skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Occupy Wall Street protester whose tweets were subpoenaed to plead guilty
Nice. Now all we need is image search that returns the images as ascii art!
With you on the personal license, only reason I could get it installed on locked down bank hardware.
Honestly, the only way to understand regression is to study something like Mccullagh & Nelders book. Anything else and you are going to have a very hard time really being useful without misinterpreting the results. There are some real subtleties to interpretation of regression coefficients, and more importantly structuring your data in such a way that you will answer the questions you want.

It's not an easy book, but if you've gone through to at least third year level in statistics it's approachable and you will understand it to a deep level.
I've seen 1/2 foot of clearance between the bus and passengers. (With a hedge and wall just on the other side of the passengers.)
Because the average HN user is perfectly able to middle-click or ctrl-click or long-tap (or whatever combination works in your specific environment) when he wants something to open in a tab? It's not the AOL target audience.
"They say the trial will last 30 days"
Aside from long trips to the next town, I've not had a day with more than 200 miles driven in years. And the most frequent long trip was about 180 miles.
ICANN is ostensibly supposed to run in a democratic fashion based on input from the international community, but I'd be very surprised if the U.S. government wasn't already abusing their influence over ICANN towards at least two purposes:

1. Spying on everyone out of paranoia over terrorism.

2. Doing whatever the RIAA and MPAA's lobbyists want them to do.

That's not so good, but the ITU's express goal seems to be to balkanize the internet into a collection of state-controlled networks. One of the biggest benefits of the internet is that it shrinks the world and grants everyone, regardless of what country they live in, access to the same online community. I probably sound like complete hippie saying this, but I believe the global community created by the internet really is bringing all peoples of the world closer together. Reversing this trend would be far worse than anything ICANN is likely to do in the next decade!

Of course, as bad as the ITU's intentions are, the reality would likely be even worse. The internet is so interconnected that the power one state is granted over the internet in its own jurisdiction would likely translate into power they wield over everyone.

ICANN is, by far, the lesser of two evils at present. I am very concerned about the decline of respect for privacy in the U.S., but things simply haven't gotten bad enough yet to make the ITU look good by comparison.
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1) Cloud hosting/SAAS/PAAS

2) Outsourcing.
You're right, I said something silly and invalid. What I was trying to say was simply that an in-series DPI implementation will increase round trip times and decrease bandwidth.

My personal understanding of DPI is that they want to do it in-series so as to be able to reset TCP connections immediately upon detecting a hit, but that might not be how they do it.
Ford is striking me as innovative nowadays. Eliminating the gas cap is one example.
Not to step too far into a nationalist spit war, but:

Of all the oddball things to plant that maple leaf of internet freedom on, you picked... downloading illegal[1] copies of movies? Really? That's "freedom" to you guys up north?

[1] Something no one sane disagrees with. Very reasonable arguments can be made about overzealous enforcement, of course, or the lack of acceptable legitimate alternatives. But really: no one thinks that making copies of copyrighted material from anonymous peers on the internet is "OK", even if "everyone" does it.
Scary Repliee R-1 Robot
Wasn't this already done in a truly exemplary fashion by Hackers (1995)?
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La musique en sonneries mobiles pour plus de plaisir 
Toutes les chansons du moment vous sont proposées en sonneries mobiles. Les logos des stars du moment sont aussi à l’honneur sur la plateforme Mplay3.
So, crazy like a fox it seems.
It's a popular portmanteau. MR2 owners also call it a frunk.

http://carpron.com/multisite/d/356228-1/frunk4.jpg
How to make IntelliJ/WebStorm et al look less cluttered: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEwjDeof1ak&feature=youtu...
The underlying data is from the EPI, a left/labor/economic-protectionist advocacy think tank whose choice of figures/methods/spin will always emphasize a 'workers need rescuing' narrative. In this case, the aim of the cited report is to advance EPI's conclusion: "Now is not the time to increase the number of H-1B visas and STEM green cards".

EPI concerns themselves with the very broad category "computer and mathematical occupations, workers with at least a bachelor’s degree". If you dig into the underlying BLS report (http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes150000.htm), this category includes "Actuaries" and "Mathematicians", and includes 11% of all workers in the 'Insurance Carriers' industry.

Still, a rise in real wages over the past 11 years, when many other occupations are flat or declining, isn't that bad... especially if the composition of this category has grown to include more young workers and career-changers. Sometimes expanded demand, if filled with more marginally-qualified workers, brings down average wages, because workers are not uniform interchangeable cogs. (Consider similarly: English is spoken worldwide more than ever before, but the vocabulary/skill of the average English speaker has likely gone down, because so often it is a second language.)
I believe it was the same.
As did, I believe, the MKI and MKIII. None of the rear trunks could hold much more than a golf bag, of course, but anyway.
Twitterrific 5 for iOS: A design review
Because most companies run IT as a cost center rather than a profit center.

