skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's correct: it's an indirect observation, and really the "observing gravity waves" aspect of this is the least interesting part. There have been other indirect but compelling observations corresponding to gravity waves before (like the precise rate that pulsars' rotation slows down, which I'm told is a perfect match to the energy expected to be carried away by gravitational waves). The big deal here is the insight that it gives into the early universe (VERY early!) and into very high energy physics.

As for the lack of direct detection of gravity waves, I wouldn't read too much into it. Gravity is very weak, and we've known that for most of the century. Figuring out what sources might produce strong enough waves to be observable is really tricky, not because we don't understand gravity but because we don't understand the complicated astrophysical processes involved at the level of precision that we'd need (e.g. merging binary stars: how does that play out in detail?).
Edit: What I said there was rooted in earlier discussions and not the current article. Sorry; my confusion. But I'll leave the explanation of what I meant anyway.

You place so much emphasis on dismantling the 10x claim (writing an entire book about it) rather than software research in general, that an observer might reasonably be left with the impression that there's something more "mythy" about that claim than others. If so, I'd say that's misleading.

Folklore isn't ipso facto false. If folklore gets repeated as persistently as 10x does, I'd say that speaks weakly in its favor. (Please note that I said "weakly".) Because of this, I don't think it's irrational to continue to favor that view, even after debunking those studies. For one thing, the opposite claim is even less supported by data. For another, it fits loosely with my experience and that of others I talk to. Experience in the field may not be controlled measurement, but that doesn't make it rational to dismiss it.

I do think there's something to the 10x claim about individuals; I think interaction between individuals is even more important—100x, one might metaphorically say—and that question is even less amenable to formal study. I doubt that we'll ever see convincing quantitative results on either of these things. Building teams will remain an art, and folklore and myth are the stuff that art is made of.
I feel that I should point out that nearly every UK banking site uses 2fa for transactions, and many as an option for login. This only comes with chip & pin.
Not really solved, since you can still have people misspeaking or misunderstanding questions, and there's no way to prove that without mind reading.

And isn't that what happened in this case? Nobody's saying she made up the quote. IIRC everyone (reporter, Dorian, police officers) agree it was said. It's just that Dorian claims he misunderstood her question, which is why he gave an answer that appeared to admit to creating bitcoin. A recording wouldn't be conclusive.
A 33% rate of developers just going offline after being "explained" the problem (through copy-pasting in instructions) seems pretty abysmal. I'd be really worried that you're losing quality candidates due to them being offended by having instructions pasted into a text file without any chance for a conversation.

I wouldn't be surprised that 33% of raw candidates for a dev position don't really know how to refactor properly, but in my experience, candidates who don't know what they're doing at least flounder around for a while doing the wrong thing, instead of suddenly leaving an interview.

It might be an easily solveable problem - I wonder how much the candidates were briefed about the blind nature of the screening, and why there wasn't a lot of interaction happening.

Another way to fix it would be to have a developer interact normally with the candidate - including voice chat, discussion, etc. but have the evaluation be done by another developer, who only has access to a recorded screen share without any audio. Seems like it gets most of the benefits without the drawback of seeming cold and impersonal to candidates.
Sounds like the gateway to "think of the children" "voluntary" policies.
Off the top of my head, roughly 7% of kids in the US have ADHD and roughly 4-5% of adults have ADHD.

20% of boys of a certain age have currently been diagnosed with ADHD.
That seems low. I can concentrate for hours is the topic is compelling enough, and I'm not that atypical. But not 8.
Nothing between NYC and SFO :(
I'm curious about this as well so I did some searching.

Fay[1], a subset of Haskell that compiles to JavaScript, seems to be the primary choice. There are DOM and jquery bindings for it and this blog post[2] looks like a great introduction.

There are other options, this [3] article outlines a number of them as a greater overview of both server and client side programming with Haskell. I also found an intriguing article [4] on the Haskell site but it appears to be out of date, referencing libraries that are no longer in development.

