skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this also makes a good tie-in for teaching algebra.

Once you figure out that the most significant digits should be the largest ones, and the 3rd and 4th largest digits should be in the 2nd most significant place, you end up with a situation like this:

A C E
* B D

To make it more clear what to do next, you can just append a zero onto the number "BD" and still solve the same problem, because instead of multiplying "ACE" * "BD", you are multiplying "ACE" * "BD0" = ("ACE" * "BD") * 10:

A C E
* B D 0

Now, to figure out which of the two greatest digits are A and B, and which of the next two greatest are C and D, you can apply the identity (x + y) * (x - y) = x^2 - y^2 to this. Since "ABC" * "BD0" = (x + y) * (x - y), then equating "ABC" = x + y and "BD0" = x - y, you can solve to get x = ("ACE" + "BD0") / 2, which is the same number no matter the order between A and B, or between C and D. Then maximizing (x + y) * (x - y) means minimizing y^2; or, making the two numbers "ACE" and "BD0" as close together as possible, which leads to the given solution.
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To be honest - I wonder if this support tech knows what he's talking about. The emails are signed "Asus Nordic" - probably a support outstation that does no real product development work, only support. He's trying to tell the customer someone in Taiwan told him this and/or it got lost in translation.
Completely agree. The article mentions how shitty it can be going from the West side to Silver Lake, possibly 3 hours with traffic. How would an uber make this any better? I guess you can spend those hours in the backseat instead of at the wheel, but that still a shitty waste of time and nothing like the lifestyle in New York as the quote claims.
yes but even in that scenario, someone would presumably need to target my phone. and if large numbers of people were attacked in such a fashion, presumably the chances of detecting such an attack would also go up.

and sure, phones have a huge attack surface in general, but changing defaults in this way makes certain attack scenarios easier, even if it also happens to be convenient for other users.
No, unless you've explicitly trained it to match photos to cartoon images. The article is a bit sensationalistic when it says 'what if a NN would misclassify a pedestrian crossing as an empty road?'. The truth is you can't compare a simple photo recognizer with human perception. Human perception obviously can do far more advanced things than just matching photos to memories of photos, it's not even very good at matching photos. We have depth perception, we have object isolation, we can remember and abstract shapes, we can extrapolate and interpolate, we have loads and loads of context. We don't see the world in RGBA. We see the world as a continuous stream of related information.

All these systems together make sure a human would never[1] mistake a pedestrian crossing to an empty road, and allow us to match abstract paintings to realistic images. Any serious artificial autonomous agent would similarily consist of many independent but contextualized systems.

edit: 1] Never as in, never unless the pedestrian makes a good effort to look like an empty road to all of those systems
You aren't limited by space in BIOS and hardware interrupts and can have a GUI and working touchscreen at boot without an OS now?

You can't sell a mobile computer that you can't control in BIOS because it has no input devices.
What about Dell or Toshiba?
The worst thing about FreeBSD is the license.
> I would expect our home usage is now well in excess of 1T/month. (I live in the UK.) This should tell you that I have no self-interest in bandwidth caps, especially joke 2-figure ones.

Ah, so you're on the receiving end of the subsidy, in a big way. Wow! That's what, five or six people streaming a full-length movie apiece, every day?

The structure that ISPs seem to like, of a cap with a fairly stiff charge for exceeding it, doesn't appeal to me either. But I don't see what would be wrong with a baseline connection fee plus a modest charge per GB, such that streaming a whole movie would cost on the order of $2.

(Message heavily edited after I realized you agree that the subsidy is unfair.)
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The scientific consensus on intelligence in 1997 was quite clear on this issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on_Intellige... . (See conclusion #3.)

Has the consensus changed since '97? I frequently hear people dispute #2 ("Intelligence can be measured, and intelligence tests measure it well") and #5 ("Intelligence tests are not culturally biased"). However, I'm not aware of a revolution in IQ testing which overturns the old findings.
You actually think this is an advertorial masquerading as legitimate trend-piece by NYT?
So everyone else talking about how they nuke the OEM install and do a clean install of retail Win8 aren't using the drivers from the OEM, but the standard MS drivers? I guess then my question is "why aren't the world's shittiest drivers written by the OEM that affect system stability and performance considered OEM bloatware when the MS drivers work just fine?".
The thing I disliked about my surface (owned a surface pro 1) was the lack of touch integration and Windows.

Touch integration - someone mentioned for VS/SQL server that the touch is horrible to even view text. The reality is that almost every application is broken by default. Only recently have Chrome and Firefox been useful with touch. The beautiful experience in IE and Explorer were the only places where that happened. It really sucked to be held back from doing something because the system started to fight me.

