skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that you asked this question shows what's wrong with the supposed "problem". In the usual presentation, it's a "trick question" because the person presenting it omits the crucial information that the offeror is intending to act adversely to the decsion making subject.

Without that information, the interlocutor naturally assumes that the offeror opens doors randomly - in which case the fact that he knows what's behind each door is an irrelevant "red herring" and the correct conclusion is different.

In the random-opening case the intuitive conclusion is right - that the agent (offeree)'s decision does not affect the odds. But if the question-poser revealed that the offeror is trying to maneuver the offeree into the result that's less valuable for the offeree, then the supposed mystery of the whole thing evaporates and the correct conclsion is obvious.
You should paint a new rendition of the Last Supper with Snowden as your Jesus, and you can have Assange, Manning, ..., (choose 10 more of those types) as his disciples. Have fun.
Hey HN CTO of Jackpocket here. This has been an incredibly fun project to build. If anyone has any technology questions, happy to answer them best I can.
This could be the most bothersome problem of all:

http://www.airplaneonatreadmill.com/
You have an overactive imagination. ;)
htf is right as well.

The only assumption is that people will make the decision that is in their best interest. Amazon can only attract workers if it is the best option those workers have.
Kind of a silly point. First, can you swim to work? But, really, you are suggesting that everything always be reduced to whatever is "the best".
Not surprised. Also, why single out private presidents?

FYI most California Community College presidents (and there are over 100 of them) make $200-300K per year.

The UC system president gets a $570K salary, a $10K/month housing stipend, and $9k/year vehicle stipend [1].

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2013/sep/16/local/la-me-ln-uc-re...
I'm totally ready to buy a Steam box. As soon as I possibly can, here in Austria, Europe, I will.

Hurry up, because the only thing stopping me from doing it is the Valve Inc.'s inability to navigate all the regulatory/cultural nonsense from: DELIVERING.

Steam delivers, so far. When it manifests in the hardware sense, it has got to be global. The perception of locality is a real drag.
Unicorns, Rainbows, and Cocaine: The Rise and Fall of Lisa Frank
The cynic in me likes this interpretation, but "the documents" aren't capture-able any longer because they're not all in one place. Several people have access to them, some of whom are not stupid (Bruce Schneier, etc.) and can operate redundant distributed cryptosystems. The cat is out of the bag on this one and it's never going back in. This doesn't stop them from wanting to arrest/torture/kill/* Snowden, but the government isn't dumb enough to imagine they'll ever get their papers back.
A quick search turned up a paper on Netherlands (population 16.77 mil):

... 9,200 sustain serious injury in a bicycle
crash. A third of these seriously injured bicycle
casualties are diagnosed with head or brain
injuries (32%)

http://www.swov.nl/rapport/Factsheets/UK/FS_Bicycle_helmets....

Showing 211 cyclists have a serious head injury per billion km cycled...

Discussion: http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2010/08/brain-injuries-...

Edit: accounting
BitHub = Bitcoin + GitHub. An experiment in funding privacy OSS
Ah, I used one million because it really hammers the scale of it in, but I like that with 100 you can easily track the percentages.
On the other hand, we, as the owners of similar devices, get to empathize with the characters' silent frustration at not having anything to slam down.
some background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
Many readers of vos Savant's column refused to believe switching is beneficial despite her explanation. After the problem appeared in Parade, approximately 10,000 readers, including nearly 1,000 with PhDs, wrote to the magazine, most of them claiming vos Savant was wrong

(per above post At least this made it to stats intro class)
Obamacare Navigator Manual Leaked [pdf]
I'm waiting for the day Amazon takes out the logistics middlemen and has it's own long-distance delivery fleets (trucks and planes). I think it is inevitable at the scale they operate under. If/when that happens, it will be interesting to see where the locate their warehouses.
I think you pay people exactly what they will accept. The fact is the jobs aren't worth much, but there are ways for a company to make life better that aren't costly.
It's hard to take you seriously when you refer to a single individual giving away a huge chunk of wealth with no hope of earning a return as being an "industry".
Can you cite this? Who is making this call? Greenwald? Did he specifically claim this methodology?

