skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was pretty much a complete failure all day of their system that takes online donations. They charge some non-profits up to 6% of the take, and furthermore charge them for the setup ($125 in some cases). Read about it at the failure blog linked above. This could end up destroying a lot of non-profits that work to get their fans ready to donate on the one special day of the year. My local area, Seattle, had an almost complete failure to take donations (I tried multiple times). The seattle give big day also was matching your donations, so my companies match plus that would have been triple funding. So sad.

The underlying company, kimbia, should refund all fees they charged these non-profits and the % they charged.
BTW that seems to be a nifty irc bot:

http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot
About a half XSLT jobs on Upwork seems to be from students trying to get their assignments done :) Which is pretty sad, I think.
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This is probably the least elaborate way to prove that I'm not totally clueless: https://defuse.ca/b/XCZtnL6Ix2F4ZuuLocy6pi

That's a (easily verifiable) sample of the DB that was taken during the latest bitcointalk hack, it is not publicly available on the internet.
> Heck, you could tax capital gains as regular income, and still eliminate any drag on reinvestment by allowing deductions for investment so long as the investments for which such deductions were taken were treated as having a zero basis value.

Which is a de facto consumption tax because it means you only pay tax when you sell securities without buying other securities, which you only do when you want to spend the money.

> Not really. You just structure the transactions to avoid what is taxable, e.g., you buy the yacht at a low nominal price and simultaneously (and completely coincidentally) by some financial investment not subject to consumption tax from the same party at an inflated price.

As opposed to the current system where you work for somebody for a low nominal wage and simultaneously (and completely coincidentally) they "sell" you a car for one dollar. Which in either case will get you prosecuted for tax fraud.

> Anyone who can avoid paying taxes on their income in an income tax system can avoid paying taxes on it in a consumption tax system. (If you have an "unconditionally tax every transfer of money between two parties" system, it gets harder, but that has all kinds of downsides.)

This is not actually that hard. You make the amount of the consumption tax based on the market value of the purchased item rather than the amount you nominally paid for it, with a presumption that the amount you paid is the market value, which the IRS can easily rebut when you're claiming the market value of a yacht is $20.

> Sure, if you only ever sell shares that have lost value, you can avoid paying the (low) capital gains tax, at the expense of always losing money.

It's not actually losing money. You invest in a diverse portfolio of stocks, some go up, some go down, some stay the same. When you want to spend some money you sell the stocks that have underperformed rather than the stocks that have performed well, which (at the risk of selling low) is plausibly what you want to do anyway, and then you pay no taxes because you realized no gains.

Even if all your stocks went up and by the same amount, if you want to spend 1% of the total assets then you still only pay tax on 1% of the gains because the rest of the gains are still unrealized. So it's already effectively a consumption tax as long as you can avoid changing what you're invested in.

Except that it's a consumption tax that taxes only the spending of interest (and earned income) but not principal, which seems to be to the benefit of people with more wealth.
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Ingresso is a London-based ticketing startup. We have done the work to connect to a large number of ticketing system APIs, allowing us to transact directly on the venue's system. We are profitable and processed over £18 million worth of tickets in the first 4 months of the year, 4x more than the same period last year.

Our ticketing platform consists of:

- an API (exclusively powering Amazon's ticketing business tickets.amazon.co.uk)

- a white label website (eg www.fromtheboxoffice.com)

We aim to make these two products the best in market, and need your help to do it :) We use a combination of Python and C. We have recently written 2 new services in Go, and have just migrated half our infrastructure to Google Cloud.

We're looking for:

- Senior Backend Web Developer

- Full Stack or Backend Web Developer

- Junior Technical Analyst

http://www.ingresso.co.uk/careers/ (yes, we need a new website)

matt at ingresso.co.uk
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I yearn for a return to USENET, when things really were distributed and uncontrollable .. these days we have so much content being generated around a nexus that is too easily controlled .. I wonder why we haven't re-invented USENET yet.
This is super interesting to me, is there anything else you can share about how you approached this? In my scraping Google experience I have found roughly the same thing where once you've passed the captcha test, you can scrape a lot more.

Were you scraping with real browsers or something like Mechanize/Curl? Rate limiting at all? Proxies or real servers?
You could always have them pay up front, which is what pretty much all telephony services like Twilio do, as fraud is high in that market. You could even have them pay up front with Bitcoin to avoid the CC fees.
CIA recommendations would work if they had some oversight so we knew they're actually telling truth: https://www.rt.com/usa/cia-torture-senate-report-489/

It's the top ranks pushing for more torture and interrogations while the actual guys on the ground keep reporting that it doesn't work. Lots of reports just a google away.
> I do think the embedded community should embrace better tools. But I dunno. This will be difficult - sort of a "science only improves one funeral at a time" thing...

