skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
End Religious exemption from Animal stunning
Maybe they believe in consumer choice.
How to get press for your Startup the old-fashioned way
Amazon also is an expert at losing money and having no margins.
Is there a legitimate use case for being able to recursively define entities like that?
Google chat/Hangout....
Well, yes. But if you're not keeping track of that, then always using 15/49 will give you marginally better results, on average, than always using 4/13. Perhaps there will be times where, if you had kept track of the cards, you would give odds of 4/13; but you didn't, so you don't know that's the case, and you should give 15/49.

You're correct about your other objections, and 15/49 is indeed harder to work with - but "without actually making it more accurate" is false under the one-deck assumption. It is not wholly accurate, but it is more accurate.
IIRC, it's easier to get a hotmail account than a gmail account (or at least it used to be) because you have to go through some verification to get a Gmail account.

Hotmail seems to be popular with spammers and people creating throwaways probably for that reason.
Say European-sounding things in an American-sounding accent and mention South Korean friends often, then help the North Korean regime garner more international aid in the times that they are not launching missiles in the direction of neighbors.

Sorry - what I meant to say is 'volunteer and help the people of his country'.
Facebook Privacy Flaw exposed two College Gay Students Accidentally
Since when does chrome not render PDFs?
I've lived in France 12 years and run a web consultancy in Paris. The government is completely out to lunch - and I feel the international media has not covered this story sufficiently. Unemployment is going to rise, investment will drop and extreme political movements are going to become even more popular.
"Stephen Pinker has a story about Henry Kissinger and his brother moving to the US just before and after that threshold, one having a German accent and the other doesn't."

It could also be that one was more motivated to change the accent, or otherwise got more practice, than the other.

But never mind that possibility, because Stephen Pinker is a fundamentalist about nativism.
If you read the article, it's talking about how Microsoft changed it's privacy policies to match those of Google (who where met with uproar at their introduction) after publicly calling out Google on it's lack of value of privacy.
It's interesting to see that, for the most part, there appears to be a lot of randomly generated passwords. Of course, it's also worrying to see that there's passwords as insecure as "passwords123" for an organisation where security is paramount.
I've run into a few local networks that have routers, or other network security appliances, that are configured in such a way where my SSH connection would get dropped after XX seconds of inactivity.

Placing the following wildcard entry in my SSH config resolved the issue for those times when I had to use one of these networks...

# Set Global KeepAlive to avoid timeouts
Host *
ServerAliveInterval 240
Just to be clear, I'm not trying to just be negative...just realizing you're obviously trying to set yourself apart from the crowd (and should be applauded for doing so), and so am trying to point out where you can avoid creating pitfalls in the process.

I'm no YC-er so don't have much insight beyond what can be inferred in the discussions on HN...but the most interesting part of your resume to me was your D1 athletic achievements. To compete at that level almost automatically gives you cred as someone with drive.

Where you should put that piece of info, I can't say. If not at the very top, well, definitely not at the bottom where you have it now. To put a more pessimistic spin on it, the fact that the athletic achievements were the first thing to catch my eye also implies that you haven't done enough to explain your other concrete achievements. I criticized the skill-bars because I think you can do a much better job describing yourself.
I agree with martinced completely.

I've spent 12 years in Paris working on the web. Before that I spent 9 years in Russia - I know propaganda and lies. The French government is incompetent and dishonest.

Why do I write this? Because it's in all of our interest here in France that the rest of world know. These buffoons want to be taken seriously on the world stage, like Chernenko and Brezhnev. No reason to allow that to happen.
I always wondered about Netflixes subtitles. I've noticed that in many Korean, or Anime shows they use the fansub instead of hiring their own translators.

For one show in particular City Hunter (episode 20 I think), I saw for a split second the words "Our subs are not for rent or resale", which I seriously doubt would be there if Netflix had paid for the subtitling.

