skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pandas has all sorts of functionality for summarizing data. I can see sticking with the tool you know or preferring a pointy clicky interface, but you are implying the capability to generate those high level numbers is missing, and it isn't.
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I suppose by the same token the US government funds the Tor Project. I wasn't aware that the German government funded GPG though, that's incredibly interesting.
chill out downvoters, I was being sarcy
This looks like a good online Rails course with the option of mentorship http://learn.thoughtbot.com I keep seeing promoted tweets advertising it.
just use a vm (eg vagrant) or a remote server and be platform independent!
Oh, the irony... http://i.imgur.com/s3ENzDA.png
All very well, though without a suitable social context it is difficult to attempt the Socratic method (or any other method that leads to critical thinking) without appearing patronizing or condescending.
While these of course are different thing, do you think that they are not related?
The US government also supports the Tor project, for instance. It's not as if they're one single-minded entity.

But as a German I have to say overall lignuist is right: there is no reason to trust the German government (or the EU for that matter) any more than the US government.

This "German internet" idea seems familiar somehow, because here in Germany we're used to have a German or Germanized version of everything. You can forget about normal Germans ever using an English website, it has to be at least translated if not re-branded. German people by and large do not watch English TV or movies, they expect everything to be translated and somewhat culturally re-branded. Combine that with existing separatist and isolationist movements, which by the way have always played a part in the inofficial German mindset, I can see this exceedingly stupid idea seriously gaining ground.

On a meta level, I think you're overusing the word agenda here to create a polemic atmosphere where none was warranted. Agenda implies that someone wants to bring across a piece of propaganda, disregarding the facts if necessary. What lignuist is doing is called having an opinion. You may disagree with it, but that does not make it an agenda.
MongoDb is a document store, not a key/value store.
Long article. Good stuff for those looking to make a similar change though.

I remain a fan of F# on Mono. Love the FP paradigm, love all the easily accessible libraries, and love that it's all free.

Scala would probably be a close second choice for a development shop, though. I personally would move towards pure FP with Haskell or Erlang, but staffing becomes too much of an issue to scale that out. I don't think they have that issue with Scala.
Bad accounting can be done in any tool.
You're out of luck.
Still, as a US citizen you should be upset because the NSA went way too far and got caught.

Non-US citizen (inc. me) are just upset because they've been spied on. That's quite reasonable.
It is entirely possible to encapsulate ethernet frames into whatever protocol you like, should routing be your desire.

The 99% use case of storage access requires no such frills, though.
Faster and hotter?
What a horrible attitude in your last paragraph.

Anyway, your right to drive a car probably won't be taken away. Your ability to afford the insurance necessary to operate on public roads is probably a different matter.
Weather and time on lockscreen is easy using one of the widgets that can be placed into an Android lockscreen, for example DashClock: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nurik.roma...

Shortcuts... edge swipe from bottom on my lockscreen gives Google Now (after asking for the security code). On my Nexus 4, edge swipe from right brought the camera, though that doesn't seem to be working on the Nexus 7 I have now.

For flashlight you could maybe add this extension to DashClock: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fleckdalm....

Note: this is assuming that you have a stock Android 4.x lockscreen. No idea whether these things work on one of the custom vendor lockscreens.
It depends on what you want to do. RePair [1] is currently the best grammar-based compressor, but it doesn't give good theoretical guarantees. In theory, instead, there is an O(log n) approximation to the smallest grammar problem [2], but AFAIK doesn't work very well in practice. In the same paper there is a good introduction to the problem and an analysis of the previous algorithms, including Sequitur.

[1] http://www.larsson.dogma.net/dcc99.pdf

[2] http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~shelat/papers/GrammarIEEE.pdf
Interesting! It might actually have a big impact, given how much in use the page is. And the target audience of php.net is likely to be a good target for keylogger attacks (SSH/SFTP logins and the like to development and production machines). It's certainly getting worse than I expected at first. Given how low the AV detection rate is, it would be interesting in how much impact the plugin exploits have for the overall installation base.
There is. x^n = (x^(n/2))^2 if n is even, (x^(n-1/2))^2 if n is odd, so it's possible to exponentiation in logarithmic time.
"The physical interconnect to the disk drive is now Ethernet." I don't know if the new standard requires Ethernet, but I would be very surprised to see any other interconnect on these drives.
The chart included and referenced is just of all the most obscure JVM languages. Look what happens when you add Java to that list [1].

