skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The a-priori/a-posteriori distinction is essentially: is its truth subject to observation of the world. Most mathematicians will argue that even complex ideas like imaginary numbers are the result of the system of mathematics, and can be arrived at and proved without observing the world. Physics is a-posteriori because the math involved is used to describe the world, and the correct formulas and the truth of the formulas cannot be arrive at without observation. Even if someones work is just performing certain calculations on others work, somewhere, working backwards, observation is necessary. If you start with imaginary numbers, and work backwards to simpler and simpler math, it is purely self referential. You don't need anything other than the base concepts to prove the truth, and the base concepts are true by definition, not by observation. You don't have to see a triangle to know it has three sides. It has three sides because that is the definition of a triangle.
I am not an expert, but I am definitely thinking the same thing.
Does anyone have a link to the actual decision? Upon rereading, the article certainly makes it seem as though the crux of the ruling was around a denial of international air travel is a deprivation of liberty, but were I the appealing attorney, that would be fantastic news. That's a major change in the permissiveness of the word liberty, and would open up infinite slippery slope arguments. I'd bet on that logic failing on appeal.

However, if the decision relies on other grounds (either solely or in addition to), then I doubt it is overturned. While the Reuters article presents this as legally binding, if the quotes occurred in dicta (discussion of the facts and implications of the case that are not legally binding, as they are not grounded in case or black letter law), then it's not binding, and the ruling can be upheld without addressing the redefinition of liberty.
The issue was about cutting off one's livelihood before conviction, and the inconsistency in saying that it's okay to do that to normals, but a horrible atrocity to do the police.
AWS lowers prices again
[Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years - Peter Norvig](http://norvig.com/21-days.html)
Jibo's Cynthia Breazeal on "Why social robots will change your life"
Fair enough - I take your point.

He didn't like gays.
It could be a resources problem. The company I'm about to leave wanted me to find 24x7 on-call DevOps folks for $70K/piece (Chicago). I told them $100K/year was the floor for quality people and they balked.

Finding talent isn't the only challenge. Incentivizing them to join and stay is equally challenging.
> That is their top priority — they assuredly do not have your best interests at heart.

Choo Choo! Here comes the BULLSHIT TRAIN. All aboard!

For what it's worth I'm pretty sure the change was you, not Google. Google's business model hasn't changed. They are still an ad reseller, just like they always have been. They still don't sell your data, just like they never have.

Automatic account merging still doesn't happen, just like it never did. Google didn't link your friends accounts together, your friend did. And if you for some reason really, really want a different account for youtube and gmail, Google is perfectly happy with you doing exactly that. And there's somewhat reasonable multi-user support to help you do exactly that. And chrome's multi-profile support allows for even stronger walls between accounts. In the particular case of youtube they even let you use a different identity for youtube from the rest of Google, your "gangstakilla999" friend just didn't choose that option when asked when he was merging accounts.
http://www.zdnet.com/google-outed-me-7000025416/
Underscore is also just as fast or faster in nearly all cases.
Yep. And one mistake can result in your server on blacklists it's not clear at all how to remove yourself for (sometimes the process is designed specifically for true bulk mailers and not small-fry "run your own email server" kinds of things).

Eg., set up an alias that forwards to gmail and do your best to make sure spam doesn't get forwarded to gmail and put your entire server on their blacklist? Probably you didn't do good enough.
Something to note on thinking everybody is a super-brilliant "10x" programmer: You're not seeing the same people post deep, insightful things here on HN. There are people who know a lot about this one thing, and can write very accurately and intelligently about it, but don't know anything about HTML or desktop programming (C, C++, others), server-side logic, etc.

The same goes for each of those fields, and every other field--there are certain people who know a lot about them, and when the topic comes up they talk about them. The reason it seems like there are a bunch of super-brilliant "10x" programmers is that there are many, many of these specialized people on HN and around the web, and at least a few of them always have something to say about a topic. It doesn't mean they're all super-brilliant "10x" programmers.
If you're concerned about how much information and control Google has, why would you pay them for their email service?
Meanwhile, in Russia a pizzeria recently launched unmanned delivery:
http://rt.com/news/167936-russia-drones-pizza-delivery/
FPGAs are definitely the way to go. They are cheap and reprogrammable. One awesome devboard is the Zedboard. It includes 2 (?) ARM cores and a 28nm FPGA.
I remember reading that it does turns off the Ads and do absolutely nothing to data collection.
"they found pot flushed in some sewer trap?"

