skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what 128 is

Route 128 is the loop highway running around Boston.

I do know that much of Boston had no choice but to take a day off on Friday

Much of Boston is not the same as "a large portion of New England." New England is ~14 million people. The affected areas covered about 600K people.

may have cost hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of dollars in economic losses.

Your own link doesn't support "billions of dollars in economic losses." In any event, extraordinary events require an extraordinary response. In any event, I can't see how having those streets packed with cars and pedestrian traffic (as happens on a normal Friday) would have done anything but hinder the manhunt.
Steve Jobs was a leader above all else. He brought amazing changes to the world of technology in the only way that he knew. You can speak negatively because he was extremely abrasive, rude, and disrespectful to some of the smartest people of the last few centuries, but you can't deny that he was effective at what he did. His job, or his passion, was to deliver chasm-crossing products, not to get people to like him.

Perhaps acting like Mr. Jobs is not the most effective strategy in your company, but if you figure out which strategy is effective, and then pursue that strategy as passionately and consistently as Mr. Jobs did, then I do not know how you could fail.
Disclosure: 1st non-founding employee at Upcoming.

Neither Eventful nor Zvents plugs into a social network to tell you stuff your friends are going to, or thinking of going to. They are just sites that list events.

Facebook's events app is 100% social - it tells you what your friends are doing, and you can follow artists and venues. There are comments and such on events. It is also good for non-public, informal events, something Upcoming didn't do very well. But Facebook is useless for searching for events in your area, or for following a particular genre of music or type of event.

Upcoming was sort of in the middle of all of this. Which was part of the problem. It was hard to know what to focus on. I'm not sure the story is entirely that Yahoo was solely to blame for fucking it up. We also made some incorrect decisions. But unquestionably, Yahoo didn't give us the resources to succeed, and prioritized things that had nothing to do with success.
This link needs an NSFW tag...
Hacker News has become reddit.
Well, the abstract of the actual paper (linked up-thread) uses the phrase "entropy maximization". I still don't understand entropy after taking a physics class on it, but I did gather it's more complicated than "order" vs "disorder" in any intuitive sense.
I think it is time to be afraid of the "social" terrorist.
> - It's hard to visualize the output at the intermediate steps of the chain. So if you have "cmd1 | cmd2 | cmd3", you'd have to spend more effort than it has to be in order to see what cmd2 and cmd3 got as input.

cmd1 | tee input2 | cmd2 | tee input3 | cmd3

> - They are limited to text for visualization of output. Most of the time this is good, but what if you want to see a plot of 2D points?

GNU Plot

> - They're typically executed when you press Enter. Sometimes you might want to say "always execute this whenever source file changes."

I don't know how to solve that off the top of my head, but I'm sure you could do it with a small tool.

Although I'm challenging some of your statements here, I do really admire your work on this. Also, I'd like to know what you mean by "make unnecessary duplication optional".
Most mental illness is an illness. Just exactly that.

Yes, we want to blame it on working long hours or exposure to unethical bosses, but that myth just makes us feel better. We like to think that we can avoid mental illness by avoiding mean bosses, like we could avoid cancer if we eat plenty of vegetables.

Unfortunately, that just isn't true.
You judge the technology based on the marketing? Summly had no tech and lots of marketing. SRI had no marketing and lots of tech. I'd rather be SRI than Summly. Take note as to which one got a Billion dollar valuation.
I emailed this article to Marko (http://markorodriguez.com/), and he summerized it nicely as, "Always ensure many degrees of freedom."
This is a great opportunity for Android devs. Just watch as an iPhone app becomes really popular, and then recreate it on Android before the original app makers even think about considering doing an Android port. Sort of what like the Samwer brothers have done with Rocket Internet: http://gigaom.com/2012/04/11/revealed-the-full-extent-of-the...
Generally not.. it is considered against their religious belief to judge others.
Justin Trudeau, the Liberals just wrapped up their public internal vote thingy and he's the new leader. The Conservatives are trying to paint him as the dumb kid who's only in politics because of his dad.

