skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of complaint applies to any method. Dimensional analysis just means that your data satisfies a certain kind of symmetry. A scaling symmetry in this case. It doesn't matter how long you define one meter, as long as you do it consistently. Hence any answer should not depend on the length of a meter. There are other symmetries, for example it does not matter where you put 0 on the temperature scale. Hence your answer should not depend on where you put that zero (unless that zero has special significance in your context). This is a kind of additive symmetry. Another additive symmetry is that it shouldn't matter which year you call year 0 (unless it has special significance, e.g. you are investigating the birth of jesus). In the same way your data can have any kind of symmetry, especially with multi-dimensional data you often get extra symmetries. For example it shouldn't matter in which direction you define north and east.

For any given problem, you should generally only use methods that obey the symmetries that your data has. This doesn't mean that PCA is invalid as a method, it's just only valid on a data where the scaling symmetry does not apply. Another example would be fitting a line through the origin for temperature data. That's invalid, because the result you get depends on where you define your zero (but as before, it might be valid if that zero has special significance in your context). Does that mean that fitting a line through the origin is invalid for any data set? No.

In other words, the same criticism could be applied to any given method. Just choose any symmetry that the method does not respect, and then declare it completely invalid. Hence we cannot dismiss a method outright purely based on this reasoning. For example PCA is perfectly valid on unitless data. What's even stranger is that the author does like neural neworks, which are certainly not dimensionally valid, heck they probably don't satisfy any real world symmetries. This is also a case where it can be OK to use a dimensionally inconsistent method. As long as it works, it works.
Venmo now has payout business accounts: https://venmo.com/payouts
If they're international then the FBI shouldn't need to crowdsource the identities of these people. They will at least have fingerprints and facial photographs of these guys.
Keeping old-IE compatibility prevents some optimizations and makes the code have to do extra checks, but using one file that supports it is simpler than using two files?
They hate IE SO much, they even made the drop a new major release.

This is what I call commitment.
I'm pretty sure there's an OLD Twilight Zone episode about this very topic.
I wish Microsoft would shoehorn at least IE9 into XP, maybe like Chrome Frame.

It's crazy how many people are still stuck with XP/IE8 which is a massive web dev headache.
The point of membership of a finance professional institute like the CPA is that the institute judges whether a member meets the ethics requirements or not.

Someone who claims to have membership when they could not be bothered to complete their membership training records - plus a fraud conviction - nope I would not trust them with my personal financial information.

Declaration of interests: I pay the UK equivalent of CPA (ICAEW) several hundred GBP/USD annually as certification that I'm financially trustworthy. Some of my work is figuring out how to execute fraud and then how to defeat it - so it's a bit like a white hat badge.
It's not just you. Ext has grown into a gui toolkit unlike something like Smartclient which was born from gui toolkit experience. The Smartclient api makes WAY more sense in everyway and every method is where you expect it to be, unlike Ext which makes bizarre infruriating choices and results in you buying a cookbook in order to be anywhere near productive with it.

I bet you we could fund a kickstarter with angry ex-Ext users.
Two things I am wondering:

First, what does it mean that these poses, these concepts ("power" as the desirable mode of relating to your coworkers for example) and even the key hormone we are meant to incite are so gendered? The poses are more essentially masculine than they are powerful. Have you ever seen a woman naturally with in the arm-around-the-chair pose, hips slunk forward and chest back? It would look quite unusual I think. As an employer, I'm not sure I want to select for testosterone (and I don't think I have so far). But maybe there is more to it.

Second, does it matter that attention is zero-sum? I would suggest that to ve convincing the author doesn't need to merely argue that body language manipulation is helpful, but that it is more helpful than, say, listening carefully, or preparing that much more for an interview, or even studying and thinking about human psychology more directly. You can only keep track of so many dimensions at once, and I'm not sold on the idea that I would benefit from privileging this dimension. Maybe I would, but that case hasn't been made for me yet.
I don't know who he was but the site he was screaming out was infowars.com. I think he was trying to draw attention to the photos you may have seen of the black backpack special ops guys who popped up in a few images
...because domestic terrorists are always conspiratorial, old, and bitter?