How is that worse than "they found pot under the floorboards"?
Because you think you'll continue needing the service the employee provides in relative perpetuity.
why not put resources/effort towards gimmebar instead of a new svpply ?
I didn't imply that people who have different values are better or worse than each other. I said that, according to a source which is cited on the Wikipedia page for the topic of psychopathy, lack of empathy is often associated with the diagnosis of psychopathy. Lack of empathy doesn't translate directly into lack of dear friends, but my bet is that it's very deeply intertwined.

I still never implied that my values are better. Psychopaths, for example, often believe that their values and views of life are fine, and that the rest of the world is wrong. I can never say whether it's the psychopaths or the non-psychopaths who get it right. (Without rigorous testing, I can actually not reliably claim I am not a psychopath. For one, my empathy scores are moderately lower than male average.) If most of the world agrees that psychopathy should be treated, and the psychopaths say that it shouldn't, then it still doesn't mean that it ultimately has to be treated. I know this sounds like a ridiculous point, but no values can ever be said to be "better" than other values, because "good" is simply so ill-defined in that context. I'm not saying that the OP of the comment is a psychopath, far from it. What I am saying is that our nature instructs us to be empathic and care for our friends and family, and it's not clear to me what I would have to believe and feel to conclude that I care about computers more than I do about my friends.
Always https://www.fastmail.fm/signup/personal.html

$20/year gets you decent email.
Sorry but this is really bad 'default' advice. Shocking, but defaults often are default for a reason. Cranking everything up to 11 is a sign of ignorance in which case you need to step back and understand what you are doing first.

The mmap, file-max, and SHM advice is application dependent. Understand what your system is doing, and only increase if necessary. i.e. PostgreSQL < 9.3 is the only large user of SHM I can think of off hand.

The limits.conf advice is also bad. You should have a safety net here and increase these as needed and per user in /etc/security/limits.d

A less harmful guide would be something like "these are the knobs you may need to turn for certain apps, and here is the documentation on what they affect" - this looks a bit better https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sysctl
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Don't change max values unless it's really needed. Not every production machine needs billions of IPC handles.

My philosophy is keep it do default unless you have an issue. Guess what ? It works just fine.
I'd argue that a person who is not going to be successful with a CS degree is probably also not going to be successful at starting a brand new accreditation system for higher education.

Getting a programming job requires some hustle. Establishing a new foothold in the hyper-comeptitive landscape of high ed probably requires a whole lot more hustle.
So then you have a networking issue too then. The people kind, not the computer kind.

To bridge that gap, you might want to see if there are tech Meetups in your area. In NJ where I am, there are two extremely active groups that throw together entrepreneurs, investors, devs and developers a few times a month for very low cost. Establish who you are, and get assistance from others, advice sharing, make new contacts, find out where the industry is going, etc.. Normally you walk out of the meetings on a better career path than when you entered.
Whether you spend three years in continuous integration and test suites, service oriented design, embedded assembly, high/low level network stack, Javascript, Python, or even a PaaS, you just have to keep challenging yourself. Never settle and keep expanding your views. Bridge the gap by learning and engaging in things that interest you.

Just the amount of understanding required to comprehend the keyboard press to the letter appearing on the monitor is insane.

Remember, you're not useless and inexperienced. The stigma from those words alone are holding you back. I have a feeling you are bored. You have a thirst!

