skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the HN post @chewxy. I just wanted to mention a bit of progress status. The version on pypi has been a workhorse.

We're currently working on a not-so-minor update that will include a major upgrade in code quality, better documentation, probably include two new optimization algorithms, and come with a wrapper around scikit-learn. All that should be happening by February.

Sign up for https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/hyperopt-announce for project updates.
Unfortunately that also makes them sort of "too small to extort"; there are some very good reasons Dodd-Frank enshrined the "too big to fail" institution concept. I've only read some of the material on that bill in http://www.amazon.com/Extortion-Politicians-Extract-Money-Po... but I bet when I get to the details that's part of the reasons.

Jailing is only something ambitious DAs and Attorney Generals want to do; milking firms is where the money is for those already politically established.
No. But one would be required to pay customs duties (import tax, really) — so then one is paying the same amount as just buying it in the country.
same... not seeing the GPU ones
I agree with this 100% - I too had Michael Hartl's book recommended to me as I was just starting to learn web development, and I found it very daunting. One year later, I now understand a lot of these things with ease, but it definitely is not a good resource for those trying to get into web development.

I haven't checked out this book yet, and I suspect I probably won't get a huge amount out of it since I am comfortable digging into source code of whatever tech to understand libraries. I do think more good resources for learning web development is a plus though, so thanks to the author for making this available for free!
Thank you for the example, it's hard to understand that so many people cannot come up with such scenarios. They are proving a total lack of empathy.
I count 18 instances of the word "tweet" and 7 of "Twitter" in that short post. For the love of language please stop referring to the medium. She makes a fair point, and I agree with her in the case of the man whose full name was revealed, but who is harmed when a story about "Diane" or "a couple in Brooklyn" is published?
Hopefully it will happen here in the USA as well.
I also believe this article is poor.
Mixes two disfferent things :
1) Metting : Clear decision for developper (with customer validating, agree with team, ect)
2) Focus : Be alone, quit, focus on the difficult task/dev --> Flow

Two things are ok. Not opposite.
We can see this guy is no developper at all.
Not at all !
All money isn't a bubble. If people are known to need certain quantities of an asset to disburse debt and tax obligations they know they will incur in future, then that asset's value isn't driven purely by speculation, especially not if people accept it even as its value is known to diminish over time.

My belief that people and corporations will still have a broadly similar demand for dollars next year isn't based on a graph with a rising value trend line that's known to be driven by amateur speculators, unlike "bubble" type assets.
'Bitcoin' Becoming A Bit Too Big; Regulators Scramble For Norms
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Communication allows you to learn what software to write. Flow allows you to write it.

Where I work they are all communication and no flow, and that's terrible. I wish we had more flow.
In "democracies" similar to the Hungarian one you can chose who robs you, there is no good option.

They are all the same, maybe one party called A the other B but the same people are behind all parties, and they form a strong inner circle.

They just give you an illusion of democracy, really.
MATE is the most popular Gnome 2 fork for people who hate GNOME 3. Cinnamon appears to be an attempt to adopt some of the good qualities of Unity but without the drawbacks.
"the environment of fear"

This, exactly.
From what I understand, isn't "some miners are cherry picking transactions with higher fees so some transactions are taking longer to confirm" part of the design of the Bitcoin network? From what I understand, as mining gets harder, transaction fees are supposed become the larger economic incentive for miners.
The majority of electricity in Norway comes from renewable sources — mostly from hydro-electric power (which is, inevitably, relatively easy in a mostly sparsely populated, mountainous country).
They are at the moment, in an ideal world they should not be.
It has appeared that the physics community
has done much better getting good non-academic
jobs and careers for their Ph.D. holders
than most other STEM fields.
Yes, I believe if someone sells a large quantity of BitCoins at once it can trigger a big sell-off.

Certainly groups of two or three who all sell fairly large quantities of BitCoins around the same time, even just by coincidence, can trigger a panic sell-off.

The more BitCoins are distributed are among more people the less a few people selling can snowball into a price collapse.

BitCoin already seems to be much less volatile than it was even a few months ago. The up-and-down fluctuations are a much smaller percentage of the price. In the last few days it's been hovering around $1200, without falling below $1100 or rising above $1300. A year ago it was routine for BitCoin to lose half its price and then recover and then lose half again.
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Sorry. That's actually the original (and still an acceptable) spelling, and I rather prefer it. English doesn't really have enough vowels, so distinguishing between `e' and `œ' makes sense, orthographically. I also tend to use diæreses where appropriate.

