skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not surprisingly, people often confuse well spoken individuals with intelligent individuals. We've probably all met the incredibly polished and well spoken person who was otherwise dumb as a sack of hammers

The classic example being Stephen Fry.
Anecdotal but I had a lot of people dying around me stating they spent too much time chasing money and too little on living. And I know a lot of pensioners as well who say the same thing; now they are living the life they wanted but have little time left (they think; I always come up with statistics and say they have 20-30 years more but he, who listens to that?). Another salient detail; most guys say they shouldn't have had kids because it took away too much time and most women reget not having more. Anecdotal, still, two countries and around 100 people. Research papers were written with less :)
When people think about the future and artificial intelligence, they have all these crazy ideas about robots becoming conscious like skynet in terminator or Hal on 2001 a space odyssey. But I suspect the opposite will be true. Things like the human brain project in the EU and the brain initiative in the US, and other research are likely to explain human consciousness. I suspect it will answer long standing questions about spirituality. And by time we implement sophisticated AI, consciousness won't be a mystery.
I am not a lawyer. I would imagine you could be charged with 'obstruction of justice' or some other such law if you did this in the US or as a US citizen. Something to think about before doing such a thing.

edited to be more verbose
Check out HyperSwitch ( http://bahoom.com/hyperswitch ) - it makes cmd+tab and cmd+backtick way more useful. Window previews, cycle through minimised windows and other good stuff
Even without randomization of pivots expected run time is O(n log n). If the order of the input data is random, I don't believe randomizing pivots changes the distribution of running times.

What changes is that one very common permutation of data (ascending data) does not have O(n * 2) performance.
Any idea how it compares with the commercial ViEmu plugin? I've never tried their Xcode plugin, but years ago I used ViEmu for Visual Studio and found its emulation pretty solid.
well no they don't (though hipchat etc comes close for teams etc), but that doesn't seem to withhold people from using it as a (crippled) replacement
Source?

Satoshi dice outperformed holding btc, and that was during the period when btc skyrocketted from 10 to 100.
Also, but I may be wrong here, asicminer did a similar trick.
Very interesting. Naturally I'm skeptical due to the small sample size, and them seemingly only testing her auditory, and motor responses. However, the apparent gradual dampening of her reactions is indeed intriguing, it'd be nice to see some sort of follow up study.

If they indeed found an on/off switch, it'd be interesting to attempt to "kickstart" some coma victims. If it works, it'd be a major breakthrough.
The modern armies rely too much on technology. Yes, it gives you an edge, but it is also a two-edged sword. That's why the old-fashioned insurgent armies of men with human eyes and an AK47 often outfight the soldiers with all the bells and whistles.

The Wehrmacht was very high-tech compared to the Red Army in the 1940s, but the Soviets (as did the Americans on the Western Front) threw quantity rather than quality at the Wehrmacht, and destroyed it. True, they lost a lot of stuff and men, but they won.

As Stalin said,"Quantity has a Quality all of its own." It's no good having men or equipment that has a 100-to-1 kill ratio, if the enemy can throw 101 at them.
I hope someone revives Firefox's Qt port. Jolla seems to have made progress there but not sure it's enough to have the XUL based interface.
I was under the same impression, even though I do not speak French.

Anything important left out?
For future bugs:

Don't send random emails to people in the company, most people can't be held accountable for mishandling bug-reports (or ignoring them).

Look up the contact to send non-conformance reports in the user-manual of the device, there has to be a contact address, maybe even a (paper) form to fill out. Send it by paper-mail to the address (most likely the QA department). Request a classification of the issue (urgent, user-error, critical, ...) and an ID under which this issue is tracked. Set a deadline for replies to your inquiries.

If you really want to be serious, the FDA takes reports on defective medical products, here's a webpage on this process:

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/HowToReport/DownloadForms...
I think the general point is that problems just aren't that interesting for small n.
Linux apps packaged as zip? #WTF
I use XVim and I love it, it's decent enough and I would be editing very slowly in Xcode without it.

