skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how you saw the books and missed the explanation, but

"But why textbooks? Because they're one of the few learning mediums where you'll really own the knowledge. You can take a course, a MOOC, join a reading group, whatever you want. But with textbooks, it's an intimate bond. You'll spill brain-juice on every page; you'll inadvertently memorize the chapter titles, the examples, and the exercises; you'll scribble in the margins and dog-ear commonly referenced areas and look for applications of the topics you learn -- the textbook itself becomes a part of your knowledge (the above image shows my nearest textbook). Successful learners don't just read textbooks. Learn to use textbooks in this way, and you can master many subjects -- certainly machine learning."
What is "TYOOL 2014"?
Do you have any experience running a VM from an external drive? Is there a significant speed decrease from an internal SSD?
I've seen two of these in Ask HN in the past week. I just want to say it's not as easy as building a SaaS and then customers will come knocking at the door to hand their giant stack of cash. We've been working on it or 5 months and are just now getting traction and we are in an established space. Marketing and getting people to sign up has been the toughest part of it all even with better/more features and easier to setup. Just something to be thinking about from our experience.

Even living frugally (I've been doing the same), that seems like a very long runway with the modest burn rate. I think ultimately you should figure out what will make you happy and go with your instincts. Some people are happy being employees for most of their lives while others such as myself have the entrepreneurial fire always eating at them and can't be satisfied in corporate environments.
Sentient robots aren't necessary, nor the greatest danger. That is the danger that the US Congress can get into a war that doesn't cause body bags to come home to Dover, Delaware. The USA has a military comparable to the rest of the World combined. We have used that military, directly and indirectly, Worldwide to abuse our position. The only constraint for the past two decades has been said body bags.
Given the use of drones and non-sentient robots, that one limit to US Federal power could evaporate soon, perhaps by 2020.
Outsourcing and immigration are two different things. H-1Bs encourage the equivalent of outsourcing, except with the people being physically located in the US. Immigration just increases the number of people.

If you are worried about competing with more citizens, then you should also be arguing to make our schools worse and make college more expensive.

I personally think what is best for society as a whole is best for me. The more economic growth there is, the more opportunity there is for me to get a raise/promotion, or find a company that really needs a person with my set of skills.
If he keeps bothering you and there's no merit to his claims report him as harassing you.
July 20, 1969: One Giant Leap For Mankind (2013)
Hmm... I really do hope they start up again. It's by far my most used application and it'd kill me to find another editor I like as much as it.

I have tried Atom in the past, but it just felt "thin" and "flimsy". Maybe it's because I've been using ST for so long I just am automatically against any other project that tries to compete for the market share. :)
I think this was a good piece if you take it as with all things, not as absolute fact or 100% correct.

I think the general idea that the article was trying to communicate is a good and thoughtful idea.
While thechaosengine.com might be a nice site as I cannot judge it from out here. I can understand not allowing posting privileges without some vetting but it looks like they are closing themselves off entirely. Of course they can do what the like as its their site and I'm sure it works wonders for keeping the riffraff out. I've run in to some great sites previously that spread useful information on game development without being closed off but yes they tend to be specialized or have died due to low number of users.

Seems like the above approach generates some extra overhead for as well moderators. Some of the posts in the public forum are like "After months still waiting" people saying that there is a huge backlog and admins don't have the time to let people in or someone changed jobs and lost access to the private forums.
I saw the explanation and I don't buy it. In pretty much every occasion that I've found a textbook valuable, I've found lectures by the authors far more valuable.

David Mackay's lectures are incredible and go much further in explaining the material in an understandable fashion than his excellent book "Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms".
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Well first it uses .edu domain name, indicating that it's something else than it is.

Then it lures you in with a "download thesis" tease, with a big DOWNLOAD HERE link. Then it forces you to fill in pages and pages and pages and pages of things that you have no interest in filling. Then it automatically "follows" tons people that you have no interest in following. Then it starts sending annoying e-mails.

Just because you wanted to download that one file, you are suddenly in a "network" you had no interest of entering in the first place.

As one Czech saying goes, "you give then a finger and they bite away your whole hand".
This is incredibly stupid.
The giant geniuses (eg Newtown.. modern physics/calculus) who gave us all our science/tech (ie everything good in our lives)... pretty much all stayed away from people and did there own thing... for their own pleasure.

