skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could do a lot worse than laundry. It's something everyone does that takes up a non-trivial amount of time to do. Free up 20-30 minutes a day for millions of people and you are talking about real value.
Somebody oughta make an OrgMode (or a reasonable simplification of it) for the cloud.
Google Opens “Right To Be Forgotten” Form For EU Citizens
As horrible as it sounds, I think racism is a social problem in need of a technological solution.

If people could change their physical appearance as easily and as cheaply as their clothes, this problem would disappear overnight. If everyone could choose their gender, race, height, etc, there would be no point in discriminating based on those traits. To quote Dr. Seuss, people could change their appearance...

> until neither the Plain nor the Star-Bellies knew

> whether this one was that one... or that one was this one

> or which one was what one... or what one was who.

(Minus being scammed by Mr. McBean.)

Sadly, that sort of technology won't be around for centuries, if ever. But I think we can get most of the way there with present-day tech. More and more jobs allow remote work, and on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. With the right blinding in the hiring process, we could make discrimination impossible. Even if the job isn't remote, the hiring evaluation could be done without meeting in person. Once a person is shown to be intelligent, mindful, productive, kind, etc... it's very hard to maintain a prejudice against any trait they may have been born with.

This wouldn't solve the problem of a bias in applicants, but it would eliminate any implicit or unconscious discrimination.
Maybe NEST disavowed the links using the disavow tool? Whatever the reason, raising concern is appropriate, but calling bullshit without all the information is overreaching and inappropriate.
Note to the devs:

Thank you for your hard and unappreciated work for the last 10 years.

But if you're no longer interested in continuing to devleop TrueCrypt, could you please replace the license on 7.1a with one of the OSI-approved, DFSG-compatible licenses so that other people can keep developing and using TrueCrypt if they want to? I know that you think it's risky to keep using TrueCrypt, but there seem to be plenty of people who are willing to fork over tens of thousands of dollars to discover and fix any security issues.

An email sent to the auditing team and/or a message published on the official website, signed with your usual keys, should suffice.
Elon Musk is starting to look more like a Thomas Newton (The Man Who Fell To Earth) than a Tony Stark.

That module immediately made me think of the one David Bowie sat in and that appears on the front of the album Station to Station.
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The space shuttle's engines are made up of a series of thin inconel sheets sandwiched together, to avoid the problems with machining metals. The most significant machining issue is drill 'walk', which is not specific to inconel, and causes non-straight holes on the plate, which could cause uneven mixture of fuel and oxidizer, thus creating dangerous 'hot-spots'.
> Experiments through data are by no means impossible when it comes to race or gender. That's the lifeblood of social science.

It's also why hard science majors make fun of them.

> Throwing your hands up and saying "too many numbers! no conclusions could ever be possibly found!" would be completely unacceptable in any other discipline.

That's because just about any other discipline is capable of conducting a controlled experiment. The problem with statistics in social sciences is that you don't control anything. You can't just order families of a particular race to stop having more or less children than other races so that you can get a good control group, so you have no control group. You only have data from something you hope is a reasonable approximation of a control group, without even any good way to tell when it isn't.
Or a country that believes in the rule of law above other things.

You can simultaneously believe that what someone did was the right thing and think that they still need to stand trial. Now, believing those two and not thinking some sort of reform is necessary might be a harder position to hold.
The Russian position on the ISS starting open longer is not positive at this point.
why does the link go to ft.com, rather than google.com (the domain listed after the link)
This is the actual form "Search removal request under European Data Protection law": https://support.google.com/legal/contact/lr_eudpa?product=we...
You could take also take a look at Nokia Remote Device Access http://developer.nokia.com/resources/remote-device-access (Android Nokia X , Windows Phone Lumia , Nokia Asha).
I have a question. Why not SMS? Is it because sending an SMS globally is more of a hassle then sending email? Or that with email we assume the entire channel has some protection layer to it, where as in SMS the security is due to the fact that we're using an entirely different channel? Simply intercepting an SMS (if you actually manage to do that) won't be enough as you would also need the username. In the email approach, don't most places use your email as a username??

