skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The project mentions that this was an intentional design decision. The graph's are written to a canvas element, which means a low memory footprint and the ability to save graphs as images. I believe they'd need to switch over to using SVG elements for graphs if there are plans to add DOM events to chart elements.
In some societies, a "butt-covering lie" is politeness.
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Yet they won't take up the $200,000 file sharing case, even though the record companies lost their right to protection after the first sale of the music.
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Wow that is beyond inept, that is flat out reckless.
Adding an extra layer to the sales process that will be handling the entire sales process should cost you no additional time at all - actually, the inverse is what they are proposing. The services I provide to my clients as a recruiter save them quite a bit of time - bringing them opportunities saves them research time, fixing up their resumes when necessary, scheduling interviews, negotiating, etc. All I do is save my candidates time, and that service is free to them. If I negotiate a higher rate than they would have negotiated on their own, even better. As an agent, I would be compensated based on two things - my ability to get you more money (higher rate, low amount of downtime) and save you time.
Service bus, the most useful component you have (possibly) never heard of
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss posted it today on djanoproject.com:

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/mar/19/goodbye-mal...
Canvas can be used for labels and interactivity too: http://chartbeat.com/publishing/demo/
It is, the part that makes me sad is we had to set the precedent in the first place. It's good that a precedent has been set but it's ridiculous there was ever a lawsuit over reselling a book.
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I accept that she has to take her share of the blame doesn't make her judge, jury and executioner.

The company had plenty of other options about how they handled it and firing was in no way a foregone conclusion.

As an aside it is another reminder that we now live in an age where we may all be held to account for things that would otherwise have passed largely unnoticed. There needs to be adjustment on all sides - we all need to start acting in ways we'd be happy to be publicised, we all need to be aware that publicising others behaviour might have wider consequences than we'd initially anticipate, and we all also need to be a little more balanced in our judgement when it comes to behaviour which might be closer to an isolated incident than representative of something more.
This is a very cool project. How does it do on lumens per watt?
This is only true for graduate programs where the school is paying for your tuition via a research or teaching assistanceship. For undergraduates, who traditionally pay for their own tuition, or for graduate students under scholarship, they own all of their own work.
How are you guys avoiding having to register as a broker dealer before the JOBS act goes into place? (I'm assuming you're applying for Funding Portal status afterwards)
The most famous depiction of a military drone - does not exist.
Why do Random Forest Techniques perform better
In ensemble learning terms, "random forests" is an ensemble of decision trees where diversity is induced by randomisation and using both training subsets and feature subsets. The last standard trick, "algorithmic diversity" is not employed, there's a mono-culture of decision trees here. Classification is performed using the majority vote. At first glance, this appears as a run-of-the-mill ensemble application, using only standard techniques. However, this specific combination of techniques has become hugely popular. Why?
Actually, it's the optimal choice as long as people use strong passwords.
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I read that might as dripping with sarcasm... it's highly unlikely he would have taken it down if they hadn't flipped the bitch switch and now that the internet militia is tracking them down they flipped it all the way to nice.
> Am I supposed to understand from 'misunderstand' that the company might be climbing down from a stupid mistake it made, or actually be misled?

No, and you are not supposed to be able to understand. Otherwise being polite and claiming to have misunderstood something wouldn’t make any sense, as it would be equivalent to blaming the company directly.
fixing that is on the list of immediate to dos for our new CTO. ;)
I'm not the GP, but yes. As long as you were willing to break that agreement and take on any penalties incurred. If the device is yours, you can smash it on the ground even if the agreement prohibits it. However, you've now broken the agreement and there may be a fee or some other penalty.
Seems like Marissa is following the cargo cult of old Google. She wants to replicate Google's practices verbatim and I am not sure that is going to work. Google grew and developed some practices organically and some of them could not be scaled and had to be reworked, bringing them to a big company with its own culture and insisting on following them to the letter smells of disaster.
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I was going to post the same thing. Would love to apply, but I am not local. :)
Looking more into the law change (congrats btw), it would be nice to tell people a) if they qualify, b) if they don't right now, that you will notify when they can also participate
The hardest part of this is turning people down. Everyone feels they are high talent (almost everyone) or top 10%, but obviously they can't all be right. The amount of people they will have to reject could be enough to give people a negative impression of them - of how they evaluate and rate talent, elitism, etc. It will be interesting to see how it goes.

