skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My all-time favourite reference for regex syntax is http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/doc/RE.txt
It's compact and clear enough for most cases.
Don't worry. We are just in the 1984 stage of dystopia. Snow Crash is coming soon though!
"marginalized" implies discrimination
Said another way: just because you don't give Google permission, it does not mean that they don't have the data. This isn't a paranoid outlook, just stated facts: many organizations store information in an unauthorized manner. Just because they say "we have no history," it does not mean that they actually don't have it.
No, but it does simplify coding a lot.

In the presence of a GC many algorithms and code refactorings become much easier if you don't have to track all the time who is responsible for releasing a chunk of memory.

Specially in the presence of multicore algorithms and big code bases.

Added to that the fact that in today's industry developers tend to know just a little bit of the code base, given the size of some projects and team's attrition.
Except for London, the honest to dishonest ranking seems to equate to a prosperous to impoverished ranking.
Eventually the penny drops. If there's no trust in the internet, then these companies business model will be affected. Over time I can see this lobbying working to an extent in the US.

What I can't see happening is the other Five Eyes partners or their governments changing. The UK political classes in the main appear bullishly, unrepentant, aggressive towards descent and hawkishly pursuing dissidents including newspaper editors.
Anyone else seeing the "Default Parallels Plesk Panel Page" instead of the content? Google cache still works: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Arefor...
still better than android where everything is just slow and laggish on low-end phones.
I like how it gets all confused by the fact that I have several devices in different locations all signed in to the same account.
I'd say it's somewhere between 'selling' and 'coercion'.

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country." - Edward Bernays

The quote continues...
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/203430-the-conscious-and-int...
Google could utilize this to make some seriously sophisticated estimates on the revenue a company/store is doing. Therefore the stock market would be similar to shooting fish in a barrel. As I understand it, if it's legal/acceptable for hedge funds to use private satellite imagery I don't see how this would be any different.
"Tipping point for how Snowden will be viewed"? This? They did it for us? Yuck. I share the sentiment of some others here that i'd rather see human beings fight and win in this battle, not the faces of some bottom lining marketing machines protecting their product.

A human product that lets its product owner tip the scales and control its future? Puke. Double puke.

The sooner this privacy debate ends for them the better. I'd rather the debate continue and we develop better technology and opinions around ownership of our own actions and lives so we harden ourselves from parasitism, instead of cheering when one of our parasites takes out another.
Sorry but this is almost a random test.

What neighborhoods? What days? What hours?

All that can make a difference and quite a big one.
No all GC enabled languages are like Python.

Have a look at Oberon for example. A systems programming language with GC, used to program a fully working single user desktop system in the mid 90's.

Used at many universities around the world.

Yes it required the use of Assembly for hardware communication, but so do C and C++.
Could someone explain why "signals of growth", or as in this case "momentum", would be relevant to anyone? I understand that actual growth stats might be difficult to get hold of, but I think I'd rather have 200 of those than 200 000 "weekly growth of web traffic, mobile downloads, inbound links, employees, and social media".
>>"These contracts are in place specifically because the market demands them."

The devil's advocate here would say, "These contracts are in place because the market is rigged here by powerful, entrenched, rent-seeking interests that are colluding."
Also when you learn a new word in a different language, it seems like suddenly everyone is using that word all the time.
I used to work for TomTom and they run a live-traffic analysis service to help them with taking current traffic into account with route planning.

They buy anonymized live location data from telcos for that, called probes, which go for about $1 per year.

Then a few years after Android started Google suddenly came out with a live traffic service with similar resolution for free.

I already had a pretty strong suspicion of what their cheap source of probes was :)
Similarly, Google has a notion of "Web History" which is distinct from what they know about users. The Web History can be displayed to (and deleted by) the user, but that's not the same as displaying or deleting all of Google's records about the user's activity:

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/54050?hl=en
I saw 'streaming' in the title and assumed you were going to use Flask's support for streaming (http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/patterns/streaming/). It allows you to send an HTTP response gradually, using a Python generator. It's useful when:

1) You cannot know the whole response at the time of the request (e.g. streaming news updates).
2) It's computationally expensive to calculate the whole response, and you don't want to make the user wait and/or calculate something that ends up not being used (e.g. if the user cancels the request).
3) You want to save bandwidth. If I were streaming music to you, and allowed you to switch tracks whenever you wanted, then I might not want your browser to start downloading the entire track (faster-than-real-time) when you click play. If I did, and you only listen to half-songs, then I would use twice as much bandwidth. I could release in shorter chunks and put a sleep or something before the yield in the generator function.
Saying "quantum rules aren't important for most objects" just isn't true. I understand what you're trying to say -- that we mostly use imprecise metaphors in place of what's really going on -- but that's a statement about our understanding, not reality.
Its a good thing they define "government surveillence" because corporate surveillence is what they do best.
Reform Site Already Hacked?
http://www.reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/ is down
That's not a feature of O; that's simply a feature of leaving stuff out.

