skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Using an image algorithm to process audio reminds me of Jeff Hawkins' arguments in On Intelligence, specifically in arguing that the brain processes all types of input in the same way of recognizing a pattern of activation within a sequence. Very interesting book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Intelligence
How to make your Gantt chart more realistic
This is the one thing that really pisses me off. It gets worse when the lane that you are merging into has a line of cars going back almost a kilometer.

Doing this is like saying "Hey you idiots, look how smart I am" to everyone waiting for their way in the right lane.
3D data, but 2D plots.

A histogram of a normal distribution (say, mean lifetime of a particle) is a 1D histogram. You would have counts of decays vs time. In your example, that would be 2D, but it's not.

A 2D histogram would be more like a heat map. The X axis would be time, y axis version, and the (x, y) value would be memory.
So first it begins with the installation, now it begins after installation...

I have a strong feeling someone is trolling here.

Can you paste some of these 'cryptic error messages' that you were getting?
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Nobody is forcing you to stay in the congested lane. It was your choice and you have no reason to think everyone else has to do the same. If it's a legal lane, then drive in it.
Actually, here in Europe, MAC doesn't seem that popular.

Most of the people i know just use Windows (Belgium)
Goodbye Wholesale Brands
Georgia dropped the ball in general, so I'm still waiting for the federal site to let me log in.
Two Sigma seems like an interesting company, any tips, info or contacts for a business development position?
Thanks for the detailed answer, this was insightful.
The easiest way to win, Do More Than Expected
Because they are incapable of producing competitive products (their phone market is people who can't afford anything better or who are motivated by fanboyish prejudice) and because their corporate culture appears to emphasise cheating, deception and dishonesty above all other values.

I mean really, even if you thought Android was a better solution why would you buy Samsung?
Doesn't this simply displace some of the wait to the onramp?
What sucks is that they are charging for it. When your talking about monitoring 100 servers, that's $1000/month. Currently I use Check_mk/OMD and it works beautifully. Oh, and its 100% free.
MTCP is a standardized protocol extension to TCP documented in a handful of RFCs, there's multiple implementations. Apple didn't use the one you linked to.
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I'm making MOOCs since the beginning of this year (not just computer related). I will not say that substitutes the university life (I had one teacher that used to say that college only worths for one thing: meet people) but it really opens your mind and expand your skills.

I agree with you: 2 courses at the same time is the sweet spot.
>Unresponsiveness due to one tab thrashing

Or even not trashing. When one tab asks for username/login with a pop-up ("Authentication Required" one) and you have it saved in some email opened in another tab you can't switch to email tab until you kill the login one.
I call it "god window" (god tab in this case) pattern. Very typical for most old and some new Windows desktop apps.

Chrome handles it perfectly.
The concept of undercover agents in this mess is interesting - they can't just quit, but their entire support teams could conceivably be on furlough.
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I highly recommend http://www.uptimerobot.com which is a free tool. You can monitor up to 50 sites with 5 min intervals. Very useful email notifications specifying how much time your site was unavailable.
I'm not sure about "irresponsible," unless you mean in the sense that he might impact his own future earnings and jeopardize his kids' college education etc.

On the other hand, if he honestly felt that Snowden did the right thing but is saying the opposite in order to keep his job intact, you could say there's a different kind of "irresponsible" going on.

Hypothetical: Should prospective S/TS clearance recipients be asked if they would reveal classified information if they thought that NOT revealing it would undermine the Constitution? It would be similar to asking a prospective soldier whether he or she would obey an order from the Commander in Chief that clearly violated the Constitution (e.g. "assassinate the Speaker of the House").

Such questions just aren't asked; but that's the question Snowden asked and resoundingly answered.
This is such interesting stuff. If you go just one step further and plot the carrying capacity of a road against the speed of traffic on it you get a hump which tends towards zero as speed reaches infinity.

The significance of that hump is that it represents a maximum carrying capacity for a road - an optimum speed. If you do the numbers I believe it's about 50mph. What I think is really cool is that when the road is completely at-capacity, traffic is stable above 50mph (as cars can just slow down and capacity increases) but collapses to a jam below below 50mph (because as the traffic slows down to absorb new cars, capacity falls still further).

