skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I noticed in the other text, Hamlet, is that HAMLET in the last sentence has no pointer to Hamlet, obviously. This seems like an opportunity for optimisation, for text at least.

Usually a word is either lowercase, capitalised or uppercase. In more complex and rare cases this could be efficiently encoded bitwise (0 = keep, 1 = swap case), so HAMLEt becomes 011110 plus a pointer to Hamlet.

I wonder if any compression algorithm does this. Probably not, because the benefit is likely minimal at significantly increased de/compression time.
This floating data centers could be used for more privacy/security. Very interesting article thanks.
I've been arguing something similar since 2009: http://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism
Have you tried using the mouse with your off-hand?

Not saying it's universal, but I use the mouse left-handed like I'm beyond drunk.

Beyond that, I can't think of a very useful purpose, despite the things multi-touch are useful for.
Financial institutions haven't promised to keep your info secret from the government when served with a warrant.
I thought that was the best part: corp spends tens of thousands in lawyer time and craftiness to be stealthy, but forgets that it gives corp-branded charge cards to its employees, who won't spend $3.50 on a latte while on company time (and forget to ditch their badges when offsite).
We don't post anything on your wall.

I'm new to programing and using Django's user auth system + Facebook login together seems to complex for me for now.

People generally don't like to enter new email, password.

I think using Facebook login is a good idea.

Do you don't like it?
If you want to try Pylearn2, use this vagrant box for easy setup [link]

[link] https://github.com/ironchief/pylearn2_vagrant
Can anyone recommend any other alternatives? The reasons we chose do.com over Asana and Flow were the simplicity of the interface, great mobile app, free, and CRM support. Totally bummed.
Can somebody explain the point behind the secrecy? What does Google have to gain by taking all these steps to hide they're the ones building it?
Yeah, way to go!!
While components of the federal budget have intense lobbying efforts dedicated to them, the budget as a whole doesn't. Which is why there's no incentive to pass a full budget: there's no bribery in it, and lots of political points to score by refusing and blaming the other guys.

The copyright lobby, on the other hand, is a reliable bribe source every time they want something. So I'd expect an extension to just glide on through.
This is true for some industries and not others, I think...

What "monopoly on knowledge" brings to my mind is academic journals. Have you ever tried to search them online? On the cheap end, it's like $40 a pop, before you even know how useful it is. Some cost a fortune, such that many people in certain industries can't justify keeping up with all the developments in their still-very-academia-centric field (where one's singular goal in life is to be published in as many expensive journals as possible).

I love papers and studies, and my husband worked in industry as a mathematician, so this is something that I've come upon a lot. It really baffles me.
Does anyone know an open-source alternative to salesforce? It seems like it should exist.

[EDIT] - nevermind:
http://www.x2engine.com
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Yeah I can't wait to see the shit show in the seed stage field if this happens http://www.forbes.com/sites/chancebarnett/2013/10/23/sec-job...
A favorite memory of mine is building an RC monster truck with my dad when I was a kid. Combining physical projects with Scratch sounds like something I would have loved. (Who am I kidding, I'm excited to do this myself as soon as I have some spare time :)
Move the screen farther away from your face.

Also, get a pair of very low-power reading glasses (+0.75 or +1). I use reading glasses while I work all day, despite not having any real "need" for them...they just make things easier on your ciliary muscles.

FWIW that was recommended by a retired optometrist friend of mine.
Who has jurisdiction?
Also "by and large" is a nautical term meaning (roughly) "whether sailing against the wind or sailing with the wind".
The thesis of the article is that Cover makes Android so compelling that other app developers go for Android first because they'll get more usage via Cover surfacing their app better post-installation.
Maybe Google will put pressure on the city to upgrade the island's power grid, which has had serious reliability issues in recent years: http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/treasure-island-endur...
Reminds me [1]. Gmail like AI breaks loose and uses fully automated floating data centers. Highly recommend.

[1] book named "Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears:
It really depends on what you want to do.

If you want to raise capital and build a startup here, don't. Or, at least, do so but with your "real" headquarters in Boston, NY or CA.

There's a strong effort to try and get things going, but there's a definite lack of capital and the capital you can find in other places will send you a consistent message: "We don't want you in Maine, move here instead."

There are some opportunities around maritime businesses (logistics, mostly) and lots of incentives for trying to build small manufacturing and renewable energy businesses... but the school closest to Portland is looking to close its physics department and the state officials responsible for managing the incentive programs have proven multiple times that they cannot be trusted to develop long-term programs.

If you have or can develop a remote-work type position, it's a great place to live and work from (as long as you can get good, reliable bandwidth).

