skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's hope that was his quick answer to reporters. I'd hate to think that when a Judge has a hard time learning something he decides, well I don't understand this so, let's just violate someone's 4th amendment rights and go harrass them rather than learning how I should apply the law (aka do my job).
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 don't think it has anything to do with tax dollars, city services, or even walking. Could be totally wrong here, but I think living in New York City puts one on a more defensive, "aware" footing, and builds resilancy.

Too far off the mark?
It's not the part about Skype that needs sources...
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Are you sure that the impact was caused by changes in the URL part and not any other changes which were made at the same time.
> Many derivatives are insurance by another name, and sold without insurance-like capital backing it. That's fraud.

So 1) you're going to get an expert up there to testify that derivatives and insurance are the same thing; 2) get a jury to believe you in the face of conflicting expert testimony that nobody in the industry thinks they are the same thing; and 3) get the jury to believe that the bankers who sold the derivatives knew that equivalency beyond a reasonable doubt. That's bonkers. I don't think you get past step 1.

As for your second theory: the agencies couch all their ratings with the appropriate disclaimers (based on such and such models, etc). If they had a process, and followed that process to produce a rating, and disclosed as much, that's not fraud, even if the result of that process is garbage.
...Eventually. I have notes, but a writeup is in my list of things to do.
Lytro 755 Megapixel Light Field Camera Aims to Change How Hollywood Makes Movies
I like this, I can imagine using it for a wedding. I'm worried about distribution since weddings are so rare. Is there a channel you can use to get your app into the couple's hands, that doesn't require them to tell their friends?
Or rather, wasn't illegal when it was friends of the prosecutor and people too big to fail.

You try this and you'll be in jail tomorrow.
Static and free
All New Ideas Are Combinations of Old Ideas
What Developers Wish Their Ops Team Knew
sure does.
Unfixed bug in SQL Server (2008-2016)
> What is the reasoning behind only an itemid in the URL for HN?

The reason is because it's the minimum information required to do the job. HN was built to function by PG who built it old school as a demonstration of his custom programming language, it's clearly not been optimized for SEO and putting a slug in the URL adds nothing functionally and thus the engineer had no reason to add that feature. It also uses tables for layout, has embedded style information, and saves all state to files on disk using no database. It's hardly a "best practices" type application.
To me your comment demonstrates why it's really hard to figure out anything worthwhile about SEO.

You wrote that code almost 8 years ago[1]. Google and other search engines have changed a lot since then. Who knows if this has any impact today?

Actually did you even A/B test it at the time? Or just turn it on along with a bunch of other changes?

It's hard to tell, and there's so much SEO (mis)information out there based on old anecdotes, and all the players doing A/B testing for this sort of thing on a big scale keep their data to themselves.

1. https://github.com/reddit/reddit/commit/353ad2a
live demo site: http://netdata.firehol.org/#tc
Yes the user can choose the exit node in the client very easily. Even a dirty cop could figure it out.
More on assortative mating and its effects:

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21595972-how-sex...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/upshot/marriages-of-power-...
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21640316-children-ric...
> Most of these people had a duty to their customers and they specifically recommended bad investments, knowing that they were bad.

Sellers generally do not have a fiduciary duty to buyers. Even to the extent that there were fiduciary duties, violation of a fiduciary duty is a civil wrong, not a crime.
This is in the current Insiders release, NOW.
Is the goal of those broad hackathons not to encourage new ideas rather than make bulk progress on a pre-defined roadmap?
An update on the biggest API in healthcare
Keras is significantly higher-level (in the sense that Python is a higher-level language than C). I find it much easier to write in Keras, and think I'm less likely to make mistakes.

There are a variety of other wrappers for Tensorflow (skflow, tf-slim) that may someday be released as part of the Tensorflow project. But Keras is far more mature than those right now.
Usually, for constitutional provisions requiring that every such promise be accounted as (or better, paid for with) a government debt on par with their "real" bonds. Because that's what they are: the government claiming it's putting its full faith and credit behind your pension. It's horrible that they can treat it as ultra-reliable when promising it, but can shuck it off like it's nothing.

It's also why I don't understand all the whining (here and elsewhere) about requiring the Post Office to actually fund its pensions rather than just assume Uncle Sam will have infinite funds to cover it later, and we Totally Won't Renege or anything.
Because buyers don't want to be stuck with performing all the due diligence themselves. You have to understand that investment management as a business isn't really about returns. Its about gathering assets to manage and not losing them.
Bumble has the problem that women treat it like Tinder - swipe right once in a blue moon and wait for matched men to make the first move.
This is actual Linux (minus the kernel) so it should work 99% the same as under Ubuntu when doing usermode stuff.
I don't know anything about Google and its SREs. Do they really just hire software devs and expect them to be good at Ops? The opposite, hiring a sysadmin and then assigning them to a software team to develop a product, seems equally problematic.
The law of supply and demand and skyrocketing prices within major cities implies that far more people want to live in such environments than currently do. Nothing wrong with the ones that don't, but the people who want that lifestyle are apparently not being accommodated by current urban policy in general.
That 50 year old Gibson SG is definitely at least a partial case case of survivor bias. All the less-well built ones that came off the production line with neck-warps and dead-frets have long been tossed out by the owner. Though, I bet off-the-line, the ratio of 'well built' to 'not well built' guitars was significantly higher when Gibson was still privately owned.

