skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree - the blogger in question in the OP never had trouble with driving traffic, but with optimally monetizing it.

If you're getting 1MM pvs a day but only getting .05 CPM you're not making a living.
Ban is a strong word. What I'm saying is that if I were a CA, it is against my interest to project the idea that I take proactive effort against my customers. I'm warmer to the idea of being picky on which clients to take but even that is a picky topic.

Like you said, it doesn't matter what is legal. Media will have a field day talking about my CA should someone like Ashley Madison be my client. But that's just the beginning.

There will be cases against me because well f#$% me, right? I mean I took steps in case A and was unable tondonsonin case B. It doesn't matter if the case has no merit. If there are enough of them, it still distracts me significantly from my job.

At least that's my perspective. I've never run a CA so I'm sure I don't understand the subtleties but the way I understsnd it, perhaps CAs would be better served to restrict themselves to authentication.

Now, that's not to say that CAs should do nothing. For example, if your own private keys are compromised I can imagine a scenario where you'd move quickly to invalidate everything underneath. But I guess these are technical and security reasons not fear of a media backlash.
Smart notification filter for android let's you leave your ringer on at work
My favorite question for any smart home product is "what happens if company X goes out of business?" Had to learn to ask that the hard, expensive way but now all my connected things have the ability to run off the local grid.
If you are truly determined, and will stop at nothing to build a successful startup, then I strongly encourage you to apply for YC and don't worry about your chances or treating it as a lottery.

Yes, it sucks not getting into YC. I know, I didn't get in the first time I applied, it felt shitty for a day, but then I just went on with building my startup regardless. I applied again the following year and this time we did get in. I didn't give up or think about our chances once.

Determination is not something you say, it's something you do, especially when the odds are stacked up against you. So if you are determined, apply for YC, don't over think it, then keep moving forward with your world domination plans.

More here: http://imars.posthaven.com/so-you-didnt-get-into-yc-now-what
I pretty much learned C in this class. I had written a single, very simple C program in a prereq class (write a C program, then rewrite it in assembly was the gist of the class).
Only if people are joining your line out of their want for the service, rather than some external requirement. Nobody likes a popular DMV, for instance. Nobody wants to be there.
The number of digits needed to hold an output coefficient (and intermediate coefficients during the transform) increases with the number of input coefficients (because so many get added together). This forces the size of the ring to increase to accommodate the larger values, and pushes the runtime past O(n lg n).
Jetstar is a budget carrier here in Australia, and they used to have unallocated seating, flying often out of secondary airports. They switched to allocated seating because people would literally race each other across the tarmac to get the good seats... and sometimes even fight over them.
The 90s was, in retrospect and sort of at the time, one hell of a decade.
Security in health care: what's the right prescription?
I wouldn't trust any budget airline to do anything for free. They're notorious for charging as much as they can for even the slightest convenience.
He is not.
G.K Chesterton, All Things Considered

Light, but full of pragmatism.
By convention, not by definition.
Apple and Other Tech Companies Tangle with U.S. Over Data Access
Jobs worked for Atari and designed video games. He was friends with Woz in college and Woz built blue boxes to make free long distance calls and they both sold them to raise money.

Woz worked for HP making calculators and Jobs worked for Atari making video games. Jobs got the idea for Breakout to be the first video game in color, and made a deal with Woz to make the Breakout game for him and share the money.

Jobs was always the visionary the one who saw how things should be, Woz was the engineer that made things happen for Jobs.

Jobs did the business end of things, marketing, public relations, promotion, giving speeches, while Woz tinkered with stuff and got the stuff to work.

The early Apple, the plan was to make a personal computer as cheap as they could with the best quality for that price. Which meant using the MOS 6502 instead of the Motorola 6800 because the 6502 was cheaper. Woz would test the cheaper chips from electronic catalogs to see which ones were best for the money. Woz made the Apple I and it was so cheap at $666.66 that it undercut the other personal computers on the market. Woz later made the Apple II and invented a floppy disk drive for it and Applesoft BASIC and other things.

When Jobs started the Lisa and joined the Macintosh project later on, he didn't involve Woz and had other engineers and wanted to make the opposite of the Apple II series, a more powerful, expensive computer based on the Motorola 68000 that had a GUI to make it easier to use. The Macintosh project was to be an easy to use $600 8 bit computer, but when Jobs joined it and took over he used things from the Lisa project to make it based on the 68000 instead. It didn't sell very well and Jobs got fired in 1985 from Apple.

Jobs made his Next company and instead of starting from scratch used Unix instead to base his system on. When Apple bought out Next, and brought Jobs back it merged MacOS with NextOS to make Mac OSX.