I am just talking generally, not specific to this app
The federal government spent $683.7 billion in a year on defense alone. maybe they could spare a few million for the children. Relying on private finance to help schools simply will make matters worse from a big picture in a similar way to how Africa became addicted to overseas aid
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

There's nothing in the mission statement about making money...
To be fair to the engineers who designed the space shuttle, they could have automated almost all of the launch, docking and landing procedures, but they had to please the astronauts as well, and the latter wanted to 'fly' the craft. Some (such as Chris Kraft) have even argued that it would have been better to do this, so that the shuttles could be tested and demonstrated without humans in danger, to verify safety after Challenger and Columbia.

It should also be made clear that even when an astronaut is 'manually' controlling the space shuttle, they are only providing inputs to the outer loop of a very complex feedback control system.
No it's not. A company being profitable is different than a company turning a profit specifically for it's initial investors. The profitability of a company post-buyout is murky. We're also talking about VCs getting in on profitable businesses ventures, not tech conglomerates. If a VC makes their money by finding hot trending startups that later get bought out, they're not really investing in a company that profits on the merits of the business plan alone. A lot of the big buyouts are based on buzz, and often the valuations are overblown when compared to actual ability to profit. Expected profits != actual profits.
> With the right blinding in the hiring process, we could make discrimination impossible. Even if the job isn't remote, the hiring evaluation could be done without meeting in person.

I've been suggesting for a while someone build a blind hiring website. I'm imagining you'd have a service to help cleanse gender, race, age, etc. information from the application materials. Even if you have phone or in-person late-stage interviews, this could radically change the makeup of the candidate pool at the final step.

I agree that meeting might never be necessary. I know an academic department that doesn't meet faculty candidates because they find the application materials are a better predictor of the kind of academic success they're looking for. I'm inclined to think this is true more often, but I have no data.
"wait for the service to be active" Well, how do you do that ? The service needs a way to to say "I'm done initializing and are now up and ready". That's not the way a lot of daemons are written today. They normally fork twice (or calls the daemon() function) and then starts initialization.

Looking through all the current init scripts, almost none of them do that. They launch the service executable, and report success it that succeeded. The service then often fork to place itself in the background, starts initialization, and might fail at that point without the init system noticing it.

The "forking" option of systemd will do the same, which is reasonable since a lot of existing services already works that way.

The apache init script on my system is one of the exceptions though, it doesn't directly launch apache, instead it starts apachectl, a program specifically written to start and interact with apache. That program communicates with apache, and therefore knows when it's started, whether it failed because httpd.conf had an error and so on.

That's not a general approach - unless you want to have each service accompanied by a program capable of doing IPC with the service for use with e.g. startup and shutdown. That'd make services portable among init systems and operating systems, so if you need that, it's a reasonable approach.

For systemd you'd can do the same, run apachectl to start apache.
No it doesn't.

At least from here it looks like they took the posts down as well.
Why would putting cargo into the crew compartment be unsafe? on the way up, there is no danger of the cargo falling on them... quite the contrary...
That's one solution to Prop 13; I can't help but think that the $120M would be better spent trying to repeal that example of what's wrong with direct democracy.
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95th Anniversary of Relativity's Confirmation
Definitely You should read "The general theory of employment, interest and money" by John Maynard Keynes. And from the other side of the economic spectrum try: "Free to choose" by Milton Friedman. Probably, you should also pick: "This time is different" by Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart.
I feel like Wealth of Nations probably tops Piketty's Capital in the Twenty First Century, as does On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation by David Ricardo, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions by Thorstein Veblin, The Road to Serfdom, Individualism and Economic Order by F.A. Hayek, Human Action by Ludwig von Mises.
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The DHL logo [0], it's odd but why do leaning or italic bold letters give a sensation of movement? Oh, and a logo from a dnb label [1].

[0] http://www.dhl.co.uk/en.html
[1] http://www.metalheadz.co.uk
Are you joking, right?
I couldn't shake the feeling that Elon seemed a bit nervous. The pressure of expectations when you're already successful, perhaps.

I wonder: the chairs do seem awkward, especially for someone who's spent 6 months in space (from what I've read, they can barely walk ... or is that less true these days?). I'm sure SpaceX knows a helluva lot more than me, though.

The inside ... it looks so roomy ... and pretty ... such a far cry from Soyuz, Apollo, or hell the Shuttle even. Like someone said, a spaceworthy Tesla, giant touchscreens and all.

