skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really have no theories you want to share

Ah, I see you're still struggling with the 'no personal attacks' suggestion. It is OK; I understand that this may be beyond your capabilities.

With real inline lambdas and map, you don't need to create/teach list comprehensions Python style.

map allows you to iterate over nested loops? I don't think so. I don't think list/set/dict comprehensions impose a major cognitive load on programmers, but perhaps you find them difficult?

Well, you really see no possible benefit -- except for in Common Lisp? -- from being able to modify the execution environment in code before running a program?

You misunderstand. Common Lisp offers more expressivity when it comes to changing the load-time/compile-time environment than perl does. But CL is easily parseable by external tools. This isn't a hard problem to solve. CL did it over 3 decades ago.

like making syntax extensions easier

But that doesn't make any sense: you can have syntax extensions in your language without impeding external parsing; that's...really easy. So that can't be the answer.

Then again, I'm not sure I've ever seen a real need to arbitrary syntax redefinition...does anyone actually use that feature?
This is apparently a good idea, but it justifies the recruiter's methods: if they can rely you hanging up quicker than the extra time they would spend on proper research.
Good call, will make a note and fix that shortly. It's people like you scubasteve that make me not look like a total asshat on the internet.
I've been harassed by recruiters who would email me on my personal email address, my work email address, my cell phone, and my boss's office phone. Virtually all of it during work hours. I guess they got my cell phone number from the signature of the email that I sent politely telling them to please stop contacting me because I am not interested in any positions, regardless of the pay. I eventually had to personally spend the time researching the company and carpet bombing their management with a legal threat upon receiving further communication from them. It shouldn't have to come to that...
You mean the one where people can't be sure that their app will even be published once they finish developing it?
Thanks! We actually just formalized a partnership with the International Bipolar Foundation.
More specifically, I was wondering what the algorithm would be for such a feat. One of the yc comments has a layman description linked from wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_signals#Demodulation_and_de...
I'm curious if Huffington could get the same price today.
I want the addition of a Single Page button to be one of his first accomplishments.
Innovation is political.
Can we have just one thread in HN that doesn't mention Snowden?
You'd be surprised how overwhelmingly common and effective very simple methods like logistic regression and basic decision trees are for such systems.

Further, RBMs and other deep learning tools require a significantly more sophisticated mathematical background than algebra and a much broader understanding overall.
That type of saying doesn't always mean there should be one person at the top, just that the balance is off.

Most people know that there are more than one chef in the kitchen, yet we still figuratively say there are too many.
Amazon is moving towards funding their own TV shows, so it wouldn't be too surprising if Bezos was trying to generate his own content in other mediums as well.
PCI is a great book. One book I'll recommend after reading it is "Mining of Massive Datasets" (http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds.html) - Chapter 9 especially. It goes into more depth than what's covered in PCI and it's not too difficult to follow.

I'm working on a personal project in recommender systems so I look forward to enjoy this course.
There is an intermediate point between supporting nationalism to the point of genocide and asserting that nationality means absolutely nothing.
Congratulations Mattan! I'm looking forward for something like this but on growth hacking... since Googling about growth hacking yields so many great items you wrote on the subject, is there anything planned?
Really interesting article, OP. I love coming across these type of links on HN — just seems like it happens less often these days.
With respect, this is incorrect. You can have load-time execution without making parsing impossible. See Common Lisp for an example.
You seem to be right. More iodine-131, caesium-134 was released as water wapour. Still, most of it will ended over ocean or very close to sea.
They go to college because that's what society told them
to do. They pay for that stupid diploma. I hope things
change in the future? I still believe all Learning should
be free. If your Learning is really worth $49.99; don't
you think word of mouth would bring in the masses?
Well if Snowden had given WaPo something other than a "publish in 48 hours" ultimatum there may have been less 'antagonism'. I'll say that the Washington Post Express I've been reading on the Metro was certainly not antagonistic to Snowden.
Sorry to be ignorant, but I don't see where 65.222.202.53 is shown to be NSA-owned? I don't see that in the robtex record. Am I reading it wrong? I'm not familiar with this notation, I don't often look into IP allocation issues.
I've actually been fairly impressed with the support for Google Apps (paid version). I submit a ticket and a competent human calls me on the phone and usually solves the problem pretty quickly. One time, I got a lousy tech who had obviously not read my initial ticket and I had to go through the whole thing on the phone, but that was an exception.
OMR was on TC "university", while this was the only one I tried I assume that had a lot to do with their numbers. I tried it because I saw it at the moment I decided to give rails a go and I got it for $20 because of a sale. That said, Mattan did make a good class for beginners and I've recommended at least one friend who was interested in mucking around with rails but was a rather novice programmer (even moreso than I am).
I agree, in the short run.