To add to the list from nicksecurity, there are other vendors that keep Basic and Pascal compilers alive all the way down to PICs.

http://www.mikroe.com/mikrobasic/

http://www.mikroe.com/mikropascal/
I'm aware of a (now defunct) social networking site that used this for creating various image thumbnails and previews. Wouldn't surprise me that there are others.
I think it's often a matter of immediate freedom... even if I have a clear idea of what life is without high education.

"You'll do whatever you want but get a degree first": tell me you've never heard these words. Maybe this education-then-life approach is counter-productive: education should be a life long journey, and life shouldn't start after your studies. "Finish your homework first, then you'll get to play" may be related...

Also, I suffered a stroke at 32 because of my job, so I'm not sure IT is as safe as you think. YMMV.

And I didn't study in the USA. Free education in Europe is not always as sexy as some may think. I often think that maybe this difference is what makes Europeans boring, and americans so creative and innovative. It's like we're trained through higher education to be obedient (white collar) workers, and you're trained more to achieve whatever you really want.

Lastly, it's been studied/proven/observed/shown that children who can delay immediate gratification for a better future outcome will perform better at school and in their lives (cf The Stanford marshmallow experiment).
It's configurable. You can even forward host's /dev/urandom as guest's /dev/random.
Here's the older link to the Bing Web Search API -- while the new page doesn't list actual prices, this one does in nice detail:

https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/bing/searchweb#terms
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However on the other side it should be easier to remove the welfare cliffs that exist in current systems. In the UK there are points where the marginal tax rate is iirc ~75%. In the US there are points where you end up with less money if you work more.

So we may be removing other large disincentives at the same time.
That VirtIORNG documentation page is really sad though, with all the warnings and quirks about the guest starving the host of entropy. The source end of that device should be fed by something like fortuna, or attach directly to urandom if available.

The way this currently looks to me, is that it all but ensures poor adoption rates.

bhyve on FreeBSD has virtio_random, and it simply hooks up to /dev/random (which on FreeBSD is nonblocking and can't starve).
Here's the old home, with pricing laid out (missing from the new one): https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/bing/searchweb#terms
> Sorry to hear you felt you weren't up to learning Angular & DI patterns. It can be tough for some folks who are still learning programming & JavaScript in general

I'm sure you don't mean that to sound condescending, but that's really not what I said. It was a question of magicalness vs. payoff - I needed a front-end framework that would handle a bunch of databinding and stay out of my way, and halfway into my first tutorial I found none of the sample code worked (either because I changed a local variable name or because my project already had minification set up, I don't recall). Either way the docs and tutorial I was using didn't even mention the function was being introspected, I had to go source-diving to find that out.

It all worked out to make Angular feel less like a framework and more like a career choice - I couldn't just give it idiomatic javascript and expect things to work. If this introspection thing is the one and only magical part of Angular and I just happened to trip over it, maybe I got the wrong impression.
I totally agree that it's a delightful engineering feat to get all that to run on a smartphone and I'm suitably impressed actually.

The hype I'm concerned about is the one about Deep Learning. The article is careless with the technology details and makes it sound as if Google is running deep neural networks for machine translation on peoples' phones, which would be, at this time, bigger news than AlphaGo beating Lee Sedol.
What Trump says feels safe and good to most of the people.

The human mind is lazy and doesn't want to think much if its gets satisfied easily unless you force it to do. But how many people actually put their mind while thinking about politicians. We just make conclusions from the things that we want and pleases ourselves.
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Go for it! An async python web framework with the speed of Go and the ecosystem of python would be a killer app.
Managers I respect would more accurately be described as saying "join the team or get out".

My favorite managers are coordinators and facilitators. They listen to everyone's input, above and below them, and stear the ship towards success. They gauge input commensurate with the experience and knowledge of each person from whom it came. They make decisions with special sauce that can't really be boiled down to words. They're transparent, communicative, thoughtful, available and appreciative.

If the manager has heavy experience and success, it may sound like he's saying "do this my way or get out". For example, Steve Jobs felt he had great taste, and many people felt he was a jerk.

He obviously received input from a huge number of people and couldn't have made Apple successful alone. He discusses how Apple recovered in the late 90s at D5 in 2007 [0]. The NeXT brainstorms are also interesting to watch [1]

[0] https://youtu.be/wvhW8cp15tk?t=23m42s

[1] https://youtu.be/BNeXlJW70KQ?t=2m1s
There are often hidden agendas in politics. The inscrutability of neural networks and these hidden agendas will make for interesting interactions.
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The idea outlined in the article is actually good. I'm not a fan of AdblockPlus due to the "we'll let adds through for payments" and much prefer uBlock but I do think it's strategically smart to include content micro payment with add blocking. They vastly overestimate how many people will pay for it (imo) but the segment of customers who hate adds but don't mind paying for content is a bit under served.

