skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> So let's forget about computers for a second. We don't even know how humans process discourse...

>> It seems more practical to do work on stuff that could actually benefit from machine learning, as opposed to trying to solve incredibly difficult (and mostly theoretical) problems like discourse analysis.

The thing I am not sure about is how much it makes sense to attempt to create discourse analyses vs doing more "practical" work. The reason is that a complete and accurate discourse analysis seems nearly impossible. Having read through a few reference grammars and phonological analysis of various languages myself, it seems any rules linguists create are always wrought with copious exceptions and special cases (though certainly not all! There are examples of phonological rules that are very very regular across languages). Some of these analyses were extremely intricate.

I got the impression that many of them suffered from the mistake of trying to prescribe patterns to data that does not have any patterns.
No. I doubt they'd even notice.
Good news, they do http://chartsnthings.tumblr.com/, though tends to come in bursts and looks like they haven't put up much since July.
Except that's not really how it works at all. Individual drivers don't really buy medallions anymore. Big money investors who operate cab companies do. A company can buy a medallion and pay for it from their cab fleet in a day. An individual driver can never hope to make that much money anymore.

Also, when all the new medallions were issued and the GPS/credit system put in their cars, some of the companies passed the cost of install onto the drivers, taking more than the maximum lease rate (The current day rate is like $229, whether you're on the road or not).

Cab drivers aren't making that much money ultimately. It has always been bad but it's way worse now than it used to be (my mom drove a yellow from 1978-1992 before she became an RN).

The overwhelming majority of the money earned in a taxi cab goes to the medallion holders -- owning a medallion is basically a guaranteed 5% ROI because the fare price is fixed. Cab drivers are basically little more than modern sharecroppers. I don't disagree that they're full of shit though, I'm just saying it's a shitty life and a lot of them hate Bloomberg's guts.
The translation by Matthew Ward is excellent.
1. Be Decisive & move with a sense of urgency.

2. Don't be cheap. Not worth missing your product roadmap to save $20K/year or having to spend 6 months re-architecting your entire app because the early people weren't senior & experienced enough.

3. The only three questions that matter:

- Do I like this person and can I work with them?

- Can they get the job done and have a positive attitude (especially when s*it hits the wall)?

- Are they excited and interested in what we're doing?
Levesque works in knowledge representation, and all the sample questions hinge on some shallow inference from default knowledge. It's understandable to think your own field of research is central -- and it was, in the 80s. What makes it especially productive to focus on now? That's what I'd like to have seen covered here.

The Turing test seems a red herring, since afaik it's not a big part of research evaluation currently.
I've applied there, but you kept ignoring me. Good background (3 years full-stack at good companies), but I have been out of the game for almost 3 years due to illness. Can't believe that's enough to end it.
Optimization-unstable code
Archive of his network of sock puppets here: http://www.crazyontap.com/topic.php?TopicId=302346&Posts=4
You do know that jQuery isn't a monad, right? That's the second time in this thread that you've called it one. Simplest demonstration that it isn't: try defining join.
Guy posts bug report to Mark Zuckerberg's wall after being ignored by Facebook
The belief that the Cold War was ineptly prosecuted, or that military spending during the Cold War was inefficient (or even corrupt) is distinct from the belief that nuclear war wasn't a realistic threat.

I'm actually having a hard time understanding the notion that nuclear war wasn't a realistic threat. We "overestimated" the Soviet capability, but all estimates available were so far past the margin of global catastrophe that they're not really relevant.

Again: if you want to construct an argument that politically-motivated overestimations of the Soviet nuclear arsenal were used to drive spending to profit contractors: sure. But it does not follow that nuclear war was off the table!
The reason software developers today have so much power and flexibility can be directly attributed to open-source. Open-source tools are good enough now that 1-4 engineers who are friends can get together and build something amazing and profitable while standing of the shoulders of giants via open-source software. If most things were not open source, we'd be paying a lot more to be able to do our work and we'd have a lot fewer references and examples to study and learn from as we try to invent something of value. Without open-source, many of us would be spending months to years longer to bring a product to market.
Can you forward your resume to me. I will look into this and promise to give you a definite reply.
All of it I wrote from scratch.

And yes I agree, a flag feature has been on my mind for quite some time :)
happy guaranteed
https://github.com/clvv/fasd
I wonder if your title (which is orders of magnitude better than the title it was changed to) would have survived if you had submitted the tweet itself, instead of dereferencing to submit the original article?
Fraxinus - Ash Dieback Game on Facebook
Attorneys general raise privacy concerns over ObamaCare navigators
We should all take the bit about being able to construct a “relatively sophisticated nuclear device,” with a grain of salt.

