skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, too underwhelming to catch on as much as Gladwell's interpretation has. However, it actually makes an important point: even if you're talented, it requires practice to really become an expert.
It does cache songs you have listened to on your phone. When I get the tube in London I can still listen to tracks I've played already. Not sure how long it's cached for or how many tracks it caches all together though.
If you follow Jack Ma, this kind of market place online was also his vision when creating Alibaba.
It's a matter of degree. I have PHP apps which have run for years with minimal hands on them. All they need is an upgrade to PHP, which sometimes doesn't require touching the app source code at all, or sometimes requires relatively minimal (compared to my rails experience) updates to the source.

(I still do not choose to write my apps in PHP. Also these PHP apps did not use a Rails-like framework. If I were to do a big app in PHP again, I'd want a Rails-like framework. And indeed I wonder how much that would increase my maintenance costs.)
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You can swap out the voice recognition portion. The default is PocketSphinx but there's also a Google Speech to Text implementation.

https://github.com/jasperproject/jasper-client/blob/master/c...
>There's also considerable evidence that China's housing bubble has burst along with this economic shift. But the bizarre nature of China's housing market has hidden this effect for a while.

We get a lot of bizarre financial news about China over here. The other day there was some sort of corporate bond default (I believe it was China's first, if you can imagine that) that pundits on Bloomberg thought was the start of the end for China, as if businesses don't default for some reason or another, all the time.

The fallacy is in comparing the Chinese housing market to that of the US. China manages (or at least is trying to) real estate prices, and much of the inflated price kicks back to the government as a form of consumption tax which is used to fund further infrastructure development. This housing infrastructure is important when millions of people are moving from rural to urban areas.

Who knows if these policies will continue to work, but there is no doubt they are currently working. There has never been a growth story like this, and they are still only 1/5 the GDP per capita of the US.
Cool idea and implementation. Constructive feedback: A hotkey for undo (Ctrl+Z), or hotkeys in general would be nice. First thing I tried.
So it's necessary but not sufficent? Or neither necessary nor sufficent?
This is fantastic. How long is a whiteboards lifetime ?
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Can this perspective/stack a bunch of layers in a single psd to get a result similar to the images on bottom 1/3rd of the page (http://perspectivemockups.com/v2/wp-content/themes/Perspecti...)

We have files with multiple layers and need a quick and easy way to display the layers in a perspective stack.
Having groups of lines with the same indentation act as text objects helps too.

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Indent_text_object
I wanted to install this on my existing raspbmc install but the instructions are fairly lengthy - lots of steps and dependencies - and I wasn't sure if the pi is actually fast enough to run this and control XBMC at the same time, which is what I really wanted to do. It does look fantastic though.

It just occurred to me that a pi is so cheap I could get one and install the SD card version of Jasper and control XBMC over its API :)
Did you post a very similar comment about that anecdote on a story about antibiotic use in China a few months ago? I feel like I've read that quote before.

Anyway, crazy stuff.
In microeconomics, there's the concept of a "marginal consumer". When a demand curve is formed, it's so by mapping all the consumers' reserve prices (i.e. the maximum they're willing to pay for a product) on the y-axis and the quantities demanded on the x-axis (so the first guy is willing to pay $100 for 1 unit, the next one $98 for 1 unit, etc). The marginal consumer is the guy whose reserve price is exactly the the market price of whatever good we're talking about. So whenever the price of that good goes up, he stops buying it.

Now, if reserve prices correlate to the urgency and magnitude of consumer needs, the majority of consumers would be the guys who buy on a whim (if the demand curve is steep enough). They don't buy it because they want to, but rather because they need to.

tl;dr deong is right

P.S. If this still seems counterintuitive, consider that a customer asking too many questions doesn't necessarily signal he's interested in it. On the contraty, it could be that the more clueless he is, the more likely he is to ask questions as he didn't do any research in the first place. Example/anedoctal "evidence": Whenever I bought computer parts, for instance, it was mostly a silent trade, because I've picked them all beforehand. The only things I asked about were those I didn't bother to research.
Because it's fun. As the industry matures, people seem to lose the sense of humuor - which is sad, because practical jokes and playfullness is what created said industry.
I could go through dozens of similar points that make science distinct from philosophy.

Go for it. I'd like to hear them. You're offering, I'll take you up on that.

(edit: --actually, snipped the edit, because it just makes things longer --)

retract and apologize, as you would be obliged to do if this were a science discussion between educated people.

If this were a scientific discussion, you wouldnt be throwing around the word 'science' like it was some kind of trump card. Instead of 'prove it scientifically!' you'd be saying 'show me your methodology and results'. I mean, your doctor dubious example doesn't even work - you don't need to know the mechanism of how the patient recovers from a cold to merely have a control group that shows the same recovery without the magic gourd.

