skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to manage networks and wondered, while reading the article, why it gets so many points on HN, when it only states obvious things and doesn't really go into detail. And then I realized most people these days have no idea about how packets get from here to there, or even that there are packets at all. Now I understand the appeal, but I guess this means that good introductory material is badly needed.
Along with the rest of their web traffic.
How to move to data science?
Hello HN community,

I have been working as a LAMP developer for around 8 years now and am thankful to be at the place in my career that I am. (150k at a stable company, low stress, high respect) That being said, I am drawn to data anlysis and data science in general. When I evaluate my experience, I notice that the projects that I enjoyed the most were some sort of analysis. (charts and graphs for internal performance stats, correlation of customer characteristics to product purchases, graphing a customer base to visualize relationship clusters, etc...)

Getting to the point, I'd really like to make the jump from LAMP developer to data analyst/scientist, but I don't really know how. I'm only getting started in performing analysis in a non-brute force way, and have only scratched the surface on things such as random forests, linear regression, and markov chains. While I am an expert in PHP, MySQL, Javascript, etc.., and am very good at working with systems (Fedora, Ubuntu, Apache, VC, CI, etc..), I am a novice in data. Ideally, I'd love to learn on the job, but am open to trading free work for instruction. Will squash bugs for data! :)

Has anyone here made this same type of jump? Would love to hear feedback.

Thanks,
Sam
This is the intended behavior. They piggy back off of a large group of local numbers. For texts they assign one to you for a short period then put it back in the pool.
He does suggest you ask a few questions to the person you've developed a relationship with, including: "Who are the other individuals in your organization that you suggest I meet?".
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I bet he didn't try to click a little lower.
Heh.. I was just reading his blog before coming to HN.
Possibly relevant: http://www.isnatesilverawitch.com/
If you never want to see them nor speak with them, and they're never online, why are they on your contacts list?
It has less to do with population density and more to do with population clusters. The people in Sweden aren't even distributed across the entire country.
Yeah, it's such a terrible limitation too when all you need to do is remove the variable, and it goes back to normal. I wonder how many customers that inconvenience actually gets for the NYT?
The Thinkpad build quality far eclipses the Asus'--to the point where handling them side by side (as we got to do since I have both of them) is a pretty eye-opening experience. The Thinkpad feels sturdy and the Asus feels flimsy. Also, whatever Asus is using for mouse drivers drove me insane. You'll see all kinds of online complaints about mouse lag and stutters. The Thinkpad does not have this issue, and also has 2-finger scrolling. You will not miss the difference in resolution compared to the huge upgrade in hardware quality.
Don't take this too personally. If you are any good, you will get plenty of spam like this. Ignore and move on. Look at it this way. Now you know one direct recruiter at fb.
"so our infrastructure tends to improve at a fairly good pace"... not quiet. The politicians get HUGE kick backs from the contracts. Where does the money come from? By sourcing cheap sub-standard materials. This leads to shit infrastructure with everything crumbling within couple years of construction. I have seen pictures of N. Korea and they seem to have better infrastructure.
If you run a network with BGP, you always have good contact information for your peers. "Good" meaning direct telephone contact with tech people running the show on the other side of the link.
Lower house - http://aec.gov.au/Voting/How_to_Vote/Voting_HOR.htm#papers

Senate - http://aec.gov.au/Voting/How_to_Vote/Voting_Senate.htm#paper...

This is how we vote in Australia. I have real trouble seeing any system of computerized voting or punch-card voting as superior having followed the United States' experiences.

What do you guys think? We use preferential-voting, so it's a little different but the idea is solid.
Watch Twitter users say who they voted for in real time
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My fiance has the 13" Air and when I got my X1 Carbon he went nuts. Once you see the difference in screen resolution, you will not want to go back to the Air. If you compare them side by side, you will see how blurry the text looks on the Air. If you have ever had an iPad 2 vs. iPad 3 side-by-side, you'll know exactly what I mean. Lenovo finally turned out an awesome ultrabook!
How is it better than Raphaël?

http://raphaeljs.com/
Removing the keyboard is great, but removing the keyboard and then replacing it with a keyboard in a floppy foldable cover? That seems a little counter-intuitive. I mean, it's nice that you can not take the cover with you if you don't want to, but that would just require replacing it with some cover or another, so I may as well keep the keyboard.
Thank you for being the voice of reason. It's a fucking calibration error. I hate sensationalism like this.
You say this in a way that implies that it's not feasible to do such a thing. I'm pretty sure that all of those components have been open sourced in various projects, just maybe not all in the same system.
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I am skeptical for two reasons:

1. when you have a good system (even one you cannot "improve" further), you don't talk about it.
2. You don't just stop using it.

