skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess its true that you can't just equate intelligence with achievement. In my own life, I think I've increasingly used achievement where I used to use intelligence to gauge how 'smart' someone is. That comment was also trying to get at the annoyingly pervasive belief people seem to have that you must be smart because you are a mathematician, say. As an example, novices might think someone is good at basketball based on how they look on the court- but you wouldn't say someone is good unless they actually had a big positive effect on how often their team won. In general, I guess when I say smart, I mean "good" in some abstract sense.
Eleventh annual Stanford CS229 Machine Learning poster session
Guatemalan judge orders McAfee released
its interesting that all of these are programming "in the small" problems.

Is there a site that gives you common/difficult programming "in the large" problems?
I thought the insinuation was fairly clear.
BitBucket still supports uploads.
I use it for snippets of code that I want to save (and, maybe, make publicly available and link to) but aren’t serious enough for a repo. Here are some examples from [my gists](https://gist.github.com/Sidnicious):

- https://gist.github.com/1173880: A chunk of code to get information about running processes.

- https://gist.github.com/1082933: A little JavaScript function to decode quoted-printable encoding

- https://gist.github.com/842476: A chunk of code that blocks (I wrote it for a startup daemon) until the OS’s network stack is ready.

- https://gist.github.com/c980470f5ef244c4b4d3: My and a friend’s solution to the last level of Stripe’s CTF (may not be the final version)

- https://gist.github.com/2586751: A patch against a JSON library that to make it handle escapes in a spec-compliant way.

…Some of them are useful as-is, others are useful as reminders of how I dealt with a particular problem in case I run into it again.
And who's going to pay for my bandwidth?
Great...thanks for doing so. I mentioned the size of my company's revenues in response to your comment Sorry, I work for a company with actual revenue and profit....so do I.

It's not that I necessarily like the product yet, but I'm willing to give it a shot, and willing to accept that there might be bugs.
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Zero comments too, which is especially damning since they aren't reacting or interacting with the community regarding any of their material.
That's effectively unfortunate to compare your design to OOP because we tend to have different opinions of what OOP is. If you see OOP simply as message passing and polymorphism then your "all-e" and "renderer" functions just reimplement these ideas (as opposed to have your function simply assign different values to your data). Why isn't your "render-player" not a method?

It would have been interesting to go into more details about the CES design. For example, how do the components interact with each other? How is "position" updated when interacting with "walker" and "jumper"?
I've detected this around 21:45 GMT-2, and still down. Looks like the API is responding now, but still have lots of services down, including RDS and EC2.
To fix the issue on line 42 just reboot Deep Thought.
Jameson, CEO, here. We haven't done A/B testing against the previous site, but we closely watch our metrics and have seen a lift since the new product went out. We were confident in the new app, and would have rolled back if necessary (it was out for a week before we announced it), but all signs were good. Actually setting it up to do a proper A/B test would have taken a lot of engineering time, and we judged it to not be worth it at this point. A lot of that has to do with our goals which are more about expanding the platform than optimizing the "launching soon" feature set.
The Lowdown on Markdown
Really? In the app store? I searched for and found it no problem. But I'm still on iOS 5...
First of all, good work!

A couple of observations:

1. You should probably go ahead and implement at least LU decomposition, QR factorization, and maybe some eigenvalue/eigenvector stuff if you want to claim "advanced".

2. You should use the recursive definition of the determinant in the >3x3 matrix case.

3. You should consider adding some vector methods of the form: ax+by (for scalar a & b, and vector x & y). This can be useful for doing linear interpolation and whatnot.

4. You should add cross products/outer products for vectors.

5. You should have a mechanism for generating a Gaussian or normal distribution, or at least supply some standard mappings from your (presumably uniform) random function to something more useful (Gaussian, Possoin, Weibull, whatever).

6. An FFT would be nice. :)

7. Quaternions would also be handy for graphics folks, or motion folks.

8. Complex number support would be cool.

9. Support for optimization, like integer programming, linear programming, or even least-squares or whatever would be nice.

