skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
just reads like a press release. All the positives are very positive, and the negatives are both very mild and eplained away as solved in later versions. For example they mention minde deflection and the possibility of reducing hydroplanning but do not mention noise or vibration issues at highway speeds.
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I would have liked to see Detroit on the list, or more accurately the suburbs around it.
Sorry, the trivial amount of people using noscript is simply unimportant to me.
Good point but examples can also be drawn from other fields like programming rather than from mathematics. So far I found that the link below is very enlightening. http://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-pr...
That's actually untrue. Going off census data (which is taken every decade, roughly), it increased until 1939, then declined until 1981, then has been increasing since then—slowly at first, but lately more rapidly. If it hasn't hit an all-time high already, it will very soon.

...which makes sense, given that housing prices have been rising.

Source: http://www.londonspovertyprofile.org.uk/indicators/1_3.gif
According to many sources (e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-31082941 ) the population of London has recently reached a record high and predicted to rise by 25-30% over the next 35 years.
4K is enough to hire someone. So you're a student and you're working on this side project. There are many others like you who don't want to work full time but have some time left while studying. Maybe you should get another student or basically any person who fits your needs and wants to work 15-20h a week? You you don't have to pay them as much and you get more time for the core programming and studying.

By the way: What tool are you working on?
Singapore is an interesting place in this regard.

Parents discourage their children from engaging in potentially risky activities (eg. entrepreneur, startups, etc) because that puts their (the parents') future well-being in substantial jeopardy.

The weight of that jeopardy is best conveyed by the fact that there are ~300 families in Singapore that are receiving welfare, and each of those are handled on a case-by-case basis.

Caveat -- my understanding is based on the information provided by a friend living in Singapore, working in the tech industry, having spent some years trying to engender a startup culture. Apparently things are changing now, but that's the (recent) history.

HK is doubtless more complicated.
Not sure how the pricing of your service works, but try increasing the price. If you do it carefully you might reduce the number of customers (and therefore bug reports) and not change your take home.
Ya but those ideas are boring. Here in North America we prefer whimsical to practical.
Freakonomics had an episode recently "Is there a better way to fight terrorism?" [1] An interesting statistic they note is that occupation is the primary cause of terrorism. Rather than focus on prediction, why not focus on the causes?

[1]: http://freakonomics.com/2015/02/13/is-there-a-better-way-to-...
In the example were YAML config put at the top of JS source file. I think a better option would be to use JS comments, so lambda can be tested standalone.

My lambdas mainly written in CoffeeScript, so it should optionally support CoffeeScript multiline comments too.
I think it boils down to the actual experience[1]. You don't interact with a CD much. You open the box, put the disc in the player, and then enjoy the actual content, same for movies. So CD, DVD, HDD or cloud doesn't take anything away.

Reading is different, you constantly touch it, smell it, look at the paper and ink. I still remember strongly the sensation I get when I used to read a little. Eebook readers (even the best) take away all this. The most compelling reason people enjoy e-readers: space. Especially for travelers or even holidays, you can carry as many books as you want in your bag now; something impossible before. Other than that I'd bet people prefer paper.

My conclusion to the digital era trend, is that it's a human sensation deprivation most of the time.

[1] there's a little movement toward vynil LP records too, the large cover art, setting up the player arm (also the acoustics)...
> The first is to take the pricing system used on London buses (£1.40 per trip, wherever you're going), and apply it nationally (probably a £1) to re-nationalised railways. This would require huge subsidies, though I believe it to be worthwhile. I'd like to see counter arguments though.

The railway network doesn't have the capacity for the number of people who would use it at those prices. The reason a Virgin ticket from London to Birmingham costs 40 quid and has to be booked months in advance isn't just because beardy Branson likes money, it's also because there are a lot of people who want to travel quickly between London and Birmingham.

So unless you want Soviet Union style decade-long waiting lists for season tickets, you'd have to build dozens of new mainlines. Look at how much fuss, public enquiries and so on there have been around HS2 - and that's a single line, being built to relieve what everyone knows is the busiest line in the UK. In China they just build the high-speed lines and citizens know better than to complain, but you'd never get away with that here.

And if you were somehow able to make it work, you might make London more attractive to live in, not less. For young people who like to go out in the evening, nothing compares to living in London - the trains are pretty good for commuting to your job, but less so for coming back from a night out (for solid engineering reasons that are hard to overcome, the railway needs a bit of "downtime" once a day or certainly once a week). So you might end up with people who work in e.g. Guildford preferring to live in London and commute out.

