skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same, no problems at all. Was surprised at the negative comments but after checking again I can understand the ambiguity of ranking low for a negative item. I often have that problem with English speaking, but this made sense to me.

I'd say it ranks low on "the presentation is difficult for programmers to understand".
It is their right to picket and claim that the reason the tragedy happened is because of homosexual behaviour in this country. They are trolls, and interacting them in any way shape or form only feeds them.

There is no solution to the problem. They are cancerous cells living in the collective not hurting anything, just reproducing. They aren't breaking any laws, and to deny them their rights because their message is wrong is not the answer.

Maybe the solution is to lure them into committing a crime so the white blood cells can neutralize them.
The vagrant installer vendors Ruby to avoid collisions, etc. I don't know any replacements.
> Fragile, secretive and specific techniques ... parameters will be supplied to you for a price by the inventors-researchers' companies

This seems a strange/dated/paranoid view of machine learning. Perhaps it has been true historically (have any references?) but doesn't ring true for me of the field these days as I've seen it.

Hyper-parameter selection can be tricky, and some papers do handwave about it when evaluating models, although this kind of flaw is increasingly picked up on by reviewers I think.

At any rate you'll find a lot of useful literature on hyper-parameter optimisation techniques especially for the more popular and general ML models. It's recognised as an important and interesting (albeit sometimes hard and fiddly) problem, not something to be swept under the rug, and not the stuff of conspiracies.
The Appification Of Everything Will Turn The Web Into An App-o-verse
it totally depends on the advisor. I've definitely heard stories similar to the TFA from people in multiple disciplines and from multiple schools. I'd say that it's less common of an attitude than it might have been thirty years ago, but that it is far from extinct.
More and more CPUs have AES instructions and my old lenovo ideapad has a crypto coprocessor. Do you think the GPU offload will be worth it when the sytem has hw accelerated crypto?
You can probably change it in /uevent.boardname.d - substitute in the board that you see. If you see uevent.goldfish.d, you can ignore that one. (It's for the emulator.) Let me know if it works for you.
a link aggregator called coder.io and articles on codeproject.com are too good.
Wow! You're doing exactly what you seem to know on some level is bad: you're giving him lots of very specific advice without having any basis for doing so. Apologies for any harshness but I want to answer you strongly.

1. It's very possible that leaving his current therapist in order to "pivot" is a terrible idea. He should talk to his current therapist about his feelings that therapy isn't work, and consider talking to another professional, maybe one who takes a different approach, at the same time until he feels clarity about what to do. A lot of work gets done in 7 years of therapy. Sometimes there are low points, but it is a major step to throw that away.

2. It's incredibly obvious that telling him to try to have a child is an insanely bad idea. Getting a dog is less conspicuously destructive but is also a serious commitment and not something you're in a position to recommend.

3. Your "tough love" approach just sounds like being gratuitously hard on yourself. You can't bully yourself into becoming healthy. His condition isn't "fabricated" by his brain, and he cannot talk himself out of it. I know you didn't mean it in this spirit, but the ultimate effect of that line of thinking is putting responsibility for his problems on his own shoulders. No one chooses to have psychological issues, and they can't just opt out of them either.

4. The rest, doing jumping jacks, taping up yoda quotes, answering a mental health questionnaire in public, these things aren't likely damaging in any way, but they won't do anything to address the underlying problems or meaningfully change the situation in question.

Again, OP: if you feel that your current treatment isn't working, you need to address that by talking to your therapist about it and, if that doesn't help you feel more optimistic about the current regime, you need to talk to someone else at the same time about the current problems you're having. If you have to make a drastic change, like leaving your current therapist and presumably changing your meds, I'd think it would be a good idea to involve someone you trust who can help give you perspective from outside of the therapeutic context.

And, obviously, if you get to anywhere near self-harm, make sure to get emergency care right away, even if it seems like an over-reaction.
Mindfulness is accepting the noise and letting it go. On the other hand, concentration is an active effort or rather a fight against what takes our attention.
I typed and deleted, "Not sure negative publicity helps a church." But, now thinking, the members of said church might further be loyal because of the attention and feel they have to defend and push harder in the face of protest.
I am an Indian woman and have actually lived in Cairo for 3 years. Lovely people, lovely time. However let us face it, neither Pakistanis nor Egyptians would like to be compared to India because a) belief in their racial superiority (Egyptians"we are white") (Pakistanis -they are darker than us). B. the news about India;s growth has not trickled into these countries, with a very repressed media. Once we take this away, it boils down to the question: will the Egyptian revolutions end up in dictatorship and religious fundamentalism like Pakistan or will it strive towards democracy for the next 100 years and so on...Remember the democratic movement in the UK started 600 years ago. And by the way, the poverty and lack of opportunity I have seen in Egypt was worse than India, because there was practically no mobility. The districts were no go zones. Cairo was a show case as were the tourist areas, other than that, people are trapped economically.
Beating your children isn't to manipulate them into becoming little slaves, it's to punish them for going against society's expected behaviour (which one might argue is its own form of slavery).

