skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use bootstrapping all the time. Such an easy way to estimate variance of your mean, median, variance, etc. The most important issue I've come across is to make sure that your experiments are really as random as you can get. Otherwise you can end up with biases due to systematically picking outliers.
That's basically what makes agile (in the original iteration) so valuable.

Give engineers the discretion to take on what they deem reasonable and trust them to finish it.
The World's Poorest President: Jose Mujica
MR is actually growing at Google still and heavily used by legacy systems and experienced engineers.

Compared to newer frameworks like those described in the FlumeJava and MillWheel papers, MR's growth is flat.

This is also happening in the Hadoop ecosystem too: if you're writing JavaMR by hand, you're probably spending more time and writing less efficient jobs than what you might get by an optimized pig/hive job with tez under the hood. Or through something in the Cascading or Crunch family, which provides useful abstractions on top of MR or other execution engines.

Then there are also a lot of tools popping up that take some if the use cases that were shoehorned into MR which are more natural outside, like ML/iterative computation through Spark.

MR isn't dying inside or outside Google, it's just being abstracted away.
We have programmed such systems.

We have programs to test all the possibilities in the software.

And we have programs to test the testing programs.

All hardware has redundancy. The software is executed in multiple processors at the same time, so if one fails, the others take control.
have you tried restarting utorrent? :)

Some of the changes don't appear unless you restart it.
Well, the only level easier than SWM is "(Upper)-Middle-class minority playing the minority card".

If you're gay from a poor family in Alabama, you got it tough.

If you're gay from an upper middle class family in, say, New York, you can use it to your advantage.
XBMC/Kodi: Farewell to Future Apple TV2 Development
What's with the immutability stuff?

Shouldn't updates just be event driven?

Is it really so hard for developers of parent components to subscribe to events of child components?
This is why I love working at early-stage startups: it aligns incentives. Nobody is pushing me to work those extra hours: I'm doing so because I genuinely believe that they will materially increase the value of the company (and thus my stock).

Honestly, I genuinely don't understand how the classical employment model (salary alone) ever worked for any professional employers/employees. Incentives are diametrically opposed, and in 90% of situations someone is getting at least partially shortchanged.
I don't understand this process at all. Top-tier devs are in high demand and can find positions at highly-desirable companies quite quickly and easily. What top-tier dev is going to spend 1-3 months of their time doing this when they can get a comparable position elsewhere without the hassle? This could likely be tens of thousands of dollars of lost salary. Seems like this process would serve only to filter their applicant pool to the most desperate.

I don't see anything ethically wrong with this, but I can't imagine why anyone would do it.
Why not actually use the mechanism that html5 allows for (i.e. data-* attributes) rather than making up your own, that it doesn't?
I'm not sure if you're allowed to talk about it, but...

I remember a talk by Rob Pike where he mentioned that Sawzall was one of the first major MR users within Google. But IIRC, Sawzall has been retired at Google some time ago, and the successor to it was developed in Go. Does the successor follow the same or similar principles in terms of parallelization, or did you follow another approach?
Is your claim that there is a substantial overlap in <characteristic of interest> between the two firms or that the distribution is the same? Not being from the USA my knowledge of the two companies is limited but I believe they serve different market segments and sell different product mixes although they're both basically big box superstores. While workers at either are most definitely members of the proletariat I imagine tenure of employment and highest degree are both higher at Trader Joe's than Walmart.

The American variant of classism is more amusing than average to be sure.
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Not just that, satellites also help monitoring any weather abnormalities like cyclones. It helps if one could be warned.
Do new applications make use of it, though? "Deprecated" might be a better term to describe it.
A case would fix it, but a cheaper fix would be to just put a dab of nail polish or other lacquer on chip U16, which seems to be the culprit.
It's almost like that's a made up fantasy?
Koffie zetten en de gevolgen van cafeine voor onze gezondheid
Nonsense, there are loads of those subreddits around.

Reddit bans doxxing, which I think is protected speech in USA, because it can be used to out people who run bigoted subreddits.
Did someone say Skynet?
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How do you explain how there are many of those subreddits still around?
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Freelance full-stack JS developer. Experience building out apps with Node.js on the back-end and Angular.js on the front-end.

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>More interestingly, things like revenue/visitor have a known probability distribution.

This actually depends. Based on my experience at a very early stage startup, it was definitely not the case for some datasets (I even tried fiddling with various well-known distribution's parameters).

If I recall correctly, I believe that the bootstrap had some asymptotic guarantee on the rate of convergence (although my memory is hazy on this)?

