skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PySIMON and PySPECK
If you are not going to be happy if you are not honest to your beliefs.
Sorry, I fat-fingered my upvote from my phone and accidentally downvoted you. :(
What exactly is going on in San Diego's voting booths, anyway? A Republican city attorney on a crusade against chalk, and a far-left civil rights activist mayor?

I'm reading through Filner's record, and the guy looks like a much older version of me. I'm left-wing enough that I think Berkeley would be scared of me, nevermind San Diego.
I dunno about average algorithmic traders being idiots. I think people have to have a certain level of smartness to even grasp what algorithmic trading is, let along attempt it. If the average return is subpar, then that's out of the people that are smart enough to be in the business, grasp the concept, and try it enough to qualify for whoever's doing the measuring.
How timely - I happen to be reading this while waiting for my environment to finish setting up :-)

Thank you for your work!

(Any chance it might work with Vagrant v2 soon?)
> I found that one major source of pain was that Google Apps for Domains customers couldn't chat with me

I had exact same problem (set my own openfire server when google announced changes to gtalk about a month ago), and it resolved itself after waiting for several hours. Give it a try again sometime.
Snowden Seeks Asylum in India, 19 Other Countries
And I thing "the mainstream" is comfortable enough with the concept of "Identity Theft".

Yeah, perhaps "stolen" isn't 100% technically correct, but then neither is "shared" in this case…
Hurting 2 young Girls feeling by not keeping their word
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If you have an idea I will handle the rest until your app goes in the App Store.
> Its about distracting the driver and as soon as these devices get more popular they will be included in these laws, thats certain.

That's usually the stated justification, but in reality what gets banned is pretty much completely unrelated to the empirical evidence as to actual sources of distraction; most places explicitly ban non-hands-free device use, even though, IIRC, studies have shown that hands-free and non-hands-free device use have similar effects on driving ability (and that using a phone, hands free or not, has similar impact on driving ability to carrying on a conversation with a passenger, which is also not banned.)

If there's any justification for the actual bans we see , is that there is an industry wants to sell in-car hands free devices and hands-free add-ons for devices
You're right, why aren't more people advocating we teach our kids to use violence to solve their problems?
No disagreement, however the dissonance is that those who have for so long championed Android, would now have to switch to criticizing it.
I agree with you here, NoSQL can't be used for everything yet, maybe one day, hyperdex + acid looks promising, we'll see. But even restricting the field back to first tier SQL based solutions, you're still talking MS SQL vs PostgreSQL, and the associated licensing fees involved in both scenarios (expensive vs free).

I think performance is pretty similar between the two also last I checked. And you can setup PGSQL with a drbd failover without that much hassle. What are the licensing implications of running two windows servers with an MS SQL server failover? Do you actually need to purchase two copies for that?
I've long ago taken this approach to all ads myself. Whenever I'm forced to see an ad (because I block or skip ads as much as I possibly can) then I make a mental note not to buy from that company. Whenever I go to buy something, I always go for a brand I've never seen in an ad. I find that this on average saves me money.
Tests Tells Real Quantum Computer Chips from Fakes
> A federal or state law enforcement agency may request the denial of a passport on several regulatory grounds under 22 CFR 51.70 and 51.72. The principal law enforcement reasons for passport denial are a federal warrant of arrest, a federal or state criminal court order, a condition of parole or probation forbidding departure from the United States (or the jurisdiction of the court), or a request for extradition.

http://travel.state.gov/passport/ppi/info/info_870.html

So I think the passport revocation was in fact legal since there was a request for extradition and a federal warrant of arrest.
Thanks for breaking my back button.
It seems unlikely. So far they seem to be doing a great job of lobbying, and convincing the government of the idea that competition is only a click away.
Secure quantum communication channel survives despite noise
He went to school for music, too.
Both countries especially CHINA has a bad reputation on communication regulation (network shutdown on some occasions) and censorship. There is no need for WikiLeaks to break anything new here.

US government has been riding a high horse and teaching everybody about internet freedom, and now they are caught pants down. That's a lot of more worthy of news than exposing already known bad guys.

I find it deeply troubling that majority voices in USA are now accusing Snowden / WikiLeaks of damaging USA reputation or things like that.
Was he actually facing jail time for this, or was the "13 years" line fed to the media by him/his defense?

