skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least in this case, a former Supreme Court judge thinks the arrests not only violate constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech, but are "criminal" to boot ... and he's not arrested for posting his criticism on his blog.

http://justicekatju.blogspot.in/2012/11/a-letter-to-maharash...
i wonder if you are thinking of another monoid property of a gaussian?

suppose we have:

x ~ N(0,1)
y|x ~ N(x, 1)

then we have:

y ~ N(0, 2)

i.e., gaussians are closed under marginalization.

however, i believe gaussians are not the only distribution with this property either: i think this property corresponds to the stable family of distributions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_distributions
Minecraft coming to Raspberry Pi in hackable edition
German Federal Environment Agency calls for ban on sealed battery in phones
> This is a reminder that even First World nations don't always live up to US standards with respect to freedom of speech.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

There is still lot to improve in most of the countries.
How unique - and trackable - is your browser?
haha! I'm here qdot! Thanks for mentioned Vibease.
Why would I risk my 2 decades+ no claim discount on someone else renting my car?

Why would I let someone who I don't know drive the car I take good care of, possibly use it for illegal purposes or deal with the aftermath of fines and so on?

Really, that's a pretty bad idea.
The ‘subversive adult Disneyland’ where iPods track your every move
Part of Isbister’s pickiness, he says, comes from an avoidance of workers with experience in a “union-type job.” Isbister, after all, doesn’t abide by strict work rules and $30-an-hour salaries. At GenMet, the starting pay is $10 an hour. Those with an associate degree can make $15, which can rise to $18 an hour after several years of good performance.

I'm not a fan of unions or work rules, but those are terrible wages. How does the guy expect to get 21st century skills for 20th century wages?
No one says that. No one here is saying that. To portray the reaction that has taken place here, scoffing because it is female and sexual, is in and of itself sexist.

Reverse discrimination sucks for whites, maybe I should question every submission that is authored by someone who isn't white?

You'll note that I address male taboos about sex in other posts, but ironically it's probably not what you want or what you're really getting at without being explicit about.

Do you understand that "any female-positive topic" -> "what about the menz" is exactly the problem with this attitude?
Weaponizing the Nokia N900 – Part 4.0 – A Three Year Anniversary
Sony coats Xperia P in 24-carat gold
I have been wondering about this. Online stores such as Amazon are killing the bookstores all over the world, obviously bookstores cant compete in price, however, one thing that I think will make bookstores stay, that is, if they stop selling books. Obviously, they cant compete in price, however, what if they start selling atmospheres?

Imagine having a membership to a place filled with books, and you can read all you want. Go inside the place, sit down, enjoy a cup of coffee, pick any book you like. You can even bring your laptop and work, it's like having a gym membership, but for your brain.

What do you guys think?
Okay, so if there is a problem, what's the solution? Sure enough, highly skilled labor in Taiwan, for instance, that is willing to do the same work for a fraction of the cost, isn't going to stop working just because US employees don't find $10/h attractive. It's a free market and if we want to make things in US, we have to keep the costs comparable.

Now, assuming blue collar is done, as robots can take care of most of the tasks, could someone explain why we need workers to oversee the computers?

The way I see it, you need a really expensive robot, and you need a really expensive programmer to make it work; everything in the middle is cheap. Software should be able to distill anything that is happening on the robotic side and present it in such a way that a trained mechanic would understand and be able to fix it. If that's not the case, then we need better developers (and in this case, perhaps, better designers and human-factors engineers) to write better software.

Now, a few folks mentioned that what you need is really a mixture of experience in the mechanical side of things and understanding of the software - presumable that allows you to react and solve problems whenever something goes astray. Well, that could probably be solved by having a few engineers on staff who would help when needed.

That leaves us with yet again, fairly simple mechanical labor. Perhaps then, the article is right, we have a serious education problem. Those who attain enough education, leap forward and presumable learn more to subject themselves to mundane mechanical tasks, while those who would be greatly fitted to do the jobs, actually don't have enough education to understand even the most basics.

Someone's suggested comparing the math needed at Mc'Donalds with the math needed at one of these factories. I'd be curious to know too; although I suspect that in McDs all the calculations are done by a computer and all humans need to do, is simply not to f-up. Even then, when humans fail to add 2+2, all they lose is an occasional McFlurry, while at a factory they could impact tens of thousands of dollars at once.

