skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right! That does half answer my request :) Those crazy infinities,right? :)

The other half is where I said "reasonable", like the three approaches from the article are--in my subjective opinion--quite reasonable. Picking samples from an uncountable (right?) infinity of options explicitly to satisfy the desired probability, somewhat less subjectively, is not :)

So yes, your method allows for B arbitrarily close to 0 or 1 (or anywhere in between), and it's clever.

But let's not go for "arbitrarily close", but just "very close", or "closer". I wonder if there's (subjectively) reasonable ways of sampling chords from a circle, like you could explain with a realistic(ish) scenario for a ninja pizza slicerator or an erratic mermaid, that give a probability even less than 1/4th or more than a half?
Malls and airports, for rent, $5 an hour, millions sold.
Sapins[1] by Yuval Noah Harari. Currently 220 pages into it, I wholeheartedly recommend -- it's remarkably well written and is full of very interesting perspectives.

Credit where it's due: learnt about this book in an edge.org conversation[2] between Dr. Harari and the eminent psycologist Daniel Kahneman.

Speaking of professor Kahneman, I recently finished his "Thinking, Fast and Slow" (I did notice it's mentioned in the comments, but still), over a period of deliberate slow reading of 5 months. Much has been said and written (more than well deservedly!) about this book. Don't let the title invite you to dismiss it off as yet another over-simplifying popular psyocology book; it's anything but that. It is an account of about 30 years of collaboration with his late colleague Amos Tversky. Certainly not a breezy page-turner. It's well worth it to take your own time to assimilate the content.

[1] http://www.ynharari.com/sapiens-the-book/short-overview/
[2] http://edge.org/conversation/yuval_noah_harari-daniel_kahneman-death-is-optional
Because it's not Bitcoin. As far as I can tell, this is the number one piece of evidence that a cryptocurrency is a scam. I've been following Ethereum almost entirely because I'm a developer and I'm interested in using the technology for projects, and I can tell you the atmosphere is maddening. I'm accustom to welcoming communities that care about the tech, not cynical communities that care about pushing their particular interests because they have investments. The cryptocurrency space is awful and polluted with unhelpful attitudes but the tech is too important to be pushed aside for that reason.

Ignore the FUD, Ethereum is not a scam. It's actual open source software with multiple popular implementations successfully delivered from a toxic environment with an impressive level of care toward getting the technical aspects right while being as transparent as possible. It's not perfect, about as perfect as any startup I've watched. Don't dump money into anything you don't understand.

EDIT- just as an illustration, I think it's interesting to use the Bitcoin Talk forum search tool. There are 464,000 results for "scam" and 484,000 results for "currency". Spend 5 seconds on the forum to find the word used like it's the coolest slang around. Everything is a scam, because evidence.
wiki shows only this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconcentration_of_attention

I am adding this on to spark a simpler explnation from someone who is experienced with this.

An excerpt from her website talks about this, link found from wikipedia, http://molchanova.ru/en/article/attention-deconcentration-fr...
- "States close to AD can be achieved if person distributes attention on the field of vision periphery, i.e. focuses attention simultaneously on the regions above, below, on the left and on the right. Distribution of attention on the periphery requires voluntary efforts, since human visual apparatus is designed to detect objects in the central part of the vision field. There is useful deconcentration method when one imagines all objects are pictured on a transparent screen in front of him and concentrates attention only on the surface of the screen. This suspends spontaneous eye movements and focuses attention not on objects, but on fragments of vision field. If person performs the exercise correctly, his eyes do not “cling” to objects when he turns his head, but remain motionless relative to the head. This deconcentration type is called “planar deconcentration”. Further explanations can be found in Bakhtiyarov’s works."
It's just missing the better alternative. It's much more correct and useful to say "given all evidence the probability there are yeti is almost zero" correctly doesn't rule it impossible and correctly asserts that we shouldn't behave as if they do. I mean, if we're fine when the entire physics community go nuts with excitement when we make a mistaken measurement of a neutrino going faster than light, why worry about a person who thinks they saw a yeti try to find a yeti?
I think the whole DNS mechanism is broken badly

Beside the hundreds of new nonsense TLDs you have domains being taken down for copyright infringment or dissident suppression, name squatting and of course domain name frontrunning by registrars

And then there are of course DNS aimed DDOS attacks etc

Something needs to be done (yes I heard of namecoin) since the web as we know it is getting shittier by the year :(
Downvoters probably don't understand that in EU blogspot (and any google website, and most other popular websites) show a big fat warning that obstructs 10% of the screen, telling the user about the fact that the website uses cookies, and there's essentially nothing you can do.

If you're clearing cookies manually, at the end of the session, or using some extension to avoid being tracked, this means the warning will show up every time, on basically every popular website you visit.

