skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's equitable in theory, a great deal for useless developers, and a bad deal for good devs (the only ones you care about).

You shouldn't care about the extra money, just finding the right developers.
Not in 10 years but...

As development become more accessible to people, developers will be the construction workers of the XXI century.
What else do you expect from company which hires based on solving algorithmic problems?
I was just about to purchase a Dell 27" monitor (1080p) as a second screen for my laptop. Glad I didn't as prices of UHD monitors seem to have become reasonable REALLY fast. I know nothing about displays. Can someone explain to me the difference between this monitor and (for example) the Sharp 4K display that is an option with the new Mac Pro and costs several thousand $?

NB: I will be programming, working in Logic Pro, and watching YouTube. No photo or video editing.
> ... in the table, he DOES tell you that in the BG case.
> Otherwise there aren't two spots; there's only one. He
> introduces the older/younger thing, then fails to apply
> the new information across all cases.

I'm having real trouble understanding you here. The explanation lists all the possibilities, and to do so it's necessary to distinguish between the children. The most obvious way to do that is to talk about the older and younger.

we know that in families with two children about half the time you have one of each sex. You only get that if you distinguish between the children in some sense so that there are four overall possibilities: BB, BG, GB, GG. If you don't distinguish between the children then there are only three possibilities: Both boys, both girls, one of each. Doing real world trials clearly shows that model to be flawed. We must distinguish between the children when enumerating cases.

Forgive me if this is all obvious to you, but I honestly can't see your argument, so it's necessary to lay down much more detail to try to find where your reasoning varies from mine.

So now consider the situation I laid out. Take all families with two children. There are four equally likely possibilities. Eliminate those who cannot truthfully say "At least one child is a boy." You are left with three equally likely possibilities. In only one of those do we have two boys. Thus one out of three possibilities has both children boys.

The probability of both children being boys is 1/3.

Can you explain where that reasoning is faulty?

Also, computer simulations clearly show that under this model of what's going on, the chance of two boys is 1/3. If you explain the faulty reasoning, you'll also need to explain why the computer simulation gives the same answer.
We seem to have got both
It's going to be pretty disappointing if the production Rift's resolution is 1080p or only a little higher, especially because it will make the Rift much less useful as a general-purpose computing display for non-gaming tasks. Hopefully they're just being coy so as not to give display manufacturers too much leverage over them. I've been worried that they'll badly mugged on price by the panel makers.
Foreign PostgreSQL Data Wrapper for Firebird
Pandoc doesn't read org file. However I just tried another converter, org-ruby, and it worked, here's the command:

kokoi -e org -c "org-ruby --translate html"

Thank you for your suggestion! Emacs Org-mode looks really interesting, I have to update the description.

Out of curiosity, what converter are you using? I'll test it too.

Recently, an important fix was made, I suggest you to update kokoi to v0.1.5, just execute these two commands (as root if you are on Linux):

npm uninstall -g kokoi

npm install -g kokoi
Commitments To Make In 2014 Instead Of Resolutions
The trick is to have enough of those customers, so one leaving doesn't leave you bleeding.
> "transaction" my arse

That’s not something that can be made reliable with either rpm or apt. The only options for reliable upgrades are 1) nix model or 2) filesystem transactions/snapshots. Especially, yum has official plugin for making LVM/Btrfs/ZFS(?) snapshot before committing each transaction. I imagine there’s something similar for Debian/Ubuntu.
Why? Given the restrictions of github pages, it doesn't seem like security could possibly be an issue, and it also seems like a not-particularly-compelling case for SPDY's muxing.
If over half the developers are worthless...

You've got bigger problems, tho. A headhunnter fee is 30K.[1] Take 30K and divide it by 50, and you have over 600 hours to play with. Lets save ~85% and take 100 hours as your budget @ 2x the cost. That would cover how many work-sample tests? (take your pick) 20 peple x5hrs or 24x4hrs which should be a good funnel. What's wrong with this approach?

