skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google - a desire to grow their Nexus brand and increase non-techy mindshare.

Samsung - in-line with their conventional shot-gun "catch-all" product portfolio strategy.
This is not a universal truth -- I was raised vegetarian and began eating red meat in college; I never had an adjustment period. In fact, I suspect the incidence of this is greatly overstated and largely psychological.
The problem is you get managers who are "head count" hungry and want as many people reporting to them as can fit in the building. It becomes a matter of politics. Having a limit placed from the top down is a good thing. More large corps should do this.
If it doesn't show up in a repo file then it is a bit better.
Purpose is a driving force to get started. Well having chat, photos, status etc come default to any social network platform in 2013.

As for Facebook connecting with Harvard students was one purpose but more than that it was "Relationship Status" that gave them instant growth. Everyone was curious & everyone signed up! This resulted in network effect.
The first example, "unbiased standard deviation" is mislabeled. The estimator of the variance is unbiased but the square root of an unbiased estimator is not itself unbiased. So it's not as nit-picky as it looks; it's either a brain fart or a hole in understanding (especially since the linked Wikipedia page discusses this issue)[1,2]

Not to be a dick, but getting the first example wrong like that doesn't inspire confidence in the rest of the post.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbiased_estimation_of_standar...
Around 90% of Japan's debt is held on-shore, either by pension funds or by the mega-banks. The interest rates on JTBs (Japanese government treasury bills) have already spiked, albeit from a very low base. This has resulted in falling JGB prices (there is an inverse correlation between interest rates and bond prices).

If the appetite for JGBs in Japan starts going down, the government will have to start looking abroad to cut their deficit. Things could get very interesting.

I also wonder how Japanese pensioners view the "inflation target". If you are setting on a pile of cash, zero inflation or a mild deflation is not a bad thing. Your pension is not going to increase, so having each yen go a bit further than last month is not necessarily bad. Inflation will encourage consumption in the short term of course, but it may also result in economic hardship when pensioners find that their yen does not stretch as far as it used to.

I think the Abe government is walking a fiscal tightrope. If their policies result in hyper-inflation, we will have trouble. If they do nothing at all, the poor demographics and stagnant economy will lead to trouble.

I wonder if they could have used their election mandate to focuse on improving productivity, making it easier for women to hold full time jobs and for immigrants to live and work in Japan. I guess printing money is much easier politically!

(Disclaimer - I too live in Japan).

Edit - Corrected JTBs to JGBs thank you J_
I ran a mobile gaming conference for about 250 people in a major city back when AT&T was the only game in town for the iPhone (~2009). Without calling us or us reaching out to them, AT&T contacted the venue and installed a micro-cell--free of charge--to ensure good coverage throughout the day.

Say what you want about the network or the company, but I was impressed. (It probably didn't hurt that we had some folks from Apple on the attendee list.)
The other thing is weight. A bag of chips is 3 or 4 oz. A case of them is a few pounds. A similar sized box of vegetables is 15 or 20 pounds.

The chips will last a few weeks. Vegetables will last a few days.
Guess what?

Google pays nothing in Ireland because the company is actually in Bermuda!!!

"So who does Google license its tech to? A fun little company called Google Ireland Holdings, headquartered in Bermuda. If that sounds shady, that’s because it is. It appears to not have any employees, and it does not exist beyond paperwork. Bermuda, of course, has zero corporate income tax. So as a Bermuda company, Google Ireland Holdings pays none.

Google Ireland Holdings, in turn, owns Google Ireland Limited, which employs 2,000 people in downtown Dublin. Google Ireland Limited reported a pretax income of less than one percent of sales in 2008 and paid $5.4 billion in royalties to Google Ireland Holdings. (French investigative news site OWNI.fr published Google Ireland Limited’s 2011 annual report and its Irish Registration Office documents earlier this year.)

