skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tech Startups Are About To Start Dropping Like Flies
The Bill of Rights, when originally written, was not intended to apply to all men. Slaves, for example, were not entitled to any of these protections. The Amendments abolishing slavery and extending the BOR to the states does not contain language extending the BOR to those beyond the formal legal jurisdiction of the U.S.
IFTTT raises $7M from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Lerer
Recommended reading "Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception" by Seife. Talks about this fallacy and others in depth.

The best approach is multi-variate analysis. Which is to say for each correlation you find, identify another correlation that would be true (and is measurable) if the cause was what you hypothesize is the cause. Its a great way to write a paper too.

You start with "look at this correlation", we hypothesize that cause is "Q" and now we go look at the following correlations to prove or disprove our hypothesis, ... analysis and graphs ..., as you can see our hypothesis is thoroughly {proven | disproved} by these correlations.

If the data isn't available to do additional analysis then you are stuck trying to collect that data somehow. You can end up with inconclusive results in that case.
Lua is an embedded language. I don't ever see the day when Luvit will be used for a backend server in lieu of Nodejs. In general, you shouldn't ever need an evented DB driver except for perhaps sqlite.
I'm not dismissing it, i'm saying it's not legitimate as they had set up filtering (and probably why they changed the filtering settings along with this, as the blog post shows).

If i have a setting that says "i only want to hear from friends", then i only want to hear from friends. That's the choice I am making about who i want to hear from. You can argue i'm not thinking this choice through, or am ignorant of the consequences, but that's not the same argument.

If they want a setting for "I also want to hear from people who are willing to spend money to reach me" (or some better pr worded version of this), great, i'm not opposed to that.
> Boppo and Bengt (in Colorado, not California)

No, they were in California. Boppo was still an undergrad at Caltech (class of '87), as was Bengt (class of '88). Colorado is where Boppo went to grad school, several years later.

> We invented it independently very shortly after, and our explanations were tighter, cleaner, and more focused, as you might expect from mathematicians

Actually, the group at Caltech also had a math guy, Bill Banks (http://www.math.missouri.edu/~bbanks/vitae.pdf)

He and Boppo juggled together a lot, but I don't know if Bill made any contributions to siteswap development.

Another math guy/juggler, Allen Knutson (http://www.math.cornell.edu/People/Faculty/knutson.html), arrived at Caltech the next year. I don't know if he contributed any improvements or not.
It's known as proximate and ultimate causation. [0] An Aristotelian analysis would say the fraudulent system or its corruption was the final cause, the models were the formal cause.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximate_and_ultimate_causatio...
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Fingers crossed!!!
They should just switch to a subscription model ($10-$100/yr tiered pricing) and then offer those users super features like "killer privacy", "payments", "events", "shopping", etc. Free users can continue to get photos and advertising, like now. What's the risk? They could be more bold about making money in other ways besides advertising.
> This is evidence that the current system is, by some measures, sub-optimal.

Aren't you assuming the value of an article is a constant? In practice, context changes and the value of an article goes up and down. Maybe today is a slow news day and 500 days ago was very busy. I wouldn't expect your average article about (say) Scala to do equally well on the day Facebook has its IPO and some day nothing interesting happened on. A controversial article about gun control is not going to be perceived as having the same value the day after a big massacre as leading up to an election or on a boring day in mid-January.
Nope, its not related to any presentation technology or framework.
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No, products not being made available to you on the terms and pricing you demand do not mean the market in which those products are offered is a "mess". The perspective you (and this posting) espouse is profoundly narcissistic.
Anything's better than the original Kindle Fire.
He seems close to Dominic Young, previously News International’s director of strategy and product development, who now runs http://copyrightblog.co.uk/ (intellectual platform or industry mouthpiece - you decide).

Dominic was a source for his piece railing against the "Don't break the internet" slogan [1].

I wouldn't really consider any of these Orlowski pieces journalism. He's clearly very close to certain industries (Content and Nuclear for instance) and seems to just write hit pieces for the industries he favours, relying on some intellectual sleight-of-hand and snark to woo readers to an industry point of view.

I suppose The Register is a channel to a particular educated, technical demographic and Orlowski uses his influece to try to shape the opinions of that demographic.

I've no idea whether he gets paid via other channels for his strident advocacy, and would actually prefer that it was a situation where Hanlon's razor is in play, because most of what he writes is ridiculous.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/09/breaking_the_interne...
Is it possible that Silver doesn't actually presume good faith, but merely says in his book "okay, if you claim that we should presume good faith, here's what you would have to do to fix the problems"? Maybe it's Silver's backhanded way to express that presuming good faith is a lie perpetuated by authority for their own benefit?
>The precise manipulations change the directions light rays are reflected off of the surface in a manner similar to changing the angles of millions of tiny facets on a flattened disco ball, but decreasing the size of each facet until a smooth surface is achieved.