[1]https://github.com/faylang/fay/wiki

[2]http://ocharles.org.uk/blog/posts/2013-12-23-24-days-of-hack...

[3]http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/haskell_web.html

[4]http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_web_browser
Watching the stories about these games float right to the top of HN has inspired me to make Flappy 2048 for some easy pageviews, so there's that.
DEF CON 16 – Anton Kapela and Alex Pilosov: Stealing The Internet
And for what it's worth, I don't begrudge Scotland it's independence. Good for Scotland I say. But I'm calling it as I see it.
The thing that most people ignored about the Newsweek article was that the author deliberately took the pivotal quote "I am no longer involved in that..." out of context by not specifying what it was referring to.

Remember that Dorian S. Nakamoto was a contractor who worked on many government projects. It's likely he was asked on that and answered, then had his words deliberately misconstrued to imply that "that" referred to Bitcoin.

Then we had the P2P Foundation Satoshi deny that he was Dorian, breaking a 5-year silence to do so. Of course, it is unknown if it is the exact Satoshi Nakamoto of Bitcoin, or someone hijacked the account, or some member of the hypothetical pseudonymous Satoshi collective, but the email did match up with the one in the original Bitcoin paper.

At this point, Satoshi being Dorian is pretty much debunked, really.
> That said, I don't think I could ever go back to reporting to a manager, especially a non-technical manager.

After working in a flat organization (I'm 99% sure we're talking about the same place here) like we do/did, I agree. It's amazing how much more productive you can be (provided you're a generally high-aptitude, motivated person to begin with) when you are left alone to do what needs to get done. I'd prefer only to work in similar organizational structures from now on. In my experience, even the little cliqueyness you get is hardly an argument against the alternatives (rigid organizational structure, difficult to move vertically, documentation, all the waterfall stuff, and/or the domineering personality of a god-complex startup founder)
there are already free design boards out there. 3d printers were cool when you could build a 3d printer with a 3d printer. A 3d printer plus patents not cool. Not sure most people would get $70/mo worth of value out of a 3d printer.
This is a fantastic idea, like blind auditions. http://www.nber.org/papers/w5903
Because people are having fun with some open programming and brainstorming. It's awesome!
It's relatively easy to install an old version of XP or Debian on VirtualBox to run the old software though, and that would be enough to export the documents to a newer format. In comparison, OSX is generally hard to get running on VirtualBox.
Analytics and visualization for March Madness
Brace yourself, I'm going to go further into conspiracy land, but there's the possibility the end goal wasn't just to steal a plane for scrap metal, or to use it as a ride for the local fair. If that's the case, you'd want the world to continue thinking it disappeared in the ocean, and you don't want to raise any alarms by taking credit.

The 777 is a fairly common long distance aircraft. Would it be possible to give it a new paint job, and then in similar fashion to the OP, fly in the shadow of an existing flight?

For example, you paint it up like a Lufthansa 777, and then try to follow one of those flight paths at some point between London and New York. If anyone gets a visual on the mystery plane flying into US airspace, it looks like a commercial flight simply not responding. Not quite as suspicious as a jet or military aircraft. Would they shoot down a commercial 777 that's flying a standard route, with no indication of it being hijacked, or a threat?

I'll admit, the above idea is absurd, but this entire situation is making little sense. I hope we get some answers one day.

Edit: A lot of people are saying in other comments that hijacking a plane isn't an effective method of acquiring a 777, or stealing cargo, or kidnapping people. However, it's been 10 days, and we simply know the plane disappeared. That seems pretty effective, a 777, 230 passengers, and cargo, all gone, and no one even knows if they were targeted, or if the plane malfunctioned and crashed in the ocean. If any of the above were of value to someone, it wasn't only effective, it was near perfect.
looks like a cluttered windows program. Not going to use it.
how is it essential? I've gotten plenty of work done using onenote on my surface pro and it's been months since I've needed to open a onenote file from the filesystem.
Would you expect him to not even be able to afford internet service or suffer financially while recovering from cancer and a stroke despite having an estimated 400MM worth of BTC?
HOME – Home and Beauty : Home and Beauty
The problem is that nobody is willing to pony up the millions of dollars required to run tests with actual professionals.
The dynamics of the counterculture communes has been studied, and it is of interest as counterculture was certainly a forefather to modern day Silicon Valley.

