skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't be surprised in this case if they were just memorizing the final price of different combinations of orders. I imagine this has a lot to do with the intense time pressure. Often the time to check the computer loses you 5-10 seconds, which in a fast food order environment would make the difference between slow and fast.

We saw order pickers that just memorized their pick sheet when it was printed out for them and never looked at it again until they dropped off their pallet. They would also reorganize the pick order in their head for the most efficient route so trying to keep looking at what was an out of order pick sheet was a big time sink for them. So while we were thinking of trying to print the items out in the most efficient order, we realized they were already doing it themselves and wouldn't look at it anyway.
The Fourth World War: A Retrospective

or

Losing Humanity

or

我們贏了
The talk about de-anonymizing Tor at the BlackHat conference has been removed
Elm looks extremely promising to me. However, I tried the Elm's implementation of TodoMVC here: http://evancz.github.io/TodoFRP/ and got an unusable list of strings with basically none of the features seen in other prototypes. Is it the one used in these benchmarks? What results would we see in an identical test?

Update: the benchmark uses a correct implementation available here: https://github.com/evancz/todomvc-perf-comparison/tree/maste... so it was a false alarm on my part. Tried it out at https://rawgit.com/evancz/todomvc-perf-comparison/master/tod...
It really seemed like I was getting somewhere, but then it failed. Oh well.

http://i.imgur.com/TJiUdWT.png
There is also no reason Uber can't operate a true communication and payment service.

In Chicago they ran a service called UberTaxi. You'd get a regulated Chicago taxi and you'd pay the regulated rates.

The app and payment is the true innovation. Skirting local regulations by hiring out contractors isn't innovation.

The regulations are often a burden on the taxi drivers for the good of the public. Of course you can beat their prices if you don't have to follow. That's not competition.
but if you're fit and healthy at age of 90, will you still choose to work for a few years at 70? Especially the most productive members of society. I didn't look into it, you can investigate, but there was a factoid floating around that the top 1% support 40% of all taxes. So if the top 1% - who might spend a lot of their time in education - work an extra 10 years at their option, this might create 25% extra value, or increase the take in terms of taxes by 10% (40 percent of 25%). So if you increase everyone's lifespan enough to increase the tax take by 10%, spending 1% of GDP to do so might be well worth it.

Also, as the richest spend a lot of their early lives in education, and afterward can experience certain network effects of experience, knowledge, networking, etc, perhaps those are ten of their most productive years. Think of Warren Buffett at 35 and 65.

This is a rather hasty, and incomplete analysis, and I haven't had the time to look at all the facts, but yes my line of reasoning is that as a practical matter that money can be "free".
123 Weather Icons, inspired by Font Awesome
Google uses Qt to create VoltAir game
The great thing about this book is that it's not just for Processing.

It has the most accessible descriptions of vector fields, genetic algorithms, neural networks (etc) that I've seen anywhere.
Check out "working not working" - feel like that should be included. It's a little different market but they're very good at getting people work.
While not directly pertaining to the question, there are precedents for languages to special-case some inputs to loops for various reasons. Specifically, I'm thinking of Java here. Note the following code:

int x;
while (true) {
x = 8;
break;
}
System.out.println(x);

This code compiles and runs. Java is smart enough to statically prove that the loop condition is true, and so it guarantees that `x` will always be initialized.

Instead of `true`, you can also use things like `1==1` in the condition to the same effect. However, if you attempt the following:

int x;
boolean y = true;
while (y) {
x = 8;
break;
}
System.out.println(x);

...the compiler will spit an error at you:

While.java:9: error: variable x might not have been initialized
System.out.println(x);
^

From a language design perspective, it's interesting to note this sort of demand and support for infinite loops in the language specification. One alternative to special-casing `while (true)` as shown above is to have an entirely separate construct for "I want this loop to be infinite", such as the `loop` keyword in Rust, or the bare `for` in Go. Alternatively, see how style guides for C-like languages tend to prefer `for (;;)` over `while (1)` to denote deliberately-infinite loops, to make the intent as obvious as possible.
The Graph TV for DS9 might accomplish a similar goal, just using a different ratings dataset (IMDB) and visualization.

http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0106145
A rather dark one if "PINBALL GAME" could be interpreted as describing the expected outcome of a lunar landing ;)
Been waiting for this for a couple decades.
Some technical info would be appreciated: voltage, max W/h capacity, full recharge time/effort, etc.
> Maybe that mindset changes when you're a multi-billionaire,

I've always thought the rich man who doesn't want to die and is desperate to beat it with wealth as a cliché actually, a sign of the ultimate hubris of being wealthy. Desperate to forestall death while others are having a hard time living. Death is the great equalizer, rich and and poor die alike, but in the future I guess the rich will even escape death while some of us cheer them on.
A big mac meal in Seoul runs about $6. I think the sandwich is about $4. I wouldn't know offhand since I've only ever eaten once at a McDonald's in Korea, and that was 8 years ago.

