skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is really fascinating, I will have a good look at that, thanks!
I have a SQL parser in Haskell on github here (using Parsec):
https://github.com/JakeWheat/hssqlppp

The model in the article is roughly based on the version in Date and Darwen's work which is almost the same as what you mention: project, rename, extend, join, union and not matching. The summarize by is kind of syntax sugar in this system. I left out some of the operators which weren't used anywhere in the code in the article. Industrial grade conversion from SQL to relational algebra is a real challenge!
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It would be good if this was available as a permanent fixture at bike racks. Because it would be static you could use higher strength heavier materials that would stand up to an angle grinder. The big problem for a lot of cyclists is hauling heavy locks around. A keyless static lock would solve this.
I wouldn't exactly call Python's logging module glorious. Its API is unintuitive and foreign (lifted from Java), any customisation requires subclassing and it destroys performance on PyPy (because of the constant use of sys.exc_info().
All the more reason to make sure the CinC project gets completed!
I lost a friend about a year and a half ago. He just stopped responding to email, and I found out he had died about two months after.

Pancreatic cancer is a bitch -- he was gone in about three months, and he was (a) busy as fuck wrapping stuff up and (b) very sick for much of that period. He had all he could handle.

I did get to go to a memorial for him a few months later. I still miss him; one of the best programmers I know, and he got me into motorcyling 25 years ago.
Might as well be called "Google Ad Designer" :)

There seem to be a hidden agenda in everything Google does these days.
It seems like crime follows income disparity. When you have a lot of wealth connected to a lot of poverty, and not many people keeping them apart, you have crime. It surprises me that Oakland is even worse than Detroit - perhaps because Detroit doesn't have the wealth?

I believe this bus fight video was also in Oakland. http://youtu.be/tYTO4P80q9k
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The article is "Rich, Black, Flunking" by John Ogbu, a Nigerian American. http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/rich-black-flunking/Co...
Gah, you're right, thanks!
I don't think that's completely fair. The people who are providing the content on a lot of web pages are not the same people who are responsible for the monetization scheme. Some sites have good/decent content, but really obtrusive advertisements that the authors aren't responsible for.
Why would you assume most of them are dead? Would you make the same assumption about, e.g., the Mafia? Or MS-13? Do you think Al Shabab is a fiction?

Why is it something that's so hard to believe? The precedent for a highly organized, inter-national underground group exists (Mafia, Triads, etc). The precedent for states funding such groups exists (just look at the U.S.'s history of funding militant political groups around the world!) What's so hard to believe about the combination of the two?

Maybe what makes it unbelievable is that the existence of Al Qaeda is incompatible with a particular world view, one that rejects the need for anti-terrorist military action and the international surveillance networks that support such action. It would sure be convenient if Al Qaeda were just a fiction.
Any job is boring if you are not motivated by something, whether it's money or career or building something cool or learning new stuff or whatever works for you... without that it doesn't really matter if you are a programmer or banker or cab driver, you'll hate it...
Ouch, my bike locks are always under tension. If I walk past and it unlocks, that means I can't walk past my bike without locking it again!
> it turns out to be virtually useless

That's debatable, however Data.Dynamic is built on top of Data.Typeable, which provides a lower level runtime type safety facility. I think we can both agree Typable has lots of interesting uses.
In my experience, the more you learn about Haskell, the more you can pick out spots in your code where you could have made something more concise, more elegant, more efficient, etc. The excellent thing about pure functions and Haskell's strong typing, though, is that refactoring is a breeze -- changing a function will never break another function as long as the inputs and outputs to that function remain the same.
There are two sides when it comes to the lock security. First is the structural security.

Comparing to the locks in the market in terms of structural security we are well above average. We can't beat Kryptonite New Yorker but we are as good as other Kryptonite U-Locks. Note that every lock in the market can be easily compromised with an angle grinder. The amount of extra (structural) security you get per dollar has a diminishing return. For example, a $60 lock is probably six times more secure than a $10 lock, but $100 lock maybe hardly twice as secure as a $60 lock.

In terms of electronic key security (or keying security), there is no way to hack the lock. Everything is encrypted using 128-AES (access control industry standard). Plus we make sure our keys have are completely random and have maximum entropy. On a side note, I have a PhD on embedded system security, so you can probably on this one. We are also going to send BitLocks to a group of hackers in Germany and challenge them to compromise the security of the locks.

