skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to be some of the usual Reality Distortion Field in effect by someone who feels they really appreciate and understand who Jobs was and what his inner-most thoughts are.
I'm surprised he's not railing against LabView and Origin too.
> there must be a ton of stuff that doesn't really do what its supposed to but people buy anyway.

This is one of the reasons I make sure I know how everything I own works. That, and the good ol' hacker ethic.
bandcamp.com does this far, far better. Sorry - I won't trust most musicians to encode their own files properly.
Yeah, this is definitely the way to go. Create lots of groups that people can import the ones they want.
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I also did psychophysics in Matlab. However, the author conveniently does not mention the wide variety of toolkits available for psychophysics in Matlab ... e.g. http://psychtoolbox.org/HomePage
Any reason for CSV instead of JSON?
Many things he shows are 'clever' and have a high density of meaning, but it doesn't mean it's intuitive.

Here's an admittedly elitist view: If _We_, HN readers, think its clever or neat, it's probably over the heads of the average audience.
Of course the one thing I most want restored is on the list that still isn't (pre-release docs). I'm trying to roll some iOS 7 fixes into an update and would love dearly to be able to see the docs on the status bar changes.
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I'm glad to see the high usage of Bandcamp.
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I'm as autodidactic as they come (high school drop out, self-taught in math, comp sci, psychology) and I to think this is elementary stuff.

The correct way to "understand these things" is to learn the math, the theory, and do the exercises.

Would you take a scientist seriously if they didn't understand what the scientific method was?

You're right. English is not the tool to use here in explaining theory, it's not capable of it. Mathematics and programming languages are!
Yeah, I have two friends who were both long term cigarette smokers quit after using e-cigs for a short period of time.

My understanding is that without the free-based nicotine in most (all?) commercial tobaccos, the addictive nature of smoking is significantly reduced.

Interestingly, one of those friends is now able to smoke socially at will. Flipped some addiction trigger or something. I would love to see a study on this.
PlainSite does this. You can tag lawyers with "Patent NPEs" (or anything else), see which lawyers are tied to patent assignments, and see which lawyers represent plaintiffs and defendants in patent litigation cases. On any lawyer's or law firm's profile you can also see a list of their clients.
I presume he could also have refused to answer.
I'd imagine (haven't seen the movie yet) that Wozniak has a problem with the way they potrayed him in the movie. It's not to far out there that the movie would try to showcase him as a quite, naive, computer guy. Hollywood tends to always do that when portraying hackers.
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Not so. A larger percentage of donations have little to do with the individual views and predilections of representatives, and a tremendous amount to do with the committees on which they sit. Not only is there a a precisely defined hierarchy of assignments (ranked according to much money they're expected to bring in), but the allocation of these seats is handled to ensure the overall viability of the party. So for instance, a junior representative from a swing district will be assigned to a high-dollar committee, on the assumption that this will give him access to a higher volume of donor funds, and make his seat more defensible. What he thinks, personally, is irrelevant. What he oversees is what matters. And if he squanders the opportunity given to him by his party's bosses, he'll be kicked out of that seat, and see it handed to a representative who has the motivation and mercenary disposition required to exploit it fully.

Some committees have negative value. That is to say, sitting one one signals a lack of influence, making assignment to these Congressional Siberias a real damper in the dialing-for-dollars game that these folks play, if not all day, then at least every day. Interestingly the Science & Technology Committee is one of these. Any actually valuable science and tech (e.g. telecommunications) is handled elsewhere. The grim consolation in seeing total anti-science idiots getting assigned to these committees is that it indicates that even Congress doesn't take them seriously. The optics are terrible, of course, but that's another matter.
> We do know that any level of tobacco use is harmful to the mother and harmful to the child.

Every child born to a smoking mother is "harmed"? Depends on the definition of "harmed" I suppose.
It's a library meant to be used in your Go application, it's not going to have a man page. It already has API documentation: http://godoc.org/github.com/golang/groupcache
When I started to read this, I felt embarrassed and exposed, maybe little taken aback. But I'm really glad I came across this article. I'm in a weird place between a cynical bastard and depressed kid, and this kind of helped. Thanks.
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Chromecast has experimental support for casting your entire screen. http://cl.ly/image/300S200N3h2x

Results:
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The imperative one scales alright, into an un-maintainable nightmare of bugs.

The problem is that the imperative model places the entire burden in the programmers head (even when it may not even be code you wrote!) whereas the Haskell version makes everything explicit.
Oracle is not just a database company anymore.
"When a patent troll serves you with a lawsuit, you need to review the lawsuit as quickly as possible to determine if your company is infringing the patent referenced in the lawsuit."