I see an ironic lack of transparency here.
Agreed. Very nicely laid out and informative.
You seem to think that exploiting human weakness is somehow out-of-bounds for attackers. Do you, by any chance, set policy for the NSA?
This is so awesome. I have been excited about RethinkDB and a real mongodb alternative and was just hesitating based on RethinkDb's ability to last. But now I know you will last. Just awesome. I'm going to start using Rethinkdb on my next project.
That's like saying crumple zones in cars should be the method for more safety, and seat belts don't to be part of that solution.

Surely, the best option is both (bike lanes and helmets)
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Confession of an Ivy League teaching assistant: Here’s why I inflated grades
It's all about capabilities.

Back in the 80's and 90's, people who insisted the NSA did all this or that really couldn't explain how the technology would work to do all that. People insisted spy satellites could read my newspaper, yada yada.

About 5 years ago, the chips, scale-out HW, storage and Linux (thanks submitters!) reached the point where the known daily capacity of information stream or their meta could be stored by someone like the NSA or Google.

One just needs to assume technical capabilities is what defines reality.
Is it a subscription delivery service like this: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2013/04/lottogopher-com...
I'm not telling you to watch the video. I'm suggesting that when you understand something as little as you seem to understand the philosophy of anarchism, you should probably not feel empowered to speak so confidently on what it means or its value.

The Dunning-Kruger effect may be worth reading about, in this instance. Your lack of knowledge seems to be leading you to a false sense of confidence in your words and beliefs. I wasn't looking to argue with you the merits of anarchism vs. whatever you believe is more correct. I was, instead, looking to point out that you have a level of ignorance about anarchism (not even knowing what the word means) that should preclude you from speaking about it, except in the form of questions.

I believe this sort of approach applies to any subject, not just anarchism. I don't find your dismissive tone conducive to the level of discussion I expect from HN. I want to encourage you to be a better contributor to HN, not convince you to be an anarchist.
I can only assume you misread my post.
Application Layout with CSS3 Flexible Box Module
For situations like this I will give one piece of advice, read the man pages. I'm sure you will find a suitable entry regarding your problem.
So allied governments are basically idiots for not thinking the USA would spy on them?

That would mean they should have put into place institutions protecting them from said spying. Which would be taking (defensive) military action because of the actions of an allied government. Now what kind of alliance is that?!
That's maybe a safe guess but who is doing this? Is Greenwald specifically saying he's doing this? If so, I'd appreciate a cite.

I think there's an ironic lack of transparency here and releases come out on some arbitrary (or planned) schedule that no one is privy to.
I'm appalled that so many Americans who are outraged about their government's mass surveillance of Americans simultaneously seem to think it's acceptable for the US government to conduct mass surveillance on the citizens of other countries.
This is the most intuitive description I've found:http://lesswrong.com/lw/2b0/bayes_theorem_illustrated_my_way...
What?

I find that incomprehensible.

What is the replacement for that employee safeguard then?
Product strategy is about saying, 'No'. Short talk by Des Traynor
I know of one other mathematical fact that matches the Monty Hall problem in the loudness of its opponents: 0.999(...) exactly equals one. Despite a number of proofs existing, you can still find ten large pages of arguments on Wikipedia's talk page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:0.999.../Arguments
Also NZ has universal no-fault accident insurance (ACC). If not wearing helmets leads to higher costs then...

Motorcycle riders already pay higher registration fees due to the higher likelihood of injury.
Hey thanks for the comment! It is not a subscription delivery service as of yet. We first wanted to nail down the basics of allowing users to select their numbers and get their lottery tickets from the comfort of their own homes.
It won't be great for CRUD. It's really meant for applications that have a bunch of business logic to them...you know, the interesting apps.

