skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want both a strategy for testing with limited data, and information about the kinds of errors you are likely to encounter, you may want to read http://elem.com/~btilly/ab-testing-multiple-looks/part2-limi....
This would be huge. It's been on the RDS wishlist for years - https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=37834
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We did something similar (to help with memory retention) and using spaced repetition a while ago: http://memstash.co
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> able to use generic objects (buttons, cells, text, images, etc.) which wrap the native ones.

You mean QML?
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Reading this lead me to a tangentially related question:

Is there a recommended forum, website, subreddit, whatever, that discusses issues revolving around startup equity?

I'm new to the Bay Area, and working at my first funded startup. There are a lot of, for lack of a better word, things that strike me as strange about our current equity situation... and I'd like to know where I can discuss things like what is fair and equitable, and how worried I should be that certain fancy titles are being handed out like candy to non-developers.

I do, by the way, like the ideas suggested in the post - but I wonder about the company that achieves moderate success, but never achieves a clear-cut liquidity event. Instead it continues on for years, perhaps a decade, who knows, without being sold or IPOing. It would put an initial employee in an awkward position; they'd leave most of their equity on the table if they left, giving them no value for many years of contributions.
>Mobile carriers could offer the Moto G profitably at a negative price

Doubt US carriers are going to let that happen, I haven't seen many negative prices except on feature phones.

Only Tmobile seems to be willing to let the consumer take advantage of lower handset prices. Also, wonder how much Motorola makes(or loses) per Moto G at these prices.

Anyway I hope the Moto G does better than the Moto X. Even with the massive hype and the continuing ad blitz on TV(I see around 3 to 4 Moto X ads in about 2 hours TV viewing) about customization and the always-on voice features, it doesn't seem to be selling well[1].

Starting from the 500K sales figure in the 3rd quarter and generously adding, say, a million more in Q4, the rumored ad budget of $500M [2] would mean Google is spending ~$333 per handset in advertisements.

That would probably add more to the already heavy Motorola losses[3] and Google shareholders would soon be questioning the merits of subsidizing Motorola's losses.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/11/11/motorola-plans-low-co...

[2] http://androidandme.com/2013/07/news/wsj-google-to-promote-m...

[3] http://mobilenewsblog.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Sc...
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If you don't have an idea for a project (I totally didn't), find an open source project that you like, start contributing to it and get to the point where you can get accepted as a core developer / maintainer. It can be a great way to show that you have chops (and you end up doing many things that are important dev skills, like code reviews, API design, handling a legacy codebase, etc.). Plus, it's fun and can be a good way to meet people.
Absolutely, small tests can make large differences.

However, you only have so many "bullets" to shoot at tests with a small audience so you have to be very picky. Sounds like contact inviting is a key viral feature of YesGraph so it makes a lot of sense to optimize there.

I'm not anti A/B testing at all, but anecdotally a lot of people I talk to about this stuff fire their test bullets on the wrong things and end up with not much to show for it.

A better understanding of psychology goes a long way into intuiting where you may actually be able to see gains, and how to go about achieving them. Sometimes this can be small changes producing large gains, although I have seen large changes produce larger gains more often.
That point of contact does not have to be available 24/7/365.
It says it's powered by PCoIP. I've tested one of the PCoIP hardware thin clients before, and it works really well across a WAN. An employee ran from his home a graphically intensive 3D render application at 1920x1080 on one of the EVGA thin clients. We didn't test it across a 3G connection or anything like that.
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I think you missed the point of Mono. Windows compatibility is one thing, but being able to use a really nice language that is C# and a really nice stdlib that comes with the CLR on non-Windows OS-es for development is something completely different.
The only things that are powerful and expressive in JavaScript are bastardized beyond recognition versions of ideas from Lisp, Smalltalk and Self. You get those dynamic mechanisms that we know for 50 years now (lambda expressions and runtime method dispatch, oh wow) to be useful but without learning any lessons learned in those 50 years about how to design a coherent language based on those concepts, you just get a hodgepodge of language constructs that don't add up together to form a useful toolkit. It might look nice in a 30 line program where you don't care about performance, code readability (and boy does this code look ugly) and bugs and maintenance costs.

Ruby or Smalltalk have an object system for doing those kinds of things that was actually designed and not evolved by committees and corporations, so that your meta-programming doesn't have to always be only eval and .bind in various incarnations (unsafe, inconvenient and slow). I can't imagine how this thing here that makes evaluating "A1" perform a function call fits into the rest of JavaScript and why the hall was it even introduced:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Not to mention the "with" usage on which this hack is based is actively discouraged by everyone using JavaScript as it basically mixes in the object into the current scope. In a sane language, you do .instance_eval, and you narrow the scope to whatever the object contains.

