skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly what I was thinking. What's to stop someone from pulling a "Oh, hey, thanks for the winning lotto ticket..."

If the answer is "personal integrity and honor" then, well, call me a skeptic - but some people may just come up a little short after a billion-dollar soul searching.
Derivative request: Can someone make a version that displays values in hex instead of decimal?
You Can Purify Water With Fruit Peels
I have read that thread, and there is no direct proof that the wife of the op actually saw Dorian. Just someone on HN talking about someone else story of an early encounter with a shy asian-looking bitcoin guy.

The only proof put forward was that the address that was 'probably' used was funded by a very early address linked to Gox. Gox isn't Satoshi (for what we know so far!), so NO.
There are also physical Bitcoin's: https://www.casascius.com/

You could argue that the physical bitcoins simply represent digital ones but the same can be said for USD as they are numbered. Coins are not currently numbered but represent a small fraction of the overall money supply.

http://www.wheresgeorge.com/wild.php
Use a proctor who checks the ID of the person, and verifies that they are, in fact, participating in the interview and not using another screen sharing program to have a friend take the test for them.
Of course, but if you read what the site is doing, it is treating it as if it is in randomly picking a unique bracket.
What's the most tax efficient way to get that prize money if you win? How much could you actually keep?
Did ADHD exist when people were hunter-gatherers? If not, it is not a real disorder in my book.
Letting go .Mail app – vanSchneider Blog
I'm running an old Viao X that gets 10-12 hours on the big battery and weighs in at a couple of lbs.
Running ubuntu, but the processor is too slow for me to recommend today.
GitHub Founder Tom Preston-Werner Suspended After Harassment Allegations
I have the book and have read several (though not all) of the papers. I didn't see anything worth exempting from what I wrote above. The state of the field is just very weak. Even the good researchers, like Lutz Prechelt, aren't producing anything that comes close to justifying changing one's mind based on evidence. (The PHP vs. Java article struck me as fluff; so many other variables come to mind so easily.) I'd be happy to be wrong. Counterexamples are welcome.

I did like the paper on code size very much. The principle that code size is the best measurement of complexity and a good predictor of error rates is probably the finding I'd name if I had to answer my own "name one that isn't folklore" question. At least that one has multiple studies behind it. Even so, most of them (that I've seen) aren't very good.
Using this for Buffet's Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge (because no one is going to win that anyways!)
Except compatibility mode is often not compatible. I've run into it a bunch of times where .doc, etc. files just don't render right on new copies of Office. I have had to install old versions of Office to work on certain documents. These documents often have VBA in them. They can't get everything to work properly 100% of the time.
That's just not true. Data is software in it's own sense. For example, if you were to compare different binary serialization formats, you would find that you can do better than Google's protocol buffers but only because protobuffs value backwards compatibility.

Sure you could write software to migrate formats each step of the way but this is expensive and perhaps the company wanted to focus on the next thing.
He does state he's going to be releasing code on GitHub. We'll see how much that is.
See, I'm under long-term medication myself, for an incurable, but treatable condition. Long term medication is a last-ditch remedy and that's for a reason. It's generally speaking a PITA. Where ever you go, you need to take your medication with you. Depending on what you get, you might have to take it on schedule. Depending on what you get, the pharmacy round the corner needs to order it and the stuff needs a prescription. Most stuff has side-effects, mine is mildly liver-toxic which means that I need to go have blood tests about every 8 weeks. I need to go to the doctor every 4 weeks for the prescription. When I travel longer than 4 weeks I need to jump through several hoops to get a larger amount. It's much better than without treatment, so if a friend asks me how I'm doing with the medication, I'd say "extremely well", but mainly because without medication it's extremely bad.

