skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So that begs the question "Why isn't he working on promoting that instead of consulting?".
What you describe is more commonly called a technical lead or senior engineer, and a good one is worth their weight in bacon.
No, that's not what we should take away from this. Bayes' theorem is a mathematical theorem, after all, not a theory that you can falsify or improve upon. If you plug the correct inputs into the formula, it is guaranteed that you will get the right inputs back out.

So if you are getting a more useful result by modifying the formula, that means that your inputs are wrong. In this case, it can be helpful to make "modifications" to Bayes' theorem, but really what you're doing is adjusting the inputs.
Perfect. That also means that we'll have to stick with sweetjs ATM to implement a slightly different class sugar.

Perfectly fine for me.
Your comment only proves OPs point more clearly. This is normal because we do it.
My experience says: there is at least one advantage in differentiating an architect and a developer (I have been both developer and architect). If the developer designs the system, he/she will tend to push the system design towards whatever he/she knows the best in the programming language such as libraries. This will restrict the design. In fact, the developer doesn’t think about the design without thinking about how to implement it. But, the architect who is not good at writing code can think without boundaries.
[...] I pity your naïveté
Are you honestly deluded [...]
Are you honestly too callous and/or imbecilic [...]

Where's the substance? You said "I haven't the time to expound further" and then came back to spew more insults. Reasonable people read "I haven't the time" as "I haven't a valid argument but I disagree so I'll make you out to be a fool so obviously wrong that you're not worthy of a proper rebuttal". That doesn't work here.
Warning, just visiting that link loads 30 Megabytes! That is insane. Luckily I did not visit with my quota-limited mobile account.

"Download" requires an e-mail address. Terms say "By downloading this bundle, you agree to receive an email from us, and to be eventually subscribed to our newsletter." Mailinator works. :)

> under this license you may not: (...) allow direct downloads of the materials from any other server that is not ByPeople's. You must redirect users to ByPeople's site.

Lawyer speak probably, but to me that makes using any files in websites hosted by myself impossible.
Whitcroft is also responsible for Climacons (weather icons) which have become standard for many apps. #hatTip

http://adamwhitcroft.com/climacons/
My point is that RFID badges did not, in fact, start with the schools. I'm pretty sure that's the exact opposite of OPs point.
I'd love to recommend this to a colleague at work. Does anyone have a review of how it works and if it's OK to use for production?
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Any sophisticated large-population demographic is going to require some form of governance, and a subset of that demographic will resent being governed.

Just being able to walk up to that panel will require rules regarding business zoning, construction codes, traffic organization and enforcement, etc.

Once you've arrived at the panel, there's all the standardization and regulation and coordination and infrastructure just to identify the face as you, securely transfer your data, standardized operating system to run on, etc. Much of what you do leaves traces - to your desirable benefit.

Anarchy is not conducive to sophisticated lifestyle.
I'll bet that's illegal, and they'd be all over you for a "privacy violation".
Or in other words, garbage collection only covers about 99.999% of all resource allocations/deallocations ;-)
Well, I didn't mean to sound like I dislike the idea, hacker value can be as much reason as a problem to code a salvation.
Personally, I don't find the lack of LTE to be a problem at all.

Three's DC-HSDPA network has been excellent with my Nexus 4. I've done a few speed tests and I regularly get between 10-18Mbps down and 2-3Mbps up. It feels really snappy and, at £9.60 a month for a rolling 30 day sim only contract with unlimited data, it's cheap as hell.
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"This is normal because we do it" pretty much is the definition of what normal means. Of course normal doesn't always mean good.
Do kids even have SSN's?

In the countries I've lived and worked in, you don't get such a number until you want to file a tax return, so usually somewhere around age 15 (depending on the country)
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This is fantastic. I haven't picked anything up from Everlane in probably two months. Almost forgot about them. Now I'll be looking forward to when their site comes back online for me to make a choice or two tomorrow!
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I think the issue is that the typedef is intended to hide the smartptrness so it's not obvious what the API for getting an old-style pointer is, or whether getting an old-style pointer is even part of the intended public interface anymore (beyond p.operator->() anyway ;)
I'm not sure if you noticed, but Palm is out of business, and Apple is the most valuable company in the world. Might not be your best example for making me want to strive for this as a capitalist.
> This is one of the reasons I love services like Spotify and Netflix. They have no devices in the race, and tend to have client software for almost every platform. I can switch between phones, tablets and operating systems and still access to the same music and movies.

