skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen this story on E:60 before and actually think about it quite a bit in regards to the NFL. I think the reality is that most coaches would get roasted in the media if they tried and failed and playing the media is a big part of the NFL. ESPN is always looking to cause a distraction and then ask all of their commentators whether or not the 'distraction" is a distraction. But you do see coaches going for it when the benefit out ways the risk or they are feeling lucky. And I do think with the more mobile quarterbacks get the more you will see teams going for it based on the ability to do more.

This last Sunday, both Detroit and Chicago went for it on 4th down back to back drives. It was like one coach was challenging the other and I thought that was pretty cool. Ultimately if you look at these punters today though, most of them can put the ball on a dime with special spin to make it go where they want. Field position is tested strategy that works.
But the new Congress can just as easily pass legislation to invalidate the previous legislation.
I used up $1000 worth of hours on compuserve in a month once. My parents weren't happy.
It's going to go that way, and then it's going to spin back to the server again when we have the infrastructure in place to deliver full rendered video over the network with reliable sub-100ms network roundtrip and rendering latency, and >everything< becomes a Remote Desktop Connection, for want of a better term.

Even then, there's a lot that is going to end up staing on the client, for convenience. Just like Ruby isn't going to go away - it's just that delivering JSON to single page apps is an increasing portion of its job.
Good luck building up tolerance; I found it to be a lot easier than I thought it might be. I was given a few Ghost Pepper seeds in the Spring and prior to the last Fall harvest I worked up to a tolerance of about two tablespoons of chopped peppers. However, like any tolerance, once you do this 'lesser' peppers such as habanero cease to have much impact.
The thing is, the basic income obviously can't be above the level necessary to compensate for the increased VAT for everyone. If people on low incomes benefit hugely from the basic income, and people on very high incomes benefit hugely from income and capital gains tax cuts, it's fair to assume that it's the people in the middle - families with middle incomes and high costs of living, for example - that get screwed...
GWB wasn't told the important tip of turning the damn thing on which, for a demo, told me the company had no marketing sense. If you get POTUS with your product, you nail the damn demo or just close the company. GWB is a pretty athletic guy and they couldn't get the demo right.

It goes with the Tonight Show appearance that is probably the single best sales pitch except for the Segway rep trying to play nanny with Jay Leno, Russell Crowe, and Sting with Russell Crowe promoting Gladiator and yelling lines from the movie.
Was about to post this as well. By far the neatest application of curry-howard i've stumbled on.
Heh, reminds me of printing out 200 pages of dot matrix perforated edge print outs of why kirk is better than picard off a bulletin board as a kid...
SnapChat 'snubs' Facebook's offer of $3bn
I'm not sure what is worse, pigs or chickens.
The thing I love about the "Andy Kaufman isn't dead" meme is that, true or not, it's completely in keeping with the Andy Kaufman spirit.

"What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality."
— Andy Kaufman
I don't see that as a problem. My guess is, even if you remove the barrier to entry by not requiring strong hardware to run the game, you still have to turn someone that has had no previous motivation to play hardcore games, to now play those games simply because they can.

Sure, those who would love to play these games without chasing hardware will, but I can't imagine that's worth the additional, continual cost of rendering the game in the cloud and piping it over the network.
I think the parent's questioning still applies. What would you do: serve six months, be labelled a felon (for something that you still believed wasn't wrong), not be allowed to vote, or commit suicide?
For some values of "efficient".

Building a government you can trust will take several generations, with each generation providing hundreds of thousands ENTIRE LIVES to the cause. It might be efficient in the grand scheme of things, but from an individual or even corporative point of view, it's terribly inefficient in any timeframe you might consider.
wow, man. mathematica has jumped the shark
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If you think a statistician need not know calculus, I sure as hell hope you're not a statistician :)
This is a central concept in stats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_likelihood_estimation
Go read the write up that Brian Burke did on it. If you're optimizing for points, the answer is, no, punters still aren't good enough.

http://www.advancednflstats.com/2009/09/4th-down-study-part-...
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Darn! The irony would be incomparable!
JPMorgan PR disaster after asking for questions on Twitter
Here are three fine examples of the backlash https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BY_ERWqIQAAxM7p.jpg:large
OK I see your point.

My original intention was using HTML as a GUI toolkit layer, and I realized that was wrong idea with PNaCL. It's exactly opposite concept. It's my mistake. I'm sorry for that.

Wow. now I see PNaCL is really completely useless except for Google's API dominance.
Would you rather have the power of invisibility or flight?
The future of digital: 2013 [SLIDE DECK]
Denver Police Are Using a Nose Telescope to Sniff Out People's Weed
I'm sorry, but your hypothetical is bad for this scenario.