Can you back up your claim that beatings produce poor outcomes for children in "highly educated societies?" Or that 'less educated societies" are inferior because they don't have qualms about spanking their kids when they misbehave?
WWII pigeon message cracked
I had a chance to speak to one of the lead developers at Palantir a couple years back, and asked him about this apparent conflict of political ideals.

His answer: by enabling agencies to properly apply the data they already have, Palantir's products reduce the pressure to further erode civil liberties in the pursuit of more data.
"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them" - Jobs
I agree whole heartedly with this statement. To all "domain investors": Please tell me how you add value to the human race by investing in domains?
Nothing about genetic engineering of humans? I guess that's too unsettling? It seems that there are certain futures that are possible and interesting but people refuse to talk about because they bring up too many disturbing implications.
CFP for the Python room at FOSDEM 2013
Yes- point taken. Also here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/world/asia/14china.html
And the reason it's not big enough is because they don't want to invest in it. They found out search is not as monetizable as they thought it would be, and at the same time they cannot take away the functionality. The compromise is to keep what they have.
Life of FY
Nature published an informal survey several years ago on amphetamine use among its readership. Perhaps you'll find it interesting:

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080409/full/452674a.html
Text Editor (Vim) for everything (HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, Python, bash, txt, markdown…) except for AS3 for which I use FlashBuilder/Eclipse.

Before switching to Vim a little more than 2 years ago, I had been using TextMate for about 3 years, before that I used BBEdit for a while and before that I learned the basics in Dreamweaver 3.

Neither Dreamweaver nor BBEdit were really "chosen". A friend advised me to start with Dreamweaver which was indeed very helpful and confortable when I began coding in the late 90's but after a while, I got fedup of the constant spoonfeeding and I didn't really need all the wysiwyg tools anymore so I switched to BBEdit which was the de facto text editor on Mac OS at the time.

I still used BBEdit and/or TextWrangler until I fell in love with TextMate sometime between 06 and 07 and, later, the command line.

Then I got bored and decided to switch to Linux full time. I spent almost a year looking for a TextMate alternative and found Vim to be the best candidate. And ultimately blow TextMate in every ways. To be honest, I'd have gone with ST2 if it existed at that time, though.

Give me a real keyboard, an UNIX-y system, a terminal emulator, exuberant ctags and Vim and I'm a happy man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-re... got updated.
It was a reference to Bingo Card Creator, patio11's company.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on paper is great, but it does not work with everyone, you have to "blend into it" and apply the advices. Sometimes, it's easier said than done.

As many already said, OP needs professional help, from his/her therapist or his/her GP...
An idea without a market is largely useless (from an income generating perspective at least). But as a single founder currently slugging through the mountain of work needed to get something off the ground, I know I couldn't do it if my heart wasn't in it and I had no passion for what I'm working on other than plugging a hole in a randomly identified market.

Despite having an entrepreneurial streak and coming from an entrepreneurial family, I was 29 before I finally decided to quit my job and pursue the idea I'm now working on. A big reason it took so long was because I was only willing to risk everything on an idea that I believed in AND had a demonstrated market. Having one or the other wasn't enough.

It isn't all roses though. Even if you think you've got a good idea and a valid market for it, it's still all for nothing if you can't get in front of and retain a critical mass of customers. That's the piece of the puzzle I'll shortly be faced with and I'm not relishing it.
I agree that software will soon be able to efficiently interpret between two languages. I take issue with the article stating that "people will be fluent in every language". Having access to an interpreter (software or human) does not make one fluent in a language. Actually being fluent provides a much greater depth of understanding than an interpreter can ever approach. An English-speaking businessman who lives in Japan and relies on an interpreter will not be as efficient at his job as one who becomes fluent in Japanese, due to the enormous subtleties and cultural complexities of language.
> As Searle showed with the Chinese Room, behavioral equivalence is not enough.

The Chinese Room experiment doesn't show only that. It also shows how important is the inter-relationship that exists between the component parts of a system.

We're reducing the Chinese Room to the Chinese and the objects they are using such as a lookup table. But what we're missing is the complex pattern between the answers, the structure and mutual integration that exists in their web of relations.

