skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It appears that they didn't take into account the very common wide-yet-short laptop screen format in their 'responsive' design process.
Curving only makes sense when there's a normal distribution. Sounds like, at that point, the students were no longer in a normal distribution and therefore curving failed.
It didn't seem right to me at first, so I worked through it. The trick was to realize that switching always gives the opposite result of the initial choice. So if the initial choice is correct, switching will make it wrong. On the other hand, if the initial choice is wrong, switching will make it right. (Recall that Monty eliminated one wrong choice, so there is only one other choice from which to choose.) Since you have 1/3 chance of being right and 2/3 chance of being wrong on the initial pick, switching will reverse your odds.
I did a prototype a couple weeks back and a dev friend of mine grimaced "why paypal? why not stripe?" A) I had a paypal account set up - it was literally 2 minutes of work to add the form, and B) I've had some setup issues with stripe - there seemed to be comparatively more setup work to get their modal form to work as demonstrated.

What was a bit disconcerting was that that was the focus - "why not stripe?" The rest of the service didn't even get much of a look, yet... every non-dev I showed the service too didn't bat an eye about paypal.
The EDC subreddit has a lot of overlap with http://www.reddit.com/r/preppers and http://www.reddit.com/r/survivalist, which can be quite entertaining.
Good to hear that you have a plan because it's going to be costly to do pre-screenings, code quality assurance, process design, lead generation, payment and account handling, project and resource management, etc. And architects, you need architects :-)
Try living in a city like Miami where a staggering amount of condos/property are primarily treated as a store of value by foreigners.
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As of yesterday the New York Times had a great ascii version of their abbreviated 'T' logo, and the text "All the code that's fit to printf()", along with a "we're hiring!" message.

They must have filled the position, though, because the advert is now gone.
This is a dream finally come true, the ability to have honey on tap! One nice thing about this technology is that it is backwards compatible with existing beekeeping hives. It also reduces the amount of times a hive must be opened for inspection or harvesting. No matter how careful you are, you always end up killing bees, disrupting comb and throwing off the homeostasis of a hive every time you open it.

It is hard to find disadvantages to this system; it is a huge improvement over current systems, almost at the level of the original invention of the moveable frame hive by Langstroth. The only big disadvantage I can think of is that is it might be easier to over harvest with this system. This would result in beekeepers losing hives over the winter.

Awesome technology!
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My general advice to anyone reading the article:

1. Ensure the list of tips are easily accessible. (The advice will do nothing for you if you can't find it when you are making critical decisions.)

Once you have solved the distribution problem, now comes the real opportunity:

2. Follow through with the list. :-)
Hmm. You said, "if you do get to swap, you have a better chance of winning." Rereading, it seems you might have meant "better than 1/3, namely 1/2 - same as if you do not switch", which does seem correct. If he blasts the door, your odds of winning with any strategy (that does not involve cheating) is 1/3.

To be clear, if the host picks randomly (whatever happens to the door he picks) your odds are the same whether you switch or not.
It's a platform seller, too. I've had an Apple TV, Fire TV, Fire Stick, Playstation 4, and a Roku box. This singular feature is the reason why we watch TV and movies on the Roku box more than anything else. It's like magic.
I use this on my personal site, seen here:

https://www.dougcodes.com/go-lang/building-a-web-application...

Dead easy to implement, just set it and forget it.
As someone who has implemented tables in a browser engine, the idea that flexbox layout just duplicates table layout is completely untrue. Tables are extremely complex, don't have a complete specification, and differ between browsers.

Just to give one example, the algorithm for computing widths of table columns involves creating four "candidate guesses" of all the column widths using different algorithms for each, selecting the two guesses that most closely bound the available width, and then linearly interpolating between them [1]. And that's the easy case, when there are no colspans: when you get colspans, the layout parameters are defined by a complex recursive series [2]. Flexbox has none of this complexity: it basically does the simple thing you'd expect.

[1]: http://dbaron.org/css/intrinsic/ section 4.3

[2]: ibid, section 4.1, "intermediate intrinsic minimum width for span N (N > 1)"
Word-use is roughly Zipf-distributed [0] in most all modern languages, so there's not much difference in the number of commonly used words (as long as you ignore basic differences like the existence of articles and the richness of word inflection).

