skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Terrorists have traditionally raised their own local funds through organized crime. They kidnap for ransom, extort businesses and target drug dealers and other black markets in their neighbourhoods to jack and tax for money. Al Qaeda in Iraq started as highwaymen robbing commercial trucks and assassins for hire, the realIRA group robs and kills dealers, 70s terrorists robbed armored cars and banks, ect. One of the Boston bombers jacked and murdered some local drug dealers and cops wrote it off as common gang crime.

Since they already are criminals doesn't seem that any money laundering crackdown will make any difference, they will just extort somebody else to receive their money through all these regulation hoops they specialize in being thugs.
If the site had a page where they listed all of the videos in order, instead of having to go thru pages of (I'm assuming) Wordpress entries, it wouldn't be struggling.

Not that it's not a great idea, just a poor implementation of an "index".
The 65816 was a bit of an odd chip, I remember it was a little bit of a pain to program on the II GS compared to the 6502. It did make it into the Super NES, so it had volume.
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Appears to be circa 1990.
To clarify the title, the findings are related to liquid resin-based methods vs. the much more common FDM method (usually extruded plastic filament) method.

The latter is usually ABS or PLA plastic, both of which are as theoretically safe as any other plastic in your home. PLA is a bioplastic and is actually compostable.

The resins, on the other hand, are pretty nasty and require gloves to work with. The safety data sheets are pretty serious and even mention that they are dangerous to aquatic life.
The biggest problem with the chip from my perspective is that the program counter register is still limited to 16-bits, so requires segmentation of code into 64k chunks.

Likewise I believe the 'direct page' (same as the 6502's zero page, but relocatable, like in the 6809) is limited to the first page, the lowest 64k of memory.

Unfortunately it's not an architecture for which a C compiler is a natural fit.
when a bunch of people have a "stable home" provided by somebody else, it results in the extra time on the hands of surprising few to absolutely destroy the place for everyone. Because value to people. See housing projects across the United States for more on that.

Oh yeah the added bonus, when the place does get destroyed the inhabitants find ways to put the blame on the providers to usurp more while taking less responsibility or ownership over the situation.
This finding has been known for 50 years and it is very general. Meehl's (1954, http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2006-21565-000) little black book on clinical vs. actuarial prediction sets the stage. The basic premise has been replicated many times. Simple algorithms and regression based prediction consistently outperform human judgement. Nothing new here...keep moving.
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You're welcome to explain how it works, of course.
Here's a hint, along with some advice. You can get around the posting limit by clicking on the direct link of the comment you are responding to. Then again, it's there for a reason, so it's probably best to make sure your reply at least has some context and analysis, so the discussion doesn't devolve into a bunch of one line responses, which rarely convey enough information to make the conversation worth while.
FWIW the latest versions of NPM now flatten the dependency tree as much as possible, so the resulting structure is now much closer to Bower's. Also, I use NPM to manage all of my front-end dependencies, with great success, and it seems like most new OSS front-end JS projects these days do also.
Many 64-bit platforms have 32-bit int.
The thing that makes this particularly pertinent for me is that I try and avoid Facebook & Google+ and indeed most other identity providers for the sole reason that if one of them gives over (either legitimately by subpoena or by being hacked) access to my account, there is a handy pointer to every other service I have accounts for... I'd rather not leave a centralized paper trail of everything I do in one place.
I've been on a bit of a kick to try and understand how we could re-build the Internet and computing based on what could be pulled from the scrap heap, which lead me to cross paths with AMPRNet. Nifty idea, though with its limited bit rates, information dissemination would only be for those with long attention spans :)
Yes let's give more incentive to be black hats.

Anyway, IT has still not proven positive impact on the real world economy...

IT startup are fed up with cash since 20 years and every benefits seems to be sunk into a fast obsolescence sink.

In terms of engineering it is like comparing the F16 now from 40 years ago:

new F16 has a lot of electronic devices, BUT costs more to operate, lose in dogfight vs its former self and former Mig/Suckhoi, it is 9 tons heavier, it costs way more to build...

Nowadays, IED are costing peanuts, and russia is frigthening europa with planes that should be in museums loaded with nuclear missiles.

In economics as in war, costs matters. And at one point for making financial transaction, the costs of security will matter. Given a point of distrust, people may revert back to old tech like faxes and unplugged networks and notice they are more competitive this way.
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It appears that this should be "Coding Math for Games and Graphics". I work in the actuarial space and the math I work with is quite a bit different.
You might have failed at most things but I'm sure you've also succeeded at plenty! Give yourself credit!

