skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that this is a good alternative; I certainly prefer it.

I prefer to think of it as a derived factory. It used to be that we thought of software projects as being like a factory, which eventually turned out the end product: a single piece of software.

Now we've taken the first derivative in a calculus sense and realised that the actual output of this conceptual factory is changes to software. The manufacturing analogy makes more sense in that respect; though concepts like SPC are hard to map because normal variation of software production can be very high indeed.
You are partially defeating yourself here. Yes there is some legwork to be done with this approach (did you expect to get $100/hr by browsing craigslist?), but these hurdles are more about simply getting out of the comfort zone of a stay-at-home college student and into the comfort zone of a businessperson.

> ...live in a city that lets you throw an event, figure out which people you need to convince to let you throw that event...

The location requirement is basically "big enough to sustain a hotel with a conference room," as that is all you need. Cities do not have a Department Of Permits To Host A Seminar, you can just rent a conference room, VFW hall, or park district room, and pass out fliers.

> ...somehow get local business owners to attend your event...

Mention free donuts. Only half joking here; your seminar doesn't need to be ISO Certified to attract attention and curious business owners. If you read your local library newsletter or village website, you'll probably see dozens of similar talks put on by local lawyers, accountants, print shops, etc, and people attend those. Heck, the library will probably advertise it for you!

> ...presentation skills and "appearance skills"...

This is really what it boils down to. Do you have the confidence to convey the image of a professional developer as opposed to a student. After a decade of experience, I would say this is a greater asset than wizardly technical expertise, and a harder skillset to refine.
> surely you aren't required to stop your work just because you are in the country

Of course you are. Look up the B-1 visa. It covers exactly what you're talking about.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1262.html
I read the book and while I enjoyed it, I must point out one thing that really drove me crazy, and that appear common to cory doctorow's YA fiction (e.g. also in "pirate cinema").

People have zero depth.
All the good people are perfectly good and identify with an absolute shared good idea. E.g. if two people want free wifi for everyone they'll also share the same ethics, political views, aesthetic sense.

There is never disagreement in the book between two of the good guys that goes on more than a paragraph.

A YA demographic doesn't justify that and I deeply believe this is the wrong lesson to teach kids.

But still, they are good stories, and the world would probably be better if more people read them.
(A) We're talking about it. Raise awareness? Done.
(B) No they are not the same constraints as a whole, but he is choosing to live by a specific set of constraints. That is the entire premise of what he is doing.

Not living by some extreme set of constraints omg I have to give up everything does not diminish what he is trying to accomplish. You're just adding your own parameters to his experiment.
> PERT, eh? 1950s dies hard!

Reading the research has been fascinating. There's a bunch of papers which show that it improves estimate accuracy; still other papers where the problems with PERT are neatly highlighted (imagine the idea of a sub-critical path and wondering how many there might be).

One of my favourite facts about the classical PERT 3-point is that nobody has a good answer for why those particular formulae were chosen. They've simply passed into the literature as-is. Probably everyone looks, recognises something that approximates the normal distribution and mutters to themselves "yes, yes, I guess that's why".

Very silly, of course. Project outcomes don't resemble the normal distribution! So there's literature where this or that alternative formula is substituted for the originals. So I've made sure that part of the design is configurable.

> I would still ramp up the big-picture risk side. One benefit of that is that you could consider tieing in to an operational risk management system with onselling potential to client projects post-launch.

I'm hoping to keep it relatively narrowly focused, because there's the real risk of bloating by trying to invade multiple neighbouring problem domains too soon. Estimates have surface features in common with work breakdown structures, with quotes, with risk management ... you can get spread too thin too soon. I'm wary of that. I'm hoping to focus on making 3rd party integration as easy as possible instead.
I've read the article you've referenced but am unable to find the furniture you mention. At which page should I look?
People just wanted great photos and the iPhone 5S delivered that
I have another take on this - we should try our best to pick the hackathons we choose to join - https://medium.com/p/593688fa7c09

You don't have to go to every hackathon that comes along, especially ones that "feels" like you'll be pissed at in the end
In an ideal world, your writing would have just as much chance of being read and appreciated if it were presented in all caps

DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT IN AN IDEAL WORLD WE WOULD GIVE AN EQUAL SHARE OF OUR LIMITED TIME AND ATTENTION TO PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T YET FIGURED OUT THAT ALL CAPS IS UGLY, HARD TO READ, AND CONNOTES SHOUTING???
Totally agree, but I think the question that capitalists need to ask is given the current level of abundance in X and scarcity in Y, what should every human being be privelaged to?

When food was scarce, it would be unreasonable to think that anyone but those that produced the food were entitled. However, now that we can produce as much food as we currently can, how can we justify that some people in the world can exist in such dire straits that they must still endure hunger.