I suspect it's a power grab for influence in the long-term. Big media shapes the discourse, debate, and policy of the country. He can be a much more effective broker of business and societal matters now that he manages "the truth."

I think, at least :/
Jeff Bezos buys The Washington Post for $250 million in cash
I was wrong about Medium
Interrupt the program
It's worthwhile to point out that the people who write editorials and opinion columns for the paper are often firewalled somewhat from the actual journalists, so you can't really reduce it to a single belief that the entire organization has.

Especially a paper like the Washington Post which has a ridiculous number of opinion writers on staff.
Anyone know of a library that can track the direction a user is looking? I don't need exact eye-tracking type stuff from special equipment, just left right up down etc. My initial googles have come up short so far.
I'm a bit surprised Buffett didn't make a play for that asset, particularly given his recent expeditions in buying more newspapers. Perhaps he regards Bezos as a better long term steward given the age difference. At the least Buffett had to give his blessing to this deal, and absolutely knew about it and chose not to outbid Bezos.
Next: Google buys NYT.
Vigilance is the price of freedom and liberty.
Valid reasons, but quick search for "option", "stock", "shares" did not find anything in that post - strange.
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Nash's organic olive oil - http://www.nashsoliveoil.com/

He's at the San Rafael, CA farmers market every Sunday and Alemany market in SF on Saturdays. He also ships anywhere in the US.
Surrely surreptiously recording the incident while repeatedly saying "I do not consent to this search" must provide some leverage when it comes to court.
- "I'm sort of on a deadline, sorry." has worked for me.

(Probably not a good idea if you were pulled over for a traffic infraction...)
"...and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses..."
I would like to see how the White House press office would have responded if this had happened in Russia to a journalist critical of Putin, hours after he said he thought he was being followed by the KGB.
This article just made me angry. Very, very angry. I'm inspired that there are lawyers who have the patience and determination to counter the cynicism and corruption of some police and government departments in the country.
That's the one! It's a feature (for the users) not a bug.
> The man can do what he wants but the public probably shouldn't applaud this.

I kinda disagree with you on this one. Not only will something like the Kindle and Kindle apps benefit, but this is a huge win since the old style of media wasn't capable of figuring out how to stay in business. The reason why the Kindle, iTunes, Google Play or any other store is succeeding while the rest are failing is because all the rest didn't have monetized digital distribution mechanisms. All media was given out for free and now you can't stay in business if you decide to pay-wall your website. They weren't smart about it. However all other walled gardens are thriving because they are monetized from the get go and an effort has been made to make them simple to use.

The public is the winner here, and the Kindle. The only loser is probably B&N.
Maybe?
It depends on whether the deal is plausibly good for the company or not.
If so, i'd say "no, it's not a serious impediment".
> "How to decline a search"

From the article: "The report describes their children as possible decoys, meant to distract police as the couple breezed down the road, smoking marijuana. (None was found in the car, although Washington claimed to have smelled it.)"

Whatever you might say is moot, if the cops are willing to play that card.
The Italians have been caught selling rancid and impure olive oil in Australia about once per year (ie. just about every time it's checked). It applied to cheaper and expensive oils, so cost wasn't a judge.

I don't buy Italian olive oils any more because of the wide-spread deception. To be fair to the Italians, they were as dishonest as the Greeks and the Spanish. The list of brands was very long and the levels of rancidity/impurity were worrying.

The only name I remember that was found to be honest was Cobham. I think they're an Australian family business (but could be wrong). I have no affiliation with Cobham in any way, except I buy their extra virgin olive oil.

Interestingly, I know rancid oils are very poisonous, but have never found a reference to the ill effects of rancid oils.
Do you know of any good guides for how to fine-tune Clojure in situations where you need to trade elegance for performance?

What you did that is great, so I'm wondering where I'd be able to find out more about such techniques.
Hardly 'supposed'. There are plenty of peer-reviewed studies indicating the benefits of olive oil.
Fine. Enlighten me.

Calculate a relevant upper limit: if ALL current human energy needs were provided via wind power, how many modern full-sized turbines would be required? what would the atmospheric impact be, if any? at what point does that impact transition from scathingly negligible to "OMG we're destroying the Earth"? Compare said impact to that of fossil fuels a la "global warming" (a concept which itself would have been derided as "having absolutely no clue whatsoever about anything regarding energy production" just a few decades ago). Don't insult, quantify. I'm not looking for encyclopedic completeness, just a back-of-envelope ballpark akin to "the absolute upper limit for solar power is 1.3kW/m^2, realistic capture about 1% thereof".

