skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. I found I needed a bit of help for rapid scanning, so:

< /usr/share/dict/words perl -ne 'next unless m/^[abcdefilzsbtgo]*$/ && m/^........$/; next unless !(m/i/ && m/l/); chomp; print "$_ "; $_ =~ tr/ilzstgo/1125790/; print "0x$_\n"' | column

This adds the original word to the left of the hex. It makes the list much more scannable.

Tweaking the dots to count 10 shows that there are apparently 33 choices for WEP codes, if you are so inclined. (Which of course you shouldn't be, but, well...) And, alas, there do not appear to be any 64-bit constants according to my dictionary, though there's enough 32-bit coices to have some fun with phrases ("collated catcalls", "sadistic sabotage", "fattiest feedbags", "besotted ascetics", etc.). And that's just the even 8-8 phrases, 9-7 has almost as many ("godless geodesics", "falsest statistic", 0x7a55e11edb00b1e5).
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When I installed Flash Player on a Windows laptop recently, I was surprised to see a download bundle featuring Chrome. I thought it was the other way around: install Chrome and you get Flash whether you want it or not.
I tried Android, but couldn't switch. Did you know you can't undo text edits?
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I'm not going to copy and paste my answer to girvo, but that. I didn't have to take the trouble to give feedback.
This is preposterous, do you think french people live in a cave? Last time I checked, twitter, google, facebook,... were available even in France, check it by yourself I think you'll find real french people expressing real thoughts. And nobody here trust any journalists or any politicians anymore, so I don't know on what your informations are based but it doesn't reflect what I see here.
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But that's in your circle of friends. Grand parent's circle of friends -- and culture -- is different from yours and uses word with slightly different connotations. Which brings us back to square one: the use of the word "female" is not dehumanizing in most contexts to a large number of people. I really think 'mynewwork is onto something about why the word "male" is more dehumanizing than the word "female":

> There is no female analog to 'guys'. Males under age 18 -> boys. Males 18-35 -> guys. Males over 35 -> men.

There isn't an obvious alternative to the word "female", as calling a, uhm, "female" of younger age a "woman" can potentially be awkward, so referring to her as a female is simply the next best option. I suspect that it's because of this reality that the word "female" is increasingly more accepted as a safe and normal pronoun.
Agreed, I feel the same way, though I'm not surprised b/c price fluctuations (and ex-post narrative explaining them) is what the mainstream financial press pays most attention to anyway, no matter the medium.
It appears that that is indeed what Mithaldu said. Well done, A+ for reading comprehension.
I completely agree with you. Playing with Mathematica in high school was the only reason I had any interest in math (ended up studying physics).

I also agree FOSS is important but to 15 year old me, the fluid and polished experience of Mathematica was far more important to me than FOSS.
IPython is great system for interactive programming, especially for someone who is familiar with Python and is able to find a complete distribution or able to set up all the details about their distribution (e.g. avoid problems like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6725597), or someone who requires free-as-in-speech software.

I don't use either IPython or Mathematica much, but I would understand preferring Mathematica over IPython given the choice. Aside from being younger, IPython is made of a combination of systems without a strong conceptual glue tying them together. Mathematica is made of a combination of systems too (kernel written in C, various external libraries in C, Lucene search engine, etc), but the components are tied together using what I guess is now called the Wolfram language, where everything, from computations to settings to notebooks themselves, is specified in Wolfram language expressions. If you view an IPython file in a text editor you see JSON, which is different than the language used to compute. If you open a Mathematica notebook in a text editor you see a nested set of Wolfram language expressions. Mathematica grew up around that idea.

As a further small example, compare the prompts to the two systems:

IPython
In [1]: 1+2
Out[1]: 3

vs

Mathematica
In[1]:= 1+2
Out[1]= 3

In IPython, the array brackets are just a sort of notation--the assignment isn't syntactially correct Python. But in Mathematica, you can view that prompt as assigning the value of an In list at index 1 the expression "1+2".

That sort of consistency holds through the entire system in a way that IPython can't match.
That's really nice. Reminds me of the same kinds of things that LightTable has been trying to accomplish.
Is there a mathematical proof that the Elo ratings have interval properties (so that "Rating differences at any given point in time are comparable to rating differences at another given point in time" is a surely true statement) and not just ordinal properties? I ask, because this is a hot issue in psychology, which I study, and it appears that almost all psychological "measurements" have, at best, merely ordinal properties ("A is smarter than B") and not interval properties ("A is as much smarter than B as B is smarter than C"). Constructing interval measurements properly is HARD, and yet assuming numbers have interval properties when they have only rank-order properties is easy, so I wonder if there is really a rigorous proof on this issue as to chess ratings.
Hey, I agree that it's a PITA - I didn't get it when I loaded the page - and I hate pages that do that,

Writing "Still completely unacceptable." makes you come across as though you were ripped off in some way..
Hi. Founder here. In 2012 $20B was billed by the top 100 audit firms. $14B+ on accounting consulting services. Another $14B+ on tax advisory.

