skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a wonderful idea: I particularly like the aspect of reading outside of your primary field. It seems that many breakthroughs come from the rare person who can take a concept from one field and apply it to a seemingly unrelated field of which they also have knowledge through some quirk of fate. But of course, it need not be pure chance ("the book on crop tilling was the only book I had while I was stranded on a desert island"), it can instead be self-enforced. Good luck!
There are a number of points in the article. Another is that books about creativity are simply another kind of management self-help "power of positive thinking" tripe.
I think you need a little quality control on the tags. What's with all the "keyboard mash" tags, ie. ArxicwxQlRqh? http://sciencegist.com/tags
"Legal" does not necessarily = "Right".

So forget about what's legal and just do what's right.

You are in a unique time and place in history (as evidenced by your presence here) to build something out of nothing and provide great value to others. So why don't you just forget about what you found and instead spend your precious energy building something?

As for the documents, either return them or destroy them and please move on. For everyone's sake.
That's good for them! These engineers deserve it much more than some disposable turd in a suit!
I really like how re_find gives you the actual regex match right off the bat, instead of having to go through match_result.groups()!
These slides aren't very useful without the talk.
You did not get it.
No kapish.
> Am I the only one wondering where the meat of the argument went?

I didn't read an argument so much as just a sneer against professionals who admire scientists and inventors.

But hey, sneering for sneering's sake is sometimes fun. The last paragraph has a little more structure than the essay as a whole, and is mercifully much shorter.

Maybe the best revision wouldn't be repairing the argument so much as reducing the whole thing to a tweet.

> the professional-managerial audience['s] members hear clear, sweet reason when they listen to NPR and think they’re in the presence of something profound when they watch some billionaire give a TED talk. And what this complacent literature purrs into their ears is that creativity is their property, their competitive advantage, their class virtue. Creativity is what they bring to the national economic effort, these books reassure them — and it’s also the benevolent doctrine under which they rightly rule the world.
At least for some of the Machine Learning and related papers (specially old ones), to reproduce the experiment should be relatively easy.
The title should have a Haskell tag.
Death rate is a result of middle management behavior, and the insight is stereotypical middle manager behavior is self organizing and reproducible regardless of higher level political belief? Middle manager behavior in Russia is interchangeable with middle manager behavior in USA, even if their claimed mythology changes?

You could come up with an alternate theory where death rate during actual R+D is very high and indeterminate, its just that actual R+D happens in small distinct pellets only a tiny fraction of the actual total program lifetime. So if 99.9% of the deaths come from fundamentally R+D mistakes but 99.9% of time is spent doing something other than R+D (ranging from operations to investigations) then the short term result is the same death rate. What I'm getting at is killing astronauts and cosmonauts results in program paralysis for many years, and we've only got a few decades of data, mostly spent in paralysis mode?
See a lawyer.

Seriously. See a lawyer.

People on the internet are not lawyers; if they are lawyers, their main advice is go see a lawyer.

Law is a profession of tiny details with huge consequences. Those tiny details vary from place to place and from subject to subject. Even lawyers have lawyers.

If I learnt one and only one important lesson from my time in law school, it's this: If you have a question of law, go see a lawyer.

I mean it.
> Frameworks sound great until you inherit a franken-app built using one.

And when you do, the ones to blame are the programmers who wrote the app, not the framework.

> Frameworks in the most case feel like straightjackets

You mean "bad frameworks" feel like straightjackets.

Using the right framework for the right reason is a productivity boost.
Ah, I didn't realise it had any comments. Apologies.
Not the same situation at all.
Apologies; my own writing style is influenced by reading a lot of eighteenth-century text, which tends to be very wordy, but which also seems to express a much higher precision of thought than the more terse modern fashions of writing.

I've noticed that Pitarou's advice on rephrasing my original reply would reduce it to something much vaguer than I'd intended, and would simply convey the conclusion of my thought process as a simple yes-or-no response, leaving my actual rationale entirely hidden.

I'm not entirely convinced that we've necessarily gone downhill in terms of literacy or mental capacity, but I agree that the outward expressiveness of language certainly has declined in comparison to the past, and this may be in part an explanation for the coarseness and contentiousness of much modern discourse.
I don't think that is his main concern. In the original post he seems concerned about the legality of information learned, not so much document ownership or lost and found rights.
Ah, this oldie-but-goodie (now in JS form I see!).

- Use [up] and [down] to speed up and zoom out (backwards) respectively.

- Zooming into the sci-fantastical world of O.Z. http://www.syfy.com/tinman/oz/

This fantastic interactive artwork makes me seriously want to watch the show being promoted (Tin Man, a TV miniseries). Many of the pieces in it are stunningly evocative (like the Asian city) and bring to mind some of the best adventure games of yesteryear.

