skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a really really bad map. Bucketing to "lower than", "same as", and "higher than US rate"?

Even accepting their statistical significance qualification, you could have a .1% difference in the percentage of single-parent families between two states, and as long as you have enough samples, your result could be statistically significant and so bucketed with different colors, implying a much greater disparity since you would also bucket two states with a 20% difference in the same way.

Here's a different map:

http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/state-data/state-comparis...

And you can see similar issues with their bucketing (why cut off at those particular numbers?), but far more importantly they provide the actual percentage per state. And here we can see (to take the submission's comparison) that what makes California and North Carolina different when it comes to single-parent households is only 4% (33% vs 37%).

Now there may be more to this when we look at the numbers for smaller regions, but at least at the state level that your map showed, there are significant confounding factors that single-parent status would not explain.
Front page of HN is 10k views last time I got it, definitely a big win for him.

That said, the results are hardly surprising. I showed AdMob ads in a game once and they paid almost nothing compared to other networks. They have a huge glut of apps showing ads for almost nothing.
That would be a very ordinary rendition.
This is conveniently forgetting that demand (which eventually ends in consumer demand) isn't necessarily infinite. We have this thing called a planet we live on, that needs to remain intact (or Elon Musk needs to get a move on getting us to other planets :)
Yes, Julia doesn't auto-convert to BigInt, it's a trade-off between performance and easy-to-useness, but they've definitely made the right decision.

You have to convert to BigInt or BigFloat like this:

julia> big(3) ^ 60
42391158275216203514294433201
Note that this is a battle for distant second place. Places where Windows Phone is getting 5% and iPhone is getting 4% and Android is getting 85%.
Cam Find can help blind people see what's in front of them
It's not really a product but I'm working on a username generator that I use occasionally when I need a new user name for an account.
Try again, please. We spun up more and larger instances to handle the interest from HN.
Big EHV representation here :)
Doge had been the most profitable altcoin to mine several times in the past couple months.
This side project reduces my iTunes bill daily.
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My point is, I think regulations will change as technology improves. As transatlantic flights started, engines were unreliable, so regulators forced airlines to take awkward routes when crossing oceans (so that they would be 60 single-engine flying minutes away from a diversion airfield). Now that engines are more reliable, the regulations are significantly more relaxed, sometimes allowing 330 minutes to a diversion airport.

The point is, regulations are not set in stone. Companies can advance the state of the art, and ask the government to regulate less strictly.

As it stands now, self-driving cars are a research project, so we'd expect them to be regulated very strictly. As testing shows them to be safe, then we can relax the regulations. If self-driving cars without a supervising driver end up being safer than a normal car with a normal driver, it would make sense to not require a license. If an accident happens, it happens. Car accidents are nothing new.
So? Fix it.
I expect the standard heuristic when the program detects an unavoidable collision will be to minimize impact energy, whatever that means.

(It won't have good information about the mass of oncoming traffic, but there aren't that many situations where choosing to collide with the oncoming vehicle makes any sense at all)
Have you seen what is run on standard cable channels lately?
The cost to create some junk reality tv show (that will still bring in tons of viewers) is remarkably small compared to the cost of the infrastructure.
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I've had a number of laptops with buggy unsupported drivers for XP. I don't have any of these here with me right now but this has happened to me with a number of relatively common models from HP and Dell, when installing XP over Vista (can't recall if Win 7 was available at the time). The company had not moved their support package images to Vista, for compatibility and security reasons - telecom company with funky email servers and a policy of installing as old and boring software as possible.

There simply was no support. The solution HP, Dell and MS would give is to "get on with the times and migrate" which wasn't possible at the time. Alternatively, buy another computer with specific XP support. Complaints were met with a "RTF EULA" where it stated that no support was guaranteed for other OS than the preinstalled one.

The solution was to buy new laptops with WinXP support (ended up costing more, since the company specifically needed serial ports and not many machines had them + WinXP support, limiting choice).

Ubuntu installed flawlessly with absolutely every feature the hardware supported.(This happened when we basically had to either find some new usage for the machines or throw them away). Much quicker than XP too, and objectively simpler as it would choose reasonable defaults instead of asking esoteric questions, making us call phone numbers or insisting in us registering anything. The single thing XP has on Ubuntu or Mint regarding installation, is that you often don't have to do it yourself. In some respects it's worse with newer MS systems as their DRM has "intensified" and OEMs ship more resilient bloatware/rootkits.

Small division within biggish company, so the process was followed by some of us, including me although I wasn't in IT.
I don't watch NBA, but the MLB[1] and Disney streamers work damn well. HBO Go works pretty nicely for all my friends who have it (GOT fans).

