skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience with Coursera is that the technical quality is consistent and of suitable quality. In addition faculty is often fully engaged in the discussion forums. In some cases the lead instructor "wrote the book" on the subject and is actively answering questions, e.g. Ullman in Automata.

However, the presentations vary in terms of pure entertainment. This hasn't mattered to me because I select courses by content. Cat videos I can get anywhere.
Great article! I'd like to see a part 2 to this article where you go a bit more in depth into some differences, with examples of both golang code and objectiv-c code. Thanks!
Darpa Pursues Deep Web Search Tools
That's true. I suppose what I was thinking of is more an artifact of Objective-C's quirky typing than a problem with Smalltalk's message syntax.
I remember seeing a documentary on ford where craftsmen who built non-interchangeable-parts cars bemoaned the loss of craftsmanship in the assembly line method. Bitching and moaning about progress finds a way, even with the most rudimentary of tech.
I was indeed wondering about this. And I listen to hip hop.
Careful, don't poke the hornet's nest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7064435
>The reason that people use fiat currencies is because they can trust the institution/government backing them.

Bitcoin is a fiat currency and I trust the Bitcoin specification a lot more than I'll trust any central bank. They're notorious for usury, secret bailouts, and inflation.

>They can trust that if they are handed a dollar by a business, it's a dollar, no questions asked.

Well you can trust that if you're sent a Bitcoin then it will end up in your wallet.

>the person they're exchanging with is being legit

This is the same thing that happened with online shopping at the end of the '90 and early '00s. Consumers got used to using their credit cards online and they will get used to the notion of owning, transferring, and protecting digital property.

>adding one more layer of headache to financial transactions

There is no such headache. The software will improve and the banking infrastructure will grow. I expect to see banks that hold their reserves in Bitcoin and give out lines of credit denominated in Bitcoin. Infrastructure will solve this problem, but first capital is needed to meet current regulatory compliance with the archaic legacy system that is currently in place.
Laser fusion experiment extracts net energy from fuel
HN has terrible opinions and ideas about exercise. For a group that is generally pretty critical, they are surprisingly naive and uncritical when it comes to exercise. Go figure.
Who will make the Faulkner? It highlights your sentence red if it doesn't go for at least a page and a half.
This article leads me to believe most of my friends likely think I'm an asshole (if they subscribe to this way of thinking).
If you look at the source which is only ~200 SLOCs, it's just written in vanilla js for the canvas and Websocket which receives a simple arrayBuffer binaryType.
I would venture that the problem with pcgbook.com is not the quality of writing, but the fact that most of the authors are not native english speakers. They seem to be mostly Dutch or at least living in Copenhagen.
But if that is displayed as a line chart, that clearly displays the year-over-year differences. So if someone wants to ask "what is the overall trend of spending over the past five years?" that is nearly impossible with the pie chart.

Pie charts are by far one of the worst forms of graphs ever devised and should be killed off as a concept for good, as in, please remove this from Excel.
EU spending over $400m on secret drone project – Civil rights group
OK,

So just to get a handle on this stuff, the two problems you have if you do a test and only look at a low p are:

1) Unusual things do occur. If a million people do the same test, it's obvious they'll come up with some wrong values. It's less obvious that a similar number of wrong values will come if a million people do a million different tests with a similar small chance of bogus results.

2) The pattern of results may indeed be unusual but not necessarily in the fashion you think it is. There may be a non-random pattern possessed by the data but may not because of your particular hypothesis but a "this is not random" result may seem to say your hypothesis does explain the data.

Does that characterize the problem?
We’ve found the oldest star in the known universe
You could've made that point and probably gotten a decent enough discussion out of it, no harm done.

The problem with the parable is that it didn't read like a parable, and instead read like a layman's explanation of history--were it more clear or disclaimed, I doubt any of us would've taken offense.
Can anybody with access to the paper tell whether we are talking about a factor of 1.0000000000000001 or about one of 9.9999? "ten times what we had before, when we didn't have more than 1" leaves a lot of room for variation.

