skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Not if you pay them accordingly."

And so it came to be, that money was the measure of everything.

I hate to border on strawman-building, but... what if I told you that you have to renounce your laptop, your telephone number, all your social media accounts, all your pictures, everything you've ever hold dear, right now, "for the good of the community"? Of course I'll pay you "accordingly" (up to a point, i.e. just enough to replace them). Would you take it?

For a lot of old people, relinquishing their homes means losing memories and likely being uprooted from the community they belong to, which is what they really care about. They don't care too much about their bank accounts, because they are aware that their time is short and what really matters for them is the connections they can still make, the history they can pass on.

That sort of thing doesn't have a price tag.
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At some point in the decision process you should be weighing the cost of buying software/support vs. the cost of developing it in-house. Highcharts is not expensive compared to developing something similar yourself, unless you have the luxury of a loose schedule and are being paid at something like $10 an hour.

I think the reason these "cost concerns" are being expressed is that a programmer isn't trained to weigh these things objectively. It's like going directly to a surgeon with an ailment and asking their recommended course of action. Their expertise is surgery, so their resolution is more likely to involve a knife.
Not just Hitler. Naomi Klein (of No Logo fame) wrote an excellent book about it, called The Shock Doctrine [1]. She lists numerous examples in the last 50 or so years how convenient, but shocking events were used as excuses to implement controversial laws, that often either limited freedoms or made the life of people more miserable.

She mostly approaches the issues from an economical perspective, mainly focusing on inhumane economic policies that both Thatcher and Reagan implemented, but the gist is similar.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine
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Allowing inline assembler is not the same thing as the language being close to the metal. Close to the metal means staying within the language but still having the power to do the same things as pure assembler.
What is the outlook for Julia?
TLDR: Will the Julia grow to a significant fraction of python's popularity and capability for general, web and data science programming?

I was looking at python for a good general purpose scripting language, .net libraries, etc with statistical and data science capabilities.

It seems that despite the success and burgeoning capabilities, The pydata ecosystem has inherent limitations (that I would bump up against in my use cases).

So I turn to Julia a purportedly general purpose language that excels at numerics, with easy python interopt to ameliorate the current embryonic state of libraries.

Sounds great, but the analyst in me is looking for one language that is versatile while still fullfililng my data analysis requirements... I don't want to invest in an ecosystem that will stagnate in terms of general programming, web programming, data science and job demand.

I feel bullish on Julia, but not completely sure. I would be quite grateful for everyone's thoughts on this?

Thanks
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I'd say this is an almost perfect example of intentions becoming outcomes, actually.
The TI-83 is more in the textbook market than the electronics or calculator market. Once you realize this, the price doesn't seem so surprising. At least, it doesn't seem any more surprising than textbook prices.
Like you, I am more in Twain's camp. "There are three types of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics."

Statistics are great for providing evidence to counteract our intuition, and show empirical holes in logic. That said, they should (like most everything else) always be considered provisional truths as opposed to final truths. Experiments can be misdesigned. Stats can be misinterpreted. And (God forbid!) statistics can be misinterpreted.
I implemented amCharts earlier this year on an internal project. The version we used is not rendered in flash. They use SVG (and VML for IE6-8 support). Been very pleased with their look/feel and feature set. The documentation on their site was organized and helpful. Concluded on amCharts as a result of a personal analysis of eight charting libraries. amCharts does allow free (with conditions, link) and pay options.

I think highcharts is a top contender but ultimately felt amCharts had better aesthetics. The updated highcharts is certainly looking good.

(here was the analysis breakdown done in February 2014: http://i.stack.imgur.com/efgoR.png)
I was obviously referring to the practice of exploiting kernel vulnerabilities to gain root access to locked down phones.
During college, we used Ti-89 calculators, like the ti-83, but with more ram/rom, higher resolution display etc. It has simple apps such as a notepad and spreadsheet.

Our professor didn't worry about cheating, he just designed the tests while keeping in mind probably every student had written notes on their calculator. In fact, he allowed us to have all our notes and books with us while performing the test, just like you would do in the real world when tackling a difficult problem.
Yeah. Completely button- and menu-compatible, but with a much better screen and faster CPU. The screen resolution is really inexcusable.
You can innovate to sell them something they're already buying or a substitute but cheaper.
That doesn't mean it makes sense, for instance someone down voted every one of my comments. Being mad about it would be just as illogical.
> Doesn't change the fact that working on something revolutionary is a lot more fun than working on something iterative. It's also more accessible to individual entrepreneurs whereas iterative progress is more of a bigco domain.

