skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a ton of data like most start-ups have the effect of the priors generally wash away. That is the likelihood (of the data) generally dominates. My results are generally very robust to choice of prior parameters (when the type of distribution is well known like Beta for Bernoulli RVs).
Some really interesting talks on algorithmic music composition this Friday at 7:30 at Etsy Labs in Brooklyn, NYC.
I think you are overestimating. This is not so large and unique key searches are blazing fast in pretty much any DB under the sun.
My comment was directed more specifically to Harvard and narrow set of top tier schools, I do not believe that universities don't care about teaching. The list of "very high research activity" (apparently research 1 is no longer used) includes 108 schools [1] of which Harvard is at one extreme end.

That said, my father recently retired after 33 years with his department at a "high research activity", the second tier, and he can't recall a single case when someone was denied tenure where teaching performance was an issue. Research, and increasingly grant acquisition were always the issues.

Personally, I went to a small liberal arts school. Having taught at two top universities, private and public, I'm happy I went where I did. Undergrad teaching was the top priority and the difference is stark.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_research_universities_i...
I don't even.... this is amazing. I've been toying with the idea of making something like this, but could never have produced anything as good. I don't know when I was last this excited about a piece of software. When the paperpile option appeared next to PDFs via the Chrome extension - goosebumps! Thank you, this solves a massive problem I have and have had for a while, and despite trying all kinds of managers have never found anything which really combines organization with raw PDF access in a distributed manner.
We've heard (and experienced) way too many horror stories of packages stolen off NYC doorsteps. Check out Parcel: http://fromparcel.com.
Ok, that's interesting, but doesn't really answer the question. You don't need a lawyer in the U.S. for example. (You may want one, to make sure you're not shooting yourself in the foot, but that's what the standard docs are for. Never in these sorts of things is it actually required that you have someone with a law degree sign off on it in every instance.)
I suppose it is more "web scale," it is a website I am building for my own product(s).

We are now looking to create a form of a book club online. However, you can imagine we have 40 million or so possible books, and hope to have a few hundred to thousand(s) of users given time.

That being said we need it to scale, and be secure. We both have some Rails experience, but we are willing to learn just about what ever.
This wouldn't work smoothly because each image would be, for example, 2 inches wide. You may have several frames per image, but then your eyes would have to jump two inches to the next frame. The old style zoetrope would have a much cleaner effect.
everything has answer we just don't know what it is :-)
To play devil's advocate for a moment, the tenure evaluations I am familiar with at many universities take student feedback into account, as a proxy for "good teaching," but unfortunately teachers students like and teachers that are good at teaching may not be the same. Thus universities seem to care more about keeping students happy than about "teaching" per se.
Plus if you have your kernel stacks allocated in the same virtual address space, you might not be able to just "grow the stack" since that memory may be in use.

But yes recursion in a kernel is a "bad thing" unless you know the recursive bound.
That's great feedback! We've been so rushed to get it out the door for the holidays that we're lacking some basic information up front. We'll get that up shortly!

For now, some price/sizing deets:

$12 each — 2.125" x 3.375" — Business Card

$12 each — 2.75" x 2.75" — Small Square

$15 each — 3.5" x 5.0" — Postcard

$15 each — 5.0" x 5.0" — Large Square
The change was not "let's make libuv comments gender neutral," but "here's this one thing I noticed in this one place." A one-off change like that has a trivial impact on the overall gender-inclusiveness of the project, and that's the case no matter what importance you attach to it.

If gender-inclusive language in comments is deemed important, then it ought to be treated as important from the contributor side. For example, "comments must all be gender neutral" should have been incorporated into the coding standard for the project, along with a rationale, and the existing code should have been vetted for all uses of gendered pronouns. That would have made for a more serious contribution, and I bet Noordhuis would have treated it differently.
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... that is the worst genderless pronoun I've ever seen. Just use singular they and make the grammarians angry, nobody else minds.
Look, claiming I made an ad hominem attack means that I said "X is bad because X was made by person Y and Y is bad". I did not do that: I stated first a concrete (yet highly summarized reason) why I felt that X was bad (specifically regarding incentive changing). I then also explained the reason behind the project (which is a property of X, not of Y), which I have multiple sources close to the project (including you) backing up (so it isn't like I'm lying or something: this isn't like someone claiming a study is flawed because the author is biased <- instead, I'm more like someone showing a study is flawed because the author actually stated they did the study for biased reasons). If you are going to throw around logical fallacies as weapons, as least know what they mean :(. (I will now provide more responses, but separately, as I felt the need to get this out more quickly as it was such a slap and people might not pay enough attention to realize it was wrong ;P.)

