skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally only stay at a hotel for a convention. I want to stay at the specific hotel for the convention, not a nearby one, which means that I pay more than I would like. Usually I book through the hotel with the Convention rate.
Technically, yes :) But I had a beer waiting for me at a bar...
Not amazing when I visited there last year. Stick to the larger cities and you should be fine, though. If you are on the West Coast of Canada, I'd highly recommend moving before October, 2014 -- that's when higher concentrations of Caesium-137 (from Fukushima) are predicted to strike our coastal waters.
Most of the successful "government research" projects were to make money or engage in war better.

Those sailing expeditions were to gain resources (make money) or conquer new lands (make money).

The atomic bomb and space programs were built for military ends. The internet was built for military resiliency. GPS was for targeting and tracking.

Basic research does require a long term view.. but I would suggest that even government doesn't have that as evidenced by the financial messes they've caused because the bills don't have to be paid until "later."
Meh, as a Canadian I've always been disappointed in how despite spending a lot of money on government R&D we've never really got much out of it. NRC has always been a bit of a weird beast and NSERC is still around.
But there's no need to. Such big sources have huge anchor links with this tag, backlinks supporting them and whatnot. It should work organically without even needing a lookup table
Organ failure from Roundup-Ready soy?
Joining, Retirement, Testing, and Bankruptcy
Not so sure storage costs have dropped so much. Hard drives aren't getting bigger (4TB is two years old now) and electricity and other data center costs have risen.
Why does it default to dong colored?
Government seizes AP phone records
>and why on earth would anybody be outraged or otherwise incensed by this?

I think any decent person should be outraged by the idea of someone being put in solitary confinement for reasons other than being a danger to themselves or others. Even granting the point that he should have known this would happen (a point I'm not quite ready to concede), that doesn't make it any less deplorable.

Rosa Parks should have known that she would be arrested if she didn't give up her seat. That doesn't make it OK that she was.
Hah, good catch! Fixing.
The key thing about connecting with another person, of being intimate, is being present.

When you "talk to a store clerk", you are talking to the role of a store clerk. The uniform. The representative of a corporate transaction machine. When you use an app and "check the box", generally, people do that as mindlessly as possible.

Technology does not solve this. An individual person's mindfulness extends this.

This leads to a lot of interesting insights. For example, there is a relationship between being "intimate" and "naked", and not necessarily in the physical sense.

We all have inner selves that we protect by layers of masks, rationalizations, and buffers. This is the vulnerable part of ourselves. And to connect with someone else is to bare that open.

Who really wants to open themselves up like that? That's quite a leap of courage and faith. It is also the supreme act of generosity and compassion.

So. You want to solve this? That's great! First solve it for yourself: be fully present. Learn to be mindful. Get in touch with the wounded part of yourself, and in doing so, learn to extend compassion to others around you.
Slightly crazy ways to build a happy, productive and transparent company
Space Oddity: Commander Chris Hadfield covers David Bowie in space
Go 1.1 is released
I can't understand this argument. If you have the means to fund something, your belief is that you're obligated to fund it yourself instead of financing it? How was anyone on Kickstarter harmed by being able to contribute to the funding a movie they wanted to see, rather than having a studio fund it start-to-finish?

It's just baffling.
"Five Years of '10 Years of Purely Functional Data Structures'"
What do you want crowdfunding to be? A "farm system" for talent that will move on to be financed by Big Content, or Big Content's inevitable replacement? Because the way you're framing it, you can't have it both ways.
HackerNews:
Step 1: Contribute to conversation
Step 2: Link to your own business as an example.

I think you forgot step 1
It's already done: https://quantifiedself.appspot.com/

(but could be greatly improved.)
Thanks. You're right I haven't taken control of my own learning, which can really be summed up in the question: where do I start?

Part of the problem is I don't even know what I can already do, because I haven't done math in a long time. So part of all this is really my being a little scared of it still.

I will look for algebra resources online and see how I do and use that to see if I need to go further back, stay on that algebra track, or try higher-up math.

In the end, I really am partial to taking a course, because of the structure, as you say. So I just want to see what math I should start at, instead of throwing away money.

Thanks!
Maybe my memory's failing me, but I can't think of a similarly-sized press surveillance operation by the Bush Administration.

Keep in mind that under Obama, more alleged government leakers have been prosecuted than all of his predecessors combined:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-18/obama-pursuing-leak...

This includes administrations that oversaw such problematic eras as the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the McCarthy Era, and of course, the War on Terrorism.
Git and Github Secrets [video]
I've found EVE to be a double-edged sword in that regard. The game is exponentially more fun when played socially. On the other hand it's easy to hide in it and avoid socializing at all.

