skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He wanted to consolidate his power and it was a really smart and ruthless move.

It kind of shuts down the potential for any real coup to happen.
But that's the problem. Bonuses are awarded based on who can argue politically. It's similar to creating Dutch books. Managers will work hard to set a up a situation such that, no matter what the actual performance outcome really is, they have ready-made, plausible-seeming arguments for why it wasn't their fault and why they did what was asked and it was impossible to avoid the particular outcome. Then they push the burden of blame for a failed outcome somewhere down the hierarchy. It's not a perfect science, and yes, sometimes managers do get dinged badly for failing to be objective enough, but most often even what that does happen the incentive scheme doesn't cause them to become more open-minded with regard to modeling techniques, rather more cynical and aggressive with political techniques.

I thought the exact same thing going into finance. If real money is on the line, surely they care about which techniques are most rigorously justified in a given model context, right?

Absolutely not. The incentive schemes from clients (who often don't actually fire bad investment managers when they should, and who also engage in chasing returns momentum despite the long and, by now, boring and uncontroversial history of that not paying off) don't actually punish inefficiency. It's a big political mess.

Really the best you can hope for is that they'll hire you for marketing purposes. Hey look, we brought in a shiny new expert in deep learning -- we're cutting edge, we swear! They won't actually let you do any real work with deep learning, of course. It will all be Excel jockey bullshit on factor models in which you'll do obviously fallacious things like directly compare the t-stats of two different model fits as a means for model selection. Maybe you'll write an ineffectual white paper on something slightly more advanced from time to time. But the big reason you're hired is to look good on paper and smoke cigars and drink brandy with the right person who wants you as a political darling in order to win arguments from authority about how you definitely should not migrate away from Excel/VBA.

This is not hyperbole, sadly.
I believe Brexit triggered this stuff.

For example I saw some posts from turkish people on reddit, where they concluded that the few reaming Kemalists (there was a kemalist purge in 2011, with most of them replaced by Gulenists after some false accusations), would attempt a coup during EU-join talks, because they thought joining EU was a better deal than risking a coup.

When Brexit happened, it became clear the EU was a pointless effort, thus everyone waiting on the EU to put their plans forward, now didn't had to wait anymore, so all the corked schemes will now suddenly go forward.

People I talked with, many told me it wouldn't surprise them if we keep seeing a festival of coups, counter-coups and political manuevers now that EU is not in the way anymore.
The real question is whether it is possible for those impacted to be able to pierce the corporate vale in anyway. IMNAL, so maybe someone familiar with these types of situations may be able to add some more color. Areas where I think there may be a case would be:

Against the executive team - Tough because they likely will not have much $$$.

Against the board - Maybe hit the directors' insurance?

Against investors who are also advisors - Probably not, but IDK?

Against the company where they had the test done if not done at Theranos? - Very likely

I imagine that this situation goes on for years.
That usually works, with caveats as mentioned on page.

(Security attributes and recursive calls that may remain recursive calls instead of stack utilising loops.)

GCC and clang variants do not have this issue.

MSVC is generally not really known for high performance of generated code, which is partly why newest versions support a clang backend.
Can you do government interactions in english as well (think HMRC, tax etc)? The other guy in the company is german so it's not a huge blocker but I don't speak german myself and it would be nice to understand official documents
Bill Pollock, founder of No Starch press is well respected in the hacker community, especially in San Francisco. I know several people who have published with No Starch.
Without making this too political, this is exactly why good judgement is so much more important than "experience" alone. Hillary is proving herself once again incapable of making good decisions in such tough situations, and who knows to what future catastrophes her bad decisions will lead, if she becomes president.

At least Obama is threatening to throw Turkey out of NATO, but knowing Obama's ABC policy (Always-Be-Compromising), it's just an empty threat, and Erdogan likely knows it.
A side benefit to having separate, clearly named functions: they often play better with tools.

You can jump to them by name from a completely different part of the code (with some editor support). You see them in the headers of your Git hunks so you don't lose context.

In languages that are heavy on type inference, like Haskell or Python+MyPy, they make for a convenient boundary at which you can assert your types, to help with type errors.
no.

The level to which it is used in Linux is effectively idiomatic.

The project I'm referring to used the technique properly. Its just a bad technique.
No, that's not correct. It's based on research how DRM reduces sales. An opinion on the other hand is the idea that crippling products increases sales. That's exactly what was called digital Lysenkoism.
Perhaps, though people are often too quick to conclude that crises are staged just because governments are prepared to quickly exploit a particular category of crises to push a pre-existing agenda with motivations only tangential to the crises, and ultimately the debate over whether the crisis was staged detracts attention from criticism of the response (especially when the crisis wasn't staged, and the claim that it was staged can be convincingly rebutted and used to discredit those questioning the response.)

