skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just ridiculous. Inner city kids don't lack the proper incentives to succeed (they're poor, after all), they lack the resources needed to succeed.
Pharmacies might be cookie-cutter businesses in your experience, but in a place with the density of NY, why should they be? Why can't there be a compounding pharmacy that specializes in pre-natal care, so the pharmacists and technicians are exceptionally well versed in various remedies for things like morning sickness, swelling, any sort of ailment that pregnancy can bring, who know pregnancy better than any doctor in terms of what products work best and in what combinations, in addition to stocking an assortment of complementary non-prescription items, all chosen because they are uniquely suited for the kinds of issues pregnant women specifically have.

Ditto cancer. Ditto orthopedics. Ditto MS and musculoskeletal problems. Ditto pediatrics. Communities exist around all of these things because people need a place to find that information and get their questions answered. Why couldn't that place be the exact type of business that exists to address people's health needs?

It could be a business built around serving the needs of a minority (yet significant) population exceptionally well, instead of being a bland cookie-cutter store that serves everyone pretty much okay, unless something goes wrong and the 22 year old pharmacy tech who has never even had a conversation with someone with your particular health concern remarkably doesn't know how to help you.
I'd like to think I'm a supplier to my bank.
Only cryptographers care about "unpredictability." Outside of cryptography, the interesting properties of a PRNG are speed, period length, and state size.

But a good CSPRNG has excellent statistical properties. So if you make "unpredictability" a requirement, their slow PRNG becomes very attractive. In other words, they made up a problem for their solution.

If you need a statistical PRNG, use a statistical PRNG. (The best are xorshift1024* and xorshift128+.) If you need a CSPRNG, use a CSPRNG.
How does this actually work - are they actually creating more shares to give to the investors that bought in with this stipulation? Or are these shares coming from some pre-existing pool? I'm admittedly quite unfamiliar with this stuff, so I'm curious how the 'dilution' occurs.
This is the solution to this problem as it exists in Sweden:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=se.bankgirot.s...
Because Apple is ordering ~25M units of that display panel but PC vendors are not.

Or because Apple gives customers what they need but PC vendors give customers what they want.
I don't agree. People should not go to prison for crimes committed by others. We should still have to show each individual is guilty, including the executives. But I don't think that would solve the problem anyway. Owners and shareholders will still be immune. They will simply hire figurehead executives to sign things and speak at events.

These people are financially motivated, so the punishment should be financial. Most criminals don't think they are going to be caught anyway, so prison isn't a disincentive. Financial punishment may not be a disincentive either (but I suspect for most shareholders it would), but it has the effect of reducing the efficacy of bad actors, leading to better outcomes overall.

The real problem is the fines are usually far outweighed by the profits from acting in this manner. Make the punishment an audit at the end of which they must pay the costs of the independent audit (whether done by private third party or government) as well as a multiplier on whatever profits were determined to stem from the elicit activity.
Epic has a grueling work ethic/culture. They all LOVE what they do, work insane hours, and are compensated very well.
Dude. Three such ads in two days?
My friend Mr. Cohen taught it to me. Now I'm telling the world.

Until the end of the year, sideways is up in all markets.

This isn't a coincidence. It's because of the Shemitah. Call the jews and tell them to learn from history.
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Independently of the "cool factor", there is one more consideration to take into account. With the multiplication of electronic payment systems we are at risk of physical cash becoming marginalised. From a practical point of view I am not sure I would miss it, but from a privacy point of view this would certainly becoming a loss. Every single payment would end up being tracked. Another surveillance state dream coming to reality.
Ask HN: What other careers will you move into when the tech bubble bursts?
I'm interested to hear what people plan on doing when the tech bubble bursts. It's only a matter of time now and if this burst is anything like the last there won't be any tech jobs for at least a couple years. So HN, what do you plan on doing? I've thought about getting into farming.
>Both are built on Rasterbar-libtorrent and should provide equal performance if configured the same

Eh...Deluge has made a number of changes to libtorrent that aren't replicable solely by config tweaks. Such as lying about what pieces that client currently has, lying about connections and others in order to get the tracker to assign more peers and increase per-peer connections. Deluge also abuses the ever-loving-crap out of memory, since it doesn't use the system memory manager and, at least last I looked, their home built caching system was horribly broken (that is, they goto-failed their own manager) which leads to horrible flush to disk scenarios that kill speeds.
I'm astonished that Fowler presents a central LISP idea here, without even mentioning LISP by its name, let alone mentioning that this is building something that a LISP system gives you for free. (i.e. in LISP you could take the quotation of your code directly as data structure, and even have an interpreter for that right now.)
I think there was some editing between comments - the whole Monterey thing is new to me.

