skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be reluctant to rely on this until the Go documentation is clearer on the intended behavior. Right now it's very poorly specified. The regex doc[1] talks about "same general syntax" as Perl, but points to [2], which doesn't seem to understand what it's saying, describing '\d' in terms of its "Perl" meaning, but then saying that it's [0-9].

[1] http://golang.org/pkg/regexp/

[2] https://code.google.com/p/re2/wiki/Syntax
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My experience with Airtel has been good till now. They provide good service and in fact are the best network providers in my area. But the tactics are very shady of course.

However, I don't think they will get much users. Most of people around me are entrenched in WhatsApp and those who want to try something new get Cubie(I use it as well, it does not spam!)
Pretty sure. I'm going to learn lisp anyway, just to be safe.
it does when using the re.U flag

re.match(r'\d', u'੧', re.U)
<_sre.SRE_Match at 0x3070ac0>

sys.version
2.7.3 (default, Mar 4 2013, 14:57:34) \n[GCC 4.7.2]
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Backward Chaining is a classic way to teach people with ASD.
http://specialchildren.about.com/od/developmentalissues/g/ba...
Deep underwater colonisation may be harder to accomplish:

> Outer space has -15 psi, extreme temperature swings, and occasional micrometeorite impacts. Five miles subsea has, let's see, 11,800 psi...

(http://www.quora.com/International-Space-Station/Given-the-a...)
Although I agree that exposure to computers is great for kids, how young is too young?

I've got a toddler (3yo) who plays games on my phone. He's actually pretty good at some of the platform games on it (astonishingly good considering his age), but we're questioning his maturity with phone use.

He asks my wife all day long "when is daddy coming home", only to hear "can I play with your phone" when I walk through the door. I'll let him play with it for about half an hour just before dinner, but telling him to pack it away to eat dinner is like a declaration of war.

We've gotten to the point that we've banned him outright using my phone because of the anger/temper that it's caused. I know the links of bad behaviour and sugar consumption, but we're thinking that phone use is worse.

Anybody else seen this behaviour, or is it just bad parenting?
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It would have been nice to see where Rackspace (Cloud Servers) falls when compared with these options. It's a good candidate in this space with a price point in the same ballpark, though different pricing structure.
Actually it appeals to anybody who doesn't want to see how his savings lose value every day, or are simply stolen by his own government. It also appeals to anybody who doesn't want to pay ridiculous fees for international wires, if the government allows it at all.
> The only downside to apache is that the defensive patent termination clause only terminates patent rights. If there were no patents on the software, and they sue you over patents, they can go right on using it.

IANAL - could you explain what you mean by this?
So I submit this because I just bought one ($395 from Arrow) and the parts are supposed to be like $15 in quantity. My goal is to build a simple framebuffer in it such that you can have not only an ARM SOC with memory controllers, gigabit ethernet, etc. But also a well documented (and actually changeable) way to display stuff.

Prior to finding out about this chip I was sort of half-heartedly working on a simple 1080p framebuffer to attach over the ARM PMI bus to an Atmel SAM9 part but this is much nicer being fully integrated. My plan now is to build a system out of it and then spin a board without the extra bits to get the board price down around $99 rather than $400. Very interesting architecture.
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I recall reading in a short treatise on the great virtues that politeness is how we acquire virtue; the only way we can learn to be humble is through acting humbly. But acting humbly out of politeness lets us break that circular dependency; we can then learn to see the value of humility and will naturally change to fit the way we're acting.
Good call. Thanks for the heads up.
No, that’s not what the paper shows. The paper claims that there exists arbitrarily large primes prime pairs with a gap of less than 70 million, not that all primes are part of a prime pair. Your misinterpretation is equivalent to intepreting the twin prime conjecture to mean that all odd numbers are prime.
It does have decentralisation, to an extent.
That's where the pod design comes in.
Friendica also doesn't really fill the gap that effectively, it's slower than Diaspora and doesn't have a nice user experience.
Also, the Facebook integration in Friendica doesn't scale well.
https://github.com/friendica/friendica/wiki/How-to:-Friendic...
The restricting use section alludes to his.

But if you were after a social network that is completely decentralised i.e. no servers, take a look at Nightweb.
http://nightweb.net/
No, this isn't right.

He showed that there are infinitely many twin primes differing by 70 million from each. However, it could be that the next such twin prime, has its lower prime number more than 70million numbers further along.

