skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I downvote any post made complaining about "obvious brigading" or complaining or the vote score and I doubt I'm alone.
Reporting fixed as of a minute ago. Here's to hoping...
You still need to know the algorithm though to understand it's limitations.
Basically bankers are like lawyers, gardeners, cooks, doctors, pool cleaners etc: service jobs to help other people get things done. When you elevate the sector to have implicit value you get a terrible distortion.
I think a surprising number of people simply can't math.

This seems incredible if you're one of the people who can math.

But really, I've known otherwise bright people whose brains fall apart at the first hint of abstraction.

Basic arithmetic is fine, but you can forget about trying to teach them anything more complicated.

Simple equations? Trig? Basic stats? They just can't do them, no matter how many times you repeat the explanations, or how many different ways you try to present them.

So I think it's not unlikely that an aptitude for math and symbolic abstraction is unusual, and not something you're going to find in most of the population.

Remember, by the time you get to a university you're in the top 20% of the population anyway. (More like 10% for STEM.)

So it's maybe not so realistic to assume that's how most people are.
The OED says:

> Favourable to or characterized by obedience to authority as opposed to personal liberty; strict, dictatorial.

It's certainly reasonable to argue about whether this actually applies; but I don't think that it represents a useless dilution of the word to think that it might. (Well, not 'dictatorial', but the rest of it.)
In Apple's models there has to be enough people willing to pay that much money for a watch that will likely be made obsolete. That is mind-boggling to me. I have enough friends who have consternations about buying a new phone every two years let alone buying a watch that can be just as expensive to go along with it. Based on my personal experience I bet they're relying on the 5%-ers to make this thing work.
See the tagline "statistics by server"

Image: http://i.imgur.com/q1oDamy.png
Jailbreak iOS 8.1.3 TaiG in order iPhone, iPad
My co-worker Tom has this mental model he calls the "prostitute-physician scale." Basically, it's a scale for measuring how willing you are to simply take the client's money and do whatever, versus giving advice in the best interest.
Comparing DNS Root Server Performance Around the World
Having a retirement plan already puts you well above average in terms of jobs in the U.S.
finance != commerce
I agree with a caveat. In the grand scheme of things everything is a service to help others get things done (there is no final all important job) and there needs to be a balance.
Ah, that would explain why it happened twice to me! To be fair, the replaced logic board lasted about a year.

This is doubly good news for me, because it makes it sound like my early 2011 MBP is likely to be covered, and I can reasonably hope the fix will last longer than a year, as my main development work has been moved to a mid-2014 MBPR.
In a conversation about whether or not to add man-made touches to natural beauty... you didn't mention modifying natural beauty, but an already man-made thing.
Doesn't seem to remove SuperfishIEAddon.dll file nor related registry keys.
If you are using submodules for pinning external resources to a specific hash then you probably won't have problems. If you are using them to manage multiple internal resources with varying levels of coupling...you will.
https://allynisconnect1.gemalto.com/jsp/tp_logon.jsp

Great - on the open net. No 2FA visible in the first peek.

Way to fuck your customers customers privacy.
Why would this be free forever? Seems like something you could charge at least a small, one-time fee for.
It is worth noting that McGill has over 60% of students coming from outside of Quebec so this doesn't have much to do with Quebec's education system.
http://www.mcgill.ca/about/quickfacts/students
Where I live doesn't matter, as long as I live in the US, because it's a national park. The locals don't get a special stake to it so that they can trash it up as they see fit. Which is a strong argument for national parks in the first place.
They should all be sent a copy of "A Pattern Language". In one of the most memorable patterns, Christopher Alexander writes (paraphrased), "Find the most lovely location on your plot of land. Then make sure you don't build on it! Instead build elsewhere so you can continue to enjoy that lovely location."
CloudFlare doesn't have the ability to provision a certificate for any domain. They'd have to demonstrate control - usually with a webmasteer/hostmaster@example.com style email address or a DNS record. Easy for them to do for domains they host, not something they can do for Google.com.
Writing exams are subjectively graded. If you're a liberal arts major you've been indoctrinated into the same system as your graders and are trained to write in a style that they are biased toward. Adding essay questions to standardized entrance exams was a huge mistake I'm glad to have missed.
Many comments here are anecdotal. Quebec outperforms other Canadian provinces in most math rankings (Programme for International Student Assessment). Globe and Mail on the subject:

> But there’s also good news. Canada’s declining performance in math isn’t equally distributed across the country. When results are broken down by province, there are shocking differences. And at the top of the class is Quebec.

> While the math scores in most provinces were sliding over the past decade, Quebec’s already strong results held steady. Students in Quebec outperform their rest-of-Canada peers in every mathematical category. Quebec students ranked sixth in the world, tied with Japan and Macao, and ahead of the Netherlands.