I honestly believe that mental resilience is something you can learn and build upon. And the more I think about it, the more it's about the courage to take that first step.

What I did was to self-reflect quite a bit. Both on what I've achieved and what I've not. Then I started to paint a vision for who I'd like to be and what skills would I need to get me there. Then I started to do activities that would make me feel uncomfortable. As a quiet person, I pushed myself to speak at presentations, cold calls, etc. The key is to start small but have a goal in mind.

I'm also part of a Buddhist group where we chant and study material. The material helps because it's focused on self-empowerment and taking responsibility for whatever situation I'm in. Each and every one of us has the same tremendous amount of potential to succeed. What's limiting us is our mind and viewpoint.
I think I get it now!

How to be female and get a job in CS

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1. Be a female in the US. Instead of being part of the 18% of women who are studying CS, deliberately choose a major other than CS.

http://readwrite.com/2014/09/02/women-in-computer-science-wh...

2. Spend time protesting large tech companies for not hiring enough women. When asked why there should be more women in tech despite hiring ratios exceeding percentage of female CS majors, place hands over ears.

3. Receive free tuition to sub-par accelerator schools that will take your money but will not teach you any of the actual skills required to pass an interview, let alone compete with your male or female counterparts at work who studied CS for 4 years.

4. Demand and obtain job at large corporation you previously protested. Post on twitter about breaking the barrier, offering yourself plenty of self-congratulatory banter. Add the word "geek" to all social media bios.

5. Carry on with your career. Ignore all of the other thousands of hardworking, deserved women in tech who studied CS and succeeded despite astronomical odds, like your counterparts from China and India who had none of the privileges you did. Join them at the water cooler and attempt to socialize with them, ignoring the fact that all of the men and women you work with secretly resent you and see you as incompetent.

6. If anyone questions your abilities, play gender bias card. Place hands over ears, when necessary.

This is all so much easier than just choosing to study CS.

How to be a good male in tech

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1. Don't question any of this. Just blindly accept your company hiring sub-par devs from accelerators, despite the way they threaten the integrity and stability of your company. Diversity is more important than competence. Ask any business owner.
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Related:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/encryption-app-telegram-pro...
What a time to be alive. I for one can't wait until the space race to colonize planets and moons starts. Hopefully NASA's budget will increase as well.
"Over-baring censors" - Freudian slip, headline wordplay or typo?

Discuss.
Any relation to http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/ModestProp... ?
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Yeah, I'm definitely reconsidering ATT. I have coworkers that swear by Comcast and how great they are but my experience has been flaky at best. I work from home regularly, so I need my connection to be stable. I also do a fair bit of online gaming which also requires a stable connection.

It kind of tends to hurt not just me, but a fair bit of other people in the process when I, as a raid leader for our guild, cannot maintain a stable connection and get dropped several times over a 2-hour period. Never had those issues on my ATT connection and I've only had a single issue where a tree had fallen and severed a cable during 2 years of being their customer.

I wanted to start streaming our raids which was also the main reason to try the switch, but if it comes at the cost of being unable to take part in them, I might as well not bother.
But we're also on the cusp of being able to identify and then pre-emptively remove those genes for the gene pool directly via IVF + screening of the embryo to make sure that it doesn't carry any known diseases and/or defects. Even if we don't actively edit a embryo it will still speed up the evolution of our species.
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Google used a Dutch auction in their IPO. But then again they are pretty obsessed with auctions. There is some research on auctions for IPOs, e.g. http://www.nber.org/papers/w16214, that suggests they are too complex for investors.
It happens, this is true, but I wouldn't say it's common to make 60% in a few hours.
I think the problem with phages was that it was too expensive and needed selective manufacturing per targeted bacteria. I can imagine a personalized medicine approach working out well once we have better (and fully automated) tech for it.
Sure it is. I know a lot of good programmers that have created some awesome and reasonably complex data driven websites, but the minute we discuss byte order, bit manipulation or discuss using an algorithm for data manipulation instead of brute force they kinda glass over. That isn't saying everyone has to know low level details, but frankly, if you are writing code I think you should have a fundamental understanding of how the device you are coding for works and how you can make the best out of it. Just going to college and getting a CS degree won't guarantee you get those fundamentals, but you are far more likely to get a solid base at a good school then not.

Also, like others have pointed out, nothing says you have to get a CS degree. You could get a degree in any subject and apply your skills and knowledge of programming to a whole new area.

The younger you are too, the more benefit you get from the networking of college, the social and dynamic skills and the problem resolution capabilities.

