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Why (as a European, but my dad is big a DET-fan) do you guys estimate WPE from high level variables?

Baseball is basicly a lineup versus lineup sport, right? Or in terms of the link: Q per team is variable between matches. An additional modelling level should estimate Q per team per match, before estimating Qx - Qy.

Without Cabrera, DET has a harder time winning. Same for the big bearded guy.

As a sidenote: some guy posts his code (+) and gets upvoted (+). He's not aiming to change the world, or to become a 100-million firm. He wants feedback and to improve his approach. We can give him that without the "aararrrgh, but Terrence Tao is much smarter than you"? Otherwise, just don't upvote :)
That's a good idea.
The limitation being that your service can redirect go get to a different repository url, but go will still fetch that repository and check out what it thinks is the best branch for that version of go: one with the name of the current go version, or master. So you'd have to play some tricks to keep a full clone-able repo with master locked at some commit for each version of each library, rather than just one repo per library with tags. I guess there are some ways to do that where the clones share the objects so you aren't wasting space, though so not insurmountable.
Why dismay?
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Probably the best way. But what about an old hard drive we used 4 years ago without encryption?
http://andrewwdeane.blogspot.de/2013/05/the-reliability-of-g...
Or the fact that many developers look at the previous methods and quite rightly say "That is a hideous method, we have moved on (and IMHO improved) from that, why the hell has a new language reverted to old and busted methods"

As I said in another comment regarding Go. If any company has the ability to create a stable, maintained CPAN / rubygems equivalent for the Go language, it would be Google.

Which just makes the lack of it more jarring (although I see the arguments that Go is designed for Google and may not fit other's ideas of what important features are)
... that double as waiting rooms, and you board before the plane is even on the ground.

http://s3images.coroflot.com/user_files/individual_files/794...
The fact that Central Scotland is a rift valley is particularly noticeable in that picture:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Lowlands
OK, after having read the whole night, I think I will go with OpenShift to have Paas on top of the OpenStack Iaas.

This kind of thing looks like what I want to have : https://www.openshift.com/wiki/architecture-overview

Moreover, when I will have other Saas needs, looks like it will be more easy to deploy.

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I have been using AirBnB very actively during the last couple of years, mostly in the Northern Europe and South East Asia, and my experience was nothing but wonderful.

However, as some people in this thread have already pointed out, you need to stick to certain rules of a thumb:
a) always check response rate and average response time to weed out any sloppy profiles;
b) BEFORE you place a reservation, write a host introducing yourself and telling a bit about the purpose of your visit;
c) after the host OKs you (or makes a special offer through the system), go ahead an make the booking.

Of course, the optimal time to book is 1-2 weeks before you arrive, do it earlier and hosts' plans might change, do it later and they might simply miss your message.
The University of Edinburgh, Scotland. They were two of my favourite courses, I was amazed at how simple some classes of problems became with the techniques. You should be able to find the course notes somewhere, but I'm not sure if they'd be much value without the lectures.
It's a question of degree. Obviously there is still some secrecy (see Apple). But I can't argue with the general culture of information sharing being much more prevalent in SV than elsewhere, and I've spent my career split between Mountain View, Minneapolis, Santa Fe, and London, so I think my anecdote carries some validity.
Interesting project. Has it got any traction?
> I recently received seed funding for my next startup (http://www.podaris.com/jobs.php), and am finding hiring developers to be extremely difficult.

I'm not surprised. You're trying to hire people with experience and significant skills - for which they're probably already being paid really well. Why would they quit their current projects and come work for you?

Honestly, a lot of start-ups just seem to want to hire incredible valuable people and offer almost nothing in return for that value. Everyone wants experience - most commonly because they don't know enough about the project themselves to design a test that will distinguish those who know what they're doing from those who don't (which is hardly inspiring to begin with.) Why would anyone want a high-commitment, high-risk lifestyle without the probability of commensurably high returns though? You talk about high equity but equity in a failed project's not worth diddly.

It's like... will you go work for this iffy guy in his shed for a couple of years on the basis of this product he's pinky-promised is awesome?

You need to offer people something they can't get elsewhere if you want to hire them. And all you're offering is the chance to interact with customers and the chance to 'shape' the product. Which is just... marketing jargon. You can't trust that to mean anything.

I suspect you'd be best off designing a test so that you can hire people with less experience, or just hiring one of the free lancers and accepting the uncertainty that they're going to stick around (trade on a risk for risk basis, essentially.)
I took a picture of the system we use. http://www.flickr.com/photos/minid/8741099364/in/photostream
Here are some of my favorites. One of them (Counter) behaves strangely. It doesn't appear to be stable, but it takes a long, long time to change appreciably. Another one (Sewing Machine) seems semi-stable in that it seems to settle around the same kind of almost-but-not-quite-chaotic pattern.