Also, repeatable is good, but is that repeatable as in "two or three times and, frankly, we didn't expect the thing to work that third time" or as in "every minute for an hour, and we didn't see much real damage afterwards"?
It's basically sample data. I hand picked about 30 recipes from my database, at least one from each category. The sample shopping lists, menus, and favorites also use those recipes. Not enough to build a massive recipe website with, but enough to get you started.
My friends and I did similar thing back in HackMIT. (http://hackmit.challengepost.com/submissions/18093-jarvis) They did most of the work, so kudos to them mostly. If and only if we had the time to push our idea forward then today it would be us lol

The idea is exactly like Wit and it was supposed to integrate with all kinds of web services out there, to be as close as Siri, but do a lot more than just opening up new app or visit a weather forcast website. Bascially, your virtual assistant operates like IFTT. At the end, I think speech into home automation is the future gold mine.
You mean my case? Yeah, that and other complexities of the approach will probably keep me from using it. We're talking about a huge app with its own custom extension system with a ginormous amount of technical debt. Just keeping deployment sane would be a mess.
Techstars Grad Codeship Raises $2.6M for Software Deployment-as-a-Service
While working at a previous start up, I wrote an application platform that allowed Plugin developers to write Client side javascript that was an AJAX bridge to Rails models that auto-generated models, migrations, views, etc. It was a way to allow external developers to write nothing but Javascript in a browser, but write robust IT applications on top of the Rails app that provides relevant data for plugin developers.

Rails Engine seems like a full ruby realization of this previous dream of mine.
> I don't know about heinous, but, say, incitation to murder shouldn't be protected free speech (see, eg, Rwanda). So you have to live with limitations in a civilized society, the debate is only on where to set these limits.

I think you're moving the goal post a bit. In the post I was responding to, you were specifically calling out hate speech. Inciting murder and using hateful, racist language are often separate. Yes, I realize the two can be conflated (e.g. racist language inciting violence), but generally, hate speech laws attempt to limit speech that is construed as hateful, typically against a specific racial, ethnic, or other minority. Of course, I suppose I have libertarian leanings that wire me in a manner that make it very difficult to understand why government intervention is seen as a panacea

That said, I'm not precisely sure your example is quite as clear cut in terms of free speech as there are other laws which deal with matters of public safety, premeditation and the sorts, and calling for someone's murder could easily fit into categories outside free speech, depending largely on the circumstances. But, that's a matter for the courts and has been debated ad nauseum for centuries.
Do you mean there is any significant difference between an email and SMS accounts?
That's a classic book!
You have to enter a 4 digit PIN number into the app. It's still two factor, since you have to auth to the app to get the one time pass.
Classic Video Games Reimagined as Romance Novels
I'm basing it on the black box warning, personal experience, and the review of various patient cases both in person and (less so) anecdotal evidence online.

FDA Warning (partial) (http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=About_Medications&t...):

"In short-term studies, antidepressants increased the risk of suicidality in children, adolescents, and young adults when compared to placebo. Short-term studies did not show an increase in the risk of suicidality with antidepressants compared to placebo in adults beyond age 24. Adults age 65 and older taking antidepressants have a decreased risk of suicidality."
You are confusing the Republic of China, commonly called Taiwan (which is the subject of your first link) with the People's Republic of China, which sent this robot to the moon.