Things I wish it would have:

1. ge and gE

2. Marks like ``

3. Changelists so I can g; and g,

4. Visual block replace.

5. Something like the surround.vim plugin to surround blocks of text.

The one thing I absolutely love is the keybindings support so I can map something like <leader>f to Open Files (a fuzzy finding tool that comes with Xcode).

Or my favorite, <leader>d to Look up documentation under the cursor. No more option+clicking with your mouse! (Useful for Swift to check what type the compiler has inferred)

Here's a link to my ~/.xvimrc if anyone wants more:

https://github.com/ajh17/dotfiles/blob/master/.xvimrc
The architect behind "earthships"[1] made a similar observation regarding used tires -- finding it was the most readily available resource pretty much anywhere. Fill a tire with packed sand, and you have a very good brick, making a wall that has excellent properties wrt heat (either keeping it in, or out).

You can also use regular bottles for construction[2]: you need to cut them in two, and fit them together, and layer them into clay/concrete/etc -- and you have again a wall that lets in light, and has good isolation properties (due to the air pockets in the empty bottles).

I recommend watching "Garbage Warrior" for more on real-world sustainable eco-housing:

http://www.garbagewarrior.com/

[1] http://earthship.com/Designs/simple-survival

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle_wall
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Yeah, it's moved a fraction north now into the city, but that area would be a horrible place to stay, despite the many plush hotels - there are few good restaurants, only expensive (and soulless, and dead on the weekend) bars, and it's a ways away from anything interesting either on a touristy/culture (except St. Paul's) or tech basis. Hmm. From the above it seems to be user generated though, but interesting. There's a juxtaposition here that I wonder if the OP could exploit between good reviews (hotels, restaurants) and the sort of livability/walk ability ideas that some of the other posters have mentioned.

Love the design, look and simplicity of the app though very nice.
I really am a fan of the idea of all these crowd-sourced equity ideas that are getting hatched.

As a boots on the ground business guy, however, the potential for fraud and abuse is staggering. I have seen things go down with 'accredited investors' trying to get into the startup gold rush that are unbelievable. To me, at least. And these same guys are on kickstarter right now, where there's no accountability whatsoever, cleaning up.

All I can say about the regulation of equities is that it's an ugly solution to a very real white collar crime problem.
You'd figure it out within a minute of watching
The bot will who get's an invitation code.
Fortunately, most functional languages (including Haskell) provide mutable random access arrays, so the slow-down is theoretical.
I can't stand 9/11 conspiracy theories.
You might be interested in Nix: The purely functional package manager [0]

[0] - https://nixos.org/nix/
There's a difference between bugs that cause downtime and bugs that endanger the life of the patient, and I think the FDA is primarily concerned with the latter. I would think a bug that caused the wrong image to be captured and could cause doctors to make the wrong decisions would be taken very seriously.
And Mac with X11 emulator/vm/what ever XQuartz is. And Windows if you use the 2 year old version that has a ton of issues (UI bugs, glitches, old GTK bugs, etc).

Running on multiple Linux DE's/OS's is not cross platform as far as I am concerned, even though technically it is lol.
They're building a block of modern flats over the road from me at the moment not too dissimilar to the one in the video.

It took 9 months to build the foundations and about 3 months to get the superstructure up (concrete) and another 9 months now doing internal and external decoration. They're now tidying it all up.

That begs the question: this product saves the 3 months bit. That is only 14% of the time on such a structure. Is that worth saving? Is it viable on those grounds?

Laying a stable foundation (your Lego board) for this must be pretty hard as well to stay in tolerance.

Having done the electrics on an old Victorian house, I do rather like the built in conduit system though although another question: do the bricks break their structural strength if you make a whole in the skin to run cables/faceplates)
No it doesn't...

http://www.gtk.org/language-bindings.php - 3.10 - 12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_bindings_for_Q... - 7

And of that 7, 3 are the only "language integrations". The rest are parts (Go-QML)/part of Qt (QtQuick, C++).