Tech pros love to hate how companies evaluate talent - tests, coding exercises, interviews, whiteboard work, Fermi problems. How they choose to evaluate talent, and whether they choose to tell some coders 'sorry, you aren't 10x material' will be very telling.
First, unless you are in a very specialized field, there are surely several books that cover the topic you are lecturing. In the interest of politics have an official book, but in the interest of time offer alternatives. Your students, or the good ones, at least, will be able to use whatever book they can fit in their budget, including previous editions. Especially if you're teaching calculus.

Second, if you are grading homework then produce your own problem sets. You already have to do this for exams, which means you know what you expect your students to learn, so you may as well produce the problem sets as well. At the very least indicate what types of problems a student should practice on so they can follow along in the book they do have.

Third, thank you for lecturing. I know that lecturers hate the raw deal with textbooks as well.
Seizing property is violent taking.
Indeed, just saw it and was going to add a link to it. Also, link to its own HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5402137
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One single, lonely piece of ciphertext is probably perfectly safe. Home-brew encryption becomes a problem when arbitrary plain-text can be enciphered. Then you get differential analysis, and you risk exposing the algorithm.

This isn't worth anyone's time to play with, and I'm sure you'll end up with a feeling that it's secure.

Deploy it, use it. Then details of the algorithm will leak, multiple cipher-texts will be available, and that's when you'll have problems. Besides, if no one except you uses it, it's probably secure enough. Letting someone else use it means exposing the algorithm. Then you'll have trouble.
It's funny if you like that particular type of humor. I find penises funny, and I can assure you many other people do too. Maybe exactly because of the inappropriateness, I don't know. They're just now doing research of jokes and humor.

Otherwise, I fail to understand how the sexual innuendo would make her feel unsafe or unwelcome - it was a joke between friends and it wasn't even remotely targeted at her.

Even if it was, offering someone your huge dongle is probably the most welcoming thing you can do, ever. It's not noise, it's a compliment.
It's not a 'switch' but rather failed implementation.

As well, this is only protecting people that would have otherwise put their saved passwords into insecure locations - like posting to the internet or insecure internal file shares.

For public posting the command 'show run brief' will take out all certificate and password information, at least for IOS-XE. NX-OS, IOS, and security IOS have options as well, use 'show run ?' to confirm.
awesome congrats!

This looks like a solid library, I like widgets that are initialized and configured with JSON. I've used highcharts in the past, I'll check it out next time I need to do some charting...
Clicks and hovers can be done on canvas, using hack that renders on second (invisible) canvas each object with its own, constant color and then checking color of the pixel at coordinates of cursor. It would probably need some kind of scene abstraction though.
They feel like it is too limited and has no useful reporting and that they can't get good insight into the overall state of all their projects.

I will have to interview them more and will publish the info on my blog (emadibrahim.com)
Ipso facto... not so true-o
I haven't tried it yet, but based on your statement:

The requirement is `or`, not `and`: you are still considered an accredited investor if your net worth exceeds 1M and you have 0 income for the past two years. You are also still considered an accredited investor if you have 0 net worth yet have income exceeding 200K/300K

The normal way a form is laid out is that it asks you how you are considered an accredited investor (circle one oval) and give the relevant information.
"This is Running for Your Life", a collection of essays by Michelle Orange. She writes about a trip to Beirut and her grandmother's death to discuss our cuture's relationship with nostalgia and death. Very witty and fascinating - I ook forward to reading her next book.
http://www.vg.no/sport/ski/skiskyting/artikkel.php?artid=101...

Americans are crazy. Look to Norway.
This is a great point and you should totally start a competitor.
It's not necessarily any of your business. The code is back, why do you need to know the full and whole truth about his dealings with his employer? And what's wrong with letting someone save a bit of face when they came out on the right end of something after all?
So someone making a joke about sex is exclusionary to you? Why so sex negative?
Imagine a world where Yahoo successfully acquired both Facebook and Google.
Look at DH4.

He's saying it's more difficult to convince people of your point if you're being a dick about it. You aren't arguing the central point of his thesis, so I'm unsure what exactly your point is in regards to OP.

