skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this stage I think the 'card' concept benefits by being loosely defined. A followup tweet from the author (https://twitter.com/padday/status/376019194518589441) emphasizes certain interactions:

"don't think 'rectangle', think flipping, folding, expanding, stacking, grouping, sorting"

So yes, it's rectangular display groupings, but also small-chunks, repurposeable, and amenable to certain interactions reminiscent of physical cards.
Are you serious?!

The first couple of drawings are terrible, primary school level drawings - the perspective, shading etc. are all completely off.

If you honestly believe you couldn't pull something like that off given 30 minutes of dedicated drawing...well I don't believe you.

Some more examples of skills that are learned:

* Programming

* Public Speaking

* Estimation

* Throwing

* Juggling

Or are you going to start telling me that some babies are born with an innate ability to juggle? or programming?

I am not saying these skills are easy or trivial, they require thousands of hours of dedicated practice. It sounds to me you think most people are simply good at something and do that...when in fact people spend thousands of hours honing and perfecting skills.

You can't jump into the water and start swimming until you lean how to control your body through crawling, standing and lifting...with maths...you may be unable to grasp theorems because you lack basic training in propositional logic (something that is rarely taught before undergraduate unfortunately - it is so simple and provides a grounding that would make any additional mathematics teaching a whole lot easier) - what is your mathematical background? what books have you studied? what lectures/courses have you taken? Lets see if we can't fix this!
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> I'm obviously aware of both commits, and of much, much further context beyond the commits.

Maybe you should share that first, rather than leaving it implicit. (If your comment tells the whole story I am unconvinced. OK, so the guy merged a patch, then it turns out he did not in fact have the blessing of his employer, so he reverted it with a slightly snarky commit message. Any more context I should be aware of beyond that? It does not sound like a huge conspiracy to me.)

Edit: also, what does "The Management" mean? This guy's immediate supervisor? Intel CEO? I feel like some people are taking an oddly paranoid reading of the situation. I don't know anything about Intel specifically but I have worked at a large company, I am willing to bet that the higher you get in Intel's management the less they care about Ubuntu.
I'd imagine it's hard to tell the difference between offline bookings from other sources, and repeat guests. We list our room on Airbnb and occasionally on work email lists, CL etc, for longer-term sublets. We have never taken an Airbnb guest offline, but from the surface it would look pretty similar, with the balance of insurance vs someone you have had enough contact with to trust (and the fees/tax aspect), I can certainly see why people'd do it. Especially given a recent experience with unexpected underpayment from them :/
It's like a fake version of https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says
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It's good, I use it frequently at work and recommend it to people periodically. My editor of choice right now is TextMate 2: https://github.com/textmate/textmate
In an ideal situation you process the fruit locally before it is transported. That's why basic orange juice is cheap, it is processed into a concentrate block before being shipped to the destination.

As others have said, there is huge savings from buying wholesale too.
Hubble Deep Field:

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr2012037a/
First, it should be noted that if you're actually in the industry you're targeting, chances are you have relationships that you can leverage. Your comment seems to imply that you're an outsider with no domain expertise who believes he has ideas to solve problems in various markets. If that's the case, you have the aforementioned domain expertise shortcoming.

Second, far too many technical folks seem to believe that they have to sell what they've built. That's almost never the case. There are people who make a living selling all sorts of products and services in established B2B markets. If you have a product or service of merit, chances are you'll be able to find somebody with sales experience who will be interested in selling for you.

Now here's the key: you must be prepared to invest money into your sales efforts. You're probably not going to find many good, experienced salespeople who will work on commission only. And depending on the market, you'll most likely need to budget for tools that will help your salesperson succeed (trade shows, etc.).

Bottom line: it takes money to make money. If you're not willing to put cold hard cash on the line to sell your solution, you have no reason to expect results.
You make it sound like they had a choice. They'll never be able to say it publicly, but even if they were happy with slow growth I'd bet a lot of money their VC investors weren't.
It can't be that old, since according to Wikipedia Haskell itself is only about 23 years old. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(programming_language)
I think this is unfair: you're comparing a trivial observation to a nontrivial theorem, and complaining why the complicated thing isn't as easy to play with as the trivial thing.

The Curry-Howard isomorphism really doesn't add anything to the conversation that wasn't already there. Mathematicians already know what it means for a proof to be constructive or not constructive, and they know it's easier to work with constructive proofs.

Besides, we already know that there is no general way to compute roots of arbitrary polynomials using elementary arithmetic. What you really want is a procedure to find a description of such an x (to arbitrary accuracy, disregarding efficiency), and these are a dime a dozen.
> 150GB and 100M records is not huge, not even close.

