skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ben Goldacre's recent book "Bad Pharma" is all about how easy it is for pharmaceutical research to go astray (and/or be led astray). I would recommend it for anyone interested in the details of this thorny subject.
I don't think that's true at all. It will certainly disproportionately benefit companies that smooth out the kinks before their competitors do, and that will be eliminated with industry wide adoption.

But take the inverse; if every transaction in the world were made more difficult (eg, by removing credit cards and bank transfers, leaving cash and mailed cheques), do you believe that wouldn't shrink the economy?

Worldwide adoption of best practices certainly wouldn't suddenly increase the worldwide GDP 20%, but the rising tide of demand due to reduced transaction friction would lift all boats, so to speak.
"Yes, Ms. Ortiz, you obviously can “only imagine.” Because if you felt it, as obviously as Reif did, it would move you first to listen, and then to think. You’re so keen to prove that you understand this case better than your press releases about Aaron’s “crime” (those issued when Aaron still drew breath) made it seem (“the prosecutors recognized that there was no evidence against Mr. Swartz indicating that he committed his acts for personal financial gain”). But if your prosecutors recognized this, then this is the question to answer:

Why was he being charged with 13 felonies?"

Swartz was being charged for what he did, not for why he did it. Crimes do not, as a rule, become "better" or "worse" based on why someone does them. I'll buy that this was a misguided attempt at civil disobedience, but the point of civil disobedience is to pay the price: that's where the protest truly begins, not when you do the deed.
As many advocates of functional programming point out, in many cases the speed of development is more valuable than the running time of the code. The great strength of Haskell and other FPs is their readability and modularity. Trying to win people over with benchmarks is the wrong approach IMO.
I highly doubt if Boeing would be interested, considering Elon and his band of engineers at Space X are competitors to Boeing's rocket business. It is amazing to see how both Boeing and Elon are pushing the envelope on the development of battery technology.
My parents made maybe 40K and we lived in the Bronx in a comfortable neighborhood when I was in high school. It took me about ~45 minutes to get to school on the subway and I saw plenty of executive-looking people on the train.
I wouldn't expect the majority of those likes to be people who like your type of game, out of 200,000 how many like sudoku? Of of that smaller number how many would want to play it on their phone? Who don't already have an app they like with historical data/saves already?

From 200k your potential target audience drops rapidly I would imagine.

Instead of being featured on device pages you should try and get featured on actual sukoku or puzzle pages where a greater percentage of likes are from people who are more likey to be interested in your product.
The article isn't even accusing Apple. Why do you feel the need to defend them?

I think this really can be a potential privacy issue. "Your computer having your files on it" is quite different:

a) You know that your files are on your computer

b) You know how to delete one of them in case you need to hide them from someone
Definitely. At work today we were watching a video on Machine Learning by Andrew Ng and he made a number of references to LeCun's involvement the field, and listed him in the acknowledgements section of his talk. It has encouraged me to look into more of his areas of work.

I signed up for Andrew's ML course (https://class.coursera.org/ml/lecture/preview , start date is not announced yet). Really looking forward to it.
That was my thought. "can't replicate it" is an excuse rather than an apology, "fuck you" is still uncalled for, but making a blog post doesn't fix anything for anyone and just looks like whining.

It might have looked better a few months later as a humorous addition to a "things people have said to our customer support" list
Prepare for a potential avalanche of bad press. Do the following:

1. Realize that a great product has never been enough! How you treat people is very, very important.

2. Apologize to the client. Publicly. Why? You just humiliated him/her by posting the conversation. People value their privacy, even when they are seeking customer service. Now every client might think you are going to post everything online.

3. Either learn some CS skills, or hire someone to do it, or better yet, hire me to make you a simple CS script. It only costs a couple hundred bucks but will save you these types of embarrasments.

4. Erase that blog post, and replace it with a PG version. Specially the headline. You are trading credibility for traffic? Awful idea!

5. Publish a blog post stating your new customer service guidelines and feature it on the front page of the site. If this goes viral you are going to need to combat that.

6. Next time you feel like posting something like this just stop. Think!
How would you feel if you were getting shitty customer service? Would you tell them to go fuck themselves? Of course you would! Always, always think about the other side of the coin.