But if you want to start a software-focused startup ... honestly ... it's an uphill battle.
Personalized email or phone call.

A survey, in particular, seems awful for this.
So, let me get this straight. You moved everything to Google Drive, not keeping a local copy. Then you emptied the trash. And you didn't have a backup of your documents, but instead decided to leave everything in the cloud. Then, when something goes wrong, you blame Google. Am I understanding correctly?
The value-add to taxpayers is much less concrete in the humanities. My argument was that research in the humanities is essentially done for the sake of doing research: to learn more about the world and the people in it. It is hard to see definite, monetary benefits, which is one of the reason arts/music/creative writing programs are being slashed cut in favor of match/science in primary education in the US.

The benefit of studying the humanities is one of personal edification. Students who study art or music in school are likely to be more disciplined and score better on standardized tests than their non-musician/artist colleagues. Not to mention, young students who have a strong background in the humanities are often happier with their quality of life (I know that music was the highlight of my day/week when I was in school).

A patronage program would be great for this type of degree...if any VCs out there want a personal music theorist I'd be happy to apply! My argument is that it is traditionally universities which have been the patrons of these degrees. This goes back at least to the earliest universities in Europe, where students learned the seven liberal arts: grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. The idea of the university was not to churn out good economic workers (as it tends to be today) but to produce well-rounded human beings. We in the humanities still think this is a worthy goal (and consequently, tend to make much less than our STEM counterparts).
I believe that it's not only social pressure, but also behavioral genetic differences between genders.

In real life, often achieving 'ambitious career sucess goal Omega' happens at the cost of your family and other non-working life.

Maybe it shouldn't be so, but life isn't fair, and often your job/research/band/political career/book/whatever will be better off (at least until burnout) if in your actions you put it above your family/social life/hobbies/friends/happiness. And if it in the end kills you by a heart attack, suicide or drug abuse, well, it doesn't affect the achievement as long as it happens after that.

My observation is that there are X% women who would (in practice) choose an ambitious goal at abovementioned cost and intentionally stick with that decision, and Y% of men who would do so; and that the Y% rate is much bigger than X%. It corelates well with a variety of facts, like the gender differences in profession choice, known gender differences in risk-taking (and risk-misevaluation), gender differences in crime rates (again, being ambitious while fscking up your life), etc.

My hypothesis (with no idea on how to verify or reject it) is that the observed difference is not purely social, but built-in - it's clear how it (if it exists) could be caused by gene regulation, and there are evolutionary psychology arguments on why such a difference could be useful for early homo sapiens. I'd like to see if it's true or not.
It was reasonably quiet when I was playing, but a couple of times it looked like the thing you had to collect with your snake respawned on the other side of the board before anyone could conceivably get there. Was quite irritating.
The primary downside to a small TTL is cost. For many DNS providers you are allotted a number of requests per month that DNS will resolve. On particularly popular websites having a ton of DNS requests can cause the cost of DNS services to inflate significantly.
Not all quotes are scare quotes. Often times, they are used where one would normally add slight differentiation, such as italics.
Pardon my french, but: no shit. The survey was conducted during the BART strikes. I really doubt people would be terribly enthusiastic about how the system functions in the midst of a cessation of service.
The obvious solution would be if we could get Soylent Powder or Soylent Base containing all the nitty-gritty little vitamins and minerals and choline and whatever, and then add whatever fats, carbs, and protein we wanted. I wrote them about that (I've already ordered in the Kickstarter, just to support them) but haven't received an answer yet. BTW does anyone know the current composition of the latest Soylent?
It needs HTTPS.
It's being built at the same hangar where they shot the Battlebots TV shows.
I have an Asus gaming laptop that I run Ubuntu on. I seem to have about the same use-case as you. Mine is large so it barely fits in my backpack, but it does.

My ideal laptop would be this one with an infinite battery life.
Clicking "Update Subscription Preferences" at the bottom of the email shows the address of who it was sent to. Might not want that everywhere.
Between this and the patent law reformation it looks like the war for IP is going to happen in the next few years.

Honestly though, I can't imagine a future in which Mickey Mouse or Bugs Bunny ever enter the public domain.
Of course, that's the point. It takes such talent in academics to command the sort of job liquidity at the high end that is taken for granted in industry.

That Terence Tao is being paid twice the average tenured salary at Harvard while he's at UCLA speaks to both our points. Unlike most professors, Terence Tao is paid by UCLA what he could hypothetically get if he went to Harvard (speculatively, of course). Other professors would face much more friction in packing up their bags and hopping into tenured positions at peer institutions or higher.
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I've seen hundreds of report regarding the link between Google & NSA. Isn't that enough?

