skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I could tell what versions of Office software they were using by tracking these files for a company over time: Search Google for: site:starbucks.com filetype:doc

Doing an analysis of the files coming out of these companies could have a much wider appeal than just to what their website hosts too! If you can get them to go to your website, you can also glean an awful lot from their browser. There can be tons of legitimate reasons they might need to click on a link under your control, but as long as they do you also get what you need.
The same thing people who can't get gas after a hurricane do.

(If you're worried about it running down to the point where it damages the battery, that takes more than a few weeks).
Here is PDF original source for Author's statistics is referencing [ http://www.start.umd.edu/start/announcements/BackgroundRepor... ]. Of a particular interest is bar graph on the bottom of the second page. Ironically it comes out to about: US citizens are

eight and a half times

less likely to die due to terrorism on US soil (Before and after war on terror). That is just what statistics can do if you take any two numbers and start doing "science" with them. As far as I can tell the statistics author quotes actually compiled from different sources, which makes it even more questionable. I do not doubt the number provided by author is correct, however I just demonstrated that correctness is not enough, you need to treat your data and questions you ask of that data carefully in order to come up with something useful.

Original post below:

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There is a lie, there is a bold lie, and there is statistics.

These are only a few variables that might contribute to that number:

1. There are actually vastly more cops compared to terrorists.

2. Terrorists do not discriminate targets. Cops usually have a very specific set of people they are targeting (I.E. carrying guns and shooting at other people/gangs).

3. How many of those people killed by cops, were trying to shoot back? Terrorists usually kill people who do not fight back.

I am all up for this kind of statistics, however this one seems a bit sensationalist.
I had read those, but I didn't see anything military right-wing in them.
They could have a one sized fits all operating system, however they need to tailor the interface to each type of device. Using a mouse on a "touch" interface is a terrible experience, same as using touch in a mouse environment. I have not tried Windows 8 update, however first impressions have done the damage to Windows 8 already.
We can believe people like Elon Musk will be the ones guiding humanity towards space conquest, not state programs.

We need both. The deep space research that's only possible with $1e9-$1e10 budgets has to precede scaling up and commercialization. Furthermore, there's little commercial incentive, even for people like Elon Musk, to invest in basic science research like Hubble, JWST, the LHC, etc.
After 20 years of programming ten hours a day I took a two year break. Didn't code a single line all this time. Now Android got my interest picked again and been having fun learning all I can like in good old days. Ten tabs open in StackOverflow looking for answers, another ten tabs in android docs, ten more with samples and widgets, oh boy, that's my kind of coding fun.

So, take a break, do something entirely different, then come back refreshed. There will always be something new to learn waiting for you.
What's your BlackHatWorld.com username?
Yes, but you'll need to use the PC-BSD distribution instead of the (much smaller/barebones) base FreeBSD distro.
Hacker News App for Windows 8
The Humans Behind Cards Against Humanity
Can't "Back by popular demand" refer to the $150 discount on old systems instead of Windows 7 itself? I'm leaning that direction since I associate snowmen with December holidays.

Look at the ad itself: http://www.hp.com/country/us/en/hho/welcome.html
Windows 8 is the most unusable collection of software I have ever had the misfortune of fighting. It is the worst experience I have ever had with an operating system, coming from experience with dos, windows 3.1-95-xp-vista-7, ubuntu, and arch.

The built in apps feel like MVPs. The interactions are unintuitive, and many things that should "just work" smack you in the face time and time again.

the whole thing feels like it's been slapped together without any thought for actual usability, and with zero polish.

edit: i should note that I have not yet tried the 8.1 update
Sure, it depends. I've seen embarrassingly parallel (yeah, that's a real term) code with speedups in the 20's.

My personal best was a 9x speedup, partly by using SSSE3 and partly by some really good prefetching and non-temporal writes.

