skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, everybody is recommending different content sites, so you've got places to go to find specifics. That's good. But you also need a way to figure out what you already know, what you want to know, and which order is best to learn stuff in so you're not confused. For instance, you'd better have a decent understanding of trigonometry, geometry, and pre-calculus before you try tackling calculus. The hardest part about self-learning isn't trying to find tutorials for what you want to learn, it's figuring out how the specific topic you're working on can be contextualized in terms of other topics in the same subject area.

To figure that out, the most helpful thing I've found is looking at example 4-year plans at colleges (and, if they're available, even for some high schools when it comes to the fundamentals of a subject I never took), and, for online any given online course, seeing if there are any recommended prerequisites or co-requisites.

As an afterthought to all that, my favorite tutorial sites are like, HyperPhysics for physics, MIT open courseware for CS topics, HowStuffWorks for general tech-y knowledge (say, if I wanted to learn how a capacitor or a web server worked). If I'm going to google for good tutorials, I usually include something like "tutorial", "introduction", "primer", "layman's guide", or "cheat sheet". I find that even if I'm looking for an in-depth learning experience, the tutorials that are written to be simple will do the best job of emphasizing what's important, and laying out the way that somebody who "knows how to do it" will approach a problem.
Occam's razor. We know that someone recently stole the exact information they are complaining about being exposed. This is probably how the agents were compromised.

A lying anonymous government source (from one of the governments that has anonymously lied to us so many times in the past) is far more plausible than some bizarre 2 year delay and subsequent cryptographic breakthrough by the "Chinese and Russians" (who are now allied?).
Lucky for you and Mr. Blankfein, being “transracial” is now a thing:
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/12/us/rachel-dolezal-social-m...
Huge fan of the conclusions. And many hackers do that already, spending hundreds of dollars for high quality key boards and mouses. But we certainly haven't reached the point were our tools are as professional as a pilot's.
OH I ALMOST FORGOT - Paul's Online Math Notes!!! That site got me through high school maths!
1. As stephenr says, create a document/checklist. This should include steps on how to set up db access, vm access, installing common tools (like XCode for Mac), etc. If there are standard HR procedures like setting up direct deposit, instructions on how to do that too. Machine set up can be automated using tools like Boxen.

2. Provide application documentation and an intro to your company and industry domain knowledge. This should be part doc and part talk.

3. Assign someone to be their guide for two weeks. This person should be responsible for the small things like guiding them through application patterns, odd questions etc.

Above all, do your best to get your new hire in the code and working even if it's just bug fixing the first week.

Keep in mind that onboarding will have to continue to evolve as your company scales. What worked 3 hires ago, may need to be tweaked now
Jobs are a cost, not a benefit. You seem to be agreeing with me - we have more benefits and fewer costs.
Ah, and it seems to be connected to ray marching also, as demonstrated so well by the fractal lab guy: http://sub.blue/fractal-lab
Funny you should ask - there's a kickstarter launching tomorrow for a pretty legit keyboard project: http://www.keyboard.io
Twinax is used only for point-to-point links over short distances with manufactured cables with connectors on the end -- I understand this eliminates basically all of the pain associated with 10base5 and 10base2: It's just a somewhat inflexible cable at this point, and you're not running them in ceilings, to cubes, or such.
TAE of course. I also like Peter Wilson, _The Circuit Designer's Companion_, the 3rd edition is published 2012 by Newnes. It's on libgen if you want to look through it before buying.
Will second the pro version thought - IIRC, the app is like 2.99, but a bargain at that.
Veery nice visual introduction to the basics of neural networks
The New York Times wisely blocks staff from viewing its desktop homepage
Interesting article, but the author mentions exactly why I could never get into a location-specific setup like a keyboard and foot pedal; I shift locations far too often (I'm currently working remotely from a Starbucks at the moment).

While maybe not going as far as becoming proficient in whatever setup could be considered the "lowest common denominator", I prefer to use a setup that is flexible across locations and environments. There's a lot of freedom in being able to move about between workstations and locations and still be fast and capable.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9330734
Or Lennay Kekua for that matter
Which "average price" is that benchmarked to? Average in the city? Neighbourhood? Free-market rents can vary a great deal even between adjacent buildings.
Money is fungable. It can be invested in anything. Yes apartments in Berlin might still be profitable, but other investments are more profitable and capital will move to those.
What kind of compiler are you writing? For which language and target?
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Actually the quality is superb. It is used to train many fine electronics personnel in the military. The military does not graduate people who do not know how to use what they learned or practical application.
Even if you remove gender from th equation, this is a good idea because it saves time and, in some cases, could actually leave employees with a higher salary then they would have negotiated for somewhere else.
Well, yeah, but the whole question of extending this algorithm to arbitrary (weighted) graphs is still very interesting: it seems to rely on some kind of discrete [1] version of parallel transport.

