skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They way I understand it is that the money is in specialized hardware. Today already using GPUs is counterproductive for mining. The money made doesn't pay off the electricity used. So the era of specialized hardware has come. The .gov or some such entity with large black budgets could be in a better position to spin their own specialized hardware that doesn't nothing but try to manipulate the block-chain.
Yes, that decisions look dirty and dubious, but using funcy for several months, I've come to that practicality and convenience is worth it.

Some of itertools things are just reexports and builtins are extended purely - so that they behave the same given same arguments - with negligible performance overhead.

Anyway, if you are such a purist you still have at least two options:
1. just `import funcy` and use it as `funcy.map(...)` or `funcy.keep(...)`
2. Import only functions you use, avioding name clashes, use `from funcy import map as xmap` to import extended builtins.
He said they have the same business model. Business models are abstract.
There are (simpler) models you can use that allow you to explain how the system makes decisions. Namely, the naive Bayes classifier makes it extremely clear how much each component of the input vector affected the classifier output.
I think the parent comment is saying that, once I'm done prototyping with Fries, I'm going to move to native technologies, so I'll have to learn two systems total—and, since the parent comment asserts that prototyping in native technologies doesn't take too long, it wouldn't save me much time to use Fries, especially if I have to take the time to learn it.
Hope, trust, opportunity, and Mogadishu
We have a saying, "If you're getting too many emails, then you're not good enough at Gmail."

Especially with keyboard shortcuts, I can glance at the important emails, check any others that catch my eye, and then archive/mark the rest. Priority inbox, labels, etc. became almost automatic mental cues to check or delete email.
Facebook’s iPhone Culture Builds An Overzealous Home On Android
This honestly made my day. There's really no beating

"1964 - John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC, an unstructured programming language for non-computer scientists.

1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964."
Well, you have to have at least a few computers in order to store, index, and analyze all communications in the world, right? puts on tinfoil hat
"Buzzard" isn't an eggcorn I've ever heard before! Did you mean "buzz word"?
Well I bet the Indian cities would've been better if there wasn't Europe and US to live in. Most people who can't stand the filth and the misery of others, just leave.

To an extent, this is also about the poor man's education, specially about values. Out of planet, people and profit, just profit matters for most. Of course this also leads to corruption. I feel this stems from a general feeling of injustice in the country, where people feel they've been wronged in general, and now doing the wrong thing is the only right thing to do.

If a solution to this problem of values is to be sought, it would lie in the long haul route of educating people. A different type of education where values and morals are asserted more than skills and achievements.

Why the upper class is displaying a complete apathy towards these mass problems is a belief that things are not going to change, no matter what. The class divide plays a role here, a distinct detachment of feelings about the average poor man and their living conditions.
A Case for Grade Inflation in Legal Education
Using dumb math, using Butterfly labs, it would take less than $5 million to match the network (87000 / 50 * 2500).

Titan (the current #1 supercomputer) had a budget of around $100 million. Clearly, the comparison is stupid.
How does the reply feature fix the chronology problems? If you want to make a comment that refers to two previous comments, where do you put it to guarantee it stays after both of them?
my uncle died of a pot overdose :(

edit: look, I'm entirely sorry about the appeal to ridicule. It's a shitty way to get a point across and I just look like an asshole by doing it.

I get that addiction is no joke, however your problem is not the same problem caused by the drugs in the article, and your failure to quit the pot is entirely of your own pattern of behavior. Find another peer group to associate with.

I guess what I'm frustrated with is the on-going prohibition, which was brought about by the same exact type of alarmist bullshit. So you have problems with your choices in life, that does not mean that everyone else has that issue, or even a significant sample.

Let others have the freedom to make their own decisions, the same sort of freedom that was decided during the first great experiment with Prohibition. We all know what happened there. I think people are starting to realize what's happening now.
The mindshare issue concerning the size of Github and the momentum that gives Git seems to be the largest barrier to Mercurial in a lot of ways. I can't really imagine Github supporting both hg and git in the way that Bitbucket does, mostly because it doesn't have to.
Hi edtechdev. I'm the author of grimwire - thanks for posting.

You have it pretty much covered. The intent is to use REST as a unified interface for remote services and local programs, much like Plan9 did using the file-system. The Worker programs should be compact, stateless Webservers that can be reconfigured into multiple use-cases. You can compose by doing things like embedding (UIs should be self-contained) hypermedia discovery (using programmatic link navigation) and proxying. I'd like for it to be possible to take (eg) an inbox interface program and attach it to a bash-piping backend (rather than a webmail host) to create an in-browser CLI. Not sure if that's a good idea or not, but you get the idea - a good grim app can bend.