As far as I know, PG's post doesn't apply to the original article, as the article starts the discussion, rather than responds to one.
> So the question is, why have 2 language

One perspective: Because choosing a language because it is conveniently in place should not be the primary reason. Many people are comfortable with JavaScript, but there are many server side code bases in other languages because they are preferred for various reasons.

There is a large amount of PHP code deployed, but there does not seem to much drive or concern that it does not run in browsers. Both JS and PHP earn a large amount of negativity because of their shortcomings (which we don't need to go into here), and they are obviously not the tool for every job.

I would simply make the point that choosing a language to avoid having to learn more than one is not an approach for improvement. Otherwise as I said in another post, we would all be using IE with ActiveX controls.
I tend to think the people at Pycon are my friends. I've dealt with a lot of them personally for year. We are supposed to be a laid back community, not a toxic environment where people are afraid to say something wrong. Let's leave that to the MS guys.
I thought this was common knowledge? If you've read any JS library code you'd have seen this before. I'm not sure what the 'best' library to study is these days- I remember there was HN discussion about it and someone mentioned underscore.js since it was simple utilities.
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Tell your students not to purchase whatever books the department head has been bribed into using in the coming semester. Instead, spend a few hours curating online resources that may serve as notes for students; better yet, just photocopy the handwritten notes that every mathematics teacher I've ever had seems to have for each lecture they give :-) Otherwise, Paul's Online Math Notes tackles Calculus and ODEs, and IIRC gives an intro to PDEs as well. The students collectively save thousands of dollars in exchange for a few hours of your time spent photocopying notes or otherwise googling for a resource that you approve of.
Lots of new people in this space lately: AngelList via SecondMarket, FundersClub, MicroVentures.

I have an investment in a seed fund run by a prominent angel, so I have some insight into recent valuations. I get the feeling that these online investors are getting inferior terms. For example, convertible debt usually comes with a conversion discount and a cap, but the deals I've seen on FundersClub have been missing one or both.
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Carte Blanche power of redaction combined with "openness"? This is Orwellian double-speak. If they want to reasonably redact, that's fine to an extent, so long as there's an uninterested third party review.
> That's all well and good as long as you give the full story, but you've forsaken the anti-grain diet fads while parroting their mantra almost verbatim. Namely, the idea that grains are a primary food source only because they're an easy source of calories. What about the fact that they're also rich in essential nutrients and have numerous documented health benefits?

They aren't rich in essential nutrients. They don't have numerous documented health benefits. And most certainly the reason why we bake bread and eat rice is because of their caloric density and ease of storage of rice and wheat.

A diet void of vegetables (and to a much lesser extent, fruit) is horribly unhealthy. You can't say that about grains. Is it really so unreasonable to postulate that the solution to our obesity pandemic is to remove the dense and less-satiating sources of calories and replace them with fibrous fruits and vegetables that contain many more micronutrients?
Alternatively, it's possible the American publishers wer effectively "dumping" their textbooks to prevent international publishers from ever being able to establish themselves.
While I'm currently evaluating and very excited about Sift Science, what are some of the competitors in this space? I'm only aware of CPA Detective Max Mind miniFraud.
Departments do do that - usually because they are short of funds and the money raised is used to fund consumables for lab classes. The university cannot raise a surcharge for certain classes, but they can sell equipment (read: course workbook) for that class. It's iffy, but still on this side of fine, no one makes a profit of it.

There is no excuse, though, for having to sign up for an account with a commercial publisher for exercises that are a part of your grade in that class. Normally you would pay a bunch of TAs to administer and grade the tests, but the university is too short of funds for that. So they outsource the grading to a commercial entity.
Isn't Funders Club also YC? What's the difference?
Is it open source? I notice the article mentions the word free 6 times(!!!!) while discussing this client.

Which is a strong indicator that it is doing horrible things.
Which RDBMS can I use to do capped collection with entries streaming live in and out, supported in the client libs with a few lines of code?
Yeah, but that's why it's a switch, and these features are defaulted to "enabled".

Nothing wrong there. We need these switches. Taking them away is a bad, BAD idea.

