skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two slabs are actually different. See my explanation of the algorithm downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5741793
"By your logic, people should be constantly bombarded with "important" stuff like price indices for medical services, world food prices, aggregate steel production, measures of industry concentration in the wholesale corn market etc."

Never did I say anything about bombarding anyone or price indices. My logic is that media should give a more equal representation to major industry events like M&As, especially when two such events occur on the same day. I would not argue this if the acquired company was some Tubmlr sized biotech firm with a drug in trials, but this is a merger between two pharmaceutical manufacturers that outsize Tumblr in almost every statistic (users, revenue, employees, etc.) by 1-3 orders of magnitude.

Oh and most people know nothing about pharma, just like they know little about what goes on in the background of their favorite sites in Silicon Valley, especially with acquisitions where integration takes a while and the public gets bored and forgets the event even happened.
Good insights - I agree with you. As a past social flickr user, I checked out my old account. It took me quite a while to find old comments and new activity, which is much different than the past of it being up front.
It's always good to share Vim tips, so thanks for that.

Question, though -- why not use the native <C-i> and <C-o> to navigate between jump points? It will get you to the previous and next buffers but has just enough granularity to be useful for other things, too. (<C-6> is native buffer toggling and ignores jump points, but it's not easy to type.)
Wow. In "The Land of the Free" a company cannot sell its own products as it pleases and is potentially forced to go through middlemen that provide no added value other then forcing folks to haggle?

This is not medicine we're talking about (where I can see pharmacists as an important part of the system).

How can it even be suggested to be illegal to open up a store and sell your own product? Should Apple be barred from selling their own products in Apple stores and go through Walmart instead?
Correct.

It's a regression in that benchmark, but it's possible that improvements elsewhere will still make your program faster overall. For instance, gob is mostly used in network servers, and the scheduler improvements may be good enough to overshadow the gob regression.

We're always looking for more real-world performance measurements. If you have any programs whose performance has regressed between 1.0 and 1.1, we'd like to hear about it.
Google didn't exactly invent the self-driving car - they basically bought the Stanford team and some people from CMU and elsewhere.
My high school math teacher once asserted that, if you try this experimentally, the dog will in fact take something very close to the optimal path. Therefore, he said, dogs can do calculus.
tl;dr think about when you work the most efficiently, then try to get your schedule re-arranged around that. Almost as useful as "simply work faster!"
Thanks, that's what I thought but I'm glad you confirmed it and put it in their notation.

So here is my issue:

Eve knows P, so she can steal the object and hence compute K(B).

The difficulty in "copying" the object is only significant when Eve does not know P.

But that same difficulty would apply if K(A) and K(B) were random numbers that Alice and Bob generated when they met.

Or is the point that Alice and Bob generate K(A) + K(B) for a lot of values of P, and then randomly select the ones to use when sending a message? That doesn't seem to be what the authors intended, although it would now be secure against stealing the object for a short amount of time.
If Google Wallet owns the pipes it'll be a win
I wouldn't be so sure. The compiler is still very simple by modern standards.
and thats because the scene @ SV is more evolved. They understand that they have little, if any, chance of converting from a normal to hot lead, without disclosing the name.
I’m not a parent and this article may be 20/20 hind sight so parents please correct me if I’m completely off base. Allowing your child to drop out of high school is a poor choice assuming they are capable of finishing it. I could maybe see this if you started the site when you were 11 and were looking at VC funding when you were 15 but based on the article Tubmlr wasn’t even started when he dropped out. There was no guarantee that David would have founded Tumblr and you were basically taking a lottery ticket on something like this. I’m glad it worked out for him but this isn’t a path any 15 year old with decent tech skills should follow.
People who complain on the forums are not necessarily power users
El Sonido de la Esclavitud.
I had a teacher in high school call me "stone path" after summer break. So close!
Well, the value is that they know there is an open position, and you don't. What they really need is a better way to monetize it. Of course, this falls flat in the case of a company contracting to a recruiting agency to find someone. I'm not sure if you would be able to short-circuit the recruiting agency for the position in that case (though it just might depend on the contract between the agency and the hiring company).
Agreed - I'm most productive in the morning, so I try to schedule most of my meetings / phone calls earlier in the day.
Read her "paper" / abstract about her project here: http://www.usc.edu/CSSF//History/2013/Projects/S0912.pdf

