skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect you've missed the point. When the answer is clearly 1/3 when the problem is this:

Take a room full of people. Ask them all to stand up.
Then:

Sit down if you don't have exactly two children.
Sit down if neither child is a boy.
What proportion of the remainder have two boys.

The problem is: what made the speaker say that in the first place? Under different assumptions you get different answers. This is akin to the problem:

Take a stick and break it at random into three pieces.
What is the probability the pieces can be used to make
a triangle?

Different people have different interpretations of what it means to say "at random."

Foshee's Tuesday-Boy question helps us see why this is an issue.

I have a child. One is a boy, born on a Tuesday.
What is the probability the other is also a boy?

Using the "obvious" reasoning the answer is 13/27.

I have a child. One is a boy, born on a Tuesday, plays the
piano, juggles, has red hair, and is left-handed. What is the
probability the other is also a boy?

Now the same reasoning as gave the answer 1/3 for the first version here gives the answer 1/2 - epsilon. To many this seems wrong, and highlights the importance of being explicit about the assumptions being made.

That's the point of the post, not the naive calculation.

See also Tanya Khovanova's post: http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?p=221

There's also a follow-up using Shannon entropy to help: http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?p=254
Privacy fears over Tesco's plans to scan customers' faces
I don't know what the new Microsoft wants. What is it that they want to sell? This is important and you can't just say "everything to everyone".

Amazon.com has a focus on retail. They sell stuff and the Kindle (including Kindle Fire) line is just a medium to get it to the customer. If FedEx and others kicked the bucket tomorrow and Amazon felt UPS was too strong as a vendor, they'd probably start their own logistics department. If they felt Comcast was too dominant, they'd probably want to do something about that as well.

Google's focus is arguably its services (which it uses to push ads). Apple is stubbornly a devices (hardware) company.

However, it is unclear what Microsoft's angle is here. Do they want to make money selling software through OEMs? It doesn't seem like they want to push prices of hardware down. They make too much money off of enterprise software to cut that arm off. Online services does not make enough money to let it completely cannibalize the software licensing cash cow yet.

I am glad I don't run Microsoft. I would be lost.
I said a similar sort of thing to someone just last week. He thought I was nuts. Time will tell.

The end of the world is nigh. etc.
I would guess the 3-D printed version is a lot less durable. Also a lot of the cost of prosthetics is the customisation to the individual, which I'm not sure the printer software could handle.
Science always has two sides, one good and one terrible. Likewise you can write software for good and for bad. Some people would rather eliminate both to avoid the bad, but that's bad as well. Avoid killing 100m to save 5b is not easy unless you are among the 5b.
There's perhaps a third possibility I can see besides the two I laid out earlier, but it's hardly more flattering. If the idea is to just let bigotry continue, with no expectation that natural forces will resolve it, then that sounds to me like callous disregard for systemic injustice that is both historic and ongoing.

At some point, a person doesn't have to themselves have bigoted beliefs to be a part of a rotten system. Inaction is sufficient. I don't think our concern should be for preserving every last drop of agency of people who have already made it into positions of wealth and influence when we have people at major disadvantage in the workforce for personal characteristics they had little or no agency in determining.

My favorite Kurt Vonnegut book, Mother Night, is about the war crimes trial of a fictional all-star propagandist for the Nazi party. As the book proceeds, you learn that he was probably actually a double agent working for the US while not sincerely trying to be such a great propagandist. Yet he was a great propagandist, and his insincere work was of great service to evil. It brings up the question of whether intention really overrides the appearance and results of your actions.
Ask YC: Warranties for angel investors
Hi All,

Just a quick question: Does anyone here know what is normal / have a view to what is fair when providing warranties to Angel Investors on an a $200,000 round.

We have a term sheet that asks for 2 year's salary, not sure if this is over the top?
The weirdest part of the meta discussion is the fixation on legality rather than morality of finding out if someone is single.

Also its an extremely bad business strategy. Take a single dude who probably loves the night life to Korea on a deployment, what could possibly go wrong? If you're planning a party that sounds like a fun plan. On the other hand I hate traveling, so if you pick me I'll get that system up and running faster than any human being on the planet, which sounds highly profitable.
Could work but I think they should remember this isn't an OS thing but an app thing.

BlackBerry and Nokia are still producing very good phones. But they failed to jump the app train. Blackberry may survive since the new OS supports Android apps. Nokia should work on this as well.

