skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a tragic situation. There are some strong indications that personal and social problems are what drove Mohamud to embrace Islam, and that therefore these are in some sense responsible for making him susceptible to becoming 'radicalized.'

However, unlike some others in this thread, I don't find myself privately rejoicing that a legal technicality has now presented him with a chance of freedom. Whatever the causes of his antipathy toward the United States, and however you feel about the surveillance state and general disregard among law enforcement for our constitutional rights, Mohamud demonstrated a very clear intention to kill many people whom he never met. This cannot be attributed to entrapment, even if it is ultimately shown that his constitutional rights have been violated.

I hope Mohamud has overcome whatever psychological state led him into this situation. If it could be shown that he is truly better, I would have no objection to his return to society. But there is something absurd about the possibility that a person with a demonstrated propensity for mass violence might be returned to society at large without any legal restrictions, psychological treatment, or period of supervision.
Ask HN: How many profitable unicorns are there?
This is mostly in response a recent Zenefits article that reports $80m under contract but yearly losses of $100m and 1600 employees.

How many of the 80ish public unicorns are profitable?
Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter Issue 157
I spent a lot of money on a Finance degree. Then I got my first job and they gave me one of these calculators along with the manual [1]. I then realized that everything I had learned was distilled down to this little booklet. It was a shocking realization. I still have and use it. It's a good example of great design.

[1] http://h20331.www2.hp.com/Hpsub/cache/299940-0-0-225-121.htm...
You're confusing the math with the reason they stop taking external funds. They always make more money if they add external funds just like 20% of $101 is greater than 20% of $100.

They stop taking external money because managing clients can be a pain. At some point, depending on the fund (e.g. a niche fund that can never grow beyond a certain size), a shrewd money manager can grow to dominate the niche. In that space, they might as well just kick everyone else out and save the headache because the reward of the bigger pie just isn't worth it.

Frankly, even though I manage money for a living, and I really like my clients, it's still difficult. If it were my 1 beeellion dollars (touch pinky finger to the lips), then I wouldn't manage other people's money either - the marginal profit to me personally just wouldn't be worth it (for me, after the first billion, it's pretty darn trivial).
This should answer your question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaj6RLfIZIE
The same could be said about every problem facing the species.
That's not insane at all if the company have thoughtful hiring policy (no HR involved, reasonable trial period) and stable enough line of products.
Twenty Milliseconds – documenting what (doesn't) works in virtual reality design
Do I really have to explain the value of sane defaults to a developer :D
Don't know how they are now but about three decades ago I had a Swintec desk calculator that was just the best. Great feel to the keys and you could key in numbers as fast as you wanted and it would never drop a digit.
Mass Surveillance Isn’t the Answer to Fighting Terrorism
On OSX you can also let the terminal bounce until you open it again in foreground.

Edit: need to use `printf '\a'` for that
But, suggesting all types of genetic modification are equivalent ("GMOs") is also unscientific fearmongering.
HigherMe (YC W15) is hiring a front-end developer in Boston
Lyft Said to Seek $500M in Funding
Moth in the machine: Debugging the origins of 'bug'
They're not complaining about the entrapment in the appeal, and it's not just about that one guy. This is the first criminal case challenging wholesale warrantless surveillance in court.
Or a really great way to learn someone's distributed architecture. How fun would it be to explore around in 3D and seeing the data flow in various ways.
Someone posted a website to HN which let you see what h1 visa holders were earning at different companies. If you find similar companies you can look up what salaries their are for different job titles. Avoids the self selection bias of glass door.
If you thought Flash Boys was enlightening then you didn't read carefully. He makes shit up.

Take the one example of a trader that claims the market jumps just by he entering a symbol and quantity- not submitting the order. That's huge! It means espionage in a major trader's office! But since Lewis knows it's just bullshit coincidence, he just says "oooo spooky HFTs".

Flash Boys: Not So Fast is a far better book. And even better, it's actually acurate.

Lewis's book is just an ad for IEX, hoping to scare ignorant people into worrying about perfectly fine stuff. The star, Brad, in his first scene, is shocked, just shocked, that his 50,000 order could cause price impact.

(Think: the customer paid 5 cents (2500$) to get Brad to sneakily sell the shares - obviously price impact is to be expected.)

There are plenty of cross markets, and nothing stops anyone from running a 5-second auction (with simple pro rata or complicated rules like POSIT). But IEXs investors just think coiling 38mi of fiber is neater. At least it makes a cool display for data center visits.)
You can do it with the nodejs FFI. It makes me cringe a bit to say that, but you could do it in roughly the same way as how NumPy does it.
That's sounds bad. All it'll do is increase spreads. Hurray?
You lucky bastard!

