skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like an interesting concept. What are your project's goals? Are you hoping to make money out of it because I can't think of many ways you could monetize something like this.
What has this to do with anything? They issued the declaration to put to attention conclusions exactly from "repeatable experiments testing falsifiable hypothesis in a peer reviewed journal".
So is it the accounts being compromised or has Yahoo! itself been compromised? Last week I received mail delivery failure notices for an email apparently sent to my entire address book. If it hadn't been for a couple of old addresses in my book I wouldn't have even known it'd happened.
I only need 1. San Fran. (no, I'm not from there)
> is that you get very little feedback on this.

Are there any easy-to-implement tests for this sort of thing? For example

* For mathematical functions, I can trivially test for an expected value, a too low value, a too high value, and not a number input.

* For input/output sensitization, I can pump crazy unicode characters or system code.

* For encryption, I can ... open up tcpdump and see that it's ostensibly garbage-looking?
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From the Post article:

"The National Council on Teacher Quality analyzed admissions standards and inspected syllabuses, textbooks and course requirements and rated 1,430 programs on a scale of zero to four stars. The organization did not visit the schools or interview students and faculty."

How seriously would the newspapers take a restaurant guide built with a similar approach? "We haven't been there, but the menu looks good, and their vegetable supplier is OK." It is also hard to take seriously a study that doesn't look at the work of the graduates.
OWC sells 480GB replacement SSDs. [1] The SSDs in a MacBook Air are user-replaceable [2]; it's the RAM that isn't.

[1] http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Aura_Pro_Air_2012 (I'm using MacBook Air 2012 as a reference point, but there are SSDs for the other versions too.)

[2] http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing+MacBook+Air+13-Inch+M...
Having had a bit of exposure and interest in Zen, I have come to appreciate some Buddhist perspectives towards life (and death), so I am saddened to see that perspective offending some. I am struck with the thought "How can I bring them closer to understanding this perspective?".

So I thought I'd post a lecture from Alan Watts, on death, as observed from a western perspective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzZTK4SWwpg

Watts studied Zen in the 50's and tried to bring it back to the states in the 60's and 70's.
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You are not the only one to realize this.

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Google_Reader has backed up 30 million feeds so far. (And needs everybody's OPML files to back up more.)
Have you read the god delusion by Dawkins? There he takes on just that myth - there has been a very good body of research in presenting people with the same set of moral conundrums - every race and culture, even "primitive" have indistinguishable moral responses. (Obviously individual variance was high)

Worth a read.
Serious companies will do that, but for me it would be interesting to see how many individuals already moved away from those companies and their services.
I don't know why this wasn't voted up higher. There's loads of rationalizations we can get in to re: training and satisfied customers and such, but really, he was pushing what was available, because likely that means the store makes more money that day. Their numbers go higher, and everyone is happy right then. Web ordering means the person might not do it when they go home, unless they're convinced to do it in store right there.
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You assume that everybody stores the visitor data in the cookie. Nowadays only the visitor ids are stored there, identification is made also by all the info you and your browser provides and the rest of the data which actually contains the user's interests and visited sites is in distributed NoSQL/SQL replicated databases.

I work in the ad industry, specifically real time bidding and I am thinking it would be kind of pointless.
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Anecdote:

I've got a 2011 15" with 256g SSD and 16gigs. I still get beach balls far more than I think I should. They never go away, just get less frequent. :/
Pointing out the absurdity of your statements through the wonderful tools of rhetoric.
While you do not connect the dots, you have them all in your description. People were willing to believe her, because they wanted to be the fourth angle. By being in a triangle she was sending the message that a fourth angle is possible. By creating this story about you she was actually reinforcing that signal, making this possibility a discussion subject. Men are notoriously keen to have sex, especially on the age implied, and her behaviour was very promising. On the other hand, keep in mind that there is no randomness in thoughts or feelings you express. What you felt random could instead be serendipitous and she might even be right, but not in presenting that as something intentional.
From your perspective, how do you think they were able to get all the Mac Specialists to be trained so well to making sure it's customer satisfaction that's maximize and not sales? Like what makes their training so different? Was it because Mac Specialists truly believed in what the company stood for? How was in the incentive scheme different? Thanks! I'm just curious as I'm in business school part-time and of course, Apple is the outlier when it comes to customer satisfaction - especially since they go against the idea of commission.
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If I had to wager money on what future societies would condemn us for, I'd bet a lot on our treatment of animals.