Warpspeed
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#2,11,1,5,1,0,1,1,1,5,...

City Corner
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#2,11,1,10,0,1,5,2,0,8...

Coloring Inside the Lines
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#2,11,0,10,2,0,4,3,0,2...

Sewing Machine
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#2,11,1,7,3,0,2,0,0,3,...
Seems semi-stable?

Folding Paper Trick
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#2,11,1,4,1,0,5,3,0,10...

Stable
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,3,3,1,0,3,1,0,3,1,0...

Counter: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,3,1,1,0,3,1,3,2,1,2...
This one seems to behave like some kind of adder. Even at the highest speed setting it takes a long time to see much change, but the black lines seem to grow and move similar to how a binary adder operates.

Spilled Drink
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#13,21,10,11,1,0,7,0,4...

Donkey Kong
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#13,21,0,17,3,11,4,0,0...
Appropriate cheating in the nine-dot problem
Only good can come out of this. Looking forward to seeing this in action.
Cool, seems to work pretty well there. Hope the Dutch version will be as successful!
I think the basic principal is that it will be unusable within the USA, because you'll have no way to convert US dollars into Bitcoin.

A similar attack was made against Wikileaks.

If you can't transfer your cash to Bitcoin, or your Bitcoin to cash, then the decentralized nature of Bitcoin itself is immaterial.
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I can't seem to upload anything. It always gives an error.
Scratching your own itch is the classic motivation for free software - it works for medicine too !
The system is cool, imho. For buying something low price, then you don't need to insert password, and I assume with limited operations during certain time. But for expensive ones, you just put your 4 digit pin. The difference is just the card isn't raped on the device.

Each time you pass the card on a place like that it destroy itself, specially if the clerk doesn't have a good day, they just smash the cards until they can't be read.

I replaced 3 cards in a year before the tap system.
If they "struggle with the same (low) weight for ages" they are not following either SS or SL, as both programs include protocols for deloading to get past sticking points that works, and to eventually changing programs once your progress slows too much. E.g. SL goes from 5x5 to 3x5 to 1x5, to switching off SL entirely and switching to Madcow or Texas Method or similar - this progression is explicitly documented as part of the program, up to and including stopping SL.

SL is by design a beginners routine, intended to exploit quick recovery while you're a beginner. It is intended to get too hard for you to continue to be able to gain on it. Starting your workout with 5x5 squats 3 times a weak is not something normal people will keep doing with heavy weights. Once I started flattening out with SL 5x5, it took <6 months of substantial gains before I was flattening out on 1x5 too, and switched first to Texas Method, then to Wendlers 5/3/1. At the moment I'm doing a program that is similar to 5/3/1 but slightly higher volume, as I'm seeing decent results from that while eating like a pig.
SoundCloud is using go lot: http://backstage.soundcloud.com/2012/07/go-at-soundcloud/
This would be more useful to US students than outside students. Although we can get high quality education, in the end people need jobs, may be high paying jobs and H1B is still big hurdle !
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You're exaggerating. Malaria is a killer, but it's not tens of millions of children per year. The WHO estimates a number just shy of a million, about 50% children. That's still a sizable number and in principle you're right - most of them are in poor countries.

However, the mechanisms that drive this are more complex. A grossly simplified version goes like this: Since the population that's hit worst has no buying power, no pharmaceutical company is interested in developing a vaccine or an effective, cheap treatment. Malaria is very much a poor peoples illness due to a variety of contributing factors: No access to effective treatment, no access to mosquito nets, no proper hygienic conditions, no enclosed living spaces that keep mosquitos out.

Just spraying DDT on every swamp in Africa is not a solution to the problem. DDT accumulates in the food chain, mostly in fat and gets fed to the children you're trying to protect via the mothers milk. It is linked to an increased rate of stillborn and cancer. It's really not the kind of stuff you'd want to use if there's any alternative.
"saying that it MUST be written in JavaScript ... is manifestly irrational and ridiculous"

You misread.
Does your life make sense?
What´s this exactly? is this original XKCD?
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The (now) 621 page thread on xkcd forums is essential reading:

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=101043
Space usage doesn't worry me too much. If a "package" is just a set of files, then storing them in some sort of compressed form (.tar.gz) and simply un-tarring them and making the API mimic a git repo with one revision should be fairly straightforward.
Yesterday I came across this app.
You take the photo and it tells you what it is.
We tried lots of shoots. If it cannot find -say the brand name, etc.-, it interprets the taken photo and defines the object.

