skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, a bag of words would perform better.

man bash | tr '[:upper:] ' '[:lower:]\n' | awk '/./ { bag[$1]++ } END { for(word in bag) { print bag[word], word } }' | sort -rn | awk '{ print } NR>=10 { exit(0) }'

But it would require more typing and thinking.

sure one could do this in awk completely,

man bash | awk '
/./ {
for (i = 1; i<=NF; i++) {
bag[tolower($i)]++
}
}
END {
for (i = 1; i<=10; i++) {
score=0;
for(word in bag) {
if (bag[word] > score) {
score=bag[word];
best=word
}
}
printf "%s ", best
delete bag[best]
}
printf "\n"
}'

if the requirement is: please chose one language and not the complete Unix babylon.
A letter on NSA surveillance
I filled out my verification details and it said failed to verify, you have 1 day to wait. Details were correct, so not sure what happened.
Curious. How do you automatically reattach screen? Thanks!
Make money, spend on expansion, staff, research etc. before end of tax year, it's not taxable profit, unless I've seriously missed something.

--edit-- this is exactly how amazon operated for a long time. They paid next to no tax because they reinvested everything.

Tax on profit does not tax business expansion, it taxes retained profit at the end of the tax period.
How much water can you sell?
Personal anecdotes and social lore make for pretty crappy science. I would love you to point me at first principles and proofs by enumeration.

What I see, in looking at the numbers published by the government, is that the number of jobs has been consistently tracking with labor force since they started measuring it in 1925. If automation were wrecking jobs and making people unemployable, I'd expect that the 20th century - the century in which the human race made more significant technological advances than during the rest of human history combined - to have resulted in a consistent decrease in percentage of the employed workforce. Instead, we see that no such widening has occurred. There is certainly an argument to be made that people are being forced out of factory jobs and into foodservice jobs or whatnot, but I can't see any empirical evidence for the assertion that we're actually innovating ourselves out of the opportunity to work.
I live in the Bolivian Andes and have met several people who produce and export quinoa. Even if local farmer meals have never had many diverse ingredients, they usually fare well without consuming quinoa. Given the commercial limitations derived from political actions in recent years the benefits of this whole quinoa craze for local farmers far outweight the costs. It is regarded as one of the best economic opportunities in a country still dependent on natural resources where most of its population work informally in trade-related activities. So stop worrying and go buy more quinoa.
Set rates and stick to them. And when the a project starts to grow beyond its original scope, stop work and renegotiate.
The need for a native SDK is not going to magically go away just because Mozilla is a non-profit organisation. There are real, quantifiable, technical reasons for having a native SDK that I personally believe are not going to be resolvable in the next 2-3 years, even with asm.js and all the other great things Mozilla is doing to advance the web.

I'm fine with Mozilla wanting to advance the web; but not at the cost of precluding the possibility of applications that need native SDKs.

I personally find your for-profit argument specious at best.
What? Please provide some links. The only story I heard so far about it was this one:

http://www.orfury.com.br/blog/65748/tricolor-de-coracao-e-fi...

And it's pretty clear that what happened is not what you are talking about. (I'm asking for links out of sincere curiosity)
The farmers are the people bringing in money into the economy. The rest of society starts to simply charge more for their services b/c their expenses have gone up.
While your comment is very much true, there is some apparent snarky feel to it that seems unnecessary.

In my case at least, there is no speculation element attached to bitcoin. In fact, its volatility is very detrimental.

I am dividing my life and work projects between the US, Europe and Brazil. I'd love to be able to just charge people in BTC. I wouldn't lose 6-7% every time I needed to convert money from USD to BRL, or from BRL to EUR. I can't say how much easier it would be for me to report taxes...

