skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. That's a bit more reasonable, so back to my 10% change in base rate (1% abs.) but with a 90% power:

> power.prop.test(p1=0.1, p2=0.11, power=0.9,sig.level=0.05)

Two-sample comparison of proportions power calculation

n = 19746.62
p1 = 0.1
p2 = 0.11
sig.level = 0.05
power = 0.9
alternative = two.sided

NOTE: n is number in *each* group

Requires about 40,000 samples per test. I would strongly recommend anyone serious about doing this look in to MAB testing, as A-B testing is way too expensive for reasonable scale testing (unless you have a strong a priori hypothesis to test).
>You will be renting, not buying.

Exactly why the OP won't choose to move there. Why should he have to pay someone the privilege of living, and get none of that money back when/if they decide to leave? At least when you buy you get some equity.
Why are you suggesting A/B instead of multi armed bandit approaches?
Cheap access? Are you insane? Health insurance is incredibly expensive. Even with it, medical costs are through the roof. My ex girlfriend was pregnant with our kid 7-8 years ago and she miscarried. After the hospital procedures and one night stay, the bill was over $32k dollars. Great, we lost our kid and are now more in debt than what we both spent on college. Not a fun time in life.
We share this experience, or as I put it, a majority who "can't program their way out of a paper bag".

But that doesn't tell if there are enough candidates out there if the salaries and conditions of work were better. The latter is very possibly a big issue with H-1B employees, seeing as how they've a modern version of indentured servants.
"If there was hope, it must lie in the Proles..."
> Oh spare us the cloak and dagger. I don't think oxygen radioactivation has been classified for about 80 years now.

I'm not trying to be cloak and dagger, otherwise I wouldn't have mentioned that a civilian trained nuclear physicist can tell you the exact answer.

However I do not have CG-RN Rev 3 completely memorized and I no longer have access to it, so unless I know for sure something is not NNPI or otherwise protected by the Atomic Energy Act then I don't discuss it. Not that I don't agree that it's pretty crazy that someone who's never been in the Navy could go and look at Wikipedia and discuss it with someone else and be just fine but that the person who's been in the nuclear Navy cannot... but then I've never attributed "common sense" to the military.

With all that said, you haven't hit on exactly what I'm talking about (not that oxygen activation isn't cool). I will say the actual answer is pretty mundane, not at all cloak-and-daggery.
To restore faith in nuclear: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19710050022

Researched as a rocket engine (but equally effective for terrestrial power) over 40 years ago. Instead of taking 20,000 kg of fuel (which is about how much each Fukushima reactor had) and trying to prevent it from overheating, the nuclear lightbulb reactor (or rocket engine) takes 20kg of fuel, compresses, and heats the fuel to the point where it is a self sustaining critical reaction. If the chamber ruptures or power is cut, the core (which at this point is about 10,000 Kelvin and a black body radiator in UV-vis) expands, cools, and reacts with oxygen to quickly precipitate. If you combine this with a plasma window separated vacuum chamber with graphite or another neutron moderator, the second power is cut the entire chamber including the nuclear core is sucked into a safety chamber (plasma windows require multiple kilowatts of power per inch diameter so any failure causes it to die). Of course there are some material science problems to go over but with the progress we (Corning alone, really) made in the last 40 years, it is achievable.

Food for thought: the worst power-generation related disaster was by far Deep Water Horizon, which is turning the entire Gulf of Mexico into a deadzone (you could even see the oil from space! [1]). Hell, BP's fuck up wasn't even the worst case scenario (earthquake or something causing the entire subterranean pipe to expand past the point of closing with conventional cement) and we will be dealing with the aftermath for many decades.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spil...
You have got to be trolling. You just said that the purpose of animals are to be eaten. Okay, maybe some animals and maybe our society condones meat-eating. But you cannot possibly allow this as absolute reality. Some very productive, peaceful, societies (pre-Modern China) were almost completely vegetarian. Vegatarianism is a possibility.