I remember the joy when we got Cadence BuildGates to start running parallel synthesis and optimization runs. This allowed us to go from one build per week to two. If we were lucky!
There are reasons to be concerned with GMOs that are not at odds with science. Let me quote something from a comment from a few weeks ago:

---- begin quote ----

GMOs aren't inherently dangerous to human health or inherently environmentally destructive. But they do let producers do things faster and more extreme than they could do via conventional breeding techniques.

They've used those conventional techniques to reduce crop diversity, and select for things like uniform time to grow and uniform size/shape to make mechanical processing easy, over selecting for things like nutrition and flavor.

Is there any good reason to believe that the increased power GMO techniques give them won't be used to go even farther in those directions?

With great power comes great responsibility. I'm skeptical that the big food companies are responsible enough for GMO, and with government food regulation more determined by industry lobbying than by actual science I have little faith that the government will do anything to make sure GMO techniques are only used for good.

---- end quote ----
Hey Richard I wouldn't say Facebook as a competition cause end of the day the igmi app is sure and use only, so users without access cannot view the event or share data, which enhances privacy. The added advantage to the igmi app is that the photos are stored in the hosts side and not the user's hence providing more accessibility.
I definitely clicked the link going "WTF does the FAA have to do with FBI entrapment?" Until I read the article, I had no idea there was a FISA-enabling law also called the FAA.
The appeal isn't about entrapment, it's about wholesale warrantless surveillance of American citizens.

> Mohamud is the very first criminal defendant to challenge the FAA before a court of appeals, which opens the door for a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court. The appeal has widespread implications: The controversial law provides the legal framework for the mass surveillance programs that Edward Snowden revealed in 2013.

> “It’s not an exaggeration,” Patrick Toomey, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney, told BuzzFeed News, “to say that the privacy rights of millions of Americans potentially hang in the balance of his case.”
Hi Shen - The state-of-the-art spatiotemporal database systems are based on topological embedding and geometric interval computation (hyper-rectangle cell/simplicial complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicial_complex).

And while I don't know of any open-source systems based on this design, SpaceCurve is publicly available (http://www.spacecurve.com http://www.jandrewrogers.com/2015/10/08/spacecurve/) , and I've heard systems like this exist within IBM and Google.

Have you looked into this approach?
The Paris attacks and the abuse of history
Yes that really drives in on those points glad someone took the time to actually present them like that :)
Graph Isomorphism was not thought to be NP-hard. In fact, it's been a struggle to come up with any hard instances of the problem. If Babai's work turns out to be correct, it just confirms that there aren't really any hard instances.
Those bounces by iTunes for example are soo annoying and distracting. Is there any way to kill them system wide?
It's pretty worrying.

I've caught myself thinking things like "I have to be the best in the world or I'm going to be stuck in $DEADENDJOB". That can be detrimental and have the opposite effect to what you want.

Over the past while, I've become more proactive and I'm trying to make positive changes in how I interact with co-workers and what I do and don't get involved with at work. Even if you do believe in "A" players, there's a limit to how much one person can take on and manage.
Paris and the fall of Rome
>Batch auctions don't deal with the main area of "high frequency shenanigans" which is cross exchange arbitrage.

I find this extremely difficult to believe, got any numbers to back it up? Surely the vast majority of the volume comes from market making activity...
In prehistoric days, engineering students carried slide rules. Fortunately, just as I entered college, HP came up with the original scientific calculator, the HP-35.[1]

Shortly later, HP introduced the HP-45, a significantly improved variant. I still remember taking $422.65 ($395 plus 7% tax) to HP's sales office in an upper floor of the Exxon building in NYC in order to buy one. These things weren't available at Best Buy (probably because Best Buy didn't happen until 1983). :-)

The 1970s and 1980s were the heyday of HP calculators.[2] But all good things come to an end. I think it was Carly Fiorina that killed the calculator division, but I could be wrong.

I still have a few working HP calculators from the old days, but typing "python" at a terminal prompt is usually more convenient.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-35
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_calculators
Not that they're very distinguishable but that sounds more like a government than a religion.
I would start by not using the the Step 1, Step 2 format.

To me saying they sh*t on the other person is accurate because to me he is not trying to offer anything constructive. I understand your opinion may differ.
Regalii Uncovers Where Immigrants’ Remittances Really Go
"-i
Install packages that are dependencies of the test.
Do not run the test."

Does make "go test" complete faster, throws baby out with bathwater though.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Allegations of harmful effects of smoking were also once crackpot ideas. So was lung cancer due to working in coal mines.

The point is that biological systems are complex. We don't understand them well. Its better to be safe than sorry.
Well, too late does that same guy realise that things have gone pear shaped!

He's gone from "this has been a long time coming" and "consider this thread marked as wontfix" to the below:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=155;bug=80...

original aim for this was that this new tool would be integrated
into the existing Debian Live project, and that we would bring
the Debian Live project into Debian. This is not the way it
has gone.