Question: let's say an anomaly occurs, and it has to land using the chutes .. on land. How's that going to feel? Or, will they aim for a coastal area on purpose, and use the chutes to splash in the water if they have to?
From a Scandinavian point of view this seems like such a detour. Why wait for billionaires to be so kind of fund schools when you could tax wealth and fund public and universal education? Why do the American people chose this way time after time?
What to think of Viadeo’s €200 Million+ IPO plans?
Video is up now on their official YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEQrmDoIRO8
In light of this announcement, it's worth reading the New Yorker's fantastic piece exploring how Zuckerberg's previous $100 million investment into the Newark public school fared.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/05/19/140519fa_fact_...
Very nice, I might give OpenDNs another try as my backup DNS server now. I hate NXDOMAIN hijacking with a passion.

>This experience is one of the only reasons people cite to not use OpenDNS.

Yep, because people care about their privacy. I'm surprised OpenDNS didn't notice this before. I will probably start recommending them again now; after all, almost anyone is better to trust with something like DNS than google.
> 1978 seems a little early to be worrying about hacks of that variety.

Interesting, then, that the scenario already appeared in fiction by 1950 (in the Tintin story Objectif Lune/Destination Moon)
Unless you happen to own an as number I don't see how that info is personally identifiable.
I think the issue really is XP and the 20 year old compiler. It would be insecure to compile on an unpatched OS, and my guess is that they've been unable to get it to work satisfactorily in an updated compiler. Simple as that?
My two cents:

1. As pointed out correctly in the article and "Most A/B-Test Results are illusionary", using a non-sequential frequentist method in a sequential way leads to wrong conclusions. In this regard, the comparison is unfair. On the backside, the frequentists' sequential methods for more than one dimension seem to be rather complicated (for one dimension and binomial distribution, check out the Sequential Probability Ratio Test (SPRT)).

2. Finding a good prior is really really hard. Choosing a weak prior may lead to jumping to wrong conclusions. I found it useful to
a) choose a uninformative prior
b) do not perform a statistical analysis until 1-2 weeks of data are in (to be sure that all special-day-effects like weekends are caught) ... which could be seen as a prior with weight of the same interval ;)
c) using a simple old-fashioned permutation test to control the alpha error and prevent jumping to conclusions

While this approach has turned out to be too conservative in the binomial case, it becomes extremely important when dealing with revenue. Single customers do turn the tide. Often these are clear outliers, but sometimes it is not that easy to say. But this is a topic for another day.
> Eighty-two percent believe their personal information is still being analyzed by the US government, and 81 percent believe their personal information is being analyzed by corporations for business purposes.

I can't wrap my head around the other 20%, esp. in the latter statistic. What do they think the world looks like?
fuck you. is this really a meaningful thing for you to do? you really have nothing better to do than trace a username? even if it's all public info you're a piece of shit for tracing it for no reason besides outing because you can. fuck off and die you parasite.
Pranav Mistry Pitches for a Job to NaMo; Is Samsung Listening?
Give me a break they offered a service for free. Sure if they were an ISP I'd agree with you because your paying for the service but otherwise just don't use it?
Haha, Elon always seems nervous. Have you seen him in other videos? I think that's just his normal persona.
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Sigh.

Did you spend one nanosecond of time doing any research before firing off your oh so pious comment about sparing a few pennies to save the children?

A very quick google found me ed.gov, which is the US Department of Education. Here is an exact quote [1]:

ED currently administers a budget of $67.3 billion
in discretionary appropriations (including
discretionary Pell Grant funding) and operates
programs that touch on every area and level of
education. The Department's elementary and
secondary programs annually serve nearly 16,900
school districts and approximately 50 million
students attending more than 98,000 public
schools and 28,000 private schools. Department
programs also provide grant, loan, and work-study
assistance to more than 13 million postsecondary
students.

So it turns out that the federal government is already spending more than "a few million for the children".

And in case you slept thru civics 101 class, the very next paragraph from the ed.gov website points out:

That said, it is important to point out that
education in America is primarily a State and
local responsibility, and ED's budget is only
a small part of both total national education
spending ...

[1] http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/index.html
And here is that moment from life of brian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zyv6YHR_UE
Personally, I think bookmarks could use a visual reminder which damned site that was. Looking at thumbnail of a site is easier than searching for names.
> My only point is that parental income is not driving force behind racial achievement gaps

I wish I had more data for you, but how could it not be? Better incomes means better homes, in better neighorhoods, betters schools and access to the kind of environments suitable for realizing full educational potential of a child. With the notable exception of blacks who as noted in the American Life episode 'house rules'

"The average African-American household making $75,000 a year or more, that family lives in a poorer neighborhood than the average white family making less than $40,000 a year. That is, a black family making twice as much money as a white family probably still lives in a poorer neighborhood. That's according to a study from Brown University."

