skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would someone who achieved success by leveraging capital and connections he got on Wall Street have been equally successful pursuing a path that would have barred him admission to that particular club?

Who knows? The only possible answer to that would be utter and sheer speculation, and fairly pointless as far as I can see. But I don't see any particular reason to assume that he couldn't have been equally successful had he chosen a different route.

My point isn't that what Thiel did is the only way to success, or even really that Thiel is being a hypocrite (to be fair, I find nothing wrong with hypocrisy). My point is that Thiel is a bad messenger for the message he's conveying. A guy whose success is the product of careful path-following, and a guy who works in an industry that still clings rigidly to its credentialing tradition.

Ok, fair enough. Not sure I agree that he's a bad messenger, but I get what you're saying. Let me ask you this though: What - if anything - could Thiel do now (or around the time he launched the Thiel Fellowship initiative) that would make him a good messenger in your view?
Wow! Anyone know the stack?
They should play up whatever the person does 90% of the time. For Engineers that could be demonstrated by the following profiles: GitHub, TopCoder, StackOverflow, Quora, etc. Just get right to the heart of what they do and what their skills are in a way that demonstrates those skills. That's what's missing. Everything else, and most of what is currently used, is a misguided attempt to gauge or estimate what really matters by asking about everything other than what matters.
Camera snobbery, pure and simple.

The 18-55mm kit lens you get with the Canons (at least the 300D, 350D, 400D) is capable of good photos -- if you know what you're doing and work with the limitations of the lens.

But that applies to every lens and camera.
I'm sure people were telling him to kill himself only because they were jealous of him. People are dying for attention, and the fact this kid got it for being a nerd, hit them hard.

Honestly, I'm sure everybody would have wanted to do the same, imitate darth maul or others. He was just the first to do it.

BTW I wonder how the 2 nicely done lightsaber videos were inspired by this or not.
Thanks for letting us know! We are actively working on Bokeh, and the version that's there is still pretty early-stage. This will definitely improve in the coming months.
This is a good one :)

The numba code isn't as pretty as it could be because slicing doesn't work for overlapping memory regions or wraparound indexing yet, and we don't have inlining :(

Here's what I get on a 2.6 GhZ Intel Core i7.

I rewrote your code to minimize memory traffic, then jitted it with numba:

def usr_numba(x, y, S, num_best):
m, n = x.shape
best = np.zeros(num_best)
best_low = 0.0

for i in xrange(m):
d = abs(x[i,0]-y[0])
for j in xrange(1,n):
d += abs(x[i,j] - y[j])
d = 1.0 / (1.0 + 1/12.0 *d)
if d > best_low and d > S:
k = 0
for k in xrange(0,num_best):
if d > best[k]:
break
for l in xrange(num_best-1, k, -1):
best[l] = best[l-1]
best[k] = d
best_low = best[num_best-1]
return best

_usr = autojit()(usr_numba)

In [1]: import numba_usr

jitted kernel checks out

N = 1000000
usr (s): 0.233645
numba (s): 0.0115586
20X speedup

N = 2000000
usr (s): 0.566954
numba (s): 0.023487
24X speedup

N = 4000000
usr (s): 1.14992
numba (s): 0.0472016
24X speedup

N = 8000000
usr (s): 2.34968
numba (s): 0.092601
25X speedup

N = 10000000
usr (s): 2.96395
numba (s): 0.116032
26X speedup

N = 20000000
usr (s): 17.4779
numba (s): 0.236304
74X speedup

For the case aschreyer is interested in, I see a 24x speedup from half a second to two hundredths of a second. For a really big problem (2 x 10^7), numba is still well under a second and the numpy code is starting to really suffer.

My full code is here: https://gist.github.com/ahmadia/5550933

I'm putting it into a wakari notebook so you can actually check me on this :)

Edit 1 - Made the speedup a little more comprehensible (and fixed gist)
> "The penalties for both are the same, and are specified in the same paragraph without distinction"

Take a look at the required elements of a takedown notice, and the required elements of a counter-notice. Look at which statements are made under penalty of perjury. There is a noticeable lack of equal protection there. Nowhere is the accuser required to perform any kind of due diligence to ensure that they have a justified takedown notice.
You have a point there, I forgot about that part. That being said, those were other kids, and it's rare that teenagers impress me with their social behavior. I'm not entirely sure I believe what pg says in http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html, but it does offer as good an explanation as any I've heard.