Also, recall that articles and comments are much like Facebook, a peek into someone's good life that makes you feel bad about yourself. The good always seems great, and the bad goes untold. I'm on revision 744 of a 10 page website/service layer right now with only 30% of the requirements met.
The site died a while ago. It would have been interesting what direction Ben and co would have taken it.
thanks for your comment sam, yes i want to develop an opensource project but i couldn't focus any topic, also there are a lot of projects have done before so this projects breaks my ideas.
It would seem that if you have enough probably cause to go into the suspect's family's house with an armed and armored SWAT team tossing grenades, then you would have enough probably cause to simply arrest him and bring him down to the station. It's also much more civilized that way.
Buzzfeed tracks your quiz answers–and the results may surprise you
It's not Google, it's you.
Oculus VR acquires team that helped create the Xbox 360 controller
I haven't written any public sci-fi yet. But this is completely legitimate.
My recommendation for any server with enough RAM is to disable swap. This works on just about every system whether swap is configured or not.

That said, on my Linode I have swappiness=1 and a few GB of swap on the SSD since it is memory-constrained.

In any case, I've been running vm.swappiness=0 or 1 on nearly every machine I touch for many years now and have yet to see any problems. Swap is almost always a bad idea on modern machines.

Thanks for reading!
Meh, I don't find it difficult at all. I've run my own mailserver for years and years. I generally spend about 3(ish) man-days per year working on it.

The only frustrating part is that I generally don't get to choose when those 3 days happen—most all time spent is putting out fires. But then again that's sysop life in general…
Well, nothing for analytics or the like.

By why would they automagically scan your email and the like if they aren't serving ads?

Personally, I don't care how much data anyone has on me as long as it isn't someone capable of putting me in prison. :P
nah, people would just google yahoo with bing.
Extremely saddened. Svpply was one consumer goods portal I continuously felt like I could rely on.
If your PR firm can get a story about your company on a NY Times blog, I don't think you worry about how a few tech pedants might interpret some innocuous quote.
I understand and sympathize with this lament, but I think Ben Thompson nails it in his recent article "Privacy Is Dead"[1]:

There are other services that can’t even realistically choose between advertising and member-supported. Facebook is a great example: the utility of Facebook is directly correlated with how many people you know who are also using Facebook, and the only way to maximize that number is to make the service free, supported by advertising. Google is in a similar boat: the efficacy of search is in many ways tied to how many people are using search. Queries and clicks are the raw grist for Google improving its algorithm, and the more the better, which means making queries free.

I'd like to emphasize that latter point, "queries and clicks are the raw grist for Google." Approaches like PageRank and tf-idf[2] are only part of the story. A really fascinating and vital point is that the search user activity itself is an amazingly valuable source of relevance data. E.g. one can build a matrix over (search term, number of clicks for URL) as a search index. This supplements the other algorithmic relevance factors, is driven directly by human feedback.

Google employees have mentioned that they've worked on other aspects of relevance analysis based on user actions: it's possible to suss out situations such as: you clicked on a link, but clicked right back to the search results because that link sucked. Eventually you found a good result and it "stuck".

So user activity itself is very powerful source of search relevance and having more users just makes it work better. In fact, it's a bit startling to realize you can, in theory, build a search index without any source document data based solely on which links were clicked the most. In practice, we need to seed relevance with the purely algorithmic factors then improve it with the feedback data.

Given that, an incumbent search engine with a large user base has a big advantage over competitors: they own the base of user activity data. Google's advantage is not just the technology expertise that they've amassed over the years, but also the raw fact of its search market share leadership that any would-be competitor must overcome.

[1] http://stratechery.com/2014/privacy-dead/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf
I changed the primary sort to the count, then filtered on just "Fan Go". Then, I wanted to compare the total amount Fan Go had raised in comparison to other companies, so I changed the primary sort back to the total, but then was unable to see "Fan Go" on the "Total Raised - Company" bar chart. I had to hover over the bubble in the graph instead to see the total amount Fan Go had raised.
Anyone know why Dropbox is considered a Dublin-based company? Shouldn't their SF office be considered the main HQ?
Yup. Modern philosophy is usually divided into Analytic and Continental. Analytic is by far the most common in England (its birthplace) and the US. Continental (as the name implies) is most common in France and Germany. It can be much more abstract. Phenomenology and Existentialism are two strains of Continental philosophy (Husserl for the first, and Heidegger, Sartre, and Kierkegaard for the other.)
> like everyone else here

You need to realize that there are a lot of people commenting on hacker news (or for instance Stack Overflow). On any given topic, specialists of that field will show up and share their insight. For instance, on an article on technology X, it's not uncommon that someone that helped developing X shows up.