There is no money in IT but lots in 'tech'.
A UN resolution provides plausible justification for members' internet crackdowns and censorship activities.
I wish I could upvote this comment more than once.

I remember getting on Geocities in 1996 and finding a burgeoning community, full of randomness and fun, all learning as we went along about how build websites. I remember mine was in the “Bourbon Street” “neighbourhood”.

I had a lot of fun that year, messing about on IRC, learning HTML, building (ugly :-) websites, helping others do the same. Can't believe I sound nostalgic about that place.

I think I'll set up my daughter (nearly 9, already has her own domain) with a GitHub account, and set up Pages so she can play with HTML, CSS and stuff.
Then you're responsible for driving your own sales traffic, which is a lot more work than simply ending up in a category and getting drive-by sales.

The advertising cost wouldn't produce a positive pay-off for an app of that variety.
I see it as an existential test. If you ping localhost, and it doesn't answer, is anything at all real anymore? ARE we living in a DREAM?? IISS ITt 4LL MANOFACTURED TROoTH????
"Why there hasn't been an increase in wages for most workers from the '70s on is an interesting economic and sociological issue."

One that can be summarized thusly: "Top executives are taking all that money for themselves".

Average CEO in 1970, $700,000/yr, 25 x worker average.

Average CEO in 2012, $13,000,000/yr, 380 x worker average
I believe he should be treated humanely, though I do not know why empathy is required to do so.
IRecognition: I am no longer Apple's Target Market
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"classes" of cars exist for the same reason "classes" of computing exists, e.g. servers, desktops, laptops, tablets, cell phones, etc. You can produce a more compelling product if you pick a very clear target, and you cover more of the market if you pick a variety of very different targets. This is super important for car companies, who can only afford to develop a few cars at a time.

As for boat-cars, I'm sure there's a few folks out there who would love one, but Tesla is seriously underwater. They need to penetrate the largest/most profitable markets and capitalize. Then they can worry about tiny niche offerings.
John was interviewed on the Joe Rogan podcast on Nov. 27 when he was still on the run: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GmwSgCfn38. It's worth a listen if you want to hear his side of the story (though it's quite cringeworthy).

It starts at about 18:40.
Could someone please comment support for Clojure ? The last time I tried , I did not find La Clojure to be any better than Eclipse + counterclockwise .
Depends on the data sets you want to work with. For straight-up linear regression, with a heavy emphasis on observational data appropriate for microeconometrics, "Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach" by Jeff Wooldridge is absolutely phenomenal (an old edition is fine). (This is usually assigned for advanced undergraduate econ majors or non-advanced masters students; I don't know what the equivalent would be for undergraduate stats majors).

For more "intuition about working with data, especially if you're a visual person," Howard Wainer's books are wonderful; one example is "Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures." They're non-technical, short chapters, discussions of different data sets.

Bill Cleveland's "Visualizing Data" and "Elements of Graphing Data" cover the same material -- graphing data -- at a more technical level. I don't know Cleveland's books would help with the issues you asked about, but... they are amazing books and if you're interested in the subject at all I can't recommend them highly enough.

I don't have any free recommendations, unfortunately.
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Sorry, I misspoke above. Rather than edit I'll just correct myself here.

What I should have said is:
The expected future profits of Amazon would have to be 283x their own current profit (sorry, not Apple's profit), to arrive at a P/E similar to Apple's now. (In other words, to match Apple's strategy of extracting max profits to cash.)

That is a smaller number than I implied above, but it would still require Amazon at some point in the future to make a profit of $178 billion in 2012 dollars--more than 4x Apple's current profits.

To achieve that with, for example, the profit margin of Walmart (the current dominant retailer), they would need to do about $5 trillion in sales, again in 2012 dollars--about one third of U.S. GDP, or 1/14 of world GDP.

If we spot them Apple's current profit margin, sales would still need to be about $670 billion--about $180 billion over Walmart's current sales (at much higher product prices).