Aside: "good enough" seems to summarize the web as a whole. This is both discouraging and a fact of life.
I always explain this problem with stars: I'm thinking of a star in the night's sky... guess which one.

Alright, good guess, but would you consider changing? You can either keep your original guess, or switch to this one other star I'm pointing to now.

Everyone switches.
When you look at something designed by a person, you can intuit what they were doing and judge it as good or sloppy. Nature requires a completely different type of thinking. It's ultimately unhelpful to anthropomorphize nature.
I liked the simulation, and it reminds me of a tangentially related probability issue from early in my career.

While still in college, I had a part-time job testing a spreadsheet product (back in the days when there were other commercial choices). One of the things we testers did to keep ourselves entertained was that we each picked a casino game, and implemented that game in spreadsheet macros. My game was blackjack, but another guy did craps.

Just for kicks, the guy who built the craps game re-wired it as an autoplay simulation, and left it playing against itself overnight. When we came back in in the morning, we found that the virtual player was rich, which seemed odd. So the next night we left it running again, and again the following morning, the player had made a bundle.

It turns out that my coworker had accidentally discovered a bug in the random number generator: the distribution of the results was a bit non-uniform.
Maybe he is not from the US.
I probably should have phrased it better, actually. I understand the concept that the satellites are falling along a path in orbit that causes them to "miss" the planet as you describe. I misunderstood the parent's phrasing use of flying, which implies the presence of an atmosphere, as opposed to just "putting" a satellite into Mars orbit(by way of launching a rocket with the desired payload or whatever).
The connotation is often there:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/exploit?r=75&src=ref&...

Dictionary.com unabridged:

> 2. to use selfishly for one's own ends: employers who exploit their workers.

Collins English Dictionary:

> 2. to take advantage of (a person, situation, etc), esp unethically or unjustly for one's own ends
This is the longest blog post I've ever read.
The article seems to be refuting assertions that Node is no good for enterprise, but without calling out specific articles that do so. So it's a little difficult to get.

It's also a response that says "Node is no good for enterprise because enterprise development is broken", which isn't wrong, but doesn't necessarily help much. Changing the coding practises of every developer you have is not a small problem.
You realize that the fiction of a coherent "Military Industrial Complex" has been debunked several times right? One by the General Accounting Office showed that military contractors actually had higher profits in peacetime than wartime because they got money for 'research' and didn't have to actually produce any product.
People will always complain - that doesn't mean the company aren't successful at what they're doing. I've been using nginx for a very long time and started when their docs were in russian and hardly translated into english - I applaud them for doing that step and creating nginx plus - I suspect that in the future I will need/want to pay them a license fee.

If my company is creating lot of value and part of that value is enabled by software I use - I think it's only natural that I pay back some of the proceeds to support the software I use, especially if in the process I'm getting more features and better support.
Nice explanation. Small critique: I think this page would be better if the animations could be played manually rather than on a continuous loop which is quite distracting. Also, maybe add in a bit where the user can play the game themselves to see the logic work out.

Something like this was useful when I was first learning about the Monty Hall problem.

http://www.grand-illusions.com/simulator/montysim.htm
"legally mandated inefficiency" is "corruption" in 3 words, right?
Exactly - at my last startup, revenue "lumpiness" was the worst part of the whole thing. In the early days, we'd have $0 in bookings one month, and then next month, a check for $800k would come in.

Building an enterprise sales funnel is also a challenge. It takes real discipline to be able to say "100 leads->25 opportunities->5 POCs->3 deals at an ASP of 450k". With consumer apps, the volume is so much greater that you can have conversations about A/B testing the homepage to drive a few extra percentage points - for enterprise apps, odds are not enough people will ever visit your website to be able to gather enough data to A/B test anything.

And deals will fall apart for the most random reasons - a regime change at a big bank. A bigger company releases a product that uses some of the same words as yours, so the customer decides to evaluate it. Your EU channel partner gets bribed to tank a deal by a competitor. Anything can happen.

