skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anomaly detection is very different across different domains. For CC fraud / risk, you have discrete transactions so the problem is one of classification, and generally approached with supervised learning.

I don't know what you mean by combining multiple variables. Do you mean analysis methods that work with multiple variables (instead of 1-dimensional z-scores) or do you mean methods that combine multiple variables into 1, to reduce input dimensions (i.e. principal component analysis)

Because data and data reporting platforms are so different across companies, there's no 'simple framework' to do reporting. You probably want something like https://github.com/etsy/skyline.

You also describe an ensemble method for outlier detection, which is what Skyline uses. I want to note that there is no reason to consider ensembles "not" outlier detection.
Huh. I don't disagree with the details but I quite enjoy it this far (10 years, 120 investments, not including Angellist stuff)
For what it's worth, I feel that marking types is also a mistake, and the whole machinery of OIBITs exists due to some unfortunate decisions made early on.

Maybe the cleanest solution to the leakpocalypse would be to mark RefCell.borrow_mut as unsafe, because it's problematic in two separate ways (it can both panic and create cycles). That way the safe fragment of Rust would guarantee that memory leaks can't happen and destructors always run. That would fit with the spirit of Rust, which strongly prefers 100% guarantees to 99% guarantees. Though I guess that idea was judged too inconvenient for users, and I don't claim to know what users want.
You wouldn't be able to direct all of it off-axis. In order to do any meaningful work with it, some of it must be lost as heat or the entropy of the universe does not increase. That would violate the laws of thermodynamics. Essentially, you can reduce the entropy of an isolated collection of particles, but only at the expense of increasing the entropy of another collection of atoms, and only if you move the entropy around.

There's a slim possibility that a sufficiently advanced civilization has improved the efficiency of their process sufficiently to the point where the thermal radiation isn't measurable with our technology, but there still must be thermal radiation if any meaningful work is being done with the harvested energy.
As far as I understand Microsoft licensing, in normal VPS + Windows solution you would have to pay Windows Server CALs for each user connecting to your web app on that server (even if you dont use windows authentication).

In Azure, MS frees you from that CAL charge.

I would be grateful if someone could confirm or reject this licensing issue - I heard it once from a MS employee but perhaps he misunderstood the thing about VPS somehow?
However, it ceases to be fraud for anyone except for the companies immediately processing the mortgage: If they sold the note to a bank, parent company, or to investors, that bank or investor should be off the hook. So I don't yet see any crimes for the people who profited the most(the banks who outsourced mortgage processing to smaller companies

Perhaps you missed this from the BofA (Merrill Lynch) settlement [1]:

As the statement of facts describes, Merrill Lynch regularly told investors the loans it was securitizing were made to borrowers who were likely and able to repay their debts. Merrill Lynch made these representations even though it knew, based on the due diligence it had performed on samples of the loans, that a significant number of those loans had material underwriting and compliance defects - including as many as 55 percent in a single pool. In addition, Merrill Lynch rarely reviewed the unsampled loans to ensure that the defects observed in the samples were not present throughout the remainder of the pools. Merrill Lynch also disregarded its own due diligence and securitized loans that the due diligence vendors had identified as defective. This practice led one Merrill Lynch consultant to “wonder why we have due diligence performed” if Merrill Lynch was going to securitize the loans “regardless of issues.”

In short, they knew the loans they were bundling were crap and they lied about it to the folks buying the bundled mortgages.

[1]: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/bank-america-pay-1665-billion-...
I've seen it work. It knows which block has the error because the disk reported the error. It then rewrites the sector with the correct data, the disk moves the sector, you see "read error detected, corrected" or some such in your kernel logs.
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It runs badly on my 16GB, i5 2500k desktop. Windows & Debian. 1GB RAM usage and a full CPU core is not acceptable for a text editor.
Then the bomb dropped. Every entry level position I looked at required 3+ years of experience;

It's amazing how many job ads contain statements in plain, black-and-white English that make no sense whatsoever, either in the real world or just in terms of logical self-consistency. Another one of my favorites is:

Minimum of 3-5 years ...

