skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, John Foreman is great. Read his book "Data Smart" and http://analyticsmadeskeezy.com/blog/

(disclaimer: I am in no way tied to John Foreman. Also, I work at a company that provides a data processing/collaboration SaaS...for big data! http://www.treasuredata.com)

A quote from the OP:

>If your business is currently too chaotic to support a complex model, don't build one. Focus on providing solid, simple analysis until an opportunity arises that is revenue-important enough and stable enough to merit the type of investment a full-fledged data science modeling effort requires.

This is consistent with what we see in our customers. The use cases we see most with processing big data boils down to generating reports.

Generating reports may sound really prosaic, but as I learned from our customers, most organizations are very, very far from providing access to their data in a cogent, accessible manner. Just to generate reports/summaries/basic descriptive statistics, incredibly complex enterprise architectures have been proposed, built by a cadre of enterprise architects and deployed with obscenely high maintenance subscription fees billed by various vendors. That's the reality at many companies.

As bad and confusing the buzzword "big data" is, one good byproduct is that it has forced slow-moving enterprises to rethink their data collection/storage/management/reporting systems.

Finally, I am starting to see folks do meaningful predictive modelling on top of large-ish data (in the order of terabytes). Some of them are our customers at Treasure Data, some aren't, but they are definitely not "build[ing] a clustering algorithm that leverages storm and the Twitter API" but actually doing the hard work of thinking through how (or if) the data they collect is meaningful and useful.

And that's a good thing.
After visiting your website I have no idea what it is.
I think we agree on 99%.

My point is just that a good bank can still have a run in the absence of the FDIC guarantee.

Let's say a bank has $100 million in deposits. They keep $10 million in liquid assets, and lend out $90 million in un-securitized loans to local businesses. There's a false market rumor of something bad happening at the bank, and all of a sudden $20 million in depositors want their money back. The bank isn't able to resell the loans quick enough on the secondary market to make up for the shortfall. This could happen.

The FDIC guarantee protects the bank because there's no longer a need to have the run - everyone will get paid.
Absence of information in Wikipedia isn't very good evidence that there isn't very much evidence.

Black holes can be observed in multiple ways:

1) radiation from infalling matter
2) gravitational lensing
3) dynamics of orbiting objects

Remember: we not see the moon by its own light. We see the moon by the light it reflects from the sun. That reflected light is a direct causal consequence of the moon's existence, and we quite properly take it as such... even though the moon emits no light of its own.

No one, to the best of my knowledge, has ever suggested we ought to treat the evidence for the Moon as scanty or inadequate on this basis. So the fact that the radiation we see from black holes originates from the heat of infalling matter, which is a direct causal consequence of the black hole's existence, should constitute similarly strong evidence.

Lensing and dynamical measurements are also quite direct, strong and compelling. There exist compact bodies with more than 1.4 solar masses, which is the limit for nuclear matter (we would have to be wrong about quite a lot of nuclear physics for this to be otherwise.)

The question is: what is the best theory to describe black holes, given we know based on this deep and broad evidence that they exist? Currently we have a rough combination of GR and quantum theory, and while the theory has issues, the claim it "probably has nothing to do with the real phenomenon" is minimally plausible.
Yeah, one of the biggest advantages of Axe-FX is just how much equipment is packed into a small box. That is one biggest reasons I read for Metallica to use it, they used to drive around tons of equipment.

From what I've seen on youtube of setup run throughs, people almost always have a complete non-fractal set of equipment for backup, but an axe-fx patch can actually contain all of this equipment. Manufacturers even sell their own racks that can be loaded into axe-fx.
I apologize for not making myself clear enough to communicate as effectively as might be hoped.
Note also that the i8's performance in all-electric mode is very weak: the electric motor is only 131hp, which is smaller than the i3's 170hp electric motor.

It's hard to imagine a significant fraction of i8 buyers using it as an all-electric commuter, like the Chevy Volt or other plug-in hybrids are used.

(edit: added some numbers)
Not always true - some companies will give CV certs to OSS projects.
Exact, a total no-win situation for both parts.

Greece, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Ireland (...and oh-la-la... your turn, France?) are in fact more or less in a post-war scenery. Why? Because much of the money either did never changed of hands or either ended in the wrong hands with the bleesings of all surveillance organs and agencies.

So whe have a curious crime here, millions of money vanishing and, big surprise, nobody wanted to see this and nobody wants to investigate now where the money goes.

Much better find a fool to pay for our disaster.

So they sell us some bright recipes poisoned from the start. All benefits that they predict crashed loudly and became chains and viper pits, but, hey!, those smart guys that were taking money from you germans, to "give the money" to you Greeks, are richer than ever... How could this happen?. And everybody feels cheated and angry now.
Putting solar panels in the road/parking-lot = bad idea. But putting them over seems like a good idea from my limited knowledge.
My comment above yours might answer that (a "wasted" vote isn't wasted if it causes change).

