skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So here's the thing with news: it's expensive to run a news operation, and almost impossible to make any money doing it, since there is so much competition. All serious news operations get their funding elsewhere. The BBC is funded by the UK taxpayer (and thus behaves like a branch of the civil service). Reuters is funded by its financial services wing (the point of it is to provide news to traders, who will then trade via Reuters). Al-Jazeera is funded by the local Sheikh. Once you understand this, all the inherent biases become obvious.
The full disclosure debate is almost as old as the Internet itself. There's a case to be made on either side.

Disclosers gonna disclose. Know what I'm saying?
Because it is very widely used.
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Using your own logic, they have been 100% successful.
Even when there are clearly more than seven segments?
States are much too coarse.

In the early 90s, East Palo Alto had the highest murder rate in the US. (I think that the wikipedia article is wrong - I remember a number significantly higher.) It's right next to Palo Alto, which has a murder every decade or so.
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How ironic that one of the first major forays into cyber warfare be codenamed "Olympic Games".
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Show HN: Chrome TPB search extension
Much of the news is based on propaganda and assumptions.

>No, we are the aggressors here and I remain highly skeptical that Iran is even trying to do develop nuclear weapons.

You may believe that but it doesn't make it so. There was a recent story about how UN inspectors found traces of uranium that were enriched higher than they were supposed to be for civilian purposes.
Just to be clear, we don't have anti-MAB stance or pro-A/B testing. The point was that MAB is not "better" as an earlier article titled (20 lines of code that beat A/B testing) had claimed. These methodologies clearly serve two different needs.
Queueing theory: What people hate most about waiting in line
What door / fan?
I'm sure many people could, starting with the Deaf. I'd certainly enjoy a break from the incessant yammering of humanity.
"Cold War doesn't mean no loss of life or destruction, just that there aren't two armies going at it on the battlefield"

If so, then "cold" vs. "hot" would be a distinction without a difference.

I don't think the populace is generally educated to think that a "cold war" means "overt attacks on the enemy producing destruction and death." Rather, I think most people think that "cold war" means heightened political/military tension without overt attacks.

To define a "cold war" as one in which no soldiers are used is fallacious: it's a definition by non-essentials. What is relevant to war is whether there is a systematically planned and ongoing violent attacks, not whether soldiers happen to be the means of attack.
Some parts are not really that ill-defined. e.g. an interface with a single implementation is code-smell. That's a pretty good start.
You're too serious. My users might not care but I do.
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> I believe the point is, what if a cold war scenario was to happen between China and USA; China being nuclear-equipped

It wouldn't matter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutually_assured_destruction
I'll chime in and say that, as one of Knewton's former interns (now a current employee), I had the opportunity to work on significant problems, learn as much as I wanted, and collaborate with some talented engineers.

Knewton is an excellent place for interns--I'd strongly recommend applying if you're interested.
I'm confused: surely the right way to compare would be to say the A/B tests pick the best option 100% of the time after 'reaching statistical significance'[1] - this is at least apples to apples.

[1] Like others here, I believe testing until you see significance is Doing It Wrong.
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Yes, I agree it is not a rigorous statistical analysis but I tried doing a fair comparison (based on assumptions/heuristics clearly described in the post). The blog post simply claims what is described there.
All of this is well and good, but it's kind of like a "step 1, step ...., PROFIT" joke. The difficult part is picking the right metrics and, often, creating and maintaining them.
This is the standard practice of the Obama administration - prosecute only those who leaks don't help the president. Glenn Greenwald at salon.com has been writing about this a lot, here's his piece about stuxnet: http://www.salon.com/2012/06/01/tough_guy_leaking/singleton/
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What the fuck is an entrepreneur
The room is anechoic and insulated. Anechoic means that the walls are treated to absorb all the sound waves that hit them, and not reflect them back. (Typically, anechoic surfaces are soft and cannot support much weight, so [guess] there is probably a support system to put weight bearing platforms inside.) Insulated means that sounds from outside the room are not transmitted in. A lot of concrete can take care of the high frequencies, but low frequencies often require special suspensions to keep sounds from the earth out.

The most interesting thing is the measured extent of what they've produced.
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I am sure someone will give a good reason for not doing this but as a note... I do actively seek out these threads. I love seeing what people are creating and the discussions are often enlightening.
I agree (having seen my own Show HN disappear with only one upvote).

One of the most useful things in the community is the wide range of talent and expertise. Reading through comments on the Show HN posts is a great way to learn a lot very quickly.

They also tend to spark off interesting discussions.

So I'm joining the 'Upvote Show HN posts' club.
Alright, you want details ?
During the testing of nuclear weapons, the US had no problem testing the secondary effects of nukes through radiation far beyond the blast zone, by putting boats with soldiers to watch the thing.

It was widely known at that time that radiation was bad for you mkay, and that nuclear fission bombs were nuclear fission bombs, i.e. accelerated nuclear degradation bombs and drained all their explosive power from radiations, that kill mkay.

In the past, biological, chemical, explosive weapons were tested on rocks, plants, prisoners, personnel, unsuspecting local populations, etc. by the nazi regime, the US govt, the USSR and France - that are widely confirmed.

I wouldn't put it past THOSE people to do such a thing, would you ?

