skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are four possible cases:

A) Somebody talked to the police, the police gave them no trouble, and they went about their lives.

B) Somebody talked to the police, they got themselves in trouble, and they went to prison unnecessarily.

C) Somebody didn't talk to the police, the police gave them no trouble, and they went about their lives.

D) Somebody didn't talk to the police, they got themselves in trouble, and they went to prison unnecessarily.

You're saying that lawyers and prosecutors and such will see B but not A. This is true! However, when you consider all four cases, you must consider that these people will also see case D. And yet I have never once heard of anyone involved in the system who said, man, that guy really screwed himself by not talking to the police, if only he had just cooperated with them. Not once have I ever heard this. If it happened, they would see it, so the only conclusion I can draw is that it does not happen.
The paper linked to by aet is quite interesting - it suggests that economists are mainly interested in the internal logical structure of their models and that these must be amenable to analytical solutions.

So perhaps the discrete diffusion simulation being discussed just doesn't look like what an economist regards as a "good" model.

[NB I've spent a lot of time writing simulations in the industrial domain - where the simulated result is generally primary and the logical structure is a means to that end].
There's a certain amount of irony in startup founders who claim they relish the challenge of starting their own business and then turn around and complain about how challenging it is. Is it supposed to be hard or isn't it?
Interesting...one of the choices is Eritrean. Small country in East Africa. Names are pretty close to the region as well so I'm surprised.
I love it! ;) Just afraid that many trolls will use it...
Microsoft Extends Security Support For Windows XP
Edward Snowden bids to become Glasgow University rector
In addition to these, the inability of box to handle mac bundle type files was a show stopper.
To branch out without getting completely lost, assuming that isn't what you want.
Awesome work.

I have been working on an open source API to accomplish similar things (specifically just re: aggregation of data from disparate sources): https://github.com/jdjkelly/quantify

It's Rails + Postgres, and so far aggregates meal, weight, and sleep data from Withings and Fitbit - but I've been focussed on building out a framework to easily aggregate many, many more sources.

Maybe we could find a project to work on together - contact is in my profile.
I used all three at one point in time. What I love about homebrew is that the tedious work of maintaining a sane package repository is distributed over many shoulders (3429 at the moment) - and those who contribute most of the time do really care about the packages they are watching over.

I haven't found an easy way to add/update packages to finc or macports, but I could contribute to homebrew within 5 minutes.

I wish we would see more work distribution patterns like this in fields outside code/programming.
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And the thing you're doing wrong is promoting the view that unless you're paying a great deal of attention to the obscure behaviors of the rich and powerful and automatically genuflecting to their obscure interests, then you're colossally stupid.

It's absurd. Citizens should have the right to go about their business, living reasonable lives generally unmolested. This guy wasn't doing anything sneaky; he talked with the theater company staff about Glass not just on this occasion, but previous ones. It is not his job to know what theater company executives might think, or what relationship they have with mysterious unnamed federal law enforcement groups. It is their job, quite literally, to be clear about any expectations they have for their patrons.

The guy wasn't stupid. He was being perfectly reasonable. Your victim-blaming here is horseshit, a way for you to feel smart and superior. And, as a side effect, to justify the excesses of the powerful by shifting blame away from them. Knock it off.
I think Google Analytics dashbaord can be confusing and cumbersome. I understand that once you've used it and understand you can be proficient at it but many people don't have the time or care to learn the a complex tool.

I think the biggest value proposition Improvely offers is the Click Fraud reports/reporting and alerts.
Would love if you could get integrated into http://www.rubygeocoder.com/ - That would make my switch much easier. Would love to support you guys.
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Interesting, but I'm not sure about investing $150 for the first round of three classes.
Actually, my experience in college was that classes could usually be reduced to a scalar value.

Regardless of subject matter, I learned the most in classes that had good teachers who received good evals.

However, the administration doesn't think that way; they think that it's more valuable to take the "right" course than to take a course with the right teacher.
I've got an iOS app that I'm lucky if I get a sale or two a day. It was really more of a project to teach myself how to build iOS apps and be an accompaniment to an ebook my GF wrote that sells fairly well. I guess technically it hasn't 'made' any money since we're still in the red when factoring in the cost of the icon design, Apple dev account, etc.

I'm currently working on an app that is aimed at kids that should encourage them to write more and be creative. Hoping to get more traction with that.
Funny. I had a similar experience myself in art class in high school. The assignment was to take a photo from a magazine and reproduce its likeness with pencil and paper. I must have just had good shape and spacial recognition because the drawing I made just happened to be approximately the same size and proportions of the magazine photo I was using as reference and, so, the teacher accused me of simply tracing it. I got a zero on the assignment and was accused of being a hack in front of all my peers even though I drew it freehand, from sight (the way we were instructed).

