skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things like cookie inspection allow a data miner to get a list of known customers of a company. I can tell you every RackSpace Customer, Every Amazon Shopper, Every FaceBook User.

If you have seen those ads on FB that are for something you just searched on Amazon, or that want to sell you hosting for a place you already have hosting with you know what I mean.

If you have enough data about the factors that are common of people with a disease, and then compare that with percentage of people known to have that disease from a set.

If 10% of Company's American clients have Disease X, and Disease X requires you live in a cold climate to be diagnosed ( Raynaud's for example ) then you can exclude the people who live in a warm climate.

Now if you want to target people with Raynauds and you know 80% of the clients live in California,Texas, And Nevada. You know that 50% of the remaining clients have Raynaud's.

This is of course a contrived example, and uses much less data than would be used by a Data Miner.

For the people saying "no there are formula's we can prevent this from happening" yeah you know who made those formula's? The People who make money selling data. And thos formulas are to keep you from thinking it is dangerous.
What's really interesting here is not that a $1199 Macbook Pro outperformed a bunch of sub-$1000 PC laptops, but that the $429 Acer outperformed the rest of them, including the $2199 Macbook Pro.
I just wanted a better business card. Today I am releasing this to the public.
As the saying goes, "Where there's profit, there's a way". If you feel that being in breach of Twitter's terms of service will get you shut down, you need to devote everything you've got to finding a solution where they don't can you, but you keep your revenue model. Maybe it's hard to hear, but I'd suggest trying harder to get a meeting with them, or hiring someone as a go-between to set up a meeting. Also, a technique that a friend taught me is to connect with the person below your actual target in the company, and build a relationship with them. Then they will help you set up a meeting with the person you actually need to talk to. (btw, they call this the Cheerleader tactic.) Good luck!
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Falsely Identified "Boston Bombing" Suspect Found Dead
Efficient lightbulbs come in various color temperatures. You don't need incandescents to get the same color temperature. I don't like the harsher blue ones so I buy the warmer ones for at home.
Lots of recruiter spam.
Are you saying it's OK to copy music/movies someone else made, but not software/visual assets you made?
I prefer Ruby's approach, which is not whitespace-sensitive, but has a very liberal approach to where expressions end.

The general rule is, as with Python and Go, that open braces, brackets, parens or quotes have precedence; and operators or punctuation at the end of a line will continue to the next line.

In addition, there are some complicated parsing internals -- not just for expression-ending sensing, but also for supporting parens-less method calls -- that endow the parser with some compiler knowledge about what tokens are variables and what tokens are methods. In other words, the parser has information that violates the parser/compiler separation of concerns, but it works really well in practice.

The only time I ever use \ in Ruby is for string literals that need to be broken up for readability:

my_string = "This is a very long string that" \
" must be wrapped."

You can use + or <<, but this will be evaluated at runtime, whereas \ results in a single string allocation.

Of course, Ruby requires "end" for a lot of constructs, but it could have just as well have used braces.
Agreed, Angular and d3 are two of the most beautiful and useful pieces of JS out there. Radian's approach is very inspiring for the ones that use both of these awesome libraries.

But I find it too low level : I don't see the point of manipulating <dot> and <line> directives : is'nt it what SVG does already?

I'd rather use a <barchart> or a <piechart> directive.
I think that could well be the case in reality--but you wouldn't know it from most discussions on the topic, and I don't think that's how people people form their initial views, or why they continue to maintain logically incorrect arguments in their own minds.

In some respects, I think that some copyright denialists behave similarly to those who try to argue that the U.S. has no power to tax incomes because of various technicalities in the ratification of the appropriate constitutional amendment [1]. These people do not hold their to their positions because they are lawyers. They hold to them because they don't want to pay income tax.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_Sixteenth_Amendme...
Ask HN: What are the b2c markets where deals are negotiated?
Most online b2c marketplaces publish product/price and expect payments to complete on their site. What are the real world b2c transactions that involve buyer-seller price negotiations? How do online marketplaces manage such scenarios?
It's technically questionable, but the alternatives require units with which the public may be unfamiliar. A "better" unit in some cases might be lumens per watt, but this still doesn't help an unsophisticated consumer choose a replacement for a 60W incandescent bulb.
Show HN:Healthy Brain (iOS app-improve the performance of your brain)
> I worked in computational medicine and had (still have) interest in lingustics/neuroecon/neurosci and I still run into walls there occasionally.

Like I said earlier areas like computational Medicine, Biology and other such areas run into pay walls. CS research areas like theory, data mining, NLP etc. will rarely run into such problems.
Turn your photographic library into an interactive & sound-synced movie
I have hugely mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I don't see how this strategy could play out well in the long-run. The founder comes off as excessively desperate and even untrustworthy. What's weirder is that for him to have any chance of success with this strategy, it would eventually have to become apparent that he was lying. Which makes it all seem even sleazier. To top all of that, there's no way he maintains any long-term positive relationship with the press.