Now, regarding artificial meat. It's weird. But people will not hangs their habits right now. It is possible, but it won't happen right now. Maybe the best startup or business idea that could ever exist is helping people to change. But the thing is, it is hard to change. And as many teachers and successful people say, you can only lead people to a door, you can't make them open it.

But with this artificial meat. So we can't make people change. We can't fight highly unethical current practice by charging the same or lower than them. We maybe can change legislation, but that is also very hard because these industries are very powerful.

So we can't change what people eat, can't convince them based on price, and can't change the way animals are treated.

But we can change the way the product is produced that we are already eating en-masse. And it might be weird. But who knows, it's a gamble. But artificial meat could work.
And we live in a time where many of the traditional institutions tasked with steering a young person into adulthood (religion, education, family, etc.) are broken or dysfunctional themselves.

I feel like this has always been true (in fact, truer than it is today). The only difference its easier to leave your religion/education/family today than it used to be, so a lot more people do.
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So nobody does it?

$sum = int($max/2) * ($max+1));
$sum += int(($max+1)/2) if ($max & 1);

This is perl of course but it is exploiting the fact that the sum of integers is a sum of constants ($max + 1) with an additional term (the 'middle' integer) if the top number is odd.
You were never called any names. He said you were an apologist. In reading your postings, your comments do strike me as having an overtone of apology for the surveillance state.

In political matters - the power of government vs. the rights of the individual - most people will fall into one of the two groups as a basic mode of operation for their perceptions and personal philosophy. When governments become tyrannical, as the US government is now proving itself to be, the contrast between the two modes becomes starkly delineated.

Authority vs. Liberty is an ancient human argument that is obviously still being played out. Those of us with an unbreakable attachment to Liberty will see any arguments in favor of the current regime as apologia.
I can not imagine anyone that's able to find a pinned shortcut to Visual Studio and double click it being without a job in the United States if I'm honest. It's hard for me to visualize what kind of total retards would get rejected on a regular basis. Could somebody find one of them for me? I would like to speak to somebody like that.

The only people I can imagine are PDP-11 assembly specialists nearing their 60s. And still I have a feeling there could just as well be even a screaming shortage for them.
OK you motivated me to look up the biological half life of tritiated water which is about the same as regular water, it doesn't isotopically partition very much in the body.

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

There's an interesting wikipedia article about total body water where you basically figure out how much water is in your body in an absolute sense by consuming some D2O (or I suppose for those who want to live on the wild side, T2O) and the results keep coming up as a half life around ten days in the body. It just doesn't bioaccumulate. I think you're thinking of the heavy metal boneseekers or radioiodine accumulating in the ... gland thats by your throat (I forget?)

You are correct that mathematically you never really excrete all the T2O. However once the level decays below a banana equivalent dose, it just doesn't matter anymore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
I wish people would elaborate more on the 'always on' access to Google Now. To me, that's the most exciting, futuristic feature, since Google Now is already an amazing product.

Perhaps not enough people use Google Now to care?
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What I really want to see out of one of these apps is a way to support partials within other pages. It would be awesome to design my whole SPA within a tool like this and then export it in a uniformed way which I could then tie into angular, ember, a cms or whatever workflow I am using.

Personally I don't want the design tool to make those assumptions around what my infrastructure might be, although clearly this particular tool is aimed at non-tech users.
More like an "offenders" list.
Just zoom out in your browser - Ctrl minus on Windows or Command minus on Mac...
That sentence was poorly written. What they mean, of course, is that you can't just blindly accept data, especially in a highly contentious debate.

The way they wrote it, yeah, it almost sounds like they think it's "bad" to rely on data in a policy issue. Kind of funny, but based on the rest of the paragraph, clearly not what they mean.

