skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In these posts read the woes of what happens when a new system is created that does not reveal it's externalities - factors at first not noticed and that are not put into the cost equation but which, over time are revealed.

When I was a boy in a small town most goods were available in local stores. Local dealers maintained inventory. I could handle and inspect goods before buying them.

Some items were not available locally. I would call long-distance, order a part, give an address and a credit card number (or mail a check) and wait a week - what could be easier?

Today we order stuff on the Internet.

But is that better for the end-user? Although focused on delivery problems, many of these posts would suggest that it is not. And we haven't yet broached the subjects of expected vs received product, returns, overcharges, identity theft, etc.
One of the winning entries from the Node Knockout competition did this[1]. They didn't give any real numbers (20kH is mentioned in the comments, but it's not clear how many devices it took for that), but it does seem like you would have to have a massive amount of devices running it.

[1] http://nodeknockout.com/teams/shoop-team
Pretty sure it's not ironic since dating safety != system security.
That is exactly the point of bokeh. It allows you to write python code and get browser based plots. Currently we have a python interface, but we intend to build interfaces in other langauges. Look at the examples gallery, which include the code needed to generate the plots. http://bokeh.pydata.org/gallery.html

A relatively simple plot (scroll down to see the code):
http://bokeh.pydata.org/plot_gallery/correlation.html

The simplest example plot in the repo:
https://github.com/ContinuumIO/bokeh/blob/master/examples/pl...
I'm confused as to why you are bringing up genetics. The article didn't. Is this just a straw man you wish to knock down?
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That's still not enough to account for the size of the region of bias though.
> To be clear, they say that there is no evidence that bulk meta data surveillance is useful in catching terrorists.

Which is sophistry. The goal of defense policy is to minimize attacks, not maximize counterattacks. Superior communication intelligence is a powerful deterrent to attacks. No sensible person wants to be the next Osama bin Laden or Dread Pirate Roberts. At this point all that is left is non-sensible attackers like the Shoe Bomber and the Penis Bomber.
I'm not sure if that applies in this case... There's nothing to 'understand' about the name Wally or Waldo. They're both just random, invented names, AFAICT.
It could also be interpreted as a short form of: "The talks failed because politics happened". Now we're just dropping the obvious verb at the end, because obvious is obvious.
They unfortunately do not mention the traditional Starbucks Wi-Fi, but there is a short note about mobile data at least: "Signal boosters will ensure a better signal for your mobile devices."

Not quite sure what this is worth.
Let me posit another question, why are there no visible minorities on Twitter's board?

And why aren't people getting up and arms over that?
Contrast on links is not quite good enough.
His "market rate" is what people will pay him. Seems like he discovered what his ideal market rate is... $76 an hour.
Wow this looks very well thought out. One small thing would be that the image of the browser in the mac at the top of the marketing site is very hard to see. I always like being able to see up close what the product looks like. I suspect you can increase engagement/conversions simply by blowing that image up or just zooming in on part of the browser window there.

Also, once you click demo, things get a bit confusing. If the demo users need to go to http://demo.smoothbulletin.com/admin/ to actually start testing things out, make that a clickable link and call attention to that so users know thats where they need to go right now.
Maybe the construct of a "management board" isn't appealing to the mentality of women (huge generalization admittedly). Imagine a history of humanity dominated by females as much as our human history was dominated by males to this point. Would the female dominated society create something like a management board? Would they create something different?
Facebook should lean in and tell its users what it does.

It should say "We watch you every minute that you’re here. We watch every detail of what you do, what you look at, who you’re paying attention to, what kind of attention you’re paying, what you do next, and how you feel about it based on what you search for.

“We have wired the web so that we watch all the pages that you touch that aren’t ours, so that we know exactly what you’re reading all the time, and we correlate that with your behaviour here.”

To every parent Facebook should say, “Your children spend hours every day with us. Every minute of those hours, we spy upon them more efficiently than you will ever be able to.”

Only that, just the truth. That will be enough.

But the crowd that runs Facebook, that small bunch of rich and powerful people, will never lean in close enough to tell you the truth.

So I ought to mention that since the last time we were together, it was revealed that Mr. Zuckerberg has spent thirty million dollars that he got from raping human society on buying up all the houses around his own in Palo Alto.

Because he needs more privacy.

[Laughter.]

I rest my case.

http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartIII.html
Most of those are reasons to be connected to a home network, not "The Internet."
Great site, great execution. I dig.
Why Ghostery breaks websites
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It works if you declare class first
http://www.dotnetfiddle.net/IjtjcG

but not if u do initialization and call at the same time. Will take a look.
Please, people, stop trying to score points. That link isn't even relevant. That Stack Exchange question is about the prepositional usage of apropos — I was using it as an adjective.

