skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case it's not clear (that wording doesn't really click for me, since there are no exponents involved), the way this information is encoded is in the shape of the distribution itself. If there have been very few observations, it will be very wide, but after many it will narrow to a tiny spike.

In this context, at least, the prior distribution encodes everything - there's no meaning to the idea that you're more or less confident in the prior, because the prior already represents your uncertainty about the outcomes. If you were 50/50 on this prior versus another one, then your actual prior would be the average of the two.

There is a subfield of statistics that deals with imprecise probabilities, but that's a whole other can of worms and doesn't really relate to this problem. That said, it's fascinating stuff, and very useful in some contexts (if you're uncertain about your priors, it can be useful to do sensitivity analyses to figure out exactly how the end result depends on your prior).
There have been criticisms of the study’s design and the few attempts that have been made to replicate the results have been mixed.

It's tempting to read too much into these types of results when they are not reproducible.
Where, exactly, have I talked about a "belief system"? Seeing deconstruction as part of a historical history of thought does not mean I subscribe to it as a quasi-religious belief system, so please stop pretending as much. In fact, I would argue that my belief system is quite a bit further removed from any form of religious thought than you might think, since I do not, in fact believe, in infallible systems; I'd rather look at the systems in their environment, the institutions establishing and supporting them and the structures underneath which power them and which stand to gain from them.
what are you upset about?

Are you upset because the wheels of capitalism continue rolling for the people that aren't under direct distress due to a bad situation happening elsewhere in the world, away from them?

Or are you upset because the first time you hit on the philosophical and existential elements of materialism it was in a brad pitt movie?

What, exactly, does Syria have to do with OP?

Given that there is something terrible happening at all times, do you find yourself fatigued after so many years of trying to convince everyone to stop living life and to start needlessly becoming anxious about a war they can't influence instead of looking for a new toy?

I eagerly await your response to the hundreds of consumer product reviews that get posted on HN on a weekly basis. I hope you can convince all of them, too, that they are out of touch and need to focus their attentions on whatever some pseudo-anonymous guy on the internet deems important at the moment.
Multiplying by a value between 3 to 4 seems pretty common - the explanation I've heard being:

- One to work out what you should be building ("I have to tel you what I want? I might as well build it myself")

- One to build it

- One to get in working in the required way (allowing for "That may be what I asked for, but it's not what I want")

And a bit more for contingency...

NB The above approach is based on an assumption that the real difficulties come from working out what to build - technical risks are generally easier to address (prototypes etc.).
If You have to jailbreak something is not worth buying, I think ...
You can get buds moulded separately, they are fantastic IEMs if you are prepared to pay the money IMHO.
Legal immigrants don't get a "special" SSN?
I love picking on PHP as much as anyone else, but you can write just as terrible code in Python as any other dynamically typed language. Those Django and Rails projects can grow into monstrosities as well.
This reads more like a succession of notes rather than a coherent article to me, I had some trouble understanding what the author was getting at. It's still worth reading IMO, but I doubt people who have no background on hardware design understood what TFA was talking about.

Also, I really don't understand what the author meant by "PL troll". Writing static code checkers is trolling nowadays?
The American ideology sees itself as a template for how the rest of the world should be, so in that respect it is universalist. It contrasts with philosophies like Hinduism or Confuscianism, which are specific creeds for a specific people. In its quest for world domination, American liberal universalism is similar to its chief 20th century rival, international communism.

Communism was also a universalist faith, one that believed it was right for everyone. We note that both creeds are recklessly imperial.
There's a bunch of these globe animations already. But always nice. ;)
So, it is not that middle aged woman like farmville games... it is because their house/apartments are small?
Any bank you would recommend?
I'd like to keep in mind that tons of behavioural science is tainted by doing research on broken great apes in boxes.
I would like to take different approach, get my gf to some calm place. Have a nice house, good internet connection which is now not a big problem even in country side. Lead simple life far from city, have my "home office" room. Country side is cheaper and a lot nicer, I could get great coffe doing it by myself instead of working from "shops". Traveling would be needed also because it is easier to work with someone you met at least once face to face, or going on vacations but without work. That would be life of digital hermit :)
The paradox is if the jobs are eliminated by the machines then so are the customers for the products produced by the machines.
I doubt after week 1 that there were only 16-20 rats.

Those things reproduce exponentially if left with space/food/mates.
Just contenteditable=true, no magic there.
Vedis - An Embeddable Datastore Engine
Technical death metal
Will your Facebook activity appear on the news?
first than nothing, discussion about the topic is great as most of the times is @hn, but I have this felling about this post:

why this kind of post keep appearing in HN? is this also going to go the same way of decadence as slashdot to end up being another Yahoo answers?

