skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After the NSA hack: Cybersecurity in an even more vulnerable world
Is there much grandstanding and self-mythologizing? He has opinions, like every artist. If you think he has built a mythology around himself, read "Herzog on Herzog", part of Farrar, Straus and Giroux's great series of interviews with directors. He is very open about his development as a filmmaker, and really about everything. The stories he tells about his filmmaking experiences -- his many fights with Kinski, for example -- may be colourful, but I have not seen any evidence that he has invented any of them. Personally, I find Herzog's perspective refreshingly and uniquely unromantic.
Did anyone else see this and want to cheat?

http://imgur.com/a/l4n85

Method:

- grab cites.db from repo and dump cities to file with sqlite

- use perl to convert data to json

- use dev console to import cities object

- one quick js function to get called when websockets gives us a 'new_turn' message that sends a 'answer' message with data from our lookup table

I know I cheated, but for me this was super fun. (I never make it to the top of a score board in videos games without some sort of hackery involved).
Well the whole blockchain thing is part of a slightly broader potential trend: decentralization. We're starting to see social networks that are decentralized: like Dystopia and another more recent one i can't remember the name of. But, I don't think they're catching on - there's not much interest from users. These things basically use client desktops as mini-servers to serve up pages that used to come from a centralized location. In theory, technically speaking, many things could be run this way.

The million dollar question is: why should we do this? Where's the value? Are users so paranoid about centralized tech companies owning their content, that they'd be willing to do all this?
Ableton Live works really well in Wine with the WineASIO plugins and JACK.

Should you want a sandboxed VM, Windows in KVM/Qemu with USB passthrough, and GPU passthrough might solve all your audio/photoshop needs.
If you are salaried, you are being paid for that time. The effect is to reduce your effective hourly wage.

I quit my last employer because the extra 2 hours required for commuting and dressing (both of which incur unreimbursed expenses) on top of my 9 billable hours was taking up a significant chunk of my compensation.
The clock speed ramp-up in the video was the coolest part :-)
I was mistaken, it's not.

~> @ i = 0 + "foo"
@: Expression Syntax.
~> @ i = 0 + "1"
~> echo $i
1
It's also worth reading The Hacker Crackdown, which has an analysis of various hacker manifestos in part 2, and in general is an excellent read.
A legislature or a judiciary are still the government. I use the term to refer to the whole mechanism, not just an executive.

Regardless of where they derive their power from (democracy, monarchy, whatever). Constitutions exist to provide limits on even the power of the current majority to change fundamental aspects of governance. The U.S. Constitution for example, requires a very high bar before alterations can be made, precisely to avoid even democratically-elected representatives from making changes, even where those changes would enjoy popular support.
Oh interesting, I guess I haven't paid much attention to the ebook markets since I bought my Nook Simple Touch, I've just made a habit of checking Kobo first because they were the ones offering no-DRM at the time. Good to know!
didn't MS SQL Server just get ported to *Nix?
Bluntly, I don't think we understand the obesity problem.
There will be two of us interviewing the candidate :-)

I agree that the communication is a big factor. On the other hand, we had few previous candidates whose performance was really poor after we hired them.

Stealing the conversation starters. Thanks.
> Could we even have meaningful political dialog if, for example, it was illegal to intentionally offend Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton?

That's actually exactly what Citizens United was about … a group of people were trying to show a film critical of Mrs. Clinton, and the federal government attempted to punish them for it. That's why there was a big push in 2014 to repeal the First Amendment: politicians wanted to make it illegal to oppose politicians.
unless you're the fed, all money comes from someone else, buddy. that's how the system works.
I was mistaken about tcsh' type system. It's not strongly typed:

~> @ i = 0 + "foo"
@: Expression Syntax.
~> @ i = 0 + "1"
~> echo $i
1
you may have to revoke your agreement in writing within 72 hours in order to be fully safe. Click-through licenses are binding otherwise.
Because it takes up less space in my house.
Pandora Nears Deals for On-Demand Streaming
Note that "Google and Apple" aren't representative of the types of companies here, the media just obsesses about them. There are 33 companies in all. Mostly telecoms.
You last response made no sense.

Your points regarding what hedge funds should do or not are simply wrong.

I don't invest, I leave that to professionals.

Also - you might want to take a course in investing finance. You'll find it very interesting.
centralization also results in severely less optimal results because the information and experience available to central planners is substantially less then information available to individual actors.

