skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, that blog post contains a "bait and switch." Here it is:

> But suppose that instead you had asked, "Is your eldest child a boy?" and the mathematician had answered "Yes." Then the probability of the mathematician having two boys would be 1/2. Since the eldest child is a boy, and the younger child can be anything it pleases.

No, it cannot be "anything it pleases." That is the whole point of the blog post that we are all commenting about here on HN, which is re-told on the blog post you are linking to.

Since the post you are linking to is misrepresenting one side of the "argument," I strongly suggest that there is no actual apparentl contradiction here that needs to be resolved.

Yes, you can talk about the actual probability of something vs. making the best possible prediction you have. A good example raised in this post is the point about a biased coin; you know it is biased but not which way, so you assign odds of .5 for heads and .5 for tails. Fine. This is not some massive philosophical conundrum.

The fact is that actual knowledge is neither purely "out there" (e.g. "in the cards") nor purely "in here" (in the mind). This is the classic rationalism vs. empiricism debate, which was settled by Ayn Rand's theory of objective knowledge, where she answers that knowledge is in man's mind, but it is knowledge of external reality. So, "both."

Not understanding this, and other basic epistemological errors, seem to plague lesswrong.com. It is embarassing to see them supposedly championing "reason" under a non-objective epistemology. They come to bizarre conclusions, and that is, at least partially, why.
planning to phish?
I personally use Digital Ocean and I always recommend them to others but I also include the warning "Don't assume your snapshots are safe". Over the course of a year, two snapshots of mine had became unusable due to some SAN related issue. It's a $5/month service so I don't make a big deal about this.

As a safety precaution, I always replicate snapshots that I care about to all their regions before I destroy a droplet. And I always tell others to do the same.
Unfortunately: Yes.

For example, I had a hard time telling people that they should use a proper HTTP redirect from their domain "example.com" to "www.example.com" (or vice versa), instead of serving the content on both domains. All arguments about standards, best practice etc. were unconvincing. But since Google startet to punish "duplicate content", I never had problems convincing people again.
"I have a two children, one of which is a boy. What's the probability the other is a boy?"

Intuition wrongly treats the possibilities as sets and assigns probabilities 1/2 BB, 1/2 GB, rather than 1/3 BB, 1/3 GB, 1/3 BG.
I would like to see the virtual private cloud concept in linode. Like the VPC in EC2, linode must do that. Putting every machine bare open with public ip address is scary, VPC is needed in Linode.
That GB is twice as likely as either GG or BB. For this reason, reference is made to BG to make this more apparent.
What if they are twins? The explanation does not cover that and it sure changes the probabilities.
CppUTest isn't bad for C projects, even if the test framework uses C++.
http://cpputest.github.io/

edit - grammar
That's because you have two options to choose between. Many have none, so it's either pay the price or have no home internet. Where the only choices are Comcast and Verizon, which offer near-identical packages and pricing in most markets, Comcast's retention department no longer negotiates. If you threaten to switch, they'll tell you to go ahead, and send a door-to-door sales rep to your home every 6 months.
You only misunderstand because the author is presenting it stupidly (as you state, incorporating order where order is irrelevant), leading to his own stupid conclusion. Read my post elsewhere in the thread for the full explanation, and if you find this kind of thing interesting, look up the Monty Hall problem (the point of which is that changing the information changes the odds).
"They can do the work at night or over the weekend, so they don’t have to leave their current job in the meantime."

If I spend night working, I'm tired next day. Not sure if it is shocking. If I spend weekend working, then I just lost most of my free/family time and not surprisingly, I'm tired during next week and produce less in my regular job.