So 12 to 3 for GTK. And the GTK language binding is not complete, for example Rust has a GTK binding (though not done).
If you install egison on your machine, ctrl-c should work on your machine. However, ctrl-c does not work online egison currently.
If the buyer had reformatted the HD immediately after buying it, would that have made it impossible for the seller to lock it? Could the buyer have changed the account which it was linked to without going through the seller?

Of course a bill of sale would also have been enough to get Apple to help, according to another comment. But even that is not hard forge.
How to create cool navigation
My favorites:

“The science of building a scalable sales team” http://www.gv.com/lib/the-science-of-building-a-scalable-sal...

"Lean Product Management" http://www.gv.com/lib/lean-product-management

"Lean Analytics" http://www.gv.com/lib/lean-analytics
According to Google[1] key in English is from an old English word of unknown origin. It also doesn't mean it has to come from the word of the exact same meaning in its origin language

[1] https://www.google.com/webhp?ie=UTF-8#q=etymology%20key
Shareware insight: Piracy
That approach works for free command-line tools written for technology specialists.

But not if you are trying to make money with an app for the "general public", for example on the mobile app stores or oldschool shareware. Keeping it working is not enough, it must keep up with the latest trends in design and APIs that become available for extra features.

The old APIs and design guidelines could be a perfectly precise standard that still works - but it's the old standard when users expect new ones.
restore encapsulation (then get rid of the g pointers).

Global variables begin with g

http://root.cern.ch/root/htmldoc/guides/users-guide/GettingS...

While it's true that indiscriminate use of global variables can turn code into spaghetti nearly as quickly as unrestrained use of goto, global variables do have legitimate uses and exist in one form or another in almost every programming language.

Lisp's version of global variables, dynamic variables, are both more useful and more manageable.

Common Lisp provides two ways to create global variables: DEFVAR and DEFPARAMETER.

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/variables.html
A good package manager should allow to:
-share dependencies
-provide a way to install multiple versions of the same package

These requirements are not mutually exclusive. With a proper file system hierarchy both of them could be accomplished.

Most of the popular distribution's package managers (apt, pacman, etc) support the sharing dependencies but almost none of them support installing multiple versions of the package.

Given that storage space is very cheap nowadays I think a package manager like NPM which stores copies of the dependencies is not that bad actually.
> I remember the days when C was just yet another systems programming language deemed too slow for any serious work.

I've heard that remark several times. Which languages were faster than C back then, except assembly? Fortran? Algol? BCPL?
Brain Pickings features "Hackers & Painters"
I often think about exactly both these points. We are so far behind in terms of research compared to particle physics because we don't have the ability to destructively smash consciousness apart just to see what falls out over and over again. "Zapping" very low number of brains is going to be slow going, and unfortunately is not far from the best we have to work with.
> flagrant reinvention of the standard library

That's b/c the C++ standard library (or its implementation among various compilers) was terrible 13 years ago when Qt 3 was released. Some say it still is.
I have degree in computer science but I owe a large part of what I understand about physics and electronics to my speaker building hobby. I highly recommend getting into the physics of sound. It’s actually pretty simple and will teach you how waves behave in general.

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ljlukkar/labsub/

I’m currently working on a Arduino based pre amp that hosts a rest api for remote controlling:
http://tinypic.com/r/15yvj2g/8
http://tinypic.com/r/11vmhld/8
http://tinypic.com/r/jrzfk5/8
That really puts into perspective how huge Yo app is a threat to national security. It's only a matter of time until the NSA is intercepting Yos, or at least capturing Yo metadata.
Nicely done, ignore the haters.
Linked list for single processor is a job for first year student.

Linked list for multiprocessors with mutexes and locks is a PhD-level job.

Linked list for multiprocessors with STM is a job for first year student again.

