skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that things can look bad and perhaps even look illegal but then an investigation is done the prosecutors correctly conclude that no actual law was violated. That makes sense and is totally fine by me.

What's hard for me to understand and believe is that a company like GS would be willing to pay out that much money when no crime had occurred. If no crime had occurred why did they set aside nearly 2 billion dollars for legal defense. I can understand setting aside that much to defend against an actual prosecution but there was none here.

Another thing that is concerning is that if all of this happened but no actual crime was committed then maybe the laws need to be changed. I don't know enough about the current state of the law (or previous) but it would seem that through years of lobbying the big banks were able to buy themselves a much more comfortable legal and regulatory environment within which they could operate. One so comfortable that they could do what they did without even breaking the law. I think that is something worth being angry about.
Are smart citizens getting lost in the rush to build smart cities?
Yes, I think that's the most interesting part of the Intel proposal. Rather than using lots of energy to compute a gazillion hashes (the work in Proof of Work), they rely on special processors to prove that they've waited for some amount of time (Proof of Elapsed Time). (The time is a random variable with known distribution.) That takes way less energy (cost). It's clever.

It got me thinking of other ways for computers to prove that a certain amount of time has passed, and I came up with this idea that takes advantage of the finite speed of light:

https://github.com/hyperledger/hyperledger/issues/18
the arrogance of this comment is just amazing.
2. We actually thought of them as our competitors but that is a very intersting point of view.

3. Robinhood yea we would love to partner with them ( sounds like counting the chickens before they hatch but anyhow ). And yea our priority is and should be teaching.

4. Awesome!

5. That is a good idea. and yea the part of projects was way into the future and borrowed from Udacity, apparently a lot of people are paying for their Nanodegrees.

6. Yes and yes.
The slide deck from the talk (which was actually given in Polish) is here: http://danieljanus.pl/2016-continuations/index-en.html
Their display spec is a bit funny: "PINE64 features Allwinner’s SmartColor2.0 Technology with integrated display engine up to 1920×1200 HDMI v1.4 supported up to 4K." - which one is it, 1920x1200 or 4K?
> my understanding was that ultimately whatever macromolecules you are consuming, lipids, proteins, or carbohydrates all only get absorbed into the blood stream as glucose

Amino acids, glucose and fatty acids are all ancient molecular structures known to all cellular life and thus can and do circulate in our blood at all times. If everything got converted into glucose during digestion, that would mean we could live entirely off candy fortified with vitamins and minerals, and produce all essential fatty acids and all essential amino acids from the glucose. Not so.

PROTEINS provide amino acids, basic building blocks for near everything organic about our body (or all cellular life-forms really), not just muscles but hormones neurons etc etc. The body may convert protein into glucose but this laborious process occurs to any significant degree mostly under a prolonged lo-fat-lo-carb-hi-protein regimen or plain starvation conditions (ie post-fasting, not just normal fasting with plenty of fat reserves left, which is simply ketosis, hence protein-sparing and fat+ketone-burning). If so, this doesn't occur in the digestive tract, since glucose production (or provision from glycogen) is the job of the liver.

LIPIDS aren't and cannot be converted to glucose in the digestive tract, or we wouldn't store body fat to begin with and also have essential fatty acids circulating at all times now, would we? BUT 2 triglycerides CAN donate their glycerol backbones for the production of 1 glucose molecule, and I believe this is constantly happening in ketosis when glycogen is depleted. Again, glucose production/provisioning is a liver job, not a digestive tract job.

CARBohydrates of most any kind ARE converted to glucose in the digestive tract. Exceptions: fiber travels on to the colon for excretion or to be fermented by bacterial action (into I believe short-chain fatty acids and B/K vitamins) and fructose is "metabolized" into triglycerides by the liver. Since the blood needs a certain glucose level at all times (around 5g-ish), circulating glucose in excess is immediately shuttled into first: any cells that are receptive to the concurrent insulin signaling, second: glycogen storage (liver and muscles), third as a last resort converted into body fat.
You're not alone. This short non-white guy has also found Tinder abysmal and self-esteem thrashing, with only a couple matches after hundreds upon hundreds of swipes. (Unlike your comment, I won't dismiss those matches as unattractive, which would be unfair, but the fact that the very few matches I have gotten have been the same color as me suggests to a paranoid mind more than just coincidence regarding all the other rejections...).

Like you, I've had much better luck with OkCupid, which makes it distressing that the online dating population in general seems to be shifting from OkCupid type sites to Tinder type ones.
Same in Kenya. Though there are some hookers on there, but they leave nothing to the imagination, so it's easy to sort them in/out if that's what you're looking for.
The idea seems pretty good. I signed up for it. However, the auto adding to the list sounds a little scary. Even with linkedin and security of it, I get too many inMails from Hiring folks. So did not enroll into that.

