skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe he just pitched his article to a few places and venturebeat decided to run with it?

Sometimes, article like this are written by the author, and the blog takes the article, edit it a little and publish it. I'm not saying it's what happened but it's certainly a possibility
Having it installed doesn't mean using it, like you said, for the PGP keys being generated but not necessarily in use.

On textsecure usage

In my experience, very very few people actually sign keys, and few people upload them on keyservers.
Also, I know very very few people who use textsecure. I used it for a few month, trying to get others to talk to me with it and gave up. And I'm in the bay area working with IT people, most of my friends are IT people mind you, we're exactly the people who try that stuff all the time.

It doesn't mean its bad tech or a bad attempt at all, heck, I would LOVE for it to catch up. But I seriously doubt it has 4 millions active users or more.

On PGP usage

From a key server perspective there are still a large number of keys being downloaded, refreshed and updated daily.

Let's look at Mozilla's stats and they just seem to peer with one low traffic guy and themselves... http://gpg.mozilla.org/pks/lookup?op=stats
that's 1k new keys a day, and about 500 updated a day. We're far from the 50k claim since it would reach that in 50 days no matter what.

Of course saying there's only, say a few millions PGP users doesnt mean AT ALL the same as 50k.

On misinformation

Thus I'm calling bullshit. Purposefully misrepresenting data (large order of magnitudes, at that) is a big minus in my book. Being well-known shouldn't mean you can tell people bullshit - if anything, you have a greater responsibility when you do.
The algorithm works in mysterious ways.

In the example given UPS's Orion has very weakly god-like powers in that it can see a picture much bigger than the drivers its instructing.

What the drivers need is faith. It will be an interesting future indeed filled with this pantheon of tiny lesser gods with we humans choosing in which to place our faith.
Fair point - I wasn't very clear. Often diversity is simplified to gender or race, etc. In my definition diversity means including people who look, think, act, work and study different. I expected YC to be unidimensional with this conference and have people who are exactly like their typical accelerator applicant - young, white males, working on very technical products and startups - except female, attend.

However, when I met the other attendees I saw that YC had transcended that uni-dimensional idea and brought in people from all walks of life, technical or not, local or not. I think that's a multi-layered definition of diversity. YC did a great job of expanding itself from "tech startup incubator" to a facilitator of dreams, technical or not, startuppy or not.

Does that make more sense?
It also allowed them to more effectively colonize Ireland. As much as I am vehemently not a fan of the various colonizing events and the effects of the resultant economic control of Irish food supplies...it did strengthen the British empire.
I consulted for a solar company in Sicily and the biggest problem was panels being stolen - paying for protection didn't help much.

It wasn't a case of people sneaking in at night and taking panels; it was a case of two dozen people driving there with flatbed trucks, calling the police and warning them to stay away lest there be a shootout, and removing the entire panel and sunchaser setup cleanly.

If the situation is similar where you are working, be aware that conventional security systems won't help much.

Eventually we gave up because even being able to know exactly where the panel went via hidden GPS/transmitter setups didn't do any good... local law enforcement didn't want to start a siege on our behalf and I can't blame them.
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I don't think I fully understand. Is your perspective that the presentations and advice were useful because the speakers were qualified? Or are you saying that because it was not targeted to women, the advice was not as helpful?
If they have not asked for those permissions, then how can they give those permissions to third party apps that you install through them?
> Shane Legg is known for being a co-founder of DeepMind, in a business role (as I understand)

You are quite mistaken. He leads the applied AI team there, and has significant history in research.

http://www.vetta.org/publications/
That has nothing to do with the fact that if your systems are distributed, you will have eventual consistency.

If System A needs to tell System B about an event in order for A and B to remain consistent, but B is down, you've got eventual consistency, because B can't become consistent with A until it's back up and has performed whatever recovery is necessary to process that event. Service discovery does nothing to solve that problem.
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I spent about a hour explaining p-values to a fellow graduate-level researcher a few weeks ago. I pretty much just kept rephrasing the definition in slightly different ways until the person finally got it. In undergrad, hypothesis testing was more or less taught as "do this inscrutable calculation and if the result is 0.05 or less, you win". The point is, in my experience, a lot of people really don't get p-values, even graduate-level and post-graduate scientists.
Is this a purposeful reference to the late Lunn Poly [0]

"Flights with Google? Get Away!"

0 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunn_Poly
how can this be even remotely secure if it is closed source?

