skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess that's one perspective. For those that do want a list of the "big" companies, here are the ones that I recognize and thought of as "big names":

3M
Adobe Systems
Boston Scientific
Dolby Laboratories
The Dow Chemical Company
DuPont
Fairchild Semiconductor
Fairfield Crystal Technology
General Electric
IBM
IEEE-USA
Johnson & Johnson
Microsoft
Procter & Gamble
Qualcomm
Xerox Corporation

This is probably not a complete list, since I am not very tuned in and may not be familiar with the "big names" that others are.
"...'Is the bottom getting out of poverty?' Going from
next-to-nothing to twice that is so much huger than going
from being a one-billionaire to a two-billionaire," Brand
said. And, thanks to the sharing and social revolution,
"that’s going on like mad now."

I can't subscribe that this notion is happening. Really, I think the opposite is happening. With the evaporation of the middle class in the USA and personal anecdotal experiences I think the above statement is false. If there is any evidence or arguments to support the claim that the social revolution is decreasing poverty I'd really be interested in hearing them.

To that, I'd also like the to see sources and arguments that the crowds are truly wiser than an expert.
Google says its major services are 20% to 40% faster with SPDY than HTTPS
Exactly. They click the link sent to them and the app store opens up on their computer or mobile device ready to just redeem the code for whatever item they were sent
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> how about my.startup?

Why would you want "startup" as part of your permanent brand identity?
Maybe your spelling of "instagram" wasn't quite right, as evidenced by the two mis-spell's in your comment above: "instragram" and "intstagram".

Not trying to be cheeky, but that could be why.
I think the 3Dbuzz classes are the closest you're going to get to a 'modern' MOOC. They've been around for years.

http://www.3dbuzz.com/training/topic/c-plus-plus

edit: "Building 2D games in C++ - A Beginners Introduction" is free for the most part. For the other classes you have to pay.
Could you check now? You don't need an e-mail to use.
Since it would presumably be located before baggage-claim people are unlikely to have a "cartful of bags" at this point - they would only have what they're capable of carrying on the plane.
The song 'Running with the Devil' comes to mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcvtnEvclGs
How is that a solved problem?
Sure, there are realistic applications of Machine Learning with great results.

But the article has failed in its headline goal ("ML is easier than it looks") if it chooses an example that is mathematically more complicated and still less effective than a naive alternative.

The first difficult task is to identify an effective method.
His humanitarian work was out of your pocket.
It is a bit different especially in feeling. You walk straight through and most people probably don't realise that they are sort of in a trap. With enough traffic flow they don't really shut (although they obviously could if there was some that they needed to contain but I don't know the scenarios it is used).

Because it is default allow the feeling is quite different to the system shown in the video where it feels like default deny and it asks you to wait.
There's a fiddle for that
Understood. The point I was trying to convey was the bottom tier should not be 16GB anymore. It should start at 32GB and go up from there.
> it's like running eighty concurrent webserver processes and killing them 100 times per second round-robin because if you don't kill them constantly they will bring down the whole system

Ruby on Rails?
Yes, consoles are plug and play, but they're not backwards compatible. There are several PS2 games I love, that will never be remade for PS3 or PS4.

Meanwhile, I can still play "Crusader: No Remorse" or "The Longest Journey" on my PC.
> Do you know what car is least likely to catch fire? A horse.

Actually, their fuel source conveys a significant fire risk:

http://bchanicker.org/2013/09/27/risk-of-spontaneous-combust...
Britannica articles aren't written by "one person who spent their lifetime researching" that topic.
> According most low-carb diets, eating meat is good for you

Those diets may be good for losing weight, but are they good for a healthy person?
So to copy album into phone I have to upload to web, than download it to phone? I could also use USB 1.0 or serial port with similar speed.

Until network will be more reliable and faster than my hdd, there is not much to discus.
Many people do take that opinion though. I've seen it reasoned, and felt it a little bit myself, that you should take any and every opportunity to say "kick people out who can't learn X" because that's what assures the value of the degree in the first place.

However, that gets into "what does a degree really mean" and plenty of other arguments, not something I'm interested in.
Miss Flicklash's 1950's Vintage Look
A few quotes from the link, if you didn't read:
"Some checks on a request URI were not executed on a character following an unescaped space character (which is invalid per HTTP protocol, but allowed for compatibility reasons since nginx 0.8.41)."
[..]
"by requesting a file as "/foo /../protected/file" (in case of static files, only if there is a "foo " directory with a trailing space)"
> the crowds are truly wiser than an expert.

it depends on whose opinion one asks - crowd's or an expert's :)
What about the space required to grow food for livestock?
There's no law of nature that says technological advance will solve every problem in time. There are many examples of societies that destroyed themselves.
That's scary - my children would do that naturally and I'm not sure I would be able to convince them of the seriousness of it beforehand.
"Why THE FUCK are industrial controllers connected to the Internet still running Windows?"