Can you not use your the same intelligence to recommend me jobs rather than me inputting search queries? Or maybe I do not have a profile that matches the jobs postings.
> I've never been in an environment where developers hang their coats up at 5:00 and go on with their carefree lives.

And I've always worked in environments where they do.

Anecdata for the win?
As a starter for some reading, http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2009/0420/...

I have no doubt that if torture had led to significant success stories, someone would have either announced it or leaked it to get some points for the pro-torture side.

"They communicated this to agency higher-ups in Washington, who nonetheless insisted on the use of the practice, and asked to watch it take place." I don't know what's more fucked up; to order torture, or to ask to watch.
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Can you elaborate on programmers and their offshore consulting companies? Asking for a friend.
Stop jerking.
Probably one of the most difficult errors as a complete noob developer to hurdle.

It's also part of the reason why I ultimately switched to Mac.
HTML with CSS with lend itself to generate PDFs. Are there open alternatives to Prince XML? Browsers don't support all page-layout related CSS2/3 attributes, like a page break.
Why not: Here is my link to my facebook portal (include public link). I cannot give you my credentials because I am in a legal agreement with facebook to not give my credentials to anyone.
So you are saying those that are seeking a partner/significant other are doing so because they crave validation? Not sure I really understand your thought process.
> home turf for one of the Brussels bombers

Scientists agree that 100% of terrorists come from earth. What are we going to do with that information, now?
But why?! )
Have people started receiving their YC invitations summer 2016?
Also, if you're not accepted for interview, do you get a rejection email or is it just silence?
This made me laugh so hard I thought an upvote was not enough. We're building a SaaS thing at work and I'll open with this at the daily stand-up tomorrow.
I was thinking the same thing. I'll admit that I'm out of the loop when it comes to slack but I've heard they don't support IRC. Seems too bad to me as IRC would make a great platform for all bots rather than just for one platform.
Yes. When the fine is less than the overall profit, and they can write it off via taxes, then it is not even a tickle on the wrist.

CEO, every member of the board, every manager in that division that made and sold the products, fine 100% of their pay, fine 4x revenue - not profits for the products affected, and do not let them write the costs off.
Lived there in 2012 for 6 months. What an amazing country, probably the best place in Europe to have a family. Stockholm is one of the most beautiful and safest capitals in the world.
I've always had one in England but most people who encounter it have no idea what it's for, so they're not exactly common place.
I can't see any reason to believe that discriminating against fat people is an effective strategy to curb obesity at a societal level.
Don't worry, New York will get there eventually.

Having spent 30 years in this city, I've seen two ends of the spectrum in terms of class-mixing. In the 80s & early 90s it wasn't uncommon to go to a house party in some squat or slum and see social elite there (with their shared love of art, music or drugs) or go to a club/elite art gallery and see the misfits there.

This does not happen any more. At all. There are some of us remaining who straddled both circles that can fit in both places but the poor really do not socialize (as in parties) with the rich anymore.

But at least it's not like Atlanta where I see the middle class show open hostility to the homeless.
So there is some kind of 2fa that prevents whover has the account that week from changing the password and email?
We had a similar initiative but with other purpose here in Brussels after the November terrorist attacks on Paris

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/01/09...
I would tend to think it's the fine Maps detail on every road in every country that Navigation works in - all of the details of every single intersection, how many lanes, what turns you can make from where, etc. The maps and images are expensive, but they already exist and can be bought, if you're willing to pay the price. That detail info doesn't even exist anywhere, at least not in any kind of consistent and reliable way. The only way to get it is to employ a virtual army of drivers to drive every single road in every country, record a ton of info about them all, and figure out how to store it all in a searchable format. And then keep doing it forever, because those roads all change periodically, and often nobody every documents how or where or when.
Bingo. My academic studies of political systems, US politics, game theory and economics leads me to believe that a true free market economy is the causa sine qua non for a more tolerant and free society.

I also believe that one cannot legislate social mores, and that the government does not, can not, and should not grant or even 'uphold' rights. Further, I believe that free markets CAN and HAVE caused (on net) greater social change than any legislated social change, and that on an individual level, free markets are the best channel for allowing minorities/oppressed individuals to champion their cause while simultaneously avoiding and stamping out oppression.

Ergo, I dedicate myself (and my vote) to the goal of an entirely free market. In essence, I swipe right for the Austrian School. (Go ahead and groan).
That results in them finding a different excuse to not hire you and then documenting it in case you sue.
Maybe because the Democrats do the exact same thing using social issues as political footballs etc when convenient.
Danes do too.
Or maybe people don't like density and transit?
It's Denmark that's the outlier. By far the least welcoming to foreigners (i.e. "racist") of all Western countries. Source: Max Fischer, Washington Post (https://twitter.com/Amazing_Maps/status/691025214952624128)
Hej Hej! I spent 4 months (in the dead of winter) consulting in Stockholm Sweden and it has a special place in my heart. I meet some great people... Some from just posting in reddit /stockholm.