Why not just say "Minimum of 3 years"? Does the person who wrote this really not understand that they're saying?

One has to wonder.
Aliens of the gaps?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
>matching algorithm for previously-identified images boasts no false positives

Hm. Wonder what algorithm they use, and if it's one that has collisions, and if so, can someone distribute images that alert Google's system but have no illegal content.
I've always read requirements for tech jobs to be a laundry list of things that are "nice to haves". Read "requirements" as "skills we're interested in," even if they have an explicit section for bonus talents.

This is especially true for junior and/or entry level roles. Every place I've seen just has an eternally published "opening" on theirs careers section. They keep it there so that when they finally decide that they're ready to hire, they'll have a ready-made pool to of résumés from which to draw.

If you're not experienced enough, you'll be able to tell from a specific, well written job description. If it's full of buzz words and meaningless fluff, they're not looking for someone specific and you should apply.
Just to illustrate how hard it is to do a simple comparison, you show Azure's 3/4 GB ram offering as being 2 cores and > $100/month.

But, if I go to their pricing page (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-ma...), I see:

A2 - 2 Cores, 3.5GB, 40GB: $70

A2 - 2 Cores, 3.5GB, 135GB: $89

D1 - 1 Core, 3.5GB, 50GB: $104

D2 - 2 Cores, 7GB, 100GB: $115

D2V2 - 2 Cores, 7GB, 100GB: $127

Thus, I'm not sure which one you're referring to. You seem to be referring to one with 7GB RAM, which seems not to be a very direct comparison.
Cross-platform CLI utility command for sending notifications
Cool project!

If you submit the link and not a text-post including the link more people will look at your submission.
Ask HN: Hetzner clone in USA
I'm Hetzner customer and I'm very happy with their price/performance/quality factor.

I'm looking for a clone of Hetzner in USA.
I'm happy it works for you. Personally, drupal would need to do some very serious non-sexy re-factoring before I would consider it for any future project.
No, there are plenty of closed components with only binary blobs and header files for the programmer. But bare metal coding on it is still very doable and popular.
For our use case (fairly standard windows setup, sql server, about 8 VM's in total) Azure was less expensive, more so after we setup and saw true costs. We run our dev and test environments there and were able to get faster hardware & more storage for less as well (about 10% less for about 20% more). But again, that's a pure windows setup, comparing other components gets tricky because of different pricing models.
Looks really cool, it's hard to get a complete view with most of the other tools out there. This is definitely a keeper.

https://myip.ms/info/whois/212.51.131.143
https://www.domaintally.com/hosted-ip/212.51.131.143/
I've never used google cloud services but google is pretty famous for not having human support. They philosophy involves trying to automate as much as possible, and then pointing you at a community forum as a fallback.
Nice to hear that Google are consistent with their customer support across all their products!
Artificial Intelligence startup SnapShopr raises
I have seen companies running back to metal a year later, once it becomes clear these "savings" are actually much more expensive when you have applications doing real work 24/7.
Probably, the most important thing you should do is find out what you did that made them think you were a not and do not do it again.

BlogSpot thought I was a bot when I moved multiple WordPress blogs over to BlogSpot over the course of a few weeks. Manually copying and pasting 50 or more old posts per day seemed to be the issue.
As of Windows 2012, you don't need CALs for a "web workload" (basically, Internet web pages and POP3 email) on the standard edition. Before that, there was a special edition for "web workloads" that was limited in other ways.
>"Wow, you can spell 'internet' without sticking an A in there? Here is a job!"

