skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once considered this web server "LightTPD" as an alternative to Apache2, and I read some officially published and comparatively astonishing benchmarks for performance written in a language called Lua.
Can anyone else speak to Lua's alleged superiority in the web service regard? Or, is this a consequence implicit to LightTPD?

(Sorry--not an response to question, explicitly, and thanks!)
The fact there were multiple officers on the scene and not one of them stopped the arrest nor de-escalated the situation, nor in fact apparently knew the law betwixt all of them is even more disturbing. At that point it isn't one bad apple. It's a gang.

We need some head crackers as police, unfortunate, yes, but this needs to be balanced by a different kind of personality. Going in guns blazing to every situation isn't the best way to handle things and is the root cause of many of these types of situations. Then the bureaucrat bosses just try to brush it all aside and nothing really gets resolved. We need less of those also.

I think robots are the future of policing. But maybe not fully autonomous robots. More of a remote control type thing. Have people who are cultural sensitive, people who are empathetic, people who understand mental illness, people who understand the nuances of the law all in communication, watching and listening to the situation. See if you can deescalate, resolve, calm things down. If that doesn't work or there is immediate danger to bystanders give control over to the headcracker team. This would reduce costs anyway because right now you are paying grade school bullies to cruise around and interact infrequently with the public. These remote teams could perform a lot more interactions, one level of person could just monitor, perhaps control a number of bots, when the interaction escalates bring in the appropriate team for the situation.

Make policing a work at home job:) Maybe have a Slack channel.
Espresso is are more sensitive to the quality of the beans being used and the evenness of the grind than the machinery. Personally, I don't like most coffee shop espresso - beans are roasted so much they taste burnt and chemical, and any character from the terroir has been lost. For similar reasons, I think most capsule coffee is disgusting.

I get my beans whole, by subscription, grind them myself just before making an espresso. Another advantage of starting from the beans (apart from something that is actually pleasant to drink) is that you can select lots of other brewing methods, whether it's aeropress or moka pot, cafetiere or filter, with different grind levels as appropriate.

Also if you like milk-based coffee products (where the taste of the coffee is far more diluted, and the quality is less relevant), having a steam wand is handy and much better than any attachment I've used on any coffee machine, including Nespresso, and other much more expensive models that do bean to cup.
Surely there's a Chart.ly (or alternatively 314Chart.io) that is in the works somewhere - disrupting this market using tensor flow deep learning networks to produce the best pie charts possible.
I'm trying to suggest that it isn't a proven store of value. Just because something has value today doesn't mean it will tomorrow. Gold has centuries of history behind it, Rolex has maybe 100 years. Cash is thousands of years old.

Bitcoin has had a high value for a couple of years. I'm not trying to suggest it's Beanie Babies or Pokémon cards. Obviously those were never useful as real currency and bitcoin can buy things today. But I don't think it's fair to compare it to gold or cash.

And you're right, cash is used for illegal activity. But a HUGE chunk of it's use is for normal legal activity.

There's no real way to know, but I'd be very interested to find out what percentage of bitcoin use is for legal activity. It's a very popular on the dark web because it's so much harder to trace than the normal credit card. They are legal stores on the "normal" internet that take it, but do they process a lot of transactions compared to the illegal stuff?

Calling something FUD usually means that you think someone is mounting some sort of propaganda campaign against someone/something.

That's not me, but the literal meaning fits. I'm afraid people will convert money they can't afford to lose into bitcoin even though we don't know how stable it is long term. I'm uncertain that it can continue to be used as transaction volumes increase. I doubt it's as impenetrable as people think because the US government (among others) is capable of throwing a LOT of computer power at getting enough hashing to manipulate the block chain.
Another poster hit the nail on the head in a related thread earlier today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15152412
Okay. So I'm anyone. How am I going to know what your addresses are? Starting from where I am right now all the way over here. You did say anyone.
.NET for over a decade and "C# shops typically wait for some canonical solution from MS" rings quite true.

With NuGet I don't think it's as bad as it was, but I just caught myself hesitating when I found out this week that .NET has deprecated email sending functionality in 4.7 (or Core?) and is now recommending open source alternatives.
That cop belongs in jail. People who enforce the law should be held to higher standards.

But he'll get paid leave, and will be back once it all blows over.
Interested in applying for a sales engineering position, but the link doesn't seem to be working. Any other way to apply?
I've only seen people make poor choices and limit their own careers. It's nothing inherent in the field of security that forces people to let their dev skills atrophy while turning into script kiddies or non-technical managers. You should be aware of what you are doing when entering ANY new field.

Obviously, if you enter a job where you have to "fight for dev time" as the sibling comment you refer to mentions, then your skills as a dev will suffer. That's not a good career path if you think you might want to return to software development one day. Find a job in security engineering, of which there are many, where you have to fight to take breaks from coding instead.