Even if I had been wrong, this kind of smart aleck, nit-picky comment would not be welcome. But based on the fact that you apparently just linked the first result for "apropos" on english.stackexchange.com even though it's about a completely different part of speech, I don't think you actually know enough about this topic to comment on it. So you are both needlessly hounding people about irrelevant trivia and spreading bad information. Come on, dude.
Ugh, such a silly thing to have LLCs publish in newspapers...is this the only thing keeping print alive?
Updates can be contained on BR discs. If you try to play the disc, it will update the firmware or certs or whatever.
Who you follow is a reading list for people who share your interests. Polluting it with people whom you follow just as a hat tip is rude. Also, following uninteresting people makes your stream unusable. In my book, keeping a high signal to noise ratio is the epitome of politeness. I guess that we don't use Twitter for the same reasons...
It's not a statistical model for future predictions. The whole point here is to over-fit as much as possible, because you only care about a single dataset.
Gmail can't, but Exchange and Skype can (and do).
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That's right, an LLC incorporated elsewhere that wants to qualify to do business in New York also has to publish notices: http://www.dos.ny.gov/corps/llcfaq.asp#pubreq
> You see, the problem with Amazon Prime is that you are shipping almost entirely via the USPS. Normally, I bet, in most of the country, this doesn't bode a single issue.

Nah, we have exactly the same problem here in Germany. I think that this will be one of the biggest challenges for Amazon in the coming years and can imagine them building their own delivery service for that reason.
Remote diagnostics. The technician should already more or less know what is wrong with your machine before leaving the depot, which means s/he will already have the right parts / tools to get it fixed.
Yes, this needs to happen. It's such a ridiculous yet typical thing for New York state. There is literally no reason to have to publish in print these days, even if they genuinely want to give "notice" (why?).
Oops - the missing word after "socio-cultural" is "capital" !
Apparently, Delaware is a good place for LLCs as well, because they have established law. Maybe a lawyer can elaborate...
Hardly a definitive proof that it's all just biology.

I'd scale it back, and draw the conclusions more conservatively. Along the lines of 'employment statistics don't necessarily imply discrimination'. Just because twitter's board is mostly male, doesn't necessarily mean that being male was a requirement. No one would argue that truck drivers are mostly men due to hiring policies.
I like how you can finally add the search field as search engine in Google Chrome.
Polyvore CEO: To succeed, write 'good, clean code'
It doesn't matter. In order to do business in NY you will have to register the foreign entity and still publish, so you won't save anything.
I'd echo these comments exactly.
I always liked the wizard best
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This is really cool, but what about adding interactivity with the charts? My first thought when I saw the headline was that this python library just generates D3 code, but it seems to be generating some sort of a static SVG object.
"Wally" would be a shortening of "Wallace", both are quite old names.
They are more likely to be on the "wrong" end. However, for many such people it's the lack of imagination that defines their opinions; they just can't imagine themselves on the short end of the stick.

It's like arguing with Stalin apologists which are now abundant in Russia. "OK, many innocent people were prosecuted. But we can forgive him for that, because he made us a superpower!" - that's how their logic usually goes. When you ask them what if they were among those wrongly prosecuted - would that change their opinion - they are usually genuinely incredulous: "Why would they come for me?"
While I can agree with some of what is said in that article, the writer exhibits not only massive ignorance, but a basic misunderstanding of the premise. Because I studied both mathematics and history at university, I am very familiar with the mutual contempt people of those "two worlds" have for one another, but I think the reason for it that they don't understand the premise of the other discipline: namely the axioms and the purpose. An HN comment is not the place to discuss this at length, but very briefly, the humanities and the exact sciences have different understandings of the concept of "truth". In the exact sciences, truth is a model of reality that agrees with observations. In the humanities, truth is anything that can give us pause, make us think about ourselves and look at the world in different ways. For example, in the exact sciences, the statement "the moon is made of cheese" is simply false. It is disproved by observation. In the humanities, it could be "true" if you can imbue it with meaning that enriches you. If it makes you ponder the significance of the moon, or of cheese, to your life, and if it makes you consider an idea like "the moon", which may be something beautiful but far away, is actually made of cheese, a mundane substance, then the statement can be true.

In short, neither scientists/mathematicians/engineers nor historians/literary critics are stupid (well, most of them aren't). If this is your starting point, then if before dismissing the other discipline you realize that it's being studied by smart people who know what they're doing, and give yourself time to understand the premise, you might actually learn something. The writer of that article simply does not have the tools necessary to determine whether a "reading" is bogus or not, because he does not know what "non-bogus" or "true" is in the framework he has tried to explore.