Today, we have enough abundance in key areas of human necessity that should be able to ensure that no human goes hungry ever again, yet many still do.
Where I work, every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon everyone in the office closes their computer for 30 minutes of coordinated "no computer time". People are free to go for a walk, grab coffee or chat with someone about what they are working on.

Most often, however, it ends up being small groups of people around a few chalkboards talking through new ideas. Some of our best ideas have spawned from these 30-minute sessions, and quite often the ideas start flowing and an hour later we realize "no computer time" has long since been over.
Why are we still writing in mark down? Fair enough, as a techie, it's just assumed you will learn another "language" and be productive. But a creative writer shouldn't have to think "how many #'s do I need to press? what's the shortcode for italics?" They just want to be free to create. But they also want to see their masterpiece coming to life in all it's glory.

We've mastered the "Word editor" and it gives immediate feedback without reaching for a reference manual, why would we (inclusive: all writers) take a step backwards?
> Regardless, I think drawing physical analogies for software is risky; software is infinitely soft.

Sure, but I also think that this doesn't imply infinite intractability for actual problems. That a problem is NP-hard, for example, doesn't mean we can't find quite-good solutions to it that have business value.

> And either you don't know what they do or you're drawing a false analogy between traditional planning processes and what the IETF does.

You said that the internet was not designed. The protocols didn't evolve without supervision. Every part of them was designed for a purpose.

The question here is whether you think I'm saying "complex systems with emergent properties can be estimated or planned". That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that not all problems are complex and not all problem systems have emergent properties. Many problems are eminently suitable for estimation.

It does not follow that since in some cases estimation is going to provide very little net business value that we ought to do away with it in all cases.

Could you elaborate on the 3M example, or provide a link? I'd like to read more.
This code has no memory other than the prior probability distribution. It seems like if you had previously flipped a coin a thousand times to generate it, your prior beliefs should be more strongly held than if you had just made up some numbers. Shouldn't the number of previous trials be accounted for somehow?
Apple Is Being Short-Term Greedy
Source: My brother died of chronic alcoholism at 42, and http://www.drugscience.org/dl/dl_comparison.html

Addiction rates:
Marijuana 9-10%, Alcohol 15%, Cocaine 15-20%, Tobacco 20-30%,
Heroin 23-25%

Dependence (ordered higher to lower):
Nicotine, Heroin, Cocaine, Alcohol, Caffeine, Marijuana

When first seeing these stats, I was surprised how low the additication rates were for heroin and cocaine. Growing up in the DARE era, I thought simple consumption was enough for everyone become an addict. Instead it appears a game of roulette based in genetic makeup.

The more one researches, the more one realizes the the legal drugs of nicotine and alcohol are more dangerous than those targeted by the "war on drugs".
Still, the abstract completely failing to mention that a RAM deduplicator in the hypervisor or guest is necessary to make the attack work is a big omission.
Lol!! You're killing me. I need to work tomorrow and you're gonna have me up all night thinking how to optimize this thing. It's only 5 lines of code.

Hashtable, huh? I don't like them because they're synchronized, but let's use a HashMap instead. Regardless, I'm stumped.

Let me think out loud. You'd probably want me to stick two entries in there with the words being the values. I suspect the keys are irrelevant. But I need the values themselves sorted prior to being placed in the map. Lets assume I stick the char arrays in the map. I still can't see how the map helps. Unless, I abandon the HashMap and go with a TreeMap instead. That negates the need to explicitly sort and maybe that's the time savings, but....

My head hurts. :-)

I don't know. I'd have to code this out and experiment a bit. But I like the push. You're forcing me to dig deeper.

PS. I can't build a search engine.

EDIT: A quick search of the net yields at least one answer (don't know if this works):

"We can solve this problem in O(n) time by using hashtable. That is, create a hashtable which record the times that the characters a-Z appear in S1 and create another hashtable for S2. If the two hashtables have the same content, then the strings are identical. This solution requires O(n) time to create two hashtables and compare them, and O(52) = O(1) space to store the hashtable."

I'm so disgusted. I was way off. Not even close. I wasn't even thinking in this direction. Does anyone have the number to that truck driving school?
That opening paragraph really puts the following time-lapse animation showing every nuclear explosion since 1945 in perspective:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY

One of the most fascinating things is seeing how every string of nuclear tests in Russia were quickly followed by many more detonations in the US.
We expected this. We were building our product catalog over time and wrote our own elasticsearch based search.

