skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chinese hackers who breached Google reportedly targeted classified data
The theory of "Ego depletion" suggests that physicians use up their rational decision-making capacity during their intense day jobs, so make bad (more emotionally-driven) decisions at the end of the day.
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They are getting so much revenue from ,so why should they restrict porn.
I'm aware that this was most likely the meaning of that statement, however I don't see the usefulness in presenting 'wrongness' this way when it basically deems any outcome that doesn't involve the extinction of the human race as 'working'. It's just a simplistic non-stance that doesn't really mean anything, so I figured it would be more productive to invoke the 'moral' wrongness of it.
The AMIs can be imported and work on Eucalyptus private cloud. So there is no lock down: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_%28computing%29
Ask HN: A sad story with hopeful optimistic potential
pastebin.com/Ss95NLb8 (Sad part on pastebin, as it's not relevant but explains how I arrived at this point)
Found out about Google adwords grant. "How/why is Google giving all this money away? 10K/m" I look around and find a couple grants that need management. They were happy to have a volunteer. Come to think of it they didn't even ask my experience at all. On the better performing account: 5 months later have spent the max 50K (just missed out on grantspro - 40K/m upgrade) which from ads alone has directly resulted in around 130K in donations. Not even counting return on SEO, LPO, analytics, and consultation. One thing has become overwhelmingly clear to me: anyone with an ounce of talent has been recruited away to work on amazing projects/startups/eCommerce. I finally realized that Google is almost taunting nonprofits with this crazy amount. (invest and they will come) I think I read something like 60%+ don't spend more than 10%? Maybe I'm misremembering, but it was low. And every account I took over had to to recover for like 3 months from the low quality score that these (well intentioned) volunteers had totally destroyed. SEO completely non-existent, analytics awful, landing pages horrid, donation buttons unseen, and I'm just scratching the surface. This wasn't just a ragtag random nonprofit this is a 150M/year giant. That didn't invest $15 for a new server even though it was costing them an estimated 10K+/m. My question is this: are there any nonprofits performing these types of services for other nonprofits? Design, dev, SEO, adwords, etc? I'm sure there must be a few, but I mean like real powerhouse marketing companies that can actually make a difference on a large scale? The amount of positive change that could be done is astronomical. We don't have to cure poverty, but we can make sure the people that are making a difference have the best possible chance they can get. This is my dream. I'm 100% behind this, so please criticism/ideas/comments encouraged.
> "... but in doing so you are changing the destination point or else leaving it undefined."

That's kind of the point I think, because photons don't 'pick' a destination point before travelling.
I don't switch to OCaml because I don't want to rewrite from scratch, mostly.

Scala already has GADTs! http://lambdalog.seanseefried.com/posts/2011-11-22-gadts-in-... So yes, I use GADTs already.
I managed to learn the language _while_ doing a side project, and it was just as quick as doing it in a language I knew.
This makes me wonder to what extent online games could be used to model/explore/study economic and social theories. Here we have an example of hyperinflation happening. Could you reliably reproduce the results? Could you reliably adjust conditions to lead to expected results? If so how accurately?
I think you could get results much better analyzing surveys because of the seriousness people put into games.
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This, my point was that you can use C++ make_shared (and eventually C++14 make_unique) instead of manual management, you can get away with a lot more reference passing instead of of raw pointer manipulation, the std now has an actual hashmap implementation now, auto and lambdas make things faster, etc.

Modern C++ vs second iteration standard C++ in the wild west days when I was first learning about it is an entirely different affair.

I also contest having to know boost - I work in some KDE projects and boost is only a dependency on around 1 in 4 that I have found. Though qt in many ways becomes the surrogate stack to learn.
If only our scientific journals kept such rigorous academic standards.
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It certainly isn't based on earnings. Mayer will be out as CEO, in disgrace, by 2015, and probably earlier.
The point is physical security and information density.

If you use an electronic one-time key and then secure wipe, you're not protected from someone who unbeknownst to you already read the contents of your hard drive.

If you use handwritten papers then you cannot store large amounts of data, nor is your data transmission rate anything feasible.

This allows an uncopyable object the size of a grain of sand to hold about a terabit of private shared data, and to process that at the speed that we can send/receive/react to light. (Considering that the basic technology is also used to send signals down fiber-optics cables, speed should be pretty good.)
Flickr staff commented on this post that the 300Mb monthly limit was a bug:

http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157633531669359/pag...
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I would like to see some research to support his thesis. I agree that the temperament is important, very much so, but at the same time I am afraid this might be misconstrued by some that a lower IQ somehow does not matter if you are an investor or trader. That's not what he says, but it seems to have been received that way by some on Facebook.