As for Amazon, they'll do what they do best, buy content from everyone.

1) the MLB has home or away announcers and HD video - much better than the cable version
Exclusion is a better word for what is going on than hostility. The name is based on the homonym between 'man' as short for 'manual' and 'man' as a synonym for 'male'.

Though a tool for manuals the author chose the namesake by the identification with males.

Do you see why this might make some people feel excluded, why if you want to make a tool to help people it's probably a good idea to not exclude people?

Are you saying the name is a good name? Or just defending the right to be exclusionary?
Marvel is hiring, but we are located in NYC.
All this speculation about what any TLA's may or may not have done seems fruitless to me. If the keyboard seems legitimately suspect, send it to someone to do a teardown or plug it in and capture communications, and find out. That way we'll learn something concrete, and not reinforce this 'NSA of doooooom' crowd mentality.
I'll send a message to golang-nuts to announce it as soon as it gets released.
Not necessarily. It may only have power control function. If you pull a USB device out it's the same as turning it off in theory and vice versa. It's probably just turning the device off or setting it into standby mode.

edit to add: some Intel south bridges have integrated EC which makes things a little uncertain.
> as the market for cotton cloth matured in the mid-20th century, further automation no longer generated such increases in demand and new technology slowly eliminated jobs in the textile industry.

This seems to be a counterpoint to his thesis: Technology does indeed create unemployment if all demand has already been satisfied.

His point should thus be stated with a caveat: Technology does not destroy jobs as long as demand increases along with the increased supply. In order to know whether robots will steal our jobs, we have to first determine whether human demands are already being met or not, and it seems plausible to me that they nearly are today (though the inverse also seems plausible).
My guess is that it would lead to at least 10x slowdown in very maths heavy code. So, considering that the main goal of Julia was performance, it doesn't make any sense. And you can easily convert to arbitrary precision with big(1234).
To follow up with this. You could add `conky -c json.conky | while read json; do echo $json > /opt/http/monitor/info.json; done` to your start. Then just static serve the `info.json` file and it should update at whatever interval you set for conky. No dynamic execution though (hard part is that lack of interaction).
This is the exact same thing that happened in bitcoin markets early on.

When the capitalization of the market is so low and a small number of people control a large amount of the currency/commodity there really isn't much you can do about it.
That description makes it sounds like an early version of the magic 8-ball.
Is he sitting on a church pew?
There is a FAQ on another site. The channel does not have the rights to publish it international.
Additional they don't have the rights to publish it in the original version.
Who knows why.
Hopefully, there will be a transcript of the interview.
Ask HN: Advice for an academic looking for a career change?
I earned a Ph.D. in mathematics a few years ago and have been teaching mathematics at institutions of higher learning ever since. I have become dispirited with the industry and have decided to seek non-academic employment. (The horror!) I have always loved technology and programming, so I am wondering if the tech sector is still open to me.

The facts:

* I have been programming a long time; I've used C, C++, Java, Python, Javascript, and MATLAB seriously, and some others non-seriously.

* I use Linux all the time, and administer a Linux server as part of my service to the college.

* As an undergrad and Ph.D. student, I took a bunch of computer science courses (including courses on distributed, parallel, and grid computing).

* Man, I'm great with TeX.

* My mathematics field is not terribly computer-sciency or otherwise applied. However, I've taught the gamut of the undergraduate mathematics curriculum, and I would like to think that I have a pretty broad knowledge of mathematics.

To you, I ask the following:

* Do you know someone who has walked this path?

* What would you think if my application came across your desk?

* How can I make myself attractive to potential employers?
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While I agree with you, we should view it this way: we started out with nothing and so any progress we made back then would been incredible. Now we have so much progress we are just looking at how to fine tune things and so there aren't much surprising, revolutionary ideas out there. And because there are so many tools to turn people's idea into reality (which increases competitions), there is little room for surprise. The truly surprising technology that we start utilizing and making big progress would be 3D printing. It has been around for many years but now we finally start using it...
The 1849 gold rush was a terrible idea and cost most people more than they got back. Most startups also fail. I feel like that's not a good way to run an economy.
During the cold war (and shortly after), this type of activity would be exactly what red-blooded Americans would say differentiated us from Russia (not hiding it, but doing it at all). Americans have constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure by the government.

These days you could probably drop the country and year and have trouble differentiating tactics used by the US and Russia.
Those costs are associated with a civil union. In most western countries, and in many states, having had kids together and/or a joint bank account is enough to have the same divorce consequences in separation.

