skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Northeast U.S. (DC to Boston)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Between DC and Boston

Technologies: Java(Spring, Android, Web), Python(Django), Javascript(AngularJS, jQuery, etc.), HTML/CSS, SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL(MongoDB), Bash, Tomcat, Nginx, Apache2, Digital Ocean/AWS, Docker

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rjVvPsGJ1tmnkLSugu-Lh0rH...

Email:josh.r.wiegand@gmail.com

I am actively looking for a new opportunity. I have been working since 2014 developing web applications. I also enjoy native mobile application development. I attempt to contribute to open source projects I like when time allows.
> meaning the owner does not report all the gross revenue and the spends the cash in a way that it's not traceable back to them.

Exactly. For example taking money and buying expensive restaurant meals or liquor is not traceable. Or jewelry (which can be sold later). Also having home renovations whereby paying part by check and the rest under the table is also not (easily) traceable. Or paying employees in cash. I also don't buy into the idea that in actual practice banks are going out and seeing how many customers they have at their place of business other than in a cursory way by chance. Also whether they are writing checks or not, small businesses often operate out of multiple bank accounts. They could be transferring the money to an account that they use to write checks or even legitimately making deposits into multiple accounts.
You know I might actually take a pay cut for a more mathematical role over my current situation 'creating value'. I would love for my work to be driven more by logic and data than big personalities and office politics.
The fastest streaming example on that list (csv-parser) is still 5× slower than Python.
Why is predicting a particular economic event the qualification? Sure, predicting the future is nice, but what I want to know is whether it would have happened under the policies favoured by economists, whether the effects would have been as severe, whether long-term economic growth and stability would be better or worse, whether human welfare would be improved, whether technological advancement would be greater, whether we'd be happier, healthier, safer...

The 2008 crash sucked for a lot of people, but if your economic goal is simply to foresee it or forestall it, you're asking for far too little. It seems a bit like asking why so-called public health experts weren't able to prevent those two cases of Ebola in 2014, while ignoring the 50 000 annual flu+pneumonia deaths and the 600k heart disease deaths--as well as the fact that they stopped ebola infections at two.
Sell to whom? They're already publicly held. Selling means someone has to buy up all the stock, which requires about $15 billion in cash.
Yep. Theoretically they exchange your "dirty" bitcoin for one that has never been on the darkweb.

https://darknetmarkets.org/bitcoin-tumblers/
This Is How Ayahuasca Affects the Brain
So You Want to Be a Functional Programmer (Part 1)
If the robot is using the same DB it will have the same problem. If it's using a different DB the app should be switched to that DB.

Or maybe the robot should walk the aisles and scan all bar codes to make the DB for both

Personally I don't want to install an app, I just want to visit a mobile webpage.
Oh completely agree. But since they've built this walled garden of apps it just makes sense for them to be consistent.
CS is not necessarily just the study of algorithms. I have a formal CS education and it encompasses everything from circuit design to algorithms to data structures to operating systems to statistics and graph, number and decision theory. Algorithms is a subset of overall theory that is a component of Computer Science and Maths.

But I do agree, they've implemented some sort of hashing, with several buckets and trees to search from. It may not be efficient compared to actual computer databases, but it's the best humans can do with O(log n). Space requirement is still unfortunately O(n) but hopefully PDFs will help the ATF guys.

If anything I'm saying that I'm happy people are recognizing that Computer Science has applications outside of computers, and is practically Applied Maths. A bachelor's degree in CS is only 2-3 math courses away from a minor in Maths.

The irony is that a computer scientist is helpful in a computer-less environment. I guess you could say the human mind is a very advanced computer. It may not seem ironic to everyone on HN, but to the layman, what on earth could a CS person do with no computers? And the answer is a lot. After all Djikstra handwrote his algorithms on paper.
It is not just banks, just regular people in the neighborhood notice. If a restaurant sits almost empty, has a pretty bad menu and service yet seems to hang around for years, it just looks suspicious.
The thing is, it's complicated. No one can confidently predict the interplay of all the algorithm factors and user behavior.

Hacker News should be hackable (and it's ironic that it's not). The only way to evolve a better system is though lot's of empirical experiments. But because you need a large userbase to do a proper experiment, we've been limited to a dozen or so experiments to-date (HN, reddit, slashdot, etc). Making HN hackable would eliminate this chicken and egg problem. See how much experimentation the Netflix Challenge enabled. Hacker News of all places should enable creative hackers, math studs and inspired experimenters to test their ideas.

For this to happen Hacker News needs to make vote data available in the public API, or if that is a no-go, go with another option such as accepting experimental code to run in a sandbox and and allowing it to present an alternate front page and comment rankings. I'd prefer votes becoming public for other reasons though.

