skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A judge does have the power to bankrupt a corporation with fines. I've heard of a judge double sentencing in minutes based on the defendant's behavior:

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/10/23/judge-allowed...

The crime of criminal damage to Hogan (future income) would have dented Gawker's coffers but it is the refusal to obey a court order that did them in. The judge might have stayed her hand or advised the jury differently if they showed contrition but that clearly didn't happen. They didn't win appeal either, showing consensus of that view.

Whether judges should have powers of discretion is another topic but it is generally held to be a positive thing. You may be sure there is a full accounting of which actions defined the 140 million dollar fine in court documents. So far the broad strokes are:

"The breakdown of Hogan’s award is $55 million for economic damages, $60 million for emotional distress and $25.1 million in punitive damages."

Perhaps I am less shocked by the sentence than yourself because I used to live near characters like this one:

http://www.murderpedia.org/female.O/o/oconnor-catherine.htm

Probably not a good idea to know too many people on murderpedia.org.

Compared to that this is nothing. It's just rich people fighting. Nick Denton is still probably the owner of about 100 million dollars after his 10 million dollar fine and Gawker going bust. It's his pride and reputation damage to his business acumen that is suffering more so than his wallet. I have limited sympathy for such characters. Thiel on the other hand deserves a standing ovation for use of tactics and strategy. That was quite the judo flip!

More important in the future is whether Denton will be able to accept defeat sanguinely and move onto something else. Pitching a cadre of journalists against Silicon Valley will not end well for the press. The politician repercussions would not ultimately go in their favor and I don't believe they understand that yet. They invariably confuse the rules of their social reality with ours, but we have nothing in common.
One thing the article failed to mention - which I found most interesting, is that a perceptron can function like a NAND gate, which is the building block of all other gates (AND, OR, XOR, etc) and thus can replicate the functionality of any logical array.
Below Zero: Negative Yields, Negative Rates and the Price of Baked Beans
This is like twice the size of the studio flat I rented while at university...
GetBadges already brought brand new "work culture" within my team. I see that my team have more satisfaction from each task they do and In the same way the quality of the code is improving.
OVH's hubiC offers 10TB storage for €50/year
It uses OpenStack Swift so it is compatible with a bunch of existing tools.
Splash screens and loading bars vanish. Everything is just THERE.

I'm not sure I agree with this. It might be more convenient to have a filesystem-like interface, but at the end of the day everything still has to be loaded into the (rather limited) GPU memory at some point.

Most CPU applications can handle RAM swapping from disk, but I really doubt that big games could maintain 60fps if even a few assets needed re-loading.

If a frame is 16ms, and the best consumer SSDs are around 2GB/s, You can only load 33MB of assets in a one frame in a best-case scenario.
It makes arguing against the use of JIRA -- and all the project-management-oriented complexity it seems to bring if you don't keep a tight grip on it -- that little bit harder. Sure, not a negative for everyone, but has the potential to be the thin end of the wedge.
so my rep on SO is about 41K with an average rep per answer a little shy of 100 and about every third answer is the accepted answer. My numbers on Cross Validated (the SO for "data scientists") are significantly better.

but i've given up trying to ask a question on any of the SO Sites. As far as i can tell, most questions on SO et al are closed for violating one of two boundary conditions. At one end: don't ask a question whose answer is subjective. And at the other end: don't ask a question that can be answered directly from the docs (or google).

when you look over a few dozen or more questions closed on these grounds, it's clear to me that this window--the space between these two boundaries that represents an acceptable question is very very small. It's so small that the last couple of questions i've posted i've missed--aimed either too high or too low.
There was some research a while back that people get happier as they age as their memories of painful experiences fade.
I was looking for some ambient fireplace music
Thanks. I hope this is a one off, if faceache becomes the article platform for techie material I may just change industries.
The brain is not a computer and the mind is not a database. It does not store discrete data items.
Is this against the law, or just the way things are done now? My gut instinct would be there's more examination that goes into a drone strike but after the Snowden revelations I don't know what to believe.
I wrote a bit on the rationale behind selecting Sqlite in the docs, I'll copy it here.

> Two reasons primarily, ease of use, and massive multi-tenancy. Sqlite occupies a special niche among SQL database implementations, it's everywhere, and no where. Because it's an embedded database, it's typical not used for websites and mobile app backends. But it has been called the most widely deployed database on the planet due to being included in just about every mobile device. In our tests it has performed very well.

By 'multi-tenancy' I mean multiple databases per server, not multiple tenants per database. Each account gets it's own Sqlite db. We saw < 1ms requests for just about everything we tested (this is time to execute sql, the server adds some overhead). Of course our tables had indexes, and our sql was sane. To protect the service we will be rate limiting, and setting request timeouts. Details to be determined.