A final note, encryption even the lousy ones are way more secure that the mechanical keying systems. Most locks can be picked by professional lock pickers.
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What sort of locking mechanism will be used? I live in Canada and ride my bike all year round, in the rain, snow, sleet, below freezing temperatures, etc. Sometimes I have to leave my bike outside during the winter. I've had trouble opening my key operated lock before when it froze in the middle of the night... luckily I was able to get it open with rubbing alcohol and chain lube after about 20 minutes.

I'd be worried that this thing won't handle the weather, especially if its only battery operated (no key).
Yes, but there are exponentially more concepts than words. The words we have are sparse set of labels for particularly relevant combinations.

But yeah, the continuous dimensions can hide many more binary dimensions.

For example, 4-D rgba can be smashed into 1 continuous (or 64-bit) dimension, but that feels a bit like cheating.

So it sort of feels like 1000 64-bit dimensions is a tricky name. 64000 1bit dimensions.
Well, SVG's default coordinate space is defined in terms of CSS pixels, which explicitly allow for rounding to match (a multiple of) the device pixel size. So, if you align things to SVG pixels, they'll likely come out rounded to device pixels.
Thank you! After that first paragraph, I couldn't take the article seriously.
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Even hacker news is kind of over these leaks, this worries me immensely. We live in a kind of digital prison right now, let's hope there is a way out.
Yeah, there is a small risk, although, in all the years, it's been two instances where emails stopped going out and some people forgot to log in in that duration (nothing has ever gone out before its time).

You can customize your notification intervals to make them longer or more frequent, if you want. The risk isn't very big, though, especially if you remember to log in every first of the month, for example, just to make sure.
Well, you also can't do that in PNG format.
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> There is no way to dispatch on the return type of a function, for example.

A feature, in my opinion.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6459968
I'm not at all sure about it, but I wonder if you could combine multimethods with core.typed's `cf` to accomplish this.
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Maybe not your friend today, but how about your friend from yesteryear? I reach out periodically to old friends that I have absolutely no contact with (no Facebook, no nothing) just to see how they are doing and reminisce, and they do the same.
If you’re good, you have nowhere to practice right now except the open internet, where it’s a federal crime.

Not quite true. Many massive sites offer rewards for finding vulnerabilities. Be sure you comply with their terms of service while doing so.
Definitely not the most elegant thing I've written. But I've been feeling like doing the exact opposite of what this post says lately. It gets really frustrating to be asked regularly "It should be easy" or "Why can't you _just_". It isn't JUST. No change is JUST anything. Trying to remind myself with this post.
There's a setting in ABP for Firefox that allows you to show "placeholders of blocked elements". I think that's what you're after if you want to use ABP and maintain the layout?
There aren't that many metal phones on the market, are there?
You just admitted windows phone... they gonna wire you up. Then, they gonna keeeel you.
That's really not what I took away from this. Why do you... you know, care what happens to your online accounts? Web accounts are no more special than your library or toll road accounts. The only reason bank accounts matter at all is because the contest need to be disbursed.
I don't think anyone around here bothers with picking the actual lock.

True in general, but for a time one could pick Kryptonites with a Bic pen.
I would seriously consider doing robberies where I can make more money with less effort, assuming that the risk was fairly low.

You would? Do you think of respecting others, their property and the law as some kind of luxury you could do without if you were sufficiently needy?

We could have a philosophical discussion about free will and the irresistible forces of circumstance, but in order to have a civil society we have to at least pretend that people are responsible for their own actions and will respect the law even if they might not get caught breaking it. And indeed, most poor people aren't thieves.
Incidentally, Google's style guide actually recommends omitting optional tags such as the closing </p>

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/htmlcssgui...
no it is not. half the people that are using it do so because it is shiped in browsers ,the other half are server side masochists that are not smart enough for Scala or Closure ...
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> The only (minor) criticism I would have is that I would have liked to have seen more of the input code (I didn't spot a link to it anywhere).

What do you mean by input code? If you mean the original R code, the entire analysis is provided in http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20meta-analysis#source - when I add new studies, all I do is add an entry to the table of data, re-run the R code, and then copy-paste the relevant output. (I could probably automate it even more with Knittr but it doesn't seem worth the work of integrating Knittr with Hakyll.)
Can nobody see the cause and effect here?

Danger! Danger! Narrative fallacy ahead!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_fallacy#The_narrative...

None of their infrastructure would be getting forced exposure from their own employees if they had not gone down this path?

Careful! Note that Snowden was not an analyst. He didn't actually have access to the programs he has leaked information on. They weren't part of his job. (Similarly with Manning, as it happens.) The people that have first-hand knowledge, and those that are actually involved in the work, aren't the ones leaking.
When my sister died it was a source of comfort to read her FB wall and see the nice things people wrote about her. I would think someone would have written on the OP's friend's wall that would give a clue that he had died.