[1] Assume a 100k position., which is also $50/hr on 2000 hrs/year.
Their databases have been un-encrypted ever since they began their business. I used to hang out with "crackers" in ~2007 and at that time the database was already available to a certain group of people. All CC's plain-text, same with passwords.
Something like this happened in Russian cities too. Broadband is cheap, fast, lot's of competition, cables hanging between apartment buildings etc.

Recently there have been some troubling signs when (government) monopolies started to buy smaller private ISPs. Internet is still cheap and fast, but who knows what will happen…
I would take it a step further and say we have Orwell because we've fallen into Huxley.
India needs foreign companies buying and shutting down start-ups?

"The entire Little Eye Labs team will move to Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California."
Now we have indications of the worst of both the Huxleyan and Orwellian dystopias: an Internet designed to exacerbate the proclivity toward hyperbolic discounting of the future, and runaway surveillance on a planetary scale.
Ayn Rand settled the age-old epistemology debate? I don't think so.
From what I gather the article seems to indicate an candidate is given access to their code base to 'do a fix' remotely. Is this a viable strategy initially? Learning the application takes time. Also there is some risk that the candidate will run off with the codebase.

I'm sure they've thought of this, but I can see a situation where you default to a 'standard' audition task in it's own sand-boxed environment just to mitigate any theft issues.
Umm... isn't that exactly what he is saying? That firing is a major blow to the employee, but is negligible to the employer

EDIT: my bad, i thought you had said this to the GP not the parent
AIUI: If your provider supports ALIAS then you set an ALIAS for example.com in addition to the CNAME for www. If your provider doesn't then you'll have to set an A for example.com to point to their IP, and the CDN won't work for example.com.
Provision a Graph Database (neo4j) Server using Ansible in 5 mins
Seems very difficult to create a checkbox with the label 'no plate' or equivalent on the fine.
Anyone actually read that book? Would you recommend it?
I have no issues with the following hardware: HP LP2475w monitor (came with a DP cable), Intel DZ77BH-55K motherboard and i7 3770 CPU (HD4000). I use Fedora (Linux).

What sucks is that the DP output is only version 1.1 even if DisplayPort 1.2 was published in 2009.
> In the wake of Nelson Mandela's death, there were a lot of people who expressed the sentiment that he was not actually a great man, because he espoused violence, because he blew things up, etc.

I saw the same thing- but mostly from liberals claiming conservatives were whitewashing his legacy and shortchanging the struggle against apartheid.
Don't Panic - The Truth About Population
You can judge which you think is worse, but the facts are that Linode got hacked and hid it for as long as possible.

I don't care what the hackers got per se, just that Linode was so opaque. However, the opaqueness in light of credit cards being stolen (encrypted or not (can most likely be decrypted anyway)) is even worse imo.
You're kidding. They'll inflate the price by 20%, just like everyone else does. Hi Apple and Adobe!
That might work for you, but having to constantly check email interrupts my ability to work efficiently. Technically any of these channels can deliver the message. I'm just hoping that my contacts can assign different priorities to each.
that's cool! I've not seen any use of a SDD, what do you intent to use this for, or could you tell how it could be used?
Onewheel is a self-balancing single-wheeled electric skateboard
The reason people use email for everything, including urgent matters, is because email is the only thing of the 4 channels mentioned in the article that we usually type on a full size keyboard. It's much more convenient when working than calling/texting/IM(when the phone is needed)

the proper solution is prioritizing email, and making your email client/device notify you according to the priority level
IBAN.im is a tool for saving ibans and share it with others.
The technical method of the blocking is indeed interesting. From my home broadband connection:

- I can connect to port 80 on fallback.global-ssl.fastly.net (to which the CNAME entry for www.theguardian.com points).

- I can successfully get a 404 page (from that same server) by doing something like this: GET / HTTP/1.1 Host:www.invaliddomain.com

- I get disconnected if I specify Host: www.theguardian.com in any HTTP request, even if I'm connecting to some IP address that has no relationship with theguardian.com.

So, in this instance, the GFW is not blocking by IP address, nor is it blocking by keyword. It is blocking by the hostname in the Host: header of the HTTP request.
But that's not the point. The point is to have easy to understand cues for the receiver on how important the message is, with the sole goal not to disturb them for messages that do not require immediate attention.

