skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about David Foster Wallace? Also China Miéville and Haruki Murakami.
Someone please help the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers
That's what the App Store serves.
I've considered learning web coding for quite some time now, but every time I try to learn I get frustrated that I need to learn at least three languages (HTML, JS, CSS) in order to get anything but a simple static web page. Meanwhile I could pick up a desktop-oriented language and get everything done with one code base.
Nonetheless, blind swaps are generally suspicious, and there could be a genetically programmed heuristic for humans to undervalue them.
From the wikipedia article: "Paul Erdős, one of the most prolific mathematicians in history, remained unconvinced until he was shown a computer simulation confirming the predicted result."
If anyone here is interested in interactive documentaries, you should check out Clouds when it comes out:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1636630114/clouds-intera...

It's a documentary on generative art and that is also an executable. Basically several artist coders got together to put together a documentary on their craft and the art of each will be showcased as a layer on top of the documentary that you can play/interact with while the artist is discussing its creation and whatnot.
There are a lot of farmers who use ethical and sustainable methods.

Depends on how you define "a lot". The vast majority of eggs and milk produced in the United States are not in any way ethically produced.
I don't mind anybody paying whatever they wish for and I'm well aware about user-agents, tor and stuff. Though paywall link on hackers site looks unnatural to me. It's all about sharing and openness. At list informational content should be accessible. "oh look such a tragic story, keep your children safe subscribers (we don't care about non-subscribers' kids, though)"
> Is there a particular reason that so many people were wrong ...

Yes. The difficulty with the Monty Hall problem has to do with grasping all the probabilities represented by all the outcomes at once. I personally didn't fully understand it until I wrote a list of all the possible outcomes and summed the probabilities.
Exchanging limits and expectations is not always valid (eg http://www.stanford.edu/class/msande322/docs/app_B.pdf‎). In this case the expected gain is not convergent in the limit. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6387344

This is one of my favourite problems too :)
Click the images, the lightbox is a nice way to browse.
Personally I can't wait to use 10 when it gets released.
But it's a pity that it won't see Gnome 3.10 due to its dependence on logind, and then logind's new dependency on systemd as of 205.
Can you at least resize it?
If only they had access to some kind of command line tool which lets you bulk pull and push and merge histories. Do you think they have something like that at github? :-)
Okay, that I can buy.
Recent developments in the Hurd
From GNU Hackers Meeting 2013

video : http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2013/Samuel_Thibault-Hurd_recent_developments_.webm

slides : http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2013/paris/slides/hurd--thibault--ghm-2013.pdf
Did you patch syslog-ng? (https://github.com/yaoweibin/nginx_syslog_patch)
Some of those 3rd party apps are better designed than Apple's own iOS7 incarnation apps. Most are bland and hard to figure out though.
this doesn't match up with the hypothesis then.
The demo video talks about files being copied to a 'network of servers' to provide load balancing, so does this tool really produce 'Dropbox hosted' websites, or does it just use Dropbox as a mechanism for transferring files between the user and what amounts to a web host?

If it's the latter, why even bother with Dropbox as a middle man?
The Crying of Lot 49 -- Thomas Pynchon
I think it's obvious. That's our reality unfortunately.
We hit this situation a while back on our product and implemented batching as a result (http://blog.meldium.com/home/2013/4/22/dont-spam-your-users-...)
What are the differences between fish and zsh?
I don't think that one is really read in schools. We did read an Ayn Rand book in my high school (in Texas), but it was Anthem, a much shorter novella, with a more general theme of future-utopia-is-actuallly-dystopia, ending with a paean to individualism. It bears some similarities to a more recent book, The Giver, which is also popular as young-adult literature.

I haven't read her other books, but from a literary perspective, Anthem has the same problem that I gather her other works have, just in miniature: there is a core of an actual novel there and it's starting to build an interesting world and characters, but then at some point it degenerates into a pages-and-pages-long non-fiction essay in Ayn Rand's voice pasted into the book, with a pretty flimsy excuse for what these pages of text are doing in a novel (I think in Anthem it's the character thinking out loud or something).
Confirmed that the site seems to be de-listed on Google, but not why...
Env A has $20 (we have it and know).
Env B has $10 or $40 (equal chance).

We swap. Now we hold Env B, which has $10 or $40 in it. We know the other envelope (Env A) is $20. Why would we switch again?
There is additional information in the Monty Hall problem: the host never opens the door with a car. In the two envelope's problem, the "host" merely restates the question no matter which envelope was chosen.
No, quite the opposite unfortunately :(
Not his fault and pretty cool he was in touch with users of the library enough to catch it and stop it.

Always figured I'd do Cocos2d-x or Unity for any serious game I do next. I used Cocos2d before and written Unity plugins before. I even have a contractor working on a Unity project right now. Will have to give libgdx a few extra points when deciding in the future, though, for having a caring maintainer.

