skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can you clarify why you think the person repackaging the candy in this situation has a moral highground? Why are they not also "smelling some money"?

Well to me the person that got the candy for free, owns that candy now and can do whatever she wants with it (throw it away, eat it, give it, sell it). She owns that candy and can make a decision. Earlier the person giving away those candies owned them and he decided to give them away for free.

So yeah it seems to me like a similar situation. Person later coming after you saying "Hey I gave you this candy for free, you cannot sell it".

I know that with copyrights it's different and yes you really cannot sell that free candy. It just subjectively feels wrong to me because of him changing his opinion only after it become part of the internet (based on the fact that it was assumed to be public domain, free to share and include anywhere)
ill give it a try :)
$1600 for a ticket or $2000 for an Apple device capable of watching their proprietary stream format.
Yes, but if you think of the matrix as a collection of basis vectors, then something like a rotation in R3 becomes crystal clear. Your using the same coordinate but moving in arbitrary (orthogonal) directions rather than just right,up,forward. This makes more sense using scalar*vector operations than using dot products.
It would be somewhat surprising if they didn't.

I imagine that they won't want to talk about humans until they can reliably get them off the pad without blowing up.
From the sessions detail page:

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Wouldn't that refer to the things common between OS X and iOS?
I wish to hear some comments on this: staingate.org
NC-SA, which oddly enough doesn't actually exist as a real Creative Commons license, would be more similar to what 4chan users treat memes as - non-commercial and share-alike, but no attribution nor any other the other restrictions.
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Large conferences translates to media server, network, sometimes interop, and eventually session control requirements.

Ideally, media servers with excellent IP connections, distributed around the world, and behind GeoDNS.

It also often means some interop capabilities (signaling and/or media interworking), since many large conference use cases include some users on traditional video (SIP or H.323), Lync/Skype For Business and/or PSTN.

Finally, session control becomes important if we get into enterprise and service provider conferencing markets.

Those reqs - especially media intensive ones - are interesting in that they are mostly not Twilio's core competency. Do they build it? Partner for it? Do they care enough about those use cases?

The answers to those questions are very interesting given Twilio's tremendous developer ecosystem.
I am now very interested in why you've reacted so negatively to what I said. I get this kind of negative reaction most of the time on the Internet, and I'm not really sure why.

To be clear, I meant no harm, anger, or ill will.

What part(s) of the things I wrote here lead you to write "you act as if you're some sort of mega-genius"? Why do you think my own mental state is relevant to this discussion?
What is the point of this blog post? Matrix multiplication is shown like this, and in many other similar ways, in many introductory linear algebra textbooks.
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Exactly... If I have problems with my car, I take it to a mechanic. He's an engine nerd... something at which I suck, he's awesome at it. If I have legal problems, I go to a lawyer. He's a legal nerd... again, something at which I suck. If they need software written, [or more likely, their computers fixed, again. Don't get me started] they'd most likely both come to me. They might both be awesome photographers and play on the same hockey team, have largely the same peer group and just be fascinated by different things. They may have different conditioning due to their family background. One's father might own a car shop, the other's mother might be a judge. They might have grown up as neighbours, gone to the same school and been in all the same classes together. One may just have had a large exposure to the way law works growing up and one may just have had more of an interest in hanging out with Dad in the garage tinkering with engines because his Dad was a race car mechanic. The mechanic's mom may have taught both of them to play piano and they may both be concert grade music nerds. The nuances are endless.
Depends. Do you want to a work Visa? I think you will need a degree if you want an H1B or something like that.
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>What it shows is that if all things are equal then there is bias.

Not quite, in a scientific study, it is preferable to control for a single variable, which in this case was gender. The bias in faculty member's decision making is shown clearly (as evidenced by the consistency of the effect size across groups). Whether or not men and women are on a level playing field in the first place is irrelevant to the question of whether faculty members are biased against one or the other.

>That hiring processes in US academic institutions are subject to sex gender bias doesn't require more than looking at the diversity among the highest paid employees in US higher education, coaches.

I'm not sure what argument you're making. "hiring in academic institutions" seems to be too broad a category for making useful generalizations, and I'm not sure how coaches' salaries relate to gender discrimination.
They do analytics as well.
It's usually just H.264 and there are open-source implementations of the codec: http://www.openh264.org/
You could be right, of course. I generally don't trust a meaningful community of contributors to form around a modern-era VC-backed company (which is to say, "there are no Red Hats here"), so I'm much less hopeful.
Surprising no? I'm shielded from it for the most part where I work by very diligent hiring managers.. The other day my manager told me that most of the people who come in for interviews don't know the stack for the heap :|
Remember the stackoverflow poll results that came up last week? One of the interesting stats I saw was that the highest percentage of women in programming came from India, at 15%. The lowest percentage was from Sweden at 2%.