Kind of an aside here, but it drives me nuts when people quote "lies, damn lies, and statistics" or talk about "lying with statistics" as a way of dismissing data out of hand. Yes, anything that can be used to communicate can be used to lie. You can lie with words, that doesn't mean you should disregard any argument made with words! It just means you have to be careful - or, as this article put it, skeptical.

It is important to take a very careful look at data in a contentious argument. So I agree with them... sheesh, though, very badly phrased.
I have friend who is a lawyer in the field of nuclear decommissioning. He said that contraray to what you might expect it's the small risks that are uninsurable, not the catastrophic ones.
German FIS hands over data to NSA, except emails ending with .de
Given that in this field of "engineering" you become unemployable for conventional salaried positions at around age 35-40, it's a less debatable point than you're positing, I think.
YES.

We should definitely be upgrading our nuclear reactors to modern designs. While the USA mostly isn't in an earthquake zone, which reduces the risks, the reactors are definitely past their useful life, less safe than they could be, and require more expensive, dangerous, and weaponizable fuel than then should.

The problem with upgrading, of course, is political. The amount of public outcry that would occur if we started to build new reactors, even based on better designs, would make things very difficult politically.
A massive natural disaster hit Japan causing 15,883 deaths, 6,145 injured, and 2,667 people missing. It cost $235 billion dollars, making it the costliest natural disaster in world history. The nuclear power plant damage results in zero deaths (other than a handful of deaths from emergency crews unrelated to radiation) and a few billion in clean-up costs (the large majority of which is due to hysteria-provoked safety requirements which are vastly too strong).

And you take this as evidence against nuclear power? Not only that, you consider this so obvious that the debate is pretty much closed. I'm just baffled.
Accessibility, I'd guess. Same reason "lift heavy three times a week" is a perfectly good training recommendation for 90% of the U.S.
Well, don't work for those companies. There's plenty of companies around that actively discourage hero coding by anybody (aside from exceptional circumstances) because it illustrates a deeper flaw in their system.
I like knockout.js, meteor is also interesting but I haven't had a chance to do anything beyond the tutorials on their site.
I am surprised that there is no mention of this in the course syllabus -- in fact it looks like a lot of recent techniques that are missing. They don't even talking about LSA(/SVD)-based methods until the end of the course.
> but to be effective, this area of law is always going to be something of a messy compromise.

I wouldn't call infinite copyright a compromise. When is the last time you saw copyright expire on a work of art?
This has been an ugly and shameful aspect of the "War on Drugs" since day one. I like that people are surprised that if you create an incentive structure, it encourages a specific behavior. Well, no kidding -- if law enforcement funding is dependent on civil forfeiture, civil forfeiture goes up.

You can get the good of the forfeiture (expeditious seizure) without the perverse actions by decoupling the proceeds. More training isn't going to work on its own.
They're related in their origin.

If 4 different terror operations were coming from Al Qaeda affiliated cells, we'd say they were all Al Qaeda related. If 4 different drug dealers were busted that were all being supplied by one source, we'd call it a drug ring.

All of the operations mentioned - the war on drugs, civil asset forfeiture, the DEA intelligence program from today, the TSA - are a ring of government operatives that are terrorizing, robbing and imprisoning Americans.
Why don't you do a:

GET /05cea4de-951d-4037-bf8f-f69055b279bb HTTP/1.1

Don't you think if it was another party they would just have encoded the IP and/or MAC into the URL to of a GET from some scary IP instead of using a cookie to a resource that is actually there on listening on the server.
Hmm, it says:

Which Programming Language should I choose?

on a site called One Month Rails. I wonder what language they'll suggest?
We totally understand you concerns, however, the output of your creative work on Webflow is still the standards of the internet: HTML+CSS. As such, you aren't committing to a a resource file by using Webflow, as you would be if you were to use Flash/ColdFusion, whose outputs are proprietary.
Good call patio11, I made the change. It's a good thing we're using optimizely and can push that up quickly.