Let start to dissect the post:
The tenet is:

"Consumption doesn't improve economy or humanity in general. Neither does production. If you want to help, start automating things."

first thing first, where is the cold, hard data supporting this, or is this another "I would write some fancy stuff on my blog and get it re-blogged, I'm so tweet-in"? this is starting to be a trend, in which people throw a lot of poorly supported stuff to their blogs so they look "in".

Poor argument, emotion driven conclusion, at the beginning of the second paragraph is stated:
"Imagine"
but he later concludes:
"At this point, both of them are getting fat from their excessive consumption and working harder pay for it all."
what the heck does being fat has to do with the idea behind it all? is this a slimfast supporting post? what does the fat analogy means? was an analogy?

"Both are now working harder for things they don't need"
why they both should work harder? if they did not want ice cream or cookies the example is flawed in first place, economic should start with things that are required and go up to things we want a la Maslov.

"Of course, if they were intelligent people they'd try to improve the production of cookies and ice cream" it's called "competition" and it does already exist, it force you to create new technology to make the process cheaper and have better income from the same products allowing you to get your prices low (because you have better earning marging) and still be profitable, it's what prevents you from start making average tennis shoes, or cookies or ice cream because someone else is already way better at doing that; PLEASE do not come to the argument of "if they were intelligent" explain why is better.

"Is it true that we will only automate the processes we're working on once we're <<working long hours for things we don't need?>>" at this point I'm starting to think this is about a existential problem/phase of the author.

and I'm pretty sure you can start dissecting any part of the post with arguments pro and against it, as with anything else, it's the lack of any new light that bothers me, please don't tell me this will start to be the "throw some random stuff so I can show I'm cool" place.
The point is that they were organized societies, not the utter chaos that was left behind when the European powers left Africa.
Genuine question...

We have way over a million lines of c#, in asp.net, mvc and windows forms. We get 80,000,000 http requests a day.

We have no async (delegates or 4.5 stuff), no threading other than what WCF, AppFabric and ASP.Net give us.

About 25% is generic CRUD code but the rest is complicated matching, integration and math code. We also touch most fundamental computer science domains.

This begs the question: you really need async in the language?
Not the same NAS, in DNS320 you don't have that option:

http://www.support.dlink.com/emulators/dns320/200/login.html
If it's because of some genetic immunity to drug addiction, the children are likely to benefit as well.
It's not just 3D transforms, a simple scale down will exhibit aliasing as well.

There's no flag to control aliasing migitating strategies for CSS in the spec, nor is there any discussion about it as far as I know.
Aha! This describes nearly everywhere I've ever lived and worked! The brilliance of working exclusively online is that you can live in places like this - you take your work with you. I would never have gotten to know Ponce, Puerto Rico otherwise - or reacquainted myself with my hometown of Richmond, Indiana.

From an economic standpoint, I couldn't have come to Budapest, for that matter. Finding a well-paying job here would be very difficult. (Not impossible, but difficult.)

If you do want a technical community around you in meatspace, I agree that these sleepier corners of the world are not for you. But they are definitely for me. I'll consider Sardinia. (I know a really nice Sardinian lady in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico - she loves it and hates it simultaneously, just like you.)
Of course you can, but I think choosing between various languages mostly ends up being a matter of taste. I tried PHP, built a rather large website using it and found out I didn't like reading my own code after a while - a problem I have not encountered yet using python. I don't think this kind of article should be taken as a list of reasons that make python better than PHP, just as a reminder that maybe you could have a look at python if you do not enjoy writing your code in PHP.
I think that's this effect:

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

Speaking about the rotation of a gaseous body is a bit tricky anyway, not all parts of the sun rotate equally fast. (inside/outside, equatorial/polar).
No, not the remastered version! Nooooooo!
Already have Nexus, would probably buy iPad mini.
One can also look at it this way, though it does not explain the energies' relation to each other:

The total gravitational potential energy you start from, from Earth's surface, is far from zero, as you are already at over 6000 km height. The 300 km height is a small blip on top of that. A 5 % change.

The velocity you start with is only the spinning of the earth (lower velocity closer to poles, vector sum too because you must launch to an inclined orbit from there) which is about 0.4 km/s. So you need a 20x change. (Coincidentally reciprocal of 5%.)
If it's a normal looking coin being flipped in the air and caught before presentation, the only reasonable prior is that almost all of the probability mass should be that it's completely fair. Maybe I'd leave 1% to spread amongst the rest just in case the adversary has some seriously devious tricks up their sleeve.