Yes, medication helps and it's sometimes the last remedy when nothing else helps. But I think that not labeling all conditions that lead to ADHD-like symptoms as ADHD and rather try and find a more nuanced understanding of the problem is helpful, especially in a case where a condition is often diagnosed on children where parents read stuff on the internet and run from doctor to doctor to doctor trying to get a prescription for ritalin, since they're certain that the kid matches those 5 relatively generic symptoms.
Rumor: 'Remind Me When I'm With This Person' May Be Coming To Google Now
Inside My Home Rackspace Private Cloud, OpenStack Lab
"What if?" Pretty much everybody assumed the name was a pseudonym until this story broke.
An Advocate for Women in the Valley Quits GitHub, Citing Harassment
"Data should be eternal."

This is not a useful statement. If you convert the "should" to a "shall", and try to design a system around that requirement alone, it would prove very hard. Even designing a clock around that requirement is very hard (http://longnow.org/clock/).

If you back off from the "shall", then you are in the standard world of engineering tradeoffs, which is where you started.

What features do you want to give up for "eternal"?
Detailed analysis of the tax implications of winning $1 Billion:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2014/01/21/warr...
If any Australian developers are interested in campaigning and raising awareness against these policies, visit http://taskforce.is and send me a message - Thomas
So, more or less bad than when Azure let their SSL cert expire last year?

http://www.zdnet.com/windows-azure-storage-issue-expired-htt...
This whole thing reminded me of the lesswrong.com post on Amanda Knox [1]

Even the initial assumption that the creator of Bitcoin used his real name, contained in the headline, was extremely unlikely, and all other evidence was completely circumstantial. In my mind, it was nearly obvious that Dorian is not Satoshi after a few hours and was shocked to see that many believed the news story.

I'm still not sure if this was irrational on my part due to my own bias of preferring that Satoshi remain anonymous, or the irrationality of internet discussions is worse than I thought.

1: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1j7/the_amanda_knox_test_how_an_hour...
I assure you that it's not a trick question, just a poorly worded one.

Imagine that I'm making a page that converts meters to millimeters. The obvious part of the haskell code is

convert :: Double -> Double
convert = 1000 *

The part which isn't obvious to me is how I get input from the user or display the result. I know how to do that in the IO monad through standard haskell, but I wouldn't know how to handle it in Haskell compile to javascript for the web browser. I would have thought that you would need a binding to the DOM to read from forms and the like.
This seems easier than the 2D version. I think it's because there are more possible moves - six instead of four - so even if you play at random there's more of a chance that some move is available.
The OneNote Service & OneNote teams are both part of Office.
For the people outside of this world like me, a March Madness Bracket [0] is a classical grid of a championship involving US basketball teams.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_Madness_pools#Brackets
It's not random. It's using a model to create what it believes the most likely bracket outcomes are. Those unique brackets are then distributed, obviously in order of most likely to least likely.
And then a multiplayer, followed by a browser benchmark!
If Freud had known you, he wouldn't have written Civilization and its Discontents. Even Hemingway could have learned a lesson or two.
wow this is amazing haha!

when you say "statistically best bracket choices", does that mean you're applying a prior on the guesses?

If yes, could you give us some more details on how you're arriving at the best way to spread our guesses?

My colleague was doing some work on sports betting and remarked how the current odds are actually really good predictors for the outcomes.

cool idea well done :)
Newsweek may share the same name as the nearly century-old newsweekly, but it's no longer the same, ah, beast.

The WashPostCo owned Newsweek forever, then sold it to Sidney Harman (whose name you might recognize if you're into high-end audio) in 2010. Then it became Newsweek Daily Beast Co owed by IAC and went all-digital. Then privately held IBT Media bought it from IAC last year and relaunched it in print this month. IBT is best known for publishing http://www.ibtimes.com/, which ironically last December accused someone else of inventing Bitcoin. Sigh.

It would be unusual for the reporter charted with writing the launch cover story on Bitcoin to receive significant equity, but it is fair to say that the current editors may have a significant incentive to defend their launch cover. I have not see them hire an independent outside ombudsman to investigate the launch cover's accuracy, for instance, which other news organizations have done in similar situations.

[Disclaimer: I spent a few years working at Newsweek competitor Time Inc. and Newsweek once offered me a job.]
Uh.

