skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quote was so interesting that I went and found the source: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/1028.ect

Now there's this gem:

"it was basically became clear that we either figure out how to beat the fraudsters or the fraudsters will take us under. And the company more or less refocused itself as a research entity towards figuring out innovative technological ways of destroying fraud in the Internet. And that alone could be the subject of an entire class or a series of classes so I will completely skip over all the cool technology we developed. Some of you might have seen stuff in the news, words like EOR or ELIA, all these tools that we've built. They're as cool as they sound. I could never tell you about them because they're very secret and they're still in use. But maybe if you want to hang out afterwards, I can tell you a little bit. But they're really cool and we did really figured out how to kill fraud.

...

The submerged part of PayPal is this massive and very, very numerically-driven risk management system which allows us to instantaneously tell when you're moving money to someone else, with a very high degree of certainty whether the money you're moving is yours or you got it illegally and we might be on the hook later on to help the authorities investigate or retrieve the money, et cetera, et cetera."

I simply must know. I'll never find out how Paypal killed fraud unless I ask HN right now, and I've got to know. So, with apologies for branching into a completely unrelated topic:

What magic did Paypal invent in order to do all of those amazing things described above? How'd they kill fraud? What are the details of how the technology works? Is it still a closely guarded secret? Do they use some advanced statistical mathematics to detect fraud, or do they bruteforce the detection by providing massive quantities of data to the otherwise-dumb detector algorithm?

What fascinates me is that they've come up with a way to detect fraud automatically, with no human input. There are false positives, which everyone here has probably had some terrible experiences with, but... Still, how did they train a computer to detect and freeze the very sophisticated and very subtle covert techniques of Russian mobster money launderers?

Any info would be very much appreciated, especially citations / references for further reading on this topic.
Google plans to kill Google Voice, will integrate features into Hangouts
I'd love to see Unity, without the need for plugin, that would make Unity games, really accessible. But only if it's done as a first class thing, and not a fallback option.
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Should be first minute advice.
I'm guessing it was even more effective at preventing sales too
Your risk isn't that the company goes belly up, it's that internal politics churns in such a way that you find yourself the next victim of a witch hunt, that your unit's contribution is identified as having become obsolete or lacking to the point where it's time to cut, etc.

Your risks aren't minimum; they're different.
You bring up a good point, in how most dollars are "virtual". And indeed, we have seen the same kind of "virtual" bitcoins, where exchanges traded bitcoins that didn't exist in the blockchain (Mt Gox did this for a while).

Again, this sort of "virtual" currency (more technically, M2 currency), is something that you can build on top of bitcoin, and something I don't think that the bitcoin protocol itself needs to build, since we already have it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2_%28economics%29#Empirical_me...
The 99.6% effectiveness statistic comes from the planned parenthood website and I'm assuming they quoted it from this study since they do not cite their source http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/5/1310.short

99.6% is the method-effectiveness (i.e. the efficacy if used properly) or 0.4 unintended pregnancies per 100 "women years" (13 cycles)

Other interesting results from the study:
- the method-effectiveness rate found for this method is comparable to oral contraceptive
- 9.2% stopped using the method due to dissatisfaction
- Couples that had intercourse during the fertile period had an increased pregnancy rate of 7.5%
- This study was done in European countries and the pregnancy rate was lower than similar studies performed in developing countries
FTA:

>Despite the widespread use of Bayesian methods in searches, not every airline or government uses them — there’s no evidence the Malaysian government nor Malaysia Airlines has in the current search, though they are getting help from a team of French government investigators who worked on the Air France hunt. (The Malaysian embassy in Washington, D.C., didn’t immediately respond to an emailed request for comment, and calls to the embassy on Monday yielded an automated reply that the office was closed because of snow.)

>“I suspect that they just guess, like professional baseball managers used to do before ‘Moneyball,’” said Peter Thall, a biostatistician at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Ask HN: Discrimination based on education?
Could turning away job applicants for their lack of college education be considered discrimination?
A developer I worked with several companies ago told me the same type of thing about learning OO "Its not necessary just learn to code better".

The fact of the matter is large code bases need to be supported over time by diverse groups of people and frameworks help enforce standards that get people up to speed quickly.

That developer I knew, he has been chronically unemployed for the last 5 years because he lacks the skills to work as part of a team. Great coder though!
Looking for Firefox 29 beta. And nice to see that VP9 implemented in Stable release.
Red Hat 5.1 (May 1998) probably had a lot more problems than modern Linux as well.
It was recent at the time when I tried (several years ago). I imagine it would fare worse now. How many sound apis have we gone through, etc
I hate to be That Guy, but could we get an NSFW warning on the link?

