skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to the biases, there is another flaw in this analysis- they assume that quality is a linear function of critic scores. So, jumping from 30 metacritic score to 50 metacritic score is considered the same as jumping from 60 to 80. This is quite unlikely to be the case. Thus, they should at least also incorporate absolute Metacritic score into the 'disappointment metric'. As an example, Kanye's MBDTF is great, but his two albums prior to it were 'very good', with an average of 77. While, Lenny Kravitz went from 58 to 70, i.e. 'ok' to 'pretty good'.

You should penalize higher absolute scores on previous albums for 'surprisingly successful'. Likewise, higher absolute scores on current albums must be penalized in the criterion for 'most disappointing'.

One certain way of addressing these biases and the linearity assumption is by plotting the distribution of metascores, and using that as a prior to improve fairness.
3 Common Mistakes MSPs Make That Prevent Success…And How to Overcome Them
Yes! This is something we need at http://panda.network. We're doing many projects like http://usepanda.com and http://geniushub.com, all without funding and anything that can help keep the costs down is a bonus! Can you hit me up on twitter http://twitter.com/williamchanner or william@usepanda.com
My question is that if someone is using false identities while operating this kind of business, why have a LinkedIn (or insert site X with data you don't own) site in the first place?
HN: Can Anyone Help with My Refugee Crisis Business Idea?
As I'm sure many of you are aware, Europe is currently 'gripped' in what is reported to be a Refugee 'crisis'. Apparently, since the beginning of the Syrian war, there have been some 3 million people who have fled their country to escape war. People are being driven to extraordinarily dangerous actions, just to save their families. So, I have an idea, it's superbly fledgling, and really I don't have any idea where to begin with it, never mind the skill set currently to implement it - hence why I'm reaching out to the HN community. Reporters go to great lengths to describe how many of the refugees are connected through their smartphones. So I figured, why not create an app, where individuals in communities refugees are congregating, who have room in their homes, could offer shelter and warmth to refugee families for a few nights could open their doors and be paired with somewhere people could stay. A mixture of coachsurfing and airbnb. The expectation would not be for someone to offer a house and 'adopt a family' - merely to show someone warmth and welcoming vibes. This is not a solution to the problem of war. Nor is it intended to be a permanent resolution to refugee families problems - it is merely an opportunity to help them feel human once again - to feel safe for a couple of nights and welcome. Often people such as refugees are left to feel sub-human, this would be a chance to integrate them. I lay no claim to this idea - if someone wishes to take the ball and run with it - fine. This is a problem bigger than any one person. It certainly would not be an idea run for profit however. If you can help - reply here, or if you would like to be involved, drop an email to jmcclafe@gmail.com (not a real name - just an email set up for the sake of this project) Help: - First, thoughts on the business - am I just being completely stupid? - How to navigate safety concerns about housing strangers? - How to develop an app? - Any help advertising/funding?
An accounting truism made you shudder?
I've started googling this (ironically?), but other than search engines how do you find things on the internet?
That's definitely a valid attack on one type of bag but the point stands for everything else: e.g. many people use hard-shell cases for important things, which also radiate “more valuable than socks – steal me”.

In both cases, the problem is the same: the system makes a visible promise of security and has an easy silent failure mode. Getting rid of the TSA “safe” locks or locks at all on zippered bags would improve security by accurately communicating the level risk.
Why do you think Oracle has so many lawyers?
"...he's not really generating any value..."

Please define "value".
That's how most economists view a tax exemption. An exemption means that ordinarily, this entity would be taxed, but because it is deemed to be special in some way, they get an exemption. From the perspective of an economist, that's money the government is giving up, which is no different than paying that money out.
Might even be possible to check their Github keys for keys that match other Github accounts.
How did Uber get so successful, so fast?
Yup! Last time I've tried to use the 2048bit Github SSH key to encrypt some message, gpg would complain if the message is larger than 226 characters.
Please don't use this library. Nacl is much safer, and in fact smaller.

If you're worried about size, use Tweetnacl:

TweetNaCl is the world's first auditable high-security cryptographic library. TweetNaCl fits into just 100 tweets while supporting all 25 of the C NaCl functions used by applications. TweetNaCl is a self-contained public-domain C library, so it can easily be integrated into applications.
Oh, fancy. Thanks for sharing this one.
I wanted this really badly back when I was dabbling in writing about a year ago.