Widespread adoption of BTC could be a good thing in itself. There are other groups of people interested in bitcoin besides the "fiat must die", the silk roads and the speculators.
They probably realise that few people will read the user agreement. That they may as well claim the heavens and the deep-blue sea despite only wanting to have the entirety of the the landmass, that way no one can successfully sue them later saying they "exploited" them. Medium can just respond "that's what you signed up to".
The purpose of bitcoin is hoarding and speculation.
That implication is exactly what Colin provides with my tarsnap backups. He (or Amazon) can respond to legal requests with my strongly encrypted data, and Neither Colin/tarsnap nor Amazon can provide them with my private keys.

You can design your systems this way. It appears you're allowed under US law. It seems there's companies jumping through hoops on behalf of the NSA and/or FBI to build systems that _dont_ provide that guarantee.

Note that Colin _could_ conspire with / be compelled by the NSA to attempt to convince me to "upgrade" my local tarsnap code with a backdoored version - and I'm OK with that, if the NSA is looking for me specifically, I fully expect them to find out _everything_ - that's their job and I expect them to be world-class at it. What I _dont_ accept, is that they have any "right" to record and archive permanently anything I ever do online "just in case". And I can and am taking steps to make that harder for them, and I'm noticing which companies are apparently working agains my wishes. I'm curious to know if Dropbox are noticing an drop in de-dup rates lately? My Dropbox storage is now all encfs encrypted - including the folders full of grabbed funny-cat-pics and Internet meme images. My versions are no longer the same as the other several million of them stored on Dropbox. Same for my SkyDrive/GDrive/Jotta accounts.
Yes, smartphones have killed the DSLR
Be sure to rinse it several times, makes a big difference.
I took it that they were speaking to people trying to get in on the action and not the incumbents.
> That's very wishful-thinking of you. Got any references / citations?

For what? Making liquid fuels? See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer-Tropsch_process and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngas

It's not hard. Just need some energy.

> Nuclear-powered aircraft aren't particularly viable.

Sure they are - just use the nuclear power to make hydrocarbon fuels for them.

> As I've noted above, _solar_ powered airships are:

Solar powered airships are also very silly and wasteful (they are heavy which wastes energy, they can't be pointed optimally, they are out of service a lot (i.e. not flying), and when the airship wears out you wasted the solar cells which can last longer than an airship). Put the solar cells on the ground where they can do the most good, and power the airship with liquid hydrocarbons.
3 Signs Your Marketing Approach Is A Sales Sieve
Why your PodCast maybe Irritating It’s Listeners
Macs are excellent machines for running non OS X operating systems on, they're even listed in several "best windows laptop" surveys (one at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369981,00.asp for example).

They are also excellent Plan 9 machines, but I'm a little short on Google links for "best plan 9 laptops" at the moment.
Announcing the Haskell MongoDB queue library
What about the weight of the motors?
I'm bored by Ubuntu, much less the promise of a Ubuntu smartphone. I thought the appeal of Ubuntu was that it was a freedom-respecting but user-friendly alternative to Windows and Mac. Turn out, their Unity interface ships your desktop search results off to Amazon and tried to sell you something when searching for a program or a file on your system.

So, for a Ubuntu phone, at least on the privacy/respect front, it's no better than Android. Android has better support, has a ton of third party support and the weight of Google behind it. Can anyone explain why should I switch to a Ubuntu phone?
Travel, travel and travel. You will learn so much, discover a lot of new things and get a new perspective on life. Do it, it's priceless.
To his credit though Chade-Meng Tan earned some infamy by intercepting celebrities walking through the door and getting his picture taken with them :-) Not exactly "Good for Google" but not something that generally got you fired either.

I'm all in favor of encouraging self empowerment but recognize that it means you will get fired more. It is the cost of doing what you believe. Not everyone is ok with that and I respect that.
Here's battery life from a well known blog:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6914/samsung-galaxy-s-4-review...

No Lumia on there but I think that matches up with the general btty life rating for iphones. Some nokias in this listing:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Smartphone11/349

"CPU and GPU for the end user isn't important."

It certainly can be for certain apps.

"WP7/8 have always been buttery smooth when compared to iOS and Android devices with better hardware."