Of course, normally I would give at least a passing thought to using more modernized spellings in this context, but I have spent most of the week writing up a series of observation sessions and my brain is beginning to revolt, liquefy, and dribble out of my ears.
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Would the commit have happened if the offending pronoun was 'she' instead of 'he'? This is speculation but it seems clear that the pronoun 'she' would have been allowed to remain, because it is as a sign of progressiveness and inclusiveness, but 'he' is a sign on retrograde patriarchal medievalism that must be combated with our every waking breath, if you don't agree you are clearly a misogynist bigot.
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What could this possibly mean?
The US has carved so many "oh.. but..."s into the First Amendment that I laugh a little bit when Americans get on their high horse and tell everyone how free we are.

Then again, it's nice to at least have it listed in the Constitution.
(n.b. the inside of a store is not a public space, so a bit of a bad example...)

Outside, surveillance cameras are (supposedly) there for security. If the camera footage was used for other purposes then it would obviously be a problem. If the CCTV operator uploaded fun clips of people of the street to youtube then they would be in the wrong.

Once again, it comes down to manners, and not technology.

For instance, if a high-res camera was set up outside in public and recorded 'public' but hard-to-see stuff, such as numbers visible on the front of your credit card, or text messages on the screen of your phone, do you still think that would be acceptable? It's in public, after all...
I would be interested in hearing about your consulting on the side. How did you manage that and the requirements of your job? Is it in an area close to your research? What are the IP and commercialization ramifications, if any, with respect to your university? (Some universities seem to have rules about outside consulting.)
Different configuration search strategies will perform differently on different fitness landscapes, and fitness landscapes depend on both data and learning algorithm. An online bandit-style selection of what seems to be working could be a good idea. Portfolio-management algorithms do this sort of thing. Hyperopt can accommodate this type of algorithm. File a ticket on the issue tracker if you'd like to work on this and I'll help you get started.
>In democracies, the people typically do this by voting for someone else

No, the people think they do this, in reality the new boss is pretty much the same as the old boss.
A very poor understanding of psychological concepts of flow.
Naive questions. Doesn't VirtualBox create overhead? i.e You will be a lot slower using it then running something on Barebone?
I wouldn't trust Graeber, as he is frequently wrong about easily verifiable facts in such a way that it supports his world view. There's no reason to trust a liar when he tries to tell you something you don't know about. My favorite Graeberism is when he describes the founding of Apple:

> Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republican) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, forming little democratic circles of twenty to forty people with their laptops in each other's garages

but there are plenty others, an exhaustive list of which would be inappropriately long for a HN reply. This isn't one of those things where people don't understand computers, this is one of those things where someone just completely makes shit up. He's also a somewhat unhinged and deeply horrible person. Discussed here by Brad Delong who is about as far left as real economists come: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/04/david-graeber-april-fo...
It's really annoying how the term Ponzi scheme is thrown about so carelessly.
I'd be interested in understanding this more... but the page seems to be all about the "how" instead of the "why", and the terminology seems largely undefined -- what exactly do they mean by "layer"? "Block"? What are "isolated project modules"?

This article seems less than ideal for introducing "MCSS". What are the problems it's trying to fix? How is it unique in solving those problems? And how does it differ from other ways of solving those problems? In what kinds of projects is it recommended, and for what kinds of projects is it less useful, or overkill?
I do the same, and love it. It really frees me to work anywhere, and instantly connect to an already-running dev-box just where I left it last time.

However, the only problem I have convincing my teammates is that they use TextMate/Sublime, and that's the only thing that seems to break this, where Vagrant is potentially easier (you can share a local folder).

I tried things like rsync and fuse over ssh, but they seem a bit sluggish or not-so-transparent. I wish there was some tool that would solve this.
In an ideal world, there would be no ruling class.
"head" and "worker" is also used in some contexts.
> Is BTC considered 'currency' by the US government? Do its transfers necessitate reporting to the government? If I sent a thousand dog biscuits to my home land, does the government need to be involved? Under what law?

