skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you test one person at random, the odds of that person being the President equals the probability of a true positive divided by the probability that the test provides a Positive result (i.e. the sum of the probabilities for True and False Positives). The probability of a true positive is the probability that test subject is the President times the conditional probability that the subject tests positive given that they are the President. If the subject is chosen at random from the population of the US, then the a priori odds of this person being the President is about 1/314M times a conditional probability of testing positive of 1. The probability of a false negative is the a priori odds of a random person being the President, times the conditional probability of a non-President testing positive. By hypothesis, this is (1-1/314M)0.00001. So the odds of a subject chosen at random from the overall US population must be approximately (1/314M)/((1/314M)+(1-1/314M)0.00001), which simplifies to 1/(1+(314M-1)*0.00001, or about 1/3141.

The ~99.97% chance that the test result is a false positive for a subject chosen at random is a consequence of the prior probability of that subject being the President in the first place being over 3000 times lower than the probability of a positive test result. In other words, though the sensitivity of the test is perfect, the specificity of the test is insufficient to isolate a condition as rare as the Presidency. It has nothing to do with testing one person being inherently more decisive than testing more than one.

Only narrowing the pool of candidates in a way which will increase the prior probability that the subject is the President will improve the situation, not random decimation to a single test subject. The GP gave several correct examples such as limiting the test to those who were much more likely to be the President in the first place (eg. a person randomly found sitting in the President's chair at the Oval Office might have a prior probability of being the President of greater than 0.01, millions of times greater than that of a randomly selected person in the US).
i know you don't have any reason to trust me, but I own a Toyota minivan (in Thailand) and I had this unintended acceleration happen to me. I was in stop-and-go traffic, so I only ended up rear-ending a taxi at <5mph but its incredibly scary to be behind the wheel of a car you have no control over. The car's engine was revving+downshifting to overcome my foot slammed on the break.

taking the car to the toyota repair place, they said there was nothing wrong with the car, and nothing strange in the computer's logs.
What technologies (apis/libraries/etc.) are you using here?
I have heard of some companies offering the employee a couple of options along the salary/equity continuum i.e.:

a. Salary A , Equity E
b. Salary B > A, Equity F < E
c. Salary C > B, Equity G < F

That way the employee can decide what works best for them.
We thought of sending puzzles to the worker that would have to really be computed by the VM and would take some amount of time until it was possible to be faked, or would have changed by the time a human could decipher the puzzle and return the expected result, but so far we're only ignoring bad actors and sometimes comparing results from different actors until a quorum is found among results
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And that is why a person should always run steam-likes in sandboxie or similar software.
It's a hard and long struggle, like most significant things in life. But they're going for it, instead of just complaining that no one opposes the government on their behalf.
In visual studio go to Help -> "Add and remove help content" and that will allow you to download entire topics like .net 4.5 docs.

You can even throw whatever you download on a network, and anyone can access it from there rather than individually needing to download it. That requires setting something in the registry though to access from the network (let me know if you want to know though).
Did anyone else notice the almost transparent red blur on the bottom right corner? Anyone have any idea what that is and why it's there? Apparently its a background image named "hotbrain.png".
Took me time to understand it wasn't unicode error but cthulhu runes. Well done.
> with a 'using' you can't catch an exception

[Citation needed]
Coming from Eclipse and Jetbrains world(Webstorm rocks), I have a pretty hard time adjusting to Visual Studio.

For example, I am used to having a class information(methods, variables, etc) or similarly Javascript function information in Structure window updated whenever my cursor moves in the code window.

In Visual Studio this apparently is not possible automatically, and you have to make a custom hotkey to force this behaviour.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/546113/visual-studio-auto...

How do people work through someone's else's code in VS? Do they really read every single line or use Object Browser?

I understand that Jetbrains Resharper fixes many of these issues, but that is not vanilla VS then.
I am not impressed with this news.
the '10% only' makes me wonder if Elon Musk has ever been interested into deep sea instead of mars-deep space. Also, Cameron is a monster : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepsea_Challenger#Challenger_... .
Why is math research important?
What about Johnson solids? They were enumerated only about 50 years ago.
> The jokes ranged from unfunny and sexist (Q: “What’s the biggest difference between Hillary Clinton and a catfish?” A: “One has whiskers and stinks, and the other is a fish”) to unfunny and homophobic (Q: “What’s the biggest difference between Barney Frank and a Fenway Frank?” A: “Barney Frank comes in different-size buns”).

