skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In practice, it would be used among other measures an agency or company has- as you describe above.

If this is the case, then why is the conclusion that their super bowl ad dollars are a waste?

> We’re going to use this to see who got the most bang for their buck, and more importantly — who messed up and what lessons there may be to learn.

Maybe I'm just being pedantic about your misleading title and lede....

PS - I assume you're the author. This is very good inbound marketing for your company...I do applaud you for that.
I was aware of the Cacophony Society throughout the early nineties, mostly through fanzines from the SF/Bay areas. Then I moved away from the US, and then when internet happened I just forgot to ever look it up to see some news. They did some wacky/fun/crazy stuff back then though.
I think modern Urban Exploration clubs check a lot of the boxes mentioned in this writeup. Urbex is a lot less high concept, of course, but the hijinks are often similar in the end.
Yeah, you are right we should be filtering this sort of stuff out. The algorithms are robust in that they ignore words not in the system's vocabulary (rather than, say, crash) but we did not trap the case in which none of the "words" are familiar.
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Venezuela's Alba-1 has been operational since 2013.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/25/cuba-confirms-alba-1-fibe...
I wonder if that's even a part of Embedly's data set. Is Clash of Clans using Embedly?
It was better, from an engineering aspect it should have been better and the world would have more precision and validity/verification on content.

But from an interoperability aspect (relying on implementations) the market didn't think it was better or we'd be using it still. HTML5 won because it was simple and met many needs demanded by the market.

The simple standards that provide more benefits, but most importantly are highly focused on interoperability and simplicity, win, always, even if they seem subpar from an exactness standpoint.

At one point in time SOAP had the same religious hype surrounding it that HTTP/2 seems to have. But sometimes you have to take a step to realize you are slightly off path according to the market, not what you might want to design and what should win but what happens with interoperability in the market. HTTP/2 and XHTML type standards are steps, to something better but are too top down or ivory tower eventhough they have lots of awesome and needed features.
Per the wikipedia article, it was named in Stevenson's spirit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Club_%28secret_society%...
I've wanted this for a while.

Some challenges:
initial capital (does one person buy and rent to rest, or is it equal ownership?)
How to settle internal disputes (which would vary based on which of the above set ups you choose)
Ensuring everyone has enough remote work to pay for any (albeit probably small) expenses.
Legal challenges.
Wanting to be remote yet requiring Internet, electricity, groceries (unless you plan on growing nearly all of your food, which brings other challenges).

Note that these challenges aren't necessarily unique and have been faced by basically every commune/intentional community, so researching some of the strategies employed by others would be key.

It's still a lovely dream, though.
The most significant limitation on bringing games into the formal learning environment is the time investment to make it work effectively. The article notes that teachers want to create their own teaching tools (and subsequently 98% of their content is teacher created) but the take away should not be that teachers want to create this content - but that the commercial creators were not creating useful content on the behalf of these teachers. It's classic design 'empathy' breakdown.

The time constraints on teachers operate on several different levels: very limited time for planning, unpaid overtime to prep these materials, and most importantly the limited amount of time teachers can devote To specific learning targets (fast and good is often better than slow and very good).

I am actually bullish on the utility of 'games' for education - but I rarely hear a realistic discussion of the constraints on teachers as part of the discussion. For this reason, I see these efforts as far more likely to succeed in non-traditional/informal learning environments.
Considering MS's long track record of offering discounts and freebies to startup (in the form of BizSpark and many other programmes), we can happily assume Redmond's considerable troupe of lawyers has anticipated that loophole.
I don't understand the reference to lawn-mowing being NP-complete - I thought I had a good algorithm: mow once around the outside, blowing grass inward, to get the edges without hitting things with the exhaust chute, then afterwards mow concentrically, blowing grass outward. Once the width is less than the turning radius of the mower, switch to only mowing along the long axis of the area.

Now, when there are rocks, stumps or trees within the area things get more interesting, depending on your tolerance for having to sharpen the blades...
Azure also offers a small business "BizSpark" program. http://www.devfactor.net is hosted on Azure thanks to BizSpark, where it gets $150/mo for three years. It was enough to handle the front page of Reddit.
Google's technology & experience is far superior than BIDU, but to be fair, Google never caught up with BIDU in market share even before 2010.
It seems that this might mean that ImageNet is becoming less useful a benchmark dataset. Some of the images have labels which I would have never guessed myself, and not because I don't know the difference between two types of stingray, but because I would have never said that the topic of the image was a seatbelt. It would be interesting to know how many errors are actually due to outputting a label which does exist in the image, but isn't in the labeled truth data and how many are plainly not in the image.
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Is Net Neutrality a scheme to extract billions in new taxes from consumers?
Twitter can solve harassment right now with verified accounts
The accuracy reported is top-5 accuracy, meaning that a model is considered correct on a test image if it includes the expected label in its top 5 predicted labels. This does mitigate the multi-object issue quite a bit.
Well how about the fate of the cute little protocol called QUIC?
I read that as a typo. ("which still isn't as ubiquitous as it is in the U.S." ?)
You could try implementing some of the methods in underscore/lodash - http://underscorejs.org/? Each of those are pretty simple and can build off each other - you'll learn how to deal with arrays, objects, functions, arguments, apply/call, this, etc. You could write your own tests or use their unit tests as well to get some practice with testing. I was planning on doing this myself at some point haha.

