skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The one agency to commission a study on the subject, the California Highway Patrol, found in 1974 that hitchhiking was a factor in 0.63 percent of crimes in the state.

Even if crime was a factor in 100% of hitchhiking incidents, this statistic could still be true. So the authors claim that it's "hardly Russian roulette", based on this, is meaningless.

Given the enormity of crime, just because reducing hitchhiking wouldn't reduce crime doesn't mean hitchhiking is not dangerous.
At my current job we have MRI readers, almost all of them who come from medical backgrounds (neurologists, radiologists, the odd obstetrician here and there) and we have them use the command line all the while. We're transitioning them into using hg for some things, and they seem comfortable with it.
Regardless of how talented you are, the coding interview is flawed. That is, even if you are great, if you mess up an interview you likely won't get the job. This isn't to discourage though, just know that if you don't get in it DOES NOT mean that you aren't talented. It means you had a bad day and you should try again soon.
They are, however, Mercurial's.
> what the cloud has to do with the post

These USB stick stories tell us that, in fine, "existing" data has to have one physical location (or more). The cloud is not magically breaking this "existence principle". Instead, cloud user and data owners (or are they?) are just trusting a third-party service with the physical existence of their data.

The fast that people are able to smuggle slices of the Web in SD cards should remind us that issue, as much as the next big data loss or leak.
I don't think the US has outright contradicting laws, but they do have enough that you are probably guilty of something, and they do have the catchall "disorderly conduct" so the police can arrest whomever they wish.
>There are only 2 things hard in programming, cache invalidation, naming things and off by one errors.

:)
I didn't say MBP, I said Mac Pro (as in their Tower product).

I didn't mean, what will apple think of fan boys or haters. I was questioning the consistency of view of the fan boys, of course its rather moot, as fan boys are of course not consistent at the level of discussion, but instead company.

Apple don't release things that make them tons of money, they market things that make them tons of money. It was pretty clear the iPod (1st generation) was not a fantastic product, but Apple marketed the crap out of it, to the point it would seem like the only option to some people.
I remember writing raw socket stuff and I actually thought that was better than urllib2.
Right, the correct statistic would be what proportion of hitchhiking journeys result in a crime.
many years ago i picked up a few people in my time hitchhiking, and used it once to get back to town when my car broke down. neve had an issue.

one of the guys i gave a lift to suggested that as a man to never pick up a woman hitchhiker. it's too easy for her to claim that you tried to assault her and get your day ruined until it all gets sorted out. (curious if this is true.) he also helped me to learn some techniques to get out of giving someone a ride who, once you pull over, is actually all kinds of messed up.

haven't driven significant distances alone in eons, so i haven't run into this in a long time. interesting piece to appear in the NYT however.
Here's a Brazilian comedy sketch that portrays that exact scenario:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFd5_YtbScs

(not-so-good English subtitles available)
This was for a coding competition[1], all assets had to be created in 48 hours - I would've loved to have gotten more done, but I'm happy with where we landed.. Especially since it really came down to the wire. :) Here's our entry [2]

[1]: http://nodeknockout.com
[2]: http://nodeknockout.com/teams/kodowa
If it's really that important, why not just use digital clocks?
Much more than half of the country did not vote for Obama:

Barack Obama	62,088,847
US Population: 311,591,917

(source google/AP/US Census Bureau)
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Also normal behavior in Hawaii.
There's nothing convenient about having 78 character class names in your code, whether you typed them in manually or not!
Obviously tri-state refers to False, True and Not Supported. :)
> I think it's coined by Jean-Louis Gassée (ex-Apple, of BeOS fame).

(and author of the article being commented upon)
Similar approach, but the designer gives you visual representation of the design settings (font settings, color/gradient selection, css effects, etc). Combined with real-time preview, makes it easy to experiment and to get ideas.
worth rewatching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrIrcV9Bgmc
When an app that lets you upload photos to the internet sells for 50 times this, I think I'm OK with it.
But you can only take that into account if you've had equivalent experience interviewing at other consultancies as well.

