skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While scanning table of contents, I was like this is simple stuff. But then I dived in a chapter and I was converted. This is good because it shows you how to use all those techniques in a real world, with examples mining data from twitter and Facebook streams. Probably best hands on guide I saw for data mining/sentiment analysis.
I use this approach to get my team to pick a place to eat lunch often. When no one has a strong feeling about where we should go, I suggest a visit to the local McDonald's. Ideas begin pouring forth almost immediately.
>Would you rather read 40 papers //

That would depend on whether the atom of scientific knowledge in one of those many published papers was what was needed to progress another's/one's own work or not.

I'm not suggesting quantity and regularity are better - I don't think you can force scientific progress to adopt a given release schedule - but neither am I happy to say that publicly funded results should be sat on pending a larger breakthrough.
Actually when you measure stress it turns out that high-flying jobs are not that stressful. It's having no control over your life that causes stress, and being an underpaid peon is the most stressful situation to be in.
Asked on #startups as well and discovered two more from them: Google Helpouts and Airpair.
If you are buying for someone else - a child - then you might buy a low end shuffle because you are cheapskate.

As for use cases, phones are all for adults, or rather every age group. Apple and others have not brought out products that are for kids or old age folk, as in specifically for them, e.g. with restrictions on in app purchases and porn where some 'mothership' device can be asked to yay or nay an action. Also, there 'should' be a phone for old folks that is full featured yet only presents a simple dialler on the home screen.
The idea that Google's 10,000th programmer makes a bigger impact on the world than a tech founder is dubious at best.

The marginal contribution of an additional Google programmer is almost zero. Google can most definitely do with 9,999 programmers the same things they can do with 10,000. That doesn't mean that working at Google means you won't contribute to the world. It just means your chances of doing something meaningful at a startup are much, much higher.
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> I know (and use) basically every other CS concept.

Really? So you know and use row types, linear logic, rank-N types, impredicative types, red-black trees, generalized algebraic data types, continuations, kind-level polymorphism, pattern matching, pi calculus, the Curry-Howard isomorphism, linear programming, dynamic programming, mBayesian inference, support vector machines, context-sensitive grammars, Feistel networks, one-time pads, vEB trees...
unfortunately the fear of a company knowing too much in order to "sell" you, I.e. the privacy debate that is so rightly ongoing would restrict or otherwise cloud ambitions in this arena I fear.
>It's not as if the Chinese are actually planning in that long a term; they're using markets now like everyone else. //

So, how long term are they planning, in years?

In the UK we get [a few] plans that encompass maybe the next 10-15 years at most. So presumably they've got that at least.
The story names the victim as Ifa Musawa. The correct spelling is apparently 'Isa Muazu'.

While not quite the point of the article, I'm wondering why they didn't just grant him asylum?
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I don't know why you think that?

a|+-> + b|-+> is a very special-case entanglement. Yes, you'll see that one mentioned in Wikipedia (and quantum cryptography and etc) because it's very simple.

The general form for the states of two photons is exactly as you have listed for s_n. For some coefficient values of a, b, c, d, the photons are "entangled", for some, they are not "entangled". How do you know which is which? It is whether you can factor the polynomial into two separate expressions of the form (x|+> + y|->). If you can do this, the photons are not entangled; if you cannot do it, they are entangled.

Since most sets of (a, b, c, d) represent unfactorable expressions, you would expect almost any expression chosen at random to represent an entangled pair. Clean un-entanglement is the rare exception.
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Sure. But the impact of the AVERAGE startup is zero.
People saying nuclear power plants having zero carbon footprint aren't really according for the entire nuclear fuel chain. the energy-intensive stages of the nuclear fuel chain are building the power plant, uranium mining, and nuclear decommissioning.

I still think nuclear power has its place for example having nuclear reactors on warships let them stay out to sea as long as they have food. They make their own electricity and water from the reactor. Just not for widespread power plants.

I think the future is going to move away from power being generated in one place.
Just because lots of people think jQuery is a monad doesn't make it true. Also, even if you're not interested in that high level of anal-retentive precision in your terminology, I would argue that's still not the main point of monads. I talk about this more in the vimeo presentation linked in my other comment here.
I used to work in anti-infectives research and if you talked to virologists long enough they would all insist that huge numbers of human ailments were caused by as yet undiscovered viruses. I admit that I'm a bit biased toward this myself. But I also have worked with people who are mitochondrial experts and they are convinced that huge amounts of disease are caused by mitochondrial defects. Lots of microbiologists think undiscovered bacteria are to blame.