I'm not sure why you've lumped iOS with famously jittery Android (at least historically, 4.2 seems to have solved lag) since iOS is usually cited as the standard for smooth interface as in this initial WP 7 review from Josh Topolsky: "probably the most accurate and nuanced touch response this side of iOS4."

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/20/windows-phone-7-review/
My best use has been to set up email notifications for various "slow shopping" tasks on Craigslist and eBay. This is super handy when looking for semi-rare or infrequently posted items (e.g. specific out-of-print books), or great deals on items where the seller has priced to move (e.g. email me about craigslist leather couches selling for under $200, dell ultrasharp monitors under $100, etc). If you're not in a hurry to buy stuff, it's a great way to save money.
The Geek's Guide to Vermiculture
Bitinstant isn't any more a scam than Mt. Gox is.

They're just both services that are run by folks who weren't expecting to hit the scale they are now, have no experience building financial systems, and are waaaay in over their heads.
If you have a discount phone service plan, e.g. Straight Talk, you may not be able to receive short-SMS/premium-SMS/texts-from-5-digit-numbers. I, like the other reply, recommend Authy. Also, barmstrong will probably chime in eventually.
Yes.

https://localbitcoins.com/
Pebble (YC W11) ships over 275K units, tops 1M watch apps downloaded
This is required reading:
http://alexmaccaw.co.uk/posts/traveling_writing_programming

http://old.alexmaccaw.com//posts/how_to_travel_around_the_wo...
One of the best ways to spend money and free time is to travel. See the world now while you are young and not tied down.
Thanks!
Just ran it successfully!

Some other issues I faced:

(1) the function SEQUENCE had to be renamed in two places in order for this to run on SBCL.

(2) since I am using quicklisp, had to append (ql:quickload 'soundlab) to top of example.lisp for it run straight from command line via: sbcl --load example.lisp

(3) added the following to the bottom of example.lisp: (export-wave (stage-4) 30 #p"/tmp/foo.wav")

Took about a 90 seconds to render the complete wav file.

Just added the above to benefit others who may be trying to make this work.

Thanks again! Will play some more :-)
We don't have kickbacks in the U.S.

Only sales commissions and lobbyist fees.
The efficiency linking human motion to desired motion vs linking an electrical motor to the desired motion is pretty similar in my experience. Brushless motors are relatively light and pretty efficient (hence their use in models today). The human linkages (gears/chains/etc) are comparable in weight.

Bottom line connecting the human energy to motion is different but from a weight/volume standpoint similar in both cases.
Thanks for that. In case anyone else is interested: https://support.google.com/nexus/4/answer/2844832?hl=en
I can see your comment.
‘Never Settle For The Lowest Common Denominator’
On April 5, according to this slide, there were 117,675 active surveillance targets in PRISM's counterterrorism database. The slide does not show how many other Internet users, and among them how many Americans, have their communications collected "incidentally" during surveillance of those targets.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...
Correct, bitcoin lets YOU hoard and speculate - which is a healthy mechanism in a free market.
In our current fiat debt based system, it's mostly corrupt inside traders who get that privilege.
Thanks for clarifying, I did not know a Physician was also referred to as an MD.
There's readily available examples of crypto software generating key pairs on the client end, and never exposing the private key to the server - GPG/PGP, OpenSSL, tarsnap - and the OpenSSL libraries are used by a whole bunch of other software too (encfs, browsers, web servers, CSR generation…)

Any "crypto" which doesn't do secure keygen on the client for "at rest" data storage is now significantly more suspect than before these revaluations. You can explain away whatever you like in terms of "usability" or "most users don't care", but now manyof us are going to read any excuses as "Yeah, the US government has got to our CEO… And he's not gonna be the next Qwest guy…"
> My question: why would the process that surveils foreigners

Right here is the fundamental problem. The lack of effective constraints in the FISA process (and we've already discussed, in this thread, why the domestic process targeting criminal action, despite superficial similarity, has stronger incentives for government restraint than the FISA process) is exactly why we cannot trust that it only surveils foreigners (it is intended to do that, but absent effective constraint there can be no confidence that it is used as intended.)