See here:

* http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/01/how-silicon-valley-became-the-m...

* http://vimeo.com/73536828 esp. 54:10 and on
Flight MH370 possible route
By now you probably know that Craigslist sucks as a way to sell stuff.

Uh, no it doesn't. I never got a single spam, and I've sold about 10 things (mostly electronic) over the last year. Not one of hte people flaked on me or tried to haggle once I met them. Yeah, they haggled before (on the phone or via email), but once I met them, everyone was nice and kept to the agreed upon price.
You probably meant "support the old users", otherwise your two options are pretty much the same :)
What does "re-launching" mean in this context?
>Also, I notice you've assumed I'm a sufferer.

Where did you notice that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_transparency
Nice meta-comment! Your facetious meter is up to eleven, although I don't think they will get it.
and the last time i printed something from onenote was in college.
The death of Moore’s law
Gravity waves work fine for me under ubuntu.
Phillip Tetlock was in turn referencing the work of Isaih Berlin in his famous essay "The Hedgehog and the Fox" (1953) which as far as I know is where this old Greek aphorism acquired it's modern meaning.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt24hqz8
First Kiss...In Color
I loved First Kiss but wanted to see myself represented. I didn’t complain, I did something about it. Its time to break down stereotypes.
Many of us saw ourselves in First Kiss, I just wanted everyone to see themselves in us.
None yet, have to love the hypocrisy when someone reports statements of hers made on Facebook:

http://betabeat.com/2014/03/newsweek-reporter-bashes-fanatic...

https://twitter.com/truth_eater/status/444226997322276865
Mailgun Down – SSL cert is expired
Jobs of the Future and the Gender Norm Challenge
IBM Distances itself from the NSA and its Spy Activities
Well, I maintain: when I'm wrong, I'm wrong! :-)
For example, if you had your own compiler which generated a.out output, then the Linux 1.2 switch to ELF would have broken the code in a similar backward incompatible way, despite there being no proprietary code involved.

(Standards wouldn't have helped either.)
I really like the founder's sentiment, and the fact that it ties into his personal experience makes it more believable. However, the only real way to stick it to Facebook anymore is to stop using WhatsApp - they paid $35.56 for you, and they're not getting a refund.
This man is not Satoshi Nakamoto, and the way I see it, even if he were Satoshi, he is not Satoshi.
Not even the real Satoshi Nakamoto is Satoshi Nakomoto.
My math may be a little rusty but how is "2 months" equal to 3 years for YC s11 company? Can someone please enlighten me.
Don't blame Jenkins (all the time)
We (News360) were one of the launch partners for the OneNote API as well and our experience with it has also been really positive - the API itself is pretty simple right now but has all the details right. It's a great foundation to build on, and the team building it seems really committed to keeping the momentum going.

Having external tools, both hardware and software, is a huge part of building a memory-augmenting product and I'm really happy that Microsoft is getting it right - OneNote has always been a really interesting product, but it suffered from weird positioning and always felt like an add-on to Office more than anything else. Now that it's being marketed as more of a standalone (and free!) product, I think it has a great chance of becoming much more mainstream.
You don't. You leave that discussion and have it elsewhere. I don't know about you, but the most feminist response to the alleged Github debacle would be for a woman to go out and start her own company with the culture she wants to see in the world.

There are a lack of women engineers out there, but if the issues we're discussing here are so widespread and destructive, why do we not see more female engineers leaving these misogynistic cultures in droves to start companies together?

