skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Astrid is recommeding migrating to Wrike, Wunderlist, Sandglaz or Any.Do. Can people comment here on the relative merits of these or other apps?
Trivia: The example image is taken at the Col de l'Iseran which, at 2770 metres, is the highest tarmacced road pass in Europe.
Good catch. I'll just post my results. I classified it with a simple algo[1] using the normalized frequency distributions of unigrams and bigrams in the 50-sample training set.

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iPhone = Eye Phone = Illuminati Phone. Siri spelled backwards is Iris, thats a part of the Eye. Apple is Illuminati. They're watching you.

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Apple caught testing offline Dictation for iOS 7 http://idb.tc/1d2GKph

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RT @jonnyevans_cw: Why #Apple really, really doesn't need a shopkeeper to lead its retail chain http://shar.es/AhsUK via @computerworld

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The Best Music Streaming Apps For Your iPhone #Apple #iPhone http://bit.ly/14xwinU

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Apple May Be Working on Self-Adjusting Noise-Cancelling Headphones http://on.mash.to/12hFDMu via @mashable

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Samsung Continues Ad Campaign against Apple's iPhone in Iceland

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the creator of the iPhone

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I Used To Hate Apple, And Now I'm A Giant Sell-Out http://bit.ly/IGL0h5 #archivesWeek in Review | YSL Chief Executive to Apple, Bec Astley Clarke, Fashion Sweatshirts, Esteban Cortazar http://bit.ly/128MPf5 via @BoFI've been single since Apple was just a fruit.

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I be up so high trying to get a piece of that apple pie

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I want to eat healthy I really do. But I just found a whole apple pie in my fridge.

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Apple banana and a cup of milo

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Apple I look like a human heart. Mango I look like a stomach. Grapes I look like eyes. Banana I don't like this game.

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An apple potato and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.

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PSYCHOLOGY Test Choose 1 among the fruits below: APPLE MANGO GRAPES PEAR BANANA

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Today's shake is spinach, avocado, apple orange banana blueberry with Chia seed and protein feelin the energy

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Banana Bread topped with Apple Maple Syrup and Yoghurt

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Mid-PM Snack Apple blueberries frozen mixed berries plain @Alpro_UK soya yoghurt, coconut flakes & agave nectar pic.twitter.com/4188sHosA5

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Green spinach kale apple banana garlic ginger Orange lemon ginger cayenne #juicing http://instagram.com/p/bbT6L3yZyU/

[1] Using libraries for this like http://nltk.org/_modules/nltk/classify/naivebayes.html or http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/svm.html would probably be more accurate and faster to implement. Also I didn't cross-validate on the training set, but used new samples.
I bet you can't use Valgrind on Production C++ Server though. You are also limited to the platforms Valgrind runs on. There have been plenty of times I used Xeprof (HPUX) on Java server to profile CPU usage, GC logging parsed by JMeter, on demand heap dumps (MAT) - all in Production to successfully resolve issues. (Browsing the heap dump will tell you exactly where your memory is - duplicated String Buffers, leaked objects etc.)

The point is JVM tooling has matured enough that you have plenty of choices - you'll find something that works well even for production uses.
ISO-8601: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_day_of_the_week#Days_numb...
This city search is the worst one I've ever used. Devs, please test your sites, even the toy projects.
> There's a reason people use a single PRNG

I just want to know what it is.

(Edit as can't reply to child: Sure, but this gets back to the mathematical analysis does not equal real world proof, since we do not know all possible computational (or side channel!) vectors. Assertion otherwise is reminiscent of Socrates: οὖτος μὲν οἴεταί τι εἰδέναι οὐκ εἰδώς, ἐγὼ δέ, ὥσπερ οὖν οὐκ οἶδα, οὐδὲ οἴμαι This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not believe [that I know anything]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing ... OK that's weak, but honestly that's how I tend to think (ie. with great cynicism about any assertion) and it serves me alright in general security / non-cryptographic discourse. Basically this approach is treating the PRNG algorithm as a black box, refusing to trust it, and attempting to design a system incorporating the black box along with others claiming the same functionality, based upon that assumption. If this works for any other algorithm - and it seems to - then why not PRNGs? It's not like cryptography has a monopoly as an arbiter of risk. Cryptography is not a silver bullet.)
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Yeah but now you have an unmatched parenthesis! When will it end?!?!
Is it only showing airports because the dataset uses climate data from aeronautical sources?
North Korea will never use nukes against South Korea. They want a reunified Korea under Kim Jong Un. And the best way to do this without killing innocent people is to do what they've attempt countless times before.
Dig a tunnel under the DMZ and send people in to capture/assassinate the key people within the government.

