skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would a heavily armed citizenry help solve the problem? Are you going to put a hole in the head of the carjacker who takes cash out of your care? Wont that lead to less theft and carjacking eventually? Maybe considering enforcing the legal right to do so, eh?
you're right, weight training is 80% mental. on any given day, the work isn't that hard. cumulatively it's just a few minutes of effort and you've done it a hundred times before. you know when you finish you'll feel amazing, and you know in 1 month you'll have more solid results compared to today. you know all this.

but damn, sometimes you just want to quit for no reason at all. i've come so close to just walking out in the middle of my workout for absolutely no reason whatsoever. this is even after you've gone to the actual gym, which is a whole 'nother story.

it's really fascinating.
What about ANET, PANW, SPLK, WDAY? Enterprise startups so often overlooked.
I missed the intl' flight part. =(

I was think of interstate travel.
No. Context matters.

Jumping to conclusions without understanding the context is an insult to those falsely accused of harassment.
Why Your Next Car Should Be 3D Printed (emissions less important than fab costs)
There's no remaining explanation consistent with this new data, according to the author.

“The comet-family idea was reasonably put forth as the best
of the proposals, even while acknowledging that they all
were a poor lot,” he says. “But now we have a refutation of
the idea, and indeed, of all published ideas.”
Addendum: I also pay for roaming with my T-mobile plan, and I got Edge (E) network through (I think) China Mobile while I was in China, and interestingly enough, the internet through my mobile data plan was not censored at all in China.
This is not entirely true, as there are spiking neuron nets and neuromorphic chips (like IBM's TrueNorth) that emulate what we have so far understood about how neurons operate. But it's true that even these are simplified models and as far as I know cognitive science has not explained the higher level operation of the brain. In general I think breaking down how modern deep learning works makes it seem unlikely that it will lead to true AI without additional insights, so I am unsure why very intelligent people such as Elon Musk make it seem like an imminent threat - not to mention the idea is predicated on continued exponential increases in computing power. But the stuff going on in AI right now concerning image comprehension and question answering is fairly impressive, so I think it is feasible we will have impressive AI assistants and the like within a decade.
Did they keep the <$500?
Brainstorm: golong, plannedlongevity, lifeplus, longestlife, lastslong, vital, tenplus, 10tolife, keepers, ...
Being heavily armed (and also being white) alters how the police treat you, the Oregon stand-off demonstrates as much.

There would likely also be a presumption, as a heavily armed white person, that you're extremely confident in your ability to recite the constitution, quite possibly spoiling for a fight to defend particular rights that you see enshrined in the constitution, that you will not submit to a warrantless search, and are even less likely to allow the police to steal your money.

You don't need to put holes in the police officers, they would profile you from a mile off and assume you're a red-neck nutbag who is potentially going to put holes in them, move along citizen there's nothing to see here.
Which leads to absurd situation like a big Chinese company flying people from Europe to their Chinese offices to provide on-site support, and then having corporate firewalls more restrictive than the GFW itself, which renders said workers barely able to work at all...
I don't think that $200k is a common salary among tech people. Especially out of Silicon Valley, and, even more so, out of the US (The Economist is a British magazine, after all)
He resold cereal dammit, he's practically a miracle worker. /s
An alternative hypothesis: maybe they reached the limits of the scalable, addressable, growth market for small-batch, handmade goods?
Solving world's connectivity issues with algorithms
> Do you have a better way of valuing a publicly-traded company?

I do, but it involves time travel. In 1981, Shiller published "Do Stock Prices Move Too Much to be Justified by Subsequent Dividends?" ( https://www.aeaweb.org/aer/top20/71.3.421-436.pdf ) in which he compares index prices to their ten year dividend earnings, ex post. Volatility of prices is high, but the dividend streams are not.

What this suggests is that price tends to react to short term news far more strongly than dividends would suggest is reasonable. What it doesn't tell us is whether the shift in price is diverging from reality, or converging on it.
I think exchanges need to take responsibility and notify user's straight away about a breach. Multiple exchange's have had large breaches and continue to accept new deposits.
Never mind historic aristocrats, what about the stay-at-home spouses, adult offspring and other working-age dependents of today's moderately well off? What do they do with their time?

It's a pretty pertinent question if we're about to extend financial benefits previously only paid to people at least notionally looking for (or unable to) work to this much larger group of working age people who hitherto haven't signalled that they actually need the money...
Makes sense, but I simply don't have the background to agree with you.
Because it very, very easily goes some very dark places, especially when you start talking about extreme risk to one person versus a diffuse benefit over several million.
LoRD!

Wow. I had forgotten that that game ever existed. Nostalgia is magic.

