skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's a definition of "supplies"? Keyboards + Monitors + Hard Drives + Motherboards + Cases are supplies for Computer Systems. Musical Keyboards + Cables + Stands are supplies for a band.
>The robotics lab at GT's College of Computing is insane.

Right there is one of several reasons where having physical access to College of Computing facilities (e.g. robotics labs) would help justify the cost of the full on-campus MS degree program, as differentiated from an OMS where you may only have remote access to a subset of CoC facilities (e.g. compute clusters).

EDIT: As per rsander's link posted in this thread[1] GT plans to go from 300 on-campus students to 10,000. Without a corresponding bump in facilities, it would seem that MS student projects would (naturally/obviously!) take priority over OMS projects. More specifically, OMS students may have to be resourceful with the money they're saving and rent/buy their own resources for computationally intensive projects.

[1] http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/14/georgia-tech-a...
Cash is difficult to tax. I don't have a friend in the fed.
I think the use of these heuristics doesn't necessarily contribute to the success of these matches. Essentially, you get people who don't really believe they can be "matched," and instead use these sites as a way to meet new people. Then you have the people who desperately want to believe they work and work to make that "match" work out. Adding words like "algorithms" and "science" behind this process is nice as a virtual ice breaker (i.e. "Hey, you like Game of Thrones too? That's awesome.") but essentially, the people who end up in a relationship are the ones who can already see themselves being with whoever they're matched up with.

That isn't to say that any of this is bad. And these sites do a pretty great job at that ice breaker, but I think it's the anonymity that is really key here. Starting off with a small bit of information, and eventually learning more and more about a potential match. Let the social identity act as a means of verifying real people, I guess, but don't expose that. Let users do that for you. And in turn, it might make people find more interesting matches - people they like talking to before maybe even seeing them. Just some thoughts off the top of my head.
Re-implementations of QuickCheck exist for C,[2] C++,[3] Chicken Scheme,[4] Clojure,[5] Common Lisp,[6] D,[7] Erlang,[8][9] F#,[10] Factor,[11] Io,[12] Java,[13][14][15] JavaScript,[16] Node.js,[17] Objective-C,[18] OCaml,[19] Perl,[20] Python,[21] Ruby,[22] Scala,[23] Scheme,[24] Smalltalk[25] and Standard ML.[26]
There are equivalent testing frameworks for non-functional languages.
Yes good point, for announcements Apple typically won't divulge a whole lot, but it's strategically important to drive the message (i.e. key features/capabilities), and then saving the rest for later. At least that's my observation, and I can't fault them on that basis.
> you can still transfer bitcoins

So would one rather be holding BTC or USD right now?
See wahsd's reply just next to your's :)
Gt alum here. Gt is a great school, but who says that is a forecast of how well an online class will be?

Online classes have been around for about a decade now. But i cant see how taking a class online from Georgia Tech aint gonna be different than taking an online class from another university.

The benefits of getting a CS degree at a university is gaining that physical connection with the professors. There isn't going to be a single thing these online classes will have that you wouldn't be able to find online yourself or at another online course at another institution.

But what you miss is the personal interaction with the professors and students - something you can't get from an online chat room. Especially at Masters level - where your interaction with professors is much closer.

This is a step in the wrong direction. If this was for a BS, I could understand. Especially because it gives access to those who don't have access to that education. But the real benefit of higher education is the personal connections IMO. There isn't really any additional "knowledge" CS pieces that is taught at MIT and not at a normal university. what separates universities is those personal connections with the faculty and the community.

At GT (I received a BS in Computational Media), the real value came from the people - individual connections that help pave your way through career choices and research topics.

I mean come on, what's next? PhD in CS with 3000 other students? Defending your thesis to a random professor thousands of miles away who you only have email contact?
https://flammo.com/ - makes claim to be private & secure and to destroy data when requested.
google tangotiger and then read his book. baseball prediction has been done to death by the sabermetrics community but this guy is one of the absolute best.
Responsive and adaptive design simulation
There's nothing wrong with applying part of good practice from other languages. Referential transparency is one property of FP, but FP does not hold exclusive right to it. Quit trying to sound like smug.
If you want a broader dataset, check out the data from Retrosheet (http://www.retrosheet.org/). You can get box scores and play-by-play data from many years back to dive really deep into stats. You can use Chadwick command-line tools (http://chadwick.sourceforge.net/) to parse the data into SportsML or other formats.
As someone who has written 10k+ loc on simulators, markov chaining, and done tons of analysis on baseball projections... I don't know where to start.

I honestly don't. (You are very, very far off the correct methodology.)