If that's basically how they all work, then it could be very irresponsible indeed. You can't judge an entire company based on your interactions (or lack thereof) with a single one of their employees.
So you were miffed a few years ago, and exacted some petty revenge by rigging a multi-million dollar procurement? Sounds like you're on the wrong side of the ethical line.
So true. Using your example:

AbstractTimedWarehouseCleanoutManagementUtility
TimedWarehouseCleanoutManagementUtilityFactory
TimedWarehouseCleanoutManagementUtilityConfiguration
TimedWarehouseCleanoutManagementUtilityDto
etc...
What most people don't know about this clock design is, that the Swiss Railways are licensing it to a watch manufacturer who sells them in retail. The watch with the exact same design is available commercially. Therefore suing Apple and making Apple pay is something the actually have to do without risking their other licensing deals.
But the second hand has a cancerous growth at the end. The courts must protect this or nobody will create new clock designs anymore!
Still, it's a fair point that it at least should be possible. It's fine by me if the uncommon 5% tasks are just as difficult to do in requests or even a little more so, so long as the most common 95% of tasks are a breeze.
First you wrote: "[Democracy] is a biproduct of individualism, and individual rights... These are not universally agreed concepts and a lot of people don't agree with them."

For individual rights I brought up human rights from UN etc.

You answered: "No, I wasn't saying that, those were your words."

That is wrong.

You did say "individual rights" yourself -- I just answered with the general rights which are (more or less) supported in democracies. But you knew that.

I wonder a bit what you mean with "collective rights"? (Clans? The communist party? Your church/mosque?) Not enough to really care. Your position seem too much like an abstract (sophistic?) defense for oppressing people by claiming rights for groups. Not new in history.

A fun read, anyway.
A suggestion for pricing page, its easier to understand if it states $0.1/GB etc.
Absolutely love `requests`. First I've heard of `envoy`; will certainly be using that in the future. Thank you.
Obvious astroturfing is obvious. How many of you guys did Microsoft hire this time around? Guess they learned a lesson with the Vista failure.
Ta muchly.
This was designed in the 50s!
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What area is your idea in? You don't have to give exact specifics, but you can and should say what space it is in.
When looking for a co-founder you want someone who shares your passion and vision about the product.

Also, in your research have you spoken directly to potential customers/users?

I'm a technical founder seeking co-founders as well.

You show a lot of drive and dedication. Best of luck!
Why purposefully avoid a tool designed for the job?
Two points that indicate that the author doesn't really know what he's talking about:

1. "Estimating the number of failed projects is difficult because of these tactics, but most independent attempts to pinpoint the figure have landed at 50% or more."

Response: Kickstarter has a statistics page [1] that gives this information. It's not hard to find. And the failure rate is much higher than 50% in most categories.

2. "Retrovirus enjoyed a steady trickle of contributions towards its modest $75,000 goal."

Response: Actually looking at the statistics [2], 75,000 is on the high end for Kickstarter projects (more specifically, it's the 98th percentile for all projects, and the 99.4th percentile for successfully funded projects across all categories; if we look just at games, the percentiles are 93rd overall, and 96.8 for projects that actually made their goal), and carries with it a low funding rate (about 20% overall, slightly less than that for projects in the Games category)