This only works if, in addition to all of the other possible risks we all face in life, this CS grad could simply disappear because a CS student in the new freshman class is more interesting.

Snapchat is risky because it's audience is as fickle as they come.
Alternatively you could combine the two. Some sriracha might make make soylent a bit more palatable...

(This comment is intended as humor... I have never tried soylent)
Is this article a joke? It is like some twisted communist manifest fitted on 21st OSS.
Sure, but there are many new (and not-so-new) "internet of things" devices that explicitly _do_ want to be able to connect to the internet - and a great deal of additional value derives from that ability.

I've spent a lot of time recently working out how to securely allow a set of christmas tree lights with an embedded linux controller[1] with wifi connect via OAuth to your Twitter or Facebook account while being controlled from your phone. The lack of workable/affordable ways to have SSL keys on the device that your phone will trust makes life _very_ interesting - and getting the password-equivalent OAuth tokens into the device has been a fun challenge.

[1] Gratuitous self promotion - http://moorescloud.com/ go pre-order one now to justify getting UL certification so we can sell 'em in North America! _Please!_ ;-)
Thank you for pointing this out. People shouldn't be 'blamed' for taking their lives. However, I always feel this uneasiness around people when, like you said, the fact that suicide is a symptom of mental illness is brought up. It's as if people associate having mental illness with being some sort of 'good person club' outcast, or having some character flaw.
How American delicacy turned Belgium into a dirty word
Actually we use this: https://github.com/martinp/pysnap
According to Hodgeman: You can only choose one or the other. If you have the power of invisibility, only you and your clothes can become invisible. If you choose the power of flight, you can go a max of 1000 mph and carry a max of yourself + maybe 40lbs
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Especially considering Moto G won't be out until 2014, about 10 months after HTC One's release.
I Wanna Look Like My Dog
Clients say new pet bling is too good for their dogs and want it themselves.

The creators of a new range of pet jewellery have been so taken aback by requests from humans that they have created a human jewellery range.

Ruby’s Regalia only opened it’s doors to the world at the beginning of October, 2013, but were very quickly selling their pet bling to pooches across the world, including several celebrities. Many high class pet boutiques are now taking on the range of pet necklaces and bandanas.
Ah yes - I used to love reading Euclid's proofs [1]. Wonderful descriptions. He used such poetic phrases too - things like describing a line as 'a length without breadth.'

As wonderful as it is, mathematics needs notation, and lots of it. You can express incredibly complex ideas in mathematics, totally unambiguously, through a collection of symbols. Not to mention that they're universally recognised.

The reality is that mathematics is 100% about thought. You'll struggle to put together the concepts in your mind long before the notation is the real issue. Once you have a clear picture of the abstract space you can use the notation you've learned to communicate the world you've created to others. What could be more wonderful?

[1] http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookVI/propVI...
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Great points all around.

I think the reason why these stories are so popular is that, from a fan's perspective, coaches rarely challenge orthodoxy head-on. Instead new schemes develop incrementally over time and are composed with other changes to systems and variables such as play calling, clock management, team speed and so on. When you are a coach that has 10-16 times a year to test your theories with your current team configuration, it makes a lot of sense not to rock the boat too hard.

So these stories kind of poke at the armchair-coach in all of us that are fans of the game. We've seen the Air Raid work since Leach and Tech, so why not the the NFL? It's fun to think about.

That said, Chip Kelly might be on to something in Philly.
Hmm, impressively humble and forthright. As the Germans would say, I have nothing to complain about.
How much are iPhone 5S, Nexus 5, HTC One, and Galaxy S4 in Brazil?
Related: the basketball coach who always did a full-court press: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_...
> too many tech wizards spend 6 wks for +5% perf gain

depends how much is that 5% gain worth. yes, judgement.
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That's interesting. So if a thread briefly uses 1M stack, and relinquishes most of it, then the kernel still keeps that unused 1M memory in the page table?

I expected the linux kernel to be more intelligent, but maybe there's a reason it behaves like that?
This is pretty cool here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4fphtrgrnksfuf6/dialup-final.png
It may be a crime, but an unlocked mailbox still leaves the temptation there.
It’s not enough to know every wine region, village and district in the world, candidates also need to know which years were better than others for each region. The blind tasting of six wines requires not only identifying the grape varietal, but the region it came from and the year it was made. That’s merely scratching the testing surface though; during the service portion examinees have to recall facts about sake, spirits, distilling methods, apertifs and of course ideal food pairings.
Curious: if you have unviewed snaps, backup your iPhone, view the snaps, then restore from backup - can you view again? (Assume 'airplane mode' off-network for any of the steps where it might help.)
This. The incredible thing is that if you bought a high end phone last generation, this is still a great upgrade from what you have, and it's 1/4 of the price you paid last time (assuming off contract). I'm actually tempted to ditch my Galaxy Nexus because I'm not excited enough by the N5 or other current phones to spend a huge amount of money on them, but I would certainly pay for a spec bump if it comes cheap enough.
Sacrifice personal sense of comfort and shame, to get better results faster? ;)

