skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just deployed my first app and WOWOW that workflow is NICE.
I would expect that the "totally wipe my phone" process would include an API call to Apple to disable iMessage for that phone so people don't have to make special calls.

Sounds like that doesn't happen.

Of course if you just throw the phone away without ever doing something to indicate it's no longer in use (to Apple, not your cell carrier) then the results are more sane. That can't happen to every one of these people though.
Language map: What’s the most popular language in your state?
Same story here. Switched to an android decide and no one could text me for months. Months! It's almost unbelievable.
I was also expecting a new GUI shell and used to run GeoShell and Litestep. I got somewhat excited and hoped that there might be a resurgence in the popularity of Windows shells but it seems like that time is gone for good now.

If I recall correctly, the Windows XP release managed to stabilize the Explorer shell quite a bit (compared to Win9x) which in turn decreased the demand for a lightweight, stable and customizable replacements.
I browse repos on github pretty frequently. Some use cases:

- It's someone else's repo (eg, a gem I'm using), and I just want to see one line real quick, rather than cloning the whole project locally and finding it there.

- It's my repo, but I my local working copy is on a different branch or has uncommitted changes, so I don't want to bother stashing + changing branches just to look up one line

- I'm poking around several repos that I have no intention of using- eg, looking at an interview candidate's public repos
In my experience after a while the phone will say that it couldn't send the message and give you a little option to resend as SMS.

It would be nice to have that done automatically, but at least it's there sometimes.
I thought I had provided a source when I started spitting out sentences and statistics like: "Because I could only
find the following on the CIA page." But I can make it even easier for you if you would like:

>> "Physicians per 100k:4 (this is 10th lowest...)"

> Where are you getting 4 per 100K from?
> The CIA factbook says 4 per 1,000.

Notice it says Zero Dot Zero Four per 1,000:
"0.04 physicians/1,000 population (2006)" Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

Or do you need a source for the math? I do not think converting 0.04/1,000 to 4/100,000 is part of the proprietary math instruction I received at the state-apologist reeducation camp.

> "Infant mortality: 3rd highest 100 ...

Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

> "Maternal morbidity: 1,000 3rd behind South Sudan...

Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

> "Sanitation Down to 23%"

Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

> The CIA Factbook currently says 23.6% for improved
> sanitation facilities, versus 26% mentioned in the
> article. Is this 3 percentage points of decrease that
> important?

I was not making a judgement about the merits of the 3% drop, merely reporting what I found when I could only verify 25% of the stats that you said I could verify any of. You thought that an 8% increase was noteworthy, why is a 3% move the other way so inconsequential? I just noticed that you emphasized improved this is getting to bee too much, did you read the definition of improved?

> Meanwhile the the facts are: 'Infant mortality per 1,000 births fell from 152 to 114.9' and 'Maternal mortality per 100,000 births fell from 1,600 to 1,100'

Everybody's stats for this fell: http://web.archive.org/web/20091028133430/https://www.cia.go...

> The point is there was improvement, not that Somalia
> is a great place to live based on first-world country
> standards, so saying, "Oh that is still the 3rd worst
> in the world!" is utterly irrelevant.

When I said the problem in Somalia was "failed economy and no rule of law" you replied that I "obviously have no
clue about the real happenings of Somalia." Nothing you have presented points to the conclusion that the economy has not failed or that Somalia is reaping the benefits of the rule of law. "Things have improved, Somalia is no longer the absolute worst place to live on earth" is not the same as "functional economy and effective national government."
Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT
You can also press `t` on any repo on github to find files/filetypes quickly.
But only for operations that someone else has written the C code for you. If you come up with some new algorithm that cannot be reduced to operations already implemented in C, then you would need to write the fast C implementation yourself.
I think you had a lucky experience. In reality, most french schools have to make do with a limited budget per child (depending on how wealthy the region of the school is). It is true though that they have nutritional guidelines to follow and that they try to make the companies that provide the lunches (usually they are received in the morning and then prepared by the school's cook) work harder towards a balanced diet and good quality ingredients.

Source: a family friend of mine was a cook who was managing these things for my region.
How do you avoid having students stick to what they are familiar and comfortable with?

How do you ensure students get a broad understanding of the subject?

In my experience the major difference between hiring self directed learners and people who studied cs in college is the lack of breadth in self directed learners. Great python/js/php web dev who has never heard of pointers or a priority queue?
Another ^nix -> Windows package system is the pacman port available in msys2:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/

msys2 has an impressive package list [1] and is almost [2] an amazing solution for mixed-platform projects.

