skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The post is kind of misleading because it confuses "order of magnitude" with the order of a polynomial. To make this very clear:

You have two functions, x^4 and x^3. You can multiply x^3 by any constant multiple a (any number, regardless of size), and as x gets sufficiently large x^4 will be bigger than a * x^3. This is the point of evaluating asymptotic performance: as your input data approaches an infinite size, only the highest order term in a polynomial really matters. For example, x^2 + x + 1 will approach x^2 for sufficiently large x - the lower order terms (x^1 and x^0) don't really matter for a big x.

Technically, big-O refers to a bounding function: x^2 is O(x^2) AND O(x^3), etc. because x^2 is less than or equal to x^2 and x^3 as you approach infinity. For convenience we're usually only interested in the best fit; it's useless to say your algorithm is faster than O(x^5), but it's interesting if it's O(n).

Finally, we also have small-oh notation, which is a lower bound. If your algorithm is never faster, on an ideal input set, than x^2, it's also o(x^2). Note that the same algorithm is also o(n) and o(1), because any algorithm which is slower than (or equal to) x^2 must necessarily be slower than x or 1 (constant-time).

edit: It's worth pointing out I only talked about polynomials because it's pretty intuitive. You can extend this notation to any class of functions - exponentials, logarithms, etc. but you just have to know that log(x) is O(x) and o(1), etc.
I'm sad that Apple took a couple of years of Bret's innovation and locked it away. Thanks, Apple.

I couldn't agree more with ET's two choices. Mike Bostock is a machine. He's produced a lifetime's worth of awesome work, and he's just getting started.
If you want a really good REST API for Postgres you're better off using HTSQL. http://htsql.org
In NYC, you can drop off a bag of laundry at a Wash and Fold, and pick it up the next day clean and folded for $20.

Where is your $100 going for getting your laundry done?
That looks like a good time to me! I like to see the structure of what I'm working with, and that's something that gets lost with text. But I agree that it makes debugging more demanding, since you can't just set breakpoints and so in the normal way; synchronization problems can be a headache. I think it's got a lot more in common with breadboarding/circuit design/

I do recommend checking out Flowstone, or its earlier incarnation Synthmaker, which allows programming in C and assembler as well as blackboxing modules. This seems like the best of both worlds in many respects.
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I wish South Bay included you know, San Jose
Weird - I did try that before writing the comment and it didn't work. May depend on the terminal or something.
I think mine is $2500. I'm thinking about raising it to the maximum. I'll just keep the deductible amount in my HSA.
I admittedly don't download much of the App Store's free crapware, but I've never once seen this happen. Do you have an examples of apps that refuse to run when you don't allow a unnecessary permission?
" He could even get a lawyer. "
The user is always…drunk?
Most of the computers in a defence facility are unclassified or restricted. The rules are different for secret/top secret.
In American English, slang for an insult is a "burn".

e.g.

"You got burned" = "You were insulted"

The poster was making a joke that the OP had been insulted because this other JavaScript board is superior or something, hence, he directed him to treatment centers for a "burn".

This is very common on reddit.
I read the book not long after it was first published and relatively early in my career.

What I found useful was not the spartan presentation. I do a lot of custom UI and data visualisation work these days, but even my plainest designs don't tend to be as extreme as many of Tufte's examples.

However, numerous projects I've worked on have been influenced by his underlying themes, like avoiding misleading presentation and unnecessary clutter, using graphics to convey patterns and relationships that wouldn't stand out from the raw data, and most of all how effective a customised or completely original presentation style can be depending on the nature of the data and what you're trying to illustrate.

Maybe if I read the book for the first time today I'd regard a lot of the ideas as obvious or trivial, just as I don't need to read another article on different types of colour scheme or how to choose well-matched fonts any more. For on-line use, where we have tools like colour and animation and interaction readily available, I certainly do things very differently. However, a lot of the way I look at data visualisation and graphical illustration today was no doubt shaped by reading Tufte early on, and so I give him the credit I feel is due.
Concentrating when uncomfortable is hard. Run a fan or live down the basement?

After a couple of summers in Washington, DC, I found that running in the daylight hours helped to acclimate me. I wanted to survive, so I made sure to figure out routes that are mostly in shade, but even so I can tolerate more heat than a lot of folks can.
Sorry..what's the significance of this (I feel like I'm missing something)?
Untrue. One of the first acts of the current administration was to ban waterboarding and other interrogation methods that are widely considered to be torture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding#Obama_administra...