Both of them have nuclear power though (but only PRC has nuclear weapons) and radioactive material in sufficient quantities.
This is pretty clearly an example of individual people being racist, not companies. Traditional taxi drivers are notoriously racist, I'm not surprised their app-summoned alternatives are any different.
I think you under-appreciate how simple English is. Sure, creating a set of rules for perfect writing is probably impossible, and in German you could probably fit them on a single page (I'm exaggerating, I don't speak German well enough to precisely judge that). But getting to a decent level of English is probably the easiest of all widely spoken natural languages. That is if we forget your atrocious non-existing spelling and pronunciation rules.
It is open source. You just have to pay for a licence to use it, but it's open source.
Make Your First Android App: Part 1/3
My kids have mentioned how adults always end messages (especially facebook postings) with "...". I wonder how that started?
Open source REST API for any SQL database
The One Thing Missing From Square’s LinkedIn
Square has a gorgeous company page, but it looks like there's no one in charge of responding to comments.
I don't know of any publicly available relative raw performance benchmarks, and haven't done any myself. My guess is that the compelling features would be more in the realm of node operations and recovery from node failures.

Edit: Apparently my Riak knowledge is dated now anyway. It looks like I have some research to do myself, but it's pretty exciting stuff.
it kind of helps me visually dissect the parameters better - I'm sure if I got used to omitted commas it wouldn't be that big of a deal. When I would run into ruby code that omitted the parenthesis on a function call, it was considerably tougher to read for me.
I interpreted this piece of satire attacking both industries. I don't think the author's intention is to state the Wall Street is better.
1) I don't think you're right about that and 2) some people would find selling exploits to criminals to be amoral even if it were legal.
More like 2 Fact Authentication
Remember the Seattle WTO protests?

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/General/Pict...

Or the union protest in Michigan?

http://images.politico.com/global/2012/12/11/121211_michigan...

http://www.bloomberg.com/image/iQN6PbfAWHDw.jpg

Yeah, it happens in the US too.
Well good news is that it is not a granted patent yet. Although it looks like Apple is fighting it to the teeth and most likely discussing reduction of claims (check the PAIR system).

Regardless if its a patent or not, what is being described here doesn't seem to be infringing on the patent anyway.

See the first Claim #1:

PART1 <storing a device-independent intermediate representation of a source code; > and PART2 <
in the event an indication is received that the source code has changed, using the changed source code to generate and store a new intermediate representation of the changed source code.>

If I understood correctly, only thing you would be doing is the PART1 hence you are NOT infridging on the patent.

IMHO
Disclaimer= not a lawyer, dont follow any advice you see here ;-P
Nice demo! But someone has to play devil's advocate, so please allow me: why would I send commands about what I do in my house to your servers? Especially since you apparently even store them there (s. Inbox)?

Would you consider offering a version of your program that I can download and run on my home server? That would be cool...

Finally, since the title is "Siri as a Service", where do you expect the microphone to be in a Home Automation setting? Do you envision people using their cell phones for that?

Thanks.
The coder opened his IDE. The IDE was on the screen of his monitor. The IDE was colorful in the dimly lit room. The coder opened his can of Red Bull. He drank once from it and put it down. Then he placed his fingers on the keyboard and began coding. It was PHP code, and it was good. He typed into the night and early morning. He got up and went to bed. He felt good. He did not think about the woman that night because he was tired. That was good, too.
This is cool, was just talking about doing something like this the other way to create a "Natural Unix".. "copy the file to the desktop folder, then run the script"..
"Pennsylvania High School"? Let's hope they turned the webcams off this time[0].

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/19/schools-spied-o...
Either way, the problem is the quality of the writing. It just may be that the cause of that is the authors not being native English speakers. :)