Oh, so it's like a Fresnel lens, but it's a mirror instead of a lens. That's pretty clever. You get the non-reversing property of a curved mirror, but it's still flat.

Edit: Another way of thinking of it is that it's a normal map applied to a real-world object.
Fair enough. For some reason Wierd Al's old movie UHF comes to mind, where he has a fake ad for a store that specializes in just spatulas. I bet San Fran and New York have one of these, too. ;-)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2XbCWmY0eqY
How I hacked Git commits into TestFlight release notes (& felt dirty doing it)
We'll have to agree to disagree about whether privacy is just about whether the sender gets any info from you during a transaction[1].

[1] Though i think you can probably see this it the next step if this test is "successful". Recommending to advertisers that they spend X dollars to get into the inbox of X people who share Y interest.
IFTTT Raises $7M From Andreessen, NEA And Lerer
This is a fake argument. Who's contesting that H+FJ has "kept themselves out of the low-mid range font market"? Of course they're doing that.
There's an elegance to it. As usual, the user is the product.

It will be difficult for FB to really win in advertising spaces; there are a lot of other players. FB is making a play that states that there's an unserved market in sending personal messages to people who don't want them. They're probably right, it's only unclear how big that market might be.

The best part? Once users tire of sponsored messages ending up in their "email", FB can offer a paid option to exclude them. If that works, then FB gets paid.

As Mr. McBean said, "you can't teach a Sneetch", at least not quickly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Stories
"Let me give you some concrete examples from his book."

I wish every blog post included a line like this.
You can in some limited cases. E.g. you can make dulce de leche au bain marie. You probably won't have much success searing your meat au bain marie though ;-)
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According to this, Tray.io (Site 3 of 10) was NOT built with bootstrap. However the class names on the form controls and buttons beg to differ - http://tray.io/login/

I'm less likely to trust a site called 'bootstrap hero' if they can't correctly identify bootstrap.
Protecting the weak passwords
http://www.bootstraphero.com/quiz/question

Application Error

An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments.

If you are the application owner, check your logs for details.
Brazilian investors used to invest a much smaller amount and assume much less risk than the ones in US. Even with those big amounts and frequence in investing I still believe that there are lots of interesting statups being funded and some of them will succeed.

Also the "crunch" mentioned is nothing more than what is expected form Startups, a very risky environment where 1 out of 100 or out of a 1000 survive.

If the investors don't think this way, they won't have so large portfolios to spread their money in.
If you want to be completely literal and pedantic about it, "in the land and naval forces" refers to persons serving in the Army, Navy, and Marines (or their historical equivalents).
I don't use Facebook much, so I wouldn't really care if this happened. Maybe people will join me in this empty GTalk ecosystem, at least until Google decides to monetize that :)
Definitely the buttons - if you go with bootstrap if it has that bootstrap gradient button, and not if it doesn't you should get 8/10 correct, I think?

I would double check but the server currently gives

"Application Error

An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments.
"
Show HN: Goalworthy, track your life goals.
When it was originally submitted (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=193112), it had the title How to repair a 230KV, 10 mile long coaxial power cable. But I suppose that that informative title would now be pedantically edited to the one you see here. As well, without the link-bait version it might only have blinked through the front page in 30 seconds.
As a foodie, this pains me to see.

Let's see your music collection. As a music snob, I believe you should have to account for my interpretation of your taste.
We have lots of openings here in Seattle. tpearson@microsoft.com. Send me your resume.
I would say: Pre Google Maps era. I find it perfectly intuitive to click and drag most online maps around, but it might have been weird the first time I encountered it.

For example, I still like to scroll down to go down in a web page, and get confused (and frustrated?) when I use the new mac mice which use the touch-screen/map type scrolling. However I'm quite sure that if I was a mac person, I'd get used to it fairly quickly.
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This doesn't work quite well - if I scroll fast enough, my browser (Chrome) thinks I've finished scrolling and goes back to scrolling the screen. As a fan of scanning through data extremely quickly, it's a very annoying interface.
Yep. URIs are 'universal.'
No, you're underestimating the risk, because the risk of being sued is dwarfed by the risk of projects simply failing.

Risks like these --- along with not incorporating, mishandling your capital structure, working without contracts, &c --- are the most pernicious startups have to reason about, because they only sting in the unlikely case that you actually succeed. As a result, they're easy to discount. Unfortunately, when you do that, you end up counterfeiting your success, because it's only when you actually get your break that you realize you've made the mistake.

If you're knowingly wasting your life on projects that you don't expect to come to fruition, by all means, steal the fonts you use to promote them with. You have bigger problems than the font police.
Isn't this exactly what they're making possible? Take a dollar out of the wallet and use that dollar to get in their inbox.
The fastest table I've seen was this http://ukijs.org/examples/core-examples/table/
> We didn’t have a financial crisis because of a bad model or a few bad models. We had bad models because of a corrupt and criminally fraudulent financial system.