> I ask in part because I think synthesizing an adversary is unlikely to create a meaningful restraint; a synthetic adversary doesn't have the same incentives as a real one.

Sure, from the perspective of constraint, a synthetic adversary is worse than a real one, and selecting a synthetic adversary in a manner which makes it an effective constraint is tricky, but getting a real adversary into the foreign intelligence surveillance warrant process is, well, difficult to do without serious negative consequences.
After the NSA revelations, the absolute last thing I plan to do is install a high-resolution, always online camera from Microsoft (or any major US corporation for that matter) in my living room.
awesome! if you have access to a windows box, you can install https://pytools.codeplex.com/downloads/get/697389 (400MB!) - it has PTVS + VS in one package (free).

see this for a quick video overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuewiStNT0M

but basically you should do a "Create project from existing code", then wait for a while until the analysis engine parties on your code. if you run into any issues/questions, feel free to contact me at zatroms@microsoft.com (my login is spelled backwards). thanks!
You're privileging the hypothesis. Why half of the answer, not 1/3 or 2/3? Why energetic, not dark-matter? Why electro-magnetic?

But still, as far as I can tell, the "antenna" hypothesis was considered and rejected, because right now we can pin-point different processes within a brain using fMRIs, we can read out what an animal imagines out of its brain directly... and basically "brain as a computer" is a simpler and better fitting the data model than "brain as an antenna".
I'd probably learn all sorts about nanotechnology given I have a science background along with my development background and there is an emerging billion(trillion?)-dollar market for nanotechnology.

That said, strictly in the realm of development:

After having done Python+Django, PHP, and .NET(c#), JavaScript, etc, I'd focus today on mobile or front-end development. Objective C and JavaScript. It is way more visible so it gets more praise from strangers and coworkers and the very nature of it means that you aren't usually working on legacy apps. I don't get happiness out of rewriting old enterprise code. Some might say they get joy out of fixing old problems, but I have had situations where 10 lines of legacy code were reduced to 1 with an increase and speed and I just felt sad, not happy. shrug
Nginx supports client certs[1], so I'd say the easiest way to get started is to get some free OpenID server (SimpleID[2] seems maintaned) and configure nginx to require cert authentication to access the login path.

I'd do it myself, if I used OpenID more than once every two months or so.

[1]: http://nategood.com/client-side-certificate-authentication-i...

[2]: http://simpleid.koinic.net/
Aren't bigger sensors generally better quality when it comes to cameras? 41mp in a tiny sensor is lousy, those pixels need to be big enough to capture quality light.
Cool article. I really dig the interactive style of learning, reading, trying. Don't see much of that on the web yet.
Whoops. I messed up the monthly and all time revenue. This is what it should be.

All Time
$2,461.35

Annual(june 2012-june 2013)
$1,234.20

Monthly
$119.86
After the GSA stunt a few years ago, you bet conference budgets have been cut. Departments are given a set budget for each conference--if I remember right, the DOE allocates $100k max per conference. Sounds like a lot, but then you see what happened to last year's Supercomputing conference. That's a weeklong conference traditionally attended by many of the DOE's large supercomputing community. $100k does not send many people to a week-long conference. This was enough to cause very notable effects on the conference as a whole; outlets such as The Register even commented on it. I've heard rumors that some companies may not be going this year because without the DOE there, it's just not as valuable for HPC vendors.
Or join cacert.org and use the web of trust.
"Congresscritters will probably try for a reduction of the NSA's budget"

Not if the leadership and seniors have anything to do with it. Boehner called Snowden a traitor; he doesn't want to be told what Snowden knows. And Feinstein has defended the programs.