A phone call can always be followed by a confirmation e-mail explaining it again for archiving purposes, but it is incredibly selfish of a sender to assume that the receiver will immediately read and act on the e-mail he receives. Most of us just get too many e-mails to assume every e-mail is important -- it's usually the complete opposite anyway.
Birthday Problem (Probability)
Being a 'sucker' is seen by many employers as a very desirable trait in an employee. From an employer point of view, why wouldn't you want the guy who happily works for free over the guy who is 'difficult' and insists on paid overtime for every hour after 40 hours a week.

And as someone looking for work who is just very good you need a way to differentiate yourself from everybody else who is also very good. A history of being willing to work ridiculous hours for free is a pretty good differentiator.
> "You and I can be bitter about it all we want, but there's no point."

How about "informing other potential consumers" as a point? I certainly appreciated his comment.
"On weekends, Mr. Yao could inoculate himself against attacks by staying online. This meant ordering in meals, when he ate at all, and taking the iPad with him into the bathroom."

heh. like i keep the tablet any other place in the house.
I never finished 1984 but both seem to ignore the ultimate driving force behind both authoritarianism and consumerism that continues to rule the world, money and capitalism. In 1984, or at least this comic, power and violence seems to happen for their own sake, "power corrupting power", and similarly for Huxley's hedonism. The comic claims "Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity..." uh no, no one just gives us TV and distractions, they sell it to us.

Maybe that's a shallow analysis, and if so, tell me: where is the aspect of capital in either work?
I'm suggesting that we make prioritization part of the medium that is used to convey the message.

How do you prioritize your inbound emails?
You actually forgot that many people still send physical letters -> 1 week or more?
As an interesting piece of fiction? Yes. As moral philosophy? No.
Good point ... I probably should add fax as well :P
(Note that according to that page, the MacBook will only do 30 Hz.)
>> WiFi is slow though, I just want a lan box.

hahahaha :D

OK, dear anon4, do you have idea what the fastest connection to the stock market today is, no? Hint, it's "wireless". High Frequency Trading set an arms race to have the best and fastest connection to the trade-market. Every nanosecond counts.

TL;DR?

Wireless is faster than Cable. Yup.
Nice unit test framework you have written, exactly what I have been looking for my C projects. I, too, dabble in embedded environments and can't rely on big libraries.

One question/suggestion, though. In the end of all the samples you need GREATEST_MAIN_DEFS/main()/GREATEST_MAIN_BEGIN/RUN_SUITE(xxx)/GREATEST_MAIN_END. Could this be a simple oneliner like GREATEST_MAIN(xxx)?

I do understand that this is probably required for embedded systems where you might not have a regular main(), but I would just like to write GREATEST_MAIN(xxx). Does this make sense to you? Are there use cases where it makes sense to do something else in main()?

Anyway, good stuff!
Yeah, I actually deleted it before seeing your response because I thought it was unclear. My bad.

>The most obvious way to do that is to talk about the older and younger.

Exactly. The father doesn't talk about older and younger, but the table does. What it should look like, because you're correct that age is irrelevant: B (given) * [b|g] -> [Bb|Bg], or if you account for age: [B is first|B is second] * [b|g] -> [Bb|bB|Bg|gB]. But you have to pick one or the other! Either way, it works, but you have to account on both ends, not just one. He's calculating for BG as if age were relevant, but it's not.

The computer "simulation" is wrong because it is grounded in the logic that one child's sex wasn't a given all along, when in fact it was. NB: if you're throwing results out, that's a bad sign.

Yea/nay?

Or, again, you can just step back and say: X is a boy. What is the probability that Y is a boy? Why on earth would it matter what X was? Do you meet 2/3 women because you are a man?
Right, now it's clear that you are answering a different question, and in that question, the answer is 1/2. Many people insist that to be the right question, because the answer matches their intuition, but it is a different question.

Not recognizing the difference is what lets some poker players make money.

