skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a proposal long on rhetoric and short on concrete action steps. Future referendums that are more substantive may be treated differently by voters.
I use wirelesstags.net which is good enough for me. Pretty effective for my uses, batteries last about 1 year for updates every 10 mins, and you have access to all your data for all time.
Is there a public policy that defines how many new items may be posted at once?
I'm really keen to see where people think the line should be drawn - if a piece of technology creates a creative work - does it deserve protection at all, should it be given to the programmer?
This is not true - it is intrinsic to Python - not just CPython. Part of it is the garbage collector, reference counting is expensive to do without the GIL - but that can be changed. IronPython, Jython, some translations of PyPy all attest to that. The other part is C methods, which includes all operations on Python collections like lists and dicts, are atomic, making those collections safe to share and modify across threads. Most python code in the wild that utilizes threads makes use of those guarantees. So you either use fine-grained locking, or lock-free data structures, or STM, etc to protect ALL collection instances, or you've basically made a Python 3000 that breaks compatibility with all existing Python code. So every Python implementation that removes the GIL chooses to go the first route of pessimistically making everything threadsafe - which was tried in Java way back when and was and is a miserable failure. You give up too much performance for it to be worthwhile.

So the problem in Python will never be fixed in my opinion - the problem is Python and there's no saving it. Without breaking backwards compatibility it will always be better to use processes instead of threads and keep the GIL.
Trump Supporters on Reddit Think Google Is Rigging Autocomplete for Hillary
Any tests to insert p53 (and others) into cells to see what can go wrong ?
LOL No answer (because your post made zero sense) but downvoted. Pathetic.
Ask HN: What to advance as a researcher?
Hello everyone. I am graduating from college and about to become a research engineer at a pretty well known company. I expect to do research/support work on machine learning there. What does the research engineer career look like for a person without a PHD? What should I do to become a better researcher? Thank you.
The Red Book [1] (recently updated) is a good overview and has lots of useful references. Some might be too high-level, but this paper (really a short book!) is a good start at what makes up a database: "Architecture of a Database System"[2].

Keep in mind that the scope of a "database" can be huge, so you might want to start really small, e.g., writing a basic key-value store that can support things concurrent reads & write, isolation, etc. It all depends on what interests you.

--

[1] http://www.redbook.io/

[2] http://www.electricmonk.nl/data/freeitebooks/fntdb07-archite...
In what sense is the deductibility of state & local taxes a complex aspect of the individual income tax code? I did that recently, and it was extremely simple for me to fill out. I paid some state/local taxes, and then I entered that number on my federal income tax return as a deduction. Now the treatment of investment income, that's complex. Even with my pretty modest investments it was a whole bunch of pages to fill out (more than 1/2 the total pages of the return), with a ton of special cases I had to read instructions for. Some of the more left-wing Democrats have proposed a simplifying measure that afaik no Republican has signed on to (or even most Democrats, for that matter): just treat all income the same for federal tax purposes, and delete the thousands of pages of the tax code that specify complex special treatment for dividend, qualifying dividend, and capital-gains income.
Apparently plants do develop tumors, but they don't metastasize because of cell walls that stop them from spreading. Also, like this article says ( http://www.popsci.com/article/science/ask-anything-do-plants... ), plants don't have vital irreplaceable organs, so tumors are less dangerous for them.
I work for a small company in Kailua building real estate websites. The tech community here is small but super fun!

What's your skillset? Hit me up - kevin at realgeeks dot com
I think it's important to not conflate being a landlord (investment and business) with buying a home to live in.

The Bay Area is but a single market and not representative of all markets. There are many more markets that haven't seen similar growth. The Bat Area is the exception.

If you are paying off a home and you lose your job, if you've leveraged yourself like many home buyers have then you might lose your home! Especially if you lose your job because the economy tanked and home prices have ranked leaving you underwater owing more than the home is worth. And then the bank takes the home back and your entire investment is wiped out. Look to 2009 for an example of this. And rents dropped significantly at that time.

The opportunity cost of tying up a solid down payment needs to be considered too. 200k down could be used in other places too.

I think most people who buy with 20% or less down don't understand how leveraged and dangerous their position is.

Lastly if buying a home was a good way to get rich then we'd have a whole lot more wealthy people.

It's not a bad thing at all and for certain people in certain positions it's a good thing. If you can buy with cash and have at least 40% of your bankroll left afterwards then yeah it makes sense. If you plan on staying in a place forever (laying down roots) and can afford 30% down and still have 2 years of mortgage payments in a cash savings account it makes sense.

I feel like a lot of people buy homes because they just think that's what you do. A home has meaning to a lot of people. But the opportunity costs and risks are large and the rewards are generally a wash with renting long term in most markets with the exception of places that get a 30 year boom or other rare real estate lottery scenarios.