(The fact that they're adopting an academic tone doesn't help either, for that matter.)
This is a tough question, which I don't have an answer to without throwing out "IANAL" type acronyms. The recipes I've collected were crawled from several different major recipe websites. I think my website database has somewhere around 50,000. Not only would a sample database with that many recipes be huge, it also made me uncomfortable to include content scraped from AllRecipes, Food.com, Epicurious, etc in an MIT licensed open source project. Do I have the rights to even do this? Are there copyright issues involved? Who knows. The best approach, at least for now, was to include a couple dozen hand-picked sample recipes (which I got from friends and family) as a starting point. After all, I'm open sourcing technology I built, not recipe content I did not create.
Not being being able to do the symbol manipulation is a different problem. That's what you see from the students who have B's and C's in their previous math courses. The problem discussed in the blog post is what you see from the A students. It's probably more obvious in a class like analysis than in calculus.
This article made me feel better about choosing to be a computer scientist instead of some sort of scientist or mathematician.
New accelerator for hardware startups accepting applications by February 25th
Scientists Say Their Giant Laser Has Produced Nuclear Fusion
Generic levity is currently available in Go right now.
Is that with the windchill?
No need to! ObjC developers have soldiered on for years and years without such fanciness.
Labeled parameters are optional. In fact they're so optional, that you don't even have to label all of the parameters at a call site (just the ones that appear after the first labeled parameter).

So with that (mis)feature, eliding commas would make a lot of code harder to reader.
The thing about pedantic snark (less/fewer), is that it loses its teeth when you're wrong.

The thing about pedantic snark is that, whether it is right or wrong in its details, it almost always comes from a place of hostility and is thus a form of assholery. It indicates the individual "values" good grammar or whatever a helluva lot more than they value respect or politeness.
What I'm saying is that revoking the anonymity of the offenders doesn't seem to do enough to dissuade them.
What does this comment add to the conversation?
Is your point here that cramming extra adverbs into one's writing just for their own sake is poor style? That's what your example seems to illustrate, and I emphatically agree.

But when adverbs come up naturally in expressing an idea, I'd hate to suggest to anyone that it's a bad thing!
Consider you'll probably lose lawyers like Grellas and a few others who contribute a great deal here (I think rayiner, and people in other disciplines (a few scientists here and there) who may not know programming but know their vertical better than most hackers and have a lot to contribute in that respect.

It's an interesting idea for some kind of expertise test to contribute to a public forum, but it will be very self-selecting too.
distributed/full-text-search(many-many-options)/highlighter/compressed/geo-queries/searching on multiple indexes(databases)|types(tables)/distributed-aggregation/distributed faceting/very-fast-in-memory-suggester/inverse-query(percolator)where you register queries(like rows), and then test documents if they match queries

and many other stuff
I think very few people would actually like using a desktop version, because it breaks your workflow.

Anyone who is prepared to hand over money for something like this ideally wants it integrated into their current writing environment, be that Word, LibreOffice, Scrivener, Dark Room or whatever.

Plugins are the way to commercialise this (if that's at all possible).
Really nice. Great to see someone putting attention into WYSIWYG rather than yet _another_ Markdown editor. And it supports keyboard shortcuts too (cmd-B, cmd-I etc.)!

Only suggestion I'd make is to speed up the transition when the palette moves around, or maybe replace it with a fast fade in/out - the animation gets in the way.
It can definitely be used misleadingly, but it's not too out of line with normal scientific usage of the term. The "significant" in "significant figures" is the same: if a number has "11 significant figures", it doesn't mean the 11th digit is significant in the sense of being important or having a big impact, just that the 11th digit is within the measurement precision (as propagated through any subsequent calculations).
Everyone else was playing it :(
Not surprised. He has been bashing China for a while, which is the trending topic in the mainstream media anyway. Though I do wish some of the media agencies strike out of the group-thinking, and examine what NASA has been up to for the past decade, and what needs to be improved in terms of space exploration.
For clarity, Statamic is not open source. A license will get you the zip file full of code, and you can tinker with it as much as you'd like, but this is the actual license agreement: http://statamic.com/license-agreement
I'm not sure it's a straw man, there seems to be plenty of examples of people publishing results based on p < 0.05 findings even when it wasn't justified... just like the person mentioned in the Nature article almost did.
There's that, Objective-C's options or errors returning doesn't help, NextStep/Apple seems to be very much in long message names, and some patterns/conventions of Objective-C also factor into it (e.g. `[NSArray arrayWithArray: anArray]`, smalltalk would just say `anArray copy`)
Mozilla to Introduce Ads on Firefox
see also http://sandman.io and https://github.com/jeffknupp/sandman
(lack of) context free grammar.
Were but there an edit button, I could go back and make that clear

