skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on how you define agnosticism. To use a popular example, I am not agnostic about you having an invisible fire-breathing dragon in your garage despite not being able to put a flat 0% probability on it.

Bayesianism redefines the concept of knowledge, which under Bayesianism is represented as a probability. I have very strong knowledge that there is no god. If given sufficiently strong proof against that, I will update my beliefs about the issue -- but this does not mean the same as being unsure about it now.
A wireless network for gadgets set to arrive in San Francisco
cven714's point is correct; it's more for tournaments than for matches (where match refers to a series of games).

Also note that even in a match, where players alternate colors, Black should be happy to draw and take White in the next game, while White would be disappointed with that result. So it is worthwhile to keep track of draw results even if they are thrown out.

When researching openings, players often take into account how well an opening has performed in the past. There's a large qualitative difference between White 60% Black 40% Draw 0% (60-40) and White 12% Black 8% Draw 80% (52-48), although the fraction of decisive games won by White is the same in both cases.
Crockford's Base32 for date format
Some people want to be homeless, because the (usually institutional) alternatives are incompatible with how they want to live their lives. They don't want someone else telling them what to do or how to do it. They're not always simply people "down on their luck", or former mental patients. Sometimes it's a deliberate rational choice.
There seems to be a lot of comments to the effect of, "They'll never get their version to work.". First, this probably isn't true and, second, it's not what's really important here.

How many parts inside these drones are off-the-shelf parts manufactured in China? Of the parts that aren't off-the-shelf, how many can be reproduced exactly just by sending a design files and a check to the right place? How much of the software do they now have binaries for? Iran could probably produce a drone configured to run on the U.S. TDRSS system fairly quickly. All they'd have to do is reproduce the drone that crashed exactly. Unfortunately, this wouldn't do them a whole lot of good. The big problem is probably going to be to reverse engineer and adapt the drone's software/hardware so they can be used with Iranian systems, which probably don't exactly have global coverage. It's another challenge still to learn enough from this design for Iran to be able to produce different designs. Copying is a great way to learn though.

The drone's stealth tech may be compromised for a variety of reasons, such as the difficulty of reproducing paint coatings, etc.. This brings us to what is really important. This same stealth tech was already compromised by the Chinese radar installations Iran used to detect and hijack the drone in the first place. Iran is already using Chinese radar systems and is probably not working alone. The opportunity to reverse engineer the latest stealth drone hardware is going to make China (or perhaps Russia) very generous to Iran.

Chinese radar systems can already penetrate the latest U.S. stealth tech given the right circumstances, but now they are likely to get even more effective. Stealth requires such huge compromises from aircraft designs that I wouldn't be surprised if stealth designs are soon abandoned. This incident is not the beginning of the end for Stealth aircraft, it's closer to the end of the end!
Even running your own mail system might not gain you as much as you'd hope: http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-bec...
I apologize in advance for potentially thread-jacking, but this story reminds me of an issue on which I'd really like to get other HN readers advice:

I'm seeing more and more stories online including animated GIFs by default like this one does.

Even when they add value to the story, I find the constant motion distracting at best, and seizure-inducing at worst.

Does anyone have recommendations re: the best way to block animated GIFs from auto-playing in Chrome?

Quick initial searching turned up this Stack Exchange thread http://superuser.com/questions/23655/how-to-stop-animated-gi... but the user script listed no longer seems to be available, and there is a debate in the thread re the usability of the other extension options listed.
All crypto currencies area form of gambling. This just allows people to gamble while they gamble.
Well, that's straight up fascism. You have your opinion and you think it's right to enforce your opinion by force on others. I shouldn't fear for my freedom, that's not a good functional society.
Very clever though.
Good call. Its all about a battle for space and I'm not so sure either solves it. I'm a fan of gesture-based navigation/menus, but the learning curve is pretty steep there.
Recently implemented snap.js on a site with the ability to drag the menu from the left as well as press the 'hamburger' button. On iOS I found that dragging from the edge of the screen leads to a hit and miss situation where the user may sometimes open the nav drawer but may also sometimes go 'back' to the previous page. How are people 'doing' navigation right now? I always liked the sliding navs on mobile sites, but where should I have the drag box. The bottom of the screen?
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link is broken: http://blog.sandglaz.com/how-to-do-tasks-you-simply-resent-d...
Can someone comment on the significance of this?
This is BIP-level stuff only, but fwiw BIP 0011 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0011.mediawi...) is kind of interesting.

