skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's not about principles, it's about efficiency. 30% (if that is the number) is a huge markup.

Then solve that by creating a new non profit that charges costs, or remove barriers to entering the business, and so on.

Complaining about the profit margins of a business while ignoring the reasons their profit margins are high (it's almost always because of barriers to entry) isn't useful.

>Why shouldn't that core business also include making those artefacts available to others? Why not a subsidiary owned by a consortium of universities?

That's a good idea, and I'd be all for it if they can do it. But while there isn't such a thing, complaining about high profits by companies providing a service is pointless, except to the extent you have an alternative or are pushing for one to be implemented.
Yeah - the entire article is about publicly traded companies.
Will high-stakes testing ruin EdTech's hopes?
A transistor is not two diodes back-to-back. It may be literally true that a transistor is two P-N junctions, but if you think of a transistor this way, you'll never understand them. The magic of the transistor is that if the P-N junctions are close enough together, you get transconductance -- when either junction is forward-biased, current can flow between the collector and emitter. Diodes don't do this!
I get around 0.07 seconds without the write in C++ and the same in Python (good call though).

I agree that in pure Python it'd be slower, but realistically why would you do that? Unless you work somewhere where you're forced to write your own libraries... but even then you could still implement your own.
Why Teachers Need to Know the Wrong Answers
You worry about "putting your reputation on the line" but if you're really behaving like this you probably already got a reputation of somebody who has a problem with women. It will hurt your career in the end.

So maybe you don't talk about yourself at work, have no doubt that others talk about you.
The result would be that publishers charge for publication, similar to current open access options. It could be that greater usage of open access would bring down the cost, but I'm not sure.

Definitely the number of grants would go down as the cost of publishing starts being factored in, although this may be partly or fully outweighed by the reduction in universities' costs.
Apologies in advance for not adding anything to the discussion, but I believe you mean "I would much rather", because "I'd much rather" != "I had much rather".
The UK Ministry of Defence system for classifying supplier codes is also called ISIS.

https://www.isisweb.mod.uk/webisis/navigate.do
Good article, but straight from the big book of the very obvious.

Were this the case, children would have to spend months deliberately studying how to play.

As the author says, deliberate study is antithetical to creativity. Creativity is spontaneous, playful, imaginative - and none of those things come from grinding.

I have my best ideas usually while doing something totally unrelated.
I've ascended without modifying code. I did have to insert a level map from a game in explore mode because there was a bug in the version I was playing. The bug meant that there was a level where there was no up staircase generated.
Google doesn't go in a direction, it goes in directions. Very large companies, especially companies like Google that have enormous computing needs, begin to worry about lots of things that us little guys don't directly worry about. Like: throughput/watt, total heat dissipation per cubic foot, electrical loss per backup, total throughput per cubic foot, etc. Companies don't do any one thing but have enough money to customer hardware to try out various combinations, min/max certain features, and use one company's hardware as a wedge to get better features/cost against other companies.

Undoubtedly, Google has a use case in mind, it's probably going to be five or more years before we hear why this particular hardware was of specific interest.
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Off topic, but I really loathe the word "hustled" that is ever popular in tech circles.

Where I am from "to hustle" or a "hustler" means to rip someone off, to take advantage of someone and provide as little value as possible. I'm never sure if people are talking about ripping others off to make a profit or just mean working really fast and diligently.
What if the way the UK treats stock options for tax purposes is the right way and the US is extremely lenient?
Mirror for any of us license fee payers?
It would be nice if you guys supported external origins, but I understand the reasons for not doing so. :D

Edit: Any chance you could ask Cedexis to add GCDN to these reports: http://www.cedexis.com/reports/#?report=dsa&country=US&date=...
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This feature was never described as half-ready. The ticket said we had half ready code, but it's part of the design process to choose whether or not we'll use that code. I can see, however, how this may give a reader the wrong impression, and I apologize for that.

As can be seen in the follow ups for that ticket, we haven't yet decided if we'll support standard secondary index, SASI, some form of materialized views, or all of them. Until we do, it's hard to commit to a timeline. Basic secondary index (for which we have code half ready) is pretty simple, and if we do implement it, it should land in our main version in a couple of weeks. The others are a bit more complicated.
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News Corp. files antitrust charges against Google in Europe
Ohh man .. this guy made me remember my all time love of hacking wth all sorts of electronic circuits .. those NPN transistors .. those FM transmitters .. those AM transmitters using 555 timer chip .. gang condensors .. and then on Digital side .. my favourite Op Amp , decade counters ... ohh my ohh myy .. i just miss those days .. :(
Kudos to you good sir for calling someone out and putting your wallet on the line. I hope the other guy comes through and you get a friendly wager going.
You don't seem to grasp what I'm saying. Giving or not giving food is not the penalty.
If some people stay beyond work hours for food and work while they are there, but some people don't stay, it should not be held against them.

