skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm increasingly less impressed by the claim that we can't predict weather across weeks, but we can somehow predict climate across decades. (I've never been overwhelmed by it, but it seems even less sensible over time.) And part of the reason why is that we can't seem to predict climate across years, and I'm really unconvinced we can't predict climate across years but we can predict it across decades.

Wrong predictions are wrong predictions; it is irrational to keep excusing wrong predictions over and over again and insisting they'll just get more right in the unknowable future.

If the models can't look into the future even a few months and see a high probability of the vortex detaching (and I'm fine with a probabilistic prediction, in fact I'm deeply suspicious of anything else), what use are they for predicting anything else? One wonders if the models are even capable of expressing that prediction (in the machine learning sense of the word "bias").
I've done this in the past on *nix systems, for Perl. I modified PERL5LIB from my .bashrc file, so that my project lib was looked for by default. This, rather than having to put 'use lib '../../../yikes/ugly' ahead of any inclusion of project modules.

Another approach, which I favor now, is to place modules directly into the default locations, such as /usr/lib/share/perl5 and etc.--usually there are a number of paths Perl looks at by default. It's then just a matter of saying 'use MyModule;' in code.

Is node.js similar, in having one or more include paths set by default, and could files be put there, to where you never have to refer to something by relative location again?
At least Comcast got something right.

Comcast charges 20 cents per gigabyte in 50GB chunks over 300 after you use up your three "courtesy" overage months. There's a little monthly report in the billing site. The price is thousands of times the actual cost to Comcast, but at least I know the limits and the cost of going over them.

My understanding is that Comcast Business has no caps.
I know nothing of the issue, so please educate me, but isn't Maduro the one who currently controls all media and just shut down his people's acces to the internet? Sounds pretty dictator-y to me.
It depends on your regex engine. The author here is concatenating all of the paths into a single pattern, an automata based engine would ideally compile away the disjunction and offer performance linear with the input path length.
Stark.
True, but it takes around 45 minutes to prepare a plane for flight and about 20 minutes to put it away. Also, you have to drive to and from the airport. Planes are incredible, but you have to fly pretty far before they're a timesaver.
So... the French AOL then.
The article makes it sound a big deal to develop J2ME app. This app basically has just 2 screens, so I wouldn't think it would be any big deal to replicate those screens across platforms. Their challenge is more on the server-side, scaling for all the billions of users that they have - again, no big deal for plain text but mostly the pictures and the videos that are shared ...few big datacenters somewhere...again, nothing great. And hey, they dont even support voice calls. I dont buy that the app itself is a deal breaker. It's mostly their user base that they have been paid for.
How this would work with browserify?
I think the idea is more that following (2), introverts lose energy whilst extroverts gain energy. (1) doesn't really come into it. You are probably extroverted.

But no it isn't necessarily a dichotomy, rather a rough label of how someone responds to social situations. Their actual character will be much more complex :)
Those are great exercises.

I don't know how I learned colour. I worked in black and white for a long, long time, and only started using colour when I started using the computer/scanner.

(If you like maths and physics, check this out: http://www.scratchapixel.com/lessons/3d-basic-lessons/lesson... esp. lessons 1 and 2 it won't help you one bit about choosing the "right" colours for artistic purposes, but it's super interesting and useful for knowing about how colours are made in print and on the screen)
Now that you say that I notice that I have seen the ads.

I wonder how much of that is a response to Ford and their Sync stuff.

(I don't pay attention to the new car market, but I am aware of Ford Sync as a brand and have no idea what GM had for a comparable feature)
The company I work for recently decided to develop some cross-platform apps. After researching a few different things, we decided Cordova (Phonegap, but not branded) best fit our needs.

Aside from Titanium, we also looked at MonoTouch[0] and Xamarin[1], which I believe (didn't completely read through) is built on both Cordova and Mono.

If you were building from scratch, maybe another one of those would make sense for you. We are working within an existing project (mixed native and webview), and Cordova seemed to best fit our requirements there.

[0] http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
[1] https://xamarin.com/
In all these sniper events, they are all too tricky.
Sniper shoots people, people enrage and kill police, snipers kills police, police defends and kills people.

Most of the times I am inclined that snipers are 3rd party working for the benefit of pushing around people/police/media.
If it's 100% internal, you don't need to register them. If it's internet-facing but designed for use by registered users only, it'll still have some sort of authentication page, which should be enough proof that you're using it for something.
$3 billion in employee RSUs/~50 employees=~$60 million each. There are some very happy WhatsApp engineers today.
Cynically, it's a partner at a VC firm saying that AI is a space to watch.