I think they generally take fansubs then remove the credits. And in the case I noticed, they failed to do so on one episode.
Some would say "I really like JavaScript, but compiling to it would be insanity." And yet CoffeeScript is there. How is that better than a language which compiles to C?
Start with a very rich country - a former superpower that fought with its rival for world domination. I'm not talking about USA and USSR but France and England.

The #1 spots comes with lot of advantages like accumulated wealth, educated workforce, etc.

Now start to introduce socialist reforms - little by little, and watch the country bleed itself out while its voters supports this self destructive streak being proud of the equality they are achieving.

This "equality" makes me think of thermodynamics. Yes they are increasing entropy, destroying the country.

It can be achieved in a small amount of time (Zimbabwe managed to turn itself from very rich to very poor in a record amount of time!) or a long time - as France is showing.

At the moment, France can only take advantage of the size of its economy as a refuge in the eurozone for those who don't want to put all their eggs in Germany

If France keep destroying its economy that way (or if say the UK gets in the eurozone) the end of the ride is near.

[I wonder if it will need food help to fight famine, like Zimbabwe, after after being a net food exporter]
A lot of these are good. Some not so much...

passwords123
passwored12
password$qwerty
qwertylol@me
passwords123456
password123
password111111
There is a difference between Google and Microsoft - Microsoft does list phone numbers for support and you can call them up and actually speak to someone at the other end - and they do provide a paid option for support for many of their products. They also sell many of their products through VARs (value-added resellers), who are generally quite helpful if you get stuck or need help.
Yes, the journal has been labeled a money-making scam: if you need publications (for your academic career), they'll publish your paper in exchange for large publication fees. The "peer-reviews" are basically token reviews. I don't think there's any larger meaning here about the state of mathematics.

See one of the blog post comments for details: http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2012/10/17/paul-taylor/stochastica...

(And as random trivia, the four-color theorem was the first major theorem to be proved using a computer. Based on the headline, I was expecting something like that.)
No problem. Hopefully you take all this criticism from HN as just that: criticism. Iterate and make it better! You're already a step ahead of a LOT of people out there.
In my opinion the font is way too big. Makes it very difficult to read your full story, and it's too out of proportion with your skill bar text. Remember your target audience is professionals, but people learning to read.
Despite that not being a very HN-worthy comment, i'm curious: why? To me limited knowledge, he's responsible for allowing using an excellent language+framework cross-platform, for which I'm thankful.
I'm dying from laughter
Any actual, verifiable proof?
All these people with "password123" as their password (and there's a bunch similar to that) should be fired. Sidney MacArthur, you work for the Navy and you have that as a password?
It's not "damaging" to France to say that the country is run by dishonest incompetents. France is a wonderful, beautiful country - any visitor can see that it in a few hours. But if a government is lowering people's incomes and increasing unemployment, we have a right as rational people to say as much as we can about it.
joseph.mcqueen@ic.fbi.gov - passwords123

> Joseph McQueen III, chief of the FBI personnel recruitment unit according to [0].

daniel.clegg@ic.fbi.gov - clegg.passwd

> is an FBI supervisory agent

Some others

laura.eimiller@ic.fbi.gov - passwored12

William.So@ic.fbi.gov - cutelilyian191

tammy.mchugh@ic.fbi.gov - passwords123456

Rich.Ernst@osd.mil - ernst.richard

celkins@vertizontalinc.com - celkins.vertizon

joseph.herold@us.af.mil - 128482joshqwerty

joseph.s.dufresne@uscg.mil - qwerty9876

IC_Complaints@ic.fbi.gov - JulianICcomplaints

gavin.edward@bdsus.mod.uk - eduardopassword123

IC_Complaints@ic.fbi.gov - JulianICcomplaint

ronald.menold@ic.fbi.gov - password111111

[0] http://www.diversitycareers.com/articles/pro/09-augsep/dia_f...
Obesity does not cause heart disease
And OnLive.
The Django tutorial just doesn't have the depth that the rails book does in my opinion. Though, it's well written and awesome in it's own way. There is also a lot of other well written guides on the rails main site[1]

