skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It strikes me that the monadic model seems to be over-specifying the query in the same way that SQL does. Compare to a datalog query where the compiler can decide in what order to join the tables and how to perform those joins (eg we use a constraint solver to perform all the joins simultaneously). A clever compiler could probably recover the original intention from the monadic query - similar to how an imperative language forces you to totally order all your statements and then the compiler goes to a great deal of effort to figure out whether that ordering was important or arbitrary so it can emit better code.

Mike Pall has a great deal to say about accurately recording and preserving programmer intention to allow better optimisations throughout the stack - http://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Ramblings-on-languages-... . Similarly, I recall hearing Carmack talking about wanting to separate logic from optimisations because they spend so much effort removing old optimisations when the hardware changes, but I can't find the source anymore :(
A couple of years ago I got really interested in the shape of cooling towers after hanging out inside a couple of derelict ones. I couldn't find a solid answer as to why they are hyperboloids, and in fact not all of them are, but the most common explanations were:

1) the throat at the top could be the optimum shape for creating cooling via the Venturi effect

2) they can be built entirely with straight diagonal structural members, as each section of the Shukhov tower illustrates, but only the very earliest ones would have been made this way and they're certainly not any more

3) they were the only suitable shape that could be analysed on paper, before the advent of computer-based structural analysis

4) uniform structural stiffness with no particular points of failure, as in the above article

Even a thorough literature review from the period after some collapsed in storms was inconclusive... from the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Natural Draught Cooling Towers: http://books.google.com/books?id=6j5nuvAd44QC&pg=PA3

I highly recommend a look inside one, the acoustics and general enormity are quite something. Being inside an active one looks to be even more of something from these pictures: http://www.foantje.com/active-cooling-tower/
The Gmail spam filter is indeed impressive, but on several occasions I have found 'real' emails being triggering it. Those times were just me browsing the spam folder randomly and I hate to think what else it has swallowed.
Fastco has a much more comprehensive (though not interactive) graphic http://www.fastcodesign.com/3034799/infographic-of-the-day/h...
Use VIPS (http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=VIPS) for large TIFF conversion. It should handle them much, much faster. Also, I think there was a write-up on highscalability.com about instagram, or pinterest, or someone resizing a ton of images a while ago.
Oh, I'm quite aware :). It's an effort of extreme dogfooding of https://github.com/khan/perseus. This post doesn't use anything interesting, but if I wanted to post about some of the interactive math content we're doing there, I could actually embed it. It is also useful to learn how annoying it is to embed (answer: much more annoying than I'd like).
Google Cloud Platform Live (11/4 in San Francisco)
I'm being serious. You need to memorize a lot more facts to answer those "why" questions than you do do answer what year some war started.
Would NATO Go to War Over a Cyberattack?
I guess this is a sign of Apple moving more into fashion.
span:nth-last-of-type(2n+1):not(div) > span ?

Edit: I reversed my edits to maintain proper history.
$14 - $16 at Trader Joe's DC for a Kosher Broiler chicken.
But you need to memorize a lot more facts to answer "Why did the American Revolution not result in a reign of terror?" than to answer "What year did the American Revolution begin?"
I want a desk with one or more large displays, a keyboard and a mouse where I can "plop" my phone into a docking station for charging and use it instantly as my desktop work station environment for "work". Then I to be able to pick it up when I leave or when the phone rings.
I'd say statistics are used as a way to describe phenomenons, but afaik quantum computers rely on the phenomenons, not the model or technic used to describe them.
Earlier this week, NATO agrees cyber attack could trigger military response.

Today: http://map.ipviking.com
Yea, thats slower for sure.
If everyone quit eating meat, I would assume there would be market research into why that happened. Change would then occur. Now, of course that's never going to happen but on the other hand I don't think buying $20 chickens is in a practical sense going to do much, either.

But one of the reasons I'm a vegetarian is not to effect change (because it probably won't) but to simply not participate. I choose not to pay people to torture animals for me by proxy.

It's all philosophical differences, IMO. Fact remains that there are far more people out there that are concerned about saving fifty cents on their next roaster. But choosing not to play is as valid a reason as any, even if it's just so one can sleep better at night.
Your last paragraph pretty much sums it up. They should be touched on and are of course very important. Sheltgor is saying they are going far beyond this at the expense of literature.
Cool. I don't think you can be disappointed.

It works great. Screen, battery, wifi, GPS, and 3G signals are good. No crashes.

