skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An aside, but:

> A Novel Method for Applying a Trivial Modification of an Already-Known Algorithm to Some Type of Specific Data

Papers sharing empirical findings on applications of existing research can be very useful to those of us also, you know, looking to apply said research. Don't underestimate the amount of value (and legwork!) involved in figuring out how to adapt and apply theoretical work to real problems in some CS-related fields.

Obviously that kind of thing isn't accepted at the top conferences, so you know where not to look if you're not interested in it.
My definition of Deconstructionism: you can misunderstand anything if you try hard enough!
"Just about anything else you might want can be had by joining a startup, where you get paid to learn."
Then so be it. "The best tool" is a complex multi-value optimization that includes intangibles like personal preference. For me personally, server-side js wouldn't make any sense (right now) -- it's not my preferred language and it doesn't have the same sort of library support as other langs.
The issue of diversity is overblown. The most failed state in Africa is the most homegenous one: Somalia. But then again, Botswana is very homogenous and does pretty well.

Rwanda, Lesotho, Burundi and Swaziland are countries that actually fit precolonial states. You got civil wars and coups and a crazy monarch out of this but also some nice stories later.

++++++

The part that should be discussed more often is neither democracy nor nation part of the nation-state but the state part.

Post colonialism failed because it is colonialism with different rulers and may be more confusion.

The needs for a state, an army, a capitol and a bureaucracy was taken for granted and never actually discussed. So is the role of the traditional chiefs (in some places they're on goverment payroll).

At the same time, expectations have always been high for what the government is supposed to provide.
Places that never had an industrial revolution are trying to somehow do it with generous pension funds and environmental rules. That's way more nuts than the idea of having elections or whatever people think about when they say democracy.
Commercial = I make money from using this; Non-commercial = NOT commercial

(In case the sarcasm was a bit too thick, although it was at no less a level than your reply, I think it's plainly obvious what the licence is dictating and hope you will go into a little more detail of your viewpoint that it isn't)
>On a Friday in late August, parents of freshmen starting at Wake Forest University, a small, prestigious liberal-arts school in Winston-Salem, N.C., attended orientation sessions that coached them on how to separate, discouraged them from contacting their children’s professors and assured them about student safety. Finally, as their portion of orientation drew to a close, the parents joined their students in learning the school song and then were instructed to form a huge ring around the collective freshman class, in a show of support.

Just right off the bat, what the fuck? My start to my college career was me and my mom lugging my stuff 300 miles to the dorms, unloading, her hugging me good bye, then not seeing her again for 2 months.
Did anyone sign up for the free trial?

http://bigdata.brightplanet.com/Portals/179268/docs/BlueJay_...
Hm, I've never heard that Google was giving take-home assignments, and even with the job relevant tasks.
Would you be comfortable sharing the traffic numbers on your site?
Sitting near the front of the auditorium were the parents of a freshman — an investment manager from Bronxville, N.Y., and his wife. The father went to Dartmouth, and when their son announced that he was applying for early decision at Wake Forest, his father asked, “Are you sure you couldn’t do better?” Under the spell of Chan’s reassuring message on finding a career, he turned to his wife and looked at her intently. “This,” he told her, “is the greatest school.”

Wait, what?
This article has already been disputed. As bitcoin has grown businesses like Bitpay are starting to handle payments for merchants, and exchanges and other businesses are beginning to coalesce bitcoins into wallets. That is why bitcoins are starting to become more concentrated, not because some individuals are earning more.

It's actually very difficult to make bitcoins with bitcoin investment, there's only risky bets and day trading right now. There are no reliable interest-bearing instruments.
a bit off topic question:)

Perhaps the way how you approached your own startup was wrong. Why quit job entirely rather than develop some network of freelancers and outsource time consuming tasks to them? It will increase costs, but also greatly reduce overall risk.
Personally, I find your comment less readable than TFA.
You can just look at the source (Ctrl+Alt+U in Chrome). It's an HTML document with a single script tag in it.
There is no bright line determination. The details depends on how well the teaching falls within fair use. For example, it isn't fair use for a teacher to make copies of the complete works of Borges when the lesson only covers 'The Library of Babel', but making a copy of 'The Library of Babel' will likely fall into fair use.

Even then, if the teacher makes the text available to the students via a public web site, then its availability to non-students puts it outside of fair use.

However, the Z3 license does not prohibit teaching in general. In fact, it says:

"You may use, copy, reproduce, and distribute this Software for any non-commercial purpose, subject to the restrictions in this MSR-LA. Some purposes which can be non-commercial are teaching, academic research, public demonstrations and personal experimentation. You may also distribute this Software with books or other teaching materials, or publish the Software on websites, that are intended to teach the use of the Software for academic or other non-commercial purposes."

