skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because I'd like to be able to use the googleads Python client library within Python 3 without needing to fix 62,000 lines of code? I guess you could call that laziness if you want.
No, it needs HTML for silly technologist not to whine when their browser extensions break the web.
> The only other work that deals with rateless codes that we are aware of is a forthcoming paper [6]
by Luby. Since the author declined to provide us with a copy of his paper, we are unable to compare
our results until his paper becomes public at FOCS’02. The final version of our paper will include
a comparison with Luby’s work.

Online Codes: https://www.cs.nyu.edu/media/publications/TR2002-833.pdf

Rateless Codes and Big Downloads: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~petar/papers/maymounkov-bigdown-... (Start here)
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Full title:
14 Dec. 2015: Global arms industry: West still dominant despite decline; sales surge in rest of the world, says SIPRI
Let's Do Semi-Autonomous Cars Instead
I'm speaking more to the idea that when you concatenate strings, various important properties might not change. To get the actual size in pixels, you'd do str.sizeWithAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: myFont]).width, which is a whole other can of worms.
Study finds altered brain chemistry in people with autism
> I can't think of a scenario where recursion results in a faster algorithm than an iterative form.

Agreed, particularly since tail call optimization is effectively creating a loop behind the scenes.
Ask HN: Does the first developer always get screwed?
This question is motivated by my personal experience, I've been at half a dozen startups so far (that is between 10 and 50 employees). I have been first developer, I have had access to compensation information of first developers and here is the pattern I noticed:

- the first engineer is usually hired right after seed money, sometimes after series A. The money is tight so the salary is usually way below market value. And the stock options aren't that great (I've seen from 0.1% to 0.3%)

- After a few months, more engineers are hired at a higher salary. Probably because the board is more confident that the machinery is working and willing to increase the budget for payroll. These second wave engineers are usually given the same stock options as the first engineer.

- After series B, salaries are sometimes revisited but usually the increase is the same percentage for everybody, which means that the guy who was their first is still the lowest salary.

Has this pattern been observed by others? Is it just pure coincidence that I've seen that everywhere so far or is it a real trend?
Posted earlier with a slightly easier-to-digest summary at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10753102

In short, he was arrested for securities fraud. This isn't related to his price-hiking antics, rather it involves his work running pharmaceutical companies and lying to investors.
I saw a story that his lawyer did exactly that: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/lawyer-for-ma...

I really want it to be true...
I think the difference in this case is that we are looking at a point that exceeds the current series maximum. If we had a single value from a series without a trend, we would expect it to fall below the maximum value observed so far (perhaps after sampling at least 2 points - I will think about that later), and so I reckon that the likelihood of a positive trend will be higher than for a zero or negative trend because of that fact.

I may try and actually work it out to see if what I'm saying is correct, but one thing I can tell you that likelihood of me not doing so is greater ;-).
Clashbot+7.9+Vip+Full+İndir-Ferhat+Özal
any chance he doesn't end up in prison, though?

I might be naive, but I'm under the impression that the book doesn't get thrown at white-collar criminals in the US.

what are the odds he just ends up on probation?
I prefer the print function for debuging, because I can just do s/print/log.debug if I want to demote debug printing to the logger.
Kind of like what Trump is doing...
Great to hear! I've been playing with the product for a few minutes and I really like it so far. Lots of very nice touches! I think I found a bug -- If I give 2 columns the same name, the resulting JSON field gets overridden: http://i.imgur.com/KA9mAeI.png

Maybe display an error if I name 2 columns the same? Or disambiguate somehow in the JSON?
Los Angeles has been freezing... at 60 or less, haha.
What grabs my attention is how the baby's skull absolutely chock-full of brain - there doesn't seem to be any "cushioning" fluid space between the skull and the brain like the mother (like most adults, I'd assume) has.
Amazing Voice Staind-Outside Cover Anton Bushner
https://vimeo.com/132192250
Yeah, this is no different than using a self-signed cert where you're personally assured it's legit.
Who would name their company after a fruit anyway?

Oh wait, never mind
The topic of funding DRACO research has come up several times before. The thread from 1055 days ago (26 Jan 2013), at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5118344 with 28 comments, refers already to older threads.

I did not find any more recent published experimental research which cites the original 2011 paper; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3144912/citedby/ .
It requires the trust of the DNS roots. Which is pretty neat actually: http://www.root-dnssec.org/

And it requires your registrar to not try to perform a malicious attack against you. But at that point, most registrars already have access to a root CA, and your domain - they could easily break your environment.
Why would you jump to the conclusion that their skills have anything at all to do with their MBAs?
> here was the comment above the previous implementation

That's about a different RNG than the one that Mike Malone's article was about. The one you're pointing to was used on the C++ side of the world (and so doesn't have the concerns of JS numbers), the one the article was about was pure JS.