> There is no single, silver-bullet solution to solving the problem of declining math scores in the rest of the country, but Quebec is clearly doing something right. Exactly what is more than a matter of opinion. The OECD’s assessment teases out what appears to be working in those countries that perform best in the PISA survey. Quebec’s education system has a lot in common with them.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/editorials/quebe...
If you really understand the concept, the sanity check should be almost subconscious. You should see the nonsense answer and be uncomfortable with it, even if you're not explicitly going through a "compare with an estimate" step.
Considering the rapid obsolescence of electronics, why would I put a quickly decaying piece of hardware my wrist? In the luxury/heirloom department, I much prefer high end mechanical wristwatches. Those have an appeal that will last much longer (decades) then quickly outdated hardware (months). I only have to look at the replacement cycle for cell phones, which is already insane.
My understanding was that if the host picks randomly, then you are still better swapping if a non-winning door is revealed. The catch is you can't switch to the winning door if it is revealed. So, going into the game, your odds are not as changed. However, at the point of possibly swapping, you are down to chance that the remaining door is a winner. Roughly 1/2. Compared to your initial chance of 1/3 on the first pick.

I think to enumerate the possibilities you'd have to see that if you picked the winning door, there are two ways the host could leave doors for you to swap to and lose.

If you picked a losing door, there is only a single way for the host to reveal a losing door.

So, at the point you are looking at a losing door and making a swap, there are 4 ways you could have gotten there. You picked the winning door, and the host showed either of the two losers. Or you picked either of the two loser doors and the host showed you the other loser. Four possibilities, two of them you win if you swap.
Depends how advanced the adversary is. It also depends on if you want to deny them, because you might learn something by watching what they do. Or you might feed them false data and see what happens.

Aren't mind games fun?
I have been using the star/archive/spam method for a long time now in regular gmail. The inbox interface seems to slow down my flow, as it has little inbetween steps I find irrelevant.

I zip through my email in gmail using keybindings, se/e/! respectively with gmail set to go to next message automatically. Takes me a few seconds to go through about 20 emails, then I circle back to the ones I starred.

Inbox looks better, but feels a bit worse for me. Also, the no apps support as always is a downer, but us apps users are used to it.
Yeah, but we're not talking about a asphalt sidewalk here. We're talking about a massive gondola system. There are far less invasive ways to make the park more accessible. You can currently ride a mule down to the colorado river from the main park offices. If you're unable to take a mule, you can take a helicopter tour.
Gold currently sells at $1200 per oz. Looks like smart watches are typically around 2oz in weight, though presumably a gold smart watch would be heavier. On the other hand, presumably also a large amount of the weight is non-gold. And you'd obviously pay a penalty for the cost of removing the non-gold bits and recycling the gold.

So, overall: The pure commodity value of the gold might significantly defray the cost of a hypothetical $5k aWatch, but not very much of the cost of a hypothetical $20k aWatch.
You perhaps won't be surprised that using layers/absolute positions ends up being faster with Canvas rendering too. Frame by frame is not so much layout calc and mostly painting and composition.

I'm now using React and the Flux pattern to use a single source of truth to drive all absolute position math. I very much like the model's performance.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=psychologists+near+me
It demonstrates how little the administration cares to maintain an acceptable standard of education in one department. Where else are they dropping the ball?
> They were talking about how to gauge student progress when the students had taken a 100-question test, and a 50-question test. None of the three teachers realized that you had to scale the test scores before making a comparison between the two tests.

That's not necessarily true at all. It's a function of the difficultly of each question. Possibly it could be generalized to the difficulty of each test -- where perhaps the questions on the 50-question test were twice as difficult as the questions on the 100-question test.

The best way to resolve your concern is to never assign a percentage per test -- just assigned points to each question based on difficulty. Then accumulate points and take an average only at the very end. But, short of that, taking a weighted average of the two tests is not necessarily any more correct than just taking the average of the percentages.
Microsoft always has had pockets of technical excellence. It's also always had the problem of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. This seems to be somehow built right into the company's structure. (So not DNA, more like epigenetics.) Perhaps these are just the problems faced by any big company in a nutshell?
I think it is interesting how Apple might bring and entire industry into the general public.

