skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are these really performance extensions? They look more like extensions to simplify the creation of common charts like geo, stacked bar graphs, etc.

edit: The library looks pretty slick though--I like the fluent interface for describing a chart, and how it doesn't try to hide the lower level D3 functions. Here's a an example I found on their github: https://github.com/alexandersimoes/d3plus/blob/master/exampl...
totally agree with you. i'm usually on the applications side of things, and you benefit enormously if you can understand the math behind an algorithm (it's also pretty much required for implementing most papers). that being said, actually writing a new paper is a completely different beast. in fact, many people who can write machine learning papers aren't going to be that good at actually implementing a useful solution without lots of engineering resources backing them up. there are hax, then there are math skills. overlap is rare.
You're really missing out. Subsonic is amazing. You should at least look at it a little bit.
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Imagine you are working with your friends on the next big thing and need to quickly exchange some text and a few links. What are you going to do? You would need to have an account with one of the many social networks or email everybody. Not anymore. All you need is our Qrocus app on a single iPhone. Scan, link, go! Check it out. It's great!
That exists
really? Could you cite an instance of this, where IBM sued a company over software patents right before an IPO.
This is just a one-way door to prevent people from walking the wrong way into the sterile area. Today, human beings have to sit there and watch people walk past all day -- what a boring and demeaning job!!!

This is NOT a new security measure, it's the same old measure implemented in a different way.

I think people are freaking out about the fact that the system detains you for a split second in the process. There are better solutions out there. For example, all of the train turnstiles in Japan are set to default-open. If they detect someone going through without paying, they close extremely rapidly as soon as you cross the front threshold. That should do the trick, although I guess it wouldn't stop someone from passing contraband across the gap.
Google should never be allowed to name or brand anything. "SPDY", which doesn't stand for anything, is just another failure from this factory of asinine names.
That doesn't mean those 80 million acres are able to grow food humans can eat though. Not every year.

For instance, on my farm, while our soil and climate is quite good for growing beans of many varieties, which are great for human consumption, you still need to maintain a rotation to maintain a viable farm. We've had to push cereals out of some of our land because it simply won't grow on their soils. That basically leaves corn as our only real rotation option.

To add to that, corn is essentially worthless right now. Its market price is below what it costs to grow. I'd rather grow something I can make money from, but I don't know what that is. You just have to roll the dice and hope the price improves before you have to sell it.

As an interesting aside, a neighbour of mine actually did try growing beans year after year, but he soon found himself out of business completely when disease started running rampant and his yields dropped to nothing. It was kind of sad to watch, and frightening to think what could be if we lose the animal markets.
azure? lol
dear god, why?
I'm sure that you can just push on the doors and get out, with an associated alarm that clears the terminal.

If there's a fire, I'm sure that all the doors open.

Airports are not exempt from building codes.
That's not an ill of modern society, it's just basic game theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma
What is the easiest way to connect a few guys in the same room?
Have you ever tried to share some info with your friends sitting next to you? A long link or a fair share of text? What did you use? Try to go to qrocus.com and let us know what you think.
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And yet every time I mention my organic farm share all I get is condescension about what "snake-oil" organic farming is.
It will be interesting to see whether carbon reinforced plastic on an aluminum frame or aluminum unibody is the future of car bodies. While Tesla and BMW use new technologies in their bodies for electric cars, the same question applies to all cars.

Aluminum bodies can be done in volume like steel. Both will be complicated to repair in case of heavy damage, but replacing plastic panels is probably easier.

Another interesting thing about the BMW is whether their motorcycle experience means they can deliver an inexpensive, light, and durable range extender generator engine.
Honestly, anyone who isn't showing a 95% confidence interval is just being lazy. If you're not willing to run an experiment twenty or thirty times, you might as well not even look at the results and just publish it regardless of what it is. Why even research?

On the other hand, if you'd like to showcase actual insight and meaningful, surprising conclusions, it only makes sense to take the time to find the best dataset that supports it. Real researchers leave nothing to chance.
Those are some curious methods, but I'm not sure the names fold and foldback are appropriate given what they actually do.
So what Obama should have done is...?

Not respond to the tidal wave of advertising against him? Inevitably lose the election? Turn the election into a demonstration of what happens if you don't let money rule politics? Let the monied interests run rampant with the subsequent elected majority?
In a word, No. It wouldnt fix the false lumen.

