skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How many times has that "80-year-old grandmother" scenario happened?

Substitute "aged grandma" with "anyone weaker than an attacker" being able to successfully make themselves an unattractive target, and it's going to be a pretty significant number. Figures are debated on both sides.

Real-estate titles appear to be more about taxation and revenue generation than anything else. Take away that incentive and you'll find governments doing a crappy job of it.
Heat flows from a warm system to a cold system.

That was random thought lol. But, I thought they thought it flowed backwards because their direction was backwards. Similar to how electron charge is negative so it flows backwards cnceptually.
...except for the hills and, depending on your point of view, lurking vagrants/robbers/poopers. Some of us prefer our walks without the aroma of fresh human feces.
Avoiding Cache Writebacks for Freed Memory
> Anyone creates "money" every time they lend. Banks do a lot of lending, so they're definitely involved. But even opening a bar tab creates "money" (more accurately, "credit").

I believe that's only partially true. If your definition of money is a piece of paper (e.g. a bar tab), than yes anyone can create money. However, if your definition of money is the U.S. dollar (e.g. paper or electronic versions) than there are only two entities that can create it: the federal reserve via open market operations and banks via lending.

My question to digi_owl was whether he was making a distinction of what limits credit creation from banks. The reserve requirement has very little to do with it.[1][2]

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/id/100880857
[2] http://www.cnbc.com/id/100497710

I appreciate the link to the video, I'll check it out.
This harsh bargaining was in part why Aaron Schwartz killed himself. The punishment doesn't fit the crime.
Can you point to any evidence even in the fringe sciences that would attempt to prove that monkeys have self awareness?
I wouldn't call it "supremely" walkable but yeah it is walkable.
The embedded device levels? Or were there levels after 6 for stockfighter?

I played around with stockfighter in December/January and in July-ish. While the service was more stable in July, the lack of documented endpoints for level selection or the back office was still a bit of a turn off.

There were a few things I found most frustrating:

- the trading bots concentrated most of their activity in a 5-10 second chunk every 60 seconds. This made it hard to "react" to trading behavior in a meaningful way throughout the "day" when my latency was in the 150ms+ range. I think this was supposed to be part of the challenge, but instead I found it to be an odd approach to getting people engaged.

- I spent a lot of time on level 2 trying to code a bot that could win every time. Maybe I just don't understand HFT (very likely) but I often felt powerless to impact the result and instead was a victim of the whims of the bots. I could beat the level, often handily if the bots traded my way, but I never reached a point where I felt my actions were meaningful. It felt less like an exercise in good engineering and more like a game of chance. And maybe that was meant to reflect the real world, but it certainly didn't feel like a game where I was actually increasing in skill as I progressed.

In reality, I don't think CTF style games are really for me. But I do love a good engineering challenge, and really loved the blog posts about how everything was put together. I wish I could have been doing that work instead of trying to outwit the system. Building a system that fulfilled an API might have made me feel more satisfied than the other way around.
Iraq wouldn't have happened if the USSR had their shit together. NATO aggression and the subsequent destruction of Yugoslavia was what really sealed the deal. The Russians realized they were next (see: Chechnya) and decided to stop playing nice.
Thanks for the answer.I think that you might have some answers for questions I'm trying to answer. Do you think that we could chat about this over email? My email is <username>@gmail.com.
> That legal fractional reserve requirement acts like a powerful lever on how much money banks can create.

With respect that is not accurate. [1][2]

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/id/100880857
[2] http://www.cnbc.com/id/100497710
On the CSV Game benchmark, the Go csv reader is around 10x slower than the fastest: https://bitbucket.org/ewanhiggs/csv-game
This sounds more like humans interpreting behavior rather than proof of that behavior.
California roads and freeways are actually not that great, at least compared to other western countries. But regardless, we will see self driving cars adopted first where they are needed the most, cities like Beijing and Shanghai that have lots of cars, no where to put new roads, and a need to optimize the roads they have. The killer app is not road rich America, but the rest of the world that is dying in traffic.
Sure. I will also continue to answer any questions others have about these systems on this thread.
He insists that 'mirror neurons' give rise to the aspects of self, but who's not to say that they are a reflection/ habituation of processes 'out there', I don't know, something like the (aptly named) 'mirror stage' of childhood? Shouldn't a discussion of correlation vs. causation be important for his argument?
If you ride a bike regularly for exercise the ride itself wouldn't be too extreme because the hills are not that steep for a fit cyclist, but for those of us who only ride in the flats it'd be a brutal ride over the hills. That said even if you're fit, the main roads that go over the hills are not particularly bicycle friendly because usually it's either cars sitting in traffic or cars driving aggressively because there's a break in the traffic or cars driving aggressively trying to beat the traffic.