I congratulate the author of this code as much as everyone for finding an unexpected and very creative use for those features, but this doesn't make them great.
Ooh, this one is really good. Also heartbreaking as someone who invested a TON of time into making personal investment calls. I definitely learned this one the hard way.

One thing that I would add also is that investors don't seem to want to be introduced to you by their non-investor/non-business contacts, so their friends and acquaintances. I learned this one also because I figured that would be a good approach. What seems to happen in this case is the "stink" on you gets transferred to the intermediary and the investor picks up on it.
I'm pretty sure that certain entities within the US (and elsewhere) already have full mirrors of all data hosted in German clouds.
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In my experience on a Gbit LAN, RDP is really fast, VNC and TeamViewer, not so much. I'm connected to a Windows 7 machine via RDP and to a Mac via VNC (even though I used to use TeamViewer) with Remmina on Ubuntu.
'cept Sunray is no more:

"In July 2013, reports circulated that Oracle was ending the development of Sun Ray, and related products.[4] Scott McNealy (long-time CEO of Sun) tweeted about this.[5] An official announcement was made August 1, 2013, with a last order in February 2014.[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray#cite_ref-eol_2-1
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Show HN: chat without contact information
Mobile group chat today is centralized. Most mobile chat apps rely on a central admin to add each person to their address book and then to select contacts to form a group chat. Additionally, if you want to add someone to the chat, you need to pass their contact information on to the admin. So there is an underlying dependence on digital contact information.

The other problem with group chat today is that over time group chats can veer off topic. Group chats can become static never-ending threads, like one long email chain, instead of being topical and then just going away.

What if you could group chat without the exchange of contact information and without the dependence on a central admin? What if the barrier to creating group chats is reduced so that they can be created instantly? How do you get 20 people in a physical room to start chatting instantly, and, by extension, friends who later might want to join the chat?

This is why we built ChatTag (available on the App Store or check us out at chattag.com). Feedback would be awesome.
Interesting read, but I would have to disagree. It's not difficult to reach 90% confidence with very a small sample size:

- Variation A and B each receive 20 visits
- Variation A receives 10 clicks while variation B receives 5 clicks
- The confidence interval for Variation A is 90%
(Source: https://mixpanel.com/labs/split-test-calculator)

Also, I wrote an article titled "Creating Successful Product Flows" that is very relevant to this post:
https://medium.com/design-startups/c41ffbce49a1
Still need a US credit card :-(
It's a self-signed certificate that's been around for over a year...The contact info is for Isaac Schlueter, the creator of npm.
I can see this really helping with the BYOD revolution that's happening in enterprise. There's been an increasingly awkward mix of personal use and data with computers meant for corporate work. Virtual Desktops done well can really help here.

I can see more companies providing funds to employees to buy the device they prefer instead of provisioning a machine for each employee (ours does that already). Then the computer can be used locally for personal needs and through the virtual desktop for work.

Though as I've been traveling more lately, I can see how the need for a persistent, high-quality internet connection can be an issue in the field.
education, banking and shipping are of course all much easier in a city state which is advantageously located and was, prior to decolonialistion, full of the best facilities for all of these in the region by far..

safety, cleanliness and stability are all pretty straightforward attributes of authoriarianism . Unless we want to reconsider our concpetion of 20th century governments usually deemed 'backward' which also achieved this, I'm not sure we should call this 'progress'
I've never had to work so hard to find out _what_ license they're releasing things under. I followed about seven links and finally got it.

EDIT: Apparently they haven't updated their nuget packages and some of these components truly are licensed under FOSS, per: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2012/03/27/asp-net-mv... and https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=adolfojp

The license that used to cover all of these, and that may still cover some of the components is this:

http://www.microsoft.com/web/webpi/eula/aspnetcomponent_rtw_...

I like to think of things as copyright, copyleft and copy middle. This looks like an entirely new beast: copyquagmire

A few pieces of the license:

* For any Distributable Code you distribute, you must
· add significant primary functionality to it in your programs;
...
· indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Microsoft from any claims, including attorneys’ fees, related to the distribution or use of your programs.
*

So, if you redistribute these libraries, you agree to be on the hook for MS legal bills.

*
Distribution Restrictions. You may not
· modify or distribute the source code of any Distributable Code so that any part of it becomes subject to an Excluded License. An Excluded License is one that requires, as a condition of use, modification or distribution, that

· the code be disclosed or distributed in source code form; or

· others have the right to modify it.
*

So it is anti-GPL. I personally think this is a good thing, I hate the copy-virus in the GPL. Maybe this is even a poison pill that invalidates GPL code in a project, thereby protecting you from inadvertently letting your code fall under GPL (which I would consider to be a good thing). Whichever clause wins, this is a quagmire.

