skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! It's funny how you don't realize these UI problems when your so familiar with your own product. Will try to find a way that works nicely.
StartSLC Kicks Off to Support a Burgeoning Utah Tech Culture
>machine learning circles it's become almost self-evident to split up the data into training and test sets.

This is great for predictive modeling but how does this work for analysis of experiments?
I truly find this fascinating. That site has what appears to be a pokemon character wearing a drum kit, adds the line "Home: :Add Story: :Archives: :About: :Create Account: :Login:" and proceeds to quote the opening of the article while providing absolutely no additional information.

CmdrTaco used to provide a transitional sentence or two, and that's what made sites that look just like OpenBSD Journal actually have appeal and usefulness. Has the internet forgotten this lesson too?
Poisonous Shapes in Algebra and Graph Theory
> It's hard to explain to people the job I have, how easy it is, how I work from home, answer to no one, make about 120K/year, and I'm miserable about it. How do you explain that?

I'm not sure you realize how lucky you've been until now. There are people out there who would kill for 120K/year and people who will never have that much savings after a lifetime of work. Never forget your blessings!
Very true, the speed in the island is just not adequate for streaming, at least not now.
Because, assumedly, there are co-workers you're leaving behind that you like/care about and you want to make their experience a bit better (if you can). It's very rare for a person to just be like "I hate all of you. I'm out."

Perhaps feedback like "A lot of people are unhappy about X. If X continues, others may end up quitting as well" will cause them to actually do something about X.

Of course, if you're super cynical you could believe that they're just going to ignore your feedback. But this is why most exit interviews are done by HR and not your manager.

From the original article, I think this guy's approach is almost 100% wrong. There are a few things that are accurate - it's not a place to just rant or blow off steam. But it IS a place to be honest and provide constructive feedback. If there's something going on that you're unhappy about, bring it up. This paranoia about "it will stay in your permanent file" is just cowardly.

Of course, I've worked at places where, before my exit interview, people who are high up in the company (boss's bosses, etc) have always encouraged me to point out the things that can be improved.
UPDATE: Found this in the CRDT paper [1]:

> CRDTs are not a universal solution, but, perhaps surprisingly, we were able to design highly useful CRDTs.

[1] CRDTs: Consistency without concurrency control.
You would be surprised (maybe?) at the number of rural areas in the U.S. that do not have any real type of access. My parents, for example, are limited to ~1mbit downloads on good days. They cannot stream Netflix and really can't stream Youtube videos either. That 1mbit is with random bursts of noise/packet loss as well. It's pretty crappy. I tried to game there once and saw my latency fluctuate between 200ms and 10,000ms.
LG will turn every new G3 phone into a VR headset, free of charge
Rust uses bounds checking in safe code, and despite idiomatic Rust allowing many bounds checks to be optimized out (eg. iterators instead of C style for loops), bounds checks are not free. It's possible that things like stricter aliasing rules in Rust will allow more optimizations and make up the speed difference, but the design of Rust does not guarantee the possibility of matching C++ performance unless you use unsafe code.
running your mouth

I noticed that every person arguing with me over this is using inflammatory language implying unprofessional and irrational behavior.
Just FYI - the $60k/year Azure offer is technically available for any startup just willing to ask nicely (not limited to just incubators). My company, http://trippeo.com just qualified for it last month (we get $5k/mo free hosting).
Startup giving away free Polaroid and PS4
Linaro launches open ARM SBC spec, and an octa-core SBC
Roomcrunch is a new LA based startup that creates travel connections based on similar interests. Hosts put up their rooms for rent, and guests rent them out. We launched very recently, and we're looking for all the help we can get!