- Zoomquilt II http://zoomquilt2.madmindworx.com/

Bigger, longer, and more unhinged than the original. This brings me back to the collaborative online art projects and people getting together on forums to do cool things for the heck of it.

- Zoom Out! from the SomethingAwful forums
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVGWb9-hhOI
http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop-phriday/zoom-out/

An endless (not really), silly pastiche of meme-y images, courtesy of the goons of SA.

- There's a tradition of "collaborative building" projects on the SomethingAwful Forums, which tend to be full of in-jokes and pop culture/videogame references. Some examples:

The Blue Ball Machine: http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/ http://blueballmachine2.ytmnd.com/
(These ones are a crazy joy to follow.)

Goon Tower: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMhacr36JB0 http://www.archi-ninja.com/the-worlds-largest-online-buildin...

Goon City: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=292...

Goon Base (the grandaddy): http://pictures.deadlycomputer.com/d/16192-1/goonbase.jpg
A loaded handgun is a fine thing to take on a plane. I imagine the hilarious part was more on the "chainsaw" end of the scale.
Fixed. Sorry! I had a recent bout with spammers :/ You can add a gist anonymously if you don't like to expose yourself, but having that functionality is quite dangerous online, for obvious reasons. I don't like captchas, but I'll have to add them soon (for anonymous contributions) if this continues.
As somebody who is about to start grad school, blogging about papers publicly sounds like an excellent idea.

At the beginning of my Master's degree, I was quite careful about making notes about every paper I read, but as I gained more background and started focussing on doing on my own work, I'd read papers only enough to get what I needed out of them (fortunately I have a good enough memory that when I needed something I'd already read about, I could often find the paper -- and I was religious about at least saving all the papers I read). Doing it publicly might keep the motivation up.
Why I decided to do a startup stright out of college
after seeing it loop for one time, I came back and started reading the comments (on my iPad).

I've had the feeling, while looking at the comment section that it was zooming out (away) from me as if it was to compensate for all that zooming in...
Documents left on a taxi seat can be characterized as mislaid. That is, the paper was intentionally put on the seat and forgotten.

http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=117...

Confidentiality is a an agreement between parties not to disclose information to a third party.

You are now talking about the unintended disclosure of confidential information.

Since you are not a party to the confidentiality agreement, it is impossible to enforce against you.

As far as insider trader, I don't suspect a random person who stumbled upon such data lawfully could be found guilty of any crime for using it.

Moving from an absolutely legal treatment of the problem to an ethical/moral one. What you want to happen if you were the owner of those documents?

Something to consider.
And before Joli there was Knoppix which ran on CDs and then USB, After that, Ubuntu started doing book from USB.

Nothing is new or innovative about this idea.
don't forget to get enough exercise and pauses.
Simple example: just compare IRS tax forms with HMRC here in the UK. It's as night and day. Even though they're both income tax agencies administering a complex tax code.

(Yes, the hobbling of government is limited to certain functions: and even within those functions it varies considerably -- it can be argued that there's serious incompetence in the administration of big military procurement contracts, for example, but the reason is that it makes it easier to spread the pork around, which is necessary to steer any large project through to completion because of the way federal spending is administered; whereas once the horrifyingly expensive procurement program has delivered a weapons system, actually operating it is usually carried out quite effectively.)
I did, the comments section was zooming out for me (read on iPad)
Context is definitely relevant. In 1832, Georgia held a lottery to allocate all of its unclaimed land. Almost everyone in the state participated. The value of each parcel of land was immense, life-changing for most of the people in the lottery.

Families who won the lottery reverted to the mean in a generation or two:
http://home.uchicago.edu/~bleakley/Bleakley_Ferrie_Intergen....

(To be fair, educational attainment and lifetime earnings of offspring are a different measure of success though, so that probably accounts for some of the discrepancy in the results as well.)
I had the same experience, reminded me as a kid riding in the bus, when the bus makes sudden stop everyone goes forward
Exponential? That's not accurate. Sure, some technologies increase rapidly, like semiconductors, but most are improving along a much flatter curve.
Thanks, looks like they did some great work.

That said, lots of schools saw enrolments climbing again in the late 2000s as the boom reached its onramp.
> As for the slowing of innovation. No. I am fairly positive the rate of innovation is increasing at an exponential rate just like it's always been.

The rate of innovation has not always increased at an 'exponential' rate. Why should it? No one would seriously suggest the rate of innovation has always increased since the year dot, in a proportionately upward curve. History has shown that we are quite capable are going backwards, forgetting previous advances, and and then relearning from the ancients (such as your steam engine).
Tum te tum..."answer a question to read the rest of this article".....pants to that.
Will a network be able to use this for mobile ads? (Not banners)
Atoms are tightly bound and hard to split, they are even harder to build. Up one level and starting with atoms the ease
with which the next structures (molecules) can be created goes up tremendously (of course with a lot of variation depending on which atoms are used).

