skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems odd to me that this disproves Bernoulli theory "that a person’s willingness to gamble a certain amount of money was a product of how that amount related to his overall wealth".

If I could pull $900-$1000 from my savings with no immediate consequences, I'd be more likely to spend the $900 at 100%. But if loosing $900-$1000 means I'll have to tell my landlord I'll be late with the rent and then finding someone to borrow it from, and paying it back with interest, the extra $100 aren't significantly more crippling - it's the transaction cost of going through all this bother that's problematic - I'll take a 10% chance.

Come to think of it, I actually did something like this: Prior to moving abroad a while ago, I consulted a lawyer to make sure I did everything right to avoid double taxation. That was a taking on a 100% chance of a rather big expense to avoid an unknown chance of an even larger expense.
This is a quite nice tutorial. There's a quite bit of half-chewed reference material in the osdev wiki. It's quite x86 centric, but that's what makes it especially valuable to me. I already have OS books that I read in Uni courses:
http://wiki.osdev.org/

Writing your own hobby operating system is a very nice project to learn about your computer's internals and hone your low level programming skills. Here's the start of my hobby OS:
https://github.com/rikusalminen/danjeros

Also, don't be fooled to thinking that you won't need the skills professionally, because Linux/Windows/*BSD already exists. In fact, at work we have an original in-house small "toy" operating system, but it's not a toy. It's actually used for testing new system on chips when they roll out the factory as well as doing some special purpose tasks on actual devices that are shipped to millions of customers. It's only a few thousand lines of code and looks a lot like one of these schoolbook/hobby operating systems. Unfortunately, I cannot tell you anything more about it.
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Nice project but don't think I would use it in our enviroment for two reason:

1) It require code changes ... could be done when you're starting from scratch but nearly impossible for existing projects with really large code base. Moreover most PHP frameworks already provide similar functionality with deeper integration and better reporting.

2) This is the real dealbraker: having to add code manually means that eaither you go crazy and add profiling everywhere or it wont really help you because you'll add profiling only in the most obvious slowdown point and you'll discover what you already knew. But you'll probably loose hidden bottleneck in place you could not easily guess.
Wouldn't eliminating of copyright render the GPL unenforceable? I'd imagine you'd have to fall back to a BSD-style license, which (according to the FSF) is less-free? [not agreeing or disagreeing].
Not according to the documentation and personal experience: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php
I have five tor exit nodes running at the moment... after reading this I'm doubling it to ten!
They shut it down because it had child porn. Not "very young girls", but literally de jure child porn.
I played a little with reverse engineering Kik a while ago. I'm not sure about the messages, but I was able to siphon off the plaintext password using ngrep. It's XMPP, btw.
Firefox somewhat follows Google Chrome in this version increase. If you check Chrome's version you will find the same.
it's iterative bro.
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> How much of a financial cushion would you recommend taking?

I'd say as much as you can get, and then some. :)

In all probability, your projects will start turning out to be inaccurate as you progress. If and when that happens (I do hope it doesn't, but as they say, sh*t happens), having a good cushion will do a lot to your peace of mind and allow you to maintain focus.

One point of caution though: If you go this route, do not forget to maintain a strict financial discipline.

In the worst case scenario (which may actually be good), you will end up paying interest on the unspent money but the benefits of having it around should far out-weigh this. (You could also structure this so that you don't pay interest on unspent amount but that's a different topic.)
You might want to get involved with Telecomix, they've done just that.
See http://telecomix.org and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecomix
best solution I have seen bro.

just one correction

def pascal(i):
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o=[1]
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return o

efficient as hell!
"The video surveillance brings Iran further into the vanguard of nations that have sought to keep tabs on Internet use. Libya under Moammar Gadhafi ran extensive web-monitoring operations. China has sophisticated website filtering and an army of censors patrolling chat rooms. China and Cuba require Internet-cafe users to present identification."

Sweden is filtering and web-monitoring, it is very easy for the state to know exactly who does what. NSA is not behind in this technology. USA has sock puppet software, they dont need armies of censors.

The internet is dead.
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Yeah, go ahead and shut down the comments, we will continue to comment here though :)
That was my first comment on HN ... glad it was useful :)
Yeah, good point, makes sense
I agree.

