skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two quotes that sums up this article for me:

"The whole point of pure maths is that there are problems to solve, and you're working to solve them."

"So why don't we do what we did before? When we couldn't solve equations like x+8=5 we invented the negative numbers. When we couldn't solve equations like 3x=5 we invented fractions. When we couldn't solve equations like x2-x-1=0 we invented the algebraic numbers."

To me, I look at math as a collaborative language of precision in dealing with units. Math isn't static. It's collaborative, it's inventive. It's desire is to accurately communicate measurements. I'm still in my undergrad for Applied Mathematics but that's my two cents.
Dying inside. This spectrum is essential for wireless microphones. The big corporate rental houses can buy new inventory, but many of the operators are churches, schools, and nonprofit theaters who were able to purchase equipment only with grants, serious fundraising, and years of savings.

You're robbing every nonprofit with a performance space of potentially $30k+ of essential equipment that is now worthless.

I work at a campus venue with around $20k of Shure ULX in this frequency band. We just went through a round of budget cuts and if we have to stop operating this equipment, it will probably never be replaced. This means students can't do amplified musicals anymore.

Even if it is for the greater good, please understand who you're fucking over here before you cheer it on.
Right, and in iOS9 the features to allow ad blocking are built in to Safari, not iOS. Since MadBlocker works at the OS level, it can also block ads in (most) other apps as well. I believe it should work fine with iOS 9 too.
Your original posts were clever and almost fun (still inappropriate for HN), but this is neither. Please stop.
>One giveaway here is the phrase "whether or not the maintenance occurs regularly". What maintenance? There is no "the maintenance" in this paragraph, and maintenance has no connection to the sentence or topic.

Good job! You almost asked a question.

This google search might help you in your quest to define the word 'maintenance':

https://www.google.com/#q=server+maintenance+load+balancing
Cython isn't a separate implementation: it's merely a language that compiles down to CPython API calls. Therefore, it's bound by the GIL insofar as CPython extensions are.

PyPy does really have a GIL, it's only the experimental PyPy-STM which doesn't.
If you want to siphon cash, you must be near a flow.
I agree with everything you wrote, except for the first 10 words. This isn't a trollish idea. It's a practical solution that solves a real problem. Any time in conversation this topic comes up, I make the same argument that it doesn't make financial sense to move from city to city like a plague.
This is the way to do it; bring in Legal.

The big problem with that is cost.

If it's a giant telecom they are already paying in-house lawyers. If it's a smallish ISP then this costs them big bucks to keep outside counsel on retainer. Maybe they can work with their law firm and cut a deal?

This stuff is pretty much boilerplate, so maybe a paralegal can do most of the work and then get it blessed by a J.D.?
The realities of a $50 smartphone
> For most European countries this is not a problem. Each club which plays in its countries top division already has a big enough dedicated football stadium.

Most in this case is maybe 5-6. Even in rich football countries like Germany, not every 1st tier club has a 40k+ stadium.
I guess at the very least it can serve as a useful 'edge case' test for an implementation of an algorithm operating on a graph. E.g. the Peterson graph[1] is also quite useful for that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersen_graph
I heard about something similar to this once on a project a friend was working on (it wasn't of this scale) - it was actually when a designer was the lead on the project and he insisted on customizing random tiny bullshit and the engineers didn't have the power to say no (to cut on the added complexity).

Don't know if this applies in FB case.
> Why do we punish people criminally? For doing bad things with malicious intentions.

Agreed, however, the problem is what's considered "bad" isn't a matter of fact but of opinion. What is law is a matter of fact, but legal/illegal != bad/good.

Also, please stop calling it drunk driving, the law pertains to more than just alcohol which is why it matters and why it's unjust. Getting in a car and driving while sober can still get you a DUI because the law is stupid in defining what intoxicated/impaired means, this is especially important now that marijuana is legal for recreation in several states. Just because someone gets a DUI does not mean they were in any way reckless, beyond that it's just as reckless to drive tired as to drive intoxicated yet no one argues that should be DUI worthy, additionally "reckless" is a matter of opinion, not empirical fact.