It's even more ironic to consider that some ad-blocking lists now include element-hiding rules to overcome to those prompts as well (fanboy's "annoyances" list contains many rules for that).
Try Peter Drucker's Adventures of a Bystander, Jane Jacobs's Cities trilogy (non-fiction, written over many years, classic) and Robert Cialdini's Influence: the Psychology of Persuasion. Also I'll second the David Simon, Atul Gawande, Feynman, Shannon, and Keynes recommendations.
Imagine blocking anybody named "academy of natural sciences" and then claiming you were blocking terrorists, not just organizations devoted to science.
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>Not even the most naive users of the slogan "you can't prove a negative" literally think that you cannot prove negatively phrased mathematical or logical claims, such as "1 + 2 != 5".

What happens is that the most "naive users of the slogan" don't take their thinking that far, that's why they believe it. It's not that don't think you cannot prove negatively phrased mathematical or logical claims, it's they don't understand that that would be a counter-example to their "can't prove a negative" claim.
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I also think histories and biographies can be great for high S/N nonfiction. Good examples that I really enjoyed include "Ignition" by John D. Clark and "Excuse me sir, would you like to buy a kilo of isopropyl bromide?" by Max Gergel.
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Thanks! Utterly crazy stuff. I really pity this downvoters. Sad fools who pay folks to kick them in the nuts and then downvote anyone who points out their self-harming behavior.
It seems odd to me that people would be blacklisted from accessing anti-virus at all. Imagine if that block extended to other protections like locks on the front door of your house, or access to infrastructure like hospitals.

It doesn't sit well with me, even if you do believe that they are 'evil people'. Antivirus strikes me as something that everyone should have access to. It's not an offensive tool.
Discovered via https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Larsen-R...
>On the other hand you cannot ever prove x = y since there will always be values of x and y that are so close that your test has no power.

If they are so close that your test has no power, then they might as well be the same for the purposes of your test.
I'm not familiar with the dataset you were working with, but I would be willing to bet certain values occur a lot more frequently than others. In which case, you could work with the compressed values, and only uncompress them for the results.
Important and useful idea, but what a clunky explanation; way too much unnecessary jargon.
* Influence by Cialdini - great overview of the psychology of human motivation and influence. You'll get the inside dirt on a lot of sales and marketing tricks.

* Seeing like a State by James Scott - a good political history with lots of insight into many conventions in our modern society, such as even last names, were created to make society manageable by a central government.

* Europe and the Europeans by Barzini - the closest thing I have found to being a time traveler, skipping between different places and times in Europe from 1920 to the 1970's.
Would you find What Intelligence Tests Miss - Psychology of Rational Thought by Keith Stanovich more convincing?
I always preferred this little illustration for how DNS worked[1]. It's similar to the linked one, but more minimal and to the point.

I had a 1920x1200 copy around somewhere I used for a desktop background, but can't find it at the moment.

[1] http://gdihouston.github.io/intro-programming-concepts/image...
Induction allows us to use the existential quantifier, deductions allows us to add the universal quantifier. If we want to say something about the world, we are bound to empiricism, thus our deductive claims rest upon our inductive evidence. This is a framework. Any use of the universal quantifier (necessary for a negative claim), is unsupported by our empirical data. This is essentially Popper/Hume.
I agree for the most part, but great games do fail even on the AAA side. See Psychonauts, Beyond Good & Evil, Okami... Critically acclaimed and loved by gamers, but commercial failures.

I'd guess it's more common in mobile and indie, but don't know for sure. I'd be really curious to see an in-depth analysis of it.
It is falsifiable though. All you'd need is for someone to notice that a game that has been lingering in obscurity for years is actually great and start bringing attention to it.
Where really hard is 10kmph.
Blackmore's book is a very clear introduction to the meme, and general replicator, concept.
I think the basic problem is that the ease of adding new dependencies means that dependencies are more frequently added without consideration. Delegating auditing of dependencies to a specific individual on the team can solve that problem if that person is very conservative about what they allow, but that seems to no longer be the norm.

It's not just security that this hurts: I've worked on a few projects now where one or two of the dependencies introduced early on later became the source of the majority of the work on the project. Often dependencies added to solve one problem are unable to solve other problems and are designed in such a way that they are tightly coupled to everything that uses them. The result: either you put in the time to rip out the dependency, or you pile workarounds on top of workarounds to the point that it would have been easier to write the dependency yourself.

There is, of course, a balance to be had here: a solid library can save you an immense amount of work. But only a handful of the libraries I have used are actually solid, and I'm increasingly unwilling to pull in dependencies I haven't used before.

