skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually C is an excellent choice for security relevant systems software because the issues for developing in C are well understood and can easily be mitigated by following 30 years worth of best practice patterns and using the correct development tools.

The issue is developers are not using the tools or following the best practices because they think they know better than 30 years worth of experience or get caught up in bikeshedding about ideology, licenses and which line the curly braces go on.
As I understand it, there is not enough information to determine the expected number of deaths. In the first situation, the expected number of deaths of choosing medicine A must be greater than or equal to 400k and in the second situation (again choosing medicine A) the expected number of deaths must be less than or equal to 400k.

My interpretation was that in the first situation, there is a possibility that everyone dies if you choose medicine A, therefore B was the right choice. Similarly, in the second situation, there is a possibility that everyone lives if you choose medicine A, therefore A was the right choice. Maybe I'm misunderstanding but there does not appear to be enough information in the question to determine the exact probabilities.
I had the same response. Whenever I see "irony/ironic" I make a conscientious effort to not use the dictionary definition and give the author a lot of semantic leeway. After I read the comment for the third time I still could not identify any irony.
I guess you can...

me = wrong_again
I'm basically in the same situation. Here is the solution I found that is working for me.

I'm assuming you have a clear vision for your product/service. You're going to have to take the lead on owning the product, there's no getting around this. There's almost no chance you're going to find a co-founder that's going to handle the product/development, etc while you focus on marketing. I've tried and each time has ended badly. I advise against co-founders unless you know the person well and have worked with them in the past.

Here's the key to getting something developed in as little time and effort as possible. Start with the design. What the user will see when they come to the site. Don't worry about the backend at all.

Search on Dribble for designers - they don't have to be front-end developers. Actually better if they're not (cheaper). For more affordable quality designers, search eastern europe/russia.

Contact a bunch of designers, see if they're available and what their rates are. See how quickly they respond, etc. Select 3 or 4 and give each one the same first task. It should be something that takes 2-3 hours. It could be taking a sketched mockup, polishing it up, etc. After each one has completed this, you pick the one you feel was the best.

A lot of good designers know good front-end developers. You can find one through the designer. If not, you can do the same process on odesk for both front-end and back-end developers.

This is the process I use after a lot of trial and error, and it works the best for me.
First of all, I don't think it's true.
And secondly, even if that's true, mastering English isn't exactly a top priority skill needed for young people to succeed in today's world, especially not up there with math and science (which is ridiculously easy on these standard tests and is weighted less. Actually, does SAT even have a science portion???). SAT does not test general knowledge either. (Yes, I know of SAT-II, but they aren't taken by most people and aren't required by colleges).
Privacy returns when all surveillance becomes a two-way channel. If someone watches you, you would know who it is and can watch them right back, change your behavior for as long as they watch, or demand that they stop entirely.

The problem we are having now is not just that people are watching us, it is that we also don't know who they are or when they are doing it.
Removing the penalty for wrong answers seems to be an interesting choice to me. I thought a strong part of the test was the emphasis on carefully considering the questions so that the answers given were deliberate.

Without a penalty, guessing is just a chance for free points. Not really a measure of any skill aside from test taking (of which the SAT already suffers from enough). But I guess if all of your tests at a university are similar to the SAT, it might be a good measure of your potential success.
Vim is sexy
Agreed, when I read the article I objected to the headline. Icahn's definition of 'poorly' seems to me, to really be "These guys are leaving money on the table." I do not believe that in the classic sense of 'earning money, meeting goals, and running the business' that Ebay is "poorly" run, but I would agree with an assessment that there are probably ways for them to increase the amount of money they either make or retain.

However, my experience is that companies that are hell bent on getting every penny out of the business are not generally "well" run (again by my definition of what "well" means).
Check out this beard length detector I wrote in 22 lines of Python with SimpleCV

http://labs.radiantmachines.com/beard/
Are you saying that a movie where the villain is a character called Lord Business, and who is the president of the country and CEO of the largest corporation that makes all history books, voting machines and owns all TV and radio has nothing to do with corporations?
> Note, however, that not every country on the planet has a Craigslist equivalent.

Owned by eBay. Kijiji is an eBay property and it's the biggest "Craigslist" in most markets other than the US.

They also own 25% of Craigslist
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Can you explain what you mean by "knowing how to take the test"?

I ask because I got a very respectable SAT score and only took one practice test. All my other studying was just working problems of the type which are on the test. I found the only skill required was knowing how to solve the problems asked.

