skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that it's terribly difficult to think long term.

The problem is that any kind of plan which has a reasonable chance of building up some savings and giving you some financial stability involves sacrifice now, probably to a very painful degree.

In my view it's not the thinking that's the trouble but the execution. It's hard to not spend all your money full stop. Having less money means that any savings involves greater sacrifice.
One thing I have wondered is if income inequality is demonstrably bad. If you read closely the author says that our economy grew quicker post WW2 when income was more evenly distributed but that is not conclusive. The author also says income inequality is bad but the only evidence given for this is that the gini coefficient of US is approaching some banana republics and S. American countries. I personally don't believe income inequality in those countries is the cause of adverse conditions but an effect of it, particularly corruption. The author says that at a certain point the money is used to buy luxury goods in some sort of "arms race" of the rich but I really don't care what the rich do with their money.

I do agree that using the word inequality is worse than using opportunity. I also firmly believe corruption should be ended but I still have not seen a strong argument for why income inequality is bad and I think from a probabilistic perspective, net worth of the wealthy would increase over time so who is to say it isn't a natural process?
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Sounds quite promising, look forward to seeing your algorithms take on professional astro-turfers (human or bot) who may have algorithmic assistance.

This 1997 essay on collaborative filtering has the baggage of an "extropian" perspective, from Sasha Chislenko (RIP). Some of the social speculation remains relevant, http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/articles/ACF.html

This was in the early days of ACF, http://www.strategy-business.com/article/19707?gko=acda4
I guess it's not a secret anymore :)
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>The accuracy is often equal or slightly worse than in-memory techniques.

Slightly worse? because it has to go to different nodes to do the match, and hence incurs a slight delay which then incurs a bit inconsistency of the sample base?

> I too think that HN's user patterns could be different than other web estates.

That's a better generalization...

perhaps some more mining could be done based on this, such as the social clustering ; and also perhaps construct different language/wording models for the different interest/area groups (by posts) -- after all, there is no language model that fits them all...

And as in terms of spam detection, I assume if an ID, or originating IP, replies to almost every post, then it's unlikely the quality of his post would be high...Well, this returns to that fundamental question, how do you define "spam" in the space of HN?

> With large scale spam filters like at Yahoo mail, I believe they employ two (or more) models: One fitted on your inbox, and one fitted on everyone's inbox. That ensemble model should be able to specialize on your behavior, yet still be able to detect general spam that it has already seen in other boxes.

Interesting...It would be interesting to see how often the two models produce inconsistent results...Then if you biased towards one, then what's the use of the other one? Or perhaps they devised some strategy to combine the two models...

>NCD works on text, but not as good as other algo's for NLP. Sometimes PAQ (very slow, but efficient compressor) is used on genome data, or bzip on binary files like virusses. I don't think it will be practical here, since for a comparison every other file would need to be concatenated and compressed...
perhaps

NCD and NID are theoretically charming...but perhaps they are only good for pure coding without much context to depend on...there are just tons of information outside the analysis target, especially a natural language, that would be hard to take into the calculation of the entropy model...By the way, in terms of the similarity analysis based on compressed binary, there was a paper (peHash) published a few years ago that was interesting....
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/leet09/tech/full_papers/...

Another issue with the entropy is, it's easy to inject some tokens to manipulate the frequency...In this case, some preprocessing should be in place...
Front-end isn't tableless lol
But that's not true either. The very point of VC funding is that it allows you to be able to do things and achieve better growth than any bootstrapped could dream of, so even if the bootstrapped companies product is far more innovative, they can easily be squashed. That sucks, although I don't see any way of fixing it. An excellent product isn't enough, as well all well know.
Actually, these files are not needed, you can delete them and just execute the python files.
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(These are my humbly presented thoughts, I am certainly no expert)

The crux of any method of differentiating the user's signal from background noise, I imagine, would look to leverage data that has a higher signal-to-noise ratio than the naive microphone recording of the environment.

At a high level this is how I would expect we humans do this. We have some sort of sensory data from us feeling the vibrations of our voice, and use this to "factor out" our own voice from what our ears perceive.

In terms of how this might work to factor background noise out of a microphone recording, if we had some kind of hardware (phone, smartwatch, keyboard) that is able to sense the vibrations of the user's voice (via phone in the pocket, watch on the wrist, keyboard that you're resting your palms on as you type), we might be able to use some signal processing algorithms with that signal and the environmental noise to factor out the user's voice.

