skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bear in mind that the resulting module is not real "Quantum Computing", but an implementation of the conventional misunderstanding of quantum computing. Damian Conway understands real QC just fine (at least well enough to know this). It's a choice he made to implement this library for fun, as is his wont [1]. However, be aware that playing with that module will do nothing whatsoever to prepare you for real quantum computing.

[1]: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata....
Unravelling the mystery of silk
Absolutely, owning a home is more work. However, IME it is less inconvenient, because we are able to better control the timing of that work. For example, when our roof leaked one night, we were able to get it fixed the very next day. When we needed electrical work done, we scheduled it for when we would be gone, so as not to disrupt our lives.

There's a valid point that we had to pay for these out of pocket, instead of a landlord paying. In return for these random financial hits, we get a predictable mortgage and an increased property value, which sure beats the yearly rent increases [1].

[1] CA's horrible Prop 13 limits our property tax increase to 2% a year.
It was always intriguing to me how some popular graph algorithms are rather intuitive, and if left to your own devices and no knowledge of popular approaches you are likely to use some variant of them in problem solving.

One such is constructing a minimum spanning tree. Give them some problem where they would need it on a dense graph and let them struggle to piece it together (and penalize for wrong edges included). At the end you could explain how their strategy related to Prim or Kruskal's algorithms.

Another is finding a shortest path from 1 vertex to another. The context would be rather easy and you could again penalize for an incorrect path taken and let them argue about the optimum route and introduce Dijkstra's at the end.

I think context is the most important thing. No high schooler wants to be given an arbitrary graph and feel like they are doing some mundane problem on it. Put some contextual spin on the problems (perhaps locally relevant) to pique their interest and make it hit home for them as to why these are important problems/solutions.
I'm just going to go ahead and pick exactly the same three things.

Of course, if you have the same three worries, your real major worry should be whether you can get a better job before you burn out. And that leads to a corollary worry about whether companies that try to provide a healthy, sane work environment have a competitive disadvantage versus companies that are dysfunctional. And that makes me worry about whether I even want to live on this planet any more.

So I guess my 3 are these:

1. Is this as good as it gets?

2. Can anything that's better endure?

3. Would starting over somewhere else improve anything?
Looks sexy I dig it. Good use of Vine embedding, and the pocket pass is something I would use.
I'm curious if the functionality is only enabled if I have the "Tell sites that I do not want to be tracked" setting turned on in my browser preferences? There is nothing explicitly said about this in the FAQ's, but there are references to the purpose of this being "so sites will honor the Do Not Track feature", so it seems to be implying that it only does its thing if I have "Do Not Track" enabled?

Thanks!
Why do you say that? It seems clear to me it is. Do you disagree that A being caused by B usually means A and B correlated[0]? That's all that's necessary to say correlation is evidence for causation.

0: I know there are some exceptions, but they seem rare. http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/26300/does-causatio...
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How well does this work with a database workload? Did anyone test PostgreSQL, or SQLite (in WAL mode) with this?
Full blown processors lead to full blown maintenance needs.
Assuming an equal start without any downpayment at all, you have to be Oracle of Omaha great with your stock investment portfolio to beat the return on investment inherent with housing since the difference between mortgage and rent in most markets will only give the renter a couple hundred dollars a month to invest.

In the end, the owner will likely recoup every dollar of principle they pay in the long term, while the renter has to find an investment opportunity that will not only return all of their loss (the rent they've thrown away) but then beat the increased valuation the housing market will provide the owner.

From here - http://assayviaessay.blogspot.com/2014/04/rent-or-buy.html

What about stocks? Stocks are a medium to high risk investment with no guaranteed return on investment. It's actually pretty hard to make an educated guess what the return would be. But we can give it a go. According to this analysis,

the nominal compound annual return of the Dow from
year-end 1900 to year-end 2011, excluding dividends,
was 4.75%.

That's actually pretty good and annihilates current CD rates (which hover around 2% for 5 year jumbos). Let's run these numbers. According to my handy compound interest calculator, with a current principle of $0.00 (starting from scratch), adding $2,400/yr over 30 years, compounded annually at 4.75% gives me about $160,000. That's actually pretty close to my inflationary upper bound calculated earlier!

But that's also an upper bound.

However, the real compound annual growth was only
1.6%. That is, when we use constant dollars, we
discover that the purchasing power has only
increased 1.6% per year.

So we should actually run the numbers with 1.6% we end up with about $93,000. That's great, but even with the miracle of compound interest, I'm not putting a dent in that $1.6 million.

Let's get crazy, let's say I'm a fantastic stock picker and I can beat all this and I'm making about 12% per year. Running the compound interest calculator, I get $650,000. That's pretty amazing, but I still have about a million dollars to go to break even. I actually have to hit 16.5% every year, for 30 years, to break even.

