skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a friend who got her degree from UC Berkeley, and maybe wrote 5-10% of her work, she had other people (Friends, Lovers, colleagues) write all the others - she was a master of manipulation.

Who is to say that the valuable skill she developed wasn't her delegation and management skills, and that those were far more important in the long term than her ability to wax poetically about Plato's Republic?

The fact that she had to write that 5-10%, and do the occasional in class essay, that she did okay in, suggests that not writing the other 90-95% didn't seem to negatively impact her, "Learning Experience."

What I find particularly humorous, of course, is that all these random people, none of whom had taken any of the course work, or background that she presumably had, and many of them without college degrees, were capable of whipping out a paper with a day or two of research (under her guidance, and with a bit of her editing and supplying of facts) that passed muster at Berkeley.
Seeing this (a while ago) from the perspective of someone that was a complete noob to machine learning I found it extremely useful. It my not be the end-all-be-all, but I found it a useful graphic for figuring out which algorithms I should research to solve a specific ML problem.
Ornikar will launch its 100% online driving school in 2015
I can agree with you that maybe, at this early stage of the game development, the "Code" part in the "CodeSpell" name may be a bit inaccurate. But nothing tells us it won't evolve to something RPG-like, where you'll have to actually code your spells effects with raw instructions to reach higher levels.

I totally love those games where the players bring all the value by being creative, when the conceptors have absolutely no idea of what the in-game will look like 6 months from now.

It's not about teaching raw code and basic algorithms, but using code as a tool to achieve what's in your mind, and I think that's the most important part to prepare someone for the future of programming.
Quite and absolutely. The man has an outstanding record for predictions. I wish he weren't so good.
I would like to hear when you have something. Email is in my profile. Thanks.
How does Java suck when not on Windows?
Dumbphone plus a GPS device, mp3 player could so the same. I still prefer my Sansa clip to my phone for music (I never even set the phone up for music). Small, battery lasts a while, and I basically don't need to worry about it. I even put one through the washing machine and it worked after a couple of weeks.

As a side note, I find my Android phone a serious step back in usability. I would say I hang up rather than answer close to 50% of the calls. Can't I just get a physical green answer button back, rather than stupid swipe gestures.
You can make an integer range like 2..15 if you know thats your possible input values, and nothing else, only that will be accepted - no need to parse it yourself or check for upper/lower-bounds/unsigned-ness, the compiler and later runtime does it for you.

No casting.
I have developed many years in Ada. It is a marvelous language. Many mistakes are found during compilation. Very often, when it compiles, it works. Since Ada95, the multitasking features are really awesome. The overhead of the verbosity is real for short programs, but becomes less relevant for big projects.

Ada is not in the hype anymore. It is getting more and more difficult (and expensive) to have developers with a good knowledge in Ada.

In my current society, some projects are still in Ada, but the quality of the code is becoming lower and lower, with a lot of type cast. It seems people are thinking in C (C++) and are painfully writing their ideas in Ada.
Immediately wanted to use this for my wallpaper, but was hoping I could find a better multi-monitor version. It still looks cool if you just center it, but it would be even better if the earth weren't cut off.

Couldn't find one, so decided to make it. I basically rotated and cropped it to get as much of ISS as possible, then added a bit more Earth. This way it looks like the planet is naturally just falling below the horizon of your monitors, rather than being cut off. Fortunately the space background is a nice deep black, so that's easy to extend.

If anyone else is running (2560x1440) x 3, feel free to use it:
http://www.helpertubes.com/images/iss_shuttle_7680x1440.jpg

Or if you prefer, this version crops the top solar panels of ISS, so you get a closer view, and less artificially generated Earth:
http://www.helpertubes.com/images/iss_shuttle_7680x1440_clos...

Enjoy!
Exactly. With Uber/Lyft you provide feedback on each and every driver. (And, of course, they do likewise with you).

That's one of the key innovations that Uber/Lyft have brought, (the other one of course being a Unified Geo-Dispatch system in any city that they serve)
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You don't need to drop the pool to clear those error messages:

zpool clear tank

Source: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-5166/6mbb1kqod/index... (unfortunately there's no tag ID's to hash to, so you'll have to [ctrl]+[F] to find the specific section on 'clear')
Umm... too late? The witch hunt began with the man targeting the professor.
I remember a time when people were reachable by location. You could call me at home and reach me early mornings (but that's rude), evenings, or weekends. Or at work at my desk.

This was a time when toll charges were high enough that unsolicited calls were something of a rarity. That's definitely changed (and lack of caller-ID on landlines is all but unbearable now).

There was even a time when answering machines didn't exist -- can't reach someone? Try later or send a letter. Not email, a letter.

Amazingly, we got by.

