skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The signaling from a college degree comes directly and only from the fact that getting that degree is difficult. If you make getting the degree easier, you reduce the efficacy of the signal (assuming all the relevant people are aware of the change in difficulty). Of course, employers could start looking at other things, like grades or other academic achievements, to use as new signals.
Consider Tor: in this case, your "ISP" is a random server on the internet. Maybe your Comcast or TimeWarner ISPs will not be malicious, but with Tor, any one in the world can register to be an exit node/ISP. HTTPS helps protect you from attacks in this "random ISP" model.
Eleventy billion in cash.
China asking Chinese public for proposals for module on next lunar probe
You're About to Hate Slack as Much as You Hate E-Mail
I think it's good: it allows XMPP to evolve as people learn what is good vs bad.

Even if you don't have full compatibility between 2 given clients; it's a hell of a lot more than two completely different protocols.
Show HN: Using Priority Search and Heuristics to Beat a Game, BubbleBurst Part 2
On why index funds are not such a safe bet necessarily: http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-illusion-of...
Your hand wavy usage of "measure awareness" is the problem. How do you do such a thing?

When you're advertising on multiple channels, even if you did have a solid measurement of awareness (you don't), you still wouldn't know what was responsible.

This is the appeal behind things like Facebook ads. It seems you have a very clear sense of what return you're getting because there's such precise targeting and tracking. The issue is that neither of those have anything to do with the first portion of your comment: measuring awareness. You still need to measure awareness objectively and no one knows how to do it.

The people best equipped and most ready to act like they do, however, is — you guessed it — Facebook and similar ad networks!

Besides, the ad industry has been kept afloat with exactly the type of behavior that grandparent describes for decades if not centuries. What makes you think they're more sophisticated now?
> - No way to log all messages sent to a database so that users could retrieve them on subsequent logins

This is what MAM does.
I remember buying something from them the last time a story like this surfaced.

I wonder if there's any computer gear I need. Hmm...
I couldn't edit my comment but you're right. I meant $5M-$10M per month. But the mobile gaming industry as a whole is a huge revenue driver, probably 20%-30% of FB's quarterly rev.
> One weird thing- these and some other studies I have read support poorer people have more empathy/make more eye contact in conversation and pay more attention to conversation partners/etc. Why then does that group seem on the whole to have more antagonism towards wealthier people (than vice versa)?

Could be because they have reasons to be angry at the wealthier class as a whole, but do not necessarily apply this on an interpersonal level. It reminds me of the experiments done where a wallet left on the streets is returned more often in poorer areas of town than in richer areas.

I suppose it makes sense. The poorer you are, the more dependent you are on the people around you, and the worse your experiences, the easier it might be to empathize with others (as you 'know' what it is like). On the other hand, the richer you are, the easier it is to get what you want or need without relying on others, and the more difficult it is to empathize with the plight of the 'common man'.
Envato have a pretty liberal remote policy.
I'm not sure they're that similar. The whole professional Go world had to change to a more aggressive fighting style in order to dethrone Lee Changho, whereas Carlsen in a sense had to do the opposite to consistently take on the best GMs -- he was very aggressive when he was younger, now he is "nettlesome" which isn't quite the same thing.
Part of that IS supply chain... You can't make a great phone with shitty components.

Many things that Apple does in the supply chain are completely out of reach for it's competitors either because of resources or culture.
The concept of namespaces in XML is fine, but the implementation... there's an awful lot of twiddly options and details and implementation/API quirks that come up. Throw stuff like XPath and XSD schemas into the mix, and the pitfalls multiply.
If the back pain is caused by weak postural muscles or a muscular imbalance, then it's possible that exercise is correcting those deficiencies. Your muscles adapt to whatever loads they routinely bear. If you spend most of your time with a supported posture then your postural muscles will naturally weaken over time. I used to have neck and back and knee pain until I started lifting regularly.

In my experience, it hurts differently when you're damaging your body versus training your muscles. It is possible to seriously injure yourself a little at a time if you're not cognizant of this, and it's much better to err on the side of caution and progress slower than to ignore your body and risk a serious injury.

If we see a study like you say, it will almost certainly fail to control for the confounding effect of a cautious or incautious approach on injury rates.
All Government agencies can sell their confiscated cars with Repokar
Second sentence in the article:

> ... dropped its East Texas lawsuit against Newegg subsidiary Rosewill ...

And later on:

> Beyond the possibility of being sued again, Cheng noted that Minero continues to litigate against other retailers that sell Rosewill-branded products and that Newegg may have defense obligations to those other companies.
Absolutely. Supply chain doesn't mean anything if no one wants your products anymore.
Still very less given the amount and talent of people working there. I see a downhill graph over the years. Next Yahoo in making.
> That makes your network insecure, not my page.