The law is not logical, it is political, a popularity contest, not a logically evidence based means of helping society. There's certainly logic in keeping law self consistent for sure, which is where lawyers and judges have a role, but what becomes law has little to do with what is actually just. As you're a lawyer, you know this already.
Totally agree, we made a game at a hackathon as well, I was able to the initial version of the game up and running using their examples in a couple hours.
FIFA doesn't insist on building new stadiums so much as they award bids to countries that don't already have sufficient stadium capacity. Brazil and Qatar need/needed to construct stadiums, and so does Russia probably, but had they accepted the England and USA bids for 2018 and 2022, respectively, no stadium construction would have been required (at most, perhaps some renovation). In fact, either country could host a World Cup with only a few months' notice.
Well the lawyer himself just agreed with me on that point. The day defining justice is a specialized matter only the initiated have valid opinions on, is the day freedom is gone. Lawyers are trained in interpreting law, they have no special qualifications in defining what is or isn't justice. Law and justice have little to do with each other.
So which of the aforementioned ceos do you believe is the token? Tim cook? Satya nadella?
One could imagine that a human exists that does not value their self?

All of this is compatible with subjective value. It's even explicit in your description: 'they value themselves'. To have an absolute value, there must be an unchanging metric outside of human consciousness by which to measure humans.
Looked at another way, assisting the government in subverting the Constitution should not be a "Get Out Of Jail, Free" card.
Ironically, white straight men from SV are under-represented in the Senate - as is everybody else from California or the other big states.
And its all Objective C code!

Reading through just some of the classes they have it looks like they have everything from packet readers to image manipulation to RSS feeds to web page embedding to video playback in there. Its literally an OS unto itself.
I love how easily some ppl on HN call someone an idiot. Way to encourage people to share.

I found it interesting even if my browser ate 260 whatever MB of memory. Doesn't make him an idiot, just a little bit lazy about optimizing his blog (which is not used by millions like the Facebook app)

It seems none of the cool kids with lean blogs managed to post this stuff or get it on HN. I'd love to read their articles about it, but hey, they don't seem to exist.
Meaning is not something that is particularly an end goal. That is why there is specific differenciation between the syntax (structure) and its semantics. Once you isolate them, one could think of the structure itself and manipulate its related symbols, without worrying about their meanings. Sometimes surprisingly, some of these results map back to the meaning of the structure, but that is purely a byproduct.
having the olympics costs a country X amount, and earns a country Y amount.

for some reason I think most people put Y at 0, and say that the country has wasted X (talking only about the 'price tag' of hosting). I can't tell whether people doing that are being dishonest to support a narrative, or whether they actually think that hosting an olympics earns a country nothing.

you can argue that Y is often or always less than X, but I rarely see Y even acknowledged.
In 2008 Trader Joe's pulled foods sourced from China of their shelves after one too many adulteration stories (not affecting their products AFAIK), I'm not sure if that still holds but clearly you're not the only one who has been concerned.
To your token diversity point:

That depends on what your goal with diversity is. One reason to prefer diversity is simply that a diverse team would naturally have more perspectives to a problem, more insights into more markets, etc. If this is your goal that simply being an underrepresented minority in tech is itself a qualification with legitimate business value [0]. If you goal is to reduce prejudiced, that token diversity could still be a good step, under the theory that it provides role models to inspire social change to improve the underlying causes.

[0] It is worth noting that this was the original argument in favor of affirmative action in colleges: a more diverse student population increases the quality of education for all students.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_football_stadiums_in_G...

Edit: Sorry, I read your comment to quickly, thought you were saying, that there are only 5-6 stadiums that big in Germany.
Total comp, I assume, includes presumed vested stock payout. Even as a FE developer (sr level) these numbers aren't unfathomable when they include stocks.
Notes on This Week in Startups Episode 567: Maren Kate Donovan’s Zirtual
Emerging Security Protocols for IoE
> stock buybacks (which improve the stock value)

That's a misconception. Stock buybacks create value only if the stock is undervalued.
The investment in infrastructure will usually benefit the locals for years.