Those who are attracted to financial careers often have a deep and abiding love for money, much like wolves have a deep and abiding love for sheep. Sheep farmers are smart enough to not to hire wolves as shepherds; but in the financial industry, the wolves are already in charge.
Rice cookers generally give you no control over the temperature. They cook at one temperature for awhile, until the food temperature raises above the boiling point of water (meaning the starches in rice have absorbed it all) then they click into warming mode. With a crock pot you have temperature options and it will stay at that temp until you tell it not to (or a pre-programmed cycle does).
I think several recruiters have heard of Github, but that it is too resource-intensive to research candidates this way, when tons of software has been developed to chop up résumés for querying =/
>Why with respect to a certain class of people rather than everyone in the world? First, because the text suggests as much ("No person...").

I'm not clear on how "No person..." selects some subset of people with whom such government prohibitions apply.

>at the time of the founding it was taken for granted that the Constitution only applied to American soil.

The Constitution makes no mention of geography. Instead it is entirely a collection of MAYs, SHALLs, and SHALL NOTs directed at the government.

>Most of the extra-territorial application of the Constitution...

...is predicated on notions of geographical distinction wholly absent from the Constitution.
Skeptical of what, that OP isn't actually unemployed and looking for work?

What, exactly, would the angle be besides a person who is looking for job leads?
On php-fig and Shared Interfaces
Does this mean I can contact Zuckerberg for just a dollar? Sweet, been wanting to ask him some things.
Chesterton's thoughts on those ready to reform that about which they know little:

http://stuartbuck.blogspot.com/2004/05/chesterton_14.html
Ah, now "Internet Explorer" there's a name! What does it do? Explores the Internet of course!
that's an impressive set of changes for a minor release! :o)

is there a paper that describes the underlying implementation (with the new stackless stuff)?
Yes, I'm sure it's a massive conspiracy to defraud us all of our hard-earned ...???
"You cannot cook anything good in a rice maker anymore than you can a microwave except, of course, rice."

Apparently you are unfamiliar with Sous-Vide cooking style. I've only recently discovered it, and I have been making the best chicken I've ever tasted.

Sous-Vide (roughly french for under-vacuum), is a technique whereby you vacuum seal the food you wish to cook in a bag (usually proteins, but veggies will work too). You then cook this sealed food in water at the precise temperature you wish the center to be. In other words, I want my chicken to be 148F through out, so I get the water temperature steady at 148F (with chicken in place). You have to cook it for a longer time to be sure it is safe to eat, but man is it worth it. There are charts out there that show the time-vs-temperature relation for safe cooking.

After you have cooked it long enough, you can leave it in the water until guests arrive. Then do the final prep. For me this means heating a pan to about 400F with oil and seasoning and then quickly searing the chicken. Or sometimes I'll shred the chicken for a caserole.

It's marvelous.

I do this on a gas stove top, which requires practice to keep the temperature level, but you can buy a machine to do it for you. High end restaurants use these to perfectly cook a steak, and then do a final sear. Sous-Vide Supreme is one brand I know.

However if you wish to do it yourself, all you need is a simple rice cooker with an on off switch and a PID temperature controller. You can buy a PID controller, or make one yourself with arduino.

It's really a fantastic way to cook. Best food ever. From a rice cooker.
Analysis and modeling should always be free of dogma. Otherwise you will (as the other of this post demonstrates) start using your analysis and modeling to justify and prove your dogma (rather than to understand). The fact that Silver's analysis and modeling did not prove her point does not invalidate it. In fact, you could argue that the root of her "anger" is that his book proves her beliefs to be at least unproven if not entirely false.
I've been doing this for years, I'm glad that the word is out. For soup the cooker is great, of which I make large amounts of it that I freeze for later in the week.
Hey sorry about that, probably just a misclick on our part.
One of these things is not like the other. :)
This does seem dismissive to me.

The entire point of this exercise is to address zaidf's use case, which is trying to attach importance to messages that are outside the realm of Facebook's "important" data points. If they aren't your friend, and they aren't a friend of your friends', but they still have an important message -- how can we identify this?

The obvious hope here is that they can identify important messages by attaching a small (but real) cost to them, while limiting abuse by way of rates and maybe tweaking the cost.