Not only is the information of poorer quality prior to making the decisions the quality of feedback is poor. It becomes very difficult to understand the consequences of decisions when you have nothing to compare it to.

In a decentralized system the individual actors can see the results of decisions made by other actors and change accordingly. In a centralized system there is no other 'center' to compare it against. They could be making good decisions or they could possibly be not.

In the real-world the amount of unknown variables is so high that even decisions made with the best intentions, most rational approach, and most perfect knowledge possible can fail miserably. It wouldn't be the fault of the central planners, per say, but it will still be a negative outcome.

Also a decentralized system the consequences to negative decisions is dampened. Even if the bad decision was done out of perfect rationality there is enough irrational actors that somebody else will likely stumble across a superior decision and thus guide a more positive outcome. A bad decision by a individual actor will potentially be devastating to that actor, but the effects of that decision will be limited to that actor and those around him that may be negatively impacted.. it won't impact the entire group and his example will lead to better decision making in the near future.

With centralized planning the bad decisions affect the entire group and it can take much much longer for the bad decision to be recognized as bad and even longer to change. By that time you can fix the problem have the group adjusted to work around the bad decisions and undoing the bad will just create new issues.
Collaboration is overrated. IMO the biggest purpose of a good software architecture is to minimize the amount of required collaboration between programmers. Each gets a well-defined place to work on and focuses on that, instead of constantly discussing how to build every single class. The latter gives you a diffused design in which nobody understands any part of it. The former gives you design in which, while single person may understand all of it (as it always is due to fractal complexity), every piece of that design is fully understood by someone.
What do you want to know about the last three?
Totally misses what ISO paper sizes are designed for, namely book binding and signature printing. That's why the scale-invariant approach is so important. Once you know how many leaves in a signature and what page size you want, it is easy to figure out which paper size you want to print on.
Right, of course, but that is an event that I would assume wouldn't require any sort of server communication or application redrawing (beyond what the native input widget already provides...)

And, if it does, it's not a situation I'm sure I would design a toolkit around...
First I've heard of demonsaw. I can't tell from quickly perusing the website. Is it open source? Has anyone tried it?
Oh not at al! I don't mean diversity strictly by skin color or race. I mainly mean economically underprivileged!
> what sort of science doesn't involve data

There are many like theoretical computer science which do not involve data.

> I say this as someone whose expertise is really sitting at the nexus of what would be considered data science. I feel as if I have been doing what might be considered data science for a long time, before there was a label for it, but watching its ascendance in demand and popularity has been troubling. I should be happy, but I feel like it's being driven by fashion rather than fundamentals, which makes me worried about the trajectory going forward, and disturbed by some communities being thrown under the bus.

There will be a time where things will consolidate. During this time, people who really do data science will be stuck with while people who just have it as a title for the sake of it would face problems.
Awesome article! Does anyone have any further information? A few things stick in my mind:

1. FTA: "You'd need to be downloading at over 11Mbps 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to get the equivalent of El Paquete"

2. The AV update is 4 days old, the offline copy of Revolico is 3 days old

3. The article as a whole implies that El Paquete Semanal is a regularly distributed, ~850GB weekly curated samizdata

Thus: what the fuck!? It'd take me weeks to assemble this kind of thing, especially given point #1 above. Sure, a lot of this stuff could be farmed out to scrapers/sickbeard/whatever, but this level of curation plus the quick turnaround plus the distribution (how many portable 1TB drives are circulating?!) plus the download speed requirements... Who is doing this, and how? There's clearly some really great high speed connections in Cuba. Are these guys backed (or at least tolerated) by the state or something?
I'm not a drug dealer, yet find that horrifying...
I don't understand the question.

If you mean: "How does Sandstorm the company ensure that it can't read Sandstorm users' data?", the answer is that we provide software that you can run on your own machine. The software is open source, so you can verify that it does not give us any ability to access your data.
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How can a settlement place something in to the public domain if it was already there?

If you are arguing that Warner has no rights, then Warner has no ability to make the work public domain.

Does anyone have a link to the final settlement document?
Job queues, message queues, other queues. Almost all of them in one place
> "Happy Birthday to You" is almost universally known in the English speaking world, even by children

It's almost universally known in the non-English speaking world also. They lyrics change, but the music remains the same.
Reused, but the early 70's had its own fun with the term. The 90's were already on the down slope of crime.

