skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> p-values don't assume a normal distribution.

No, not unless a p-value is expressed in terms of sigma as in this case and similar ones. In this case, and commonly in experimental physics, there's a relationship between n-sigma (usually 3σ or 5σ in different circumstances) and how a p-value is acquired from a sigma expression. The p-value is acquired from a sigma value like this:

http://i.imgur.com/pcjr6cN.gif

My point? In experimental physics there's a connection between (a) an expression including an integer and "sigma", (b) a resulting, widely quoted numerical value, and (c) the method for converting one to the other, using a Gaussian distribution as shown.

http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2012/07/does-5-sigma-d...

Quote: "But what does a 5-sigma result mean, and why do particle physicists use this as a benchmark for discoveries?

To answer these questions, we'll have to look at one of the statistician's oldest friends and C-student's worst enemies: the normal distribution or bell curve."

Couldn't have said it better myself.

> The only way that the Normal distribution comes into play is that physicists are measuring the smallness of their p-values by stating a number of standard deviations from the Normal mean that would have the same p-value.

Hmm. Yes, that's right. That's why I replied as I did in my original post.
it's making a come-back. especially since the Malaysians have revised their timing on the comm-system shutdowns and there are no terror links to the passengers/crew.
Money in the Modern Economy: An Introduction
Moscow’s iconic Shukhov tower to be dismantled
I have worked as a maintenance programmer for a large bank. Fucking boring. Crap stack (VB6). Stressful. No care about code quality, just have it working by Friday. Better pay options, and career potential than where I currently am - programming the database and web interface for a sequencing centre. I choose the stack, I get to design it. I see that when I make good design decisions it often pays off.
Relevant due to the fact it has a metal case.
The virus argument is to online life as the terrorist argument is to offline life. Everybody useds it as a cover to get at you for their own purposes.

Recently, our glorious government here in Germany decided that there should be a new, secure way of online communication called De-Mail, implemented by the usual suspects (ISPs and the like).

Secure means end-to-end encryption, right?

Wrrronk! They encrypt the transport to and from the servers, but decrypt and reencrypt the data on the server, "to scan for viruses".

Because viruses are really the most pressing problem today.
I like the small, unmagical, well-defined API.

That strength is also a weakness though. Particularly because for coffeescript (or my favourite, the related LiveScript) it doesn't result in the super-cute syntax of e.g. TeaCup[1][2].

[1] https://github.com/goodeggs/teacup

[2] Markaby begat CoffeeKup begat CoffeeCup and DryKup which begat Teacup
I can't believe how evil you are. You are handing a death sentence to people you've never met for mistakes millions of people make and will continue to make regardless of your proposed rules. It violates basic human rights.
You can't stop 100% of the cheaters, but if your differential equations professor speaks little English and lectures from the book without caring one iota about presentation, then that professor will have higher rates of cheaters. It's about controlling the variable that can be controlled.
For any email service to provide the features people expect (spam filtering, for one), it needs to 'read' the emails.
Didn't do that for me on any level whatsoever. I think the biggest miss of academia is inability to catch student's interest. When I started doing actual practical work and see the fruits of my labor - that's when my interest morphed into a feedback loop - that was never ever the case in the university.
Yoga : Backaches cause and effect
It truly is a renowned proven fact that Yoga is perfect for you , that it makes your intersections extra supple , increases muscle strength and is helpful for back pain sufferers . Or is it ?
The testimonials at the bottom mention FeedsAPI. It's a copy.
I don't think there's much overlap.

Sony's VR will be PS4-only for a long time, perhaps forever.

The Oculus will be disallowed from the PS4 by Sony, probably forever.
An up and coming fashionista to keep an eye on
Right, which is why I said it has "mostly" to do with the fact that what is being taught is useless. It's asymptotic, of course - there exists a certain number of people who will cheat on their exams, and that's OK. It doesn't mean we give up and lecture in the most boring style possible, it means we try to improve education and reach the maximum amount of "engageable" students possible.
something about this aspirational mumbo-jumbo rubs me the wrong way. there are plenty of objective standards to judge one's self against, most of the best ones are available to the general public in one form or another these days.
So, when is this smart? The only remotely meaningful use-case for midnight being false I can think about is if you need way to check if a time is midnight? But it still seems easier to just check if time == 0.0
skateboarding!

I was raised by single parent mom so I just kept to myself and nerded out on my computer all day.

Never really played sport and never actually hurt myself.