Prove it scientifically. Prove that the mind change resulted from the brain damage, not the other way around.

Final Edit: Are you aware that the NIMH article you've linked three times to defend your case explicitly states that biology underpins mental state? Why do you want me to prove something to you that you're already using to defend what you're saying?

In any case, neither of us are going to change the others' mind, but please stop spreading misinformation about psychology, because you have a distorted, tunnel-vision view of it and laypeople who don't know any better will take it on face value. If you actually are the scientist of the kind you laud, then you'll attack individual studies based on methodology, rather than entire fields based on cherry-picked selections and self-defined terminology.
> One other idea that I have already tried quite successfully was to use this as a technical phone screen tool where you codefight the candidate or ask them to do a few solo modes to see how far they get

Sorry, but that's a terrible idea. As a bit of recreational fun, this game is fine for. But judging candidates on their ability to speed read would exclude a lot of very capable developers (as well as potentially land you into trouble under equal opportunity employment laws given the aforementioned bias this games introduces)
Though there are some claiming that Haskell is the best imperative language because of having to state upfront what effects each bit of code can have. Since evaluation order is not very straight forward in Haskell, effectful code has to be explicitly ordered, which makes is very clear.
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very nice, responsive. Great job. I was looking for such tool. Feature request, should allow copy paste :).
"NSA Proof Secure Tasks"

You lost me and a whole bunch of other people there.

"NSA Proof" is the new "military grade encryption", please don't use it.
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You could perhaps give a two, three or a four star review for various degrees of incompetence.

It depends on the review system. The article was addressed at five stars systems, where one star reviews do tend to have too low a bar for some, whereas others never leave negative reviews of any sort.

Other system are good/bad and there it's a harder choice whether to leave criticism. There's incompetence, and there's something that wasn't good but doesn't necessarily signify systemic incompetence. Leaving a review marked "bad" can't distinguish between those two, at least in the eyes of those that perceive it.
I don't disagree with you, but part of the reason first world consumers demand cheap Chinese products is because many of their middle-class-income-producing jobs have been exported to China and various third-world countries, so they can't afford the ethically produced environmentally friendly goods anymore.

What the first world consumers need is to bring manufacturing back to the first world, so they can get jobs that pay enough to buy the products they help manufacture.

That, or basic income, if first world labor is no longer needed because manufacturing has become too efficient.
The rat rack.
Well, the data is very noisy. The main problem is that this data doesn't have a before/after comparison. Is the 850nm light visible now or it was always visible???

It's also very difficult to make a fair comparison. The room must be the same, the light sources must be the same (a new coffeepot with a small led can ruin the experiment, removing a coffeepot because it has recently broken can ruin the experiment).

For a preliminary experiment, the before-after comparison is enough. For a serious experiment you need many voluntaries, compare the before-after signals of them all at the same time in the same experimental conditions, and double blind testing.

There is a small possibility that they are measuring "excitement" instead of light. The subject hears that they are now going to test with very near infrared light. He got exited. They measure that. Perhaps the flash makes a slight sound, perhaps the light operator makes a slight sound. (Perhaps the 850nm flash makes a sound that the other flashes don't make?)
Add Chicken Scheme (http://www.call-cc.org/) to the list.
Who says he didn't read the copy? Just because the creator wasn't the one who posted it doesn't make it any less valid of a question.
I thought Netflix was an all-FreeBSD house. Good to see they have some Linuxen too.
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I swear that the first time I had ever seen it was in the Djangobook, but I just went to view it for the first time in years, and it doesn't seem to have that functionality. Starting to wonder if I had imagined it.
Haha, indeed I did. Although I'm sure many others who've lived in China have had similar experiences. About 75% of patients with seasonal influenza are prescribed antibiotics[1], so I think being prescribed antibiotics for viruses is pretty common.

1. http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g1083
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Keepass has this feature built in after copying username/passwords.
So when we look back in 50 years and the "kids" are asking us what we poured our lives into, we'll be able to say "really, really well-done snark."

Future is looking bright.
Blizzard used LGPL software in starcraft 2, the fastest selling real-time strategy game of all time.