Even if other highly-encephalized animals aren't conscious, they are still open to a wide range of experiences that we can empathize with. They can learn and play. They feel hunger and pain. Some species can even form friendships and mourn the passing of their kin.

Despite all indications that our treatment of these creatures is reprehensible, cultural inertia and the tastiness of meat are enough to prevent us from changing our behavior. To treat even 1% of humans the way we treat animals would be to perpetuate the greatest war crime in history. But do the same thing to some funny-looking microencephalitic relatives of humans and hardly anyone bats an eye.
> IOS isn't designed for their approval, it is designed to appeal to IOS users en-masse and to distinguish IOS7 from previous versions.

If Apple produces something beautiful, it's a sign that they employ the most talented designers and are at the bleeding edge of design.

If Apple produces a cheap rip off of Windows Phone, it's because they care so, so much for their users.

Got it.
In Europe even a "recommended retail price" may be an issue in competition law.
As a professional web dev having used Haskell for four-five years, I wouldn't want to do web dev in anything else. The static guarantees are too great. Throwing them away is literally asking for bugs.
Nice, then maybe I can get rid of some of the ~20 SIM cards I'm carrying around, and not having to research the mobile market for each new country I happen to pass by..
Yup. I have heard about it so far the govt has put in $40M into it. Not sure about how rich the ecosystem is though.
Dealers are the problem.
I have nothing specific or concrete yet monetization wise, but I think fermium would work fine. Having a paid plan with additional features would be the simplest way to go about this I think.

In terms of goals, I would like to get funding for this. Problem is that accelerators or funders in MENA (where I live) are not that mature yet and finding talent to help with the growth of this project would be extremely difficult.
btilly mentioned the effect incentives have on the dealership model, I was trying to suggest if the car manufacturing business had a vested (client based) interest in the full lifetime of the car they may design for longevity and upgradeability rather than simply sales and parts.

so.. not leasing.
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Interesting. I would say the GOOD is easily the worst of the bunch, and the REALLY BAD is by far the best. It may be overreaching just a bit, but it's visually impressive and commands attention.

Most users are not minimalist HN nerds. A website for a flashy blockbuster movie that 'puts the content first' and 'gets out of the way' is a terrible website for a flashy blockbuster movie. This isn't to defend over-design or flashy effects when they aren't called for, but sometimes they are called for, and it's an equally poor design decision to go minimal and flat when it's inappropriate. Not every site has the same design goals as a news article or saas landing page.
Anne Widdecombe's remark about that he had "something of the night about him" didn't exactly help his chances:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/691317...
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Functional Programming is Easy, and Good for You
Is there any reason why Disconnect doesn't block Disqus and OpenX?
I've struggled a lot with truly understanding what it means to strike attachment from one's life. When you take it to its logical conclusion, it seems absurd (being unattached to your wife? To your children?).

I think of it like this: when the untrained mind is enjoying something, there are two aspects to that experience: the appreciation of the beauty or pleasure you derive from it, but also the attachment, the clutching or grasping and anxiety which would follow that thing being taken away.

I think "no attachment" is advocating that you get yourself in a mental state where you can have one without the other: to appreciate something while it lasts but not clutch to it or get hung up on it when it passes.
The ELO ranking is more suited to explicit head-to-head matchups, but its statistical basis could be adapted to app rankings. You could basically collect statistics for each app position (#1 averages 1000 purchases/day, #2 averages 500, etc.) and then estimate the quality of each app based on how its purchase rate differs from the expected average for that position.

Google and other advertisers face a similar problem with sorting ads, which suggests some other relevant inputs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_Score
Tesla to demo battery swap tech on Thursday night
As far as I've seen, the main users of FPGAs are developers eventually targeting ASICs.

A video codec or whatever might first be implemented in C++, then 'translated' to verilog and tested thoroughly on an FPGA. Having solved all the logical issues, and detected a lot of potential timing issues, the HDL design could be translated into an ASIC design, and heavily simulated. Then, confident that the design is good, the company could spend the bucks to make a mask for mass manufacture.