A few years ago I watched a TV program about Ralph Nader and it changed the way I voted.

Like most people, I had been voting for the least worst guy who I thought could win. I think that you probably do so as well. I probably did that for the first 20+ years. Now ask yourself: "How is that working out for me? Has it made a long term positive difference?"

The major parties really can't afford to cater to our interests, at least not in deed. We frankly can't pay them enough. Unless they are independently wealthy, they can't afford to run for another term if they don't satisfy the wishes of their donors [their true constituents]. Side with your voters against the guys funding your campaign(s) - no more money for you!
On the other hand, most of the German war reparations after WWI should probably be repaid. The exception is whatever Germany paid to Belgium, which should be augmented with reparations from France and Great Britain.

(And I assume you meant Balkan instead of Baltic.)
It has now been corrected, but thanks for the downvote
>Is the reason because a very large number of them grew up in poverty or with rough family lives and therefore never had the chance to be trained into proper financial management as you were? Because that's a reason for a pretty solid proportion of athletes in the NFL at least.

I would be curious to see the numbers, as I suspect that's not anywhere near the majority, because money buys training and the convenience of focusing on sports instead of income while you're younger.

Either way being poor and having no resources to educate yourself becomes a moot point once you become one of the richest people in the world. The reason some professional athletes are stuck in an irresponsible mindset is precisely because they are celebrated for being irresponsible.
I thought this was going to be a humblebrag -- and boy, it sure started out that way -- but I was pleasantly surprised by the end.

It made me think about how some tools, libraries, or frameworks seem to prefer to use buzzwords or neologisms to make simple things seem complicated. As though by obfusticating the problem domain, they can make their solution seem that much more magnificent. As though the docs should make you feel stupid.

And the reason they do this is because in our industry, it works. Things often seem impressive to the degree that they seem complicated. People are "advertising" their stuff by making it seem like a special snowflake instead of a simple thing.

Far be it from me to blame people for doing something that works. But there is a bit of an echo chamber, especially in this forum, where developers -- developers, not marketers, not "suits" -- prefer to use buzzwords over plain language, and they would rather you think they did something complicated than something simple or something solid.
I assure you, I did not need to cultivate my disinterest in professional sports.

Also, any disdain I have for the subject is entirely centered around the fans. Sports fans have a tendency to assume that everyone is a sports fan, and act accordingly. I don't shame anyone for not liking board games, don't shame me for not caring about whatever latest playoff is going on.

Also, when delays in my commute can be directly attributable to a specific event, you can bet I'm going to develop negative feelings towards it.
I'm about as far from California as I could be without moving to Russia or China.

Anyway, as I said, you're free to run your shop any way you want.
I played (American) football from 2nd grade to 12th grade and although I wasn't the best, I loved it. I was also an AP/IB student so the two circles didn't really overlap. But now I only follow a bit of college football and the playoffs for the NFL. I still love playing the sport, but I feel it's very unproductive to sit and watch for 3-10 hours every weekend, that's the main reason I don't get into it enough and can't keep up with the stats and news that coworkers and friends rattle off during the day.

I do agree with the premise of this article, that to communicate with more people, we should put 1% of the effort into following sports as we do into building businesses or progressing career wise.

Something I've always thought about, refreshing piece.
"But they provide an easy — and enjoyable — way to build common ground with our neighbors and fellow citizens that transcend social boundaries."

They also provide hundreds of millions of dollars in profits to a tiny group of people while permanently injuring players both physically and mentally. Then there's the massive transfers of taxpayer money to build stadia that sometimes NEVER turn a profit, the domestic abuse, the culture of covering up sexual assault, the homophobia, the long and troubled racial history...

Seriously, fuck sportzball. As a new way to "build common ground", try actually being a human.
I wonder how doable it would be to make most of the software we use, or even the system (but not the kernel), run on a GPU.

Any windowing system or GUI is already mostly a graphics application.
I got linked this article (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/6-things-id-do-i-got-laid-off...) today, actually. Thought it had some interesting thoughts.
I was speaking a bit imprecisely. An electric motors power-speed curve is not totally flat, just much more so than normal engines.
My eventual goal is to rewrite asmutils'[0] httpd [1] in C using librt0 and get a binary about 2-3x in size (2-3K). Malloc unnecessary.

[0] http://asm.sourceforge.net/asmutils.html

[1] https://github.com/leto/asmutils/blob/master/src/httpd.asm
It is stupid, but that hasn't stopped a lot of manufacturers from doing it. I unplugged the one that came equipped in my GTI. Google soundaktor and your make/model to see if your car has one.
The embedded 911 in the rear cannot be unseen.