The other major goal is to detach the Web app frontend from the back - to improve privacy, to let users improve their Web software, and to enable decentralized architectures (which I talk about in the article). A major factor in doing that is the security model, which would have to become more fine-grained than the single-origin policy. Web Workers make it possible to run untrusted code, and privacy policies can be built by monitoring HTTP traffic (all of which go through the document) but I should make it clear that there's a lot of work to do on security still, so stay away from untrusted code when you use grim 0.1.

I've still got about a month of shaping up to do, including doc-writing and getting some pre-freeze feeback from devs. The only documentation that's current is in the build (http://grimwire.github.io/grimwire/) and it's in progress. Please ignore everything else, including the stuff in the GitHub readme and wiki.

If you're in Austin, I'll likely be speaking at next month's JS/Node meetup (http://www.meetup.com/noders/) so please join us.
The most workable concept at the moment is basically a powered parachute/paraglider trike beefed up to be like a dune buggy. I always felt this was cheating though, because when I hear "airplane" I think of a fixed wing design.

EDIT: ... which is exactly the design that crashed. AFAIK these don't require a pilot's license, but that doesn't mean they're easy to fly.
5 Things That Will Make Your Agile Development Project Fail
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For those who may come across this, I have added some extra stuff to let you watch how the power method converges (or doesn't converge) to the PageRank vector. Just click the "Explore Convergence" button over there where the PageRank vector is written out.
Personally I think Facebook was too laid-back about this. I don't think they should have just been pushing Android phones, I think they should have made developers carry around something like a Galaxy Ace 2 (in other words, approximating what the median Android Facebook user has).
Checking More Than One Box: A Growing Multiracial Nation
The important things to include are:

* Your name and location (so they know you are a constituent).

* The name of the bill and the bill number.

* Your stance and why you feel it is important.

It can't hurt to ask your Congress Critter if they have a stance on the bill, then you can share that stance with others if it doesn't match yours.
Hammer Quest
Talli is to mother as Amma is to the mama word from the article. Interestingly, 'mama' in Telugu is uncle.
Statistics involves checking modeling assumptions. A lot of what I've seen with the big data people is the repetition of algorithms to the exclusion of understanding and checking modeling assumptions.

While it's nice that the big data craze is making statistics more popular in the mainstream press, it is important that statistics does not become just an application of numerical methods without consideration of underlying assumptions. I stress this because this has been largely underappreciated in my experience.
Pandora’s digital box: End times
Badly designed, too. I cannot believe it has no propeller cage, that's asking for an accident.

I always felt that calling this design a flying car was cheating this was cheating -- when I hear "airplane" I think of a fixed wing design.
Yeah, that's horribly overpriced. You can get a nice powered paraglider with a fancy trike for well under that.
Heraclitus rules.
> Why would they? They don't need that much general purpose or floating point performance anymore, because it's reasonable for them to just fab their special purpose own stuff.

Indeed, the NSA has their own fab.
parasail != paraglider/parachute

Sad because they mention the name of the actual vehicle, which has "powered parachute" in it.
New Closed-Captioning Glasses Help Deaf Go Out To The Movies
A worse system (read: hack) is to put variable amounts of dots in your email address when you sign up for something, because Gmail strips dots from your account name when delivering your mail. It requires you to remember or write down who got what amount of dots though.
The borrower, the taxpayer, and anyone who holds dollars shoulder the risk to one degree or another. The "lender" has only to move paperwork in order to reap a profit. Can you not see that if the lender had to assume some risk, then the lender would probably lend more to high paying, high demand job skills, and less to skills in saturated market segments and unproductive skills.
dewitt said "Oracle has used exactly this business model to great success, and obscene profit, for over 30 years". You claim that business models are abstract. Perhaps, except in the case where the words "exact" are used, and a specific company is named. I, like SeoxyS find the paradox of Oracle being accused of helping businesses to be "me-too" copies of Google - a company half of Oracle's age - amusing.
Hardly. Bitcoin ran just fine on CPUs. The only reason nobody uses CPUs to mine any more is because everybody else switched to GPUs, which resulted in a difficulty adjustment. In other words, competition for bitcoins upped the required compute power, not anything inherent to producing bitcoins themselves.
I wouldn't mind multiview becoming the norm with official Android API support for apps made to support it. I didn't realize Samsung made it opt-in, but that makes much more sense and calms my fears about it. We can already have multiple fragments displayed in an app, so it would make sense the next logical step is to have multiple apps open with some limitations and restrictions via official support in the Android API.

Just curious, but did support for it (for Google Apps) come at the Note 2 release or after its release?
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lets match mentors and mentees
Very well articulated.

I'm a kid who came over to the US for higher studies.
All these problems are deep-rooted in our culture. The culture doesn't encourage innovation and curiosity is shunned in most of the schools. Kids get into this rat race of scoring high grades without even realizing it.

