skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great read, but it begs the question - why did 40 or so special forces agents defeated to the dark side?

Was it for money, because they felt unappreciated, because they saw too many bad things and just stopped caring (or were ordered to do said bad things and it broke them), because they didn't care in the first place and enrolled just to get the training?

The situation is certainly quite bad, but understanding why it got there in the first place could be interesting, if only to protect other countries from the same experience - ie a drug startup could consider setting shop in, say Canada, with a much larger and far less controlled border, lots of empty space and forest to run labs (etc) using the very same methods.

Reservations, crime and drug friendly cities like Winnipeg could offer them a great advantage - or if we talk about geography, sea access from Labrador to the European market could also be an advantage.

So the question is - why did it happen in Mexico?
This makes it even more important that people should not trust Trojan horses in the form of "clouds".
I happen to agree with the EFF position on this.
That's the point. The Bayesian incorporates this information into the prior. ;)
Why does the an episode show a magnet even if its not availabe on pirateshit.com ?
http://i.imgur.com/0CLIK.png

Edit: I mean like S07E07.
Great idea for a plugin though - I love it.
Sorry, I wasn't talking about the comic. In general, don't the two approaches give different results? Surely, only one is "correct".
This is something more people should do! I still remember the companies where the human touch at the hand off stage was present and have nothing but good will towards such companies. If I wasn't working for a company in direct competition for resources, I would probably be referring people to such companies :) On the flip side, I still remember interviewing with one startup where I thought everything went great, had a really amazing vibe with the hiring team and then suddenly got an automated response the next day with a reject. Would I interview again with that team? Probably not. After all, the bs I got fed about how culture was important to them, It feels rather disappointing that that was all a facade in some way.

On the flip side, of most of the people that I interview, I am not confident that I can honestly say that more than a tiny percentage of those people are objectively bad, it is more that they are not a right fit for my team because the team is looking for people with specific skills and there is a mismatch. This means that a little work on the part of the Engineer could better redirect such people (at least better than a "tech recruiter") to teams for whom such candidates would be a great fit. The nature of the recruiting business is that you will always have false positives. More importantly, people are moving targets: A person who is not a right fit today for your team might in a few years be the right fit for the next team that you have.
In layman's terms, what are the major programming languages and their use?
Railsbridge Changed My Life
On Apple's decimation of freeware/shareware
Thanks. I assumed that Jews would be overrepresented amongst students, but opted for making a more general point.
I'm surprised they missed Netflix, as it's the best Netflix design anywhere (iPad, web, Android, XBox, etc...).

I've actually been surprised how often I am using "apps" rather than the web version on a full blown Win8 box that does NOT have touch.
Given your clarification...

The two methodologies can give somewhat different results, but not as often as you might think, and the differences aren't as large as you might think. In my experience, the instances where you get radically different answers from Bayesian/Frequentist methods are quite rare, and tend toward the pathological example invented purely to demonstrate the "superiority" of one over the other.

That said, sometimes one or the other are significantly more convenient or easy to apply for a given model or type of data.
"Six degrees gets really freaky quite quickly once you've been around a few years."

Yup, not only are there former students of mine teaching Maths, but I met an ex-student of a student of mine who is now in training.

Education used to have really good hiring and feedback on interviews in the UK in my experience but since the rise of the HR/litigation culture recently it is about the same as everyone else...
If you know any other apps worth including, please let me know :)
Thank you! Exactly what I was referring to.
Being in Wikipedia is rarely associated with something being "old"
I use one of these: http://salestores.com/stores/images/images_747/FCRMRG2.jpg with a 32Gb Class 10 Samsung micro sd card.
I don't understand what the cloud has to do with the post, but you can run an HTTP server on your Raspberry Pi, and all the players I have on Android (mainly MX Player) work fine. Videos even open right from the browser in the player, without any hassle.
Spotify to raise $100 million at $3 billion valuation
I would like to fill in some gaps that's not addressed by the OP:
1. The object of a humane society is friction-less living whereby everybody's basic needs (food, shelter, safety) are met without having to "work" because robots have automated everything.
2. In this future, the energy required for automation is fully sustainable and automated meaning creation of energy is self-sustaining from origination (solar, nuclear) to distribution to maintenance without requiring human input.
3. The final assumption is that mankind has lost interest in war and conflict - religions and ideologies co-exist without being "personal" to the degree that advocates turn to violence as a persuasive measure.
Well, not exactly. In Windows 8, Apps can have very different designs, but they use common interface elements and interactions. For example, there are many styles of app bars, but they all come up with a right click.
The material feels like the Crocs foam, and I think it's a bit lighter than a regulation ball. It also squishes down more easily; you can flatten it by stepping on it, though it'll pop right back into shape. It also has different bounce characteristics than a regulation ball, I assume due to its weight and materials.

