skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I correct in interpreting this post as saying "I agree base rate matters, I just wish you didn't provide a toy example illustrating that?"

Also, I now strongly recommend you go through the exercise I suggested. Then you'll realize that accurate tests do NOT somehow eliminate the need for models or accounting for base rates.
Do you have any notes on this experience posted somewhere publicly? I'd love to see an overview of the issues between Swift and C++ libraries. (Boost? Not Boost? The nuances of Swift's type system?)
See Edit. Thanks!
> Does Google have a team working round the clock to develop the most annoying webpages possible?

They certainly seem to try, don't they? to be horrible.

I tried using google maps today a few times and each time was filled with curses and WTF's.

They just, shouldn't be making websites or doing any kind of design work at all. Maker the backend technology, sure - get someone else to do anything front end. Across the board suckage.
The headline and the direct quote from apples website say "Swift will be open source later this year".. I don't think anyone in this thread is trying to say anything to the contrary. Certainly the decision to open source swift has been "pulled off", perhaps that's what LesZedCB was referring to.. who knows? Who bloody cares? It's very much not important.
Yep. Notepads and calculators are what i most often run as floating windows. Mostly because i am referencing some other window for whatever i am working on.
I've never heard that.
I don't know. Considering that Apple's entire notebook line is now un-upgradeable, I think the future may yet yield many opportunities for older machines to get good and stuck.
I wonder what the Erlang equivalent would look like (passing around data that are funs)?
I've found this method invaluable where we are centrally supporting the same software in multiple environments and in multiple configurations.
I was asked by a hip, happening, popular web-app related startup to rate myself in C++.

I pointed out that Bjarne Stroustrup rated himself 7 out of 10 once. I wasn't as good as him, and I wasn't nearly as good as him, which left me the field of 5 and below.

I can guarantee that some ham-fisted chancer who'd flicked through the "Teach Yourself C++" chapter summaries put himself down as an 8, though.
How humanists are using computers to understand text
insightful....:)
Middle ground: inverse relation between power and privacy.

If information magnifies power relationships, then require the powerful (governments, corporations, the wealthy), as well as those who've violated social contracts (criminals).

Which is fairly much how Europe's Right to be Forgotten is working in practice (as some of us predicted).
Apple’s New Music Service Relies on Features, Not Free
If it's any consolation(?) I agree with you.

Plato's theory of Forms says: we can see around us many examples of horses. What makes them all horses? Why, the ideal form of a horse. Plato, I believe, then claims that these forms are perfect and timeless and the the actual world is inhabited by imperfect reproductions of these forms. Apologies to scholars of Plato.

Aristotle's Categories, while superficially, quite different I think is tackling the same problem. His most universal abstract categories try to answer the question, "what is it that all things regardless of their nature have in common?". And so his 10 (suspicious that, that 10) categories. His categories are very much rooted in language, as in they map readily onto parts of speech.

Both are ontological investigations. Both probe the essence of what it means to be something. And so on to the present day. Even though Russell was attempting to resolve a paradox in set theory what I think he actually did was answer the question, "what is a thing (any thing) in essence?" and I think the answer is, for our purposes, a term (instance) of a type (form).

It is not at all obvious how following these ancient investigations leads us to the door-step of type theory but all indications seem to point to it. You seem to have thought about this a good deal. I'd be interested in what you think. I've left out a _lot_ of detail but I hope what I've said is useful to somebody.
I'll admit that the right-click workaround is a minor speedbump but it does work.

And Developer ID certificates are valid much longer than a year, I believe mine expires in 2019. They aren't revoked if you stop paying for program membership, and the expiration applies to the signing operation, apps you've signed in the past will continue to work after the certificate expires.
Correct. You cannot just sign up and get a free 1 PM cloud storage account. The more registered users you have, the more storage space you are allocated. If you go over your allowed storage space you start moving into the paid tier.
Those optimizations look impressive : 1 hour extra time of usage and less space needed for OS update.
Gamblers tend to believe they have "a system" of one kind or another, often based on misunderstandings of probability. I'm sure there's a proportion of the market who'd see this as evidence that "systems can really work" and be encouraged to play even more.
Apple Will Give Any Web Dev 1 Petabyte of Storage for Their Web-App
You are certainly not alone. I both meditate (sometimes) and practice yoga (intermittently), and while both make me feel great and have noticeable effects on my productivity, they're both so much damned work. Once I miss a few consecutive days, its easy to miss a few more.

