skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this include the new wire format?
That was talked about here: http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-wire-protocol-call-f...

I'm itching to write a toy client in clojure.
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Have you worked with Tibco or MQ Series? I have; when you do security assessments of trading systems, you end up spending a day or two building client libraries for these message systems.

They're horrible.

I do not doubt that projects like NSQ will have a hard time securing adoption in Tibco shops, because Tibco is a sort of guaranteed-employment scheme for its administrators. But the developers that work with these things tend to hate them (Tibco in particular tends never to work except in its one delicate production configuration, and projects routinely flatline because the bus goes down in the dev environment).

One thing I see a lot of in enterprise dev shops is that there tends to be a huge investment in a particular stack (J2EE, JMS, MQ, Struts, &c) and then once every other year a skunkworks project happens with some new system that deliberately uses a different stack. Last year, I saw a lot of Websockets and JMS. This year, maybe it'll be decent message queues.
Low? Anything above $0 is high because it is forced. No one has the moral right to forcibly take from the life of one person to give to another, no matter how great the need of that other person may happen to be. Every person has the moral right to live for his own sake, as far as he can go through voluntary trade with others.

A government based on individual rights is small enough (i.e., just police, military, courts) that it can be funded through voluntary donations.
3 hours after ordering:

* PayPal has debited my account, but no order confirmation from JetBrains and no license key

* my credit card has been charged as well, I have an order confirmation from JetBrains but no license key

* I have been able to submit a request to sales, but that was when I thought that only the PayPal order had gone through

Robert, in the end I'll tell sales (if and when they get back to me) that IntelliJ IDEA is such a good product that you can keep both payments and give me one upgrade license.
I don't think the author is proposing an "A<-B<-C" system. She is stating that the models are really blameless in the situation when the information provided to the models are wrong. The cause and correlation issue arises there.

Silver assumes that the systems fail because the models are bad. O'Neil is instead claiming those are just correlations and not a cause and effect relationship. Basically the models are bad and the systems failed because the people providing the data were corrupt. Using your example: "A<-C" and "B<-C"
Even so, still not a mix up of cause and effect. Wrong cause in this case.
>Guns are our only defense against the next Trotsky, Stalin, Lennin or Mao once again purging a 100 million of their own people.

Even though I support gun control, I recognize that there are many good reasons that people in opposition of gun control put forward.

This is certainly not one of them.

If the government decided to steam roll your town, you'd have as much hope at defending yourself against them as the citizens of Iraq would. Small arms are not particularly effective against drones and armored vehicles.
Schemaless databases move the integrity checks up into the middleware, which I dare say is a more flexable place to have it. Most ORM libraries have integrity checks so the db checks end up being redundant and more difficult to change. I too have been saved on occasion by such 'redundant' checks, but over all I find its easier to manage the structure of data when its kept in the middleware. Keep the storage layer as simple as possible with a focus on consistency, availability, and partition tolerance (CAP).
No, that link is for 2 mirrors.

What Prof. Hicks made is a single curved mirror. That is new. That is why his results got published and he was awarded a patent for it.

If you had bothered to read the linked article, you'd already understand the distinction.
I thought "farmers of the constitution (who grew up in the heartland)" was a dead giveaway.
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As a software guy, I'm pretty amazed that you can actually build and run your hardware directly in software with that much ease. Pretty incredible - a few more iterations of this kind of tech and I'll be coding hardware with python or something? Shouldn't be too difficult to convert some kind of scripting language into HDLs, so that functions can be turned directly into hardware by anyone?

Sounds like the massive scale software of the future even - possible huge field just waiting to take off when paired with at-home 3d circuit printing technology?

The world just keeps getting better...
No. Sorry to shatter the dream of FTL communication. You cannot achieve it with entangled particles. While it seems like there is some transfer of information going on its much better to think of two entangled photons as a pair of dice which will roll the same number wherever they are. Spooky, yes. Useful for cryptography, certainly. But sadly no FTL communication. At best its FTL transmission of complete noise.

Edit: See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation for more.

Edit 2: If you say that the particles themselve are 'communicating' ftl, then you are perfeclty correct, yes. Unfortunatly one cannot use this behaviour to transmit arbitrary data.
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That is one of the benefits that relates to documentation, which is the part of your comment I was responding too.