O is a simplification of a function, but says nothing about how to construct the function. You need to have your (implicit) computational model before you can start counting critical operations, whether you describe it or not.

This is actually somewhat important, since almost everyone has agreed on a model that, among other things, considers random access, multiplication, hashing, and even explicitly O(log log n) operations to take constant time. It's one of the many reasons why people make incorrect proofs about P=?NP.

edit: If you meant that the simplification abstracts away implementation details like 3n^2+42 vs 2n^2+n, you're right, that's valuable. But I still argue that you ascribe it too much value when it comes to underspecifying your computational model.
You'd probably enjoy the wiki article on Implicate and Explicate Order: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicate_and_explicate_order .
does anyone have any information here? really odd
Atoms aren't stable in a classical universe.
I have stopped using google maps for a while now, switched to OsmAnd[0].

[0]http://osmand.net/
I turned mine off recently, not because I am convinced there is a method that guarantees 0% data leakage, but because it is a good idea to reduce the surface area of data that you provide voluntarily to anyone.

Anyhow, what is more amusing for me is when others, like me, turn all this off and tweet away with location turned on or check into various locations on FB/FSQ or comment on what they are doing or where there are at or who they are with at regular intervals.
What's your work/home/other ratio on the dashboard?

Mine is 26/63/10.
Because you've simplified it to the point of being incorrect. First, you've confused big-O, which is an upper bound, with big-theta, which is a strict bound. But leaving that aside, big-O also drops constant factors, and your explanation doesn't. Also, it ignores finitely many 'irregularities', if I have a loop that normally runs n^2 times, except when n=17, 30, or 483, in which case it runs 10 billion times, that's still O(n^2). [That's actually implied by it ignoring constant factors, since you could just crank up the constant to 10 billion/17^2].

Finally, big-O notation describes arbitrary function growth, not just the runtime of some operation when applied to a list. It's used a lot in numerical analysis where you can show that some function can be approximated by, say, x - x^3/6 + x^5/120 + O(x^7).
Though I agree with 'no substance' part of your comment here, I strongly disagree with the rest of it.

Internet has at last provided a platform where literally anyone can get up to writing and publishing and that only provides it its awesomeness.
Mumbai #2, Zurich #14... That seems out of place as well.
Whenever I see a collection of (e)Books, I have this urge to build something that functions the following way: You pick a topic out of the collection, the page tells you the prerequisites to understand the topic along with books covering that topic. For each book, it shows a tree of books, beginning with one that requires no prior knowledge up to a book that covers the topic. Something that shows you a "path to mastery". Do you think something like that is practical?
Meh, article created to maximize clicks, not an objective study by any means. When you have to click for the next city, that should've been a giveaway.
When i look onto Amazon, the S4 is still substantially cheaper than even the iPhone 5. 460 EUR vs 620 EUR in german amazon currently. iPhone 5S starts at 700 EUR
Yes, this is something I wish was elaborated upon more. Entanglement isn't some strange process that rarely occurs. It occurs with all particles of matter at once due to the fact that the wavefunction that describes a system is a function of all particles. It just so happens that if some portions of matter are well isolated from another portion, then you can approximate the overall wavefunction by writing it as the product of two independent wavefunctions of two subsystems.

When there are noticeable effects that deviate from this approximation, that's what most articles are referring to as "entanglement".
Right. I wasn't actually confused about what's going on, just wanted to point out it doesn't make sense :p
Yep, bullshit as usual.
وظائف خالية بجريدة الاخبار والاهرام والجمهورية اليوم الاثنين 9-12-2013
Obama prosecuted more people under the Espionage Act than any other president
Yes:

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#How_durable_is_Amazon_S3

I suppose that if they ever lose an object then they can say "well we warned you that you might lose an object every hundred million years."
> but Linux would report that the CPU was throwing some kind of exception

Does this mean it didn't boot into Linux?
>> So nobody should be able to own land they aren't using for anything and I should be able to just go and occupy it? Cool.

Why would the same rule not apply to you? In other words, you can't just "occupy" land, you'll have to use it, just like everyone else.
I disagree, there are many extensions that can protect you from these tracking practices, ghostery among others. And I know some people who run NoScript to avoid loading any Javascript by default, and only authorize certain specific ones. There are easy ways you can protect yourself with a minimum of knowledge.

> If you want to, just like avoiding government surveillance, your best bet is to just disconnect from the net entirely.

