skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The appeal of holy texts to me is more artistic rather than spiritual or even historic. Also, I love collecting all texts (a few rather old leather-bound bibles, late 1800 to early 1900, are some of my most prized possessions).

There's something precious lost when the only copy that remains of a volume is digital. Sure, you have the content, but the weight, the smell, the texture of the paper etc... all that would have been gone forever.
I did my own tests with Google+. Some results:

- Google+ queues images for recognition. Results improved steadily over 72 hours.

- Google+ does not use OCR of text in the images. That surprised me. But perhaps it's a privacy issue.

- Google+ does use information gleaned from elsewhere on the web. Words that were associated with the same images on Flickr would turn up those very pictures on Google+.

- Oddly, Google+ does not use information associated with those images on Twitter.

- Google probably uses EXIF data married to a database of location names.

- The much-vaunted feature recognition is impressive, better than any other system, but for me did not achieve creepy levels of intuition.

http://neilk.net/blog/2013/05/23/testing-google-photos-ai/
That sequence is called "Sylvester's sequence":

http://oeis.org/A000058

The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences is one of the coolest things on the net.
You can build a cli parser exactly like git uses (positional and short/long) using argparse. What is difficult about that? Opt parse perhaps, but if you're talking about argparse, it seems like you're just whining. The rest of your comments I (overall) agree with
If you've spent the hours learning to code, and even more time learning how to host your brand new app on a server... just spend that little bit of extra time to get those backups up and running - don't launch without it.

Your business could potentially be dead overnight without backups.

This doesn't just apply to the operations of your site, this also applies to every bit of data related to your business. Do you have backups of everything on your local machine? Do you also have backups in a remote location incase your local backup gets destroyed/stolen? If not then stop everything until you've put a plan in action.

Who needs backups anyway? Everyone does, unless you don't care about your data.
>We're merely saying that it's pointless to try to combat them without market share. Products that nobody uses will have essentially no impact, even if they're more "open" than the more popular products.

The history of BSD and Linux should call that assertion into question.

They started relatively unpopular, but their openess earned them a core niche of technically capable innovators and early adopters, who over time improved their quality enough for them to nearly dominate in servers and mobile.
Unfortunately for a lot of people, we don't live in large cities.

My city is 12.5k people (as of 2010) and the closest larger city is 125k (Gainesville, FL) with the next being 827k. With this car I could just barely drive to Gainesville and back on a single charge. So, it's almost perfect for my usage, and with public charge stations in the large cities near me it would be perfect.

I know EVs are still in the early stages of being accepted into general use, but I'm very excited about the day when they pass the 50% mark.
>So, when people say "let professionals handle it". Well, no, my particular set of constraints won't allow me to do this. My budget for this is around $100/mo. In an event where I completely run out of money I'd have to take down the site indefinitely, which causes the same effect as an HD loss.

well, drat. I was talking about launching a "tested backups" service, but it's just not really worth my time until you get to the $500/month level or so, and I'd probably want a setup fee on top of that.

(For that, I'd give you a full working replication of your production site, hosted on my stuff- something that, in case of emergency, you could cut over your dns and just run with. Something that you could go to at any time and check on by going to yourdomain.backups.prgmr.com or something. Obviously, this would take me setting up some sort of replication of your database. Obviously, this also means that I'd need to know your application well enough to figure out how to make the running backup not conflict with the primary, and how to cut over to the backup /as/ a primary and how to cut back.)

I mean, I can do basic backups really cheaply, but testing them? that... that takes effort. Effort and understanding the application. And untested backups, meh, there's no reason for you to pay me to do it (maybe you pay me for space, but that's the cheap part.) there are thousands of services that will cheaply give you a place to hold files.

Huh. Most of the work, on my end, would be up front. What if I charged you $100/month, but made you pre-pay a year in advance or something? that might be worth it for me. (assuming I had the option to back out and refund your money within the first X days should your application prove to be too difficult to replicate.)
Feels like this article could be summed up with "everything you know about computers is wrong and poorly designed"
I think the reasoning is wrong here. Obviously a tower could be stable, but still applying force to an edge of the top could make it collapse.

What's actually happening is that at each step, you already have a max-overhang tower of N bricks, then you add another brick below, to produce a max-overhang tower of N+1 bricks. Because the old N-brick tower is stable, you can place it anywhere on the new bottom brick as long as its center of gravity is not off the edge of the new brick.
Yeah, there's a common sysadmin joke about how if the CEO knows you exist, you aren't doing your job.
There's a difference between making something and making something that goes beyond just gluing pasta shells onto a paper plate, this is one of those things. No need to be so negative, this is an interesting story for a number of reasons the main one being a cottage industry has been created out of helmets that electronic music makers Daft Punk wear which is just plain cool.