Here's a relatively good list of costs in Korea.

$1 ~ 1,000 Won.

http://www.eslsouthkorea.net/cost-of-living-in-korea.html
Seoul is also very big and the subway shuts down at night. Wherever your subway car is when it shuts down, that's where you're getting off. As a foreigner, this bewildered me. Me and my buddies would find ourselves in some dark neighborhood full of high-rises and it would be a battle amongst the subway passengers for the few cabs that happened to be waiting at the exits. I would have loved Uber back then, especially the ability to type in our destination. I was there with the military and we lived on big bases but the cab drivers acted like they had no idea where we wanted to go and would drive around aimlessly until they'd ripped us off sufficiently before suddenly remembering and driving us home.

Years later, a friend back home explained that most of these taxi drivers (who were men in their 50's) were the deadweight that got laid off from Chaebol corporations back during the Asian Financial Crisis. These guys resent their new occupations and have the shitty attitudes to show it.
I think this is the version they were referring to: http://evancz.github.io/elm-todomvc/
Probably not. Why?

- Today's processors and capabilities run circles around those of the Apollo. It might be interesting to know how they calculate a square root, not today.

- They have more sensors and inputs and have to think of new and advanced ways of making it all work together
I think you may have gone to the wrong address. The second link in the article is the most recent implementation (using a virtual DOM)

http://evancz.github.io/elm-todomvc/
take a minimal amount of funding from a high profile angel investor (Kevin Rose) or vc who can help market it with a tweet etc
Ghost out of shell
I assume it was http://evancz.github.io/elm-todomvc/, which is more recently updated and seems identical to the other TodoMVC demos.
This technique may be the most revolutionary thing in web development in the last several years, IMHO. I've been using React for a while, and starting to integrate Mori for persistent data structures, and the things I can do with it is insane. The fact that it's not only far better performant, but a way better abstraction for dealing with UIs, is crazy.
Okay. I'll try it out, but no promises. ;)
I'm looking at the example, specifically choosing only a date; You need to click off of the box entirely before the date gets updated, and it doesn't close when you click a date itself.
Hey Gabriel! Wodner if you plan selling a DRM-free book? That'd i believe be expected and really appreciated.
My first thought when looking at the benchmarks is that I find it strange that Backbone is faster than React. Not that I imagine Backbone to be slow, particularly, just that this article is about one of React's key features - the virtual DOM - and that's something which Backbone doesn't have. I'd expect to see React up there with Om, Mercury & Elm.

I've just had a look at the code and React is using a localstorage backend, while Backbone is using its models + collections with a localstorage extension... so I'd expect there to at least be some overhead there, but apparently not.

Does anyone have any quick thoughts on what might be happening here? I can't shake the feeling that these benchmarks might not be terribly useful.
> And if there aren't better arguments for the other things, then those are the things that should be done.

As a tangential but related point, I think this can be a very dangerous position.

Arguments aren't created in a vacuum, and neither is the lion's share of what makes an argument "good". This is true even discounting the fact that the dominant measure of argumentative quality is largely a function of persuasion.

Producing arguments takes a lot of work and money. That's basically the only reason think tanks and law firms exist. It's also where a lot of marketing money -- political or otherwise -- gets spent. Having really good arguments for something mostly indicates you've invested a lot of time, money, or both into constructing those arguments. (edit: note that this is not an indicator that the thing is actually true, which is the root of the problem).

edit: sometimes, as in science, the motive can be fairly pure. In those cases, even though lots of money is spent constructing the arguments, we can still very much trust the veracity of those arguments.

Sometimes, as in the case of many (not all) think tanks, somehow every argument and study produced always re-entrenches and provides support for a pre-existing viewpoint. I'm therefore far more inclined to view these with suspicion, which is really an ad hom but imho justified.
Co-founder of Degoo here. I've tried to address the concerns the reviewers at WOT had but unfortunately they refused to change the factually incorrect statements in the reviews. For instance, they claim that we are inactive and only collect e-mails but you can see at our website that we are very much active. You can see our discussion here: https://www.mywot.com/en/forum/20714-degoo-com

I'd love to answer any questions or concerns you might have about our service.
3GHz and 90W is ridiculous for a router. A good NIC does not rely on the CPU, so clock speed should be irrelevant. A Mini-ITX board or a router with OpenWRT would be a much more economic alternative.
Are you guys using Kickflip.io?
I just built a web site without “design”. I want just keep it simple as it is.
Here it's:

https://www.padory.com/

pls tell me how do you think?
+1 for a fellow Ubuntu user.

