skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a shame that the title doesn't reveal what this is -- it's the original appearance of the Monty Hall problem, when Marilyn Vos Savant answered the problem correctly, only to be criticized (wrongly) by any number of well-educate academics, like this one:

"Since you seem to enjoy coming straight to the point, I’ll do the same. You blew it! Let me explain. If one door is shown to be a loser, that information changes the probability of either remaining choice, neither of which has any reason to be more likely, to 1/2. As a professional mathematician, I’m very concerned with the general public’s lack of mathematical skills. Please help by confessing your error and in the future being more careful. -- Robert Sachs, Ph.D."

Doctor Sachs was entirely wrong, as were about ten thousand other academics who ganged up on Vos Savant in the months following the appearance of this column.

The real outcome is that, if the contestant doesn't change doors, his probability of winning is 1/3, but if he does change doors, his chance goes up to 2/3. Details:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
Yes, this title should be changed.
You didn't post any evidence, but lots of theory, whereas there is plenty of evidence that the human species does indeed manage to survive .. in spite of ones best efforts.
If you see two spaces, you can almost bet that the author is an American and over 40 years old :)
Somewhat why Adobe didn't care if you pirated Photoshop. If you weren't making money with it, they'd rather you know it than something else (maybe gimp?). Having mindshare (uggh, I hate that word) definitely helps when it comes time to get the credit card out for tools you'll need for a paying project.
Did I miss a reply to someone? I apologize if I did, don't hesitate to re-email me; it's not my intent to just cherry pick a few attractive CVs.
発進!!
I wouldn't call it an embrace-and-extenguish play. Its just an upgrade path. No one forces me to take my car in for an oil change, but I'd rather pay someone else than get under the car in my condo parking lot and wrestle with the oil filter, etc for 30-60 minutes.
MIT Startup Bootcamp: Livestream
A couple of years ago I did a research project using the current population survey (CPS) from the BLS and I was surprised about how much interesting data there is.

I'm not sure if they've improved since 2011, but at the time it was very hard to parse and order the public data sets since the headers have changed so much over time and the data is not harmonized. I can't tell if BLS has done much data consolidation through this API, but if you're looking to consume this data I recommend just downloading it and parsing it yourself.

The IPUMS project from the University of Minnesota[1] is an excellent resource for anyone actually wanting to look at BLS / CPS data over time. They do a lot of the gruntwork for gathering CPS results across the years and synthesizing the various codes, field names, and standards into a coherent data set.

For anyone interested in actually using CPS data, a colleague and I wrote a (rather shitty) Java program to parse IPUMS data into a local longitudinal dataset. The code was written by sophomores in college, so I can't promise that this code is any good, but it's probably a good place to get started if you're interested[2].

[1] http://www.ipums.org/
[2] https://github.com/c-johnson/CPSMatcher
A followup to "We Post Nothing About Our Daughter Online"
which serve as an example of a corollary to the Streisand effect,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
thus: challenging a wide public audience: "that is not online"
is likely to result in a search for contrary online examples.
I can't help but think you'll see the same thing as with diamonds. Inventing a lab process will just make the original cat-process even more prized, because suddenly it's not just "rare" but it is also "authentic".

Basically, it doesn't seem like this is a technical challenge. It's a social challenge.
They made good use of the NSA scandal. It's just that nobody was listening and some media outlets are actively boycotting them-
Gorgeous Mini-ITX Computer Case
Very well said.

> Look on github for how many people write shell scripts in ruby because they don't know how bash works.