[1] http://rubyonrails.org/documentation
I was just looking at this as something that could be combined with Tent. From what I've heard, the v1 docs are inadequate to develop a working implementation, and this draft for version 2 of the spec isn't done, and hasn't been updated in awhile:

https://github.com/quartzjer/TeleHash/blob/master/org/v2.md

My conclusion was that TeleHash is a cool concept, but not a solid foundation you can build something on just yet.
Agreed. Myself and a few tech-savvy friends only use hotmail as a spam collector, you know, to sign up for one-time stuff that insists on getting a password from you.
Free MongoDB courses starting Monday the 22nd
On thinking probabilistically [pdf]
I think my favorite has to be this one: "$$$$$$$$$$$$$"
Following another user advice in the thread I started learning using the updated django book and I must say is great so far( I am at chapter 3). I have previosuly looked over the rails book and this is better for a newcomer.

https://github.com/mariuz/django-book
Ask HN:Thoughts about 3D printing?
I'm interested in the future of 3d printing and would love to hear your thoughts and predictions regarding it.
Do you live outside the US and can you go to an Internet Cafe?
> How far down the libertarian utopia rabbithole does this go? Could Mr Didorosi hire armed guards to protect his fleet? Where is the line drawn?

Yes, he could - but not because it's anarchy, but because it's actually legal for anyone to do that in the state of Michigan. It's one of the better states, as far as gun laws go.

The line is drawn where the cops have resources to enforce. Rape, murder, armed robbery, major assaults - they usually get to these things. Interestingly, traffic tickets, too - revenue is important.

Everything else, not so much.
I think the author correctly understood probability theory.

If a population is modelled by a random variable, each individual probability is unknown. What is known is the continuous probability distribution of the entire population.

Intuitively, this means you cannot know which individuals will succeed or fail, you can only know what proportion will succeed -- regardless of the merits of each individual.

The author correctly calculated mean outcome -- more precisely, expected value:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value#Univariate_conti...
Lizards of the Mountain
Agreed, ccuracy of skill isn't really important since you're trying to show your ability to learn, adapt and solve problems. Language isn't as important as a good engineer and/or entrepreneur (I'd except YC are very language agnostic). As suggested elsewhere, maybe list the language and then some very brief descriptions of projects.
This is the biggest example of the word "startup" getting "dragged through the mud". This wouldn't have even been a top 100 app in the Rails Rumble last weekend, let alone a startup!
As with most relationship issues, discuss it, but be nice about it. Turn what might be a confrontation into a discussion where your co-founder can voice similar concerns he/she might have about you. Usually when there is frustration it’s going both ways.
Why do you assume that America-to-Europe visitors are the market to capture? Europeans have (typically) more vacation time than Americans, and travel around Europe is pretty easy. Tourism within Europe is a very big market. I don't have figures to hand, but I'd think that it is bigger than America-to-Europe visitors.
One can always execute (interpret) after parsing, by any strategy from lame to excellent. Meanwhile if I were involved with LLVM I'd be proud to see 'my' IR being exploited like this.

Didn't "America" invent LLVM?
So where do we sign in to validate this works?
Purely for research purposes. Not saying I want to sign in another person's account, but just out of curiosity, where do we sign in?
That's exactly what I'm doing. HN is giving me exactly what I was hoping for.
This is what you get for encouraging just one type of password strength (i.e. character set) while almost ignoring another (i.e. length).

For example I bet this wouldn't pass the FBI's requirements:

- Clowns with clown makeup

But this would:

- password123
Almost the entire economic expansion after WWII came from the middel class. The rates you link to are referring to the top marginal rate which do not affect the middle class.

There is also a rather important paragraph at the bottom that I think you missed.

> "This table contains a number of simplifications and ignores a number of factors, such as a maximum tax on earned income of 50 percent when the top rate was 70 percent and the current increase in rates due to income-related reductions in value of itemized deductions. Perhaps most importantly it ignores the large increases in percentage of returns that were subject to the top rate".

