skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been to Big Data conferences where the main application was mean and standard deviation on a huge datasets, I'm just sick of companies inflating the Big Data bubble (and this comes from a "data scientist")

"Data science" is a bizarre job description to me. Some companies' data science teams are doing work that could be done in Excel, and others are doing sophisticated machine learning research. In many companies, though, it's a watered-down version of the (extinct, sadly) R&D job description. I've heard people opine that 95% of "data scientists" have never implemented anything more sophisticated than an SGD regression, and it wouldn't surprise me.

Granted, you can get some neat insights and visualizations with off-the-shelf tools, but I still consider it important to know how the algorithms actually work and what the basic assumptions are. For example, you can usually use linear regression for 2-class classification problems (as opposed to the mathematically more correct logistic model, since probabilities are in [0, 1] and linear models diverge at the boundary) get a reasonable predictive model, but it's worth knowing when (and why) that short-cut breaks down.

In software, you hear "data scientist syndrome" used to describe people who have a lot of short job tenures because they (a) leave if there isn't interesting work for them, and (b) tend to be the first laid off, not because they're bad but because R&D is first to bleed when things go bad. The software industry forces you to choose between short-term job security (people doing interesting work are most exposed to organizational changes) and long-term career health (people not doing interesting work turn into dinosaurs). It stands to reason that the selection process for organizational credibility (favoring tenure) would be something other than deep knowledge of data science (which requires a stream of interesting work, and the behavioral correlates such as job volatility).

It's sad that the typical corporate culture of reliable mediocrity, at the expense of excellence, has also learned to use the vocabulary of "Big Data". Reality: truly Big Data (> 10 TB) is a huge pain in the ass. It's what you have to deal with when there is too much noise, or the model's essential complexity is too high, to get a good model out of "small data".
I think this happens all_the_time. Amazon has a solution for managing their access credentials that I admittedly wasn't using, but how many vendors do not?

If you're using a web services API from a 3rd party that requires developer authentication keys you may be storing those keys in the code because there's not a great alternative.
UK finally legalises ripping CDs and DVDs
I'm sure it can:

$ apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi
OpenBSD is a type of UNIX operating system. The OpenBSD project focuses on security. Www.openbsd.org
I think that is what's happening. They would have no other way to identify my app and my AWS credentials otherwise.
Competition certainly sounds nice on paper, but think of the problems that the various sound servers/api's have caused. OSS(+ 4Front's version), ALSA, PulseAudio, Jack.
I agree. It's like this fred wilson blog post. The genie is out of the bottle.

http://avc.com/2013/10/the-genie-and-the-bottle/
Some of them allow you to choose, I don't think many distros have the openbsd-netcat installed as default choice though.

I run Manjaro on my laptop and we have gnu-netcat as default with the choice of installing openbsd-netcat instead. On my Debian servers I have just "nc" which, if I'm not wrong, is the standard netcat (non-gnu/non-bsd).
Microsoft, as usual, following other's footsteps. Kinda sad since they used to lead the game.
What are the advantages over using official builds for rpi?
http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.24/
I don't know what you're talking about. I've been using Blackbox/Fluxbox since 1998.

:D
Because Facebook is visited on a daily basis by people who are your customers, and they provide a free method of delivering advertising to those customers (albeit a significantly smaller subset of their customers these days). I guarantee you that Eat24 has made several orders of magnitude more money from running Facebook campaigns than Facebook has made from ads served alongside Eat24 content.
Well, that's mincing words. GCC is as much of a standard and/or product as Wayland or X are.

It is an implementation of the C, C++ etc standards, and it was also, for long, the canonical such implementation on Linux and Open Source OSes.
I completely agree with the first response you got on Reddit... That's probably the best plan of action you can take at this point.

You could also try contacting Y8.com about taking it down or offer some terms of use, and while they should accept your request, it doesn't mean they will.
Plus, from the article: "In 1987, when I was 31, I suffered a suicidal episode, which I fortunately lacked the courage to bring to its conclusion. I stood swaying on high buildings; I teetered on the edge of Tube platforms".

Please. Those "attemps" are a dime a dozen. Heck, most people think about it one time or another, including myself.

And I personally know several people who tried (far more than "teetering on the edge of the subway") to off themselves at various points. It's more common than you think. You don't even have to be that depressed. For some it was merely an attempt at attention grabbing.
Actually, whereas I don't think Turkey is that far "gone" on the antidemocratic spectrum, but it has one thing in common with more severe cases of "border-line" democracy, like Russia: It's not the money that rigs the government, it's the government that rigs the money.

In some sense, the US with their absurdly high campaign spending, avoid this kind of corruption either way just by competition.

Even if a single interest group/company would try to outright "buy" a presidential campaign (which hardly works anyway), all the other interest groups combined have an incentive to "buy" it back. Which is why politicians can't be controlled through donations as often as TV Shows might want you to believe.