If the discussion were about how to provide access to these settings in a cleaner manner, so that people understand why they exist, and how to properly use them, I'm all for that. Increasing awareness and informing people about what the internet does, how it all works, and why they should care is a good idea.

This article doesn't take that tone. It just says "Ew, yucky! Hide all these settings because they're ugly, or better yet, don't make them settings. Don't even let people change them. It doesn't matter how practical they are. They keep us from making money. The ivory tower, where all the developers live, will be able to figure out a way around the road blocks we put up as they usually do."
We are using Git Extensions at work (http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/). What would be the interesting new features if we switched to SourceTree ?
Yeah, let's just resize three 2000x1200 images down to nothing. That won't look like shit and take forever to load.
I think this person's opinion is rather colored. Google has been about ads since before they were public. I personally don't have a Facebook page, and don't use g+ that much, so I'm not as infatuated with social networking as much as some I suppose, but I keep track of my karma on HN hourly when I post a message here, so to each his own.

I have no idea what his second article about Microsoft and the mobile space is getting at. Look, if you think g+ is failing, what makes you think Microsoft is going to suddenly own the mobile space? I interviewed at a place in Seattle about 7 years ago that was doing Windows phone stuff, and again at MSFT at a different point for the windows mobile team as an embedded SWE. Microsoft has been in the mobile space forever, yet he's saying they are the innovative company capable to turning on a dime and taking over a new space? I don't believe it.

My wife has a windows phone, I don't like it, she hates the Bing search. I just bought a nexus 4 to replace my G2 because I want software updates for a long time. My wife is probably moving to an iPhone or Nexus. Last I looked gmail supports imap, you don't have to view ads. I only see ads on my nexus when I use google services, they don't flash up on my screen randomly.

I work on security for Windows, but for my own personal use, I just bought an ARM chromebook. It's a great price, despite the 'secure bootloader', it took me about 5 minutes to get the Ubuntu install started on an SD card, and if I screw up the recovery is drop dead simple. Right now, we are sweating bullets because if we make a mistake on Win8 boot, we are going to hose up the machine and recovery is long and painful.

Google has plenty of problems, and sure if you ask me, Google+ has a terrible interface and shipping it without a good API was brain dead, but Microsoft sure doesn't seem to be setting the mobile world on fire.

So I'd take this and many articles like it with a giant cake of salt.
We'll be moving away from MongoDB because it doesn't support certificate validation. What is the point of SSL connections if you don't validate the certificate? It seems that you get all the drawbacks of encryption (overhead, throughput) with none of the benefits (security).

I'd love to see a solution.
I will never use it for anything, if that wasn't obvious. It's just an exercise.
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So why would I use this instead of D3.js?
Isn’t it quite common nowadays for lecturers to just type up their lecture notes and make them available online (for free, obviously)? At least that’s what happened at the last two universities I attended, with other lecturers in the same department possibly reusing said notes. A few of such notes even made it to arXiv.

Of course, they will still suggest looking at some textbooks, but only on the rare occasion that they don’t want to include a proof or more information in the notes themselves - and then these books are naturally available in the library’s reference holdings.
If your bill rate (paid by the company to me as your agent) is 100/hr, and you give me 10% (10/hr), your pay rate is now 90/hr. If I get 'us' a 20% increase, I'm now billing you at $120 - of that I'm taking 10% ($12), leaving you with $108. You just went from 90 to 108 (20% raise). Not sure where the net 8% is from that you mention.

Some might turn up noses if you say 'talk to my agent', because it is a new concept. That is expected. Change is hard.

Regarding the 'Jewish thing' again - let's just put that whole line of thinking to bed at this point, I think you may be digging the hole a bit deeper. I'm not sure that you've offended anyone just yet, but you may be on your way.
My university had a rule that textbooks written by the instructor had to be provided at cost. The instructor had hard copies available from the local print shop.

In another case, our professor contacted the author of the book and got cheap locally printed and bound copies. Something like $15 vs. $180.
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Great question. There are a few reasons we are able to do this now, mainly that we are not being compensated in any way. That being said we do have a relationship with a broker dealer to give us flexibility moving forward.
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Taking a page from the LivingSocial playbook.
I don't know. Google has come up with Glass and is working hard on the self driving car. Sounds pretty innovative still to me. I hope the author is wrong about the pipeline of new stuff.