Now of course the question is, who's side was she a spy for ;-)
With the apparent ethical chops these CMU researchers had, they certainly chose the wrong deal.

Extorting SR2 would've made them quite a bit more than just 1 million. ;)
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That's an interesting perspective, but that is essentially Apple breaking everything for everybody and forcing obsolescence of their products.

I consider that slightly different from "I can't do task x on my iPad because it isn't powerful enough".
Don't forget the 850 million Euro data center that Apply are building in Galway recently got the go ahead.
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/planning-permi...
Cakes, Custard and Category Theory/How to Bake Pi is very similar to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: it has not much of anything to do with the subjects mentioned in the title. You will find some recipes, sort of, and you'll find some category theory, sort of. But if you're looking to learn anything about either, this is not the book for you.

As another reviewer said, this is a love letter from the author to mathematics. But, like most love letters, if you are not the sender or the receiver, it won't make a great deal of sense. There are many anecdotes from the life of a mathematician here, and many short vignettes of mathematics. But not enough details about either to make some kind of autobiography or some kind of informative math book. Unfortunately, since I'm neither the author nor Mathematics, I'm left with nothing but the feeling that I've been reading something that was not intended for me.

Here's one example of the former: "I once went to a party and decided to try an experiment: I refused to tell anyone what my job was. Telling people you're a mathematician produces all sorts of odd responses. Some people become afraid, and extract themselves very quickly, but others immediately start trying to demonstrate how 'intelligent' they are. Yet others immediately start trying to belittle me...." Unfortunately, she never tells us what happened in the experiment.
I used to fly all around the world as an "unaccompanied minor" , having parents who where in the services and posted mainly abroad, I used to travel upto 6 times a year by myself from the age of 8. I usualy flew British Airways (im british).
Patents are a means of ensuring the release of inventions to the public.

Patents are bad, right?
So your argument is: Stallman is a moderate when compared to a hypothetical software terrorist?

In the real world, Stallman is still a radical. The English meaning of the word freedom cannot be twisted for suiting one's philosophy. True freedom lies in allowing your work to be modified without restrictions - like the BSD or Apache licenses offer. Daemonizing software released under those licenses, and proselytizing against their use IS radical.
Work for a sustainable business in the first place and you won't have this problem?
Always plenty of work in Consulting.
You have to sign up on UnrealEngine.com and add your Github account name to get an invite to the organization, which lets you access the repository. Instructions are here: https://www.unrealengine.com/ue4-on-github
Ah! Go read Dog Days by Dan Lyons (Fake Steve Jobs)
something low stress, like trash hauling.
Money is really just an abstraction layer on top of power, which makes #2 tautological and reduces #1 to:

power => more power

Phrased in this way, it's unsurprising that most societies have this property.
They tried to sell T-Mobile USA. They tried very hard.
Macports is terrible, bash is always out of date, gdb no longer comes with, I've gotten seg faults on OSX that I've never been able to reproduce on Linux or BSD, virtualization is harder. There are weird things like really low per process file descriptor limits. If you're a web dev, fine. If you're a software engineer it is an unacceptably cumbersome and outdated experience.

In my experience developing I've always found it easier to resolve dependencies on Linux than OSX.

The software that's stopping me is the OS itself.
If you want to try a great free one that's all SSL, Hook Forms (.com) is in beta.

I don't mean to pimp, but we really would love more testing and would send you an invitation right away. Plus, the free thing.
Objection, your honor. Assumes facts not in evidence.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10546640
it's interesting that the author didn't state the party affiliation of Senator J. Lister Hill. I'll give you one guess.
At the risk of misusing and abusing the term, I find the author's point of view aspergerish: lack of social or emotional reciprocity. He finds it natural that there are things that are interesting and worth reading to him, but not to others. So why would he be stumped by the fact that there are things that others find interesting and worth reading, while he does not?
Surely selling to a government is at least grey hat? In my book, white hat never does offense. If you're creating an exploit that isn't proof of concept and that harms someone, you're not white hat anymore.
Some sensitive industries like defense will DEF require citizenship for getting immediate clearance OR future scenarios where you'll need a clearance
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That's not true. Even businesses that make money will die as a result of this.

We're talking about a completely catastrophic event that puts 90% of the worlds tech sector out of work. The residual effects will be enormous.
In other words, the pieces may have changed hands but the great game continues its course...
Could the federal government set up a contracting arm that sells jamming services to state facilities? Or does non-Federal entity mean something else?
Lisp, has cond which is analagous to Python's elif

Also you have your indentation wrong; (this is an ELSE but hard to figur eout) should be one column to the left, which makes it significantly more readable.
Shipping time? Billing cost? Custom clearing?
Don't forget, many customs have quite low thresholds before they tax the hell out of imports. In Germany I think you can have an item shipped up to 20 Euro. Also, many products could be confiscated (dietary supplements, "medicine", food, electronics (certifications)). Try to ship ANYTHING to Brazil. Good luck with that. And hope you don't have to return anything.

