skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The countercultural trickster has been pressed into the service of the preppy tech entrepreneur class

Concern has been expressed that the new generation of artists (musicians, actors etc.) in the UK seem to primarily come from upper middle class backgrounds[0]. I have started to wonder if the same could be said of the tech startup scene, e.g. in London. This could be due to the increasing difficulties someone would have living on a period of effectively zero income, unless they had the backing of rich parents.

[0] Could cite lots of articles, but http://www.standard.co.uk/business/markets/confessions-from-... is just one recent one.
Unintentionally, this also shows that GitHub is going pretty well when it comes it sanitising user inputs.
Yep, I think that's a totally fair analysis, but it still is one that involves poor health outcomes resulting from consuming more calories than you need, not directly because you consumed a specific macro or micronutrient.
Nah, that's what I'm talking about. Makes things too complicated and expensive. How about this...

If you have the capital, you can build whatever you want as long as you don't physically endanger other people (building meets earthquake and fire codes, etc.)
It's not so much a matter of disagreeing. It's that the quantum mind is off-topic. Bringing it up here looks like an attempt to publicize the idea by riding on the coat-tails of a completely unrelated article. That's worthy of downvotes, whatever one thinks of the idea itself.
The genuine people don't care what other people think of them and don't feel a need to "prove" anything. That's what makes them genuine.
Disclaimer: I am an H1B visa holder (though likely on my way out)

You hit the nail on the head. This is why rather than more H1Bs we need a better H1B.

IMO doing away with the lottery and granting the visa to the <N> highest paid applications would go a long way to make things better.

It would kill H1B sweatshops, motivate employers to look for American candidates a little harder and make it easier for companies willing to pay H1B workers well to fill the positions they cannot fill locally.

It's also a proposal that - I feel - could gain bipartisan support in congress. Unfortunately, I don't hear many people speaking out in support of it.
Maybe it's more to lack of exercising those specific skills? My language and math skills were definitely better during college but then i don't use them as much as I used too? This is something I would genuinely like to get an answer for
It probably serves as a convenient layer for not breaking the API across updates and also for obfuscating the entry points where the goods are to be found.

It sounds like its actually just the QueryInterface from COM[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model
The goal is being able to pickle something like a Django template and then run it client side. It's based on past work that has shown its possible to build bytecode interpreters without much code. It's not as much about targets and cross compilation or anything like coffeescript. It's about trying to run existing Python bytecode with as little code as possible.
One clarification - these mom & pop prop shops aren't necessarily competing against big baskets of MIT PhDs.
If your book size is only $200K, the big players (i.e. scores of MIT PhDs) won't even bother competing with you on the same strategies. Alpha from these strategies may very well be orthogonal to hedge fund alpha.

That said, you're still playing a zero sum game with other mom & pop shops and the general large-scale movements of the market. You need to be confident that you have better information / forecasting ability than the others, or technology infrastructure that enables strategies no one else can execute.

Source: I work in the industry.
The mix would be great if Google wouldn't halfass it and made it like iMessage. If user is on Hangouts and online, send Hangout message. If not online/not on Hangouts, send SMS/MMS.

How hard can it be?
I've worked with a few companies that have used log files as proof of impressions to get around ad blockers. Every few months I would have to do wrong and disgusting things to the log files until the numbers looked like what they wanted to show customers. They don't trust each other to be honest.
The post specifically targets a mobile GPU. Relevant links:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series_6_.28Rogue.29

[2] http://anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review/7
How short are we talking about? Pretty sure most people can remember a sentence? I very rarely make notes tbh.
The "don't forget to think of it" part is a bit trickier IMO. You have to have some kind of a trigger. With an odd, rare thought it could be tough without a non-mental trigger.
You continue to be amazed? Really?

Companies that specialize in one thing will always trump those who have to spread their efforts along many areas. It's the difference between depth and breadth.
> If you back test over the past 5 years then you are only testing your model against a huge bull market.

If your model is long as often as it is short (either cross-sectionally or in a time series sense) then this is less likely to be a problem.