All that you have to do is register with a Facebook account on our site, and you will be automatically entered to win a new polaroid for the month of February, and a brand new PS4 for the month of March
I imagine everything in Swift has been borrowed from another language. OCaml, Go, etc. I'd be more interested in other great language features that are missing from Swift that are in other "classic" languages like OCaml, for instance.
I meant to write 21 miles (not 23 miles) round trip:

"Detroiter James Robertson, 56, walks about 21 miles a day"

So he would only have to bike 21 miles per day.
In general, young or old, male or female, participant or companion?
Wikipedia puts the fraction of the U.S. population using the internet at about 81%.[1] They link to a source, but beware it links straight to an excel file[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_the_United_States#A...

[2] http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Documents/statistics/...
Forgotten Apollo moon artifacts found in Neil Armstrong's closet
...Qualcomm will offer licenses to 3G and 4G essential patents and will no longer require the bundling of those rights with other patents in its portfolio...

Wow, is that a common tactic? No wonder antitrust was on them.
Card shuffling is one of those situations where there's a very well known and fairly unambiguously "right" answer.

I honestly thought it was well known enough that there wouldn't be any sense in writing an article about it, but I guess I should focus on being excited for the author for being one of today's 10,000 [1], rather than judgemental that they didn't know it before. Incidentally, this is a good reason to not use deck shuffling as an interview question. If they happen to know the right answer (which isn't unlikely) then there's no value gained in asking them.

[1] http://xkcd.com/1053/
I don't believe that Facebook and Google are clicking their own ads
>The most important thing your P-value "doesn't do" is tell you if your underlying model structure is correct.

It wasn't meant for that though. It is meant as a value to look at which gives an indication of the probability that what experimental procedure you are performing is causing a differentiation between groups. It is just one indication among many diagnostics to run on a model.

>For physical systems, where God[1] actually makes sure that your distributions, errors, etc are normal, it's pretty awesome.

Non-parametric tests have been around for quite some time.
I think there is a real danger that people are modifying/learning how to speak to computer voice recognition software. If voice recognition can't quickly become able to parse natural language, it will inevitably have to parse "I'm talking a dumb computer" cadence and inflection instead.

Incremental improvements are very bad in this regard.

These things are hard to reverse, too (people still speak with a very distinct "I'm speaking on a telephone" cadence today).
That's a great tip! How do you ask "nicely"? Is there a rep you contact or contact just general billing/support?
You know people who play suicide games -- have you saught to get them counseling?
If we got this much credit, yes, several including mine easily would.
They will typically set up several generic websites with ads, and set their click farm loose to represent fake traffic while clicking on ads for X% of impressions. You could also be a mercenary and drive traffic to other website operators who want traffic/rev, or even dilute quality/waste spend on competitor ad campaigns.

Since these click farms are typically just infected computers, they can likely setup other tasks to monetize: DDoS, email, BTC mining, etc...
This smells like desperation from 100 miles away
"5.x doesn't even run on Snow Leopard."

Which is a shame because OSX 10.6.8 was the most stable, zippiest performance OSX ever and still had the nice virtual desktop. Sadly I lament the old virtual desktop. I'd still be on it if I could be.
I found this document:

http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publication...

Refer to page 3, where it is reported that 74.5% of households 25 years and up had some internet subscription (and 73.5% had high-speed access). That's no small number, but you could easily call "3 in 4" short of ubiquitous. Note that many of the remaining households have some form of access to the internet, just not a subscription at home.
> find their VMs slow

I've found the network drives to be oddly slow, but the machines otherwise to perform well. So they can be performant if you can run I/O-intensive stuff off the ephemeral local storage, especially on one of the SSD instances.
SPDY was great for Google and allowed them to change and take hold of HTTP/2.

It saved them lots of money I am sure in improved speed but at the trade-off of complexity and minimal adoption of the standard because it wasn't beneficial to everyone. HTTP/2 is a continuation of that effort by Google which I would do if I were them as well probably. But in the end both are not that big of improvements for what they take away.

Of course I use both but I don't think they will last very long until the next, it was too fast and there are large swaths of engineers that do not like being forced into something that has minimal benefits when it could have been a truly nice iteration.

