skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They were never given any challenges and they never sought them out

This is the point - basic education and high schools aren't challenging students enough to prepare them to higher ed. If in addition to that you also don't have adults with higher education in your life to use as a reference, it makes it pretty hard to realize that you're not actually that good. Who wants to criticize themselves when all they hear is praise?
DNA is a molecule, and under the right conditions, you can see it under a microscope as chromosomes.
I love your ending :) "Does your local Node.js Meetup group need a presenter? I am available for paid speaking engagements. Email me for more info."
I don't know... This won't be as accurate as we want it. No matter what they use. I tried making a similar prototype using motion sensors, muscle sensors, neural network. But the thing is, a keyboard is just alot of possibilities for anything like that to predict. Plus, no feedback means our motion will be whole lot different than on normal keyboard.
If Snowden is 9/11 for "our industry," what does that say about Risen and Lichtblau's story describing NSA surveillance getting spiked by the NYTimes just before the 2004 elections, before eventually being allowed to be published over a year later?

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html?pa...

Those with innocent assumptions last year had their heads in the sand, and if we're talking about Google, Apple, et al, who claim to hire the best of the best, then that's a sad situation indeed. The simpler explanation is that it wasn't a problem to them until their customers found out.
I have no idea how you people survive to adulthood.
Google and the accidental mystery of Webdriver Torso
Did you read the article? It gave the sources for the data for both cities.
The author probably has no background in experimental design, so I would spare him of statistical scrutiny. This includes the author's furtive attempt to sneak in causation into a simple regression.

Or, if I were to give the author of the benefit of the doubt, Uber realized that this potentially inaccurate statistical claim ("Uber is inducing a drop in DUI") can help them win people's goodwill in areas where their operations have been thwarted/stunted by bureaucracy.

If so, they are really shrewd (for most laypeople don't understand anything about statistical inference), but I am not sure if I would trust a company that resorts to such a disingenuous campaign.

I actually want Uber to be a success. I love their service and envision it to be a real-time bidding platform for all sorts of (offline) services. But at the same time, I would be concerned if a company of such great promise is already acting intellectually dishonestly.

Hence, I really, really hope the author is just an idiot.
I agree, although I will say this happened to me yesterday, and I'm certain it was due to the anticipation of finishing the task.
Toggled for using NoScript:

http://www.spiders.us/species/filter/california/?PageSpeed=n...
'idiomatic' is used as newspeak for 'not the style I personally recognize as being the true Go way'.
There are a number of reports claiming that wheat strains in the US and Europe are quite different, with differing gluten levels. The US has certainly pioneered the breeding of high-gluten wheats, as they're better for processed goods.

Unfortunately, I can't find a reference with any science.

Certainly in Scandinavia wheat does not play the primary role that it does in the US. Rye, barley, and oats are common in the diet. How many Americans, though, have eaten 100% rye bread even once in their lives?
Gonzo journalism targeting a tech audience.

Turning back to Twitter, I like the service, and find 140 characters refreshingly brief. I don't know how to preserve it, but they've got huge mindshare and should be able to leverage that profitably.
Nature doesn't "optimize" like that exactly.

Naturally selection is a process of random mutations. The ancient ancestor of the first black widow might not have been some peculiar middle ground between benign and lethal, yet the random mutation of offspring which proliferated merely happened to be highly deadly.

Along that vein, I wonder if there have been random black window mutations since which have been even more lethal, but since this did not present a significant survival advantage, they did not live long enough to become a distinct species.
If Snowden didn't leak data on NSA surveillance none of the "internet giants" would care about encryption now. They'd continue cooperating as usual. What they do now is saving face, appearing like privacy heroes. These actions are likely agreed upon with the relevant agencies and designed to calm down the public.
The code look clear, even to me.

Also: Look like it have a debugger! That is something I was looking how do. Plus, bytecode (look clean) too.

RPython could output to ARM?
It's almost certainly at least a bit leaky; glass carboys tend to let a surprising amount of gas get in around the bung, which never seals quite perfectly.

That said, even if it falls short of a 100% perfect hermetic seal it's still darn impressive.
> This is a problem that will solve itself.

> Even an on-screen keyboard provides such feedback. Typing in the air doesn't.

Probably there.
I've gone through the (low quality) pictures offered at the front page and I still don't really get what the product is.
"Eh? Tapping a wire is one of the easiest ways to listen in to communications"

Yet splicing into fiber-optics, especially undetected, is not the same thing at all. The americans have special-forces submarines that help them with this. Not exactly rookie stuff.

see, eg >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter_%28SSN-23%29
They can block foreign intelligence agencies, not domestic. At that scale the government tells you what to do and you do it, may be its legal. If its not, they find something illegal you are doing and you go to prison.
@dalke - ++++ for most detailed and answer and clarification.
These specs clarify 2616. 'Major' may have been a poor choice of words, but if you were 2616 compliant, you should be largely compliant with these specs as well.
Funny, the reddit post (http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/27d0km/is_crossbario...) was really active, and this one is completly dead. Are the communities from both sites so linked I commited some kind of double posting without knowing it ?
http://www.amazon.com/The-Scientist-Crib-Early-Learning/dp/0...

