skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm. stevepavlinalies.com? I have no history with this issue, but this whole site seems to sit around DH0 and DH1 (see http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html). I have a hard time accepting this as unbiased and factual. If anything, this site seems to be an example of the type of user Steve claims derailed the forums to the point he needed to shut them down.
Probably based on something similar to 20q.net. Here's the patent application http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=...
Look at the reflexive form in that article. "Each child feeds themself."

I don't think that singular "they" never be used, just that enforcing its usage everywhere by claiming that the opposite is "hostile" (as this PR seems to lead to) will lead to awkward constructions.
The castleman affidavit is available from a number online sources. I have mirrored it on google docs to save people the hassle of tracking it down.

Here is one link off google, if you prefer: http://www.rep-am.com/newsdocuments/affidavit.pdf
Thanks for this. I already have tons of experience in Rails, but I learned by doing and not through a book so I reckon I have some holes in my knowledge here and there.

I'm experimenting with hybrid learning of both doing "learning by doing" by doing projects and "learning by the textbook" by getting the foundational ideas behind Ruby and Rails, and seeing if there is a benefit to combining these two systems, for my own purposes of learning languages and learning in general, and to have something to say to the many friends that I have that want to learn Rails :)

This looks like a pretty comprehensive beginner doc, so thanks for that! Backed it on KS.
Bravo, but I have one question:

What exactly is the "utterly new, insanely ambitious computational paradigm"?
Reduce your batch sizes to reduce uncertainty.
"Of the 50 petabytes of data held on hard disk, however, it loses a few hundred terabytes in the same period."

Wha? Loses?
I still don't want to support any site that uses this business model. You want me to use your site? Make it easy for me to come by for the information I need.
Look at the reflexive form in that article.

"Each child feeds themself."

I don't think that singular "they" never be used, just that enforcing its usage everywhere by claiming that the opposite is "hostile" (as this PR seems to lead to) will lead to awkward constructions.
Whats the deal here?

Is this still profitable? I'll pay 20 bucks to someone who can set this up for me and record it.
I think you're being sarcastic, but yes, if a student uses "he" or "she" for an unknown or abstract person in an essay it would be corrected.
I have to ask then, what informs his opinions?
I guess people disagree on which acts they consider criminal.
The GE technical description is a thing of beauty.

I love this part:

Before use, the system should be calibrated with a gyro-controlled Sine-Wave Director, the output of which should be of the cathode follower type.
Note: If only Cosine-Wave Directors are available, their output must be first fed into a Phase Inverter with parametric negative time compensators.
That is a lot less common than many people like too think.
I am really excited about this. Combining their API with the NLP stuff we are building cool things would be even simpler.

Our engine turns things like "How many people are living in China right now" in to
{
"action": "query",
"project": [
"population"
],
"model": "geopolitics",
"payload": {
"country_code": "CN"
}
}

We can do more complex things, but I figure pasting huge code examples in to HN is frowned upon.

Combining our ability to create structured queries with Wolfram's ability to do amazing visualizations could result in some amazing things.

We are looking at basically having the Star Trek computer in terms of being able to say. "How many times more men live in China than in the US" and have our data create a query that Wolfram would visualize by taking the number of men in china and dividing by the number of men in the United States.

Or taking it a step further... "let me know" our version of "If this then that" could be really impressive with this kind of data. "Let me know if there is rain anywhere on my route from San Diego to San Francisco Tomorrow"

We have already started to do some of this at http://plexivoice.com but ties to Wolfram will make it even more surreal.
A top commenter doesn't speak for everyone. Most people were outraged that the designer was ripped off.
Avalon gen1 is 110nm.
The (new) Avalon gen2 is 55nm.

KnCMiner is the only competitor who has 28nm chips, but their chips are merely 1000 Mhash/Joule, which is a power efficiency pretty close to Avalon gen2: 730 Mhash/Joule.
Note to self:

Don't refer to own venture as "cancerous off-shoot" of site whose brand we purport to leverage.
The ability to create insane queries that leverage multiple data sets seamlessly and provide a visualization. I gave some examples in my comment.
Malandragem
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You can do both. And if you do change the documentation, it's not necessarily about making yourself feel good. It can also be about creating a welcoming environment or a host of other things. I'm not attributing the basest motivations to your statements, so please don't do that to mine.

Your suggestion is to do something that will hopefully have some sort of macroscopic impact. That's great and should be done, but it doesn't mean that the microscopic impacts don't matter. I'm concerned about the actual small set of women that I work with on a daily basis not being marginalized.
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OK, I wouldn't dispute that claim without reading the full paper and the criticism of it properly. Thanks for the clarification.
Would the thing have been feasible if they'd simply bundled Here and kept the Google Maps app on the menu as well? It seems like an odd thing to become a sticking point.
I just use remote desktop to my windows server.
The exponent of this lifestyle, the malandro, or "bad boy" (rogue, hustler, rascal, scoundrel), has become significant to Brazilian national identity as a folk hero, or, rather an anti-hero.

