skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that there are MORE false positives when you don't have enough information. After all, mathematically speaking let's say you sample X things versus X + Y things. Assuming there to be a similar probability distribution for the decision making (same first moments at least), a greater sample size would lead to greater accuracy and therefore less false positives, as well as less false negatives.
why? compilers for other languages has compile time switches for various checks and/or optimizations, there it is assumed normal. Javascript's "use strict" is just a hack for lack such option.
This has some benefits, i.e. you take some codebase that must compile with noImplicitAny and want to add some features, you start with less strict typing (implicit any allowed), when finished you compile with different flag. Because ide (most people use) is recompiling the code all the time there is no reason to clutter this when prototyping.
If you don't like this workflow, just use the flag from step 1.
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Government more or less created Silicon Valley (government subsidies, guaranteed government contracts, direct government investment), yet it is now "powerless"? If anything, Silicon Valley is a great example of the power of government.

Silicon Valley has yet to solve any of the big problems in the world; poverty, healthcare, climate change.

The idea that there's no war going on the world, or that you don't need universities is complete nonsense.

For sure some things are changing, but that's always been the case. This blog post, and the bizarre idea that everything must be "disrupted" (nobody knows exactly what that means) is a perfect example of the insular, ignorant, and shallow attitudes that pervade Silicon Valley.
Bitcoin makes it cheaper, too. You can't do what you wrote without quite a bit of money.
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This thread perfectly exemplifies the frustration laid out in my original post.
> an iPhone app that allows you to download your medical record from any doctor and share health activity with friends and family

I mean no offense to you personally, but I fail to understand how this problem fits in a world in which 2.5 billion people lack basic sanitation.
to quote:

"if someone comes to you and says, 'Let's do this in Flash,' you say no."

Silverstein was concerned on this point. He raised his hand. "We're using Flash," he said, as the class spun around to look at him, some nodding comfortingly. "And I think it's leaving us out of mobile. But can I just tell my programmer to change it? Can he put it through a translator?"

"Yes, and you can," said Friedman. "Like through a sausage maker."

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First of all, this is just false, plainly untrue. This just reads like a class to teach old money and others who are in a position to hire programmers, but who don't know much about programming themselves, to fake being knowledgeable to get a good price. In other words, it allows those with money and influence avoid having to learn a new way of doing business, perpetuating their privilege at the expense of people who have actually put in enough time to grok the difference between the web and the net.

If you have access to enough technology to know "know what 'the Facebook' is or how to text a selfie" then you have no class barrier preventing you from knowing "the difference between Java and Javascript."

A trade is something to be cultivated, earned and, most importantly, paid for handsomely by those who haven't taken the time to learn it. If you don't know the difference between a car that's overheating and spewing blue smoke from one that hums and shifts well, then you don't don't deserve to get a good deal on a used car. The same principle applies here.
What was the minimum order size before? I've had Prime for a number of years and can't recall.
The patriot thing to do is to opt in to all the physically invasive screenings and opt out of all the data collection.

The more time spent on searching you at the airport, the more everyone else is delayed (shared sacrifice) and the more visible these security theatrics are.
You obviously did not read it thoroughly.
For example does he not say that e-books are bad per se:
https://gnu.org/philosophy/the-danger-of-ebooks.en.html
I've only returned a few items over the years, and I've spent a lot of money with them. I tried to return an $11 product last year. They just refunded me the money and told me to keep it. I had a $35 product stolen off my doorstep once (empty box left behind). They shipped me a new one, no questions asked.
Encapsulation and separation of concerns does not mean that data is inaccessible to requesters when it is needed. It just means it's accessed through the proper interfaces and the right clearances are given.

If the TSA has MORE information then there will be LESS hassle and MORE accuracy. That, multiplied by the number of people currently affected and delayed by the security checks should also improve the experience by quite a lot.
except if you buy cree light bulbs :) $8[1] vs. $19[2]

[1] http://www.homedepot.com/p/Cree-9-5-Watt-60W-Soft-White-Dimm...
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Cree-9-5-Watt-White-2700K-Light/dp/B00...
An overwhelming majority of the people in this thread seem to favor working from home. Does anybody miss face-to-face time? I work in an office, and not a day goes by without face-to-face discussions with my co-workers. I find these discussions really helpful, and often we end up drawing on a white-board.

I've worked with remote developers (via video) before, and it didn't come close to the interactions I have in-person with people at the office. Would be interesting to hear some comments from remote developers. Related (from a blog post of mine): http://henrikwarne.com/2013/04/02/programmer-productivity-in...
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Interesting read to me, I did not know this. Good to read from someone who knows much more about corporate structure than I do.