The conceit that I've got to be reachable by every unintelligibly accented stranger on a crap VOIP line anywhere on the planet at any time has gotten old.

And yes, if I don't aggressively guard my access, I do get a lot of crap phone calls.
Ask HN: How do you manage time between working and “absorption”?
So it is Monday and as always I returned to my daily job refreshed by a restful weekend.

Pick up a coffee and zap work like hell.

I don't feel the urge on Mondays on checking news here on HN, neither news/posts/tutorials on the 11 other websites which I follow everyday, by opening their tabs almost mechanically and reading them fast impulsively (after all, I'm at work).

The problem starts when I'm in mid-week, I probably check those websites every 30 minutes, trying to absorb new information.

So a few questions here:

1) How do you manage this urge of knowledge?

2) How do you manage then to balance work / "absorption"?

3) How do you organize this new information? (personally I have 6 distinct categories [(H)news, generic articles, design inspiration, coding tutorials, design tutorials, new coding tools or technologies])

4) I'm alone here with this problem?

Thank you all in advance,

/coffee finished
Taking an electronics break really does change your view on things.

Amazing how much isn't necessary.

This comment included ;-)
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How do things like bugcrowd (and bug bounties in general) work from a legal point of view? It seems very risky to go poking around without some kind of formal contract with the target.
"Three: I have no idea why Apple outsources their corporate check to Dun & Bradstreet. If you are a corporation (which I submitted under), this adds weeks to your first getting your app even reviewed. As a giant corporation, Apple should not stand for making developers wait weeks just to have their identities verified before having their app reviewed."

Maybe if you're a corporation working on an app for months, you could get a DUNS number proactively instead of trying to save $15 by waiting until the last minute.
While you might be able to insert knowledge into your brain with any of the better methods there are still methods people prefer. And over the long run you will learn more with your preferred style, because you spent more hours doing it.
Why is it not possible that people who traces their roots back to different parts of the world have different bodies?

If race has no bearing on ones biology how do you explain that some people have dark skin and some people have light skin.

Don't stifle scientific research over political correctness crap.
This is not a trick, you're just being rude.
"If your app doesn’t offer much functionality or content, or only applies to a small niche market, it may not be approved."

I realize they have this rule to filter out the fart buttons or temporary internet phenomena cash-ins, but this sure reads like "the users don't decide which apps there's a market for, we do."

Most of the stuff I consider fun or useful is probably only of value to a pretty small niche.
There are other ways to fix issues with ZFS pools without having to "blow it all away and start again". In the example that started this conversation fork, there's a simple parameter to pass to the zpool utility that would have saved the OP from dropping his pool:

zpool clear tank

ZFS does actually come with a decent set of tools for fixing and clearing faults - which I'm starting to realise isn't as widely known (possibly because people rarely run into a situation where they need it?)

Anecdotally speaking; I've ran the same pool for years on consumer hardware and that pool has even survived a failing SATA controller that was randomly dropping disks during heavy IO and causing kernel panics. So I've lost count of the number times ZFS has saved my storage pool from complete data loss where other file systems would have just given up.
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Am I missing something? Is it strange?
The "Infinity" problem is more general.
I have no notifications, but a browser is equally troublesome...
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But you said tests with scale models give wrong results: “a scale model won't behave very much like the full-size craft”.
How did it turn our for her? Is that strategy working for her after college as well?
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I don't have any experience with Python sucking on Windows? The only thing that's a bit of a hassle is distributing the interpreter, but this is no harder than a VC++ redistributable.
I wanted to try a similar experiment, but more extreme in that I'd get rid of my iPhone in favour of a pager. I decided this was probably too much of a hassle and would cause me more problems than it solved. (I use my phone to gain access to accounts on my computer, etc. using two factor authentication so quitting smart phones cold turkey isn't really an option for me after all.)
Heh, same bucket - I don't even try and have FB load on the phone anymore.