Except that is not what he wrote. He didn't say anything about integrating into the project. Instead he said the project a. Wasn't an official Debian project (when actually it does look like it was), and b. They were about to deprecate the entire project!

I have to call bullshit on this one. There was never any intent to integrate with the project.

That's one dishonest email!
Only ones with a presumed irreversible tipping point.
Relevant papers for frequent batch auctions. To me, seems like such a hurdle to get politicians to understand what frequent batch auctions are, and how they would help the HFT situation. Especially if the introduction paper is 84 pages long.

Introduction and reasoning: http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/eric.budish/research/HFT-Fre...

Implementation details: http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/eric.budish/research/HFT-Fre...

Both interesting reads though. We actually implemented batch auctions as a way to set initial prices for our prediction markets at Inkling Markets (http://home.inklingmarkets.com/) based off these papers.
You could check the monthly who wants to be hired thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492088
Google+ is back? This is like where Sigourney Weaver gets into her escape pod in Alien, only to find the alien there.
I think shooting was aready over before people over at Facebook even knew something is going on. I imagine they wouldn't even turn it on before the information hit mainstream news.
I didn't claim it was about entrapment. I was anticipating a potential objection, that Mohamud was 'radicalized' by the agents involved in this situation, which another comment implied.

I understand the legal implications. If only our legal system were not organized such that one must invest so much effort into proving 'standing,' perhaps we could respond to the situation rationally instead of choosing between two potentially negative outcomes.
Seems cool, although it's quite misleading to say the fuel is generated form water when the energy really comes from sunlight.
The vast majority of companies don't need these great/gifted programmers, they need the workmanlike people who will suffer the constantly changing requirements and priorities, and lack of product management, or even product definition.
Clearing The Jungle of Stochastic Optimization
I suppose it depends on what your definition of shenanigans is. In the context of IEX & their artificial delay that is purely to deal with cross exchange trading.

Most of which is market making activity.
I still covet my 42S, but now it's safely in a drawer while I use Free42 on iOS. It's a beautiful thing.

http://thomasokken.com/free42/
y, that's not really a topic for an interview, focus on your skills and whether you are a good fit for the position.

You stated the reason for moving if that even comes up:
We decided to move to the country side with my wife, to provide a less stressful environment to all of us.

You're a remote employee looking for a local position.

I would look for remote work too it can be relaxing too depending on the company.

You're currently cured/in remission . . . anything could happen to any employee at anytime . . . don't penalize yourself for being a survivor.

Good luck in all areas. Enjoy your new location.
An Open Letters to Developers Everywhere (about Cryptography)
it probably strives to be a "simple setup Bitcoin box"
Looks like it does now:

https://github.com/Sirupsen/logrus/blob/master/terminal_sola...
If you want me to believe GMOs are harmful, you need a better argument than "biology is hard."

Sorry if that comes off as harsh. I'll admit that the misuse of genetic modification could have big consequences, but the regulation currently in place seems sufficient. If you have regulations you would like to add, I would love to hear them.
No. Because Daniel ignored protocols someone else had to volunteer time to clean up that mess. It's quite possible such thing happened before and Daniel failed to learn a lesson. Either way — it's pointless drama and rage quit.
This is the future of computing, and I mean that without any irony whatsoever. Simulating physical spaces as a metaphor for complex systems is incredibly powerful. I expect to see much more of this in the coming decade, especially once VR starts hitting its stride.
Guide: how to create an App Preview for your app
Apple's iTunes Is Alienating Its Most Music-Obsessed Users
My story is similar, but a few years later. My dad used his 12C for years, then bought me a 32SII for Christmas one year. A few years after that, I bought a 48 in high school (and suffered the whole time because the teachers assumed everyone had a TI82 and knew nothing about RPN). I know there are emulators, but there's nothing like a physical calculator.
I'll also note that Daniel has for some time not been a Debian Developer (there was some drama there, the details of which I wouldn't want to recall even if I remembered), and "Debian Live" has been not an official Debian project for a while -- it's running on live.debian.net (not .org), it's running on servers personally run by Daniel (not by the Debian sysadmin team), etc.

That said, IMO the distinction of "not an official Debian project" is less about where the service is running (it's a volunteer project, anyway) than about how integrated it is with the rest of Debian. For a while, Debian Live has been showing strong signs of being Daniel's personal project -- with a lot of users, to be fair -- and not really working with other Debian teams or developers. I think that's what came to a head here.

It's been a while since I worked on this, but IIRC Ubuntu's live image is based on Casper, which is a separate system from live-build (though live-build supports using Casper).