Wow, you really believe that is the best way? Or is that the best way in the demented minds of the N. Korean leadership?
Nice! How long does vim usually stay in beta? I'm not familiar with Vim's release cycle
One reason to not have 1 be prime, is otherwise the prime factorization of natural numbers would not be unique. This property of unique prime factorization is not simply "convenient", it is used to derive a large number of other important results.

Do remember that math is a bunch of rules that are made up by people to capture certain abstract concepts, and to understand patterns and relationships between those abstract concepts. So although it might feel like a "kludge" to you, that's just the way math is. You can make up whatever rules you like, and some rules exclude "inconvenient results", leading to a deeper understanding, and thus are more widely adopted by other mathematicians.
i (the square root of -1) raised to the i'th power is a real number (it's e^(-pi/2))
Which, by the way, would be incredibly important to stabilize the EU.
History is written by the victors
Like discardorama, I am in Vegas right now. Possibly unlike discardorama, I was born and raised in this town.

Note: I don't live here now. I left in 1986 to go to work at Convex in Dallas, and now live in Austin. (after a 7 year break from the VC-funded madness when I lived in Hawaii 2004-2011.)

But while here, I'm working outside all day, every day. (Effecting a repossession of some heavy equipment for my father, and fixing said equipment so it can be transported. Said equipment is the remaining artifacts of what was a 50 year-old water well drilling business located in Las Vegas.)

Yes, in the 115F heat, and I'm 51, and have survived both an ascending aortic dissection and an associated MI.

It hasn't killed me yet.

The problem with Las Vegas isn't the heat. The problems are: lack of tech structure (why I left), and water. There simply will not be enough water to support a city of any size here.
Can the world afford to attack the US? I figure there is too much money flowing through the country which would prevent that from happening as they would be alienating US corporations.
I had a similar experience working with products of numbers of the form (a+b)/(c+d), and then I showed it to John Conway (lucky me, I had access to the master), who instantly recognized that I had only stumbled across a known realization of GL(2).

Sigh...

Also (hehe): quantum theory, everything is quantized. So as far as I understand physics, indescribable numbers aren't god's numbers, they're actually our own invention.
This is what happens when you push an entire (sub?)continent to feel like they must flip you back for embarassing one of their own
How about a checkbox for keeping the file in local storage, so when you restart the browser, you can share that file without having to download first? Or is that done already anyway?
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It's a shocking idea, I know, but many people don't consider living outside the US to be all that bad. Some even do it on purpose.

Also, compare that fate to what happened to Bradley Manning. Living in Venezuela is way better than solitary confinement.
No notable mathematician has considered one prime since the early 20th century (of course, I'm oversimplifying, see [1] for more information).

[1]: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL15/Caldwell1/cald5.h...
If you like tools like this one, here's some more. There's a lot of 'visually see' the regex type tools.

As one who always forgets regex after 3 months of not using it, I find them helpful :)

http://pineapple.io/resources/tagged/regular-expressions?sor...

I particularly find this one fascinating, even though I don't fully grasp: http://jkff.info/articles/ire/
In answer to all the below talking about Lake Mead and the Colorado river, note that much (perhaps most) of the water supply in Las Vegas is groundwater (think: large municipal wells), and the water level in these is dropping as well.

There is some significant subsidence in the Northeast section of town.
Already done, duckduckgo.com
Mexico is not part of South America. I agree about Chile. Uruguay is small, corrupt and almost controlled by the US.

I strongly disagree about Argentina and Brazil backing America. I'm not sure if you know much everyone hates the US in South America. And for good reasons: Just look at the history of the Americas in the 70s, 80s and even 90s.

And what do you even mean by World War III?
"I really like iGoogle -- are there any other alternatives?"

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2664197?hl=en
Armadillo did this, and cooler already :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u0qlIoSSkQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Xiq3dYJlM#ws
The Greenspun family could be an interesting source. Danny Greenspun, in particular, seems to get it.
There's unfortunately not much distance between the positive aspects of the hacker mentality and the antisocial "screw you, I've got mine" aspects.

Who cares about public schools? Those are for poor people.
you literally suggested using publicly accessible breakfast cereal as a replacement for the equivalent of a controlled experiment.