[1] https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages)
[2] The one caveat is that it is still susceptible to the Cygwin BLODA problem whereby under certain conditions and software combinations, Windows becomes dangerously unstable after too many calls to fork.
I read "most earners of masters degrees can expect to enter fields with significantly higher salaries, especially later in their careers" as "people with masters degrees make a lot of money, so we should people with a masters of education to also have high earning potential." (That may not be what you said; I'm just saying how I read it to clarify discussion.)

I should not have implied that you said it indicated job performance; that was the wrong place for me to challenge your statement (as I read it). Instead, I will say that it's not proper to treat a masters in education as giving the same signal as a masters in other fields.
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I'm an Impostor and That's Okay
Speaking of 7 series..
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_Hydrogen_7
There is quite a pleasant little recipe book, 'French Women Don't Get Fat' that correlates nicely with your points.

I'd expect people who eat a piece of chocolate with coffee and have a glass of wine with their meals are simply happier and less stressed overall.
Drone 3D scan of Dracula's Castle
Hi, OP here.

Just thought I'd add that I set up this site today. Having a personal site, along with a blog is something I have meant to do for a long time now.

It is obviously rather minimal right now, and I would love to hear any feedback about the site and blog style.

I hope you find the post itself useful.
Another good dimensionality reduction technique to consider is Latent Dirichlet Allocation. I use this approach for natural language or other "bursty" data sets. "Bursty" data sets are characterized by having Zipfian distribution over features, but certain long-tail features achieving a higher probability of multiple observations given initial observation in an instance. For example, "armadillo" is relatively rare, but an article mentioning an armadillo once has a high chance of mentioning it again.

A cool thing about LDA is that it allows you to express the latent characteristics of a given document as a point in Euclidean space. This gives you the ability to use spatial distance metrics such as cosine distance to express document similarity. I specifically use this for recommending large-scale UGC communities based on their latent characteristics. Furthermore, since you've turned your language data into spatial data, you're able to use spatial classifiers such as SVMs more effectively over natural language data, which is normally a bit better suited for Bayesian classifiers.

I'm a huge fan of Gensim for its LDA library. It's even capable of distributed computing using Pyro4. It's relatively trivial to deploy an LDA pipeline for extremely large datasets using EC2 and the Boto AWS library.

Edit: If you haven't heard of it, scikit-learn is an awesome Python library for highly performant machine learning using Python's C extensions for numerical computing (scipy, numpy). It's easy to take the data you get above and perform learning on it using the classifiers provided.
Exactly. React is a fairly simple library that can play well with other libraries, including on the server-side. Angular and Ember are complex frameworks.
Did you get API rate limited, by any chance?
I think it would be a great thing to try.

Some people in this thread have mentioned some primary boarding schools for high-risk students. I'd want to internalize the results of those interventions, too.
Almost all the studies used in the first meta-analysis, and all the studies in the second, were investigating the secondary preventative effects of Ω-3 supplementation on CVD. That means the people being studied already had heart disease. Supplementation didn't demonstrate a definitive impact on all-cause mortality, or cardiovascular events (though in both cases, there appears to have been a slight reduction in cardiovascular deaths) in that population. That's hardly surprising, and proves nothing at all, except perhaps something we already knew: people with heart disease have heart attacks and die.
One way to look at this is that Square is responding to the pain points of small business owners (who generally dislike Yelp) even for things not directly payments related.

But another, more cynical, way to view this is that Square has hired a lot of great talent, raised a bunch of cash, and outside of the payments business which is growing and humming, there isn't enough to do there, or they aren't growing fast enough, so they are just doing a bunch of experiments. It's rare that we get to watch a company just iterate through a bunch of different products so publicly / quickly.

I'm not saying it's bad, but it certainly seems to lack some sort of cohesion or focus; unless that cohesion is "help all small businesses."
Actually there are a lot of geo-engineering solutions to climate change. Price tag is probably ~$1T, which honestly is not all that much when you think about the costs.

When climate change really starts to hurt, that money will get spent. Of course, a lot of the damage (extinction, human cost, etc) will already have been done, along with whatever side effects the geo-engineering brings.
I use 't' all the time to look up files as well.

I guess this extension makes it easier to get an overview of the directory structure, but that's something I rarely need.

I'm sceptical of browser plugins in general. There are so many browser plugins that change under the hood and do malicious things. It would be easy for the author of this plugin to scrape all your source code and phone it home.
Not really -- it's a complex problem.

If my phone is stolen, so I wipe my phone via MDM. I still need to communicate, so I can use my Mac or iPad to do so transparently to the other parties.

This is a common issue whenever you do caching. Outlook fubars contacts whenever you migrate Exchange users to or from a system.
Can someone clarify the value-add? Is it a polyfill for APIs?

