skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, definitely not. Seems to be very spotty.
Those practical properties do not explain the special significance pure gold is given in world trade.

Frankly form where i am sitting that significance has virtually shit all to do with golds chemical properties, and all to do with history.

Trade among locals were likely settled via OIUs (carrots now for mutton later or whatever). But settlement between distant peoples were harder.

One option would be by weight, with the lowest common denominator being some food grain or other. And here gold may come in, from one of those properties you mentioned, resistance to corrosion. Makes for a durable weight measurement token.

But weight depends on purity. So in comes some ruler or other that puts a brand on a measure of gold to guarantee the purity.

Over time that guarantee then becomes so reliable that people starting using the tokens directly in exchange rather than bringing out the scales.

But it is the purity guarantee that in the end make gold more than a shiny metal. And using modern material production the same guarantee could just as well be placed on a piece of plastic or similar.

But still people go gaga over gold. AKA worship.
Ad for everydownload shows up at the top of ddg for me on Chrome Android. Are you this incredulous, or just trolling?
Stroustrup's paper (mentioned in the article) about implementing this in C++ is pretty comprehensive and deals with performance as well.
https://octopart.com/
If you really want to dive into the technical details there's really no better book than Hull's "Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives". It's extremely well written and if you have a basic understanding of calculus and probability the math isn't too difficult. The only catch is that it is a very expensive book, but if you buy a used copy a few editions back it is more affordable. Also don't worry about the "derivatives" subject matter, if you want to understand derivatives you naturally have to understand the underlying instrument. If you just read the first 100 or so pages (covering Futures pricing) you'll have a pretty good sense of the basics of thinking about financial markets.

I really recommend this book even if you're not interested in Finance as a general guide for thinking about stochastic processes in a practical manner. Nearly all "basic" business/web metrics can be understood best if you understand how to correctly model financial instruments. Personally, I think the basics of quantitative finance are just as relevant to Data Science as machine learning is.
There aren't any example shots of the post cards.. How do these things look? I've stayed away from similar products because they have logos and unwanted crap on them.
Does anyone freelance/travel
I've been wanting to get into a position that would afford me a relatively small online income that would ultimately lead to a lifestyle of travel in low income countries where I could live comfortably. Does anyone have experience with this?
CloudFront and what Google has shipped here are completely different things. I don't really understand your anger here TBH. Might be worth playing with GCP again if you haven't in a while. It's much better than AWS and Azure.
There's no need to pay for software to do this. It's just a matter of running a single command as root to change the hibernate mode:

http://www.markc.me.uk/blog/files/OSXSafeSleep.html
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that 'Jeff' is at least glancing at each photo before sending it out. (In between complaining about the name and the lack of an app, at least.)

Or maybe they're having the interns do it.

EDIT: That or they're using an algorithm. Lol love the dry copy.
It's not quite so easy to create iterative improvements on the basic elements of the universe, as it is to iteratively improve crypto currency software.

It could be just as easily argued, probably more persuasively, that bitcoin's first mover status is more of a negative to its future prospects than a positive. This owing in large part to the hugely concentrated nature of the bitcoin currency.

It's hard to see how a bitcoin economy gets off the ground in any meaningful sense when the distribution is arranged like that. It's unlikely to get any enthusiastic buy in when people doing so understand that the value of their currency would be subject to the whims of just a few major players in the bitcoin game.

And any rich person capable of make a large bitcoin buy in would be hesitant to do so because their essentially making themselves relatively poorer than the bitcoin barons in doing so.

Figuring out a distribution model that works in concert with a growing digital economy is an open question in crypto currencies.
I would be pretty hesitant to characterize any government with a legal system that works essentially by fiat, a sophisticated censorship regime, and the possibility of punishment for association or speech as "not authoritarian," even if China is somewhat more open than other countries which we use the term to describe.
I always enjoyed using Viber, but I never liked that it featured no encryption. It is an alternative for Skype for me, I could video call from my phone, laptop, tablet, etc and do audio calls. Skype became insecure, it leaks your IP address and it's got terrible synchronization issues, and now chatting is really buggy, messages show up in the wrong place for me, as well as the Linux client for it sucks. Viber has a good all around client for every OS I've used it in (including Linux).

This is fantastic news, as others have said, maybe they should really open source the portions of code that have to deal with E2E encryption so it may be audited.
What properties? The only property I could imagine is practical usefulness: gold is used in electronic devices. But it doesn't have much influence on gold's price, because it's very limited use.
FWIW, the second account WOULD be out of sight out of mind. you would just deposit into it, and then money would flow from it into your actual bank account via the service. Obviously, if you can get direct deposit, it works a lot better and you don't need such a setup.