This is way why, when the M4 motorway funnels down to only two lanes as you approach London, there is a 50mph speed limit - it literally allows the road to carry more vehicles per hour. I also suspect that it's another benefit (other than safety) of setting 50mph speed limits in contra-flows and during roadworks - it allows the road to carry more vehicles despite having fewer lanes.
Sage advice. It's more productive to find the link and post it than it is to just complain about it, so I guess I should follow your lead. :)
Deadly lake turns animals into statues
In the short-term perhaps, but if it lasted a while the reverse would be true as the market would be flooded with excess fodder production that would drive down the price of my fodder (Amount of grain needed to end extreme hunger - 40 million tonnes. Amount of grain fed to animals in the West - 540 million tonnes.
United Nations)
In every case I know of, contractors.
Show HN: Medium Clone
I used WordPress for a while, but switched to a host of static site generators about two years ago. One of the big reasons I switched was because WordPress was so huge, and unnecessarily so.

Their big overhaul of the wp-admin section, in 2.5 I think, de-emphasized the post writing page (something which was previously instantly accessible). That's what started pushing me away from WordPress.

Recently I've started looking for another server-side platform. I've been getting annoyed with the extra work involved with static site generators, especially for a rather trivial "look what I saw" blog. I installed Anchor [1] last night, and plan on playing with it. I'm also interested in Ghost, but it hasn't been publicly released so far as I know.

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Computer glitches, overloads hit health care exchanges
"the only differentiating factor would be"

And language / cultural stuff. I can't imagine trying to do trig or calculus with Roman numerals or Mayan numerals. And that's sticking to obvious math examples.

There have been theories that (insert language) has always been superior for (insert hard science) because of inherent linguistic advantages.

You haven't lived until you've heard William Shakespeares plays in their original Klingon and all that. I have a decent sorta-classical education and I find it much easier to read modern translations of ancient greeks than to try to puzzle thru Olde English.

I do wonder about some subjects like somewhat advanced physics, is the "charm" factor of a subatomic particle "charm" when Chinese talk about it, or does it get localized?

WRT making every assignment challenging, I was near the top of my class in most subjects in K12 and that would have driven me completely bonkers with the unfairness of it all. Teens are all, and always have been, a bundle of angst but I would go nuts if little Bobby Tables only had to power on the computer without hurting himself or the machine, but I had to write a malloc() function for the same assignment or similar. There's more than a little prison time mentality in contemporary K12 (intentionally?) and arbitrarily giving people hard time or easy time is going to make social issues. I would probably have gone on strike until grade 12 by coasting.
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* Developed the initial automation for unit testing gestures in a Kinect for windows. https://bitbucket.org/macrobug/kflux

* Developed a tool to assist research on test adequacy for Java programs based on assertions in code. Source code is not public
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When used in conjunction with Gunicorn, this setup gets significantly more complicated, involving middlewares and monkeypatches. That's why I wrote the module :)

This also doesn't require the use of Gevent, like using gevent-websockets directly does. Anything that inserts `wsgi.websocket` into the WSGI environ will suffice here.
We already had an election in which the Republican alternative was showcased. The American people determined "get rich or die trying" was not a viable option.
I search for "fracking" and only get back "tracking", "hacking" and "f__king" as results

"meteor" only brings back 2 results.
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About a year ago I moved my blog completely off of Wordpress and onto Piecrust[0]. I realized I didn't need all the dynamic tools available in Wordpress, because blog, and Piecrust has so far worked beautifully.

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Weren't 'you' (wingspan) the first online bank in the 90s?
I keep forgetting America is the only developed country in the world. I guess I'm so busy playing games on my PC and surfing the net on my HTC One, that sometimes I forget I'm poor and only bought these devices because I couldn't afford to buy Apple.