A followup question I have is this:

When all is said and done how much will autorun.inf cost humanity ? Seriously. Is it in the hundreds of billions ?

We're almost 20 years into the lifespan of that file and it's still making front page mainstream news.
Having just gone through the Philadelphia airport in October, I don't remember anything of the sort. Maybe it's only in a specific area for a specific reason? But no, you can go from plane to free air without being in any sort of "airlock" like this.
If (when) their service gets discontinued you switch to another one; the only problem you would face is migrating your favorites, bookmark, playlists and the like [2].

I don't think this is a good strategy, you are putting yourself at the mercy of content license negotiations that are done by a bunch of idiots with their heads up their asses that you have absolutely no control over. There is no guarantee that the music you "rent" from one service will be available for you to "rent" on another service.
What makes you think you can't push the airport doors open?
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Also, there's still a difference between a rockstar and a god. Most of them want you to implement the same features that another TEAM of developers achieved over the course of YEARS. And also, "well the salary is quite low, but as soon as we feel more comfortable with you we'll give you a raise".
Ok, how about "why can't I get vaccinated for Lyme disease?"
So, which would you rather have, a lot less livestock to eat, or no way to treat bacterial infections?

Oh, but guess what, you don't get to choose that trade-off -- you'll have a lot less livestock to eat either way. You can do it with or without entering the post-antibiotic era. (Or at any rate, a lot more expensive meat, which will likely result in a lot less of it, sure.)

Fortunately, a lot less livestock to eat does not mean a global food shortage. People are quite capable of living with a lot less meat. It may be a global deliciousness shortage, because meat is delicious; but most people on the planet don't eat much meat already (cause they can't afford it).

The OP is odd in suggesting "We have a few chances left to turn back the tide of resistance — but only a few, and not much room for mistakes. I hope we take them." -- without any hints as to what these chances are -- and then suggesting that if we don't take them, what we'll 'lose' is cheap meat from routine antibiotic use in livestock! But in fact, ceasing the use of routine antibiotics in livestock production -- before they become useless, because it'll be stopped when they become useless anyhow -- seems like the #1. What else you got?
It won't self-correct overnight. It takes decades of research to identify new antibiotics, ensure they are safe and effective, get them approved, and bring them to market.

And you're assuming that there is still a large supply of potential antibiotics waiting to be discovered and which can be discovered relatively quickly. Our current batch of antibiotics already attack bacteria in very different ways. How many new classes can we invent which are effective against bacteria but non-toxic to humans?
Seems like a super useful API. I don't know a much about the space, but I can't believe something like this doesn't exist.

I wanted to see a dead-simple demonstration on the website, couldn't find one. Perhaps it would be effective to demonstrate the API by sending a free app link via email. Just have a "Try it now! We'll show you how simple it can be by sending you a free app link to your email on signing up! ~ or something (reduce the copy language)

Keep it up!

PS - Is there potential for a referral/affiliate angle on this API? Apple's TOS probably prohibits that, but if it could somehow be managed--I see massive value there.
You say that there is a potential for misuse, but could you be more specific? I just don't see it. Describe, in detail, an exact case that could actually happen in the real world (including political world). How would the abuse or whatever happen (exactly)? Bear in mind that a large percentage of the population is mildly claustrophobic (including being somewhat uncomfortable in elevators, which also detain you between floors as a matter of design).

There is no way of knowing who is claustrophobic, but anyone could sympathize with them. it has to be designed to let people through quite quickly in the default case, and no doubt does.

so how would this system get abused exactly? I mean to me it just seems like a technicality, like an elevator 'detaining' you. It seems like just a design thing. (For example it can keep people from entering, allowing them only to leave, like a one-way valve, as someone pointed out.)

I'm open to the possibility that your imagination is better than mine...so let's hear a description.

EDIT:

what I mean is that these things can't possible be "detention pods" in practice. Like, how would that even work? I just can't imagine the mechanics of it. I would like a description of what people are imagining. How do you imagine this will get abused (exactly)..describe the process.
I think there's a big difference between explaining the essence of an algorithm and understanding all the details and decisions that go into a particular implementation.

If explaining SVM, I'd stick with the linear primal formulation, which only really requires choosing the slack parameter C. If I needed to perform or explain non-linear prediction, I'd switch to the RBF kernel, which gives you one additional parameter (the RBF variance).

Implementations of K-means, by the way, can also potentially have lots of parameters. Check out: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.clu...
I care enough to argue about how to evaluate developer compensation because that is a practical issue, and one where misperceptions can harm employees and employers. I do not care enough about capitalism to litigate it on a message board.
::shrug:: There are plenty of people that have the impostor syndrome and will take the gig.
Citation? A Google search for Stuxnet Microphone only has sentences saying it could activate and record; nothing about transferring data.

