skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hack 1 (hk)
v. hacked, hack·ing, hacks
3 b. To gain access to (a computer file or network)
illegally or without authorization: hacked the firm's
personnel database.

I'd say they gained access to North Korea without authorization. This is hacking.
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Apple, Amazon, Samsung & More Settle Boston Univ. Patent Lawsuits
Fitbit offers apology and refund to users
Random =/= an even distribution of lucky and unlucky. Randomness clumps together and can be decidedly un-random looking at times. Some people do not get a fair shake, and despite their notable efforts, still find themselves on the short end of the stick.
Nassim Taleb somehow likes to beat up on normals...

We Bayesians have similar notions, but we usually try not to overly bully frequentist methods, the poor things. Also, being familiar with Bayesian methods, a lot of what Taleb is saying sounds vaguely familiar...
DRM is not slavery.
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This guy sounds like a complete joke. Standard deviation is an immensely useful tool in stats. It's not a historical accident we use it everywhere, for example it naturally appears in the very useful Chebyshev inequality, and a million other contexts.
> Economic freedom, that is the freedom of companies to do as they please, is often in conflict with individual freedom.

These seem orthogonal to me. You can have individual economic freedom.
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We should retire the idea of race
Nice. This is one example of a real way to restrict what NSA is doing - take away their sources, their facilities (data centers, etc), criminalize people helping them, and they'll be left with very few places to hide. It's also going to be very hard to collect billions of communications and store it all without proper resources and large enough buildings where to store that data.

I hope more states start doing this, if Congress doesn't want to do anything serious about it (and I have absolutely zero expectations from the White House, as I already know his proposed reforms tomorrow are going to be a joke).
This is really slick! Btw. Who made your intro video?
The worst part about this is that it makes Taleb appear to be a complete idiot. Volatility under the Black-Scholes is the standard deviation of the daily price changes (log adjusted) not the standard deviation of the daily price. When the daily newspaper has a better understanding than the supposed expert it is just time to stop listening to said expert.
The point is that using traits of successful companies isn't useful without looking at unsuccessful companies. Yes, these are all traits of successful companies. But other companies did these same things and failed.
Did you really understand that comment to be addressed to the writer rather than what was written? Frankly I found it to be a rather more convincing condemnation of the phrase "vile idiot" than your own. FWIW, I don't think anyone here (nor NNT even) is a vile idiot.
These are great foundational traits, which are common among noble-failure and successful startups I've seen.

You still need to add in the resources (money, energy, charisma) to fund sustained hard work, market resonance, and luck to reach super success.
The people who scrape data at Scraperwiki -- which was made by the same people who opened up parliamentary transcripts in the UK for the first time, and the UN's proceedings, and data about how MPs in London vote -- generally don't have an option to buy anything because the data's hidden by governments from the people who paid for it, on purpose.

But by all means take this opportunity to dismiss all of us as freeloaders.
Really cool idea and tool. Still need to test this out properly. Is it possible to scrape note just one page but a stack of them? For example - a product catalog of 1000 SKUs extending upto 50pages.
Congrats! Awesome job.
Yeah, what's up with that title? How disappointing.
I'm not talking about why they died (that's obvious, the non-corporate internet was much better). I'm talking about how lousy the offerings were when the pipe providers could do whatever they wanted.
Who paid for this report to be produced? iStrategyLabs is a marketing company, not unlike some of the other 'analysts' out there, and one of their paid functions is to shape opinion, not just report it.

Qui Bono?
Citing 10 measurements in a table or plot is probably easier than explaining how and why you are taking mean and standard deviation (or anything else for that matter...)
Nope, reread article.
The command "zpool scrub POOLNAME" will go through and check all the checksums for you, and, you should use either RAID1 or RAIDZ (similar to RAID5) so that if it does detect an error, then the other copy of the data can be used to correct it.

For snapshots - they only get made, if you make them (or setup an automated script that makes them). You can list the snapshots and see how much space each uses, as well.
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"Does this strike anyone else as a bit careless and/or reckless?"

Yes. Better to let all those people remain in Hell with no hope for a better tomorrow.

"You are a citizen of North Korea and one of these USB or DVDs lands on your property (and you don't even know its there)."

Citizens of North Korea -- and not the State -- own property?
No, we don't have POST support quite yet. We're working on a solution.
People were disappointed it was only 10 hours long. I see that as a selling point, but many don't.
At this point, I'd just like a filesystem I don't have to worry about. I never had a problem with NTFS.
Impermium acquired by Google
They're required to put up those signs at least 48hrs ahead, but good luck contesting it. My sister-in-law was hit with the same thing, done by "Precision Engineering".

