skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One big advantage of this, if it ever becomes decent: iteration.

Make it available to students. They can write an essay, submit, and get feedback on it. Repeat.

It'd be difficult to get a machine to bring someone to great writing. But clear, concise prose that gets to the point? That seems reachable. And that would be an improvement over the status quo.

In other words, machines won't anytime soon be able to know that a Wodehouse is superior to an Orwell. But an Orwell to, say, a Thomas Friedman or typical ninth grader? Totally.
One of the truly good humans on the planet. I will miss him.
I would add that software engineering is not the same as programming. You don't need to be a software engineer to write code but if you want to work on any large scale project you need software engineering skills that have little to do with programming.
Roger Ebert Dies At 70
Put another way, once installed, you press the Home key, and are 2 TAPS away from having it permanently set. It is a great solution to the problem, and something sorely lacking on iOS (for things like browser and email defaults).
Wow, he just wrote his "A Leave of Presence" post the other day.
Thanks. It looks pretty exponential this way.
for people that only read the title. it mentions, that native persona is coming to desktop firefox.
Yup. The system is a lot easier to work with than file associations in Windows.
Faked Moon Landing? Conspiracy Beliefs Fall Along Party Lines
I tried llvm based project https://github.com/kracekumar/test-empythoned(empythoned: https://github.com/replit/empythoned). There are few limitation I am facing, `import` system don't work(compilation issue). From my experience more effort is required.
Key to selling is listening, is it key to reporting as well? Seems like Twitter's one way for writers to figure out WHAT to write, but can it help them report great stories?
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I wouldn't mind Facebook messaging being more tightly integrated with my text messaging interface. My android phone lets me put text messages as a widget on my lock screen, for example -- but I can't do that with FB messages, which is something I use a lot more than SMS. Nearly everything else about Facebook I could care less about, but FB messaging is something that my wife and I use a LOT.
This is such a shame to hear. He was one of the people who really got me into film (amongst many others I can presume). He'll be missed.

A friend shared an article Ebert wrote in 2011 about death that I absolutely love that I feel is incredibly relevant now. In the article he states “I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.", which I feel is a beautiful attitude to take. The whole article is worth a read and can be found here:

http://www.salon.com/2011/09/15/roger_ebert/
How the World’s Most Powerful Idea Has Shaped My Thinking About Business (2008)
If Facebook is your phone's home screen, it is hard to not be "on Facebook" for a second.
People hold conversations while doing other tasks all the time. It's perfectly normal to have conversations while driving, doing dishes, eating, reading the newspaper, watching tv, etc. It's not impossible to be interested in a conversation and doing something else.
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Holy cow, what a loss. One of the few film critics whose reviews I always enjoyed (even if I didn't always agree with him).

And he just wrote about having a leave of presence! I will miss him immensely.
Works for me. Phishing with a large number of beneficiaries.
I heard back from lots of people on angel list (https://angel.co/). Make an account and go through who is hiring. Usually you have to message them, but they can also browse your profile.
And my rebuttal is that paying 5 (or 10, 20, 50) companies that all produce exclusive content is almost exactly what cable is, the only differences are you pay a middleman instead of the companies directly, and usually can't choose individual providers, they come in preset packages.

I'd rather see independent producers distributing their content over various netflix-like providers, otherwise we're just transplanting our current content production model to the web. That will suck for both consumers and producers.
> If one seriously believes the BMJ would let a questionable study be published, think again.

All studies are questionable. A good study is scrutinized, not qualified based on who issues them. This is not a double blind study (it's rather impractical to perform) and the conclusions are carefully worded. To say it's unlikely to have evident flaws, misses the point.

> Exercice, as in improving the muscle mass, is well known to have positive health effects.

THIS is NOT well known. You state a popular belief with a dubious lack of constraints. How long and how much lifting does it take to put a 200lb 35yr old adult male into heart failure? What about a 90yr adult malw?

The specific evidence is lacking. Everyone who casually talks about musclemass thinks it's a tautological generalization, because they heard it from a doctor making a practical generalization for a patient (who's likely already sick). This study provides some (or not, depending on interpretation) specific evidence. Some regressions still need to be performed on the data to remove uncertainty and provide useful bands of data.
He was a national treasure.
Since my comment on Dotcloud's blog post hasn't been approved, I'll repost here. Mind that this was addressed to Dotcloud...

First of all, I want to congratulate you guys on what you’re doing for the community by open-sourcing these projects. I have hope that it will lead to faster extension of the options provided by the already-slick configuration scheme to better support new variations on deployment strategies, as well as better documentation.