I do think is valid to show code produced just-in-time, but I don't it's okay to observe the candidate, for the reasons already pointed out.

If you must ask for code, give the candidate a computer and leave the room, or have the candidate leave the room with a computer and leave him to it.

You should be at least partially trying to emulate real working conditions. Otherwise it's just torture.
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Actually often you haven't decided in a matter of hours. In a typical recruiting cycle, a company that is hiring might organise interviews with a half-dozen or so candidates after pre-screening. This is typical because you can't go through the whole process with one candidate, then if you don't like them, start a new search for another candidate and so on - if you need to do six or so interviews to find a good candidate, a serial procedure like that could drag on for 3-4 months.

So, knowing that other candidates are also in the pipe, candidates can't expect to be told whether they have got the job until after all of the candidates have been seen. I don't think that this is unreasonable on the company's part.

That said, the company should be able to give you a date for when the decision will be taken, and that date should be less than a day after the last interview, ie as soon as is possible.
I think the future for WebGL is very bright, especially as it becomes more widely available on mobile, and a full screen mode with mouse capture gets added on the desktop (critical for games).

A little more here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3429641
Being written some month ago, I keep revisting this posting again and again, as it talkes about a lot of the things, I keep thinking about. Therefore I just wanted to share it with a wider community.
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That's a really bad question, and I'm not just saying that because I don't know what the answer is. The first three sequences are very ordinary mathematical series, suggesting that the fourth would be the same. But the sequence 1, 5, 7, 15, 20 doesn't appear in OEIS[1], let alone 1, 5, 7, 15, 20, 28. I feel comfortable in announcing that if a sequence doesn't appear in OEIS, it isn't mathematically significant. Likewise, "convolution series" doesn't appear to have a well-defined mathematical interpretation.

What sequence is this and what is the justification for 28 being the next number?

[1] http://oeis.org/
When they originally launched, they were not using SSL, and were using plain text authentication. Since then, they changed the authentication so it wouldn't be sent in plain text. Then they later added SSL. Then in the middle of last year, they updated their SSL setup so it actually did certificate verification.

It took them a while to get there, but it's secure now.
Unfortunately, there is no government with the moral credibility to speak up.

Iran's censorship is direct, autocratic and politically motivated

US' censorship is indirect, 'democratic' and commercially motivated.

Dear US goverment, please rethink your decision. Your might and support in the world comes not from your military strength but your perceived moral credibility and being seen as the standard. The right standard.

Do not change it.

PS: Has WSJ written anything against SOPA?
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There has been an ongoing and pervasive systematic increase in stories portraying a negative light on Iran and Iranian society. This, along with obvious current affair issues, leads me to believe that a 'propaganda war' much akin to the one we saw before Iraq and Afghanistan is slowly coming to life.

The fact of the matter is that amongst all the countries in the Middle East, Iran is the one that most Americans and Europeans would probably find most similarities with. It's incredibly youthful, energetic, entreprenuriel and when it comes to the younger generation, liberal. While I don't doubt that the political establishment might be attempting to curtail free access to the internet I question why It's of concern to us when America is trying to ram SOPA and other bills down our throats and when our "allies" in the mid-east region already have complex and functioning systems in place to regulate and censore access to foreign websites.

I've spent many years living in the mid east and I just can't shake off the unmistaken feeling of an attempt to sway the public into thinking Iran is a monolithic demonic institute.
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This is what you pay for with GAE, and why you have to write to match its way of working. It's not going to fit everyone, but not having to worry about the resiliency and scalability of the underlying datastore is worth it for some people.
I could say the same thing about US. The unfortunate truth is that most people don't care enough until it's really too late to change anything. And if they do want to change it, then they will need overwhelming numbers to change the policy, and possibly even violence to remove the Government.

But I do think things are starting to change a bit. As the society moves away from the "read-only" type of media, where they only get to think about the "choices" they are presented with, which has led to a lot of people, especially young people, to not even care about voting anymore, because they realized their vote won't change anything when the vast majority of the population could still get mass-manipulated, to a society that is more "read/write" thanks to the Internet, and where they are much more engaged in political issues, and don't want to sit idle on the side. This should ultimately lead to healthier democracies.