There was a Reddit discussion on why it seemed that countries with higher gender equality yielded less female software engineers. Personally, I think it makes sense; it seems that given more career options, women generally may prefer other fields over software. I dont think there is anything sexist about that observation (I would choose professional footballer over engineer).

As an anecdote, I once had a round-table style english class in college where most of the 20 students in the class were social-justice type folks, (bunch of Gryffindors). The topic of gender inequality in STEM came up, and some of the ladies were complaining about underrepresented women. I found it ironic that all of the ladies in the class were English, Sociology, or Psychology. None had interests in engineering ("oh, it's not for me"), but they still thought there should be more women because it conformed to some imaginary principle of equality. I think that's stupid.
I didn't ask about society. Everyone, is every single individual racist and/or sexist?

> Numerous studies have shown that even people who identify as being non-racist will shoot a black person more quickly, dismiss a resume if it contains a black-sounding name, etc...

Did those studies talk to every single person in the US? Or are you only concerned about white people being racist towards black people? That's how you're coming across, just so you know.

You can't acknowledge that you think 'everyone' is racist and then pivot back to society. You've just blanket accused every single person of being racist, and sexist. Are black women racist and sexist? Middle-eastern women? Its easy to stand on a soapbox and quote a study. It does not seem as though you've run this line of thinking to its conclusion, you stopped in the middle.

> It's true that people (mostly) have the right to free speech in the US. But there are two ways to prevent people from expressing their views: you can literally disallow them from saying something, or you can "silence" them by making them feel uncomfortable for having spoken at all. I'm talking about the latter.

Mostly have the right to free speech? Can you elaborate about that? I'm not sure if you're aware of how controversial the issue of 'free speech' has become. [0] Once again, its easy to soapbox and pick the parts you agree with.

We must not live in the same US (or perhaps you don't) if you think people are shamed into not talking out against racism and sexism. They're both wrong, and, compared to even 20 years ago, the US is making forward progress, leaps and bounds of forward progress. Then people come along and say things like you did, as if there isn't change.

It literally takes generations to wipe out hatred in the manner you're concerned about. Making blanket statements about everyone being a horrible, shitty person on the internet doesn't speed things up, and makes you look silly.

[0] http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Freedom+of+Spe...
From another point of view, all three are forms of socialism; BI, particularly, is very easy to see as a form of the public as a whole owning the means of production in society and receiving rents from them, and the naturally-arising communes are the doubleton of bottom-up approaches to socialism.

For that matter, the whole modern mixed economy which has pretty much entirely replaced the 19th century system that socialist critics named "capitalism" is nothing but the result of progressive introduction of socialist elements into the preexisting capitalist system. A big socialist evolution -- punctuated, to be sure, and not without upheaval at some points -- in most developed countries rather than a socialist revolution. I should not be surprised to see it continue.
Mirror: https://archive.today/U4D3v
Here's how you can apply this interpretation of matrix multiplication:

Think of the columns of the matrix A as basis vectors of a coordinate system represented in global coordinates, and the vector v as the components of a vector in that coordinate system. Then the product A * v transforms the vector v into the global coordinate system.

Carrying this forward, matrix multiplication A * B gives the combined representation of two coordinate transformations.
Nexus serves NPM packages, Ruby GEMs, YUM packages and also serves as a Maven repository.

https://books.sonatype.com/nexus-book/reference/npm-configur...

Source code:
https://github.com/sonatype/nexus-oss
Oh, no, is the marketing team doing marketing again? Better tell them to take the year off lest they offend someone.
Yeah, but this is nothing new. I run several sites whose (non-public) links are regularly scanned by Facebook after someone types them in a chat. Presumably they're doing this to scan and flag malicious websites/pages.
The iPod (MP3 players revolution - everybody got one)
The iPhone (mobile phone/internet always-connected mobile phones became a standard)
The iPad (literally created a new industry sector...)
Does the $2000 device still operate as a computer after the conference?
Don't they put it on the Apple TV?
Military == antiterrorism == SELECT * FROM chat WHERE text CONTAINS "jihad"
Customs won't clear the large quantity of Tim Horton's products required to do the job. :P
> But I wouldn't consider it a bad thing

You wouldn't consider gender discrimination against women a bad thing?

