skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I said, inside viewpoint. I don't look at anything the development program produces besides the occasional headline. Instead, I actually worked at MIT job in 1980, and a job in the end of the '80s (IT). I keep up with contacts and friends from those jobs, plus I just plain hung around the campus for a dozen year period including those jobs, and I know how it is at "the sharp end of the spear".

Like helping to allocate a fixed budget and running requisitions through the always skeptical procurement office. So I know MIT didn't switch from cleaning every bathroom every day to "frequent cleaning" because it had a large surplus of funds, and that it's been hurting as the Cold War ended, and now with the Great Recession.

But you're in part moving the goalposts. No one is denying MIT doesn't have a lot of money, we're discussing whether it has such an unrestricted surplus it can all of a sudden properly caption all the video it formally publishes. In a legal regime that'll make that all the more expensive and time and energy consuming. And what will have to be sacrificed to do this, aside from all the videos that will go dark and stay dark.

Especially in the case of the targeted OCW, which most certainly doesn't have the money to do this, and based on its ability to fund raise after it fulfilled its original mandate, would have trouble doing this, and would also certainly have to initially remove all its videos after an adverse outcome. Heck, is MIT going to have to institute policy of cost recovery to cover the expenses of making sure no video gets them into further trouble?

Another thing to consider is that Harvard and MIT were chosen as the initial targets for the obvious reasons. Just how much will the world be enriched when this filters down to every college in the US? Like the one my family shares a property boundary with, which prides itself in providing a low cost education and rents out textbooks. Right now it's very cheap for them to put video on the web. If you're successful, that'll end.
haha yeah that justin stewart guy is a riot
I've used these since '98 (and my first one is still in use, through and ADB-to-USB adapter). For someone with pinky pain, they have the likely advantage that there are no long stretches (backspace, return) or tight curls (control/alt/meta). As a vi user, I map Escape to the Kinesis' ‘Delete’ thumb key, symmetrical with Enter, and also swap the up & down arrows to match J & K. Emacs folks will have analogous suggestions.
I remember watching an interview of Jack Ma with Charlie Rose during Davos. Charlie asked him about his experience wit Tai Chi and Jack immediately related the art with his practice in business, which boiled down to something like, "for every misstep, there is an opportunity." The current startup world has been successful at recruiting talent because they separated themselves from traditional corporations by providing a better atmosphere to work. Startup 2.0 will figure out something. It's the nature of evolution.
Hah, this is almost exactly what I just posted. Yes definitely use as salary so you can focus, I would see if you could take a week or two of to focus more intensely though.
Also, I keep repeating myself, but make sure to check http://ternjs.net
What do you mean you can't change the line type? http://matplotlib.org/api/lines_api.html#matplotlib.lines.Li...

Other than that, I'd have to agree with you that mpl has quite a clunky interface. It can produce nice figures, but that generally requires lots of code to manually fine-tune the appearance of the figure.
Matatus going to Buru Buru have traditionally been marked as route # 58. Number 23 goes to Bahati and Jericho, Jerusalem up to utmost Buru Buru phase II, then take Outering road to "Civil Servants". I live in Nairobi :)
The trouble with this argument is that, on basically every exchange in the world, you do not get to find out if someone has matched with your passive order until after the trade has happened.

There is no possibility to "back away when a matching order comes in" because the first time you find out about the matching order is when you are informed about the trade that you just did!

What can happen is that a market maker will post liquidity on multiple exchanges A, B and C, and will remove their orders from exchanges B and C if they are filled on exchange A (assuming they are fast enough to do it!)

This is not shady or nefarious. In fact, it is the only way that a distributed market could possibly work.

The market maker has some finite capacity to provide liquidity (e.g. they have position limits, they need to post margin, they have certain risk tolerances). They want to maximise the chances of their orders being traded on (i.e. providing liquidity), so they post liquidity on all available markets.

When they match on one of those markets, their capacity to provide liquidity has diminished, until they manage to offset their position somewhere (either on the same market, or on a different one). Moreover, they have just received a new piece of information about the supply/demand imbalance for this particular stock. For both of these reasons, it is natural to assume that they would want to adjust the prices they are offering on other exchanges. The market cannot function any other way.
In fact it's actually illegal in several states (MN is one) to ask about it on job applications.
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Not yet, because we don't think regular people can do that. And it's still a huge pain for technical people.

But it is very possible that we'll release a version of Portal that you can run yourself.

