skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the stigma of made in china being cheap or second rate is largely gone now

Do you actually live in America, or are you just speculating? That's an absurd statement for someone who actually lives in the US.
Thank you, that was a much more detailed response than I was expecting.

Would it be correct to assume, then, that a pure ML would allow HM to be trivially modified to support the equivalence?
"We were surprised to ﬁnd a signiﬁcant eﬀect of Python experience on the probability of making a very speciﬁc error (base = 0.13, OR = 1.44, p < 0.5). Instead of [8, 9, 0] for their last line of output, 22% of participants wrote [8] (for both versions). After the experiment, one participant reported they mistakenly performed the “common” operation on lists x btwn and y btwn instead of x and y because it seemed like the next logical step"

I made this mistake too. In fact, even after reading that most people wrote [8] instead of [8,9,0], it took me a solid minute or so to figure out how anyone could possibly think the correct answer was [8,9,0].

This is something I've noticed happens very often while debugging. I make certain assumptions about the code and even when staring it right in the face it's hard to see where my assumptions differ from the code as written.

My assumption in this case was "why would you calculate the between lists if you weren't going to use them right away".
No they are against them because the money for vouchers comes out of the public school budget.

I know of one state in which vouchers were opposed by the teachers' union, even though public schools would still receive full funding for every voucher student they didn't have to educate.
It sounds kind of interesting, but before actually making any attempt to explain what it means it ends with "Sign up to our thing to get the answer". Not even a whisper of "An alternative way".

So, just an advertarticle.
I've built an anti-spam system for Delicious.com using Naive Bayes classifier with a really huge feature database, think tens of millions, mostly tokens in different parts of the page, those features are given different weights which contribute to the final probability aggregation. The result was similar to what the OP achieved - around 80% accuracy. The piece of work was really interesting and satisfying.
With chrome it is just in packaging problem - thus chrome is not open source nobody can fix it on their own.
Not really, because Emacs is not hooked up to other languages, the extension part mostly come in elisp.

I was describing a "toolkit" like approach, not an extensible base. Think of it as a "set of libraries" vs a "framework".

Emacs makes what I describe difficult. You cannot change the editor. You cannot add a different GUI on top. You have to do most of the extension work in elisp, etc.

I would prefer a set of libs a Ruby guy can hook up with Ruby and extend, a Python guy with Python, etc. Not a one-size-plus-extensions-fits-all.
Provo doesn’t know where its fiber is, Google has city spend $500,000 to find it
I agree with the middle one being the most readable (assuming you have python experience).

But isn't it obviously returning a list? It's a list comprehension!
>Remembering to celebrate birthdays and other important life moments (makes our team feel connected)

If you don't do it genuinely, then how is it anything else than hypocrisy?

I mean if you don't care enough for the guys at the team to remember their birthdays in the first place?
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I'm usually waiting till the phone recognize the caller :)
Huh? They're right there on the right, below the delete key.
Absolutely the worst advice. I've worked for multiple small companies and consulting firms that got screwed because they didn't have a contract. Do not do this. A contract is not bulletproof, sure, but not having one just means that nobody thinks they have to pay you.
This is ridiculous. For those interested in the topic a much better discussion can be see here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450424
I think that almost literally 50% of the cars in the 20-space parking lot where I live near DC (including my own) have a Hyundai badge.

The turnaround in both perception of quality and actual quality has been amazing.
Current challenges in the free software ecosystem
Indeed. Many times "burnout" is really depression. Talk do a doctor.
The New York Times paywall has hit a growth wall
Good companies should not have a single point of failure. If they do, the only way they'll learn to live without you is if you're not there.

Just take a break. Go somewhere that doesn't have cell phone coverage. (Alternatively, just turn it off when you get on the plane and leave it off until you get off the plane coming back.) Don't pay for internet. I did that a few months ago on my trip to Italy. Best. Vacation. Ever.
I found that parnes rule used as an awful hack a lot of times. I use it only when the parens are naturally placed, but there are people that just add two parens to avoid one backslash... completely insane!
I was thinking along those lines the other day.

