skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can do simple regressions (linear, logistic) natively and easily in R. The tutorial is demonstrating H2O by using an algorithm (deep learning) that's not native to R.
Startup Risk and Valuation
Confucius say "man who write C have many holes in pants"

That's what our lead C dev says. And I agree, as a C programmer.
I think this confusion is a stereotypical introvert vs extrovert thing. The interrupting human voices and drama distract and exhaust some, while focusing and energizing others.

I can listen to music while doing grunt work, but I need silence to concentrate. There may be a language issue WRT "coding" where design and implementation needs silence, minor optimization and bug fixing is possible, maybe more enjoyable, with music.

There may be more factors beyond these two.
> representing HTML

You may like Clojure's Hiccup:

https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

http://www.rkn.io/2014/03/13/clojure-cookbook-hiccup/

These representations underline how anomalous <IMG...>, <BR>, etc are in "standard" HTML.
Show HN: Voodoo Alerts – automated alerting for conversions
Hey HN, We just recently finished ("finished") building a project that has been long in the making and I wanted to show it off because I am a proud father.

Voodoo Alerts is basically Pingdom but for live users and conversions. We monitor traffic across all devices, browsers, OS's, and locations to find any anomalies and alert you about them.

The reason we built it is because we all worked together for a conversion optimization company during the past years and a lot of our big clients had no way to actively monitor segments and it was way too time consuming to constantly check over Google Analytics. So we took all our brain power and created something that did it autonomously!

In addition to the automated alerting, there is the ability to set up custom alerts so you can track specific goals (i.e. alert me when I reach X conversion over X time, or when X referral ID reaches X visitors, etc.)

Oh yeah, and we do server + SSL cert monitoring too.

We think it's really cool and has been extremely helpful over the years that we've been building it out and modifying it.

http://www.voodooalerts.com/

If you guys have any questions, ask away!
Andrew Ng's Coursera Course on ML Starts Today
Whether you are more interested in global capital flows or environmental justice, I believe this announcement from such a symbolic oil family to be poignant in the memory of our country, while also being a ringing bell for institutional investors who have long waited until the right moment to take full economic advantage of the global zeitgeist.

The Global Climate March yesterday in NYC was a powerful adjoining of the disparate groups that make up the Left Clan, complete with all the tag-along advocacy and 50+ shades of policy and ideology preference that have little to actually do with irresponsible carbon output. It was as much an opportunity to explore frustration we have with ourselves for enabling a toxic system with our habits and dependencies as much as it was a plea for help from people wielding political and financial power. It is an interesting study in systems theory and differences in morality. Now we are left to wonder what the actionable outcomes will be...

Tangentially, I think we all look forward to the day where our country can rekindle a sense of civic unity and continue to lead the world through innovation. The Rockefeller family significantly influenced our trajectory towards oil dependence, and I think it's a good story for history that they are now divesting. I will refrain from calling it leading. But they could prove to be a profound institutional ally in the fight for a carbon-neutral future.
It's not necessary for something to be a single binary for someone to call it (and for it to be) "monolithic".

Each utility in GNU coreutils is useful indipendently from the others. If each systemd binary is (almost) useless outside of systemd, systemd may not be a monolithic application, but it may still be a monolithic system.

It's more a matter of coupling than a raw number of binaries included.
Cloud database security,farms&restaurants:the importance of knowing your sources
There is, sort of.

As the CEO/Founder/President ("Beekeeper"), don't be meddling and over-involved in the day-to-day of your employees ("Bees"). Your job is just to steer them in the right direction, not to command every movement. As well, recognize when your idea ("Colony") is a bust and start new. You can't force a bad idea to be something it isn't.
I think what you're stating as fact is actually more a matter of opinion. Take the differences between Mass Effect 1 & 2. One of the big differences is the lack of an inventory system in the sequels. I happen to feel that the inventory in Mass Effect 1 was a bolted-on mess, a wart in every sense. Removing it from the sequels, in my opinion, was a step forwards, not backwards.

