skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, If I had a choice, I would definitely NOT want to assign a probability distribution and run a MC sim.

First because the probablity distribution itself would have to be pulled out of thin air, and make the results questionable.

Second because writing the assumption->outcome formulas is simply quicker than running an MC sim even if doing the sim is a one-liner (simply ensuring that the data is in appropriate format and testing once will take longer than needed).

Third (and main) because you don't particularly need the actual outcomes at all, the hands-on-tweaking of these assumptions and 'interactive learning' is the whole point of doing it all, you need to personally learn and feel the relation between these assumptions and financial results, and the 'result' numbers and graphs are just a side-effect and notes/docs to remind you later.

And if you need to convince someone else afterwards of your conclusions, then for 99% of audiences you anyway want to use 'specific plausible scenario story' (or comparisons of such scenarios) instead of a probability distribution coming out of a solid mathematical simulation of all possibilities; since it's well researched that the first kind of evidence works better in convincing homo sapiens about anything at all.
I live in Canada, and you're not getting worse weather than here, and plenty of people don't drive an SUV.
I largely agree with this, it seems the only area where valuations are getting really crazy are in the app market. I assume the only real plan they could have is acquisition, and even then I really only see Facebook taking that dive.
Did you read this part?

> Data is read and written directly from/to shared memory

Good luck accessing your dictionaries from another python process....
To me it is not so much about the syntax of HTML/CSS itself which I can of course google etc, the biggest challenge is how to put a sketch/wireframe/concept to HTML/CSS version. How do i create the layout ? Where do I position a section ? How do I decide if I should create nested rows vs columns vs what not. These are the things that are so difficult to me as a programmer who just barely hacks some bootstrap/zurb themes.
I just got my first Arduino yesterday. It came with a light sensor and some other pieces as part of a starter pack. This is my first project of any kind dealing with anything EE-related or even C-related. This could help get used to some of the concepts surrounding programming for an Arduino.
For eyestrain, don't forget enough sleep, hydration, breaks, maybe reading glasses, f.lux, proper low glare ambient lighting, and astigmatism (get your eyes checked at Costco - cheap & no membership required).

Craigslist is your friend for trying out monitors before you buy, then buying one, of course. So, too, is taking your laptop to the local computer store and testing (if they'll let you) several sizes and shapes. I'm comfortable (sitting) with a Dell 24" appearing above my laptop screen. Standing, I haven't made up my mind yet.

Given buying another monitor now, I'd go with IPS as others have advocated here.
Facebook have already cloned it.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/facebook-poke/id588594730
I'd love to use this service but as a freelancer who would get much more than 300 feedbacks a month the pricing schema seems completely off point and makes it impossible for me to use.

I really hate companies that have tiered pricing, it's unfair to those who don't use all of their allocated tier and unfair to those who need much more and are fine with paying if I don't need to contact them, just implement a way for me to pay-per-feedback or something.
That sounds perfect -- thanks!
Baumeister has a fully developed theory that explains a great deal about modern relationships in economic terms:

http://www.carlsonschool.umn.edu/assets/71503.pdf
Show HN: Multiplayer Snakes
Accessible across multiple python processes (shared memory).
Amen! I hate how (at least in American culture) we men are portrayed as having no self control. When did society get such a low opinion of us?
Database as a file system. In some ways it actually makes an odd sort of sense...

SELECT * FROM sdc
WHERE Type='mp3';

I could see uses for something like that. You could even treat it like a traditional file system for fallback purposes, if one of the tags was a 'directory' tag.

Also, it would make sense in cases where you have... [whatever the equivalent for NUMA is for disks. NUDA? Things like hard drives with a limited flash cache.] Store the indexes on the flash or in RAM (periodically backed up to the disk, of course). Biggest issue would be wear on the flash, though.
Oh please. Give me a break. I have read typo and grammar errors on well published papers and those are the big guys in their fields. I am sure their products aren't polished either.
We can't? There are many ways software can be applied to "real" problems.

Folding@Home[1] is one of the oldest examples of this. It is a distributed computing network that uses brute force to crack protein folding, which is imperative in our understanding and curing of many conditions. It also makes it easy for the everyman to contribute their computing power to the task.

We literally can help cure diseases by writing code.