No harm done. Have a good one.
How Close They Came to Winning
IPad Air battery and usage statistics
I have a question about the app itself:

I grew up in a bilingual home. My mom is a German immigrant who spoke no English when she met my American father. So in spite of having a good education and getting high praise for the content I produce, I find that I often write in "Germish." I need help with spelling, punctuation and grammar. The technical aspect of my writing is shockingly only fair to middlin' at best, sigh.

Spelling help is not hard to find but punctuation and grammar help is hard to find. So how helpful is it with that stuff? Because it looks like it focuses on tone or something, not basic grammar per se?

Thanks.
really it sound exactly like the terms of the sco vs linux lawsuits
How exactly is jQuery a burden?
'correct' is definitely gradable and is commonly used as such. There is a nice long history of such usage going back at least a quarter of a millennium.

"Which is more correct? This or that?"

There's even "most correct" as in "it is most correct to choose..."

This is due to the simple fact that in many non-trivial fields, correctness is not absolute and thus multiple correct choices or outcomes are valid. Local preferences might recognize this, but prefer one over the other. In noun usage, this is a carryover from verb usage

"My shoes were mostly corrected by the cobbler." is perfectly fine, so users of English also find that "The fit of my shoes is mostly correct." is also perfectly valid usage.

More examples:

Which partial phrase emphasizes, and persuades better a point better (as a matter of rhetoric)?

"It is most correct to take this option."

"It is a preference to take this option."

Of course the former is stronger than the latter.

"correct" clearly grades.
An Open Source Grant with a Difference
I can say I've had similar experiences all across California with AirBnB.
PayPal CEO calls out employees
Good insights. Apple didn't spend too much R&D money on its own innovation. It integrated all the great technologies together and produced a few best selling products.

Can you please reveal what the following technologies are coming from?

- Tablet (Palm Pilot?)

- Touch screen (HTC?)

- Battery

- Nano PCB technology

It's hard to believe the touch screen technology is suddenly improved and Apple used it for its success almost for free. In 2009, I was busy bidding touch screens on eBay, which were so dumb and expensive. Suddenly, everybody has one in hand. Magic!

The question is why those companies that created the technologies didn't profit that much? At least Apple's R&D expense should be sky-rocketing compared with the previous years when iPod touch and iPhone being released even if they didn't created the technologies.
Very interesting however they could have easily provided some more conclusive proof. The author should have tried booking one of the places that turned Brandon down on the same dates. If he had been offered the place it would haave been more clear racism was in play. I'm not denying racism was in play (although the UberX example seems quite silly - personally I'd be happy to get a driver that didn't talk to me and the one time I've used Uber the driver wasn't very talkative) but I'd like to see the author try my suggestion and follow up the post.
That's one of those words that sound formal to American English speakers but not most others.
Even Among the Richest of the Rich, Fortunes Diverge
Really live coding with Objective-Smalltalk[1]:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sypkOhE-ufs

It's obviously only a very simple example, but hopefully shows the potential.

[1] http://objective.st/
I always strive to use correct spelling and punctuation regardless of the media used and tend to view people who fail to do so as being less educated than those who take the time to do as I do.

So fuck off if you misconstrue a properly placed bit of punctuation.
since you have the time to clarify, perhaps you should update the post's title. :)
> I'm more than a little worried that, because of AI advances, automated methods will finally (and undesirably) hide the "voice" of the text's originator.

But for a lot of writing this is a good thing, having cohesive writing trumps losing the voice. It isn't fiction that I think these tools will be useful or desirable for, it is the mountains of technical writing we are drowning in.

More troubling is the use of automated writing tools for propaganda and psyops.