skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Fuck these people" was Wikipedia's reaction to seeing the puzzle globe on the NSA slide too. First time I've ever seen Jimmy Wales use profanity in a tweet: https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/362626509648834560
Perhaps most (all?) advanced civilizations annihilate themselves (or get annihilated) before they have a chance to colonize other worlds?
One small issue is comments aren't shown as a sidebar so if you have many comments on a document, it becomes tedious to read them as they're tucked away behind little yellow boxes.
eventually.
It's interesting to note that Fourier wasn't trying to any of the things that the Fourier Transform is commonly used for today, namely signal processing. He was trying to solve heat transfer equations when he came up with the Fourier series. I'm not even sure if he was that interested in the Transform as such, e.g. looking at a signal in frequency space and then efficiently applying filters before transforming back to time domain.

My dad remembers his professor, sometime in the 40s, posing the question of calculating when a worm buried in the ground would experience the same temperature we'd experience at Christmas (Erdwuermchen's Weihnachten) and the solution had to be calculated with Fourier's heat transfer equations.
What's remarkable about Arafat's death is that it came as late in his life (75!) as it did.

Fun fact: I went to school in a building which later became the PLO Embassy.
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Oh look, he took a six day holiday where it was all about him and now he feels great! Of course it was because od the ridiculous diet.

This stuff reminds me of shamanism: "Oh yes, it's a devil. You need to take all your family (to pray for and with you) on a 10 day journey to 3 different temples 100 miles away while eating only these prescribed foods." Ta-da, cures almost anything.
Interesting use of optimizing sql query plans down to JVM byte code. I don't think anybody has done that before - but it sounds like it would work really well. Would be really interesting to hear more on that as it might be applicable to a lot of other areas as well.
Or at least not assume that every male is interested in sports.
It used CodeIgniter (PHP).
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I work in this field (though I'm none of the authors). If anybody has any questions about the sFFT, let me know.
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You could also try this: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyMySQL
>A lot of people on Hacker News forget that they're on the forefront of technology.

Yeah, but all the Blockbusters around here went bust years ago. That's real life normal people evidence.
In the section about 'alt' tags, "If a user is viewing your site on a browser that doesn't support images" sounds like something coming from a very old text. I wonder if that's still relevant for anyone.
The second part of the sentence (screenreaders) taught me something, though!
Sports? Literature? Such generic interests. Would be nice to know if someone was interested in say internet marketing, or big data. Something a bit more specific.
Exactly. There's very little incentive to participate as a seller on Silk Road if you have to take these extreme measures for every package you send out. It's not economical.

If you're smart enough to devise these opsec procedures, you're probably smart enough to make a decent living doing something legal. So being a drug dealer is only worth it if you can do it at scale and make serious money. But these opsec procedures would significantly erode your hourly rate, making Silk Road an unattractive proposition. Unless, of course, you're willing to throw caution to the wind and optimize for efficiency rather than security.
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My one story about Molly - I met her as a speaker at an XML Conference around 1999 or 2000. She was extremely welcoming and kind to me, a wet behind the ears nobody at the time. We went for a speakers' pre-conference dinner that night, and it was decided we would have Sushi.

As a Northern Brit I had never seen nor eaten sushi before, never mind looked at the menu. I asked if she minded ordering for me, and she graciously did so.

As my first time eating sushi I assumed the small amount of guacamole provided would be topped up once I finished it, so I happily spread the top of a piece of sushi with half of my "guacamole". Never have I wanted to scream so much in my life. Molly just kindly passed me some extra water and made sure I was OK.

I never really kept up with her, but she'll always be there sat next to me when I had my first ever wasabi experience.
If only English was statically typed.
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when it first came out most people ridiculed it for being a mere intellectual curiosity.

I would characterize the fourier transform (especially the DFT) as the single most important mathematical innovation that enables the interface between the digital and analog world.
"that the lawyer realize that eeking out every little expense from a startup client isn't productive."

You are making a statement of fact based on your perspective. You could be right. My thoughts are based on many years in business, what I have experienced, and what I have observed. [1]

"The aim should be helping that company to get to a stage that they can have a big exit"

Except that it's a lottery and the attorney probably realizes that they have to make hay while the sun shines (or whatever that expression is). Most companies won't progress and won't have big exits, right?

