skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have kids and don't mind if they use the computer for long periods of time just as long as they are creating and not just consuming. Creating a website and learning to code is good. Playing games all day, not so good. Some games like Minecraft can be creative and you can learn a lot from them, but your still just playing a game and not impacting the world.

So try to tell your parents this is your creative outlet. And you are not just consuming crap, but creating things that will impact people's lives. Also if you continue down this path your probably going to make some serious cash either with your own idea or helping to build something amazing.
E O Wilson is a great biologist and author. However, this article is completely wrong. In particular, this

> Fortunately, exceptional mathematical fluency is required in only a few disciplines, such as particle physics, astrophysics and information theory.

is embarrassingly incorrect. For one example of why this is wrong, and sticking to E O Wilson's field, consider statistics. No biologist can publish anything nowadays without including some statistical analysis in their paper. So there's a pretty simple choice: either publish statistical stuff you don't understand, or learn enough math to achieve a basic understanding. Integrating probability densities, maximum likelihood estimators, etc etc, you certainly need calculus, and linear algebra will be very helpful too. As a second example, what about theoretical biology? How is a student going to have a hope of understanding theoretical models in behavioral ecology or population genetics without some mathematical training?

What E O Wilson is saying is straight out of the bad old days which ended in the 1990s. Back then, at least in the UK, it was much more common to think that students studying biology didn't need math. Those days are over. Everyone recognizes that the statistical, computational, and theoretical parts of biology are essential for students to come to grips with. I'm a little sad to publicly criticize an old biologist who has made great contributions but no young scientist should read that article and come away with the impression that it's anything other than embarrassingly out of touch.
In Russia they have a saying "beat a rabbit long enough and it will eventually learn to take derivatives, but integrals are another matter".

Something about that is quintessentially Russian.
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Dogs in Pantyhose?
I was in Disney for a day a couple of months ago. They scan everyone, from newborns to grandparents. We had a 1-day pass, and got scanned.
There is a little bit of ASCII art in any well written code. And yours would ruin it ;)
Wilson said that he simply rely on statisticians as collaborator. Of course, what if you can't find a statistician to help you do your paper?
As does any home thief.
Sell off the servers and get some apartment-appropriate machines. You can get a generic tower that hold multiple drives and runs your OS of choice.

Since you are building out a lab then commodity hardware should be fine. That is what I did years ago.

You might also consider posting this to webhostingtalk.com

They have an great community of data-center folks over there who are in this space specifically.

Good luck!
Does all the computing power put towards Bitcoin mining strike anyone else as an extreme waste of electricity?
I worked on vacuum systems. Space is not cold, nor hot, nor happy. It's sort of the wrong way of looking at it.

Vacuum isn't. It is a terrible conductor of heat. So bad, that after 15 minutes a very small battery powered pen camera started to red on the edges of the video: it was starting to heat up! The only way to cool off is via radiation, which takes quite a while. If you had a large array of very conductive, high surface area material, then you could get cold. But our skin isn't like that. Rather, it's wet and insulative. The membranes that are wet immediately suffer evaporative cooling, but once frozen will have to sublime to cool any more, which is slow. The skin is dead on the outside and has layers of insulation in the form of water and fat.

No, the research, testing, and industrial accident reports show that you die from oxygen deprivation. (And you can find vacuum labeled as an asphyxiate, since inhaling it is deadly...)

EDIT: I should note that the temperature of the vacuum really is very low. That's not disputable. But there just aren't enough atoms in a vacuum for it to feel cold. It's one of those times our intuition about units sort of sets us up for failure: temperature is an average kinetic energy of each particle, and normally there are enough particles to matter. In a vacuum there usually aren't. (I'm lying of course: high energy plasmas can definitely heat something up given a few hours.)
then there is http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/...
Even stranger on Windows 8 the thumbnail shows up as an apple but when opened the Windows Photo Viewer shows it as a pear.

http://i.minus.com/ilnhPD7qumz9e.PNG
You can find good colo deals on http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=131

Have you tried that yet?
I am completely naive to what you just said, may you please explain like I am five? [I am dead serious]
I dont know who you are, i dont know what you want but if you take my dlsr away, i will find you.
This is an amazingly beautiful site and a great example of responsive design.
I appreciate your point of view and to some extent I definitely concur.

I think that's the difference between a professional and an amateur.

Saying something along the lines of - "hey, I'm in demand and thinking of moving - business is business" even if its true, kinda just would make any company want to kick the person to the curve. Maybe not at that moment, but believe me, that person is now on some blacklist. As IT people (and yes, I am generalizing here) we don't fully appreciate the power of being blunt without being blunt. A lot of it has to do with saving face for both sides. It's a skill I even have to work on but for the people that I have seen that are very good at it, they are very effective with their work.

