skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am deeply bothered by this idea that you suggest and supposedly hold yourself. It essentially "presumes malice" instead of assuming ignorance. To believe that their desire is to produce user-hobbling products is to assume that somehow there is a conspiracy of executives at a company whose explicit policy is to do harm. That somehow no one has revealed this fact, their board has been somehow complicit in this direction as revealed to them by executives, and that they sit in these, perhaps smoke-filled, board-rooms discussing how they can dumb down their products or harm the general public.

That's insane, you're insane, and your philosophy is far and above more cynical than anyone's need be.
The page is beautiful, but is designed for a very narrow range of computing devices.

28MB will cost you a fortune on 3g if you don't have a good plan, and the page will be freeze most devices and be unusable on most of the rest.

Might as well have used Flash.
"Golang dependency hell in Haunts The Manse game" is not only a very editorialized title for this link, but it's also factually incorrect. Here are some choice quotes about the codebase that have nothing to do with dependencies in Go:

Syntax errors:

"Firstly, the source simply doesn't compile."

Performance problems:

"...it's horribly slow."

Bad version control:

"... the original code [has] ... potentially significant differences"

Those sorts of mistakes seem consistent with the type of coder who wouldn't set aside the 3 minutes it takes to understand Go's dependency system and either use it correctly or build a super-simple makefile to pull the correct versions of code from elsewhere.

Also, pedantic but worth noting: Golang is not the name of the language.
As a full on B5 fanboi, thanks for posting this.
You may also have to copy registry settings.
I know of at least one Berkeley ML PhD. that was working on a startup that could have easily used the slogan, "Machine Learning as a Service".

I have to wonder how founders/founders-in-the-making react when faculty members from their alma mater, from their own department no less, enter their space. Must be a little bit like having Google enter your niche.
"There is nothing special in Go that makes it particularly well suited to video games, but on the other hand there is nothing inherent in the language that makes it a bad choice, except for the fact that it's new and not well supported."

I would say that "new and not well supported" makes this a potentially bad choice for shipping code. Not to say that it can't be used but the problem with new technologies is that not all warts have been properly exposed and you can open yourself up to major headaches.
Switch GP's. Getting a same day appointment does not need to be a problem.
Stuff can start to get done now. It's just about privileged people thinking about more than themselves. There's plenty of bright people at the bottom too, just without the resources and connections to get anything fixed.
Cities that buzz
I was a contestant in that show back then. I did win the skill based game and got to the final round. I was absolutely certain that I was going to pick the winning key (it's nuts to think that, I know). It's funny how even that is similar to startups.
Do they care to?

Seems like they make gobs of money regardless.
We celebrated the 150th diaper changed when our son was two weeks. We know it was 150, as we got a 150-pack of nappy sacks, and it was empty two weeks in. Bought a cake and everything...
I am going to quote the end of the article in order to make valiant attempt to prevent a budding flame war:

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"Is there any succour in these findings for climate sceptics who say the slowdown over the past 14 years means the global warming is not real?

"None. No comfort whatsoever," he said.

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So global warming is still real and it is still happening. It is just that the rate of warming has slowed down somewhat.
This has nothing to do with Go. It sounds like a case of poorly managed dependencies and build rules and likely weak engineering. The fact that they wanted to support the iPad and chose Go also shows this wasn't well thought out.
Just have to be creative/logical at the same time. Simple! :)
Matrix Revolutions: What's going on when Neo and a sentinel appear to merge
Ok, sorry, I meant carbon particulate (soot), not CO2.
EFF Files Amicus Brief in Oracle v. Google Appeal
Former Mexican president pushes for pot legalization
The title is not just misleading -- it is just plain wrong.

NUMA was 15% better for Gmail and 20% better for the Web search frontends, as indicated by the reductions (improvements) in CPI for these workloads.

There were some workloads where NUMA did degrade performance, such as BigTable accesses (12% regression).
I really like it a lot. Somehow I got unfocused from the text box and tried to backspace to clear out my answer, which took me back in my browser and lost my progress :( maybe some client side storing of progress could be helpful. I was having so much fun!
Except for games that use GFWL - the serial number has to be re-entered every time you install them, and they're tied to an email address you might not have one day.
It's hard to know what will work before real consumers have had it in their hands for a while. Perceptions change with propinquity.

Microsoft is one of the few companies that literally define modern consumer computing. It makes me very happy every time I see them moving forward. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't, they grow and fix it.

Apple has the same cycle, but it's less immediately apparent.
Boulder, CO has taken pedestrian safety to absolutely ridiculous levels: http://www.bouldercolorado.gov/index.php?option=com_content&...