This holding company based in Bermuda is owned by yet another Bermuda-based subsidiary, Google Bermuda Unlimited. It's managed by Conyers, Dill, and Pearman, a law firm specializing in such offshore transactions. That “unlimited” corporation means it is not required to disclose income statements, balance sheets, and other financial information."

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/11/dutch-sandwich-with-...
Whenever I hear "centralized configurations" I think of the Registry and shudder. But the issue there isn't the centralization, so it's probably unfair.
Abe has bought Japan some breathing space. Now comes the hard part: structural reform.

As a Japanese resident, I'm hopeful, but not optimistic. Japanese culture favours stability, consensus and precedent. Cronyism and powerful interest groups are the norm. Reform is viewed with suspicion. To prevail, Abe will need enormous personal authority, but the revolving door premiership (a new prime minister every six months or so for the past few years) deprives him of this.
Because our instincts were developed over thousands of years to deal with circumstances of constant scarcity. We don't live in that world anymore.
Great start on an important topic. Quick extra info - For drawing a trend line it is often useful to have the intercept as well. Using y=mx+b line notation the best fit intercept is: \hat{b} = \bar{y} - m * \bar{x} [1]

Be great to see some pictures to illustrate the formulas and some mention of robust statistics as I find outliers to be a huge issue in application of statistical techniques.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_linear_regression
Hey Evan, from one statistics guy to another, thanks for fighting the good fight :).
The formulas might benefit from examples, especially with some of the more complicated cases (KS test and onwards). The important part of statistics comes from knowing _when_ to apply something, rather than _how_ to (that part is just math/numerical analysis).
A mention of the assumptions of each of these intervals would be good, too. Too often I see conclusions invalidated by using a probability model that doesn't make sense. This is a common failure I see with using a Wald interval for the slope of the regression line.
I absolutely agree that there's no easy solution to this (or it would've been "fixed" already).

> some (most) people never open-source their app, and don't mind employees seeing it...

One of my concerns is that people believe it's only a risk if they ever open source their application. While most apps don't have to worry about a motivated attacker in reality, the risk isn't simply secure or unsecure.

It's more a case of 'more difficult' vs. 'much easier' to compromise. I fear many engineers don't think of securing their apps like this. I know I've only recently begun to understand this way of thinking about security and it's changed the way I code.
By "monetary policy ineffective" they mean slashing interest rates. Keynesians have been saying for a long time that the only effective monetary policy in a liquidity trap is to cause people to credibly believe you are raising the inflation rate.

It's not really surprising at all, Ben Bernanke and Paul Krugman have basically been calling for this (in Japan) for over a decade.
As someone who maintains the largest Futurama wiki (albeit not as active anymore, but I still host it), I can recognise the problems that Wikipedia is faced with. Of course, at a much much smaller scale, as we only have 3,000+ content pages (which is a lot for a Futurama wiki).

And we have had to deal with the usefulness of indexing articles appropriately. That is; giving them categories (and whether new categories is going to help anyone). But since our wiki is so much smaller, we don't use bots but do it by hand (although, we do have one bot to do some basic cleaning up, but nothing truly intelligent).

And the issue isn't just with Wikipedia or our wiki; it's practically with every wiki (even non-MediaWiki wikis). This has led to the creation of Semantic MediaWiki, an extension that is supposed to maintain more rational relationships of data and make it easier indexable.

But most wikis I've seen using Semantic MediaWiki, doesn't really look like a content site, but rather a data site. Which is nice for the purpose, but it makes you wonder if MediaWiki really was the right choice to begin with.
You don't need invites - there are many pods with open registration. I'm sure there are many projects that aim for the future. Diaspora is actively developed, which shows that it aims for the future too. Your examples are core technologies, not end user social networks. May be Diaspora will use them as the inner federation mechanism, who knows. There is an on-going effort to redesign Diaspora's federation architecture.
Perhaps a better way to state it is that most people find it quite significantly easier to lose weight by reducing caloric intake by a given amount as opposed to increasing physical activity by the proportionate amount.
I've been researching something similar for a startup idea for a while now.