Pardon me if I didn't perfectly articulate one of several points to authoritative completeness in a brief blog post.

And while we're at it, given robust suitable LEDs, how many homes could be lit for one year from the fuel consumed in one rocket launch? You might be onto something.
When he starts firing editors and controlling output, sure.
Of course not.

Doesn't mean we can't raise awareness of it each time it happens. That is, not applaud powerful people getting even more powerful.

There are also alternative forms of ownership, but that's a more complex subject not fit for a message board.
Bradley Manning!
Pity. It would have been amusing if you had applied and turned up for the interview!
The emails don't bother me. Calls to my cell are little annoying but I just don't answer numbers I don't know. What really gets under my skin is when a recruiter will call my companies switchboard and then call my office phone!
As usual, fun quotes for all sides of a debate:

"Many raised doubts about the claims -- especially that the NSA played a key role in uncovering a 2009 plan to bomb the New York subway system --but the rough number of plots was comparable to what I estimated, which makes the NSA’s assertions seem credible to me." "...Perhaps our government’s controversial counter-terrorism efforts have prevented more Bostons than is commonly believed"

"Recently, the former coordinator of the UN team that monitors Al Qaeda and the Taliban said that, between 2007 and 2011, your chances of being killed in a terrorist attack were about 1 in 20 million. You have about a 1-in-126,000 lifetime risk of being killed by lightning"
NSF Cancels Political Science Funding
Prepare your Mac before parting with it
Yes, it's coincidental but it's a fun story. Sadly, the facts are not really available to confirm :)

Regardless, I don't know why the freedom hosts lasted so damn long.
He'll just patent it as 1-click viewing.
Swiftype is a site search engine. The title makes it sound more like a generic web search engine.
The headquarters building has actually been for sale anyway for a few months.
Anyone know a good olive oil obtainable in NYC?

(I'd rather not pay huge shipping fees for some of the other things listed here.)
Python socket network programming explained in a beginner friendly way
Yeah, they're called IT recruiters.
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I'd settle for a top comment that doesn't mention Snowden.
How is it weird that I oppose artificial meat?
Off topic: I farking love this phrase: "psyops dick waving"

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Note that Amazon didn't buy the Washington Post.
So, you're saying if nobody among the consumers needs these certifications it wouldn't work. And you say it like it is a bad thing?

Of course, this means the government loses a way to enforce arbitrary restrictions that nobody of the consumers actually need but that promote some political or special interest agenda. Tell me please again, how is it a bad thing?
Do you have any insight into why so many "can't program their way out of a paper bag"? Does this go beyond the observation of a bimodal distribution of programming ability and the discouraging results of the McCracken Group research (from the early 2000s on the international inability of CS1 and CS2 students to implement an RPN calculator)? I am seriously curious about this question. If anyone has some insight, please contact me.
Worth noting though, that Bezos, and not Amazon, bought WaPo.
Even if we assume multiple explosions, that doesn't prove anything other than multiple explosions. Since we're playing with unlikely events anyways, how unlikely is it that a car violently slinging around gasoline and breaking fuel lines near a running engine and a very hot catalytic converter undergoes multiple explosions during a violent crash?
"For higher paying jobs, like computer programmer, software developer, and electronics engineer, Bright found more than one domestic job candidate for every H-1B application."

Wow, so the author thinks you only have to interview 1 person for each job. That's a Polyanna view; reject that statistic and the entire article falls apart.
I remember this. Congrats, and keep it up.
I donated to the ACLU once, and after a couple months, I was convinced that at least half of what I donated was spent on routine mailings and phone calls to my home. I support their work, and I understand that outreach is crucial, but I can't be the only one who was put off by that.

Ideally, I could donate and NEVER receive any communication from them. Same goes for the blood bank I donate to at my university. I'll give blood whenever there is a drive on campus (very often), but I don't need to be called every two weeks and read a script for 10 minutes.
Another newspaper owned by a corporation. I'm sure this is going to end well.

Can't wait for it to become another CNBC infomercial.
How Islamic is the just launched "Islamic Mobile Phone"?
And is it?
A great billion dollar investment then.
He is the only loser if he sinks the WaPo. So in that light, Bezos has the incentive to at least maintain the paper's standing.
You really show your troll nature when you complain about "personal attacks" (being called troll) while doing two personal attacks yourself:

>>Ah, I see you're still struggling with the 'no personal attacks' suggestion. It is OK; I understand that this may be beyond your capabilities.

>>I don't think [...] impose a major cognitive load on programmers, but perhaps you find them difficult?

Thanks for a good laugh, troll.

>>Common Lisp offers more expressivity

You are arguing that the specific Common Lisp way is a better implementation of different execution phases.