EVE takes effort to play "the right way". Make sure you get in a nice corp.
Not to mention that some of the Libor fixes were discussed over IM.
What scares me is that you know they're working on doing precisely this, and eventually they will probably be successful.
Slide #33 is actually reasonable advice. Variable shift = 11 cycle latency on PS3/Xbox360, and it blocks both threads and disables interrupts as it runs. (Will the compiler figure this out? Maybe, maybe not. But if you write the code you want - which in this case you might as well, since the transformation is simple - then you won't have to worry about that. As a general point of principle you should write the code you want, rather than something else that you hope will become the code you have in mind; computers are very bad at figuring out intent, but excellent at simply following instructions.)

What are the other bogus suggestions? The overall thrust of the slides seems to me valid: know what's expensive (branches, memory access, mini-pitfalls like the micrododed thing), pick a strategy that avoids all of that, and don't throw away performance. Performance always ends up being an issue; you don't have to carefully preserve every last cycle, but that's no excuse for just pissing away cycles doing pointless stuff.

Not explicitly stated, but apparent from comparing the suggested approach to the original one, is that you can't always just leave this stuff to the last minute, when you've had the profiler tell you what's a bottleneck and what isn't. The requisite changes might have far-reaching consequences, and so it's worth giving a bit of thought to performance matters when you start and things are a bit more in flux.

A bit of domain knowledge also won't hurt. I bet if this function were ten times worse, but called "PostDeserializeFromDVD", it wouldn't attract very much attention.
Like the first person to die from texting while driving? That sure didn't discourage anyone.
Not mentioned is kickstarter which essentially tells you exactly up front what some customers will be paying for the initial volume.

You can also set your prices even higher but then use discounting. The higher price implies a better product, and who doesn't like to save money?
Unfortunately it seems to have broken my Google Analytics setup which is managed by Jekyll Bootstrap. Could be related to the site.safe flag that is used by Jekyll Bootstrap, so it somehow can't detect production mode correctly.
A "large hadron collider" funded by private industry would never have happened, or if it did, it would have a significantly different mandate. As far as we can tell, here's no money to be made with Higgs bosons.

That is, there's no money to be made today in that.

Eighty years in the future we might realize some commercial applications, just as how we're still mining theoretical research done eighty years ago when building new integrated circuits or optical switching technologies.

There is an enormous amount of government funded work out there that, while not always glamorous or even practical, provides a huge boost to future initiatives that can leverage it. Developing commercial applications is made easier, more frictionless, because researchers don't have to do this work themselves.

Increased costs are not a sign of a lack of innovation. It's a sign that people are compelled to tackle larger problems. All the easy stuff has already been done.

A hundred and fifty years ago you could tinker around with random radioactive compounds in your garage and win a Nobel Prize. Today you'll have to work pretty hard to find something that hasn't already been experimented with.
What's "pinned" isn't the site's certificate, but rather the CA's certificate. Or more accurately, the CA's public key.

This is the problem with public key pinning. The site is still vulnerable to a compromise from its own CA, and many sites actually use a number of different CAs for unfortunate reasons. If you check out the list of pins for twitter.com, it's quite large. Still, at least it's not vulnerable to compromise from every CA that exists.

Trevor Perrin and I have been working on something called TACK (http://tack.io) to make all of this easier and more secure. Rather than embedding pin fingerprints into the binaries of web browsers and mobile apps, you can advertise them and update them via a TLS extension. What's pinned is also your site's certificate, not the CA's certificate, making the site additionally immune to compromise from its CA (or list of CAs, as it were).
Do you have anything to back that claim up?

Yeah, lots of things. Things I mentioned in the comment.

You're on hn every time there's a Google story talking about how they're killing smaller sites, acting monopolistic, violating anti-trust regulations or whatever, what is your motivation?

T-R-U-T-H is a great motivator.
What do you propose as an alternative system?
But can you not take any (or many) two different data sets that sort of relate and create such graphs? Social interaction and Suicide, Sex and Suicide, Education and Suicide, Work load and Suicide, XYZ and Suicide.
A while ago I made a similar thing: https://github.com/mmikulicic/metacontext

still has some issues with line numbers (in tracebacks for example) in files where there is macro expansion.
The location of the URL for this post can also be reached by going to http://images.google.com/ and performing a search for "atari breakout".
Speaking about concepts perhaps Norvig post "(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))" http://norvig.com/lispy.html can be useful. The concept of a dotted pair (the car and the cdr are interesting historical facts.

I wish you the best for your presentation for the Mit class, it seems interesting but perhaps it should have a link to some standard techniques like machine learning.

I am curious about the small projects, will they be available in the page of the course?
See the docs for:

citext: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/citext.html

unaccent: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/unaccent.html

I think you can make it work.
Amazon's Desktop Music Player
This is the May 2012 story the AP claims to have set off the investigation, the writers of which were allegedly the targets (linked from Business Insider): http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-05...
Embedded programmers have been scheduling I/O like this for decades as well. A thread is a lot on an embedded kernel.
This would be a good price differentiation point - people have said they'd pay $45 to buy it just to try and others are suggesting $250 as a reasonable price for businesses.

