skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
or even $10. but yes, this is a really good idea. its not like taking an extra % indefinitely or something. more just keeping things honest. which in the long run is health for everyone, imho.
Yeah exactly right. If you don't make it smooth in the frequency domain it won't be smooth in the time domain either.
Here's a proof of Cantor's Theorem in Metamath, which is one of the simplest formal systems in the world: http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/ruc.html
Suicide by firearm is more likely to succeed than suicide by other methods (for instance poisoning). Per the American Association of Suicidology, "if a gun is used to attempt suicide, a fatal outcome will result 78% to 90% of the time."[1] Suffocation is also very likely to succeed but poisoning results in death less than 5% of the time and falls about 25% of the time.[2] One can make an impulsive decision to commit suicide with a gun while other methods (for instance hanging) may take considerably more thought and preparation. Suicide by firearm seems to be particularly problematic for youth.

[1] - [http://www.suicidology.org/c/document_library/get_file?folde...]

[2] - http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/suicide/statistics/cas...
Norwegian student buys $27 in bitcoin in 2009, now owns an apartment
I think Valve worries more about MS cutting them out of the loop more than consumers choosing the MS store over the Valve store.
Add "setRenderMode(1);" into the onResize function.
Then change between the numbers 0 to 3 (so "setRenderMode(3);" for example) to try the different modes. You may have to resize the window a little each time to make the new mode start but I didn't have to.
It's a little annoying that it won't register button presses.
To be fair, my original comment could be read easily in a way I didn't intend and could come across badly.

I'd say I'm not being caustic and instead stating my opinion on the post in a very direct way. That said, it could be put much better than I said originally.
Buy and read "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" aka SICP. Download a Scheme environment and do all the exercises. Use the multitude of resources to make sure you actually understand how, why, what.

Hacking with Ruby, Python, C#, Java, Objective C, etc, etc is fun, exciting but you won't learn the foundation stuff which sooner or later comes up as a stumbling block.
Maybe. But keep in mind that gaming the system to some people is it's own reward. In that someone might feel like they got away with something or pulled the wool over someone's eyes. Which could make them feel good.

Writing a "hardship" letter doesn't provide the same feedback (to those people). And while in some respects "gaming" can be cheating writing a hardship letter (when there is no hardship) would feel different to some people.

Would be interesting to test though for sure.
Eeek, Snake Your Brain Has A Special Corner Just For Them
Spot on. The ascendence of the "data scientist" in the last few years is largely due to the proliferation of prepackaged, easy-to-use machine learning toolkits like Weka/scikits-learn/RapidMiner/vowpal wabbit/libsvm that require little programming knowledge and only a superficial understanding of the actual algorithm.

I actually think the easy availability of such toolkits is a good thing; for many applications, rigorous statistical knowledge is overkill. It's just unfortunate that these people call themselves data "scientists" when they commonly lack the years of training, journal publications, and expertise of actual scientists.
The referrer header has always been optional, and nothing governs the specifics of its contents beyond the host and page. Google never had to provide anything beyond "Google search results page" as the referrer, and probably never should have. After all, the search page is a form, and form submissions generally use POST rather than GET. Both are valid, but if Google used POST then the search terms would never have been part of the url for the results page, and never would have been passed on in the referrer urls.
> The fact Google is still providing this data to people who do paid advertising

By "this data", I presume you mean "traffic data grouped by keyword"? Or are you saying that the search query is passed unfiltered along with the request for individual ad clicks?

AdWords can provide aggregate keyword traffic data easily without compromising privacy.

In order for Google Analytics, and similar software, to provide aggregate keyword traffic data, the data would have to be bundled with each request. The more data a website receives about you simultaneously, the less privacy you have. Previously, a website would get your IP address, your user agent and your search query, and at the same time have the ability to inject a tracking cookie. The IP address I use is registered to me in RIPE, so in my case it would be trivial to connect my search term to my name and address. If I visited unencrypted sites, secret agents monitoring the Intertubes would be able to store my search queries. Is this kind of data really available in AdWords?
I learned to code by reading lots of books, writing lots of code and getting involved in a local user group.

If you want to learn Ruby and Rails a couple of good resources are Learn to program by Chris Pine (an intro to ruby) and the rails tutorial by Michael Hartl http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book

Some other books I would recommend:
- Practical object oriented design in ruby
- Computer science programming basics in ruby
- Agile web development with ruby on rails 4
- Eloquent ruby
- Design patterns in ruby

If you get on the http://oreilly.com email list they regularly have 50% off ebook sales.
All the more odd that Data Science is meant to be less scientific than Statistics (if the taxonomy I described in another post is correct).
Agreed. Thanks for the input. How about the other two color schemes(You can check them in demo)? I will make the required changes to improve the design.
Similar thoughts from Derek Sivers (founder of CD Baby): http://sivers.org/hellyeah (2009)
See martey's comment above.
>Why is my talking about being a CE class of 250+ people not conclusive enough information that I've been to college?