The results that i received was like below.
Black Necklace, Child's Toy Fan, "X" Remote Controller , "X" Water Bottle, Black hanging light with metal surrounding frame.
("X" is the brand name)

How can it do it?
Ok, Goggles searches in the images databese to match the image...
But this one is interpreting the image. How???
If you try and change a significant amount of currency banks will require you to go through "know-your-client" verification and anti-money laundering checks. I'm assuming Mt Gox didn't do that.
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"Ask yourself: If X invaded France"

I can't get past this bit - try and provide a credible threat for some country who might be likely to invade France?

Someone invading France is about as likely as an invasion of United States - it's just not credible.
Sorry if you haven't read the papers prior to the start of the meeting with out a good excuse I would consider giving you a verbal warning and if repeated a written one and putting you on poor performance procedure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Effects_on_human_health
"Isolated, limited movement" is a horrible way to exercise.

My flexibility, coordination and posture has all improved substantially through lifting - I needed a lot of work to get flexible enough to carry out e.g. deep squats and correct deadlifts without hurting myself.

Do primarily isolation exercises, and yes, you will not spend time maintaining and improving your flexibility and coordination. Do exercises with large range of motion and complex movements, like deep squats, clean and jerk or power clean (power cleans are "easy" compared to clean and jerk), or kettlebell exercises, and add in some dynamic stretches for mobility (separate by time from the lifting), and most people will get far more flexible and coordinated.

Personally I'm annoyed at people worrying about getting bulky for two reasons: Yes, it is annoying seeing beginners be all presumptuous about how easy it'll be, but I also find well trained but non-bulky women more attractive. And I happen to know that most of them will never, ever get into bulky territory without a combination of cutting their body fat to unhealthy levels and steroid use, so I would love more women to lift weights..
That rant also ignores the fact that after the 1930s (and particularly after the Spanish Civil War) it was clear that the Soviets regarded any "socialists" who weren't under their direct control as more of a threat than their apparent enemies. Most socialists in Western Europe (e.g. the UK Labour Party) were more afraid of the Soviets than those on the political right.
I'm starting to think we're stretching the definition of "beautiful" nowadays. I see it every other day describing js libraries etc and now this. The technical stuff behind this is interesting and sort-of impressive but "beautiful" is going a bit far.
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> - incompatibilities that were introduced in the version 1.2.1 while you've only tested your code with 1.2

Which is why you pin dependencies to specific versions.

> - the host is down so you can't compile your own code because your dependency is not available

Which is why you have (caching) proxy and use mirrors.

> - the host is hacked and "foo" was replaced with "malicious foo"

Which is why you use GPG signing. (sadly, Python lacks in this respect).

> - exponential increase of testing (you really should test with all version of your dependencies you use)

Which is why you only use a specific version.
This is ridiculous, there's a correct way to handle this and it's called git submodules. Instead of using go get for non-trivial long-term projects you should just be adding the dependency as a submodule in your git repo and including the files directly. This way you can have your submodule pointing to a specific commit in the upstream repo, you can update it when you want to/need to and all this information is kept track of in version control.

Also, if you want even more control(ie, you want to modify the library you're using in some way), fork it on github and include your fork as a submodule. That way you can patch bugs easily(and send the upstream a pull request) without having to wait for upstream to fix things you know how to fix yourself.
You're new to Hacker News, but you're encouraged to 'show your working' here along with your comment.

I welcome to see the data that Square is tracking purchases, and if it is, how is this any different to XYZ Supermarket's loyalty program/card, and how are they doing this without breaking any laws.

(Oh, and they've handled $15bn in transactions, sans Starbucks, I doubt they need the moolah!)
Get someone who knows R or learn it Yourself.

I never really got that program, and have no clue who is ready to learn new expensive technology, when You get better, cheaper and with a lot more future-potential and community backing as well as practical experience and use.

Typical hype about something already done and done better, but not so much "in Your face" approach like Tableau.. decent statistician has never used it, but they are having IPO? Blah..
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If only they could find an old shed door to cross the river.

The similarities between this ongoing xkcd and _why's most recent publican are really interesting. Thematically I find the stories very similar, they feel as though they come from the same author to me (I know Randall is not _why). Their choice of delivery also come to mind.

