skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Important context: “Harmeet Dhillon,” the attorney at the top-left of page one, is the “chairwoman of the Republican Party in San Francisco” [1]. Damore has managed to pawn himself off as a one-act political ploy and fundraising billing for the 2018 midterms. In exchange, he gets an unwinnable case and play a human heatsink for this issue for the rest of his life.

TL; DR If an attorney with political ambitions offers to fight your case for free, you may be paying with something other than currency.

[1] http://m.sfgate.com/politics/article/Harmeet-Dhillon-Republi...
Never underestimate anyone's ability to freak out and be a selfish dumbass.
bitbucket is down

down = small feathers on a duck.
Seems like every time I figure out something, it's first thing the very next day. Toiling away all day on a problem, only to solve it the next morning. So the first couple hours of work, probably my most productive.
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6 Great Audiobooks for Startup Founders and Product People
> It seems that cuisines from hot climates are more aware of the value of fresh herbs and spices.

Before refrigeration tech, salt and spices are one of the best ways to make food last longer in a hot environment.
Google fired James Damore for a controversial gender memo–now he’s suing
Ask HN: Ufuwbcquasdwyyctawdw
Miles & More, Lufthansa's frequent flyer program, will often render the text "ufuwbcquasdwyyctawdw" in various places on their site and in different markup. Does anybody know why they might be doing that?

https://www.google.com/search?q=ufuwbcquasdwyyctawdw
That article is actually the transcript of a BBC World Service Podcast. If you want to, you can listen to the lady tell her story in her own words [1]. Just a terribly sad story for all involved.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05t5z1b
I don't know, this probably sells it pretty well to the kind of people who would want to buy it.

We just have to remember that there are people out there who legitimately think deploying surveillance technology like this is a good thing.
The one guy I know about is actually from Spain, although he does sell worldwide both through his own shop and through eBay:
http://www.casio880.com/en/product/interface-cable-for-calcu...
https://www.ebay.de/usr/javitopo

I'm still deciding whether to buy it from him or build my own following this guide:
http://blog.damnsoft.org/rs232-ttl-adapter-for-vintage-fx-ca...
Yeah, competition is only good if i can participate in it.
What about property tax, which (AIUI) is paid in a big lump sum on purchase, and not annually like in the USA?
I honestly don't ever see the typical 4x4 being a hybrid. Living in rural Arkansas, almost everyone I know who drives a 4x4 drives an older model, and working on them is a large part of the experience.

I drive a 2000 Jeep, and wouldn't even consider buying a hybrid or fully-electric version. A diesel, absolutely, but not anything with a battery pack.
Is it really the interesting thing you see in that article ? The moral aspect of it ? Nobody got hurt, nobody got ripped off, the service was provided for free to people that needed it, until he found a proper price.

And it will probably give ideas to people on HN to build services for this new market, and get Silicon Valley hipsters interested in cheap phone market. I'm not in SV, but at least that's the effect it had on me.

I'm getting more and more allergic to moral hypersensitivity everywhere. The air is becoming unbreathable.
Was it optional though? He said some people didn't give him enough data, which makes me suspect first-borns were more likely to go "oooo this question is about me being awesome - better fill it in!" and other people to go "eh wtf I'll skip it".
Few things helped me more understanding people and family than knowledge of birth order.

First born, middle, baby, only... Quite helpful as how to understand and predict people's actions. And how to communicate with them.

Also, the cases where the first born or first son being expected to behave like a FB but are naturally not...often they dont realize this until adulthood.

The book by Leman (The Birth Order Book) i bought shortly after entering the workforce. A great read.
Copyright should be abolished.

As it stands, copyright serves little positive social purpose. The overwhelming majority of creators get paid little if anything for their
work, and still there is a glut of content. So there should be no fear of the world losing lots of great content if there was no copyright.

Most of the benefit of copyright is reaped by the middle men, who profit off the work when the creatives that made it have long ceased to do
so (if they ever did). Abolishing copyright will thus mostly affect these middle men, and have little effect on content creation itself.

Those creatives that still want to get paid in a copyright-free era can find business models that don't rely on copyright, like performances,
donations, or kickstarter-like models where one is paid for future work.
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> The author is cherry picking studies to try and prove his hypothesis, ignoring that the "studies" he cites show only a possible correlation

Not really, he starts out explaining that most previous research on birth order effects was well and truly debunked. This doesn't disprove the existence of birth order effects, and he makes a decent case.

> First, he's taking the results of a voluntary survey of users of his own site

And he thoroughly discusses the self-selection bias.

