skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No worries. I get defensive easily, it's one of my charming qualities.
According to the /. comments "Requires" is wrong. They "support" them doing that (i.e. that there are not legislative obstacles to it).
Half-implemented, broken and cool is more fun than solid and battle-tested, and that's perfectly fine so long as you don't get yourself fired over a bad choice - have a great time. Honestly, I used to be more novelty-driven, too. But battle-tested and boring has its place.

Now get off my lawn.
Let me tell you how I understand this.

I think the most important part of the question is whether the field inside decreases exponentially or linearly with the distance between wires. To the extent that Feynman didn't incorrectly answer with "exponentially", he wasn't wrong.

However, whether the wires have constant charge or constant voltage (across the cross section) is not just a matter of the argument being "different". As the author explains, if you take the wires to have be point-like (in cross section) then Feynman is right in taking the charge to be constant. However, if you want to discuss the scenario where the wires are not point-like, then you have to pick: do you impose that your wires have constant charge or constant voltage? You take ideal conductors to have constant voltage across, and the charge distribution is whatever comes from solving the relevant equations.

But I'm open to be shown to be mistaken though :-)
Title is inaccurate, TP-Link only committed to investigate supporting third party firmware (including open source).

From the FCC announcement (similar language is in the ruling):

> committing to investigate security solutions for certain 5 GHz band routers that would permit the use of third-party firmware
they don't know what they're doing. For example, why would anyone filter out things that are too good to be true? that's what due dilligence is for.

If I'm a VC and someone sends me, "hey, I pitched you xyz two years ago, you didn't invest. but I remember you know materials science and had worked as a trader. I'm introducing my friend, he's a chemist at MIT and he has just come up with a way to make a material that sells for $87,000/kg in any quantity for $1/kg + his proprietary sauce. he also doesn't want to destroy the market for it. I know it's a stretch but if you still have that materials science interest I think you would find after DD that he really does have the goods. I'm attaching his pitch deck which doesn't contain a lot of information. I've known him since grade school, when he was 9 he did the blades for the first wireless quad copter that streamed HD video, I don't remember the details but the alloys had a bunch of constraints and he ended up using a special plastic normally used in medical applications. Anyway he then concentrated heavily into materials science, would need some measure of coaching but is very coachable, and we talked about his project at an alumni dinner a few days ago. he casually dropped that he's doing 100k in trading sales without revealing to his buyers that he's making the stuff in his kitchen rather than trading it. I don't believe he ran a business and is a sole founder. let me know if you would like an introduction."

so what do you do?

you get that introduction, you read the pitch deck, and if it's too good to be true you fucking do due dilligence.

what does a european vc do, "oh no, this seems like free money to me. That's not what we're really about here."

filter it out.
But as he said, there is no reason for them to do such policies. They just hurt the bottom line and benefit their competitors. Statistical algorithms are not prejudiced. They just want to make the most accurate predictions possible.
I make $80,000 gross, not net. And I think you are right about the positioning issue. If I can figure out some sort of business niche, it doesn't matter half as much as what tools I use. Maybe I'm looking at this as "I can do woodwork, so what brand of tool should I use?" where I should be looking at this like "I can do woodwork. Should I make cabinets, fine furniture, or custom handcrafted toys?"

So thanks trcollinson and BjoernKW. I think that once I figure out how to position myself, the rates will naturally increase (I'm not shy of asking for $150 per hour if I know I'm worth it).

In short, it's time to Niche!
bws111's post from the Slashdot thread:

Nowhere in that document does it say the FCC REQUIRES TP-Link to allow open source. What it says is:

“While manufacturers of Wi-Fi routers must ensure reasonable safeguards to protect radio parameters, users are otherwise free to customize their routers and we support TP-Link’s commitment to work with the open-source community and Wi-Fi chipset manufacturers to enable third-party firmware on TP-Link routers.”