Which sounds weird and sadistic but now at 24 I've gotten REALLY into skateboarding

Started 6 months ago and it was a painful first couple of months but i barely ever fall anymore

most importantly, i feel SO much more alert on a daily basis

Like the frame rate on reality has been turned up

Kinda have to be because if you're not fully present and aware when skateboarding, you'll probably bail and hurt yourself

Plus it's just so much fun

Chicks dig it too

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood" ;)

Some inspiration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGiO2etwAYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPuEU16P3zg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHrn3-Cb3iM

have fun :)
Initial damage claims are often made on the assumption that once all appeals and negotiations are done you'll be very lucky to walk away with even 5% of the original number.
Looks like someone set up a new IT workshop and is stealing sites to fill up their portfolio. The url says demo1, so they are trying to show your site as a demo, as if it was designed by them.
I was in a similar situation, having an idea for a desktop app, and I dove straight into .NET / WPF on Windows.

My reasons were that a) there are great many Windows computers around and people still use them, b) .NET and WPF are mature and documentation is available on MSDN / StackOverflow.

With Windows 8 around, however, I am also looking at WinRT and will most likely dabble in that, too.
I do agree with this. While in charge of hiring for a data science team, I found that candidates with degrees in hard sciences were more often than not better candidates than the ones with CS backgrounds. Fundamental understanding of mathematics and true problem solving skills go a long way in data science (and computer science of course), and these seem to be tenets of good graduates of Physics programs especially.
>> * "In statistics, σ refers to an area under the normal distribution defined in terms of standard deviations* that's the default definition in a statistical context

> No, you're quite wrong about that.

It is the default, actually. There are plenty of exceptions to the default, but it certainly is common in the context of experimental physics, the present context.

http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2012/07/does-5-sigma-d...

Quote: "But what does a 5-sigma result mean, and why do particle physicists use this as a benchmark for discoveries?

To answer these questions, we'll have to look at one of the statistician's oldest friends and C-student's worst enemies: the normal distribution or bell curve."

> ... your comments seem to be missing, is that there is no distributional assumption being made ...

Do read some experimental physics -- see what assumptions are made. Here is how a physicist maps a sigma value to a p-value:

http://i.imgur.com/pcjr6cN.gif

If this wasn't a discussion of the analysis of the outcome of a physics experiment, I would be more likely to accept these digressions.
I am a self-employed technical female as well but in my case I'm also a semi-recluse so my exposure to such things is greatly limited. Outside of being a developer I'm also known to occasionally fix my own cars and large appliances in lieu of taking them to be repaired.

In that context I have experienced similar issues but I chalk it up to people simply not being exposed enough to oddities like me. I am guilty of it too towards people I come across who break my mental image of how something "is."

For example, I live near Austin, Texas. I recently saw a really tall, very handsome black man wearing a cowboy hat and full-length duster. Certainly that's not the norm for me to see but not too incredibly odd either. That is until I heard him speak with the most refined British accent I'd ever heard in my life. I completely lost my composure and started viewing him if he were a novelty act. I have no doubt I was at least as much of an ass as the men you describe.

As other commenters have pondered, I wonder if these situations will actually start to decrease as the commonality of females in tech starts to increase.
Also the cusomised ad advertising is an option you can opt out of, so once again I'm not understanding the issue here beyond grabbing some headlines for mistakes that were avoidable on many levels.

As far as I understood from previous coverage and reading the privacy policy, the point is that e-mails are mined even if ads are turned of for the domain. The resulting profiles are then used for showing contextual advertisements in services that are not in Google Apps (e.g. Google search and Google+). Google's lawyers have also admitted that this is true. IANAL, but reading the privacy policy and the ToS for Business accounts, it seems to be the same there.

Of course, you can completely opt out of interest-based ads, both on Google services as on Google ads across the web. But I assume that profiles are still built, if not used.

A related problem is that persons sending e-mail to a GMail address (which could be hidden behind a non-gmail domain) never consented to the ToS and their e-mails are profiled. To which Google's reaction was: "all users of email must necessarily expect that their emails will be subject to automated processing." [1] IMO there is a difference between scanning e-mail for spam and viruses, and using the content to build a profile of the sender or receiver.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/14/google-gma...
The cost of the product is surely irrelevant here: If the product damages your life (in an unexpected way), you should be able to sue to recoup those damages.

In this case, presumably the individuals may have been signed up to Google Apps for Education without their direct consent (or, it was an unstated requirement of their courses to sign up).

Also note: companies have access to liability insurance to cover them for being sued out of existence. Google presumably have a budget for lawsuits.
The real issue is a guy who has been programming for 3 years is trying to compare himself to people who have programmed for 30. Practice makes perfect - if you've only been coding for 3 years, I can almost guarantee that you don't understand a big chunk of the code you use. Once you've been coding for awhile though, you really can get to a stage where you understand everything from the bottom up. At that point, creating new frameworks, languages and algorithms becomes an obvious task.

I've noticed the best programmers are the ones who have actually coded their own compiler, frameworks, etc even if they were only toy implementations. The understanding that comes from building a 3D engine or high performance message bus is usually impossible to obtain in any other way.
http://www.indiandefencereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/0... doesn't work. Is it only for me?
Nonsense like this

> For sure, they are plenty of Real Programmers out there, who easily agree to the 80+ hours/week workload.

has to stop.