I think people have a confirmation bias that the security industry is made entirely of "netsec/pentesting" jobs since the news cycle is driven by hype from bug hunters, consultants, and vendor FUD. There are enormous numbers of people working on designing and building new security tools, capabilities, and research. Do that.

Finally, I'd like to say that if my own company wound down tomorrow, I am confident that every single one of my ~30 engineers could find a job in software engineering in an instant.
> the Chinese are highly speculative

It's almost crazy how gambling and stock bubbles are nearly unheard of in Europe or America, precisely because of how seldom those peoples speculate.

To think, if it wasn't for Jinan province's tulip mania, we'd barely understand the phenomenon of speculative bubbles. Or maybe it was Dandong, I forget.
But someone might exchange that gold with you for food, for sex, for medicine, and for what feeds your vices, as they have for millennia.
The binary perspective you espouse in this post is exactly like the problematic dualism shared by Kaczinski.
If by "cutting through it" you mean "breaking the law" I agree. And sometimes laws should be broken, to make a point. But let's not be under any illusions.
Interesting, seems like IBM still has a couple of competent departments surviving the rampant idiocy.

If you don't mind my asking, what tasks do your folks have the AS/400 doing nowadays?
Also good to remember a lot of donors prefer anonymity. You may not be aware of all the big donors. :)
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If your goal is to be pedantic, you 'use' a picture every time you look at it, so probably more often then every 6 months.
Update: We also started annotating humans and animals.
The Chinese speculate more
I see no comments on the PR that I'd describe as unpleasant or unkind.
San Francisco hits 106 degrees, breaking record
Per capita GDP is quite a bit higher in the US, so that's not unexpected.
Proof of steak is basically the kind of system I was thinking of. Proof of work seems like a very good solution as long as people are relatively equal, but you could use proof of steak to ensure that.

Of course that means that you need some way to set up the initial steaks and decide who gets them. And that means it isn't as democratic like bitcoin is, which I know is a big plus for many people.
That seems more like the kind of system I was thinking of, but you're right the initial set up and dolling out of the supply brings you back to the kind of problems bitcoin was trying to avoid.
Mainly the convenience of seeing many options in one place. Sure, if you know you want a specific Hilton in Seattle, then go directly to their site. When we looked for places to stay in Norway and Denmark last summer, booking.com was a great resource to learn about many options and the going rates. Once we narrowed things down to a couple options, we could look at the direct site or book through Booking since many smaller places bounced us back there anyway.
Correct, it'll Google LLC now.
It may be that a more deep-seated change has taken place within mathematics: the rise of formalism, with Frege, Russell, etc. separated mathematics from intuitions about 'reality'; a formal theorem can't be refuted by saying it's 'unrealistic', since it's a watertight consequence of the chosen axioms and deduction rules. We can attack those axioms and deduction rules as being 'unrealistic', but since Goedel shot down the attempts to define "one true" formalism, it seems that mathematicians have come to accept axioms and logics based on their own merits (e.g. whether they lead to interesting, non-trivial consequences) rather than whether they're accurate models of 'reality'.

In this relaxed view, Cantor's arguments make sense from his premises, and it's interesting to entertain the idea of his premises because they lead to such interesting results. Whether or not "completed infinities" are "real" is delegated to the philosophers, while mathematicians 'play the proof game', and change the rules if they make it more fun.
It's contemplating these returns and seeing the price still going up that leads people to continue jumping in to buy at any price level. Is there an upper limit to this?
I would say good luck, but I actually think it's a terrible idea, so I hope you fail quickly and move on to something more worthwhile.
There's no reason to disbelieve that statement. Trump has said he wants to expand coal production, and that climate change is a hoax.

Just take him at his word. He doesn't need a study telling him coal is unhealthy.. he already has a plan, and he doesn't care what this study says. Therefore it is 100% a waste (to him).

It's not shadowy or deceitful.. he has been right up front with everyone on his anti-science, anti-climate change, and pro-coal agenda.
From my post you can infer that I hate to disagree with it. I have to say I don't like what Nazi's have to say, or even what actual communists say, and what islamists say (although they're mostly being left alone). I wouldn't mind, at all, not hearing about it.

That said, I see how it's being used. And I was fine with that actually, until I really saw for myself it's being used to mask a lot of human misery in western Europe. And why ? Only reason I can come up with is political reasons, politicians attempting to "prove" that they're doing (a lot) better than they actually are.

As in I would be fine with censorship of some extremist viewpoints, by responsible parties. Unfortunately if you cannot trust things like West European governments with this power, who can you trust to censor ?

So no, I am very much against almost any censorship. It is not reasonable the way it's being used and we shouldn't have it.