If these geniuses come into too much contact with the average noisy idiot.. they will actually be discouraged from their work... "why should I build/share these amazing things for such unappreciative, loud, idiotic, selfish *.... I will keep them just to myself and my family/friends"
Personally, I'd love it for when I'm traveling for work & in a hotel room.
On a given topic, I believe the best textbook is an inferior medium to the best lecture. Rather than blathering for 1300 words, I provided links to some excellent machine learning lectures.
5 mos. development already paid for what would you do with it?
I'm getting laid of from my developer job and getting paid for 5 mos. I could go get another job but I'm trying to find something better than another cube job. I have developement experience in web and mobile. I'm looking for a cofounder that could put in the time/investment to do the sales/marketing side of a business. If you have an idea you could use about 50k in developement for an MVP that's already paid for, let's talk.
ive sinced learned that ebay now would have brought me my chromebook for no additional fee. wun wun also apparently caps the transaction fee at $2.
AIXI is an artificial 'general' intelligence. It is not hard coded to do a specific task. That neural network is useless at doing anything other than playing tic tac toe
because a startup has structured its business model to keep the vast majority of the profit it extracts from a virtual work force of independently contracted peons
TYOOL = The year of our lord, he's just being overly dramatic about people using jQuery modals.
I don't recall doing anything special, but on Mac OS X 10.8.5, I use CMD-SHIFT-Arrow (left or right arrow) to move from tab to tab.
I'm an ObjC dev and I encourage folks to learn Swift, which I am also doing. The thing about learning Swift and still needing to know UIKit is true - it'd be like learning Rails without Ruby, which you just can't do. The first Swift book did a good job introducing you to the language, but didn't delve in to the reality of UIKit at all, which the second book did fill in on. But there are still places where you have to use an NSDictionary over the fancy new Dictionaries, and that reality is very much still here.

If I were starting a new project tomorrow, I'd still use ObjC. If someone where working for me, I would encourage them to learn ObjC for now. Swift isn't going anywhere, but neither is ObjC, and the path from zero to app is still easier in old ways I think.
Getting to Top Coder Open finals (2013)
How about at night?
Low cost Army of RaspberryPi honeypots using Dionaea and MHN
http://store.p212121.com/
Hanging around the #swift-lang channel on IRC is very instructive in seeing where the problems of a lot of people that want to learn Swift to start their iOS programming journey. Very rarely do they encounter problems with Swift. They're hitting problems with translating Objc to Swift.

Well there are optionals. I think everyone ran into issues with optionals and syntax.

Protect their turf? If anyone is going to benefit from this its people that already know iOS/OS X frameworks and only need to learn a new language. Arguably, that didn't even mean much when the first iOS SDKs came out years ago.
Seems really slow now, guessing it's overwhelmed.
Ask HN: How do I stop YouTube from randomly subscribing me to channels?
This has happened at least 3 times that I can recall. I know for sure that I am not the one subscribing to them because I categorize all of my subscriptions into Managed Collections. I also have a few friends that claim this happens to them as well and a quick web search confirms that this is not an isolated phenomenon.
And if you'd like a yet more comprehensive list of these "comment on scientific papers" sites, here's a community-curated list of 'em I started...there's around 50 listed now I think: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HD-BEaVeDdFjjCNFkb0j3pvw...

It's a great idea and I hope someone finds the way to make it work.
I played around with the HSV a little, mainly pulling down saturation. Changing the hue a little to make the blues a little greener, and making it just a tiny bit darker.
https://i.imgur.com/VSOe8fo.png

For future reference, this is what it looked like before my edits https://i.imgur.com/BkOJoID.png.
> multiple returns, closures, etc

What other new(ish) language in this day and age does not support this? You have closures in e.g. Haskell, Java, C#, Rust, C++, JavaScript, Python and Ruby. You have destructuring/unpacking support for tuples/lists or something similar that can be used for multiple return values in e.g. Haskell, Rust, Python and Ruby. I think there will be destructuring in future JavaScript standards and I don't know about C#. I think a new language that doesn't support these things would be disappointing.
The MOOC data from Harvard/MIT isn't researcher only; the only limitation is that you can't redistribute the data. (it's very good data)

I did a blog post on it and have not received any angry emails from either party: http://minimaxir.com/2014/07/online-class-charts/
Yes... creative network... of lone geniuses.
I love textbooks and spend more of my childrens' inheritance on them than I should.

But what MOOCs give me is the exercises. I often think I understand a problem, but it's only after getting 2.1/10 on a Coursera quiz that I realize I've missed a key step or concept.

Many textbooks have exercises but few have solutions. I've been working through Barto and Sutton's Reinforcement Learning for example (again), and although I do the exercises and programming questions, I never know if I've gotten it right. My experience with MOOCs shows I probably haven't in a large number of cases.