But the very nature of 1099 means you could be working with a variety of clients, and are more likely to receive payment via check or other one-time method, versus direct deposit which is more common for W2 employees. I can't tell you how many one-off gigs i've had, or on/off where they just want to send me a check and thats the last i hear from them for months or ever; i'd get laughed at if i asked for direct deposit. (and did by a long term client: they like writing out checks)

If you want to actually solve this for 1099ers, your going to have to do more than just what works for a subset of users; and supporting checks absolutely needs to be on your roadmap at some point, at minimum. Otherwise... I don't think you really have any sympathy or understanding of the very field that you're trying to solve a problem for.
You can buy ETF-based index funds (Vanguard, iShares, SPDR, etc) via most brokers as they're listed on major exchanges.
There are better alternative for those properties than Gold, however. Gold just happens to be the same color as the presumed Sun-god.
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What about Julia?
http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/manual/methods/
Seconded: Harris Trading and Exchanges is an excellent book. I read it in 2006 when I was working for a rates trading desk, and wrote a series of blogs posts on it: https://etrading.wordpress.com/category/reading-harris/
Don't tell you what?
Not sure where it comes from but I do the same. Single for most things like atoms etc and double for text (user facing / error messages / logging).
I found this mildly interesting: the "screenshots" in this article are made out of HTML elements.
> If most things go awry after a war, that's not because of the currency and nobody will care about the currency either

Then why are you bringing this up? You said it yourself: "that's not because of the currency". It's because the things you buy became too expensive or too cheap. If the currency remains stable, you could still buy the same amount of most things in other countries not affected by the war.
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I'd say that so far, Apple has gotten a lot of good apps in spite of their App developer/app submission infrastructure, rather than because of it. It's basically been an obstacle rather than a help.

Is this a sign that their Jobsian approach to third-party developers is changing?
The status of reflection in C++
If it's only worth $5 to you (~ one mobile game), it can't be that big a pain in the ass.

The correct price lies somewhere between $0 and the cost for you (or a CPA, $80-150/h) to do it. A percentage is fine too, as it's essentially risk free for the user (no income = no cost that month).
Or maybe if so many people didn't want to sound smart with little effort...
Of course pharma companies get a return on advertising - for example, getting doctors to prescribe their products over cheaper generics or for patients where they're of questionable use is incredibly profitable. The trouble is, they're getting that return by making healthcare more expensive and worse for actual patients. You and other patients are paying for them to convince doctors to make prescribing decisions that cost more and even give worse outcomes.
If solar was profitable (or saved money), we would see all power companies switching to it on a massive scale and with a sense of urgency (it would be good business after all). Where are the regional solar arrays on a massive scale being built in deserts across the US? We aren't seeing this (there are some token tax writeoff/marketing/PR ones only). Alert me when it happens because this will signify that solar is finally viable. Forget these stories and media hype, it's all BS. If you want to invest your money to save the world A La Prius owners who almost never break even financially, more power to you. It's mostly an illusion that you are saving the planet at this stage of efficiency and manufacturing environmental cost, but if it makes you feel good - Go for it. Sorry to be a downer, but reality agrees with me.

Edit: One more thing, I can almost guarantee that the India energy minister is being compensated in some way for saying this. Either directly or he has financial investment in a particular solar company.
Do you have a technical link to how to run Windows Containers in this new offering?

I tried to look and this is the most specific I could find:
"
At this time the service supports Linux containers only. Microsoft has committed to providing Windows Server Containers using Docker and Apache Mesos is being ported to Windows. This work will allow us to add Windows Server Container support to Azure Container Service in the future.
"

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-container-servi...

However that documentation is old as you can see.
I cant find any new documentation.

I did find a post on how to setup a virtual machine of Windows Server 2016 preview and use it as a container
What problems?
I'm sorry, what invitation are you talking about? The Facebook event system?

If so, if someone wants to invite me, I'm sure they can find a way around Mark Zuckerberg to do this. If not, their loss. I'm not a party person though, that might have something to do with it as well. (I do get around to my share of hacker conferences, but they somehow don't seem to use Facebook...)
You can do this through your normal brokerage. Just pay attention to the fees. ~$10 per trade is normal, but many brokerages will offer reduced or no fees for certain ETFs or mutual funds.
They could take all the coins. All of them.
I always hear people make this claim, but on what evidence do we "know" that? There is no contemporaneous source talking about him while he's alive; the earliest we've got is Mark which was probably written around 60 or 70.
No idea. Actually the way this works in some players is a mouse drag acts as an analog stick, moving with proportionate speed the further you drag from the start. That's how QuickTime VR worked two decades ago and it seems we've regressed since.