But maybe this is a good place, I guess.

http://www.oakton.edu/user/4/pboisver/AABaseballMath.html

I am not trying to be a jerk. But ask yourself: If it were that trivial, why wouldn't it be a snap to crush online sportsbetting?
Why does the donation need to be selfless? This one almost certainly isn't, but I don't see anyone claiming that it is, and I don't see any reason why it needs to be.
Reading the disagreeing replies to this post is extremely enlightening. You see one thing: people who don't want to exercise will use just about any method to deny its extreme importance.
On my phone right now so I can't put this analysis on paper, but this feels a lot like looking at the associative property of addition.

i.e. the author regrouped the data to come up with the same result
> It's like, given all code, what is the smallest language we can use to express it. Which is sequences of 0s and 1s.

This should be of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_lambda_calculus
I want to know if they allow transfer of graduate courses/units taken at another university (hopefully yes).
Seeking feedback from JavaScript developers...
> at that point you're just sending the text itself over the wire in a convoluted way without much space savings

Yes, in fact, with the solution linked, it's an increase in space requirements! In my experience, even with a traditional pastebin, the problem isn't being able to get the data over the wire -- it's formatting it. Also, this service opens up the possibility of (ab)using link shorteners for storage.
Well, no. As influential as Zuck is, his influence simply pales in comparison to that of Koch Brothers or even Monsanto.
This is the first time I've heard about AMI's - I was under the impression that Amazon just sold you the hardware and it was up to you to handle the rest.

If I wanted to buy a small instance to start which AMI should I choose to have a run of the mill Rails stack?

Also some AMI's have a cost? How does that work?
I work at Coursera now, and we have tens of thousands of users in each class. Like the post author, I really like to feel connected to users, to feel that individual connection, so I go out of my way to get that by wandering around the support forums and monitoring Twitter mentions. Every once in a while, I run into people I know too, and the world feels that much smaller. :-)
So, yes, it's easy to feel disconnected from people when you work on a product with many users, but if you want to, I think there's often a way to find them.
I suppose it's his money and he can damn well spend it on whatever he wants. Earn a few billion dollars then spend it however you please. But for goodness sakes, please stop complaining that other people aren't spending their money in the most effective way.

Bottom line is that it's none of your business.
What the author describes seems to be just modularity and encapsulation. The properties most associated with FP, like first class functions, don't appear to be related to unit tests.
What scam is Denis trying to pull?
We've all got the email recently, and I'm wondering...what does someone do with the information he is requesting? Well, a friend was lured into responding to denis. To start, here's the message Denis sent (have you also gotten it?)

From: Denis Alexender <denis.alexender@gmail.com>
Subject: Important Connection

Hi there,

Just came across your company website,
I work with Investors in various sectors who are open for new
Investment opportunities; Wondering if you are looking to raise Capital
or if you need access to Mentors / Advisors?

Appreciate if you can connect me with right person in your
management & If he/she could drop me quick note with contact info;
I would be happy to help

Best Regards,
-Denis

------------------

So my friend Michelle replied and said "Yes we are looking for mentors and money, let's keep in touch" or something along those lines.

Denis responded again with:

From: From: Denis Alexender <denis.alexender@gmail.com>
Subject: Thank you for connecting

Thank you for connecting & your email is important to me.
How ever, I have been swamped lately & my response times are longer than usual.

If your company is raising Capital or looking for
Advisors, Faster way to get my attention would be
forwarding your pitch deck with 1 page summary.

Best Regards,
-Denis

------------

SO he wants a pitch deck and one page summary. And then what? We didn't take the bait further.
This. When a problem affects you in some way, you become best positioned to address it.
Great point about slacktivism being due of a lower barrier to supporting a cause.

However, I doubt that a higher barrier would cause the "slacktivists" to engage more, rather than just not engage at all anymore.

Maybe one day microdonations (Flattr/CentUp/Gittip) will help lower the barrier to actually donating to a cause. To the point where donating is as easy as hitting a Like button.
Probably not related but it reminded me of Scott Adams' voice disorder, which I only knew about because I knew a fan of his who had the same thing:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15446515/ns/health-health_care/t/d...
I guess we need to define precisely what we mean by cognitive strength. Living in the modern world successfully requires you to understand things like understanding interest rates, monthly payments, and logging into your bank website to check the balance on your account. The amount of intelligence required for that is either greater, or we are talking about a different kind of intelligence, than the kind that required you to hunt and find shelter in caves.
These are good for certain specific tests, but they're too inconsistent to trust for professional testing. There's always the chance that you're hooking the wrong thing (or nothing at all, in the case of a statically linked OpenSSL in a version you don't know/have FLIRT-ish symbols for).

