jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I see that you work in particle physics. I don't think particle physics is representative of science in general. My impression is that particle physics is seen as sexy and attracts a larger proportion of better researchers than many other fields for that reason.

The stagnation in fluid dynamics (my general field) seems fairly obviously linked to incentives. Pumping out papers is seen as more important than doing a good job as far as I can tell. In the past few years I think I've made a lot of progress in my subfield by simply compiling tons of data from the open literature [1], which apparently no one thought to do on the scale that I've been doing. (It's a lot of work up front, which would lead to a delay in publishing results.) In the process I've found that a lot of what's written in review articles and books on the subject is obviously wrong. This is not a sign of a healthy field! And I don't think you can do this in particle physics, but I think you can in many fields of engineering.

[1] https://github.com/btrettel/pipe-jet-breakup-data
At least in the market a junk product doesn't survive despite being first to market. The product needs to be good or at least inspire others to be regarded as a real contribution. This additional requirement is what's missing from the incentive system in science today.
No Paywall: http://archive.is/g33Ou
I don't get the "NY is testing more" claim. Based on the data I have seen https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en/test NY tested 61401 so far with 15168 positive for a positive rate of 24.7%, while WA tested 27121 with 1793 positive for a positive rate of 6.6%. NY testing seems very restrictive. CA is now limiting tests due to shortage of swabs and PPEs.
Thanks. So glad to hear that people appreciate the design.
The RBA has announced QE. China is shutting down banks.

I don't think any sane person doubts that China is going to have a debt crisis btw (it started a while ago), the question is whether they can do what they did in 1997.

But yeah: already started.
That comes out to about 6 million people? Seems like a huge number to me.
My very first job was at a startup and I was all excited to get stock options. Later, I heard from a colleague who had bought his options from a previous company which had been bought recently: he had a call with the CFO who had to explain that, no, there wasn't anything left for the options he had bought. So, the $5k or so he paid for it were worth nothing at all.

That's when I learned to lean more towards the "options are worthless unless you're a very early employee in a high-potential startup".

(when I think about this, it saddens me a bit how cynical my first jobs have made me)
I don't have a black-and-white perspective on risk, but either the data is worth protecting at a remote-wipe kind of level or it's not.

In most cases, the ability to wipe a typical employee's personal phone in response to anything would be a ludicrous over-reaction.

On the other hand, if you have someone who really does need to access sensitive data on their phone, and leaking that data is a $100,000,000 kind of risk, and there is $100,000s of layered security that normally protects that data, then maybe company IT should be authorised to spend $100s on a properly secured device that they can remote wipe if necessary, in preference to giving an obvious attack vector straight past that security.

As you say, it's about the risk. I don't see any circumstances under which risking using an employee's personal phone to access genuinely sensitive data off-network is justified. Either the damage if it leaks is bad, in which case the barrier for providing a company phone is pretty low, or the damage is negligible, in which case requiring a remote wipe facility that can destroy the employee's own property is silly.
This actually makes some sense (if I understand it correctly), vs. a VNC client solution in a browser.

You can, in theory, use the higher-level hints given at the toolkit level to optimize the bits sent for each toolkit API invocation.
> but you can get the same experience from other "hot, tea-like drinks" as well such as Herbal and Rooibos "teas".

I wouldn't call it the same experience. Herbal teas and Rooibos are fine in their own rights, but not as substitutes for the camellia sinensis plant.

Try stinging nettle. It's awesome.
Wait... maybe I've been grossly misinformed, but I thought you couldn't trademark, for lack of a better term, a single normal word.

Isn't this why Google is called "Google" and not "Googol"?
At least on iOS, recreating the "feel" of the scroll views is actually impossible with reasonable performance (the CSS 2d transitions don't have the correct interpolation options), so you can't make anything, at least there, that "feels" native.
Getting X tunneled over HTTP is actually pretty complicated:

* The client/server thing is reversed
* X expects everything to be fully asynchronous (WebSockets get a lot of hype but they're pretty useless at this stage IMO)
* XRender is a big mismatch to canvas drawing API (the old X drawing protocol is in some ways better, in many ways (esp. color) much worse)
Remember, you can also use any language that compiles to Java bytecode on a JVM. A short list includes Scala, Clojure, Ruby, Python, Groovy and even Javascript(via Rhino). So the JVM and Java are very much separate things.
On current Linux distros, you're more likely to use:

journalctl -u service-name -f

-f, --follow
Show only the most recent journal entries, and continuously print new entries as they are appended to the journal.
The correlation between inflation and lower growth is not as strong as one would think. See for example the graphs on pages 22-23 in http://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/98-1/15-... and the number of 'generally supports', 'probably' and 'may exceed' phrases in the conclusion.