EDIT: never mind, it is asymptotic, hence not finite-sample necessarily.
Squirrels act as inductors in DC circuits. Only once though. There's a high current surge that drops to zero as they turn rapidly into a carbon resistor!
Until someone can provide a rigorous definition of SJW with criteria that allows anyone to easily categorize whether something is SJW or non-SJW, I recommend that the term not be used.
Working in Sweden i get no sunsine hours no matter what schedule i follow.
pdf from radioshack: http://radioshackcorporation.com/pdfs/RS-Store-Closure-List_...
So mods moderating their subreddit counts as "censorship" now? Cripes subreddits are made for a purpose, moderating is part of that./r/AskHistorians requires that you provide sources, and comments are deleted if not. Is that censorship?
I implemented ajax comment posting for the HNES Chrome Extension, which is open source. It's a dirty hack but it works. Check out the source:

https://github.com/etcet/hnes
So if (say) a gay subreddit bans someone who wants to talk about how gays are evil and they should repent, that's "gone too far"?
In Sweden, there was a famous case in which this premise was tested. A cable channel gave out a public accessible web link to customers after payment, which then got naturally shared. The cable channel sued the person who shared the link, arguing that it was copyright infringement since it allowed unauthorized users to access the site (case called Canal Plus-fallet). The defense argued that since there was no restriction added to the site, that that meant it was public.

The court went with the side of the cable company, even if many commentates disagree. What effect a Swedish case can have on German law depend, but using European court case as guides is quite common in Swedish courts if there is no other prior cases. Same might apply for German courts.
Looks good so far. I would have loved this as an intro. before starting my CS degree; it might've even been useful for my UK A-level course (age 17-18).

I think there's an error here:

string[1..3] = ’abc’
string[1..1] = ’’
Could have been titled, "Neil Armstrong purse snatcher."
Meet the Man Who Finds Your Stolen Passwords
I was a server at Ruby Tuesday for years, where I made $2.85/hr plus tips. I averaged $8-20 per hour in tips (toward the higher end on weekends and holidays), but I was one of the better servers. The hourly wage only covered taxes.
Stress-Strain Plots as a Basis for Assessing System Resilience (2008) [pdf]
Famo.us Joining JQuery Foundation
> We all like simple tools. Complexity kills. It makes our work difficult and gives us much steeper learning curve. Programmers need to know how things work. Otherwise, they feel insecure. If we work with a complex system, then we have a big gap between “I am using it” and “I know how it works”.

One answer to this problem of opaqueness in abstractions is having a well defined denotational semantics. This makes it clear that something can work in one way & only one way (without the need to dive into library internals). I feel that Elm is doing a pretty good job of tackling this for GUIs and signals.
> You won't be able to run multiple applications without multi-tasking.

But that doesn't mean you really need to make use of multi threading in your program, since the OS is already doing it.

> The only advantage of parallelism compared to concurrency is more performance.

Only if your program can be parallelized. And even if you do manage to parallelize it, in the best case, you'll only get a 4X or 8X performance increase, which is not a big order of magnitude.
>misjudge and pull out too late

Su-30 at airshow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcUvtnL5p4Y
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8 Productivity Hacks to Get Things Done
I wonder what the once quite vibrant dingoo scene is up to these days. Based on quick google it seems that the cheap fun hardware is discontinued and no more available.
Ask HN: Advisor Participation and Compensation – Best Practices
Tl;dr

I am hoping that readers can share do’s and don’ts and best practices of bringing an advisor onboard, leveraging the expertise of the advisor, and the compensation structure.

My Situation:

I have a side project (SaaS) that I developed while learning web development. Now has good user base (1,500+) on minimal promotion. Had no domain knowledge but now have couple of domain specific consulting assignments.

One SaaS startup in same domain only focuses on large businesses raised $20M (Seed + A + B) and another SaaS startup focuses on similar group as mine raised $4M (Seed + A).

A few months ago, I was approached by a guy, who previously started and sold his startup in the same domain and claims to have domain connections with potential business customers. He is also an adjunct professor at a well known University. Initially, I didn't show any interest but he stayed in touch, brought me a business lead and helped me turn the lead into customer.

He believes that in couple of years the project can easily generate several millions in revenue. He thinks he can help me strategically, not operationally, and wants to be advisor. He asked for 6% of fully diluted outstanding LLC units with vesting over 12 months.

What type of compensation should I consider for an advisor? What are things that I need to watch out for? What are the things that I need to consider in making an agreement with an advisor.
Probably not necessary. The Indian rockets are generally more cost effective and reliable than the American ones.
"People sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society and want to fix it because they don't know how to fix themselves."

"It is possible for individuals, and even for whole cultures, to care about the wrong things, which is to say that it's possible for them to have beliefs and desires that reliably lead to needless human suffering."

