skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not simply "most": "Virtually all".

A split that was near 50/50 (e.g. 'most') would be an utterly pessimal outcome, while a 99.9/0.01 split is probably pretty harmless, at least if you talk in terms weighed by some kind of amorphous economic significance.
There's nuance here that's going to be totally lost on the general public as this becomes an anti-science talking point.
I moved to keyboards from the first link, the Tenkeyless ones, for exactly the same problem that the OP has. That plus getting my mouse at exactly the same height, so my forearm doesn't move up or down when moving between them, did the trick.

One of the best $100 I've ever spent.
Why Thalmic Labs chose Waterloo over Silicon Valley
> What I find depressing about LinkedIn is how much it has play-by-play replicated the old, broken way of doing things. Resumes. Titles and dates of employment. Recommendations.

Old, yes. Broken, no (at least not for the examples you mention). They work, they're familiar, and so they're a much easier "sell" to prospective users.
My Thoughts on Work/Life Balance at Microsoft
out of curiousity, what benefits are you referencing?
Sorry about the crash, its back up now!
>>> a = "string"
>>> a[1] = 'g'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment
>>> b = a.replace('t', 'g')
>>> b
'sgring'
>>> a
'string'
>>> id(b)
3065252256L
>>> id(a)
3075481632L

Also from here[1]:

Strings and tuples are immutable sequence types: such
objects cannot be modified once created.

[1] http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#mutable-seque...
Possibly; as said we do not really want to compete on the space available, but on the security we give.

With the solution you mention, you'd have to manage the server and the encrypted communication, make everything redundant and still introduce some kind of integrity check if you want to really be sure that your provider hasn't tampered with your data.
Ask HN: Can we talk about Glass?
Recently there was a venture beat article on the front page discussing Google glass. The title was critical of the product as it concerned the average consumer.

I'm opposed to blog spam and shitposting like anyone else, but as the only critical piece I've seen on HN regarding glass, it's curious to see it disappear from the front page.

Would any of you mind explaining whats wrong with criticism towards glass?

(The flag button is not a dislike button)
...and people will criticise from both ends. One group of people will say that it's too safe; driving costs up and subjecting people to unneeded tests and hospital visits (which are not risk free). Another group of people will say that it's not safe enough, that it should err on the side of caution, that it is risking people's lives by not sending them to hospital soon enough.
Back up now, server couldn't handle all the database requests.
The essay addressed this:

> Put them all in a building in Silicon Valley, surrounded by lead shielding to protect them from any contact with Redmond.

Assuming Yahoo should do the same. :)
I actually prefer my current mechanical keyboards for typing. I like the responsive ness. I would love a chiclet keyboard's profile so long as they provide the same typing speed performance.

The HH keyboard looks great except for the fact that the compact directional combo is FN and minus, add. That means the right hand would have to lift and strain to press both at the same time. If only it offered another Fn on the left hand side to accomplish the combo with both hands...
Endorsements seem to work OK for people in my network. I've never known anybody to actively solicit endorsements and I think that my network's endorsements are fairly accurate. I find that people making large updates to their profile is a better indicator of whether someone is about to leave.
One of the biggest and most obvious difference is in the hash scheme.

jquery BBQ uses hashes like this: "#bbq1=burger.html&bbq2=ribs.html"
while epona uses this "#burger/ribs"
Some studies found that even hands-free phone calls impair drivers significantly, as do traditional activities like changing the radio or just talking to another person in the car. Arguably anything that increases cognitive load (including a stick shift) could have this effect. Unless we're going to get into regulating everything you do in car, we probably need to just leave it to drivers or have self-driving cars.

http://mysite.verizon.net/horrey/papers/Horrey_HF2006meta.pd...
People use iPads all the time now in situations they previously wouldn't have used a computing device.

I know of plenty of companies that have bought one just to easily demo stuff or to be able to do stuff in the field that they wouldn't have done earlier.

The iPad came out to wide acclaim because they got it right and showed it was possible. So many nay sayers saying even 6 months after release that it wouldn't be popular, it was a tiny market. It's very easy to reinvent history but I remember the crunchpad/joojoo coming out before the iPad, and it got panned everywhere even though many of us wanted a big screen iPhone.

Let's make an electric car is on the same level of innovation as lets make a bigger iPhone. Both had already been thought of a decade before, both had already been tried before, both had already had failed entrants that made no money and it turns out they were actually both pretty large technical challenges to do it well enough that the consumers would actually buy the product.

I would say they were in exactly the same league.

And lets not forget that Apple had already single handedly created the portable computing market in the first place with the iPhone.
In an online chat discussion? Google should be held to the standards of decency described by the poster himself.

Stating, "Google is not good at privacy because they violate some law and I like that law." Is a perfectly valid argument.