It's like doing a deal with salesperson and afterwards you realize that you maybe got screwed a little bit, but gosh darn it, you still like that salesperson quite a bit. I guess this falls under charisma.

In terms of the financial future, I don't think anyone is talking about anybody struggling in these positions. I wasn't implying that in my statement. What I was implying was that given any rational person (even one with millions), having a choice between making 10x more or 5x more or staying the same, all other things equal, it would be hard to not consider the choice. Money is Money. And, one thing about people that have made the millions, they still tend to consider every dollar as important as the next, since they realize quite rightly how hard it is to make money.

It's very likely that Neal was facing this 5x-10x type of multiplier. I do think that when you are facing the 0.5x-2x multiplier than the decision does become much harder.
Now we just need a Sublime Text plugin for this.
But he's not denying that everyone needs basic fluency - indeed, he recounts the embarrassing necessity of learning calculus in early middle age in order to master his own field. He's saying that exceptional fluency is only required in a few fields. You're arguing with a straw man.
I like the landing page. As I was reading through, I found something you may want to correct:

"Take more photos anyway! ... so you can _you_ enjoy all ..."

There is an additional "you" in this sentence. Just to clarify, I am not trying to offend anyone here, just trying to help. I think landing pages are important.

Good luck!
> My first thought was Apple or Google is going to buy this. Love the UI, but nobody is going to pay a subscription fee for it (and I doubt that is the business plan anyway).

I think the price is fair, especially as a dedicated backup service (i.e. a third backup dest.). If their terms & features are strong enough they'll likely pick up a following from enthusiast photographers who are tired of Flickr/500px and want somewhere where private is the default.
Reference to an old russian joke?
Also, for weapons, you can keep unloaded shotguns and rifles in your trunk. If they're in the passenger compartment, they have to be in locked cases. I have an A4, and it's not really big enough to carry "real" rifle cases like Pelican 1750s, especially with anything else in there. A soft case or bare rifle fits fine when going to the range.
Safari on an iPad mini, first edition, shows an apple (obviously) and very faintly a pear.
I find that saying bizarre. In high school, I found derivatives significantly more difficult to learn than I did integrals. Then, in multivariable calc, I found derivatives significantly more difficult, again. Integrals follow your intuition in a way that derivatives just don't.
I came across a neat explanation of why we don't freeze immediately: our skin's pretty good at keeping the wet parts of us inside! When I had been curious about this a few years ago, this was the thing that convinced me of it. After all, in order for the water in us to freeze, the higher energy water molecules need to go somewhere, right? (Of course, it's possible very small gas bubbles will dissolve into your blood, and that will quickly expire a person, but as noted elsewhere in this thread the pressure drop from atmo to vacuum is less than that normally experienced by divers.)

Also, I have covered a vacuum flange with my hand. Heckuva hickie, but otherwise harmless. Smarts a bit with a dash of bruising, but the skin holds up remarkably well.
This reminded me of an old trick that worked in IE6 or so, where they would use alternating pixels to take advantage of how selection highlighting worked in IE6 to make another image appear when you select it.
This is great.

Idea: Implement loose "syntax" highlighting over the scope highlighting by bolding syntax keywords instead of highlighting them. Perhaps also slightly change the brightness of certain syntax keywords.
mid-30's, I have the same story, started programming when I was 8. Had these nice colourful British introductions to programming with cartoonish robots all over the place and full BASIC programs to type out.
Hmm... I'm quite familiar with gamma correction. For those who are not, I recently did an "Explain Like I'm Five" http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1aeuyb/el...

But, my understanding is that for an image displayed 1-1 pixel-to-screen there is no intermediate math going on. So, there shouldn't be any opportunity for non-gamma-correct calculations to screw up the output.

Here's a nice example of non-gamma-correct browsers producing incorrect results after scaling an image: http://filmicgames.com/archives/354 also http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html But, in the SO question there is no scaling. So, I'm still confused about the difference in visual results between different applications directly displaying the image...
Tesla Model S For $500 Per Month? No.  Just No.
This is an interesting analysis, but some context can probably explain the outliers.

For local-authority funded residential care, there's a standard set of prices the council will pay based on geography and the level of care required. It's a take-it-or-leave-it deal for the care providers. (Any contribution from the individual is collected directly by the council, instead of the care provider splitting the bill between the council and the resident.)

Because of this, I wouldn't expect these payments to follow Benford's Law at all, and all payments for one provider having one of two values makes sense.