Windows - The above complain is more specific, but this is more my disdain for the Windows Platform. There aren't good touch OS alternatives to Windows for the surface, so Windows stays, and it's not very good at open source things. I prefer Linux, or even OS X like I am using now, over Windows and the surface.

~That said, I do like the surface if these things can be fixed
Pros of the surface:
- The pen really was amazing, OneNote used it perfectly
- Gaming wasn't perfect, but it was pretty powerful for the size as well
... There's more but I need to do things. I've listed my complaints.

(screw reading through what I wrote. Post!)
Are you managing with medication now? I wonder if those who are able to restructure are lower on a spectrum. Your situation sounds similar to mine and attempts to restructure have been difficult. I haven't used medication for years because I bought into the idea that it would limit me and I could overcome if I just work hard enough but finally I've realized it just feels like every single thing is harder than it needs to be. I feel like I've wasted a lot of time beating my head against the wall.
I believe the trackpad of my asus 1000he notebook is pinnacle of non-mac trackpads.

Supported equally on linux and windows. Soft to the fingers, responsive and precise. Two-fingers scrolling, wipe (kind), three-fingers scrolling, etc.

Only missing thing is pinch-to-zoom.
Hardware support is rather good. Nvidia graphics chips are an issue, other than that I wouldn't expect to many issues.

Laptops are harder than desktop, mostly due to ACPI and I still trying to get a multitouch trackpad to work (I'm missing a right button).

Linux and FreeBSD has better hardware support, but when stuff is supported in OpenBSD it just works. Only exception I ran into is wireless card in an old MacBook Pro which should work but doesn't.
> It's an admirable project, but it's got a lot of syntax fiddling and redesigning to go before I think it's 'prime time' ready.

We aren't doing much syntax fiddling and redesigning anymore. 1.0, which is very soon, will have a stability promise and will be backwards compatible.
Sure. I don't recall anyone selling anything over 160 kbps in 2004. Apple introduced their lossless encoding around then, but extra storage for that many discs was prohibitively expensive. I think Amazon is still ~250 kbps and doesn't offer lossless at all.

Fortunately, I haven't had to rerip in a while. And if I really wanted to throw in the towel, services like Murfie exist that will take your collection and rip for you in a variety of formats. But, having physical CDs really doesn't bother me either.
I'm interested in Rust also.
But I'm wondering, does it have these features, and to what extent?

* coroutines
* pure functional programming (enforcing it in an isolated subset of the code)
* laziness
* (clean) meta-programming
* introspection
* garbage collection

Especially for stream-based programming (essential for internet applications), you'd need something like coroutines, to keep things manageable. I'm wondering if there is example code for a well-performing Rust-based web-server out there already.

Also, how does Rust compare to other modern languages, like Scala?
so, in the towns where uber is popular is there a perfext storm of really unreliable taxi service + a large desire to use a car that doesnt look like a taxi?
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I rarely have any problems with Windows but this is exactly the reason I root for Microsoft to "lose" in the desktop space. They'll only improve when they're facing some real market pressure.

Also, I think having so many manufacturers makes things worse. Other than hardware specs, there really is veryt little to differentiate feature-wise between different PCs. Android is starting to run into this problem as well. The "customizations" and "improvements" aka bloated buggy shit layered on top of the vanilla OS completely messes up the user experience.
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About half a year ago, victorhooi asked[1] an app that does this.

So I wrote one: http://tinyrobotsoftware.com/gistrecall/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7872106
To tell the truth, I found much more interesting another article referenced from that, the one on craft vs. instinct in construction http://m.nautil.us/issue/8/home/the-termite-and-the-architec...
It's the first in the world. It's only 70 meters long.

It should be obvious to everyone here that this is just an MVP.

What better way to prove or disprove the idea? Measure how it performs in the real world, with dirt, abrasions, rain and temperature variation.

Then iterate.

If it's not feasible at all, then you stop.
Are you better off because of your diagnosis? And why?
Every Mac site and enthusiast has been complaining that you're better off in many performance cases with the 2012 Mac Mini, if you insist on a basic desktop sans monitor (which everyone admits is not Apple's forte, they concentrate on their portables and there are a few performance cases where a Mac Pro makes sense).

In short, you've picked what even Apple sites and enthusiasts claim is their worst choice.
I just don't get how someone could think it's a good idea to spend half a million euros to power a single home. I can buy a rooftop solar array to power my home for maybe 5% of that amount (true cost, not the misleading "post-subsidy" cost.) And nobody will ever drive a truck on my roof.

