skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW broken anchors are tracked here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Bro.... Maybe you can help alleviate the problem.
Linking Task to Sub-Project and Enhanced Loading Saved MPP Files in Java Apps
In many countries other than the US, patriotism is seen to be crass at best and dangerously close to nationalism at worst. The dearth of national flags adorning houses in Australia, England and Germany are part of this.
What do you mean? :(
Thanks for clarifying.

I made the comment because I find that startups (or the recent brand of startups with crazy valuations and relatively cheap operating costs) are the ones that push 80K/90K+ salaries (at the very least) for people straight out of college and nice office perks.

A few years ago (and probably still now), people could get hired by big companies like HP/Dell/Intel/Oracle (or other big companies whose main competency isn't necessarily computing) with relatively low salaries (lets say 60K or 70K). This only really applies to recent grads/relatively young developers though, I guess.

I see now that I had it backwards.
Is there a site like this for mathimatics?
Is there a site anything like this for mathimatics?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10709140
Definitely unrealistic.
I say music/movies and you say humor/comedy. How's that any different? Cultural differences is not necessarily reflected thru language.

Also, 7 >> 4. I win :)
As a side question, I wonder if this means GitHub will go for their own IPO.
I enjoyed it. This was the promise. Amazing things all rendered in your browser. With mobile apps I feel that we did an about turn. And since apps took off it stunted the original promise.
Running skype on Linux, I was hoping the Skype web client would become a good alternative, but nothing really happens there...

Edit:
I wanted to use the Skype app on my modern Android devices but last time I tried it didn't even work.
Spotify's “Sorry” 404 Page
I'm not sure if this was your point or not, but we can't really trust any handset without an open baseband, of which all of the handsets we use today don't have. As long as we're stuck with proprietary blobs and their secrecy, we can't trust what's in them.

Given the technical skill shown in some of the Snowden leaks, it seems to be all but a given that these blobs are compromised from the factory by three-letter agencies. It's somewhat amusing watching the overt rhetoric of the FBI "crypto war" when the majority of even technical people make far less of a fuss over covert exploitation, which has the dual benefits of being pretty much ubiquitous and plausibly deniable. One NSL to Intel and Qualcomm, or better yet, one call to an executive with the loyalty of a few "patriotic" employees, the secret is safe, and everyone is pwned by default.

It is basically impossible to use a modern computing stack without trusting someone's proprietary blob, and the general population has little to no care about attacks at a level that they really don't understand. That's probably why all the press is on this crypto rhetoric to begin with.
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What school did you go to? What school would issue a BSc in computing science without analysis and differential equations?
Week in Review 11 December 2015 – MailShark
I was speaking with a friend regarding cellphone jamming, and a question was posed:

Suppose there is a piece of equipment that strictly follows all the relevant cellular protocol specs and can route 911 calls, but drops all other traffic. Is such a system illegal?
Paying thousands? It's $5 or less per year for a certificate like the one Let's Encrypt provides at other sites.
What if a lot of the nearby desirable land was bordered by water on all sides where it wasn't bordered by mountains and lots of other developers, some more senior or working for larger, more profitable companies, were also bidding on that same limited resource?
> SJW crew

Dude, come on. My eyes are rolling out of my head. Save the angsty teenage melodrama for 4Chan or Reddit, please.
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I think you might have forgotten to include a link -- wrong submission type?
"Skype for Windows takes advantage of Internet Explorer and Flash to display advertisements in the client. This means that in order for advertisements to work correctly, Internet Explorer and Flash need to be working correctly."

As if Skype spying on you wasn't enough, requiring mshtml.dll and Flash this now makes Skype a malware vector from compromised ad networks.

This seems especially bad for IT environments where Internet Explorer is not the primary browser due to "security" and has Flash built-in (like Chrome used to) or disabled, so any outdated version of Flash attached to IE becomes an unpatched vulnerability possibly outside of IT package management scope.