An actual bomb is beyond the capability of anybody but a nation-state. Al-qaeda, et al don't have a chance of anything more than a dirty bomb. While dirty bombs suck too, they are limited to contamination of a couple of city blocks - not actual kinetic destruction of those blocks and the contaminated have a high survivability level given the kind of treatment immediately available in a city.

Also, in this day and age of the NSA and supporters using weasel words, I have to wonder if (a) this info was declassified to support justifications for the NSA and (b) if the line about a "nuclear device" is more weasel wording to sound scary without literally claiming they could build a bomb.
SF is also twice the size of manhattan
Less money than I remember reading the first time, but still ~$3000/month at the reported locations.

http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2013/aug/12/homeless-...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/nyregion/for-some-landlord...
At the tips of the wings and at the trailing edge of the wings vortices will form when a wing is surrounded by nothing but air. Closer to the ground (typically less than a wingspan of the ground) these vortices start to form but are then interrupted by the ground. This results in an increase in lift and a very strong reduction in drag. The upshot of this is that in groundeffect a powered aircraft uses much less energy to move. Several bird species (mostly the bigger water birds) know how to exploit this as well.

The aircushion of the hyperloop is more like an air hockey table. It also reduces drag but that's drag from the surface of the table rather than from the air. Think of it as a two dimensional air bearing.

Apropos wingtip vortices: that's the reason lots of large planes are now equipped with winglets, these help to stop the formation of those vortices decreasing drag and increasing lift. Some larger windmill manufacturers use them too with the same goal, but in a windmill this translates to more power produced at the same windspeed rather than less fuel consumed in a vehicle.
I will tell you the secret to exhibiting consistent productivity, taught to me long ago by a master who shall remain nameless.

Hold back some of the extra work on your killer productivity days and keep it in reserve. On those off days, reach into the "bank" and push some of those changes.

And now you are consistent.
Your example does not preserve size, because it makes Arabian peninsula (area ~2.3 million km2) look almost as big as Europe (area ~10 million km2). Also compare India with Australia. I think this map preserves shape and direction, but not size.
You're not the first person I read mentioning "if" as a syntax sugar for "goto". It is not. In fact, "goto" needs "if" to replicate looping behavior.

Unless you imply "goto" can branch conditionally (e.g. je/jne/jg etc. from ASM) but that's not "goto". "Goto" means unconditional jump.
Part of the reason I moved away from the Bay Area is that no one seems to care about it. Everyone is too busy working all the time for their start up, and so there's very little in the way of community. Oakland seems to be the one exception, where it is cheap enough that you can live without dedicating your life to work. Surprise surprise, it turns out to be the place with the interesting restaurant and arts culture.
Interesting. If you've ever signed up for patio11's free training video, he talks a bit about how product tours gave a big bump in conversions:

https://training.kalzumeus.com/
Yes, but I had to take a look at the Code / register to see what this project is about :)
This is what always confuses me about gentrification. The core idea is that improving the neighborhood is a bad thing that should be prevented.

I mean, I understand the arguments. I just have a difficult time saying, "Yes, let's prevent these neighborhoods from being improved".
My local donations of choice - not sure which you'd consider political:

* SF Bicycle Coalition: Definitely recommend if you're a fellow biker
https://co.clickandpledge.com/advanced/default.aspx?wid=6334...

* Planned Parenthood: They are very happy to receive donations to keep providing medical services. To donate to local chapter, select "Shasta Pacific" here:
https://secure.ppaction.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=pp_ppo...

* Village Harvest: they harvest community orchards and gardens (which you can also volunteer at on weekends).
http://www.villageharvest.org/donate
I find it harsh of Facebook that without technical leverage they do not pay out bounties.
Foundation already did this with Joyride -- and is a much simpler plugin. What's different about this one? http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/joyride.html
Over water a plane in groundeffect will use slightly more energy than it would over land because even though water is incompressible that is effective only when it is completely constrained. Since water open to the environment at the top can be pushed inwards some of it will do that and this will cause a rise in the water just outside of the profile of the wings of the aircraft. Over a solid surface this would not happen. Similar to how riding a bicycle with springs costs more energy than one without.
Android is developed mainly by paid engineers, not people giving their time as "civic duty".
No study no. But since those languages are built around that line of thinking, and becouse those languages are great, and becouse that line following your quote is in alot of the books about learning said languages, I belive the statement to be correct.
+1 to the request headers and HTTPS support
Except for the part where Groupon refuses to remove the guy from their harass list.
Nice idea, reminds me of ncd from a far away, foggy past. I suggest some escaping on the directory name parameter though. If you're not careful, you're going to run into trouble with paths that have spaces or risk some nasty security issues with embedded special characters.
Microsoft sifts through bogus security reports all the time. Raymond Chen posts the best-of-the-worst periodically.