There are rumors that Nokia is still working on an Android Lumia.
Thanks for the detailed answer. ;) That's a good number of users. You shouldn't have any trouble at all getting your first paying customers. All the best. :)
What other frameworks are out there (other than the one you mentioned) that are worth looking into?
Awesome! I just read about that on Tech Crunch and The Next Web. Keep up the nice work guys! Love your books :)
I'm just guessing here, but you can use all the Sublime Plugins and Key combos while in INSERT mode. The Vim Insert Mode is rather limiting since you're supposed to do mostly just typing in there. I always add the basic emacs keybindings to my vimrc so that I can jump by word, to the beginning of the line / the end or move by character, without leaving insert mode. I really don't like leaving insert mode for just 2 char movements. I know there's CMD-O for that, but I find it too cumbersome still.

Apart from that, many people like the looks of Sublime, and (at least for me) the Sublime text view scrolls a lot better for large documents than either Vim, MacVim, or Emacs.

Edit: I'm not a Sublime user, I switched from longtime Vim to Emacs + Evil a couple of months ago and couldn't be happier (well, I'd like better scrolling, but I mostly jump anyway)
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We pay higher rate to sellers (55% is too low). Beside that, more competition is better for buyers.
Because someone thought of the children.
I actually have DuckDuckGo as my default search engine, but as Google extends its reach, we have to find alternatives for other services too. Google's decision to display its own products prominently and bury the rest is downright evil in my book.
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Can we get off moms I just got off yours.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_Uni...
> There's nothing to "save".

To be fair, there's a lot of intellectual property at stake.
Don't forget the segfault.org classic: "What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit By A Bus?" - An Empirical Study

http://segfault.org/writing/segfault.org/Bus.html
Nothing open-source, unfortunately. I originally wrote a Windows fuse-like filesystem driver that we used in our 1.x product line, but that was a lot of work to maintain and have since switched to CBFS https://www.eldos.com/cbfs/ - which I wrote a libfuse binding for that we directly mount through via ctypes. They are actually in the process of formally building out FUSE support for CBFS but it's not officially supported.
While the headline is nominally true, I don't thing this discussion is complete without talking about how browsers map this concept to actual device pixels ... particularly since they don't know how far the user's eyes are from the screen :)
I do not trust a company like Tesco with biometric data. They were storing passwords for their website using a reversible encryption up until last year and "rumour" has it their stores held bank-card details in plain text for a month, up until last year also. I really don't want a corp like that holding biometric data on me.
The contract is fine but a worker can cancel the opt out if they wished (in writing, giving I think 7 days notice) and (in theory at least) they can't be discriminated against for doing so.

Worth noting too that the average of 48 hours a week is calculated over 17 weeks so under even under a WTD compliant agreement you could have someone work a month of 60 hour weeks so long as you reverted to 40 hour weeks for a while after to bring the average back down.
Actually, I would argue that it is not governance that has achieved the vastly improved social acceptance of the LBGT community, it is simply society gradually changing its mind, through education and simply greater exposure, without being forced.

It seems to me you would suggest acceptance cannot be achieved without government intervention, but from where I sit that is exactly what is happening - it just takes time.
I'm guessing dad didn't pass this by the FDA and he's not protecting himself from his son suing him if everything related to the device doesn't turn out near perfect.
yeah right I can recall a hyped product called "the last one" which was supposed to do this and that was for the PET and Apple II Era in the 70's
BlackBerry Abandons Sale Process
> Now anyone who searches for my email (on Google) is displayed a (spammy) link to the dumped file containing my email, along with some jumbled letters, possibly my encrypted password.

Hmm. I was one of the hacked users, but googling my email doesn't come up with anything.
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How is this different from CUDA?
Forth is quite interesting, and cool in its own way, but: how can anything where you have to remember what is supposed to be on the stack 'high level'?
Well if it worked that way someone already would have done that wouldn't they?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwill_(accounting)
Interesting before I saw you post I made a similar comment I saw this around the time I started work!!
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I wonder who the chief security officer of Adobe is (should be was) and why they never had sufficient security audits to look at how they did security. Why is it virtually every time there is a leak people did the encryption wrong?
BlackBerry sale on hold, but Fairfax to invest
Probably not this proposal, but there are a couple scenarios that could lead to Nokia being a takeover target:

1. Microsoft's activist shareholders tanking the deal, perhaps by pointing out that buying Nokia's factories and the whole legacy handset business including Series 30 and Asha is pretty crazy.

