skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despicable people will exist without superstition, but superstition has an unprecedented ability to allow good people to feel okay about doing horrible things. If superstition can be said to be a tool of the truly despicable, then we must remove it.

Perhaps without superstition those men would find another way to rile up a crowd into burning more women, but taking that tool from them is sure as hell worth a shot. What is there to lose?
How "OK" Took Over the World
I'm not sure I see myself using BitMessage (yet) but if nothing else this FAQ has introduced me to TorChat, which looks promising for simple private text messaging - and whatdoyaknow, the latest version is in Debian Sid (and a slightly older one is in Wheezy).
Yeah, I suppose we humans are just too good at seeing patterns where none exist.

Still, it's fun to experiment. =)
Uniform's pretty much the go to distribution for stuff like that--or having a non-random piece and a small random component. That's how Pokemon determined Catch Rates[1].

The problem with a lot of these distributions is that while you may have a closed form expressed for the PDF, it doesn't always give you an easy way to generate samples from that distribution. There's a huge amount of research that goes into efficient ways to generate samples from these distributions, and they are often quite complex once you are unable to use the inverse probability transform [2]. There's a reason that the Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm was such a big breakthrough, and that's because sampling is often quite difficult. In the multivariate setting, sometimes you may have to throw away 10,000 random numbers before you finally get one that could come from your target distribution.

For most of the univariate distributions, it's not tremendously difficult to sample, though, so you may be okay.

[1]: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Catch_rate (this article is total nerdvana, by the way)
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_transform_sampling
In the US right now "spending marginally less money" probably means "borrowing marginally less money", which would actually be good. I don't think taxes would be lowered in response to cost savings, but deficit borrowing might be.
money is a important thing in life which may give you a "good life" but this "good life" is different from person to person like a person like to have a smart-phone and consider it as a part of "good life" whereas another person just wants to have any ordinary phone and consider it as a part of good life. The point is one needs to know what he wanted money for, not he other way round. It has to means, not end of life
> You should never be making 50% of your pnl in a period that represents only 1/30 of your sample

Nassim Taleb would disagree
I haven't seen anything to compete with tmux and wemux https://github.com/zolrath/wemux. It works great!
You may be interested to know that RFID cards are also 'smart', although less so. They have hardware circuits that can perform some cryptographic routines, and receive enough power to perform many calculations. So an RFID reader will send a challenge, the card will perform some operations based on a secret key, and send back the result. The reader is connected to a central database, that also knows this secret, so it knows if the response is valid. As such you can't just 'copy' an RFID card, or even replay a valid request (since the challenge is unique).
Perhaps there is no good design? All design may just simply be bad.

The goal of design may be the minimize it's awfulness.

:)
true story. agree with you.
I'd go buy and hold. You don't need to know that much, you just need the discipline not to try to know too much.

If you try to beat the market you'll most likely spend too much time that would be better spent in something else or end up beaten.

A good company to invest in, for me, is just a company with consistent profit growth, doesn't need to be a lot.

You can buy as many good companies as you want, and you should buy different stocks from different sectors, so you won't be greatly affected unless the whole economy collapses.

You can, and should, check those companies only like once a trimester or even a year. Cause prices go up and down, but value in good companies tend to rise in the long run.

I'm 24 and those are things I learned by having the same question.
I have found several issues with current implementation. Address spoofing and Inventory injection attacks, crashing listener thread with stateless connection flood etc. There are several ways to seriously disturb functionality of this network. When I have time, I'm going to look for ultimate attack, which would be network propagated persistent attack. It would crash all clients after injecting just a single message to any node of the network. Message would also be persisted in datastore so it would recrash the client on restart. Requiring manual fix or software update to get past this issue. By design system doesn't seem to scale well. I would like to see 10 million nodes on this network. Dont run current client without virtual machine, unless you're ready to encounter interesting problems with resource consumption. (cpu, memory, network, disk)
Well, classic problems in statistical analysis deal with "overdispersion"—e.g., the ratio of boys to girls in individual families has a variance too high to be modeled as a simple binomial distribution, so you can model it as a beta-binomial.

In games, the challenge is the opposite: to generate distributions that with less variance in order to convince people that the random number generator is "fair". You don't have to do this, but some games will tweak the numbers so they're not independent, to keep the sample mean close to its asymptotic value.

In other words, if you have a losing streak, the software steps in and breaks it for you, so that you think the RNG is "fair".
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Well said. Exactly what I was thinking and wanted to verbalize.
Why? Apps have already pretty well silo'd off their designs from the base looks and feel of iOS, and the ones that still rely heavily on it will probably be grandfathered in with the old look.

My guess is the core UI (home screen, title bar, alerts, notification center) will simply get a face lift, while individual apps will need to update to take advantage. I doubt we'll see a Metro style overhaul.
Right. The very opening content slide title?