Brb going to meditate, even though its past my bedtime and I've got a couple glasses of wine in me.
"Music has been part of the Apple DNA from the beginning". That quote's probably enough to get them back into the High Court... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
As I already said, that was not the title when I posted my comment. At the time it was something very much like "Swift is now open-source!" Because of worthless nit-picks like mine, the title was later changed to be accurate.
QML is a declarative UI markup language with javascript scripting. Are there really any parallels to Swift? I haven't looked at it in any detail before.
It already IS. You can compile Android NDK libraries with Go today. It isn't that useful because the NDK isn't hooked up with the Android framework which means you don't get lifecycle events. There was a whole Android framework written over the past decade or so in Java that abstracts this.
It doesn't, apparently. The cost seems to be per-user, so

250MB asset storage / user

3MB database storage / user

50MB transfer / user

10 req/s per 100k users

is all free. I don't know how the requests part scales though, 10/s for 100k users is each user hitting it once per 3 hours. I can't complain about the amount given away for free, but I don't know quite how this would scale with costs for different types of apps/loads.
It stalled because until recently Apple was making products for one guy, Jobs himself. The default iPod equalizer was supposedly set to the idiosyncrasies of Jobs ears.
Advanced compared to what was there in previous releases (basically an Error out parameter that you had to check on your own)
> Perhaps somebody could start an "atheist church",

Already been done, see, e.g., the "Sunday Assembly" phenomenon.

> I don't want atheism to define my life in the same way belief defines the life of religious adherents. I don't want to attend atheist classes or listen to an atheist preacher or be around evangelical atheists. I just want a large community of people who stick together, follow a common moral code, support each other, and have regular social events.

From what I've heard, most Sunday Assembly groups are a lot like what you describe wanting, and less like what you describe not wanting.
It's great news. Hopefully there will be a node-like ecosystem for writing small services on Linux soon.
With F#, Swift and C# available, hopefully the proliferation of Javascript can be slowed on the server (without people running to Go).
Lessons learned: engineering productivity
I've reached the point with my yoga practice (usually at least twice a week for almost 2 years, now) where I feel like crap if I don't get on the mat.

That's a pretty compelling motivator to keep up with it.
While that would be nice, every indication is saying that Google has no interest in this right now.
Sure you can, but no one will read them. My novel "Darwin's Theorem" (available on Amazon for a nominal price in e-book format, a less-nominal price in paperback) is published under a CC license but that doesn't mean anyone will read it.

The fundamentally borken part of the indie ecosystem is marketing/discovery. Publishers still act as gatekeepers for the reading public. Most people don't read and what they do read is almost entirely determined by the amount of marketing done for it, and while marketing is a learnable skill (I've run my own consulting shop, so done a lot of it) it is difficult to do on the kind of budget most indie authors have available for what amounts to a hobby.

The indie music industry has done a better job of discovery but that's in part because music is consumable in much smaller pieces than novels. The solution to this in writing has been--to some extent--to return to serialization, but while that has worked a bit in non-fiction (people write blogs they turn into books) it has so far seen only one or two successes in fiction, and they have been... not notable for the quality of writing, for the most part.

I've experimented with a couple of alternative forms to see if this can be overcome, but no luck so far. One was an illustrated serial prose format (finished version here: http://www.siduri.net/songsofalbion/songs_of_albion.html), the other an somewhat informal poemed illustrations format (http://www.siduri.net/cindylooyou/index.html) that appeared on the artist's blog and developed as a kind of jazz work as we tossed themes back and forth. The latter actually got a bigger following, although we promoted the former a lot more heavily. Go figure.

So far it looks like conventional serial narratives--probably pod-cast--are the best bet for the indie author. Some kind of serial pod-cast will likely be my next move, more in the spirit of exploration than anything else. I'm fortunate to have some training as a voice actor, but the number conditions on an idie author to be successful are many, and the difficulty for readers in discovering work they might enjoy is considerable.
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Can I just say, this is a really well written article. Great diagrams, explanations, and it gives both sides fairly well. Even for the BBC this is top class journalism.
Who said anything about employment?

The question asked how I defined a "good" GitHub profile.
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"[...] And you find an empty bottle of anti-depressants.

And you realize this is what happens when you keep coming to work years after you’ve mentally retired. This terrifies me."

I may perhaps be overly sensitive to this, but this juxtaposition makes me a little uncomfortable.
Well you're right, in nature and architecture the internet in decentralized, but the use most users make of it, is centralized.

If you look at what internet.org attempted to do, that's actually how the internet is used most of the time. For consumers and most small businesses, internet is centralized. Technically, most of the internet is just http requests, meaning that there will always be this duality of servers and clients. Without web servers and their admins, there is nothing, and that's a form of control in my opinion: you can easily shut down a website.
Reminds me a bit of this bit from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: http://hpmor.com/chapter/84

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From his belt, the Auror took a mirror, tapped it once, and then said, "This is Junior Auror Arjun Altunay, I'm calling in code RJ-L20 on cell three."

"Code RJ-L20?" the mirror said in surprised tones. There was a sound of pages being flipped, then, "You want to be relieved because a prisoner is attempting psychological warfare and succeeding?"