Prime numbers are can only be split (factorized) in one axiomatic way (1 and the prime itself). This is with multiplication(or it's inverse division) as the building (splitting) operation. Primes are tough to deal with,
yet with them you can create (through multiplication) all other numbers. This is the fundamental theory of
arithmetic.

The correlation is apparent. Though as explained with atoms we are creating structures that are made up of atoms
but are not classified as atoms themselves (fusion can give you atoms from atoms but it is not easy business),
but with primes numbers we make other numbers that are not primes.
To some, it's not a "crappy" job. Friend of a friend left his "crappy" position as a manager at a popular retail chain to go work for the TSA, AND secured an extra $8k per year in doing so.

They're not making engineering salaries, but for a job which, let's face it, requires no skills or education, the make a very decent rate.

Add in a personality which loves a little power and being a TSA jockey surely looks pretty good.
Where can EU citizen study computer science tuition-free?
I'm very close to finishing high school and am wondering where can i study computer science, electronics or similar field in EU countries tuition-free?
Vagrant provider for VMware vCloud Director
Flipcase – A game that uses the case of the iPhone 5c
Cost your technical debt
Reading this article, Jennifer's, and the comments here have really inspired me. I think I am going to join you guys. Starting today, I am going to code for 8 hours every day for my full-time startup job. Hopefully, at the end, I will have a much better understanding of how much total time of how much of my life I am wasting working on other people's dreams when instead I could be reading research papers, building websites, invalidating patents, learning and practicing design...
>People who think it is funny to waste people's time, cause needless panic and generally be disruptive are nothing but selfish assholes.

So the TSA are nothing but selfish assholes? I can agree with that.

>If you actually cared about what the TSA was doing you would be an adult and lobby your local representative.

Chances are pretty high that your local representatives are the ones who were in favour of all of this. Replace one with another, and you're likely to get the same result. Call me cynical if you'd like, but I think there is good reason to be.
Something spooky going on at oink.cd...
My first framework was actually in Turbo Pascal (Turbo Vision).

Since then I have used:

- Turbo Vision - C++ as well

- Object Windows Library in Turbo Pascal and C++

- Microsoft Foundation Classes in C++

- An in-house framework done in TCL and C

- An in-house framework done in C

- An in-house framework done in a mixture of Perl, C++ and CORBA

- J2EE in Java

- An in-house framework in Java for web development

- ... (lost count of all remaining ones)

The desire for frameworks is something that runs deep with enterprise architects.

How many corporations tend to have architects that take a nice framework and always have to put their own layer on top of it as well.
There is a lot of documented experience on how private fire services work and where they fail - for example, New York experience with private firefighting companies is not that old and very interesting.
If you know scientific process you should know that there are no verifiable facts. We can just be a little less "wrong" than the people before us ;)

No, I don't deny the influence of genetics on intelligence and the like, however I don't believe that it outweighs teaching.
(I had the experience when our math class was way advanced compared and our A-level was easy due to the teaching methods of a very talented and engaged math teacher ...). There are tons of other examples, if you give an average person with average IQ the breathing room and spark their interest they can become an expert in any field (that's what I believe ...). They might not become a Goedel or Turing, yet that's something else ...

Do you say that it's in our genes if we understand a particular subject (e.g. algebra, differential equations ...) or not?

If you don't receive any formal training in anything or get the wrong teaching, sorry than genetics won't help you.
The type of training and teaching are more important than your genetics when it comes to contributions to the sciences (assuming no disabilities). I've seen this over and over ... at elementary school, high school and university.

There are studies that show that the IQ of a child for example is to 1/4 determined by their family environment and deteriorates rapidly with social risk factors. e.g.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8624.1993....

The problem is that intelligence is a bit more complicated than you want it to be ;) (and maybe that your genes are not made out to understand what I'm trying to say :D
Sure. But the context for this discussion was these two statements for what would be needed when implementing a basic income:

> - Union strikes for non-safety related issues have to be made illegal. You don't get to strike for higher wages when there's a GBI.

> - Hire/fire policies need to be made completely at-will, with pretty much no exceptions.

The second means you can fire striking workers and replace them, so the first is unnecessary and rather draconian.
What is the craziest thing you have ever said to your boss?
5 lessons for marketing your cash-strapped, early-stage startup
Sure. If everyone you deal with uses Google Docs, then you don't need Draftable.

It's meant for people who exchange documents by email.
I liked what https://draftin.com did around version control.
It's more about culture than guns. Russia is violent despite strict gun laws, and you could probably give every Japanese a handgun and a case of ammo and nothing bad would happen. This is not to say Russia would do better with more guns, or that America would not benefit from more controls. But changing the culture might be even more effective than laws.
I'm honestly not even sure how that case would play out at this point. I have such little faith in my country currently that I suspect it would be presented as creating unnecessary panic (or something similar) and thus not be protected by the first amendment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_(mathematics)

Taxi Driver Norm is listed under "other norms"
Sharing Fail
" but any joke or comment that doesn't actually violate a state or federal statute will not result in your arrest."