IMHO there's too much emphasis placed on doing things the "right" way and not enough on actually getting things done. Even if I did simply trace the photo, I still would have had a learning experience, engaging pencil, hand, and paper and understanding a bit more about how they work (to me, the purpose of the assignment). Regardless of how a thing is made, if it actually gets made and gets into other people's heads and gives them an experience worth having, I think it has done its job.

I took up my dispute with the vice-principle along with my parents and redid the assignment on thick, opaque card-stock (that couldn't possibly be used to trace through) and reproduced another photo with just as much accuracy. I went on to attend art school and win illustration awards despite my horrible experiences with art in high school, but I worry that another student might have abandoned their pursuit of art and deprived the world of their creativity, given such negative feedback. I feel we all need to lighten up a bit.
Michael Pryor I think, actually.
How does the current location of Greenwald change any of the previously listed facts about Snowden?
Less effort. Key-strokes + click on 8/8.1, as opposed to opening the Control Panel, finding the most likely group for the thing you forgot the name of, and then clicking on the thing you need. The control panel is bloated, and it's organisation is not entirely logical (to me, at any rate).
Neat, but I don't understand why? No one's compiling binaries for it, it's already slow, etc. What's the reason why anyone who was interested in using an RPi would want to use FreeBSD on it?
Atari breakout- Google Easter Egg
I'm not Joel Spolsky, but yes, nerd celebs do wander around HN.
Same for Polish.

Most of names sound Polish, but I never ever heard of anyone called that name.

Also lastnames seem to be missing Polish characters sometimes
> nobody is buying PCs and OS-licenses anymore

Is this because nobody is using PCs anymore or because consumer grade PCs currently have an expected life of 5+ years?
Once you start piling up some dependencies (vs. self-constained apps), I found homebrew more of a mess, while MacPorts more or less worked as I'd expect. The thing that drove me off Homebrew was dependency-hell with different versions of Python packages, while MacPorts pulled in the right versions of all the dependencies (it can even handle needing multiple versions of NLTK/SciPy/etc. installed in parallel, if different ports depend on them). This is perhaps the flipside of the reason many people prefer Homebrew: it tends to build against the base OSX stuff, while MacPorts tends to pull in its own parallel world of dependencies. IME the latter works more reliably, though it takes up more diskspace.

But, Debian's package management works better than either of them, so I've sort of been moving towards doing any kind of unixy work in a VM and treating OSX as just a desktop.
Interactive Visualization of Color on Twitter
This is a super cool product, I'm giving it a shot.
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I've had the pleasure of meeting Mike a few times and I promise you, he's painfully accurate in his description of the tech scene in London. London's loss is SF's gain.
Jeff here - one of the creators of the classes. The great thing we like about this is that you can take the classes for free if you want. You only have to pay if you want the specialization. More info here:

http://jhudatascience.org/
this todo stuff doesn't end, does it? i don't know anyone who uses such thing. even less pay for it.
How do you know that you're not fooling yourself with the low price you paid, via the same mechanism beats fans are fooled by the high price?
MyEdu Acquired by Blackboard
A Not so Crazy Idea: Amazon Has a POD Machine in the Works
There are exciting technology challenges and then there are the painfully frustrating contrived challenges from established forces.

If startup founders were just looking for anything that could be called a challenge, they could poke their own eyes out and go mountain climbing.
Sounds interesting. Link to book?
That's what I thought as well, but recently found out otherwise. While it is true that, for buckets in the US Standard region, requests are routed to the closest endpoint, the data still only lives in one location.

To clarify by way of an example, say you're putting data into S3 from an EC2 instance in us-east-1. Those requests will end up being handled by the NVA US Standard S3 endpoint, and the data will only be stored in NVA. If try and retrieve that key from an EC2 instance in us-west-2, that request will indeed be routed to the PNW S3 endpoint, which will see that it doesn't have a local copy of the object and will need to retrieve it from NVA before serving it to you. That object will be cached locally in the PNW endpoint for an unknown amount of time, after which it will need to be retrieved from NVA again.

All of this information was from a recent support ticket I had open with AWS while trying to troubleshoot poor S3 performance.

The verbage they use to describe the US Standard region is quite confusing, leading a lot of people to assume that it provides geographic redundancy when it actually does not provide this at all.
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I'm having trouble figuring out what you do. Or rather, I know what you do, but am not sure how you do it. How do you track conversions?

I couldn't find a page on the site letting me know how much technical skill I'd require to implement this.
HGST (Hitachi) has been bought by Western Digital. One should be able to expect a merge of their HDD lines (source: http://www.hgst.com/) .