[1] http://folding.stanford.edu/
List of problems solved by MacGyver
New contributions to established articles should often be discussed on the talk page because of (a) though, and the fact that people sometimes just come in and start making major changes without looking at the work that's already been done is one thing that actively drives experts away. After a few history experts discuss the conflicting sources and an article reaches a semi-stable state after considerable discussion and additional research, someone will come in and make major changes to the article without reading any of that, usually based on an incomplete-at-best understanding of the historical sources, and sometimes reintroducing popular myths that had been previously removed after library research turned up good sources on the subject. Sometimes there are legitimate objections and an article should be changed. But also, sometimes, certain questions or disputes or uncertainties have already been discussed in previous versions of the article (often by historians who work in this field!), and it's worth understanding the work that's already been done to get the article to its present state, before rehashing the same issues.

A number of historians have given up on Wikipedia because it's too easy for people to edit articles without discussion. An expert will spend a bunch of time working out a solid, cited article that integrates the best current understanding, often in discussion with other people, then come back 6 months later and find their work has basically bitrotted. In which case, why bother doing the hard work of hashing out a good article in the first place? Some academics therefore prefer a much more bureaucratic encyclopedia model, where all changes must first be proposed and then vetted by an expert in the subject who "owns" the article; Citizendium and Scholarpedia are two attempts to build that model of encyclopedia.
What do you see as the value-add to taxpayers of humanities degrees?

Would a patronage system work better for these types of degrees?
No, it isn't. There is absolutely no need to have a truck-based, tall monster of a vehicle in even the most serious of winter conditions in the United States. 1: places will close of road conditions are that bad. 2: a front wheel drive with good snow tires is plenty good. 3: if you're that scared of driving in the snow, a subaru impreza with snow tires is small and does quite well in the most extreme stuff.
>If they are put through a mixer, you'll end up discriminating against people that are completely unrelated.

Wouldn't you do that just so people would be afraid to deal with tainted coins or shared wallets?
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Hacker News Enhancement Suite is a cool option too: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

Although, I love the endless scrolling of HackerNew.
As a scientist, two things come to mind:

1) Tenure is a different beast at some medical institutions where your funding comes almost entirely from your own grant support. There are tenured professors and it's fair to argue that tenure is important as a promotion, but if a tenured professors loses his/her grant funding, they can lose their office just like their un-tenured associates (I've heard of it but have not seen it personally).

2) The bigger problem is that tenured professors leave and head for prestigious jobs in the private industry. I always wondered why this was the case; I was enlightened talking to a spouse of a prestigious professor who said that in general the academic system treats even the tenured professor terribly. The big, big opportunities (and accompanying explosion in salary) are only in the private sector.
"the FBI may have seized the key to that [111,000 BTC] wallet and thus gained control of the bitcoins, which they could transfer at any time to the FBI’s own wallet. “They may have the key and just be keeping them at that address,” says Meiklejohn. “That would explain what we wouldn’t have seen them move."

That would be extremely stupid for the FBI to do. If they don't immediately transfer the coins, then anybody with a backup of this wallet (eg. an accomplice that has yet to be apprehended) could run away with the coins, even after the wallet has been "seized".

So, unless the FBI is that stupid, it is almost certain that they have not seized this secondary wallet of 111,000 BTC.
Gee, I thought the government shutdown had succeeded in getting everyone to forget this whole spy hullabaloo. Well at least it worked in the good old USA.
Like how teenagers are drawn to news about Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber (good news or bad), programmers are drawn to rare successes that are outside the norm.

It's fun to look at celebrity tech culture (just like it is to read the covers of the trashy mags at the checkout counters at your grocery store). Just because we see news like this doesn't mean that important, interesting, valuable work that helps people isn't being done somewhere else.
Practical Typography is excellent. Excellent. I think he makes some hyperbolic statements at times, but Butterick as a whole is very accessible.

The only annoyance was ignoring Butterick's plugs for his personal typefaces.

I was very happy to buy a copy of his typography for lawyers book for a friend as recompense for this resource.
Woman Forced To Strip And Serve Jail Time For Overdue Ticket
20 years ago today apple took its first crack at tv
Well, it was certainly an offensive and horrifically stupid response that no doubt will go down on "Ofek"'s permanent record. But while it's safe to assume that he new that the person he was writing to was female, we have no evidence that he knew she was also a person of color:

This offensive slur reinforces the notion that women of color should be thrilled with the meager scraps they are thrown, and that they should smile and nod while doing so.

