skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both usages have a valid context.

In system generated messages "yours" seems more appropriate. It implies that someone else is talking to the user. If I got a message "My email was received", I would feel like talking to myself.

The UI is an extension of human brain. So labeling things with "mine" will make the UI feel natural. My contacts feels closer than your contacts.

I wrote about the same subject: http://mouly.me/2011/07/my-contacts-or-your-contacts/
Google renames Circles icon on Google+ to ‘Find people’, lists who you talk to
If you don't mind sharing, what did you experience? And what was the process of correcting-the-record like?
I agree with you that there are higher-level issues with financial services, and the iflex project looks like its trying to tackle some of these, which is great!

The CSV was not an attempt at band-aiding the issues that exist while trying to calculate settlement dates or predict deposit times. The goal was to aid a developer who might need these dates for use in their application, financial or not.
If she is burdened by property taxes, it's because she's living in an extraordinarily valuable house. Since property taxes are in the neighborhood of 1% of value, and real estate prices in NYC go up by several percent per year, your sainted grandmother could borrow the money to pay the property taxes, against the property, and the increase in property value would more than pay the taxes.

Rich grandmothers are not actually a problem we need to solve.
Toxic? You should see how the batteries for electric cars are made, they are much more toxic than gas...
This is a repost of a rather old blog entry. John Myles White has subsequently become one of Julia's most prolific core developers, having created and contributed a variety of very high quality stats and machine learning packages for (and in) Julia:

https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/BloomFilters.jl
https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/Calculus.jl
https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/Clustering.jl
https://github.com/HarlanH/DataFrames.jl
https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/DimensionalityReduction.jl
https://github.com/JuliaStats/Distributions.jl
https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/FileFind.jl
https://github.com/JuliaStats/GLM.jl
https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/Graphs.jl
https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/KLDivergence.jl
https://github.com/JuliaStats/LM.jl
https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/Languages.jl
https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/Loss.jl
https://github.com/doobwa/MCMC.jl
https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/NHST.jl
https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/Optim.jl
https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/RDatasets.jl
https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/Resampling.jl
https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/TextAnalysis.jl
https://github.com/johnmyleswhite/kNN.jl

The moral of the story might be that John puts his money where is mouth is. He thought Julia was awesome and now he's done a huge amount to make it even more so.
Even the dark ages were not one day "perfectly working Roman Empire" and the next one could not even find fresh water. It was much more of a slow decline of things going into disrepair and people losing track of ideas and technology due to ever growing isolation and too busy to focus on academia from the lost of technology/infrastructure efficiencies/safety the Empire brought.
Will the next pope recognize the sanctity of artificial life?
SQL Server is anything but well engineered. What version of SQL Server are you currently running? Is it on the latest service pack only, or with the latest cumulative update applied? The later fixes critical bugs, but claimed to be "not fully tested" by Microsoft. This retarded release policy means there is no stable version of SQL Server.
+1 to this. For new projects I'd probably just go with 4.0 beta though, it's almost ready...
Julia's math library is starting to shape up:

http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/base/#mathematica...

It even has a digamma, Riemann zeta, and Bessel functions with fractional orders, which you won't find in Excel.

The statistics built-ins are a bit weak, however.
They're making zombies that can love and learn, so we're only one movie away from bikes and two from cars. At this point they don't even need the makeup - just show some folks going to work and call it a zombie movie.

Come to think of it, that's been done (some French indie award winner dealt pretty heavily with work & family reintegration of the risen.) The genre is thoroughly tapped.
Fwiw, I know religious people who think church is a waste of time. Not sure his answer to that would be particularly interesting.
That sounds like hell on wheels. If you're worried about your long-haul trip taking an extra 30 minutes every two hours, maybe you should be flying instead?
With a 16-gallon tank at 25MPG, you'd get 400 driving miles out of a tank, and many hours of idling (assuming typical consumption of 1/4 to 1/2 gallon per hour idling gives us a minimum of 32 hours on a 16-gallon tank of gas). It's not clear how long you could run just the heater on a model S, but I'd assume it's over a day on a relatively full charge. Still, 33% more range is nothing to sneeze at.