Soon after the bombing, before anybody identified the attackers, Trudeau discussed it in an interview with Peter Mansbridge.

article:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/17/trudeaus-response-to...

Relevant quote:

Trudeau said he would offer the American material support “and at the same time, over the coming days, we have to look at the root causes.”

“Now, we don’t know now if it was terrorism or a single crazy or a domestic issue or a foreign issue,” he said. “But there is no question that this happened because there is someone who feels completely excluded. Completely at war with innocents. At war with a society. And our approach has to be, where do those tensions come from?

“Yes, there’s a need for security and response,” Trudeau added. “But we also need to make sure that as we go forward, that we don’t emphasize a culture of fear and mistrust. Because that ends up marginalizing even further those who already are feeling like they are enemies of society.”
»We all have choices and free will [...]« is debatable. There are probably better times to do this but it is definitely debatable.
I think the difference is that the technologies Steve was so instrumental in creating were already being developed without him. The GUI and personal computer were pretty much already there, he just got to it earliest. Without him these things would have been created in just about the same time span with little difference.

This is distinct from, say, Einstein's theory of relativity, which was a solution from a direction which no one was looking. Everything Steve helped create was already underway.
White hat Boston Suspect captured
Here is a better and more succinct, and mostly up to date version of capabilities and technology. http://www.stremor.com/stremor.pdf
Btw, here's a Wozniak talk that does give Steve a little more credit for his (Jobs' talents) than much of the discussion here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WBX6SACViI
How old is the maxim "the road to hell is paved with good intentions"? And yet how often do we ignore it?

Much of the worst evil in history has been committed in service to a hypothetical greater good, or in retribution against very real wrongs. Germany had serious grievances in their treatment after WWI, for example. Communism, including Stalinism and Maoism, was a response against an extremely unjust social and economic order. Just because you've been wronged and victimized doesn't give you free reign to commit wrongs yourself.
> Unix pipes are awesome and all, but chaining any more than 3 commands gets a little confusing with all of the parameters.

That's what abstraction is for. Make a shell script that hides some of the complexity and substitute the script into the pipeline. No?
I wonder if this has to do with the fact that, since Watsi is a nonprofit, pg can still lay claim to the rather unique boast of not serving on any company boards. (This is as opposed to accepting the position simply because he thinks Watsi > other startups)
Well, technically we are now allowed a limit of 1GB per instance, as of a couple of months ago:

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2013/02/app-engine-175-r...
This description of what teaching is like in Australia deserves a thread all on its own.
>To me he's saying not that we won't learn anything from evildoers, but that it's important that we really try.

I read it the same way.

Though, I don't think it's about literally learning from any individual, but to attempt to understand the underlying mechanisms.
Well, not all of them... I remember there was one native kid who made the news a few years back that had massively telegraphed his plans. He'd made Flash animations of murder-suicide killing sprees and hung around on neo-Nazi forums before he went off.
The older brother was 15 or 16 when he immigrated to the US. That's not exactly a tiny little boy.
I think this deserves more upvote.

The fact Steve Jobs was so successful does not prove being asshole causes success, it only proves being asshole doesn't prevent you from success. Whether it contributed positively or negatively is to be contested.
What precisely makes this particular engine 'the most powerful in the world'? Does it do domain independent named entity recognition with an F score better than 0.8? For what classes of entities? Is it at least adaptable without oodles of training data? Does it do syntactic parsing? With F scores of 0.9 or better? Faster than 200ms per sentence? Across domains? Does it do anything at all in languages other than English? If there is a page on that site where it answers these types of questions I couldn't find it..
But, but, you cure cancer with sugar pills!
When I first saw the title of the article, I thought about Lumosity. And it is about Lumosity!!! When I first saw its ads on youtube, I was like "Are you joking?... Pseudo-science trying to rip money off ignorant people?" The problem with Lumosity is that their claims are outrageous and exaggerated..
Super-Real Mario Kart
This is, as far as I'm concerned, the TL;DR:

Rep. Gohmert: Well, I'm not sure that I would care if it destroyed a hacker's computer completely. As long as it was confined to that hacker. Are you saying we need to afford the hacker protection so we don't hurt him too bad?

