skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i don't mean to dismiss this guy's gripe, cause obviously it does not work well for him, but for me, this "just works."

with a little experimentation, it seems that everything becomes horrible if you're not already logged in to the google account you need to use. if I am, I get exactly the desired result even if my only open tabs are using a different google account.
What point is that?
Map/reduce invented at Google?
From Gmail to Fastmail
even if it is "threshold" its simply a binary relation and not an explanatory variable at the margin. so, yes...you might be able to weed out some data...but of what is left its unliklely to differeniate, except by proxy (as alluded to in the other comments) for something else.
They seem to eat only their own dog food.
Maybe they dropped adjourning games.
The bosses(Figure head manager) would still make more than programmers. How is that any correction
I think the best explanation is that they just destroyed one chip on each PCB, maybe more on larger PCBs. If your goal is to make the device non-operational that's not a bad approach.
Come now, this is 2014. We have working web fonts now, we're allowed to use them, and the web is better for it.
This is why I use different browsers for different accounts (Chrome, Safari and Firefox are generally all fine for regular web use) and Choosy (http://www.choosyosx.com/) to prompt me which browser to open the link in.

It also allows for binding certain URLs to specific browsers.
Same with Google+. I always get Hangout invites to the wrong Google account, and then we spend 10 minutes trying to get the call started and eventually switch to Skype.
Better to have programmers who have learnt something about programming at college. Too many programmers without aptitude in IT shops who transferred into programming from some other non-technical job in the same company.
"Benford's Law can be used to show that binary is the best base for doing floating point math."

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2005/01/13/float...
Likely an explosion of opening novelties as a result of deep home preparation.

edit: this would have been during the peak of the soviet chess machine's powers, which is what I associate with the first real period of intense analysis into the openings and the storing/hoarding of opening novelties.
Thanks for this, very useful.

From what I know all iPads and Android tablets have pressure sensitive apps and touch screens and you can buy a stylus that supports it as well.

I've an Asus Transformer Prime TF201. Runs Android. Nice enough for certain kinds of drawing, but no pressure-sensitive screen.

Perhaps now they all have this, but it wasn't standard a few years ago.

Markers looks like an interesting hack; I will give that a try.

I've yet to find an Android drawing program that gets everything right though.

What makes the Surface 3 so appealing is that I've already some Windows apps I'm happy with for Wacom-driven drawing. Running those on a tablet would be ideal.
I have a guess. In 1952 FIDE reworked the rule about draws by agreement removing a clause which prevented players from agreeing to a draw before move 30. This is something that isn't mentioned in the article and I think really should be touched upon if the author wants to claim that longer chess matches imply chess has become more defensive. A lot of games are draws by agreement (hopefully the article could also tell us how many of those there are) and so a longer average game could just mean that players are waiting longer to agree to a draw.

Edit: Citation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draw_by_agreement
As Publishers Fight Amazon, Books Vanish
Design exists. It is not egotistical by nature. It's not going away. Get used to it.
I recently also started using Browserify with Typescript (along with tds to get some ambient files for popular libraries). I got it to work after tryping countless of hacky things.

What I ended up with was a seperate ts file that is just the module, and variables I export. See this:

http://jsbin.com/gidaneja/1/edit?js,output

So I do a "<reference path=" for the ambient paths of variables.
Then I declare require so I can call browserify's require.
Then I create a function with it's return type being used based on ambient files I included.
Then I create an export variable and call the function to set it's value. Then I can use that variable without a problem everywhere.

I tried using the whole "import lodash = require('lodash.d.ts') thing and other variations and failed miserably. This is the only thing I got to work, and its working perfectly. Email me (email should be on my profile) if it's not clear, I know the explanation was kinda vague.
Holy shit! No kidding! From wikipedia: "Monocrystalline synthetic diamond enriched in the isotope 12C (99.9%) has the highest thermal conductivity of any known solid at room temperature: 33.2 W/(cm·K)"

Copper is about 4 W/(cm*K).
Are you suggesting that these people aren't being truthful about their need, or, are you saying it's amazing that internet access is so [relatively] cheap? Or... ?

Internet access costs less per month than a takeaway pizza in my country. Libraries and other community centres provide free access to computers with broadband internet.

One of the surprises for me when, some years ago, I found myself in a developing nation (with unstable power supplies and non-potable tap water) was that every street corner in the town I was staying in had a (hand painted) advert for an internet cafe. It wasn't cheap compared to food prices - but since then globally food prices seem to have gone up and internet prices gone down considerably.
Are they also going to force participants not to blog, talk about, or otherwise disseminate the information they gleaned there?

