skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
taken from a blog I keep up with:

poc: capitalistic systems like the u.s. and many other countries thrive on the labor, execution, detainment, exploitation for profits and even processing of minorities into their institutions and even depend on racial inequalities to keep the status quo, the two are undeniably linked. we are so essential to that system's well being that they're still trying to keep us out of voting decades after martin luther king and malcolm x. to remove a strong leg on this oppressive system would obviously mean raising awareness, action and spreading information about such an oppressive system so that we can do something about it like destroy it and replace it for something more humane and less centered around white supremacy, imperialism, capitalism, racism, sexism, neocolonialism and whiteness.

white media:

russell brand: idk things are really fucked, the environment, politics, voting, y'know? something fishy is going on around here and we gotto get to the bottom of it..

white media: OMFGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG REVOLTION HAS BEGUN LATS NIGHT
2013 April-March had a similar hype

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitcoin&cmpt=q
No, the point should be that any random act of violence isn't defensible just because its committed out of hatred for the government.
You will have to enter the input for your code there. Example: For the sample code given (which is for finding the largest element of an array), the input would be something like:
5
1
5
10
0
3

which represents an array of length 5 with elements 1,5,10,0 and 3
I use to use winamp to fill my house with audio. I had a few PCs throughout the house and had set up my own radio station. I would hit play on one of the PCs and all the computers would start playing throughout my home. I could even access and control my broadcast outside my home.

Back then I had a ton of curiosity but development skills. Tinkering as did with Winamp and other programs like edonkey and Bit torrent compelled me to create and then learn how to turn my web ideas into reality.

Thanks Winamp for helping me get going!
I already have a producer.
This is wrong. Need to put them in quotes like so:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%22buy%20bitcoin%22&d...

and for the sell side:

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%22sell%20bitcoin%22&...
Ping result shows that I'm getting around 200ms (from Malaysia)
http://www.sheepfriends.com/index-page=billy.html

This was my go to music player before I moved over to Play Music and then Spotify.
'Kill switch' to prevent phone theft rejected in US
Solution to Alcoholism. Printed livers.
Exactly. I can see the key decision makers sitting around the table:

Leader 1: what should the new electric car look like?

Leader 2: a vagina

(Everyone applauds)
No, in Australia. Just figured many interested readers would think in USD and that it was a reasonably close comparison for Australians too.

Beer in America is indeed hilariously cheap so you're right - context is very different.
Indeed, nothing is funny about azure. However, using ASP.net Web Forms is hilarious.
The "I'm Stuck" App
Not sure how it is in London, but where I'm at you certainly can't run down to 7-Eleven and expect to choose a beer. Your options will be limited to a handful of mass produced beers supplied by large distributors. I keep a mental list of shops with decent microbrews.

This product seemingly takes the hassle out of deciding whether traveling the extra mile and back is worth it for a unique beer. There's no hate specifically for Red Stripe.
In case anyone else missed it on the first pass: the article mentions that the FBI "went so far as to come up with assassination plans on Occupy Wall Street leaders," but the linked source[0] describes the FBI uncovering an assassination plot, not making one themselves.

[0] http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/30/1220039/-FBI-Kept-Q...
There frequently is a reason to speak for free. PR. It helps get the next job, or consulting gig, or book deal. As long as the value exceeds the time, who cares if someone else makes a lot of money?
There is a tremendous benefit of grabbing hold of an opportunity, and doing whatever the hell it takes to strangle the value out of it. Which is what these guys were trying to do.

This was such an outlier in terms of standard use cases of their system so far, I think the way they responded was great. There's little value in going back and saying "Ohh... this will cost $700, but it's not written on the website, is that still ok?" and risk dealing with rejection.

The value of having POTUS use your service far outweighs the engineering time spent on this. This is now a fantastic leading story for all sorts of marketing efforts and meetings moving forwards, such as this blog post.

Calculating the return on this effort through short-term ROI measured in days seems a bit shortsighted.
If the technology is there, what's to stop the dictatorial government from installing mass surveillance systems at the drop of a hat? It is a dictatorship after all, it can do that!

Better then, perhaps, to have existing systems with well-understood capabilities and known scopes of operation?

Alternatively, If the dictatorship will have access to surveillance whether or not the good government installs it, then what the dictatorship will do with surveillance is irrelevant.
It's been almost 10 years since I've used a new version of Winamp, but I really have to disagree with you about performance. When they started adding features it immediately started to suck performance wise. Had to go back to v2.whatever because of it. At the time I was on a top of the line or near top of the line Northwood system. v5 was a little better than v3, but it was full of ads at every corner if I remember correctly.
Some Parts Of Your Body Age Faster
anotherbadlogin: You have been hellbanned for a long time.
I remember his fix from the Dark Souls PC release. The creators, From Software, basically announced "we have no experience in PC, this will be a direct port, and the quality is an unknown". They were quite up-front about it.