Less cynically, after about 40 years of AI winter, any possible sighting of a sprout is news.
It is something the elevator cars will be designed for, and just by the nature of the elevator we'll have a lot more orbital infrastructure ready to receive the cars. IIRC, much like airplanes at takeoff and landing, there are some windows where it is impractical to recover from a detached elevator that occurs at precisely the wrong moment, but they are relatively small. (Depending on the precise numbers, it may be possible to build a passenger car that has no such windows, but cargo cars will probably just run the risks since it greatly increases their payload.)

I won't promise NOTHING WILL EVER GO WRONG!!!1!, but there are a lot of engineering options to mitigate disaster.
As far as I understand it, he is democratically elected, but the government doesn't have much in the way of checks and balances. The stuff about the protesters wanting a military strongman sounds like biased propaganda.
Also, at least in Brazil, Whatsapp became a tool for journalists on the streets. A very interesting use...
Well maybe if CERTAIN PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA (mostly) and in POLITICS (sometimes) didn't trot out lines to the effect of "Oh, it's summer! and it's hot today! This must be PROOF of global warming!" every summer when it got hot, then we wouldn't get this kind of blowback when it's unexpectedly cold out.
Well, there are other ideas.

As science leads you to believe that your consciousness is nothing at all (according to your description), bible based christianity tells you that your conscious is part of your soul, which is the part of you that lives forever. It is independent of your body, which will eventually be replaced with a perfect body.
Count the number of Svoboda flags next protest, they are unashamed nazis.
I use to do Audio Engineering for about 3 years at around 20-60 hours a week. (My own studio)

Then I started meeting other engineers and guess what I wasn't like them personality wise and I got burned out.

My rule do something where you fit the personality of those successful. I am now a Pre-School teacher :)
Hah, I was wondering the same thing...it is quite in-depth.
No, it's a continuum. Most people need both; introverts go stir crazy after a while and have to interact with people, and extroverts get tired and want a moment to themselves.

It's more what drains you faster, what can you handle an excess of more easily. I consider myself an introvert because I very quickly get tired of people and shut down; it takes a day or two of being on my own (or otherwise not interacting socially with others) before I begin to crave it.

Or put another way, as an introvert, solitude may recharge me, but once recharged I need to expend that energy (else I get depressed and antsy). When actually in social settings, I may at first blow through a good chunk of that energy by being amiable and outgoing, once I start getting low I tend to be judicious in how I expend it, as it drains at different rates (crushed in a crowd it drains very fast. Alone with a single friend, talking, eating, gaming, whatever, it drains very slowly).

Few if any people can handle days on end of either solitude or company without tiring of it and needing the other at least briefly.
That's impossible I think. Do you get more out of TV by sitting in front of thirty of them?

You might say, we'll make the substrate faster. At best we'll shave of half of time every 18 months. At best.
You must have figured out how they score the different numbers. 96 is like 780 points, 192 gets 3500, 384 gets around 6200 points, 768 gets 22000 or so... Did you find an obvious pattern? I was curious about this but too busy enjoying the game to think about it.

*edit
Someone figured it out here: http://bitsplitting.org/2014/02/11/threes-scoring/
It is about striking a balance. You don't want to spend too long on something but at the same time, you don't want an ugly MVP that will turn off potential users.

I spent a few hours doing a decent website front with the essential details, with a working newsletter form, so that I can have that front up and running while working on an MVP. I wouldn't spend a few days or weeks on it. Same with the product - maybe allocate a certain amount of time where you would work on the design and then focus on the actual product itself.

I also agree in getting customer validation before spending too long (ie more than a year) on a certain product iteration
The Wikipedia mobile client is a Phonegap app. But it, and most such apps, are basically more-elaborate Web wrappers around a Web site's content. While they might adequately not offend each platform's conventions, they are not exemplary w.r.t. platform UI capabilities. It would be very hard to make a cross-platform app that uses Fragment and multiple layouts in a way that really captures the power of those UI capabilities.
BestUsage.com, on-demand website testing
Funny how Paul Graham came up with "schlep blindness"[1]: It's a subset of LessWrong's "ugh fields"[2].

[1]: http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html

[2]: http://lesswrong.com/lw/21b/ugh_fields/
Nice work. What is the technology behind?
Driver assist is a common feature in currently available high end cars and is working down through the model tiers.

(Lane keeping, adaptive cruise, accident avoidance (brake pressure priming/auto braking), in some sense traction control is a driver assist feature)
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Diversification. Aquire as many relevant products as you can to stay, well, relevant. If Facebook.com is losing users then it makes sense for them to use the money they have now to buy a company that's gaining users.
Wait, wasn't creativity part solved? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_creativity (I'm refering to Stephen L. Thaler's work)

I mean you need two neural nets. One that adds chaos to another neural net and a second one that returns the result. You could probably optimize by somehow making those parts parallel.
Yes it is! This talk is absolutely awesome!
> This is not, in and of itself, a reason why Aereo is wrong in this case. Plus, I think it's pretty clear that free OTA's days are numbered anyway. But Aereo would, I think, be attempting here to kill its host.

