skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think we're talking about the same thing. My parents' financial planner is not even slightly involved in picking stocks. His advice was on how to structure our family's savings, which included buying and holding an index fund and pulling the college UTMA account my grandpa started out of whatever instrument it was in.

Unlike someone who worked for a bank or an index fund, though, he didn't have a perverse incentive to sell us one of his company's products.
I like this translation of the FAQ into plumbing and carpentry services as an analogy that makes things easier to understand for non-software people (especially the one about RV plumbing that makes it clear that the buyer is liable for use tax for all use of the RV's plumbing within Massachusetts).

http://repealtheitservicetax.com/2013/08/02/plumbing-and-car...
At least a few thousand people die from the flu each year.[0] I've just been responding to your original post. You said "delirious", which is an actual, serious medical condition associated with high fever and dehydration.[1] Then you told people to "sweat it out", which is a myth.[2] I'm just trying to correct some of these misconceptions so someone doesn't read it and think that being delirious is completely normal and you should try to lose even more fluids.

[0]: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/us_flu-related_deaths.h...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium

[2]: http://www.insweb.com/health-insurance/5-common-flu-season-h...
I'm no fan of fighting these things with technology and workarounds as I believe these issues need to be addressed at the legal level and the technology battle is just an arms race that you can never win.

However, might be a good idea to write a mobile app that changes your MAC address periodically (not sure how hard it is)
I was comparing LAPACK to the C library: nobody claims it is weird to use the C library, written > 30 years ago, instead of using something 'more modern'. Everybody uses the C library for system/low level programming, the same is true in numerical computing w.r.t. blas/lapack. Numpy/scipy use it, R use it, julia use it, matlab use it, octave use it.
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>We need more direct democracy, more referendums,

Have a look at the history of referendums in Norway, in 1916 they voted to ban alcohol, just to vote 10 years later to bring back the booze ..
Just downloaded the (64 bit) iso and tried a live session. Looks very nice. Works fine on Thinkpad X200s.

How do I make the terminal background solid? I can't read the terminal when open over another window. I could not discover any way of changing the settings in the terminal application.
The dominating factor in whether your web application is secure or not will not be whether you choose to write it in .NET or Rails.
The world's most powerful computers lack the common sense of a toddler
numpy allows you to do some pretty low level stuff (like creating buffer from a raw pointer), which GAE wants to avoid for obvious security issues. Same rationale as why ctypes (parts of the stdlib) is not available.

I have never used numpy on GAE, but I would suspect some of it is not enabled for those reasons.
The site appears to have Google Analytics placed multiple times into its source code. This messes up tracking and artificially dramatically drops bounce rates.

In my experience working with content sites, the real bounce rate reduction you see in moving from shorter articles to longer ones is closer to 5% or so - from, say, 77% to 72%. Still dramatic, but not nearly as dramatic as the drop you'll get by double-inserting GA code.
Thanks for the warning, I'll now be disabling wifi when I'm walking around in London (and other British cities, just in case.)
It's more plausible, not less, that divine inspiration is reflected in the vote of a group than in a single man's decision. Like a multiple sensor array, the noise in a single instrument (and the risk of its corruption) can't cause the whole to fail to detect the signal.
Just checked, and they don't seem to have anything dealing with this.

Though a quick search has led me to find TIF Projection Reports for Chicago[0] from searching "debt obligation" in metro Chicago data [1], but I can't seem to find any past dealings (not sure how to look for it). I want to try to put the revenue generated from taxes (across different sectors if possible), servicing of obligations, population changes, and projected obligations in perspective, and compare to other cities/municipalities/states.

[0] https://data.cityofchicago.org/Community-Economic-Developmen...

[1] https://www.metrochicagodata.org/browse?limitTo=datasets&q=d...
You are right! But let's do it the proper way

{-# RULES
"product/1" forall x. product [1..x] = product [2..x]
#-}

fac n = product [1..n]
You could probably write C++ code in C#, Java and PHP, but it would be hideous. I've seen Fortran written in C, and Pascal written in C++, and C written in Java, and it's generally an unholy mess.
Google Analytics can track pages and average time spent on page. It can even track visitors flow.

Everyone should get an analytics account and see the insane amount of things that Google can track for YOU, for FREE with just three lines of extra code on your page.
Not a bad idea, I'm sure you will get funded if you put this on kickstarter my only thing is don't go with Ruby on Rails or is that your main skill?. Ruby on Rails is not something a beginner will understand it really just seems like magic as opposed to PHP and MySQL. I definitely recommend you try PHP since that will give beginners a great opportunity to understand and follow along it also gives a high level overview of what is really going on under the hood of server-side scripting.
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Yeah, you try setting fire to a bin in the City of London. See how far you get.
FluentAutomation creator here if anyone has questions. I'm very excited about the potential for testing, especially for .NET developers. Any feedback would be great.
A defense against FOI requests is that it would cost too much to collect the data - the logic being that companies/governments shouldn't be legally obliged to spend significant money just because someone put in an awkward request.

