skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hahaha, this made my day.

Back to the topic, I do this thing called biking to and from work. It's more pleasant than taking the subway, and when you don't have an unlimited subway card, it's easy to keep up the habit. It may not be as fun as creating an MMO, but it's pretty low threshold.
We're interested in day-to-day business needs. Databases and compute engines here handle real-time transaction processing or data analysis for graph data. E.g., logistics, recommendation systems, social graphs (users, employees, companies), payments (fraud or segmentation), IT systems/traffic (performance & security), knowledge management (manufacturing, legal), etc.
Thank you for your response. Unfortunately for me, I have zero influence on this decision process (in our case, the rabid hunger for "Leading Indicators"). I get shut down or over-ruled whenever I bring up how some level of ambiguity is unavoidable and it makes little sense to treat software engineering work like a factory process.

Having to suck it up and deal right now. I appreciate you reminding me that KPIs are just a tool. :)
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Deep Learning Startup Madbits joins Twitter
That doesn't make it impossible to MITM - Apple still controls the keyserver.

When I ask for nardi's public key, they can give me theirs, I encrypt it with that key and send it. They use their private key to decrypt it, store it, and then encrypt it with your actual public key and forward it along, neither of us any the wiser.
Has anyone thought about or attempted to model game AI with Markov Chains instead of decision trees? Ex: NPCs, wildlife or enemies that use Markov Chains to react to their surroundings.
I guess the point I was trying to make is: It might be good for a web artifact like this to degrade gracefully when browsers (and their addons) interfere.

Like "you seem to be blocking Facebook with XYZ..." or a similar message. Realize it's just a prototype -- can understand if you don't want to take the trouble.

Cool idea in any case.
They've blogged a bit about this challenge in the past:

https://whispersystems.org/blog/contact-discovery/
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Yeah, it's "pre-damage" gait looks really stiff. As if it's been pre-programmed, but not been subject to whatever learning algorthims the researchers have given it to "recover" with.

I think I'd like to see the robot move, after those algorithms have had a chance to improve it's initial non-damaged gait.
Edward Snowden asegura que Dropbox es 'hostil para la privacidad'
Dasher http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
takes some of the Markov chain ideas to the next level.
If you are a visual thinker it is a good way to get a feel for probabilistic compression techniques, specifically PPM and arithmetic coding.

Also good is the Viterbi Workshop (EDIT: unfortunately the URL below leads to a broken version of the applet.)
http://www.alantro.com/viterbi/workshop.htm
It used to have animated Java illustrations of the Viterbi algorithm, mentioned in other comments on this post. There are other working applets out there, e.g.
http://www.wirelesscommunication.nl/reference/chaptr05/recei...

The general field is called "algorithm animation" but it seems be out of fashion. The old SRC Modula-3 distribution used to contain a cool package for creating animations of algorithms. Here is a video made by the authors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIgu9q0vVc0
The problem with Markov chains is that they are named after a person, which makes math seem more like a "private club". For instance, why use "abelian group", when "commutative group" will do? The reasons for wanting to be a member of an exclusive group are psychological.
>Marketing.
>> 2) marketing is everything.
> no. no it's not.
>Unfortunately, it is.

This. Marketing and virality is in fact everything. Back when I was struggling for money, I used to push gift card offers on Facebook (I'm not proud of it). At the time everyone in a third world country with an internet connection was pushing essentially identical pages that would ask people to post a Facebook comment and then they would be forwarded to the offer, where we might get $1-$2 if they enter their email address.

Because of the sheer number of these identical pages, it was impossible to really make any money. But one day I decided to start commenting on my competitors' comment pages, saying that the current page was a scam but this other one (my page) was the real deal, and then voted that comment to the top. 48 hours later, I had made about $38,000 from the same page that everyone else was using.

The only difference was my marketing strategy. In a sea of copycats, the only way to differentiate yourself is through marketing.
CodeCamp can make anyone, of any age or any background, excited about coding. As a mentor at CodeCamp, I could not have asked for a better job!
Well actually the relatively hard part is hosting a crawler of decent size, and then if you crawl in violation of robots.txt its pretty straight forward to use iptables to ban you, of course you then spend money on hiring a botnet to mask your traffic footprint, except that on that same darknet there might be people who are friends of the owner of that botnet.

It is non-obviously difficult.
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I though the same thing. Anyone who's ever been camping with no other light source other than a full moon will remember how much light (I guess is it's pretty blueish?) the moon puts out.