You can actually come across people (on trading forums) who believe that a lower IQ is beneficial for a trader. I don't believe this.

BTW, I am a day trader by occupation and my IQ is 131. I think my high IQ helps me in trading.
You did what? Why we chose debt over venture capital
Is there any good regexp improvement library in the wild?
Marissa Mayer's actions since becoming CEO remind me a lot of Steve Jobs' after returning to Apple -

First, get rid of the stragglers and people who don't believe in your vision. MM did this by ending remote work at Yahoo, and Steve Jobs did it by gathering everyone up and telling anyone who wasn't on board to "get the hell out" [1]. This will get rid of all the unmotivated and/or pessimistic people who might hold the company back.

Next, focus heavily on rebranding and spend a crapload of cash to convince the public that your company is different now. Steve Jobs did this with his famous "Think Different" ads [2], and Marissa Mayer seems to be doing this by making big PR waves with big acquisitions of mobile-centric startups. Hopefully this will make your company "cool" again and make the "A players" actually want to work for you (again).

And then of course, build a bunch of awesome products and then TAKE OVER THE WORLD as Apple did. We'll see if Yahoo can do the same.

[1] http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=3067

"Anyway, so Steve said 'You know what, we're going to build a great company. We're going to reinvent the world. And anybody who believes me, like let's get moving. If you don't believe that will happen then get the hell out."

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Different
Seriously, though. If there's a vim-tricks mailing list, do tell me. I'd subscribe :)

(and then probably go all grumpy when people don't use vim the "right" way)
I've only ever used window splits (<C-w> | _ = etc) and have never even tried to get used to tabs or non-visible buffers. Can anyone tell me whether there would be much benefit to changing my workflow?
You know we have been in a bull market. can you have the same aplomb in both up and down markets ?
10-20% a day? Are you trading options? My portfolio never fluctuated 5% in one day, and it only fluctuated that much due to recent run up of Tesla and solar city... But I agree the more you are in the more numb you are to the market.
usually folks that talk for minutes without stopping like the sound of their voice.
There's no possible way that this problem has been fixed in a sustainable way given the short time frame.
Oh, I know. I'm a bit cloudy on whether or not he knew where they came from immediately. He did eventually figure it out. I'm just wondering about cases where you really honestly do not know.

I have a (maybe unnatural?) fear of something like that happening and not being able to prove that I truly have no idea and then being forced into some kind of a plea deal.

I can definitely see the police's perspective too.
Since when M.D. stands for high IQ? Yes, doctors are often convinced of their superiority but that has little to do with intelligence. Their sense of superiority might actually be the reason why they are poor investors and not their high IQ because overall I doubt their IQ is so high.
My worst draw down was 60% over 2 weeks. I think I can take a global financial crisis - because I expect my losses to be 100%. I don't use leverage - so it can't get much worse than that.

Most people never trade stocks that move that much, that contain within them that level of risk, or deal with losses as often as I have had to do.

The problem with down markets is they happen so rarely that most people who invest in good, solid companies don't know how to react them when they do enter one - just like I didn't at the start of my trading career.

When every other week has one losing significant fractions of their total net worth relatively quickly, then the global financial crisis just becomes another day in one's year.

I see what people call black swans on a monthly basis. They no longer surprise me.
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This has been upped to a maximum of 15GB when Google combined all their storage into Drive. Your argument still holds though.
Break on through to the other side.
Airliners use generally two likelihoods of a failure: once in a billion hours for events which can bring down the plane and once in 10 million hours for events which don't take it down alone, but a combination of those can.

The problem with the batteries is that they were certified to fail once in ten million hours but failed twice in 50000 hours. If both engines fail (unlikely, but it can happen -birdstrikes, fuel contamination, it is one of the 10 million events), you need the main battery for powering avionics (if it fails you're screwed) until APU is started and providing power (you have about 10 minutes, 2 APU start attempts). The APU battery is needed to start the APU. Unfortunately, APU has fire protection which needs power to run, which is drawn from the APU battery. So if APU battery fails at any time after APU start, the system will shut the APU down and you'll lose all the power.
"That said, Google Checkout didn't do much in the way of recurring billing."