That said, mobile and touch is a better platform for this experience, and using touch gestures the "globe spinning" behavior works better.
>Apps or metadata that mentions the name of any other mobile platform will be rejected

So if I have a cross platform messaging app, I can't say, "syncs with android and Windows phone devices". Really?

>Apps cannot use Push Notifications to send advertising, promotions, or direct marketing of any kind

Ahem Lyft.
We seem to be heading back towards those days.

The property that made this possible was that DOS had little "state" to save before going bye bye.

And these days you get much the same with ChromeOS.

Heck, was there not someone in the -sec community arguing that state was to be considered bad?
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I wish their iTunes EULAs etc. were that clear.
Two of my faves, Random Walk & Trading & Exchanges, have been mentioned by several others, so I won't comment further. Some other books I've enjoyed have been Lewis: Liar's Poker, Das: Traders, Guns & Money, Niederhoffer: Education of a Speculator, Partnoy: FIASCO and Kinderhoffer: Manias, Panics & Crashes. And Taleb: Fooled by Randomness.
Man, if this would've been around a year or so ago! The whole 1099 process was by far the biggest pain point for me of being a contractor/sole proprietor.

What led you to address this problem from the banking, rather than accounting, side? For me, the banking part wasn't a big source of friction. It was keeping up with income and expenses, trying to determine what I could safely deduct, and coming up with a reasonable estimated quarterly tax bill (especially for my state taxes, which I could only send in yearly). After that was done, moving the money around was relatively trivial. Even if your product removes all that friction, I would still think that requiring users to open up another bank account and essentially give you control over all their revenue would be a huge hurdle to overcome.

Also, were I still a contractor, not being able to track expenses as well would be a deal breaker for me, especially in months where cash flow was tight. Yes, doing my taxes is a hassle, but compared with the hundreds or thousands I might save on a quarterly tax bill with expenses accounted for, it is a minor annoyance.
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Well most PC cases back then had a physical reset/restart button, iirc.
I will definitely do so! Thank you. :)
By the way, accepting contributors? Maybe I can help out in some way...
It's turned on tomorrow.
Seriously, though, in the image, the seat tube temperature seems to peak several inches above the bottom bracket. The rear stays are cold.
I had a class in high school freshman year where we would get a $10,000 fund to paper trade with. We'd make our selections and record them in a journal. Each day, we'd review the WSJ and track prices on our picks.

I went to watch stock ticker channels on PBS at homes and subscribe to Investor's Business Daily.

From there, I spoke with my parent's financial advisor and was able to make some small purchases to invest some of my family's real money.
If anyone finds themselves debating between these options I highly recommend you listen to this, it's a great quick summary:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/03/04/469247400/episo...
It's hard to say which project is more popular based on the number of stars, pull requests, issues, contributors, releases, etc.

Both Laravel and Symfony are the leading PHP frameworks and they're both very popular.

https://github.com/laravel (framework org)

https://github.com/illuminate (Laravel components org)

https://github.com/symfony (framework+components org)

Notably, there is also a difference between the laravel/laravel and laravel/framework -- one has the core code and the other is the public face of the project. Looking at only the former will skew their appearance.

Furthermore, Laravel heavily uses/wraps core Symfony packages (eg: console, http-kernel, routing, process, translation, etc).

Competition between the two is definitely occurring, which is a good thing as they are both comprehensive and modern PHP frameworks.
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Make sure you chunk it and use the S3 multi-part upload API. That way, you can break into N chunks, and then upload N in parallel, to get closer to saturating your uplink. The same works for downloads, where you can use byte range GET's to essentially do multi-part download.
And using a Windows only font for the "moon and stars" dialog. At least the supposed moon comes up as a "missing character" in Firefox on Linux.
> 10.3 Apps that do not use system provided items, such as buttons and icons, correctly and as described in the Apple iOS Human Interface Guidelines may be rejected

Edit: Alright, I'm taking a slaughtering on karma. Point taken. You can implement your own widgets on iOS.

Please accept my apologies to all for my original comment that I thought Google wasn't in compliance and for my misguided interpretation.
Good idea, I'll add some samples in a bit.

There's nothing on them except what you add.
I have heard that too but never really got down to testing it out. In fact I have resigned to the fact that when it comes to sleep to each their own.