Consider this question. A chap flips a coin in the morning and thereby chooses one of his two children. Today he will only talk about that child. Later I meet him and he talks about his son. I thereby deduce that he has at least one boy. What are the chances he has two sons? (corrected in edit - thank you)

Answer: 1/2.

Another version: I meet a man and his son, and in conversation it emerges that he has two children. I can see he has at least one son, what are the chances he has two sons?

Answer: 1/2.

Another version: I meet a man and it emerges in conversation that he has two children. I observe that he is carrying a shopping bag with a child's dress in it, from which I conclude that he has at least one girl. What are the chances he has two girls?

Answer: 1/3. (I had to change gender because I couldn't think of anything that would be specific to a boy.)

Your dismissal of the idea that there are other interpretations than your own is disappointing. The language in which you couch your dismissals even more so. Are you like this in person?
The fact they are not on by default seems to actually be hurting Mercurial in the debate against Git. As every review of "Mercurial vs Git" assumes they are not available, just because they are not enabled in default configuration out of the box.

Maybe Mercurial should start shipping them enabled?
Live upgrading 1000s of Google servers from Red Hat 7.2 to 10 year newer Debian
isn't it redundant to use different mediums just for noting the importance? seems not efficient, especially when there are many types of IM. it's much better to have everything in one place

i'm not prioritizing, right now it's not possible, maybe except for this solution: http://klinger.io/post/71640845938/dont-drown-in-email-how-t...
i'm just saying THAT is the proper solution, i'm not saying it's possible...
I suspected this and thought I heard about it somewhere, but I didn't have any proof of it. Thanks for adding the input. Provided this is true, it makes me even more skeptical of Linode.

<snide> Though I'm skeptical enough of anyone still using Cold Fusion. </snide>
Atlassian is also the owner of SourceTree, which as a visual gui, I found really helped in learning some of the flow of using GIT.
It's simple: I created a local branch, worked on it, then tried the git workflow:

1. Switch to the default branch

2. Cherry-pick (with the equivalent hg command) my changes from my own branch into default

3. Push the changes to the remote repo

What happened was that my local branch got pushed to the server, along with the default one. With git this wouldn't happen, it would push the local master to the remote master.
I completely agree with this- emails are cross-platform and available on the vast majority of connected devices, no phone required.

The IM option of this theory also fails to mention that the number of different IM options all fail to talk to each other, or even an overarching client (like Pidgin or imo). Remembering which of my contacts use Snapchat vs Whatsapp vs Facebook vs Hangouts seems utterly incompatible with the idea of the internet connecting people.
It's fairly typical. The standard "assert" macro behaves exactly that way, it does not generate code if the code is compiled with NDEBUG defined.

Of course you shouldn't abuse it but in this instance it's perfectly fine IMHO.

This reminds me that in addition to that the linux kernel has a pretty cool feature for debugging called "dynamic debugging" where you can enable and disable "printk" (the kernel's version of printf) messages dynamically from the shell through the debugfs:

http://lwn.net/Articles/434833/
Bloomberg anchor displays bitcoin on TV, immediately gets robbed by viewer
Frozen Lighthouses
I can only comment on the situation as I understand it; I.e. that the law does not specifically mention Islam and it does not prohibit, as you have misrepresented, "dressing up as a Muslim". Moreover, as others have pointed out, there are already plenty of places that prohibit face covering attire.

Also accusations of Big Brother coming from Americans at this point is rather hilarious.
Maybe drone routers providing floating/adhoc networks:)
I read the book (Amusing Ourselves to Death), and I would recommend it for these reasons:

- It explores a contemporary topic of significance. Relevance will depend on your interests. I do think it's an essential perspective for analysing the impact of media on society, and since the impact has been huge and is still increasing, it's relevant to all kinds of public and policy decisions.

- I haven't read any other works that discusses the topic in a similar perspective and in comparable or greater detail. I've come across few works on this topic. * Postman's later books and essays aren't anywhere close to this either.