Part of the V8 update was to unify the RNGs (see the patch history), so now both use the same (better) RNG. On the JS side, the new C++ RNG is now used to fill a buffer of random numbers to amortize the cost of calling into C++ code from JS.

As for why these implementations were chosen: Mike Malone covers the commit history and probable source of the JS implementation fairly well (which is probably all you'll really get since it's been 6 years or so now). The old C++ implementation is relatively recent, with some hints to its choosing here: https://github.com/v8/v8/commit/eb381b9444c6b1ec78414d1c9375...
Do you actually work with systems not using 8 bit bytes or are you just being pedantic?
No, it's not about that. Apparently an interview was published only yesterday, where Shkreli was trash-talking and threatening the RZA.

And as we all know, Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothin' to fuck with.

QED.
Manu Prakash’s Foldscope Revolution: A cheap, portable microscope
Agree with your point, though patent protection for drugs is a government provided benefit and has little to do with capitalism. The government (us) provides this benefit and we (the people) usually don't get enough in return.
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The most likely outcome is retiring early, but that really only applies to young people making significantly better than average salaries in order to do it quick, before having kids.

If you have spent 40+ years saving every penny, you don't start spending when you retire, saving money has become part of your identity, not a mean to an end.
I lived in Pismo Beach for a year and for one week-long period I think I saw it every day. It's subtle and hard to differentiate from just going blind looking at the Sun.
There are a few online, but can't find any right now :-)

It's a white S2, a real beauty!
So, if not a troll / performance artist, what is he then? Just a very stupid person with a bloated ego? How does someone so stupid make it to CEO of a pharmaceutical company at 32?
sadly, borowitz is the new yorker's satire columnist.
I just hope that any solution adopted doesn't aid or reinforce cartel-like behavior. We already have a financial system where the incumbents can easily block the entrance of a new, nimbler upstart that would disrupt existing institutions and increase productivity.

The article even mentioned at least one existing institution that has an incentive to preserve the problem to which they are the solution:

"Indeed, some companies involved in the project may feel
threatened by existing efforts to reinvent the financial markets
with the blockchain. State Street bank, for instance, stands to
lose if companies start using Overstock’s technology to borrow
stock. In the US, the stock loan business is a $954 billion
market; State Street, known as an agent lender, is a big part of
that. Its future depends on getting ahead of the game.

Relevant: "The Shirky Principle" by Kevin Kelly

http://kk.org/thetechnium/the-shirky-prin/
This is what a link source looks like usually for me:

http://i.imgur.com/udKe02n.png

This is what this one looks like:

http://i.imgur.com/1JC34Dv.png
Wow man this is awesome! Could you please tell me more about it? Your implementation is good, the descriptive message on how to play is confusing af tho. Making a game out of the tag certainty is brilliant.
And concatenating a file of 9-bit bytes with a file of 8-bit bytes will produce something useful? No. If you don't know what your bits represent then you will corrupt them. Python does not need to faithfully reproduce all the historical oddities of unix.
I didn't learn about Dabble until after it was gone, so I only know it from watching the demo video and talking to one of the founders. The spirit is similar and I think we have a lot of shared vision.

I think our UI for creating links (relations) and for doing queries is unique, both were developed through hundreds of usability tests to be both accessible for novices and satisfying for power users. Check it out.
That is an incredible read. I'd imagine that a lot of what an astronaut needs is nerves of steel when something goes wrong. I can't imagine what it was like in Apollo 13 knowing that something had gone stupendously wrong and if you didn't make the exact right decisions from that point forward you'd never get home again, alive or dead.
The SEC Qualified This Cannabis Company to Raise Reg A+
Facebook puts a price on suburban living for employees
A technician could call themselves a "doctor", but they couldn't call themselves a "Medical Doctor". A developer can call themselves an "engineer", but they cannot call themselves a "Professional Engineer". If I started putting "PE" after my name, I'd expect the NCEES to come after me. No one but you can decide what you take as an insult, of course, but choosing industry-standard (and legally uncontrolled) terminology like "software engineer" to take offense at seems like a losing battle.
Even if you become one, you might still never fly. In interviewing for a company that contracted for NASA and knew some Astronauts, remember them saying how some have been around for 10+ years and never got to fly.
Milan: North
Mafia: South
Wow, I'm at a total loss to explain why my own experience differs so greatly from yours: using ToBS cream, I've got lather in half a minute and I've lathered, stropped, shaved, and cleaned up in 10… chalk it up to the diversity of human experiences I suppose.