Close to what, if I may ask?
HS math and calc a is some math, definitely not all, but a good chunk of what I would call "applied math"---the math that links directly to the real-world, meaning the concepts can be understood intuitively, e.g., the connections to physics.

The trick is to covertly throw in some formal proofs to prepare the reader for the more abstract stuff. Going directly into proofs might be too much of a jump for some people, though I agree that, ultimately, this is what mathematics is about.

As for the foreign notation, I wrote an appendix which explains how to read things:
http://mcgillweb.alwaysdata.net/notation_appendix.pdf
If it displaces fossil fuels, definitely.

It still wouldn't change the tons and tons of nitrogen fertilizer runoff that is going into our oceans and creating the oxygen poor "dead zones".

Nor would it stop every seafaring nation on the planet from overfishing (they all do).

And don't forget all that radiation from Fukashima that's already in the Pacific.

But at least it would help the CO2 problem. It might be too late for that however. The current CO2 is already in our atmosphere, so unless we have a really good method (and the resources and want to implement that plan) to fix it back into the ground we're still going to see it's accumulated effects. Combine that with the already smaller polar ice caps which aren't reflecting as much sun and we might already be past the point of no return.

I dunno, I think we're fucked and there's really no solution other than a drastic decrease in the human population.
Or maybe they have other things they want to do with their lives than grind it out at 2-3% monthly growth for 5 years.
Property is harder to hide than other forms of wealth. You can hide your money in an offshore bank account. It's pretty hard to hide land. If there's a piece of land, someone should be paying the land tax on it (if whoever owns it is hiding, the people can grab it back).

So land tax is fair and progressive (the more land you own, the more tax you pay).
Then the future of the web is quite bleak. I don't think there's a standard accepted form for the card, unless everyone decides to copy Twitter et al.

I'm still browsing a fair number of sites that fall outside of social media and "sharing sites". Twitter for me is mostly for news and some social interaction where I see cards being used effectively, Pinterest is nice to look at from time to time, but I'm not stuck there either.

Now more and more people are confusing Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and family with "The Web", but a fair amount of content still resides on independent sites. That leaves a vast majority of independent sites that may or may not modify their markup to be "card-friendly".

Also, Twitter makes their card-friendly markup explicit and I'm not sure that's gonna fly for the long term. If everyone is willing to standardize on Schema.org markup OTOH, then I'd say it's acceptable.
Great points. Any suggestions as to verticals which are particularly under served by software?
Why not adopt the goal of deprecating all ciphersuites but one? Let's have a debate about the best ciphersuite and settle on a single one. That would decrease the attack surface and would allow the crypto community to focus on getting the implementation bug free. It would also give attackers a tighter focus, so we'd better pick the right ciphersuite! To Brian Smith's list of criteria, I would add implementation simplicity as a very important requirement.
This isn't news. If anything, it's news that the NSA is doing something right: Looking into the large, nearly-state-run enterprises of not-so-friendly foreign powers.
They go on to call him "a blogger and civil liberties activist who lives in Rio de Janeiro".

In comparison, Wikipedia lists him as an "American political commentator, lawyer, columnist, blogger, and author":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald
Right now it's 1.30 AM where I'm living (a studio apartment in a crowded building) and I can hear my neighbor hitting the concrete wall that stands between me and him and screaming at his girlfriend "Just leave me alone! I can't even finish a quest! Leave me alone!". Apparently he's playing WoW.

He's been doing this (screaming in the middle of the night and hitting the wall) regularly since they've moved next door approximately two months ago, all of it caused by his "deaths" that happen in an online game. The first time when I heard him I thought this was just your casual "mad guy who gets upset when drinking too much", but seems like I was wrong. The only thing which I can't still understand is how come said girlfriend is still standing by him, I can hear her from time to time asking him "please be a little quieter".
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not even close to 'huge,' although my english syntax is a little rusty.
I don't think you realize how much time you spent learning to read and write, considering that every waking moment you're surrounded by things with text on them.