I think the opposite is true: if someone is working 80 hour weeks they either overcompensate for their lack of skill or are being willfully exploited.
Further links in English:

• http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/03/19/towr-m19.html

• http://www.dezeen.com/2014/03/18/ando-koolhaas-kuma-moscow-s...

• http://motherboard.vice.com/read/moscow-shukhov-tower
Well, then maybe the beginners do it right? You have not argued against my two points: It's much slower, and less clear.
>> You should consider well-regarded law firms and think about an attorney to confide in for a couple of hours.

If you want to make things cheaper you could always confide in a priest (At least you are guaranteed for it to be free and if you say its a confession they cant share with anyone else :P)
Yes.

I work for one company and we're a multi-language team. If needed, we all speak in english. No one complained. Actually meetings start depending the main actor, if he/she an english speaker, then we all start to talk in english. Actually we speak in spanish, catalan, english and italian.
IANAL, but sending a DMCA notice to India? Really! I don't remember India being under US jurisdiction. Waste of money.
I'm not familiar with the v35, but that would have been a different phone from the v70 and not just a European name since I live in Europe and my v70 was still called a v70.
Lost sleep leads to loss of brain cells, study suggests
You have the option to opt out: don't use gmail. It's not a reasonable expectation that every single web service should be legally required to make every single feature opt-out-able.
Grocery store has ALL the ingredients i need except 1 or 2 ESSENTIAL components.

I'm sure everyone's had the experience of filling their shopping trolley up with all the ingredients to make say wraps except the store is sold out of actual wraps. Like you have all the salads and fillings etc but no actual wraps.

Now I have to find another store nearby that has my missing ingredients. DURRRR RAGE!

There's a start up idea in there somewhere.

like what if I could check off my grocery list and any items not checked off, i automatically get a list of the nearest places relative to my current location where i can get that item.

:)
Nodemailer: Easy e-mail sending from your Node.js applications
Or even more probable, they are both simply named after Gremlins [0]

[0]: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=gremlin
You could be consenting for the email service to do reasonable processing on each individual email (eg filtering and preloading). Sending an email doesn't necessarily have to give the receiving agent permission to build a profile for the specific sender that maps all the emails they send to the service to multiple, separate recipients on to a single graph.

Also, with Google's "Google Apps for Business", a user can use their own domain for their email. Sending someone an email doesn't inform the sender that they could be contributing to a Google profile.
Not entirely true.

Fuzzing is not about modifying data. I don't think that's the right way to describe fuzzing.

It's about testing the durability of a program by trying all kinds of data, as greedy as possible. This includes known problematic inputs and random inputs to match some expectations. By random it can either be totally random (any length, any pattern) or protocol-aware.

Random clicking is a form of random data testing because you are trying random input stream to a program. Your argument is not entirely wrong either. By fuzzing his UI he may trigger the browser to crash. He may trigger his monkey to crash. Fuzzing is a very general technique. I can write a fuzzer that fuzz Firefox's UI Australis. What will I look for? Maybe after opening 100 tabs and closing the 45th tab the titlebar disappeared. Or resize the browser from range s to range w I will find some range will cause the UI to look ugly (style overflow, etc). Or after clicking on the scrollbar several times consecutively the browser crashed.

Barton Miller, the "Father of Fuzzing" did UI fuzzing by simulating actual keystrokes and mouse clicks. See ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/paradyn/technical_papers/fuzz-nt.pdf

In his Forwards page, he even mentioned "Monkey" http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/fuzz/Foreword1.html
If you start from 8080/Z80 and work your way up, you will have a very different perspective. 16-bit (and especially 32-bit) x86 looks quite regular if you see it in the right way; although IMHO the 64-bit extension wasn't designed as well as the move to 32-bit.
This happens all the time, get used to it. Especially when your company/product starts to mean something. Take it from the bright side of life, and enjoy! They can copy the features of your side, but they can't copy the value and the stories your company can say.
What you can do going forward, put a copyright of everything you create on the web site and strive to provide stories and value, rather than just a web site.
You are absolutely right. People should stop upvoting my post because I'm totally wrong. Not only was Cars the first movie that was done using ray tracing, they thought it was glitchy and MU which was released 6 years later was actually the first movie to be fully raytraced.

That said, the technique they did use was scanline rendering, which is still rather different from z-buffering, which is the way GPU's generally render.

Of course now I'll change my argument that Pixar is after a non-realistic cartoony feel, so that gives them more freedom.