A very serious cultural problem I see here in Brazil.
Show HN: Can you give feedback on this Kickstarter, please?
I'm finding a sort of corollary of JavaScript being a byte-code equivalent for the web, what with everything being translated to compilation in js syntax.

Maybe the browsers need to move beyond JavaScript interpretation, and think about things more like a VM to allow actual scala/java/c#/ruby/python/erlang/lua/something-completely-new/etc. to be executed in context.

Or, maybe a more forward-thinking approach would be to consider "docker in the browser" -- containers that run in execution. Probably a performance nightmare, but I'm thinking of an interesting compilation of bits -- CMS done well in Ruby, an e-commerce cart in Python, data charts in Erlang, and enterprise-based workflows in Java -- all working together, client-side.

Disclaimer: it's a holiday and I'm enjoying a nice cabernet sauvignon. Thought clarity and consistency may not necessarily be present at this point in time.
Lots of options, see the complete list here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/14442630

We use Argonaut at Snowplow.
> You could almost give away ASICs (whether for mining or other purposes) to people in cold countries and subsidise their electricity when they run their heater...

In San Francisco this is already a reality: http://www.icebreaker-sf.com/3/post/2013/11/heat-the-icebrea...
Am I missing something? The two posters don't look much alike, aside from having a fairly similar trunk in the foreground at the same angle - and I'm guessing that this has something to do with the imagery in the movie.
No, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

You grep your codebase of choice for 'him', s/him/them, fire off a pull request, and think "Nice! I really did a lot for the advancement of minorities in tech today!", and then go out for drinks with your mostly white coworkers, where you discuss diversity in the workplace with a straight face.
Not to blow your mind but: Try to challenge some of your med students (or grads) to complete it and see how they do.
Link now points to a text file telling you to register.
A real, tangible problem would be, you don't know your family history so you don't know if you have a higher genetic risk for this or that.

There'd probably also be more inbreeding. Not truckloads, but more, just when chance decided to step in.
Coinbase added 65,000 users in the past 7 days (~15% growth)
Heroku needs to rotate database credentials every now and then so be careful that your second app on the database can have some downtime. Monitoring here could help.

Interesting idea.
Fascinating, thanks! For anyone else interested, I found this to be useful: http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/Kotlin/Comparison+to...
Though it's not often discussed much today, one of the uses of a college education is figuring out what you are interested in...and what you are not interested in.

Sure some people know what they want to do when they are juniors in high school, but many people experience a lot of intellectual growth during the next four years it takes to reach junior class at university, and in some cases it would be a tragedy if their values and interests had not changed.
buT you'vE neveR seeN iT donE backwardS, righT?
Coinpunk becomes first Bitcoin mobile wallet app to be unbannable by Apple
I love this just for the web UI, but it's impossible for me to justify $60 a year for that - the lion's share of the implementation can be had, without any such limits, by spending 10 minutes setting up ZNC on a free VPS.
I'm not a woman, nor did I read the entire project description, but it's worth noting that most successful Kickstarters featured a nice, high quality video with playful music.

You could borrow one of those nice DSLR cameras from a friend and shoot something, buy/get some background music online and then get help to edit a short video. It's not that hard and definitely worth it!
And octopuses
Mmmmm basically I think it's because Scala itself is in a really captivating position, so seeing these utilities emerge makes it that much more promising.

I've switched from RoR to Scala on Play framework and at this point it's one of those things where you use & say "this is sick" but are still discouraged because the community is so small in comparison.

But with Akka, with the Typesafe Console & other niceties you realize "hm.. well... maybe the community isn't as large but they are prepping the toolset to be immensely powerful". And here is one more tool on that belt. I'm sure the reason is different for others, but just note that Scala is a JVM language competing in the same space as Ruby/Python, as well as with some of the functional languages. That alone is huge and making it a great general purpose language.
Yes, the designer's site is down right now but the issue wasn't that the two posters looked alike. It was that Spike Lee posted the actual, unpaid for comps to his Facebook page. Without a contract or even payment the designer should still have exclusive rights to those designs. The Yahoo news article got that part of the story wrong.
I take it you don't think there's much of a connection between language and thought. Changing something at the most basic level can have important repercussion. Some prefer this kind of intervention, rather than deal with a political power structure.
Serif fonts are going out of business?

Only one in the top 10 is Droid Serif, still dropping.
Annoying meta-pedant note: You presumably mean that witch hunts mainly occurred in puritanical areas, at a time in which the Renaissance was occurring elsewhere in the world.
QuizUp
Really??