Do you want it as a backup plan? Or because you already have your own server hardware?
I haven't checked precisely but we do support all the relevant computations colorpy does, it is an excellent project by the way.
> For natural supplements, the regulatory problem is far worse [...] So the better trade-off for the consumer here is to amend existing law so that as drugs go through clinical trials, disclosure and peer review of FDA inspection findings during the trials is a condition for marketing approval.

- The FDA already has the power to regulate supplements, for the most part they just choose not to. So the idea that supplements just need FDA regulation like 'regular drugs' is largely fallacious.

- Why should supplements need clinical trials for marketing approval when that isn't the standard for other any other comparable drugs on the market? I.e. almost all drugs that were in use before the 50s are allowed to be marketed without any testing for safety or efficacy, and since almost all supplements have a much longer history of human use, why should they be treated differently?
Librarians and archivists are working on this challenge, yes. I work for a company (Artefactual Systems) that, informed by the work being done in academia, develops open source tools related to this (extracting metadata about digital content, etc.).
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A good way to get Safari Books Online is to join the ACM organization. You get a subset of Safari and other bookstores for around $100 a year. There maybe others with the same deal.
+1 for d3
Curious something similar to the Shazam algorithm could be applied to images like this.
Don't forget the placebo effect.

A major flaw I see in most medications studies is that the market prices for the experimental drug or placebo are not included in the study.

My hypothesis is that a placebo described as costing $1000 per dose will produce a greater effect than a placebo described as costing $10 per dose, even if the patients are not asked to pay that cost.

Could it be that those drugs that barely outperform a gratis placebo are only producing that effect because the act of charging more for them makes them better placebos?

If that's the case, the fraud would only be needed to eliminate evidence of harm to get approval for a bogus remedy. All the effectiveness would come from magnified placebo effect.
This is a posting from July 22, 2014 that states, "Yet as of the 2013 over 39 Million Americans (12.1% of the population) only have access to 0 or 1 broadband providers..."

What are the numbers now that broadband has been re-defined as "25 mbps" [1]?

[1] http://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-finds-us-broadband-deploymen...
Buy a bunch of books, scan them, and resell them. You can profit and obtain the knowledge!
I don't hate iTunes, but it's 2015 and Apple is still blocking the main thread all over the place. And displaying internal error numbers to users, with Google serving as their error to string conversion function.
Is the recipe protected? The company was started back in the 1980s, so any patent would have long expired. If it's just a trade secret then his competitors can just perform laboratory analysis on it and legally copy it.
Yeah, that doesn't happen anymore. Our elite are the real deal.
"The cost of producing and hosting the material is very much greater than the small cost of providing captions."

So should Google be added to the lawsuit, since they're the ones hosting the called out badly auto-captioned videos, unless of course they're charging Harvard and MIT for the whole service?

I also strongly challenge your contention that noways initial costs of production are so high. Hosting, I don't know, but isn't it getting steadily cheaper?
So IT-related
Maybe it wasn't clear enough, but you cannot change linetypes of the series when using "seaborn". You could manually iterate through the generated artists and change those after the fact, but this largely removes any benefit of using their style interface.
> May I ask if are you saying that if I wanted to feed poor people, you would want to see me thwarted, unless I could feed every poor person?

In your scenario, you only have fixed set of resources and wanted to do as much good as you can.

I would imagine in that situation, to make things "fair" you would have some set of criteria in which a poor person could qualify for assistance.

As long as those criteria were objective (geographic, income based, etc) I would support your organization.

If you only wanted to help poor whites, or poor men, or otherwise discriminated against protected classes, then I wouldn't be okay with that.

To put this back to MIT and Harvard: They made learning accessible to everyone except for people who are deaf and those without internet access. The law protects the first group, and not the second.
Maybe The Mafia, or some other criminal organization could sponsor this training. This way they could create a nice, steady pool of applicants for the White Collar Crime Division :)
I don't know about digital dark ages, but before GOG this was a serious problem. It's not that games were not accessible at all, it's that it was so hard to access them that most people would not bother. Are you really "preserving" history if it's just some CD in a box no one ever opens?
North Korea gives Internet to foreigners, not its citizens
There are different detectors for different applications. Usually the issue with false alarms is the wrong alarm + poor placement.

Ionization smoke detectors have a high false-positive rate in areas like kitchens where you have a lot of particulate matter. Use a photoelectric there.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/co-and-smoke-alarms/buyin...
As everyone has already said, conferences are expensive. However if you can find one that you maybe don't have to pay travel / lodging for (crash at a friends place, driveable distance, etc..) I say go for it. They can be extremely informational. Especially if you like front-end technologies.

As a front-end developer, knowing what's "around the corner" is helpful, but I wouldn't invest a lot of time in it. Browser support for many "around the corner" technologies and practices is so far off it's not (yet) worth the time investment.