The best of both worlds is when I can follow a MOOC with the textbook to gain more depth, for example with the PGM course on Coursera.
This is an internet message board, not a dissertation, I just want to hear people's take on it. I dunno where you stand, but I learned stuff from the comments above.
What’s a shorthand way to see this? Credit really only goes to founders when a startup exits for less than $250 million. Under a $1 billion, a handful of the early employees will be able to receive credit. And above $1 billion, the number of early employees who can claim credit continually increases with exit value all the way up to a Google or Facebook, where people will mention and receive acknowledgment for even their triple-digit employee number.

It's right there in the article. This is about startups, not monoliths.
Is there a good reason to not have a streaming update protocol for DNS? Surely it wouldn't be that difficult to prefetch the top N million DNS queries, then subscribe to a stream to keep them updated as TTLs expire? This would give you both privacy and speed (for the majority of queries)

IPv4 address = 4 bytes

Avg domain length = ~14 characters (http://datagenetics.com/blog/march22012/)

So ~20MB per million domain names (assuming 1 IPv4 address per domain name)
The article looks at a study that found that that men and women who had had exactly one sexual partner in the past year were happiest. The article concludes that therefore, having sex with more partners will make us unhappy. However, this conclusion is hasty.

Another explanation can be made, based on two correlations that I think are likely: having multiple sexual partners is negatively correlated with having at least one stable romantic partner, and having at least one stable romantic partner is positively correlated with happiness. Given those two correlations, it is easy to see why having multiple sexual partners might be negatively correlated with happiness. The people who sleep around a lot are doing it because they have not found a girlfriend/boyfriend, so they are lonely. Thus, they are unhappy.

If this explanation for the study's results is true, then sex with more partners will not make you unhappy, per se. It just means that you should make sure you have a romantic companion first (hopefully one who is agreeable to your seeking multiple partners). After you have a partner, it is possible that indulging your instincts by seeking even more partners would indeed make you happier.
You're on the right track!

We've actually had extremely few issues with quality (much less than 1%). I've personally used many of our manufacturers in research myself, which helped at the start.

There are start ups collecting user feedback on supplies and we used to have products reviews, but we've run into issues from large competitors making up fictitious reviews (reviews of products we've never sold, etc.)

Right, many manufacturers can only produce 5-10 items at scale and do not have the sales force for any market presence. We are helping them by aggregating their products (currently at 45,000+) to compete with VWR, Fisher and Sigma.

The sad part (why this area needs help) is there is significant savings ordering through us on the exact same item such as:

Greiner CELLSTAR® serological pipette, 10 mL $27 v. $106.60

http://store.p212121.com/serological-pipettes/
http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/sigma/p7615?lang...

Part of the reason that these pricing issues exist is that many universities negotiate from list price instead of absolute price.

For example, give us 40% off of list price instead of asking how much does this actually cost. Fisher will then have insanely high list prices and accounting thinks it is a win while researchers get burned. Researchers can go around purchasing, but often this requires additional paperwork.

Here is a section from a 48 university pool in Ohio, request for proposal asking for percent off of list price (not actual price):
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s32/sh/cada2b94-2214-44e9-8d8...
> Many people here (myself included) claim that they are working really hard so that they can get enough money to be able to do whatever they want for the rest of their lives.

I used to be one of those people until I realized that if I had financial freedom I wouldn't know what I want to do with my life. I was a freelance developer for 7 years and never had to worry about money. I could work on average about 4 hours a day and spend the rest of my time on my own projects or whatever else struck my fancy. It was fun for a time - 7 years to be exact - but I eventually got lonely. I hadn't developed very many meaningful relationships with people I didn't know for 10 years already and I felt isolated. I would rail on the refresh button on various social media websites in search of some kind of human connection.

So I took a full time job and I based the company I chose to work for solely on the people I met there. It's been over 7 months and I've already built friendships with tons of new people and I feel more connected to the world than I have in years. I get to work on fairly interesting stuff without the stress of having to keep my pipeline filled and when I go home I don't take my work with me, which was a big problem I had when freelancing; keeping my work and personal lives separate.