Stating, "Google is bad because it doesn't follow a privacy law I won't describe, in a random country I won't name." Does not advance the conversation in any meaniful way.
That's longer than the batteries might last.
From almost a year ago.
bookmarked! dunno why I could find these after days of searching on my own.
I'm somehow even more confused than I was before I asked. Why are you using MD5? Stop doing that. And while I'm sure there is some scenario where simply hashing files might be costly, I don't see how that applies to you; for instance, every TLS record you send to your service is being "integrity checked" using a simple hash-based MAC.
I have actually heard of this process before. In fact, it was this 'problem' that originally made me think of the site, but then I realised that if I'm doing in online, I may as well automate it a bit and came to this 'solution'.

That is to say, I'm all for people doing it that way if they like. If, however, they'd rather use an 'app' or whatever, then they're more than welcome to use this.
Are Bots Influencing Your Marketing Metrics?
Lesson of the day: Don't go to lunch after posting an article like this. I got it handled as soon as I got back!
Actually very few people are trying to reproduce results. It is a lose-lose situation. Either you confirm the previous results which won't get published or you can't confirm them which means you are either not as competent as the original researcher or you have to embarrass your colleague and bring shame on your profession. Neither of which gets you published or helps you career or gets you more funding. The incentives are all screwed up.

These Amgen researcher had to sign agreements that they would not publish the results of their attempts to reproduce these experiments before they could get enough detail to attempt to reproduce them. Clearly this is not how science is supposed to work but it is exactly how businesses operate. Very sad.
haha good point. It's fixed now.
apparently it's provably not since countries with a strong centrally controlled health care system seem to be providing superior health care vs systems that let people do what you propose
Good point.
I've seen a share of clueless startups named in a way that made a whole countries laugh.
google cache version as the original is not accessible
i do too, just learning little by little. cool project though, interesting points raised by other commenters.
Back up now, sorry about that!
Obama orders agencies to make data open, machine-readable by default
PyPy 2.0 Released
Yea, the prices are ridiculous, you blew right past the mark on this.
Bitcoin is a distributed consensus algorithm. Software which implements a subtly different algorithm might be able to join the consensus until some case arises which triggers the difference, after that consensus between the implementations would be impossible.

Unfortunately, it's rather hard to demonstrate that two dissimilar complex programs actually implement exactly the same function.

This is doubly true because performance is very important, so some techniques that might help— e.g. define a kind of abstract turing machine, write the rules for the distributed algorithm in its language, then different implementations use the same rules and only have to prove their turing machine implementation is functionally identical— aren't readily available.

It can be hard to gain confidence through testing because some of the most important rules are for cases which are forbidden, so these cases will not show up on the production network— they only happen when an attacker produces them. There are an infinite number (subject to memory, and already the function input is gigabytes of data) of valid and invalid cases, so exhaustive testing of the whole function is not possible. They can also arise out of implicit behavior, "what happens when this value overflows?", "what is the maximum size of this structure", etc.

This is further complicated by the fact that Bitcoin implementations use third party code that wasn't written with this kind of must-have-exact-behavior in mind. The reference implementation uses things like OpenSSL's crypto and bignums, various boost data structures, BDB (previously, now leveldb)... and subtle potentially undocumented and unknown behavior from this third party code may be leaking into the definition of the consensus algorithm. The reference implementation has been slowly disentangling these dependencies, but things like the hidden BDB locking limitations (which depend on the layout of the database on disk) are easy to miss.

(Third party code isn't just a reference implementation issue, e.g. BitcoinJ's full node code has had algorithm inconsistencies arising out of undocumented behavior in a database library it uses)

Satoshi's answer for this was that there should only be one implementation of the full node software. However, "create your own Bitcoin implementation" seems to be the new millennium's "create an IRC client" so it seems that this is unrealistic... and there have been more than a half dozen attempts (including two nearly complete ones in java, two in C, three in C++, one in Haskell, one in erlang, one (two?) in javascript, as well as several non public ones (including one in ruby, I think)).
what does the product do?
Ask HN: What is the current state of the JavaScript ecosystem?
I want to know more about JavaScript and what's going in the JavaScript world, but I don't even know what the latest technologies are.
So what technologies are there? What do they do well? What are they lacking? Why has JavaScript become so popular over the last couple of years and what changes can we expect to see going forward? In short, tell about the current state of the JavaScript ecosystem.
MileWise — Acquired by Yahoo!
do you really think it'll ever be able to compile arbitrary Python and make it fast most of the time? Cython never got there and numba is having a vastly different purpose.
Addendum to myself:
http://www.coolorus.com/ for Photoshop or as a Flash standalone. It's more of a color-picker tool (based off of CorelDRAW's), but it has a schemer feature built-in.
Direct3D 9 API interceptor
Does Yahoo! have a track record of doing this?
My existence proves this sentence wrong.
Milkypostman's single-file Emacs configuration
> Only Apple has the mind-share to pull that off.

why do you think that? Have you seen the latest market share of smartphones? Android?
Re: 4(c) Executive orders creating causes of action is a very hairy topic. In theory, executive orders are instructions by the President to the bureaucracy to guide the executive's exercise of discretion delegated by Congress. They are not laws and generally are not construed to affect the rights of third parties by creating causes of action.