There are ways to win but 10% down and a 30 year mortgage is rarely it.
The basics of C++ Template metaprogramming – C++ Better Explained
At least in the states, women who are perceived to be alone or merely without male companion really are noticed by a certain kind of guy as available for harassment.
Indeed, the good old days. I has a slab for a while in 95 (actually, I still have it), it was pretty slow though for development. Running on HPPA was much better. Many fond memories.
Because some business executive or venture capitalist thinks they might get rich off it. Like the other 90+% of businesses they invest in that fail. Obviously...

Meanwhile, the products he hopes to displace are still selling well without the built-in drawbacks of his.
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I had an ancient account, over a decade I guess, back when I was on AIM, ICQ and MSN, I think? I recently signed back up for just this reason.

So far, so good! I InApp'd a month, but will likely get a year's worth at renewal.
How prevalent is cancer amongst regular sport fans ?
Enjoyed the read, it's crazy how much money an idea like TheDao has attracted. I agree such a project will go into the history of crowdfunding or IPOs depending on which way you look at it. Will also have to see how regulators could potentially affect the future of its operation, right now it's the "far west" around this type of initiatives.

I wish the project all the best and hope people ain't going to loose their money.
Avoiding taxes through complicated tax schemes has a cost (actual cost and moral cost). The higher the tax burden, in both absolute terms and complexity, the more appealing the alternative. You can't just pretend that an illegal alternative is not an alternative. It's never going to go away completely, but making taxes less burdensome will certainly bring down the appeal of a tax avoidance scheme.
Thanks for the links. Very interesting stuff. I am definitely going to keep these bookmarked. Mill's constant can be a bit like cheating if it is irrational, because that would mean it is equivalent to packing all the primes into a decimal expansion. But that's just what I read off the surface, I have to see why it's in the form that it is. Just saying, from an information theoretic approach.
This is the most concerning thing to me. The Multi-AZ, redundant setup is worthless if the ELB can't do its job properly. I've seen some funky behavior from the ELBs when it comes to instance state. They really need to make this better.
To make your original scheme work (investment earnings pay for rental costs), you investments are de facto illiquid, otherwise you have no way to pay for housing without breaking from the scheme. You also need to make more from your investments than renting currently costs because over time rental prices are likely to go up and your investment return will need to increase.

You are right that property ownership is more illiquid, but supposing I had a million dollars invested making me a better than 4.5% return, why would I pay rent when I could just buy a house with that money instead? At the end of the mortgage period I'd have my original investment plus ownership of real property, while the renter would only have their investment dollars and would have to continue the investment-for-housing scheme for the rest of their life.

> First, given a neutral market,

This is a false assumption as markets are almost never neutral. It's impossible to be a market oracle, but historic trends show a general upwards movement in most well functioning economies. It's a better than chance bet that most markets are thus net positive. You are correct though that nothing guarantees this upward trend.

The New York Times calculator is pretty good, but misses the simple fact that you need to live somewhere forever and not just for the period of a mortgage. Thus any comparison should be made with how long you expect to live.

The picture is very clear, you will likely need housing longer than 10-15 years, and if that's true, then buying property nearly always wins over renting.
Tor developer Jacob Appelbaum steps down amid accusation of 'sexual misconduct'
The chrome cast can bring digital advertising to the TV, and offer Google some control.So they can sell at cost.

What does the a button or a flood sensor buy them ?
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“MacOS” Reference Found in Google Chrome Package Contents
The simplest method to get into a room is to wait for it to be cleaned, and once the door is open, simply walk in and take whatever you want. The maids will not ask you for ID. If you want to make it seem extra plausible, wave a similar hotel key at them as if you would have used it to open the door.

As for getting a replacement key, yeah, that usually does require some work. In lieu of asking for a replacement you can call the front desk on your cellphone and tell them you're standing outside your room and can't get to your key, and can someone come unlock the door for you.
I wouldn't call it a huge, huge cost. In the US it is the equivalent of being in the higher tax bracket on the portion that falls above the exclusion amount. If the value of the estate is $5.45 million or less then you pay zero in estate taxes. ZERO. Only the top 0.2% of estates pay any estate taxes and that is only on the value above the exclusion amount ($5.45 million).
The Apple product line had many of the same attributes as the Amiga.
The level of expression of p53 is quite strongly regulated in human cells and over expression (due to an increase in the copy number) will be lethal. With crispr/CAS9 it should be possible to do some really interesting experiments in mice to see if increasing the copy number (in a control way) reduces the rate of cancer in mice.
Read Ronald Coase's Nature of the Firm: http://www3.nccu.edu.tw/~jsfeng/CPEC11.pdf It isn't really that firms are communist internally, but that firms exist to reduce transactions costs. Such as contracting for every thing every day (i.e. I don't need a new contract every single day at my job).
If I recall correctly, you still can't type Immutable.js nicely with Flow, let alone Typescript, so I'm not surprised tbh
This folder has existed on OS X for as long as I can remember. This is not news.
How do we fix that? Damned if I know.