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2fhjte/this_is_a_bmw_i...
Maybe that's the case if you also got rid of the other professions that make up celebrities: musicians, actors/actresses, etc. I doubt removing just sports would suddenly make scientists/philanthropists household names. You'd essentially have to get rid of all forms of entertainment to do that, which seems a bit ridiculous. Besides, many athletes ARE philanthropists, who work hard to give back to their communities.

As to your last points, you shouldn't recognize athletes who take illicit drugs. Focus on the athletes who do things the right way: work hard, take care of themselves physically and financially, take care of their family/community, and so on.

And besides, what makes you a better arbiter of what is useful to society?
But you being a snob about it to other people is also intrinsically bad. Disliking other peoples hobbies that cause no harm to others is intrinsically bad.

Intrinsically bad.
I am in Cleveland and know a few of the local startups and such. You can drop me a line if you want.
Author of CodeChisel3D here: I integrated the ace editor for the purpose of being used in webVR environments: http://kra.hn/projects/live-programming-with-three-and-webvr
I thought that it was the opposite - you can't draw half a pixel on a screen. (Perhaps a better analogy would be that you can't represent every real number as a floating point integer.)
Whenever you say "that made no sense", I think that you are using too much bias and not giving enough credit to what the data is telling you.

What? If a data scientist sees something seems illogical, there is no reason not to investigate it and see if he/she can find a more logical explanation. Sure, if the effect seems real but unexplained, you can accept and use it but advocating a kind of big data mysticism, "don't investigate, accept" seems to be buying into the senseless hype. And if you read the post, you'll notice the parent actually discovered the association was just an artifact of an easily explained association.

And, no, there's no much reason for companies to advertise just a TV stand and DVD player. Common sense tells one what the data actually data, that those two items, by themselves aren't and weren't what many people were just dreaming about.
Hey, I have a question for people using ST3... Should I upgrade from ST2? There's not a real reason I haven't, just a question of utility.
Hey, if it makes people feel better when their 3-cylinder hybrid sounds like a turbocharged V10, whatever.

Is there a business opportunity in hooking one of those cheap bluetooth OBD-II interfaces to a sample-driven synthesizer on a phone, hooked back into the car's sound system? Then you can make your sensible Civic sound like a Ferrari or a Bugatti... or an F14.
FWIW to the author of this piece: I don't know who you are and googling did not turn up a Wikipedia page. So that makes me think you aren't really FAMOUS, no matter how many people online or in tech might know of you.

The song "Thank you" by Alanis Morissette comes to mind. She hit it big at a young age. She wisely did not want to suffer the fate that stars like Meatloaf suffered when he hit it big young and then crashed and burned. Overwhelmed by her fame and success, she took a sabbatical and stopped singing. She found her voice again while visiting India, where she was surrounded by throngs of people, none of whom knew here. It was a good antidote to the ills of fame.

It's a big wide world.
Cheering for Team I Hate Sports is still cheering
> I don't have statistics, so this is all anecdotal, but most Professors I have gotten to know well have a favorite team or sport etc.

This has been my experience, up to and including a stint at a top tier American university where during the World Series I couldn't have a conversation with anyone, including my elderly Swiss-American academic supervisor, that didn't have a long preamble about how things were going for each team.

I grew up in an (American) football-loving family and still enjoy the game, but knew (and still know) almost nothing about baseball. But I watched that Series just so I could communicate with my American colleagues.

So to describe academics as sports-hating snobs is wildly at odds with (anecdotal) reality.
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Echoing what the sibling comment said, I have almost 300 games on Steam (at least half of those are indies) while 4-5 on mobile. And my mobile games are Threes, Monument Valley etc. basically the super popular ones.
That is very cool. That source public anywhere?
I had a conversation with a 'big data consultant' some time back. He mentioned one of his clients needed to set up a Hadoop cluster and wanted me to work with him. I said, 'why do they need a cluster, they probably don't have that much data'. His response was 'if a client wants to jump off a building, you don't say don't do it, you ask them what floor'.
This struck me as hilariously outdated. Tesla puts this car to shame.
Nice. I just installed GE a couple weeks ago to explore a piece of land I was interested in but had to eyeball the boundaries. Pro has parcel data which is what I'd wanted.
I think another influence that the article doesn't touch on much are games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Horror games in which you have no weapons and can't fight back against the monsters; your only defense is being terrified and running away and hiding, and the resources you do have (in Amnesia, light sources) are very limited.
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When SSH clients first connect they ask the server for a pseudo terminal (PTY), to enable terminal colors, clearing the screen etc.