I'm outraged. I was born in Greece to Greek parents and feel extremely unlucky about this, sort of being born in a completely third world country.

The level that the Greeks (not all of them, but to an extraordinary extend) fail to comprehend reality is astonishing. The modus operandi here is "do whatever other people do around you". And what is that? Slowing drag your feet through education, which is laughable and teaches almost nothing of practical value, go out as much as you can, drink coffee for hours on end talking about crap every day, study "whatever you like" failing to understand that some (most!) university departments are terribly anachronistic and will lead to unemployment with certainty, etc, etc. It's a failure from top to bottom: parents and especially teachers are freeloader lazy people and this is exactly what they teach to the young, by every aspect of social interaction.

I lost too many years of my life, trying to find out what's wrong with me, and eventually found out about Paul Graham, and startups, and ambition, dammit!

I read a comment somewhere about the US/western Europe just nuking the place and felt so in tune with it.

In fact, the people here are just unlucky, like me. They don't even comprehend what it means to work. They say stuff like "Greeks work more than Germans!" and they go to work 1 or 2 hours late and talk for hours about last night's football match.

Empirical data towards a proof of what I'm saying: I was saying those stuff to a sibling of mine, and they were hating me, as most people do here. But then, they moved to a Western European country, and after several years of trying to adjust, they now tell me that they themselves regard the Greeks to be lazy whining freeloaders.

I apologize for the rant. My question is this:

Why the German government, and Western European countries more advanced and with better "culture" in general, doesn't try to help Greeks become more like them, starting from education? Is it because of politics, or is it that this might be happening already, but to see actual results you have to wait a very long time?
Of course they want to get bought by Google, they're overworking themselves and don't want to work 80 hour weeks anymore!
I think you also have one too few '+1's in the penultimate step on p172.
I don't believe that there is a meaningful difference in employment pools between WalMart and TJ/Starbucks but I acknowledge that many customers of Starbucks strongly feel differently.
Google 'isis' aalong with beheadings, rape, child slavery, sex slaves, burning people alive, burying people alive etc. Alternatively buy a newspaper from time to time.
For those interested in a more technical explanation for the Super Mario Sunshine 60FPS romhack, go here: http://jul.rustedlogic.net/thread.php?id=17475

The hack seems like it was possible because the engine was designed to run at arbitrary framerates, and the romhacker (ehw?) found framerate and vsync-related functions in the demo version of the game, which actually has debug symbols baked in!

Romhacking sounds really fun.
Windows on a Stick: The Hannspree Micro PC Review
Moc and midl files on Qt and VS
I'm working on a project in Visual Studio 2013 using Qt. I have something like 350 moc and midl files to build and no matter what, they won't build simultaneously (I have enabled /mp and the c, c++ files are being built in parallel) Did anyone encounter that?
Financial Action Plans You Should Consider When Moving Abroad
I'm kind of late to this map-reduce party in terms of large scale data processing. What is the paradigm shifting towards. The point about MR being a trivial subset seems rather obvious to me. Hadoop for instance is still in a phase of getting a lot of adoption yet is being implied as being a dead man walking. Raises a lot of very interesting postivie questions for me
Just guessing: (1) it's not actually "data" and this provides more meaningful cues, (2) it provides a bit of namespacing so as to not step on the end developer's own data-attributes, (3) turns out that it doesn't actually break anywhere after all, as proven by many JS frameworks at this point. I tried briefly to track some standards down for you, but I know this gets discussed at length on the Angular mailing lists if you really care for the nitty gritty.
Russian Roulette written in #PHP
Top-tier devs just give you skill and experience; that in itself doesn't give you passion.

What you consider an act of desperation, DuckDuckGo sees as an act of passion and strong interest. If a skilled developer values his time more than his passion, perhaps that isn't a good fit for DuckDuckGo.

Desperate people can apply, but they must be able to prove they have the technical capacity to deliver too. Which means they need to meet the calibre of developers who are in high demand, which means perhaps they aren't desperate?

This process doesn't look much different to participating in an open source project in your own time, and then after your contributions have been assessed a decision/invitation extended to be part of the Core Team. Except that invitation is also an employment contract with a salary.
1) Spanish and Italian ten year bond yields are around 1,50, an all time low. Obviously the market doesn't think that Greece defaulting would have a huge impact on them.