Not relevant, as you know.

I argued that the Perl way had advantages, not that it was better than everything else (see chromatic in gp level too). This contradicts your original position that the compilation phases were just crazy and uniquely bad.

So this is another point where you are shown to be trolling.

Since you made two personal attacks, let me note that... ah, no. I should just pity you irritating trolls.

I think I'll stop feeding you now. Please stop trolling on HN.
"Founded by clinical psychologist Glen Moriarty".

What a fantastic name for the founder of a company providing moral support to those in trouble.
I mean if you have that much money you can afford to buy and have it lose money for years just for other valuable benefits and access.

You can, but you can also believe in journalism and be willing to spend some of your money on keeping it alive.

Not sure we can really make an automatic judgement either way.
I guess I often assume that topics classes like these assume some sort of background in machine learning. Perhaps that's not the case.
A little of both I suspect. The Washington Post can generate a very modest profit if it's well run. It's around 1/4th to 1/5th the size of the New York Times.

The question would seem to be, whether Bezos intends to run a tight profitable ship, or if he is willing to forgo the profits for a larger staff. I'm hoping he has something creative in mind, a new business model that isn't free+ads or just a copy of what the NYT is doing.

WaPo is #8 by its daily circulation in the US, and #4 for its Sunday circulation.
Yes, the transparency does make sense. Maybe the NSA guy didn't tell him anything about the exploits of tor.

But the fact that it financed tor implies heavily that there are such exploits accessible to NSA. And the fact that it is known that tor is sensitive to global passive attackers is another. Even plain me can guess this.

Maybe the calculation favors tor, because if we assume you need to be a global passive attacker to exploit it, this favors large coalitions of many (currently democratic) nations collaborating over you're single repressive regime, and that seems like a reasonable compromise in thinking about a very hard ethical choice.
"Can it really be happening in the US?"

I hate to tell you this, but as a non-American I've always had the idea that rural cops and sheriffs are likely to be corrupt in this manner, especially 'good old boys.' I don't mean that as a slur on rural people and think there's urban corruption too but it takes different forms there because of population density v. isolation.

Is this also an offshoot of a no tax policy in Texas?

In both Texas and DC, I think it's very much a side effect of politicians' unwillingness to raise taxes. There's a vicious circle of ever-increasing pension obligations, stagnant revenue, and voter apathy that allows this and other sorts of corruption to flourish. Most people are not that interested in politics, but they get annoyed when their taxes change (hell, I'm liberal and I get annoyed about my taxes). It's one of the few issues that can mobilize a majority of voters. In this political calculus, corruption has a lower cost because although the effects are more severe, they're not as widely distributed.
Please take Kimberly Dvorak's analysis with a grain of salt.
Her previous analysis cited the engine being behind the crash instead of being thrown forward and then citing that as suspicious (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4uj...) and her other article cited Hasting's body as being cremated without consent as the lede, a fact refuted by her source (https://twitter.com/Rambobiggs/status/357352728499978240).

The 911 calls aren't necessarily indicative of an explosive device as she seem to be implying. Just because it sounds like an explosion doesn't mean it's an explosion, especially to initial responders. Think about the difference between shots fired and fireworks.
This witness saw the entire event and per his interview, it doesn't seem like foul play (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fweyFCFKcp0).

Michael Krikorian (aka, the source of this surveilance video) wrote an article about the whole thing and it tracks closer to the eyewitness's telling of events(http://krikorianwrites.com/blog/2013/7/16/x9pujjqlzq6bbc0kvd...).

One valuable insight Krikorian mentions in his article pertaining to the behavior of the recording device:

“That type of surveillance camera has auto exposure so it can change what it sees based by the ambient exposure day or night,” Anderson explained. “This camera is set at night and anything that happens very quickly, be it a flash light or a big ball of fire, the camera won’t react fast enough, so the first flash of light is going to appear much bigger in the viewing. So the initial explosion would always look bigger than it is.”

He suggested a simple demonstration using a cellphone video app: Strike a match in a dark room and it will flare up on camera much more than in reality.
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How constrained media apps like Twitter/Vine/Dribbble increase content creation
Pumped water storage is probably one of the better options out there right now. Of course, it's far from perfect, but it certainly beats batteries.

In addition for evening out dips and bumps in unreliable renewable energy, it's a good option for excess using excess capacity in nuclear power plants in order to deal with load variation. (Nuclear reactors don't like changing their energy production levels, so evening out the load on them by buffering with pumped water energy storage is a great benefit).

Flywheels are also another option, although I don't think they're nearly as popular.

Overall, purely mechanical solutions seem to be preferred over chemical energy storage for large installations.