Many members of the IRA were active in their twenties. Some members were even younger - the same was true for ETA in Spain. In the US, Timothy McVeigh was 26 at the time of the Oklahoma City bombing, and Eric Rudolph (of the Atlanta Olympic Park bombing) was 29.

You don't have to be old and believe in conspiracy theories to be a domestic terrorist.
I would find it quite amusing if the FBI was posting to imgur.
If someone has access to your email, it is almost certainly trivial for them to access your account for the service holding the message.
I can understand this guy's frustration. While I've never used Dwolla before, all the negative reviews of it make sure that I will never use it. Hopefully Ripple and OpenCoin take off, in the meantime it's probably better to use traditional methods of money transfer.
I don't understand how already having a suspect in custody makes this release of photos a logical move to flush out the co-conspirator. Maybe I'm slow..
My favorite is how it fails to support decade old features like DOM Level 2 and XHTML.
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Anybody else getting fedup with Sheryl Sandberg 24/7/365?
Please, give a rest already.
Ok, so the problems it causes are pain points for the jQuery devs and not for website devs? Also, the underlying code is more complex and lacks optimizations? Until old drops off the radar completely we'll have to use 1.9 solely or do a conditional check and serve the suitable version - serving 1.9 seems simpler ^^, call me lazy, many have,
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Rand Paul is nothing like his father. While Ron Paul fought hard against FISA, NDAA, PATRIOT, and Drones, his son follows the party line, but gives enough lip service to not turn off his father's supporters.
Do you have any specific names ?
Since I am professionally a data engineer, I believe Cloudera, Palantir are few but have already grown a lot.
These photos [0] seem better as you can click on the high-res option! I am only running linux but do you think the SmartDeblur program (Mac/Win) [3] would work here? Some cool examples [1] [2]. [4] seems like the best option for the SmartDeblur.

[0] http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multip...

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2221466/Smart...

[2] http://en.paperblog.com/smartdeblur-will-work-magic-on-your-...

[3] https://github.com/Y-Vladimir/SmartDeblur

[4] http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multip...
Bitcoin would break with a compromised SHA256. If pre-image attacks on SHA256 become possible, one can replace transactions in the block chain with ones own transactions. A SHA256 hash identifies each transaction, and if you can produce a transaction with the same hash, but one that pays to you instead, you can replace transactions in the block chain with ones that pay to you.
Why does this only have 73,000 views on YouTube?....
I think what a lot of people are upset about here, is jQuery entered the web development scene as "the library that solved cross-browser compatibility issues". Now while IE 6 is an obvious one to drop, IE 7 is a little tougher, and IE 8 is down right impossible to drop at this time. I understand that jQuery wants to promote a modern framework, but people didn't adopt it for it's fancy features. They adopted it because those fancy features worked the same in every major browser .

The stop gap solution of 1.9 as being parallel to 2.0 but with compatibility, is understandable, but will probably promote distrust in developers who just need a stable cross-platform solution. I think the immediate concern with 1.9, is how long it will continue in parallel with 2.x before being dropped
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Hmmm.. With poses you can broadcast your 'negotiation position', but I don't think it's appropriate to try to look like you're on the winner's side if you're not. Makes some sense in some situations like interviews though.
I would argue all its momentum is from its initial beginnings as a truly open project. Notice it quickly loses that steam once the license changes start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext_JS#License_history
This is one of the biggest projects on the web leading the way in throwing shitty old IE under the bus to help push the modern web forward.

