skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who knows how many of his papers he did himself?

[Because usually wealthy drug abusing rich sons of prestigious fathers do all their hard work themselves right?]
I'd be interested in more about your beefs on R.

Note that its origins are the earlier language 'S', part of the original AT&T UNIX suite, and seen as an adjunct to the data knife of awk. Later you'd likely have paired Perl, Python, or Ruby, and likely a pseudo-database (sqlight, say), along with some stats and graphing libraries or tools.

My own stats background includes some very basic SPSS, as well as SAS and R, and graphics under gnuplot. I've always found R tremendously difficult to grok, though I've known a number of statisticians I respected (at least as statisticians, if not as programmers) who found R exceptionally useful and powerful. My understanding is that its real value is as a matrix manipulation language, which may account for both its obscure syntax and appeal among hard-core stats geeks.

But still: your criticisms?
There is a feedback mechanism in Curb (I'm a former employee). For some taxi companies, LA for example, Curb has very deep links into the dispatch system and can choose not to offer rides to certain drivers directly - so enough bad feedback and the taxi driver will no longer get Curb ride offers. For other taxi companies reviews get reported back to the taxi management and they can act on the report as they choose (some companies act quickly and promptly and some others don't do anything).
You may have missed the point.

Signing up for more services would be exactly the opposite of getting off the grid.

Instead, do things like hosting your own email, use an OpenPGP card to access any Linux servers you run, stop using Facebook and Gmail, etc.
"We don't have aristocrats in the US."

Not yet.
A bit of a late reply, but I have switched to using this on my home LAN now:
https://github.com/jodrell/unbound-block-hosts

Basically, a Perl script to massage the data from Dan Pollock's list into a format suitable for unbound (http://www.unbound.net/)
This is obviously controlling for qualifications like test scores, dummy.
Hogg & Craig used to be one of the standard texts.
This white "reverse racism" meme seems to have really caught on in the last decade or so. To the point that white people now think they are discriminated against more than black people[1]. Our culture sucks.

[1] http://politicalblindspot.com/study-finds-white-americans-be...
What seemed PRish to you in those articles?
I think that they found a sweet spot where they can make a lot of money and still get away with it, because companies will get acquihired and VCs recoup their investment before people get fed up and start complaining. And "growth hacking" and "hustle" and the like are just ways of making those practices not trigger pangs of conscience, the way saying "you're being an antisocial, malicious jerk" might.
Don't advertise your ignorance.
If you find yourself wanting tldrs, maybe this isn't the site for you.
Are you actually trying to imply that Snapchat is the next Facebook?
Sorry- mistakenly posted on a different thread.
The wikipedia quote doesn't seem to support your point, though.

It specifically lists "price-setting monopolies" and the like (which would include price-fixing agreements between Google & Apple, right?) as interference in a free market. Prices must be set freely by consent between sellers and consumers, not amongst sellers in backroom deals.

If a government's only "regulation" is to stop monopolies, price-fixing, and other violations of the natural supply/demand pricing, then you have a free market.

If no one stops those things, then you do not have a free market.
Apple planning 12.9-inch iPad for 2015: Bloomberg
No, the tests are run as part of the deploy. So before deploying a library, if the tests don't pass, the deploy fails.

However, the artifact that actually gets deployed is a .jar file containing .class files. Users of libraries don't rebuild the libraries.
Thomassons
How does this handle HTML changes over time ? I believe this will store a URL + Selector , then periodically scrap the page over time. just curious what happens if the page changes later.
2 Mbits means 900 Mbytes per hour -- enough for youtube streams in 480p (and more often than not, in 720p, without pauses to buffer), and ok if software distributions are downloaded (XUbuntu 14.04 was 900 Mb, iirc); music takes a fraction of the downstream capability...

Shortly, people used to 30 MBit downlinks might have forgotten how little most of our (modern-day) media requires -- often a megabit, or two per second :)
The problem I see with the, "we're just recruiting drivers! fair game!" is that it's not.

When an Uber Rep goes into Lyft Driver's car, the Rep is technically a "customer" and the Driver can't exactly hang up on the Rep, ignore the Rep, nor drive away from the Rep. They are essentially forced to listen to a spiel about Uber that they may or may not want to hear. Yes the Driver is getting "paid" for the time spent but the Driver no longer has control over being recruited.

Recruiters sending me emails? Kinda annoying and takes a bit to click "delete" if I don't care for it. But at least I can choose not to read the email. When one of these Uber Reps gets into the car, the Lyft Driver has no choice.
Intel Will Unveil a New Luxury Smart Bracelet with a Curved Glass Display
“In the early 1990s, the market again experienced rapid growth, devouring adjoining neighborhoods. A series of neoliberal governments reduced and privatized public services under pressure from the International Monetary Fund and The World Bank, causing unemployment and underemployment in the city to reach over 60 percent. Former engineers, nurses, accountants, and teachers turned to running small businesses in the Oriental.”
A comparison between the new ECMAScript 6 language features and C#
I am a big fan of http://www.amazon.com/Probability-Computing-Randomized-Algor... . Every time it teaches a new chunk of theory it motivates and grounds it in some algorithmic application.
ComponentCSS: Just published, feedback appreciated
We use it to pay our babysitter, it's awesome.
I totally agree with that guy, and I've been looking for likeminded people for months.