"Good content requires little embell-
ishment."

Line break his. Ew. And he's going to chastise other people design aesthetic?
You can provide both so I don't see that as a big problem.

Also people usually have an email account to register on non-important possibly-spammy stuff. So they don't even need to bother about spam.
Terminal. Vim.

I doubt that we need to intellectualize this much. Otto Neurath and the Logical Positivists pretty much planned this. Design is now in the age of Visual Statistics: http://www.gerdarntz.org/content/gerd-arntz -- or from another perspective, "Content is King."

Flickr and Kippt are now the Same Thing: http://imgur.com/iar7Bgn,t8cnZA3,2lXFz4a

Even that URL has their design suggested in its syntax. Imgur too. Kippt arguably has better engineering talent.
Counting with Regular Expressions
Interesting point. Windows 3.1 had a fairly flat design too.

http://toastytech.com/guis/win31default.png

Simplicity is more important than flat design. Can your interface be used by a five year old child or an eighty year old grandparent without instruction? Terminal does not pass that test.
The Turpentine Age: a lesson about family and entrepreneurship
I think it's fascinating that we prefer styles that are almost opposites:

int samedirfile(Dir *a, Dir *b) {
if(a == b) {
return 1;
}

return (a && b)
&& (a->qid.type == b->qid.type)
&& (a->qid.path == b->qid.path)
&& (a->qid.vers == b->qid.vers)
&& (a->dev == b->dev)
&& (a->type == b->type);
}

...

if(samedirfile(a, b)) {
fprint(2, "cp: %s and %s are the same file\n", an, bn);
ret = 1;
}
True, you're going to need gigabytes of memory. My test client used over 6 gigabytes o memry after small inventory injection play. I have a few great ideas how to create efficient propagating attacks, but I haven't yet tried those.
"Any finite representation of numbers is going to have to break the familiar mathematical rules somehow;"

How is that? The only numbers you would have trouble with are non-computable numbers, and I doubt you will find many software systems that deal with those. The only limiting factor should be the memory that is available, but that is beyond the scope of software; the software should work up to the limits of available memory, and increase the amount of memory should increase the range of numbers the program can deal with.

"I'm pretty satisfied with the tradeoffs made in our current integer representations"

I'm not, because (a) the semantics are counter-intuitive and (b) not a day goes by without people finding bugs related to integer overflows or weird, unexpected behavior. We have security problems. We have reliability problems. Voting machines get hacked and report negative vote totals.

At the very least, integer overflows should trigger an exception unless the programmer explicitly requests arithmetic modulo 2^32 (or 2^64, or 2^29, or whatever weird bit width the hardware supports).
Monetizing WordPress just got better and easier - with Bitcoin.
Making acquisitions like this isn't CEO genius. Far from it. Yahoo was making acquisitions before Mayer.

It's what happens after the acquisitions are made that will determine whether Yahoo just blew billions of dollars or actually pushed their company forward into the next generation.
Your first point is not just a property of the Gaussian, but of all distributions. It's the Second Axiom of Probability!

Your method is incorrect as a method of normalization, but it seems we are in agreement that perhaps normalization itself is a silly method for this. Most instructors I've known that claimed they were "curving" were in fact using the percentile approach. Grading based on percentiles (top 10% get A's, next 20% get B's, 40% C's, 10% D, bottom 20% F, for example) allows you far more flexibility, as the percentiles don't even need to be symmetric. My grad courses usually only had three grades: A+, A, and "Please see me to discuss your future in the department".
Well said. GeoCities design was "proper" a few years back, maybe it will resurrect again!
After reading through this thread, you'd think it was commonplace. My guess is that people have bastardized the concept of "being struck by lightning," in that they weren't struck, just close to a strike.
And ... ? Flagged.
POW is very important, without it I wouldn't have had any problems destroying the network totally and quickly. Because protocol allows very efficient attack amplification. Even with POW I can do serious damage, but I'm required to run cluster of high end servers. Without POW I can use any random computer to waste whole network using network propagation and attack amplification.
Show HN: streamcount - HyperLogLog + Count-Min sketch stream counting in nodejs
I have a feeling a few years from now people are going to be writing stuff like: "Stop designing with a color palette that is appropriate for Fisher-Price. I am not a toddler, and I am sick of your preschool themed apps."
Maybe because it's cool to enjoy 4chan even though it is fundamentally effed up in so many ways. :) Just like it's cool to enjoy HN even though it's fundamentally effed up in a completely inverse way. I figure all of these places are great sources of information seen through different prisms, you just have to understand the prism to get the most out of it. I try to make up for it by hitting up a bunch of different places with different approaches to moderation and different kinds of communities.
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>Somewhat improvement on the current lethal injection protocols.

