skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you do "You get a card at random"?
> And if someone cannot get their paper published in a system that allows such results, then what can we reasonably assume about said rejected paper?

Nothing at all, really. Remember that Wegener (plate tectonics) couldn't get published for decades after his initial theoretical proposal, on the ground that so many geologists disagreed with him. In fact, his ideas were verified only after his death.

But the publication of an idea, and the scientific standing of an idea, aren't comparable states. Scientific publication is as much a business as it is a source of the best papers science has to offer.
HUGE response -- I guess the sarcasm was a little subtle.
To me, I highly prefer the first expression you've written (well, without the exaggerated style you've given it). The second may save you some time in the short run, but when you come back to your code in a year, you think you'll know what dP means? Differential of P? Distance to P? Distance from P?

I realize you've got a comment above it, but if you really code like that then you are very different from any code I've come across where the programmers used short, non-descriptive variable names.

As my coding has improved over the years, I've gone from an imperative, abbreviated variable style to a functional, long-named variable style. Even with the long names, my code is MUCH more readable and it's still about 2x less typing than the imperative style!

(Also, I don't think all math majors use that second style).
The Fingerworks TouchStream keyboard did, but of course, Apple bought them.
The article is quite nice, but I have to say that there's nothing surprising. I found it a bit shallow. Also, it would have been nice to change the title into "3 things we have done right so far AT OUR STARTUP".
Cheers,
Your third sentence doesn't support your second.

I use closed source software, but that doesn't mean I think he's wrong on his overall analysis of its downsides.
Google makes money anytime somebody browses the internet from their phone or buys an app from google play.
I don't mean this in a deragotary way - you obviously don't need to understand at a deeper level than you do; few people do ...

Do you like to assume much?

I have a masters in mathematics. I likely understand a lot more than you give me credit for.

I do not "discard" the limit process. I'm saying that the d/dx notation, which we get from the old infinitesmal approach, has insights buried in it that most students miss. I certainly missed it for a long time.

Limits won for good reason - they were the first consistent approach to defining the derivative that mathematicians understood, and were a key step on the way to resolving the inconsistencies in previous definitions that Fourier series had revealed.

But limits are not actually "essential". I am personally aware of multiple completely rigorous formalizations of Calculus. The second most famous of which is Robinson's non-standard analysis, which has absolutely nothing looking like a limit in sight.
UO was so awesome. I blew 5 years on it. Siege Perilous! SP was the right direction, unfortunately not many people seem to agree with me ;)
"We can call these drawings ‘diagrams’ or ‘abstract machines."

Or we can still call them graphs.
Why "Dynamic Programming"?
Can someone fill me in as to why google would pay money for Groupon? I'm genuinely curious. This price surge and 'speculation' seems like a nice time to dump stock if you have it.
outraged? I think it's amazing. This is the kind of creativity we need from professors, especially in subjects such as programming where things can get quite bland. I wish I had these kinds of tests in school, I probably would have paid more attention.
What is Markdown specific about this? Using Chrome stable on Win 7, I don't see any of the Markdown I'm typing being converted or doing anything other than sitting there, being Markdown code.
Hard to say: systems has a long lag time before good ideas get "proven" good by being successes in the marketplace. For example, paravirtualization was investigated from around 2000, and then Cambridge released Xen in 2003. It caught on by the end of the decade, in the late 2000s. If something released in 2010 will end up having similar impact, we'll know it by the late 2010s...
People are not used to a search area that looks up local AND internet resources. Furthermore, AFAIK, thre is no obvious "local only" search box to act as an alternative to this global one.

It's a combination of user expectations of a local search resource and the lack of obvious warnings about this new, and odd, feature.
Because Ubuntu Linux is considered part of a community of free and open source software, and it's also an OS. These are clear differences.
On the other hand, I think that ran in much lower resolution and in 8bit color.
Survey of MIT Students on their Stress
weak refs in ARC require OS support
Hit ctrl+p to goto preview mode. Markdown is rendered only in preview mode.
Which may be why windows 8 bundles an appstore and infrastructure for ads.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to SEC: "Relax, my Facebook is public"
When searching for nomic on github, there are a couple of nomic projects using pull requests to propose rules and fork to know who's involved. Yet, they seem empty at the moment. I'd be interested in seeing such project working though.
This thread would be more informative if the post author had said _what_ he was trying to read. Most math is written to communicate with other mathematicians, so if he grabbed some random paper off of ArXiv then it's not at all surprising he found it hard to read. It also makes a difference if he's trying to actually learn about a subject, or just to apply some formulas without necessarily understanding him. Math is written differently for specialist and beginner audiences, with the very terse "CRC Handbook of X" off on some other axis.
I agree with you. A book that aims to TEACH should provide the most common form of the equation and provide detailed annotations of what everything is. (Wikipedia should be like this as well since I know no one is using it as a reference).

