skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder if it's becuase living in a place like New York City requires one to be a little stronger and resilant to every day things.

I would expect the opposite to happen - the extra grinding-down every day would result in people devoting more resources and stress tolerance to "being a little stronger and resilient", decreasing their ability to do other things including maintain their health.
it has risen significantly in the last 5 years because of the pervasiveness of technology, but before that, it was rather low.
Like democratically elected governments in sovereign states?
This reminds me of https://mapc.am/, a browser based variant.
I use Keras daily and find it very easy to use. It provides a nice set of examples to learn how to use it. Its also very easy to access the theano/tensorflow backend in a generic way.

Keep up the great work!
> Candidates should be able to pass or nearly pass normal dev hiring bar, and may have some additional skills that are rare among devs (e.g., L1 - L3 networking or UNIX system internals).

They hire devs with ops experience.
I'm pretty confident that no one A/B tests URLs for SEO purposes. How would you A/B test this anyway? You can't exactly serve Google different URLs and see what works (in fact, this would ruin both approaches).
It isn't remembered today, but in the 80's Reagan made a deal to get his tax cuts through by eliminating tax shelters (tax shelters are poorly performing investments made worthwhile only because of favored tax status).

This caused investment to flow out of poorly performing investments into better performing ones, which was good for the economy. I suspect that had a lot to do with economic growth in the 80's.

Moving investment money offshore to reduce tax liability is the same thing, and the solution is the same - reduce tax rates so that it is no longer worthwhile to invest elsewhere.
They aren't mutually exclusive. An always-available self-driving car service would drastically help the usability of subways or commuter rail in the crucial last 2-3 miles. If I could hail a car to drive me the 2 miles to the Caltrain stop and then hail another one to drive me the 3-4 miles from 22nd St. to the Sunset, a much greater percentage of the city becomes available to me without a highway trip.
It seems most of the profit ends up in the charitable foundation which is now paying a bit out to the needy after some prodding http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/8772...
Side question:

Why do so many people think Libertarians are right-leaning? Most Libertarians I know are very much more center. Some left-leaning people even call Libertarian's a branch of the Republican party which I think is completely absurd.

I'm a Libertarian and I believe in environmentalism, prison reform, pro woman's health and a great many "left" issues. In fact, I think any true Libertarian must be an environmentalist since it is impossible to pollute the environment without infringing on others.
TrueConf Connects Government Staff in Thái Nguyên Province
The Department of Education and Training of Thái Nguyên Province in Vietnam recently implemented TrueConf Server, freeing more than 200 employees from face-to-face weekly meetings. Video conferences have replaced on-site meetings, cutting transport expenses and saving time and money.

The Department of Education and Training of Thái Nguyên consists of nine branches situated in different parts of the province. The Department manages the operation of 20 higher education institutions, 180 schools and all preschools of Thái Nguyên.

Before TrueConf, the Department’s employees had to visit their headquarters to attend weekly meetings. The long distance between branches made it difficult for employees to reach the meetings, with travel often taking long time.

The Department’s management decided to replace this resource-consuming commute with video conferences so that employees could participate in meetings from their workplaces without digressing from their official duties.

Ensuring sufficient performance of a Unified Communications system over low-speed Internet was one of the main challenges faced by the Department. Initially, its IT specialists tested the operation of popular video conferencing services such as Skype, Hangouts and ooVoo. As it turned out, cloud solutions could not provide the required quality of communication for offices with slow Internet.

HaproInfo, the official partner of TrueConf in Vietnam, introduced the Department’s management to TrueConf Server. After deciding on implementation, HaproInfo experts deployed TrueConf Server and integrated it into the existing infrastructure of the Department.
Another way of looking at it is that, if even Kernighan can make a mess when trying to get something done, there's no hope for anyone.

…

Your take on it is more uplifting
I got that "force multiplier" had to do with productivity, but I didn't get how compensation is supposed to be set as a function of productivity (as opposed to supply and demand, and/or arbitrary rules), or even why it should be. Certainly (and thankfully, for those of us buying their food) a combine harvester driver does not get paid 100x the compensation of a farmer who harvested before combine harvesters were invented (of course the driver neither invented nor manufactured the combine harvester; well, a programmer neither invented nor made computers - or compilers, or most of the ideas they apply.)