You also need to remember it's not the same person that knows everything :) it may be the case for instance that the distributed algorithms expert is clueless about PHP for instance.
The ideas on the web page are closer to the Scheme-79 chip [1] than a Lisp Machine.

[1] http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6334
Find it here. Deprivation of liberty is not the whole issue, it was a problem with lack of due process, of which deprivation of liberty is but one part.

https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/latif_v_hold...

I summarised the case in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7940334
In a way that's already true, since the commits are still there (and included when you clone). They're just not discoverable.

It would be neat though if GitHub added some UI magic to recover dangling commits, possibly using the knowledge of which branches previously pointed to them and/or push -f operations.
Does it matter if your death will moderately increase the happiness of a room full of bunnies? The group-ethics model has some pretty obvious limits, which I think you've violated in your example.
Right now we only support CSVs they get served directly from blob storage to the browser (without going through our webserver). We obviously want to expand on those options, but CORs makes serving from internal company data sources a PITA. We could use our domain as a proxy to the relevant info, but that has its own issues (auth, perf). I'm sure we'll be able to work it out though. Automated CSV imports will probably be the best way to do things initially.

When you import your CSV, we take educated guesses about the data in each column (number, category, date), but you can change it if necessary (sometimes numbers should be treated like categories). We give you the ability to group dates by day of week and month. Month-year isn't in there yet, but should be by launch.

It works best one un-aggregated source data (since we do so all the fine level aggregation ourselves in the browser). Dealing with weighted averages is possible and we've done it a lot in custom work, but machete doesn't yet have support for it.

Thanks for the kind words :)
That's never going to work. How is yum or apt ever going to grok the 5+ python virtualenvs I'm working with at any given time?
How to cope with the emotional stress of a startup (2012)
"10x" is one of the more destructive memes going around. It's a subtle shift in the discussion from talking about technique and actual work, to talking about something which is being used as a proxy for "your worth as a human being".

The only work which matters is the work which gets done. You can accomplish a lot by simply doing the things that need doing. Bad code gets written and all that.
Well, anecdotally, I've been in a house full of drugs when the cops showed up, and those drugs were gone before the cops stepped foot in the house. Yes, I had a not-so-optimal childhood.
The people who don't know what the address bar on their browser is would be in some serious trouble. (Not being a smarty pants. As someone who works with a lot of computer illiterates I've become painfully aware that there's a large user-base who don't know you can get somewhere on the internet without Google)
One of the really cool things to see here in Italy is how good they are at completely tearing out the guts of a house and redoing it. They'll strip it down to the bricks and then re-add everything they tore out. It's interesting to observe, and nice too, to see something get fixed up rather than just bulldozed and rebuilt as happens with so much stuff in the United States.

That said, I know jack about what's actually involved technically, and I bet old wood houses (as are common in Oregon) are a lot harder to do that with than old brick homes.
Because they've already been using them as a contractor* and decided it would make sense to bring them in-house full-time.

* "We’ve been working with Carbon for nearly a year on multiple unannounced projects."
Linux dominates supercomputers as never before
You have any before and after photos?
Backbone.aio – simple socket.io transport for backbone
Is it time to break up tech monopolies? I think the writing is on the wall.
WebRTC Revolution in progress
Being a programmer will definitely humble most people. It is probably impossible to know even a significant part of what makes up Computer Science. Add to that the requirements for knowing Software Engineering which generally bears little overlap with CS and you're probably always going to be behind.

The important thing is to keep learning hard things unrelated to your current development stack and methodologies. Don't get stuck on only doing tasks where you are already an expert.
Perhaps because they'd like exclusive use of their services?
The US needs to rewrite some of that amendment stuff. It clearly sucks.
So is the existence of free will in the scope of science? Are you suggesting that science cannot help us determine if reality actually exists but it can tell us if free will exists?

EDIT: I think it cannot for the simple reason that the so called individual is trying to figure out if there is scientific evidence of his own existence.
bummed about this. canopy.co is another alternative - but just for amazon products.