If you look at what I said in the very narrowest light, I agree that SSE2 all by itself typically delivers a 2x speedup per core over non-SSE code.
Whats your Username On BHW ?
And that's unlike the iPhone in some way?
Release of ASP.NET MVC 5.1, ASP.NET Web API 2.1 and ASP.NET Web Pages 3.1
Aww don't ruin my dream of the auto-fridge :( a fridge-stove combination that makes your supper for you.
I also think what a lot of real estate startups are missing is that real estate is not just single family houmes for sale. There are massive opportunities to sell software to real estate investors and developers, who actually have the funds to invest in software solutions.
The part I was highlighting is that Microsoft has a clause saying if you receive money from Microsoft, you can't talk bad about them. That's pretty natural, they don't want to pay detractors to keep disparaging them.
Isn't it only natural that they sold a lot of Windows 7 PCs last year, as Windows 8 was only recently released?
Not sure, more likely somebody got a zip file full of images from the lawyer(s) and decided to put those up exactly as provided.
Yeah. I remember closing on our house (the only time I've ever bought property) and it was so ridiculously complex for even a straightforward transaction. I can't imagine trying to skim from that on a state-by-state legal basis and getting enough to justify the cost. I mean, getting $100 out of it would not be worth it. But getting $1000 out of it would start eating seriously into the margins of other players - how would you bring enough value to make it worth letting you participate, especially in the kind of hands-off way that makes software solutions scale?
But in Microsoft's vision of 2014, the number of systems being offered with Windows 7 should be zero.
Divvy rides its bikes into bankruptcy
Do you know if counter-suing for some form of extortion over frivolous IP lawsuits (or threats thereof) has ever been attempted or tested?
This is partly Apple faults. They only allow you 100 letters for keywords, they no longer index the description, and they provide no feedback on what users used to find your app. So they give you no information that you could use to limit your searches.

There are a number of workaround for this, and one is to upload the same game with slightly different title until you hit on the magic combination that gets you sales. It sucks to have worked hard on a game, and it fails because of the wrong combination of title and keywords.
While Windows 8 might not be as bad as some people would like you to think, it's definitely a schizophrenic monster when it comes to the jarring Metro/Aero divide. How you can call that "aesthetic" is beyond me.

The only thing I've been happy with since the move from Windows 7 has been the new Task Manager. Every other change has been met with a "why did that need to be changed?".
I'm interested in the banking route. What specific libraries are useful for building such trading bots? What do banks look for in particular? P/L of the bot? Beta?
That is really standard HP discount. I do not remember ever going to HP website and not receiving $100-$450 discount for something.
I've sent an inquiry to FB. (Report problem>privacy )
Not that I expect anything to come out of it.
I've been using Windows 8 on my desktop PC for some time now (primarily used for gaming and entertainment, not development) and for my purposes it's a clear upgrade over 7. Yes, the Metro apps are terrible but you don't ever need to use them. I spend almost all of my time in the desktop, and the few times I need to use the new Start interface, the workflow is exactly the same as Win7 (press Windows key, start typing program name, hit Enter).
Who would have thought that shimming a tablet UI onto a non touch PC would be a bad idea...
"Well, the world needs ditch-diggers, too."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiRGRvE_Wqg
I don't quite agree with the blog author's main opinion that enterprise market is easier to attack than consumer market. They have different barriers.

Yes, I agree that in consumer market, we have to build millions user base before there is any chance to make profit. But the enterprise market is a totally different story. You need to have very good channel to enter it, especially contacts are expensive.

Since both are hard, I prepared a business model to shoot against both ends and would like to see the growing on both sides hand in hand.

However, people told me that I don't have a niche to target with so that I cannot focus, which means that it's doomed to fail.