Of course, in this case, I still think they should reallocate some of the their budget and upgrade the email system :/
For anyone trying to determine how they can help: make a phone call. Politicians care about phone calls infinitely more than tweets or Change.org signatures. If enough people call the DoR (617-887-MDOR) and their MA representative with complaints, it's very possible that something could change.
I live in Mass, but my consulting company is in CT. My current client is in MA and I do some work for them on site.

I read the law and best I can tell, I don't qualify for this. It seems to be centered around "pre-written" packaged software. I'm writing it right now, so how can it be "pre-written"?

I won't pay this tax until I hear a valid argument that doesn't start with "Well, to be safe...". I'm not paying the state protection money to be safe from vagueness of their laws.
Mac OS X is my primary OS. I also have to run quite a lot of VM's. I have been running eOS since beta 1. It's by far & away my favourite Linux distro.

Whilst some of the designs are similar and may offer some familiarity to OS X users initally. The user experience is very different and has clearly been well thought out and crafted. My only gripe is the time between updates/releases otherwise I'm a happy user of OS X and eOS.
Startup problems to solve.
I'm in favor. I was surprised and annoyed to find there wasn't a standard library for doing excel-level statistics. If you throw basic least-squares linear regression in there too, I can eliminate Excel from my physics classes.
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Do you know what's the backstory?
I read somewhere recently about companies buying up this MAC address data from individual shops and using it as an additional profiling source. If you walk into a store and end up purchasing something, then your MAC would be linked to any payment details. At which point, the profiling company would know who you are, and where you go.

I started writing a small proof-of-concept android app to randomise the WIFI MAC to make it more difficult to track a phone and its owner. The android API doesn't support changing the MAC, so it requires a rooted phone.

Mostly working code can be found at: https://github.com/d5ve/RandoMAC

It's made tricky by being unable to change the MAC whilst the WIFI is enabled, and re-enabling the WIFI resets the MAC back to the hardware one. Also by my total inexperience with android apps and java.
But isn't that the same as the automatic redirect you have in Wordpress when you change the URL of the post anyway? I'm trying to understand if there's any advantage to having this number stub over how WP redirects the URL's, but I don't think there is one. You're still going to get redirected links either way.
To be fair, this is not really Persona's responsibility. Pre-Persona, if you used the same email address on every signup, you already enabled this sort of tracking. With Persona, you'd have to take the same precaution of having multiple Personas if you wanted multiple personas :).

Also some people do want a single identity for the entire Internet, or at least a lot of it. Many people use the same real-name identifiers on HN, Github, LinkedIn, etc. professionally.
...how to represent missing or discrete variables...

Don't. Just say no. Just give me the simple easy stuff. Most of us will be fine, and everyone else will know they need something better and won't bother.
Since Ruby and Rails are completely open sourced, there are no backdoors involved.... But every now and then some critrical bugs occur.

After all the fun we had with the NSA lately, and the stories of eg. skype calling home with your (at least) https:// links posted in the chat... Do you trust microsoft that every single piece of their softwarestack has no backdoors? Oh, and security patches for .NET are released regulary, so there are enough bugs, too.

This is my current opinion as you asked for it.
Geez, thanks for that truly insightful comment!

I'm a CISSP and CISM and a Ruby/Rails developer. I practice secure coding techniques and know the benefits of security testing.

What I'm asking, if it isn't obvious, is which has more outstanding vulnerabilities. I'm also asking for opinions on the _current_ security of each.
Random performance note: in the default lua interpreter, the fastest objects are the ones implemented as closures. Unfortunately, it has higher memory requirements and is rather ugly.
Academia (meaning anything post-masters) has a very nuanced understanding of the word "novel". Skimming through the paper (linked below) it seems that the novel part is that they "show that the amount of information about the future has a signiﬁcant impact on system performance, in the heavy-traﬃc regime." Not Elon Musk-novel perhaps, but definitely academia-novel.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0618
Photos, Texts, And Emails Show The Alleged Betrayal At The Heart Of Snapchat
I have been a VLC user on Windows for years. I've actually stuck with VLC 1.1.5 for 2 reasons:

1. It plays any local video I throw at it. Other people tell me "It doesn't play some of my videos" but I haven't seen this actually occur. Or when I do, it's because they're using a newer version of VLC which has removed support or changed processing. VLC has terrible license problems and awful feature creep. I had some .mkv files which didn't play correctly, so I downgraded from 1.1.10 to 1.1.5, and they play just fine. That's right, the 3-year old player plays the newest .mkv files much better than the 2-year old player or the newest player.