There's probably a similar explanation for the 'REDACTED PERSONAL DATA' payments. If the bulk of these payments are housing benefit payments to private tenants, then the caps on housing benefit will distort the data.
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It might be better to use variations in the background color. It may feel more natural to do so and it would allow normal syntax highlighting alongside scope highlighting.
Or put a chair or stool out in front of you and rest one leg on it. Try to take as much weight as possible with your arms, basically just resting your leg on the chair as opposed to actively pushing off against it. As your arms get stronger you'll naturally use the chair less until you can remove it entirely.

Also nice to essentially do a pull-up strip set. (Get a few extra pull-ups in when your muscles are fatigued and can no longer lift your whole weight.)
> Math isn't that hard to learn [...] calculus or other advanced mathematics

Most people's concept of what "math" is, isn't advanced math. Advanced math is incredibly complex. (I honestly kind of chuckle when people tell me they are "really good at math".) Read Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~anindya/fermat.pdf), or Godel's incompleteness theorem and tell me if you understand any of that.

Math much easier than his proof, yet vastly more difficult than calculus, is used in many areas of physics and chemistry. And I think it is this kind of math to which the original article was referring.

People like to quip that Einstein wasn't good at math, because he had mathematicians helping him with his work. What they don't understand is that Einstein's skills in math blows everyone else's out of the water; it's just that they weren't up to the level of an actual mathematician.
Why would he write an article in a national newspaper to point out that exceptional mathematical ability is required in only a few fields? That follows almost by definition. No, the effect, and intention, of his article is to make students of biology think that they don't need to worry about difficult-seeming math courses. My rebuttal is entirely appropriate; I would imagine that most people involved in teaching biology at university level would be very disappointed by what he is promoting.
The need to understand basic statistics is a far cry from needing to have "exceptional mathematical fluency."

The point is that to be a great scientist you don't need to be a math genius. Having the math ability of a von Neumann is not a prerequisite to being a great scientist.
These people are overly pessimistic.

1) Anyone buying a Model S is going to be living in SFBA, maybe LA, maybe Seattle, maybe DC or NYC-metro. A few other places. All very near the service centers.

2) $5 gas isn't that far off -- I pay $4.29/gal right now. $5 is quite reasonable over the next 6 years.

3) $100/hr for fueling isn't always reasonable, but there are definitely times (raining, late at night, etc.) where I'd be happy to not have to fuel at a sketchy gas station.
It is a good idea indeed. I believe Notepad++ does background scope highlighting already, just not accurate enough for JavaScript specifically.
Are you guys A/B testing index.html?

A: https://www.everpix.com/landing.html

B: https://www.everpix.com/landing_video_explore.html
Interestingly I found the N16 stock firmware to have the best QoS of any router I've used. It requires no configuration and always seemed to work great. DD-WRT's QoS, on the other hand, can require significant effort to configure correctly.
It's not exactly a completely humble beginning either, though. You may be out of touch with what salaries look like for the average American.
Sadly there's no mention of golang.
They don't mean running servers out of your basement. At least I hope they don't, that'd be stupid. They mean the opportunities that accompany residential gigabit access.
I would love if this had an option to switch left-right images for those of us who have an easier time with "focus-beyond-the-screen" 3D rather than cross-eyed.
I second this as the article is very wrong, very misleading, and very last-last gen about math and today's biology. There is even no advanced Biology/Medicine programs (under/grad/whatever) in the world without the Biostatistics as the required core course. Oh, by the way, interested in Biological research but with a low Quantitative score in your GRE? Well, good luck with that!

And "Think twice, though, about specializing in fields that require ... quantitative analysis....as well as a few specialties in molecular biology." Come on! Even a simple DNA agarose gel requires your careful calculations about the gel percentage and some basic interpolation for DNA sizes.

Basically WSJ has been turned into the Rant Mountain and the rants like "Great Scientist ≠ Good at Math" or "To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me” won't be the last two.
Since you love programming, and by extension problem solving, think of the whole situation as a problem to solve. You are having a hard time trying to convince your parents that what you're doing is worthwhile -- to you, it's even more important than the other things you do because you're more passionate about it. There are a few things you could do here (some of them you just have to accept because you have no control).

1. You could work hard on your project, do everything in the power available to you to make it successful and prove them wrong. Possible, but just takes a lot more work and determination than you may think.

2. Fake it and please them. Let them always see you playing guitar or doing something they'd like to see you do. Still keep working hard at school, but in three years you could start doing the things you love. Also, you're still very young so there's a lot of time. And you'll definitely learn a lot in three years.

3. This is actually not as bad as you may think but you can just do what they say and you'll still be out in three years. You could always work on the stuff you want then. Don't automatically discount this idea.

These are just off the top of my head. I'm sure if you think about it pragmatically you'll come up with some good ideas to take the weight off your head. Take it easy.
I tried it two months back but didn't go premium as there's essentially no organisation. I am used to store pics in sync-date folder names like Picasa.