So while it may be a "modest" goal as far as the costs of game development are concerned, it isn't modest for Kickstarter.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats
[2] currently unpublished data scraped from kickstarter.com; I'm nearly finished writing up my analysis though.
The tragedy is that it happened in a language with packages (i.e., namespaces).
HackerNewsBot is my favorite
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Likewise. I've managed to learn through the misfortune of others. That said the way we find these things out is through the misfortune of others or ourselves.
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You mean it happens on Opera desktop browser or on Android? And which version?
> The trickiest part is finding a spot

gas station? truck parking?
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As someone who has been [arrested | note: it's complicated. None of my 'offenses' were ultimately criminal, and I have no record.] for hitchhiking multiple times (and hitchhiked over tens of thousands of miles before turning 20)– nobody cares. Argue all you want, but unless you're grossly mistreated (and that's by their definition, not yours) in custody, I doubt even the most local branch of the ACLU will give a damn about your claim. Do I think it's stupid? Of course. But it still doesn't fly everywhere, and wherever you go you have to be able to figure out the turf if you don't want a hefty fine or a night of 'lodging' or more. Obviously, it gets much worse if you're a minor– and good luck convincing anyone if you're emancipated.
As much as I know everyone dislikes PHP, there's lots of people still working with it. I love Requests in Python, so I built Requests for PHP: http://requests.ryanmccue.info/

I have to agree with Kenneth's points, in that pragmatism should outweigh the theoretical points. For example, in PHP, using a class as a grouping for static methods is a bad idea. I agree to a point, but there's something to be said for the ability to do `Requests::get('http://google.com/)` versus all the crap you have to do with cURL. (Plus, it's always >90% test coverage, which I stick to religiously.)
> Is it hacker bias?

Yes.
Traffic laws work the same way. Put such speed limit (for example) that almost all drivers are breaking the law, and then pick and choose.
Assuming there's no relation between the xml header and any other headers you might have, the atomic core of the noun phrase is "XML header" so I maybe utf8 should be a (optional?) parameter.
The reason I mention DNG is because it can be used as "superset" archiving format. It should be feasible to accept pretty much any kind of RAW in, archive a copy of the raw in the DNG (or just trust the conversion) -- and so let the users have an original on your servers. Again, not sure if you want to be a backup/archive for images, or just a point of publication (for me that is all that jpeg/png will ever be -- and it's not really something I am interested in paying for -- I would still have to deal with the headache of "publishing" from my Digital Negatives -- and maintaining that collection).

As camera technology continue to improve and storage continue dropping in price (at least on the camera end, flash cards etc) I suspect more and more low end cameras will support some form of DNG-format.
Or, if you want to go the other way and show an absurdly wrong (yet factually correct) statistic, you could proclaim that "100% of hitchhiking murders involve hitchhiking!"
The Chosen by Chaim Potok.

http://www.amazon.com/Chosen-Chaim-Potok/dp/0449213447
The right thinks the left is mistaken. The left thinks the right is evil.
> an uploader would be neat but it gets really ugly really
> fast with many different platforms to think about.

Support webdav (or sftp). There are good free dav-clients for windows now (and all the other os' have supported webdav for years). Webdav should be easier to integrate with an existing infrastructure based around http.

edit: You might even easily create your own webdav-client for windows (the black sheep when it comes to dav-support), either working off existing dav-libraries, or possibly by throwing some money at an existing free/shareware project.
I have 5 screenshots in the store so I am not sure what you are talking about. Can you elaborate?

see http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-US/app/taskorami/62a3828...
The linux kernel is actually only about 100 K lines.

This is what I get from sloccount, which doesn't count blank lines or comments, for Ubuntu's old 3.0.0 kernel:

Totals grouped by language (dominant language first):
ansic: 9495321 (96.81%)
asm: 241006 (2.46%)
xml: 41486 (0.42%)
perl: 13987 (0.14%)
sh: 4117 (0.04%)
cpp: 3486 (0.04%)
yacc: 2987 (0.03%)
python: 2770 (0.03%)
lex: 1719 (0.02%)
awk: 708 (0.01%)
pascal: 231 (0.00%)
lisp: 218 (0.00%)
sed: 30 (0.00%)

Broken down by path (top 8):