(One might ask "well why not just use the signal from the hardware then?". In terms of quality, I'm not sure if it would be enough---intuitively, I'm guessing it might sound muffled if you played back the recordings of your voice as picked up by your palms resting on a keyboard. But, it might be good enough data that we can use some signal processing algorithm to tune our noisey, but high-quality, data for the user's voice.)
I bought this theme off themeforest to try to save as much time as possible. Turns out it had this crazy generator that was missing closing tags and had tables everywhere :(.
It's actually a real TV show
http://www.vox.com/2014/5/22/5738756/you-can-kill-someone-in...
Yup - sorry about - mind blank.

Here's the link - http://www.vox.com/2014/5/22/5738756/you-can-kill-someone-in...
It's another LZ77 derivative. Nothing unprecedented.
btw awesome and fearless service ^-^
I've just tried to sign up at Coinbase - they require my Full name. Really?

What's the point of cryptocurrency if you enter your email + full name?
Javascript wasn't mentioned as their wasn't a monitor large enough in existence to display the graph on.
But can't a small portion of themselves be the most important part?

If it's saving them billions dollars a year - then that "small part" just might be your most important asset as a company.
I would second Amazon Web Services but I believe the free instance is only good for a year (my free time ended after a year for a micro-instance). Although many here would suggest GoogleAppEngine I avoid Google products for business critical anything just because I have found their support to be very poor or non-existent.

For a domain registrar I have used Register.com (avoid like the plague), GoDaddy and most recently transferred a couple dozen domains to NameSilo (http://www.namesilo.com/). I had used GoDaddy for years when they were among the cheapest but since their private equity buyout and IPO they have eliminated all their discounts for existing customers and renewals which makes their pricing uncompetitive. NameSilo has great pricing (among the lowest based on my research), they have a good system and clean interface/dashboard, I completed the transfers from GoDaddy to NameSilo within an hour by following their instructions exactly and so far have been very happy with their service. I considered NameCheap which a lot of HNers seem to use but NameCheap doesn't offer any live phone support only email and chat which was a complete non-starter for me. I had a few questions about NameSilo's services and pricing and made a couple of calls their support line which were answered by a live human with no wait and they knew their stuff and answered what I needed. It is a great value with their registrar systems/services, pricing and live phone support.

I still have some domain names with GoDaddy but as soon as they come up for renewal I will transfer them to NameSilo and I will be glad to not have to deal with GoDaddy' frustrating support people who just want to sell you crap as well as not missing the non-stop barrage of promotional crap they send to you which before they eliminated their discount coupons you had to receive in order to get their no longer available discounts.

Good luck to you...
Using OSMand on the road
so based on this, if someone wanted best compression program they would choose paq?
Why Reclassification Under Title II Won’t Hurt Innovation
Obama To Sign Bill Making It Legal To Unlock Your Cell Phone
Google Glass Banned at Comic-Con Panels
You can also be a Jewish Christian Buddhist Atheist if you want. You are Jewish if you're a member of the Jewish people (i.e. descended from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob). You are Christian if you were baptized according to a valid Trinitarian formula. You are Buddhist if you believe in and practice Buddhism. You are atheist if you don't believe in God. The point? Religions are not all "the same kind of thing" and interchangeable.
> Arithmetic coding is arguably the most optimal entropy coding technique

Provably optimal, even (assuming infinite precision).
It's not about speed, it's all about flow.
This map sums it up. The US scored 3-5 on the terrorism scale that goes up to :: 191 ::.

http://www.nesec.org/images/haz_globe2001.jpg
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/data_mining_f...

Schneier has written on this problem a number of times.

I suspect this problem may be caused by the well-known problems many people have with Bayes Theorem and how to properly use it.
They also openly do Javascript font probing to fingerprint your browser, circumventing privacy tools like VPNs.

Coinbase is not at all known for caring about privacy or pseudonymity. They've become somewhat of a counterpoint to how BTC started out ideologically. They are building a mainstream, government regulation friendly business.
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I guess not super hostile, but I just don't know how to type it in emacs or vim except by memorising the code point :/

e.g. in Vim: Ctrl-V, U, 3bb <ret>

Which is OK for this one library... but if I had delta and epsilon libraries too I could see it getting to be a pain.

In terms of typing efficiency, 6 keystrokes, it's about the same as just typing "contra" except harder to remember.
My remarks:

- header image way too big (subjective)
- features page doesn't seem to list prices
- If you aren’t their [should be there] you won’t get what you deserve
- "Few of who applies to a job have a personal website, it’s your chance to impress the employers, GET Noticed"
- https://per.ws/about-us/ Start the sentence with an uppercase letter
- https://imgur.com/KLdw2dp Header cut off on smaller screens
- https://imgur.com/NSoxx2f Spelling of availability
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You mean when we type a "show image x" ? Would be an awesome feature :) If I can I will try to do the ascii magic directly on terminal first :)
You really should - that sounds super interesting!
Same effect exists in restaurant industry, mainly in the low-end brand-less family-owned space.