Highly recommend visiting, if you can, go during June (end) for midsummer. I was there Dec - March, it was damn cold.
@the_mitsuhiko - sorry to hijack this thread, but hope you release some clarification on the way ahead for Flask. I noticed that you created the Pallets org for that (yay.. finally!!)... but its been fairly opaque.

would love to hear about how you see Flask evolving in the future, your involvement with Flask/Pallets and 1.0 release
30-something.
No, I tried to find some screenshots, but its 11 years ago. Current skype does not have this feature.
DPDK – Libraries and Drivers for Fast Packet Processing
Byzantine fault tolerance becomes simple if you have trusted hardware.

I've been trying to understand the base of trust in this: I think it's Intel EPID: it boils down to a secret key burned into the hardware and managed by the ME. What happens if Intel's signing machine is exposed?
How about making the default location for the U.S. be 38.8898,-77.009? Maybe that would get things fixed a bit quicker?

EDIT: added 'for the U.S.'

ADD: Here's a link to help: https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B053'23.3%22N+77%C2%...
Why does the URL text matter for SEO? Wouldn't a crawler be looking at the page content?
Speculation: it's from 1920x1200 up to 4k?
Would you mind clarifying a few points with examples:

* political alliances they have formed in the past 20 years

* sentimental platitudes they pretend to believe in

I generally agree with the sentiments that you've portrayed, but this is just way too vague to be useful. I don't put much stock in libertarians in the general sense since any given libertarian could idealize anarchy, socialism, communism, or capitalism.
What you are referring to is a "slug" [1] which adds another searchable dimension to the content. This appeals to marketers trying to add searchable keywords to boost discovery. Not having one won't affect HN since "everything's present" in the forum. For instance, if you google the title of your post it is ranked #1 in the search results [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_URL#Slug

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=Ask+HN%3A+SEO+impact+of+HN%2...
Is that true? I'm not an accountant, but I thought a lot of companies do things like give ownership of a technology to a foreign subsidiary and then have their US operation "license" that technology at high cost to move profits overseas as well. Maybe that loophole was closed though?
"In capitalist societies, capital owning classes have the time and resources to be the political class. In previous communist societies, party and administrative members were the political class"

This sounds like theory. In practice, capitalism beats communism in pretty much every way. Of course there are people that own capital. Private ownership is one of the main tenets of capitalism.

Capitalism works because it is on the correct side of human nature. It pushes people to earn more capital, which in turn, helps the rest of us.

Do you think our technology would have advanced this far if we didn't have capitalism? The only reason computers, phones, the Internet are getting better and better is because of competition. The more competition in a market, the cheaper the price is to us, the consumer.

Communism, on the other hand, makes everyone a slave to the state. Why would you want to compete and earn more when it will just be taken away from you by the government?

There were many experiments in the 1970s with communism. People created their own small communities and shared everything. Everyone was equal. The end result was always a disaster: jealousy always fueled the collapse of the group.

Would you want the person in school that never studied for his tests and partied every day to earn the same amount as you, who studied for every test and did well? I sure wouldn't.

Communism, in any form, is a failure. I don't know how much death, poverty, and famine we need to go through for some people to learn this.
Welcome to Japan!
If I had six months to research something, I'd work on temporal databases, starting with the book Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL. I'd look at the history of attempts to bring this into the SQL standard, including the arguments between Snodgrass and Date, and what was eventually put in SQL2011. Then I'd see how much of this Postgres supports, and possibly take a shot and filling in some gaps. Or I'd try to adapt a popular ORM to work with temporal tables.

But that is me. Pick something that interests you!

By the way, for six months, you had better pick something very focused. I would try to err on the side of modest. If all you have right now is a broad topic, see if you can pull at one loose thread---some annoyance or nagging question---and see where it takes you. Probably you will find hundreds of articles to read, and more complexity than you expected. Grad school is a rare chance to "go down the rabbit hole", but you should expect that your six months will fly by. Research is like reading Wikipedia: it constantly branches and takes you into new things you "need" to know.
> The image will be archived in .rar format. RAR is used because it has a higher compression ratio than .zip, and .rar files can store full file permissions while compressed.

What is this, 1995?!

(Oh, and it's super important to preserve the permissions of the ISO file you're dd'ing over the SD card…)
The big question is: Why are the rating agencies still in business? They labelled rotting poisoned rat meat as prime organic steak.

Part of cleaning up the mess should have been to create new rating agencies under regulatory probation, and to review all the rating agencies' ratings. I suspect that would hae found too many slimy things on banks' balance sheets, so instead the Fed sucked the poison out of the banks with QE.

