skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read your comment as being a cynical.

Playing devil's advocate, assuming what you are saying is correct (customers were guinea pigs and this was all about the exit) - its really tough not sounding like a douche.

When writing that sort of copy, you have to always take the high road.
Love the idea and the site. Now to be notified of new posts? No FB Page.. no Twitter.. doesn't even seem to have good ol' RSS feed (not that I'd really use it, though I probably should switch back to that from that damned social media).

Look I'm not going to set a reminder to regularly check back what new stories you got -- do you really want only "once a year by chance" visitors? Get that subscription funnel going. And yeah don't try to get membership signups for just that one feature, not gonna happen. Might sign up and contribute even at my own leisure at some distant future date, but right now --- offer some feed or other to even keep us passive lurkers out there fed ;)
Interesting. If the observers were to play a distracting tone every time they predicted that you were about to decide to press the button, would you never experience deciding to press the button?
best $7K spent:

http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/21/impermium/

"Rather than use an internal data services team, the company turned to Kaggle, a startup that hosts data-driven competitions.

From around the world, statisticians competed to build a tool that combines machine learning and natural language processing to root out malicious commentary. The winner received $7,000 — their solution was the most accurate with a false positive rate of less than one percent.

After posting the competition, the company received 154 submissions from contenders, and made some interesting discoveries about the nature of hate speech. "
I don't know much about NAS4Free, but if it can install netatalk, then you can do time machine easily
The list also has items like "they are focused on growth" and "they generate revenue early". Those things force you to pivot if you chose the wrong market or if you didn't get the market needs.

I made the mistake in my first years. I made consultingware products which didn't grow but paid expenses and helped me keep my company alive and even grow it very slowly. Then, I dropped the non-growth products and focused on a single growing product.
Ahhh, I see what you mean, I think. Or maybe not. If I have 3 sample points, [1,1,1], then the standard deviation is 0, but where you take your Euclidean distance?

If I'm not mistaken, with 3 sample points a, b and c that have an average mu, then

sigma = |(a, b, c) - (mu, mu, mu)| (L2 norm in R3)

Is that the geometric interpretation you're referring to? It's neat, but the mu vector feels a bit artificial.
Learning to be skeptical of your data from two WSJ Reporters
Wow, I thought at first this was just making an Erlang-style syntax compile to JS, but this is much more than that. Very nice!

Does it run on BeamJS? :D
Instinct-driven and Data-driven Design
Exactly. I'm astounded that this basic fact - that financial modelers have been using the wrong distribution for decades IS NOT BEING DENOUNCED.
For example, the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) which assumes that returns fall on a normal distribution.
thank you also :)
It reads like a BuzzFeed article and looks like a TechCrunch properly. Color me confused.
The thing that took me VERY long to do is just pick a damn framework... In the end it doesn't really matter if it's Laravel, Rails, or a Flavor of Nodejs -- what does matter is you pick one, and get to building.

I like Laravel a lot because it's built on php and makes php way sexier. But I also play around w/ other frameworks in my spare time.... I put too much emphasis on this though..

If you're interested, I could help you build your skills. Can't pay you anything, BUT we could collaborate on a startup/website idea, I've got quite a few ideas. I'll let you take lead on the app, and I'll point you in the direction you need to go, where to get help, who to ask, what's next, etc... you'll write most of the code, I'll critique, and give insight, give tips. Then we can deploy it, and I'll let you do that as well.

The key to learning super fast is for you to be FORCED by circumstance to do it, without hand holding - though I'll be hear to help, --but when nobody is doing it for you, you just pick it up as needed. Google/StackExchange and ESPECIALLY IRC Chat are your best friends on this journey.
"Easy as anything in math"? Now that's "obviously false hyperbole". You can't just brush away that discontinuity, specially when it's on the minimum (which is what people most often care about). Anyway, this is formalized in the notion of subderivative. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subderivative
>>> I am pretty sure that if his stuff were posted without his name the conclusion would be obvious: it's just nonsense and very offensive at that.

This is not true, at least for me. When I first read Taleb's ideas, I had no idea who he was and what is his credentials, but his ideas were interesting enough and challenging enough to look him up and find out what else he wrote. Yes, his style is abrasive and sometimes outright combative. So what. His ideas are interesting, that's what matters. I'd rather have an abrasive person who has interesting ideas than a polite one who has nothing.

And speaking of Python vs. Java things, I'm reading those kind of things literally every day, frequently including here on HN. If idiot badges were distributed for each such occasions, there would be a very sizeable majority wearing them. But I am not convinced calling each other idiots is actually adds anything to the discussion.
Going hyperbaric to inspect Bertha
Never heard about unroll.me before. Looks legit, signup was super simple. Now I'll see how it works after today. I've been trying to eliminate almost 10 years' worth of subscription junk for at least a year now.
Ask HN: coder, developer, hacker, or ...?
Hi all,

What is the most used term for a coder in the US? Is it coder, hacker,
developer, engineer, programmer or something else?

