skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most common buttons are already on the steering wheel, not the touch screen, so I really see limited functions that this can manage. The big problem I see is that there is a lot of nuance to using this, and it will take a while to get used to.

Once you're used to it I think it could work, but learning how to use the controls is a big deal. For the most part I can control the stereo or temperature in any car that I may happen drive, and so can most people without really much of a learning curve. Setting the clock or mucking with a GPS might be a bit tougher, but the basics are all there. The most likely time that you'll be learning how to do this kind of stuff are while driving, so it should be as obvious as possible, with as little need to focus on it while figuring out the controls.
I find HN has better quality comments than Reddit.
What's wrong?

Spreadsheets are great for all sorts of reasons. However, they are not some magical tool that makes csv files usable.
I'm not sure about that rainbow colour-scheme used.

http://www.research.ibm.com/people/l/lloydt/color/color.HTM
Netflix's original series: It's beating HBO without being better than HBO.
It's not that strange. We're all still just primates after all. Being the physically dominant male in the room will probably always carry a bit of cachet.
It's funny at my first job a world leading fluids Rnd organization as a research assistant my instruction on joining was Kieth's going to give you quick hours run down on how to run the PDP 11's - then pop into the library there is a book on FORTRAN tech your self it :-)

Oh an that was direct from school I didn't even get any A levels :-)
I can't recommend RubyMine enough. It's single-handedly the best developer tool I've ever had the joy of using.

It handles RVM and RVM gemsets natively with ZERO configuration, integrates with Git history and pending changes, can connect to databases and view records IN THE IDE, you can open a terminal right there in the IDE for when you need to get down and dirty.

And the shortcuts - dear lord the Shortcuts are a TIME SAVER. Cmd+Shift+O > Type in filename > Bam. You're there. Cmd+click object, you are taken to it's implementation or declaration automatically.

Highly recommend RubyMine!
This machine kills trolls
It seems not just easier to really do it, but tremendously easier. If it's fake, that's probably more impressive!
Cuisennaire blocks / rods are useful to show fractions etc. available in wood or plastic. Here's one cheap set but many others are available. http://www.woodentotsmk.co.uk/Library/0330%20cuisinaire%20ro...

Pound o dice: you can buy a pound (weight) of dice with diiferent numbers of sides from amazon and ebay etc. these are usually Chessex (a quality brand). They are bright and shiny and fun. Don't eat them. You can work out your own dice games and problems. Button men is a simple quick game to play http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_Men

Use estimation in everysay life - how many bricks in that wall, how many leaves on that tree, how many cookies in the packet?

Rules and tape measures are fun and lead to simple arithmetic. How many cm taller is A than B?

Math teaching techniques might be different now than when you were taught. Heres a good book
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0224086359
Actually you can apply to get their software free for use on open source projects.

I got hooked on IDEA by using it for a Open Source project and now gladly pay for it to use on commercial software.
GCHQ. It was only a Google away...
Yep went for a job recently where I had several more years experience that the person in charge of the team :-)
I don’t fully agree. Take the chartered accountant thing. It means you can find an audit/internal audit job today and that’s still something with status. I bet you are not considering other markets to apply your skills. Custom software for many company makes no sense no more, but then who is building the standard software? And can you outcompete them? I was looking yesterday for a small CRM for a company I am advising, the “cheapest” solution costs USD 24 monthly per agent. What about building something that costs USD 5 per agent? There have to be other ways for someone with your skillset.
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It is only correct if the random SF and Florida salaries are correct.

I work in rural MA and make considerably more than the given SF salary (non-remote). The SF salary is probably better on average (the 50 percentile), but I stand by my statement that top performers can command SF salaries in any market. Even if you can't find something local, there are a ton of remote options.
For routers? What fancy features? They want a cheap way to create a wi-fi network that doesn't crash. Only a small fringe group of consumers have interest in exotic features in their wifi routers.
>My issue here is that types, once defined, rarely change in any significant fashion. Refactoring is (generally) an exercise in mutation of logic, not so much the underlying types. When types do change the code that operates on them drastically changes as well. We're no longer refactoring at that point, we're re-writing and then the issues more or less disappear.

That is the exact opposite of my current experience. I'm changing types constantly. As I flesh out more code, I realize I needed to pass an (Account, Client) not just a Client. Now the compiler tells me every single line in every single file where I need to fix the code to handle that.

>What? In Scala it is perfectly possible to pass an uninitialized reference to a piece of code

Because scala has to make bad concessions to java compatibility. Scala itself is fine, but java opens the door to problems. I did not say scala accomplished this, I said static type systems can. Use ocaml or haskell.

>Just as long as the count and the X co-ord are of different types. Which I'd guess isn't always the case.