True story: we lost a deal once because the customer did a POC, and then fired the engineers who evaluated our software. With the departure of the engineers who evaluated the software, management lost the use case doc and evaluation criteria that was used by the fired engineers, so they wrote a new use case doc without telling us, scored us based on the new doc (despite never having used our software), then had a competitor come in and execute their POC with the new engineers and new use case doc. Unsurprisingly, the competitor "won". The call with the customer was amazing:

Them: You lost because of X, Y, and Z reasons

Us: Those weren't use cases in the pilot, but even if they were, we can do those things

Them: Well...we didn't know that you could do them. But it doesn't matter. We picked the other guys.

Us: Where are the people who looked at our software?

Them: We had to let them go. Unfortunately they didn't have time to write a report before they left, so we based our evaluation of your software on your user manual.

This is one of the reasons why SaaS apps are so appealing on paper. They have:

- Recurring revenue stream

- Freemium models allow leads to self-select

- Less sales friction (no need to send a sales engineer onsite, just spin them up a free 2-week trial)

But there's still a ton of money to be made in on-premise enterprise software, it's just a long, annoying, dangerous sales process.
Remember that they're still just a big office somewhere. They need janitors, network help, have copy machines that break, and all of that.
Um, no. Secretaries were replaced with personal computers and websites. Nobody needs to take dictation anymore, after all, and information is now at everyone's fingertips.

And the logistics of arranging meetings etc. are handled by office managers generally, if you're talking about who uses which room and for how long.

The idea that secretaries turned into management is bizarre.
I've been using Threema for a while, it's available for both iOS and Android and while it isn't open source, you can verify the encryption used (they are using NaCl).
Here's a handy GREP to find AccessKey/SecretKey pairs:
grep -RP '(?<![A-Z0-9])[A-Z0-9]{20}(?![A-Z0-9])' *
grep -RP '(?<![A-Za-z0-9/+=])[A-Za-z0-9/+=]{40}(?![A-Za-z0-9/+=])' *

source: http://blogs.aws.amazon.com/security/post/Tx1XG3FX6VMU6O5/A-...
The point is that node.js is a classic case of "worse is better." That is, because of its lack of namespacing, NPM came up with a great module system that made modular programming the default, making code cleaner. Its limitations forced smart architecture.

I don't know that I agree, per se, but that piece of the argument is interesting.
Article title: Why it's good to be a JavaScript developer

Article content: Why it's good to be a JavaScript developer who is also a back-end developer who is also a systems administrator who is also a designer who is also a ...

This guy wants to hire people with 15-20+ years of experience, and I'm willing to bet he's not willing to pay for it.
Another way is to take a step back and forget about revealing the goats. You have your initial selection (using your numbers) with a 1% chance of picking the prize. Now you're presented the option to leave it shut and open all other doors keeping the prize if it's in any one of them. So if the prize has equal odds of being in any given door, then opening 99 of them gives you a 99% chance of finding the prize versus the 1% chance of only opening one door. This has helped some people I've talked to realize that the odds the prize is in that remaining door (in the proper Monty Hall problem) is actually the sum of the odds it's in all the doors you didn't select.

EDIT: I've also demo'd this using 3 cards (an ace and two others), but I like the idea of demonstrating with a larger scope. Call the ace of spades the prize, let the player select one card from the deck at random. Now they can keep that card or scour the remaining 51 cards for the ace of spades. A good tactile demonstration that they have a 1/52 chance (~2%) of having selected correctly the first time versus ~98% that they were wrong.
Make it completely optional, ok. What about the kids whose parents won't ever take them to one of these spaces/libraries? You know there will be thousands of kids growing up illiterate, not knowing any math, learning nothing but TV/youtube/Xbox if they are lucky to have that.
Public education is shit, I agree with you on that. The problem is that for a percentage of children (varies by country, but quite high in the third world), handing the responsibility of their education to their parents is even shittier.
No, you usually just steamroll the dirt.
Hm, he's 8, so he can take Farsi lessons as well too.
If I am going to have to relearn where some of the keys are in vim then I might as well go the whole hog and get a Dvorak keyboard whilst I am at it!
Sounds like they are attempting to make the conditions of Mr Snowden's asylum in Russia null as he will "no longer be under threat" back in the US.
How does this work? It's my understanding that you must have a physical ticket to claim your lottery winnings. How does that work with a mobile app? And what's to prevent Jackpocket from using my winning ticket to claim the winnings themselves?

