skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is actually very interesting. How well would our (in)ability to parse what code (SW) does without actually running it transcend to genes. STA for genes?

Are genes Turing Complete. ;-)
This position is being challenged in court by multiple lawsuits.

I bring up the government's theory not because I agree with it, but because it is virtually impossible to understand their public statements without understanding their reasoning.
This!

The amount of brick walls I hit is horrible to say the least.

Windows by day, Linux by night.

Tables are turning though. First our cache layer with memcache on CentOS, then our SMTP servers, then our dev servers and repository, now a minor subsystem...
> MailMate and it's interesting thread hierarchy view.

How times change. This is how message threading has always worked before we got gmail and Mail.app which I have resisted switching to for years because the just didn't do threading "right".

And now get off my lawn :-)
Would they be better off with a desk job in some western city? That's likely out of grasp, as they would have no competitive skills compared to westerners that have trained for our economy for their whole lives. They would likely be wards of the state in a strange land, and so would their children.

Or, you know, they could live a life that makes them happy.
[Edit: Looks like the parent was deleted. The comment was noting how the site is poorly marketed, and that this led the commenter to think it was a fake business.]

Clicking through the website, I don't find it unbelievable that this is a DIY website of a local computer shop. There are tons of small business websites like this out there, and while they don't inspire a sense of legitimacy in people unfamiliar with their store front, it's not a problem for those that are.

Well, that was my first impression anyway. There's an address on the website that points to a residential area, not a commercial area. If the was an actual storefront they probably wouldn't do that: http://goo.gl/qkT4l (maps.google.com). Still, if the website is bringing in enough money to live on, a lot of small website owners tend not to keep up with current best practices, and the site was created in 1994. It looks to be of its era, I would say.
What a bizarrely, unapologetically biased article. There's probably room for debate on which cookies should be blocked by default, but you don't start that debate by insinuating that ad-blocking is illegal and Mozilla enjoys distributing illegal software.

Eventually I just had to scroll to the tagline to find out where this article came from:

Randall Rothenberg is President and Chief Executive Officer, Interactive Advertising Bureau.
I guess I meant movies that don't follow the "blockbuster recipe" in general (the movies you mentioned do sound good to me). I know they are out there but I feel they were more common in the past. Of course, it could just be due to the fact I don't hear about the mediocre old movies. That being said, I hear that opinion quite often so I'd say it's plausible that there's some truth to it.
I tried to switch to Adblock Edge, but it seems to be buggier than Adblock Plus - like, the extension config screen doesn't seem to work
There is a similar story about Armani brand and a person named A.R. Mani.
> Appeal to a higher authority?

Some would say they have you there as well. Romans 13, specifically 3-5[1]. Maybe too many of our politicians are bible students.

[1]http://biblehub.com/romans/13.htm
These people are essentially famous in their business; what's the harm of posting their names in a video?
That was my first thought... if the motivation is monetary upside, "new car money" in exchange for someone's eight-month bootstrap is not quite enough for a lot of professional programmers. Fine if it's for the love and enjoyment of it, though.
I have to say that I've seen of Snap looked a lot closer to my favourite framework, Flask, than what I've seen of Yesod. The big problem, IMHO, is the lack of a good multi-database persistence story for Haskell. You have several good, mid-level database layers ({mysql,postgres,sqlite}-simple), but they don't even offer a common interface. And HDBC's performance, from what I could read, is not really top notch.

And then you have Persistent, which works in its own monad (I'm not sure if it works as a second level cache, because it's not terribly well documented) and with a good helping of Template Haskell tries to be an ORM. Unfortunately, it's not terribly powerful (numeric IDs only, no complex joins, and it doesn't look like you're expected to write the mapping between your model and the table(s) yourself, so forget about legacy databases).
Have your own server's LEDs blink in pseudo-random sequence; have a script monitor the video feed, alerting if the sequence of LEDs doesn't match what is expected
3)

One of those things is not like the others - the abstracted information and constructed envelope of a virus seems qualitatively different to me, since that structure doesn't depend on external factors for its basic coherence. +1 for mentioning Benard cells, did not know of those.
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This reminds me of the age-old (apocryphal?) trick of buying google ads geo-targeted at SandHill road in Palo Alto when you're raising VC money.
The article was about intrusive advertisements not who is or isn't monitoring which email providers. Switching to fast mail solves the problem the article was complaining about!
Uhhhhhhhhhh
Gunpoint (indy game) successful - author quits day job
Well, when users developed a habit of ignoring ads they must push it the other way, like FB did with placing ads in a news feed as stories. The same premise, the same response.

Just think of Promotions tab as a new SPAM folder.)
This is a stupidly wrong article.

If you have a deterministic screening procedure, then would-be terrorists can simply do a dry run to figure out whether they are going to be caught in the screening. As long as they can find enough white extremists (like the Boston Marathon bombers), they can guarantee getting through.