[1] http://ddg.cs.columbia.edu/
Well AFF is unique in that it's explicitly a hookup site, and that might naturally skew men. I'm not sure an even gender balance would even help anything. With 1,000 men and 1,000 women, you'd still have the most attractive women flooded with messages.
Yes.

There is some nifty work on trying to structure an actual grammar based on the geometry of the embedding space, but "look at this cool thing we found" is a totally worthwhile thing to publish.

(Embeddings themselves are useful for a whole lot more than that, though.)
A lot of people are recommending Scratch, but I am going to recommend Construct 2. It is an awesome engine for making HTML5 games. It is visual coding so your nephew will have no problem with it. https://www.scirra.com/

Of course, listen to what pvaldes said also. Designing a game first will be better.

Also, I would recommend Teamviewer for you guys to use so he can share his screen and you can interact with it.
For some companies though, it's about protecting IP, e.g.

* Google wants to stop scraping so that you can't build a competing search engine that just scrapes Google for every search term that you see.

* LinkedIn has an amazing database of user information, you wouldn't want someone scraping all of it and creating LinkedIn2.

* One of the reasons Quora exists is that there are a lot of opportunities in mining the answers; they don't want another company to get to piggy-back on their hard work creating the site, acquiring users, making a good UI, paying for hosting etc.
Bohannon tested a system, it failed, and he reported exactly how he tested the system and how it failed. 'The system' in this case is the global food science and health journalism industry.

He found that ignorance and laziness is rampant, that journal peer review is non-existent, and skepticism about results and methods is non-existent.

He has done a tremendous public service exposing the flaws in a system. With any luck consumers of these information sources will take everything with an enormous, skeptical grain of salt, because the last and best line of defense is your own skepticism critical thinking.

You can't delegate thinking.
IBM Watson Psychological Profile of Joseph Mengele and Osama Bin Laden
If anything I applaud John's work, this is a great social experiment.
I've been interested in Kinesis keyboards for a while now but am still undecided because the more I think about the whole problem of HCI from a programmer's perspective the more I question my own assumptions. I'm wondering if something far out like the Twiddler could really work for somebody living in a text editor with vim bindings most of the day. If anybody had to share their experience with it I would be very interested to hear it (e.g. experience working with your legs up).

http://twiddler.tekgear.com
You pull out the standard argument of authoritarian types in your last sentence. Fear. You are unconcerned about the decline of human rights in your country because some anonymous government source has conjured up some sinister foreign boogeyman.
A foot pedal is no less discreet and portable than an external mouse, and those are pretty widely used and accepted at coffee shops (it could even be argued that the external mouse consumes more valuable space than the foot pedal - the mouse requires lateral table space and elbow room, while the pedal is literally on the floor beneath your feet).

Likewise I know developers that bring external keyboards like the Kinesis in their backpacks to wherever they want to hack.

Edit: that being said, you're right that it adds up. I believe the author of the article also uses a vertical mouse. That's a lot of gear to haul to Starbucks!
Which one could combine with blurring.

Progressive JPEG with a blur filter depending on how much has loaded yet?

That would be the best solution, probably.
Paul Steinhardt:What’s wrong with inflation theory and his view of the Big Bang
And that's no coincidence: the prospect of Scottish independence was seen as a grave threat to the United Kingdom by HMG; so, yes, they conducted information operations against it.

I am quite sure that seeing the results that the SNP got in the General Election, however, may give them pause for thought about how such things may backfire.
There be no incentive to upgrade or maintain rental apartments/homes either with a rent cap.

so everyone endsup with crap accommodation.

For example some landlords would put in good kitchens, flooring, insulation etc and charge a premium for renting a better home. There be no incentive to do so in this case.
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I learned enough to know that a lot of people designing electronics taught by civilian colleges should have gone into the military first and learned how electronics works and what it gets subjected to in the field and how it can fail miserably and how us grease monkeys out there had to come up with often extremely clever, unimaginable fixes for the design goofs made by those civilian graduates who thought of themselves so highly.
First Time Facebook Taken to Court by European Privacy Commission
> Everything is wrong.

I wouldn't go that far... Nutrition 'science' is quite valid, the only problem is the amount of people in the nutrition space who aren't actually doing 'science'.