The bottom line is that they are likely all correct. There is a staggeringly large amount of biology that we just don't know anything about. The complexity of it all is almost fractal. Just when we think we've got our heads around something, we peel another layer off the onion to reveal an entire landscape of which we were previously unaware. The best example of this is the recent findings in epigenetics. Before Darwin, Lamarck argued that acquired characteristics could be passed on to offspring. This was widely discredited. I learned about how it was patently false in high school. Now, we are finding that DNA methylation patterns (which work sort of like commenting out blocks of your DNA code) are modified and passed on to offspring. In some studies, if a mother is stressed, her offspring have stress response genes turned on by default at birth. In another, if there is starvation, the animal has starvation survival genes enabled at birth. It's quite remarkable and it means that in addition to our DNA which is fairly static, we have this parallel inheritance pattern that can be shaped and molded by the environment and passed to our offspring. The old "nature vs nurture" debate gets a whole lot more confusing (and might even be the wrong question entirely) with that in play.
> For what it's worth, I'm far from alone in asserting that jQuery is indeed a monad.

And a lot of people think that the reason astronauts float on the ISS is because there's no gravity there.

> Since Haskell people claim to be the only enablers of "true monads", they would of course nitpick about patterns implemented in other languages.

Yes, because monad is an actual term and calling something a monad just because it sort of looks like it if you squint doesn't make it one. You can't write return in the 'jQuery monad', because there's no way to wrap arbitrary data types, only things like DOM elements. Something like a promise is closer to a monad, because you can turn any value into a promise, but IIRC there are still issues around it that I don't remember offhand.
Something that always helped me:

"Most people are focused on themselves. So whatever bad interaction you have with them, is mostly a reflection of them, instead of a reflection of you."
It's a hard pill to swallow when you realize the cost of your business critical resources have gone up. I suspect most business sit in denial until their competitors who are willing to pay it and can figure out a working business model begin to eat into their wallets.
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That's an interesting stance. I admit that I was speaking generally, but I've had a high-stress job, and left it, because it was insanely stressful. It was exceedingly high paid, and leaving it was indeed a difficult decision, but I definitely felt the stress.

Conversely, I've had a trade skill position, and considered it neither high-stress nor low paid. There are obviously higher paid positions out there, but there are also a bevy of far lower paid positions out there.

I'm curious as to how you discount the stress of high stress positions though. Not necessarily doubting it, but my personal anecdata contradicts it.
Except you can't buy Nexus 4.
You worry too much. Google can afford to blow some cash on a long-term strategy. They'll be fine.

Company X will either sink or swim. If they sink, Company Y will take their place once Google's long-term plan reaches maturity and the value of their phones begins stagnating.

It's a cliche that so many people hate to hear, but the market will sort it out.

Consumer electronics is one of the least regulated sectors worldwide, yet it has been advancing by leaps and bounds for some three decades, and the diversity of companies large and small in the consumer electronics space has never been greater than it is today.
Like this? http://mtsunews.com/wheel-hub-retrofit-update/
Wow, $70 for that phone? I've been using an old Nokia E71 with a straight talk plan for a couple of years now because I didn't want to spend a few hundred on a phone. Looks like it might be time for an upgrade. How's the browser on it?
Monads are number 1 from that list.

Numbers 2, 3, and 4 are the result of a powerful static type system, purity, and having typed IO. Nothing you listed has anything to do with being a monad. They're just examples of things you can do with types.

Your numbers 5 and 6 are sort of accurate. It's true that you can say "Hey, I think this type might form a monad," and explore from there. But if it does, it's nothing greatly interesting - you just get to take advantage of a bunch of existing library code. (And a little syntactic sugar, in Haskell.)
There's an old legend about an artist (I want to say a musician) that took the same tack: if anyone asked him if they should try to go pro, he said no. He figured the people who should wouldn't take his advice.
I'm not disagreeing with Mike Rowe there in the least. His point is very well taken, and people without a yen for the academe or the STEM world should very carefully consider a tradesperson's life. But, it's a far cry from the hard work in college compared to the hard work on a construction site. Construction work is, in a very primal way, harder work[1].

I do not see any rational reason not to engage in skilled tradeswork if one has the desire to. It's not my path, but I respect it.

