skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no money in doing really useful things. As long as that's true, lots of smart people will instead find debatably somewhat useful things to do that pay more money.
If you spend enough time trying to debug systems that are communicating in binary, its an ability you start to pick up, especially for small numbers.
Oh, I guess so. I'd be much more concerned about my password than my credit card.
I like this as a more systematic starting point, with more direct application than the high-level conceptual approach I gravitate towards.

One quibble -- I would prefer non-negative(!) terminology, i.e., what is a "nonsymbol"? A collection? A monad? A duration? An event? A process? A closure? Some category that encompasses all of these? If so, can we find a positive semantic rather than negative?

>> Object-oriented programming hasn't stepped away from the full space of nonsymbolness-- and that's a big part of why it's so damn hard to reason about it.

Well, this gets back to the ancient problem of "The Third Man" and categories in general, right? One must categorize and "contain" meaning, trap it in language a moment in order for it to remain meaningful, but paradoxically the external thing that it symbolizes is always changing, so it's always escaping any semantic trap we set for it. This of course has practical (concurrent) implications in software as well as the high-falutin metaphysical stuff Plato was talking about.

These days I'm starting to wonder more about how we may not be using state-machines quite as effectively, or as often, as we might -- changing functionality more aggressively as the data changes, in order to move towards a better analogy with the ever-changing "real world" that software is trying to model. Might this be more self-aware starting place to integrate functional and object concerns -- both of which are necessary?
They're the only ones fighting to defend those rights. They're also the only reason highly political positions, like state and municipality workers, can not be fired when the new political powers take over and want to provide patronage.

But I guess if you willfully deal with the government as an employer, that's your own fault, right?
I know, I have to work harder as always, even a rock star has always to learn something ... but my point is that many bad designers are dribbbler and many good designers sell their invites ...

I will work harder ... thank you...
You obviously don't understand the subject matter
>My point was that if you call apple increasing over the course of 1 year, you might double your money if you're lucky. It's much more likely that the HFT operators will outperform you, as they have over the past decade.

These results don't seem related at all. You buy stock at price A and sell and price B (B = A+X, hopefully). What does it matter to you that other parties made money (perhaps more than X) while the stock was going to B? Institutional investors have always been more savvy about the market than retail ones. I don't see how them making money around the edges changes the calculus for "the rest of us."
keyboard nav, screen readers - there are many ways of interacting with a non-touch browser that will never fire onmouseover.
Such a good idea! Thanks for sharing
Hey, thanks for this, this is awesome. I have been playing a bit with just some basic ruby scripts to shoot cards down to the device and your Sinatra examples on how to handle subscriptions from Glass look really, really helpful.
Vundle is what I use.
we did a chrome extension for that
https://github.com/Ninja-Pheasants/ftw
enjoy and help us to fix it.
Shut up, destraynor ;)
Not quite sure what you mean - have you tried ScreenSend?
Pathogen—as mentioned—is great, but I've switched to Vundle and find it easier to manage.
By those standards, many companies will be worth billions ;).

(Chunking is not exactly new and PCFG parsing is pretty fast these days.)
This is inbound marketing at its best. What a great way to tell the tech community you're hiring.
Happy to help, Ben! If you want to do some more complex stuff I also published a basic Rails scaffold: https://github.com/jonmarkgo/GlassRails
Cloud Academy is hiring a "Creator of Cloud Awesomeness"
Some others might call this "community manager", "content creator" and the like, but we like the other title much more!

Are you one of these people that always engages with others? Are you passionate about cloud computing, and technology? Are you able to create compelling content (videos, presentations, how-tos and the like) that would drive people crazy about you? Do you like being mentored, but at the same time have a great level of independence in your decisions?
This is the role for you!
Instead of the usual, boring list of requirements, we just want to see if you have the mojo for this. Create a 5 minutes video, with your voice over, in which you explain one of the following platforms:

a) Amazon Web Services
b) Microsoft Azure
c) Google Compute Engine
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We will evaluate your video and if we love it, we will contact you for additional interviews. Good points will be assigned for good pronunciation, high quality, engagement. This video represents half of your hiring process: you better nail it right!

At Cloud Academy, we like to trust our employees. You can work from home as much as you please, as long as you stay in touch with your team. You can pick any software, OS or technology that will do the job, as long as we love the results.
To apply, send an email to an anonymous address, like jobs@... No, let's do it better: email our CEO, Stefano Bellasio, at stefano@cloudacademy.com.