Re: 4(b), every action of the executive is subject to the availability of appropriations.
Was also used in Forest Gump.
The lack of feeling, motivation, and the disconnect are well illustrated.
Define reproducible, in the terms of the precise actions that people take. Is it reproducible if the same scientist repeats the experiment in the same lab and gets the same results? Because that's the current bar of reproducibility, and that 89% that is not "reproducible" certainly passed that bar.

What was being tested was a different lab, with different materials, trying to get the "same" results, for some definition of same. If you give 100 programmers an algorithms book, and tell them to produce code for a binary search, and only 25% of the programmers are able to make something that works, does that mean that binary search is only 25% reproducible?

If five different companies benchmark five different web frameworks for their application, and come to 2-4 different answers about which one is the 'best,' does that mean that the benchmarks are not reproducible? Of course not.

What's being highlighted here in this study is the extreme diversity of biological models. And one doesn't necessarily expect exact reproducibility in other people's hands, because we simply don't have technology to characterize every single aspect of a biological model, and it's impossible sometimes to even recreate the exact same biological context. Is something "reproducible" if it means that it replicates in 5% of other cell lines, 25% of other cell lines?
iBalls.
I simply dont give myself a hard time about unfinished projects/books/anything. Sometimes I just cant do it. Move on.
Starkers is good for barebones, but I don't think it's filling the same void as this theme.
WordPress is secure, until you combine it with people
Again, this car is $90,000, which is a market that the major automakers aren't traditionally interested in (aside from very small-run flagship vehicles). I would expect the Tesla to be very polished at that price point.
Doesn't matter if it's a crime or not according to the constitution. Apple can ban any app for no reason whatsoever.

If they've banned an Android magazine app(publishing which is quite legal), I don't see how reverse engineering being or not being a crime matters at all. This is what Palladium and DRM brings us.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/11/26/apple-bans-android-ma...
The argument against Google Glass is that we don't have the technology to make it work properly yet.
Yup, things that you never want to hear together: "really really secure", "proprietary"
BlackHat Ruby - Learn the Secrets Used by Pentesters Daily
That doesn't add up with this:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=tsla+earnings

But, that may not be GAAP. Where did you find that total?
Something I've been continuously impressed with is the incredible amount of highly detailed data the U.S. government collects on just about everything. I don't mean spooky scary intelligence data, but more mundane things like the Census and Geospatial data. If you dig long enough you can find data on almost anything.

I think France does something similar, and I've been impressed with the few bits of data that I've seen from the U.K. (but some of it is stuck behind weird trademark laws or something). But I'm largely lost behind language barriers in finding this out for other countries.

What other countries do this?
Are You Making Your Communications Stick?
What makes it more complicated than loading the files from anywhere else?
And the reverse-- remote controlled cockroaches :)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57509894-1/eek-remote-co...
How was Doug connected ? Doug while only communicating with you via email imported his contacts. His contacts include you. There's the connection. Works similarly on FB. When that business associate imports contacts aka connections, they find you on the other side :) It's really that simple
> Do keep in mind that engine noise is not only beneficial to the driver but cyclists, other motorists and at crosswalks as well.

As a pedestrian, I disagree. Cars make far too much noise. People will adapt to them being quieter by using their eyes and looking both ways. I look forward to the day when living in a city doesn't mean hearing a constant drone of traffic.
If the identical apparatus is essential to reproducing the result, then the description of that apparatus is part of the experiment. Omitting that means it's not a proper paper.
If you're a programmer I see no reason to have a LinkedIn profile. GitHub is better for résumé and networking.
This business was riding on the wave of Groupon like deal sites.

The start-up was not so much about running a profitable business but about capturing the funding possibilities that came up due to the popularity and profitability of Groupon and its numerous clones.
GreyCoder: How To Become Completely Private and Peer-to-Peer
Throwaway because I learned this while NDAed (on-site interview for an internship over 4 years ago), but Facebook USED to allow employees universal profile access. I heard this from the recruiter who took all of us interviewees to lunch and showed us around, etc. - she said she had used it once to look up some dude she thought was creepy. I'm pretty sure they've since changed their policy. Not sure if OP was referring to Facebook or some other company, though.