What I mean is, there is allowed to be a gap larger than 70million with no primes in it, then all of a sudden, twin primes. But those twin primes with a gap less than 70million between them are guaranteed.

Basically, if you separate all adjacent pairs of primes, with no primes in between, you can separate this into two groups of those adjacent pairs with a gap less or equal to 70mil, or greater than 70mil. The first group has infinitely many members according to the proof. And the second group is probably not empty.
Corporate income tax makes perfect sense. If you have a system that: 1) taxes income to persons; 2) treats corporations as distinct legal persons, as both the U.S.'s and U.K.'s does, a corporate income tax falls out naturally. That is to say, the fact that the corporation and the shareholders are taxed distinctly is a natural consequence of the fact that the "corporation's money" is distinct from the "shareholders' money." This fact is the basis for the advantages of corporate form: that a lawsuit against the corporation only endangers the "corporation's money" not the "shareholders' money."

The resulting state of affairs creates a common sense choice for businesses: if you want to treat the corporation as a separate entity when it comes to legal liability, you also have to treat the corporation as a separate entity when it comes to taxation.

But though a corporate income tax is theoretically justified, the challenges of enforcing one may make it desirable to get rid of it as a practical matter.
It compiles it once and then matches it against 10000 strings.
Harald Helfgott would have a bone to pick with "getting close". :)

http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.2897
Well, the oldest I had called “Kids’ Rave Book Reviews” — KRBR for short — and I had started off what I vaguely hoped to be a community project by posting my review of The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm, which I had just re-read in sixth grade.
I've tried river-of-news style readers, but it doesn't fit how I use RSS. I only subscribe to feeds when I want to read, or at least have the option to read, all the posts, and I want to read the posts oldest to newest.
No, there can be huge gaps with no primes. after n!(n factorial), it is easy to show there are no primes until at least n!+n+1.

What this proof shows is you never get to a point where the gap is always bigger than 70 million, forevermore. This is a big step towards the "twin primes conjecture" which claims there are an infinite number of pairs of primes only 2 apart.
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No; trivially there will be stretches of length >70m where there are no primes, and this is true for any length of "desert" you care to specify (e.g. the sequence of 70m numbers starting at (70m+1)! are all composite; so is the one starting at (70m+2)!)).

What he's proven is that there's never a point after which every prime is more than 70m away from the last one. Even as the average distance between one prime and the next increases towards infinity, you'll always find occasional pairs that are within 70m of each other; they'll get rarer and rarer as the numbers get larger, but you'll never get to the last such pair.
> Couldn't we do a practise run on earth?

Probably yes. Surviving indefinitely is not a requirement - we can always ship supplies from Earth (or Mars, or one of the ice-rich moons further out).

But I'd still suggest a permanent presence on the Moon before we attempt one on Mars or Mercury. When things break (and they certainly will, multiple times) we can plan a rescue mission. If we have to plan one for Mercury, the colonists will have to sit patiently and wait for rescue. On the Moon, we can also perfect remote control heavy machinery, something we just can't do anywhere else, only putting humans there when the habitat is assembled and operational.
What about javascript ? Development of various JS frameworks and languages build on the top of JS is fast nowadays.
The question is like asking "why do I need an operating system"? Or why live in a society with government services and laws instead of living alone off the land?

Databases are most valuable when there's more than one user at the same time, doing UN-anticipated things, involving multiple resources, whose uses may conflict with each other.

Databases provide certain services that allow things to run smoothly as concurrency, amount of data, types of data, and unanticipated usage begins to scale up. In exchange, databases impose a tax that includes extra complexity, increased latency, reduced throughput, potential license fees and general bother.

For coders who are just beginning a project, who are short of time and don't feel comfortable with a database, I see no good reason to insist on immediate database use.

If their project scales to many users, a lot of data, and lots of unanticipated queries WITHOUT using any kind of database, the coders would have made a HUGELY interesting discovery - at least as interesting as map-reduce.
Learned Hand never sat on the Supreme Court. The quoted passage is from his Second Circuit decision, 69 F.2d 810.
No. The average size of a prime gap around numbers of size N is ln(N).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem

A rough analogy of this prime gaps work is the following. Imagine that you throw infinitely many darts at a dartboard. Before you throw, draw a bullseye around the center, as small as you want. Then you will miss plenty often, but infinitely many of the darts will hit the bullseye.
> The guidelines said that foods advertised to children must provide “a meaningful contribution to a healthful diet.”

