skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is extreme; too many people do do it, but I was
warning them that they shouldn't do it. Why? It's
a super good way to get totally stuck-o and give up,
all for no good reason at all. And if work on such a
tough exercise full time for two weeks, as I did a few
times as a ugrad or in some of my later independent study,
then that's mostly a waste of time.

Although too many students do this, for the OP it was a
straw man to have something to knock down so that they
could say something else. Not good. The exercises are
one of the best aids to a good student trying to learn;
but, can do well working 1/3rd of them, or half, or the
more difficult 1/3rd, or 90-99%, but on that last 1%
can spend more time than on the first 99% and just
shouldn't do that. Don't worry: In any decently well
written book, if get 90% of the exercises, then have
done well. If really insist on the last 1%, cover the rest of the
book and then come back with the additional understanding
and maybe some crucial results didn't have the first time
through. If really want to know the material well, then
get 2-3 competitive books and work through those also.
Yeah, I'll admit that other CloudFlare customers are likely subsidizing the amount of bandwidth I'm using.

Funny thing - back when I was using 10 TB/mo, my site was hosted entirely on DreamHost's $9/mo shared hosting. I moved mostly because I was starting to get several hours a month of downtime - presumably, they were gently nudging me off their service.

I've seen plenty of $60-$100 dedicated servers come with unlimited-use 100Mbit connections, which work out to 16ish TB/mo before you start getting to 50% saturation. Of course, those are still subsidized in that that pricing is possible only because most people who buy it don't max out a 100Mbit connection.

Still, though, S3's 9-12¢/GB bandwidth pricing seems a bit high. Bandwidth at DigitalOcean (presumably unsubsidized) is 2¢/GB, which comes out to a much more manageable $500 for 25 TB.

With dynamic content, CloudFlare has Railgun, which takes advantage of the fact that dynamic content is usually mostly static. Still, though, if you have 25 TB of dynamic content, I presume bandwidth stops becoming the limiting factor in your cost of operation.
You're arguing two different things. First: if changes to a company enhance its long term value, it may benefit short term shareholders, but logically, long-term holders will benefit more. In fact, if short term holders were to benefit more then it makes no sense to be a long term holder, and if long term holders stand to benefit more, then why would you be selling all, or practically all, of your position? If someone buys a company's stock, insists on major structural changes, and then sells the stock, how can you argue that this investor is acting in the long term investor's interest without either being a financial incompetent or altruistic to the point of sainthood?

For the risk tolerance point, you're assuming that everyone who opposes Icahn is overinvested in eBay, which doesn't follow at all. It may be that you would rather see eBay invest in itself or return excess cash in the form of a steady dividend. Or you may flat out disagree with the notion of spinning off Paypal. Making a stupid decision isn't "risk tolerance", it's "hey man, hold my beer and watch this".
This is a great idea. I once had a (US domestic) flight cancelled at the last minute because there weren't enough people on it, and all the airline offered to do was put me in a hotel overnight and pay for my meals while I waited for another flight that was about 20 hours later.

In the end I managed to weasel my way onto a different flight to a nearby airport, and I still have no idea what I should have asked for if I had actually had to wait that long. I was pretty outraged that they didn't offer me any other compensation for all the time I would have lost because they chose to cancel an underbooked flight.
I understand the argument that this article is trying to make. But I feel like ultimately it is a semantic argument around the use of the word science in a job title that has little to do with what people actually in those roles accomplish.

I think its important to first understand that the idea of the data scientist is somewhat reactionary. For a time in data analysis a popular title was "quantitative scientist" these people were more often mathematician or statistician focused domain experts who synthesized results out of data-sets. They did cool things with with data and this helped sell many of companies on the need to expose data for use internally.

But most "quantitative scientists" were not software minded, that is to say the upper end of the average space touched on the "citizen developer" skill level and no higher. That meant that as companies scaled and collected data the work of the "quantitative scientists" broke down and couldn't be implemented in production contexts.

What emerged over the last 5 or 6 years is a group of people who came from the other direction. They generally had a more intense focus on the manipulation of data, but they melded this with a non expert but effective use of quantitative science to get great results.

Would calling these roles "quantitative analysis data engineers" be more descriptive sure but somewhere along the line someone or ones wrote articles and coined a term that captured the imagination of the industry.

The Author attempts to put forth the idea that "Data Science" is inexorably linked with "Big Data" and that as that trend cools so will the field. Again I would think that this is a misunderstanding of the field. Most companies hiring for the field use Big Data as a code word for, we aren't sure what to do about our problem. So although many companies seem to have that as a must have when approaching a problem the truth is that it is often a recognition of lack of internal proficiency. Part of being an expert in the field is trying to help companies realize what type of data and analysis actually brings the company value.
Otherwise story: some preparation boosted my score 200+. And I dare to say I am not alone.
Try something like the GMAT.
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Stripe Checkout is nice, but unfortunately it's not suitable for us, since the "Remember me" checkbox cannot be hidden.