~

Again, great work--I look forward to seeing how this project evolves!
Jackass of the Week: John Gruber. Calling Reuters fools by niggling about the technical meaning of 'tax', while conveniently overlooking the clear message of the article. It's unlikely he'd make the same petty comments were it's tone not taking pot shots at his favourite company.
Perhaps you can create a separate repo for downloads? You don't have to bloat your main repo that way.
Great, thanks for the advice! HTTP + JSON is exactly what I would love to do. I was just unsure if it was kosher to do (embedding a lightweight web-server and running a daemon on top of it)

This isn't for sharing databases...I just need the info that is in a client's database to perform the required action. Technically, it could be performed all on their end, but I'd prefer this to be a SaaS for a variety of reasons.
Atascocita / Humble
What is the state of the art in sentiment analysis? I tried their demo page, and it seems completely useless (could not interpret the query "Not the greatest movie"). Are the algorithms used on Wall st. for predicting market behaviour based on twitter stream significantly more advanced?
What is meant by elasticity is that you can handle varying load on demand. You don't need to provision/scale for spiky/unexpected loads in advance, your infrastructure will expand and contract on demand. This is a very difficult problem to solve.

Also, this is on a much different scale than a small queue on a mobile app like you are comparing it to. A queue on a mobile app doesn't really need elasticity or scale. But when you're dealing with millions/billions of messages, the complexity is on a whole different level. And providing the ability to scale/grow with zero effort is extremely compelling.

Now if you had millions of users of your mobile app and they all sent messages for processing, an elastic, scalable message queue would be a godsend.
Some companies have more than 20-30 employees. All these "quite cheap" expenses quickly add up. This is money better spent towards getting a better product on the shelves.

Now when you consider that managing unix machines requires much less work to begin with, you can't look at "quite cheap" the same way anymore - it's actually "quite expensive".

Not to mention I often see improved performance of server applications just by switching them to a linux host. Samba 4 is indeed very good news.
I think when I run a company, instead of targeting only young people (on the assumption that they can learn new stuff faster) I'm going to give a bump to people who are 35+ and are still learning new stuff.

It's the same theory as is behind choosing an attractive older person. You know that the good-looking 35-year-old has started to age and is still taking care of him- or herself; the good-looking 20-year-old could fall apart in a few years once the metabolism slows down.

Everyone's curious at 22. I want the people who had enough of an insubordinate/rebellious streak to protect their creativity and curiosity through their 20s, despite their corporate masters' attempts to destroy it.
The Manufacturing Boom You Won't Notice
"Maybe every time I rev Firefox Nightly I change identity."

Unless the nightlies have a different behavior than the releases, the patch level is not reported anymore. The changes went into 16.0.2 which was released on 10/26/2012. initial report on b.m.o[1] reads as follows:

Steps to reproduce:

1) Load http://www.delorie.com:81/some/url.txt

Actual results:

The User-Agent header exposes the security patch level as either a minor version
number or as an alpha/beta/pre indicator. This data is exposed twice: in the
Gecko version and in the application version.

While it is of value to expose this data to e.g. AMO, exposing it to all sites
makes the browser more fingerprintable (see https://panopticlick.eff.org/ ) and
doesn't serve a purpose more important than user privacy. Point releases don't
change functionality beyond security and stability fixes, so sites shouldn't be
sniffing the patch level anyway.

Making trunk, alpha and beta builds look like release builds for sniffing
purposes reduces sniffing-related failures that waste time when treated as
functionality-related regressions by mistake.

Expected results:
Expected the version numbers to show the major version of the most recent
Firefox beta that Mozilla has shipped and not to show the security patch level
or an alpha/beta/pre indicator.

Additional information:
Internet Explorer doesn't expose the security patch level in its UA string."

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728831
So do you really think Amazon has a choice?
You're right, it was poorly worded and has an obvious error. It should have said that you only lose if the price falls below the original purchase price. Of course any decrease in capital in absolute terms is a loss.
> They also don't test for repetition induced diseases, so things like Huntington's won't show up.

In this case, that only matters if your direct ancestors have it anyway. If your grandparents or (worse) parents have it, you probably want to get a different test (if you want to know).
It's not about competition at the sperm level, gene quality as a whole. An individual is attempting to maximize its own genes. So a woman mating with a more masculine man will give her offspring the advantage of having "alpha" genes. But alpha men are not usually strong providers as they have their pick of women and so they spread their genes widely and divide their resources (or withhold them altogether). Thus maintaining the solid provider as the adoptive parent makes up for this. Of course, a man (evolutionarily speaking) has no interest in raising another man's kids. So the woman has to be sneaky with the affair. If the deceit remains hidden, this setup is by far the best the woman can do.

As far as having kids who are themselves not good providers, an alpha man's strategy is usually one of spreading his genes far and wide. If you're desirable enough, that may be a winning strategy for you.
I think you're taking the article too literally, John.
Well, I'd still treat it like any other "Client App". It does make more sense for it to be a long-lived daemon though.