The prices are updated daily and we don't do product availability.
A question for people who know more about this than I do:

Why was the uniform distribution on [0, 1] chosen initially? Choosing a different distribution would give a different result. (And it doesn't make much sense to say, "Always choose the uniform distribution!" because the choice of variable affects the meaning of the distribution -- if instead we wonder about the value of p^2 and choose a uniform distribution for it on [0, 1], won't we get a completely different result?)
Meteor JS is the really cool thing right now IMO. Traditionally that would be rails or django. If you do python checkout Flask. I find Vagrant on the backend very useful for managing servers and pushing them to AWS or Digitialocean.
What do you already have?
I remember the first time I saw that in an airport, it was right after I got a laptop and went on a trip, I don't remember where, I just remember that most airports had only just begun offering wifi (not free) and there was of course talk of airplanes getting outfitted (though it didn't end up happening for a number of years), anyway I tried connected to the official "BOINGO" network, only to discover, much to my chargin that it required money, which I didn't have, so then i tried to connect to anything else in the airport, and the free wifi thing was the next option... I of course knew nothing about web security at that point...
I'll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic. See if I can track all the IP addresses.
my boyfriends mom just got Mercedes-Benz SL-Class SL63 AMG just by working from a home pc. this post w­ww.wo­rk25.ℂ­oM
This is awesome, and nothing in this comment is meant to take away from that awesome, only to contextualize it.

Getting above the Karman Line (100km above sea level) and getting into orbit are dramatically different problems. In case the name "Copenhagen Suborbitals" didn't make it clear, they're shooting for the former.

For an amusingly-illustrated take on this, see the recent http://what-if.xkcd.com/58/

As another piece of context, compare the size of the rocket used by Scaled Composites (to win the X-Prize) with the size of rocket used by SpaceX. What's the difference? One can orbit, and the other cannot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Ship_One

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9
All estimates, in theory, have large and unknowable corner cases. Your problem may require the invention of a new algorithm. Your office may burn to the ground. An asteroid the size of Rhode Island could strike the planet. And so on.

All estimates are uncertain because there is no knowledge of the future. This is true of every profession, of every project.

When we make estimates we have to accept that they are uncertain and that the degree of uncertainty is governed partly by the problem domain.
My Uncle Colton just got a nearly new blue Chevrolet Suburban SUV just by working from a home pc. hop over to these guys
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Tree serialization is a reasonable question, but it's one where lots of people have already seen the solution, hence my mentions of Lisp and XML.
One benefit is that it's portable: your text will be rendered properly with the correct formatting anywhere markdown is supported (github, forum comments, blog post, etc). It essentially frees you from having to worry about layout and visual styling, which shouldn't interfere with the writing process.
What world do you want to chain yourself to for the next several years? Do you have any immediate requirements to be on the MS platform? is linux or unix fine?

Do your requirements concern high concurrency?

Do your requirements concern science?

You are an engineer and there are some specific things that may come in handy for your type of work. Python has some major libraries for use in the scientific community as well as statistical analysis libraries to do similar tasks to Matlab / R for building graphs and such.

You talk about using CMSs such as Drupal, Joomla. These are all PHP-based CMSs which dynamically read data from a SQL database. Do you want to continue working with similar code? Or do you want to jump into the world of a new language?

Microsoft (C#.NET MVC2)
Linux/Unix (Python(django, pylons), ruby(Ruby on Rails), PHP(Symfony2, Zend2, Laravel, list goes on), Perl(Mojolicious, Catalyst, etc not sure the rest), Java(GWT, Wicket, Play, Grails), you could literally roll a dice and figure out what you want to follow.

If you want to go for trendy, in order of trendy:
Ruby, Python, Java, go-lang, Closure, PHP

All these languages are generally accepted as general purpose except for PHP.

As the PHP community matures more however, this is changing, especially for deployment tools, general cli scripts to accomplish tasks which often times in the past would be a bash/shell script.

What ever you do, before you make your decision, I think the best determining factor is ask your own colleagues what they are learning and follow suite, especially if it's within one of these listed languages. This will help you if you run into problems since you will already have an established support network of friends for help.

Hope that's useful.
You're entirely free to roll your own and to open source it.
As you mention yourself, you don't get the same from playing the music as others do. For all but professional musicians, it's a hobby - just like some people like building cars, or program, or do woodworking, or a million of other things that require skill and experience to achieve mastery. And this mastery requires a creativity that computer do not have, and in my opinion, will never get unless we come up with a radical new computation model.

The satisfaction you get from sitting down, and play some music that express your current emotions exactly, or the emotional state you'd like to be in, is just great. I played the piano as a child, and for reasons out of my control I stopped, and have never really been able to pick it up again. I still hope I will some day - just have to sit down and play on that piano I have.
My teachers did explain it that way. European school, if that matters.
Having bandwidth is one thing, utilizing it to its fullest potential is anther thing. Only the problem of randomizig target ip and port in real time and not hurting the throughput of the scan in the process is one tough nugget.
I suggest that you read the readme before making judgment about the complexity of this project.
Gentoo bug @ https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478184
Piracy only kills music that people are willing to bargain for, i.e. where the cost matters and not so much the music. That translates to a lot of mediocre crap generated and promoted by the record industry themselves.