Good luck. You will need it.
They're all bad. I try to flag them all.
I'm no C expert - too bad to hear that about his C code. However I can tell people here that Vector.Unboxed is a very common optimization as soon as you start thinking about performance in Haskell. Nothing "expertly" about it, really. I, for one, use it in all of my computational Haskell code.
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I defy you to support your implicit assertion that "different than" is not fine.
What's in it for him?
HBUs accept people of all races. And, certainly, no one would argue that Harvard or Yale were NOT historically white, unless they were blind to history.
Haha, it's a nice place! I finished someones house and then made a lake beside it :) Now I want to live there ;)
I get sent Adwords coupons from Bluehost 1-2 times a year. They also come stuck inside FastCompany and Inc Magazine quite a bit.
1700 for 180ft, is a price almost 100 per 10 ft. if they have 240 ft and they're paying "hundreds more" that should be about right - it's not a steal. it might be average, but not a steal.
U.S. Senator Questions Attorney General about Aaron Swartz
Pretty much this. A better response might be "I need more information, because I can't get this problem to happen on my machine. Can you tell me more about exactly what you were doing when the problem happened?" That's just a generic response; someone who knows the product could probably come up with more specific questions to guide the user toward giving the right info.
Double blind isn't really anonymous. It's pretty easy to tell who the author is from subject, citations, and writing style.
i helped run the student program last year, so i have a unique perspective...

- number one, just say yes and come - its worth it

- be ready for new people/ challenges/ & tough problems

- prepare to think big & beyond what is possible today

- start making a list of ideas & problems you want to attack (once you're here, find other brilliant people interested)

- reach out to some of the startups here and connect pre-arrival, you'll have the opportunity to meet a ton of great people in town, but having a history to put with a new face is huge
Agree with this 100% - we need to get past the consumer-oriented "dream school" thinking.
For some time it's been apparent that working with complete sentences (let alone capitalization) is a sure path to being seen as a cut above, professionally.
Wasn't there a poll on this? (I'm male btw)
The obvious problem with relying on lobbyists is that they represent the interests of their employers, which often conflict with the interests of the people.

If legislators have too many domains to deal with to understand any of them, maybe we could go further than the committee system and have separate legislatures for separate domains.
Its more a matter of trying to nix the "Haskell would be nice, but its too slow to be practical" line that many see as a killer.
I just flipped a coin at my desk, which I'm covering with my hand. There's no evidence to support that the coin came up heads, so saying that it's heads is a false belief. There's no evidence to say that it came up tails, so saying that it came up tails is a false belief. Since the beliefs that the coin came up either heads or tails are both false, we can determine, by process of elimination, the the coin must have landed on its side.

The myth is a false belief because there's no evidence to support it. However, being a false belief doesn't prove the statement false, simply undetermined.
> When did a millionaire become a working class stiff?

1990s, so not exactly news to anyone familiar with inflation.

The expression is pre-1980s really. Put $1M in an inflation calculator for 1975, and you'll find that equates to about $7M now. It makes sense: You'd live very well off of interest from $7M.
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As it turns out, "can't" was also the wrong word to use in the first place.
That applies to any diet though, if the advice is good, but people don't follow it, it's not the fault of the diet. The point is he is singling out low carb diets as if it's the diet itself that is at fault, not just the common problem of people not following through on a diet regimen.
There's a big difference between an actual surplus and a "surplus" based on accounting gimmicks. You can only pretend California is in surplus by pretending to believe the state retirement systems really will return 8% on average.

Nobody believes that.
> And if you live in a major city, you often have significantly lower transportation costs. Yes rent is high in urban areas, but transportation costs are very low.

Eh?

MTA: $104/month, unlimited

Muni: $74/month, "A" pass

CTA: $100/month, unlimited

You can buy a car for $150/month, and call it another $200 for gas/insurance, so $350 total.

The rent difference is way more than $350/month for an equal size/quality place.

Then consider all the other costs of urban living, like high sales tax:

SF: 8.5%, Auburn: 7.5%

NYC: 8.88%, Westchester: 7.38% (!)
A Twitter message is a publicity stunt, not a sincere offer for help. I'm sure Elon knows the right people to contact at Boeing directly if he really wants to work something out.
Maybe. I suppose Boeing could force the subcontractor, Hamilton Sundstrand, that developed the Auxiliary Power Unit to work with Tesla/Musk in coming up with a solution.

For Reference:

http://atwonline.com/aircraft-engines-components/news/ntsb-p...
It's a POSIX convention to indicate that it's a typedef.
> You don't have to understand ColumnFamilies, consistency or the different topology strategies. The defaults are fine

Whaa?? Fine for what?

I agree with the OP. I used cassandra at a startup for a year, about a year ago, and haven't used it since last April. I'm sure things have progressed some (and we were using SuperColumns which a new user today might not) but the idea that it's a black box you don't need to understand? Not at the load we were putting it under.
4 years old account, and this is the only submission and comment from the OP. Samsung employee I assume?
I definitely agree that Palo Alto is a completely different world than Chattanooga, but equivalently, Ringold GA is a different planet than Chattanooga.