There are other good videoconferencing/call solutions today. I see no reason to install Skype anymore. I personally have not used it in years. (FWIW, I also haven't used Windows as my primary operating system since the days of XP.)
Couple buys Star Wars figure, takes pics, gets DMCA notice
With N parameters for N data points I have far, far too many degrees of freedom and have grossly overfit my training set. The only way to guarantee good generalization outside one's training set is to have a lot of data compared to the number of degrees of freedom in the model.

To avoid this, we use bias/prior/regularization which reduces the effective number of degrees of freedom. For example, fitting a quadratic polynomial to some data, we have 3 degrees of freedom including the constant term. If I add a regularization term \lambda*||a|| where a is the vector of coefficients, I can alleviate overfitting. We can determine an optimal value for \lambda using validation or cross-validation. For \lambda=0, we have 3 parameters. As \lambda->infinity, we force the answer closer and closer to the constant 0 polynomial ie. no degrees of freedom.

In other words, regularization avoids overfitting by reducing the dimension of the model.

I am not worried about the amount of data I have to carry around; rather, it was a way of thinking about the dimension of parameter-space.

Don't big alarm bells go off in your head when you hear N parameters for N data points?
Nationalism has a strong component of devotion, an emotional attachment, to the state. Its a derivative of statism, which itself is a derivative of tribalism. You can have either liberals or conservatives subject to such an emotional appeal to the state. Due to the strong emotional appeal in nationalism, the political ideology is more nuanced. In classic liberalism, power comes from the individual who then grants a revocable delegation of that power to form a state (government). In conservatism, power comes more broadly from society, culture, and affinity for stability. The Bolshevik revolution is an example of a left of center revolution, it certainly was nativist, nationalist, and was not conservative. The Cultural Revolution, likewise a left of center revolution, its ideology was very centered on empowering the individual, it was nationalistic, nativist (the purging of "impure elements" of Chinese society), and certainly not conservative.

There are many examples of liberal and conservative nationalist movements. I think it requires some research to demonstrate if one or the other is more inclined to nationalism, or jingoism.
GOLD+Remains+Weak+And+Declining+On+Bear+Pressure
Maybe it's the graphs on the bottom of https://www.theranos.com/our-lab ?
How real-time is this stuff? If an order record is inserted can I instantly see on a dashboard the +1 based on a custom report query?
Show HN: mTECH, a ResearchKit app studying the effects of energy drinks
The signup button doesn't seem to work with an adblocker (uBlock) enabled.
This is not very accurate. The true North chip places memory next to compute elements on chip. GPUs have most memory off chip. The true North hardware is specialized to neural net stuff, and doesn't allow general floating point compute, have any sort of instruction set decoder, etc. That turns into big performance and power wins.
I think you're falling for the fallacy of assigning political opinions to a one-dimensional spectrum of liberal v.s. conservative, and doubly so by asserting that your opinion on a given issue can only be caused by being on one end of that spectrum.

Even if you assume a one-dimensional political spectrum there's plenty of reasons for why someone might by for or against immigration for any number of reasons.

For simplicity's sake let's use the stereotypical US definitions of conservative and liberal, even then you can find plenty of reasons on both sides to be for and against immigration.

You could be conservative and be for it because you're a business owner and it implies cheap labor, or against it because you're also a xenophobe and just don't like people from other countries.

You could be for it as a liberal because you believe in some pan-nationalistic idea of humanity without borders, or against it because you think the influx of cheap labor will ultimately create a lower class within society which interferes with the project of a socialist state.

You mentioned Scotland as an example among the rise of the rise of right-wing ideals in Europe. I think it's entirely unrealistic to mention that in the same paragraph as nationalism leading to "massacres, and other oppression". If anything bad things might happen because Scotland is being denied national autonomy, just look at what's been happening in Ireland.