The US tax code is so complicated you can't just look at some percentage and come to any sort of accurate conclusion. I would say the main factor in how much a given person pays in taxes depends mostly on their accountant.

You should also take into account most of the world was in shambles was when the war ended which gave the US a huge economic advantage.
"Company becomes as evil as Google" does not cause much uproar, because people don't really consider Google evil (yet).

I think what is more interesting is that apparently Microsoft feels it will make more money of competing with Google head to head with information revenue, than by 1-upping Google by having a more consumer-oriented privacy policy.

Would you think, keeping the recently revealed awesome outlook.com in mind, a good reminder campaign by Microsoft about how they _don't_ invade your privacy like Google does could have pulled you or your peers away from gmail (or Google-apps)?

Perhaps that would've been too much risk, this being the obvious easy way of making revenue..
ACLU fights the good fight to stop government surveillance of our citizens
Must be a really slow day if someone's "home page" has made it, it's like 1996 all over again.

this site looks miserably bad on the iPad, it's riddled with spelling and grammatical errors, the design is neither functional nor aesthetically pleasing, the content is a mixture of resume, personal history and some horrible over saturated snapshots.

If you're looking for a job I would strongly suggest you buy a word press theme and go with that instead if trying to make a website like this.

And lastly, calling yourself a polyglot is pretentious, Just say you speak seven languages or whatever.

The best way to show you're good at something is by demonstrating it, rather than stating it.

But I've saved my its critical comment for last. Please don't list trivial technologies, like vim, iterm etc. if you're a software developer I would expect you to be highly competent in an editor and I don't care which one it is. If you're a designer I expect you to know photoshop and illustrator and indesign, if you're a web developer I expect you to know JavaScript and sass and HTML and CSS. For any technology that you are "experimenting with" just don't mention it.

When I get a software engineering candidate resume and they list Word as a skill I immediately throw it out.

And lastly, if you're going to make a personal site that puts your best for forward, don't do it in one night, give it some actual thought.

Don't say you're clever, show it, do something clever, try it at least on a mobile device! For an example of doing rather than saying take a look at hakim.se
The more I read it, the more I agree with you. I was trying to preemptively adjust the font size (I prefer large text and find myself zooming in all the time), but in combination with the paragraph width I'm starting to believe it doesn't work.
So what you say with your example is that in a layered sample (say separate the population by heigh or muscle mass), the weighted mean is a better estimator than the arithmetic mean of a sample ?

It is not ignored by statistics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted_mean
Were these passwords stored as plain text? Is there more info on how the hackers got hold of these?
Yup. There's a microblogging app (Twitter clone) called TentStatus, available hosted at https://tent.is, or run your own instance of the code: https://github.com/tent/tent-status. Several people are working on iOS and Android apps to support the microblogging use case.

There's Essayist, a (very alpha) long-form blogging app, hosted at http://essayist.mndj.me, code at https://github.com/mwanji/essayist

Meanwhile, the inventors of Tent have 5 people working 60+ hours a week running Tent.is and developing the protocol and apps for it. They haven't revealed what's next, though it sounds like some non-status apps are in the works.
That isn't right. NYC's trolleys/buses were more efficient in the pre-automobile era when there was much less other traffic to block them, but Manhattan is about two miles wide and about 15 miles long; covering even 10 miles in 10 minutes would mean travelling at 60mph on city streets without stopping, and mass transit obviously needs to stop at least every couple miles. The express subway lines still take you up & down the island as quickly as ever (about 25 minutes from 125th St. to the Battery, apparently).

Manhattan's mass transit system is largely intact from its peak (except for the incomplete Second Avenue Subway, to replace the demolished Second Avenue Elevated the East Side), and has become better integrated from the private era when there were three competing systems. The trolley lines were more significant in the outer boroughs, and could reach speeds & frequencies similar to their best years with proper implementation of modern light rail or bus rapid transit. That would require the political will to take away surface right-of-way from the (boisterous, wealthier) car-driving minority.
Rough estimate, about a 1/3 of the passwords can be easily cracked.