The biggest downside is that the one I got is slightly out of round, though for anyone playing on a dirt "field", it wouldn't matter that much.

Overall, it's kind of incredible what they've been able to do with it. That said, I wouldn't choose to use it over a regulation ball. But if it's all I had, I'd be glad to play with it.
I see, thanks. Are the differences hard to reconcile, given that we can do Monte Carlo on a model and see whose predictions are correct?

I'm just annoyed by there being two camps in science, where one gets slightly different results from the other. It seems to me that one is obviously wrong, since there's only one truth.
They are both models and as such, you might consider that neither of them are "correct." But they are both useful, sometimes in different circumstances.

"Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful." — George Box
I find that as a programmer I use the desktop most of the time - but still the occasional metro app. I use the included mail app and pin it to the side, and that works well.
Offer HN: Tell me what you need, and I'll program it (for free)
To refresh my mind, I'm looking at taking on one small project. So don't ask me to build a full crazy enterprise application here.

My skills include HTML5, CSS3, JS, PHP, Ruby, Python & Perl.

So, if you're missing something that you'd really like to have, comment below.

See any comments you like? Comment on it so I can see which request is the most popular, and I'll whip it up!
You might want to look into using something like TVTorrents and a an RSS feed with your favorite shows..
I think the article opens with a good point.

I ENVY the design community. I am JEALOUS of the programmer/developer community. Want to know why? It’s simple: They thrive on sharing, collaborating, and improving their field.

I honestly believe that the internet will change the way people collaborate and improve their respective fields. It's just that hackers being who they are, figured it out first. I can't wait to see a github or wikipedia like place for education and anything else out there.

I can truly say that I am overjoyed to be a part of the change that few people understand and fewer acknowledge (so far..). The next 20-30 years are going to be awesome!
Thanks!

Currently there's no logic there yet. It's just a search that happens when you click the link. It automatically assumes that series aired today are available on tpb already, so it shows the magnet links there. That'll all change when i add the automatic monitoring and launching :)
See: "Jobless recoveries and the disappearance of routine occupations "[1] It's going to be tough getting there.

[1] http://www.voxeu.org/article/jobless-recoveries-and-disappea...
I see, thank you all very much for the clarifications.
HTML is the future of textbooks.
Both are correct but they target different things. The disagreement is around what is the target should be and the advantages and disadvantages of choosing these targets. Bayesians are interested in p(unknown|data) and frequentists are interested in p(data|unknown = H0). Inference can be framed either way but means different things.
What I find weird about this (as a Canadian) is that in Germany the standard seems to be to include a photo in your application.
If everyone playing Angry Bird starts working on putting together some knowledge about the world, they can create a complete wikipedia in 30 days. Yes, thats right. The COMPLETE WIKIPEDIA in 30 days.

That assumes that all amounts of time are equal. For me, spending time with silly games is not equal the time I write a paper.

statspotting.com is one of those annoying spammy sites that link to their own coverage of older stuff, the link of "We had spotted some interesting (actually disturbing) stats on Angry Birds before" goes to a tiny "story" on their site where the actual external content is linked at. Bleh.
I'm not sure how it can be a good idea to be choosing from various statistical methods based on which one will give you the sort of answer you intuitively think is correct. I mean, if you're going to bite the bullet and bring priors into your analysis in an ad-hoc way like that, why not just acknowledge their existence mathematically?
Fikile mara way
> It seems to me that one is obviously wrong, since there's only one truth.

A bold claim.
If we attempt to apply Tao’s three stages -- pre-rigorous, rigorous, and post-rigorous -- to programming, something interesting happens: we find that the programming world is mostly stuck at the pre-rigorous stage because there is no widely accepted theory to guide practitioners to later stages. Yes, computer science has an accepted theoretical foundation, but computer science is not programming.

In programming, the closest I’ve seen to a widely practiced theory has come out of the Haskell community. There, you can see the beginnings of a theory in which programs are constructed out of formal building blocks like monoids and functors and where appeals to category theory and monad laws guide design decisions.

It’s a start.
I actually prefer http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/ over any native app on my Android. It's fast, pretty and hasn't let me down yet.
His previous interaction has shown to him that McKinsey might not be a loyal contractor for the prospective contract. The way they treated him in the past might just indicate the way they would treat those hospitals. Since nowadays there is a thick competition for every contract, just the gut feeling of the person in the deciding position is enough to tick them off.

