skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment highlights the shift in perception of search engines between around a decade ago and now. In the past "search" was something people did, while search engine was a tool that helped them. Right now "search" is something Google does. Human, on the other hand, are seen more like a passive recipients of information.

My point is, Google's algorithms do not need to tell the difference between good and bad articles. They need to give users tools for effectively filtering out the garbage they don't want to see. As far as I can tell, Google does not even try to provide that. Instead, they have a mysterious algorithm that's supposed to feed you the "right" results if if it knows who you are.
Guess I'll be the first to comment :-)

I liked your writing, and your emotional honesty was refreshing.

I completely share your moral stance on meat eating, so maybe I'm biased. ;)
($862M is a maximum to be decided in the next phase of the jury trial; in the final phase the damages will be tripled if the infringement is judged willful). Case is Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation v. Apple Inc; Apple claimed the patent was invalid but the jury disagreed. WARF claims they approached Apple to negotiate a license and were "ignored".
I'm assuming Toyota and it's engineers aren't stupid. So why were they pushing for Hydrogen if it is apparently so unsuited to powering cars?
I find low protein and fat and high carb diets troublesome for myself. The opposite, high fat/high protein has proven significantly better from a health perspective. I'm skeptical of what any organization tells me, especially when the majority of food companies benefit with high carb consumption. One could argue that portion size is the culprit, after all, carbs are not as satiating as fat or protein. As obesity becomes the no. 1 cost for insurance companies, I am sure they will invest in a solution to be rid of it.
Compared to gasoline though- $12 will get you about 3 gallons, which in many vehicles will get you about 60 miles...
The statistical hypothesis in the OP seems sound...for those of you who've had to pitch studies like these and apply for funding (on any topic)...does the institutional reluctance to fund these studies scale disproportionately to the proposed cost per participant and total possible participants?

i.e. is it easier to convince the university/funder to do a study that could potentially connect with 6,000 students at just $5 a piece, versus a study that, at most, could reach 600 students at $50 a piece?

edit: My guess is -- yes, that it is easier to convince people, even at the university level, with nicer sounding numbers even if competing proposals add up to the same cost, even if the cheaper/broader-sounding proposal is scientifically less valid, because in general, people have difficulty with numerical reasoning. I mean, the OP felt the need (and may have been asked to by the WaPo editor) to describe cross-multiplication, something we all were supposed to have learned in elementary school:

> But even if the response rate is not 100 percent, it allows us to place a lower bound on how many students have been assaulted. For example, if 90 percent of students respond to the survey, and 20 percent of them say they have been assaulted, we can infer that at least 90 percent x 20 percent = 18 percent of students have been assaulted, even if none of the students who failed to respond were.
The Fritsch-Waugh-Lovell theorem: if

y = ax + by + cz + (zero-mean nuisance),

I can estimate a least-squares model of the form

y' = ax + b*y + (zero-mean nuisance)

and get a correct estimate of b, as long as y and z are uncorrelated.

(Where this breaks down: for example, a regression of IQ on age and arm length; omit age and you'll get longer arms (older kids) producing higher IQ scores, because age and arm length are correlated.)
Danny Meyer Restaurants to Eliminate Tipping
Motive is the big reason. It's not like America is killing people for fun or some petty economic gain. America is killing people that American believes they are at war with. Hell, America is killing people who believe themselves to be at war with America.

But drones only work when you have total air supremacy. Any halfway decent airforce can protect against the huge drones America fires missiles from.
Democracy doesn't work because it's obvious that it doesn't work. It takes like five minutes of concentrated thinking to figure out its basic problems. The best thing you can say about democracy is that it's the system with least bloody failure modes out of the systems we know. Belief that it "works" is just a propaganda all of us are constantly exposed to since primary school.
Senior Software Engineer  SolarCity
Original link: http://engineering.ifttt.com/data/2015/10/14/data-infrastruc...