"Remember me" is confusing for users. What is being remembered? By whom? When you're dealing with users who may already be concerned about whether it's secure to enter their credit card number into your website, I feel like the "Remember me" box is just adding another layer of confusion and concern.

I'm surprised that the "Remember me" checkbox can't be hidden, given how focused on their customers Stripe normally is. The "Remember me" checkbox feels like something Stripe is pushing on me to help them with their business objectives, which isn't the vibe I usually get when dealing with Stripe.
How's Stripe for SaaS billing of multiple plans with option to pay on a monthly, quaterly and annual basis with appropriate discounts?
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Unless you're council for either party they're not weasel words.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
If I were smarter, I would make a folding@home encryption algorithm so that when the NSA is breaking our https encrypted cat photos, they would be curing cancer. Afaik, they have over half the super computer power in the world and always have. Think about that, integrate under that curve, hell of a lot of wasted flops.
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I've been working on startups more or less for most of my 20s (both as a founder and an employee at a venture-backed startup), I've learned a great deal from it, lost a lot from it and endured a lot of hardship, but I think the journey also transformed me and cut me out of wood (http://max.levch.in/post/36289276742/strengthen-your-startup...). So no regrets, I'm really excited about the future and I'm thinking long-term.

I disagree with this post though, if I had to start all over again out of college... my recommendation would be to start a profitable, bootstrapped business. Build that up to 7-figures and be financially independent. You'll earn your first stripes way earlier than most, at much lower risk, and once you attain that black belt, then you'll be ready to consider swinging for the fences with a startup. And people around you will want to bet on you too with your track record.

I'm 28yrs old now and that's my gameplan for the next few years. I'm tired of being poor.

Worth reading: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/06/paths-to-5m-for-...
Your post makes no sense to me. Why do you think web applications built on standardized HTML are "another ecosystem"? Mozilla has been pushing this path since...forever.
It's not about using separate block chains, it's about making cryptocoins non-fungible.
Yes. Just drop the criminal transaction ID into blockchain.info. Do you know which transaction represents the theft?
Motivational Quotes | Ayn Rand
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Read more at http://www.hallofquotes.com/quote/32350.html
Nicely executed, and very effective.
According to the voucher Delta gave me, things are different now. Only technical difficulties are exempt. Other reasons require them to give you a multiple of the ticket cost back.
Hey pc, do you plan to add escrow to Stripe Checkout at some point?
I really miss focusing on the details of their desktop product here: About a week ago I tried to switch away from Chrome and back to FF and its been a rough week. Speed wise FF is actually great, absolutely no complaint here, same goes for memory. What I didn't expect and what kind of shocked me is how broken some web pages are on FF. For instance in GMail I can't use Cmd+arrow keys to jump to the beginning or end of a line and on the new Google maps (the one that has been around as a preview for more than a year) zooming by scrolling simply does not work. It's not just Google sites though, I had stutering scrolling on some more complex sites (where Chrome has no issue) and some startup pages have oddly shaped buttons and similar layout issues. It seems like many sites aren't testing on FF anymore.

I really expected FF to be on par with Chrome in terms of rendering quality but that really turned out not to be the case in many small, yet annoying corner cases. They got big by incorporating the quirks of IE and then improving on that, maybe it is time they start thinking about implementing some of the WebKit rendering quirks and go from there.

I really want to keep on using FF and to love it but if it means I have to switch browsers for some of the sites I use daily that will be difficult.

Using FF 27 on OS X 10.9.2
I think there are lots of perfectly valid reasons to use root logins over SSH.

Sure, you absolutely shouldn't be doing development work or suchlike as root. But if you need to run administrative scripts on a bunch of servers, SSH as root is usually the easiest way to do that. I certainly trust sshd and RSA/ECDSA a lot more than some supposedly-secure setuid executable that lets me run commands as root.

Plus (as you probably know) you can specify in public key files that only certain IP addresses can log in using that keypair.

I've read that the general "don't log in as root" mentality is really an artifact of the telnet days when you didn't want people to sniff your passwords easily... not sure how true that is.
Yes, either build it yourself, or successfully share your vision of how cool and successful this will be to a dev that makes it become a "we" thing.

This allows the dev to make small decisions several times a day that align with your vision. Meet and work together and iterate in real life as much as possible to keep bringing positive energy of how this thing is breaking new ground in this problem space.