EDIT: I'm not normally one to complain about downvotes, but this has gotten 2 now; I find that completely inexplicable. Really, where's the value proposition in putting solar cells on the ground, in the shade, not aligned to the sun, where they'll get dirt and grime tracked on them, and having to spend 20x as much to manufacture them to withstand vehicle traffic? Even as an MVP, this seems foolish.
For whatever it's worth, we in the illumos community have been working on a complete Linux compatibility layer -- including 64-bit.[1][2] Our Linux emulation is relatively closely intertwined with some illumos abstractions like zones, but it would be great if the FreeBSD folks could make use of it -- we have a long history of technology exchange with FreeBSD, and we think it's made both systems better. Happy birthday, FreeBSD -- from your illumos cousins!

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/illumos-lx

[2] https://twitter.com/sjorge/status/527937813568708608
<1099, not w2>Yes. It's just a number. Double it. Do the same with your hourly estimates. I quit my job making ~27 to doing contracting at 40. Then 60, 75, 80 now 85-100 across projects. (3 years rails, 6 years other stuff, USA)

The real kicker is the former company billed me out at $150+ when I had even less experience!
Asus are weird. I made the mistake of upgrading from Win 7 to Win 8 on my previous 2012 laptop. No Win 8 compatible drivers to be found. Contacted support, who informed me that there are no plans to ever ship any Win 8 compatible driver.

Relevant detail: On the product page of the laptop on Asus's website, they have a banner recommending Windows 8.
They also break. I have a USB sound dongle that works fine with the Debian lenny and wheezy kernels, but not squeeze (that's versions 5 and 7, but not 6, and I tried another chipset's as well). My Wacom tablet stopped working with wheezy.

I've read that driver breakage is for many the #1 problem with Linux, even for enterprise/server setups. I'm starting to view RHEL in a new light after running Debian for a long time.
How much equity did you get & can you talk about that arrangement more?
http://pythontutor.com/ (my webapp) very small footprint ... just a single simple CGI script. but pulls in 6,000 - 10,000 uses per day. not "large" by commercial standards, but not bad for a free tool made by a single person.
Depends on the laptop and peripheral. Usually, yes it is plug n play.
> Actually the problem is Rust currently doesn't implement traits for static-sized arrays because the size is part of the type signature and each size would need to be implemented separately.

But it does implement those traits for slices. So this isn't typically a problem in practice because you can coerce fixed-length arrays to slices and then compare those.
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About the same.

It wouldn't detect my SATA HDDs on a GA-945GCM-S2C board (no issues with that on Windows/OSX-Hackintosh/Debian/FreeBSD), had to use USB-HDD to install. Only option for my nVidia graphics was the nv driver, which is actually many times slower than the vesa driver somehow. And vesa lacked any widescreen modes, so video was practically unusable for me. Other than that, everything worked out of the box. LAN (Realtek), audio (HDA), etc.

Only thing I didn't like on the software side (but many people would prefer) was that it's really bleeding edge. I much prefer Xfce, but still rely on some Gnome apps. OpenBSD is much further along with Gnome 3, so a lot of apps like gedit, gnome-system-monitor, gcalctool, evince etc start to stand out like a sore thumb. That'll come to FreeBSD too, but at least I have a bit more time to find alternatives.
Bustaname is pretty nifty and useful. I'm also a fan of Namebird, a name generator that uses probability algorithms to make names that are catchy and memorable http://shobia.com/namebird (and only partly because I made it!)
$8.50/hr is a nice amount of money in Hungary for example. If you don't have a finance/compsci degree is way above the average. In compsci, its an average payment for a developer with 2-3 years of experience (no need to pay further tax anyways from this).

Architects, lead devs, PMs earns around 15/hour at best paying companies. If you're a contractor, it could top up around 20 after taxation.

A young person with an average degree (economics for eg.) in an average position is not earning more than 5/hour here...
> but now when I read what they have to say about things I actually understand I am quite underwhelmed by their investigative prowess.

IME this is true of all reporting, regardless of the source or subject.

The more removed we are, the more we tend to believe what's reported is true.
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300K users per month, 600K in June and November, mainly Chilean teachers.
I have to say, I absolutely love your app. I use it when teaching people to program all the time!
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I did because I was offered a plea for no time (other than the night I had already spent in jail), no fine, and it would be expunged from my record in two years. At least, that's what the public defender told me during the single minute I spoke to him while walking down the hallway to court.

It didn't matter any more that I hadn't done anything (not just anything wrong, but anything - I had been arrested while sitting on the sidewalk talking to friends) the important thing was being free from a potential three year sentence for 'criminal trespassing' at 18.
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Uber just hired David Plouffe, one Obama's senior advisors and campaign strategists, as their chief lobbyist. This is serious as political clout gets. Anything is possible.

https://blog.uber.com/davidplouffe
"However, ultimately I shifted away and I am glad I did, even though C# is awesome and I absolutely love Visual Studio, I moved away for a number of compelling reasons."