This is just not gossip. It's not about Sergey Brin's love affair.

This is about a piece of technology that is possibly built by Google.
It's a low hanging fruit. That and it's also immediately recognizable so you are immediately ready to critique everything else.
Looking forward to cocktail 418 :)
I used to live in Naples and Orlando. Amazon didn't have prime back then, but I would definitely buy it if they did.
Perhaps corporate espionage/sabotage? Or maybe to keep things relatively low-key around the site.

Or perhaps the tech/approach is untested, and they want to do some preliminary tests/dry runs before putting their branding all over it.

These security measures are pretty tame in the grand scheme of things though. I think if google did want to completely mask their involvement, they would have at least issued different badges and credit cards to their employees on site.
To DO:

You don't need to do anything.
Your domain name will pull seven figures+ without you .... doing anything :)
I don't understand what this means; can you elaborate?

Since the attachment for an AOE drive is Ethernet, the drive controller is just an Ethernet NIC...
What worked for us in the beginning was asking people for their advice. Something like "I'm really interested in your work and would really appreciate a chance to ask you some questions and get your advice." Then you can have a phone call, or even better, an in person meeting over coffee. This gives you an opportunity to learn a lot about them and what they need, and potentially tell them about your product in a very customized way.

PS: Try doing this at scale rather than relying on those 20. For example, twitter follow a few hundred people in the target market and then DM the ones that follow you back, asking for their advice.
And, in other news, cars are out-selling airplanes.
certainly. I guess by survey I meant putting some structure around the questions I will be asking them. The initial contact has to be personal (email/phone/in person).
My kids play with Lego Mindstorms and I play with Arquino. They are also very well versed in Scratch. This is really unexpected but super cool. Thanks!
What if the defendant is found not to be guilty? Will the courts return the actual bitcoin, or the value of the bitcoin in USD? If USD, what date/time valuation would they use?
As the other poster has mentioned, teaching is part of what makes these colleges expensive.

Teaching heavy departments (the humanities) have one source of income: student fees

Research heavy departments (science, engineering, medicine) have both student fees and grants - not only to pay salary, but also to cover things like keeping the lights on, computing power, administrative support, etc. This is often a substantial amount of the total cost of a grant.

Going to pure teaching means everything has to be carried by either student fees or tax payers (for public institutions).
Humanism is good until it clashes with your basic instincts unfortunately.
Spray it with compressed air inside and out. You can get into the slit between the fan housing and the motor and blow it out there as well. Most fans start making noise due to bearing failure / wobble, not the dust. I have a small home server with 4 fans. After almost 10 years now 3 out of the 4 fans are as quite as they were on day one, the 4th has developed a bearing issue and needs to be swapped out eventually. I am assuming that Apple will use hire quality fans then the $3 crap fans I am using.
This year I hacked my academic job.

The previous two years, like a lot of junior academics, I become extremely disillusioned with academia: long hours, low pay, and no job security.

I was about to quit my fixed-term assistant professor position (Maths) until I became curious: what would happen if I didn't care about being fired?

So Dec 2012, I made the decision to only focus on high-quality research that I care about (quality over volume), to do a decent (but not amazing) job teaching, and to secretly do consulting/contract work on the side.

It's been really interesting. Suddenly, when I didn't care anymore, they gave me tenure and bumped my salary. Over the year, I've also spent roughly 2 days a week sneaking around and doing contract work which has been amazing financially...

Would anyone be interested in my story?
why include all respondents who said that they "never" used public transportation?
> Once "they've" run malware on your machine it's no longer your machine and nothing can be trusted. Wipe and re-install, then very carefully restore backups of data.

That is a general rule for malware that you do not know anything about.

However, the SearchProtect install bundled with µTorrent is only malware to the extent that it prevents you from changing your browser defaults. It is not believed to exhibit the other characteristics of malware. It is annoying, scammy, scummy, evil, etc. -- but it does not appear to compromise your system badly enough to require a reformat and clean install.

It's just one step beyond accidentally installing the Ask Toolbar with a new Java install. Yes, it is theoretically possible that it could've taken over your machine. But most likely not.