There still a couple of problems that still haven't been addressed (or just aren't included in this article)

1. 1 Cell site isn't enough to cover a densely populated area.
Although this is running on 850mhz which is much lower than wifi at 2.4ghz, multiple cell sites are usually better than 1 big one. If their peak is only 189mbps, then it should be fine using cat6 cable, however your limited when for range as you will run in trouble if you run cable over 100m without a repeater or booster. The other option is to use fibre, which is rather expensive but it wouldn't be that bad for AT&T considering their size.

2. Limited to the network beyond the cell towers.

This is coming from experience being at large festivals like Coachella, but although you can get signal on your phone most of the time, sms is virtually useless since your txt's are delayed by 4-5 hours. You can make a call after about trying 10 times, but because of the noise, you can never hear what the other person is saying and vice versa. So unless they are running a local relay for text's and transferring calls, their network servers are the ones that need beefing up rather than the towers themselves.

Now I'm guessing people are going to be using data more than anything, but in the past I've found 2g to be much more reliable (3g flatout did not work at the last festival, Big Day Out I was at). We found that Whatsapp became the most reliable way to communicate between our friends as your messages wouldn't get delayed for hours.
Would this affect a new repo I make if it's named after one I renamed before?
You're taking the quote out of context. "High powered money" is not what consumers touch, and it is not the majority of money. In the very next paragraph he says: "Now, you would think that that's a bad idea because there would be no provision for expansion; however, high-powered money [currency plus bank reserves] is a small fraction of total money and the ratio of total money to high-powered money has been going up over time."

For the definition of "high powered money", see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_base ("in economics, the monetary base (also base money, money base, high-powered money, reserve money, or, in the UK, narrow money) is defined as the sum of currency circulating in the public and commercial banks' reserves with the central bank.
The monetary base must not be confused with the money supply which consists of currency circulating in the public and non-bank deposits with commercial banks. Normally, the money supply excceds the monetary base by far; the ratio of the two is referred to as the money multiplier. If one excludes currency from the definitions, the monetary base is not a subset of the money supply - rather, the two are disjoint sets. On the commercial banks' balance sheets, the former belongs to the assets whereas the latter belongs to the liabilities.")

With Bitcoin, the total money supply is fixed (which Friedman acknowledges as a "bad idea" in your quote), not just the monetary base, because there is no fractional reserve banking in Bitcoins (or at least I'm not clear how you'd build fractional reserve banking on top of Bitcoins).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Venus
There were public statistics published at: https://diasp.eu/stats.html

Right now the data is down. It looks temporarily. Keep an eye on the site.
Thanks for clarifying that. I was under the same (amusing) misapprehension.
Rephrasing a bit:

Most people I know get more done when they aren't interrupted

I'm a morning person, but unfortunately it is much easier to get an uninterrupted block later in the day (6pm and after) than it is early in the morning (6am onward).

If I could function better late at night, I'd switch my schedule in a heartbeat.
You are paying for affiliation, not quality.
This seems reasonable, why not do it that way?

To a newbie like me, everything will "just work" in development. In production, I'll get a pretty explicit/precise error message.
Thanks! I have relabeled it. (In a previous draft the entry was for unbiased variance and the inaccuracy slipped in during the transition.)
They might not properly understand why it's bad to say those things until ~13 due to a lack of abstract thinking, which might be what the above poster was getting at.
"Currency devaluation doesn't make a nation wealthy. It doesn't make you more competitive. It doesn't create factories and jobs. It doesn't make your economy more productive. It doesn't spur innovation or business formation. It's a desperation move."

Devaluing their currency will enable Japan's industries to sell more products, make them more competitive, and create factories and jobs. How exactly is this a desperation move?

(Source: every economics textbook written in the last 75 years.)