A far bigger source of error for inexperienced researchers is incorrectly accounting (or not accounting at all) for trading costs, financing costs, roll costs, liquidity constraints, data delays, market impact etc.
This is excellent, I'm definitely going to read through this and see if anything can be borrowed to help improve Batavia from these papers.
>Because "we should have more freedom of speech" is not a universal truth.

I'm not saying it is, I'm saying under the model presented above, the statement is meaningless, not just right or wrong. But people do make such statements, and mean something by it.

>This should become obvious if you compare Israel, where holocaust denial is illegal, to the UK, where it is not. Clearly the 2 nations have different opinions on the limits of freedom of speech.

And it would be coherent for someone to say in Israel "we should have the right to deny the holocaust", which shows that "should" is not the same as "it is legal".

>I would have thought that laws change precisely because moral and ethical sensibilities do change.

"moral and ethical sensibilities changing" != "ethics changing".

If you believe murder is right, does that make it right?

>I don't think that's being argued.

I was talking specifically about whether people "should" have rights. If you refer to laws to answer that, you're equating laws with "should".
Well, you're talking about the effects of the threat of unionization, which I would agree is pretty clearly effective in driving labor costs up. I'm wondering more about the effect of established unions and companies or industries that employ both union and non-union labor; in the case that the union exists, has negotiated wages, and the company or industry employs both union and non-union labor, it seems unreasonable that non-union labor prices should float relative to union-negotiated prices, assuming that there is a sufficient supply of non-union labor.
That's why Hangouts has Online / Idle / Offline
What I want is for a common person to not need to pursue a high income career in order to support themselves and their loved ones, persue their hobbies/education/passions, and stay culturally engaged. The cultural necessity of careerism limits the general options available and accelerates the course of the dominant culture, which as we know, primarily consolidates wealth and attacks sub-scale forms of ownership. We need pervasive ownership.

You may not need freeing, but I certainly do.
This isn't great, but I do want to speak on behalf of Put.io. It really is an incredible service and I've always had great response time from them on customer service issues. I highly encourage anyone who isn't using it to give it a look.
I do know at least one person that day traded for a few years. He didn't get rich, but it was in the very nice salary range. Ultimately quit because it was stressful every morning starting all over.

This is also the same reason I only buy undervalued stocks that I hold for years. When I get to the age where I could retire I don't want to have to play the market every morning, I want to do other thing.
Binding arbitration is not so binding especially in cases that violate federal law related to the EEOC or NLRB. I am in the middle of writing a post about this. Will share when done.

I think HN really needs to learn employee rights.
Modern cargo ships slow to the speed of the sailing clippers
Sure, but there's already a lot of bidi text in the file.
No, I'm not trying to convince someone who has made up their mind. You're really backing yourself up into that corner, though.

Most higher organizations/clubs/associations/families engage in philanthropy and charity, most religions espouse the virtues or godliness of good will towards others and, again, most people who have the capacity to feel will agree that extending that empathy towards others is a good thing.

The point is most people, especially those who see things from a higher level socially and intellectually, recognize the value of compassion and selflessness.

Someone who balks at the suggestion that they have a responsibility as a good person to be considerate, who embodies the message of Ayn Rand's Anthem, might be considered immature. A shithead, even.
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Yelp at $1.9B is also relatively cheap compare to private market valuations. It dominates the sector and have 142 million monthly active users.
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> Even bafflingly small changes like removing always-false tests have been known to break code

Okay, how is this even possible? Reflection/pre-processing magic?
Well. Now i'm imagining my brain slowly dissolving like the head on an old beer. That's fun.
I was half joking.

The other serious half was in reference to Bay Area yuppies moving here and subversively driving up the cost of pretty much everything.
To be fair, that was not really AWS's fault, nor (apparently) a leap second issue:

http://www.bgpexpert.com/article.php?article=167

https://twitter.com/Axcelx/status/616058414746202113
The point is you know sugar is bad for you, so seeing an overwhelming volume of "toxic" material you consume is shocking.

It doesn't work with water because you don't care about water.
http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/ is the definitive go-to in this area.
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Yes, I as a layperson can see all sorts of differences that impose large problems. More mass = larger moment of inertia, slower roll, larger "barrel", and more energy needed. The roll could take 3x longer in a large plane, but other things like max speed and power to weight are not 3x better.
Mathematical software wish list
Physics is our best model? OK, I buy that.