Still pretty sure I'll find it very useful. $2 spent. =3
> and the odds of being caught are high

I had checks stolen from a carry-on bag at JFK, by a TSA employee, pretty much right under my nose. Some airports have had mafia-run theft rings operate for months or years before getting caught.
Who said anything about the money? Having multiple services is a pain in the ass, even if they're free. Non-overlapping device support, DRM, having to waste time searching for a particular work on each one, etc.
They are also blocked. AdBlock charges the major players to let their ads pass through as "Whitelisted Ads". IMO, that is just plain extortion.
CSS at Stripe
How Putin Controls the Internet and Popular Opinion in Russia
Yes, Harvard disproportionately has many wealthy people compared to the population at large, but it also provides free educations to large numbers of people. Last I checked, the cutoff was around 60k (meaning, if your family makes less than 60k, Harvard will foot the entire bill). The challenge of overcoming this skew towards wealthy students has more to do with education in general and recruitment than the price tag when it comes to some of the wealthiest schools.
Project MKUltra – CIA Mind Control Program
MebiPenny Coding Challenge with $75k in Prizes (Chicago/Salt Lake City)
Google Developers Web Updates (formerly HTML5 Rocks)
> Sitting on money doesn’t help the economy much.

This is a really dangerous misconception. "Sitting" on money isn't really possible, by definition. All money is being put to work at some point, it's just a question of where[0].

Broadly speaking, when people store money in banks, that money gets loaned out to people. If you have a mortgage, that's coming from money that someone was sitting on. If you are working at a venture-backed company, your paycheck is paid (through a lot of middlemen) from money that someone was sitting on.

It's impossible for money to be 'sat on' without helping the economy. In fact, our economy depends on people saving money this way.

[0] Again, this is true by definition; savings are investments. Saying that saving money isn't helpful is equivalent to saying that investing money isn't helpful.
I won't speak for him, but I think I can sum up a position that he would agree with very simply:

HFT has made trading cheaper for the vast majority of market participants. It has done this at the expense of the previous regime that was less efficient and more squalid.

Further, don't take my (or his) word for it. Listen to Vanguard which has a sterling reputation for caring for the interests of their clients who tend to be long term, small scale, investors and large pension/retirement funds.

http://www.cnbc.com/2014/04/25/vanguard-chief-defends-high-f...
> Not sure if the verbiage on the terms of sale in this case support that.

When I swing by Office Max to pick up toner, or click the Amazon button to add it to my card, there is literally no verbiage either presented to me or agreed to by me that would indicate anything other than a flat-out sale. One can't argue any such thing because no contract is sought or required for end users to buy toner.
My point was that the article provided some substance, and gave numbers which explain why a needs blind admission policy does not, on its own, justify the existing tax policy.

The question you asked was addressed in the article, in statements like "In a world where the government only provides limited resources for higher education, we’re almost certainly shoveling an outsized share of them to schools that don’t need the financial help." and "we seem to have stumbled into a system that disproportionately subsidizes the educations of a tiny few."

The second page tries to address what a more equitable distribution might be. For example, "Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley caused a minor uproar in higher education circles by proposing that colleges should be forced to spend 5 percent of their endowments every year, the same way private charitable foundations are."

However, the author is clear that there is no simple answer, and leaves the topic hanging with "I think we’d all like to spend a little less money sending other people’s kids to Harvard."

Personally, I think it should have ended with "we'd all like to spend a little less money sending people to Harvard and more money sending more people to college."

As to your last question, there is a balance of factors that make it difficult to answer. If the monetary policy is such that one person gets to attend Harvard for free or 4 people get to go to a public college for free ... which should we choose, and why? (Based on the numbers in the article, and the cost of tuition for different colleges, the actual number is probably between 1:2 and 1:6.)
Using FeathersJS as an open source alternative to Firebase
Quite broad.... for work - posting updates of new videos, conference news, blogs etc, interacting with customers

At home - trying to be hilarious with very occasional one off quips with life observations
I had a simpler case that I couldn't figure out using docopt. I was trying to add in tls flags into docker-compose to match docker. I could not get a combination working where you can just specify --tls to mean tls is true while still accepting --tls=true|false|0|1.
The biggest reason I can think of of is because you have a system that doesn't tolerate leap seconds, and you've decided to just omit them entirely for safety.

(Of course, time smearing is usually a better option in those cases since it eventually converges with UTC after a leap second occurs.)
The facts in this article are irrelevant. It's an opinion piece, at best, about the nature of humans to spread human related information to each other and the unsavory behaviors of a few humans to try to limit the spread of information.

In that regard, you and the movie industry have something in common. You both spread FUD around to get your point across.
I think opposition to proprietary software is as mainstream here as opposition to film copyrights. (Maybe we should have a poll to find out.)

(There are plenty of nuances of people's opposition, for example people who think arbitrary copyright licenses should still be enforceable but that it's mean to use a proprietary one.)
Constantly Confusing ‘const’
If people stopped paying for broken services, they'd be forced to reevaluate and adapt.