I am a very strong believer in good content being voluntarily rewarded if the business model is right (which includes strong price discrimination measures i.e. keeping the content free for a large chunk of people). It might be naive idealism (OpenBSD/OpenSSL, PGP not getting more donations has me scratching my head) but at the end of the day I think free (as in speech and beer) with optional payment to keep the excellent content creators in the business of creating content will work and should work.
Sell electricity at spot prices, give consumers access to that spot price, and you'll see a lot of demand flatten simply through natural market forces.

Where I live, I pay five times more for electricity between peak hours of 2pm and 8pm than I do between off-peak hours of 10pm-8am. (The remaining hours are priced at a medium level.) This has changed my behaviour, in that I now tend to wait until bedtime before switching on the clothes dryer and dishwasher.
Competition is unnecessarily burdensome. It just has to converge in less than polynomial time.
You can use guv[0] if you're looking for a UV based version of gevent. I've used it before with good success.

[0] https://github.com/veegee/guv/blob/develop/README.rst
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1. currently not a whole lot. perhaps its best feature is that it's part of the VS family, so in one IDE you get other langs like Python, C++, C#, etc. tho, a heavy IDE isn't everyone's cup of tea...

2. yes. VS comes with full git support built-in.
Is there a typical preferred language to write lexers and parsers in? I imagine Python would be quite intuitive...
If the user is happy having their problem solved in 500 ms, doing it in 10 ms isn't going to change the outcome.

Besides we have to make those CPU quadcores with 8 threads and a 4 GPU cores busy with something.

Also, as much as I like Rust, they still need to sort out some usability issues like non-lexical ownership.
If you do what you love for a living, you'll never have to work again. Of course what one person loves another can find boring :-)
Replacing random with urandom for one app is just one LD_PRELOAD away. Similar to https://rafalcieslak.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/dynamic-linker... you can replace open("/dev/random") with open("/dev/urandom")
Your website isn't working since last 1 hour.

* Rebuilt URL to: https://careers.guidewire.com/
* Trying 5.79.39.221...
* connect to 5.79.39.221 port 443 failed: Operation timed out
* Failed to connect to careers.guidewire.com port 443: Operation timed out
* Closing connection 0
curl: (7) Failed to connect to careers.guidewire.com port 443: Operation timed out

You really could use DevOps help. :)
So you are blaming the language for your bugs, bad design, bad testing practices and poorly choosed libraries.
I guess your code was overall shitty and the Go team did a better job, but this is not node fault.
Running a DNN on a phone isn't super hard. Training one is, but running is pretty efficient.

They definitely could run a DNN for translation on phones. For example the example seq2seq implementation in TensorFlow[1] would run on a phone fine, and that achieves close to state-of-the-art.

Google uses a DNN for offline speech recognition.

[1] https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.8/tutorials/seq2seq/i...
Don't forget the role who does most of the work, the autopilot :)
I do not trust the people here to give my perspective a fair chance. You're right. Why would I?

But also, I was on the bus and felt a prompt response was more useful than an exhaustive one.
A 10-year-old hacked Instagram so Facebook gave him $10,000
Yes - Orik thank you so much for understanding. We're using a library called Flask-limiter, so I'm looking into what could be causing this ... I probably misread the docs somewhere.

Startup Timelines was always made to be free and accessible, it didn't even ask you to create an account until last month (been running the site for a year now). I don't want anyone to be upset so I've quickly made an account you can use to browse if you've gotten this rogue error:

username: hn_user

password: startuptimelines1

(all accounts are full btw)

I'm sorry and hope this doesn't ruin your take on the site forever. There's a tour that walks you through the site when you register, so, here are screenshots of the pages:

Tour page 1: http://i.imgur.com/5DCwdbg.png

Tour page 2: http://i.imgur.com/o7ghamJ.png

Tour page 3: http://i.imgur.com/iHN775V.png

let me know if there is anything else I can do guys bakz[at]bakzdesign.com ... sorry and thank you again
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Cool idea but it's sad that it only works on tagged content
I think you missed the one-line terminal command that installs on any linux-based device. You can get the tools set up in just a few minutes, and for free, actually.
Both bits you're confused about, how deep nets are expensive to run and logistic regression scales better etc, are mentioned in the article and I use them in the same context.

EDIT: can't wait for the post timer to cool down, so please keep in mind I mean the submitted article, not the google research blog cited in that article.
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here[1] is the text that he claims he signed. I wasn't able to tweak it in any reasonable way to make it match the supposed hash. You can give it a go if you want.

[1]http://pastebin.com/zFxq6eiw
Pay attention to these types of offerings that hook revenue up directly to code. They are the future of software development and "self hosting" of applications.

