skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. Some descriptions work better as summaries of black-box behavior, than as insight into white-box causation and potential for intervention. I wonder if "corrupt and ineffective corporate media" is an instance of such.

For illustration. Science education is remarkably ineffective, K-14, and worldwide. A rule of thumb that "people don't care whether science education actually works", will rarely steer you wrong. But it is an almost useless description of the underlying tangle of incentives and capabilities and visibilities and costs, which cause that surface behavior.

Take a professor teaching cell biology, who isn't disinterested in teaching deep understanding, but who, given severe time constraints, isn't going to disservice their students by trading against a specific superficial understanding that the high-stakes med school MCAT exam tests for. So yes, "don't care", sort of. But change the MCAT, and suddenly...

So one can have a observationally good description, one that's fine for spectators, but which isn't illuminating or helpful interventionally.

Or take the earlier copyright example. During the fight over SOPA, Hollywood executives publicly and angrily complained about congressmen not staying bought. A surface reading of that isn't a bad description of everyone's behavior. But my understanding is, they were basically saying "we talk among ourselves all the time; and we all agree; only a few weird and confused others disagree; and we're now startled and dismayed to find some politicians disagreeing; and can only imagine that this results from them being bought, or lied to, likely by the tech industry; we payed good money to elect what we thought were good people - why should we pay for the reelection of the corrupt and the gullible?". Will more insight into mechanism help you? Maybe not.

But while incentives matter, it's the actual incentives that matter. What if US copyright extensions were fought not with "Constitutional intent" and "public interest", so basically "we want you to give up a few billion dollars a year in Pooh et al merchandising fees", but fought instead with "here's a change in trademark law, or a copyright-excepting guardianship of a national treasure, which will preserve your big revenue streams in perpetuity". Addressing actual incentives, rather than narratives.
One could argue the entire suite of AWS products make up a PaaS. One could also argue that Elastic Beanstalk is their standalone PaaS offering.

https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/
(Economics major and longtime econ book/paper reader here) I very much enjoyed The Cartoon Introduction to Economics as an introduction to microeconomic concepts: http://standupeconomist.com/cartoon-intro-microeconomics/

It's extremely readable and funny and covers most of the situations in real life where you can apply economic concepts to understand why something is the way it is.

Understanding why countries and economies grow (and why some grow faster than others!) doesn't always fall under the "economics" umbrella but is really useful for informing policy (and a useful reminder these days, when both US presidential candidates rail against trade agreements). "From Poverty to Prosperity" lays out a very readable and convincing argument for how countries have grown and become rich. https://www.amazon.com/Poverty-Prosperity-Intangible-Liabili...

For finance I very much enjoyed The Intelligent Investor, which also (apparently) inspired Warren Buffett's investing philosophy. https://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-Definitive-Inves...
Isn't the signature of state sponsored hacking basically:

1) careful, narrow targeting
2) sophisticated tools
3) being covert as possible
4) really being covert as possible

Going for account info for 500 million accounts doesn't really fit #1.
I think your concerns are somewhat alarmist and tend to be a bit scaremongering. You may want to read an actual study about just how much HF is present in the fumes of burning cells. In this one, near the end they burned a whole laptop pack and analysed the gases that were emitted:

http://www.brandforsk.se/MediaBinaryLoader.axd?MediaArchive_...

The relevant datapoint is on page 61:

"As seen the yields of HF is much lower for the lap top cells, in fact the HF detected online was below the determined detection limit."

The graphs on page 101 also show HF concentrations below 4ppm --- and keep in mind this is basically all of the gases collected from the burning pack. Looking at the safety data for HF, the permissible exposure limit is only slightly lower at 3ppm and it's immediately dangerous at 30ppm.

In other words, it would be a bad idea to deliberately concentrate and inhale the fumes of a burning cell, but the HF probably isn't going to kill you. Some good ventilation of the area should be sufficient.
Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack
Philosophy, the Sartre blend: uncovering the birth of existentialism
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air Free from the author's website:
http://www.withouthotair.com/download.html
Last time I heard of any real groups - as opposed to Economists or politicians - critical of the FDA was back in the AIDS days.

