee rather than just get one in the cafeteria (also it tastes better). For some reason taking a ten minute walk every now and then and getting some fresh air might be frowned upon, but getting coffee / smoking is a socially accepted reason to do so.
Microsoft Patches 19 Security Holes
The Patent Problem
This is exactly it. For Petraeus, even a secure, encrypted email solution wouldn't have solved the problem. Because he would have been seen to have been using it. Even something that encrypted the emails in-transit would have been a problem, because then the FBI still would have discovered a large number of emails b/w him and the mistress. Even if she was a biographer of his, the volume of email (and timestamps) would probably have been a good clue that there was something else going on.
Can anyone explain a trick? btw I found it on wiki too (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colbert_Super_PAC#Dissolution_o...)
People will try to game whatever metric you use to evaluate them by. This does not mean metrics are bad or useless. It just means you need mechanisms to detect and account for gaming attempts.
I disagree with this, but am fascinated by the idea of what you're saying.

When I write (code) , I don't do so with an idea of what I'm going to say down to the word (module), but I do have a vague idea of what I want to say (do). This paragraph, for example; I knew I disagreed with you, but I had to write it out to explore why. If I'm trying to conform to some arbitrary rhyming scheme (syntax), I'm going to be faster in my writing if I can see what all of my options are.
My Synology NAS coupled with a Squeeze Box service is fantastic.

The Synology NAS does include the Squeeze Box service software that can easily be streamed and played seamlessly on your PC or on a physical Squeeze Box server.

My wife and I utilize box in our house and have had zero issues with network latency, file indexing, and general performance.
Xoom and Touchpad were 'new' products (new to that brand) - Nexus isn't 'new' by any stretch. It's got a track record. They have customers they can survey. Hell, it's google - if they can't predict public and customer sentiment and willingness to buy, who can?
Running Firefox OS in your browser
Same thoughts here on the web context of dot spelled out. However, that is an easier hurdle to overcome than the difficult pronunciation/spelling of your former name, as long as you write it as "Learndot" instead of "Learn." Once people learn the d-o-t the first time (no pun intended), they shouldn't have trouble with it going forward.

We went through similar issues in our rebranding, with both a dot and pronounceability (D.NEA). In our case, the '.' is not spelled out, and the domain works with or without it (d.neadiamonds.com). Being primarily internet based, most people don't need to pronounce it, they just follow a link or search for the name. If we talk to them, they'll hear us say it when answering the phone, but we aren't too concerned with how people pronounce it. After five years of using this name, most people get it close enough.

Learndot looks to be an overall better name than Matygo.
Infinite recursive arrays in Ruby
WordPress: Post From The Front End With A Custom Post type
Today I want to show you how to create a custom post type for wordpress and then write code to post directly to the custom post type from the front end of your website.
Service sector jobs are not immune to automation. Eventually, inevitably, societies will put those who failed competition for highly creative jobs (something like 95% of population) on some form of welfare.
Best path = ship something.
All good, but I think statistics as I understand it, is only a facet of the work involved. And the outcome or goal of their work seems generally to be the creation of a knowledge-based system for predictive analysis; to derive ontological meaning from numerical data (mostly about humans and human activity).

Not a bad article, if a little short, on wikipedia kinda captures it for me [0]:

* Assessment of the problem

* Development of a knowledge-based system shell/structure

* Acquisition and structuring of the related information,
knowledge and specific preferences (IPK model)

* Implementation of the structured knowledge into knowledge
bases

* Testing and validation of the inserted knowledge

* Integration and maintenance of the system

* Revision and evaluation of the system.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_engineering
"many (most?) banks won't tell you that the money wasn't charged yet"

WTF?

I can log in to any bank and it'll tell me within a few moments of when a charge was made.
If we were to observe that it does not happen in cases where we see it now?

Students can (and do) perform experiments on evolution+natural selection on bacteria in a lab in reasonable timeframes - put in bacteria, add feed, maybe add extra mutagens or radiation, and then observe the changes in bacteria when a stressor or a particular "poison" is added - the bacteria strain changes, evolving resistance. If one would see simply the strain suffering&not changing, then it would disprove Darwinian selection.

Inter-species evolution for larger organisms is more time-consuming to study (since many generations are needed), but the existing "ring-species" such as some bird groups are a good example - if inter-species evolution would be false, then we'd expect to see distinct species that can successfully interbreed within a species, but not between species; instead, we observe a "ring" where everyone is "the same" as their neighbour, but the opposite sides of the ring are "different species".
I know, I know. It's all that was available at the time this was announced, a little over a month before free accounts are scheduled to be shut down. Some people are probably already migrating.

Is it true that appfog's filesystem is volatile? Does this mean that it could be wiped without a system fault or a user shutting down the system? If so, there doesn't seem to be a clear migration path to appfog for PHP users that are using the writable directory support. If not, it should probably be documented that writes will only go to the one instance and that if you're using multiple app server instances you need to set something up.
Pragmatism. It is easier to find JVM-knowledgeable people than to find BEAM-knowledgeable people.

The actor model isn't the only aspect that gives Erlang its robustness. In fact, far more important is its supervisory model, which goes as deep as you want it and can supervise across system boundaries.

I keep waiting for the language that learns these lessons from Erlang with a happier syntax, but I have yet to find it.
Like others said, use odesk or elance to grab initial clients, then move them over to something like voomly for subscription-based payments to support them via email, etc.
The first thing I did when upgrading to Lion was to turn off "natural" scrolling. While arguably more natural when using a touchpad (and definitely when using a touchscreen) is entirely unnatural when using a mouse or trackball. It is counter to how every other OS on the planet has worked for 30 years and doesn't provide any efficiency gain.
The break is part of your working hours. And if you live an hour from work, research shows you will be much happier if you move to within 20 minutes (even if this means you get "less" for your money.)

6 hours without reddit, hacker news, meetings, and other distractions, beats 9 hours with those things (as long as you're working on the right thing and not throwing away ALL your time :-)
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Good idea, I need to sync the About page with the front page. The copy should be consistent and clear! Yes, the primary purpose of the site is to collaboratively learn topics, but there's no reason you need to do it with other people if you want to stay siloed.

I considered having the Add button below resources, but after you have 5 or 6 lists, the button disappears down the page. Haven't figured out a good solution for that yet. I looked into the button not working, and the bug is that it works on the list's page, but not on the manage page. Thanks!

I looked on other sites, and it seems pretty common to separate your profile settings (how people see your profile, etc) from your account settings (username, password, email). Any thoughts on how to make it more clear?

You're reading my mind. I already have a "next resource in list" feature, but have disabled it in the UI until it's complete. Also, there will be a way to do this on the dashboard across multiple lists, but I haven't come up with a good algorithm that users can control to determine what resources from which lists to do next. That might be overkill.

Really appreciate the feedback. Keep it coming.
Axway Acquires API Management Service Provider Vordel
If you liked 37 Signals' Rework, check out "Stop with the BS" by shanemac
No mention of http://tormail.net/? Would be hard to top its degree of anonymity.