Having said that, there was very little deconstruction in my interpretation of "don't be evil". In fact, I think it's a pretty straightforward interpretation once you've decided to interpret the motto seriously. It is a literary failure on my part to interpret it so unimaginatively, but it's only meant as a starting point.
I wrote this article before Stories was released. Perhaps it's time for a deconstruction part 2. :)
Perhaps I should've said biologically, as the article did. The point is that when you say one class of people (females) isn't represented in an industry because "they just aren't born that way," what differentiates it from any other class of people (such as African Americans).
I bought a pair of 1964 Ears quad-driver in-ear monitors for my band, and I ended up using them EVERYWHERE - when at work (open-plan office, ugh), when traveling (plane, motorcycle, etc), even when mowing the lawn. They're incredible, with the best sound quality I've personally ever experienced. All the other noise just... goes away, and I don't pick up anything that doesn't come through the IEMs.
I love the $4 overnight. When I'm deciding whether to do 2-day or overnight, I always do a little thought experiment: If I'm sitting around tomorrow and wishing my new thing was here, would I open my wallet and shell out four bucks for it to show up today? You bet your ass I would! I'm an impatient bastard like that.
The Philosofer's Stone[1] is a commonly used mythological item in fiction.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosopher's_stone
Okay it appears that you and several others have not read the preprint paper. The article's wording is a bit confusing but if you think carefully you'd realize that a later work can not be independent of an earlier well known result.

The article does have a link to Maynard's preprint: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.4600v1.pdf

Here is an expert overview of the situation: http://www.dms.umontreal.ca/~andrew/CEBBrochureFinal.pdf

"In April 2013, Yitang Zhang proved the existence of a nite bound B such
that there are in nitely many pairs of distinct primes which di er by no more than B.
This is a massive breakthrough, makes the twin prime conjecture look highly plausible
(which can be re-interpreted as the conjecture that one can take B  2) and his work
helps us to better understand other delicate questions about prime numbers that had
previously seemed intractable. The original purpose of this talk was to discuss Zhang's
extraordinary work, putting it in its context in analytic number theory, and to sketch
a proof of his theorem.
Zhang had even proved the result with B  70 000 000. Moreover, a co-operative
team, polymath8, collaborating only on-line, had been able to lower the value of B to
4680. Not only had they been more careful in several dicult arguments in Zhang's
original paper, they had also developed Zhang's techniques to be both more powerful
and to allow a much simpler proof. Indeed the proof of Zhang's Theorem, that will be
given in the write-up of this talk, is based on these developments.
In November, inspired by Zhang's extraordinary breakthrough, James Maynard dramatically
slashed this bound to 600, by a substantially easier method. Both Maynard,
and Terry Tao who had independently developed the same idea, were able to extend
their proofs to show that for any given integer m ¥ 1 there exists a bound Bm such
that there are in nitely many intervals of length Bm containing at least m distinct
primes. We will also prove this much stronger result herein, even showing that one
can take Bm  e8m􀀀5.
If these techniques could be pushed to their limit then we would obtain B( B2)
12, so new ideas are still needed to have a feasible plan for proving the twin prime
conjecture.
The article will be split into two parts. The rst half, which appears here, we
will introduce the work of Zhang, Polymath8, Maynard and Tao, and explain their
arguments that allow them to prove their spectacular results. As we will discuss,
Zhang's main novel contribution is an estimate for primes in relatively short arithmetic
progressions. The second half of this article sketches a proof of this result; the Bulletin
article will contain full details of this extraordinary work."

EDIT: it appears that copying and pasting from the PDF is problematic and please read the linked PDF if interested.
So I assume this is the new site? :|
This is pretty lazy thinking. It's hard to even call it a rationalization when it makes no sense:

"Males around the world on average tend to be better at doing [math] than females; likely due to the need to fashion weapons and objects for warfare, hunting, and competing throughout evolutionary history."
There is nothing for free in this world. Users data is almost always price in such cases.
Also, "intellisense" for the "using" statement doesnt work.

Example:

using System.

I don't get any choices...
Unless we all look at the page for ourselves??
Employers don't need your CV, the recruitment firms do. They always ask for them in a .DOC format because many have internal databases. Providing a .DOC makes it easier for them to upload the file to that system, where they can then search for prospective applicants by keyword.

Providing a CV won't make it any easier for you to get the job you're actually discussing. It just makes it easier for them to send you emails like: "I see you have 4 years experience with JavaScript. We have an exciting opportunity to join a team of rockstars working with Java and Spring".

There's another concern to be aware of: some unscrupulous recruiters will edit your CV. That is, if they see a job posting looking for someone with x years experience with Spring, they might just add that to your CV, even if you've never worked with a java stack.
Thanks, you're right. That is now #1 on my to-do list -- maybe just go straight to the artist page if there's an exact string match, or else try to suggest a list of closely-spelled artists?