If you look at live action movies, the CG parts in there are either painted or ray traced, they need absolute control to be able to blend them.
Gmail is free to you, but their ads can earn more money by mining the info in your email. Is this really free here? Your email content has value.
I'll second somebody else's suggestion of walking home. There's something about disconnecting from technology and letting your mind wander on a shortish walk that sets your brain free to go off and do its own thing. Often, the thing it will do is go solve that hard problem you were banging up against all day in a nice elegant way that you'll be able to code up in 20 minutes tomorrow morning.

Of course to pull this off, you'll need both an office and an apartment within a couple miles of it. Not so good if you're telecommuting or working for a company in some horrible suburb instead of sensibly located downtown. For me, during my on-site days, I actually made a point of only ever taking jobs in the city itself, specifically so that I could do this walking trick.
in pure CSS.
Why would you implement a binary search tree in any of those languages. There are likely to be well written, tested, optimized libraries out there for that sort of thing.
>>5.If you lose your job and your assets, you'll lose medical care too and the issues may become serious.

I hate every system which allows that to happen to people. It's disgusting that there are societies which allow it and can't see how this is the first thing that should be changed, pronto.
And now, what do you think about that choice?

Do you only target windows users?

Are there some drawbacks you can warn me about?

I have done C# development but only on server side.
This goes all the way back to Uncle Bob Martin!
Ask HN: Does your office have quiet working conditions?
I work in a design agency that plays Radio 6 Music from 9-5. I used to turn my headphones up to cover it - and help me get in the zone - but a recent night out has bumped up my tinnitus level so I'm trying to keep levels low.

Do you work in an office which has music playing and does it impact (positively/negatively) on your work rate?
If the unit normal distribution is the distribution under discussion, there's no difference. In that case they become the same. Here's how a physicist computes a p-value given a sigma value:

http://i.imgur.com/pcjr6cN.gif

Note that the unit normal distribution is the underlying context.
copy link and reference it as often as I remember to/stay interested in the topic
As a CS major in college, this just does wonders for my self confidence over the long term...
I'm guessing "OP is a fag" or similar but please enlighten me.
Java 8 is out: how will it affect your codebase?
The suit maintains that, because such non-Gmail users who send emails to Gmail users never signed on to Google's terms of services, they can never have given, in Google's terms, "implied consent" to scan their email.

This. One victim is the private mailing list: There's always at least one sap who subscribes using google mail.

My personal hope is that suits like this will one day push them to discontinue gmail.
"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." -- Phil Karlton

Congrats on conquering half of that. BladeRunnerJS is a GREAT name for this project/service. :-)
It'll happen over time. I'm not sure of the right answer, but people on all sides are aware that changes are needed.
First thing I do each time I get access to money - get a systematic check-up by GP, fix teeth, eat well, and use free time to get exercise.

That's basically the only reason why I'm not a complete mess body-wise.
Why you should learn to build smart watch apps
As the author of this lib, I can confirm: it was named after the movie.
You've got plenty of time to figure things out. And I made mistakes that you'll be able to avoid.
Please allow me to preface with this: I figure your intent is not to demean the tasks of other professions, and none of what I'm saying is rhetorical.

That said, why not take the job of caring for the elderly relatives? Use it as a way to buy yourself some time while you become a specialist?

(I know a couple of people who have worked as certified nursing assistants for about ten years, among other things, scooping poop. They like excrement about as much as, I presume, most other people in existence; for them, it's a fact of life, though, and they're able to support their family well enough.)
A pilot’s perspective on the disappearance of MH370
heat dissipation is arguably a much bigger problem on consoles.
About 12 years ago I had this on VHS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdY9BjFEgAg

Loved it, although I was never any good at skateboarding.
Oh, look, a troll.
Tech is such a rabbit hole anyway no one person can learn everything and the internet can be a curse throwing constant suggestions of the stuff you 'need' to learn!

Some times in work i feel inferior to my buddies until someone asks a question about something close to my heart.

A detailed explanation later which no one within 100 miles could give and it hits you, we're all excellent at something no matter how bad your impostor syndrome gets!
I intended no disrespect. The person who was considering hiring me was the one who used the term. It was a casual discussion. And I will consider caregiver. I do well with older people.
I don't disagree that Carl Icahn is a capitalist, so are Warren Buffett and Marc Andreesen (now).

Look at the definition of capitalism
"an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state."

Nowhere in the definition does it state that a capitalist must be a greedy ahole who destroys companies and the lives of employees in order to fill his own pockets.

Sadly, we see too many examples of this, but it isn't capitalism, and we need a better label for it, or we risk throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Hi! I'm one of the authors of Gremlins.js. Glad to see that some of you find it interesting.

I wrote a blog post a while ago about the purpose of the lib, it's called "Completing the JavaScript Test Stack". Worth reading if you wonder what this is all about.

http://redotheweb.com/2014/01/07/completing-the-js-test-stac...
You can do it with a very large number of speakers and phase differences but headphones is much easier.