I guess the biggest hurdle is that people essentially think "functionally" not procedurally

Because we fundamentally think x = x2 in terms of "the value is being doubled" without thinking of all the steps needed and everything that can go wrong there.

The article is certainly interesting, from what I can quickly glance, naming is very important
Relative value - understand it.
> Mailbox.app is not a complete security failure because of one hack that requires physical access

The problem is that we take mobile devices with us every place we go. So physical access is not difficult to obtain.

This really is a big deal primarily because the developers of Mailbox.app did not take steps to even obfuscate the stored data...which would deter all but the most determined of attackers.
Lawyer perspective on non-licensing (it' dangerous): http://tieguy.org/blog/2013/01/27/taking-post-open-source-se...

Non-lawyer perspective: http://waxy.org/2011/12/no_copyright_intended/
just wondering. Is there a difference between the different carriers?
>We need to have more research like this.

There is a lot of research done in this and other areas of Software Engineering. Problem is that it's usually locked away behind a huge paywall. If you're not affiliated with some university, you essentially have no access to it.
I am not sure if I understand you correctly. Is it ok if I ask you for an example?
Ask HN:Clear text passwords? (www.referralkey.com)
So I've gotten a link from some business relation that pointed to referralkey.com, I forgot I even had an account there, so that's my bad, I was curious why the business relation wanted to connect so I wanted to log in, but of course I didn't remember my password, I requested my (what I thought would be) new password, but they instead sent me the password I entered in the first place (I know it was my password because of the format) in clear text...
You need to read Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

Merely having the source available for review is hardly a guarantee of safety, without a way to verify that what's embedded in the ROM and microcode is identical. And why should Australia pay to make this verification when it would bump the TCO higher than competing kit?
IBM Solar Collector Harnesses the Power of 2,000 Suns
>You hear that and you just know that their mental process is just broken, no amount of time spent in prison is going to help.

It's not really different to what idealists and reformers have said throughout the ages.

If you accept the belief in a deity, then nothing about it sounds broken. So, it's not more or less "broken" that Pascal, or Ghandi, or whatever believed in a God.

And even if you don't accept that belief (ie. think all religious people are "broken"), it's not really different to a revolutionary saying he doesn't recognize the judgement of the state court, etc.
OTOH, my entire house is fluorescent and LED. My monthly electricity bill is $65. For a house! I never have to replace burnt out bulbs. At $13 I'd guess the LED is actually about at break-even over the life of the bulb vs incandescent unless you're buying incandescent in the big packs of 30 bulbs for $10.

The only gas in my house is my central heating, and my old water heater. I plan to replace that with point-of-use electric tankless units. No more waiting 2 minutes for hot water at the kitchen sink! With a $3,000 grid-connected solar kit I'm pretty sure I can get to near $0/month on electricity, even with the electric water heaters and the Nissan Leaf I just bought last night. ;-)

It's the future brother. Stuff lasts longer, provides a better experience and is cheaper. It's win/win/win. The environmental wins might not be all that dramatic with the impact of production factored in, but if you're in it for the long haul I figure you can still feel OK about it if you were up to replace a bulb/water-heater/car/etc anyways when you make the switch.

PS: Have you seen the price on POU tankless water heaters? Once you have the panel/breaker/wiring in place, they're dirt cheap compared to traditional water heaters.
What bothers me most about elite colleges is that they're based on sheer amount of work, not actual ability.

Thus you get a lot of droids who are good memorizer/regurgitators but not necessarily all that wise, perceptive, creative, etc.

