skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same reaction, but largely because I2P is under the radar; Tor gets a lot more attention, in both the good ways and bad.
Love SQLBolt.
Not disagreeing with you. But those people had a choice and they chose a subsidised and/or cheaper phone that was locked down.
I would like to hear your experiences with software.
The practical problem is that "the metric formerly known as M3" - monetary velocity - has been flat or declining for a long time now.
Imagine spending 10 years working on a product and then being told at the last minute that it was going to be marketed in a completely different way than you expected. Like you think you're making an intelligent puzzler for adult gamers, and then they wrap it in a cartoonish package and call it "Wally's Wicked World of Puzzles!"

I'm glad she's decided to speak up about this issue and I absolutely agree that the chances a white man would get similar treatment is close to nill.

And for those who think these kinds of racial thought experiments don't hold water, they can and do. Consider the fact that Academy Award winning actor Forest Whitaker was once patted down in the middle of an upscale deli because an employee thought he might be shoplifting. Now consider whether that would ever happen to a white actor of a similar pedigree and try to argue that racism was not at work.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/19/forest-whitaker-fal...
Amazing remote jobs exist: I have one. The problem is to find a company that has those remote jobs AND will hire people they don't have a huge background on.

I know a recruiter at a company like that that worked on a point system: Barring a recommendation, to pass his bar you had to have 5 years of experience in the industry for what he considered a major tech company, a degree from a top university, and a history of promotions during those years.

So he is fine with hiring all over the world, as long as you had already worked at trendy Silicon Valley companies for a while (In practice, using them as a recruiting filter). So, for all intents and purposes, the only people passing that bar would be people that already had a great job. Someone with talent but without pedigree would not even get an interview.
Oh really? I have access to Safari. Thanks.

Still though, I think later this week I will buy a copy. I like your blog too, and after years of intro level courses of different types (currently watched my eyes water over when redoing insertion sort in Scala with Odersky in his Scala class in Coursera doing pattern matching and functional decomposition), perhaps all I really need is a picture book.

Out of curiosity, as a busy (what seems to be from your blog and GH profile) Etsy engineer, how did you get into writing such books?

I am very newbish but I love the quality content coming out of non-traditional non-academics on better CS instruction. What makes you tick, egonschiele?
Convertist is looking for Business Development Representatives onsite in Portland, OR. We run outbound lead generation for B2B companies hunting midsize and enterprise deals.

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Same thing happening at Ivy League schools. I believe there is a class action lawsuit in progress now.
He's in a small-enough industry where this can happen.
A timeline would likely be announced by Intel when Itanium hits the desktop, after which it would likely take years before they finally discontinue x86-32.
If you use something to earn money price doesn't really matter that much imo, especially if you earn multiples of the price per month. I wouldn't really recommend spending MBpro money for just casual usage.

When I bought mine after some consideration last year it was the only laptop with a 16:10 screen, IPS panel, better than 1080p resolution, 16GB of ram, faster than SATA SSD, good battery life, light, decent keyboard, just all around a great device, the only missing option I would have liked hardware wise is a matte panel instead of glossy.

Alternatives I considered at the time were the Dell XPS 13 Dev and Lenovo 450s/440s which both were 16:9 and with less than 16GB of ram. I think there are still no other comparable options that come with a 16:10 screen out there even today.

OSX is not my OS of choice (it's still a lot better than having to run Windows) but battery life and scaling is worse on Linux, also if you do your development using Vagrant and Docker the OS is not much of an issue.
Network effect. Same reason no one else has had similar success despite many efforts to do so.
I2P developer here, feel free to ask me any questions.
Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
Agreed. This might ultimately become my reality by force.
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I'm pretty sure it's one of those Reddit joke YouTube accounts. They don't have a political motivation, they're just trolling.
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This explains and clarifies it, thanks a bunch!
Agreed. Where I find this especially bizarre is in technical companies, or even the tech department of a company. There's a layer of devs, then a glass ceiling, then above that countless layers of management.
And even doing it with explosives in trench warfare wasn't new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Crater
The Future of Slavery
The Evernote “Editing” Beta and What It Means for the Internet
I'm guessing under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
I was left wondering whether the sheriff simply claimed to have found some of the kids' bones or they actually did find them and didn't want to tell the author any real details.

I think there's probably a strong motivation for the sheriff's office to close the case, especially after so many years and so many resources expended. On top of that, there was probably some desire for them to make the author go away. Law enforcement officers have to protect the perception that they are both competent and caring, and this "enthusiast" proved to be better on both counts in this case. So either there's jealousy that makes them not give him the information that would have satisfied his curiosity (and spared him a couple more trips to the desert), or they just told him they found more bones when they actually hadn't to make him stop looking.