I have seen this happen in a company I used to work for, when new system engineers came on board, but in this case it was Groovy.
>JS has no tail call elimination

Apparently this is changing with ES6.
Not so well put together. I had higher expectations.
Perhaps I miss "You got mail" (Meg Ryan/Tom Hanks).
The difference from GPA/Standardized Tests is pretty clear. As those metrics are used inside the age group, competing exclusively with people born within a year or so of them.
You can use other HTML entities, such as &ensp; &emsp; which should have a wider width while wrapping as if it were a single space.
Give Gummi a try if you haven't. Its automatically updating preview pane might have what you are looking for.

http://dev.midnightcoding.org/projects/gummi
> That's all well and good, but when I need to stream music instantly Grooveshark has my back--no fee, no sign-in, no bullshit.

You're completely missing the point. It's irrelevant that you can get music for free, because it's not produced for free. It costs money to produce music and to arrange it to be available on Amazon or iTunes or where ever.

It's not unreasonable to expect you to pay for music. I don't mean to imply anything about "stealing", but you wouldn't walk into a supermarket expecting to just take stuff either. It's about someone producing something of value that you want.
> 発進!!

The English literal translation is "departure", but based on a Web search for related terms I suspect this has a different idiomatic meaning in everyday Japanese -- more like "take action" or "start to move".
Calling ignorant what is indisputably taught in many places as standard syntax is pathetically pedantic. Honestly this is the first discussion of single vs double spacing rules that I've encountered. It's been taught to me since grade school and will take more than a vitriolic Slate article to break that habit.
> You didn't post any evidence ...

I posted any number of links to scientific evidence, evidence heavy on observation and measurement, light on controversy.
Yes the guy held onto it for 12 years.

Putting the story up there would be a bold move... I am still traumatized by it.
"free-range coffee"
I'm not familiar with Ireland's system - I should read a history some time.

FPP is a mess - I agree. But PR is the wrong response to it. My response to it would be to pick one of the preference options from my earlier post - problem solved.

In the UK the Liberal Democrats are a party who have less seats than you'd expect from the strength of your support, and they'd perform far better with optional or compulsory preferences.

> I was suprised to find out that in the UK it's
> uncommon for candidates to put posters on
> lampposts for elections.

[tongue in cheek] This is the first strong argument I've ever seen in favour of FPP.

Your bit about coalitions is a strong point I hadn't considered when I wrote my post. In some European countries this has a strong tradition (netherlands, somewhat Germany). Particularly in those European countries where you can have public policy that just doesn't work anywhere else (Scandies, Switzerland).

> What experiences are you basing your claims about
> the negatives of PR on?

There's no particular strong influence, lots of small stuff. I think PR is one of those things that's obvious to like, except when you start looking at it and realising how tentacled it is.

We are often motivated by our fears, and I suppose my reaction to PR is generated by a combination of things I think to be undesirable: I don't think it's a good thing to have political debate defined by political extremes flinging mud at each other, and PR tends towards that. And I don't like the constant trend towards politics being run by a distinct, professional political class. PR plays right into that.

I'd much rather have weak parties and lowly-paid politicians who get into it after they've had a career doing something else. Single-member electorates with preferences are a straightforward and simple mechanism for getting mainstream members of parliament who are incentivised to work together for everyone.

In most cases.

It wouldn't be very good in a region like Belgium or Northern Ireland which is polarised along a distinct cultural line. PR and smaller parties may be a good way to shake up those situations.
And I'm telling you that nobody gives a shit, because they just want to listen to music.

Look, I'll happily debate intellectual property structures and incentives and all the rest, but the thing--the big elephant in the room--is that everybody just wants to be able to push a button and get music.

At the end of the day, the core relationship is between the artist and the listener--everything else, be it recording or ticketing or distribution or whatever, is secondary fluff.