The historical revisionism in this thread is nonsensical, I think you all know perfectly well that there's a sharp partisan divide on this issue.
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When I was at RIT in '02-'03 there were two companies doing this. Both of them shut down a couple of months after launching. After I graduated and moved back to Connecticut I found two services in the area that did this. They too both eventually shut down. This model seems to have a problem making enough to pay drivers.
> Of course, we're talking about a government that is in this predicament precisely because they just ignore the law when convenient.

No. The NSA surveillance is, at least putatively, permitted by the current laws in the US. You can argue about the appropriateness of the laws, even their constitutionality, but the NSA (and larger federal government) is almost certainly not ignoring the law in this case.
Virgin resell BT ADSL as a virtual ISP, like Tesco. It isn't just BT to the exchange, it is BT all the way if you cannot get cable and still go with Virgin.
You could have downloaded Xcode from the App Store, from within Xcode you can download the command line tools.

Sure it would have been a bigger download, but it is one route that would have worked and gotten you on your feet sooner.
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Yes, a very poorly chosen title.
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> and then a whole bunch of poorly thought out, wankerish features that can only serve to screw up your code base if some developer gets bored and makes the mistake of using them.

I'd love to see an example of that!
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While I'm obviously not aware of what the codes in place were in 1937, the American Concrete Institute (ACI) has been around since 1906 I believe. In addition, my comment is not in response to whether or not the building codes or inspectors back then knew what we now know about concrete (they obviously did not), my comment is in response to a modern day visitor like the post's author looking at something with a relatively straightforward explanation using today's engineering principles and calling it magic.
This rings true on so many levels.
If the general attorney has to step up to the podium and assure an American public that a whistleblower won't be killed or tortured you've got a country in dire straits.

Especially since it seems that not all Americans believe him.
Many countries refuse to extradite people if they face the death penalty or other extreme punishments. Given that the US has the death penalty at the federal level, an assurance that Snowden won't potentially die for the leaking is a plausibly necessary gesture.
The world would be a better place if we all embraced Tufte's driving principle of respecting people's intelligence, rather than assuming stupidity.

Going forward, Bret Victor's work does an utterly fantastic job of blending Tufte's principles with 21st century interactive technology.
Holder pretty much has to say this (because seriously, what is he going to say? "Go ahead and give him asylum, we'd just torture and execute him if we got him back."), but it's abundantly clear what the US Govt thinks of Snowden and his Constitutional rights (which, mind you, supersede any other part of the USC) [1][2].

This is an administration that has killed US citizens without due process, tortured prisoners, and deeply extended the grasp of the police state. We're supposed to trust that they'll just be nice guys and do the right and legal thing now?

[1] http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1318893

[2] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130714/00393923792/white-...
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Not to mention it's trivial to maintain a fork of the Go stdlib thank to its permissive license.
Or the Ad network code should handle this gracefully?
Don't worry there's plenty of VC to keep this thing going.

And on the off chance they make it work, everybody wins.

You don't really lose anything for other peoples failures (unless you're investing money you're not willing to lose)
Is there? http://www.salon.com/2007/12/09/democrats_9/

And solitary confinement is still fine, apparently. If people were waterboarded again, would anyone be punished? Maybe the private contractor doing it would be fined a portion of their annual profits. Maybe someone might step down -- down right into a private industry position or speaking tour. Seemingly every year since 2007 up to 2012, more and more people were pardoned for torturing. What's different in 2013?
The article never stated that they would do so.
Right, I realized that. I guess I don't grok what RapGenius and these annotations are about.
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Big-O (or Ω or Θ) notation is orthogonal to notions of best-case or worst-case, which are merely constraints on the set of inputs we're considering. If, for example, you ask "what is the upper bound on best-case running time for linear search," then what you're actually asking is "given an input sequence that begins with the item being searched for, what is the upper bound on the running time." I think part of the confusion stems from the fact that when people supply bounds on best- or worst-case running times for deterministic algorithms, they often use Big-O notation when they're actually giving an asymptotically tight bound. So in the case of linear search's best case, O(1) is an upper bound, but the lower bound is of the same order, i.e. Ω(1). It's not incorrect, but it can be misleading.

In the case of Quicksort, I think the answer to your question is yeah, pretty much. I mean, cases where you're dealing with nearly-sorted input are common in some domains and in that case you should be very much aware of the worst-case behavior of Quicksort, but otherwise I think the discussion from CLRS puts things in perspective: even if you had the bad luck of only ever receiving input sequences such that every partitioning led to a 99-to-1 split, then your running time is still going to be O(n lg n), since your recursion tree is going to be at most log-base-100/99(n) levels tall, which is the same as lg n / (lg 100/99), the denominator there being a constant factor that disappears in an asymptotic context.
His statement said nothing about using "enhanced interrogation methods" against Snowden.