That's why this article resonates with me, anyways. I made more money as a freelancer but past a certain point I didn't know what to spend it on and having the money didn't really make me happy. What makes me happy is building relationships with people and sharing in their struggles and triumphs. I really don't think I'll mind doing this for another couple decades.
Non-monetary uses won’t save Bitcoin…yet
The most amazing part of this to me is that it's possible to code for a decade get through a CS degree and be a research assistant without testing or even using source control! I'd probably have gone insane trying to debug under those circumstances.
Free time is a pleasure, it's not going to make you more capable of love and working a normal week isn't a barrier to love. But neglecting people while chasing success in the present at a chance for more time with them in the future (with the obvious risk of having nothing to show for it) can threaten your relationships. You may be optimistic about your business, but most people who make that gamble will lose.
At the risk of continuing to be boring, I think it's important not to mix technical concepts with social welfare concepts; they serve different goals and it is easy to get a misleading impression of one when trying to apply it in the other domain. Economics is plagued with these problems (cue half-informed people raging about how "Economics assumes people are perfectly rational, but Ariely told me they weren't [0]! Take that establishment!")

Utility is a very specific tool devised to model choice behavior. It is a basic idea of utility theory that "Vikram gets much less utility from the lobster than Yolanda" is not a meaningful statement within the framework. There's no wrangling or wiggle-room with this point; interpersonal utility is formally incomparable.

Similarly, it is well-trodden that markets tend to allocate scarce goods to those with the greatest willingness and ability to exchange other scarce goods for them; market theory doesn't presume to say anything about who enjoys the scarce goods the most. This is why, beyond choice and market theory, we need something that addresses social value systems. Utility does not pretend to do this, except to the extent that an individual may value social justice in their personal utility function.

So, while I take your point that my post was technical and, yes, dry, them's the ropes when it comes to utility theory. Correct statements tend to be boring ones that don't evoke human interest. If one wants to evoke human interest (a perfectly reasonable goal) I think it's best not to mix in half-appropriate technical concepts when there is substantial potential for confusion.

[0] For anyone who is curious, I estimate 80% of Ariely's "irrational" examples are easily explained by understanding that making optimal choices with imperfect information has a cost in time and effort; when you price in this cost in time and effort, making suboptimal-but-easy-to-make or even random choices is actually perfectly rational within the framework.
Well they led the article with a picture of a terminator. You pretty much have to expect an agenda with a cultural cue like that.
I've been developing a mid-sized project in Swift since its release. And while the language feels new and interesting, the only thing that matters (and has remained largely the same) is the Cocoa touch API.

One's career is built more on knowing the ins and outs of the significant collection of frameworks provided by Apple, not the language. The language can be used to explore new design patterns and implementations, but it's really the API that makes it capable.

I think Swift is as much a barrier to entry as Objective-C (i.e., not a very big barrier). The hard part is knowing the APIs available, when to use them, how to use them, and how not to use them. That has not been reset with the release of Swift; in my experience with the language so far.
Its because textbooks are usually more in depth than lectures can go due to time considerations, this is why any graduate program is 90% papers and textbooks.

A great example of this is Andrew Ng's course, even though he is the co-inventor of LDA (complicated Bayes network) he does not explain Bayesian analysis in his course.
What exactly is missing from SublimeText 3 that causes people to think development has been abandoned?

It seems to work great? Do we really need our text editors on a rapid release cycle?
Being in on the ground floor of Swift doesn't confer the ability to ship good apps, which is the actual career-maker. The old hands of iOS/Mac development retain their advantage over the newcomer even if they ignore Swift until after it has settled down.
AirPair (YC W14) wants volunteers for AirConf, AirPairs's virtual conference
Not every packet is sacred: Fixing Bufferbloat [pdf]
No - There's nothing wrong with it. But they have to continue to release builds at least or operating systems may not support it without using a VM and an older version of the OS.

That's my main concern at the moment.
Maybe they aren't Apple Swift experts: http://swift-lang.org/
C# can pass parameters by reference, which is often used to return multiple values from a function. In new C# 6 it will look like this:
if (int.TryParse("1234", out int result)) { /* do stuff */ }
Here is what should happen.

1. The person files a DMCA notice to the theme website.

2. The theme website takes down your theme and notifies you.

3. You file a counterclaim where you assert that you are the rightful copyright owner of the theme.

4. The theme website puts your theme back up.

5. The person can choose to sue you which costs them money and is probably difficult for them to do.

One little thing I recommend you do if the DMCA notice does go through is make sure a copy of the takedown request is sent to https://www.chillingeffects.org/. This is what google, twitter, github and a lot of tech companies large and small do. The reasoning is that a lot of people use the DMCA as way to harass websites and one small bit of recourse you have is to publicly shame them.
Poll: Where did you learn software (and/or web) development?
I'm just curious to see how much of the HN community learned programming (or perhaps the broader spectrum of CS) at college versus by themselves via books and the Internet.
College/University
Coding Bootcamp