You're joking right? Netflix? Only recently have we seen murmurs of having some hacky way of getting Netflix to run on Linux.

Microsoft Silverlight lock in was, IMHO, a huge slap to Linux. They're as bad an example of "services that support every platform" as can be.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/netflix-no-change-in-our-...
I think this is really cool from a business standpoint. It reinforces their image and generates more curiosity and long-term respect than a sale could ever do. This is slightly reminiscent of Patagonia's "Don't buy this jacket" ad that went out last year, which I also in large part respected as a marketing effort and culture statement.

With this message, the "Sign up" link is the most attractive thing on the page. I'm guessing they'll get more press and more signups today than otherwise, and those organic signups will generate sales from e-mail campaigns. Really smart.
I love what Elon Musk is doing, and usually he makes pretty reasonable assumptions, but I think he's wrong when he says "most mid-40 somethings" can afford $500,000.

Being able to afford a $500k house is different than having $500,000. Houses can be mortgaged for 30 years, but if you're going to Mars, you're not going to have an income and can't pay back that loan.

I don't think a lot of 40 somethings have $500k laying around.
There model sounds very familiar to the From Holden KS campaign we saw recently. Interesting marketing move though, I guess they probably aren't missing too much since there are so many retailers competing to be in the fray today.
they should put an email capture to remind me to come back tomorrow
Nice PR move. I have no reason to doubt their sincerity, but I had never heard of them before and this put them on my radar. As a consumer, their business model looks compelling - https://www.everlane.com/how
Woz created a computer, Jobs created a company. Not sure which one is harder...
If you want to know more about everlane check the TWiST #253. Interview with Michael Preysman of Everlane http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6kvIPiez54
The seven rules for wealth creation
Democracy - The ability to vote peridically and demonstrate , the constitution are all various institutions that give power to citizens to influence the decisions of the ruler.

Capitalism - a combination of cooperation and competition by companies to achieve goals many consumers cooperate on getting(by paying). BTW when a few companies compete on the same goal , it's also a kind of cooperation.
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I don't think the Apple PR dept cringes. I doubt they even care, because their customers don't care.

No die-hard Apple fan will hear what Woz has to say and switch camps, and your average Apple customer— the non-tech-types— will say, "Who the heck is 'Woz'? Wasn't he in that episode of Big Bang?"
I believe you should change the "Good Free Book for Teaching Programming" into Learn Python The Hard Way for Python.
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Show HN: A better discussion system. For blogs, forums, perhaps sites like HN.
I find it funny that HN apparently removes the word "penis" from titles.
We destroy perhaps as many as 7 units of free energy in the environment and human economy to produce 1 unit of free energy as corn ethanol

And yet they still make a profit, and it is still highly rational to do so. Because it turns out 1 Joule of liquid hydrocarbons is more valuable than 7 Joules of methane or coal or sunshine.
Three words: Not Invented Here.
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I'm having trouble following your point. He says the "input is very large" and you're arguing that the input doesn't have to be large?
Hi hackers

I'm the link poster. I'm building a better (I hope)
discussion system for blogs and forums, and perhaps
(in the future) also for sites like Hacker News.

Here is the homepage: www.debiki.com

Here are possible future features: (so you can read
about what might be focused on)
http://www.debiki.com/-81101-future-features

What do you think?
For example: Do you think the project makes sense?
Or do you have any suggestions?

(It's a bit buggy in IE8; IE7 not supported.)

Kind regards,
KajMagnus

(My first HN post :-))
This whole saga is hilarious for me - I live in South Africa. Our president was involved in a rape case just before he was elected. He got the charges dropped because of a mysterious set of audio recordings that were classified yet somehow proved him entirely innocent. Trouble is, nobody has yet been able to get hold of these recordings even under subpoena from the constitutional courts. The guy also has a number of wives, was involved in a number of arms deals, and is currently building a $30 million house in the middle of nowhere and having a billion dollar freeway project begun to make sure he can get to his house in style. We also have a 'textbook fiasco' where a large portion of public schools in a province did not receive textbooks at all. Nobody in the education accepts blame or will step down over this. The monopoly government controlled electricity provider is increasing electricity charges by over 15% per year and is still losing money by paying out massive bonuses to employees. We have had illegal strikes resulting in multiple deaths caused by police shooting fleeing strikers in the back as they ran away. Nobody in government has stepped down over any of this.