I would personally stay away from production houses because I don't think I would be able to share my vision as direct and with the same weight, which would at least to some extent limit their motivation to make my project really stand out.
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Presumably they could have used an interpreter, with each person speaking in their native language.
First, your boss is a jerk and is obviously trying to get rid of you as others have stated.

Secondly though, please consider that just because you're working 11 hours a day doesn't mean your boss/company considers you valuable. I've seen lots of cases where a guy works 10 hours a day but simply isn't a productive member of the team. Others work maybe 2-3 hours per day and are the most productive people around. I don't know you or your situation but it's entirely possible that your long work hours are just not being used effectively. In addition to finding a new job I would seriously suggest that you take a moment to reflect on how others (not just your boss) consider your value as a productive team member and be careful not to confuse the fact that someone at work might think you're an awesome guy personally with whether or not they think you're highly productive.

Even if you're NOT productive, your boss is horrible and the company you work for is horrible so you should leave anyways. I hope it works out for you and you find better, happier employment in the future.
One of the most gorgeous launch pages and demos I have ever seen.
This image tells me that wealthy kids are better educated. Why is that striking?
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Oops, guys, how it ever possible to get 500 on the couple of static pages?
Apple was the first to bring implementation of things that now a big part of what we call HTML5: canvas, CSS transforms and animations, etc. Mozilla deserves credit of taking over from IE6 and moving web forward in the first years of XXI century (when there was no Facebook at all and Apple was hardly a billion dollar money maker), but around 2007 Gecko stalled and Apple and then Google driven WebKit took over. Maybe Mozilla was a tech company but now I see them mostly as politics company.
I think you are misunderstanding.

Medicine A will always save 200,000 people, with 400,000 dying.

Medicine B will save all 600,000 people 33.3% of the time, but everyone will die 66% of the time.

The expected number of deaths (the 'expected value' in game theory) is the same for both cases (200,000). Medicine A is easy to calculate (200,000 * 1.00 = 200,000). For Medicine B, the calculation is 600,000 * 0.33 + 0 * 0.66 = 200,000.

The idea is that the average number of deaths is the same for both cases; you are just trading the certainty of Medicine A (where you know you will save exactly 200,000) vs the chance to save everyone, but the risk of losing everyone.
Fuck the haters. Congrats to the team!
Flying with US Airways this past week; 8 flights in 4 days, 5/8 flights were delayed, causing missed connections, etc.

How I wish AirHelp was available in the US :(
I think when I made the decision to stop using Facebook was when I created a new account and realized how empty the actual value proposition was when you were starting fresh.

I then realized that people on facebook I actually would've never met or even hang out or even actively talk or like. People that matter are people that have my phone number and skype and can meet me directly.

After this epiphany, I deleted my facebook, I no longer saw any value in having a few hundred "friends" on a website that intrinsically offers no value without the underlying participants, whom I valued to be close to zero, as they were not within reach in real life.

I found skype offered all the tools I needed. I downloaded whatsapp only to be hit with the same feeling I got from Facebook, these were merely tools acting as social buffering mechanism for digital interaction but SMS already serves this purpose well and voice conversation or meeting in person solves a far better value.

Twitter, I'm also thinking of retiring. Instagram? Selfies? Things don't change and that is human relationships, being on any of these platforms is a self fulfilling prophecies.
Those are what the Subject Tests and (for calculus) AP Tests are for.
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I thought about doing something like that for audio, but I think it gets really inefficient with higher sample rates because you end up with so little overlap.

Like this: imagine I've got an array of shorts representing audio data. If I've got two files with similar segments, I've saved one short:

[1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 5]
[7, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 3]

So I can say that [2, 3] is represented by a new value (z), and can shave a short off of both streams. Then what happens if a new stream comes along with no similarities:

[8, 2, 7, 1, 7, 3, 7]

...you still have to send each value.

Maybe I've just demonstrated that I don't know anything about compression, but I would be interested in working with you on this.
We're talking a 60-second email that can even be cut-and-pasted from the previous day's email. It's not a Powerpoint presentation.

If OP really wants to hold onto the job this is a tactic to keep the termination at bay and micromanaging to a minimum...possibly. It's also a backup where if bnt is fired and wishes to get a lawyer in the mix, he has an audit trail. Boss might say "bnt did nothing" when the email in fact shows he was working as best as he possibly could and was completing tasks and boss was acknowledging those completions.

You probably have as much insight as I do about bnt's location, family situation, cash reserves, and local job market conditions. "Leave ASAP" could be a week or it could be 6 months.
Somebody has a lot of time on their hands.
Needless to say, all speculation:

It's pretty hard to be dumb as a post and score 1500+ (excluding the short-lived essay). It may not be the most predictive factor for college success overall, but as the top schools have become increasingly competitive, they can afford to use higher and higher scores as a baseline. If they miss some diamonds in the rough who test poorly, they still won't have any trouble filling a class. Test-taking wizards with little else to recommend them will get filtered out through other methods.