Here are I couple I found:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/12/15/10247...
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2008/03/14/80801...
But the neighborhood improves without its residents. The economic situation of those living there doesn't really change and they're forced to relocate to other neighborhoods with similar locations to where they were but much further away.

Bascially "we're going to make this a nice place to live, please gtfo".

It's not an argument against improving a space. It's one against improving a space at the expense of its residents.
They are pretty dangerous. A good number of them crashed. Some in choppy seas. It is hard to train pilots for it. In one case, the sea was getting choppy and pilots did what well pilots do. They pulled up to increase the altitude. That disrupted the ground effect and the craft crashed.
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I was tempted to start a nationwide campaign of hackers calling their local councillors. Apparently it has been tried before and fell foul of competitive ruling - disallowing private companies is seen as state aid. I suspect that is because large (US) multinationals were being blocked by small local integrators, so came up with that. I think there should be a way around it
Such projects are usually the product of extremely focused community organizing. You would need to find someone willing to spend a lot of time and effort to make it a reality. One person can push such a thing through, but they'd need a lot of support and the ability to pay their bills while they're working tirelessly.

Community organizing is really a lost art.
The Free Electron Legend
A map of every research paper submitted to the arXiv since 1991
Rent is absolutely absurd. Most big cities have this problem, but its especially pronounced in SF (probably moreso than everywhere but NYC).

I keep posting variations on this, but this link is relevant here: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/face... . "Rent is absolutely absurd" because of basic economics at work: SF is a desirable place to live in many respects, but it's virtually impossible to build new housing there for reasons discussed at the link. In the face of exploding demand and constant supply, prices rise. For more on this, see The Rent is Too Damn High: http://www.amazon.com/The-Rent-Damn-High-ebook/dp/B0078XGJXO. Most big cities have this problem, as you note, and yet most commentators don't discuss the obvious connection between supply limits and prices, per my essay here: https://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/connecting-the-dot... .

Regular people move from SF and places like it to the sunbelt, where development is easy and real estate prices more reasonable, and the people who have the money and/or need to be in SF stay/move there.
David slew Goliath with a sling, not a slingshot. Slingshots are a fairly modern weapon, invented in the 19th century. That was when strong enough elastic materials became available.
19 - 22: Am I reading this right? Exponential reduction of the power required? I gotta try this.
I do not understand the stigma associated with talking on the phone. Having some time discipling into when you take/return calls is no different than taking an organized approach to email.

Personally I find that calling is like a superpower in business. If you want better rates, better service, and better options you are almost always better of calling rather than relying any other means.
Jim McKelvey launches a code pairing program in Saint Louis
The guy gave more info on his education than the exploit he was reporting. How is he surprised that they didn't take him seriously?
Articles like this one always seem to imply that the techies are all sitting comfortably with a giant money vault like Scrooge McDuck, laughing at everyone else and refusing to share.

Articles like this one also ignore the simple, obvious solution: remove height restrictions and mandatory parking minimums. Developers will build up, supply will increase, and housing costs will fall.

The problem is that many of the same people complaining about high prices don't seem to like the only real means of alleviating the issue; I wrote more about this here: https://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/connecting-the-dot... .
Your right of way will not prevent you from being run over by a tank.
Another problem would be all kinds of boats and other planes in ground effect. The see is two dimensional, unlike airspace, which makes it quite a bit harder for a fast moving Ekranoplan or similar to weave through slower traffic. It would be a continuous game of frogger with the occasional direct hit likely resulting in loss of both vehicles. The sea is not a very forgiving environment and avoiding collisions at the slow speeds normally used on the water is already hard enough. Imagine a plane in ground effect having to cross a busy shipping lane in bad weather.

Planes colliding is very rare but it does happen occasionally even though they have 3 dimensions to work with. If you'd compress that traffic to two dimensions and then add slow moving commercial vessels, sail boats and weather into the mix I fear it won't end well.

At some considerable increase in fuel consumption Ekranoplans can 'jump' up a bit, keep it up long enough and you won't have enough fuel to reach the destination. This is also how they make turns. There are also hybrids that can fly at some altitude like a normal plane that just exploit the ground effect to increase efficiency. As opposed to those that are almost always in ground effect.

These are super interesting craft, you can easily spend a week just reading about them.
It might be useful in the mediterranean. There's plenty of traffic between Italy and Greece and places further away such as Cyprus.
Open source is meant to be a synonym for free software that doesn't explicitly mention the "freedom" part of it. Open source is meant to be a new name for free software that doesn't scare businesses away. The vast majority of software vetted as open source by OSI is also considered free software by the FSF.