Would going and getting a CS degree get you more money, probably not if you have at least 3+ years of experience. Also, plenty of companies always say they want a degree but when you apply with experience they seem to drop it. Even the government jobs that say a degree is absolutely required, I have had a number of friends get those jobs with no degree, although there have been a few hoops for them to jump through.
> I donno, I thought I made a (rather far fetched) case for when it's actually physically cheaper / more efficient / beneficial to have DRM, for all parties involved. I.e. a case where we'd actually want to have DRM, I'm not sure how it relates to copyright by itself.

Your argument seems to be that the seller is only going to go to the effort of designing the extra feature if they can charge a premium for it to the market segment that wants it. That is the traditional argument in favor of copyright (and patents). Those things do what you're asking for without a separate law prohibiting circumvention of DRM. The seller can copyright the enabling software or patent the feature (depending on whether the difficult part of implementing the feature is part of the enabling software or the hardware).
It seems to only work well with largely popular companies. Google's auction IPO was pretty successful, Rackspace was not so much.
Here's the non mobile link

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/19/us-france-shoootin...
Another thing is that is interesting is based on what Sophie Wilson has said about the development of ARM it sounds like WDC just didn't really want to participate in the 16/32-bit battle. The 65816 I think was developed at the behest of Woz/Apple, as a sort-of-16-bit successor for the 6502, no more. The multiplexed bus so they could fit in 40-pin DIP, the 8-bit data bus, the 16-bit program counter, all limited the possibility of it ever competing with the 68k or x86 platforms.

I'm sure WDC _could_ have developed such a competitor. It's interesting that even now they haven't done so. They still apparently sell millions of dollars of 65xx cores ever year, I don't know why they've never made a truly 16 or 32-bit 6502.
Basically they're not following cryptographic best practices. And their defense of it is flimsy at best.

I you want easy-to-use secure messenger you should use Signal. (https://whispersystems.org/)
Basically no. If you want to sell for example 100 shares, you need to find a price that you have enough buyers to sell them, in this case they decided on $9. If afterwards there are 5 buyers that want to pay $14 for a share, then the price will go up to $14 based on these 5 shares that are traded. But this absolutely does not mean that you would have found enough buyers for all 100 shares if you initially priced them at $14.
"Rent the Runway has been valued at $500 million. It asked Fortune not to publish this story because it could hurt the company’s ability to raise money."

It's not the media's job to help you raise money, it's their job to report the facts. And frankly if your executive churn is that freaking high and so many prior employees have issues like they seem to, you probably shouldn't be raising money.

Also, this might just be me, but does anyone else miss the good old days when you'd start a business and your success was determined by how much money you actually made, not how much money you got a bunch of investors to give you, just to burn on fancy offices and expensive toys, then crash the company in a few years and retire to write a book? This whole system seems incredibly screwed.
Things you shouldn't say to reporters:

> [Rent the Runway] asked Fortune not to publish this story because it could hurt the company’s ability to raise money.
Finally TCO!
Actually in my UI-heavy Elm programs it isn't that often that I have to write functions with large recursion depth. But it is really comforting to know that the compiler is analyzing my code and making it more efficient. :)
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antibiotics... in household cleaning supplies?! I don't think antibiotics work like that. Source?
Nigel Warburthon's Philosophy Bites podcasts collectively form a great survey of philosophy.

http://www.philosophybites.com/
I think you're confusing antibiotics with antibacterials.

Using hand soap with triclosan has antibacterial properties, none of which contribute to antibiotic resistance. There are lots of reasons to quit using antibacterials in your house, and I have stopped, but contributing to the antibiotic resistance problem is not one of them.
Chances are the CEO doesn't know about such a group.
Well, I probably missed the specific use case for your product, but it sounds something that cannot easily be accomplished with Trello.

Or maybe can, but you have some features I had never even thought about. There's perhaps a subtle point from which a team should think about using your service instead of Trello or other more general services.
I guess because Google's Dutch auction was considered a failure.
They cant, because of debt. Capitalism is a never ending running forward, being pursued by debt. If you stop, you get eaten.
hmm, actually i don't think i caught how much your speeds are actually reduced.

Its throttled until you've used less than 50% of what you pay for for at least 15 minutes.

That threshold is so low specifically so that a line doesn't end up cycling between throttled and not every interval if its 79% once then 81% the next, etc.

It seems obvious to me that Comcast et al are vastly overselling beyond their capacity.

They then market these strategies as methods to ensure quality to their customers, when their customers bought a service that was misadvertised as having enough capacity for them in the first place.