We've implemented application level caching with a 'X-Query-Cache' header, basically you'll only re-run a query if the data has change or the cache expires. More info in the docs.

https://www.lite-engine.com/docs.html#why-sqlite
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Thanks kamilgumienny - nice to hear about it!
Switch off email notifications

Cut down my stress BIG time
I think you meant Xavier... :P
Go read the Godfather - it's an excellent book. Mario Puzo does some good work. Another really interesting one is his book on the Borgias[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_(Puzo_novel)
Doesn't that by necessity include all the change as well? So it's a misleading number if you want to take it for "this is how much people are paying each other with bitcoin"
This description fits almost any action that you can perform when you're at war. So, either you advocate that war courts review cases of all the enemy soldiers before aithorizing an attack, or you have to come up with a more precise definition of what is exactly wrong here.

Clarification: I'm not a fan of CIA assasinations, far from it; but "execution without a trial" isn't logically justifiable complaint: we do it in a lot of situations no reasonable person would argue with.

Edit: my original comment was pointing out errors in someone's logic. Sadly, everybody seems to think that this means that I've taken a certain side in drone debate. This is not the case; please, read my comment and understand what exactly am I saying — and what I'm not — before reacting.
To clarify, your link talks about a different, unrelated attack, right?
i imagine its only because he works at facebook
Am I alone in finding this an odd thing to be reading on Facebook?
Ah, i had no intention of flaming C++. A ton of really great software is made with C++. I think most sane C++ programmers will freely admit there are dark and scary corners. Just like any other tool people actually use.

A professor of mine used to talk about (i assume he still does) how software is like a plant. New software is always fun and cute and understandable like anything young, babies, puppies, kittens, whatever. C++ is like an oak tree. there are gnarled branches, but is quite beautiful taken as a whole. Like an oak tree, it stands the test of time.

The rust community has been ponderous in adding features. I think they've picked a really nice set of stuff to support. Perhaps rust will turn into a beautiful old oak, perhaps not.

I'll stretch the metaphor a bit more, C++ doesn't have as much room to grow. It's far from done, but there's a lot of legacy code that must be supported. Choices were made decades ago that limit options today. Again, this isn't meant to malign C++, it's just how hindsight works. Rust on the other hand has has the benefit of hindsight. Rust will make plenty of mistakes, but the community can avoid some of the trouble C++ has had simply because it's new and has more information about what's really useful and what's not. The rust community has by and large been very aware of what works and what doesn't. They're careful gardeners. They've learned their history, and want to try other stuff. Perhaps rust can grow to be a mighty oak like C++. I hope it will, but that remains to be seen.
I suspect if anyone had thought through this it would be John Carmack. His game design skills can be called into question. His 3D engine skills are second to none[1].

[1] As an individual. I suspect why we haven't see as much from him since Quake 3 is that his skills don't scale to a team.
Outside of handling confidential information on non-secure channels, the issue could the authentication. You want to be sure it is actually her approving it.

Another issue could be about the quality of the briefing: if the phone call was all she got, it might mean that she wasn’t briefed enough to review the evidence and make an informed decision.

However, I think that this just goes to the line: she was reckless with confidential information — which, at this level, is against the law.
Facebook is the new .plan!

Seriously though, the company he works for is owned by Facebook. This may be a factor.
"This is a Facebook +Premium article. In order to access this content, you must sign in with a Facebook +Premium account[?]. [?] Facebook +Premium accounts are Facebook accounts where you have also confirmed your identify with your national passport [level1] and have your yearly retina scan access enabled and updated [level2]. As an option you may wish to access the Facebook extra features and free access to all services by enabling [level3] on your account by enabling location services and allowing us to store your GPS position throughout your day. A level 3 account will have access to location based and time based offers, content and Facebook friendship features that will simplify and improve your life. Level 4 access is not yet ready for us to offer you, but it will involve a small chip which you implant into your arm. This will let you get the full and unfettered Facebook experience without the need for any cellphone or other device!"
> no reasonable person would argue with.

By framing it like this, that's where you take a wrong turn.
Decision-making without brain: how an amoeboid organism solves two-armed bandit
It's one thing to shoot soldiers without a trial.

It's a far different thing to bomb random folks living their lives in Afghanistan, then retcon all male casualties to terrorists.
This looks really cool.. UX is great!
None. Great airport connections, great food, great night life, nice weather, 2h away from seaside or mountains by train. Bonus: 1 gbps for 55 RON (14 USD)

Old communist blocks in some areas don't make the city look too nice, but most don't care about that. New York has worse looking areas.