We're headed in that direction and consulting services as well.

Really all time-based billing suffers from an inherent conflict of interest. The supplier controls the inventory. They control the amount, price, and quality of inventory consumed while the buyer has little if any data.

For your own situation, when you ask your CPA for a budget follow up with a request for a fixed fee proposal. If the two numbers differ significantly, ask for an explanation of why costs might exceed budget. That at least gives you a starting point. You could ask for time sheets, but if it's a one-person show, there may not be any time sheets. Fixed fee is the answer.
NL,the only popular Texas Holdem variant is far from being solved with 100 big blinds+ (the normal buyin). If that was the case then we would see bots at the higher levels. It might happen one day, but then we will know within days because someone eventually will get too greedy. That said, at micro limits ($10 buy in etc.) there are bots that can make a small profit, and from time to time poker companies ban these and freeze the money. Even Dropbox CEO claims to have made a breakeven bot.
The sheeld looks less complex,you can more easily shift between using a phone and normal shields, and the app contains more elements.
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> The quote in question is a reference the Trojan horse, so unless you are suggesting that loading Mathematica onto the Pi will, in fact, destroy it, I don't see any merit to this analogy.

It is, as you say, an analogy and not to be taken literally.

Someone offering a suspiciously good gift can be expected to expect something in return that may not be to your benefit - particularly if the gift giver is not known for being a philanthropist.
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It's a hard one to solve. In the company I work in I've sat in 3 different places as teams expanded. Given the density of employees you can achieve in an open plan office vs individual offices, it is hard to justify to an employer.

However one thing we do is, that it is perfectly within your right to work from home if you feel you have enough to get on with and people do this often.

As to headphones, we have golden rule, if they are on, the building better be on fire if you disturb somebody. Not quite a sackable offence but damn close. :)

I've also found that sites like www.coffitivity.com offer a 'break' from the music. They can kill any background conversation distraction. ANY. Investigate white noise.

As to socialising, jokey things still get passed around. We're encouraged to use IM, and we also go in groups to the coffee machine which is kept in a cafeteria area, away from workers where you can chat freely and loudly.

I personally hate open plan offices, but in my 20+ years of working, I've only worked in an office once and that still had 4 people in there because they could squeeze that number into it.
I don't think there is a serious, in-depth analysis of the situation anywhere, but here is an article [1] that reminds these facs :
- the President's partner is a journalist
- 2 of the main ministers (Education and Work) are married to journalists
- Another mediatised one (Productive recovery) is living with another journalist

As for former cases, we had :
- the minister for foreign affairs who was married to a political journalist on public television (Bernard Kouchner and Christine Ockrent)
- a Minister for Industry and later Finances who was married to a journalist (DSK, later infamously evicted from the IMF, and Anne Sinclair)
- a Minister for Finances who was married to an evening news presenter (Jean-Louis Borloo and Beatrice Schonberg)

These are the most notorious cases that I can recall, but there are plenty of others. It's almost always a male political leader and a female journalist.

[1] http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2012/06/08/le-m...
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There's a reason central bankers are always so concerned with anchoring expectations. In deciding how much money to hold onto, people and businesses make a trade off between liquidity and the cost inflation imposes on them of holding a given quantity of money. But if people's expectations regarding future inflation change, that tradeoff changes in a positive feedback cycle. If people expect more inflation then they'll want to hold less money than otherwise and in most cases this will cause more inflation[1]. If people expect less inflation than previously they'll now want to hold more money, causing further deflation.

Now, inflation expectations have clearly come unanchored because the GDP deflater, the measure of inflation most relevant to this particular effect, has been stuck closer to 1% than 2% since the financial crisis and the price spread between inflation protected and normal bonds means that the people who hold most of the M1 think this is likely to continue.

These effects are both self-limiting, the desire for liquidity isn't that strong so we only saw an 11% growth in the money supply despite inflation falling by 30%. And the inflationary spiral will quickly (but painfully) stall out if the central bank doesn't keep printing money to match demand.

Which is to say that sure, there's more cash floating around, but it's not just washing around it's being stored in people's pockets. It might be liable to cause excess inflation if the ECB ever manages to convince people that it will be able to hit its targets in the future, but it's not particularly benefiting France at the moment.