Orin Kerr: (brief confounded look on his face) Uh... no. The difficulty is that you don't know who the hacker is. So it might be that you think the hacker is one person, but their routing communications... Let's say, you think you're being hacked by a French company, or even a company in the United States...

Rep. Gohmert: Oh and it might be the United States Government! And we don't want to hurt them if they're snooping on our people. Is that...?

Orin Kerr: No
What are you denying exactly? I am from Australia where they have mixed troops. Yes, it works pretty well.
HUMOR: The Final Tweets of j_tsar the Boston Bombing Suspect 4-19-13
Most likely, an unifying framework of nature would come from cross-disciplinary work. That's almost a tautology. Unfortunately we're stuck in a world where isolated people playing with narrow albeit very detailed views of nature, try to capture the big picture all on their own.

I'm glad physicists can try their luck at AI. I'd be glad other disciplines, even remote, do too. Foreign concepts often bring with them new outlooks on problems that are very fertile and rejuvenating. A little bit more humility wouldn't hurt though.
#2 and #3 support the thesis "BPD > LAPD", along with your other points.

#1 might be countered with "he was a radical Islamic jihadist" (in the worst case).
Please see this article, which was here on hackernews and which gives you a bit more insight into my point of view "Dear brilliant students. Please consider not doing a PhD." http://liv.dreamwidth.org/389934.html
Ask HN: Why is there not a better way to search for houses and apts?
Why can't you search for apts and houses they way you want to?

For example I might want to know

1) which direction the house faces.

2) If it's an apt or townhouse, is it a corner unit.

3) if it have a dishwasher.

4) if it has an open floor plan.

5) if it has an attached garage.

And of course location.

Home searching is something LOTS of people do and right now there seems to be no real good way to do it.
They already have: http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Tech-tagalongs-boos...
Why don't these companies have a scientific strategy running alongside your product/customer/marketing/financial strategies? From a company making bold claims like this I want to see a continual string of increasingly sophisticated trials, each one giving increasingly robust indications of success. Luminosity should be fighting alongside those meta-analyses and investors should be demanding proof points in terms of p-values. Fail (scientifically) fast.
Install the TLDR plugin. Pick a web site. Or better yet go out to project gutenberg pick a book. Tom Sawyer. Push TLDR.
Way faster than 200ms per sentence.

Yes it does most Germanic and Romance languages.

Yes it does domain independent named entities with a a higher score than anything else on the planet. ALL English classes. Medical, Dental, Animal. (that doesn't include Latin uses of animal names) Technical.

As I said we are just stepping out of stealth. I linked a PDF in the comments here.
I don't agree with the idea of the "mad artist," an elite diamond-in-the-rough character who cloisters himself away on manic episodes of hyper-creativity, becomes an alcoholic, and emerges with a genius piece of Art.

Art is a slog. Artists are the ones with enough endurance to churn out shit day after day, refining the best of what they produce. The best artists are social, because that's where the most ideas flow freely.

Most artists I know (writers, musicians, graphic artists) are like this. Perpetuating the myth of the great lone genius is elitist, which is a discriminatory and dangerous ideology.
If you say so. The difference is between a company removing something that was actually useful to a lot of people versus a company removing something not that useful to a few people.

Google has lost the trust of plenty of users and because we still don't like their fucking decision, in your words, that makes us idiots. Right...
It's not "predicting" the future, it's "maximizing" the number of potential futures. In chess, the more moves you have available the better you are doing, generally. But another measure (probably better although I'm not a chess expert) is how few moves your opponent has available. Strictly speaking it sounds like this strategy would emphasize keeping future moves available for both you and your opponent. This is a more idealistic future for many real-world situations but I'm not sure I'd call it the definition of "intelligence".
It's not cli! It can't possibly be good.
> Much of Boston is not the same as "a large portion of New England."