I'm actually more concerned that his friends abandoned him afterwards. Kids are fairly resilient, as long as they have someone in their corner. I would imagine losing his friends over it hurt more then some random classmate telling him to kill himself.
This very long NY Magazine piece meditates on that topic, "Why You Never Truly Leave High School": http://nymag.com/news/features/high-school-2013-1/

I can't remember if the author states any scholarly work to support the idea, but she talks about it at length. One thing that I think is well established is that kids mostly being around other kids all day is a relatively modern phenomenon. It's a long piece, but it resonated with me.
> All "cyberbullying" does is prevent the bullying
> from stopping when the kids go home.

It also changes the jurisdiction for the bullying. School policies and enforcement cover bullying that happens in school. Off campus, however, it's less clear. It might still be covered by the school's rules. It might be a private matter between families. It might be a legal matter.
damn! now what I'm I supposed to do now with all of my cooking recipes?

Seriously, I think I will go back to the old school word document for storing stuff, you can't trust services like this to last. Does anyone have a recommendation of a paid alternative that won't close?
"Adolescence is the onset of adulthood before the capacity to function as a real adult in the real world is reached."

In the past, adolescence was the onset of adulthood, period. In many parts of the world that's probably still true. It's our modern society that keeps young adults trapped in childhood until they're 18-21+.

That aside, I think it's the parent's responsibility to make sure their kids develop the capacity to function as adults by the time they have to start dealing with this stuff. Unfortunately that often doesn't happen, which leads to the problems you describe.

Maybe what we need to be doing is teaching the parents how to teach their children to be adults, through a medium that reaches both the parents and the children. We need "How to be an Adult" video games on mobile phones, perhaps.
At least here in the Midwest, yes a bedroom must have a window. For example if you want to finish a basement so you can say your house has an additional bedroom, I believe you need to add/finish a basement window-well.
That's not actually what the Crockford link says [1] it talks about using array and object literals in place of `new Object()` or `new Array()`. Which does indeed seem faster [2].

[1] http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/11/13/javascript-we-hardly-new-...
[2] http://jsperf.com/new-vs-object-literal
>> It's more than any other electric vehicle and they are actually leading sales in their segment of cars.

More than the Nissan Leaf?

A quick search of the Nissan Leaf's sales resulted in 9,819 in 2012. For this year, YTD in April was 5,550. This is US sales only.

--edit--
Worldwide sales of Nissan Leaf hit 50K in February 2013.

Granted the Tesla is in a different stratosphere as it relates to price, and in that market it's really doing well, considering the market that can afford a $90K car is much smaller.

Sources:

http://insideevs.com/will-leaf-sales-hit-1-of-nissans-total-...

http://www.hybridcars.com/nissan-april-leaf-sales-second-bes...

http://green.autoblog.com/2013/02/16/nissan-leaf-tops-50-000...
> You shouldn't encourage the use of 'value || defaultValue' without clearly, explicitly pointing out that this will prevent the use of falsy values as argument values - including 0, false, and an empty string... all values people actually want to use in some cases.

Perl dealt with this a few versions back, and now they have an operator for "defined-or", // [1]. It's useful.

