skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your point is that all branches of statistics are built on the same axiomatic foundations of probability, of course I agree.

> To respond to your question about sample size, I'd have to look into some of the details of your question. And I can say now, that question, those details, and any answer all have essentially nothing to do with the axiomatic foundation of probability I gave; the answer is the same or essentially so independent of those foundations down in the deep sub basement of the subject.

This has been my point all along.
iCloud hacked, Dozens of nude photos with Jennifer Lawrence were stolen
Accepted and Rejected Pycon Proposals
Nice, simple, and addictive! If you don't mind, adding it to startuplister.com
Side note to your side note is here:
https://github.com/codedance/Retaliation
Yeah, and this is why I'm very careful about recording the versions I use for a calculation (version number and/or commit for the language, library version numbers, and commit for my code). The thing is, that's not your first step: the first step is to try and get the thing to run on whatever Java (/Julia/Matlab/Mathematica/Fortran) you have installed. If that doesn't work, there are a thousand things it could be (improper usage, some missing file you had no clue you might need, change in libraries, change in OS/distro/CPUarch, out-of-memory with a new set of parameters); installing an old version of your language and trying it on that is not necessarily easy, and certainly not the first bug-finding step.

Philip Guo (pgbovine) addressed many of these problems in his thesis work, on Burrito (http://www.pgbovine.net/burrito.html ) and CDE (http://www.pgbovine.net/cde.html ). Both of these look very cool, but I've never managed to get over the hump and actually start playing with them.

At this point I should note that I'm actually in favor of fixing a bad standard-library PRNG---I just think it's important to understand (a) what could break, and (b) why users might be unhappy about the breakage. This isn't quite a Chesterton's Fence sort of situation, but it's similar in spirit.
Murder by post.

If its not a baby you are terminating then you're not pregnant.
Seconded. Corporate network only as the place from where company managed clients are allowed to access production network, where the data stays. Even when someone manages to steal all the electronics from the office, he still doesn't get any data/source code/whatever. Easier said than done though.
It's hard to find fault with either side for the core problem of not fitting in. However, everything else could have been handled better. This is a learning experience.

First, hiring people based on interviews is known to be a bad procedure. To determine if a person fits a company, you have to let them do some actual work first. Working remote for a period of time is good, but if you're looking for an on-site employee: fly them out, pay them and cover all their expenses for a week, and have them work at least three days. Both sides could have figured out so much about each other if you had only done this.

Then, if someone still turns out to be a bad fit long-term, firing that person is a good decision. Both as a CEO and as the company, you have to take the high road, and make sure you're way more generous than you need to be (especially if that employee moved to another country for you). Clearly you went a step in the right direction there as you stated, but it's still not enough. You should have sat down with that guy and figured out together what it would take to get him back home as smoothly as possible.

Finally, your communication style. It's hard to come out on top when you're faced with this kind of criticism. But keep in mind that you allowed this situation to develop in the first place. While it's certainly your responsibility to raise buzz and sound enthusiastic on behalf of your own company, don't fall into the trap of congratulating yourself too much. We're here because something went wrong, not because everything is beyond awesome over there. Acknowledge that. Implement measures to avoid this in the future. And "a position just opened up :)" is certainly not the right tone at the moment.
Why did this get downvoted? It's actionable and on topic.
I went to high school in Canada where we had to take a standardized exam for each course at the end of the semester. For our math course we were allowed to use an "approved" graphing calculator. Our teachers told us not to buy anything but the TI-83+, because they wanted to guarantee a "factory reset" before exams. Anything else would waste too much time for them.
Looking forward to use instead of Google's Hangouts: Signal on the desktop.
This is a chapter from a textbook, one that seems pretty introductory at that. I'd say it is a pretty important piece of information to convey and prove, this ability of neural networks to represent any function.

Seems to me that jumping to whether they can "learn any function" as you asked, would certainly have come after this is first established.
> We have lots of examples of the government abusing their use of online information.

That isn't what he said. He said that if the government is going to forge information, then the availability of location information is not necessary nor useful for that task.
The claims are most certainly not true. Regarding the code and team we have an mazing team and our code is pretty good, especially since going through YCombinator we have grown at a tremendous rate which sometimes forces us to cut some corners. Of course our code could be better, and it was precisely for this that we hired someone that we thought could be a valuable contributor to the code. Unfortunately we were wrong, as it is ow publicly obvious, but fortunately the rest of the team is truly excellent.
Maybe. Some parts of the design may be copyrighted. I think the programming language cannot be, and patents, if any, have probably expired by now.

The problem then is, once you have the clone, you need to get the professors to know about it, and not requiring any specific calculator.