On a side note, this landing page is actually an A/B test we're performing on the effectiveness of an email drip campaign vs a hard sell to signup (which is currently still up on the homepage). The writer of the article was part of a 10% of people that were redirected from the homepage to the try landing page and so he hardlinked directly to that page in the article.

That's our mistake.
Was that mentioned in the article? If it was, I missed it.

If he did copy such algorithms with the intention to use them at the new job, that would contradict both my comment and Lewis' portrayal.
It's a real pity about the distractingly strange bokeh in the example shots. Narrow depth of field (when desired) is a great strength of large-aperture lenses, but if the out-of-focus part is ugly they lose a lot of value for that.
TwitPic and Plenty of Fish come to mind (even Instagram had a very small team for a long time)

It's remarkable how far you can scale certain types of web businesses now with one or just a few people and a pile of hardware.

If you're a social person and you like teams, clearly as always that's a viable path. If you're not, and you prefer going mostly solo, it's also clear that that's a viable path. The variable is you can only build certain types of businesses going solo.
A great idea.

Can you expand a bit on this statement on your home page:

"Speak with a compassionate, trained listener through our secure, monitored network."

What does "monitored" mean?

By "trained" what do you mean (because it seems as if anyone can be a listener)?
I remember reading his quite useful blog post on learning rails quickly which included what was involved in creating a website and how to attain a simple understanding of web-specific database design, REST and front-end design.

It was pretty good. Two things sort of dismay me though when I see something like this:

1. There are lots of free resources available online, like the above mentioned blogpost. We need to make a better case for open and free learning.

2. All start-ups are forms and the display of the information entered into those forms according to nearly all of the start-ups I run into in NYC.
That's fair. But you'd be surprised how many people still ask me the question.
This is a great idea. It might work very well with seniors. Seniors sometimes ( or lot of times) get very lonely and need someone who can listen to them or talk to them.
It's a valid point when you consider that PHP has suffered from the fact that just about every tutorial starts by showing how to use the mysql package (which still hasn't been purged).

If it doesn't work for a real working app, the feature is either broken or shouldn't be a feature at all.
Completely understand your concern. However, a couple of points to clarify:

- Webflow is meant for production site implementation, so your actual "source" files would be on your computer (in Photoshop, etc). You'd still need to use PS to slice images, optimize them, etc - we're not trying to replace Photoshop wholesale, just improve the workflow around the actual creation of the live site (something for which Photoshop was never intended).

- All your work completed in Webflow (to implement the initial design, and make it responsive), can be easily exported to a full HTML/CSS/JS bundle that can be run hosted anywhere you wish. A good practice could be to download completed sites and archive them in source control as a contingency.
Best advice I ever got on partners/co-founders: "Before you take on a partner, think about it long and hard, then don't".
easy there, he's clearly being sarcastic.
It's PsyOps. In leaving such an obvious signal, they're trying to remind people that as a state level actor, they can get into Tor or anywhere else they please if they really want to.

Big Brother is watching.
Lots of faxes. Inside ZocDoc + how it defied the odds (and Guy Kawasaki)
>Probable cause is not as simple as "the officer says they believed the motorist was probably guilty".

That is naive. The bar for documentation is the officer's own recollection or a written report based upon their recollection. Officers receive training on how to obtain PC, and how to subsequently pivot to full searches. SCOTUS has granted wide latitude WRT such techniques.

State vehicle codes are written to provide law enforcement officers ample opportunity to establish probable cause to initiate a traffic stop when an individual is suspected of having committed, or about to commit, a crime other than the infraction of the vehicle code.

http://www.lawofficer.com/article/magazine-feature/probable-...
It doesn't seem that fantastical. Anonymity unmasker shows up on the kiddie porn server the very day the police raid said kiddie porn server?

http://i.imgur.com/SVrbmtR.jpg
As someone heavily into the Ruby world (and particularly the news side of it) this has certainly seemed to come out of nowhere for me, though to be fair.. existing Rubyists are not really the target audience :-) How did it grow to reach 9000 students?