There are a few less-trafficked routes but those are windy with Waze drivers driving, you guessed it, aggressively.

If you go west of the major LA hills to Topanga and above Malibu there is a vibrant weekend cyclist community that only has to deal with... aggressive drivers in fashionable cars out joy riding (I jest somewhat but that area is one of the most popular with serious and casual cyclists (lotta spandex up in that piece!)).
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In a way, maybe it's good it's not programmable. This ensures that on any machine or environment you see Nano, you can expect it to behave exactly the same. If you want something super customizable you can just use vi(m) or emacs.

Nano is like Windows Notepad but for the CLI. It does one thing one thing only, no matter where you are.
Those are mostly urban legends.
You can get 10G Ethernet SFP+ modules using OM3 fiber for $100 these days. 12 strand outdoor fiber sells for $0.33/ft. Yes, neither of these is what you'd use as a backhaul link between cell sites, but it gives you an idea when you can do 60G over 300m distance for under $1,500 all in (assuming you already have SFP+ capable hardware at both ends). As others have stated, LR grade hardware has came way down in price just like the SR stuff has.
Hey Adi the link to API Docs seems broken.

http://www.waudjs.com/docs/
Syslog is terrible
Moonwalking with Einstein -Definitely. Also Brain Rules is a good one as well.

I would be cautious with Cal Newport's books and take it with a box of salt, however. To be fair, I only read one of his books (So Good They Can't Ignore You). His intentions with framing the book and its details are great. But I found it hard to trust that he actually believes in some of the things he writes - as opposed to just writing books that can sell well
"Comments that quote Betteridge's Law get the most upvotes?"

Would be an appropriate headline
On the other hand, I can report of my childhood (born '96) in a German mid-sized city where we almost always used the bus, despite our family having two cars.

The first car was only used by dad who worked in another city with – at that time – no train line existing yet, and the second car was only used whenever we’d go camping or buy large amounts of groceries.

We kids by ourselves always used bike or bus, and when we with our parents went to the city, or shopping, it almost always was bus, too.
The DLP Over Prime Fields Can Be Transformed to a Linear Multivariable CRT [pdf]
That nutjob has been trying to peddle his Nanking Massacre denial bullshit on Wikipedia for years.
Right!? I have another "fun" story, where I found using SVGs a bittersweet experience. The firm I was interning this summer had a third party project of extracting waveform data in PDFs generated from ECG machines. Since parsing PDFs are another horrible experience, I used Inkscape to generate SVGs, and then used XPaths to parse the SVG's XML to get the data. All was good except that the XML tree was ~30-40 nodes deep at places.

I do wish that XML based formats were more deterministic to generate. Order should matter, however, I have seen several tools generating something that looks like this:

<foo transform="translateX(10)">
<bar transform="translateX(-10)">
<...>

Inkscape has less than ideal UX on Mac though, which is why I use Sketch.
Not knowing a thing about Chinese writing, it seems bit odd that no sort of character compositing system was utilized. Wikipedia has a mention of a "Ming Kwai Nao Can typewriter" which apparently had some novel character compositing, but apparently it didn't gain popularity, at least in China.
I've heard those little coin operated candy dispensers are often a front for some low level money laundering. They almost never actually make money otherwise. But it's really easy to buy an existing franchise with x number of dispensers for a few thousand dollars, enough to maybe conceal 5 or 6 figures of ill gotten gains.
You sound like a European. "All rivers flow south" is how all of the "climate scientists" here in the U.S. are educated. Quit pushing your European socialist agenda on us ordinary Americans.
Physics is not an engineering degree. I know Physics and EE. I see no time where he was mentored in an engineering company.

And yes, I read the Wikipedia entry before I commented on Musk's background.
EpiPen Maker Mylan Tied Executive Pay to Aggressive Profit Targets
One day price bump doesn't matter. If it regains the 12% in a week, to a long term investor it destroyed 0 value.
I think C# would have done well, based on IOCP.
All interesting points. Even without them, Phoenix does great in this benchmark.

My takeaways from this article were:

1) Phoenix and Rails are clear winners on API.

2) Rails performance is unacceptable, which makes its nice API irrelevant.

3) All others are good enough that if I wanted to choose them for other reasons, this article wouldn't stop me.
I don't see how those links back up that assertion. The second one gives a more detailed explanation of the mechanism I outlined. If you're saying the market always checks excessive leverage by pricing risk fairly, we saw how well that worked in 2008!

This might interest you. It shows the impact of recent increases in capital reserve requirements on corporate lending.

https://www.financedigest.com/post-crash-banking-regulation-...