The current lethal injection protocols for animals is vastly superior to the lethal injection protocol for humans. [1]

[1]http://www.law.berkeley.edu/clinics/dpclinic/LethalInjection...
The Golden Rules of JSON - A collaborative set of rules for JSON API developers
Culture Clubbed
Culture kills it, both ways.
People did not know this?
http://0x4a.0x7d.0xe3.0x28

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4#Address_representations
I actually don't think dreaming in code is that uncommon. It's happened to me a number of times. I once had a dream about flirting with a girl I liked in SQL. When I woke up, the queries were actually useful in solving the de-duping problem I was working on!
>The move appears to be related to new, restrictive regulations the Argentine government has imposed on currency exchanges, which The Telegraph[1] detailed this past September.

Note that [1] is titled "Damming dollar flood comes at a huge cost to Argentine economy". Seems like it's a reasonable possibility, though I can't say I understand Argentine economics.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/9565126/Damming-d...
Interestingly, Adam Back has a cache of a Satoshi Nakamoto bio, and related stuff on his home page, advertising a conspicuous interest.

http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/

As long as we're speculating wildly, I have a theory... (Bear with me now) It is possible, if not probable, that Ted Nelson is himself Satoshi and was only trying to throw everyone off the trail (or it's Adam Back, I can't be sure, but it's definitely one of the two, if not both...).
As Sir Winston Churchill so aptly put it: "It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."
I would assume that if your internal network is "trusted", then the risk of a MitM is low enough that you wouldn't have to check the signature. I agree that an extra layer of validation is always a nice thing to have, but everyone has different levels of acceptable inconvenience with regards to security.
Right now there are only three rules, all of which I've run into in the past two weeks.

I hope that this becomes a go to guide for people developing JSON APIs so they know how to implement it correctly, or more importantly, how not to implement it.
Pretty easy for me its an old Thinkpad 101 key keyboard that I got for my Thinkpad 750C when I got the 'dock' for it (which held up to three ISA cards, back when a dock meant something :-))

The keyboard though is has the same mechanical cherry switches of the PC keyboard except it has the trackpad pressure sensitve joystick thing in the crotch of the home row. Oh and mouse buttons below the space bar which can come in handy too.
Having access to the Criterion Collection is the only reason I pay for Hulu. More than worth the price there alone.
REST library for Clojure
Lore account terminated without notice, all data lost
[Edit]: Customer service just noted they are having server issues.

TLDR; Lore terminated my course without notice. Hoping to understand why.

Two weeks ago, I created a course on LORE for a class I am teaching for a number of students in my community. I uploaded a library of reading materials, set the calendar, invited the class, etc.

Things were going well and this week I began receiving submissions for my first assignment. Today, I got a few emails from students and parents saying that they were no logner able to log into their LORE profiles.

I checked, and indeed what used to be the course page is a 404, and all is gone, inc. everything I had uploaded to the course, my students' assignments, etc. Trying to log in kicks me back to the login page. I thought perhaps I forgot my password, but resetting password returns 'sorry we don't recognize that address'. I scanned the terms of service and I don't think I've violated any of them, though I'm open to being wrong.Why would LORE suddenly and without notice suddenly terminate my account?
First Apple computer could fetch half million in auction
There must be a difference in ambulance spec too. How do you compare this? Can I confirm that the earlier comment of yours meant $14,000USD? I can't read Spanish unfortunately. Thanks.
Which can probably take the route Litecoin has taken, and adopt Scrypt so systems are much more similar in performance.
I've got quite a few of the best keyboards that were ever on the market: IBM Model M. And I'm proud that I have them, and use them.

I've a working Commodore 64. With 2 1541's. And a tape deck.

I have a working quadrophonic 8track player.

I have a working Edisongraph conical record player, the horn, along with about a dozen cylinders.

I have 300+ electron tubes I'm trying to sell to interested hackers. All US tubes. No janky Russian tubes.

I have a huge electronics parts cabinet with semiconductor tech from the late '60s, 70's, 80's, 90's, and 00's.

And I use a unlocked, jailbroken iphone 3gs for my phone.
Someone always makes this comment. It's unhelpful as the meaning of free is clear. It's the same kind of free as the bank bailout. It cost you nothing and a hell of a lot at the same time.
> Is 0 really the same thing the sane thing as 'NULL' in the context of C?

Yes. I don't have chapter and verse handy but it is in the standard. The bit pattern of NULL is not required to be zero (so memset(&p, 0, sizeof(p)) is not guaranteed to yield null) but it must compare equally to 0 and assigning 0 must produce NULL.

[Edit: OK, in C99 this is covered in 6.3.2.3: Pointers. "An integer constant expression with the value 0, or such an expression cast to type void * , is called a null pointer constant." Then 7.17.3 says that NULL expands to a null pointer constant.]