> People who pay very close attention to their own habits and results are probably going to be more right about their own nutrition than all the scientists in the world put together.

Doubt it. People are often quite irrational about these things. Which is why there's so many people who follow fad diets (and buy the books).
Apple’s WWDC Announcements Wounded These 13 Startups
Thanks for the suggestion. I have added it to the issue on Github: https://github.com/bearfrieze/litenin/issues/10. Will look into it.
Well, it's a paper from the Symposium on Experimental Algorithms ;) You can find a good list of interesting route planning papers, including hub labeling, at http://i11www.iti.uni-karlsruhe.de/teaching/sommer2014/route... (page is in German, but the literature is English of course)
>act like a man/woman

Meaningless bullshit, the definition of which is often shaped by advertising for the purposes of getting you to buy their stuff to temporarily assuage your insecurities. Just find some genuine interests and a passion or two, even if that means you're a bodybuilder doing crochet.

Everyone physically capable should eat right and exercise though.
Iʼm sold, I think... (U+02bc isn't really intended for such use, but until there's a proper alternative, other than U+2019 or U+0027, I'm using it)[1].

(in ~/.XCompose)
include "%L"
<Multi_key> <apostrophe> <minus> : "ʼ" U02BC # MODIFIER LETTER APOSTROPHE

[1] A potential problem with U+0027 is that low-ascii ' and " have uses for demarcating things (like attribute values in html, most popularly), so if you're editing anything that uses ' for markup, you can't search and replace based on ' anymore.
Not to nitpick. I just want people to realize there are actually recursive nets that rely on a parser to be built (this is the recursive net that relies on backpropagation through structure). Then there is the recurrent net (LSTMs,multimodal) that rely on backpropagation through time.

Talking to some of the users of Recursive nets, they will be renaming them to tree rnns which should help clear up confusion a bit.
Unicode is not a clusterfuck. Overall, it is a very comprehensive, well thought out standard, that has improved the situation for interoperable internationalization dramatically over the hundreds of separate encodings that preceded it.

The clusterfuck is mostly in the essential complexity of the problem; the world's languages and writing systems are quite complex and varied, and all of the writing systems and punctuation conventions were designed for reading, hand-writing and hand-typesetting by people who understood the language in question, not automatic typesetting and processing by a general purpose computer.

The complexity of the problem was increased by the necessity of providing migration paths from legacy encodings to Unicode and back again; without such a guarantee, bootstrapping the world into using Unicode would have been a much more difficult proposition, but that constraint also means that many oddities of legacy encodings have had to be preserved in Unicode in order to be able to preserve that round-trip mapping.

Unicode, and sister projects like the Common Locale Data Repository, are doing an admirable job of navigating and standardizing this complex problem.

There are definitely aspects of the Unicode process where they have gotten it wrong; UCS-2/UTF-16 is one of them, in hindsight it is apparent that UTF-8 is superior in pretty much every way. Having a variable width encoding but which most of the world's text fits in a fixed width, and which has endianness issues that necessitate inclusion of an non-textual byte order marker to disambiguate, has caused a number of problems and incompatibilities. There may be a few other points of legitimate criticism, like some aspects of Han unification.

But on the whole, outside of a few problems like those, the "clusterfuck" is caused not by Unicode, but simply by the essential complexity of the problem involved. Language and text are simply difficult things to model in a computer.
tl;dr; I'm only in the top 3'rd percentile and I feel envy for the top 1'st percentile, and I'm willing to cause millions to suffer dire poverty in order to mitigate my feelings of envy.
Reminds me of DnD. I wonder if there is any correlation between DMs and game designers.
I have a Kinesis and I've give it a good go. My main problem with it is that, while typing is absolutely wonderful and comfortable very quickly, you should keep your hands in the proper position the whole time, or you can't do anything.

For example, use a mouse and copy, or even just to use a mouse gets to you for the proper position. A typical use of c select with a mouse, copy, move the cursor and paste, is very weird.
Also something like write something with a pen and move pages up and down. A regular keyboard allows you to move right and use your left hand for right keys (cursors, etc). With the Kinesis, this is uncomfortable.

The pedal is also weird and needs a lot of adjustment.