For a REFERENCE, you can just list the equations in their most commonly used form.
Google is evil...  After getting us hooked on free…
To your point on naming, the core of Hungarian Notation's thesis is that you can never get a name right, due to the creeping in of unfounded assumptions due to past experiences with that name, so you're doing more damage by trying. So, create a unique 3/4 letter nonsense tag (and define it), and get on with your life. Once you do this, it's crystal clear where the gaps in your understanding are, since if it looks like gibberish, there's a gap. And when you understand it, believe it or not, it doesn't look like gibberish. (Hungarian as originally defined, ie Apps Hungarian, not the horrible Systems Hungarian that came out of Programming Windows.)

It's a powerful yet under-appreciated idea. Of course the proof of the pudding is in the eating and so it does seem Hungarian takes it too far due to it's lack of success stories. But I can't help but think if that thread of an idea were not squished so resolutely that we'd be in a better place than we are now with the problem of naming.
So, how do you fix it if you accidentally make it non-functional yourself?

In other words, what will thieves have to do to make it work again?
Me too, more or less. Sad.
> Wikipedia is not designed to be a pedagogical repository; arguing that the mathematical language sucks because a terse summary in wikipedia is not enough to understand the material is missing the point.

Nicely worded. I think the real issue is that many people want mathematics to be easy to read and understand. Unfortunately, much of mathematics is not easy to read nor is it easy to understand regardless of how it is written. Mathematics, like many other things, often requires a lot of intellectual scaffolding to be built from the bottom up. There is no shortcut to the top.
Not true, it is a part of the required standard check-in process for the long time and just recently was replaced with the V2.
Voting games can be painful. I remember Mafia, which is very crowd-dependent. People who slow-play/minimax games make Mafia intolerable. At 3:00 in the morning with 3 players left, the 30-minute discussions are painful. Just kill someone and lose or win already.

The variant I built (to give something useful to start the discussion, rather than blind suspicion) had a combat mechanic. You actually had to "buy" arms in order to do your killings. This meant that Mafia actually left a trace, because it was public information who purchased. (There was no in-game currency. The cost of buying arms was visibility.) If you were Mafia, you'd probably want to buy arms. On the other hand, the good guys also could benefit by arming up. The result of this was that there are two different strategies. You can not buy arms often (or ever) and evade suspicion during the day, but be weak against brawls and Mafia... or you can buy them at every opportunity and be strong in combat, but arouse suspicion and be more likely to die in the day phase.

There was also a brawling phase. If you thought someone was Mafia and wanted to go vigilante, you could. However, they could defend themselves. in addition to dying, you could end up wounded, which would make it obvious the next morning that you were in some kind of fight.
> If it were illegal, why do people have to take an oath in court?

A number of reasons:

* So they can't claim ignorance of the law.

* Because lying in court is such a commonplace that the court system decided a timely reminder would be wise.

* Finally, some statements that are lies can't be prosecuted, for example, anything not material to the issues being discussed. On that basis, the oath stands as a clarification of what is legal and illegal in that specific context.

In spite of the above, lying under oath is very common. It's a rule of thumb that judges will rule against liars rather than try to prosecute them.

> Lying may be morally or ethically bad, but in itself, the law is fine with it.

Yes -- except (two examples) under oath or while filing a police report.
very cool, but from a usability stand point, you should show all the questions without the collapsing. Have to click 2 times for answers is not optimal.
Medicine (and the quality of life it brings) is a moral and ethical imperative. Why should we leave something so important to market forces? Why must the development of medicine be incentivized by profit?
> here is an interesting article about how it dominates Chinese smartphones but Google isn't getting any return on that investment (80% of Android phones in China ship with Baidu as the search provider).

They still maintain Google as the app-store though? So Google gets ~30% of every app/media-item sold?
>"...life isn't a competition to see how upper middle class you can get."

This was the most powerful phrase of the article for me as well. These days I wonder if something like a "Freedom maximization framework" or a "Personal satisfaction maximization framework" might work well for many people including myself, rather than a "Income maximization framework" or a "Career maximization framework" that we tend to default to.
Not true, a lot of people, including me, use git at Google. It's not a default options, but you can use it if you want to.
The way I remember Nomic there was another rule, which defines an alternate objective function.

117. Any player who generates a contradiction in the rules automatically wins.
I was actually comparing them to cattle ranchers, because Argentina is known for excellent steak.
dont forget Fallout 1 and 2.
Anyone know the reason for this?
I built a site to share tips for Android development. See http://android.steerway.com.

I'm behind on the content updates but I'll have them by the end of the year.
I agree, it's a fun exercise to try and come up with a "better" form of notation that works in the general case. I think that most people will find that modern mathematics notation is really good stuff.
I'm surprised they didn't try and teach sheep how to drive instead, ha ha. Seriously though, this is kind of cool and scary at the same time.
interesting (to say the least). does it mean that Go is taking prominence at GOOG ?
> However, we're not talking about science as a discipline ...