But you control the types, that is the point. So if you choose not to use the type system, then obviously it protects you from very little. That is not a problem with the type system, it is a problem with you. You could write a program using only strings if you really hated yourself, and you would thus get absolutely no benefit from the type system. But nobody would be silly enough to blame the type system.

>My belief is that the class of errors they catch are among the most trivial, and most easily caught in testing (unit-testing or otherwise). Thus I simply don't see big gains in either runtime correctness or refactorability. Maybe slight ones, but nothing worth the loss of expression provided by more dynamic languages.

I do not believe your earlier claim to not have been writing java in scala now. If you think there is a "loss of expression", you do not have experience with a modern statically typed language.

>"Static type checking limits programs to only expressing things that the static type system can prove are OK

And if you have no idea how much you can express with the type system, then you draw bad conclusions from that.
git clone https://github.com/Prithvirajbilla/helloworld && wc -l helloworld/* | sort
There is an interesting thoery called Phantom Time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis related to a preiod in the middle ages that may not have existed. supposedly a king wanted to be on the throne during the millennium so faked a few hundred years of history.

If true we would only be in the 17th or 18th century. Which may explain why the world didn't end in 2012, or why there still aren't hover boards.
I disagree I can learn my way out of the problem and remain relevant. Additional technical skills only keep me another step ahead of the commoditisation, and if people don't want to pay money for these skills, it hasn't helped. Management skills I need to improve, but if the workforce reduces in size, there's less need for managers too...
Not sure if RubyMine has this (yet), but hitting Shift twice opens "Search Everywhere" in my PyCharm, which is even faster than Ctrl+(Shift+(Alt+))N.
I'm not sure why the author picks Myth #5 as the big pro-frequentist point. The "online learning" problem he's describing is a simple multi-armed bandit problem. The magical frequentist algorithm that he's touting is UCB-1. It's a great algorithm, it has finite-time optimality guarantees like he mentions. However, it still has a tuning parameter that can matter quite a bit in practice. Also, the Bayesian approach to MABs is Thompson sampling, which is also finite-time optimal. I guess I don't get the big deal on this point.

From a machine learning perspective, frequentist methods are great because they scale. All of these fancy nonparametric Bayes methods coming out these days take weeks to run and include so many approximations that you've got no idea whether what you're actually inferring is truly similar to the original model.

The biggest problem with frequentist methods is that they are conceptually odd in their approach. Bayesians take the view that you should fix the data and integrate over the possible parameters. Frequentists take the view that you should fix the parameters and integrate over the data. That is kind of weird to me.

So you either start out conceptually pure as a Bayesian and compromise to the point of meaninglessness or you abandon your morals at the start as a frequentist and things go smoothly from there.

Edit: As noted below, it's actually Exp3 rather than UCB-1. I glossed over the part about potentially adversarial bandits.
I had taken WeMo devices down yesterday for a different reason but now I have reservations about putting them back up given Belkin's slow response to these issues. I had updated the firmware this past weekend so hopefully they really fixed the problems like the other article below posted claims but I will wait until the new firmware has been tested by outside sources before I think of plugging them back in.
"I have this great idea its like Facebook for...."
Behind the Smashing of a Vase
I don't get the connection between Putin wearing the same clothes and the photo manipulation explained at the end.

Looks like he wanted to write about two different things but smashed them into just one without coherence...
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Just click on the link, and press vote. I'm not trying to help myself here so be helpful guys! I know this is a community that holds each other up, so let's show her that we can be like that.
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Serves them right for turning System Shock into Tangled + "Wait a minute that card"
Its controversial because it takes a lot of effort to get it right. For 50 employees it can be done by hand but not so for over 10.000 employees.

Maybe you could use face detection to get the right crop center but even then there will be a lot of errors and waisted cards.

Most people have a valid ID picture so it's easiest to use that one.
Complaint 1 isn't a problem with free-trade, it's a problem with a treasury issuing debt. If the treasury ceased to issue new debt, then this "problem" with free-trade goes away. This "problem" is not bidirectional. It does not affect both sides identically. If it did, the "problem" would cancel out. So don't blame free-trade for increased debt issuance. Just because they raise your credit card limit doesn't mean you need to max your your card.

Complaint 2 is also not a problem with free-trade. If China undervalues its currency -- by printing money as the comic states -- to make its products cheaper and therefore not play "fair," imagine the converse: the US starts printing money out he wazoo. Nope. Not a good idea. No one would suggest that, and everyone would warn against it. It would lead to increased inflation, which is not good. So if it's a bad idea for the US but a good idea for China, what is the explanation for that? There isn't one. China is engaging in an enormous monetary scheme that's almost certainly not beneficial in the long run, to change a statistic (current exchange rate) and coax the US into buying cheap goods for a while. Imagine if China maxed this idea out: just gave us everything for free. Yea, doesn't do them any good, and comes at a huge cost for them. This is a very poorly thought out comic.