But in the early Apple the Apple I and II were done by Woz. Without those there would be no Apple and thus no Macintosh and other stuff.
You might be interested in [Likely](http://liblikely.org/), the programming language I've been working on. One of its core tenants is that "training == compilation". I haven't given much thought to departures from von Neumann style architectures, but with emerging/de-facto standards like OpenCL and LLVM I don't see any reason why, at least for computer vision algorithms (my domain) we can't train/compile to FPGA.
I was thinking of working in a lab that does research in the field of computational biology. However, I never took a linear algebra course before so I always felt like it would be a waste to make an attempt. I did a quick skim and this looks very promising. If I can comprehend this, then maybe I will be of some use in the lab. Thanks for sharing :)
You can take Austin off that list: my friends and I got around fine without any cars.

As a 30 something who sold their car years ago and only owns one through marriage:I haven't needed to own one for quite some time. Will I ever rent one if I want to take a road trip? Sure, but I don't have a human need to own one again.

For me and the ilk I run with, personal vehicles are definitely on their way out.
Please do not use the titles of HN submissions to editorialize. (Submitted title was 'Wozniak: “Steve Jobs Played No Role in My Designs for the Apple I and II”'.)

If you want to explain what you think is important about a submission, you can always add a comment to the thread, on the same level as everyone else.
India’s civil servant exam
Isn't he a perpetual "employee," drawing a $120k-ish salary every year? Even though he doesn't technically "work" at Apple.
Once I had to fix a severe memory leak in piece of Python code. None of the available tools revealed anything useful. I ended up just adding debug statements to the hot loop to see which step caused the memory usage to jump. Should have known the answer: a bad C extension was leaking memory. Lesson learned.
+Portable+Computer+Desk+Rolling+Laptop+Cart+Table+Stand+Computer
> I'm not really a programmer.

The real question is do you understand how a computer works. There's mapping a solution into a programming language, but programming language is just a tool to help with the real goal which is to map the solution to the computer itself.

> The fundamental bottleneck is always what's in your head.

Expressing a correct solution in a programming language is just the first step. It also has to be performant, usable, and accessible. Language choice usually has implications in those categories.
You have to be a descendant of the deceased to submit their name to be done. Also, there's a lot of sensitivity toward religions who have general qualms about the practice (for example, it's against the rules to submit Jewish holocaust victims). Also, many religious leaders of other faiths have gone on record[1] saying how they're glad the Mormons have brought back the biblical practice of baptisms for the dead.

The practice isn't as cultist as some (gp) may want to imply without understanding what it implies and really means.

[1] https://youtu.be/4mMDYt0Twpo
Malware Found Pre-Installed on Xiaomi, Huawei, Lenovo Phones [pdf]
I want to bring an alternate viewpoint into the discussion. For some a product like Leeo may sound superfluous and may not seem to justify the added value it provides for the rise in cost(99$+). (Note there is some added value however trivial it may be). For others they may say no to a product like https://nest.com/ or this https://on.google.com/hub/ based on their financial flexibility and their lifestyle (which you may see as 'obviously' needed).

I do think in this case, the best judge is the free market. If any product maker provides added value at a price point where there will be enough buyers and they see profit, their business will run successfully, else it will fail like any other business. How can my opinion decide what is a good product, it is the market that should decide it!

There are lot of independent products that solve mostly one problem - cars for eg:

Every product design does not have to solve multiple problems, it is just that the users need to feel that it justifies its cost based on the value it provides.
Addressing human needs at the base of the economic pyramid
This Preschool is for Robots
The "You Don't Know JS" series was a real eye-opener for me.
More mundanely, see FPGAs. They can be thought of as "computers" (and you can build a von Neumann core on one), but are programmed using different languages (Verilog, VHDL) and a completely different paradigm that involves lots of parallelism.

There have been attempts to force imperative/functional paradigms into FPGAs, but they have not been well-received simply because it doesn't make much sense to do that.
The basics of sorting complex structures in Go
No, by definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queue_(abstract_data_type)
Leeo is for people who don't see a need to replace their existing smoke/CO detectors and just want some peace of mind when they're away, but the pets aren't. I bought one used for $70 because I think it definitely has a place in a "smart"/monitored home. Just like dropcam. Heck, dropcam should be able to listen for your smoke detector. Might justify some of its cost.
It is just a matter of legislation. You cannot expect "good will" from a company because this is not how capitalism works.