Otherwise, this childishness is just another act by the clueless to try grabbing some attention for themselves, while doing something of no practical value. While simultaneously flaunting how little they know, about how the world really works.
There's obviously a strong intention to find some way of rationalizing your existing political opinion when a book like this is published, either against the status quo (in the sense of agreeing with the book) or in favour of the status quo (finding some way of 'debunking' it). This is made worse because there is a whole industry in providing the material to reinforce our preconceptions. And, also, because the news cycle is by nature much faster, and much less patient, than would be necessary to fully judge the economic case in a book like this. It doesn't make good copy to say that the conclusions will be tested over the next years, and to wait for that gradual outcome.

At the moment it seems to be very difficult for professional economists to come to a clear conclusion, so in terms of the academic judgement of the work, the rest of us should hardly be coming down strongly one way or another.

Edit: Ironically, there seems to be an error in the linked article:

> For America, the outcome of the analysis is relatively muddy (based in part on the fact that the source data themselves are harder to parse, according to Mr Giles). The trend for the top 1% share does not seem to be affected. For the top 10% it is harder to say; here is a chart Mr Giles produces:

When you look at the chart, it's the 10% trend (the triangles) which is unaffected, and the 1% trend (the squares) which is muddied. I therefore say with utmost confidence that I have debunked the debunking of the debunking of Piketty. I don't know which of my preconceptions that means I can keep intact.
Translation of terms:
Play -> ply (or half-move)
Match -> game

The data doesn't support the conclusion that chess is becoming more defensive. It could be that time controls or new rule changes have changed the play. For instance, one proposed rule change is to not allow draws before move 50, which would definitely impact the number of moves.
Honestly this is where so much stuff falls flat on its face. People claiming they 'know' on either end of the nuts/pragmatic/scientifc spectrum.

'I think therefore I am' - cliche ofc. Only thing I can prove.

BUT. Prove a damn thing after that. If you can, you're not logically correct, you have no proof of anything outside of your existence. It looks real to you - that's your 'proof'.

We've all thought this at least once: It could be a simulation, you can't prove it's not.

You are choosing to believe you're living on earth, and there's a universe, and you're in it, and it's made out of stuff.

You are choosing this (perhaps sensible) scenario, but it is a choice. Because you may well be here reading this to yourself, from yourself, by yourself in the vacuum of your own imagination - and you wouldn't know.

Anyways... once you pass all that, you get to pick and choose what you prefer, and life becomes easier, and kinder, and more fun.. in my little experience anyway. Because you know everything you see and do is half-bullshit, and it's alllllright.
This quote leaps out "Oh, it’s been awful if you’re an activist, a dissident, a journalist, a victim of identity theft, a specific target of the NSA, etc; but most people aren’t."

It isn't all that different than the 'real world' where if someone decides to target you in meatspace there isn't a lot you can do (except perhaps arm yourself and the outcome of that is dubious at best). I'm all in favor of building a more secure network though. We could even use the pipes that are there, definitely going to start small though.
Scheme implementations have had to deal with this problem for a long time. (Of course, one can argue that languages with ordinary while loops have a similar problem, in that value of previous iterations of the loop get overwritten by later iterations).

You can alleviate it by hanging on to stack frames for a while. Scheme48 heap-allocates stack frames, and then relies on garbage collection to reclaim space from tail-calls, so this happens automatically. And MIT Scheme uses a ring-buffer to keep around the last 10-or-so frames. (Actually it is even nicer than that: it uses ringbuffer-of-ringbuffers to keep 10-or-so frames from each of the last 10-or-so non-tail recursive calls. So when debugging you can pop up the call stack, and then at each level examine the last couple interations of the loops done at that level).
Sure, it's all gotos at the machine level. There's nothing wrong with implementing map that way. The point is to use a higher-level, less free-form control structure when it matches the problem, because it gives the reader more information.
Show me one real democracy. One place where the people's were the ones ruling, or at least a majority. It's not the case.

I wouldn't even say that's a bad thing. I just think many things that are said about democracy, maybe the be pessimistic or optimistic comes from a perspective that seems extremely distant from reality.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mean it like "the bad evil system. There is nothing we can do against it", but more in the sense that we can, say we want, but still don't do so, probably based on erroneous understanding lying deep in history scalping todays society.

In that sense the article mentioning the "doing gardening" and the rejection of it is maybe the wrong way, because I think that the majority, probably even in an anarchistic sense is an extremely strong force. Whatever their reality, their according action is is status quo. That's why oppressive or totalitarian governments are so much into censorship. That's why for most of history objecting someone in a higher rank was punished so hard, even if it was simple words. They could give a direction for many.

Maybe that's a way modern technologies, the very thing that allows this communication also prevents focus. The focus shifts away rather quickly. There is barely a long term view. Everything older than ten to five years is a distant history. In the now however there is too much information to comprehend. The view goes back to the last big event, like 9/11. And that's something the article talks about and seems accurate. It is something that made me wonder too.