Either way, I think they owed him more than that for solving their cold case, but couldn't stand to do that because now people like me say things like "he solved their cold case."

Edit: Keep in mind this is the same office that had the responsibility to find all the bodies Charles Manson and gang buried out by the Barker Ranch, and didn't. I get that they have limited resources, so not blaming them, but it probably stings when this guy finished the job they started.
I don't consider the example you gave to be a coincidence, because if you know the definition of e then you know why one of those numbers could line up really, really well with e.

I'm basically saying that Feynman's argument rules out seemingly random counterexamples like 27^5 + 84^5 + 110^5 + 133^5 = 144^5, which disproved the sum of powers conjecture.
The article specifically mentions Categories.
I think your answer does not only sound bad.

Climbing and diving are easily lethal if you don't command your equipment appropriately. Would you recommend someone interested in practicing them to not even try?

Nonetheless, the point you make is important. Having said that, giving advise on how to avoid the dangers is what I think to be optimal.
The items have been there for the past eight years. They will last another few days until authorities can come back and work the area. He had a camera to document the find, and survey flags to mark the items. There was no reason to take these things, especially as a enthusiast with no permission from the NPS to do what he was doing and no official involvement in any kind of search. Even if he was in the right, it likely did piss off NPS staff and law enforcement.

As far as "risk of one's life," that seems a little over the top to me. Yes, it's the desert, and yes, it's remote, but people do go hiking and backpacking in Anvil Canyon, there is a cabin with water 4 miles away, and he had a SPOT (at least his partner did) to signal for help in case he got in trouble. The most dangerous thing he did was probably the speeding on the rush back to Furnace Creek. Single vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death in Death Valley.
A message to all the tech teams out there: start doing Tech Trivias
The Federal Reserve is exempted from capital ratios but has to stay nominally balance sheet solvent. The Federal Reserve is owned by its member banks who provide its working capital (half being paid in and half being pledged). The Federal Reserve also holds a large amount of gold bullion on its balance sheet values at a nominal $45 dollars an ounce that could be re-valued to provide working capital.

However the Federal Reserve is thinly capitalized relative to the size of its balance sheet and as a result is extremely conservative in what it will hold on its balance sheet. Typically only holding bonds with Federal backing.

Any significant payout of CDS during a crisis would leave the Fed balance sheet insolvent and in need of recapitization.

That would require the Federal Reserve's member banks to recapitizie the bank via an equity buy-in which would further deplete member bank capital ratios which would already be under pressure in a crisis or a bail out by the Treasury.

Needless to say a bailout by the Treasury of the central bank would be politically untenable. People would be rightly concerned that the nations wealth had been committed to covering claims that in hindsight seem undervalued.

While there is plenty of central bank talk about helicopter money the central bank can't give money to anybody (only loan). Of course there is little difference between giving people money and providing a 1000 year loan at zero interest. The only politically tenable method of providing helicopter money is via monetizing Federal Debt as part of a spending package approved by Congress during a deep deflationary recession.

Anything else would likely bring out the torches and pitchforks.
I think that's a good thing. The point of a hello world executable is everything other than the message; using a consistent and standard message means the attention is on whatever else is happening.
We do within a webview. Whats you problem that you believe you've got to explain to me how our app works?

Seems like you don't have a clue what is actually possible.

Go read the TOS for Apple's in app billing.
Could they not have collaborated with Youtube which has some form of automated cc acceptable for public contents.
These are speculative and rather weak. Like most theory in this area, it takes the form "Look at these features of the development of life as we know at; if they weren't there, it couldn't exist!". But of course, they are simply unable to imagine, much less predict, what happens in dramatically different conditions.

Also, talk about correlation does not equal causation at your link:

> The basic structure of the Earth, aided by plate tectonics, makes possible the Earth's magnetic field. Neither Venus nor Mars has such a magnetic field. Venus has core and molten regions like the Earth, but a very slow rate of rotation. It produces neither plate tectonics or a magnetic field. Mars has volcanism, but limited to a small number of spectacularly large volcanoes like Olympus Mons. It's magnetic field is weak despite a rotation period similar to that of the Earth. This suggests that the molten nature of the Earth's mantle that facilitates plate tectonics is also essential for the operation of the dynamo that produces the magnetic field.