The other thing that's been nice is that we were able to find my sister's FB password, and were able to post her obituary. We continue to post pictures of her two young daughters she left behind.
Ugh. Let's privatize the fire departments next.
> ...just have it log findings and generate reports.

And send you a text if it thinks it sees a Hornworm larva on your tomatoes, so you can rush home.
Do you want your on-line account compromised with Viagra spam after your death? Do you want your grieving family to receive BIGGER PENIS NOW advertisements from you once you've passed?
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If you want an amazing way to blow an afternoon, read some of the abstracts published in the "Journal of Consumer Research" (http://www.ejcr.org/)

It's an absolutely fascinating way to see how little turns of phrase, naming, and packaging can influence our perception. There are some absolute classics that back up this article showing that giving exotic names to jelly beans led them to be picked more often, even though they tasted the same e.g. Orange vs. Blood Orange.
This is probably one of the most profoundly sad things I've read in a while. I don't know you or your girlfriend but I truly feel sorry for your loss. I am fortunate to (so far) have not experienced the deaths of many loved ones. I could only imagine the range of emotions I would feel, especially with their virtual presence persisting after they pass.
> By the 17th century in Europe it was a well-established fact that the only people who smiled broadly, in life and in art, were the poor, the lewd, the drunk, the innocent, and the entertainment.

Not sure this explains it all. Maybe later not smiling got established as the style of portraiture of high class because the high class was the only to have portraits in the first place, but doesn't explain why they didn't smiled in the early days.

The best explanation I heard about this was technical: old photos had long exposure, and holding a perfect smile for long is tiring.
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Gambling (for clients) is a negative-sum game. Market indices (that are not rigged) random walk but with an underlying drift. The claim that day-traders cannot beat the market (index) does not mean they need to mathematically be negative in returns (on average).

So, this is patently false assertion.
I don't know about manish_gill, but I certainly wouldn't.

I guess the people running those websites will have to choose between continuing to publish content on the open web, knowing that some users won't look at the ads, or putting everything behind a paywall, knowing that some users won't subscribe.
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Not about diversity, just an example of culture. I wanted to pick a counter-example that didn't include pizza or alcohol, and "chocolate brownie" came to mind first because I had one in front of me. (Unfortunately not company sponsored. It's long gone now!)

The general idea is it's good to know the perks that are offered. Somebody will always feel left out. (People whose diets preclude brownies, for example.) It's good to know what the culture is going in, so that we can self select and only choose to work for places in alignment with our beliefs.

Perhaps more useful signals of culture would be hours worked, amount of autonomy versus teamwork, and types of customer interaction.
...and would be worthless in most locked-bike locations. There aren't too many electrical sockets available near parking meters and signposts.
I live in Oakland now (although I plan to be in Issaquah or Bellevue WA by the end of 2013, thank god). I'm not really a good robbery candidate (which should be obvious just by appearance), but I'd never use a cellphone, laptop, etc. in public (including in cafes) in Oakland. I leave my house by car. I'm more than adequately armed and secured at home.

I've never had a problem with crime in Oakland personally, perhaps due to this level of precaution, but I know a lot of people who have (generally females walking or using public transit, in the afternoon or at night, in uptown and affiliated areas). Think about how much your laptop/phone/ipad/mifi/etc. together are worth, and whether you want to be displaying that on the street, at a bus stop, etc.

The weird thing is Oakland rents in the Grand/Broadway/Adams Point/etc. area are starting to approach ~2004 SF rents; a 1BR is about $1800-2k, up from about $1200 a couple years ago. I'm not sure if increasing rents will lead to less crime, since most of the people moving to Oakland are "hipsters" or "young single people", who generally don't prioritize security as much as families or older people.

(The huge amounts of crime in Oakland, which largely influence the stats, and most of the violent crime, are in the large gang/etc. areas where no hn reader would be likely to go. A friend of mine lived in a warehouse in one of those areas, and I ended up having to drive and walk through active ~50 cop police raids on the neighbors to get to her place several times. It was pretty lulz; I would not recommend it.)

If Alameda became as "issue on good cause" as the San Mateo County Sheriff, I'd more seriously consider living here again.
Interesting idea, but I wouldn't expect it to work out well for long. It would probably require a lot of regular maintenance, and if one breaks down while your bike is on it, you would be screwed until a tech with the master mechanical key comes to rescue you... which might then also make them liable if you locked a stolen bike there...
As someone from the St.Louis area I'd like to point out that the official crime rates are largely an artifact. The municipality called the City of St.Louis only covers a small amount of the actual city and includes most of the high crime areas.
"The net effect is that NSA analysts look at 0.00004% of the world's traffic in conducting their mission – that's less than one part in a million."

