skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because Accelerate framework is in obj-c? (It is in C).

But in all seriousness, most cases, you want to implement your own neural network anyway because the specific choice of network structure, activation functions etc. Beyond that, it just matrix multiplication which is well handled by lower level primitives like libatlas / libcblas / CUDAblas etc.
The CMS statistics are a lie? So because I suggest data for you to examine which may contradict your pre-existing beliefs, you immediately jump to "The government lies!" First off, its not statistics. Its raw data on payments to various providers. Feel free to examine it.

I never said you were racist. Not all Republicans are racists, just like not all Democrats are hippies. But all racists are Republicans, and all hippies are Democrats.

My family is better off with access to a waiting line than nothing at all. But you wouldn't know that.

BTW, every geezer on Medicare thinks they're entitled to it, just like every farmer getting a farm subsidy thinks he's entitled to it. There isn't a single person getting an entitlement check that doesn't rationalize some way they paid in more than they'll ever take out. Join the club.

Please enjoy your Fox news. It is after all the preferred news source of Medicare recipients who think that its only Socialism if people other than themselves get it.

Here is an article you posted in 2010 predicting economic doom in 2011 courtesy of Obama:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870411350457526...

You were wrong then, and you are wrong now.
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Well, because of the population difference, it's not "way" more eye-popping, though still more uneven than Russia.

Ukraine: 45.6M; 50 people = 0.0000012% own 85%

Russia: 143.5M; 110 people = 0.0000007% own 35%
Fast line iteration in PHP
http://www.marco.org/media/2007/07/20070720-05-giant-flowcha...
> The danger is when you do well enough that Amazon takes notice, because if you're little slice of the industry starts to look too profitable, Amazon will come in and start selling in your category direct. And they're bigger than you and can do it on a smaller margin. Entire verticals can be consumed in a matter of weeks if Amazon decides to set up shop next to you. Amazon is really good at destroying the retailers that they helped in the beginning.

Retailers have been doing this to manufacturers for years with store brands. All large retailers analyze their sales data to find out exactly when a product has reached critical mass in popularity, then commission their own store-branded version.

The only difference here is that Amazon doesn't just have their own sales data, but that of everyone that uses their platform. So they can take it a step further and do this to other retailers in order to come up with an ideal SKU mix. Then they do what other retailers have done and start cannibalizing the manufacturer's margins by commissioning store brands.
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There's a few other players trying to do similar things. The big box stores are getting better at their online fulfillment. Sears is famously going that route putting a bunch of brands together. No one has come up with the silver bullet to really eat into Amazon's market though, so time will tell.
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> Kahneman understood my book. Why couldn’t these guys?

Writers should not be blaming their readers for misconceptions and misunderstandings.

> The first striking thing about all three of Chabris’ reviews of David and Goliath is how much attention he pays to a study that I mention at the beginning of my chapter on dyslexia.

Many of the readers of pop-science books do not know how to properly read research papers. They don't have access to the libraries; they don't have the stats knowledge; they don't know how to pick out the decent studies from the poor studies.

It'd be good if pop-sci writers were doing this work for the readers, or at least helping readers to do the work.
Actually don't. The Xbox will use Teredo auto-tunneling to give you IPv6 if your ISP doesn't, and Teredo is more efficient than tunnel brokers.
If you don't mind me asking, where are you located? I get good T-Mobile reception inside all types of buildings in and around the Kansas City metro. The only place I've ever lost coverage is in the basement floors of my doctor's office away from windows.

Their rural coverage is pretty awful though.
The reader is the value. As a publisher, you're after that attention. Without that attention, you cease to exist. Unless of course you want to churn out content for no one to read, which you're free to go on doing.
This is a maximum hospitality zone. The guests have disembarked.
That's definitely not true where I am. Probably half our devs care about the business side. My co-founder and I are both techies who care about business, so we spar often.

On the far reaching consequences side, I didn't realize how important the choices we made in the first month were. Some of those are still with us.
Although I appreciate Gladwell's argument that he combines anecdotal narrative and scientific observation (usually he provides the former, someone else the latter), I don't think that the average reader of the books is clear on the limitations of this approach. I'm afraid many people come away that Gladwell has discovered some brand new, proven thing, and instead of taking the book as a series of illustrations of an idea Gladwell finds compelling and wants to share, they take it as settled science performed meticulously by the man. That's not a criticism that is limited to Gladwell, either - many 'pop science' books do the same, and are mistakenly understood as hard science. I try to point out problematic articles and books whenever I can, but it's not easy to convince someone that really wants to believe, for instance, that adversity (or borderline insanity) is the driver of creativity. And don't get me started on the misappropriation of neuroscience research.
He does address this exact point in the article, did you not see that?
That's one of those 'good problems'.

step 1) worry about how to get big enough that people even know who you are, and think that DDoSing is worth their time

step 2) worry about how to deal with the DDoS

completing step 1 is much, much harder :-)
It's especially confusing considering that MS is switching Skype away from P2P towards their supposedly cost-efficient and webscale data centers.
That's interesting.