Personally I'd argue that this isn't QUITE equivalent to giving employees access to all users' email accounts. That would be a better analogy if they were giving employees access to users' private messages.
I had to cancel Minicon because my wife was diagnosed with cancer and needed major abdominal surgery around a month before the convention. (It was non-malignant, surgical intervention seems to have worked, and she's been cancer-free for two years since then: but it was not a good time. I don't normally cancel appearances once I've accepted them, but I hope you understand why that one was exceptional.)

Hopefully I'll make it there another year.
The app Project Open Data will be able to:

Read your public information.
Update your user profile.
Update your public and private repositories (Commits, Issues, etc).
Create and edit gists.
Sadly, the Supreme Court just (unanimously) endorsed steps in the opposite direction.[1][2]

The oral arguments included outrageous statements from the usual suspects, and what sounded almost like intentionally obtuse statements about the value of open government. Alito chortled in his written opinion, that with respect to freedom of information laws in general: "There is no contention that the Nation’s unity foundered in their absence, or that it is suffering now because of the citizens-only FOIA provisions that several States have enacted".[3]

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/scotus-foils-foia-advo...

[2] http://www.opengovva.org/foi-blog-list/1680-my-public-record...

[3] http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-says-st...
It would be nice to have it in other platforms, anyway it quite nice to have the option to natively compile Ruby code.
the mobile team is on one floor in one building at the sunnyvale campus
The other big problem is studies which do report effect sizes but do not report their statistical power. If your study is too small to detect the true effect, the only possible way you can achieve significance is by getting lucky and detecting an exaggerated effect -- and in many fields the average study is far too small to detect the true effects.

I'm halfway through a major revision of my guide to statistical error that discusses this topic:

http://www.refsmmat.com/statistics/regression.html#truth-inf...
tl;dr salt the sum
I see a market for car engine "ringtones."
Your ip and browser fingerprint increases the certainty that you maybe be or know the same people
Don't you see? Finding the coin is easy. Changing the sand to glass and finding the coin is trivial.
They're very similar. I would say the only difference is that I intend on using function for a specific subset of nonsymbols, and also that I intend for it to be a code construct (nonsymbols are not code; in fact, it's impossible to capture most nonsymbols in code). Pathological nonsymbols do not really feel like functions. However, one could construe nonsymbols as being HOFs (the worst of which would be ill-typed in any sane type system, such as Haskell's).
I'm saddended my pizza shop does not hand out free pies, too.

Shell out the $200 for the hard work they put into it and get over your entitlement complex.

"But you PROMISED!"
Out of all the companies doing consumer electronics today, only Apple has the mind-share to fight the "I'll look like a dork using this" stigma. In the 1980's that company was Sony, but today it's Apple. It's definitely not Google or Samsung. Once Apple makes the sector "cool", like they did with smart phones and tablets, then it will be safe for lower-margin Android-powered products to come in.
I like your idea of point allocation (especially if we can include STR, DEX, and INT). But how do we set up the taxonomy of attributes? Particularly with hierarchical relationships (ex: is Machine Learning a subset of AI?) you'd want rough consensus if you're going to run graph algorithms over it and conclude anything beyond data-visualization style "Look, pretty data!" data pron.

That's one of the hilarious things about linkedin attributes; people accrue tags that have vastly different importance depending on context. But hey, it's hard to say no to someone else vouching for my Computer Animation trait, whatever that means. It has the same sort of vague benefit with negligible cost situation as friend graphs. This is why I like your idea of careful scarce allocation, vs. limitless accrual. Information is only meaningful inasmuch as it represents choice.
It sounds like Optimus Prime farting.

I think you're projecting your own emotional attachment to speed onto a very unpleasant sound.
Hacking a storyboard
Why LayerVault and DesignModo battle over profit while others build open-source
There is a recent PEP excluding IDLE from this policy, allowing it to get usability improvements on older pythons. One could think that enabling completions is a similar usability fix (though one change isn't worth the arguing to get exception) but in fact this change required a new var in `sys` and changed site.py, both unacceptable for a minor release.

That's even for backport to 3.3. As for 2.7, even when when allowed, most changes aren't backported to it simply because the code has diverged a lot and core devs are tired of implementing changes twice.
Have a look at this http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html
This is the way I see it:

If I have to scale to millions of users then my business plan is not as good as I thought. Why? Because as much as I'd like to think otherwise, tech startups do not produce a tangible product. Unlike automobile manufacturers, or hardware folk, we don't need a lot of money to build something big. All we need are people to write the code. Then we just focus on selling it. For me, a software product that requires millions of users to be profitable, is simply playing the lottery. I can play the lottery for $1 and not have to deal with investors and TC.

Someone might say that I lack experience doing so. Well, not really. I've been there, and done that. Online and offline. Nowdays, to me, its a matter of trying to win the millions lottery, or building something that makes me money without the drama of SV.

I know I'm wrong on various points. If you will, explain.