skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's pretty common. Here's a note I wrote regarding Luc Devroye's highly-regarded (and excellent!) book on univariate random number generation:

Although not dissenting from the other reviews which tout the comprehensiveness of the treatment and its level of detail, I have to add an unpleasant fact about the algorithms: the codes may not work as written, and if they don't, there's not an easy way to track down the problem. (This is because of the nature of the constructions used in the complex constant-time algorithms -- this opaqueness is not a problem for the elementary algorithms which, alas, may not run in constant time.)

A look at the author's web site (currently at errors.pdf off his main page) shows that, e.g., the algorithm on page 511 [of the book] for Poisson r.v.'s has four serious bugs as originally published. This means that the main algorithm for one of the most important discrete distributions was not coded and tested by the author before the book appeared!

In fact, I believe this algorithm has at least one more bug, because I'm still seeing a small off-by-one anomaly in my implementation. The algorithm for binomial r.v.'s may have trouble as well -- I see problems for N=400, p=0.05. After 10 million draws (i.e., enough to get good statistics) I see deviations of counts in some bins near the peak (i.e. number of integer outcomes of the R.V.) of 8 standard deviations from the expected number of counts. So, be careful, and consider alternate implementations of the more complex algorithms.

There's a lot of detail in the book, and the techniques are valid. But as we all know, implementation sometimes reveals algebra errors!
Pretty sure the Microsoft subpixel rendering patents are only applicable in the United States.
I would have the superpower to pick superpowers. So basically I would be Rogue. Only not as attractive and a dude.
IMO, you could add to that list - Good programmers like to program in their spare time, working on pet projects and the like.

Of course there are exceptions to every rule, and I'm probably biased.
If I lease a miner from a third party http://www.hashtrade.com/ am I engaging in a currency transaction?
I wonder if anyone have designed chips to crack DES to actually sell. I am thinking of MS-CHAPv2 in particular.
I bet you drafted MJD. What a bum he has been.
It's nice to think that there's a prison where inmates are not just allowed to rot.

That how our prisons should work. It may not satisfy a human being's need for retribution, but when did inflicting harm more than what's necessary to keep humans safe ever did for humanity?

Anytime you jail a human being, you're using up resources to feed them, shelter them, and protect them from dangerous human beings. That cost taxpayer money. Why not get something out of the condemned by fixing them and studying them and making them better so that the prison system will collapse because it's so effective at repairing? (Of course, there are human beings that may be unfixable, but the vast majority probably are)
I agree. It's amazing how productive you can be when you eliminate distractions: http://abughrai.be/pics/github_streak.png
They didn't actually name the person, so that is unknowable.

My uninformed impression however is that while many people may unjustly get the "sex offender" label (for example, somebody who got caught pissing in an alley behind a bar), the people who receive a "sex offender" label and jail time skew towards the "did something that actually has a victim" crowd.
Jackie Robinson, Jesse Owens, and Muhammad Ali might take exception with your "won't matter in a week" assertion.
I tried Fedora (Korora spin) for a few months. However, battery life was bad and Chrome got buggy. Back to Ubuntu LTS (with Gnome 2) for now.

Will probably try Debian stable + lots of backports next.
I don't formally use Pomodoro, but I have adopted the use of the 25 minute timer for health reasons. It's well known that sitting for extended periods is not good for you, but I don't want to switch to a standing desk--standing for long periods is also bad for you.

Best is to use a sitting desk, but to get up every so often and move around:

Sit to do computer work. Sit using a height-adjustable,
downward titling keyboard tray for the best work posture,
then every 20 minutes stand for 2 minutes AND MOVE. The
absolute time isn’t critical but about every 20-30 minutes
take a posture break and move for a couple of minutes.
Simply standing is insufficient. Movement is important
to get blood circulation through the muscles. And movement
is FREE! Research shows that you don’t need to do vigorous
exercise (e.g. jumping jacks) to get the benefits, just
walking around is sufficient. So build in a pattern of
creating greater movement variety in the workplace (e.g.
walk to a printer, water fountain, stand for a meeting,
take the stairs, walk around the floor, park a bit further
away from the building each day).

Source: http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/CUESitStand.html

Note how they recommend getting up every 20 to 30 minutes--a perfect fit for a Pomodoro timer.

I find that the timer doesn't interrupt being in the zone--I can just keep thinking about what I'm working on while I walk around for a couple minutes, and the fitness break is essentially no interruption at all. If I'm not in the zone, then after the break I will do a Pomodoro-like thing and check email and reevaluate what I should be doing before getting back to work.
Oh hush, you're missing the POINT of these kinds of submissions. The game is to find the combination of criteria that gives the US the lowest ranking in whatever. This list still puts the US above the 50th percentile, so there's plenty of scope to optimize further. Real pros aim to place the US lower than Cuba, which is a kind of benchmark for this game.
When His Project Was Canceled, an Unemployed Programmer Sneaked Into Apple
Debian stable releases come out roughly every two years, and are supported for an extra year (or so) after the following release.