Aside: I love the irony of your name considering you're getting down-voted for your comment and your name is uptown. Might be time to consider changing it!
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Proof: consider the sum S = 1/1 + 1/2 + ... + 1/n. Suppose 2^k is the biggest power of 2 that's <= n. Then one of the terms in S is 1/2^k, and there is nothing else with a multiple of 2^k in the denominator. So when you clear denominators, there'll be exactly one term (that one) with an odd numerator, so the whole thing is (odd number) / (multiple of 2^k) and therefore not an integer.
Not sure if it's the case here, but in some sports (NFL iirc) players don't have guaranteed contracts. If a player makes no bonus but is supposed to earn $10 million a year, he gets nothing if he's cut. If he gets a $3,000,000 signing bonus and a $7,000,000 salary, he keeps the 3 because he got it up front.
> it proves that Perl can't be parsed unambiguously.

That's what can't be parsed means. They're pretty clear about what they mean by something being "parsable", you're muddying that definition to extend it to: "parsable: things that can be vaguely processed most of the time"
Well, some people wrote bots to do it for them.
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For some reason, almost all pure electric cars have resembled traditional front engined cars with a long hood. Form has not yet followed function. Just like early automobiles looked like horse drawn carriages without the horses. It is frustrating how bad design must be in order to sell.
It doesn't matter whether people are aware of uncertainties in their holy scriptures or not. It matters whether they have demographic issues (youth bulge) or (coming) economic problems. The spread of fundamentalist memes requires a susceptible population (or subgroup of it) that is ready to go into war mode (either civil or imperialist war).
Cameras, USB HDDs and the internet -- the non undesirable uses far outweigh the criminal ones. I'm not an ideologue, I'm a pragmatist.

Freeways is an interesting one, most places license people to drive, for very good reasons (just one of them being a help to law enforcement).

It seems like a bit of silly argument considering I don't believe a truly anonymous untraceable currency is possible but let's suppose it is. My pessimistic nature makes me think that the top 3 things it would be used for would be tax evasion, bribery and extortion.
I think when you have kids you realize that you had the time and resources to get a degree. You probably will deal with more complexities later in your life.

About your personal issues with school, that's completely understandable but if you could deal with it you will accomplish a lot in your personal issues (beyond the specific degree)

Forking a little bit the main subject, I think that some stuff you see in the university is difficult to learn alone.
The bitcoin network does less than one transaction a second total, and that size isn't terribly large compared to normal transactions. It's at least viable to implement in its current form.
Thanks! Interesting that mine's off by one...
Combination of XSS and CSRF.
Another great post by MMM. Before starting a Lean Startup every founder should try to lead a Lean Life as per his advice...
Sounds like you know what you want, any reason you can't start working on it?
Business prefers not to hire a lot of people because their work is worth for the economy less then what they have to pay for their food and shelter.

Wealth does not come from human work. It comes from machine work. Business is no longer in recession. It produces as much as before 2008 but with much less people. Manufacturing just used the recession to shed off unnecessary workers.
for the simple reason that your freedom to blast the music at 3am conflicts with my freedom to get some sleep. "Sort of free" is the best we can hope for.

To be fair, there are semantic arguments about the nature of "freedom" to be had. But I, for one, don't find your example to contradict the notion of freedom as a binary proposition in the slightest. But I wouldn't contend to have a "freedom to blast music at 3am" in the first place, if you take "blast" to mean "play at such a volume that it interferes with the ability of my neighbor to sleep". shrug
Would be nice to be able to see the application without linking it to my Dropbox.
Every profession has some level at which you don't need a university degree to work. For example, the medical profession has paramedicals. Civil engineering have civil engineering technicians. This is the kind of difference that has not been made in the software engineering profession, and would make life easier for everyone. If you just want to be a programmer, get a job at that level without the need of a university degree. The CS/Comp.Eng. degree, on the other hand, should prepare people not just to program but to design and manage complex software projects.
Note that this alludes to the latest technique being used to erode privacy: the idea that "metadata" is somehow distinct and less deserving of protection than [other stuff]. The implication is "metadata" (like phone logs) is not really "data", which is absurd and dangerous.
google should advertise the sheer technical depth of the stuff they do

make search sound like scotty explaining a warp core on star trek
I left this comment in the article, but it hasn't shown up yet.

I don't want to nitpick but DOM is just an API (of W3 origins, which also makes it a standard).

"The DOM is not a JavaScript concept. It is an object model for web browsers"

The first part is correct, but the second is a little off. You might want to say "used _by_ web browsers..." or something along those lines.
European welfare systems are not BI because you loose the benefits if you go to work. They penalize getting a job hence people are disincentivised to get one. At leas legal one.
It may be the same tech (roughly). Use the same approach for all but the last layer, then use traditional backprop to learn the last layer and fine tune the connections in the lower layers.