Could have been a trade school, possibly a very large high school.

>And, what was that /extra/ thing that made you confidently say 'Scratch that, you've definitely been to college'?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6442136

Speaking of which, you really shouldn't admit stuff like that in a public forum.
For color schemes: check out http://colorschemedesigner.com/ I can get a "presentable" color scheme in about 5 minutes, and it will probably look better than if I played with the colors individually for a week.

For fonts - just use something simple & sans-serif like Verdana/Arial/Helvetica, or Roboto on Android. I've seen very few sites pull off non-standard fonts and have it look good.
I know absolutely nothing about design. I use bootstrap and more or less copy pre-existing designs that have the desired aesthetic.

Problem is that I can tell when a UI is terrible, but coming up with the right one is not as simple as the inverse of terrible :(
Customs will notify the authorities that you have more than the amount designated, to guard against money laundering.

Example: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/customs/customs_control...
Your job has no business "expecting" anything about what you do on your vacation. It's your time, do whatever you want.

For an example, see a poster above who goes on military training at that time, - it likely is more exhausting than any computer job, but perfectly okay anyways.
Who cares if they are the top 5% if they don't jive with the way you do things. That just causes extra stress and trouble later on, so it is better for both sides. Besides, the top 5% of what? Raw coding ability? I bet you the people they hire are in the top N% of people who should work there.

I share the sentiment that you shouldn't just adopt whatever whizbang hiring scheme you read about. It takes experience to hone in on.
Well, two reasons I think:

1. The comment was never really a question. He made a series of direct statements and grievances, without ever actually asking for help. As my wife put it on reviewing the comment: "there is no reason to answer a statement as it requested no additional information and would likely be disregarded anyway" (based on the tone of the comment).

2. While bad-mouthing outside the forums may be a problem, the mods have a responsibility to the environment they are tasked to maintain. I expect their marching orders are "don't worry about everyone else, just keep the forums clean and civil."
623 websites as of Dec 1993.
Source: http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/04/04/how-we-got-from-1-to-162...
The most important part was reading "learning perl" in 1997.
I was kind of hoping that they would all be 100% as a dark reminder that we will all die.
In Data Science, the word "Data" isn't meant to modify "Science" in the way that food "Food" modifies "Eating" in your friend's example. It's more like Political Science, where "Science" is used as a fancy way to say "the study and practice of".
Yes, and there's whether it actually works IRL. I think it's feasible to have something like the concept, but there are quite a few hiccups along the way -- I'm no audio expert, but I suspect that a single microphone/speaker location may be unable to cancel satisfactorily the incoming sound field through the window. Also, Loud noises creep in through various places, so if your window is quite good already you many not get much improvement.

But a good concept and hard work (and hope) usually lead to quite good products...

I.e. noise cancellation in building is usually approached through "get better insulation", not through the plausibly cheaper "let's spread a speaker/mic array inside/outside to cancel what's coming form outside".
"The digits of every rational number repeat after some finite number
of digits, so the "period" of every rational number is finite.
However, there is no upper bound on the period of rational numbers,
i.e., the periods are all finite, but there is no largest period.
Thus, in a manner of speaking, the least common multiple of this set
of strictly finite things is infinite."

Got lost here, what is the LCM of this set; which set?
This hurts his pricing plan effectively moving EVERYONE to the "pay us when you make money" plan. I'd say 50% of the first 80$, that way they still get a check on their first sale but they ended up paying a little bit more ($20).
I did a very minimal one for MIPS, based on SPIM and written in Haskell. It was a fun project in learning and abstracting patterns. Highly recommended, IMO.
His point isn't that a programmable thermostat isn't worthwhile, but that most people don't want it even if they should. Moreover, the OP notes that the Nest is overkill as far as programmable thermostats go.
Pharo Seaside, jQuery, Bootstrap or PureCSS, postgreSQL
As someone who worked from home for a while but now work in NYC and program for a living: definitely both. Somewhat physically draining and (very) time-wasting commute, and lots of interruptions when in the zone.

However, many tasks are tens of times easier to complete when you can walk over to somebody and get an answer to your problem. I don't care how many Basecamp, VoIP installs and standups you have--trying to do the same remotely doesn't compare.
So do unto Google as Google does unto others, in a way at least.

I perform all my Google searches while remaining logged out from Google. More importantly, I use Firefox/Chrome plugins that rewrite Google search results minus their tracking. In a way, I've gone "dark" to Google too.
If you're at Davis and get a chance to study with Dr. Isbell, take it, she's great!
The article said they're making some attempt to anonymize the data. Anyhow whether that's wholly true or not, I don't like google having the data either. However, I do get that it's fair on some level since I'm directly using their service and it's been always apparent they monetize it through the data we inherently give them.