So why not ~$50 with no updates, then $250 with updates for next n months, $500 lifetime and then add support options, or something along those lines.
I wonder if Google is buying linkshare data from Facebook and Twitter. It seems obvious that they should.
Crouton is actually a breeze to use. While the crouton script itself might have a few hacks under-the-hood, the end result is quite slick. Everything just installs under `/usr/local/chroots'. Removing one of your potentially many chrooted installs is just an `rm -rf'.

I prefer keeping ChromeOS primary and just opening a crosh window to expose one of these chroots (a browser and terminal is similar to my work environment on a Mac). Granted, XFCE can act weird if you choose to launch it, but
I've never needed that functionality.

If you do want to completely replace ChromeOS, there's Chrubuntu.
There's a difference between a minimum viable product and a minimum viable idea. It sounds like the OP wants to sell the latter before building the former. Or, as the saying goes, put the cart before the horse.
Neither.

This kind of loneliness has as much to do with rejecting oneself as it is being rejected by other people.

Each of us have emotional wounds inside that are sensitive. We typically wrap layers and layers of personality, activities, and rationalizations to protect it. And if it gets through that, it triggers some protective emotional outbursts or behaviors. Or we shut down, like the woman in catatonia.

It is usually painful enough that the mind does not want to be aware of it, and when hitting upon that, will naturally veer away from it.

You can be fundamentally lonely in a crowd of millions. You can be the meditating sage in some isolated cave for years, because you know at the core you are not alone.
It'll be interesting to see how the security breach came about...something trivial that was previously protected by obscurity? Lots of people have never used a Bloomberg terminal, and its main clientele don't seem like the type to heavily security test it for fun.
Hidden Game "Atari Breakout" in Google Image search
"immigration" in this country....[is] destructive, poisoning, and exploitative all around for everyone else.

GP didn't single out immigrants who come here on short-term visas, but even if he had, I came here on a short term visa, and so did every single one of the 100 people I referred to. It is true that many had to go back to their places of origin. In some cases they suffered because of it, although I'd argue their place of origin benefited. In some cases they started startups after returning, and both they and their place of origin benefited.
Can some kinds of projects be conducted better with government support? Yes. Should almost all scientific research depend on the same support? Probably not. Projects that are not due to realize either great profits or publicity coups within a politician's expected term of office will find government a very fickle and small-minded master.
I picked up a Samsung ARM Chromebook two weeks ago, installed both the latest Secure Shell and the Development version. Neither worked :-/
That case study is truly frightening. People spend years of their lives and millions of dollars to get their sites to rank higher in search engines... and then this can happen.
Why VC’s Shortchange Healthcare IT—And How to Change It
It’s official: Password strength meters aren’t security theater
HTTP APIs like http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/HTTP_API. Using a javascript framework like AngularJs would permit me to get rid of middleware (Java, PHP, dotNET, etc.) almost completely. I need a relational db and I'm not a big fan of NoSQL, so MongoDB or others are not a viable option. It would also permit to use only javascript from the front end to the back end (https://code.google.com/p/plv8js/).
There is a Drive client for linux: insync. I use it since more than a year and it works perfectly.
I’m Not Balancing Work and Life And I Feel Great
You don't understand. Google has made huge sites immune to this, and small sites that suffer are labeled as "spam, low quality and shallow" sites by Matt Cutts & Co.

Until recently Google was winning the propaganda war, now not so sure. On web forums people are openly talking about search manipulation to increase advertising via Adwords and ad clicks.
http://searchengineland.com/google-matt-cutts-penguin-update...
All of the tools used to have this sort of presentation. GWO, in particular, once had a very nice visualization of confidence-range overlaps (the current product blows).

I suspect they removed them for the same reason I tend to avoid the subject when discussing testing with non-technical people: nearly everyone is numerically illiterate, and looking for the "easy" answer. They want a used-car salesman, not a mathematics professor (i.e. "no more of this 'confidence' gobbeldygook -- give me the bottom line").

Sad, but in my experience, nearly universally true.
D-Wave’s quantum optimizer pitted against traditional computers
I read this as cockblock.js and was expecting something more amusing.
isn't it equivalent to

class Lol:
pass
Lol = blah(Lol)
Anyone having a link to the "backup" of these?
I would recommend the book Design for Hackers.
Lost Steve Jobs Interview (video)
ArsDigita: from start-up to bust-up
That is really awesome. One suggestion though: Make "relative" the default as well as set "1−β" to 90 or 95%.

I assume that most people have a conversion rate of X, say 30%, and want to increase this by Y, say 20% (30% to 36%). If I consider the type of headline many blog posts and reports have, they are like "How we increased sales, trials, whatever by 50%". That's how they think.