Basically, less stuff doesn't always mean worse design.
Is it really a similar argument? To some degree I really go the path you are describing. When playing a game I really choose the fast gratification on purpose. Because that's what I decided gaming is for my life. But that's not really the point I'm trying to make.

I can get better at playing the game, or I can get better at speaking English/Chinese in the same time slot. A day only has 24 hours. So I decide to prefer one over the other. It's simply that improving my coding or language skills is more important to me.
Yahoo's actual share is 9.8%, its lowest ever

http://www.businessinsider.com/search-market-share-2014-7
I didn't comment on Alibaba's financials. I simply responded to the statement that "there's not a lot of splashy IPOs happening," which I found somewhat amusing in light of the fact that the arguably "splashiest" IPO just took place.

That said, Alibaba's profitability and PE ratio compared to Amazon is meaningless in the context of a bubble discussion. A bubble does not merely consist of unprofitable companies becoming ridiculously valued; it consists of profitable companies becoming more highly valued than their fundamentals can support.

If Amazon's stock price fell by 25%, and Alibaba's did the same, as an Alibaba shareholder would you take comfort in the fact that Alibaba still has a PE ratio one tenth Amazon's? Of course not.
This was on buzzfeed?? Crazy. Didn't think those soul-less bottom-feeders would turn to quality long-form essays.
To code typed transducers we only need "for all" generics.

type Transducer a b = forall r . (r -> b -> r) -> (r -> a -> r)

This may seems unusual or complex but is available in mainstream languages. In java:

interface Transducer<A,B> {
<R> Reducer<B,R> transduce(Reducer<A,R> reducer);
}

See https://gist.github.com/didier-wenzek/07faa3990ff03fdea372 for a more complete java implementation of transducers.
10M iPhones sold in one weekend
When you wear your sales hat, you almost don't care if what you are selling is useful so long as the prospect satisfies your single condition: 1) has enough money.

Sometimes I wished we eliminated salespeople entirely. I would prefer to have "honest" marketing, and strong customer service.

What I mean by honest marketing is to continually share content with the prospective client, and try to win them over without playing gimmicky mind games and tricks. To do this, you must understand that your client may need to time to understand your product, move away from current solution, etc..

A strong customer service agent would help answer all of customers' concerns once the marketing has gotten them interested.
> the traditional database server security model is at the table level.

Actually, many RDBMSs (postgres included) provide security at the command, relation (table/view), and column level.

With that, and appropriate view definitions and triggers, you can essentially as fine-grained permissions as you'd like. We manage this all client side because while much of the theory of this has been around for servers and held up as the ideal model since very early in the RDBMS era, a lot of the necessary features were not implemented in many servers (or implemented so wildly inconsistently between servers as to make practical, rather than theoretical, knowledge sharing in the community difficult.) That's less true now, though it still requires implementation-specific knowledge for the SQL implementation you are using.
this "case" is so laughable it as to be a pubstunt for the NJ AG to get his name in the papers, using "omg it bitcoinz! look im 733T" to show likely voters that "darnit, I understand the "risks" here, although you don't."
Don't miss the scene where he worked exactly four hours at Disney:

http://www.snopes.com/disney/wdco/ellison.asp
Why are the letters like that? I feel like I'm reading a ransom letter.
> This applies to any single player game. The discussion was about FPS and RTS.

Yeah, fair point.

> The rest you wrote makes sense, I agree.

Yay! Same here.
after the BBC coverage of the Scottish Independence referendum, I am not surprised anymore. Sad to say from a public service...
The Diamond Age is my favorite, by far, of the work of his that I've read (including the two you mentioned). It's very very good. I like the way he imagines a world where everyone can print whatever they need from The Feed (nanomachines + materials), and yet it's so different from the techno-utopias we have seen before where such is possible.