I actually wrote an OpenGL game engine for Android back before any of the later things came out like Replica Island, AndEngine, the Cocos2D port, etc.. Almost makes me wish I'd open sourced it. It did have some awesome stuff like batching all the sprites with similar draw states together into one draw call.
As far as I know, this is an unprecedented action for Google in the US. Just because it fits your narrative does not make it obvious!
Yes, I guess my comment was about how ridiculous it is that this was my feeling and reaction, that the situation we are in makes me jump to such conclusions. I have a lot of faith that the ground level sys admins and engineers at Google are actually good people who probably are as angry about all this as I am, they do not design their systems with agendas or back-doors, only the few are compelled to. Unfortunately the well has been poisoned and all trust is now gone, I can only view the actions of the company Google with cynicism and skepticism.
The Tumblr blog theme is resizing them. Just click the image and it'll show in a lightbox.
How is this different than backlift - https://www.backlift.com is already doing the same thing.
I've been chewing through some Neil Stephenson books lately. I think a lot of his earlier work was somewhat prescient (in terms of general themes) and some of his newer work bring up some interesting societal points especially about the role of government with regards to technology. Another theme that I feel is particularly relevant lately is the bifurcation of the technically skilled (or even aware) and the technically unskilled. He puts up an interesting split in Anathema which wittingly or not might well represent a lot of the current hacker/tech-elite discussion in society at large. Anathema is well worth a read and Cryptonomicon is just plain fun (perhaps more relevant lately than it was in its own time).
There probably wasn't a thing on earth Nokia wasn't developing before MS got involved.
German Artist Creates Bitcoin Art Inspired by Andy Warhol
Recently: And a bottle of rum (http://www.amazon.co.uk/And-Bottle-Rum-History-Cocktails/dp/...)

I loved it. A history of rum, including all of the politics around it (like the role it played in the slave trade and American independence), great read :)
It just seems so easy to discount the first part of the exercise. It's hard to distinguish between contestants & the 'alien' who comes in after.

I found her matrix rather messy & convinced myself with the following:

| chosen | revealed | hidden |

| car __ | empty __ | goat__ |

| empty_ | goat ___ | car __ |

| goat _ | empty __ | car __ |
Except that in the Monty Hall problem something has changed after the initial choice: one of the previous options is proven to be a goat. No such change occurs with the two envelopes, no new information is made available, thus no basis for switching.
One of the few titles on my list of books that I tell people not to read (http://neilbowers.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/book-review-atlas...)
After reading Game of Thrones I wanted to read more book series, so went with science fiction ones:

Started with: Dune, by Frank Herbert (+ 5 books in the series)
Continued to: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (+ 3 sequels)
Now reading: Foundation by Isaac Asimov (+ 5 books)

All those are pretty great in sense of that they take set in span of thousands of years, and touch bit different ideas around society, myths, religion, morals, physical and mental technologies.

Other than that, been been enjoying some classic literature, Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, James Clavell, Haruki Murakami and books about Richard Feynman.
You're missing out. I'd liked HPMOR much more then original story. Thought it's quite geeky which not everyone likes.
Note that some "colleges" can provide an arguably superior education than some lower-end public universities because professors are chosen and paid for their teaching ability rather than their research.
I'd like to offer my own humble solution. Maybe it's flawed. Maybe you can embarass me. :)

Here it is: the goal is to choose a strategy which statistically maximizes our return. I.e. strategy A is superior to strategy B if it yields higher returns after, say, 1,000,000 iterations.

So there are two envelopes, X and 2X. You select one, then you're offered a chance to change your selection. What do you do?

Let's write out all the possibilities:

You select X, then you choose to stay, and wind up with X.

You select 2X, then you choose to stay, and wind up with 2X.

You select X, then you choose to swap, and wind up with 2X.

You select 2X, then you choose to swap, and wind up with X.

Those are the only four possibilities. You're forced to choose one of these possibilities randomly, because you have no information to guide your choice. Since two of them yield 2X and two yield X, and since your choice is necessarily random, then therefore all strategies will converge on the same expected value. In short, it doesn't matter what you do. You always have a 50% chance of X or 2X, regardless of your sequence of choices.

At first glance this is similar to the Monty hall problem, but the critical difference is that information is revealed during the Monty hall problem. No extra info is revealed here.

I assert that the envelopes could contain X and 1000X and it still doesn't matter what you do.

Ok, go, embarass me!
I should have wored the safe seats thing more effectively, but I stand by the point.

When you're elected from a single-member electorate, there's a lot more incentive to be inclusive and to govern for all.

The game-theory around this is fairly clear-cut: you need to be careful not to be a pain in the ass in most single-member electorates, whereas in PR it is often an advantage. Frequently in PR your main competition is for party selection rather than election.

