skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just yesterday I was looking at this http://m.fbi.gov/#http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/april... as a fun, different challenge to work on and wanted to be able to translate the dot-notation characters into something more easily distinguishable. The pattern matching in python would have helped a lot, I think.

As far as the cross-domain use of these algorithms. I realized recently how much overlap there is between what we perceive as 'different' domains. Both audio and image processing tend to deal with detecting and quantifying patterns. It was a Eureka moment for me, but I'm just a simpleton, so I haven't done much with the new insight :/
I've been told that a lot of Chinese and Japanese prefer to discuss technical or philosophical topics in English or using English vocab, supposedly because those languages tend to the concrete rather than the abstractions necessary.
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What I think he is saying is that because it is now on iPhone, more devices/services/whatever may be likely to use finger prints for auth. This is dangerous because you can't change your fingerprint in the unlikely case someone dupes your print. If more and more things rely on finger prints, the value of duping goes up, right? What happens when your prints are duped once?
Thank you, I appreciate it. It was not my intent to depress you...but if there is anything to take away, it's just don't leave anything unsaid with someone, because you never know when they could be gone...
> I thought agile was supposed to be a preference for useful flexibility, rather than a fixed set of practices?

It is. To too many people "Agile" means "Scrum" (or, whatever particular set of fixed practices they've adopted, but Scrum seems far and away the most common.)
Not only all that, but the Wikipedia article states that after spitting out the oil you would then clean your teeth, gums, and tongue as you normally would.

It only seems to be a remedy for specific situations.
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>Increasing the speed at the merge-point will not decrease the queue. It will only decrease the density of the queue but move it back further in traffic. Your time to cross the merge-point will be basically the same.

I have to disagree with this. If you increase the speed at the merge point, someone who is newly joining the queue will definitely cross the merge point in lesser time than with lesser speed at the merge point.
I'm not. Care to enlighten me?
What are people going to do when, in the all-too-near future, criminals begin sharing and selling databases of stolen high resolution finger prints?

One theft isn't practical? How about a million? Driven by a never-ending pursuit of monetary gain via crime; with criminals always happy to conquer the latest technology wave. There's absolutely no reason to think that criminals won't amass substantial finger print records just like they do any other intimate information they can get their hands on, from SS numbers to passwords. It's not a question of if, but when this starts becoming common.

All it requires is linking finger prints to something valuable at a mass market scale, and that will drive an unlimited criminal demand for finger prints.

It's not about the iPhone. It's about a consumer shift to finger prints as a primary security feature, and whether that is sane (with the iPhone potentially setting the trend given its cultural status).
You don't need "sophisticated testing frameworks" to validate code quality. TDD should be caked into your culture. Even if it's not as detailed as some larger companies.

Pushing code to production should be an automated task that anyone can setup these days using something as simple as Fabric. Heck, code in reverse release scripts too.

And if you have few boxes in your farm/lb then push to half of them, monitor and if all good push to the rest. You should have 0 downtime in this model. Even with 2 instances under a load balancer.

All this requires some initial time expenditure but over the long term saves you a ton of time, headaches, lost sleep etc and allows you to push at anytime of the day.
>>> No, high-deductible plans are not "illegal" under the ACA.

Of course, the mere fact that plan is high-deductible does not make it illegal. However, as far as I know, under ACA it is illegal to offer plans that restrict coverage of certain options. Which makes specific plans that were restricting them (and thus making the plans cheaper) illegal, and they are getting cancelled because of this.

>>> There are some suspiciously similar stories floating around the conserv-o-sphere involving vaguely specified elderly couples

I've personally seen multiple scans of officially looking letters saying things in the vein of "our insurance company discontinues this plan because of ACA". Are you saying all of these scans are fake and produced by astro-turf propaganda? To choose most "propagandy" one, just to get it out of the way, here's an example: http://michellemalkinblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/screen...
This is from Michelle Malkin, google who it is if you don't know, it is a very real (though not that elderly) person. Is it true or fake?
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A minor technical objection: you actually can improve slightly if you include a measure of IQ, because if you estimate from just the person's performance on a few questions, there's going to be a lot of inaccuracy in your estimate and a measure of IQ will reduce it (as would, say, a measure of previous grades, or data about previous questions, even in an unrelated area).
I don't think anyone cares what level of security you are personally comfortable with. If you are fine with its weaknesses, go for it.