Paying customers, not pirates, are the problem.
Since I have worked on something similar, in my opinion, it isn't the downloading software that is necessarily a hurdle (although I agree that it is a bit of one); it is around the general difficulty and pain around your local setup and finding the user you are trying to contact's pgp key. This has been discussed at length, but I think it comes down to pgp being enough of a hassle that people who aren't focused on privacy/security don't bother using it.

With ssh keys, at least we can assume that if someone has a github account they have a private ssh key, and it is accessible through the github api. With pgp there isn't a guarantee that they even have a pgp key, and accessibility is on the users themselves to publish it in some way. I think that keybase.io has tried to become the go-to spot for pgp keys, but the adoption is nowhere near what github has, and again, someone has to be interested in privacy/security to want to do this as well.

I mean with all do respect that you are correct in terms of a better protocol, and that there are tools that exist that already do this. The concern that I think OP and myself are interested in solving is creating something that is quick, easy, and piggie-backs on top of the huge github userbase and provides a base level of encryption.
The birth of Bootstrap
The idea could also be extended to domestic homeless etc too
What could go wrong? /s

All sarcasm aside, a very interesting idea. I'm not sure what the proper use case is, but I'm sure someone will love this.
This is the excerpt that is exceptionally relevant to the crowd here at HN:

"These “specialists” didn’t just understand the technology — they were willing to use their knowledge to serve the state’s repressive machine. Borogan and Soldatov show precisely how those who enable censorship and surveillance justify their participation. Among the many people interviewed for the book is a Russian engineer who developed speech-recognition technology used by a number of repressive regimes. “If governments listen in on people’s conversations, it’s not the microphone’s fault!” he says."

Don't play dumb about the end-result of your engineering. Don't participate in compartmentalized projects, as they are designed to ensure you are blind to what you are really doing. Don't hide under the "just doing my job" fallacy.
Hey, I still use my CompuServe email daily! (Same address since 1997!)
I think your conflating my position with another. I understand that eliminating copyright would be a massive upheaval. I do understand that many companies, industries, and career paths would be drastically affected negatively.

I just don't think that maintaining the status quo justifies the current policing of personal computer and internet usage.

Nowadays, film and music are just files, and can be freely copied at will. The creative industries have refused to acknowledge this reality. I don't think any individuals should be jailed or bankrupted to maintain this illusion any longer.

When the dust settles, society will still have art and entertainment. It will just be different from what we are used to.
I ran into similar large list of issues, and reported the via apple bug reporter and nearly all of them has since been resolved that were actual bugs. Rather than posting them on his site, why not submit them as individual bugs to apple bug reporter and if he has, please list the rdar number for each.

He mentions in one section every song has a "forced" 5 second delay, in another section says "routinely" 5 second delay. Since those are two very different statements might be best to clarify which is accurate. When I click play it starts from 0 to 2 seconds on each and every song. Of course this will depend on your connection speed or other factors. So he might want to clarify he is experiencing slow load times rather than his implication that each and every iOS user has to wait an aribitary 5 second delay for each song which of course is untrue.

For error 1, wasn't able to get the phone to crash doing his test.

Control center remembers my last song played. But once again there will always be scenarios where bugs may happen and when they do file a report with apple and include all the device data dumps so apple can determine under what conditions it happens and fix it.

I'd go issue by issue but it seems rather than written as thorough bug reports they are more from a frustrated user rather than written to help apple resolve the issues.

Such as "Search is useless". Which means search serves no use which of course is untrue and not a bug but rather on the apple bug reporter he should file a feature request to show more results. However I think it's worked as expected. When I search Taylor Swift it shows the top 3 Albums the top three songs, the top three playlists the top three music videos. If he wants to see all the albums all he has to do is click on the title "albums" above the three most popular in the search results. Apple's implementation of showing the top 3 of each by default makes far more sense than attempting to list all by default for many reasons.
It's likely worth noting that the shuttle has a famously robust computer system. The Challenger was related to an engineering flaw in the mechanical design of the system.

I forget my source, but IIRC the computer system actually noticed the pressure drop from the fuel lines (what with the exploding) and started the shutdown process, spinning down the turbos before the system was forcefully disassembled. Takes a while to turn off the turbos; a few hundred milliseconds really isn't enough time...

[0] Obligatory link to the Feynman report

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/flyfeature_...

[1] A cool article on the software running the shuttle

http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
It's a deal!
Symmetricom SyncServer
Can someone clarify something for me?

If I am a movie producer, do I or do I not have the right to release a movie in one region and a month later in another region?

Do I have the right to release in one medium first, then some other medium later (or not at all)?

Do I have the right to maximize the profit on an optional, non-essential product?

Now, the studios say one thing, everyone here seems to be saying another. There's a ton of rhetoric on either side, but no clear-cut answers.