Most importantly, I really liked the characters (just like I did in Snow Crash). It's interesting in that there doesn't seem to be an antagonist, really -- it's more about the journey of the young lady. It's a neat fairy tale.
Could just be sunk cost. They think they wont look stupid if they 'win', so are willing to look a lot more stupid yet in the hope they can do someone for something, as otherwise the whole affair is a huge waste of time and money and they can't have that.
Are all the ants as heavy as all the humans?
You're talking about what you'd like the dr.ug to do. I've witnessed people change because of alcohol as well as majijuana. Every single chemical that affects your brain in a visible way also does it in an invisible and long term way. And pretending you know exactly what the side effects are is quite pretentious imo.
The paper concludes that a "remarkably elegant model of computation" can be made using just 7 primitive operators,
which allows for defining a self-interpreter.

In fact, 0 primitive operators suffice, as the ability to
denote functions (Section 2) gives us the Turing complete lambda calculus.

A self-interpreter for a version of lambda calculus denoted in binary fits in under 26 bytes, as shown on http://www.cwi.nl/~tromp/cl/cl.html
I'm really glad Mozilla has been working on this. A lot of comments here talk about UI responsiveness being the key benefit, but another huge win is that it limits the damage a browser zero-day can do. With this model, a compromised tab will no longer be able to directly read the contents of other tabs, since the other tabs live in separate address spaces.

This of course assumes a compromised tab can't go on to compromise the browser kernel (i.e. the process that manages tabs and shared tab state) or trick the kernel into giving it unauthorized data from other tabs. However, formally verifying that a kernel implementation prevents this is feasible in practice [1].

[1] http://goto.ucsd.edu/quark/
Point taken. But the iPhone and iPad are very definitely computers. You can even code on them in a large variety of ways.

Most people I knew who had C64's knew only enough to launch games (and often they had the instructions scrawled on the disk slip covers). And that includes CS majors.
Now with a faster dev workflow and a modern WebView
>A significant work of art is a psychic program that mutates the human brain that interprets it. The less variation in the outcome of that mutation amongst a significant population of individuals the closer it is to expressing some universal truth of our condition. You can point to a work of Van Gogh, Kafka, or Mozart and explain its significance.

I'll make the argument that a large portion of the population experiences the same mutation because we are far removed from the original works. Society has come to agree on a set of truths a certain piece portrays. With time being the primary factor in determining the truth in a work of art, it makes sense why "classic" games get more attention than modern games. There are likely a number of significant games that have yet to be labelled and agreed upon as such.
Robots That Learn Through Repetition, Not Programming
Too bad all the comments here are just angry and contribute no understanding.

The reason that this could be illegal is because it is using someone's computer in an unauthorized way to mine bitcoins.
BEKANT – New IKEA electric adjustable height desk
Anyone have something similar for game UIs?
Talking about "memory usage per tab" doesn't make much sense unless you talk about what's in the tabs. It's rather like talking about "memory usage per application" on your desktop and not mentioning whether the application is ed or OpenOffice.

Suspending JS execution in invisible tabs seems highly unlikely to be web-compatible; you wouldn't want YouTube or Spotify to stop playing just because you focused a different tab. On the other hand, with technologies like requestAnimationFrame, we can make it possible for well designed applications to work well when in the background.
It sounds like the NJ AG is saying, "Someone in NJ may have downloaded and run the code written by Tidbit and said code may have done things which are not allowed in NJ, hence Tidbit must provide said code to the NJ AG."

But it doesn't sound like the AG has much evidence (or simply isn't providing such evidence) that anyone in NJ ever actually downloaded or ran the code.

Is this a normal ask for Attorneys General to make in any circumstance regarding software?
There is some of that. but for the most part (1) advertising revenues come from across industries, (2) startup revenues as a whole are fairly diverse coming from advertising, saas, transaction fees on rooms or rides and (3) most importantly I don't think Dropbox's value will hit critical levels because twitter's business model fails. its all a lot less speculative. multiples are high, but not the imaginary. most of the mature 2.0 startups are real businesses with a company value derived from revenue and profit.
You can package web development into neat, resellable chunks, but however scalable it might ultimately be, selling scripts, templates and cookie-cutter CMS installations is a million miles from financial services and insurance: you're actually pitching at an audience who have lower budgets than you'd have for custom design and marketing projects, and facing plenty of competition.