# modprobe binfmt_aout
# uname -rv
3.2.0-60-generic-pae #91-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 19 04:14:56 UTC 2014

Standards help a lot, that's why a.out still works on modern Linux.
Seriously - this is on my standard checklist for installing new certs.
How does one get started freelancing coming from a 9-5 job?
For the past 7 years I've done nothing but work for companies doing everything from video game dev to writing various network and web services. I will be moving out of the Bay Area to an area of the US with far less opportunity for tech jobs.

I would very much like to learn how to get started finding remote work to do, either through companies or directly with clients. I'm also more of a backend dev, and probably need to find someone great at UI/UX/front-end dev to partner with.

What is the best way to go about finding both clients and partners to start a freelance web dev business with?
It sounds to me like you agree entirely with your friend and are nitpicking over the how you define the measurement of knowledge (in particular, the sign convention for incorrect-but-more-predictive theories).
My grandfather seemed to subsist on half a bottle of whisky, one raw egg and a packet of Trebor Extra Strong Mints a day for the last 30 years of his life and lived into his 90s ... I wouldn't recommend that diet to anyone though.
I think you're using an awful lot of words to say "if all you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail". Yes, if all you've ever been exposed to is C/C++/Unix like environments, then an idiomatic Ada solution to many programming problems will be conceptually difficult to grasp. That would be true of any not-C/C++ language or not-Unix environment.
There's Dynadot: http://www.dynadot.com/domain/security.html

Also NearlyFreeSpeech, though the domain selection is very limited, as it's primarily a hosting company: https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2014/02/28/price-cuts-more...
I've just spent the morning implementing various "faster" median algorithms, and it seems that constant factors, function call overhead (for recursive quickselects), etc make all alternative approaches quite slow. The sort-then-select approach is pretty damn fast, especially since I also think / am pretty sure sorted() is implemented in C...

So far I've tried median-of-medians, recursive quickselect, iterative quickselect tracking indices and partitioning in place, and heapq.nlargest. The implementation in Python 3.4.0 is both cleaner/easier to read and faster than anything I can make by an order of magnitude for 10,000 element lists. I'm sure someone else here can do better than me, but (s)he'd have a hard time beating CPython, imo.
Plus you don't seem to be able to lose (or at least for me). So it's really easy!
I'm not the OP you responded to, but:

According to jetblue's site, $196.

So the Gopack is cheaper (~$1176 [I'm sure the $196 fluctuates, but it seems to be on the high end in my limited googling] vs $739), but after taking into account that you have to use all the codes up within 3 months or lose them and there is an extensive black-out range even within that 3 month window, I'm hard pressed to recognize the ~$437 savings as being worth it for all but the most niche needs.

YMMV on the other routes, maybe they are better values.

From Jetblue's fine print:

You can use your GoPack to book online as soon as you receive your codes (approximately 24 hours after purchase) until 6/17/14 for travel through 6/17/14 (blackout dates 4/11/14 - 4/28/14).
Thanks for the clarification. It seems we disagree less than I thought, and I've deleted my mistaken impression from the root comment.

I may have asked you this before, but do you know of any finding in the research literature that you don't consider pseudoscience? The only one I know of that might come close is research on code size. I've heard that the literature on code inspections is good, but that may just be another myth.
Um, remember Newsweek's under different management. See my other post nearby.

And it's not "guilty of" libel; it's more like "liable for defamation."
Counterpoint: "ADHD and Brain Chemistry", by Steven Novella: http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/adhd-and-brain-...

Also, except on the same topic from the podcast "The Skeptics Guide to the Universe": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MLdvKzLl6k
I've played with Elm for a toy project before and I do have high hopes for it. I also think it's the greatest monad tutorial ever - you don't truly miss them until they're gone.

(To clarify: At the time that I last used Elm, the Signal type was a functor, but was intentionally being kept from being a monad for design reasons. Working around this restriction tought me a lot on why I needed monads.
I find this concept of "directly measuring" things confusing. My theoretical knowledge is very weak though, maybe someone can explain.