About the bureacracy: it's better than Germany or UK for example, but everything moves way slower sometimes.
If it can compute, it's a computer. If it can store and retrieve data, it's a database.
Ahem yes :D
Tulip mania's peak period lasted 6 months or so. Bitcoin has been growing for 7 YEARS. Why? Bitcoin solves a lot of real world problems. Tulips don't.

At least ~50 international financial institutions have R&D groups directly working with block chains / Bitcoin (search "R3CEV partners"). Central banks have reported positively on Bitcoin . As recently as last week a group of 90 central bankers met at the Fed to discuss the topic.[1] I can understand why it looks like a mania to an external observer's eye, but it is definitely not :)

[1] http://www.coindesk.com/central-banks-blockchain-federal-res...
I expect "100% remote" means you're never required to go to the office, as opposed to going there regularly (e.g. once or twice a week/month).
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Yeah being able to type in the filters instead of picking an item from a short list would be great.
This is a rational and sober look at the current economic landscape. I found it quite interesting and thought provoking at least. It's notable here in that he briefly praises the current state of American venture capital.
What to Consider When Becoming a Full Stack Web Developer or Web Designer
Saying that the US is at war with various groups of people in the country side of Pakistan is a rather generous definition of the concept of war, isn't it?

It's more like "the US is blowing up people who may or may not be those intended, but it's kinda hard to tell since they're doing it all by remote control".
The latest worms game worth playing is probably Reloaded on PC. It's a little stripped down compared to Armageddon/World Party but it's the last worms game where the physics are spot on. After Revolution came out they've all been floaty and janky, grenades that would rather roll than bounce, ninja ropes that actually act like rope (and are therefore completely useless) and just general visual 'bleh' from the 2.5d.
Would be great if companies would list their preferred timezones, especially for non-US job seekers.

Example: UTC-01:00 - UTC+02:00
I'm not quite sure mmap is such a good idea if you're trying to have more low-level control over performance. Weird Carmack advocating this, because you can't really guarantee the latency of grabbing any resource if you incur a fault and need to grab it from disk.

See also the comments from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704911
Surprised to see spam in the comments there, nature should do a better job of keeping their pages clean from trash like that.
Poll:  How long can you code or read documentation without losing focus?
I'm intrigued with the question about how long
people in HN can concentrate on a single task related to programming, without losing focus.
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Nope, I'd assume that B2B has lower fees/margins, so the actual daily volume should be higher than my calculation said above. Still, it should be enough to establish that WU is still a fair bit ahead of BTC.
John Donne had a remarkable intellect. We live in a visual culture, but the early modern period was very much a literary culture, and the breadth of learning demonstrated in just a short poem by Donne or Marvell continues to astonish.
Donne's ruminations on suicide parallel those of Hamlet around the same time.
Whenever I walk past St Pauls in London, I think of Donne, giving his regular 2 hour plus sermons in the old cathedral.
"There's an app for that!"™
I think you're right - AT%C0 once you're connected didn't drop the line, it just reduced the communications overhead between the modems. Good days :)
Sure. In poker you never play like you or your opponent(s) hold a specific hand, you always do the analysis against a range of hands. Every action (bet, call, raise) at any point (preflop, flop, turn, river) in the hand gives you extra information, which helps you narrow that range (more tightly define it) and help you make better, and hence more profitable decisions. Your range in every hand starts with all possible hands, and with each action gets more narrow.

The first strategy which we first noticed intuitively/by feel and then confirmed from stats, and which tipped us off to the whole thing, was that they would always fold or reraise (3bet) preflop. This was unheard of, as having a calling range preflop is incredibly important, as it has so many flow on effects for the rest of your strategy postflop (where the large majority of the hands play out). Most players (at least in 2010), had a polarized reraising (3bet) range, meaning they would mix very strong hands, with very weak hands, call with medium strength hands, and fold weaker hands. These bots had a very wide (higher %), and merged 3bet range, meaning they'd pick hands from the top down. It was mind bending to deal with as all of your experience, maths and theory away from the tables was wired to deal with a certain type and width of range and this was just so different.

The second main one was as follows. I've already described the situation where the action goes preflop raise, and reraise (referred to as a 3bet). You can counter this with a 4bet (yet another reraise), a valid and common strategy, again, ranges get even narrower here, but would still happen frequently (dozens of times a day). If each player started with $100, the action usual goes raise $3, reraise (3bet) to $10, reraise (4bet) to $22, then usually fold, call (very rare), all in $100 or reraise again ($30ish). The reraise is just so uncommon as it's difficult to make sensible range that isn't obviously strong. These bots would do this frequently. It's a very ballsy move, stops you in your tracks, and your only options are really to fold and give up your $22 and leave you scratching your head, or costs you $100 to call bullshit and go all in and find out if he's bluffing.

