skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In his spare time, he learned German in order to read Sartor Resartus in the original.

Sartor Resartus is in English.
And the best calendar web app prize goes to
It's usually class actions, which can be very expensive to fight and have large enough awards that legal teams are motivated take them on contingency. The claims you describe are so small they are barely worth litigating even in Small Claims court.
The international functional programming contest (http://www.icfpconference.org/contest.html) often has games that may be amenable to neural network usage.

For example, http://smlnj.org/icfp08-contest/task.html or https://web.archive.org/web/20050405081045/http://www.dtek.c...
Coursera Is Removing Software Development Courses and Hundreds of Others
There isn't Chrome for FreeBSD. When I access google.com/chrome from Firefox under it, it says I needn't download it because my Chromebook does it by own means :)
Shall I retry later on?
Regarding 2 & 3, I assume you don't know Q or any other array language. If you do, it's not really any less readable than any other language. Finding bugs isn't particularly hard due to how friendly the languages are to REPL development and how easy it is to trace array transformations.

I do agree with 1 & 4 though—Q (and to a lesser extent, K, APL, and J) are niche languages. However, they're really, really good at their niche.
All a matter of perspective, which is why we can't just arbitrarily declare our conduct beneficial and pretend like that's a license to break the relevant laws.

If one believes that a proposed-but-currently-illegal behavior is beneficial to society, the technically correct way to go about rectifying the situation is to discuss with your local democratic representatives, who can take the issue back to the legislative chamber and work to correct the law. Admittedly, that's pretty impractical at this point.
Tho honestly homebrew is nothing more than a popular but sub-par solution to a wide-spread problem (my impression from the literature, I never used it), so having it written does not qualify him as a good dev. I'd certainly interview him and test somehow, tho I don't value algorithmic knowledge all that much, especially in the web dev sector.
The Wikipedia article on the phenomenon of books bound in human skin has some fascinating tidbits to add as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropodermic_bibliopegy
Sensationalist title is sensationalist. The actual study announcement:

http://www.j-alz.com/content/marijuana-compound-may-offer-tr...

First, this is a cellular model. Results have not been demonstrated in actual trials.

Second, the result is predicated on the assumption that amyloid build-up is the cause of Alzheimer's, which itself is only an hypothesis at this time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s_disease#Amyloid_...

Third, the announcement itself indicates:

"While we are still far from a consensus, this study indicates that THC and THC-related compounds may be of therapeutic value in Alzheimer's disease,”

Which is far from stating that THC can stop the disease "in it's tracks". Furthermore, they caution:

“Are we advocating that people use illicit drugs to prevent the disease? No. It's important to keep in mind that just because a drug may be effective doesn't mean it can be safely used by anyone. However, these findings may lead to the development of related compounds that are safe, legal, and useful in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.”

As an aside: I'm all for marijuana decriminalization, but this tendency to overhype weed and claim it's a cure-all for, well, basically everything, actively reduces the legitimacy of the advocacy movement.
Amazon has been making me less and less happy lately. I had a customer service interaction that left me speechlessly pissed. They were clearly not empowered to do anything but tell me to suck it.

They don't optimize for happy customers. They optimize for being the place you go to buy things online first and profit. Oddly, they bought Zappos which is orientated to customer happiness.
From what I've read, it is a bug in the DAO contract. Someone is recursively calling some `split` function which has the side effect of draining eth out.
Direct link to the file without the weird large print: http://f.cl.ly/items/190B3J070l2Y2f1R2L1r/Twitch%20Interacti...
Even if the cabbie doesn't give a substantially lower rate if you choose not to pay with credit, there are indirect benefits to the consumer, like keeping more cabbies on the street because it makes the profession more lucrative (and presumably, patrons of cab services want a sufficient supply of cab drivers).
I fail to see how "Ms. CFO" and "the Lady CFO" are different, personally. What striked me as an issue is they didn't care to know or ask for her name - but knew Mr. Drummond's name. Everyone else seems to be ignoring that.
I thought they didn't let the CFAA turn private ToSes into criminal acts. Am I missing something here?
You seem to think I'm arguing with you. I'm not. I'm trying to explain why people claim that "natural is better", even if they understand that the active components are the same.