People in finance and insurance are highly paid precisely because regulators (and demanding clients) are persuaded that a certain level of service is required which avoids the appearance of competition from low end commodity products, and because the problems they solve are much larger than "how should I skin the company blog?"
That's very interesting. Thank you for correcting me. I'd like to know more, but everyone else probably would, too. Personally, I'm curious about the backstory behind that particular piece of software, and also about any other tricks you've noticed.
Weirdly the summary is completely unreadable unless you select it, because it's sitting on top of the image. I thought at first it just didn't work on Chrome, but it does the same thing on all browsers. After inspecting the html code it looks like they've done that on purpose - the image is 360px wide, but the container is 240px, so the summary text will overlap the image. Did they intend to make it unreadable?
This would in fact be amusing if "a lot" == "1".
Designing a Browser Based Game with D3.js, Part I
> With this model, a compromised tab will no longer be able to directly read the contents of other tabs, since the other tabs live in separate address spaces.

... assuming those tabs are cross-origin.

> This of course assumes a compromised tab can't go on to compromise the browser kernel

Also assumes that a compromised tab can't go on to compromise the OS kernel.
Thanks, author here.

I've been thinking about what we need to simplify distributed applications for the past few years, and we really need reusable components[1]. Anything we can do to make containers more consistent and easier to build is important.

[1] https://medium.com/@vishvananda/standard-components-not-stan...
How would you use VR + programming? (survey)
Yes, the last time I installed OS X, I didn't even bother to install MacPorts (or any other package manager).

The only package manager I currently use is Homebrew. If I ever switch from OS X to Linux, I will almost certainly need to switch package managers at the same, which is no big deal: I've used RPM, dpkg, apt, pacman and Arch Build System in the past, and I am extremely confident that I could bend them to my will in the future.

Again, I want to stress that I think certain parts of Emacs are great. package.el on the other hand did not impress me enough for me to want to spend even one more hour learning about it. I would guess I have something between 5 and 50 hours invested in learning about package managers written in Emacs Lisp up to today. (All of those hours were spent learning about package.el or whatever the correct name of it is.)
There is another oddity about the article

"emerge in the age of hyper-local digital news brands such as Patch"

Patch is closing down and firing people. Ours closed. It does not appear to be a survivable business model, although they gave it a good try and it was interesting reading while it lasted.
Well, you'd probably find that those 1/5 companies that don't suck at managing engineering talent are probably run by former engineers, not former sales guys.

The best career options for engineers in Cisco are:
* sales engineer (not really engineering)
* become a manager
* jump ship to juniper
* go to a startup, maybe even get bought back by Cisco with a career boost
* shoot for the moon, stay and maybe become a Cisco Distinguished Engineer, which are like unicorns

Ergo, rank and file engineers are not valued by management, like they are at Facebook/Google/etc.
Right, like I don't have enough on my plate as a developer.

If developers should learn design, then they should be paid double their salary. Personally, I still wouldn't be interested.
I know nothing about beekeeping but having read the article it seems that weight would be an important measure.
You may notice that I carefully elided C to Objective C when selecting examples of things that change. :)

I'm also not sure this is a counterexample. It's just the opposite perspective. From the perspective of a parent, a three-year-old becomes a thirteen-year-old with terrifying speed. A cell biologist would note that both kids are built from the same parts, many of which are also shared with killer whales and the front lawn.

My examples are all easy to flip in this way. The most remarkable feature of iOS is that it is directly descended from the twenty-five-year-old Next system, to the point that it carries all those cute little "ns"es around.