[1] In the mainstream economics sense of a rise in the price level, not the odd Austrian school definition.
Most notably, pydbgr has out of process debugging, so you can attach to a server process and diagnose a deadlock, for example.
Bush paints, but is he any good?
Was going to suggest this as well. It seems like the right combination of remote work and newer technologies. Could be very useful.
Applets were very segregated from the DOM. What the lingua-Franca of the web would require is first class DOM manipulation support, such that it doesn't require it's own UI toolkit.

Oh, and for it not to have horrid security bugs. That's what really killed applets ;)
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Somewhat unrelated, but I made a bitcoin LED ticker, here's a link to an early testing video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxRIeb22QGI

I later added some other price information (gold, usd, s&p500)
Why don't we have both: a WYSIWYG Designer, and a Source code editor?

That way you get productive immediately with the designer, yet still have the power to fine-tune every detail using the text editor.
Interesting marketing strategy: free is good advertising, but (FWIU) the raspi doesn't have the horsepower to compete with Wolfram's actual products.
Well to be fair, the parent comment brought up the US not the one you are quoting.
You know what, I'm willing to bet that camus2 is either French, or at least French-speaking (sorry camus2, your English is awesome, way better than my French, and I have been living in France for 10 years, but still, you make mistakes sometimes...). Which makes your comment rather ridiculous, seeing as it is one big ad-hominem based on nationality...
I feel like #1-4 are really small fixes. Can't wait to try Android again!
Yup. That's why I remember this conversation as well as I do.
A good list of libraries, but please, don't use this in the middle of your code to set a break point:

import pdb; pdb.set_trace();

There's a chance you forget this, check-in, and it ends in production. Use pdb facilities instead:

$ python -m pdb <myscript>

Then set a breakpoint and continue:

(Pdb) break <filename.py>:<line>
(Pdb) c

This is trivial to automate from any editor or command line, so you don't even have to guess the path to the file.

EDIT: For the lazy, here's a script to set breakpoints from the command line and run your scripts:

https://gist.github.com/hcarvalhoalves/7587621
I'm sorry but you're just in denial. There's no doubt that the peak is in the 30s. Even late 20s it's starting to slow down, it's just that the amount you can learn and experience in the 30s you get further, but once you are in your 40s the decline surpasses it.
Khan Academy has a nice 12 minute long video on this topic: https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi...
Point taken, I suppose, but this is sort of like saying "you try to have breakfast every morning, do you? Well you know who else tried to have breakfast every morning? Hitler!"
I like this one as well. I doesn't have as much data, but I think the area chart is easier to read than the candlestick.

http://bitcoinity.org/markets/
"And 'A New Kind of Science' was a fascinating book. It hasn't quite ushered in the revolution Wolfram still seems to expect, but it was fascinating nonetheless."

Possibly because, from what I remember of the reviews, most people said something to the effect of, "It's brilliant! Well, the part I know anything about is garbage, but the rest is great!"
Count me as 2. Though I am sure there are lots of people who will be reading the material on your blog. Pretty good stuff.
Just don't install a java plugin for the browser. Simple.
It's an interesting discussion and I have mixed feelings about the current french "trajectory" as you put it. However I don't think this is the place to discuss politics so I'll refrain from engaging in this debate.

However I think from a hacker perspective it should be interesting to see a country that tries to do things differently from what appears to be the norm in most of the western world and whether it'll succeed or fail utterly. I know that most people on HN are big on "laissez-faire" and business deregulations but it's a bit disingenuous to present it as the solution to all problems.

We value thinking out of the box for engineering, why not for politics? "Look, a new economic system in 30 lines of socialism!".

I wish people were less adamant and more level-headed when it came to politics and economy, it's hard to have a reasonable discussion on those subjects.
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Am I missing the link to actually get a peek at the dashboard?

All I see are account walls. I like the idea, and I'm interested -- but pardon me if I say this looks like an astroturfed conversion funnel and not a genuine submission.
I own an S-corp and even single person, my accounting/tax bills are over $2500 per year. That may not seem like a lot because that is considered the average cost in my area but i just want to know how they got that number. All I get is an invoice with a list of things he did but no way to connect those things with the amount. Solve this problem and you might get a paying customer!!
People only pay for them because they don't have any other choice. If it was legal to sponsor an Android fork that had a pirate version of the Play Store, I'm sure all of the hardware manufacturers would be shipping it with their phones.
That is not the same situation. With a politician, one source can contribute X, and another source can contribute Y, and both of their contributions influence the politician. In other words, if the politician loses a source of donations equal to 90% of his or her donations, there is probably nothing that would replace that donation. The only supply is percentage of the politician's time so to speak, which might effect how much someone is willing to donate in the absence of another donation, but probably not in the way the politician would like.

With Mozilla, the supply is one item, the default search engine for the search bar, something which has high demand. That means if Google were to become less interested in paying for the search bar, Bing would be waiting at the gates to do so. They could lose money if that were to happen, given that Google was the highest bidder, but that in no way makes them beholden to Google.
> Importantly, with eight months of runway, Groove didn’t need the money. There were great arguments to be made about how we could use the money, but weren’t running out of cash.