But yes, 'too quickly' is not a good idea.
Are you looking for a proof of Girsanov's theorem or an explanation of how it is used to price? A good reference is Oksendal [0], but it's still quite tough going. As for how it's used, a good reference is Shreve's second volume [1], which also contains a proof of Girsanov's theorem. Joshi's book [2] is a little bit lighter on the mathematical rigour.

A quick explanation of how it's used:

Taking the stochastic differential equation for geometric Brownian motion, apply Girsanov's theorem to change measure via a drift change such that we now have a discounted stock price that is a martingale. The discounted stock price is the stock price divided by a short term bond or cash account asset. In this new measure the discounted short term bond/cash account asset is also trivially a martingale since it's being divided by itself. So we have that our two key assets (discounted) are martingales. We then define the time zero price of the option (divided by the time zero price of the bond/cash asset) to be the discounted expected value of its value at maturity in this newly constructed measure. By construction this discounted option price is a martingale and we now have three assets that are all martingales which implies there is no arbitrage possible. With this option price, called the "risk neutral" price, no arbitrage is possible under our newly constructed measure, but, because the original measure is an equivalent measure no arbitrage is possible here in the "real world" either and so this is our actual price.

I appreciate there are a few steps here that seem like a bit of a leap. It took me a while to appreciate them. The key things to appreciate are:

How everything being a martingale implies a lack of arbitrage. Girsanov allows you to make your (discounted) underlying a martingale.

How you can then just make the option price a martingale by construction. And then how lack of arbitrage under one measure means lack of arbitrage in any equivalent measure.

The discounting can also be a little confusing, but it's really just incorporating the time value of money into the calculations.

[0] Oksendal B . Stochastic Differential Equations.
[1] Shreve S E. Stochastic Calculus for Finance II.
[2] Joshi M S. The Concepts and Practice of Mathematical Finance
It would have been interesting to benchmark Akamai's compression as well, to see if they're using standard gzip or some special sauce.
I suppose it’s much like a halo product, which also won’t make you go out and immediately buy a Mercedes of course, but as with all advertising it may plant a seed.
Cool! I love projects involving colour, because they always have nice visualisations. Would you mind explaining your project in more detail? I'm intrigued by your site! Not sure if it's supposed to be interactive because I'm on mobile.

I haven't looked too much into the general case. You could consider a tuple (R1, R2, ..., Rn) and compute the probability distributions one at a time for R1, R2, etc. I don't want to get sucked into the exact details of how to do that, but I think it would involve some head-wrecking combinatorics in a loop. Then you could do the same for G and B.

Like you implied, this would be slow if you did it 1000s of times. That's why I pre-computed the R probability distribution in my code, which unfortunately would not be applicable to the general case because there would be too many possible distributions (exponential) to pre-compute. To generate 1 set of RGBs, however, I think it would be fine.

Alternatively, you could try a non-combinatorics interpretation. The folks on Reddit (thread linked in the article) suggested a geometric interpretation of the problem, which might work better.

There's also the approach I suggested at the end of my article: compute the number of possible tuples that average to A (one-off combinatorics), generate an index k between 1 and this number, then pass k to a magic function f that spits out the kth tuple. I'm just not sure what f would look like, hehe. It could be a recursive function. Not sure how to write f without having to do the same probability / combinatorics as before. Or looping through all possible tuples (yikes).
I see that you are not a stranger to racism your self. Calling a billion people lazy because because of their skin color is really classy.
> so that people would hopefully care more.

Why cant the Police enforce the rules and charge a fine for littering?
I can suggest using JavaScript codes to create the CSS codes ahead of time and then just post the compiled CSS codes on the server for download by the client, rather than having the CSS codes being made up by the client.

Also, I think you should not use the HTML "style" attribute; it is bad for accessibility. Use the "class" attribute instead.
Related discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21592297

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21582622

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21557779
This has been my experience. If my parents saw what I said/posted to online friends, they would be utterly horrified, and probably feel a sense of guilt because they could never be that intimate with me.
Heroku just released some major updates to their Postgres offering as well. See the blog for info: http://blog.heroku.com/
What about opening in Opera? Skyfire?
I haven't used a Nano, but I assume that's with the screen shutting off after a few minutes?

Not being able to check the time with a quick flick of the wrist would be a deal breaker for me when it comes to watches.
Python and vim: Two great tastes that go together (slides): http://www.tummy.com/Community/Presentations/vimpython-20070...
Isn’t wearable computing all about being able to carry around a capable computer with you at all times without even noticing?

An Android phone or an iPhone certainly fit that bill. Those are not really wearable or they are at least not what you would have imagined ten or twenty years ago when thinking about wearable computing but they are just as useful. I would even argue that they are more useful. You get all the benefits without the downsides. We could have made all those gadgets much more durable and waterproof and we could have even mated them with clothing – that doesn’t seem technologically infeasible – but why should we? A small lightweight slab of glass we can just slip in our pocket seems much more practical.