Also, you're the one talking about magical vital properties, not me. It's a well-established fact that substances in combination can have a different overall effect than they do in isolation. There's nothing magical about it.

Homeopathy is an absolute scam. And yes, there are scammers who take advantage of the 'natural is better' idea to sell useless products.
I'm in CA right now. I'll send you an email. I'd be happy to be proven wrong and that Urbit is totally reasonable.
Only on the surface :-) the semantics have deep similarities to many aspects of the ML-derived languages.
The value was it came with less drama among his colleagues.
A big lot of hot air (and wasted money) over nothing.
agreed. The hard part is not buying bad companies that have low P/E because their chances are slim to none.
Cash is cool, but has a lot of downsides.

It can be stolen easily. You have to go somewhere to get more of it. You have to make change. It doesn't allow you to automatically track your purchases. You can't get it back from a seller if you are sold fraudulent goods.
Worse to sell to a restaurant since if you have a chance of success if you are running a restaurant.

There whole SMB market is a death trap for technology companies. It looks so attractive on the surface; great demand and no competition, but the reason there is no competition is the cost of acquiring a customer in this market is greater than the lifetime customer value.
I have one of those octopus-like "charge any phone" chargers in my kitchen for friends and family who are perennially in need of a charge.
It was a fine read. Entertainment over substance.
The same content that you would show to other users.

Googlebot's referrer is google.com, so it is able to bypass the paywall, just like anyone else clicking off google.com
>One of the police officers named in the suit, Det. Randy Hicks, testified on behalf of Black after the city filed a lawsuit against him. The detective corroborated the allegations against himself and the department, according to Attorney Rob DiCello.

It is unusual for a police officer to incriminate himself.

> When asked to produce evidence from the traffic stop in the discovery phase of the trial, the city of East Cleveland told a judge overseeing Black's civil suit that they did not have dash cam video or police reports from the incident, DiCello said

If Hicks hadn't incriminated himself, it sounds like there was no evidence to support Blacks claims.

> Black also testified that the officers put him in the storage closet to hide the severity of his injuries.

Normally if the police injure a suspect, the police charge the injured suspect with assaulting an officer.

> Hicks testified at the civil trial that Police Chief Ralph Spotts confronted him several days after Black's arrest and forced him to resign. Hicks also testified that Spotts encouraged a culture of violence within the East Cleveland Police Department.

Hicks must have been offered some sort of amnesty.
McDonalds' customers aren't happy then? I remember I used to be happy before going, being at, and leaving McDonalds when I was a kid. I'm sure the staff had a totally different attitude before going, being at, and leaving work though.
Wrong. Islam is inherently violent towards apostates, heretics and unbelievers.

I wish the author would live in the Islamic State for just 12 months and see for herself.

Anyone else just view a bit of https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
I don't see how it's either of these things? Seems like they are at the very lease violating the TOS.
I love the discussion in the comments:

> This post is packed with so much history and information that I feel like some citations need be added incase people try to reference this post as an information source. Though if this information is reflected somewhere with citations like Wikipedia, a link to such similar cited work would be appreciated. - ThorSummoner

> I am the reference, having been part of all of that. This post could be cited in Wikipedia as an original source. – Mark Adler
Every time I read one of these (less and less frequently) I find that the core problem is the management writing the article.

None of the insights they talk about are particularly noteworthy or trade secrets. They could have been discovered as part of coming up with their business plan. It's more than fair to assume they'll make the mistake again.
Good read, thank you for sharing!
Swift on the Server Debuts at WWDC 2016
Out of curiosity, why do you care whether the answer is marked as accepted?
GP post was talking about aliens and UFOs, and parent post claimed there is no evidence (thus no science).