On the other hand, there is evidently some payoff from this strategy--I had never heard of this service before this little stunt. Given his actions, though, I wouldn't use it even if I needed it.
Clickable link: http://apps.cerait.com/healthybrain/
The work itself is completely meaningless though. The only reason the proof of work is worth anything is because people place a value on bit coin, and bitcoin relies on the proof of work. So the proof of work's value is dependent on bitcoin, not the other way around.
IS Your DATA IN THE CLOUD SECURE?
That's an interesting assertion about the economics of piracy. Any research to back it up?
I don't think that's a fallacy at all. I think that's a valid argument for the modification of copyright law.
Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Pro named the best Windows laptop
QA for video games is a much different beast than QA for software development.

Penny Arcade does a web comic about video game QA, along with tales from the workplace such as this: http://trenchescomic.com/tales/post/let-slip-the-dogs-of-war
They undoubtedly were. As long as copyright exists, you'd be a fool not to exploit it. At the same time, it has been observed that the proliferation of parodies, remixes, and downloads only added to the revenue and profitability: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121002/11573120572/gangn...
> when broken, are a mess/danger to clean up.

When a company or a government agency gives instructions for clean-up they're going to go 'by the book' as much as possible.

They give these scary sounding instructions because for every 50 people who manage to put a broken CFL into a bin without instructions there's going to be 1 who'll gather a bunch of broken CFLs in a sack and toss it into a lake; or who operates a trash business and who stores kilograms of them in the open leaching stuff into the water table.

See also women being told to avoid '4d scans' (no medical purpose; everything carries some risk even if unknown and unquantifiable; thus avoid this risk because there's no medical benefit) or coffee cups with "This is hot" printed on them.
The only thing I do not like about ACL is the fact that is not indexed in DBLP. I have a paper in one of the ACL affiliated conference and it does not show up. I have since then shifted from core NLP and it doesn't really matter but it would be nice to be consistent with other indexing mechanisms.
I don't have a 100W-equivalent but if it's anything like Philips's 75W-equivalent, it's pricey but flawless. I haven't found anything in my usage to dislike about it at all.
Big Data Plus Data Virtualization Equals?
It takes a special kind of leap to go from "Socially engineered into doing something" to "deserves physical violence because of unpopularity" or "financially unable to get out of an unhealthy situation so isn't deserving of a better situation".

The key difference being that in the prior example the negative impact is you follow someone that may not be of interest to you, in which case you can always un-follow. While a nerd or the poor will find they can't literally click a button to undo the "damage" that was done.

I get what you are trying to say, I disagree that you can apply that to this specific example. It would be better aimed at a rich person who literally thinks everyone on food stamps is a lazy bum.
This is Spam. There are a few dozen of these with better economics on Amazon. And if you want to light a house on the cheap, the LED "ropes" are more efficient, and will last longer.

Also a CFT would be 12W and cost $2 ($1.25 if you look around). Over 10 years in most markets that would be cheaper.

PS: My Home is almost 100% LED's. I love them. But that doesn't mean they are always the cheapest, the most efficient, or the best for the planet. I just prefer the dimmable nature and the consistent color across the dimming.
You're missing the point.

You shouldn't have existed (or been allowed to) in the fist place.
->these devices could become an important enabling technology for quantum information processing in future

I think they will also be critical for empowering diversity, team cohesion, and synergy; culminating in a forward transition of outside the box, paradigm shifting technology in the cloud.
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They probably have a QA.

If the code is bad, it's probable they need to do more than just fixes but large overhauls. A difficult decision when you have customers saying "please fix the game I bought" and have a PR scandal to handle.

A possible course of action would probably to apologize, acknowledge the problems and do a gesture, such as getting rid of the DRM, to appease customers.

Then you'll probably one year to fix most of the problems, call that an extension pack and offer it free of charge for anyone who bought the game before a certain date...

Meanwhile have another team to extinguish as many fires as possible...
You might be interested in Inconsistency Robustness 2011 at
http://www.robust11.org/

Cheers,
Carl
That picture of the Moscow subway is absolutely not from the same time period. It may have looked like that at the time, but the picture is from 2009: http://www.flickr.com/photos/waldenpond/4021913253/
Show HN: Flinto is fast, shareable, installable iOS prototyping
Oohing Oompaloompahs
> They've been around longer and are the ugly oddly shaped yellow plastic ones.

They're certainly ugly, but for the record, they aren't yellow when powered. I also learned today that they have a little fan inside -- supposedly silent in most circumstances.