She tells me that if you actually could prove they didn't give enough notice, there is a $1000 fine for the construction company.
We don't support that quite yet. It's our #1 feature request though, and we're working to get it ready soon
Wow you're right! He hasn't posted anything on Railscasts since June last year!

http://railscasts.com/
Typed objects (ES7) offer struct-like packing and heap repr efficiency, independent of asm.js:

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:typed_objects
Actually, I usually scrape data because there is NO API I can pay for.
It definitely matters. I've always struggled with NX. VNC is easier, but slower.
Thanks for the suggestion... adding to the list :)
We're a B2B SaaS product too. For customer support, we started with Zendesk, but we switched over time to Helpscout.

We felt that Zendesk was getting too large and complicated for our reasonably straightforward requirements. Plus, we really liked the image of our customers getting back a personal email rather than the "YOU HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED TICKET #238989438928992, PLEASE WAIT (24) HOURS FOR RESPONSE" kind of system.

Obligatory comment about early optimisation. If you find yourself having big debates about the optimal tools and integrations when you have nowhere near the quantity of support tickets that would justify spending any time on this problem at all, you may be focused on the wrong area.
By reading this article, you’re mining bitcoins
CoffeeScript was never part of the pack. It's older than most of these and introduced most people to the idea of languages that compile to JavaScript.
Do you know any bootcamp developers?
I'm going to be starting a web development bootcamp in San Francisco in the coming weeks. I'm very excited and have been able to find nothing but positive outcomes and comments online. I'm curious if any of you have interviewed, hired, or worked with a bootcamp graduate. Can you comment on the quality of their knowledge?
That's interesting. A company may see it as only fair not to poach, but in the eyes of employees it's (rightly) collusion.

On that note, "Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs threatened to hit Palm with patent litigation if the company did not stop poaching valuable employees"[1] is not ethically defensible.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/01/angry-over-employee-poa...
There's no freedom of information in the country. They subverted this by cleverly sending technology and information by using low-tech means. Sounds like a hack to me.
round here I hope you'd more like flaunt your kickass coding skills
What stops people from signing up as a Patron right before a game is released? Or put another way, what's the benefit of signing up as a Patron ahead of time?
Email & Password Auth with AngularFire
I have 17 scrapers on ScraperWIki classic for government data https://classic.scraperwiki.com/profiles/maxious/

It would have cost me $348/year to move those to new scraperwiki.
I used to do that. It gets old really fast. If you want to make a left-hand turn, you have to bike over to the crosswalk, press the button, wait thirty seconds for the light to change, walk across, (another thirty seconds on a wide street), press the crosswalk button again, wait another thirty seconds, walk across the street again (another thirty seconds). If you have a few red lights on your way home that can easily add ten minutes to your travel time. At a certain point common sense trumps obeying every technicality of the law.
Just like in the US, everyone in north korea is guilty of a crime already. if the police officer decides to enforce the law on some citizen randomly, it is not because of the new irrelevant crime, the citizen was already guilty of something else that could have been used to punish him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_enforcement
I agree. From the article:

> Sent last 24h:

> 583,524 BTC ($490,161,390 USD)

> 56,695,554,108 DOGE ($22,823,181 USD)
That last table though - 5.6% of teens (13-17) were married?! Something's clearly wrong with the data at hand.
Cool to see official Google PHP code (this may be a first?). The code looks well-structured, documented and secure.

>Use of the Google Publisher Plugin is governed by Google's Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

This is also a first for me. Anyone know of other Wordpress plug-ins which enforce their own Terms of Service and Privacy Policy?
It wasn't about being fair on the companies part; not poaching each others employees was a form of cost control.
Medians and means are interrelated. Averages are best thought of as being on a scale from meanlike to medianlike: a median requires a mean of the middle 2 values when there's an even number of them, and a mean can have outliers on each side to be eliminated before calculation. The word average abstracts away this detail. (I guess there'd be another scale from meanlike to medianlike absolute deviation, but that's another story.)
Why I don't regret quitting my job - unexpected perks of startup life
Funny they'd call it that when they're not covering the rival (Java) :P
It goes the other way too, see rhino:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Rhino/Overview
You appear to have missed the article by the free software foundation where they approved another, fully free computer.

See: http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/
All of the problems I have with BioShock Infinite are different from the fact that some people got to play the game for $50 less than I did.
This makes no sense. If you want to know how much they differ from the expected value, you first define what you mean by difference (i.e. L1 or L2 norm) and then measure it somehow.
The standard deviation is an estimator for the square root of the expected value of this difference, when it's chosen to be the SQUARED L_1 distance (which is the same as the L_2 distance in 1-D).
The MAD takes the mean of the L-1 distance.

While the standard deviation is proportional to the L_2 distance betwen the vector of the samples and a equal sized vector with all coordinates as the mean, that's not an intuitive expression based on the problem statement.
No one is suggesting that it should be the exclusive supported toolchain.