And unlike mplayer, mplayer2, wmp, and most other players out there, you don't have to goto some random website and download some random codec pack, and install it with who knows what malware.</FUD> All the codecs are included with the program.

Reading this github doesn't tell me why I should use mpv instead of vlc 1.1.5. Actually, it tells me I'll have to go find these random codec packs again, opening myself to possible CSRF attacks and other malware from poorly-secured or malicious codec providers. I'm already trusting the media player install package to not be evil, and I'd rather only have to trust 1 install package instead of it and several codec install packages.

2. I actually downgraded from VLC 2.0 to 1.1.10 because of VLC's terrible responsiveness. I don't know what changed, but it has made VLC 2.0 too annoying to use. The delay is a second or 2, which is a second or 2 longer than it used to be, and a second or 2 longer than it needs to be. When I go from a quiet video to a loud video, and I roll the mousewheel to lower the volume, that volume change needs to happen immediately, not after a 1-2 second delay.

I like that responsiveness is one of the bullet points.

I would have downloaded it and tried it out, but I don't know how to make this on Windows.
A quibble about implied agency:

Although Wales serves as a sort of public face of Wikipedia and has some persuasive authority, the headline implies (the article less so) that he's running the show, i.e. in a position where he could "agree" or "refuse" to comply with censorship on behalf of Wikipedia. He used to make those kinds of decisions, but has long since turned over control to a more stable, less benevolent-dictator-for-life kind of setup. Nowadays policy is ultimately set by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees (where he's one of ten trustees), and day-to-day decisions would be up to the Wikimedia staff, in consultation with people on wikis and the mailing lists, overseen by executive director Sue Gardner.

In any case, I do think he is accurately conveying the general sentiment held by all those parties, so the substance of the article is right. But I think the current setup actually makes that view even stronger, because even if Wales somehow changed his mind and argued for censorship being the least-bad option, he would probably have a hard time pushing that through; hence Wikipedia's position doesn't depend on any one person.
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The US doesn't have "Internet security" to speak of...
I use KeyRemap4Macbook to control the Razer functions on my Mac. I refuse to install their crapware/spyware.

https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/
Better still:

do
local move = {
[Direction.up] = View.Up,
[Direction.left] = View.Left,
[Direction.right] = View.Right,
[Direction.down] = View.Down
}

function View.move(self, direction) move[direction](self) end
end
If you are writing totally custom software, you are exempt (IANL -- but, it's pretty clear in the FAQ). If you customize pre-written software, you might have to collect/report tax (that's where it's vague what customize exactly means).

Using a library isn't customizing, according to the FAQ -- as long as the work done to use it is < 10% of the total project. So, if you take 5 months to write an iPhone App, then you need some library, and you download it and add it to your project in 2 days, you are ok. If you were worried, you could line-item it out and charge tax on just that work.
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If you're used to the Windows interface more, I'd recommend Zorin OS:

http://zorin-os.com/
Mind scrubbing your database.yaml and making a gist? I'm new to rails
Haha. Genius!
While the HN community understood that, my mother was never going to grasp the idea of ownership of a URL as a login credentials. Many people don't even understand URLs and just Google for everything they want.

Email addresses have been used as login credentials for a while, so people are used to that. The explanation of Persona might be a little weird, but it's not as totally disabling to a nontechnical user as being asked to sign in with OpenID.
Oh sure, this is called working with the data you have.
It is an open secret that compliance in the US with use taxes is nearly zero.

Yes, but at least in MA, they pay when they get audited. Small companies may not be complying without audits, but anyone big enough to use invoice processing software is probably complying -- or at least, is actively ignoring prompts from their software to comply -- which controller/accountants/CPAs don't usually like to do.
Well, Thunderbird has the add-on called "Enigmail" which makes it easy. AFAIK there's no key directory integrated, but then again, is a key directory really a good idea? It adds another attack vector.

And then of course, this only "solves" the email problem, unlike darknet solutions.
…and make yourself into Weev II.
It is critical to understand what you are measuring. I see misunderstanding constantly, particularly with GA. Were events being fired prior, because they are now. That alone could account for this behavior.

There are many nuances in regard to how metrics are measured in GA. It is often the case that people think it is measuring one thing, when it is measuring something completely different. I've posted this before, but this GitHub project explains/addresses some of it: https://github.com/rockymadden/gap
So you're saying it's a guide for psychiatrists to push bills to insurers, not pull bills from them?
> It's too bad Mozilla dropped support for Thunderbird.

Enigmail seems to work well. At least as far as I can tell, I haven't had much of a chance to use it as I don't know anybody that uses PGP either.
This would be useful if the distribution of downloads/app were a bell curve (meaning being "average" was actually common). I doubt it is.
Another option using zopfli is pngtastic (disclaimer, my own project): https://github.com/depsypher/pngtastic

It really is significantly slower, but if you want to reduce every last byte in a png zopfli is your best bet.
Another reason to license software not sell it.
Of course the article is correct about
US Federal Government funding of
DARPA and NIH (and NSF) being the
major source of research and
innovation.