(By "here", I mean in general tone, not specifics within this particular thread of conversations.)
10 Cities Where Your IT Pay Is Worth the Most
I don't know how that worked out for those people but the time that happened to me, the airline most definitely did NOT take your word for it. Their policy, which was standard on most U.S. carriers when I checked at the time, was to reimburse per-pound at a rate set for used clothing. If you wanted any more than that, you had to show purchases receipts to justify the price, which was aggressively appreciated, and they outright excluded anything with a plug so those 5 laptops wouldn't even be paid at the old t-shirt rate.
Archaeologists chase melting ice in Yellowstone to collect artifacts
What do you mean enormous dependencies? NaCl is fast, lightweight, and standalone. Libsodium has more features, but is portable and easier to use.
> A stock market crash is always coming.

And you complain about a statement containing no information?

The thing is, no one knows exactly when a crash will happen.

But some people know that one will happen say, within the next five years, and that it's going to be worse than 2008 and 2001 because the underlying problems have only been getting worse.
Why would it be harder for a student from an elite boarding school to get into an Ivy than someone from a rural school? I would say the opposite, in no small part based on the evidence that at least supports a strong correlation.
They probably work on other things for money.
I like the idea to know who else is 'in da house'. Its not clear (enough) from the website.
The original creator of this type of train track offers just such a support piece.[0] You can also 3D print your own supports![1]

[0] http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/DAUAAOSwGvhT3ny3/$_...

[1] http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:110221
I'm very interested in knowing if you think the collections or newest resources (votes list) should be shown first on the home page.
Possible donate the credits to an open source project?
I suggest contacting @williamstein [0] who has been actively seeking help to fund Sage Math Cloud [1]. See post here [2] and here [3] for reference.

I'm living on credit cards -- I have no NSF grant support anymore, and SageMathCloud is still losing a lot of money every month, and I'm unhappy about this situation. It was either completely quit working on SMC and instead teach or consult a lot, or lose tens of thousands of dollars. I am doing the latter right now. I was very caught off guard, since this is my first summer ever to not have NSF support since I got my Ph.D. in 2000, and I didn't expect to have my grant proposals all denied (which happened in June). [3]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=williamstein
[1] https://cloud.sagemath.com/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10175563
[3] http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2015/08/react-flux-rethinkdb-an...
I suspect that the driver behind region locking is instead a mix of differential pricing and high coordination costs. First-world consumers will pay more for a movie than third-world ones, so you can see why people would try to charge different prices. Global marketing is also an enormous pain; much easier for studios and distributors to divide things up by region and not try to coordinate global rollouts.

And I'm with you on the punctuation.
jsonip.org too :)
How is that wrong? The government decided not to tax these college endowments because they were considered a public good. That decision had a direct effect on the government's budget - a cost.
Around the same time the University of Western Australia's computer club had an internet connected coke machine: https://www.ucc.asn.au/services/drink.ucc
Aaaand that's why I don't use my ISP's VOD services.
"If you're going to tax universities, then you need to tax churches too. Good luck."

Right. There are some very wealthy churches. In the United States alone, the Catholic Church has an operating budget of $170 billion. That's bigger than Apple.
Factorization Machines
cute and probably great prior art for any "Internet of things" patents that show up.
I've been using Apple Mail since the OS X Public Beta in 2000. Its address completion and rich text support are entwined in how I think about authoring emails, so I'm simply more comfortable using it for that purpose. It also helps that Emacs-style movement keys work throughout OS X, including Apple Mail's "new message" windows.

I did give mu4e a go, i.e. for writing emails, and I never got to a point where it really appealed to me. I do love it, though, for reading and managing my tens of thousands of email messages. It's also nice that I can easily create links to messages in mu4e, which I can include in my org-mode files.
Cilantro herb
For me, open source restrictions are merely a consolation prize. I'd gladly give them up tomorrow along with the rest of copyright.
Productivity Has Grown Six Times as Much as Pay Over the Last 40 Years
An oral history of Pee-wee's Playhouse
They have that right, but that doesn't mean it isn't lame. It goes against an open internet. I'm happy to pay for stuff I like on line, but found it supremely annoying that I couldn't get US shows or movies when I lived in Italy, even with a US credit card and billing address. I ended up signing up for a proxy thing, so on top of paying for content, I had to pay extra just to access it!

Realistically, not everyone is going to make that choice.

Mostly, Amazon seems to have gotten things right with the Kindle: content is mostly accessible anywhere, and it's very easy to buy, making that the path of least resistance.
I don't think that the trend towards SaaS and IAP as primary revenue models is an accident - reliance on control of the distribution channel for a good with zero marginal cost is a losing proposition as internet access, speed, and reliability globally increases.

It seems to me that software markets are already moving in the direction of assuming that creators don't have control over distribution of digital goods.
Show HN: We just launched June – get paid to talk with recruiters
Did you discover the theft right away, or only after the fact?