I've never received a convincing explanation of why advertising to children shouldn't be generally banned.
Yeah it is very difficult to find Rails developers who are on the market. Wages for Rails developers have certainly been going up in the Bay Area, even including the tons of junior hires, because no one can find senior talent.

Maybe this isn't the case in the middle of the country where businesses don't realize that a 10x programmer is easily worth 2x the salary of a brand new programmer.

Ruby may be easier to pick up than C++ but the entire web stack still requires quite a lot of knowledge. Especially when you start talking about scaling databases, distributed systems, fault tolerant cloud architectures, etc.
It is the same case, but I know the details personally for various reasons, and it is not as he describes.
So, there's two (slightly off topic) questions this article raises that I've had for a while. Perhaps someone who's been in academia longer than I have can enlighten me.

First, the article talks about experts within the field. I've been a graduate student for about a year now, and within my field of research (molecular dynamics), I still have no idea who the "experts" are. I see the same names frequently pop up on papers I read -- are these the experts? I don't know of any online forums where people discuss MD; if they're out there, then they must be a secret. I'm sure I can't just email these professors and say "hey, want to chat?" So where does this group collaboration and unanimous identification of who the leaders in a field are come from? Conferences are only a few times a year; I can't imagine that's where all of these people meet up and socialize.

And secondly, how is this mathematician "virtually unknown", as the article puts it? The University of New Hampshire is surely a well-known institution. I'm sure it ranks top 100-500 in the world, right? And there's maybe 20-25 mathematics professors at each university. I also know math is very diverse, and an expert in topology isn't going to know too much about number theory. So within each "domain" of math, there can surely only be a few hundred in the world at any given time who are actively researching the subject. How can he be so unknown then?
That's a better example, thanks for sharing it.
Yep, and you know what to write tests for
Exactly. The way we act establishes a feedback loop into who we are; even if (initially) we are doing it insincerely.
I noticed, on the following page (shortlistedjobs, one of the sites listed in your portfolio), that the "Distiller" takes the employee data and computes a list of factors that are then categorized into success and failure buckets. I see that being an introvert is considered a failure with a significance of -5. How do you quantify introversion? What method do you use? Something similar to sentiment analysis? I'm just curious.
http://www.shortlistedjobs.com/how-it-works/
While I agree with most of what is in the article, I always wince when I see whole grains advertised as healthful foods.

They're not. Wheat contains gluten, a known gastrointestinal irritant, and celiac and IBD patients know that wheat is one thing you want to stay away from. It can also trigger inflammation and cause serious health problems for anyone with an inflammatory condition.

Perhaps proposing gluten-free foods is a better idea.

In addition, the guidelines for "advertising to children" are quite peculiar, and I don't know why children should be advertised to at all. What even constitutes advertising to children is not quite clear either.
Welcome to being a parent. Throughout their lives they will find things that they desire above all else. Your goal should be to figure out how to use that to teach them moderation, and 3 is about the right place to start in my experience.

The primary goal for me at that stage was to help them understand delayed gratification, or specifically that working on something not as fun can lead to something fun. The secondary goal turned out to be to find other things that are just as fun. This latter goal was abetted by reading stories like "Bread and Jam for Frances" in which our heroine learns that while Bread and Jam is tasty, it isn't all there is in the world.

I did not realize it at the time but the secondary goal of finding things equally fun becomes really useful as they get older. To know from experience that no matter how fun this thing you are doing is, there are other things that are fun out there waiting to be discovered, helped mitigate some obsessing on the one fun thing. Reading/books are great for that since they come in many shapes and topics and you can learn a ton from them.
I agree with most of this except the part about sessions. I'll assume OP does not want session ID/token garbage in the URI, to which I answer with a resounding "Amen!"

It's super annoying how a once-simple Blogger blog now takes at least 3-4 seconds to load some Ajax garbage which is not needed. At all. It's just engineers putting it in the because they can, and because they think its cool, but ultimately it detracts from the overall usability of the site.
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Multi-device multiplayer console for Android.
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This is a great article. After holding off on switching to automatic Dropbox iPhone camera uploads for months, finally I switched it on as a test and immediately wondered why I had waited.

Very impressed with the OpenPhoto initiative too.