(I figured the icons were going to be "nasty" in terms of being very shoddy quality. It turns out that they depict "nasty" subject matter.)
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Yes, it's due with 29.
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An artist in Houston bought up 10-20 billboards and put photos of blue skys with clouds on them.
Agree. Instead of maps of territorial borders, it would be much more relevant to map allegiances of populations. France, for example, was certainly not unified during the middle-Ages, unlike presented here in this video. And the King of France had almost no power to rule over power lords from other regions. The concept of strong State dates from post Louis-XIV era. But the map do get Germany right: Germany was indeed a microcosm of small states until the invasion by Napoleon (the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig was a determining time to unify the Germans under a single nation ideal). Italy was also in a similar state of micro-nations until WW1.

What would be interesting, rather than borders, would be to have:
- populations by origin
- density maps
so that you could see the "normands" (from Hungarian descent) penetrating France until they were allowed to settle in Normandy for fear they would bring down the Kingdom. The story of populations is way more interesting than borders.
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The author provides an insightful comparison of Mithril to existing frameworks:

http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/comparison.html
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I looked at mage like that in the 80s and even then they were never reliable sources for anything. They were influential just because they reached mass audiences, and had a quality of "newsiness" or what's now called "info-tainment", but were always worthless for knowing what was going on.

In particular, the so called "news" magazines - and later the web and television media associated with the same big companies and others like them - had a remarkable talent for writing a whole article, sometimes a long one, with an authoritative tone in the prose, -and always with a "spin" that you might or might not notice - yet somehow never including any verifiable facts or figures, nor identifiable sources. The reader would get a vague impression of the topic and some claims about it, but never any glimmer of knowledge (edit:)(except maybe "big media companies want me to believe 'x', hmmm, why is that?").
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I would love to be able to play Unity games on Linux in the browser. Currently there is no Linux plugin and that kind of sucks. WebGL support would be the ultimate solution of course.
The problem with all of those services is a lack of a strong desktop client that isn't just their web app inside a browser container.
And people generally do not do business in cash. In fact, business done by giving someone a suitcase full of bank notes are usually of questionable nature.
The 24% failure rate cited by Planned Parenthood includes ALL couples who claimed to be using fertility awareness, from those who had taken classes and were using a modern method, to those who were just guessing. IIRC, over 80% of the couples were not properly trained in a modern method of fertility awareness. Not surprisingly, they had very high pregnancy rates. Someone did the math (can't find the article) and figured untrained users had about a 28% pregnancy rate while trained users had a 7% pregnancy rate. (80 * .28 + 20 * .07) = 23.8 The 7% pregnancy rate is comparable to the real-world use of the Pill.

As for your system analogy, if your automated system was a significant resource hog or ran the risk of corruption of data or crashing the system, would you use it? You focus on efficacy without factoring in side effects.
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[sarcasm]Please continue to use this question. It’s a wonderful marker for candidates (like me) who don’t want to work with folks who think questions like that are useful.[/sarcasm]

To be honest, I think it’s far more interesting to set aside a real world problem that you have encountered at your company and see how a candidate would think through it (out loud, of course). Many issues you’ll need to solve on a day-to-day basis have nothing to do with programming — and instead have to do with knowing related technologies (like a TCP/IP network, or a database) and how they interact.

You might be shocked to discover how many developers have a deep understanding of algorithms but can’t troubleshoot/design/architect/solve their way out of a paper bag.

Also: the thought of you ACTUALLY chewing your arm off is morbidly humorous. Thanks for that. :-)
Any idea why the "slim" numbers are moving steadily in the wrong direction?
As previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7203500

Part 1: http://aceattorney.sparklin.org/jeu.php?id_proces=57684

Part 2: http://aceattorney.sparklin.org/jeu.php?id_proces=57899
Why can't the BEAM be modified to accomodate JSON?
That is all very true, but these maps are far from meningless. The author maps political regions rather than nations in the modern sense. Take for instance the way Spain changes colour each time there is a major dinastic change. Although nationalism arose as major political force only with the birth of modern democracy (if you want to give power to the people, defining who the "people" is becomes much more important), it wasn't born out of thin air. For example, you can hardly get a more nationalistic text than the portuguese epic poem "Os Lusíadas", published in 1572 (perhaps significantly, in that one corner of Europe that has hardly budged since the 13th century.) The king is praised but the most praise goes to the intrinsic value of a "portuguese people". There are also many many instances in the history of Medieval Europe of townspeople rising to fight a power that is perceived as a foreign occupier. Most of these regions would have been easily recognized by the people of the time as important political entities. Except for the Holy Roman Empire of course: a merchant who'd have needed a degree in political science to figure out to whom was he paying toll when going from town to town.
I've actually found that the "commonly held belief" is often the opposite:

- You're only (still) an engineer because you lack the ability to move into a product management role.