HN and all its users, and even Paul Graham, know that a better solution for promoting quality knowledge sharing and healthy discourse is needed. What better way to come up with a better way than to let its userbase of hackers hack away at it? If Hacker News were hackable, there would be a blossoming of alternate front pages and comment ranking, and users would vote with their feet, err... clicks.
In most of the US states the expected value of your winnings is less than 50 cents for every dollar you spend. That's a steep price for ML.
I don't see why you're being downvoted, but: trained and well-equipped people with hunting rifles can form an effective guerrilla. However, whether they could do much in the US today other than harass the civilian population, much in the same way as violent gangs in the inner cities already do, is highly questionable.
HSBC got caught, and nobody went to prison. The fine was just $1.9 billion.

Our prosecutors are a f*ing joke.
Flip side of this are cash businesses (like restaurants) which are legitimate and the owner isn't reporting anywhere near the cash that they are taking in.
Suppose a state decides they're spending too much money on their court system. What would you say if they instituted a 5000% tax on criminal defense services?

What would you say if a state decided to impose a 5000% tax on abortion medicines?

What would you expect the courts to say about these taxes?

(Incidentally, this is not so different than the Mariana Islands' $1000 handgun tax. I thought this was currently being litigated, but I can't find anything confirming that.)
Fish yeah but extracting useful DNA from olive oil and other processed foods/ingredients is not straightforward.
People don't usually pay for expensive works of art with bundles of $100 bills. In fact, this applies to pretty much all high-value transactions -- the probability of a purchase being made in cash decreases as the value increases.

Restaurants work well for money laundering because they handle a large number of small transactions -- thus they can plausibly have a high percentage of cash transactions.
You can always dump it the hard way... fly slow, with the aircraft in a high drag configuration (e.g. flaps out, possibly gear down as well if the speeds allow it) and lots of throttle.
> Bus's all have bicycle carriers for emergency punctures/Hollywood

Can you elaborate on the Hollywood part?
> the former consulting part of the now defunct Arthur Anderson

looks like they [relaunched this year](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen)
I assume: in that GNU will continue to provide hosting and mailing list resources.
Every company with investors has to be more than it is.
The Frog Is No Longer Boiling, It's Dead
SolarPV + EV + Powerwall, can be a good proposition. Especially when an use EV battery is repurposed for Powerwall. The only problem in the current vision is burn-out rate, Tesla + SolarCity are buring cash fast, but if they can survive this, Tesla will be unstoppable company with tremendous synergies.
Search is actually very broad. Who is the target market for "search"? Basically everyone with a web-enabled personal computer at the time. Google addressed everyone with search needs mostly equally: if you wanted to get the weather, or search for an academic article, Google would serve the need. This is as opposed to say Amazon, which started with a narrow target market by only offering books.
Firearms have been nicknamed "equalizers" for a reason: An 80-year-old grandmother can successfully hold off an assault by someone many times her strength, size and agility. Get rid of guns and you now leave a large subset of society defenseless.

Personally I think the 4473s should be destroyed after a reasonable time, and never subject to bulk capture. It's no business of the government's what purchases I make.
Rule of thumb: carriers actually deliver, once users are up and running on the service (not the first day after deployment), around 1/10 of whatever speed they mention in press releases.
Results of the 2016 Nim Community Survey
I got a different impression from "What footprints on the moon?" At least to me it doesn't make sense that NASA would want to forget one of humanity's biggest achievements, especially considering what an accomplishment it was for America during the space race. If you can still find the article it would be great if you could link it so I can maybe get some missing context.
IDK. Imaging you just won big, $1M or 1M Euros. First of all I'd keep quiet about it, but even if I bragged, there's no way I'd take, let's say, $1.5M cash from some shady people when the money can be counterfeit, or they might just shoot me for the winning ticket. Then there's the problem of explaining to the tax authorities where I got my $1.5M from. I assume they take your TaxID/SSN when winnings are paid, so I couldn't say that it was lottery winnings.
"and if you don't get more than 3-4 votes you delete and re-submit again a bit later"

The HN FAQ[1] says:

"Please don't delete and repost the same story, though. Accounts that do that eventually lose submission privileges."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Surely bitcoin gives you plausible deniability? Anyone with a dubious source of BTC could say they mined them "back in the day".
Hills I guess?
I live in a Jersey suburb of NYC, it's a relatively poor area but everyone has a car and drives everywhere.