Random is trivially better than that. It has a chance of catching them. (If the plot involves many terrorists, the chance of catching someone becomes surprisingly good.)
Title is wrong/linkbait. Not 'your inbox'. Actual title is: "New Gmail Inbox Features Ads That Look Like Emails, Above Promotional Email Subscriptions" (emphasis mine).
You may have heard about the reorganization the other day, I think we're now called "Server and Cloud". Perhaps they may be referring to systems such as Azure Active Directory and Message Service Bus? There's a lot more going on than a simple PaaS VM and web hosting. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh967619.aspx http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/services/messaging/
The trouble is they shove a pile of your real mail in there too, unless you go to disable the tab.
The free internet fest is over. sorry.
I actually use gmail's "Priority Inbox" - I'm not into "Inbox Zero", most of my mail I never read. So I like that gmail lets the real human people I talk to regularly pop up into a special zone. I've got my phone set to only make a noise when I get email in Priority Inbox.

So sadly, I think gmail still has what's basically a killer app for me.
Well:

>The reason you see innocent tags like #gay being blocked on certain platforms is that they are still frequently returning adult content which our entire app was close to being banned for.

http://staff.tumblr.com/post/55906556378/all-weve-heard-from...
Physicists unveil results that support standard model
dotcoma's comment however, claimed "no NSA etc". While it's not pertinent to this article, I think pointing out spurious claims (which people might be believing and acting on) has value regardless.
I expect the following is relevant to dragonwriter's thinking: http://lesswrong.com/lw/mp/0_and_1_are_not_probabilities

Meanwhile, we might all do well to read and reflect on http://lesswrong.com/lw/kg/expecting_short_inferential_dista...
But dotcomas comment was claiming "No NSA".
Hi, creator of Lo-Dash here. Jeremy's comments are off base. I've gladly contributed to Underscore and am responsible for many of the fixes/features in the last few releases. I voluntarily revoked my commit rights to Underscore, without prompting, several months ago because it was awkward trying to move Underscore in a better direction while trying to work with Jeremy, who seemed distracted, lacking the patience to grok issues/comments, often losing his temper in issue/commit comments or trashing me on Twitter/HN. I'd still be contributing via bug reports and feedback if he hadn't recently blocked me.

It's unfortunate he's chosen to spread FUD instead of going head to head on features, compat, perf, dev needs/concerns, or any other relevant area of project comparison :/
What's funny is that back in the old BP days, you could still argue most of the interesting work in baseball / statistics was being done in the public domain working of standardized data sets - whether it was DIPS via Voros McCracken, or Tom Tango's work, or that of MGL / some of the early BP guys in the past few years. Now, since we're pretty good at capturing offensive value, the really interesting stuff is being done a) on the predictive side and b) on the defensive side. The latter in particular makes use of propeitary data sets like some of the Baseball Info Solutions stuff or Pitch FX's advanced DB's - making it harder for a young analyst who wants to break into baseball to pull a Voros. Moreover, ESPN can certainly afford those resources, but I doubt that the goal is going to be to do groundbreaking stuff anymore - I think it would be a role similar to Hollinger. But given the ESPN "analysts" (and I use the term loosely) consist of idiots like John Kruk, Silver's influence seems as if it will be limited.

McColin, are you an old Baseball Primer / BTF guy as well?
I'm not ignoring how powerful the government is in people's lives. I'm saying that it holds that power because the masses of people believe that that's the way things should be. Discussions about useless debates happening in the House of Lords lends credibility to a completely ridiculous way of thinking. I don't think my position is the one that has lost contact with reality... I'd say the House of Lords is where reality is truly forgotten.

The last sentence I wrote was: "Thankfully I realize that government is just another scam for me to avoid to the best of my ability." I don't think people should stop paying taxes or do other things that put themselves in jeopardy, but I think that when people pay taxes or fight for marriage equality, they need to stay aware of what is really going on: they are victims of the government monopoly on violence.
For anyone still doubtful of how much structure and intent there is in a screenplay, this deconstruction of Jurassic Park is an amazing read: http://www.blakesnyder.com/2013/04/05/the-jurassic-park-beat...

While not exactly following the 'save the cat' formula, and probably being a much better movie for that, it clearly rests on the same principles.
Yup. Old BP contributor who developed PECOTA back in the day. I admit I thought that the overlap between Baseball Prospectus type sabremetric nerds and HN types would be limited - those genres of geekdom rarely interact!
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Yes. Pursuing equal rights is a lost cause. You and Bill Clinton will never be treated the same by the U.S. government.
I don't want to sound like a lamer but can't this basically be done with ssh and rsync? I've been storing and fetching files from my home cubox with a setup like this.

