skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How on earth can anyone say something like that when people have died and actual news is occurring? Shame on you.
No longer freedom respecting? I disagree. Its no longer hardcore hacker respecting but it's still free. Canonical has been walking this fine line between being a serious Linux distro and an OS that has the potential for average people to adopt. At this point it seems that they're finding they can't walk that line without some sacrifices and they seem to be going after the "average person" market in a lot of ways.

As it relates to freedom, Ubuntu is still open source and licensed under a free license. Technically it does qualify as being free software. The Amazon results may not be something a lot of us like (including myself) but anyone is free to remove that functionality from the OS.

If you choose an OS based on philosophy then I'm not sure that Ubuntu has been on your side for some years now. I don't agree that Ubuntu isn't freedom respecting but I do agree that it probably isn't for you and people like you.
nope. i've only heard of google doing any real messaging re: pinning.
To be fair Canonical is using their servers as proxy so the data can be anonymized before it's sent forward to Amazon.
I'd say the War on Terror has a lot in common with the War on Drugs. Neither have concrete achievable goals, neither has a well defined "enemy" and both tap into deep-seated fears of the voting public.

Those characteristics make them great vehicles for political manoeuvring and expansion of government spending and powers. And this is why I think neither will ever end; I could not see any politician willingly throwing away such a tool. I mean, look at the War on Drugs... we've been "fighting" for over 40 years and are no closer to an end.

Look at what we've lost already to the War on Terror, then try to imagine what we will have given up 30 years from now.
The Prime Number Theorem! The average spacing between primes under N tends to... ln(N).

By the way, Gauss conjectured it at the tender age of 14...
> The higher the analytics, the better the recommendation.

Sure, in a concave down horizontal asymptote kind of way. My impression from things like the Netflix prize is that improving predictive accuracy for recommendations is an extremely high-cost, low-yield endeavor. I remember one day being shocked at the quality of Amazon's recommendations for me (since they'd always been crap), and looking to see how they'd picked such winners. The result? All of those products were ones I'd personally added to my old forgotten amazon wishlist.
It's a fun book, likely intended to
be entertaining, like a dessert
buffet. It's elegantly done.
The first chapter
connects well with this thread.

Some of the results in the later
chapters are also mind blowing.
Seeing some of those results in
a course in measure theory, I
staggered around for about two
days wondering how a universe could
exist with such things being true.
You do realize Mint is making money off you too...right?

http://www.linuxmint.com/searchengines.php
screeny. Its bare bones but easy to use

And good ol' quicktime to stitch it up.
You're misunderstanding the theorem the author proved.

Theorem A (author's theorem): No mapping from finite-length strings to real numbers will hit all the real numbers.

Theorem B (your theorem): Let's map strings of finite length to real numbers as follows: Consider the string as the specification for a Turing machine. If the specification is syntactically OK as a Turing machine description, and the output is syntactically OK as the decimal expansion of a (potentially infinite) real number, then that string maps to that real number. Otherwise, the string maps to zero. Then this particular mapping doesn't hit all the real numbers.

It's obvious that Theorem B is just a special case of Theorem A. And it's also obvious that Theorem A is a trivial corollary of Cantor's result (that no mapping from natural numbers to real numbers hits all real numbers), with no Turing machines or computation theory anywhere in sight.

I can well believe that Theorem B was either proven by Turing himself, or established in the early years post-Turing; it's low-hanging fruit once you've defined Turing machines and are familiar with Cantor's results. And it could hardly have been proven before the Turing machines were defined! So Theorem B is a special case that could plausibly have first arisen in the 1940's, but Theorem A is actually the theorem the author is talking about.
Why is it so terrible that Amazon know your shopping habits? Honest question. I've heard of cases where Amazon knew a woman was pregnant before her family and such things but I can't think of anything that would apply to most people that would be bad and come from Amazon knowing your shopping habits. Heck, even you yourself make a good case for why it's helpful for them to do so.