(Amelia Bones really is quite intelligent.)

"What'd the prisoner say to you?" said the mirror.

(This question is not part of procedure RJ-L20, but unfortunately Amelia Bones has failed to include an explicit instruction that the commanding officer should not ask.)

"He's -" said the Auror, and glanced back at the cell. The Defense Professor was now leaning in back in his chair, looking quite relaxed. "He was staring at me! And humming! "

There was a pause.

The mirror spoke again. "And you're calling in an RJ-L20 over that? You're sure you're not just trying to get out of watching him?"

(Amelia Bones is surrounded by idiots.)

"You don't understand!" yelled Auror Altunay. "It's really awful humming!"

The mirror transmitted a sound of muffled laughter in the background, sounding like it was coming from more than one person. Then speech again. "Mr. Altunay, if you don't want to be busted to Junior Auror Second Class, I suggest you buckle down and get back to work -"

"Strike that," a crisp voice said, sounding slightly remote due to its distance from the mirror.

(Which is why Amelia Bones often sits in on a coordination center of the D.M.L.E. while doing her Ministry-required paperwork.)

"Auror Altunay," said the crisp voice, seeming to approach closer to the mirror, "you will be relieved shortly. Auror Ben Gutierrez, the procedure for RJ-L20 does not say that you ask why. It says that you relieve the Auror who calls it in. If I find that Aurors seem to be abusing it, I will modify the procedure to prevent its abuse -" The mirror cut off abruptly.
WTF is this shit? This site makes no sense, groundbreakingly horrible design, and totally unclear mission and purpose. Just 100% BS.

Maybe it's a jaberwocky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spyJ5yxTfas
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Swift is getting open source and so does our Swift style guide
I've used the following flow chart to help determine strategies to get myself out of messes:

http://justinhileman.info/article/git-pretty/

Just another way of presenting similar information. No affiliation, just a satisfied consumer of the info :)
Re-signing could be done automatically when you plug your iDevice (unless TTL is really short like 1 hour). App ID, hash could be changed easily as well.
Objective-C 2.0 via Clang and the GNUStep ObjC2 runtime supports blocks, GCD, fast enumeration, declared properties, introspection.
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You can do:

git checkout test_data 'testdata/'

to only grab the 'testdata/' directory from that branch. You can do this with files with a pattern, like '*.c', as well.
To add to this, this is not just good paranoid practice. Don't just think you're safe because you fixed it 5 minutes later and probably no one noticed. There are sites that monitor the global github commit feed looking for things like AWS credentials and SSH keys. If it's been pushed to a public github repo for even a moment, it's been grabbed.
Funny, for years people said Microsoft was Copying Apple. We'll never know but I can't help thinking that Microsofts recent push to open source dev tools and languages at least made this happen sooner than it would have. It's a great time to be a developer.
The iPhone was not much of a smartphone at launch. Only with jailbreaking did we get the whole app thing going. At launch Jobs was all hot and bothered about "web apps" that was nothing more than fancy bookmarks.

Damn it, the phone was basically impossible to use outside of the Californian weather.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

The system is set up in a way that ensures that individual creators (or, rather, their rightsholders) can profit, at the expense of the public domain that no powerful entities can profitably defend.

Basically, copyright is now a one-way street, when it was supposed to be a two-way bargain.
An adblocker and f.lux.
Hooray for native window snapping. This is one less utility app I need to install on a fresh copy of OS X.
You can do this today. Just download XCode and go to town. Or use any other programming language supported on OSX like Python, Go, etc. etc.
I agree here. Apple is indeed early to the game with the Apple Watch, and they're putting more clout behind it than other OEMs.

Remember, Apple was incredibly late to market with the product that saved them from eventual bankruptcy: the iPod. There was no shortage of MP3 players when the iPod launched.

And there was Blackberry and Palm long before the iPhone.

So, yeah, Apple is early here even if a year late. And they're taking their smart watch more seriously than any of their competitors.
"I'd ask how come the word's essence (its "transformation" from a String to an Integer) changes depending on the type of action we intend to apply on it?"

I think the problem is viewing "type" as "essence". Type is all about how we intend to use it, and which invariants we wish to enforce.
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this and more. i actually had no idea that something like the smart cities you mentioned was planned. and neither does any of the general public here. the idea is terrifying. i wonder where and how will they build these entire new cities and how will they cajole working ckass people into moving there, since villagers are definitely not part of their hifi money techno compounds.

it is very interesting to see your perspective on the global economic position that india occupies. think about how one country can actually 'own' shares of the very cities of another free democracy.

please do not take offence when i say that i can't tell you anything concrete at this stage, except harp about the evils of culture domination, about history repeating itself, and about researching more on my previous comment (if you are so inclined). this is in part because i haven't grasped the pattern fully myself, and for the safety of my dear ones. i just believe as much as a mind can, that there is evil afoot (apologies for being dramatic but i fully believe that a lot of countries including india face grave, long term threats).