> Another example: younger siblings often specifically don't want to go to the same school as their older siblings, so if an older sibling gets into Harvard, they are less likely to bother applying.

If first-borns are more likely to go to Harvard, that's a birth order effect too. If they're not more likely to go to Harvard, then Harvard should have an even mix of birth orders and so aren't subject to the bias you point out.
Nice, but imho the list should be accompanied by at least three real-world examples per model.

Otherwise, many of the models may seem contrived and practically useless.
It would be 70 years after the author died. Here, read this:

> Often when and how a copyright owner registers a copyrighted work will depend on whether that work is published or unpublished because the requirements for registration differ slightly depending on whether the work is considered to be published or unpublished under the law. The “under the law” phrase is important here because what the normal person might consider to be published does not necessarily correspond to the Copyright Office’s definition of the term. Moreover, sometimes even knowing these definitions doesn’t help because there is some ambiguity in the term and how it applies to new digital environments. So this is one area to proceed with caution.

> The Copyright Office’s definition of published includes: the distribution of copies of a work to “the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending” or offering to distribute copies … “to a group of persons for purposes of further distribution, public performance, or public display, constitutes publication.” A public performance or display of a work does not by itself constitute publication.

> In the online environment this gets confusing. For example, a blog post or a photo posted on a website might be considered to be a “distribution of copies,” which would mean it’s a published work under the definition or it could be a “public display,” which would mean it’s unpublished.

http://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explain...
I would be very curious to see it distorted into a more familiar projection or wrapped onto a globe.
> The reason why it was "life plus X years" was to provide a means for the family if the creator had an untimely death.

Doesn't make any sense; a fixed term copyright as is used for corporate-author works (currently 90 years) does that just as well.

All a “Life plus X” term for, in terms of expected to benefit, is give decreasing expected copyright term as your age increases (well, as remaining life expectancy given known facts decreases, more precisely.)

I suspect “Life plus” was more about eliminating disputes about creation date for individually-authored works that aren't immediately published, not about what it provides to author’s families. With a “Life plus” term, creation dates become immaterial in computing the end of the copyright term, if you know who the author is then, once their death date is known, expiration of all copyrights is known even if the exact creation date of some works is not known.
Bitcoin's 43% Arbitrage Trade Is a Lot Tougher Than It Looks
The one guy is followed by the government and writes a book about it.
The other guy is followed by the goverment and runs.
Both are delusional.
All thats missing is the interrupt to reality.
I think this is a pervasive problem in big corporations and government. There are probably a few people that are concerned with security and others that are concerned with performance. They don't talk enough.
Patent Monopolies, the Root of All Evil?: Purdue Pharma and OxyContin
True, but the difference would be significantly smaller than the proposal to have copyright end with death of the creator.
Currently i use gatling with clojure using https://github.com/mhjort/clj-gatling and it works _extremely_ well... there something like this for jmeter? I'm looking at jmeters website and even though you picked it as winner it looks complex AF to me :(
I wouldn't call a 1949 book a folk story, though.
A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma (2015, updated 2017) [pdf]
Nothing changes for high level languages. If they are high level enough they can still fix Spectre and abstract away deep hardware details.
It really holds up. The visual design, the subject matter... the mix of "future" and "past" make it really timeless. Well worth the rewatch.
Extensive discussion previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098676
You cant say that- because if you imply that non neurotypical behaviour makes for great artists, you are basically telling alot of people that they will never be great artists.
>keeping the shares when you know they are going down is irrational too.

Which is why we have insider trading laws: to make it rational again.

"I know this insider information that means my shares will be worthless tomorrow when everyone finds out. It's not rational to keep them."

"If you do that you'll go to prison."

Still irrational?
"We're way too far down that rabbit-hole to address it"

That's BS. Sweden has essentially zero pedestrian fatalities annually, and its overall traffic fatality rate is well under a quarter that of the US.

There are two main components: reducing speed limits and spending money on infrastructure. Both of these are anathema in the US, but the refusal to do so is borderline criminal, IMO.

http://www.visionzeroinitiative.com/
It seems that you or someone you know has had a bad experience with LSD - I'm very sorry about that. I've known a couple people for whom LSD triggered or exacerbated some underlying conditions; however, when I looked deeper into these cases, there did seem to be a strong correlation with them having pre-existing issues.

If you look into the statistics, I think you'll find that most of the cases where LSD has triggered other issues, the unfortunates tend to be under the age of 25 (it seems that most of the neurochemical issues that don't play well with acid manifest in the early 20s for most people).