Now do we?
>[Coca-Cola does] not solve any real problems

huh? Providing value in a market has nothing to do having some direct and profound impact on society. They make drinks people like and are willing to pay for.
PCs are ugly, clunky and they take up a lot of space at home. Also, a PC reduces the appeal of home or office, compared with a Mac. Honestly this is one of the reasons I bought a Mac. Ofcourse Mac is UNIX, that is another major reason.
I tried "women should", and got 0: "er bags", 1: "er tattoos" and 2: " be seen and not heard". Then I tried "men should", which returned " weep", " weep cracker", oh and " er bag".
Why would you need FBI validation? It's a fact that Bitcoins have value.
PHP Official Website have Malware SAYS GOOGLE
Hey, thanks for the feedback. Right now the TOS are basically stock, so we have something at launch (lawyers!). We can modify them at any time so welcome input and I'll be sure to talk to them about striking such language. Thanks again.
I'm sorry I can't find the article I read (about 2 years ago and it may well have been from a HN link if anyone recognises it?).

In said article it explains how since the Iraq invasion the entry requirements for the U.S. Marines have slipped on almost every front. Mental health, criminal convictions, education and even physical fitness requirements have all been reduced significantly and the striking thing about the article was that it made the comparison between the Marines and the SS - most especially the Dirlewanger Brigade. It was a strained, but apt, comparison that stated the last time a military unit had so drastically augmented it's entry requirements was in putting together that infamous squad for the purposes of punishment and outright terror. Shock and awe indeed.

Now that is a hell of a comparison to make and a direct appeal to Godwin, but as other people are pointing out the gradual decline of the U.S. into a totalitarian police surveillance state and it's military deployments overseas can't help but make this commentator think of the U.S. as being the last bastion of fascism(c).

Good luck to you, Aaron. My brother is in the Military here in the U.K. so I've had to man up and put my ideologies to the test. I don't agree with what the Military Industrial Complex are doing, but I'm acutely aware how one should judge these things on the correct scale. Each individuals actions must be judged very differently from those of the unit, and in that way I think I justify being proud of my brother whilst simultaneously condemning the system as a whole.

Rainier Maria Rilke may have helped me a bit there.
I have a number of websites hosted on a dedicated server running Linux. Is there any specific things that I should do on my server to mitigate/prevent any impact from a DDoS against one of the site I host?
I don't think the issue is emptying trash deletes the files. The issue is "moving" a file from Google Docs to the desktop, creates a link on the desktop, but moves the Google Docs file to the trash. You now have a link on your desktop to files in the trash. Why would anyone think this is a good thing, or what the user even wanted to do?
> Do you think that these 300 saved lives of others because of what they did?

No, I think it was overall a waste of human life. The situation could have been handled far better by putting out the fires immediately -- those were spewing toxic, radioactive smoke into the air. After that, however, instead of attempting a coverup, the first priority should have been evacuation. Once people were out of harm's way, there would be time for planning a safe, careful cleanup effort.

Because of the poor design, which lacked of secondary containment, some deaths in the initial firefighting might have been unavoidable, but the death toll was unnecessarily high, all for the sake of saving face and hoping that things could be covered up.
Virtual iBeacon
What developers want and what people buying from those developer want may not be the same thing.
I assume that most exchanges involving bitcoins are purely speculative. Given that, I don't see most buyers caring (or even knowing) whether they have an "FBI bitcoin".
Even in the rarified atmosphere that is Silicon Valley, the Instagram acquisition was unusual. Very much so. Acquired by Facebook just prior to their IPO. Lots of motivations for that, but by no means is Instagram an exemplar of anything. It's probably an outlier among outliers.
Thanks for this comment. It frames the valuation in a way that actually makes some semblance of sense.
Coca-Cola isn't an idea, it's sugar water, something people have enjoyed for decades. SnapChat is a service that requires very little infrastructure when compared to Coca-Cola. Not to mention thousands of employed people vs a handful.

Watching a bunch of critical thinkers, developers and startups pull at straws trying to defend ridiculous payouts, evaluations and utopian end-games sounds more like 2009-era stock broker talk than it does anything positive or revolutionary.
>Same goes for every oil company in existence.