In my experience, schools discriminate against groups which they see as proxies for this group, such as doctor's kids, nerds, Asians, because having too many of them will mean a miserable "is this on the final?" campus with no commitment to learning.
Last time I tried, Cinnamon proved to be exceptionally buggy when running on stock Ubuntu. Also, Mint's default aesthetic is better IMO!
I type many, many more semicolons in C or C++ than I type line-continuation backslashes in Python, so I prefer the option that requires fewer keypresses and less syntactic noise.

Or to put it another way, I'd much rather have to syntactically announce a line-continuation (which happens rarely, and is thus an atypical event that is worthy of note) than announce the end of a statement (which happens every single statement, and is thus to me much less worthy of note).

My reasons for preferring indentation-as-block over brace block-delimiters are similar: The indentation is a much more subtle, unobtrusive, un-noisy alternative to braces.

Furthermore, when I code in C or C++, I indent (and brace-delimit) everything properly, according to a style guide; so if I'd be indenting the block anyway, why not make the indentation syntactically meaningful, to save me some keypresses and slightly decrease the syntactic noise?

Plus, for bonus points, brace-less blocks mean I never need to play the brace-matching game. ("Have I got an extra/missing brace in there somewhere? Put the cursor on the brace and tap `%` until I work out what's out of place." True, it doesn't happen frequently if you keep your blocks and functions small, but I'm quite happy to avoid it altogether.)
I moved from front end work to back end work for some very simple reasons a) in general it pays better and related b) front end guys are far move common so the backend has less competition.

Work, as I have become older, is more and more just a business proposition.

Plus it puts me further away from those guys that think HTML/CSS is programming. :)
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I think we're a couple decades to a century away from public perception allowing this.
I'm not an expert (just a physics prof), but my understanding is that LEDs always emit one specific color (wavelength) of light rather than white light (which is a mixture of many wavelengths). So if you want to use an LED to produce white light, you set up a material that absorbs light at one wavelength and then re-emits it in a wide variety of wavelengths (that is, the phosphor).

(This is also the way that fluorescent bulbs work: the hot mercury vapor inside produces invisible ultraviolet light, but the phosphorescent coating absorbs that UV and re-emits it in a range of visible wavelengths. And it's no coincidence that they're using a blue LED with a short wavelength: in general, a phosphor can only re-emit at longer wavelengths than it absorbed. That may imply that these bulbs emit little or no violet in their "white" light, since violet has a shorter wavelength than blue.)
Switch To Mobile Devices Drives Striking 14% Sales Decline In PCs
> Problem (as with all academic papers) is that, it's usually locked away behind a huge paywall.

This may be true for research in other domains but as a researcher in Computer Science I can assure you that the number of academic papers locked behind a paywall is negligible in CS. Only once was did I find a paper not available and I promptly received a copy by sending an e-mail to the authors of the paper.
Fuck-You Money
In reference to the first line of TFA - does anybody know where one could get that shirt?
Vayable (YC S12) is hiring engineers who love travel
Is the list publicly available ?
Hi Oren,

While there is a difference between carriers, but it seems to be only slightly. What we found was that geographic location was the greatest indicator.

We were actually quite surprised by the results ourselves.
If you're looking for deadly munitions and you find just a scrap of raw explosive compound without any mechanism to explode it and make it deadly, that's a false positive.
I have heard of the stories of an army of huawei engineers being sent on site and working non stop, packed 20 in a hotel room. Do you think this gives them a huge competitive advantage
I've always just used ctrl-alt-arrow for ubuntu (and other nixes)- add a shift and the current window comes along for a ride. When did this break? (I'm still on 12.04 LTS)
Make sure to state what price you're assuming for electricity when making these claims. The cost of electricity in the US can vary by a factor of 3-4 depending on where you live.

I'm sure it's worthwhile for any heavily-used light even in very cheap areas, but the specific breakeven time will vary quite a bit.
I'm getting a few detailed responses :) Unfortunately, I'm getting conflicting answers. I'm having trouble wrapping my head around why App+Abs couldn't be equivalent to Let in the absence of the value restriction.
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I don't think I've insulted anybody. As for bullying, you're doing just fine.