Lets continue.

*
you must comply with any technical limitations in the software that only allow you to use it in certain ways. You may not

· work around any technical limitations in the software;

· reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits, despite this limitation;

· publish the software for others to copy;

· rent, lease or lend the software;

· transfer the software or this agreement to any third party; or

· use the software for commercial software hosting services.
*

So, basically you can't modify it or change it.

*
BACKUP COPY. You may make one backup copy of the software. You may use it only to reinstall the software.
*

Why the hell is this in an "open source" license?

This isn't an open source license, this is a free commercial license with a bit of lipstick, a wink, and a head-fake towards openness.

Thankfully, it seems other divisions of msft (F# for instance) use the Apache License V2 which is in fact a copy-middle free as in beer and freedom open source license.
I've done this before too (even down to it being a SG -> CA link!).

I think the best practise is to automate. Waiting on individual key presses to be echoed back when there is latency is incredibly frustrating, a slight delay while a shell script runs is completely unnoticeable.
It's in the techcrunch article.[1]

There’s also an FM receiver in the phone for “access to free music,”

Sorry I posted this on the wrong article.

[1]http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/13/motorola-makes-the-moto-g-o...
US intelligence wants to radically advance facial recognition software
There's a difference between eligibility for a clearance (which is the screening process you refer to) and actually having a clearance. You have a clearance when you're at a job where one is required. When you depart that job your clearance is revoked (but the eligibility screening remains). So you don't need to monitor everyone with a screening, just those with an actual in-use clearance.
Mr. Airbrite here. We are saying it based on the money and on total backers, where the 100K video game projects also come in first.

We don't want to discourage you from publishing your comic books. We like graphic novels, and we're going to analyze the category later to see what pledge levels work best.

Looking at our data, I see the average 100K comic book project gets about 3900 backers, and from them, about $62 per head.
Hmhmhmhm... I'm working with the people who are building these cloud systems, so let me elaborate a little:

No, the Wolfram Language is not natural language. It's the LISP-like language behind Mathematica. We needed to do that from a branding perspective so that the Mathematica product can continue to exist for the academic market without being conflated with the underlying language, which has much wider aspirations.

But as for natural language, you can press '=' and go into 'natural language mode' and write stuff like "total the list", but in my opinion it isn't very good yet and is only really useful for absolute beginners. I think it could get much better in the future when we have nice sophisticated type inference going (which I am working on right now).

As for IPython: the In[..] and Out[..] lines you see in IPython (and amusingly some other cloud system-based IDEs now) mirror v1 of Mathematica back in 1987 (I believe deliberately). It's an amusing accident of syntax that evaluating In[1] works in both Python and Mathematica.

But yes, exactly, part of this whole story is an online IDE (actually, a set of them) that makes it extremely easy to get a whole system deployed. Imagine setting up some machine learning, creating some slick visualizations, allocating some persistent storage, putting it behind an API, and creating an embedded dashboard, all in the space of 20 minutes and a few dozens of lines of code.

The closest existing competitor is FP complete's cloud Haskell system, but I'd love to know about others.
Money talks, bull__ walks.

So, they are collaborating, writing blog posts and sharing stages. Of course, Xamarin is also shipping more code, which is what impresses me about these guys.

Miguel has already said Xamarin has had some links (maybe more information sharing than collaboration) with engineers at Microsoft. How is this much different?

This seems like a weak thread. The sort of thing which could quickly cool down or die altogether. There doesn't seem to be any solid commitments here. Of course, we still have the assurance that Xamarin will continue to be impressive.

I just think it's a pretty big leap from this blog post to "maybe Microsoft will buy Xamarin."

Edit: Fixed errors.
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Interestingly, the cost of even the more expensive option in his model appears to be similar in magnitude of the `wealth_transfers` field (which doesn't seem to be plotted or used later).

If the plan is to replace certain spending with a basic job or income, it would be interesting to see the comparative costs and efficiency of what we're replacing as well.
You should try http://www.quora.com/ . There you can even ask to people you consider expert. About the undecided things, This will depend also where live, like you can choose Node.js but there isn't (almost) nobody that that works with that near you, then you would need to hire someone from another state/country. RoR would be pretty good for the factor it is already well known and if your case yours requirements is the speed to create a product. Node.js and others (like Java, Scala, etc) you could get a better performance, but it could cost more and time more time. I would not recommend hybrid mobile plataform such phonegap or HTML5, unless the time contracts is short and the user requirements are very low. You can use http://phabricator.org/ as bug tracking and sonarqube (like http://nemo.sonarqube.org/ ) to QA over the code.
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It's possible to start to see an internal problem for MS breaking out between this and any development of VS to being web based: their tools division and the Windows division appear to be heading in different directions.