So, here we have a conundrum. We need labor to work the $10 jobs, but the pool of employees is simply atrocious. At the same time, qualified labor has better things to do with their time. Now, back to my questions - what's the solution?
Lots of editorial issues, for example when describing C# and F# some of the information is incomplete/mixed. Too bad there is no comment section.
If he he took half the time he spent on mischief and directed it at learning an employable skill he would have been successful. White middle-class Jacksonville isn't exactly the type of rough upbringing necessary to excuse self inflicted damage in my books.
Sure, we just walk to the other extension and pick it up first. The minor amount of time saved sounds like a poor trade-off considering the potential for harassment.
I don't see a problem with requiring Rails experience. It depends on the job of course. If I don't mind a slow ramp up and want someone right for the job that might last a few years then I don't care. If I have some complicated technical issues I need fixed quickly, I want someone that can jump in and go right away.

Particularly with Rails where it's convention over configuration, knowing the conventions is a great headstart.
Is that more like a library + cafe?
> it did not automatically lead to the abolishment of slavery, a lack of discrimination and the women vote

That's not the point. The point is that, in 100 years, some of the things that you, me and most of our friends think today might turn out to have been terrible, shortsighted, bigoted groupthink mistakes that resulted in the oppression of millions of people.

We aren't doing it on purpose, of course. We try to be as vigilant as we can about that sort of error by constantly considering different ideas and questioning our own assumptions, prejudices, and cultural habits.

It's hard to do that if it's illegal to talk about different ideas, or say that we might be headed in the wrong direction.

And if it turns out that, despite our best efforts, we can't see the truth which will eventually emerge -- then we shouldn't compound the evils caused by our wrongheaded beliefs by using the power of the state to silence our critics.
Well, as an anecdatum, many people think Greenspan made the housing bubble worse by trying to remove regulation, and that he did so due to his belief in Objectivism.

In general, from the standpoint of someone against it, Objectivists seem to think that poor people and welfare programs are preventing the wealthy from "saving the world", totally disregarding the fact that poor people do all of the labor and numerous examples of wealthy people encouraging legislation to prevent competitors and innovation.
"An IR (intermediate representation) is "retargetable": meaning new processors can be supported with a new backend addon, not a full rewrite."

Why isn't this true of other high level languages like C, C++? Is LLVM just more strict? Could the others be made more strict to improve portability?
The other 68 essays are available online for free at OReilly: http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/QA_Tea...
Wow, what a round about way to attack feminism. You have a chip on your shoulder up and down this thread. It's good that you can manage to dismiss it and feel superior about it and pretend you're the moral superiority and champion of gender equality.
"Chances are that being more tolerant was simply just an idea whose time had come."

Society does not move to a predetermined end, and we will not be "better" off without protections of civil rights. That statement is dangerous because it assumes that there are not forces and persons who wish to regress.
I agree with you: However, I am unsure who is at fault here. There is a unique problem in that people don't genuinely know what to call the role they want to hire for and there is a worry among recruiters that the "wrong" or "unsexy" job title will put off potentially amazing candidates. E.g. In Linkedin, the data science position for the most part could be more accurately called a Machine Learning Engineer. There are other companies where the data science role could be called a Statistician (As in someone who has advanced degrees in Statistics but who for all they care can't write anything but SQL).

On the other hand, I have never ever found the requirements for a role to be nothing but mostly bullshit. So they don't really help you much. Your best bet if you are not going through a referral is to attempt to get to a phone screen where the Engineer/Data Scientist will be kind enough to spare some time at the end of the interview to tell you what on earth they are actually looking for. You could get lucky and learn just enough to terminate the interview process at this time. The worst situation is where you go there and realize that either a) You are not what they are looking for which is a half a day wasted or even worse b) They have not completely realized what they are looking for.

Me? I have made a decision that I will either apply for software engineering positions where I will maybe be one of the Machine Learning folks or apply to data science positions only if I know some one in the team who can explain to me what on earth that company is actually looking for.
Thanks! It's something I always wished I had in previous moments when floating-point math was confounding me. I was finally inspired to sit down and write it when I saw this story a couple days ago on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4815399
On my Android Maps app I get a "floor" UI. But in my desktop browser I'm a bit at a loss..
That's not supported by the content of the article. You can certainly criticize the government in the UK, but what you can't do is inflame public sentiment without consequences. I somewhat prefer the US approach, but there's some value in the UK approach too. The public interest and the government's interest are most certainly not considered to be the same thing by the judiciary.
I'd be interested in seeing this device have it's data outputted to a graph to see what kind of pressures someone finds most agreeable. That way you don't have to fiddle with every device after that. Also, as someone mentioned, it would be a great way to create a preset based on your mood. The data could be correlated on your emotional state, by entering a standard 0 unhappy 10 extremely happy. And then monitoring though a period of maybe six months so you know when your libido is the highest. As a male, I'd love to have my biorhythms matched to a device that would basically "know" my preference based on the time of day / year. I suffer from SAD and masturbation tends to help. Not to mention it would be a kewl hack to have a chart showing you the times your most likely to be sexually aroused so you can plan around it with your significant other.
Your presumption that it is is sexist in and of itself, how is that not apparent at this point? Your projecting, plain and simple.
cutting a line, perhaps not, but think about what happens when there's a line at a supermarket counter and suddenly the counter closes and a new one opens up.
It's turning up everywhere now for the DIY crowd. Might be stating the obvious but really seems like personal 3d printing is hitting a high saturation amongst those serious enough to blog.