Header on their website: "Say no to email, build a better workplace"

When they say something like that and then build a service that is dependent on email (at least somewhat), and even go as far as allowing the service to be used in it's entirety via email, I have to wonder if they genuinely believe email is broken. If they really believed in the "say no to email" matra, they would have simply said no to email themselves.

Apologies for the bluntness. My skepticism stems from personal experiences working on a project that was designed to 'kill email' (rather, a subset of email, not group chat like this). The same thing happened: primary interaction mechanism with the platform was ... email. That project failed.
I actively avoid Paypal for anything other than Ebay, and that's only because Ebay won't let anyone else but their own payment system on the site. I'm usually quite happy to use Google's payment system and I'll be just as happy to use Amazon's.
There are a few different reasons. One reason is that Xbox Live provides a Framework that allows the Game to determine who the Host is. Different Games (aka Studios) provide different multiplayer capabilities, but regardless of the type (one-to-one or one-to-many), Xbox Live provides the Framework that allows the Game to determine who the Players are, and thus who is placed in what role. So even if you are the Host (aka the Server is hosted on your Xbox and others connect to you), Xbox Live is essential in identifying your Account in relation to other Players. Another reason is the interoperable capabilities that Xbox Live provides in terms of the Xbox Community. Your Avatar, Statistics, Messages, etc, that are similar in terms of capability, but shared across the Game Library. This allows Games (Studios) to leverage the Xbox Live Framework to provide a better Community Experience.
National Skills Registry - India
For the past 4 years, I've worked remotely for an employer based in India (it's been a great experience). I'm on the IT Mailing List, so I often receive emails pertaining directly to Indian employees. On 10/4, a disturbing email came across the wire from the VP of HR:

"National Skills Registry (NSR) is a NASSCOM initiative to have a robust and credible information repository of all employees working in the IT & ITES industry. This develops a trusted and permanent fact sheet of information about each professional along-with background check reports as and when required. This is a security best practice for the industry and assures identity security & industry acceptance of honest professionals. This is used by the industry and its clients as a credible source of information about registered professionals who are employed by them or put on client assignments.

As [a Company] employee you will need to register with NSR prior to enrolling and then provide your credentials and bio-metrics at a scheduled enrolment desk that will be arranged at the office premises. We will follow up this communication when we schedule registration and enrolment campaigns soon.

Please keep in mind that your enrolment with NSR is not pertinent to [the Company] exclusively, this is a syndicated ID that will be linked to your professional profile indefinitely. Thus you will be required to bear the cost of this enrolment yourself. A sum of Rs.337 will be deducted from your salary in the month following your enrolment with NSR, again we will communicate in advance when this will occur."

Maybe this wouldn't be so bad if it were a voluntary registry, but the language used is that employees "will need to register" (at their own expense).

References:
http://www.nasscom.in/initiatives/2202
https://www.nationalskillsregistry.com/
The truth about these tools is that they appease to our OCD side. There is a honeymoon period during the which you find various reasons to use the tool. After a while you realize tools only help with organization during that first burst of excitement. At this point you either have to confront the fact that getting organized isn’t a technical problem or you find a new tool to get excited about.

What makes these tools succeed at least for the short term, is they fuck with the organizational habits of people. Their landing pages are huge cues to get more organized, which people love. People love the idea of getting their shit together and becoming organized once and for all.

The challenge these apps are facing is creating a habit loop. You need a cue and a reward, but more specifically when replacing a habit (email) with something new, you need to replace either the cue or the reward. In between those you have your tool. Without this change people just go back to their old habits. In the case of Inc the reward is "thanks for sharing that link, you’re awesome!" and the cue is "I need to send this to my whole team". Currently everybody immediately reaches an internal mailing list or enters in a few autocompleted emails when they encounter this cue, the urge to share with team members.

Now what Kippt, their original product did, which was clever, was creating new cues. They heavily pushed their Chrome extensions which inserted "Kippt" buttons and links to loads of websites with potentially interesting links. There’s even one for all hacker news links. This created new cues for people to respond to.