> Secondly I'd probably look at large increases in stamp duty on non-primary homes, and changes to make renting a property less attractive through lending rules/regulation and taxation. The ability to finance rented properties at 90% leverage requires too little capital, and lending rules are too generous to landlords compared to tenants. If rental properties required 50% equity by landlords (as a plucked from the air example) you'd see a rather fewer leveraged to the hilt property "moguls" and less competition.

London contains the world's finest exploiters of financial regulations; you're going to struggle to make assets un-leverable when there are willing buyers and sellers on each side. Most likely you'd end up with a layer of either legal avoidance or outright corruption, with e.g. poor tenants forced to become the "owner of record" of the house they live in, under a contract where the financial benefits still accrue to the rentier.

What would help, I think, is to tax income from increased property values exactly like any other income. It's not going to be a popular policy with voters (temporarily embarrassed millionaires), and there would be costs to assessing property values fairly, but it would eliminate a lot of market distortion if you had to pay the same taxes on your housing investments as you do on your stocks or ordinary income. Eliminating tax breaks for charitable foundations would also eliminate a huge class of exploits, but again good luck getting that one past the voters.
But the goal of this experiment isn't to be profitable, just prove the technology works so they can sell it. I'm sure they'll be able to entice enough people in tech-savvy SF to buy and use one of their SIM cards for the sake of making their case.
Luckily, it seems that Rust code is starting to get integrated into Firefox:
https://twitter.com/indygreg/status/570010688027959297
Meh, wait until they have to move house a couple of times, or their kid wants a piano so they go from a nine foot library bookcase to a couple of Billys from Ikea.

Anyone who is worried about not 'owning' their books is more than welcome to accompany me on my biannual trip to the Friends of the Library donation desk. I guess I lose the tax credit on my ebooks, but at least I've gotten to keep them so far.
None of this is true.

>fibonacci growth is strictly faster than exponential

There is even an explicit formula for F(n) that shows fibonacci growth is exactly exponential[1]

>In fact, this is why nlog(n) is the lower bound on the number of comparisons a comparison-based sorting algorithm

It's true that lower bound for comparison-based sorting is nlog(n) but it has nothing to do with fibonacci

>n! is approximately nlog(n)

Stirling's formula[2] says otherwise (that n! is exponential)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Closed-form_ex...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%27s_approximation
> If the father of a girl travelling to Syria to join Isil had no idea what she was planning, what hope does her computer have?

Algorithms can tell if you're pregnant before you know it. Wasn't that Target incident also about a father having no idea his daughter was pregnant until the machine learning algorithms indirectly informed him? I can't really trust the article's conclusions if it contradicts these well known events.
>And they still require working models //

Sorry, can you perhaps quote the bit that says that. In that link I see they reject perpetual motion machines under 35 USC 101 but I don't see the part saying that such an objection can be combated with presentation of a model, or indeed that the objection is made in a form of "submit a working model to continue this application".

The USPTO likely has no facilities to examine or even store such models.
The main value prop over the Apple Watch and current Android wear appears to be the battery life. They're advertising over 7 days on a charge, which is certainly better than whatever the Apple Watch will be in terms of battery life. I just worry about the market for apps after the introduction of apple's watch around the same time.
These slides do the same misleading thing all the other slides I've looked at do: show examples where there are only an arrow or two between objects. I still don't really understand category theory, but one breakthrough I had was when I realized that two objects can (and often do) have LOTS (or even infinite) arrow between them.

For example, in a category of "types", each object could be a type (e.g.: int, float, list(int), etc.), and each arrow could be a function between those types.

With that example, just think of all the arrows between, say, string -> int! There's "length()", "md5()", "to_i()", etc. And don't even get me started on the "identity" arrows of string back to itself (upcase, downcase, strip, etc). We're talking gazillions of arrows.
> school systems are buying millions of tablets and laptops for classroom use

Taking notes on a laptop has been found to be ineffective compared to writing:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-...

This is why laptops in classrooms is utterly retarded.
Greenwald has sometimes been a bit loose with facts throughout his writing history. He's more of an opinion writer than a straight journalist, which typically means a faster writing cycle and less editorial oversight--both of which can result in mangled facts.

Snowden approached him because of his attitude and willingness to stand up to the government, but also worked with reporters like Barton Gellman.
What I would do is make an investment in future time by spending time now: write the code to automate as much as possible. For example, why are you actually managing sales?

Prioritize until things calm down. Are you accepting feature requests? Stop doing that until you nail down a stable release.

Don't have a heart attack. Stress can seriously kill you. If it becomes too much start considering exit strategies (yes, that means selling it). 4-5K a month isn't much, but it's impressive as I'm guessing you aren't even marketing it - you could make a nice bit of cash by making it someone else's problem.