Beside social stigma, the most important barrier to living a transparent life is our reliance on secrets for identification. That includes Social Security numbers, Credit Card numbers, bank account passwords/nips, all details about physical keys and locks, etc.

You might say that public access to the above information is only a problem in conjunction with private property rights. But even if nobody owns anything, secret/public keys are currently some of the best way to identify people and track trust/reputation/opinions. Without some kind of alternative, anybody could claim anything in my name. That's problematic.

We need a way to accurately track and identify people, without the need to rely on secrets. Beside having billions of independent cameras/trackers everywhere and cross-validate their measurements, I don't know how we're going to achieve that.
Facebook has an incredibly deep knowledge of millions of users.

I wouldn't consider Facebook in the same group as Twitter/Snapchat.
I haven't heard of many bear attacks since Uber started offering their service either. Must be connected.
Microsoft filled patent applications for scoped and immutable types
"Microsoft being microsoft again.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2014/0196015.html - DECLARATION OF
LIFETIME OF RESOURCE REFERENCE
This contains description of scoped classes, etc.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2014/0196008.html - IMMUTABLE OBJECT TYPES

I really hope patent office will reject these applications."

SOURCE: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ltinlp$79s$1@digitalmars.com
When backups can be enabled at 20% of instance cost I'll deal with it. Nothing beyond development work runs on only one instance due to the problems I've seen even on Amazon.
She chooses to think deeply and slowly about problems but I am sure she can think fast if she has to. You don't get gold medals at the IMO otherwise.

http://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=926
What was that coding game?
What was that game on HN a few months ago that had different levels/missions where you edited the code to break your character out of a set of walls made from asterisks?

Some levels had drones that would follow you and you had to edit the code to prevent them from landing on you.
Here's another relevant HN discussion about the relationship of CS and Statistics:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6630491

The boosting, random forest, support vector machine, and deep learning ideas should have been developed in Statistics. Why weren't they?

It's much deeper than TI-83 calculators and cookbook AP courses!
Do you or anyone else have any further sources studying this split between "fast thinkers" and "deep thinkers"? I would be very interested in a way to find people who were "deep;" it seems like most of the technical interviewing techniques screen more for "fast" people.
I could not agree more; I feel the same way.

It always makes me shudder when banks or other supposedly high security institutions ask me to provide the answer to "What city were you born in?" for extra security. I don't want to have to guard that secret, because it's not. Just an example.

I feel that in a world with perfect transparency we wouldn't have to worry about things. If someone tried to impersonate you or steal your money, _they_ would get into trouble because it'd be public knowledge what they did.

It's just much easier to rely on things being okay because everyone knows everything, rather than because everyone doesn't know certain things.
Power can be used to obtain asymmetrical information,

However, asymmetrical information can also directly be used to obtain Power. (The simplest example is blackmail).
3D Animation I made of the earthquakes locations and magnitude http://blitzkopf.github.io/ .
But anyways there is no real eruption yet.
Ah, I missed that one.

Although it also appears to be much more distant in that shot, hence the (possible?) reason for a longer exposure.

It's interesting to note that the closer shot is an 8 second exposure, though I'm not sure what bearing that might have.
Which stats book did you use for which course?

Intro stats is typically taught abysmally, because it's been dragged down by eighty years of pre-computing historical stats.
This was written 3 years after the invention of the first silicon transistors at bell labs. Why doesn't the Future computers section make any mention of computers becoming smaller? It even goes the opposite way and suggests one giant computer over multiple computers.
I don't know the details of American law but in Denmark if uber is doing what is described here it would be illegal (breaks several parts of "markedsføringsloven" - law of marketing).
The Kennedys and Bushes disagree with that assertion. ;)
> not all companies that break bad laws are good.

This to me, is the key of the problem. Yes, the taxi medallion system was broken in many cities and Uber is forcing to at least acknowledge that regulation in it's current form it's not longer useful. But I think that as a company Uber it's not a positive force on the public transportation market. Quite the opposite. I love tu use it when I'm in San Francisco but cannot shake the feeling that we are screwing ourselves long term by supporting it.
True, but I can see the trend. Maybe 10 generations of glass later, when the glass/smartphone/tricorder device is ubiquitous, we'll see memes happen in society similar to the OPs feelings of 'share everything'.