They're going to keep big-fixing 1.X so people stuck with IE6/7/8 can keep supporting it, but moving forward with 2.x for modern browsers makes their lives easier in the long run, and provides yet another coffin nail in Microsoft's attempt decade-old attempt to break the web.
I do. My experience has been that they are cryptic or just plain wrong on more than on occasion. I've seen a lot of places where there are comments correcting them or just pointing out that what they say is not what actually happens.

Note, this is all anecdotal- My adventures with direct proxies and nested layouts had me doing a lot of trial and error coding, this may not be a representative experience.
What is the best source to know about a startup's series funding? Techcrunch,etc?
A senseless death :(
Why was jQuery left out?
In this case, it actually made a lot of sense for him to call his mother, since his mother is a lawyer.
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OK, this needs context.

Japan has an insanely hight conviction rate in pretty much all crimes.
What happens is this: police find someone who is plausibly guilty (very low threshold and lots of bias) and keep them in custody for a long time (sometimes months) until they finally confess. Case solved.

So what you have just described is just business as usual for Japan.
That's essentially how Rails 3+ does this.
In honor of the HOMEWORK document, I automated it to update every couple of minutes :-)
I find opposition to this bill somewhat hilarious. On one hand on the front page right now, we have FBI soliciting the public for information after we've experienced a serious attack. Efforts are underway to crowdsource the identities of the perpetrators in a completely unstructured and privacy-invading manner on forums like Reddit (/r/findbostonbombers). On the other, we have people loudly complaining that companies shouldn't be able to do the same when they experience an attack. Sharing of this information would occur via structured records and include oversight and audits that get reported to the public.

I think the problem is one of perspective. In the Boston bombings, it's incredibly simple to see the harm and it directly affects those being asked to share the information they have to help. In the persistent and ongoing computer intrusions that are now a reality for any successful business, the public is largely unaware and only indirectly affected by such events. Hence, why try to solve it?
well, I guess it's about differentiating sexy and sexist. there is nothing wrong with the first one.
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It depends on your clients - some of ours do just that, others might actually have ops teams.
many of us were Libertarians before it was cool, so, yeah, I guess you make a strong point. does this mean I have to give up my hacker card and start wearing skinny jeans and ironic facial hair?
I don't think that's true. There were a handful of competing libraries (Prototype.js, Mootools, etc) and jQuery won out because people seemed to prefer its API.
Is there really no "good-guy" alternative to PayPal? Since PayPal froze my account several years ago and robbed me of 2K, I have been in search of a better alternative. First came WePay, I tried using it, but it was awkward and slow, it took weeks to transfer a simple $500 in the U.S. between verified accounts, and customer service wasn't all that helpful. Then came along Dwolla, I haven't had any large transactions here yet, but it's been slow as well, and unwilling to work with me and my buddy with whom we share a referral credit -- not a very good beginning to start a relationship with a customer. And now this article. Le sigh.
I cannot believe IE8 is now considered 'old'. It is the second most used browser+version on our site, and has about 80% as much usage as the leader, IE9. Can't see IE8 support being droppable for many years yet.
I want to give a quick thank you to everyone who has contributed thus far. Being able to show frameworks that span this many different languages and platforms is really an amazing achievement that we only we able to accomplish with the help of the community. For the frameworks that are still missing, we're not done yet, continue submitting pull requests and we'll get them in.
it would be nice to see a 2.0 vs 1.9 bench on FF/Chrome/IE9+, much more interested in that than a non-noticeable 11k size reduction for the end user (maybe only slightly noticeable on very slow mobile).
This is the latest update to our benchmarking of web application frameworks and platforms. Since Round 2, we've had several pull requests. There is more Scala, Erlang, Lua, PHP, Java, Haskell, more everything! (Sorry, we've not yet received .NET/Mono pull requests.)

Additionally, with the help of the author of Wrk, we've been able to change the methodology to use time-limited tests (1 minute) rather than request-limited tests (100,000 requests). This means all frameworks are exercised for the same amount of time.

We've migrated the results to a stand-alone site so we have a little more screen real-estate for the charts and tables.

