skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I'm not a statistician but I do wind up using a lot of (R) statistics tools in my various writings: http://www.gwern.net/tags/statistics R is a terrible terrible language from my perspective as a Haskeller, but the libraries are just too fantastic for me to not use it.

A crude bit of shell (`fgrep --no-filename 'library(' .page|sed -e 's/library//'|tr -d ')'|tr -d '('|sort -u`) on my writings and a bit of cleanup gets me the following list of R libraries I use:

MASS
MKmisc
Rcapture
XML
arm
biglm
boot
changepoint
ggplot2
insol
languageR
lme4
lubridate
metafor
moonsun
prodlim
pwr
randomForest
randomForestSRC
reshape2
rjson
rms
stringr
survival
verification

Some of them aren't important and I'm sure Python has equivalents to things like 'rjson', but others...? Let's look at a few.

- metafor: meta-analysis library (fixed & random-effects, forest plots, bias checks, etc). I use this in 3 meta-analyses I've done, so it's kind of important. A google of 'python meta-analysis' turns up... nothing? Well, it turns up some Bayesian stuff, but nothing jumps out as a finished polished library that one could easily reimplement my work in. ('METASOFT' sounds promising, but actually turns out to be for genomics and in Java.)

- randomForest, randomForestSRC: random forests are apparently implemented by Scikit. Great. What about random survival* forests, which I use in my Google shutdowns analysis to see if the standard survival model can be improved upon? 5th hit for 'python random survival forests' is... an R library.

- Rcapture: capture-recapture analysis, which I employ in my hafu analysis of anime/manga to try to estimate how many I may be missing. 'python capture-recapture analysis': the best-looking hit (http://www.mikemeredith.net/) is a false-positive. The relevant code is - you guessed it - in R.

- biglm: a package for incrementally updating a linear model, the idea being that you can load into memory as much data as fits, update the linear model, and load the next batch. I need this sucker for running even simple analyses on the Mnemosyne spaced repetition data set, where the database (~18GB) won't fit in my laptop's RAM. Some googling suggests that Scikit may support this. Or may not.

- lme4: the most famous library for doing multilevel models (indispensable generalizations of linear models, great for dealing with multiple measurements from the same subject; I use them on psychology or sleep data, usually). All the Python alternatives appear to either be exercises or Bayesian.

- survival: survival analysis library, used for Google shutdowns. https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/1736/survival-anal... says you can sorta do them in Python, but you're cautioned against it and it looks like the Python alternatives don't have the Cox proportional hazards needed to use covariates.

I could go on to look at the others (any ordinal logistic regression in Python? how're the bootstrap libraries? what if I need to do power calculations for standard tests?), but I hope this gives you an idea of why I'm not doing everything in Python.
Why is this on HN? What does this have to do with technology/startups?
big fan of Tool drummer here so yeah, loving weird signatures.
Then why isn't anyone saying that? Why could they admit $5M was seized but not admit that BTC was also taken at the same time?
I found this in the source code:

If you're reading this, we figure you are probably technical enough
to work out what's going on. See below for the code that generates
our never-ending form.

We built this because we are always being bugged by recruiters who
cold call us (http://www.distilled.net). We send them here to
"qualify" them.

Thank you reddit for some funny additional question suggestions (now
incorporated):
http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/eng14/we_get_a_lot_of...
Applies to just about every industry.
A gag order?

Could explain a lot of their behavior, actually.
The SHA hash of this file does not match with the original that I downloaded from atom.io.
The SHA256 hash of the original is 4614ec62feaea32392ad7f6b3a80534c8ad0c758ed210cabafcc86c5c49a49a1.
To be fair, a lot of the rhetoric from both sides tends to be extreme. The other side of the argument is that this is clear proof we must never use nuclear energy for anything ever again, and instead continue burning our limitless supply of fossil fuels.