Sincerely,
Baris
I see where you're coming from, but in this case, it's "I can't believe you're so dumb with your purchases, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
That's what is supposed to happen. Supply and demand.
I read the Singapore version out of curiosity because I stay here. Most of the stuff can be researched online. But you'd probably have to spend much more time doing that research and can't verify the results easily. And this is for a city that already has quite a lot of information online. Worth purchasing, I would say.
walkingsf did a series of heatmaps based on flickr data: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/7215762420915863...
was there more than one OS or is this UNICOS what they're trying to get running?
How exactly those balloons helped the people of NK to not remain in Hell?
Create Techno with a Laser Harp | Hack N Mod
Adobe + MakerBot + Shapeways bring 3D printing support to Photoshop
Nothing new (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_harp) but always impressive
Or the device is reversible top to bottom: horizontal is gone then, too.

(USB power plugs, for example)
Yap because in those projects one works best in isolation. Growing a company is a lot different.

Have you read this?
The Lethality of Loneliness - We now know how it can ravage our body and brain
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113176/science-loneliness...
Holy cow, I think you DO sort of understand what I was saying! :-)

Obviously I don't know enough about Node.js to put it down (and from what you've said if I knew it better I think I'd like it.)

Cheers (and I will check out ToffeeScript, thanks.) :)
Have people never left their own countries?

This is one of the first things you figure out when venturing abroad.

Nothing beats a summer day in thongs.
Watching 'Crossing the Line' right now. James Joseph Dresnok creeps me out. You are right about it weirding up my day. Christian Slater narrating feels surreal. It almost feels like a parody.

Worth watching. I have never seen anything like it.
I was an early backer as well. The controller really ruined the whole thing for me. After all the hype it was such a let down. I lost faith in anything else they could provide even though I do enjoy a couple games on the system.
Cheers, I will do.
Yes. I've lived abroad for years. Apart from local colloquialisms, English words commonly used in the industry convey basically what one would think they would convey. This blog post is exaggerating things a little to make a point. The "thongs" play on words is a funny one, though.
This is a minor digression, but I just have to know - have things gotten so bad that not having a facebook profile actually raise a red flag to an employer or is what you're saying just conjecture?
I am watching the reactions of non-technical people after they hear how this latest Net Non-Neutrality development affects them. Some are saying "Google, Apple, and the other big guys will step in for us". Others reply that when gas prices jumped to $3 everyone cried out and legislators started shuffling, yet we are now paying $4 and being thankful. Unless the outcry gets bigger this is going to pass through the cracks.

Do any of the big tech companies really have an interest in stopping this development? They could afford to buy themselves an "unrestricted by cap" deal with internet distributors and suffocate every other potential competitor?
Why? Do you have any reference?
Star Trek Type Translator Hits The Market This Month
Montage Of Kubrick's Symmetrical One-Point Perspective Shots
The contacts app on the iPhone does something like that last jump, where having a phone number + first name is enough for it to sometimes find the full FB profile and update the pic associated with the contact on the phone. I assume/hope it only works when they have their phone number public on their profile, though.
The numbers they report are number of active users, which they define as someone who has used Facebook in the past month. (Of course, I'm not sure if that applies to these particular numbers, which look like they may have been taken from Facebook's advertising tool which tells you an ad's potential reach.)
In some European countries you can get €400+ mobiles at €1 if you go for a two year contract.

Many of such mobiles do have HDMI connections and bluetooth gamepads available.

Then there are lots of cheap USB pens running Android that you can just plug into your TV.

So there isn't much a Ouya can offer against these options.
HN's monthly "who is hiring" threads have served me well.
He does not say aging comes from too few stressors. He says maladjustment (which is just one component of aging) is.

>>> Aging comes from misunderstanding ? This is just random babbling,

You are trying very hard to not understand. The thought is simple - comfort has side effects (think obesity, bad nutrition, lack of movement, overuse of pharmaceuticals like antibiotics or mood adjusters, etc.) which are not properly appreciated (they are starting to be, but we are still far from proper realization (understanding) of what and how much we pay for it and doing something about it). Not understanding those effects influences behaviors in such ways that people harm themselves. These effects accumulate and contribute to what is called "aging" - you can eat random junk when you are 20 and be fine, but keep doing it till you're 50 and you'll be the best client of your local healthcare facilities for the rest of your life. And so on and so forth. I won't say it is the deepest of observations - actually, it's pretty rapidly becoming a commonplace and sometimes even a fashion - but it definitely not a "random babbling".