This bloke had a prediction about what was needed to fix the issue, and said he did a few hours prep work. Dark Souls was released, he confirmed that his prediction was correct, and it was only half an hour (from memory) between DS being released and Durante posting the first version of his fix. He continued to roll updates for a few weeks afterwards.

One bizarre thing was that all the art in the game was already hi-res. Nothing suffered for turning on the hi-res ability. It seems odd to me that art for console-locked resolutions would be made in hi-res and then displayed in low-res, rather than being designed for the target resolution in the first place.
Awesome borrriss. Dead on!
This reminded me of Bret Victor's talk http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/

Basically a lot of difficulty in understanding concepts in mathematical/engineering disciplines is in the default language or representation used to communicate them, but not on the concepts themselves.

I wish there was a bigger focus in academia en general to communicate the concepts first and use the formal notation/language second. I think the best professors (in terms of making the students learn) are the ones that do this.
These sensationalist headlines say a lot about the media's doom-ridden agenda.
There's a discussion going on in the forums about it: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=373763
Out of curiosity, what's the revenue model then?
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The Magazine: The Book (Year One)
> You call it a week & sip back on some serious beer. You did good.

I love everything about this site and concept. Nice work.
XMMS is great! I like mplayer better for video though, it's much easier to control and understand.
Watch this: Fukushima engineers perform risky extraction of nuclear fuel rods
Remember the birthday hats on surveillance cameras?
http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/4/4490058/front404-orwells-bi...
A WebGL game engine
If money was no object, I'll use said money to buy more time. With that time, I'll create an opening on my website/Twitter account or what-have-you and maybe post a video saying "I'm willing to hire a freelancer", add overall and selected specific details about my company and the work environment as well as list off a bunch of requirements.

A college degree would not be one of the requirements.

Depending on who contacts me, I'll ask about my specific needs and avoid any stupid mental tricks and riddles or the like seen in numerous interviews that do nothing to measure the candidate's actual competence within the scope of my needs. That last bit is extremely important.

Then I'll have a face-to-face or Skype meeting to see how the candidate will perform when speaking.

Social interactions are a vital skill; has nothing to do with being introverted, borderline (usually self-diagnosed)Aspie etc... and I need to see whether this person will do the best they can within or beyond my expectations without derailing the project and/or murdering a coworker or worse, me. Then, skills:

Following up on the above brief on my actual needs, I'll create a problem set (which won't involve Twiter, Facebook, Google etc... because "Big Data" doesn't exist below 16Tb) that deals with where I want to go with my project/product/business and where I will see the company going in 2 - 5 years.

Following these recommendations, you will not only find a good freelancer, but one that will actually be worth hiring and, more importantly, you won't fly your project into the side of a mountain.

[Source: 12 years of freelancing]
Gosh, the cynic in me thinks that this man "active in the blind community", who sits on a "disability advisory board", might have gotten uppity.

The hopeful in me wants to think that with 35 other people supposedly supporting him, it was a true screw-up on the airline.
>Whether this distance would be described as the total span encompassing all four numbers, or the maximum distance between any two of the four, I don't know.

Actually, either one would imply a bound on the other (although a slightly looser one). If you know the total span, the same number is a looser bound on the maximum between any two of the four, and if you know the maximum of any two, 3 times that gives you a loose bound on the total span.
Surveillance is not about protecting us. It’s about control.

Bingo. Mass surveillance is a tool to protect the oligarchs from its citizens. The terrorist threat is theatrical misdirection.
Thinking critically is a barrier to shipping. It's much better to plunge blindly ahead! When it all falls apart we'll just claim that nobody could have predicted it.
The First Man Who Lived Without a Heart
because developer.

I should be a target customer, since I periodically interview candidates for programming positions.
However, landing page and screenshots failed to explain to me what the unique selling point was.
How many people here know what "Feedback-Driven Interview" is?

Whole product seems to be about providing an online testing tool ala topcoder.com. But coding tasks are usually only a small part of the interview process (not that I agree with that, but that's what happens at 90% of companies I've applied for).
I like Pragmata Pro.

http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm
FDR said something like "I'll either be the greatest American President, or the last". So he knew the stakes.

I've characterized the New Deal as a) labor gets living wages and in return b) the plutocrats get to keep their heads.

On paper, it's the creation of the middle class in exchange for the chicken hawks profiteering from the forever war.
A lot of the difficulty in mathematics is trying to come up with the correct, precise definitions for "fundamentally simple" ideas (the French are historically well known for this). There is literally no way to get the precision afforded by mathematics without requiring substantial jargon, it would be like trying to write an entire operating system without functions. Mere intuition doesn't cut it here, we want logically airtight proofs, and for this you need exact definitions and terminology.