It does not work that way. "Many eyes make all bugs shallow" failed to replicate. (I understand this fate is even more common for anecdata than it is for formal studies.)

edit: amazing that I'm being downvoted for stating facts yet nobody replies to me.

My guess would be that you were being downvoted for spreading FUD and/or trolling.
Here's the key passage:

<quote>
BASP will require strong descriptive statistics, including effect sizes. We also encourage the presentation of frequency or distributional data when this is feasible. Finally, we encourage the use of larger sample sizes than is typical in much psychology research, because as the sample size increases, descriptive statistics become increasingly stable and sampling error is less of a problem.
</quote>

In other words: report the effect size, plot the data, and increase the N.
Depends what are you trying to solve - people's understanding of p-values, or many false results? If you care about getting true results and there are easier ways to get there than p-values, why would it be a bad solution?

Similar thing to what happens in software security. Sure, you could tech people how to use memory management properly - and then watch them fail again and again. Or you could just provide an alternative solution like rust which changes the issue completely.
The whole place. It works out. It's an exception to an assisted living community, so it means I have to stick to 3d printing and laser cutting if I use the shop tools after 6PM or so, and occasionally I have to help an old person carry stuff, but it's nice. I don't even lock my front door.
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Well, first you have to consider the source. Polonius is a boor and a blowhard. Then consider what he says. Both borrowing and lending can be solid financial decisions. Finance was in its infancy in Elizabethan England, but the British were early adopters in the field and would have known better. Shakespeare also would have been familiar with classical ideas about liberality as a virtue.

But the main takeaway is that Polonius is an idiot and his advice to Laertes should be considered platitudes at best and terrible counsel at worst.
How much of your workgroup speaks Spanish?

Depending on where you go, you'll have to integrate yourself into the community if you want to do business -- just showing up and "being gringos" will result in getting a cold shoulder in a lot of situations.
You don't believe in Artemis or you don't believe in beamforming? Here's a patent from 1954 about beamforming: http://www.google.com/patents/US2670443

Steve Jobs was born the next year. Cell phones were invented 18 years later. In the mean time, this tech has grown more popular, which is a pretty good indication that it works.

You want proof of a product? Search for "warship" on google images, click on your favorite one, and look for flat, slightly off-color octagon-ish panels on the side. Those are beam-forming radars. They are flat because they use the same trick to form a "virtual dish" which can be aimed instantaneously in any direction above the plane by altering the phase delays in its components. You can't slew a physical dish back and forth to point at 20 different targets a second, but you can use the beamforming trick to do that without problem. Same trick works for wifi and cell phones.

Don't like ships? I don't blame you, I get seasick. Search for "radar truck" and look for the flat ones.

You want more proof? Here are radio astronomers using the trick to get better angular resolution in the radio spectrum: http://www.upv.es/antenas/Catalogo_fotos/radioastronomia/loo...

"I'll only believe it if it's in a book." Amazon has 2,573 hits for "phased array" and the first few pages all look relevant.

"I'll only believe it it's in the academic literature." Google scholar has 430,000 hits for "phased array."

"I'll only believe it if google does it." Instant search seems to know about it too: https://www.google.com/search?q=phased+array

"I'll only believe it if the NSA does it." Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FLR-9

"I'll only believe it if Snowden leaks it." I'm too lazy to search his docs for incidental references to it, but here is Iran doing it, and the NSA probably likes Iran about as much as they like Snowden, right? http://www.businessinsider.com/iran-displays-indigenous-rada...

"I'll only believe it if I can watch a guy talk about it." I'm pretty sure this guy worked at an intercept place that used one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh9txt1TGt8

"But how does it work?" http://www.radartutorial.eu/06.antennas/Phased%20Array%20Ant...
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I agree. I'm in the pool of people who don't really understand p-values even after taking 2 statistics courses. The main issue I've noticed is that compared to many other calculations, you just have no idea if your result is correct. You can make wrong assumptions, wrong calculation, apply wrong methods, but in the end you get a number... and that's it. It may be a wrong number and you'll never know. This is completely different to many other practical applications of math where you can verify your result in various ways, or validate your answer against the initial assumptions, or test your program against lots of inputs.
Yeap, that is our financial system in a nut shell... Thanks Grandma Yellen for continuing to bail out the banks.
Hey, yeah! it's been a long time...
Ok, played with this a bit, and added the Hamming Weight snippet. Seems to work fine in the solution-tryer, but I can't add a test case; even the blank default gives:

[CS1501] No overload for method 'TestCase_0710c06f5bfa4a9b9b44678df9dd933e' takes 0 arguments

Again, I'd say keep at it, and try adding a lot more content. Hell, I wonder if this is something you could even hire random CS students to add content to.
What a rip-off. I don't know why anybody would pay for those apartments when you can get a better deal in Manhattan.
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What I was trying to say is that when people host these types of events, a lot of them spend all of their time on issues that are specific to women (e.g. sexual harassment), rather than giving advice on how to be successful in business in general. So I was saying it's good to see events like this that don't fall into that trap.

E.g. in college I took a semester long class on women and entrepreneurship, and the entire class ended up being about issues like maternity leave and the glass ceiling. How to actually start a successful business never even came up. So while this kind of stuff is certainly important to know about, I can't help but feeling like for the vast majority of the students, who were female and for whom this was probably their first and maybe last exposure to entrepreneurship, that this was actually a huge disservice to them. And this is sort of a pattern that I've seen come up again and again.
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I felt bad that my impulse coming from that page was to come here and complain about the use of (and poor definition of) 'async.' Imagine my relief when it was already tackled!

The good news is this is really quite beautiful and I like the fact that - unlike other monolithic js animation libraries that do similar things like Raphael - it's super slim.
Sweet, now we can focus all our science attention on things like Megaldons on Discovery Channel and creating more bad ways of doing statistical comparisons.
This is awesome, thanks a bunch!
I'm not sure I understood point #1. Do you mean that the periodicity is too consistent to support the theory of an orbiting body, because an orbiting body would have a less consistent orbit? If so, that's very interesting.

Pertaining point #2, I'm not very confident in any empirical data observed at this point in human evolution. It's not to say that scientists aren't working very hard to learn things, but moments like http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/feb/26/found-a-black... tell me that we're going to go through many more "we're absolutely sure / wait, we were wrong" moments, especially when pertaining astronomy and ontology, both fields with many more unknowns than true facts.
Hey.. Thanks for trying it out. I'll see what is the problem with the test cases.. You see nobody was using it..
That reminds me of the 14 steps & sub steps to take a screenshot on a DroidX in 2010: http://www.droid-life.com/2010/07/22/how-to-take-screenshots...
This is awesome - how do you unlock the final two levels?
the sad part of this is that of the team of developers I work with (when i was on the M$ side) NONE wrote commit messages, save for one guy. So this would be an impossible game, and quite a sad one as well.

I would like a game along the lines of "who wrote that and what were they thinking"
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I like the distilled version you get from @FakeGrimlock ... find right because, make people want.
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Something perhaps the Archive team could look at?
> a mind blowingly dizzying number of permutations to get from A to B.

Yes, but I don't think that's what most people desire to enumerate (or what the parent of your post had in mind). A simple enumeration of the flights available and their one-way prices would be a start. My understanding (from a link in another post) is that this would be ~(1 flight) * (average number of changes to a flight's data between birth and flight) updates per second, which I think is within reason.

My understanding is that airlines frustrate this by not pricing just individual flights, but giving odd discounts on round-trips and other odd combinations (such as A→B C→A) of flights, meaning you need more than just one-way prices. (There's also the fact that some airlines have like 5 or 6 different prices for a seat all on the same flight, depending on where in the plane the seat is.)
Lots less stuff that can go wrong, too. If you're getting a loan, the bank will want at least an appraisal, plus pre-approved doesn't necessarily mean the cash will show up. It can often take a month or more to close a loan.

With a cash offer, once a title search is performed (a few days assuming no liens), the owners and buyers can swap keys and a check. If the seller wants cash sooner than later, this can be very attractive; for example, he or she may well be bidding on another house and need to make a deposit or down payment.
Let me replay it to you and see if I understand it, because I don't know if I do:

You assume a null hypothesis that (usually) represents the status quo of no influence between the theory and the data. You then collect data. The p value then describes the probability of that data aligning with / being as a result of the null hypothesis.
In other words, a p <= 0.05 says that you have <5% chance that the data came from the theory stated in the null hypothesis - that is, you have a 95% confidence that you can reject the null hypothesis in favour of your new theory.