It seems to me like we never measure things _directly_. For example: To measure the temperature of something in everyday life, we use a tiny glass cylinder filled with some kind of liquid. The liquid expands or contracts, roughly linearly, because of the temperature exchange with its surroundings. We then compare the current level of the liquid to a little ruler inscribed in the cylinder, maybe the markings form a shape similar to "100°C". The photons that bounce off this little ruler into our eyes causes impulses in some neurons and so on and our brains compare the shape "100°C" to yet another reference point, boiling water. It's hardly direct¤, in any sense of the word.

If we measure gravitational waves by observing "ripples in background radiation"¤¤, isn't that kind of the same thing? I've seen several people here mention that it's not "measured directly" - does it mean something else in this case?

¤ If you stick your hand into the boiling water to measure its temperature, it's a bit more direct but not as accurate.

¤¤ I'm just a programmer, this is kind of how I understood it. :D
I've been out of town recently so I've stayed in a few hotels with cable. I don't have cable in my apartment back in DC.

Something I noticed last night while watching ESPN is that they must have mentioned FTE a dozen or so times within an hour. Are they backing FTE? I even saw an interview on ESPN with one of the cofounders.
The 10x engineer exist but not because he or she is so great but because they wrote the shitty code in the first place so it takes a new person 10x longer than the author to do anything.

the exponential cost thing is probably somewhat true. If the people who come up with the software actually knew what the fuck they wanted they would save the software from having to guess wrong and redo the code. Unless the software runs on a million dollar jet or something finding a bug during testing should not be 100x more then finding it during code. Infact I can make a decent argument that it is cheaper to pay a tester to find bugs then to waste an engineers time looking for them.

the software crises story about defence i think is real: http://www.reuters.com/investigates/pentagon/#article/part1
Awesome idea... one quick feature suggestion -- on the bracket, itself, it'd might be nice to highlight any upsets (e.g. in bold and/or red or something like that).

Typically, variance in brackets is based on the upsets picked... so by making those more visible, it would make it easier for a human to more quickly digest the content.

Just a thought. But regardless, awesome idea. Well done!
ADHD and Brain Chemistry (2009)
You don't ever need to ship physical bitcoins, though. You can just digitize and transfer them. Which is preferred can be decided on the fly, which is quite a different situation than USD.

Personally, I'm not very convinced that physical bitcoins will really be meaningful: 1) cost of production is probably large compared to transaction fees, 2) counterfeiting issues. But I could easily be wrong there.
Hey, I'm one of the guys working on this project. You're right, we're not sure how to make sure the winner splits the money with everybody, but given how unlikely it is that anyone wins at all, we're just focusing on executing the bracket distribution for now. If someone actually wins, figuring out how to get that person to split up the money is kind of a nice problem to have! Just think of the drama...!
I've found the opposite. About 6 months ago, I began to suspect I had ADHD. I went for help, and was diagnosed about a month ago. I haven't used it as an excuse, on the contrary I am now able to understand and catch my symptoms in the framework of the disorder. Maybe an analogy is trying to run while having different length legs. Once you realise this reality, you are able to understand, compensate, and adjust.

I do think there is a component of ADHD treatment that is trying to 'fit in' to a society that doesn't think the same way the person with ADHD does. But there are big impacts on people's lives independent of society. And its not easy to always be "different", disruptive, and/or inattentive to people around you.
Statement from Newsweek:

Newsweek has not received any statement or letter from either Mr. Nakamoto or his legal counsel. If and when we do, we will respond as necessary.

http://www.newsweek.com/newsweek-statement-dorian-nakamoto-2...
Lazyrouter – Translates requests into method calls.
It's hard to generalize, but when paired with intelligence and so forth, ADHD symptoms like restlessness, curiosity, "not fitting in" etc. can work as positives.

It's often been said that these can be beneficial traits in entrepreneurs.
Same: "Get 99.9% guaranteed uptime for Gmail and other business features"

Very poor timing.
> Saying ADHD doesn't exist is cruel and shows how badly it's misunderstood.