Your comment helps all those who depend on Google Checkout subscriptions.
Since it doesn't appear to be open to the public yet, I don't know much about it, but there's a startup which seems to be trying to attack the problem from this angle (i.e., removing the "creepiness" factor of connecting with strangers on the basis of, well, lots of evident similarities but no prior real life contact).

http://ark.com/
You're assuming that the structure of the glass can't be 'compressed' with assumptions about the structure of the glass.... At least the key space could be reduced well below the naïve entropy estimate.
Call it "features and experience", then, not "product".
It's interesting that you didn't bring up fico scores, or factor in any of their methodology.

Obviously fico scores are far from perfect, but one particularly interesting parameter would be history. An interaction or vote would lose weight as it ages, making it essential for you to maintain a good rating.

This would also make it tougher on people who want to manipulate such a system because creating dozens of accounts to vote for yourself would be very difficult. The fake accounts themselves have no history, making their votes worth nothing.
Shame, I was looking into Dotcloud just the other day and liked the more control they gave you, especially the custom nginx conf. And that they hosted static files for you instead of relying on third party services (i.e. S3).
The HN link to jcs's story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4108008

tptacek's comment also mentions another hellban tragedy: 'Paul Graham personally hellbanned Maciej Ceglowski for calling Sebastian Marshall a "prolix douchebag". Maciej's comment was not a high point of Hacker News decorum and in that instance probably degraded the site slightly, but no reasonable person could have looked at 'idlewords comment record and not come to the conclusion that Maciej is someone we want on the site.'
valve hired an economist do do something like that.
http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/it-all-began-with-a...
Rob Pike said that he believed that they could get similar performance enhancements in the next release. He was talking at Google I/O fireside chat on Go.
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No need to dress up wisdom with unsubstantiated scientific language? Where do you get that? He sounds plainly spoken to me.

He's not saying high I.Q. doesn't have its advantages at all. He says overly high I.Q. doesn't give you an advantage when it comes to investing and there are plenty of examples.

Probably the biggest one from your M.I.T. alumnus, a partner in Long-Term Capital Management[1], creators of the Black Scholes Formula for options pricing. Their firm lost billions of dollars because said "perfect" hedging formula failed to account for shit going south in Russia one day.

It doesn't take a genius to observe a few really smart guys drawing some conclusions based on Brownian Motion, and the thing works most of the time, until someone tosses a boulder into the particle system and fucks everything up.

Don't forget about the fellow who whined: "I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men" when he lost today's equivalent of 2.5M in the South Sea Bubble[2]. That'd be Sir Isaac Newton.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company
This seems clearly false. What about David Shaw and Jim Simons? We know at least two out of n were huge successes, and n here (hard science professors at top schools who went into finance) is very small.
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I am old enough to remember when C only had backing from people working on UNIX systems, while other systems were either using Assembly or another high level language e.g. PL/I, Algol or Pascal dialect.
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A lot of people think they've figured out what they want to do with their lives when they're 14. But we never hear about the 99% of those people who end up unsuccessful after pursuing their dreams. We only hear about guys like this one.
There's a delicious irony to dollars being the hedge against virtual gold hyperinflation while real gold is the canonical hedge against dollar (hyper-) inflation...
You can only provide partial implementation.

Scala goes to great extents to try to live without tail call optimization.
Couldn't help but plug this on The Changelog: http://thechangelog.com/flickr-store/
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Not sure what is 'emphatically not true' with the OP.

Americans are required to state global income over some threshold (I believe it was around $91K this tax year). Few other countries apply a tax to wages earned overseas by citizens. After passing a minimum threshold, tax treaties are applied to determine precise tax liability for the year.
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Well he can certainly afford day and night iPhones.
I don't have a portfolio is probably the reason why.

I usually concentrate most of my money in the one investment that I believe would provide me with the highest probability of high returns.

And yes - I do trade options, and no I don't need a lecture on diversification, I know what I'm doing.
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I don't know that I would go that far. It may be that they know a lot about medicine but don't know a lot about investing, the same way a car mechanic, line cook, etc may not be good investors. Many physicians are much more serious than just making snap stuff. I think 1) investing is hard and 2) many people are not good at it so it is not surprising that a lot of MDs would be not good.
Not true - there are tons of studies that show otherwise, so I have no idea how this myth still exists.