Weird how direct quotes from leaked documents sound less bad than the articles about them.
With an ISO of about 1, it’s not uncommon for exposure times to fall in the 5-10 second range, even in broad day light. Smiling is not recommended for these long exposure times.

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Fernando Ramirez, Making tintypes

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Crime shouldn't be justified due to poverty.
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This is the on-line version of the "If I die, get rid of my porn stash so my mom won't find it."
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I honestly don't buy this, but even if you would personally starve to death rather than steal to obtain food, the vast majority of people would not.

Nobody in Oakland, or the U.S. generally, needs to steal to obtain food. This is not Dickensian England. Government social programs and private charities may not be perfect, but they are more than enough to be sure anyone capable exercising a minimum amount of effort and self-control will not be in danger of starving to death. Obviously there are continuing problems with the mentally ill, but those are not particularly relevant unless you think they're disproportionally committing crimes.
How exactly would my passing cause this?
The was and continue to be a lot of refactorings, but they were/are pretty much all related to the complexity and sheer number of features in SQL. Haskell really gets out of the way, and helps make the refactorings much more easy.
I had always assumed that it was due to the long exposure times of early photographic techniques such as the Daguerreotype.

Specifically, since photographic skill was in short supply, and people with equipment had bad experiences with blurry faces when people couldn't maintain their smiles long enough for the exposure, that a trend emerged advising people not to smile.

Then, as this trend became firmly entrenched and everyone forgot the original reason, an idea was collectively conjured that it simply wasn't "fashionable" to smile in a photograph.
There's a bunch of WM tasks floating around, all slightly different: forward digit span, backward digit span, verbal spans, complex spans using arithmetic, game-like WM tasks designed for children, suites of WM tasks like Cogmed, tests included in quantified-mind.com or Lumosity or Cambridge Brainsciences, etc. These are what I mean by n-back may 'near' transfer to other WM tasks which are not themselves n-back.

As to how valuable WM is, I'm not sure. There were a bunch of positive papers from people like Klingberg, but these tend to use subjective measures or WM-related measures, and there seems to be an absence of studies tying the WM training to concrete useful changes like improved grades or standardized exam scores.
You mean this? http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/09/12/3521473/man-who-...

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I think the reason I interpreted this a bit more "heavily" than you may have intended it is simply because of the lack of links to get to existing content on the site.

That, combined with the "signing off" nature of the message and that the site's nav links no longer resolve made it feel like the fact that old content could be accessed at all might have been an accident.

But it's great to know that you'll be keeping it all up there; your blog's content is an extremely valuable resource! Thank you for spending the time and energy on it over the years.
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I'm grateful that you're leaving the stuff up. I've learned a lot from you over the years. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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> I'm not going to turn to robbery if I lose my job.

You need to walk a mile in someone else's shoes before you judge.
Gambling is mathematically negative sum. Its a fucking stupid tax. That is ethically dubious for non-religious reasons.[0]

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Betfair's business is illegal in the United States[1]

Betfair faces millions in fines after content ruled illegal [2]

[0] It is activity tolerated (cynically) for its ability to raise taxes, and even then only in small doses.

But I believe if you do some google research, there are other concerns.[3] These include things like time-delayed feeds to support real time betting (and fraudulent front running) as well as a variety of your typical deceptive TOS pseudo-scams (bonus schemes, etc).

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/companies/betfair

[2] http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/01/1048962760523.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betfair#In-play_betting_contro...
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Have changed Blogger settings so that blog.jgc.org shows multiple posts making it more obvious that it's all still there.
In my experience since version 4.0 the compatibility of LibreOffice Writer increased considerably. I do not have any problems with MS Word documents for quite some time. YMMV of course..

The compatibility test mentioned above [2] was performed in 2009. According to the LibreOffice release notes a lot of the positioning errors were fixed.

http://www.libreoffice.org/download/4-0-new-features-and-fix...
This could also easily enable a small scale bike sharing scheme (among trusted people). In order to keep track of where each bike is, the phone app could update the position to shared map when the lock is activated.
I like that this and Tox are tackling this issue, but they seem to be missing a huge piece of the puzzle: the so-called metadata.

If you can hide who the messages are being sent to, you can protect yourself against them spying on who your friends are, which to me, is just as important. Also, if you don't know who the recipient of an encrypted block of text is, it makes it near-impossible to brute force the private key(s) of all encrypted text coming out of a single IP.