Restaurant enters the space, decides to compete on price to build up audience to rake in the profits later on, giddily watches a competitor or two go out of business. Few months later another restaurant enters the same space, see the beginning of the paragraph.
> You can't compare dying in a terrorist attack to the personal choice of not exercising or eating unhealthy.

Indeed - after all, the risk from a terrorist attack is so many orders of magnitude less likely we can often ignore it completely. It's noise, and deserves little special preparation.

On the other hand, heart disease and other diet related problems are one of the largest risks faced.
You realize that you don't get to determine what feels disrespectful and diminutive to other people? That is sort of what it means for them to be other people.
Interesting how we hear about AngelList all over the place, but never this.
And then we'll have to ask: what reality programmed that one? It's turtles all the way down.
Your belief in pure Darwinism, 7-Day Creationism, or any theory in between, really doesn't have any impact on real-world biology or any of its applications (anatomy, physiology, medicine, agriculture, ecology, biotech, the creation of cyborg supersoldiers, etc, etc). I think real scientists are more interested in testable hypotheses about "how that thing works" than in untestable, unprovable claims about "how that thing got there".
Interesting. What is the unit of measurement, and is it normalized for population?
Re Yahoo! - http://arxiv.org/pdf/0902.2206.pdf (which uses VW).

VW is the (open-source) state of the art. If you want a linear learner, use it.
I would love to extend FillSkills.com to non software verticals. And market the heck out of iplanttrees.org.. get people planting a lot more trees.

Also, if I could, I would like to learn sailing. And Skuba dive again.
Great idea for a book. I am all for interactive education. Well done. Also, what a brilliant video. A new way to interface with code and imagine algorithms, animations and data. All to be used for education! My favorite part of the video was at 30min, where Bret demos how to interactively make animations. Reading the comments on the video led me to purchasing Braid http://braid-game.com/, a game that was mentioned. HA.

EDIT: Exploring your link, I discovered Bret Victor. Anyone looking for some inspiration look at his show reel. http://worrydream.com/#!/Showreel2012
>Following the latter, the imposed weapons inspections and economical sanctions reduced Iraq to a non-threat. His chemical weapons were destroyed; hundreds of inspections found nothing. There were no intelligence rumblings of any hostile plans on Iraq's part, aside from a later, minor Kuwait incident.

None of this is true, and even if it were true we could not have known it to be true, particularly based on they way Saddam was acting.
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https://hn.algolia.com/?q=google+design#!/story/forever/0/go...
Well, unfortunately I don't have the half-year of free time the OP posited... :-)
Can I ask why you don't use DrRacket? Write your code in the definitions panel and hit f5.
One of the points that I hope will be fully put to the sword is the tortured definition that the NSA & Govt. uses of spying. That argument is phrased approximately as: We are making limited digital copies of stuff (-possibly all internet traffic) that is stored in encrypted form and not actually "reading" it.
It is only accessed in a much more limited & narrow context for investigations using "minimization" techniques that respect the fourth amendment.
So we are not really spying in an unconstitutional manner...

This is almost sure to come up if the case proceeds without being torpedoed by the national secrets defense..and I hope the EFF absolutely prevails in crushing this malarkey.
Because they have a monopoly on advertising it's not really in their interest any more to detect click fraud.
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I've been using the plugin vim-slime (https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime) recently alongside tmux in order to do REPL development in Scheme / Python.

To be honest I found it more straightforward to use, and the great thing is that it doesn't require any Swank servers to run, and it works with just about any REPL based language. I find it hard to live without it nowadays, though if you're on windows I would expect you'll have difficulties in using this.
> encrypt your life

Absolutely. The problem is: communication is a "network good", you don't do it alone. How do you want the "Facebook people" to understand the gravity of the situation? We all do communicate with Facebook people.
Luckily, this also failed to change the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft
If OP created the site, shoot me an email (in my profile) and I'll give you an SSL certificate. Pretty sure HIPPA compliance isn't mandatory here, though.
>string theory to die and us to start working on something that we can actually do experiments on.

You might already be able to do experiments that would confirm or deny string theory, but we haven't been able to work out the math in sufficient detail to come up with one.

The thing about physics is that the deeper we get into the nature of the Universe, the stranger it looks.

In the special theory of relativity, Einstein didn't just do strange things to physics. He had to work with a sort of mathematical object -- Minkowski space -- that most mathematicians either had never heard of or ignored, because they thought it was too weird. Turns out we live in Minkowski space.

And when he worked with Hilbert on the general theory, they had to go and study Elie Cartan's tensor calculus to make sense of things, and then bring that into Minkowski space. The enterprise spawned a new kind of mathematical notation -- the Einstein repeated index summation convention.