I mean, N=3 !
If it's your first book on Quantum mechanics, I recommend: In search of schrodinger's cat
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If taxes are collected effectively, and offshore loopholes are closed aggressively, trickle down stops having any relationship to reality at all.
I was also a bad developer. Then I was a "clever" developer. Then I was rewriting everything from nothing because I needed to know how it worked. Doing so is a great way to get a sense of how much "secret sauce" there is in a domain. The C++ standard library has a lot for instance. My naive implementations never came close.

> I suspect a lot more code gets written by junior developers than we'd like to think.

This may be true if you just measure lines of code. But if you couple that measure with the number of times each line was actually executed I suspect you'd see a different story. My library, for example, was comparable in size to parts of the standard library it replaced. So by direct measure a junior developer wrote half the code. But when you measure it by usage you can see the magnificent results of the 10x programmers at Boost and otherwise working on the C++ standard library. Notably their 10x-ness is in the performance of their code and not their performance on the job. Like you described.
You can sell a lot of garbage to consumers who have never bought that product type before.

If the full-performance product is crowded out, it's sub-type can be lost forever.

Once you enter the Garbaceous Period it can be the actual end of a higher quality era.
Here's a map someone made to go along with the story:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?dg=feature&msa=0&ie=UTF...
I am really curios - sued for what and by whom?
Thats outrageous.
I'm guessing because it's hard to keep track of all of that history, even though it's available in multiple places.

I'm one of the few crazy people trying to do it.

http://www.theymadethat.com/things/dd846efa-9679-4c16-ad96-6...

Feel free to join me =)

(Constructive criticism is also welcome)
Thanks, that's very nice of you to say. I wrote the book because I didn't find an easy-to-read book on algorithms, and it took me a long time to learn. I think teaching hard concepts in a clear way is very important, so that's what I try to do with my book and blog.
5x cartesian product of the eight-row table in exercise #1: Server copes well, Chrome not so much. :(
Sure. But sometimes the numbers are oversimplified but valid to a first approximation, and others (like, perhaps, the water numbers for California almonds) are so oversimplified as to be not helpful for discussion.

So then you're left wondering, which kind of number is this one? Does most of the water used to produce beef return to the environment in the course of raising the animals to their slaughter weight, or does most of it get retained in concrete and plastic lined manure pits?
Does that even really qualify as a good reason to downvote someone? I'd hardly call this "taking over the thread".
The askmanager.com post linked from the article has more details from one of the interns who organized the petition:

http://www.askamanager.org/2016/06/i-was-fired-from-my-inter...

With the facts given, both the advice columnist and commenters don't seem to be particularly sympathetic to the interns.
Why you need external SMTP in Node but not in PHP
Sure. I agree that in the short-term (daily, weekly, even monthly) it's largely random, or at least effectively random, as in its no use trying to predict it.

My starting point is what I call the Fundamental Theory of Value Investing, the well-known belief that price eventually reflects value. Or, rather, they tend to move in tandem. You can't really prove this, but it has been observed empirically. Really internalizing this is important for sleeping well during volatile times. :)

So that means you need to find places where price doesn't currently reflect value. There's the usual list of places to look where the big players can't go, including micro and nano cap companies, low-priced companies, companies not followed by analysts, troubled companies, 52-week low companies, spin-offs, etc.

As far as fundamentals, I like reliable FCF, or better yet, what Buffett calls "owner's earnings" (slight difference from FCF). "Reliable" being a key word, and where experience and clear thinking are important. I spend 90% of my research time looking for things that will threaten cash flows.

I stay away from growth companies. The market just bids them up way too high. FB may be a wonderful company, but the current price is priced for perfection; any slip-up and down it'll go. Everybody is chasing growth, and institutional investors want to tell their LPs that they are in on the hot thing, so they buy in at any price.

You can't know the exact probabilities and odds, so the most reliable way to make money is to buy good earnings for cheap, check your downside very carefully, and let the upside take care of itself. Obviously there's a million variations on this, but they all generally require going against some consensus, which can require testicular/ovarian fortitude. For me, the most common thesis is of the form, "this too shall pass". Some sort of temporary disruption that doesn't permanently harm the business. Sometimes the dust settles in a quarter, sometimes 3 years. If I start getting a clue that I was wrong in my analysis, I get out.