This makes it easier to correct the wrong (but common) way to supply default values for undefined/unpassed values:

# Old wrong way
my $foo = $bar || $baz; # $this will never be used if "falsy": 0, '', undef, '0E0'

# Old right ways
my $foo = defined $bar ? $bar : $baz;
# Or
my $foo = $bar;
$foo = $baz unless defined $foo;

# New way
my $foo = $bar // $baz; # Uses $baz only if not defined $bar

[1]: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Logical-Defined-Or
Hi HNWe recently launched nimbata and would really love your feedback
Thank you in advance !
I know I feel so bad for them. We are working on some temporary fixes (including caching which as we all know is really easy to do) and changing the way we isolate the code submissions so we can get more throughput. GNUStep might be an interesting long term fix.
Image processing backend is java, website is scala + play framework ( http://www.playframework.com/ )
That's probably a good thing, no? You probably feel discontent because your mind is telling you that you should do something about the situation. Either correct the injustice if it is an injustice or invest in yourself more to put yourself in a situation where you can be earning more. If you are a company where the workforce is in high demand and you are not paying your employees enough to stop them from thinking about these situations then you are going to start slowly but surely swapping out top talent for mediocre talent.
You must have to really love New York to pay such high prices for places like those. I don't mind living somewhere small and not particularly nice but those places seem terrible.
what's the speedup in english?
RequireJS! :)
>Overtesting is more or less a thing in the U.S.

I don't believe that. Over the years I've had to fight to get tests that turned out to be important, and I'm suspicious of government studies showing "overtesting" right when the government is in the process of taking over health care.

You can certainly eliminate a lot of testing without affecting mortality rates significantly. But that's because in absolute terms a lot of extra people have to die before mortality rates are affected significantly.
Maybe on r/vim, but on r/emacs it seems that Emacs is, by far, the most used text editor in the whole world!

What I mean is that it's hard to know which editor is the most popular, it really depends on the communities you visit
Ken Regan, who is some kind of computerologist, has a really interesting post pointing out that TSP is actually one of the easier NP-complete problems, and even an O(n) solution only reduces the interesting NP-complete problems to really hard polynomial-time problems.

http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/the-travelling-sale...
I'm actually working on extracting all the content for just a plain HTML version so people who don't want to do all the challenges will have something to read (it's almost a books length of content)
can you elaborate? what is in there with this domain name for salesforce?
Of the factors that I consider when I decide what city I want to move into, apartment size/price is pretty far down on the list. Those who weight those things differently will of course not live in those sort of places. Neither is more correct than the other, nor does one require more reevaluation than the other.
Thanks for the feedback, Paul! As to your points:

1) I'd have to look into how I would make the "tap and hold" to select text work. In the meantime, if you long press on a comment and click "Share", it will bring up the sharing menu. Then you can select to either share a link to the comment, or the actual text of the comment (which you can then email, SMS, open in Evernote, etc.)

2) That's coming when I have a chance to work on the app again (busy busy!)

3) It's that way to save horizontal space when you're on a phone and the comments get nested deeply. Was it particularly confusing as a first time user?

You can email me if you have any other questions or just open an issue on Github. My email and Github are in my profile.
Do you want to make yourself more valuable to future employers or do you want to build something for yourself?
Introduction to Javascript workshops in Seattle, WA
I went searching for a great article I read on this lately but couldn't find it: the gist is that until schools become de rigueur, adolescents never spent time together as a group as they would be at work/apprenticeships whathaveyou with adult 'supervision'. It's a new phenomenon that leaves delicate minds in a Lord of the Flies situation. The study I read showed that even the 'cool' kids thought they weren't cool and the various coping mechanisms have been fodder for hollywood movies and novels since the last decades.
I consulted for Clipboard very early on. Gary Flake is a really smart, talented and drive engineer. I'm glad he got a chance to see this through. Sorry it didn't gain the kind of traction I'm sure the team was looking for. I hope some of their tech can be worked into the salesforce stack and will continue to live.
Thats a pretty loose use of the term hackers.

Anyway i thought it was pretty funny.
Disqus Email Digests: A Rant
In Dublin, the operators of our light tram system (the Luas) were forced to add bells after several collisions and near misses with drivers and pedestrians.