The other factor is I'm sure back when Gibson and Martin were US-made, there was a certain amount of QA that went into each unit that went out the door. I know some fine men who make their living off craft furniture for the bourgeoisie and every unit is meticulously inspected. I'm sure even if they attained commercial success, they'd ensure a base level of quality that a MNC like Ikea or West Elm probably doesn't have. In the same way you have an emotional attachment to your instruments, those instrument craftsmen/women have a similar bond/sense of pride.

Also, as a woodworker, I can tell you that there are so many contributing factors to wood, ranging from completely obvious spruce vs cherry vs sikta, to more subtle things like where the tree was harvested from, access to water, the way it was cut (quarter-sawn? flat? did the craftsman just select whichever was cheapest?), the way it was cured, in what environment, and for how long. These all contribute to the way they age, the way they cut. It's not unlike wine vintages and variations (which, incidentally, have a fetishized community, but certainly an amateur like myself can identify the difference between two bottles of the same grape and vintage, but of a different region). New SG's are produced in an assembly line with the cheapest acceptable materials, rather than having some skilled tradesman who went down to 4 different lumberyards spending 6 weeks picking the best wood stock for that years production.
Yeah, that's a tough one.

The intersection set of (mfr. w/ quality reputation) && (mfr of 4-seat convertibles) has been getting smaller and smaller, at least in the US.

On the bright side, Wranglers tend to be bought by owners who know what they are in for, and intend to keep their vehicle, hence their anomalously (for a relatively low-priced domestic vehicle) excellent resale value. They're not being made for the two-year lease crowd, which IMO has led to so much derangement in the execution of many new cars.
I gained about 15 lb relocating out of NYC & working from home. Didn't change diet - I lost the ~30 minutes of NYC-fast-walking I did every day (to/from subway on each end).

Now, whenever I am out visiting clients etc. in the city I peg my Apple Watch's fitness meter - most days I barely get anywhere. Was eye opening - I now start my day with 45-60 minutes of moderate cycling and I've dropped back to my pre-work-from-home weight and noticeably/significantly raised my energy level.

I now acutely understand the plight facing our suburban citizens.
Point of clarification: I know the police are allowed to lie and fudge the truth to suspects and defendant, but is there a legal requirement for them to be forthcoming and truthful to Judges in warrants?

Also, tending to agree that even if they had included TOR in the search warrant, the judge would have most likely signed it anyways becasue child porn is a big "must do something" thing, and the technology would have probably gone over the Judges' head anyways. In this day if the police use the words "child porn" they could get a warrant for just about anything under the sun.
The tech community would undoubtedly volunteer resources in the interests of a better world, the problem is it seems the government has very little interest in the justice system actually dispensing justice, it seems to increasingly be one of many tools used to control the populace. It's not only "a" tool, it is almost a magical "wild card" where you can put any opponent away forever if you so choose, and it is completely indefensible.
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I'd say that's true today, but it's not a luxury Margaret Hamilton had when she wrote the code for the Apollo lunar lander. Since things have changed quite a bit since the 1960s, I wonder how much code we software people will be reading 50 years from now.
The fact that they are volunteers doesn't change the fact that it's random, it just changes the set from which the random values are selected.
You still can but, make sure you don't do it in your house. Even one of the operators said, I guess I should have rented a server for this. Not that I agree with the warrant however, I'm not putting my dog's and children's lives in danger.
If people were actually looking for what they report in surveys, attractiveness would be half as important, and intelligence twice as much.
I think reliable tracking does a better job of identification than a picture of a fat man with a big nose in a blue shirt.
I don't think search engines are the main source of readers for HN.
It's impossible to be sure without asking Google, but there weren't many of us at the time and so there weren't many changes to conflate it with.
Doesn't seem like they fought in the same ways, as underhandedly, when they were actually paying 90%.
I would clarify the problem and solution. At first I thought your product (based on the description) was a soup to nuts IoT platform (i.e. building out the hardware as well). I might possibly rephrase your product as 'We're like Facebook Connect for Nest.' Or 'We're like IFTTT for IoT.' I think you want to drive home the point that you're connecting devices from different manufactures and adding additional functionality. The social network aspect is probably less important (I used the Facebook analogy since they were a developer platform at one point).
It doesn't do math though.
Carl Sagan’s long lost thoughts on marijuana and the War on Drugs (2014)
Relays, not exit nodes, and they still run them: https://globe.torproject.org/#/search/query=mozilla
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> It was supposed to become cheap.