If we could reduce a system to its parts our brains would be just a bag of neurons, not a complex network. We'd get to the conclusion that brains can't possibly have consciousness on account that there is no "consciousness neuron" to be found in there. But consciousness emerges from the inter-relations of neurons and the Chinese Room can understand Chinese on account of its complex inner structure which models the complexity of the language itself.
And this is why it tugs at me. So for 5 years I grew a company that built an 'internet appliance' for the Small/Medium business market. Even am named on the patent we filed for lights-out / noconsole operation. The goal was to make a server that was dead simple for the end user (they just plugged it into their ISDN or T-1 connection and turned it on). All of the 'hard stuff' was done under the covers and far away. When I left I joined NetApp and spent 5 years making their storage appliances more scalable. The notion of an appliance, in the face of all that programmability, is hard to hold on to but its possible.

Most of the people today who use "computers", "running a computer" doesn't make sense. They turn it on, it works, the load apps, they use them. That is their entire experience. Tablets and smartphones are even more along this route. Few users of 'smartphones' think of them as computers they could open up a shell on, code up some program, compile it and execute it.

So from my history I can imagine this "thing" perhaps it looks like a furnace or a water cooler, its in grey industrial steel, has fins on it, and where a breaker box would have circuit breakers it has a box that holds disk drives, 10, 20 or 30 of them. And the drive boxes have a light that is either red, yellow, or green. "Technicians" can come to your house and swap out all of the units with red lights (or red/yellow) lights periodically like you change the filters on your furnace.

From an application perspective you have a web based email client (gmail like but running on your own appliance), you've got flickr, facebook, twilo, icloud, all those services you have now where the machine is in someone's data center, that machine is in a closet in your house somewhere. These things have uptime measured in years. You buy "service apps" and push them to your "home server" and "poof" you have access to that. It has all your media, it can send it to any device in your house.

From a policy perspective this makes things very clear, this unit is running in your house and is your property. There is no legal theory that allows someone to demand its contents without a warrant. From a media perspective it ties you to your media, there is no ambiguity about licenses or rights. You bought a movie, you can watch that movie. It 'servitizes' things which today are shipped as hardware, smart TV's set top boxes, game consoles, phones, etc.

I feel like this sort of server is certainly possible with today's software, and with a gigabit to your house it will make more sense than having your 'stuff' out there where someone like the FBI can accidentally take it down because there are other services running in the same rack they want.

The only thing missing from this picture at the moment is that folks don't see a value (well most folks) and until these are wide spread, the value proposition is primarily consolidation of your media and better privacy guarantees. That combined with the fact that it is hard to make a really lean hardware start up and that leaves you with slow to no adoption. Weirdly, Oracle could do this with their Sun assets but not sure they would want to.
Technical Mapping, GIS, and Cartography blogs I follow:

http://smathermather.wordpress.com/

http://www.obscureanalytics.com/

http://ogleearth.com/

http://blogs.esri.com/esri/

http://mapbox.com/blog/

http://bigthink.com/blogs/strange-maps
With all of this paranoia, only two paths come to mind

I think it's just that they place zero or negative value on privacy, so any perceived incremental increase in identifying threats justifies any amount of increased surveillance.
Perhaps I ought to talk to some of them. Sounds like there is a niche to fill!
The CSS background: cross-fade() Conundrum
having built stuff (that failed) based on "a good idea" I can not agree more with the post
I never see diet mentioned in articles dealing with mental disorders. Research[1] shows that eating a natural foods ancestral diet free of gluten and casein can reduce symptoms of ADHD and autism. The recent rise in mental disorders seems to be correlated with the rise in diabetes. Could it be all the sugar and processed food we are feeding our children now? Why are we so quick to prescribe drugs with fatal side effects without looking at diet first?

[1] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120229105128.ht...
So, why should a police officer be trusted with a gun any more than a private citizen with equivalent firearms training , education, and licensure?

To advocate this, I'd hope you'd also advocate taking guns away from cops, because honestly they're not much different than you and I, with the exception of a sense of authority handed to them by the state which most of them certainly do not deserve. Furthermore, you'd trust a soldier with a gun, but not a civilian? Many civilians are far more likely to be responsible with a gun than a soldier. A lot of our soldiers are 18 year old kids who join the army because they think it will be like call of duty. Perhaps they should not have guns either.

Since you're pointing out errors, I'm going to point out yours. Please tell me a time in history where a gun killed someone all by itself -- "Guns do kill people"
When I said "ugly site" in my original comment, I meant from the perspective of a person leaving vitriol on the thread here. So, ugly to them, not to me. I realize now on second read that probably isn't clear, but I have to let it stand. Forgive the seemingly-direct attack.

I think your site is visually striking, but it's a wee bit busy for me. That's all.
It's crowdsourced, so you shouldn't comply about the site, but its audience.

Anyway, I agree that if my C# code compiles, it does probably work. Just like Java, C# makes it hard to shoot yourself on the foot (and also to shoot at all, like somebody already said here).
See the quote from AAP I posted elsewhere. Corporal punishment has been shown to be less effective than alternatives, and probably harmful to children.

