skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is extreme.

If there is an alternative organic I buy it.

This is good enough for me and I also buy a lot from my local organic farmer.

I don't have to go to the extremes you mention, at all.

When I walk into a super market I just want choice.

Do I choose 100% non gmo? Most likely not, but I will if I had a choice.

Again, you might want to not associate that extremism with simple rational choice.
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The fact that very few people know about them speaks for them being rare and intuitively not as big of a problem in the real world than people make it seem like.
That will produce a list of 2 funs. I think you meant:

[ N + 1 || N <- [1,2] ].
Yeah, because all the taxes she paid during some of the highest progressive income tax levels in our history were completely separate from the "lock box" where they kept Medicare money.
To "know" the future is bleak you have to be a prophet, since knowledge of the future is not available to mere humans, only assumptions about what might happen in the future. However, the fact that you claim something always happens and yet it never happened makes the claim a bit doubtful.
CC0 addresses these problems with "public domain"; its intent is the most permissive license that's legally possible (plus, in jurisdictions where it is possible, actually placing the work in the public domain). Unlike the other Creative Commons licenses, it it suitable for source code.

( http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0_FAQ , https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/ )
Selling makes your life very difficult if you don't want to relocate. I am criticizing folks who say "wow, that's expensive, you should just sell!" without any critical thought as to what that actually means.
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Why have people downvoted this? The linked statement doesn't give any background on why he's leaving so it's not an unreasonable question.
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The access granted by Illston extends even to those who had not downloaded the jailbreak code.

I would say this puts it a bit out of the comfort zone.
Anyone one know if GCM is coming soon?
Reading the site on my smartphone, it was excellent.

Reading the site on my laptop, it was horrible.

That could explain the mixed responses to the UI of the site.
It doesn't seem like you actually read the article. The service doesn't just send you a box, but appraises and lists the item you're trying to sell.
Do you expect the planning to take more hours than actual testing? In a typical title I have seen there are about 20-50 contract testers working for few months. With 2 year development cycle they need to spend 5-10 times more time on planning to justify employing them full time. For reference the entire game art and tech planning takes about 100 times less resources (dozen people over 1-4 months).
How smart developers generate lousy code
$70k - $1m median
$100k - $1.3m median

Proportionately, you're about 10% worse off in SF.
Hey! I'm a co-founder of Balanced, a payments API that allows for just this type of functionality. We support next-day ACH deposits to bank accounts within the US for 25¢ a transaction.

Here's a sample CURL command (copy/paste to your terminal to test it out):

curl https://api.balancedpayments.com/v1/credits \
-u da3da6de7c9311e288c9026ba7f8ec28: \
-d "amount=10000" \
-d "bank_account[routing_number]=121000358" \
-d "bank_account[type]=checking" \
-d "bank_account[name]=Johann Bernoulli" \
-d "bank_account[account_number]=9900000001"

Learn more: https://www.balancedpayments.com/#payouts
Taking this course right now. Awesome.
Off-topic, but Alamogordo is a beautiful area. Very close to the White Sands National Monument. If anyone is ever in that area, I'd recommend visiting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sands_National_Monument
I don't understand. What does preventing suicide have to do with cutting costs?
So the box was more fun without the game cartridge...
And I'm criticizing those folks who say "leaving is impossible" without any critical thought as to the potential benefits of cashing out, or potential alternate locations where a million dollars would go a loooooooong way to making a good life.

It's possible we're both criticizing folks who don't actually exist.
Errata:

Change

P(X(i) = -1 = P(X(i) = 1 ) = 1/2

to

P(X(i) = -1 ) = P(X(i) = 1 ) = 1/2

For more, let v(i) be the variance
of X(i). Then since E[X(i)] = 0

v(i) = E[ (X(i) - E[X(i)])^2 ]

= E[ (X(i))^2 ]

= (1/2) 1 + (1/2) 1

= 1

Since in the i.i.d. case the variance
of a sum is the sum of the variances,
the variance of S(n) is n. Then the
standard deviation of S(n) is sqrt(n)
so that the standard deviation of

(1/sqrt(n)) S(n)

is 1.

So, for large n, the density of

(1/sqrt(n)) S(n)

converges to Gaussian with expectation 0
and standard deviation 1 and
variance 1.
See my reply to OP re: Balanced' payments API: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5801627
Thanks for the suggestions retro'
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A counterargument: "You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist" http://www.cato.org/blog/youre-eight-times-more-likely-be-ki...