We went on to "Wow, you can write javascript without having any formal CS education or any regards concerning optimization? Here is a job!". Not sure it's better.
Show HN: Show HN: Numerino, in memory priority queue in Elixir/Erlang
don't think you need cals for web apps - a server license is enough for web apps
I've been in the game for 3 years. I'd estimate I redeemed $40k worth of free travel last year between flights and hotels, including First Class on JAL to Tokyo and Suites on SQ to Singapore. Most underrated part of points is that they are earned and redeemed tax free IMO.
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The "loans" of the last crisis was just ponzi schemes disguised as normal bank operations, and most nation outlaws it because it directly hurt people and nations. The bailouts was issued to lower the damage when the scheme collapsed, but it would be very unfair to the victims to let the people who organized and profited from it go free.
Fighting use of such capabilities will always be a losing battle, because there will always be a situation that makes the majority clamor for greater powers. The only way to preserve security is to prevent the capability in the first place. This means building technology that preserves personal privacy and autonomy, rather than naive implementations that are easy to monetize.

All of us are culpable, to the degree we contribute cleartext to the butt and encourage others to do so as well, for creating these massive data silos that are gifts to (micro)politicians everywhere.
Forget feature requests (2006) [pdf]
Why London Underground stopped people walking up the escalators
From experience, both unreal and cryengine are perfect examples of Pieter's point. They're large codebase with archaeological layers of many different c++ styles and paradigms.
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My guess is that they are selling to existing MS stack install bases hat are much more price agnostic.
Your colleague is describing something similar to kernel density estimation, which would be your first port of call google-wise.
Sounds bleak, but still in turmoil. I keep seeing crap like this all the time: http://i.imgur.com/q3CJejw.jpg Iceland has become a token for lots of issues/agendas, but I've never heard from anyone Iceland what's the situation like at all.
It's called PhotoDNA, and is proprietary to Microsoft.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/photodna

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA
Could you list which packages you tried to use which were blocked on a nightly? In many cases a package can be moved off nightly with trivial changes, I can try to do it.
Very nice. A few more months and that should be stable.
So. Tragic. Lessons to hackers? Code we can build upon? Anything even vaguely related to "Hacker News"? Or just capitalizing on curators not working on Saturday?
Maybe the biometric verification could be done on a home server, if it makes sense. Make like a hash of the behavior, and share the hash instead. So you'd have privacy, and multiple personas, and the ease of use.

Also, I imagined "contracts of morality", where corporations are enforced into ethical behavior, if they choose to, so they can be 'trusted' on a longer scale, to be 'good' beyond the common law. I understand it's not easy to define.

For the password, I think it could end like Facebook, anonymity sacrificed. It just gives you an edge. It's a form of tragedy of commons. It gives you an edge until it doesn't. (but I trust it'll be worked out)
yts/yifi is over so what do mean by "Get movies from yify/yts api endpoint."? Is it yts.ag?
Yet the politics still sound way better than almost anywhere else in the world.
Yes, but not necessarily thermal radiation aimed in the narrow direction necessary for us to detect it. Thermodynamics does not guarantee that all necessary information propagate in nice measurable spheres for all to see equally.
What did someone say last time you asked this question?
Getting the interview is drastically different than getting the job. Filtering what you don't want is drastically different than choosing what you do want.
PM Modi unveils ambitious action plan to boost startup businesses in India
To be fair, the headline is "Electronics That Last: How I Built an Heirloom Laptop."

Wrapping commodity electronic components in wood does not create 'electronics that last'.
Amaxon Handmade is not doing so well. Here's a perspective from a seller who is on both Etsy and Amazon Handmade:

https://www.reddit.com/r/handmadeamazon/comments/3xncph/how_...
Ask HN: Why don't US oil companies just buy oil from Saudi Arabia?
The situation today seems to be largely equivalent to the situation that Herbert Dow (Dow Chemical) faced when he was producing bromine over 100 years ago: A cartel engaged in predatory price cutting to drive unwanted competition out of the market.