This is me:

http://aorticdissection.com/2011/12/06/jim-thompson-47/
yeah helping poor people like when he donated a bunch of money along with bloomberg to try to turn over the douglas county schoolboard along with the teacher's union. I don't consider this type of messing with local politics to be helping "poor people".
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It was a while ago, but I worked for a place that was writing software for boxes that could be used to collect telephone toll data from old bar switches in an Eastern European country. The sales manager thought it would sell better if it was on Windows 95. I suggested to him that they could at least use NT so you could lock down access better. His response was: "Oh, I told them that now their staff can use Windows 95 whenever they want." #facepalm

Another bright idea was that rather than just collect the information and forward it to a central hub (the ultimate destination), the data would be transferred according to the organizational structure... first area level, then regional, etc.

The culture at this shop was like this... sales spec'd the software and there was no push-back allowed from the technical staff. Fortunately, I didn't work on that project.
Rumour has it that PETA forced the shutdown.
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Just put up your link as a submission title, not embedded in ad copy.
I wish that Lua get more attention.
Red Stripe comes in cans? I've only ever seen it in its distinctive jug-like bottle.
it's also called a police state which is totally against the US constitution.
> Currently, meat serves the important function of regulating the supply of cereals.

She swallowed the cow to catch the goat.
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog.
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird.
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wiggled and wiggled and tickled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly.
Perhaps she'll use a combination of market forces and
warehouses to accomplish the same thing much more
simply next time around.
Nothing beats Inconsolata, IMO.
What is Red Stripe?
There's going to be a metric shit ton of money at that event, it would be impossible/incredibly foolish of any company attending an event like this to leave without bags of the stuff.
this is why i said 80mph not 30mph.

To inherent instability of 3 wheelers one also need to add inherent instability at speed of low-weight small vehicle with high height to width ratio (an issue arising from aerodynamics) what 3 wheelers are. The best one can get is a T-REX like (http://www.campagnamotors.com/). Now, if somebody managed to sell T-REX at $7K instead of $40K+ - that would be something :)
It's not Comic Sans, it's CoSmic Sans. My initial reaction as well.
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Google Trend for "Buy Bitcoin" over last 90 days
There's no singular school of thought, but yes libertarians almost universally favor government prevention of contagion. It's also not unusual for us to favor some environmental regulations (though by no means approved by all of us!).

Markets are only one facet of a healthy functioning society. You still need government and it's courts and law enforcement. Civil courts deal with the negative externalities (pollution, contagion, etc), not markets. There are of course myriad instances of humans banding together on their own to solve tragedy of the commons issues, without the courts or regulation, but of course in the US anti-trust laws would prevent such coordination as "cartel like behavior".

But let's assume the "ultimate extreme libertarian society", in which even the air we breathe has been privatized. The air shareholders would still need to use the courts to enforce their ownership rights against polluters (a factory, for example). Without the authority of the court to back them up, the air shareholder would never be able to actually force the factory to pay for the right to pollute. The market helps ensure reasonably efficient allocation of air rights, but the courts (government) are still required to actually make the system function.

And finally, to answer your first question: Why would you need an FDA to restrict antibiotic use in agriculture? Normal courts, cops, and laws can't do that?
An article I found pointed out the probable root cause -- the TSA is now refusing to staff exits from secure areas, claiming that they are only responsible for screening. That puts the burden for exit monitoring onto the airport operators. Naturally, this cost falls disproportionately on smaller airports where the volume of passengers over which to amortize the cost is less.
And because some piece of the stack is proprietary means I shouldn't try use non-proprietary software where I can and it makes sense?

Software, while a "teeny little bit", is often the bit I find lacking and needing change.
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You can also use Wine + Foobar2000 (+plugins). It's running pretty smooth on my Mac (albeit rather ugly in terms of appearance)
I don't know about you guys, but I use Helvetica Mono: http://www.linotype.com/1824-31635/helveticamonospaced.html

Yes, it's probably the most characterless, bland, insipid, and uninspired font out there... but it's also the most perfect-looking. And, it's readable and takes up less space than most others.

I'm surprised not more people use it.
World's tiniest FM transmitter made from graphene
> Eliminating livestock production increases food availability because the feed-conversion-ratio is between 4 and 40 (how many pounds of feed turn into 1 pound of cow,pig,chicken, etc).
> Reference Lua may not work and is not supported

Any particular reason for that?
Likely this part at the beginning that exposed the author's anti-intellectualism/ignorance:

"The majority of literature on machine learning, however, is riddled with complex notation, formulae and superfluous language. It puts walls up around fundamentally simple ideas."