Can a moderator such as dang fix this please?
A recent interesting commentary in nature suggests researchers should "blind" themselves to their data, and instead analyse a similar but altered data set. When they are happy with their anaysis, the steps are then applied to the real data. The aim is to prevent confirmation bias.

http://www.nature.com/news/blind-analysis-hide-results-to-se...
You're right, but you have to speak political language if you want a chance at being able to enact change that might allow us to adapt in the first place. And politicians (and 24 hour news networks) love to declare war on things.

It's about that time of year when Fox News tells its audience that there's a War on Christmas again. Don't you just love tradition?
Sounds like this is a problem with the testing authorities as well. Instead of sending them full blood samples taken from veins by a trained nurse, they should have sent them finger pricks done at Walgreens.
Also helps if you're willing to work long hours and get underpaid. But hey, unlimited ping pong!
I'd prefer these announcements wait until the stake has been distributed.

I think it's been over a year since reddit said the community would receive a 10% stake in the company (or maybe it was just a direct payout of 10% of the amount raised in a previous round). I haven't heard anything about it since.
Mocks and explicit contracts (Elixir)
Comments from the last time this was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4957992
Tivo Roamio OTA ($49.99) will let you do this if you never activate the subscription. You can use the tuner and buffer the broadcast stream.
An open-source ruler for nerds
All of the companies I mentioned are not subsidiaries, they are publicly traded, independent companies. A few of them were spun out of banks at one time (e.g. Vantiv came from Fifth Third). In your other comment you say that First Data is part of Bank of America, which is completely wrong.

First Data just started trading today under the ticker NYSE:FDC where they were taken private by KKR in 2007. Prior to that they were spun out of AMEX back in 1992.[0]

>Its way, way more complex then that

Please don't do this. I worked in the industry for 5 years and have quite a firm grasp of it (it's only been 8 years since, and the industry hasn't changed much).

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Data
Pakistani leadership wants the Drone strikes. At least parts of Pakistani leadership wants the Drone strikes.
Your closing remark assumes a correlation that may not exist. It implies that working for BigCo translates to entrepreneurial succes. This may not be true. In fact, the data I know suggests that entrepreneurs are frequently mavericks who can't cut it in The Establishment and that is exactly why they struck out on their own.
I took a look at a relative’s cable bill last year. He lives in a town with three competing cable/ISP services. Here is how the monthly costs broke down:

Expanded basic service: $60

High definition converter box: $10

Digital converter rental: $3

HBO Cinemax package: $18

Premiere Total Pack: $16

Showtime/TMC: $5

Starz: $5

Franchise fee: $7

Broadcast TV surcharge: $4

Sports programming surcharge: $2

Total monthly cost: $130

Annual cost: $130 × 12 months = $1,560

That doesn’t include Internet access, which adds another $60 or $70 per month, plus the land line. So they’re paying close to $250/month. Sadly, that’s typical for a lot of people around here, who often get suckered in by $99 “triple play” deals and don’t read the fine print about extra fees, premium packages, or escalating rates after years 1 and 2.

It’s a total racket.

One thing to add about TFA: DTV reception even over a good antenna within 10 miles of the broadcast towers can be spotty. We live near Boston, and every time a car drives by our house the image freezes even for the big VHF channels.
I've got a github - I put maybe a paragraph under a personal profile running through the things I'm working on and what they all do (briefly mentioning the stack they use).

It seems to work ok and good employers will take a look at your github, if you do pass through to an interview it's something they can easily talk to you about.

I realise a lot of the things you'll have worked on you probably can't release. I'd still mention them for the same reason (talking points). I like to make sure people have a few conversation starters to talk to me about to break the ice, and it usually leads on to you selling yourself better.
Why not try a backtest? Pick a point in time (say, Jan 1, 2011). Pick another data point (say, Jan 1 2015). See which variables explain the rise in house prices the best?
While at school I needed to do a survey of law students, a rather apathetic bunch. I said "20$ will be paid to the 25th and 50th respondents." I got a 75% response rate within days. And #50 never claimed her prize. Rewards goes further if respondents think they are in some form of competition.
I can't find the exact quote nor site, but it's a common advice in lisp tutorials to write the macro as thin as possible and split its internal logic as tiny composable functions (the usual desired lisp/engineering style).