2. Nokia's board concluding that, now that they are rid of Elop, could reboot Nokia themselves: spin Jolla back in, and start selling Sailfish and Android smartphones.
>Hydrogen is notoriously good at diffusing through seals

So is helium. That's why you can't cash in on the impending global helium shortage by buying up helium tanks.
I think, that you think, that I think, that we disagree, but actually I agree with your post and wish to extend it to show that 80-hour weeks not only don't align with personal success as per your well written post, but also 80 hours weeks do not align with organizational/business success.
curl: (7) Failed to connect to 2606:f200:0:7:bad:f00d:d00d:2: Network is unreachable
Ah yes, the end of coding is inevitable, the PC is dead, and 2013 will surely become the year of the Linux desktop.
Well, that's a major win, then.
Great idea. It's a shame Netflix isn't a part of the TankTop core service... their loss as this app may help people decide to switch away: cheeky! :)

Ex-Lovefilm customer, now with Netflix but unfortunately I don't share with Facebook so can't use the tool.
Wait for 60TB HAMR

http://storageeffect.media.seagate.com/files/2012/03/perpham...

Netflix, which uses HGST high-capacity hard drives in its data centers

I thought Netflix uses Amazon AWS ?
I would like to understand why they are using helium at all instead of a several other plausible alternatives. The article offers the following rationale for using helium in this capacity;

>>>At one-seventh the density of air, helium produces less drag on the moving components of a drive - the spinning disk platters and actuator arms -- which translates into less friction and lower operating temperatures.<<<

This appears to be a slight misunderstanding as the density of any gas is variable and we have found that it is directly proportional to the unit weight of the substance, the pressure and inversely proportional to temperature. It is not fixed. They could have easily achieved the result in multiple ways. For instance, to reduce density it might have been easier to simply reduce pressure and then create a hermetically sealed chamber with a reasonably inert gas with low atomic or molecular mass such as nitrogen. This should have saved them a lot of trouble as helium is actually pretty hard to contain. An alternative nitrogen based solution would also have been good enough for a long enough period of time and it could have been achieved in a much less expensive manner. (they say in the article that successfully trapping helium for a long enough period of time required a decade of research. This is a relatively solved problem for gases such as nitrogen)

I am sure that the people at Western Digital can see something that I don't - I'm just curious as to what that insight is. What makes helium worth all of the trouble?
Nokia won't be able to use the Lumia brand after the Microsoft deal is finalized. And they won't have their phone manufacturing department.

So we can safely say and Android Lumia won't happen.
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Us humans are insanely proficient in adapting to weirdness and suboptimal environments, and plain retarded when it comes to coping when others mess with what we're used to. Classic example: the QWERTY keyboard.

If you want to do a fun experiment, try and watch the pain in two subjects faces. One who has never used predictive text trying to use it for the first time, and one who has used it for years and is trying to use an old phone without it. Now imagine a scenario where every predictive text implementation had tailored itself to the user.
I did not write that to protect him from criticism, if you read well i said that people can do good or bad things with inventions.
He obviously did many bad things with them and at least 1 good thing, inventing a process that without it we would not have such good lives today.
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the problem is, as far as anyone with the power to do anything about it is concerned, what the NSA did was completely legal. They also claim the power to not explain to us why it's legal. Or to explain the rules by which they decide what is legal. But the end result is the same: they have effectively proven that voting is a waste of time.
"High Quality Themes
24ui.io provide high quality and awesome themes based on Twitter Bootstrap. We have review each themes and only approve good themes to list on 24ui.io."

If you aren't able to effectively check the copy on your own site, how can you make this claim?
Same reason the US flag was 'flapping' in the 'wind' on the Moon. ;)

Without any air, there's nothing to stop the head from travelling without running into control issues. The gas molecules actually act as a buffer preventing too much movement. The head will flap about with the slightest motion like a flag in a vacuum.
What's surprising is the ease with which he codes the whole thing in his video.
Why not - plenty of people could learn an open source tool like blender and produce another model can't they? As far as durability, I think that's fine for everyday tasks and might even make it a positive, easy to replace, customize for usage type etc.
Hey, I love "me too"s, they are all interesting projects. That's a very novel way of managing packages, does it work if you copy all the symlinks out and then restore them (so you can back up/restore your installed packages)?
Can't people transmute some helium?
As the author of Trapeze (spreadsheet like application from way back then) is was nice to be mentioned. People have been trying to make coding go away even before I started coding and so far it's still moving more in the opposite direction.
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After the release of the book "Remote", by 37signal, I decided to share my thoughts about Remote Working. I've been working remotely from a lot of time and this is my experience.
Mine also comes with voice. For Unicom, it's an ok deal, and I have a few add ons like international roaming on top of that.
One way of thinking of it is in terms of how far along the rope the ant is. If the ant is 20% along the rope, and the rope stretches, the ant is still 20% of the way along a now-bigger rope. Therefore the ant never loses ground, so to speak.