Grooveshark offers the most compelling experience to the user right now, regardless of how scummy (and I do mean scummy!) their business practices are.
Actually, you know what. Let me present more compelling evidence. That first article you link mentions concerns about Yemen's growth. So let's contrast how Yemen is doing in comparison to the USA with this Gapminder graph:

http://goo.gl/ok9irQ

Do note that the trails both start in 1960 and the child mortality axis is scaled logarithmically, meaning that at any time Yemen's child mortality was an order of magnitude larger than that of the USA. Also note that you can switch child mortality with expected lifespan and get pretty much the same curve.
On the off chance you're not aware of it,

latexmk -pdf -pvc file.tex

does essentially that. If you like Unicode in your source (infinitely more readable and exactly the same keystrokes in Emacs)

latexmk -xelatex -pvc source.tex

works.
Startup - Centralized advertisement dashboard.
Problem – Maintaining multiple advertisement networks is a pain.

Solution - We are a startup in stealth mode working on a centralized advertisement dashboard for multiple ad networks such as Google Adwords, Facebook Ads, etc. with an automatic ad generation feature.

If there are other ad networks that we should add, or if this is of interest to you, please PM me for more information.
Thanks.
Jason
Thanks for the feedback!

* yes, figured I didn't need "var app" for the demo...

* those are two helper directives needed by the main one

* I'm familiar with [4] and [5], but I don't quite see how they would apply to this situation since all I'm doing is "showing and interacting with stuff", there is no calculation, parsing etc - the data is already JSON. I can see however, that the directive is quite long, which has mostly to do with the fact that it's calling itself recursively and all cases are packed into it.

* I used multiSortable to get the array elements to be drag-and-droppable, that's where the AngularUI dependency is coming from.
I always use \frenchspacing and make it 1.
Politically speaking, certain areas traditionally vote for certain political parties or sides.

Traditionally, the Northeast and Northwest tend to vote further left (SPD, Die Linke), while the Southwest and Southeast are more likely to vote further right (CDU/CSU), with the Liberal (FDP) and Green (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) parties generally stronger in the former West-Germany, and here specifically in and around the big(ger) cities.

Die Süddeutsche has a neat little atlas that shows how close a given region has voted to the average, and how each individual party fared last time[1].

The general divide in Germany is that of North/South, where the South has traditionally been the powerhouse of the German economy, especially ever since steel and coal became less important. Except for VW, which are decidedly Northern, most other big German car manufacturers have their headquarters in the South, particularly in Baden-Württemberg or Bayern (Audi, BMW, Mercedes, and Porsche), with Opel sitting in Hessen. The north has traditionally been more agricultural, the West has been the traditional place of steel and coal (Ruhrgebiet), with particular cities or areas being particularly classicly left-wing oriented because of a high number of working class people.

[1]: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/wahlkreis-atlas-dem-durch...
In a mixed population of people who can grasp the nature of biological limits, and others who cannot, those who cannot eventually become the entire future population -- people congenitally indisposed to act intelligently. It's the inevitable outcome of natural selection.

Yes, I see you make this argument on your page on evolution that you linked to. The only possible flaw that I can see is that you say it is

impossible to do anything about without abandoning all civilized standards of behavior

I'm not saying I have a solution that doesn't require that; but I'm not sure that our only option is giving up on trying to find one. I.e., instead of "impossible" in the quote above I would put "extremely difficult". But I admit that's purely a matter of opinion on my part.
Isn't this the exact Slate.com article that the posted article deems inaccurate?
Thiel's Failed Education Experiment
Atwood's Law "any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/07/the-principle-of-le...
Magic [the Gathering] Turing Machine v5
> people only use two spaces after a period because thats what they were taught and are too stubborn to change.

Are you sure it's stubbornness that you're describing? I was taught to use 2 spaces when I was 5 or 6, and in the meantime I have been typing things for the majority of my life. When I pound out two spaces at the end of a sentence it's not out of pride or because I'm consciously thinking about it.

Telling me I'm "too stubborn" to write a single space is like saying I'm too stubborn to change my handwriting or use a Dvorak layout; these things would require conscious effort and attention to things that I am not currently thinking about, or to change what I am writing and this would slow me down. Or, considering how young I was taught, you might as well say I'm "too stubborn" to stop other current habits developed at around the same time, like bathing regularly or brushing my teeth.