I agree that LSD will almost certainly cause a life changing experience, and that such experiences are "not always roses for all", however, I do believe that life changing experiences are, in general, good things if taken with proper perspective. Again, YMMV.

I kind of resent your statement that I've fried my brain - I think that anyone who knows me would disagree with that assertion, but I understand that you're presenting the perspective of someone who has had a bad experience (or who knows someone who has had a bad experience). Any chance you'd like to discuss the motivation for your viewpoint further? I'm very interested in more data on the subject!

In any case, my apologies if I have offended; my intent was to share my experience.

I'll emphasize again that anyone considering taking any drugs should do some research first (erowid.org presents both the good and the bad), and should know themselves well before experimenting.

I truly hope you'll share some more about your experience(s).
Thanks!
"I was gonna write a world changing poem, and thank goodness I'm young and will make $ off of it for decades"

That's a perfectly fine motivation, from my point of view, but I'm contrasting it against yours, because why are we expecting older people to have more altruistic motivations than young people?

(poetry is a poor example because it's not very lucrative in general)
Fully agreed, its uncanny when you see it in person.

It makes sense from a genetic perspective: Similar how to allocate investment funds (primary funds in safe conservative investments, additional funds in more speculative 'moonshot' investments).
Wait, we are supposed to ignore transaction costs? I kept waiting for them to be factored in, but it never happened. I have a simple reason for the 15% number — you need to make ~ that much to be breaking even!

Humans have strong loss aversion and it’s common to come across properties where the offer price is clearly set at a point where the sellers will only be making their money back. You can make fair offers in this situation but we had them declined every time. This was most evident during the 2008-2010 housing bust when we had to look for 18 months for a house that was fairly priced — and after we bought, we got two calls from people we’d made offers to — offers which they declined — asking if we were still interested in buying at our offered price! In the case of one house I tracked, they ended up selling at over 10% below what we’d offered them!

Combine that with the lack of any kind of data on houses that didn’t sell, and I would take this analysis with a hefty nugget of salt.
Hi there! I'm the author of the paper the OP implemented, so I thought I'd give a bit more context.

In practice, combining together HLL and MinHash as they do for AdRoll gives the same kinds of estimation errors. However, using a raw MinHash data structure requires O(log n) space. If you are not space constrained, I second nemothekid and suggest just using off-the-shelf HLL intersection + MinHash libraries, such as the ones he links to.

The HyperMinHash algorithm, which the OP implemented in Golang, combines together the MinHash and HLL data structures so that we only need O(log log n) space, where n is the size of the union. In practice, the difference is between buckets of size log n + loglog n bits for HLL-MinHash and loglog n + 10 bits for HyperMinHash.

Given the constants involved, for n = 2^32, this is only a space savings of about 60% (37 bits vs 15 bits). However, this increases as n grows, so for n=2^64, it's 77% (70 bits vs 16 bits).
I can barely bring myself to read stories like this now. I never really thought about it before my son was born, but there's always this dread you live with in the back of your mind. This little helpless person has your life in it's hands. The world and fate is trying to take them out, and if they succeed you'd never recover. You can learn to live with pain, but I don't believe you ever get over something like that.
Perhaps I'm reading the code wrong, but that seems to be a check if your CPU is vulnerable, rather than an exploit. It seems to me that in order to actually obtain any useful information using this method would require far more work. I'm happy to be corrected if that is not the case...
Why not? What is so bad about reminding people of the good that could come from this, if it were not for the missing pieces.
OrpheusDB, a database system with versioning capabilities
I've found that sleeping on a problem is usually the best way to solve it if you're stuck. Sometimes you get too stuck into one way of thinking, can't see the forest for the trees, so to say.
> suck it up. Taxes have a point.

Your comment feels completely out of line.

This comment thread is talking about mental models about money. The GP comment isn't complaining about taxes. Most likely, the observation about taxes is to say that earning an additional $1000 income does not translate into the same amount that could be spent. Or something similar, related to the mental model topic they're talking about.
Energy agency rejects Trump plan to prop up coal and nuclear power plants
Detection of suspicious individuals by clothing color. Sounds like Fujitsu is using the TSA training manual to train this system.

I'm sure "by skin color" will be an option as well.

Also note "strengthened marketing" and "customer counting" being listed as selling points on the airport scenario of a "citywide surveillance" system.
I was involved in a collision where the other driver crossed into my lane in front of me, so I hit the passenger side of the car. I incorrectly swerved towards the oncoming lane, so I hit the back of the vehicle. My vehicle was immobile and landed on the opposing shoulder, the oncoming vehicle ended up in the ditch on the side of the road I had been driving on.