Early on in my career I worked at one of the largest banks in the world and sought to promote changes for the better within the bank. After 6 months, I succeeded in getting that behemoth of an organization to move maybe a hundredth of a degree. For all intents and purposes, it was a pyrrhic victory at best. The amount of effort for so little payoff led me to the conclusion that if you want to see the changes you want, then you need to leave that system and head elsewhere, where you can actually have an impact.

Once you've built an organization where you are at the top, you then have the experience to determine how much of what you experienced in prior organizations was actually discrimination and how much was the result of a manager/subordinate relationships. I would genuinely love to hear the opinions of women who have already gone down this route since their voice is conspicuously absent in this discussion.
This page allowed me to have an idea of the concepts underlying this discovery (CMB light, B-mode polarization):
http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/~yuki/CMBpol/CMBpol.htm
Zoroastrianism is about 2500 older than me, it surely should be thriving!

Honestly I don't see what your first paragraph adds to the discussion besides being an argument of authority of your own opinion being more valid than of anyone younger than you.

About the rest, I can not see how having an end-to-end full open source ecosystem is a worthwhile goal. Open source developers have shown a great propensity towards politics and petty conflicts of personality.

I believe the basic stack of our computing lives should be open source, to have a level playing field where all competitors and collaborators can gain users based on merit. But software applications should be able to be closed source if the users wants them.

Gaming can stay closed source if that creates better games, as a game is almost never a library or an API that can influence other software. And specially: because experience and practicality have shown that closed source games are better.

I want to enjoy the best software possible. In the case of games, I want the best games possible. I don't care if they are closed source. In fact, it's better if they are not, as this will help prevent multiplayer cheating.

I want Valve doing Linux games because that will motivate someone in the future to create some kernel innovation, but I want Valve doing Linux games also because I want good games in my favourite open platform, instead of the crap tux games showcased as better in some way just because they are open source.
You and the author are both talking as if ADHD exists which counters his book title. I'm not the one making the bold claim -- the author is in his title.
Interesting. Except is it really possible for a 777 that just had its entire avionics destroyed by a fire and a total loss of cabin pressure at 35k feet to maintain relatively level and straight flight? If the fire is really that catastrophic, I would reckon the plane would crash soon thereafter. It would also be unprecedented (as far as I know) to have the crew aware of a fire and unable to alert the ground (either because the comms were inoperative or the pilots were incapacitated). Also, another pilot is now claiming he established radio contact with 370 at 1:30, but that it was "mumbled" and brief. I guess the radio was working and there was a butt in the seat?

I dunno. Who am I kidding, it's all circumstantial at this point.

EDIT: I'm not sure if the Cairo incident is a good example of how quickly a fire can overcome a crew. They were on the ground with the jetway still connected, so it's quite a different situation.
The average consumer can do far better than 30 bps on currency trades, even on something like an Interactive Brokers account. Retail guys probably see tighter prices than HFTs do, to be honest, since FX is an OTC market and generally speaking, broker-dealers will give tighter pricing to uninformed traders than informed speculators.

Anyway, let's say we're at a dollar amount where fees and rates really add up to something substantial. To move $100k from USD -> BTC -> CAD we have to pay:

-Bitstamp exchange fee of 24 bps

-Walk Bitstamp ask book to do $100k USD worth is ~$629 vs. a mid-market price of $627.93: 17 bps

-Walk VirtEx bid book to do $111k CAD worth nets $645 vs. a mid-market price of $672.5: 95 bps

-Pay VirtEx exchange fee: 150 bps

That puts you at 2.86%, plus any slippage on execution due to price moves in BTC while you transfer it, fees to take money out, and risk that one of these exchanges steals your money. You also have risk that the rates between the two markets don't track the exchange rate precisely, since high fees create an impediment to arbitrage that would drive prices to be more efficient. Why take that risk vs. using a regulated bank? For small transfers you might be able to eek out some savings, but your time is probably more valuable than saving 10s of dollars.