So, the hourly rate is better be competitive with salary. Otherwise I would just consider them freeloaders trying to get some cheap labor.
Yes, but you're talking about TV's where it's fine if it has a 16:9 aspect because all of the content is in 16:9. If I buy a monitor, I want it to have a proper 16:10 aspect because it matches the ratio of the W*XGA displays it would replace/complement. More specifically, I don't want to be left out of those extra lines and would feel cheated by Dell in this regard if I either bought it or had to use one due to a budget stricken IT department. A TV is a TV and a monitor is a monitor. The thing they're selling is a TV without a tuner and remote control, marketed as a monitor.
4K Monitor? Say Hello To Lenovo's 4K Laptop
I could do it if anyone wants help me financially or with marketing. I've got many years of direct factory sourcing in China. First came here a decade ago and I've been living here for the most part of the past 3 years.

Is there a way to be contacted through HN?
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/08/obama-golfs-with...

http://deneenborelli.com/2013/08/msnbc-boss-comcast-ceo-bria...

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0811/into_the_woods_...

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/obamas-daughters-join-familys...

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/pres-obama-drops-by-mart...
They also finally cashed in the 'big side vs. small side' credit they've been holding onto since they first branded HD (720 and 1080 are the (exact) pixel-lengths of the small sides, while 4k is (less than) the length of the big side).

Edit: Not only that, but they can (defendably) make the claim that 4k is "4 times the size of 1080p" while (deniably) knowing that some people will misinterpret.
"email is not reliable and can fail at any minute and must not be relied on,"

In what universe? If email were to stop working in most major corporations that I've worked in for the last 8+ years, the company would basically come to a halt.

Email, for many, many companies is the message/workflow bus, and if it stops - communication comes to a halt.

It is, after electricity, and the network, the one essential function in a company in 2013.

Telephones, Photocopiers, Printers can all cease functioning , with little impact in most technologies companies - but not email.
I think one has to distinguish between no privacy and privacy controlled by some central entity, though. If essentially everyone knows everything about everyone, that might work (though I have some doubts how one could get there from here, especially as it would need some fundamental changes in our economic system), but having the control concentrated in one place seems to me to be very risky indeed, as that is a huge pile of power in the hands of a few.
We are so new to this that I'm not sure how big a deal it is going to be. We'll definitely find out soon, as a lot of great candidates are not US citizens.
I'd like at least the option to keep on working, making changes, and at the end fix all the broken tests. Sometimes it's easier to develop this way than to stop everytime and fix a broken test, usually when you change the architecture / big code changes.
And since it's supposedly terrorism-related, they're just giving out all the little details about the case to random people in the area. I think your friend might just be telling a story to make it seem interesting.
Most frequent bigram in scientific journal is 'unpublished data'
Sorry I don't want to hijack the authors effort, I am just mentioning it for anybody considering additional testing frameworks.
The blog post[1] that the author based his short explanation on goes into this. Peter Winkler, a math professor at Dartmouth, is quoted in it[2]:

Suppose the puzzle is phrased this way: X says “I have two children and at least one is a boy.” What is the probability that the other is a boy?

Put this way, the puzzle is highly ambiguous. Computer scientists, cryptologists and others who must deal carefully with message-passing know that what counts is not what a person says (even if she is known never to lie) but under what circumstances would she have said it.

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."

1. http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2011/11/08/the-tuesday...

2. http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?p=234
Sure, just put a contact email in your profile.
You're oversimplifying.

The problem is the interpretation of the question in precise terms. We are given some background information and then told the observation of a particular random variable. In the given article, the random variable is interpreted as "yes/no: at least one child is a boy born on a Tuesday". Rambling about "order" does not change the fact that the article is correct, given the definition of the random variable that is observed.

The problem is that this interpretation is only correct if you imagine that you are always given the observation of the same random variable no matter what the genders or birthdays of the children actually are. For example, if I had two girls born on Wednesday, I would then tell you "no child is a boy born on a Tuesday". That's an unlikely scenario which is what makes it legitimately surprising.

It's like the Monty Hall problem. What if the host picks the door in advance? What if the host only opens a door with a goat under the condition that you picked the door with the prize? What if the host only opens a door with a goat under the condition that you picked the wrong door?