They SUPPORT a company working with open-source, not REQUIRE,

Later on it says:
TP-Link has also agreed to take steps to support innovation in third-party router firmware by committing to investigate security solutions for certain 5
GHz band routers that would permit the use of third-party firmware while meeting the Commission’s security requirements and maintaining the integrity of critical radio parameters.

So the requirement is that any open-source stuff must meet the security requiements and maintain correct operation, not that they MUST allow open source,
Adopting the AIM Strategy to Product Manager Presentations
Just took a quick look at the link. Concept seems interesting. Have you read it, and if so, any opinion on it?
The suggested approach most likely requires a lot of recursive backtracking. Of course, there's an efficient way to implement this, and that's what most commercial databases' path analytics features do. Here's one example by Oracle: https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/DWHSG/pattern.htm

I've always found it befuddling why so many developers want to use Solr/Elasticsearch for analytics heavylifting. It's probably because

1. SQL is not the most intuitive (although most pervasive) API for data analysis

2. Much of the data is already in Solr/Elasticsearch to make your data searchable/perform simple roll-ups and filtering, etc., so it'd be great if you can do more complex analytics against them as well

AS to why Solr/Elasticsearch is not ideal: the existence of superior alternatives that is OLAP databases.
Oh man, because of you I just spent 1 hour reading this!

Very impressive work by this guy.
I hardly see them anywhere on sale here in Europe.
Private Equity was bar none the biggest winner in the financial crisis. They got to buy all sorts of assets super cheap, fund those purchases at interest rates not seen in many years, skirt Reg T[1], and a dodge taxes via the carried interest tax loophole.

What's not to love about them. Oh, and let's forget they often secretly double dip on fees. i.e charge their LP's management fees, and their portfolio companies advisory fees (which are often not disclosed to their LPs).

Despite all this hating, I'd sooner invest in a PE fund then HF or VC.

[1] regular investors can only lever 2:1 in equities, but PE often leverages 10:1 or more.
I've been using this for almost six months now and I like it.
GDP has increased drastically.

Similarly I'm personally budget constrained because as my income went up, I rented a larger house, bought an extra car, took more expensive vacations, and switched from street hookers to high class call girls, all the while consuming the same % of my income.

Obviously I'm not budget constraint. I'm just spending a lot more money.
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> DOCUMENT ALL YOUR DEPENDANCES!!!

Still doesn't make a difference if there is no place for the documents to live.
Fix Rails Converting Backbone JSON Requests to text/html
Very not static

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Cage_de_...
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I can tell you it doesn't work very well for wrapping remote postgres tables... it doesn't even send the where clause to the remote server, instead does a table scan across the network and matches locally.
last time I asked why not PostgreSQL, now I have my answer. I love netflix's posts. Way more than most other tech blogs and their responses on the how and why is mostly more accurate than others (looking at uber) especially their expertise in evaluating stuff is extremly good.
What I especially wondered was why DRBD (i didn't had good experiences with it, neither with psql nor with mysql) guess with a lot of engineers + the hope to migrate to aurora at some day makes this a reasonable choice (i guess).
Still funny that their whole billing infrastructure runs on like two nodes for a while (the masters) while I guess a lot of things there has a need for writes especially when the monthly billing takes place.
[TO HN WEB DESIGNER] Please remove new black line from top
I understand that it is very tempting to improve HN design. But do not try to make heavy changes, it is already one of the best!

That new black line on top is really distracting and making design much worse. Please remove it.
Yes, this was a viable solution back in the day because there was a 90% chance (made up number, but you get the idea) that denying someone from a redlined district was a good financial choice, and it was too expensive to do a detailed analysis to determine if an applicant was in the other 10%. With the automated credit checking and statistical analysis available these days, this isn't really an issue anymore. Banks can afford to do a more detailed check of each applicant, and they will, because failing to do so would be an economic disadvantage.
I'll admit, I don't know what the specific legal definition of private equity is. According to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equity "In finance, private equity is an asset class consisting of equity securities and debt in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange." There are probably more legal specifics that would further divide private equity from just anything that's not publicly traded. But, you're on the right track, if in fact the private Class B shares override the rights of Class A shares (significantly), then the NYT's could be seen as just another shady entity in our lives that's controlled by private equity, as the link tries to illuminate.
Anyone using the betas?