But I guess, they should have avoided LGPL, delayed sale, and increased production cost. Thats how companies that want to earn money should behave, right?
I played around with something like this when I was a kid (it was a group of kids drawing anime characters if I recall). Every once in a while I search for something like that and I can never find it. Now it's back :D
For anyone interested in the innate talent vs practice in sports I recommend the book 'The Sports Gene' (spoiler: genes play a huge role).
Multinational businesses aren't that simple. The Bhopal plant was owned by the Indian subsidiary of Union Carbide, UCIL, which was half owned by Union Carbide, and half owned by the Indian government. Among the eight convicted in India in the disaster was the CEO of UCIL, Keshub Mahindra. Indifference to safety by corporations is a global issue. It's not reasonable to pretend Bhopal was caused solely by evil decisions emanating from Texas while innocent foreigners look on helplessly.
There is other history apart from European history. I see no confirmation from Arabic, Russian or Chinese history which would certainly show a 'sudden jump' over the years which were supposedly invented.
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Haha I used to recruit my sister to help me type in source code from Compute!'s Gazette into my Commodore 64. My favorite was when she was typing in machine language code into MLX:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLX_(software)

I told her that after she entered the line that the computer would tell her if it was right or not. She said, "Well if the computer knows what to type in, why doesn't it type it in?" I think I discovered then at 10 years old the difference between a P and NP problem.
I regularly bad mouth people, but in an equal opportunity humorous way. Myself included.
There is a time and place for humor. Important software is not one of them. When I run something on my machine I want it to do exactly what it is supposed to, nothing more and nothing less.

You won't be laughing if $RANDOM_EASTER_EGG has a bug that allows for remote code execution.
I probably typed in 200 or more BASIC Programs and several machine language programs and only very rarely ran into a problem. Definitely never hit a checksum issue in MLX - I think that's what you meant when you said MSX?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLX_(software)

I was on a Commodore 64 using Compute!'s Gazette so maybe they had higher quality standards than Compute!?
Taken to the extreme like you are doing, no language could ever be considered "functional" because in the end, they all need to perform io and ordered execution to be of any use. Instead, the commonly understood meaning of the word "functional" is that the language's design emphasizes and encourages use of immutable data and Clojure fits that meaning.
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I've read the first six. Rereading, I stopped at God Emperor.

I tell people who are thinking about reading it that if they found Dune to be slow and difficult that they should just stop at the first one. It's a lot of world building and politics as it goes on.
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Many non-affluent companies have skipped over the many stages the US went through in creating electrical and telecommunications infrastructure. For the latter they've jumped right to cellular, which has kept a LOT of copper and rubber from being wasted and littered across the landscape.

We've developed technologies and equipment for extracting natural resources without the pollution we used to create; developing countries should skip ahead and make use of those same technologies. They're not exactly national secrets; I'd bet that our manufacturers who produce that equipment would be happy to fill overseas orders, and I doubt the US government would have a problem with it.
Can you please explain to me what's important about these functions being anonymous? Why, specifically, they shouldn't be given a name?

How do you define working "efficiently with higher-order functions"? Given that Python fully supports higher-order functions, I am really curious what you could mean. I didn't downvote you, but it may have to do with your pointed assertion here, without anything in the way of an argument.

As to "ordering matters"; sure, but as the functions a nontrivial program calls are inevitably described as a graph, they must necessarily be defined in some arbitrary linear order anyway.
Please contact your local politician and make the copyright scope more sane. That way, a few lines won't be copyright-able and we don't need licenses for it.
Does anyone know how I can save a thread like this without commenting on it?
I read a lot of them because I'm a sucker.

Very few authors can break my concentration, snap me out of the story and make me think "oh, that was cheap..." like the the Herbert/Anderson collaboration.
Thanks :)

A whiteboard lasts 30 days at the moment, but that number may change in future
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Very similar story here. Got my Commodore 64 in 1982, read every Compute!'s Gazette since the first issue in 1983.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMPUTE!%27s_Gazette

Typed in hundreds of BASIC programs, dozens of machine language programs using MLX. Forced myself to understand every line of code that I put in. Parents couldn't afford college, became a computer consultant at 17 right out of high school.

Oh how different things could've been...
Noooo!

Messiah and children are amazing, and the rest are weird but great (and 5000 years distinct in time).

It's well worth reading all 6.

And yes, that's all 6. There never were any more than 6.
Kickstart an LLC that employs him to maintain his camping ground alone, a privately funded forest ranger. Satisfy the terms of the court decision while allowing him to return to his place and live in peace with supplies provided at a drop site.
a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia, https://archive.org/details/SevenPillarsOfWisdomByT.e.Lawren...
The ZX80 was even worse. You had to type fast, because the thing overheated real quick, and you couldn't type fast because the keyboard was just terrible. I remember only getting 1 program fully typed before the overheat moment. It ran for about 2 minutes before BOOM. Great memories.
Interesting. I always assumed it was doing a 360 scan. The sample images do seem to hint at a 2D scan, though the ATD front & back cartoon should be enough to highlight anomalies anywhere on the traveler's body.