You may not want these messages, but the fact remains that there are important messages that go missed because they can't smartly be deemed "important" in the Facebook ecosystem. Maybe there are sinister intentions beneath the surface, but this is still a legitimate attempt to solve a legitimate problem.
Well found - thanks.
Pinged you. Mozilla is always hiring talented devs, remote is absolutely, pathologically supported here :-)

Good luck!
It's not surprising that the banks that "won" the financial crisis should have had an incentive to use bad models. But there were more losers than winners, and for the losers this was a straightforward matter of their models being wrong when they didn't want them to.
remote.tt or control.it [kontrol|qontrol]
Dan Ingalls explaining OOP (1989)
Fair enough, I'll add 1 to me score when I finish :D
This year's site notice is a lot harder to turn into funny memes than last year's, IMO
Speed is not the ONLY factor for conversions but it definitely is a factor in the same way that aesthetics affects conversions. If you set up an A/B Test with Test A being "the slowest site on the internet with amazing content" and Test B being the same website but slightly faster, I'd bet Test B would have higher conversions.
This would apply to Guantanamo but not to the drone strikes.

The difference is that we are alleging crimes against the Guantannamo detainees, but not against drone targets. The drone targets are regarded as military targets, so the international conventions on warfare and the treatment of POWs applies.
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Then you get into classical French cooking... :)
Minder
I also got caught by several sites that used a top nav bar similar to Bootstrap's.
The evolution of a mobile app icon
12 out of 10! Booyah!
I downvoted your comment, but only because of its first seven words.
I found it mystifying they did much to talk about the man's weight loss diet at all, as that wasn't the science part, the mice feeding was.

But hey, perhaps they can get a study going on it to determine the causal relationship between the endotoxin, human obesity, and intestinal flora.
WTF interns? (to the intern that just stiffed me)
This kind of got preachy towards the end.
Is this the programming language that works without a lexer/parser and a grammar? Why aren't there more programming languages written this way? Seems easier to implement.
An interesting point. As it happens, when it was submitted 500 days ago it was a slower day (in some sense) than today. The "newest" page had fewer items per hour back then.

It's an interesting observation, though, that for some items the "value" changes over time. This particular item, I suspect, doesn't fall into that category. Context might be more important, but the analyses I do try to take that into account.
Did you even try to research this yourself? There are many mutual funds that have 20%+ YTD. It's typically recommended to invest before paying off debt like student loans/mortgages because you're likely to make more investing than what you'd save on interest.
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Would this be close to what you are looking for:
http://datatables.net/blog/Introducing_Scroller_-_Virtual_Sc...
Am I the only person who was disappointed that this article was not about "Taking an engineering approach to pornography"?

Wouldn't it be interesting to hear someone's lessons learned from using Lean Startup and A/B testing when entering the porn industry to discover best practices, instead of just using "Tried and True" methods?

Is porn an industry ripe for disruption?

I wonder if anyone has applied to YC with a pornography startup.
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Silver attempts a dispassionate analysis. Her post simply asserts what she believes to be the problem with the housing bubble and ensuing meltdown, without much evidence or analysis.

She may be right. But Silver's larger point is evidence-based analysis. Where's the evidence to support her position? Why is her assertion any different than the political pundits' assertions? Is an email exchange between a couple of traders enough to prove global complicit awareness? There may well HAVE been global complicit awareness. But without enough data to statistically support her position, this response seems to prove Silver's point that we're better off looking at the data than we are working off what we 'know' is right.
Sure, but there's probably enough marks to have some people thinking about it if it gets rolled out.
I once posted an Ask Hn similar to this. I have always wondered about this
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4322758
This is great for Behance and Adobe both, I think. Adobe has immensely powerful capabilities and Behance has a great network of creatives. Combined they could go far (I hope).

It's good to see a company in my same industry make it this far.
Speed.

Rice cooker, some veggies and/or meat, water, lots of spice, wait 30min and you have a huge pot of soup piping hot ready to eat. Not just hot, but all the veggies or meat is thoroughly tender like it 'was' cooked in a crock pot. Only thing is it ended up taking some 30 min rather than a lot longer.

To me a rice cooker cooks almost like a moderate pressure cooker.
Love the line:

"LOOK AT THAT CODE! It’s absurd, asinine, just plain awful!
…however, it worked!"
"O'Neil's point is that even a frequentist model would have been effective had the data not been massaged."

This post really has nothing to do with techniques or "bad data" or a bayesian vs. frequentist debate.

Her point is that bad modeling was entirely incidental and inconsequential as a cause of the financial meltdown. To repeat an example I used previously, if I smashed your head in with a hammer, Silver would essentially be saying "a hammer caused davesims death."

The statement may be technically true, but it's a shallow analysis of cause and effect. It's unsatisfying because it gives too much significance to an incidental link in the complete chain of events.
Representative line:

"Windows RT runs only on WinRT"

So abbreviating a word now changes its meaning? Abuses like this go a long way to explaining the confusion.

I'm getting flashes of the French word "ho^te" which helpfully means either host or guest, and so distinguishes neither.
I still don't intuitively understand how reversing front to back results in what we perceive as a left/right inversion.