skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They know they will be protected by a taxpayer rescue should a large institution teeter."

This should be mitigated by the fact that shareholders will lose value, even in the event of a taxpayer rescue. Meaning, a bailout isn't a good insurance policy for a shareholder because they lose anyway. But that fear of a bailout doesn't seem to limit the risk appetite as I'd expect.

I think it's because regulation and control hasn't made this type of risk transparent to the shareholder. The shareholder isn't calling for these types of regulations because of fear the regulation would be overbearing and hurt profitability.

Often, over regulation is a shortsighted concern that allows a company to take on more risk than an investor would typically allow for (at existing valuations).
Why Orange's dominance in Africa forced Google to pay for traffic
This makes a great example of conflating correlation and causation. (I don’t mean this as a criticism of the original post. Rather, I think it’s an opportunity to discuss something that’s fascinating and counterintuitive and that even researchers often get wrong.)

The original post says a researcher (Liam Hudson) was surprised to discover that average students seemed to be more creative than high-IQ students. Thus the question arises: Does having a high IQ make you less creative? The problem, however, is that the question is causal whereas the evidence that prompts it is observational and tricky for humans to interpret causally.

To see why it’s tricky, let’s imagine a universe in which IQ and creativity are completely unrelated. Nevertheless, if both factors contribute to success (and it’s easy to believe that they do), they will have a negative correlation, conditional upon success. And guess what? Almost all creativity/IQ studies are implicitly conditioned upon success because researchers don’t want to compare “A” students to “C” students, for fear of biasing their results.

For example, let’s model our imaginary universe in R. First, let’s assign normalized IQ and creativity scores to 100 students, completely randomly and completely independently:

n <- 100
creativity <- rnorm(n)
iq <- rnorm(n)

And now let’s say that success is some increasing (causal) function of creativity and IQ, plus chance:

success <- creativity + iq + rnorm(n)

And now let’s pretend that some researchers have captured this very data. We know that IQ and creativity are completely unrelated (because we created the universe), but they don’t. Here’s what happens when they try to tease out the relationship between IQ and creativity, conditioned upon success:

Call:
lm(formula = creativity ~ iq + success)

Coefficients:
Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) -0.08848 0.08042 -1.100 0.274
iq -0.58801 0.09394 -6.259 1.05e-08 ***
success 0.57538 0.05431 10.594 < 2e-16 ***
---
Signif. codes: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

Note that the IQ coefficient is negative. That is, given knowledge of a student’s success, if we also learn that the student has a higher IQ score, we should update our state of knowledge to decrease our belief that the student has a higher creativity score.

I know that that claim may sound counterintuitive, but if you do the probability math, you’ll see that it makes sense. It only seems counterintuitive. That’s because your brain can’t help but try to interpret the relationship causally.

That is, it’s all too easy to take this relationship that exists between states of knowledge about the universe and think that it actually exists within universe for real. (This mistake is what E. T. Jaynes called the “mind projection fallacy” in his book Probability Theory: The Logic of Science.) And lots of researchers make this mistake, too.

I don’t know for sure if that’s what’s happening here, in the IQ vs. creativity research, but it wouldn’t surprise me to find that it has at least contributed to some of the unexpected findings.
Ask HN: What's the technology behind News.YCombinator.com, actually?
I googled it but I couldn't find the information: in what language news.ycombinator.com is written, what DB engine it uses, where's it hosted etc.
Correct, but this isn't obvious to everyone. This UI design seems purposefully chosen by Facebook to look as if the user has liked the post as well as the brand page.
I work on a medical information system. You are grossly overestimating the ability of enterprise software companies to provide good security.
I'm sure most, if not all, readers here often upvote interesting articles without having anything interesting to say about them, it seems natural to me that sometimes this is the case for many people on the same submission and therefore they all upvote without commenting.
Thank you very much for your kind words. I agree, my title could use some work. How did you market your first piece of software?

Can you shed some light on your success?
It may surprise you, but a part of design is fashion [trends].

My Ski jacket from about 10 years ago still works really well. At the time it looked great, but now it's outdated in style, although it still works great.

So as a designer, yes I worry about trends, because if I don't then you'll end up picking a jacket that works and is on trend over a jacket that just works (other things being equal like price etc).

Design is not a single input discipline. Many factors go into making a design for a product... including trends and fads.
While all three of your points are excellent concerns, I think you may be giving off-the-shelf systems a little too much credit.

The SIS systems I know (US, K-12) do a mediocre job of updating quickly to new technologies/requirements (#2) and do a terrible job of interoperating with other systems through APIs (#3).
You should do due diligence on any advice you read on the internet if you are using it for something important, not just copy & paste.

These are not "security bugs" in the sense of 0-day remote code execution vulnerabilities.
These are simply configuration options which may increase security for certain use cases.