I want to add one important point. Bitcoin not only makes it much easier to setup this kind of autonomous corporation, it also makes it transparent and verifiable by outside. It does so through being open source. And since no one actually owns it, it is completely transparent.
AOL. True devops is about building systems that make this kind of disaster impossible. Or at least very hard.

However, like agile before it, despite the fact that it really means something purposeful and rigorous, the word "devops" has become widely abused to camouflage undisciplined, thoughtless, cowboy behaviour.

A handy way of telling the difference is to ask yourself "what would Devops Borat do?"; if it's something Devops Borat would do, it's the false devops.
After a while i noticed the mobile version pane on the left. I thought it was an ad first :P
Why do they continue to let resellers sell clones, or what
I have seen is counterfit times, or blatant misrepresentation? Alfa wifi adapter by DBOROTH?

It's a good company, but I have seen them start to slip.
I still buy from them, but I don't just click like I used
to.
US National Security Agency 'spied on French diplomats'
Apple's 22nd Oct Event Liveblog
Wait, WTF does airport security have to do with debt collection?
Apple announces 1 million apps in the app store
Like many "programming design principles", they are in fact principles for the design of robust systems that are amenable to (1) reasoning about, and (2) adapting to changing circumstances, and are not at all special to the domain of programming.
So, since the body is also likely turing complete via DNA, can I assume that DRY applies and preemptively remove one of your lungs? Give me a break.
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What baffles me is how come the subway system has never seen major terrorist attacks despite having very low security and carrying millions of New Yorkers (or citizens of other cities) a day.

I am very thankful for this, but wondering why. If someone wanted to cause a massive amount of damage it would not be difficult to do.
Note that sellers can have any review deleted.

So lack of negative reviews is meaningless on Amazon.
A lot has changed since the 1950s. Correlation != causation.

Besides, race and poverty are so closely linked in the US that, even if this were true, it still doesn't say anything about the intrinsic properties of different races. Implying that it does is a racist statement.
Sudden power failures can cause issues for SSDs
Check out Nombo[1]. I'm looking forward to trying it at the weekend.

[1]: http://nombo.io/
I wouldn't categorically deny that either. That said, physical goods are rivalrous, which creates the necessity for some kind of mechanism for preventing conflicts. This is unlike "intellectual property", which is based on the argument that we might, maybe, get more stuff in the future if only we give these people a monopoly over all possible copies, derivations and implementations of abstract ideas - and in violation of physical property rights.
> Why does deflation worry you? It's a good thing.

You haven't actually studied modern economics if you don't understand why deflation is worrisome and why the monetary policy we have now exists to prevent deflation to achieve this stability: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/US_Histor....
The weirdest thing about HFT to me is just how far removed it is from the original concept of buying stocks.
I would argue that many more people monitoring can encourage the fear of making the wrong call. "Hey, someone smarter and more experienced than me should makes sense of this." "Hey, the smart new guy is supposed to be watching this. I will look more closely later."

What you want is two or three people really in charge, where the individuals are empowered to say: "I am totally confused. If someone cannot explain what is going on to me so that I understand, I am starting shutdown procedures, immediately. Do YOU know exactly what is going on?"
I think you meant http://www.imacs.org, the above link goes to something which appears slightly unsavory...
I have 20kg of cat liter shipped to me automatically each month, for free, next day. Mail carrier might kill the cat if he ever figures out which one is mine.
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I downvoted you. Frankly, I would have upvoted you if not for your ridiculous meta comment about HN, including: "I predict this comment will be heavily voted down just because people disagree with me [...]".

I suspect that your comments about what HN is or isn't likely to do in response to your comment is why you're being downvoted, not because of your rational (if wrongheaded) discussion.

I rarely engage in meta debates, and it's possible you're just trolling, but I just wanted you to know.
Yep, down for my sites. What are some better alternatives to NS?
> As the gentleman who actually invented [citation needed]

Is there a story here?
There is also blur by fft. This way you get nlogn performance in the number of pixels. All unrelated to sigma and the size of your blur kernel.
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er.. London?
Very interesting toolset. A similar toolset cropped up a wee while ago [0], might be good to integrate the two?

Using unix tools for data processing seems to work well.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6412190
You can also do a web chat, which is a lot easier then telephoning.
Every time I've seen an add-on item, I've always seen a separate listing for an identical item at a higher price. Is this not universal?
Missed the domain name, huh?
$25 was the previous threshold for "Super Saver Shipping".
Has he/she gotten into Lego Mindstorms yet? I've sent my 9yo to summer camp to do that for the past two years and, when his birthday comes up next year, that's probably what he will get.
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That humans continue to operate motor vehicles is a serious bug, not a feature.