</sarcasm>

You really need to get some perspective about just how big the IT industry is outside of America.
Which podcast was it? I want to listen.
The purpose of making traffic flow smoother is that it'll push out the point where flow breaks down and you can extend the zone of (relatively) uncongested operation with higher vehicle throughput. Smoother flows leads to fewer abrupt stops and rear-end accidents that make the wait even worse. (Cars in a 'beautiful line at 35mph' behave differently from stop-and-go and for instance a fleet of self-driving cars would make the highest throughout, and extreme example)

As for late merging, evidence shows that it's more efficient in congested areas and by reducing the line, you help prevent spillover to other areas and importantly accidents due to conflicts. I can see one super suboptimal situation where a car completely stops to change lanes (into a stopped/slow one) due to bad flow, resulting in more than just a 2 second impact on one lane. MN signs say "use both lanes / take turns" and dynamically adjust based on traffic conditions. In LA, the "zipper merge" seems to be standard for most construction zones in traffic jams, with the only distinction being where you merge in the last 200 feet

http://www.dot.state.mn.us/trafficeng/workzone/doc/2004DLMS-...
http://www.dot.state.mn.us/trafficeng/workzone/doc/When-late...
I've used a modified version of the script for over a year now and was able to determine unreliable sites with it. Of course there can be temporary server issues and when you try to access the site it works again.

The script I wrote checks multiple sites in one go and sends one mail per script execution, if there are errors. I found that more manageable, the code for it is on GitHub
https://github.com/yaph/sitemonitor
You're thinking of a stock exchange. This is a marketplace. As in one person has a set of goods and services, and someone has a need for those goods or services. They exchange goods and services for other goods and services--or money--on the marketplace.

I honestly can't tell whether you're trolling or genuinely confused.
very cool of you to take the time to respond to this personally, joel.
I think the really hard stuff isn't done via PHP. Seems to me they use PHP as the front end because they want to focus on their really valuable technology - their C code.
> send every message to every client in the world

That's what I do, as I can't think of any alternative that is equally analysis-resistant

> A few thousand bytes a second is an awful lot of text

I was planning for ~500 bytes / sec so that traffic spikes wouldn't block up the send queue, but now that I think about it you're probably right -- even at 50 bytes/sec, the network speed cap would still be a fairly small factor compared to the amount of time spent typing...
re spinning up a new lane: the A38-M Aston Expressway into Birmingham, UK dynamically multiplexes its lanes together into variable width channels depending on the required upstream/downstream bandwidth :) - http://i3.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article1294911.ece/A...
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Any reason why you're anti-growth hacking? There are lots of great blogs and posts (check out Andy Johns on Quora) how extremely successful startups have blended marketing and engineering to drive revenue/signup/traffic/(target metric).
I still do a lot of decent work on a non-unibody MBP from 2008, so I think a 2009 model would still have some utility, but I would consider the price carefully - it might be more worth it to buy a newer MB air or something, knowing you'll get a few more years out of it.
Tiny? Let's agree with that.
But StackExchange is one of the most open "platforms" of .Net, and that's why its popular (at least for me, and i'm a .net developer)
If you focus on measuring present achievement, you can skip faffing around trying to correlate question difficulty to intelligence (that is, just ask a question targeted at that level of achievement). And you don't even need better IQ tests to do it.

Of course, this requires abandoning the idea that students should be competing with each other.
The Six Stages of Debugging (2012)
The finished work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6JcybgDFo
Thanks for explaining this for us. What is missing from this compared to what I see on the roads is trucks. The truckers always leave large gaps and it's a sure bet that jerks will cut in front of these rigs. I don't think the trucks are leaving that much space to "smooth out" the traffic but it's more a matter of safety and efficiency (saves fuel) when all the nimble passenger vehicles are stop and go and zipping all over the place. Truck drivers are so patient, they have to be, especially in rush hour I've seen cars jump in front constantly and the trucks keep making more space for them. The other half of people seem to just follow at the same pace instead of cutting in front, and every time some one does cut in front it slows them down another 2 seconds. So my theory is aggressive drivers aren't much affected by trucks but easy drivers are slowed down because they won't get in front... But if nobody gets in front of the trucks then everyone makes it at the same time. Basically the trucks are blockers for the aggressive drivers, so if you use them they'll get you home ahead of others. I don't imagine any truckers are on HN?
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