Almost certainly, under a variety of money laundering laws. You can't just convert cash into diamonds/gold/Bitcoins and thumb your nose at the authorities saying "look, no currency!"
In eastern-european democracies ( like mine in Bulgaria ) your voting options are limited to parties that has stable corruption background, which pay media and poor citizen to vote for them. In this sense there is no way honest people to get involve in the government affairs, because they lack resources ( money, connections, etc. ) that are needed for wining ( even partly ) elections.
there is a chamber like this at my local university that I have been in a couple of times. its very strange to talk or hear others talk. your voice just feels weak. even when you yell the sound just stops... yet, ears seem to adjust the percieved loudness of things relative to the background, and in a chamber like this you ask your ears to divide by zero, and sometimes it feels like even the silence is louder than anything you have ever heard.
The repository was not created by Linus. It was a Github security exploit discovered by a friend of mine. Apparently he had contacted Github before exploiting but they didn't show any interest in fixing the issue. There should be a clarification from him soon.
9am PST is possibly a poor choice, given that PST is so late in the world's timezones. 9am San Francisco time on December 1st is already 4am the next day in Sydney.

I suppose it's a juggling act based on how long it will stay on the front page, etc., but that too is something that can be tweaked.
Social security is a mandatory insurance program, not a mandatory investment program. Like any other insurance program, the solution to shortfall is to increase premiums or decrease payouts.

Since there isn't yet a shortfall that can't be covered by existing funding sources, these solutions have not yet been implemented. Just like a private insurance company.
This is perhaps the most aggravating thing of all.

I don't have a Facebook account, but sometimes I wonder what profile I have on there from pictures and mentions by other people concerning me.
The real danger of Bitcoins is not its volatility, but its potential to illustrate the downside of all fiat based currency when compared with something like Bitcoins whose money supply does not fluctuate based upon the needs of a few. If that fact ever reaches the consciousness of enough people worldwide, watch out.
Issac, I realize that you had the best intentions in this, I see that you were trying to put out stupid fires rather than start another one, and I appreciate your willingness to criticize the crass and inappropriate response from Joyent. All that said, and please take it as friendly criticism: your tone towards the developer came across as unnecessarily belittling, and the phrase about firing, even if not meant literally, crossed the line. Yet another post would probably just add fuel to the fire, but I would seriously consider a private face-to-face apology, if I were you. Thanks for listening.
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Same here in Portugal. Many people over ~50 still convert to our old currency whenever we're talking about larger amounts. It's really hard to reset your frame of reference after so many years.
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I don't need a description of how the one true digital currency works thanks, bitcoin is not the only way to produce a currency.
Has anybody tried to assign an order of precedence to these principles?

The "consistent with the public interest" clauses of the 2nd and 6th principles suggests that the first principle takes precedence when it conflicts with either #2 or #6.

This is similar to how Asimov's famous 3 laws of robotics are written: the first law always takes precedence over the second, and the first two laws always take precedence over the third.

But the other principles don't mention any order of precedence.

Different partial orderings could yield very different interpretations of what software engineers should do in certain circumstances. For example, should we value #4 (integrity and independence) above #2 (best interests of the client) or below it? What if 4.06 (refusing to participate in corrupt orgs) has a detrimental effect on public interest in the long term?

Even if we acknowledge that it is impossible to produce a fully consistent ordering of the 8 principles and their numerous sub-principles, I think it would be interesting to identify conflicts and study how different people choose to resolve them. Everyone can nod in agreement when we talk about common moral principles, but it's only when the principles begin to conflict that things get really interesting.

For example, what would have been the principles that bothered Edward Snowden the most?
Why would Bitcoins be exempt from standard economics? We're not talking about quantum physics where everything starts acting wonky.

Claiming Bitcoins won't follow economic theories is like claiming plastic money will work differently than paper money and coins.
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I have high hopes for you Americans. "land of the free and the home of the brave"
Mobile games seem to be getting close to ubiquitous. Angry Birds has more active players than a typical Hollywood blockbuster gets viewers.
Indeed it is an open security hole. See my other comment.
Like Mike Rogers says it:
"You can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated." Or wut? (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131029/18020225059/mike-r...)

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That makes sense. Is that what's actually driving the vaccine schedule?
This country is pretty much fucked up, criminal as a president, lack of resources, poor people and also European Union bureaucrats are not really interested in Ukraine in its current state.
Half of citizines do not speak ukraininan language, they identify themselves as Russians. The other part is only waiting for a moment to gtfo there.
You asked why mining was necessary. I provided an explanation.