HTTP/2 is really closer to SPDY and I wish they would have just kept it as SPDY for now. Let a little more time go by to see if that is truly useful enough to merge into HTTP/2. HTTP/2 is essentially SPDY from Google tweaked and injected into HTTP/2 which has huge benefits for Google, so I understand where the momentum is coming from.

Google also controls the browser so it is much easier for them to be the lead now on web standards changes. We will have to use it if we like it or not. I don't like the heavy hand that they are using with their browser share, just like Microsoft of older days (i.e plugins killed off, SPDY, HTTP/2, PPAPI, NaCL etc)
Imagine that your sample of kids in Kent are actually 5mm smaller on average than your samples from the 9 other counties. The question to then ask is: how likely is it that this would happen purely due to chance? After all, even a fair die will occasionally throw tens or even hundreds of sixes in row. Likewise, your Kent sample might just be a bit odd.

A p-value answers this question: imagine that there's no gravitational effect, how often would your sample of children in Kent end up 5mm smaller anyway due to chance? In most cases, the lower this number, the better, because it means something other than chance might be at play. If your p-value were 0.95, you'd conclude that even though the sample of Kent kids is smaller, this would have happened purely due to chance 95 out of a 100 times, so there's not likely to be a real difference.

Of course, with samples as large as those you mention, your p-value is pretty much guaranteed to be low, and hence you're guaranteed to have a statistically significant effect. It's probably easier to understand in the context of much smaller sample sizes: if you play three tennis matches against a friend, and he wins 2 out of 3, what's the chances he's actually better than you, and what are the chances that he just got lucky this time? Turns out, it's 50/50. That's what a p-value is trying to get at.

Which is one of the big reasons why p-values get so much (deserved) hate: they're influenced heavily by both effect size and sample size, so you can't tell one from the other.
"the VirnetX lawsuit"

Garbage patents stabbing the software industry in the back yet again.
It's a very poorly-authored piece. Buzzfeed's content isn't exactly trustworthy.
It is the Fed creating money out of thin air buying treasuries and it does increase M1. Here is the fed's own graph of M1.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M1

You can see where is starts to really skyrocket, which is where 16 trillion was given to the banks in the bailouts (or $53,000 for every person in the USA for scale). This money hasn't even made it into M2 yet.
One example from a few years back was DOMA, which said that the federal government couldn't recognise same-sex marriages even if a state performed them (as they started to do a few years later).

Another is No Child Left Behind, a Republican-sponsored measure (though like DOMA it did receive bipartisan support) that forced a lot of specific educational policy on various states that weren't very happy about it, but acceded because the alternative was federal defunding.

Another is various efforts involving abortion and, lately, contraception; I hesitate to get too deep on specifics lest I derail the thread, but right-wing efforts there have not been confined to the state level. (Nor have left-wing efforts, obviously.)
Odd that they state that "For handsets sold in China, Qualcomm will charge a licensing rate that’s similar to the royalty rates it charges elsewhere in the world, countering concerns that it would be forced to offer a discount to settle the investigation."

And then immediately follow with "While the percentage being charged is similar, the value of the handsets -- used as the basis for the calculation -- will be assessed at 65 percent of the device’s total price for phones sold in China, Qualcomm said."

If read right, that means Qualcomm is forced to effectively discount licensing fees in China based on this decision, meaning the Chinese government has engaged in a bit of price-fixing relative to the rest of the world on the patent fees.
If you're talking Imitation Game, then Polish involvement was mentioned in passing (a single sentence - I'd been looking out for it), but yes, the whole thing was very fictionalised, and tried to paint Turing as a single genius maverick against the system, rather than providing the next evolution in a process that had begun before him, and continued with others, so it ignored a lot of other people, including many of those at Bletchley as well as the Polish work.
a gun that knocks the victim off their WiFi network
I just emailed a developer evangelist at Microsoft - tons of them around and more than willing to help startups, especially new ones with under $1M in funding.
Use an ODROID-C1 to drive your wall dashboard
Is there anything in the fineprint to stop the startups from reselling those credits?