So while I totally understand the idea that Amazon is reinvesting for future growth, I just don't think future growth could ever be high enough to justify the stock price now.
ICANN's regulations and most of its deliberations are public, and they're not doing 1 or 2. They are totally captured by the "domain industry", but I agree that sounds less bad than what ITU is proposing.
"isn't killed or framed for the murder before the trial"

He could certainly be guilty and the sole source of all this drama, you know. He's been a very unreliable narrator since the beginning.
Don't forget Motion Layouts as well: http://malkomalko.github.com/motion-layouts/
Further discussion happening here: http://www.quora.com/Marketing/Would-you-exchange-ad-space-i...
White collar crime isn't murder, though.
Works awesome, thanks for that! ;)
I really like a lot of what I hear about Ford's doings recently. For example, they will be introducing a very euro-esque 1.0L 3-cyl turbo engine for the Fiesta to the USA market. Not only do I like that move, but the engine has a lot of really neat, innovative design points.
> I think he went to Guatemala for asylum on purpose

Doubtful, or he would have contacted the Guatemalan authorities immediately.

What more likely happened: he illegally entered Guatemala, either to hide or to go further into hiding to another country, got busted because he stupidly published a picture with EXIF data in it, got arrested and then claimed he was looking for asylum.
One of the issues stated was that the app force closed upon opening on a Kindle Fire, 1st generation. While I might be more inclined to dismiss this, the Kindle Fire is only on its second iteration of devices. While the argument could be made for supporting several versions back, only the second generation back.

Subsequently, with the number of sales the first generation has allegedly received, it seems like a much larger issue if the app were to gain any popularity or be promoted on Amazon's storefront. Amazon has valid concerns and is just attempting to guarantee at least function on a very limited number of devices. It's hard to find fault with that.
Especially when established luxury-sport brands have track records, brand recognition, loyalty, and high perceived value. The major players aren't dominating because the market is stagnant, they are dominating because they are good at making luxury cars.
The ASCII duck as a variable in the source is wonderful (trimmed to fit a HN comment):

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Ya know, I'm all in favor of unity and all but it would have really helped us make the argument that "we" (as in the USA) are doing a good job managing "The Internet" if "we" hadn't been seizing and shutting down domains in foreign countries that someone in the US disagrees with. That particular set of actions is coming back to hurt us.

Now if we could get the Congress to pass a law that says the US registrars cannot take down a domain of an offshore company unless there is a judicial order to do so, from the host country that would go a long way to making amends. But that would not really impress the content folks.
Have you taken note of this possible vulnerability? You guys need to be more careful about security. You may only get one shot at this, if you get bad PR this early by getting hacked.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/14c7q0/coinbase_lau...
Maybe it's time to invest in one-way mirrored sunglasses?
The New MySpace is Open
We already have free trade and a joint labour market. This benefits both countries hugely. Any other union would have very questionable benefits (currency, federal government). We should try to extend our free trade zone and labour market. Shortage of cheap labour in New Zealand.
If the world were full of people who were interested in optimizing their computer interfaces this way, all websites would support a mode of operation like this and there would be a framework for the end user to pipe them to each other like the unix pipeline.

Let us make it so!
Is the ability to use custom domains free now? In the past I thought you had to be under one of the paid github plans.

Oddly enough, I don't see any mention of this in the github article explaining how to set up a custom domain: https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-...
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I've been learning Spanish for about 3 weeks now. I use a combination of Duolingo (highly recommended!), memrise.com (nice way to retain words) and Coffee Break Spanish podcast on iTunes. Can someone suggest Spanish movies/shows I can watch?:)
Ask HN: Why Do Some Posts On The Homepage Have No 'Points' And 'By'?
This reminds me of the bird habit of "anting" which consists of a bird applying ants (often with the intent of taking advantage of their formic acid) to their plumage to help eliminate parasites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anting_(bird_activity)
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This isn't quite what you asked for, but I've run into problems where the distinction between scalars and 1x1 matrices was important. iirc, something like

crossprod(y, crossprod(A, y)) * V

where A was nxn, y was nx1, and V was an arbitrary matrix throws an error while

drop(crossprod(y, crossprod(A, y))) * V

works.
Not to mention wanting something to break if the secure implementation somehow were separated from the code using it (versus silently reverting to PRNG).
i need an instruction manual
its postings like these that inspire me to think that the internet and the web is just a means of a global communication tool to create unity -- thanks.
I believe it's all about transparency. Lack of transparency indicates corruption. NK isn't transparent.
From my perspective, it's because as a fellow human I can imagine his thoughts and feelings and in turn care about them that I believe he should be treated humanely. That imagining (and caring) is empathy. Where does your belief in humane treatment come from?
Screw Google Glass,Augmented-reality heads-up-display contact lenses
Please, let's not make generalizations about an entire country because of one comment.
Are You Sharing Your Wireless Data?
Okay. What are you arguing here?

Income has remained stagnant for the past 40 years. I don't understand how the massive gains achieved in the 40-60s is relevant.