I have to say that, when I use the word "science", I'm not talking about scientists, but scientific principles. I do this because science exists primarily to defend against all the ways scientists will get it wrong without the discipline science provides.

> We're talking about the community of human beings within the scientific community.

It is because of that "community" and its foibles that science exists and has its present form.

> If you don't believe that, you have a far higher opinion of human nature than is warranted.

I hope you see now that it's exactly the reverse of your assumption.
Clueless? The SEC, Netflix and a Flatland mentality
> I look at my very young cousins. They are growing up with iPads and iPhones not Google products. (observations)

This is true, but I think you are looking too short term. Here in every Christmas catalogue there are 3 pages of iPads and iPad accessories. But you know what is on the front page of most of the catalogues? a $99 Android tablet. The tablet probably sucks, but I think this is the turning point. Parents are not going to spend $300+ on tablets for their kids when the "same thing" is next to it for $99. These are going to flood into living rooms, then schools, and all other instutions. The iPad has a temporary monopoly in these places now but it's not going to last. In a year's time the components in the $99 tablets will be good enough that the experience will actually be good and then it's all over. Apple's fatal flaw is that their business model depends on those high margin. The often quoted statistic that Apple makes nearly all the profits in the mobile industry is as much a weakness as a strength. Apple needs those margins, their business model depends on it. They can't survive in a low-margin world but they also can't prevent it. They have to retreat and hide every time in the luxury / premium segment of the market where their business model works, but the vast majority of us do not dwell. To survive in the mass market, Apple needs to create revolutionary hit after revolutionary hit - and they've done amazingly well at that so far, but you have to ask how many times they can pull it off. Eventually they are going to falter and then their whole model crumbles.
"Lost" to iPhones? Sure. Lost to Android? A lot harder call. Certainly Apple partisans of the time were still in full Android-dismissal mode. That was 2009; what if they'd stuck with it and kept improving it? No guarantees, but they at least would have had a seat at the table. Nokia spent some of the most formative years in this market not even sitting at the table while they waited for their Windows phone to come out.

Plus given the Linux base at the core of both Android and Maemo, had there been more resources put into it, it seems like there's a reasonable chance they could have been in a position to come to some sort of accommodation with Android, perhaps being able to run some apps, or at least making it easy to target both.
When stuff like this happens it's really easy to get involved and voice your opinion by switching gears, that is the beauty of open source.

Ubuntu Forks.

http://xubuntu.org/

http://www.kubuntu.org/

http://www.linuxmint.com/

http://www.sabayon.org/

Other Disto's.

http://www.mageia.org/en/

http://fedoraproject.org/

https://www.archlinux.org/

http://www.opensuse.org/

etc..etc
I use Codeigniter for a lot of my projects since its so easy to get going with it, with that said, I would definitely be interested.

For authentication I use Tank_Auth. Are you happy with SimpleLoginSecure?
That doesn't sound right in this absolutenes (it is of course not wrong). For example, given a rng that is attackable when being allowed to get multiple random values from it after the rng was seeded, i still see no attack on rsa in a scenario such as this, when the rng is only used to create the key (see [1]). You wouldn't get the necessary samples for the attack.

I already agreed that sure, if you can guess the prime-numbers because of a flaw in a rng, that is a serious issue. But I don't see how it follows that if you use javascript for the key-creation it is guaranteed you will use a rng with predictable outcome, especially not if you use user-input like described in the screenshot.

[1] http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/03/surviving-ba...
Too much hyperbole. Things change quickly these days, and I hope we don't see java "embedded within humans" anytime in the future.
> things like "access to the latest technology/drugs"

That's not actually a valid measure. It is based on the assumption that newer=better. Because of how the US drug market works, as soon as a patent expires, the companies will work hard to discredit older treatments and find new patentable ones, including statistically invalid manipulation of the research data.

> "overall survival from first diagnosis of cancer" the US comes out on top in many, many areas despite the lack of uniform coverage.

While that is true (as far as I know), it comes out on top but not by a significant margin; and the base cancer and diabetes rates are much higher. This may or may not be attributable to the US health system, but I'm sure it does have a part (In the US, you get a pill for everything. In most single payer health systems, you get dietary and exercise advice before you get a pill for something chronic).

> if you're a cystic fibrosis patient and can't afford the $300K/yr for the drug Kalydeco because the NHS doesn't cover it (although nearly every insurance company in the US covers),

Well, Mz just commented about this specific example. I'm somewhat familiar with the Israeli single payer system (I have relatives that unfortunately had to use it extensively) - and it covers every single proven life saving treatment (life extending treatments are covered depending on a cost/benefit model). I don't know what their exact definition for proven is - but the Doc I talked to said it was reasonable (FDA approved, at least 1 year on the market since approval, and a few other similar requirements).