I mean, I knew you could get very, very expensive watches, but now this is suddenly that is brought in front of everybody.
Example Redis binds to just 127.0.0.1
Given that the working paper is free, I have no idea why you would say that. http://bis.org/publ/work490.pdf
This is one of the things that Microsoft gets right, that I wish Apple would do better.
I assume they didn't intend to compromise security. I think it's more accurate to say that they stiffed their users with adware that nobody wants in exchange for a little bit of money, and that were so indifferent to security and privacy while doing it that either didn't notice or didn't care that it was a fundamentally bad idea.
An average is an arithmetic mean. But if you found the question vague, you would ask for clarification. These students volunteered answers.
What's the point of the gondola, then, if you can't step out? If you just want to sit in a metal cabin and enjoy the view, you might as well go in a plane.
> R&D-intensive industries - aircraft, computing and the like - will be disproportionately harmed when the financial sector grows quickly. By contrast, industries such as textiles or iron and steel, which have low R&D intensity, should not be adversely affected

So, buy barrier puts on those R&D intensive industries that is activated by a high growth of the companies in the financial sectors (bank...). As someone who used to do pricing, I find it pretty ironic that I can get investment tips from an article criticizing finance - I am not working in finance anymore and tend to agree with the article, though.
The Data-Driven Future of Fashion
The article mentions planting them close together and having them compete for sunlight, thus stimulating fast growth.
And the cells are commanded to do their birth-given duty. Any cells that choose to act otherwise, or take part in any activity they were not given access to, including unlawfully reproduce, shall be sentenced to suicide. And if not committed in a timely manner, shall be killed.
Introducing Relay and GraphQL
Does making teachers easier to fire draw better candidates into the profession?
assume everyone's included some bloatware

We programmers should use this as an analogy for dealing with everyday psychological issues.
Meh. What do we need economic growth for anyway? Producing and throwing away another hundred million tons of food every year? New phones every six months or once a quarter? A third car? More shoes? We have enough of everything and much more, there is absolutely no need to grow western economies any further.
Similar to another comment, how can you evaluate the correctness of the computed value if you don't know how the computation is done?
See my response in a sibling. The host revealing does matter, in that otherwise you don't get to act on the reveal. If the host just blasts it away as you said, then the probabilities don't change. If the host reveals, then there is a chance you don't even get to the swap before you lose. But if you do get to the swap, you have better odds of winning.
That's a great concept, love your blog by the way
When startups choose tech these days based on what HN thinks is cool and hip at the day the decission is made, you can't blame tech companies noticing this and trying to turn the odds in their favour.
There are two theses I have, not sure which is right:

1. Those people biologically can't math. (Alternatively, we are the mutants who can math.)

2. Culture has given them math anxiety, which causes panic when being asked to do math.
Coolest technique for going deep? The self-sinking probe. A big ball of tungsten filled with radioactive elements that just melts its way down to the mantle.

http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/refael/league/radioactive-core-ea...
A $20k (or even $5k) gold Apple watch will be a litmus test for me - anyone I encounter will automatically be someone I wouldn't do business with. The idea of a gold Apple watch is akin to gold-plated cars / guns for drug dealers. The only value it adds it to show you have money.

The fact that Apple would even consider it only demonstrate the corrosion of values and vision to me.
This is the first issue like this that I've seen. I actually didn't know about that particular syntax. I've been doing @example inside my code when I need 'this'.

Coffeescript is just coffeescript so there really aren't any incompatibilities.

The only gotcha that I've hit a few times was the automatic returns that are inserted. Sometimes you have a chain of functions that requires a true to be returned from a function and if you don't do it explicitly, coffeescript will return a falsy value.
> Spend more time trying to figure things out for yourself before asking for help.

Isn't this obvious and don't most developers want to do this?

I work with someone who basically refuses to figure things out for himself and goes from person to person trying to get us to tell him how to develop something. Eventually he throws so much cruft at a project until it works.

It's been years and he asks the same questions. I've told the others I work with to stop helping him. Grow or die.
tl;dr: @antirez just modified the default redis.conf so that it does not bind to the world. In a tradeoff between first-user experience and security, secure-by-default is the way to go.

Just a heads up: when you are freshly installing/configuring Redis from source, be sure to comment out "bind 127.0.0.1" if you wish to access Redis from other servers. (Some distributions, such as Debian/Ubuntu, change the default to bind to localhost only.)

Hopefully this change will minimize exposed Redis boxes with minimal impact. (note, memcache is open to the world by default as well.)
When browsing couchsurfing and AirBnB it seems to me it's mostly foreigners or companies renting/lending.
You should look up median and how it is different to the average.
Having French as your native language doesn't mean French class is easy, and a sizable part of Québec's population doesn't speak French natively.
In my first year of university we had to do a maths module. My final score was 120%. Imagine just many different broken and non-mathematical things have to go into that!
How bad is the racism in Portland, Oregon?

My girlfriend is Japanese and doesn't speak a lot of English. We were thinking of moving there, but I'm worried about this. She is a ballet dancer, so I assume artists mostly everywhere (in the US--and Canada--I'm originally from Canada) are more welcoming. But I understand there are less minorities in Portland than where we are right now (Los Angeles).
Also the first thing came to my mind. Keeping the bands intact makes sense. Given the size of the watch there won't be much gold used in the watch head anyway.