A little nostalgia for PC Magazine too. haha.
Patriotism: you're doing it wrong. Real patriots don't strain to find reasons for taking offense. Rather, we're pissed off that "offensive" statements happen to be objectively true. Only USA people can change USA. If you don't want to change it, then get comfortable with seeing many more rational assessments of our problems.
$340 was for Q3, which is when most people take vacations and doesn't reflect other quarters. The projection for 2015 was $800-900 million.

But, that is year 2015, which is 7th year since they incorporated and I was writing about first 6 years of existence.

For the record, eBay's revenue in 2003 (7th year of existence) was $2.2 billion.
I've talked with this guy on the phone a long time ago. If it's the guy I'm thinking about he was early at RIM, cashed out, and has been doing stuff like this for years.

He clearly does it because he's an engineer's engineer, he's doing it for the sheer joy of building things. Super fun guy (and I'm a woodworking guy, not as clever as him but I can appreciate what he does).
I still can't fathom how monetizing what are basically just shared network drives, a feature already built into windows, is a successful venture.

Hire an IT guy and have him setup network shares, done. But obviously there seems to be some need I'm overlooking, considering the revenue these companies are making.
Don't forget the loss of sales tax. It's a poorly considered way of achieving some poorly considered goals.
It all depends on particular design. There are even some out there where baseband OS and Linux run under the same proprietary hypervisor. On modern phones it's pretty rare to be able to say with 100% certainty that the baseband OS doesn't have any access to user memory - and often you can say with 100% certainty that it can access other interesting stuff, like GPS or microphone, without any supervision from the user.
Syntax and historical merit aside, I think this is one of the coolest names for a programming language ever.

Technical/mathematical German has - to me as a native German speaker, at least - a sound to it that is somehow ... neither cool nor uncool, actually, it somehow transcends the entire concept.
Or maybe because doing that on your home is trivial, but implementing it at country scale is not?
But you do have a have a lot of patience. It seems to be getting a lot slower.
I just hit a new record: An item shipped on November 25th arrived last week to Canada.
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> There were multiple weeks of uncompensated 24/7 on-call rotations throughout the year, many for stressful legacy applications the company refused to invest resources to actually maintain for real.

I am a 20-something who was woken up every day at 1am for weeks to "handle emergencies" that didn't exist -- are you telling me the standard is compensating people for this? I did get the sense that if it cost the company meaningful amounts of money they would have let me change the alerting system so that only real emergencies woke me up, instead of "not your department"ing me.
Except than the fact that it does not limit you except in some very specific cases, unlike the IEEE incompatible floats thing.

If it does limit you somehow and you really need char be 8 bits, then sure.
It does matter who is responsible for a death. In the same way we don't pick people off the street and harvest their organs, so long as there are 2+ people on the donor pool who could use them.

To follow that:

1. People aren't rational.
2. You're not talking about "Roll this dice and we'll cure all manner of things." You're talking about "Roll this dice and we maybe, if everything goes well and it shows efficacy, might see a treatment for a disease on the market in a few decades".
3. It's not 1 in a billion. It's 1 in X, where X is unknown. Asking a volunteer to take that risk is both easier and more ethical if you've done your best to minimize X.
They did, and then they failed to respond properly because their corporate leaders are a bunch of hippies.
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That's why "I've shoved my life savings in my mattress" isn't a very popular form of banking.
shameless plug for a similar thing [1] I helped with a while ago, it uses a mapping library so I didn't have to reinvent anything, my fork [2] lets you fiddle with the julia set parameters

1. http://aparshin.github.io/leaflet-fractal/#julia_0.750.11i/2...
2. http://calvinmetcalf.github.io/leaflet-fractal/#500/-0.37/0....
You're right, it's not encryption. I trusted the linked Wikipedia article, which repeatedly calls it "encryption", and didn't double-check it.

Here are some converter implementations in several languages:

https://github.com/googollee/eviltransform
I'm 29, have no job, and have started five companies, all of which have failed.

So, if it helps at all, when you feel the pangs of regret at not starting a company, you can think, "Hey! I'm doing OK. I mean, I'm doing better than that one smart guy on HN (everyone on HN is smart)."

Grass is greener, etc.
TIL Gates McFadden (Star Treks' Dr. Crusher) Choreographed “Labyrinth”
This[1] have anything to do with it?