I'd like to see how you think about my business model. You may take a look at the Kickstarter project here:

http://kck.st/JNqv8z
To this day I cringe when the orientation of my iPad or iPhone changes. There were lots if apps that didn't cope well with orientation changes when the pivot first came out, early 90s timeframe and I expect to find myself dropped into tmon (at which point I would probably advance the PC and try to recover from the crash.)
So Long Scrum, Hello Kanban
I think the idea was that instead of simultaneously charging several cars, it charges them one by one (round robin). You just have multiple connectors to stop employees having to leave the office to change the connectors over when one car finishes charging. But I guess it would require smart-ifying the charger base so it could decide when to send power to each of the cars.
Degrees of freedom don't necessarily have to have a geometric meaning in some (many) systems! For example, in basic analysis of mechanical vibrations you can use modal analysis to decompose a coupled system (two harmonic oscillators with viscous dampers in series for example) into two independent systems. The eigenvalues here correspond to the natural frequencies and the eigenvectors are the modal shapes, which give you an idea of how the oscillators actually end up moving after some disturbance. There is some geometrical significance here but is not quite as easy to interpret.
GraphX (http://amplab.github.io/graphx/) is essentially GraphLab2 (http://graphlab.org/) built on Spark. Joey Gonzalez, the creator of GraphLab, is also the GraphX lead.

Here are the papers for GraphLab and GraphX...

GraphLab:
http://graphlab.org/home/publications/

GraphX: A Resilient Distributed Graph System on Spark (https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/publication/graphx-grades/)

See also "Introduction to GraphX - Presented by Joseph Gonzalez, Reynold Xin - UC Berkeley AmpLab 2013" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKEn9C5bRck)
Boom. Comment of the month. ^^^
How does this make any sense? Are you just looking for stuff to be pissed off about?

A car having a large battery tells you very little about how much charge is actually left in there. You don't know where they need to drive to next, where they have been, or anything.

If you are annoyed, hassle shopping centers to install new chargers, don't get annoyed at the people using them.

Besides, if they were rarely used, then the shopping center would eventually get rid of them, whereas if they are constantly used then the shopping center will eventually install more of them, as people charging their cars have to wait, which is excellent for shopping centers.
Well, you've certainly convinced me!
> Internet pipe to be smart, which is to say, not at all.

QoS can be quite useful, and your "pipe" needs some smarts in order to implement it.
Bug#727708: On diversity and open source
I'm confused: I've seen several great posts on priceonomics, but it leaves me wondering whether it's a startup or mostly a blog.
Seems to be much the same, but with a slightly more b2b marketing element and higher pricing with less data! Have used builtwith before and was very happy with their monthly ($299) plan. If anything I'd expect a competitor to offer lower prices.
How T-shirts are designed in 2011
There are black hat groups owning high PR 6, 7, 8 websites and they're using the sites for SERP manipulation. The high PR websites are legit too.

What would be a solution to this? I just hope it can be stopped.
Orson Welles on Cold Reading
It sounds like they're focused on the deltas ("site x just added y") whereas builtwith seems more focused on stats and what sites are using now.
One of the hazards of extreme paranoia is that occasionally your paranoia will create that which you fear: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen
Why most economists' predictions are wrong
1. Define exactly what the deserialization output should be.
2. Implement it that exactly that way.
Now it's simple. Does the definition in part (1) include execution of arbitrary commands?
That would certainly discourage _getting caught_ violating the law.

It would also tend to kill off the older companies (weak law of large numbers: if a company violates any of the laws that will kill it, and it exists long enough, it eventually gets caught and killed).

It might even lead to some efforts at counter-legislation. For example, companies might lobby to _broaden_ the "get killed" legislation, which would result in lots of sympathy cases where companies were killed for "minor" offenses. Eventually the whole "kill the company" idea would fall out of favor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law

(Companies will tend to view a government audit as a death sentence, since it would damage them so much even without a 300% fine.)
You summarize very well exactly what I felt from the article. I sometimes feel the metaphor goes the other way, that is, when I seriously read a literature (in my case, it's often a play) I feel like I'm "decoding" it.
>"People are afraid of change, simple as that."

I'd counter that with "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

I spent a few days with Win 8 and I've never seen a more unintuitive UI experience in my entire life. The frustration of having to re-learn simple computing tasks far outweighs any aesthetic improvements IMO.
The model is outdated, most links are now shared in closed networks which will happily nofollow everything.