While I'm away from home I use a usb-stick with a custom dev envrionment all set up. Then just backup and fetch files from there as needed. Something like this gets the job done:
rsync -avze ssh ~/my/backupfile user@(home ip address):~/backup/location

Probably a bit weird to understand but this is just one example command for backing up a local file (there are more advanced options too).
They really don't actually. The best stuff is from independent analysts, or guys like Fangraphs or Tom Tango or MGL. ESPN throws some lipservice to this crowd because some hard-core fans like myself are sabr-types, but the brunt of their coverage is aimed at the "DEREK JETER KNOWS HOW TO WIN BECAUSE HE's A VETERAN" Crowd.
False,
Right - I am just stating as a current Tumblr employee how it currently is - obviously the future is hypothetical and not something I will personally speculate on with regards to my employer - but I understand the point.
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Can you expand on that point or is that all you have to say?
SML# is one of the lesser known SML implementations, although it's a quite good one. The only thing that I found impractical,... you can only link 32bit libs, which is very odd on todays 64bit Systems.

Nevertheless, the thing I like most at SML# is the excellent FFI. You can just pass SML-records or SML-functions to C. SML# is very powerful if you code your applications in SML and C.
It's possible that they have tried that at first.
$19.95 for 1gb of storage? Never thought I'd consider $1.66 / month to be a rip off.
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Unfortunate they chose that name for a project involving spanning datacenters with high-speed fiber connection.
This is unbelieveable. IAB = Interactive Advertising Bureau.

Accusing Mozilla of 'losing it's values' for protecting privacy on the web, and even twisting the open web motto as to legitimize their snooping activities. I think I've had enough internet for today.
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This is a fair insight - there are always milestones - the ones you agree to get paid by affect the project as a whole

I would suggest talking in terms of features / business outcomes.
>All you have to do is issue a decree that encourages people to upvote civility and downvote incivility, as opposed to the current standard which says upvote agreement and downvote disagreement.

This doesn't matter. Doesn't work on reddit, doesn't work on StackOverflow, and won't work anywhere else.
Rackspace Mail is $2/mo/mailbox. That gets you a 100% uptime SLA, 25GB storage, configurable daily backups and 24/7/365 phone/chat/mail support.

http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/
Not sure what the 'depression' tag has to do with any of this - it is not filtered, it returns results, and it has a PSA at the top of the page as with other specific keywords due to the nature of the search query.
No, I couldn't find about any direct fiber [1] between India and US. But somehow while tracerout'ing, the very next hop after my ISP is a Los Angeles based IP. Another thing to note is that there are three direct fiber connecting India and Singapore but it is not being used by my ISP (BSNL).

[1] http://www.submarinecablemap.com/
Or Google Apps for $50 per year with 30GB of storage. No need to change platforms.
Two days ago I watched "Promised Land" which deals with this issue, but I thought it was just hyperbole when they were talking about dying animals and people setting water on fire.
(Your profile lists no contact info, so saying this here instead of in DM:) I love this comment and, by extension, I love you, JLGreco.
Secret court lets NSA extend its trawl of Verizon customers' phone records
> He has all the rights to use the domain, as its his name, and simply bought it first.

Neither of those would be sufficient. The decisive factor is that he's actually operating a legitimate business under that name.
If they did, it obviously wasnt enough ;)
Price is kinda misleading. It requires to add Microsoft Exchange (+10$ per month) or buy 5+ mailboxes
Whats happened to good regulatory frameworks in America?
Was the breakdown of industry regulation a Bush thing or does it pre-date that?
Seems to be a similar theme across Health, Food, Petroleum.
That is true but the one time I used it directly(rather than as a dependency of another library) I used it interactively from the Ruby repl.
You can also pay for google apps and get ad free interface with tech support, last I checked.
> Talking in platitudes about health and life are all fine and dandy, and yet the in US there are tremendous issues with poverty, health care access, and control of one's own body.

I think health care access is an even greater problem on that island.
As a game developer what you describe is painful. Your description should serve as a warning to anyone trying to get into mobile games.

If you race to the bottom, you will sell your soul to do so.
> I think it’s mostly false, but just true enough to be interesting.

But by the same logics, Windows is MacOS, Russia is a Saudi Arabia, and Hindi is English. Mostly false, but just true enough to be interesting.
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This is exactly how lobbyists work, nothing new here.
I really appreciate they have a "reproduce the results" section. We need a lot more of that kind of thing in CS research.
The problem with fixed price work is you create a conflict of interests from the start. It's in your interest to do as little as possible for the price and it's in your customers interest to get as much as possible for the price.

That and all the issues of requirements gathering up front.
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Parent may be referring to this: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/07/19/doe-...
If anyone wants to try this method, check out http://cardflashapp.com/ which I hope to make into a simpler alternative to ANKI (still very much a work in progress though)
I also just received an email to this effect even though I have already renewed.