The problem with any "per query" cost is that it's inherently scary due to it's unpredictability - founders end up worrying about covering costs if they grow faster than they can build revenue. Using a service that charges a fixed, predictable amount is more attractive because you can sign up and just forget about it (to an extent).
Genuinely curious, what is it about these things that she is disdainful. I ask because I there I imagine two scenarios. The first scenario has an expert not recognizing the potential for powerful abstraction to augment an individual's effort. I have run across this attitude in programmers sometimes--they say things like "C++ is the new assembly." The second scenario is has a layman not realizing the ignorance of their effort. I have run across this problem in new agers who get a little knowledge about string theory and believe the universe's sympathetic vibrations can be felt by the soul. A string theorist would rightly scoff at their conclusion.
It's more funny and provocative than most of the comics you see in newspapers, depressing enough. Compared to Mallard Filmore, The Family Circus, etc...
The shell doesn't interpret double-backslash in a single-quoted string. Therefore, this will indeed do.
The GMX account password could be reset by knowing the accounts date of birth. The p2p foundation site leaked the date of birth used by the account there.

(the date used was the day of the year that eo6102 made private gold ownership unlawful, and 1975-- when it became lawful again)
Siri mis-hears about every other sentence I send her, so I'd say speech recognition is far from solved.

But we are getting closer.
Wow ! Mindbogling !
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"Knowledge worker" jobs may be more at risk than manual labor jobs. Robots are still very poor at dealing with unstructured situations, and progress on fixing that is very slow. Robots mechanically dexterous enough to, say, do a routine plumbing repair job don't exist yet, and the ones that are close are very complex and expensive.

On the other hand, machine learning systems are getting good at a lot of white-collar jobs that used to require human thinking. If you sit at a desk and your inputs and outputs all come in over a wire, be very afraid.
Glue a straw to a ping-pong ball and suspend it in the bathtub's drain ;)
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This is a horrible interview question for all but a tiny handful of jobs:

Is 300.168.0.123 a valid IPv4 address?

...but it is a great late night fun trivia question about "how can adding one character to that address make it into an address accepted by many tools".
You're basically asking why would anyone want to make more than the minimum; if you think about that for 10 seconds, the answer would be obvious to you.
Oh yes, because denying that your code has a vulnerability counts as a good
security practice.

You know why this MTA has that low count of published bugs? Because nobody
uses it anymore, so nobody looks at its code (and now factor in the ugliness
of the code itself, which lowers the eagerness to look at the code even more).
It's not because the code is (magically?) better.
> It seems to me, then, that this isn't really a fair comparison to node, is it?

Isn't node written in C?
An important question is - do your peers also suffer from similar things?
To those downvoting lmm, look up C11 Annex K. There are standards for adding bounds checking and the like to C, but compiler makers don't implement them because they're "too slow." We need to demand more of our tooling makers.
I'm usually quite against ad-blockers, but this kind of thing could be a step in the right direction.
It's the best of both worlds but doesn't shield you from the worst of one of the worlds. Untrusted input is still reaching code that has direct access to system memory. Hopefully not, anyway. But probably. Still, it's the way to go if performance is key.
> The library is essentially just a wrapper around this command-line tool.

That sounds bass ackwards if you ask me. A command line tool is usually a thin wrapper around a library, for a reason.

I realize it might seem crazy to duplicate functionality from gs into your library, but then the tool should link against those code bases as libraries instead of calling some gs executable (which of course in turn is just a wrapper around a gs library and so on).

Making a library call to re-scale an image or convert from formatA to formatB shouldn't be a shell execute call to begin with, and it shouldn't be making any shell exec calls of its own.
That is just not true. The red meat part (http://chriskresser.com/red-meat-cancer-again-will-it-ever-s...). Also talc is legal in EU.
And that would be fine. If they have reasonable proof that someone is bad enough to allow this, by all means pwn the targeted hell out of their devices.
Yes, we use the word case for issue here
Nobody's claiming there's no difference between /dev/random and /dev/urandom. They're just saying you should always use /dev/urandom.
I was recently told about a method to generate a random number using something called "quadratic residue". There was too much math for me to understand it. Is anyone familiar with this?
The "simple questions" really reads to me like a proof of the superiority of the gui over terminal. With "how to delete a directory and its content" winning the award.

It could almost read like a wishlist for linux improvments.
You do need deep-learning to get state-of-the-art OCR when the image is not scanned from a book, but photographed text (or text-in-the-wild) in unconstrained conditions.

It is a good example of the superiority of deep learning.

One recent example:
Reading Text in the Wild with Convolutional Neural Networks. Jaderberg et al. 2016.
https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/publications/2016/Jaderberg...
Open Whisper Systems, a non-profit, publishes open-source tools that do exactly what you need. WhatsApp and Open Whisper's own products use them.

More info:

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

https://www.whatsapp.com/security/WhatsApp-Security-Whitepap...
Where have all the MacBooks gone at Linux conferences
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