Otherwise RHEL/CentOS have longer support periods (ten years).
Guile?

http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
You're right of course, but we have to be careful about unintended(?) side effects. It's a very short road from prisoner development to the state having an unhealthy economic incentive to lock people up.
I had a card with a barcode on it that I used in public school in the US for lunches.
In quite many cases I'd prefer a good doctor right now rather than trying to buy my way in some far away spot in best doctor's schedule.

And practice is supposed to be covered by med school and supervised residency, isn't it? The question mainly isn't about inexperienced surgeons, but about experienced surgeons who simply are poor at the actual surgical technique, and possibly won't ever get much better.

And choosing who gets which doctor based on, say, patient paying ability is actually better than the current semi-random choice - because it creates motivation for the worst surgeons to, well, try something else - if they're smart doctors, then they can be useful without cutting people up.
I can also write a blog post about how great I am, securing my legacy for posterity.
Not to be confused with Wisp: Homoiconic JS with clojure syntax, s-expressions and macros: https://github.com/Gozala/wisp
Has a victim and doesn't have enough money to buy enough "justice" to keep them out of prison.
Improvely looks amazing. No wonder it's pulling $10K MRR. I'm curious - how many people are on the team?
It is a question how author law is set. But prisoner does not lose rights to own things.
If this site have it right, is not profitable at all

http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/a/b0c353b122

However, is it? Is possible to invest in this and get some dollars per month as passive income? (Or maybe with https://cex.io/promo/ or https://products.butterflylabs.com/homepage-new-products/1-g... ?)
http://bedrocklinux.org/
So it isn't a shell. It's more like xterm, then, right?
i'm not really sure what you're referring to, but i'm talking about pretty basic human psychology.
And then you get to use the 5$ wrench. ;)

http://xkcd.com/538/
The luckiest ones have day jobs where they are working on what they love so they program for 8 hours, and then go home to a social life.
To avoid transmitting HIV/AIDS through a blood transfusion or other transplant, since those diseases are somewhat more prevalent among that group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_male_blood_donor_controvers...
I consider myself a power-user, I have used a myriad of operating systems, from Slackware to Gentoo, OpenBSD or Plan9.

Yet I like Ubuntu, the desktop works just fine (Believe it or not, I find Unity a nice DE) I can find practically any application in it's repositories (Or by PPA/Deb) and I can install an LTS and forget about upgrading for years.

Is there anything wrong with this? I find the new Dash Amazon search stupid but it's one click away of being disabled, and I'm not happy with Mark's opinions but that doesn't affect directly my experience with the OS.

So I don't see what the big fuss is about, many people say Ubuntu is not Linux anymore, and I agree in some sense; but I like what Canonical is doing with Ubuntu.

So until I find another distro that suits me, I will stay with Ubuntu, that doesn't mean I don't love Gentoo or Arch anymore, but lately I need to get work done, and my parents are using this PC therefore it needs to be available 24/7 without any kind of breakage.
This is a lot more involved than magic numbers, and magic numbers are configurable.
I have both installed for a few years now (Debian on Desktop and Server, Ubuntu on Laptop). First of all every article mentioning something like "I switched recently and everything is fine" just gives me a little sad smile. Yes - every Distro after a fresh install will usually work pretty well by now. Problems tend to show after using it daily for a few months.

My experience is that new Ubuntu versions tend to mess up things often, but I also notice that stuff gets fixed rather often within days. And otherwise one can find lots of workarounds and help thanks to a large and active community. That includes a workaround to disable the internet search for everything in the dash for example.

Debian is fantastic on the server and updates just worked there for me so far. On the Desktop on the other hand the situation is a lot more problematic. Old desktop software is generally just worse than newer one. And software on Debian tends to be outdated so much that I run constantly into old bugs which are solved often for months or even years in current application versions, but not yet in Debian. Pretty much every Desktop application where you want newer versions is simply not available. And applications generally won't get updated between release cycles because that's just not what stable does (except for security fixes). Even finding a browser which simply runs on all websites tends to be a constant pain. So you start trying to work with backports, custom compiled versions, installing packages build for Ubuntu and whatever you can do to get applications you need running - which can cause more and more problems in your system and you will get less and less help from the Debian community because those are (understandably) not "their" packages.