I think to get a feel for the culture, community, and people who are doing startups here and living in that scene you've got to be around downtown, southside, & northshore really embed yourself

but yes, as twog said, Chatt won't be Palo Alto - but Austin, Boulder... definitely.
Nice article, but unless the database is "VACUUM"ed after the "DELETE" the rows are still readable in the database file.
This kinda defeats the purpose of the whole article b/c the user didn't gain any more privacy than he had before the deletion :)
PR. I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest the process of regulatory approval for new types of aircraft batteries might take a little more time than anyone wants to leave the 787s on the ground for
The benchmark referenced in this post was previously discussed here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4453500
I defy you to stop being so tribalistic. I didn't take position on any side of the "different than" controversy. All I said is that the author did not support his assertion.
That is also a problem with double-blind reviews, and I'm quite familiar with the problems (and annoyances) of anonymizing a paper. However, my main point was about making the reviewers sign their name. I am unaware of a CS community that does so.
This is quite true and real. Though you must be aware that this happens to every business. Adjust your prices accordingly, and only worry when it starts being a common occurrence (keep track of it). Plus, not everyone that does it is evil. People go through hard times. They might need to scrounge up some funds to pay rent this month and will do anything to survive (short of assaulting a bank). Don't demonize them. You dont know what might be happening in their lives.

Though some just are entitled assholes. Leave those alone. No sense in trying to paint the sky.
To the extent that Amazon licenses the movies and music it sells, they've got a property interest in them and thus it is in a sense "their" content.
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Near my hometown in Australia human remains have been found that are older than any existing model of human migration says they aught to be.

Nobody has come up with a good explanation of how human could have been in Australia so long ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mungo_remains
Pretty clever PR move by Elon Musk. Now, if Boeing accept the offer, they give the impression that Musk has better engineers. If they reject it, they look arrogant and ungrateful.
I would be quite surprised if Boeing responds at all.
I make more than double that and I still can't afford a house here :(
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Right, so the question was designed to expose me as a hypocrite, i.e. character assassination. In doing so, you make me look like a two-faced ass who cannot make sound arguments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

Except, even if we assume that one must not be a hypocrite to advocate a given position - I am accepting your fallacy here as truth - you are also changing the position. I did not argue that one should help homeless people. Rather, I argued for not using degrading terms to describe them. I have not been a hypocrite in that respect, and I have admitted to using degrading terms to describe them in the past.

Now, "a strong association in your mind" is a manipulative way of saying, "if and only if". So, if and only if I am a hypocrite, then my rhetoric is empty. Since you have exposed me as a hypocrite, or attempted to, my rhetoric must also be empty.

If you claim, no, it's only in the other direction, then since my rhetoric is empty, I must be a hypocrite, so then you decided to expose that side of it to see if you were right.

So now it falls back to the question of whether or not my argument is empty. Without an explanation as to what you mean by "empty rhetoric" - because the term is sufficiently vague on its own as to only constitute more character assassination - you may as well say, "Your argument is bad."

Your argument is bad too. I believe I have explained why.
It's worth keeping in mind that the people you grew up studying are invariably selected/memorable for their contributions and that it's very hard to identify the same people in your milieu.

Kind of like saying "50s music is better" or "19th century novels are better" - you're benefiting from history's sorting process.
Write a program to find all duplicate files on a set of hard drives. "Duplicate" could mean same file name, or same contents (prolly a hash), or both.
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The machine learning community has been pushing for open access for quite awhile.

In 2001, the 40 editors of Machine Learning (some of whom I was quite proud to know), resigned to start the JMLR with this letter: http://www.sigir.org/forum/F2001/sigirFall01Letters.html . Note also their citation of the similar actions taken by the editors of Logic Programming in 1999.

EDIT: btw, the JMLR is at http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/ .
moar edit: http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/mloss/ for relevant open source code.
Removed at 1:03:37. That's a slightly suspicious-looking timestamp.
Agreed lots of companies are. In fact, almost all successful companies are in some fashion. It might just not be what you would expect. Fred Wilson touches on it a bit in this video http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/12/video-of-the-week-the-golden...
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roommate acted on a sick, misguided impulse intending to embarrass

Pretty much. Also, the roommate had nothing much to gain, politically or career wise.
Thanks! If you have any thoughts or would just like to talke more about the app in general, shoot me an email. I'm Peter at getyog.com.

RE press, I was diligent about finding writers who had written about similar things in the past and reaching out to them individually to keep them updated on our progress. When it was time to launch, I had a handful of people I had established relationships with over the months leading up.
When people say "stole the election" I think that's shorthand for "Bush won on a technicality." Bush v. Gore lead to an agreement from the court that Florida badly fucked up certification, but because of Title 3, the fuck up would have to stand.