(Also, on the last point about when you sent the e-mail, which is the closest you can get in my comments to "ad hominem" and to me was a defense against why I wasn't more prepared for this: you were more than willing to get involved in a "synchronous conversation" with me at the time, which would have taken even longer and been even more difficult ;P.)
Yes thanks! If you have a specific usecase, please feel free to email omg@gifpop.io and we'll let you know when we have more information!
Nice, congrats! I used Kendo UI for my app as well - it's incredible, such a time saver.
Most of the investment were notes and I understand it is way easier - however the first investment from 500startups were shares. we signed on a SPA (stock purchase agreement) and did some other stuff as well. Most of it were done using Right Signature and quite fast to close.
The person on the other hand handling this process was not specifically a lawyer.
I hope this can shed some light - I'm not saying you can necessarily remove your lawyer from the equation but I am quite sure you could reduce that number to be non-significant.
Perhaps you should talk to 500startups :) They are doing lot of deals and I never saw them charge anything for the deal - they must be doing something right :)
I've read that people are having this issue with this monitor with all kinds of different playback hardware, including a Blu-Ray player that upconverts to 4k.

It could be a component that is used by other 4k monitors, but it really seems specific to this Seiki (in varying sizes), as they have released a firmware update that is supposed to help.
Top notch American universities have ridiculously easy grading standards because the filtering happens at the admissions stage. Harvard's undergrad has something like a 5-6% acceptance rate. Admission requires being on the ball since age 14 so you can apply with a perfect high school GPA, getting at least in the 98th percentile on the SATs, and doing a bunch of extracurricular and service projects while maintaining that perfect GPA.

After that, the fact of whether you're smart and hard working is presumed. The grade inflation exists to make college a fun experience where you can try out different sorts of classes without prejudicing your chances at jobs and graduate school later.
That's actually one reason why we're limiting things to up/down rotation also — the spacing of your eyes makes it hard to display lots of frames accurately when you're rotating it left/right. And zoetropes, so cool! We really want to try some of these out too: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/10/the-first-animated-gif...
Oh god damn it.

Does anyone here work for Oracle? What's your opinion of this? Why don't you strike?
OT but I've never seen anyone write semicolons that way in C.
This seems like a very low ceiling ($$$) business, which I always find "meh" at Startup Weekend. At Startup Weekend Missoula, a lady was selling compost bins with worms. Another team worked the whole time on a project that would at best make $70,000 a year. Both of those are great individual businesses, as is selling beef jerky, but they're not the next Facebook.
You could use rdrand if you're on (a recent enough) x86. You just lose some portability. Probably not a major issue at this point.
Wow, eye opening.
If you mean, "can you opt out of paying for it and then not collect benefits when you retire", the answer is no. Your employer is required to withhold it from your salary (or if you're self-employed, you are required to pay the tax yourself).
Yeah, we found some major bottlenecks and fixes are on the horizon. Thanks! :)
> The HTML you get when you go to a web page is anything but an abstraction of a data type.

You don't think that "this is an article", "this is a paragraph", "this is a link", "this text should be emphasized" are abstractions? And how is Markdown different, when it describes exactly the same elements of a document?

> now we're back to telling the whole web how to make web pages.

Telling people how to make web pages isn't a problem - that's what the HTML standard is. Depending on the whole web to make their pages suit your individual needs is a problem.
So if each member of the team worked for that entire 26 hours they worked 208 hours total. Because their version of 'profit' does not seem to factor in wage for the 8 people involved. Their 1095 'profit' came out to a wage of just under $5.27 an hour for each of the 8.

The amount made in the time period should not be viewed as a victory in this situation. There may have been an educational or other victory for team members, but the author seems to be celebrating a monetary milestone which would of been greatly exceeded by working minimum wage jobs doing telemarketing for an existing business.
The plane only went down b/c the terrorists had taken the cockpit. They crashed it intentionally when they realized the passengers were about to retake it. With barricaded, reinforced cockpits that won't happen again, and passengers will also fight back instantly, won't give hijackers time to get control and get organized.
You forgot inverse kinematics. If you want the robot to do something useful like pick up an object from somewhere and put it down somewhere else, forward kinematics alone won't help you.
FIY, npm does not allow you to push a module version more than once.
I mind.
57.06% of the passwords stolen were for the Facebook domain. Sigh!
Chicago startup shows up on Wall Street 
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If the database is the model, then add a controller (IDE) and view (textual representation) and you may start to see how that could work.