I have kids who will be driving age in 10 years. If there is a self driving car widely available by then, and I suspect there will be, I will look to the heavens and praise Science.
The deal is even better if you are living in Hawaii. It is not 2 day delivery, but it is fast.
Indeed, it was common for a USB-to-proprietary cable to be sold separately for at an additional charge. Now phone manufacturers are forced to resort to software to make it difficult to move data between phones and desktops. ;-)
Crazy, a company that uses its economy of scale to drive down costs, cut prices across the board (TV's, books, AWS) and reinvest those profits in new services and products, continuously. Quite different from the rent seeking companies in the hardware and telco spaces. If Apple and TWC were Amazon, you're iPhone would cost $150 without a contract and you're cable internet would be $10/mo.
Migrations are going to be a core feature (quite similar to Ruby on Rails) from Django 1.7, and I personally find it more convenient. Eventually you will need to use migrations anyway.
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Do you think this design work for your business? Feedback please..l
When recruiters call me about contracting work that's always true, but when I find my own I find I can set the terms.
Yeah, I'd also like to see them allow you to attach Add-On items with your Subscribe & Save order. Subscribe & Save exists because it's cheaper to send it all at once, right? So why can't an Add-On item be put in that box?
The page isn't loading for me but I will chime in with an image smoothing optimization trick I've used. If you don't need an exact Gaussian blur you can approximate it very efficiently using integral images: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summed_area_table

The more "boxes" you use in your sliding window (analogous to a convolution kernel), the better you can approximate a Gaussian kernel. If you're using a big Gaussian kernel on a big image then integral images can result in a large reduction in the number of operations performed and thus potentially enable a big speed-up.
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I stopped Prime because I was buying stuff I didn't need.
If someone comments under me, "Oh, I just order household
items"; I guarantee this board has been sprinkled with
paid commenters.
I agree. Items are no longer, consistently cheaper. (ex:Horizon 8oz Milk packs, are at least 2x more than our local grocery stores.) Even their Subscribe and Save program changed to introduce a 5 item minimum. Seems like, they are finally able to charge a (small)premium for the 'Amazon Shopping Experience'.
Naked shorting is not illegal for a broker dealer.
Or disproportionately high if you have a scary skin color:

http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/15/car-crash-victim-runs-to-p...
I doubt it. All Node.js libraries are built around the non-blocking model which is why it works so well. Python libraries will have to decide if they're a normal blocking library or an async one. Possibly maintain both versions of the API?

Personally I'm not convinced that the Node.js callback hell is a good way to get high IO performance. The Golang way of doing it with normal, blocking libraries and Goroutine's seems ideal as it doesn't burden the programmer as much.
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Network Solutions is currently having major DNS issues
What does 99.99-% of phone call records have to do with Terrorism/National Security?

Mass data collection doesn't discriminate. These organizations are in the business of collecting everything about you. "Debt collection" is just their primary business.

For ex, most American pharmacies sell what prescriptions people are buying [1] to data mining companies. But they at least "de-identify", due to federal regulations. TSA operates outside quite a few laws/regulations protecting individual rights. We can now add information privacy to that list.

http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2011/06/pharmacies-selling-presc...
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Network Solutions suffers DNS outage
Network Solutions is suffering what appears to be a complete DNS outage. Follow along on twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=netsol&src=typd&f=realtime
Federighi just announced Mavericks is free
I am really tempted to buy one of these but I am currently torn between this and a cheap android phone. I find myself using the "smart" features on my phone less and less mainly due to the fact I have been trying to lessen my addiction to technology and being "always connected". Ideally I would like to spend around £100. I have also been looking at the Lumia 520 but I am not too keen on Windows Phone. All I really need it for is a basic browser (I don't do much browsing on my phone), mp3 player and maps. Everything else I can live without. Firefox OS does all I need it is just the reviews of the hardware on the ZTE Open are pretty poor. Suggestions welcome :)
Ah! That was the blog post I was looking for... but I kept searching for "Cactus Applicative" with no luck.
OS X Mavericks will be a free download
How do you get started as a consultant? It's easy to find articles that explain how to choose better clients and things like that, but how do you get started?
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The correct amount of face time - both out of necessity and out of comfort - is a difficult problem. I worked for a while in a "Facebook style" office, where we were pair programming. No walls, no privacy, all of our desks faced forward except the lead, who faced us, like a schoolteacher. I found it extremely uncomfortable. And I'm a people person!

On the other hand, zero face time is problematic in other ways. Even 37signals has an all-employee get-together a couple of times a year (read back through svn, they describe this).
Costco.
Even if all you bought at Costco was formula and diapers, you'd more than subsidize the $50 membership over the course of a year vs. what you'd pay basically anywhere else.