Out of curiosity, did you ever try using distilled water? Alternatively, did you by chance give any of the traditional brushless products out there, like Musgo, a try? I use it while traveling and have had good luck with it.
The evolution of the stormtrooper in 1 GIF
I think it's wise to rephrase her statement: "An MBA is not useful in the tech field if you already have a degree from a top university"

For the rest, if you want a foot in the door at Facebook and don't have Harvard or Stanford on your resume, a MBA from Booth or MIT Sloan will definitely help
Where in the world is your "here"?
How LaunchDarkly’s Culture Inspires Its Product
I Ctrl-F'd "Fargo" upon reaching this page. Recommended viewing, for anyone who hasn't watched it.
Or you could go the DE safety razor route and pay $0.08/blade for 100 Derby Extras. Cartridge shaving just seems so expensive and wasteful to me...
It's incredibly difficult to measure technical competency quickly. If you don't spend a lot of time writing string functions then don't ask about them in interviews.

The problem is very few things are short term tasks in isolation. So, someone that takes a while to solve 6h problems can be really efficient in the long term. Worse, short term problems need to fit the same type as what your actually doing.

PS: As soon as someone says "i don't know" you need to stop and realize they would spend a few minutes on google. Spending more time on the topic at this point is pointless.
Your scenario would still present a situation where civilian arms ownership, while the cause of the conflict, is relatively inconsequential in the ensuing conflict itself. The military against itself is still a conflict with military grade arms.
entrepreneur: "About your open blockchain project, sir."
IBM PR correspondent: "Yes, what about?"
entrepreneur: "Well, it's closed source. I don't see public repositories anywhere for it."
IBM PR correspondent: "No it's not closed source! It's just not available to you or anyone who doesn't have access to our network. Just ask our business partners if it's open."
The Linux Foundation: "Of course it's open! Open to US!"
I have been working with this for quite some time now. I was pretty surprised to see this on HN as news.
Yes, I do. But the point I was trying to make was "it's bits, not bytes" (because "byte" has been defined to mean 8 bits only recently).
Seems like he mostly wrote this article to insult MBAs with a straw-man argument made up of very strange analogies.
It is one of twelve that have been qualified. Elio Motors is the only one on StartEngine that is actually taking direct investments.

(http://dodd-frank.com/how-many-regulation-a-offerings-has-th...)
protobuff supports 3.0 (though apparently the pip3 version still requires you to manually run 2to3, but then it works) and there's already a port of fabric (ish) by the original author to py3. And Ansible should be python2 until distros start shipping py3 by default, (which they have so I assume Ansible3 will come out soonTM).

If you're willing to do a bit more than "pip install x", well I guess it doesn't work, back to py2, you can use almost everything on py3. (and yes requests is ported too)
You're saying that because of the demographics, diversity and poverty of the American population, putting restrictions on guns is impossible?

That same population has gay marriage (before Australia and Japan), and (in places) legal marijuana.

The reasons you state don't mean that laws can not be passed an enforced.

You're also giving up before you even try. Nobody said it was going to be easy - but if it brings gun deaths per capita in line with the rest of the developed world, I think everyone agrees it would be worthwhile.
He's had a troubled past and was booted from a prior company.
My first reaction to his arrest was joy and then I saw comments about him getting "beat up in jail" to put it lightly.

People who say those kinds of things are no better than him. Possibly worse.

The solution to dealing with people like him is to be able to separate them from society or fix the system so it can no longer be exploited so "easily".

He may have hurt a lot of people but it's been through proxy as far as we know. Like Drone strikes, if you can't see the damage you're doing you can't feel guilty about it.

Like Morgan on the Walking Dead. I do believe Martin is a good guy on the wrong path.

It's easy to come together to have shared hatred for this guy and it's hard to realize

I can do better as a human being with empathy towards someone who is broken; sad and probably doesn't understand why people hate him.

He's just being "successful" as it was always defined to him.

Like the Boston Bomber. Getting "Revenge" does not stop the perpetual cycle violence and misbehavior.

The Wolf of Wall Street was a glorification of this type of behavior and a lot of people saw Jordan in that movie as a "Hero"
1) This investigation has been going on for years.
I just started using structs in Swift within the past couple of weeks.

There's actually a lot written on the topic:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html?age=10000&q=structs
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Nobody, of course. But would you prefer not to have drugs of dubious effectiveness marketed like consumer products? It's not an either or choice.
It makes sense for the banks to do this, because they have different requirements.

Bitcoin is great because it works with an unknown set of untrusted entities, and there's no counterparty risk because the ledger is the currency.