The whole story behind the 1% thing is that for the past two generations the benefits of the massive productivity gains we've since achieved have gone disproportionately to owners of capital.

When we talk about income, we're really talking about a fraction: nominal dollars over the cost of living. The point isn't that there have been no wage increases, the point is that they've barely kept pace with inflation. Someone born in 1935 living in 1965 had experienced a huge shift in real wealth and had every reason to expect that as society's wealth increased so would his.

This is no longer the case.
Aren't managers & executives the new knights & lords?
You can also go the "App" route and make the whole thing an application that runs straight from flash.

Advantages are you can use many flash pages so your application can be massive, and your program will be easier to launch/distribute. We have the App signing keys so these days this route is pretty simple.

On the other hand you have to "allocate" ram to write to or scrounge for ram in predetermined areas in the address space. With regular assembly programs you can have "static" allocations that you can write to. Also programs don't take up a minimum of a single page, so they are generally preferred by people who are more comfortable with their calculator.

Damn, now I really want to revisit that z80 scheme implementation I was working on a few years ago...
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How bright should lights be to turn up on this? Why can't we see Aircraft carriers/Big merchant vessels or offshore oil wells or even research stations on the Antartic?
Also, Kids on the Slope is pretty good, if the idea of a jazz tribute coming of age innocent high school soap opera is appealing. Thanks quasistar.
So far the U.S. has only been seizing domains on TLDs which are delegated to U.S. companies.
Is the release of dopamine symbolized by it being released from the tap, or going down the drain?
While I'd been a Tesla fanboy in the past. I have serious doubts about the role it would play in Mankind's future.

Electric cars themselves require massive battery packs, most of which emanate toxic materials and/or require many toxic materials in its production and it's ability to be recycled is doubtful at best.

A better alternative would be having Public transit systems (alternately fuelled?) in place, so that fuel/road volume is used efficiently.
You owe tax on income regardless of the form. If your employer gives you stock, you owe tax based on the stock's value the day you get it. Capital gains (or losses) mostly only applies when you sell the stock, and only to the difference in value. Same deal for bitcoins. Hell, if you're caller #9 and you just won the two week cruise, you're getting a fat tax bill and cruises aren't cash either.
:help
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Dell's "New Way to Shop" for Computers? WHAT? #FAIL
Why would it need vi keybindings? This is a terminal emulator, not a text editor.
What it isn't: a dynamic host -- so it can't do PHP/Rails/Node etc.

Seems like a good opportunity for sever-less folks like WebScript.io or Firebase to jump in and help.
From my memory, MATLAB's documentation not only discusses the implementation, but also discusses the statistical/engineering methodology. It's overkill and can be pretty annoying (paging back and forth between different parts of the help can be somewhat time consuming) when you actually know the statistics but just want to understand the implementation. Hence the distinction between "documentation" and "a tutorial".

I don't know whether it's an explicit or implicit design choice or just a happy accident, but I'm grateful that the R documentation doesn't try to hold anyone's hand and guide them through data analysis beyond their training.
They need to distribute /usr/bin/ddg, a binary that lets me search like this.
Wavii Comes Into Its Own on the iPhone
That depends on where (if) the luxury competition needs to catch up. Tesla's differentiator is the electric powertrain. If they can stay ahead of the competition through technology (not large LCD's, etc), then they may have a chance.

Some people say that Tesla is the "Apple of transportation", and that Tesla can achieve success as Apple has with their design and user experience. I don't see it, however. If that was so, their differentiation would be more about industrial design and experience, and not the technology. But, as I said previously, if you put a traditional engine in a Tesla, you have a quirky luxury car manufacturer with little advantage over the more established (and experienced) competition, but with non-trivial competitive disadvantages.
Default key bindings on korn shell are VI..
I did that once, actually. It was an in-browser shell that piped REST requests and responses between each other. (Specifically, it would pipe the bodies.) It worked, but it didn't really catch on.

Here's a video of it (unfortunately, before it had piping or remote requests): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erVREtQoMCc
The release of dopamine is symbolized by the water being released from the tap. When the water goes down the drain it is said to "reuptake". So bath salts, or MDPV, essentially combine the effects of cocaine and meth into one -- according to the PBS article, anyway.
Well the good thing is that now McAfee has the entire world watching what happens to him - so it's more likely that he won't be killed.

We will see though.
About $200-400 a month on one paid iPad app in the Music category
I read somewhere that exceptional hackers follow the defect report logs of major software and find ways to exploit problems before patches come out... so is this movie going to cover that exhilarating process? Personally I like movies like "Hackers" and "Swordfish", I don't think legitimate malicious hacking should ever become mainstream.