Sometimes you NEED to use an insecure network due to censorship (example: Tor or VPN).
> Also, I find Armstrong's fanaticism grating, and am inherently distrustful of anybody who claims that their community and language has all the good ideas. Because odds are, they're wrong.

You might find this[0] blog post by Armstrong interesting, wherein he comments on some things that were/are done wrong in Erlang. I would also argue that this 'fanaticism' is made to look more severe as you can find at least 4 different talks where Armstrong argues for the same things over and over.

In any case, Armstrong is actually very humble, which I think seems fairly obvious if you actually watch a few talks and read more than a couple of blog posts by him.

Could you point to something specific where you feel Armstrong misrepresents a strong side of Erlang, or is it just a general thing?

(Edit: Just to add, I think it should be said that the Erlang team created their favorite language and that it probably represents the most useful language in use today to them, so I don't think it's surprising that they'd see more good ideas there than in any other language. On top of that Armstrong is a very straight shooter, it seems, so I think this might be something to take into account.)

0 - http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html
Another advantage that goes in line with the scale issue.

"Mess"

Billions of smart phones, dozens of smart phone makers, dozens of different operating system customizations and problems, dozens of different environments to get used to. Will HTC's lineup be any good this time around? Motorola?

Apple solves all of that for consumers. They remove the swamp of potentially bad choices. Apple so far has done a tremendous job of reliably delivering a high quality product each generation. Only Samsung can claim that in the Android world. I've had a good experience with the Galaxy S line of phones, most of the other Android phone makers are very hit or miss year to year.
Sorry to say, but AIMSICD is a placebo. It does not detect anything. It was proved in their issues page many times, it never detected any threat, but detected dozens of false positives (also see their issues).
You also want to minimize Flash usage/code size; if your microcontroller has 8KB Flash, a more complex allocator might not be the best use of that Flash. Especially if you've got a allocate-once pattern.
Wait, what? Does this means schizophrenia isn't caused by refrigerator moms, as psychiatry once claimed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_mother_theory)? And that endless therapy won't actually do any good, contrary to what psychiatrists and psychologists have held?

I expect to watch neuroscience nibble away at the territory now held by psychology, until (as Lewis Carroll wrote about the Cheshire Cat) there's nothing left but the smile.
Tcpcrypt – Encrypting the Internet
I can see an API being useful for more than placing trades and I see a platform as an entire framework of information sources, knowledge bases, data, and of course the actual broker. My intention is medium to long term investment but I don't want to shut any avenue out so I'm open to information, advice, and experience on basically any facet. That includes day trading but I'm not leaning that direction.
Descent on the Net
Hedge fund Nevsky Capital called it quits about a month ago (and this is a fund with historically stellar performance). Their "goodbye letter" [1] does an excellent job at spelling out some of the reasons hedge funds are a less attractive proposition lately.

[1] https://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/294654490/Nevsky-Newslette...
To be clear the point of the guide I linked is that you can publish to bintray and have them sync it into maven central.
> FB still is the only reliable source for advanced targeting of ads. This has massive impact on ROI for performance marketers.

A few years ago, a report came out saying that approximately 6% of Facebook advertisers were actually seeing a positive ROI. A more recent survey of small businesses [1] showed that 41% felt they received some positive ROI. These numbers suggest that Facebook advertisers are likely losing billions of dollars per year overall. There just happens to be a large glut of capital out there willing to chase metrics other than ROI right now - things like brand recognition and app installs. Eventually though, some people are going to notice that they are losing money, and the gravy train may at least slow down.

[1] http://www.manta.com/resources/research/social-media-marketi...
Ok found the device: http://iom.nationalacademies.org/~/media/FFB5490AAC79421A80D...
IRC servers only scan you to see if you run an open proxy. They have a good reason to scan you. There is no reason why a NTP server should scan you.
Pond uses Tor for metadata protection. Vuvuzela is another recent messenger that protects metadata.
It's an open secret in the news industry that while all of those longform articles, parallaxin' interactives and news apps do get great traffic, that traffic is nothing in comparison to that totally random and not even very good quick hit that went viral yesterday.

Personally, I also agree that you shouldn't worry too much about polishing content and instead just get it out there. That's what's so lovely about the blog of statistician Andrew Gelman for example [1], he just writes what comes to mind and his readers love it because they care more about his insights than about whether or not he's presenting an eloquently argued, watertight argument. It reminds me of the old days of blogging, and I think many of us miss those days.

That said, Kent Beck displays some really sloppy thinking here. "I have no clue about what the actual numbers are, and even though I could get them and run some analysis on them to determine the effects of quality vs. quantity, instead I'm just going to philosophize about how I think the world works, and justify my ramblings by saying that it's a POWER LAW, and power laws, that's like nature, dude, you can't fight it."