The upside for me - So many interesting projects to read about!
I agree with Qdot. The common problem with most hardware startup is manufacturing. You need lotz of upfront money. Most VCs don't invest in hardware startup. The only available option is kickstarter. If you notice, even with lotz of money, most of kickstarter projects are delayed.
Making prototype and hacking hardware is now easier compare to 10 years ago. But it's still challenging.
We do own pre-order site, http://www.vibease.com
Some people might be okay with the risk of someone else driving their car, for the money, especially in these tough times.
Agreed. People should use what they want to use. I personally hate KDE. I find that particular UI to be the most insane and ugly mess I've ever used. That doesn't mean I go to KDE related thread and talk about how the KDE people don't get it and don't listen to their users.

What annoys me are these comments by people claiming to represent "Gnome's users". No, they represent some of Gnome's users - a group that does not include me.
nice to see another fan of mikes. he's bill bryson's spiritual predecessor, but seems to have fallen into relative obscurity.
To add, I don't think it's usually so much that the buzzwords are useless things to learn or nebulous (though some probably are both), but it's that companies aren't willing to pay employees to learn the buzzwords on the job (or even figure out which subset is actually relevant to the job--YAGNI is a useful heuristic here). They'd rather instead complain about CS programs being inadequate. Then when CS programs half-assedly try to change into learn-this-software dev-mills, they get complaints from another side of the field that they're skipping out on important theoretical background that good programmers tend to have even if they don't use it much.

There are a lot of advertisements offering jobs only to people with "10+ years experience in X" (sometimes "X" hasn't even been a thing for that long), and assuming that means professional experience, that rules out almost everyone younger than 32. And for specific "X", it can rule out people even older if the "X" isn't what a recent graduate started getting their professional experience in right away. Some of those companies might also offer junior jobs with junior pay, but there are all these startups elsewhere offering higher-than-junior pay plus equity plus (depending on the size) a feeling of larger influence and control without the stress of running a company yourself.

I'm not sure I agree with you on ignoring buzzword-laden fields since there's usually a lot of money to be made, even if only in the short term. Though it's probably best not to greedily expand your employment options in the direction of the latest buzz.
>The real goal of this post is to get a bunch of men to fantasize about "her" and glorify how cool "she" is for being a geeky hacker.

Could you be being any more blatantly transphobic? You're literally just inventing and projecting nonsense.
Build the "scalable" part of your backend on JVM.
Build the "Web front end", with Django/Python.
Show HN: stltwalker: CLI for .STL file (used in 3D printing) transformation
to use violence to keep your fellow citizens or subjects from saying original but forbidden things.

You're rather begging the question there. What constitutes originality - is it meant to be a proxy for innovative? What if I say something obnoxious but unoriginal, such as advocating genocide or harm of some group or other who have been systematically discriminated against in the past?
My idea is to run "sponsored book clubs".

You sell a popular or interesting book at a slight discount for the duration of the book club run. (Maybe a discount just for members who paid an up-front fee?) You do a weekly discussion group, one per chapter of the book. Run multiple books per week, catering to different crowds (e.g. ultra technical vs old sci-fi). Set up some reasonable video and audio equipment, experiment with the format, and try to capture the "sitting around with a group of smart people" feel.

While the club is running, make those videos available online with a discussion forum (also experiment here -- with one topic per chapter, or posts grouped by smart tags or something). After the club has run, you sell a "book club" package for every book you've done this for. Sell it at a reasonably higher price with a DVD of the discussion sessions and an archive of the forum session. In a year, you'll end up with a hopefully rabid community and a reputation, as well as a growing catalogue of copyrighted material which makes your products unique and justifies a higher price.