I'm thinking about installing the iOS 10 beta to my main phone but couldn't find any decent info on its stability for a daily driver. macOS is more dangerous anyway so I'd only get into iOS beta.
Usher-cli – A Node.js CLI for stitching together command line interfaces
Because we've as a society determined that blood for sport creates a perverse set of incentives. I take it people who believe in your sentiment aren't the ones doing the dying.
Nevertheless, note that it delivers about the same message in both case ;)
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No one would change national policy based on a single report of such gravity - but the report would initiate a frenzied search for confirmation, which would all but certainly be forthcoming. At that point, the United States loses the Cold War.
The residue theorem implies that you can compute some integrals on the real line by closing up the contour in the complex plane and accounting for any poles that you've enclosed. The trick is to choose your contour so that the contribution to the integral of the new piece goes to zero as the contour gets larger and larger (think of a real piece which goes from -R to R, and a semicircle in the upper half-plane connecting those two points; as R->infty, the real part of the integral goes from -infty to infty). One reason the new piece may go to zero is that oscillating functions on the real line turn in to exponential decay as you go up or down along the imaginary axis (as you point out), so as the new piece of the contour moves up or down, its contribution to the integral gets exponentially smaller.

(This is hard to explain without pictures and formulas, but you can find some examples here: http://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/sjmiller/public_html/302...).
There's a difference between punishing people for bad actions and allowing the government to demand justification for every single action they take.
Or..hear me out here..

There are people who view the world, politics and the economy differently than you do, and they're writing about what they know. No secret propaganda agenda.
What a refreshingly honest answer...thank you. It's not often you see that sort of candor.

I was personally a Rails guy, then switched to learning Django, but had the experience you note...both frameworks solved many problems which aren't as relevant in this age of SPAs. I suppose if you really liked Django's ORM it might be worth it, but doubt there's a huge amount of value to be gained. YMMV.
Looks like a careful P/R rework is underway. It's all about the "tabletop lab" now, and Holmes has shed the black turtleneck. We're scientists now!

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/01/health/theranos-table-top-labo...
Strangely enough, nobody is bringing up the argument of 'But how many people were saved by the existence of Therac-25?'

Yet, when a poorly designed self-driving car kills people, many rush to point out (correctly or not) all the lives that were saved by the technology.

The valley seems to have an entirely different level of regard for the consequences of their work then engineers and doctors do.
> The performance/bandwidth benefits of less shitty ads can be had by simply disabling flash and using an ad blocker, and otherwise average people just aren't going to care to switch.

I think the point is that average people wouldn't know how to get an ad blocker, but would notice the massive perf benefits of having one.

A browser whose entire focus is on adblocking is therefore exactly what they would appreciate: out of the box, it works great.

Of course for us tech people here, installing an ad blocker is easy, so it seems a little silly. But we are a tiny fraction of the market.
I ran across a bug in the JDK when I was an intern and spent 2 weeks documenting and demonstrating that it was in fact a bug in Java not in my code. :D funniest thing was I got to pull an I told you so on my professor who claimed we would NEVER run into a bug in the JDK and to just try to figure out what we did wrong.
Urban mutations, the city is ours
On the other hand, sessions are important and if you're only using redis/etc for caching and not as a primary data store, it may not be a very good idea to treat it as a primary store of session data.

Sessions are vital for any product that works better with logged-in users.
Don't do it. I had to revert back as it rendered the phone useless. It has so many bugs, that even simple things were not working properly (for instance if you have a group of applications and you want to open one, the first action that happens when you tap on the icon will change the mode to editing [when the icons are dancing and you can move/deleted them]).