My primary use case is email, Twitter (When I'm bored), WhatsApp / SMS / Snapchat / Google Maps (spending summer in a new city) and listening to podcasts (plus a brief, unrequited fling with 2048 this summer). Its amazing how much Facebook drags on it, to the point that its utterly pointless to even have on the phone.
Do you have them written up anywhere? I'm a total sucker for these kind of stories.
after my samsung galaxy S3 died (DOA) I reverted to an old sony ericsson W810i. Back to when a phone was just a phone. I am absolutely loving it. My next phone will probably be an iPhone 5s, but seriously, having a phone that is just a phone is so great.
I think since he discusses the essentialism as an idea that needs to be dropped, he goes further than that - he seems to blame Plato (at least among others) for "infecting" us (taken broadly) with the essentialism. After all, the idea of essentialism has to come from somewhere, somebody had to invent it. To me, Dawkins assigns the fault for it to Plato. He does it in the very first sentence - "Essentialism—what I’ve called "the tyranny of the discontinuous mind"—stems from Plato".
"This project has been temporarily blocked for exceeding its bandwidth threshold" I wonder why no one uses SourceForge anymore..
It makes perfect sense for Apple to have standards for publishing software on their store. What complicates the discussion is that they prevent users from installing software from other sources than their store. This is different than most other popular computing platforms except for game consoles.
I have heard of Cowboys sleeping with eyes open, but not sure if thats just a old wives tale.
The shuttles required months of maintenance work after each trip, including stripping out and completely disassembling the main engines, plus painstaking inspection and potential replacement of each and every heat shield tile.
That's true, but it doesn't contradict what I said above. And I wouldn't call them "wrong" results. Obviously all modeling efforts are approximations, efforts to produce an estimate of the final craft's behavior. No one expects perfect modeling, except of course by the finished craft.
But surely you can meditate on the bus without needing an app.
Which apps are available on the iOS platform that can't be done on other platforms?
What's going on here? The page is hosted on the scikit-learn.org domain, and I don't see any redirects or frames pointing to SourceForge. Or is SourceForge allowing projects to point arbitrary domains at it?
> Why do people seem to think Ada is painful?

I have a possible explanation on this. A lot of people only know Ada in passing, from classes. For someone fluent in another language typically derived from C, the syntax is very new and frustrating initially. People normally comfortable with coding in their preferred language become newbies again, making a lot of frustrating mistakes. And they hate Ada for it.

I've seen several persons being forced into using Ada for a longer time. Geek types, including two long haired ones. They all hated it initially, but after a while they all come to appreciate and enjoy it. Two of them ended up contributing to GNAT. The cross-over time is roughly around 6 months of full time work with Ada, so more than what you get from a class.

So I guess Ada is different enough to be frustrating at first, and most people don't use it long enough to come over the initial shock and appreciate the good sides of the language. They just hate it, and stay with the "Ada is bondage" meme. Too bad.

For any one interested in large software system design and languages, I recommend looking at the "Rationale for the design of the Ada programming language" book. Even if you don't like the result ;) it's an interesting analysis of the challenge of doing large, safety critical system software IMHO. Just read the latest version, the intial one (though interesting) is now dated and made some wrong bets, like using synchronous tasks as the base for concurrency because there was hope that a formal model enabling proving behavior would develop around it, and that never happened.
Not necessarily true. I personally know 2 Ivy League grads from low income families who, through a combination of luck and high standardized test scores, lucked into a position of getting this kind of counseling. Lots of consultants do some amount of pro bono. Most poor kids wouldn't know to ask, though.
All software should strive for quality.

Sadly our industry only regards security as a cost that is often imposed by external processes.

It will only charge at large when companies start to be made accountable for their software, like in other industries.

In this regard the industry is still at its infancy.
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That's why Agile was invented. It codified the existing practices and redefined them as virtues.
If your livelihood depended on a unique, special-purpose engine with a finite lifetime, I bet you would inspect the engine regularly, stay vigilant to changes and needed repairs. It's the same with models and actors.

Of course, there's always the narcissism explanation too.
> But in reality, I'm betting on hypervisor-based micro OSes as they way to go. We don't need another "app" format, like what Docker/libcontainer and this proposal are gravitating toward. We already have one, it's called HTML5/REST/HTTPS. Get that in your skulls people! A tar-ball is an app that serves the directory tree, okay. A POST virtualizes this, like a copy-on-write fork(). Now you have to determine how you virtualize on sessions/user logins/etc. There is nothing in this decade that needs to be done any other way!

What you're describing sounds interesting. Is there a way I can read about what you said in more detail? I mean the following:

- HTML5/REST/HTTPS can be thought of an app container format?

- tarball is an app that serves the directory tree.

- POST virtualizes it like a copy-on-write fork()

I'm trying to connect it to what I've been thinking: that Javascript is permeating everything, and is like the assembly language of the future, cz everything would be done inside the browser, the OS would only be there to provide hardware (based on the Gary Bernhardt's talk: https://youtu.be/tMEH9OMYmsQ).
Sorry just downvoted you when I wanted to upvote. Pesky mobile browsers.
If it happens to monitor a life critical service...
At the very least, if the public is going to pay for a large portion of the costs, don't turn around and call the completed public work "Jeep Cherokee Stadium" or whatever the hell else.
This comment is very disrespectful. Spaniards work hard. That's not the problem. The problem is bad management of public affairs due to complex causes, being the most recent one a 40 year long dictatorship where the political class used the state for its own benefit. That no relationship whatsoever with naps or coffee, which is the subject we are discussing now.
Retire to a tropical island with the savings gotten from the hourly rates.
> Why is it not possible that people who traces their roots back to different parts of the world have different bodies?