Where marketing and private intelligence bothers me is when it's not obvious to consumers when they're providing data. And also it's not always expected the ways in which it's used. And in the increasingly interconnected world of marketers selling and sharing data, the full implications won't be realized for some time.

edit:

Recently it's bothered me more and more that the software world tries to find hidden ways to charge users. It would be like highway construction companies tracking traffic patterns by embedding data sensors in their roads to collect consumer data and while they're at it, share it with the government to win some favors. Or like your carpenter going ahead and embedding sensors into the drywall to collect your data to resell and help them generate more revenue. People have paid for stuff directly for a long time and been happy to. But internet companies have this thirst to get millions of users by offering something for free, gambling investor dollars, and hope it pays off huge (which it occasionally does).
we were supporting servers off-site for some web hosting companies from where we built this for helping our daily tasks as some of these were not available with cpanel or ubersmith...will take that live help box and ensure its in the corner always. thanks for the comment
Instagram's Suggested User List
I was walking down the street one day, and they were deforesting the nearby area. A long snake was right in front of me.

I didn't recognize it at first, I simply froze and was wondering why a piece of plastic tubing had frozen me in my track. Well, it was a long snake. What was it doing on my road? I walk there daily! Snakes can get that long in Canada? Oh, look how it moves away! Those movements are so fluid!

I then proceeded to get closer, follow it for the next 5 minutes and take pictures of it.

I have no idea why. I never looked at those photos later. I simply felt the urge to document its presence and its way out of the road I walk on daily.
Anybody know anything about VT health stats? I'm struck by the fact that it:

* Has the lowest influenza/pneumonia rate (7.9)

* Has the lowest nephritis rate (6.7)

* Is in the "really low" rate color for HIV and homicides*

* But has the highest Parkinson's rate (9.6)

What's a contributing factor for Parkinson's?

* Edit: That appears to be the "no data" color actually. I just assumed it was very low because VT has few homicides (1.4 / 100k residents average rate for the past 3 years, or about 10 homicides annually)
Too bad the clip does not have any sound created by the sound creation software.
The tendency to say "yes" is often the byproduct of certain cultures and one's upbringing. This tendency is hard to break.

On a side note, I have always appreciated how candid and honest Europeans are. They speak their mind, they don't sugar coat anything and they are very matter of fact. On a tech project, this sped things up A LOT.
I'll believe it when I see it...
It's human nature, it's in our DNA. People like to hang out w/ those that look like them, they feel more comfortable. Yes there are outliers here and there, but for the most part, I can bet 70%+ of the people reading this are as follows: if you are Asian, I bet most of your good friends are Asian, if you white, then most of your good friends are white, and so on and so forth. It's not racism, it's just human nature that starts early on. If you grew up in America you know what I'm talking about, ever notice how young kids including yourself start naturally forming groups late in elementary school? if not then definitely around middle school. Whites hang out with the whites, Asians hang out with the Asians, Latinos w/ Latinos, blacks w/ blacks, etc..
Ceylon: Tour of Ceylon
"Instead, people's background—in terms of foods they ate and other lifestyle trends—didn't seem to have any correlation with the bacterial communities in their mouths."

I wondered about general interaction and intimacy too, but there doesn't seem to be enough info to make a call either way. The quote above doesn't really cover it. "Lifestyle trends" doesn't really cover interacting with each other.
Microsoft is weird.

I'm part of a company which sells hardware/software/other assorted technology solutions to businesses. That's what we do. We are the technology providers for literally 80% of the businesses in the town we are in.

There is no way we can buy a lot of say 10 Surface Pros and resell them without going through one of the three retail stores (and adding another block of GST + general markup).

Because of that, we can't on sell them to business, users with money won't use them and they'll get barely anywhere.

IPads were originally marketed as fun devices for on-the-go "things", so people were happy to go and buy one for themselves to use personally. Kind of expanded to the point where so many people had them that app developers had the market to go towards businesses. - If the Surface Pro 2 is intended for business at all, it needs to let the people that sell to businesses get their hands on them.

/2c
1. I think he was asking for help. He tried several ways to fix his problem and he could not find any solution. What is there for him to do at this stage, expect from alerting Apple on this?

2. Again, why not do proper customer service and give the user some opportunity to have his issue addressed ? Like, a simple message "please call the Apple customer service etc." instead of wiping his message completely.