It would thence (uh, can i use that word this way?) be possible to e.g. implement three-party escrow using 2-of-3 signatures (second bullet point under Motivation, etc.) Two signatures would be enough to conduct a fund transfer from buyer to seller. If either buyer or seller defects (or there's some kind of a problem), there'll be <=1 signature present. The third mediating/escrow party would then choose whether to place their own signature or not (thereby validating or nullifying the transaction, accordingly.)

iirc there's also some BIP-level stuff (or an idea to implement it using bitcoin Script, anyway) to have things like NashX[1] work within bitcoin. Basically a Nash equilibrium based transaction scheme with no human 'escrow' party required - everything is formalized. If either the buyer or the seller fails (i.e.: if any of the two report 'failure'), all funds are burnt (e.g. sent to some provably bogus bitcoin address, whatnot.) Both parties have to chime in so that the risk is distributed accordingly/appropriately. There are nuances and gotchas here to be had, of course.

[1]: http://nashx.com/HowItWorks
It's also dishonest to imply that Google is not itself a marketing company.
Except you have to call them stories, just in case some girls might be put off ... eg http://kata.coderdojo.com/wiki/How_to_encourage_girls.

[It's relevant because all the "communities" mentioned in the post promote girls as deserving special treatment that is not offered to boys. Either overtly or less conspicuously - code.org and coderdojo make special notes on how to encourage girls but no special notes on how to encourage boys that I can find (please correct me).

I'm not saying you shouldn't consider that some children might prefer a story-based approach (boys and girls); a specific active/physical approach might be preferred by some children, or ... ]
Check out this [0] post. I tried the first extension and it worked but doesn't pause by default (ESC key toggles gif animation). I didn't try the other two but this looks like what you are looking for.

[0] http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-disable-animated-gifs-in-chr...
I would be very careful about hosting that website as the website itself is illegal. Sure it isn't a gambling website, but in the eye of the law, a website used to download a gambling application would be just as illegal as a gambling website. I hope you took the precautions necessary to ensure that you won't have legal issues incase of Chancecoin becoming popular.
CSE 142 at UW is not this, it is geared toward CS and ENGR majors. An "entry-level" 100 class is geared towards non-majors, is quite different.
There is no 100 year old ice out there"

Where are we getting the air samples to determine what CO2 levels from? I thought it was from bubbles trapped in ice that is 100+ years old.
The Porsche Panamera Turbo is ludicrously faster than the other two cars (unless you're talking CTS-V).

You're not just paying for the badge (though you are paying for that too)
The 'insider' complaining here is -- Oracle?? That would be the Oracle that is No. 58 in the PTO's list of the top 100 most prolific patenters? Who is the troll here?
I find it suspicious that every time a post that isn't supportive of Google is submitted, someone attempts to undermine it with innuendo.
"Are there really little "things" holding 0s and 1s in DRAM for example?"

At the moment, close enough to yes to make no difference. There's various ways of trying to score internet pedant points by fiddling around the very edges of that statement, but they're not relevant to a casual question. Yes, there is somewhere where you can find a physical thing that we might call a "one" and a "zero", even if it's not quite the same exact 1 or 0 you might get in your CPU due to parity or forward error correction or whatever other crazy thing you may have.

I mention those fiddly details to get them out of the way so I can bring up the bare handful of devices that actually functioned on true, no-kidding ternary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer Per Knuth's note in that article, as we continue to optimize the heck out of our silicon and as we start running out of ability to simply shrink, it's not inconceivable that ternary computing could make a comeback in the future. It is often casually assumed in current sci-fi and such that binary is the true "final" base of the future, but ternary is not out of the running.

On that note, see also: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/issue.aspx?id=3268&y...

This would have next to no impact on anything else, though... in fact the first ternary computers would certainly simply run current programs, possibly recompiled and certainly at an efficiency penalty, but with no other end-user-visible effect.

(And let me warn you away from various speculations that ternary computers could somehow compute something binary computers can't. Turing Completeness, along with frankly obvious common (programmer) sense, precludes that. We already never truly work with bits... if we want bits we actually have to go out of our way to extract them from things at least the size of bytes, if not larger. Arguably modern computers are already in many ways Base256, as it is effectively impossible to manipulate anything smaller than an octet, which also obviously encompasses anything Base3 can do.)
Tracking and Understanding TCP States
true. they also brain wash most of their workforce to a dedication to the company you haven't seen since japan in the 70s... so my guess is that all google employees only ever have their work @google.com gmail account. ever.
poker is more difficult, because everyone has to trust that the game isn't rigged. Until someone figures out a way to do a decentralized poker game, it will be difficult to get people to play your cryptocoin poker game. Even if it is run fairly, how can you tell a fair game from an unfair one? I think it flopped because it seems like a scam and you can't provide assurances otherwise.. with the simple random dice games happening on the blockchain, at least everyone can see the game is fair.. (which is why people play it)
The DC metro system does not go to/from Baltimore.
Final Word on U.S. Law Isn’t: Supreme Court Keeps Editing
I wish developers would put words next to their icons more often. Too many glyphs feel cryptic to me until I just try them at random to see what they do. A big example is the copy icon on Android that pops up. The word "copy" could've fit well there, and as a "high-level" experienced computer user I didn't know that the two papers side by side meant "copy". I actually thought it was "paste" at first. The hamburger buttons with a "more" or something on them probably fared better.
It's funny to see these trends in UI, starting in the early 90s it seems they gained more and more toolbars and features and navigation elements while reducing content area, then in the middle of the last decade they started getting hidden more and more behind menus and layers of menus (it continues today) to increase content area, and now we're at a point where opposition to this movement is becoming more apparent.