I look forward to any feedback, comments, questions, or criticism. Thanks!
Well, If its in the tens of thousands of dollars ($10,000) for a .25 cent charge, this seems like alot of risk to handle in house. Ie at that size 1 in 40000 transactions could be fraud and they would be breaking even on the .25 cent charges, assuming there is no overhead to running this business.
Zerocoin is interesting, definitely, but it turns out there are a lot of problems with it. I started a thread on bitcointalk.org about it, and a lot of developers chimed in with their opinion on it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175156.0;all
Depends what you're doing. If you're building a mobile app (particularly one meant to be distributed via PhoneGap), or a Chrome extension, maybe you don't care about IE support.
Sorry if I seem cranky, but did you READ the blog post? jQuery 1.9 supports those browsers and the jQuery team still supports it. Do you have a problem with us supporting a second version that can be smaller, faster, and work in places other than obsolete browsers?
At least form a support group?

It's nice to hear that someone else finds Ext's choices hard to understand at times, I'm the only guy around here who needs to work with it so it can be hard to know when it is me and when it is something fishy.

Don't get me started about the almost completely undocumented "Sencha Architect" which overwrites any changes you make to code in another editor when you re open a project....
What parts lead you to believe these are words of someone is who about to off themselves? I ask because nothing about the text strikes me as someone who's depressed. It's all a bit absurd, maybe, but I didn't feel sadness.
Perk: A simple Web browser that rewards online shoppers
Yes and that behavior resulted in the wrongfully convicted guy (back in 2012) "confessing" that he's the one who sent the crime threats, even though he was innocent.

(I forgot about this part in my original post, for thanks for being the impetus for making me remember :P)
If anything, her role in the Swartz case shows she is aggressive and interested more in using the full weight of the law rather than "moral subtleties". In a case that is bound to be full of race issues, having someone who can filter all the noise and see the facts is an asset.
If you use really simple class and id selectors, the qSA-based selector engine may be fine. However, I think a lot of devs would be surprised about how much Sizzle is doing for them.
Wouldn't make sense. You can't just say "OK, we were kidding, we got these guys we didn't tell you about!" and get away with it. Massive lawsuits would be filed by these guys and many at the top of the FBI would be forced to resign.
Because if the conspirators have agreed to maintain radio silence until a given point, the assertion that the FBI is still looking for two suspects could lead the non-captured conspirator to assume that the first conspirator is just continuing to lay low.

As to why release the photos at all...well, it might not be to flush him out directly, but just that the FBI really is hoping that the public will be able to identify the uncaptured conspirator.
Could you provide proof that this is a lukewarm majority?
Or they price discriminate, by selling the wool sweater at a high markup to customers who self identify as especially interested in handmade wool sweaters while advertising the cheaper acrylic sweater to everyone else.
I guess they are, it just wasn't something I expected to learn at that time in that way. So I guess it isn't really a big privacy issue, just a strange experience.

I would have been more comfortable with it if it had been part of the original screening, and not something that popped up randomly before a transaction, after I had already moved money into my account.
I was just debating the merits of going with one of the lightweight jquery substitutions for a phonegap app. This couldn't come at a better time.

Dropping the cruft and supporting 1.9 is such a wonderful way to go. Congratulations on a great release jquery team.
this should be at the top! most complete option yet, with preservation of the original documents. many thanks!
It's because Japanese society is backwards and unreformed when it comes to its dealings with the Internet. [1]

1. http://neojaponisme.com/2009/05/19/the-fear-of-the-internet/
Now we can say "but even the latest version jQuery doesn't support IE 8!" (even though the supported 1.9 branch still does).
Reddit seems to have already identified Black Hat's hat. Assume the FBI had already, but interesting how fast the crowd works on details like that.

http://i.imgur.com/D9tSDUf.jpg
Jesus Christ, can we just credit both the decision maker and the brief-preparer? Or do we have to fight about it.
Third parties have been trying to throw shitty old IE under the bus for a long, long time and haven't had much success in doing so. I fear jQuery 2.0 will see very low take-up on mainstream sites, and the resulting fork will be tricky to manage.
This is an absurd conspiracy theory. Downvoted.
The problem is, payment processing is hard. Fraud is a real problem, that costs real money and takes a massive amount of effort to prevent. You can limit your exposure (eg Stripe) by placing limitations on your solution (limit by country, by transaction types, etc), but there is no fix for it.