Jail time for writing in chalk is absurd, but surely he deserved some reasonable punishment for doing this 13 times. A small fine and/or community service seems appropriate.
Chemistry and physics: one needs the other
The top secret rules that allow the NSA to use US data without a warrant
I thought for a second that they might be changing, but this basically proves me wrong.
"But.. it has webfonts. Webfonts is what readers crave."

"Which blogging platform are you referring to?"

"Yes, blogging has webfonts."
>Start with, everybody spies on everybody. Do you think Russia spies on the United States?[1] You bet it does. Or tries to.

Only it doesn't matter much. Back in the USSR days it mattered. Nowadays, what would Russia, a not that powerful country do with it's spying? Not much.

Whereas the top dog, with the resources it has available, and the breadth of it's spying, it uses it for tons of stuff (mostly grabbing resources for cheap, ensuring friendly lackeys are in government everywhere it can, etc).
Space ‘booze’ explained by ‘quantum tunneling,’ astronomers say
Space Alcohol Formation Explained By 'Quantum Tunneling'
Google buying Tesla Motors? Does it make sense?
Stacking Div’s using display:table | Responsive Design
not sure I agree with your detective work.

If the price of the ETF is too low... you can buy the ETF, take it to the ETF sponsor, they will convert it into the underlying, you can then sell the underlying.

Ability to short = ability to borrow. If you can borrow Bitcoins from someone, you can sell them, and then you're short. While there may not be an active lending market, in principle no reason it couldn't be done.

A lot of times the ETF sponsor or a related entity will participate in arbitrage to keep prices in line... they might have ability to lend to each other. In fact, that may be an important way the Winklevii expect to make money. (in addition to the fact their Bitcoin hoard is more valuable if it's more liquid and more accepted by traditional investors)

Now, if the underlying is illiquid and doesn't have good price discovery, the ETF will probably be in the same situation. In the example above, if you're not darn sure you can sell the underlying pretty quickly at a higher price than the ETF, you're not going to attempt the arb. So if the market is illiquid, the arbs don't step in until the spread is more egregious.
That's Andrew Mason's shtick. There is similar stuff in pretty much any other statement/article he writes.
" … maybe future lies in not making ads look more annoying by mixing them inside content, but making 'some content' behave like ads."

And so online advertising re-invents traditional media's "product placement".

To paraphrase a comment upthread "Would you watch Game of Thrones, if The Freys had used Smith & Wesson branded crossbows to massacre the Starks? Or if The Lanisters only used AT&T brand carrier pigeons?"
That's quite a high evidence bar to set. Most of the food you eat doesn't meet those criteria.

I think a large amount of the incredulity in responses is a combination of being surprised someone would be disinterested in a entire class of relatively safe experiences (I share that feeling) combined with an understanding that your risk analysis is off.
I believe Microsoft took one round of venture financing, and that VC (Dave Marquardt) is both still quite an active investor (as founder of August Capital) and is also still on Microsoft's Board. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Marquardt for details.
Mebelrama.ru is shutting down after landing $10m in funding
Small nit to pick: IMSI + IMEI aren't enough to clone your phone - the SIM card stores a shared secret used for challenge-response authentication with the network, and the device (theoretically) can't read the secret, only send the SIM a challenge and get the response to send to the network.
> I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public.

It's because it's the SECOND RULE OF CAPITALISM.
1. It takes money to make money.

2. It's always better to risk someone else's money.

...

His method is RISKY and really an outlier. Somehow his sample of 1 is more important than all the others he's conveniently ignored to make his wild assertion.
Brosnan devastated after daughter Charlotte loses battle with ovarian cancer
Congrats, you are not a lawyer! Thanks for the info!
Here's the Rdio link http://rd.io/x/QRGIESJvC74/
I didn't respond to your original comment because I agree with your position. I've seen a lot of cases where parents are obviously not doing their job.