P.S. Take a look at the Wikipedia page for SearchProtect. Specifically, History and Talk. There's one high-up editor who's been stonewalling any attempt to add a Criticism section, on the basis that Wikipedia cannot link to user posts.
I've never heard of it happening. Insisting on such a thing would be a great way for investors to filter out good startups.
Why would you want it to be in the middle of the ocean? Keep it close the the coast, perhaps hook into a cable landing station (where submarine comm cables come ashore.) Running a submarine power cable also doesn't seem too far-fetched.
Malcolm Gladwell Full of It? One Scientist (at least) Says Yes
Salesforce (the company behind do.com) is notorious for buying 2-4 letter domains. I'm sure they'll find another way to use it a few years from now.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think I heard it's people.
The Box.com data debacle part deux: Am I a total idiot, or what?
Well, that actually a very important point. Clearly adoption of free software is much lower than one could expect. What I mean is: you can argue that Gimp is not as good as PhotoShop, LibreOffice not as good as Office, or that Linux is not as good as Windows (which is clearly debatable) but they are good enough and they are all infinitely cheaper (literally) than their paying alternative. So that should be default choice for 99% of people. But it isn't.

So my point is: The same goes for cars vs. bikes. Most people wouldn't mind using a bike to go to work, but it feels weird to pay only a couple of bucks for a bike, when you've learn that the price to go to work is the price for a car.
True, although it certainly seems like Google was half-assing it with the security. If you don't want something to be tied back to your company, don't have company employees work on it.
Phone call. You always miss exceptions in surveys, even if you allow open answers for each question, you sometimes want more elaboration to an answer. 20 people is also very doable to call. Sending a survey will also result in people forgetting/less willing to answer your questions. Calling is also more personal.
They said you cant change your name
They didn't let me change the name in high score ... how the hell I can show my friends how much I have scored ...
So I had to do what I did ..
Measuring With Jugs, Or What If Mathematicians Were Asked To Defuse Bombs
It's still a large enough volume that it would be in their best interest to sell slow enough as to not flood the market and lower the value. Of course, I am assuming they'd want to maximize the return?
Do is Done.

Thanks, Salesforce! Your purchase of Manymoon and subsequent shutdown of it instills Google-like levels of confidence in your product offerings!
Somebody told them about docker and this is what they did....
You have a very broad definition of gossip.
Well I know the Bay Area's public transit kind of sucks, but I'm not sure why they're called out here over LA.
It should be noted that the IPython Notebook is being developed to support multiple backends. People are working on backends for Haskell[1], Scala [2], and Julia[3]. I'd love to see a Clojure backend.

All of this does not obviate the challenges of setting up IPython, but that could also be (somewhat)resolved via cloud services[4][5][6].

[1] http://gibiansky.github.io/IHaskell/

[2] https://github.com/mattpap/IScala

[3] https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl

[4] http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/python/tutorials/i...

[5] https://www.wakari.io/

[6] http://blog.picloud.com/2012/12/23/introducing-the-picloud-n...
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I am having great mental images of pirate ships full of hackers attacking Google floating data centers in international waters. The floating data centers will of course be stoutly defended by a combination of machine gun wielding robots and Google engineers with laser beam interfaces for their Google Glass.
Comparing the lists between new.ycombinator.com and www.hckrnews.com some articles on top 10 on the first are missing on the second is that intended and I didn't understand how it works?
After visiting Disney World, it is shocking to think how much money-generating activity is associated with those 3 circles that make up the Mickey Mouse sillouhette. I would imagine there is a compelling argument to make for preserving exiting business infrastructure associated with that and similar existing IP to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions over time.

I disagree with that argument, but I could imagine some folks in congress letting that be what compels them.
No more Hollywood movies for you. The only "tsunamis" with "waves" hundreds of feet high are created by cliffs or glaciers collapsing. And even then, the wave height is really the run-up against another cliff or mountain. Such waves can be dangerous to boats in confined waters, such as a bay. In the open ocean, tsunami waves are mostly harmless and even barely noticeable to boats. And all this is moot because the slip-strike motion of the San Andreas fault doesn't produce tsunamis that I've heard of.
That isn't a singular problem. Helping a group is not just another way of discriminating against them. Just as slapping someone's face is not just another way of kissing them.
Do.com is being discontinued
Was this Any.do or not?
I doubt it; they would have just bought a cruise ship.

Besides, Tata and Wipro have demonstrated that you can just bring people here to work, coop them 8 to a suite in extended stay hotel rooms, and with sufficient lawyering and a couple of hoops, visas be damned.
that doens't have much sense to upgrade to the outdated versions. you should just grasp your balls and start an upgrade to the latest one.
it will take 5x more time to upgrade it version to version. what sense is it to upgrade to syntax and functionality that is outdated and then to rewrite it again and again.
install new version and go ahead fixing things! dont be a pussy.
Can you tell me what sort of larger car/suv has the best ride comfort-to-mpg bang for the buck under 35k that can also fit a 200lb Newfoundland?

If only car sites alllowed for this sort of discovery process!