In reality, you're more likely to choke to death on your own vomit than be killed by a terrorist. You're 1,000 times more likely to die in a car accident than be killed by a terrorist. And so on. And one reason why the U.S. has been targeted by more Islamic terrorist attacks than say, the liberal democracy of Switzerland, is that we meddle far more in the Middle East countries that terrorists call home. It's policy blowback.

On HN, especially, we should be able to do simple statistical calculations of what we really should be worrying about. You're more likely to die from falling in the shower than being eaten by a shark, but one threat gets a lot more media coverage than the other.

It is true that some fraction of terrorists would happily kill hundreds of millions of Americans, if they had the ability. So it makes sense to concentrate on existential WOMD threats, improve cargo container scanning for suitcase nukes, place radiation scanners in major population centers, fund defenses against biological agents, etc.

To its credit, FedGov is doing that. But it's also doing far more than that, domestically and abroad. HomelandSec "anti-terror" grants have been used to fund cultural centers, zombie apocalypse demonstrations, armored vehicles for one-stoplight towns, snow-cone machines, etc. And people involved in the HomelandSec apparatus have incentives to exaggerate because their salaries or funding levels or relative prominence are tied to the perceived nature of the threat.
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Can anyone explain what Anycast is/why it is so huge now? I just looked at the Wikipedia article and it is quite Computer Science-y rather than talking in specific terms how it works or what the benefits are.

I understand how DNS works. UDP packet to server, returns IP from host via UDP, and or requests DNS record from a different DNS server with more information about the domain (all the way up to the root servers).
Yeah, perhaps in the world of Erlang, have a mutating closure make not sense.
I downvoted it because it was needless speculation by an anonymous account called "routergate" which was created 35 minutes ago for the purpose of stirring the pot.
Interesting. So if Tesla did well, they would be able to repay the loans and keep the (more valuable) equity. If they failed, the DOE would have some worthless stock...

Still, compared to the other similar loans offered by the US government, I have to judge the Tesla loans as a success.
You might want to check out Bondsy, a way to trade with friends :) You shouldn't have to worry about fraud if you trust your friends. https://www.bondsy.com

(disclosure: i'm the lead mobile dev at Bondsy)
The stench of ebay becomes unbearable as soon as you start trying to close your damn account with them.

A few months ago they emailed me saying that they were going to close my account in 30 days because I had done nothing with it in about 5 years. I thought this was fantastically nice of them to do for me, so I did nothing. Then 29 days later I get an email saying that they locked my account because it was compromised (After 5 years of obscurity? well okay, I suppose that is possible.) I logged in, verified that I did not have any personal information in the account that could have been stolen, set a long random password, and told ebay to remove the account. After filling out their survey about why I wanted to do that (which forced me to choose an option that was not my real reason...), they tell me that they need 150 more days to close my account. It was 30 days, but now they need 150 days to ensure all of my (five year old...) transactions are finalized? What bullshit.

That was several months ago. A few weeks ago I got another email from them saying that my account was again compromised. I am now convinced that they lie about that as a way of tricking you back onto the site to regain you as a customer. Or maybe they are incompetent and an account being closed trips their fraud system...
As a QA professional, if you don't perceive yourself as being an integral part of the software development process, you are missing the point of your function.
The entire software development process involves professionals who currently have no recourse beyond "getting the frack out" when their working conditions become abusive. I don't think we need to open our history books to remind ourselves that industries don't self-regulate until they are forced to.
I agree with the sentiment that the rich are sometimes unfairly vilified, but that out of context quote is rather cringe-worthy.
Why is it important who has made the argument?

If it is a "blanket generalization" as you say, wouldn't it be more productive to quickly name a few counter examples? It should be very easy to do this no? On the other side, a rich and successful person can also be very bad at communicating his/her way of thinking.

I see this on HN more and more and it annoys me very much.
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The judge granted access to get IP addresses of visitors to his website, whether or not they downloaded the code, which would be relevant to Sony in proving how widely the information was disseminated. There is nothing unusual about this. Information relevant to a claim or defense is fair game for a court's subpoena power. If this was a murder case, that took place in an apartment, the judge would allow the prosecution to subpoena the lobby's visitor logs, even as to people who were not visiting the victim's apartment. This doesn't say anything about the judge's views on "information privacy" just about the fact that there really isn't any as against the subpoena power of a court. If the material is private in some way, it will be treated confidentially and redacted in public filings, but that's about it.