If the device already has an HTTP interface over the network, I don't know if it makes sense to pay per device for translation of your API calls... Also, this kind of thing, I would hope was free -- working towards adoption of a standard (i.e. if you make a jquery-level standard that unified so much functionality, at some point, people will forget the semantics of the lower levels and hopefully go to one standard)
I'd love to see something like this being on the site by default. Maybe just a button next to the repository title where you'd be able to toggle between the current view and the tree view. Both of these options have their advantages for different use cases.

In the meantime that's a great solution. Thanks!
How will you avoid being sued by artist's representation (i.e. record labels, RIAA, etc)? I would also be highly concerned about validating the recipient of the money, especially since they're unlikely to reach out directly.

The best you could do is purchase music from the musician though the least-fee-laden service available, so they get the most money legally possible.
This happened to me when I got my android phone with a new number. When my friends with iPhones texted me, the text always shows up as iMessage and I would never receive it.

The thing is, I have not owned ANY smartphone before this one. My guess was the previous owner of this number had an iPhone and registered for iMessage service. iMessage route sms through its own server it never reached my carrier's network. I tried to get help from Apple store technician, but since I am not an apple customer, past or present, employee did not see a need to help.

Problem is I really liked that number. After 2 months of struggle I gave up and changed to a new number.

I will admit I never liked Apple and do my best to purge iProducts from my life. But I guess you just cannot avoid being screwed, anyway.
This happened before neutering and spaying became prevalent. While the turnspit breed might no longer have been curated, the dogs themselves likely mingled with other breeds and have various mutty descendents today (or perhaps they have become part of certain pure breeds!).

What's interesting to see here is how ephemeral the results of centuries of selective breeding can really be. A very specific and specialized form of dog disappeared almost overnight once the artificial selection maintaining it was removed. It's a testament to the ability of genes to repair themselves given the least bit of diversity to work with. The incredible variation in dog breeds is really due to relatively small amounts of mutation, and here we see how rapidly those mutations can be repaired. It's humbling to realize that humans have altered the genes of dogs far less than their forms indicate.
But the article used a linear model to demonstrate the curse, and the model was overfit just with 3 dimensions. There is clearly something missing: for example, for text data it is not uncommon to have thousands or hundred thousands of dimensions, and algorithms work fine.

I think the missing piece is regularisation. It doesn't have to do feature selection and actually reduce the number of dimensions, but you're right that using L1 for such data is usually a good idea.
> And what does it mean to read it if it's already in memory?

It means walking whatever structures the OS uses to keep things in cache. We generally don't know what they are, nor control them.

> What I don't understand is what MAP_POPULATE is doing that gets the speedup that it does.

MAP_POPULATE minimizes the number of page faults during the main loop, which are more expensive (and require a context switch) than TLB misses. Plus, TLB misses can be avoided in our loop, especially with such a friendly linear sweep.

The main problem here, in my view: trying to coax the OS into using memory the way we want. Huge pages surely help in that regard, but they help the most in code that we do not control. The sum itself over 1 GB of memory would be roughly the same speed, regardless of page size.

To put this to the test: generate 1 GB of random bytes on the fly, instead of reading them from a file, and do the same sum. Does the speed change much with the page size? I'd be interested in the results, especially if accompanied by fine-grained performance counter data.
>"Smartphones that do have email and don't have Microsoft Word are a minority?"

You, as already stated, are missing the point. It has been explained and you continue to miss, or obtuesly ignore the point.

>"Neither iOS nor Android comes with the ability to view Word documents."

Bullshit. iOS can read doc files natively.
Using a noise function I produced similar turbulence once. Here was my result (it does, IMHO, look a bit better than vanilla noise):

http://www.gavanw.com/uploads/9/5/4/0/9540564/4868178_orig.p...
There is also the Phratch version (Pharo based).
http://www.phratch.com/

This is more for grown ups where one can integrate all kinds of cools things.

A video with Lego Mindstorms EV3 controls.

http://vimeo.com/82540943

And engineers have fun too.
http://vimeo.com/89912838
Could be worth talking to Automattic, Acquia, Red Hat - lots of money there
Antarctic Sea Ice At All-Time Record Levels
You might want to look at the examine.com page more carefully. The only result that is both significant (i.e. large effect) and robust (i.e. agreement in lots of double blind studies) is a reduction of triglycerides. And that is an indirect impact on health outcomes at best. The rest of the studies were either for sub-groups (depressed people) or were insignificant, mixed direction and/or not robust.
> I must admit I was confused to see xeer being posted to HN

(from wikipedia) > It is an example of how customary law works within a stateless society

Anything that uses the word "stateless" is guaranteed to make it to the front page of HN, an immutable conglomeration of immutability fanatics.
Oatmeal's review of his magical space car Tesla Model S
Why Are Startups Turning to .io?
This again? FFS RTFM...
Incidentally, I've always wanted a service like this, but I couldn't get past those pesky issues.