It's alleged that she's just reproducing previously published research from Dr. Yat Li's lab.
Yahoo's Next Acquisition Should Be A Proper Video Platform
> get a job in Rome

and therein lies the problem - you have to have a job. which kinda precludes you from doing the rest of what you want to do (which mostlikely takes up time and money, for not very much profit, if any at all).
China's One-Child Policy Affects Personality
A Virtual Weimar: Hyperinflation in a Video Game World
Let's continue to preach anecdotal evidence about million to one chances of becoming ridiculously rich.
Or the one that says owning a boat only makes you happy two times: when you buy it and when you sell it.
Ask HN: What's your opinion about startupranking.org
Five days ago, they launch and since then several startups worldwide are being registered because apparently viral concept. Description this... The worldwide startup ranking. Compiles insightful metrics and statistics for startups worldwide. Just wait...
Can this piece of software be used to test other systems/db's in combination with OS?
Quite odd that in the last two polls on editors, it turned out that HN has about half as many emacs users as vim users. And still, we have this disproportionate barrage of vim tips, vim tricks, vim productivity boosts, and what not.

Isn't there some vim mailing list you could subscribe to?
Buffett's entire investment philosophy is rooted in the idea that the market is not always efficient.
What color is the sky in your world?
But Mark Zuckerberg didn't wash his socks for a whole month while fleshing out the idea that would become Facebook! No one should wash their socks. Innovation would be through the roof! </sarcasm> ;-)
The research conclusion is actually more general than what Buffett reports. An IQ level of about 120 is sufficient for eminence in any field, enough IQ to be a "genius" by making a path-breaking contribution to some field of creative work.

AFTER EDIT: Dean Keith Simonton's several writings on "genius" in a wide variety of domains provides the citations to other authors for that IQ figure.
Good move. This will pay off.
It is incredible so much growth in a so short period of time. How many startups are already registered?
I guess the assumption is that high school is not just a waste of time cultural formality? One could do a lot with the 4 years they would otherwise spend in high school if they don't really need it.
They do: https://support.stripe.com/questions/can-i-authorize-a-charg...
As I understand it: Project creators log in to Kickstarter and utilize a Chrome bookmarklet provided by BackerKit, which then reads/scrapes the backer infomation from Kickstarter and sends it to BackerKit.[1]

It's kind of messy, but frankly ingenious considering there's no alternatives.

One of BackerKit's founders is/was involved with Diaspora, which was a Kickstarter project. Having the Kickstarter project admin interface (with actual backers) handy to develop and test the bookmarklet against was probably quite a boon. I could be wrong, though.

tl;dr Kickstarter really needs an API.

[1] https://www.backerkit.com/faq
The article's real title is "SignForms – Going paperless just got easy." It's about an app they built in Node, mostly covering their choice of modules. The title here on Hacker News does not reflect that.
I find that more likely.
Actually by going to the interview you probably ended any chance of freelancing for them for the next 6-12 months. A standard arrangement is that they would've had to pay the recruiter a 25% annual salary equivalent in fees if there's a hire once the introduction has been made. How do you think recruiters make their money? Irrespective of any other reason given, it's no surprise HR said no.
Visionary. Steering the ship the right way (as it turned out).
That seems sort of like an ad-hominem attack.
Ahh ok - great explanation btw.

I'm still curious how this glass is produced. It seems to me that you would be introducing many more potential intrusion points by using physical encryptors since many more parties (people, databases, and systems) will be aware of the details in order to produce the appropriate slab. Having said that, the same thing would apply for any other physical encryptor that would have to be manufactured.
You've never had to log in to read blog content, there has never been a sign-up wall on loading a blog or blog post on Quora.

I understand and respect the displeasure people have over Quora's sign-up wall, but it's not constructive to point it out as a negative where it doesn't even exist.

Also, I'm sure you either 1) don't care or 2) already know, you can get around the sign-up wall at any time by adding ?share=1 to any Quora URL.
Uh yeah, people working on tech startups don't deserve to win with huge risks on creating yet another photo sharing app. Taking risks is a choice, and using hindsight to criticize the windfall of the winners is silly.
Texas CISPA-like bill close to passing
We should all emulate the 80's entrepreneurs and sport full beards </serious>
Do they follow the black book value?
I assume you're joking, since the stock market is anything but efficient. If it were, as Buffett has noted frequently, his success would have been completely impossible. Indeed, the most money is made from the highest inefficiencies. And there's no inherent or guaranteed mechanism that drives under or over valued stocks back into any theoretical fair value line. Stocks are governed by human judgment ultimately - which typically swings emotionally to extremes - there's nothing efficient about that.
Some fields have a cognitive threshold. I seriously doubt if an IQ of 120 is sufficient to become an eminent mathematician.
I have heard anecdotally that many of the paypal mafia members share this trait
Or get an auto broker through your credit union.
I remember listening to a lecture on quantum mechanics which said by suitably exciting your molecules, you would be able to walk through walls. I imagine we could take the shortest path, walking 'through' the traffic if this were possible
Yes, the wording is a little weird. Yet, still it doesn't make sense to make the assertion that a user is vulgar because they might have said the word 'shitty' once or twice.
Because businesses don't need to store images?