[1] http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+groovy%2C+clojure...)
True. I was referring to similarities in things like higher-order functions, tail-recursion support, pattern matching, option types and so on.

I feel the intersection of FP features between F# and Scala is much greater than C#/Java.
If it won't take you too long, would you mind sharing a couple of examples?
You paid for the software that now resides on your phone. Have they deleted it from your phone and you have to buy the new version?
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"Uber" is a misspelling. The word is über, or ueber.
It can be tough, I'm in a technical/educational environment yet I cannot find anyone interested. Has anyone had luck with meetups or something similar?
Wow, so much negativity!

What happened to the dreams of a computer in your pocket that knew what you wanted to do?

All anyone can think of is to complain about privacy? Really?

I once did a brainstorm session with a facilitator who taught me a great technique. Whenever someone suggests something you aren't allowed to so "No" or "But" - instead you should say "Yes" or "And".

Try it for a second:

This application tries to predict what you will need when you pick your phone up. Currently it uses serverside processing to help with that. Yes, and imagine what else it could do with that serverside power! No battery constraints to worry about!

Privacy problems are a great way to kill good ideas. Put those concerns aside for a minute and imagine the portability of handheld devices merged with the power of always-on servers.
Or C# http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+groovy%2C+clojure...
For most search queries, the results are identical or very similar, although DDG does a lot of enhancement/cleanup.
Of course, right now, when you get in your car, you are trusting your life to each driver of an oncoming vehicle (and side traffic, and...).

So the better question is whether you trust the median driver more than you trust the process used to approve the self driving system. This is a much different test than your disgruntled engineer.
Come on. I'm not a fan of banner ads but evil? That's an overreaction.
10 USD is not enough I am afraid.

Google had an ad revenue of 31 billion USD [1] on all Google sites, the biggest part of which is from search (but I can't find the exact number right now). Now there are about 2 billion [2] internet users worldwide (not all of which are Google users - e.g. China) ... Since about 50% of Google revenues comes from the US, the revenue per user in the US is even higher. I don't think this is going to work.

Also take into account the overhead: people who pay generally want support. And then take into account that you could already get this for free if you use an ad blocker. I don't think if most people don't mind ads enough to install an ad blocker, they sure as hell won't pay for an ad free version.

[1] http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html

[2] http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
Wait, what?

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+groovy%2C+clojure...
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You pretty much described 3D Secure - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure which is quite popular in Europe. Actually even mandatory in some countries.
After Dwolla banned Bitcoin transactions I lost most of my interest. Bitpay and Coinbase have much better merchant programs and their fees are much lower.
Yes and no. Having done professional and personal development for OS X and two linux distributions (Fedora / Gentoo) it is most definately easier on Linux if you want to just hack together some software for your own use. As soon as you want to distribute that software however, the advantage often disappears - you can't use the package manager version of a lib because you need a feature in a later version, or because you need a different option activated during compile. Or you have a patch for said library that was refused upstream.

If anything like this happens in a dependency of your module, you're probably going to have to recompile all of the downstream dependencies by hand, or risk breaking your development system.

To avoid all of this you end up compiling static versions of the libs from your dependencies, and linking them statically to your module. This is particularly true if you don't want to be at the mercy of upgrades to those dependencies in your distribution that break your code.

Looking at things from the other side, there have been various package managers for OS X that give some of the ease-of-development available thanks to yum or apt-get. At the moment homebrew seems to be getting quite a bit of traction, and has addressed many of the pain points that predecessors such as MacPorts and fink have had, making OS X decidely more linux-like when you're writing the software without plans for distribution.
I scrolled down and had a look at the comments on Dwolla's blog post. I was shocked to see that they're all about bitcoin!
Want to drive your engineering mad? Give them a dying app without a stacktrace.
You're not wrong. It's almost a watering hole attack, with the aim of getting credentials to get leverage against other higher profile sites.
If I'm starting a company, don't I want R and E to satisfy an inequality (and one in a particular direction) instead of an equation?

More seriously, Excel has many problems that make it unsuitable for anything that might require statistical analysis. See for example B.D. McCullough and Berry Wilson, "On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 2003," Comput. Statist. Data Anal. 49 (2005), no. 4, 1244--1252, available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2004.06.016 but paywalled. I thought that this article, or a similar one, was recently discussed on HN, but I could not find an appropriate link.