Besides all, he has the first hand experience dealing with them, and they acted unprofessionally. It would be irresponsible for him not to take that into account.
I really like the way they are presenting their API. A simple example is better than an entire of page of documentation. Kind of how w3schools does it.
Body language and gesture is also important in a wide variety of musical performances. Especially since music, rhythm, dance, and body movement are all so deeply intertwined. Perhaps actors and opera singers (which would also include actors in musicals... sing, act, AND dance) might manifest these traits more obviously, but body language is important to nearly all human performance.
Give me a break. `sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping` or as the other replier comments, a single check-switch will disable this. It clearly is NOTHING compared to the daily bullshit in Windows.

What a self righteous jerk. The article is about the regular bullshit that Windows users go through. A single choice made to bolster revenue of an open source project is vastly different than a system that simply hasn't been innovated on for the past 20 years and just sucks in a lot of places.

If you can spend 20 seconds of effort and fix breaking issues like installation standardization, or (un)installation cleanup, or package management, or the new security system that manages to suck harder than GateKeeper... then you can come back and talk down to me.

edit: even just drivers. Do you know how frustrating it is to be given a laptop as a gift from Microsoft only to find that the drivers are difficult to locate, impossible to install without several Admin-level command line statements and a reboot and several scary warnings, and that even after installing them, several of them were just disasterously bad. Fedora, everything works out of the box. Ubuntu, everything works out of the box.
If all you wanted was a minimal features analysis you'd have asked an accountant. You asked this professional in the field for his judgment because of his experience and you got it.

That company is unprofessional because they ignore you unless they're making money on you right now. Nobody wants to be stuck waiting for consultants who've found more profitable work and are constantly rescheduling you.

That 'grudge' is really valuable business intelligence.
What if money was no object?  What would you do?
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Despite hundreds of years of technological innovations, rapid changes in industries, and fluctuating populations, the unemployment rate bounces between 3 and 20 percent (usually 5 to 10). We had 3 million some people in this country in 1790. We now have over 300 million. That same span saw the introduction of technology which DESTROYED the agricultural livelihood most people relied on. Meanwhile, the colonial american would have to compete against 100 times as many applicants today as he would have back then. So why aren't we all unemployed? Why do so many different decades, with wildly different technological and demographic situations, always face roughly the same unemployment rates?

Because employment faces feedback forces on both ends of the employment spectrum.

When people are idle, they want to do something, so they create ways to be useful to others in exchange for things. In today's America, people will bring hot pizza to your door in minutes.

Such an enterprise would have cost an unimaginable fortune in 1790 (you would have had to invent a network of roads... and the automobile... and electricity).

But every invention that makes pizza delivery possible, roads and cars and electricity, threatened to destroy some other industry (horses, wax candles?). As the candlemaker was losing his industry, he couldn't even envision the role of a pizza delivery driver. It makes no sense in his world. So of course, to him, everything looks dire.

You might think that we've never seen technological shifts as potent as today, that somehow this time it's different. But that ignores history. The overnight displacement of all industrial manufacturing by robots would be a blip compared to the decimation of agricultural labor over the last century plus. The economy is far more diversified now, and even within the sector, a smaller percentage of jobs would be lost. We survived the productivity boom in agriculture just fine. (Maybe with a little obesity to show for it.)

We freed up people to staff the front offices of advertisers and entertainment companies and to bring food to our doorstep.
Brilliant! This would be the dating site of my choice had I needed one. Great job guys!
One good option for more portable macros in assembly is to use the C preprocessor. It doesn't always provide all the features you might like, but its behavior is defined by a standard, so it is very predictable.

The iOS toolchain applies the C preprocessor to assembly sources by default; it's been a while since I've used the mainline gnu tools, but I think it is automatically applied to .S (capital S) files by default there.

If you have more questions or issues with the iOS toolchain, please file bugs and/or post your question to the devforums. There are plenty of people who use assembler everyday who will be happy to help out.

And just to echo grandparent: the unified assembler language has been standard on ARM for several years now; pre-unified mnemonics like strneb are deprecated.
First, the truth is what works ,iOS, Visual Studio, Photoshop... Many proprietary software products have huge amounts of dedicated zealots. Why ? Because they're great.

The bandwagon effect in OSS is a truth, but this is not a cult behavior, this is skills recognition. Just look at how languages and tools have changed in the last ten years, these changes are driven by users not by BDFLs.

When I compare software to, let's say politics or the media, I'm not ashamed of the open source community.

Then, when you're challenging open-source it's a whole different thing, you're criticizing a philosophy, you can't just bash it, you have to refute it logically.
Michio Kaku: Building a Starship
It seems like taking 3 weeks worth of polls would lead to larger error sizes, especially towards Romney this year, since it did seem like Romney was faring better (although still trailing) 1-3 weeks out.
>Surely, only one is true.