There should be more to this story.
I'd argue that Microsoft never actually built the MSXs, Microsoft more or less just spec'ed out what an MSX should be, similar to the way 3D0 never really built a machine (in fact I think some of the same companies who built MSXs built 3d0s if I'm not mistaken).

but...Microsoft did build the XBOX (which was a PC) and the XBOX 360 (which is less PCish, but still a computer).
hey you could have posted the link to my whole posting ;-)

http://vincentsanders.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/another-netsurf...
Site is referrer blocking, image is also linked here:

http://www.houseofmabel.com/puters/RPC/index.html
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Is this a course you have to be enrolled at the University to take full time or is it possible to take these as a single course?
The US uses a federal agency to collect income taxes, so why won't it do the obvious thing and create one to run federal elections?
27 minutes, 3-5% traffic, it could means thousand of dollars lost for Google, right? (Does it sueable?)
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Are you confused enough to think that my comment was a compliment?

> Yeah, statistically, democrats are smarter than republicans. I must be smarter than average!

If it makes you feel good, so be it. Please be sure to keep that cork on the fork.

Quick. Since you are so smart: How many years will it take to pay off 16 trillion dollars in debt while paying interest and continuing to over-spend at a rate of over 1 trillion per year?

In your answer consider the continued erosion of our manufacturing base, increased costs of a welfare society, erosion of human capital due to crappy union-driven education, the effects of tax increases and Obamacare.

Now, I expect an answer. Real numbers. No bullshit. Fire-up Excel and give us some numbers. See, there's the problem with self-appointed "smart ones": Talk is easy and cheap. Show me the facts, numerically, and we can start to have an intelligent discussion about how to move this country forward.

I'll bet you a cookie you don't move a finger to show HN readers a single proposal on how to deal with our national debt. Not one.

I am an independent thinker who appreciates portions of both platforms. I can't be swayed by pretty speeches, posters, ads, t-shirts, debate "gotcha's", etc. I cringe to think that there are Americans who vote "for the team" rather than through careful analysis and consideration of the issues in the context of the times we live in. The bigoted dismissal of millions of citizens by attaching a political label to them is sad and despicable.

Here's your chance to show us you are not just a troll. What's your answer to my question. Any reader should be able to plug your numbers into a spreadsheet and verify them.

Go!
Even though I have not taken the leap yet, but working on it with a solid plan. Overall, this is a combibation of subjective and objective items. Listing some of mine below which could give you an idea even though YMMV:

Finances

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SAVE SAVE SAVE. Did I say that enough ? To your question about 6-12 months rule, it is the standard advice based on assumption that it could take you that much time to get back on your feet if you fail etc. For example, I will probably feel comfortable if I had 100K stashed away safe. I dont care if thats 6 or 12 months.

Personal/Family

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This is very subjective and could really vary. Are you married or single ? Do you support a wife/kids or single ? Obviously, if you are single, the risk appetite could be higher but if you have a family to support, you might want to get things in order. For example, do you have health insurance thourhg employer and have kids ? Can you switch to your wife's if possible ? etc. etc.
You guys really should have copied preferential voting while you were at it. Or skipped over us entirely and gone with proportional representation.
An example of your last point.

I know a very good engineer, who used to design innovative chips for 4G/LTE mobile telephony. These chips contributed to the market position of one of today's leading mobile phone manufacturers.

Today, this engineer is designing ASICs for high frequency trading (basically a specialised Ethernet switch, with all extra logic stripped out, so packets go through a few nanoseconds faster).

HFT isn't a zero sum game. It's sucking resources away from productive disciplines into an unproductive discipline, so making a net negative contribution.
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But there is no real evidence. He shows a video of a garden variety bug/error with resistive touch screens, then makes some sensationalist claims in his comments that are completely unsubstantiated.
I'm an Australian that's lived and worked all over the US for 3 years, and have been in Canada for 7 now.

The roads in America are horrible by Australian standards. When I bring friends to the US they are shocked and say things like "it just doesn't look finished". This is more-or-less true for the majority of social services in America.

Of course, the climate in Australia lends itself to much better roads, but in comparison to Canada's roads, America's still suck, so there is no excuse.
If they didn't tolerate it, they wouldn't have voting machines in the first place.

In many other countries these things are banned because people care.
I agree that people without a clue have no business voting. But be careful making the assumption that someone who "can't be bothered to vote" is less informed.

Even the well-informed can end up thinking "my vote doesn't matter anyway, so why bother." And rationally, they are not exactly wrong. Yet, the system would break down if everyone took that view. People need to be encouraged to vote, even though they may see it as a waste of time, because in aggregate their votes are important.
Tangential: If you believe in Nate Silver, Intrade is underpricing the Barack Obama contract by 20%+.

The contract that pays out $10 if Obama wins is currently trading at $6.70 per contract, implying a 67% chance Obama wins vs Nate Silver's 90%+.