Because physics - it's not possible to bias a rigid body so that it rotates with non-constant angular speed when flipped, as long as air resistance can be neglected, and that means that a fair flip gives 50/50 odds as to what side you catch it on. (Edit: clarity)

If other stuff is going on, like you're letting it bounce or something, then it depends on the particulars. It's rather easy to load a die, for instance.
Perhaps, but while the PHP community will debate endlessly about standards and projects inevitably end up become a pile of inconsisten spaghetti code, the conventions in Python make uniformity the path of least resistance, at least by an order of magnitude.

Also, while Rails is in the same league as Django as far as tools and expressiveness go(expressiveness perhaps more so), Django goes to considerable lengths to enforce style and consistency; it is not taboo to politely tell people that their code is not PEP8 compliant.
is it SFW? or should I avoid it at work?
I am not convinced of your opinion. It may be true for your own life - but in general I don't think that this is accurate.

Are you saying that a poor kid does not start to realize that they are poor by their own observations pretty early on? Mom, can we eat at that restaurant. Mom, why don't we get a car like other people have? Mom, why don't we have a telephone like people on TV do? Why am I wearing worn out clothes, socks and shoes? Why do we eat lentils, rice or beans for every meal? ETC...

I grew up poor and knew we were poor from very early on. Not because anyone stigmatized me either. It was blatantly obvious. If everyone else around me and on TV had was in the exact same financial circumstances that we lived in.

Even in your case, I don't see the point of your statement. Is it to place blame on the haves for persecuting the have nots? This is America. I realize that being poor may negatively affect social status among peers, but I don't consider this a limitation. Look at immigrants/refugees. Not only do they act, look, eat, smell and talk differently. They are also minorities and poor. They have far less going for them at first glance. They are stigmatized for a host of reasons.

A deeper look reveals that they have two assets that most inner city kids do not have. A strong determination to work hard/succeed and a strong family presence to reinforce and encourage that determination.

My guess is that if you had a strong full family with a father at home who taught you kids to believe in yourselves and not to listen to naysayers things would have been much different in your life (even if you still were dirt poor)

Why do I think that? Because that is my story. There are popular poor kids and there are unpopular rich kids. Same with fat kids, skinny kids, athletic, clumsy, ugly, handsome ETC. The biggest determining factor is how much self confidence they have. When people truly believe in themselves, they will rise to the top. Their peers will believe as they do. That they are valuable to others.

The government "nanny" will continue to try to replace God and family, but it will never even come close to succeeding. The more the government tries, the worse things get. No amount of money will ever replace what a child gets from being reared in a good healthy and loving family.

Nothing will ever keep a family together like a true belief and faith in God can. Broken families are a result of selfishness. The government does nothing but promote more selfishness.
One obvious way to patch is to validate types in OP_FORLOOP, just as in OP_FORPREP.
aemkei delivered an awesome presentation yesterday at JSConf EU.

This was his final slide.
I'm taking a Coursera course at the moment where a lot of people on the forums are new to Python. I've been trying to guide them in the right direction in terms of the Pythonic way of doing things which has been a very interesting experience. Lots of people turning to for loops 5 levels deep (or even worse - wrapping 5 for loops in a list comprehension).

This is a typical quote:

"I'm still a little bummed that python doesn't have the for(;;) C syntax"

I'm pleased to report that quite a few people have been impressed with how clean and simple the code is once they see the Python way.
A microscope. God I loved my first microscope.
No, you can think of it as a reward for some part time work.
Strangely I only see this favicon on one of the two linked gmail accounts I am currently logged into.
I find it really difficult to care about the Nexus 4 when it doesn't run iOS apps.

For me, personally, that's worth paying extra money for, discounting all other differences at the hardware level, and it seems to be worth it for millions of other people too.

You have to understand that there are people in the world that make a solid value judgement that the iPhone is what they want and they can afford it, it's not bad value for their money, they want iOS, they don't mind being locked in to Apple's world _and_ that those are very sane choices to make.

That reasoning works, even in the face of a $199 unlocked Nexus 4.
no. Fire 'em all. Get a contractor in there, strip out all that fanboi crap, and rebuild it as a bog-standard C&C/Ops room. With taxpayer money, you get square rooms with beige paint, a kick in the ass, a dirty look, and a harsh word to shut up and get back to work. If you're going to spy on me, mothereffer, you'd better not effing enjoy it.
We have implemented Tic-Tac-Toe

http://demo.axiomnext.com

Click on login to see it.

Sorry forgot the source URL from where we took it.
Microduino: Arduino in your pocket, small, stackable, smart
Good comment. Yeah, the point about Rihanna is interesting but does skirt something pretty clear about the larger music business today - that there's been a dash towards the lowest common denominator in mainstream music. You hear it on the radio and see it everywhere in the culture, that what's being backed and pushed is tending towards homogeneity.

At University my mentor worked (and still works) at Sony, and this at the time was his big grievance - that the so-called 'indie' bands (in reality, larger alternative bands) were the ones being completely marginalized in favour of something that would be easier to sell on broad-demographic radio programming.