Also I should have said, "why aren’t are codebases like modern databases".
Getting 150K and a company board with qualified people on day1 would be very attractive for an H1B engineer like me. So I could bootstrap a startup while having a paid job in a company and if Kima15 invests, this would qualify for an H1B transfer to my own company(Having a board to supervise your company would qualify for H1B transfer).
Detached just means that your HEAD is a commit, not a ref. There is no particular reason for git-commit to care if a commit is pointed to by a branch, some other sort of ref, is reachable from a commit that is pointed to by a branch or other sort of ref, or detached from everything at all. If you read the code, it is doing the same thing in either case, only differentiating between them to print more useful messages for the users benefit and make sure the user is doing what they really want to do in situations that may be destructive (without falling back on reflog). They really are the same thing.
It may depend on the case - in many cases, the school a student attended trumps the GPA the student achieved at that school. For schools like Harvard and Yale, it is the brand that employers react to most, not the GPA. Having recruited students from those schools while at a strategy consulting firm, typically we looked at school, then major, then other stuff (which may or may not include GPA). Major was a better indicator of talent level than GPA at those schools.
Thanks for that; I had ignored the Adobe leak, because why would I have created an Adobe account? Turns out I did at some point, so I guess I'm the goat there.
Ask HN: Want to build Ruby irb for iOS in RubyMotion with me?
I was on the train this morning, and wanted to double-check a Ruby concept I was thinking about, and thought it would be cool if I had irb on my phone. A couple of apps appear to exist, but I think it'd be a cool project to try with RubyMotion. Either way, would love to hear any thoughts on how to approach this. Thanks!
No, I was asking because you said Java IDEs have this feature but VS doesn't. Yet Visual C# out of the box has support for rename, method extraction, reorder parameters, field encapsulation, finding the usage of an identifier across the code base, generating a class graph, etc...

Where exactly is Visaul Studio lacking here compared to your Java IDEs? Or are you comparing apples and oranges -- C++ to Java?
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> Are you able to use your password manager in public places (or on a friend's laptop)?

Any accounts that are accessed on other people's computers should be unimportant (e.g., email accounts that aren't associated with financial accounts) because those computers could be compromised. Unimportant accounts don't require strong passwords, so a password manager isn't needed for accounts that one might access on other people's computers.
Bayesian priors aren't necessarily formed by "Guessing", and if we do advance the notion that they are "Guesses", Frequentist statistics has its own set of them.
Adobe got me.

Does lastpass work great for checking banking on cellphones and other logins that would require a cut and paste on a desktop?
There was a shooting at LA just weeks ago.

You mean Paul Anthony Ciancia who was pissed off about all the excessive security and deliberately targeted TSA agents hoping to commit suicide-by-cop?

Lots of less than spectacular events have occurred on soft targets over the past 10 years. Each of those may have easily converted in to a more spectacular attack.

Citing all attacks anywhere as justification for the TSA is a recipe for the unlimited ratcheting up of security. It is an enormous leap in logic to assume somebody with a semi-auto rifle or a crock-pot bomb is capable of getting them past pre-911 airport security and also doing something effective with it once they have. An attack on an airplane is simply too challenging for the vast majority of people to execute.
Nearly all of the most sought-after exits into the "real world" from Harvard care about GPA: banks, consulting firms, Big Corps, graduate schools, etc.
I feel bad for this child. Clearly she has gotten through her schooling through sheer brute force without applying very much understanding. She is likely at a grade level where building the basics back up is not possible without 1:1 attention.
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Nope . It depends where you are.
but really, it's very easy to find online.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't fractal image compression a real technique?

However, I did read about a hoax in the 90's where there was a claim of a fractal compression technique that could reduce a file down to 1% of its original size, which turned out to just be a program that stored a reference to the file's location instead of an actual compressed file.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_compression
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=885055
We're patient. We're just upping the incentive for success.

You're right, all the people working on it are amazing and deserve more accolades and less heckling.
This might help http://gifmachine.xwl.me/
Yes, a "victim simulation", of course -- carried out at the ultimate behest of the Reticulans, no doubt.
I'm suprised forklifts aren't autmated already

They have been for a while.

http://www.egemin-automation.com/en/automation/material-hand...
I'm surprised I haven't seen this mentioned yet, but at I/O during his Q&A Larry Page talked a fair bit about how he wants to see manufacturing get more streamlined, Maybe this could be related?

> Smartphones, Page said, are “relatively expensive,” with the raw material costs — glass and silicon — is “probably like $1, or something like that. I think glass is 50 cents a pound. Phones don’t weigh very much. So I think when I see people in industry making things, I ask this question, how far are you off the raw materials costs. So as an engineer, trying to go to first principles, what is the real issue? What’s the real issue around our power grids, or around manufacturing? I think a lot of people don’t ask those questions, and because of that, we don’t make the progress we need to. If you’re going to make a smartphone for a dollar, that’s almost impossible to do. But if you took a fifty-year view, you’d probably make the investments you need to, and you’d probably even figure out how to make money. So, I encourage non-incremental thinking.”