Why don't you apply the same logic to the parent's comment, and consider it a good thing that he has to work harder to get the job he wants? Probably the extra fight will teach him to appreciate the job even more. Or something.
This was known already, at least the "your chats are being scanned". [0]

[0] http://www.gamespot.com/articles/texas-teen-jailed-after-league-of-legends-argument/1100-6410871/
It's hard to argue Samsung are more influential a company than Apple when the look of Samsung's products are so obviously "influenced" by Apple.
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The software is now open source @Github: https://github.com/Byclosure/webcat-project
Yes, the result is surprising to say the least, but it is apparently well-researched, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9374516

I think one explanation for the data is that in less affluent societies, there is more economic pressure for women to go into fields that do not match their preferences.
The "average developer" probably shouldn't go. If you're a dev shop, send your best, send the ones that stand to gain the most.

Anyone who's curious can always watch the material afterwards. They gain little benefit from interfacing with engineers if they don't have an application they're working on.
Why does wikipedia link them with Palantir (and vice versa)? Is it just because they seem to be providing similar products or is there more to it?
True, but it's never explicitly mentioned. I think that would be a good point to include in your crowdfunding pitch.
Having everything open sourced, I wonder what they do to prevent others from copying their service.
What? Nobody accepts that because the trends of the last half century or so contraindicate your comment.
Indeed. Also note that if someone found a polytime algorithm for TSP, that would imply P = NP and that would be quite a discovery.
The current Mac Pro was announced at the 2013 WWDC. Yes, it's almost two years old now, and the base model is already overtaken by the iMac 5K in terms of basic CPU power.
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This review seems to indicate that the 2015 MacBook has similar issues to the original 2008-era MacBook air: lots of potential, but still worth waiting for a 2nd generation product to work out some of the issues.

Personally, though, I'm just excited that Apple finally offers a laptop in multiple colors. (And without a price premium, for anyone who remembers the "black tax"[1])

[1] http://www.512pixels.net/blog/2015/2/future-classics-the-bla...
New graphics. New possible changes in UI for iOS?
Definitely, the question is how deep those "common things" go into the OS, as the title states "Core OS" not "Core frameworks".
The key point here is that the links are scanned by a 3rd party who are not related to Facebook (as far as we know).
Actually tons of services are trying to do so, but interesting to see who wins at the end...
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Really? Interesting. We spent some time discussing multiplication by block decompositions in my 100-level linear algebra class -- is this really uncommon?
I'd hope that SpaceX spends more than a day examining the engines for fractures and potential problems before launching the thing again.
If you hover over where it says "Bugs", it changed to say "Boobs".

Classy.
I think it is 10 for ad-hoc Hangouts, but you can raise it to 15 if you attach the meeting to a calendar invite.
#dontdatesjws ? How is that misogynistic? I guess nowadays "troll" is a shortcut for "people who disagree with me"
Since many are complaining that the website is down here's a mirror: http://i.imgur.com/B7shOez.png
This is unimpressive at best, and impractical at worst.

Rather than ULA expending the intellectual effort to build the control and guidance systems needed to land the entire rocket as SpaceX does, they took the lazy route and added a few steps to their existing process.

The fact that they're willing to suggest that something like this is innovative is just further proof that the entire ULA is staunchly resistant to change. I'm not entirely sure this system will even have a chance to be used.
I'd say that apple were a little bit more influential in 2007 over 2006, you know, the whole iPhone thing, and again in 2010. Google certainly aren't afraid to try new ideas, but they don't close to Apple when launching consumer products
Mazoo - How many mazes can you get finish in 60 seconds?
Running a cloud storage service at scale is hard. It looks like they've already got some funding to start it.
Here in my part of Australia, public libraries offer free internet access. But there can be queues to use the computers and I think there are time limits. I'm not sure you could guarantee they're malware free either.

Cellphones aren't just about internet access - it can be realtime notifications, like a text message if a room suddenly becomes available at a shelter. Or if you're applying for a casual job, they might need your cellphone number so they can call you to come into work (eg if someone's off sick and they need someone else to come and take their place). Without a cellphone you could miss those kinds of opportunities.

And the best way to learn how to use technology is to play with devices in your own time & practice. I would think most jobs now assume smartphone familiarity & wouldn't provide training, could be an intimidating hurdle to someone who isn't familiar with them.
Utter marketing fluff. Watson cannot do simple arithmetic, and by extension certainly does not know how to cook, nor can it learn to understand any cooking technique. I know folks want to expect a lot from Watson but this is simply not realistic.
All these problems are solvable (streams by ditching built-in streams and replacing them with something decent, errors with promises + typescript, event loop blocking with a streaming JSON parser). But that still means that out of the box node is a pretty unsatisfying experience all around.