As for watches, I'm not sure what’s going to happen to them. I know many people who just ditched their watch altogether because all their gadgets have clocks, but the wrist is certainly attractive real estate for technology or fashion or both. The problem is size, I think. There is no space for a 3.5" or larger touchscreen on the wrist, even the 1.5" screen of the nano is a stretch. That 1.5" screen doesn’t allow for rich interaction, it can at most be used for very basic things (like in the case of the nano) or as a conveniently located remote for a larger interaction surface somewhere else.

I think, however, that it’s very questionable whether a setup with a watch as a remote is very convenient or practical. Why would you want to take care of two gadgets (charge them, be careful so that they don’t break and so on) when you can just pull your smartphone out of the pocket with about the same ease as looking at your watch?
i think it is a joke, you guys here already mentioned multiplication/division are expensive operations, so a simple hash just works well. and who care the complicated way if the simple way just makes the job done nicely. programming is an art.
I love how this professor is acting like he is taking the high road, but in reality, he himself is a hypocrite. If he had so much 'forensic' evidence, why didn't he just take it to academic affairs?

I'm not condoning cheating in anyway, but it's not the students fault that he is creating his exams from a public publishers test bank, which anyone could purchase and distribute. In my opinion the professor is just lazy.
Then why did your title say 'credit card fraud'? Where does the credit card come into the story?
Fair enough, if so then compare Android with iOS and the Android userbase with the iOS userbase, i.e. the iPad, iPod Touch.

The fandroids in topics like this one are delusional and seemingly motivated by anti-Apple hatred. Reminds me of all the Linux advocates who 5 or so years ago insisted that Linux and OpenOffice were going to take over the desktop from Windows and Office.

Market share means nothing when the adopters are freetards, you may have some numbers, you will not have quality of revenue. And anyway, what is the return rate like on Android handsets?
Normally I'd just upvote Isamu for the "me too!" effect, but because that doesn't show anymore...I'm also curious.
Any chance you could elaborate more, please.

What has been interesting about it? or maybe, what has been different from, say, doing support a few hours a week?

Although, I am not sure if you have ever tried that.
Good points all around.

I'd be interested to know going in what a startup's policy on conferences would be.

While I expect most trips to be ultimately grounded in business development (and with good reason), is the company purely focused on talking up a product, or will they accommodate my technical/social interests as well?

Giving a pitch can be fun, as long as I have Plenty of time to chat with other programmers, attend panels, learn something, etc.
Unlike the rest of the comments so far, I don't think this article is "bunk".

A startup is a series of untested hypotheses, and testing those is how you make progress. When you look at an actual, real startup idea, in practice, maybe 10% of the critical early hypotheses require coding (and you probably won't get to those in the first weekend).

So yes, it may be a thinly veiled advertisemen for Keynotopia, but the point is still sound.

Being an entrepreneur and being a coder require very different mindsets. Just because you can code up an awesome webapp doesn't mean that product will be something anyone wants to use or buy.
And I doubt the Apple shop has welders or bandsaws.
Eh I agree. I'll keep a closer eye on credit card statements for awhile, but I don't want to hassle with changing credit cards.
Opportunity costs are measurable. It all depends on your assumptions whether the measurements are reasonable or not.

Ex. If I make $2000 a week as a contractor on a steady contract, I know that the opportunity cost of taking a week of unpaid vacation time is $2000. That's a reasonable, measurable assumption.

However, I could also say that the opportunity cost of that week of vacation will be $12000, because there might be a one-week rush project that will come in that I can bill for $10000 in addition to my normal steady contract. Assuming there's not a pattern of that happening in the past, it's not a reasonable assumption and thus measurable in that way.

I'd say this second scenario is akin to the record companies assuming that every instance of piracy is also an instance of lost sales.
Another possibility is the replacement of particularly the intro-level courses with lecturers instead of research faculty. Of course, that would mean giving up on the "you are taught only by professors at <X> university" tagline + US World News ranking point.

Caveat: I am currently one of those PhD-pursuing TAs. In fact, it's time to go proctor a midterm! <enqueue maniacal laughter>
The Controlled Substances Act needs a carve out for substances so strange, obscure and nerdy they would never achieve mainstream popularity or public health effects, but that would require drug policy having some character of consistency and reasonability. A cruel joke where you can only laugh to keep from crying!
You have to use Shopify Billing for shops that installed your app through app store, but you can have Stripe for apps that installed your app directly through your site for example, that's how business I'm working for is doing.

Basically if you want Shopify App Store customers, you have to give 20% to Shopify, but you still have option of acquiring users yourself through your site without app store.