The response of Dow was to just buy up all the cheap bromine from the cartel and re-sell it and with this strategy he was able to break the cartel price cutting and greatly expand his business. [1][2]

I'm wondering why US oil companies who suffer from SA price cutting still pump oil themselves at a loss rather than use the same strategy as Dow and buy Saudi's oil instead. The situation seems to be largely the same and that would be the "textbook response" to it.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-shrewdest-smartest-maneuver-youve-ever-seen-in-business/answer/David-Fry
[2] http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=31
Just when I think I have the perfect response to an article, I find someone has already said it better. I think the Brits have come to their senses on homeownership better than many Americans.
You keep making sweeping statements about both drupal and about me without providing a single bit of information to the discussion, if you have factual information to contribute about why what I say is inaccurate I'm all ears.

I've provided that (1) drupal is inefficient, (2) drupal sucks when it comes to backwards compatibility, (3) that drupal has a totally broken approach when it comes to data base schema design and finally (4) that other CMS's (such as Symfony2 and Laravel, and Yii as well) in the PHP ecosystem show that it is entirely possible to avoid most of these pitfalls.

You say that 'drupal is how CMS's should be done, that's why all others fail' when in fact most of these others are succeeding where drupal is losing ground to all of the above and to the likes of wordpress and joomla (though those have less functionality).

If you feel that drupal is how a CMS should be done then I'm perfectly ok with that but don't make it seem as if that is anything more than your personal view with which I disagree for the above reasons.

And even if you're limited to the PHP eco-system, there are lots of alternatives.

One thing I did not mention, but which I'll be more than happy to comment on now is that another thing that bugged me about the drupal ecosystem is that it seems as if it is altogether too much self-centered, unwilling to absorb best practices from the rest of the industry and a fairly toxic community which tends to be openly hostile to anything and everything that is not 'drupal'. I don't like that particular aspect of drupal one bit and it is this kind of attitude that is the reason why drupal to this date sees such a huge level of abandonment when it comes to modules, past version and large numbers of sites marooned on that code.

It shows a total lack of respect, care and understanding of the kind of issues that the users of these systems have to deal with.

I understand perfectly well how drupal maps its external interface to it's data model and when I tell you that this approach is broken beyond repair it is not my understanding that is deficient, it is drupal, when seen against the backdrop of properly designed software, of which we -fortunately- have plenty of examples.

If you wish to ignore all that that is entirely your freedom, but recognize that this is akin to a religious point of view, you support it because you are invested in it rather than because you are aware of the alternatives.

A good data model and the cruft that drupal produces are not even on the same scale when it comes to maintainability and efficiency, if you feel like arguing that point with actual facts and data to back it up I'd be most interested but I fear you'll end up coming short or having to admit that maybe the drupal way isn't all that good after all.
There is a difference between claiming that aliens have done something, and being critical of those too dismissive of the possibility.

This isn't goddidit. That argument is used to end a debate, to say that the how is unknowable. A claim that aliens are doing something is the opposite, a call for more careful and complete scientific scrutiny.
> It's good to remind developers that they should ensure that their products degrade gracefully

I agree! I don't think it's a bad reminder, I think it just rubbed me the wrong way that he seems to present this whole concept like something new and novel, when frankly, it's just...not. The entire blog post doesn't have a single mention of either "graceful degradation" or "progressive enhancement," both of which would be useful to hear if a reader wasn't familiar and wanted to learn more about this topic.
What is more expensive? The pricing seems on par with Amazon.
ISIS Has a Smartphone App
I am glad that Google is not focusing exclusively on using biometric factors to implement two or more factor authentication solutions these days, because there are quite a lot of valid arguments against widespread use of it. Biometric properties are limited in number (couple of irises, bunch of fingers), cannot be replaced (at least not with a replacement that can serve as a biometric source of identification), cannot be shared (voluntarily), and are considered by many as an unreasonably invasive manner of identifying yourself. Needless to say that the notion of a microphone analysing my every move and utterance sounds like something from a dystopian sci-fi novel.