The funner part of the 70's (and part of the 80's) is people doing analysis of the crimes now and finding a serial killer in the data.
Raptor Maps (YC S16) Uses Drones to Help Farmers Get Better Crops
SpaceX is not your typical company - it's a vehicle created to instantiate an idea (getting humans to Mars and beyond), and not a specialized instance of a generic Company class with a Product parameter set to Rockets. That is, people who work there are the ones who believe in the idea; for them it's more of a vocation, a life itself. Those who don't fit that bill burn out pretty quickly - hence the turnover rate.
I have already been through such interview, and 1st hour was a ad-hoc technical conversation, with last 30 mins questions of the candidate about the workplace. I don't think the length should be the problem.

On the other hand, I wouldn't mind short-circuiting the interview.
Silicon Valley: the chase of theoretical monetary value
I never said utopia. This started with the term "broken". Hence my original assertion. So I think we're in "violent agreement" here.
"Hundred" used to mean different things for different commodities.

four score for some things, six score for others, or for onions, a hundred was 15^2
As far as I know languages have broken down into families that look pretty similar to each other for a long time.
A simple fix for many of the objections in this thread: can't means low probability.
Unless Friday is work from home day, and I can productively work from home, dealing with a commute for 4 hours in the office sounds terrible... Though I guess compared to the 70+ hour life it's not bad.
> we'll have a PoP in Cuba

Why though?

Cloudflare doesn't have POP's in most countries, and Cuba isn't somehow very advantageous compared to having a POP in Puerto Rico, Florida, Mexico, or any of the more connected Caribbean nations.

Is it for the novelty, or am I missing some advantage of setting up infrastructure in Cuba... ?
Here is the blog describing the Capacitor storage engine (successor to ColumnIO, which was the inspiration for Parquet):

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/04/inside-capaci...

Here's the blog post describing Google's in-memory execution (some of what the new Dremel version is doing, including pipelined execution, dynamic in-memory shuffling, dynamic partition sizing, etc):

https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/08/in-memory-que...

These are some of the more significant improvements since the Dremel paper:

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
Assume you're looking for web/mobile web app? I have a similar issue with being declined by Adsense for a non-content (app type) site. I'm not earning huge amounts, but over the last 3 months I've been using the following display networks, all are CPM based (not CPC) and not content/contextual driven:

- Amazon CPM. Pretty good, guaranteed CPM, with an average but consistent fill rate. Mostly remarketing of Amazon basket/viewing with a few good quality advertisers as well. They don't have great payment terms though (2 months+), limited ad sizes and limited payment options (I'm based in UK, and they offer USD check by mail payments only).

- Sovrn (mobile/desktop). Been great so far, but haven't been through a payment cycle yet.

- Facebook Audience Network (mobile only). Very variable fill rate and CPM. Ads are generally for mobile app install.

- Adversal (mobile/desktop). Not great quality ads and low CPM, but 100% fill so only use as remnant ads.

I only use these networks for 300x250 on desktop/tablets and 320x50 mobile banners at the moment, but Sovrn and Facebook also offer Native ads, which I might change over to in the near future (higher CPM than banners).

All of the above except Adversal support passbacks, so you can waterfall ads to help with the low fill rates. I use DFP for Small Business to handle this, but it could easily be setup manually after testing each network.

Others:

- Airpush (mobile web). I used to get pretty good CPM for mobile web ads, but stopped using them as was getting some very poor/nefarious ads (click hijacking and malware). They may have sorted out the issues now.

- BuySellAds. Need to do a bit more work to improve my sites ad placements, so haven't used them yet. I believe it's a bit more hands on than an ad network, but would look at these.
People find us 100% through Google
Reminder that Gawker has a history of doxing, defaming, outing and posting explicit videos of not just the powerful but the powerless.

edit: had, not has, and doesn't it feel good to make that edit
As a non-data-science practitioner, I think the term works. "Data science", from what I gather, focuses on the work of collecting, collating, maintaining, and analyzing data. All science may rely on data but not all scientists work with data well.

In contrast, I think the term "data journalism" is poor. Because it isn't (typically) about the journalism of data, e.g. what's going on with the use of data. And so to talk about data journalism being a field (nevermind a niche field) makes it seem as if other kinds of journalism don't use data. Even the reporters who rely on 3 anecdotes/interviews to make a story are using data, they're just using a very poor form of it (what with data being the plural of anecdote).