However, those of us that set security on company devices are very interested in the quality of different methods, and are glad to as many learned opinions on the matter as possible.
Electric toothbrushes aren't more effective than traditional

There's a key qualifier: "assuming that the person using the manual toothbrush will brush effectively". I have a huge amount of trouble brushing effectively with a manual toothbrush; with an electric I can just let the toothbrush do the work.
That's an rather interesting idea. If you could get Cory Doctorow to write "The Day the Password Died" from your prompt, I'd be very happy.

Synopsis: an evil government steals the private thoughts and passwords of its citizens, most of whom are unaware of the threat. A few paranoid individuals come up with increasingly bizarre biometric passwords, but the government has secretly approved unauthorized (and speedy) cloning to bypass these protections.

Finally, the freedom fighters use the government's own technology against it, replicating the president's bio-metrics in order to shutdown and disclose the program.

No meaningful political change occurs.
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Ironically though, without the author's previous revisions (saying the same thing multiple times) the article wouldn't deliver the message as well.
> But as a culture, we have time. Maybe generations to figure out how to teach people using these new tools.

I'm concerned that we don't have as much time as one might think. The employment changes seem to be happening already. Maybe as a culture we have time, but in the long run, you and I are dead.
I worked on a similar system at somewhat larger scale (maybe 5-10x larger volume and dataset size). There's a lot of basic JVM tuning to be done. You have to monitor heap usage and GC pauses and keep manipulating heap size, perm gen size, heap usage that should initiate major GC (forget what variable this is) until you get things as smooth as possible and meet whatever resource constraints you want to meet on your hardware. In my experience, for large datasets ES really pushes the memory architecture of the JVM -- it doesn't really perform too well when your heap size is like 30g.

After that, you'll have to tune merging. The underlying Lucene storage engine chokes when it tries to merge segments that are large, so you have to tune the max segment sizes, etc.

Then, you'll have to tune your queries -- it's not feasible to do a full index scan on a large index so you have to get clever about how you pull data in chunks. If your data is timestamped and that timestamp is indexed, you can pull data for smaller time ranges which will be faster than pulling all data for an index at once.
Probably, but I haven't found yet my dreamed graph DB (serverless, Node.js compatible...).
I wonder if good zipper merges would be more likely to happen if, instead of having lane 1 merge into lane 2, both lanes got merged into lane 1.5.
One day we're going to need Kessler Cleaners in high geosync orbits to use lasers to "encourage" debris to deorbit.
Stupid me was thinking "Blink" instead of "Nitro".
Sorry :)
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One example is previous century German physicists, chemists, and engineers had a very high opinion of themselves. Go back two centuries and add philosophers.

I will agree its curious how those observations tend to appear from people describing their own accomplishments.
There are also 9 other fingers. Granted, not all of them are convenient to use.
I point complete novices to http://www.weebly.com/.

It has a gui site builder (wysiwyg) and what not, and is considerably simpler than wordpress.

What does barley have over weebly?

Can I download barley and install on my servers like I can with wordpress? If not, this is apples and oranges.
Fiat currency typically means money declared by a government to be legal tender. You can argue the value of bitcoin is arbitrary, but that doesn't make it a fiat currency. Way to slam dunk a straw man.
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Yep. Over-brushing can cause your gums to inflame and retreat, lowering the gum line. There is also no fix to this problem short of surgery. Wish I had known that when I was younger.
I love it! It's a counterintuitive result, but if you think about it, it makes sense.
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Oh no I did not realize that. Thanks!
That's a bit like saying "if someone has compromised your SSL certificate, stop using SSL; how about Kerberos?"
I'm so weary of people pitching the solution to WordPress and then tossing a proprietary cloud hosted thing at me. That's a complete non-starter.

All the time I hear from fellow devs "oh don't advertise you use WordPress, it's irrelevant to clients." Tell that to my bank account and all the jobs I've stolen from agencies who wanted to use their BS proprietary CMS.

I sell WordPress like this: when you want a rebuild in 10 years and I'm in Thailand smoking drugs with your money pile you just gave me, you'll be able to find someone to work on it no problem.