As it stands now, the YC-backed startup has over 9,000 paying student customers, with a month of tutorials costing $49.95.

I'm guessing earlier signups got preferential pricing, but there's still a potential for $100k+ per month revenues there.. that's pretty striking! :)
Perhaps a better illustration would be "too many captains and not enough sailors." I understand ships are much more strongly and consistently hierarchical. We already use nautical analogies for businesses, anyway.
There's a difference between someone who has ten years of experience and a guy who just finished a 2 year degree at a for-profit school.
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Supposedly, in the near future Motorola will release NFC tags and also an update to set a trusted device's (your car or your headphones) bluetooth connection as authentication mechanism to override the lockscreen.
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The common factor in all your dysfunctional relationships is: you.
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> The touchless controls are rendered nearly useless if you have any kind of security lock on your phone.

Being able to swipe up to launch Google Now on my Nexus 4 from the lock screen is the reason I gave up on passcodes. If I go out clubbing or something I do activate it, but in day-to-day life I find passcodes are more of a hindrance than anything else.
I actually use a setup that involves a bunch of VMs for pretty good separation. It's a bit of a complicated setup, so I won't elaborate here. The main thing about it, is that even if an attacker runs with root privs on the "anonymous" VM, they'll need a 0-day in the Virtualization engine itself to de-anonymize the machine.
I make sure that the VMs are as isolated from the host machine as they can be, so the attack surface is indeed minimized to the VM engine itself.
Some "VM busting" attacks did occur in the past, but I believe very few (if any) attacked the VM engine itself. Most used the wider attack surface provided by stuff like the "VMWare tools" API (which for "isolated" VMs should be disabled).
Edit: come to think of it, I should probably write up my method and post it to HN at some point...
Sounds like they built a recipe for patronage with this law. By creating a system such as what you describe, it's ripe for businesses to $$ convince $$ the right politicians that their success is in the best interest of the country.
It's because it's a free image from Unsplash (http://unsplash.com/) which provides free hi-res photos. Highly recommend.
Someone in a previous thread about ex-NSA Russell Tice asked "Say what you like about Snowden, but at least some of his claims have been backed up by evidence. What have these guys got? Why not name names?"

I responded with:
A stay in a penitentiary helped managed by SAIC[1].

Digitally stalked due to dissent by for-profit "Domain Awareness Centers" run by SAIC[2].

Persistent targeting, one way or another, by drones managed by SAIC[3].

Now after this, I can add "Hunting and exposing swaths of users as to pursue/prosecute/rendition/drone a few via disseminating exploits used against those that dare encrypt their traffic[4]".

[1] http://www.alanco.com/news_040104.asp

[2] http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center

[3] http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/06/14/news-saic-wins-95-mil...

[4] https://www.cryptocloud.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2894&p=3852#...
Generally speaking, it's very hard to convince the right person to co-found a startup. It's comparatively easy to convince the right-for-now person to join on a noncommittal basis. It's not easy to patiently and persistently search for the former, when the latter is so much quicker to come by.

I failed at founding a startup under similar circumstances. This was back in school, on the verge of graduation, when the idea struck me and I decided to go for it. My timing was terrible, given that my would-be co-founders had full-time jobs lined up. Joining me, and turning down our various offers in pursuit of the startup, was a proposition somewhere between slightly insane and certifiably so.

And so I gave everyone a pass. I "hired" a bunch of them on a part-time basis -- knowing that they'd be leaving to start their day jobs in about two months, and, therefore, inadvertently giving myself two months to generate enough traction to convince them to stick around. God, I was so naive. But I'm glad I learned the lesson at a (relatively) young age.

I don't blame any of them for the failure of that short-lived startup. I blame myself. In retrospect, I realized that my own commitment to the startup had been no deeper than theirs. If it had been, I'd have hustled a lot harder to find committed co-founders.