For example, everyone intuitively knows what holes are.
Well, how do you rigorously define a hole? It took centuries
to come up with the correct definition, which is given in terms of homotopy groups, and the definition of homotopy groups will look incomprehensible to the non-mathematician.
Seemingly "easy" statements like "bounded three dimensional objects without holes are spheres" (i.e. the Poincare conjecture) turn out to be very, very hard (worth a million dollars and a Fields medal!)
Look at forums for your language/software, or sites like Stackoverflow, is one suggestion: search out the type of work/problems you are having, see who seems knowledgeable.

Contact some of them directly if possible, asking a simple question that won't take a lot of their time, and see who responds & who seems easy to work with.

Those are just two suggestions, but really it boils down to: if you need to hire someone for a serious business relationship, don't expect to be able to just pick them out of some job board lineup. You'll need a bit more personal approach.
I can't agree with you enough.
And are you saying then that Tesla has not done the Engineering?
Their site says 5000+ people have already ordered it. So its already solving their problems, no?

Besides used cars are still 'used' cars. And its not just engine running 200-250K miles. By 100K miles the juice from the engine is gone. It can still run an additional 150K miles, may be. But for a very different definition of 'run'.

And you still have to drive some one else's used car, for mileage no where close to Elio. Plus all other wear and tear hassles of an old car.

Here you get a brand new one for a decent price which can run for the next 2 years. And for 6.8K dollars its a super cheap investment to make.
How important is it for you that we bring back the old content?
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s74/sh/93884663-eb5f-4926-8d1... CoderPad checker is actually powered by interviewstreet.
I think some people just have a better grasp of the technical language that is commonly used for describing most of this stuff. The language definitely helps the people most closely involved, but it also leaves a lot of people out.

Being an abstraction, the language helps in developing the field further just by allowing to find new abstractions on top of the already existing ones. Very similar to what happens with programming languages in general.
The first picture in the readme shows a zero with a slash, while the rest of the pictures show a zero that looks like an O.
Excuse me if I understood this wrong, but isn't this just an automatic door to keep people out of the secure terminal? It looks like they open, close, and then open.

Are all vestibules holding you without probable cause?
Yes. Adding them. As far as the languages and timelimits, here you go: https://www.interviewstreet.com/recruit/challenges/faq/view
Stop making them and they won't be a point of discussion. Mortgages, student loan debt, startups that solve no real pressing business need other than to make VC firms money, bitcoin (for the moment),etc. It's important to discuss something that features so regularly and seriously in our financial system as bubbles affect all of us in some way or another.
If it's any consolation, had they grown up in the hills of waziristan, they would have the blessing of the USG on behalf of the tax payers[0]. One could even see it as off shoring the revolution.

And seeing how off shoring has gone in general and the state/direction of the economy (and the us economy in particular), it's only a matter of time before the tax payers start demanding/bringing those "jobs" back home ;)

[0] http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/Backchannels/2...
Cryptic.io Founder here, SSL is far from perfect, and the recommended practices really should be standard. Especially if they want us to trust them with our personal files. But thank you EFF for putting pressure. (mini-plug: if you want a completely encrypted solution checkout https://cryptic.io)
A bit of a counter-point...

The problem with viewing these things as mathematical problems is that you buy into the simplifications you've made to fit the task to the model, and stop thinking about how the thing is actually working in your specific case. In short, it's a leaky abstraction.

Convergence is a good example. Lots of machine learning courses will go through the convergence proofs of say, the perceptron algorithm --- even though in all the hard problems, it's probably a really bad idea to let your algorithm converge! Your features are high dimensional and noisy, and so are your labels. Any linear separation you find is going to be terribly over-fit.

Taking it back to the blog post, when thinking about this k-Means clustering, it's actually much more important to think of it in terms of, "okay, all the algorithm gets to see is a term-document matrix". You should then expect that most other operations over term-document matrices will probably give you similarish results.

The difference between, say, k-Means clustering, and a LDA model, are still important for someone working in the area to understand. They should also understand how a hierarchical dirichilet process solves problems you might have for an LDA model.

Ultimately, you need to be able to develop a good tool box, and that means reasoning about the performance of various methods on your problem domain. (It doesn't mean "blindly twiddle nobs on a collection of crappy implementations, ala weka...")
You are correct sir, my mistake.

"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
fair enough - btw i just realized i bookmarked your blog (http://blog.explainmydata.com) a few weeks back - i was really enjoying those posts. nice work
That's unfair to Nano.

If you ask people who are driving a Honda City as to whether they will buy a Nano. The answer is obviously no.

Either way Maruthi Suzuki 800 variants like Alto, WagonR et al. Are pretty good low segment vehicles.