I am very happy there are more dedicated people than myself in the world, otherwise I would miss out on these stories unfolding.
http://xkcd.com/1190/ changes every 30 minutes if I'm not mistaken. The link shows all the frames since the comic was published.
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There was nothing "negligent" about it.
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It's easy to talk about 'no-brainers' in the abstract. A different story if it's your own favourite bit.
Wow, that is one large document.

It is, btw, also available as PDF and ePub, if you have a look at the file listing of http://emotion.inrialpes.fr/people/synnaeve/phdthesis/
Violently ripping off the top of the actual cabin at speed sound like a way to have a good go at killing the driver.
Here's an animation of all the frames

http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1190:_Time
https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/GoUsers

https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/SuccessStories
Dart beats Java in numerical computing test.
>The relevant text is: "17. From 2006 to 2009, HSBC Bank USA knowingly set the thresholds in CAMP so that wire transfers by customers located in countries categorized as standard or medium risk, including foreign financial institutions with correspondent accounts, would not be subject to automated monitoring unless the customers were otherwise classified as high risk."

It's very misleading to leave out the "unless the customers were otherwise classified as high risk." That smacks of someone not understanding how to properly implement the compliance function.

I don't see anything misleading. It clearly shows this was no negligence.

They purposefully complied only for the coarser and more dangerous cases ("customers classified as high risk") and stood to benefit for letting all the others go through.
> reasoned criticisms from the Erlang camp about Go not copying some bits and pieces from Erlang that might have been worthwhile that are worth reading.

would you mind pointing those out please ? thank you !
Tried out the trial a bit ago and it seems to work fine with a dropbear ssh client for Android so I can mount my Android device. Some clients I've had issues with working with dropbear or not letting me connect with root access (and the root directory, but no issues like that here). Happy with it so far.
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Yes - after a couple of days it slowed down and now updates once per hour.
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Odd choice. A little more research could've yielded a migration to something like Clojure with the benefits of Lisp and an industry-backed stack (JVM).

Of course using an offbeat stack is going to hurt - doesn't mean you have to give up Lisp too.

A decision made odder still since being an independent project, one would think maximizing individual productivity would be the only hope of yielding anything novel and useful in a field like search that isn't a fitting of an off-the-shelf to a business problem. (Something I've done before, it was quite neat.)

Go is not a language focused around individual productivity in any capacity or scope. It's the language of pyramid-building Egyptian Pharaohs. (Throw 1,000 lives at it, it'll get 'er done...)

I say this as someone rather envious of any language that has a native compiler that builds static binaries. (Oh, OCaml...)

As we ponder on what orangetide is up to, lets keep in mind he's not explained or revealed anything at all about Nuuton and for all we know - could be having us on for the sake of self-promotion/promoting Go.

The incorrect speculation about the origins and purpose of Go make this even stranger.

Go exists to make people like Rob Pike happy. The Plan9 and Suckless community of programmers. Those types. That it happened to solve the problems of some Google programmers who were making it was almost incidental.
Besides all the other facts in the statement, how about this, vastly improved translation:

"dialing down Mexico, one of the top and well known high risk areas for drug money, into merely Standard Risk"?

You make their on purpose decision to benefit from looser checks sound as some kind of ...unfortunate miscalculation on their behalf of the risk of Mexican money.
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because the first has the audacity to not agree with the left and the second is a corporation who patents genetics and similar?

Really it all comes down to irrational hate by one side or the other and unfortunately this type of irrationality is best observed on sites like Hacker's News and Slashdot, Digg was bad too in its good days. The level of pretentiousness is astounding, but fortunately other than up/down/karma and bombastic posts the members of such sites do little else.
My favorite so far - there's something chemical about it: http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#2,5,0,4,0,0,3,1,1...
Redirection to porn? script alerts? No unsubscribe button? I suppose the OP doesn't have the slightest clue of web app security. Wouldn't use. Who knows where your email addresses are now.
Given the prosecution and statements, no it is not.
This approach (scraped data on FS + metadata in DB) works well for storing scraped data. It was the first thing I prototyped when we started the project to move away from MongoDB. We've worked on similar designs in the past where the data is in S3, it's a common pattern.

We'd need to code the searching, filtering, paginating, (distributed?) job management ourselves while being careful to keep the DB & metadata consistent. It works best if each file is a reasonable 'chunk' of data (not too big, not tiny). None of this is a problem, and it scales very well as you said.

In the end, we went with HBase for crawl data in the new system. Of course, you can look at this as files on a filesystem (HDFS or others) :) It does a lot of what we would otherwise have to code ourselves and it's a good fit for applications we want to build on that data in future (e.g. storing other crawl datastructures, processing with hadoop). I'll provide more details on that in the next post.