Cars are smaller than trains.
Sad, kickstarter for porn site raises $280K for creators (1/10th a Zach Braff)
What are your goals? For the next year? Five years? 20?
Retire at 40? Start your own business? Start a family? Get in shape? Become a professor?
Your goals will help to shape you self-investments.
If you don't have goals, perhaps take some time think some through. Without a goal framework, determining the ROI of your alternatives will be difficult.
It usually isn't legal to rent a 'bedroom' without an exit window. The NYC rental market is underregulated, overregulated, and corrupt. This page demonstrates this well.
Not sure what there is to elaborate on. It's a 9 character, properly spelled dictionary word, one that resonates highly with anyone who has ever cut-and-pasted something on a computer.
Works much better than I expected it to, so props. Brush size could be smaller though.
Web Startup Directory
I hate both or those language, so I guess I'm good with this.
For me, the help popped up for an instant but then instantly vanished. Does it only appear during upload/init? That process can go quickly…
Just because we memorize a whole lot (which I agree with) does not mean that language is likely to be "pre-programmed" in the way that SHRDLU follows explicit, exhaustive rules. Formulating such rules requires planning because they are brittle, and this does not seem compatible with the way language acquisition happens.

Also, after accepting the premise that humans exploit an enormous store of data in language use, there still remain very difficult questions about what kind of representations we have available, and how powerful the search and recombination mechanisms are.

Memory-based language processing exists for some time now, and while it is useful, it is certainly not the final answer to "the central problem in NLP" (whatever you define that to be, I'd suggest ambiguity resolution).
Fits their trajectory of content sales across different devices. Bit of a shot across the bow of Apple's lackluster iBooks.
Tell us what tech you are using and we will tell you why no one wants to work with it.
Great service, worked well, looked good, team of developers, everything free.

It seemed this thing was headed for acquisition from the start.

I'm done using these sorts of services. If it doesn't run within my Emacs / Vim / Unix workflow then I won't bother, or I will build it myself.
I'm fairly certain the "Breakfast Nook" is renting JUST the nook at the very end, and the kitchen is a shared space.
I really love using clipboard.

If SalesForce has some "forces" in it, they shall simply let a small team of 1 or 2 people to just maintain it.

Or at least, opensource it.
I hope that that never happens. CPython is still pretty readable, and reference implementations should be simple and easy to learn from.

Actually, I'd like it if somebody hacked up a very very simple and naive Python interpreter and nominated that for the reference implementation instead.
From the article:

"Tiger parenting doesn't produce superior outcomes in kids"

Not to point out the obvious, but correlation doesn't equal causation. It could very well be that the worse grades a child gets, the more reason the parents have to become "tiger".
YouTube launches paid channels starting at $0.99 per month
Numba is not Numpy.
See also Derek Sivers, Version 0.1 = Start lo-fi
http://sivers.org/lofi
Students build robotic locker opener for disabled classmate
i haven't noticed, but facebook's real name policy doesn't seem to deter terrible comments.
The Python Foundation should really give some money/developers to these guys
You can make the brush size smaller by zooming in.
If I was you, I would probably pick up some hardware and do EE projects. I absolutely love electronics and hardware, but can't afford to buy any of the equipment involved so I saturate my free time with programming. College is like a horrible curse for EE fans, all this free time but don't have any money to afford the equipment required to fill up that free time with interesting projects.

There's loads of exciting stuff you can do with hardware. Some projects I really want to tackle include stuff like fancy led-embedded business cards, disposable USB sticks, and an autonomous drone that can deliver take-out. There's sooooo much cool stuff you can do, but the equipment required is pretty expensive, and mistakes can be costly.

If you want ideas, hackaday is loaded with them.
http://hackaday.com/
Youtube starts paid subscription
It's good old capitalism making money from "treating" sickness. The longer the better. A lifetime of "treatment" means a lifetime of profits.

Who cares about the cure.
More important forward progress provides precedent and momentum.

If chipping away at the DMCA turns out to be popular enough more politicians will be likely to do it.
Yeah, it should probably be a little smaller (and note what happens when you zoom in)
What Science Says About The Traits of Great Leaders
Going on one limb here - The vision of Clipboard per Gary William Flake (who is an awesome guy, btw) was laid out while he was working on similar ideas at Microsoft. There were already a few prototypes which I am sure, Microsoft (patent generating machine) would have patented. So, either Clipboard folks have filed a ton of patents as Gary continued to pursue relevant ideas at Clipboard, and are sitting on valuable IP, and SalesForce is buying IP + Gary + Team or just Gary + Team. Acquisition price would be higher in the former scenario (not sure by how much % though)
Ah, yes, and some JS for the frontend... ;)
>Not sure what charity really has to do with it. Americans aren't going to willingly give money to "help the poor" to the extent that medicare does.

