skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed; this sounds like a perfect example of the Hawthorne effect [1] at work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
If they had compe
Very interesting mateiral. I used backbone.js a while ago but missed Aura.

Do you know if that architecture is compatible with Angularjs' philosophy?
interactive compared to a psd/basic mockup. to get a feel for how site could actually feel, which is quicker than building the backend features. can change description if misleading
nice, webish version of jampipe, but i'm more interested in getting bits vs building in browser
"Proof of this can be found by examining all the climate change news articles based on scientific papers going back to the impending ice age in 1972 (people have a short memory for climatology theories)."

While it makes a good talking point, it was not the case.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s...
one of the downfalls of voting websites like HN, reddit, or even the whitehouse.gov platform is people who know nothing get their votes counted the same as people who are experts on the subject.

Can't the same be said of elective democracy?
..and then another decade passed and OpenGL ES won every growth market, returning PC gaming to its niche status. Massive niche, of course, but niche. More Temple Run, dears?
The problem with bioinformatics is not "prematured optimization", but rather no optimization at all.
The DMCA has helped me get knock off websites taken down that consist of nothing but one of my blog posts copy-pasted.

I had a very high traffic blog article copied about a half dozen times with domain names purchased JUST to post the article and replace all the Amazon affiliate tags and advertisements with their own.

Had it not been for the DMCA, I'm not sure what I could have done. But for exactly $0 and 5 minutes of my time, I was able to email their host and the content was taken down in less than a few hours.
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For all we know, we may never "describe" reality with mathematics, but it's purpose is nevertheless to estimate and predict to a certain degree of precision an event within its boundary conditions. In this sense, science and mathematics are not one and the same. The scientific method is designed to push these mathematical models past their limits so that we may get closer to discovering what this "reality" really is. These models are how we know when something doesn't fit with our scientific understanding, it is nothing more than a feedback loop.

Edit:
hnhg: You're right, rephrased properly :)
See, it even works on people. To hide just rid of the glasses, nobody will remember your face.
That she ended up dead, as well as both his parents, is sad. I would personally have probably tried to find a third way of doing things (sneak parents out of the country through any means necessary), but given some strange binary choice, I would have left with my wife. It isn't like the parents would survive conditions that got bad enough to kill his wife.
I don't think you're emphasizing what you think are your biggest advantages over others.

Your main screenshot is static, which means it looks as basic as any carbonmade/etc. portfolio site already out there: boxes on a screen. Since your page customization is fairly low compared to your competitors, you're all in with this sliding design, and you need to put it in front of everyone in a big way.

Does HTML5 mean anything to non-developer types? I'm not sure that everyone associates HTML5 with "works on all devices". Does your target market know multi-device display is a problem (and is it a problem with your competitors?) If not, you need to explain why you have something better to offer.

Also, personally, the Steve Jobs-esq language (i.e., "Show off your work in the most incredible way.") is a little off-putting, especially if all one can see up-front is static boxes on a screen.
Students of language are always looking for the best way to learn, but there isn't any "best way" in my experience. Each person learns differently.

Personal motivation is without a doubt the largest factor in whether a person successfully learns a language. To that end, I think the goal of any classroom or learning system should be to maintain a high level of learner motivation. There is a strong correlation for students of foreign languages (i.e. a language that is not spoken in the country where it is being learned) who are strongly interested in the culture of the language they are learning and their success at learning that language. This is because their motivation to learn, driven by their desire to experience the culture more completely, remains high throughout the learning process. Students who take language courses as part of a compulsory education curriculum, or who are studying out of casual interest, lose motivation quickly regardless of the learning system.

As a language teacher, I try to expose my students to as many learning techniques as possible. Some students successfully increase their vocabulary using word lists and flashcards, others require the pressure of real communication to acquire new words.

There will never be one "best way" to learn, so my advice to any learner is to try as many learning systems as possible, expose yourself to as much media in that language as possible, and constantly change it up so that you don't lose motivation.

I wouldn't say that language learning is broken, but rather that students who begin learning a language have misguided expectations about how difficult and time consuming it actually is. If you, as an adult learner, can learn just one foreign language fluently in your lifetime, you are doing well.
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I'm sorry. Racism should not be ignored. But I'm not sure how censorship initiated by the provider solves it. It is truly a tragedy that you had to shut your site down, and I think those that caused you to have to do that should be punished. However, when a provider starts censoring specific types of speech, there is much left ahead that they will be asked to censor, which is all I was trying to say.

