skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can tell you how it works in Poland. Ebays direct competitor in central/east europe is Allegro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegro_(auction_website), Polish tax collection agency bought software that lets them scan Allegro auctions as far back as 2007. They started suing INDIVIDUALS (not companies/corporations, those usually know how to "legally" pump profits out of the country, just like Amazon/FB do) and are winning in courts. We are talking woman selling used baby clothes here, not electronic retailers importing containers worth of stuff from asia.
Delicious frozen dairy ... The official taste of WW3
Google and Ask.com used to have a "Blog search" feature. Nowadays minor sites are hard to find, and many seatch results on the first page are ads (that look almost like real search results on a non-IPS screens aka low price TFT/LCD screens on consumer notebooks/PCs).
Paul Bigsby: His Guitars and Inventions
Excellent quotation in the intro to that paper:

> ... Our intention is not to use any deep theorems of category theory, but merely to employ the basic concepts of this field as organizing principles. This might appear as a desire to be concise at the expense of being esoteric. But in designing a programming language, the central problem is to organize a variety of concepts in a way which exhibits uniformity and generality. Substantial leverage can be gained in attacking this problem if these concepts are defined concisely within a framework which has already proven its ability to impose uniformity and generality upon a wide variety of mathematics.

(John Reynolds, "Using category theory to design implicit conversions and generic operators", 1980.)
We may get a wild west of crappy deregulated services, and then through many decades of blood and tears we'll regulate them back into order. We've done that once, little over a century ago.
There are lots of statistical methods for identifying outliers. I used John Tukey’s method of leveraging the Interquartile Range. His method is applicable to most ranges since it isn’t dependent on distributional assumptions.

I am not a statistician but to my eye the big assumption is that data is assumed to come from simple distribution i.e. not from mixture of distributions. So perhaps somebody with more knowledge can comment this.
It's not that surprising to be honest. WordPress' success comes down to the following:

1. It was simple to use in an era where CMS meant 'large, complicated system that was tailored towards technies rather than the general population'. It didn't have a ton of features, but it was easy to use for the average blogger wanting to write posts without worrying about all the setup and coding and what not.

2. You could pretty much install it anywhere without minimum technical skill, since PHP and MySQL was (and is) supported by about 99.99% of shared hosts. Its newer competitors tend to be written in languages that are usually only available on a VPS or dedicated server.

3. It has a very large ecosystem for themes, plugins and other such things, so someone with no technical skill could find add ons for anything they wanted without needing to call in a developer or know PHP.

It's not the best written software and its not the best optimised for anything in particular, but it is one of the easiest to install and use for someone without a technical background, which is why it's so widespread.
An overview on basic certificate types and on few conversion possibilities
UK employment law doesn't grant anyone rights to apples.
Unfortunately I don't know of much research in formalizing CRUD apps, but maybe it's out there.

The long-term wish as I see it would be for us as an engineering discipline to develop a really clear understanding of the domain, enough to be able to build these CRUD apps in composable ways that can be reasoned about with clear language.

Guiding vague questions might include: What is the essence of a CRUD app? How could you define a CRUD app in terms of sets, functions, and categories? What kinds of laws apply in the general CRUD domain? How can we statically verify correctness properties for real-world CRUD systems?

That hope has nothing to do with mental masturbation and everything to do with wanting to concretely improve the state of civilization. And of course to reduce the amount of time spent making and debugging the same kind of thing over and over again.
True. But sometimes being in a satellite office just isn't the same as being at HQ.
I agree in principle but oftentimes the research done by grad-students is part of a project that is spearheaded by a career researcher. I question the notion that MS and PhD work is filling journals with crap.

Instead, I think there are three problems:

1. The inherent problem of inference. When you set p < .05, then 5% of studies will yield false positives. This can be mitigated by a variety of statistical approaches, but it's an irreducible problem on a fundamental level.

2. Certain (sub)disciplines of science aren't very scientific. In particular, they suffer from a high incidence of unfalsifiable claims and hand-wavy definitions. A good example, I think, is the shame vs guilt literature.

3. Certain (sub)disciplines of science are highly politicized. I point my finger at anything involving "identity" (in the sense of "identity politics"), "diversity" (sex, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc) or "bias".

Regarding point 3, take a look at the faculty and students of any university you'd like and take stock of how many Black people are working on racism, women on sexism, LGBT on sexual orientation, etc. As a cognitive neuroscientist, I don't want to claim that people can't study themselves, but in light of the serious reproducibility issues that social psychology is facing, I think this correlation is anything but trivial.

I strongly suspect that the "hard psych vs social psych" dichotomy can be further broken down, and that the sub-disciplines listed in point 3 account for a disproportionate quantity of false-positive results, on accounts of flawed methodology. I suspect that much of this research is actually an attempt to validate political opinion.