This is why we can't have nice things.
Well, there is a slight difference here in that someone made an error for that to happen, which means there is a person responsible, rather than Chance (or whatever you wish to call what assigns us to our parents)

It's chance it happened to him. It's also chance if I happen to get hit by a drunk. Yet we still hold the drunk responsible.
A name and email address is a small and fair price to pay for a book that has had so much effort put into it for a total of $0 today. don't you think? Edit your comment and remove the link mate, seems fair.

Dan, if you are reading this I wanted to say how much I appreciate this book. I've recently decided I am going to learn Rails after years of using and abusing PHP, I want to learn something more substantial and this is good timing for me. Where I can, I will offer you my support.
Sounds like Rob Pike doesn't understand type theory.
But then you have to live in a world where people are nuking each other.
> The story has also reignited the nature vs. nurture debate, with, as Lucy points out, many people saying that "this is proof positive that it doesn't matter what your background is, nature cannot overcome nurture, and people who are born into poverty are doomed to stay there."

"With...many people saying that 'this is proof positive...'" is bullshit. You don't have many people saying exactly that. I don't think you even have one person saying exactly that, other than Lucy. Many people? Which people, and where? In Japan? In America? Did you count them? Weasel words, trying to lend credibility to the Lucy's claim that this is proof positive (!) that nature cannot overcome nurture (!). Third clause of this whopper: people who are born into poverty are doomed to stay there. Wow. You know, I'm not altogether sure that the prince-born pauper is actually poor. Going by what we know, he has a job as a truck driver, which is more than can be said for his mother, who was on welfare, and formally poor. He simply couldn't go to high school or college. In other words, he moved up a bit in life, though granted, not much.

And as rayiner pointed out, this is a single data point. It proves nothing.

Now, what if it did prove exactly that nature cannot overcome nurture? This would mean so much! Suddenly, so much of the progressive agenda would be validated! It would truly be bigotry, and literally nothing else, that was responsible for minorities in perpetual plight. It would truly be sexism, and literally nothing else, that was responsible for how many fewer women are CEO's. It would be a rallying cry for the communists of the world to unite against the pure, distilled evil that etcetera.
At SJSU, 33% of the incoming freshmen need remedial math and 49% need remedial English. It's like that in most of the Cal State schools.

http://www.calstate.edu/pa/clips2007/march/14march/unprep.sh...
The GP asked for citations; I picked the first one that came up in a Google search. I'm also privy to the issue, having been involved in the community at the time (as, I'm guessing, was the OP "Dewie", though I don't know who he is IRL or if I know him as well.) You now have three different people explaining this side of the story--and I'm sure there are plenty more Google-able references out there.
> Mass production has lowered the quality of materials, but first of all has tried to standardize body proportions to lower the costs. We don't have perfect bodies. Nobody has. And there are different kinds of body shapes: apple, banana, hourglass and pear, just to start.

This could be re-written.

That first sentence feels weird. Could you find a writerly pal to go through all the text?

EDIT: It's a great idea though. Many people like quality classic things. There's Sub Reddits that are relevant, such as /r/builttolast and an advert in the right subreddit might be handy.
Don't most countries have significant folk heroes who are anti-heros? The U.S. used to have the western outlaw, and more recently, has the "gangsta".
I've seen the opposite, where the effort and bureaucracy to change the software is so prohibitive that changes are made to electronics or even mechanics to avoid a software change.
Fabulous articles, thanks for writing them, and thanks for stopping by. Do you have any more articles posted anywhere? I found a couple extremely bleak starts at blogs (hope that was a temporary condition), but nothing else technical. If so, please post. If not, please get to writing them!
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This seems very suspicious! How can you know how many bugs a program has?
In C#...

At compile, there's one version of a generic method (say List<T>.Add). Compilation isn't slowed down like in C++.

At runtime, a generic method is compiled (on demand) into unique versions for each T encountered if T is a ValueType (int, double, etc. including user defined ValueTypes). This avoids boxing, like in Java.

Also at runtime, for all T's that are reference types a single common version is used with implicit casting as in Java.

C#'s draw back is that there is a small cost incurred on the first use of a generic method, and then an additional cost for each new ValueType used (if any). In practice this doesn't ever seem to be an issue, but it's there.

See http://stackoverflow.com/q/5342345/80572 and http://www.artima.com/intv/generics.html (which is linked from the former).
Some call it laziness, but I like to think of it more as simplification. I used to run a handful of VMs for various things, did a lot more myself, and maintained it all.

I don't feel like doing that anymore. I'd rather spend the time on something else.
How dare you, sir!
By how many people die due to software defect.
You forgot about GWT.
On a few sites, a commenter known as "Russ Brown" claims he posted the original on usenet, referring to a class he took in 1981. He claims that the quiz results were added to his version of events.

http://www.openeducation.net/2009/05/07/how-were-apollo-astr...

http://worldofweirdthings.com/2009/04/27/a-gravity-fail-goes...