No other reason is needed. If you don't need the money, and if you believe in the business, you don't need to justify turning down external investment. In fact, I'd argue that turning down money is harder than accepting it
I've been told I'm not allowed to upvote you...
My 2 cents, having gone through a few job searches in off markets...

1 - You may need to go lateral or a half step back from what you want, but don't take 3 steps back. There's no reason to be a waiter or a shop assistant unless you want to do that for the next 20 years, or want to automate those industries.

2 - Find your way into the industry or company that you ultimately want to work for. Even if the job isn't perfect. If you want to learn PHP or .Net, get a job doing QA at a shop that uses them.

3 - Small companies are much more likely to respond to resumes tossed over the transom than big ones. This is only based on anecdotal evidence.

4 - Searching for a job needs to be your full time job until you get one. If you're not doing it 8+ hours a day, you're not trying hard enough.

5 - It's best to do both high contact (meeting people you know for coffee, and asking them to introduce you to their friends) and low contact (sending 100s, yes 100s of resumes every week) searching.

Good luck! If you have technical skills, it will all be good in a couple months.
People being forced to sell sex without consent will happen regardless of whether prostitution is legal or not. Sex trafficking happens everyday here in France where prostitution is illegal. So banning prostitution does not protect forced people and it prohibits consenting people to engage freely in prostitution. It has everything to do with freedom. The freedom to do what you want with your body.

Thinking prohibiting prostitution will make sex trafficking disappear is delusional and I'm surprised to read such thing on HN. What's next? The war on drug is working? So what should we do? Remove people freedom to engage in prostitution even though sex trafficking will still exist or respect people's freedom and keep prostitution illegal? Same thing with drugs really.
Bwahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!! Perhaps you are accurate with the first half of the first sentence, but unless your definition of VP doesn't match what medium/large corporations actually consider to be VPs (in technical areas), you are completely wrong.
Great read, however, I don't agree to the following:

>If we had taken in a few million dollars, my focus would’ve been on scaling: getting as many customers as possible to use our shitty app.

VCs are not devils, so when you tell them you need to reach the Product/Market fit before you scale, I'm sure they would understand.
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if this doesn't get a lot of upvotes here on HN, try www.reddit.com/r/gaming and www.ogre3d.org/forums
Ultimately, this is a decision every founder must make for themselves. Without knowing the specifics of the offer, it's also hard to really know what went behind it.

Having said that, the rule of thumb is that you want at least 12 months of runway, and that's at the rate you want to go at. It takes typically around 6 months (if things go well) to raise VC money (unless they come to you - which is pretty rare).

From what I understood, Groove had 8 months at the current runway - before hiring the additional people they want to bring on board. That's typically when you start raising before you go into the danger zone with your runway. Also, considering the current perceived drought of Series-A funding, a $5M offer for a business generating $16k monthly is an outlier.

Of course, I hope Groove does well and never needs this money. Also, it's possible the deal terms were not favorable, though it's not mentioned specifically in the post. If that was not the case, in my opinion they had a chance to significantly derisk their business and they choose not to take it. Time would tell if their gamble pays off or not.
I can't help but visualise an empty suit when people start talking about "delivering value" in the abstract, with a smug sense of superiority. People like you are mostly just lip service.

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/do-call-yourself-a-programmer-and...
If retail transactions reach significant volume, I think speculation will be significantly reduced since the value should be more stable like fiat currencies. So, hopefully it's just a short term problem.
For me, jobs and projects come and go. Working with good tools is something I do all day. That matters a lot to me.
Right - but how about the long term?

My experience in the corporate world is things start with momentum, but without a cop managing all the details, things don't get over the finish line.

Does this method get projects over the finish line? I fully understand that it's unproductive to be a cop with high talent volunteers.
PHP is easy to pick up from JS/Rails/Python [1] (or any other more sophisticated language). The latest version 5.5 is actually a real OO programming language with first class functions and the like [2], and you can get good performance with Apache 2.4's Event MPM + php-fpm [3] and/or the in-memory Phalcon web framework [4]. I've recently been helping a friend with his side business based on PHP and had to pickit up again after not looking at it since 2003, and it's not bad. They're doing good things with it.

Also check out the remote development work jobsites [5] [6] for stuff you know.

[1]: http://www.sitepoint.com/becoming-php-professional-missing-l...

[2]: http://www.php.net/manual/en/langref.php

[3]: https://wiki.apache.org/httpd/PHP-FPM

[4]: http://phalconphp.com/

[5]: http://weworkremotely.com/

[6]: http://jobmote.com/