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2013/05/15/google-c... (The first transcript I could find)
Thanks! What do you mean about adding an option for 3D prints? Do you mean doing the layering on our end? We could get you viewing angles and such so that you could upload prelayered imagery through the website normally, would that work?
I would love to hear any responses to this.
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They have a mobile site, and if you get the premium subscription ($12/year?) you can use their mobile apps - I use the iOS and Windows Phone apps and both are very smooth. (They also have Android and Blackberry).
...what do you do when most kids are getting the same top grades on tests?

Give harder tests and adjust grades upwards accordingly. If everybody is blowing out your measurement scale, your scale needs to be higher.
to anybody who knows terms like "3@55" and "spiking" and various other details of union contracts like unlimited accumulation of vacation and unused sick days, it isn't a surprise. While i don't know about Detroit, yet if they had anything similar as mentioned below without CA's economy to carry it [not that CA economy will be able to carry it in the long run as well :)], well...

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/09/09/5718823/california-public-p...

" The average retirement payout for new retirees in California's biggest public pension system doubled between 1999 and 2012, according to CalPERS data, and initial monthly payments for one group nearly tripled in that period.

State and local cops and firefighters benefited the most.

In the 14 years covered by the data analyzed by The Sacramento Bee, average first-month pensions to state police and firefighters went from $1,770 to $4,978. California Highway Patrol officers' first-month retirement payments doubled from $3,633 to $7,418, and local government safety employees' pensions went from $3,296 to $6,867. "
That's a very religious sounding notion; I'm an atheist, I'd call your saintly people good people and I'd call your good people simply human if such a differentiation is necessary.
It’s a bummer to find my e-mail between the leaked Adobe accounts. Especially after the ordeal I had to go through to have my Adobe account “deleted” months ago:

You have requested that we deactivate your Adobe account. We have sent a request to the relevant team to process your request. Please note that you will lose access to Adobe services and support for which you have registered or paid for. You will not be able to obtain serial numbers for past purchases and the deactivation process may take up to ninety (90) days. Once completed, your adobe.com membership and all personal data will be deleted from our database.

Adobe, every single time I had anything to do with you it sucked. Big time.
Who's to say these guys aren't stealing our emails?
instancetype is implicit for init (and related methods): http://stackoverflow.com/a/14652187

The clang link seems to confirm that it doesn't even make a difference to throw @protocols into the mix, it only seems to consider the method name.
Bitcoins have real value
That assumption is incorrect. Implicits are not used here (for that purpose anyways).

The client connection is handled by that "WebSocket.using[String]" handler. This is just a function that takes a function which takes a Request and returns an Iteratee and an Enumerator. In Play, this is known as an Action. Actions take Requests and return Results.

You can see that in the type signature of the WebSocket class: http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.2.x/api/scala/i...

(f: (RequestHeader) ⇒ (Enumerator[A], Iteratee[A, Unit]) ⇒ Unit)

So the client connection is not bound using implicits, it's bound when that function is actually executed. This function (f) is invoked by the router when a request comes in for that controller action. This is done using HandlerInvoker: http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.2.x/api/scala/i...

Now, my explanation is not the most eloquent nor is it really necessary to understand all of this, though it certainly helps.
Hmm, you think noisy drones flying around delivering packages within 30 minutes of ordering is a more concrete vision than a robot walking up to your door from a self-driving car? (last 30 ft problem).

I can easily imagine myself solving this problem in about 2 years if given access to Google street view data. Remember, Google probably has detailed (centimeter resolution) 3D maps of from their street view cars (they use LIDAR, afaik).

The Google plan is much more realistic than Amazon's announcement. IMHO. YMMV. I am not a robotics person etc.
"How to collect e-mail addresses" - Exercise 1
Yes, I can see that: droids on the streets and our homes conducting surveillance for Google and NSA :)
You can do that. Of course you have to revamp it when you need to add 'free', but you can do it.

It's just much less pernicious to do it that way, than my method, which means it's less fun :)
Misleading headline, makes it seem like these guys were hacked on their servers. When the reality is people spread a virus and passwords were logged from individual machines. No fault from Google or Twitter.
fucking jesus, I hope it's the opposite
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The problem is that law (and other professional) schools are incentivized to largely disregard the institution of applicants and instead base most of their admissions decisions on GPA and LSAT so they can get high US News rankings. An elite undergrad institution can best serve it's students by making sure high GPA's are achievable to hard working, smart students who want to go to professional schools.
I wasn't aware that observation of demonstrated behavior equated to "hating".
Not even technically accurate. The article says that only 400k of the 2 million stolen passwords were from FB/GOOG/TWTR.
You could put this in the launch command of your game in the linux client:

wine /full/path/to/windows-game.exe

I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work?
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