On the other hand, if you're a mid-tier school trying to choose between a pair of otherwise similar applicants with scores of 1000 and 1200, it might matter to you a great deal how predictive the SAT is vs. the ACT or some other metric. Meanwhile, no matter how confident you are in its predictive power, at least it's an objective metric. One that, for better or worse, also has a marketing impact, since average incoming class scores show up near the top of college survey data.

I think most of the controversy about the SAT and other standardized tests centers around the predictive power of results near the median. Especially since re-centering, the test doesn't try hard to distinguish the top 1% from the top .01%, but it's very important that it correctly distinguish the 60th percentile from the 40th.
As a Vizify user, I'm saddened that they will be shutting down. I really enjoyed their service and it served as a great "bio" website.

Pleased for the designers and developers, though, they had great success, IMO, and I hope they will make their mark at Yahoo.
Yes and no, I have a regular full time job and then a startup that I work on in off hours. I put in full time hours but it's not my full time job. I still consider it to be a startup.
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Ah, well I wasn't speaking about mathematics education (in, say, high school). Because there are a whole lot of problems with that beside the notation.
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Reducing student anxiety, probably.
I'm not sure what this site is trying to tell me about anything. It seems like a failed attempt at satirical critique of /something/
Typically, a Kalman filter is only as accurate as your mathematical model of the underlying phenomena (for example, your flight dynamics on an airplane), and the filter is mainly useful to mitigate the noise from your real-world sensor observations. Is there more public information available about the mathematical model being used within their state transition matrix? Depending on that information, this could be really clever or a glorified low-pass filter.
I'm particularly happy that iOS Chrome is now a "first class citizen". There were some shaky times before where it (provided you saved your form) showed the mobile view that Safari gets; then where it failed completely (with a JS alert()); where it showed the desktop modal (okay, but a bit janky) and finally where it had a made-for-mobile modal.

I'm a big fan of Checkout otherwise: it's definitely simplified things for me. I'd just like to see more communication regarding changes: I discovered most of those myself from my staging site.
By this I mean being familiar with the types of problems the SAT asks, and being aware of gotchas / features of these problems. Familiarity with the test makes it easier to take the test effectively to save time for the few genuinely challenging questions in each section.

The material on the SAT is super easy. It's about knowing how to read and analyze simple text and being able to do basic high school math. Despite this, kids taking advanced (or college-level) courses in math and the humanities don't do terribly well on the SAT on the first try. SAT prep is about mastering the esoteric parts of the SAT, not its basic subject-matter.

EDIT: I was taking college-level courses before the SAT, and I got a 1700-1900 on the first few tries. After a summer taking a dozen tests, I got to a 2280. The only new genuine "knowledge" I picked up was the meaning of some arcane words. The rest was familiarity.
If you make a website solely to advertise yourself, and not also to make cool stuff you made or found or said accessible to the people who might be looking for it, you may not be doing it wrong, but you are still missing out a bit :)

Not that I have any beef with javascript only stuff or this site, the web is big enough for everything - please don't read my comment as complaining in any shape or form, really. I just want to say that successfully targeting an audience is nice, but people finding stuff at your site(s) you couldn't possibly have imagined they'd be looking for is also nice, and if you go the javascript only route, you might never find out. Just as a general point that doesn't really have anything to do with the site at hand.
Pretty easy, you can have various subscriptions and define the billing interval and prices as you wish.
Yes, basic knowledge is useful even if you aren't going to college. But the problem is that the tests reference arcane parts of western culture that an immigrant wouldn't be reasonably expected to know. My parents are both immigrants and I was born in the US (I have lived here my entire life), and I still had a hard time understanding some of the allusions in the CR portion. They aren't references to popular culture; they are references to an insular culture.
I was hoping that the word privacy would appear somewhere in the 2014 goals of a major browser but no. As you said, the opposite.
Hi, I'm a Firefox developer. The Firefox engineering teams have our own more specific goals at:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Goals

Sadly the maintenance of this wiki page has fallen behind, so goals for current and previous quarters aren't posted yet. :( Anyway, I can tell you they are largely focused on performance (startup speed, smoother scrolling, and responsiveness), developer tools (the new memory profiler; CSS source maps) and some experiments that may lead to new features in the future (like built-in translation of web pages between different languages). I'll ask around to see who has the official list and can update the wiki page.

There are also engineering goals for the teams that build the Gecko platform (shared by Firefox, Seamonkey, Thunderbird, and Firefox OS), which are at:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2014-Q1-Goals
They're being replaced by other words and one which actually seem useful, if the two examples they give there are representative.