I think the reality is: we need to make nuclear energy didn't work. TEPCO could't do it. Hopefully someone else can.
Check out https://www.mightyspring.com/

Job postings are easy to build from scratch and the candidate pool is strong.
Iodine is very much the same. While there's not a huge amount in the Earth's crust, relative to some elements, it's relatively abundant in seawater and relatively easy to extract – for anyone who really needs it.
I dislike the default emacs bindings. I use EVIL (vi bindings) so I get most of the normal usability, but with better extensibility (vi can't compete with SLIME) and much better config files (vimscript is terrible).
Isn't this piracy?
Signed up! Great tool. Will see how it goes.

Does the auto favorite keep working in the background or is it just a one time per search? It looks like it's just a one time thing.
If you decouple it, a lot less people will go on to seek both. I actually think they shouldn't be decoupled for that very reason -- I'd rather have a population learned in a variety of subjects.

What is the main problem is the cost of higher education. I really hope the experiment at Georgia Institute of Technology (CS degree at less than $7k) works out wonderfully. I really think that with some more improvement here and there, it is the way to go.
> I was able to create great decks on Powerpoint, manage large Excel files, use the Google Suite, and multitask like on a laptop

The fact we consider such uses to be stretching the abilities of a 5-core 32-bit 500 megahertz processor coupled to half a dozen gigabytes of RAM and attached to gigabytes of blazing fast storage, that displays data using a multi-core SIMD supercomputer just for pushing pixels speak a lot about how ludicrously inefficient our use of computing resources is.

With this kind of computer power, our parents designed Hydrogen bombs, ICBMs, supersonic fighters and spaceships.

Now we make great Powerpoint decks...
From the above NPR article:

"Prices do not include room and board. Numbers are adjusted for inflation in constant 2011 dollars."

"these are just averages, and there's huge variation."

The go look at the report it is based on
http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-table...
That particular series contains some of the best math texts I've read. My instructor used the Abbot text ( http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Analysis-Undergraduate-T... ) for our real analysis course. The books are very aptly priced and are extremely well written.
Most of Tool's most interesting drum parts (to me, at least) aren't really weird time signatures, just weird polyrhythms. The Grudge is a fun one.
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I tend to steer clear of anyone with ambitions so utopian and all-encompassing as "building a society".

Such missions have a strong tendency to end in failure, death, or both.

How about a less grandiose goal like "making software better and more accessible"
Married to a Japanese woman... allegedly moved there after an accusation of computer fraud in France - http://www.lejsl.com/saone-et-loire/2014/03/01/un-qi-superie...
Well, maybe. UITableViewDelegate and UITableViewDataSource don't have anything to do with the layout of that tableview. But let's say I have a bunch of labels, or textfields, or buttons or imageViews. All of those stock classes will do a pretty good job without subclassing, and for many applications, there's no need to subclass them. If you're doing your layout in code, where else does the layout code go other than the Viewcontroller that manages all those objects.
Were you on the internets when Gmail was announced?
Wow, isn't this timely? I've been running Xubuntu. I've been feeling like it's a little overkill. It may be time to give Crunchbang a try.
debian here too for most of these reasons
I believe I speak for everyone when I say "well F that"
I actually tend to hate the exact opposite: When they need someone very experienced in a specific technology, but do not consider a very similar and related technology.
"Please, for the love of all that is holy, lead with the company's name. That's all we ask."

Not so. I also ask that -

You understand the role better than just a list of bullet points and so can answer questions.

You are in contact with the team that is hiring so that any questions you can't answer you can get me an answer for.

You have read enough about me to have proactively filtered the job; I'm not interested in a junior position, nor a lead position requiring a decade of experience. If you say you think I would be a "great match for this Perl position!" I will cut you.

You know enough about the industry to accurately sell the job. "An exciting Java opportunity!" followed by a description that makes it sound like it's writing business CRUD apps is an oxymoron. And any description that clearly shows you have no idea what you're talking about ("You must be familiar with the following languages: Java, HTML, CSS, JSON, OO, Functional") means immediate deletion from my inbox.