Must be news to all these tinkerers playing with and improving their toy drones and people contributing to Linux rather than writing their own kernel
Here's a link for anyone who wants a TI simulation on their phones: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Revsoft.Wa...
The homeowner likely got some money from the building insurance as well. So in a way, insurance paid for the property developer.
HighCharts + Internet of Things: https://thingspeak.com/channels/3
Something I've learned is never sign any work or business contracts unless you fully read through it and understand it. Even if this means getting your own lawyer to read it.

Unfortunately saying you did understand the language is not a valid reason. It sucks but that's also the reason why thee were so many bad mortgages in the recent real estate bust. Too many people didn't read their mortgage agreements.

As the saying goes everything is good while it's good and everything goes bad when it goes bad.
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I'd say it differently. "Close to the metal" means the language constructs correspond to ASM constructs. E.g. PL/M 86 (an early Intel language for the 8086) had something like pointers (based variables) that corresponded exactly to the addressing modes of the machine code. Their data types corresponded to register widths available. They had a string-move intrinsic that was exactly REPNZ MOVSB etc.
> bitcoin/etc don't solve the consumer credit problem.

True. Bitcoin should be compared to debit cards instead of credit cards. It isn't a credit-based system. The things Bitcoin is good for though (in its current stage) are more specialized, like paying someone the equivalent of $5 in Nicaragua.

> And if someone's going to go through the ropes to set up an account on a bitcoin wallet service and deposit money into it at the market, they're also likely to be able to do the same with a banking service.

Bitcoin wallets are far easier to create than bank accounts. It's by design that so few people in the world have a bank account, but anyone with an internet connection can get a Bitcoin wallet.
Thanks - credit goes to David Skok's original post on virality - forentrepreneurs.com/the-science-behind-viral-marketing/
To see the earlier work by Rob Pike on the ideas that would eventually turn into golang take a look at this paper:

http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/rsc/thread/newsquimpl.pdf

A good overview (of CSP) document is written by Russ Cox:

http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/

Both the above articles are more focused on implementation as opposed to theory.
I would occasionally bury stuff in programs that shouldn't have been there. I was afraid that the teacher might look at my programs and if there was a functional program, would realize what I was doing, so I'd usually have a code language that I could easily decipher but wouldn't be easily figured out by someone else.

I probably gave my teachers too much credit, but the classes that could use calculators were usually taught by teachers who knew about programming the things.
If it's that easy why don't you crank up the leverage and become a billionaire? Hey, it's guaranteed.
So in US teachers get to decide the calculator to use? That's crazy.

When I was in junior high (in France) it was about 50/50 between TI and Casio. In high school a few kids had an HP48. The rare time there was something specific to do with the calculator (eg. calculating sequences) the teacher would ask one geek from each camp to explain to the class how to do it with calculators of that brand.
> why do these companies choose MySQL over Postgresql?

There's been a perception for a long time that MySQL was "more lightweight" than traditional RDBMS's and therefore "faster", the same thinking that perpetuates NoSQL solutions today.

Originally Postgres didn't even support SQL. mSQL was developed as an SQL interface to Postgres in the mid 90s. When it turned out Postgres was dog slow on the old-ass hardware the devs were using they just implemented their own lightweight db and mSQL became the top pick for new OSS-based systems. But mSQL was commercially licensed, so MySQL was created for personal use. Since it reused the same API as mSQL, everyone just adopted MySQL as a 'drop-in' replacement. So MySQL is lightweight and fast and free and Postgres is a dog slow incumbent.

I guess you could compare it to how many people feel Java is a humongous pig that can't scale and PHP is fast and lightweight. And obviously lots of sites use PHP. But some shops choose Java because they want something PHP can't offer. (Note: this is not a fair comparison to MySQL and Postgres in any way, but it shows the weird 'feelings' people get for different software)

But also: MySQL has more DBAs, a higher number of installations, more 3rd party support, bigger user/dev community, and in general is more popular.

> technically, is MySQL less capable than Postgres?

Each has individual technical benefits and drawbacks the other doesn't have.

> Would it be wrong to start a new business on MySQL?

What, like, ethically?