"50% of their tax collections already go to debt maintenance."

Did you see the part about how almost all of Japan's debt is held internally? Those tax collections to service the debt are going right back into the pockets of Japan's bondholders, i.e. Japanese savings account holders and pensioners.
That doesn't contradict anything I said.
I've never really thought about why it's common, but I see it all the time. Maybe it's a culture thing? Developers like to go to bed late because other developers like to go to bed late? Although that's pretty dangerous circular logic.

But oftentimes programming evolves from staying up late while still in grade school, hacking or gaming or what have you into the wee hours of the morning. At least, that's the pattern that I and many fellow developers I know follow.
For Python website projects, I enforce the creation of a _secrets.py file in the config folder that is ignored by git and contains all sensitive constants like database information and tokens. Then, in the _base.py settings file (what all other settings files inherit from), I make sure to `from _secrets import *`. I'm not a fan of setting tokens by environment because it gets a little too unwieldy to make sure bash/zsh/whatever sets the variable.

I haven't run into any problems using that method. Does anyone see a reason to prefer environment variables over it?
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We share the same reasoning. What Yahoo lacks is a core. It was never given the chance to develop one, because all management teams have focused on buying products. And it's a pity, because Yahoo has the resources to battle Gooe in search and advertising. I don't fear Google, Bing, ddg or blekko in search. I fear Yahoo and Amazon. Both have. Real chance to take down Google, but are too busy making money(amazon) or wasting it (yahoo).
Yes, but only marginally; You can get the environment of another process with the "ps" command trivially. If you're in a shared environment you just made it that much easier for other people to monkey with your stuff.

Here's a great example of the repo file checkin fail though:
http://bit.ly/10dLiDz
Ah gotcha, I guess that's pretty much all google can do. They also unfortunately validate it as a tactic against people/small companies that wouldn't otherwise realize: 1. They have a bunch of spammy links pointing to them, 2. That the links are negatively affecting them, and 3. They can do something about it.

Maybe it would be nice of them to email webmasters to notify them that they're being punished by spammy links, but I guess this would defeat the point of punishing it in the first place (as opposed to just not counting them towards the page rank).
A lot of hedge funds (e.g. Kyle Bass and George Soros) think that we've reached a tipping point in Japan. Their government already spends 1/4 of all revenue on debt service because their debt is monstrously huge. If inflation happens, their debt bomb is going to go off because no one will want their money in low yield bonds in an inflationary environment. If JGBs (I've never heard them referred to by the JTB abbreviation before) move 200 basis points (which is what the government is targeting for inflation), the government's debt service will exceed revenues. Yields spiked 25 points in 3 days last week.

A debt crisis looks imminent. Kyle Bass is asserting that they're going to have to default and the value of the yen is going to plummet to something like 200 to the dollar. This is just the beginning of the end. Get your money out of yen.
How do you find out about this stuff? :(

Welll. I just did some light searching and was unable to find a way to purchase all 3 books at once except via TheHut.com. Hope it's okay to link it:

http://www.thehut.com/dvd/avatar-the-last-airbender-the-comp...
Doesn't Rails use randomly generated session IDs? Also, how does it allow an attacker to trivially execute code?
You'll have a hard time finding a 50mbit stream on the internet...
Agreed 100%! As the introduction says this is supposed to be a "cheat-sheet" and a jumping-off point for further discovery... I'd love to see (and write!) more posts on when to apply things.
I was at this concert actually, and I have to see it was the most spectacular reception I've ever had an event.
That is a ridiculously large amount to be spending on groceries, even if you eat every meal at home. For comparison, I think I eat quite well and I spend well under $300/month (my goal is $50/week). A lot of this depends on your area, but I highly recommend checking out any ethnic[1] grocery stores in your area. The supermarket I shop at is, large, clean, and has comparable produce for 1/2 the price or less as the conventional supermarkets in the area. This is in Southern California, but I had a similar experience in Austin, TX and south-eastern Michigan, so I think it applies to most places in the US.