Mostly unlabelled then, which means you can learn to generalise over a huge number of images but learn labels on a smaller set.
This is about how productive you can be by using mature technology with plenty of libraries and components. How long would it take with Go or ruby with their still small ecosystems?
On a sidenote, does anyone have a good setup for browsing securely to avoid issues like this? I ran with JS restricted to a whitelist for a while, but many random websites that I have to use require it these days.

Can you use something like Ghostery to allow any site to do its own JS but not external JS, besides whitelisted sites/externals?
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Could you rephrase your comment without the words "Drupal" and "works" next to each other? You are unconsciously reinforcing the author's point.
These cars are famous for their design and they have the engine in the back:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Vo...

https://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/filepicker%2Ftr7FdygeTg64...

http://static.cargurus.com/images/site/2008/06/03/21/19/1985...

Cars feel better to drive when the driver is near the car's physical center, or the center of gravity, preferably both.
Go on, tell us what sorts of shapes you'd rather see. One thing to note: the hood is not just a place to store the engine, but a place to absorb kinetic energy in a crash, so it serves a vital function even if full of luggage.
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> Can you use something like Ghostery to allow any site to do its own JS but not external JS, besides whitelisted sites/externals?

That's exactly what noscript does. Use the option "Temporarily allow top-level sites by default->Base 2nd level Domains".
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You've hit the nail on the head with your comparison. That's exactly how I'd felt all these years in school. It's easy to see that putting an averagely intelligent person in a class for developmentally disabled children doesn't make sense, yet for many people it appears impossible that putting a highly intelligent person in a class for regular children might be anything less than optimal.

I mean, it's crazy. If a child is special in any way, they'll probably get treated in a special way, except if they're highly intelligent. Say, in any kind of sports, if someone recognizes you're talented they'll give you special training and everything, so you can actually improve without being held back by others. But in school, if you're exceptionally intelligent, you still need to do the same stuff as everyone else even if it doesn't benefit you.
Anecdotal: I just got a Firefox OS / Keon developer preview phone this week, and the default search engine inside the browser appears to be Bing.

Anybody else seeing this?
But no one notices that. Like the power company, people only notice good Operations when they cease to be good Operations (e.g. something fails). The poles-and-wires company for my area in Texas wanted a rate increase to improve certain older power substations' reliability against high heat (something that never happens in Texas) because they had come dangerously close to dropping offline during the heat wave of 2011. People complained mightily about another $0.98/month because "it's worked fine, why do you need more money?"
One advantage people don't often talk about with finance industry jobs is their incredibly lax moonlighting clauses. Most seem to be of the form, "if we don't trade it and our vendors don't make it, knock yourself out."

That is a far cry from the policy I experienced at MSFT. Doing free reviews on my own time of books being published by Microsoft Press on products I was an engineer on required approval from my VP.
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I find the meaning and knowledge of laws to be inaccessible overall as a 18+ citizen. I'm not American, but who for instance knew that there were "provisions" under the Federal Labor Standards Act?
Hi -- you make a good point, the one seemingly at issue in this tangent (but not really the bone of contention).

As noted, I don't know which will ultimately prevail in pure performance: DartVM or Dart2JS on evolved JS. In the near term, of course DartVM wins (and that investment made "against cross-browser standards" was the strategic bone of contention 594 days ago).

I do know that in the foreseeable term, we browser vendors don't all have the ability to build two VMs (or three, to include Lua using LuaJIT2 or something as fast, in addition to JS and Dart; or more VMs since everyone wants Blub ;-).

The cross-heap cycle collector required by two disjoint VMs sharing the DOM already felled attempts to push Dart support into WebKit over a year ago. Apple's Filip Pizlo said why here:

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-December/...

Other browser vendors than Apple may have the resources to do more, but no browser wants to take a performance hit "on spec". And Mozilla at least has more than enough work to do with relatively few resources (compared to Apple, Google, and Microsoft) on JS. As you've heard, asm.js was an easy addition, built on our JIT framework.

So you're right, an optimizing JIT-compiling VM is not easily hosted via a cross-compiler, or emulated competitively by compiling to JS. LuaJIT2 would need a safe JIT API from the cross-compiler's target runtime, whether NaCl/PNaCl's runtime or Emscripten/asm.js's equivalent.

Googling for "NaCl JIT" shows encouraging signs, although the first hit is from May 2011. The general idea of a safe JIT API can be applied to asm.js too. In any event, one would need to write a new back end for LuaJIT2.