The mother of the other driver was in the front passenger seat and the driver's baby was in the back seat. The mother of the driver was shocky, but they were all okay.

I'm still pretty glad I made the mistake.
Legends of the Ancient Web (2017)
I don't always agree with Levine, but his daily emails are pretty good reads. Good mix of current events and cut-through-the-hype style.
Sweden may also have more stringent license requirements...
> And they did! All these users started following Browserling and tweeting about it. But they still couldn't use Browserling or Whatsapp, it was just a new message in place of "fatal error".

> Then I got curious. Would these users tweet anything that I asked them? So I decided to troll my competitors a little bit, and asked users to tweet a popular meme Taiwan number one to them.

Then he seems to shift to actually trying to tell them when the service is available instead of pretending it will be if they send a tweet:

> Then instead of just tweeting and trolling, I asked users to start following Browserling on Facebook so I could reconnect with them and let them know when the software was up and running again.

And then finally he built something where they could sign up and it admitted they were building up server capacity to handle it. Then he moved to a lottery which it sounds like legitimately paid out, and he started to do legitimate monetisation of a not-entirely-firewall-blocked service.
Mickey Mouse’s 1998
I find it fascinating how the industry is so powerful that when you watch a Hollywood film in a foreign country you are shown a message which threatens with jail time for recording video and or audio.
There is clearly selection bias in the quoted figure of houses sold within 90 days, because people try to maximise what they'll get.

People only tend to drop the price after it's been sat around for a while. By definition, such sales are not very likely to happen within the 90 day window and therefore do not contribute to this average.
Pragmatic Solution:

Make 4 year extensions for copyright to cost $1,000,000 per item. Increase the fee to account for inflation.

Micky Mouse and Sherlock Holmes (2nd Half) will stay locked up but the 99.9% of the other works are freed.

It isn't perfect but it will release the rest into public domain.
You should probably the entire linked section, Lucas's own quote included.

"it came to me that there really was no modern use of mythology...The Western was possibly the last generically American fairy tale, telling us about our values. And once the Western disappeared, nothing has ever taken its place. In literature we were going off into science fiction...so that's when I started doing more strenuous research on fairy tales, folklore, and mythology, and I started reading Joe's books. Before that I hadn't read any of Joe's books...It was very eerie because in reading The Hero with a Thousand Faces I began to realize that my first draft of Star Wars was following classic motifs...so I modified my next draft [of Star Wars] according to what I'd been learning about classical motifs and made it a little bit more consistent...I went on to read 'The Masks of God' and many other books"
I like this cartoon: http://www.fujitsu.com/global/Images/Use-case-in-an-airport-...

It looks innocent, makes the impression of a childlike idea how to make the world better. The isometric Legoland country airport supports this feeling even more. The whole picture speaks one language: We don't harm.
It was mostly the Spanish, French, and British empires instigating violence in Argentina up until then, when the US joined the party with the Dirty War.
Yes, but again, proving there's an exploit is different to implementing it and actually stealing someone's banking details (which is the media definition of a scary hack). And you say "even a security researcher"... surely they are the guys most likely to be able to perform the exploit, in real life?
Unrelated, but my first and last is also Alex Ellis, and you're the reason I had to register alexanderellis in place of alexellis on github. Funny to see in the wild!
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What window of time would provide better data if not 90 days? 3 months? 6 months? A year? Anything more than 90 days and it’s stale market data.
The Sellafield Ltd fantastic 2017
The problem, I believe, is that most people (even many in CS/CE/EE) don't fully understand the complexity of Turing machines running programs in recursively enumerable languages. Moving a problem into software doesn't merely add complexity; it moves the problem into another class of complexity where behavior cannot be understood without running the program[1]. The behavior of sufficiently large programs (>8k states[2]) is so complex it cannot be described by math[3].

Anybody claiming to understand the consequences of adding any new feature to a processor (or software) is implicitly claiming they have solved the equivalent to halting problem. The only solution is to move as many problem as possible back to a simpler domain that is actually decidable[4].

[1] halting problem, Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem

[2] https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2725

[3] "math" := ZF set theory

[4] https://media.ccc.de/v/28c3-4763-en-the_science_of_insecurit...
Reading about the architecture of that chip (3 core, PowerPC) I am amazed at how smooth GTA V could run on it.
Never under estimate how stupid greed can make you [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Coughlin_(Walmart_executiv...