That being said, my days as a Dotcloud customer may be numbered. Back when I was evaluating PaaSs to use for my commercial project, I chose Dotcloud because I could be free to experiment and test using the Sandbox. While we use a Live application for our production deployment, my company still relies on the Sandbox for staging and one-off tests.

I have since run into a couple pain points using Dotcloud’s services. The first of these is the fact that your Postgres service cannot be easily scaled. Dotcloud support themselves recommended that I use Heroku’s Postgres hosting as an alternative. This seems to be just one step down the slope of potentially migrating our whole stack. The second pain point is that the instance-based model is not amenable to running New Relic for monitoring. This is not a problem specific to Dotcloud, but again, Heroku is outflanking you by integrating New Relic pricing directly into their basic pricing model. This provides for much more predictable and bounded billing–super important for my company in our bootstrapping stage.

While I certainly understand that the Sandbox flavor must come at a significant cost to your company, the fact that it’s phasing out is a significant reduction in value for mine. I’m sure this wasn’t an easy decision, but I hope you understand that this is a strong push toward testing out my deployment on your competitors’ services so I can evaluate the pros/cons of bailing. I hope you’ll consider this as just one customer data point.
Hrm, is there really a problem if the test data on my development server were to get dumped? It's not like those credentials or the accounts stored in the db carry over when this gets deployed to production, nor will the changes for production ever come close to my github.

Still very valuable things to be aware of in future situations where the above might not apply, thank you very much.
(I readily admit to babysitting this thread a bit)

Anyway, the paragraph just prior to the two you quote makes it pretty clear that the first paragraph you quote is specifically about antibiotics. And, repeating myself, the notion that packers are testing suppliers is not particularly an impeachment of the honey industry.

I replied to Anigbrowl because their reply was rather terse and this article is not the sort of smoking gun I talked about in my first post.

I replied to lilsunnybee because they imply that I was lazy in my reply, and I wasn't.

Vague allusions to the idea that Chinese honey is sketchy is hardly what I had in mind in my original post. That it doesn't come right out and say anything sort of suggests that they don't really have any documentation that it is happening.
A good conversation right now with his friends on WBEZ, his home NPR.
http://wbez.ic.llnwd.net/stream/wbez_91_5_fm

Great quote from Rick Hogan: when he was writing a review about a movie he loved, "He was writing a love letter to a friend".
The shear breadth of his career is just astounding, his consistency in reviewing film after film for years. Inspiring for all of us.
I can do body squats fine (lots of popping, though). I've worked up in weight (though not quite from empty). One week I'll be able to do semi-heavy squats (not even my bodyweight) with no problems and then the next two weeks I can't even add much more than the bar before the knife-in-the-knee. Both knees have the issue, and not simultaneously. The physical therapist says I'm a bit pronated, so I try to account for that in my posture. I tried all the stretches and exercises I was given. It's not like I'm doing things that my legs aren't used to. I'd been doing leg exercises, including squats for a long time. It's just that when I get to about 85-90% of my bodyweight on squats, it'll only be a week or two of no problems and then for the next two weeks I won't be able to do anything.

I do deadlifts, and they usually go just fine except when I've messed up my knees with squats, in which case then my knees will die during deadlifts too. Every time I tell myself I can get back into squats gradually I come back demoralized, and it poisons my other workouts too.
so is anyone going to attempt an in-browser skype-like clone with webrtc? i might do it if no one else does
Facebook's 'Phone' Is Another Triumph of Mediocrity
http://sticky-panel.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/jquery.stickyPa...
I think the implication is that most of the code they are removing is not actually code, but boilerplate/machine-generated build scripts/etc. Still, the number of LOC involved has little bearing on whether or not splitting from WebKit is a good idea.
AFAIK we have the same amount of content in Netflix and Rdio as everywhere else, they are just not that good (one of the reasons I'm waiting for Instant).
...Do you have an APK?
surprised to read that he was an early investor of Google. I wonder how that came about?
In Arch linux python 3 is default, https://www.archlinux.org/news/python-is-now-python-3/
You can see an example of it on their page even: http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v2/yY/r/fNNR8sV8Y3W.png
Also worth reading: http://www.esquire.com/print-this/roger-ebert-0310?page=all
Agreed. It's the only multiplayer game I've found that had really fluid movement.
I don't disagree with that last sentence, but even acknowledging that, getting a whole lot more editing done in a whole lot less time, using significantly less keystrokes, makes for a much more enjoyable (and almost by extension: more productive) working experience. Not many things in programming are as soul-sucking as repeatedly having to bash the same keys or mousing and clicking around to translate your thoughts into working code. I think you are really underestimating the usefulness of some of the things you can only do with command-mode editors such as vim, if you think their only merit is saving a few seconds of typing.
I'm surprised this is so common. I've never set up any database accessible to the public-- I've already got to worry about securing the public-facing web server, why add another vector for attack?
> When has Google shut down a paid service that was popular and under heavy development like GCE and GAE?