In any case, I'm not sure it would change much in practice. When I was at school, teachers didn't require any particular calculator. Half my class chose Casio, the other Ti. Two competitors are apparently not enough to drive prices down.
Your email isn't shown on your profile. Also, when you try and reapply again you get a message saying "You have already applied for this position. Please wait at least 6 months before reapplying."
Android 4.4 mini-PC packs 64-bit quad-core Atom punch
Creator does look great, but so does Interface Builder. IB has caused me to leave the computer in a state of shock from frustration, so I'll have to reserve judgement.

Performance is fairly good. I get around 5 seconds on a 4s, and about 8 on a Nexus S, though I haven't tested with recent code on the Android Phone. The only native API I've used has so far been push notifications. While there's a plugin for that, it works as a pretty thin bridge between native code, and a couple of dispatch functions that use stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString. I've had to fix things, so it means having to understand Cocoa code anyway.

There are also some visual issues with the code, in that the view will save its state if the user uses a route in a view to change the current view. Normally this would help, but if it frequently updates the view changes back and then it flickers.

Overall it's ok if you really love web tech, but I'm learning native iOS development in response to my experience.
Ask HN: Need recommendation for powerful content publishing API/CMS
Hi there --

We're a sports data analytics company (www.getscorecast.com) that seeks to integrate written content into our website.

Can anyone recommend a CMS that is powerful for developers but also has a simple-to-use interface for writers? We don't need the many website-building features that Wordpress offers -- we've got that covered.

We need software that is focused on publishing content -- primarily text, but flexibility for video and audio would be nice.

I've looked at a lot of the content API companies like Prismic, Craft, Contentful, and Osmek. Does anyone have personal experience with one? Can you recommend one over the other?

Thanks!
I remember living through the AI Winter and Japan's Fifth Generation Computer Project.

Those of us who were interested in AI at SAIC, at least the people I talked with the most, were skeptical of the approach of using Prolog. This is also a personal bias since I have logged about ten years of commercial Lisp development and only perhaps six or eight months of using Prolog professionally.

That said, there are languages like Prolog, Lisp, Haskell, etc. that really help get different perspectives on developing software.
I LOVE this--thanks! I wish there was a way to save a link to my page of movies so I didn't have to find and re-index every time.
Monopoly situations certainly make abuse easier but the monopoly isn't inherently problematic. Government and law enforcement are essentially monopolies in their own right and we see the results when those powers are abused. But instead of being anarchists we call for transparency and accountability. The same applies here - if we spend our time trying to become "black boxes" (as someone else here called it) we're not really going to get anywhere. If we push for greater transparency and accountability of the companies that handle our information we can better trust that they will continue to act in ways that are mutually beneficial.
On a similar note.

While watching twitch just now, firefox informed me that adobe macromedia is running an unresponsive script. Of course the video playback was fine, so I selected continue and kept watching. It did it again in a minute, of course the video was again fine. I clicked stop script out of curiosity and flash crashed.
There is no separation at Google anymore -- though there used to be. That was torn down to build Google +.

http://www.wired.com/2012/04/opinion-singel-google-walls/all...
The UI is incredibly slow to draw. Many users may not have realized that keystrokes were buffered (up to something like 32 key presses) so if you knew your way around the menus and dialogs you could keep typing and the UI would eventually catch up. Unlike when a desktop computer's GUI lags, the 48 series would always behave as though the GUI had drawn instantly, so you could direct input to a dialog box or submenu that wasn't yet visible on screen.
I made a Mine Sweeper with it! Half the class downloaded it and played it in class!!!
at 7am outside the club there are 12 taxis waiting for people to come out.
My trusty 50G got me through High School and parts of College.
Programming w/ RPL was something of an enlightening experience. RPN and RPL are what made the concept of 'the stack' finally click for me.

RPL was also fantastically simple, too. While other kids were struggling to copy the TI-basic instructions from photocopied sheets: I would quickly have a working program _plus a nifty little GUI._

The equation library and CAS were also incredibly useful when I was given the opportunity to use them.

---

The only downside is I couldn't swap any games w/ my classmates. That's OK, though, as I had 3D pinball.
Absolutely, but as with anything, what really matters is optics. Who's getting the credit for the innovations you introduce? And are your suggestions going to be taken seriously in the first place? If so, who presents them to leadership? You, or the marketing director who does a trial run and sees the business results? How and when will those results be disseminated, and in front of what audience?

You'll have to consider and navigate all of these things. While these are good skills to have in any role, technical or non-technical, they are especially crucial at a company where you're removed from the core line of business. If you're in a technical role at a non-technical company, you need to be an especially strong presenter and "internal salesman" of ideas. Don't assume that because you brought an idea forward, it'll be adopted straight away -- or that when it is adopted, you'll be credited.