Sometimes people just want to do their own thing in their own little piece of the planet. I myself am from Iceland which has a long history of a nationalist movement that has nothing to do with any of that stuff. Sometimes people just want a bit of self-determinism without negatively impacting others. Ascribing that desire to left or right or conservative or liberal is a gross and inaccurate oversimplification.
many comments on original posting:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10684262
Is it worth noting that Flash should only show those errors if you have a debug version of the player installed? If you aren't developing Flash content; get rid of the debug player and those errors will go away.

[Although I 'm not sure if that will fix the problems w/ Skype]
yea. tempting.. buts its not generally good to build a business around a domain. it should be the other way round. Would this work for any Congress related stuff? Sounds compatible?
$6bn valuation isn't that much for a product suite that seems integral to so many in the tech sector.
When I was growing up, this is the sort of stuff I dreamed we, humanity, would be doing in this day and age. This is the stuff Star Trek is made of (probably inspired by). Despite all the madness in the world today, I am glad some others share my childhood dream.
Isn't this a bit misleading? Trump was a personality for many, many years before his presidential campaign.
> That may mean a big payday for Mr. Burris. If the S.E.C. deems he gave it “original information” the leads to a successful enforcement action, he ... would be entitled to a bounty of ... $20 million to $60 million.

I wasn't aware the S.E.C. had a bounty program in place. That's quite the amount, probably more than he could have made in a lifetime at JP Morgan.
The struggle to stay child-free
Actually know an entrepreneur who was friends with Matt Mullenweeg's parents. They wanted him to talk with their son to convince him to not drop out of college. He told me he met Matt, was very impressed with WordPress and told his parents that what he was doing was OK.
Harold V. McIntosh and his students: Lisp escapes MIT (2012)
$14.99 for 6 people is a great price. But not really for 2 people. I have spotify

It's better than the price for Spotify, at least.
Do functions that Siri trigger exist in the OS?
I've tried using some "special" functions such as, turn off all alarms etc... And these functions are not available to users from the UI. My question is, does the OS have these functions programmed or are they programmed on-the-fly? Or maybe they're not functions at all.
Great advice,thanks!
Agreed. This is not "mandatory types", note well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10708051
What stops them from offering an option to get files as well?

Well, they don't want you to be able to permanently download the files. If you cancel your subscription you'll lose whatever you have downloaded. Offering you a file you can easily convert into a different format would break that pretty comprehensively.
> They seem very conservative in their claims.

Hahaha!

D-Wave's reputation is one of exaggeration and putting marketing before science. That's how Scott ended up as de-facto "chief D-Wave skeptic": he kept complaining about their exaggerations and the exaggerations of journalists covering them.

(The paper being discussed now does actually seem conservative in its claims, but it's by a team at Google; not D-Wave.)
> People are still sore about that. I have friends who remember hiding from NATO bombs.

"Death From Above" in Party Animals (2005) by Turbonegro.
> Feinstein the hypocrite. She has a conceal carry permit yet many in CA are unable to get such.

This caught my attention (I love to catch a hypocrite), but I don't think it's actually true today.

Various sources indicate she did have a concealed carry permit, due to threats she received from the New World Liberation Front, but that she ditched the revolver she was carrying in her purse, thanks to the permit, at some point in the past (likely in 1982). Here's an article from left-wing biased source MediaMatters, which cites a 1982 WaPo article I couldn't verify (no LexisNexis access):

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/03/19/hannity-falsely-accu...

If you prefer sources from the other side, here's notorious right-wing blogger and floor-shitter Chuck C. Johnson reporting the same (with an entirely different spin):

http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/15/in-feinsteins-harvey-milk-...

And here's a post from TheHill, whose political bias (if any) I don't know:

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/273989-fein...

TheHill's post doesn't mention a date, though.
The IRS have something similar, Bradley Birkenfeld received more than $100M when he blew the whistle against UBS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Birkenfeld
> Well, they don't want you to be able to permanently download the files.

And why is that exactly?