But, maybe it's not too much, since our eyes are probably very night-adapted when there's no other light source?
Hollywood has gotten better about faking technology. At least some people in Hollywood have. "Silicon Valley" on HBO went as far as having a Stanford CS professor develop a viable compression-rating system to be used on the show (the "Weissman Score," named for Professor Tsachy Weissman).
slicehost? :)
No..... Oh wow.
Not too bad! It was low probability, but it did somehow recognize Mike.
The best comparison to patenting shit like that which I have thought of is an author trying to patent "novel" grammatical constructs in English.

Even if it is genuinely novel (unlikely) and a non-obvious innovation (also unlikely), is that really something that we should consider patentable?
Awesome: GNU Guile scripting support. GDB already has Python scripting support. But it seems most people are unaware of it. GNU Make also recently added support for GNU Guile.

A pretty good talk about GDB from FOSDEM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwDA3oIOtWw
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IDC and Gartner numbers: an apparent total hodge-podge
Awesome. I remember giving you a coin for my vote at the MIT demo day 1.5 years ago, and was pretty disappointed when I didn't see it released afterwards. Really happy to see it now!
No, it seems that Illume was released on Oct 22, 2013, more than ten months after I started development of my game. For reference, my game had already won a competition at MIT in February 2013; I wasn't aware of Illume until now.
Thanks! This plays nicely with my confirmation bias; I've been on a ketogenic diet since March and I've felt much better because of it.
Iceweasel is literally just Firefox packaged for Debian,
except with a different name and icon.

If you read this bug report[1], it's really about more than just a "different name and icon." If they used the official name and icon, they would have needed to have every patch be reviewed by Mozilla, which has serious problems for urgent security patches. And in that discussion, Mozilla voiced concern about several of Debian's patches.

It looks like there has been some effort to do what I've described, come up with a generic default name for Firefox builds that can be used as a default, unbranded version[2] rather than requiring every distro that doesn't want to or can't comply with Mozilla's trademark policy have to do it on their own, but the effort appears to have stalled.

Chromium lacks a number of features that Chrome has,
because Chrome comes bundled with a bunch of proprietary
components that will never be distributed with Chromium.

Sure, I'm not saying that the situations are exactly analogous, just that Chromium has managed to much better avoid the kind of trademark issues with distros that caused so much trouble for Firefox and Debian. On the other hand, as pointed out elsewhere in the thread, it appears that there is no official Chromium trademark policy (at least easily discoverable), but it seems that most distros have been able to use the name without complaint from Google.

[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622
[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682414
You can also use http://www.smscmd.net/ to connect your raspberry pi/arduino/<insert device> using MQTT and then you can wake your device using SMS.
No, you're correct. Their business model has to be and is going to be advertising, just as obviously as Facebook and Google's business models are.

Facebook is printing immense profits now. It wasn't that long ago a lot of people were proclaiming that could never happen. That's not to say Twitter will do the same, but it's entirely plausibly they can reach a modestly profitable ad-based business model off a couple billion dollar sales basis (which it seems they will be able to reach).
yessir. i am in the game industry. and, i'd love to share my numbers, but we've since been snapped up by disney and i bet they'd frown on my giving out the secret sauce they've paid for.

edit: oh, and for the 10,000 hours thing -- that's not a literal thing. i was just using that as a stand-in for "you must be an expert in".
Probably not. That's a scary thing to build. Cobalt-60 gammas are hard to shield, and 2000K is really hot. The laws of physics don't forbid building such a thing, but I wouldn't want to be in the same building with it.

Okay, so you have something that's so self-heating that it'll easily melt rock. In fact, it's hot enough that it self-liquifies quickly at STP. Cobalt reacts weakly with oxygen, but you'll still have to be careful with it in air, so you'll have to seal it in something; at 2000K, there are only a few materials with which you can hold and seal it, tungsten being one. Also, it's radioactive, and the tungsten sphere you put it in isn't nearly sufficient to stop the gammas.

So, you get your tungsten sphere all ready to go, let the cobalt liquify itself, pour it into the sphere, and then lower/drop it into a borehole. Better not be any water down there, or it might come back up.

Once you've got it doing it's melting thing and it's really deep at the bottom of a borehole, it probably can't hurt anyone.

I can't imagine a funding agency being ballsy-enough to fund it, and _really_ can't imagine a nuclear regulatory agency being interested in letting you build a source that could get itself so thermally hot.