I may be wrong about all of this, but at least the core claim testable with a handful of linear regressions.
Nature doesn't care. Loads of people felt happy and managed to keep working through wordpress. The end.

It's full of horrendous things all the way down, but it just doesn't matter.
"Pizza" doesn't have to include tomatoes. For example, "pizza bianca".
What about reviews?
Your point about equating f . id = id is related to what the equality sign means.

Presumably you don't object to the notion that sin(a + b) = sin(a) cos(b) + cos(a) sin(b), even though the left and right hand sides are totally different in terms of computation.

That's because you know that such identities, while indeed abstracting over computational details, have real meaning and are extremely useful in mathematical thought (and algorithm design; you can use that equation to implement an efficient numeric oscillator).

Given that you probably accept that trigonometric equality, you can't really dismiss equational reasoning in software as useless just because it abstracts over stack frames and machine instructions. That kind of abstraction is exactly the point.
Hadn't thought of that. How far along are you?
PyDataSentry - Memory for Data Science
Apple defeats U.S. class action lawsuit over bag searches
>> Category theory codifies this compositional style into a design pattern, the category.

>To the average person, a theory codifying a style into a pattern just isn't useful

But you don't mean "the average person", you mean "the average competent programmer."

For example I'm not an "average person" and I don't understand the sentence you linked (the one I quote at the top of this comment.) It's just gobbledegook to me, the way a bit mask is to someone who doesn't know what bits are exactly, they're just, like, 1's and 0's in the computer right? You have to explain a lot before they would even understand what you're talking about. They might not know what a power of 2 has to do with anything.

This is an analogy. It's the same - average competent programmers don't have this mental infrastructure. I and most competent programmers have no idea what a category is.
Mathematicians prove there own triviality.
Sprig-type operations drain agency and expertise out of
the world. They centralize, aiming to build huge hubs
with small spokes; their innermost mechanisms are hidden.
They depend on humans behaving as interchangeable units
of labor.

Seems like you could make the same criticism of grocery stores.
+1 for "just using the definitions is cargo cult", that seems like a common problem!

I would add "just using a word from math is cargo cult". I just wish someone had told that to the 7 people who decided to use the word "static" for 7 different things ...
Inj3ct0r is the ultimate database of exploits and vulnerabilities
I'm truly glad that you're enjoying that paper :)

This is completely unrelated, but I found this paper to be similarly brilliant in its simplicity, clarity, and rigorous explanation: https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/raft.pdf
He's probably talking about Malvinas (Falklands) among other places.
They are not terrorists though. Their goal isn't to harm their target - their goal is to enrich them selves through ransom.
List of Philosophical Razors
... And still no decoupling and no real API. Wordpress is locked down by its own mass of users and just can't evolve.
Too big to fail ?
Gangnam Style Statue Will Be Erected in Seoul – Infossible
Whoever claims that he never saw his software deployed to production with bugs has never written anything of any complexity. Adding "... he knew about" to that statement softens it a little, but not too much.

Problem comparing software engineers to the civil engineers lays in the ability of the latter to constrain their users, e. g. stating the weight limit for the bridge. Try to do that with software and enforce it.
AI: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’
I honestly have no idea. There were some thoughts in English by a Taiwanese I found here: https://frozengarlic.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/quick-reaction...

Ma promised when he was re-elected that he would never meet with the PRC as head of state. It's also likely this meeting is unconstitutional (Chinese text): https://tw.mobi.yahoo.com/home/%E7%AB%8B%E6%B3%95%E9%99%A2%E...
Even if you aren't paying taxes getting a 15% discount isn't enough if you need to do a complete buy-in on the goods to sell them.
That is all bullshit. The word is not “Skull”, it is “Skål”, and it is a normal noun, meaning “Bowl”.
I always find that the best way to make a decision about who to trust is on the basis of a brief article by a third party that, in a 2 minute read, covers high pressure events that spanned many hours. Even better if you throw in some highly informed opinions by random people in an online community. It's a very reliable way to decide on important things like trust.
There is a lot of debate about the origins of the word, and the skull story is a nice (but brutal) party story. Let me give you another version.

Back in the days people were drinking off bowls, instead of cups as we do today. And guess what the danish word for bowl is? "Skål".

A "skål" is a flat version of "trebolle". You can see one if you Google Image search for "trebolle" to get an idea of how it looks.
Very Costly Typos
I'm a biochemist so I'm aware. After four years of postdoc, I quit my job and drove for Lyft for a year. Now I contract code. So, I read the writing on the wall.