When you bring up those problems the community often recommends using "testing" or "unstable" and while those generally have newer apps they are still mostly outdated. Also while most updates on testing and unstable work most of the time they did mess up my system once in a while on updates so badly that I tended to only update on weekends after a while to have enough time to fix my system before I had to work with it again for the week (which is why I switched to only using stable now for the last 3 versions, maybe unstable/testing have gotten better since then, I can't tell about that).

I still love Debian for it's policy and community. And because I can fix problems often myself (or with the help of the community) and hope that my feedback is useful once in a while and will improve it in the long term I still continue to use it despite the pain. But unfortunately I can't recommend any Debian version right now for the Desktop for people without good Unix knowledge unless they work only with a very restricted set of desktop applications (so might be fine for company desktops where users are not allowed to install anything anyway).
Not sure about MS-CHAPv2, but you've seen this?

http://www.copacobana.org/
> wisp lives in the ST (optionally IO) monad. separate
> interpreters with completely segregated environments can be
> run concurrently. wisp has a few IO facilities, but they're
> completely sandboxed and can't accidentally affect the host
> program or environment.

This is wonderful. There's already an embedded R5RS Scheme for Haskell (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/husk-scheme) but it runs everything in the IO monad. That makes it fairly annoying for sandboxed embeddings.
Visiting in chrome and firefox yields me an issue with your certificate and a large warning about how your site is potentially unsafe. That may be an issue with your certificate.

It also may be a reason for poor returns if this has been going on for a long term.
Inkpad: Vector illustration app for the iPad, now open source
Usually update-alternatives takes care of it.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives
Actually, no: I've had a lot more luck getting old Linux software working than old Windows software, as the Windows software inevitably has DLL Hell written all over it.
I have a normal 15" and never used it with the optical drive. I removed it for a secondary hard drive.
Blogspam. Origin link: http://www.buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/oregons-health-insuran...
It’s the little things: How small conundrums make many hate computers
Someone should write a secure-by-default email client that uses the OpenPGP message format and is compatible with GPG, but that ignores the intended GPG security model entirely.

Someone (my company) is trying: https://parley.co
You are confusing the meaning of life. Not the some of their experience, but the beating of their heart. Life is equal, the world over.
> Why not get something out of the condemned by fixing them and studying them and making them better

I understand your point--prisons can be rehabilitative or educational institutions rather than fulfilling a purely retributive function--but your language is setting off some alarm bells for me. We ought to shift from using the language of "fixing" people to helping people or, in many cases, fixing the system.
Are the first two points made in the article really legitimate? Central banks decrease interest rates in crises, so I wouldn't expect lower interest rates to be correlated with (or to be reason to increase your credence in) a bubble. And the past stock market prices alone being evidence for future prices? Doesn't that assume that the random-walk hypothesis (and the efficient-market hypothesis) are wrong?
Yeah, the ship has pretty much sailed. Products are either being delivered or are very close to shipping.

Some of the smaller operations worked much as you imagine, though. They did FPGA prototypes and then raised funds to move to ASICs.

They often raised funds on the bitcoin-denominated stock exchanges. A handful of guys could raise money via an ipo, get the chips produced, open an operation, and then share the revenue with shareholders via dividends.

Some operations were just a couple of project manager outsourcing all the engineering and manufacturing. In at least once case, the ASIC design was done via ODesk (!)

It was a risky business, on both ends. The investors rarely knew much about the people they were giving money to, and the entrepreneurs were taking money from people they didn't know much about. With no guarantees that anyone had any idea what they were doing.

Those companies are reaching their endgames now, having either worked out ok or failed. Millions of dollars have been made, and much money has been lost.

It's been fascinating to watch. It's a crazy pace and intensity even for a bunch of startups.

There's a nice book in telling their stories, if anyone could actually find any of the people involved. Ha.

Worth looking at for their stories-
ASICMIner, the first wildly successful ASIC IPO.

Active Mining, a rare US based company that IPOed.

LabCoin- A company that may or may not have been a scam, but is in the process of failing.
However, the article specified hating football as a prerequisite?
> Google's cars have already demonstrated that they are safer than human drivers with 99% statistical certainty, they have over 750,000 miles of accident free testing on public roads under their belt.

Has Google driven their car in snow storm[1] or with snow/ice on the ground?

1) I'm talking basic heavy snow, not a blizzard
i agree - men thinking a commitment/favor/gifts will get them sex is about as stupid as women thinking sex will get them a commitment/favor/gifts.

anyone who's ever been in an adult relationship could tell you as much.
Interesting article. My wife is a surgeon and I'm interested to see what she has to say about it. One small anecdote - recently she had a colleague (another surgeon) ask her discreetly whether she would recommend another surgeon for an operation. Her colleague had known this other surgeon for many years, worked in the same department as them in fact, and still did not know if the other surgeon was good or not.
That's what a halfway house is for.
After having used Ubuntu, Arch and now Debian testing, I can say that Ubuntu is a great way to get to know Linux. At least it was when I used it with Gnome 2.8. At some point I grew tired of all the unnecessary software bloat, though. I loved Arch, until the moment I had to unexpectedly fix a non-booting system after some update. It just wasn't for me, although the minimalism of it felt great.