TL;DR -- lots could go wrong.
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Cegłowski (@Pinboard) is utterly brilliant on Twitter, by the way:

"I toyed with using Heroku but found that it was faster and more reliable to put hundred dollar bills through a paper shredder"
Very cool solution! I've also seen claims that the private methods of modules should not be tested, since they don't represent the public interface of the module and refactorings are likely to change the private methods. If the private methods are complicated enough to warrant testing on their own, ideally they should be extracted into their own module. Not sure if I agree but it's something to think about!
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The fact that the answer is only one word is exactly why I love Meteor for MVPs and prototypes
Do you know what links is your hired SEO company building?
Do you ask everyone you meet on the internet if they've thought about donating some of their income to charity? He's a security researcher, this is a part of how they make a living.
It would take some exercise of movement to quantify the damage and the resultant qualities.
But if there really is live down there, how do you then explain to them that you just dropped some nuclear waste into their ocean?
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It has definitely been suggested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryobot http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_6.html
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I hope you are right - that a fun new gameplay with an adequate level of polish is enough for moderate success.
I guess that deep down I also believe the same and that is what makes me keep on going to finish my side project.
Last year a professor in my department (astronomy) suggested that he and I write a similar tongue-in-cheek paper to be published on April 1. The idea was to promote a moratorium on new astronomical data for one year. This would give observers time to reduce all the data they've already collected and theorists time to catch up to the observers.

It's facetious, of course, but there was a serious point behind it all. There is a certain tendency in science for a researcher to perform the same study over and over again just using larger or slightly modified data sets simply because that's what he knows how to do. Most of the time these sorts of Version 2.0 studies just reduce the error bars on the result without telling anyone anything new.

Now, of course, sometimes interesting results do come from such things. But much more often interesting results come from studies that attack a radically different problem or use a radically different approach. Science is a manpower-limited, not data-limited endeavor. Scientists have a finite amount of time that they can devote to research and they have to choose what projects to work on. There is still a great deal of low-hanging fruit---projects that require relatively small amounts of funding, relatively small amounts of manpower, and have the potential to yield genuinely new results. There are, for example, some really excellent projects that are being done with a telescope that basically consists of putting a commercial camera lens on a telescope mount [1]. But the difficulty of these sorts of projects is that they require creativity, and that is hard to come by. I'm not faulting anyone, though---I'm not an especially creative researcher myself!

Part of the problem is that grant agencies have a strong bias towards funding incremental science. While they say that they are in favor of funding breakthrough science rather than incremental science, the projects that actually get funded tell a different story. And it's hard to blame them because no one knows a good way to predict breakthrough results. It's an especially difficult problem to solve for theorists---in order to write a compelling theory proposal you basically have to have solved the problem already!

I've heard a number of solutions to these problems, but they're all as compelling to me as a year-long data moratorium (which, to be fair, would indeed force the community to become more creative). Hmm, maybe I'll actually write up that paper for April 1, 2015.

[1] http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~assassin/index.shtml
Do yourself a favor and do NOT host a static website on a full Linux server. It's more expensive, worse performance, more work to maintain, and a lot less safe than the alternative.

The best approach for a pure static website is to host entirely using a CDN. It's cheap, scalable, and zero maintenance. You don't even need a full CDN; just an object data storage (like Amazon S3) is enough.

There are many tutorials online. Just Google "hosting static website on S3". You may optionally use CloudFront on top of S3, if latency/performance (particularly for international visitors) is important to you.
Can't you build an MVP with dummy data?
Not if you buy them from Apple.
This sounds like a more practical version of David J. Stevenson's 2003 earth probe proposal: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0514_030514_...
The article concludes with "Ultimately, that is the reason we are nine nations. When you’re from one, and you’re in it, you know you’re home." - as a Mainer myself, who has since relocated twice (to the Empty Quarter and MexAmerica), I cannot explain the feeling I experience just from stepping off the plane in Boston. (I realize that's not a very scientifically qualified statement, but in this case I'm okay with it).
It looks like it uses bloom filters for the phone number:

isCntactRegisteredWithWhisper calls isPhoneNumberRegisteredWithWhisper:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/blob/19ff47e278...

The implementation is simply checking a bloom filter:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/blob/19ff47e278...

… and the filter is periodically downloaded from their servers:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/blob/19ff47e278...

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/blob/19ff47e278...

which ultimately ends up at:

https://master.whispersystems.org:31337/users/directory
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It may be a little less, but the volume is high enough (35M+) to be fairly indicative of tomorrow's opening price.
Interestingly it has been shown that the result from some neural networks is equivalent to using classification with some predefined filters. These filters could be considered as a feature descriptor. See this talk from CVPR http://techtalks.tv/talks/plenary-talk-are-deep-networks-a-s....
It was actually used as the basis of a Young Adult book in 2005 [1] or a very similar idea. The book uses a large molten ore body created from explosive charges.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_Fowl:_The_Opal_Decepti...
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...wait, so you mean you use this stuff for like real work instead of intellectual exercises in creative incentives for burning electricity? ;)
Slide-to-unlock was probably a pretty important, cool idea for whoever first invented it (not Apple -- though maybe they reinvented it from scratch). It's one of those things that's obvious in retrospect but difficult to necessarily think of when you're starting from a white page.