MySQL is just a tool. I could 'bash' a table knife by saying it's a dull, heavy piece of shit compared to some other knife, but guess what? Everyone uses table knives. They don't typically use them to debone fish, however. Look at your use case and pick the tool you feel comfortable with that fits it best.
Can't the insurance sue the developer to recoup their costs? Seems like it should.
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Glad everyone liked it. Going to make one about why buses bunch up in the future.
As noted by ______1, the hacker did something similar by censoring the photos and offering to uncensor for bitcoin. The difference here is that people sending bitcoin have no guarantee that the photos will actually be released once the bitcoin is sent. They don't have any guarantee that the posted bitcoin address is not an imposter, and the real address is elsewhere. They don't even have a guarantee that the hacker was already caught, thereby wasting their bitcoin. That system is lacking in trust. A dynamic system described above would help mitigate that problem (even though the hacker could reblack-out each photo and tell them to start again, but that would completely demolish any future trust, although it would hardly be considered "stealing" since the percentage paid of each photo was already released).
Did you get sued or did you get a letter to stop using the name? It feels unlikely that the first communication you'd get from them is notice of a lawsuit.

IANAL, but ... Trademarks are one of those things where if you don't show evidence of fighting misuse, you can lose the trademark. This force makes lawyers and in-house counsel write these letters.

I do have to say that even though you are not a competitor of Square, the name cashsquare is a little confusing. With no other context, I would have thought it was related. Given trademark law and this name, it seems reasonable that you'd receive a letter.
I suppose having a superposition of all (self-consistent) loops that collapses into a single result is equivalent to the result of what I said... Hmm.

Thanks for the link!
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This isn't free markets eating itself, it's the dangerous hazards of mixing free markets with an over-bearing state, that modern economies have chosen...

Dude. You've just described free markets eating themselves.
I am a developer today because I used to write little programs that helped me cheat in high school and college.
Mostly up to highschool and standardized exams. In college usually there was no constraints though many professors stated that we have to clear the memory before the exam. I used to have an HP48 for most of my college years.
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You can likely use whichever you want during class, but at test time (APs, etc), there are only a few approved models.
I just wish you could option out a car online and click and pay by card(or bank transfer for financing etc) like you do with a computer. Ideally deliver it to your house, but picking it up at a port or a freight rail place or something is also a palatable option.

The notion that if I want car x, in color y, with trim z, I have to shop around and "find one that exists in those options" is not something that should be on me as a consumer.

I'm sure dealerships will custom order a car for you, but that sounds like a pain in the ass and I'm sure they charge you more for the privilege of buying the 20-50k product you actually want.
If you dismiss any positive results in parapsychology as false on reductionist grounds, the whole field becomes a sort of meta-control group for statistics that are measuring real things.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ib/parapsychology_the_control_group...

Anyways, this article singles our Turing and Kahneman but it seems this is a fairly common pitfall/mistake among, well, almost everyone who uses statistics.
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There's a difference between what you CAN do and what you VALUE doing. Yes, people can put up with conditions they find undesirable, but they'll be unhappy and cause others working with them to be unhappy as well.
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We built what Gmail should have built long time back
Why we built MetisMe? Why we still believe what we built, Gmail should have built it long time back.

I think we are quite past from the discussions on is Email dead? I think email is at a tipping point where rather than creating a new email client just to address a single pain point, the focus should be on addressing smaller yet crucial pain points with email (web and mobile) - and if that is done right inside the existing ecosystem of tools, it will be quite appealing to millions of users across the globe.

http://www.metisme.com/we-are-doing-what-gmail-should-have-done/

What do you think?
For the most part, the primary concern is which calculators are used on exams, not during class.
Yes, in some ways. Usually you get a new concurrency model in addition to a new threading model, and more control than the original JVM green threads gave you.
I wonder if you'd run into some sort of energy problem. Like, this time machine would require some sort of energy and incur some amount of wear and tear on during each pass. The amount of possible solutions to today's cryptography might make this brute force level of effort, even with a time machine, infeasible. I feel like nasty old thermodynamics may preserve our world still. :)

Granted, I'm way way out of my depth here. I have a Ph.D. in physics but I studied nonlinear oscillators, relating them to problems in neuroscience.
Their presentation, featuring John Carmack at 1:32:45.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRLy0QQI6xU
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Good call, fixed :)
I guess at the end of the day, the need to publish something is so strong that statistical flukes end up being published. It's too bad that once something's out there it can take a long time to be overturned.
Would an edge router lite be appropriate for home use with cable/DSL service? The specs are amazing for the price: 2GB flash, 512MB RAM, dual-core 500mhz CPU, 3x GbE.

I'd love to use something like this as my router/DHCP server and use my old routers and just AP access points in the house.
My grandmother had a cookbook from the 1920s and she claimed she had to update all the recipes to account for increased egg size. From the first recipe it doesn't look like that's the case here.
Interesting to see the pluralization rules for so many languages expressed so succinctly.