I think David Leonhardt, the former editor of the NYT Upshot, said it well:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/20/upshot/death-to-data-journ...

> Data journalism, ultimately, has the same aim as “quote journalism” and “anecdote journalism.” They all aspire to be “fact journalism” or, more eloquently, journalism.
What happened in Austin after Uber and Lyft got up and left
> If you don't like the system, work to change it. In the US at least you won't go to jail for doing that.

Prison, maybe not, but people go to jail all the time for that.
My car lease (in Sweden) is in Swedish miles.

2000 miles (i.e. 20k km).
Or you could just have 11 1Mbps connections...
> Shorting is a risk. Shorting with big money is a big risk.

Calling it "shorting" suggests the downside was unlimited (as it is when shorting equities). That wasn't the case for this trade.
We used to have that but it only accounted for a small fraction of sales. Our customers are large enterprises that have a quotation/PO invoicing cycle that pay by check or wire.
It could have helped probably. There are plugins still charging $20-30+. But the recent trend is free and quality plugins around services and other tools. So that price felt right.
Swing trading does not require the ability to place an order in near real time. You need to have done your DD and generally you just place your order the day before you expect your event.

We don't know that blockchain transactions are inherently slow and we haven't verified that no decentralized architectural/algorithmic/structural solutions exist to coordinating trades. In fact, I can think of one or two. So I'm asking you for data, not hypothesis. Do you have any info from your research about trade order execution times on p2p exchanges over time or userbase size? Or is it just your conclusion from anecdote?
Of prediction and policy
Authorize.Net Accept.js
You now belong to the club: http://worldmapswithout.nz
Sure, but for generating a quick thumbnail, it works just fine.
This hackathon is more of a virtual accelerator
It's not like the whole 1TB is being refreshed weekly. File structure tree looks like a spanish language warez site. If I had to guess 85%+ of the disk space is taken up by video.
To the FSF, and many others like me, DRM is a violation of human freedom. The art industry's concerns are valid, but introducing them into the DRM debate makes as much sense as the dairy industry's concerns when discussing the adulteration of milk with melanin. The point is simply not up to discussion as far as we are concerned.
This reminds of the LAN we had in college. We used to use the software DC++ and then students shared the files that they had downloaded. You could access almost any file at 100MBPS.Someone was sure to download the latest episode of what you wanted to watch. If someone did not, then you went on the internet. Sometimes it was fast to download the file via LAN, than to transfer a file from pen drive to the computer.

This entire thing was run by students.
But how do you define "success?"
Citation needed? Wtf?

Citation: I can't bill my customers for my lunch cause that's fraud. They don't pay me to eat. My employer provides no lunch charge number that I can charge overhead to.

Anyways, it's obvious that every employer has different policies for different things. "My employer doesn't give me disability insurance, citation needed yours does." (And mine does, I don't know how common that is)
InDesign was the successor to PageMaker and a result of a strategy to outcompete Quark Xpress. I don't think it took much inspiration from TeX/LaTeX, given that it's a WYSIWYG tool with no markup language underneath.
this impoverished world where the software creator has to lock it behind a services API in order to monetize it. [..]
A world without copyright is [..] one where you can only watch movies in theaters, or stream them onto locked down devices

So... it's exactly like the coming future anyway?
Missing MH370: New Drift Modelling to Chart Crash Zone in Search for Plane
Add in a REPL server so that I can make cool designs from Emacs and I'm sold. I'm a big Guile fan so this is a very exciting project for me.
> reasonably priced

When a cartel has monopoly on distribution (which is $$ thing copyright provides and DRM attempts to shore up) and thus sets prices and even when/how/if you get to buy/rent content, how can you claim to know what reasonable price is?

Your other claims are even more spurious. "A decent number of pirates..." Yeah, how many is that? what % is "decent"? what study are you citing for this shocking revelation? and what exactly is the economic impact of these people refusing to buy what they were never going to buy anyway but proving free markting? Cause there are actual studies showing piracy increases sales. You can use the google. Though, I suspect you're too lazy, here's one https://ideas.repec.org/p/qed/wpaper/1354.html

The problem facing media industry is that the actual value of most content is probably near $0.00. The supply of content is unbelievably massive. Far outstriping demand. So, the Media industry spends much money to generate artificial demand. Through marketing, advertising, whole shows / channels E! exist only to generate demand for content and voa lobbying for distribution restrictions.