Not that I pay close attention. There might be some, but I think the pharma industry is deathly afraid of antagonizing their regulator.
Drones, Reverse Engineering and the GPL
I wonder if hackers will have to be 6 instead of 12 miles away to take control of it now.
On the first Monday of each month. For September, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12405700

Also mentioned in the FAQ, since it is a question that is frequently asked: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I was just commenting today how approachable this book makes understanding the requirements to transition to renewable energy. I would warn though that the little bit of economics and the discussions about battery storage and solar PV at the end are very dated. The exponential drop in pv prices wasn't anticipated by the author. I think if modern prices were used the 5 models at the end would look very different.
imagine a world full of sendmail, not postfix
EPIC CONDOM CHallENGE Fail
> While I do not condone the behavior of these people or otherwise support their crime

Probably doesn't help that you feel the need to mention this even when talking about the nature of the tactic used.
"How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views" - Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell exposed this with detailed analysis and evidence. Watch it here => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tA3NNKF0Q

This is neither a bug nor a "mistake". It's straight up fraud. Fraud because Facebook uses these false #s to prove to their advertizing clients that they are getting a HUGE ROI, when they really aren't. Also the investors and analysts bump up their ratings and the stock goes higher and higher on false ad view #s.

By counting a view as a legitmate view after the video plays only for 3 seconds, their "algorithm" counted billions of views even when the user has not even seen it, because Auto-play is enabled by default and you have to opt-out / disable it and no-one does it. It takes a person roughly 4 seconds to scroll off their feed as they quickly "scan" their friends posts.
Comparing asian pear to American pear is like an apples to oranges comparison. They are of different family altogether.

Anyway, my reasoning for the taste difference is pretty simple and obvious really. US fruits and vegetables are predominantly of GMO and it's not the same type of fruits and veggies as several decades ago. It's a sad state really.
What makes iRobot, Sonos, and Amazon succeed in smart home, where others fail?
Software That Writes and Evolves Software
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch
Progress and Poverty:

https://www.amazon.com/Progress-Poverty-Industrial-Depressio...

Why is there so much poverty amongst all our progress? Georgism and land value tax. Essential reading IMHO and an enjoyable read also.
For convenience, here's the relevant excerpt from the FAQ:

Can I post a job ad?

Please do not post job ads as story submissions to HN.

A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month. Most job ads are welcome there. (But only an account called whoishiring is allowed to submit the thread itself. This prevents a race to post it first.)

There's also a "Who Wants to be Hired?" thread posted at the same time. If you're looking for people to hire, you might find people there who are good candidates for your positions.
The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire - Neil Irwin

Great account on central banking in general and central banking policy during the 08-09 crisis in particular!
To better understand our monetary system I highly recommend watching the "Money as Debt" movie. It's on youtube as well as http://www.moneyasdebt.net/ (which I think links to y/t anyway). It provides a pretty good explanation of gold-backed vs credit-backed money and is fun to watch.
The advertising arm of movie companies are definitely looking at the interaction rates of their trailer ads to help make decisions. The reason they do so is because it is a valuable signal.

> "Who really wants to click on an ad while in facebook on a phone?"

Advertising for apps (read: games) is a massive, massive market.
California, mostly, but not exactly a common thing yet. Will increase as more cars are totaled in rollovers or other crashes that mess up all of the body work.
Maybe do something with it immediately? Something totally unrelated to the trademark owner's business.

I think if you do some research on this i.e. read some UDRP decisions you may find that if you have it parked and it's showing ads that relate to the trademark owner's business then you may be at risk of losing in UDRP. But I could be wrong.
Yes. straight up fraud. "How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views" - Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell exposed this with detailed analysis and evidence. Watch it here => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tA3NNKF0Q
--TL;DR--
Another government agency is more controlling with (mis)information, and the integrity and usefulness of news media declines further.
One I don't see recommended very often is: Fortune's Formula. It describes the lives of Claude Shannon and Ed Thorp (author of Beat the Dealer) and how they use the Kelley formula in both gambling and investing. The Kelley formula, as the book explains, is a formula for determining the optimum amount to bet on a wager (or investment) if you know the edge you have over the house.
Not sure how popular this take on finance is, here in HN (really I have no idea), but I found these two very interesting.

"The New Depression: The Breakdown of the Paper Money Economy"

and "The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures" both by Richard Duncan
Indeed, Buffet worked at Graham's (the author of The Intelligent Investor) partnership.
What about Docker Swarm?
Second vote for Hull.

Corporate Finance by Stephen Ross is another text. I'm not sure how it compares to Brealey.
I meant that the code has to be deployed to a separate system.

Application code that touches the file system is still deployed along with the application code.

You might commit schema.sql into your application repository, but that's not the state of your database.
>I cannot count the number of times someone I work with has expressed something that required one elegant logical operation in a horribly convoluted way.