More info in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common-law_marriage
Excellent explanation as to why Gibson's new fingerprinting service is useless
Hold a second, BIOS flash? /me smells #badBIOS
Probably an ad hominem, but why would someone who has over 7000 tweets and who appears to be tweeting every 3 hours need to carry an additional pen + paper.

Wouldn't he have his phone anyway? I wonder why are so many "digital natives" still preaching the advantages of pen an paper over digital texts today.
Uh, this was fast:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7127368
Show HN: Longaccess is a secure long-term data storage.
And when domestic production just doesn't happen, what then? Will you allow your population to languish in poverty while prices are high due to an artificial floor?

PS4s are a luxury, but when we apply the same logic to necessities then that argument falls on its face fairly quickly.

Tariffs are also susceptible to political wrangling, where taxes are levied selectively.
Microsoft creates a 20 gigapixel photo panorama of Seattle
I have to disagree.

I know people who complain about the content Netflix has every time the subject comes up. They don't know why, or understand what licensing is (or means), or the impact of the studios and their business model.

They could buy movies on disc, and get whatever content they want, but they use Netflix more and more instead. So experience does matter.
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So it's only one guy who's been responsible for all this crap?
You are asking which is more likely. I.e. is the probability of compromise higher than 50% ?
I'd say the the probability is less than that. But I think even risks with lower than half probability are worth worrying about.
Patent troll makes money off Android with backing of Apple and Microsoft
I did this.

I built the hardware (Z80 SBC), wrote the OS (tiny single tasking Unix like UZI180), started to write an editor (like ed). Then I got distracted with something shiny and abandoned it.

Think I blew 200 hours on that and don't even have the source now.
I don't know about the rest of your site, but in this particular case, nearly all of the content you provided on your site related to this article was lifted directly from the article itself. If you'd written a thorough analysis of the article, perhaps using data to back up/refute it's claims, that would merit reading on it's own merits. That's not the case here though, so I'd prefer to read the article itself.
Why is that different from share deals? There's a buyer and a seller... if one of them wins, the other by definition must lose.

Call whatever you do 'investing' if it makes you happy, but as I said before, you can replicate financial 'investments' with spread-betting 'bets' and you will make the same gains and losses.
Blind allocation for senior talent is just st00p1d.

And I speak from personal experience. As Erich stated, all the cool work is taken at Google. Blind allocation will likely land you on a team doing work unrelated to the standout work that got you noticed by Google in the first place.

If you don't mind trading away your life's passion for Google's admittedly fantastic perks, then it's a great career move. OTOH if you're finally making your mark in the world such that Google notices you, don't fix what isn't broken, avoid Google(1). My stint at Google could best be described as "Career Interrupted."

1. Exceptions: Acquihires and moonshots in your area of expertise. These are no-brainers and a great deal. Google perks plus compelling work? Sign me up. Sadly no longer an option for me because I got labelled as unmutual for leaving.
> It's probably the one thing I really regret. That I didn't find people that were also into it and, as an adult, find a way to regularly group together with them.

Good news (everyone :)), contrary to other regrets, it's probably one of the easiest to fix. Basically, find the geekiest store/discussion board (related to boardgames, wargames, video games, etc) in your area and post an ad there, you'll quickly (though maybe give it a month or two, if you live in a small or inactive town) find other players. Have fun!
D&D was an amazing game. My younger brother went form Dr. Seuss to the AD&D Players Handbook in his reading progression just so he could play with us. I'm pretty sure his speed math is a result of this era.

I got a copy of Gygax magazine recently and all the fun memories came flooding back. I made life-long friends and thought about things I never would have due to D&D and its decedents.

On the darker side of humanity, D&D also gives a bit of a current lesson to techies in the valley. It is very easy to demonize a group and make quite a bit of cash off it. If you didn't head the lessons of the Tea Party and Occupy, then maybe looking at D&D wouldn't hurt.

"So, what do you do?"
How about all those people who sell shares and then see them shoot up in value? They certainly feel that they lost.
At this point aren't we all just guessing? Reading this thread I'm surprised how strongly many folks I respect (like you - viva FQ&A!) are insisting this could not be an NSA screw up. The truth is we don't know, so why rush to conclusions (even benign conclusions) instead of waiting to learn more?

And imagine if you were Andrea and you develop software that dissidents around the world depend on with their life, while also knowing the NSA has simultaneously tried to weaken it. If the laptop does get rerouted to her with an apology from USPS and you were her, are you saying you wouldn't hesitate even a little before accepting it and transferring your data onto it?