This is common in many democracies across the world.

The fact that someone in your government is forced to step down over something as basic as having an affair (our president has had a number of them over the last 4 years) shows that USA is still pretty high up as far as government morals go. Bravo!
This was an awesome event! Just wanted to give a shutout to Matt for hosting all of us. It was great to meet tons of people from around the world who were all in the same position. It really made my day to know this community supports each other so much.
I don't think the point was that every policeman was a jackass, or even a majority. The point is, that throughout history, anyone with power has been able to convince a lot of people to do their dirty work. Likely many of these people weren't even bad people, they just didn't have the courage to stand up for what is right.

It doesn't falsify anything, and I have no reason to believe you aren't trustworthy. I just need to be able to provide lots of examples where the opposite is true, and I can. It's trivial.

I don't for a second believe that every German soldier in WWII was as bad a person as Hitler made them be. I do believe they were willing to go well past what most people would admit to doing, likely because they were afraid they'd die if they didn't. But millions of jews were slaughtered because it wasn't that hard to convince people to do it.
I don't think we know enough about exactly what happened to determine if he broke the rules or not. People around him in Washington may have known about this for a long time before it went public.
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No, thats perfect, it'll get better by time if it learns :)
Ask HN: Streaming Github repo content to single web page
for some time i've been thinking about implementing a small web tool to make it easier to read Github repo's project project source code, basically by traversing a repo file collection (http://developer.github.com/v3/git/trees/) by seamlessly scrolling down/up a single webpage (with XHR).
I would love to try this on a tablet (if i had one).

The repo files would be injected into the page in a certain order (using a tree traversal algo; files first, then [sub]folders files) , syntax highlighted, line numbered, with the possibility to add user bookmarks. The tool would also automatically save the current reading point per repo, like e-book readers.

I guess the use case would be to speed read a project's source code, as opposed to following the specific logic (class/function call stacks, etc).

The issue is that i haven't been able to decided on a proper implementation, particularly how/what to stream to the browser and memory management.

Obviously outputting the full repo's source to the browser in a single page is memory intensive, so it would have to pre-request a few files ahead. But rendering a certain number of files is not a guarantee that they would fill the device's screen (for example requesting 5 files with one or two lines each). So, something i've considered was for the client to request (to the tool's own api) a certain number of lines, depending on the client's device (smartphone/tablet...) / screen resolution.

There is also an issue in that source files that have been rendered on the webpage and were already scrolled over, should be removed from the page due to memory consumption, but should probably be cached locally in case the user scrolls back, ideally to avoid re-requesting the files, for a faster seamless experience. For local caching, cookies do not seem a solution, so probably html5 local storage?

Would appreciate any suggestions people would like to share,

thanks!
Great idea and execution.

Still, I'd really recommend ditching the ad at the bottom and focusing on perhaps a single call-to-action, like following on Twitter or liking on Facebook. I know it's tempting to try and monetize something like this but overall the ads and share buttons just kind of junk it up.
What? Why wouldn't you have an income? That's a silly assumption. The Martian colonies won't be full of jobless bums as there will be lots of work to do. A prime export to Earth will probably be software, for example.
No problem! I talked about it at our local TulsaWebDevs meeting (though unfortunately there is no recording of it)... here is a list:

https://gist.github.com/4109183
> TSA, on the other hand, has been been called out by many actual security professionals for having shit practices that don't actually work.

Yes, that's true, but (a) those "professionals" have no better logical basis than you do, and (b) this doesn't change the fact that you were using flawed logic, my only reason for posting. The fact that there haven't been any terrorist arrests at airports doesn't mean what you seem to think.

> They're basically pulling a rain man scam ...

This is counterproductive. It might be true, it might be false, but it doesn't follow from the evidence. Again, I'm not taking a position on the TSA, only the logic.

> Actual professionals who don't have money invested in one conclusion or the other are saying it isn't helping anything.