Setting up specific chroots , firewall rules and restrictions could well not make sense for many use cases.

Also stuff like fail2ban can lock you out of your server and requiring key based auth can be more complicated to get end users to configure if you are setting up for something like a shared hosting service.
Omg, I knew there was a secret ingredient!
This isn't about adding readline support to your own programs (although it's a reasonable stop-gap solution there), this is about adding basic readline support to other people's programs without a massive investment.
Unless some of those files are setuid root ... what does it matter? Your chroot jail is still going to have a very rich attack surface - the kernel.
Show HN: Find your most followed followers on Twitter
I wrote a similar app to SparkTab, even came up with a similar name. https://github.com/siliconcow/ARC

Haven't touched it in awhile but the one I ended up using was 'stach' which mustachified the first result in a google image search. It's also nice for organizations that can't decide on a groupware solution and you want a quick way to search anything that takes a query string.
Example: http://followed.io/rattazong
git can work over SSH IIRC.
Aren't corporations and designers in them just "design fascists"? "This is the ultimate design that is only good for everybody in the world, for a little girl and a brutal middle-aged man, you are not allowed to have your own taste". Maybe everybody must also wear the same gray-colored minimalistic clothes?
Right, that's their whole business, as is Google's. They developed a platform that takes their valuable data and allows for targeted advertising, and they sell advertising on that platform. The advertiser never sees the actual profile page or even know that they showed an ad to a particular user. Only the platform and the algorithms know this.

"Creepy" levels of targeting is pretty subjective. I don't think its creepy because the other side is essentially oblivious to who they're advertising to. I'd rather see no ads at all, but if I had to put up with ads, I'd rather see ads that advertise topics that I'm interested in rather than something that's completely irrelevant to me.

Of course, that's just my opinion.
Thanks for posting - it's fascinating to see the results of the KIPP program down the line! It reminds me of Finland - they have no standardized testing and less of a focus on pure academic results, and yet they are near the top of the world for education results. Their entire system is geared towards growing the resilience and emotional intelligence in each child - psychological counselling, individualized student guidance, free school meals and easy access to health care are available for every student. It's more holistic than a pure academic focus. Resilience and drive - more than anything else it's what's needed in business, so perhaps this shows it's what's needed in life too?
Was an old TRS-80 in junior high school, wrote simple stuff on it in BASIC. Forgot about programming until I discovered HN, then enjoyed reading what you people were reading so much that eventually I decided to start on Codecademy & pick it up again.
Its made in ARC( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) ) according to this http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/news.ycombinator.com its hosted at Theplanet.com / softlayer.com Not sure what db it runs tho.
You would have to, wouldn't you? It's Oracle...
This is silly. I know nothing about the difference between Arial and Helvetica. If anything thought that Helvetica was slightly lighter, so in the first question I guessed at the lighter of the two fonts, which it turns out was Arial. Every question after that I guessed the heavier of the two fonts, and I got a 19/20 score.
Not using HTTPS is a critical mistake. Adversary can just do MITM attack and send modified code to the user's browser to steal passwords.

It's not best idea to share sensitive documents without using HTTPS.
How old we're you when you started in development? How? Is this your first?
It's more like having a 10gigabit fiber line and choosing to have outbound traffic routed via carrier pigeon. It's latency, not bandwidth, that makes a satellite connection maddening.
Creativity is a tricky area to dive in.

Sometimes the more you fill your mind with (judgemental?) thinking, the more the creativity escapes.

Sometimes the more you empty your mind with secondary thinking, the more the creativity appears.

Sometimes playing a musical instrument is a good thing.

Sometimes doing a query without joins is incoherent yet good results come.
X220 here (with SSD), happy with it.
I looked at some $100 Android tablets about a year ago, and all of them were garbage. The Nexus 7 is the cheapest Android tablet I'd buy.
ZeitPlanner would could be very handy. It doesn't have the same WOW factor as Visual Perspective - but it could be very useful!
I work at Meetup.

Meetup does review every new group and we discourage using the service for one off events. That said its not our policy to reject them out of hand and there should have been contact from a person on our community team prior to the decision to remove the group. In this case 'remove' most certainly doesn't mean delete. There's plenty of developers at Meetup that understand the value of not deleting data. The Meetup Group has been flipped back to approved and is accesible on site.

We are sorry when this happens, still, review of new groups is important to us -- there's a lot of new Meetups proposed every day that we really don't want to host on our platform. We have technology in place to help us with automatic classification, but while improving, its imperfect and in this case our safeguard of manual review was too quick to reject the group.
I actually sort of see this as a real-life tragedy of the commons situation, although you kind of have to squint your eyes and wave your hands a bit to make it fit.