2) Sweden and Switzerland both have strong currencies and are doing fine. Greece's problems have very little to do with the Euro: Look at rankings like the Doing Business Report, Transparency International's Corruption index, rankings of economic competitiveness - in all these rankings Greece is doing horribly! Look at the ARWU rankings of top 500 Universities worldwide (http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2014.html): Greece has 2 Universities in the top 500, Sweden has 11 and Switzerland has 7 (highly ranked) Universities. Look at patent filings, for example the US Patent office (http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/cst_all.htm): Sweden had 2413 patents filed in 2013, Switzerland had 2466 and Greece had 70 (!!!). Considering the countries comparable population size (Greece is biggest), this is a HUGE disparity!
Collision-proof flying robot wins the $1M Drone for Good competition in Dubai
Sometimes you really kinda do. Garbage collection and DOM repaint/reflow come to mind. No abstraction is completely airtight, doesn't mean it's not useful, doesn't mean it isn't a "black box" to a neophyte.
I removed Box Sync because the client was so annoying. Every time I booted up without internet, it logged me out and required me to log back in. This security flaw only adds to my view that they have a poor product, at least for Mac.
Provide an overrideable OCSP hard fail option (in Chrome)
They moved to GCW Zero

http://www.gcw-zero.com/
Surely they just set the ground level to be higher?
From time to time a potential employer asks me to write some code _after_ my job interview.

When they do this, I don't call them back.

My view is that if they wanted to determine whether I have the chops, they should have determined that before they interviewed me. It's not as if they can't just look up my work in the trade press.
As a subscriber to picsofdeadkids I'm offended to be called a troll
A nice observation from the Xerox, Xerox, Xerox, Xerox chapter:

"In any case, office reproduction began to grow very rapidly. (It may seem paradoxical that this growth coincided with the rise of the telephone, but perhaps it isn’t. All the evidence suggests that communication between people by whatever means, far from simply accomplishing its purpose, invariably breeds the need for more.) "
Show HN: Feedy – User feedback made easy for Rails apps
Ever since I started to flat-out refuse to sign NDA's with a simple response I have eliminated a whole layer of unnecessary drama and complexity from my professional life.

"Please accept my apologies. Our corporate bylaws prohibit the use of NDA's."

Done. End of conversation. No need for a long and complicated explanation.
You're assuming the programmer is dispassionate in all things asides from Duck Duck Go work.
Basic minimum income is a BRILLIANT idea. Problem: it doesn't work as planned
is this the skrebbel that put stuff out on d-cibel? :)
Installing NS-2.35 in Linux Mint 17.1
Having fat sympathy will get you banned from fatpeoplehate, or being fat, or saying you find fat people sexually attractive, or even socially. And the moderators are praised for it!

http://imgur.com/a/do8dk
While I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment I think a lot of the economic thinking is a bit too simplistic, especially in our current age. For example, whether you invest in your government or not, your government will still be able to find funds for the war chest, by printing money if nothing else (or as it works nowadays, the central bank buying government securities). Another problem I can identify is that some hard work requires a lot education, we need nurses for example. What would happen if nurses only worked 20 hour weeks? Maybe there's a clever answer for this too, but I think we really need to think hard about this before we advocate anything politically. It makes a lot of sense to promote idleness as a virtue though, so go on and praise play (it is the hacker way, after all)!
Yes. Though perhaps you can look at the data differently to get that popular conclusion. For example people with drug convictions being re-arrested for breaking parole conditions, violence related to gangs funded by drugs, etc.
This is why I'm still pissed off at Bill Gates' attack on Google [1] for trying to get Internet to Africa instead of just investing in curing malaria. What an incredibly short-sighted thing to say from someone who's apparently admired by many for his ideas.

The people there get malaria because they are the Dark Ages in terms of living conditions. Bringing Internet there, allowing them to at least educate themselves, giving them the opportunity to find jobs online, or to create a local market is what will give them the chance to get out of poverty and afford better living conditions.

The Internet will also help them live in more democratic societies where abuses by the government or criminal groups are exposed and dealt with.

There are usually two schools of thought for dealing with Africa's poverty. One deals with the now, and it's about giving Africans free food, free cloths and free medicine - forever and ever, and yet it never seems to be enough. It merely helps some survive.

And the other is about the future, and about trying to help people help themselves out of poverty. It's much more sustainable and it's about much more than just helping Africans survive. It's about getting them to catch-up to other countries in terms of living conditions, income and of course healthcare. T

[1] - http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/08/09/bill-gate...
Super cool stuff!

I also agree with few others here. Adding comments support would be so awesome.
> their ownership was unclear

It was NASA's property and the astronaut stole it.
To be honest, I'm not quite sure what I meant 18 hours later, but I think it was a joke about folks who know what my DCI number is.
Ah, uhm... as someone who has m-x TIMEWASTERDUJOUR for a while, be careful :)
I have heard the spectrum of lightning EMI described as "from DC to daylight".