Now if you want to argue that by doing this enough startups will be offended to the point that they won't refer business to them that might be a valid criticism. But in a world where people forget the price and remember other things (like results or even the way they are treated) I'm not sure that is the case (although it could be).

"Lawyers often seem to pass on charges that in any other industry would be considered a cost of doing business. "

What do you mean by any other industry? Are you saying that there aren't consultants that do the same thing? There are.

As far as those industries that don't do that it's because they are charging for a product or service that has certain bounds already set and baking in their costs into that. Law is charged generally by the hour. So it makes sense to break out those costs. Or they have certain methods that have billed over time that are not easy to change. My accountants don't charge when they write a letter because it's not what accountants do. But they charge me a fixed rate for services also.

And, in fact, I'd rather hire a painter and say "give me an hourly rate and I'll buy the paint and supplies for you" that way I don't have to worry that he is estimating to high and baking that into the price.

"The main cost should be the rate rather than the ancillary services and expenses."

If we can assume that if they have to eat things that they previously passed on, in order to make the same profit they will then have to either a) charge more per hour or b) bill for more hours, right? Unless you are arguing in general that "lawyers make to much money" which is an entirely separate argument.

[1] Now I once had a case where an attorney charged me for fedex overseas that the opposing side requested and made me pay for it. I said "why did you charge me" and he said "that's what attorneys do for each other". My thought was "why do I have to pay money so you can maintain a good appearance with that attorney"? But when you think about it if the attorney on the other sides sees that your attorney has a cheap client they will also know that that client won't want a long dragged out case which runs up legal bills. And they will use that to their advantage. I know this because I have done that to my advantage in situations (both legal and non legal). After all nobody wants to go against a deep pockets client. (This doesn't cover every possible pro and con but only illustrates that there are dynamics that you might not think of.)
1) Presto always returns exact answers, with the exception of the approximate aggregate functions approx_distinct() and approx_percentile() (see http://prestodb.io/docs/current/functions/aggregate.html). We do not currently support COUNT(DISTINCT), though if you really need that you can use a subquery with SELECT DISTINCT.

We have a pull request for partitioned hash aggregations, but currently all the groups must fit in memory limit specified by the "task.max-memory" configuration parameter (see http://prestodb.io/docs/current/installation/deployment.html for details).

Regarding approximate queries, we are working with the author of BlinkDB (http://blinkdb.org/) to add it to Presto. BlinkDB allows very fast approximate queries with bounded errors (an important requirement for statisticians / data scientists).

2) Presto is a traditional SQL engine, so it would be ROLAP. We don't yet have any support for building cubes or other specialized structures (though full materialized view support with rewrite is on the roadmap).

The Presto query engine is actually agnostic to the data source. Data is queried via pluggable connectors. We don't currently have any caching ready for production.

There is a very alpha quality native store that we plan to use soon for query acceleration. The idea is you create a materialized view against a Hive table which loads the data into the native store. The view then gets used transparently when you query the Hive table, so the user doesn't have to rewrite their queries or even know about it. All they see is that their query is 100x faster. (All this code is there today in the open source release but needs work to productionize it.)

We have a dashboard system at Facebook that uses Presto. For large tables, users typically setup pipelines in Hive that run daily to compute summary tables, then write the dashboard queries against these summary tables. In the future, we would like to be able to handle all of this within Presto as materialized views.

3) We're excited about the Drill project. They have some interesting ideas about integrating unstructured data processing (like arbitrary JSON documents) with standard SQL. However, last I looked they were still in early development, whereas Presto is in production at Facebook and is usable today. Please also see this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6684785
For interactive workflows, there is powerdrill: http://vldb.org/pvldb/vol5/p1436_alexanderhall_vldb2012.pdf
The NSA is still the one pursuing this ridiculous claim.
I've been reading this on/off for the last day. One random UX suggestion:
Don't use black for your text, use something close (e.g. #333).