You actually remain in contact until a yea or nay is decided upon, either by me or the company. Don't just disappear. This also means if you change positions, you pass your leads to another recruiter. I filter email addresses of recruiters who don't do this.
Evidently you've never been to China then...
you mean conspicuous - inconspicuous means "not clearly visible or attracting attention".
IMHO is better than sucky vimscript.
It sounds and feels like 7/8 to me. So it's 13/16, cool stuff! I have a clock at home that plays the Big Ben Westminster Chimes in 5/4 time. Once I figured out it played in 5/4, I think of "5" now every time I hear it. There is a definite art to creating melodies that feel good in odd time signatures.
Pyramid Song is in 4/4. If you only listen to the piano part, then you might think it's odd, but when written in 4/4 the notes are just dotted quarter notes and half notes. The drum part is more revealing of the 4/4 time signature.

http://cloud.freehandmusic.netdna-cdn.com/preview/530x4/warn...
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Why I'm Not Worried About Yoga Mat Chemicals in My Food
However, DO offer to hand over the SD card.

And keep a dummy SD card between the battery and the back cover for this purpose. It is also useful for generic SD card duty anyway, and costs like $5.
This, a thousand times this.

My first introduction to Linear Algebra came from Strang's OpenCourseWare videos and, a year later, a class that used his book. Despite having gone through the material twice, I struggled to apply it to actual problems. Connecting the real world (err, models of the real world) to the blocks of numbers was the sticking point. What are the matrix's units? How do I write down a matrix that does what I want? I looked things up and prayed that whatever black magic the mathematicians on wikipedia had invoked in their derivations would match the implicit assumptions I knew I had to be making.

Then I was forced to re-take linear algebra in college. We used Axler's book and suddenly everything made sense. The blocks of numbers that you type into matlab are simply shadows of the mathematical concepts of a vector and linear transformation. The abstract mathematical concepts are actually closer to the real world concepts they model because they don't have to depend on arbitrary choices of coordinate system, etc. Once you understand how to model real-world quantities with abstract vectors and linear maps (easy) and how to translate those coordinate-free equations into coordinate-dependant matrix equations (easy), THEN you understand the material enough to apply it without fumbling around trying to paste other peoples' formulas together (hard).

OP's book looks well written but it entirely follows the tradition of emphasizing the blocks of numbers over the abstract concepts. Linear maps don't appear until page 75, while blocks of numbers enter on page 5! That's nuts! Use Axler.
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I found your writing a bit hard to follow, and therefore didn't get all the way through.

This probably could have been 3 or four posts. I think that you should try to stick to only a few ideas at a time. Maximum of 3, and they should all be related directly to your title.

Which leads me to my next bit of advice. Titles and subtitles.
"Recruiters Guide for new Coders". Is that a guide for coders to get recruited? or a guide for recruiters? Seems a bit confusing.

"By this point you notice a few problems with some recruiters:"
is a very awkward heading, it is far from concise and far from strong. A heading should be punchy, even with your conversational style writing, keep your sections punchy and then elaborate in the text.

Hope this helps you out with future posts.
I do like your conversational style, and with a bit more editing and focus, I think you could make massive strides in your writing.
As a classical musician it took me about three bars of audio to figure out that this was 3+3+3+2+2. I'd call it 13/8 rather than the 13/16 which the article suggests, but that's mostly a non-difference.
http://meetupblog.meetup.com/post/78113362079/meetups-servic...
The Metro version of OneNote doesn't, but Windows Journal does and it's installed on the Surface by default. It's a legacy app though.
Two friends and I run http://domai.nr/ on the side. We launched it 5+ years ago (here on HN, I think), and it's generated revenue ever since.

Our first goal for it was, "can it cover the cost of its own domain?" Which is an absurd $500/year because that's what the .nr registry chooses to charge for registrations at their top level.