Also depending on your niche many of your users may have never actually placed a link anywhere before (outside of a closed network sharing a link)
Page 85 discussed the Independent Progressive Party that he had registered to (later cancelled). According to the "Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities" the party was being run by the same people who ran the Communist Party. It also noted that a few people who joined it (and it seems this is where they categorized Feynman) were liberals who were dissatisfied with the two party system and had no Communist leanings.

Amusingly enough, there's a letter (page 110) to the president from an acquaintance accusing Feynman of being a Communist and a master of deception. Page 252+ elaborates a little more and identifies the acquaintance as female.
Take the FarmLogs Android app to the next level
Making Sense of Zappos and Holacracy
Yes, any specific point you are trying to raise?
In his autobiography, Stephen Fry mentions about Douglas Adams in a chapter. He mentions how they stayed close to each other and whenever he was free, he used to go to Adams house and "play"(in his own words) with Adams' mac. He wrote that they were the only two people who he knew had macs. He also mentioned that unlike regular users, they hacked away at their macs. They used download some small programs and tried running them till their computers crashed. He also writes about his disdain towards the ibm machines of that time. His autoBio is a wonderful read and he talks about his love for tech a lot.
"The point of such a presentation is to take a piece of code that the presenter has understood deeply and for them to help the audience understand the core ideas..."

I do get lots of value out of that. My favorite example is Beazley's GIL talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obt-vMVdM8s
Thanks. Karma for you :)
Mixrank(YCS11) provides very similar data in addition to their ad and mobile app datasets.
So do Stripe merchants have to fill out and/or file any PCI DSS compliance materials?
> I guess you've probably missed Bill Gates and Warren Buffet talking about the sperm lottery? If they were born in the slums of Brazil, for example, they probably would not be successful.

They probably wouldn't have been billionaires, but they would have had a good chance at becoming middle-class in Brazil.
That's a good point about running it in the debugger.

However, even with a large program, sometimes I find it helpful to write a smaller program that does much the same thing as a small part of it. For example, last year I wrote a debugger frontend in Dart, based on the Chrome DevTools debugger. Whenever I wanted to implement something I'd first look at how the Chrome debugger did it.

Currently I'm working on a reimplementation of the React framework, also in Dart.
This post just a few away (on the front page) from "Cyber attack that sent 750k malicious emails traced to hacked refrigerator"

I suppose the correlation here being that I would be concerned about not only about malicious activities being committed against your car, but someone then turning your car against you or others within its range.
Better yet:

Each charging station has N cords.

The first n cords to be plugged in becomes a primary (read full) charge cord.

Once n primary cords are in use, any subsequent cords start as secondary (read trickle charge -- an aside, do EV's really need to be trickle charged). Again, in order of arrival, the secondary cords are put into a queue.

As the initial batch of n cars reach full charge (or maybe 90%), primary cords swap functionality with the next secondary cord in the queue.
Was good they did as well given the situation with NASA and launch vehicles, at least it means that some folk are going back to the moon.
Regarding the title, I've updated the title to say 'conceptually wrong' - its more of a mouthful, but maybe what we mean is clearer? I hope our intent was clear in the intro paragraph anyway.
Data-stealing malware targets Mac users in "undelivered courier item" attack
They are selling to people with disposable income though, pretty much by definition.

People buying the Leaf are buying a new car that only does one thing better than new vehicles $15,000-20,000 cheaper.
This sounds like the same, unconvincing argument I always hear about Windows 8.

"It's a bit faster, there are some other minor obscure improvements, and if you just ignore all of the crappy new stuff it's not a big deal!"