The article has problems but "wrong" is not one of them.

> so hey, fuck you guys too

Hacker News is a terrible place to visit if you want to take the voting system personally. Don't make this about you. It's about the post.
If you want separate resolutions for computer monitors and televisions you are going to pay a premium for both, since different supply chains are focusing on two different kinds of panel. You want the two industries working on the same thing, and that's already happening. I've been 1080p on my workstation for a long time. I can't wait for 4K TV monitors and they will be my next upgrade for my workstation once the price is right.

My comment up-thread discusses why television shifting to 16:10 is unlikely, and it mainly has to do with lenses. Another concern is all of the monitors in studios, trucks, and so forth that are 16:9. Given that, it seems fair to me to have computing move toward 16:9 so the toolchains can be shared between computer monitors and televisions. My 55" 1080p TV was $2,000 when I bought it. You can now buy it under $1,000. What's wrong with taking that experience and working on computer monitors?

Computers are increasingly being used to deliver television and cinema content, as well. It's fairly ideal for me right now to consume 1080p content at its native resolution with no boxing or cropping.
Are these guys stoned?
I just put some exported .png copies of some of them in the Dropbox folder you shared with me, but I'm realizing that without the associated metadata it's not going to be very useful (I can perhaps find where that was put later but it's not in the places I'm looking). Would you be able to use them in .swf form?
and the Chinese government confiscated electronics equipment including the mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles from Glenn Greenwald's partner...
Got it. No wonder.
Yet another very simple single-file in 65 lines of code here: https://github.com/tkrajina/yactest
Photo WebAPP using Almond,Underscore,Backbone + Marionette, usejsdocs.org
it is absolutely practical.

these guys are supposed to be working outside, on top of roofs, etc.

the bellbottoms protect you from stuff falling into your boots. sawdust, nails, water, etc.

the hat protects you from sun, etc.

this uniform is meant as the only thing that you travel in. those guys walk and tramp across the country or even europe. their outfit is multifunctional and very, very old. it is meant to make you standout, it signals who you are and what you're doing.
Writing Robust Web Applications - The Lost Art of Exception Handling
I think you are confused, git and hg branches are very similar (I'd try to help but I'm not sure what the confusion is).
Or Buffer http://bufferapp.com/
Or you could buy for $1 and then on the second week increase your amount with just the needed to get bonus + above the average games.
I asked the problem for regular expression(the theoretical kind) for a finite set on cstheory a while ago.

http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/16860/minimizing...

Apparently this problem is still open.
How anonymous are VPN providers, themselves?
This is great. So is Josh Duck's period table of elements, which is mentioned in the footnotes:

http://joshduck.com/periodic-table.html
> Would this operate better if it weren't on any 802.11 frequency, but another with less noise

Well, there main unlicensed bands used by hardware today are 2.4 (Full up), 5.8 (Filling), and 24.1 GHz (Relatively clear). If you want to get into other frequencies, you're going to need to license them ($$$). If you want to work with the frequencies already available, you're going to need to plan a little, since different frequencies have different speeds and penetrance.

Wirless meshs are neat in some aspects, a more guerilla approach to internet for sure, but you're definitely going to have an easier time dealing with bandwidth and noise if you just roll out your service over insulated wires.
I don't know Haskell, but I do know OCaml, a strongly, statically-typed language with type inference. OCaml does avoid a lot of the pitfalls of C++, but it shares the problem of difficult to decode error messages. Oh boy, does it ever.

Adding explicit type specifications helped a little bit. Adding parentheses around everything helped a little bit more. For some reason, the parentheses trick seems to be little-known online, but it's something I really had to do sometimes in OCaml. I once spent a half hour trying to figure out why a file was getting a parse error at the end. I eventually did a kind of binary search, commenting out half of the file at a time until I could narrow it down. It was a missing brace halfway through. The problem is that without the need to put all functions in the top-level, things just float in a sea of declarations, and if two things are next to one another, it's assumed to be curried... and so your error message about a missing brace shows up on a line number far removed from the actual problem.