For me, the biggest issue I see with the example hamburger buttons there is that they don't look like buttons --- they look more like an air vent/grille, a stylistic thing rather than "touch here to get more".
Technically speaking, which is the best kind, all societal ills are owned by the people.

While the government can't shut it down, it can make it onerous for people to get involved in it, which is generally the best way.
Apple can actually do this theoretically since LLVM uses "University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License" [1].

This license is much like BSD License, which doesn't require to release modification.

For Example, Sony uses LLVM as part of the PS4 Toolchain[2], but they also doesn't release their code.

[1] http://llvm.org/releases/2.8/LICENSE.TXT
[2] http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-11/slides/Robinson-PS4Toolchain....
We have that problem in Oslo, Norway too. Usually homeless and/or addicts are just silently let go, without a fine, even when they have big sweeps. It costs the company and by extension society (things end up in court) too much money trying to collect something that, by all standards, are uncollectible.

There has been some discussion about how they can solve the issue, but so far everything is at a stand still. Some people want to make it so that public transport passes are a part of welfare, others mean that they should use the welfare money to pay for the passes if they need it, etc. It's a tough question, and I can see good arguments being made on each side.
so that they can make up a better autocratic plan because they get another reason to make people "united"?
You've had a seizure induced by an animated gif? That is nasty.
I agree that it's a nontrivial difference, but I don't know if one approach is better than the other. It's something that has been on my mind a lot.

I studied marketing (among other things), and it's essentially the study of manipulating people to achieve a desired effect. And while I noticed that knowledge about manipulation doesn't automatically translate to a practice of manipulation/persuasion (in the same way that knowing a lot about addiction might not shield you from being an addict), having this knowledge, at least for me, feels like an uncomfortable responsibility.

Take approaching a potential romantic interest. There are some very effective techniques to increase your chances of 'success' (however you would define it). We generally frown upon doing this (too) explicitly; it very quickly seems sleazy. And yet 'womanizers' (or the opposite equivalent) apply these techniques without really thinking about it and we don't judge these people as strongly.

Is this unfair? If someone who is naturally less skilled at flirting uses 'techniques' to do better, is that worse than someone who does this naturally, assuming that in both individuals have the same 'pure' (or 'impure') goals? Or is it perhaps better because the individual in question is at least conscious of his persuasion or manipulation, and can question his motives?

I think about that a lot, and I haven't found an answer yet.

For me personally, I'm lucky, in a way, that I feel guilty very quickly. I simply cannot lie very well, for example, not because I cannot lie, but because I have trouble facing myself when I do so. So I try not be too conscious about manipulation and persuasion. And yet I know that applying well-tested techniques is very effective.

If anyone here can point me to literature on this subject (I suppose it's a matter of ethics), I'd greatly enjoy exploring that.
Hey, I needed JS CSV parser few days ago. Here is my parser, I bet it is 100 times faster than yours :)

function parseCSV(str)
{
var obj = {};
var lines = str.split("\n");
var attrs = lines[0].split(",");
for(var i=0; i<attrs.length; i++) obj[attrs[i]] = [];
for(var i=1; i<lines.length-1; i++)
{
var line = lines[i].split(",");
for(var j=0; j<line.length; j++)
obj[attrs[j]].push(line[j]);
}
return obj;
}
I agree with the bottom; definitely easier for the user to reach the nav then. Maybe someone can comment from a UX perspective?
I think we, i.e. those who already use base 10 and neglecting the possibility of us getting invaded in some way, will continue to use base 10 unless our civilisations fall apart. When we handed off the basics of our system to machines so that the low level tasks could be done quickly, the need for a more efficient system decreased. Out to a ridiculously large number, the basic components of our system are, when coupled with machines, essentially instantaneous.

What's 395847593874382754238754987 * 389756987476347629845 ?

1.5428437e+47

What could any system of numbers give me that would make that operation faster than typing it in?

My old math teacher's objection to this was:

"But what if you don't have a calculator?"

And I was not smart enough at the time to realise there'd be more serious problems in a world where I didn't have a calculator and wanted to multiply large numbers (hey, I was only six.)

But what she ought to have said, when I was objecting to learning the tables, was that it makes sense to be reasonably fast with the basics of a system, so that you can do things beyond linear algebra quickly. If you need to stop and work out the very basics of a system every time you do algebra you're probably not going to get very far. The low level tools you have available influence what you can build on top of them.

