skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks.

> And the general expectation of some space time foam model is, that a,b should be roughly 1.

OK. Any idea how generic this expectation really is?

> compared to a rather short duration of the event ( ~ days).

What's this timescale have to do with it? They must be assuming they can identify photons emitted at the same time since they're measuring the arrival time difference in milliseconds.
This is lovely - thanks a lot!

I listen to a lot of foreign music and have had a hard time populating my zmusic database. There's a work-around (decode the relevant strings to Unicode) that seems to have worked but I have to leave for work before I'll be able to test this fully. I've never submitted a patch before and hope to use this as an opportunity to learn how to make one.

I have a basic question, however: why did you decide to use tab characters in your python? Most libs whose code I've read use spaces but I've never seen an argument for one convention or the other.
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That newspaper must have something really good in it...
Hmm, on your last point, assuming the serial computation is done by calculating brain state for each time slice, would this end up being functionally equivalent (if slower) than the parallel brain process? Since from the "brain's" perspective, everything is getting updated in parallel?
I am using IE8 just in case you wanted to know.
I meant Einstein. Haven't had my coffee yet >_<
Not the lower "Darwin" layers of iOS, they've never released that.
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of course bootstrap et al are the first place to go, but i was referring to one step further in design. Like custom look and feel, some marketing material, nice typography, infographics, nice app UI/UX design (visuals, effects etc)...

I know good stuff when i see them, but don't know how i can create them. The real problem is i cannot figure out my way to gradually improve my skillset and get there. :( That is actually my problem and the reason why i asked the question in the first place.

But thanks for the answer anyway... Cheers!
How to start tech business with small idea?
Hello, I am one individual seeking advice on starting business or project I have in mind. I do not want to start spoiling the detail about ideas that I have anywhere but I would like to start building physical product. I thought about starting kickstart project but shortly realized that I need some sort of working product before I start kick-starter. Since I need to build both hardware and software from the scratch it will take so long to do it all on my own. But I do not have any resources to start hiring people either. Just in case if you are wondering what idea I have in mind its about new computer interface that uses motion tracking sensor and 'dynamic pointer' . Order to do this I need tons of resources just to come up with sort of working prototype. I need some advices to startup my ideas. AskReddit where should I start?

Edit: yes I have seen many peripherals that tracks motions that connects to computer or some other devices but couldn't find anything that carries far as creating its own OS. If you know any project like such can you please replay with the link?
Best of luck!

Side comment on: Raffle Creator -- while I love the idea I question the legality of it. While looking into doing various contest/raffle apps myself I was always stonewalled with legal issues. IANAL but I believe anytime you cross money with pure luck it is considered gambling and must be regulated.
Say you're doing a pentest, and your target has an IDS/IPS to both prevent infiltration and exfiltration of data. And while you discover a system that is vulnerable, the payload that you want to deploy to this vulnerable system would normally trigger an alert by an IDS. With some of the tools in MSF and BackTrack, you can use an encoding process to obfuscate the payload enough to get past the IDS/IPS.

Now a blackhat would be able to do this without BT or Metasploit. The tools are out there, and well known. So the fact that these tools are in BT and Metasploit doesn't change that. But it does make it easier for a pentester to prove a system is vulnerable, and to help a company address their vulnerabilities through remediation.
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I know where you're coming from and i don't cast any aspersions on the activity - some ebook implementations just suck and you're infinitely better with the pirate version even if you've already paid for the "real" version.

Wanted to mention O'Reilly though - for $5 and a note of the ISBN number off the back of your book you get the ebook in whatever format you desire, can re-download it as many times as you want in whatever formats, and it'll automatically sync to dropbox.

I've been stocking up on them - it does work really well. I get to carry about all my books (well, not quite), with notes and highlights and i only need to keep physical copies of the books i refer to most often. It's been a bit of a revelation for me.
So, it is foamy, but not as foamy as other people thought (the idea of virtual particles having no gravitational contribution sits uncomfortably in my mind).
That quote isn't sexist. However asking "Your name please Sir..." for the beta list sign up is.
I'm not sure why anyone thought getting a bunch of Fortune 500 technology companies invested in the status quo of health care spending would lead to reduced costs.
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The SE sites have a strict rule - only questions of a certain type are allowed.

That's a good rule. It means SE can focus on that thing. But it's a great shame that the huge knowledge of the SE sites is locked in that format.

There's quite a lot of heat generated around the fuzzy borders of acceptable and unacceptable borders, and having a question closed or deleted doesn't feel good.

Meta is death. I kind of agree, yet SE does have active meta. SE also has chat stuff.