PS.
1. Speaker volume can be increased with MTKTools.
2. Root with latest version of Chinese VRoot (not english version).
3. USB disk doesn't show up in Windows for me, instead I use Total Commander with ADB plugin.
4. New Coolpad F2 will be better, with very fast MT6595.
Thanks for the link nthitz. In the end we ended up making an arbitrary choice of where to cut off the map. I was blown away by how many celebrities actually participated (I'd guess the actual map would be 10-20x even the Fastco one). If someone ever pulls the data together for all of it we'd love to power the larger visualization.
Connections is a thought-provoking series, but I don't think it acknowledges how speculative it is, and by extension how speculative almost all historical explanations are.
More than anything else, plastic is light for comparable strength. This is important for something that you're going to be pushing around a lot.

I had a Miele cylinder before this one. The experience of using it was that I dragged it around the flat and needed both hands to manage it. This Dyson model, I point at things, with one hand. It seems to be a combination of low weight, and the ease of pivoting on the ball that means it's rolling everywhere, but the difference is huge.
Can you hear me now? Unmute your microphone
I would equate only Musk to him with respect to creating lasting change.
Actually, I spoke to soon. Since selector engines work right to left, this would first narrow down the list of elements to all the spans in the document. Assuming thats a fairly small percentage of the overall tags in the document, this selector runs at .0023 ms on my MBP w/ 8 GB or RAM.

Sa'll good.

Edit: For the record, bGriz edited his comment, making my comment invalid.

Edit (2): Thanks!
Who gets to decide which news sources the kids are exposed to? Should they get one with a liberal slant? Conservative? Libertarian?

Also, teaching kids to read the news somehow implies that an adult needs the news.

Many (not all) of the intellectuals I've run into in the valley, Berkeley and the city are now unplugging from the news specifically because they've lost faith in it as an information source. Stated directly, "freedom of the press" is the theory yet corporate controlled media is the implementation. It's the distribution channels that are highly controlled.

And yes, exposing children to the news is a horrible idea.
So what the process for handling misclassification? http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/ilsvrc/val/ILSVRC2012... is definitely a grand piano not an upright which is the "official" answer.

Edit: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/ilsvrc/val/ILSVRC2012... is also misclassified. There isn't a bee house there. Closest thing is a barbecue.

Edit 2: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/ilsvrc/val/ILSVRC2012... appears to be a building based on scaling clues.
> but only if they are biological...

Aren't all eggs biological?
Definitely fact.
For those that have stated their donation amounts, it would be interesting to see what they're all pitching in. For example, that Old Spice dude said he was kicking in $1000... which seems pretty bogus when it's coming out of Old Spice's marketing budget. And last I saw, the biggest amount received was 100,000 which is crazy, but then you realise that Martha Stewart has a net worth upwards of $650 million, and (if that's her chipping the most money in) that's the equivalent to me throwing like eleven dollars in. Good chance she gave less and called it a charitable write-off.
Do you recommend 'installing' config/environments/* information from a provisioning utility when you're dealing with configuration values that should remain secret and outside of version control?
I used to think I could get by without committing much to memory, but I find that I am more efficient if I add more to memory than I was willing to in undergrad.

Nonetheless, you are right to persecute those who emphasize memorization over understanding, formula plugging over understanding what a formula means because that seems to be the direction of education that is most threatening nowadays. And yes, memorization is easier than understanding.
There is intrinsic value in a share of AMZN, because unlike the concept of bitcoin, Amazon formally owns assets which the share gives partial ownership of.
Loving these chicken stories that have been appearing on HN this week. As I write this, my backyard flock is happily clucking around my ankles, eating spiders and bugs from the vegetables growing in my garden. When I announced to friends and family on Facebook that we were getting chickens, I was surprised at the number of negative comments that I got. Most concerned the health and safety of my toddler son. "Why are you bringing disease into your yard?", people asked. The fear and hate of backyard poultry surprised me. Where, exactly, do these people think their eggs come from? Had they ever visited a commercial poultry farm? It's amazing how disconnected most of us our from our food. After a few months of chicken raising and a summer of vegetable farming, I have a whole new appreciation for the effort and difficulty--but also the joy and satisfaction--of food production. I highly encourage anyone with a backyard to give it a shot. You'll eat better and it will change the way you look at food.

If you're interested in chickens, here's my favorite subreddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/BackYardChickens/

My baby girls:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/14826096908/

They are: a Black Australorp, a Dominique, a Rhode Island Red, and an Easter Egger.
I just find it a bit laughable that you think this is 'dickish'. It is his artwork, he is free to say you can only buy the whole album for $9.99, or nothing at all.

You argument is that Hollywood is also 'dickish' because you can't pay $0.50 to watch only the last 15 minutes of a movie in the theater.
The classic show Mystery Science Theater 3000 had their own funny riff on the Chicken of Tomorrow Contest:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G0stojwYjI
The Rise and Fall of the Biggest Pot Dealer in New York City History
What were you using open book for?
This along with signing the CEO of Burberry and Yves Saint Laurent. Clearly, they're not trying to win the battle for best tech gadget which Samsung and others have flung themselves into in an attempt to beat Apple products.