I wouldn't hold my breath on that. A Segway scooter still costs over six thousand dollars.
Of course the CRAs didn't tell people about this, but it was very widely known amongst people trying to optimize their credit score, particularly for churning or MSing. Google eg bumpage or B* and you'll find lengthy discussions...
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Improvement: If I navigate to https://botlist.co/bots/filter?platform=5, then I should be able to see what each bot claims to do, without needing to click in to the #show page
A few advantages:

- it's much easier to use. Using pure TensorFlow is considered "advanced" and requires familiarity with deep learning, understanding of what a symbolic computation graph is, etc. Keras, meanwhile, is meant to make deep learning more accessible.

- even if you don't care about accessibility, Keras provides higher-level building blocks that speed up your workflow even if you are an expert. It is currently used by dozens of companies and hundreds of researchers, precisely for this reason: it allows quick prototyping.

- with Keras, you can work with both Theano and TensorFlow interchangeably. They complement each nicely in a workflow: TensorFlow has low compilation times, which is great for debugging, and Theano tends to be faster for runtime (especially for RNNs). So you can prototype in TF, train in Theano, then to switch to production you can export the TF model.
You receive a polite rejection email.
Engineering the Perfect Baby
One suggestion: figure out how the buyer reports the income on their income tax returns! I would be hesitant to invest if I thought it would be a headache.

Also: I'd be hesitant to invest if I thought there might be the possibility of "hollywood accounting", i.e. if I own a percentage of all of of your future royalties, you could potentially structure a deal with a publisher where you get large "appearance fees" for book signings, and the royalties are basically zero.

Overall, I like the idea.
It likely will never 'keep up' and really, the law never has been 'up to date' with technology. American law
allows most things until a lawyer is needed and then makes a decision to forbid or not (this is law, so there are many exceptions). We are a common law system (except Louisiana), not a code law or theocratic law system [0]. As such, the law will inherently lag. Remember, we are dealing with humans here, nothing can be perfect nor can we anticipate the ingenuity of idiots.

[0] http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/law/3-kinds-of-legal-syste...
The ACA was passed in the early days of the Obama administration. When Congress had the following numbers:

D R I
Senate 57 41 2
House 255 179

In 2010 the distribution changed, so the 112th Congress (2011-2013) had this distribution:

D R I
Senate 51 47 2
House 193 242

113th:

D R I
Senate 53 45 2
House 201 234

114th (current):

D R I V(acant)
Senate 44 54 2
House 188 246 1
If none of these options is available, you will need
to consider building the extension yourself. In many
cases this is not difficult...

This is horseshit.

I spent a few weeks at the beginning of the year building MSIs for SaltStack and its dependencies, as I wanted a fully native way to bootstrap a Windows client installation via GPO using a native Python installation instead of SaltStack's NSIS executable installer, which uses an esky build. In short:

* The compiler included in Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 is not compatible with distutils.

* The compiler included in version 7.0 of the Microsoft Windows SDK is not compatible with distutils.

* The compiler included in version 7.1 of the Windows SDK is not compatible with Python, nor is it compatible with distutils.

The only combination of compiler plus SDK that I could get to work properly was Visual Studio 2008 and Windows SDK 7.1, and that still didn't work quite right due to bugs in the code underlying bdist_msi, source distributions not including everything used to actually build a given package, incorrect package build instructions, and so forth. (For example, I seriously doubt that the pywin32 developers even follow their own package build instructions.)

In case you're curious:

https://gist.github.com/xenophonf/c2351f8af80d3231b547

Ultimately, I've given up and switched back to SaltStack's executable installer, run out of a computer startup script (a page out of my own book on 90s-era NetWare sysadmin, yuck).
We did not A/B test it, but we didn't release many changes at the same time either, so it's hard to say for sure, but we were pretty sure it made a difference.

Also, SEO is not supposed to be easy, Google purposely makes it hard. They don't want you to be successful (with good reason).

They've always said, make good content that easy for a human to find and Google will find it too.