Moreover, it seems that Deskstars are no longer manufactured (or have been rebranded). http://www.hgst.com/hard-drives/product-brands
When you have more it is more scary to take a risk as you are risking everything you have. How I relate to it is this way, I have a fairly good paying job (equivalent to Kanye releasing albums what's popular) versus I solve a hard problem and quit my day job to build it (similar to Kanye sticks to what he believes in). Now you do the math who has more to loose?

Having said that, I'm going through a stage in my life where I am getting to see the real character of people in terms of their risk appetite. Everybody wants to be an entrepreneur but when it really comes to doing it people chicken out. May be it's my circle but again that's my experience.
Points to a whole new way of making movies. I'd love to see some behind the scenes video or stories about making it - do you have anything like that?
I agree. At work, we have a limited number of Windows PC's. They have never run Vista (stuck w/ XP), and hopefully never run 8 (running 7 now).
Slight nitpick made better by an xkcd link

http://what-if.xkcd.com/48/

Strangely the sun is yet to set on the Empire.
Give then OpenOffice, it comes from the classic menus instead of that abomination called the ribbon. That's the very reason why I use it, even though MS Office is still better in terms of functionality.
That's impressive... What was the hardware cost?
This worry about "waste my one phone call" makes no sense.

You're not obligated to talk without a lawyer. The police won't give you what you need to find a lawyer? Fine, just don't talk. If they're stupid enough to say, "you wasted your one phone call, no lawyer for you" then just sit there.

The legal system is run by humans and doesn't generally have silly gotchas like these. There's no such thing as, "you couldn't find a lawyer in ten minutes with one phone call, so you don't get to have one, gotcha!"
So, if MLK had left the country to avoid prison or execution (all other events having been identical) he would have been a "weasel"?

What a bone-headed defense of the status quo, using the name of a man who gave his life fighting against it.
Do you have to show up at any particular place every day?
Wells Fargo bans staff from investing in P2P loans
Frameworks are awesome when you want something that's good enough without a ton of work. I used to use bootstrap for a lot of tools that I didn't want to look ugly, but that didn't need to be pixel perfect design masterpieces either.
Yeah, although I identified with some of what he was trying to say, that line left me struggling to understand how that statement was a positive.
A silly project for playing with Unicode (sıɥʇ ǝʞıl) and ASCII Art. About 900 visits per day, 10€ per month income. Almost pays for the server.

http://lunicode.com
I agree, I find it really odd that there are demands that one cannot be on the moral high ground unless you throw yourself upon the mercy of a system that you directly exposed as being corrupt.

It's as if all those people that escape North Korea to spread word about the abuses there must go back to face the ire of that government or we won't believe them.

As for the immature people out there with sad debating etiquette, I'm not comparing the US government with the North Korean government, it's just an example.
That isn't really fair. I took great care not to say that people should feel compelled to give information, only that we should feel obliged to provide it voluntarily under many situations. (Certainly not all situations, either -- information given in confidence should be inviolable without a warrant, for one thing.)
It is mere coincidence, however, that the music he wanted to make was also the music people wanted to hear. It's hardly laudable to do something you enjoy...
This guy hits a lot of nails on their respective heads, and yes granted there is a culture difference between here and the US.

I think the biggest difference between here and the US is there is no stigma attached to having a failed start-up. It's almost the natural run of events in the US. You simply dust yourself off and on with the next idea.

In the UK we seem to attach a stigma to failure and this runs the full spectrum from start-up entrepreneurs to investors. It's a tricky mindset to break.
Glad to see there's some interest in economic simulation on HN. I'd personally like to see some simulations done where economics is actually applicable, ie. scarce resources.
I guess it is kind of the same but a higher upper limit?

Rackspace Block Storage vs EBS (provisioned) - Page 73:
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The crux of the issue is the inherent reluctance towards investing in tech companies here in London. Believe me, the community is willing and working bloody hard towards creating 'the next big thing' but getting investment in London is painfully difficult.

The London Hacker News meetup is a SV investors wet dream. 500 like-minded people turning up every month to discuss amazing ideas and woefully struggling to get investment to fund their passion.
Lesson learnt from the comments: beware of modelling economics if you have a background in a hard science. As a profession, we are incredibly envious and defensive of our position as the quantitative social science.
How does the dataset compare to google? Would love to see some side by side comparisons.
For those looking to roll your own, the Ruby implementation of a TIGER geocoder released by GeoIQ a while back is a pretty solid starting point: https://github.com/geocommons/geocoder/

We ended up using that as a base and then making some customizations for our US-based geocoding solution. As these guys are figuring out, there's no great int'l option. Google is bad from a licensing perspective (but their tech is fantastic). MapQuest is great but can get really expensive. We've had decent luck with TomTom I think, but if I remember correctly there are a lot of caveats.
And so your own assumptions are that wealth can be created out of thin air, and that humans behave as rational actors?