>Different companies offer different perks which appeal to different workers. If you don't like the perks of a particular company, it's not a "penalty"—just work elsewhere

First, this is a general trend, not an exception. Most new companies advertise free food as a perk.
Second, just work elsewhere is not always possible for everybody. If you can't relate to other people's situation and problems, keep quiet. Don't say it is not a problem because you don't think it is.

will you say the same thing about working conditions in sweatshops? Should the kids assembling iPhones also 'find' another job?
The video in this post is part of a larger series that I just finished watching. I highly recommend watching through all of them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3RrVmv5WwA&list=PLnsTB8Q5Vg...
What's the best way to eliminate the market risk you get when you're issued RSUs? Short selling? Put options?
I was going to say that :) When you are starting and have very few users, you should be fast.

It is very hard to keep it very fast when you have millions of free users, like CloudFlare does. That is impressive.
Does anyone know what chip this runs on? i.MX, other Freescale, Movidius?
banner day for fair use. :)
Ask HN: Visiting Bulgaria and Romania:  Where to Stay?  What to Do?  Who to See?
Looking for advice on getting the most out of the city from a startup perspective. I'd love to have the potential to meet a few freelancers or dev shops in the area face to face.

I wouldn't mind having some advice as far as where to stay, anything I have to see or do while I'm in the area. As a first time visitor, is their anything I just cannot miss?

I wouldn't mind building a good network of contacts that have a potential for friendships or working relationships.

To put it bluntly, what would you share with an American coming to Bucharest, Romania. Then Burgas and Sofia in Bulgaria.
> Not to mention the fact that Homebrew itself uses the system git to install itself.

To me, this is the biggest problem, and it's not just Homebrew. Any source package manager that uses Git will potentially have this problem. With a vulnerable Git on your system, you have to second-guess every build script you ever run that might make use of Git, to make sure it obeys the path you set instead of choosing its own.
This is basically jQuery for CSS. You need to manually update the stylesheet in response to events, instead of changing the state and having the virtual DOM do the work for you.

I'm really surprised the author went through all the trouble of making this, considering that you can handle dynamic styling via inline styles in React.

class MyComponent {
render() {
return (
<div style={{color: this.state.color}}>
My Text
</div>
);
}
}
See my comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11522126

You are right about the difference, you are wrong when you say that thinking about them like this will mean I'll never understand them. It's the merging of the N (or P) bands that makes the magic of a transistor happen, but not thinking of them as diode-like junctions means you're only thinking about them one way, not as an integrated concept.

We are probably in violent agreement, but I suggest that if you only understand diodes as diodes and transistors as transistors, you are limiting your points of view, and potentially not seeing the whole picture.
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Would love to see CloudFlare added to the mix. In fact, I would love to see Incapsula, Sucuri and KeyCDN compared as well, to get all top players compared.

I guess I might be asking too much :)
Feel free to use my code to make projects and participate in the $1,000,000 challenge that was just announced by telegram:
https://telegram.org/blog/botprize
And turning the alarm off typically comprised popping the bonnet once in and just yanking the cables out of the aftermarket crap.

I went through a phase of buying 80's cars, and had to disable more than a few weirdly installed aftermarket alarms the violent way - even did so once in a sainsburys car park, and managed to break the window as I slammed the door in rage at the fucking thing - and nobody batted an eyelid. Could've been stealing it, no problem. Or maybe it was the suit. Nobody suspects the guy in the suit.
Good news, everyone! This year, Pavel Durov will be giving away one million dollars to bot developers in the form of grants starting at $25,000 each.

Note that 'grants' is bolded in the article. A grant is not a prize, and a prize it not a grant. So it's one or the other, and since what they are doing would normally be called a prize (or reward), the fact that they specifically mention grants is likely because it has special significance.

It's like if I say to my uncle, "I'm giving you a gift of $10,000 in the form of a loan. Enjoy your $10,000". A gift can't be a loan, and a loan can't be a gift (for tax purposes). But I might say that, because the tax treatment for loans and gifts are different.