The Copenhagen interpretation? Not so much. It's an interpretation. The actual physics is in the equations. I can believe the equations without believing the Copenhagen interpretation, or any interpretation.
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If you're a remote worker, that's heaven.
Funny, I read this as "interfaces are best designed in a declarative fashion".
Creative vs. Social Networks
Well said!
MMS for photos and videos have been in google voice (when used via hangouts) for about a year[1]. The (still very exiting) new feature is support for group texts which piggyback on MMS. Previously incoming group texts would appear as SMS messages from each individual recipient and it was not possible to send messages to the entire group.

[1] http://lifehacker.com/google-voice-gets-native-mms-support-b...
This appears to be a language in the Eiffel tradition, but with a much more expressive logic that enables full correctness proofs.

What I couldn't work out from a brief scan of the documentation is what logic is being used, and if the system is in the Curry-Howard tradition or more and LCF-style system, or something altogether different. I'm slightly worried about this since the language is imperative, and the ability fully to specify and reason about imperative languages is quite involved, e.g. you can have aliasing of memory locations.
Yeah this was some of the most anti-YAGNI stuff I've seen.

Which is not meant to detract from the fact that the code was great 99% of the time. It just took 10x longer than it should have and cost 10x as much and half of it was never used.
I'd pay except its impractical. My club uses Dropbox to hold our artwork (game design club). Its several GB of art.

But the pricing plan goes from free (and we've hit our limit on that) to over a thousand dollars annual. Yes, that's right. We are 10 people, times the monthly fee each, times 12 months per year. For a hobby club.

The worst part of that is, we'd be paying for what? To hold our own data on our own machines, sharing it with our own bandwidth. Dropbox adds a sync feature to that. Which seems like it would cost a fixed fee to access, now and forever. Not scaling with the size of our data (our data, on our machines).

Anyway, we don't pay.
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the best story always involves the ones where somebody WANTS to do something so bad that they just keep at it at all costs and eventually make it. Great story but the more common story is somewhere between giving up vs realizing that something isn't that valuable to you (or as fun) as you thought it might be. you realize you don't or probably won't enjoy the process. The no pain no gain model is true to an extent but often a person got a closer look, they can probably deal with the pain, but the gain is no longer all the shiny and worth pursuing.

So you must look at the objective with short and long goggles to see if your understanding about it is right. As you do things well they might get more enjoyable with time. Finding a balance where challenge is still there but you're in the zone of craft. Where you know you can make it work and the challenge is something surmountable. The memory of how hard it was to get to that point isn't one of regret or pain. Just learning, and maybe relief.
The principle of charity is basically a way to approach new ideas arising from mindsets different than yours.

The 'assumption of truth' step doesn't require us to believe anyone who walks up and says "A ^ ~A". Rather, it says that you shouldn't immediately reject a philosophy because it disagrees with your prior notions.

The 'resolve contradictions' similarly doesn't mean that we have to overlook flawed claims. It's a tool to help learn an idea even if you don't get a perfect presentation of it. There may be a valuable concept available even if the person explaining it to you can't properly work through every detail.

As an example, most people who could talk to you about evolution can't explain the development of eyes, but that doesn't mean you should assume evolution is bunk when you hear about it. The principle of charity says "there might be a good reason here, whether or not they can provide it".

In short, the principle is an attempt to get value out of ideas you're presented with. That might mean you're engaging with a different idea than what you were actually presented with, but it gets you more insight. It's not something you want to use when faced with a concrete form of the document - it's not a reason to pass a bad-but-well-intentioned law.
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> But you've also given them a non-exclusive and irrevocable right to use it as they want

Such things are not actually irrevocable in the US, although they do last a long time.

Starting 35 years after the grant of a transfer or license of copyright, there is a 5 year window during which the author can give written notice of termination, and the transfer or license ends. The author may do this regardless of any agreement to the contrary. This is codified at 17 USC 203 [1] for those who want the gory details. "copyright termination rights" is a good search term to find discussion and articles on this.

Probably not much use in getting embarrassing content removed from a website that you unwisely licensed it to because after 35 years people have probably long forgotten about it unless it is really bad, in which case it has probably already harmed you as much as it can.