One question is why, that is, why
don't private industry, VC funded
startups, etc. do more with applied
research and innovation?

My view of the main reason is that
private industry, especially nearly
all of finance for the funding
(YC is an exception), are not qualified
to evaluate such projects. So,
such organizations
don't. Likely also hurts is that
the VC limited partners are likely
much less well qualified to do such
project evaluations than the VCs
and, thus, insist on criteria
for VC investment that rule out
evaluating
applied research or
anything non-trivial in technology
(or making significant
use of such evaluations in funding decisions).
Instead, the LPs, and, thus, the
VCs, mostly want to see 'traction'
in the market.

In the past, that approach worked
because a VC could be fairly sure
that a good project that did get some
good traction would still knock on
the doors of the VCs for 'go to market'
or 'expansion' capital (forgetting that
insisting on only such late funding would
reduce the number of projects that
did get to such traction). But now,
as in PG's latest essay, can do
some information technology (IT)
startups for less than the cost
of renovating a bathroom. So,
with such low costs, and likely
low burn rate, we should, in time,
see some major IT startup successes that
never took equity funding and were
just 'bootstrapped' and have
100% ownership by one person.

Likely another reason is that people
with the backgrounds to get
funding by DARPA, NIH, or NSF
are quite reluctant to
pursue startups.

So, net, it looks like there are
some especially good chances for
Ph.D. degree holders with money
enough to renovate a bathroom
to do a startup and become a
billionaire! We will see.
I've had good fun playing around with this, it's certainly made NLP more approachable.

One issue though is that it seems to choke with certain characters.

For instance the character £ it seems to complain with this error message:

>>> TextBlob("£")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/eterm/nlp/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/text/blob.py", line 340, in __repr__
return unicode("{cls}('{text}')".format(cls=class_name, text=self.raw))
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)
American healthcare is already cheap? Compared to what industrialized nation? Every metric out there shows this to be wrong. Instead of talking the abstract "healthcare", instead talk about the cost of individual procedures.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/07/hi...

Regarding "one-size fits all programs destroying themselves", please explain to me how Obamacare is a one size fits all scheme? It's a conservative policy, designed by the Heritage Foundation think-tank on K Street in DC. (I have a buddy who works at the Heritage Foundation. They all loved Obamacare when Romney was implementing it, and were disappointed that it was only for a single state at the time. Suddenly when President Blackenstein was implementing it, it became evil and socialist.

Frankly, Obamacare isn't the best solution. I would have much preferred a national, single payer system coupled with private providers, like the system in Canada. You know, the one that has vastly higher approval ratings among its patients than the one in the US. But no, the Republicans scared the old people into thinking they would lose their free, socialist medical care if people under 65 got in on the action, so we got stuck with insurance subsidies.
It ONLY tracks the latter if they click on another page. A huge difference.
I have that restaurant problem now. Only $30-$40 fancy restaurant meals can match what I make at home.

Anything less than that and I feel bad later that day or the next. Usually bad cooking oils I think.
Thanks for your answer. Kickstarter is not an option for me as I'd be required to have a US social security number. I don't have one, I'm Swiss. I'd go with Indiegogo. Crowdfunding is not my expertise at all. How would you go to spread the word about the campaign? I know my target audience doesn't lie within the pro coders crowd but rather within designers, start-up founders, people willing to make a career change and maybe CS students.

As for Rails, yes, there's a lot of magic happening but my goal would be to decompose that 'magic' to explain what really happens behind the scene as the goal would not be to teach how to copy code (like many, many online courses are doing) but rather how to write it. My main skill is C# and ASP.NET but I don't consider it either as a good starting point for a beginner.

PHP could be good as well but writing good code in PHP is very challenging for a beginner (in my opinion and experience). Also, PHP, even though it's used on loads of sites, is not a 'hot' technology anymore.

Lastly, I would like to have fun creating this course... ...and I'm having loads of fun writing Ruby!
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I was thinking that using webmail would defeat the purpose of really private email.
anyone knows an Ubuntu PPA for mpv ? couldn't build on mint 15, because of outdated *-dev packages, so out of lazyness I ask for binaries.
The medium size (grande) Starbucks coffee contains nearly that much caffeine. I'm not saying that 360mg isn't a lot, but it is not uncommon for people to drink that amount in a single drink. You can see this amount in Starbuck's nutrition facts (http://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/brewed-coffee/bold-pick...).
For those who prefer to watch at a faster speed, the link to the video: http://avideos.5min.com/371/5178371/517837087_4.mp4 (138Mb)