But not all important, cool ideas are patentable -- nor should they be. Patents are meant to reward research, not "good ideas."
Because the slope of topography/bathymetry is so flat, relatively small changes in sea level (order of 10s-100s of meters) can dramatically change the connectivity of land (and oceans). This allows for both the migration and isolation of species on earth, notably the migration of humans to the Americas[0].

The major differences in elevation/bathymetry are dominantly due to the density change that accompanies the change from continental crust to oceanic crust. Continents are basically rafts of granite that float on more dense mantle rocks; oceanic crust is pretty close chemically and physically to the mantle, and is a lot thinner and more dense, and basically floats lower. This equilibrium is called isostasy[1], which is more or less Archimedes' principle[2] applied to the earth.

It's basically happenstance that the volume of water on earth is enough to just barely overtop the ocean basin. Very fortuitous happenstance, though (life might have evolved pretty differently if the ocean/land transition was several km high).

[0]: http://ows.edb.utexas.edu/site/hight-kreitman/land-bridge-th...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isostasy

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes'_principle
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Can you recommend a book or project idea for building intuition on messy data? When it comes up in my hobby projects I compromise on the fly, and a professional approach would be much better.
wat https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/494239839349268481
I imagine the safe way of deploying the thing would be to assemble it on-site, over the bore hole, robotically. Don't have any humans anywhere near the entire operation as long as all of that cobalt is in the same place (deliver it to the site with several delivery missions, each only having a relatively safe amount of cobalt).

(Apparently the cobalt would be inserted into the tungsten sphere as a not-yet-liquid sphere. That would make the multiple deliveries and robotic assembly more difficult, so maybe a liquid-assembly like you suggest could be arranged.)

How the hell do you weld tungsten anyway? Maybe make the sphere in two halves, then spin them up in opposite directions and push them together, to friction weld them?
Hidden Markov Models are also an important tool in computational biology - we use them to represent and search for motifs in sequences, such as DNA binding sites, protein domains with a particular function, etc.
Two salient examples of Angular include: Amazon's AWS dev console (not the best example of Angular, but the only public use by a large corp I know of), and Lift's web app (lift.do).

I also know that Apple uses Angular for a few internal (non-public) developer tools/consoles.

Angular is a framework, heavier than the other frameworks too. Twitter and Facebook are particularly good examples because they use both server and client-side rendering, so they get the best of both worlds (fast initial page render and fast subsequent client renders). I love Angular, but Angular can't do this currently.
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Can confirm this. I interviewed for a UK based competitor who was scared NSO were better. The competitor's supposed capabilities were scary enough for me to bin my phone contract at the time because they had my contact details. The agent was less than honest about the job description as well. Arseholes all around.

Posting anon, well that's obvious.
I don't know if cases that involve an actual sale of a good are parallel enough to draw conclusions. I'm particularly looking for case law regarding implied warranty in the absence of a sale. My suspicion is that the disclaimer is an odd side effect of the desire to create a transaction so as to have an enforceable contract. In the absence of a sale or contract, I'm not sure what warranty would be construed. While false claims might cause damage, it seems like these might be issues even in the presence of a disclaimer.
I posted this link after seeing Steve Dekorte's twitter post this morning - https://twitter.com/stevedekorte/status/493947090507014145

The posted title simple copies the title/heading verbatim from the webpage.

PS. Sorry for not replying till now... been out all day since posting this.
"We have reasons to believe you posses weapons of mass destruction"

Worked fine with all the depleted uranium dropped on Iraq.
What he's suggesting is the way I've been working for years. I don't mean for this to be interpreted as "I told you so" - there are usually multiple valid approaches. I mean to confirmation that there are people using this with reasonable success.
Wouldn't get anywhere near the dynamo, sadly.
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You mean something else, but the cancelled Almost Human did bitcoin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8LqlMzEe-I
I pretty sure there is a happy medium somewhere before you hit outhouses. Just like living in cities doesn't necessarily mean you have to be stacked in like cordwood with 120 square feet allocated per person.
They'd already raised over 800M before this round.
This all obvious stuff. Anyone know how to get real emails past Microsoft's hopeless filters? They mark customer specific order confirmation emails as spam if they mention the word Paypal - if I thank a customer for their paypal payment then bam -> spam.
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Ahhhh I'm so excited for this, but it's not in the Australian store and I can't change it to US as I have an iTunes Match sub :( Any ETA on when it'll be here?