However I've had the "fun" experience of traveling with imperfectly behaved small children, and so the other person hit a button.
While Esri HQ is in Redlands, there are an increasing number of R&D Centers around the world. Portland, OR, DC, Scotland, Zurich and China all hire front end and back end devs, UX and visual designers. While it was uncommon to work outside of Redlands only a few years ago, there are more possibilities for that now. This is a pretty recent development, though.
I remember Riverside (pretty close to Redlands) in the 1990s and it was dirt cheap, even during the era of the $1 gallon of gasoline. $100k in pay + benefits stretches far there, especially once you factor in the higher revenue per employee in other nations (43 years + 350k orgs using their software sounds like a multinational).
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It's not a hard fall when it's cushioned with millions of dollars.
Yep. SES has been brilliant for me so far, especially when you take into account the price.
This seems to be a classic case of jury nullification. He was clearly guilty, but the jury refused to find him guilty.
I respect the jury's decision but have a had time swallowing that anyone who wants to should be able to systematically slander a business in chalk 13 times and it not be considered some sort of crime. Poor precedent. Should have gotten a slap on the wrist.
I don't think much of what you said is fact. Most of it reads as nonsense to me, or at best a misinterpretation of the facts.
I apologize for being lazy. Can any Australian HNers describe what privileges are afforded to registered parties? I thought the proportional voting scheme in Australia was based on a party system but I did a little research and it seems that the votes are cast for candidates and not parties. Thanks for indulging my curiosity and laziness.
So yeah, its a rich guy doing goofy stuff with his money. Outstanding! I think its way less socially awkward and certainly less environmentally damaging than another giant boat or an Everest expedition. Good for him.
Ugh. Hate recruiters, recruiters suck yada yada yada. Seems this same post keeps getting rewritten and hitting the front page of hacker news.

The lack of comments shows how uninteresting yet another recruiter bash is.
No one knows where memories are "stored," if stored is the proper term. But it is not exclusively in the hippocampus, that much is certain. The hippocampal region is definitely important in the function of memory but it is not where memories are located, and it is doubtful that they are located in any one structure in particular.
BREAKING NEWS: SEC Filing for Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust
He was an intern at electrical audio studios in Chicago for Steve Albini
Thanks. Hadn't found that one yet.

Any idea on how that plays into the open requests for asylum?

Also, I'm assuming the statute uses passport denial to also include passport revocation?
Proton-M rocket with 3 Glonass (GPS) satellites on board crashes
This is simply a personal experience expressed in the form of blog post.
Luxoft raises $70 million in New York IPO
Although the commentators say that there is radioactive material aboard, that doesn't seem likely as it isn't used in the latest versions of Glonass-M satellites.
Fantastic, detailed, interesting answer. My thanks.

For those missing the numbers, they sold 10% of the company for ~80K (US). https://www.seedrs.com/startups/microcosm
I find a Facebook signup page for anti NSA rally to be highly ironic and misguided.

Sure, I understand you want to have a good reach to people, but aren't we in agreement we don't trust anything that Facebook does at this point.

EDIT: Just to be clear - I 1000% support any and all protesting of the NSA, PRISM, FB and every other companies cooperation with this world-wide spying on all communications.
To avoid the problem of storing the token's hash, you have introduced:

* parsing a structured cookie, vs a meaningless 128-bit string
* securely storing and managing a secret HMAC key (which may be used to forge or modify credentials)
* securely verifying an HMAC using a constant-time string comparision

So what, exactly, is the benefit of your proposal over mine? You've removed the (useful) distinction between an authentication token and the user's session. You've introduced significant additional complication and moving components. And you've increased the attack surface for security vulnerabilities. For what?

Doing all that to store a 32-bit integer is somehow less hassle than hashing and storing a 128-bit string?
In London, "cheap" and "pricey" tend to stay around the same sort of area.

http://www.yelp.co.uk/wordmap/london/cheap
http://www.yelp.co.uk/wordmap/london/pricey

Well, shit.

This is awesome though. Nice one, Yelp :)
I read other posts by this guy and he really seems pissed of at FB.
it was dropping before the announcement. this stabilized it
Yeah, the more I read about this stuff as well as our excellent public education system, the more I realize I will strongly consider putting my son into Montessori schools.
I would have asked Serbia as well. Although they're a small country, they could resist US because of Snowden. They have been bombarded by NATO and later, they've been forced to accept a secession of Kosovo.
Brilliant. OP, thanks for writing; submitter, thanks for posting.
They were pretty damn "honest" about getting him safely to Ecuador, weren't they? >_<

Lets be frank here, Snowden is in this situation because he's a dumbass, and he shouldn't have trusted his well being to Wikileaks either. Wikileaks couldn't have saved Bradley Manning, nor do they have the manpower to make Snowden safe.

Snowden leaked information without any plan B. He gave up all of his friends and family and decided to try and live in a strange (US-allied) country while he hid from the long arm of the law... while publicly thumbing his nose. Booz Allen didn't even know he was in Hong Kong when he revealed himself to the world as the NSA leaker. He was still on NSA (related) payroll and was fired after the fact.