> Well, they don't want you to be able to permanently download the files.

Not sure what they gain by it. I prefer to buy and keep what I bought. Not really interested in renting digital goods. That's why I'm not using Google Play and similar stores for music. Bandcamp offers DRM-free music in FLAC for example, and there once you buy it - you keep it.
My formerly active duty Marine Corps, pessimistic self considered that to be a very possible reality. I thought about what I would do if I were him and I immediately went to the 'well shit, how do I make this[1] into a story that paints myself in a better light'.

[1] - this being going UA/deserting
And why is that exactly?

Because it is a streaming service, not a download service.

I prefer to buy and keep what I bought. Not really interested in renting digital goods.

Then don't use a streaming service.
I'm guessing he's never heard of the pidgin OTR plugin which puts encryption keys back in the hands of even the least technical.
You don't have to look into a window to know whether you are in a black or white neighborhood.
How to Become a Pure Mathematician (or Statistician): a List of Undergraduate and Basic Graduate Textbooks and Lecture Notes - the blog

http://hbpms.blogspot.com/

For a lot of other stuff check out Saylor.org's old 'major's page:

https://sayloracademy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/20904185...
Consider looking at this-

https://sayloracademy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/20904185...
[... pt3 ...]

> One of the things I believe about God is that he knows everything about us,

How do you know that?

> and as such would be the most qualified to prescribe the best courses of action for my life and for society.

Even under that assumption, I would disagree.

> Or, since we're on HN, the guy who programmed the app knows the codebase better than anyone,

How do you know who that guy is?

> and if he wants others to understand it he writes documentation for others to follow,

How do you identify the author of that documentation?

> or maybe goes to a conference to talk about it.

How do you identify the speaker?

> And who knows, maybe God has reasoning that would fit within the realm of scientific methodology.

Sure, or maybe god likes pizza. May be. Or may not be. Speculation is easy. What's your evidence one way or the other?

> I don't know, but..."it's faith!"

Is there any claim that you couldn't justify that way?

"God wants me to only eat noodles! It's faith!"

"The core of jupiter consists of cheese! It's faith!"

"God wants me to love everyone! It's faith!"

"God wants me to kill all <x>! It's faith!"

How do you distinguish where "It's faith!" is sufficient justification and where it is not?

Now, this has become somewhat (ahem) lengthy, and most of these arguments aren't really new--if you are interested in understanding the skeptical/scientific/atheistic view on those things, you might enjoy this playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOkwq0YkXJA&list=PL8U_Qmq9oN...

In particular, there are quite a few videos in there that deal with common theistic arguments, including "Appeals to Faith", "Morality", "Supernatural Causation", "Appeals to Personal Experience", which would probably roughly cover this post.
No one hates you. You're not really doing anything worthy of hate. You're just making grandiose statements about your comprehension of other human beings and it's slightly more obnoxious than stepping on gum, but probably less obnoxious than being hit with the stink of sewer gas while walking through Cambridge.

I'll just put this here and leave:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_of_asymmetric_insight
Has anyone here ever read or worked through Hrabovsky and Susskind's _The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics_? Same premise as this, I gather, but a whole book.
To be fair, the goal of those new computing architectures is not to advance algorithms. That at best is a side benefit.

Those algorithmic performance improvements seen in DNN have come from improved datasets and training. Numenta and IBM arent focusing on training AFAIK. Google's Quantum Annealing [0] is the only hardware I'm aware of focused on training, although there are rumors Nervana Systems may produce something [1]. I'm sure there are others; accelerating training of DNN isnt a particularly new idea.

The goal of these other computing architectures is typically
to provide lower power, higher frequency/lower latency, or smaller form factor execution of trained models, but there is a question of how much value they can provide over more conventional chips to be worth the chip design costs.

However without these architectures becoming as mainstream as say a GPU, I think we will continue to see advances come from the typical everyday computer. The ML community seems to be much more democratic than others.