See, e.g., 9/11 truthers.
CalTech takes in 200 total freshman a year (well back in 1999 it was 200) from the entire world, so they'd just choose the kid who built his own reactor AND had straight A's.
I too hate typedef except for integer/FP types where the new name would carry semantics, like, for example, `pid_t` or `time_t`.

`point_t` instead of `struct point`, `color_t` instead of `enum color` or worse, `pint` instead of `int *` is stinky because it hides the actual operations which are only applicable to a struct, an enum, or a pointer, respectively.
Educated people ask questions. He doesn't want an educated populace.
>Malawi is in undiscovered gem

I have heard similar things said about the country. During the 2010 Football/Soccer World Cup held in South Africa, a number of Kenyans (and expatriates) took several road-trips and came back with news of just how cool some of those places were. Malawi was always mentioned as this 'virgin' and exotic hinterland- and this coming from fellow Africans.
But $750 for Gorilla viewing is maybe a little pricey. Here in Kenya, the Giraffe Manor charges upwards of $500/12-hour stay for the boarding experience and the intimate interaction with on-site Rothchild giraffes [1]. Of course, these prices are way beyond what the average Kenyan [2; 3] could afford and I suspect the $750 asking price for gorilla tours in Rwanda is equally limiting for residents there. Although prices are usually lower for natives/residents/citizens compared to tourists, most of the former rarely get to enjoy their own natural heritage and history (parks, historical sites, etc.). For instance, park entry fees at the famous Kenyan Maasai Mara National Reserve is $10 for citizens and $70 for non-residents. Add that to a $4 charge for vehicles and $100 for campsite reservation [4], the logic of going for such a trip quickly crumbles. Furthermore, this is in a country where the average hourly income (for those that are employed) is about a dollar. That said, the novelty of seeing animals in the wild can be lost to people that live near these parks: where is the point of paying to see an elephant when they routinely savage your farms and drink your alcohol [5; 6].
[1] http://www.thesafaricollection.com/properties/giraffe-manor/
[2] Here is a fairly accurate picture of what it costs to live in Nairobi: http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/city_result.jsp?country...
[3] Here is an equally accurate estimate of minimum wages across Kenya: http://www.wageindicator.org/main/salary/minimum-wage/kenya
[4] http://www.maasaimara.com/entries/park-fees-2
*USD 1= Kshs. 100
[5] http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Sh18-4m-released-for-animal-att...
[6] http://www.livescience.com/24678-is-every-single-elephant-a-...
Yes, how dare they not support a coup against a democratically elected government!
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If I were a national signals intelligence agency with a correspondingly huge multi-billion dollar budget, it would be trivial to run a large percentage of tor exit nodes... You could probably achieve it with 500 individual 1U servers colocated with random hosting companies around the globe at a budget of $250/mo * 500 = $125,000/mo, which is a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the traffic analysis capability it would give you, with the ability to capture all traffic entering/exiting each node's world-facing public ipv4/ipv6 interfaces.

edit: The major challenge would probably be continually violating various hosting companies' TOS/AUPs and getting service shut off, which would be a continual churn of provisioning new physical servers, shipping them to locations, arranging for plausibly deniable billing, etc.
> Nor are we planning to add them to the EU or NATO anytime soon.

Well, neither is on the North Atlantic or in Europe.

Okay well, Russia sort of is, but...
From where I'm standing it looks more like a shit move by Ballmer for making the offer and a clusterfuck move by Yang for refusing it. ;-)
Perhaps it was https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/07/pocket-watch/ ?

> we use a variant on Reed-Solomon erasure coding that is similar to Local Reconstruction Codes
> according to this model, a given block in Magic Pocket is safe with 99.9999999999999999999999999% probability!
There's still Syria.
Using Templates in Computer-Generated Works
My wife and I have been using YNAB for almost four years, right after the most recent non-cloud version was released.

The biggest thing it has helped us with is accounting for regular but infrequent expenses, with respect to having reasonable expectations for the limits on our regular and frequent expenses.

Before, if we had a month where our bi-annual car insurance bill coincided with our quarterly pest control bill and a higher-than-normal utility bill (say a hotter or colder month than usual), then we would have a very thin month and need to really cut back on discretionary stuff.

Now, YNAB makes it super easy to set money aside each month for those infrequent expenses, such that there is always a just-the-right-size pot of money sitting there when the bill comes up. Now, for example, we never have to change our grocery buying routine in response to other expenses, as those other expenses are accounted for a piece at a time every month.