For Inc to succeed it needs to cleverly introduce more cues because email works fine for this particulare habit loop and will be hard to replace.
Pro-tip, see if Amazon fulfills a desired product for a third party merchant. If you don't buy directly from Amazon, but they still fulfill logistics for the third party, you can get an item shipped via prime without sales tax if the third party is located outside Texas.

Note: I'm also a Texan who hasn't decreased his Amazon spend since sales tax started, if anything I've increased my Amazon spend over the last few quarters.
I agree - I think criticism of a book like this should both acknowledge that it tells a compelling story and may open readers' eyes to new ideas — while at the same time pointing out that those ideas don't necessarily have good scientific grounding because of reasons A, B, and C that the reader would not otherwise encounter, not being scientifically minded or not having access to relevant literature.
Ok - we did a study that found each post is read by >100 people; how many email exchanges reach those numbers?
Wow that was a load of nonsense. You don't actually know what the Fed does, do you?

And;

Chief in Charge Barrack Husain Obama

Your awkward attempt at slurring the president actually involved spelling two of his names wrong.
Man-in-the-middle attack on Mobile Facebook possible due to lack of HSTS header
The myth of NASA's expensive space pens
While I'm a fan of Jason and his writing, I can't help but feel that this is more of the "book about success that doesn't tell you how to actually do anything" category of self-help books (re: http://kottke.org/13/10/the-fallacy-of-success).
Sorry about that - it was more of a "here's the kind of content in the book" rather than "this is a sample of an article".

Yes, I'm thrilled the "Look Inside" section is now working. Amazon works in mysterious ways.
Yet PS3 requires you to have PSN+ to download in the background and to save games to the cloud. Both things you can do without Gold on Xbox. They each have their pros and cons for paid upgrade, but I find the Xbox live experience to be far superior to what the PS3 has to offer.
There are more than a few ultra-books that are widely considered to be on par with apple in terms of build quality, its just that you'd have a hell of a time getting an Apple user to admit it even if he held it in his hands. That's just human nature.

The Acer Aspire S7, the Lenovo X230, the Lenovo X1 Carbon, the Ativ Book 9 Plus, the Lenovo T440s, the Sony Vaio Duo 13, the Asus Zenbook Infinity UX301LA. Most of these come with Full HD or better IPS panels too.

You can find something wrong with any product, but it stands to reason that a person who has lived with Apple's faults for a long time is likely to have grown more forgiving of them due to familiarity. Therefore, when that person sees a competing product that isn't absolutely flawless, he may be more critical of it than he would be of a new Apple product.
I'm not so sure... I assume you're referring to this line:

Return host, serialized, ":", and port concatenated.

...except if the port is an empty string, the process will terminate one step sooner:

If port is the empty string, return host, serialized.

So there would be no trailing colon, in that case.
They're on their way. Any second now...
Oral Treatment Prevents Neurodegeneration and Disease in Prion-Infected Mice
I'd rather it'd go the other way: please generate hopelessly unreadable but optimal javascript. However, include the original source as comments in some debug mode.

In my experience with coffeescript, the idea that the source is really readable is only somewhat true. Sure, you can read what's going on. But fancier features aren't always trivially translated; and even where a translation is trivial the small differences in syntax mean that in a large enough codebase it can take some time to find the corresponding source line.

Furthermore, because the code is supposedly "easy to read" that means it must be fairly close to javascript native, and that means (for instance) either a heavy abstraction (JSIL) that's probably slow, or exposing lots of unfortunate javascript quirks (coffeescript) such as 0 vs. null vs. undefined vs. false and/or => vs. ->. Basically, to reason about coffeescript you often enough need to understand in detail how it's translated to javascript; at that point you've lost any productivity gains you were hoping for but are still paying the costs in terms of poor tooling and browser integration.

If you're using javascript like assembly, treat it like that: please don't waste my time being sorta-almost-but-not-quite readable. Just make fast, robust, no-leaky-abstraction javascript, please.
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Skype's change is necessitated by mobile more than just cost.
Isn't this just a rebrand of 'Amazon checkout' thats been around for years?
It all falls apart once you get past a few people and start throwing some kind of structure and management in place.

That's hardly confined to Federal IT projects, however.
> As a publisher, you're after that attention (that also brings value).

FTFY
No thought experiment necessary, you can do this today in two ways:

1) We have an attribute that you can stick in a module that will throw an error at compile time if a managed pointer gets used anywhere in that module, including in its dependencies. (Note: this is still experimental, and I'm not sure if it actually works yet.)

2) It's possible to write Rust entirely without a runtime, which means your result binary just plain won't contain any of the machinery for GC, tasks, or TLS (task-local storage).