Personally, the emphasis on freedom matters to me. If some business is scared away by freedom, I'll pass up on that business and take the freedom instead.
Young and old programmers - please do buy into this mindset, but do not blindly or randomly contribute to any OSS project out there. As your civic duty, contribute to a project that has civic value.

For preference contribute to the services governments are legally obliged to provide. Think about say Electorarl Roll Management services. There are over 2000 services local UK governments have to supply - choose one, http://oss4gov.org/lgsl then find a local councillor who cares and start delivering. That's going to make value. Not IPO value, maybe not even gonna get paid value - but it makes government services better.

Remember the story about the airline check-in clerk who was looking up flights in the free public iPhone app because the official airline system was slow and confusing. Now imagine there are hundreds of thousands of government employees just like her in front of appallingly bad software. There is plenty to keep you busy.

Edit: fat fingered a draft post

Edit: it's no harder to get open source software into go ernment than into private sector organisations - it's just that no-one with the skills to buikd has the itches government needs scratching
Ask HN: Guarding against a "trickle delete" or otherwise unnoticed attack?
How realistic is it to protect against an attack where someone retains access to your system for an extended period of time and therefore can cause minor incremental damage that could exceed backup image retention? (ie. 30 days?)
Unfortunate situation, but I suspect that the overwhelming majority of HN would have dismissed this out of hand (though it is perfect hindsight to now say they should have worked harder, etc). It reads like minimal-effort ramblings.
Wow, upvoting this and I really hope it goes viral and FB gets called out for it. Hopefully he can get the bug bounty he deserves. That's incredibly sleazy of FB to treat him this way.
I'm not sure voluntary is necessarily true. I have had to use Windows several times because we were working with Windows only programs.

On a different note, back in UNIX land I found myself doing the opposite of what you described: opening the file explorer to the same directory as the command-line. Of course, there is not much to that trick other than choosing an explorer that opens to the working directory or a path provided as an arguement.
Usually, whenever there's something weird being done in C, it's because of macros or other forms of code generation.

However in the case of floating point vs integers, it's also likely that a literal is missing a decimal.

1/4 != 1.0/4
That looks like an extremely scaled up version of the Saab Viggen. Wow.
Those problems can essentially be fixed with a modern autopilot. Nobody claimed that progress doesn't involve work on developing the planes.
In this small example it doesn't, getFriendsById however, does. I would imagine that wtfFriendAction could be used multiple places though.

wtfFriendAction is additionally a very, very poor name. It should be called "addFriendToFriendList" or something. Another thing is that the author himself states that the function doesn't actually makes sence, hence the ugly name.
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this is beautiful; this will definitely come in handy when I start machining...
Another very good overview of rendering algorithms was given by Steven Wittens on his Making Webgl Dance[1, 2]

[1] slides: http://acko.net/files/fullfrontal/fullfrontal/webglmath/onli...

[2] video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNO_CYUjMK8
That sure didn't like my 1200x1920 monitor.

It also appears to depend on a codec that chromium on ubuntu doesn't have.
What does Mozilla have to do wit- oh wait.
I've just started using webflow (http://webflow.com/?r=600df48f9a) usually would use axure or mocking bird but webflow is a powerful platform and gives me the ability to mockup responsive wireframes, bonus is it also churns out hight quality CSS and HTML !
Young citizen: please don't buy into this mindset of contributing back to society. It's one of the many ways to find yourself exploited today.

Contributing back to the community is a good thing, but only do it if you're getting some benefit from it. Does spending your money and time for other people give you some business advantage? Help establish your reputation? Pay you back in return? Tickle your morality and make you happy? Cool, then go for it.

But think twice before contributing your time or money for somebody else for free. Chances are they are getting one of those tangible benefits from it, and if you're not, well, what does that make you?

(the above is satire, with purpose of criticism)
Of course in hindsight they should have been more diligent, but how many reports do they receive per day? But I see no excuse for not paying the guy for finding a serious flaw in their system, especially dismissing it on 'TOS' grounds.
Sorry, I think my response was sacrificing clarity for rantiness.

I meant that everytime somebody refers to the value of controlling code size (like gruseom did in this thread), we have to deal with the inevitable strawman of:

int a = b + c;

vs

int hours = timesPerformed + hoursPerPeformance;

But gruseom's comment has nothing whatsoever to do with short vs long variable names. tlrobinson interpreted right that codebase size should be measured in number of tokens. Measured in tokens, both examples above have identical size.

(PG has also said this many many times with reference to arc.)
That would be like throwing gasoline into a natural gas turbine. The one is simply not suitable for consumption by the other.
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