So really, if you want to say it's IMPOSSIBLE or UNLIKELY that they would've done that too, without knowing the consequences - I suppose you must be right.
Same way every product from GWO and T&T on down: show a pretty graph that ignores the underlying assumption that it's even possible to use statistics to conjure certainty from uncertainty, and trust that users will never know or care about the difference.

/former AB test software dev who fought my users to try to stop them from misinterpretation results, and failed.
How is this not an act of war? Doesn't congress need approve military actions of this sort?
Not everyone can be an astronaut. This community is built on doing awesome stuff, and sadly that pretty much entails that if you worked really hard and ultimately failed then your work is of little consequence.

A well thought out post detailing why you failed and why you don't think you will next time is a different story, though.
Why is this downvoted? Seems relevant and fairly apt, if a bit too pointed.
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Former election strategist here. This is part of the Obama-Is-Tough roll-out, clearly done with current admin participation. Timed release to follow the "kill list" story and maybe even pre-empt the terrible jobs report.

All the same, it's pretty stunning that the Obama administration would trade its (public) plausible deniability on Stuxnet in order to "look tough" on America's enemies. Playing fast and loose with foreign policy...great plan, guys.
While the threat of terrorism is not imaginary, it is certainly negligible compared to other threats.
You get 95% of the functionality in 1% the size with a 50x boost in speed by using Lout instead of LaTeX.

http://lout.wiki.sourceforge.net
Psst, dont tell anybody, they are asking for money because they know a concept is not enougth and the need money to implment what you call 'a lot more'.
Using RAID1 as backup is OK as long as you occasionally run 'sudo rm -rf /' for maintenance.
It's the old normal. See also the famous article about how most medical research is mathematically wrong.
https://rubyonrails-security.googlegroups.com/attach/fc2da6c...

Scroll down to test_where_error.
Ask HN: Designers, do you really hate feedback?
I've been talking to a lot of designers lately and its strange to know that designers usually have a tendency to resist opinions on their designs. I see dribbble and forrst full of enthusiastic designers seeking advice, now is that a minority?

Is it that designers only want feedback from a certain set of people they respect?

Linkedin groups are full of how to tackle client feedback. Do clients really harass designers that bad? I thought only 'coder' guys had to keep nudging the code again and again because someone feels differently!
DropNote Builds on Dropbox's User Base with Educational App
Anti-Piracy Boss: TV Fans Are Unreasonable For Wanting Content Quicker
Even if we settle on a bunch of other planets, I imagine we will always remain interested in preserving Earth as well. It will always be our original home. And astrophysical engineering of the solar system should enable us to keep the Earth in good shape well beyond the solar system's lifespan if left to its own devices.

More thoughts on the far future prompted by this thread here: http://bfe242.com/the-stars-like-sea-froth
America's Problem
At http://news.ycombinator.com/ask, you can see all of the Ask HN submissions. Is there something similar for Show HN?

If not, I think that'd be quite nice to have.
Ask HN: How to you thwart the countless competitors approaching your client?
Other than roping a client into some contractual commitment what is it that everyone is doing these days to keep their web development clients?

It seems there is an endless supply of competitors out there and as always they’re trying to undercut you. Price is important to some, while value to others. Competitors claim to offer the ‘same’ thing at $5 less. Perhaps this is just the nature of the beast. Happy to say I haven’t lost many to such a thing but nevertheless I feel it’s time to turn up the heat on client thieves.

What’s everyone doing to make this happen? I suppose being dependent on proprietary frameworks could certainly be one way to go about it… but that just feels wrong, right from the get-go. Any suggestions?
Sure! This post is like an invitation to discuss the subject, right?

"over-engineering" was not the point anyway. The title is a lie. The point was: dont be afraid of making mistakes (Over-engineering and the likes) when you can afford to, so you can learn from them and aim at high quality discussions on HN.
Hypermedia APIs using XHTML
You write "It's not a new market".

Schnier writes "This is very different than in 2007, when researcher Charlie Miller wrote about his attempts to sell zero-day exploits; and a 2010 survey implied that there wasn't much money in selling zero days. The market has matured substantially in the past few years."

I believe Schnier's point is that it's now an active market where it's much easier for buyers and sellers to meet, not that this is the first time exploits were for sale.

To think that Schneier believes that there was no market would be to think that Schneier did not accept the reported prices listed in the linked-to PDF by Miller.
Thanks! I now have an idea for the next post :)
GPLv2 according to https://bitbucket.org/Britefury/the-larch-environment/src/a3...
Yes. That position has now pretty much lost credibility, which in my view is no bad thing. I've had the good fortune to never experience actual war, but I'm pretty sure nobody with such experience, is in the slightest doubt about the difference between that and sabotaging computers, however annoying the latter might be. If cyber-conflict is going to take place, I think it's in everyone's interest to keep it at that level and stop it spilling over into war.
Watch Elon Musk talk about SpaceX (in 2003)
I tend to store all my repositories in Dropbox, but not in shared folders. That way, my work is synced to all devices and I avoid weird file conflicts.
I usually just use the search function

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=show+hn
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"When writing on paper, how do you move things about?"
It's the same with any big company, and it kind of boils down to the adage: "20% of the people do 80% of the work".
Peanut butter is pretty rare outside of the US. I think the Dutch have it as a "native" product and it's been getting more popular as a "typical American" import. Basically the roles of peanut butter and Nutella are reversed in large parts of Europe.
Great and interesting answer and links! Thank you very much!