I get an impression that you just came to a hard conclusion that Taleb literally writes nonsense and you are hard set on not allowing any sense that is contained in his writing - and can be easily seen - to get to you. Your right of course, but I personally fail to find any utility in such a behavior.
Does such a detector imply that there is no freewill? Would determinism imply it?

Imagine the predictor works, what does that mean? One second prior to the action, the course you would take is set. This is actually probably a point in favor of the possibility of freewill; humans are course-taking machines, we have a whole life (and our evolution before that) to acquire dispositions that will one day help us survive. What kind of freewill do we want? Do we want to be "free to dodge a brick when thrown at us" or "free, one second before the brick arrives, to duck or not duck". Which of these is the important one? The kind of freewill we really want isn't the kind where we are free floating actors, it is the kind where our history, personal and evolutionary, dictates our present. The point is, real freedom is not about being without limits, it is about having sensible responses to ones environment; creatures evolve the freedom to avoid being eaten, the freedom to anticipate others' actions, the freedom to manipulate other agents with our clever words. Dan Dennett makes a better case for this than I, please look into his wonderful books on the topic.

Daniel Dennett:
--Elbow Room
--Freedom Evolves
Awesome! Hats off.. How about extracting hashtag/GID of any record if applicable, which are typically not rendered on page, but hidden under the hood.
What's wrong with scientific python?
Faster ASP.NET web apps with WebP images
I would say that doing it in small-scale bulk is a different animal than an individual doing it for them-self.
Quality is defined in the Service Level Agreement.
The true case against the standard deviation is more or less impossible to make without going into the math. For a mathematically advanced Bayesian, the idea is straightforward if you've already been through the lawful derivation of Gaussians from their underlying assumptions: Using standard deviations in your thinking makes sense if you think that an increasingly large error has a decreasing log-probability that goes as the square of the size of that error. The distribution that you get from the sum of independent variables is the classic example. Basically, if you think in standard deviations, then all postulates of the form "The error was that size" will come with probability penalties that you trade off against each other in proportion to the square of the size of that error. Thinking in standard deviations similarly corresponds to models where exceptional events become unlikely in proportion to the square of the size of that exception, only by "unlikely" you have to read log probability rather than probability, and log probability is (always) the right way for Bayesians to think about it anyway for reasons I won't go into.

And then the critique of "standard deviation" is that people got taught SD as a statistical tool that you just pull out any time you feel like it, and they don't know what it means in underlying probability-theoretic terms as an assumption about either the world or our own uncertainty, and so it's misused horribly on all sorts of occasions.

I'd guess that SDs are appropriate 40-90% of the time depending on which field you work in, but without a lot of Bayesian background with fairly advanced math people will not be able to really appreciate what the other 60-10% of times look like. And the state of education is not anywhere near like that. It's just people being taught to calculate the standard deviation cause, like, that's something you do. They don't know what assumptions it corresponds to even in the cases where SD does apply.

Burning SDs to the ground and starting over would not be very much amiss in one of the fields where SDs only make sense 40% of the time, but the practitioners are using them all the time. (Machine learning is one of the fields where SDs make sense maybe 40% of the time, and if I found an ML practitioner who had been taught to think in terms of squared error I'd send them off to learn the underlying probability theory until their entire worldview had been translated into likelihood functions instead.)
hey i actually might be interested to take up your offer, and i obviously do not expect to be paid for this at all, and i hope this doesn't come across as overly demanding but i need to know a bit more about what exactly you're offering... so perhaps let me clarify?

if i'm understanding you correctly, you're offering to collaborate on a startup/website together where you will give me guidance but i will write the code for it, and you will basically review my code to determine if it's "shippable" and then if you say yes, we will let the code go live? that sounds like an interesting offer. can you teach me how to use github as well, so that this way we can collaborate more effectively?

thanks in advance!
I'm waiting for the JavaScript emulator, which I assume will run faster than the original Cray 1.
Yeah, it lasted about 2 months. Now I can only do it a couple of times a week unless absolutely necessary. Instead of coffee I used milk/high protein foods to keep the brain going. At one point it got so bad I couldn't recognize myself and I think I lost a good friend in the process. Another hacker friend who tried this approach said it only worked for him if the naps were perfectly timed - you shift by one hour and you turn into a monster. (he promptly lifted his hands waving frantically and screeched to demonstrate) If you make one of the naps last more than 4 hours, I think you can get some REM sleep and last longer.
> I wonder if it'd be instructive to have a Ruby or Python benchmark too, just to show how much you gain by using a lower-level language.

It depends which implementation get compared.

If the standard implementations get used, that any strong typed language with ahead of time compilation to native code will win hands down.

Now if RubyMotion or PyPy are part of the benchmark, maybe they can achieve good enough performance.
It turns out that pattern matching on PG's essay style does not make one's essays as insightful..