The "common resource" is the client opportunity. The Nash equilibrium is every employee maximizing their own bonuses. The group optimum is the health of the company. It turned out that the individual self-interest did not align to what was good for the health of the companies. And in fact, that if they had cooperated and worked for the health of the companies, the employees may have ended up with higher individual payouts. This is exactly what the tragedy of the commons is about, and it's what apparently shook Greenspan to his core. So basically, it was the (predicted (over and over again)) failure of Objectivism.
Remember what Facebook and Twitter means for these authoritarian regimes.It's the possibility for their people to voice their opinions and learn more about what's happening beyond their borders.

This cable was laid between Venezuela and Cuba in 2007.
There was an attempt about a couple of years ago to block certain websites here in Venezuela that were deemed dangerous by the government. The reaction from the people over twitter and FB prevented it. I've always been worried that the venezuelan govt will follow the lessons from their cuban and chinese mentors.
Please help me improve my comments: Why the downvote?
> Basically free.fr was planning to remove Google ads by modifying the HTML served to users

This was DNS based, not DPI/proxy.

> And Orange is an ISP, just like free.fr. Not a media company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(telecommunications)#Sub...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(telecommunications)#Con...
Ambition and perseverence is really the key. Over and over again, I've read of famous people attributing their success to perseverence.

Some examples:

"Godlike genius.. Godlike nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! I've failed my way to success." -- Thomas Edison

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lives solely in my tenacity." -- Louis Pasteur

"Men give me credit for genius; but all the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject on hand I study it profoundly." -- Alexander Hamilton

"What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it." -- Doris Lessing
Wow, good job. You should write a blog post about why you decided to write an iOS game, how you learned, etc.
Also, no way to opt out of email announcements from a group short of completely leaving it.
Not a criticism, but I'm genuinely confused about the persistent misspelling of 'Arial' as 'Ariel'. Is there anyone knowledgeable about this sort of thing who can explain why it's so prevalent?
Some context: this is the Science Board right now: http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/members/

Anyone know how the Science Board actually works? Adding Vint Cerf to a technology panel could be great, but what is the expected result for this?
OMG, yes! I was wondering why it wasn't easier to do any of this! Downloading now.
You can write a simple cost function and then brute-force all the options in no time. I did that in school.
The Nexus 7 certainly seems impressive, I'm not looking to use for full video etc. though.

By garbage, do you mean mainly in terms of things like screen res and low CPU power?

I just found this for instance for £35 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/321040730821?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX...

Which I'm sort of tempted by just for email.
No problem. A couple buddies and I take turns trying to wreak havoc on each other's software when it comes time to ship. It's quite fun and very good for ensuring interface and codebase stability.
Automatically finding connections in your data is easy. The problem is finding connections that are 1) non-obvious and 2) actionable. And when they are found, filtered so that they stand out from all the obvious, non-actionable connections.

In other words, if I'm trying to find out why a plane crashed, and the first thing this system tells me is gravity, then it isn't a practical advancement.
...which crosses the borderline from "intrusive" to "outright deceptive".

I believe it's possible to turn off under "ads and friends" here:
http://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads&section=social&...
but you never can be too sure with Facebook
I have a degree in CS and did the exact same thing
Doubleplus agree. Have been working with a state department on a student registration system for the past few years, and now everything's going to be placed under one of the 'big commercial' players in this space. No interop specs have been delivered/offered, and the integration team seems wholly unaware of the complexities of the requirements laid out by the state for the types of processes we have to comply with. And talk about 'not adapting'? We have processes in our system relating to HR and the commercial team flat out said "we don't want to deal with that", but also balked at offering us any sort of integration service points (REST/SOAP/anything) to keep doing what we need to do next year.
Is gmail down for anyone else?
1) I started programming around the age of 11-ish when my mom was laid off.

2) Initially, I learned from http://www.icodeblog.com before switching to Unity.

3) Juggle It is actually my second game.

Thanks for your support.
Which Laptop is The Best One
I have been using PC for quite sometime, I have never ran into any problem my first PC laptop lasted about 4 yrs before I thought it was about time to get a new one. Should I consider getting a mac what is you view one this. What's the difference between a PC and a MAC
Too old.
Wow I really think you are projecting! You assume his life was a failure after Reddit ("I never failed as badly as he did after the Reddit sale").

I review his life, and it appears to me he started to find his true passions after reddit, and it wasn't about making $, or finding the next big .com, but rather achieving reforms in the areas where his passion(s) took him.

Sadly his final action ends his life but doubtful it ends his legacy. Because of his fame (regardless of any controversy surrounding it), so many are now more aware of needing to step up and "demand progress".

Edit: to fix hanging sentence
I started learning English with videogames too. I bought an English translation dictionary that was about half my weight to play Zak McKracken, on a 286 my dear avó owned. My tipping point came much later, with a pretty and sweet native English speaking girlfriend.