We've got jokes about policeman, about blondes, about the French, about mostly everybody... So, if the target of a joke is a woman, it doesn't mean that it's a sexist joke, and a joke about being gay isn't a homophobic joke. If anything, making fun of something means accepting is as normal, as part of everyday life!
or cryptocurrency in general as soon as porn industries will start to accept doge/lite/max/whatever coin
With outsourcing of medical software to overseas 'software factories' it still surprises me that we don't hear more about this. It does happen and you do read the stories if you search for them, but it's not big enough news. Anyone knows sources for this kind of news? I only know http://www.reddit.com/r/criticalsoftware/
fyi, services like PhantomJsCloud (mine) exist that let you avoid rendering SPA/Ajax yourself.

Here's a link with all the nginx config you need to make it work: https://phantomjscloud.com/site/docs.html#advanced_seo
Experience (which always should trump theories about how things should work) proves that you are wrong. What would have happened in this case if fail fast was used and the hardware had immediately resetted upon the first byte being written outside the stack area? Likely the bug would have been caught and fixed during testing because debugging a randomly resetting cpu is comparatively easy. It's a hundred times better than people being killed because small unexpected errors are allowed to accumulate.
To verify, you mean by ruining any idea of privacy by making all transactions public? (It isn't clear if you are actually saying that bitcoin would increase the privacy experienced in this situation.)
i think they were just stock / random photos not straight on photo that they will do in the security office

and what diversity info would you need to show?
> No, and this is a good thing, only IPv6 devices which have their own IPv4 address/network can issue IPv6 addresses on that network.

So you will still need tunneling to make it work. As you will still have to run CGN to get all your customers online. Unless of course you do want to change the network infrastructure. At which point your solution gets much worse than plain and simple IPv6.

> It keep being phrased as "what is the source address of an IPv6 host on an IPv4 network". It seems to me the answer should simply be "the first 32 bits of the IPv6 address" - and it seems stupid it's not structured like this.

Sure.. that solves the routing problem (except for IPv4 routing table explosion), but doesn't solve the problem that IPv4-only hosts still can't talk to IPv5-hosts. You send [IPv4][IPv5] packet to IPv4 host. Huh? What's that IPv5 thing? Or the other way around.. IPv4 host sees AAA record (with IPv5) in DNS..

Your proposal solves nothing that can't also be done with IPv6 and tunnels if you are really keen on keeping your 5 old router running a few more months before throwing it away (which you can't do anyway, as your limited FIB size will force you to buy new hardware anyway, due to IPv4 route table fragmentation).
stealth address, coinjoin and mixing services are already here and people can/should start using immidiately
Or you can use djangothis[1].

$ pip install djangothis
$ cat > views.py
from importd import d

@d
def hello(request):
return d.HttpResponse("hello there")
^D
$ djangothis
Validating models...

0 errors found
February 18, 2014 - 16:43:31
Django version 1.6.2, using settings None
Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.

Any html files would be automatically served, files in static folder in current folder will automatically be mapped to /static/ and so on.

[1]: https://github.com/amitu/djangothis
I would be really thankful to you guys.
IBMers get a discount at the Apple Store (online) via a rewards gateway.

Any company that uses something like rewardgateway.com will get discounts at a similar set of places.
Thanks! You and bsder gave labels to a vague feeling that Manny and I might both have. I admit that I wouldn't have the same level of trust initially (and I've been on both sides of that in the past).

That would manifest itself as me being more aware of the risk, but I'm also rational enough to know that unless I find a way to rebuild that trust, I might as well have not made the initial counter-offer. (I'm also writing from a pretty big [by typical HN standards] company perspective. On a sub-10 person technical team, the equation is a lot different.)
Thanks guys, next time I will whois with =domain_name
Yep. PJAX and it's ilk are wonderfully simple, degrade well and fit in with many existing approaches.

We added PJAX rendering to a Django site in under an hour. All the benefits of SPA's and few of the downsides.
It's the same image used in the Home icon at the top, and appears to be a flipped and less precise version of the Debian logo. I assume that it's the NeuroDebian project's logo.
It's used in the favicon and on the home link, so I suppose it's the distributions logo.

To me it looks like a Debian swirl transformed to look like a brain.
By a (former) NY Judge: "an institutional shift toward prosecuting companies rather than individuals. This has yielded some enormous monetary settlements but has, Judge Rakoff writes, “led to some lax and dubious behavior on the part of prosecutors, with deleterious results.”