While I'm at it, I'll also note the density of gas stations as a huge advantage over the relatively sparse network of battery charging stations, which can certainly add to the anxiety of winter driving, as mentioned in the review.
>SEO will always be a "thing" as long as people are not always interested in providing relevant information. //

SEO is [also] about bridging the gap between machine-based abstraction of the data in your site and human searchers. Most of the on-page/on-site optimisations are simply ensuring that the SE can abstract the right information so that users searching for the content you're providing can find it.

SEO will always be a thing as long as Googlebot fails to perfectly abstract the data content of a site and perfectly rank sites according to user needs.
I don't claim to know what's going on, but the NYT most certainly does have an incentive, and so does the reporter: it's a controversial, interesting story. Tesla has been firing on all cylinders, the Model S has won many accolades, and this reporter's experience is the first major black mark on the company's reputation. A positive review would just be another on the pile and would hardly be noticed, but something like this is guaranteed to get attention.
> Oil changes every 5k miles and major services every 15k don't qualify as "just works" in my book.

There are few items in this day and age that don't require owners to perform periodic maintenance. Tesla cars aren't immune from requiring annual inspections (http://www.teslamotors.com/service) either.
For the record, empty real estate is the norm over here in China. The government dissuades capital exodus, a strategy which is also partly assisted by cultural and linguistic challenges. The result has been that many people have simply bought, developed, and sat on real estate right across the country, a huge proportion of which is empty. The really poor people (most people) cannot afford anything, and even if you do "buy", it's only a lease from the government for under a hundred years. In other words, even if real estate is perceived as a safe haven, in fact it's not. Nobody's comfortable. Everyone's constantly on edge. The older generation, despite opening their eyes to the world, cling desperately to their children as insurance against the coming winds of change. (And the 'typical' family structure: 4 grandparents, 2 parents, 1 child.)
Studying the Effects of Playing Violent Video Games
I am like Dr Hibbert, I chuckle at inappropriate times. But my point was just because something is popular, doesn't mean it is the best for everything. And that you _should_ understand how things work under the hood and not just choose these platforms blindly. I am not specifically hating on RoR, I feel that many developers choose it just because it is easy and popular without understanding what rails gives you and how it works.
Mostly. The downside is with words ("profile" even, though rarely enough that it probably doesn't matter) that can be both nouns and verbs. Leaving off the my/your then makes the button ambiguous.
Not intending to be harsh, but your grandmother could use the equity established in her property, and move to somewhere where the costs of living are within her means.

In cases where the property has appreciated so much that the increase in property taxes is a burden, surely there is a corresponding increase in equity to lessen the blow.

The "CA Prop 13" option pretty much makes newcomers finance existing landowners' property taxes - not my favorite option.
I don't leave my car unattended while fuelling it. I realize that you would leave your car unattended for other things.
Is Go used any where else besides at Google?
You replied a person who said to just create content that was useful to others with suggesting that you would do that, only if there weren't hacked sites jumbling up the rankings. It ~seemed~ to suggest that you were less interested in original, interesting content than you were competing with the top sites regardless of how either of you got to that spot.
And some machine oil. Never can have too much of that stuff, plus you don't want your bike/scooter squeaking when escaping zombies.

If you're the rebuilding type (and not escaping zombies), add to that list :

Steam locomotives
Sleighs (and horses, goats, oxen, dogs etc... to pull them)
Hang gliders
Ethanol converted 1968 Lincoln Continental
And extra feet

If the apocalypse does happen, the civlized world will likely fare the worst.

p.s. Max Brooks: Zombie Survival Guide was thoroughly enjoyable.
> Come to think of it, that's been done (some French indie award winner dealt pretty heavily with work & family reintegration of the risen.) The genre is thoroughly tapped.