This opinion is not widely shared in Western Europe.
And what if those other things ALSO cost 100$ a meal? Is there a shortage of food?

Even if it is just bread, is it a good thing or a bad thing for society if bread costs 100$?
yes, it's not smooth by definition

d/dx √(x²) = x/√(x²)

because for x=0 the derivative is 0/0, but in this case it might be interpreted as the interval [-1,1]. That's just the way it is often plotted. I come up short with an algebraic explanation, it might as well be ]-∞,∞[ (deriving it from z(x,y)=1/y for example), but I imagine this as a bundle of tangents on the origin, parameterized by the interval. That's an infinitesimal curve, not just an infinitesimal slope if you will. So it's not linear algebra (I guess). The integral of the derivative is obviously defined everywhere, explain that. It's zero at zero, because the sum of the interval is zero. And if we are only interested in the boundaries of the interval at 0, than that's the tuple (-1,1). Just like complex numbers or vectors are tuples (but this isn't a complex number I guess).
Most people I know with juicers also like the fact that they can save money by throwing in fruit or veg before it goes bad. It makes it easier to capture the shopping surplus that otherwise ends up in the trash. The QR-code scanning Juicero basically does the opposite.
Google is scary but I suspect it's actually a decently moral incarnation relative to many alternatives, and is really a victim of the confluence of a few megatrends that are unavoidable, such as the simple technical ability to systematically monitor and profit from monitoring all behavior (to good and bad), and the ability to affect all discourse and information flow. These are megatrends that Google just happened to have a lead on. I have no faith that we will replace them with anything better if we decide to tear them down. I also don't find it a coincidence that Google is at-risk because of the recent spike in our authoritarian PC left which is pathologically obsessed with tearing down all productive institutions.
reminds me that my first programming project was an msdos resident fake virus in assembly
And that's indeed what I do! ;)
Once a semblance of civilization establishes again? Then yes, it's likely. During times of true hardship where the general population is at risk of dying of starvation, disease or being murdered by a once upstanding citizen, and there's no way to readily exchange that gold for needed supplies? No. You would consider yourself lucky to be able to exchange a bar of solid gold for a few cans of food.
Excellent. Explained so simply.
You're imagining people giving you perfectly fine things that just need to be dusted, and then someone would love to own them.

You'd get a load of garbage that people are too lazy to sell on Ebay, and too sentimental to throw out.
I actually use an Uber for babysitting, Trusted (at usetrusted.com). I think there are a few reasons why I haven't poached a babysitter from the service yet and why it might not happen too often.

1) The cost to me is invisible. I don't know or care what their cut is. I see a rate and pay it.

2) I also get some benefits including online scheduling and pay by credit card.

3) There is an unspoken stigma because it would be a cost-saving measure for the parents but more of a hassle for the babysitter. Would the sitter get more money? Maybe a little? But they wouldn't usually suggest it for the risk of getting tattled on and getting kicked off. Parents might also have this risk. Most good sitters are always booked through the service in SF, so what is their upside?
FWIW I'm roughly at the mid-point between those two figures and not at a Big 4 or similar. I have no RSUs, stock, bonuses, or other such things, it's all base salary. My base salary is higher than any of my developer friends who have full time jobs, but my total compensation is roughly upper quartile due to their add ons.
My wife and I use Windham Group, and use their app. Very nice booking experience. And if we're driving late we can push a button on the app and a reservation specialist finds us the nearest available room and calls us with the booking. The app also gives a maps link.
You've avoided the fundamental issue.

If bread costs 100$ is it a good thing or a bad thing for society?

If the "market clearing price" for bread results in people starving to death, is this good or bad?

In this hypothetical situation, would it be a good idea or a bad idea for the government, or charities, or society/individuals in society to try and solve the high bread price problem?

Also, if people are literally starving to death, even if markets "clear", does it or does it not fit a normal person's definition of a "food shortage"?

Personally, my definition of shortage is "there isn't enough of X, and it would be a good idea to increase X".
Technically, they may have booked 14 rooms in 24 hours. Of course, there's no way all of those bookings were for Sept. 19th. It is deceptive but probably follows the letter, but not the spirit, of any applicable laws.
s/Bitcoin/Christianity/g
Coming from someone who holds your company in high regard and loved your companies work in the CGC I really have to disagree. You can be neither a script kiddie or a non-technical manager and still have webdev shops view you with suspicion for much the same reason node shops might see someone who has a lot of Java on their resume as someone who may not be a good fit because of 'technical baggage.' We can say that someone just needs to 'git gud' but I do think it's important to acknowledge that many times their are biases that get placed which are not always 100% rational.