Alright, much of Boston is not "a large portion of New England" but to use your figures, even 600 thousand is still huge. Does it really disprove my point that this manhunt will have enormous economic consequences? Even if our economy can absorb it, we must address the fact that the cost was staggering in proportion to what it cost the bombers to conduct their attack.

> In any event, extraordinary events require an extraordinary response.

Bruce Schneier pointed out, once, that airport security was brittle because it couldn't contain an event to the gate: it had to shut down a whole terminal and often--such as with the LAX evacuations after 9/11, an entire airport. This event shut down the work of perhaps 600,000 for the price of some pressure cookers and black powder.

If it cost a few hundred dollars to shut down 600,000 hosts or terminals on the Internet, we would be looking at ways to improve security and protocols so that such an inexpensive attack could not force such enormous losses.

I think we should brainstorm ways to block this vulnerability. It should not be possible for two guys, 26 and 19 years old, to freeze a major city.
First off, even a book can suffer from irrelevance, aside from being burned. If twas not for the rosetta stone, vast carvings of hieroglyphs would have remained largely locked to us.

But more importantly, I think _why's most recent incarnation is a nod to a perceived solution. It's perhaps not 50 million years, but the persistence of the internet and the protocols surrounding it may give us hope that document stores can still be read in 100 or 200 years. Maybe the code wont run, but we have the logic and the ability to decipher the language. Now, I'm just going to go scribble out a Fortran to Python generator so we don't lose all those handy formula translations :)

EDIT: I also bought a house from a former book collector inheriting a great many old books. Aside from a 1787 edition of Virgil's Aeneid, I can tell you, my ultimate frisbee stat collector from high school has an analog in the book world. I'm staring at Oliver Onion's Poor Man's Tapestry, what a world shaker.
The null hypothesis is never accepted. You can fail to reject the null, but this is entirely different from accepting it.

If you claimed to accept the null in an intro statistics class, you'd probably be failed.
I want to test it
Depends on your customer. Many of these consumer health companies are also at least at heart gunning for reimbursement and payor customers. You're going to need to do more than a slight pivot to keep on sight with that strategy.
CipherCloud DMCA notice to remove discussion of homomorphic encryption
Kinda like doing SSL on GPUs, the need for large batches makes it useless for most workloads.
I don't think that a concept computer costing tens of thousands of dollars that didn't exist outside of PARC's labs with an interface that didn't include dragging as one of its metaphors is "almost" the Macintosh, nor do I see much evidence for a industry trend toward a GUI outside of Apple's efforts and Microsoft's primitive attempts at copying Apple.
Clothing, Textiles... We did recently learn that I missed furniture. Apparently a curio cabinet is not something that I was getting... but we get chest of drawers just fine, and writing desk. We even get all the weird dogs.
As an AI researcher, I rate this paper as CRANKY
http://www.crank.net/about.html
Yeah, that's been my impression as well. They have a few people keeping the lights on, but that's it when it comes to C/C++.

For a company that wants to charge $13K+ for the "Ultimate" edition of their product, I'm not impressed with the current support.
I get a (Error code: ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap) error with firefox.
You have no agenda against him but you call him mentally ill based of what stories that you read on the internet did you know him personally? Go on a road trip with him? Bump into him a the coffee shop? To say someone is mentally ill and doesn't have humility based of of internet articles is pretty classless. To your first question.. I either do not like Steve Jobs, or I feel sorry for him.... I think its pretty obvious which category your in
ido and anything/helm are great for "just close enough" partial matching. Knowing that emacs can do something is just as good as knowing the key bound to the particular command.
It would be cool to be able to download an SDK and build experiments with this without having to email sales and engage in a licensing agreement for the software first. I've always appreciated the fact that SaaS products like parse.com, twilio.com, and stripe.com have a low barrier to experiementation and probably lends to the reason why so many solutions today use their technology.
Whelp, that's completely unreadable to me. Undergraduate computer science fail.