And even if I think that it is right that laws allow companies to fire people when they need it, it should never be easy or cheap. Being able to fire at will makes a nation of slaves that must always obey their employers unless they want to risk themselves to loose everything.
That's different because there's a clear mechanism and the data supports it. Is there a real study with a large enough sample size showing anything similar or is it just the usual convenience and artfully vague claims?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak

Yes indeed he still gets a salary, owns stock, and is listed as a co-founder of Apple.
this post is completely pointless. well....on second thought...this is a good example of how to write 1000 words on nothing :-|
In the context of queueing theory, there are many service disciplines[1] that can be used, which are not necessarily FIFO.

Depending on what you're optimizing for, and the behaviors of your system (arrival process, task size distribution, number of servers, preemption overhead, etc.), it can be much better to process things in an order other than arrival order.

In particular, FIFO can mean small tasks end up waiting a long time behind large tasks. (Imagine going into a shop that sells sandwiches and pre-packaged salads; you want a salad, and there are 5 people waiting for sandwiches. Should you have to wait until the clerk makes 5 sandwiches before you can get your salad and leave?)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queueing_theory#Service_discip...
If that's the only alternative to what's happening today, yes.

It's not a practical solution, because there are many reasons a supplier might not want a particular piece of business, some of which are not harmful (lack of resources, customer with dubious credit, etc). But the arrogance of prejudging the law is very dangerous to free expression, especially when the vendor is a monopolist or oligopolist, as is the case with CAs. That danger is multiplied further when the scope of the judgment is widened beyond whether the vendor's (always overly conservative) lawyers suggest the company might be liable as a criminal accomplice if it accepted the business. It's becoming quite common for corporations to refuse to serve any customer, or to employ any person, that is not 100% inoffensive to 100% of the population. The slightest hint of controversy or any public (or often, sadly, private) statement that falls outside the Overton Window will result in being cut off. If you ask a corporate lawyer whether serving a particular customer is risky, you will always be told yes, no matter who it is. So allowing their involvement in that decision is problematic, regardless of the nominal reason offered for turning away business.

I don't know whether that's what happened here, because we don't have any kind of announcement, just an anecdote and some supposition. But I would be willing to take some pretty strong measures to make sure it can't. Extending common-carrier status to CAs would be a very modest and narrow place to start, but I would take this much farther, to the very outer edge of what's practical. The world is a horribly stifling place as it is; we don't need corporations contributing to the problem, especially since they are ill-equipped to determine whether something is illegal and will invariably default to the most conservative position.
That was... fast!

Read those comments this morning, good on you. Best of luck to you both.
What I'm saying is that if I were a CA, it is against my interest to project the idea that I take proactive effort against my customers.

That's fine. It's also fine for another CA to analyse the situation and come to a different conclusion.
This is actually pretty cool! I spent the last few weeks going through Gibert Strang's popular OCW course[0] & I'm sure this would serve as a great companion. I can't wait for the chapter on Eigenvalues to be published as that is something I don't yet grasp intuitively. Great work and thanks for making this free and accessible!

[0] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-...
I'm still arguing about the "release" part. My point is that early on, the infrastructure required to duplicate yourself is not something you can talk someone into "releasing" you.

If you believe in distributed computing and think spinning instances on S3 is enough to build an AI, then maybe...
I love Common Lisp, and as you say, there are many outstanding libraries that Quicklisp gives you easy access to. ABCL hasn't been "marketed" enough to the Java community, so it has less mind share. When I last looked at ABCL the Java interop was not as clean as Clojure's, so while it was there it felt more clunky. This was at least a year ago, so things are probably better.

I use Clojure to implement a portion of a semantic search engine: it is packaged as a REST servlet that responds to requests from a medical POC application. Because of the Java interop I utilize our internal libraries and from the ops perspective they are just deploying a WAR file that plays nicely in their reporting infrastructure.

I've been using Clojure since its first release and am comfortable with it and its ecosystem. ABCL is a contender, but I have yet to do a performance comparison, both for native and interop tests. And in reality the only part of Common Lisp I really miss is the condition system. Clojure as an implementation of CL's format and I was never a big user of loop, so...
Surely an area does not need to completely "run out of water" for consequences to occur. Wikipedia has lots of examples of developed areas having less than typical rainfall and encountering problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_Australian_drought

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_droughts
This looks amazing and well timed as I've been attempting to learn Linear Algebra on the side. However, everything after Vector Products is "coming soon". I will definitely use this once it's all there, which i hope is soon. Heck I'd be willing to pay for it if it were ready now.
The same can be said about credit card or social security numbers - that they should validate to actual cards/people, yet a generator would be expected to not do that, but only produce series that match validation criteria.
Amazon recently announced they would be hiring 1,000 workers in my hometown.[1]

Sorta crazy they're using robots & still need to hire that many people.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-amazon-joliet-0811...
I was in the audience when Woz spoke to engineering students at Michigan State. He was on campus to receive an honorary degree.