Instead of taking advantage of that time to hide, he taunted an entire nation. And the dumbass newspaper reporters let him do it too, without any regard for his safety. Without trying to consult him, or without thinking of the consequences.

After all, coming out with the story was more important than this guy's safety.

This guy has no friends left, and has trapped himself in an even worse country where they openly persecute people like him. Lets see what happens now...
Dear Accelerators
Can confirm and second this. I've emailed Mr.Sivers and lots of other awesome people with one simple question loads of times.

I ask the question in one line and ask for a one line response. its upto then if they want to provide more information.
IANAL, but AFAIK Slander involves communicating a falsehood. "BoA stole $10T of lunch money from children in Africa" would be slander (outside of the context of this post and the fact that it is a clearly ridiculous assertion). "No Thanks, Big Banks" (a representative example of what the guy actually wrote) is not slander.

The charges were for vandalism, which arguably has a place in political discourse and arguably doesn't even deserve a slap on the wrist.
Welcome to the Post-PRISM Society: A primer
http://archive.org/details/jfks19610427

I think this is a very relevant speech to this current issue, and if you have 20 minutes take a listen.
Pure Andy Kaufman.
I acknowledge he has no protection under the Whistleblower Act, having read a bit more. But let me pose a hypothetical.

You find a Top Secret folder lying on a park bench, with records of a horrific crime by a respectable cabal of executive, judiciary, and legislative branch members. The president and his staff, a few FISA judges, and some high-placed congressional cronies have conspired to brainwash everyone with a magic potion, and seize total dictatorial control of the US, then the world. They are using the loose oversight of post-9/11 homeland security to get away with it.

So is it a crime to send that proof to Glenn Greenwald? I'd argue that there are theoretically classified documents that it would not be a crime to make public, and all you can say is Snowden's leak doesn't fit the bill.
11 years just stops short of the chaos of Feb 2000, where the NASDAQ lost 50% of value over the course of the year. Every dip, and people bought more thinking it was the bottom; and then lost it all.
Honestly the only type of algorithmic trading I would trust is algorithmic trading based at least partially on fundamental data, of which Quantopian has none.

Good luck to all you momentum/technical types though, I'll be sitting in the corner reading 10k's.
http://vimeo.com/20230127
I myself am also a big fan of vagrant although it can be tough on your machine when working on multiple projects at the same time. Often times I find myself running out of memory and it can be quite tedious having to halt and bring back my vagrant boxes when I jump from project to project. Perhaps docker can address this issue someday?
Oh man how much more amazing would this have been if Steve Albini produced it!?
Why is this? Why is historical data so hard to find, when in fact the stock market is one of the most computer-heavy operations? These are numerical facts, so I don't think copyright applies either. It just surprises me that the data is so inaccessible.
Fair enough on the slander point, but how does this not set a precedent for people to start spamming political messages all over sidewalks in front of Evil Corporation of The Month? The only real reasoning I could see is that perhaps just the fear of being sentence was deterrence enough.
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This. We have a firewall in our company to stop things escaping as much as letting them in. There are so many things built into windows that phone home its scary. Even a VLK 7 with internal KMS has a good bash at trying to get out of the network. The problem is that it is virtually impossible to stop it without affecting users as everything goes over HTTP and pokes holes in windows' application level firewall.

Our shift to Java EE recently has resulted in us switching a few users to Ubuntu 12.04. Removing a couple of packages makes it 100% network silent plus we can host a mirror in house of packages.

Windows is going to end up inside virtualbox on a private virtual lan on the workstation if this works out.

I dread to think what nefarious code phones have in them if these are the problems we have with a desktop OS.
Or just self host your blog...

- If you care about minimalism, its very easy to make your wordpress (or any other platform) look minimalistic. (zenhabits.com, the theme is also free).

- You have full control over every aspect of your blog.

- You are not creating content for others to make money off of your writing.
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Simple is another online only bank that I've been using. I have a few invites available for anyone that's interested.
From the article: "(...) on the sidewalk outside branches of the Bank of America."
Now that Motorola is owned by Google, I wonder what Google has to say about this?
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> my wife

Even if Facebook hadn't exposed the photo -- would it have hurt in any way? Her parents surely would have noticed at the wedding that you weren't Muslim.

Facebook seems to have been a force for expediting a break through the impasse, in this case.
pg has an essay about this in fact:

www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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Neuroscientist thinks human head transplant surgery is finally possible