On the other hand, I don't know anything about business. I can see an argument for using a widely-deployed piece of software for verifying R > E even if it is inappropriate for data analysis.
As someone that works cross-platform I can help:

1, Copy and paste with the command box is a huge pain on windows.
2, You have to have focus on the window to scroll (my Kubuntu means I can hover over a window and use the scroll wheel, its so intuitive when work on one document and reading another).
3, Windows Explorers URL area is selected from the keyboard shortcut Alt-D as opposed to IE/Firefox/Nautilus/Dolphin/Chrome which is Ctrl-L.
4, Updates on windows can take half a day.
5, Configurations are split between a magical windows registry and the users profile folder. Outlooks nk2 file is an awesome example.
6, The black box problem. I have found a bug in a windows component, however I have no way of getting a fix or knowing if someone is looking at it. All I got last time was that my report will be forwarded to the appropriate team.
7, Painfully slow start up
8, Reboots after updates.
9, Error messages which don't explain much and problem helpers which provide nothing extra.
10, Windows Help Documentation!!!
11, MSDN which is little more than reformatted header files. How many complete (working) examples of code are there in the MSDN. Now compare that to the Qt documentation.
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On one hand that's a big fine.

On the other Samsung's marketing budget runs to several billion dollars so they're not really going to notice it.
Early 2011 MacBook Pro 15'' i7 Quad, upgraded with a second SSD hard drive and 16GB RAM. Still works pretty good and fast, love the dual hdd hack that you can't really do with Retinas...

(considering getting a haswell 27 imac soon though for the sake of screen space)
Press release with no real info. Not sure how a "PRISM-proof Tor server" even makes sense. People you don't like can still run as many backdoored exit nodes as they want, and it's up to you to properly use crypto so they can't sniff your connection. Tor nodes are supposed to be (assumed to be?) untrustworthy.
apparently the matching algorithm isn't particularly smart... those are just the job postings that have the word "go" in it?

http://www.indeed.com/jobanalytics/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+groo...

edit: yeah, it isn't intended to be programming specific: "Indeed.com searches millions of jobs from thousands of job sites.
This job trends graph shows the percentage of jobs we find that contain your search terms."
Some people just like complicated things.
This is surprising since the case is very different in Keynote. As someone who comfortably classes themselves as a "power user" of Keynote, the latest update is a very welcome addition.
Good point! Interestingly I managed to work without it somehow. I just checked that C-g C-g works as cancel when those binding are present.
Hi Noel,

You can try BuySellAds, which is most probably the most popular alternative to Google Adwords. Then there are some other alternatives. Refer to the following for more information.

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Hope the above helps.
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The number quoted is anything but meaningless - it's the best estimate out there of the value of these companies right now.

Sequoia has been at work for alot more time than YC, and put alot more money to work than YC in that time. YC has a stake of at least several percent of that $13.7B figure, translating into about a billion of its own now by my reckoning. Doing pretty well I'd say.

With incubators, as with musicians, things seem to gravitate towards a superstar economy with rich rewards for the top handful of players in the Valley, and peanuts for your average village incubator in the sticks.
If I found myself going through all this work to set up applescripts and whatnot, I would just use LaTeX. It's the correct tool for people that want complete control over their document formatting. I actually like iWork 5 MORE now, precisely because it does what it sets out to do even better than before - it's a basic text editor that creates fantastic looking layouts. You know, for when I don't want or need to fire up LaTeX.
OK, but how many programmers have experience in Java vs. (say) Clojure or Scala? The number of potential candidates also matters
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I think they were ambushed a little by Reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1p69z7/so_this_is_w...
Note: The title of this article is most likely misleading.

Please post some detailed analyiys of what's going on here. What data gets out? What type of suspicious activities?

- Have you tried package-capturing with wireshark on the internet connections your laptop makes?

- Are you sure that there's no other attack point in your network that could be more easily infected than a BIOS?

- Have you checked your phone for instance?

- Have you checked the Master Boot Record of your harddrive?

- Have you checked your router?

- Have you tried unhackme (rootkit scanner) ?

A BIOS is very device specific, which would mean that either somebody finds you very interesting on a level that's NSA-tech worthy, or China hackers just leveled up.

I have a hard time just believing this, and there's a ton of attack angles that would be much more efficient to bug someone.

Also. Since when was hacker news downgraded to a personal helpdesk?
>> Does anyone honestly believe the Germans aren't regularly trying to figure out ways to listen to American officials' communications?