As far as I know, never. I've been compiling a list of live and shut down services/products/etc (~299 so far), and while payment doesn't seem to be an important factor (plenty of shut down paid things, including many more advertising services than I expected), I cannot name a service which was under heavy development and was shut down during said development. However, I think that is just because development tends to stop before the final death knell. Reader, for example, used to regularly update and improve during its heyday.
Wait what? I thought I had just read this morning the cancer had returned. I guess he really pushed on til the very end.
>Why port?
>Linux is open

Well, GNU/Linux may be open overall, but the NVIDIA drivers and in-house dev tools that are making all the magic happen certainly aren't.
I dont' know Python but I'm thinking about learning it. What's experimental about Python 3? I don't have any legacy reasons to start with 2.7. Why wouldn't I just start with 3?
It would be fun to hook this up to, say, a Markov chain with weights adjusted by a genetic algorithm, or other sort of machine learning with text generation, to automatically produce an essay that scores high.
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I'll just leave one of my favorite quotes from Ebert about a movie that is actually one of my all time favorite comedy.

"This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels." [1]

- Roger Ebert review of "Freddy Got Fingered"; April 20, 2001

[1] http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20...
.NET is as well, ever heard of NGEN, Bartok compiler, mono -aot or the native compilation when targeting Windows Phone 8?
Your assuming 100% automation, having a person skim for obvious bad faith essays is probably enough to combat such cheating while still saving 90% of the effort of fulling grading each essay.
These are paid services but before I'd jump in, Google would have to guarantee this service for say 5 years, with updates and no catch (like increasing the price by 5000% to force you out.) Microsoft is a lot of things, but one they do good is guaranteed, long term, support for their products. At least for the core ones. For example they are still supporting Windows XP, so when Coca Cola signs at the dotted line they know that the hundreds of millions they spend on developing their specific apps, they will serve them for at least 10 years. That's worth extra to me and apparently to many others.

Going all in in Google an then Google deciding that their latest experiment is not worth their time is painful. It will most likely ruin the start-up. This may seem as an emotional knee-jerk reaction to Reader, but it's the reality. You cannot throw 100 things against the wall, ask people to invest time and money on them and then drop all but a few of them. Trust is gone, fool me once and all...
The knee pain is just below or possibly right under the kneecap. I try to go to parallel, even though the deeper I go the more likely one of my knees is to crap out. I'm doing regular squats AFAIK, not box squats or anything out of the ordinary. I've worked on my posture, and gotten people to critique it at the gym.
That's a really good point. If it were really, super painless to set up a local Dotcloud "Sandbox", it would alleviate a lot of the pain of the loss of the free Sandbox. But it's gotta be as easy as it used to be. For me, this means that there should be a zero-config Homebrew package for Mac and a zero-config Apt package for Debian/Ubuntu.

If this existed, it would be really easy to convert self-hosting customers to the paid service for scalability and support, and maybe some of the Dashboard tools. But considering this could be months away, I really wish the Sandbox were sticking around for a while...
Fitzgerald said "the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." Ebert seemed to have a knack for thinking all the thoughts simultaneously, and then getting their product onto a page:

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/12/win_ben_steins_mind....

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2013/03/how_i_am_a_roman_cat...

One of the truly great Internet writers. My favorite:

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/11/the_pot_and_how_to_u...

(It's not what you think!)

The blog is getting crushed right now but most of this content is in Google's cache.
I just checked out the product and it looks good so far. This could be a nice step in-between PaaS and running your own servers, which I'm guessing is the sweet spot you guys are going for.

The main (and obvious) downside is that I'm a little hesitant to install an unknown agent on my server that runs arbitrary commands from a 3rd party (even if they are only run at my request and on my behalf). Namely, it's not hard to imagine a scenario in which your central server gets compromised and then goes on to compromise all your customers connected servers. Do you guys have any plans to mitigate this risk or ease the minds of people worried about the security issues like me?
The site says $99, however, upon clicking preorder, we see it costs $450 without a contract. AT&T of course says, "*Requires 2-yr contract with qualifying voice and data plans. Activation fee applies." So this cool little idea just got a whole lot more expensive.

I say wait for the rom to leak, and then dual boot it on a new Nexus 4.