I hope that you and your brother find a safe place to share your information without being harassed.
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It's Wikipedia. Why don't you do it?
I disagree - with all my personal and business accounts I have around 15 pins. I of course have to write the down.
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Totally. I did this with the Diablo games et al. to aid in learning Polish, and it was very effective, even though language learning was probably as far from Blizzard's mind as you can get. The problem is that you need the really high production values of AAA games to keep people engaged. A studio prioritizing language learning to any degree will have a very hard time putting on the polish (not Polish...joke!) required to retain players.

I've thought a lot about this problem as well, and the best I can think of is to create mods, so you have the solid game engine and story already in place, and can then solve the language learning problem on top of that.
He was the prince of wales
Here's another (safe) "tweet" by China geek alerting the situation.

RT @chenshaoju
无锡电信实际测试GitHub已经遭到SSL中间人攻击。
http://bit.ly/X49oPK
Touché. After looking at it, I realize I was thinking of just Title I of the DMCA being the whole thing. You are totally right about Title II & III (Title IV boat vessel hulls... heh)!

Now that I'm better informed... (thanks!) I change my position to repeal of Title I of the DMCA in its entirety, not the entire DMCA.
Sounds like France is pretty racist and hateful in general. Can you imagine #AGoodJew or #AGoodNegro trending in the US? That's absurd.

I don't see how censoring the tweets will fix that or change anything. So much for fraternité.
The fallibility of thought and observation should be taught over "science", because otherwise we'll have even more obnoxious pseudoskeptics than we do today, who think that yeah, what does "science" know anyway? Then proceed on with their folksy but ungrounded, still harmful beliefs.
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Not everyone has time to contribute to every project that may be useful in some way.
If something else works the way one wants, there's no call to put time and energy into a competing project.
Seeing as the president cannot propose his own bills is not this a rather "pious" and pointless exercise - surly would not the effort be better spent finding a sympathetic senator or congressman to introduce a reform the DMCA bill.
Why is that "the real truth"?

I would assume Frankl was talking about those who had survived the harsh daily conditions rather than those who had dodged a bullet or a gas chamber.
I would like to see the registered agent registration with the fees go away. And replaced with the free and online 'registration of the point of contact' approach.
Purdue engineering students build a Rube Goldberg machine for Coke
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You are right. This one has nothing to do with root servers. But they are already able to fake certificate national wide. It's only one step from adding it into root server.
The thing is, I am not any better off today than I was when I was using ALSA. None of the problems I had with ALSA were solved by PA; ConsoleKit/PolicyKit came closer to solving those problems, and even then, new problems were introduced. The excruciating transition to PA put a bad taste in everyone's mouth, and now we are all sitting here asking ourselves, "Why did we even bother?"

So in a sense, you are right: PA is not perfect, and neither were ALSA, OSS, and other earlier approaches. That is not the issue; the issue is, is PA actually better? Are we actually able to do things now that we were having trouble with before? From where I sit, PA makes it easier to use things like D-BUS and various "Kit" systems to duplicate the desktop user paradigm you see in Windows or Mac OS X, and nothing more (and that does nothing for me, but certainly gets in my way when I try to do things like multiseat setups).
Thank you sir, this is exactly my point. The study used the vague undefined term 'sounding black' and it could have meant anything.
It is being done at the national level by the DEA. They are judge, jury, and executioner.
What the flying fuck do US companies have to say in a EU committee?
I am crying out for something - this looks like the something - kind of.

I am interested in adding two parts - probably jasmine-ajax style stubbing of AJAX calls, and marionette style regions - basically I would like to roughdraft a SPA.

hmm - thinking about it really I just want to roughdraft a region then assign that region to be brought up by a button click - no need for ajax at all.

This seems to assume bootstrap exists too - is that correct?
Wow, it's worse than I thought. Rockyou doesn't allow 4 character passwords so they were extracting the numbers from WITHIN longer passwords. 'asdf1975' would equate to a 'pin' of 1975, or 37489 would equate to two pins, 3748 and 7489. What a terrible assumption to build all your research on top of.
But people associate "the results of the study on..." with science and fact (truth), rather that is possibly evidence-based but may be wrong because it is biased, misguided, or incomplete. People assume that there is such a thing as fact produced by science, and when they learn this fact from a teacher, friend, the media, etc., then they believe these things are true, and that they will not change. That is not science.