Is that correct? I may have minced terms there because my stats training is woefully inadequate, but I think I adequately conveyed the concept?
Looks like anoher thing would follow pc world. Initially companies allow personal laptop to be connected to work as long as you had correct version of patches and so on but with increased focus on security in most large organizations they have moved back company provided laptop. Same will happen here? Another issue a lot of good andriod's come with single sim hence you will anyway need a second (may be dumb phone) phone. Or does people use office phone for personal use , i mean where websites ask for your phone number? Because in India when leave a company (which is on an average one in 3 years) the company take the SIM back with number. And many folks have 2 sims for personal use itself so will obivously need office to provide the phone.
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Maybe you have institutional access or something, but for the rest of us, that link just redirects to the abstract.
Front End teams tend not like micro services, there is too much overhead in getting too little data. As an example we integrate with one micro service where get back a boolean and and a date. We have the overhead of an http call and all the error handling that goes with it for two pieces of data which would be better aggregated into another service. We story point an integration with a new service as an 8, but adding a new field (or two) in an existing API data structure is a 1.

I hope micro services is not just a new fashion in software and is actually useful ten years from now.
As is the 64-bit keyspace breakable.
I guess it's not right to say our solutions aren't needed. It's just that our voice and the sorts of solutions we'll tend to come up with are not underrepresented. Far too often our solutions are "be more white", "stop being poor", and the like: "Abandon your perspective and become a member of the dominant group."

We need solutions that acknowledge minority experiences and treat them as valuable, not solutions that simply impose majority viewpoints.
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ah, good point, low_battery; I like that feature, too!
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Ask HN: Anyone Going to Food Hackathon and Forum This Weekend in SF?
Anyone interested in food and hacking?
Food Hackathon & Forum is happening this weekend in San Francisco Feb 27 thru March 1, and I'm looking to form a team before the weekend actually starts. Details at http://foodhackathon.co. The theme and challenge is Nutrition for All. The grand prize is a team trip to Milan, Italy for World Expo this summer.

I am journeying from Lake Tahoe with a pretty cool idea and a marketable unused .com to create something unique and hopefully win. At least put on a good show.

Seeing if anyone is interesting in attending and possibly forming a team before the event. I've done a couple of these before, winning money and prizes in the last one, but team building seemed to be the challenge vs. building something cool.

Teams can have up to five. Ideally two coders, one UX and maybe another wildcard. Personally I've been an owner in foodservice, consulted for many, and years of sales & mktg in digital food mar, so I have a decent taste for the market. I currently work in food in Squaw Valley and have a system along with the connections set up to turn any MVP into a working situation.

Food is really hot right now and personally I'd like to win this and continue to build the project, take it to an accelerator and see where it goes.

Would love to find cool, smart people who love food and its possibilities, to build a team. Bonus points if you have a couch or spot on your floor to crash instead of the hostel.

Thanks for considering. Happy Eating!
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Although he did have a kickstarter for his game, April last year.[1] Pretty small project... and I'm not sure why that was never mentioned in the VB article.

[1] - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/481479629/a-druids-duel...
I'll let you in on a little secret. I've worked at 5 different companies over the past 2 years. On my resume, you'll see 2.

Why do I do this? Those companies I was at for a month on short-term projects don't add any intrinsic value, aside from an additional term in my skill soup, if that. What should I say, I picked up a short term gig to pay the bills? Isn't that why we work in the first place? It's less awkward in interviews, as I don't have to explain the employment gap or what made me leave XYZ Corp.

The resume is a sales flyer. You don't get the full story. You get just enough information to get you interested enough to come in to the showroom to check the car out in person, maybe take it for a test drive.
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This is specifically public discouse about gender-specific issues.

Maybe it's okay for a man to be the spokesperson for women's issues, or a white person to be the spokesperson for black issues, but it's important to realize you're speaking for someone else. It's really hard to do that better than that someone. Maybe I'm a better public speaker. Maybe people are more likely to listen to me. Maybe I even have a better understanding of power dynamics and sociology and tech culture. But it's also really, really critical to have an understanding of the perspectives of those I'm speaking for. That's hard. And in this situation, seems like a bunch of those people seemed to feel that wasn't the case.
Murphy beds are great. There's also this solution for chairs: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1985945130/bookniture-f...
I've had the same experience lately. Coordinating a number of staging environments for an evolving SOA backend has been challenging for both developers and ops. In addition to the services, each one can have many other things to worry about: monitoring, error collection, which version is deployed to which environment, replicating the complexity locally to work on it...