I used to use this technique a whole lot, but I've gone to 100% MITMing via cert spoofing/replacement.
HousingMaps was the first to reverse engineer Google Maps, which helped Google realize the potential of an API and motivate them to make it a real thing. That API was one of the first very popular JS APIs on the web (it was #1 on programmableweb.com for years), and may have been many developer's first introduction to AJAX(JSONP) based APIs/UIs.
(I worked on the Maps API for 4 years, so that's based on what I remember).
You mean, 'I don't know, I closed it.'
Live-tailing of images looks really, really cool. Do the updates stream in automagically?
This is exactly what I do as well, and it works quite well. It's also one of my favorite parts about running a small company, and I think I'd like to make it a policy that programmers should interact directly with the customers at least sometimes.
It's definitely related to squat strength. It makes me feel light of my feet, well balanced and generally younger than any other form of exercise that I've done.
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First guess, s/he's trying to steal your idea. Heck, if you've gotten as far as considering raising capital, your product must have legs.
I'd imagine that taking a laptop to the control server and plugging in an ethernet cable would suffice to access the control panels if the internet is down.
Support ends in 2014 for Windows XP and Office 2003
i'm _really_ into this idea. However, the UI looks unpolished, and I need to try before I buy. There is so much more sexy that can go into that UI, though, you are on to something ;).
Not that it matters at all, but socialists were using the word "libertarian" long before the American free-market liberals picked it up.
Don't you think that the same could be said about pretty much everything? Regarding driving, a lot of the risks can be mitigated by being a defensive driver and by purchasing cars with good safety features. I find your reasoning very interesting, I just can't imagine not having a car, but I live in a place where you are pretty much forced to have one because of the distances and the bad bus service. Oh and I also love driving :)
Rebound - simple, addictive "stick" game
Marketing.

They are also on my blacklist, forever.

They used to ship with unacknowledged writes as the default option. Think about it for a little, a database that just throws your _data_ over the fence and prays for the best, proceeding without an write acknowledgement.

There was not flashing warning on their front page about, no bold disclaimers, but there were sure plenty of "Oh look super fast benchmarks beating SQL and other NoSQL database, albeit created by fanboys".

That decision told me the story of who they are and what kind of principles they use to build their product. It wasn't a mistake it was a deliberate shady tactic employed.

(Yes, I know I have written about it at least 3 times before and will mention it every time I see MongoDB mentioned )
Why would I care about ABET accreditation for a CS program? It's not like CS is a regulated field that requires a national standard. That would be like complaining that a schools History department isn't accredited.

For things like medicine, professional engineering, legal, etc... I care that those degrees are from accredited programs, but not CS. What I do care about is that the school itself is accredited and legally allowed to confer degrees.

For what it's worth: CalTech does have ABET accredited programs in Chemical, Mechanical, and Electrical engineering. So, they must not feel that ABET accreditation offers much for a CS program.
Both my parents learned well into their 40s and I can confirm that it was very stressful for them during their first couple of years.
Yeah, I know. But it isn't insignificant and I can't believe that there aren't people with a few million dollars who want to launder it, and would do so if the service kept existing (or maybe already do).

Isn't the daily limit for reporting something like $10,000? There is clearly far in excess of that amount of money flowing through mtgox in transactions, so surely the possibility of money laundering is something the authorities would consider.
How is clicking "unsubscribe" laborious? (Assuming, of course, the link is there, as it seems to be for most 'legitimate' spam)
Full disclosure, I'm a current Georgia Tech CS undergrad.

We've got one of the best undergrad CS programs in the world for a few reasons. First up, it's difficult. And I know everyone says that, but Georgia Tech is one of those schools where you come in expecting to easily coast like you have in high school, then you get hit by a bus by the workload and difficulty. The people here are easily the smartest people I've met, and everyone has to work hard.

We've got an awesome threads system, where you can pick your concentrations, and it really lets you specialize in undergrad.

From the people I've worked and collaborated with, I'd say in terms of CS knowledge we're comparable to Stanford and MIT. The biggest difference between MIT, Stanford and Tech is the entrepreneurial culture that Tech doesn't really have yet (and don't get me started on our administration).
I have no idea whether your business case is sound or not - it looks cool, so best of luck.

Your call to action button is hidden in the bottom right, well below the fold. I'd recommend hiding the main form completely on the landing page and replacing it with that. Use A/B testing to see for sure, but in general, 1 easy button = conversions.

The layout and design flow look great, though I'd drop the 'PlaceIt Screenshot' byline with something else, even though they're super useful ;). Ideally if you can get a video in there, that'd be excellent, but I know that gets pricey...