Perhaps I was unclear. I think they should have done the controlled experiment with university staff or students as subjects. If the experiment was really completely harmless, there's no reason not to. If they wanted to study the effects on growing children, they should have used ordinary schoolchildren whose parents consented.

As science, this was complete crap totally apart from the awful ethics. Many developmentally disabled people suffer from chromosomal abnormalities that lead to non-trivial physiological differences between them and the rest of the population, including metabolic and cardiac differences. That makes it extremely difficult to infer anything about effects on the general population from studies done on a small group of developmentally disabled people and that's why people with chromosomal abnormalities are often excluded from most research protocols. I think that you'd know all of this if you were familiar with science.
And currently the only means of sharing in a matter that can claim to deliver anything close to anonymity and security.
I just wish to believe that this was not an accidental event but well thought out strategy by Wikileaks/Russia.
Two countries led by the some of the most leftist leaders != entire "(sub?)continent"

Judging by those who have not granted Snowden asylum, there are many more who support the U.S. than otherwise.
There is no private communication during a war. This is normal and it makes sense.

We are not in a war, no matter what some say.

(The article actually implies this, but I wanted to clarify for those not reading the article completely.)
It seems like there is an established test suite in the PRNG space, by NIST. http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/rng/documentation_sof...
This isn't a surprising result though, it's a surprising (to you) definition.

You could redefine "prime" to include 1 if you wanted to without changing the fundamental truth of important results about the natural numbers. It would just mean you'd have to phrase many of them in a slightly more roundabout way, e.g. with "suppose x is a prime number not equal to 1" needing to appear in key theorems where before "suppose x is prime" sufficed. (Perhaps some other theorems might be more concise, although I'd be surprised if there were a net benefit -- the community has probably had this debate a bunch of times before settling on the current consensus.)

Definitions are chosen to be convenient for the purposes of communication, there's nothing inherently true or false about them. An argument for one definition being better than another might involve demonstrating that mathematical results people care about can be stated more clearly, concisely and efficiently using your alternative definition. The recent tau vs pi controversy providing an amusing example :)
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Great product!
Nice Project.

Bug: as soon as you enter mon ASCI Charaters in the search, it will return a blank page, tried: münchen (munich), 東京 (Tokyo).
It's important to note that the "diagonal argument" used to show countability of rationals or describable numbers is completely different from the one used to show the uncountability of the reals. In fact, the two counting arguments used to show countability of rationals and describable numbers are themselves quite different (I would say the latter isn't even a diagonal argument at all; it just goes through a countable union of finite sets one by one).
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Iterator invalidation, returning references that outlive their referent, storing references in data structures that outlive their referent, invalidation of the "this" pointer, etc.
The way I understand it, its indeed a proof of concept - still cool though :-)
Damn you!
I wouldn't count on Argentinia. They seem to be quite unease over the Falkland issue and if the opportunity is right still willing to take on former colonial powers.
Decimal system (well, numbers in general) is a great way to describe things as they provide infinite accuracy both in positive and in negative directions. But you must describe them relative to something - some kind of unit.

So your balloon, to fully described its length, you have chosen to describe it relative to meters. Here's the kicker - how well you can measure the length of the balloon depends also on how well you can measure a meter. In the real world, if you try to measure both, the decimal number that describes how relative a meter is to your balloon will only be limited by how accurate your methods of measuring are. You can develop better measuring technology that will forever approach but never reach the True value (only God knows). It is if you try to measure an analog signal, you can only get a digital estimation. But extracting knowledge requires energy, so you need greater computing power to measure an analog signal but all the computing power in the universe couldn't acquire the True value.
This is the result of the real world being nondiscrete and containing infinite knowledge. You can measure things by proportion (such as tau (2*pi) being the relative constant of circle circumference to radius); these numbers are transcendental and we don't know their True value. Your "indescribable" numbers are as indescribable as transcendentals. So yes the decimal goes on forever, but you can still describe it in terms of itself and just give a constant name (like pi).
Check out Python Koans - https://github.com/gregmalcolm/python_koans

It involves learning/hardening your Python knowledge by fixing unit tests.
So it seems that no matter what point of history your talking about, those who have the ability to spy, will spy.

What is the most viable option for citizens to change this?

Will everyone have to be on encrypted VPN's?

Will there be a riot on Pennsylvania Ave. that sparks a revolution?

Will each community put up their own wifi weather ballons and set up massive intranets in their neighborhoods?