It may strictly be a larger download than MinGW, but it's certainly less painful and confusing. Sure, Rust may just need a linker, but MinGW is anything but lightweight.
I regularly video my car, meter and the surroundings with my cameraphone for this very kind of reason. This practice will increase.
A First Look at the Target Intrusion, Malware
> A "universal service" policy that ignores the fact that TCP/IP-based broadband Internet has replaced telephony as the essential communication technology is just a farce.

It is also not an accurate description of the status quo: the grandparent post talks a lot about the 1996 Telecommunications Act and its supposed foundations, but doesn't understand:

1) The distinction between "telecommunication services" and "information services" that controls where common carrier regulation can be applied, from that Act, or

2) The fact that the 1996 Telecommunications Act eliminated the "separate buckets" treatment of phone and other services for universal service, promoting universal service for access to "advanced telecommunication and information services" not just telephone service.

3) The fact that reforms to the regulations of the Universal Service Fund following and based on the 1996 Telecommunications Act mean that it is now used not just for telephone but also broadband access, demonstrating that -- whether or note ISPs are defined as "telecommunications service" providers subject to common carrier regulations and whether or not open internet / net neutrality rules are adopted -- broadband is already moving substantively into the same "bucket" as telephone service.
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i love this! and amazing video!
Twitter just began rolling out an updated design
My favorite is when they do this next to high curbs (often in historic districts) - "if I parked closer to the curb it'd be impossible to get out because the bottom of my door would hit the curb".
>Considered whip-smart and clever, the former business consultant also made a number of powerful enemies at Google, including top ad product execs Susan Wojcicki and Neal Mohan, among many others.

Looks like the same old carpet baggers... Are there any actual programmers or former programmers occupying high-ranking decision-making positions at these tech companies?!
Then try

Monad -> Sequenced
Functor -> Mapable
Category -> ... I don't know, I don't use it much (not that it doesn't have a nice understandable alternative name, I just don't know it)

Monad and Functor are really quite simple classes to understand, and Tony Morris' 20 intermediate exercises listed in the article helped me greatly when trying to understand the concepts.

I've been a haskell programmer for 6 years, and feel I know about zero cetrgory theory. It's never seemed to hurt me (except when Edward Kmett pipes up in IRC and I don't understand a word after that =)
When did we start trusting bad code?
What I'm saying is that while it may seem wrong to poach employees, employers have a greater duty to the workforce than to other companies, ethically.
It's a references to the 'the knives are out'.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/the+knives+are+out
Remember Kogan's Android TV GPL Violation?
It seems the pressure we applied to Kogan has paid off. Source is now available on Github.
I stopped buying games at full price. What I do now is either buy them in sales/bundles or I pay over full price because I really want the game (kickstarter).

I wonder how KS to Steam Early Access fits in there, for Wasteland 2 it's clear that the game will be cheaper once it is released. There is no secret, it's been said over and over again.
There's a huge business here if you keep at it. I'll throw money at the screen if you can make this work.
I'll try and answer these two, and lump everything else in a group ;)

1) What resources have I encountered (no particular order):
- O'Reilly's (oreilly.com) weekly specials on different topics is a good place to get ebooks for good value.
- Atlassian's software (Jira, Stash, etc) seem to be quite popular in the web development community, and may be well worth grabbing the free or once-off-$10 versions.
- IDE is a very personal choice, but coming from an embedded and toolkit background, I really, really enjoy Jetbrains' IDEs. I've worked with Rubymine and PHPStorm - they're quick to learn, and pretty cheap for personal licenses (<$100).
- Depending on your friend's background, web development will have a very different terminology - wikipedia is your friend.
- Again, depending on his background, have him check out this list of books: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/12/06/top-10-books-on-prog... . I've at least scanned through most of the list, and find it useful from a perspective perspective.
- Databases, databases, databases. Web apps are built on these. If he doesn't have a solid background, work on it.
- Continuous Integration, unit testing, etc - do not go without these (IMO, not even code review is as important as these).
- Does he development on Mac, Linux or Windows? Master whichever platform he is on (Mac and Linux seem to be the more powerful ones - Linux guy myself).

2) What sort of things am I lacking in my development process:
- My experience with interface design is minimal, but it seems to be a key component in web development.
- I have yet to look into 'you rub my back, I rub yours' setups, where I might do code for someone, and they might do UI design for me (as an example).
- RESTful API development - I have little experience, but this is a huge component of web development (along with plain old WSDL type APIs).
- Lacking enough knowledge of modern languages to make informed decisions on which language to tackle a problem with. Not a huge issue, ultimately, but would be nice to know more (I'm a C/C++ guy).
- Keeping on top of the tool of the week (either programming, or productivity, or whatever) is a chore. So many good tools abound for various scenarios, it's difficult to keep track.