This is what I recently recommended to new employees at my company. The three authors are highly respected researchers in the field. Here is a TED talk by Alison Gopnik (the main author) for a sense of her work on babies' and young children's natural readiness and ability to learn: http://www.ted.com/talks/alison_gopnik_what_do_babies_think
Google still has my plaintext.

We already know that the NSA has the power to barge into Google's server stacks and install their little black boxes wherever they please. Ergo, if Google has your plaintext, nothing Google does really matters. When Gmail starts to use public key encryption to encode my emails at my own computer and automagically decrypts them at my friends' computers, I'll start to trust Google. That's never going to happen though, because Google needs my plaintext so they can serve me targeted ads. That is their lifeblood.

If you fear the NSA, you should still fear Google.
As you say in your reply to the question, there are many journals who will publish almost anything just to get paid. We have all heard about the gibberish papers that get publish in Nature, etc.

Even for the average joe, publishing their findings in such a journal will very likely trigger the "crank" flag and thus erode any credibility.
Yes, I noticed this a lot with Javascript: I would often have a trailing comma at the last element of an array or object. Most browsers would let it go unremarked but it was stupidly a halting error in some versions of IE.

Anyway, when I made my own Vim syntax highlighter for JSON, I spent a fair amount of effort in getting such a trailing comma highlighted as an error: https://github.com/elzr/vim-json
Thanks for the recommendation, looks like a good read. Although I was a little disappointed when I found out his name was actually Andy Weir, not Any Weird :P
Only when it is highly condensed. In ordinary conditions you need something like xray crystallography.
There's a paper on latrotoxins available, "Molecular Evolution of α-Latrotoxin, the Exceptionally Potent Vertebrate Neurotoxin in Black Widow Spider Venom":

http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/5/999.full

It's way over my head though and I actually have no idea if it's backing up or refuting your claim.
54-year-old software project escapes vapor status to take on the PDF
I think the real issue here is that SpaceX has to compete on a global scale and American patents don't do anything to stop foreign companies or agencies from taking their technology. I doubt there is much, if any, competition in the US for SpaceX.
This sounds like a greAt idea.
Why are There so Few Female Computer Scientists? (1991)
Sure, Google has a policy of employing people with an strong academic background but I kind of think they're mostly grossly underutilised maintaining UI code or doing other drudgery. I'm sure a few get to exercise their academic muscles from time to time but according to friends of mine at google that's the exception rather than the rule.
Your idea can be equally applied to academics. As suggested elsewhere in the replies, you could identify academics who are already working in the relevant field by doing a bit of background reading. Then use carefully use the Tim Ferriss trick.

Academic institutions are, generally, keen to be seen to be collaborating with industry. So if said joe can work that angle there might even be collaborative research grants available to the cooperating institution.

As mentioned in my reply, it might be prudent to establish priority by self-publishing on average-joe.com and a reputable internet scientific archive like ArXiv. Doing so mitigates the risk of somebody else claiming the discovery as their own.
If you believe you're aware of any security issues with WordPress core itself, Automattic is running a Bug Bounty program over on HackerOne here: https://hackerone.com/automattic/ -- responsible disclosure, bug bounties, and making the web a safer place is awesome.
Mimikatz Against Virtual Machine Memory Part 1
Helps to select journals that do double-blind reviews. Eliminates possible bias against non-affiliated submissions.
Agreed. However, even if they successfully targeted domestic terrorists, I think that's still a job for the FBI and not the NSA. And that's a job that requires search warrants for an individual person and not a large cross-section of the population.
This keyboard will have the same problem that iPad/tablet keyboards have - lack of a mechanical response, and without that, you'd find it just as painful to use AirType as you would a tablet. IMO, sure, but you wait for it ;)
"Not Rayiner, but he isn't speaking on behalf of Americans at large, but the subset of those who build and implement these features."

No, that's the thing. His repeated claim is that the majority of all Americans don't mind what the NSA are doing.
All the encryption in the world won't matter if the government can pass laws saying it's legal to intercept data before it's encrypted or to force companies to decrypt the information or to provide the decryption keys.