I just went for Picasa, which tags people efficiently, has other features and costs $2.49/month for 100 GB!

Though I left Picasa once they started uploading to Google+ by default. Private or not, I didn't like that. It also lacked some features as compared to Picasa Web. Now I just use Cubby to sync my photos folder and Picasa organises them.
Following quote comes to mind (Dijkstra)
"...we have to keep it crisp, disentangled, and simple if we refuse
to be crushed by the complexities of our own making..."

I found his use of the word "crisp" very interesting. I believe it means to keep your code short and to the point, without any extra embellishment.
Even my hatchback has a pull-over cover that hides the contents.

Also if you're putting into your trunk do so before you arrive at your parking destination... many stories about people seeing you hiding stuff and then knowing there's something to steal.
Solving the infinite chocolate mystery
Lockheed Martin pays $10M for D-Wave's Quantum Computer
small tight networks > vague diffuse ones
Works fine for me. Make it narrow enough and you get normal vertical scrolling, but I find this vastly preferable to the usual thing of wasting 1/2 my screen with whitespace.
it's just that they weren't up to the level of an actual mathematician.

I guess what I am doing and learning is really elementary. But I like to think my point about having foundational knowledge and the willingness to practice everyday still stand.

I know what I am doing and learning isn't what mathematican really do day to day. They make up new stuff, prove things, and solve problems in creative ways.

I just commit to memory or practice steps on how to solve exercise sets, although the way I do is way smarter and time efficient than what people do when I was in high school. I don't know if all that practice will eventually pay off in some way, but I know that I just really hate forgetting stuff that I learned in high school math class. ( Yes, I really do "incredibly boring" math homework everyday despite finishing high school three years ago)
The corkscrew is from acko.net's excellent article http://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/ I highly recommend checking it out if you haven't already.
That's a subtle comment and a much deeper one than it might appear to be.
I opened the article in hopes of advice on improving my "hacking strength". Alas, it was about actual weightlifting, which... maybe I'll have time for again some day.

But I clicked the "my son" link in the post, and might.net has a free pass forever on making me accidentally spend ten seconds scanning something irrelevant to my current interests. Fascinating story, and I hope the tenacity they showed in getting a brand-new diagnosis pays off with effective treatment:
http://matt.might.net/articles/my-sons-killer/
Indeed,... I could probably have a job in Austin today (I suppose it is Sunday now) even though I live 90-m outside of town... but only because there are a bunch of folks who I have worked with and who'd be happy to hear I'm willing to work with them. It's almost all network, though it does help that I'm local-ish.
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We? You might not, but I certainly do.
Wonder how it worked out...

Did he hand in his resignation and was asked to reconsider? Did he tell them he wanted more money? Did they find out about the twitter offer from outside sources and arrange for the bump?

How did the semantics play out?!
Reminds me of this question on JPEG images: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3937885/cross-browser-inc...
On my machine I can see both of them, but neither is particularly distinct, as though two 40% transparency images were stacked.

So obviously my various image viewers aren't reading the gamma correction to show the pear, however I'm more curious why I don't see the apple correctly if the image has been intended to show the apple without gamma/color correction?

My monitor is color calibrated, so shouldn't I just see the apple and not the pear?
I moved to Austin in 2011 after traveling for 6 months around the country, including weeks in the bay area and other tech cities. I like SF and I'd consider living in SF if it wasn't for the terrible CA government (both local and state). High tax rates on everything, ridiculous entitlement expenditures, anti-business anti-free market policies (rent control, stupid building restrictions contributing to ridiculous housing costs, high business fees, etc).

That said, Austin is great. Come out and visit, flights are pretty reasonable. I prefer Austin weather, Texans are very friendly and welcoming people, and the area is booming which creates a lot of opportunity. TX is much more business friendly. No income tax, a strong libertarian sentiment, similar social views to SF.

The tech scene is obviously smaller but vibrant. There are quite a few coworking spaces and a few incubators. There's at least one tech meetup / event every day of the week. SXSW.

Like any city it has its weaknesses. North south traffic during rush hour is terrible. Our public transportation isn't great. It's very much a car city. The pickup trucks take some getting used to (I still find their proliferation odd). Housing costs are going up but IMO are still very reasonable. Much, much less than the bay.
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The polynomial remainder theorem - remainder of  p(x)/(x-a) is p(a)
Issues like this are the reasons I moved to Austin instead of SF. The CA government is bonkers.
Tell that to a rabbit.
Not to reach for the big "let's invent a new policy" stick, however does wikia have guidelines for those contributing articles where there is obvious life-and-limb danger to subjects, and by-proxy contributors? Also, don't contributors have some basic moral duty to not reveal things (0days, troop movements, etc.) that puts others in immanent danger?