Erdogan however just rigs the regulation in a way that benefits his reelection and accumulation of wealth. No competition, no problem...
Actually it's usually the merchant who gets screwed.
More importantly, why does NVidia, who contribute practically nothing to Free graphics development (drivers or the rest of the graphics stack) think that the Wayland developers have any obligation to make Wayland work well with their secretly-developed blobs?

If NVidia wants to have input, they could hire people to work on Wayland. Otherwise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxHqi8tx048&t=0m28s
This is a great compromise for Tesla. The dealerships don't fear Tesla, they fear their manufacturers will start selling directly over the internet and cut them out of the loop. This should pacify their fears but still allow Tesla to operate. Long term, I suspect, this will be overturned, but for now it's a great compromise.
fMRI psych studies were debunked by the dead fish paper years ago. (In short: investigators misreport the measurement apparatus's random noise as significant results.) Why does the neuro community still publish fMRI psych papers? Is it is a case homeopahy where the quacks are the ones doing the peer rebiews and the entire specialty is a most cause?
Yeah, originally VQ was just a placeholder name - it is not a great name in my opinion.
You're right it's just a re-purposed .TO domain, but at the time we met with the Tonic guys and came up with the idea the new TLDs hadn't happened yet.

AND we figured it was going to be better than something like .TORONTO (All these new TLDs have suffixes longer than the actual domain names...)
Competition isn't the solution to every problem. Sometimes cooperation is the correct choice.

https://xkcd.com/927/
Competition usually causes improvements in competing entities. However, this time, it might hurt.

You see, there's a compatibility issue. The display server has got to be 'supported' by everyone, from applications, toolkits, desktop shells, righ down to the GPU drivers.

That's why the wayland project took so long. Creating a display server is one thing, adopting it on the whole stack is totally different.

Free software, specially on the desktop side, simply lacks the manpower to maintain support for multiple display servers.

If Mir was a drop-in-replacement for Wayland, noone would've been mad.
But this situation may cause a huge fork in desktop applications, shells, etc.

Ubuntu is on its and the whole community has adopted Wayland. Im sure sooner or later they will abandon Mir (just like Upstart), because Ubuntu is too small to patch everything just to support Mir.
The 5 W's is something taught to all school kids at an early age -- who, what, where, when, why (and sometimes, how). Your tagline should address all of these in one simple sentence.
With uncommon domain extensions I always fear that they might jack up the rates at some point in the future, going from $20/year to $250/year or even more.

Still, my personal site and email is on a fairly obscure country TLD, and I hope they will never do something like that, being a country and all. With these new TLDs for which companies paid large amounts of money, who knows what might happen?

Does anyone know if such a bait and switch has ever happened in domain-land?
How the NSA Can Use Metadata to Predict Your Personality
Urban Airship Updating SDK With Awesome Push Alert Features
Thanks. I thought of writing it out as one (and fixing a few of my now-immortalized edit glitches). Looking at it (and the upboats) I may just do that. Stay tuned.
Hmm what kind of fee do you charge and what are you spending that 40 hrs/month would not be enough? For me thats about 4k euros which is plenty to live on, go on vacation and save money.
Crowd-sourced Eclipse Autocompletion
The Facebook part is right. The Twitter part really depends on what "go to" means. They may not scroll back far enough to see your last post, and thus may not see the post at all, but I believe it's shown in the feed of 100% of your followers. I'd be interested to know otherwise. My own reach through Twitter is about half as good as it is on FB, and I have followers who seem way more interested in what I do than my FB fans. On FB, I seem to have way more success posting things personally than I do on my business page.

Edit: I post my stuff to Google+ too, especially groups that seem like there's some interest in the subject of my post. I'm happy enough with the results (from my analytics) that I'll keep doing it.
The thought of law enforcement, or anyone with power, scanning your brain and passing judgement is indeed terrifying. Not only is it an invasion of the private sandbox of your mind, it seems unsubtle, error prone, and open to abuse.

Such judgement appears unfair, and so (to misapply the conclusions of the original paper) rational people should be uncomfortable with it.
They're not actually that dumb, right?

"According to Mitchell, the company’s current goal is to educate people about the merge and why it is a good thing. He thinks this is working since the negativity is finally starting to cool down."

I assume this "gee, we had no idea there would be this reaction" thing is a subtle part of that education campaign.
Luckily, fMRI studies don't have predictive power in the real world.

Hm, that is unlucky I supposed fMRI is the modern lie detector, where the test administrator just makes up results that the authorities rely on.
Curious- why would you ever use linear regression for binary classification?