And by the way, staff scientist positions are most definitely not as competitive as professor positions.
Wax cylinder recordings digitized
I use it, seems pretty good. I've no loyalty to or against it though.
I have been studying Category theory recently, on the surface, its
merely a theory about dots that are connected by arrows.

For some reason, category theorists often claim that category theory is "more fundamental" than set theory, whatever that means. It's especially bizarre since many category theory books begin by saying they will define categories without using sets, and then proceed to say "let A be a collection of dots, and B a collection of arrows" but only God knows what the difference between a collection and a set is, from what I can tell...
The total economic activity attributable to WordPress must be staggering. How many small businesses use it? How many consultants and design firms? Even the business of creating WordPress themes must be very significant.
I don't think there's any kind of formal independence plan. KMT is pro-"eventual reunification". DPP is pro-"eventual independence" but could never campaign with that or PRC would get very angry.

I think it's well past the point for a peaceful reunification. Only a very small subset of the population here identifies as "Chinese-only" and an even smaller subset want to reunify. Young Taiwanese increasingly identify as "Taiwanese-only" and want eventual independence.

I have no skin in this fight (other than that I like Taiwan and dislike the actions of the Chinese government), but it's interesting to watch as an observer. I think things will remain as they are for a long time.
They have busted, plausible and confirmed as conclusions, you've pretty much defined plausible.

(Many of the myths the tested were fine to label as busted or confirmed as they were vulnerable to a single counter example or verified by a single positive example)
The Java Deserialization Bug
> If you think that doing things gives you a more narrow education than taking classes...

I know it first hand.

> I suggest you spend more time with people who do things.

I do things. I know how narrow specialisation is and how it tends to narrow further with experience.
What are the best ways to validate a startup idea?
The article doesn't make clear what sort of hooks and line these were. It's likely to have been a big, heavy, motorized rig from which the line and hooks couldn't be neatly separated, especially while frantically aligning the boat and bailing water in a freak storm.

We should also bear in mind that, at that moment, Alvarenga wasn't anticipating a year at sea. In fact, he was acting to prevent that fate. He believed that his first priority was the right the ship at any cost, because the alternative was capsizing or going adrift. From there, he'd planned to make it back to shore or be rescued in relatively short order.

It's too easy to critique his choices retrospectively. Some of them look bad on paper, out of context. But I've never been placed into that sort of context.

As a general rule, your first priority in any emergency at sea is to stay afloat. This directive overrules all others until you believe your vessel is stable and secure.
Hollywood for git: “The CSS monitor is down”
Google Translate works quite well on technical content written in Chinese, I have noticed.
Yes, and the argument being made is that many of the instances of "busted" are, in fact, not.
The API is coming - https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/09/21/wp-rest-api-merge...
Correct, and when the article says "any composition operator that observes these laws will be ... free from edge cases" this is not strictly true. Nonetheless, any such object will be freer from edge cases, and the concept is still extremely useful.
Maybe I'm mistaken about this, but from the screencast it looks like this gives you a single text prompt for editing commit messages, rather than a proper text editor. Not only is that a deal breaker for me, it really concerns me that people are going to start using tools like these that encourage you to write horrible (read: one incredibly long line) commit messages.
Quite a lot, considering that some of these brands use (or used to use) WordPress:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/40-most-notable-big-name-...

It's fairly common among large media publications.
[Ask] What tools are available for developing blockchain-based applications?
Sets are more than a collection. They have axioms that are not needed to define categories.
> It's entirely possible to both remain entertaining and better communicate scientific values.

Another assumption right here.
I presume a collection can have multiple of the same thing, whereas a set cannot?
It's worth looking at what the stat actually is: http://w3techs.com/technologies

tl;dr: It's 25% of the top 10 million websites according to Alexa over the last 3 months, and only includes top-level domains (So skips counting the millions of WordPress.com subdomains).

If it were all websites, it'd surely include tens of millions of low-traffic WordPress sites - but none of those are used in this calculation.
But the grandparent was talking about systematic extortion. Which is a specific allegation that i understand to mean bleeding the colony dry under threat of force.
The parent states that this specific allegation is not true and that many countries were better off than before or counterfactual without colony rule.
The Red Arrows flying with the Vulcan bomber for her final flight
That paper took 25 years to refine. Additionally, for the right audience, more math could make it more succinct.
Define "country". To make your statement above to be true you will need a pretty narrow and tautological definition.

I presume you are not the brightest bulb as far as Indian history is concerned so it will help a bit if you read up a bit on Indian history, even Wikipedia would be a good start.
V2 Api (http://v2.wp-api.org) will be merged into wordpress 4.4 core, planned for december 2015
If you ever see anything online that has more than, say, half a dozen users, then it is NEVER the case that it suffers from "poor pedagogy". Why? Because it only takes 1 person to explain something, even if it's brief, people will start linking to there and eventually that method of explanation spreads. Like pointers in C, or classes - who would say they "suffer from poor pedagogy"? Anything is easy to teach, it just takes a single person who undersatnds it.