By their own legal definition, the US government "tortures" no one. Water boarding, sensory deprivation, psychological torture, stress positions and starvation are not considered torture by the administration.
Not anymore it's not.

Reuters just does that from time to time.

I think it's similar to reddit's "uh oh you broke reddit" response, just a bit less user friendly.
As long as it accepts the + symbol in the Gmail address I'll be entering I'm happy for sites to use whatever they want.
With so many startups doing things similar to this (do local tasks, fetch food, deliver stuff, clean home, do laundry) -- I am wondering where and how they will all be able to hire local runners (lets not forget ebay, google and amazon also trying to get into this 'get it now' mania).

It might actually be a killer idea to employ these local runners -- and then get jobs from all these varied companies/startups. So, doordash, instacart, prim etc. could all contact you and use your workforce -- you essentially remove the headache of hiring, scheduling and logistics for these startups. But then -- what would be the point of all these startups -- you could just offer these services yourself if you owned the runners :)
Because ScaLAPACK has a cumbersome interface, poor internal design, relies on incorrect premises that affect performance (block cyclic vs. elemental cyclic), and is buggy. In contrast, Elemental is a joy to use and is almost always faster, often by a large margin (see the Elemental paper). Elemental is not a toy project by any means; it is already the basis for a large share of the interesting parallel linear algebra research and is used by many important applications. Jack is currently the best researcher/implementer in the direct linear algebra world. Anyone that knows me knows that I am a critical bastard that does not throw such praise around lightly.
What a ridiculous statement for a government official to make in a country that has sentences determined by a democratic court system.

How can Holder know what the punishment will be on top of what the jury will decide?
That's why it's important to use automated variables as much as possible, so one isn't bearing the burden. Any number of variables can be tracked automatically, it's the ones you have to do manually which become a chore and burn you out. My Zeo sleep data will never be a chore because all I have to do is put on the headband before I go to sleep which has long since become an automatic habit, while writing down my weight on an index card would become a serious irritant if I had to do 5 or 6 of them.
ITYM "Snowden is currently charged with"
The words you are looking for is "superseding indictment"

(admittedly, i only know CA/MD rules about this, and I know Fed Crim Procedure allows them, but i didn't look at when)
BBC version of the news available here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23468459.

Link to actual letter:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/26_07_13_attorney...

Edit: fixed typo
I'll point out that I worked at Google for 2 years. I don't have a degree at all, much less in Computer Science.
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This looks great! The wiki has some good starter configurations, based on other apps' defaults: https://github.com/evanescence/zephyros/wiki

Anyone know if there's a way to move apps between spaces? This is something that I've been missing in all the tools I've tried so far.
There are also economic and social benefits of buying further afield. It really depends on what you are buying.
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I.e. the attacker completely simulates the desired endpoint since they have the priv key, DNS and all? I think that makes sense indeed.
I think jmomo is referring to the way the cigar-smoking businessman introduces the game as a "psychosocial audiovisual experiment" or something with pretentious wording like that. I personally wasn't bothered by that because I didn't get the idea that the developers were making the claim seriously.
Well, not exactly true. They ignore the law until they can get someone to secretly reinterpret the law so that what they've done is no longer illegal.
Fantastic response.

This is the preceding request:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/20101221110342233.pdf
Awesome. I've met a few people in my own line of work through local Meetups. Can't believe I didn't think of that. Thanks a ton.
> Water boarding, sensory deprivation, psychological torture, stress positions and starvation are not considered torture by the administration.

Really? That's news to me. Can you point me to the AG memo or E.O. clarifying that waterboarding and stress positions are now again not considered torture?
>Wyden then asked Director Clapper, "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" He responded, "No, sir." Wyden asked "It does not?" and Clapper said "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertantly perhaps collect, but not wittingly."

>On July 1, 2013, Clapper issued an apology, saying that "My response was clearly erroneous – for which I apologize."
A quick followup on this post from a month ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5873730
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Thank you so much. If you're the same wallflower that ripens the events, just wanted to say thanks for that too.
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If you are looking for software which you can hide modification of the software by ripping out any feature that self-print the source code to the user, then yes, this is not the open source licensed software for you.

However, if your not trying to hide modifications by ripping out features, then hey, this might be useful software someone is offering you for free.
I had the chance to do this 1 year ago and it's usable (not as good as a real computer) but I think it would be a pain (not worth) to develop an app in a Virtual Machine
As a data point, I have no idea what you just said.
This sounds pretty much exactly the opposite of what I hear from pricing experts. Charge based on the value you provide to the person using your service, not based on your costs.