If we decide to hire you, we will contract you for three months; if we love you even more after this initial period, we will hire you full time.
Salary for the first three months will be 6,300 US$. Salary for the full-time position depends on how great you are.

At the moment, we strongly prefer to hire someone living in the European Union or United States and with work permit to work there. If you live elsewhere we might still consider you if your video is pure awesomeness. Surprise us!
Touch screens can trigger mouseovers, and desktops might not. At any rate, it doesn't seem practical to assume everybody is on a touch screen until they mouse over the page.
This article keeps asking 'where do they go?' The better question is 'where did they come from?'

You don't see a ton of 55 year-old developers because they'd have been going to school in the late eighties, before most colleges had CS departments, and well before it was apparent that there would be permanent demand for an enormous fleet of us.
You're mixing things up a bit. The government can't search things without a warrant where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy. This applies to even things like DHL packages, the government can't tell the DHL delivery guy to hand over a package to them.

On the other hand, it's not a privacy violation for the DHL guy to voluntarily turn over material to the government and the government to use that as evidence against you. Think of the stereotypical "guy at the photo lab" who notices that someone dropped off child porn to be developed, you (sadly) used to see that in the news yearly, and no one thought anything of that being turned over to the government.

In some cases third-party services have privacy protections added by law. E.g. the cellular communications interception thing, it used to be very easy indeed to intercept a cell phone call just by sticking up an antenna. In 1994 the law was changed to make it illegal to intercept those calls in most scenarios, and require search warrants even for that "public transmission" of communications (but the law also required cell phone companies to make it possible to wiretap, the "CALEA" provisions).

Given how strictly regulated banks are I would be very surprised if there are not similar laws providing some semblance of legal protection to the contents of safe deposit boxes, but I'm not sure and don't have time to Google it.
On the flip side, maybe in the future computers take the money out of the finance industry. As things become automated, the function Wall Street provides, allocating capital, should in theory become cheaper relative to the rest of the economy. Say one day maybe computers will replace VC's: instead of pitching, you plug your information into a web page and get an answer as to whether you're getting funded.
Vundle (https://github.com/gmarik/vundle) is good enough for me.
It's because Firefox doesn't support mp3 via the HTML5 <audio> tag due to licensing IIRC. IE supports mp3 but not ogg. Chrome supports both.
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Actually, if you sell one of the SLA's, I imagine you would hire a VA or other service to answer the phone, forwarding the clal to you only in a true emergency.
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The natural problem that arises is how to handle many social networks at the same time? I can think of many different specialized social networks to cover my interests but if I don't have a few or a single "console" they will be impossible to handle. Sometimes I need to post to LinkedIn and Twitter, sometimes to Google Plus depending on the audience.

I've written some articles about how I see this future integrations but being self critical I think it is impossible without full APIs. I also wrote recently an article using similar concepts for challenging Google http://blog.databigbang.com/letters-from-the-future-challeng...
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Doesn't seem to work on firefox or chromium.
> How is this surprising? We've completely taken the free-market out of health care. The only way it will ever be solve is if we re-introduce market forces back into the mix.

The theory of free market efficiency is based on low-entry-barrier wide-open competition, and perfect advance knowledge of costs and realized utilities by both buyers and sellers. There's lots of goods and services for which this is close enough to reality for the theory to mostly hold, but there's not much reason to think that healthcare is among them (and comparative quality and cost measures among real world healthcare systems don't support the idea that its a market where more "market forces" equals more efficiency.)
I agree with you. I'm a little confused about the "outrage" about Photostream.

It's basically just a wireless USB cable that automatically imports into iPhoto based on the month. It's actually been 100% perfect for me. When I plug my phone in using USB to transfer the videos over, it tells me that it already has all the pictures, then it imports the videos, then offers to remove the already synced photos and videos from my phone.

Once everything is in iPhoto, I have been curating an album from a vacation then sharing it with myself using Shared Photostreams. That way I have the trimmed down and edited album available on my phone and iPad.

Maybe people are asking it to do something it was never designed to do?
I'm not sure how saying that Somalia has a government and then immediately saying that their government is completely ineffective is at contrary to my point though.
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This is cool! but this presentation has one of the worst examples of chrome's windows font rendering issues i've seen..
chrome:
http://i.imgur.com/DT6qDKg.jpg
ff:
http://i.imgur.com/bUG6sxi.jpg
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And then bake the URL into confectionery and call it a PyPIPyPyPi pie.
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Just make a page that's both touch and mouse-friendly. If you do that, support for people who don't have fine motor control, and support for pen input, is included.
Don't forget government power. One person alone can not effectively negotiate with a local, county or state government, let alone the federal government. On top of that, government salaries are often so significantly less than corporate salaries that government employees can't afford attorneys who know corporate and labor law.