Also the iTunes connect mobile app seems to be working still.
Wait a damn minute here. The EPA came down and even tested the damn waters (*wells) in these areas. Methane had been coming out of the ground before these people were born and now they are saying something? Are these the very people that don't own the land that fracking is leased on?
Theoretically but dividends are also taxed and that makes dividends less attractive as an option
This article isn't anything more than a collection of NIMBY quotes and emotive pictures. It doesn't really have any substance.

There are fair criticisms of hydraulic fracturing, but I've found that most content outside of scientific journals / EPA reports to be incredibly overblown and very inaccurate.
sorry to ask, but who uses SML nowadays and for what do they use it? (I know about it's descendants or languages influenced/inspired by it, like OCaml, F# and the less related Haskell, but nothing hits the news about SML projects.)
Palantir is the one that still sticks out the most though. They work for the CIA and their Prism technology is essentially the same as the one in the slides 'combining databases from different sources.' I know they've denied it and Peter Thiel would never do that and all but thats still one heck of a coincidence.
> That said you will have to find the type of customers who will fall for something like this.

I don't think customers that who accept (and find value in) this proposal are necessarily fools. Writing code is a cheap commodity. Making business decisions is not, and development cost is inversely proportional to how precisely you know what you want.

A business owner who has made all the business and technical decisions, and approaches developers with extremely detailed photoshop mockups and specs can probably successfully get an app or website made for $10/hour on elance.com, and keep all the extra value.

A client who has made all the business decisions and knows what development they want on an approximate "outline" level needs to hire a 10x more expensive local developer who is willing to meet and push back on any technical assumptions. They are paying 90% for the decision-making expertise on understanding what they want, and writing code is a tiny part of the service.

A client who may see value in a $40000 website offer is one who has not or cannot make the business decisions themselves. They are paying primarily for the business or marketing strategy consulting, and the entire development side is a tiny part of the service. Perhaps the client should make these themselves to be able to use a cheaper developer, and keep more of the value - but if they can't, then an expensive offer may still be profitable.
If nothing else, this makes it rather amusing to think of how confused the engineers behind 'Project Prism' must have been when the first PRISM leaks were revealed.
It's not about matters of taste so much as of market saturation. The market of me is already saturated with certain kinds of movies.

Image made all the difference.
Uzi Nissan. What an epic name to have.
I do wonder if the NSA insists this functionality is there...
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I'm pretty sure he does - if he sent them a death threat the courts would see that somewhat differently to an adult doing the same thing. Having said that, given the way terrorism is defined in the US these days, I could be wrong. I did some pretty bad things while at school - I had the LAPD emailing me after I emailed a spammer and said I was sick of him and had an especially pointy stick saved up to visit him with. Would I do that now? Hell no, it was stupid. I was a(nother) dumb bored kid.
what's less bullshit than quantum mechanics if you don't mind me asking?
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Industries are always working to capture their regulators regardless of administrations. The massive push for deregulation since Reagan has certainly helped destroy it though.

The other side of the problem is the explosion in global energy demand (and hence prices).
I googled my name and found 57 others with the same name...
None of those 57 names were mine though.
"Clicking through the website, I don't find it unbelievable that this is a DIY website of a local computer shop."

Works better than quite a few small UK PC shop Web sites! I'm determined to buy what will probably be my last desktop (simply because of the increasing utility of laptops/tablets) soon[1] and would like to buy one from a small business locally.

Good heavens, they all need to find undergraduates who will code for parts or something! I suppose if you are running the business and the Web site generates sales, you just leave it ticking...

[1] soon=when gas/phone/water/sewage/council tax bills paid but before they all get locked down and limited to vendor OS.
"Stack ranking employee evaluations"

I agree with a great many criticisms of Microsoft, but this one always strikes me as nonsensical. I was an intern at Microsoft and (while I never participated in stack ranking) it never seemed particularly destructive. I went on a tour of Valve and one question that was asked during the Q&A was what kind of evaluation and ranking system they used - the answer was stack ranking. Companies have to use some form of evaluation and ranking for their employees once they grow past a certain size - it's just an organizational requirement. The alternative is upper management without quantifiable information about the many people under them, which makes it harder to allocate resources and operate efficiently. Or so I imagine, I'm not in upper management at a very large company, but that certainly seems to be the case pretty much everywhere.
The 2002 "carnival booth" paper by Strauss and Chakrabarti is a good analysis. There's a summary here with some quotes from Hal Abelson http://tech.mit.edu/V122/N48/48secure.48n.html
Maybe it is just a static site?
>It doesn't, App Store is all about impulse purchases.

Lots of quality apps with normal prices have proven otherwise. So anybody should take your advice with a sack of salt.
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