So, conference if you can without blowing your whole budget, then online courses / books.
The effort to combat this is known as digital preservation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_preservation
Yes! in my blog I try to promote startups, apps, hardware and technology :)
well, they can fly and they are controlled remotely...
Says ~2% for Massachusetts... Makes me hate my single choice of Charter even more.

One of the worst providers I have ever experienced.
For sure. If you host it, let me know, I'll help promote it on www.droneocular.com
Drop me a line and we can talk about it some more droneocular@gmail.com

Cheers
It's right associative, normally :)
This was my thought.

If you want a deep dive on algorithms and data structures, it would make sense to me to take a university course.

I had a friend who used to do this. He'd go through the University course catalog, find some interesting CS courses and then buy the books, show up for class, even take notes and do the homework. Said it was the best way for him to learn and get really deep into subjects which really interested him. After a while, I think he finally enrolled and tool some classes.
I'm not missing it, I'm ignoring it. I'd be fully okay with iTunes dropping all that stuff or using something different - if there were another alternative.
Ever since Vint Cerf started working for Google, I've been less than impressed with his speeches. His speeches have taken a pretty obvious turn towards promoting stuff that's good for Google, rather than people per se.

He's now basically saying "You're all going to lose your data...better give it to Google to save it for you!".
Well, according to the Al Jazeera article, some have already been convicted and sentenced.
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Ask HN: Where do you find examples of complete projects for learning?
I find that there are a lot of resources in learning the syntax of a new language but less so in learning the project structure and basic conventions. Books are great guides but they are often spend a long time going through one or several projects that showcase only very specific applications while neglecting others.

I would like to find a resource I can use to find examples of well written, production level, non-trivial projects of varying complexity. Ideally, there should be some basic guide through the layout of the project structure and how different classes relate to each other. Although I come across many open source projects, I find that they usually aren't documented with the perspective of being used as learning tools. Also, it would be beneficial if the list was curated to ensure that the code is written well and can serve to showcase a particular principle (social networking, database dependencies, etc).
Gilt open-sources Mockingbird Data Environment, the core of its iOS app
Interesting... maybe an age thing? I'm 39 and Vint is right up there in my mind with the heavyweights of computer science.

That said, I wasn't aware he was with Google either. I imagine his place in my mind was solidified back in college during the .com days when history internet was a common topic of discussion.
Academia already does much of the fundamental research.

It's mostly the "D" part of the "R&D" that is expensive, and shapes the pharma industry. Some of this could be addressed by making clinical trials cheaper to operate and initialize, but it's always going to be quite expensive.
I'm petty sure the number of women in "tech" reflect the number of women graduating with C.S. degrees. If anything, women seem to get an unfair advantage just because they are women and "under represented."

The education system is part of the tech industry as a whole, and, of course, there's a feedback loop at play that reinforces the tech stereotypes over time. So even if no one person in the tech industry is consciously trying to discriminate against women, the industry in aggregate can play that role. I would argue that the numbers alone demonstrate a gender bias.

The women in tech who I've talked with about this issue certainly don't feel that they have an unfair advantage, and I've heard some pretty interesting criticisms. A couple examples:

- senior technical talent hiring practices are typically defined by men (since the industry is predominantly male), so the selection criteria for career progression is likely to have male-oriented biases.

- it's more socially awkward for a man and woman to get together for a drink after work in a career capacity, so it's correspondingly harder for a woman to share in the bonding experiences that build career-long relationships. (And no, I'm not just referring to our common "brogrammer" after-work partying stereotype -- the ritual of meeting up after work for a drink is probably as old as work itself.)

the author of the article pretty much calls everyone in tech a racists and sexist

I certainly didn't get that from the article. The article quoted someone who thinks that Silicon Valley investment scene is an "old boy's club", and says:

"The tech industry is notoriously ageist. It often shuns women, minorities, and others who don’t fit into the rising “brogrammer” culture."

I don't really buy into the last clause of that sentence, but IMO the percentage of women and certain minorities speaks for itself. I also believe (hope?) that, as I mentioned above, this bias can be attributed to unconscious bias in the industry as a whole, rather than overt -isms. I think that this is something we can help to fix, but a critical first step is to acknowledge that the diversity profile of the tech industry doesn't match up to the population as a whole, and that at a certain point that leads to practices that are self-reinforcing.
I think it's a great idea too. If the programme was good enough, they might be able to find jobs in the industry. Consider if:

- They have 10,000 hours experience

- They have StackOverflow and Kahn Academy and MIT access

- They speak English as a first language (likely in the US)

I'd pay someone like that.
No, but perhaps the common person has enough education now to see and call out the bullshit that may have been able to pass in ages past.