You can know if someone is crossing a street in Boulder from Denver :)
Here in Bellevue, WA they have an interesting (not to say obvious) solution to having a sound play when there are pedestrian crossings in both directions. The north-south ones play a sound, while the east-west ones play a different sound. As far as I've observed, that's consistent throughout the city. Some crossings don't have sound, though. I'll check if they have the cone thing.
Which one to choose- Facebook Ads vs Promoted Posts?
Um, you mean cuts off 25% of our potential supply. What happens then is we exercise more of our options (or just negotiate new deals) elsewhere to make up for it. In short, pretty much the same thing that happened when China declared war in the first place. However many plants in however many countries they bomb, we're still better off than if we had used and they had bombed the same plants in the US. Fewer American casualties, certainly.

(Are you expecting China to declare war on us and bomb every country in the world that we do business with? That seems like a pretty expensive and unlikely proposition. It's also worth noting that international trade all by itself tends to improve communications and reduce the potential for hostilities.)
Is this algorithm (a Random Forest variant named WiseRF) difficult to tune or easy? Does the user have to guess parameters, learning rates and such?

I've found that ML algorithms can be like race cars - you really have to know their quirks to get performance out of them. The opposite would be analogous to a luxury car - almost everything is taken care of by the computer - you don't shift gears and don't open the lid.

So, is this WiseRF a race car or a luxury car?
Brownian motion remains Brownian motion at all scales if you scale correctly.

More specifically, if you take a rectangle of width 1/nth of your visualization box, height 1/sqrt(n)th of your visualization box, centered on the point of the walk in the middle of the box then zoom in, you get another random walk with the same statistical properties as the original.
Or even further back: Windows 3, Windows 98, Windows NT (early versions). There's a really really long history of doing that sort of thing at Microsoft.
Golang should be the name of the language. Ironic that you can't Google for "go" and get relevant results, but "golang" works well.
Some of the explanatory power of the graphical demo seems to have been lost.
You're not trying to prevent a budding flame war, you're just trying to preempt the "deniers" from denying.

And I guess you didn't get the memo. You can't call it global warming now. You have to call it climate change. That way, no matter what happens and no matter how cold it gets, evil man and evil capitalism can still be blamed.
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My summary from the last time it was posted.

"Original author didn't localize dependencies, obviously caused problems."
He did list one good reason to invest: schmuck insurance.
Huh? A RAID rebuild is not maintenance, and at any rate if I had a multi-site customer down hard they'd get a better explanation than that after, let's say, the second hour, especially if the ETR was unknown. Not only that, but no CEO I know of would accept this as an excuse from me if I was in charge of their company's systems.

This is basic hosting customer service, and it's the kind of service I have gotten from Rackspace in the past, though I haven't used them since they went public.

P.S. There was much more than that post in the contemporaneous tweets, that was just a convenient description. It's not just hearsay, unless you consider the person running the site to be a third-party to the issue.
The thing that really put climate change in perspective for me was when a professor pointed out that the last ice age was just 4-5C colder than today, but that meant that the place where we were sitting, on the shore of Lake Michigan in Chicago, was under a mile of ice.
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SEO would be one theory. Pages under the same 'www' subdomain will provide a more positive SEO boost to medium.com than pages under various subdomains.
For me modern computing is defined by Apple and a bit by Google - I don't knowingly use a single Microsoft product (who hosts iCloud stuff - is is MS?). How does MS define modern computing - are you meaning in the last 10 years or now?
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And the March 5 update on the Kickstarter page seems to imply the project has been abandoned: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2066438441/haunts-the-ma...
Give it a rest. "Climate Change" is a term for any change in climate in any timeframe. The ice age was climate change. Global Warming refers to man made climate change. It's a more specific term.
Wow. JMS was very active on the message boards while the show was on the air (Delphi first, IIRC, then rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5), and of course the topic of the O'Hare->Boxleitner switch was a heated one. His explanations were always rather unsatisfying, and now it's clear why.

Babylon 5 was not great television. But it certainly should get credit for being pioneering television, both for its reliance on CGI vs. traditional FX, and its wholehearted devotion to a serialized story (and not merely an ever evolving "soap opera") over the traditional episodic format. And with a season-spanning canvas on which to tell stories, it had more than a few transcendent moments.
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So, at a high level, some future version of this software will show intuitive visualizations of learned models of the data? Or currently, at a lower level, it seems to be implementations of standard machine algorithms with a Python API to use them.

There seems to be an emphasis on efficiency, although I don't think that most freely available machine learning libraries are fundamentally poorly implemented. One problem with these libraries is that documentation can sometimes be scarce. Another problem, for the 0.01% of companies which actually have "big data", is that they might not scale, whatever that means.