In this case the SSH server declines that request because it simply wants to send back one line of text. The client falls back to text mode and works fine, but issues the warning anyway. You can suppress it with `ssh -T mars.vtllf.org` like I did in the demo video.
Like rinon said, snobbery isn't limited to academia nor educated people.

It's made worse in these contexts because these are the same people who are asked to comment - and sometimes even make policy - on the working class.

It's a little galling when the educated, wealthy, and powerful show contempt for core parts of the culture of groups they are supposed to represent the interests of.

It's also counter-productive, since these educated, wealthy, and powerful people must necessarily engage in dialogue with the working class if their research, policy, or commentary is intended to be accurate or useful.
Some electric vehicles are very silent. I've seen a girl almost get run over by a quiet one - she was listening to music on her phone, so not sure anything short of the F-14 sound a sibling comment mentioned would have raised her awareness :P
Ok, fair enough, but it seems recent - I don't think I've ever seen it in connection with anything about, say, WWII. But I'm not exactly knowledgeable about the armed forces beyond listening to the Vicenza base's radio station every now and then :-)
Looks like Autoblog Canada bit the dust too, just a redirect to their main Autoblog page.

Interesting, is there a full list of what's been affected, or did I just miss it in TFA?
It must be driving Krugman up the wall that his panacea of just printing more money, isn't applicable here.
Can Students Have Too Much Tech?
The Difference Between Microsoft HoloLens and Oculus Rift
I think part of this is because few people tend to think of morality as a question. They know what's right and presume everyone else either agrees or is insane in some way. This makes it difficult to frame a morality decision as an actual choice; it becomes coercive instead.

I wonder what would happen if you surveyed game designers and offered them some trolley problem [1] variant and said, "Write up an explanation for which decision you choose." How many would discuss the pros and cons of both decisions? How many of them would look for a third option? How many of them would even be able to explain their decision? How many of them would be able to make a decision?

But the nuance and detail in their response, to me, would be the real indicator. If someone can dive deeply into the question, I think they'd be able to offer real moral choices in other situations, too.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Not true, plenty of people enjoy building and inventing.
There's a fairly simple annotation technique we teach all of our high school students.

- Underline big ideas you come across.

- Circle important words or phrases.

- Write any questions you have in the margins, as you read.

The goal is to have a "conversation with the text" in your head. If you do this well, the process of annotating fades into the background, and just becomes part of how you read. When you go back to that book or section later on, you can quickly get a sense of what stood out to you the first time you read the text.

The long-term goal is that people develop their own coding system for reading. It doesn't matter if you underline or highlight, circle or box, etc. What matters is that you develop a system that works for you, that lets you think about the text in different, specific ways as you read.
Yeah, the problem with the hype for solar roadways is that this alternative exists. Even if it were a good idea (which it isn't), this would beat it every time in terms of maintenance, energy efficiency and cost. And frankly additional benefits, shade is better than LEDs.

So even if the economics works, and it doesn't, it wouldn't make sense to start with solar roadways until the carparks are all done like this, and that's a long long way away.
Went to undergrad at Stanford, and spent a few years editing admissions essays to grad programs at the top tier schools as a side gig.

Admissions are extremely (mindblowingly) competitive, and without a stellar GPA I would suggest you're on the right track in focusing on high quality real world experience. Obviously if you don't end up in grad school, the experience will benefit you either way.

As to the atmosphere, I think you'll find Stanford and MIT, and the others, are very different from one another.
I like this a lot more than I should. :)

Somehow I've always found system calls far more pleasant to use than "section 3" C library interfaces, and it makes me sad that I'm pulling in some 3MB of library code (libc + libm + pthread; not even counting the dynamically-loaded stuff like nsswitch) that I mostly don't want.

Sadly as a C++ programmer I do at least need libgcc to implement exceptions, which in turn likely pulls in glibc anyway. Sigh. (And I haven't completely cut ties with libstdc++ yet, though I'm close...)

(And yeah, on typical system these libraries are already resident anyway since other apps are using them, so wanting to avoid them is mostly silly, but it feels nice!)
I find this view to be highly overly teleological. The idea that there's really a secret nefarious purpose is one of those extraordinary claims that needs extraordinary evidence
A major Midwest software company near me has these over their visitor lot (their employee lot being underground), and has a huge farm of solar panels behind the building. I think it's a great idea.

On the graph at the bottom, does anyone know why the estimation goes down after 2016, then only slightly rises in 2018? There has to be some reason why solar installs would take a major hit like that, but I didn't see it explained in the article.
Overpowering your captors, even if you allowed yourself to be captured, is not the same thing as feigning surrender. Once you are taken into custody you are allowed to try to escape. There are no restrictions on taking your former captors prisoner in the process.

In a feigned surrender you never get taken into custody.