(I'm going to go off on a tangential rant here onward):

Sadly, it looks like most of us are proud of it. And the ones who come over to the US are bringing this culture over with them. I was a TA in a top 10 university for a Compilers course and the number of these purportedly 'smart' kids that you could observe the Dunning-Kruger effect on was laughable. Most of them were frankly deluded into thinking they were these amazing engineers. Their primary goal was to get a job at Microsoft/Google/Amazon. None of them had the curiosity to find out how a compiler actually worked. They just did the bare-minimum necessary to get a good grade. And not surprisingly almost all the students I busted for cheating were Indians.

My plea to the kids coming over to the US at the risk of sounding unpopular: You're culture has failed you. Our culture doesn't encourage scientific thought and reeks ignorance. Please leave that behind with you.

Understand, observe and get inspired by the great scientific culture the Americans have built here. Let's not ruin that.
Pogue on E-book Piracy
For most, I use sneak+tag@mydomain (Google Apps), but for those, they all get bucketed into my special noncompliant@mydomain email to guard against the eventuality of one of them selling me out.
This is a good point. But I would wonder: what kind of democracy/government would be appropriate for a developing country? It should somehow promote stability and development, and perhaps not focus so much on liberty and freedom. This realization makes me a bit uncomfortable as an American living in China.
Bill Gates 2.0
In an effort to Store All the Things a lot of companies have talked themselves into a rhetorical corner of poorly fitting shoes. At this point, we've stopped wasting time when asked about Big Table and NoSQL and instead demo their storage stack on a different framework until their eyes widen.

Then, when questions about how much engineering went into this "thing" that does such a good job of keeping data secure, and so much of it, we say it's built on Postgres.

As DevOps Borat says :
https://twitter.com/DEVOPS_BORAT/status/313322958997295104

How well you can utilize it and how quickly is just as important as what kind of data you store in the first place.
But But But.. If patio11 can corner just 1% of the market (Every teachers and Youth Worker in the world) then Bingo Card Creator will be huge.

I'm sure that's a valid pitch. (And I'm sure the BCC has made more profit that most companies who pitch something like that)
Anxiety in preschoolers
For all childhood education programs anxiety in preschoolers is considered common to sense at times, specifically at certain levels of
anxiety in preschoolers

developing, there are additional times where there may because for problem. So, what actually is regular anxiety in preschoolers and when there is cause for stress?

read more about anxiety in preschoolers ...
They need to do it if the cost is affordable. And the fact the cost of Big Data processing became cheap enough to do it en masse is a driver.

Take a simple example. Every small offline shop will not refuse to count every customers head turn (with direction, angle and frequency), calculate averages, and get sales floor attention heatmap divided by day, hour, age and sex.

If that would cost them $500 one-time fee for 10 cameras and $5/day for the cloud service, and produced by pressing one big green key.

That's the Big Data driver, businesses are opening their eyes to the ability to analyze (cheap!) a huge number of small (and even smaller) factors and make better decisions.
Open textbooks don't always work. The reason for this is that courses differ slightly from university to university. Using an open textbook then becomes and exercise in identifying the parts that you don't require at this stage, which in itself is a bit of pain and a huge waste of time.
I think he understands better than you, quite frankly.
...seriously? Because as far as researchers are concerned, the LD50 is something like grams of THC/kg before you can die, and that was the drug being injected.
Oh totally, I'm a fellow vim user myself and do exactly as you do.

But have you ever had Caps Lock on by accident in normal mode? Most confusing 3 seconds of my life.
For me, "big" data is increasing the linkage between your data. It's not simply more data, but much richer, less formal data relationships. It's taking your sales data and linking it to your website clicks, linking that to the weather (or whatever). Or you take something traditionally static and add a temporal dimension.

This kind of deep linking you can't measure with straight megabytes. A few gig doesn't seem that large, but if it's a complex graph with a complex hypothesis - then, sure - that's big.
Does Thailand even have an official government today? I also respectfully submit that it is very different from India. But I may be wrong on that.

It is fascinating to me how a functional legal system is like 'software' for a good market economy. I hear in the C.I.S. one can show up to one's business and find the locks have been changed and new tough young men are around to explain you no longer own it.
There are two ways to define BigData.

1. The accumulation, integration and analysis of a larger number of data sources.

2. A volume of data that presents challenges running analysis functions across them... Due to the limits of the tools available.

1 is fraught with the kind of statistical pitfalls that are mentioned in the posted article. 2 describes a set of problems and boundaries that are time sensitive. What was BigData in 2006 (to, say LiveJournal or Digg) may not longer hold. As a data engineer, its important to keep a skeptical eye on marketing and make sure we're delivering valuable solutions that increase the bottom line for our business, not just produce "ain't it cool" type correlations.
Your comment reminded me of this recent Krugman post which makes a similar point about economics.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/harpooning-ben-b...
The article's comparison is invalid - in HPC computing speed is as much about the network infrastructure as it is the raw number of cores; simulations and graph-processing require interaction between the processing elements. The scores on the Top500 reflect this. In an embarrassingly-parallel application such as bitcoin mining, their peak performance is far higher.