There's plenty to dislike about the WP codebase, but we all have to remember that WP was made in an era when coding reasonable software in PHP was nearly impossible. Nothing backwards-compatible can happen there that isn't going to destroy all the millions of existing sites. It's still pretty freaking easy to build a site with, especially when you compare it to other CMSes of that era.

Moreover, their development roadmap is actually really solid. I like where WP is going. I unfortunately would no longer recommend it for basic blogging due to its complexity but as a CMS, there's really not a lot of free software options that can function on that level without extensive database programming and security knowledge.
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there's also https://hnjobs.org/ that's free to use and you can search the posts.
Absolutely. The only thing I miss from Chrome is the clever indicator in the scrollbar when searching on the page. The only thing.
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Having smoother traffic is good on many grounds: happier drivers, better fuel efficiency, and what not.

But it does not make people go home faster. Let's put a simple deductive thinking practice:

If you are the first car in the jam, you are stopped and slowed by traffic lights, police, accidents or whatever, but the traffic jam does not affect you, you are going as fast as you can.

For the second car, you will not get to your destination faster than the car you're following. So however you drive, you will not be faster than following with minimal distance.

The same applies to the third car, and on ward.

Basically, the fastest way to get through a traffic jam is to follow closely, and that means stop and go.
> I'm assuming the brain has no magic way to respond differently to a video lecture delivered over analog NTSC on a PBS station in 1960 than to a .h264 file delivered over the internet in 2013.

Besides the differences in image/sound quality, you have differences in how much interaction there is, and I don't know if any of those video lecture courses had equivalents to discussions forums or peer grading of assignments. And obviously any programming course (or course with automatable grading) wasn't going to be nearly as good.

More importantly, the Big Five/OCEAN model wasn't nailed down until the 1980s, so you wouldn't expect to see any useful research examining Conscientiousness until then. (There might be MBTI studies since that came into use in the 1940s, but I think it's more or less junk...)
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I don't know that I'd characterize this as a workaround. Infinity.js is definitely a good approach, but you should expect good baseline performance from the browser even without more complicated techniques.
You are just repeating a dogma, not explaining why it is not good to think of a fingerprint as a username.
They're both correct. It's the old Pascal line -- "I would have written a shorter letter, but I didn't have time" -- which your post does a decent job of illustrating.

So really the title "Write less" is the misleading part. Write more, not less. Just remember that good writing, like good code, requires iteration and refactoring.
Don’t let people merge in front of you, ever.

When you merge, you're merging in front of somebody, so a rule like this, universally followed, is effectively a ban on merging. How's that going to work, exactly?

Travel time isn't the only consideration. Things like safety, fuel consumption, and stress levels are important too.
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Well, I like the name.
DXR, Mozilla’s large-scale code-search tool, gains a bunch of new features
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Virtues: A lot of the style rules are great guidelines.

Limitations:

minor:

Style rules shouldn't be followed when they make things awkward or harder to understand; that's more a problem with some readers than the book, but it's something to keep in mind...

less minor:

A lot of the grammar proscriptions are confused at best (and not followed by the authors themselves, in that work or others). Language Log has oodles of examples: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll
Not quite right. Finger prints are considered "something you are". Always with you, can be impersonated, but can't be changed. Something you have have would be a key or a token, that can be changed if compromised.

Agree with the rest of your comment. Cocktail "something you are" with "something you know" and "something you have" for potent results.
I like the idea, but in my brief test drive (before I ran out of searches) I didn't find much value in the discovered links on the right.

Some samples which illustrate the value of the semantic search would be helpful. The screenshot shows a virtually empty note with links on the right. What amount and type of content is best suited to the semantic search?
Sometimes it's good to support a position with argumentation. Brevity is saying the same thing with fewer words. In this case, the blog post is actually saying less. That may work for something obvious, but take care before applying this rule universally.
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...which also handsomely shows the real complexity of modeling systems where the human mind is involved, and the folly of over-simplified "1 car per 2 seconds" systems that look good in a computer model but fail to capture the real experience or decisions of piloting a car.
It's much easier to explain as if certain legislators were five...
Keep your pseudo-science to yourself, please.