[1]http://software.bbsdocumentary.com/IBM/DOS/DOMINION/
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Had a look, and yes, that's not an easy problem to solve. Good luck with it.
Kudos to the Princeton team on yet another interesting find! I recently submitted the work on de-anonymizing programmers from binary signatures using machine learning that was also fascinating (not to mention a bit scary)

But I confess I'm perplexed as to how a canvas render can yield a consistent unique fingerprint? Even allowing for subtleties in font anti aliasing implementations amongst drivers, wouldn't two machines with identical gpu hardware and drivers be identical down to the last pixel? And what about browsers using software rendering?

My interest is purely academic of course ;)
"Bitcoin: 13,000 BTC
Litecoin: 300,000 LTC"

"In fact, I’m offering a bounty of 1000 BTC for information which leads to the recovery of the stolen coins."

e.g.: ~$350k! This could quickly escalate into an bounty head.
we will never notice the deaths that happen because we were too timid or cautious in our approach

Garbage. We already know about the death toll from disease, because that's what motivates us to develop drugs in the first place. We are in fact well aware of the opportunity cost, and the notion of opportunity cost is fundamental in economics, and the people who work at regulatory agencies are in fact quite familiar with the the cost:benefit ratios involved.

You know, one of the really irritating things about libertarians is their habit f going about restating basic truisms of economics as if they're some great new discovery. Your approach has already been tried and found wanting. Every time I hear this argument I think of all the people I saw with horrific deformities growing up because their mothers were prescribed Thalidomide during pregnancy. Your economic argument falls apart as soon as you start accounting for externalities instead of waving them away as the price of progress.
The Toys R Us stroller you linked weighs about 15lb, I think. The Bob Stroller weighs about 25lb. I challenge you to find a 30kg/66lb stroller.
Cryptocurrencies will save the world
From what I know from people who actually lived under communism: yes, there were those who had more and those who had less. But the inequality was still much lower than even in the most social-democratic Northern European countries (this is not to say they were better societies, just that they actually were less unequal).
How are you measuring this? We have the world's largest prison population for God's sake. What on Earth could you be talking about?
So I looked at your product. How do you deal with the firehose of data issue making it too hard to figure out what happened.
The largest miner is ready to move to 2MB Bitcoin blocks
And this is the core of the problem!!!
Walmart is ending its Express concept and closing 269 stores
Additionally, any vanity perk that isn't in your contract is at the whim of the company. More than half the perks listed on the jobs page of the company I used to work at were completely untrue - some of them were out of date, and some were never offered to begin with.
I keep saying similar things. Unfortunately, everyone is enamored with Bitcoin. But what they really want is a lower friction way of electronic money transfer. What they don't want is for their savings to be easily stolen.

"You know what's cooler than a million dollars? Virtual currency backed by nothing and nobody."

Here's Bitcoin explained using a Venn diagram. If you don't understand this diagram, you're the ideal Bitcoin user.
http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2013/11/20/bitcoin-likely-u...
The only thing curious about that is that he didn't save more. You can make a lot of money as a waiter or waitress in the US, assuming you work at a place that lets you keep the majority of your tips.
That's exactly the intention of instagram. It took my parents a very long time to get on instagram and they only eventually did so to try to police my teenage sister (who promptly made a new account, added her friends to it, and dribbled a few worksafe photos a month onto the account our parents knew about).

Now everyone is on snapchat, which fortunately, nobody's parents will EVER be aware of.
> I have to say I am a true old fuddy-duddy when it comes to Instagram as I can’t think of a single use for it that appeals to me.

On Facebook, people present a polished version of their lives as if it's reflective of everything in their lives.

On Instagram, the purpose is to show polished (and "filtered") versions of what you're doing. I like that Instagram is a bit more honest about what it really is.
But ... They do.

When I was younger I lived off the (UK) state for a while. I ran political campaigns to protect our right to silence, volunteered nightly at a suicide hotline and worked on clean water projects. Friends of mine produced artwork and installations.

Eventually we all got proper jobs, some making iron-sculptures for a living, some putting on weight in offices. But a lot of productive work was done. Now we were in our early twenties, we would have done something, but I remember my room-mate staggering in from a dead end job and slumping down as I went off to my second "volunteer" job.

It seemed far more acceptable 20 years ago to do this but most humans will do something meaningful with their lives if the next few months rent is sorted out.

It's the worry about where next weeks meals and shelter are coming from that limit most people's horizons, not a in are lack of artistry or passion in their soul.
Or rationally reacting to having their net worth concentrated nearly entirely in a single security. Contrary to essentially all financial advice.
A growing number of police chiefs are starting to like armed citizens. Because if there's an active shooter like Colorado, San Bernardino, or Sandy Hook, armed citizens mean the guy is more likely to get popped before the police get in the line of fire.