Frankly if I have to please folks like you I'd rather just pipe everything I write into sed s/\ \ /\ /g. That way I don't have to drop my productivity by consciously thinking about spacing between sentences. OTOH, not one person has ever mentioned this habit to me, so it must not really be a problem.
Carnivore & NarusInsight: PRISM of the 90ies and early 2000
Unfortunately, that's just the way the cookie crumbles. Defending yourself against an accusation will always be costly.

Why must it always be costly? It is a perfectly rational alternative policy to bring a smaller number of prosecutions, and to compensate defendants for their costs, wasted time and distress, if a prosecution fails.

I take comfort in the fact that the authorities very rarely make completely baseless accusations.

You might like to look up some of the published data about the proportion of appeals that succeed against things like local-authority-issued parking tickets and ANPR-based congestion charges. It happens all the time, and erroneous charges aren't even close to the kind of isolated incidents you seem to believe they are.

As a matter of fact, there have been plenty of stories of deliberate policies to issue penalties aggressively (and sometimes outright unlawfully), but this doesn't really matter to the victims anyway. Whether it was malicious on the part of the authorities or their enforcement people just got duped as in the cloning case you mentioned makes no difference at all to an innocent third party who gets slapped with a penalty notice they didn't deserve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/74.143.2...
well, the use case I had in mind was more letting end users manipulate some JSON...
(I wrote my reply to rmc before reading your reply - honestly!)

The countries you're talking about are simply more civilised than the rest of us.

Particularly Sweden - you guys are able to execute things that just don't work in other places - PR, very widespread gun ownership with very low crime, stunningly high tax with growth, huge welfare that works, europop.

I live in England.
Compainies can do the same harm as government. Individuals can do the same harm as government. But a restriction applies to them all... they get in trouble with society if they do.
I had the opposite reaction to your perceived flaws. I found them extremely true to the rapid and abrupt nature of teenage computer use, as showcased in the first 30 seconds of the movie. That really is how chatroulette works -- you jump around dick shots for a while until you hit a decent human being.

The speech didn't seem like filler to me. Perhaps you haven't wasted enough time on ChatRoulette and the like ;)
This is not about showing them. It is about showing you. The reality is that is what the net is like and yes, getting hit on the street is gruesome. There is blood when that occurs. Welcome to life.
In my opinion this would have been better as a movie. The only interactivity was scrolling down the page to control the speed of the montage. I think the strength of a Document vs a conventional documentary/montage thing is that you can introduce a lot more information in a format that isn't strictly linear. This was linear and oftentimes too busy in with the transitions. Also, the choppy speed of my mouse scrolling vs. a smooth constant speed montage actually makes it feel more busy during big transitions.

The tech is cool, but this instance of it isn't really doing it for me.
An art video with a similar form from 2010 https://vimeo.com/12567938
FPS game concept (web demo) - time passes only when you move
> "rate" means per capita per year.

That's by no means the only meaning of "rate". The meaning of a rate depends on the two values involved -- the dividend and divisor. The identity of both defines a specific use of the term "rate".

"Murders divided by years" is one example of a rate.

"Murders divided by (years times population)" is another.

And "(mb-ma) divided by ((yb-ya) times (pb-pa))" starts us toward a moving average.

Rate doesn't have only one meaning -- to accept your definition would severely constrain mathematics.

> No, silly, if the rate is unchanged it does NOT support your point.

Of course it does -- given a rapidly increasing population and the same rate, it means the absolute number of incidents has increased. That was my point.

> There are also likely to be more hugs, more kisses, more birthday parties, and more people making silly arguments over the internet. NONE of those constitute a population-limiting crisis.

But in truth, all of them do. It's a classic case of an increasing population held within a finite land mass -- eventually the system collapses.