Passing them on at a 20% discount would make for a sweet ~$400k runway extension.
STAPPT – location based social network without “friends”
If the bridge is already burnt, then there's no reason to attempt to burn it further. The leaving employee has no rational reason to participate in an exit interview.
Did you close that tag in that textarea from some third party content? If not you're whole view is broken. It was a layer or hopeful standardization that was too hopeful and counted on implementers too much to be exact. It was a nice attempt but was quickly retracted to go to HTML5.

I guess the same thing applies to HTTP/2, sometimes you have to dumb/simplify it down a little, the smartest way that relies on implementers, might be the leap that is too hard to make. The best standards are the simple ones that cannot be messed up even by poor implementations. Maybe the standards for protocols developed in the past looked at adoption more as they had to convince everyone to use it, here if you force it you don't need to listen to everyone or simplify, which is a mistake.

While code and products should be exact, over the wire you need to be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you accept in standards and interoperability land.

In another area, there is a reason why things like REST win over things like SOAP, or JSON over XML, it comes down to interoperability and simplicity.

The more simple and interoperable standard will always win, and as standards creators, each iteration should be more simple. As engineers, we have accepted the role of taking complexity and making it simple for others, even other engineers or maybe some junior coder that doesn't understand the complexity. What protocol is the new coder or the junior coder going to gravitate to? The simple one.
That's a pretty impressive offer. As an AWS user, it would get me to look at Azure at least.
ISIS vs. Silicon Valley: Using Technology in the Midst of Conflict
Bitcoin mining startups?
> Explain to me the upside of honesty.

You're removing an important piece of context: there's no upside to honesty in an exit interview.
I just downloaded 6.3 beta using my free account.
Bypass full ASLR/DEP to gain remote code execution
One of musl libc guys wrote quite convincing article about NULL: http://ewontfix.com/11/

There was also discussion on musl mailing list (I don't know is this best link to it): http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2013/01/09/1
Ignoring the Internet speed part, I think the average Cuban takes home around $20/month too.

Just feels like giant PR fluff, it would have been interesting to see them offer cheaper and lower bit-rate service for Cubans that won't completely saturate their networks.
STAPPZ – location bast posting of news – audience are the people around
Many naval vessels already have a nuclear reactor onboard.
Facebook didn't leave money on the table, and there were cries that the IPO was a disaster. Wonder why that was.
But the world files are just the save files. As far as I know, there are no texture or object data in the saves.
If the situation is as you describe, then there is probably no way to truly fix the situation. Even if the toxic person was fired tomorrow, the culture would take a long, long time to change and recover.
I know - I don't argue what you said at all. I know it sounds horrible when I put it that way. Maybe I was a little too blunt. I obviously appreciate it and know I've been very lucky and fortunate. It's a shame that I write off what most would consider a winning lottery ticket.

But in the end, I really hate doing it and waking up every morning to. I feel like I'm just wasting every single day that passes. And the money isn't making it any better. Maybe it's because I've never struggled for money so I don't appreciate it as much.
Reminds me of Sokoban, which is NP-hard [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban
It's also what you said that prevents me from just walking away from it. I feel like you'd have to be insane to..
> I wouldn't even consider DO due to lack of load balancers and file backup services.

You can spin up your own load balancer pretty easily. DO offers backup too.