It's possible that with more development effort put into the language, OCaml and other functional programming languages would have better compiler error messages. It's also possible that there's just a fundamental difficulty trying to teach a profoundly stupid computer to give reasonable error messages about a super-clever system. Hopefully the popularity of functional languages like Scala and OCaml will give us a chance to find out the answer to tihs.
I think RH recognized that

* CentOS has significant market share

* people sometimes want to switch from CentOS to RH, but not vice versa (natural evolution in growing companies)

Thus they will cooperate with CentOS, with the end result that switching from CentOS to RH will become easier.
I'm not, you're overcomplicating! X is a boy. What is the chance that Y is also a boy? 1/2 or 1/3? Non-rhetorical, answer the question as posed.
According to #mercurial, branches (even closed ones) begin to noticeably slow down the repository when you reach around 2000. That's not at all impossible to reach with fine-grained feature branches. Bookmarks are really just pointers to commits, no branches in any sense, so they cannot be used for feature branches either. As a result, we simply don't use feature branches in Mercurial. It's literally the only issue I can think of.
Even DisplayPort 1.2 doesn't have enough bandwidth to push 60Hz. You're going to have to wait for a newer spec.
Yeah, that's what I got too.

On a more substantive note, it's actually absolutely amazing what Feynmann managed to pull off using 'just' calculus. Especially if you read the Feynmann lectures, when it comes to integrals and calculus, he had unmatched mastery and understanding. I've never really stopped to think about that before now.
The code is wrapped with AMD, each class is in its own file (namespaces style)
requirejs in dev, almond in production
jquery for the DOM
underscore...
Backbone + Marionette
Architecture influenced mainly by [1].
[2] for the documentation.

references:
[1]http://www.slideshare.net/nzakas/scalable-javascript-applica...
[2]http://usejsdoc.org/
NPM is awesome, just the modules aren't. They are of poor quality, rushed, and often than not, left to rot (because people have moved on to newer shiny APIs).

There are only a few high-quality-working-and-well-documented modules.
I'm going to risk looking stupid here but what is the preferred DNS setup then, to make sure both example.com and www.example.com resolve to a GitHub Page at the custom URL www.example.com?

The way I read their documentation I set only a CNAME for www -> username.github.io. Does this mean I set no A record at all for the domain, to make sure I get the benefit of the CDN? If yes, how do I ensure requests for example.com resolve to www.example.com?
Clang has excellent error messages for C++ - it even spellchecks your code and can suggest the function you meant to type when you typo something. So this is almost certainly a case of development effort, and not something intrinsic to the type system.
I'm using a 4K monitor with a late-2013 MacBook Pro
From what I've seen, bookmarks are not "branches" in any sense, really just pointers to commits.

I've tried several times to use bookmarks for feature branches (read: branches developed in parallel to each other and the default branch). I thought I just can't figure it out, but it really seems impossible at this point.
PacBell had built one of these next gen networks, it was even in limited deployments, as soon as SBC bought them, they killed it. It was an HFC network (hybrid fiber/coax)and was a commercial ready product. I'm not in a position to find citations right now, but if you google Pacific Bell and Hybrid Fiber Coax, you'll find the cites.
Actually there are lots of option available already with lot other featured, but this one does only one thing and its a kind of MVP :)
Melbourne schoolboy exposes security flaw in Public Transport Victoria's website
Amazon's Current Employees Raise the Bar for New Hires
There is a similar statement by Higgs (the guy who won the Nobel prize for physics for the discovery of the boson named after him) about how the insane pressure to constantly publish and produce papers comes at the expense of being able to think really hard about difficult problems.