You can't disconnect from government surveillance, in case you did not get my point earlier. They track your phone calls even if you don't use the net. They have cameras in streets, airports, they can track your spending via credit cards, they can check where you are by locating your mobile phone position, but no company alone can do the exact same thing. The balance of power is clearly in favor of the government for surveillance, and the massive budget of the NSA is a simple proof that they are not kidding.
> So if we restarted the universe from the exact starting conditions (imagine this can be done for sake of my point) then does this mean the universe would be different every single time?

Assuming there's such a thing as a universal wavefunction (which seems to be kind of debated), then yes, that is what quantum mechanics predicts at least.
Not trying to rain on the parade, but could this ever include weighted rankings by a fund's % ownership in a given investment. E.g. a fund that owns 10% of Uber should rank higher than a fund with 5%, everything else being equal.

That said, it's probably much more important to have any investment in Uber (to continue the example) than whether you have a handful % more/less than another fund.
I disagree, there doesn't seem to be a clear relationship with affluence. Here's the list along with GDP PPP per capita at a country level [1]:

Helsinki, Finland 11/12 35771
Mumbai, India 9/12 3843
Budapest, Hungary 8/12 19497
New York, US 8/12 51704
Moscow, Russia 7/12 17518
Ambsterdam, NL 7/12 41527
Berlin, DE 6/12 38666
Ljubljana, Slovenia 6/12 27837
London, UK 5/12 36569
Warsaw, PL 5/12 20562
Bucharest, Romania 4/12 12722
Rio, Brazil 4/12 11747
Zurich, Switzerland 4/12 44864
Prague, CZ 3/12 27000
Madrid, Spain 2/12 30058
Lisbon, Portugal 1/12 23047

n.b. How about 'least honest source of pageviews' for Readers Digest on this article?

1. International Monetary Fund, 2012 data.
>Now the megacorps are trying to defend our personal liberty and privacy from governments that have gotten too powerful (albeit mostly because it would improve sales)! That's... unexpected.

Well, they make a show of it, they could not care less about our privacy actually. Most of them had collaborated just fine with the government before the revelations...

Matter of fact, if they could have all of our personal info for themselves as a competitive advantage they would be more than happy...
Building a Flask Blog: part1
I think you're only considering catastrophic unable to boot failure. A CPU could be going bad with the effects less obvious.

Microsoft released research that shows enthusiast overclocking has a clear increase in hardware faults.

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/131739-microsoft-analyzes-...
[2] http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/144888/eurosys84-nighting...
Yeah, I was kinda referring to danger we as a species still face by being on just one planet.
A typical pair is a business guy and an IP guy. You don't have twice the risk because it is assumed that they talk to each other, and you could replace either based on what the other could fill in.

You can only insure for the amount of your investment, that offsets the risk but doesn't cover your gains. Also since the cost to do so is 1/10th of your investment over 3 years, you would typically not opt for the coverage. I don't know of an investor who does.

There is also a belief that no one guy is "that smart" that anything 1 person can build has any competitive advantage.
You can't "turn off" the data you give to these services. It's foolish to believe you can.

Every time you type in an address, it gets logged along with your IP addr and any tracking cookie you may have. This happens regardless of whatever setting you've told the service to respect. It's in their financial interest to gather as much data about you as possible.
>Everyone thinks Seinfeld was just a funny guy

No, I merely think of him as an untalented unfunny hack.
I love that I can sit in my car and with just a few swipes and types I can quickly bring up a navigation route from my current location to a new destination. That is why I let Google know about my whereabouts. It seems foolish of me to give all my location history to Google and subsequently to the NSA for this reason. I should probably find a service that lets me do this without giving up all that information.

I have enabled Google Now, just for fun, because I'm impressed by the technology behind that service. That seems even more foolish. I'm handing over my location history to NSA just to test out new, cool Google tech.

I am completely aware of the fact that any information I give up to the NSA or my country's equivalent, the FRA, can and will be used against me, perhaps not now or in ten yrs from now, but at some point in time, if this mass surveillance is not stopped (which seems very unlikely). I am currently not engaged in any political activities and I'm not at all terrified by what someone would be able to find out about me. I have a feeling though that I'm doing a great disservice to my future self.
Story of a home-grown David: How AAP triumphed in Delhi
I interviewed for an Internship at Google around September, as far as I know I had applied through the official Google jobs portal and I was contacted a few months later.

I had a fair amount of internship experience at local companies, Github, Bitbucket, a blog, and a well written CV attached. In my mind the most important thing is to be able to prove that you are valuable as a tech intern. Show them that you take the initiative to learn things and write small projects. Put everything up online, even if it isn't complete.

I ended up getting through all the interviews and assigned a project but was dropped in favor of another intern who was more suited to the task. So I'm currently interning at AWS instead.
Yes, but besides the title, that just says "things happen", the whole post talks focuses on making the right things happen.