I suspect that ten or twenty years from now we'll look back on these early designs and laugh our heads off. Just as with computers.
Understanding the Kernel Trick
Amazon seem quite happy to charge me $0.50 a month, and they seem to be doing alright.
How To Be A CIO And A Woman
I've never met a good programmer who wasn't passionate about side projects. In fact every bad programmer I've met had no interest in side projects, summer projects, etc.
If only someone made a "fixture" for lighting with multiple bulb sockets in a convenient, attractive mounting that could be attached to the ceiling of a room.

The 60W incandescent light bulb has been the "standard lightbulb" since before most of us were born. Honestly I don't understand this criticism at all. Certainly LED lighting is available in many form factors other than a 60W bulb...
"Essentially every student in a well known US college or university is "heavily subsidized" in that they pay roughly only 1/3rd of the real cost with the rest from US citizens via gifts or taxes. Even paying full tuition of $50,000 a year or some such is not the full cost. This situation has held true in essentially all US colleges and universities for at least 50 years."

First of all, you're conflating gifts and taxes, which is at best sloppy and at worst, deceptive. People _choose_ to give gifts. Unless you're saying they were deceived, how those gifts are used seems irrelevant to a discussion of US subsidies of foreign students. If I donate to UNICEF, does that count as "foreign aid"?

Second, do you even have a citation or any kind of facts to back up that statement? Or is it just something you're parroting?
So the "grave error" is a lack of simple understanding of what a margin is? Seriously?
No, you are assuming that a software system includes just the program.

In a more holistic view, a software system includes the program and its developer community. In that sense, certain software such as Emacs and Linux has clearly proved itself antifragile, whereas most other software is clearly fragile.

The test for antifragility is this: Does the software improve with the presence of time and when faced with change?

If it does, it is antifragile. No need to add more conditions like "no developer changes are needed". Developers are part of the software system.
"Doesn't become defensive when the boss mentions that they're looking for an off-the-shelf alternative to what they've been writing for the past few years"

Hits so close to home, I might have a bruise. My whole department went through the five/seven stages when we mentioned changing our main platform to another company's product.

After countless presentations of superior software, they went through the stages again. Finally, putting the idea on the shelf for a year, they went through the stages again.

It is truly the "can't see the forest for the trees" sentiment. Cost center programming is a job of fear for most. New hires, new software, new terminology, etc leads to blame and fear to the point of malice. Job security is their biggest fear; but their attitude towards 'new' prevents the business from moving forward and decreases their job security.
Totally. A disturbing number of things on the list are cultural or tribal signifiers rather than things that have anything to do with being someone who can get stuff done, get it done well, and get it done in a reasonable amount of time (which is a big part of my own definition of "a good programmer"...maybe that's part of my disconnect with this).

When interviewing people a common pitfall is to subconsciously look for stuff like this, which is really bad because that means you're interviewing for friends rather than coworkers. It also means you're unfairly discriminating against people you can't immediately relate to on a personal level.

For an extreme example of this, look no further than ESR's version of the Jargon File. He basically extends his idea of being a good programmer to political beliefs and all sorts of unrelated things.
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Good enough to see, not good enough for fine work.

60W was enough for me a decade ago. Now for fine work I need 100W. I can still see with 60W, but what was enough for fine work a decade ago is not enough now. I understand this will get worse as I get older. I don't have any particular visual conditions; I'm just aging.
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Wait, why was this killed off the front page? There's been discussion about SimCity before.
Exactly. Reminds me of a startup that complained to me they couldn't find any good engineers in Silicon Valley - when they were offering 25% below market comp.
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did you read the article? or even the title for that matter? seems like what you are saying is crystal clear to OP.
odesk.com
freelancer.com

The rates are usually way lower than what you would actually want to do the set code for.
Who's to blame for campus sex sites? Parents say kids, scientists say culture
Time to scrap affirmative action
It's a PR ploy.
I'm all for doctors informing their patients and for a proper dialogue. Obviously it is a lot simpler to be treated for a broken arm or a gallbladder infection than for something as invasive as cancer or something that is hard to diagnose.

Screening (especially um-necessary screening) is doing more harm than good. But who to screen and who not to screen is still a specialist decision and depending on your locality more or less care will go into the making of that decision. Categorically rejecting screening before you're 50 if you're in a risk group is not smart (not saying the OP's better half is, but these things tend to be complex).

The doctor-patient dialogue is a tricky affair and I think that somewhere along the line doctors lost the ability to clearly communicate with patients about their treatments and the necessity thereof. On top of that doctors now see so many patients that there simply isn't time enough to have a proper conversation with every patient.