Corporal punishment is more common in less affluent/educated societies than it is in wealthy/well-educated ones. This is common knowledge. I never said anything about inferiority. It's not about judging anyone, it's about contradicting bad advice.
If you have an elaborate VM management system already set up that you can use on all production and development machines - by any means, use it.

If not, Vagrant provides you with the following in development mode:

* A way to package virtual machines and shift them between machines, probably with different OSes. At our company "could you pack that up and send it" is the new "can you show me this error on my machine"?

* An easy way to track machine configurations in your version control system.

* It has integration into all major provisioning tools, so you can possibly reuse your production environments scripts.

* It cares to configure a lot of details, e.g. forwarding the ssh agent so that not every developer has to care for that.

* A plugin API to build additions independent from the underlying virtualizer (only VirtualBox at the moment, but more in the future), e.g. https://github.com/BerlinVagrant/vagrant-dns (but in that case, sadly not independent of the host os)[1]

And all that, without home-baking.

[1]: Shameless plug: I need help for Linux and Windows
Yes. Intelligence and law enforcement had all the information they needed to stop the hijackers, but were unable to properly correlate it. Since then we've added a flood of low-quality data via mass surveillance which probably makes their jobs even harder by vastly increasing the number of false positives.
http://mrale.ph/blog/2012/12/15/microbenchmarks-fairy-tale.h...

Slava always has great live presentations and has a great blog.
Yes, I can imagine a high schooler running a server that not only maintains their facebook profile but provides a chat room and runs a home grown mmo ... what I can't imagine is their grandmother running a server. She needs/wants something that is easily farmed out to minimally trained technicians.
File copy tool argument handling
It's absurd that the State of California has any say in this private matter in the first place. This inquiry was not even based on an antitrust issue (which California has no right to contest anyways on a state level). This is simply the state government sticking its nose where it doesn't belong.
> I can't fathom building a company for a market that might be lucrative, but is meaningless to me. I'd rather build 10 failed companies than create a profitable CRM for telemarketers.

That's a luxury not many people have. Many can't afford 10 failures on top of a family to feed or other debt and obligations.
Another shameless plug: http://izbicki.me

I have both technical AI type posts and also a bit of religion.
Removals West Ealing W13
Your comment was the direct inspiration for mine and I hated everything about it. It wasn't good enough for you to share your opinion as a designer, you had to attack the author personally because she had the gall to design a bit even though she wasn't a bloody designer. Really attacking the messenger. Half of me suspected you and others reacted as you did because she's a woman, to be quite honest, even though I know that's probably untrue; that just tells you how much I loathed your comment.

Suffice to say, this thread is reflecting pretty badly on you as a person and you should reconsider your attitude.
Can I get a Forrst invite? 
I only need three votes. I can't get a Dribbble invite and I'm trying to get a Forrst invite since getting into Forrst seems much easier than getting into Dribbble.

http://forrst.com/i/mvzz
RIM and Netflix dropped from NASDAQ-100
Moves the problem in such a way that if you stop trusting Dropbox you can easily move your photos to another location without any disruption of the service.
India has ~0.83 billion Hindus (~1.2 billion total population), the rest of the ~0.4 billion people are Muslims, Christians, Jains, Parsis, etc. As such we have always had people of different faiths (not just Islam) in various positions of power and responsibility. I don't see (from the article) what democracy in India has anything to us electing a person of Hindu/Muslim/any other religion faith into a position of power.
Very cool. Where's the data come from?
> "There is no solution to the problem"

Sure there is - it's just that the solution isn't very palatable to people who support the first amendment. You make hate speech illegal. If, for example, the Westboro Baptist Church were to visit the UK and picket a funeral with the same language as they do in the US they'd quickly be arrested (although it's all hypothetical, because church members are already banned from entering the UK for extremism).
New Names for Statistical Methods
We're keenly aware of the UI issues and have been addressing them in the upcoming release which is about 4 weeks out. Hopefully it'll be much more useful once we release it.
Think of it this way: you (presumably) answered a series of questions about your behavior, and then, based on the answers to those questions, you got back a result which describes your behavior.

That doesn't invalidate whatever value you derive from it -- having your behaviors read back to you can be just as valuable as asking a trusted friend about their opinion of you -- but you do have to be careful not to allow yourself to be constrained to a particular type.

I accidentally cured myself of this around 10 years ago when I first discovered the MBTI by immediately joining the INTJ-Open mailing list. The only not-regrettable outcome of that, for me, was that I learned that self-identifying as "INTJ" was a stupid thing to do.
I know 0 Windows Mobile 8 users...this is including other developers who own multiple phones for testing.
Would this be possible with OpenCL, too?
http://www.eurekalert.org