But maybe not. Maybe we'll get videos of people dumping water buckets on themselves.
See, I've been hearing about and seeing people use Square for years, and I've never heard about Venmo until now.
Red Square Nebula
that is just new generation of business - like Google installed CPU farms Snapchat needs to do the same, only with GPU farms. Tangentially, it is interesting that Google is lagging with GPU - they are previous generation and just don't see the place for it in their business which is text based. New generation obviously going to be image based. FB is in between - they still have chance, yet start to lag behind.
"And at the heart of its operations is a virtual data center powered by off-the-shelf server hardware, various flavors of Linux, and over 6 million lines of software code."

-- http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/the-na...
Three, actually.

I missed the other one as well which was a 3 second exposure. So, my mistake. (I thought for certain I didn't see anything with 30 seconds on it, but I think somewhere along the lines my brain filtered out the watermarks inappropriately, which I shouldn't have done.)

Although I'm still puzzled why some are getting caught up on the frame with a 30 second exposure. The image in question is clearly taken of a distant object, and the other exposures are reduced in exposure time by an order of magnitude.

Clearly, there was something occurring. Whether or not it was volcanic is another story entirely (or whether it was a collection of boats). The only use here though is to argue whether the differing exposure times was intentional in order to capture an image that differed from the actual event. But given the different exposure times, the alternative explanation is that he selected them based (at least in part) on proximity to the point of interest.
You don't catch buses in the Valley?
> I think one of the arguments for this would be the fact that it actually happens - i.e. people left alone tend to form governments that then make flood control systems :).

I should have said "efficiently produce flood control systems." In other words, produce them in cases where the benefits outweigh the costs, and not produce them in cases where the costs outweigh the benefits. Of course, that's implied in the concept of "public good problem."

> From what you wrote in your previous comment I understand that you believe, that if one would sum up all the benefits and all the costs of government regulation, one would end up with a negative number. Have I undestood you correctly?

Yes, although I fully recognize that there is probably no physical way to measure and agree on each cost/benefit.

> I.e. what makes the costs bigger than benefits?

I think the biggest effect is that concentrated interests tend to beat dispersed interests when they compete to influence a government, and less so when they compete in a market.
I think a better distinction are qualities of intelligence. For example a meticulous person will do well in a hard pattern matching puzzle, but ask them to do symbol substitution and they will be relatively slow and get a low score.
I have used Lyft in Seattle and am very satisfied. I've found Lyft a much more fun and relaxed ride than Uber.

Uber does have an explicit SUV option (I don't recall Lyft having this), which has proven to be a boon upon occasion.
IMO there should be two titles, the resources given title and an editorial title which would at least initially be provided by the submitter if they felt the given title was not descriptive. That should curtail titular editorialisations.
I think it's a little different when the word (i.e. neckbeard) is pejorative.
Schlage secureky is far less bump resistant than some other slider designs.

I've also seen pin-locks that incorporate a single disc-detainer to make bumping harder (a single disc-detainer likely isn't enough to actually prevent bumping, since you could probably just get N bump keys where N is the number of set positions for the disc detainer).
Context, please. That means Einstein was a 99.99%ile fast thinker in a room of 99.999%ile fast thinkers.
This a nice summary; I was actually thinking about doing my own writeup of this very thing. I have a few thoughts beyond what was covered in the blog post:

For many protocols and modes of communication, UDP is really lousy for the developer -- we end up re-inventing TCP (congestion control, retransmission, etc.). Unfortunately, if we want to traverse NAT, we often must rely on UDP hole punching and thus use UDP. There's a TCP hole punching technique called "TCP simultaneous open", but it seems too flaky to expect to work in the real world. I've been thinking about trying UDT [1] as a user-mode TCP-like connection layer over UDP.

In addition to the ugly UPnP technique for asking a router to automatically port-forward, there have been attempts to standardize a much simpler solution in NAT-PMP and it's successor, PCP. (PCP even works for IPv6 stateful firewalls.) Many people do have security concerns about this capability. I don't know to what extent NAT-PMP/PCP has made inroads into the router market -- it would be interesting to conduct some sort of survey.

[1] http://udt.sourceforge.net/
This is a great idea. A public clearing house utility for transportation. Seattle just started one of these to integrate public and private parkinglot availability. Why not for personal transit? it would be like the nasdaq of transpo.
No, no, no, both of you are doing it wrong.

Asymmetrical possession of information is power. They're not cause and effect, they are the same thing.

Remember the dude who said knowledge === power? He really meant "===", not "if A then B," and not even "==" (if you use certain dynamically typed languages).

So what this guy is really saying is that he's okay with other people having unlimited power over him, so long as everyone has similarly unlimited power over everyone else, since they'll all hopefully cancel each other out. He's not just talking about the future of privacy, he's talking about the future of power. I suppose it's going to be a rather suffocating world, but at least all the animals in the farm might finally have a chance to be equal. Gotta give him credit for coming up with one of the more imaginative ways to achieve equality.