Would be great if you can write/blog about it or just provide some examples here...
David Ruppert's "Statistics and Finance" is the classic you are looking for. It is a standard textbook in most finance curriculums in the US. Roughly 50% of the book is plain statistics as applicable to finance. The rest is finance with a statistical flavor.
This works if a student wants to start out as an entrepreneur. But if they actually want to start their career with a high paying engineering job at a big tech company and they don't have any inside connections, their school had better be a recruiting target for internships and new grad positions. Plenty of affordable public universities are in this category, but Google and Facebook don't show up at the community college career fairs.

Of course there's always a career path for people with a record of making impressive things, but if you're a CS major in the right schools you can get into the big-name tech companies just for having potential.
basically, yes, in most developed countries ships are provided with large amounts of fuel oil (bunker fuel) on credit, trusting that the large shipping company will pay in the very near future by wire transfer. In really sketchy 3rd world locations ships have to use cash from the captain's safe to buy fuel. If a ship is delinquent in its account with the local fuel supplier, the fuel supplier will file something in their local admiralty court for what is essentially a lien to seize the ship.
Pushing Database Scalability Up and Out with GPUs
Sergey Brin Resume (1996)
Pro vs. Consumer Camera Lenses – Is the Difference Worth the Money?
If you were to use deep learning in-house for smallish problems, would you still use tensorflow plus a batch of GPUs, or something different? I can't take stuff to the cloud for regulatory reasons, and in order to contract w/a startup like yours, I would first need to make a case for it (with useful examples that just need to be improved)
Uh does that mean I shouldn't get the new Samsung TV in looking at, best to wait a few months?
Using !important is often encouraged for state changes (e.g. ".is-showing" etc)
The amount of cargo that moves (in terms of number of TEUs per month) from China to Europe via rail is minuscule compared to the ocean cargo capacity. A train full of double stacked containers is a tiny fraction of the capacity of one medium sized 8000 TEU ship.
The following list will introduce you to Western Economic Philosophy as it relates to modern history specifically. This list is weighted heavily toward neo-classical economics and does not get into computational model based economics - specifically microeconomics, which comprises the bulk of economics education today:

Schumpeter - History of economic analysis

Adam Smith - Theory of Moral Sentiments

Kaynes - The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

Marx - Capital

Benjamin Graham - The Intelligent Investor

Galbraith - The Affluent Society

Galbraith - The Great Crash

Milton Friedman - Capitalism and Freedom

Nassim Taleb - Black Swan

Ron Suskind - Confidence Men

Scott Patterson - Dark Pools

If you want to delve into heterodox economics afterward, start with the following:

Hayek - Individualism and Economic Order

Mises - Human Action

Rothbard - Man, Economy, State
Started using Hacker News
Can anyone tell me what kind of news are accepted here
On Your Way to the Camps, I Just Want You to Know…
Open Sourcing Mental Illness
It's not “the right” but a specific subset characterized kind of fact-free propaganda and bigotry characterizing the alt-right. You can easily find people from the more intellectually-coherent portions of the right who also aren't happy with that type of attack, would prefer to be talking about actual issues, and don't appreciate being grouped in with a bunch of self-described shitposters.

If Soros was found to be funding an equivalent group – maybe PETA or one of the black bloc groups, but there's really nothing comparable in both popularity and derangement currently – you would find similar disapproval for the same reasons. We don't because he's not the monster under the bed claimed by the less factually constrained.
Ruby gem to fetch gocd information as rich models using its apis
Very much worth reading and not just to prove your right wing or libertarian bonafides.

I think the essence of good economic thinking is understanding unintended consequences and reading the road to serfdom is a great way to really think about unintended consequences. Basically that well-meaning policies that have a side effect of centralizing power tend to do more harm than good.
> Yahoo shouldn't be doing the attribution, it's a conflict of interest

What about that would be a conflict of interest? (Just curious)
Non-code contributions are super valuable. They're not "doing open source wrong".

But rebuilding it from the ground up is rarely the best way to try to understand a codebase. You're both biting off more than you can chew and at the same time requiring yourself to build code for concepts you don't yet fully understand.

If you want to get deeper into the code, ask your fellow maintainers to help you do it slowly.

Ask them to assign you a few easy changes - just as you'd do when learning a new codebase for a new job. You can start with something as simple as tweaking copy in a hard-coded string, and move up from there.

With specific tasks you also have a defined learning curve for picking up bits and pieces of how it works, and an excuse for asking for explanations.

Another thing to try might be to start reading the commit history of the codebase from commit zero. However, that's a LOT of code to read, its usefulness (and tractability) depends on the original developers' commit habits, and you still won't have the conceptual guidance around why things were done a specific way.
There is no must-read books for economics (or almost any other field of study). Non-fiction economics books are meant to teach the reader something new. As Economics represents a set of ideas owned by no one individual, the best overview of economics will contain all of the important, integral ideas of the subject.