Complaint 3 is just very odd. It doesn't even attempt to show what is meant by if the "business" goes to Guatemala. How does the math change? If comparative advantage maths say A should make X and B should make Y, what on earth does an organizational structure and trademark name have to do with the production? What in blazes? Is A no longer able to make X because the Y business moved to where B lives? I'm done wasting my time with this.
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I find voice controls extremely distracting, mentally. It takes your focus off the road just as much if not more, I believe. Plus, I always have to repeat myself a bunch because I believe they are programed to recognize a man's voice.
Google Docs SpreadSheet supports javascript. And I manage to use it to build weekly memory reports when I was working on Halo 4 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INHh3EN3jfI

Here's a link : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ak0Zu3w86Ux5dEt...
According to the cited Telegraph article, he was arrested for causing "harassment, alarm or distress" to a passer-by, who complained to a nearby police officer. He wasn't arrested for simply stating an opinion.
Nice tutorial! You can also check the one I wrote about creating interactive prototypes using Sketch and d3.js here:

http://snips.net/blog/posts/2014/01-10-fast-interactive_prot...
>Was he, though?

Yes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7263662
I think the implication he failed to properly address is that Putin wears the same suit specifically so it's easier to photoshop him in to other pictures. That was my interpretation.

Another interpretation that requires less guesswork on my part is that his interest was piqued by noticing that Putin wears the same suit, and that was what led him to start investigating other pictures of Putin, culminating in his analysis of this doctored photo.
Aren't they going to die of overfeeding? Oh well, first world fish problems.
What's the output? (For people like me who don't have access to a git client right now)
50% off is still more expensive than their price for individual licenses.
Yes: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

Why the down vote?
This should be supported (both financially and ideologically) by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. The NIH doles out about $30 billion in research grants every year. If they could spend a tiny fraction of a percent to dramatically improve the quality of the rest and make such automatic checking a standard practice that would be tremendous bang for the buck.

Oh yeah -- and they're big enough to fight academic publishers.
I don't get this at all.

I can build a pipeline of functions and view the output just as conveniently in a plain node or browser environment and I would have much more flexibility.

Has anyone got a use case?

Anyone?
` PCA measures JPEG artifacts.`

Just for some clarification - how does that work, exactly? If you decompose an image using PCA/SVD and find a cliff in the spectrum, is that a fingerprint of JPEG compression?
Are engineering "enhancements" in sports ethical?
It's been a while since I was into this, but I think the problem of the bounds discussed in Myth 5 is that while the theory is fine, in practice the bounds are big, and Bayesian methods converge faster. The discussion also doesn't seem to discuss incremental decision making where posterior(t-1) -> prior(t).

I note that the discussion avoids the crazy stuff with frequentist stopping rules which is much more elegantly handled using Bayesian & decision theoretic methods.

I agree that there are quite a few myths around frequentist methods as described in the article.
Did anybody die?
Most of the economic analysis of elevators I've seen use one elevator to lift a second cable as their first flight, this is why building every one after the first is cheaper.
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Having two cables in parallel would also allow to regain the energy that's held in the climber that's descending by using it to power the upwards motion of the other. This would further reduce the "launch" cost.
The best dev tools in life are free (as in freedom).
There is some truth in "finding something that you're good at that the other person isn't" - but not all "somethings" are equal. Certain things are flashier, and more intimidating than others - for example, you could be the world's best software engineer, but you'd be way less intimidating than a bodybuilder, boxer, hot guy/gal, movie star etc. I'm not saying this is right or wrong, but this is the way the world seems to work.
Haha, the modified photo appeared in a satirical post on Index.hu, there's nothing to see here people, move on. :)

http://index.hu/szarvas/2014/02/11/ader_alair/

Here're the other posts from the same series:
http://index.hu/szarvas/

All entries are simple montages, they're only funny for people who know Hungarian politics, but for them they're quite obvious.