"Medicaid" is the program you're looking for, not Medicare. Anyway, Americans did willing give money to "help the poor" get medical treatment. There were various organizations that operated charity hospitals (Shriners and the Catholic Church come to mind) where you paid what you could pay, and Americans donated generously to keep those hospitals running. It was normal for doctors to put in some amount of unpaid time in charity clinics because that was considered the right thing to do.

But the government crowded all that out, and since it's been a few generations people don't remember.

>I would imagine that the US is also among the greediest countries in the world.

This isn't even close to being right.
And there's nothing wrong with that. Not everyone needs their work to be the central focus of their life.
Unlikely. SFDC acquired Seattle-based Thinkfuse last year, who had a great product that people LOVED, and shut it down:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/25/salesforce-acquires-techsta...
You should look in NJ (specifically Union City, Jersey City, West New York).

I live in Weehawken and spent all my energy looking (for months) in NYC. After living in Astoria (amazing neighborhood) for two and a half years, I decided I wanted more space.

Benefits of living in NJ are:
1) More space
2) Cheaper rent
3) Nicer apartment for the money
4) No NYC residents tax (anywhere from 2-7% depending on income level)
For people interested in this exciting topic, see e.g. Chapter 5 of Szeliski's book.

http://szeliski.org/Book/drafts/SzeliskiBook_20100903_draft....
You can pay for Google Apps, which has Drive, which has Keep.

https://drive.google.com/keep/
This isn't rocket science people. I raised >10k (in Durham no less) and didn't spend an extra $100 on a crowdfunding weekend.
It really depends on the video. I still see people spouting stuff straight out of Stormfront and calling people fat and blah blah but for the people with channels with following? I do see a change. I think the bigger deal is that YT finally brought up a system to deal with the troll commments by downvoting. You only really see them when you click "show anyway" now.
Cancer is one of those sickness where you either cure it, or you die.

Problem is, for profit companies seeks "treatment" to maximize profit, they don't seek the cure. Hence no progress on cancer.
YouTube glitch
We only auto-show it during that time. The hope is that it triggers you to click the button if you need it, but lets you ignore it if you already know the drill...

(all these wonderful tradeoffs between "first visit" vs "repeat visit" - and what if it was missed the first time, blabla... )
My average sentence length of 15 came from a bunch of literary novels. The non-literary fiction had even less, at 11 words. There is obviously quite some variance here, but actually it shouldn't matter for a parser because humans appear to parse in linear time (given a well written sentence).
I get the impression that Google Translate is strictly doing it in a Bayesian sense.
For example, the recent "he praised the iPad" debacle. [1][2]

[1] http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38538
[2] http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/04/google-now-and-google-trans...
Cold fusion was reproducible. What are you suggesting we do here?
Open Source Enterprise MBaaS platform: Get Started Guide
>'hyper-revolutionary'

Seriously? Even if it lived up to its hype and everyone started wearing them, it would still only be a usability improvement on a mobile phone. That is a far from even revolutionary let along 'hyper-revolutionary'.
Hmm, yes. For that price, that would make much more sense.

Even so, it could be fine with the right roommates (is that mess made by the previous tenant, or the person/people that would still be living there?). If the kitchen is a shared space that price could actually be fantastic if there is further shared space that isn't pictured (though I doubt there is).
Status cats.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/girliemac/sets/7215762840946712...
Is anyone else getting an error?

"Network Error

We are having trouble connecting to the server. The following tasks have been unable to complete:
Connecting to worker	"Unable to connect to the worker."	Waiting"

This is occurring after I drag and drop an image
Adding a "step-back" button (even if it was only a few states), and the ability to increase or decrease brush size would greatly enhance this. Great start though, and something like this is much needed for a lot of people who may not know an image editor, or don't want to open it for something simple.