The quote is from one of Simon Peyton-Jones talks.
HOW TO START YOUR STARTUP IN 5 SIMPLE STEPS
It's funny to see many people giving their "expert" opinion about how expensive your web site was, just by looking the design. It is very easy to say when:
1. You are not the one developing the site, thus You have no commitment.
2. You ignore all the other project requirements (already mentioned above) just by looking to the presentation layer.

If the project was too expensive, blame also the founders , which may have asked for a MVP bigger then the necessary.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-73

This is the federal obstruction of justice statute, could you point out the part that applies to jamming the illegal collection of inadmissible evidence by an agency that enforces no laws or regulations and conducts no criminal or administrative investigations or proceedings?
Manjaro (I tried the XFCE flavor) was really nice. It didn't support Bluetooth, but at the time all distros were having some problems with upgrading to BlueZ 5.

Regularly, they have some kind of update packs which they announce on their blog/forums, in case you should get any problems, and the community seems very nic. Definitely try it!
I would recommend Userapp( https://www.userapp.io/ ). It has a lot of features and it is really easy to use. Also I have talked via email with the guys making the service and they offer great support. I only use a free version and not trying to advertise the service, but I really think it is the best solution for side projects/early stage startup MVP
Yep, a designer that ignores criticism of his work is indeed destined to reach far. /s
The biggest difference is Egison realizes non-linear pattern matching against unfree data types such as multisets and sets.
I've wrote brief comparison here. https://github.com/egison/egison#comparison-with-related-wor...
Please check my paper, too.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.0729
I'm used to the visual design of ARD/ZDF in Germany. Thoughts:

* One team is "above" the other. This implies ranking between the teams. Who decides who's on top of the other? Imho a bad idea.

* The clock is unnecessarily bloated. I find the added visual markers distracting. The stoppage time is misleading, because additional play time is not a stopwatch or a timer. It is merely a suggestion and while most judges adhere to it, there are some games where additional play time is exceeded. It's not strict as a stopwatch implies.

* Ball possession: While being an interesting statistics, they are usually shown only once during an entire game. This kind of stuff is now easily retrievable during the game on a tablet or smartphone ("second screen"). Some people find the statistics completely unnecessary, because the only relevant statistic is goals, which is always shown anyways. I also don't see how extensive animation in the interface is not distracting.

* Formation screen: Just a different flavor. Nothing worse or better than the current one.

To summarize: Well, it's a suggestion, but I can't see that this is BETTER than the current layout, which the final paragraph implies about this design.
Getting started with the Red Pitaya
Tagging a bunch of harmless HNers as terrorists is going to get them nowhere.

The key is real, effective, targeting of that tiny minority who actually organise terrorist acts. Unless this is just some huge job creation scheme/security theatre for politicians.
Does not work my nexus 4.
consider digital crossover from minidsp. I've made a pair of powered 2-ways with a minidsp/miniamp combo in each.
> Is it a random sample or was this data selected by Snowden using some criteria?

Let's take one probable situation: Let's say Snowden took everything he could. That means there a gathering of data made by an employee at the NSA which results in 90% non-intelligence targets. What was the employee working on?

- Increasing the relevance of data? Not probable.

- Working on a usual sample of data? Most probable.

- Targetting non-intelligence targets on purpose? Scary and illegal.
Why hasn't the hardware failsafe for overdoses become mandatory? Why don't we apply defense-in-depth to all worst-case scenarios involving deadly things?