Instead of using biometric properties as a second factor, I find user-friendly and reusable hardware tokens to be very much preferable. Fortunately Google is also a backer of FIDO U2F, which outlines a standard for hardware tokens the size of a thumb — but unlike your actual meaty appendages, it is replaceable and not quite as bloody to lend to someone in case he or she has a valid reason to access your accounts for you. These work with USB, NFC, and Bluetooth LTE, on any OS, with (soon) any modern browser (currently only Chrome supports it, but Mozilla is committed to implement this technique in Firefox as well), and can be used for an infinite number of services; without the token being identifiable across services.

Succeed in making having one of these tokens on your (physical!) key-chain as common as having the key your front door there, and use the economy of scale to make these tokens as cheap as a happy meal; that would be an acceptable way to beef up security for Joe Sixpack and privacy conscious netizens alike, but leave my body alone.
It really is! though I wish it included more than one example from the dictionary.

And how's this for a parenthetical aside:

(The fullest account of Persian lexicography in English remains Henry Blochmann’s 1868 article)

... with a hyperlink to a working version: https://archive.org/details/contributionstop00blocuoft. There can't be many fields where the fullest account in English remains an 1868 article.
Very nice. Looks like the smtp port detection report is reversed though.
Not it didn't. The work on Qt standard on 1991, according to Wikipedia. The work on STL only started in 1994 and became a standard with C++98, and even then it took time for compilers to get decent standard support. So every library needed its own string implementation. New libraries generally use C++ string, unless they're have very strong opinions about performance that trump interoperability (e.g. Facebook's folly).

But seriously, isn't that hypocrite to blame old C++ libraries for implementing their own string class, and then go espousing C? C of all languages - the language whose spartan standard library includes almost nothing (including usable string processing code, if you care even slightly about securing your code from memory errors), and each respectable C project ends up implementing their own lists, queues, maps, stacks and of course strings.
I just bought a house for the first time last year. The value of my house is already more than what I paid for it. At the moment, I'm spending less including all of my bills and I ever did on the apartment. Furthermore, in five years, I can dispense with mortgage insurance (a requirement for the mortgage) and lower that monthly payment even more. I say all of this because I challenge your assumption that you cannot afford a mortgage. My house was $215,000, and I only had to put down about $10,000 to buy. I understand that everyone's financial situation is different, but I encourage you to speak to a mortgage company and find out precisely what it would take to get your own home.
This is what I missed most from C#
> In before "say something positive"

Well, the author certainly tried to pull every "in before 'say something negative'" he could think of. The last 75% of this is simply a bunch of well known excuses to counter arguments that no one has really used since the 90's.
I've never liked fake wood paneling either, but this looks different to me. It has a quality look to it.

I actually think the next design trend will be replicating past eras, but with a Hugh caveate, something this current retro trend overlooked; The retro looking products will be made to the same exacting standards of the products on the past.

I can use collector cars, or mechanical watches as examples.

I have a 1950's IWC movement 853 watch. I wouldn't trade this watch for the any newer IWC watch. There's just something about the simplicity of my watch I like, along with its unobtrusive look it has, the movement is time tested, and is easily serviced. I found mine in a cheap watch bin. It didn't look like it was touched for 50 years. I wound it up, and it kept perfect time. I knew is was a special watch, with a faded dial.

If I had the money, my weekend car would be a 50's-60's Porsche 356. Of course restored to factory standards. I wouldn't want them to change a thing.

As I gotten older, strike that--I've always coveted well made, sensible looking, easier to repair things. And that includes computers. I still have a Toshiba Satellite P25-S607 that's still running daily. It's a tank, but it's well made. It has three internal, quiet fans. I still kick myself I don't buy the nos Toshiba that popped up on eBay a few years ago. What I like best about that old Toshiba is I can still fix it with a screw driver. Some people don't like to look of my old computer. When I look at it, I look to its inner beauty, and it just shines in my little world.