As a rule of thumb: I never want to use a library that's not versioned 1.0 or higher. A 1.0 version doesn't mean that it's ready for use in production systems, but a 0.x version number has always meant it's not ready, in my experience.
When I used to free solo climb, it was more about being in the zone. Putting your concious brain in the background because it will kill you. Anyone doing those kinds of sports fully knows the chances of dying & decides to take it.

I eventually decided the chances weren't worth it. I still greatly miss it.
Yes, it is.

Source: someone who lives in the region of many a Hassan Ali.
I use Thunderbird for all my emails (or almost), mainly for PGP, the plugins and the consistency (I don't have to switch from a web platform to another )
That's one model of the process. Another is that the distinction between negative and positive claims is entirely artificial, and that there are really only "claims" and the truth of them is determined by their effectiveness at constructing reliable models of reality. And thus any demonstration of self-contradiction is a disprove of a claim, whether negative or not.
I can confirm senior devs do not max out at $85K CDN. The money is not as good and made worse by down swings in the Canadian dollar, but it's not that bad.
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> the programmers all have Eastern european names

That's at best a borderline slur and you don't need it to make your point.

HN is an international site, and nobody here deserves to be categorized based on their name.
So I dived in a bit more while I wait for him to call me back. It's a Magento build using Autorize.net I haven't worked with Magento in years, but should be really simple right. Set up some forwarding rules in Cloudflare to always to go the HTTPS and of course the cert.

At least it isn't some guys backyard CMS.
As I suspected, irrational dogma.
Ask HN: Resources for learning the business aspects of tech
Sorry if this has been asked, I searched and couldn't find anything.

Does anyone know of good resources on the basics of business, especially targeted towards startup founders or early company hires?
Does Europe have 4 major competitors in each country? I seriously doubt it. It's probably the opposite. They have three or less true operators and they each have more spectrum at a lower cost.

The cheapest option would be a single carrier regulated by government. But they might not upgrade as fast. So we might have super cheap 2g instead of expensive LTE A.
That was how it was marketed when it first came out. It will revolutionize human transportation they said. Everyone will have one they said.

I almost rented one for the first time on vacation this spring... then I just walked instead.
This weekend: Getting started with dotfiles
Static linking is pretty common in the jvm world where you want to have a single war/jar/ear that you deploy so that can figure out all those things at compile time, rather than deploy time.

I think languages with a compile step naturally tends towards static linking for SaaS systems since single compiled blobs are much easier to manage and deploy.

But Docker is also pretty much static linking of the entire runtime environment, and that seems to be getting some traction where people have messier deployments.
In physics (and other natural sciences) you can ONLY prove negatives in fact, so to a physicist this statement is not surprising at all.

Example: If we observe an apple falling to the ground with the same acceleration many times we will try to generalize this observation and create a theory that explains this phenomenon and similar ones (such as Newton's laws and his theory of gravity). Unfortunately we can never prove such a theory in the mathematical sense since we can never be sure that the next time we perform a given experiment it will still yield the same result (it could be that the laws of physics change over time or work differently in other parts of the universe). However, we can easily falsify a given theory if we can produce even one single observation where the theory does not fit reality (which is precisely why general relativity was needed to replace the classical theory of gravity, which could not explain all experimental data [actually the new theory came even before the data in that case, which is amazing in itself]). So, in a sense, proving that something is not true is the only thing we can do with absolute certainty.

That said, theories that are proven wrong by experiment and replaced by other theories are still valid in their domain of applicability, so to say as an approxomation of the larger theory.
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Vancouver has the West Coast Express, which is a passenger train that runs east from Downtown out to the valley. The furthest stop is about 75km away and the longest journey is about 70 minutes.

We also have light rail called Skytrain that heads south and east from Downtown, but I suspect the furthest this reaches is about 30km away.
Again, I understand there are issues with the modern internet, but that article was unironically calling for the return of geocities. It's a hyperbolic clickbait title that has no place in a reasonable discussion about the actual issues that we're dealing with. Beyond that, I even quoted the passage I took issue with.

> In 2015, becoming a Web developer is all about learning Ruby or figuring out Node.js, not just building cool things you like.

This is patently wrong. Maybe it was harsh to call him a moron but the content was very weak in that particular piece.
In the old days everywhere you went was tight-knit. These days, only really obscure concerns remain tight-knit.
Roham Gharegozlou of Axiom Zen, perhaps.
Extensive discussion 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9719639
I don't think you understand what average resp. median age means. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_...

Japan and Germany are the ones with highest median age.
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Ahimsa online: adapting an ancient practice to a networked society
there is an absolute shortage of experienced and talented senior executive-level people

Not quite what I was expecting from the title.