Were you just ranting about the title? Seriously?
Yeah it's really annoying that once you have kids, you also have to spend time with them.
"There is a slight correlation between the egalitarianism of a household and a fairer division of domestic labor"

How did they measure "fairness" of the division of domestic labor? I suspect that their evaluation is very biased.

To assume 50% division is fair is just wrong.

Edit: to explain, you have to take context into account. For example one person might care more for some things to be cleaned than another (for example some people like to clean the house to perfection EVERY DAY). One person might do more other work. And so on. Where does the assumption come from that people are forced into disadvantageous relationships? Possibly people know exactly what they sign up for, and whatever division of domestic labor they end up with is exactly what they negotiated for (consciously or subconsciously).
And before you mention the children, note that painting the job of caring for children to be so horrible is just pure ideology. Maybe some people actually enjoy spending time with their children - more than spending time with Excel and Power Point.

Also, how is the division of domestic labor even measured? In time? Or awfulness of tasks? Is filling the washing machine equivalent to cleaning the toilet?
‘Digital gophers’ solve Mima mound mystery
The indie game dev community is incredibly hard to break into (you basically have to work on your game eating ramen for 18 months, and even then you're not sure you'll even succeed), but it's one of the industries with the most pleasant people I've ever met.

I'm not an indie dev, but a few friends from college are, and I get to meet a few of those guys here and there at GDC etc.- they're just delightful. Nerdy friendly guys who are incredibly smart, hard working, with an incredibly diverse set of talents (the skills needed to make a game are immense- programming, visual arts, music composing, game design, marketing- and a lot of those guys do all of it by themselves or with just 1 or 2 other people) and know to have fun.

Paradoxically, the gaming community is one of the most negative one ever (hordes of disappointed gamers will flood your blog and insult your whole family if you don't give them exactly what they want). That contrast is super weird.

Names you should check out if you're interested in knowing more: Kris Piotrowski, Derek Yu, Andy Hull, Phil Fish, Jon Blow, Richard Flannigan, Matthew Davis, Alec Holowka.
> whois reformgovernmentsurveillance.com

Really, they bought the domain 5 days ago from GoDaddy?!
And what would the net effect of these reforms be for individual users, even if governments actually kept their word? A five year reprieve until emailing the wrong person causes your mandatory insurance premiums to double? Centralized data silos are the root cause of broken privacy, and the goal of this lobbying is to make you ignore this glaring truth and perpetuate the extremely profitable mining-your-data industry.
This is nice but doesn't include the spot pricing from AWS. That would be useful.

Can you also include Litecoin/USD exchange rates to automatically calculate if its profitable based on current spot prices, difficulty and current exchange rates.
I actually just returned my CPU (Phenom II X4) to AMD, and they've replaced it, but they didn't say exactly why it died. I've asked them for more details, hopefully they can tell me.

Overall though, given with how many computers I've worked with, CPU failures still seem rarer than Memory, Disk, Mobo, or Graphics failures. Of course it ends up being the CPU in _my_ computer that fails -.-
Whatever, I'm just glad they're doing it.
I see empty map...
The site has according to ghostery 66 trackers on it

that's insane
It's pretty clear why companies like Verizon and AT&T will never stand up and put their names on a list like this.

Verizon and AT&T are a government regulated duopoly, and they love the protection racket that keeps competition out. They're one step away from being state enterprises.

Those closest to being utilities are the last entities that will want to push back against the government (eg Level3). They're the most dependent on government mood swings. These types of companies often require government permission for every action they take in terms of expanding their business.
If income is used as a measuring stick then Seinfeld is VERY funny.
YC is not at the top. There must be something wrong.
Also, quite possibly: day of month (contrast a week before payday vs just after), temporary local events and conditions (high unemployment one year vs the previous), and if the wallet contained a tourist's details: the level of 2nd language knowledge predominant in the country (e.g. the old lady in one of the first slides probably didn't speak English, meaning a barrier to contact or an opportunity for a second individual to pocket the wallet).

Overall though, if you randomised the drops nicely, increased sample size and repeated them a few times, it might be an interesting study.
Fractals and Computer Graphics
While that research is certainly interesting, the poster above you acknowledged that overclocking could result in failures.
Seriously? You didn't pick up that NO, this is a worthless post. The cat understands action reaction. That is making a thing happen. The right things are about knowing when to stop and do nothing to let things work out. It is about not just having a list of "if then" statements to run your life.

This is a bunch of half-thought through "pearls of wisdom" in the form of "if then" statements none of which will make the right things happen. I might as well pick up a Self Help book written by the founder of an MLM.
I remember opening Maps on my Android phone during that period and being localized there (instead of Milan where I live) at least a couple times, so I wouldn't be surprised if that was the reason.