Bottom line: we're looking into efficient multi-language VM hosting via asm.js and future extensions, but this is obviously a longer road than C/C++ cross-compiling where we've had good early wins (e.g., Unreal Engine).
Threats can be hard to parse because for the speaker, the point can be a very emotional self-expression, rather than some kind of accuracy of intent.

One interpretation is:

I'm going to do something insane that will make the news.
It may involve the White House, and it will be worse than the Boston bombing.
There will be multiple murder charges against me.

Or: I'm going to publicly murder people in a fashion worse than the bombing.

The last Facebook lyrics before he was arrested:

I’m not in reality, So when u see me [bleeping] go insane and make the news, the paper, and the [bleeping] federal house of horror known as the white house, Don’t [bleeping] cry or be worried because all YOU people [bleeping] caused this [bleep].

[Bleep] a boston bominb wait till u see the [bleep] I do, I’ma be famous rapping, and beat every murder charge that comes across me!

The whole alternate interpretation (it's an insufficiently specific threat, and primarily rap braggadocio) hinges mostly on the interpretation of the inclusion and placement of the line "I’ma be famous rapping."

The problem is that the kid is clearly talking about himself killing people. The whole rap perspective doesn't fix that sufficiently, especially as Rappers talk about and threaten real murders, as well as merely "bragging" about them.

It certainly seems likely that he's merely trying to "sound like a rapper" rather than threatening actual harm, but the words don't really absolve him of the threats contained therein. It is difficult to parse legally:

1. Legal: It lacks imminence (Brandenburg)

2. Illegal: It does communicate a serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence (Virginia v. Black)

3. Legal: It is not directed to a particular individual or group of individuals (Virginia v. Black)

4. Illegal: The speaker need not actually intend to carry out the threat...a prohibition on true threats...protect[s] individuals from...fear...disruption...[and] the possibility that the threatened violence will occur (Virginia v. Black)

If there was a middle ground legally for people who's intent was less harmful than their speech it would benefit this kid, but how would you prove that? And it would muddy the law's ability to fight against true threats.
You can use just the outliner here:

http://littleoutliner.com/

That's exactly the same outliner as in Fargo, using localStorage only.

The other consideration is that Fargo only gets access to a sub-folder of your Apps folder in your Dropbox. The folder is created just for the app.

So it's very well sandboxed.
This is just my opinion but it works for me:

When I have something I am interested in doing (side project, bigger blog post, or whatever) I just get out a piece of paper, write down the basic premise, and let it percolate in my mind a little bit. I do something else, and I've found if you are truly passionate about it that you will not stop thinking about it. Even if you're eating, out and about somewhere, or doing something totally unrelated, my brain won't stop thinking about it.

I let it sit on the "back burner" and collect different ideas, trains of thought, and try to visualize what I want it to look like, or the outcome I am trying to make happen.

Then after a couple days (I like to wait about 3-5 days) I sit down late at night, about 9-10pm when everyone is asleep. I get coffee, a pack of cigarettes, my headphones with pandora playing and go at it all night and generally crash when I think I have a good "skeleton" of what I want to do.

Then after that, you have the basic outline of what you want and keep iterating from there.

Hope this helped. Again, this is just what works for me. Best of luck on your project!
This article is making me hungry for mathematically perfect hyper donuts.
Glad you like it! :-)

I've added your suggestion to our list of feature requests.
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Thank you! There's also a fix for Arch, no idea if it's the same patch, though. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jre7-openjdk-headless-fon...
In these cars, the trunk just swapped places with the engine, and the front was sometimes used for radiators.

In purpose built electric cars, both the upper rear and upper front of the vehicle are free from components, everything drivetrain related sits below the passengers, so you could have two trunks (like Model S) or just cut the overhangs altogether.
Workflowy is an excellent product, but having the outlines in Dropbox means you have copies of the files locally and can share them with other apps that work with OPML, which is a fairly standard file format among outliners.
way to aggressive - installing before reading? no thx, no matter how useful it could be or not! BAD PRACTICE
The citations on that site look legit. It's not exactly my field, but the titles and the journal names both scan like mainstream science, i.e. technical and restrained.

However, those references are all about methods of raising animals. This article is on quite a different topic, nutrient content in plants. I'm wary of the way a host of mostly unspecified compounds are lumped together as 'phytonutrients' and presented as universally beneficial. I've never heard that term before, and it's got the same kind of ring as 'detox'. There's plenty of chemicals in plants that really aren't good for us - see for example this review of legumes: http://tinyurl.com/pydm56o (email me if you're interested but don't have access).

It roughly fits into the ideas of the 'paleolithic diet', that what people ate ~20k years ago is nutritionally optimal. That's controversial, and it looks like Wikipedia has quite a detailed entry on it.