This second approach does have consequences. Bad: random bits of the standard lib won't be usable, since our preferred means of error handling uses TLS (and some functional/persistent datastructures will use GC to handle cyclical pointers, since that's our only internally acceptable use case for GC). We have plans to look at dividing the stdlib into "usage profiles" to allow users to selectively disable certain runtime features while still remaining aware of exactly which pieces of the stdlib are still usable.

But the good consequences of disabling the runtime are that if your code exposes a C ABI, then you can write a library that can be called from any other language with a C FFI (i.e. basically every language, ever). This is actually one of my favorite things about Rust.
Still much, much better than HTML. Or, how I love WPF containers... Have to deal with the ugly div-row-span hack that is BootStrap at the moment.
Superficially, he is quite convincing, but when you look at a given statement or claim in isolation, it's common to find anything from an insufficiency of support, to outright howling fallacy.

It's an interesting illustration of his "narratives often begin in one place and end in another" that his Slate piece begins with calling his detractors ill-read and careless ("I didn’t want to debate them. I just wanted them to read my book all the way to the end."), and ends with the implicit argument that criticizing his work is the same thing as calling his adherents stupid ("I was simply saying that all writing about social science need not be presented with the formality and precision of the academic world...My point was that the people who read my books appreciate this.").
You can be snap happy with great compact cameras
> I don't think that the average reader of the books is clear on the limitations of this approach

The average reader may not, but at least they've been compelled to pick up a book, read it, synthesize it and draw their own conclusions - either agreeing or otherwise. That's better than nothing.

An above-average reader (whatever that is) might read it and be annoyed. A below-average reader might read it and either not understand it and take it as gospel.

What's the problem? Truly.
> Rust is also the only industry language I'm aware of that gives you memory safety without garbage collection.

Python uses refcounting, and has a GC only for cycle breaking. You can turn it off in many cases and have deterministic behavior. Among compiled languages, Vala has no GC but safe references. It uses refcounting, too, but AFAIK also deduces when an object will not leak out of the scope (and thus the refcounting can be elided). But Vala is also somewhat a niche language, constructed around the GObject/Gtk object model.

That being said, the way rust handles memory looks really interesting. I definitely have to try it out these days.
It's quite good. Very well suited for the job of creating enterprise apps, also good for other desktop apps. Let's you build a typical grids-and-fields GUI much quicker and with much less pain than "modern" HTML-JS-MVC hackiness.
Has switched.

It sucks big time, and as a result, Skype can now be wiretapped which isn't nearly as easy on a P2P network, since everyones a node, and supernodes were chosen based on availability.
Eh, I don't find switching back and forth to be that problematic in terms of context switching. That's because CS is very similar to JS in everything but syntax. Which is also why a solid JS background is almost essential when writing CS.
VIM configuration for happy Java coding
Responding to reasoned concerns about rigor with ad hominems in the Internet age is not a recipe for success.

> My point was that the people who read my books appreciate this. They are perfectly aware of the strengths and weakness of the narrative form. They know what a story can and can’t do, and they understand that narratives sometimes begin in one place and end in another.

The point is that they don't and they aren't and they can't - many people believe that Gladwell is more than a storyteller, and take his scientific gallavantry as truth. It's irresponsible to ignore that fact, but it's necessary for Gladwell's business model to do so - people read his works primarily not because he is a good storyteller, but because they believe he is telling the truth, as backed up by science.
OK, Great. Do you have a mailing list or FB page for updates?
You very well may be correct and I don't begrudge TPM their right to pull their content. I don't have any native right to read it outside their own website, and it's their business decision to concentrate viewers there.

However.

I'm still not going to directly visit a hundred different websites each day to filter through a thousand articles, most of which I won't be interested in. My morning and evening commutes are packed with riders scanning Flipboard and other aggregators as they try to relax en route. It is TPM's undeniable right not to share their content with me and my fellow passengers. It's also our undeniable right to skip on to their competitors' content, probably without ever noticing that TPM is missing from our feeds.
I can't believe there's any conceivable problem who's solution is "you want Cygwin". :-)
Nice, I'll signup for their beta and give it a look-see
Where are internships in FL?
I'm in SW Florida and graduating in May with my Bachelor's in CS from Florida State and cannot find any internships or entry programing jobs around where i live in Sarasota now. I'm 24 and have no professional experience. The market in this area seems to only be for experienced engineers.
The book 'The Willpower Instinct' is citing research which supports this claim. There are ways to increase your overall willpower, if you like to think of it as a resource.