Edit: Also I do believe your claim about all 30 of your engineers being able to find work elsewhere. You have to admit the average employee you have probably isn't reflective of anywhere near the average of the industry or even the enthusiast community.
the first time you ever pay anyone for anything the probability that this person can determine your entire net worth is much much higher than if you were to use any other means of value exchange (Cash, credit, check, etc).
I love it when cool teachers sneak projects like these into their classwork. I had a computer architecture class that had labs to write exploits in MIPS assembly. I'd say 19 out of 20 people didn't even know they were exploits while we were writing them. :>
This is a perfect example of a dark pattern.

The site said “14 bookings in the last 24hours”. You read it as “14 bookings for the date you searched for, in the last 24 hours”.

I don’t believe this is an accident.
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True, it would by necessity be a barter economy.
And yet you haven't pointed out what I've missed. Are you or are you not condoning extrajudicial violence by masked vigilantes?

Simple question, a yes or no will suffice.

Also asking a simple question is far from "gushing apologia" but it seems blatant miss characterization is something with which you are quite familiar.
Can a local variable's memory be accessed outside its scope?
That sucks, and I'm sorry to hear that. I guess we can both agree that firms with such immature views probably don't deserve your resume to begin with.
Some context for those who don't go/didn't go CMU:

15-251 Great Theoretical Ideas in CS is the freshman spring semester discrete math & theoretical CS (a follow up to the discrete math course they take freshman fall). The course itself goes for breadth over depth. In this aspect, it serves as a solid foundation for all theory classes students take going forward. It's a class where students learn proof techniques, collaboration, and problem solving.

The course is often praised for its rigor. The problem sets require a fair amount of work to complete, and the course staff sets a high standard for responses.

On the other hand, it commonly receives criticism for being quite intense as a freshman class. Many CMU students look back on it as one of the hardest classes they took.

I personally feel quite lucky to have taken 251. It gave me a foundation to appreciate a lot of deeper CS topics, and taking it freshman year meant I had 3 years more to put it to use.
"looks like some kind of ab testing bug or round-robin servers."

Definitively AB testing. The website runs hundreds of experiments simultaneously, on a few pages. Although in theory all the experiments are independent in practice it is often not the case and some bugs show only in some combination of 2 or more experiments. Especially, in such crowded web pages, even technically distinct experiments influence each others UX wise, which can cause bugs of their own (like, two distinct experiments displaying two seemingly contradictory messages). Eventually, the mix of experiments a given user is subjected to can look a lot like an outright lie or bug or scam or deceptive practice (especially when it's a combination of small dark patterns of course), and I think that's what's happening here.
Aside: This is why speedy regulation of drones will probably cost lives in lost opportunity.
You can't use a web site to traffic people either.
I think that's giving too much credit - for most it's the same mistake as axe and ask (you a question).
Shortages are irrespective of the severity of price. Shortages imply their is enough demand that normally price would increase to match supply at a given price point but cannot due to outside forces such as price controls.

What you and a bunch of other people confuse as a shortage is just basic market dynamics. Price is high but costs are also high (not a lot of people are willing and capable of being programmers). Cheaper developer prices would be great for businesses but price has to balance with cost and it is useless to call things a shortage for demand that is unsatisfied at a non-market price.

Example: would you say there is a shortage of Tesla model S's since I only am willing to pay $30,000. No, because the costs for a model S is higher than that and then everything would be considered a shortage at a low enough price point.
Recording of the lectures for Spring 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLm3J0oaFux3aafQm568blS9b...

Slides: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aada/courses/15251s16/www/schedule.ht...
Red Moon garbage collection bug postmortem
Accounting and HR.
Jorge Nocedal begs to differ: http://users.iems.northwestern.edu/~nocedal/publications.htm...

> This leads to a discussion about the next generation of optimization methods for large-scale machine learning, including an investigation of two main streams of research on techniques that diminish noise in the stochastic directions and methods that make use of second-order derivative approximations.

Disclosure: I was his student for a while and in his lab for my whole PhD. My takeaway from studying under him was that even very very approximate hessian information (either the Hessian itself or the solves) is enough for pretty amazing convergence rates, in terms of flops / time.
The UBI cliche of the moment is like the subset of junior engineers that want to rewrite the codebase in some new language of their choice.
> We're only raising a Series A right now.

So, just to clarify, your answer to the objection that investors have absolutely no legal recourse against you and no way to enforce their equity stake is to say that you aren't really asking them for that much money, and you might ask them for way more later?

I certainly grant that you might get away with this enterprise. Criminals get away with crime all the time, and sometimes make a ton of money doing it. There's simply no way for an outside investor to make money off of your criminal activity though. If you have no issue with breaking the law, why wouldn't you also break an agreement with your investors, especially when you have a huge financial incentive to? I mean, if you already have the FBI after you, why would you have any qualms about breaking some silly little contract, especially since you are anonymous and by your own admission quite good at protection your anonymity?