It sounds good to the rubes and may provide some protection against non-governmental interceptors, but otherwise, it won't have an effect.
Adding a credit card type dropdown seems unnecessary. There are standard number patterns for each card provider, and making users select one is silly since cc gateways don't typically ask (they use the number patterns). I'd like to know if something about adding that step actually helped conversion or had no affect at all.
I don't think Twitter has a had a quarter in the black yet. It's a bit premature to say it is a success, nevertheless compare it to the monster AOL was.
Hexacorn – Beyond good ol’ Run key, Part 12
I've done this plenty of times. It pains me that I have to modify the footer on 5 different pages if something changes. I want to separate the content from the design, but I dont want to use databases. And I want to use ready-made templates that work well in different environments.
The equal protections clause, as other people are not required to sell through an independent middle-man. Perhaps the due process clause as well, depending on how the statute is written and enforced.
Or a simpler way instead of implementing a new language -- just use a custom keyboard. Android already has this and iOS 8 just added it.
Finally, the spec is crystal clear that message bodies on GET requests are not illegal.
Emulating cycle-perfect interrupts on the 6502 and 6522 VIA
Are academics going to be sufficiently incentivized to do free online peer review for meaningless internet points à la StackOverflow? I have my doubts.
The previous headline was creating too much cognitive dissonance, given that HN is a CloudFlare site with IPv6 disabled.
That's the idea, but the idea that it's even possible to test intelligence with a multiple choice test is fallacious. Intelligence is simply too difficult to define. The fine tuning on these sorts of tests simply betrays a false sense of confidence of their usefulness in measuring intelligence.

I will concede that scores on the ACT or SAT are correlated with intelligence. But like most tests, you can improve your score with practice and study. If I can get a better score after preparing for the test, it doesn't measure intelligence, at least not directly.
As much as I love Erowid, I've had an impossible time trying to contact them for using their experience vault for research. I have the time and the skillset to make the application they're looking for, but I highly doubt Earth would get back to me.
There's a difference between a full-featured multi-screen native-feeling app implemented in a webview with Phonegap and a wrapper around an existing web site. You can do a lot of interesting things in a webview and come, for some purposes, reasonably close to a native look and feel. The previous comment was right to warn about Apple's policies.

(I spent some time playing with Phonegap but it was two years ago and a simple app took 30 seconds to launch on an iPhone 3GS. Probably significantly better now, and faster as hardware has improved.)
I was thinking the same. So Tuesday Morning it is.
Pardon my ignorance but how are GET payloads useful? Does that not violate REST principles?
Google Making End-to-End Encryption for Emails
Ever Wished Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? He Just Did
Regarding the "EEG like" comment, measuring the electrical activity of the muscles is termed "electromyography" or EMG
Thanks, I certainly understand that, since we only launch it once, I want to make sure I get the timing right.
Honest question: is this not a classic example of the fallacy of claiming causation in an observational study, in the presence of a potentially infinite number of confounding variables? I'm not a statistics expert by any means, but this is one of the first things taught in an intro stats class: observational studies can establish relationships (correlation), but only well designed experiments can establish causation. This is quite obviously an observational study, and a tiny one at that.

Furthermore, wouldn't the fact that marijuana was legalized in Washington violate the parallel trend assumption that has to hold to use difference in differences when comparing with San Francisco?

I understand the powerful incentive for Uber to provide this narrative, and I think anything that encourages people to not drive while intoxicated is a good thing. I just find it disheartening that companies feel the need to start with these powerful marketing narratives (which these types of 'studies' really are, not honest efforts to uncover useful knowledge), and use dubious analysis to give those narratives credibility.

It's not that I'm disputing there is a relationship - they've obviously identified that. I have a problem with statements like these: "We estimate that the entrance of Uber in Seattle caused the number of arrests for DUI to decrease by more than 10%." And, "We can reasonably extrapolate these results and apply them to what we consistently hear from our riders in Chicago and elsewhere." It is quite a stretch to claim that Uber caused anything based on an observational study with a minuscule amount of data, and it is even further of a stretch to claim that you can combine this claim with anecdotal evidence and somehow generalize it into principle.
Older HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7459080
As someone new to HTTP, what would be the most pragmatic way to read through this RFCs in the context of building web applications or HTTP APIs but not to the level of wanting to implement a http server or http client? for example: order of reading, what can be avoided, what is not widely use or implemented, the basics of the protocol, etc...
Whoa, let's avoid war crime apologetics. That's a pretty offensive claim.
Some of that is good and true, but trip itinerary transparency and rated drivers don't necessarily make for a good ride...