Ultimately, I think that's the real story here. The biggest problem with having a government that watches its citizens isn't the watching per se, it's the loss of trust.
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Nothing of essence, of course. I strongly believe Bitcoin is a bubble that will burst this year although I definitely recognize the innovation and awareness of certain problems that it brought. But at least you see some legitimacy and a level of assurance in VCs putting money into Bitcoin startups where Dogecoin and the likes are just honest scams, not even bubbles. What kind of a person would put money into something called BBQCoin or Junkcoin?
It's easier for noise to have large effects in small populations.
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
As nations become corrupt and vicious,
they have more need of masters."

– Benjamin Franklin
Apologies, you are not the author of the comment, the reading comprehension chide is deserved.
I mean, that's answered directly in the article: phones run out of battery, Twitter isn't as each to reach for as a notebook.

I don't use this guy's specific method, but I've spent the past few months using pen-and-paper as well, and it just works very well for me (using the Bullet Journal technique: bulletjournal.com). I suspect this kind of thing varies wildly from person to person, though.
No one thinks redirection would be visible to 'anyone'. The theory is thhis could be a one-time screw-up, like a redaction failure, revealing a waypoint that was supposed to be secret. (Maybe a label that was supposed to go on the outer box went on the inner box instead?)

I'd agree an innocent screw-up is far more likely, here and in any particular case where something weird happens. Weird stuff happens with shipping all the time.

But since we know shipment interception is part of the NSA toolkit, and the NSA cares about Tor, people aren't crazy to be curious and even paranoid around remote possibilities. And if I were a Tor developer, I might buy all my hardware from store shelves with cash.
While I usually agree with most things Paul Phillips says, that talk was mostly an exception.

There is nothing which can't be fixed by focused work on all the bits and pieces which need work, and that's exactly what the scalac compiler developers are doing most of the time.

So many improvements are coming in every week that I can hardly stand using an older compiler version, because I always know that so much stuff has already substantially improved.

Despite what some people say, life in Scala-land is pretty damn good.
> 1. Forces brevity

> 2. It's always available / It never crashes

> 3. Awesome Weekly Summary

> 4. Take notes anywhere

On 1.) This is something ultimately up to oneself, I could have a larger notebook, or use multiple pages. Brevity more over is about self-discipline in accurately describing tasks. It can also be double edged in that not enough information or vagueness may increase effort require. This is something digital tools can help alleviate by allowing for additional information (todos, comments, etc).

On 2.) Sure, paper beats the redundancy of digital or online tools, but let's not forget about the power and utility they can provide as well.

On 3.) Digital tools by contrast can work around this exceeding well and in detail (calendars, weekly iterations, etc).

Finally on 4.) Sure, I won't argue against papers innate redundancy, but I feel like digital services convenience me just as well with mobile & web apps (as long as I can get the full site though :P).

Anywho, my long drawn out point is : these strengths can be applied elsewhere, and just as well. For instance, I use Trello as a scratchpad about various things I have going on. I've got about 11 or so person boards. Writing things down and applying a method to limit work in progress is really the corner stone of getting things done in my opinion. Just my two cents.
True. Some of my friends do a monthly game on IRC and we did an iPad with FaceTime for a friend living in another state.

My dream is to take an old G4 iMac and make the screen move remotely, it would be epic at the table.
You're engaging in the Libertarian vice with the simplistic assumption that all regulations are created equal:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2006/08/the...

South Korea chose to mandate a technology rather than the desired outcome and never to update that law. They could alternatively have mandated multi-factor authentication or even simply made banks liable for any fraudulent transaction without any discussion of technology at all. These are all regulations but would affect the market in very different ways.
What is your expected rate of return from a horse racing bet? It's certainly negative if you pick a horse at random, but what if you chose the horse based upon form, conditions, odds and so on? It's still gambling, but you cannot prove that the expected rate of return will be negative in this case.

There are people who make a living from this, just like there are people making a living from investments. Likewise, there are lots of people that lose at both.
The other aspect for me is that I can write better on a book with bound paper pages, than I can on a smartphone. I can type much better than either of those input methods, on a proper keyboard. But if I don't have a proper keyboard, I'm more skilled with a pen than with a simulation of a QWERTY keyboard on a 4.5" touchscreen.
> The company intends to jettison the jobs without laying off workers, said Intel spokesman Bill Calder. The reductions instead will be achieved through attrition, buyouts and early retirement offers.
Why correlate age to risk taking? And in this context, what is the risk of going to a twitter/Dropbox/box, which all have major funding and major revenue streams?
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