Any idea what that film was? I must see it.
Microsoft to fix critical Internet Explorer flaws
That's the one where the guy has all the books to read but breaks his glasses?
Learning Jekyll By Example: Build a Jekyll Website, Start to Finish
Well, Walt Mossberg interviewed both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at D5 in 2007. The gents seemed to have fun, and they complimented each other plenty.

Video: http://allthingsd.com/video/?video_id=60C4F9FA-9AD5-4D04-8BB...

Transcript: http://allthingsd.com/20070531/d5-gates-jobs-transcript/
First of all size is a relative thing. It depends on what you mean by big. I would not write a monolithic code base with JavaScript. That's just silly, and is the kind of thing that Dahl and Schlueter have, themselves, been debunking in order to place node in the credible spot it deserves.

Second, you're citing company's that use node in the niche roles that work great for node. For example LinkedIn uses node for mobile rendering, they use Java for everything else (http://hurvitz.org/blog/2008/06/linkedin-architecture) and (http://engineering.linkedin.com/technology). I really doubt that if anybody saw LinkedIn's use of node relative to their use of everything else they would call it "large".

Now relative to most Python and Ruby projects out there...

Yeah - you can use node for large projects
Right, I'd only do so if it was an outright scam.
Good for Elon. Every CEO should stand up for his product like that.
What exactly is Visual Studio going to protect you from?! I'm struggling to see how coding the thing in C using Visual Studio is going to be substantially easier in any meaningful way than coding it in C using anything else. It's just going to cut out some of the Unix crap. And, well - what's the problem with that? Why does coding always have to be done via the Unix command line and terminal-based tools?

Perhaps everybody else's definition of "real" programming is just rather different from mine, but I personally see use of the command line rather than some GUI tool as a mostly-irrelevant side issue that has relatively little to do with making the computer do things by writing code.
Willow Garage has been a great source/resource for OpenCV. I wish them good luck in there future endeavors.
I doubt they're making a ton on the hustle, but I agree that they're probably not the type to waste time discussing points with other, likely more hostile crowds.
Love to discover the full story (what with hardware startups being in the ascendancy and all).

Also did a quick check : ROS is at https://github.com/ros, OpenCV at https://github.com/itseez/opencv (a mirror of the code at code.opencv.org). It's morbid I know, but this is one hugely positive aspect of Open Source : The code lives on...
Google Chrome Blocks Popular Websites For Being Infected With Malware
Tesla needs to pay gas stations to install 220v receptacles and include an adapter kit with every Model S that will fit all of the common plugs out there. That's all there is to it. Consumers aren't going to want to buy these cars en masse if they're scared of being stranded somewhere, and they're going to be scared of being stranded somewhere if it's 100 miles either way to the nearest charging station, regardless of how much range the car has left.

Are you reading this, Elon? Pay gas stations to install 220v receptacles, and map the locations of those stations onto your cars' GPS systems. Make the kit, and make a compartment for the kit. Make an announcement that you're going to start doing this, and start doing it NOW.
There's a formula from analysis that gives you the Nth Fibonacci number in closed form. It involves a couple of exponentials, which you can compute to a given accuracy in bounded time.
Miles Lubin and Iain Dunning gave an excellent presentation at MIT's IAP tutorial on Julia in January where they benchmarked rather non-trival code for doing linear programming in a variety of languages:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia-tutorial/blob/master/NumericalOptimization/presentation.pdf
http://bit.ly/VQ9rDd (shortened version since that's cut off)

See page 7, "Simplex Benchmarks". Essentially, they implemented the basics you need to do a fast simplex linear programming algorithm in each of C++, Julia, Matlab and Python. Their results were in line with the Julia home page benchmarks:

Julia is between 1-2x slower than good C/C++ code.
PyPy and Matlab are 10-20x slower.
Python is 80-400x slower.