I kind of believe, I think not controversially, that compensation results from supply, demand, and a bunch of more or less arbitrary rules which either affect supply & demand or directly affect the price (price controls, visa regimes, etc.) Productivity (value created) sets an upper bound for compensation (well, actually, it doesn't, perceived productivity does; and even that isn't true - building a barely working website for the government for several hundreds of millions of dollars is one of the countless counter-examples), but productivity certainly does not set a lower bound for compensation - competition does. How much labor you save is beside the point.
I started using talkspace last week and so far I really like it. I believe this will blow up
On a related tangent, I am reminded that the extraordinarily successful Harry Potter series of movies made a loss on paper. As you suggest, these people laugh in the face of the law.
Seems like the opposite to me. The commenter doesn't appear to be justifying this behavior on the basis that the Guardian does it, but rather criticizing the Guardian for participating in it.
There's cheese which is made in America which for most intents and purposes is cheese like everywhere else, and then there's "American cheese" which comes in slices or blocks and is "cheese product" and only vaguely resembles the real thing despite being delicious in certain guilty-pleasure situations.
Volatile also tempts you to break the aliasing rules. If you find yourself casting pointers, you are probably violating the C standard. You'll need something like -fno-strict-aliasing to enable a non-standard C dialect.
تحميل+لعبة+الملاكمة+Real+Boxing+2+ROCKY++للممثل+المشهور+سلفستر+ستالون
Most of those big fines get divided up into different state & federal departments. In NY its a big money earner. I dont think the banks did anything illegal so I view these fines as a shakedown.

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-bank-settlements-create-win...
>Consumption of 3D and high-quality audio usually requires a fraction of the computing power needed for their production. Their consumption is in the scope of personal use, while their production is in the scope of specialised use.

You have in mind 3D movies. We're talking about 3D content -- and spoken about things like 3D games, virtual reality (and VR porn), virtual tourism, interactive stuff etc.

This kind of 3D content is rendered on the client and in real time, and with high CPU (well, GPU) needs, down to absolutely demanding the more realistic you make it.
I'm sorry, but this is a ridiculous statement. I live in Stockholm. I'm a Swede and grew up here; No, crime is not generally a large problem in Sweden. In reality crime is not a big issue anywhere in Scandinavia. You can find some statistics here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention... and here: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...
is there a legal requirement for them to be forthcoming and truthful to Judges in warrants?

This is called Perjury[0]. There is no law enforcement exception to it.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perjury
It's no more difficult than explaining that income, couched in all kinds of fancy lawyering, is still income, here or in Panama. On your W2 or in a unit trust. People understand that. Tax agencies regulate and prosecute that.

Moreover prosecution is a light punishment for what these people did. They literally committed the fraud of the century, and stole massive amounts from the rest of us by it. I would find it difficult to vote to convict anyone who drags these asses into the street for a beating. At least until prosecutors get over having to work for a conviction.
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what difference would it have made if the Judge was told about it?
Why doesn't Visual C++ express come installed or as a
super easy to install dependency on Windows?

In theory that's what VCForPython27.msi (and the others) are supposed to be. And in theory it isn't too difficult to download and install the Express or Community editions of Visual Studio 2015.

A Windows feature that installed the matching C++ compiler plus platform SDK would be freaking AWESOME.

as a side note many thanks to them

No kidding. Us Python on Windows users really owe them a debt of gratitude.
PSA: "Tor", not "TOR".

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#WhyCalledTor

"Note: even though it originally came from an acronym, Tor is not spelled “TOR”. Only the first letter is capitalized. In fact, we can usually spot people who haven't read any of our website (and have instead learned everything they know about Tor from news articles) by the fact that they spell it wrong."
They thing is, they knew he was running a TOR node. They knew they wouldn't find anything. In a _real_ raid for suspected child porn, they confiscate all the equipment. If it's encrypted, you don't get it back (without the money to spend on good lawyers, and then it will be 6 months minimum. Without good lawyers, even if you're never charged, it will probably get wiped and auctioned off, because US police can confiscate anything they damn well please).

There was another article, either here or slahdot or somewhere, talking about how there have been several of these TOR node raids. I doubt they even had any evidence of illegal material being downloaded. I think the FBI got all these local police departments to do this intentionally to scare people.

The guy should have never turned over his passwords either. He would have lost his machine, but IIRC, the Seattle privacy group he's with decided to scrap those machines anyway since they couldn't be sure the PD didn't tamper with the tor server.
> Obviously revenue is a red herring

I disagree. What if it were a company like Amazon that operates with over 100 billion in revenue but less than a billion in income (many years actually ending up red)? Would 500 million an appropriate fine for, say, willingly misleading consumers about billions of dollars in fraudulent items? If anything, I'd argue income should be the irrelevant number in a scenario like this, though the only numbers that really should matter are ones based on the magnitude of the damage the wrongdoing causes.

> the fines are absolutely significant and do change behavior at the banks
Is there any evidence of this?