And for Indian roads, traffic and wear and tear. Unless you have surplus money which you wish to waste. Its nonsense to buy an expensive car(For daily uses at least).
Only when you're selling to end consumers. Which this isn't – it's selling to businesses who then give their beers to their employees. :-)
I think that's the trick with Bitcoin. The price is pretty much solely based on consumer interest. People get mad when I call it a scheme (they claim to be all hyped on tech & I'm not). Look the tech is fine (digital currency) but the way they set it up all pump-and-dump with diminishing returns is messy. That whole "deflationary" scheme or whatever they call it to make it sound like an economist would approve of it really just turns the whole thing into "Bitcoin is great as long as you can find a sucker to buy it when it's time to dump it". Terrible as a currency and even if you gain it will be at someone else's loss.

This guy's numbers aren't perfect but the article shows some key points about how the Bitcoin ecosystems numbers are kinda made up and the ecosystem is flawed as a trading platform (which is all it really is now). http://falkvinge.net/2013/09/13/bitcoins-vast-overvaluation-...
Bitcoin Target Price: $23,809.52
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The less glamorous story of a visionary
There was something magical about spending forever downloading an MP3 with a modem, then playing it at 22kHZ because computer was not fast enough to run Winamp at full quality :-)

Now I have every song I could possibly want to listen to in Spotify, which is magical in another way.
Or the operator just didn't follow procedure and plugged it in. Work in an ICS environment for one week, and you'll see the probability of this happening is close to 100%. Most of these folks don't even know what a cyber attack even is, or even how it could happen let alone how to stop it. It's science fiction to them, they don't care because it's FICTION. As a friend in the industry one said once: the typical operator is a monkey: press the button get a banana. Horribly offensive, I admit, but I've unfortunately seen it myself. The human factor, that wonderful human factor will get you every, single time. Remember, these are people that have never even heard of a cyber attack except maybe in a movie or TV show, and even then they probably thought it was nonsense. They not only don't care, they don't even know they should care. It's all magic to them. The world is flat, and it makes sense because it's LOOKS flat.
Google trends rate limits you fairly quickly it seems. If you post a google trend graph, please post a link to a static image representation as well.
That's awesome! Deliver in California as soon as you can!
Clear and lucid. Is that stuff anything like Descartes' "clear" _and_ "distinct" ideas?

Fascinating.

Do you know of posey? It's right good stuff, even on Sundays.
No I think those are O's, not zeroes.
I'm at a loss of why associating ones company with Goldman Sachs is considered a good thing.
Xbox's doctor's note campaign/gag has a nifty UI
not really... there are better alternatives that don't use java.
Google employees might end up buying these. Last time MSFT did the campaign with the slimy Google Docs salesman guy with a tie with Google logo colors, Google employees got the ties made and started wearing them internally.

The best way to deal with this kind of tasteless campaigning is with humor not anger. My guess is whoever runs these campaigns is separate from the product and engineering people, and Microsoft needs to realize it is doing more damage to its brand than Google.
It's a Jar-Jar Binks association...
Ok that is fun. Of course its pretty easy to make an FM transmitter, but doing it with Graphene seems pretty cool.

I expect this is pretty directly applicable to small RFID tags that you can read at a distance. Basically beam a 2.4Ghz signal at them, have it rectify that for power and return signal at 900Mhz or so (if you wanted to keep it all in the unlicensed bands).
Update: I got a response from them and the issue has been sorted out. Thanks for the advice!
Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future
Yes I found this weird as well. I had a look at the code behind files and at least they all seem to be almost empty.
Yes! Is would be crazy awesome if I could do 'from bokeh import pyplot' or something similar.
I'd probably make it more confusing :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start_codon

Note the reference to methionine. My understanding is that the body recycles methionine as well. So give your body just enough to let it do it's thing but don't pour gasoline on the cancer fire by supply a surplus of a critical component.

I'm still slowly doing the research on this. It was spurred by my daughter telling me about "the Blue Zone healing cancer". Googled that, and checked out the dietary element, and that led to the topic we're discussing now.

It seems reasonable enough. And simple enough. And you don't have to be vegan, but mindful of intake.

Just trying to share a recent discovery that seems like a possible life changer.
For me it was the lower-case i. I'm still good with Courier New
Google Trend for "Sell Bitcoin" over the past 90 days
Or both compared:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=%22buy+bitcoin%22%2C+...
Aside from businesses using it...it really really helps that we have a healthy merchant product that is making money at http://o.ribbon.co :)
The industrial controllers were not connected to the internet. Part of Stuxnet's sophistication was crossing the air gap via USB sticks that were infected through two never-seen-before 0-day attacks, the infamous shortcut icon attack vector, and autorun trojans.

Why were the control systems running Windows? Because it has a GUI. This helps when monitoring control systems, and of course is the only platform Siemens' monitoring systems run on.