UPDATE: Sorry, I misread, this is just an overlay. Still though, the point still stands.
Your writing is much too focused on what you want, and not on what you have to offer the employer.

The paragraph beginning "I'm looking to switch jobs ..." makes you sound like a complainer. Yes, we have all felt that way at times, but it's not a winning way to present yourself. Never use your resume/cover letter to criticize other people, especially your current employer.

Can you see how the paragraph beginning "I am a very fast learner ..." is all about you and your requirements?

The paragraph beginning "I want to be part of ..." makes me especially wary. None of it is "wrong," but it doesn't offer any benefit to the employer, and comes across as unfocused and high maintenance. (Sorry - I assume you want the unvarnished truth.)

DO read Ask The Headhunter.
"which sorts...gain the most benefit from what sort of exercise" is really key.

An active area of research for me is analyzing (multivariate non linear) regression models to characterize sub populations in which an observed effect is strong or weak for large genomic studies. Correlations, p-values and univariate linear models are frustratingly insufficient in many cases and effects seen across the entire population may lead to recommendations that are bad for a large numer of people.

(I'm not saying everyone shouldn't go step away from the keyboard and move some iron...just talking stats.)
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"It is true that I am fat, but one day I will be thin, and [Vincent Gallo] will still be the director of The Brown Bunny."
I prefer tabs, set to 8 spaces; More readable, and makes bad code obvious.

4 spaces I can somewhat understand, but 2 ... ?
Someone needs to find 100% cure against this deadly disease. So much money is spent on cancer research every year and what are the results..almost zero.
It's not hard to not make facebook your home screen.
Just two days ago, he announced he was taking a "leave of presence."

Typically, I write over 200 reviews a year for the Sun-Times that are
carried by Universal Press Syndicate in some 200 newspapers. Last year,
I wrote the most of my career, including 306 movie reviews, a blog post
or two a week, and assorted other articles. I must slow down now, which
is why I'm taking what I like to call "a leave of presence."

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2013/04/a_leave_of_presense....
So then, how long before there is an open-source, distributed key management system, that lets you store public keys of all your friends' phones, and end encrypted texts/etc with them, and which acts basically as only a key exchange service?

... I guess CALEA could be made to force them to MITM anyone doing key exchanges. Damn.
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> "There are no ads in this yet, I'm sure that one day there will be," said Mark Zuckerberg when asked about how Facebook Home would make money. [1]

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/4/4183688/facebook-will-put-a...
I feel you're approaching the problem in the wrong mindset. You're imagining that you have one module and that's all you ever have. Instead, think of a the CSS module (your .testimonial module) as an interface - a blueprint to implement different types of .testimonial module variations.

The BEM architecture calls these "Modifiers" (http://csswizardry.com/2013/01/mindbemding-getting-your-head...).

When I look at your example, I don't think of a .testimonial object in two different contexts (one vertical in the sidebar of the signup page while one horizontal on the pricing page). Instead, I think of two different variations of the .testimonial object. So while your .testimonial class may define certain global styles, you change what you need by variations like .testimonial.vertical or .testimonial.horizontal (though I wouldn't actually use those names, but you get the idea).

This requires making a decision on when to apply what classes, but that's okay. You shouldn't be trying to abstract away actual UI decision-making to an automated tool or process. You seem to think that settings rules and logic to be executed based on those rules (when x, execute y; when y, execute z; etc.) will mean you always end up with a usable interface. However, this is not the case.

Ultimately, UI is not "write-once, use anywhere", and that's okay.
Roger Ebert dead: A film critic with the soul of a poet
My favorite line of his is the one he ended his review of 1996's Mad Dog Time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Dog_Time) with:

"Mad Dog Time should be cut up to provide free ukelele picks for the poor."
Which is stealing/paraphrasing Winston Churchill "yes I may be drunk. But my Dear in the morning I'll be sober and you'll still be ugly" or something close to that.
Even if their perfect its not really good enough outside of say standardized testing because they can't integrate what they learn about the individual students from grading their papers and then use it tutor/advise/grade the student.

A holistic understanding of the individual student and how all students are doing in a course is important. It allows the professor to tailor the course or see where weaknesses in understanding are.

Also I would imagine that there are some exceptional essays which because of their unique nature would slip by the grading system. Subjectivity is a plus and a minus of having human markers.
It's not so much the difference between free and paid that matters as whether or not the pricing is actually economically viable. The original GAE pricing pretty obviously wasn't, so it might as well have been a free product in that you were relying on Google continuing to want to subsidize it for whatever reason.
Have you tried emacs -nw ? I use vim in terminal windows by default, but have been curious about how emacs's terminal mode compares.