It's a difficult problem. Universities have limited funding, and want to attract professors that get lots of grants to self finance their own research. To get lots of grants, you need to publish lots of high impact papers. To publish lots of papers quickly, you need a lot of PhD students to supervise, and you need to work in a hot and rapidly moving field. This leads to professors acting as glorified managers who spend all their time churning out grants, and spend an incredibly tiny fraction of their time working on their own science.
Fine, then I pose to you the same problem description, with the added fact that the stranger is proud of having a boy, will only draw attention to a boy and will thus say "at least one is a boy", independent of whether the other is a girl, while he would never say "at least one is a boy".

You can't solve a logic puzzle by arguing the psychology of a persona depicted in the puzzle.
I've never heard of Christopher Lane before.

Wait, actually, on second thought, I have. But that didn't have any impact on my opinion of the US.

The murder rate statistic "thing" (as you described it) is based on the actual murder rate statistics. And my knowledge of US gun control.
In theory that's right. But in practice the line that divides them is somewhat blurry.
I would say that the cloud is not only a mix of technologies and solutions, but also a worldview with abusive attitude toward the catt ... consumers. In the 90s web hosting was simple - if it is not CP and you pay your bills anything goes. Right now everyone on the chain thinks and demands rights to interfere with your experience. Everyone is trying to become a gatekeeper and editorialize.
FreeSync demo - AMD's free alternative to Nvidia's G-Sync
big dreams with little eyes :D
Do you use both the internal display and external monitor?

Have you tried connecting more than one external monitor?
That is possible to do now. I'm however convinced that there will be a day when creating such an account will be more difficult (phone number needed etc). That day will most likely come after the Facebook WiFi router is widely implemented.
Actually, it's conflicting interests either way.
As part of the R&D team of UniCredit I can safely tell you we do more than just webapps with this new "en vague" js framework.
Our aim is to push forward technology inside the bank to whatever direction we see fit. Lots of reasoning right now is on data visualization and manipulation (add the word "big" to it yourself).
We also patented some hw stuff (pretty unusual for a bank).
We're based in Milano, Italy (but we might expand a little bit).

Feel free to contact me.
> answer the question as posed

You can't give a correct answer to an incomplete question. Sit down and define the problem and if you come up with a different answer it's because you made a different assumption about the definition of the observed random variable.

Let's suppose there are four universes.

* Two boys (25% chance)

* Two girls (25% chance)

* Boy and girl (50% chance)

If we assume that the observed random variable has a preimage that contains all possibilities where the statement is true, then we come to the 1/3 conclusion, which is counterintuitive but true. This is the position of the article. I have come to the same conclusion without using order, but I have used the same definition of the observed random variable.

Tell me what you think the random variable is.

We could assume that the random variable has a preimage which only contains the case where both children are boys. Bam, probability 100%, not 1/2 or 1/3. Or we can assome that the random variable has a preimage which only contains the case where one child is of each gender. Bam. Probability 0%. So any answer between 0% and 100% is defensible.
> I understand that a significant majority of Australians still support the Aboriginal segregation and forced adoption laws.

> I understand that Australia not only has a slow internet, but widespread and regular censorship of what sites citizens can go to.

You are greatly mistaken.

> I understand that a significant majority of the Australia's healthcare system is lacklustre.

It ain't perfect, but its significantly better than the US'

> I understand that Australia doesn't even offer free speech protection.

I know. This really sucks. We have "implicit" free speech, but it still sucks.
Same here. As outlined below, we tried to use bookmarks for feature branches a few times and it either doesn't work or we can't figure it out. We used permanent branches for feature branches for a while, but too many of those (even closed) would slow down the repository eventually.

Our coping strategy is MQ. It's not the same, but solves the problem pretty well IMO. MQ patches can be sent around and backed up, so not being able to push them to the server is not such a big issue. Takes a little upfront investment to figure out how they work though, Mozilla has a pretty good guide [1].

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mercurial_Queues