The larger goal of hal+json is to establish some conventions for linking that allow the development of generic tools for doing hypermedia. Not to create magical machine clients that can interact with any random API you point them at. Nobody made that argument so I don't know why DHH addressed it in his post. I'm guessing he ran out of things to be an angry-pragmatist about.
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This is most likely correct although that building does have an exceptionally large basement and sub-basement. It originally housed an entire electrical substation and steam generating plant that supplied steam to many nearby buildings.

I suspect this space (which could now be used by generators) and the tunnels and conduits previously used for steam (which could now be used for fibre and other connectivity) are what made the Pittock an ideal location for a carrier hotel.

Relevant: http://vintageportland.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/pittock-bloc...
First image: "We are observing a national moment of silence". I hope you will be targeting this exclusively to people with US-based IP addresses.
You don't need a voting disclaimer to talk about a color scheme, that just wastes words.

What exactly hurts your eyes? Are you fine with light gray on black? I can sort of understand disliking the amount of green, but if it's just because of the black background then you probably having lighting issues in your setup.
No, it is not two mirrors. What Prof. Hicks made is a single mirror. The linked article explicitly says this.
Deactivated my Facebook account this morning and deleted my Twitter account too.

Ironic to see this popup on the front page almost as an affirmation.
When a feature is part of a language , you dont need to look at the source code of the language to understand how to use it

WHy do you have to look at source code? If I tell you that the Underscore library includes a function called "once" that does such-and-such, you can just use "once," correct?

Same with "ellipses." You don't have to look at the source code if you don't want to.

import yet another script to make it work

Ah, this is a deep philosophical question, well worth consideration.

One philosophy is to have a language that does everything and has extensive official libraries. Java went down this road under Sun's stewardship. The other philosophy is to make the language smaller but powerful enough that people could invent their own stuff and let "the marketplace" decide.

JavaScript is mostly going down this road. Things like "let" and "=>" are being added to the language, but at a fairly slow pace because the language does support creating your own idioms to accomplish the same things, so making it part of the syntax waits until there is an overwhelming mass of programmers who are familiar with the idea.
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Natural Language Processing (Dan Jurafsky, Chris Manning) was the one that took up the most time. I felt like to get a perfect score (which I got nowhere near close to) would have easily been 10+ hours per assignment (not to mention actually watching the lectures / quizzes). This may have been in part due to my own lack of background knowledge (up until coursera I was almost entirely self taught). But even Algorithms, Part I (Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne) felt like it took at least twice as long to get through the quizzes + assignments as Odersky's class.
This is a really long and angry way of complaining that Silver assumes good faith on the part of those tasked with creating models and policy.

The underlying issue is my biggest peeve with both the buisness and political world. There is a popular viewpoint spread by many defacto authority figures that one should presume good faith from all groups involved, even though everything I can see tells me the opposite.

Did Silver decide to perpetuate that by being afraid to address the topic of malice in his book or did he fall victim to cultural attitudes himself? Either way this rant is all over the place, it complains about Silver mixing cause and effect while itself attacking a symptom, not the problem.

Edit: This post is written temporarily presupposing that the author is correct in her take on Silver's book, the comment by flatline in this thread hits some good points on why she may be a bit off. It was so long ago that I read the book I don't particularly remember how many inches Silver dedicated to incentives let alone care to debate if that was enough given the goals of his book.
For those interested in learning more about this, including the math behind the mirror's curve, check out Prof. Hicks's website: http://www.math.drexel.edu/~ahicks/
This is longer and more detailed article but it's by Florian Mueller who I know many dislike and/or believe to be biased. Its also too heavy on the "I told you so aspects." although I don't see anything that looks incorrect:

http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/12/european-commission-to-is...
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Thanks, I will dig into those examples!
I don't think the title is her thesis, possibly just link-bait for her usual readership -

This seems to be her thesis:

To be crystal clear: my big complaint about Silver is naivete, and to a lesser extent, authority-worship.
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They're not worded as exceptions. They're worded more like "this is what applies to men; as for the blacks this is what applies."
Hi, I wrote HTML5 Bones and to be fair Simon has a good idea (detailed in the GitHub pull request) in that there should be two versions, a file with all the comments and one without - and so catering for both types of users.

I definitely don't want to remove the comments as they are integral to what I want the "template" to help people do.

Thanks for your comments so far!
We also have developed custom Python tools and frameworks that help us with our API at https://balancedpayments.com/

If there's enough interest, I'd love to share some of our ideas with the Rails community and discuss some potential downfalls and successes we've had and why we needed to build these tools internally.