This is very much symptomatic of Apple which wants to keep every issue under the rug and never admit they did anything wrong. Jobs was very much like that: never admitting any mistake, always saying that the product coming out was always "better" but never saying "we screwed up on this or this" when they did.
I don't know about that, for me it's like half a month of work :) Not everybody here comes from the first world
Yay, Big Brother!
It isn't unusual for a data analysis algorithms to not be shown to work theoretically until after it is published. Ie here is the first proof that adaboost converges some 3 years after the paper that introduced it:

http://l2r.cs.uiuc.edu/~danr/Teaching/CS598-05/Papers/Collin...
Mavericks – power use / service battery
thanks for the tips!

my post was tongue in cheek, I know in my mind that the best course of action is to just stick with default and get the site up...

however I can't help but tweak, and play, and move divs around so that the website on my screen looks just like the one I am imagining in my mind. It is almost always spot on, but never quite right...
I believe the underlying reason why people dislike statistics is because they dislike whichever statistics course they were required to take in college. The courses (and instructors) are often very dry. And for students in the social sciences, who may not have much in the way of math training (or interest), the focus on symbolic manipulation of equations isn't very enlightening.
Gender, age, ethnicity, level of interest, general idea of pedigree (e.g. accent and vocabulary), ballpark of income based on accoutrements, possibly information about your family situation (wedding ring, kids), what kind of car you drive, apparent level of sophistication in relation to the business — and in most cases you can casually ask visitors questions without disrupting the transaction.
The goverment has declared an unprecedented number of holidays last year (i.e. moving holidays from weekends to mondays, declaring "bridge" holidays when a holiday happens on tuesday or thursday, 2012 had 5 more than 2011). 2013 will have 17 bank holidays.
I absolutely love angular. Documentation is a definite given. I was having a problem with resolving an ng-class on <body> with $rootscope and I thought, "I'll go look at $rootScope's documentation!"

http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.$rootScope

Psyche. Good god.
I don't think that was being questioned at any point. The comment is about whether people share similarities in their microbiome because of their genetic background or because they hang around with people generally of the same background.
I would respectfully disagree, as i had one too and used it pretty much on the go 30-40% of the time. But then, I do not know your use case.
I'm struggling, but I think the point you're trying to make here is that the net would be tiny or useless without ads.

Is that the gist of it?
Don't trust anything Russian state-owned media says. It went completely crazy in last 2 years. I recently watched a "Documentary" on this main "news" channel Rossiya 24, which speculated that the outbreak of Swine influenza in Asia was an ethnicity-targeted bio-weapon attack, carried out by the US. And other similarly insane things like "Bill Gates tries to make everybody infertile in Africa, with his anti-malaria vaccine." Overall mood that this 'program' tried to convey is "be afraid, be very afraid of foreigners and foreign states. They are out to get you."
That's a great post. I'll be sure to take a look at all the articles that are linked in it!
Funny, that doesn't match my, or, (apparently) many other HN user's experiences as we've watched Google's design march from "highly usable" to "the kind of thing Microsoft does"
Good point, thank you. Is there any data on suicide attempts per state, then, available anywhere online ? Are suicide attempts even recorded officially ?
Pardon me if I come off as rude, but you've made a couple of statements that strike me as rather silly. Maybe I've misunderstood you.

The function of a peer reviewed publication is to formalize and verify that some result is correct, reproducible, and relevant (and to advance tenure). One would hope that whether you publish or not is mostly orthogonal to how you conduct your work. If you're doing data analysis in any professional capacity, you should be using mathematically sound techniques, and you should understand those techniques. There's no other way about it. I'm not sure what your line of work is, but I can't think of any technical field where one's analysis techniques being "scientifically sound" is anything but paramount. Why else would the work have any value? Perhaps it helps to think about publishing your work to be more like deploying your code, rather than testing it.

That isn't to say that every step of the way you have to conduct yourself with the utmost rigor. It doesn't mean that you must prove every theorem each time you use it, nor that you have to be laying out strict tests and hypotheses every time you load a data set. But to do data analysis in a scientifically sound manner does mean that you have to understand the background of the techniques you're using, and how they apply to your data. It does mean that you have to periodically bring your analysis back to basics and make sure your ducks are still in a row; that you haven't fallen off the assumption wagon somewhere along the line. It does mean that you should know why something is working, or why something is broken, not just that it is.

"Statisticians" don't sit around all day laying out hypothesis tests in latex. They do the same thing you do; they fire up R, load the data and start playing with it. It's all about the context you have in your brain when you are playing with it. This, I think, is where the formal training becomes quite important. Because as with most things, it's the unknown unknowns that will destroy you, and having the broad formal foundation gives you the tools to protect yourself from walking into a minefield problems you didn't even know existed yet.
I'm a huge fan of deluged running as a daemon- it's so good at getting out of my way. With a couple of plugins to give it rss support and email notifications, it's almost fully automatic.
Just to butt in regarding the handwriting recognition, I used OneNote extensively to take class notes during my Masters. It faired pretty well. The pen is godsend, just not for writing but other tasks too like software menu selection.
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Looks not so bad. This not an absolute no ;)