SLOC Directory SLOC-by-Language (Sorted)
5474678 drivers ansic=5469921,yacc=1688,asm=1475,perl=792,lex=779,
sh=23
1848085 arch ansic=1609109,asm=237452,sh=690,awk=470,pascal=231,
perl=58,python=45,sed=30
693955 fs ansic=693955
518275 sound ansic=518092,asm=183
481158 net ansic=481062,awk=96
290060 include ansic=288348,cpp=1670,asm=42
118198 kernel ansic=117893,perl=305
53773 mm ansic=53773

Overall I think your naming convention sounds reasonable; C is also my primary language. Your example was just too easy to shorten to resist ;-).
While this is obviously a copy, I'm not sure why everyone loves this design. The only thing that looks different from every other watch in the world is the ball on the end of the second hand, and I find it disturbing.
Show HN: fresh - a tool to manage and distribute dot files (think Bundler)
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I've spent about 8 weeks in Switzerland in my entire life, I'm not a design maven by any stretch (being both color blind to red and dyslexic) and even I said to myself, "hey, that looks like the clocks in train stations in Switzerland."

They knew.
I used Dailybooth for a few months back in 2010. I just checked it out again. Seems they're not running any ads. Maybe I missed it but did they try to monitize the size at all?
Guys I get it. You can stop telling me now.
I'm worried that the article presents the statistic:

"in 1974 that hitchhiking was a factor in 0.63 percent of crimes [in California]"

and brushes this off like it was nothing. This seems like a disturbingly high percentage to me (although we don't know what percentage of people hitchhiked).

If you consider that good risk management often involves avoiding 1 in a thousand chances, sometimes 1 in a million (depending on the cost if it occurs) it seems to me like hitchhiking should still be something you regard as having higher-than-average risks.
I've been trying my hardest to find a Junior position. When I finally do find something that says "Junior" they want 4+ years of experience and expert level in everything or it's no where near me and they don't hire remote.

I've taken a break on freelancing for 3months to finish some personal projects I'm hoping that will get me something. /fingerscrossed
I am not disappointed at Microsoft for my sales. I am disappointed that windows phone didn't succeed, that surface RT is slow and overpriced, that web development is always catching up to rails, php and python frameworks, that azure is several years late, that they still don't have a good respone to the ipad or the iphone, that bing doesn't match google, that web office sucks, that IE sucks, that there is no answer to apple tv, that i spent 45 minutes trying to play a video from my surface on my xbox then gave up, switched to apple tv clicked 2 or 3 times and 10 seconds and $4.99 later my movie was playng etc... etc...

This is coming from a .net developer, so I DO WANT microsoft to succeed. I want some good competition.
Welcome to stack overflow! Censorship here is just as bad, if not worse, than Wikipedia. As much as I despise this, it probably does make it a better resource. Still, I wish they would MOVE these to meta exchange, rather than deleting content outright.
got it. we are on it and will tweak our site soon. thanks
Looking forward to hearing what HN thinks of fresh. We've already got a bunch more features planned. http://github.com/freshshell/fresh/issues
My bad. It wasn't one I recognized right away, but had I stopped to actually look at it in stead of automatically expecting this to link to kickstarter then I would have given it more credit.
I've seen lots of the gloating in my stream fwiw.
Who’s Vulnerable Among the ‘Fantastic Four’? Experts Say It’s Apple & Facebook
"Most of the discussion about “the Internet’s Fantastic Four” at the Techonomy conference this afternoon focused on the ways Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google have come to dominate the online landscape. But the panelists were also asked to identify which of the companies seemed particularly vulnerable."
Given the name, it sounds like this piece of code is drawing window decorations despite not being part of a window manager. (Though it's unclear, it might be doing window decorations in an MDI-like context.) This object probably shouldn't even exist in the first place.
Here's my `.freshrc` for examples of how you can use fresh. https://github.com/twe4ked/dotfiles/blob/master/config/fresh...
Last years schedule AND videos for most of the talks:

http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/SAS/sasw07p.html
Given that Ballmer has made a career out of hyperbolic exaggerations of Microsoft's success, this can probably be translated as "Surface sales have tanked".
Really? I picked up a Macbook Air from that store today, and while I was waiting for the Apple employee to come with my computer, I just stared at the ceiling. It really is gorgeous. The natural sunlight flooding the place is also lovely (lights are one thing that universally suck, and I'm surprised I don't meet more designers ranting about it. 99% of buildings have shitty indoor lighting)