It's not that our elites are better, it's that they aren't viewed as exempt from common mishaps and misbehaviors as they perhaps were in the past.
I disagree pretty strongly with the idea that: "there is no way of telling that [a method] may throw an exception". If you want reliable code, you have assume that _every_ method can throw an exception. (Or, assume that methods that don't throw are the exception, like C++ 'noexcept')

This also ignores the fact that Java considers exceptions part of the method signature. Without opening the whole can of worms as to whether that was a good or a bad design decision, it seems a little perverse to talk about Java, but then choose a language (Scala) that deliberately hides the exceptions, and then complain they are hidden.
I'm lucky, I have access to two really shitty, overpriced providers, not just one shitty, overpriced provider.
I'm actually surprised that that minimum is as low as 39 million.
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Certainly. I wasn't saying the actual news isn't newsworthy, but the article puts the emphasis in the wrong place.
Once again, "conflict of interest" is not a binary thing. People can have weak conflicts of interest (owning pharma stock in their 401k) and strong conflicts of interest (sitting on the board of a pharma company). The FDA needs to balance that with getting the best folks they can on their advisory committees.

So yes, some folks who have conflicts of interest remain on the committees. I don't think it's something that can be avoided. The point is that the FDA is trying to address the issue and many folks who have strong conflicts of interest usually recuse themselves from those discussions.
That's a great idea, I would like to see some kind of drone racing. On a side note, what about quadcopters fighting inside an arena, like the Robot Wars tv series? you could make a youtube channel or send a concept pilot to tv studios.
>What should I spend it on?

Leverage your training budget to show your personal goals are aligned with your employers overall business goals.

It might be instructive to start surveying different company stake-holders, from their perspective what works well or what needs improvement? What are their challenges? That feedback is Gold.

Those assorted needs & wants might inform the sort of training you seek. For example, the marketing department might want next generation Big Data Analytics & SEO. While, the operations group might be concerned about Security & Fraud issues.

Imagine if you could show how your training interests are aligned with company priorities-- that might earn a bigger budget allocation. And makes you even more valuable to company.
Example, in the top-left corner of the board:

2 _ _ R
_ _ _ _
R _ _ _

The location to the right of the 2 must be blue. If it's red, then there's no way for the 2 to see two blues. That's what it means, that that dot is included in every possible solution for the 2.
They effectively are or seem to be, whether literally via outsourcing work on specific apps, as some commenters here have hinted in the past, or simply as a result of insane internal compartmentalization at Apple. The end result is quite poor in many cases.
That's some questionable security on Razer's part. Seriously, unsigned?
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Indeed, and one of its initial and still strong missions is to bring the benefits of rapidly developing science and engineering to the world. As far as I know, the single biggest boost to health and material well being in the US occurred in the post-Civil War period, not much later when we got "modern medicine" as in antibiotics (although what they could often pull off with antiseptics and infection control was amazing, read a history of the Mayo brothers if you're interested).

But we're talking about gross ingratitude here. That OCW is not perfect in this is a crime (literally, unless you think they can get away with ignoring a civil legal settlement or judgement), with a punishment requiring either removing the videos or spending a lot of money it and MIT doesn't have to perfect them under an inflexible legal mandate.

I again repeat, this is not going to end well. Especially for the truly deaf people this is ostensibly being done for.
Home security too. Finding an HD, outdoor camera system that has smartphone and web functionality is very difficult. All the NVRs are horribly insecure. It's strange that a (physical) security product completely neglects software security. The more modern companies seem focused on indoor cameras with only one or two variants and not much by ways of optical zoom lenses.
That's a slanderously uncharitable reading. I happen to think the article is spot on, I happen to think our incarceration rates are an embarrassing tragedy and I happen to think that the poor conditions of our prisons are bad for its all. I was merely defending not including certain crimes in certain accounting.
When I checked on this about a month ago, it appeared that every Ranbaxy plant in India had been shut down.

I'm not sure if they are shutdown, but the FDA has banned imports into the US from everyone of the Ranbaxy plants. Sun Pharma is in a bad situation with this since they can't sell into the US market from their new acquisition.
totally agree pluralsight is great, they've been on a spending spree and bought my two favourite sites:

codeschool.com and peepcode.com

That said, why don't you do a Nanodegree from Udacity? https://www.udacity.com/nanodegree

The founder is a Googler and they partner with allot of great companies for their courses.

Also great is https://frontendmasters.com/ for anything JavaScript