Your happiness and health comes first.
> In Austin, nothing on the menu is above $12 at Midnight Cowboy or The Garage. Now compare that to the other cities on this list.

I dunno if that's a great metric - or maybe it is and Austin's more expensive than you and I think. Cocktails at Gramercy Tavern are $14.
I think if I were attempting to make it more accessible for beginners, I would start with a concrete example of a category (like Set) and introduce the concepts in what is, for most people (programmers in particular) familiar territory, and then attempt to show how abstracting those concepts is useful and applicable in other situations.
It does get that busy occasionally. Primarily during Winterlude[1] which is an annual outdoor festival that attracts large crowds. You're right, the primary use is undoubtedly recreational because frankly it's not a great way to commute.

That said, getting around the city on foot or bike can be significantly more convenient during the winter because you can cross the river at dozens of spots rather than having to use one of the handful of pedestrian or car bridges.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winterlude
I'm sure this is wonderful and I'm just an idiot, but I can't really make much sense of this. I don't see why a shape diagram (not sure of the proper term) is more useful or applicable than a bar chart - in fact, it seems rather the opposite to me.

And perhaps it's just a limitation of the data that are being presented here, but the top skill of a CTO should never be JavaScript unless it's a tech team consisting only of the CTO (and yes, that is sometimes the situation in a fledgling startup, but really it's little more than self-aggrandisement to use that title in that case).
I looked at commuting from the midlands. £9,000 a year. It's actually a joke.

In all seriousness though - very low prices on public transport should incentivise people out of cars. Weekend/day trips around the UK away become significantly more attractive. And above all it moves some of the money out of London.

The obvious downside is higher passenger numbers, more capacity required, and no money to fund it. It'd take someone with far more domain specific knowledge to appreciate the complexities - for now it's my go to "one policy to change the country" when asked :)
Then why not allow users to defer entering a phone number until they try to add a service that actually requires it?
I agree with some of the other commenters that a hire sounds like the way to go. Unless something is lost in translation, such as the currency, 4-5K is plenty. If not a developer, then someone in sales, which can potentially be a commission based system.

Also, think about switching to ramen for a few months. Thats the part of startup life that you tend to not see in the movies and magazines. Pre-seed tends to involve ramen. Lots and lots of ramen.
Don't see what the problem is. So millenials like to retain some connection to the physical world rather than glue themselves to the same old glowing screen all day for all activities, from work to reading to movies to music.

These things retain and comprise rituals, and rituals matter to human beings. Whether it's dedusting your DVD collection or swapping books with friends, reading a magazine in a park or cafe, etc.. netbooks, tablets, phablets have zero soul. Some go to extremes such as vinyl, most don't. Still.

Let tech figure out aviation, industrial goods production, logistics and what not. Software doesn't have to eat everything. It might technically be capable of doing so, but if younger consumers inadvertently decide to slightly delay the all-out zombification of the masses for another decade or until they get hooked on GoogleAppleMicroCorp's always-on SmartGlassVRContactLenses, I say good riddance.
All were major corporations. I had to apply for job interview using their website. After I would fill out CV and relevant information, I was redirected to survey or something like that. This was in Ireland, since 2006.
I would have said "tax whatever behavior you want to discourage":

1. tax unoccupied houses as punishingly as you'd tax pot or alcohol; in touristic places, such as Tahiti and Thailand, they went even further and outlawed land ownership for non-citizens; otherwise, they'd be covered with ultra-luxury villas occupied one month per year.

2. tax resale profits heavily as well: you do not want the competition of investors who might not even bother to rent their investment.

3. if you want people to own their place, tax landlord benefits aggressively enough, so that they'd rather invest on other financial products. But I don't think you want that: there are many useful jobs which don't pay enough to buy a house in a capital city.

4. raise interest rates. Or more realistically, introduce fiscal measures which simulate higher interest rates on mortgages, instead of simulating lower ones through tax breaks. Beyond a certain number of years, a mortgage doesn't make sense anymore, as you pay back interests only during additional years, no principal. This "certain number of years" is determined by the effective interest rate. Encouraging longer mortgages is encouraging higher prices.

5. review the welfare housing system. In many places, and I seem to believe London is one of them, you have market housing for wealthy people, council housing for poor people, and nothing in between for middle classes. There's no interest in building a city with only super-rich and super-poor people.

6. create tax incentives to encourage companies to move their HQ at least 25km out of center city, so that their employees will consider moving in the suburbs. Try to encourage the first movers to move to a couple of concerted locations, so that new centers reach a critical level of attractiveness, to carry shops and services with them.
It's never one single reason is my guess, The freakonomics podcast discussed factors like occupation of certain countries. Failure to integrate into a society/suffering from racism can also be a trigger.
A great dynamic scripting language that helped the first startup I worked for, to have a very capable web application middleware for its products.