Doing the math on infrastructure is not that simple. Ex: How much would it be worth, if one million people saved 30 minutes every day? Or that you live in a city where you can practice virtually any sport on the highest level!?
> causes browsers to actually slow down to a crawl.

some browsers. FF 40.0 on my 2012 rMBP barely breaks a sweat.
Thanks for sharing, haven't heard of the project before.
Web performance done right
Does your app whitelist your websites?
> if you could manage to get malware onto such a computer, then there are likely easier ways to exfiltrate the data than presented in this paper.

I'm not so sure. It's much easier to drop an infected thumb drive in a parking lot than to get that thumb drive back after it's been plugged into a facility computer.
Company in Canada gets U.S. patent for space elevator
Could you provide more information about your SMILES test? How many unique symbols were there? How does gzip do? This is an interesting use case.
> One could imagine that a human exists that does not value their self?

Sure. I'm sure there are many such people. Does this make a difference for the purposes of this discussion?

> all of this is compatible with subjective value. It's even explicit in your description: 'they value themselves'.

Correct! I wasn't disagreeing, just trying to explain the sentiment in subjective terms.
Well, if my people of color want to get to the top, they're gonna have to develop the neccessary skills require to be at the top (leadership skills, negotiation skills, management skills, acquire the required experience to run a company, and they need to lower their empathy level, down to the point where they can utterly crush their competitors with no remorse, like all those pyschopathic CEO, for example, the CEO of Tobacco, who feels no guilt in killing millions of people each year).

Most of my asians peoples prefer to be the smart math/computer programmer guys who do not want to do the boring day to day chores of running a company, and they prefer to just do amazing things with a computer instead.

Nothing wrong with that.
Big step in Quantum Computers engineering
I cannot tell if you are being sarcastic.

HNers should understand basic statistics. Saying 0 out of 2 is an underrepresentation is inaccurate.
"I'm sorry but that's a parasitic perspective. What's the meaning of life? To work 80 hours a week to ensure someone gets their Elsa doll delivered in half an hour?"

The meaning of life is whatever you make of it. If you want nice things, you will need to work your ass off to get it.
The very first paragraph linked to the act in question - I think it is reasonable to do some research yourself if you want to start getting comparisons to other regulatory limits from that point.
If you had not written to me in a malicious manner, then I would not be making jokes at your expense.

I am using my sense of humor to prove my humanity, because your pejoratives are terribly mean-spirited trolling.
CALEA has some provision to reimburse costs. Not sure how well it works in practice.
Because that would create 3rd party liability, it would be no different than holding Ford responsible for a Drunk Driver, or Smith & Wesson Responsible for a shooting.

I have a feeling though you support those things as well
People forget the NeXT Cube originally came with a version of one these (magneto optic read outs based on Kerr Rotation); Jobs was a visionary for certain.

I actually worked on a version of this (Cobalt-Platinum multilayers) for a summer internship with Mark Kryder at the Data Storage Systems Center; a formative experience for me. The Seagate technology described here is probably largely based on his work.
Well, I can imagine the world without Google/FB, what's wrong with it?
How much does Silver Donorship cost and who are the other notable donors?
The thing you realized is also what the guy is arguing is not the case. There's no one right view, but that's the point of his argument.
>Edit: The user's subsequent replies distinguish their contribution as mean-spirited trolling.

You should have recorded each edit. This is another Freudian slip about your own mean-spirited trolling.
Hold up. They found massive levels of Lead in the product?

EDIT: To all those wondering why they were not first contacted before going to a court: this PRNewswire piece is a public notice of them telling Soylent that there is Lead in the product.