The code can be found here:

https://github.com/mlubin/SimplexBenchmarks

These results are fairly typical.
That's odd. I'm currently running 2.6.32, and it's working fine for me. Maybe it was a transient problem?

Feel free to email me if you notice any of the teensy executables not working. I don't follow the bleeding edge very closely, but I do make a serious effort to keep all of them working.
Why exactly does this article make you so enraged?
Oh gravy, tell me about it. I fought at work for two days about taking the "our offices", "our whatever" off all the nav links.
That article had no real info at all!

They haven't even confirmed with the company yet. The site (http://www.willowgarage.com) lists nothing relevant to this and nothing's on their blog. Did someone at ieee even confirm any of this before publishing?

Edit... Just read again to try and find some more and this "multiple sources" business sounds an awful lot like that X-Surface debacle. I expected more.
What makes you think they're mining your personal data? They could possibly have funding already, and are aiming for acquisition? Like Instagram?
It's quite possible that there's a scaling factor (e.g. 0.3) applied to upvotes to stories submitted from reddit. Although the following linked pg comment is several years old, it does give insight into pg's goal to reduce the ease with which submissions of 'lightweight' content reach the top of the HN front page.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=294439
Depends on the blogger. There are plenty of amateur hacks, particularly when you get into an echo chamber based on politics, conspiracy theories, religion, etc.

But there are a ton of subject matter experts (like John Baez) out there blogging on objective stuff, and their average quality is often amazing.
article claims to have confirmed with "multiple sources inside the company", just not the PR folk
Why Nate Silver is not just wrong, but maliciously wrong
It is hard ... OpenDylan (http://opendylan.org/) manages to mostly pull it off when the right type information is available. It could be smarter at times, but it does pretty well.

In a recent test for someone, they had code running in C++ in 0.5 seconds, Dylan in 0.6.

Our major performance loss in OpenDylan comes when there's still too much generic dispatch going on, but that can usually be reduced through various mechanisms. (And as I said above, there's still avenues where the compiler could do better.)

Another interesting implementation is Gambit Scheme which manages to pull off some really impressive feats of compilation for performance once you declare '(not safe)' although it is still fast with safety enabled.
Unless you're staying on a computer your 'pure colors' aren't really pure.

And pure green (0,255,0) is really unpleasant.
I agree, Latour has always been about bridging those worlds, in his own unique way.

Here's his reply to those who misunderstand him as somehow denying reality: http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/70-DO-YOU-BEL...

And, next week he is delivering the Gifford Lectures, which should be fun. There is a webcast: http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2013/gifford-080213
These folks are doing crowd funding for adoptions. I heard about it on the Techzing podcast:

http://adopttogether.org/
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I think pronouns should be reserved more for interactions, where a UI's personality really shines through. So when refreshing your inbox, you may see "Fetching your email", for example.
I suspect the focal point is probably a matter of statistics as much as anything else - addressing 51% of the population, vs ~0.1-0.3% of the population.
Hawaii has this system where property tax is reversely proportional to occupancy by owner, so full-time islanders end up paying very little, while people who buy high-end condos for crashpads or rentals.
Yep. The famous line being "But there was time, now!"
I don't think saying "120v isn't enough, you need to rewire your entire house" is really accurate either. Most water heaters, stoves, and some central heaters run off a merged breaker for 240v. You can easily use one of those lines for the car if you don't plan on taxing the thing the entire time (though I figure if you have 50k for a car you have 1k to add an extra circuit and wire your garage up for it).

Also, 240v cars makes so much more sense in a world where 99% of people use 240v outlets, and in the US you can just oscillate two 120v's and get a usually-good-enough 240v signal.
Works on 3.2.0 too. I do get:

~$ file a.out
a.out: ELF 32-bit invalid byte order (SYSV)

But that's probably to be expected, given how close to the edges of the ELF spec it treads :)
1-2x slower is still remarkable given what Julia (apparently) has the power to do. Thanks for the citations!
Here in post-collapse Argentina, I semi-regularly attend a free bike repair workshop run by a bunch of anarchists who occupied a pizzeria abandoned in the collapse, twelve years ago. They turned it into a library, a community garden, a clothing workshop, and a bike kitchen. So I have some insights to offer:

1. It's remarkable how quickly bicycles can break down, especially when they're not made to be ridden (US department-store bikes, all Argentine bikes) and when you repair them with improvised tools and improvised or substandard components.