But yes, the sound level was very unpleasant.
I've yet to hear of a job where the employer strictly follows their own "requirements." Most simply post it as a "perfect candidate" guideline and end up settling for someone meeting 75% of it, so don't take them too seriously.
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Hacker News Full by Chad Etzel only stopped working in the last day or two (probably something with the API it uses), but is my favorite app. Hopefully it gets an update or otherwise starts working again.
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I meant that in the context of making a decision. The point of statistics is to make decisions. For example you want to know whether a medical treatment works so that you can decide whether or not to give it to people. So you do a hypothesis test to see whether the treatment works better than a placebo, and then if the p-value is small enough you give it to people, and otherwise you don't. Instead of explicitly separating the assumptions (prior & utility) from the logical deduction, the assumptions are embedded in this procedure. Why would the assumptions implicitly made by the choice of procedure be the assumptions you want to make? You take the answer to a question that's irrelevant to the decision, namely "given that the treatment doesn't work, how likely is the data" and try to tweak a decision based on that. There is no principled way to make decisions based on that information.

Credibility intervals are about average-case coverage, but Bayesian statistics as a whole is definitely NOT just about average case. In general the utility `U` is a function of the decision `d`, and of the posterior knowledge you have of the world `P`. In many practical cases the utility might be the expected profit: U(d,P) = integral(profit(x,d)P(x)dx). But it certainly doesn't have to be. If you are risk averse you might choose your utility as U(d,P) = min_x profit(x,d) to ensure that your utility is the minimum profit you make given a decision, rather than the average. Another example is U(x,P) = P(x) which gives maximum likelihood estimation. Making a decision based on a hypothesis test can also be emulated with a utility function. Suppose the hypothesis is H and we make decision d1 if p-value > alpha and d2 if p-value < alpha. We choose a prior P(I) that makes each possible observed data set I equally likely, and we choose the utility function that reverses Bayes' rule to compute P(I|H) to make a decision based on that:

U(d1,P') = [P'(H)*P(I)/P(H) > alpha]
U(d2,P') = [P'(H)*P(I)/P(H) < alpha]

where brackets are indicator notation. Note that P(I) appears to access the data set which the utility function does not have access to, but recall that P(I) is constant regardless of the measured data. Of course not many people have such a prior and utility function...so it doesn't really make sense to hard code them into the method.

In general the process works like this. Given prior P and utility U and measured information I:

1. Compute posterior P' from prior P and information I according to Bayes' rule.
2. Perform decision argmax_d U(d,P').

Can you point me to a similarly principled approach to decision making based on utility with frequentist methods?
I feel violent tendencies just reading that!
yes. sometimes i feel as if i need special restraints built into my desk chair to properly "appreciate" the java code i am required to read and debug.
Sorry to pile on you in particular. No harm meant (so no down-vote from me or anything).

The point is that Apple is a company of designers. They know this stuff. The fact that they have been on a ruthless campaign of patent thuggery over elements of design much more subtle than this and cry continuously and loudly about how everyone is stealing their "intellectual property" makes this incident stand out in sharp relief. Sharp, hypocritical, relief.
"Generate HTML templates at the speed of light" - Really ? I use powerpoint/Keynote for that. Thank you.
Looks like Scalatron.

http://scalatron.github.com/

RoboNode looks pretty cool although it's limited in the same way Scalatron is limited, one language.

I'd love to hack one up that is based on a network API so that the bots could be written in any language.