Now to Debian testing. It's almost perfect. I'm missing a bleeding-edge software update from time to time, but usually you can cherry-pick from Debian sid. There haven't been any issues with updates breaking stuff. I'm using XFCE, so it is fairly light-weight. I can even install Steam and play a game from time to time. It gets out of my way when I want to be productive, but I can still customize it without it getting bloated.
Nanotube Sensors Can be Implanted Under the Skin for a Year
An intro to the 30 Coffees Project
Yes, I've described counterfeiting. The question is whether or not it would work.

Generally, physical items undergo somewhat predictable physical changes as they age, allowing experts to determine the approximate age of an item. To counterfeit with an acceptable level of risk, we need our counterfeit to appear to be the right age. I'm asking if using authentic period paper, ink, and staples would be sufficient, or are there aging effects that depend on how long the ink has actually been applied to the paper?
This is why I think it be important to have a language designed to express algorithms and can be verified of correctness to a certain point.
Could you easily move out of GAE? I made a site on that platform a couple years ago for fun, and would get anxious every time I'd get an email from them with terms of service or API changes.
Rails Console in the Browser
See my other post in this thread about this, but I disagree. Even other surgeons often do not know how good another surgeon is - unless they have operated with them directly.
... you moved the goal posts significantly. We aren't talking about whether the internet has a positive effect on society or the economy.

We are talking about uplifting the poor. Which is more formally known as "increasing social mobility". The internet doesn't do that... Social mobility in the US did not change significantly with the introduction and growth of the internet... what more evidence do you need against your point?
Try PureScript
The booking engines online such as Priceline, Kayak, Travelocity use APIs provided by Travelport, Sabre, Amadeus, & ITA (now Google).
This is a problem in computational electrophysiology as well. There are a lot of typos and other simple mistakes in classic papers. Say you want to implement a finite differences model for a certain type of voltage-gated potassium channel. If you go back to the original paper it's not uncommon to find minus-signs omitted, parentheses placed improperly or other unfortunate bugs. It can take a lot of head scratching and wasted time to get to the point that you can reproduce the figures from the paper!

Granted when something has been in the literature for a long time, the derivative papers and popular implementations (in eg Neuron) are usually right, but there is rarely anything in the scholarly record that documents these errors. It's all tribal-knowldege and side-channels.
As much as I find this disturbing, I'd rather see a site that works in one web browser than one that doesn't work at all.

A government site that works only in IE is pretty par for the course; perhaps it isn't the golden poster child of "Change" that Obama is looking for, but if the site works in IE, as it claims, that's a start.

Granted, the poor people of Oregon will probably be stuck with this site for the next decade or two, whether Microsoft decides to maintain backwards compatibility with older IE engines or not.
Plus, people drive like idiots around them. It is amazing what normally sane people will do in the presence of a truck.
Good versus bad science - the battle against misinformation
Are you actually thinking before you say this? None of this is relevant to the claim being made and you're attacking a straw man. Let me make it really simple:

1. Play audio on one endpoint and record it from another

2. Open wireshark

YOU WON'T SEE THE AUDIO.

This is how he claimed to see it was communicating. Over IPv6 no less. IF it was happening, it wouldn't show up in a packet sniffer.
yer but if there ever was a single place and time for that comment, it was in a thread about 'latvia passions'
For what it's worth, if she duped them, she wasn't a fake femme fatale. She was a real one.
Stats are hard because of all the other factors involved. It would be quite likely for the very best surgeons to have lower survival rates than mediocre surgeons, simply because the mediocre surgeon would refer the objectively harder cases to the expert, which would give better chances for that particular patient while lowering his 'batting average'. And if you give direct financial motivation for doctors to avoid taking such patients, then it's a bad thing for the whole system.

Stats can help you weed out obvious outliers - i.e., the ones who should be kept away from patients; but it's not so simple to make them useful in actual prioritization.
Woz: If I were at Apple, we'd be partners with Google
That, actually, was where it started, and where, philosophically it still rests today. In practise, people now just blow away their original gapps and download a separately created gapps package from some free download service and flash it. But in theory, they could have (legally) extracted all the apps from their own phone, saved them, then flashed them back on again themselves. This theoretical possibility is what keeps people using gapps with custom ROMs (just barely) on the legal side of the thin line dividing fair use and outright copyright infringement.