There's an annotated source for underscore: http://underscorejs.org/docs/underscore.html.

There's also just implementing data structures/algs: https://github.com/felipernb/algorithms.js
>Remember to test your patterns with a print statement first

ZSH has an option to expand globs onto the command line the first time you hit return, and issue the command the second. I don't remember what it is.
> So nothing can ever exist going forward that hasn't existed already in history?

Not at all. Just that new solutions to old problems probably aren't much better than the old solutions, and perhaps worse.

How much have forks evolved, or chairs? Money is an old problem and has very old and well worn solutions. Modernity has made fantastic technologies, I'm not sure that the money we have is a breakthrough.
If noncompetes help innovation why does CA kick every other state’s ass?
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What are MOOCS good for?
I've found this to be very untrue - digital ocean offers very poor performance per $ compared to linode in my experience. Linode don't have a $5/month option but if you pay $10/month or more you will get a lot better performance at Linode
Stripping a Professor of Tenure Over a Blog Post
Yeah. In terms of the politics, I lived in a student cooperative in college, which I think was a pretty good model. Money went into a central pool to pay for various things, and all decisions (including membership) were made democratically, in house meetings. Everybody was responsible for part of the chores (determined at the beginning of the year) and people could also run to be elected for managerial positions (workshift, social, kitchen, etc.) Of course, as with any organization, there were occasional conflicts, poor meeting attendance, etc. But our house didn't fall apart and it was a life-changing experience for many of us.

I can see how having to (eventually) evict those who can't afford to stay, or who do bad things (theft, sexual harassment), would be difficult. In the co-ops, we could always defer to our central office to resolve the really difficult conflicts (which were very very rare, but still happened on occasion). Not sure how it would work in a small community, especially if the local law enforcement isn't very good (or absent altogether).

Internet is a bit easier these days since you can get a cell signal pretty much anywhere. (Though something a bit faster would be nice, of course.)

I assume that houses/resorts/communities in remote places use generators for their electricity?

Great, now I'm thinking of all the best ways to redo civilization from scratch. How just like a programmer. :)
Why is this an article anyway? They use matching algorithms here in Canada for university co-op (intern) jobs as well. Lots of people don't get jobs, but that's no fault of the matching algorithm.
Why Yunnan?
The large majority of bots nowadays use Javascript, and are almost indistinguishable from humans if you don't look at their activity over time.

Filling a form with coherent content is a reasonable proof of humaneness, but only if you're looking at bots that weren't designed for handling that type of landing page.
Late stage capitalism at its finest. Cut-throat competition becomes oligopoly becomes monopoly. John D. Rockefeller figured this out about 150 years ago.

You can always buy NUAN stock. I'm serious, this isn't hyperbole or sarcasm. I won't buy a "merchant of death" like Philip Morris, but I'm going to check out Nuance. If they really have become a monopoly, perhaps there's some money to be made by investing in them.

Yes I know it sucks, and in an ideal world you have every right to be "pissed off". But in the real world, you'll do better to remember the slogan: "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em".

I personally am much "more pissed off" at how companies like Comcast, who are "natural monopolies", have been extracting ever larger "monopoly rent" from everyone. They should be much more tightly regulated than they are.
http://www.treehugger.com/cars/average-commute-times-usa-int...

The average commute time to work (in the US) is 25.4 minutes.
Windows's parameter switch is clever. It use slash, like

dir /s

Since / can not be in filename, so it avoids the problem compeletely.
correct on both accounts, thanks for taking note of them! will make edits to reflect those
It is worth noting that there is also a book on Seaside, a continuation-based web framework that runs in Pharo: http://book.seaside.st/book
I agree. In my algorithms class in undergrad, the Gale-Shapley algorithm (and its cousin, the Boston-Pool algorithm) were used as motivating examples of how algorithms affect our lives at the very beginning of the semester.
If you have a 2 hour commute time, you can't work 9+ hours a day and have time for fitness. Or much of anything else for that matter.
I read that they didn't renew some certificate which needs to be renewed periodically. I also remember something like that happening with hotmail many years ago, where they forgot to renew their domain registration, and all of hotmail went off the net.