How does this have "a chilling effect on the education of some compsci fundamentals"?

If the software is going to be used for commercial purposes, then Microsoft wants some of the action. If you're going to teach how to use the software for commercial purposes, then Microsoft still wants some of the action.
This is a movie plot threat.

Most vulnerabilities in software are not caused by suborning one of the developers -- developers create vulnerabilities all the time without being subject to adversarial action. The adversarial actor just has to look at the software artifact created and find things about it that the original developer does not realize are true.
It's spinning in the wrong direction!
It's a little confusingly worded. There are two time periods being condensed in that cluster of sentences. T1 = when the kid first applied for college and told his father about wanting to go to Wake Forest, prompting the father's dismissive comments; T2 = when the son, now a freshman at the school, shows his parents around.

That last sentence is also a little sloppy in its pronoun use: "he" is referring to the father, when it could conceivably (as written) be referring to the son.
Sorry, I was describing the post Cold War world in which we actually live. Pulling "counterfactuals" from a totally different era that is dramatically unlike our own does nothing to disprove the logic that holds today. What next? Advocating a return to cavalry because it worked so well for Napoleon?

Reality is that we have enough conventional arms to obliterate any country that threatens us in any credible way. In addition to the world's most conventionally lethal military, we also have the world's biggest economy. Even if we did disarm dramatically (e.g. cutting the military budget in half and decommissioning all our nukes), no country could take advantage of that given how quickly we could rearm, if needed.
Apple, RIM, etc. provided backdoors to India intelligence (2012)
Crashplan and Backblaze are popular online backup solutions. Either will allow you to backup your entire boot partition, or just your user folder.
> One little final point. I think the reason the word "problematic" is used as a noun is because it is used as a noun in French. Correct me if I'm wrong.

It is but this [0] says it comes from a translation of problematische Urteile in Kant. At any rate it wasn't used as a noun in French before 1936

[0] http://atilf.atilf.fr/dendien/scripts/tlfiv5/search.exe?23;s...
The book seams accessible.

This subject is difficult and requires a lot of time to understand and put something useful into practice. AI books appear frequently these days. I feel that most of books and tutorials fail to deliver good practical examples and meta-code, focusing more on mathematical proofs.

I am struggling to understand Peter Abeel's aprenticeship learning: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.74....

He can resume the thing in a couple of slides. It seams short and simple (!?) but I think I am still away from truly understand it. Maybe next year.
Reminds me of the old 1992 winner of the IOCCC by Brian Westley (who consistently entered some of the most impressive programs in that contest). It doesn't spin, but it prints a map of the provided lat/long.

http://www.ioccc.org/1992/westley.hint

main(l
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for(d=atoi(a[1])/10*80-
atoi(a[2])/5-596;n="@NKA\
CLCCGZAAQBEAADAFaISADJABBA^\
SNLGAQABDAXIMBAACTBATAHDBAN\
ZcEMMCCCCAAhEIJFAEAAABAfHJE\
TBdFLDAANEfDNBPHdBcBBBEA_AL\
H E L L O, W O R L D! "
[l++-3];)for(;n-->64;)
putchar(!d+++33^
l&1);}
Uh, no. Also, as noted, the economic gulf between the US and the middle east is so great that it would be impossible for them to secure a decisive nuclear advantage before an even fully-disarmed America could re-arm and recreated the MAD situation once again.
Well you must agreed we should credit Microsoft on at least one thing...the third party driver install process from Windows Update is so smooth even Scence_Cast2 wasn't aware it happened.
The Iliad and what it can still tell us about war (2010)
Hmm, I certainly don't follow Twitter engineering very closely, but I was surprised not to see any mention of Storm here.

Why wouldn't it be involved? Maybe I'm misunderstanding some of this or Storm.
The vast majority of OTC derivatives was far less disruptive to the banking sector than your average vanilla home mortgage loan during the crisis.

An overwhelming majority of all the banks that failed during the crisis had zero OTC derivatives on their books, but plenty of average vanilla home mortgage loans.

Internal documents from the banks that did deal in more sophisticated financial products show that they had a good understanding of how these products exposed them to risks in the home mortgage market, they just didn't think that housing prices would fall that much.

Despite all this, people like to blame OTC derivatives for the crisis rather than overconfidence in the housing market.

Why is this?
Just because you said it several times, doesn't make it correct. SkyDrive is mirroring and backup - changes in skydrive are versioned, which means that if an unwanted change gets mirrored you can revert it.
http://pastebin.com/P3eXCg07
and opposite side. The market will tank tomorrow by 1.5-2%.
Also interesting:

https://www.novainfosec.com/2013/05/13/apples-ios-backdoor-t...

http://fairerplatform.com/2013/07/no-nsa-backdoor-says-tim-c...
Immigrants lacking papers work legally – as their own bosses
>And not to reciprocate, but free markets are much more likely to be transparent than any other. When a free market realizes consumers demand transparency, transparency becomes an option in the market. Not the only option, but one of the many.