Just like airlines - they sell more tickets than they have seats, because they figure they can squeeze more profit out of the people who paid for a ticket but didnt show up, then when everyone shows up, someone has to get bumped.
Robots hire people that have to act like robots :-(
More on the same line: https://medium.com/@thegrugq/operational-telegram-cbbaadb901...

"In short, for better protection, use anything else."
BMI also seems to have the problem that it correlations are ethnically-dependent. The big outlier are East Asians, who tend to start having obesity-related issues in the upper end of "normal" and have less issues in the upper end of "underweight". Those categorizations were based on statistical studies of Europeans.
That's with the chrome (not chromium) DRM, right?
Scape metal has also become common to ship to China to be smelted back down shipped back to the U.S.
a good sign for the market
I'm just finishing up a first-year course at McMaster University where we learned basic CS concepts (divide and conquer, state machines, recursion, algebraic data types, FRP, etc) using ELM. It's the first time I've ever put an honest effort into learning a pure functional language, and although it was initially frustrating to a self-taught programmer with a background in several procedural languages and SQL, it's growing on me, and I'm probably going to look for a side project (maybe a small game or a simple CPU simulator) to build with ELM when the course is over.

I only wish the "Improved error messages" and "Catching more bugs" features had been introduced about three months ago, probably would have saved me hours!
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GitHub/StackOverflow, yes... HN karma isn't supposed to be something you aspire to or cultivate, it's more for you to know your self, relative to the community here.
I've never seen anything like this either. The amount of essentially free money the wealthy have access to is staggering. Yes, you need good credit, some assets--and poof--you have money to invest, without the competition you had pre 2008. I look at these low interest rates for only the best clientele, and I wonder, "How can they lose?"

In my neighborhood, I see qualified individuals(rich people), and REIT's buying up residential homes at a rate I have never seen before, and why shouldn't they at these rates.

While the middle class, and the poor are slowly losing any savings they managed to put away. Rebublicans blame Dodd-Frank--I don't know, but something is not right.

There's a part of me that wonders if we, the poor/middle class were better off when financial institutions didn't know our blood type when applying for a loan, or credit? It just seemed like more people were allowed to invest in the past?

What do I know? Nothing! Guess I'm feeling the holiday slump? I hope it doesn't last too long?
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Yes, that is the idea.

Dealing with the preprocessor is a lost cause, so I just don't, the idea at the moment is to let the preprocessor do its thing and pipe the output into ctags (and if a better ctags comes out in the future it will be trivial to put that in instead), the result is not 100% perfect but is good enough to capture most of the declarations present in the included headers and make them visible to this language.

If a library absolutely requires preprocessor macros to be useable, someone will have to make equivalent hygienic macros in this language but at least you won't have to make a huge wrapper for everything.
Information density increases as bandwidth decreases. When all else fails there is morse, and you can be damn sure nobody is going to send any markup using morse, just the cold hard data.
Okay, let's say you lose the genetic gamble, and you test poorly on these algorithms. I've seen no claim that they are are infallible, they just find correlations. If the correlation is not 1, it is measuring some people poorly (false negative).

So, you actually do quite well at work, but the test puts you in the low category. You are basically unhirable, or at only a fraction of the salary of your peers.

You end up with things like that recent Google hire thing that was all over social media - the author of the package for which they were hiring was declined because he didn't pass some whiteboard algorithm thingy. At least that was random - if he interviewed again he'd have a chance of getting hired. Tests like this would render a section of humanity unhirable.

At least now, even though I am subjected to randomness, I can eventually get a job and prove myself. Then I can take that proof and use it to get other jobs. Not in Silicon Valley as a programmer, perhaps, where they ignore your resume in favor of 'solve this 20 year problem in 30 minutes on a whiteboard while you pretend you didn't just study this and are working it through for the first time', but in the rest of the world.
I read that paper a long time ago and it was certainly an inspiration :)

Originally, the language started out quite different but I can now see why SPECS looks the way it does, I do not agree with everything they did and my effort these days is towards making it simpler and smaller but there's some convergent evolution indeed.
Data can't be owned. It's just bits, and they may be copied freely.
Ask HN: Former Startup and Creditors owning side contractor work
I co-founded for a startup a few years ago.

While we were early stage, we had no capacity to generate revenue.

I took on multiple contractor gigs (with signed contractor agreements) in order to continue being able to work on the start up.

The company failed due to mismanagement.

Now the company and its creditors are threatening to sue for ownership over work I did as a contractor.

Does anyone have experience with this?
They require you to ack, its part of their copyright platform. Would you rather they just turn off your internet until you call in?
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