Of the rest, some are human inputted for sure but some seem randomly generated.

Can I venture guess that some weak accounts are pretty trivial and the important one's are using randomly generated passwords? Yes it's still bad practice, weak link and all that. I'm not condoning such practice.
Scientist who got a Nobel Prize for finding NGF is 103 and takes it every day
Microsoft realized these privacy rule changes allow for things like google now, so after criticizing google they realized their stupidity, then copied google, which is their current business plan as of late. I'm betting they're working on their own google now clone. So here we have another example of Microsoft missing the boat. Yet Microsoft tries to get the government to investigate google for anticopetition. Google is where they are due to being smarter than their competitors, and this is one of many examples.

The reason for no uproar is Microsoft is better at PR. When google introduced the privacy changes, Microsoft went into PR overdrive mode. You have to hand it to microsoft, when it comes to PR, they are innovative.
These passwords look a bit suspect.. it seems like some are forced to have very complicated passwords while others do not.
Interesting to note, Timothy Lauster is on this list and was a person associated with the FBI call anonymous leaked.

See: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399817,00.asp
Didn't you get the memo, every website is now a startup.
Bing only has 15% in the US. Globally, it has less than 5% where Google is closer to 90%, so yes, for all intents and purposes, very few people (who would be affected by this policy) use Bing.
It's generally appreciated anyway, since man pages don't always have examples [1]:

$> man controlmaster

No manual entry for controlmaster

$> man ssh|grep -i controlmaster

required before slave connections are accepted. Refer to the description of ControlMaster in ssh_config(5) for details.

ControlMaster description of ControlPath and ControlMaster in ssh_config(5) for details.

$> man ssh_config|grep -i controlmaster

ControlMaster

with ControlMaster set to “no” (the default). These sessions will try to reuse the master instance's network connection rather than

Specify the path to the control socket used for connection sharing as described in the ControlMaster section above or the string

When used in conjunction with ControlMaster, specifies that the master connection should remain open in the background (waiting for

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/fossworldproblems/comments/v7hi1/man...
Nice one. I printed it to a pdf file to be read later. I would like to know what are other resources to learn about single page web app development? I'm looking for a book/tutorial that can explain it through some example projects. Are there any good books that uses angular.js/backbone.js/ember.js etc to teach single page app development?
I would hope by now they have locked out all those accounts and pulled the server.. but on the other hand its a government agency we are talking about =)
Yup, I saw the original article and thought 'good look with LibreOffice on that'

Then I checked the specifications of the tablet: headphone socket, built in microphone, and so I could get puredata running on it with (perhaps) jack audio.

That would open up the prospect of sound generation by touch. Puredata allows you to make your own interfaces so large buttons to hit.

Also http://dinisnoise.org/

I could almost justify a ton and a half in UK money for that alone.

What I'm saying here is that a cheap touch tablet is not for me a general purpose device, but could fulfill a specific purpose.
To pull this particular style of trick you require a schema definition that allows for one object to be expanded into a whole set of objects, and for the resulting data structure to be a tree rather than a simply a rooted directed graph.

I don't know YAML well but I believe if you tried this trick with something like alias nodes then you would end up with a lol9 node with ten separate connections to a single lol8 node with ten separate connections to a single lol7 node and so on. This would not produce the same problem in the parser, though might trigger problems in whatever processed the resulting graph.
Crowdsourced "PlanetHunter.org" finds its first planet
> Once you go Vim, using any other editor is a nightmare.

Not really. I'm over a month into using Vim full time because it's the standard at my workplace. It sucks. I can't believe that the people around me insist on using this piece of junk. It has so many problems that I never had to deal with in Textmate. Huge step backward.
That's really interesting. Have you or someone else written up that workflow?
What's so new with this side bar? It seems to me that I've been using my PC this way thanks to Windowmaker for the past 15 years already.