The rest comes from my small experience, in college we had a project patching java bytecode on the fly, you could generate correct logic at the bytecode level, but you would lose all the benefit of high level language (typechecking, debugging). One team had this excellent idea to just write the smallest bytecode hook/wrapper that would then call normal Java code.
I've worked on hydrogen fuel-cells, and I wasn't particularly enthused by them. However, passing off a competitor (Tesla's Elon Musk) trashing the competition as a factual "we've known" reeks of fanboyism and idol worship.
Every country you listed (even El Salvador by a hair) has a higher HDI than Guatamala. I'mma just throw out that maybe (hint, no maybe about) "obesity" got defined when the world was poorer and maybe (this is the actual maybe) at least some of the rise is fewer malnourished children/adults.
What, pull a stunt in a car? I'm an engineer and I spent years racing cars.
I have a HomeWorx HW180STB and it worked great. I have an old HDTV without an internal receiver. I have only used it to watch over the air sports (otherwise I use Netflix).

I haven't tried the pausing TV (or recording TV) yet. I think this coment will inspire me to try out the recording and pausing.
Paper is Dropbox's new vision for how teams can work together
This is my current setup, I have a chromecast on each floor with an antenna.
As a web dev I always have this in mind but the challenge is convincing your client who wants a video background. Maybe we need a media query that detects internet speed.
hobbes@namagiri:~$ time openssl dhparam -5 2048
Generating DH parameters, 2048 bit long safe prime, generator 5
This is going to take a long time
............[snip]......++*++*
-----BEGIN DH PARAMETERS-----
MIIBCAKCAQEAzshMWp3IBjMW5Aia2wJOvA2EBY32Mn2fMXzlyFDklnRUg8ff/19A
YWbRA4RAXrBMxoXEH1LVVpm5l89PGZ3DzjDafuNzNskgUhcAewUXXMQdkOFnPHYc
5F7+3DS8981Q0Q05qscBb26YGb2XaoJygyVj+B87NTvdAPzNU4fW5DyCuxhf5eov
ZeZwcC4KZ31Lr7enFcFBjTjxQxW88pP4YhiNYQ1fsFARGJT0X7ksOlRVWFrODu6b
nq0Ye/UWe0WB1zzmxz66ZujAwRwAgfmQZd7rILJqg68sxBeg88FlXJUeKfPL/bIT
KOl1LhiHr/HkUBfgZRahK0MGcthwiLdFZwIBBQ==
-----END DH PARAMETERS-----

real	0m37.073s
user	0m33.464s
sys	0m2.924s
hobbes@namagiri:~$

Edit: second run:

real	0m35.362s
user	0m31.992s
sys	0m2.880s

Would somebody post the steps I should use to make my own OpenSSH sshd(s) use non-standard DH parameters? Do I need to do anything to my clients?
Exactly.
I hadn't even thought of this as being racist until I started reading comments here- in London especially, KFC ripoffs aren't a race thing, they're a class thing.
I'm reasonably sensitive to people being racist, but given that this article is about London, I'm finding it hard to see the racism.
It's really easy to see online too. Just browse online dating profiles for large cities versus suburbs (or walkable/transit cities versus car-only cities). People go from looking like actual people to looking like comical balloons.

Obesity is a national (global?) security crisis. It will cost trillions in preventable medical expenses, it causes excess fuel consumption, reduces productivity, and government+industry seems complicit in continuing the trend based on city planning and subsidy allocations. (Not to mention government policies/recommendations probably started the whole obesity crisis by promoting "low fat, high carb+sugar" eating practices ("food pyramid") for two dozen years across an increasingly sedentary population.)
Sports gambling's primary purpose is not to make money. It's not the stock market. There are professional gamblers who make steady and good income but for the majority it's about the fun of having some juice on a game you're watching.