Using unhelpful skepticism as a reason for hiding the fallibility of science will produce more generations of people that believe whatever the scientists tell them, which at times will be wrong and yet accepted by almost everyone as truth.
"In a 100-years period, we'll have a Zombie FB."

And if they're still around in 100 years, FB will probably be selling those dead eyeballs to advertisers. They'll certainly retain the data for analytical purposes, regardless of what you'd like them to do.

But seriously, unless you own the hardware, you don't have any assets on the internet, social or otherwise.

If you own the machines that are presenting your "assets" to the internet, then you own what's on the machine, notwithstanding any third party agreements you have with respect to that data.

Everything else is owned by the providers: domain names, email, web pages, blogs, tweets, FB posts, pictures, everything. The only access you or your heirs have after your death is subject to a service's terms of service, any arrangements you may have explicitly made with the service (assuming they'll even make such an arrangement), and your legal will (assuming).

You may cry a mighty Internet "harumph!", but services don't care, or they don't have to. You may think you or your heirs or estate can win a lawsuit, and maybe you can, but why leave it to chance, and why put your heirs through that?

Find out what the policies are with every provider you have, including domain registrars, and then write your will in a way that the provider will accept and can work with. If you can't come to an agreement with a provider, and the assets are important to you, then think of alternatives. Backup at least, possibly up to not using a particular provider.

In particular, if you don't want to live on as a publicly viewable ghost account, that in Facebook's case might even continue to Like things after death, then explicitly determine how to prevent that (if it's possible) and make arrangements that conform with the provider's requirements.
NYT: A Fuzzy & Shifting Line Between Hacker & Criminal
With "hackers," there is a danger in lumping people who have not sought financial gain with armed robbers.
Your description for Font Awesome references jQuery instead.
If the DMCA was repealed I have a bad feeling that whatever the current administration and congress/senate would come up with to replace it would be far worse than what we have now. When the DMCA was written the government had more of a hands off approach to the Internet than it does now.
Well, I think the first big red flag is that we have public schools which teach the standard dialect of English used in business, as well as the proper pronunciation of words. Then, certain people decide to ignore that and promote their own culture. That's fine with me, but if they suffer consequences because of it they will have to endure that.
"where loads of research is done by simply trying everything and seeing what works."

Do you seriously think research is "throwing shit against a wall and seeing what sticks"?

"I read once that the last medicine designed by a chemist was the cure for syphilis - decades ago"

Yet another folksy anecdote parroted by the same people who claim "the last disease we've cured was Polio". Saying these things does not make them true.
My Catholic grandmother - who was born Jewish but orphaned and survived Nazism in Vienna - bought my my teenage atheist self this book. It worked on me in a way religion did not and has shaped my life since, leading me towards Ruskin being a pin-up in my historical studies.

It's a little crude but really is a great book, and the older I get the truer I think its premise is.
There aren't any comprehensive list that I know of which lists the features of each interpreter.

as to bpython vs ipython, last tested it out, bpython still lacked a core feature that ipython has, which is a shell-style history. I can't mention how often I am thinking "hmmm, did'nt I write something like that before", and search backward to find something I wrote a half year ago, or say yesterday...
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I'm going to need a citation for what you just said because it sounds like you have a really messed up view of how cracking passwords works. Strong passwords aren't strong because they fool the computer by not looking like passwords. Wtf?
" Choosing a random password is actually useful in this case, because even if the computer correctly finds the right key for de-hashing, it doesn't recognize your password as 'de-hashed' and just passes right over it."

That's assuming someone is trying to brute force a system 'from the outside', without having access to the list of password hashes for the system. In reality such attempts rarely if ever happen and they are easily defeated by using rate limiting and other techniques.

The problem arises when the attacker has a list of hashed password and is running checks against that list. In those cases, the fact that a password is random won't do any good as the program knows which password hash it is trying to crack.

Furthermore, there is no "de-hashing". Password cracking software is actually hashing commonly used words, letter combinations and/or even random characters, and comparing the output of the hashing operation with the password hash that it is trying to crack. Cryptographic hash functions are unidirectional and cannot be reversed, you can only try to hash raw data and hope to produce a hash which matches the hash you're trying to "reverse".
Mods are indeed a good idea. I have played through Skyrim in both French and German and, even though I already spoke those languages with a decent amount of competency, it really helped with various grammar and vocabulary aspects.
I am not sure how you based your conclusions.