This site lets us run another kind of calculation, the average rate of return for the S&P 500 over some date range. I picked the last 30 years and got 12.67% not adjusted for inflation and only 9.57% adjusted. Professional fund managers struggle to beat the S&P. So realistically, you aren't going to either over the long run.
The Diversity Visa Lottery can be granted on the basis of your birthplace, not your current place of residence or current nationality.
The Glasgow School of Art, has suffered a major fire.
Depending on what kind of "science" you might be thinking of Rescale.
They have interesting tech, wide support of third-party tools, and
they're great people; they even gave me (a self declared non-potential
customer) a free trial.

http://www.rescale.com/
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If being misleading-while-technically-not-inaccurate is a principle that Amazon wants to stand up for, that's up to them. There are other places to buy books, and in the future maybe publishing houses will think twice about handing them exclusives and such.
15-17 for .com, .net, .org. 15 percent discounts on 3 year or more registrations. Bulk discounts too I believe.

If you're a mega buyer/seller, gandi is probably not for you, although it can be if you can take advantage of the included services. If you have a handful of important domains that run thriving websites than Gandi is for you.

With domains you get free dns, free access to dns api, free email, free website builder (I use those for gag sites, eg, bitcoinsexchange.itmustbetrue.com). A few other included services, but most importantly, no bullshit.
"... but it's no longer relevant to any discussion of processor prices"

Kinda pedantic remark:

No longer relevant as a stand-alone device but don't overlook the IP core market. It's pretty common to find one or more of these old cores as a module in a more complex device (e.g. an FPGA) or as the base for an ASIC (esp. automotive). Same for the 8088, 8051, 6502, ...
1) How about something sustainable? Something that, instead of removing personal responsibility, enables you to conquer the fear and anxiety? An actual system.
2) There are plenty of reasons why your suggestion should not be taken seriously. Personal anecdotes are just that - anecdotes. Provide me with metrics of how it improved the bio-checmical composition of your brain and removed anxiety, and then we'll talk.
3) You're so confident about something that is not measurable in any way, is highly subjective, and you put down the author for being humble.
>College just isn't for some people. It's not a bad thing or a good thing. It's just a thing.

This is really the best way to look at this.
Apple hiring a man who violently assaulted a woman and no one cares
Lawrence Summers' review/criticism of Piketty's tome is worth a read, even for non Summers' fans (in general I mildly disfavor Summers, but I appreciated this piece).

"Piketty’s timing may be impeccable, and his easily understandable but slightly exotic accent perfectly suited to today’s media; but make no mistake, his work richly deserves all the attention it is receiving. This is not to say, however, that all of its conclusions will stand up to scholarly criticism from his fellow economists in the short run or to the test of history in the long run. Nor is it to suggest that his policy recommendations are either realistic or close to complete as a menu for addressing inequality.

...

Books that represent the last word on a topic are important. Books that represent one of the first words are even more important. By focusing attention on what has happened to a fortunate few among us, and by opening up for debate issues around the long-run functioning of our market system, Capital in the Twenty-First Century has made a profoundly important contribution."

http://www.democracyjournal.org/32/the-inequality-puzzle.php...
200,000 triggers of the animal sensors, 12,000 times that the wheel started spinning.

Also: the researchers hypnotize that the slugs ended up in the wheel by accident. Some mice returned multiple times; that's a fairly good indicator that they found some benefit from it (need not be that they liked it; it's fairly easy to make up perfect direct benefits. For example, it might be that fleas jump of a mouse if it runs in a wheel for a while.
They get direct data on click-back. (Search, click, come back to google after a very short time, is a fair signal, in aggregate, that the users don't like that site's search results or other experience factor.)

I don't believe they directly have bounce data, but they infer it from click-back. They have publicly stated that they do NOT use google analytics data to inform organic search rankings.
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It's odd that the article just drops this figure and then moves on:

> In 2011, Forbes reported that 63 of the 400 richest people in the world never got further than high school.

That's a really interesting number! Of the richest of the rich, all but 16% have a college degree. Among the general population of adults, 40% have a college degree in the US, and under 7% worldwide. If the richest of the rich followed the same proportion, we'd expect 240 of those 400 to have stopped at high school for the US number, or 372 for the worldwide number.

Clearly there is an extremely strong link between extreme wealth and higher education. We can argue causality and necessity, but it's weird to blow right past such a number.
Great advice about facing problems head on, instead of running or avoiding. I started doing that when my anxiety was at its worst, and I've been feeling much better since.