[1] http://andrewgelman.com/
Content addressed links at least make this possible. With http you have to reach a particular server. If that server is down, the link is broken. With ipfs all you need is at least one machine on the entire network to be serving a file and the link will work and as an added bonus you can verify the hash of what you get so a mitm attack on that link is impossible.
It depends on the person. For me, running (even though I don't enjoy it) was easier to do than having to be careful about what I eat.
Resisting a mobile future is futile
I was also anticipating "just another Go goroutine/channel tutorial" but this was special. Really nice. Kudos to person who did this! The visual reinforcements of software concepts is fantastic for learning or comparison aid whether it be algorithmic analysis, concurrency primitives etc. I would love to see more of this.
The Best Brain Blogs- Neuroscience for the Non-Scientific
Increased wages and reduced working hours apply to workers, not to everybody. The USSR was very much focused on work; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_who_does_not_work,_neither_...

Creating bullshit jobs to ensure full employment and forcing people to work in them is pretty much the opposite of what a UBI is all about.
A doctor opines that triage by computer over the phone is dangerous
Or, as pointed out in a comment above, everybody is lying to everybody and the only loser is the customer. The customer may still find advertising to be a net win, but they have no clue to what degree it is such.
*two-eleventy billion dollars in cash

All joking aside, they have a net of something like $165 billion in cash. That's a very large competitive advantage indeed, even if they had to take a large tax hit on it in the process of repatriating. Basically every other phone maker except Samsung has to be careful not to make a big mistake from one generation to the next, or it might be their last.
Reminds me of AIG. Looked great on paper until the stuff off the books came to light.
Hm yeah, after reviewing the transfer policies, I guess I mistakenly thought the price for transfer TO Gandi stands for transfer FROM as well. It's still a bit more hassle then what Kloudsec offers.
A very interesting historical period and an untapped source of great source material for fiction of all sorts :)
I know most people don't trust quotation websites but I found a great Man and Van Removals Company http://wjmtransport.co.uk and received a great free no obligation quote so I think it's a good idea to get quotes from these websites.
why would it be disturbing ?
Yea, related key attack I think.
No, it was citing personal experience. I could just as easily cited Michael Phelps' diet when he was training, but that's definitely not something most people can relate to.
Yet Ackman argues that index funds are destroying his and hedge fund's abilities to better govern a company. I guess the fraud was the fault of those darn index funds!
Why not just cover all flights and tack it up to a citizen's right to travel?
From what my sport doctor and physio explained, during a hyperextension movement, when you've doubled over and your head is pointing at the ground, you're opening the spine up, fluid moving between discs and cartilage, etc. In a full hyperextension, you're compressing in the opposite flexed direction. If there's misalignment anywhere in your spine, you might be increasing your risk of exacerbating the issue.

The trouble with bro science is that those lifters may never have actually had the problem you're experiencing, and if they had, may not have had it in the same way that you have.

Core strengthening exercises are good in general as stronger/thicker muscle better protects the connective tissue providing backup support for your joints. It's a reason some athletes can tear ACLs and such and walk around normally while a normal person might end up debilitated.

Please get a referral from a sports medicine specialist for a physio. Even if you go only once, have someone give you strategies for strengthening and protecting your back the safe way.
Financial independence and for some: early retirement. You die when you die, but you can spend decades of your life free if you earn a decent salary and control your spending. Time is the most scarce resource we have. Money does equal time, so when you spend your money, you spend your life.
> Apple's major competitive edge right now is supply chain and economies of scale. They are able to source materials far better than basically anybody else. This has always been Tim Cook's strong suite.

Sadly the software quality and leadership needed to ensure it isn't.
Kaspersky Realtime Cyberthreat Map
Reubano/meza: A Python toolkit for processing tabular data
Well, first of all, I don't think that psychiatry has for decades claimed that "schizophrenia is caused by refrigerator moms", even though the downfall of that claim may have been more due to political pressure than medical research.

And secondly, whether therapy does any good is a completely different question from what is causing schizophrenia - although here we are talking about triggering it rather than causing it.

I have a friend who came up with schizophrenia just when graduating from university, and it was indeed devastating. But the endless therapy helps him a bit.
How do you think Google can motivate 3rd party advertisers? I'm talking about the Rubicons, Pubmatics, etc. Google doesn't have any real leverage over them. Other than the fact that as publishers do move to SSL (because of the SEO penalty that non SSL sites have) they won't use the SSPs that don't demand or can't insure 100% SSL for their buyers. So in effect Google is putting pressure on them to do it.

I don't understand your next part at all. Who would charge a premium to http only networks? Those sites don't actually rely on Google for delivery.
My iTerm2 has the same behavior as your Terminal.app, so you might just have to change some settings in iTerm.
> ..so why are all of the search terms suddenly gone from google searche referer headers? Which happened at the same time google defaulted to https?