So, would it really kill them to have "freeform SE question site"? It could be a paid feature (although recommending people buy a sub to post a question would cause all kinds of furore).

Thus, you'd have:

http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/

http://meta.gamedev.stackexchange.com/

*http://freeform.gamedev.stackexchange.com/

It would still have strict rules, and mods, and etc. But it would allow more open form discussion. They might need to have a different structure to allow threading and better replies?
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so do you have any itenerary planned for your time in NYC?
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False. My assertion was that Larry will be looking at this data based on him providing flu shots. I then posited that there is a connection between this page and Larry's flu shot charity -- not that one caused the other, but implied that within Google there was a discussion on the relationship between Larry's activity and this page.

In addition, the comment was intended to draw attention to Larry's assertion that flu shots can reduce flu severity in a region...and then provoke readers to investigate whether they find that to be the case. I came to no conclusions about the Bay Area's severity being particularly worse or better than other regions and assumed others may have commentary.
6.3 and 6.4 read funny one after the other: put references to the paper in the comments, but change all the notation from the paper.
"Sorry folks, computers are neither abstract nor stateless."

It's true. But you know what computers are first and foremost? They're deterministic.

And you know what's one the biggest problem programmers do face in the Real-World [TM] when the shit hits the fan (and most devs' jobs is to fix shit that just hit the fan)? It's being able to recreate the state and to then be able to deterministically reproduce the shit that did hit the fan. As to prevent it from hitting the fan again.

Why do we seen market makers using 90 Ocaml programmers and raving about it?

Why do we see investment banks moving from Java to Clojure and slashing their codebase by doing so by a factor of ten? And then explaining how easier their life became in the face of changing requirements (eg new laws/regulations coming in)?

Do you really think that a codebase ten times smaller is "harder to read"? Do you really think that making it easier to reproduce the state is not a goal worthy to achieve?

I realize you feel insecure in your Java/C# + ORM + XML + SQL hell but don't worry: there's always going to be lots of real-world jobs for code monkeys like you ; )
Oh that's why they rarely fire employees, it's just too hard to update the team's page.
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Not a single person in that video/photo thing is over 18 years of age.
An entire year is not what I would call agile.
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How do we know video games aren't partly to blame? To me it seems unlikely they are to blame, but I have no proof. I don't play or create games so I don't have any direct stake in this discussion.

Most arguments I hear from gamers use plausible, and even persuasive, theories on why games wouldn't contribute to mass shootings, but I don't recall hearing any empirical evidence backing them up. And the older I get, the more I find that plausible theories and reality don't match up often enough to be fully convinced.
Great! I think you nailed it. Function reactive programming was being developed in my head somehow. I really really appreciate your comment. Thanks!
Thanks a lot. trying to pull up a copy now to test.
>If you are in the U.S., beware of software patents. Some papers are patented and you could get into trouble for using them in commercial applications.

Is it only commercial applications that you have to worry about? I was under the impression that even a free implementation would be infringing the patent and make you liable for damages.
This should be the default for all code and data produced by publicly funded research.
Do they really need the giant copyright on all of the maps?
Recreate Mondriaan's Victory Boogie Woogie in an elegant algorithm
Small price really and he probably reads them, unless a lot of people pony up that $100. He's the founder /CEO or the world's most used site and worth north of $20 Billion...
No, LEGO Mindstorms is not a replacement for an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi, but...
Honestly, I can't help but hate you when your first thought with "privacy issues" is illegal downloads. Even if you thought that was the main reason for 'net privacy, why would you say it?

You're not doing anyone any favors.
Here's a great story from Cabel at Panic about how Apple approached them to purchase Panic so they could turn Audion into iTunes. Instead, they went with SoundJam:

http://panic.com/extras/audionstory/
It looks like we're going to spending most of time in-depth with Quirky and Fab if everything well, but we're looking for one more company to visit as well.
Isn't this supposed to be fun?
Regarding the front end, it's exactly what I'm doing right now. I receive the data, do some processing, pack it into json format and wire that using WebSockets to the client. It works really well.
If you want to work in an environment where a lot of people are thinking like this routinely, instead of a few lone voices in a vast sea of otherwise uninterested people, the Haskell community is doing a lot of work in this area, and able to move much faster since it's so much easier in Haskell than C++ templates (which isn't really a criticism of C++ templates, a lot of their capabilities are accidental rather than intended). This is why the Haskell community talks so much about monoids and applicatives and semigroups and a variety of other interesting structures in that area (and no, I did not forget to say monad, that structure is actually uninteresting here because it is too powerful). I believe the Fortress language is also doing some work here.