Also, organic foods are nutritionally equivalent to conventionally grown foods according to the most recent research; you may want to reconsider your budgeting on that front.

[1] I've been told this is not the politically correct term, but I'm not sure what the right one is; suggestions welcome! What I mean by this in reality is usually something like "Indian/Chinese/Mexican grocer."
In the ground probably not, but put your hand right in front of one of those dishes and you get some serious RF burn.
1. I know a few people who are in PM roles, some who've been a PM at multiple companies including startups and corporations alike that are non-technical. Being technical certainly helps but there are roles there that exist for non-technical folks as well. (These are in Silicon Valley/SF)

2. Base on people I know that have went through DevBootcamp, its certainly a good introduction if you have an interest in programming. But from what I've seen, people who graduate (that I know) while can code, still need quite a bit of help. I guess if the goal is to be a PM where you aren't writing code if that is a requirement, it would be a good fit.
I think you should understand things from the POV of YC. Letting people crawl the site at will would force PG to scale the site to a bigger size. For what? So you can get your free data?
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Seems more like a brain fart than an error in understanding, especially because he didn't highlight why it was important to have unbiasedness in the first place. Having to explain the unbiased estimator for standard deviation would probably not have contributed much. It's more of a technicality than anything of philosophical importance--the square root of the unbiased estimator of sample variance is pretty accurate.

The usage of n-1 instead of n in the denominator was a question I was always asked when I TA'ed for intro statistics classes in grad school. An explanation of unbiasedness might be warranted if this is to be an introductory primer.
People don't interrupt me at 3am.
Use the s/, Luke

s/^\s+?(.*)\s+?$/$1/g
Because they are idiots. Follow your reasoning, it's the correct route.
When using Heroku and similar hosts, the only way to upload files is via git push, so you won't be able to get your _secrets.py file into the server.
> Session data is marshal-ed Ruby data, deserializing it has the same risks as YAML.load.

http://daniel.fone.net.nz/blog/2013/05/20/a-better-way-to-ma...
An interesting anecdote, but from the headline, I expected a completely different story:

That Steve had "capped" them in the sense of "busted some caps into their [behinds]."
Cool. Glad it's finally here. Although I have some concerns here: Is this an option or not changeable? Does this mean you can't use [a previous name of an existing repo] as a new repo's name?
My favorite time of day is 4am. No one else is up, and it's early enough to stay that way for 2-4 hours.

I get foggy and uninspired after 11pm, but in the morning I can fix the world.
The chances of Samsung either making an alternative ecosystem for Android, like Amazon did, or a replacement OS that actually replaces more than 1% of their Android unit volume within three years are about nil.

Samsung takes all the profits because they have both vertical integration and scale. That's the same thing they did to the PC business, except Intel keeps the CPU profit.

I don't know what Google can do about that, or, for that matter, why they should do anything about it at all. Where is the rush of OEMs to Windows Phone? Nobody is offering a better technology at a better price than Google.

I hope there are more viable mobile OSs to help prevent stagnation. But I don't see any of the current crop of contenders knocking anyone out.
Yup, this post assumes some knowledge of Haskell. Writing a post about monads that assumes no knowledge of Haskell is like writing a post about polymorphism that assumes no knowledge of OO :)
5 reasons why Yahoo is making a $1.1 billion mistake
Font Awesome's license makes it effectively free:

http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/license/
My choice of words is intended to convey their meaning in everyday parlance. If I seek egolessness over egofullness, is that not a rejection of the latter over the former in everyday parlance?

As you have correctly stated, Buddhism is not about escaping from life but meeting it head on. I don't think I've said anything that would suggest I'm for escaping.
Aside from this, it's also the interactive aspect of it that plays a part in its appeal, I think.
Too much thought pollution during the day.