The last one that stood out off the top of my head was the river check raise. Check raising is when you act first in a hand, elect to check, let your opponent bet, then raise. You can do this both for value and as a bluff. It's an essential part of everyone's strategy, most frequently on the flop, less so on the turn and river. These guys would check raise the river a ton, and it was extremely effective. Again, it's a ballsy uncommon move (at the time) and was very profitable.

Here's the link from TwoPlusTwo (biggest and oldest poker forum) if you want more info.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/56/medium-stakes-pl-nl/ala...
Requesting clarification. What do you mean is the desired outcome here? Should it or should it not recommend Korean rap?
I'm using MongoDB. At first, I used google spreadsheet as a database using JSON API. But the spreadsheet was public and it was vandalized so much.

So I just exported the sheet as JSON array and put it in Mongo.
Also, congress hasn't declared war since WWII, which is required by law.
I was facepalming too while reading this. I'd expect Carmack to understand the ugly truth behind mmap: it's not free. It's more than not free, demand-paging actually adds significant cost: TLB flushes aren't performance friendly.

Linux ppl realized this and implemented MAP_POPULATE but once you're doing that you might as well just eagerly populate the normal way.

Mmap() can be a convenient interface when you aren't latency sensitive but otherwise it's not appropriate.
File storage and sync market get commoditized. E.g. for Dropbox pro with 1 TB $99/year + taxes. So this is roughly 20 times cheaper.
I used Meteor and Mantra. Mantra is an application architecture I am a contributor of (https://github.com/kadirahq/mantra).
Just take the money you would have to spend on people dying from the pollution, and the money saved from not having to do as much to reduce CO2 emissions and you're already ahead.

As a bonus, there will be less environmental damage and pension payments for the taxpayer to make good when the coal corporations go bust 'accidentally' leaving all their debts unpaid.
> I want to like the newer Worms games, but IMO the series peaked with Worms Armageddon in 1999.

Heh, I never liked the Worms 2 style graphics, so for me the series peaked with Worms Director's Cut. One day I might dig up the countless WRM16 maps I made in Deluxe Paint: http://worms2d.info/Colour_map_(first_generation)
That's a good point, but it was also mentioned in the article, with a link to a useful mailing list thread[1] on the matter.

It seems to be a matter of laziness. If you're writing some small piece of state like an Int, this can be a real problem. If you're writing out a lazy data structure like a list (as happens in the article), I think the extra laziness should be fine or even desired. (I've never used Writer in practice, so take my comments with a grain of salt!)

[1]: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/...
it seems to me that when apple does something it quickly becomes "accepted" by the consumers (even if it is a technical thing and not consumer facing). This is not always a bad thing for competitors
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How Much We Eat vs. How Much We Need
So hypothetically speaking, gangnam style shouln't show up in an English speaking person's list?
The Coming Technology of Out-Of-Body Experiences
Seconded. A lot of "Remote jobs" are basically inaccessible for people in Asia because their office hours are basically set to New York/SF time. I mean you could work nights but it kinda defeats the purpose of remote working IMO.
None of those "IoT operating systems" you mentioned is capable to talk to sensors on their own. You have to develop your stuff on top.
Liner – If Pocket and Genius Had a Baby
Something that surprised me when reading Flatland for the first time was the seemingly high levels of both sexism and classism.

While the classism mostly consisted of the typical oft-repeated jabs that don't really mean anything, the sexism felt much stronger. So much so that I assumed that it was meant to be satire. But is it reflective of the views that were prevalent at the time it was written?
You don't need to do it for every individual resource used, specially if the language has support for meta-programming.

I guess these FP patterns are yet to be widely known.
As the one who suggested Bucharest, I agree that Cluj is even better.
I don't think that they've missed the demographics - surely those amenities are in-keeping with a young professional market? As in, small space, nicely outfitted and time saving extras - considering they'd be working long hours and going out to socialise, seems well suited?
That is about an unrelated paper
The J2ME phones had physical buttons, with real physical clickey sensation when you press them. That's a world of difference in gaming when compared to a touchscreen.
Definitely. I just suggested capitalism wasn't fit for purpose. The reason I use Luddites as an example is because it was a violent reaction to a social problem created by technology.

That's not a bad problem, but it's also worth recognising that we've got to think of our social structures to keep pace with the great things technology is doing for our lives.
Just guessing, but from my reading it sounds like the aim is to maintain generally good frame rates and not worry too much about dropped frames due to page faults, since those will be rare. Presumably the idea is to rely on ATW so that when frames do get dropped, it's imperceptible.
One of the issues I've found is that testers seem to be underrepresented by remote work listing sites. Or is it just the start-up scene, where testing is pushed onto the developers?