I currently don't have a use for a VM, as I just deploy to a staging server after local testing, but I'll keep those in mind!
Holy shit, hide the children, the government is after their thumbs.

So would you do your 2 years Social Service or hide/ignore or leave?
Performance Testing in a Scaled Down Environment: Things You Can Test
Your buttons doesn't work for me on Chrome 36 / Mac OSX:

http://www.gfycat.com/OptimisticGrossAegeancat
Will Betelgeuse Become a Second Sun?
> The app and payment is the true innovation. Skirting local regulations by hiring out contractors isn't innovation.

What the hell does it matter what the innovation is? We're not talking about including Uber as a subject in business class; we're talking about its relationship to governments.
Great suggestions!

If you're going to be using Mongo, I highly recommend RoboMongo.
http://www.fesuffolk.co.uk/talks/40
I didn't try to gain traction with it since no one will use a library without documentation. Your passive aggressiveness is completely unwarranted. I never once stated he had to change his library's name. I was simply pointing out that the name was already used, since I know I personally try to avoid conflicts.
I accept death because I consider it the morally right thing to do. Others died to make room for me, and someday it will be my turn to make room for others.
Minecraft now has giant combat robots
[CSS3] Loading Animation via | saherteam Saher Team
Or possibly the <progress> element, which according to this site, is more fitting for showing progress: http://css-tricks.com/html5-meter-element/
+1 for ST3!
Thanks for the answer. I'll take a look at more ayasdi papers and things but part of my distaste is that so much of the public material is non technical making marketing stuff that claims revolutionary broad applicability and makes it hard to tell what you guys are actually selling. Telling that you can prove it should work and I confused about the why is total BS and ensures I will never pay for your product...your just using advanced math to obfuscate.

The history of data analysis indicates exactly the opposite. Methods are shown often not shown to work theoretically for years after they are accepted to work well in real world data analysis. Lots of popular methods may not even come with theoretical guarantees and lots of theoretical guarantees are useless or misleading because they depend on assumptions about the data which are rarely true or have other issues.

But I have to say your still just sidestepping how you actually do the neighborhood learning now by calling it open covers (I just used the term neighborhood structure to keep it less jargony for this audience). How do you map the text documents mentioned in the article to real space? If you are just integrating isomaps and other standard techniques and the added value is the simplicial complex vis that is fine but you aren't developing any new math.

The procedure you are describing is similar to hierarchical clustering and will suffer from similar sensitivity to selection of the initial splits and any parameters. Manifold forests, for example, are also hierarchical but used a bagged ensemble to partially addresses this. I'd like to see more public work from you guys on combating this sort of overfitting and sensitivity...I just picked on persistent homology because it is one of the only things topology seems to add in this area.

This stuff is really cool and has generated useful results. If you guys just want to be the main consulting company for doing manifold learning that is great but marketing articles like this that try to claim you're the exclusive purveyors of some new math is turning a large portion of the community away.
I think that's illusory, at best. Does time play a role? If not, this would lead to "Someone has ever got a dust speck in their eye. It is now no longer a bad thing when someone else gets a dust speck in their eye." Which seems absurd. In fact, given that we live in a universe where someone has ever got a dust speck in their eye, it would mean that getting a dust speck in one's eye is no longer the "least bad bad thing" that could happen, which violates the assumption of the thought experiment and you should substitute something more severe.

If time does play a role, you can spread out the 3^^^3 dust specks. (Obviously, we don't realistically have enough time, but then we don't realistically have enough space either).
New Organic Farming Meta-analysis – What Does it Really Show?
Top Redis Headaches for Devops: #2 – Replication Timeouts
Not exactly unbiased... reads very pro-Palestine.
The cost of stealing
Edit: the 'healthcare' comment was asinine. I wish i had said shift the majority of their budgets to conflict logistics. Sorry, emotional ameribro.
I kind of figured that, but I have almost no pictures and definitely no videos.

Is it possible to upgrade the SSD after purchase?
Yes, the Kindle version will be non-DRM.
Reminds me of when I was a kid on the coast of Maine. Rowed out to a small island and found scattered amongst the rocks over a large area hundreds of GI-Joe parts. Mostly just parts/broken pieces, as if someone put an entire collection inside a box and blew it up. Still to this day have no idea how or why those were there.
New Experiments in CSS Tooling – Bocoup
Julia Package Ecosystem Dependency Graphs
Yeah. I'm totally okay without Retina, though it does look pretty sweet, and I currently don't have a use for an external monitor - I'll need to see the Air in person before I make the decision to buy. :)
Voyager is actually a pretty good example of a show that was... flawed... in many ways but which nonetheless had some pretty good episodes that could be enjoyed in relative isolation. For some reason, some of the time travel mini-arcs worked pretty well for me--perhaps because they existed somewhat outside of an overall story arc that never completely clicked for me.
If you genuinely want an expert's take on these matters, this is a good place to go: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

Specifically w.r.t. photos: http://www.iangoddard.com/moon01.htm

There's also a book: http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Astronomy-Misconceptions-Revealed-...
Fixed and thank you. In the future please report these kind of issues in the repository itself.
I find using SFDebris' score works well for all Trek series.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/SFDebris
Darn! I think I'm good for now, though, as I don't use VMs, PhotoShop, and I use .md files for all my documents, so I never have Office installed (though I have a license).