Even utilities, I average the last 12 months of utility bills, and set that amount aside every month. When we have a low bill, that pot grows, and when we have a high bill, that pot shrinks, but no other spending or saving is affected by those fluctuations. It's great.

I'm tempted to move to something like ledger/hledger or some other plain-text accounting tool when YNAB 4 goes out of support, but the thing I'm not sure how to implement in those systems is YNAB's categories, the "virtual envelopes". Does anyone have a better idea than this? https://gist.github.com/simonmichael/a1addcb652da4e78b183
As someone who spent a lot of time in academia and did some teaching of my own, your professors must have loved you. It was always so gratifying when somebody actually cared. Emailing and asking for feedback? That's awesome!
One way around this is to disable javascript for ReCAPTCHA, the service provides you with a rather primitive HTML form with checkboxes over the images, generating only one request on submit.
They have some territorial disputes with Greece and an extant DMZ in Cyprus.
> I now focus my efforts on income expansion rather than cost control.

This becomes all the more important when the real rate of inflation is in double digits. (Sounds unbelievable, it's not in certain economies.)

Unfortunately, the recurring expenses do not form even half of the total expenses. While it might not seem worthwhile to keep personal accounts, a cumulative view of the spends over an entire year does present useful insights.
Right.

The key thing is that the “Public Domain”, and dedication thereto, doesn't exist in all countries, or at least, it doesn't always function the same way as it does in the U.S. So CC0 tries to get as close as possible in such countries, by waiving all applicable rights and so on, or if that's not possible, giving a very liberal license grant.
There's Syria/ISIS next door, we'll see. Some military interventions and a lot of TV fear propaganda would do the job.
I heard a news report about Frankfurt being smaller than Charlotte, North Carolina, so it can't possibly absorb all of London's financial companies anytime soon. It was certainly a lesson in geography, as I'd always thought of Frankfurt as a larger city.
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> Like another user has commented, the PS4 low level API is like Assembly in terms of hardware control, whereas the higher level, is is similar to Vulkan in API surface, is a bit more like C in terms of control.

And as I've argued here, that isn't a plus. I don't believe that game developers are producing better GPU assembly than an optimizing backend can.

> Another area where the PS4 APIs are better is infrastructure, meaning graphical debuggers, libraries and OS integration.

That isn't part of the API. That's part of the tooling.

> Also the amount of production code experience that both Sony and licensed developers have with the whole stack.

That isn't part of the API either.

> So why would Sony throw all this away, just to make some Reddit and HN users happy, that wouldn't anyway make games for the PS4?

Er, nobody is talking about "throwing all of this away". I'm simply questioning your claim that Vulkan is worse than what Sony created for the PS4.
> "somewhat totalitarian"

There's already a term for that. Authoritarian.
I think the biggest problem with the "big function" is that it tends to lead to code duplication. If taskY is in bigFunction, but taskY is needed in otherPlaces then people tend to just copy paste taskY in otherPlaces.

If another developer joins the team, then he might not have noticed that there is a taskY and may end up writing his own, completely different, implementation in yet another place.

For C, I tend to go the big function route but I usually try to put extra braces with comments to isolate subtasks from each other within the big function. Then I can pull out the tasks into functions if I see that I need them in more places. I don't know how my old code is doing so I don't know if anyone has followed my lead in those projects.
Just trying to feed my family here and do good work - move along if you don't want to buy it. No need to shit on something I'm especially proud of.
> NEVER trust or vote for a party that has the word "justice" in its name.

You are so right on this. Last elections in Poland (EU member) were won by "Law and Justice" party and it is authoritarian party.
Reichstag fire.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
Git Large File Storage in Bitbucket
Please, enlighten us as to your view of "the history".
Unlocking the Next Wave of Human Potential
Atomic level storage does not have to necessarily be brought to the common liquid water temperature range user.

I think there are plenty of data centers that could learn to deal handily with liquid nitrogen temp cooling equipment.
As a former TA, I can tell you that I got so few requests for help that it wouldn't have taken much to respond to everyone.

As a hiring manager who assigns a case study as a core component of the interview process, I can tell you that how an interviewee engages during the case study process predicts about 80% of the quality of the case study -- ie. do they ask clarifying questions about the prompt, do they ask about the expected format/level of effort, do they submit something for feedback before coming in, etc.
I'd also add they had excellent, mature coders.

None of this crunch time bullshit, though I'm sure it happened.

I've been on one of those binges. If another coder hadn't seen my errors, due to diminishing sleep, I'd probably keep banging my head against the wall. Just compounding the situation.
The author is quite accomplished: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_G._Fryer,_Jr.
At least now all those ISIS combatants have a new place to call home :/
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> They protested when they couldn't pay it back.