Unfortunately, Intrade and American gambling regulations don't play nice so they don't accept US transactions. They also won't write you a margin account so you actually need to have funds in their system to execute a trade today.

Hard to say which party is inaccurately estimating the outcome, but given the regulatory hurdles around Intrade and the seemingly low volumes, I wouldn't be surprised if they're off.
Looking forward to seeing Santa quickly dropping by on Christmas Eve.
On voting machines and tin-foil hats
Someone with deep pockets trying to hold Romney above 30 on Intrade
1440 * 900 = 1296000

1280 * 800 = 1024000

1296000 - 1024000 = 272000

272000 / 1296000 = 0.209876543 ~ 21% or 0.21

13.3 * 0.21 = 2.79

13.3 - 2.79 = 10.51

That's a 10.51" diagonal.

It looks like you got 0.27 from taking the difference between the two over the 1280x800 resolution screen. Wouldn't you want to see the difference between the two over the larger one if you're seeing how much it shrunk?
Bekhtereva's work sounds interesting to me. thanks
Simply not true.

Coercive voting has disappeared because it is impossible for the coercee to prove to the coercer that they complied.

My granny used to tell of tying red ribbons (red being for the left) on the goats in the country and her mother getting a lift to the polls from the Tories (when women first got the vote) and voting Labour.

Verifying your vote cannot relate to ballot stuffing at all - so you can prove to yourself that you voted X, but I have 1,000,000 made-up votes for Y.
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> I also remember the Motorola Xoom coming out in 2010 and giving Apple a run for its money.

From http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/oct/28/motorola-xo...:

> In the same period that those Honeycomb tablets have sold 3.4m, Apple has sold more than 25m iPads. In the period that Rubin says those 6m have been sold, Apple has sold just short of 40m iPads.

I'd hardly count that as 'giving Apple a run for its money'.
We had the opposite issue locally : http://www.ksn.com/news/local/story/RNC-worried-Kansas-votes...
You can do 2 daisy-chained Thunderbolt displays with the non-retina MBP just fine.
I'm not trying to be snarky: could someone explain to me why this is HN-worthy (or at least worth 609 points)? In an election with thousands of voting machines, the probability is high enough that at least a few of them will be defective in some way; it should be expected as far as I can tell.
Yes, I agree with that.

I guess what I'm saying is that while dodging the real cause of this issue, Americans are going to point to large geography rather than large population as the 'root cause'. In this case that isn't entirely without merit, since for a lot of Americans (those in Maryland for example) the '(tax rate * population) / area' equation works out alright.
Said the republican.
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I think you undersell yourself - kudos to your success. I'd back a hacker with a plan (and a cash flow crises perhaps) over an army of PhDs any day! Maybe the course you should think about teaching is how to how to orgainse such a high-quality hack as you've described in the article :)

I'm currently building a semi-high frequency trading solution and the problem I run into is the sheer breadth of expertise you need to get it all happening. Modern chip design, low-latency, lock-free concurrent messaging, fault-tolerant system design, adaptive learning algorithms, k-means clustering and broker APIs are just a smattering of the ideas I'm trying to get across to make progress. For me, algorithm creation comes more easily than reading about and implementing a broker interface.

There is certainly armies of PhDs out there backed by big money but they exist behind heavily guarded intellectual property walls. An open source HFT/Algo/Automated trading platform that brings a hacker sensibility to this problem domain would be seriously competitive.
I was going to come on to argue that you were wrong here about the Windows XP / OS X timing. I thought OS X came out years later; but, I was very wrong. Wikipedia says:

OS X Initial Release: March 24, 2001

Windows XP Initial Release: October 25, 2001

It certainly has been a very long time...
In no world does this equate to D are represented in the majority by those without High School educations.

I never said that. If you want to criticize my post like an asshole, at least read it first.

Are you by any chance a Democrat without a high school degree? If so, I forgive your lack of reading comprehension skills. In that case, let me give you an example:

If I said, "The best racial demographic for Democrats is blacks" (which is just as true as my statement about education), that would not imply that I think most Democrats are black.
I love the touchcover concept actually. The point of removing the keyboard and replacing it with a floppy foldable cover is that the floppy foldable cover is really light and really thin compared to the keyboard that used to be there.

The second part is that convertibles/transformer tablets historically have handled keyboards crappily. Either you attach it to a folding swivel that's both bulky, heavy, and prone to breakage, or you make the two units entirely separate, in which case transportation/using the unit without the keyboard is awkward.

With the touch cover the keyboard just disappears when you don't need it. It needs neither a complicated mechanism nor do you need to remember to put the detached keyboard in your bag. Fold it over. Bam.

Responding to previous poster though:

> "But the RT is just a reduced version of what the pro version will be: Something that aims to be a laptop that you can work on."