Doing this with an attorney goes without saying. This isn't a jr league blog.
I'm self taught too. Pick up Knuths books and start going through them, stop and learn the math if you don't understand it. His first book in particular begins with some mathematical foundations that will dramatically change how you reason about your programs.

This stuff isn't scary. It's thick but learnable and you can even develop an appreciation for its elegance.
It's not remotely a tautology, because you're assuming that any breaking of a traffic rule is dangerous when that just isn't true. Ever seen a 'no u-turns' section in the dead of night with no cars in sight? There's plenty of times and places where traffic rules can be safely broken, and there are times when police have to respond in a timely but not urgent manner.

For example, frequently with theft, they'll take a while to get to the location where it was reported - this is because the one place the criminal is not at is the site of the theft. So they drive around the location for a bit, sirens off so as not to alert the criminal, and see if they find anything suspicious. Then they can come in to do the report after the scout around.

If you honestly cannot think of a situation where police need to respond without using sirens or breaking traffic rules, then I would suggest you're not close enough to understanding what the job entails to be passing comment on their procedures.
Sure, the crazy symbolic operator overloading and a bunch of libraries that encourage you do do things like a :=: b and have it mean something.

Also, there's something about the net sum of the type system where it feels like there are a lot of concepts at work and it's easy to get lots with what type something is, exactly, especially if you didn't write the code and you're just skimming it.
I feel sorry for people like you, who feel sorry for others because they don't want to live their lives exactly like you think they should.
I think the real failure here is the belief that the majority of people need to pass for something to be worthwhile. It doesn't seem likely that online learning will work better for everyone, but I strongly suspect that it will work better for some subset of people. In the long run, personalization will be extremely important in education.

Have you ever had a great teacher you really engaged with, but also heard from other people that they didn't really like the teacher? For myself, I'd say that I've found that only about 5% of teachers are actually engaging, with depressingly few of those before college. Imagine if you had a personal learning profile built up over your education, so that over time you were matched with the best possible (world-class) instructor for your learning style for every class. I'd bet most of the people here were near the top of their class; imagine never having to slow down for anyone, and automatically skipping reinforcement you don't need, so you can learn and advance as quickly as you are able. I think some people respond best to coursera style lectures, others respond better to Udacity-style continuous socratic method lessons, while others respond better to group work and discussion. Why bother trying one-size-fits-all solutions, when technology can allow for direct personalization. My Netflix experience isn't like anyone else's, why should my education.

I think there is actually a great opportunity to build a platform business in this space, where different instructors can design and build different types of courses. Imagine 20 different calculus courses, but the student only sees one. The best lessons are cherry-picked for them, and the curriculum and delivery is tailored to the rate that they are learning. I'd really like to build something like that, if anybody else wants to give it a shot, shoot me an email.
This is encouraging. I love Haskell. I think if a 14-year-old ask me to teach him or her programming, I just might start with Haskell instead.

I think it also suggests that math concepts are not taught properly either. We tend to focus on the mathematical operations rather than the abstractions. (Khan Academy is a good counter example). It would be interesting to see a combined CS (with Haskell) course taught in tandem with math. At the high school I went to, there were several courses like that (calculus + physics, or American History + American Lit).
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We had backups. The cost was the lost productivity during the time taken to restore from backups, the direct cost for IT Support to do so and the per megabyte cost to download the restored files from box.
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> If cops have to break the law to save someone then the law is at fault.

Yes, this is precisely the point. Zero-tolerance assumes that the law cannot be at fault, when we know full well that it can be. Ergo, until the law is perfect and unerring, zero tolerance is flawed.
Of course the passive income bootstrappers are getting slammed all day today on HN, the VCs don't make any money off of them.

So hey, maybe you had an awesome idea and some ambition to build a company, you can be your own boss! Nah, just sell your soul to some investors, then you can have a master all over again just like you wanted.
When incognito doesn't work, you can usually get the piece by Googling the title. Google almost always returns a link that bypasses the paywall.

Posters post these links because the content is unavailable any other way. HN would be poorer without any stories from the NYT and WaPo, inconvenient as this all is.
That looks very interesting. Thanks for the link.
The whole book is like that, the author is a douche (or presents himself as one) and the entire concept is to find some area where you can sell an info product or get away with reselling something for an 88% margin, and hire VAs to do the majority of the workload.

It has some great ideas on marketing, though.
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It's unfortunate you've read my post as a claim to avoid actually learning these.