I'm guessing things like the iWatch, phones, and tables will be fashionable, high margin products built to

1) be easy to use
2) look very good and stylish

rather than have the most features...
Umami pretty much is the meat taste, or more specifically bone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami
> I see similarities between the issues of trying to remove junkfood consumption, in that you see the highest levels of consumption in the poorest demographics simply because they don't have any other options.

What about eating, say, a carrot instead of a bag of chips? I can buy 2 pounds of organic carrots for ~$2.50 (probably cheaper non-organic). How does that compare to the average bag of chips?
Making Clojure web development more accessible
In this case, no they didn't have pre-labeled location/setting available. You can see one of the datasets they used here: http://image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2013/#data.

Generally speaking, Neural Networks are black boxes. The layers interact with each other but not in a defined categorical manner like that. Layer size/depth are parameters you provide when setting up that have tradeoffs in result accuracy, space, time spent, etc like jpeg quality.
By this argument, a bar of gold invalidates the time value of money. So does the existence of artwork.
>A tightening of the ability for people to start new companies will mean fewer choices in employers down the line, and it will mean less diversity in work environments, cultures, types of work, etc. All of that works actively against you.

This is getting strange: employees have too much power, and so they will have less power? In this dark future, what is to stop Joe Dev and his four friends from starting a company while living on the piles of money they've stacked up?

Further, in said dark future where only the corporate moguls survive and have beaten-down developers shackled to their cubicles, why do the moguls continue paying through the nose? If they have so much power over developers, don't they as soon as possible cut developer salaries, allowing smaller companies to woo them away?

>Equity isn't magic. The amount of equity you have to give to make a $10K discount on salary make sense is a lot.

I can only conclude that either developers are being exploited or that we're in a bubble, then, because VC's make that exact money-for-equity trade.

>As is often the case, the common good is good for you because - surprise - you don't exist in a vacuum from the rest of society.

I would take this much more seriously if there were a Developers' Union that served to erect barriers to entry. But in fact, there's the exact opposite, with bootcamps, Khan Academy, open-source tools, blogs, and people getting jobs without degrees. I have a hard time conceiving of a less jealous profession.
Policy – A fork of the Scala compiler
And now it seems: Common Markdown Is Now CommonMark

(http://standardmarkdown.com/)

At least that's obviously a different thing to Gruber's Markdown in a way that the other names were not.
Is it any harder than playing "spot the meat-eater?"

What if we replace "vegetarian/vegan" with "homosexual" or "transsexual?" How is trying to bash the idea that vegetarians/vegans "announce" themselves any different than straight conservative people bashing Gay Pride because it "puts their sexuality in my face?"
My services are already running in Docker containers on this Ubuntu host.
I feel a bit uneasy with having the "unsafe" when SHA1 is technically still safe - just not as safe as, say, sha256 (which is itself probably not as safe as sha512, etc.). It would be nice to have a better "marker" for it instead of having a very fast deprecation rate.
Google to mull ways to store Russian users’ personal data locally
You are talking about a different group of people and I suspect a very tiny subset of domain squatting? The post and everything else has been about the annoying but legal selling / auctioning of domains also called domain squatting.
Cisco was involved with it since at least of 2012. They actually wrote software in the protocol as well. It was for video conference if I recall correctly.
Not surprisingly, Yosemite is littered with bugs. In fairness, it's still beta, but it feels exceptionally far from a production quality OS.
Andreas' comment is not about OO at all. It's about the second-class status of modules in ML, where the 1ML design that he described in the talk makes modules first-class values.

And is your claim really that people in the functional programming community shouldn't make jokes in their talks until FP lives up to your notion of practicality? How many banks need to use Haskell, how many switches need to run on Erlang, etc etc, until you're satisfied?
Critical Security Vulnerability Found in WordPress Slider Revolution Plugin
Marc Newson is an outstanding product designer and also happens to be a good friend of Ive's.

I know Apple has made some fashion specific hires in the past but I don't think this is one of them.
> Botnets appeared as a way to get around RBLs, and in response spam fighters mapped out the internet to create a "policy block list" - ranges of IPs that were assigned to residential connections and thus should not be sending any email at all.

So basically, I can't send email from home? This is… unfortunate. If we want freedom, we need decentralization, and this kills it.
Couldn't some form of proof-of-work system be used to increase the cost of sending a message without it having much of an economic impact on a casual sender? Was that what he was alluding to with the "burning bitcoin" reference?
Makes me think of Peter Thiel's line: "we like to invest in businesses that aren't making a profit, because they know what to do with their money". Businesses that are paying back profits via dividends/buybacks are communicating that they have more money than they know what to do with (at least Thiel would say so).
I've read interviews previously where Gates has spoke wonders of the benefits of the school allowing kids more freedom for things like coding, of a well-rounded background in things like English as opposed to using the class more for non-fiction purposes, etc. This is in regards to his own education at that same institution. So my point is essentially that his ideas about what helped lead to his own success, and the educational model he likely believes will be good for his own children, differs fairly substantially from what he funds for the majority of the country.