It's too bad the "TSA Out Of Our Pants" guy didn't have a hidden camera accomplice to film his entire trip through security.
"You have mail". Good luck. :)
Not sure if you have seen it, but every once in a while people post a link to this guy's blog where he attempts to track a large number of body/life statistics everyday. The name of the site eludes me though. It was really well made and designed. Maybe someone can help me....
Yep, because nothing good will ever come out of China. /s
Yes, that is very important. When I watch experienced programmers learn Lisp, they write a couple functions, then go through the pain of debugging that.

They should unlearn that. And put tiny fragments in the REPL. (Or whatever interactive tool you have.) Playing with it.
Vitamin C is in so many things now that it seems unlikely that the additional vitamin c in strawberries would have much of an effect. There's a lot of positive benefit of long-term consistent consumption of various fruits (such as the study that showed an association between blueberries and brain health) but for such an effect on mood in the short term it could be that you just like them :). But hey, if it works, it works!
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This is a key issue for freemium companies - your free product needs to be good, but there needs to be a clear, sufficiently large audience for whom the free product would not be sufficient and they'd need to buy the upgrade.
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My stock recommendation is: The first book is a classic for a reason. However, if you don't like it, stop here. The subsequent books will not change your opinion. In fact Herbert may really not be your thing. (He has a certain unique feel to his writing, I think.)

The rest of the first trilogy is definitely more hurried and rather than "justifiably classic" are merely pretty OK if you like that sort of thing. A lot of people jam up here.

God Emperor of Dune is one of those books that is more fun to read the second time than the first, because the first time you really want the primary plot line to finish up and it feels like it is dragging. It really isn't, the rest of the content is quite worthy and the book would be made worse for removing it, but the first time through it doesn't feel that way. I like it better on re-reads, but this is a lot to ask of a reader. (Another one I feel this way is A Deepness in the Sky by Vinge. It's packed with goodness and I love it, but in the first read the middle half of the book can really drag since the goodness isn't in the "A plot".)

Finally, if you make it this far, Chapterhouse and Heretics are once again quite fun reads and re-reads. But it can be hard to get this far in the first place.

My suspicion is that a lot of people who blanket bemoan all the sequels never made it as far as Chapterhouse Dune. But then, it's perfectly understandable.

Oh, and I'll edit this to include my video recommendations: The classic Dune movie should be considered only loosely related, IMHO. The Sci-Fi (before it was "SyFy") miniseries of the book is good if you've already read the book and you view it as a filmed theatrical production rather than a "movie". Which, IMHO, actually works, as theatrical tropes are a better medium for Dune than conventional movie tropes in a lot of ways, but if you don't know what you're getting in to can be a shock. The miniseries of the second two books is better produced, but IIRC still requires you to have read the story first to really understand it. I definitely don't recommend them as your intro to the series.
I had really fond memories of books like these: http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/covl/usborne/lc-myst.jpg

Typing them in on the thick rubber keys of my 48k Spectrum. I'm sure there were quite a few different titles in the series, but I can't seem to find them at the moment. I always remember it was great how they had melded the book into the game, so they both supported each other.
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Could you give us some feedback about idea and UX?
We are building an IT startup that allows users to submit their fav dishes (and prices), something like a Foursquare of foods & drinks all around the world.
We will monetize with the "restaurant module", wich allows restaurants to receive orders from user cellphones. (URL: www.bitmozo.com )
You can try searching every restaurant/bar in the world :)

Thanks!
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Manufacturing jobs have fallen not production.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?graph_id=177007...
I think there's also a lot of recruitment of foreign experts for academically-oriented institutions. I've been seeing a lot more biomedical science papers from Chinese universities with non-Chinese names of faculty.
Tried to make it work on links and couldn't. Care to give it a try?
It's too bad they didn't split up the keyboard. Putting your fingers on the home keys looks like it would basically put your right hand over your crotch.
Americans have access to so many social safety nets. I find it hard to believe they would buy ethically produced products had they more money.

Also America doesn't need to trade with China, but it does anyway.
Were the eggs noticed and tacitly approved? What does this tell us about the process?

It doesn't tell us anything about the production process at VM because we don't know if they were noticed and approved or not noticed. Don't assume either way.

Imagine an easter egg in your car's navigation system.

No need to imagine it.. http://www.gpsinformation.org/dale/secret.htm
> More generally Common Lisp lacks a coherent web based module repository infrastructure like those of other dynamic languages such as CPAN or RubyGem.

What about ASDF and/or Quicklisp (http://www.quicklisp.org). They work well for me.
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it's compatible only with the next version until it's out.