skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if we’ve just observed the coin appear as heads 29 times in a row, what are the odds that the same coin will land on heads on the 30th toss?

Many people would argue that the chance of this happening is less than one in a billion, as we just calculated. However, that answer is blatantly wrong.

Bullshit.

If a coin lands heads 29 times in a row, Bayesian analysis tells us that the chance of the coin not being fair, the experimenter lying to us, aliens influencing the outcome, etc. are all a lot higher than we might have expected a priori.

If I saw a coin land head 29 times in a row and was offered a bet on the next flip, I'd put some real money on it turning up heads.
I've never seen a writeup end with a sentence that completely destroys the entire thesis.
Yes, I don't feel the need to down mod, but was just curious.
Yeah, that's a sweet program. I'm definitely signing up for it once I actually get my startup incorporated...CUDA requires Visual Studio to compile your kernels on Windows.
I think there is also a time limit. Like 200 karma in the last yr or something.
I'm planning on using it
I bet most computer users never play Crysis.
I'm happy with how my entry AffiliApp turned out -http://affiliapp.com. It let's web app developers instantly create an affiliate program for their app.
In the comments someone points out that the terms of the pass (http://jetblue.com/deals/all-you-can-jet/) say:

You may only book one flight per city per day; if a violation of this policy is found, JetBlue will honor only the last booking made and cancel the customer's other bookings from that city on that day.
That will find the project home page. Now how do I find blogs discussing the project? If every web page mentioning the project would always link to the canonical url of the project page, I could search for these links, acting as if the real project name were https://launchpad.net/quickly, but that doesn't feel natural. And it requires the collaboration of every single author writing about quickly.
Heh, your app is pretty hilarious. It definitely needs a gender section though. Since 99% of the users will be male for the time being, maybe you should have made it female only list.

Having to think about boffing Salman Ruschdie was too terrifying to continue playing.
If he is right, he is a moron. Why doesn't he keep his mouth shut, short the market, and get fabulously rich?
Time and money, depending on which two types of longer trips I'm considering.

The first is commuting. Filling up takes an extra 5-10 minutes above and beyond the fuel dispensing time (assuming that's linear, which, with my CNG car, it isn't, but that's another topic). A car with a 450 mile range over one with a 225 mile range would save me 4-8 hours per year.

The second is pleasure travel. Sure, the nearest fueling facility may be under 50 miles away, but it may easily be 10-30% more expensive than a farther one, especially across a tax jurisdiction border (especially Canada/US). At $3/G and 60G for a 2000 mile round trip, I'd prefer to keep the Andy Jackson or Uly Grant (Common Loon or Snowy Owl on the reverse if North of the border) or spend the money on an unplanned couple hundred miles' detour.
Always be aware of the charset encoding hell
Touristic Bias: Why Americans Overrate Europe, and Europeans Underrate America
Hehe. You aren't alone in your thinking and enough people have shown great arguments against that statement. I've removed it in hopes that people focus on the article rather than the final statement =)

Thanks for your feedback
Spell-checking in JavaScript
He did search for "zag" in Gmail. Right after "zbuds" and before "headset".
I understand stemming. I just think the webpage contrast is not a good explanation for why they're not doing it. Building an unstemmed search index per user is also expensive, and helps only the recipient, but they do it because they think the expense is necessary. They stem webpages because they think the expense is necessary. They don't stem mails because they think the expense is not justified, not because the only person who benefits is the recipient.
I'm not sure if this is a witty historical reference to Lord Kitchener or a slightly creepy chat up line (or both).
Can a company actually be sued for following a court order? Is US culture that sue happy?

They refused to give up any information until a court ruled that they must, at which point they complied as expected. Does the lawyer in question really intend to make it the company's responsibility to determine which court orders are unconstitutional and which are not?

Is that really the precedent he/she want's to set? My oh my.
Excel-like spreadsheet widget in web2py
What Will the Future Hold?
I don't think there's a universal way, but what I usually do is:

- For private class fields, I use an underscore with camelcase, starting with a lowercase letter, e.g.:

private static int _id = 12345;

- For public class fields, properties, methods, etc. I use camelcase, starting with an uppercase letter, e.g.:

public double Determinant() ...

- For method parameters, I use camelcase, starting with a lowercase letter, e.g.:

public void Foo(int bar, ref string helloThere)

I think this is also the style that Microsoft uses internally, and it makes it easy to see where your variables came from.
Google's lack of customer support baffles me - how can anyone do business with them and take them seriously? Obviously, people do - and it is a mystery to me - myself included.

What I find even more shocking is that they got response and re instantiation of account after news hit the reddit. Why double standards then? Why not uphold the wall of silence once the shit hit the fan? It is unprofessional and cowardly.