That's the problem with talking about a "right to privacy" in Anglo American law: there really isn't one. There are various protections serving different purposes, but they're not unified into some overarching principle of a right not to disclose or have information disclosed. That's why the subpoena power is so much broader than the power of police to search: because the animating principle isn't "privacy" but rather the protection of criminal defendants. If it were about privacy it wouldn't make sense to e.g. treat witnesses, who can be compelled to testify, differently than defendants, who can't.

Now, I'm not arguing that this is the best possible way to do things. But it's the way we have been doing it for centuries (since the Middle Ages).
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>As someone who hardly ever sells anything online in part because I never have the right box, I am clearly the target market for Sold.

Yeah, if something so trivial like find the right box stop you from make money, Bryan, selling is really not something for you.
Just tried it on my iPhone, and it crashed.
After the exit: careful you don't end up like NBA stars and lottery winners
Thanks, I'm glad you found it easy to follow.
> but none seem to capture the enormity of what's transpired these past six years.

I always knew they were a wicked, wicked company :)
Sticking my toe in the water to see if anyone is interested in sysadmin/ops screencasts. Feedback is what I'm looking for. Does the style work? Talking to fast? Does it make sense?
> JavaScript: ... It's functional. Really.

Functional programming is a style. You can do it in nearly any PL, but some make it easier than others. JS's prototype object system is there for a reason, and it ain't FP.
They intend to tie V8 and the Dom deeper in the next versions of Chrome by using a new garbage collector. I'm pretty sure it will be well nigh impossible to use another Javascript engine.
The TSA's claims about these machines have repeatedly been shown to be false.

The article does not provide much reassurance that this time will be different. Who is making the determination about "potentially forbidden items"? An AI?
Seems legit to me. I feel quite a bit of pain that can be solved. I usually just don't sell stuff because it's quite the hassle to go out, get a box, ship the stuff at the post office etc.

If they can just solve that for some fee I'd be pretty happy already. Buyout from Ebay/Amazon is likely if this works.

Basically I'd like my workflow to be:
Put stuff on Amazon/Ebay...when it's bought the postman will come the next day and pick it up and deliver it for me. Kind of like a reverse Amazon-Prime.
Well, yes. Both are legal requests, if you want to think of it that way. But types of requests can be differentiated. We can draw a distinction, for instance, between a charity requesting that you voluntarily donate $$$ and an armed man on the sidewalk pulling a gun and requesting $$$. :)
Several orders of magnitude too slow sensors to discern that signal, again; to say nothing of actually controlling the spacecraft's distance. The periodical signals you mention would be just fine for discerning the position of radio interferometry nodes because it's a lot less of a technical challenge and because we can afford to do a few days of computational work for a given millisecond of data, but not at the nanometer & femtosecond scale of precision in real time at low latency.

The difference between radio and optical-infrared regions of the EM spectrum is not just about what the human eye can see, it's a fundamental difference in how we measure - the former allows us to directly sense the shape of the EM waves as they come in, while the latter is much higher resolution, but forces us to indirectly make conjectures based upon how much energy was deposited onto some specialized sensor in a macro-scale time period.

Here's what Wikipedia says about the boundary region between the two bands, which is poorly studied because neither paradigm works well:
"Terahertz radiation occupies a middle ground between microwaves and infrared light waves, and technology for generating and manipulating it is in its infancy, and is a subject of active research. It represents the region in the electromagnetic spectrum that the frequency of electromagnetic radiation becomes too high to be measured by directly counting cycles using electronic counters, and must be measured by the proxy properties of wavelength and energy. Similarly, in this frequency range the generation and modulation of coherent electromagnetic signals ceases to be possible by the conventional electronic devices used to generate radio waves and microwaves, and requires new devices and techniques."

The type of precision required here is well out of the reach of normal engineering, it requires specialized tools like diffraction interference wavefront sensors just to make sure the shape of the mirror is precise enough. That we've gotten it working at all with multi-focal optical systems (for very bright stars, at least) is a bit of a miracle, and some of the techniques required certainly involve the type of signal you're talking about just to get it operating in the lab. Measuring distance with this kind of resolution is just not something we have to do often, especially for very large distances.