And this is purely fantasizing, maybe you can upgrade golden models by paying a comparatively small upgrade fee...return the old watch head and get a new one with upgraded electronic parts... :-D
People also mumble when they're deliberately talking around something. For example, see this section from the audio recordings that brought down Nixon. There's no doubt that both parties knew exactly what they were referring to and could have expanded on it if needed. It's more clear if you listen to it: they mumble as an obfuscation tactic, likely as an ingrained habit when talking about such matters.

http://watergate.info/1972/06/23/the-smoking-gun-tape.html

>Haldeman: .../only way to solve this, and we’re set up beautifully to do it, ah, in that and that…the only network that paid any attention to it last night was NBC…they did a massive story on the Cuban…

>Nixon: That’s right.

>Haldeman: thing.

>Nixon: Right.

>Haldeman: That the way to handle this now is for us to have Walters call Pat Gray and just say, “Stay the hell out of this…this is ah, business here we don’t want you to go any further on it.” That’s not an unusual development,…

>Nixon: Um huh.

>Haldeman: …and, uh, that would take care of it.

>Nixon: What about Pat Gray, ah, you mean he doesn’t want to?
Isn't there a sense in which the jobs that serve the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy are the final all-important ones.

If we don't have food production, heat production and shelter production, the lack of financiers or telephone sanitizers is going to pale.
My father-in-law and one of my daughters are both mumblers. But my father needs hearing aids.

Best way to make sure father-in-law speaks up is to have my father around.

Downside is it physically wears my father-in-law out. He just can't handle expending that much effort into speaking.
Except farming! That's a means and an end.
Do you have a dog in this fight you're picking, or some inside knowledge you're not letting on about, maybe? You seem pretty sure of yourself, and deeply invested in the innocence of somebody you presumably don't know. Or am I making a mistaken presumption that you don't know Barak?
We have a lot of underfunded school. The particular school I am talking about is next to a train track and a metal foundry (everything was covered with yellow dust and there was smog all over) and uses a parking space as a recreation area (hey, you can play hockey on it during winter...). In 2009, one of the wall/window fell during winter and the kids had to wear their coats indoor for a month, since plastic garbage bags and duct tape was all that was covering the hole.

As for what happened to the math teacher in question, I believe that she had left the school because she had to teach multiple groups (can't remember how many groups, but it was without a doubt too many) that were too bigs and filled with kids that shouldn't have been there in the first place. Learning disabilities, violent teens, etc. all crammed in a small room, groups of... I think it was 35 students.
> back peddling

Just because I've been seeing this mistake a lot lately: peddling is selling. Pedaling is the thing you do with your feet.
> My colleague pointed out that the questions on the 50-point test had twice as much weight as the questions on the 100-point test.

Actually there wouldn't necessarily be any correlation between the percentage of questions answered correctly and whether the students were making progress, and arguably that answer is even worse than just comparing the raw scores.
I think this is a dangerous and terrible rule of thumb that will definitely damage culture. It's such an egotistical view that you're so smart, you don't need anyone to help you ever. I would rather work with a bunch of "non-rockstars" than a bunch of assholes. IMO, this deification destroys values like modesty and is generally counterproductive.

If you're really looking to save everyone time, a good balance may be the optimal way. I've seen success with better mantras such as "if you can't find the solution within 10-15 minutes, ask someone". This prevents you from bothering people with Google-able questions, and it saves you from wasting half the day because you were too reluctant to ask the person next to you thanks to your fragile ego.
Media doesn't just have money for buying ads. It has its own TV programs with talking heads that tell everybody what to think.
Personal experience: my mother runs a Thinkpad T400 with Lubuntu and manages just fine. For many people, the look of the operating system doesn't matter much. As long as she knows where to open the browser and the email client, she's good.
Says the guy who's never been to jail.

Whoever decided to include this, I'm guessing, had ZERO idea what a MITM was. At best they knew it'd spam ads to hardware owners.
there is also the interesting coordination game by which systemic risk is ignored.
I, for one, rather enjoy being highly compensated to shill on HN for the highest bidder. It's great, easy money.

Has your check arrived this week?
I'm not sure Gruber is ignoring it as much as he's making a statement about the economics of precious metals. It's definitely a factor in the market for such things though. Apple could potentially offer some sort of trade-in for the metal I suppose but this does seem to be one of those cases (as in autos) where there's a mismatch between the lifecycle of electronics and the lifecycle of the thing the electronics are part of.
Paywall bypass

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
You might start with asking your mobile operator how they react to this compromise.
Unstressed vowels in all dialects of English are generally reduced to schwa, not just American English.