Apparently in Polish 11 gets the "many" form (:other in this Ruby library), but 12 to 14 get the "few" form, like 2 to 4. But in Russian and a few other Slavic languages, 11 gets the "one" form.
> Bitcoin wallets are far easier to create than bank accounts.

That might be so, but transferring real-world money into one (a requirement until value stabilizes †) is not nearly as simple.

> It's by design that so few people in the world have a bank account, but anyone with an internet connection can get a Bitcoin wallet.

This reads a little funny when you remember that far fewer people in the world have a Bitcoin wallet. Could this be a mere matter of implementation of the design?

† IDR-USD moved 1.6% in the past month, Bitcoin-USD moved 19%
David Deutsch also proposed a similar resolution for closed timelike curves, which say that if you have a probability distribution of the present, all that's necessary is that when you travel back in time, you get the same probability distribution. In short, if you flip a (true!) random coin to before shooting your grandfather, no paradox exists:

http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.44.319...

This is described with more intuition and background in one of (always excellent) Scott Aaronson's lectures: http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec19.html
I left the United States to work abroad too soon to get into the project, but Washington DC (if you are in that area) Public Libraries had a very impressive computer literacy program where people were taught all kinds of the skills. I taught for a while.

http://dclibrary.org/services/computer

Things like this will make a big difference. The email thing, as an IT guy full-time, blew my mimd. Many of my students were not stereotyped homeless people, but frustrated people with low incomes and dead end jobs. Some of them really lit up as you showed them how to spend all free time that could be invested in free education and researching better job opportunties. I only wish I had stayed longer volunteering there to make a real difference.

I hope other places start digital literacy courses.
If you want to switch the device that gets assigned an IP address by Comcast's DHCP servers, all you need to do is reset the cable modem. At least that is how it always was for me.

I have a gigabit ethernet connection now, so I quit using a router. All the ones that I have couldn't manage more than 500 megabits/sec through the WAN port, even though they were supposedly gigabit.

I did some research at www.smallnetbuilder.com and I found that generally speaking, "gigabit router" actually means "router with a gigabit switch" unless you are buying something that isn't marketed to consumers.
Yes, its seen as vocational training. Rather than teaching trig or how to apply it or what it means, you get how to display sine waves on a specific TI model.

I'm old enough that my vocational training in high school math classes was on the venerable yet new at that time TI-81. That vocational training was not terribly useful in university classes, the rot had not reached that high (at that time)
I have the HP-50g. Love that thing, though I don't get to use it much these days. I bought it for taking the tests in my intro physics course at uni, after my TI-89 got stolen by some doucherocket. My physics professor was a huge fan of the HP RPN calculators, and recommended them highly.

I was also notorious for bringing a slide rule into tests in case the batteries ran out on the calculator.
I have done a very similar thing with my projects (Droplet & Portal...see profile links). Only difference is I use a self designed API instead of Firebase to do the communication relaying.
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Book: http://tractionbook.com/
I misunderstood intentions. I just wanted to chime in with the name of theorem I thought you were describing. I like knowing the names of theorems, and I had a hard time finding this name when I first looked for it.
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This is very useful, and I think I will post or link to something like that on my own open source project's page.
Look near color boundaries. As you zoom in, there are different pictures making up each pixel. Repeat. :)
I guess so. Maybe the sum likely to be recovered was inferior to the cost of suing. I'm speculating anyway.
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Thank you for the explanation.

I think its worth pointing out that when computer science researchers play with different kinds of neural nets which expand beyond the simplistic version used in the OP, they still call them neural nets. I have seen abstract computer-driven neural nets that fire independently and in (more) continuous time, are plastic, lack clear layers, etc.

I think when you said: "but I'm talking about a neural net as a specific mathematical model here" that is fair, you are asserting that while this model similar to a biological one at some very primitive level the model of neural net used here is so far removed for our biological implementation as to render any comparison non-meaningful. I believe that is possible, but we still have discussed evidence that is the case.

I thought it might not be "silly" question: Consider that a turning machine simulated with pencil and paper, given enough paper and time is capable of doing any calculation your desktop computer can. Now it may take 10,000+ years and many "operators" lives, but that is besides the point.

I was thinking that the comparison between the pencil and paper turning machine and the desktop machine, might be similar to the this very basic neural net model and our own much more complex biological instance. The idea is that the two systems while varying vastly in efficiency might equivalent in what they can theoretically compute.

I don't see how asking the question of how much we can simplify our biological neural net and still have be computationally equivalent to the original (even if less efficient) is a silly question.

(I don't like silly, it implies the question is not worth asking. Calling your students question silly is a good way to make them never ask another.)