Wyden and Udall are in the minority. Everyone else on the Senate Intelligence Committee heard what those two heard, and there were no words of discontent or reform beyond what those two said. Indeed, most of you probably know their names only because of their faint opposition. They've been speaking as much as they dare for years, which means the rest of the committee has known for years. And yet, nothing.
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I agree that the pure VoIP parts of Skype should not be interpreted as telecommunications services under CALEA. I think we agree; I'm quoting these provisions to argue that Microsoft does not have any interception capability mandates for IP-to-IP calls under CALEA.
I don't like the way there are going with Network operators. Depending on a network operator is adding bloatware and less control, more fragmentation and hardware innovation.

Rather, How about they start a fund raising campaign or a Kickstarter - use a crowd-funding platform?

I will love to pay them.

Just to add: I'm mind blown after I switched to Ubuntu a year back. They already have numerous fans like me and Professional users, enterprises who trust them now, even the Server editions.

I would love to see Ubuntu grow independently! Go Ubuntu go, raise money, grow fast.
Try this recipe for a Quinoa Burrito Bowl. Even my children love it, which is saying something.

http://www.makebetterfood.com/recipes/quinoa-burrito-bowl/
Sure, learning is good. Any introductory crypto class would consider OTP for a bit. But you seem to be asking people to critique the system as if it would be used for a non-educational purpose. (If that's not what you mean I apologize for misunderstanding.) That just seems really unlikely.
> The need for a native SDK is not going to magically go away just because Mozilla is a non-profit organisation.

Well, no. Its not going to "go away", its not going to exist in the first place.

> There are real, quantifiable, technical reasons for having a native SDK

Sure, there are reasons for having one, they just happen to be reasons that are irrelevant to Mozilla's purpose.

> I'm fine with Mozilla wanting to advance the web; but not at the cost of precluding the possibility of applications that need native SDKs.

Sure, and that's why you might need a native SDK, not why Mozilla needs one.
I would say that any voluntarily acquired and freely renounceable attribute is a valid and ethical attribute by which to judge the character of, or discriminate against, another person.

It may or may not be a good idea to do so, but the organizers of a private gathering may exclude whom they wish; the nature of ones employer is not an unethical standard for exclusion.
All of them!

But as you probably want to slightly more concrete list I would go with JavaScript, Java, Clojure, Objective C, Ruby, SQL, Prolog. In that list we have a few of oo languages of varing purity, a few scripting languages, a couple of logic programming langs, and a lisp. Something for the enterprise, something for the academics, and something for the startups. Something for the web, something for server and something for your desktop and phone. You'll end up well rounded, and have a tool for most situations.
Interesting that Facebook succeeded at a design that Twitter claimed failed miserably for them (read fan-out instead of write fan out: http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/7/8/the-architecture-tw...).
WP8 is the best phone OS out there. I absolutely love my Nokia Lumia after owning several iPhones. The mobile device is not the problem, the app store on the device is.
It's also important to understand that doing the right thing often does not mean ignoring broken processes; it means recognizing that they are broken, and fixing them. Of course, that's not particularly easy either, but it's worth doing.
Oh, wow, I'm not sure how I hadn't see that before. Thanks for the info. Now to ponder how I feel about it...
Sorry to hear that happened.

Please send us a note on http://support.coinbase.com/

SMS is unfortunately unreliable in some instances. You should be able to receive a call with the verification code also as a backup.
Based on your username, I assume you're trolling.
If they are net consumers of the staple, they must be net producers of some other crops.

If the price of the staple increases dramatically, can't they shift towards eating other crops (that they were previously net producers of)?
Is Defcon worried about fights breaking out or something? You know the 'feds' are going to be there anyway. At least if they were in the open then everyone could give them a piece of their minds and maybe convince some of them to quit their jobs or at least give more consideration to the other perspective.
Congressmen have to be re-elected, and they have to show to their constituents that they have done _something_ to protect their privacy... There will be change.
For anyone looking to add a nutritional grain to their diet at a low cost, I highly recommend millet. It has similar nutritional value to quinoa but because it isn't trendy (and thus doesn't have the same supply issues) it can be 80% cheaper than quinoa in most stores.
this is not language
Based on your linkedin profiles neither of you has a life sciences background.

How did you guys come up with this idea?
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