We owe the 20th century and virtually every convenience in our lives to the existence of petro-chemicals. There is absolutely no justification that oil companies "don't solve real problems".

I would go so far as to claim petro-chemicals are the single most important discovery in human history. (There are certainly downsides in the form of global warming, pollution and environmental damage, but you've completely ignored the massive upside).
By the way, I really like the metaphor of describing IPython Notebook as "executable paper" - that's clever and concise.
Am I being too cynical to think that if the person/group with this intelligence wants to move the United States in a certain direction, they can easily threaten, blackmail, or leak embarrassing/illegal information about those politicians/high-ranking military officers/CEOs of large corporations standing in their way.

I am not saying every powerful person can be blackmailed, threatened, or have career-ruining secrets, but even if you have the power to control the actions of 1% of those people, that's a pretty significant power.
If you care, or for others who haven't yet approached Stack Exchange sites [1] in the wrong way and found themselves put off as a result, the way to start building reputation is by answering questions, not just accurately but as extensively and generally as you can manage, with bonus points for considering edge and corner cases. Play to your strengths in terms of domain knowledge, especially in relatively obscure domains of which you have extensive knowledge, and don't get discouraged if you are not immediately lauded; SE pages tend to rank very highly in Google searches for topics to which they have relevance, which means that if your answers are sufficiently valuable, they will be found and upvoted over time; in terms of reputation, which SE makes the essential currency of being able to do things such as edit questions and answers directly, this 'long tail' effect is considerably more valuable in the long term than getting your answers accepted. (That green check mark is worth 25 reputation points, once per answer; each upvote is worth ten, as often as someone with an account finds your answer of use. Answering the specific question in a quick and narrow fashion is more likely to get you the check mark; answering extensively and in detail, as I describe here, will certainly get you upvotes over time, unless no one but you and the asker cares about the subject anyway. Which buys you more rep? You do the math.)

Is it necessarily worth playing the Stack Exchange game? Certainly not, especially as the sites have grown to an extent which strains the moderators' ability to manage them -- Super User, I'm looking at you in particular, and the flood of undifferentiated garbage questions which has increasingly occupied your front page since I created my account a year ago, and Stack Overflow, you're hardly better, thanks to the endless zombie hordes of idiot PHP hacks who ask the same stupid question twenty times rather than try a single Google search which would certainly turn up the obvious, simple answer. Worse, in fact, as the original developer admits [2], the Stack Exchange model is explicitly designed to be addictive, and he and Spolsky nailed it; if you're not in favor of time sinks, Stack Exchange is probably not for you. But if you're a domain expert who finds interesting questions appealing, or even better someone who finds that the best way of gaining knowledge of a given domain is to work out how to answer other people's questions about it, you might do well to try out a Stack Exchange site.

[1] Except for English Language and Usage, than which you will never find a more wretched hive of snark and pedantry; unless you're a tenured professor of pointless linguistics, your time will be better spent on almost any other activity, be it Wikipedia editing or toenail bonsai.

[2] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/10/the-gamification.ht...
reminds me of snafu on intellivision
This is ridiculous. How exactly does Snapchat plan on profiting from their user base if they have yet to have proven a revenue model?

Sure, advertisements seem like the end game, but how will they be targeted? How can they be implemented without severely affecting application experience and user expectations?
Theodolite goes to the Great Wall of China
What cues did the author miss? Why would the author (or anyone) expect the file they JUST copied to their desktop to now suddenly be in the trash can?
The idea of being 'settled for' upsets me greatly.
Dawn Of The Thread
Nobody believed Twitter would make massive $ two years in. There's never been a startup who achieved serious traction but wasn't able to monetize itself.
He should have kept a backup. Possibly some sort of cloud backup system.
I would not call that rural at all -- it's within the city limits.
>Same goes for every oil company in existence

I don't know what to say if you don't think oil solves real problems.
>Nursing, lack of sleep for years

What? Nursing doesn't last that long, and 'lack of sleep' is part of rearing and not forced on the woman.

>The man can just leave. The pregnant woman can't.

She can give the child up for adoption just as easily as the man can leave the relationship. And rearing is the vast majority of the effort.

Yes women have to do more, but the difference is not nearly as much as you're arguing.
Then you are simply a different user type.

Btw I presume from the bit about ms dos that you dont llike shells. But thats ur preference