Really curious: what did you move to (both language and IDE-wise)?
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that video does not say anything about the home/del/pgup/pgdn buttons...? does it?
I visited the Sound Gallery* in Austin, Texas recently. The owner talked at length of the continual transition of lessening quality audio mediums in exchange for widespread. High-fidelity analog to vinyl to cassettes to cds to mp3s to.. streaming. Paraphrasing: "You don't own a stream. You can't hold it in your hands -- you can't drop it and break it. But it sounds like shit."

* http://soundgalleryaustin.com/
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> Saying that Apple/Google don't need to care about this because they have cloud backup (and implicitly MS doesn't) seems like a bit of a cop out.

No, what people are saying is the average user doesn't store a lot of data on their phone except what they have backed up through a cloud service.

The average user has a ton of data that isn't on the cloud on their local machine, losing all of that because they forgot their password isn't something that the user expects so adding encryption with no backdoor hurts the average user more than it helps.

Bitlocker doesn't back up the keys anymore than you ask it to and it easily enabled if you care about the NSA being able to get ahold of them.

> Much more limited against someone who can get your computer/tablet/phone and guess a password or some security questions. Don't jump straight to the NSA when your threat model is adequately met by someone who knows that your password is 'Kitty123'.

If they know your password no amount of device encryption will protect you, that is why he is ignoring them.
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“I can just, like, YOLO with Uber,” she said.

I nominate this for Millennial Sentence of the Year.
Reddit is down
For the last few minutes they've had the "we took too long to make this page for you" page and now it seems the site is in read-only mode.

Anyone know what happened?
I loved my X61 but I couldn't put up with how it sounded like it was going to take flight all the time.
Oh good. I wondered if that was the case, but suppressed the urge to ask since people often don't take kindly to assumptions that their actual views must be sarcastic. There are also plenty of inaccurate conceptions of capitalism/socialism, and people tend to ascribe successes to their own preferred system, regardless of reality. I'm glad that's not the case here.
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I can provide plenty of anecdote for broken Windows drivers.

One example where moving from Windows Vista to Windows 7 will update Intel on board graphics card drivers, thus killing Minecraft. Fix is to upgrade graphics card; or to run old versions of Minecraft; or to install Linux and run latest version of Minecraft.

https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-14051
>I would imagine that prosecuting the correct perpetrator would be the one most likely to result in a conviction.

Why would you imagine that? Why would you assume that there was even a crime at all for there to be a 'correct perpetrator'?

>Unfortunately, prosecutors are often under a lot of pressure from the public (i.e., us) to put somebody away. What's a prosecutor to do after Nancy Grace tells us who the murderer is?

This is significant in the six cases a year that get big television coverage, but this has happened to millions of people and the media/public generally have little/nothing to do with it.
> For me personally, there is also less wrist-twisting if I don't use X, which involves moving my pinky down to the shift key; that always feels like I'm walking up to the edge of carpal tunnel.

But you have to press the shift-key for $ anyway. So with X, your typing Shift + X. With x$, you're typing x + Shift + $
…friendlier to businesses… that rely on proprietary restrictions for their business.
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Isn't there a statistical issue akin to mortality being swung by massive infant mortality.

The barrier to entry to MOOCs is very low (submit your email address, for example), whilst the barrier to entry to traditional courses is high (pay large amounts of money and often move home too).

Many people will, I imagine, sign up for MOOCs but fail early, within the first couple of weeks. There's a similar thing in multi-year university courses I think, some will fail their first year, those that make it through that will have a far higher rate of success.

The lower risk/barrier to entry is part of the reason to offer MOOCs IMO, you're enabling many people to try tertiary education for whom the risk-reward analysis is simply too adverse otherwise.

Surely provided MOOCs enable more people to acquire a given educational level they are working, whether that is cost effective or not I guess is the question to ask then.
I have an online subscription to the NYT, and I've lived in LA for about 20 years. I totally agree with you.

They tend to send reporters in to live here for a couple of years, so they regard a Manhattan life style as the baseline and any deviation from that is, at best, quirky, and going down from there towards crazy at a fast clip.

I was hoping there would be reader comments for this article, because the only thing better is to read Alfonse from Staten Island writing in that he visited his cousin in 2002 and the traffic was horrible, and Sydney from the UWS testifying that he lived there for two years in the 1990s and it really is as bad as all that, probably worse, and how do they live that way.
A great talk. I had no idea you could create a prompt for the user to input their password that wouldn't be visible to Javascript (really cool!).

One thing that was really glossed over in the beginning was switching from an arbitrary data format to an ArrayBuffer. Is there are built-in way to do that operation or will we need to write our own conversion functions?
A touchscreen is a built-in input device.
True, that's the main reason I try newer ones. If I was a gifted engineer I'd build a better heatsink so the fan would never kick in.
That Magic theme is going to kill someone with epilepsy.