I used it for a while, and encourage to everyone around me if they want to give it a go, but I moved back to a more regular keyboard...
Obnoxious and cranky people, of the kind that often get banned from online forums, sit in planning meetings and have their way.
For Go and sparc64, I did arm64 before.
This goes way, way back, all the way to early IBM JCL forcing the acquisition of file locks in alphabetical order when starting a batch job.
I don't think this will fly in Germany. Such are agreements are void and both parties know that. If they stop paying the higher sum, evicting the tenant is next to impossible.
I laughed. But more seriously, I wonder if Bohannon's media experiment would have succeeded if you change a detail. E.g. if it was about something truly gross, like drinking curdled milk to lose weight. Journalists want to tell people what they want to hear, because people will tend to buy the paper that says what they are already thinking (weird, I know).

It's human nature that people are more skeptical about claims they don't like.
I heavily agree with this post. People believe that pictures and zodiac matter more than they actually do. Not sure if I agree with your #3 though, seems like it is automating too much
1) And now the money for that oil is going to Texas instead of the US

2a) It varies from year to year, and that number is one of the higher ones, but even using it, it's not just about the difference in what gets paid vs. what gets spent. Texas is the 2nd highest state in gross collections. If you remove the tax revenue from Texas, it is nearly one tenth of the entire tax collection for the US.

2b) George Bush is not from Texas. He's from Connecticut. What war have Texans gotten the US into outside of the one with Mexico in the 1800s?

3) The US - and I'm sure you'll blame Texas for this, somehow - has put itself in a position of needing the military. Removing Texas won't remove the Republican party or the neo-con hawks running it. Unless you can get rid of all of them too, you'll be doing the same things the US has always done, but now with a reduced ability to do it.

4) See above. Also, larger than average pool of unskilled labor? Texas sits quite near the middle on per capita income, while having a severely reduced cost of living compared to most of the states that sit above it. Adjusted for that, it's in the top half.

5) Well, yes. Of course Texas losing the benefits of the Union is bad for Texas. I'm not sure what you're trying to argue with this particular point.

You've made up Texas to be a bogeyman for everything you feel is wrong with the US, and are acting as if it is responsible for every poor policy the US government has made. If you want to pin all that ails the Union on one state, well, be my guest. It's no different than the far right idiots who say the same thing about California.
Bizhawk is a SNES emulator for Game Casters.

Seth, the video author is a Super Mario World Speedrunner and Twitchcaster.
http://www.twitch.tv/sethbling

Bizhawk has Lua Scripting built in :
http://tasvideos.org/Bizhawk/Features.html

Seth implemented Neuro-Evolution in Lua and
http://pastebin.com/ZZmSNaHX

now machine learning casting is a thing...
I'll disagree strongly here if the $80K and $4K are after tax. $40K in savings with an average life is highly preferable to $3K in savings with an average life. Yes there are smaller impacts to immediate choices, but I'd bet on the $40K to have a higher impact in the future. PPP is very sensitive to things like rapid economic growth, changes in immigration, changes in popularity of location, etc. You could very quickly find $3k/year of savings obliterated if that $1K goes to $4K. It's a lot harder for a $40K cost of living to go to $60K or $80K.
A few factors that are usually included: location, proximity to public transport, noise level, age, interior quality (windows, floor, etc.), energy consumption, and similar. Those calculations (Mietspiegel) are already done since a long time without people complaining too much that they don't capture the real market value.
The Korean Hangeul alphabet is an interesting compromise. It's an alphabet, but multiple letters are grouped together into syllabic characters when written. Those syllables in many cases map back to Chinese Han characters by way of sound values (a lot of the Korean vocab is Chinese in origin, even though the language have very distinct grammar), which means the boundaries between morphemes often match the character boundaries. This is reflected in the orthography, where in case of multiple options for how to distribute letters over characters, the option that keeps the same morpheme spelled consistently through use in different words is preferred. So while you can write phonetically as in Latin, the written language retains a high level of morphological information and things feel very Lego-like.
Actually, the algorithms used are provably optimal in regard to whatever metric is plugged into them. This means that no matter which of these algorithms you use (including Dijkstra or A*), you will get the exact same result. The difference is in the time and space required for precomputation vs at query time. That includes Contraction Hierarchies, which Google Maps uses (or used?). But if they screw up the optimization metric, then the algorithm can't save them either.
TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option (2013)
The Sunday Times has now quietly deleted the key lie about Greenwald's husband (which the whole article depended on) from the online article, with no note.

It will still be in the print edition, which means it needs a retraction.
@reamworks

[Your post is flagged/dead, so I'm replying here. I hope you see it.]

The relationship between counting calories and weight loss is not quite as simple as the formula [Calories Injested] - [Calories Burned] = [Delta body fat] might indicate.

Details here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/12/the-physics-diet/