In fact, the theoretical peak of Titan's 19k GPUs would be around 90 single-precision petaflops, comfortably higher than the estimated peak of 2 million reasonably recent x86 processors in Google's data centers (unlikely to be top-of-the-range number crunchers).

I've worked in HPC with a variety of actors for over a decade; I am in no doubt that classified machines exist with more power than Titan and Sequoia (#1, #2), which together make up most of the computing power in the top500 (it follows a power distribution, appropriately).

An exaflop is still a really, really big number though. I can hazard a few guesses at non-public machines in the US that would reach or beat Titan. Perhaps the US Govt commands an exaflop of power spread amongst several agencies, but I wouldn't place any bets on it.

That the bitcoin mining network has reached this scale is both astounding and depressing. That's an awful lot of computing power going to waste.
The model in question is "convince small and medium businesses that they need to buy my software in order to do things the same way as large companies X and Y and have a hope of remaining competitive". For Oracle X and Y were banks, retail and logistics companies, for the new generation of "big data" vendors it is Google and Facebook.
From my experience in SL:

1) What you can do there is so limited unless you pay $___ (fill in the blank for the price of land, etc.) to build something.

2) If you don't want to pay for land, you'd naturally go elsewhere to check things out -- I looked around, but many of the places I visited offered a very low level of interactivity. You want to ride a cool car in the field? Nope, you do not have permission to do that, and I believe that was a pavilion set up by some sort of car company or something.
Free GoGo Inflight … If You Want to Be a CFAA Test Case
In Mandarin too - mother is 'mama', and father is 'baba'
Yes, but in China Google services aren't nearly as prevalent as they are in the US. Baidu is as popular, so naturally it'd be okay as a default standard.

The Samsung Fascinate (Galaxy S1) on Verizon had Bing included by default, and there were quite a bit of complaints about it - not to mention the fact that the device wasn't too competitive with other devices on the market at the time.

From Engadget's review:

"This was maddening to us. We don't have a personal issue with Bing, but it's not our engine of choice, and we'd be willing to bet that it's not yours either. Now, imagine buying an Android phone -- a Google phone -- only to discover that not only was Google not defaulted to as a search engine, it's not even an option! For us, this is actually a deal breaker. It's fine to throw a new choice a user's way, but to force them into using nothing but that choice seems pretty low. Even on the original iPhone you were given a choice between Google and Yahoo!. Here, you've got Bing unless you want to get hacking -- and most people actually don't want to get hacking. They just want to use their phones. Again, it's not that Bing is a bad search engine, but Google is the standard. If it's not even offered, what does that say?"

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/07/samsung-fascinate-review/
That is a pretty outline with no supporting data.

China has been very nervous about the Indian economy for some time now.
It does seem less awful than other concepts, but still... why? It's a worse dune buggy and a worse airplane than you could build if you took the same resources and built the two separately.

As for being hard to fly, I believe the rationale behind not requiring licenses is simply that you're unlikely to kill anyone else when you crash, so do what you will. At least in the US, licensing requirements for different kinds of aviation scale fairly directly with the number of innocent civilians you can take out if you screw up too badly. Not 100% the case, but a decent approximation.
I agree that burnout is not really in your control when you work for someone. There are games you can play to push out the hard wall, but it is hard to truly regulate it yourself when you are not your own boss.

This does not mean burnout will always happen. It just means your superiors play an important role in managing it.
Both vim and Emacs have interfaces designed before any
serious work was done on human interface design, and like
the microwaves and VCRs designed back then, their
interfaces are measurably, objectively terrible.

How is Emacs' interface terrible? Is it the default key bindings? Is it the lack of mouse-friendly buttons and menus?

Also, when we talk about "measurably, objectively terrible" interfaces, were the measurements made by researchers whose test subjects all had 120+ IQs? Those would be the only measurements that interest me.
I don't claim to speak good english :)

1.) the young generation is still corrupt and apathetic and spineless
2.) assuming your number is correct (which I doubt), 90% of those students who overpaid for a masters are staying in the US
Yeah, but I bet there was a no-road right next to that road.
I couldn't find any references to a "consensus raffle" algorithm, but it sounds interesting. Is there a reference you can share?
1 in 20 ? I'd say most people are addicted to something. Whether that thing is authorized or not is another story, but the whole human race is seeking out what's pleasurable in life , and this often leads to addiction in one way or another. "Passion", "Interest" are just synonyms of addictive behaviours.