An analysis of English and French texts on Project Gutenburg shows that 93 words account for half of English usage, versus 89 for French [1]. English has fewer words in the middle of the distribution (696 versus 795 at 70%) and in the near tail (6,428 versus 9,050 at 90%, and 14,736 versus 21,231 at 95%), but more in the extreme tail.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law

1. http://1.1o1.in/en/webtools/semantic-depth
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dvd.netflix.com seems to still use the old reliable ratings predictor. Downloading (netflix.com) uses a much inflated predictor that seems designed to push popular stuff. I imagine they have to do this to obscure that the selection is so much poorer for download.
Or re-anneal the materials in an oven?
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It hasn't really been set up this way. It didn't even evolve to be this way. It's ultimately a law of nature: ownership of capital yields exponential growth. The more you start with, the faster you grow. Most other sorts of vocations yield linear growth.
I'd imagine it might be more important to apply the same type of pressure as the stamping process. Assuming there's some maximum compression or structural change that can happen?
Do you guys face issues with the increased mental complexities this approach brings? I am a bit shocked to know there are over 1000 repos in the account. I can assume developers typically need to keep at most tens in their working set, but 1k does sound a lot to manage.
If you subscribe to their newsletter the introduction email tells you how it works. It makes great sense! Good job on them :)

I don't want to paste it here as I wouldn't want to undermine their marketing approach.
Yes, in Japan people have great (and justified) faith in the general public, from what I have heard. If you leave something lying around, it probably won't be stolen.
I was hoping that the prelude would re-export the new io/path modules, but it looks like old_io and old_path are still exported.

Regardless, great work. Rust seems rather promising.
The installed backdoor certificate is trusted as a root certificate. Its private key is contained in the MITM software, and is now known publicly. So anyone can now create phony certs signed by the backdoor cert, and Lenovo machines accept them as valid.

Here is such a page:

https://badfish.filippo.io/yes.png

That's an image of the word "Yes" signed with the Superfish certificate. If your browser shows that image without warnings about an invalid cert, the backdoor exists.
I've tried Highlight.js before and I was never really a big fan of it. It seemed too heavy last time I tried it. I've been using rainbow.js for a year or two now.

http://craig.is/making/rainbows/
Thank you for this perspective. As a public school teacher who did leave a higher paying, more glamorous career to work with youth these threads can swing between white knuckles and tears.

We've got a lot of talent inside and outside the education space - but we're not creating a system that will retain (or home grow) that talent. I'm hopeful we will start to see better tools to provide strong resources and modeling to young teachers + valuable feedback/fresh ideas to veterans. We can't just churn through the smart, young ones two-years-at-a-time and squeeze out those with deep experience.
It's like posting jQuery.
It is highly possible a single strongly worded letter from a lawyer would be enough to scare them.
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Depending on the editor, it will recognize http:// as a url and link it.
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Hulu's commercials are the absolute worst. I'm not paying a monthly fee so I can watch that stupid Jack in the Box add about the bacon cheeseburger a thousand times. Even if there were more different ads it wouldn't be so bad, but the repeating commercials are absolutely what keep me from ever signing up for Hulu+ (again)
I don't read "has been set up this way" in the parent as necessarily implying agency, but rather as an idiomatic way of referring to the status quo.
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Given their example scenario ("moment of truth"), I'm far more likely to just buy an episode of something for a few bucks on iTunes. That way I have a much better chance of finding what I'm looking for, and I can watch something current if I want.

I'd prefer a subscription, and I don't really care to own a random episode, but if I was watching so many shows that the money would be an issue, I would have a cable subscription (I don't).
Flu vaccines aren't about protecting your health, they're about protecting everyone's health. By not vaccinating, you're contributing to the elimination of herd immunity[1], ensuring that people who cannot vaccinate for whatever reasons (too young, compromised immune system, egg allergy, etc) are at a significantly higher risk of contracting the disease and putting their lives at risk.

Unfortunately, this isn't one of those situations where you can fence-sit, because fence-sitting means you don't get vaccinated, which undermines public health and allows for the accelerated spread of diseases that can cripple or kill other people.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
I had the same impression, 8G max is a regrettable decision. The price is also a little too much and Dell seems to be one of those coupon bullshit companies.
>>> Now they're becoming a "channel" focused on hosting a curated collection, including their own productions.

i.e. "youtube for TV".

Since screens are converging, i.e. we can see TV shows on PC or any other device, netflix will be direct competitor to youtube with only captive/curated shows.
For years, digital designers' aversion for whitespace prevented any kind of visually pleasing rhythm. Today, web sites feature so much whitespace that it prevents... yeah, any kind of visually pleasing rhythm. I call that irony.
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Very cool! (As a side note, do people actually use the phrase "there has to be a better way!" unsarcastically?)
Huge fan of Mission Bit, has taught hundreds of students already how to code!
Super cool!

We've been running a worker owned, profit sharing contracting company out of Halifax, Canada for about 5 years now. (http://twistedoakstudios.com/about.php). We haven't really dove into the start-up/MVP scene very much, though.
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There's just no way I'm going to pay for TV channel by channel, though. I joined for a month or two to support Arrested Development. There's very few shows I'd care enough to do that for. I canceled because regardless of their other originals I wasn't going to keep paying for another channel. It's not nearly enough content to be a replacement for cable and not worth another bill every month in addition.