I had a friend who worked as a contractor for one of Microsoft's data centers a few years ago, and the stories he told me about how they run their datacenters was frightening. It sounded like management was out of touch and didn't really have a grasp on what was needed to keep everything running well.

Those stories leave me questioning Microsoft's basic competence in the cloud. While I'm glad to hear that they're improving their service, I just don't see them as being in the same class as AWS, Google, or even some of their smaller competitors such as DO. I would be wary of depending on Azure for anything critical.
The solution is actually pretty straightforward: don't do everything with text. The actual content you want to manipulate, sure, do that with text. But there's no good reason to structure with syntax except that that solution is compatible with even the most arcane computer interfaces.

How you replace syntax-based structuring is the hard part, but it's not impossible.
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Just curious why you think that Amazon is cheapest? Unless you do heavy RIs, Google Cloud is cheaper.
I avoided making any value judgement on purpose - you can't really do that off-the-cuff. Looking at the reports (linked here, [0]) it concerns hash checks on serialised widgets. The apparent vulnerability was reported by the Wordpress security team and reported as being hard to actually make work - I can't find a PoC or any actual exploit reports. It seems based on [1] that a fix was submitted 2 months before the report and made available to automatic updaters a few days prior (? I'm not sure how the reporting dates and such work here really, on a superficial view that's right though the bug is 2014-08-13 and the fix 2014-06-08 with the report of the update [2] coming 2014-08-06). So, whilst yes an arbitrary code execution is severe one that is fixed before it's made public and without any clear way to exploit it is perhaps less of an issue than it first appears. But then of course the number of installs mean you can very likely find vulnerable installs in the wild even today.

TL;DR simple statistics don't really seem to work well in providing a proper view of comparative levels of security of web apps.

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-5203

[1] https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29389

[2] https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/
I remember playing this game as well, many, many years ago.

If memory serves, I was playing it on thermal printer that eventually became the TI "Silent 700" series.

I believe the program was written in what was called "Super Fortran" at the time.

It was a great deal of fun.

[1] http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/ti-tymshare-100/...
Just from reading the title I went wow that's really interesting....

And scary. What I would prefer to see is "get a prediction of answers to questions you make via the graph"

as a marketing tool "how would you react to a pricing drop in x goods?"

Or "what do you most want from y product?"

2this is just beginning.. . Look at Netflix built house of cards (apropos based on this) with graph input from their viewer base.

"How would fb graph inform my creation of x service?"
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SQLAlchemy (for python) tries to sanitize the syntax away from SQL with some level of success.
I agree partially with
>But why am I signing up for your service? That has nothing to do with what I want from your app. That just gets in the way of using your app.

It would be cool to have an explanation of what signing up does (for now, there is just a button that you can click without really knowing why).
In case anyone here missed this, Microsoft gives a bunch of free stuff (including an MSDN subscription) to any new startup through their BizSpark program: http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark
There's the overhead cost of working with the various brokerages, and then the marketing cost. Even when Google was a household name, the news of their IPO apparently did not reach enough interested investors to make it interesting.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10478-2004Aug...
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Yes, that London cost of living is way off.
Intellectual Ventures is a patent troll. They shouldn't even exist. Laws must ban those organizations that merely collect patents and waiting to sue people. Creativity killing machines!!
Brunohaid/houseofcards
I'm looking for the signup, but I can't find one. So I tested what would happen if I just followed the example and send myself an email. That worked flawlessly. The redirect didn't work in Postman, as it was a "TM-finalURL" header instead of a Location header.

But... this allows me to use your site to send whatever message I want to whomever I want. There doesn't seem to be any rate limiting (I stopped after sending myself like 10 mails).

Isn't this kind of bad?
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In general, many nations' laws still remain blissfully unaware of the existence of remote work. But ask politicians of nearly any stripe the following question.

"I'm already working a remote project that took away no jobs from any of your citizens, and can do this from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection. Can I come into your country for a few months and spend some money there as a tourist while continuing my remote work?"

And the vast majority will throw their arms open. While not realizing their nation's laws are written such that work, any work whatsoever, is disallowed by their visas, as these laws were written back when even the notion of remote work as we know it didn't exist. And even then, there were grey, murky areas; a trader could conduct his offshore business over telex and saunter around the hotel otherwise, and not run afoul of visa rules enforcement despite not meeting compliance, because it wasn't very obvious.