It will be interesting to see if the termination right ever affects free/open source software.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/203
I, too, am skeptical of the Jobs design hagiographies...but this was one of the more palatable examples. In a bigger company, this should've gone to a design team...did Apple pre-Macintosh have a design chief? If not, then the calculator UI is one of those things that could've easily slipped into the low-priority queue, and there's only a limited amount of "oh-fuck-it-it's-good-enough-for-me,-the-developer" features that a consumer-facing operating system can tolerate before it begins to looks like amateur hour.

To be fair to Jobs, it can be profoundly difficult to communicate visual design principles. At least when given the opportunity, Jobs sat down and actually put his hand to the design work. It's debatable whether Espinosa spending his time building a parameterized-calculator-constructor was worth the opportunity cost, but at least Jobs made use of it, which is more than you can say for a lot of executives.

On the other hand, this seems like something that could've been hashed out on a whiteboard or napkin...

Anyway, I think the real hero here is Espinosa, a programmer who took charge of documentation and the user manual, and went about his work by dogfooding his product (Quickdraw in this case).
Rational/irrational and delusion/fidelity are incommensurable.
I worked on a swear filter at a previous job. Not quite sure how this list could benefit anyone really unless you are matching a whole string e.g. title of a photo rather than words in the title of a photo.

There are so many creative ways to get around swearing. Replace letters with numbers, drop consonants and vowels. And you almost always need to check for word boundaries otherwise somebody from Scunthorpe might be upset you banned them. And then there are cases where word boundaries aren't enough. Good luck ;-)
You want something that modifies so that you can detect that the SQL executed. But an INSERT would be a much friendlier than a DROP TABLE. :)
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If you don't have Flash installed the power savings will go a long way towards making up for the difference between the two.
Got a call on Hangouts. Didn't see who was calling. Couldn't pick up because I was too late. Can't see who called later on. Product still shit.
Great article, taking the thinking further...

Everybody watches their competitors, it's entirely natural. It's solid advice to study them, and try to stay/get ahead of them where possible. This doesn't just apply to app features, but every facet of the business across many disciplines (sales/marketing/development/back office etc).

On the other hand, building a business based solely on a competitor's business decisions and not doing your own homework is the path to madness. We might take inspiration from our competitors, but we always check in with our customers next to make sure they actually want the feature. It's also our job to get feedback on not just what we're doing but also how we're planning to do it, as our users might have unique business requirements that our competitor's users do not.
> Let's face it, for many countries, the US is still seen as dreamland

Maybe, but there are definitely other options. I am an immigrant myself and the steep USA's visa process made me to look to another place.

I am happy living in Canada now but my second option (Australia) still looks attractive too, and that is just to name two.
Doesn't that just mean that AirBNB's numbers would be even worse?
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For anybody else looking for the APK, here's the relevant Android Police article with a link to the APK.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/08/10/dreams-do-come-true-...
Microsoft Raises Bug Bounty Program Reward to $100,000
How is class not a part of culture?
It's supposed to be reserved for applications. In practice... you may see them in the wild anyway. So it's important that they show up in test vectors!
> The developers spent a good chunk of the late 90s/2000s writing Oracle PL/SQL code; hundreds of packages and thousands of stored procedures with oodles of business logic.

I've developed a hypothetical approach for versioning of stored procedures within the model described here as part of Alembic, known as "replaceable objects": http://alembic.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cookbook.html#repla...
I've been a manager at Google for nearly 10 years. The only time these types of analysis were done that I'm aware of, was at the VP level. They were used as statistical measure to see if the performance review system data fit probabilistic expectations. In other words, it was a measure of quality.

I've never seen this sort of thing done to affect individual or even small team scores and/or distributions.
This seems like nonsense to me. How many Phd's are awarded every year? Doesnt mean its a random occurrence... I know quite a few independent day traders who do quite well. I think its about who you know-- i.e if you are working in Finance you'll know more day traders.
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A bunch of yuppies get mad about being called yuppies.
Yeah, the browser addon for Hangouts is literally the worst thing Google has ever done, IMO. On the Mac it is even worse.

I would be seriously surprised if anyone at Google actually used this POS.
It really reminds me of JavaSciptCore's LLINT.