Like all forms of gambling there are those who take it too far and it becomes a problem in their life, but for the majority it's just lottery ticket they play every week while they watch games with their friends.
Relax. Even if there is such a law it certainly is not illegal in USA to "advocate (...) opinions (...) in public". See what happened last time someone thought advocating opinions was illegal [1]...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
https://www.google.com/patents/US5781752
Sorry, what I meant is that the trope long ago became overused, is often wrong, and people bring it up as a reflex. This comes up so often that I thought I could maybe get away with a cryptic reference to it. What was I thinking!
>> Driving home she would often resort to fast food because she was hungry and exhausted after a 15-hour day slaving over a hot grill.

This bit stuck out to me. How is this even legal for her to work 15 hours a day?
I agree that the GP's statement is disconnected from history, but I'm not sure that your counterexample works. Rome had "the dole" by the time of Julius Caesar (the "bread" in "bread and circuses").
There's nothing new about the math here. 1024 bit DH has been precarious for over a decade, at least since Tromer costed out an RSA-1024 factoring machine.

In other words, people a decade ago were also telling you to avoid DH-1024. What we're looking at today is a more efficient way of exploiting a bug we've known about for a long time.
We can't exactly expect the populace to make the right decision when it is fed misinformation.
I see you are using google speech recognizer for chrome and I guess it works the same with android, how do I use it for developing apps for iOS. Does it work with Siri ?
It is also possible that the data is not understood and therefor thought to be flawed. The article talks about how the black box approach removes human bias from the initial findings.
Cable and Satellite split the market in the U.S.

If you are in an an urban or a rural area in the lower 48 you can get a satellite package that is roughly equivalent to a cable package -- although you might need to cut down a tree or win a fight with your landlord, homeowner's association, etc. The only real drawback is that fading can get bad when it is wet (say you are staying at home watching TV because of a snowstorm but you can't get any TV)

For TV-only service there is definitely a price war situation with cable in urban areas, but all the services differentiate themselves as best they can. If you can't get enough of American Football, for instance, you can get the "NFL Sunday Ticket" from DirectTV which gives you pretty much all the football you could get without violating some law.
One trap I've fallen into in the past doing this is trying to make the "perfect" github. It could easily become a full time job - you really need a few goals you want to meet and to reassess them regularly
Are jogging, fried chicken and coffee shops clear signals for specific parts of the population outside the US as well?

I live in Berlin and would have trouble correlating any of the above with distinct subsets of the population -- all kinds of people from natives to immigrants, young and old, rich and poor go jogging, eat fried chicken (or Döner) and have coffee.
Free Fantasy Football Contest
I wonder how common it is for malware to obfuscate later stage payloads?

If I hide my executables inside an image (or zip, pdf, docx) and download them with URLDownloadToFile, will this evade detection?
How are you determining it to be "significantly better from a health perspective"? What is your blood pressure? How do you know you don't have elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol serum? What are you eating in a high carb diet - is it whole plant-based foods, or refined and processed junk? Portion size is not the culprit; can you find a case study of an overweight plant-based vegan who does not portion control?
I don't like the Bootstrap approach very much.

I'd rather litter the markup with classes and then be able to change their order and location in the DOM without affecting styles than having to do changes both in HTML in CSS files - bear in mind that, with DOM dependency, most style changes would imply you to change or at least check the HTML file. It will also make you end up "plugging" exceptions on top of exceptions - element X looks like A when he's a child of Y, but then it will have to look like B when he's a descendant of Z (something common with a page-level class, for instance). This is way safer and maintainable with BEM-like modifiers.

I'd say that waiting for "inherent and predictable relations between DOM elements" is a disaster waiting to happen. Of course, there are exceptions (the table mark-up and table styles might be coupled, I guess), but you should try to avoid it.

Take a look at http://philipwalton.com/articles/side-effects-in-css/, he has a few good points.
How does Ethereum store data in a blockchain and what's the size?
This is a fascinating example of Simpson's Paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

It also reminds me of the phenomenon, in customer service, whereby an increase in complaints can sometimes indicate success -- it means the product has gone from bad enough to be unnoticeable to good enough to be engaged with.
Citation, please. Everything I've ever read says “E = mc2 applies to all processes that release or absorb energy.”
Is this just re-reporting a past event? They even include a clip of Jon Stewart on the Daily Show talking about this specific event in the past. Is there any new information here, or is this just blogspam from a news channel in an actual TV news segment?
Ping pong FTW!
Dog,+Not+Diamond+Is+Her+Best+Friend
Not adding value definitely wears on me too.