> The ongoing impact of post-crash banking regulation on corporate lending is a case in point. Thanks to reforms such as Basel III, banks must now hold a far greater portion of their capital in reserve.Some banks may face even stricter requirements in future; only this month Sir John Vickers called for UK banks to be forced to shore up their financial buffers further in the face of renewed market volatility.

> These measures are primarily motivated by a desire to make the overall system more stable, to ensure adequate reserves and liquidity in the case of another major shock. But part and parcel of this is the fact that it is now far harder and less profitable for banks to lend to a range of businesses.

> As a result, banks have been steadily withdrawing from large areas of corporate lending as they look to reorient their focus to key relationships and diversifying risk. This has left a gap in the market: many corporates are finding it near impossible to get the level of financing from banks that they previously relied upon.
No. Due to being in a different time zone and family commitments means it's hard to get a specific time to do it. Whereas watching on youtube can just be done during a lunchbreak.
You might want to check out the book "Rich Dad Poor Dad" by Kiyosaki. It's about how the values and attitudes of parents about money are transmitted to their kids, and how that has an outsized influence on the financial future of those kids.

Not how much they did or did not inherit.

Of course, having sensible attitudes about finance corresponds with having more money, but RDPD suggests the attitudes produce the money, rather than the other way around.

It's hard to find good statistical evidence one way or the other, but there's anecdotal evidence that suddenly dropping large quantities of money on a poor person does not automatically confer an ability to manage it effectively, and that they revert to being poor.
Ask HN: Ways to kill clickbait?
It's not just on Facebook. Clickbait is killing journalism in main stream media, on video sites, and importantly search results. It's shaping our information consumption is a huge way towards the negative.

Clickbait is not just in the title, but can also be suggestive pictures and other deceptive presentation.

A big reason clickbait works so well is that people's clicks reenforce the algorithms that determine if something is relevant.

Is there a way to solve this as technologists? HN has done a lot with moderation. Is there a generic solution to apply? Meta-moderation? Devaluing clicks? Moderated search engines? Curated?

Are there success stories of mitigating it?
I can assure you, having spent most of this month in and around San Francisco, that most people--even those on bicycles--have no idea how to use them! For example, they don't know how to stop at stop signs and red lights.
What work has been done in optimizing code / sampling?

My understanding is that if I write e.g. an HMM in any of these languages, the resulting code will be suboptimal in performance and accuracy vs e.g. Viterbi.
> This will happen in any community where you're getting voluntary support.

Not only there - at work, part of my duties at work is being the local helpdesk monkey. When people call me and complain, say, that the Internet is slow, the first thing I do is call up some semi-random web page and see if/how fast it loads. When it loads fine, my first response, too, is "works for me", meaning the problem is on their side, not on our router or the Internet at large. It does not mean it is their personal fault in any way. It just means I have just narrowed down the problem somewhat. It is a first step on what often has been as fascinating (and often enough frustrating) journey.

Oh my, I should have finished reading your response. ;-) (When I am giving voluntary support, "works for me" does not, of course, mean "it's your fault and you're a moron", it means "I am not your personal helpdesk monkey - but if you're willing to do some more work narrowing down the problem, I am willing to continue helping you fix the problem!")
Sun’s thesis proved controversial when ...

Way to be impartial, headlines.
I imagine you would support that by showing the larger shape while hiding the smaller one in the small icon, and showing the smaller shape while hiding the larger one in the large icon.
Ramachandrans Reith lectures are also worth a listen

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/
This.

Worth budgeting to make sure you can build up a buffer. Then once this is done you could invest.

Open excel, list your expenses. See what the total is and compare to your income. Try to reduce every category. Some you can reduce by negotiation (a lot of the bills for example) or shopping around. Some you can reduce by changing where you shop (food, groceries etc.).

Some you can reduce by going for cheaper brands, cheaper products. Fruit is an area where I see a factor or 4 or 5 in the cost and I find apples and pears cheap and good enough, no need for the fancy fruits. Also stuff in season tends to be cheaper and taste better anyway.

Transport you might be able to reduce by cycling / walking / running some of the way.

Some stuff you can eliminate, like eating out, alcohol, take away coffee.

If renting move somewhere cheaper - smaller or worse location or sharing with more people. Or move in with parents could be another option.

Avoid loans for anything except assets that rise in value e.g. real estate. And even those loans try to pay off as quickly as possible unless you can put the money to better investment use. Pay credit card in full each month of course.

If you are a dev and are struggling to make ends meet you are either underpaid or overspending.

If underpaid then fix that by looking for a new job. If overspending then you need to budget.