One that rarely, if ever, happens. Because, for one customers are powerless against a whole industry, second the industry can lobby to buy regulations and fix the conditions so it won't have to be transparent and third the people are told and manipulated by the very corporations (and the media they control either directly or through advertising money) to not ask for transparency. Plus, the industry can sell "fake transparency" and none will be the wiser.

That kind of reaction for transparency can only work for a small time, against some niche or singled-out company -- and that's only until the media moves on, the public forgets, and the company makes some vague promises and alters arragements enough to confuse people that it made "changes". Like Nike sweatshops, Foxconn, etc.

The markets most likely to be transparent are those that are heavily regulated, with a vigilant population and where profit is not respected as the number one motivation behind business.

And those are not those commonly touted as "free markets", but markets in places like New Zealand, Sweden, etc.
That's why they should NOT try to cover everything.
Strategic investments. Infrastructure before law enforcement. Education before health care.
It looks to be a different implementation.
Daron Acemoğlu explains the difference between Somalia and Botswana in his book "Why Nations Fail".
Ah, you know what's interesting about that list? Most of those places have very high proportions of Native American populations.

So we're looking at a different problem here: helping out the Native Americans. If the Europeans hadn't come over and colonized this continent, America would've been yet another "Africa" - so to speak.
Did anyone else find it disturbing how the dialog box telling you about SkyDrive tries to hide the fact that you don't actually need to use it by make the "Don't Use SkyDrive" button not a button but clickable text? The vast majority of users will not even see the clickable text, and of those who do, they'll think it's not clickable, ensuring that millions of people will sign up for the service, even if they don't want it.
My key advice is to not pay attention to the minutia of the task, if you do you'll always underestimate. A better method is to forget the specifics and ask yourself 'If a buddy told me he was doing this, how long would I guess it would take?'. We have more experience hearing about projects and how long they took then we do really estimating the duration of creative tasks by reduction.
Why nowadays keyboards usually don't have L-shaped Enters? I can't imagine productively working without it...
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6385227
equity futures are already up 1% during sunday's trade

http://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=ES
If people are using this for interesting projects, I'd love some details.
"The warhead had a yield of nine megatons—about three times the explosive force of all the bombs dropped during the Second World War, including both atomic bombs"

My god. That alone is enough to scare me. Why on earth would you create a single weapon so powerful when you aren't limited to only one? I guess I don't fully grasp the concept of an arms race because no matter how I think about it that just seems grossly irresponsible.
You could insist on a long secrecy period "to get the fix tested and rolled out", sell the vulnerability to the NSA and delay the fix for it as long as practically possible.

Or the NSA could just read the vulnerability from your e-mails. It's not like the NSA needs to pay.
A prestigious degree, a proven track record and personal connections to power-brokers

Which of these things is not like the o-thers?
Zambia's average IQ is 77. Is it possible that an average IQ of 77 isn't conducive to prosperity?
Wow. This is 180 degrees away from the mainstream narrative of how the crisis developed.

I'm not trying to bait you or argue, but do you have any links? I'd be interested in some supporting documentation for your claim.
Highlights the benefit of using a common framework for your service infrastructure. If I see another pointless node app for some backend service that isn't even high concurrency just cause the dev wanted to play with a new language... grumble grumble
What do you mean, you shouldn't believe google? they said they were going to shut it down, and they're shutting it down. you can believe that.

if you mean you shouldn't trust google to maintain APIs forever, then yes. of course you shouldn't. you shouldn't build any product entirely on top of an API you don't have an SLA and lifespan guarantee for. doing so is irresponsible and unfair to your users, and when a free and un-promised API shuts down and breaks your product, you have nobody to blame but yourself.
Technically it may be purged by blackhat SEO, because google search result ranking algorithm is poor actually and can be easily gamed by anyone who has 100 dollars in her pocket.

Only because Bing/DDG SERPs were not gamed by "SEO" activity doesn't mean it can't be done and/or those SEs algos are any better than Googles.
Tattoos, hackers, "cyber warfare"...it's all the sensational stuff that I've grown to expect in the news. While yes, offensive cyber operations/effects stuff is the new military hotness, what about the real geeks on the front lines? Where are the profiles of radio operators or network/system administrators who are actually physically present on the front lines? Where are the profiles of 22 year old Marines who are experts in RF propagation, field expedient antennas, and satellite link budgeting in austere environments while engaging in combat operations? What about their counterparts who operate and defend enterprise scale, secure data network enclaves supporting 10,000+ users who demand real-time information to command and control forces in battle?