That's what got me, it's such a flat out stupid thing to say. Especially the "puts walls up" phrasing to imply that math beyond what the author understands is a conspiracy. Especially from someone who writes code ... which is full of "complex notation", symbols and "superfluous classes/libraries/error checking/abstractions" by the same absurd reasoning.
Delete can be hard too...

Undo is definitely harder.
If you're thinking of migrating to another database later, you're basically ruling out using half of postgresql's more compelling features up front. I kind of don't understand this line of thinking.
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!
We can eat corn! I certainly don't want to shift my diet over to consume so much of it (I do realize that the quality of the harvest varies and different varieties, etc., but we can eat it).

Mostly, this thread seems a bit wishy-washy on how we feed livestock in the U.S...
We're doing cards (both debits and credits) and we'll also do direct bank to bank.
Not planning on ditching. I would love to hear more about what you're building -- hany@ribbon.co :)
These are cherry picked examples or anything. Besides some things actually get done in the expectation of a disaster (like banning ozone destroying chemicals or fixing Y2K bugs.)

Even in the current article, no one is saying this is going to happen for sure, just that it could if we don't do anything about it or invest in new antibiotics.
The double sliding doors are to minimize the impact that the outside temperature has on the inside. These have been around for years and I've never seen one in place that can block someone's egress.

You are correct that many subway systems have something in place to verify that you were a fair-paying customer. It just doesn't strike me as equivalent.

In the subway case, it is there to prevent bad actors from cheating the system. It's lame the same way that people checking your receipts at Sam's Club is lame. In the airport case, you're assumed to be a criminal even before you've received any benefit.
Not to sound pretentious, because I'm a big craft beer fan, but I think they're just saying that because Red Stripe is a pretty typical beer in people's fridges. There are so many great craft beers out there, even if you like Red Stripe, nothing's wrong with a bit of variety.
What's best for warfare, to move fast or strike hard?
I am a big proponent of electric cars, but it seems to me that BMW missed the boat on aesthetics.

This looks like a German Pontiac Aztec.
True, but not 80 million acres worth, and only after heavy processing like turning it into HFCS. The corn we grow is not the stuff you eat on the cob.
Thanks for the feedback. I agree, relationships are the priority, but I can then extend the phrasing of the question to ask: are academic relationships more important than their industrial counterparts? I have engaged with most of the professors in the department (it was actually through one of them that I got the job), but almost without exception (it seems that) they are neither driven nor motivated and only a tiny percent of them have had any academic success.

Outside of CS I am a focused musician and graphic designer and I like to use that as both an escape and as diversification, so I'm not too worried about ending up as a boring Jack.

Somewhat due to my poor wording, it seems like people got the impression that I would be dropping out (or giving up on my degree), this is not the case. I just need to know how important it is that I achieve a good grade? Is it worth the sacrifice of job experience and possibly the position within the company?
I have increased the amount of chatter I put out, trying to raise awareness with friends and family, but I feel myself evaluating each and every post - what flags is this raising? How might this be used against me in the future? I am travelling to the US from Canada for Thanksgiving, and that fact alone gives me pause when I say things critical of the political system.

I warm my chilled self by holding onto the thought that recognizing our self-censorship is the first step to fighting against it.
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I feel bad your startup failed, but I'm grateful you decided to open source the project. I wish more people did the same since there are plenty of lessons to be learned. Plenty of public bulletins and blog posts discuss -- sometimes at length -- over what part management difficulties and other obstacles have played, but very few actually release technical details. Even more rare to see the source released.

Hope you fare better in your next venture. If you haven't started, you should.

Good luck!
Only partially true. You assume beef is an inelastic commodity; that we must consume our beef and will pay any price come hell or high water. True for some people, perhaps :P but other people may eat less meat, eat smaller portions, or switch to being vegetarian. The reality is that a world with expensive beef means less overall consumption of beef.

In short, prohibiting indiscriminate antibiotics would make it easier on farmers who already forgo them, but it could still hurt GP's farmer relatives (assuming they're currently guzzling down antibiotics) because the overall market for beef would shrink.
This is an absolute work of art, if you take the time to digest what they've done. In order to articulate a model of cognition, they have implemented a probabilistic version of Scheme, that compiles to JavaScript, and that allows for forward and reverse simulation in the browser. Given a model that can simulate forward from causes to effects, you can simulate backward (perform inference) from observed effects to causes, all inline throughout the book.
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The Death of Winamp Says a Lot About the Tech World’s Vicious Utilitarianism
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
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https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&q=bmw+i3
I was a big fan of inconsolata but I transitioned to Anonymous Pro, and then Source Code Pro, which I've been using for a good while now. The three of them make my top 3.
Aren't drug resistant bacteria weaker though? Like reproducing slower, spreading less, being more likely to be defeated by your own immune system?