- If your role is technical, your job is to code up the vision of someone who understands the product.

This is changing, rapidly, in some segments of the tech world But keep in mind, the "developer-driven culture" may be far more prevalent among the kind of organizations represented on HN than the business world at large.
Why Firefox removes spdy/2 support? They don't want to support spdy/2 servers? Why?

PS: I'm not expert on servers :)
I don't think those physicists are making any Gaussian assumptions, right? They're computing a p-value as normal (how often would my test statistic generated under the null be more extreme than observed), and then using the Gaussian distribution as a scale to communicate how small their p-value is.
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Nit: I don't think the physicists are assuming a Gaussian distribution. See my reply in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7422688
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> This "DRM" was super effective preventing piracy during the hype and popularity of the game.

It prevented me from pirating it...or buying it, for that matter.
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No because education is standard practice, and the water mark by with proficiency with the absence of experience is measured by.

While I'll admit a lot of CS courses, security courses, etc. are complete and total garbage. I've had community college professors tell me Object Orienting programming was a fad, and really not worth dwelling on. Because if your going to earn any money in software it'll be with COBOL or FORTRAN which don't have those fancy things.
Well, I have sent email to a member from my country. Although it might be too late for this vote. Hope it affects his view anyway or at least rises a question or two.
You're cherry picking a small part of the industry. The carriers. For the broad mobile industry, the changes have been fundamental.

Feature phones are Dead. Traditional Phone Manufactures are on life support. Blackberry is dead, Nokia is losing their shirt, they are losing money. Samsung and Apple together are taking 103% of the profits in the industry. Hey, that doesn't add up? Well, because the competitors are at -3%.

The app ecosystem has paid out $15B+ in revenue to developers. This is a fundamental market shift for phone application developers.

These are fundamental and important shifts in the mobile industry.
I wonder just how much time they'd get from $100,000 in hosting credit.
Among other things that Angular, Ember & others bring, what you should understand here is that JQuery does not help you to structure your code. Those frameworks offer the type of structure that makes it easier to reason about how an app should be built, and it helps a lot when you're working in a team.

JQuery and JS were certainly not dumped, it is just that people writing single page apps moved on and are now using tools that help them.
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Well said. I like to think I give folks a chance. My comment was exploring why profiling is so pervasive.
It got discontinued, and Chrome dropped it as well. Both support the newer SPDY/3.1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY#Protocol_versions

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=912550

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=303957
GCHQ, presumably in cooperation with NSA, uses dirty tricks against political dissidents, including Anonymous: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140207/08354426130/gchq-...
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It's not clear that it would have sold more; a lot of us suckers bought it anyway. And as Zynga has taught us, forced social = microtransactions = profit.
Just because it's harder, doesn't mean it's more important. That's my complaint: the author has jumped from an observation to a value judgement.
I just came back to say that the documentation really is beyond excellent.
Personally, the two big draws to me of Angular were "free" (as in, I don't have to write much code) DOM<->data binding, and the explicit goal of testability.

As a learning exercise, I wrote a page using just jquery, rewrote it in backbone, and then rewrote it in angular. Backbone helped me separate concerns; Angular helped me do that while writing _way_ less code, since I didn't have to manage keeping the DOM and the JS model in sync.
Basically TV shows, etc., are regulated externally, so Apple doesn't need to bother as much. Games are open season, and someone has to police standards. I think you're blaming Apple for trying to manage a difficult situation and sometimes making mistakes (which everyone who does similar things also does -- again, see MPAA ratings and ESRB ratings for mainstream games)
I'm wondering too. FF13 seems the best with "slim" numbers.
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"I never understood how JQuery and JS were just dumped the past 3-4 years in favor of all thse complex frameworks like AngularJS, Ember, etc..."

Well, you can't have Angular without JS so we'll focus on the point of jQuery here.

jQuery does a few things really well – so well that Angular itself uses jQuery (or jqLite by default). angular.element(selector) returns a jQuery object.