Furniture? Good idea. I don't know what "high end" means but the shipping costs are likely going to kill you.

On the other handL I shipped once a pallet from LA to Germany via Airfreight. If you use a small provider, costs are quite low. The provider buys a kg air freight US<>Europe around 1 US$ and resells it to you with a mark up. Still, you have to clear customs and have to get it to the airport and then again from the airport. Funny thing: The company who delivered it for me to the airport included a bill for their services. It was only for finalizing the product that I shipped to them. The EU customs charged him import taxes based on that bill, not mine. Hence my customer saved a shit load of money.
I'd say "Been nice talking to you. I'll keep you in mind in case I get the killer idea. I'd appreciate it if you do the same for me." And then I'd move on.

If and when I get a great idea, I'd give him a call and see if he's still a good fit, and if he's available. If he called me, I'd see if I was interested, available, and thought he had a good idea.

And if neither one ever happens, I wouldn't stress about it.
I Think this is close to what he was doing. He had an investment bank friend that would just constantly sell and buy on the stock to look like there was "activity". In the end it was the same person selling and buying massive amounts of stock.
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Not really. Ops people are generally just that. Even DevOps aren't the ones writing the apps. Except for one specific place, nowhere I've worked in the last 25 years has Ops people that would be qualified to review either the apps or the libraries it uses.

PenTests and security is a pretty different thing than app dev. And both are different than ops. Only recently have the roles been blurred, but even now, I see truly cross-functional people very rarely.
A large shed is only a palace when seen by the eyes of the pragmatic or by the eyes of the fool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_Craft_Air_Cushion

Abandoned?
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The FSF does not demonize nor proselytize against the BSD licenses. They are free software licenses and thus FSF-approved.
s/grey/green/ and I agree with you.

Do you know what your entire government is up to? Even if you sell it to the NSA, how do you know it won't end up in the hands of the DEA to spy on a large number of people just to find a couple of drug traffickers?

We don't know. We can't know.

There's nothing grey about that choice. They're the ones that call themselves white.
I would not be supportive of a government that pays people to attempt to rob my bank without telling me or my bank in the name of "security research", even if their intention was never to steal money. Regardless of what was posted on the door.
Funny, I didn't see that in her name.
Are you trying to express the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning?
They do say: "We are sharing the things we think are most interesting." Maybe a minor use of Groovy and Grails is only interesting to people trying to promote those products.
For many countries, November 11 is 'Armistice Day', 'Remembrance Day', Veteran's Day, or some other day remembering those fallen in war and as such would probably take offense at any attempt to commercialise or cash-in on such a day.
I hate that you were downvoted for the unfortunately negative truth. Open source firmware, with radios seperate from cpus (and seperate DMA), is exactly what we need for security. All these proprietary peices, half from foreign countries, are more a threat to "national security" and "cybersecurity" than just about anything else. They want to pass CISA etc because of cybersecurity but their actions show levels of incompetence with few bounds.

When is the government going to embrace open source as a basis for security of users?
90% of the world's tech sector out of business? That's absurd.

Sure, if you're working on some messaging app there's a good chance your SOL, but that doesn't mean software's going the way of the dinosaur.

To put things in perspective: McKinsey just released a report that 50% of work can be automated and only 5% of work requires a moderate level of human creativity. There are still plenty of peon responsibilities to hand off to the robots.
The problem is that first-hand observations aren't irrelevant, they're perverse. They're the mind viewing itself through its own intuitive folk-theory of mind, which is nowhere near an accurate psychology.
Absolutely spot on! I find it shocking the lack of public reaction to the behaviour of various world governments, be it in the UK, Australia, France, the U.S., everywhere the government is making a grab for more and wider surveillance powers, the majority of the population seem totally oblivious. There needs to be much wider awareness of this for any serious changes to happen on a wide scale. Problem is, how do you accomplish that?
I'm sorry. You don't need legal training to read and understand most of the Constitution. Much of it is fairly plain and straightforward. Much of the "context" you speak of often comes after the fact. I would suggest rather than trying to beat a worn out point you take half an hour and actually read the document. You can do it... even without a law degree. We can read it.. we can see if it is manifestly being violated, we can vote accordingly. That is the intent. The intent is not that we are governed by an army of lawyers twisting a document into whatever they choose.
Tor should be robust against strong adversaries unconstrained by ethics.

Part of the way this strength will be achieved is researchers in public interest settings behaving ethically.
Unfortunately I only have options at the moment. Perhaps I should exercise some of them just to get the financial info?
Apple decided they needed a tablet that was geared for production versus consumption.