Any algorithms anyone can suggest for finding close spellings, besides Levenshtein? Like, that are somehow indexable or easy to implement in a database?

[Edit: just updated it, searching now works on a direct string match, no more annoying alert box.]
From what I can see, they only accept money by bank transfer which means, unless you have an EU based bank account, you'll be paying transfer fees. Pity.
Kids are too cool for grammar, that's how this came about. Adults want to be cool too, so they are copying them.

I find it hilarious how many man hours are wasted by people leaving comments and comments and comments on the Internet, like it matters.

I like to leave comments sometimes, but some people do it like they are getting paid.
Not sure, but an alternate explanation is that spammers are now emailing brandname@[domainname].com. I've gotten emails along those lines forwarded to my catch-all email address.

You can also use brandname+randomnumber@[domainname].com to more definitively test if your email has been sold or compromised by a particular website...
Exactly. Using a scheme to try to figure out a lottery number that other people won't choose is like using "ZZZZZZZZ" as a password, on the basis that anyone who tries to brute force it will try that one last.
I had an idea to do something frustratingly similar to this. Not the $wage++ aspect, but to offer discounted rates for 1-2 hours in order to build up interesting business contacts. "Micro-consulting".

Well done. 10% of these business contacts will likely want to hire this guy back at some three-figure number, and he will be able to choose the ones he wants to work with in the future.
I like the simple, no-framework approach to the UI.

Sometimes it works much better than stuff you get with bootstrap/UIkit/Foundation/whatever.
>Handford generally shies away from putting Waldo near the bottom or top of a page, which leads me to theorize that Waldo placement is largely a function of two factors: aversion from extremes and aversion from the middle.

Perhaps the methodology is flawed, but this is exactly what I would expect. Ask someone to pick a "random number" in a given range and their response is actually quite nonrandom.

http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2007/02/05/is-17-the-... http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/archive/2009/12/17/the-psyc...

>When asked to pick a random number between 1 and 100, most people will choose a number that is odd, often prime, and approximately 1/3 or 2/3 of the way between the lower and upper limits. For some reason we think these values are "more random" than other numbers.

The prime concept doesn't apply here, but this is basically what we see with the two bars.

It wouldn't surprise me that Handford is reasoning, if even subconsciously, about where a reader might look. The extremes and middles seem like good starting points. Similarly, if we are trying to create a "random number" we tend to avoid numbers that seem like they could be derived from something else. Like starting in the beginning, middle, or end of a range. Or by multiplying other numbers together (which is why I think we pick primes).
I agree that there should be legislation against saving plaintext passwords. Otherwise there is no repercussion for these kind of parties that put confidential information at risk.

Honestly, people are not going to change their password habits, i.e. we can't expect users not to reuse the same password at different sites. Moreover, I would wager that most people trust that websites are inherently secure and that password-related functions are safe.

The party to blame, then, is squarely the website that allows the leak of unhashed, unsalted passwords.

I believe we should seek legislation similar to HIPAA wherein the damages are inversely proportional to the ignorance and mitigation preparedness of the party to blame. (Damages might also be directly proportional to number of accounts breached, but only after the former is considered.)

As an example, imagine that a kid acting alone gets his forum or website broken into. There's probably not much that a teenager would have known about password security. Additionally, they probably weren't servicing millions of users as a part of a commercial service. You can apply this same kind of situational blamelessness to small businesses, clubs, churches, and so forth.

If, however, a multi-million dollar company gets breached, it's a likely different story. Such a company has employed engineers that are familiar with such topics as scaling and cross-browser support. If these types of business concerns are known and handled, then it's almost a certainty that they also know about password hashing. (If not, I would bet that new legislation would result in widespread education on the issue.)

If the cost of changes is estimated to be too high, we could even go as far as to lower or absolve damages if the 3rd party were to inform its users that its passwords were not hashed or not salted; a "use at your own risk" notice, if you will.

I feel strongly that we need to do something drastic about unhashed/unsalted passwords. This is becoming absolutely ridiculous; it makes our profession look like a circus show, and all for something that can be easily avoided.
...also known as graduate school. ;-)

Seriously, though, my wife used to work with alternative RNA bases. Localizing them to specific sequences required the most massive sequencing gels I've seen (at least 1m tall), and every surface in the lab had to be continually rinsed with dilute acid. It turns out, human skin contains bucket-loads of non-specific RNAses. Not a problem for most people who work with DNA, but can absolutely ruin a week or more's worth of work if you're in an RNA lab.
With the exception of perhaps your security system (which is already possible), why would any of these need Internet connectivity?

I can see them being WiFi-enabled and able to talk to each other and some type of centralized control system in the home, but why would that need to connect to the Internet?
Exactly the point. Chances are, these people have long term projects for him and now he has become a trusted consultant. I absolutely love everything about this.