If your motivation is to improve the world the world does not owe you anything.
So I'm wondering how well this bulb would do in the L-Prize competition[1]. It looks like they have a number of testing requirements, but their primary goal is to have a good lumen output and lumen/watt ratio. It's run by the US Department Of Energy. Consumer Reports[2] started testing the previous winner[3] of the L-Prize competition.

[1] http://www.lightingprize.org/

[2] http://news.consumerreports.org/home/2012/08/first-look-at-t...

[3] http://www.usa.philips.com/c/energy-saving-light-bulbs/ambie...
May I ask which one you're with?
Yep, we have trolleys in my city and they work OK. Still less popular/more difficult routes are served by regular buses.
“You're telling me Braff doesn't have 3.5 million to finance this thing or get a loan from a traditional outlet/rich friends/George Harrison's Estate? It sounds like this is his pet project, with him starring, and him getting most of the profits, but he wants his fans to take all the risk? Seems off to me.”

According to Braff, the $2 million he’s asking on Kickstarter won’t be enough to cover the entire production. On Twitter:

@zachbraff: 2 things for pple who are very upset about this Kickstarter campaign: I'm putting TONS of my own money into it.

And then there’s this Buzzfeed article[1]:

How much of your own money are you investing?
“I don't know. It will depend on how much we raise, and who I do end up casting. Let's say we raise our goal, which is $2 million. If we only raise that, that's not enough to make the movie. There will be some element of selling some foreign [distribution rights] to meet the difference, and where that falls is where I will be splitting the difference. I'm going to make this movie in August come hell or high water. Wherever we fall short, I or some element of foreign sales will split the difference.”

[...] “There's always going to be detractors. The people who would say, "Fuck him, he should pay for it himself," I don't expect those people to be the supporters of this project. I get it. But if you scroll down [on the Kickstarter page], you'll see the person who's like, "Garden State meant a lot to me, I'm dying to see what this guy's up to next, I'm in." Those are the people I'm making the movie for. It's not a scam. If I wanted to make dough, I'd go back and be on another TV show.”

[1] http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/zach-braff-on-why-kickstar...
Hard to say if it is protectionism or there are legitimate concerns. Most smartphones and computers manufactured by companies like Apple, Dell, Lenovo have their factories in China. What's the guarantee that those devices are free from hardware hacking? The hardware is so complex nowadays that it is near impossible to detect if you have a chip or a circuit to do something malicious.
For more, the Scientific American article on hardware hacking here: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-hacker-...
We talked about this a month or two ago here.

The amazing part of this bulb is not it's watts or it's cost.

It's that a manufacturer finally put it's warranty where it's mouth is.

With a 10 year warranty I will actually buy it compared to the Phillips.

BTW I've yet to have a cheap chinese led 110v bulb last more than 3 years.
Basically, LEDs are typically mono-chromatic, i.e. they generate light within a pretty tight range of wavelengths (what we perceive as color).

There are two ways to get white light (which is light of "all" visible wavelengths) from a LED: combining a red, a green and a blue LED, or using a coating that when energized by (typically blue) light, in turn reacts and emits white light.

You can read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode#White_ligh..., of course.

Note: I'm just an (embedded) software guy with a hobby interest in electronics. :)
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I'm not sure how revolutionary this is mainly because I live in a state the subsidizes the cost of energy efficient light bulbs and the IKEAs sell $10 60W equivalents.
Twitter Should Shut Me Down
Cached version:
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Huawei's chairwoman, Sun Yafang, worked for Chinese intelligence before joining Huawei.