Your statement seems to equate "it's usual to spy" with "it's alright to spy". Spying on close allies only pays off if you are not caught. It's risky to do it and I expect each Nation State weights that in when deciding to do it or not. If the Germans do try to spy on US and they get caught, there will be fallout on relations.

The US got caught spying on several allies. They took the risk. There will be repercussions on diplomatic relations. There will be repercussions on public image and trust.

Apparently from the leaked memo, the intelligence gained didn't really pay off this time around, and since they got caught, all they did was break the trust.

Was it a good trade off?
High level? Think about cash flow forecast. How you do this? You need to model your income statement and balance sheet. Start building up assumptions for: sales (duh), accounts receivables, overdues, your cogs, inventory, possible capex investments, opex, etc.

This is very structured data, you can build up hierarchy trees in python, but it will take you too long. Plus, your models will change, people will want to see things from many different changing angles.

Unfortunately, every time I start writing about controlling people desert the thread around here, but it is a fascinating topic.
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What the heck is going on with TextEdit? Every time i start it it asks me to upload stuff to iCloud - can't find a way past this.
The FBI did this for decades - Hoover's level of corruption is truly scary. He had dirt on every incoming US President and most representatives for years, and would offer to help his chosen candidate during the election cycle.

But it ended with his death and there was a backlash from power. That's what doesn't make me worry about the NSA actually spying on US political figures.

As for them spying on foreigners - so what? It's been common knowledge for years that Western countries spy on each other, Echelon demonstrated that electronic means were being used to.
The British ran a mole inside the German finance ministry for years - unsurprising when you consider the damage Black Wednesday did to the British economy.
I just wish I had a way to run my XCode builds in a VM locally (i.e. not paying a remote entity for the privilege) .. does anyone know if OS X Server can be run in Parallels or VMWare or some such thing?
Yes it has. Being German, please google it.

The Sonderkommando was a special group of prisoners at Auschwitz who had to prepare and cleanup the extermination of millions of prisoners. Their job was to carry the dead from the gas chambers into the ovens. They were recycled every 3 months or so by a fresh Sonderkommando, whose first job was to murder their predecessors. They also made history by starting the only counter-attack at the camp, blowing up one of the gas chambers.

You can write "Deutschland ueber alles" all day, that's a minor issue. But using Sonderkommando in the wrong context can cause quite a stir.
Wouldn't it be better to not install eggs into the system path and instead into site-packages on a per-user basis? Or, quite frankly, not use the system python at all?
Who says you need to be CS?
can anyone explain how to set options like i want to disable requests and set it to false. appreciate.
Anyone getting phsihing warning from Chrome?
http://i.imgur.com/MSESJYS.jpg
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I feel like this legislature would be a huge cost to startups wishing to do business in Germany, and would likewise be a huge cost to already established businesses.

Of course, I suppose there is the added benefit that many companies would now be legally required to have a physical presence in Germany, requiring the creation of many more local data centers. Presumably this would boost the already high performing German economy.

I wonder how this would effect IRC servers. Would you have to forbid connections from Germany if there already was a user connected from Germany?

In that same line of questioning, wow would a teleconference work? Two german companies and two american companies are communicating in a group call via skype or something. The server is located in the US. Does this mean that the two German companies are communicating with each other and therefore the server must be located in Germany? If the US had the same laws, does this mean it is impossible for the group call to be made at all?

How much more difficult would it make telecommuting if multiple telecommuters are located within Germany?

What if user A located in germany wants to send an email or instant message to user B in germany, but is VPNed to a server in another country. Maybe User A is on a business trip to germnay and is VPNed to their work, or something. How could such a message be routed completely within the German borders? Would the VPN have to detect the nature of the message and reject it?

Am I understanding everything correctly?
Yes, I have written some of those too. Just make sure the script is in your PATH. I drop them in ~/bin/ -- which reminds me of another thing you should have in your ~/.bash_profile, if it isn't already in the template provided by your system:

if [ -d $HOME/bin ]
then
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
fi
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Great framework but are those all the changes in 3.0.0?
> The only way to get in trouble here is to actually enter the base without permission.

Try filming, protesting or flying RC drones nearby ...
Interesting idea. Since they mention Quirky, it's ironic that the Quirky founder is on record (this month's Inc magazine) as saying that one of his motivations is to create real physical products, and that too many people are creating "mobile apps and social things".