I'm also in the 1st webapp startup boat, and as a fellow Canadian, I wish you best of luck! You can check out my startup at http://wwww.tryringo.com

Good luck!
It has been very zombierific on HN the last few days.
moss growing in timelapse: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#20,4,9,3,3,3,2,2,15,2...
For a simple Rails app any of the Debian-based systems would suffice, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is particularly high-quality.

As for cost, there are licensing and support fees. By using such AMIs you are allocated support resources, eg: opening tickets, receiving support via personal QA assistance.
I don't think the issue is with the marketing, but with the implication that the degree on paper will make this distinction too, creating a distinct potential stigma between an online degree and one received from attending a university directly.
With humans, specialization is often another word for structurally imperfect information.
You'll need a project manager for that.
Build your own GPU compiler with libNVVM (using LLVM IR subset)
Thanks, too late to go back and edit to fix.
Is it exploitable to gain elevated privileges?

Typically a user with the ability to make those calls can shut down the machine anyway. But Terminal Services/Remote Desktop may be an exception.
> It's like people started complaining about MongoDB just for the sake of it. I guess it's the new trend?

All the HN crowd went insane at once or, who knows, maybe they found out one product that is relatively heavily marketed is mostly blowing smoke up everyone's asses.

The complaining is vis-a-vis the marketing and perceived fan-boyism. It might also not be completely bad news as it means people are still using it.
Tell you what: read the informational links I posted.

Then answer your own question in a reply here.

Or I could sit next to you for the next 20 years and spoon-feed you the Internet.
Liberals are proud when they give to charity -- almost never happens. We conservatives tithe and hate them.

I give $800 every 6 months.

Jesus said you lose your reward if you tell everybody.

God says...

shall be.

13:20 And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh
should be saved: but for the elect's sake, whom he hath chosen, he
hath shortened the days.

13:21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or,
lo, he is there; believe him not: 13:22 For false Christs and false
prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if
it were possible, even the elect.

13:23 But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.

13:24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be
darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, 13:25 And the stars
of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be
shaken.
Can functional programming languages guarantee software regression never happens? No? Then I'd argue they still need unit testing.

Side-effects create additional problems, but functional programming doesn't solve all problems inherent in programming.
Now a phone for $12- as cheap as it gets
It's like any other business. If they have a word in their name, or their motto or mission statement, or their talking points, they aren't.
It's humans. There was a story about the 'dark side of Google' within the last few months about how Google contracts this out, and they burn out, but I'm not searching for that story directly myself.
That sux! I hope you get your store back. You do really beautiful work -- makes me pretty jealous, actually. (My synth DIY is kinda 50s-lab-equipment-esque.) -- Doc Sketchy
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I have not seen the website- But why does it sound like HN. (Based on the quality of content shared)
Same. Chrome Developer / OSX.
So, you're going to boycott every other company that dumped PCBs and pesticides and other carcinogens into groundwater, right?
Personal anecdote: I just finished an engineering MS from NC State via their Engineering Online ( http://engineeringonline.ncsu.edu) program. The per-3hr-course cost for EOL courses is roughly $900. For the on campus version of the same thing, it's about $2200. For a 27 credit hour program, that came out to about $8k, which I thought was entirely reasonable given I [as a student local to the school] always had the option of taking advantage of campus facilities/options (libraries/labs, office hours, study groups, etc), too. An added perk was -- as the GT FAQ notes -- the ability to work at my leisure. With a full time job and two toddlers, it took me almost four years to complete the program, but I did and it was a fantastic experience.

<edit> To address a question below about GT's program, NC State's is practically equivalent to their campus-based stuff. You apply, and are admitted, following exactly the same process as everyone else. After admission, you follow the same rules and processes as everyone else. The one exception I've found -- besides making it easier to study part time and draw out the total duration -- is that professors are usually much more lenient with deadlines for their online students. They know a large percentage of online students are doing it that way because they're working full time (or are deployed military, or any of a plethora of other situations), and they offer a lot of leeway. This helped me & my peers quite a lot.
And before that, he was an excellent online gambler. Or was it during that time? ;)

PECOTA is alright, but not really his anymore. cwyers took it over at BPro. It's also tough to say if it's one of the best for any number of statistically boring reasons (read Phil Birnbaum's blog for more info).
I am not a collection of bullet points
Where did I say I was boycotting anything? I was merely explaining why I think Monsanto and the Koch brothers are worse than Facebook.
Agreed. The post isn't clear at all what his goal is, and the methodology makes no sense
Libertarian Socialist here. I like the idea of ecash and even own some Bitcoin. But I've always said that there's zero chance of Bitcoin ever seriously threatening powerful institutions like the state and financial industry.