I do agree that a single solution is not the answer, but the issue is that Common Core actually is much more along the lines of creating a one size fits all model, rather than a community focused model. Much of what Common Core focuses on is actually being very well received in some areas, particularly in low-income, 'troubled' schools. However, the problem is that it is being applied, and that it is being preached by Gates and others, to the entire country, where kids with a more stable environment don't benefit as much from the same structure.
C++ does scare me but I'd learn it because I really like UE4.

I also really like Cryengine, pondered about getting it on Steam but then gave up after seeing lack of updated documentation and examples.

UE4 have nailed it also in terms of educational content.
Give the attackers a special discussion board :)
Both. Also, I have sometimes a doc edited on google docs, then copied over to local file and formatted in asciidoc. After that we put it back to the google doc in asciidoc markup, and subsequent comparison and merging becomes a way lot simpler.
As someone who used to work in tech at JPM, the exodus doesn't really surprise me. Though I don't think a few execs leaving would precipitate this kind of event.
Failing to migrate after a M&A is failure to invest in IT. It's a stupid, short sited, and expensive failure, but good luck finding banks willing to pay for it.
Consider the middle ground. Tesla were looking for about $500m of incentives, and got a lot more than that. Now if the projections pan out it may work out very well for the state but it could end up as a white elephant, as these deals sometimes do. Also, consider that about 10% of this is coming out of reduced incentives for other industries, who will now presumably invest less in Nevada than before: http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2014/09/04/nevada-strikes-bill...
There ought to be an equivalent phrase to "never get involved in a land war in Asia" for getting into a feature war in technology.
Hmph. Never mind 2nd gen, Moto G of any kind is still "À venir bientôt" (coming soon) on the French version of their site.

It's probably possible to buy a US phone and get it working here; but I know (vaguely) that US networks are different enough from the rest of the world that I don't want to make any quick assumption about that, and don't have the time to research it...
Well this is pretty neat.

I've been working on custom software to improve the spam filtering on my mail server for the last year (side project). It currently works by letting hosted users forward spam messages to a flytrap account, and then the daemon runs, reads the forwarded message, tracks down the original in the user's mail directory, does a whois on the origin in the mail headers, consults its logs, and then adds a temporary network-wide blackhole to iptables.

Originally it was intended to work alongside SpamAssassin and SQLGrey and all that, but last night I started considering replacing SpamAssassin altogether. I love SA, but the spammers are beating it regularly now. My TODO notes in the code actually say, "reputation tracking for embedded URLs, domains, ccTLDs and gTLDs, sender addresses, and content keywords." I wrote the first bits of code for reputation tracking this morning.

It's not much of a step for the software really, because it already uses embedded URLs in a message as part of the profile "fingerprint" for finding the original message from a forwarded version.

But I'm a bit chuffed to hear that I'm on the right track, considering how effective Gmail's tactics have been. :-)

Small service providers have it really tough right now. Users don't tolerate any spam at all. A few years ago, the state of the art for small independent services was SpamAssassin + SQLGrey (or other greylisting) plus a few other tricks; that's not sufficient anymore, and most of us smallfry lack the resources to come up with something much better.

After just 6 weeks in production, the software already has 20+million IPs blocked at any given time.
In general, exposing children to the world is a horrible idea. But what are we going to do, shelter them forever?

Sheltering children from news media because they are "corporate controlled" would go about as well as sheltering them from sex, I fear. Sooner or later they will find out the wild outside world exists.
Except the article/video is suppose to discuss the roots of Anonymous?
I found this story interesting because,

- the exploit is so easy hundreds of websites will be affected(you can steal DB credentials just by typing a url).

- it's a combination of negligence from the developer of the plugin who didnt disclose the exploit for 6 month(he just patched it) and the fact,like him a lot of wordpress plugin developpers just dont know what they are doing.

the hack relies on a simple directory traversal attack :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_traversal_attack

Many pro developpers ,even here, use wordpress to host content for clients.It's important they know what they risk with 3rd party plugins such as a simple image slider.
Cloudflare challenging hackers again
No mention of Bitmessage, which provides E2E crypto and anti-spam.
It looks like a one-day unlimited pass is available:

https://smartrip.wmata.com/storefront

(although I don't think that price is attractive for basically anyone)
Synchronization algorithm for exchanging data in the Client-Server model
AKA Bitmessage