In terms of bang for the buck, you can't really beat DO, unless you're giving your services away for free ...
Youn teen model keep trending getting all the Kardashian attention
http://youtu.be/nTr6nLbB8aU
That reminds me of Edward Glaeser's point from Triumph of the City about the relationship between electronic communication and face-to-face meetings:

> Today, information technology is changing the world, making it more idea-intensive, better connected, and ultimately more urban. Improvements in information technology seem to have increased, rather than reduced, the value of face-to-face connections, which might be called Jevons’s Complementarity Corollary. The nineteenth-century English economist William Stanley Jevons noted that more fuel-efficient steam engines didn’t lead to less coal consumption. Better engines made energy use effectively less expensive, and helped move the world to an industrial era powered by coal. The term Jevons’s paradox has come to refer to any situation in which efficiency improvements lead to more, not less, consumption—one reason why low-calorie cookies can lead to larger waistlines and fuel-efficient cars can end up consuming more gas. Jevons’s paradox applied to information technology means that as we acquire more efficient means of transmitting information, like e-mail or Skype, we spend more, not less, time transmitting information.

> One might think that better information technology would reduce the need to learn from other sources, like face-to-face meetings in cities. But Jevons’s Complementarity Corollary, which follows naturally from Jevons’s paradox, predicts that improvements in information technology can lead to more demand for face-to-face contact, because face time complements time spent communicating electronically.
You can have portable nuclear reactor or very powerful and efficient vessel engine to power it. Moving in on land is kinda difficult.
>[#] "comprised of" is a correct usage, for anyone sucked in by the poor guy obsessed with editing it out of Wikipedia (many words have opposing meanings and some great English poetry depends on this; the term causes no confusion amongst native speakers; etymology is irrelevant to modern usage...)

The tyranny of the minority, in this case, is comprised of a single man, whose idiosyncratic reign of grammatical terror is now reaching out from Wikipedialand into the Greater Internet.

I find this all very amusing.
Swift has its own standard library, Foundation for things that fall outside the purview of the native stdlib (e.g. JSON parsing and regular expressions), and ApplicationKit/UIKit for GUI stuff. A multiplatform Swift + stdlib would already be quite useful for non-GUI applications on other platforms.
Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2015: Stripe, E La Carte, Anyperk
Killing all people of one nationality by state. Seems the same for me.
Great guide. Thanks for sharing. I just subscribed to https://tomotcha.com/en/ which I also learned about on HN. Check it out if you are a fan of unique Japanese teas. :)
How to be nice to each other on social media
Having used both from an admin and a user perspective, Gmail is definitely better all-around.

Gmail is not flaky the way O365 is. Random outages with no explanation/contact from support until days after remedy...are no fun.
If you can find a copy, you might like the book Ignition! by John Clark (some libraries have it, and there is a scanned PDF floating around online). It is about the early development of rocket propellants (which as you might imagine covers a lot of really nasty chemicals), and is filled with these sort of humorous analogies and deliberate understatements. Very funny (and informative) book.
Does the Linux image run virtualized over an MS kernel? I often laugh running MS code in a VM over __nix because when the Guest crashed, my host OS is still running. I cant imagine running a __nix Guest over a MS Host though.

I dont have much experience with MS servers, as I like to get things done, but how are they when it comes to stability?
Imgur ending Pro accounts
For some reason, I guess because domain had the word "Oxford" and the file was PDF, I thought it was a pure academia publication, but apparently it's from a company that's selling bot fraud software http://oxford-biochron.com/
It has the potential to benefit your friends still working at the company though, right?

Especially if the same themes crop up in multiple exit interviews, hopefully someone in management can change the issues facing people leaving.
The problem with display advertising is that too much of the industry is focused on clicks. Anti-fraud companies can come up with ways to try to mitigate click fraud but it won't do much of anything as they can, and will be, gamed by black hats - there's too much money at stake.

I deal with it every day and the best method is to educate the client by explaining why a click is a poor indicator of performance. Work with the client to come up with measurable goals to track click-through/view-through conversions on these goals and ultimately try to measure impact on ROI. It's really not THAT difficult for most campaigns.

The most difficult part is that the client becomes aware of all those wasted dollars on previous campaigns that they thought were high performance because of a high CTR.
News as in Usenet not as in CNN.