Democracies turn rotten when the people don't care about what happens at the top, which tends to encourage politicians to do whatever they want when they are there and seek more power ever faster.
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I'm starting to think the indirect, commercial approach is actually worse, because it's so misleading ("we'll save millions of jobs!"). The US Government couldn't have convinced so many countries to start restricting their Internet. It's "thanks" to MPAA and RIAA that they are doing it.
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In my experience, all ways to 'avoid knowing what you're doing' are expensive.

It's all about time, and lack of it. If you can spend 1/10th of the time and still make a good profit, you could spend the other 9/10ths doing other profitable things.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship

I'm a little shocked about Sweden's "web monitoring". From wikipedia it looks like they're just blocking some porn sites... Could you elaborate more?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_by_country#...
> You would see it justified to cash in on someone else's work after she "sold some copies"?

In fact the answer to the example of Harry Potter should be that if copyright didn't exist, then it would be hard to sell any copy. Maybe some people would be able to sell printed copies, or better copies, or from a manufacturer approved by the author, etc. -- but most (electronic) copies would be available for free.

The question is: would it be bad? You seem to think that it would be morally bad; I'm not sure what morals have to do with it. It would be legal.

Would it be economically bad? I'm not sure either. In general, contrary to what people seem to believe, the economy benefits from cheaper goods.

But the larger point is that works of the mind belong to the public. They used to be in the public domain by default. Copyright is something that is cut from the property of the general public, and given to someone as an incentive to produce more original work.

The public should make sure they're getting their money's worth when granting copyright extensions. And, as it is obvious this is not the case, we should be demanding copyright reduction.

When you want ten bucks, ask for a million. When you want a shorter copyright length, ask for zero.
Looks really well written... man I have too much stuff stacked up in my to-read list.
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"And even if you have an existing traditional Windows app, if you have to rewrite it, are you really going to choose the Windows platform? Probably not. You'd just go with Apple or Android."

Um, why? If you're rewriting it, why would you choose the others? Android tablet sales haven't exactly taken off, and simply starting over on iOS isn't necessarily easy or cheap if you're used to Windows. If you're rebuilding it for Windows 8, both tablet and desktop users benefit.
People should see more videos and images like these, before they are quick to ask for bombing them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98j0I7e5OHE&feature=youtu...
I've tried 7.0 recently for a project requiring Jython 2.2 and it was a huge fail (I ended up with eclipse+PyDev, which shine on that particular task).
I might give it another try, but I'm quite partial to IntelliJ for other stuff.
Holy crackers, that document is one of the most exciting things I've encountered in a long time. I had no idea it existed! I wish it was featured more prominently in the Plan 9 community.

The Plan 9 source is really a work of art. I cannot wait to sink my teeth into this commentary. Thank you so much for sharing!
At the end of the day, you're still going to need to A) learn what you're doing or B) hire someone who does know what they're doing - and given that one of the major selling points of these PaaS offerings is that you can get up and running without needing a dedicated sys admin, this seems particularly silly to me!
Reporting the facts is not propaganda.

P.S. and, as an Iranian, I can assure you the last thing I want is to be bombed.
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These are terrestrial signals, yet they prove algorithms searching through dataset are ready to spot extraterrestrial signal of similar characteristics.
> But honestly: when and why should you be able to cash in on coffee mugs showing disney's rendering of the seven dwarfs?

When the copyright expires is both the when & why. Same as Disney did when they cashed in on the original story by the Brothers Grimm.

Granted, I don't expect the copyright to expire any time soon when they can retroactively extend it.
As I understand it, the iOS API for background tasks allows certain routines to run in the background, in this case the regular sending out of location data to Google. It doesn't let the Latitude app as a whole run in the background.
IIRC, IntelliJ was the first IDE to have intelligent refactoring features and be usable, at a time when Eclipse was an unbearable memory monster and quite feature-poor.
Most tests in our schools are not to help direct the students. They're to make sure they hit a minimum level. That's it. I agree that there are a few that are designed to help a student direct their ambition, but they are few and far between. In fact, I can't say I've ever taken one. The closest thing would be the college entrance exam that basically just tells the students what their worst subjects are, and forces them into the lowest classes for those. Not really a direction.