Sometimes I feel like people are against this as a matter of philosophy, knowing it'd be rare for it to have a negative effect on them. And I'm not saying that's bad or knocking it. I'm just trying to get a sense of why this is so distasteful. I've never seen an Amazon result when I search using the latest Ubuntu by the way. Then again, I'm only searching for applications or files on my machine. I've also never seen an ad on my desktop. I know these things exsits but don't know why I'm not seeing them.
It also allows you to use vim in eclipse when editing a file.
Use GNU parallel: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/

It can distribute the work across the available CPU cores, and it can even distribute the work across different machines using SSH: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#example__dist...
The Art of Reading Smoke
Detriots Emergency Dispatch Radio System fails
Replace google with any other major company.. let the real unbiased discussion begin.
Korea's other major airline, Korean Air, has the 5th worst safety record among international airlines [1]. In that case, cultural issues was the problem: http://blogs.wsj.com/middleseat/2008/12/04/malcolm-gladwell-.... Wonder if there's any correlation here, but obviously it's too soon to tell.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_incidents_and_accide...
Why do we see all OS makers as the enemy? I don't think they're trying all that hard to destroy privacy. What I see happening is that the average person doesn't care about their privacy to begin with. So OS makers give the people what they think they want. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. And beyond that, these features can be turned off. There's such a fine line to walk between things like privacy and convenience, security and ease of use, etc. There are no right answers either. These issues all come down to what each user personally prefers and OS makers are catering to the majority of their users. It's up to each one of us to pick the best OS for what we prefer, make sure we know what can and can't be disabled, and make your voice heard when you see something you don't like. There's never any guarantees you'll get what you want but if enough people speak up...
Waiting stinks: How to redesign your product’s dead time
>1 x 10^3 + 2 x 10^2 + 3 x 10^3 + 4 x 10^4

I believe this should be 1 x 10^3 + 2 x 10^2 + 3 x 10^1 + 4 x 10^0
DC cameras become top crime-fighting tools - SFGate
Tricky CSS Selectors Quiz
I use ubuntu 12.04 for server, I don't get it why desktop is that important anymore, 90% of my time is with browser and vi these days, the rest is with vlc and a little open office, that's about it.
Can someone sum up the major changes?
You linked the same video twice. (thanks, though)
>
The only feedback is that BTRFS == fsck, and is also sponsored by Oracle, an organization that is killing off the superior, but N.I.H., ZFS. Let's not forget all of their other community fails (Berkeley DB, Java, MySQL, OpenOffice).

Personally I always read the situation as Linux not supporting ZFS because it was born under the Solaris banner, while Btrfs, though being developed "in cooperation with" third parties, is fundamentally a shiny open generic FOSS technology (the name itself eschews branding to make it sound like "look, it's all just B-trees, you can understand this.") Heck, until this conversation, I thought Btrfs was something Linus himself had a stake in, like Git. What wonders a different brand-image can do to people who have incomplete information :)
Shocking news on the stress women endure at work and home
I love Ubuntu. Been a fan from, lets see, 5.04. It's been a long sweet experience. But lately I've got many areas which I vehemently disagree with them.

I guess the most important issue with Ubuntu nowadays is the one of privacy. With the recent revelations of mass surveillance, exposing desktop searches to a 3rd party by default is a catastrophic decision. I can't understand how the folks at Canonical could accept such a feature. They could have made it opt-in, with flashing popups and shit, asking you to signup. But making it default is a nightmarish situation. I was able to recommend non-technical users (like my parents and relatives) to install Ubuntu by themselves, arguing there was nothing to change that would need someone with know-how. But not now with stuff like this. I don't think the major chunk of the user-base (home users), would understand the implications of this feature.
Well, kids were excited to fire up Visual Studio and write XNA code for their XBox. They might be excited now to use DirectX in the same way, though the barrier there is much higher. Then what about F#, TypeScript...Kodu and Project Spark?

All of this discussion is anecdotal, we have no hard evidence really what developers under 30 think about Microsoft. And kids are extremely dynamic and fickle anyways, they will quickly adopt any technology that helps them achieve their goals as things fall in and out of favor. So its not like there are hard external barriers to Microsoft winning back young dev mindshare, only internal cultural ones.