Public funding of elections[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publicly_funded_elections
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I was thinking something like Folding @ home.

(Sorry, couldn't resist).
Landlords don't have infinite cash reserves. They still need to cover costs or minimize losses if they're betting on capital gains from property sale at some later date. Most renters pay for the maintenance and taxes of the property they live in, it's just not itemized for them and the costs are generally amortized and distributed among multiple tenants. Landlords are generally not charities, if you got lucky enough to find one who is, be very thankful.

You are correct that rent != mortgage and shouldn't be compared too close. Renting is a 100% loss, while mortgage is <100% depending on where you are in your repayment plan -- allowing the owner to recoup some of their housing costs after time.

After the mortgage is paid off, the renter still continues to loose 100% of their housing costs while the owner has only care and maintenance (and taxes) of the property to account for.
I've tried to keep journals as computer files, but I can't just flip through them like you do with a notebook. So I have adopted a hybrid approach. I keep a journal for ideas that are evolving and to capture ideas without going off on tangents. Once ideas are firmed up I write documentation for the project. The commit logs give me a record of progress, etc.
It's not just javascript with types. The language is written in a way that makes it much easier for machines to understand your code. I'm not talking about just tests and linting.

Check out some typescript tooling videos, this one was shown at an angular 2 conference but you don't need to know any angular to watch it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3djIqAGqZo
I'm getting the same exact result: 'Crooked Hill' gives 'Crooked Hillary Bernie' and 'Crooked Hill Post Office'; while on Bing 'Crook' gives the expected 'Crooked Hillary' ('Croo' is overrun by local Dutch suggestions)
Sorry. "Urban core" is ill-defined enough to be almost meaningless and I was using it alternately to mean Downtown and to mean it in the sense you do, which was bound to cause confusion. I was trying to point out that the St. Louis Downtown isn't even dense by the standards of other places in its urban core (in the sense you mean).

That's my fault.
As a Canadian expat in Qatar, who is on a third lap around the world, I can assure you that there are many excellent and terrible places to live in the world. This fixation on America that I keep seeing everywhere is absolutely baffling. Maybe I should check it out ;)
How do you simultaneously stop all taxation and prevent someone from breaking the flourist's kneecaps if she doesn't pay protection money?
It's not a spoof when you're phished and hand over your credentials.

It also was my mom that was phished, not me.
You're still ignoring the other tradeoff of safety where you use any cost-effective technique at any layer to meet your goals. Intel's blown millions of gates on stuff tgey dont need plus bad ideas for safety. The stuff Im mentioning is in thousands. I imagine it's cheaper, faster, and easier to change than what vendors already add.

Besides, empirical evidence is strongly against your statements about people's competence or bad analogies to guns. Empirical evidence, even for OpenBSD or Bernstein, show the best coders can't consistently make software work on tooling and architectures you seem to prefer. Whereas, average people using Rust and/or Java CPU's are producing software faster with few to no exploitable defects. And both can be targeted to under 10,000 gates (ARM is 30k+).
Coffeescript was such a pain though, if something you wanted to edit was written in coffeescript, you'd have to learn coffeescript to touch it.

If something is written in typescript it doesn't matter if you don't know it. Just write what you want to change in javascript. All javascript is typescript.
Location: Tokyo, Japan

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Go (Golang), Platform-as-a-Service (Cloud Foundry), Docker (container)

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The other problem is many people wont have pre-existing copies of the required private key available. If your attacker is in a position to MitM your download of a signed binary, they're probably also in a position to MitM your retrieval of the public key. SSL/TLS certainly helps there (at least the attacker then also needs to be capable of acquiring root CA signed TLS certs for the download site and any readily available PGP key sites. It wont slow the NSA down much - but it will help against the guy with the WiFi Pineapple in your local Starbucks…)
Meredith has been stalking Jake for years, posing a lot of strange and clearly false accusations that fold up after on a small amount of investigation.

I ran into a case of this a couple years back, when there was some campaign about "plagiarism" where I had direct personal experience that it was untrue. I posted about it and was harassed too.

AFAICT, for some reason or another there is a fair amount of toxicity around the tor project. I've never personally seen Jake generating it, but I wouldn't really know. But the obvious toxicity and witch hunt culture caused me to unsubscribe from the lists and avoid that community since several years ago.