This is my general comment about statistics and data analysis without going into the specifics of Freq vs Bayes:

As anyone who ever worked with real-world data can tell you, for the most part data analysis is more of an art than exact science. Sure, it's math, and once you pick the right model, there is (usually) one correct way to solve it. The problem is that most mathematical methods come with assumptions that are almost never met in practice, so you have to make a lot of (often fairly arbitrary) decisions about how to go about your data analysis. How do you handle missing data cases? Is your data normally distributed enough to justify the use of some method? Is the sample large enough? Are those residuals in your model diagnostics random enough? Does that trend line look linear enough? What prior information can I use (and how?) to formally add value to the model? Real world is messy.
True. :) spend 'em if you gottem!
Curve matching in javascript. Take a list of data points (x,y) and creates an equation that offers the best fit.

Side question: you will be making the code open source right?
HNdroid Hacker News Client

Read and comment to stories posted on news.ycombinator.com

http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=hacker%20news...
This review doesn't reflect (my) daily usage. Hacker News Beta is gorgeous but it's a usability nightmare and none of the post functionality works. Either the UX is broken for it and/or it force closes on a brand new (rom on my) Galaxy Nexus. You lose scroll position going between Activities, you can only view one page, etc.
Sometimes the anti-MS sentiment here is almost as silly as the gushiness of the MSDN blog post.

Given Windows8 sold upwards of 3million licenses within the first couple of days (and probably many more now), 100k downloads of a card game app seems pretty darn reasonable to me. This factor becomes even less surprising if the app is promoted in the Win8 app store, or if it is one of the few card game apps, etc. Also, this number is downloads, so maybe people grabbed it, checked it out and deleted it. I haven't looked into specifics. But given the size of the ecosystem, the number doesn't seem unreasonable.

To follow up on gushiness, as others have commented, this particular post was on MSDN which is a Microsoft property. Microsoft has a pretty decent infrastructure for developer support (and has had for a long while). A lot of people working within the Microsoft development ecosystem like the tools, the platform, etc. A person, employee or not, posting about his positive experiences is to be expected.

For myself, I'm eh on Win8. I see the "Metro" interface as an oversized task bar/start menu for what is a better/faster desktop experience. That said, I mainly use my Mac. The developer tools from Microsoft, on the other hand, I actually find are better overall than XCode, the android ecosystem, etc. For an IDE, VS is pretty good.
"The Secret World" – A Game That Can Revolutionize the Face of MMORPG
The most enjoyable part of Curiosity for me was it having the unintended side effect of getting me to learn how to automate my device through the MonkeyRunner framework... which has, in turn, introduced me to Python.

So, all in all, the sheer monotony of the game has been quite a positive thing for me.
Yes I know, and from extensive experience, I'd trust the mouth of a 409 scammer more. Reputation as well as bad reputation are earned.

Re Apple: Bankrupt no - morally bankrupt perhaps.

Its not on the fence when MSFT issued Surface tabs to every staff member.
Looks interesting but there is no trial version? I dont see a a way to try it without paying.
I tested them all, there is always something that make it a worst experience than using a browser, for exemple when it lost the position in the comment thread. So now I rely exclusively to Chrome.
Whether or not on average that is true on average, here you can see results that in 2012 those with only high-school/GED favored Obama in higher numbers than those with a bachelor's degree:
http://blogs.payscale.com/salary_report_kris_cowan/2012/10/e...

also, from 2008: http://www.yelp.com/topic/new-york-zogby-poll-of-512-obama-v...

I understand that "let's call it even" implies average (50/50), but my point was that there are enough uneducated voters from both sides to call it a draw, imo.
Cable supports even more. I'm on a 150Mbps cable modem now and it's nice. Too bad the upload is limited to 6Mbps.
Because hemp and coca can not be grown effectively in Canada without expensive greenhouses because of the climate. Also there are already many drug plantations in Central America.

So that explains why Mexico instead of Canada. But I'm not sure what motivated those particular soldiers to go rogue.
"Capitalism depends on a certain level of unemployment"

What is the basis of this statement?
The current Apple devtools default to using the (much more modern) llvm-mc assembler, not gas. Patches and bug reports are always welcome!
And why should one have to reinstall the OS on a brand new machine? I don't need mod or install new firmware on my new car. I don't need to swap parts on my new washer machine.

No, a PC, car, washer machine should just work, as purchased. The idea that a new Windows PC can't be used out of the box just shows how broken the user experience is.
How long are you willing to code?
Ask HN: How can I encourage participation?
Comments can be the most important part of a blog. Recently, I started my own blog at http://recoding.blogspot.com mainly because Jeff Atwood and Steve Yegge told me to. It's been a great experience and I've learned a lot about writing and coding.

Problem is, I feel that Recoding isn't all it could be. As of now, I've got 26 posts, dozens of readers every day and only two comments. How can I encourage readers to participate, rather than just view?