Any summary of economics that introduces the core concepts will be great and serve its purpose.
Why on earth would they distribute this without a trained model? Several weeks of training time on a multi-thousand dollar piece of specialized hardware are required to actually run this.

Google clearly has many different trained versions of this network sitting around. It must have been a conscious decision not to release them. Is the point to artificially create a barrier to entry for hobbyists that might want to apply this research? If so, why bother releasing it at all? I'm really scratching my head here.
Because the people who read this site generally lean leftward.
Igraph is a great general purpose library for manipulating graphs, with interfaces in both R and Python.
There's Credo Mobile, who turned up among signators of tech-related companies against the TPP.

http://www.credomobile.com/

They're part of the CREDO family of philathropically-oriented businesses.

http://www.credomobile.com/mission/home
Yes, I run such websites.

A paid tier is a surprisingly narrow business model. People aren't willing to pay for much, and not every website has such an explicit product. A lot of that is just conditioning, as people aren't used to having to pay for anything since ads. And most people see ads as zero-cost. The second you start charging a dollar, now you're the guy charging the dollar that nobody else is.

How many forums do you pay for?

And donations are almost always a joke. Else you wouldn't have to beg in a way that puts most ads to shame: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/quq37nq1583x0lf/nv9ad0..., and that's for a website that brings value to just about everyone that touches the internet.
It reminds me of one of the points from this old yet almost prescient joke: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/pnw/microsoftjoke.htm

9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
I think anyone describing Chinese guanxi as simply 'tribal' should probably reflect on how the US elections look to an outsider.

Option A) The wife of a former president

vs.

Option B) A former close friend & financial donor to the same former president.

Chinese guanxi looks pretty tame compared to the US race for 'most powerful person in the world'. :-)
From the video at the bottom of the page [1] at minute 00:31:

> Every time we get a new update it seems like something got better [...]

What? Is not that the main purpose of an update? To make things better?

[1] https://player.vimeo.com/video/183523845
And all written on HN for karma. They should write it on their own blog and try monetising it.
That seems like a somewhat entitled mindset. The job market is what it is and if you don't work hard to stay competitive then you'll fall behind, that's just the reality of a high paying desk job in today's economy. We'd all love to do rewarding work for great pay with a healthy work/life balance, but it's just a fact of life that this type of opportunity is not in abundant supply.
You can't necessarily demand prompt action from a big vendor like Oracle, either.

Years ago, I worked on a project that used Oracle's BPM product. It was the only time I've worked on something where the team had a direct line to vendor support. When we had issues, all they ever seemed to do was ask for more logs, over and over again. I think they were hoping we'd give up and close our SRs.

Luckily, I got off that project pretty quick. I later learned that they 1) rewrote their BPM product and did not offer a clear upgrade path to the new version, and 2) planned to end support for the old version in a few years.

As a developer, the promise of vendor support doesn't ease my mind very much.
Based on the stat in the article about it resulting in 60% to 80% difference in total viewing time, I think they were probably reporting total views including views under 3 seconds and reporting avg view length discounting views under 3 seconds. This results in a pretty misleading viewing time. Still quite possibly a mistake, but I can see why advertisers would be pissed.
I'd highly recommend The Intelligent Investor.
The fact that you don't know about something doesn't make other people "factually constrained".

>That funding comes in addition to more than $33 million in grants to the Black Lives Matter movement from top Democratic Party donor George Soros through his Open Society Foundations, as well as grant-making from the Center for American Progress.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/16/black-lives-...
"Merck bought a company for their already successful antibiotic and the others they had in the pipeline" hardly undermines the notion that there's still money in antibiotic development.

And they're still funding studies for Fidaxomicin.
Economist here.

I disagree that if someone wants a broad introduction that by picking up Samuelson or MWG will be able to figure out the field from first (mathematical) principles.

New Ideas from Dead Economists is a fantastic, broad introduction into the philosophy of economics that you appears interested in.

Works by Keynes, Smith, Marx, Robinson, Hayek, and Ricardo do a fantastic job laying the groundwork for modern economic theory.

If you're looking for the quantitative side of economics, Mostly Harmless Econometrics, Freakonomics, and (on the very theoretical side) Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics are must reads.

Capital by Picketty is currently being debated, as the underlying evidence towards his theories are compelling but not necessarily testable.

Game theory is also a fun field within economics, and has overlap in CS and (occasionally) statistics.
For readable bios of the major economic thinkers, I like:

New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought, by Bucholz and Feldstein

The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers, by Heilbroner

And for a readable sample of the economists' thought in their own words, there's:

Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy, by Heilbroner