> Maybe the answer is to get rid of corporations?

Hyperbole aside, there is no silver bullet to the situation as it stands. And I'm not informed enough to make any claims as to what could fix it. I just find it horribly hilarious when unions are made out to be so evil and corporations are made out to be the good in any fight. Unions at least have the interest (to a degree) of their members to protect, corporations just care about profit.
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Complacent? Get in on HFT if you feel that it's making it unfair for human traders.
> Are you blaming them that you ignored the advice?

uh, their advice was to NOT change the name, which could be interpreted as

a) they wanted us to not lose momentum or

b) they wanted to set a trap for us in the future

probably all of the above.

you probably skipped more than just a couple lines of my story if you didn't even catch that little detail. read it again, the style is casual but it's fairly fact-dense.

i wasn't the CEO, i was just a kid. i probably would have changed the name.

and it might shock you to learn VCs/lawyers deal with different people differently. you look like an oldconnectedwhiteguy from your linkedin profile.
This is a general law of marketing: You can't be the best at everything, and the more you dilute yourself the more other laser-focused competitors will cut slices from your pie.

Tangentially, Google could have played upon this with plus, if they had made into the social foundation for others to create verticals to rival with Facebook. Too bad they didn't go this way.
Oh yes, what a horrid selfish man, trying to feed his family and make a business for himself. Not like generous, giving, open source-loving Apple!

Give me a break. The guy's made something amazing. Good on him for charging for it, making a success of it, so much so that we now have a version 2.0. This would never have come from some lousy half-hearted Apple mailing list.

I am happy to pay for this product, and I do not blame him for keeping it proprietary. I just don't see what your point is. It seems like you just want something for nothing and are dressing that up in some unlikely open-source clothes.
Yes, I have corrected this typo. Thanks
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The goal is acquiring information and, in this regard, Google is one company that has extended themselves into many areas but seem to keep their focus pretty well. They may be an outlier though.

As for this article, I'm reminded of a similar story with a different point of view posted on Medium: https://medium.com/understandings-epiphanies/aae8d5f880cc

I do question question the long term value of social networks that operate under what has become the traditional advertising model as teens move towards apps that are more privacy conscious.
I studied Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (OR) in undergrad and grad school. Traveling Salesman is one of the classic OR problems. It's fun to see OR make it on the silver screen.
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I think it depends on type of phrase, but yes some phrases will not seem good because it is still based on searches from Google
That's a straw man rights and responsibiltes are different things.
Judges create case law, over and over. Common law was created that way, and tons more is created that way every day.

I don't know why you assume this is better that popularly chosen law.
Annnd... we're reddit.
It is great to understand this stuff. But people don't. And I am personally of the belief that p-values are popular exactly because they are so easy to misunderstand as the answer to the question that we want to ask (what is the probability that we are right).

That said, if you need to use p-values in A/B testing, you might want to read http://elem.com/~btilly/ab-testing-multiple-looks/part1-rigo... to get a procedure that gives always valid p-values, and then http://elem.com/~btilly/ab-testing-multiple-looks/part2-limi... for a more practical alternative and the caveats. (I still intend to return to the series, but not for a bit more.)
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Moving beyond the multiple typos, broken English, and weird linebreaks,
which are extremely distracting and majorly detract from the author's
points --

Author's analogy (Prop. APIs == Patents) is completely false.

These juridical and technical restrictions and
business dependance [sic] with specific licensing
defined by ToS are a new kind of patent.

I call bullshit! If anything, APIs are protected by copyright law,
which prevents copying.

Not to mention that a patent is protected by the state (hint: that's
why it's called the United States Patent and Trademark Office),
whereas Terms of Service are contracts between private parties that
are entered into voluntarily.

The basic right of a patent is that of exclusion -- i.e., excluding
others from "practicing" your invention (usually defined as producing,
offering for sale, or importing).

However, if you don't like some company's API, there are perfectly legal
ways to clone the backend service and construct an API that is basically
identical.

If there is a monopoly power on behalf of proprietary APIs, it's created
by market inertia and NOT by a state-granted artificial legal
monopoly.