After struggling with the increasingly slower speed of iPhoto (similar to the article author), pretty wrappers on top of file systems/Dropbox look like the foreseeable future of photo library management.
No, it doesn't mean there is a prime EVERY 70m or so. It means that as you go on examining pairs of consecutive primes, you will keep finding more and more where the gap is 70m or less. You will find many more where the gap is more than 70m. The average gap will be increasing. The average gap at N is approximately log(N). (That's the natural logarithm, not the common logarithm).

That's where that 2.3 you quoted comes from. If you are looking at numbers with d decimal digits, they are around 10^d and so the average gap is approximately the log of that, log(10^d) is d log(10), and log(10) is approximately 2.3. Hence, the average gap for d digit numbers is approximately 2.3 x d.
I disagree, but I may not have expressed myself clearly.

I have no doubt that an attempt to make the tax system air-tight would result in an even greater degree of loopholes and bureaucracy. But laws are not air-tight. Case law and "common-sense" should prevail.

Shutting down the most egregious tax-avoiders (i.e. those companies who rely on untested laws) would quickly clarify the situation for all other accountants. Loopholes would be exploited once - accountants would not sign off the audits of companies using them in the future.

In this vision of the future the exploiting companies need not be punished harshly - exploring and testing the tax system could be looked on in the same way as white-hat penetration testing. "Thank you for bringing the loophole to our attention. You may not use it. Return any profit you made from it. However, anyone caught using it in the future will be face a much greater punishment."
Pathologically, older SPARC and SGI MIPS boxes are probably a lot better off on OpenBSD where they are actively developed for and tested. Linux casts a wide net but has a lot of bit rot in the dark corners of it's hardware support.
Just in case someone is worried, last time I checked, the html source of whats copied seems clean and copy pastable. Referring to this: http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
Of course, most people don't have gluten-related inflammatory conditions, so whole wheat is good for them!
As the article says, the parts of wikipedia that stay in the history tend to eventually be corrected. The real worst behaviour occurs around articles where even that history is expunged, e.g. those deleted for "non-notability".
I'm sure hipster-cool 5.0 will be amazing this year, there has been no frost so far so the crop is amazing.

Programming languages are not fruit, "promising this year" means nothing.
Why not update the spreadsheet to include a link showing the current top 100?
I'm currently infatuated with Clojure.
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Care to post your sources that show how gluten isn't healthy for those without an intolerance (celiac, IBD, etc)?
In fact, it's statistically rare. Unless you mean that self-diagnosed wannabe celiac stuff.
Whole grains are absolutely a healthy choice in food, unless you have Celiac disease. What you're saying equates to calling nuts unhealthy because many people have nut allergies, but this is obviously the exception, not the rule.
Jesus figure out how to package soylent already. Honestly, if I could buy a vaguely appetizing drink at 7/11 and knew that it had 1/3 of my daily nutrients, I'd be pretty damn ecstatic.
Not too difficult to guess what I'm doing. I also use a lot of sed, grep, xargs and such, but they're typically are piped and don't show up here. I removed some local scripts from here that won't make sense to others.

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Kim Stanley Robinson's recent ‘2312’ has an interesting colony on Mercury. Tracks are built encircling the entire planet along a line of latitude, a huge city—‘Terminator’—rides on these rails like a train. It's pushed along by thermal expansion of the tracks at dawn, the city slides perpetually ahead of sunrise. Interesting stuff!
Because if you don't start throwing advertising at them when they're children, they'll be less susceptible to it when their brains mature?

(I wish I could say I was wholly joking...)
Because selling to their parents is hard! Oh wait, you said "convincing". Erm...
I really hope they succeed somehow. Internet could use some more competition.

When they announced Marissa as taking over, I just wasn't sure anyone could steer that company in the right direction. Perhaps maybe it was just better left for dead.

However, I've been impressed by the moves she's making & believe she's going to turn it around. I'm rooting for her to succeed.

It takes guts to build your own company. It's just as ballsy (if not more so) to climb aboard a sinking ship, get out your pail and start moving buckets of water, one by one.
U.S. Software productivity falls 200% as legions of the technically illiterate conspire to make it look like they are doing work they can't actually do.
Does anybody actually use Riak?

Edit: That sounded mean. It wasn't meant to be.
Hindsight bias: they should buy more chinese / asian e-commerce sites (like Alibaba).