2. There are a fair number of specialized tools that you need for bike repair that are pretty hard to do without. You can maybe cut a cone wrench from a flattened spoon, and you can "press" out chavetas (cotters) with a hammer and chunk of steel instead of a cotter press, and you can true your rims on the bike if you have to, but how are you going to unscrew your freewheel without the right shape of freewheel extractor? Or break your chain without a chain breaker?

3. A bit further afield, you have to patch or replace your inner tubes when they spring leaks. But it's increasingly difficult to get working vulcanizing fluid for patching after the economy collapses; that shit doesn't have an indefinite shelf life. Ultimately you need to put together some kind of chemistry lab, using chemicals of unknown quality, in order to renew your supply of bike patch kits.

4. More generally, bicycles, like other industrial machinery, are allergic to entropy. The crucial resource needed to repack your wheel bearing balls isn't the steel to make the balls or the dead cow to grease them with; it's the knowledge about which balls are the right size, and which ones are already subtly cracked. Buy them in bulk and they cost a fraction of a cent. Install a ball of the wrong size and you could wreck your cones or your hub or even your body.

So I think bicycles are an important part of post-apocalyptic transportation, but keeping bicycles running without an economy populated with specialized equipment, materials brought from far away, and people with specialized knowledge could be quite challenging indeed.
I love Stephenson more than the next guy, but the subtleties of intelligence you're inferring aren't at all hinted at by the graphic. Well rounded people can handle ambiguity, but intentional ambiguity in communication needs to be less vague to be effective.
Pro-tip: People are going to have strong opinions here. Rebutting their message rather than the delivery ends up rebutting both.
I don't agree. The last thing we should want, as scientists, is to do bad science: to be actually dishonest or credulous, to get it wrong due to sloppy methods and reasoning, etc.

But this doesn't particularly correlate with agreement with or even attention to attempts to 'deconstruct' science from an ostensibly privileged and less-naive position. Nor does critical theory typically offer much useful advice for scientists to do the job better by the lights of anyone who is serious about doing good science. What comes is more in the vein of context-independent, pretentious negativity about the goal and the current state of knowledge, aimed at some academic-political end rather than improvements in understanding of the world.

Observing this and carrying on with one's careful work is not 'quasi-religious' or 'blind faith,' it is the application of a simple relevance filter. If you want to critique physics experiments, you should find an actual concrete scientific basis: a problem in their reasoning, a fishy thing in their data or in their procedure. Otherwise, you are really not talking about physics and what you have is more of a posture than an actual falsification or revision of scientific value.

Doing anthropology on scientists is something you can do, but no guarantees that the result will be accurate (unless you 'quasi-religiously' attend to scientific rigor and data, as if they really mattered and weren't just pointless masturbatory constructions which might as well be made up). And certainly no reason to think that scientists in other fields are obligated to care on pain of being bad scientists.
Is it really widely accepted? I'm still weirded out when people use the polite form. Let alone computers, that's just silly.

Why would a computer/website be polite to me? They have no concept of these things. Just using polite forms doesn't mean you're being polite, you have to mean it. A computer is as of yet incapable of having intentions.
I should also point out that I completely agree that is intrinsically difficult to design a language to have both the speed of C and the abstraction power of Lisp. That is part of why the job that Jeff Bezanson, who is largely responsible for Julia's amazing performance, has done is so incredible.

It's hard to explain until you start using it, but ubiquitous, fast, expressive multiple dispatch is a truly amazing programming paradigm. I'm not entirely sure how it hasn't been adopted as the core paradigm of any mainstream language in the past.