Today there is much more transparency and outward manifestations of "work" like co-working spaces so many traveling coders can more easily run afoul of letter-of-the-law applications of the visa laws. If you are a traveling doctor/lawyer taking phone consultations and charging for them though, then technically you are also running afoul, even though it is extremely unlikely you would run into visa enforcement.

You are technically correct, but more progressive nations like Thailand with their visa laws that reflect an acknowledgement of the existence of nomadic workers with remote work will continue to attract that small demographic until the comparative advantage is erased by adoption of similar legislation nearly everywhere else. In the meantime, it is such a small demographic, and generally relatively frugal, it is arguable that positions like yours are really worth the effort to act out into actual enforcement, or to get worked up over.

That demographic's largest economic impact is likely the advertising and marketing benefits their glowing blog posts deliver to their host nations, and in aggregate they are not really adding all that much to the overall tourist industry nor taking jobs away from the local populace. And unless a significant fraction of the global population makes the highly unlikely shift to nomadic working, that demographic's immediate cash-value economic impact won't change all that much for the foreseeable future.
example @ http://www.thecaravanserai.co/
Right? What are they thinking?! I saw it on awwwards and thought it was a joke.
You can work around a lot of django's ORM limitations and end up with something that's less laborious and error prone than writing SQL for everything.
Can I get a less intense summary?
I've been interested in formal treatments of ledgers for a while now. Does anyone know if other work has been done in this area?
Next up: A simple Rust written in Rust.
i wonder how many of you still use non-free virus program on your personal computer
For others interested, Softlayer does too. I like their competitive stack compared to AWS.
You still have to create the ad, and it can be a campaign which may cost a lot of money.
The public doesn't trust scientists. This is one scientific reason why
They actually did a walkthrough of one of their DC's on video a while ago...it looked fairly impressive and well put together to me, but I've never been in anything but a small Co-Lo, so I'm not really sure what to look for.
Yes, two software executives posing as academics confused us about bots posing as humans.
They don't enforce it pre-emptively, but can hit you with a case many years after if the amounts involved are worthwhile of investigator's attention.
So the nice diagram with a small area of 2nd std Dev filled in is showing all the results of throwing a dice that get a result at least as extreme as the observed result.

So if I throw a dice 60 times I would expect a fair dice to come up with 10 1's, 10 2's etc. if it came up with 50 1's I could say that I reject the fair dice hypothesis with a confidence of

(Thinking)
It reminds me a bit too of The Institute (I watched the documentary on Netflix: http://www.theinstitutemovie.com/). I'd really like to play a game like The Institute, but this seems a little darker, or at least the name kind of implies that.
I left usenet in the early 2000s when alt.* was basically wrecked because of people like weev and the GNAA, not to mention all the spam.

There are communities I miss, but lots about it I don't.
>> the value of a variable in a language that supports mutation depends implicitly on time

Mind blown.
Ask HN: How do I stop focusing on competition, and focus on my own improvement?
Recently, I was accepted into attending a hackathon. I have never been to any hackathon before, and I feel a little anxious. I feel that it's all about competition, and instead of me learning and programming new things, I will rather be undermined by others who are smarter than me. I feel that people will criticize my ideas because they see me as a rookie in programming. How can I forget about the competition aspect, and focus on improving my own programming skills?
Burning Man was better last year, too.
The speech synthesis is impressive. It's still clearly a computer, but the prosody is a step up from Google and Bing. I threw some random comments I've written at the English Female voice model. It seems capable of contrasting clauses via rising and falling (and handles patterns like "On the other hand, ..." and "She was either ..., or .... when ..." well), makes little dramatic pauses after noun clusters to allow the listener to catch up, inserted a little mental comma into stuff like "greater than x [,] half the time", put emphasis on an "and" after a comma ("[...] something I still haven't gotten used, and am not sure I want to") etc., lots of traits of an aware speaker. Heck, I almost felt like it picked up speed and layered in an ounce of incredulity when it was reading a rant I wrote, but it might just be good enough that I can project into it on that one.
Interesting. I typically am annoyed when people move the goalposts like this on AI but in my research it seems like the ImageNet library is annotating recursively through the various automation sets and not actually founded on human classification.

Is that accurate?
C++98 (maybe earlier) has a similar feature:

if (mytype* p = find_or_null(blah))
foo(*p);

Still have to dereference p, but at least it's only in scope when doing so is safe. Also goes well with auto and std::optional:

if (auto opt = find_or_none(blah))
foo(*opt);
You'd have to ask Apple. I have no idea. But if I were to venture a guess, I'd say it has something to do with minimizing the press jumping all over speculative statements for features that are weeks (if not months) away from release still. But that's just one thought. I really have no idea.