[0] http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/12/when-can-quantum-...

[1] http://www.nervanasys.com/about/
Read all the way down to para 16 to find the strongest claim in this article.
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> Because it is a streaming service, not a download service.

Why can't they offer both? For instance Bandcamp does. You can stream music if you don't want to download it, but you can as well back up your DRM-free copy which I always do. I only pay for music when such option is available.

> Then don't use a streaming service.

I see no correlation between streaming (convenience) and forbidding one to download what is streamed (DRM). I'm OK with first, but I'm not OK with second.
Is it really limited to the branch offices?

Over the years, JP Morgan has been fined $35 billion.

http://www.dividend.com/dividend-education/a-brief-history-o...

And that's just for the cases the government caught and proved.
It still amazes me how people have absolutely no problem stealing or screwing people. I mean, no guilt whatsoever. If you look at the history of how a lot of people have made their money many of them have accumulated their money by methods that I would consider theft (or screwing people) even if technically legal. The robber barons provide rich evidence of what I'm talking about. Even in current times you can find them, although no longer called such.
This was done by FriendFeed back in 2009: https://backchannel.org/blog/friendfeed-schemaless-mysql
This is a good point. Professional firms where the company is really tons of smaller companies sharing a balance sheet are always tough to wrap your head around in general.
AT&T and Sun did a good job of rendering Unix irrelevant during the "Unix Wars". Microsoft hedged their bets with Xenix until it became clear that wasn't the way forward.
People don't read footnotes. If you start out with a list of "OMG warning signs" and then add an "oh, never mind" disclaimer below it, then the average paranoid parent isn't even going to read beyond the last bulletpoint before confronting their kid.

This article is extremely dangerous.

EDIT: And when I say "footnote", I mean that more generically, not just with it being literally below the content. People don't read linearly, and will almost certainly read the bulletpoints before they read the text around it.
-webkit-user-select:none on text is a thing I see done on a lot of web pages lately (past couple years), what is the point?
To be fair, if I've just lost a finger, it will take me considerably longer than 60 seconds to disable the phone.
Exactly, usually only a flash dev would install the debug version. But maybe he still needs it for development.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10713657
> If anyone could point me towards something for theoretical computer science and algorithms

Cheap trick: google up university course pages like [1], look at the syllabus and get the books listed. MIT's OpenCourseware has lots of stuff [2].

[1] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~aho/cs3261/

[2] http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
Google and NASA Say Their Quantum Computer Finally Works
Some of those things have been for things that weren't even illegal. The dance between Wall St and regulators is a delicate one, and shouldn't really be viewed in the same way as your everyday civil case.
I prefer the way Facebook parses the title, as originally written: GOOD Theoretical Physicist.

Reminds me of GOOD Music [0]

[0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOD_Music)
I think I've heard it on some podcast that they are using Clojure to process these requests. Is that the project? I know Walmart uses the language so I am thinking it's probably it. Which is kinda cool.
this one was previously posted within the hour: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10714843
I'd love to know where to find more information on this kind of thing.
French PM rules out ban on public Wi-Fi and Tor
Which were for things that weren't illegal?
>The problem is, it is trivial for a child to access incredibly disturbing and PTSD inducing material that is accessible to any child with ease, beheadings, murders, the most vile and disturbing porn you couldn't even imagine, all two clicks of a button away from your 11 year old.
She definitely has a point. I'm not sure what the solution is as I love the internet being open, but a huge proportion of the planet is made up of children and they can go watch ISIS behead someone or a woman shit in the mouth of a man whenever their classmate dares them.

I'd much rather have my children see that and talk to me about it because they trust me rather than not mentioning it because they worked around a web filter (which is inevitable [check out my ubuntu live usb stick, or my ssh tunnel]) and are afraid of getting in trouble.
Many employees were compensated with large bonuses from the VC rounds. Indeed, that is why they took VC money.
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