What I said, they didn't protest when Greece took that money.

That the money given to them was for paying back the debt of Greece against banks is nothing new.

The problem of Greece at that time was not to 'kickstart the Greek economy'. They needed money to survive the weeks and days.
I'm going to go ahead and throw in Granada, Spain as a lovely place for tech startups. Good university, livable college town, cheap cost of living, and not a lot of competition for talent.
Uber Tech Stack
Yes, "starting" may be too charitable, but the first few thousand were military, so it was at least plausible that they were tagged for actual involvement with the coup.
>I understand ebooks, but I don't understand the ebook market. It all seems about 50-75% too expensive to even be an option, especially since you can't recoup some of the money by re-selling.

It's great, I think, for consumers with money and for authors; I'm happy to pay the premium (in fact, amazon, are you listening? I'd pay like 5x as much for the device and pay your e-textbook prices if you made an e-paper display capable of dealing with math books. c'mon, how hard would it be to integrate LaTeX?) and the authors get a bigger cut.

That's the thing about selling; often it makes more sense to only serve the top 10% at 10x the price than it does to serve the whole market.

The problem is that it used to be that someone like me now buying a lot of books would result in those books being recycled out and sold to someone like me as a kid for very little money; It's that secondary market that suffers, and that secondary market, well, it's just not something that matters very much, if you measure in dollars and cents, because me as a kid had almost no money.

The thing is, I think that secondary market was something of a social good; I have the disposable income now to pay extra for my books, in part because me-as-a-kid had access to those nearly free books.
In Malta you also get to do everything in English and foreigners with companies have nice tax breaks.
Why the DAO robber could very well return the ETH on July 14th
I wonder why these anti-abuse systems don't use proof-of-work. Instead of a captcha, let the browser chug for 5 seconds, and then POST the solution in order to gain a temporary access cookie.

Sure, this could be attacked - but not at scale, and that's the whole point of the capchta anyway, right?
Bay Area office for a SoCal based company with other offices scattered around the US. I work from home M-Th and go into the office on F.

While WFH, I usually start around 8:30 so I can get emails and stuff out of the way before our standing 9:00 sprint meeting. I have quite a bit of flexibility on when I take lunch (some times I eat at my desk while working, some times I eat in the living room watching tv). I wrap up my day around 6ish. Often I am multi-tasking between work and cooking dinner between 5-6.

On Fridays I usually try to get in before 8 because parking is cheaper if I enter before 8. Group lunch is usually about an hour (give or take... depending on how many people are there). I usually leave around 3-4. My boss understands my commute isn't great (neither is his) so he's cool with me cutting out a little early on Friday. He does too. He also works from home most days. If he isn't going to be in on Friday, then I usually don't go in either.

My boss is big on letting your work product show how much you're working. As long as I'm getting my crap done, he doesn't really care if I take a 3 hour lunch and then work at 9PM. Most of the team I work with is spread out, with only three in our office. So working from home is not much different than working from the office. Even at the office, meetings are online, taken at my desk. (Which is weird some times since my office is right next to my boss's office and I can usually hear him through the wall half a second before I hear him on the call.) But it is nice to get some face time with my boss (and coworkers from other teams I'm not on) once in awhile.
Perhaps in the short term.

The military in Turkey has been infiltrated for decades, but I'm sure some of the military are now just biding there time. It wouldn't be hard for even a few lone actors to take out the president. AKA two jet pilots and an informant.
If anyone is interested here are few videos of premiers of both country discussing 1971 situation:

Indian PM Indra Gandhi https://youtu.be/_MATAqeiL-4

Pakistani General and President Y Khan https://youtu.be/v903MselZ3o

I always felt odd that US supported a military government over a democratic one.
Who invented unit tests? Does that person have a monopoly on highly reliable software?

What an awesome patent trolling opportunity that would be!
Some microcontrollers have Ferroelectric RAM now-- a nonvolatile memory that's basically magnetic core memory on a chip!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferroelectric_RAM
There are some recent parallels to your opening paragraph that feel deafening...
Show HN: Minio – S3 Compatible Object Storage
There was a paper in the last few years proposing to make DNA a practical mass-storage technology, as the last and slowest level of the hierarchy. It'd need lots of error correction, and to be chunked up into small-enough strings to synthesize, and each string would need to carry address bits to match on (unless you want a content-addressable store). But IIRC the storage density and the cost trends made it at least kind of plausible.

And of course there's http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/Nanosystems/toc.html chapter 12.
Londons financial area is basically City ("the square mile") and Docklands - two tiny little parts of town, so if you're going to go by size it's meaningless to compare all of London.
very cool :) that tutorial was very helpful