I've already trained my brain to filter buzzwords like "hustling" or "hacking" or "disrupt" etc, so this doesn't bother me. The talk was ace. I was at Pioneers two weeks ago but only caught the 2nd half of it. Huge thanks for putting this on youtube!
"Revenge or no, this mass migration will definitely have a negative impact on Oracle's open source relational database." - Brian Proffitt
To anyone who has been through the analysis/math: are fake punts considered "going for it"? I assume they are.

The following is possible: the surprise element of a fake punt makes going for it on 4th down more advantageous than it otherwise would be. It could make
P(good outcome | going for it on 4th down) > P(good outcome | punting) if and only if the defense expects a punt, which they no longer would if a team adopts the strategy of routinely going for it on 4th down.
VIM+TMUX. Mouse is your enemy. Keyboard is your only friend.
Because it makes it very easy for individual members to hold their hands up and say "there was nothing I could do" about things they would like to pass but know might prove unpopular. And it minimizes the window for the public to mobilize opposition.
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I think you need to go through that with linear algebra, though. There's a stage early on where you just have to multiply matrix after matrix until it's second nature. Shame your course wasn't taught in a compelling way and it put you off. Having said that though - I had no idea how useful linear algebra was until much later in life.
This really reminds me of the book Moneyball. What I found most interesting about that book and this sort of stats based management phenomenon is that it flies in the face of human nature and thus, people who are considered experts tend to reject such ideas.

What often happens is that people reject the ideas until they start winning or showing an obvious competitive advantage, then they embrace the ideas and they become the new standard way of doing things and people will parrot that as the one true way to do things as if it were always so.

I guess that is what progress looks like.
Sorry, but you Americans need to get rid of that imperial system: 1800 miles ~ 2000 km = 2,000,000 m. Each pair is around a metre. Simple, isn't it? Okay, admittedly, 1800 miles is definitely more than 2000 km...
What was your path to an MBA? I'm assuming a degree in drama doesn't exactly prepare you for an MBA in finance. What happened in between that gave you the motivation and whatever prereqs necessary to even be considered for a spot?
Ah, ios/mobile. That is the one place where the big companies are underpaying because most of them don't need mobile apps.

I heard of 200/300k for iOS devs though, so keep looking :)
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Counter examples ..

1) On top of the JVM we've got Scala, Clojure, JRuby, Jython, Groovy, Fantom, very successful, very active, with big communities.

2) On top of the CLR, we've got IronRuby dead, IronPython dead, Clojure.NET almost dead, Scala.NET dead. VB is C# with a different syntax. The only partial success story is F#, executed by Microsoft and I say partial because its impact is less than Clojure, Scala or JRuby, in spite of Microsoft promoting it.

So you see, something is wrong with your assessment and you've been listening too much to marketing pamphlets.
http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/02/how-to-make-sriracha-from... is a good resource.
Off the top of my head (it's quite a while..), lattice gas models wind up giving you a velocity-dependent viscosity, i.e. the viscosity of the fluid is a function of how fast it is travelling relative to the lattice. This is unphysical to say the least: while I think you can apply some sort of rescaling to alleviate it, it doesn't make it any easier to get to high Reynolds number flows: that and the huge amount of averaging make lattice gas rather impractical compared to later methods.

> Also, which continuum are you referring to here? Number of particles? Lattice spacing?

By continuum I mean you write down the continuum Boltzmann equation, i.e. a partial differential equation for the evolution of the single particle distribution function. You can then discretize this onto a lattice to recover the lattice Boltzmann method.
I was an art major in a mostly engineering school. I always had trouble with math but loved learning it. I also hit a wall in college like you. The first day of class the teacher asked how many engineering students there were in the class. Just about everyone raised their hand. This was her sign that she could teach fast. I knew I was screwed immediately. I wish she had asked how many art students there were so we could go slower.

I remember the math stopped making sense. The teacher would do exactly as you described, saying things like "...it obviously follows that...", etc. A girl who sat next to me would try to explain but was no less clear than the teacher. All the engineering students just got it.

My grades started high and then rapidly fell each week until I hit a string of zeros for a month. I was too proud to ask for a drop but eventually did but only after skipping a month of classes. The teacher was kind enough to understand that I was trying but my effort was for naught. She gave me the drop.