Nick's story is interesting-- but it begins with a long series of vague allegations which are never backed up by the document. What it does show is that Nick put a person claiming Jake was a USG agent on a program, which I can understand why some might think it inconceivable that Nick would do so unless he'd been unduly influenced somehow, and then he got harassed over it. That sucks, but it doesn't rise to supporting the claims made in the first third of the document.
I don't understand. What leeches are you referring to?
Cancer usually refers to a cell mutation that is harmful to the organism. I'm sure DNA mutations happen all the time in individuals, but in most cases they don't provide the utility to increase "fitness" relative to the environment which would increase the individuals quantity of reproduction/offspring, thus spreading the gene.
If people were still able to reproduce at older ages, I'm sure we could evolve to be more resistant to cancer; since cancer will most likely affect you later in life, it has no impact to how much you reproduce.
When have taxes ever not been a political issue?
Well, it's not like Julian Assange is much better.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2723959

https://twitter.com/maradydd/status/302264789311299585
If I had both the time and the money to commission a similar study, I would design is so the "virtual" option uses virtual reality instead of say, a webcam. Ideally there would be some kind of haptic vest put around each participant so that an analog to physical contact could be approximated (e.g. a hug, a poke, etc). My experience so far building games in VR has surprised me in the sense that small amounts of haptic feedback within the Vive controllers can create a surprising amount of physicality if it is timed well with what the user sees. The brain seems to just fill in the gaps.
I was thinking Jackass which seems to fit well. And now that you bring it up they are strikingly similar...
but nahnahnah
Mathematically secure is totally meaningless. OTPs can be phished, and this attack is a great example of that.

U2F is the fix for this.
Emma Watson claims that this was to shield the details of her private residence from the public due to threats against her. I don't see a reason to doubt her.
> You can expect to get 7000 - 12000 CHF / month after taxes

I get barely 6000 after taxes after working here for almost three years. I'm not Zürich area, but still. Out of curiosity, in which branch are you?
I didn't say developer. So, dont correct it. I also addressed broader issues than merely Tor code. He did lots of outreach plus helped deploy Tor in a lot of rough areas. Post Snowden, he took a role both informing and being an evangelist.

You can't unroll years of video presentations and writeups by one comment. So, please cite reputable sources saying all that was a hoax in his official job duty on Tor to hoax people.
The interesting thing, in my opinion, is that all large wires are tracked by our government. We'd do much better to use all of this monitoring infrastructure to stop tax-evaders instead of searching for more terrorists .
Hi Nick. I'm sorry to hear you had a bad experience. :(

But your document contains serious allegations which the body of it does not support:

> Jake has targeted, abused and silenced many close friends of mine, many of whom are researchers you probably know and respect. Whether it’s ripping off research or just harassing someone into submission, somehow we all felt powerless to do anything about it. He’s the perfect bully.

> Every criticism of him is met with suspicion, every accusation is some government-conspiracy-takedown.

> Those that tried to stand up to him were destroyed, one even took his own life after Jake stole his research. But that’s not my story to tell.

If you're not going to support these claims, you shouldn't make them. Now I get to feel like shit for calling this out-- and potentially causing you stress, because I am sympathetic to your experience...

I think your message would carry more weight if it was limited to your message, rather than setting the framing with a large number of serious but unsubstantiated claims.
It is the defense mechanism of those with questionable technical skill to back up their own egos. Those who spend that much time talking can't be actually producing anything useful.
If your income comes from the USA, it better to keep that than to lose it.
Now that IPv6 deployment is getting up there it'd be really nice to see increased use of IPSec. No need to rely on the network that I'm on or the potential that some actor has attempted to MITM a TLS connection (because a lot of people are just going to ignore TLS warnings, unfortunately).
> then I guarantee that money would come pouring back into the United States.

To top it all off, you promise something that you can't possibly promise. Well done.
Mu. Unask the question. Serializing a function is itself the security hole, because who knows what that function does? A function is just as possibly malicious code as whatever else you think you're using it for.
No doubt and didn't mean that as a slight to people who take pleasure in maintaining their property. In fact I admire lovely landscaping and can see myself wanting to do that one day perhaps.
Psychopaths have a lot more experience at being psychopaths than regular people have had experience at dealing with psychopaths.

From what you describe, I don't think you were weak or cowardly, just inexperienced. There is absolutely no shame in that. Hindsight is useful for learning, but not for admonishment (by yourself or others). You had to make lots of decisions fast, amongst a bunch of bad choices with unknown outcomes. Your success rate for surviving bad situations so far is 100%, so don't beat yourself up too much, and tell the retrospective armchair philosophers to jog on.
A major benefit is the ability to quickly understand code you didn't write because you have the ability to 'go to definition' or 'find all references' which works across multiple files. On top of that once you understand the code and need to modify it you can quickly refactor across multiple files instantly and with a high degree of confidence.

Types are not a substitute for tests, but they eliminate an entire class of bugs that are screened out at compile time. That way you can focus your tests on functionality and not silly mistakes.