I believe this is the original:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/"heavy$20boots"$20a...
Fine, tweak it as appropriate. Opinions of details of "normal basic minimum" needs vary greatly, which is a major problem with coming to consensus - another reason to stick with the "individual rights" model.
at every school in the world, there are kids that need help with math. Even at MIT there will be some kids that have been memorizing formulas... that's simply because that's how they've been taught for their entire life. Then they hit a wall and they're really in trouble.

Thrun can't teach kids that have, for a decade, been learning how to memorize crap. How many math teachers in high school and middle school can prove the pythagorean theorem? That should be the survey that we worry about.

Thrun should be making courses for fifth graders also if he wants to teach 20 year olds intro to stat.
A lot of this has to do with Twenty Twelve being the default theme for WordPress, which used Open Sans as its default font. Many people I've seen either use that theme or some derivative of it (myself included).
"Use NLP to convert questions into code, which can not only retrieve data, but also do parametrized computation on it."

This sounds to me to be the core here, simplified as far as possible.

Quite an undertaking, but if it gets rolling properly, it can actually end up challenging Google. Imagine being able to ask the following question and get an answer with summary and graph and maybe options to drill down, all computed in response to the question, not pregenerated:

"How many people were living in China from 1950 to 1980?"

(Or don't imagine and just click: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=How+many+people+were+li... )
If it's not too much trouble, could you put some of these huge code examples in a blog post or something?

I get the sense that a lot of people (myself included) are still a little confused as to what "Wolfram Language" is exactly, and maybe some code from someone who sees value in it would help clarify things.
Thanks for explaining that. So it's a clear-cut copyright violation.

I hesitate to pile on, but Spike Lee has consistentlty been an ass in public - something I first noticed in an interview many years ago when he was expressing revulsion at the idea that his sister might marry a white man, because black-white marriages were such a terrible idea, in his opinion. Very sad, because I think he's very talented as a filmmaker.
Also possible that the agency is 1124design.com, which has worked on many of Spike's previous films.
RJS leaking vulnerability in multiple Rails applications
In my mind, Akka is the reason to use Scala right now. Actors are an incredibly powerful abstraction for building highly-concurrent, highly performant systems and the features Akka brings along—remoting, clustering and now event sourcing—make it a fantastic tool for these applications.

But then, I'm a backend developer and Akka is more useful in that realm.

Play still needs some work IMO. It's great if you need the real-time steaming or a very performant web app but otherwise the lack of scaffolding and other features will really slow you down. I love it but it's still early for most uses. If you come in expecting Rails, you'll be disappointed. For instance, you need to write your own authentication layer, Play doesn't provide one.

OTOH, I was able to write a real-time cluster monitor in Play for our Akka-based backend and the streaming component took less time to write than the setting up the app—it's that straightforward.

IMO, if you need them, Play's other features more than make up for its less polished aspects and I fully expect those to get fixed in time, especially now that Typesafe has brought Play under its wing.
The point is that it's known as cancerous on 4chan because it distracts from normal activity on it (chatting / img sharing) but is popular and easily profitable elsewhere. Like many general sites with large disparate communities 4chan is good at some simple things but doesn't serve specific niches in a thorough and interesting way.

I think there are many people doing this: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwkfi5tqEi1qzqh0wo1_500.pn... to 4chan. That's the situation faced by any popular site, but imagine if Craig was offered the chance to invest in airbnb?
My least favorite thing about Google Fonts is that they look different on different browsers for each platform too. On my latest site design I had to put them on my server because they actually looked the worst in Chrome.
One should strive to make c code as portable as possible. Obfuscated does not mean it should be hard to compile.
Interesting, but ridiculous. Why build such a moon base when you could easily fly in a spaceship and destroy it without the effort of actually landing and building on moon?
The "Anyone But Richard M Stallman" (ABRMS) License
And the top links: http://www.reddit.com/r/VXJunkies/top/?sort=top&t=all
Or the definition of a criminal (and "threat") becomes consistently more expansive and vague. Out of paranoia and a strong financial incentive to do so, even while most empirical statistics say otherwise.
Then the education system has a serious problem. Kids respond to incentives. Memorizing formulas would work only if students can get by homework and exams with rote memorization. We probably should learn from Russia/India/Korea/China, where it's almost impossible for students to pass STEM exams with mere memorization. Not that their exams are hard. It's just that their educators take effort to make sure the problems in their exams encourage intuitive understanding, original thinking, and creative problem solving. Ironically, US universities do exactly that in their classrooms. I wonder why high schools can't just do the same.
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