3) I've found that putting together a setup at home or wherever that mimics a dev setup, will help a little on keeping everything together for you. A cheap machine running some combination of the following:
- VCS
- Wiki
- Issue tracking / Agile tracking
- CI / Automated build/test/deployment
- Code review tool
- Development site
- Whatever other tool he finds useful in his development workflow

The answer is a bit haphazard, but I hope it helps :)
So what exactly did they do?
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I can't speak for the person you're responding to, and I'm sure this differs by person, but you're right in my case.

I also own a lot of games on Steam that I've never played, but if not for Steam sales I almost certainly never would have bought most of those games in the first place. The developers may have only gotten 10%-50% from me compared to a full price sale, but if there were no sale they would have gotten nothing. And I still do buy plenty of other games that I want to play more urgently for full price or near to full price.

Also FWIW, I've bought a lot of games over the years and I've never felt "screwed" by a developer because of a price drop after I had bought the game. It isn't like this is a surprising event, it is simply the way of things (and not just for games, but books, movies, cds, virtually all media). It is up to me to decide if having it today is worth $60 compared to waiting 6 months to get it for half that or less.
For multiplayer games IMO the biggest benefit is a resurgence in activity. Nothing sucks more than a multiplayer game with no other players - and the natural state of all such games is that your active player base drops over time.

A sale is a good way to pump some more people into the pool. In this way I don't think sales are screwing fans at all - if anything it's extending the game's longevity.
asm.js (which is JavaScript) is the assembly language of the web. ;)
US nuclear launch officers suspended for 'cheating'
Hilarious moment in the linked older article when De Castro asked Tim Cook a question at All Things D:

http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-coo-henrique-de-castro-...

(video embedded near the end, question at the 1:34:30 mark.)
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Here's the script:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

++$a{$x};

and when run, produces,

Global symbol "%a" requires explicit package name at ./test3.pl line 4.
Global symbol "$x" requires explicit package name at ./test3.pl line 4.

So, I'm not sure if I see that point. Are you not a fan of autovivification? Because it: rules. I think the only thing one has to understand is the use of exists(), to see if there is, say, a key in a hash, rather than defined():

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

my %foo = (batz => undef);

for (qw(bar batz)){
if(exists($foo{$_})){
print "$_ exists!\n";
if(defined($foo{$_})){
print "and $_ is defined.\n";
}
else {
print "and $_ is undefined.\n";
}
}
else {
print "$_ doesn't actually exist\n";

}
}

prints,

bar doesn't actually exist
batz exists!
and batz is undefined.
Why So Many Musicians Are Leaving San Francisco for L.A.
> The episode underlined how many South Koreans regard the human rights struggle in the North as merely a distraction and an annoyance.

or may be they just don't want to burn angry giant troll's whiskers with all the downside while no meaningful upside to be reasonably expected.
I'm a physicist, so I'm one of the people this guy says standard deviation is still good for. However, despite some "oddities" (pointed out by others here) in his article, I'm more than willing to admit a simpler, easier to understand term would be helpful for explaining many things to the general public. Hell, it would be helpful for explaining things to journalists, who we then trust to explain things to the public!

Look at an reputable news site or paper. Odds are they post articles based on polls several times a day. How many report confidence intervals or anything of the sort? These are crucial for interpreting polls, but are left out more often than not. Worse yet, many stories make a big deal about a "huge" shift in support for some political policy, party or figure, when the previous month's figure is actually well within the confidence interval of the current month's poll!

Standard deviation, confidence intervals, etc. are all ways of expressing uncertainty, and it's become abundantly clear that the average journalist, to say nothing of the average person, has no clue about what the concept means. If the goal is to communicate with the public, then we really need to take a step back and appreciate the stupendously colossal wall of ignorance we're about to butt our heads against. When we talk about the general public, we should keep in mind that rather a lot of people know so little about the scientific method that they interpret the impossibility of proving theories as justification for giving religious fables equal footing in schools. This kind of ignorance isn't a nasty undercurrent lurking in the shadows. It's running the show, as evidenced by many state laws in the U.S.! There is absolutely no hope of explaining uncertainty to most of these people.

There is hope of explaining basic statistics to journalists, if only because they are relatively few in number and it's a fundamental part of their job to understand what they are reporting. Yes, I just said that every journalist who has reported a poll result, scientific figure, etc. without the associated uncertainty has failed to adequately perform their job. We need to make journalists understand why they are failing. If simplifying the way we report uncertainties will assist with this, then I'm all for it. Bad journalism is a root cause of a great deal of ignorance, but it's not an insurmountable task to fix it.

If you are a scientist who speaks to journalists about your work, make sure they include uncertainties. If you are an editor, slap your peons silly if they write a sensationalistic poll piece when the uncertainties say it's all a bunch of hot air. If you are a reader, please mercilessly mock bad articles and write numerous scornful letters to the editor until those editors pull out their beat-sticks and get slap-happy. We should not tolerate this kind of crap from people who are paid to get it right.