4 of 5 of my Uber rides in the last two weeks had 4.8-4.9 star drivers that didn't know the intersection I wanted to go to in SF. They all searched directions to/from: Sutter/Stockton, 20th/Valencia, a block from Market/Church, and 4th/Howard - all of those being non-trivial streets in one form or another (especially Market St, really, you're asking me for directions to Market St, that's like asking me where the Strip is in Vegas). Not to mention I'm not sure why they keep asking for directions too, since it's not like a cab I'll never see again overcharging me through my own fault - if I have a problem I will contact Uber and they will fix it (also a good thing!). One guy even asked for instructions, disregarded them, got stuck in traffic without ending the ride early, and made me and my husband late for an appointment that we would have been 5-10m early for if he didn't space out - helloooo 1 star rating. Oh, and half the time, I will get drivers with so much cologne on that I feel sick.

Say what you will about the terrible state of cabs in SF because it's all true and then some, but I think both cabs and Uber have a lot of _different_ problems to work out. A 5 star driver is not someone who has to enter in "Market and Church" in a GPS, it's not someone that poured half a bottle of cologne on themselves that morning, and it's most definitely not a person that fucks around driving in the direction they were explicitly told not to go in.

Some days I am jealous of NYC and London and other cities where I've had excellent experiences with cabs and Uber just adds a small layer of luxury/convenience on top of that if I choose. SF used to be that way with Uber a few years ago but not so much anymore - the price decrease and choices are nice but I wish I could get quality too - both Uber Black and UberX are just meh now.
> We already know that the NSA has the power to barge into Google's server stacks and install their little black boxes wherever they please

Please do point out how we know that.

> When Gmail starts to use public key encryption to encode my emails at my own computer and automagically decrypts them at my friends' computers, I'll start to trust Google. That's never going to happen though

So you didn't read the end of the article or see the news from earlier this week.
EU says firms like Google and Facebook must meet privacy rules
I don't believe the equal protection clause would be applicable. All residents of New Jersey are subject to the same standards, and the state would be able to articulate a rational basis for the restriction (ensuring consumer access to repair and warranty service, for example). Same with the due process clause, the state merely needs a rational basis, or a "legitimate governmental interest", which is reasonably trivial for consumer protection legislation.
Things that make Go fast
I think it helps the user feel confident in the form's accuracy.

In some cases, abstracting or automating away information from the user can make them confused or increase distrust in the form. There's something to be said for making things 100% clear and upfront to the user.

This is something you'd test, it's not something I'd say with confidence would increase or decrease conversion rates; but I definitely understand the hypothesis behind it.
I started business development with dBase II, after a while I was forced due to hardware availabilty to upgrade (CP/M going out of style). we Got Macs. dBase Mac was an expensive joke then finally settled on McMax, that became incompatible with system 7 IIRC then slid on over to FoxBase+/Mac, (which was excellent) until OSX, but the new owners, Microsoft, provided an out, FoxPro (at least till intel), then again they shortly dropped Mac support so that was all moot. All these times nothing was really wrong with the code but I was at the mercy of commercial firms in finding compatible versions, getting licenses and having just basic long term support. Most other solutions were either expensive or lock-in to a platform, and from experience no better guarantee of longevity of the platform.

So I went open source - with a LAMP stack - if I want to run old versions there's no problem, maybe with hardware - but that also isn't as big a factor. No worries on selecting client compatibility as it is web based (have had to tweak based on HTML/Browser revisions, but nothing that really broke beyond fixing). Every component was free (enough) for what I was doing, and it pretty much just worked. I feel I had wisely steered clear of Filemaker Pro, Access, Cloudbase, Panorama, Visual Basic, or any other platform where I had to plug in a key and/or ask permission in order to install/use it. I was happy, staff was happy... and still are. Never looked back since.

.Net and other MS technology just reminds me of the struggles of the past added with new licensing schemes and more intricate lock-in. So I prefer to ignore it. If I was going to do local machine development instead of web based Python would be the direction I'd go.
A few months ago, I saw a (seemingly) working model that used wires on the fingertips and rotational potentiometers to detect finger flexion.

I wouldn't be surprised if the same algorithms they developed can be adapted to myoelectric sensors (if they haven't done so already).
What problem does this solve exactly? I want to think this is really cool, but I'm having trouble convincing myself why people would buy this.
This is the correct answer.

Recruiters are generally desperate to fill roles, and doubly so for engineers in the current market. Some of them will carefully discern how to find the best candidates and contact them with discretion. Many of them will not.

If you want to work at Google, or anywhere else, then by all means pursue this. But treat being contacted by recruiters as an unrelated and independent event.
I lived for a few years in a particularly widow-prone area and had many black widows in the house and garage. I eventually realized that the daddy-long-legs variant in my house seemed to compete handily with them. So I stopped cleaning webs and found I had far fewer black widows. My house appeared rather shabby though. Tradeoffs.
Ah, sorry, I was misunderstanding the rules. Thanks!