We also seem to do much better in Asia (China, where I'm more familiar) in outreach than the west. Perhaps that is temporary and a result of startup/hacker culture not really taking hold here, but for the present we seem to be doing very well.

> There aren't any success stories around the Microsoft ecosystem anymore.

This is quite a weird statement. In the enterprise, there are plenty of success stories that even I can't understand, like Sharepoint. Perhaps you mean the lack of "sexy success stories"? I could agree with that.
How Can Better Breathing Banish Stress?
"anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

No?
Funny though, if you pay your taxes with a credit card there is ALWAYS a fee for that.
See also Quipper language, which is a DSL on top of Haskell for quantum programming. [1]

[1] http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/quipper/
Contributions to the Digital Bill of Rights and Other Top Comments
I'm glad you find this useful.
Comprehensive HTML framework with over 1500+ shortcodes
Use-cases:

1) regex search against an indexed database: use a regex to generate a search list, search a well indexed database with this list instead of linearly scanning data in the database with the regexes. AFAIK there's no way to index in a way that is regex friendly, only wildcard friendly...so most database systems that offer regex search just do a more traditional regex match against the contents of the table elements. In most cases, even searching tens of thousands of terms will be faster than the typical regex alternative.

2) education - you might use the generated lists while learning regexes to verify that you've accounted for various edge cases

3) data verification - you're using a regex to verify data, something is slipping through, see if it exists in the edge of generated matches (surprisingly common problem)

4) software testing & quality assurance. Define the possible inputs to a method via regex and generate all possible inputs instead of just testing at boundary conditions etc.

5) security/penetration testing, like #4 but to test cryptographic systems, passwords etc.

there's tons more...

Generating random members isn't sufficient as the runtime can grow extraordinarily long as you keep generating hoping you get all possible members, and you may not be certain when you can halt.

Some tools like tempting, like Microsoft Research's Rex
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/rex/

but the member list it generates is incomplete
for example:
^(rich|richard|dick)( j\.)? th?om{1,2}[ae]s{1,2}[eo]n$

generates:
"rich\sj.\sthommesson"
"richard\sthomasen"
"dick\stomasen"
"rich\stommeson"
"dick\sj.\stommassen"
"dick\sj.\sthomessen"
"dick\sthomessen"
"rich\sthommeson"
"richard\stommasen"
"rich\sthomesen"

which misses a whole host of other matches
I would take this as a plus actually: they were being very detailed oriented and pointing out more mistakes than would have been expected. I doubt its sustainable though, as soon as the app load increases, they'll probably become more like Apple in detail orientation (unless they are using tools, I'm not sure, I have no idea).
If I may, take a look through some of the bootstrap docs (both free and for-cost). They're amazing looking and incredibly simple to work with. If anything, some designs can provide you with styles to work off of.

Free Docs - http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

Buy - https://wrapbootstrap.com/
Wiird Channels
Run isolated apache instances under Docker
There is also one main difference between US and German book market.

Ordering a book in US took two weeks or even month, to ship the book to Boston, before Amazon disrupted the broken US book market. While ordering a book in Germany takes a maximum of two days to any bookstore.

One thing the article does not mention is the real price of ordering a book at amazon: Privacy. There had been lots of cases where CIA or FBI visited people because of the books the bought.
Here's the Letter the US Sent Venezuela Urging Them To Arrest Edward Snowden
Make 100% on 2005, 2007, 2009, etc. and you'll have Cirque Du Soleil visits in San Francisco!
This is only slightly related, but does anyone know of an e-ink device that can run a desktop operating system (like Ubuntu)?
15 of the Weirdest Educational Videos on YouTube
If the end goal was not profit, this would not be a problem.

If the end goal was to produce some goods or services that are of benefit to people, while looking after employees, the environment and the local community, the world would be a much better place.

Of course, the stock market might not grow so fast, but that's just made up anyway. People struggling to buy food on paltry wages is not made up.
I wonder if when we get that far the computer is able to write the code for us anyways and programmers will be redundancies. Its just a matter of if, not when. Understanding human cognition well enough to evaluate it is a good indicator that the singularity is near.
In my opinion, taking some time off is a great idea. After dabbling in coding a long time, I am considering doing something similar. There's no reason to weekend warrior everything. As long as you have the focus and discipline to work every day without someone standing over you (always an "if" but the bootcamps and stuff can help keep you on track) taking time off is great.