I ride a bike, I dont have to lock it up because no one is interested. (Doesnt hurt that it's not new/no brand names on it.)
> I mostly care about this issue because of the security issues that arise (overflow is somewhere around #4 or #5 on the list of top root causes of security issues)

How many of those overflow issues crucially have to be combined with memory safety problems to be weaponizable? I suspect the ratio is over 95%.
Well, that's the worst way it could go and I'll do my best to filter it out. Although the system is anonymous to users, I have info on everyone (including the person you received a photo from), and I have no problem using that info if necessary.

I think the danger element more refers to just putting yourself out there and sending a photo to a stranger and not knowing when or what you will receive back. It could be beautiful artwork, nature, cute animals, or something more strange or challenging. That's the danger part.

Anything that crosses the line will be immediately removed and appropriate action taken.
Eating meat is actually (Animal suffering) + (Plant suffering) so taking out animal suffering is still reducing the amount of total suffering.

Dharmic religions have argued this for centuries. The conclusion isn't to eliminate suffering from this world, but to reduce it as much as possible. To have as little of an impact on this world as possible, and to live in harmony with the nature as much as possible.

Jains for example can take it to an extreme where they even filter out microbiologic organism by wearing a mask, and use a broom to sweep the ground in front of them so that they remove living organism from their path.

Admittedly to me that is an outrageous extreme, but it does make a point nonetheless.
> ...to sell energy at night they'd have to stop selling it during the day.

Certainly that would be true if there was a finite amount of energy available and their customers purchased all of it. But they can install as much capacity as they need - there is more solar energy available to collect than humans can currently imagine requiring. If it is worth it to them, there is nothing preventing them from installing sufficient capacity to meet their customer's needs 24 hours a day.
In the article, are those actual wait times or initially estimated wait times?
Based on half dozen people telling that to buzzfeed...
I admit such strategies have failed more often than succeeded. It's difficult to create "organic synergy" without alienating users (who tend to be suspicious of such mergers in the first place). But Twitter has unique power at news breaking and creating direct dialogue around events, and it's surely worth a premium above the bare financials. The value created is not by making Twitter better, but leveraging it's abilities to the benefit of the buyer. What's a company worth as a stand alone entity and what's it worth as part of a greater organization are two different things.
I could totally see someone like Newscorp buying them.
Mostly personal anecdote. I've been noticing more and more "shill" accusations on the net (though maybe linked to election season) and conspiracy theories in general. Also, when I was younger I actually started following some of these theories because it made me feel like I was "in" on something that big brother didn't want us to know. it's basically masturbation while willfully ignoring any evidence to the contrary. Maybe "hip" was a poor choice of wording, but I have certainly noticed a resurgence in strange ideas, often masked by pseudoscience or twisting of facts.
Hacker News - the only place on the internet where the term 'ML' refers to at least 3 or 4 different things.
Peer benchmarking of %cash is a constraint, but there will be a natural range depending on clientele, so you can safely get away with mixing some cash into the business. The same goes for expenses vs revenue -- alcohol has a higher markup than food, for example.

Heck, you can launder money through restaurant without anyone in the restaurant knowing: Have people go in and buy a few hundred dollars of liquor at a time.
> "I've got this form in my hand here. I'm looking at the form. I can tell you for a fact right now the purchaser and possessor are the same person."

Seems that either the author doesn't understand how the 4473 works, or Charlie. Most likely both. A Form 4473 defines the possessor of the firearm like the IP address defines the user of the Internet connection.
You do realise Musk is very competent engineer among other things? He is fairly far removed from "business type"
The tilapia from China are literally fed pig shit and packed in ice made from contaminated water. They don't care because the food is being shipped to the US, which doesn't check it. I will never eat tilapia again, or any food product from China.
Where did I say anything about the protocol itself? But feel free to read in whatever you like...
I agree with what you've said but I wanted to add that there is room for improvement on Google's model. For example, selling page 1 results is unfair, but that is something google does.

I think DuckDuckGo is an example of how Google's methodology can be refined and improved upon, specifically by not spying on users. It's a subtle improvement, but I find the results I receive are actually superior and more relevant than Google's, plus I don't have to worry about who is watching my traffic.
> [...] since not that many know how to ride a bicycle.

Come on, seriously? It gives a pretty poor image of the average american. Manual transmission? Don't know how to use that. Bicycle? What is that thing?
As darkr says.

Most of LA is really flat, and perfect for cycling, but those hills were just annoying. Fun coming back though.
actually the java one is still amazing since it's a cold jvm.
when it would be a big file I would think that java is far ahead of both. with an aggressive jit.
maybe pypy is faster than all 3 :D
> Trapping should be the default, and disabled only by special user intent, which optimization flags are not.

At the cost of making programs slower. For every comment like this we would have 5 comments asking why Rust is slower than C++.