Also, I'm not sure what you mean about them having a great movie selection. By mail, sure. But by streaming that's never been true.
hello, feel free to reach out on linkedin - http://linkedin.com/in/tekelsey - I also wrote books on drupal and wordpress - students might enjoy dissertation though. glad to skype into a class.
For stuff you use daily - not an issue, but having to install Python 3.3+, and then Peru, and then being able to do something with a third-party project would be a bit too much for some.
> I'm curious what is the basis for being anti-vax? Is there science behind that notion?

There was one study which claimed that vaccines were dangerous, which was both unscientific and unethical, performed by someone with an agenda, and which was retracted.

Now it's all about doubt. People are saying 'we just don't know what they do' (we do!), or 'what if they cause autism' (they don't!) or 'it's a personal choice' (it's not!).

It doesn't help that in the US, the medical industry is for-profit, the pharmaceutical industry runs rampant, and the public doesn't trust either one because it doesn't have their best interests in mind. That leads to lots of FUD about vaccines (and modern medicine in general) which is difficult to combat.
Erik Spiekermann has so much more important things to say.

Checkout out any of his interviews or i.e. this documentary with him and lots of other people from the field: https://vimeo.com/118682283
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Garrett Hardin -- he of the Tragedy of the Commons -- addressed the question of disabled access to wilderness. He opposed it.

Hardin suffered from polio, contracted before WWII, and walked using braces and crutches for the rest of his life.

While I cannot find an online reference to that view, it's one he visited multiple times in his essays, collected in several books:
http://www.powells.com/s?kw=garrett+hardin&class=
Cool. I downvoted your original comment but this is a good explanation of where you're at.

I suspect that alternative medicine is better at symptom management, giving quality of life, and uplifting spirits. Doctors often have a too mechanical view of humans.

Nevertheless, I suspect that your disease weakens your immune system, and _for that specific symptom_ the flu vaccine was prescribed. The flu vaccine was not meant as a general quality of life improvement.

And along these lines, vaccines and alternative medicine are not mutually exclusive. They solve different things.

Here's something to try: Get your flu vaccine while continuing your alternative medicine? My hypothesis is that there will be no downside except for pissing off your alternative medicine doctorfolk.

You should also read up on how vaccines are made and what are contained in them, and then get into a discussion about vaccines with your alternative medicine people. You'll be astounded at their ignorance. Last year I was at an engagement party with an anti-vax crowd in Olympia, WA. They don't even know the first basics. But maybe I should check my B.S in Biochemistry privilege.
China's bubble has already burst. Their real estate market will continue to fall indefinitely. Their record debt accumulation will continue until they burst at the seams, while they try to keep the fake growth going.

Australia will trend down with China's weakening demand for resources. They're directly pegged to China's well being.

Canada will trend down (or up) with oil. If oil is $30-$60, Canada will have to tighten their belts. If oil is $60 to $100, all will be well, mostly.

That said, Canada's ability to binge on debt is likely nearing an end (including mortgage debt). Their household debt has continued to soar post great recession. Given where it's at now, there isn't likely a lot of runway left. 1-3 years tops. As the debt binge ends, the housing market will lose a lot of support. The only question will be whether it'll be an orderly decline, or a crash; and I think that will depend on how much higher that household debt level goes over the next ~36 months.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finan...

The Canada vs US household debt chart paints the picture rather starkly:

http://i.imgur.com/HCp5Gs1.png
Frontier's home city of Rochester had to redeploy fiber for all their trunk lines after a disastrous ice storm in the 90's. You'd still be lucky to get 4Mbit DSL from them. They are bottom feeders only out to milk a dying cow. Improving infrastructure is cost center that doesn't pad the execs wallets so it gets ignored.
> With the "binge-only" model of House of Cards, that same social experience is not possible.

Maybe that's why they're releasing just one episode/week of their new TV series "Better Call Saul".
Or read about it here: http://www.honeyflow.com/faqs/p/22
I'd go further and hypothesize that it's only a matter of time before Windows is open-sourced. The main obstacle to that has historically been a perceived need to sell each and every copy of Windows at a massive markup, but the current trends indicate - to me at least - that Microsoft is slowly warming up to the idea of being to Windows as Red Hat is to its variety of GNU/Linux or Google is to Android: use it as a vehicle to deliver a product (Red Hat's support contracts, Google's ad delivery and such) rather than the product in and of itself.