If the population is increasing without constraint, it doesn't matter what those people are doing apart from increasing their numbers -- the fact that they're increasing their numbers eventually becomes the only issue worth addressing.
I really try to avoid criticising (it's the easiest route) but come on!, if you are writing an article about hackers then a clean, clear semantically valid document would have impressed me a lot more.

That just hurt my eyes and the gaudy crap distracts from the writing (which in this instance was a blessed mercy).

Rolling Stone is better than this.
At the end of the day with so much 'pseudo science' thrown around from fringe scientists, all anyone has is an 'opinion'.

That was kind of my point, except that you and I would probably have different opinions on which particular arguments about these issues come under the heading of "pseudo science".

Also, you are basically saying that we don't know enough about these issues to make useful predictions about the future. At least, if that's what you were saying, I agree with you. But your post was full of predictions about the future; saying that they're "opinions" doesn't give them any more weight. If you don't know what's going to happen, the correct thing to say is that you don't know--and to base your actions on understanding your lack of knowledge, not opinions that have no useful value.
> College is without a doubt a worthwhile investment that pays off over time in increased earnings and a better quality of life. If anything, a college degree may be getting even more valuable.

Should it surprise anyone that it is expensive to buy an investment product whose returns get better and better-known?
I used to work at a company where my boss would demand I use double spacing. It used to drive me crazy.

In my opinion one space is all that is necessary. An extra space is just redundant and a waste of space (no pun intended!)
Double spaces are a pet peeve of mine. I remove all of them in any document I must edit and I'm quite thorough.
I hear what you're saying but I think this is so irrelevant, it almost seems a bit jealous in a boring way .... We're talking about a 15 year old doing DE and Physics E&M, given that IQ factors in age, I mean you might as well call him a "genius." I mean, wha are you worried about?

This is markedly different than that rich kid with connections getting Yahoo to buy his little news summary "startup" that was really a proxy play for some third party IP ... Yeah, no one thinks that kid is the next Sirinvasa Ramanujan.
FWIW (I see this has dropped off the front page now), I agree with you. The former title actually explained what the link linked to.
It's actually quite good. Imagine coffee without the bitterness or acidity. The taste is somewhere between coffee and unsweetened cocoa.
Or "take off!" or "launch!". The joke is that, in a lot of animes you can hear the characters uttering this word when a mecha (or fighter jet, or something similar) is about to be launched into action.
Hmm, very interesting. Can you give me any links for the facial capture stuff?

My full-body mocap needs are mostly sorted, but I'm extremely interested in facial mocap solutions right now because all the existing ones either exceed my budget or suck.
man afterboot:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=afterboot&sekti...
The idea is good, but in regards to Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments ACT, they need to be repealed in full, and start from scratch based on a real debate this time, and with laws not passed right before Christmas.
Sigh... Methinks the author should get a life.

Here's what should really happen: my OS should adjust tracking after periods based on preferred locale. And the same for other typography rules.

Instead, we have broken software that can't get anyone to agree on typography, and anal bloggers who are debating over how we should adapt to our broken software in an age where white space is collapsed anyway courtesy of html.
I think you missed something in my first comment. I think it was a great message. I liked it. But I already understand all that. The unfortunate part is that it can't be used to show the same great message to kids... the ones that are less likely to already know that. It would be great if someone could edit the content a tiny bit for a non-explicit version. You know... like they do to songs so they can play them on the radio.
>you're basically saying you're lazy but don't want to admit it and possibly jealous of this kid

That's not what I got out of that at all. Perhaps you're projecting in some way?
What do tow trucks teach us about educational technology?
How about rolling an octahedron? You can generate 3 bits per roll, it takes about 3 seconds to roll and record the result, for a total of 1 bit per second. How much entropy is needed to generate a 4096 bit key?

Of course this is likely less secure than using /dev/random, as you will be typing in the bits, someone could log the bits you type in, someone could have a telephoto lens and take pictures of your dice rolls.

It's always possible to be paranoid to the point that whatever you do isn't secure.