If you think about the UK radio market now, this makes sense - Global Radio owns everything, and it's the same playlist of forgettable pop music nationwide. I remember being in America a couple of years ago and finding a station that was playing things like Smashing Pumpkins, NIN and some modern math/post-rock stuff... apart from BBC Radio 6 Music (publicly owned) you just don't see that over here.

There's a big glass ceiling for musicians, and while it's not going away, it's still a difficult reality to face for those that are either semi-professional or say, tour a lot - in order to keep playing music they have obligations that stop them also holding down 'proper' jobs, and you see this taking its toll of great bands (off the top of my head, Reuben would be a classic example).
You have this for example:

* http://www.indiegogo.com/projects?filter_category=Technology...

* http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/technology?re...

* ...

(Patience required)
It's about concurrency, not performance. What's the 95th percentile response time (backend only)?

Take out all that complicated code, and replace it with a call to an external 3rd party API. They get a hiccup, your response time goes up by 500%, your cpu load drops, and you start timing out connections.

C10M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D09jdbS6oSI
The problem that I keep seeing is people think that TPL or Async/Await heck, even Rx is a Threading library....

As a result people still use monitors or any kind of blocking wait event. Including the TaskCompletetionSource in the framework I don't think helped this.

A lot of what I've seen on different projects using these newer tools is an attempt to re-create what they would do before. Doing a Producer Consumer, that's a blocking de-queue etc.
really nice well done!
There's a lot of stigma in music around making money, it's pretty weird. I remember a pretty successful alternative musician once telling me that you couldn't survive these days if you divorced being creative and being entrepreneurial.
Get him an awesome mountain bike or a BB gun to terrorize the neighborhood cats. He's got about 4 years left before life starts to get real serious, so let him be a kid. No one wants to spend all day sitting in front of a monitor, especially a 10 year old.

EDIT: Apparently it needs to be stated clearly that despite my tongue in cheek comment, I don't actually condone the firing of projectiles at small feline animals, be they feral or domestic. It should also be noted that I do not condone the "arming" of minors with the intent of allowing them to commit acts of violence on animals, other persons, or even plants for that matter. From here on out, if asked for gift ideas for a child, I'll simply ask a child what they prefer and relay their answer, unless of course they suggest an item not on an "approved" list.
Well you can give him collection of memories beautifully stored and organized on http://www.joognu.com

It's one of the best gifts you can ever give it to your child.

Disclaimer: I am the product manager and part owner.
Google hangout effects using HTML5 and Javascript
The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of the IPCC report
Spent My Weekend doing some Honeypotting for Justice.
We use appfabric and workflow to handle all 3rd party integration. Nothing blocks threads. But we don't use async language features to do that. Workflow could be considered async but it's a tenuous link.

95% is 41ms.
regarding 8 USC 1325(d), the plain language seems to suggest that merely starting a business in order to earn money is not what is barred by the law, but rather trying to fraudulantly start a business so as to engage in fraud regarding entrepreneurship visas.

This would seem to parallel 8 USC 1325 (c) which is clearly intended to target straw marriages existing solely for immigration reasons.

Note that neither of these provisions only targets the immigrant party. Both appear to target US citizens as well (for example, agreeing to a sham marriage or a sham business deal aimed at an immigrant visa).
sfw for another 5h 13m 27s
One thing that hit me when I moved to the US was the amount of _huge_ American flags everywhere. Outside buildings and on cars and on pins. That is a bit surprising for a not particularly nationalistic nation.
One more idea:

May be it is little early but you can give this a thought.

Gift him a Designer Signature from http://www.signinstyle.com

So that he can start doing it from now before the current signature (if he has any) becomes official at too many places.

Disclaimer: I am the co-founder of Sign in Style.
Most of my freelance work has been "saving" fairly new WordPress sites that just haven't worked out for clients.

I think you're absolutely spot on when you say that it's mostly people who haven't seen any better. There seems to be a real cult behind the use of WordPress as a CMS, and after working with some of the developers that have delivered the first WP sites nearly every single one of them seems sold on WordPress being the only tool required to rapidly build a website.

As a tool, WordPress does work, but the plugin-driven development nature of WordPress leads to some horrendous problems, ones that were solved years ago on other platforms. It also tends to attract a large number of poor developers.

More often than not, I use Umbraco for sites that need a CMS, or Django when the site has been hacked to handle an application, almost effectively scrapping most of the existing code, and the clients are always happy and have a much faster website.
Yeah, well, it will apparently just link to this wikipedia article after that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_law
I don't know of any in France. My understanding in all cases is that it really helps to know folks at the bank. So I would start at where you currently do your banking and see what you can do there.