I'm sure Rails would benefit a lot from these.

Love love love the hypermedia work -- keep it up!
It's a great idea in theory, but in practice this app only targets a very specific demographic of hospital patients: those who own a smartphone and use it regularly, and those who are well enough to be using it in the first place. What about old people or people who are so ill that they're not even conscious?
Your comparison of gun related deaths to natural deaths is completely nonsensical.

How about this, the USA has both one of the highest murder rates, and some of the most relaxed gun laws in the first world. I am 3.5x as likely to get murdered in the USA compared to the UK. Around 66% of murders in the USA involve a firearm compared to 7% in the UK.

I am 33x as likely to be shot to death in the USA compared to the UK.

Don't you think that someone with easy access to a gun is more likely to commit murder in the heat of an argument compared to someone who doesn't?

Do you really believe that easy access to guns is a good thing?

Do you really believe that having access to guns will prevent a dictatorship in the USA? I don't. I think that would ensure a bloody civil war. As someone else on here pointed out recently, non violent mass protest is far more likely to effect change because a striking workforce can cripple an economy rather quickly.
No, this doesn't include the wire protocol updates yet. That's slated for 1.4 -- sorry!
JSON and other non-natively-hyperlinked-media (e.g PNG, MP3, etc) can use the Link header to add hyperlinks. It's HTTP that is hypermedia aware, not the content-type, so you dont have to go out and invent image/png+hal.

TL;DR You dont need to create a new media-type to make JSON hypermedia. All requests are hypermedia by virtue of the fact that it uses HTTP as the transport protocol.
This or provide a tool to strip the comments for them once they're ready to go to production.
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It was a poor choice of name in that it gives no hint as to what the application might actually do.

While on holiday and in need of some internet, a (highly intelligent) friend searched around the local town and could only found a Mac in a hotel lobby. Despite being very motivated she was unable to persuade it to open a browser and eventually gave up and was left wondering how Macs could possibly be described as intuitive or user friendly.
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RSS is one prominent example of an API that many different sites implement.

And it's a media type! With Links!
Yes, I totally get your point. A bit of a double edged sword really!
Tagging fields in json as different types is actually something we've talked about (as you may well know given they you're my coworker). But there's another aspect of it that I think is worth mentioning. Right now RethinkDB has a very limited number of types that it can return, it's limited to JSON types so basically just object, array, strings and numbers. There are several other types that could be encode as these but you're going to wind up needing to do conversions when you insert and extract this values from the database. For example you might wind encoding and RGB value as an array of 3 numbers and your code will wind up looking like:

table.insert({"color" : colorToArray(c)}).run()
arrayToColor(table.get(...).run()["color"])

This obviously is cumbersome. This is the type of problem that an ORM seeks to solve. However ORMs have the big flaw of being limited to a single language and needing to be kept in sync with the database. If you did this in the database layer by having the driver convert the color object to a tagged array then it would know to return it as a color object rather than an array. Other languages could do it too using the same database since they would see the tag and could convert it to a color type in their language.
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What jdoliner said. A few were cosmetic, but I think I experienced some data corruption as well (it was a test dataset). The team was extremely responsive and fixed the bugs in a few hours, and RethinkDB is clearly marked on their website as still an alpha, so I can't blame them.

I'm sure it will be a fantastic product when it matures, and I can't wait for a stable release so I can try it out.
I would think the person that is otherwise responsible for the well being of such a person would be able to set this up and run it for them.
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I downloaded the demo of IntelliJ IDEA with the intention of playing with Android this morning. Setup was a lot more difficult than I expected, in that I had to do a lot of configuration before it would work, but it wouldn't outright error. So, creating a new project before adding the JDK and Android SDK resulted in an empty src and gen directory, but of course, no error. Once I fixed that up and opened an existing Eclipse project, it seemed OK, but not enough to wow me senseless. The GUI editor didn't seem to understand my layouts, so I was presented with the XML layout instead. This bummed me out since I wanted to see their GUI editor.

So far, not that impressed over Eclipse, but we'll see. I'm going to keep monkeying with it for the rest of the day.
Awesome. Please let me know, and post to the list if you have questions.

By the way, my student loan creditors thank you. :)

(I'm planning on a major new iteration of the book project in the new year that's much more linear, clear, and practice driven rather than theory.)
Design and privacy issues aside, how they're forcing businesses to pay to talk to their opted-in customers isn't core to the product?
A striking work force isn't going to work when you are easily thrown into forced labor camps because you have been neutered in your ability to defend yourself.
I'm the CTO @ https://balancedpayments.com.