Also, you have a pretty skewed idea of how evolution works. How long do you think it took for evolution to "wire our brains" to learn to write quickly?
Obviously a modicum of training is always needed in most contexts, the here is that if you have an innate ability to, say, swim (which I don't by the way) you can pick it up after a few hours in the water (I've seen toddlers do it), and that's only because you have a web of neural pathways that makes you particularly apt to this specific task. Lacking that wiring you're left flailing in the water wondering why you had such a stupid idea as to get in the water in the first place.
Given the size and content of the patches under discussion here, I think they'll be fine maintaining that level of Mir integration with the Intel drivers themselves.
Write articles and go and interview people as a journalist/researcher. You can do that in your spare time and you will get good access to decision makers and find out all about industry perspectives and pain points.
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You might not be able to draw the first drawing right now, but if you as bad at drawing as the average person, I can't imagine it taking more than a few days or weeks (max) to get to that level, with a very modest time commitment. 10 years of practice dedicated to self-improvement? You'd be extremely technically proficient by then.
First it was global cooling about 40 years ago. Then it was global warming. Then it was climate change. Now it's a global warming pause.

The only thing constant is that career scientists get to make a name for themselves, agenda-pushers have something to base their claims on, and newspaper companies get to sell more newspapers.

We don't have the technology to accurately predict the future. Heck, the past has already happened and won't change, but the way we interpret new discoveries changes it changes all the time. If we keep discovering new things about the past, how is it possible that we've already discovered everything about the future?
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No, but talent does matter a lot in the last mile. Barring any physical or mental handicaps, however, I'd say it matters very little in the first few miles. I'd even go so far as to say this is true of almost any thing one might choose to get good at, not just mathematics.

To put on my logician's hat for a second, the great grandparent said, "You can't teach a person to paint, or to write, because you can't teach them talent, the same is true with math." The unstated assumption in this sentence is that one must be talented at, say, writing in order to learn how to write. Of course, this depends entirely on what one means by "writing", "talented," and "learning."

If "being able to write" means being able to write as well as the best writers do then, yes, I'd agree that takes talent. If "being able to write" means having a command of written language above the mere mechanical act of putting words on a page, e.g., humor, irony, structure, flow, etc., then no, I don't think that requires talent. It requires interest and deliberate practice, but I don't think it requires talent.

This word "talent" is kind of a boogey man, anyhow. On the one hand folks plenty of folks say I'm "talented" at math. On the other hand, there were years in college where I spent 40+ hours a week studying it.

I think anyone who chooses could become a decent at mathematics, swimming, playing the guitar, or baking pies if they really wanted to, regardless of talent.
The guy in the article wasn't completely moneyless, he just came up against the recurring costs of taxes/rent which can trip up the unorganized.

Google car expense is overplayed. In mass production and with competition the cost would go way down.

Also, if the government makes the 'homeless' drive to specific places out in the desert or something, that's better than the current situation where you're exposed to other homeless and dangerous people.

I actually wouldn't mind going 'homeless' for a while to save money on rent, but currently it's really dangerous to do so. Moving to low rent places is also usually more 'dangerous', especially with children. With a driverless car you can just take your family out into the desert or forest and pretend you're camping.

The current system of full-time rv-ing is quite hard because of parking restrictions and because sending kids off too school and getting groceries from out of town is hard, and because the rv's are too small. With self-driving rv's you can have a few of them to space out in.
We all lurked for a bit. :)

I've spent most of the day talking with different people about this book. There's a lot of really great wisdom that often gets overshadowed by the few manipulative techniques.
Formal verification allows you to prove that an implementation faithfully implements its specification. What does the formal specification for a web browser look like? I'm guessing that we're talking about thousands of pages of extremely dense math and code. How do you know that that specification is correct, or reasonable or what the user wants?

Now, maybe we don't want to do formal verification for correctness because it is too hard. So we settle for formally verifying that a program has some property of interest, like memory safety. But if you want memory safety, it is a lot cheaper to just use a language that gives you memory safety for free (haskell/scala/go/python) rather than trying to formally verify that your C++ program is memory safe.
Assad continues to oppress his people by providing...
Why you consider Brazil "not-so-friendly" ? As a Brazilian I believe we are as friendly and peaceful as a soberany can get.
Its sexist and you're a grownup, presumably, who can control his reactions.
Design trends are just this - trends. Next year the future of the web will be very different.
The fact that we're continually surrounded by written text only helps explain why we haven't that much difficulty learning how to read it.

As long as the time it took for evolution to rewire our brains, I'd say more than a thousand of years, it's not like writing was invented yesterday.
I wrote a little "math syntax" to "english words" dictionary which might help you:
http://mcgillweb.alwaysdata.net/notation_appendix.pdf

In particular the section on set theory is important (element of, subset, etc..) and the two qualifiers: for all, and there exists. Here is a 6 page primer on set notation, which contains a simple proof http://mcgillweb.alwaysdata.net/set_notation.pdf
IMO this is exactly the kind of event that demonstrates the purpose of Valleywag.
Serious question: what economic incentive does the healthcare world have to adopt something like this?

If it's a finger prick, there's less to mark up.