I'm not saying this out of cynicism per se. I've seen technical people thrive, and even kick ass, in leadership roles at non-technical companies. At the same time, I know that those people are an exception and not a rule. What tends to make them exceptional are their political skills. Corporate America likes, but does not necessarily reward, a workhorse. But it loves, and handsomely rewards, a "Big Idea" person. It's hard to be the Big Ideas guy unless you can hook your ideas into the KPIs your company cares the most about.
And you're still going to have to do a lot of work to prevent exfiltration from the servers other than for backup-purposes and track your back-ups and who has access to them.
Completely ridiculous. What about the wheels?
Riak 2.0
> separating the view (which a team of designers can freely modify without worrying about breaking anything or even touching the logic) from any logic that can handle events

Where does the designer's job stop ? Does he not handle animation ? Should he be in charge of CSS too, because that's how you do basic animations ? Why shouldn't he be in charge of slightly heavier animations, just because they're in javascript ?

The point of the authors (which I agree with) is that the whole notion of "view == template" is wrong, and thus "view == html+css files" is wrong. A view is the thing the user interacts with: a button, a list of items, a search bar. All these components should be handled as a whole, and should be handled independently from one another. If a component doesn't need any javascript for it's logic, fine; if another component needs some javascript for whatever reason it's nonsensical to separate this javascript. A design doesn't always stop purely at static appearance.

The fundamental unit is the object you're working on, not the technology you're using.
I use strong passwords generated by 1Password for everything.. except for iCloud. There I have an idiot password.

Why? Because freaking iPhone asks for that when I want to download something from App Store. How do you guys handle that?
In some districts it is because they require students to purchase them even if they are not used or are only used for simple arithmetic [1].

[1] http://2020science.org/2010/07/11/texas-instruments-graphing...
Transmediale 2014 Keynote: Art as Evidence [video]
Paparazzi have no problem selling exclusive photos.
Professors requiring a specific model, apparently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8260282

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8260310

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8260165

It wasn't the case for me, but still.
TouchID.
I used an HP41C for many years (replacing an HP55). I found it had a better key feel than later models. I bought an HP28S at some point but I never much cared for it and, to tell the truth, didn't need a graphing calculator at that point anyway.

I only used a TI for one year in college. This was during the period when calculator prices were dropping very quickly and between entering college and becoming a sophomore HP prices dropped to something relatively affordable and I never looked back.

It doesn't have the key feel obviously but I use an HP41 emulator on my iPhone.
That still doesn't mean traffic isn't traceable right?
Home Depot Investigates a Possible Data Breach
Reddit should not be listed among the sites hosting the stolen images, as reddit does not support image uploads. Imgur is the primary site hosting the stolen images in that case.
This can be arranged, I'll suggest it tomorrow!
In quick summary, it looks like a large, built-in U-lock with the frame itself forming part of the U. Not un-stealable exactly, but rather a deterrent in the sense that using traditional U-lock-breaking methods like a carjack could damage the frame making the bike worth less(or nothing).

You'd still need to secure the tires, though, too. I can't tell if there is a built-in part of the U-lock that allows for threading a cable through or anything like that. Typically what I see is something like U-lock around the rack, front tire, and frame with a cable threaded through the U-lock and through the back tire. Not invincible either, of course, but much more work and therefore more of a deterrent.
"We decided to take a key structural element and saw it in half!"
Bypassing ClearClick and X-Frame-Options:Visible
One of the victims stated the pictures were from several years ago. Unless the hacker was extraordinarily patient and persistent, I have to think a MITM attack on a cell tower is unlikely. More likely a cloud service (email, social media, storage) of some sort was compromised.
Yeah, how about the first time? I mean, I do not buy apps all the time, maybe once a week. And I'd have my battery dead or something like that in between those attempts.

So, I never had a chance to just hold my thumb on the home button and go my way.
Google Loon Project Ballon Just Fell in Argentina
ShellJS [1] for Javascript

[1] https://github.com/arturadib/shelljs
Riak 2.0 released
This is amazing! I know a team who have something similar in their irc when you type //Armageddon world war 3 erupts
Back in the day when I was still a land surveyor, the HP48GX was hugely popular in the field among staff surveyors because it was so easy to programmatically extend them or use a COGO card: http://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/science/civil/
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It's not that bad; I mostly use an app to do quick calculations if I'm not at a computer. But I agree that for any real number crunching, it's worth using a physical calculator.
I'm just guessing here: there wasn't a security breach. Phishing is different from someone breaking into the iCloud service as a whole.
That's pretty cool. I love the idea of scraping real-world information.

I did something similar using a GoPro and computer vision when I lived next to one of the 101 off-ramps in SF. I got it to work for most daylight hours (headlights screwed it up hardcore) before our landlord raised our rent by $1000/mo and we moved.