For eg I have experienced better quality of sleep after taking ZMA ( I weight train ). But I have heard anecdotes where people have said that its just a placebo.
Maybe they should switch to bugzilla or phabricator or jira or something. Github issues don't scale well to complex distributed projects. Chrome just open sourced their monorail project that's designed for this kind of project too. Lots of great choices out there.
Have you looked at FreshBooks? You can sync expenses with your credit card(s) and bank account(s), categorize them, then view a Profit & Loss report to see your net income (income minus expenses).
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> I feel confident that Facebook has stumbled on something in our animal behavior that draws us closer to it.

It's a "novelty addiction". They weren't the first, it's just its content is closer and more relevant to you since it's people you know. The feeling when you find something new gives you a pleasurable dopamine hit, so you're constantly looking for more.

Same can be said for people addicted to reddit, HN, Twitter, etc.
Same with bing.com and yahoo.com
PL/V8 maintainer here - yes, JSON/JSONB structures are brought through the C++/Javascript membrane, but for the most part it doesn't seem too slow (full disclosure, i wrote a mongo clone on PL/V8 a few years ago).

but, there is also the ability to simply query from inside a function using plv8.execute(), which gives you the ability to use JSONB operators, which are much faster.
yeah... and Yahoo!'s projected earnings around 1999 for the next 10-15 years made it obvious to any intelligence that it would take over the world.

life finds a way. you're an idiot.
If that's your only takeaway from my post, that's fine. Having said that, you have literally just described my school years...
There were probably more people making 3D storefronts twenty years ago than there are today.
I agree with most of the recommendation in this article (thanks for publishing it!), but the advice about futures should be taken with a grain of salt. You need to be careful with futures because they swallow exceptions. However, the solution given (setting a global exceptions handler), while sound advice in general, doesn't actually solve the problem of hidden errors, as futures catch all exceptions and return them (so the caller can handle the failure in whatever way it prefers).

If your goal is "fire and forget" behavior (e.g. sending off a confirmation email), then it's better to use java.util.concurrent.Executors directly. It's actually easier than it sounds: https://gist.github.com/pesterhazy/c41786690ee0f8a3e5a21f88f.... Also see https://stuartsierra.com/2015/05/27/clojure-uncaught-excepti...
Although the trend is global warming, each individual month/year can be more variable. In some places, at some times, it may even get colder. Regional/seasonal variables like El Nino, La Nina, and ocean currents can all come into play.
There definitely are lean frameworks around. Mithril.js is a good example, being small and standalone itself, and having inspired several spin-off projects that share the philosophy of having simplicity as a goal.
> 2.7 Apps that download code in any way or form will be rejected

Is this an indication that things like CodePush[0] may be rejected in the future?

0: http://microsoft.github.io/code-push
Yeah. "Anonymous Redditor makes highly unsubstantiated claims that Microsoft flatly denies" is not exactly what I'd call "evidence."
Not a blog, but one of the top journals for machine learning is all open access and freely available:

http://jmlr.org

Also, see the Machine Learning section of CORR on arXiv:

http://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/recent

A good aggregator for ML content is:

http://machinelearning.reddit.com

You may also find some good stuff at

http://www.kdnuggets.com

http://flowingdata.com/

Also, see: http://www.datatau.com/ "Hacker News for Data Science"

There's also a good stackexchange site that includes ML:

http://stats.stackexchange.com/

And there was a good site here, but it appears to be down at the moment, not sure if it's temporarily so, or permanently:

http://www.metaoptimize.com/qa
What is the chance that MS and Apple access certain APIs that others can't?

This either because they are not documented, or because of the amount of special case code that would be required.
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As much as I liked the idea of Atom, giving it a genuine try for about six months, I ended up going back to trusty Sublime Text. Why? As a developer, I think it's silly to make my computer do more work than necessary, to take up more CPU and battery than needed. And, the subtle non-native sluggishness always seemed to reduce the usability, ever so slightly, not also counting the occasional "the editor has frozen" prompts.

Admittedly, Atom's background color is hands-down more eye pleasing with its slightly blue tint. Fortunately Sublime is skinnable.
What s/he's saying is that because GCP runs on a Google network, it's blocked by the GFWoC.
Right now, the Azure Container Service is a Linux only offering. We are working to enable Windows Server Container support using the Windows Server 2016 preview. Stay tuned for future announcements on this.
I've used this with a Flask project before, great module and super easy.
The drawback here is that the STM (at least the Clojure implementation few years ago when I tested it) is orders of magnitude slower than simple atomic reference.

It actually does not have to be, but this is how it is (was) implemented. I built a simple STM (in Java) as part of my bachelor thesis and its performance was comparable to the atomic reference.
Or even GitMongo or Downloads or iOctocat or Dropbox, albeit in uncompiled or text or binary forms ;) some of these apps even let you download HTML that run JavaScript...