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/512/t...

which means that the access to better education of what I said above, probably doesn't apply to the same degree for blacks as it does for others.

> Also, if you have data showing Nigerian/Ghanaian/Jamaican immigrants do as well as Asians, or the original source for Amy Chua's data, I'd love to see it.

I wish I did, but I don't. I took an African American Studies class years ago with a source, but I didn't save it :\

> But then what causes the Asian/Mexican gap?

That I'm not sure of. Definitely plan to do a bit more reading around that
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When you search Google and copy a link from results page, thats what you get. Links are going through google.com and redirected to the site.

This is probably what author did. :/
Looks great, I'll definitely have a look at it!
The problem is that they won't say.
We're here, discussing of a potential violation - voluntary or not - of antitrust laws. All we have is a muddy answer by the lonely marketing gunslinger Google has put in chief of public replies to search issues.

How is this possible? Matt is the ultimate super-nice guy, and I think he's sincerely helpful and motivated, but he's nonetheless the keeper of a smoke screen.

I think this way of handling (better: brushing off) issues is unacceptable for a giant corporation whose search branch personifies the Web for a way too large amount of users.

Google is in a position of monopoly, at least on a cultural basis. Even if they don't exploit their power with evil intentions, they still retain it. They corporate mission may state what they want, but I don't get why that should be enough. It's a Public Company, and nobody should ever be satisfied with answers of the "take our word for it" kind.

And that "don't be evil" mantra? I've seen much too shit in the last few years to still believe it's not just an empty marketing motto.
Given that the application is open source, wouldn't that reason be easy to verify?
Ask HN: why Baidu cloud can offer me 2To when I register and not Dropbox?
Since i live in china, I have started using more and more chinese app on my android. I have discovered Baidu Yun which has offered me 2To space when i have registered. I was quite septical by the functionalities that it could provide me but later, I have seen their (Android/iOS) app gives me even more functionalities than dropbox.<p>This offer didn't have any time limit and last week, Baidu Yun has given to me 3To more so now I have 5To.
Baidu is not the only one who provides this offer, also Tencent QQ cloud gives me 30To.<p>Sure the only problem is that you have to be able to read chinese. However, the UI/UX of those App is very clear and you can do basic action very easily.
So, Google is the ultimate police against companies with pesky marketing practices?
Do you even realize how bad is this mindset?
Ambornite is currently $32 a day IIRC. MealSquares are aiming for $12. Compared to $9.6x for Soylent.
Ok. I extrapolated too much, and stand corrected.
Stone is used as primary material in Belgium, Luxemburg, The Netherlands, France, UK, most parts of Germany, ...
This way you can skip the FT paywall, since it looks like you're coming from search or google news.
It exploits the daily allowance of free articles shown to users coming from the search engine.
That is actually a good point, not sure why you got downvoted.
FontAwesome now has pied piper icons
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Why going into tech industry actually ?

As obvious as it sounds, you should go into the field that you are passionate about.

As one old dude said a long time ago: "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude"
Scroll to the image of the seat with the spacex logo embroidered.

We have begun a new chapter of space.
he's very open about his motivations: he wants to put people on Mars, himself included. he obviously needs truckloads of money to do that so he's involved in things that make money. now that spacex can more or less pay for itself he's in a great position to proceed with his goal.
Google.com – Search removal request
It may come as a surprise to people who read lots of startup news, because you tend to only hear about the successes, but generally it is not very easy to disrupt any business, or even become a millionaire. Achieving those for e.g. laundry might not make the world a much better place, but it is still quite an achievement.

The other side of this "wholly unnecessary"-business, is that with rising standards of living, necessities are already fairly well provided for, so it is quite obvious that any future desired consumer good will be mostly in the unnecessary category. A funny read about these types of things is "The Idea of Luxury: A Conceptual and Historical Investigation" by Christopher J. Berry, where he describes 18th century philosophers discussing what is luxury (i.e unnecessary) and what is necessity. They end up with a paradoxical example regardning the scant clothing of "savages" (that is non-europeans in warmer climates), and cannot resolve the fact that despite this clothing being really primitive by their standards, it is not strictly necessary for survival, or even most other activities, so they must conclude that even that is just luxury.
Brainwashing.

The US is an illusion.