Pakistan's internet is generally open (except youtube and pornography). But there is no widespread interest in ML particularly. Only a few companies - most of them outsourcing from the US.
There is a logical fallacy running rampant through these threads, and w the OP: having an unfalsifiable hypothesis.
My Bank of America account has a six digit PIN, and it has worked at every ATM (BofA or not) I've encountered.
For the most part, I agree.

But "free speech" has real, human, costs; just as censorship does.
I believe you :). I'm sure they'd appreciate a bug report if you can narrow things down certainly.

Otherwise I'll play around a bit.
There are actually quite a few startups doing this already, e.g. Verbling: https://www.verbling.com/
We may not always know how or why (at the deepest fundamental levels). We don't need to. We use science to know that it does.
God says..

63:2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like
him that treadeth in the winefat? 63:3 I have trodden the winepress
alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them
in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be
sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

63:4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my
redeemed is come.

63:5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that
there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation
unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.

63:6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them
drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.

----

Fuck them up, God!

God says...

what's_up playing Syrian references quit_it strong muttering
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You're welcome. And thanks for the thanks.
This is an old story. Every domain I've worked in featured a chasm between the domain experts and the software folks. Experts write terrible software that somehow mostly works. Software folks misunderstand the problem and create overwrought monstrosities.

In my experience, this applies to accounting software, sensor data, computer-aided design, print manufacturing, healthcare, etc.

I imagine there's phases of maturity, something akin to CMM/SEI. Eventually there's enough people with a foot on both sides to bridge the gap.

It just takes time.
Benefits to me as a desktop and laptop user of systemd.

1) Speed does matter. Fast boots are good.
2) The new journal is just better. Finding something in the logs is easier.
3) Service files are easier to write than init scripts and one can have more confidence they will work as intended as you need write very little configuration oneself.
4) Knowledge of dependencies means I never have to worry about starting dbus before gdm. It just does what is necessary to do the correct thing.

I personally want all of those things. I am really happy they came to Arch and Fedora. They both feel much more modern for it. Working on systems that use older init systems now feels archaic.

Let's move with the times. I remember the same set of complaints when we got NetworkManager. I remember the same complaints with PulseAudio.

Guess what? I now have systems with excellent networking and excellent sound.
Are there many scenarios where you can read, but not write, to a network? On WiFi, you can inject if you can read. On a switch, if you are reading via, say, poison ARP, you can also write. Passive taps like mirror ports can't read, but it seems that WiFi/Ethernet/some other physical thing is a more common vector in the first place.
well you have to look at the wider picture Germany is rare (almost unique) in that engineers are looked up to as the equivelent or a doctor and lawyer.

And how many senior engineers at Audi and BMW and Mercedes started as apprentices.

In the English speaking word this is not the case we are look upon as greasy almost sub human.

for example the wife of the no2 at bt labs you know the place where the first computer was designed and built when she said that he husband was an engineer she was asked patronizingly "oh thats nice dear what sort of cars does he work on"
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> but given that developer time is a bounded resource, we can't really expect to get both fewer restarts and faster restarts.

Your're going to have to clarify, as this statement doesn't make any sense.

You're right though. In this instance, system startup was already highly optimized. In fact, the order of startup was shifted around to get Oracle (the DB in this example) up and operational as early as possible.

On the other hand, with the introduction of SMF, that "need to optimise" largely went away. Sure, SMF didn't make much a difference in this particular instance, but parallelisation does make a difference when you're talking about total system (not service) startup time. Further it can make a difference on system that run multiple services. If 5 services have the same dependency set, then a parallel startup means that services 2-5 become available earlier versus a linear startup.

Finally, shaving 5 seconds off of service startup _does_ make a difference. While the above example means $350, there's a few things to consider.

1) a $350 loss is stil a loss. From a business perspective, a loss, no matter how small, is still to be avoided. There's other considerations as well, such as the impact of the extra 5 seconds on my budget (the SLAs mean that the loss comes out of my budget).

2) In the realm of big enterprise, this is a relatively small outage cost. In fact, I've managed system with an order of magnitude larger failure cost (SLAs are bitch).

3) It's difficult to factor soft costs. Things such as customer confidence, indirect productivity loss, etc. 5 seconds, again, means services are available sooner, lessening the impact of these soft, and difficult to quantify, costs.
I've been looking for something like this to feed my alignment OCD for some time. Thanks!