I've never pursued math any further, having felt defeated.
Rich in Karma.
Here are three fine examples of the #AskJPM backlash (tweet includes screen shot) https://twitter.com/BeccaDwyerPR/status/400754694404206592
> Would you blame a diabetic who loses his foot because he was unaware that he'd contracted an infection? Would you give a lecture on personal responsibility to the mother of a child whose first asthma attack ever was fatal? If someone dies of an infection contracted because someone else threw them in a septic tank; is it their fault for swimming in sewage?

No, I wouldn't, and that's exactly why I think that more time, money, and effort should be spent on improving America's (mental) health care system, and why effort should be made to break down the social stigma of mental illness. We should look at cases like this as an example of what can happen when people don't have access to an adequate support network.

I edited my post because after rereading it I realized that it could be taken in ways that I hadn't intended it to. What I meant to emphasize was that suicide is predominantly motivated by the individual; that's who we should be focusing on helping. Fixing the judicial system is great, but I don't believe the judicial system was the principal factor behind Aaron's death; it was only a contributing circumstance.

The comment that I replied to was framing the situation as just another example of the big, bad, authoritarian government flexing its muscle. Saying that Swartz was "murdered by the state" only obscures what, in my eyes, is the real tragedy here: that a man dealing with incredible stress, pressure, and mental/emotional strain felt as if suicide was his only option.
It seems like a marriage made in heaven to me.
I buy it for like $2.50 retail, so that's kind of awesome.
IMO you can't really "hack" with the .net family of programming languages.

(hack as in tweak/mess around with your computer)
It's possible that the call stack is being exceeded, but the Web Inspector is still trying to display each portion of the call stack - leading to an out-of-memory condition for the inspector?
>I have no idea if that is accurate. But if one of your competitors was easier to understand, I would probably pick them because I don't have the extra time required to understand you and make sure you understand me over the course of our whole relationship.

That makes sense. The thing is, I always thought that my writing was an advantage, not a disadvantage. I mean, it's not perfect, or even very good by English-major standards, but compared to your average salesperson, well, I think highly of myself. You know how some people enjoy the sound of their own voice? I enjoy my own writing.

The problem is that I'm writing for myself, not for the audience. Which is bad communication, even when it is good prose.

>In contrast, your comment is verbose and uses a lot of non-standard punctuation. That makes it hard to understand you. So my first thought is "wow, I'm going to have to do a lot of extra work to make sure lsc understands what I need."

Huh. I have always thought of most sales and management folks as not very good at written communication. Even when trying to convey complex ideas, usually their emails are all of two sentences, and often grammar errors make those sentences nonsense without context.

This lines up with what you have said, though. If they are communicating in two-sentence messages, maybe my three-page essays are not appreciated. No matter what the reason, they /do/ communicate in soundbytes, and my insistence on essays is... counterproductive.

If you are writing to communicate, and not just to read your own prose, the whole point is being understood.

More to the point, it's irrational arrogance on my part to say that folks who are better than I am at sales, which is essentially communication, are worse communicators than I am.

You have... significantly changed my opinion of the consulting situation and the direction in which I need to move in order to improve my business communication. Thanks.
In Austria (well, at least in Vienna) it is realatively easy to find Sriracha, but I haven't found a store that carries Huy Fung yet. The main brand in most stores is called Flying Goose, or something to that affect. It is noticeably sweeter (I think there is more sugar) and less spicy than Huy Fung. It is a bit tangier as well. I do hope to find the Huy Fung brand eventually, if I can!
The rate of mentally retarded people in open source community is actually much higher than in general population. Various forms of autism, social anxieties, mild psychopathy and border-line schizophrenia are surprisingly common.

But it was always ok to bully nerds, physically or other way.
SPAs are definitely the future of web development, IMO. End users are growing more sophisticated and expect a web application to function with the same speed and responsiveness as a desktop application. Their tolerance for even the slightest delay is decreasing.
Being "kicked out" seems kind of misnomer. I was expecting some kind of story about how he defied PG or did something unusual, not how the company was accepted on a whim and were disassociated with the program before it even started. Great story none the less.
> Child pornographer with chemical weapons and a nuke

Do even approximations to such boogieman figures even exist?
So every felon, including Martha Stewart, was "practically murdered" by the state?
Are you more likely to cast the deciding vote or die on your way to the polls?
Are sure that isn't a euphamism for "if you unplug at 9am you can probably make it until 5pm before it powers off due to dead battery"? Unless you're seeing something I"m not there's nothing really there that tells us anything solid about the actual battery life.
L.O.R.D.
The vast majority of data, business as well as personal, does not require this level of security. For the remaining 1%, these sorts of measures are worth it.t