So that goes to my question of whether or not calling it a grant has tax significance.
It's called Civil Forfeiture. The money was arrested and charged with a crime. Since he's not a party the crime, unless he wants to admin being a party to it, he can't defend the cash. Since it can't defend itself, there is no need for the trial as it is going to lose by default; therefore, the cash can be taken. Makes one's blood boil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

Cool thing is police now out steal thieves in the U.S. for the group most likely to take your stuff:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...
Chiltern are owned by Deutsche Bahn are they not? A state operator running a better railway, who'd've thought it. (And aren't the improvements all funded by the back door by central government anyway?)
Mobile Messenger Co-Founder Arrested for Drug Dealing
Having a recognized GPS tracker in your car can usually get you a 10-20% discount. So if you're driving a reasonably recent and/or higher end car, you'll save more than that on insurance premiums.
Inspirational and really touching. To have someone like that in your life is amazing; to try and be that person is not a bad idea either :)
Programmers of the next generation will not use tablets or smartphones as a development platform.
https://medium.com/@philipp_lgh/building-an-ibm-watson-power...

also feel free to use the code when participating in the challenge
Awesome work, and this is quite interesting, something worth exploring with more depth that an hackaton can't provide.

Having said that, and as a Jazz fan, the generated music is horrible. Keep feeding it more jazz tunes :P
You know, you sometimes say really brilliant and insightful things, like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520762

And then you say something like the above and I shake my head and wonder how both sentiments can be expressed by the exact same person. Do you not see how your other comment applies to the situation that you find personally frustrating? Do you not see how unreasonable it is to expect all women to just give a straight up "no" instead of a polite excuse?

I am pretty forthright and I find that just straight up telling men "no" is all kinds of problematic. If just saying "no" worked and solved my problems, wow, that would be heaven.
C# every day for 2.5 years.

I build Windows, iOS and Android (Xamarin).
Router companies have the exact same problem. They package software that will probably be out of date by the time it ships to the customer and there is rarely a mechanism to update it except "buy a new one."
Fair enough. In this case though, both sides of the aisle will give you the same legal advice.
Interesting, looks like they're attempting something like differential analysis where they compare how genes express differently once they've found matches.
I remember years ago when every new PHP application would have "PHP" before its name. PHPNuke, PHPMyadmin, etc, etc.

Seeing the same trend with Go now. Why add the language name to the software name? Real question...
Grand Theft Auto games [may] be reducing crime by keeping feisty young men occupied"

Blasphemy! It is a mere training ground for these soon-to-be criminals.

Which, incidentally, is why Google won't be installing joypads in their self-driving cars.
I played once without cheating but death at every turn mode is kind of harsh.

Cheating, I can play every class to ascension and see everything the game has to offer without needing anti-depressants.

It would be nice if they had a difficulty level setting instead of defacto Nightmare.
> will there be a required DNA sample as part of visa/border entry for visitors and tourists?

The linked article said yes.
Does Gmail count as enough users? ;)
When human composers attempt to compose original music, they have immediate access to their own subjective judgement of the quality of the music.

Until such time as we discover an algorithm that replicates human taste in music, any AI-based approach to composing music will fail because it will not have any feedback about the quality of the music.
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I feel like I've heard a lot of general hate toward the Kindle when it comes to anything with visuals. For starters, it's in black and white, but that's obvious, and nobody's going to try to sell or buy a coffee table photo book on the Kindle.

But the bigger issue with the Kindle platform is the inability to mimic the usefulness of a large, graphics-heavy reference book. It has a tiny screen that isn't good for viewing larger diagrams, and its tools for quickly flipping through pages or jumping back and forth between specific parts of the book are pathetic when compared with using a real book.

In terms of popular digital devices, the Kindle is the most puzzling to me. It was an innovative and groundbreaking technology when it was introduced 8 years ago, and all we've seen since then are the most boring and incremental improvements. Some have even been major missteps, as evidenced by the removal of physical page-turning buttons, only to have them return in the latest model.

Imagine if smartphones, tablets, wearables, or laptops had undergone such a severe lack of innovation in the past 8 years. How the product leadership of the Kindle team isn't fired and replaced with people who have real vision is a complete mystery to me.

I thought Bezos was supposed to be a hard-ass, but from an outsider's perspective it seems like he's totally fine with them barely lifting a finger to collect their paychecks.
The numbers I saw were positive. It was over $100mil in 2015 with projected $10 in 2016. Revenues are huge. Im a bit tired so might have missed the negatives but looked good at a glance.
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The problem is not math. The problem is not fighting. The problem is not the street. The problem is ego. Until you lose yours, you will not grasp logic.
Hackers use Congressman’s iPhone to demonstrate vulnerabilities
Modeling a zombie apocalypse
The author's GitHub graph is pretty epic... Not to mention his 495 day commit streak.
this was a lovely piece of writing, and quite touching.
Yea I suppose so. But I was always gonna re-read them, no matter the initial speed... I just didn't want someone else to spoil it I guess. I also find it easier to keep the plot in my head if I'm reading faster. If I read too slowly, I kind of forget what's happened. The experience is too similar to reality. Haha.
This was easily my favorite course at MIT, and there were a lot I liked.