I wonder what the quid pro quo was. I suspect if you look for anomalies between sovereign debt ratings and debt-to-gdp ratios you might find answers.
Is this fine tax deductible? What, then, is even the point?
False equivalence. Blackface was not civil disobedience. Not even sure why you're bringing that up unless it is to tie white guilt in America to white guilt in Sweden.
Whilst 5B is a huge sum, will it deter GS executives from repeating the act in the future?

Will the people responsible go to jail or pay from their personal wealth -made due to their "bad" desicions?
I guess you just have to unit test twice as much (to compensate for the compiler's checks?)

I still personally just aim for a combination of auto-verified 100% coverage, and an intuitive sense of whether it's real testing or "call this to get it in the coverage report" testing; I also try to keep functions/methods short enough, and overall systems simple enough, to be able to think about the various code paths and ensure I have tests to cover them all.

I don't and never have worried about whether I'm appropriately type-checking everything, and in fact that idea is antithetical to why I work in Python (i.e., Python is a "care about the interfaces, not about the types" language). I have seen people coming from Java-land who write tons of "if not isinstance(some_var, some_type)" checks, but sooner or later they get over it and learn that these things are rarely if ever actually necessary.
If you visited there with 4 friends, wouldn't you be the 5th friend?
1920x1200 @ 60fps and 4k @ 30fps, if I remember correctly from the kickstarter
The main takeaway here being that you can take advantage of the political climate for a century to win the game of life.
An Engineering Disaster on Edge of L.A. Offers an Ominous Warning
Project Fi Nexus 5X Deal Extended, $199 for Another Month
I'm a pop musician (though I can play cello and double bass), but my wife is classically trained and has an MA (though in pedegogy). I've met a lot of folks, and after hearing a lot of folks, I feel like the best of them are playing instruments in the 15-30K range.

I had a conversation with a freind who is working on a DMA. He and his wife had visted to play a concerto with our local orchestra (I play bass, my wife runs it and conducts). The guy is a fantastic player.

He's upset because his teacher has about $1M dollars in her setup, and he believes that if he had the same setup that he'd play the same as her. She was given this setup at about age 17, by her family.

I think that my playing and practice strategies would be a lot different if I owned an instrument that I could "pas on " to the next generation of players ang have a guaranteed retirement. So on the point of having that instrument I agree with my friend.

But I don't think that we agree on why that would change his playing.

On a related note, I call my wife's playing has improved when she moved from a $2500 antique instrument to a modern instrument she paid about 15K for, which she paid for though her earnings as a performer. In this case, we are in agreement that social and personal effects are important. Of course, she sounds objectively better with her better instrument, but this particular instrument is a materiel improvement over her old one.

So while there differences in instruments, I don't know if it is possible that "how good" the instruments are can be isolated from their situation between player.

For my part, I started getting a lot better gigs when I started using a markbass and an american p-bass with flats... I dunno. Folks listen with their eyes, I guess. I know that is true about the double bass folk and blues gigs I play on upright but would rather play on electric.
1) http://time.com/3596014/attraction-sex-birth-control/

2) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/birth-control-pill...

3) http://www.livescience.com/48781-women-pill-men-attraction-s...
Relentless Elon Musk Won't Leave Well Enough Alone
> There is an SEO impact,

Any source for that?
At "Let's" we are building a social meetup app for people to meet other awesome people nearby and do fun stuff together!

check us out at:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11462402

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
This is probably what I find most worrying about the TOR concept. By running an exit node, you open yourself up to all sorts of legal actions. But if you can't run a TOR exit node as an average citizen, won't all exit nodes end up being run by NSA, GCHQ, and their ilk?
http://users.math.yale.edu/public_html/People/frame/Fractals...
Terrible. The TLDR given by OP completely misses the point of the article. The scrolls aren't a revolutionary discovery because of what they contain, but because of what implications can be drawn as a result (which you'll have to read the article).
That makes waaay more sense to me; the first uses them more as training wheels than as cheat sheet; the second is more akin to the "check that I know it" that I envisioned. Thanks.
"Build your own computer, 3D Printer control panel, video game console, 4K streaming media player, robotics project, connected home device, and more"

I agree it is funny wording. An idea for a device is a 4k streamer, from the above quote.
Additionally, much of the middle class would be surprised by just how close to that "1%" they actually are. Especially when the discussion swings between net worth, gross income, and net income.
SVG, Inkscape, and the Isometric Projection
I believe you both are conflating male reproductive goals with female reproductive goals, but I agree that the rich do enjoy free lunch.

Those women 95% of men are saying yes to are obviously not compatible with all of those men. But some men don't care about compatibility, they care about sex.

I also believe parent of parent, and OKTrends, is arguing there isn't a single man out there that "95% of women would say yes to" to begin with.
Using Apache Solr, Tika, Neo4j in the Panama Papers Investigation
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