After reaching that goal, our next milestone was the .nr plus California's silly $800/year LLC tax, which we also eventually hit. From there we've set more milestones, such as "occasional nice meal-profitable" to "monthly rent-profitable" and beyond.

It's also inexpensive to operate, because it's stateless.
You have to remember that Flash is driving a $100+ billion industry in online advertising aka ad banners (although you're all using ad blockers right)? And this goes from banner creation all the way to ad serving technology. I just can't see this going away any time soon.
Russia declared war on Ukraine
Dave Brubeck's Time Out has some well-known examples of interesting time signatures. My favorite is Kathy's Waltz [1].

The second half of the song includes a section in which the drummer maintains a 3/4 waltz beat while Dave improvises over top, seamlessly moving between the 3/4 waltz and a 4/4 swing.

I don't know of any other similar performances, but would be interested if anybody can recommend some.

[1] https://play.spotify.com/track/6qNWmjlMAW503WLZLfjUba

[Edit] Having just listened to it a second time, it's actually more interesting. The drummer is playing a kind of 6/8 but using the hi-hat on every other beat. The bass player is placing notes on beats 1 and 4, and Paul Desmond and Dave are improvising on top. I'd be interested in others' assessment of what's happening in that second part of the song though.
He's talking about the pressure vessels there.

The previous sentence is "At Three Mile Island the buildings were intact, and the one melted nuclear core remained inside its pressure vessel."

The containment is outside of that:

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Safety-and-Security/Safety...

specifically:

http://www.world-nuclear.org/uploadedImages/org/info/BWR%203...

As I understand it, a lot of the environmental contamination was carried out by the cooling water they were injecting.
Need a good tagline for itrackmygps.com
When I built this initially, its main purpose was to stop my wife from asking where I am. Tag line submissions are welcome :)
"only outsiders with a giant archive of long-ago race-losing transactions (that never reached blocks) would be able to estimate the magnitude of the losses. (I don't know any public source for such an archive.)"

Is that actually the case, or can most/all forms of malleability be detected by looking abnormal transactions that wouldn't have been generated by any known client?

Looking at the known sources of malleability, most of them would never be done intentionally: https://gist.github.com/sipa/8907691

Has anyone done a comprehensive analysis like this yet?
For those to lazy too click link:

Hurricane Hazel: October 5-16, 1954
Hurricane Hugo: September 10-22, 1989
Hurricane ____: ________ ____, 2014

I realize this is not how storms work, but hurricane was the first word that came to mind when I read "Why Not Myrtle Beach."
> Do you really think non-developers are creating user stylesheets to begin with?

Then ask yourself why they are called user stylesheets?

IMHO all these attempts at taking away features "because most of the users won't ever use them" or similar reasons, and then saying "but developers can just do {more complicated thing}, it's better" is a terribly wrong direction that a lot of software seems to be heading in.

"Most of the users won't ever use them" is definitely a valid observation, but how about the ones who do? They probably use them because they discovered that feature and decided to play with it more, learn about it, and found out how useful it could be. By removing them, many more who would've otherwise discovered them will not, they will have a harder time learning about these things that benefit them, and instead remain ignorant. I find this to be almost patronising.
I wonder what the author considers bullshit.
I guess you can isolate the cells in a clear glass sandwich.
This book treats linear algebra like any other mature mathematical subject. It just so happens that it's easier to understand than most mature mathematical subjects. But yeah this is just how any pure mathematician would approach the subject (which is why I liked it so much).
This doesn't really follow, to me. If you count out the piano part, you get the groups of 3 pretty quickly, then the group of 4 that sits in the middle is immediately apparent.

Counting the drums, to my ear, gives (5+4+4+3)/4, not 4/4. But admittedly, those could be counted differently.

I definitely disagree completely that this song is in 4/4, though the exact groupings can be tough to determine.
Cops should be treated like muggers.

Move slowly, make your body language indicate that you are not wanting a fight, speak clearly and ask the other person to also speak clearly, and be ready to bolt if the opportunity arises.