That's probably the best SEO advice you can get.
In the middle. Perhaps one might even call it the "middle class".
In practice, all swedes are bilingual english (yes, including young kids).
The IRA aren't/weren't in government. The IRA are terrorists.
You're using a lot of high-level descriptions and marketing speak that makes me have trouble understanding what your app actually does. Usually it's best to start with describing the one most useful thing that your app will do, to start.
In decline? Sweden had the highest growth rate in Europe in the last quarter of last higher. Highest population growth rate in the EU. How do you define decline? Or crime for that matter :) Sweden does not have high crime. I'm Irish, living in Sweden. I know high crime.
Initially we are targeting tech audience. If you will look at current integrations we have built, all are suiting niche tech audience. But as time progresses, we will be adding more integrations
Your website https://upyourtindergame.com/ - Are you a Tinder consultant?
Ask HN: Third party payment processors?
I am developer that is going to be building a SaaS that will handle payment processing for a variety of clients, in addition to providing other services bundled in. Can anyone recommend to me an API or service that I can use to handle the payment processing side of things? I was looking at Stripe, but it seems expensive for my needs (2.9% for each transaction would really stack up, unless I'm not looking at the right thing...)

Here's some of my needs:

- My per-seat plans will be 10/100/101+

- Each seat will be doing monthly payments to my client

- Each payment will be anywhere from $1000 to $4000+

Any thoughts? Thanks for the input
> the request was rejected because the error case should never happen.

I haven't run into this mindset much at my current job. But in general I think I've been able to lobby for "well, can we at least have a special case that would leave a breadcrumb behind if it does occur?" That way the investigation when it does inevitably occur is swift and there's less debate among ambiguous choices about how to change the design going forward.

I've also found fault injection testing as a great way for disproving statements about what "can never happen."

That said, I've seen the other extreme too -- checking pointers against NULL just prior to dereferencing at every opportunity up and down the stack. In these cases function/module authors succeed only in moving the eventual crash to somewhere far disconnected from the origin of the problem.
> Would it not be reasonable to write code that assumes data that matches its checksum is valid? Isn't that the point of a checksum?

That would be absolutely unreasonable. Filesystems can be malicious, for example Stuxnet transmitted via USB flash drive.
I appreciate the suggestion! I'll be changing the styles this evening.
Yes it does replace the need for volatile. The actual access is done via assembly language, either inline (better) or not.

You could make volatile work, probably, by putting inline assembly both before and after it. In that case you could probably even skip marking things valatile, because the inline assembly will make the compiler behave. Why bother? This is more complicated than just doing the access from assembly.

MTRR/PAT is often not enough, or it would only be enough if you killed performance elsewhere. (different types of MMIO in the same page) It's also not something you can rely on if you want to write portable code.
The intent behind the two instances is different. With blackface, it was part of entertainment, not political protest. With this Sweden thing (which I'm assuming is legitimate, as I've yet to see a source by the person claiming it, although I've asked), the intent seems clear, to me, to be political protest of the perceived dilution of their culture.

Now if black people in America were wearing white face to politically protest gentrification, I would say that's more equivalent to this Sweden thing than historical blackface.
I'm confused about your actual vision. You need to start with a small concrete idea to build at first (the things listed in your "stop gap" section are good examples).

I'm a huge fan of m-kopa solar, which is along this axis. Check that out too.
Very few of us read code today. Almost all of us read a human-readable description of what the software must do, and that is compiled into the actual code :-)

But seriously, the compiler/interpreter is the ultimate expression of Hal Abelson's dictum.
If you pay, you can place the freeze online. If you want to do it free because you qualify as a (potential) victim of ID theft (e.g. in any data breach), you have to do it by mail. And you must include proof. If they were serious about people being able to do this for free, they'd let you upload data breach documentation online, and get your freeze placed for free.
You're not in the 1% as it is popularly used. 1% applies to wealth, not income.

This is historically inaccurate, at least for American politics. There, the use of the phrase "top 1%" goes back at least as far as debates over then-Governor George W. Bush's income tax plan in the 2000 election[1]. Gore frequently used it as 'wealthiest 1%', but he was clearly citing studies based on the income breakdown[2].

If you want somebody who will fight for you and who will fight to have middle-class tax cuts, then I am your man. I want to be. Now, I doubt anybody here makes more than $330,000 a year. I won't ask you, but if you do, you're in the top 1%.

[1] http://debates.org/index.php?page=october-17-2000-debate-tra...

[2] http://www.ctj.org/html/bush0800.htm
YC is pretty huge now with over 1000 companies they've invested in. That's a lot of people involved. A lot of people that are in the same classes, meetings, dinners, etc. All of those people read HN.
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Oops, just found out he's a colleague :)
`pip install lxml` will indeed fail without VC++ for Python. In fact, sometimes it fails even with VC++ (e.g. installing lxml from within PyCharm). However, executing the binary installer or using `pip install lxml_package_whatever.whl` works just fine.
I think David DeAngelo talks about people funny all the way. It's like the Ben Stiller's character in Tropic Thunder, "don't become a full joker".

When you're just funny, there is a general lowering of respect for such people. People wanna hang out with you, but they don't respect you as much.

What you need to be is to add 'cockiness' to your personality. Again being just cocky is bad because then you just come out as a dick.

The killer combination is to get the right amount of cockiness + humor.