[1] I am so not getting into an debate over this, having done both.
Rowe didn't mention it, but I think that in addition to a number of people who simply aren't willing to work hard, there are a number of people who aren't willing to move to where the work is. This is another change from 40–50 years ago.
Your right! I wouldn't want to diminish the value of spending time with one's family or enjoying one's hobbies. But the article doesn't mention those, just security and having a sweet paycheck.
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Out of curiosity, what kind of benefits (health, retirement) do your family members in the trades typically have? What sort of job stability? Are they unionized?
It's humorous that most of the article is not about monads, yet the entire discussion around it is about monads. Seriously, monads are only a small part of Haskell.
See Douglas Crockford's opinion this subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkZFtimgAcM
> Is a cupcake shop making $100k successful? Depends... If he left a $250k legal job to do it, no: the business destroys $150k of wealth every year.

That misses the important point that the business itself has value. You can sell businesses, either to someone who would be quite happy with the $100k, or someone who wants access to the business assets (clients, stores, cupcake recipes, brand, etc).

If you work the legal job for 3 years and earn $250k a year, you'll have $750k. If you build a cupcake business over 3 years, draw $100k in salary from it, and then sell it for $1m, you come out ahead.

This isn't a case of "You can fiddle the arithmetic to make it better"; it's a case of "the business owner is building an asset as well as drawing a salary." If you quit the legal job, you don't get any more money out of it. But if you decide you don't want the cupcake shop any more, you can get dramatically more than a year's salary as a result.
> But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well.

I dunno, looks like pg's words here are perfectly applicable to monads. Good enough for me!
Definitely pure theory, of a very abstract variety.

But that being said, don't devalue gauge/gravity holography too quickly. Holographic arguments can be used to connect physical theories pretty similar to known, measurable particle physics to a gravitational/stringy theory (not a "theory of everything" variant, mind you) where some results are easier to calculate. Those methods are actually within spitting distance of being experimentally relevant today. (But even if these methods were to give an experimental prediction that was confirmed at RHIC or the LHC or somewhere, it would only be evidence supporting the math of string theory. It wouldn't be directly related to whether string theory is a correct theory of quantum gravity.)
Well, this is basically the price of an iphone. The market said it could bear that price.
I bought VineFeed.com and VinePlayer.com awhile ago. The ToS (at least when I read it) said not to use the Vine name in domain names, so I put that on the backburner. I had wanted to make a couple of sites similar to Vine-videos.com though. I could see Vine bullying people in the future who use it in their name, even after being able to know a site is using it from referral / API data - and allow a site to grow large and then hit them with a "give this to us or we'll sue." If anyone wanted to partner and use the domains though I'd be up for it.
I'm not talking about jobs that pay less than minimum wage. In a place and time, (say, before 2008 :-) ) a hard working landscaper where I used to live took home between $15-$25/hr, and often worked 70 hour weeks. As a rule, these people seemed to be Hispanic. Many of them were and are very hard workers.

I don't enquire into people's visa status as a rule of thumb, so I'm afraid I can't answer whether they were being paid under the table or not. However, the pay rates were quite respectable.
Check out http://boxfish.com - they supposedly have an API but it is not public. Previous discussion on HN at https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=boxfish
Limiting you in what way?
If it's anything like my electric bicycle, the regenerative braking doesn't really count for much
I've never used monads, but what you say makes me think of something:

Suppose I had a Javascript array of functions. And I pass that array into another function that performs that series of functions in order while maybe doing something in between each one. For example, maybe I can pass that list into a function that checks to make sure the result of each call isn't null or undefined. Or maybe I can pass the same list into another function that checks to make sure none of the results are NaN. Would this be an example of monadic behavior?
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As someone who is socially awkward, especially at small talk and the superficial dialog that seems to preface any real discussion or conversation, I find Howard Stern to be amazing to listen to. He can talk about one small thing for minutes at a time without you realizing how much time has gone by.

I don't really appreciate his humour, but analysing his conversations is very interesting and educational.
i think the problem here is "hate" and "mildly unpleasant" sit oddly together...
More people should start a business, maybe not a startup, but a business.
This is a big deal! A documented major shift in US society is that we are no longer moving around as much.

It has been fascinating looking around and seeing the mentality differences between people willing to move (aka adapt) to the world they live in and the jobs they want and the people who are unwilling. IMO, the adaptable people do remarkably better.
I don't know if I'd go so far as to say "Corporate" can be fun, but definitely working with other people can be fun if they're passionate, motivated, and intelligent. The corporate world can be a real crap-shoot on that: sometimes you land in an amazing environment, and sometimes you land in one that looks amazing but under the surface there's a bunch of back-stabbing jerks. And sometimes even a single person can turn it from the first category to the second. (story time!)