But let's talk about teaching spatial intelligence. How would you do that? What techniques are employed while using it? Has anyone ever written a book on it? (A quick search says 'yes', but they appear to be ridiculous self-help books.)

Honestly, I'd love to read more about it, but there doesn't see to be much. I happen to be really, really good at things like re-arranging furniture because I can always tell when something is going to fit or not. I've called it down to less than half an inch before when reshuffling an entire room. What techniques did I use? Intuition. I can't teach someone that. And I can't see them teaching me, either.
Isn't

* lottery A = 0.9 chance of $1000 + feeling somewhat smart and 0.1 chance of 0 + feeling very stupid

more accurate?
I understand that Chrome will now start to fetch and display pages before you finish typing the url.

Google Instant is bad, but at least only Google supports the increased load on its servers.

Now Chrome is trying to build "Web Instant", which everyone will have to support.
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Excuse my ignorance, but what does the scientific method have to do with statistics?

I have always considered it to be a math, not science.
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Sure, delis would have zero incentive to pay protection money to the mob, if there weren't alternatives, like a busted kneecap.
In kneejerk fashion, you assume the people responding strongly don't interview people and that's why they disagree. The truth is that they do interview people and still strongly disagree.
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The decoding amounts to solving a system of linear equation where each equation corresponds to one received packet. Assuming the file to be sent was broken into n parts, minimum n independent equations are required for reconstruction. To do that optimally, receiver needs to keep trying to solve the linear equation system once it has received at least n packets. This means O(n^3) in general case for each received packet. If the equations are generated randomly, the expected overhead seems to be a mere 1.61 extra packets! http://virtual.vtt.fi/virtual/abi/abi-seminar07/abiseminar07...

In practice however, depending on the receiver, you may not want it to solve a general system of linear equations for every packet it receives when n is big. It might be better to stick to a simple algorithm (which has a better time complexity if certain conditions are satisfied by the linear system) and just wait to accumulate enough equations for it to become applicable.
Iranians ARE youthful, energetic, entrepreneurial and liberal. That's why they're constantly trying to revolt against the ass-backwards represive government they're stuck with. It's a country of huge constrasts.

There is definitely some kind of propaganda war going on to, but that doesn't mean Iran's government isn't horrible.
What will this do to web traffic? Sounds like this could result in a lot of additional traffic (if the the prefetched page is not what I'm interested in).
I would recommend some more information on the landing page(or an about page) with some more information. I personally would like to know more about a service before signing up to it.
"""Yes, territories that previously encouraged and allowed behaviour that they now find unacceptable are trying to stamp that attitudes and behaviour out."""

That only makes it a mix of overreacting and "too little, too late" response, that other territories see as hypocritical and/or hysterical (the latter not in the "funny" sense).

As for the hypocritical part, it's indicative that politically correctness arose somewhere where "only approximately 7% of the American population is African American, but they make up 46% of the total 2.1 million male inmates in jail or prison".

Because what really matters is not what chances a society offers to black people (that the same society dragged away from their lands and used as slaves), but how we talk, right?

"""Yes it is."""

Really? Given by who? Last time I checked, no such thing as god-given rights or natural rights exists objectively.
"start collecting detailed personal information on customers" This has been the norm in Iran for a while. I visited there for three months in 2008 and was always asked for my name and passport number when going to internet cafes. But usually they were relaxed about it so did not have to show my passport so I usually wrote "George Bush", "Johnny Cash" or other fake names. The staff would also usually help me with finding a proxy as Facebook and some email services were blocked. There were not a central filter but filtering was done individually by the ISPs. For example Facebook was blocked in Tehran but not in the rest of the country.

Edit: By the way, you should all visit Iran. It is a safe country with interesting architecture, culture, history and very friendly people.
Yes, I'm approaching this from a relatively simplistic point of view, but...

You have 6 interviewees. Get them to your office on one day. Find 6 interviewers and 6 rooms. Put each interviewee in each room and rotate the interviewers. Discuss, decide and communicate.

Is it that hard!?!
Maybe this will be one of the benefits of having 1 Gbps connections in the future.
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Why don't people pay candidates for a day's work and see how they do? It would be cheaper and a far better indicator of actual potential.