He said that he was on the Macintosh team before Jobs. Apparently they were working on something completely different, but they were both on the project at the same time when Jobs pivoted it.

Woz participated in an interesting discussion recently on Facebook about the early days of Apple:

https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble/posts/1015356891824965...
Slow to load (possibly due to HN traffic), but once it does, it seems like it's got the makings of a great learning tool. Waiting for matrix chapter since that's where I stopped learning Linear algebra on both my past two attempts (Gilbert Strang made my mind explode as I tried to comprehend past 4 dimensions. And then I just got lazy). Really want to pick this up because without linear algebra it's easy to get lost in all the major streams of Machine Learning. At least that's what I felt when I tried to skip linear algebra and move on to ML.

Sigh. I sometimes wish I paid more attention to my studies while I was in school instead of goofing off and playing card games :'(
Prediction: Microsoft Acquires Mailbird
The level of AI we are going to need to duplicate a person is going to be far beyond human level intelligence. Even if it wasn’t, there is always the risk that we underestimate the AI and it is smarter than we think and it gets out that way.
Not tasked with collection, that would be the NSA

Not to get too far away from your overall point, which may be valid, but... is it relevant what any of these agencies is "tasked" with on paper? It's quite clear, and has been for decades, that these agencies are so powerful that they are effectively outside / above the law, and can do whatever they want. The NSA wasn't "tasked with" conducting indiscriminate surveillance on damn near everybody alive, but they did it anyway, lied about it, and never got punished. The CIA wasn't tasked with experimenting on innocent American citizens by dosing them with drugs against their will and without they knowledge, but they did it anyway.

As far as I'm concerned, every single shred of skepticism and scorn for these agencies that you encounter, is something they earned through their actions.

I'm sure there are good people inside the CIA, FBI, NSA, TSA, DHS, etc. And I feel bad for saying hurtful things towards or about those people. But their agencies have created a state of war between themselves and the American people, if not the entire global population. I'm sorry, but if the good people inside these agencies don't want to get slagged, the onus is on them to find a way to change things, or to get out.
This is great, I'm a complete noob and I learned a lot!
Something that I didn't understand though is how sampling rate and the justification for Apple's Retina are related (slide 31). I probably just don't know enough about either, but I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could explain. :)
Ah, yep, we listen to a lot of the same stuff!

Piazzolla did compose some guitar material, his "Tango Suite" for two guitars written specifically for Sergio and Odair Assad. The second movement is my favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNDlnNnxfhw

Carlo Domeniconi's "Koyunbaba" is another guitar piece I've always really liked, performed here by the not-Star-Wars John Williams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNDlnNnxfhw

And of course other greats like Villa-Lobos, Tarrega, Granados, Albéniz, etc.

I do realize the singular devotion and training that is required to reach the highest levels of classical guitar playing. It's astounding! My dad took master classes from Eliot Fisk (whose playing I don't really like that much) and got the opportunity to play in front of Julian Bream a few times (whose playing I DO love).

Thanks for that nice performance of Lute Suite #4. It was my mom who instilled in me an early love of Bach. If you've never heard Angela Hewitt or Alicia de Larrocha playing Bach, then I'd highly recommend checking them out!

And damn, your teacher is a ferocious guitar player. Both pieces are great!
Wow, amazingly quick. I look forward to reading them when i get home.
Have a read of this post on my blog

http://www.tillett.info/2015/06/24/why-i-kept-my-startup-in-...
Certification is tld agnostic. The only plausible reason to revoke certs by tld would be an error in the dns root for .pw, which would be bad for a company that verifies domain ownership as a business.
The manufacturing may be standardized, but designer's productivity is still stuck in 2nd gear.

Go ask a design manager about a smartphone baseband processor design costs. They are rising exponentially unless you have a great SOC design flow & a ready-to-use IP library.
Love the letters! Looking forward to the ebook!
What makes you think I'm not already a parent?
Sent it to a few people, and they all love the letters!
12 mL worth of battery ought to be able to handle most of those methods. That's about break-even, but better because you refill the same way you refill the computer and propulsion. Charge the battery and you're ready for more action, mess-free. If you can do the job with less than 12 mL of battery, it's a definite win.
I guess there are a host of problems that could be solved in India in a better way since it is still developing.
> right now.

that is the point. it is and will always be very limited. at most, it will be a able to write a loader to a higher level exploit.