Google really needs to work on it's transparency towards business clientele - this is their "major weak point for massive damage". I can't remember exactly, but I remember that sometime in the past microsoft tried to implement adwords/adsense platform... I don't know where/why it stopped.
GAH! All that frustration over nothing. Thank you.
This does nothing to address PHP's biggest problem, which is the user base's lack of motivation to migrate away from PHP 4.
Perhaps you have no choice but to generalize from experience. But some people are better than others at avoiding overgeneralization.

Anyway, the juxtaposition of "Everyone ... At least I do" seems to peg it as a joke, given the subject.
Considering the difference in speed, it's faster for me to find what I was looking for by sifting through GMail's results, than to wait for Outlook's results to show up at all. Outlook's search essentially renders my whole machine useless until it's done searching.
Visual Studio find & replace
3) He RETURNS to Google and searches for "Zagg" which IS in "Zaggs", and boom, results. Surprised? Me neither.

You might want to hold off on your cranky comment. Would you be surprised if the search for 'Zagg' did NOT turn up the results for 'Zaggs'? Because for better or worse, that's what actually happens.

GMail search does not perform stemming (like removing that final 's') and also does not allow for substring searches. So in fact, a search for 'Zagg' will return nothing. While this isn't a fatal flaw, it is a drag.
Indeed. The biggest problem is going to be rotary connection for the live and neutral contacts, but the actual housing would be quite solid I'd imagine. Thermoplastic at those dimensions can be extremely durable.
here is a link to the 09 wwdc presentation. you can skip to the 10.6 section:

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0906paowdnv/event/inde...
Oops, they actually already do have the integration widget via an iframe link. Missed that around the first time.
That's a really interesting notion. Have any web applications moved indexing to the client-side before with gears and/or js?
Interesting submissions don't have to be literally new.
He mentioned old school and then quoted 2005, i dont know if its just me but the idea of a botnet is certainly nothing new, and definately spawned from IRC.. FWIW you could date the article 1999 and throw in mentions of wingates a couple of times and sprinkle on some SOCKS proxy information for flavor and i'd know no different.
Awesome suggestion, thank you.

From scanning through the Chapter on design I got this quote:
"This paradox implies, essentially, that you have to 'solve' the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works."

It reminds me of advice I have gotten from someone before, write code to solve a problem then scrape it and rewrite it.
Please, exactly, tell me what a browser-OS is. Are we talking about something like Chrome OS, which looks like it will be an OS whose primary (edit: or even sole?) purpose is to run a browser? Then it's basically just a crippled version of what we already have. Or would we actually be talking browser-as-an-OS-properly, where some hypothetical browser decides to take up the mantle of process management, drivers, etc?

I don't doubt that lots of interesting things will pop up on the web. But "browser-as-that-thing-I-spend-a-lot-of-time-in" is very, very different from any sane definition of "browser-as-an-OS".
Not really. Just a guy with some common sense.

Pick anybody else taking those same 30 days off work, and chances are they're going to be enjoying themselves more than these kids.

As it happens, I'll probably overlap with them for the 30 days they're in the air. During which time I'll hike the Inca Trail, take a banana boat down the Amazon, and otherwise hitchike, surf and dirtbag my way from Peru northwards toward Columbia.

All for about the same amount of money.

So yeah, if you have a month to blow and a grand to do it with, you could certainly have a lot better time than these guys. That said, I wish them luck.
When I was 17 years old I read "Beyond Good and Evil", by Nietzsche.

( http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4363 )

That book truly changed the way I lived and the way I thought.
Try

1) At the end of the rainbow (people always forget this one)

2) If you can hold a couple more months, ask Santa for one, but that requires you to have been a good hacker all the year and have always freed all resources on the destructors and never left a dangling pointer.

3) Post a job add on Stackoverflow.com

4) Post a job add here

5) Profit ??
Sorry, I should have made the disclaimer that I'm basing that on my experiences growing up in central North Carolina. I've been an east coaster for life, though I have family out there on the left coast now. Back home, azaleas and tall evergreen shrubs could provide plenty of privacy between houses. The woods were typically pine, with hardwoods coming in below that, and holly, azaleas and so forth beneath. We had large "natural areas" (by which I mean my dad had planted bushes and such, and just let them grow wild) which didn't look that messy, and were absolutely gorgeous when the azaleas were in bloom.

I guess if you're living out in the desert you've got to worry about not having enough ground cover. But then again, you chose to live in the desert ;)

Funny, almost none of the houses built in my father's neighborhood circa '92 have windows on the side. And they have fairly large yards.

Really? You're basing the "majority of parks" on some small observations about cali? Have you ever driven through georgia, alabama, ohio, north/south carolina, florida, etc?

California is not representative of the US - especially "middle america."
The Appendix: Useful and in Fact Promising Organ
You do realize that your comment suggest that people are abandoning facebook for twitter?