An IQ of 120 is the top ~10%. Here's a 25 year longitudinal study [1] of over 1,500 students that were all in the top 1% and it shows significant differences between the lowest and the highest quartile (who were in the top .01%):

> Ability Differences Among People Who Have Commensurate Degrees Matter for Scientiﬁc Creativity
> ABSTRACT: A sample of 1,586 intellectually talented adolescents (top 1%) were assessed on the math portion of the SAT by age 13 and tracked for more than 25 years. Patents and scientiﬁc publications were used as criteria for scientiﬁc and technological accomplishment. Participants were categorized according to whether their terminal degree was a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate degree, and within these degree groupings, the proportion of participants with at least one patent or scientiﬁc publication in adulthood increased as a function of this early SAT assessment. Information about individual differences in cognitive ability (even when measured in early adolescence) can predict differential creative potential in science and technology within populations that have advanced educational degrees.

This is just one example, but the results seem to be pretty consistent.

[1] https://my.vanderbilt.edu/smpy/files/2013/02/ParkPsychScienc...
> I think this model is flawed.

Because you're thinking "physics like" not "math like"

In physics, yes, you have the refraction factor, etc, and this calculation works.

But it also works (from the math point of view) saying that light will take the path that takes the least amount of time for it to cross between two points.
From the perspective of their own frame, photons don't travel. They are everywhere along their path at once. From our perspective, a photon goes through A first, then B. From the photon's perspective, that is not how it is.

So the concept of a photon 'picking' a destination point, or not, is mired in an assumption that isn't true (that there would even be anything to pick).
Or it's two great CEO's at work. Larry Page has been doing quite well with Google and it's unfair to conclude market forces are the reason.
Interestingly a github commit lets you hack Flickr to store anything upto 1TB and not just your photos.
Nice. SVG, i see!

The mac style window-icons were annoying, given they didn't respond to hover and click as expected! :)
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Probably not the right place (or thread) to elaborate in detail on a handful of complex health problems that my team and I are working on. But with regards to obesity, for example, we're looking at hardware and software applications to gather, analyze and make sense of quite a bit of physiological, social, and genomic data. It starts with the basics really, and most people simply have a hard time executing them: exercise, proper nutrition, healthy sleep, etc. So the goals are to make sense of a ton of data, using existing and new sensors, and use software to enable preventive medicine.

Obviously, there's a lot more to it than this, but medicine and technology are two really exciting areas people should be starting companies in. Pushing the envelope, asking questions and trying to solve problems. Nothing wrong with the occasional social app or service having a big exit or becoming a major player, but that gives people a lot of incentive (and false sense of hope) to try and make another IG or the 15th chat app. It's amazing what a dozen great coders, thinkers and innovators from "Photo App A" could do, if they were focusing on bigger problems. And it doesn't begin or end with healthcare, you have energy, hunger, disease, and a dozen other real issues. But I digress.
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The "Wallet for digital goods API" continues to process transactions for you, so there is still processing in Wallet.

Besides that, as far as I can see a merchant would be more likely to get volume discounts on their transactions by funneling them into one payment processor. In this way the thinner Wallet API would seem like an improvement given that no merchant will have Wallet as their sole supplier of transaction processing (as you point out, most people order with CC). Fewer merchant accounts should also lead to less administration.
looks like it doesn't work anymore. Only getting 404.
Whatever. It is easy to make a single decision that is right or wrong. Or, a decision can be right given limited information ("this thing has low odds of paying off"), but "wrong" given what actually happens ("what do you know, against odds, it paid off!") Anyone who plays Poker knows this.

You can't look at one decision and use it as a barometer to know whether a CEO is good or bad. That is just silly. It makes more sense to look at the body of decisions.
... bonus points for whomever gets an HTTP server running on flickr. Maybe I can store my music there too and stream from a webapp that plays these PNG files.

edit: sorry I must be on the wrong message board. Thought this would interest people. Guess I'll take my idea elsewhere.
Actually there absolutely is an instance type for this. It's the high storage io instance. Not cheap, but if you want local SSD it is definitely on the menu
These changes really speak for themselves and if you've ever tried Instagram, you're basically getting the better quality photos: clear, crisp, tons of space, and very balanced filters. I love my iPhone and these guys deliver awesome app without being overpowering. As some of the other comments noted, "above and beyond" Instagram.

The new design is great: modern and a little bit more flat for a modern look. I was actually kinda bummed because like....they got rid of the Pro badges....oh well. My photo gallery stands out and looks pretty sharp. Well done, Flickr.

Anyway to sum it up, these changes are nice. And with a free 'old Pro' features, they're definitely a no brainer. I think any photographer can enjoy these changes as much as any casual photo sharer. Yahoo does it again!
Good bless Marissa!
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Deep sea mining 'gold rush' moves closer
Do be fair, he is clearly saying that he uses second phone when battery in the first one runs out.
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Kind of ironic, wouldn't this be a bit more apropos:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=YHOO