And now, at age 24, is one of the best times to take time off. It is good to be frugal, save money, and be able to take time away from working full time, if you want to do interesting stuff with your life.

So I say, really, go for it. Don't defer your dreams.
Using E-Mail Data to Connect the Dots of Your Life
I tried to login without giving my Facebook / Google details and I got an error dump which includes your database url amongst other information.

Also why isn't there an option just to write without having to login (doesn't that add to the complexity of the app?)
The casinos did this with online poker and it worked.
I did my best.

1:10 ATC: 737 Zulu Delta San Francisco Tower, remain clear of the San Francisco Fox Bravo airspace [ed: I believe Bravo refers to the SF Class B airspace, not sure what the Fox is]. Contact San Carlos Tower

1:17 737 Zulu Delta Pilot: Contacting San Carlos Tower and remaining clear.

1:22 ATC: 305 start leaving the Bravo airspace and 2 miles .. terminate ... maintain the appropriate stage ..

1:27 ATC: (inaudible) is closed San Francisco Tower (inaudible)

(inaudible command to Horizon 635 from ATC)

1:34 ATC: He's got a 214 heavy, San Francisco Tower

1:37 ATC: Asiana (inaudible)

1:42 635 Pilot: 635 going around.

143 ATC: 635 fly heading 2-6-5 maintain 3100 (ft).

1:46 635 Pilot: 265 3100 - alright 635.

Asiana (inaudible)

1:51 ATC: Asiana 214 heavy emergency vehicles are responding, we have everyone on their way

1:57 ATC: SkyWest 5452 san francisco tower go around

2:00 SkyWest 5452: Go around Skywards 5452

2:03 ATC: SkyWest 5452 fly heading 2-8-0 maintain 3000 ft.

2:07 SkyWest 5452 Pilot: 280 and 3000, SkyWest 5452.

2:10 Horizon 635 fly heading 2-6-5 maintain 3100

2:13 635 Pilot: Yes sir 265 3100, Horizon 635

2:16 ATC: Contact NORCAL reports for 135.1

2:19 635 Pilot: 35.1 - Horizon 635

2:22 SkyWest 5452 contact NORCAL reports for 135.1

2:25 5452 Pilot: 35.1

2:27 6039 Pilot: 6039 will go to San Jose

2:31 ATC: SkyWest 6039 roger. Contact NORCAL for departure

2:35 ATC: (inaudible) SkyWest 6389

2:39 ATC: rescue 33 San Francisco tower proceed to the scene cross - inaudible - the 11 San Francisco Tower proceed as requested. Cross all runways.

2:46 Rescue: San Francisco Tower 33 and rescue 11 cleared the 1.

2:50 ATC: rescue 33, rescue 11 roger.

2:54 ATC: (inaudible) Foxtrot San Francisco Tower

END.

I also listened to the ATC before descent, no talk about any failures or problems or requests for rescue before descent.
Boston University sues Apple over chip technology patent
The divergence of the harmonic series (sum_{n=1}^∞ 1/n) is one of the most surprising elementary results.
The Magical Room
Watch SpaceX’s reusable Grasshopper rocket hover to 1,066 feet and then land
I quitted Ubuntu because the latest versions of Unity uses 3D acceleration that consumes a lot of battery in a VM. I didn't find a solution for it (except using it natively).