The fear of prison concentrates the mind in a way the prospect of writing a check on a corporate account does not. “And from a moral standpoint,” Judge Rakoff writes, “punishing a company and its many innocent employees and shareholders for the crimes committed by some unprosecuted individuals seems contrary to elementary notions of moral responsibility.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/us/judge-raises-questions-...
I'll accept your point, but the FSF messaging about this is not clear - one one page it lists BSD as "a free software licence" but on another identifies it separately (both in text and in a diagram) to "free software".

Either way, RMS comments/actions re: BSD licensed code still don't match up with the "official" policy.
Your observation is spot on. The people doing the work for GCHQ and the NSA are just like us. They are geeks and technologists. They are probably members of hacker news.

This is the most believable part of the fantastic film Enemy of the State - the geeks in the van doing the work.
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Slightly off-topic, but I can't help it: This is exactly why we picked the bowhead whale for our mascot at www.longaccess.com. :-)
Excellent! The logo is a little reminiscent of Ted (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637725/), is this on purpose?

Their fees are sky-high (30% of money collected) and the FAQ is not written in very good English, so I'd be rather weary of using them, but the idea is great!
Yeah, I really don't think that Ray Kroc is someone who should be admired.
In order for your statement to be true you would pretty much have to buy into a Marxist value theory that virtually no economists today agree with, and which is highly implausible under scrutiny.
The difference is: most Android systems don't allow their users to assert root permissions, regardless of circumstance.
Way to make a mountain out of a molehill.

Oh, wait, it's Peter Bright, nothing to see here. Move along.
OK - there is a bit more at that link. Suppose I wanted to get my current GPS location and pop it on the page/screen?

In the example you indicated, the HTML etc. is downloaded from a web site - so does the app need an Internet connection to run?

I can see where you are going with this but (with all due respect) I can't see a framework as yet.
Ideas Aren't Worthless
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>I am not surprised one bit.

I think this is something that Hollywood movies such as Enemy of the State promotes. So that when it does come out non of us are surprised it really exists. We should just make sure that our lack of surprise doesn't turn into disinterest and apathy.
I am not sure I understand your argument. Using a high-level language doesn't mean one wouldn't follow other best-practices.
Ditto. Ah, the good old days of Deluxe Paint III and AMOS.
Blog post related to the first slides: http://thehoustonway.com/2013/02/25/fixed-scope-fixed-price-... . Maybe that'll help.
I'm curious. What do you find so great about Visual Studio? After working with it for a while, I came to the conclusion that while it's extremely fast, it's not particularly full-featured compared to Eclipse. The amount of refactoring you can do out of the box is minimal, and the search is ridiculously crippled.

I haven't lived with it long enough to find out if it's as easy to break as Eclipse when you install the wrong combination of plugins, though. Oddly enough, its vim emulator plugin is much better than what I found for Eclipse, which I find quite ironic.
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>The blue whale is the largest known animal to have ever inhabited the earth.

Arguably the heaviest, most likely not the largest.
FWIW the IBM badge has:-

* The 8-bar company logo

* The country of issue

* Name

* Photo

On the back is a magstripe (not really used any more) and central return address in case it is found.

It has an RFID for door access and to store cash for vending-machines and the restaurant.

No employee number anywhere. I have to remember that (along with the passwords for seventy-six different systems.)

Contractors have a yellow background for the name.

ID cards have to be on display at all times, so many wear them on a lanyard or clipped to a belt loop.
http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ seems to be the standard reference. I find it most amusing in both style and name (Learn You Some Erlang -> LYSE -> Lies) as well as informative.
The unique number printed on the card doesn't have to be the employee number, it just has to be unique to each person and stored alongside their employee number.

That retains the ability to uniquely identify people without stopping them (assuming it's not faked) whilst not leaking their employee number.
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Adwords administration, Adsense administration, Google Play administration, Google Groups, probably several others I don't remember right now. Amazon AWS admin interface is GWT and so are a lot of other big projects you know of.

It is an extremely powerful tool, with some big caveats too, as you mentioned.
RISKs Digest

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks
> Is that even remotely close to being true in practise? Would we expect to see it be smaller than IPv4? Given the quadrupling of address sizes, wouldn't that mean there'd need to be 1/4th the number of routes? And peering destroys the hierarchy, does it not?

No.. the point is that each ISP will get only one very large prefix (/32 or bigger) instead of many small ones, which can't be aggregated like it is the case for IPv4.

Right now there are about 46k ASN's in the legacy internet announcing about 490k IPv4 routes. Best case with IPv6 you would end up with 46k routes.