Big banks don't do much better than Paypal in regards to fraud prevention, the major difference is that they are regulated more tightly so they can't just freeze your money without recourse.
No, there's nothing against mentioning Hitler or the Third Reich. As it's well known in the Web, full movies about Hitler and the Third Reich have been made even in Germany, and they weren't banned or its producers arrested.
Although you're partially right, I wouldn't say you are necessarily in a lower power position. They want to hire you (assuming you are up to snuff) just as much as you want to be hired. Assuming an "equal-power" position shows you believe you are capable of filling the role, and deserve it. It also suggests you would be perfectly okay with NOT getting the job if it doesn't work out.
Not in the slightest? So the CMO gets no credit for acknowledging the mistake?

I would be willing to bet that the CMO is not in any sort of position to make the necessary changes to ensure that this doesn't happen again, and so your suggestion is beyond his ability. By acknowledging the customer's frustration he lets the OP know that the company understands that this is an issue, and is now going to make an effort to correct it. In other words, "he has been heard".

Obviously, the comment alone is not enough, but it's a vital first step towards high quality customer support, and probably an instructive lesson for anybody in a service business.
As a personal account, I've moved a few thousand dollars through Dwolla with no problem.
I cringed when I read the headline reference to Tor as "hijacking software."
Yep, there are a few errors in there but I like the general idea. In fact I'm just starting to try the method Steve Gibson of security now described. Basically, cut down sugars and grains (most processed food), and add more healthy fats. For some reason people that go this route are highly attracted to double bacon butter cheeseburgers, etc... bad idea.

Olive, canola, avocados, and nuts are sources of fats that are much better on the heart. Tons of veggies, fruits, and lean meats will serve you well. This is what I've done in the past and have been very healthy, now focusing on bringing the sugars down and will see the results.

Another thing he mentions I'd be wary of is the coconut oil. It's full of saturated fat, and though proponets are now pointing to properties that mitigate its effects, i'd be cautious. I was not able to find much evidence of that or many studies at all on the subject. In absence of better info I'd avoid foods rich in saturated fat.
> Package management will make OS upgrades easier.

You don't need a UNIX package manager for this. See also: every modern OS, ever.

> Dependencies as opposed to static linking will allow the CPU to run and cache used code better instead of reading and discarding the same code from different parts of memory.

You achieve this by having comprehensive base system libraries. See also Android, Mac OS X, iOS.

> Compression will make the handling less IO bound and a bit more CPU intensive, but disks are slow and CPU's are faaaast!

This doesn't need to exist in the package manager. See also HFS+ compression. Bonus: it works without hauling in a huge packaging system.

> If you think it will be slow and complicated, I think you will be in for a pleasant surprise later on.

No, I'll be in for dealing with OSS dependency hell (except that now I can be assured that I'll never use Haiku, because they're actively working to throw away what made the Mac and BeOS designs of that era attractive to begin with, and what they spent 10 years trying to achieve).

It's actually embarrassing that Haiku came so far, only to lose sight of the BeOS R5 target, actively destroying what made BeOS interesting compared to Linux -- especially when modern examples of how to do it right (Android, iOS, Mac OS X) are right in front of them.

This is what happens when Linux kernel engineers wind up in charge of a consumer OS project.
Nah, I kind of dig the persistance and the message she is pushing.
It looks to me like he's worried (or saying that other people are/might be worried) about how long 1.9 will continue to be supported for.