Why hypothesize? Why not simply find out? Those who have done the research find that there's very little difference between races, such that the very concept of race is disparaged by many biologists.

> If race has no bearing on ones biology how do you explain that some people have dark skin and some people have light skin.

The answer should be obvious -- with rare exception, one's skin color also has little bearing on biology.

> Don't stifle scientific research over political correctness crap.

It goes the other way. Far too much is made of race, much more than the issue can support in a biological sense. Speaking from a scientific perspective.
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My mothers and sisters sleep too (Spain). But I remember that when I was I child, at my grandfather's house (my granny died before I was born), it was the men that slept because the women were busy in the kitchen doing the washing up. Here I'm talking about big family lunches. Thus, men could sleep because of the macho culture. Fortunately, this changed in one generation, at least in my family. We all clean everything up together and go to have coffe afterwards.
LuaJIT is usable as an interpreter on iOS, just not a jit compiler. It is a very fast interpreter, but obviously this is not ideal (and the ffi is slower without jit).

Android L is also going to kill jit compilers as well alas, see [1]

[1] http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/609511/53f3d97eed238d55/
The C cowboy culture won over the Algol safety one.
They pay ten times less
If I'm honest, I'm well aware of the fact that my motivation to spend time on HN is not to learn things. The way I think is very much aligned with what goes on on HN, so being here confirms my biases very nicely. HN doesn't challenge the way I think so I enjoy being on here and feel quite relaxed about posting. That's not to say I don't learn things, but when I do it's serendipitous rather than intentional.

As such, it seems unlikely (to me) that anyone would be checking back here every 30 minutes in order to find new information or inspiration. It's sounds like you're avoiding something.
Wouldn't make sense for the few solitary spike though. Perhaps they are found regressions, causing them to go back to the original C code for a while? That would make sense in the context of merges too - there's always a few bugs that show up under closer scrutiny.
Which one is profitable there?
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Excellent question that probably affects all of us!
Try to set a schedule like: 30 minutes every morning and 30 minutes every evening. The most difficult part is to stick to the rule :)
Because in IT no one gets sued when they go wrong.
Interesting, but what about priority algoritms? I think you have the same result of 2Q buffer.
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I wonder if that RSA happens to be very weak too, as evidenced here:
http://blog.cassidiancybersecurity.com/post/2014/02/Bitcrypt...

In some ways a lot of the crypto used by ransomware might just be "for show" - to mung files only enough to cause people to pay, as that's the ultimate goal.
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As a lawyer surrounded by highly-compensated lawyers living month to month (with great handbags) this doesn't strike me as suspect. What's that plea of the overtaxed upper-middle class? "You don't understand how little money I have, after I spend it all."
I assume it's not enough to understand the basics of economics or politics either. Everyone I know who is an expert or professional says that mainstream journalism generally makes a mess of their field. As a computer programmer, I know this is true of for things like computer security. I have heard it's true from chemists, astronomers, educators, mathematicians, biologists, and even automobile hobbyists. I generally operate under the assumption that it's true for every field.
While it is obvious that turning off the phone helps, it's good that you make that point as I cannot remove the battery from my smartphone, a problem most "dumb" phones don't have.
I am on the phone. Ada Core, Atego, Green Hills. The fourth one cannot remember from the top of my head.

Both Ada Core and Atego provide IDEs.
Hi, thanks for the reply,

I think that I'm trying to avoid 2 things here:

A: disorganization of this information and

B: Procrastination
(I dind't mention procrastination in my post because I didn't want it to be "procrastination-centered")
It's currently down - is it the same one discussed at some length a year ago?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5831512

Here are some other resources for machine learning, not necessarily restricted to the algorithms implemented in SciKit:

http://eferm.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/cheat3.pdf

http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.ca/2013/01/machine-learning-...

http://rise.cse.iitm.ac.in/wiki/index.php/Introduction_to_Ma...

http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/creed/Notes/ML_Compendium.pdf
I couldn't agree more, it makes a huge difference - especially for e-mail.
I think the point is it helps make it easier to achieve the desired state, which makes it worthwhile having on his phone in his 'select' pick of apps.
It seems you never programmed in Ada...
The math in this article is awful. Constant cost despite varying the miles driven. Making money out of thin air. Yes you can talk about intangibles, such as the ability to do work while not driving. You can even give that a monetary value to do comparisons. But I'm not going to make more money by working while not driving, so don't add this opportunity cost to the cost of the car. Or maybe you should add up the opportunity cost of waiting for the uber car. You also can't just ignore surge pricing.
Not everyone needs to own a car. But there are a lot of advantages, some that are hard to put a dollar figure on.
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