I was pointing out that we do have relatively credible evidence for UFOs (but not aliens), i.e. lack of evidence is not why there is no scientific papers on the topic of UFOs.

I think the most likely explanation of most of these are classified aircraft of some sort.
These are all precisely the right questions to ask about this, I think.

My take is that the approaches of AlphaGo are more applicable to other problems than DeepBlue, but not by much. Rigid rules make tree search and reinforcement learning easily applicable to Go, but not so much for many real life problems. I made a small diagram to illustrate this point (http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/images/2016-4-15-a-bri...) as part of a series of posts about Game AI (http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/a-brief-history-of-gam...).

Still, the general ideas of supervised learning followed by reinforcement learning, training multiple models of varying complexities from the same dataset, and combining tree search with learned models as they did are useful general ideas. Hybrid methods as a whole will become increasingly common, I think (no doubt self driving cars already are very complicated hybrid models).
Yes but the upside is so much bigger because it's a consumer business.
Indeed, this was a very confusing conversation because of it.

If by client you mean "a web browser" then "a better approach is where there's code between the client and the database" makes perfect sense; but in the meaning of "client" where any code that calls the database is a client of the database, it's balderdash.

I honestly don't think that a "trust boundary" has anything to do with it, generally.
Any legal minds who think this actually has teeth?
Companies pay employees out of self-interest, not benevolence.
It's not the url that gets around the paywall, it's the referrer. That link will work if comes from, e.g. Google News.
withdrawRewardFor ends up calling ManagedAccount#payOut which does _recipient.call.value(amount):

function payOut(address _recipient, uint _amount) returns (bool) {
if (msg.sender != owner || msg.value > 0 || (payOwnerOnly && _recipient != owner))
throw;
if (_recipient.call.value(_amount)()) {
PayOut(_recipient, _amount);
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}

so the 'vulnerable' code is calling a function in another contract and it is this function that is doing the external callback. this is why security is so hard. everytime you add an external callback you need trace all of your callers to check that they are correctly re-entrant or everytime you use another function you need to trace forward to make sure it doesn't have any external callbacks.
Why can't you seek new employee through projects/social media? Honest question. It seems the last couple of contractors at my current work place have made they mark enough to be noticed and welcomed.
We are going to need that for our middle out compression algorithm.
Not as much lazy as following incentives. They would rather invest their time (and network) on higher paying jobs that are likely to close.

Scenario 1: A larger company can pay 20% * 120K on a hire, that's $24,000. Let's say that there's a 1/3 chance that the headhunter can fill it. Expected value is $8K. Let's say it takes 100 hours of work, then it's $80/hour.

Scenario 2: A smaller company won't pay as much, will take more work finding people interested, and they may not agree to take the job. Then it could be 20% * 100K = 20K. Perhaps a 1/4 chance of closing the deal = 5K expected value. 200 hours to find someone = $25/hour.

The recruiter would rather do the first rather than the second.
Valve funding VR projects, exclusivity-free, with pre-paid Steam revenue
Department of Defense Expanding Hack the Pentagon Program
Mavens isn't a new product, it's advertising sales in the only growing parts of the company (mobile/video). Meanwhile other revenues are collapsing and total revenue is sagging. Profits are in the shitter and they're trying to sell off all the pieces before it's too late. It's absolutely a sinking ship.

So yes, she cherry picked the hot areas and highlights how they are growing and ignores the fact that costs are also growing and profits are disappearing. Yay MaVeNS!
If you ask for my permission, you won’t have my permission
Why so negative?
The charged atmosphere is largely contributed to by biased articles like this. It's basically one-sided and intentionally leaves out further explanation of their cited stats to exaggerate the alleged problem. And then the charged atmosphere reinforces this problem because everyone gets so touchy that we can't even have an intelligent conversation anymore.
>This is what concerns me about contract programming. With human contract law, if there's a minor typo or loophole, participants can generally see the spirit and intent, and at worst go to a judge who will usually enforce the intent. But with software contracts, only the characters matter and there's no intent anywhere: either you get paid or you don't.