I'd say your assumptions are the ones that are fatally flawed, as history has shown repeatedly.
I guessed (correctly) that on my Macbook Air's keyboard cmd+return is "insert".
If you're using the mouse and interacting with windows 8 features you probably aren't having a good time. However, you have no reason to. As of 8.1 you can boot straight into the desktop, if you're a power user (or aren't on a touch device) you aren't using metro apps anyway so their interface doesn't mean much to you, and all other functionality (shutdown, search, settings, etc) is accessible with simple keyboard shortcuts (far faster than using the mouse regardless of what OS you use). The only reason a user without a touch interface should see the start menu in Win8 is for brief moments when they are using the search functionality to quickly open programs. The poster you were responding to is completely correct: they hype against win8 is completely overblown. In my opinion, slight visual changes are worth the back-end changes to things like boot time, multi-core performance, and security.
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I did this once and they required a lot of time from me and the results were not worth it. A times, it felt like I was playing a game of telephone (AKA Chinese whispers) with the MBA students:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers
> In doing so, the developers violated Yale’s appropriate use policy by taking and modifying data without permission, but, more importantly, they encouraged students to select courses on the basis of incomplete information. To claim that Yale’s effort to ensure that students received complete information somehow violated freedom of expression turns that principle on its head.

I think she doesn't really know what free expression means. It does not mean, "you can say what you want as long as we agree with it." That's certainly how I read "more importantly, they encouraged students to select courses on the basis of incomplete information". Free expression means that the administration cannot control the message; people can say what they want. This is OK; win in the marketplace of ideas ("maybe I should evaluate my courses with more contextual information"), not by treating your students as children who can't decide for themselves how to consume information.

Also, this bit about reconsidering whether to provide the data at all is childish. "You're not interpreting our data the way we want so now you can't have any! I'm taking my ball and going home!" It's worth remembering (both here and in the thus-far imprecise and confused discussion of who "owns" the data) that the students are the ones providing the evaluations being aggregated here; at the very least, it's unclear why they'd be expected to continue doing so without getting some quid pro quo benefit from it.

Stop trying to control everything and trust your students to be smart and thoughtful.
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i'm actually struggling to think of an idolized figure in tech who isn't an "asshole"

Maybe not as idolized as Jobs/Gates/Zuck, but there are non-asshole public figures in tech, such as Woz, Tim O'Reilly, Matt Mullenweg, Joel Spolsky. Being abrasive isn't a prerequisite to success.
In pre-Perl 5.12 I've also implemented

sub not_impl {
die "Not implemented";
}

which makes it just a

if ($some_clause) {
not_impl;
}

which is pretty close (semicolon optional here). Replace the die with your choice of thrown exception or confess or whatever, of course.

I'm sure Ruby could do something similar. It may be less pretty but it works, and it is useful during certain types of development, I find.
JPMorgan, Credit Suisse Ramp Up Startup Push for Deals
Integrating Workflowy, Trello, and mindmaps would produce a better, more useful, and more complete tool.

All three use the same data structure (lists) and present it in three different ways. These three data UIs excel in different ways at input, editing, and output and are most appropriate for different tasks.

A couple of ideas for example: Workflowy is a better way to generate a mindmap, so how about a mindmap that allows you to enter your text in Workflowy style on the left half of the screen and shows you the mindmap on the right side of the screen? How about taking a node in Workflowy and allowing the user to interact with it through a Trello-style UI?
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Is that net of energy costs?
I feel like the author is projecting a lot of their ideas onto Kanye. Either that, or there's much more evidence for the article in the video, but not quoted in the article.
It was true at the time. But as times have changed, the answer to this question too if you think about possibility to do transitions in CSS and define key frames for those transitions. Things previously done in Javascript are now (partly) possible in CSS only. With that it makes sense frameworks for CSS.

It does not matter if the framework is mixed in by SASS or LESS, because from that point of view you could argue that Javascript frameworks are not required, because they could be mixed in as well.
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And thanks to whomever downvoted me for that. Guess we prefer free tools.
The cost you see on newegg probably isn't the cost Blackblaze sees. They're getting bulk pricing, which WD is probably more eager to sell than Hitachi.
I assume startup founders are like most people: we love to claim credit for what hardcore badasses we are, but we'd prefer it to not actually be hard, thanks.
Backblaze employee here - it is honestly just a spreadsheet that kicks out the answer. Every month we ask 20 or so suppliers for the lowest price for each drive type. If Hitachi are 10 percent more expensive but fail 10 percent less often, that balances out and we buy Hitachi. But if it is 12 percent more costly then we get the other brand. There is a tiny bit of free preference leeway given to Hitachi because it means less hassle to our over worked datacenter team...
Metric system option would be nice too.