Name one who is using an argument more scientific than "they haven't caught any terrorists!" And again, this is not about whether the claim is true, this is about the basis for deciding whether it's true.
Should probably have a QR code or option to text the address to a phone number.
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Funnily, the linked article in the rantlog about MobileMe also says there were enough warning and reminders ( for a year ). iCloud was announced by Apple as MobileMe's free replacement ( for atleast 90% of services ) in July 2011. It was continued to be offered till July 2012 with frequent reminders to existing MobileMe subscribers to migrate to iCloud ( and to other services for things like iDisk and web hosting which aren't on iCloud)
or maybe a short url
Here's a bigger list: http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html
I don't really buy it. It's been ten days and they still aren't taking orders? Wouldn't they be missing out on the Christmas rush by doing this?
CIA director is an easy target, and it's more than possible that Petraeus was targeted for some other reason and the affair was a useful pretext for taking him down. It wouldn't affect a president though. Bill Clinton only became more popular once the Republicans tried to remove him from office over an affair he had with a White House intern.
Looks like it is there now.
I suggest that you make time for what is important to you and be honest about why you love to code. It's possible that coding for your company is a compromise, anyhow - I made a decision a few years ago to only code on my own projects, and I suddenly love programming as much as I did 15 years ago again. In that way, lending your experience to a dev team without having to roll up your sleeves might be a blessing, because many folks find that doing it for other people doesn't satisfy in the same way as doing it for yourself.

YMMV, of course.
More than one thread:

* He says the energy input is very large. I say it's reasonable for it to be so, because it's converting a cheap form of energy into a valuable one

* He says it is CO2-intensive because of the large energy inputs. I say this is just a reflection of the whole energy economy being CO2-intensive; that in principle the inputs can be CO2-free, and so biofuels can be CO2-neutral. (And they unique in this aspect; there is no other way to make CO2-neutral hydrocarbons, short of chemically scrubbing CO2 from the atmosphere.)
I looked at it, but I thought it had too much of an emphasis on just copying code , while "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist" lets you play around with examples right in the browser.
This is a pretty big assumption, why would it be a prime export?

What makes Mars so great for producing software that would cover the added expense of firing a programmer all the way there in a rocket?
Politicians in the USA have higher standards for civil servants than they do for themselves. There are numerous elected officials that have had multiple affairs, multiple convictions for some serious crimes, and/or very questionable ethic violations, but they'll happily keep their job.
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or even be speech controlled.
All generalizations are false :)

Lua's design philosophy is to keep it simple, which works well for their user base and domain of use (lots of embedding in games as a scripting language). Scala is not meant to be a simple scripting language, its more like a power language. Both are very good languages.
Fuckwit of the week.
If you expect to sell a lot of volume or have a lot of products in your inventory, I recommend OpenCart http://www.opencart.com/. It's free & opensource has a lot of features, templates and plugins. Allows you to manage sales and inventory very well and also easy to use like Wordpress.
No. I mean, you should learn what you want to learn; there is no strict set of new technologies that you should learn and others that you shouldn't. Sorry we can't provide you with better guidance.
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Do we? I read it and immediately hit 'back'. There wasn't exactly anything too intrigue me there.
Yes, SSN's get assigned shortly after birth.
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But would they make a profit without government subsidies and set-asides for corn-derived fuels? That's what is at issue.
Why didn't you just name a price in the multiple millions of dollars? Even dumb directors understand money.
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It's sealed, but screws on the bottom make it easy to replace.
It's virtually free to export software to Earth while it would cost millions to export anything physical.

Also, I think you misunderstood me. Its not supposed to cover some cost; the presumed developer chose to go to Mars rather than stay on Earth and buy a house. He pays for the privilege of living on Mars.

It's not that Mars is spectacular for building software but rather that's a very cost effective export once you're there.
Brilliant. This gets people talking and wondering what Everlane is.

I'm not someone that cares about a brand but I am someone who cares about quality to a somewhat obsessive level. I love my Everlane shirts and the backback I got from them is rugged and comfortable with just the right amount of pockets and storage. When I return to SF in February I would really like to visit their office and learn more about the company.
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Currently , there's some open source research into neglected diseases. This is certainly a high risk project. I hope it succeeds.

I could imagine open source would work well for non-profits, some of them doing high risk projects(like the green revolution, or gates's work). It's also possible it would work well for university research(maybe with some change of universities operation models).

Open source is relatively new. Maybe it will take time to see what kind of high risk projects it's good for.
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Hector Javier Durand-Manterola is the author with the yahoo address. It looks like he did work at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where the other two authors are from, at one point [1]. He's authored a few other astronomy papers at arxiv [2] even though he doesn't seem to be in the database. Perhaps he has retired from academic life.

[1] http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hector_Durand-Manterola/

[2] https://www.google.com/#q=site:arxiv.org+hdurand_manterola%4...
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