> It is a typical human response to want to crush them under your boot into oblivion, but I think counter-productive.
Maybe, but I'd argue penalizing one of the major creators of a global financial crisis with a fine that doesn't even cause them to go into red for _one_ year is even worse. Fines all accounted for, GS profited off of the crisis, no executive lost their job, and the behavior that caused millions to lose homes and pensions continues on almost totally unchanged. The human response is to want justice served, and this isn't it.
This is accomodating reality, not the cause. Nobody wants to be fat, but if the urban form means that most people living in your city are sedentary sitting in cars for a large portion of their day, being fat is an inevitable consequence of it. Fat-acceptance policies naturally fall out of that.
"This resolution holds Goldman Sachs accountable for its serious
misconduct in falsely assuring investors that securities it sold were
backed by sound mortgages, when it knew that they were full of
mortgages that were likely to fail."

"serious misconduct in falsely assuring investors that securities it sold were backed by sound mortgages, when it knew that they were full of mortgages that were likely to fail"

GS told these investors that these were safe investments when they knew they weren't. This is not a case of a pension fund calling up GS-General-Store and demanding to buy CDOs, this is a case of GS saying 'hey these are really safe investments for you' when they knew full well they weren't.
Move away from all the rich people.

> Houses are going up 24% year over year

That's called a bubble, such a rise is not sustainable.

Look, you're living in a place full of rich people, so you feel poor by comparison, that's expected, so deal with it or move.
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Oh yeah. And the hand grenades, and the constant shootings, and the rapes, and the burning schools, and the burned out cars, my god, it's all so quaint and Swedish.
Was that error because gcc was missing or because libxml2-dev wasn't installed?
Well, it was a sociocritical movie.
I would laser focus on one approach vs trying different stuff. YC would view 'trying different stuff' as a possible lack of focus (I'm not implying that's the case - I'm trying to help you avoid phrasing things that might get misinterpreted). Also, if you focus on a single strategy, you'll quickly see what does and doesn't work and if it's worth pursuing. I think your first step is seeing if this is even legal (renting/leasing a home for a year - I have no idea).
He is willing to admit that it goes over his head, which presumably also means that he'd be willing to read up on it or seek advice if necessary.

The biggest problem isn't judges who doesn't know everything - they have to deal with cases covering every possible discipline and can't possibly know everything about everything put before them. The problem is when they believe they do, or don't care, or don't want to admit it and decides to just trust law enforcement blindly instead.

I'd like to think that a judge that readily admits what he doesn't know will make sure to learn or seek suitable advice when necessary.
The people involved 1) had a duty to understand the structure of the things they sold, and 2) have specific training meaning that they can't (realistically) say they were unable to understand them. If an engineer claimed not to understand the tools of their field they'd merely be trading one set of liability for another.

If the same standards were applied to these people as are applied to the non-rich we'd agree that their university transcripts are proof that they understand the field and that their relationship with the people they recommended these investments to was "customer like" enough to show conflict of interest and misrepresentation.

As for your process-protection theory, it doesn't hold up. Processes rule up until you have a reason to believe otherwise. You may normally delete email after three months but if you've been notified that the information in question is being sought as evidence in a trial all of a sudden your process has to change. If an engineer tells me he has a process and I show how that it is (dangerously) wrong he has a legal obligation to investigate and correct his recommendations. The ratings agencies had similar obligations and were given specific written evidence showing their claims to be incorrect. That they chose to ignore these communications means their process defense is worthless.

And if they had a process that contributed to them not getting this information, that right there should be enough to show malfeasance from a financial organization.
Then feel free to unfreeze it. Your convenience shouldn't be my problem.
"Horror... Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies!(...)You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment! Because it's judgment that defeats us."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD0rU6-7sKs&nohtml5=False

Make of this what you will, but I believe there is some truth in these words. If IS terrorists were to truly fear falling into enemies' hands, if they themselves were unable to instill fear in their enemies by brutally executing people, they wouldn't have that much of an impact.

That being said, torture shouldn't have a place in any civilization. There's nothing civil about it. It's a contradictio in terminis.
Oh "Latam" = Latin America, correct?

Are you taking on any jobs yourself, or sending every task to a freelancer? How do you maintain the quality of the work?
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ES vs. Solr: Can we have some benchmarks using recent versions of both, please?
It's entirely possible that you are right. But have you considered the possibility that it's you that's changed instead of or in addition to the city? I certainly don't go to the same type of parties I did when I first moved to the city and that was only a dozen years ago.
You can be Swedish speaking arabic, too. ;)
I totally agree with you on the point that the hate the creators are receiving is ridiculous.