I had been at the company for several years and felt like I was just wandering -- pretty much self taught in a lot of things, for better or worse, so I didn't understand a lot of things still. Pretty much everyone else on the team was/is a senior engineer, and when we would have discussions, I would be quite lost... but I was too afraid/proud to ask for help to understand. I would always feel anxiety during meetings especially, because everyone gave input and I had nothing to say.

I decided that instead of boiling myself in my own anxiety about not knowing how things worked, I would go ask another engineer to help me understand. Reaching out and asking for help (and deciding not to care what people thought of me) helped me realize that it's "ok" (to some extent) to have imposter syndrome.
Haha yes, I understand that perspective, but the mismanagement of the space program does not cloud the engineering feat of launching a reusable orbiter and bringing it safely back to Earth.
Of course, you can learn most of those things. However, it is my belief you will soon tire yourself. Getting to the top of everything is hard enough, staying there even harder.

I used to be up to date in a lot of domains. 3D modelling, app frameworks, web technologies, back end, front end. Those days, I find it's hard enough to focus on being up to date and relevant with front end web development while balancing an healthy life with friends and family.

You can do it, but remember that there is an upkeep to being relevant in a lot of domains. If you can deal with it, sure, go ahead!

However, what I would recommend you is a good team. I'm finding I connect easily with people that have complementary skill sets to mine, and it's a great experience.
I'm confused, you say you don't have to remember and then you say you typed gulp watch.

Well you have to type something in order to start your project unless you like using file:/// URLs. "gulp watch" doesn't just run the watch task - it runs the entire dev environment with watch. How do you run multiple projects with Apache?

And while setting up these modules is a process, I only really have to do it once - I have a template directory I just copy into a new project. Then everything in the src/ directory gets processed accordingly once I type 'gulp watch'.
evidence != proof

He is simply stating that correlation can indicate a need to look deeper into the data, which is IMO true.
For me, it came from understanding what I did not know, and that to do high-level creative work you need a large base of background knowledge. I just took every job as an opportunity to learn and fill in the gaps in my knowledge, so that I'd be better prepared when I did strike out on my own.

I have gaps in between every job I've ever held, but those gaps are strategic. In them, I figure out what I really want to do, and whether I have the tools to do what I really want to do. I applied to YC's first class of S05, as I was finishing up college. I didn't get in. I figured that if investors wouldn't talk to me, I'd learn how to do a bootstrapped startup, so I went to work for a bootstrapped financial software startup. After 2 years there, I quit and founded my own bootstrapped startup, this time in Web 2.0 casual games. It failed too. In examining the failure, I figured that I lacked enough real-world experience to understand what the real markets were, I'd exhausted my pool of potential co-founders, and I had this continuing anxiety about how to do software development "the right way" and make programs that scale. So I moved out to California to work for Google Search. I'm on my own again, but I got everything out of Google that I hoped to get out of it (and more!).

If you're doing it right, each job is an opportunity to get a lot more than money. It's a chance to build technical experience, to challenge yourself, to look at how people with way more experience than you make decisions, to understand how an industry works, and to see how an organization fits together.
Here is the SO question I created for this issue with more details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23453160/keep-original-ty...
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And I'm living nearly thousand miles northwards from Denmark

That's far north... Tromsø? Kirkenes?
I love the irony of calling someone out for hyperbole and then saying there isn't "a single person ever" who went hungry because they don't have a degree. Really, there's not a single person in the history of the world who ended up starving but would have succeeded with a degree?
Do such uses of IP manifest itself in this price index though? (I presume not, since even bare silicon prices should be several cents cheaper than a final packaged discrete device for SIP uses)
Cross-licensing and other "we won't sue you if you don't sue us" foundations get created at the rate of about one a year.

If the previous iterations all failed to do anything meaningful, why do you believe that starting yet another iteration will do something meaningful?
This kickstarter project will let you 3D Print from your phone
Surreal. Looks like video game art of depiction of a future city.
Could the company being sued start playing the same game? As soon one is sued by a troll, reconfigure the 'offending' bit into an asset-less shell company that you purchase/license/etc. things from.
1. No.
2. Yes.
3. Start a side project, grow it into a lifestyle business.

:P
Yes it is. If A and B are correlated, and C and D are not correlated, then absent other information, it's much more likely that A and B are causally related.

I think people get confused because there can be evidence for things that aren't true.
Most of that has nothing to do with Google's WHOIS record, it has to do with other people who have created domain names with "GOOGLE.COM" as a substring, specifically so that their own stuff will show up when you do "WHOIS GOOGLE.COM".
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I'm a little surprised that patent trolls get such a bad rap on hacker news. I would argue that patent trolls exists to protect the small inventors. Without patent trolls, the big companies can easily infringe the small inventors' patents knowing full well that the little guys can't afford to go up against them in court. The patent trolls merely step in to enforce the rights of the small inventors.