From the outside, it seems like the entire healthcare industry is built on being purposefully inefficient so as to create large costs that they can in turn mark up.

To the VA, inefficiency is a problem. In the healthcare world in general, it doesn't seem to bother anyone.
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I like that the city for this account says "Mountain Dew, CA"
By the end of the war, 1.1 million Jews had been killed in the camp, along with 20,000 gypsies and tens of thousands of Polish and Russian political prisoners.

Why simply mention Jews and explicitly mention Polish and Russian political prisoners? Did innocent civilians not die at all?
The deterministically derived ECC constants are derived by seeding a hash function with an extremely high entropy input (> 100 bits), and taking the first usable result. This is effectively the same as choosing the parameter. The NSA had freedom to specify this very high entropy seed value, and could have done so by iteratively trying seed values until they got a curve that weak using techniques only known to the NSA; it's just a way to disguise the origin of the curve by making it sound random. The situation with Kobolitz curves is only slightly better.
How do you choose whom to talk to, and where do you find them?
How about:

Obama – "The national technical debt is increasing at an alarming rate. We have to stop writing PHP."
Obviously a shill, huh? Sorry, but I find her a lot more believable than you.
can you just download chrome and use the flash player that's built in?
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For a 1MB JPEG, that'd be over 8 million different images.
Of course, languages like Java have StringBuffer objects. In Lua, if you are generating a string, and you know that it will need a lot of concatenations, you can use something like this:

local string_buffer = {}
while condition() do
table.insert(string_buffer, getString())
end
local string = table.concat(string_buffer)
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False memory experts also work closely with interrogators and prosecutors to avoid contaminating testimony. Most district attorneys do not want to be involved in a fiasco like the Satanic ritual abuse cases.
Let me put it this way: in all of the industries I've been exposed to, I've never encountered one that had a) no pain points or b) companies entirely happy with their current vendors.

Note that you don't necessarily need to find a market that's underserved. Plenty of markets are served, but not well. Sometimes, doing something marginally better and/or doing it for less than the entrenched competition is all you need to create opportunity.

The size of that opportunity will vary of course. A lot of wantrapreneurs look at huge markets and think in terms of 8, 9 and 10 figures, but if you're more realistic (i.e. you'd be happy with a six or seven-figure annual top line with healthy margins), I would suggest that opportunity is abundant. The easiest way to find that opportunity? If you meet people in unsexy markets, talk to them. Most wantrapreneurs won't give these folks the time of day.
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Strange he cannot afford 134. He has articles in his house he could have sold no?
you point is valid but there's a difference between writing and learning math: while you can't without a doubt learn the basics of putting words on a page, you can't just learn enough math to write/understand a proof. A proof is reasoning put into writing, there's no mathematical equivalent of "putting words on a page" that lets you come up/comprehend one.
Re (2): This is also a great example of the perils of writing a complex algorithm and failing to provide overview documentation (like this article!), not just inline comments.

However, in the absence of an overview, if the code that you don't understand was written by jwz, you might want to study it very hard before removing it. :)
Could you go into more detail on this? It sounds interesting. I think one problem I have is that I have too many projects and I'm not good at bringing just a small number into focus.
Are tax liens different from other kinds? It's my impression that if e.g. a lender repossesses, they sell the house, pocket what you owe plus fees, and have to give you the rest back. It's strange to think it would be different for unpaid property taxes. Was Coleman truly "left with nothing" or did he get a portion of the sale proceeds?
Swimming is not innate...some people do pick it up easily, others take a couple of times, but I have never heard of anybody who is "unable to learn how to swim" and once they learn they can practice and get very good at it....there is sometimes a genetic advantage (Micheal Phelps springs to mind) - but he wasn't always nearly 7 foot swimming giant, he had to learn different techniques and practice for hour and hours a day to get as good as he is.
I don't mean to be taking the wrong side here but I'd be interested to know why didn't he didn't pay the money (It seems he was given warning).
If he couldn't pay then I'm surprised he didn't sell his TV/remorgage his house/borrow money/ask friends or family to help or something. Perhaps I'm naive and he really couldn't do anything about this but it would have been nice if the article had covered this.
Yes this is awful but I don't like the suggestions from some that the government simply shouldn't try to collect small debts. Surely no one would pay small debts they have then?
Spy agency spies. News at 11.

It is in the NSA's mandate to engage in any espionage that will give the US an advantage. I just don't understand how us spying on a state-controlled Brazilian company is somehow a revelation. It would shock me if we didn't spy on every major foreign company in the world.
Did the NSA just destroy computer security as we know it?
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