Thanks, but I'd rather live in a world where everyone has equally limited power over everyone else.
boooo facebook... nvidia and others have been pioneering here long before facebook bought out the rights to oculous.. and certainly facebook is NOT the forefront of VR... unless you count virtual-friends.... ..in which case... bravo facebook...
The Zumwalt isn't lacking for missiles, and since when are we in a drone deficit?
Houzz Launches a Localized Version to Renovate Australia's Home Design Market
Also, the article frequently mentions a 120-second timeout interval, within which the connection needs to be refreshed. In Linux (and thus most consumer routers?), I believe the timeout is actually 30 seconds for UDP. :(
Imagine if google and facebook were calling up random numbers at each others' headquarters in order to recruit. If the recruiter ended up guessing a number of an engineer that they've already reached, they would hang up. If they hadn't spoken to them they would give them a pitch on switching companies.

This would be an accurate analogy, and I think if either google or facebook were doing this we (the tech community) would complain about it.
Where did you see anything about Uber canceling rides specifically as a tactic to make Lyft lose money? Everything I've seen has indicated that the rides were canceled because the Uber recruiters realized they were calling a Lyft driver that had already been spoken to.
I didn't know that existed - does anyone else in Australia provide those graphs?
It's an impressive story, but there is a notable difference between sending your details to a person you know the name of, who you can directly implore not to be a bastard, and just opening things up completely. This is noted in the article near the end: "In fairness, Dyer hardly shared his private communications with the whole world.".

We already know from other experiences that public display of financial account numbers results in bad actors taking advantage of them (eg Jeremy Clarkson's stunt, or the disaster relief credit card pictured in a story on Hurricane Katrina). One chosen individual is unlikely to be a bad actor. The general public does however contain them - opening up to one individual is quite different to a wide demographic.
In a strange sense, in particular when reading the article, I'm reminded of a certain Orwellian utopia in which there was virtually no extant privacy.

Maybe it "facilitates lying," although I think that's a rather extremist view, but if there's information I'm not willing to provide you, I may not necessarily be lying--I just don't feel that it's pertinent or necessary for you to know. Or in particularly pathological cases, I've simply forgotten, so neither of us will be privy to information that has been lost or destroyed. It's just unfortunate that it seems in this case, "lying" has been stretched to mean "lack of information or imperfect information" rather than "a statement which is not factual truth." That's not an argument I agree with.

Likewise, I'm not so sure a privacy-less world would be, or bring about, utopia. At least, thusfar, I haven't read anything that has convinced me. Yes, I'm sure part of it is due to my own experiences in our world where privacy is a norm, but I'm not sure I completely buy into the belief that privacy facilitates all of these ills spoken about in TFA (or by yourself or other commenters). For one, there will always be actors with malevolent intentions--eliminating privacy for all individuals is unlikely to change that fact.

Groupthink also comes to mind wherein opposing opinions are punished by way of mob justice. I could foresee a world where a lack of privacy encourages homogenous public opinion, either because those who might be inclined to disagree fear embarrassment or punishment.
Well, the game tanked, we didn't get huge bonuses and next to no comp time so... mostly just drained life force.

It was a technically challenging project, though, and I learned a lot on it.
I'm confused. AAPT, Optus, PipeNetworks, etc all offer transit at significantly lower prices than this for anything I've been quoted with (circa $20-30/Mbps for 100Mbps+).

Is this just because they're offering blended traffic?
Other Australian states are on http://ix.asn.au/peering.html
and a touch screen!

Edit: and a battery and a case...
Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights pioneer
Lack of privacy seems like a good way to encourage cultural genocide. Total transparency for individuals would make it easier for prevailing thought-leaders to suppress minority groups. Culture could be eliminated before it has a chance to coalesce to the point of daring to enter public acceptance. To think otherwise is to believe that cultural tyranny (thus legal tyranny) wouldn't exist in a world where no one may hide. That's foolish. Tyranny bred in complete openness is possibly more insidious. It's harder to escape.

The author, perhaps, isn't bothered by the many reasons why other people unlike himself want privacy and have wanted privacy throughout history. Maybe the plight of others will never be good enough for him to change his advocacy. There's irony in his case. Not so long ago, and to this day in many parts of the world, revealing oneself as an atheist would have made one subject to extreme persecution, if not quicker death. It was through a long course of secrecy, over a gradual shift in public perception, which was rapidly accelerated by the soft veil of the internet, that more people began to feel safe enough to 'come out' as atheists. (Granted, that history didn't have a complete lack of privacy. Yet, if it had, I'd wager that the world today would have even fewer "heretics" upon whose shoulders others may rest their unpopular thoughts.)

Transparency should be a growing expectation people have toward all governments and institutions that wage force over people. I agree with that part.