It's much worse than that!! What you've just said applies to building an airplane or getting to Mars, too. Mother nature won't care what you meant to do.

But this is worse: mother nature might give you turbulence, but She won't carefully cycle or time the turbulence in a code injection vulnerability to try to get your avionics to lock up at some particular moment. With these kinds of systems, you have humans actively doing everything in their power to break the system, even using the most subtle possible tricks. It's not just noise: it's a malicious attacker.

It's not enough to "get it right". You have to get it right against someone with lockpicking tools, budget, time, and no legal, social, or moral checks and balances. By that standard, every vehicle NASA has ever built is completely broken, and NASA has never built a single thing that works.

It's not just about code that's correct. It's about code to held to literally supernatural standards of correctness.

It's a social problem.
This bailout has some similarities to the financial crisis. Of course ethereum doesn't seem to need the DAO to function. Bailing the DAO investors out voids a valuable lesson.
> But that may also very well be because it's rare here to see outdated terminals. Most retail chains change their card terminals every two or three years, because they listen to their customers who actively demand speedy transactions.

The only terminals in the US that take the chipped cards are brand new (because the cards themselves are new and the deadline to accept them isn't quite here yet). I don't know why they are so slow, but they are all brand new machines.
Square seems to be doing not too shabbily in that market.
There are many options for mobile app debugging / analytics already, I feel like these founders just want to start something... anything... Maybe it's time to take some time off and reflect? I've never started a company so I don't know these things, but it seems like a desperate move to me.
Agreed!
Although I've never used their services, I know a (non-tech) recruiter who left its recruiting job at a big tech company to start this: https://karat.io/

It seems to be: "As non tech recruiter we are not good at finding talents, let's instead find skilled Engineers who are willing to do the recruitment for us"

The idea looks good, and there's probably other recruitment companies doing this, but I personally haven't heard of it before.
"Ms. CFO" is using CFO as a replacement for her name; it's awkward and non-standard in the case of CFO, because of the acronym, but it has precedent in other contexts ("Mr. President", "Mrs. Chairwoman"). This would typically be a first-person form of address. ("Mrs. President, could you explain...")

"The CFO" is using her title, as would be used as the object of a sentence ("I have a question for the CFO").

You wouldn't say "I have a question for Mr. President" - you'd say "I have a question for the President."

"Lady CFO" would be an archaic, first-person form of address. "Lady CFO, prithee explain to me what Alphabet did to mitigate the effects of foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations."

"The Lady CFO" is expanding the proper title by adding an extra term that's not necessary or typical. You can't combine the "the" and "lady" into a title without it making the title itself be weirdly gendered.

(I don't have anything intelligent to say about the second part of your comment - I'm curious to know how others view it.)
I don't see it as offensive, but it is an awkward and heavyhanded use of language which is why it drew attention. 'The Gentleman CFO' would sound weird as well.
Why host it yourself? Outsource this.
I've given some talks making the case that what we are doing with Java streams, LINQ, Rx, Ruby Enumerable, point-free style in Haskell, etc is prepping us for array languages.

They are all emphasize transformation pipelines. What the array languages bring to the game is shape polymorphism and many more operators. I suspect we'll see both move into more mainstream languages over the next 5 years or so.
Fighting them legally might work temporarily, but eventually new viewbot services will arise in other countries that can't be reached legally.

I'm very interested in what measures they use to detect viewbots now. What's stopping twitch themselves from buying a viewbot package for a fake streamer, then shadow banning all the accounts and IPs that show up? There also may be clever statistical methods to detect them.