If boot times are a big issue for you, then I get it. For me, they aren't, so I'm inclined to pass on the update. Perhaps it would work great with a Windows Phone or Surface (I'm tempted to try those at some point, so if anybody would like to share their experiences with theirs...), but it doesn't seem like it was designed for a desktop. So why should I put it on my desktop?
For a site (muckrock) dedicated to transparency I'm wondering why there is no easy way to find out (without apparently signing up) what they charge to make these requests on someone's behalf. [1]

[1] https://www.muckrock.com/accounts/login/?next=/accounts/buy_...
According to Stripe themselves, no. Honestly most of PCI is common-sense stuff that you should be doing anyway (firewalls, restricting access, etc) but the compliance audits are strictly optional with Stripe as long as you're serving over HTTPS and are using their tokenizing javascript.
> 10% of American households [...] buy electric tea kettles

No way. I've never seen an electric tea kettle. Tea kettles, sure; but not electric ones. I don't believe anywhere near 10% of US households have one.

We've got plenty of bread machines, waffle irons, electric skillets, toaster ovens, crock pots, and every possible variety of coffee maker, espresso machines, rice cookers, etc. So we're not adverse to electric appliances.

Myself, I've got a stovetop kettle that I never use. If I want tea, I heat water in the microwave.
Yes, its marketing, at least in the broad sense of the word - we think people should use contextual bandits more, and we want people to know that.

That's why we're working on this problem.

As I said elsewhere, we think AB-testing is a big improvement over nothing, but, like any powerful tool, it can blind people to its downsides.

Our blog title is designed to point out, succinctly, that we think the vanilla AB-testing framework is wrong for Wikipedia, as an easy-to-understand example. We believe that.

I notice that you volunteer for Wikipedia; I want to be clear, we're not trying to pick on Wikipedia here; I personally love Wikipedia. Its just a good well-known example of a successful AB-testing campaign, that we think could be way improved.
In the consumer's mind, not all change is good change. New Coke wasn't good[0]. New Tropicana orange juice packaging wasn't good[1]. New GAP logo wasn't good[2]. Change for change's sake isn't always good. Microsoft took something that wasn't broken and didn't fix it. I blame Microsoft trying to be everything to everyone - that which is good for a touchscreen isn't necessarily good for a desktop/laptop without, and their desire (and hubris) to have a single UI amongst everything is biting them in the consumer market.

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke#Reversal

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/business/media/23adcol.htm...

2. http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/10/new-gap-logo-...
She's a beauty and a geek: Supermodel is a coder
Out of interest in the topic, I had to look into this further. It appears the current oral LD50 in humans for nicotine is assumed to be 6.5-13 mg/kg (perhaps even as low as 1 mg/kg in children). Nicotine is also said to be very readily absorbed through the skin. There is one[1] case I could find documented, from a 1933 publication of the British Medical Journal, of a patient nearly dying from spilling two 'drachms' (or roughly 1.5 tsp) of 95% nicotine on her arm.

I'd say there's not enough information to be conclusive, but it's possible that nicotine could be lethal in doses absorbed through skin contact, though this seems unlikely to me given practical concentrations of nicotine solutions, and higher concentrations should be handled in a lab with proper safety equipment anyway. Ideally, pure nicotine would be labelled as the dangerous drug that it is, just as dangerous household cleaners are.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2368002/pdf/brme...
Except it turns out not to work that way - most of the optimisations turn out to be general ones, and some of the non-optimised code paths AMD gets for stuff like string copying are slower than a naive implementation. (Actually, Intel wound up having to fudge the CPUID result on their newer processors for this reason. Otherwise binaries compiled on their older compilers would detect an unrecognised chip and run the slow path - including some of the benchmarkers reviewers would use to compare the two!)
Yeah comparing Apple and this is laughable. We could've done without staring at the Windows UI for a few seconds before moving the plot.
Is it possible for Tanja to have seen the photo in Ticker from a mutual friend who liked your photo? Or does Ticker adhere to the privacy restriction as well?
This article greatly exaggerates. A quick search shows HP offers only 2 Windows-7 laptops, but offers 35 Windows-8x laptops. Similar numbers go for desktops as well.

http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Lapt...