I'm not going to cry too hard about that. Ad-supported content can move to IP, and we can stop wasting all that spectrum for broadcast and move it to mobile data services, which are willing to pay much more for that valuable spectrum.

Disclaimer: I (sort of) work in the broadcast industry, but on the Internet/IP side of the house.
Did you evaluate cocoon? On my tests that was the fastest although a little buggy. I think if I built from the ground up targeting that it would be the best?

https://www.ludei.com/cocoonjs/
Article appears to be down.

I've never worked on a Node project with directories that nested more than 3 or 4 levels deep, so I don't see this as a "problem" (but maybe the article makes a case that it is).
I just discovered Telegram and it looks great so far. The iPhone app looks pretty much exactly like WhatsApp. The source code is released under GPL, developers can use their API, and the protocol is documented on their website.

They have official apps for Android and iOS, and there are several unofficial Desktop/Web/CLI clients.

https://telegram.org
And in Sweden (some) police men were discovered using Whatsapp - sending sensitive information about suspects[0]. They were discovered when they accidentally misstyped a phonenumber. Whoops.

The police in Sweden have some Blackberry encrypted services, but apparently these police men were not given one because they're expensive.

[0] Swedish source: http://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.547026/polisens-chatt-...
A while ago, I did one of these horrific team training things with a large group of people I work with day to day.

We were asked to self assess whether we were introverts or extravert's, and then the group assessed each person by secret vote. There was very little match up between how people thought they were, and how everyone else saw them act.

Actually, a couple of the loudest, most aggressive, difficult people assessed themselves to be introverts. They were very proud of it, because they had read on the internet that it made them good programmers.

I wondered at the time, if the introvert/extrovert division is a real thing, then perhaps they were genuinely introverted, and worked badly with people because they were uncomfortable. Or perhaps they had always tended to be loners because they were not good at people, and had come to believe it was what they preferred.
What's the difference in the usability of TortoiseSVN, TortoiseHg and TortoiseGit? I'm using the last two and they are roughly equivalent. I used TortoiseSVN a few years ago and iirc it was very similar.
The OP did not read npm doc obviously. npm link is the killer feature of npm.
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You shouldn’t buy a US-to-Europe flight more than two months in advance
Not when SMS costs 29c per message. The free global text messaging that Whatsapp provides is potentially very disruptive to telcos.
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> I say no, the value of messenger bytes is nearly zero unless you can hold the users hostage and extract large sums from them (as AT&T and Verizon did on SMS).

Exactly. Look at all the messenger platforms of yesteryear - ICQ, MSN, AIM, Y!M. Did any of them make any money aside from some ad scratch money to keep the lights on?
> If that's not a significant advance in autopilot technology, I wonder what Musk is cooking.

He's probably willing to fork over licensing fees immediately for Google X's Level 3 [The driver can fully cede control of all safety-critical functions in certain conditions. The car senses when conditions require the driver to retake control and provides a "sufficiently comfortable transition time" for the driver to do so.] automation technology.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3028547
Euro area inflation has been way lower than that, it seems. Including negative % on some years
Hey Arch-folk! Top requests for AUR packages you'd like to see brought into the [community] repository?

edit: Or previously unavailable software that should be in the AUR?
I have exactly the opposite :) Ever since I suffered a burnout, I have a tremor in my hands, it's gotten a bit less over the years, but it's still there.

I can still draw. But I do it explicitly with my wrist+hand, not with my arm. I never have. Always rest my hand on the paper and draw with my fingers. Then I don't tremble, I only tremble when I gotta keep my hand still in free space. But on paper my hand's 100% relaxed and only moves as I want it to. Maybe it's because I've drawn things all my life and there's a trust in my hand that allows it to relax in that way.

There's two consequences to this drawing style: I draw best when it's really small, because of the range of motion of my hand and wrist (although there's a few ways I can use a marker and draw nice curves and cartoon faces on larger paper as well). I can't paint :) Because if you rest your hand on the paper you'll smear out all the paint :) This was already a problem in highschool, before I burnt out, it's just not how I want to interact with the medium. It's gotta be up close and personal.

Either way if my movements had to come out of my arm, my fingers would tremble, and it would suck.

BTW I have a similar fear for starting to learn electronics, I really doubt if I can handle a soldering iron and those tiny elements accurately enough to make things without it becoming a hugely frustrating exercise in "accepting one's limitations".