Do you have anything to support his at all?
Adding a DisplayLink monitor to a Linux router
Selfish? It is up to individual consumers to make sure other consumers get a good deal? Hardly
Tell HN: iCombinator is back up
For those who use iCombinator to view HN, it's finally fixed and back up. There seemed to be an issue grabbing the appropriate data and still investigating, but I have a work around that should still work. Sorry for the downtime everyone!
Would you sell your services to a government that is oppressive or a corporation that abuses its employees?

Or would you forfeit that income because it makes you complicit?
I bet most computer users have never used a bash shell. I still prefer the world with it to a hypothetical one without it. Same goes for high end computer games.
Ha!

Well, thanks for trying to help - I'm afraid I'm due for lumps of coal this year, so I can't ask Santa for help.

I know there are some designers around here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=732283), so I was hoping there were some who were also interested in joining a team of people as a collaborator instead of as hired help... We're checking out all of our options; it's just that we feel having someone who was really strong on the front-end of things would be a perfect fit to the skill set we've got now.
Refactoring in real life
I picked up my Intel (the good controller, MLC version) for $400, best upgrade ever, that's fucking cheap.
I hope "convincing RMS not to be such a pig" is one of the action items on their agenda.
Solve Sudoku puzzles with Lego Mindstorms
It is also expensive, but it is less expensive than doing that AND stemming. They just decided that stemming was a line where the benefit (add'l users, more use of Gmail, more AdSense revenue, whatever metric) wasn't worth the (development and ongoing processing) costs.
I have to admit, after that court case awhile back where it turned out the "wronged party" was abusing the Hell out of the terms of service, I'm deeply skeptical of anyone who claims Google yanked their account for "no reason".

Naturally, though, the blog poster has no way to prove he did everything by-the-book. And the account was reinstated. So it's a sticky matter.

Transparency on Google's part would only help.
But it then adds in x86_64 support, which brings the size back up. The smaller files are likely to be from not installing all the resources (localizations, drivers, etc) at once if not needed.
The gap will probably widen until Haswell where CPUs and GPUs merge.
I recently read a book called "An Absolutely Outrageous Adventure" written by two travel mates who visited every WHO recognized country in the world in one year.

It was one of the worst books I've ever read because most of their experiences revolved around airport hopping from country to country.

Give me a month in any given country and I'll be satisfied. It takes that long just to settle in and learn enough culture not to look ignorant.

I will say that 30 days on a plane does increase your chances of joining the mile high club though...(I digress)

Top travel choices for next destination - Argentina, Thailand, Bolivia.
Why I use the MIT licence (by author of Rack)
Not a bad idea actually, but to simplify it a bit.

Most everyone has a friend they consider much smarter than themselves, just do what he says.

This applies to much more than voting.
AFAIK Loopt is using C# on their backend systems.
Offshoring in 2020  500 Billion $ - McKinsey report
The Y combinator allows the definition of anonymous recursive functions. These have names ("fac").

Personally, I have never found much of a reason to use the Y combinator. I typically use the method you used in the second example; I declare a named function within the scope of the anonymous one. I find it to be a readability win.
The standard (citing from memory) is to use Properties in uppercase (PascalCase) and fields in lowercase (camelCase) with NO prefix whatsoever but preceed them with "this." whenever referenced. parameters are also lowercase (camelCase) with NO prefix whatsoever and are thus difference of local variables by the absence of the "this.". However, this doesn't answer the static fields and Properties...
The point is that common sense forms the basis of our prior knowledge. If your priors are poor, then your probability estimates are going to be inaccurate, even if you know probability theory perfectly.
The number of seats is limited. The number of shrimp (for all intents and purposes) is unlimited.

Actually, the opposite is more precisely true. The marginal cost putting one more person on a plane is minimal, compared to the fixed cost of the flight. The marginal cost of one more shrimp correlates more closely with the total cost of shrimp.
For the benefit of those who don't want to register, here is the brief -
India leads the world in providing offshore services in business and technology, with revenues of $58 billion in 2008, out of a global total of $80 billion. McKinsey estimates this is just the beginning: the global market for offshore business and technology services could grow to about $500 billion by 2020. Yet even with this growth, the industry will still serve less than 1/3 of the potential market for these services, which McKinsey estimates at $1.65 trillion to $1.80 trillion in 2020.
Google is planning a OS but in the form of browser...

visit: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-ch...
The Good Guy Contract
> An outcome you do not prefer is not automatically irrational.

It has nothing to do with my preference. An outcome that fails to result in anyone voting for a system intended to get people to vote, is a failed outcome, no matter how you look at it.
I wonder what material they've confirmed they'll be using to ensure that it doesn't just snap and break under the regular wear of plug usage.
I think what everyone likes to point out re: MacPorts isn't MacPorts itself, but the software that it compiles, that needs work still.
How'd you get 10.6? Were they releasing developer copies?
Why energy sources like biofuels/solar/nuclear are not the magic ticket
>If you don't own the business, there isn't much to gain by putting yourself out as hard as if it were your own.