There are a million other UX tips that you can probably get from a real expert, but the black one I noticed.
You can actually see it if you look closely -- there is a kind of striping of light/dark horizontal lines, easy to spot at the top & bottom of the image.
Firebug does it in a way similar to Chrome, as well. This is really my last withstanding gripe with the Firefox developer tools; if they make logging objects more useful, I will drop Firebug in a heartbeat.
You are incredibly lucky.
What does that even mean? I highly doubt that any form of Ruby is faster than WSGI PyPy.
I took your comment as being serious. Maybe my sarcasm detector needs adjustment.
Colorado, and specifically Boulder is starting to build a pretty strong startup community...
just as a brit would say an american doesn't speak the same way they do. English doesn't belong to the Americans or Brits or Australians or whoever else - English is a global language and is spoken differently in every corner of the world. What makes it native for many Indians is the fact that they grew up speaking that at home with their family - may not be the way you spoke or heard it - but that doesn't stop it from being native - nor does it stop it from being English!
Your definition of fiat is overly strict and unusual.

By law, the USD used to be convertible to gold at a legally defined USD-per-ounces rate. This legal rate is what gave it intrinsic value. All economist will agree with this statement. Any literature about the USD explains clearly that "the USD transitioned from the gold standard to a fiat currency".
Reports indicate that the original DPR retired to Patagonia 15 years ago, and has been living like a king ever since.
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> This is generally good advice, but I'd like to discuss #6 (double billing during travel) and #9 (overbilling on assignments). Both are highly unethical practices.

I think that absent very explicit disclosure and agreement, they'd be grounds for discipline by the bar. Certainly they read like an easy MPRE question.
of course, analog or discrete, without the fourier (and related) transforms, you can't even do the analysis that allows you to "throw out information".
Well business people tend to speak better in general and 'put off' the accent most of the time. Indians and Caribbean people included.
This is the usual "smart gun" bullshit, which wouldn't make an appreciable positive difference in the situation.

For one thing, it's telling they start out with a lie. Safety, if used honestly in this context, refers to preventing accidents, which are an "official" 600 deaths per year problem (scare quotes because I know criminal homicides that are scored as "accidents" for the usual political reasons; details on request).

The real issue is intentional homicides, i.e. guns being as designed. Note we're talking about a nation with > 300 million existing old fashioned guns in civilian hands, where in the last ~40 month every month except for last August has seen greater sales than the previous month a year ago, currently running at a million a month. Note that with a very minimum of care guns are functional for decades and decades: I would not feel inadequately armed with a Mauser 1898 (sic) rifle made in that year or soon after, and my teen centerfire hunting rifle was sporterized surplus Springfield 03A3, designed in 1903 (using a few Mauser patents :-) and manufactured during WWII. The 3rd most recent gun I bought was a M1 "Get Off My Lawn" Garand made a few months after Pearl Harbor (and boy does a part of me wish I hadn't sold that masterpiece of then cutting edge technology to buy a lighter rifle more suitable for my RSI injured arms).

The conceit that somehow these new, expensive and less reliable smart guns will displace the barest fraction of the above existing ones is ludicrous. Even if you take a long view, it would take centuries.

Then there's the laws, like fanatically anti-gun New Jersey's one that once there's a "smart gun" on the market, civilians will only be able to buy it. But, somehow, the Only Ones AKA the law enforcement officers who our betters insist are the only ones who can be trusted with guns (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6680266) will be allowed to retain their old "unsafe" guns. Perhaps because everyone knows they'll be a lot more reliable.

In a county where almost every state has a shall issue concealed carry regime (obviously excluding most of California for now---the object lesson of Illinois should give you pause if you're happy with that state of affairs), adoption of these inherently more complicated and therefore less reliable guns would surely result more of the wrong people being shot. Although one could assume from how this is portrayed that to the extent the backers of this are engaging in rational thought they score all "gun deaths" as the same.

Let me make this as a bottom line closer: if you think there's fierce opposition to Obamacare, just try to push these on an unwilling population....
They must be making up for de Blasio gems like this one:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/04/ny-post-bill-de-bla...
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They really are a beautiful thing, it is unfortunate that most computer science majors don't get at least a basic introduction to signal processing as part of their standard curriculum. Especially because in my experience, the best way to understand a Fourier transform is to implement it in a program, feed in different signals, and wait for the light in your mind to go off.

Images and audio signals provide a particularly stunning insight.
Don't believe everything you watch in hollywood movies.
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>Humans are the apex predators of Earth.