And the US seems a great example of an
incredibly divisive situation

The US lower house is a poor example of single-member electorates:

* gerrymandering in places

* FPTP system rather than preferential.

* non-compulsory voting

The good examples of non-PR are some of the Australian lower-house systems - rare examples of compulsory voting. This means members need to be extra-careful about not pissing people off, even people who generally don't pay much attention to politics. Contrast this to the culture in FPP systems like the US or UK where you need to "get the base out" on voting day.

Within that you can go shopping for the preferential system you're looking for (e.g. AV - Victoria, optional - NSW, compulsory - federal)

Like the US, Australian electorates tend to be retained. But the political culture discourages divisive behaviour by members who aren't in safe seats. And it's fairly common that when there is a rabble-raiser member, an independent will emerge and turf them out at the next election. The preferential system enables that.
To quote from the Wikipedia article about SANA:

Up until November 2012, SANA's website was hosted in Dallas, Texas by the United States company SoftLayer. Due to sanctions related to the Syrian civil war, which make this hosting illegal, the SoftLayer company was obliged to terminate its hosting responsibilities with SANA.

I have no idea about the exact legal powers of international (unilateral?) sanctions in the US, but is it possible that Google de-listed SANA because of legal issues?
No, eating plants is not unethical. This might interest you:

http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1mdqbr/if_the_wo...

The short story is that it takes up more land to feed and house livestock than it does to farm plants. "More than two-thirds of all agricultural land is devoted to growing feed for livestock, while only 8 percent is used to grow food for direct human consumption."

Not to mention the amount of water livestock and its feed consumes.
Reading The Second Sex right now. I need a bit of brush up on some history and philosophy.
Is primary/subkey idea the same thing as private CA (conceptually)?
You are right. It's normal to want to shield kids from sexual imagery because we are fearful for their supposedly pure minds. However, from my own experience (and of friends) , we all saw sexual stuff growing up. Porn, erotica, suggestive imagery in movies (that wanted to avoid showing sex, but it's not like we kids were fooled) and outright sex in the few R-rated stuff we saw anyway.

I don't believe any of those affected me in a negative way. It would be weirder to be shielded from all that, and then suddenly be exposed to what the real world is like when you leave for college.
> What you said was that population was increasing without constraint.

And that's correct -- any population increase above zero is without constraint. All one need do is calculate the doubling time:

http://arachnoid.com/lutusp/populati.html

> The fact that the rate of growth is declining does suggest the presence of one or more constraints ...

Yes, or more likely, it's a random fluctuation indicative of nothing in particular. The latter assumption, which may seem overly skeptical, is how a scientist is expected to look at an unexplained change in the rate, based on a precept called the null hypothesis -- a presumption that (in a manner of speaking) it's all random and meaningless.

> ... and it argues against your implication that "mass death" is the only likely way out.

Not really. Remember that nature efficiently picks out those with the highest birthrates and makes them the entire future population. My point is that population growth is naturally unstable, depending only on food sources and a willingness to push other species out of the way.

1.1% per annum may not seem like a very large rate of increase, but 63 years doesn't seem like a very long time to double the world's population either.

Exponential increases of all kinds are rather scary to model. They're scary enough when one looks at compound interest and how that naturally creates a chasm between rich and poor over time, but the "big show" for exponential increases is population, where much more is at stake.

> For what it's worth, I have taken calculus.

Okay, glad to hear it. Given that, I think you will appreciate what I thought when I heard you object that population couldn't be increasing because the rate of increase was decreasing.

> And if you're the guy who wrote AppleWriter: Nice job! I liked that program. I used it in high school.

Yes, that's me. Thanks.
Sure, these are variables, so they correspond to different possibilities. X can be anything, and given X, the amount in the other envelope is one of two different possible values - 1/2X OR 2X.

So there are far more than three possible values, but only two actual values.
Get your IP in a sexy way [NSFW]
> this is one of the downsides to free markets. They hide information on the conditions of production

This is such a meaningless mantra. The election process--which is supposed to "fix" the free market--also hides information, except there are many fewer opportunities for correction. A vote happens once every N years, whereas market corrections are (relatively) continuous.
No. If I understand correctly, your last two outcomes are wrong. There are 6 possible outcomes, not four. This is because when you choose the 2X correctly, you may receive 2(2X) or X.

The 6 outcomes are:

You select X, then you choose to stay, and wind up with X.

You select 2X, then you choose to stay, and wind up with 2X.