In fact, I liked this course so much that the CTF team I started back in college was named "The Art of Approximation in Science and Engineering," the name of the course taught by this professor / that used this book.

Highly recommend.
It's better to withhold remitting profits to the United States if they are used to pay for expenses which would have otherwise used after-tax dollars from the U.S. This also incentivises the offshoring of production, since a dollar overseas is now "cheaper," on a tax-adjusted basis, than a dollar domestically.
In Bucharest, by day I recommend you to stay in Dorobanti Area and Herastrau area, by night try to visit the old town bars and nightclubs. If you didn't book any hotel I think the best hotel to say is Radisson.

We don't have that many tech spaces but you can visit Techhub.
For you, the wrong response to your question causes harm to your feelings.

For a woman, giving the wrong response to an obsessed creeper can cause harm to her career, her body, or her life. (Yes, I am quite aware that women can be creepy and violent. No, it is not a frequent power dynamic in the office.)

It would certainly be nice if we could be honest all the time, but you are demanding far too much in this bargain.
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OP here: You are right, CloudFlare would have been nice and in retrospect we should have added it. I think it would have fared quite nicely as during all the tests we do on regular basis its doing really well.
How a global board games giant exploited Ireland's Magdalene women
Have ridden on this (at least I assume I have I can't read the sodding article), quite a unique experience.
In an unlimited subscription model you aren't voting with money, you're voting with whatever Amazon decides you're voting with, which is currently the maximum page you reach.
> If they search the entire population then there should be 1000s of matches.

Is that still true?

I recall that in the early days of DNA fingerprinting there would be many people in the world that matched a given sample (although I think it was maybe dozens, not thousands...), but I thought that they were now testing more loci, narrowing it down much much more.
For anyone looking for a DIY type thing, you can buy modems that use the Iridium satellite network for maybe $250. Line fees are about $12/mo and from what I remember when I looked, it's actually quite cheap if you just want to transmit short textual data (like location status updates). Worked out a lot cheaper monthly than using 3G from most of the carriers around here.

Of course, it comes with its own downsides. For instance you'll lose reporting if they pull in an underground garage. On the other hand, if they ship your vehicle to the South Pole you'll continue to have reception.
Couchbase Mobile in a Cross Platform Telerik NativeScript App
I like the fact that you tied the Watson api and the Telegram api together in a simple app, but it's a bit far-fetched to claim that "building intelligent bots is not too hard" based on this example.
Beeching mostly hurt rural communities, but he absolutely murdered Wales's transport network. What were 20 minute journeys now require a 200 mile circuit via England. Here's a (spammy, sorry) article that illustrates just how mad it was and is. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/7-ways-beeching...

All on the idea that people would drive to a main line station, park, then catch a train.

Except they never actually thought that, beeching and his chums were taking, uh, considerations, from the automotive lobby, just like his predecessors did when they ripped out the trams.

Cars suck for distance travel. Where did we ever get the idea otherwise?
> I think that building your problem-solving muscles, as I believe that this book tries to encourage, is far more important than building your mental-math muscles. (I say this as someone who takes pride in my own very limited capacity for mental math.) While these muscles are not totally unrelated, it is possible to be good at either skill and poor at the other

I can only agree, but I may be biased because I'm a lot better at the problem-solving than the mental-math :). I'm always impressed by the mental agility of people like Art Benjamin, but I'm not convinced it's quite as valuable when it comes to it... given that computers can outperform him by orders of magnitude.

Btw, both of Mahajan's books are great, but if were to say which was more valuable to the general public I'd say it was Streeth-fighting. In my educational efforts, I've always been astounded at how bad people are at minimally sanity-checking their results when doing math problems. Even order-of-magnitude sanity checks seemed to beyond most of my students. In physics[1] you at least have units to sanity check against, but you'd be surprised how few students actually understand even unit-math enough to be able to check that they weren't comparing an acceleration value (m/s^2) to speed (m/s).

(Assuming SI units. You can do this completely generally by having abstract units "dimension" and "time", "mass", etc.)

[1] If there's one complaint I have against Math education it's that all my educators actively encouraged eliding the units even for problems based on physics. I'm not sure if this was just to try to trip students up on tests, but it was absolutely horrible from an educational perspective. ALWAYS keep the goddamn units so you can at least minimally sanity check your result!
CloudFlare is regularly blocking me (because of dynamic address I get from my provider; I have no real choice as I live in the country and not in a city) and being out-US, CloudFlare does not care at all. It is seriously the company I hate most at the net. There are so many alternatives to CloudFlare. Let's make the world a better place and use them.
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