And when Dirac tried to quantize the special theory he found himself in the unruly situation of taking the square root of the gradient operator -- the square root of a derivative! The solution relied upon an anticommuting algebra now called the Clifford algebra, represented by Dirac matrices.

And when Feynman wanted to quantize action, he had to take an integral over paths. When Schwinger studied particle[1] propagation, the integrals went from the paths of one particle to the paths of all possible particles and particle creation events.

When you bring in gravity, the absence of any sort of repulsive action of the field and the number of degrees of freedom mean that any attempt to apply the path integral leads to infinite energies and infinite numbers of particles.

String theory appeared as sort of a way, essentially, of restricting the "impact" of new particles by attaching an energy term to the "shape" of the particle. For simplicity particles were 1D manifolds. This led to the Nambu-Goto action.

Then they had multiple dimensions, and Witten called it M-theory. It's not going away: you always end up with something like this to fix gravity.

In any case, it's not string theory we can't test. It's quantum gravity period. Perhaps another issue is that string theory doesn't work well with QCD, which itself isn't rigorous, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems#Yang....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_quantum_field_theo...

http://chaosbook.org/fieldtheory/

[1]: There aren't actually any particles, but it makes the math easier to think about.
I'm using https://github.com/sferik/t is this better
One way to fix this problem is Bitcoin tithing. http://www.yoism.org.au/blog/bitcoin-tithing
It's not about the largest risk, it's about personal freedoms and choice.

I should have the choice to decide whether or not I am unhealthy, it doesn't affect anyone but myself (and my family if they are dependent on me).

The government should not have the choice on whether or not to protect citizens, that's their job, citizens are depending on them to perform that action.

While I know people would be healthier and "better off" by eating healthy, I have no right to force people to eat a certain way.

If I want to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, or smoke marijuana, that should be my choice, not yours to make for me, as long as it doesn't affect you.

If I want to ask the government or a company to delete all information they have about me, I should have the right to do that, just my opinion of course.
https://www.eff.org/files/2014/07/24/backbone-3c-color.jpg

Given this graphic in the article, I would guess this the main topic the EFF is pursuing.

While I can see how the NSA's word games can confuse the issue regarding searching, what I've never understood is how nobody seems to notice that those same word games admit to seizing evidence. It's as if everybody forgot the 4th Amendment said "...unreasonable searches and seizures..." or something.
Religion influences the decision to become an entrepreneuer. So are all the Agnostics and Atheists the employed hackers while the believers the bosses? http://www.voxeu.org/epubs/cepr-dps/religion-influences-peop...
Company raises 18 million, uses it to sue college students
Mystery in the Perseus Cluster
If you eliminated the NSA, what do you think our terrorism score would be? Higher, or lower?

That number probably directly relates to deaths caused by terrorism.

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
http://siliconslopes.com/2014/07/remote-tech-support-company...
I too think there might be some compromise possible along these lines. The most troubling thing to me about the current situation is that the NSA often gives tips to the FBI and other domestic law enforcement agencies. There needs to be an absolute barrier here, so the NSA shares nothing short of clear evidence of an imminent terrorist plot threatening at least dozens of lives. Anything smaller than that is not a matter of national security.

Unfortunately, such a compromise might be difficult to enforce. Parallel construction[0] can be used to hide the original reason someone came under suspicion.

So I don't know. But I think it's worth thinking about.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Yes, projects used here. They were cash payments to the primary organization responsible for the softwares. Mostly is was to push for attention to bugs we wanted fixed.
I'm disappointed with how he brushes determinism aside. "If you don't have free will then you are not responsible for what you say." is supposed to imply "you aren't worth talking to"?

Pretty crappy given his declared respect for philosophical foundations.
Could it be possible such a thing of a world's single currency? What is the subject that I should study to understand all of this and stop asking a question like that?
Finance? Economy? What branch of those? Thanks for answering or for just considering doing it.
>the corporation owners

By "corporation owners" you can only mean "shareholders" for publicly traded companies. My retirement is invested mostly in the stock market, as is most people's. I would benefit, and so would anyone else that owned stocks.
> Being poor does not make it very difficult to think long term

Citation needed. There's a fair bit of evidence otherwise. E.g.: http://www.amazon.com/Scarcity-having-little-means-much-eboo...
Same tortured definition:
Copying(but not depriving you of it) without accessing (reading) is technically not seizing
And you actually got paid for those clicks? That is bizarre, I would have thought that google had some system to automatically detect the "click fraudsters" and not charge for their clicks...I mean how hard is it to stop counting clicks after somebody's done it 5 times or so from the same site? But I guess google is actually making money from those fraudsters [since they charge the advertisers] so...maybe that's why they don't care as much about fraud LOL.
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