I have heard this said many times, that standardized tests are just testing your skill at taking tests. But it does not match with my perception of my experience. I am willing to be shown otherwise, which is why I ask.
Yeah, that's absolutely what I've done in the past / will do again if I head this route. (Truthfully speaking though, with the time limits, it was the ruthlessly stripped down version that took me 9 month). As I said, I'm a competent hacker, but even full-time, I'm nowhere near my dev friends and designer friends who breeze through some of the data structure design aspects I'd end up meddling with for a week ...
As soon as possible during startup, create a domain and enter it. Because entered domains form a stack, this will be a fallback if an error occurs at a place that isn't covered by any other domains.
If they don't understand HAML or Slim, then they don't really understand HTML.

They may have the syntax memorized, but they aren't seeing the bigger picture. HAML and Slim are just alternate ways of getting at that bigger picture.
Kijiji, the classifieds leader over Craigslist in Canada, is an eBay property. If the US has competition for eBay, the rest of the world seems to be sorely lacking in it.
I did literally no prep whatsoever (just walked in to the test location the day I was told to), and did very well. I'm sure test prep would have helped my writing score (my lowest one) by teaching me how to write a god awful essay that contained the pieces to get you extra points, but my verbal and math scores were about as high as they were going to get.

The secret to standardized testing is fast reading comprehension. I've always been a fast reader (without sacrificing comprehension). It frees up time to go back and really spend time on the tougher questions that just isn't available if you have to spend a long time just reading the question (it's more than just in the reading comprehension section, since you have to actually read every question to get through the test).
can you explain what you mean by 'with the phone number'? Just curious.
I buy a ton of yogurt and eggs on eBay
Can this UI/checkout be used for updating CC info as well?
Similar logic when looking for a technical cofounder. Do you have a vision grand enough that you emanate that someone is willing to give up $150k to join you on your dream?
Part of the problem for why this stuff isn't taught in high school as much is that (and I do say this with some hesitance, as an engineering student who has had a strong math education, imo) I feel most people would probably not benefit much from having that additional content added into the high school course. The other and more major issue I see is that universities seem to be (just from personal experience and hearing friends stories too) starting to want students to take most of their higher maths, that above basic algebra it seems sometimes, at the university. While you could argue that this is because they are greedy and want more money from forcing students to take more classes, I'd like to think that the reason why is because of how fragmented american high school math courses can be.

Personally, as an engineering student, I'd rather take most of my math classes here at my university because they tend to all be tied together (both with the math department and engineering department courses) well and I know that where I leave off in Ordinary Diff Eq, I will pick right back up from in Ord. Diff. Eq 2. Coming from having taken calculus and calculus 2 in high school and having entered straight to calculus 3 in university, I didn't have this comfort and in fact ended up missing some content between the classes as a result. There is also the issue of choice, and the limits of it within the context of high school curriculum.

Just my 2 cents against teaching additional stuff in high school (or probably addressing the wrong point within this comment). Also, I'm not sure (obviously) what its like across the nation, but at my high school at least these topics where all covered and taught to (nearly) all students:
> Basic algebra and geometry: Order of operations; simplifying expressions; solving quadratic equations by factoring; finding area and perimeter of shapes; the classic "garden problem" (maximize area of a rectangle given fixed sum of 3 sides); naming the Platonic solids; adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing complex numbers; logarithms; solving exponential equations. [...] solving linear congruences with small moduli by trial and error; finding gcd and lcm; prime factorization;
The writing section is the only one I think test prep would have helped with. Especially with essay structuring. I just wrote a response to a prompt the way I've always written.
> Facebook has done a good job helping people enjoy the habit of denying the importance of privacy

Well, that's what they make money off. It's their strategy/mission to eliminate privacy.

On the other hand, 24% of consumers currently seem to be OK with the fact that the NSA controls their iPhone:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/12/30/the-nsa-repo...
Hillary Clinton: Putin's tactics like Hitler's before WWII
If it's involuntary, you are owed cash, unless you're denied for weight/balance reasons in which case nothing is due, or you're rebooked on a flight within the hour. If it's voluntary, everything is at the airline's discretion.

United's official rules: http://flyerguide.com/index.php/S*UAL/DENIED-IDB
This is probably a worse situation than you might realize. At best you have a micromanaging CEO. Your supervisor is in the role to deal with this. There could be a hundred reasons why your CEO bypassed him, but very few are good. There is a possibility the CEO is very detached, does not trust your supervisor to lead the work, and thinks you are a slacker.

Take some of the advice many people have provided:

- Document everything
- Stay professional
- Look for another job
Another example where it might be useful to disable commenting from new accounts for 24 hours.
Cookies? I thought the dark side had pie.