I was pointing out that the "x is elementary" attitude doesn't help the process and I thought (from the video at least) some empathy in communication is warranted. It's ridiculous to expect clarity when no such thing exists in the language used to describe an idea in the first place. The OP went to the trouble of making such a post. Maybe it wasn't perfect, but it gets the ball rolling.

Whatever inadequacies can be corrected with feedback and I for one would like to see more people engage in humane explanations for things pertaining to their expertise.

Big-O is "technical". Understanding of it comes with clear explanations.

No where did I claim anything contrary to : "The correct way to "understand these things" is to learn the math, the theory, and do the exercises." What I claimed was that language can soften the barrier to learning these as I imagine it did for you.
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"Zero tolerance" is essentially a legitimate sounding way to reject "Let the punishment fit the crime."
It isn't about replacing in person instruction with online. It is about making college courses available to anyone.

At the turn of the 20th century, my grandfather certainly could not afford college. He did what people at the time did who wanted to get a college degree - he took it by correspondence (by mail).

He liked it enough that he started a business selling correspondence courses. He met my grandmother through selling her engineering courses (she was a mechanic for the phone company).

Online courses are just a modern version of that.
I think the author buried the lead... Let's say 40% passed. At 7.5% of the cost of normal tuition, I would say this is a net positive. The students who passed have course credits and saved over 93% what they normally would have spent and the students who did not pass were able to see if college is right for them, without being destroyed by debt.

Not that the author's views are without merit, but this feels like it was warped into a story about greedy university administrators and profit-blind venture capitalists.
I wonder how much the massive adoption of zero tolerance policies has to do with the name "zero tolerance" itself. It sounds indisputable. Why should we tolerate things like weapons or drugs in schools? Those things are bad. If you're against "zero tolerance" of them, it sounds like you're in favor of tolerating them.

The truth is that there are many ways of not tolerating those things, and "zero tolerance" is an extreme one that causes harm. If it were named more accurately—"extreme enforcement", say—this would be easier to see.
Zuckerberg’s Wealth Soars $3.8 Billion in 1 day
The government having access to your financial data is a prerequisite for a functioning tax system. If you are audited, the IRS has the right to look inside your bank accounts.

The policies (or location) of online budgeting tools are entirely irrelevant. Hiding financial data from the government involves well established trades dating to long before the internet (or PRISM): money laundering and tax evasion.
http://toontalk.com/ has also seen success with preliterate children. (http://www.toontalk.com/English/papers.htm has some stuff on that, which I haven't read. I have read about the language design and thought it interesting.)
Matlab was my first real programming language. I guess the real "power" of Matlab is the collection of toolboxes (which carry a separate price tag for each) and the graphing capabilities and built-in vector functions that are easy to use. I think it was conveniently entrenched because it was the cheaper than Mathematica(?), I can't be too sure but there weren't many alternatives with a similar set of features.
Enabling Exchange account on your iOS makes the device pwned
Seems like a lot of people are not aware of this "feature".
I started on VB. The whole "it rots your brain" argument is complete bullshit - there's nothing to keep you motivated through the hours (years) of work it takes to become a good developer like a programming language that lets you create a functional GUI in a few hours.
"Larry and Sergey are engineers at heart with good intentions." [2012]
Going off anecdotal data here I wouldn't assume cause goes one way or the other. It's certainly possible TallGuyShort was able to/wanted to learn to program as a child because he enjoyed precise language.
Carmack said he was tempted to teach his son Haskell; I'm not sure it was a joke.
Yeah—seems to be much faster. Maybe all those server upgrades were long overdue!
Wow, that whole blog is focused on bashing Matlab. I find it a little difficult to trust a source that biased. If they can't find something good in a product that has been around for, according to wikipedia, something like 30 years, then that source shouldn't be trusted. I searched around to see if I could find something about the author but didn't see anything. Curious to see what their reasoning is.
Second this. I've been wanting to use RapGenius for our engineering blog.
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Until 1947, the United States had a Secretary of War. Now we have a Secretary of Defense. A lot can be hidden in a name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_War
Hey, I'm in TX, too (Fredericksburg, though I used to be in Lubbock and Amarillo)... I found that about 8mos of stupid job BS was all I cold take. I haven't had a W2 job in 5 years, though I did spend 6mos getting screwed as a "1099" 9-5 on-site "contractor".

It really isn't hard to find a normal salary level of freelance gigs if you like working with other people making software, though you do have to want to do it and you have to be both open minded and (oddly) selective about the kinds of projects you take on. Not to mention that you do have to send out a lot of feelers and try and learn how to read prospective situations.

Most of what I do isn't as nice as adding features to FOSS projects, but it's fun in the same way.