In practise it looks like there are 8k ASNs in the internet announcing about 16k IPv6 routes. So while not perfect, it's still quite a lot better than for the legacy internet.

> Applications that break with NAT usually do so due to poor design

So how would you design a P2P application that has no poor design?
The funny thing about this whole ordeal is that never was it mentioned that the code sends these data anywhere.
Hey did you see the video of Begum Akhtar
Begum Akhtar sang ghazals and other light traditional pieces, singing them in her incomparable style.She has about four hundred melodies to her credit.her first open execution was at the age of fifteen.her voice developed with time, including extravagance and profundity. Begum Akhtar's great looks and touchy voice made her a perfect applicant for a movie vocation.
It's an established fact that all highly intelligent people have bad handwriting. I made a note of the reference for this but, unfortunately, I can't read what it says.
I don't know about you guys, but these two quotes together with the events in the life of Assange seems to paint some picture.

According to the Post, officials “realized that they have what they described as a ‘New York Times problem’” – namely, that any theory used to bring charges against Assange would also result in criminal liability for the Times, The Guardian, and other papers which also published secret documents provided to WikiLeaks.

USA [...] urged other nations with forces in Afghanistan [...] to consider filing criminal charges against J.A. [...] focus the legal elements of national power upon non-state actor Assange, and the human network that supports Wikileaks (from https://prod01-cdn02.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/2014/02/as...)

Not that this came as a surprise for people who read things outside NYT.
I'm tired of anti-intellectuals who shame people for trying to improve their vocabulary.
There is no overlap between the two, you can use Spring with GWT as easily as with any other project. You probably mean Spring MVC.
Gabe Newell himself gave a nice explanation in a related Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1y70ej/valve_vac_and...
A convenient theory for longevity is, late menopause implies a selection (in the history of the species) against all of forms early age killers. So, I find it fascinating that a warm blooded (or even cold blooded e.g turtles) animal with an early menopause can ward off cancer for that long.
Offer HN: Improve and show your skills by working with a NPO/NGO
Hello hackers!

So I am part of the non-profit organization (NGO) called "Adelante Africa" (Go Africa!) based in Uk/Spain. We really try our best to keep the things going but we really could use a bit of help, and you will be able to add your collaboration to your showcase =)

This is our memory and objectives:
http://www.adelanteafrica.com/wp//wp-content/themes/Pilgrim/docs/Annual%20Report%202012.pdf (The 2013 report will come out next May).

You can find all the information in English and Spanish in the main web page and I will answer any question regarding this topic here or by e-mail, so let's get to the point.

We have already deployed with a bit of help a Wordpress Site (replacing the previous static web-page) but we are not design experts, and also, we don't have the money to pay for one.

So, let's go to the point, what are we looking for:

0. UpVoters: anyone reading this who can help us by voting this very same post.

1. A designer: someone who has the time and the willing to facelift our page so it becomes nicer and easier to use.

2. A SEO: someone who has the time and the willing to help us to reach more people.

3. A hosting enterprise: currently we are paying for it nearly 200€/year (hosting/domain). It would be great to cut-off this cost. In exchange we can provide a badge.

4. Any enterprise who is willing to collaborate with the cause, anyone willing to collaborate with the project.

5. Any others! If you think you can help us in any other way, you will be so very welcome, just e-mail me.

In exchange we provide: gratitude and acknowledgement.

In exchange the children will provide: smiles.

Contact me at: professorTuring [ at ] gmail [ . ] com
In particular: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_A...
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When did Bridget Jones start investing in tech?
I like Google's badges:

* Dual-sided, so it's never facing the wrong way out. (No dual-sided printer required, they are glued onto the underlying RFID card.)

* RFID, so there is no sensitive information on the badge.

* The face takes up most of the badge, so it's easy to check if it looks reasonable when someone is following you through the door.

* The face is 3D, which is just plain cool.

* The first name is larger than the last name, making it a little easier to glance over at someone's badge when you've forgotten their name. (This happens to me with frightening regularity.)
In the original reddit post linked to it was alleged that VAC sent the entries to Valve.
You are correct. That's exactly what we intended. :-)

---Alex
I'm glad I stumbled onto the second page of hacker news, this is an absolute gem!
Clickable report: http://www.adelanteafrica.com/wp//wp-content/themes/Pilgrim/...
They're actually BSD commands that you can find on BSD systems but people easily forget about BSD these days.
Implementing a C++ code generator with libclang and Python