A sample of the interesting sort of algorithm work that you can do when you think this way: http://apfelmus.nfshost.com/articles/monoid-fingertree.html

Edit: See also the Typeclassopedia: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Typeclassopedia And if you're really interested and want to take it hardcore, Edward Kmett's video on his lens library walks through how you can derive it with this sort of logic: http://youtu.be/cefnmjtAolY?hd=1
Not so important for it's age, but for what it tells us about when both first and second generation stars likely formed. Which helps in determining how well current models hold up.
That's great... When I did my MSc (my thesis was on reducing error rates in OCR), of the dozens of computer science papers I surveyed, there were perhaps 2-3 where I didn't have to do extensive "reverse engineering" of the results of the papers to figure out a whole lot of unstated assumptions when I wanted to test their algorithms. It was a tremendous waste of time...

Especially when pretty much all of these papers described results that meant the authors had already implemented their algorithms in executable form. But almost none of them made the code available in any form whatsoever.
The average would be unchanged, but the whole point of their measurement is to measure the resulting statistical broadening of the event.

That is, if the burst lasted 1 second (I made this number up!), you'd expect all photons to arrive within 1 second of each other. But if space-time foam had a strong effect, you would expect the same average time, but you might expect the spread of the data to be larger: maybe 5 seconds (also made up). (Essentially, randomness like this would be expected to increase the standard deviation of the arrival times.)

So by measuring the spread of the photon arrival times, you can put an upper bound on how big the space-time foam effects can be: the actual spread is (very roughly) the sum of the actual length of the event plus the spreading due to space-time foam. These folks are claiming that for certain models of space-time foam, the photons they observed arrived too close together to be consistent with the existence of that foam at the expected scale (assuming it's not a statistical fluke).
Contest: recreate Mondrian painting in code, win exposition in museum
It's not (yet). Typical 'Big Gov' solution. Extra dumb are websites that force you to accept the cookies each and every time you visit them. Oh yeah, even the government's own sites are not all up to date.
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That's fine if it's a ToDo list app. But if your app integrates with other services applications... it needs those running as well.

The more services/external dependencies you cram into single commands... the more maintenance (of that cramming) is required.
If you're consuming even one third-party XML API using multi_xml, that means you're open to RCE if that API provider is malicious or itself compromised, as well as man in the middle attacks if you're not consuming the API via SSL.

Harder to exploit, perhaps, but given the large number of Rails apps that themselves are likely to be unpatched right now, pivoting to RCE on every customer of a SaaS provider seems like a very viable attack vector. Strongly recommend that everybody look at this seriously.
It's interesting to note how Matlab is still so fast to prototype stuff in. I've done it myself countless times.

Data generation, input, manipulation, output and result checking are all very good.

Maybe things like Go can change that, or then some optionally typed language. There is no fundamental reason not to get massive improvements.
Imagine the cool data you could visualize if you had access to this kind of info from Facebook. You trace who had the flu before you and who had it before them, all the way back to patient zero.

Obviously this would be a tremendous privacy violation, so they would never do it, but it would still be interesting.
And that's exactly why is not that easy to get in touch with banks and brokers too.

"Financials" sucks and they hide every inner workings...
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> I'll just put in the money and experience

What experience?, I don't know who this guy is!.
I was going to say, presuming that they guarantee delivery $100 would be cheap to get an audience for a pitch of one form or another. Still, I suspect his Facebook account is at least monitored (if not primarily run by) his admin - which might blunt the utility.
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Been doing something similar for Clojure:

https://github.com/nathell/lithium

http://blog.danieljanus.pl/blog/2012/05/14/lithium/
This isn't quite accurate. There are brokerages such as Interactive Brokers that provide an API so that you can write automated trading systems. And automated trading isn't limited to just high frequency trading. It's true that most banks have the simple features he mentions in the post but as soon as you want to get a bit more complex what the bank offers just isn't going to cut it.
"CookiesOK searches for the accept buttons and triggers the click event" So what happens when someone injects something other than just the cookie code? My browser will auto-accept that as well?
For faster updates in the future, you may want to use this in your Gemfile for the coming weeks:

gem "rails", "~> 3.2.11"

See http://gembundler.com/v1.2/gemfile.html for the meaning of ~>.

Also, I think that "having a good test coverage" is quickly becoming more interesting that plainly "avoiding breaking stuff" or "adding new features faster": it's also being able to quickly answer to security threats, either via official gem updates and despite regressions (https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/8832), or via quick work-arounds.
Not as small as Steve Jobs. He was worth more, had more people on his ass, and emails to him were 100% free.
"Idempotent means that the function can be composed multiple times with no effect."