Also antibiotics would still be good against most bacteria since only some have evolved antibiotic resistance. I know they can sometimes spread to other species of bacteria, but they still would be at a disadvantage outside of places that use antibiotics. If you just got cut or something with random bacteria in it wouldn't you probably be ok?
While building Texts.com, my CTO and I learned a ton by studying the path of GetchaBooks. They had shut down and decided to open source their code (http://getchabooks.com/open-source.html), which is a generous and noble thing to do.

I see it as good coding karma; and you never know the contacts you might make (I initially wanted to hire one of the creators; but I settled for buying him a few beers since he had just accepted another offer).
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We used to do this at an place I used to work. We just approached a local liquor store, he agreed, no delivery charges as it was guaranteed sales. No licensing issues, straight forward. We'd get a call in morning to confirm the order, between 3-4 he'd show up with cold beers for us. Ask and you shall receive basically.
l's that look like 1's are a turnoff for me :( also I like to have some character in my fonts.
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Ya, or for Oracle you might be better off using VARCHAR2, which uses UTF-8. That way you aren't mired in savagery, but don't have to pay the performance hit of storing 2 bytes per character for text that's mostly in western European languages. Whereas SQL Server users are stuck choosing between doubling up on I/O and suffering codepages. Meanwhile in PostgreSQL you just use regular VARCHAR and pick utf8 as your character set like a proper subgenius.

Fun fact: In earlier versions of Portal, it was database portability that GlaDOS promised to give you after the experiment.
Underscore Lua is a lib I have been using for quite a while.

http://mirven.github.io/underscore.lua/
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I enjoy our exchange :)

Unfortunately I do not share your confidence that concentrated power is inherently unstable or self destructing. What evidence is there of such a claim?

Even the most extreme concentrations of power, such as North Korea, in fact contain complex webs of mutual support within them when viewed up close.

To get back to the original topic, though, I just don't see how any non-extreme (below .9 Gini) distribution of income can be considered unstable or problematic in any way. It's not as if someone is simply doling out wealth and income; this stuff is created and earned!
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Can you explain a bit more? I'm interested, but I'm interpreting your post as "helps with DNA copying so its good for cell reproduction means it causes cancer". I'm sure I have it wrong. I mean.... loads of things we eat are good for cell reproduction. It's almost like saying "living makes you more likely to die"
I can totally appreciate the value of having well defined and well understood definitions and notations that might require lots of background to understand. This allows for precise and concise discourse.

But there have been many published bounds in Machine Learning Theory that turned out to be completely vacuous. That is, they prove a bound on generalization error that is always greater than 1.

http://hunch.net/?p=181

To me, that definitely seems like complicated math for the sake of showing off and writing papers rather than writing for clarity and demonstrating something useful.
I do the same thing, and as a Canadian, I wonder about exactly the same thing. I was boycotting travelling to the US but need to travel through there on my way somewhere. I probably shouldn't be concerned as I'm a complete nobody, but I am. I would guess lots of others are as well. It can't be good for tourism.

I'm a little shocked there isn't more outrage in the 'Land of the Free'. Things have degraded to the point that I would think there would be a story on major TV news sites every night.
Your math obviously doesn't make any sense, since say a 65/35 representation of men versus women among people who score a perfect Math SAT doesn't mean there is a 65% probability of finding a man with that characteristic and a 35% probability of finding a woman with that characteristic.

I was thinking more like this: consider giving everyone a goodness score. At first, let's say the goodness score is entirely based on mathematical ability, which skews strongly in favor of men. Then, let's make the goodness score based 50% on mathematical ability, and 50% based on an independent criterion that skews in favor of men, but less strongly. There should be more women who achieve a certain goodness score under the second set of criteria than the first. That's what I mean when I say that considering additional criteria is dilutive.

Besides that, all your metrics skew in favor of men. But out of the various metrics that go into being a good programmer, I think mathematical ability is the only one that skews in favor of men. Studies show that female students get higher grades, because they are more attentive over longer periods, have more patience and impulse control. Also, in terms of programming teams, I think being social and communicative is far more of an asset than being competitive.
Schneier: 'Stalker economy' here to stay
One of the questions asked in the previous thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6545923) is "Who is using CookieStore?"

Well, here is a partial list.