An easy system to post ebooks and charge for them is probably worth more to a person selling $200 ebooks rather than $100 ebooks.
> If people were waterboarded again, would anyone be punished?

Yes -- the whistleblower who said people were being waterboarded.
Utter bs... Obama and Holder have stated repeatedly that "enhanced interrogation" IS torture.

On January 22, 2009 President Obama signed an executive order requiring the CIA to use only the 19 interrogation methods outlined in the United States Army Field Manual on interrogations.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/EnsuringLawfulInt...
Be quiet.... a child of 3 is not fully ready for that.
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I'm in San Francisco and the person commissioning the project is also in SF. Thanks for the links.
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And my point is that even going through this legal reasoning is more work than just saying, "Fuck it, I'll use the MIT license."
For me, I support US manufacturers because I think a lot of American talent these days is wasted on zero-sum industries such as finance, and I would much rather we work on actually producing real value.
Compare this situation to the US government not considering events in Egypt to be what they are: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23351997.
Because there is a cap on what punishments are allowed, whether the jury likes it or not?

All Holder has to do is prevent his US Attorney from issuing charges where death penalty is an option and that part is dealt with. Torture is also not permissible anyways so it's kind of redundant having to mention it. If the police do torture Snowden at least one of the many judged in the district+appellant review chain will throw the case out completely and he's a free man (for example, see Ellsberg who had his charges thrown out for much much less than torture).
BBC article here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23467411
To be fair, that was a quote from the guy who wrote the commentary, not from Holder.
You like to get to use some software for free, but you also want to use it so others might not see your modifications.

How exactly is this different from GPLv2, if the web service you were writing was going to be shipped on a router? and why should you be allowed to use someone else code but then prevent others to see your modifications?
A contemptible apology. "Erroneous" strongly implies a mistake, and thereby adds another lie to the lie he's "apologizing" for.
Yeah, when I think South Bay, I think Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Campbell, Santa Clara, San Jose. They're missing over half of the "South Bay" at the least.

I think the doordash website more accurately defines the areas they serve as "Mountain View" and "Palo Alto".
Are there plausible charges that would carry the death penalty in a superseding indictment? Assuming you happen to know off hand, of course, don't want you wasting time to look it up.
Landscape full screen works after one or two revisits. But, ultimately the CSS needs to work regardless of window size.
Actually, they kind of are.

There are no cases directly on point, and they are arguing by analogy to existing cases where it was held retrieving small amounts of phone data about one or two individuals did not violate a reasonable expectation of privacy, and thus, not a search

This is not the same as "what they are doing is permitted by the current laws of the united states".

I'm aware folks like Orin Kerr think this doesn't make a doctrinal difference: http://www.volokh.com/2013/07/17/metadata-the-nsa-and-the-fo...

The thing is, he's an academic (prior to his current job, his job at the DOJ CCIP division was being an expert in those notices you see when you access government computer systems). He likes to think in academic terms about whether things should matter. For example, he also believed the "mosaic theory" was a bunch of bullshit and would be struck down by every level right up until the supreme court fully endorsed it (see, e.g, http://www.volokh.com/2010/08/06/d-c-circuit-introduces-mosa... and other posts)

So while i certainly trust his view of "the state of the caselaw as it currently exists", i take his view of "what a court is likely to decide" with a huge grain of salt. On that front, IMHO, he's been wrong more than he's been right.

For example, when he says "If obtaining pen register information on one user is not a search, the obtaining that pen register information for 100 or 10,000 or 1,000,000 or more users is still not a search. Katz tells us that the Fourth Amendment protects “people, not places,” and it’s not clear how surveillance that is not a search when provides information about one person can become a search when it provides information about many."

This tells you everything you need to know. It is a typical ivory tower viewpoint.
He doesn't see how a judge is going to decide that there is some line that has been crossed when you do something to a million people instead of 1. As the saying goes, "bad facts make bad law". If everything was doctrinal and academic, bad facts wouldn't matter.

FWIW: The FISA authorization is completely and totally irrelevant in this case. Entirely. The fact that the FISA court said "sure, whatever" does not make something legal, only authorized, because they are not ruling on a constitutional challenge, only the validity of a search warrant. These are not the same, no matter how much the government wants it to be.

This is the same as a valid search warrant that later turns out to have been facially invalid; It is not a legal search warrant that has "gone bad". It is illegal. It was authorized, but illegal.
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Thank you lorenzo for the reply. Be sure to ping me when you complete your App. I'll probably be in the market for an app of some time in about 3 months.