I experienced this third category about 5 or so years ago. This one guy came into a company in a senior position, and almost immediately started trying to get people he didn't like fired. He'd pit people against each other, having them do the same assignment to see which one would do it quicker... he'd call people out in meetings for being terrible coders who should be fired (some of his accusation I happened agreed with by coincidence - but most of them were unfairly leveled, and directed toward competent people that he pictured was in his way). He'd talk to senior management telling them about people who he thought should be fired, and they listened. Admittedly, we lost a couple of bad developers: but we also lost good developers who just happened to rub him the wrong way.

That kind of experience isn't just negative, it's scary. He never leveled his gaze at me, but mostly because I realized that he was seeing no negative repercussions for his actions early - and was even being praised for it - and thus tried my best to avoid being in situations where I had to work alongside him.

On a side note, I still feel bad about not speaking up about this and trying to fight him and/or get him fired to save those who worth saving. At the time, I had just gotten married and I was the only breadwinner - going up against him felt like it would be suicide. So I kept my mouth shut, and I do still feel bad about that to this day. I'd like to believe that, were this ever to happen again, I would speak up... but honestly I'm not sure. It's hard to stand up when the consequence of failing is that you'd probably be the next one on the chopping block.

Anyways, I digress. Corporate can be fun - it can also be hell. If you land in the former category, consider yourself lucky (I do now!). And if someone tries to ruin that, don't be a coward like I was: stand up and fight. Because it's not going to get any better if everyone is too afraid of being fired to keep the culture healthy.
The mistake Demand Media made was not creating their shitty content under a veil of legitimacy - AOL calls their giant content farm "news" and their cheap writers "journalists".
A good deal of that is alleviated and managed by care at the job site and personal fitness. Growing up around construction workers, all too many of them did not take care of themselves and the debt was called in later in life. Quite sad, but largely preventable. Of course, this does not protect from non-mitigatable risks, which are non-negligable.
It seems the Home Secretary (Theresa May) is trying to pose as a hardliner against immigration (maybe wants to be the next Thatcher...)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10495965/...

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/02/theresa-may-h...

Probably someone from Britain can comment more when they wake up
So it's not available to current T-Mobile customers unless you want to change your number, then?
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Top assisted speed of 20 mph and a range of only 30 miles for $700? Ouch. [1]

You could get some powerbocks for half that price, and no need to buy a bike. Those supposedly provide a running speed of 20 mph with no range limit, just the possible downside of making you look ridiculous. [2]

[1] http://www.gizmag.com/superpedestrian-mit-copenhagen-wheel/2...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerbocking
The direct experience that I have is, as I mentioned somewhere, a decade-and-a-half old, but I was speaking of unionized work in the electrical trade.

As far as benefits go, they were indeed very good. As has been mentioned around here, these jobs tend to be somewhat more physically demanding than the average programming / desk jockey position, and the result of that was better than average health insurance. The insurance industry everywhere has changed a lot in the past decade, so I'd recommend doing your own research.

For perspective, my cousin got Lyme disease, and didn't catch it until well after he'd been symptomatic. He was a drummer in a band, had thick, long hair, and had a tick on his scalp that went unnoticed. When he first began acting erratically, his parents chalked it up to typical teenage rebellion. He drove a car into the house and didn't realize it, ran another car into a telephone pole, and basically got to 'late-stage' symptoms before it was inspected.

He spent months in the hospital, specialists were flown in, and ultimately, he was made better -- though later in life he's developed early arthritis, which is believed to have been caused by the Lyme. All totalled though, nobody was bankrupted by the medical treatment and cost of the rather excessive care involved.

As for job stability, there are indeed periods of boom and bust. Boom periods often involve working optional overtime, which is compensated as overtime -- nobody in a union works off the clock. When I was a member, I never had a day where I missed work due to lack of employment, but I know that it does happen. I can't speak for how frequently it is from experience, but the union hall makes an effort to keep everyone as employed as they're able. In an up economy, this likely means steady work, in a down economy, I don't know.

Anyway, if you have any other questions, feel free to email me (contact in my profile), and I'll answer what questions I'm able. The (again) disclaimer is that my experience is dated, and a lot has happened since then, but as most of my family back home are tradesmen, I can ask around for answers if need be.
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C#, Python, PHP, Javascript, Perl, and Ruby. Obj-C, because the guy had a doctorate in biology. They are all very smart people.

As the other comments said, Tcl and Lua are designed by phd guys. As were C++, Java and Erlang. I guess we've got a pretty good track record. I should use my phd in programming languages to do something useful. ;-) maybe later.
Ecosystems can be difficult to detect, since they're not always extensive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotroph

Of course, the point isn't whether or not it's an ecosystem. The point is that we just discovered this, and already we contemplate destroy it. We should first figure out what role it plays in planetary dynamics.
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