Of course the economy of scale applies to that membership fee. Scaling across more kids makes a better value prop.
On the comment section of the article, someone is asking the exact same question. :)

The author answered: "I liked to shot of the tower … looks like it’s reaching out into space and time!"

http://btcgeek.com/dawn-of-autonomous-corporations/#comment-...
If you're not going to tell me how much it is for a piece of furniture I generally fit it under the "too much to be practical" range and forget about it.

In cases where price isn't even mentioned(as in contact us for pricing) I fit it into the "fantasy furniture that will never exist" bucket in my brain and forget about it even sooner.

That said it is a beautiful desk.
Nope, not a PHP problem.
For a $2000 plasma, maybe. But you're going to drive 45 minutes to avoid paying $7 in taxes on a pair of shoes? I really doubt that. The scenario you outline would be true if people did a large amount of shopping once a month, but Amazon customers are now accustomed to making hundreds of little purchases throughout the year.
This article is amazing, the way I interpreted it. Going through each screen, I kept thinking to myself, "oh boy, here's another FxOS hater who just doesn't get it". Then, at the end, the catharsis:

"To be honest I think the box achieves the goal. I do not expect FxOS to be complete. I expect it to have room for improvement and to be welcoming of my contributions. That is what FxOS needs right now, the luxury boxes can come later."

Amen. Well-written, and I hope you enjoy your new FxOS :)
I wonder if Raspberry PI would be a good one to get kids thinking below the hood. I am currious to hear how did Drew Houston start programming at 5 years old? I have a 2.5 years old so he's almost there!
Is that true? Then why isn't everything 5 stars?
OP here. The issue is integrating Bootstrap with Rails, relative to Zurb providing a supported gem for Rails. And breakage for SimpleForm going from Bootstrap 2.3 to 3.0. I'd be happy to choose Bootstrap on the basis of its popularity but I need a front-end framework I can recommend in my "Learn Ruby on Rails" book that isn't going to have integration issues with new versions.
Original url: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/22/google-tools-idUSL...
DuckDuckGo is also >50% remote and we're actually in the book I believe! https://dukgo.com/help/en_US/company/hiring
I used to sell display advertising and it's very true that the creative is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for small businesses. I'm familiar with PaperG – I don't think even Google could pull this off better than they have..
Windows 8.1 is also free, so no real surprise here. Anyway, good work Apple!
You're right, maybe I've mis-categorized as them major caveats, but they're not so obscure because both myself and others have had to wrestle with these properties in production. I'm not saying use easy_install by any stretch (pip is great), they already have open tickets and I hope to see them fixed before being rolled into Python proper and do become defining problems within pip.
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Perhaps terrorism isn't quite the threat to us that the US state makes it out to be.
I don't think this is true -- it sounds completely antithetical to Amazon's values. Do you have something to back it up?
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As an illustration and to provide some sample evidence for lmm's comment (there's plenty more):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Airlines_Flight_981

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_96

In both of these cases, rapid decompression from a failure of the cargo door caused parts of the floor to collapse and sever or restrict the mechanical cables leading to the aft control surfaces of the plane. Although the American Airlines pilots were able to land the plane safely (they still had some control), the Turkish Airlines pilots were not so lucky.

Furthermore, even mechanical systems are assisted by hydraulics. Hydraulic systems can fail, usually through draining, leaving the flight uncontrollable. So to add to the comments by both lmm and leoedin, safety has no bearing on whether the aircraft is mechanically controlled or electronically. There are also deployable ram air turbines[1] that can provide a small amount of emergency backup power in the event of a total failure of all engines:

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_air_turbine
This changed in Gnome. The last time I used it a year or two ago, the default is to keep one monitor constant and switch desktops on the second monitor as you wish.
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Creativity is only really feasible (possible?) given sufficient constraints.
Well they sorta do. Couldnt read the article because it was only designed for desktop.
That's not what I was talking about. I said that, if all you support is a specific Intel Atom processor, you can tweak your kernel to support every bit of energy-saving performance-enhancing silicon in there.

Shipping fat binaries is not new. I remember them (not very fondly) from the MacOS 7/PPC days.
"This is the first time in more than a decade that Amazon has altered the minimum order for free shipping in the US."

The BLS's Transportation Services urban CPI has increased 29% since August 2003, or 2.6% annually. Amazon would need to have offered the free-shipping-for-orders-over-twenty-five deal for the last 13.3 years, or since before June 2000, for this threshold increase to be on par with inflation.
I worked at a place in The Yard before and really enjoyed the community. Plenty of great lunch and happy hour places in the area as well.