I can go in more detail if you want but maybe should take it offline as people here to read about casino betting may not want their thread cluttered with this stuff. :)
Same thing, really. Dice games tended to erupt into violence amid accusations of dice being weighted; there was no practical way to sure that the dice weren't weighted, but the state had an interest in preventing violence; so the solution was to ban those games while allowing other forms of gambling which were less likely to become violent.
Wow, link [3] look awesome. Thanks for sharing.
No it wasn't Onlive. The company that went public was Riverbed and they used their custom TCP between their appliances. My current company (which I founded) is PacketZoom and our custom protocol (built on top of UDP) communicates between our SDK in the mobile app and our servers distributed around the world.
It's also true there are different kinds of demand.

Poor people need a mass market economy. They need the support of huge economic and physical supply chains to create/grow/ship/distribute/sell food and goods.

The economy of the rich tends to rely on boutique artisanal goods and services that are more likely to handcrafted, hand-made, and labour intensive - for a very much smaller volume of labour.

You can't run an economy if the former networks aren't profitable because they supply essential goods and services to most of the population. They also create employment for large numbers of people.

You can run an economy quite happily if no one at all is producing hyper-expensive yachts and one-off handbags.

Worse, you can't run the economy of the rich without the economy of the poor to support it. The rich economy only works when it can skim profitability off the poor. If there is no profitability, everyone goes bankrupt.
We have greater moral obligations to robots than to humans
Did you even read my comment? I said "Especially if you do not have to deal with customers (of course I understand that companies can have rules when their employees are facing customers that's a totally different story)"

And I mean that, it is a totally different story. If employees have to face customers then it's up to the company to decide what kind of image they want to display. The interns in thin case were not working with customers directly.

"you can't claim it to be more important than the company you might work for one day wanting to present a specific image of it's employees that conflicts with your own personal dress code"

Yes I can, and I do. If I'm not working with customers directly the company should have no impact on my appearance. And this isn't about me thinking I'm better than the company, this is about mutual respect. I show my company respect by showing up to work each day and providing the work expected of me.

And if you really want to make this about millennials then yeah millennials are just realising how much bullshit things such as a dress code at work is. I said fascist because the suppression of expression is a fascist tendency.
Is the header sticky for anyone else? It seems to take up ~30% of my screen (Windows 7, Chrome Stable) [0].

[0] http://puu.sh/pNYUH/d42d8395fc.jpg
Made even more confusing that you can do it with some nationalities but not others. So "a French" is out, but most nationalities ending "-an" are OK: an American, a German, an Afghan, a Norwegian, a Russian, an Italian. Also "-ese", though with something of an archaic air: a Chinese, a Maltese, a Portugese. Also a Swiss, an Argentine, an Israeli, because why not?

And of course pretty much any adjective can be used as a plural noun with the definite article: the French, the Dutch, the beautiful and the damned, the quick and the dead, etc.
The points I was trying to make, reposted because code formatting makes them hard to read (sorry) and for some reason I can't edit them:

- Common law trademarks in the US do offer protection so long as one does not abandon usage of the mark in commerce

- This is the case with me

- I can show continuous usage for nearly 30 years

- I will still have to file an opposition to their attempt to obtain a USPTO trademark
- Have to wait three months
- It will cost a few thousand dollars

- They have been spamming the 'net with press releases in an attempt (successful so far) to drown out the few pages of search results that associated my name to the brand
Q: Is there a "waybackmachine" for search
In other words, is there a way to show what search
results looked like for a certain terms on a specific date?

- Whether or not they succeed at obtaining a trademark they can resort to suing me in order to snatch away the domain

- Two theories here
- Dilution: They take their 20 pages of search results and
claim my possession of the domain damages "their" brand
- Financial Intimidation: If I don't defend they can claim
abandonment and own the brand

- The law regarding domains does protect me 100%, yet it does not protect me from having to spend tons of money to defend it
- Much like patents, they are a right to defend yourself and,
if you don't have the money to do so they could be worthless

- Per nissan.com, it could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend yourself
- Even if the other party has no merit whatsoever
- Hence my comment about having to sell everything and end-up
on the street if I want to defend
- Our legal system seems to be setup to favor those with deep
pockets by allowing them to inflict such pain that the other
party caves and gives in
- The merit of the case does not matter when one party has
to risk losing it all to mount a defense
- Have not found a way around this (free qualified legal help,
or some other equalizer of sorts)
- Without further data it seems that someone with tens of millions
of dollars can force someone without a huge bankroll to give up
their brand
- If this is my reality I will almost have no choice but to give-up
on my dreams and on a brand I've owned for nearly thirty years
Look at a comparable example with software related car malfunctions. Toyota's unintended acceleration problem made headlines and made it before a judge.

It seems fair to me.