> If you actually wanted a pointer to the begging of the memory, you would dereference 0,

Yeah, it's really easy to set up an environment where that happens. At one point I was experimenting with writing a small/toy kernel for x86 and I mapped the virtual address 0 to a valid page, and boom, dereferencing NULL did stuff. Not a great idea to set up the page tables that way for obvious reasons, but I'm going to guess that lots of hardware out there will let you do it...

In the old days of 16-bit x86, linear address 0 had the interrupt vector, so as I recall lots of DOS (maybe even Win9x) environments had dereferencing NULL do meaningful (surely confusing) things.
Probably my desk phone. It's a rotary phone built in the 1950's. It's got mechanical bells on it, and the voice quality is far better than any of the modern phones.

I bought it 'new' about 15 years ago, as it had been sitting overlooked in a warehouse since it was made.

I have other old stuff, but this one is in daily use.
So what about when TV shows are released on DVD/BluRay? Are we are to guess when the act ends and the next one starts?

Sorry, but I don't buy this. An episode of, say, Breaking Bad does not need several-minute "act breaks" to work, so that something will "sink in".

There is no series in existence so intellectually or emotionally overwhelming that one needs ad breaks to deal with them.

(Though admittedly I frequently have to pause shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm because I need some fresh air after all the social embarrassment, but that's different.)
This sort of addresses one of the main conflicts, some people think web design is about fashion, while for others it's more about function. With web pages you're dealing with a flat and limited surface that in most cases has an intended purpose, as opposed to being purely ornamental. Good design will continues to evolve based on culture and not ornamentation, just like good architecture.
I do wonder...

I love the Satoshi speculations a lot, I think Bitcoin is awesome enough as it is, but to add that the creator is unknown just makes the story even more compelling.

If Bitcoin does take off or a derivative based on Bitcoin, it will be weird having this anonymous guy as the creator. Most computer science history has no large mystery like Bitcoin will have. (If Bitcoin is still around in a decade or more)

Very exciting.
...or maybe a blog post?

Putting too much text in a slide presentation is a sure-fire way to confuse your audience. Are you paying attention to the speaker, or reading the slides?

This should have just been an article.
ugh

it doesn't take much effort to take an alcohol pad to your disgusting caked-on-brown keyboards and telephones, people.
That's what slid.es gives you out of the box.
For my use case I'm not worried about the client's security (in fact, he's the one I'm interested in protecting the server from).

We probably are assuming very different tolerance thresholds on security. But even so, I don't think you can argue for any security advantages of typical implementations for a 50-page protocol when comparing them to a one-way simple GIF sender.
Writing "incredibly fast" and not providing any clues of how fast is it is not exactly the best way to promote an application IMO.

Update: okay, it generates simplest site possible with 250 posts in 7 seconds. This is not the worst performance (it's faster than Jekyll), but I won't call this 'incredibly fast'. :\

And why the downvote, by the way? Is pointing out statements, which may not hold any value, wrong? Especially if they do not hold any value?
I.Q. Rising
It depends on what you compare it to. I meant complex in the context of the use case I have in mind. It certainly IS much more complex (and powerful) than a simple GIF creator. But if you only need a one-way, low quality stream, RFB is overkill.
Wanna make the big leagues? Learn R and SQL.
There has been, to an extent, with other Apple events. The 'Let's talk iPhone' event [1] showed 4 app icons which basically said the date, time, location and the fact that it was to do with the phone itself.

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/09/apple-sends-invites-for...
Have some fun unit testing that! ha
I use a knife and a mouse with my right hand but my left hand for everything else.
You seem to be knowledgeable in that history of design/art topic. Any book recommendations?
How could that possibly be acceptable? Not just the fact that it remains mob justices, post trial or not, but what about appeals? Errors? New evidence?

And how is any of that not torture? Seems like your definition of torture is just "doesn't result in death."
My thought was "Hey, rainbow apple logo for the XXI century."

Kind of hard to put that on device lids/backs, though. But it would look nice on stickers.

P.S.
Amusingly, http://danhadi.com/blog/?p=526 (classic rainbow on modern lid) comes up in fourth place for me with https://www.google.com/search?q=rainbow+apple+logo
I think you're right on the first 2 points actually. I'm skewed towards smaller cities because I don't like big capitals, and I should not project that on analysis of the situation. And It's been 10 years now, with a good majority since 2007, it's time to see some results.
so sad that no one is even talking about it, not on HN, not on Quora.
It's funny, of all the William Gibson imaginings that have found their way into real life, Bitcoin is probably the most purely Gibsonian, in its plotline of the anonymous, genius creator of some earth-shaking thing whose identity is the stuff of legendary speculation.

Makes me wonder if there's a Bigend out there with a crack team of Satoshi researchers on a globetrotting adventure...
It would be nice to see some benchmarks, comparing with WordPress and others blogging platforms.
I just recently started using keychain as well. It's worth noting that it also supports gpg-agent.