Similar to AOLServer, and with features comparable to Ruby On Rails, but around 2000.

It also taught me that if one wants performance in scalable application servers, in the end a JIT or AOT compilation support is a must have.
Is Dark Social a thing? BTW, do you see any change in last few months in your sharing of content on Social (public) vs Private (emails etc)

Would love to know.
>If the patent is invalid or there’s no infringement, patent trolls should have to pay the winning
party’s legal fees. //

Wow, I can't believe award of costs isn't standard in such cases already. Incredible.
What was racist about that?
Yeah. What I got from the article was:

1) As an expert, I appear on TV to repeat the Official News Updates

2) I'm there all week, so I'm a regular

3) The experts don't agree at all

4) The experts don't like conspiracy theorists (lightning?)

5) The experts can be conspiracy theorists, too! (Putin!?)

Even his book summary lays out the same trope: CNN Aviation Analyst Jeff Wise sweeps aside the conspiracy theories and misconceptions, then just down below, once they've made the appeal to authority, a radical new hypothesis ought to be considered. Bizarre. A very entertaining read.
This is interesting.

I only just started using Bootstrap after using pure for a little bit.

I didn't realize that visual editors were a thing.
For those interested in how TOTP is implemented, here it is in Python [1] and Ruby [2]. It is really simple and understandable. Oh, and did you know you can secure your SSH connections using TOTP [3]?

This stuff is no more complicated than storing password hashes. Having a nice client app is good, but Google Authenticator is good enough. So instead of using authy and relying on a third party, why not get something like [4] and be done with it?

[1] https://github.com/nathforge/pyotp

[2] https://github.com/mdp/rotp

[3] http://delyan.me/securing-ssh-with-totp/

[4] https://github.com/mtigas/django-twofactor
> The people who flew into those towers were neither poor nor badly educated - so it can't be a social issue.

Social issues don't only effect the poor and badly educated. I don't see why rage born from impotence over limited prospects for oneself and one's family/identity group -- and rage at horrors that have occurred to one's family/identity group for which there is no apparent effective recourse -- which are "social issues" that come from living in impoverished countries under brutal dictatorships, or having family that do -- would not affect the decently educated and relatively well-off. Indeed, in some ways, I'd expect them to effect those people more than those who are poorly educated and personally impoverished, so that their prime struggle is meeting the needs of survival.

This seems similar to me to the way that, where a participatory political system provides avenues for resolving some dissatisfaction, the educated and economically comfortable are often more politically engaged than the poor.
Curious that front-end engineers feel better about node.js than full-stack or back-end engineers (it doesn't even appear for the latter?!).
Take a year out of studying, work on business. If it goes well, great, if not, go back to studies.

Ask yourself, why are you studying? what's it for? A good job?. Why do you want a good job/career? for money? Well here you have an opportunity to skip the qualification step and get straight to the end goal.

I say go for it. You'll learn more about yourself and your worth in one year of business then you ever will studying.
Yes, its FFI API is quite clean because of that goal.
Your web, the way you like it.
I don't think you can combine different statistics of such high dimensionality like that. Unless women math GRE scores are in decline since the eighties -- and they don't correlate with success in science or medicine -- they don't explain the decline in participation in this industry alone. Also, the correlation of women participation and GRE math scores can remain just as strong regardless of the actual participation rates: the high correlation does not explain sex differences (as in this illustration http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Heritabil...)

There is also a danger in looking at statistics about human behavior that only take a snapshot in time, because the data itself changes all the time. For example, it is very possible that ever since women participation started to decline, there have been few role models for women, less desire to participate, and therefore less desire to excel in math.

It is as impossible to study social dynamics from a statistical snapshot as it is to study planetary motion from a still photograph of the sky.
Citing threats, game maker pulls her company from PAX East fest
As he apologised for his English (which as an aside is perfectly acceptable) I'd assume that figure isn't in dollars or pound sterling. Possibly euros but that again would seem to be enough to get someone else involved in the project.
Here's the way I see it:

Robots and automation may actually be the way we can get off the addictive economic treadmill of having the you g pay for the old by an ever expanding population. It is unsustainable.

They have already done so through increased worker productivity, but may ultimately replace young people as the "breadwinners" for those who can't or won't work.

This is to be welcomed, as we can economically support a shrinking population that grows wealthier over time. The traditional refrain of wealth redistribution being from "productive" members of society to the non productive will be upended. Many people will be consumers, producing things most people won't pay large amounts of money for.