I figured it could have been a way to calculate ad impressions for billboards, but I also figured Clear Channel probably already knows those numbers.
Are we still unable to move past this pedantic hosting-vs-linking nitpicking? It's like you willfully ignore how content discovery works on the Internet.
If the _drive_ reports a read error it will. If there is silent data corruption it wont. You can test this by using dd to corrupt the underlying data on a drive.
Looking for a technical co-founder in New York city
Anyone interested in hearing about the idea. Email me at pfanis@gmail.com. I've proven success in creating large content media portals. Relocated to New York city recently and looking to create another rockstar business.
Isn't that the same crappy argument for banning torrents?

Should we stop people from using cars, because vehicles are used by drunk drivers?
Did You Know Your Energy Drinks Contain ‘BULL URINE and SEMEN’
No, it means he wrote the actual text displayed on the screen.

Steve Ballmer (unlike Gates and Allen) was not/is not a programmer.
>Many of the country’s top security officials attended the briefing, including Alexander, Dempsey, Robert Mueller, the head of the F.B.I., and Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of Homeland Security.

Gen. Martin Dempsey - Old School Armored Cavalry Officer. Knows lots about killing people, not a single thing about network security.

Robert Mueller - Old School Cop. Knows lots about bank robberies. Doesn't know anything about network security nor does he care to learn about it.

Janet Napolitano - Given direct authority over a large part of the federal government's cyber-defense capabilities, knows fuck-all about network security. Doesn't like using computers.

Surely more than one (Alexander) actual security expert attended the meeting?
Are you sponsoring visa and/or giving relocation benefits?
Because those photos are not stolen and they own the copyright.
Agreed, none of our (Si digital) hack projects would have been possible without our MD's go ahead and foresight to see the value in these projects. More of what he made possible here http://sidigital.co/lab
Ah, Karinthy! I remember doing a production of his ´Refund´ [http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/170806254] in high school theatre many years ago; we had lots of fun.
Huge update for Riak. My favs are new CRDTs (in addition to counters) and Search. Search is now based on Apache Solr. You can now think about Riak when considering Elastic Search.

Congrats to the whole Basho team.
Several years ago I backpacking in the Atacama desert in Chile. That's where a lot of telescopes are built because it's so dry. I stopped in one city and I tried to find an observatory through my hostel that took visitors but had no luck. Guess whatever tour was available wasn't popular enough. Has anyone had any luck in Chile?
Agreed! At first I figured that if I could save one piece of information for each dollar I had spent on the software, it would be worth my money.

By day two of using 1Password I had 70 entries, and was blown away at how much peace of mind I had. There were seventy things I never needed to _worry_ about forgetting. It was like my brain was holding onto each of those and now I felt more able to just focus on working, it's insane how since I didn't know any better I waited years to finally try it.

Second thing I did, buy a copy for my cousin for his birthday! Hope he has a great year with more brainspace for ideas and less spent trying not to forget things :)
Ask HN: Accounting/Financial Reporting for SaaS Businesses
We're a growing SaaS business that is currently using QuickBooks, our payment processor (Recurly), and a spreadsheet to tracking our MRR and other SaaS metrics. We want to be able to easily see deeper into our financial metrics, but are running into a few hiccups:

1. Customers are split across multiple systems (invoice customers in QuickBooks, credit card in Recurly)
2. Neither tool handles accruing properly, so we have to manually compute it at the end of the year.
3. Because of #1 and the fact that we have both annual and monthly customers, we must manually calculate MRR, growth, and churn.

Are any other companies encountering these problems? If so, what tools are you using or did you end up building your own reporting solution?
Hut those are not stolen. It's much harder to get a good price for stolen goods because there is no demand from legitimate buyers, in this case large publishers.
tl;dr: Before learning how to run, please (I added the please) learn how to walk first...
I think if anything that example shows the cleverness is a good thing. It's from almost 5 years ago, since when Scala has gone from strength to strength, so the collections rewrite turned out quite well, and fears that it would stop new people coming to Scala, or that companies would stay on 2.7 and the community would schism, were definitely unfounded. The "use case" simplification of the documentation has been implemented and has shown itself to work well, suggesting that this kind of complexity can be managed. And a few years later I've seen Chris use equally complex techniques in his own code (check out his "practical scalaz" talk).
Does it have a proper podcast feed? I cannot find it.
I'd say little of what killed these species was very progressive to anyone except to a handful of people that exploited them.
Show HN: PitchGrub – an elevator pitch generator for startups
I have my own opinions on the subject but curious what you see as XMPPs failings?
This would also facilitate committing to assurance contracts via bitcoin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contract
iCloud Isn't Safe, Because Everyone's a Target and Apple Doesn't Care
Yes. The implementation uses a macro, which some people have (sometimes legitimate) concerns about, but you can tell it to make a format for a case class and it will Just Work.