If it's the kind of thing where you can run it once in a while:

$ bin/myagent --daemon
.. while 1
.... exec bin/myagent --report
.... sleep 300

$ bin/myagent --report
.. hit the Database
.. send to Web App
.. exit

Or maybe you want to be able to send requests to the daemon from outside? The issue there would be firewall rules generally.

Personally, I highly recommend you avoid creating a smart daemon and recommend the approach above if it will work at all. Embedding a web server (or similar) tends to create all kinds of issues, including performance, firewll, memory issues, logging, etc.
Genetic Tourism starts happening in neighboring states?
Good god, you've uncovered the prank of the century.
This could be the year of Python 3.0 on the desk^H^H^H^Hserv^H^H^H^H...looks like we need to keep waiting. Maybe I can one day use Django on 3.0.

:(

Back to Ruby on Rails, I guess.

EDIT: Ruby 2.0 is taking a little while too--I kid because I love. <3 Python folks.
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I think the potential for art lies in the restrictions he could place on himself on receiving the items. At the moment he's just kind of enjoying the items and the process (wow, cool, a nice book.. some weird music heh heh..) , but if he perhaps made the item somehow central to his lifestyle - eg. he must tell everyone about what he receives / become an unquestioning advocate of whatever the robot chose for him to everyone around him - it would be more of a statement - how much do we let what we buy based on arbitrary values affect the way we present ourselves? or something like that...

It reminds me of an extreme Japanese TV show which used to be on, where a guy called Nasubi (after his long face - eggplant) - was locked naked in an apartment and could only live on what he gained from filling out thousands of "lucky draw" postcards. He gradually built up quite a system, gained bags of rice, a playstation..

人は懸賞だけで生きていけるか? - Can a person survive on sweepstakes?
Well said. I think we might see some open source projects go back to self-hosting.
So native apps are written in HTML, right? Sounds like that would make things so quick and easy.
I see a lot of worrying and annoyed comments.

But this is an OPPORTUNITY for eager hackers to create an external solution to GitHub for distributing project builds and related binaries.

Or am I wrong?
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You shouldn't have a change in liability after taking out a mortgage, unless you refinance to release equity, which is a whole other discussion.

The missing point in many peoples analysis is that inflation is constantly eroding buying power and savings, and that property with a large land component (house > apartments) is a good hedge against inflation, due to naturally restricted supply. Of course, governments these days tend to magnify the supply restriction by refusing to approve new land developments in many areas.

Even if you buy at the top of a bubble, if you hang on, you're still likely to come out ahead over a 10-20 timeframe, as inflation takes care of your overpriced purchase.

Of course all property is local, and it's very easy to permanently lose a lot of money by purcashing the wrong property for the wrong price.
You can get @rocketmail (not that I'm advocating Yahoo or anything).
"The DoJ initiated a prosecution, which is now working its way through the court."

No. The DOJ destroyed the Mega business, and froze Kim Dotcom's assets, and the prosecution will take years to work its way through the courts. Worse yet, they hoodwinked our officials here in New Zealand to come along for the ride. It's a day of shame, not one to defend.
As a Houstonian this amuses me greatly.
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-Hacker attitude

Bonuses:

-Basic web development skills (HTML/CSS/JS)
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$62k sounds like a pretty good deal when you consider:

1) It's probably not enough money to hire even one extra IT person to deal with new issues that will arise with Samba 4

2) Linux sysadmins are more expensive than Windows sysadmins.

3) Cost of retraining existing IT staff.

4) Potential loss of productivity of your 2500 users

5) Lack of commercial support options.

6) Uncertainty about the future of Samba in general (release time tables, feature support, etc)
I would like to thank all of your staff at the Atascocita
location.Dr.K.Jones was caring and very professional.
I appreciate every thing he did to help me.I went in on
Dec.3rd.
If you have some design (UI/UX mainly) skills to complement your HTML5 frontend, take a look at dribbble's job board: http://dribbble.com/jobs
I found a few things to watch out for by using the service. I have yearly checkups with my doctor now to test for a few things I specifically found out about from 23andme. Definitely value the service.
A cursory glance at discussions online regarding relatinoships and attraction would show that most people would say they don't decide who to be attracted to, that it simply is what it is.