Also, bear in mind that the specific reason this happened was that there were features live-build didn't support, like UEFI boot, that the Debian project needed. This entire kerfuffle came about because Debian wanted a better live boot system.
The setup guide involves a serial console and not putting it on a metal surface because the exposed bottom of the raspberry pi will short out.

https://21.co/setup
Not a very informative page. What is the printing technology? Typebar, daisy-wheel, dot-matrix? (The ribbons look like they would fit either of the latter two.) What does the "display" provide, one line of type you can correct before printing?
> The appeal isn't about entrapment, it's about wholesale warrantless surveillance of American citizens.

Why should they have it any better than the unAmerican citizens of the world?
Cloud development and testing help a lot too. I can kick off a run of the entire test suite in the cloud, and get right back to coding, all while keeping tabs on the tests' output in a tmux terminal.

I'm typically editing in parallel with tests running. This can frequently result in no down time whatsoever owing to tests, even during a large refactor. Let's say I make a big refactor and 90 different test classes break (this is not theoretical). I modify some code that might make one of those test classes past, kick of a test run, and immediately go edit another failing test class. By the time I think I've got that figured out, the test run on the first has completed, and I can either move on, or try something else to fix it if it's failed again. This requires keeping the state of multiple test classes in your head simultaneously, but fortunately I'm good at that.
Investing in [Prime] Unicorns – A Look Back at the LinkedIn Series D Opportunity
To be clear, the issue of antibiotic resistance is not such a problem. Generally, resistant bacteria are less fit than their nonresistant counterparts in the absence of the antibiotic, so we should expect that after a period of disuse antibiotics would once again become useful.
See https://github.com/numenta/nab for anomaly detection results on real-world data, with comparisons to Twitter and Etsy Skyline.
Will Match Group’s Upcoming IPO Fare Better Than the Rest?
Hmmm...

Daesh is clearly an evil organization that needs to be eradicated. At the same time, most of us side with Snowden vs the NSA because we believe the freedom of citizens at large is crucial, and that the government cannot be trusted to erode the rights of only the wicked. The 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with hunting rights - it's supposed to empower citizens to resist the unjust use of force, either by an invading army or by a corrupt domestic military. In the same way, the 1st Amendment only has value when it protects all speech, not just politically popular speech.

Disrupting Daesh recruitment by whatever means necessary feels correct, but I can't shake a "first they came for the Socialists..." feeling about shutting down allegedly pro-terror publications.
How to Convert a Blu-Ray Movie for Playback on Samsung Galaxy S6
I don't have appropriate legal citations, but yes, via the doctrine of "possession with intent to distribute" -- i.e. if you have more of the drug than one person could possibly hope to use, then courts have ruled that one can infer the person was intending to share or sell the drugs.
Step 1: Doubt oneself
Step 2: Do nothing
Step 3: Justify personal failure by criticizing others
Step 4: Feel better

Not to feed into this too much. Being cynical adds nothing value to the conversation.

If you're looking to earn 'internet points' by being sarcastic or making jokes at other people's expense, that's what Reddit is for.
I love the Pomodoro Technique, and use the Tomighty app specificaly for it's simplicity and that it's native so I don't need to keep a pinned browser tab open just for it - love simple things like this that just sit in my system-tray.

I pair it up with Toggl, a time tracking service online to keep reports of what I'm working on, and I find it a huge boon to my productivity and ability to justify the time I spend working on things.
But part of the appeal of working at a startup is that you gotta get shit done

Agreed, but it's a bit gauche to hang a sign on the wall stating the obvious. Unless you're running, say, a kindergarten class.
I don't believe he or she claimed they should, only that this was the basis of the appeal.
As other sources have claimed, "Debian Live" has for some time not been a Debian project at all. It was fairly strongly bypassing the bureaucracy, and most of the outspoken users seem to be people using it for downstream distributions.

The existence of live-wrapper (formerly "live-build-ng") can be seen as a way of regularizing this situation, by writing software that the Debian CD and boot teams can rely upon and is strictly better than Debian Live for official Debian purposes. "Debian Live" was not providing needed features.
Don’t Check Boxes
That's a different issue. I think what @lintiness is trying to say is that just because a market went up in the past does not mean it will in the future. Survivorship bias is absolutely huge here.

Most people forget this, but if you look at global markets since the early 1900's, there were several that went down and never came back up. Germany's markets failed on at least one occasion and never came back. A good paper that addresses part of this is here: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/4913017_Global_Stock...

Depression and war do many things that create discontinuities. Most people don't come close to thinking about those because they aren't knowledgeable enough to even understand how strong the survivorship bias in their current local market like the US.
Homes prices had also always been trending up, until they didn't starting in 2008.
Googling produces a ton of results, but here's one that looks pretty reputable (USDA, based off many other studies): http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/05/010511074623.ht...
People have implemented real time process visualisation in SecondLife.Plus tons of other things like that years ago. Doing it in MC is possible, but clunky.