However, the faster you are at the low level the less the practical gains are. The value of reducing an operation that takes a minute to one that takes seconds is likely to be enormous - but the value of reducing that second to a half second is not likely to be as significant.

It's similar to handwriting. We had a superior system of handwriting that we used to teach: Shorthand. It was more efficient even than most people's typing. But the additional value of that speed over typing was not sufficient for it to remain.

Unless there's an argument that, say, our being a half second or so faster at the low level will allow us access to some new high-level concepts, I think we're likely to stick with it.
or adopt something similar to the UK's penalty fare system, which generally allows innocent mistakes to be dealt with with a minor fine, whilst persistent offenders end up with a potentially large fine (upto £1000) and a criminal record:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penalty_fare
People slip up, forget to renew the pass. There are multiple reasons why large fines will have the exact opposite effect, and only make it much harder for those already poor. It's easy being well established to swallow a fine like that, not so much when you live out of what you made that day.

You could however take the group to court, from my point of view this is organised fraud.
There's probably more than you think, but the local market tends to use their own software. There also aren't necessarily lots of "look a-like" analogs to Western fonts.

http://cfile8.uf.tistory.com/image/1140E9385148183C101BC8

For example, the equivalent of maybe a "Time Roman" font for Hangul looks like calligraphy.

http://www.hancom.co.kr/group.eng_main.main.do

http://cfs14.tistory.com/image/21/tistory/2009/10/05/09/29/4...

Try this link to get started https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%ED%95%9C%EA%B8%80+%ED%8F...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnstile#Full-height_turnstile...
From the PDF you cite:

"Since the AUC is a portion of the area of the unit square, its value will always be between 0 and 1.0. However, because random guessing produces the diagonal line between (0, 0) and (1, 1), which has an area of 0.5, no realistic classifier should have an AUC less than 0.5."

So it appears that not 0.8 but 0.5 is the randomness threshold; therefore 0.7 is not so bad.
What does that have to do with a lack of sufficient evidence?
Inside a computer you only have 0's and 1's. It's base 2 at the lower level.
You should ditch CoffeeScript and do it in vanilla JS, if for no other reason than to avoid people like me telling you to ditch CoffeeScript and do it in vanilla JS. ;)

In all seriousness though, far beyond anything I was doing at 16. Kudos.
We don't use accounting (fares) to plan local public transport, at least not exclusively as it's not at all a reliable, what with its inability to track routes, lots of unregistered riders with monthly tickets, etc. etc. To get reliable data, you need to count people in the vehicles and poll them regarding their route and other things -- which of course the public transport authorities do routinely. Automatically tracking people is an invasive technical improvement to this, and it's deployed in some places, but again it doesn't really require fares.

Trains of course do require additional staff to handle higher loads, as do all modes of transportation, but with trains the staff/passenger ratio is ridiculously low, and it gets lower as they are used more. Of course there's a resource allocation problem there, but again, fares don't seem to be very useful there, at least in the realm of local public transport.

Charging money does limit the ridership, which was GP's point, and which is the opposite of what sensible minds would want, namely less cars on the roads. Vandalising trains carries with it much harsher penalties than free-riding, so I doubt fares are a very effective deterrent; you don't need to pay a fare to spray a tunnel wall, just a disregard for the law and maybe your own safety. Other people you might describe as bad actors might be affected by fares, but I'd hold that if homeless people have no better recourse than abusing trains, you might want to solve that problem instead of making it less publicly visible.
Here's a quickly made chart to show that: http://i.imgur.com/lHbVzXM.png

(I don't have enough games w/ Elos pre-1960 to show a reliable mean.)
Speculating is more accurate.
Would you apply that same argument in the case of, say, child abuse or neglect and the government stepping in and removing said child from his parents?

I'm not being flippant here, to be clear. I have friends who would argue just that, and while I do have an opinion on the matter, I can respect a consistent opinion that argues otherwise. I'm just curious where you would draw the line on this spectrum, if at all.
> Criminalizing disclosure of security flaws

I made no such suggestion, much less proposal. The problem is commercial, militarized development of zero-day exploits and selling to the highest bidder.

UNLIKE responsible disclosure by legitimate security researchers, weaponized exploits are very analogous to the freelance development of bioweapons and then auctioning them off to the highest bidder. It is a cancer on computing, and deserves to be stamped out, as such a bioweapons development would get wiped out quickly and conclusively.
The original post makes a good point that, paraphrased, it's about improving a flawed information architecture instead of trying to fix symptoms, like the hamburger menu. And though it's tempting to use esoteric, hard-to-use/understand gestures and interaction models, it's almost never the right way. It's that subtle difference between an interface that feels like it's been designed to 'feel smart', instead of something that's easy to use.
1/3 is 0.333 in base 10 and base 12. 10/3=4 in base 12.