This is exactly the case. We asked our customers to store the URIs in their databases and we ended up changing core resource locations and migrating older clients by just issuing 301s.

The extent was that we restructured entire URLs, changed endpoints. Hypermedia is baked into our clients from the start and they make API versioning and updates trivial.

We were able to quickly move customers to different endpoints and easily restructure our API without having to worry about backward compatibility.

Hypermedia APIs are a godsend. There's still lots of work to do and I'm happy to contribute to adoption.
The federal government would not have unlimited power without the 9th and 10th amendments--the rest of the Constitution explicitly limits it to the enumerated powers and those necessary and proper to carry out the enumerated powers. Which is precisely what makes the 10th amendment a tautology--it doesn't disallow any federal action that isn't otherwise disallowed.
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Better filtering than facebook.
I agree.

Also, I'll address the accusation that Nate is confusing cause and effect.

Nate's assertion is A<-B
If he had confused cause and effect than that corrected form would be B<-A, or, that the financial crisis caused bad models.

So the Author's mistake is that (A<-C AND B<-C) != (B<-A), or, that her attack on Nate is inconsistent with what she believes is the correct logic.
Oh, thank god...
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No, the "market" does not set the "rate" for "top quality fonts" at "$0". When people take commercial services without paying for them, that's not a market function. All the work that goes into trying to make people not honor contracts is deadweight loss.

As you know, the "thing you refer to as the market but isn't" also doesn't set the rate for top quality fonts at $0. By all means, pirate fonts for your meaningless project that nobody will ever see or give a shit about. But if that project ever goes anywhere, it's pretty hard to hide the fact that you stole FF Meta or H+FJ Vitesse or Chaparral. You'll just get sued, and you'll lose. Fonts are not like music. People steal music for private enjoyment and primarily get caught when they redistribute their stolen tracks. That's not what happens with fonts.
I don't see how you can compare extremely theatrical deaths caused by malice to more prosaic deaths caused by negligence or medical problems. It's not as if people are just as dead regardless of how they died.

Plus, killing sprees are responsible for practically two dozen deaths per year. I'm sure it's easier to prevent them than it is to avert two dozen people from taking up smoking or to get them to wear seatbelts.

Some deaths are simply more upsetting than others, and your data really put a damper on our contest to see who can be saddest about this.
"Heart disease kills 28 innocent people in the USA every 25 minutes! Cancer kills another 28 innocent people in that time! More innocent people die from car crashes every minute than die from guns. Does a mad gunman kill 28 people every 25 minutes? I haven't even heard of any more such shooting this week, nevermind every 25 minutes since the Sandy Hook incident."

Sorry, but this tactic is nonsensical.

Ignoring the homicide versus natural death, intentional versus accidental schism (as if theft doesn't matter if you can point to accidental loss), we do talk about heart disease, cancer, and traffic accidents. Constantly.

Every year cars introduce more and more controls to try to improve safety on a device that offers incredible utility and value to society. There are hundreds of thousands of officers out there trying to ensure roadway safety. There are ads and new legislation constantly.

We legislate foods constantly, have billions spent to combat the other menaces. Chemicals and our environment have incredible and onerous controls to prevent cancer and other human ailments.

Why are we talking about guns? Geez, if we talked about it 1/100th as much as the other issues, maybe something would get done.
In theory, doesn't the new interpretation effectively reduce (if not remove) the third branch? Without trials, where is judicial authority?
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The easiest way to understand this is that even if the models were accurate, the financial crisis would still have occurred. So blaming the models would be confusing cause and effect regardless of whether you think the models were wrong intentionally or unintentionally.

That said, I didn't read the book so I have nothing to say about whether or not Nate Silver actually does this.
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i started the mac for the first time and then what ?
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But it's not.

She states:

>Rather, the entire industry crucially depended on the false models. Indeed they changed the data to conform with the models, which is to say it was an intentional combination of using flawed models and using irrelevant historical data (see points 64-69 here for more).

So C(corruption) directly leads to B(bad model). She does not argue that A(everything falling apart)<-C anywhere in the piece. Silver is claiming that A<-B. He is not commenting about C. So while Silver's claim may not identify the absolute root cause, the author does not actually prove that his cause and effect analysis is flawed. If anything, she has shown that it may be incomplete.