Probably most advance life would have evolved from predators. If you look at earth, the most intelligent animals are either predators or some sort of scavenger-predator hybrid. Which makes sense, predators need intelligence, cunning, sometimes pack awareness, to bring down prey. They need to be at the top or near the top of the food chain to devote some time to pursuits other than not being eaten.
To see an example of the sibling comments, see http://branchandbound.net/blog/web/2013/08/some-angularjs-pi...
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Having been both a founder and now a start-up lawyer at a large firm, I'd toss in a few extra tips:

(1) If you're unhappy with your bill, PUSH BACK ON IT. Even if you like the partner that you're working with, a substantial portion of your bill will be generated by paralegals and associates like me. And, as an associate, my marching orders are to account for every last minute of my day, even if I think it was an unreasonable thing to bill for. In theory, the partner is supposed to see these items before they go out and make a judgment call on whether to write it off, but more often than not, the partner will eyeball the total amount without looking too closely at the details.

Case in point: When I was a founder, a paralegal at a well-known law firm made a mistake with our cap table and left off a single share. We ended up getting billed $300 to find that single share. When we changed firms a year later, we mentioned this to the partner, who was surprised and had no idea this had happened (despite ostensibly signing off on the bill).

(2) Check in with your lawyer regularly -- doesn't have to be a phone call. A quick e-mail will do. Bills often come in monthly intervals, and fees can rack up pretty quickly in that time. As a lawyer, I'll often start work on a new matter only to find out that my work is no longer required after several weeks have passed and I've already billed the item. Regular check-ins can help avoid this. In addition, it'll be easier to draw connections between vague descriptions on your bill ("Attend to cap table") and what actually happened ("find missing share that paralegal left out"). As a side benefit, regular check-ins result in faster turn around, especially if there are multiple matters competing for your layer's attention.

(3) Second opinions can be free. If you're unsure about the advice your getting from a lawyer, ask a lawyer at another firm. Those other lawyers will view this as a chance to poach a client and will write their time off as business development. As a side benefit, those lawyers may point out mistakes that your current law firm didn't catch or is reluctant to admit to.
where do you get your data from?
s/matures/ages. Interest shouldn't diminish in a mature relationship.
Thanks. I'll add a window function and see if that helps.
Psychics at Cal Tech...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3DoDMfDa_Q
When I worked in tech support, I spoke with a lot of different people with a lot of different accents. The issue I discovered between Southern accents and Indian accents is, Southerners tend to talk slowly. That helps me process what they're trying to say (although their slang still throws me). The Indians I spoke to tend to speak English very quickly, more quickly than most Americans I know. The accent might be more understandable, but the speed combined with the accent makes it hard to get enough time to process the words before you're supposed to have a response to them.
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All of these are great to watch out for. However, the "Value Billing" one seems a little like, oh, let's see... Software! Programmers do value billing all the time. We write one piece of software and charge n number of customers for it. So, if programmers can do it, so can lawyers.
Your insistence that this is even a discussion about statistics and proof or based on an article that isn't almost purely an opinion piece without statistics or proof is noted.
That's not the main part of the building - here are pictures with more context: http://richmondsfblog.com/2013/11/06/part-of-internet-archiv...
Even then, there are still possible information leaks.

For example, conceivably when you package the drugs in your warehouse, local pollens and molds could find their way into the insides of the packaging. If the distribution of pollens and molds is unique to a reasonably small area, that would be an information leak.

A bit sci-fi? Sort of. You'd need a database of mold and pollen distributions for the whole country, plus tools to analyze the distribution in a given package. That's daunting, and maybe it's more trouble than it's worth for drug enforcement. But it's not outright impossible. And I have no idea what's the maximum effort DEA is willing to spend to track down Silk Road sellers.

This is just one example of a possible information leak, off the top of my head. I'm sure we could come up with others, if we thought hard enough about it. All of this is to say that it's not the information leak you're worried about, it's the one you haven't thought of that will ruin you.
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Oops. You can clone the git repository:

git clone https://code.google.com/p/fftresize/
It's very subjective, but I find that what is described in the article is pretty much my dream. Of course, I'm not living it, so by that that standard it has so far remained "unobtainable".