The "BadBIOS" (apparent) hoax/delusion claims machines are using that vector, though.
Well then, I guess you're going to miss out on some great technology for a pretty dumb reason.

Java may not be amazing, but it's hardly "so bad I literally won't ever use it."
The fundamentals of linear algebra and statistics are indeed quite easy to understand. Common concepts and algorithms such as cosine similarity and k-means are very straightforward.

Seemingly arcane mathematical notation is what frightens off beginners in many cases, though. Once you've understood that - for instance - a sum symbol actually is nothing else but a loop many things become a lot easier.

However, the devil's in the details. Many edge cases and advanced methods of machine learning are really hard to understand. Moreover, when 'good enough' isn't just good enough any more things tend to become very complex very quickly.
Just wanted to say thanks for the recommendation! I actually started writing the book because I felt that a lot of the existing textbooks were unnecessarily obtuse. The details are complicated but you can still get some interesting results and have some fun with a high-level understanding.

(I'll warn you that a lot about the book is very dated now)
Only in tech circles, otherwise it is "Tesla? isn't that a car?".
Routine dosing is already banned in the EU
Yes. Also, Smarter Every Day's Helicopter Physics series on YouTube had one of the best explanations of autorotation I've seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7u8m0Qpn38
I just removed the overlay with firebug :p

But that's a great service, I didn't know I could use it without registering. I will use the bookmarklet from now on, thanks!
cog http://cogx.org ; less features IIRC
Nimi, to be clear, I did not define agile; I simply collaborated in the effort that defined it.

In one post Robin2 described the course as OO, in another he described it as "C++". Those are two different courses so I'm not sure which it really was. However, back in those days we always did a brief lecture on TDD, as well as several other disciplines such as pairing, refactoring, etc. I was not at the class in question so I cannot comment on precisely what happened; but in general we tried to cover the bases of the various agile disciplines as part of any class we taught. Our customers knew this, and understood the implications. Object Mentor was, after all, the first and foremost of the Agile Transition companies. So all our courses had that flavor.
To put that in perspective, that's the same as making sandwiches at Subway in Australia.
There are already airports which have pairs of sliding doors with a room between them, timed so there's a moment when the first door is closed behind you and the second one hasn't opened ahead, in which you're "detained".

As do many fast food restaurants and other buildings, I'm fairly sure it's meant to function as an air-lock, mitigating the equalization of outdoor and indoor temperatures and preventing drafts into the building. Additionally, you are not being detained in such a situation as it is up to your own agency to either manually open the door or activate the IR sensor. In the airport situation it does appear people are being detained because they don't seem to have the option of opening the exit door themselves.

In fact, there's a fuck ton of controlled-access places with systems which effectively do this.

Sure, if someone or group is occupying a building and they don't want people wandering around willy-nilly they can control access and 'buzz people in' or whatever. The airport situation is entirely different as it is essentially controlling access to the entire world, restricting ones freedom of movement.

So all in all, put a little thought into what your saying before a reflexive "nothing to see here."
I was hoping to hear about the statistical approach the author used to find the bands, that would have been far more interesting to me than postulating about the reasons for Waldo's placement.
What if the performance changes? What if you decide to migrate to a different db at a later time? What if your software determines field types and sizes in the gui based on the database schema? IMHO always use the right field for the job..
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tl;dr: (1) Author does not understand the role of research papers (2) Claims mathematical notation is more complicated than code and (3) Thinks ML is easy because you can code the wrong algorithm in 40 lines of code.

I will reply to each of these points:

1. Research papers are meant to be read by researchers who are interested in advancing the state of the art. They are usually pretty bad introductory texts.

In particular, mathematical details regarding whether or not the space is closed, complete, convex, etc. are usually both irrelevant and incomprehensible to a practitioner but are essential to the inner workings of the mathematical proofs.

Practitioners who want to apply the classic algorithms should seek a good book, a wikipedia article, blog post or survey paper. Just about anything OTHER than a research paper would be more helpful.

2. Mathematical notation is difficult if you cannot read it, just like any programming language. Try learning to parse it! It's not that hard, really.

In cases where there is an equivalent piece of code implementing some computation, the mathematical notation is usually much shorter.