To the GP I say, try it, and really, try to relax about it (if relaxing helps with the tremors--it doesn't for me, 100%, which is why I also need to calmly rest my hand on a surface. but then it's pretty steady).
Working with ES5 JavaScript array functions in modern and legacy browsers
No way. I used to take the trains in Seoul...going to new places. Sometimes I wouldn't get out except to switch platforms and go back. If it was the green line, I'd just go in a big circle, ha. It's good for clearing the mind.
Assuming the professor's wealth is around average for professors it does not seem likely that the professor's buying power would be sufficient to act as a greater signal to 'the markets' than the paper written. The professor very likely does not have enough money to signal to 'the markets' to increase food production and thereby prevent mass starvation. This suggestion of yours seems patently absurd.
git stash -u is much shorter :p This is default for me, now, since I've had untracked files straight up deleted because I didn't include them in my stash.
Isnt cocoon canvas and webgl only?
trigger.io is also an interesting newcomer.
Predictions aren't magic. They're based on looking at past data and using that to draw conclusions about future data.

Weather, being extremely variable even within a day, is a lot harder to predict than, say, "It will be colder in January than in August (in the northern hemisphere)." That one's a slam dunk.

Watching the warming trend, it seems more predictable than weekly weather. Even now, with this winder, the north pole is warmer than normal which is part of what's causing the weather systems we're experiencing in North America (as you referenced with the vortex).

Why on earth would the models have something like this vortex detaching built into them? We've never seen it before, or seen it so rarely that nobody built it into the model. That doesn't say we can't predict climate, it just says we didn't predict this particular consequence of climate change.
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I met him at BigRuby in Dallas, he was kind, knowledgeable, and incredibly intelligent. He was interested in a very wide range of things, and I really enjoyed discussing metallurgy, blacksmithing, controlling drones, ruby, amongst other things. He was always willing to help, even if the problem was beneath him. Rest In Peace Jim, you will be sorely missed.
It seems to me that people are misunderstanding looking backwards and looking forwards...
Sadly, this is just the beginning for the rest of us LATAM countries. Mexico just sealed a deal this year to sell all of its oil to Canada and U.S. Venezuela is an oil country, and unlike mexico, Venezuela has more ethics in preserving all natural resources to itself instead of selling them. Another thing you should consider... who else has the power to shut down the internet in an entire nation? Lets assume, when U.S invaded Irak, the internet was also shut down and magically the U.S had won. Egypt,Venezuela and the U.K are following coincidentally the same protocol
Good thing I never said "all of android", as there will always be edges that in many cases aren't even worth targeting.

I did, however, say that many of the cheap phones are quite powerful. And they are. And as someone who has several widely deployed games on Android -- one category where there is much more demands than categories like WhatsApp -- it is absolutely no problem at all.

I generally test things on the Nexus One just as a bottom end comparator. Compared to many of the devices from bottom-tier manufacturers now, the Nexus One is grossly underpowered. It is always surprising what it can run with gusto.
How do you go about setting these links when you freshly checked out a project through source control? There is no "npm link all", is there?
Whoops, sorry, I meant 1, 4, 5, and 8. You're right about 2.
If they were running a ponzi type operation then any missing cash on hand could greatly disrupt their payments depending on the withdrawls at the time.
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I took a quick look over that Wikipedia article, but I'm not sure which part you're pointing to as evidence that he is "out of touch."
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The message of the article is good but it's not seeing the forest from the trees.

Having just read the Forbes artcile on the company and Jan in particular, some interesting things stood out:

1) Jan had money to start and was able to take time to build a user base and find the real value in the App and didn't need to go around "raising money". The SMS component of the app wasn't the initial focus. The company didn't need VC funding at any point. He was able to focus on product development and revenues started to come in to cover costs.

2) Jan is a technical guy. He did the initial backend but hired out the iPhone development. Either way he was involved. He developed the initial app for the first 9 months or so before bringing on Ackon as a cofounder.

3) There is real value in the app. No one needs to question this. There's no big pitch deck's, presentations, etc.The app was allowed to grow organically due to its network affect. The business can scale into the millions and billions of users.

The $16 billion exit is largely due to number 3. It's rare for a lot of businesses to have that kind of scale.

Reading the Forbes article, my takeaway is that there is no way anyone can "build a path to a xx billion exit". What one can do is find a business model that can actually scale and generate real revenue. Maybe not to billion users or hundreds of millions in revenue but enough to take it outside of the "lifestyle" business mode. Also, having money of your own and technical skills to execute doesn't hurt one bit.

I think one lesson that I would take away for the younger crowd is - slow down a bit. Go work for a big corp or even a startup that pays well. Save every penny. Instead of spending that $100 on the get together every other night save it. Build your skills. At some point, go for it. You'll have money to live off, money to test your business model and a fallback if it doesn't work (get another job).

EDIT: Another big reason for the big exit is incredible leverage by Jan. He's got the most equity. He doesn't need Facebook. He is already a millionaire and the App can only get better. This is deal making at its finest. I can only imagine how much back and forth happened, each time with a bigger number from Facebook.