Not really clear on the legality of anything here. I'm trying to "imagine the possibilities", as the site says, and I'm coming up with a lot of questions that aren't addressed. Where's a FAQ?
It's also not at all logical to say:

[Unlikely thing X] came true! Therefore, [unlikely thing Y] will, too!

Even if X and Y were incredibly similar -- in this case they aren't, at all -- that's still not a logical assumption. It's not even evidence toward Y.
Well I wasn't suggesting they were to be infantilized. I was suggesting there jobs aren't worth very much and certainly aren't fun, and that the company can offer ways to make life better that aren't costly.

If someone wants to feel their work is valuable, the should probably find some work that is valuable.

Btw, I didn't suggest the company sponser or track any of this.
>Does it matter whether or not the host knows? I don't see how it changes the odds in any way

Of course it matters.

The host uses his knowledge to AVOID opening the door with the car (and thus ending the game prematurely).

So he essentially gives out this information: "the door with the car is one that I, the host, haven't opened".
>Suppose you're a factory owner with 4 workers working 40 hours per week.

Your analogy doesn't work because its premise doesn't apply here. This article regards knowledge/creative workers like programmers and engineers, not line workers like retail and factory workers.

In line work, the hourly threshold at which you see diminishing returns is much higher compared with knowledge/creative work. There's also generally less need to be physically present at work as a knowledge worker, while as a line worker it's inherent to the job.
I could see many governments taking the same route as Norway's call. Bankers will feel threatened by any new currency until they figure out how to control it.
It's awfully rambling. I think the high-level idea is that you can't build large monolithic applications in Node, but that's not actually a problem because building large monolithic applications doesn't work very well in any language, and Node is unusually good at building modular applications.
A WebSocket Primer
An overview of the basics of the WebSocket protocol, what you need to get started
No, there is no ACID for multiple keys/documents, only on a single key/document.
I have found (small) money to not be a good incentive or motivation for people to work on FOSS. It might be worth trying for small simple tasks but it really is a one timer and not benefiting the continuing work and maintaining on the software on the long run.
TLDR Everyone IS a potential terrorist and ARE monitored.
Also, for truly deep insight into his literary thoughts and themes, read his essays in Farther Away:
http://www.amazon.com/Farther-Away-Essays-Jonathan-Franzen/d...
Unions and strikes, clearly.
Get your coffee and read it again. He explains his point rather well, and it's about the difficulty of bulding large codebases with big teams in JS and some ways to overcome it.
I actually pared that down from what I originally wrote, to the detriment of clarity. Please accept my upvote along with my apologies.

Regardless, the man's $600 billion went to found a number of charities for the purpose of putting out anti-smoking ads in states across the nation. He is also rumored to have been a major contributor to "thetruth" (apparently, it's a big secret) who, despite the good that they do, were also filthy with misinformation.

You're not entirely wrong that one man doesn't make an industry, but if one man started 20 companies that all shared the same purpose, would that not constitute an industry? Maybe it wouldn't. Maybe I'm using industry wrong. Either way, I agree that I misspoke, so hopefully this at least clarifies my position somewhat.
While hitting a car in a convoy is relatively self contained, I would still consider that being engaged in wedding activities with many civilians in close proximity. If we find them at a wedding why not follow them for 10-24hrs take them on their way back to hiding. I am just saying shooting at targets in a crowd might make for a good action flick but poor real life as seen in the article where they killed 3x the number of people they were targeting and injured 4x the number of people they were targeting. Also remember those targeted were suspects not confirmed bad guys.