I was told there'd be pie.
Penalties for wrong answers are the ultimate test of test-taking abilities (actually, to an extent, an ability to implement probabilities). Your strategy changes based on how many answers you can eliminate, rather than on if you know the correct answer.
If any Debian user is curious they can use the following commands to see gnutls dependents:

$ apt-cache rdepends libgnutls27 libgnutls26 libcurl3-gnutls

$ apt-cache --installed rdepends libgnutls27 libgnutls26 libcurl3-gnutls

The latter invocation only displays packages which are installed locally, the former prints all packages apt is aware of.
I know this is not really the point of the article, but what language other than Afrikaans could Mandela and de Klerk have used? Xosha? I doubt de Klerk knew more than a few words of it at the time. Neither of the two spoke English natively.
Or buy a small quadcopter such as the Hubsan X4 for a fraction of the price, and practise with that. :)
"DOCUMENT EVERYTHING FROM HERE ON IN."

This sounds like a lot of work and a waste of time in my opinion. If they can't tell what OP is working on, he/she is either:

a) in a really bad situation and should leave ASAP

b) there is some validity for the pay cut

c) there is money issue with the company

Maybe I've been fortunate with my previous employers as they were generally willing to bend over backwards to make me happy, since I got things done. If his/her employer is clueless as to what OP is doing, then really it's a bad situation for all.

Unless OP is in love with their current job, adding paper work to their day to day task would be a waste of time in my opinion.
Legal Tech Startups - Diamonds in the Rough
Are you intending the first sentence to be a quote from somebody? If so, it couldn't be from the person you responded to, who never said that they didn't trust the system.
Anyone know if they are they using an open source tool to run the intro animation? Can't tell from the minified source.
Good. I wasn't sure who these goals were for, which is why I aimed my comments at a general target instead of Mozilla specifically.
Is there a noscript type extension that allows you to see the start of the script contents? Or the parts that would be triggered first?

Seems like a sensible option might be to have some sort of button (address bar / extension button) that opens up a pane with the javascript as read-only so its easier to do a quick visual check for "funny business".
Hot damn. The design and experience I felt from this page is overwhelmingly great. I've always loved stripe's design and they continue to blow me away. Really excited to activate our account any day now.
We coded it from scratch.
It's not the College Board's problem to solve. Their goal with the SAT is to offer colleges a predictor of college success. Why should they try to incorporate a form of affirmative action into their test? Why not leave that up to the admissions offices that will have a more complete picture of the applicant's background?
Yup, it can. You can have the button text say whatever you like.
Apple security rules leave inherited iPad useless, say sons
Ask HN: If Bitcoins are traceable, can't we trace and find Bitcoin thieves?
Assuming thieves want to profit from their stolen Bitcoins, doesn't the Bitcoin traceability property mean it's possible to track the Bitcoins stolen from Mt. Gox, for instance, and any related transactions?
Is it really so bad?

There are always priviledge escalation bugs open on Linux, and the attacker can always just try to guess the password, with several different sessions running su. I don't trust my systems to survive local atacks, or at least I trust them much, much less then surviving external attacks.

Personaly, I have my machines on a hierarchy of trust. More trusted machines can ssh as root into less trusted one, but not the other way around. It's much easier to automatize things this way.
Checkout is a great way to get started fast (like, in <15 mins).

Multilingual support would be great, and also a more customer friendly interface for those who might not be familiar with things like CVCs. Those two things are reasons I had to stop using checkout and use stripe.js instead.
Find a new job first, then quit. Its a lot easier to find a job when you already have one.
I just use the web page now for the same reason, the high precision GPS request was way too much information to give out. The effect is that I use facebook less when I'm out and about which is also a positive.
Charity is an experimental FP language. < http://pll.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/charity1/www/home.html >
We set it up over here @Patreon and it was EZPZ. One issue that wasn't clear from the documentation -- the "custom" setup (https://stripe.com/docs/checkout#integration-custom) is preferable for so many reasons (and it's no harder to setup, not sure why it's not just the only option) -- it doesn't "take over" the form so that a credit card is required on submit and it also returns a bunch more relevant info like the last 4 digits of the credit card, the expiration date, etc. so you can save and display the card info for future checkouts.
mocking vim? me don't like that...
Try watching the animation (click "Show me" on the page). Basically, we use your email address and phone number to save you from having to type in your credit card number everywhere.
Weasel words don't improve the advice.
Well, like I said, I didn't check just one, but about half in the list - maxcdn was just in the link because you can't link that site to just one service. Akamai had nothing listed, and level3 and cdnetworks weren't in the ones I checked. From what I saw, they still have more than most.