For example, the tools people might succeed in making non-Windows clients far too attractive and easy to deploy to, while simultaneously making sure you don't even need to be on Windows to be using the tools.

Not saying this is without merit as plenty of people would love proper C# tooling off Windows, and arguably the real use of Windows remains in hosting Exchange servers, but it really looks like even MS don't believe Windows is the end user system any more.
no law compels a woman to have a baby, or take 2yrs' leave to look after it. maybe the husband shares part of the duty. maybe its the husband that looks after the baby. but conscription compels singaporean men to provide labor at well below market rates, in this case for 2yrs, plus ongoing resrervist cycles for the next decade or so. its like. by law singaporean women have 24hrs a day, men have 22. or something like that.
Kickstarter has several non-electronic consumer products I've seen make it through, as well as table top RPGs and board games.
Though to be frank if you are not willing to drop an extra $100 on getting to a potentially lucrative meeting like that then you probably were not confident enough the meeting might be a success that you should be going in the first place.

So "how the hell are we going to get there?, what if public transport like?, sod it I'll get a taxi" doesn't seem an unnatural situation to me.
But the iPhone 5s has a much more capable CPU, you can't compare both based purely on clock speeds. Each Cortex-A7 should be slower clock for clock than an Cortex-A9, so it should put the single threaded CPU performance between the iphone 4s and the iPhone 5, although it can maybe outperfom an iphone 5 in highly threaded tasks.
All the author needs to do is reword a bit: "Bad at math" is a lie that some people tell themselves to make failure at math hurt less.
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I agree with your points re: A/B testing early on for startups but I don't think the conclusion is that A/B testing is an expensive option, it's more like the wrong option.

Yes, you'll need moderate levels of traffic for split tests to be effective, so if you don't have the traffic or time to wait around, you should be talking to your users.
Basic arithmetic isn't math in this context, sitting through a multivariate calculus MOOC isn't going to help you with addition.
It's a series. We're still crunching the numbers. Most people don't read past the first page online, anyway, so there's usually no point publishing long form. You being the obvious exception.
Using both 'with' and 'eval' on the same line, nice ;)

Douglas Crockford said in his excellent talk 'JavaScript: The Good Parts' that he highly recommends js -developers to avoid 'with', as it doesn't work correctly and for 'eval' he has to say 'If you are finding yourself using eval, you really are thinking about things the wrong way'.

Source, starts where he is speaking about with and eval: http://youtu.be/hQVTIJBZook?t=13m30s

Are these statements still true ?
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Can someone with expertise comment on this? I once worked in a company where the founders thought that the small samples were adequate. I thought that the calculators were misleading with such small samples sizes, even though they gave "high confidence".

But that was only based on my intuition, not math, and I've never seen anyone give a good discussion of whether "90% confidence" is as definitive as it sounds in the context of a very small sample.
Sure, good point. I'd rather not be on a profit sharing plan in one of those companies :)
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Except Microsoft doesn't stack rank people based on peer feedback- it's based on all the leads getting into a room and stack ranking their directs.

It's very possible to have a bad stack ranking but excellent peer feedback.

With this system, someone who delivers very well, but undermines other people or projects they work on would likely receive a high stack ranking, but poor peer feedback resulting in private discussions. People in charge of managing said employee may ignore the problem, attempt to place the employee under people who will help them address social problems, or quietly find a way to move them to a different org. It's quite likely none of this shows up in stack ranking.
Love the idea. Love it so much that I bought the domain reread.co a while back with the intent to create something very similar!
VNC in my experience is usually quite effected by latency as well, RDP was always reasonably solid which works well for most corporate concerns.
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It may be unproductive but it highlights a paradigm change.

If you host your Desktop in the cloud at Amazon your data is completely at the mercy of Amazon. This can be an issue for health-related data or customer data.

It is a fact now that there are secret courts in the US that disallow Amazon from telling you that someone else accessed your data. I'm not sure about law enforcement but they can probably gain access to that data you stored there too.

As a business from a foreign country you lost control over your data. Some businesses can afford that - a lot can't.
The "wars" were won quite convincingly. They were over before they started. The problem is that the wars did not end up resulting in the kind of postwar peace envisioned after about 2001 or so (an issue that Clausewitz pointed out in the 1830s).
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