All I can say is: the only factor really worth a damn is luck. Unfortunately you can't control luck, the only thing you can do is increase your luck surface. From my experience, nothing on that list actually does that - what increases luck is: hard work, value of idea, connections and personality. Re-order at will.
That is why i like posts that just present real life anecdotes, experiences and such. I like to take out lessons on my own.
Quite good results, given that Rust is still quite a young language.
Relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timequake
I'm not sure down-voting is good way to handle criticism about not being able to express oneself.
Are they "associated" with you? E.g. are they people Facebook could know you are friends with etc.?
Complete and utter trash. It was not usable by any stretch of the imagination. Press a button and half a second later Link swings his sword. Pack up Ouya and send it back to Amazon.
Airware (YC W13) is hiring drone SDK/API zenmasters
Airware (YC W13) is hiring drone SDK/API zenmasters

Do you have a passion for things that fly? We are an autopilot platform start-up looking for a top notch developer to help build out our next generation SDK.

The on-board C++ SDK will provide 3rd party application developers access to a rich amount of autopilot data, publish application output to the ground and allow drone manufacturers to customize their product offerings to solve unique and challenging problems.

Take a look at some things we've been working on so far: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/13/drones-for-good/

Come help Airware application developers push the envelope of what is possible with a commercial drone.

What we're looking for:
- C++ guru with a appreciation for modularity
- Expertise in object oriented SDK design and documentation
- Experience with language library wrappers such as SWIG
- Experience designing software applications that have to work every time

Sound like fun? We want to hear from you! Apply now: http://grnh.se/k2gbxm
I am right now trying to score some freelance work, I found a gig at elance and put in a proposal. That gig had almost 200 proposals, how would the job poster even filter these out? It sounds tough and tedious job. Your guidelines makes sense and also tells me how my prospective clients might be thinking.

Thanks for the article, it was a great read.
Pixel Perfect Front End Development Matters
Sounds very similar to Nokia Life Tools which launched in India back in 2009 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_Life_Tools
"The agricultural part of the service consists of localized information including weather conditions, advice about crop cycles, general tips and techniques, as well as market prices for crops. Farmers in the pilot scheme said getting daily prices on their phones reduced their dependency on agents for basic information, enabling them to negotiate with greater confidence."
Not 1, but 7 seconds before

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
sabre/http library for dealing with http requests and responses
Depends on the skill and expereince level. An engineer would be a high level developer, for instance. I think the connotation of coder is a little bit negative for anyone with skill level.
Anyone familiar with "MediaDefender" will remember the leak they had. It showed marketing intel being a growing portion of their business.

Essentially they were collecting IPs off of bittorrent while poisoning the swarm, while also making reports that guided the music industry as to what to market.

These people within media companies take glee in hauling others to court as to inflict fear in the flock, while profiting off them by using consumption metrics to guide what is pitched. All this while vehemently insisting pirates are just killing their ability to purchase more luxury automobiles.
Kimono - Turns websites into structured APIs
The caches are designed to be transparent, so you can't store data in them separately. Not to mention that your program could be interrupted at any point, so the OS would have to backup this data into ram (like it does registers).
- "How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie

- "The art of thinking clearly" by Ralf Dobelli

- "Sources of power" by Gary Klein

- "The 8 pillars of motivation" by Farnoosh Brock

- "ReWork" by Jason Fried and David Hansson

- "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug

- "The art of explanation" by Lee LeFever

- "Getting real" by 37Signals

- "The secret" by Rhonda Byrne
There are much more to see in rural areas in Europe than in US, plain and simple. Plus, perhaps, different density distribution (but first sentence covers that too).
Your users sync corporate emails with their mobile devices?
This Exchange ActiveSync 101 from the mobile perspective will become handy - bookmark you will probably need it.
pricing is 30-50% less than the real cost of similar pre-ACA products.

sure, but for many people who didn't need the full scope of what is now the baseline ACA coverage, our individual health insurance bills are much higher. (mine has gone up nearly 3x.)

you win some, you lose some.
I love the self-invented TLDs, like .store and .firm. Maybe they use them for their internal DNS.
Year Without God
> "“This is why you can’t just take your brilliant American business idea and go make it happen in China, India, or Indonesia." I don't see much of difference in definition of quality when it is described as in "Japan" and "U.S" . I don't get this , what is difference between "it is perfect" and "it's well built and it will last".

I am not buying this piece either and because I am born and brought up in India , I know better how quality is defined in India and it's different from what author is trying to justify.
This is what I get too. I've read all his books except the technical one (Dynamic Hedging) and this conclusion of 'nonsense' about a pretty clearly written paragraph is baffling. I too read the paragraph and came to the conclusion you did.
Maybe the above commenter has a hard-on for bullet points and power point presentations but Taleb has repeatedly said that he writes essays for pleasurable consumption and not business books (regardless of how the publisher markets them).