Regardless of the library used, one of the bigger problems may be that machine learning, if it's worth it at all, is inherently fickle and tricky. To make an overly broad conjecture: if an externally provided machine learning solution works well, either your data didn't require that much domain knowledge to understand (it was "obvious") or some external/outsourced firm has a deeper understanding of your data than you do. More of the former type of analysis might not necessarily be a bad thing, though.
Given Google's ability to obtain processors before they are available to the public, and given that this paper refers to AMD's Barcelona processors, the results published here are probably approximately seven years out-of-date, and it's not clear whether they're still relevant now.
Poor Al Gore and his claims that global warming was "accelerating". Next time better wait a little before early conclusions.
I've got 3 minutes. I've spent more than 3 minutes searching, and I can't find a way to specify a version in an import (though you can tag the go version, you still can't tie the import to a specific tag or version or commit). Am I missing something? It seems the only way around this is to check out a point in time release and import that (which would solve the problem the article mentions). However, that's a workaround for a problem that package managers like NPM and RubyGems have trivially solved.
You'd be going about it the wrong way if you just looked at a list. Sometimes the underlying issues are complex, or just downright a struggle to fix or disrupt. The best thing you could do is make friends and acquaintances outside of your ingroup. Have people tell you about their problems themselves. You'll get a better idea of the problems out there the more people you talk to and dialogue with.

If you want my opinion on the main obstacles against making the world a better place:
- gentrification and separation of the rich and poor
- social services being a giant wasteful bureaucracy rather than a streamlined, responsive, empowering structure
- gridlock in the US legislature as far as finding real solutions, leading to lack of regulations where they should be and mis-managed and destructive overregulation in others

Everyone towards the bottom is overworked and have no leftover energy and willpower to jump through all the arbitrary hoops to improve their lot in life. Something needs to change with how wealth, free time, and the benefits of efficiency are distributed in society, or the country will go into further decline and unrest.
You can't. The right way to spend the 3 minutes is to read the docs. [1] [2]

Also, just because it doesn't work the way NPM does doesn't mean it doesn't work.

[1] http://golang.org/doc/code.html#remote

[2] http://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Remote_import_path_syntax (linked from [1])
There is no version control for dependencies. You pretty much have to download the version you want manually, and then reference your local copy. Many people are aware of this and I imagine there will be work done to support versioning in some way.
I've always wondered what would happen if we enumerated the common events of prison life in sentencing. You are hereby sentenced to:

Segregated eating

Daily verbal abuse

The regular disruption of your personal possessions

Being physically assaulted once for every 5-7 years of confinement

Being seriously injured through assault once for every 10-15 years of confinement

Being raped once for every 15-20 years of confinement

While these are extrapolations from prison statistics, the uncertainty makes the sentence all the more chilling. Prison is, in the US at least, a cruel institution, but this is rarely discussed when we talk about what it means to give someone a 5 year sentence or 10 years. Confinement is terrible, but, for many, it is not the worst part of the punishment.
There is a gif of this at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_process#Self-similarity

which is rather nice.

If you get some infrastructure for making Brownian motion sample paths, another good one is that it crosses zero infinitely often in the neighborhood of the origin. Keep zooming in, and see more and more crossings. This is another instance of the scaling rule you mention, but it is neat to see.
That is what public key/agent forwarding is for.

This will explain it better than I ever could:
http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/ssh-agent-forwarding.html
Not great television?

IMHO, and IMHO only, it was the best TV series ever made, for the reasons you cited. I have never seen character driven serialisation like it, before or since. Even though its 20 years old, and visually iffy by today's standards, people still come to it fresh and enjoy it as much as people did all those years ago.

OK, rationally, it has problems, but to call it not great is doing is a gross dis-service.
He's quoting the article verbatim.
Well, fair enough based on my wording I suppose. But on the one hand you have events that happened a very long time ago, whereas on the other you have the fact that we're in an "intraglacial period" in a "current ice age" right now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene (first paragraph, I suggest also clicking on the "current ice age" link).

I'm actually more worried that warming could still somehow lead us back into the ice age (chaos is nasty stuff) than the catastrophic warming scenarios. Both are theoretically possible, but we are so much closer to an ice age than heat disaster right now. However much we may or may not moved the climate it certainly hasn't been very far away from "ice age" in the grand scheme of things.
Features like pg_stat_statements are a major reason why I love Postgres. The dev team makes sure the foundations are rock solid, and then start pouring on the features. If only $work used Postgres...
After the big Mt. Gox hack in 2011, in order to get my funds out, I had to send a photocopy of my ID to be verified (pretty sure there were other mechanisms, but that one seemed the one with the least friction). I'm a bit surprised that there's any expectation of anonymity with Bitcoin if you're not 100% non-fiat.
I've always found that interesting. Sometimes you look at a dollar and think "where has this been?" - with bitcoin you can answer that question as far back as "who created this money" (to various degrees of pleasure or dismay.)
You're generally spot on, but I figured I'd clarify a bit of terminology since it can be so confusing in our field. Generally, TCP is referred to as a "stream" based protocol because it guarantees, amongst other things, that all packets will arrive in the order in which they were sent, as you've mentioned.