3. k-means is very simple, but its the wrong approach to this type of problem. There's an entire field called "recommender systems" with algorithms that would do a much better job here. Some of them are pretty simple too!
I believe it's that the LLC "incorporation" is something generally used for small businesses, sole proprietorships, etc. The LLCs could likely be viewed as either patent troll companies or small companies built or paid to put their name behind legislation like this.
(I could be way off, but that's how I'm viewing them)
The Erlang runtime uses non-blocking IO calls to the kernel but exposes blocking functions on top of this. Is such a function really blocking? It depends on what level you're looking at; it's blocking at Erlang level but non-blocking at kernel level. I think this is the source of the confusion. You are of course correct in saying "If you have a blocking call you still have to block an OS thread somewhere." if you're looking at kernel level, but not Erlang level (since it can translate blocking to non-blocking).

> If you have non-blocking IO then it seems like you could easily implement an M:N threading model as a library without making it awkward to interact with.

Yes, but your language/system has to have some mechanism to manage control flow. Examples: F# does what you ask for via asynchronous workflows. Ruby via fibers/EM-Synchrony. Java via a bytecode weaver like Kilim.
Who uses Britannica after grade school? Only idiots. But people still take Wikipedia seriously after grade school. That's what's insidious about it.
I hear a lot of people claim that, but the reality is that many people run applications they don't realize are Java, and a lot of the infrastructure you rely on runs Java behind it.

As a JavaEE architect/developer, I whole-heartedly agree that you shouldn't run Applets in your browser anymore. In fact, unsigned applets will no longer run after January of 2014, which will break a lot of the banking infrastructure and a couple important client applications at my day job.
In Amsterdam airport they are pretty unalarming, just pairs of automatic doors a few paces apart. From a brief look at this video, you have to momentarily stop, and there is a hint that you might not be able to continue. That's just bad usability. The ones in Amsterdam allow you to carry on walking at a normal pace, and they act like normal automatic doors (in one direction). I'm sure there are people who walk through them every day and don't even notice them.

The last time I was in Atlanta, they had a similar thing, but more subtle. If I remember correctly, they have a bank of escalators, but all of the escalators go in the same direction. As I found out when I got to the top, and had to go through security again to get back down...
@spenvo I think you went to the wrong site. It's http://app.given.to not given.to . On there there are 4 screenshots showing the entire end user experience. But yes anyone who wants an example please let me know and I can send you an app or song in a email,txt, or twitter dm
I often fly through CDG and AMS, and I'm pretty sure that I've gone through them at both. I never found it particularly alarming. You just walk through double doors. As others have mentioned, they often don't even close if there's enough people going through them. They just have signs making it very clear that you can't turn around once you enter them. I am particularly paranoid/upset by airport security, and they've never bothered me. YMMV.

I can very distinctly remember going through these in FRA.
use VARCHAR because constraints are a good thing, and use CHAR if you are storing strings of a fixed length, because semantics are a good thing. The point about padding being wasteful for variable-length data in CHAR is moot because CHAR is for storing fixed-size strings like state codes.

As the PG docs say, there is virtually no performance difference at all between all three, so stick with standard practices.
I have been "trapped" inside one such door (for like 30 whole seconds) because the person in front of me couldn't decide whether they wanted to push the door or have the door push them. Either way, every time they made contact with the door, it stopped moving for five seconds. It doesn't quite make the "most traumatic experiences of my life" list.
Someone should create a Winamp 2 theme for FooBar now.
"How many times can we get lucky with rapid, unforeseen advances in technology?"

An infinite number of times. There's no "luck" to it - there are people actively searching for solutions to this shit so we don't end up dead.
How is it not?

Plug shit into PC, two way sync. WinPhone and iOS do this fine.
Bravo! Your tutorial was cool, this is another cool tool for people wanting to learn R.

Thanks
I suggest RAppArmor over the standard setup of AppArmor, and black-listing a few functions (which is a rather nasty way, but usually works) that should never be called in such shared environment. I did something with my sandboxR package, see some details at http://hackme.rapporter.net
@jcheng: not just "system" but e.g. a simple "readLines" call can also return funny stuff :)
Wow. I'm 21 years old, no degree, with only some web design background and A+ certification in Silicon Valley. I got a job making ~$20/hr($42K/year salary) with 3 weeks PTO and tons of other benefits. Someone with 5 years of experience, hell even half that much experience can make atleast $30/hr where I live.
I don't know Mr. Newton's beef. I found the virulence of his posts rather surprising since they were entirely off topic, and an attempt to make the topic about me, personally, rather than about what I wrote. Perhaps he will clarify.
Making the web faster with SPDY and HTTP/2
I completely agree about Facebook. I thought by now
Facebook might morph into something really useful, but
no--there just another big, dumb company. A company who
felt Snapchat was worth 3 billion dollars. (Yes--I know
they played a part in the Arab Spring. I think even the
genius in the hoodie was surprised by what took place?).
Intriguing to think about. But what will probably happen is the lack of controls will allow for higher profits - the companies that kill people will have way more money to pay off Yelp to censor bad reviews.