Besides, the real solution is memory safety, which Rust does not compromise. Memory safety stops the vast majority of overflow issues from becoming security problems.
Because that's exactly what the argument above does. It simply subtracts away the decimal part of 9.999....

This is always wrong except in the case of infinitely many repeated digits, and the proof does not explain this.

More rigorously, let 9.999{n} denote an expansion with n 9s after the decimal point, where n can also be infinity. The subtlety with the argument is that it needs X to be the same as everything after the decimal point (so that the result of the subtraction is just 9). This is never true for finite values of n, and the proof does not establish that it's true for an infinite value of n -- indeed, it can't do so without supplying a meaning in the first place.

Another way of phrasing it is that it assumes that if X = 0.999..., then 10X = 9.999..., where there are the "same number" of 9s after the decimal point in 10X as there are in X. This seems intuitive for an infinite repeating sequence of 9s, because "one less than infinity" is still infinity, but it's not very rigorous, and the argument as written certainly doesn't explain this.
I disagree about that lack of competition: Finland was actually a pioneer in deregulation of telecom services in 1980's-1990's and that was a partial reason for the great success of Nokia since that. The company learned how to deal with operators that are competing on a market. Deregulation followed later in many European countries and throughout the world.

There are three physical countrywide LTE/3G/GSM networks in Finland: Telia/Sonera, Elisa and DNA. They then carry some MVNOs so there are more places where you can actually buy a SIM card than just these three.

Most people buy their phone here separately from the operator contract, so there are much fewer contract phones than e.g. in the U.S. Thus there is competition for phone sales, and competition for operator contracts, separately.

Telia/Sonera is the former state monopoly, Elisa grew out of Helsinki telephone association/company, and DNA is a merger of small countryside operators. Sonera has the best coverage throughout the country, DNA curiously enough has the best coverage in urban areas.

Of course, we can still always say that there is not enough competition between operators, as their prices tend to converge. Consumer advocates usually have only two kinds of messages: either all prices are nearly the same ("competition is not working!") or there are large disparities in prices ("competition is not working!").
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Are you sure? The judge departed upwards from the prosecutor's recommended sentence, but did he exceed the guidelines? The class of charges Hastert was sentenced under include a sharp increase in offense level if the crime involves sexual exploitation of minors, easily enough to land you in zone D for a first offense.
You may be correct, but you're talking about two billion dollars as if it's not a lot of money. I don't have a dog in this fight, but the twitter business model is actually quite impressive as long as you don't compare it to facebook.
This is why I advocate for what I think of as a zero marginal lifestyle.

If you can create a Passive Tiny House with renewable energy sources then you've a safety net while you work on your crazy schemes. I estimate that shall take 25k - 50k per person which is doable.

Should communities of geeks do the same thing you could have a hackerspace and central utility hub too. Under such conditions a very low income can provide you with sustenance and net access. Suddenly putting lots of project oriented people in one place to rub shoulders becomes economically feasible for a trivial amount of capital.

I don't think it has been done but I like this idea. It reminds me of that blueseed venture thing they were trying on that ship off the coast of San Francisco.
There are many other sites that let people post long-form content and even offer social-like features to go with it.

Bite-sized tweets are a 'feature' for the company itself, because ideally, they can be surfaced out-of-context (like on an algorithmicially jumbled timeline or some aggregator page), and can be seamlessly intermixed with promoted content.

When it was brand-new, Twitter was unique and had a differentiating format. Today, Instagram is the closest analogue except the image and caption are flipped for maximum visual appeal, and that format has seriously infringed on the marketshare (and use-cases) of Twitter by attracting a certain type of content-producer; one that appeals to the coveted 18-30 crowd.
It's probably worth pointing out that if anyone has an idea for how to improve on search, they're not going to share it in this thread, they're going to complete it quietly and publish their product.
Yes, but the post generally agrees with my assessment, which is the Fed could go and buy equities or corporate debt if it really wanted to (and other central banks, just as the ECB or JCB, have already done just that, without nationalizing their economies in the process):

"Substantively, the Fed probably enjoys greater discretion in unconventional monetary policy—possibly extending to the purchase of equities—than is commonly assumed."

FYI, you were probably restricted from replying immediately to my post, not because of the comment depth.
The rise of Monero
Mobster Whitey Bulger of the Winter Hill Gang did in fact do this in Massachusetts in the early nineties. The papers reported it at face value, I guess for fear of libel suits.
Wide-area-network using IPSec tunnels between multiple AWS VPCs
Can anyone give some context info? Was there some conflict between GNU and nano that has now been resolved? What was it about?