UDP _is_ great for "streaming" data, meaning data sent piecewise over a continuous connection (or, at least, emulated connection) because packet loss / reordering is an acceptable loss, since a minor blip is less destructive than pausing the video. In this type of setting, packets that arrive out of order (i.e. a packet that was sent earlier arrives after a packet sent after it has been received) are thrown out and the process keeps on chugging.
in other words: we don't understand it, but we're still going to blame it on mankind.

we can make short range predictions, but still don't know all of the variables that are controlling the climate.
Ah. Now that was a shortcut I could use. I think I'll stay with 7 for some time now. 8 has apps and all but some features are quite broken.

Seperating Settings, Applications and Files is indeed very strange. They just broke lot of things with removal of start button!
Sunny uplands: Alternative energy will no longer be alternative
It isn't reasonable to think that oil will suddenly become unavailable leading to an abrupt price spike. Instead, the cost to extract the oil will increase over time causing the market to adjust via lower demand or substitute products.

The 'invisible hand of the market' will have no problem in directing a transition. The recent increase in oil production due to fracking and horizontal drilling is a perfect example of the market directing investment in response to an increase in price.
Wall Street Journal's "The Federator" HTML5 game
Music: something I don't know well so my brain doesn't want to try to sing...I usually put on a Pandora station for indie rock or metal

Keyboard: mechanical keyboard (blue switches...the noisier the better)

Monitor: 2 monitors...even though I only use one about 90% of the time, it's nice to have API docs, mockups, notes, etc. on the other one that are only a glance away. I prefer the monitors to be widescreen so I can put things side by side nicely.

Space: in my room, or if I have to be in an office, a desk far away from people with headphones on. There's also a 24/7 french bakery with awesome wifi that I did a majority of my college coding projects in...that atmosphere is naturally productive for me somehow lol

Always sitting. I have a standing/sitting desk at my work and I'm starting to take a liking to standing, but I feel less productive.

People surrounding: as minimal as possible unless we're group-thinking a problem

Time: early mornings, or after 10pm
These two sentences summarize the article pretty well: "The authors calculate that over the coming decades global average temperatures will warm about 20% more slowly than expected. But when it comes to the longer term picture, the authors say their work is consistent with previous estimates."
Thanks for the summary, I started reading but wasn't going to get far on this one.
In still other words: it doesn't matter what's causing it, we're fucked if the average temperature in the breadbasket of the U.S. becomes similar to that of Texas, as is projected. The question isn't: did we cause it, the question is: can we slow it down?
First become known (or even famous) for what you do, then apply yourself to an actual, unsolved problem (in a very small time window) then people with positions and money will notice you, and then they will arrange somehow that Yahoo will buy your shit.)
Teehan + Lax is an interactive design agency that does work for multinational corporations. Their site is obviously catered towards clients with big wallets or potential hires. Complaining about bandwidth would make a lot of sense if we were talking about a site catered towards the majority of internet users, like an Amazon, Craigslist, or Reddit. It's like complaining that high end fashion websites don't cater to Internet Explorer 7 when a far greater majority of their users uses view it through iPads or mobile phones.
And I guess you didn't get the memo. You can't call it global warming now. You have to call it climate change. That way, no matter what happens and no matter how cold it gets, evil man and evil capitalism can still be blamed.

If you're trolling, that kind of trolling is not wanted around here.

If you're not trolling, then you didn't understand the article. This study finds a rate of warming at 80% the consensus average of predictions from several years ago, and well within the previous uncertainty bars. So evidence of warming is getting stronger, not weaker, even though the exact predictions of how fast it is warming are coming in on the conservative side of previous estimates.
You sound angry. Relax. Take a deep breath. Maybe go outside and enjoy the nice late-May weather. Hell, it may not be a bad idea to fire up the grill, even, and make yourself a nice hamburger or hot dog. I promise you will feel better afterward.
1) I agree with you that the parent comment is not preempting anything, it's just a political jab.

2) You're simply wrong that the name change to "climate change" was a leftist thing. Luntz is a chief political strategist for the right wing in America:

The phrase "global warming" should be abandoned in favour of "climate change", Mr Luntz says, and the party should describe its policies as "conservationist" instead of "environmentalist", because "most people" think environmentalists are "extremists" who indulge in "some pretty bizarre behaviour... that turns off many voters".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2003/mar/04/usnews.cli...