The next step in optical interferometry is certainly not this kind of solution, it's building a space interferometer with a normal real-time optical correlator, as a single structural satellite, 2 mirrors on opposite ends of an enclosed truss. A project modeled on that principle with 2x 50cm mirrors has been a bridge too far for us, delayed and cancelled with NASA budget cuts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Interferometry_Mission
If you live in the future pg-bot will be able to downvote trivialy negative comments
I really meant 'who says so?' It sounds like an unusual restriction, and when I tried googling it I couldn't find any mention of this.
Works fine here on Chrome on Mac.
This is also something that I hope Huginn can tackle. Huginn makes it easy to retrieve and react to your data. Adding an API beyond that should be straightforward.

https://github.com/cantino/huginn
There are many potential narratives that explain why companies are going iPhone first.

An alternate explanation to yours is that companies are going iPhone first because it's trendy. We all know about the SV echo chamber. Following trends seems to fit the data just as well as your hypothesis.
If you stop eating voluntarily the government will literally shove food down your throat so you do not endanger your life. (a process disturbingly close to rape)

If you stop eating involuntarily and your life is in danger because you have no food the government will just pat you on the back if some ultra right republicans have their way. Should all the poor announce that they are on hunger strike too?

So you can have habeas corpus or food security from the government but not both :) It is a dark joke. Not serious policy analysis.
Very true - it is in fact a blind spot in our culture - I live in a new build town (15 years old) and whilst most amenities are in walking distance there are no dedicated cycle paths, no pedestrian areas.

Why the hell did I move here? Bbecause there are no better towns in the south east - it's wrong, everywhere
I think every one should read: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html to understand the difference between wealth and money.
That just gives you a Venn diagram with three circles
Cranks, futurists and genius. The union there is exactly one
They were never worth anything.
Yes, we can't know that something bad will happen when we jump off a cliff. If during the fall someone claims that something bad always happens at the bottom and yet it hasn't happened, the claim is doubtful.
Another question - are there any protections from Sony using the information in other non case related activities -extortion letters similar to porn sites come to mind.
Never said its the zebra's fault.

All I was trying to show is, you dont need game theory and social models, to explain to people what the big picture is.
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PPAPI itself is a Chrome only api at the moment. I'm really concerned about using a plugin api defined by its C/C++ behavior as some kind of standard. So we not only have the DOM apis but also another class of APIs that have their own quirks.

I'm not sure there is a great chance that other browser vendors will adopt LLVM, especially Microsoft. It will basically require them to not only reimplement the native compiler but also the frontend that compiles to LLVM bytecode and any additional SDK tools like a debugger.

Asm.js is a lot easier to implement on every level. It will be served compressed so there wont be a lot of size overhead compared to a bytecode format. If you just use asm.js to call into webGL or audio apis there shouldn't be any big performance difference over using something lower level like PNaCL. Additionally, different browsers may use different optimizations when compiling LLVM code, differing implementations will give different performance characteristics. PNacl is no different than asm.js in requiring that the compiler be optimized.
Judges don't wake up in the morning and say, "Well, I would like to do the right thing and declare this surveillance unconstitutional, but there was that Brown v. Board of Education sixty years ago, and so I'm going to punt!" Especially when you have tenure for life and -- in the case of the judge mentioned in my article that started this thread -- are voluntarily retiring in a month anyway. (Even if you get removed from office, which of course never happens, you'd get 5x - 10x your salary in the private sector.)

In general, lower courts follow the lead of appellate courts, which in turn follow the lead of the Supreme Court. And on constitutional issues, those justices don't like to get too far out in front of what they believe the national consensus to be. That's why you have toothless rulings like U.S. v. Lopez, a commerce clause case that conservatives initially applauded, only to have Congress slightly tweak the law without complaint from the courts.
I always refuse to go through them and opt for the pat down. At this point I know the routine better than the TSA employee.
No, I don't think that. I also don't think that HFT is necessary for an intermediary to create wealth.
Contempt of court.
The classes are from Final Fantasy, not D&D. Just to save some googling to some people :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2960235

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1194065

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1193657
At the risk of sounding perverse and making a blanket generalization, I have this to say:

The people who upvote posts are not the same people who upvote or participate in the comments section.

The cognitive dissonance is actually two different sets of folks voting the way they perceive the world. It just happens that the people who like to comment are a tad more snarky.