Source(s):

http://jeffreycarr.blogspot.com/2011/10/huaweis-chairwoman-w...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fSL5mPB_18Q/TphTDDqd2OI/AAAAAAAAAI...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/11/chinese-tele...

http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/osc/huawei.pdf
Cree offers its bulbs in daylight and soft-white variants. I've seen in-between bright-white 60W LED bulbs as well, but usually for about ~$6 more or so from other manufacturers (mostly Philips).
Lessons Learned from Connected
Looking for early adopters, feedback or any suggestions
www.tripxplore.com
The health and life cycle of tech products
The Admission Arms Race: Six Ways Colleges Game Their Numbers
Please tell me you're using CFLs as the very least. Yes the upfront price is higher, but these bulbs actually pay for themselves in approximately two years and they start saving you money after that and not to mention time from not having to buy and install new bulbs.
The article proceeds from an assumption that all violence is inherently evil: indeed, that evil and violence are more or less synonymous. I question this assumption.
I am a teacher, and I have been a hobbyist programmer all my life. I am just now starting to apply my programming skills to education problems.

At PyCon 2012, pg asked developers to fix search, email, and universities. When someone asked him about fixing public US high schools, he said something along the lines of "Don't try to do that, it's too hard." He really meant that it's too hard to base a profitable startup on fixing public high schools. He was not against efforts to improve public education.

No one will "fix" public education, just like no one will "fix" email. The only approach to large problems like this is to create something that helps people solve the core problem in a better way. Then take over "market share".

I believe public education is ripe for a revolution. The revolution won't happen by entering the political arena with a loud voice. It will happen by educating a statistically normal group of students in a way that can easily be scaled.

I believe that "easily scaled" means every tool involved in the process needs to be completely free and open. There is so much friction in education, that we need to make adoption of better methods as easy as registering a new account on a website.

I am working on a simple trio of open tools that I believe has the capability of bringing about widespread change. Briefly:

OpenCompetencies: A tool that allows a school to manage its own system of standards/ learning targets. One school's system can be "forked" by any other school, at any time. The concept of forking is clear to us, but does not exist in public education. OpenCompetencies also identifies "pathways", which are paths through the entire set of standards, focusing on particular post-high-school interests.

OpenCurriculumBuilder: A dedicated lesson-planning tool. Most lesson plans are still written in Word, which is like programming with an old version of notepad. This tool lets teachers focus on the intellectually interesting parts of lesson planning. It supports sharing by creating a common format for curriculum plans. It supports long-term revision by separating data from presentation.

OpenStudentTracker: This is a tool to import all the competencies from OpenCompetencies, creating a personal "map" for a student's learning. When a student completes their map, they are finished with high school. The map can be owned by the student, or a parent or school on the student's behalf.

I gave a lightning talk at PyCon this year about these tools, which was well-received. If you are interested:

PyCon lightning talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

Brief blog post on the topic, with talk slides: http://peak5390.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/lightning-talk-abol...

Github repository for opencompetencies: https://github.com/openlearningtools/opencompetencies
Are javascript frameworks suitable for content websites
MV* JavaScript frameworks are the latest craze in website development but are they really more suited to app development rather than content heavy websites such as bbc.co.uk or guardian.co.uk? Is that approach plain wrong for that type of project, if so which approach is better suited?
"People copy stuff they like. They don’t copy stuff they don’t like. The more a work is copied, the more valuable it becomes. Value isn’t taken away by fans, it is added by them, every time they copy."

Awesome quote from the article which I wholeheartedly agree with.
No I don't believe so, the original "source sites" are all done by court order, so people like ORG have reported on them, but clone sites, and new DNS names for existing sites, are simply blocked by request of the BPI.

"Once a site is blocked, its alleged clone sites can also be blocked, but in this case, BPI will be able to practice this without a court order. The decisions would be made between BPI and ISPs and will not be published."

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2013/bpi-fenopy-block
"[update: invasion in a sense as to coerce a country to achieve desired result by hook or by crook]"

That's not even close to invasion if that's what you meant. I really can't imagine that anyone would come close to invading Iceland just because they host a domain.