Here, Microsoft will still make plenty of money; businesses would still want support contracts, after all, so Windows could be monetized like RHEL with Microsoft selling support contracts to medium and large enterprises. Selling Windows itself has been an obsolete business model for quite some time, and I have a good feeling that Microsoft is now starting to realize that.
Why are people raving about this? It has no new information and sounds like a marketing release. What am I missing?
I primarily interact with Netflix through my game console. 'Not Interested' is not an option in that UI.
Cystic fibrosis patients are people who gradually die from antibiotic-resistant infections, something I no longer have. So I believe strongly that I am less of a health threat to others now than I was under conventional treatment of my condition.

I have a compromised immune system. So it seems to me that by your own logic, I am someone entitled to not vaccinate.
I think it's the idea that math and science are the same regardless of their history. You can learn the history of them, but the answers don't change when you do. On the other hand, your answers about historic and cultural questions can change drastically depending on how informed you are.

Also, the level of rote memorization required vs. logic and analytic thinking. You think math and science could be improved via learning their history; I think history and culture can be improved by learning more about the reasoning behind individual things. Less focus on when and what and where; more focus on why and causes.
So much so that the initial connection my mind made when seeing the title was "Who is this guy and why do I want to see his guns or knives?"
Whichever ones I can find at: http://www.rlslog.net/category/ebooks/magazines/ :)

I actually am commenting because I have a real n00b, meta question. How do you create a 'Ask HN' thread? Do you just go to the submit page (https://news.ycombinator.com/submit) and title it 'Ask HN: ________ "? Many thanks.
I also highly suggest voting for EFF (https://www.eff.org/) while you're there. EIN: 04-3091431
I'm pretty sure its intentional to hide the gaps in their collection and to show you new stuff they did manage to license.
I couldn't find a list of actual tests that they run. Is it in there somewhere?
I'm currently homeschooled (senior year) and I can say it really depends on the area. In my area, homeschoolers are almost all conservative Christians who are very isolated from every other demographic. There are enough of them to form large groups, so they're not being completely deprived of social life, but they're being deprived of exposure to people who aren't like them. They learn other viewpoints as caricatures and chances are they'll go off to Bible school and never truly be exposed to other viewpoints in their life.

Other areas aren't so unfortunate - usually a closely knit group of religiously homeschooled teenagers will end up just like a normal high school class - rebelling against their parents and growing up to be normal people. Larger cities have strong non-religious homeschool communities and the kids there are probably growing up fine (though I don't personally know anyone in one of those groups).

I do know some homeschoolers who really do just sit in their room all day and never meet with other people their age. I was one for a while. Usually in that case there's more at fault than just being homeschooled, like Asperger's or depression that's not properly dealt with.

I've probably digressed from your question a bit but it's hard to keep myself from rambling when I'm almost always the only person in these discussions who has actually been a homeschooler. :P (Edit: After reading more of the thread it looks like I'm not alone here!)

Personally, I hang out with my friends from when I went to public school. It would be dreadful if I only knew the other homeschoolers in my area.
Partly disagree in this case.

So few people take the flu vaccine that there's no possibility of establishing general herd immunity, even if the experts guess right every flu season (this year they didn't for the Northern Hemisphere, or at least the US). On the smaller scale it's wise, e.g. now that I'm living with my 81 year old father, partly to help take care of him, that's an additional reason I take the vaccine.
So, have you got a solution?
Same here. I was trying to point out that frames per second alone isn't a useful metric for "animation quality." Ideally, you'd want to compare the frames per second to how many pixel something moves per second (or something similar).

Having said that, shooting for your monitors refresh rate isn't a bad idea — it's just that you could use those cycles (and watts) for something else. And even worse, if your app is running at 60 fps most of the time but drops to 30 fps every now and then, then it's gonna look a lot worse than the one that runs at 30 fps consistently.
So it does sound like we disagree some. If the host picks randomly and does not reveal, it makes no difference. If the host picks randomly, revels, and you are still in the game. It should make a difference. (After all, you now know more than you did before your first pick. Namely, that a 1/2 chance after a 1/3 exclusion did not remove the winning door.)

Will try and run a simulation tonight or this weekend.
Adding to your list:
- Bootstrapping from a consulting/contracting gig into product company.
"A bad road is a good filter."

One of my own favorite sites, long reachable only by a long and often difficult to traverse dirt road, had a paved road put in some years ago. And while there were some environmental arguments in favor (the dust from vehicles washed into local creeks and affected aquatic life), it hugely changed the nature of the destination at the end of the road.
You basically described what Google did with Android. Phone manufacturers were locket out of the IPhone. Google offered them Android but G doesn't really control much of the ecosystem that it caused fragmentation.

I'm wondering if Google can replicate what they did with Android and apply it in payments.
>50th percentile of word use at 93 words for English and 89 for French [1].

If I understand the meaning to that phrase correctly, it seems to be an extraordinarily useless measure