Angular also does a few things well. Code reusability and testability are much easier to achieve with Angular, in my opinion. Features like data-binding also help to reduce boilerplate code.
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> Grant said the credit was nowhere near sufficient to cover the company’s loss and as a result his firm is contemplating legal action.

I doubt it was $100,000 in hosting credit. Probably a free year or two or something relatively meaningless.
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In the first world, yes, but this is common in countries with a less developed financial system.

In China, for example, bank transfers aren't great and it's pretty common to buy things like cars with cash. It's especially crazy in China since the largest banknote there is 100RMB, roughly equivalent to 16USD, but cars cost about twice as much as they cost in the US, so it requires a lot of cash.
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I don't know if you're being facetious, but EA claimed the game was such an intensive simulation that calculations had to be run from their servers, so you had to be connected to the internet to paly.
The author comments on react here: http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/comparison.html
But what is the actual problem there? I've used HipChat before and I'm really not sure why I would care that it's using a web runtime inside the app.
What makes you think Germany was more diverse than England/UK et al?

Some times "nations"/"ethnicities" didn't have their own single country because they were "conqured" by another (e.g. the Irish in the then-UK), and sometimes it was because the people in that ethnicity/nation were split amoung several states (e.g. Germany & Italy)
Getting fired for looking at these icons could actually be a great start towards working for the right people.
The BoE document linked in the text:
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte... ("Money creation in the modern economy")
Changes in browser engine and method/elaboration in memory measurement. And possibly a lot of regressions...

Problem is, this does not convince Average Joe about the slimness of Fx. I asked them to set up a main chart using only the stable ones with the latest changes (allocation), but it was ignored. IMHO that would help them see the what the end user would see over the long course, and A. Joe would see what actually effects him (as he is unlikely to use dev channels).

Edit: the charts also do not show the improvements in Garbage Collection (IGC in Fx16, upcoming ICC and GGC) and the memory management with add-os (Hueyfix in Fx15).
Well, there is such a tool, actually.
http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/tools/template-converter.htm...

But while me and my coworker have been trying it out there seem to be quite a few bugs with it, and I'd much rather have it done at runtime (precompiled for production build) then have to translate it from my HTML-based template every time I make a change.
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largest counter argument against 'always online' is rural areas with sparse internet won't have the same experience
Tiny regressions are hard to track down, but over time they add up.
This only works for "embarrassingly parallel" tasks, where you have lots of completely independent things to do. Please remember that the whole world is not a web server.

This is not trading latency for thruput. This is spending hardware for thruput, with some overhead in latency.

The relevant generic performance number is CPU-seconds (for CPU-bound work), or I/O consumption (for disk-bound work), or in general how much of your bottleneck resource is consumed. Once you know your bottleneck, you can either improve your code to use less of that resource, or buy more of that resource.

As tasks become less embarrassingly parallel, throwing (non-serial) hardware at a problem increases communication overhead, and gives lower speedups.
The size of the generated asmjs files is going to be a challenge for practical uses of this (the Unity engine is pretty large), but it is a huge accomplishment.
It seems like there's a very loud minority concerned with the online issue. They created a shitstorm about Diablo 3 too, but the game still sold very well. The bigger issue seems to be that SimCity wasn't fun to play & didn't offer the scale of previous versions.

Assume X number of people boycotted it, but Y people couldn't pirate it so they paid for it. The X people will be very loud, but the Y people won't.
Love, love love the Unity authoring tools. Being able to publish to the web might make for both some great games and some great webGL 'experience' type sites.
The difference to me is that "incomplete" means you are missing something: more precise measurements, better calculations, more information. But that is not necessarily the case. You may be able to measure the size of the Earth relatively precisely, but if your theory puts that Earth at the center of the universe, more measurements are going to do little but cause you headaches.

Take the ever-popular conflict between relativity and quantum mechanics. For all intensive purposes [sic], I believe they both work out to about Newtonian mechanics at scales I can easily observe and they both work very well for their different appropriate tasks. But they don't mesh well together, which is another requirement for science. "Incomplete" doesn't begin to describe that situation because I suspect that whatever is going to unify both is going to be as different from either as they are from classical physics.

[As an aside, I've seen Asimov's essay before and while I usually don't have a problem with his writing, in this essay's case I can't get past the fact that it is either very poorly written (if I'm feeling charitable) or a rather silly ad hominem (if I'm not).]
This paper is a classic: Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~cs230/reading/time.pdf