Ad companies and big websites like youtube also face this problem. It's not unique to twitch. In fact I think most sites with user content have had to deal with spam bots at some point.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11924944 and marked it off-topic.
It is rare to be able to have a question answered so completely and from such a first-hand source. This post is gold and tickles me in all the right places.

StackOverflow is sitting on a veritable treasure trove of knowledge.
Ever since I read The Hound of the Baskervilles five years ago I've been hooked on the Sherlock Holmes stories. I think I've read every single one. I didn't realize Arthur Conan Doyle wrote other genres, I'll have to check those out.
That's awesome! I think I'll submit some this weekend!
Why is the choice between these two? Both are very limited in what they can do for documentation of any complexity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
In the case of non-negotiated contracts ... such as with large companies offering goods for sale ... the way an oppressive contract term is bargained away by consumers, is by them choosing the goods or services of a competitor who does not have that term.

If the term is indeed material to the consumer, and if it is not oppressive to the company for them to give it, then at least one competitor will offer it, in order to win some portion of the market away from incumbents.

This usually does not happen with contract terms, because consumers do not look at the terms, nor usually do they care about the terms.
Until such time as a College of Hortators gets invented and people start including standard provisions to defer some decisions to them. Yay, the courts have been reintroduced.
>Probably my favorite action is when I show up delivering what my customer has ordered, only to cancel the order because I know the customer does not need the items. These are not products I can simply sell some other day. When that happens—and it always does—my customers know our focus is taking care of them, not making every possible sale.

What do you do with the food from the cancelled order?
Options include:

- Migrate mails over to SaaS (Gmail, Amazon mail, or Exchange online) .. Probably the best option, unless you want to run your own
- Run a "full featured" open-source mail service like Zimbra on servers on any cloud of your choosing!
- Run a simpler old-school mail solution, like postfix + https://roundcube.net/ for better access

Actually if you need help doing this migration, I'd be happy to help (I'm mostly an Ops person)
Fine, I'll put it in the more diplomatic: "Please substantiate your conjecture with data. It contradicts my personal experience, that of my personal network, and the things I've read in newspapers and magazines."

By the way, I usually enjoy your posts, just not that one. In a second reading of my comment, it contains way more snark than I had intended when I wrote it. I deserved to be called out.
Yea. The opposite of drama and dysfunctional interactions is not happiness and cheers and jokes all the time. It's simply calmness and emotional stability.
Now I want to try drawing incredibly poor quality cartoons in the signature areas.
Cool model, think roughly this makes sense. Can you give some idea of average fee. My guess is about $20k or 30% of starting salary, then with the reimbursement factors that you mention? Also, while they are in the 12 weeks i assume the startups they are helping / learning with building probably pay you total of $5-10k per 12 week session? If you can't share totally I get it, but there are multiple code schools i know in my area and may want to share some of these ideas with their leaders / founders that I know. Thanks
FUD article. No (soft/hard) fork will happen without community consensus. Decentralization is not violated.
> Credit Cards dont need to be "fixed" or "solved". As a customer, its easy to use, widely accepted and my risks are covered 100% by the issuer. I cant say the same for phone payment methods.

As a customer, you are paying more for products because credit cards are broken: retailers are passing on fraud-related expenses to you. You are paying for the inefficiencies in the system, even if the costs seem hidden.
He was better known in his own country as an essayist than a short-story writer.

The essays are fantastic, but stressful if you came from first encountering him as a fiction-writer. The writing style is almost identical. You keep waiting for the shoe to drop.

That said, his essays on Dante are ... very powerful. Deeply moving.
I think Google really got the aesthetics wrong with Google Glass. SnapChat seems to be focusing on the large rimmed 80s glasses, which may be a lot more fun for young people to wear.
> move your sshd port

Sick of seeing this idiotic advice. Standard ports are standard for a reason. Perhaps one should also change their web and mail ports for "security".
what about Mesos?
Similar in the "57 states", or "my muslim faith" sense I suppose.