Logistic regression can be implemented as linear regression predicting the input to the logistic function.
Keep an open mind. No need to get angry (yet).
Erdogan claims that there is a "global conspiracy to stop the rise of Turkey" and people who believe him don't care much about the unlawful things he is doing because you know, Turkey is under attack and extraordinary measures should be taken to protect the country.

Polls show that %77 of the population believe the corruption case against the government is real.

However the situation is really complicated. Without going into details, I have to say that probably there is a real conspiracy orchestrated by the Gulen(islamic cleric allegedly with big influence on the judiciary & law enforcement) movement because some of the leaked tapes seems to be collected illegally.

The Gulen movement was close ally with the government till recently. They probably collected evidence about the corruption in the government since years and waited until the right moment comes to start the criminal case. The PM responded by demonizing the whole movement and suspending the rule of law.

The allegations against the Gulen movement are not proven at all but few years ago the same prosecutors started a case against the military and lot's of unlawful things took place during the whole trail process. That time the PM Erdogan strongly supported the case but today he claims that this was a conspiracy against the Turkish army.

Many lawyers agree that lots of the evidence against the military was fabricated and many people were imprisoned for political reasons.

Back then a sex tape of the main opposition party leader was leaked and PM Erdogan used it as a political tool. Today the same PM claims that these leaks about corruption are invasion of his privacy. Another leak shows that the PM was involved in the filming and distribution of the sex tape of the opposition party.

It's just huge mess here.
People like/follow accounts of companies on social networks in order to consume the content those accounts post. Certainly this includes marketing material, but a key distinction between this and ordinary ads is that people have made a deliberate decision, "I wish to see content from this company".

That content becomes part of the reason people spend time on the platform, adding more opportunities for Facebook to sell actual ads (including to competitors, I might add). The network effect applies to companies, too!

Facebook is now denying that content to users who have said they want it, and destroying most of the value to the companies of creating that content. This is a reversal of their prior policies (thus a bait-and-switch), dishonest (if they don't want companies participating in their social network, they should just ban them and make them run ordinary ads), and just plain ol' stupid (because they're deliberately damaging their network and their image).
.TV was close, they launched and segregated a bunch of domains off as "premium" and charged inflated prices. Then there was (IIRC) an episode where they wanted to renew a bunch of landrush domains at "premium" prices. They also don't allow "premium" domains to switch registrars.

The new .WED rules are crazy. Year 3 renewal is $25,000. They think the next "Brad and Janet" want to be able to use BradAndJanet.WED for their wedding.
The dead fish was attention whoring bullshit. I'm willing to bet you actually have no clue.
First off, they should've expected that reaction if they sold to anyone, because:

#1 it was too early, and they still had a lot of investment money

#2 they've implied many times that they wouldn't sell. I don't remember if they said it directly, but they certainly made it seem that way

#3 they basically decided to sell the company "overnight". That took everyone by surprise, and it made the move extremely suspicious (personally, I still think Mark Andreessen forced the decision, and Oculus was more like "ok, well I guess that could work", rather than enthusiastically try to sell the company themselves, prior to that)

#4 Facebook seems like one of the worst companies that could've bought Oculus, and no one would've even dreamed that would ever happen, from the community. A lot of people were like "WTF? Is this a joke?" when they heard it. And it's one of the worst, not just because people hated it for being so privacy-intrusive, but also because there's no connection between Oculus and Facebook, and usually when the cultures and visions are very different, the acquisition fails.

I don't believe them when they say they really din't expect the reaction to Facebook buying them. If they didn't maybe they aren't paying much attention to what's happening in the tech community lately. I think Oculus could've only done worse than Facebook if they would've been bought by Oracle.
Why not ditch the current DNS system and use Namecoin? If you have to force some piece of software into users computers, let's do it right at least...
As mentioned earlier on HN, deals like these don't just happen overnight. They literally are the result of months (sometimes years) of planning, analysis, and strategy. To think that MS is just going to drop $100 mil on AR technology because Facebook did (are they really even competitors, I mean come on...) is very naïve.
Strangely, they understand why people would be angry about selling out to Microsoft or Sony (which frankly, are far more legitimate platforms than Facebook. IE: Oculus on XBox or Oculus on PS4 would be great). However, selling out to a large company is almost always going to be seen as a negative when you bill yourself as an "indie company".

Facebook on the other hand, is facing a huge amount of negativity as well. Their stock price dropped by 15% this past week, as investors don't understand the purchase at all.
Many people view Facebook policies as creepy and unethical, that is probably driving this negative response. We don't know where mainstream VR will take us in ten years, but we do know that there have been many assaults to our privacy and we don't want to create another keyhole into our private lives.
The other issue with laser printer / inkjet comparison is how toner is applied to the page. While inkjets paint the dots, toner only sticks to the laser/led activated page.
Interesting that they think the public is becoming more alright with the acquisition because the anger is slowing. It's like they don't understand that after all bad news, the stories and comments about it will wane over time.
When infinity0 says 'equivalent' they are talking about the scenario in which the choice is made. A and B have to have the same preconditions or the choice is meaningless. Not that A and B have the same results, which is blatantly false.
The reason Facebook switched away from using Erlang for Chat (2014)
They are in a bad position overall however. Sony Morpheous looks like it has taken all the good ideas from Oculus.