Don't just do more hours on the side though this isn't the short or long term fix! If you have the luxury of free hours to work you'd want that to go into something that is an investment (financial or spiritual!) not just some spare cash to make ends meet.
The problem is that the shadows on smallest sizes are not so clear and the icons are harder to see.
East coast is definitely different than west coast in terms of density. Come out west and you will see suburbs.
iPad only has toy DJ apps, it doesn't allow remote playlist control or really anything useful that compares to having the full OS as a touchscreen.

Also the iPad is more fragile, twice as expensive, and has a fraction of the storage for audio, compared to my Asus ultrabook. I only use the iPad in the studio.

It's much cheaper to get started on Windows, the plugins and programs are vast and often free compared to the Mac equivalent. The majority of my stuff also works on Mac but I'd have to relearn my workflow.

I do have a Mac but using it feels like I'm in the office compared to Windows touch experience. As an app dev I'm always trying to push the boundaries in music interfaces.
Security is already outside the room and when they hear the first loud noise they will know to come in. No, you will not have to tell them. They know about the family room in the emergency department in summer in North Philadelphia.

What a heartbreaking essay. And how tragic that death by gun violence is apparently routine in North Philadelphia.
> Men still do not have those rights ...

Wait ... men don't have the sovereign right not to get pregnant? I'm not sure that's a persuasive argument for or against anything.

> ... but society is doing just fine.

Yes, all except the part about being way overpopulated.
"C++ offers the best performance ..."

Yep
I'm going to play the buddhist card on this one and contend that it's the enlistment of "outside" energies like food, air, water, prana...which are coming into an organism and experiencing or "re-experiencing" itself which gives rise to this effect. There are many levels to this effect though and there must be some sweet spots where an experience seems somehow new (as in worthy to be paid attention to) and yet not-altogether old either. Familiar enough to recognize and "alarming" or "surprising" enough to be worthy of giving attention towards.
> One thing I've learned is that degrees, grades, etc are completely worthless.

Going to a good engineering school, mentored in engineering is important. It is one thing to build a few electric vehicles and something totally different to build something that is that complicated and mass produced.

There are processes and procedures one learns in order to build something for mass production. I am not speaking of most software for which I have hired people without degrees and know others without degrees, but cars, airliners, jet engines, nuclear power plants, buildings, bridges, VLSI design for mass production, refineries, ....

In my initial area of work, VLSI design, Intel had a $500 million recall in the mid-'90s. I know the circumstances from first hand sources and how the error was found which should have and could have been found before mass production.

One doesn't need a large firm to do some of these engineering activities, but they do need the engineering education and the mentoring of engineering procedures which they can then bring to their startup firm.

I learned a lot from my EE courses at Illinois and from my mentoring faculty of which I can think of several. The materials science, the transmission lines and impedance mismatches, amplifiers, satellite communications, ...
True, still I think - at least where I live, crimes of said losers are sometimes not punished hard enough compared to crimes "winners" commit. If you want to spend 5 years in a German prison, you can either steal money from your company [0] or literally kill a guy (if you did not intend to do so) [1]. The first one is a danger to the system, the second one probably had a difficult childhood. Still I think life should be valued much, much higher than money. The US might have the opposite problem.

[0] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st...
> But hardly higher -- there are also some other talents needed

I'm not going to deny the presence of some built-in preferences for formalized thinking among some subset of the general population, however the cognitive resources and preferences that would lead one to enjoy or excel at math, are about the same as those correlated with programming. e.g. a noticeable interest in understanding mechanical systems.

So given that set of preferences that would produce an interest in math/cs, if a person was raised by a mathematician parent, they'd likely be "good at math", but possibly still struggle with programming when they reach their CS classes in college. Meanwhile another person with the same set of preferences but raised by a hacker, might be good at programming by the time they reach college, but still have a hard time with math.

The issue is less about "can this CS person be good at math?" or vice versa, and more about "will this person be motivated to learn these complementary skill-sets?". Because it's not just a one-way street, mathematicians can also learn from thinking programatically, as shown by the growing popularity of automated theorem provers like Coq. And mathematics being helpful for programming is nowhere better epitomized than by the huge trend of nearly every popular language slowly adopting functional features (and even "optional" typing), because everyone is slowly discovering that mathematically sound programming principles actually are practical (just a bit more abstract and difficult to grasp at times).

Both of those examples should be pretty good evidence of these two fields being pretty helpful towards each other. The large show-stopping issue here making this relationship non-obvious, is education. If complex subjects that are already difficult get taught poorly, it's only natural that we don't expect people to make connections and think "oh hey, this [math/cs] concept I learned about might be helpful in this [totally unrelated] situation".

P.S.: as an anecdote, I just recently used my (minimal) category theory knowledge to change the way I take notes, so that I can smoothly use outlining tools (like org-mode) more like mindmaps when taking notes on complex topics.
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The author of this article is a woman.