The corollary to this is, of course, why one might want to found a startup.
Well, it was new to me, I just ran into it.
The first OS and computer that is fully accessible out of the box.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/universal-access/

I can't believe it has been considered important enough to be one of the major features of Snow Leopard, I am so happy for the blind and visually impaired. They did it with the new iPhone the first commercialized accessible touchscreen and they are doing it again with the new Mac OS. Apple is the most innovative tech company there is no doubt about it.
How was it a step backwards? Mind you, I was a bit late to the party - I started on 10.5.2 - but everything's much more polished than it was in Tiger, both graphically and performance-wise.
never judge a book by its cover.

For that matter, PGs site looks like that as well.
This post is a duplicate. There is the exact same article posted on the front page of the news under the name of 'Seven Myths about (...)'. Please delete.
Proof of God's existence by 10th century Bishop
Yes this is my point. Is there a "The Hacking Method?" I believe not. There may be lists such as "7 good habits of best hackers" but not a Biblical commandment defining a method to be the true computer programming.

The idea of an absolute sacrosanct Scientific Method is contrary to what scientific research is about. It defines science to be an academic method.

So, assume that I have my personal system of doing research. I don't define the problem. I don't form formal hypotheses; I don't perform experiments (formal academic exercises) instead I use trial and error; I take frequent stratetegic naps to develop my ideas; I analyze the idea any way I like; I don't publish my results; instead I note my results meticulously on my lab books. I don't care anything about academic rules and ignore academics and their science fetish.... instead I make discoveries. I ignore the paperwork, and career considerations. . . I make discoveries. You recognize Edison's method. Are you saying that what I am doing is not science because I did not follow your step by step "scientific method?"

The scientific method is an attempt to brand academic physics as science and the rest as stamp collecting. This marketing gimmick actually has been working. People associate academic physics with science.
It is up to individual consumers to make sure other consumers get a good deal?

Of course not. Let me ask a different question.

At what point do you decouple the human element from the business element?

Obviously, there is no right answer. It's everyone's judgement call. I would imagine someone who started a business (tipjoy) based upon the goodwill of others wouldn't do much decoupling at all.

OP is clearly (and admittedly) abusing the system for the sake of abusing it with no regard to how his actions affect others. This isn't clever hacking, it's just gauche.

I'd feel differently if he used his pass to have a great month and share his experience with others who don't have that opportunity. His current plan doesn't do any of that. It's a blown opportunity just to maximize something that doesn't matter. What a pity.
Wow that article is wrong on so many points.

2. Most of the Europeans who are lucky enough to live in the premiere cities can't afford to frequently eat in the nice restaurants that delight foreign visitors.

Proof?

3. "Efficient public transportation" and bicycles may seem great to a tourist who eats in restaurants. They're not so great if you're a local who needs to get groceries home to make dinner. In bad weather, subways and bikes are downright awful.

Absolutely wrong. In bad weather subways are great. Public transportation works great in European cities because of their layout where the grocery store is always just a short walk away. Yes, even locals prefer public transportation, in Europe and NYC.

2. However, very few Americans live in such cities

Actually A LOT of Americans live in such cities. Perhaps the author is thinking about how the electoral college in the US works.

But almost no one in Europe lives in places as comfortable and convenient as American suburbs

The reason rents in down town are high is because there's high demand to live there, because it's so convenient, again both in Europe and NYC.
Seriously, it's ridiculous how long this is carrying on. It's the same debate heard in all ages, all political groups, etc. The debate against change. They're used to their PHP, and are, begrudgingly, willing to accept that LISP has some "neat things", but as of yet refuse to admit that their syntax is idiotic, and their language handicapped. So they try to "put lipstick on a pig."

I'm going down... I know. But it just takes so much more effort to translate the above into a well thought out, persuasive argument, and in the end it would have been ignored anyway by those who like to cling to their language just because they know it well.
And they wonder why they're dying...
Do empty seats reduce carbon emissions?
Suggestion: in the interests of transparency, add a notice specifying the change you made, and why. Right now there are comments on your article referencing a statement that no longer exists.
Penis Enlargement - Best Ways to Make it Bigger
Hm, rereading it now, I admit I could have put that better. I didn't mean the elimination of all religious people, ie. by death, I meant the elimination of religion. Just like when people say they want to eliminate poverty, they don't mean they want to kill all the poor people.

However it was poorly put, so apologies for the confusion.
Private Capital Structures
Grade B and C CTOs set technology trends? I doubt it.
In this case, marginal cost is not the issue. Supply is.