Or will everyone accept the fact that we're the new slaves - except our cages are a little bigger and less transparent than before?
Death penalty is also a problem when seeking extradition. There are provisions in many national legislations to avoid extraditing persons if they could be imposed a penalty that doesn't exists in the country.
It's in the next sentence:

> and the reason is that, when your PRNG's output is provably indistinguishable from true randomness, messing with it will certainly not improve it, and will probably ruin it.
While it's awesome that they've done this, the scale isn't exactly the same. The Super Mod is about 12 feet tall. Grasshopper is 106 feet tall and has considerably more power.
Not sure this quote is quite as relevant as it used to be, due to the extreme ubiquity of information storage.
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I like the ingenuity but how would we track when the page has been left - conceivably I could delete an account on Friday then click undo on Sunday.

I guess if it immediately gets soft deleted and in a maintainance batch gets purged. Until maint runs the undo link could still work (although it would still only display until they left the page).
> When part of your system becomes flawed (part or whole), the whole can be attacked.

This is the most concise and meaningful argument against the proposed approach thus far. Hats off.
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I doubt that.

https://www.google.com/#q=google+sucks

https://www.google.com/#q=google+spying
See also Godel's incompleteness theorem (i.e. "this statement is false.")
Oddly enough, the term "whistleblower" was coined specifically to avoid the perceived negative connotations of the term "informant": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower#Origin_of_term
intermediate python is what i called learning the "pythonic way". the best way to learn imo is about fussing over if you're doing it the "pythonic way".

then you might ask: what exact is the pythonic way? then it is hard to say. on a deeper level (that is coding style): you'd prefer list comprehensions over for loops (not always, but for simple iterables); prefering the functional approach -- immutable input/output on functions etc, learning map/reduce/etc; understanding the performance kinks of python, etc.

on a higher-level, there is the python-for-humans. learn what it means to be beautiful code, not just in terms code style, but how people will use your code. a splendid example which i have immense amount of respect is the requests library by kennethreitz.

retain your curiousity always. the day you lose these curiousity is when you become a mediocre programmer. don't be that guy.

after you're done with these, go deeper. keep going. understand why the fuck people whine about GIL, about concurrency and how bitchy it is in python (and why), and even alternatives to python: for example. when not to use python.

i wish you the best :)
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Very insightful, thanks for writing. I'd love to be able to provide other feedback, but so far haven't got any hands-on experience with crowdfunding, especially not with Kickstarter since I live in an EU country they currently don't support. If I do ever decide to launch something in the near future, I'll apply your advice to Indiegogo most likely.
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Not granting Snowden asylum does not mean those countries support the US. It means that the US has significant influence it can hold over them.
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For me:

- The Gauss theorem still looks weird to me, that the shape doesn't matter, all it matters is what's contained inside (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergence_theorem)

- The Carmichael function (which is a generalization of Euler's theorem which is a generalization of Fermat's little theorem) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmichael_function
"This is why, if you are a critic of the N.S.A.’s surveillance program, it is imperative that the war on terror reach its culmination."

The problem is there's no end, nor can there be an end. It's too nebulous. We have always had terrorism, and always will. Just like the war on drugs or poverty.

And just because Lincoln did it.... That doesn't make it right.
I tried searching for my city (Tromsø), and got an absolutely blank page back.

At least tell me "City not found".
I liked starting dev ops weekly on-call at 6pm Mondays. This way we can work with the SDEs during the workday on any issues from the weekend.
Sharpening improves "acutance"; your perception of boundaries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acutance

Unsharp masking is mostly aesthetic. For an image like the example, a mountainside, it gives you a feeling of crisp details, but there isn't any more data there. It looks great on a landscape, but it can be disastrous on a portrait of a person (pores and stubble will be highlighted, usually in an unpleasant way).

(EDIT: incorrect assertion about unsharp masking before or after scaling removed)

Sometimes it's better to unsharp-mask it to a degree that looks slightly oversharpened at a large size, but looks great when reduced - especially for very small images, like avatars or other icons.
>Money printing on a large scale leads to massive inflation

I know this is a pretty popular opinion but if you look at the past 15 years, this has been proven to not hold very often.
Agree - there was a time when merely being on kickstarter was a news item and viral on social media.
Why are you talking about waste heat only? Work energy degrades to heat too. The total amount of heat created is equal to the total energy used by the system. ICEs need three times as much energy to do the same work, so they output three times as much heat. This would be true even if electrical engines had 100% efficiency.