I got as far as "the model of this physical process of entropy can act as a search function for lower entropic states, which given some poking, can resemble problem solution states".

It's the poking part that is problematic.

>To better understand this classical-thermal form (11) of causal entropic forcingwe simulated its effect [12,13] on the evolution of the causal macrostates of a variety of simple mechanical systems: (i) a particle in a box, (ii) a cart and pole system, (iii) a tool use puzzle, and (iv) a social cooperation puzzle

I am wildly unqualified to comment on this paper, but it's suspicious that you would jump to a "tool use puzzle" and a "social cooperation puzzle". It yields a really fun result and a fun way of talking about cognition, but it seems unsurprising to say that once you describe a problem in the physical terms of this framework, your framework can then solve the problem, as in,

>We modeled an animal as a disk (disk I) undergoing causal entropic forcing, a potential tool
as a smaller disk (disk II) outside of a tube too narrow for disk I to enter, and an object of interest as a second smaller disk (disk III) resting inside the tube

The notion that currently understood physical models can act as a learning system, given the right parameters, is really cool and exciting, and there's a great simplicity and metaphoric appeal to it.
Steve was one of the best product guys this world has seen. The same qualities that this article complained over, were the qualities that also allowed him to provide the world with all these gadgets. There's two sides to every coin, and no one's perfect.
I can definitely see this happening. I've never gone insane (thankfully), but when I was younger I have at times gone overboard in trying to please the higher-ups.

It becomes a negative cycle, because you think you're going to blow them away so much with your effectiveness, that they are going to bring you into the boardroom and make you a co-executive of the company.

And when they don't, you just work harder and bring even smarter ideas to the table. And they still don't (they say "thanks", but they don't rearrange their whole world view and make you a key player in the company).

The fallacy is this -- you are waiting for other people to recognize your brillance and "crown" you. You may indeed be brilliant -- I'm not disputing that.

But you can't wait for someone to "crown" you. If you have what it takes to be a key player in a company, then start one (or at least, apply for jobs at that level). Whatever field you want to get in, go do stuff in it. This waiting for external validation is the flaw.

When the higher-ups start benefitting from the work of someone like this, the temptation is way too strong to simply keep the machine cranking as long as possible. And they know how they got into the positions of power they have -- they "went out and seized it", they didn't wait for someone to hand it to the because they deserved it.

So they wouldn't know how to "crown" someone even if they wanted to. The world just doesn't work that way (granted, with some few exceptions). There's no "process" for promoting someone 10 levels because you discovered they are brilliant.

Instead, those at the top took it upon themselves to say, "Hey, I belong at the top, and I'm going to insist on it." Some of them over-estimated themselves, and some didn't. But even the ones who really do belong at the top did not wait to be "crowned", but decided for themselves they belonged there.

At the heart of it is an irrational need for external validation before you pursue the rightful level for yourself.
I can't be the only person who wanted to write this:

tl;dr
This is why lucid dreaming would be awesome. You'll always have time to think when you're asleep!
Aye. I imagine it would be bad form to deliberately choose Jury members all from one religious group anyway.
imo, the sentiment of this article is better articulated in discussion of his biography. Not sure why its presented as an edgy opinion. ie, http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/be-a-jer...

"(Jobs) was not the world's greatest manager," Walter Isaacson said in a recent interview with 60 Minutes. "In fact, he could have been one of the world's worst managers."

"Being an asshole was part of the Steve package, but it wasn't essential to his success."

etc.
tried it, hit compile and had dozen of corrupted object files. not to mention intellisense doesn't work.
Most writers I know are unsociable alcoholics, much like the stereotype.