I would wait for a while.
Logo was the first language that familiarized me with the fundamentals of programming and got me excited about computers back when I was in 4th grade in India, in the late 90s. It's amazing how a person's vision and hard work can have such far-reaching impact. I'm grateful for his life and work. Rest in Peace Seymour Papert.
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"Vanishing" implies that there was some Golden Age of civility that has now gone by. This is not really true.

I would argue that this impression comes from the fact that media options were much more limited in the recent past, and therefore had to appeal to and not offend a wider range of audiences than current sources. Watching TV programs from the 50s/60s, for example, they do seem quite polite and civil. Now though, options abound. Why should I watch a whitewashed and generic news program when I can listen to vitriolic talk radio or scroll through my website of choice and see exactly what I want to see? Not to mention that every "jerk/bozo/asshole" can pour his heart out online.

The downfall of the previously-more-mainstream Mainstream Media has simply enabled more impolite and "uncivil" voices to stand out from the crowd (for better or worse).

As far as personal and professional interaction, the responsibility for maintaining civility in such environments falls on the individuals taking part. Don't tolerate bullshit from employees. Be respectful to your friends/family, and expect the same in return.
Looks like go(lang-1.6.3) is broken again in this beta, worked nice in beta 3.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12202576 and marked it off-topic.
You didn't mention that Google are Clinton Foundation Donors [1] for $500,000-$1,000,000

[1] http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/clinton-foundati...
Recommended reading: "Assholes, a Theory", by Aaron James. This is a serious analysis of asshole behavior and why society rewards it. The latter is the key point. There are benefits to being an asshole in some organizations.
It's tremendously disheartening to see the mainstream media repeating ProPublica's lies. They ran a statistical analysis. Their R-script said that bias was statistically insignificant. So they repeated a bunch of anecdotes in the story and left that part of the analysis out.

Reporting null results won't get you cited by the NYT, I guess.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/propublica_is_lying....

The power of the media to push a socially convenient lie is pretty amazing.
Something relevant to keep in mind is the scammer is not obligated to have a one track mind. He has 25K of their money, as far as I can tell still has it and based on the guys history has run this many times. He can run this scheme in parallel perhaps 10 companies and for 9 he disappears and the tenth he spends 250K and owns a chunk of a "4M company". Note that he ran for the hills when he got in over his head and figured out that giving a "4M company" that folds when it loses 25K is probably not a good use of 250K. Some other company will be getting that 250K.
Yes, but my point is that nobody will try to get self-employement status first if he/she doesn't have it, before even knowing whether the project is accepted.

This would have implications on the relationship to the full-time employer, and also from a tax perspective (which is quite a hassle here in Germany, IMHO...).
Actually I see the present problem as exactly the opposite.

More and more we live in a culture where people think it's their right to feel offended and for anyone saying anything that makes them fell that way to just be shut up by someone (some faculty department for instance).

It is becoming basically a Politically Correct culture of censorship and we keep seeing opinion texts (just like this one) that appeal to that censorship like if it was a good thing.

I don't see it as more and more people becoming jerks, I see it as more and more people becoming thin skinned.
Running both, iOS 10 beta has been pretty stable mostly, much better than previous iOS betas, and Mac
OS Sierra beta too. They're good enough for daily use but obviously not for any critical stuff.
* The replicatiors shortcoming for complex structure is merely a production limit, same goes with the gold pressed-latinum conveniently introduced in DS9

Everybody doesn't get the same stuff. The show only focuses on the elites, not on the low ranking grunt work / red shirt.

People don't choose the job they want, especially not in Starfleet... Go back to my previous argument, you'd have to be mad to choose to be a red shirt on an away mission...
I use it as a daily and it's fine. Occasional freezes (a few day a day) and very occasional crashes (once a week or so). 6s+.