Just because we can show that cheating has evolutionary benefits and thus people are likely prediposed to cheat in certain situations does not eliminate any moral considerations. Morality is precisely the idea of overriding any base instincts with what we "know" to be proper behavior. Claiming your genes made you do it is no more a loophole for morality now than "the devil made me do it" was before the discovery of DNA.
I suppose it's too much to ask that we as developers and engineers show some fucking backbone and refuse to work on or with these tools and projects? And publicly shame those who do?
I don't know about this stuff, so ask in earnest: couldn't such smaller projects upload their compiled installers to some free app hosting service, and link to that from their github site pages?
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Anecdotally I'd say this isn't true. I'm 42, and in the last 5 years I've learned coding, welding and a few other things. When I look around at my friends, many of them have also been learning new things. One of my best friends, who has been doing rockshows and awards his whole life, has started writing a childrens book, and has just come out as transgendered so he's learning a lot about writing, how to do nails, walk in high heels, etc.

I might be biased because I'm lucky enough to have unusual, crazy and progressive friends, but I think learning new stuff has less to do with age, and more to do with social factors such as having kids (and thus not a lot of time), or having large monthly expenses due to cars, houses, etc.

These things are correlAted of course, but I don't think age per se is a factor.
That day could be today, for Django.
Treating austism and asperger with diuretics works
From Python to Ruby: Mind Blown by Rails, the Framework
Fond memories of the movie Minority Report spring to mind. Startups are, in fact, working on this exact end-game facial recognition based ad technology right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-ZLw2Q7U2M

and the company: http://www.immersivelabs.com/
Seems sort of like Zapier-for-Social-Networking. I'm impressed. Keep up the good work!
Recruiters: Your Days Are Numbered
Kim Schmitz? Did he change his name back?
fastmail.fm lets you set up wildcard mx records -- so if your email is user@example.com, you can get email at company1@user.example.doc, company2@user.example.com, etc. instead of user+company1@example.com. I imagine other email providers do this too.
Amusingly so far my privacy has been best protected by Mobile Safari on a popular iPhone model on the latest OS version:

"Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 857,908 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours."

As it doesn't allow for plugins, my fingerprint should (cookies aside) match that of any other <popular device> user.

So maybe the solution here is coming up with a 'secure browse' profile that every browser reports the same fake fingerprint.

Security in numbers.
Agreed. I can't really help myself, even though I know when I read a Gruber article I'll inevitably just roll my eyes and groan.
I rarely read discussions between 2 people beyond the 3rd or 4th reply, but this one kept me wanting to see how this goes, very well concluded. This is the reason I love HN, quality of discussion is much better than any other place.
OpenERP has a bunch of license crap (read violations). They switched from GPLv3 to AGPL overnight claiming that "OpenERP SA" (the company behind OpenERP) owns the entire codebase. Looking at it from many sides:

* the product is NOT open source if a single company owns the entire copyright ? why will they not call it proprietary tomorrow ? (they don't have a contributor agreement either)

* AGPL is the wrong license to have for an ERP system. In addition to all its ambiguity, AGPL software "must offer an ... opportunity for all users interacting with your Program through a computer network to request immediate transmission by HTTP of the complete source code of your modified version or other derivative work" [1]. Does that mean that 2500 users of the software in your company should be able to download the source code of your ERP to comply ?

For me, the license switch was to make the software impractical to use for any serious business and offer a "private use" license at a price as a vendor lock in.

[1] http://www.affero.org/oagf.html
"(the first 30 days are free!)"

Why? I don't understand the arbitrary 30 day limit, or the need to be charging at all for the basic service. It seems like the best way to gain adoption for a product like this is word of mouth. As a totally free product, they could get thousands or tens of thousands of users in a short time period. Real people having positive experiences with a product is the best marketing there is.

The strength of glance seems be design and UI. Charging a monthly fee doesn't seem to be the best way to take advantage of that strength. Nice UI products do best when they have lots of people using them. I feel like it's too much trouble to set it up knowing that I'll have to make a purchase decision after 30 days, (not to mention that it doesn't say what the price will ultimately be). This looks like a cool product, but this might not be the right business model.
This would mean no caching, so your computer would have to download the image every time, even if it was the same as one you'd already seen.

Unless you're only using these images for client demos, it can be very slow and frustrating waiting for them to load every time you refresh while trying to do html, css or js tweaks.
this actually sounds very logical!
I see both your points (browser vendors and extension distribution issues), and I think Mozilla has shown great respect for their users. However, Mozilla's primary revenue source is Google.

Maybe taking a page out of the enterprise play book and using a proxy, like Squid, would make sense. From reading the Squid manual, it seems like it could play a role as it is quite extensible and sophisticated. Making it easy to setup and customize would be pretty difficult from what I can tell, unfortunately.
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