I'm actually of the opinion right now that the RT is the more significant device. Having played with the RT now, and seeing the specs on the Pro, I think the Pro is too awkward to be a market fit. It's substantially heavier, has in all likelihood poorer battery life, and is thick. Also, it has a spinning fan in your hands.

All are acceptable compromises if you can really use it as a laptop replacement - but the touch cover's trackpad is frankly not good enough for that use. So what you've ended up with is a thicker, heavier, louder, warmer, shorter lasting version of the RT that will run non-Metro apps in ways that are nearly unusable.
Great platform and stat!!
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Potential voter purging in Pennsylvania: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11/watchdog-evidence-un...

Oregon worker altering ballots in the GOP's favor: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/06/oregon-election-worker...

At least one worker taking votes and putting them under the voting box: https://twitter.com/danicamckellar/status/265907196372594688 https://twitter.com/danicamckellar/status/26590774867435110

... What the hell is going on over there?
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It crashes for me when it tries to prepare the files :

/.../Steam/steam.sh : ligne 113 : 31352 Erreur de segmentation ${DEBUGGER} "${STEAMROOT}"/${PLATFORM}/${STEAMEXE} "$@"
In my experience they are slightly blurrier at the non-doubled resolutions, but still much, much better looking than on a non-retina MBP.
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What's with the dashboards on all these Bootstrap themes?
I must've gotten one of the few MBP Retinas that looks great at the non-2X resolutions. The non-2X resolutions might not be as sharp as the 2X resolution, but its still very sharp, and leagues sharper than non-Retina displays.
Having the option of a negative vote could fix that. If we had a negative vote option I don't believe Bush would've won in 2004. Negative voting could instantly give independents a much better chance. People who want to vote against a candidate won't feel like they're throwing their vote away.
Indeed, true democratic representation would avoid that problem. I think that it would also make NDT's point even clearer. If the citizens were directly making the country's decisions then we certainly should be making serious efforts to ensure that every citizen is equipped to make the best decisions for the country.
An industrial grade version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8PNMcNEjdA
http://xkcd.com/1130/
Small developers aren't immune to such activity. To the extent they do business with large companies, they can always be dragged in as co-defendants. "Apple: Samsung stole our technology and gave it to LittleCo, who were are suing separately for tortious interference with a contract."

The point is that if there really are so many entities just trying to abuse the system, they don't need patents to do it.
What are you defining as "the" margin of error?
I am absolutely amazed that you can actually do something like this. It sounds like something theoretically possible, but too difficult to do in practice because of so many random factors influencing each VM. Props to these guys.
yes, but as @bdbreedlove mentions, "NYT must have some goddamn impressive stickyness for that not to be a very similar number."
Released under the Apache license 2.0 [1]. I checked because sometimes MS releases code that can only be run on Windows/Azure and calls it Open Source but doesn't meet the OSI definition.

[1] https://rx.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/ae16c4e...
I wonder if this is skewed at all based on whether more twitter users are Dem. or Repub already.
Actually it should be 4 pixels to display 1 "point".
FiveThirtyEight is actually leased by The New York Times.

Nate, brand, and all can leave the New York Times in the middle of 2013 once his contract is up.

Depending on the election results, I wouldn't be surprised to see him ask for a whole lot more money, jump to a new highest bidder, or go independent again.
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The New Republic is a better source, so I submitted a new discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4751278

Mashable, in this instance, is just rushed and plainly false blog-spam. According to them, FiveThirtyEight "accounted for 20% of all visits to the New York Times website," probably implying page views. The original article says 20% of visitors to the New York Times website also visited the FiveThirtyEight blog.
Many European parliaments seem to disprove your conjecture. The governing group is made up of coalitions of smaller parties.
This might sound ridiculous, but Valve are actually really good at responding, or at least reading, emails sent right to the top. If you just send your thoughts to gaben@valvesoftware.com, I'm sure he'll forward it to whoever it's relevant to.

(I say this from experience - I sent him an email saying I thought the end of Half Life 2: Episode 2 was really fantastic stuff, and got a response back from the script writer, who he had forwarded the email to :])
There are many examples of a division of labor between companies without intellectual property protection being involved. I have worked on many consulting projects where intellectual property protection of the results was not significant.

So for example MIPS could become a CPU design consulting company to fab companies that want to produce chips. It seems to me that this would reduce barriers to entry and improve allocation of resources.
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Specialist interests will destroy the purity of both parties so it's no use arguing over numbers like that. It's a matter of choosing the lesser evil.

Peter Norvig, who is a god among the mere mortals here, makes a better case than I could
http://norvig.com/election-faq-2012.html
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Live Voting Results
Looks pretty fancy, any plans for an API / auto upgrade system that you could have sitting server side?