You do occasionally see people using FPGAs where they need the zero latency of a hardware design, but only need a couple of devices. Usually this is in RF research labs and the like.

I suspect most people with compute problems would be better off using a GPU.
> You might imagine a different existence, but that doesn't change the facts, or the hand we're dealt.

Yeah why bother with fixing >20% infant mortality, or eradicating polio, or dying from infections we now easily cure with antibiotics. We should had accepted that as part of life and keep dying more, more painfully and earlier.
What you decry as "purist" and "established rules" is really just usability engineering for printed (resp. rendered on the screen) text.
Elon Musk to demonstrate Tesla battery swapping tech on June 20th
ADHS?
What is "loads of tabs"? Just curious as my experience with Firefox and many tabs was rather displeasing. Tab Mix Plus helped with usability, but the responsiveness was not great. This has been in the single digit versions though.
Ghostery does other shady stuff. I have to frequently go to my settings page to disable tracking of all trackers because every time it updates its list, it won't automatically block the new trackers. As far as I know, it doesn't have an option to enable this, nor does it notify me that the list has been updated and several trackers are still unblocked.
Plenty of us commit hideous crimes on humans, too (North Korea, I'm looking at you,) so it may not be their only criticism of us.

I do agree though, and this is why I've been a vegetarian for 10 years now.
This isn't a typical raytracer. Instead, it's a very clever ray marching in a uniform grid. It resembles a Wolfenstein/Doom -style raycaster more than what you usually think of as a raytracer.
EFF on how to use encryption, anonymity.
>> Off-topic, but I'm curious about why you use VMWare instead of VirtualBox.

Faster, integrates much better into OS X, seamless mode, 3D acceleration, better linux guest tools, easier updates, lots of reasons actually.

VirtualBox is pretty good by itself, but I found that VMWare Fusion more than makes up for its (very reasonable) price.
That was my emphasis as well. There are all sorts of internal internal-psychological/perceived-sociological reasons someone may go silent when in the presence of seemingly friendly authority (if one comes from an authoritarian household or religious background) that suddenly appears to turn on you.

The layman who hasn't had a brush with adversarial police investigation techniques and doesn't have an explanation for a (seemingly) factual assertion by the police may simply not know how to respond, knows he needs to tread carefully lest something get pinned on him, but is unaware that silence is not considered careful at this moment (since, if he remembers, he is talking to the police without being cautioned or under custody).
Jonathan, thanks for being a great example of activism and an inspiration to me and I'm sure others as well :)
I often direct people interested in my saas product to competitors when the fit is better.
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Both are true, but I consider the second problem to be more like a trade off. In PHP I miss field extraction from an array so often; in Haskell it is just `map fieldName` and voila. Works just as well with namespaces -- I understand it does not scale when creating data types, but you normally don't import all of them at the same time into another module anyways.
Does the work machine have a 5400 rpm drive? I know that a 7200 wouldn't touch the speed of an SSD, but I'm wondering if slightly more rotational speed makes any difference with swap/otherwise. I'm starting to see quite a bit of slowdown on my 2010 MBP and the worst offender is always when it has to hit the HDD, yet I already have maxed the RAM.
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From the guys behind strikingly.com?
A lot of files in C# (and I'd imagine Java) just contain interfaces because it's so 'cheap' to make these in IDEs and that's the programming style.

So often you're looking for the files which contain the majority of the code and you're just having to open random files trying to find it. How big the file is shows roughly how many LOC it contains.

This is actually becoming more common in javascript as well as more people unbundle their code, it'd be useful seeing if the file you're about to open is meat or chaff.

I'm fine with showing the last commit time, that is useful information, the comment itself though is invariably noise to everyone but the committer or team.
I never made such an argument, you are the one building strawmen and going off on a tangent trying to deflect from my point which hits the bullsye