What I think everyone fails to remember, however, is that independent analysis of recounts that could have happened may have led to either Bush winning or Gore winning, depending on the type of recount, which gives you an even better idea of just how much Florida fucked up in 2000.
In similar news, researches recently found that Madagascar was colonized by Indonesian people, not people coming from mainland Africa.

The genetics study is a confirmation of a fact that was known for a long, long time on linguistic grounds. (All of the major languages spoken on Madagascar are Austronesian languages, cognate with the languages from farther east like those of Indonesia and Polynesia.) The travel of some food crops to Madagascar with the early seafaring settlers also suggested this.
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Web standards were also initially an arbitrary social construct. That doesn't mean we want them to change every year according to the latest popular fancies.
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It leave some doubt - I've been able to figure out that it was likely a paper came from a certain group, but you still don't know for sure, nor do you know the order of the authors. It also benefits people from lesser-known institutions.
If it's faster and cheaper to do it through Tesla then they'll do it. At the end of the day they're businesses and if this means making more money - they don't hold grudges.
When I was doing heavy common lisp work, this was just a non-issue. If I wanted to understand how a library call would perform, I'd just press the magic button in SLIME to jump to the source code of the library routine and look.

This was much easier than manually tracing through the layers of template and preprocessor indirection underlying even simple STL constructs.

It is possible that this sort of standardization was vitally important given the incredibly poor quality of C++ implementations traditionally available, but in languages with better communities with higher standards for implementations and documentation, this really seems like a solution in search of a problem.
Replace "right" and "wrong" with "effective" and "ineffective" and I think it better captures what you're saying.
This is wrong. CPI is not "inflation" except by common mis-usage. Inflation is defined to be an expansion in the money supply. You can have inflation and falling prices at the same time.
Make a simple employee database that you can not only store and read, but also edit :)

When I made that, it resulted into great progress.
It's also included in this sane defaults dotfile

https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx#L...
Well, I'm hoping I'll be earning more by the time I have those things. And the reason I'm saving up right now is because I can. I rent a small studio, bought a 14 year old car etc. I'm guessing this will be the only time of my life when I can put away this much. I see many doing the opposite: getting a $1500 apartment and a new car when they get their first job.
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A sudoku solver, implement some basic data structures(linked list, vector, binary tree), replicate some basic unix programs like ls and cat.
You can also divide that by the number of mouths you have to feed.
My personal opinion, evidently a minority view these days, is that there's no such thing.

The ability to concentrate is like a muscle. If it's weak, the way to strengthen it is exercise. If you went to a gym and found you could only bench-press 20 pounds, would we say you have Muscular Weakness Syndrome and suggest medical treatment? While it's possible your weakness might be caused by some disease, and that should perhaps be looked into, it's also possible that the sole cause is that you don't get much exercise.

The way to exercise the concentration muscle is, of course, meditation.

This is just my opinion and I could be wrong, but I think it's a possibility that should be kept in mind.
can you share the command to do this?
My father took me aside when I was 6 years old (I still remember this conversation like it was yesterday), because I was complaining about writing class, and he told me, yes, it's hard, but it's the number one skill you need to succeed in life. He was a tech guy who was made manager of a half-dozen younger engineers at Northrop-Grumman in no small part because he could boil all the tech stuff down into a 1-page report that could be placed directly on the CEO's desk.

I still didn't like writing, of course. But I had no idea how right he was. It continues to amaze me how rare proper grammer, coherent sentences, and clear, concise thinking are in the professional world, and how much of a jump start he gave me forcing me to learn those skills, year in, year out.
or an ogg version

https://archive.org/download/MLKDream/MLKDream.ogg
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My impression is that, while it is possible to come up with a performance oriented Haskell code, it becomes quite ugly and diverges from those beautiful and idiomatic examples found in books. E.g. explicit strictness specifications, real quicksort (with Array.ST), etc..
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Tasks

This site has a lot of interesting tasks in many languages. "100 doors" and "24 game" are good starters. "Minesweeper" (text-based) is a little more involved, but it might be what you are interested in. Sudoku games and solvers are lots of fun.

Making a text-based chess or go game (no ai) could also be an interesting challenge.

https://github.com/alexch/learn_ruby has some good challenges for Ruby, but I'm sure they can be done in other languages.
That's actually the problem he's hinting at near the end as he's trying to make his point about optimizing C.

The optimizations he needs to make to the C code didn't seem clear to him when he was writing it, but they're very common optimizations for someone with more experience writing in C.

That he made the seemingly-natural optimization in Haskell while not affording C the same luxury is what's hurting his argument.
"Enough" perhaps for an average person, with average ambition (far below what it ought to be) and ability, living in an average house, in an average town. Which describes no one and nowhere.