- It is dated, and talks about last century's media - however, it is even more applicable to this century's computers, games, and internet, which are much more "addictive".
Can you explain further for those of us who aren't familiar with either term?
> Anyone who comes up with a reasonable way of bypassing the natural local monopolies of cable companies...

I'm nowhere near a socialist, but government intervention is a perfectly reasonable way to deal with natural monopolies. How do you think Northern European and Asian countries pulled so far ahead of the US on this?
I'd have a hard time deciding on this for $699 (maybe $500 with discounts), or the direct successor to my U2410 standard monitor, the 24" UP 2414Q. $1399 list, and probably $1k or so with discounts).
DisplayPort 1.2a does support these monitors AFAIK, through treating them as two panels daisy-chained together.
I don't understand the harm in the redundancy you're talking about.
They didn't really scale Mercurial, they basically took it and replaced a lot of it's functionality with remote services.

I understand their reasoning that technology shouldn't dictate the way they develop stuff, however I think splitting the project up and using submodules would have been a cleaner approach. If refactoring everything is something you do all the time, you might be doing it wrong.
IM and Phone call feel the exact same to me, except IM enables you to show your availability status to the people you're connected to.

< 30 minutes : IM if I'm available, if else call

2 hours : IM if away/busy, if else text

...

If someone appears as available and online and takes a day to answer my question, I'm not sure how I'd take it but it would piss me off.

On a sidenote, I think email is best suited for "when you're done with whatever you're doing' kind of timeframes due to the "mark as unread" which would prevent me from forgetting to reply if I decide to read what I received, realized I can't/don't want to answer right now.
A British newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch.
It's not like no one respectable who has ever taken a contrary position:

http://apievangelist.com/2012/01/12/the-secret-to-amazons-su...
In the same flavour: https://github.com/orangeduck/ptest
A fun, excellent, interactive place to learn git:

http://k.swd.cc/learnGitBranching-ja

It is hosted in GitHub pages (so in git itself).
Thanks for the clarification, though I think my point stands.

> The way the puzzle is phrased, the only way to get 1/3 as an answer is to assume that parents with one girl will never say, "At least one of them is a girl."

Right. But that is assumed, because the puzzle states that the parent says, "At least one of them is a boy."

In other words, "Put this way, the puzzle is highly ambiguous." No, not it is not. It is absolutely not ambiguous.

I made this point in a different comment for a different blog post with the same example, but: both things you link to contain a fallacy, as follows.

"Suppose we know that a certain man has two children and we also know that the older one is a boy" IMPLIES "Now suppose we know simply that a man has two children and that one of them is a son. This time we would reason that there is no possibility that the person has two girls. It follows that the sexes of his two children, ordered from oldest to youngest, are either BB, BG or GB...."

You can't conclude, as these authors do, from the first case, that the other child's gender is 1/2, and from the second, it is 1/3. It's not that the two cases are different (in any important way); they are not; one implies the other.

It's that in the 1/2 case, the person is naive, and in the 1/3 case, the person takes into account the known fact that there is a 1/2 chance per child of getting a certain gender, thus allowing the BB/BG/GB/GG analysis.
Full copies of all four episodes are downloadable from archive.org at https://archive.org/details/AdamCurtis-TheCenturyOfTheSelf
Altho' The Times is owned by News UK, which is 'a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corp' which is 'an American multinational mass media company'.

Tenuous, but you can't deny the relationship. Most papers (especially tabloids) in the UK are owned by News Corp.
... Who will be bankrupt if anything happens to the US as they've invested all their currency reserves in T-bills. The situations are not really comparable.
I actually use both Linode and Digital Ocean:

Linode is for more mission critical stuff where I need better uptime and tech support.

DO is for less important sites (blogs, family websites, etc)

Also, Linode don't just charge a flat fee for the month, they pro-rate costs based on when VPSs are created and destroyed in the billing cycle.
Microsoft Just Lost A Huge Customer To Google: The City Of Boston
yeah try that with a 2 year old battery
I see what you're saying. Unfortunately, I'm not good about making sure my away status is up to date. I'll often go a whole day, saying I'm away, even though I'm available.