In the early years of my site, I would have people submit photos of offices to be published and then I'd riff on them for a few hundred words and add a title of "X Company's Amazing NYC Offices".

It all started sounding the same after hundreds of posts so I began requiring the architects to submit a brief explaining the project and found that what they wrote was 1000% more valuable that anything I could write. Post titles changed from being clickbaity fluff to 'Company Name - Location'. Instead of the actual content portion being the value I'm trying to add personally, my goal has been to have the value be in my curation skills.

Now that I've been at it for a long time, I can add value in other ways like adding new tools for readers to interact with the content as well as writing high-level trend pieces on what I'm seeing in the industry.
I know that my wife isn't allowed to answer the question "Are the schools good here?" with anything other than "This home is in school district 123", or "you'll have to do your own research". It's considered "steering". (Because Good Schools is considered a dog whistle for "white neighborhood")
It isn't really a "perceived difficulty" thing and your comments seem a bit flippant as if a depression is all due to the person's irresponsibility. Like depression is just because someone is just "sad" but a balloon will cheer them up and they'll be right as rain.

As was pointed out in the comment right above this. Someone suffering from depression is often completely incapable of "taking responsibility for fixing it themselves".

Imagine the thought process is more like "Why should I even bother to get out of bed today? I'm a horrible person and don't deserve to be happy. I'd rather be dead than live through another day of this horrible existence of a life." -- and then you come along and say "There's nothing wrong with you. You just need to be responsible and live a healthier lifestyle." Hell, that'd just add on to their overwhelming feeling of self-loathing. Good job.

You think they wouldn't JUMP at the chance to be able to stop being in a constant state of mental anguish and live a healthier lifestyle?
I think this statement nails it: "we are imprisoned within our own cosmos of meaning. We cannot imagine a universe without meaning. We are not talking necessarily about some grand cosmic meaning, or a divine meaning bestowed by God, or even a lasting, eternal meaning. "

"Special" is a human construct. If something is special, it's because we say it is. Life has no relevance to anything beyond that which we ascribe to it.

Unless, of course, you believe that life was designed according to some kind of grand design. But even that presupposes that we mortals have a chance of understanding an intelligence that can shape reality. I'm sceptical any human interpretation of 'special' in that context is useful.

Reality just is. It has no moral weight.
The order in a deck of cards is unique, but it's not complex. The nucleotide sequence in a chromosome is unique and complex.

An analogy of your comparison would be comparing a single sentence to the sum of mankind's written works, with the latter being life. A complex, organized source of information like that is special.
True. The bombings happen near the border though, they're probably easy for the government of Pakistan to ignore, or maybe even convenient.

Moreover, from what I can find on-line, Pakistan seems to have just over a hundred warheads, most in the few dozen kiloton range, none exceeding half a megaton. They can't do any real damage with that. Maybe blow up a few cities in the US, at which point the rest of the world would turn them into a flat sheet of glass visible from orbit, and the only good thing that would come from that for anyone would be increased albedo of Earth helping combat the global warming. There is no MAD situation with Pakistan.
Ask HN: Someone offered to buy my browser extension from me. What now?
I received an offer from a company to buy a popular chrome extension that I created. Any tips to make the transaction extra smooth? Any tips to protect the extension's userbase? This will be an international transaction. The amount is not a lot but also not little.

The escrow sites that I researched all seem really shady. It seems like a paypal to paypal transaction, possibly in two chunks, might be the best. Advice?
If this were reddit, there'd be someone here in the comments explaining the other side of this investigation and the ways that it probably isn't true.
I'm curious about this too.

Also, what's the retrieval rate of the data? How much of it can you query at once? Is it different/faster on Ethereum?
A threaded-rod works, too.
> And most importantly, the computer program did not write itself.

Perhaps even more importantly, you didn't create yourself either :-)