It took us a year to arrive at the solutions above, and many prominent members of the community scoffed at a number of them. Some are still scoffed at.

For example, everyone still thinks that promises should not catch errors, as if somehow throwing on typos is useful. Its not. The real solution here is a type system, the sensible error capturing model of promises that doesn't destroy all assumptions about code (unlike domains), and a sensible library like bluebird that reports rather than swallows up unhandled errors.

People also swore that streams are the best thing ever but the reality is that the built in streams are an organically grown design that accreted many flaws along the way. Most of them can be mended though and with streams 3 things are finally starting to be acceptable.
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Racism/sexism aren't binary states but continuous ones. And, sure, everyone probably had non-zero degrees of both racism and sexism. And, yes, that includes black and middle-eastern women -- not uniquely so, but in the same way as it includes people of every race and sex. And, yes, people of races that are generally viewed poorly by the dominant sectors of the society they live in often have internalized some of the dominant society's racist views against their own race.

I'm not sure by you think acknowledging that is problematic.
Mirror: http://i.imgur.com/B7shOez.png
Honestly, I was not expecting that punchline. The story really sounded like you were working in a typical "change the world" startup with flexible hours and some just hired frat boy manager took credit for your work. This I could see happening in such an environment but not...NASA.
Yep, way to help out with getting women into technology.
I tried to create an account. Still waiting for the activation email so I can "click the link and get started".
npm is a pretty important piece of node itself; I'm actually surprised Joyent hasn't picked them up (maybe they're tried?). Maybe this funding will help it iterate a little faster.
They are mostly about exploring the data yes, but they also do some data mining in the content in order to make connections. They attempt to pull out names and link them together and things along those lines.
I think they would be far more interested in mining all of the friendships to do the network analysis than the content of the chats.
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I'm on the east cost. Wondering if it's a regional instance or everyone is experiencing the same thing.
A bunch of uncited op-ed pieces (at least one from the same HuffPost/AEI author) is not the same as proof. You've demonstrated only that it's widely disputed by a bunch of op-eds (which you can also say about climate change, evolution, and the round-Earth theory). Going through the list:

Opinion. Mises.org lol. Opinion (and UK). Opinion. "Statistics are wrong". AEI opinion. Opinion. Not sure why you included the billmoyers.com piece, it argues the gap exists. Opinion. Opinion.
Oh stop being pedantic/dense.. it's really not that cryptic. Average consumer laptop has about 250-500GB of HDD space.
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Sounds like a big pain to have to pay individually for each person on a team if your company wants to use private modules. We're generally willing to throw money at problems like those private modules solve, but if we have to do it a dozen times it probably isn't going to happen.
Thanks for down-voting (ignoring), this is indeed Apple style :)
If "Epicenter" is referring to anything in particular, which it quite possibly isn't, I would guess that it could be referring to a new Apple TV[1] being announced that will serve as a hub (i.e. the device in the center) for HomeKit.

[1] Could also be an updated Airport but Apple TV is more likely as 1. it makes more sense overall and 2. it is very likely there will be an update (Apple website currently says that it starts at $69 but there are no other models / configurations).
Yes, I was wondering if people stubbornly don't use data structures that they're familiar with. To be more clear, I meant implementing a whole new data structure (let's say a trie) that a library/language might not already provide.

This, of course, is taking into consideration that the problem is non-trivial, and it improves the speed/performance.
India has a good argument against Net neutrality
Louis CK has a good bit about this too:

"Divorce is always good news. I know that sounds weird, but it's true because no good marriage has ever ended in divorce. That would be sad. If two people were married and ... they just had a great thing and then they got divorced, that would be really sad. But that has happened zero times."
Ok, that kind of makes sense. But as an extreme example let's say you moved out to earth sun L4 leaving from earth and moving at 1MPH*.

Once you got there, you're there besides station keeping. So in theory there's no deltaV required? That's what confused me.

Of course moving at 1MPH you'd be expending energy fighting earth's gravity until you got there. But I think that's a separate issue.
This has been done before. VA Linux did this in 1999 for users with sourceforge accounts. Those free shares were worth ~$45k on the day of the IPO.
There are some pretty big helicopters out there that wouldn't blink at picking up a load like this. The Chinook is used for cargo transport quite frequently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CH-47_Chinook