American cops must be dealt with using de-escalation techniques.
I would hazard a guess that it's not how simple the site is or the changes would be, it's a matter of managing it.
Probably all that rigorous stuff when it comes to proving some theorems. Its a practical book.
“On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.”
— http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Then again; “Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, […]”
10 Austin Startups to Watch at SXSW
But RDRAND is a stupid backdoor

RDRAND is a very good backdoor for code written by stupid people. There's a lot of application code which detects the presence of RDRAND and uses it directly instead of asking the OS for entropy.

(FWIW, I doubt RDRAND is backdoored in the traditional sense. I'm absolutely certain, however, that the NSA will take full advantage of the documented not-enough-entropy failure mode which returns all zeroes -- which most RDRAND-using software does not correctly handle.)
Third biggest robbery ever if this list is accurate: http://listverse.com/2009/12/01/10-largest-robberies-in-hist...
If you take away school choice through private schools, then wealthy people will exercise residential school choice. That is, if you have the $45K for a private school, but suddenly they become unavailable in NYC; those same people have the means to move outside of NYC. Once they do that, they no longer have to pay income or other NYC taxes, and will simply select an excellent school district in the suburbs, move there, and have their children receive a quality public education. They'll pay for it with high property taxes in that new district, and they will no longer significantly contribute to the NYC tax base, putting NYC public schools at a greater disadvantage than if they had to compete with the private schools.
Early Shakeups In Nadella’s Microsoft
Yeah everything was in house. I can't remember how I came about my build solution, but it works amazingly well. If I do a quick find on my JS code base, I see that I have 343 JS files, which is spread over 44 directories.

It's a bit involved to explain how it works, and I probably should do a blog post to explain it in detail. I'm pretty sure the solution that I have is what other big JS code bases uses, but I could be wrong. What I really like about it, is it lets me debug individual un-minified JS code.

The more that I think about it, my overall build and development environemnt/process is rather unique. My Java code base is about 100,000 lines spread over 200 Java files and I don't use maven or any ide. It's good old makefiles and vim with ant sprinkled in there.

There is a lot to blog about, so I'll see what I can come up with next week.
Wrong way round.

You want to know if clicks on illegal sources have an effect on legal sources.

Not if clicks on legal sources have an effect on illegal sources.

Yes, it's important.

No, they're not the same.
You have an orphan note on [1]
Australia is similar, as far as I'm aware. There are private colleges, that are paid up front etc, but they're sort of looked down on and are usually very industry specific (QANTM being the tech and game programming one in Brisbane, for example).
Oh man. "Papers, Please" is way too realistic. I used to be a Foreign Service officer, and part of my job was doing visa interviews/approvals. Playing feels very similar to the job (minus random in game events, etc).

I tried to get into it, but after doing visa interviews for a year, I don't want to do them, or anything remotely like them, ever again (although some people enjoy them....)
I'm curious - did you work through this book on your own, or as part of a class or with help from others?

I started reading it, attempting most of the exercises at the end of each chapter, and some of the 'as you should verify' parts. I found the 'aha' moments during the text or when solving the exercises really enjoyable, but I got stuck often enough that I began to only pick up the book when I felt super-alert.

I stopped about a third of the way through, a few pages before the introduction of eigenvectors and eigenvalues. I would like to pick it up again, but am worried about how to maintain motivation the next time I'm faced with a page where I'm stuck/confused for 30 minutes.

EDIT: Thank you to the people who replied. Your empathy (~"you're not alone in getting stuck") and encouragement (~"you don't have to grok everything the first time through") have given me new motivation to try this again.
I wonder why that middle class, and upper middle class white individuals are now experiencing an increase in police.

Perhaps it's resentment of the widening income gap between 20-30 somethings in the tech industry and those in the service industry?

Another HN article referenced a Bay Area police officer making a remark about being a "wannabe billionaire."
from memory, one beat gets chopped off the end each repetition, or something like that.