And yes, you could work orders on both exchanges or trade in slices to try to avoid paying up the full spread, but that's extra work and incurs more risk. The average guy sending money from the US to Canada doesn't want to play execution trader all day.
> We are talking about the anonymous person behind Bitcoin.

If they wanted to be anonymous, wouldn't they use a pseudonym?To create a decentralized identity protecting project as an anonymous individual using your real name (because you don't want to be found) seems... poorly thought out.

I doubt it's him.
What is this plus.google? Is this some sort of clickjacking scheme?
"I haven't been able to find steady work for ten years, and this article written a week ago is why."
Most likely a mistake or an advertising ploy.
Just got an email from Google on my grandfathered free Apps account encouraging me to upgrade to "ensure 99.9% uptime". Excellent timing, guys.
>Honestly, I would expect nothing else.

You would expect the original architect to confess to being involved and then deny it hours later. Is there something about the original whitepaper that makes you think this person is mentally ill?
I think it's scary to think about the terrorist plots. If terrorist are capable of such feats as an undetected hijacking of an airliner, what else are they capable of? Putting their hands on some amount of nuclear waste? What kind of future plans other then the hijacking itself may include the airliner?
Ive actually doesn't know as much about proper design beyond the computing field; his horribly disfigured Leica M design is proof of that. Recessed dials? A photographer wouldn't be caught dead without quick access to ISO, aperture values, shutter speed, and exposure metering/bracketing. Fumbling around with fingernails inside a recessed dial is the last thing you want to do when a child is running between two trees and the sunlight is streaming down on him, mottled from the shadows of the trees, and you've got the perfect shot.

Minimalism gone too far? I suppose so.
Charge $0.99-$1.99 for an iOS app that pulls content from your website and presents it in a mobile-friendly view. Advertise this app on your website as both a way to read your site on a phone and a way to support your website monetarily.
Not to mention, you know, actually meeting other people.
What's weirder about this is Haskellers have no problems using Fay, PureScript, and Haste for JavaScript.
No. The sufferers still suffer. They're just called "lazy" instead.

I too hope we can find a better solution one day, but I have all sorts of hopes for mental health treatment.
Is Pages 5 a sign of Apple's rotting?
If you look closely while it loads: "Reticulating splines..." — best rendering messaging ever
I think there exist potential implementations of virtualization that are not detectable from inside the virtualization.
You really don't get to complain about a proprietary format being retired due to age or even just disappearing off the face of the Earth. There's an astounding amount of software written for the sciences that uses proprietary binaries that are depreciated two years later. We all realized long ago that if you want to preserve something, export it as an 'open' or standardized format. That's why every image producing/editing software supports `tiff` encoding.
The world isn't so black and white. Document serialization is a rocky landscape that is rife with compromise. You have to balance document open time, document save time, file size, backwards compatibility, forwards compatibility, recovery modes, interoperability, size in memory, parsing time, time to save to disk, proprietary embedded file formats, metadata support, and more. And those are just the development considerations. You also have to think about upgrade cycle, time-to-market, third party integrations, and what will help you win marketshare and sell copies.

Software is hard. I think it's pragmatic for software vendors to have a strong, transparent philosophy about the trade-offs so that consumers can make the right choice. As the grandparent points out, Microsoft values backwards compatibility. If you value that too, buy Microsoft.
No one is telling you what to do.

If plain text does the job for you, great. If not, and you come up with something better than PDF, also great. I'll be happy to use it.

Complaining is always a lot easier than doing.
Exactly. The market value of rigorous research on software development isn't high enough for anyone to pay for it.
Haste is a strong, useful, and impressively complete Haskell to JS compiler.

Fay is used in production apps as well.

PureScript is less mature still but pretty nice.
You are right, but the end of that article alluded to a bit of an interchangeability.

> They're adding support in the next few weeks for Google Authenticator tokens to their system as well. That way you can use Authy's great UI to access your Google codes through one app.

So I got looking, and it looks like now you can always use Authy for google authenticator tokens [1].

http://blog.authy.com/authenticator