I've built an image library for a FTSE100 company. $499 per year for storage and access to a decent API would have looked pretty cheap to be honest.
If you want to read about M&A. Pick up a copy of The Financial Times or The Wall Street Journal.
Full-text of the bill here:

ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/83R/billtext/html/senate_bills/SB01000_SB01099/SB01052S.htm

It appears to, among other things, allow any web site owner to be charged with contempt of court for not turning over all customer data within the time-period defined in the warrant (which appears to be as low as 3 days).
$99 HDMI stick turns displays into virtual desktops
I am thinking that those who drop out in this manner are the ones who (cognitively) could have done well in school and needed school the least, so to speak. When a follower herd forms, bad things could potentially happen.
My advice is to become part of the larger company as quickly as possible, if that's the kind of thing you would like to do, or quit as soon as the acquisition is announced, especially if you're screwed in the equity department. Whether you stay or go, abandon ship.
A big part of high school and even college is figuring out what you want to do with the rest of your life. You learn a little bit about a lot of different things and hopefully by the end have some sense of what you want to pursue further.

He had already figured that out by 14.
Just gave this a shot but apparently living in Arizona sucks and I have to jump through a heap of extra steps, including sending my SSN and color of underwear to them via email. Bummer.
Dude! I was just browsing and upvoted this for the talk of onion-parody-level sense of entitlement and the all-caps reminder the OP is not, in fact, Gavroche. Edited for butchery!
Unless you think about how few people actually manage their schedule this way, which is why this = actually helpful for a lot of people
Given all the "look how they let flickr languish" responses to the tumblr acquisition, I can't help but feel this was artfully timed. Well played yahoo. Well played.
These guys are spamming twitter hard. Very strange.

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=minbox&src=typd
Just gave this a shot but apparently they aren't regulated in Arizona (where I am).

I really do not want to grab my ankles and get screwed by paypal :(
I seriously doubt if an IQ of 120 is sufficient to become an eminent mathematician.

That is an empirical question, and the historical answer is that that IQ level suffices.
I'm in the same boat. Also, the narcissist in me will miss the stats feature.
> tracking your detailed stats, alone, gets to be a hassle with multiple accounts

Stats are gone anyway with the new account types.
I once talked to someone that worked for one of the brokerage houses, and they ran a report to measure the investment performance of the aggregate portfolio of people with M.D. in their title (doctors). It turns out that they were systematically terrible investors with low returns and high volatility for every period and any measure.

I think the problem physicians face is that they spend everyday all day as the smartest person in the room, and are paid to make snap decisions that are rarely scrutinized. That is a recipe for disaster when it comes to investment.
Search warrants already exist. What does this bill change? Does it just make the time limit lower?

And is it really very much like CISPA? I thought CISPA was about removing liability for certain kinds of voluntary data sharing, not about making it easier for the government to force data to be shared.
Interesting point. I'm not sure what prevents Eve from simply computing K(B) from P if she has stolen Bob's slab. Maybe I have misinterpreted something?

The actual paper does describe generating n different patterns and then randomly selecting one of them to encrypt the message, but the index of the one that is randomly selected is sent with the encrypted message so that Bob can use it to look up the appropriate pattern. I took this as just generating more than one key for convenience's sake.

Notably, a requirement for security of the slab is that given temporary access, Eve "must not be able to efficiently copy or model its contents." So, I think the point is that since there are many different P's (and hence K(A)'s and K(B)'s), Eve cannot recreate K(B) for all P's in a reasonable amount of time. Further, she can't actually make a physical copy of the device. Still, it seems that if Eve can steal the device, she can break old messages --- which I guess is, as you said, a property shared by regular OTPs. When she steals the device, though, she can only decrypt so many messages before detection, since there is apparently a key recovery rate of 1.5 seconds per key.

But one of the other requirements set forth in the paper is that if the slab is stolen, Eve must not be able to send or receive messages. I'm not sure how that is fulfilled here.
Researchers Identify Cancer-Killing Compound in the Mediterranean Diet
I've been seeing things differently. Between myself and my friends/former coworkers, some of whom are contractors, some in agencies, some internal teams in non-web companies. Across the board, we've all been rather overwhelmed lately. It's a constant struggle to keep up, let alone get ahead of the backlog. Who isn't hiring, subcontracting, or both, just to keep from falling too far behind? The story the recruiters have been giving us as they try to lure us away is that it's a developer's market.