Those things are the crux of the problem here, not that doctors are out to make money of unsuspecting citizens or that they would perform procedures or generate referrals because there is money in it. Though I'm sure that occurs the Hippocratic oath is still very much a part of medical education.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath

> See, for example, knee arthroscopy which was found after controlled studies with sham operations to be no more effective than the sham for many people.

I noticed a 'many' in that sentence, that's a bit of wiggle room there, if it were a really ineffective treatment there would be an 'all' in there. So now the question becomes one of degree and how to tell the people for whom that treatment is effective from the ones for whom it isn't.

On another note, the communications problem in part stems from the vast body of knowledge in modern medicine, two specialists already have a hard time communicating their ideas to one another, a doctor explaining the intricacies of some treatment to a patient would have to be at least as good an educator as a doctor, however education is typically not their specialism.
Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes
Sorry, tickets are sold out.
However, you will still be able to take advantage of great WWDC content.
Stay tuned for exciting announcements on videos and more.
Yes - the Phillips bulbs are excellent. The yellow "lobes" on the side look a little weird when it's off, but the bulb puts out an BRIGHT warm-white light when turned on. They dim very well, too.
# In those situations a single line like "This context links the rendering pipeline to the physics simulation" would go a very long way.

Why not rewrite your code so there is a rendering_pipepline variable and a physics_simulation variable and a function called link? Then the comment is redundant.

That's what refactoring for self-documentedness is to me.
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... though I immediately received a 500 ("We are unable to process your request") after attempting to purchase, then saw "Sorry, WWDC Tickets are Sold Out" at 10:02am Pacific.

Maybe they're still bouncing servers..
Thanks for sharing this, looks really interesting.
2 minutes after they went on sale…
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You're holding your team together with magnets? Please, sir, tell me more about this amazing technology.
Propagation delay is dependent upon a variety of factors and while the numbers the article quotes may be correct for thick-net and thin-net, the cable we use for CATV trunk-line is significantly faster at about 0.85c (http://www.china-satellite.com/sdp/1385167/4/pd-5853918/8382...).

Interestingly, the propagation delay through single-mode fiber tends to be significantly lower than through copper (well ... again it depends on the cable), but the 0.66c speed is a pretty good number for fiber.
Looks like they sold out in ~2 minutes :(
Sold out in three minutes.
I don't think I can comment on that with any authority at all. Is it possible that using a blue light as the source rather than UV reduces the degradation of the phosphorescent coating?
I see where you're coming from but let's put this another way:

If a service simply pulled a list of tweets from users that you might be interested in there's nothing wrong with that, correct? It's just curating a list of tweets for you. There's also nothing stopping you from favoriting them all to get the most attention from those users.

But when the human act is entirely faked it's spam. And I agree. But it's also a pretty slight distinction we're making since humans can easily choose to behave like bots.
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I was referring to my biological daughter.
Code is hard to understand because most programmers only learn how to write it and never take the time to learn how to read it. If you can't read something with ease, it will always be hard to understand.
I thought the analysis was insightful..
WWDC tickets sold out in 3 minutes?
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One minute. I was on the checkout screen at 1:01 and it was sold out.
I know it's not really a solution for the masses, but

sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping

Should remove the results from Amazon, while keeping all the other online lens.
> Screening is a more complex decision than, say, taking insulin for diabetes.

Exactly.

> And there are times when public skepticism really does become a public health threat (i.e. anti-vaccination folk).

This is a real problem, and one that is extremely complex because fixing it involves meddling with human rights, I don't think that this is a solvable problem. The bigger issue in cases like those is that 'Gods will' is invoked but it invariably affects others (mostly children) than the people that are making the decisions.

Tricky stuff.
I was refreshing constantly after 1pm. I saw the sign-in button but got an error trying to access the store.

Looks like it sold out in the exact amount of time it took to process a transaction.
I don't believe it, but maybe I'm in denial.

I'm now seeing this page: https://devimages.apple.com.edgekey.net/maintenance/
Anyone else get this screen in Chrome? http://cl.ly/image/2E2a1y0u1g0N

By the time I pivoted to Safari one minute later it was sold out.
> White light is the combination of many spectrums of light.

You mean many wavelengths of light. The light spectrum is the sum of all wavelengths of light. Also, the plural is "spectra".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum
I'm glad you enjoyed it. It's pretty weird but very good food for thought.
We use CFT in our house for a number of places (kitchen lamp, etc). For other places, we use LED... specifically in places where, when I flip the switch, I want full light output immediately like my office. CFTs are horrible at taking too long to get to a useful state of light output.
I was clicking on refresh as fast as possible and couldn't get in.
Tickets For Apple’s WWDC 2013 Sell Out In Under 2 Minutes
maybe even a couple of years if he keeps it under the radar and don't grow too much.
You're reading too much into this, he is literally holding them together with magnets.