It would be just as useful for authors and movie studios.
Do you know if GitHub Enterprise imposes an API limit for unauthenticated requests? If it does, does it support personal access token? (See https://github.com/buunguyen/octotree#github-api-rate-limit.)

Depending on the answers, it could be very simple change, i.e. allow users to configure API subdomain. Unfortunately, I don't have any GitHub Enterprise deployment in handy at this moment to find out.
How ACH works: A developer perspective – Part 2
I am not a Java hater, but any Java or Scala repo has a very deep tree. Clicking down and refresh page is not fun. Also consider when you want to open multiple files which are on different levels of the tree. Without the tree ready you would go back and forth between pages or having multiple new tabs opened to open each file.
While I'm tempted to agree with you, (s)he could have a valid point. Let's call it a hacked definition for now, since it works.
If the scenario in the article happened then 1st, the vehicles shouldn't have been going so fast that a head on collision could be possible over X mph and 2nd, the autonomous vehicles could choose the option of engaging all breaks and relying on the oncoming vehicles to do the same, while preparing to deploy airbags. There is no reason that "drive off a cliff" would ever be an option because the vehicle wouldn't put itself in that much danger.

It should never be possible for an autonomous vehicle to hit someone unless they jump from the side or top and even then the vehicle should be able to stop instantly because it calculated that there was the potential for something to happen in that area.

If the vehicle is approaching an area where it can't see things that could possibly come in front of it's path then it should be going slow enough to be able to stop if something does appear.

If the vehicle is passing people then it should be going slow enough to be able to stop if anything steps out in front of it's path.

Yes, inner lanes and highways that have barriers on the sides would allow for much faster traffic.
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Mad props. Any chance of a Safari port? Its extension system is not very different from Chrome's. EDIT: and you shouldn't be shy to plug your gittip page: https://www.gittip.com/buunguyen/
While this isn't specific to hosting, one glaring thing that I've noticed in the documentation / tutorials is there are no clear instructions on how to retrieve data. In the Getting Started link at the top of your site, theres a section that says 'Save Data', but nothing for 'Retrieve Data'. And the documentation isn't any clearer.
> Log into your Apple ID at https://appleid.apple.com and un-associate your phone number.

The only thing available related to the web interface accessible from that URL that is similar to that is that you can alter contact phone numbers (daytime, evening, and mobile) associated with your Apple Account, it doesn't say anything about iMessage associations.

So, if that's the way to do it, its interesting that:
1) There is nothing in the UI that indicates that it has that effect, and
2) Apple's own help page directs you to call support rather than doing that.
Alec Baldwin Broke Twitter?
I know, but I wanted to make the correspondence between the examples as clear as possible, including using the same names. In practice it'd be something like <my-toolbar> and <my-app>. (Well, in practice it'd be something like <polymer-toolbar> and <companyfoo-app>, but hopefully people get the point.)
Github repo: https://github.com/buunguyen/octotree/
Remote Garage: Storage on Demand
For me it's showing: Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.
they do exist though
Inferior as compared with Western culture, I meant.

Both Iran and Saudi Arabia are, IMO.
A16Z: Understanding SAAS and why the pundits have it wrong
You could make a plot like Figure 1. Look for the turning point (do some calculus if you can, i.e. d(perf)/d(dim) = 0).
Right next door to Cameroon there is an issue where non-South Africans have not just stolen equipment from a school, but hundreds of actual students. The Cameroonian in that anecdote does not paint an accurate picture of the sanctity of schools in a "South Africa vs Rest of Africa" sense. It may be the case in his own locality (and many others), but that doesn't mean the rest of the continent follows the same rules apart from SA.
How to come up with a product idea
> Iran has the death penalty for female rape victims

For God's sake. Did you read the article you linked to? Even that article fails to mention many details.

She was sentenced to death for premeditated murder. She argued that she had the right to kill the man because he tried to rape her.

There were evidence supporting her side (the man stopped to buy condoms on the way to the apartment, etc); there were evidence against her (she sent a text message to a friend saying "I'm gonna kill him tonight", the knife was purchased not long ago suggesting it was bought for exactly this reason, etc).

The trial and the appeals process took 7 years. It's unfortunate that little of the media coverage is available in English, all of which are from the same point of view. I have read the interviews with both parties' families and followed the news as new revelations were made. I cannot say for sure what is right and what is wrong, but I can say this with certainty: It was a very complicated case. Reducing it to one sentence is ridiculous, but if you have to, the sentence should be "Iran has the death penalty for female premeditated murderers if the crime is proven in criminal court and held up in the appeals court".
Yep. Give me something built on msys anyday.
I don't think anyone is criticizing for comprehensions as unreadable. Implicits in particular introduce non-local effects that may not visible from reading a particular piece of code, and in my experience should be used sparingly.