Close, but not quite. The first application may have an effect. The second application and so on may not.

For example, the HTTP spec defines GET as idempotent. An initial GET request for a URI may have a side-effect, but, per the spec, subsequent requests return the same content and have no further side-effects.

Edit - reading the GP, I want to clarify that an immutable function in PostgreSQL is idempotent, since the N+1 applications have no side effect and return the same result as the 1st. Also, the 1st has no side effect.
People who can dress somewhat competently and/or wear the current fashion are hipsters? You are making no sense. All I see are a bunch of normally dressed people. Nothing special.
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I don't know much about it.

What's its niche? C's major win is the ability to explicitly manage (and, thereby, reason about) memory. Garbage collection is great but I tend to associate it with high-level languages like Python, Haskell and Clojure.

I'm sure there is a niche for GC'd mid-level languages (e.g. Go) but I'm not yet experienced with them enough to know what it is.
I'm working on doing something similar now. I've been accepted to App Academy (www.appacademy.io) for their May 13, 2013 class, so I'll be learning everything you talked about and more!
Yes, although I don't think this is just a question of open access. It's a question of research verification - and expected of all published research.
Firearms, not entertainment, lead to mass shootings, and yet gamers have irrevocably become implicated in the conversation over violence in America.

Ha.
I've seen data at some point that other countries such as Canada and European countries have lower gun violence rates than in the US. These countries have similar video games, movies, and other media. It's not really enough to make any strong claims, but does seem to point to video games and other media not being the main issue.
The site is down now, so I haven't seen the article— but I hope it just says "(1) give up and beg the author for their implementation, which undoubtedly contains 2 megabytes of opaque unmentioned magic constants."
I agree completely, but as the resident Dijkstra-head I am compelled to furnish the following quote:

"In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included." -- EWD 498 ("How do we tell truths that might hurt?")
What is failure for you?
Along those lines you couldn't possible dismiss the wild theory that it was actually toast or breakfast cereal that made them do it.
Don’t do a start up. Be an intern.
Why don't they just pay for you to intern there? Sounds like a fantastic opportunity for both sides.
Now this would be great if I could turn this on for my inbox and set the price.
What has the author exactly achieved compared to, say, pg or Rich Hickey?

Here's an answer from Rich Hickey about the type of person such as the author of TFA:

Q: What would you say to people who claim that Clojure is not a “real Lisp”?

Hickey: Life is too short to spend time on such people. Plenty of Lisp experts have recognized Clojure as a Lisp. I don’t expect everyone to prefer Clojure over their favorite Lisp.

We understand you, author. You love your CL and you think it's the one true Lisp dialect. Good. We have no time to waste with you ; )
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Not funny at all. Referencing your own work, by itself, is not a bad sign. In many cases, the groundbreaking work take several years to accomplish. The years of work generate several new ideas on their own, resulting in several related papers.
>> And the general expectation of some space time foam model is, that a,b should be roughly 1.

> OK. Any idea how generic this expectation really is?

I can't comment on this case specifically, but the entire notion of the "Planck energy" is based on that idea: that once you've found the combination of fundamental constants with the right units, the numerical coefficient that multiplies it will wind up being within one or two orders of magnitude of 1. By some miracle, the vast majority of systems in physics seem to match such expectations.
The "darwin layer" in iOS is fairly inexistant. When have you started a shell on a non-jailbroken iPhone? ;)
The Reproducible Research movement and the like have been trying to gain ground in many different areas since at least 2009 [1].

Too bad its adoption hasn't grown faster. Especially with all the recent focus on "big data", applied machine learning, and computational science papers. It's hard to actually measure the quality and contributions of most of them.

Not having an accepted method to cite and share datasets is also part of the problem.

1- http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/cs/2009/01/mcs2009010005.p... [PDF]
And what's wrong with that? That only makes it easier to spot the errors in their research.
Rules are in Dutch, so I did a quick translation of the most important parts

Generate Mondriaan's Victory Boogie Woogie in code

Everyone who can make squares appear on a screen can join until March 7th 2013

Submit your code to elegant@setup.nl

Rules

* Any programming language can be used
* Please do try to document your code as good as possible and add a little description how it works, as the judges will not speak all programming languages
* Please add a little manual on how to run your program on the judges' machine
* Code will remain secret until the deadline of March 7th 2013
* After the deadline all code will be published on Github, licensed under MIT license and with proper attribution to the author
* Your submission must consist of the following:
* Sourcecode
* Output of your program (image)
* Short description of the algorithm used
* Contact details
And you get 70%.
This is what I (with co-authors) argued for in Nature last year: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/02/case-for-open-computer-programs....