The "Party" (calling them Communist is a bit of a joke by now) only cares about its own survival and continuing grip on power and control of 1/6th of the worlds population.
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Wow. That's a solid "no" on pretty much every single point you made.
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Ooh, and a nice little summary has just popped up on a forum I read:
http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2013/6/16/2013616140...
When was this? The current MBP has an SSD, too.
I didn't say remove how many days since the last change, that is very useful. The commit message itself? I don't think so.
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Right and wrong are subjective to humans.
Yep. This is exactly what is limiting me from recommending the tool to (non-geeky) friends, compared to Ghostery...
The fog factor in software testing
There's nothing sacred about machine learning, machine vision & feedback loops, assembled into robots. This is what we are.
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now when you discover that you need the extra grunt, it's going to cost you a chunk more to upgrade.
One of the problems with proving programs is that proofs tend to get as complex as the code they're proving, at which point one has to be wary of bugs in proofs. One (possibly only) way around this would be to prove an automated proof checker and use it to prove better automated proof checkers, and so on, up until you get a tool you trust that can reliably make proofs for you.
This is impressive, I can't ever imagine a salesperson doing this. Probably that's why Apple reigns.
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Disqus is in the Content category, which isn't blocked by default (reason: users seem unhappy when we block content-y things like videos, photos, and comments by default). But you can still check the adjacent box to block Disqus (your settings are remembered on a per-site basis).

OpenX, otoh, should be in the Advertising category and be blocked by default as far as I know. Is there a site where this isn't the case?
Discussed here on Lambda the Ultimate (http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4764)
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Had the same experience and so dug into the preferences. There seems to be an option to fix this in:

Advanced->Auto Update->Block new elements by default
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That being said, some people argue that there exist "objective moral values"
Well, science part of crypto is Just Maths. It is on par with Pythagorean theorem. The problems occur mostly on the engineering side of the equation.
Fantastic news.

We've had a dev kit for a few days and it really has blown everyone away that's come into our office. They instantly say "This is the future, isn't it?"

Hopefully this money will help get a top quality headset to market sooner.
Is a amazing collection. But, i send DB icon few months ago but no add to collection, nobody need it ?
The biggest thing this is missing is the taxes. Cities love to gouge travelers on taxes. A $250 hotel room has as much as a 10-15% tax on it typically.
This is brilliant! Has anybody created an online version of this?
I noticed that they remember that I like SSH-links and now it is always displayed to the right, that is quite nice.
I don't think he meant that EE is just a matter of math, but rather that branching out into EE can be thought of as analogous to branching out into math.
How could you have dreams without consciousness? Every cat or dog owner knows that animals obviously dream.
Using the command line, that would be a merge conflict. If SourceTree is treating it as a successful merge, that would be a bug.
What about the U.S.? Just because people are disconnected from the actions of their military doesn't mean they're not responsible
Let's begin by stating that Haskell is great, but there are a lot of stuff I don't like about it:

1. Way to many user defined operators. Haskell lets you define almost anything as an infix operator which library authors love to (ab)use. So you get operators like ".&&&." (without the quotes) because they are functions reminiscent of the boolean and operation.

2. But weirdly enough, many operators aren't generic. String concatenation is performed with "++" but addition with "+".

3. Incomplete and inconsistent prelude. It has unwords and words for splitting and joining a string on whitespace. But you dont get to specify what string to use as the delimiter like the join and split functions in other languages lets you do.

4. So instead you have X number of implementations of splitStringWith on Hackage, some of which are unmaintained, deprecated or just not working, meaning that just answering the question "how should I split a string?" becomes a big endeavour (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4978578/how-to-split-a-st...).

5. There are four different "stringish" types in Haskell: List, LazyList, ByteString, LazyByteString. A function like splitStringWith works on one of the types, but not the three others for which you need other functions. Some libraries expect Lists, other ByteStrings or LazyByteStrings so you have to keep converting your string to the different types.

6. Most Haskellers seem to content with just having type declarations as the api documentation. That's not a fault of Haskell per se, but imho a weakness in the Haskell community. For example, here is the documentation for the Data.Foldable module: http://hackage.haskell.org/p
ackages/archive/base/latest/doc/html/Data-Foldable.html

7. This is very subjective and anecdotal but I've found the Haskell people to be less helpful to newbies than other programming groups.
Hmm heavy adoption of project loon in Germany expected.
Sacred, no, but still worth recognition and respect proportional to complexity.
How about Money Lover App (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bookmark.m...)? I have used it for a long time. It was good, but keeping spending info was actually a challenge.
http://xkcd.com/832/

Randall Munroe could do a "small" update to this based on these rules... although it would take some time.
Fantastic customer service experience. Apple,Amex and costco should get together and make it all about customers instead of about shareholders.
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