So many developments are said to have emerged from 9/11, but barely any actually have. ECHELON was there, the east-west and the middle-least conflicts were there. The NSA and it's mission to surveil the whole world was there. Secret pacts in these directions have emerged from World War 2, maybe even earlier.

If you look back into history, thirty years things don't seem all too different. It reminds me of all the dystopian novells written after or in the time of such events, depicting how one could simply shift the focus of society.

And we in the startup community, often dealing with marketing know that. It's the rapid focus shift, often mixed with surveillance, like when optimizing a registration funnel that creates an often not so real view of reality for the majority, whose reality you usually have to accept.
probably not.

also, your description is incomplete: we also use binary, hexadecimal, octal and other numbering systems on a regular basis.
And it really does, too. One of the first things I noticed was how legible the small point sizes were. Fantastic.
How can a diamond be "used"? I think it's only the person offering to buy it trying to convince you of this.

Diamonds are cheap and easy to appraise, and with laser etching easy to identify. I buy all my ice with AGL certs off eBay.

There are more degrees of freedom than with something like gold coins, so diamonds aren't fungible. It adds complexity but I don't think it hurts resale that badly.

If the resale market were so much cheaper, that's where everyone would buy their stones, right?
Not being convinced by the evidence (or lack thereof) of every religious faith is not a faith. You can call it a faith until you turn blue in the face, it still isn't one.
New players to chess are introduced to classical and Romantic games from the 1800s, and while I'm nowhere near very good, it seems harmful to show off these games as quality when they are often based on large inaccuracies. That being said, when I follow current top 10 player matches the players are so focused on playing the right move to maintain or develop an advantage that there is less sense of excitement or sharpness than games I've seen in games from 40-50 years ago. Perhaps that's why the famous players from then will be immortalized more deeply than prodigies like Caruana. Still, the advent of computers really changed the game, perhaps for worse.
Fare Dodging Is an Organized Rebellion in Stockholm, and It’s Winning
30k != 300k

Do you get approximately 150k/yr of equity in the 5th year?

I think a lot of us are trying to understand the "300k/yr" part.

I wouldn't doubt to much that maybe a few people are getting paid that, but I doubt it's the median.
The Ph.D. Grind, Year One (2012)
I thought was disabled as a compromise because they refused to give those governments the ability to decrypt it. BBM had similar issues.

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/09/unconfirmed-saudi-arabia-...
Benford's law is so well known today, that many a "forger" will evade it easily. One way is to create random numbers and find a solution that fits both your goal and Benford's law.

I think this is what the German ADAC did when they falsified test results around a general "idea" what they wanted to see.
The obvious answer is specialization. Computer science needs to be split, at the very least, into theoretical CS and Software Engineering. From there, both CS and Software engineering will need to contain specializations as well. Software Engineering will splinter into Networking, Javascript Performance optimization, Compiler optimization, etc.
By creating value, do you mean that the comments you write are themselves valuable, or do you mean things like driving traffic to/recruiting for your company?
In math, there are many "proofs" that 1 = 2. Going through them and picking them apart is a useful exercise, and can expose misunderstandings and mistakes that are important to be aware of. But at the end of the day, nobody really seriously considers that 1 actually equals 2, it's too at odds with everything else we know.

This article is saying that it's possible the FT piece found a valid nitpick, but that the conclusion they're fighting against (rising wealth inequality) is backed up far too strongly by other independent sources for a nitpick to damage it at all.
> With the advent of computers in the mid-1900s [...]

Slightly off-topic but... wow! I didn't see this coming. It feels like the advent of the computer age is officially part of History now.
I'd say if you feel you can be happy in typical or standard career path, then by all means save yourself a lot of trouble and do that. Some people really are happier that way. If you're one of those who can't be happy in that lifestyle, you probably know who you are. If you're one of those people, then I think you have to keep trying for what you really want. Nothing else will ultimately satisfy.
It sounds like China is joining the diamond consumer movement, which would increase demand significantly.
Of course! But that still doesn't mean you should use them most of the time. Continuations are great for writing compilers but confusing to use elsewhere. Just like you don't normally write assembly (but it's necessary sometimes), you shouldn't normally use these exceptionally flexible but unstructured abstractions in a program you want other people to read.

Instead you want to use constructs that are familiar and easy to reason about. It's hard to beat a for loop.
Why Couples Tend To Marry Those With Similar DNA
Greed Wasn't Always Good
The point of 'coding is the new literacy' is that we also need grade school CS standards.
This is an important point. When I first started using the internet in the late 80s there was nary a non-mil site (and even those were iffy) that I couldn't get into almost instantaneously using remote exploits in widely used software like sendmail; and once in it was almost trivial to get root escalation, often through fairly well known (by the standards of the time) issues with the way suid root programs would badly parse environmental variables that you could maliciously malform to get the suid program to execute other arbitrary programs.