However, the reason people buy works of good musicians and bands is that because it means something to them to own that particular cd or album. That's something you can't pirate because the point is to own something from the artist and through that bond emotionally liken yourself to him/her.

If someone's good, it doesn't suffice to copy his music for free because you can hear it in a lot of places anyway. And you've probably already copied his albums from same place or some friend by the time. But you're still craving for the only remedy which is to buy the album yourself so that you can listen to your own copy of that album.

People want to own things that they deem important, and nothing's going to change that. The market for that is smaller than the preplanned pop music market of today, but it's still a big market and it's also a market that isn't subject to whims of trends that come and go.
Law has namespaces. What "employee" means for labor law can be different from what it means in tax law, which might be unlike what it means in corporations law, which can differ again from immigration law.

Sometimes these differences create loopholes. Most often, though, they just create the illusion of loopholes.

Understanding the law in its correct context requires a lot background knowledge on each particular body of law, which is why it's always worth consulting with a lawyer when stuff like your personal freedom is on the line.
I only have a smartphone, and a point and shoot camera(I love taking pictures).
> By contrast, saying, "Well, forget Zambia, look at the whole damn world: Black people just sort-of breed poverty," is the exact opposite. To say that in polite company is very offensive.

Well, it sure sounds like you're saying it anyway. Do you believe it (the claim in quotes) is true?
>philosophy and computer science aren't as unrelated as one might think;

There is some interesting category theory and set theory being done in philosophy departments.
The only reason for these operators to do memory sharing would be if it allowed them to oversubscribe RAM--is there any reason to believe any of them are doing that? It seems like it would lead to extremely noticeable and severe performance or stability issues in edge cases unless the provider required you to run a specific image on your instance.
It would be nice if every single government secret classified not classified as NOFORN became public very quickly (a few years at absolute most). I can understand justifications of keeping data marked NOFORN secret for many many years, but see no reason why the American people should support secrecy that lasts any longer than the amount of time it takes to achieve some political objective.
>You'd think for people in academia, addressing socially and politically uncomfortable truths would be their du jour.

Academia is on the vanguard of suppressing uncomfortable truths, particularly when it comes to human biostatistics.
Is it free or am I missing the price somewhere?
I was burned on more than one occasion by the "RAID" disk volume getting corrupted. As much as I liked Windows Home Server, I was really hoping the next release would have improved their drive volume manager, rather than just killing off the product.
Copenhagen Suborbitals Supporter here. I just wanted to let you know that these guys have an awesome youtube profile over here: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPzFMJIsp2fOQ_ic5a_zXTA

Also, you may find more information on this page http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/support_us.php (Yeah, shameless linking to the support us-page.

Peter Madsen writes in Danish on his blog on the Danish newspaper Ingeniøren: http://ing.dk/blogs/rumfart-pa-den-anden-made

Kristian von Bengtson is blogging on wired.com: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/rocketshop/
No, as there's more going on than piracy in the music business.
I lived close form a nuclear plant for years (in France).
I know when you move in, the city gives you a set of Potassium iodide pills. They tell you to ingest them if you hear the firemen's horn 9 times straight.

Good thing is that there are way more water/plants/animal testing for radiation close to nuclear plants than others.
So you actually are quite sure to eat healthier than in more remote areas with less controls.

Last risk is explosion/fission/big problem.
Well in this case, common sense tells me that I would prefer live close by and enjoy the white light for a few milliseconds than live 200 kms away and die slowly :s.
In the UK at least youthful continental philosophy could not be more interested in the hard sciences. Even take someone like Badiou - probably the "Derrida" of our age - who could not be more interested in getting the mathematics that form the core of his thought right.
Ray Brassier and the speculative realist pseudo-group are trained continental philosophers who also lean analytic. Becoming more and more common.
Good catch. From a quick survey it seems the state I'm most familiar with is extra finicky regarding SSN collection and validation.
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Ah ok I understand it now. Yes, like that you can have fun and meet people for cheap
Star Wars opening crawl from 1977 in HTML/CSS/JS
It's wrong to get paid by force, not by voluntary exchange.
Disrupting the Diploma
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Are you implying that this part of mass surveillance should be ignored?
It serves as a reminder that even though this implementation has been proven correct that does not rule out bugs in the proof or in the method used to create the proof.
Indeed. But not as much as one would think.
There are people hustling for change. Also, if you can work from south pacific, you can work from Sardinia.