Of course, sometimes hospitals aren't logical, air circulation between rooms comes to mind. And here, I'm sure everyone just trusts the machines because they paid a lot of money for them and it's always worked in the past ...
That guy is a hero of mine, when I first found his site I lost about 4 days to exporting it and taking it all the interesting personal projects he has worked on.
There are existing laws covering pre-orders in order to prevent the kinds of scams we've seen on Kickstarter. It's not entirely clear that Kickstarter is actually compliant with them.
Very courteous reply.
With regard to the tone of the article, I guess you could say new scientist often take that tone.
Have a nice day!
judk,

In what way is it misleading? This is a well-known puzzle in some circles, the solution is accepted by those I work with, and this is the clearest write-up I've seen. Can you clarify why you think the article is "confused". To me it seems perfectly clear.
Fun story: Knuth claims in the 1997 edition of TAOCP vol. 2 that dense matrices of size larger than 250 "rarely occur in practice" and that asymptotically fast matrix multiplication is "strictly of theoretical interest". In 1998, Erich Kaltofen posed "Open Problem 7: Convince Donald Knuth that these asymptotically fast methods are of practical value. If he pays you $2.56 for this technical error, you have solved this problem." As far as I know, this is still an open problem.

(250 is peanut-sized in cryptography, number theory or computer algebra, and asymptotically fast matrix multiplication is very much useful in practice in those domains.)
Testing a Web API with Postman
Right, that's a valid example case with n=0, though such cases are of measure zero in the same way the rational numbers are of measure zero in the real numbers.

Here's a counterexample: give all the prisoners white hats. Now the same strategy produces no prisoners going home.

In fact, if the population of hat distributions is restricted to {all black, all white}, this still suffices to show that there is no strategy that guarantees all prisoners will go home after some finite standard number.
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To help you wrt your edit 2, you seem to be confusing two things:

- the Ɵ() and O() notations can be used on mathematical function. For example 5n^2 + 3n = Ɵ(n^2) [^1] or 3n^2 = O(n^3).

- algorithms have different complexities: for best case, for worst case, or average case. It corresponds to as many mathematical functions.

Each of these functions can be given appropriate Ɵ() or O() bounds.

[^1]: really meaning λn.5n^2 + 3n ∈ Ɵ(λn.n^2), it's a relation between functions.
...and how has that backed up anything you have said?

I already know Schwarz killed himself. I already know the prosecutor was zealous.

So, either post the aggregated data that shows accused parties kill themselves prior to trial or simply STFU. I am not joking it really is embarrassing for you.
Er, what? I ran Gentoo from 2001 until mid-2013, and I was a maintainer and core developer of parts of Xfce (a Gtk-based desktop environment) from early 2004 until late 2009, and I have no idea what you're talking about.

Gtk was a pain to develop with, sure, but only due to the awkwardness of GObject's attempts to build an OO system on top of C.

From a user perspective, I never saw the problems you're describing. Even having built Xfce out-of-tree all the time, I never recall having to do a full rebuild due to a Gtk update.

I've since moved on; it's a shame to hear what the OP is saying about 3.x, but 2.x most certainly didn't have these problems that you describe.
That's not so easy to do any more.
It allows us to collect passwords crackers are using, and banner users from using them? Increasing security by learning what the attackers are doing?
It's not surprising.

Life is water with a bunch of chemicals floating about in it. If you raise it to high temperature, those chemicals break apart or combine together to form new chemicals, some of which are harmful.

Smoked meat, burnt toast, burnt tobacco, whatever, they've all have been linked to health problems. It's the same principle.
This is awesome and probably took considerable work. There is no plugin system for Xcode, which has always bugged me. Why would Apple not make Xcode officially extensible. Xcode plugins make Xcode unstable and break when Xcode is updated.
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Thank you, I did not know the exact terminology. The closest I've read was the 'brain in a vat' and evil daemon from Descartes' Meditations.
More in regards to the daily summary, how frequently do you scrape?
Take a look at Startups Anonymous, it's a nice little forum for founders - they answer these questions honestly.
But then the code is not "pure" anymore and it even isn't different than the non-functional one.
Rob Pike's Rules of Programming
haxe's enums seem like full-fledged union types: http://haxe.org/manual/types-enum-instance.html
Consciousness and AI have almost nothing to do with each-other. Human beings only reason when awake and self-aware, but this is most likely a quirk of ours (ie: the daemon `cognit` only runs at init-level 3), not a fundamental feature of cognition.
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