Things were much less complex back then but the security was far worse on the whole than it is today. People would just telnet around! In plaintext! On local networks that were largely switch-free with ethernet adapters that would gladly go into promiscuous listening mode. Not to mention things like full-blown IP spoofing before ingress/egress filtering was common and all the TCP stacks had terribly predictable sequencing.

The important things that changed are as you said that dramatically greater number of people are impacted by these issues, and to a lesser degree the people hacking into systems back then on average were less likely to have any malicious intent or financial motives (the change with this is somewhat directly related to the first point).
You don't often see scientific work having implications in world economic policies that much, but when it does, it's really entertaining to watch.

It's still weird that it takes the work of an economist to prove something that everybody already knows. That's a big elephant in the room.

It puts a little faith in my political opinions that some could start listening to this discussion. It kinda pains me to watch you need to hear the word of an economist to prove it to you though.
I'm going to take the contrarian view: yes. Inertia is very powerful. We'll stay with base-10.

Scientific notation is, not, btw, fundamentally a different number system; it only provides for approximation of (most) very large or very small numbers, unless you want to spell out all the digits before the exponent, which of course would defeat the purpose. It's still really base-10.
Hmm, these people could be making the more rational choice. Depending on what they do for money, internet access could provide a higher return than food.
Consistency is aesthetics, at least in part.
Tendency to spy and tendency to exclude visitors for specious reasons are orthogonal. US immigration control is notorious, even amongst citizens just trying to reenter our own country from other "friendly" countries.
> Distance of stars from Earth in light years

that's weird
Think of life with plastic bits in our water supply.

Filters work really well to remove those, but most of the other life on Earth doesn't use filtered water... regardless, these plastic bits seem pretty inert.
Here's the relevant part of the first link:

8 Safeguarding of information.

(1)Where a Crown servant or government contractor, by virtue of his position as such, has in his possession or under his control any document or other article which it would be an offence under any of the foregoing provisions of this Act for him to disclose without lawful authority he is guilty of an offence if—

(a)being a Crown servant, he retains the document or article contrary to his official duty; or

(b)being a government contractor, he fails to comply with an official direction for the return or disposal of the document or article,

or if he fails to take such care to prevent the unauthorised disclosure of the document or article as a person in his position may reasonably be expected to take.

(2)It is a defence for a Crown servant charged with an offence under subsection (1)(a) above to prove that at the time of the alleged offence he believed that he was acting in accordance with his official duty and had no reasonable cause to believe otherwise.

(3)In subsections (1) and (2) above references to a Crown servant include any person, not being a Crown servant or government contractor, in whose case a notification for the purposes of section 1(1) above is in force.

(4)Where a person has in his possession or under his control any document or other article which it would be an offence under section 5 above for him to disclose without lawful authority, he is guilty of an offence if—

(a)he fails to comply with an official direction for its return or disposal; or

(b)where he obtained it from a Crown servant or government contractor on terms requiring it to be held in confidence or in circumstances in which that servant or contractor could reasonably expect that it would be so held, he fails to take such care to prevent its unauthorised disclosure as a person in his position may reasonably be expected to take.

TL;DR: if you have sensitive information (and you know it is sensitive, and have not been given it by someone with access who expects you to keep it secret) and do not return or destroy it as you are asked you are committing a criminal offence.
Have you tried FoxyProxy Firefox extension?
So, does this mean that any intelligent life that might have been closer to SGR 1806-20 is now extinct?
Sentinel has two separate hard drives, both encrypted. After deciphering the hard drives, the IRGC-AF

And that's how we know most of what the Iranian military says regarding the Sentinel is completely fabricated. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be nearly impossible for them to decrypt a properly encrypted hard drive unless they had an powerful supercomputer?
Nigerian prince, 2.0
I also recently switched from Gmail to Fastmail and haven't looked back. The webmail is fantastic, they're not scanning my email to show me ads, IMAP works great across all of my devices (which makes me more inclined to use OpenPGP when I can), and I can use it with my own domain rather than gmail.com. They're also working on CardDAV and a web calendar (with CalDAV support), which will get me completely off of google once completed.

The only thing I really miss is push notifications to my phone, but I've found that 15 minute fetching works well enough for the time being.

Overall I've been really happy with it over the last 3 months. Definitely worth the $40/yr in my eyes.
I asked Sundar Pichai about this at D10 in May, 2012 (see http://allthingsd.com/20120702/googles-wojcicki-and-pichai-o... @ ~35:40) and he said within 3 months they'd improve it... Still waiting. :(