Great read by the way.
It is worth noting that the situation described -- trouble with publishers, needing to take out a second mortgage to publish the book, etc. -- need not happen in today's world. We have the software to format books on even the cheapest computers, and the infrastructure to distribute books to the entire world at no cost to the author (one can find a free Wifi connection even in small towns). All that is needed is time, and in the case of academic publishing (textbooks, research articles, course notes, etc.) that time is already paid for by other means.
Note that HN is abiding by common customs that many people on the internet will have encountered a lot: usernames are clickable, things in the header/footer are clickable, "action words" without context are often links (i.e. "link", "parent", "flag", "comments").
Appreciate your advice. I will keep this in mind.
also, cost. Sending to a satellite is much more involved than receiving from it.
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A big note to add: if you want a secure system, forget Ubuntu entirely and go with CentOS or RHEL with SELinux enabled and locked down correctly.

It's as damn near bullet proof as you can get.
"Godlike genius.. Godlike nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! I've failed my way to success." -- Thomas Edison

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lives solely in my tenacity." -- Louis Pasteur

"Men give me credit for genius; but all the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject on hand I study it profoundly." -- Alexander Hamilton

"What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it." -- Doris Lessing
I'm not surprised at all, they've backed down to almost everything confronting them in the past and this is certainly not out of character. I guess it's more profitable to simply pay up than fight. Which sucks, because Google is in an incredibly powerful position to change the world for the better (and in many more instances than this alone.)
x220 (8gb with samsung ssd, ips) running ubuntu. works fine, but i'm thinking it's way over your budget. x220 has been around long enough that refurb or second hand is probably a good deal...

[edit: huh, look it's now x230...]
It doesn't have to be. Uploading that much data would take upwards of 900 hours (!) on my fairly-typical residential cable connection (18m down/128k up). Those of us without fiber at home will never come close.
http://mises.org/etexts/mises/bureaucracy.asp
I really like that idea! Hopefully I will get to doing this very, very soon.
Motivated by Aaron: We need an opensource voting platform
For the sake of mankind we need a secure, scaleable opensource voting platform. A platform that enables groups as small as co-ops and as large as nations to get together and vote on their issues and leaders.

A system where political parties can be created as easily as podcasts. Where the community can discuss with each other the merits of new legistaltion.

A system that has the ability to replace congress and bring power back to the people.

There are currently 2 of us dedicated to working on the project. If you are interested in getting involved cotnact us at zoharj@gmail.com
Snake, written in Python. Classic.
This page discusses the issue in question: http://j.mp/repeatability

Jump to section 'Free-Floating Jars' if you're feeling impatient. :)
The word 'meltdown' is apt.

[Price–Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear_...
So far both cases were for events promoting a specific product. They were in the grey area for sure (this one less so) but they were both in the same grey area.

So yes, now I will definitely not use them for anything related to me trying to sell something, but I wouldn't have anyway, and continue using them for actual meetups based on common interests.
Ask HN: What is the best signup page/price plan page you've seen?
It appears he's just referring to an ancient (2.6.16.5) Linux kernel bug. "Don't use unpatched versions of obsolete kernels" would be better advice.
I got my x220 refurb last spring for under $700. I love it -- very portable and the battery life is ~6-7 hours. I run Arch Linux [1] and haven't had any issues, so you should be good to go with Ubuntu.

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/
Do NOT make this community about persecution -- I see no reason to list his Facebook profile in this thread other than to harass -- even if he has it listed in his profile.
Prevalent pop icon: Disney's "The Little Mermaid" was Ariel.
I will go for a good linux-supported ultrabook with a lot of RAM and a decent SSD. Look at the ASUS ones.

Look here, BTW http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3719720
Adding to twoodfin's comment: Grand Jury sessions are not meant to be trials, and do not consider whether a felony allegation can be proved "beyond a reasonable doubt." Instead they address whether there is "probable cause" that a felony has occurred.
Whether people care or not is a moot point though. The fact is that web standards continue to evolve whereas GUI toolkits can never become truly cross-platform and installation-free. The web is never best-of-breed, but its advantages are unassailable.
I think lots of people care, but they are not capable of marshalling a significant amount of noise in the press.

Right now they have created a significant amount of noise in the press. And what we're mostly hearing is "fire Ortiz," "fire Heymann," "punish MIT," "punish JSTOR, and "reform CFAA" with "reform prosecutions for all" a distance sixth, if mentioned at all. Taren spoke about reforming the justice system, but only after the above list. And the press (at least NPR) has been talking about plea bargains in the context of drug and inner city crime and the leverage prosecutors have on defendants life.

I'm fully on board with trying to fix the problem for all. I'm not down with trying to only fix the problems for friends of Lessig, Tufte and O'Reilly.