... just an attempt to encourage you to freelance (even if you take a job first). To be honest, it doesn't take "social engineering"... it just takes a while to learn how to present yourself better than the alternatives and learn it as a business (it took me about 2 years). I work 3-6 billable hours a day, and spend the rest of my 8-10 hour work day (when I don't have a gig or go hiking) learning new stuff (which I find fun).

Personally, I like freelance developing a lot more than "passive income" strategies... I spend a lot of time working for people trying to flesh out those strategies, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But I think I have more fun, and will keep on this path until doing it when I'm 75 doesn't sound appealing.
> Enabling Exchange account on your iOS makes the device pwned

Using Exchange ActiveSync allows the device to be remotely wiped. Don't like it? It's your iOS device. Don't use ActiveSync.

At my job, part of the process of enabling ActiveSync on a personal device is signing a document that says you understand what "Remote Wipe" means.

If you don't sign it you'll get a company Blackberry/Android.

Honestly I consider remote wipe a very useful feature. In addition to whatever if-it-phones-home-we'll-nuke-it-from-orbit capabilities that iCloud provides, my own personal email is via a hosted Exchange provider and I can remote wipe my devices through it if I want.
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This article and a lot of the articles on the San Jose State are all of over the map when it comes to improving MOOCs: more TAs, more focus on the content, etc. They do, however, share one major thing: that half of the kids failing the SJSU class is, in fact, a problem that we need to fix.

What?

What about the other half of the kids? Think about it. This was an online class, with presumably very little (if any!) vetting of the students, with little or no supervision (they didn't even know a lot of the kids didn't have computers until three weeks in!), and a whole 50% didn't fail? I mean, this isn't a failure, this is a revolution.

Let's face it, these courses aren't designed to signal anything more than competency and --arguably-- the only way to actually display your competency to the world is to have not everyone pass. Because imagine if everyone did pass? You would go to your future employer and say, "Yeah, so, I took this course, online, where not a single person failed, and it's obvious that I'm competent, because they have this, ya know, innovative learning algorithm." If everyone passed than you might as well do MIT OCW. Which, by the way, is the exact same thing as a library, which we've had in every modernized municipality on the planet for 200 years.

No, online education is to regular education as the CFA is to an MBA. What is it, like 30% of people pass the CFA? Yeah, 30%! But no one is clamoring about how the CFA needs to be fixed. Quite the opposite--it's the gold standard. And not only that, it's downright democratic: anyone can take it in the world, and if you are in fact one of the ones that pass, the certification really does mean something. I mean, people put CFA after their name!

That's the future in online education. Not prestige, not A-'s and B+'s, and not feel-good relationships with professors: no, it's cold-hard certifications and frankly it's a godsend.
I always feel sorry for people who make statements like, "my work isn't my life"

We don't want your pity. I enjoy my work, but it isn't my life, because you know what? Aside from sleep and work, I have another perfectly good 8 hours a day that I elect to spend on things completely different from my day jobs.

So while work is half of my life, work is not my life, and I do not intend to let it become my life.
It's rather unclear from your example that f(n) is in fact itself a description of the runtime of an algorithm, not an algorithm itself.
It's mainly changed my life on weekends, when I'm with my kids all day. I tend not to eat very well (eat junkfood/graze - anything quick!) because I'm not very good at finding the time to cook something for myself. When DoorDash delivered Oren's hummus/veggie skewers to me on a Saturday, I was so excited that I think I told Paul it changed my life.
Doesn't the notion that [any system less complex than the cosmos] is never wrong violate one of the incompleteness theorems anyway?
Ah! I didn't see all that (I blame the phone). This I could definitely see myself being interested in. It's like a Jawbone Up or those Nike bands, except for us nerds.

Have you made any progress or is it still in the planning stages? Give me a chrome Web app, throw my data into one of the many readily available machine learning services, tell me I'm stressed and then present me with Groupons for smoothies and shit.

I think this is an excellent idea. As the lead for about a half dozen developers is encourage you to go after business accounts too. One of my guys not pulling his weight? Is the young guy's activity showing signs of late nights and alcohol abuse? A lot of problems can fly under the radar when they are easy to solve. This service could help managers get back in tune with the pulse of their employees.
If you put your email in your profile I'll intro you to someone who might be able to give you advice.
That "maybe" aspect you list at the end is a huge advantage! You say that you don't see an improvement on the other structure, then list the killer improvement!
Don't think it's that recursive. If you run for office, and an embarassing photo or phone call from the past is "leaked" anonymously to ruin your chances, you cannot turn around and leak something on intelligence community.