I'm getting a little sick of non-lawyers getting away with posting
stupid analogies with linkbaity titles. If you want to attack the
patent system, fine. But please, for the love of God, do 10 minutes of
research first.
0111111 got me to an ASCII version of the logo
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Zencoder is hiring: Ruby, C, or cloud ops at high scale
http://cdixon.org/2012/11/23/some-problems-are-so-hard-they-... seems to to have the graphic as well ;-)
Oh I so wish someone in Google+ team would hear the stance about hover, and why to avoid them. When I want to follow an author of a post, I have to play maze with my mouse, and often I just abandon the task in the middle.
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If your job is to make Wordpress websites and you don't know how to make Wordpress websites, then you should not be making Wordpress websites.
Could be fun if "what if..?" movies like this were made with an accompanying short (same actors, set, etc) following the alternate answer to the key question. In this case, the dramatic gathering of the 4 smartest men by the government to answer "P = NP?", and they proceed to answer the question: "General, we have proof of the answer. P != NP. Some things really are really hard. Good day."
Like browser toolbars but even more obnoxious
Don't know wordpress? lucky bastards.
Without qualification, I'm afraid what you're saying is parlously close to mere verbiage. Even the most ardent climate sceptic does not object to solar, wind or water energy under certain conditions. What is 'Going Green' then? In the UK it currently means, for instance, paying wind farms a million pounds sterling a day to produce no energy at all. Meanwhile poor people die because they can't afford to keep themselves warm thanks to horrendous energy bills punped up by huge subsidies to the likes of windmill owners and owners of land, hosting windmills.
Does anyone really need another flight-search startup?
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You have completely missed the point.

Charging for software is not a crime. The point is that he lied to the open source community about his intentions.
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If you code C#, OmniSharp is quite awesome:

https://github.com/nosami/Omnisharp

Real intellisense, find usage, refactor, etc.
My understanding is different, so please correct me / supply missing information.

From what I understand, the average length of a typical written sentence is n = ~27. OK, this is small by itself, but Stanford Parser (lexicalized PCFG) I am using needs about 1 second to parse a sentence of this size. Imagine how slow that is on a computer time-scale by comparing it to string-length operation on the same sentence.

I do encounter many sentences that are as much as 100 words long (and reading them myself, find nothing wrong with them). At about four times the length, these take about a minute to parse!

I am trying to find information about speeds of other PCFG parsers, including Collins, Charniak, Berkeley, etc. I understand dependency parsers are faster but also generally lag in accuracy.
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Many times, we have some information that we want to dump quickly, for short term use (i.e. TODOs). Other times, we have structured information that we know we won't use often, but we need to save anyway for later access (i.e. code snippets, connection information, cheat sheets ...)

justnotes.cc solves that issue. I was tired of using messy desktop sticky notes. And most online software is clunky and uses the infamous tree structure. All of them make it hard to quickly create base structures such as tables and columns.

I wanted something HTML based, clean with the ability to quickly search for information.

I hope you find a use for it!

What do you think about it? Comments and suggestions will really help me at this stage. Thanks!

http://justnotes.cc
So, this is what the programming equivalent of "Mom in X learns $5 trick to remove wrinkles"?
Sadly, analog design seems to be becoming a lost art.
43 and still laughing. Teaching my 6-year-old to make the sounds. All is well.
Looks like theyre from boulder , colorado since you n eed to have requisite pictures of mountains
If you don't like RubyMotion, then don't buy a license. Plain as that! Thanks Laurent, Shizuo, and the FANTASTIC RubyMotion community!
Oh boy, here comes another bookmarklet ...
I just thought I would point out that the guy you're replying to is actually one of the top contributors to MacRuby.
Moral turpitude is a legal concept in the United States and some other countries that refers to "conduct that is considered contrary to community standards of justice, honesty or good morals." -Wikipedia

Looks like they don't want anything but "good american boys" entering the country.
World of Warcraft lost over a million subscribers in the first quarter
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What makes them not practical? They are more practical for a majority of people, who drive to work, drive home, and drive around the city on weekends.
I would say that including two audio assets for the same sound seems like a code smell.
I suppose that I'm the only person that expected something along the lines of a mathematical calculator that is designed to be in the public domain (FOSS style).
I'm not sure I understand this. Is RubyMotion just a set of wrappers around Objective-C classes to allow you to develop applications in Ruby? If so, why? Is the point to allow Rubyists that don't want to learn Objective-C to develop applications in Ruby?