You select X, then choose to swap and wind up with 1/2X

You select X, them choose to swap and wind up with 2x

You select 2X, then choose to swap and wind up with X

You select 2X, then choose to swap and wind up with 4X
Now I don't feel so bad for not getting it at first. :)
Unless you picked 2x to start with, in which case the other envelope does contain half of what you chose...

i.e. there are two envelopes, x and 2x, and you choose one. There is a 50% chance that the envelope you didn't choose is half the value of the one you picked (you pick 2x, and the other is x), or there's a 50% chance the envelope you didn't choose is twice the value of the one you picked (you pick x, and the other is 2x). I think it's misleading to introduce this "third" quantity of 0.5x... but perhaps I'm missing something subtle, in which case I'd be happy to be corrected!
Those are common in Brazilian banks as well. At least four of the six biggest (I don't remember about the last two) do two-factor authentication.

Another cool thing I've seen in Banco do Brasil was the need to authorize the computer you're going to use in a ATM or in a 1-800. If I recall correctly, they do that with a Java applet.

Recently they also launched a common-malware-search-and-destroy application of MANDATORY use in Windows computers (my mom uses, she asked me. And yes, the digital certificates were all valid).
Here's how I see it - the important unstated variable is how big a budget does the host of the game have?
If you know that you're playing with a billionaire who loves this party trick, and is probably willing to give away a million dollars on this, then the $20 you found in you envelope is probably the smaller value. If your envelope contains $800,000 it's probably the bigger one.

The host has chosen a number randomly between 1-N, and they're not neccessarily going to tell you what N is. But in the long run you'll find that values closest to N/2 are more common than values further from N/2.
Technically it's not purged, 178000 pages are in index:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:sana.sy

Perhaps they're downranked, but anyway the first two links on your link leads to wikipedia and facebook pages of that agency which both has direct link to the site in question.

http://sana.sy/robots.txt - oops, no robots.txt. Maybe it's just a results of poor SEO.
From what I recall there's some debate over whether meat production does necessarly have to consume more land than farming an equivalent amount of plants, eg: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/sep/06/meat-pr...
not even close to accurate and I was talking about silicon valley in general.
Actually, you always wind up with X or 2X, never 0.5X and never 4X. Remember, the envelopes contain either X or 2X, and you always end up with either one or the other.
Ever had cheese or alcohol? Now that is poop. The part you should be emphasizing is "can't digest". These beans aren't poop as in digested material, they're taking a ride in poop. It's not really worse than the standard method of mixing poop into the dirt where plants are grown.
> Literally the only argument for double spacing is that it provides semantic separation.

"Mr. and Mrs. Jones went to St. Maarten, to see Mr. Jones, Jr. Ph.D., an M.D. who was studying further to get his D.D.S. from noted dentist, W.E.B. DuBois."

Having had to do it before, I can tell you that I've yet to find a bullet-proof way to parse that sentence (programmatically) and guarantee that you weren't going to get random sentence parts.

Assuming pristine data, I could just split on .<space><space> and be done with it.
30-Second Slideshows for Hackers
That was my immediate thought. Even if they weren't planning on switching to Android in the short term Nokia could have made Microsoft's decision to buy a lot easier by hinting at the possibility.
The problem is that GitHub doesn't really have an import/export API; when you migrate from google code or sourceforge, all issues will appear created and commented from your own account, and at the current date/time.

I guess there's a commercial reason for this:
http://giovanni.bajo.it/post/60836467126/github-is-missing-i...

I was going to make the same mistake myself (thanks OP!). Is there a workaround?
This is quite possibly the best book I have ever read.
I've had a long standing question about FreeBSD and ports/portsnap: does/how does FreeBSD prevent against bad mirrors or MITM attacks?
Tried to think of something more intelligent to say.

It was a tie between "lol" and "Really?"

Can't say which is necessarily less productive.... still kinda a funny "service" though. Out of curiosity, were the numbers found or did you specifically get a voice actress?
This... is ridiculous. I assume this is your site as per your username?
You are horribly misinformed. Opinions or merits of the book aside, Ayn Rand is viewed as a crackpot and is generally (I'm sure there are exceptions) not taken seriously in academia, and I have never heard of any public highschool that views Atlas Shrugged as critical reading.
I'm curious what sanctions prevent hosting a Syrian website?
http://damascus.usembassy.gov/sanctions-syr.html claims there are only 3 sanctions: No US goods(basically) can be exported to Syria, something against the commercial bank, and denying Syria access to the US financial system.
My Meeting with Pax Dickinson
Exactly, that's why your model is broken.
That is the first line of Anna Karenina: "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
I've started doing this as well, and it works well. Cloudfront lists their log delivery as "best effort" which gave me pause me at first. However, after a month of testing, I've seen the stats to be on part with Google Analytics.

I'd love to see an open source package emerge to implement the collection and the data processing. Cloudfront + Redshift would rock.
The startup definition of disruptive technology is something almost nobody's heard of that almost nobody uses that hopes to rectify those usually infallible problems and matter in the billion dollar industry it barely exists in!