The core idea here has come up repeatedly: membership in a community is important. Having a place to go feel like a hacker or just a smart person and meet other smart people is wonderful. You should sell that; the books are just an excuse. Heck, you could even just try running a paid-membership library.

edit: reading back over my message, some different themes also stuck out: minimum products, iterating, and pivoting. The ideas I proposed are really a loose collection of possibly money-generating schemes built around community and creating value. You can quickly start doing any (or all) of these, then iterating and pivoting as necessary. This is the common small business pattern: start a few small projects, see what's drawing people and money, then regularly optimize according to your senses of what you need most at the moment.
What exactly have you not ruled out?
>Sadly the sustained value women can get from a sex toy is so much more than anything a bloke can briefly get.

Uh, yeah, speak for yourself.
Disclaimer: I'm nominally anti-Rand. I'm going to struggle to be objective for this comment, though.

A lot of people do dislike her as a semi-famous figure (i.e., not having known her personally) because she has said and done some things that are fairly disagreeable. (The easiest potshot to take is that her ideal human is a sociopath.) But by and large, it's because she's had what is often perceived to be a very negative impact on society.

Here's a biased, first-person, but vitriol-free perspective: http://www.salon.com/2011/04/05/my_father_the_objectivist/
> - It's very easy to create and dissolve companies, and companies themselves are designed to be temporary.

Would you mind elaborating on this? I feel that this should be true, but in practice there are so many heavily branded names that it's hard to actually believe it.
It is true of C and C++. In fact, LLVM is mostly used as a C/C++/Objective-C back-end (in Clang). The main advantage of LLVM is that it is a really good representation to perform optimizations on.
>In the UK, you can't. That's the main point of the article.

Criticising the government isn't what landed these people in jail, it's that the British public found their posts offensive. Look at the examples given in the article again; burning poppies on remembrance sunday, tasteless comments about murdered children, and a tactless joke about bombing an airport.

You've read into the article a problem that doesn't exist.
Hey, yeah Ruby is a bit easier for me :) Your code is correct so it's not terrible. As to why you didn't think of it.. maybe it's because you practice less at making code look as pretty as possible?

It is something I practice a lot, maybe because it's in Ruby's culture, or just because I enjoy making code look pretty.

When I look at your two for loops that twice make a range, and have a bunch of magic numbers, all kinds of alarm bells go off. It should be one loop if possible, if there are magic numbers they should be in a constant at the top of the file.

Actually, the way you construct the seedList is interesting. A Haskell programmer might have done the same thing, because keeping indexes is ugly in Haskell, and doing operations on infinite lists (which you emulate by appending a copy) are pretty. Perhaps you are just a functional programmer, using a non-functional language :D
link to said proof please.
Nice, very classy of you. Tell me again, how does it feel to time travel here from the fifties?
Ask HN: What'll you do if your business was started from my country?
I'm living in Algeria (north african country), and I work as front-end developer at http://modizy.com (based in Paris). When I started working with Modizy team, I really felt jealous about the startup ecosystem in Europe.

The Web in Algeria is virgin, websites can be counted by fingers and there's no competition. 3 years ago I started with my friend a soccer news website and now we are 2nd most popular soccer news website in Algeria. Now we are team of 12 journalists and 3 photographers, but wait! all team is working as volunteer, we made 0$ since 3 years.

I'm really afraid to start a new business in my country again!, and I'd ask what will happen if all amazing ideas like Airbnb, skillshare or yours were started from a country where e-payment doesn't exist?
Chris Ford gave an elegant explanation of scales at a Clojure talk in London: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/functional-composition.

He starts with a basic sine wave and builds up abstractions until he has a Bach canon.
Fortunately the market tends to weed guys like him out if he refuses (or is unable) to raise salaries to meet his required quotas, unless he's just clever enough to get government handouts that keep his company afloat indefinitely.
Very interesting to be able to subtract inputs from the learning rather than starting the learning over again. I had been wondering if this were possible.
This. The man knows his field.
I believe age discrimination is being split into two chunks:

1) Some people with a mistaken belief that correlation does imply causation think that just because some programmers have let their skillsets atrophy implies that one should stay away from older programmers.

2) Older people by virtue of experience, skillsets are pricing themselves out of the job market. I have an older friend who is a phenomenal hacker but doesn't like going into management. He found himself either being offered VP of Engg type roles which required way more management than he was willing to do or being given Engineering roles with way less money than he was prepared to accept. Also, once you get a family, the amount of leeway you have in accepting a tiny fraction of what you are worth in exchange for money and stocks becomes quite limited.
@eshvk

I am mostly a scaling/machine learning tweeter.