I still think you're mischaracterising AWS as being a bit player - they have a decent presence with Cloudfront, it's just that there are a couple that are bigger. Like I originally said, 'more than most'. CDNetworks certainly does pound them in numbers, though.
Lack of web developers causing startups to fail
The OpenSSL License and The GPL
I've been using Stripe Checkout now for a few months now, and besides the lack of built-in support for coupon codes, it's pretty perfect.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danvelazco...

Tinfoil for facebook.

Basically it is a big condom for facebook so it does not stick its bejeezus inside your private babushka. Or something like that ;-)
Now I'd just love for you all to make capable of having products attached to it and operate like a shopping cart ;) -- But seriously your designs look so good, I'd actually want that.
Winklevoss twins use Bitcoins to book space trip
Are cat bites and depression related? Not so fast.
Most Bitcoin apps switching to TOR for better anonymity
I agree.

What I'm saying is, without the benefit of open source, you're relying on third-party certification to evaluate the security of products.
O'Reilly is currently having a 50% off sale on this ebook:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024057.do?code=WK5STA...
I really want to use Stripe but it would be great if they had a more favorable pricing structure for microtransactions. Paypal, for example, will charge 5%+$0.05 or 2.9%+$0.30 (whichever is lowest) for digital goods transactions.
The negativity around acqui-hires is pretty ridiculous. Every single tech company pays for the ability to hire smart people, and the basis of the hiring process is centered around the quality of a candidate's resume. In this case, there is a group of smart people (Vizify) who have a very real accomplishment (Vizify), which trumps a fact-laden piece of paper any day.
And here's a tip about "putting in your notice":

If you're working in an "at-will" state (which I'm guessing you are) and you are NOT under a contract (which previous data has led me to believe you are not) you do NOT have to give two weeks notice. Two weeks is a courtesy and nothing more.

You can quit on the spot. In fact, do it and do it nicely and when the boss goes ballistic about finishing up work you are doing then you can make a gentle offer to contract back at a much higher HOURLY rate. It needs to be higher for two reasons: 1) because legally you're gonna have to pay self-employment taxes on it but 2) you're gonna leave with a little bit of pain on his side. With the possibility of your current company being tight on cash you might want to be sure you get prepaid some # hours before you set foot back in the door. Collecting might be tougher after the fact.

And whether you leave on the spot or work those last two weeks, DO leave yourself a week of decompression time before the next job. You'll start a lot fresher and be in a great mood. Start dates are always negotiable and don't have to be exactly two Mondays after the offer letter is printed.
Thanks for the feedback! We're continually pushing optimizations, and have plans to make the CVC interface friendlier for those that are unfamiliar!
Certain sites will then just hang all of Firefox.

Which ones?
My friend was recently ac qr - hired and he definitely did not see big payday. It was slightly better offer than what he would have got as a regular new hire but only slightly. Value of his options (after working for 3 years) was less than 10k.
You are of course referring to people who paid for a service which was later denied.
I thought all models literally model the subject that they model.
s/problems/requirements/. And I wasn't trying to invalidate a rule, but merely point out that rules are made to be broken ;)
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When there is a penalty for wrong guesses, students who have a pretty good idea that they know the answer, but aren't certain, must waste time determining whether it is in their favor to answer the question.

Evaluating whether it is worth it to take a guess is a test-taking skill, and the SAT is trying to shift away from test-taking skills.
They have a workaround here:
https://support.stripe.com/questions/does-stripe-support-mic...

It mightn't suit your use case though.
Standardized tests don't seem to test intelligence as much a person's ability to know how to "beat the test" and to do the work to do so.
Facebook moves to restrict firearms sales
Agreed. Zite is so much better. I use Zite 2-3 times a day and have stopped using Flipboard.
The question wasn't "who needs to keep a secret", but rather "who is depending on Facebook to keep their secrets?" It's a valid point, the media has blared long enough that Facebook can't be trusted with secrets. If someone doesn't know that by now, they haven't done the due diligence that should be reasonably expected of anyone communicating online.
It doesn't seem to play well with Pocket but the text selection feature helps when it doesn't. Well Done!

I would love a pause button for when you're disrupted while reading.
as we all know, Chrome is now the reigning champ in speed.

Oh really? Sources please, or I call total bullshit.
I would guess that the fact that Meteor currently uses MongoDB may prevent adoption by many larger sites.
Tail Weavers, Helping More Unwanted Pets Get Adopted
So its attempting to solve the issue that a quadcoptor can't autorotate to the ground in the event of failure like a helicopter can. Interesting!