Personally (and tangentially), I feel this is how software exploits should be treated in open source software; let people know immediately so all the eyeballs focus on a solution, rather than a subset.
Here are the California Safe Harbor levels for [1]:

Lead: 15 micrograms/day
Cadmium: 4.1 micrograms/day

The EPA's safe water regulations for lead are [2]:

If more than 10% of tap water samples exceed the lead action level of 15 parts
per billion

Which is 15 micrograms/liter.

Cadmium is 5 ppb.

[1] http://oehha.ca.gov/prop65/pdf/safeharbor081513.pdf

[2] http://water.epa.gov/drink/contaminants/basicinformation/lea...

[3] http://www.epa.gov/safewater/pdfs/factsheets/ioc/cadmium.pdf
Not trying to start any fires, but are non-heterosexuals really underrepresented in Silicon Valley? The culture I've seen seems to fully embrace people of various sexual orientations.

According to Gallup [1], only 3.8% of American adults identify as LGBT, so the fact that even one CEO in the top 10 (in fact #1) is in the club is actually somewhat remarkable.

[1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/183383/americans-greatly-overesti...
He's saying all Californians are underrepresented in the Senate because we have the largest population and still only 2 Senators.
> That is, human beings are both things that are valued and things that value.

I'm not convinced there's enough evidence to support the claim that humans are the only species that assign value to things. Maybe I'm missing something.
doh. It didn't occur to me people would stay in Seattle after getting Google jobs.

Perhaps Google should COL-adjust SF employees up to about $500k/year.

There's a weird life trap where you're making what most people would consider "a lot," but over half your take home pay is eaten by rent and food that costs 3x what it would somewhere else. So your "a lot" turns into "can't afford a car" or "can't save up enough to get out of the cycle" without moving to less desirable places.

Better to serve in hell (SF/NYC) than reign in flyover country?
> The truth is far simpler. Mathematicians are solving puzzles, and some of those puzzles don't come from the real world at all, and can't be motivated in that way.

Why is it that mathematicians are unable to see the recursion: Pure maths is maths applied to maths, so it is applied maths, nevermind how often this operation had to be repeated until the result would be substantiv?
As far as I know there's at least two problems with the latest retina MBP - the webcam driver and the new force touchpad driver (introduced in 2015). Looking on the forums I saw someone saying he can't make the touchpad to work.
That was the CIA.
I'm submitting this to the awesome list of awesome lists.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

This way, you can just star that repository without cluttering up your GitHub star page.
It’s practical in the sense that it would logically work.

But it’s impractical in the sense that it doesn’t actually satisfy the needs of anybody in the IOC or the bid committees that try to get tax money to enrich themselves, or the needs of politicians who want to bask in the halo of “winning and hosting the games."
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:AhGDevV...
my favorite ones though:

FBWhichApplicationAreWe_DO_NOT_USE.h

FBProfileSetEventsCalendarSubscriptionStatusMutationOptimisticPayloadFactoryProtocol-Protocol.h

FBStoryCreateInputDataAttachmentsLifeEventExtrasEducationInfoEndDate.h

FBReactionAcornSportsContentSettingsSetShouldNotPushNotificationsMutationCall.h
Or you miswire them, disconnecting data lines from the ports, and routing bus power to the data terminals on them ;)
Yeah, but he's a Master Builder :-)
It must be so nice for AT&T; making money twice on the same customer.
The customer yes, but I ment some relevations about tapping AWS internally by the NSA.
With this post, your replies have reached XKCD-386 compliance.
Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy and childless (1981)
That list of names is a decent slice of "the general crypto community".
The manipulation of symbols it itself meaningful, because the symbols are real things that exist in nature. You may be working at a different layer of indirection, but it makes no difference to the usefulness of your work, because nature itself does no indirection (as far as we can tell); your results are always applicable to something real.