I didn't get that from the article at all.

He's not saying people don't have problems, he's saying the label ADHD is doing a disservice. It's not a condition, it's a symptom.

If we had a label called "breathing problems" and just lumped all lung-related stuff in there, it would be problematic too. That doesn't mean no one has lung problems, it means we need more narrow diagnosis such as pneumonia, cancer, cystic fibrosis, bronchitis, asthma, etc.

The article is completely right. Any disorder that fits 90%+ of the population is too broad. Either it needs to be split into multiple disorders or the criteria need to be tightened.

This is a categorization article, not a "there's no such thing as ADHD they're all faking it, work harder slackers" article.
Newsweek used to have a print edition that was discontinued some time ago. They just started it back up again and her article was the frontpage of the first print edition since it was discontinued, hence relaunching.
Why Do Big Magazines Hire Hacks for Big Tech Stories?
Yeah, Microsoft is all that not too super cool and buggy but it's right in persevering the path. Not being able to open and work with old documents is frustrating. In a way it's like forgeting grandparents and parents. Not a good thing to do. Apple PR should hear our voices and make a move. They'll lose too much if they don't.
-Diversify our habitable planets portfolio.
Are you a 10-year old?
More specifically, you can use the nagios check_ssl_cert plugin [1], which checks if the server is running and delivers a valid certificate. We use this plugin extensively and it takes the surprise out of an expired ssl cert. You will get multiple heads up, say 90, 60, and 30 days out (it's configurable), that your cert is going to expire. Seems like a no brainier.

[1] http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Network-Protoco...
Except by the same author from his podcast, "Skeptics Guide to the Universe": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MLdvKzLl6k
well, technically, their system was up, the certificates were just expired.
So this pool has 8,832 members. Even if they're unique, 8832 out of how many possibilities there are isn't changing your odds much.
From a subjective standpoint: perfectly.

From a technical standpoint: I believe Hangouts is moving to WebRTC soon as well.
My girlfriend works at a bakery. She swears that one day an elderly Elvis and Tupac came in together, bought some pastries with bitcoin, then told her they invented the entire thing.
> Either way, Newsweek better have a trump card

You're right. To emerge looking good, they'll need one. All evidence so far is that they don't.

Their story hangs on a misunderstood quote.

How long until editors start resigning at Newsweek? And the lawsuit gets filed?
Yes, ESPN's the corporate parent of 538

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/business/media/nate-silver...
No, I think it clearly states a smart statistical analysis will be used when generating brackets. Even references some Duke professor.

I don't know what statistical method they plan on using, but Nate Silver/FiveThirtyEight already put out percentages for the whole bracket based on statistics/matchups[1]. It wouldn't be too hard to hand out brackets generated using the highest percentage brackets from something like that.

I still don't think it will work. Even if a million people took part it would still be like a 1:1000 shot at best. And assuming they did distribute it evenly (don't think this is really possible given taxes and everything) at a million people that's only $1000 per person.

[1]http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/march-madness-predic...
Uncle Sam will take any chance they can to steal money from people. That's a lot.
But isn't that a problem? Shouldn't we try to split ADHD up into smaller more specific disorders so that we can better study/treat it?

If lumped all together, that seems to only help cause over-diagnosis (because the symptom list is so large) and makes it harder to study (because two very different conditions may be manifesting in very similar ways).
I'd imagine if it doesn't work though, in contrast to the OP's situation, you could spin up a virtual machine with a pre-1.2 version of Linux and run the code without having to pay anything to do so. Also this is a quite different situation to reading a document.
Context: HW vendors push to get ACPI on ARM servers, https://lwn.net/Articles/574439/
Saying Microsoft isn't perfect at backwards compatibility is nit picking to say the least! They are far far ahead of any competition in terms of backwards compatibility. It's practically measured in decades whereas Apple can't manage 5 years.
This version is actually much easier than the original.
Thanks! That's a good summary post.