But.

If you ever see a technology truly suffer from "poor pedagogy" then it has a secret: in some fundamental, underlying way, it sucks.

Now the rules of the game are different. Suddenly, those who understand it will keep it under their breath and muddy the issue. No one will be explicit about these design choices and simply explain it: to explain it is to criticize it.

Then you have this case where people are holding their tongue, and those who eventually figure something out join that small cabal and simply don't mention it in normal, sane terms. They just don't - it would be rude to do so.

So remember. If you ever perceive poor pedagogy online in any tech subject, then it is camouflage, you are being lied to. In some fundamental way nobody will mention, it simply sucks.

At that point it's up to you to read between the lines and decide whether it still has enough benefits for you to learn it.
Experimental 3D-printed sneaker shape-shifts to fit your foot
Platforms, distribution and audience
How to Make a BAD First Impression on Investors
I'm curious what $25 per eye translates into American healthcare prices? $1000? $2500?
No, because that would allow companies to use the software for free if they choose the GPL licensing terms.
They'd probably rather have a *tip*

I couldn't agree more. Indeed, if one would typically tip in a restaurant, why not here?
It's useful because it's a generic design pattern not because of the mathematics behind it (of which virtually nothing is actually used, at least in everyday programming).
Does any one know the technical details of the attack? The article simply refers to it as 'highly advanced denial-of-service attacks'.

From the fact that it knocked off their upstream providers also means it was probably just a simple volumetric attack like an NTP or DNS reflection attack. These are relatively easy to defend against.

I work for an ISP that gets hit with 5 or 6 of these a week, but because of the mitigation strategies we have in place our customers don't even notice...
Yes, the tech is eating the rest of the business. You need less people after you've turned a lot of the business into an API.

I've got four open positions at the moment.
The JavaScript version: https://github.com/aknuds1/chuckjs

Demos in the browser: http://chuckdemos.com/
The network was shutdown twice in the last two months due to the Patels agitating in gujarat for f reservations.
That's quite the point, for a transpiler targeting another language is not just "a way to implement it". It is a conscious decision with many pros and cons and an impact on the transpiled language itself.
Cyber Caliphate Hacks 54k Twitter Accounts,including Ones of CIA and FBI Officials
Cancer survivors less likely to receive callbacks from potential employers
I remember watching the first episode as it aired with my mom when I was in elementary school. This was the best I had all my life in terms of science education for a very long time.

I see other commenters complaining about how they supposedly always tauted their findings as fact. This is not the case, as evidenced by their "Revisited" episodes where they address myths that their viewers wrote in about telling them they made a mistake. Some of their findings completely flip-floped under different conditions. This also was useful to me as a young aspiring scientist.
If this was only books then It would be a good day, the problem it's not.

I've already b&m'ed about it....
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10526573
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10526551

TLDR There are too many different rules and regulation regarding how, when, at what rate and why and on what VAT should be collected and these local regulations have some many caveats that it very difficult to be 100% compliant locally not to mention globally within the EEA market. Add to that the fact that you have various VAT exemption rules that govern when and how businesses and individuals can become VAT exempt (e.g. small businesses, non-profits, charities, disabled or terminally ill individuals, etc.) and you get a steaming pile of horse shit.
I was very happy to see it today at a science film festival in my hometown. It's a great movie. Very dramatical. But there seems to be little info known about its release.
Google maps thinks it's 36 minutes from Richmond station to Embarcadero station, and all the other combinations are slower. Where are you travelling between?
The Falklands are not a colonial story (unless you count the Argentinian desire to conquer them against the wishes of their citizens).

Any actual places?
This is a fantastic point that I don't see brought up enough. I have some anecdotal experience of my own to help illustrate what an issue this really is.

Our ISP has recently enacted data caps. The first time they threatened to disable our account for going over, I pointed out to them that:

- My firewall has logged tens of gigabytes of dropped/rejected traffic.

- That if I ran a TCPDump on our WAN interface, could see management and broadcast traffic for neighboring CPEs (modem).

- That I know for a fact (I used to work for them in a previous iteration) that their network isn't built in a way that would allow them differentiate their management and monitoring traffic from individual customer traffic.

- And finally, that the Layer 2 & 3 statistics of that WAN interface were nowhere close to their own statistics for the account.

They have yet to respond to that complaint, despite going to the FCC. I really wonder what would happen if one were to take their ISP to court with the proper documentation.