And with Oculus selling out to Facebook, the "indie" community may not be as supportive of the platform.
They mangle all udp port 53 data.
> Beyond our core community, we expected it would be positive.

> If you actually understand [Facebook’s] vision of letting us be who we’re going to be, just like they wanted to let Instagram be who they are.

The reason people don't get this -- or at least, why I don't get it -- and thus responded negatively, is because VR should have nothing to do with Facebook's vision, and Facebook -- or social gaming in general -- should have nothing to do with Oculus' vision.

Gamers cared about Oculus and Rift because they felt Oculus was innovating in the interest of gaming as a whole. But being bought out by Facebook makes it seem that Oculus is "selling out" to someone that is historically more interested in monopolizing innovation than they are in gaming, or at least the type of gaming that Oculus was originally innovating towards.

It's hard for many to see anything under the umbrella of Facebook doing a service to gaming -- look at the direction social gaming has taken us.

This is how I see it, in my admittedly limited view, anyway. And since the views of those "beyond their core community" are likely similarly limited, it makes sense that others may have a similar reaction.

So I'm baffled how Oculus is surprised by the reaction.
The difference is in the details. You could combine several CSVs and you could probably come up with a bunch of rules that would make data integration easier. But then you'd be reinventing exactly the triples model.

And it's different than combining different CSVs because you can't specifically combine a CSV that talks about cars and another that talks about houses. You could achieve this if you decide on specific column rules allowing you to probably express various types of data as CSV, but again you'd be reinventing the triples model and you already can express triples within CSV http://jenit.github.io/linked-csv/.

It's true that RDF doesn't magically solve data interoperability, and obviously requires you do reason upon the data you want to integrate before you can make sense out of it.

But the important part is that RDF does actually make the process easier, probably easier than any other model out there.
The parents were reassigned to Microsoft on January 17th. Maybe Facebook is the copy cat.
I went on a sabbatical thinking I may not be able to do dev again, but I was wrong.

It's good you mentioned lifestyle changes; you'll want to get in the habit of constantly experimenting with these before you pull the plug completely. Consider:

* therapy

* being in a community (in real life)

* lifting

* the arts

* doing more/less work-type stuff on the side (open source, speaking, mentoring, etc)

* service projects (lots of different clubs do them)

I think a lot of the existential pain in my late twenties was due to feeling alone plus stuck at my job. I tried several things to deal with it (all safe) but couldn't get a handle on it, resulting in burnout.

All of those things you want to do are good; you could try doing some of them part time. When life tells you to pack up, you'll know it, so I'm not going to prescribe anything particular, other than letting you know to trust your instincts here. I had to find out the problem was mostly me (but other people also had to go). But one thing you need to know: all the good you do cannot patch you up on the inside. Whatever you're feeling will be there later.

The importance of someone who honestly balances you out cannot be understated. I did not understand balance until I had to see myself through my wife's eyes over and over again. It's humbling and hard, but it will change you to something healthier much quicker. I don't know what your relationship looks like, but I hope your girlfriend builds you up and supports you whatever your mood is.

Personally, I have to always be learning. I found a guitar teacher who does a great job teaching technique, and I'm constantly challenged. I also work in R&D at a lifestyle company.

I hope this helps a little.
eh. not including Google in a list of big data companies is of similar kinda ridiculousness as not giving the Nobel Peace prize to Gandhi. It doesn't take anything away from Google/Gandhi, it just marks the list/prize as farcical.
From 250 users to 5,000 in 24 hours
Very interesting development. Personally I don't see AR being anywhere close to VR in terms of usefulness, polish, and mass market appeal. VR obviously is going to be a major player in the gaming/entertainment industries, while an AR headset is more of a general use device for everyone. It'll be interesting to see what MS comes out with.
I think it's because nobody understands what FB is going to do with it.

Instagram definitely has location and social graph data to exploit.

But Oculus? What is FB going to do with that?

I think most people still think of FB as the site and advertising sales for the site.

But if you see FB as a conglomerate like Google, Apple, and Sony then it makes more sense. FB is diversifying, buying up promising technology with the hopes of leveraging new markets out of it.

Maybe they want to make the Gameboy of wearable gaming? They have had success in working with gaming companies (Zynga and King might have peaked, but FB still made money.) And they certainly have a enough power to make things happen.
there's a huge difference in what a startup is when it's 3-4 guys vs hundreds. The latter is not much different as working for any other company, and you can probably get paid in cash.