How would I know? We have secret laws that are enforced but the offender is not allowed to know what they are beforehand.
Good lord that was awful. I had to think long and hard about whether or not I really wanted to read the article.
Nobody is 'avoiding' that research. People already know a fast quantum algorithm exists for the factorization problem, which is the core of RSA. hence, people are already working on cryptosystems more computationally complex than RSA. Hell, even more computationally intensive than what quantum computers are thought to be able to do. The class of algorithms called lattice based cryptography are known to be impossible for quantum computers to break, even though these are fully classical methods of cryptography.
Not really spooky...They're clearly angling at starting a legal music streaming site leveraging the lore behind OiNK
Maybe what really needs to happen is for someone to make a "software keys" keyboard, where the characters are not imprinted on the keyboard, but are displayed on the keys instead. That way when you change stuff around, as is variously suggested here, WYS remains WYG, as it were.
Rad or dud?
They can probably shoot you.
Bejeweled Blitz Cheats
Even doctors have doctors and barbers have barbers. So?
Chances are, when you hear something like this from some kind of authority figure, it's because they deal with people who don't get the message.

It's never been ok to play like you're smuggling something through a checkpoint. "Keep your eyes out for the bomb I have in there, ha ha." I'm pretty sure this would get you in trouble even pre-9/11. Probably because there's not that much room between this and an actual bomb threat: "I have a bomb."

But people who haven't fully thought through the implications of this think of their words as innocent joking, and I bet some people do actually end up getting arrested who meant nothing by it. No one wins when this happens.

So they react by adding an intercom announcement reinforcing what has always been true, which is that you can't say you have a bomb, even if you're just joking.

--

When I see stuff like this, I often think of the proverb "Even a broken clock is right twice a day."

For people who think that the US is tending towards a police state (as the URL of this piece implies), by far the most compelling evidence of that are the Snowden leaks. Those are a totally different magnitude that stuff like this airport security announcement.

If everything you see, including stuff like this, makes you say "OMG the USA is a a police state," then you're not an insightful privacy advocate, you are a broken clock. Insight requires discernment; knowing the difference between what is big and serious and what is small and even reasonable.
Why legally?

A couple of days ago I found a wallet with what looked like £40 (Didn't count it), travelcard and bank cards in it. I could have taken the money and put it the rest in the bin.

I could have even skimmed the credit/debit cards and gone on a spending spree!

But I did not.

I went to the local shop and enquired - 'do you know this guy?' The wallet owner actually lived in the flats above the shop and the wallet was returned.

To the owner of the wallet this was an unexpected turn up for the books - his faith in human nature restored etc. - fine, but not a tangible benefit to me (unless there is a god).

However, there actually is a tangible benefit, one that I did not think of when I enquired in the shop. The owner of the shop now knows that I will do the right thing for a complete stranger that happens to have lost a wallet. Hence, if I lose my wallet and cannot afford so much as a pint of milk, I can expect a favour from him, i.e. some necessities on credit until I can sort out my wallet.

All I am saying is that there may be benefits to returning the documents, benefits that you have not thought of.
Why don't we dance anymore
Creativity coaching is every bit a huckster cottage industry as insight porn, and TED is their promotional stage. Honest creativity books would focus on failures more than hits. Before famous musicians made their big hit they made a lot of songs that sucked, and Apple also made Newton.
Does everyone in Scandinavia get their information on the US from blog articles?

TSA have the authority to put messages on the airport sound system. TSA does not have the authority to arrest you for making innocent jokes.
A Ramanujan math treat - how did he ever come up with these things? (image)
Possible solution #4: Admit that the "terrorist threat" is largely made up; reform security measures to focus on actual threats; allow the rest of us to get on with our lives.
Google gets patent for its doodles (2011)
Bluetooth LE uses a client/server (called "central" / "peripheral") model; think of "server" like "web server", typically the client is your smartphone.

I could believe that a single peripheral can't simultaneously connect to multiple centrals (I'm just getting started with BTLE), but the typical pattern is for e.g. the heart rate sensor and smartwatch to both be peripherals of a smartphone.

The first article you reference says: So for folks that may use one device for cycling and another for running, this could cause issues if both devices tried to connect to the heart rate strap at the same time.

As long as you're not cycling and running at the same time, this isn't an issue.
Using groups lets you pull out parts of a match more easily. Perhaps it's a bit of a corner case, but for parsing logs, I find it invaluable.
Guys, it’s Your Problem Too
A Story of a Heisenbug Hunt (2011)