As a data scientist in Montreal considering a move to Vancouver, how is the hiring situation for technical work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PENSEenxRQo
I'm not saying either of them is better because or the amount of people they attracted. I merely ask why Go managed to interest more people than Lisp in an order of magnitude of time less.
- Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders http://amzn.to/1KWptkR
- Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul http://amzn.to/1Mcy70b
- Diffusion of Innovations http://amzn.to/1Dy5ZmM
- Failure Is Not an Option http://amzn.to/1W8U4BG
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"More time passed and we got to Korea, 1950. By that time, Madison Avenue had learned well how to manipulate the language, and the same condition became _operational exhaustion_. It had been stretched out to eight syllables. It took longer to say, so the impact was reduced, and the humanity was completely squeezed out of the term. It was now absolutely sterile: operational exhaustion. It sounded like something that might happen to your car." - George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops (2004)
Vancouver is prob the most multi cultural city on earth and everywhere I've worked here is full of female executives, so American problems with ID politics don't manifest here. Just walk the streets for 10mins you will hear a dozen different languages.

The problem is I get paid 2x the local salary to work for US startups remotely, and paid in USD a stronger currency. Everybody I know works remotely for Toronto, or US companies so I imagine power execs from around the world don't want to come here for the same low compensation and high income tax reasons that force us lowly devs to contract outside the province. I haven't seen much local hiring with options either, and if they do offer options they are tiny so why would I dedicate a huge chunk of my life to make somebody else's company rich while making half the salary of my clone in SV who has full options.
If security were really your "number one goal", then you would not create a site at all.
Success or fail is more related to marketing than game originality and quality.

There are tons of cloned games sold well, and there are also many great original games aren't.
Most people who go through the extensive training required to be a doctor want more than "modest pay" as a result, and rightly so. And doctor pay is not the cause of the high cost of health care. Doctors could all work for free and all else remaining the same you'd hardly notice the difference.
Unfortunately the referendum that would have given Translink (Vancouver's transit authority) the steady revenue to expand light rail service deep into the Fraser Valley failed as anti-tax crusaders framed Translink as an ineffective organization.

The reality couldn't be more different, as Translink is one of the most effective transit systems in western North America and is a model for transit planners. https://www.biv.com/article/2015/3/who-takes-transit-work-me...

Once one leaves Vancouver proper the Metro Vancouver area has the same sprawling highways as any other region, but Translink's service area is massive (imagine every transit service and organization in every town in the Bay Area being one service (ok Bay Area is a bit bigger)) and you can seamlessly go from Vancouver all the way to White Rock at the border within the system on one ticket. The Evergreen line which will connect the system to Port Moody and Coquitlam should come on line in 2016.
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Thats also my experience.
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I prefer Minsky's term "suitcase word", which applies to most of the examples I can think of (consciousness, emotions, morality, justice, fairness, etc).

Example: the word "morality" can create difficultly because there are so many tangled layers of meaning that vary from person to person. Alternate, more easily discussed words might be "ethics" (less baggage) or "conduct" (perhaps no baggage).
You may have missed the memo, but according to new wave feminism, the word "meritocracy" represents discrimination because you don't give special treatment to people based on sex, ethnicity etc.

I'm not kidding, and Github had adopted this view as well. [1]

Among many, this CoC is seen as a continuation of this largely feminist agenda. And we don't think it belong here. Open source I'd apolitical, meaning you can avoid political issues entirely in a good and neutral environment.

Why work so hard to make it political? For what gains?

[1] http://readwrite.com/2014/01/24/github-meritocracy-rug
Is medicine a good career choice for someone wanting to ‘make a difference’?

I wish people would stop using that phrase. Stalin "made a difference."
This is why your pipes go bang in the walls!

When you're working with and/or designing these systems all of this is expected. In any modern country there's literally hundreds of regulations that must be followed for steam plants and other systems of the like that prevent this. The really interesting thing is because we've been using these types of "solutions" long before electronics, there are mandated multiple mechanical safety mechanisms to prevent catastrophic failure in them.

The sad fact is that this is really less of a "black hat" hack and almost always directly related to someone failing to follow safety regulations either in design or implementation. The cost of mandated safety devices seem to be more than the cost for bribes to the inspectors.
They can't stop you from using a device that technically works on their network.

Say for instance you bring an unlocked AT&T iPhone 6 to Verizon. If you have an existing sim card (all LTE devices have them even on Verizon), you can simply swap your sim card into the device and it will activate automatically and work just fine. However, if you take that device into the store and need to get a sim card, they will refuse to give you one as they only activate devices that are on their whitelist.

A way around it would be to just borrow someone else's Verizon LTE capable smartphone to activate temporarily to get a sim card and then just swap it into your device you want to use.