Not related to HTTPS at all. This happened completely independently. It happened because Google went from having search URLs like this

https://google.com/?q=term

To

https://google.com/#q=term

And the things after the anchor-mark is never in your referer. Effectively this means that the only tool on the planet who knows what people searched for before entering your site is... Google Analytics.

As a website owner you're basically being co-erced into letting Google snoop on your users, at least if you want to know how they entered your site. And the fact of the matter that is most (all?) companies are willing to make that trade-off.

All in all pretty sad and very creepy.
Here the TL;DR is the following: because the popularity of your blogposts will follow a power law distribution (in which you believe), if you want to be popular you just need to put out more content instead of trying to improve the quality.

An analogy: the popularity of painters follow a power law (or say we believe it). So to be popular, you don't need to be good, but to put out more paintings. Then if you look at the most popular artists, they shouldn't be the most talented, but the most prolific...

And then there are the arguments against the "power law everywhere" meme, that can be found in Mitzenmacher for example.
NIST Requests Comments on Computer Security Publication on Randomness
Newegg have always stated they would fight every single patent case to the death

Blue Jeans Cable took much the same approach to Monster Cable. The response was an all-time classic. I've posted snippets here before but can't resist doing it again:

if you file on this sort of basis, you are in
Rule 11 frivolous-claim territory
...
You are required, as a matter of legal ethics,
to display good faith and professional candor
in your dealings with adverse parties, and you
have fallen miserably short of your ethical
responsibilities
...
Read the patents narrowly, and Monster loses;
read them broadly, and Monster loses.
...
I spent nineteen years in litigation practice
...
I am "uncompromising" in the most literal sense
of the word. If Monster Cable proceeds with
litigation against me I will pursue the same
merits-driven approach: I do not compromise with
bullies and I would rather spend fifty thousand
dollars on defense than give you a dollar of
unmerited settlement funds.
...
Not only am I unintimidated by litigation;
I sometimes rather miss it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9284093
> The day’s lecture was short, with slides; the speaker, a neuropsychologist named Chris Frith, argued that a crucial feature of consciousness was regret.

This reminds me of a quote from Dune, where Count Hasimir Fenring is talking with Baron Harkonnen:

> "Mankind has ah only one mm-m-m science," the Count said [...]

> "And what science is that?" the Baron asked.

> "It's the um-m-m-ah-h science of ah-h-h discontent," the Count said.
MicroPython on the ESP8266: beautifully easy IoT
> Better to have a standards body than a hodge-podge of uninteroperable things.

XMPP has both in spades -- that's where the theory doesn't meet the reality. And XMPP is hardly alone; this is a chronic issue with messaging, because the problem space is so ill-defined.

The most successful protocols have been extremely focused in scope. IPv4 is essentially unchanged from RFC 791. TCP has a very carefully curated set of options that has stayed small. For ~15 years, RFC 2616 was the only spec you needed for HTTP. Notice the layering here -- those protocols don't try to be everything for everyone, unlike XMPP's catch-all design.
Perhaps the ejabberd support is bad or poorly documented? Either way I just couldn't find how to do it. All I could find for MAM was logging to flat files.
"After a year in limbo, the Navy has decided to move ahead and replace the service's top intelligence officer, whose tenure has been hamstrung by suspected ties to a disgraced defense contracting firm.

The Office of the Secretary of the Navy has nominated Rear Adm. Elizabeth Train for a third star and to relieve Vice Adm. Ted Branch as director of naval intelligence, according to two Navy officials.

Branch's access to classified information was suspended in November 2013, along with that of a deputy, Rear Adm. Bruce Loveless, the director of intelligence operations, for possible connections to Glenn Defense Marine Asia — the husbanding firm at the center of one of the Navy's biggest bribery scandals in decades." http://www.navytimes.com/story/military/pentagon/2014/11/26/...

"... Navy officials boarded and relieved Capt. Daniel P. Dusek of his command of the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard. Fifteen months later on January 15, 2015, federal prosecutors obtained a guilty plea from Dusek on charges of bribery for supplying classified ship movements in the Asia-Pacific region to Glenn Marine in return for prostitutes and luxury hotel stays worth over $10,000. Dusek arranged for the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu to stop at ports where Francis' firm could service the ships. Dusek was released on $200,000 bail pending his sentencing hearing set for April 3, 2015. The previous week, on January 2, 2015, Cmdr. Jose Luis Sanchez pleaded guilty to supplying secret ship movement schedules in return for prostitutes, luxury travel and $100,000 in cash over a four year period."
I'll bite, what is customized about the PowerVR implementation in the A9? How does it compare to whatever PowerVR's reference implementation is?
Do you realize that AlphaGo has a 77% win rate against CrazyStone with a four stone handicap? It is far far stronger than CrazyStone and Zen.