I would imagine that using custom development to compete with Geocities or MySpace style 'build your own page' services is probably not doing as well. But that market was already thin many years ago. Those services didn't kill web development as a profession then, and they're not killing it now.

The bit about people who've grown up with this stuff coming into power is certainly a wildcard, but I like to think it'll be a positive one, not a negative one that kills the industry.
It's not fair to imply that these thing are over the heads of HN readers. There are plenty of smart people that just might not care about distributed systems enough to read through. Does my lack of reading medical journals speak to my ability to read/comprehend them?
I wasn't joking.

> If it were, as Buffett has noted frequently, his success would have been completely impossible. Indeed, the most money is made from the highest inefficiencies.

Survivorship bias? I don't know, but in any case market efficiency is a very general claim, it doesn't rule out some "special" people with innate talent to predict future prices.

>And there's no inherent or guaranteed mechanism that drives under or over valued stocks back into any theoretical fair value line. Stocks are governed by human judgment ultimately - which typically swings emotionally to extremes - there's nothing efficient about that.

Just empty rhetoric. Look into the literature of econometric tests of the efficient market hypothesis.
And GOOG rocketed to all time highs starting the day she quit.
Is Tumblr's co-developer out in the cold after $1.1billion deal with Yahoo?
For switching tabs, there's also gt and gT. For buffers, I normally switch with :b or :e, since I often end up with too many buffers for next/previous to be practical.
very true - it only works if you put it into practice!
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I hold the unconventional opinion that physicians spend 15 years memorizing flashing and steadying their hands.
The Camera Keeps Rolling
This is a nice niche to cater to. Now, what I would like to see is someone go to conventional businesses (banks, pizzerias, etc) and sell them on the idea of giving their customers "rewards" like these. There is a huge industry for this sort of thing, but everything seems to be centered about Pens, and mouse pads. Hell, I wish I could upload a t-shirt design to you, then through an API tell you to print them on demand and ship them off to my clients.
I don't think that's true. Buffett's investment philosophy involves active intervention in the companies he owns, not just blind stock picking.
No need for the correction, "could care less" is standard American English. It seems to me to be even more common than "couldn't care less" nowadays.
Could you please lead me to the sources .Its just to console and motivate myself . Because I find this very hard to believe .
My web app http://weekplan.net actually helps you follow the concept presented in the post: Put First Things First. Check it out, it might work for you.
Tough choices
I use xe.com to get money from US -> Canada after internships in the US.
Microsoft to launch Australian Azure region
Google drops XMPP support
This is sort of what nassim taleb is talking about with his character "fat tony" who isn't an academic but a street smart investor
> Does the Pope sh*t in the woods?

Is a bear catholic?

:D
Well they also probably have less time than even the average person to read, learn, and do research.
While I do welcome it... Design wasn't Flickr's problem, it's the piss poor search engine and it's people uploading millions of their blurry family photos and clogging up the search results with garbage. Flickr needs to decide what it wants to be, an image hosting site or a photography community. One will kill the other so stop trying to be both.

I routinely hunt for creative commons / copyrighted images for ads and commercial use on flickr (yes, that means contacting each and every photographer to purchase rights). I've spent a minimum of over one hundred hours tediously going through the search results. Flickr has one of the worst search engine algorithms I've ever seen. It's dumb beyond all reason. I'll search for "Mountain View Lake" and get a page full of "Asian Children". I mean it's really random.
ASKHN: are you jealous of David Karp?
Fake account b/c I'm a coward, but I know,it's lame to say/feel this way, but I am so impressed and jealous by folks like Karp & d'Aloisio. At such a young age to hit the jackpot and be set for life... Wow
Store arbitrary files with Flickr's new 1TB storage limit
New Public Cloud Wars: Google Compute Engine vs. Amazon AWS
A redesign of the handicapped icon
I'm not sure about the handling of the glass. The paper [1] gives all of the specific materials used in the experiment, but it doesn't say anything about handling them and I don't know enough about the area to be able to intelligently comment...

The paper also mentions that the randomness they are using passes the Diehard and NIST randomness tests, so it appears they are pretty random. Apparently, though, they have to sacrifice some of the bits in order to ensure that! It references "Supplements" E and F, saying they include more details, but they're not included in the arXiv paper. Of course, the original random patterns used to generate the keys are randomly selected too, so let's hope they're using a good random source for that...

[1]: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3886