Is it fair? Maybe not, but that's a deal. Apple users on the other hand don't have option of installing apps without app store, so comparison is not valid.
this is exactly the problem we are trying to solve at hypernumbers.com, the internet has been in programmers hands since its inception, wufoo does a better job than most at enabling ordinary people to do more and we are looking to do more of the same.

Ill chuck up a review my startup thread in the next day or so when we get the website / documentation cleaned up, but would be happy to hear what anyone thinks.
I believe it is also the most used project management software.
Yes. This is not reason enough for Apple to censor it which is what this discussion boils down to. Is it okay for Apple to censor interracial couples in comics? Come on, this is the 21st century. Apple has no place censoring this. Should we have a homo-flag to qualify apps as suitable or not suitable for bigots?
I can send mail to my cousin in a small town in Iowa, with her name and town name only.
This is a great graphical resource of a cap table simulation across three rounds ...

http://www.ownyourventure.com/equitySim.html
Here's a lot more technical detail: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3768/seamicro-announces-sm1000...

Per CPU (8 per board):

Atom Z530 (1.6GHz, Silverthorne)
US15 chipset (Poulsbo)
2GB DDR2

Per board:

4 ASICs to virtualize IO
2x PCIe x16 connectors

"Each hop takes 8 microseconds", so good enough for (most/all?) IO but not good enough for memory.

No ECC of course, it being a non-server Intel chip. Each single cored CPU has its own DIMM.

* * * * EDITED to clarify the layout per CPU and per board after c00p3r made it clear I wasn't being clear. * * * *
insulting?
Somewhere in between; I ended up paying about $1600 after a $400 discount. I felt it was a pretty good price -- thing has basically the best laptop specs you can buy without having a 10-pound 18-inch behemoth. I agree that it's bizarrely arbitrary. (Something's odd about that one you linked, though -- the graphics card is that of a first-generation one, not the ones they're selling now.)
Simple: they are hosting the material. Im sure if there was a way to apply censorship to material obtained in other ways they would do so. That is how they view the platform.
Leadership carries importance for organizational goals as mentioned in this thread. Those who lead can inspire and aspire others to follow an idea or cause. It has been through my experience of empowering through knowledge that I have lead many peers to acheive great things on their own. Anyone can lead by being inspirational to others. My proposal to this thread: What work inspires you?
> It's time another country step in and take control

What's to stop them from being just as corrupt? It's too much for any one country to have control over. It'd be far better to come up with a way to take the power out of the hands of any one entity so that we don't have to keep moving it around when the people holding all the power are inevitably corrupted by it.
Also useful is a Quant finance cheat sheet if you are going to sit an exam:

https://github.com/daleroberts/math-finance-cheat-sheet
Neumann built (or faked if you prefer) something and someone else saw it and decided they wanted him to have 1.7bn in exchange for it

I don’t see how anyone else’s net worth is at play here
I think the sentiment was regarding the democratization of knowledge and access, which is shifting more toward an oligarchy. True, more of humanity is coming online. However, they can only participate if they can be monetized and controlled by those with all the wealth and power.
Apple owns the copyright to the CUPS software that runs on Linux and Macs.

But the point being that unlike Google, Apple has supported CUPS and actively developed the software for well over a decade even though it doesn’t profit directly from it.
The Bollinger has a pass-through opening through the cab (between the seats) and into the front cargo area under the hood. Obviously you can't fit a whole skid of 2x4s in there, but you can fit some really long stuff that pickup trucks otherwise can't really handle.

Edit: the linked page says it can fit 40 2x4s through the pass-through, and 72 sheets of half-inch plywood when the rear seats are removed. Also, with the tailgate down, it can carry 19' material fully supported.
I host various things at my house even though my ISP prohibits it... We lost that battle a long time ago too.
They lied to get price caps removed on .org and then sold it amongst themselves to profit. I'm not sure how you trust people that start with a lie. Look into the history of how shady this really was.
If anything, that would mean that they could offer more. With 10% unemployment, not only would people be less likely to take the money, but it would be easier to find new people.
Thirteen by Richard Morgan talks about colonizing Mars and how that impacts Earth's culture. It's also big on how our biology shapes our decisions, along with the shape of the world after the fall of the United States. Most of the action actually takes place on Earth, but still a fascinating book.
I'll insert my ad in here, because this topic is so close to my heart: Before incorporating, if you have co-founders, protect yourself with http://fairsoftware.net.

I know many people who didn't use us (or a similar co-founder agreement, except we are the only game in town if you are looking for a reputable, lawyer-approved, silicon-valley, tech-friendly one).

They regretted it dearly, later. In general, first time founders are pretty clueless about IP assignment (if my co-founder dumps me, what happens to his 10,000 lines of beautiful Python), vesting (if my co-founder doesn't work out, why does he keep 50% of my company), etc...

You know better than start coding without some kind of code repository. Don't start cofounding without an agreement. You've been warned :-)