It's not as sexy, but those are the real geeks on the front lines. They work in grueling environments, far away from their families and deserve to be recognized in their fields.

http://www.dvidshub.net/news/91656/radio-operator-vital-pers...

http://www.dvidshub.net/news/79421/data-marines-wire-battali...
One of my PMs had this last week. We assumed it was some sort of maintenance mode indicator given the spanner icon. A mystery indeed!
Just wanted to add another textbook option that's of comparable breadth and quality, but easier to read than bishop.
There are pre-print pdfs probably available online with a little searching. The exercises and accompanying data are really fun imo.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/MLbook/index.html
I address the problem by giving a range. Giving a single number is the real problem. For example I might estimate something as two weeks plus/minus six weeks, or a month plus/minus a week. That range is because of the usual factors (scope creep, things that have never been combined before, testing, meetings, holidays etc).

Sometimes the questioner picks up on the two weeks minus six weeks is a negative number. I then explain that existing functionality could be used, goals could be achieved in other ways, or maybe it just isn't really needed.
aside from the implementation being completely different and therefore not in violation of copyright, it would be difficult to give credit for something like this where every character is strategically placed.
In what instance would Apple be in danger under these laws? Regarding their desktop OS.
This is not really true btw:

>The problem with SS Africa vs. the Middle East is that the African countries, having no history of large-scale states before the Europeans came, have so many national divisions that it becomes impractical

Large scale political entities have existed in SS Africa.
And in large scale states are quite recent in the Middle East.
Weirdly enough, I've studying this kind of thing lately.

So it seems from the various papers Z3 is oriented around infinite precision real arithmetic. It's that kind of overkill for most practical problems?

How does it compare with iSat or similar approaches in speed? One of the problems with SMT, Satisfiability Modulo Theories, is that it involves a somewhat loose connection between a SAT problem and an underlying theory prover, which can slow down the whole process if the underlying theory prover is not very fast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfiability_Modulo_Theories
As a self-taught developer these stories scare me. I don't know the ins and outs of programming fundamentals, but I know how to program and I am really efficient in what I do as well. I've got big ideas, I have drive and vision and I think technical interviews can have the reverse effect of attracting real people.

For what I lack in low-level understanding, I more than make up for it on a higher level. Ask me to build something as a whole, don't ask me to solve mathematics questions and other unrealistic junk questions.

The biggest takeaway from this post is definitely this:

In my experience, when we are programming on the job, we're given the problem and we have time to think about it. We have time to research possible solutions, we have time to try stuff out that we know will most likely fail, and we can wait until we have something decent before we show it to our colleagues

^THIS. One hundred times over. How is putting someone on the spot to build something and build it perfect a good test of their capabilities and skills? That's not even how it works in the real world.
Last week I wrote a fun tool using it (actually, any SMT-LIB 2 compatible solver, of which Z3 seems to be the only open-source-ish one that works out of the box) to search for optimal branch-free load-free C implementations of small integer lookup tables (i.e. something the compiler should do but doesn't). It's really a minimal use of an SMT solver, but it saved me from having to think of a more clever algorithm than brute force.
This layout still feels inferior next to my http://trulyergonomic.com/ keyboard. I was really skeptical at first, especially with the price tag - but I'd never go back now.
Remote kernel logs with netconsole and rsyslog
While this article did a great job extolling Andy Chan it did nothing to answer the question, How to Get a Job With a Philosophy Degree.
I backed Ghost on Kickstarter and I really like the idea of an ultra simple platform. I have had blogs for years on Tumblr and Blogger, but I'd certainly be open to using Nolan's work.
Poor people are "producing" children because they actually want to have children and love them just like anyone else. Not having children will be seen as just another inequality imposed on them.
> Most theoretical backbones of math and science were discovered/formalized for anything but commercial reasons.

And if they end up serving no practical use they end up discarded and ignored by scientists and engineers (if maybe not pure mathematicians). The author's point is that there is no such selective pressure on lit crit.

Also, poststructuralist lit crit is not the be all and end all of "the humanities".
Steelseries mechanical keyboards generally have L shaped enter keys. It's part of the reason why I never bought one.

I understand your opinion as a matter of preference, but why does your productivity require it?
I checked it out of my public library. While I've enjoyed Docktorow's Makers and more recently Rapture of the Nerds, I didn't feel I was quite the target audience.

However, I passed it to my nearly teenage son, who very much enjoyed it.

After he finished it, I took it back and Homeland - the sequel to Little Brother was on the new fiction cart. My son enjoyed that too.
Same. Looking forward to getting beta access in a couple of weeks. I built a little solar powered raspberry pi node box that'd certainly benefit from a little node-based blog :-D
Z3 supports many more theories than just real arithmetic. I've primarily dabbled with difference logic and bit vectors, both of which I believe benefit strongly from SMT's SAT underpinnings.