Edit: the man in the middle of the photo is the Hungarian President of the State, and well, he probably won't kneel when signing an agreement -- even if Putin's there. :)
Didn't Steve Jobs always wear the same outfit? Perhaps that's so if he's in a photo now they could say it was taken years ago!
lol yea i bought this for.... $7.50 and got the DLC bundle (which sucked) for about 5 IIRC
Really, plumet? The only thing that's plummeted is MtMickeyMouse goxtokens/goxbucks exchange rate (that's down +80%), and that's got not much to do with the real world. All other exchanges took a bit of a hit (15% or thereabouts) but are so far holding on to that.
The benefits of me that docker brings is the ability to share containers with my team and to deploy those same containers to the server. The reason that I started thinking of it in terms of programming, like OOP, was to help me get my head around how to correctly use docker on a server. As I start to understand docker, finding the correct place for configuration, data, crons, debugging, and execution are all important and the closest paradigm that I can easily apply to it is OOP, even though it is not a perfect match. OOP can also help visualize how one image can inherit from another image and override both methods and configuration of that image so that instances will behave in a different manner.
Why does this surprise you? The goal of most languages isn't to have a very terse way of writing a program that does nothing but print "hello world".
It seemed to me that that was a separate reason. It reads as though you can be detained for "knowingly carrying material, the release of which would endanger people’s lives" OR promoting a political ideology and that you didn't have to satisfy both criteria.
Eh, I dunno, you could just put the feeder on a timer and not have to deal with scaling issues of allowing thousands of people to manage one feeding apparatus.
KDE Ships First Alpha of Frameworks 5
Out of curiosity, are there similar projects that will run on BSD? Or will any of these?
Northern Ireland is still part of the UK. I meant that the heavy handed approach didn't work, and was abandoned by the UK Gov (and the IRA et al.). Instead all sides sat down at the table and came to a (more) peaceful solution.
Doesn't this also have to do with point 1?
http://what-if.xkcd.com/58/

So it doesn't help to just climb space, you need to gather orbital speed as well?
Depending on what you're trying to accomplish, couldn't you drop content on the blockchain? Not a traditional website, but relatively anonymous (depending on how you move the coin), and more importantly, it can't be seized or taken down (kinda scary when you think about the potentially implications for everyone who downloads the blockchain)
The cool digital analysis aside, what if people who do this aren't pulling a Kim Jong Il, but rather are pulling a Steve Jobs?

http://gawker.com/5848754/steve-jobs-on-why-he-wore-turtlene...

No need to feed conspiracy theorists unnecessarily. Always look for the story behind the story too. Now of course, all of that evidence of digital alteration is another thing. And it may very well have been simply a newspaper who wanted some kind of photo, but didn't have the photographer to get a real one (or the opportunity didn't exist). Maybe Putin ordered it. Maybe he didn't. Maybe his people did. Maybe they didn't. Likewise on the Hungary side.
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Cool. Useless. As Don Norman might say about it years from now "it probably won an award".

I have a simpler and -- I think -- demonstrably better solution:

1) A minimalist HUD overlaid on the windscreen. (As simple as possible -- an icon, text label, and a simple readout, e.g. "Nav Icon: Driver Side Climate 72°F" or "Sepulchre Ave <-- 500ft" or "FM Radio: WAMU 88.5MHz [xxx ]")

Benefit: Driver's eyes stay on the road. What you're doing is utterly unambiguous.

2) Steering wheel buttons that select the mode (channel select) and value (volume buttons). For bonus points, allow two value selectors (so you can adjust station and volume in one mode

Benefit: Driver's hands stay on the road. Steering wheel has touch-affordances to help you find things on it. The buttons already exist on many (most?) cars.
Chips are down. Western nations have realised democracy is expensive. Instead of China turning more democratic, to compete, they have turned into China.
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However, the biggest clue appears when we apply a basic color histogram to the picture

Can anyone explain what this means? It doesn't match my understanding of what a histogram is (i.e., a graph of values vs frequency of occurrence).
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Eh, I still think they used the NSA + parallel construction to bring him down. I've read the court docs, and I still think that's the case.

Of course, your point is still valid. Perhaps even more so.
Many many years ago my brother found a site where you could operate real claw crane games remotely.

These:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claw_crane

They had a bunch in like a warehouse and you'd control the claw to see if you could get the toys. Once and a while you'd see someone slightly off camera walking around the warehouse throwing the toys back in. My brother and I got good at those games from that site. They also had an address where you could send in toys to be put in the games. I remember there was a roll of toilet paper in one of the games, and sometimes other weird things too but I don't recall anything else specifically.

Way better than feeding fish.
> What advice does anyone have for someone who wants to go up levels, in anything, but lacks the self-motivation to actually get started?

I'd first think about why I'd want "to go up in anything".

Looks to me (I may be wrong of course), that you don't know what you really want/would like to do, so you're heading for the easy route(1), which is, to be successful in something for the sake of being successful.

If this is the case, if you'd find something you really wanted, plenty of motivation would come by itself (of course, that wouldn't be everything, but it would be a good starting point).

(1)=from an awareness perspective.
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Amazing how language barriers can create this kind of confusion.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5655075

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=complexity+cheat+sheet#!/story/for...
At least "sort -n", but yeah.

This is top five:

20 helloworld/delphi.pas
25 helloworld/omgrofl.omgrofl
30 helloworld/whitespace
59 helloworld/shakespeare.shakespeare
65 helloworld/chef.chef