And well, I usually aim for 95% significance.
Oh hum, thanks for that. Does it use inotify/is light on resources?
I think there's a great deal of truth here, but it seems unfair to use the tendencies of Zuckerberg, after he already became successful and has had years of positive reinforcement of his abilities, as an example of why he was destined to be successful. I'm sure a lot of people who were just as tenacious as a young Zuckerberg, have become less so over the years after having failed many times and discouraged. Some of them will rebound and others won't. Perhaps Zuckerberg had a great deal to overcome, but as a distant observer, it seems that he's learned the right lessons early in part because his effort was validated.
The unfortunate part about an interview is if everyone asks questions about stuff he's not interested in or doesn't want to talk about, you can't really get much out of the interview. So you're stuck with anecdotes about post WWII immigration policy and apparently a philosophical aversion to the existence of 70s era DSP technology and/or neural network technology and "You're not an expert on plasma physics so I'd like to ask you about plasma physics".

I don't know if distributed interviews is a startup worthy app idea, because I don't have a solution to this problem. Maybe that makes it a good, hard problem to solve. There's gotta be a better idea for audience feedback than academic clickers and twitter hashtags.

When I used to /., I always asked interview victims to simply tell a cool story. Some of them totally sucked or were obvious filler PR plants, but some were pretty awesome stories.

The benefit of a real human interviewer like Leo Laporte's Triangulation videocast/podcast is the back and forth discussion drags more out of the victim than "I was never a RAF pilot" "I'm not a plasma physicist" and so forth.

Frankly the "hand dryer and vacuum cleaner" Qs getting a laugh is about the best you can get out of this interview. He strikes me as the cantankerous type who would Probably enjoy telling those people off to great hilarity, so they missed an opportunity there. Or maybe not.
The loneliest period of my life was during my clubbing days in my 20s. I was out doing something almost every night, had a few dozen people I called friends. Sometimes it was alot of fun, but it was ultimately draining... the connections were superficial at best.

Moved away shortly after turning 26, stopped answering almost all calls and had little social interaction for about 6 mos. Then I got a dog and started meeting people again but slowly and in a completely different context. That was probably the most cathartic period in my life.
I'll generally use a site like hotels.com to get feel for what hotels are available and what the general price level is, and then I'll call or email the hotel and book directly. I've never gotten a worse price and often gotten a better price. On the whole it just feels better to have had direct contact with someone at the hotel.
Wait... they crowdsourced the translation of their Terms and Conditions? That seems like, I don't know, a bad idea. For user content or interfaces sure, but T&Cs are essentially a legal document.
So how do you disavow thousands of links a day? That's what a negative SEO could buy for a few bucks on fiverr...
It's not "interaction".

It's presence of mind. Awareness.

I've seen this happen a lot with ... non-pathological loneliness. I mean that, generally everyone is lonely in the way Fromm-Reichmann is saying, but because it at a socially-acceptable level, then it looks normal.

For example, I've been at parties and places where friends "hang out". No one really talks about much. No one is really engaging in anything. The jokes people are saying are not there to connect with someone, and more to fill the air with something to say.

This is in contrast with, say, you go to this party, and on an off chance, you start talking with someone. And it feels like a very different experience, like you are fully connecting. You're no longer waiting for the other person to shut up so you can say something. The conversation flows, but the content doesn't really matter. It could be a deep discussion about math or philosophy; it could be sharing some life stories; it could be swapping some of your wild, youthful adventures.

You're not going to be able to measure presence of mind. But you know when you are present vs. when you are not.
14 yr old with Asperger's challenges Relativity Theory
Being social in the real world is a different skill than being social online. You might want to practice both (although, from experience, I'm going to say being social in real life is more important.)

Try a different psychologist, maybe you got the wrong one. But be a little more open to different philosophies of life and goofiness.
Is anyone even surprised by the actions of the U.S. Government anymore?
Then reach out.

This is not solvable with technology.
>The very fact that the counter-argument has to be carefully constructed is itself damning

Either that or the need to carefully construct arises when you know how snarky and dismissive the fine folks on the other side tend to be. They are, after all, invested in their beliefs to a greater degree, as they serve as an "out" for personal career failings. And given the extreme correlation between insane beliefs and self-flattery ("God says I should be king!", etc), that in and of itself is, what's the word....damning.
I think as a Startup you should spend 90% of your time on refining and validating the Problem Definition. Do as much as you can of that activity without even creating a single line of code. Since most probably you are solving a human problem, you should interact with as many humans as possible.

Lets be honest, unless you are creating a rocket or some really cool new technology, most Web Services/Apps can be implemented by anyone. YOUR job as Startup is not to reinvent the wheel for the solutions but live and breath the problem definition. After all it will be much cheaper and faster to fail if you have not built the product yet.