i will leave you with this - https://ghanshyamtank.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/lord-macau...
Copy Anxiety
The rest of the story: http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/the-parable-of-the-fisherman/
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The diagrams are exemplary.
This is pretty useful for Git noobs like me.
Because it was a featurephone with a fancy interface, not a smartphone. But media tried to claim that because you touched the screen to do stuff, it was a smartphone...
Nice video of robust flying “tailsitter” robot
You can try to create a new Apple ID while they fixing the bug.
I find it far less frustrating to use than Java, as it actually has decent generics.
A similar model applies to analyzing Bitcoin blocks. The "event" in this case is a block that is at its maximum capacity: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/38zww2/tom_harding...
If it is a public repo it's compromised, period.
Change keys/passwords ASAP regardless of what you do with the repo.
What's wrong with being irrelevant?
If you change the app ID you start over with an empty app data directory, which is a bit of a hassle.
This is interesting, but seems to end on an unfair note. Perhaps our good professor's interests and activities slowly moved in a different direction that didn't leave the same recognizable paper and object trail...
How Mickey Mouse Keeps Changing Copyright Law
Apple refuses to fix a critical security vulnerability[0] in non-Yosemite versions of OS X

[0]https://truesecdev.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/hidden-backdoor-...
I haven't really used it, but from what I can tell it seems to serve the same purpose as Moom/SizeUp/Divvy/Spectacle/Slate/ShiftIt with regard to windows (i.e. moving and resizing).

Amethyst (an automatic or dynamic tiling window manager), on the other hand, automatically arranges windows according to predefined tiled layouts (like XMonad, Awesome, etc.).

What I'm trying to explain might become more clear if you watch [0], wherein you can see that all windows on the (virtual) desktop are adjusted in size and position in response to opening or closing other windows.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyNkBLhIpQk
0_o

http://picardfacepalm.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-0TEJMJOhk
ELI5: Why can't a corporation that offers a free service (search) be allowed to promote its business through their own services?
If I own a bar, why shall I be forced to show ads for the next door bar's happy hour instead of promoting mine?
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I was on a flight recently and something smelled... wrong. So I asked the cabin crew about it.

"Oh, you're probably just smelling jet fuel. Once it burns off the smell will go away. No big deal," said the cabin crew.

I did not feel soothed by this.
I'm mostly an Erlang guy, but I do like that about Elixir: they really seem to be taking the Erlang base, and building on it in some interesting ways.
Are you sure this is why Apple went radio silent? Even if Apple was somehow prevented from publishing the standard (I don't see how a patent would prevent them from doing so, but whatever), that doesn't explain why they couldn't just say so.
I have a different take about the books.

Worthwhile technical books have not been published since about 2000.

Technical publishing died in the dot-bomb. The number of new technical books I bought prior to about 2005 was staggering. The number of new technical books I bought in the past 5 years borders on zero.

First, the web killed a bunch of technology publishing. Buying "new" technical books rarely makes sense as the target is probably moving too quickly and the web will be more accurate. So, the only "new", worthwhile technical books are covering more timeless fundamentals, and we probably already have good books for those.

Second, the attitudes of modern youngsters are a bit of an issue. "If it isn't on the web, it doesn't exist." Well, there was a whole lot of history prior to 2000, but none of you know how to find it. That's why you all keep making the same mistakes.

Third, technical books got ferociously expensive. Most technical books that are covering something semi-cutting edge are almost $200.

Fourth, there are no outlets for technical books to be browsed. Amazon killed all the technical bookstores because it wasn't paying sales tax. If I can't browse a book, I'm certainly not paying $200 for it.

So, while this might be an office of someone who checked out 15 years ago, the lack of books later than 2000 isn't good evidence.
Huh? Sony back when it was still called SonyEricsson pushed at least two models of watches that look surprisingly similar to Android Watch in operation. Never mind that they also produced a number of analog watches with notification strips (the watch part ran on a separate battery).
Here's the crux of the problem: Jared Diamond's answer to Yali's question is not mutually exclusive with the converse of (b). In other words, Guns, Germs, and Steel argues persuasively that environmental factors played a major role in observed group outcomes, but it does not argue persuasively (or at all) that those environmental factors left no imprint on the genomes of the groups in question.

To put it in concrete terms: Do you believe that, say, Scandinavians and Australian Aborigines have—on average or at the extremes—identical talents and inclinations for playing chess? If so, what is your basis for this belief?
Yeesh, ok I didn't realize the title was changed
Now the Saudi's come to the u.s. and take over an entire floor of the Mayo, kicking out patients (ok, just moving to another floor) because they want security and privacy.

I actually don't have a problem with this. They're fixing things to keep the high-money patients in secure and private locations.