And don't seem to have noticed that this is a requirement that will be all but impossible to satisfy no matter what they do. Almost everything that has made tablets successful in recent years has been because they were devices all about casual consumption and trivial interactions, from the good quality screens and tidy form factors, to the simple interfaces and useful but usually extremely simple and limited apps, via the similarly useful but extremely simple and limited models for installing new software, storing data, and communicating externally.

There is a way to convert from such a device to one more suitable for serious use but still very portable, and that is to add proper input devices, more flexible connectivity, and more powerful, more flexible, but inevitably also more complicated software. We call those alternative devices "laptops", and they are what the grown-ups use when they have real work to do. I'm genuinely not sure, based purely on the content of this article, whether Gruber actually understands the difference, but I'm fairly sure the people making purchasing decisions for hundred-person departments do.

I think for the professional person that is wanting to work on a tablet

I suspect I've never met that person. Certainly in my entire professional career I have never seen anyone using an iPad at work for the kind of task you would use a general purpose computer for, not even once. Handy touchscreen control panel? Sure. Quick reporting from staff in the field? Maybe. Serious logistics, marketing, accounts, R&D, customer support...? Never.
If I may ask...

Why would somebody choose Live 9 Convolution Pro instead of, say the paid version of SFZ? There's a 4x difference in price ( I think, unless the reverb is seperable from Live 9 )

( I mix with a different reverb, print a reverb channel mix, then use a convolver I wrote that's not a plugin. It's not nearly as horrible of a process as it sounds :) )

It's all sunk cost here; I don't take clients. I will record (mainly live) for friends if they ask and can put up with the process. Most just wanna cellphone video.
The GFW attacks most normal tunnels, causing unreliable performance.
"A correctly-formed ping packet is typically 56 bytes in size, or 84 bytes when the Internet Protocol header is considered. However, any IPv4 packet (including pings) may be as large as 65,535 bytes."

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_of_death ;-)
Um..same thing as last time? Tech career.
Yes, fines might be effective if they were bigger.

Many of the people I found while searching got fines that probably equated to something like a year's salary. Fine these companies an amount comparable to a year's revenue and I bet things would change in a hurry.
Hi everybody. Just your friendly neighborhood Linux nerd. Use Linux, it's open source.
What API is this using? The download is a binary blob :/
I saw his question as 'why would I want an iPhone only service', so that's what I answered.

Venmo may have great market share among people using apps to pay friends. I'm suggesting the total pool of people is MUCH bigger and Apple could take a good chunk of those people, not unlike when the smartphone, tablet, MP3 player, or digital music store markets got MUCH bigger. Will they take it all? No. Probably not even 'most'. But there is still a large opportunity there.

I've never used Venmo, but I wonder if they'll survive or end up a player that was there too soon or at the start but is overtaken by the 2nd wave.

There are plenty of companies/brands that fit that model. Diamond Rio, Palm, ICQ, Blackberry...

Or maybe the banks will come in and crush this market somehow. I know many are trying (BoA, Chase, USAA), but they may not get the UX to work well or be willing to cooperate between banks.
From non-OS X, meaning no Xcode. Like Linux or Windows to iOS.
This looks pretty neat. I've been using qBittorrent on Windows, but it doesn't really support bulk operations, so I've been writing Python scripts[0] to accomplish what I need. Please, cater to the users that need to idle with tons of torrents open all the time and make it easy to import/export the current state of the torrents loaded into client.

Also, shameless plug -- I work on an open source BitTorrent tracker[1] that was adopted by Facebook for deploying their server software and have been playing around with a framework for writing tracker logic via middleware[2]. If you want to talk about any of the client <> tracker interactions, I'm totally down for discussion.

[0]: https://github.com/jzelinskie/move_torrents.py

[1]: https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya

[2]: https://github.com/jzelinskie/otoshi
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> a "real" scripting language like Groovy

Groovy is not a real scripting language, it's a fake. That's why I'm building the Real Groovy Language.
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Come on, keep an open mind! Random forests still work great!

There's still some love for genetic algorithms somewhere, right?

...Right ??
I don't see the github repository for Picotorrent linked on the blog, so I'm linking it here, in case anyone else is interested: https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent
Absolutely not. You can, in your house, build a robot that uses sensory input to construct a map of its surroundings and then navigate that map.

Check out various algorithms to do so, such as [1]. Model building from sensory input is very simple, and in my opinion only tangentially related to consciousness.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D*
I don't mind losing some privacy but it has to be symmetrical. Right now the government is like the clothed guy on a nudist beach and it's awkward.
already posted today, twice before. first here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10546483