I followed some solutions that didn't work or turned the windows manager very unstable. I really liked Unity.
Apple's Waze-like navigation system creates routes based on user ratings
Steve [Jobs] is in the I win/you win school.
Jeff Bezos is in the I win/you lose school.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/04/26/100426fa_fact_....
Movie "SuperTickets"
There are actual reasons to make it and keep it that way. Easy caching function's results is one. You may want to read this SO thread:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1132941/least-astonishmen...
Yeah, I have listened in on some air traffic controller streams that are available online and it's always hard to decipher what it is they are saying. It all sounds like words slurred together with no clear demarcation. I am mostly amazed how pilots and the controllers clearly understand each speaking the way they do.
Computers already write code for us, they just need to be told what we want them to write. The question is if we can design a programming environment where the computer can understand 'natural' human specifications and compile that, instead of needing to have a trained human compile the natural specifications into source code, which the computer can compile into a program.
All the Google Products That Google Itself Has Killed Dead
My personal vain hope is that tux3 will become an awesome filesystem and will become the successor to ext4. tux3 promises to support snapshotting.

So far tux3 looks very promising when it comes to the underlying design and the performance. But we shall see about features and stability when it gets closer to completion. And also if any of the added features will hurt performance.
There is a context: What definition of war requires that war be declared by an act of Congress? Has it got a beginning? How does it end? Do you think that pseudo-war is legitimate in this context? Do you think the Framers meant to write empty, infinitely flexible words?
Could also be useful to downscale images using the 'high contrast downscale' filter (as we call it in our lab; maybe this isn't the common name). For each set of pixels to become one, you compute min, max and mean, and select the one of {min, max} which is closer to mean.

Unfortunately, I don't have any examples handy.
After seeing the following photograph (1 of 18) I'm confused. Contrast it with the original one we were talking about:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-san-francisco-plane-c...

Never mind the whole issue of people grabbing their bags. That plane was rather seriously on fire and the people in the original photograph don't appear to be very concerned about moving away from it. Strange.
Google searches for awesome young Internet addicts to hype YouTube
Why didn't you use an array (from array module in stdlib) for homogeneous collection then? Python is dynamically typed, which means that, by default, we assume different types everywhere (heterogeneity). If you want to express homogeneity just do so explicitly.
On which side of the Atlantic?
SFO Plane Crash In Tweets
German security chief: Stop using Google if you fear U.S. spying
If Heroku don't got it, I don't learn it.
> Where in the Constitution is Congress authorized to make laws regarding the practice of religion?

The Commerce Clause, of course! I imagine they would argue that money donated to churches would otherwise be used to purchase goods and services. Or that time spent worshipping would otherwise be used in production.

I'm only half joking.
Amazon Crosses the Gaming Line
I believe Unity is getting a lighter rewrite for 14.04 (at the latest) so there's that. I don't think they should have canned Unity2D like they did.
Isamu Kaneko, creator of the encrypted P2P file sharing program Winny, has died
Sorry, there is no English discussion yet and not even a mainstream media article on Kaneko's (handle: 47) death. However, his colleagues at the University of Tokyo are confirming his passing on Twitter and it is all but certain.

Cause of death: cardiac arrest.

While Sean Parker creates Napster and goes on to help make Facebook what it is today, Kaneko is persecuted by authorities for years, finally wins a not guilty verdict two years ago, and just as things were looking up, this.

RIP.
It's more "collaborator" a bit east from you, "informant" has a more neutral meaning here.
Those "people working in terrible conditions" don't have the ability to threaten everyone around them, like your transit workers do. They'd rather push everybody down, rather than recognize that they have the same options available to everyone who wants an increase in pay. Go find someone willing to pay you more.
Firefox Mobile Is Doomed to Failure: 10 Reasons Why
> There are several different definitions for comparing infinite quantities, and I've used one of them.

Well, that makes it even worse. Now you're saying, "There are multiple definitions, and I used one of them, but I did not specify which one."

> Whoever wants precise technical terms is welcome to go on Wikipedia.

All right, but in the meantime, when you use terms that you leave undefined, you turn away anyone besides people who already know what you are saying.
Building a Mobile App Portfolio That Retains Customers (video)
That seems a bit self-limiting.
I voted you up. People might think you post is spam for showing off what might be your own site.
But for me at the end of the day this site is about exactly this, to show of the product of your work.
Really amazing thing to see. Especially given that Space X is private enterprise with limited resources vs. the traditional government-funded space programs we used to have. The latter part of that statement is a pretty pathetic scenario, among countless other issues going on with our country at the moment. Wish Musk the most success.