Banks have a known set of semi-trusted entities, and want to track off-chain assets. They'll still have counterparty risk, but if they see a way to use chained blocks and something like Byzantine Paxos to speed up interbank settlement, more power to 'em.
The performance art hypothesis has not been disproven to my knowledge, but I haven't ever heard of anyone being arrested and indicted by the feds as being part of their plan in life. Are there any such examples?
Does CMake generate a deliverable which builds on a machine that doesn't have CMake installed? With full incremental build support and all, so reasonable development can take place on that system?
Not according to the RSS and UAH satellite tropospheric data sets.

The MSU and AMSU sensors have issues, but still have wider coverage and superior accuracy to the ground station data the NOAA is using. Additionally, RSS and UAH are two different teams, with different methodologies, and using different sensors, with corroborating data.

http://images.remss.com/msu/msu_time_series.html

http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0beta/tlt/tltglhmam_...

[EDIT] I'm absolutely wrong. Both the RSS and UAH data confirm that November is the hottest November in the sattelite record also.

Thanks jacobolus for pointing this out (and making sure I stop assuming the NOAA is exaggerating on its hottest month claims.)
Fintech Startup Hyannis Turning Profit by Policing Electronic Trades
That was weird, the no-js version didn't work. It just sat there spinning.

>Does your browser unblock 3rd parties that promise to honor Do Not Track? X no

What, why would I unblock those?

Edit: Thanks HN for deleting the fancy X unicode!
Coding theory is the matrix algebra of information theory.
You should understand the meaning of the word "homomorphism" as it is used in Multilinear Algebra before you read about how search engines score results in an unbiased manner.

This is not the type of thing you can read by haphazardly browsing wikipedia. Believe you me that I have tried inasmuch. You need to buy books, read journal articles, and then learn through a graduate level math course.

The best advice I can give you is to read about how search engines calculate "hits", and to search through scholar.google.com before you check wikipedia.org!
He probably found making money, scheming, and shady deal making to be thrilling, like the Wolf of Wall Street guy.
Bitcoin hasn't disrupted shit
LifeLock to pay $100M in largest FTC order enforcement case ever
> What I did do, though, was basically buy one of every brand of blade that was available on Amazon

For those interested, there is a service for this very thing now: http://www.tryablade.com/blade
I haven't read the article and am not interested in attacking the article. Some of us don't believe that others (not all) are arguing in good faith. I don't believe we'll stop talking about firearms till firearms are illegal to own. For example; I believe that if firearm related suicide was reduced to zero we'd still be arguing about firearm safety.

I'm all for increasing the amount of data we gather and research we do in relation to firearms. I'm all for making intelligent decisions based on the data we gather. From where I'm sitting we don't make decisions based on the data we have (on either side).

This largely feels like bizarro abortion argument where both sides of the abortion argument are now arguing the exact opposite when it comes to firearms.
this guy is clearly not very good at explaining things. even though he says a lot of stuff here there is nothing to substantiate why - specifically, he didn't really explain why this potential investor having not worked a normal job in his life was preventing him from understanding what the deal was.

i agree with the sentiment, but it seems much more likely that the author is actually terrible at explaining things.
There are some mountainous areas where if you start walking down the slope at just the right time during sunset, keeping a mountain edge between yourself and the mountain you can observe this effect continuously for up to 5 minutes or so.
Someone filed a FOIA with the FBI to try to get them to release it: https://twitter.com/wisemana/status/677510714236510209

Seems like it's unlikely that you can just FOIA arbitrary data from a CD or hard drive that's been seized during an investigation though.
From Wikipedia: "Naked short selling, or naked shorting, is the practice of short-selling a tradable asset of any kind without first borrowing the security or ensuring that the security can be borrowed, as is conventionally done in a short sale." It is really easy to lose your shirt with a naked short.
I did read the article. It wasn't clear that you were referring to that specific paragraph.

> I mean, if the result of a 2008 paper is crucial, you'd think the guy would have just mentioned this fact.

Maybe he did? Or maybe it is just not crucial.∎

The article just states "The link was immediately recognised as a crucial step in Mochizuki's grand strategy."...that is just the writer's opinion.

Linking these papers to topology is trivial. The word "topological" alone occurs 111 times in the first paper. A lot of what I'm reading in this article, and others, is people complaining about not understanding something that they (probably/apparently) have not even read.
It seems that his intelligence was undermined by the size of his ego... and he's certainly not the first successful person to fall in that trap
But why did you want plugin free Netflix to begin with?

Because Flash (and Java) are massive ongoing security concerns. Flash is too complex and has too much surface area, this new plugin even aside from being sandboxed, is simpler and with less surface area.

I am not saying that exploits won't be found here. I am just saying it may not be as bad as the continuously dripping tap that is Flash.
Board room meddling is a plague upon the business.

You could see that with how HP was flip flopping around as the board was brining in new CEOs ever so often because the share value was lagging.

Or now just as Nokia seemed to be coming back around the board brought in Elop...