What CPU does yours have? I bought the i5 Haswell.
Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing in the 'The Imitation Game'
There's an Aldi near where I live so I thought I'd check it out. I've lived in Europe and spent extended periods in Asia so I've seen all kinds of shopping experiences.

For a place with an reputation for being innovative, Aldi seemed very downscale and out of step with tastes, even compared to the neighboring Wal Mart, never mind a Carrefour or a Japanese supermarket. Heavy on canned food. It seemed like something out of East Germany before the Wall came down. I'm surprised they thrive anywhere.

Did I have an uncharacteristic experience? What's good about an Aldi shop? It's weird that the same outfit operates Trader Joes.
The Limits of Packet Capture
How did you get 16gb RAM on an Air? I only saw the option for 8.
Revisting the HillTop Algo: Rank Lives
Something interesting that I found was that in different cities, the price proposition changes.

For example, in London, Black Cabs are generally considered decent but expensive, so Uber is priced cheaper than black cabs, but slightly more expensive than mini cabs.

In Delhi, the prices are far higher than anything you can hail on the street, but cheaper than calling a town car service.
No, we are not using Kickflip. Some of the guys did take a look at it and at that point it wasn't going to help them for mobile, especially Android, since they only supported Android 4.3+ IIRC and we had already developed the iOS app. Additionally, we use RTMP & RTSP on our mobile apps. RTSP on Android produces 2-4s latency, which from what I saw could only be topped by WebRTC. HLS was producing 30-50s latency and RTMP was about 10-15s IIRC.

Somewhat related, but there are some other issues with trying to serve up HD mobile video, such as bad network conditions and capped usage. 720p video at 30 requires quite a lot of upload bandwidth (~1mb/s) for a good looking video.
> The problem is when people rent these places and then throw loud parties.

I don't know who cares of a party in a flat. Noisy parties existed before airbnb.

To me, the problem is that since there is no regulation, renting a flat for short periods allows to make much more money than renting it for a long time to a reasonable price. It contributes to the shortage of flats to rent supply, the rise of the rent prices and gentrification.
I realize that Wikipedia is some kind of socialist conspiracy plot, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_e...

And the standing army thing is ... odd. Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...
How do I contact you? Can I find you on the #agda channel on IRC?
I've seen some AngularJS vs React benchmarks a while back. I believe it was http://jsperf.com/angular-vs-react/5

I consistently got the result of Angular utterly and completely destroying React. Initially I blamed the virtual DOM approach, but after seeing other frameworks utilizing it and outperforming Angular by a huge margin, it seems to me that React is not written for performing well on small DOM documents. (There might be a turning point, considering how bloated Facebook pages it was designed for.)
I use Ghostery in Firefox (17, that's what Debian Stable has). I click on the link to the Android play store and nothing happens. Ghostery is blocking it somehow, if I disable it it works. No idea why tho.
Level 3’s Selective Amnesia on Peering
This is a rebuttal by David Young, Vice President, Verizon Regulatory Affairs to Level 3's blog regarding peering and bottlenecks [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8048997
Well sure, maybe I would want to travel, and/or try new things, and/or work on interesting things. Those things don't require employment, or profit-seeking as a way of life.

> you'd still want to do nothing except care for your grandkids?

And such. Y'know, the 'and such' part being the things that old people tend to do. Golfing, fishing, travel, vacation, that sort of thing.

Would I want to try a new career? Likely not. The career I have is a means to an end, and while I enjoy my work, and the company I work for, I don't want to be doing this when I'm 60. As a result, I cram every dollar I can into my 401k, and save aggressively, along with working on personally fulfilling side projects that maybe will one day become an alternative income stream.

In short, I'm preparing for retirement, and doing what I can to expedite its arrival, so that I can focus on more fulfilling things that aren't necessitated by rather unfulfilling things like "earning money for the mortgage".

If I have grandchildren, yeah, I'd like to spend a lot of time with them. No, that's not the only thing I'd like to do, exclusively, and I believe you misinterpreted my post to infer that I did.
Typed huge response. Thought better of it. You may be right, but i do not think you are.