The effect of the stretching is to reduce the ant's speed measured in units of "proportion of the rope". E.g. if the rope is 100cm and the ant is going 1 cm/s, then the ant is covering 1% of the rope per second. If the rope doubles in length and the ant keeps the same speed, the ant is covering 0.5% of the rope per second. So the ant is decelerating in this set of units; the total distance it travels becomes a matter of computing a limit.
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Perhaps due to hydrogen embrittlement of the metals?
> Hydrogen is notoriously good at diffusing through seals, and even through metal.

Exactly this. Efficient hydrogen storage is a huge open research question. Even keeping the helium sealed can be difficult enough.
Yeah, I am always happy to pay for defense against myself.
Bill Gates is not going to save the world, says The Internet.
and then there is this: https://github.com/fatih/subvim sublime in vim :-)
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There's waffles
http://waffles.sourceforge.net/

and vowpal wabbit
https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/wiki
I'm guessing the fact that it's an inert gas is important as it won't be a risk (in case of fire or toxicity) in case the enclosing is broken.

Also I think the density was presumed to be at room temperature, reasonable pressure. Under these circumstances He might provide the least drag. Having a pressurized enclosure might make the drive more expensive as stronger materials need to be used, and it would also make it more dangerous in case of mishandling, so I think there was a limited range of pressure they could maintain in the enclosure.
Google is good for searching immensely vast troves of information simply because there is no other way you could really do it. A categorical index of the entire internet would be fairly un-feasible.

OTOH when we have smaller and more focused collections of information such as programming documentation or catalogues of similar products we tend to find it easier to navigate with categorical listings or simpler search algorithms.
Since the authors claim that it is "Built on top of scalable frameworks such as Hadoop and Cascading" I guess that it is aiming to be production-ready while scikit is mostly for prototyping.
> hydrogen is chemically inert enough

In addition to just keeping it stored (as others have mentioned), hydrogen can have huge structural effects. It doesn't matter if it's chemically inert if it ends up diffusing through your metal and forming voids and the like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement
Good luck trying to raise "fresh financing"...
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How long until Blackberry flames out completely? I used to think that they had technology that was worth saving, but this is pretty much Nortel 2.0 now.
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Thanks! 8)

By "outdated", I was referring to the product description(s).

Nice idea for the Google Calendar! Is that a fairly common thing? I can't recall seeing it anywhere else, but it could just be the bubble I'm in.
Your organization sucks at innovating
What was the major issue with sealing He in a HD that it took 10 years to figure out?
I think the $1bn is coming from Fairfax, but the article isn't entirely clear on that.
Funny you mention "not being able to go to school" as a problem that can't be solved by the internet, because with all the knowledge that's in there, someone with time and motivation can really get a lot of the benefits of a school. Knowledge is the power to stand on the shoulders of giants and optimise your way through a tough situation. At least that's one way it could work. This isn't just about school reports.
The video will be released for all in the next couple weeks.
I agree. I think we will continue to abstract our communication with machines until the act of having to type code into a computer is a task that is largely only performed by a small subset of society (programmers).

But even when the day of having to do very minimal physical coding to direct computers arrives, I think there are still many benefits for the majority of people to learning this crude and dated form of coding. Perhaps not necessarily to become programmers, but to at least have some understanding of the guts of machines that power society.

In fact, I think the further removed we get from the physical code in directing machines, the stronger the imperative we have to expect future generations to understand not just what something is, but how and why it works.
True, but rumors are that they were testing Android on the Lumia series.

But ofcourse rumors are just that: rumors ;)
AFAIK you could introduce mosses (Vesicularia and the likes) instead of higher plants, they're not as CO2 dependent. Every aquarium tutorial I ever read tells me that air pumps lower the CO2 content and you need injection as you explain.
Blackberry abandons sell-off plan
I had WHM which comes with an ability to fully manage (create/edit/suspend/delete) CPanels for clients.
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Ah nice! I considered something like this when writing my honours project, but ultimately moved on to other things. I really hope you see this through - but I'd recommend implementing Knuth-Plass basically straight away, I reckon it's what makes the difference!
That is a great intuitive explanation. Much better than the current wikipedia informal solution.

You should add it to Wikipedia, maybe under a new "An intuitive explanation" paragraph.
Scikit-learn is a library of machine learning algorithms.
PredicitionIO does the stuff around machine learning you need to get a system into production. It provides a REST API to interact with the system and it handles data storage and retrieval as well. I think it has fewer algorithms than scikit-learn. This may or may not be a problem depending on your use case.