And the most important thing? With the exception of Canada, I think every single payer country lets you have supplemental private insurance if you want, for those live extending treatments, and e.g. if you want to be treated in a private/hotel hospital, or in a different country of your choice.

The dichotomy of "single payer vs. private" is a false one, just like public schools don't eliminate private schools - it just establishes a baseline that everyone has access to, and requires the private industry to deliver significantly more value.
Doesn't Google's App Store tend towards free apps moreso than others? I don't have an Android phone but I remember that was the case previously. Angry Birds was a paid app on both Apple's and Microsoft's store, but free on Android for some reason.
You can always use PLWeakCompatibility on iOS4: https://github.com/plausiblelabs/PLWeakCompatibility/
Exactly. Apple's vertical integration gave them a big first mover advantage in this market but their obsession with control is going to kill them as the hardware is commoditized.

Bezos is 100% right about this - content is king in mobile in the long run.
Have you ever had a manager/user/whatever person issue a screenshot of an issue using markdown? It doesn't work. Github is supposed to be for teams too (private repo's), and this brings it 1 step closer, but still far from what other services offer for issue tracking.
Isn't webapp2 a completely external project?
Sure - the oft cited strength of bitcoin is the ability to send value instantly (if you trust the party, 10 minutes otherwise) and with near zero fees. As a currency, bitcoin is limited in using this advantage because so few businesses accept them, but as strictly a protocol it can enhance dollars (for example) by being the currency of currencies, so to speak. So instead of using Moneygram to send dollars half a world away, I just exchange for bitcoins, send, and exchange out into dollars (or pesos, euros, etc). Further, since it is has such low fees, microtransactions are possible (web content monetization?), since storage requires no 3rd parties, people (worldwide) can avoid bank runs, and since it is mathematically scarce, they can also avoid (hyper)inflation. All with trivial and possibly automated currency conversions. For bitcoin to become a worldwide currency, it must first become a currency of currencies.
You may not have noticed, but HN is fairly negative about college degrees, so many people probably see the bit about degrees as a personal attack on their beliefs.
I agree it's somewhat frightening but also inevitable. We geeks should do what we can to make the future as human-friendly as possible.
> a more modern and flexible language would certainly help.

I hope Clojure for Android gains popularity. It would make Android development a hell of a lot more tolerable.
> Microsoft actually sold those > 1 billion copies of windows.

No, it didn't. A very large portion of those 1 billion copies were pirated.
The suggestion "Never nest rules purely for code organization" isn't to save a few bytes, it's avoid the specificity trap. Too many people who write Sass use nesting to make their code look more appealing in their editor, but what they end up with is unnecessarily specific selectors.

The file size issue isn't really that much of a concern unless you're on a really large site, but specificity issues affect everyone.
Nokia partners with China Mobile to target 700 million subscribers
No, what I agree is his overall vision on free software. I don't care how he talk and write, but I can't agree with the way he speaks of his opinion (and maybe many others') as if it were a hard fact. Its not a matter of being polite or not, its more about the fact that basing an argument on opinion is not really credible.
no, most androids don't even have Google app store in China. When we ship our apps we have a bot pushing to over 20 android markets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzfgq1zv8jg

Randy Powell on Vortex Math - "The most advanced mathematics ever known to mankind."

yeah.
The Era Of Easy Riches In Mobile Apps Is Over
Virtual currency Bitcoin registers with European regulators
If you take careful note of my wording, I said that every crackpot makes this sort of claim, not that only crackpots make this sort of claim.

The reason I know this is crackpottery is that, as others have pointed out, the physics just doesn't add up. Assuming perfect efficiency, you'd be looking at somewhere on the order of 1% of the light output from a standard 40 watt light bulb.
Anyone know how the save system works? Can you hit the home button at anytime and come back in to the game later right were you left off?
Police drone crashes into police SWAT team
they offer MS exhange support instead. which is really nice. esp. also due to push support.
The Linux devices out there were all lacking a good GUI layer. From the perspective of a consumer they were primitive, ugly and barely functional.
If you still have the original disks, you can recreate the magic with GemRB.

http://www.gemrb.org/wiki/doku.php?id=start
You can set gmail to use the smtp servers associated with your-real-domain.com and avoid this message.
until it's becomes a paid service too...
The original story is at http://www.3news.co.nz/SPCA-teaches-dogs-to-drive/tabid/367/..., though I don’t know if it’s available outside New Zealand.
This is awesome! I love the interface. Any chance you'd consider open-sourcing it?
> far too important to leave to a company that
> considers support an exercise in statistic management

My impression is that paid Google Apps support is pretty good:
http://contact.googleapps.com/