Even if many mathematicians are so poor at explaining it that they'll just pretend it isn't true; that mathematics doesn't need a purpose. It does -- it just always has one.
The entire point of the leadership principles at Amazon is that they apply to everybody at the company. The handouts with leadership principles they give out to everyone all start with "Please be a leader". No one's obeying anyone.
Is it faster for spatial queries to store the S2 cells in a Btree index in a database like the article mentions or to just use something like PostGIS with its gist spatial indices -- specifically, for determining whether points are inside or outside of a polygon?
http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html

Iridium: $100,000 to $250,000

Platinum: $50,000 to $100,000

Gold: $25,000 to $50,000

Silver: $10,000 to $25,000

Bronze: $5,000 to $10,000

Companies are listed in the link.
One word: ROI.

Radio. On. Internet. :-)
I am not really part of the "crypto community", but I know that Tanja Lange and Orr Dunkelman are both held in high regard (am not familiar with the other two names).
Yes - I think their fraud detection code might be worth some $$$ if sold to the right folks.
I was commenting on the part of the headline that naively suggests that there's an option other than accepting the risk that comes with staying at a stranger's house or not accepting it.

Not sure how you got from there to rape victim blaming and bomb victims in Irak.
Purifying spoiled randomness with spoiled randomness
Do you want a whitelist in the sense that you want to see ads on certain websites, or that you want to see specific ads?

In the case of the latter, a whitelist is planned (mostly to correct for false positives). In the case of the former, it's not possible technically since I'm not proxying anything, and the whitelist acts on the request domains ads are coming from not the domains in which they are embedded.
Most islands that are uninhabited is that for a reason.

Frankly, it is probably better to create a new island than trying to find an unused one.
I would love to see a blog post about that test, if you're willing.
It might be that some companies offer near-SF salaries to make it a slam dunk for the new hire. From the point of view of a Valley giant, they probably churn higher-salaried people in SF/SV all the time, so one more located elsewhere is not a biggie. At 10% less it's still a win, and because of the differential from local prices, the new hire will be super excited to join and stick around, so why not? The more you push down towards average local salaries, the more you have to compete with local businesses and the more you risk getting average performance out of the hire, all for a relatively small cash saving.
There are two approaches to answering your question.

Firstly, what makes you think that mathematicians are unaware of the trail back to "the real world"?

Secondly, I'd be interested in knowing what you think this real world issue this problem might be descended from:

Dissect a circle into congruent pieces,
such that the centre point is contained
in the interior of one of the pieces.
I didn't know that Tim Cook came from such humble backgrounds. That's pretty impressive.
My job is 10-7, only because I take an hour off playing ping pong every day. My major complaint is that they don't have enough ping pong tables. Also, having to decide which food truck to eat at on a particular day is annoying. I'd much rather have free cafeteria food.
The idea that Five Eyes is unique in its pursuits and "any Western country besides the u.s." isn't monitoring everything that is technically possible is so naïve that I'm amazed you worked for PGP. I don't normally go after people for being anti-American, but I'll make an exception here because your ideology is making you look comical.

You're a foreign national with an interest in cryptography living in Switzerland. Of all the people in the world who shouldn't be so absolutely clueless, it's you. They're on you like stink on shit, and suggesting otherwise is laughably stupid. What do you think, Switzerland became a discreet financial haven out of a measure of luck, while Swiss intelligence sat around being good, decent, idle people?

For all of my extensive problems with U.S. intelligence, they at least made an effort to uphold the law. They failed, yes, but so many pivotal decisions were around the legal framework. I wonder how such a conversation goes in Ukrainian intelligence, or German, or Mexican. "We have a lead on El Chapo but we can't follow up because it's illegal to wiretap." Yeah, okay.

Come back to reality, bud.
It's a bit confusing. I think this is the current list of maximum allowable levels and safe harbor levels:

http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/pdf/safeharbor081513.pdf

EDIT: someone asked for the safe harbor levels. I provide a link to the current safe harbor levels. I'm not sure why this deserves a downvote?
Ask HN: What is the simplest stack to learn?
I have been using MySQL/PHP/jQuery for many years now in almost all my web projects. But reading around the web I feel outdated, and different solutions/options are popping up everyday.

I want to update my toolbox without having to deal with a steep learning curve.

What does HN use?