I had never backed a Kickstarter project before but had heard of stories of projects not delivering on time (or at all). I was (naively) hoping that this would not be the case. Just thought it was interesting that Raspberry Pi Foundation was able to come out with a 64 bit single board computer without a hitch, but I chalk that up to having much more experience to consumer demand in this space.

I am loving the Pi 3 and can't wait to get the Pine64! Do you have any specific plans for it?
The client has full control. Tor works by having the client chain proxies ("nodes"). Tor hidden services add some complications but in that case too the client creates its own half of the proxy chain.
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Building Thumbtack’s Data Infrastructure
Can't be good at everything. Only so many hours in the day.
Yeah, that's pretty much how selfies make my nose look too.
I did this when I first moved abroad. First weekend out of Sweden I went to the local IKEA and got stuff.
Sky is blue, news at 11
With the Senate refusing to do its constitutional duty and confirm Obama's (very conservative) pick, it'll depend on who wins the presidential election. If it's Trump it'll probably be someone from left field completely unpredictable. With Hillary it'll probably be a middle of the road jurist not really willing to overturn things too much.
The judge is allowed not to be an expert. The police are not allowed to lie by omission when getting a warrant.
That's an interesting point. If the threat model assumes that Intel's secure computing infrastructure will not be compromised, can't you just use remote attestation to prove you're running an unmodified Foocoin client on physical Intel hardware, and have a traditional consensus protocol? Then you don't need proof-of-time or proof-of-anything-else, just proof-of-physical-Intel-hardware.

Either way, whoever controls 50% of the genuine (where "genuine" = "signed by Intel's master key") Intel hardware gets to control consensus, right?
Who cares who can use my argument? Is it not true?

> it's not about wealth relative to the past, but about wealth relative to everyone else in the present.

Who is debating that, exactly? I said things can be a lot better and fairer. But steady improvement over 50 years is nothing to be scoffed at and needs to be recognized and analyzed if we want to preserve those gains for those most marginalized.

> wealth buys political power.... is inevitably used to further concentrate wealth

What if this was shown not to be the case? Would you still be okay with the inequality? And if it is the case, how does this make you and me worse off in the absolute sense?
You're definitely wrong about that - there are whole businesses built on building "case studies" that try to decipher the inner workings of Google's algorithm.

These days most tests are run by buying two domains that are a combination of random letters/numbers, setting up two nearly identical sites, and doing identical linkbuilding to both - then seeing which one ranks higher.

It's not exactly scholastic research quality, but repeated enough times it gives you an idea of what's working "right now".
Local photo/video/intelligence(data) collection on-demand.
https://medium.com/@mankhool/we-need-a-photographer-in-londo...
Why should the minorities' desires determine the default?
Although I can't find the link now, I've read that there is a pretty intensive training process for SREs. This would make sense since Google's infrastructure is so unique.
To get started with an idea like this, you really need a specific use case or customer who wants something. Then you build it for them. You've dumped a big list of features, but at the early stage it's important to only work on the ones which actually create value for a specific user or use case. Do your customer development first. This is a really ambitious project so paring it down is probably your best bet.

I do think "works on mobile" is a really great thing, few forums work well on mobile and it's definitely the future :)
HN could simply add a '&title='. No need to change anything in their routes, just change the link in the main page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11472694&title=ask-hn-s...
This is the advice given by a few people, but I'm not sure how valid it is.

If the police have probable cause to search a server at a datacenter, then they would likely also have probable cause to search the computers of the owner's of those servers. In which case, we're back to 6am raids (probably done at the same time as the datacenter raid to prevent evidence tampering)
Early Impacts of Certificate Transparency
When I talked to them about buying the site, the Science Inc. people were very clear that they intend to keep the delicious.com domain for some (presumably awful) new project.

The current redirect is temporary.
No. They simply get a call where the caller ID is the "Sweden number". However, they can hang up at any time if getting abuse calls.
It gets worse the deeper you get into the article -- they're paying "Christmas Bonuses" instead of their bond payments-- they know they can't pay for any of this and they appear not to care.
Last time I tried doing this, it was very unclear to me if there was a way to download the VS compiler without giving an email address or logging in or something to Microsoft. In the end, this was one of the big drivers that pushed me over the edge to switching to 100% Linux.
New Yorkers may exaggerate from time to time. But I have been at the 1st Avenue L stop during the morning rush and had to let 3 trains go by before getting on to the fourth (probably 20 minutes total waiting). I probably should have walked at some point but then I would have had to pay again at Union Square.
Video is irrelevant there. It's not about recorded show, what matters is live subtitles for theatre show.

Imagine you're director of theatre show that's made in german - you're going to france. With german actors. You need to caption the play in french. You need to translate the lines and adjust screening of french subtitles.