Change is constant, but provided one escapes the traps of lock-in (oops, Adobe Flash, dang!) and resists the whims of fashion, the change can happen slowly and piecemeal. If a new Golang library is important enough, it can always be ported to C later for the benefit of one's great-grandchildren.
That sounds possible. but new doesn't necessarily mean unstable. private equity is big because of the concentrated wealth of this decade.
Authorea Raises $610k for Its Bid to Become a Google Docs/GitHub for Scientists
Just arrived in some US stores I think, not in US catalog yet[1], but is on swedish version[2].

[1] http://www.ikea.com/us/en/search/?query=bekant

[2] http://www.ikea.com/se/sv/search/?query=bekant
Global Learning XPRIZE
Not sure why its amusing; the presence of fewer splashy IPOs means less competing alternatives for the money of those investors seeking splashy IPOs to sink money into.

Insofar as "splashy" is mostly a factor of media attention in the runup, there being fewer splashy IPOs might itself contribute directly to the splashy IPOs that do exist being bigger (there's other contributors, too -- if the media isn't as prone to drive attention to every tech IPO, it means the IPOs that are splashy are likely splashy because of some fundamental newsworthy feature, which often includes things like strength in the fundamentals or the amount of money sought to be raised, that is, IPOs have to be set-up to be bigger to be splashy.)
A beautiful article, makes me yearn for that recent-convert's enthusiasm for a new hobby. Reminds me of when I first took up mycoculture. Perhaps I'll get a behive and join the legion of "that guy" :)
Indeed, there's quite a few choices out there, especially for specialisms (large heaps, real-time applications etc).

Not only that, but it's also good to note that Android != Java. It's best described as Java-like, in that there are some libraries/features in Java that aren't supported in Android, so it's a bit of a misnomer to describe it as a full JVM.
There is already a bit of advanced syntax. Any use of quotation marks will enable it. For example, is you search for...

latex "donald knuth"

That will search for any comment that has latex anywhere in the text and donald and knuth next to each other.

So you could trigger the advanced syntax by putting latex in quotes and search for any commment that contains latex and text anywhere in the comment:

"latex" text
Good stuff. Assume Improvely is your Saas. You do realize that marketers/agencies are very active in social media, blogging, etc. I can think of over 100 blogs that would write about you: conversionxl.com, okdork.com, quicksprout.com, kissmetrics.com, etc, etc.

I'm sure if you created a SaaS for X, where X = farmers, or or home funeral owners, or home contractors, you would not have that luxury. So it definitely depends on the space, and for most people, your strategy simply would not suffice... not even close.
Instant Criminal: Everyone has something they can be prosecuted for
Kickstarter lays down new rules for when a project fails
If it's embedded you look at the lifetime of the entire unit. If the machine lasts 30 years then yes, you should be supporting the whole thing. Maybe not 2x, maybe closer to (lifetime + years between OS releases + 2 year margin).

And when I say 'support' in the context of embedded code I don't mean much. It doesn't need new features. It should generally not be on a public network and doesn't need much in the way of bugfixes. Just keep it running. After a few years it's likely you won't need to patch it again ever. But if it needs a patch, make one.

When I picture someone installing a new operating system on the lathe they've had for 20 years my eyes are wide in horror.
Support the Independents
Love the design, as well as the idea of a simpler JIRA. I love what Atlassian has done with JIRA in the last few years (better design, much easier to use, much less buggy), but it's often too complicated and too expensive for the vast majority of use cases.
There will be things that your insurance plan will just randomly decide not to cover or worse, you just don't have the right kind of insurance for what you need.

Both my parents have suffered strokes. My father had to go to a step down unit which requires Long Term Care Insurance, something that I'm willing to bet most people aren't familiar with. Even that, due to changing regulations, your LTCI that you purchased decades ago most likely no longer covers today's prices. Unfortunately you just can't prepare for everything.
Selling Prozac as the Life-Enhancing Cure for Mental Woes
Mondrian and JavaScript
Amazon accounts hacked? “Your Amazon.com password has been changed”
Think like the NJ AG, it's not about what law was broken, it's about what law could have been broken.
Shutterfy may be acquired for $2B by private equity firm