That is not to say that software patents are a good idea or should be allowed, and one could certainly make the case against them, but that's a separate issue.
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Yes, I have been in these situations. For me, there was no getting in the zone - I used to spend a lot of time pushing back, trying to oversimplify a solution, or just freezing because I was not stimulated enough by the task at hand.

Ultimately, I chose the path of gritting my teeth and getting over it. During that phase, the code quality suffered a little, but I did not have to waste hours and hours of my life freezing on it. This phase lasted for a few months in some cases.

This is by no means a long term strategy - I accept it as part of any programmer's life and simply deal with it without being emotional about it as much as possible. I have been fortunate enough to get more exciting work than mundane stuff
I found giant road cones the size of people!
There's some pretty crazy heat artifacts, too, if you rotate toward the left of the original position.

http://i.imgur.com/i2ZUcxC.png
Patent trolls have come after my startup. I’m fighting back.
Heroes in a half-shell show how turtles evolved
AMD "Bald Eagle" APUs target high-end embedded Linux
Girls Make Games – Game Dev Camp for Girls, MIT + Double Fine Studios collab.
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I just updated with a couple more grabs. I don't want to pull the full article, but I added in the FT's long time series chart of income inequality and conclusion though.
A degree won't necessarily help her situation.
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She probably should not have gone to college in the first place if she had to take out a large amount of debt.

She doesn't sound like a Gates or a Zuckerberg. They voluntarily dropped out of college because they knew there was something better they could pursue. Did she drop out because she had a business idea or did she burn out? There is a difference.
Does this article still make sense if you click on this:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Everything-Store-Bezos-Amazon/dp/0...

And notice that the book IS AVAILABLE?
The thing that has me sticking with Angular over Meteor is that Angular doesn't care about your backend or infrastructure. With Meteor, I feel limited due to the tight integration of the server and client. Due to that, I feel like its harder to scale, and perhaps only suitable for prototyping.
So the thing about a monopoly is it's totally squishy. There isn't a clear line you cross to become one because there is no clean way to define a market. Every customer places a different value on the product itself, the search and transportation cost of buying from alternative retailers, etc.

So take Walmart. Do they have a local monopoly? First, question, on what? If you want to buy a television then they almost certainly don't, because they have strong competition from Amazon and six dozen other Internet retailers, and on top of that customers tend to be willing to drive out of town to save real money on a big ticket item.

But what about, say, groceries? That pretty much puts the Internet out of the running, because you can't ship a single gallon of milk in a refrigerated truck for anything resembling a competitive price. So then the question is, how far away is the nearest local competitor? If it's only a five minute drive, maybe that's enough competition. If Walmart's prices get out of hand people will start to make the drive. But what if it's 15 minutes? 30 minutes? 45 minutes? What if a substantial portion of the local population doesn't own a vehicle and that "15 minute" drive is a two hour walk? So maybe some Walmart stores have a local monopoly on groceries.

But wait, there's more. If Walmart's local prices start to get out of hand, how hard is it for a competitor to open up? It turns out the answer is, not very hard. A small grocery store is a one person operation. Low barrier to entry. If new competitors spring up six hours after Walmart raises their prices, they can't actually raise their prices very much no matter how far away the nearest existing competitor is. Which is why, even in towns with only that one Walmart, it still doesn't cost $20 for a gallon of milk.
Exactly what I wanted to know.
Brad Osgood's lectures are phenomenal. He was trained as a mathematician, so his explanations are crystal clear in terms of definitions and where physicists sweep mathematical formalisms under the rug. After watching his entire lecture for this course, and spending a lot of time reading the course reader, I learned a lot about how to decrypt the kind of mathematical nonsense that physicists tend to say (as well as learning about the real foundations, c.f. tempered distributions and others).

That being said, a lot of these lectures can be summarized in a few sentences if you already have a strong foundation in linear algebra. For example, the fact that complex exponentials form an orthonormal basis for periodic functions is the content of the first handful of lectures, and deriving the Fourier transform is only slightly messier to explain in terms of linear algebra (this is not because of the linear algebra but because Fourier transforms are inherently a little messy).
I did a CAD conversion.
The requirejs module has both the server-side loading modules and the optimizer that compiles to a single file whereas this new one only does the server-side loading of modules as far as I can tell.
Probably not. Googlebot likely has very fine-grained limitations on CPU/memory/IO usage, and penalizes websites that use too much. Just a hunch.
The Fourier transform is possibly my favorite mathematical function, and the closest I've ever been to "Whoa, math is beautiful". Ironically enough, I reached this conclusion in a signal analysis class, not a math class.
But here's what people say about "dominion" in the bible.

http://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/2860/what-do...