Some officers are starting to embrace drug legalization too. This apparent upsurge in libertarian views among cops is almost enough to make me consider becoming a libertarian again. Cops adopt these stances because they think it makes their lives easier and safer. A stressed fearful cop is like a cornered animal: far more likely to lash out. So, more relaxed police = less police violence, better relations between the police and the citizenry.
They could have ignored the W3C, but losing in the W3C would have been a significant thing. It would have shown the web community is taking a stand against DRM. It could have helped further battles against DRM.

Instead, by winning at the W3C, Google and Microsoft made DRM's victory as official as possible.
To be fair, most full-disk encryption schemes do not authenticate.
Objection sustained.
But I really, really, really doubt you're going to find that same sense of alienation, underappreciation, etc. at a tech company.

How many tech companies have you worked at?
Except that I didn't say anything at all about the Government's right to seize the money.

I commented on the stupidity of transporting the money in such a fashion, and the skepticism of what the article was telling me about how he got the money. And, no, even though you would like to misrepresent that statement, it does not imply he did something nefarious to get it.

So if I understand what you're saying here: "You don't believe that the Government had a right to seize this guy's money, but since you question the story you're given in any way, your attitude leads to dictatorship and oppression."
I fucking love the fact that HNers while perhaps not knowing, overmen outrightly deny it, are a part of /r/conspiracy and dont even realize it.

the whole system needs disruption, that's what we do.
> Hasn't signature verification speed been improved significantly since 2014

Pieter Wuille's work in libsecp256k1 promises to improve verification speeds on 64-bit CPUs by as much as 700%, and it's set to be deployed on the network as early as February.

This will hopefully be enough of a boost to reasonably process 2MB blocks on a desktop PC. This desktop processing goes very underappreciated by most onlookers. Imagine if you couldn't run a BitTorrent client on a home PC? To put it mildly, I would have an issue calling BitTorrent "peer-to-peer" in that case. For example, it would be absurd to out-and-out need a remote compute cluster to seed or leech torrents.

> And what year would 32MB blocks be needed in and what processors would be available in that year?

The "big blockist" proponents actually contended Bitcoin dies without 20MB blocks starting this month, January 2016, and doubling every two years. Going by their original propositions, we would have >32MB block capacity by around this time in 2018. How much do you think desktop PC performance will have improved by then? And this is to say nothing of the bandwidth costs [1].

[1]: http://statoshi.info/dashboard/db/bandwidth-usage
If you work as an engineer in the US you're probably an "exempt" employee by status, meaning that your employer doesn't have to compensate you for extra time. If you're sufficiently underpaid as an engineer that you're non-exempt, then you should be paid 1.5x for any time beyond 9-5/40 hours, or you should get to trade in those unscheduled hours to work less on following days.

EDIT:
Realized I didn't address the question of whether it is "standard". I've heard that DevOps engineers have a bit of a compensation consideration (maybe $10-20k/year in the Bay Area where I live) for the on-call nature of their jobs, but I am sure that they are mostly paid enough to be exempt employees. This is totally anecdotal/second-hand and it would not surprise me if their pay is at parity or even worse than other software engineers.
This is the outcome Apple must have expected when they announced their encryption policy. They can now claim that they tried to do the right thing -- they would have taken the steps needed to guarantee their users' safety from illegal spying, warrantless surveillance, and unconstitutional gag orders -- but the evil government won't let them.

Pretty smart in retrospect to force the government to play Bad Cop.
I wasn't a user for a long time, but now that I am, I have to say that Instagram is really pleasant to use. It's just photographs, which gives it a pleasant simplicity other social networks lack. It's nice to occasionally check to see what pictures friends and others have taken.
I've seen some real compelling stuff start to come out of CFD companies. Ie, taking a dozen vehicular dimension variables and solving for the best aerodynamic performance.
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Money, without a doubt. I wouldn't do a day of work in my life if it didn't carry personal gain.
Why did you start your 5th company with all that experience with failure? Did you have something that you thought was special?
Depends on what you're doing and what you're interested in.

If you care about computer science, and/or want/need to deeply grok the math behind fundamental algorithms, Knuth is great.

It is unlikely to help you become better at using j-random ruby library, or scaling your Postgres/Redis/whatever boxes, or porting Hexen to HTML5 or whatever. (Actually, maybe on the last one.)

I do think the focus is more academic than a lot of working nerds are comfortable with, and (even though it is easy to learn) I've heard people scoff at learning a hypothetical[1] machine/language to work through problems.

I find it useful. I've never made a concerted push to work though all of it, but I have spent time with parts of it. In general, I'm usually more comfortable working with algorithms, especially when modifying them, that I've worked through in the sort of detail Knuth offers.

[1] yes, people have implemented MIX.