skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think I find your reasoning flawed, as a matter of personal opinion at least.

> Who you called, who called you, how long you talked - this stuff, which is otherwise known as call detail records it available to nearly everyone who works for the telco and is not really what I would consider private.

I see what you're saying, as applied by the Smith v MD, that the information in a PEN register is fair game, but even in Smith, the collection of records had to be manual, which prevented its collection and use en masse, meaning that its application was self-limiting. Sure, the police could probably collect all the PEN registers, but as most of it would be useless, why would they?

Regarding your earlier statement though, for some perspective, had the British been able to keep tabs on the metadata of the populace, our founding fathers would have all been hanged for treason, and America would never have declared independence.

I don't mean to suggest that being subjects of Britain would be necessarily bad, but I think it's fair to suggest that our founding fathers considered their actions just, and as a matter of course, would have likely considered actions that would have resulted in their death equally unjust. If you agree, I think that should have some bearing on your interpretation of the fourth amendment.
It's not really arbitrary - its based on what kind of monitoring you could do on a traditional telephone.
See the shoreline access issue below. To me, that whole matter signals someone impossible to work with. If he were of decent moral fiber and wisdom, he would have found a workable arrangement that preserves public and personal interests. Going to trial was just even more embarrassing.
1. Win the lottery

2. Spend 100% of winnings on lottery tickets

3. Win all the lotteries.

4. This is stupid.
Maybe piloted is the wrong word. It's not AI. They're still directed and monitored by an operator.
The point is that finding the the best performing stock each day is just impossible. No Technical or Fundamental study can give you that.

It's just like, I could have been a trillionaire had I invested in Google, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Facebook: all in their seed stage.
Ah, I see, that makes sense. Usually pulling both tables in full (or even a single table in full) to the client is not an option (and nobody does cross products in real-time systems). So people end up pulling a subset of table A, and then for each document in the subset issue a separate get to the db for table B (which is obviously worse than having the db do it).
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True. But very few languages can claim to be as elegant as Python :-D
Another way to make $264 billion in 2013, buy a Powerball lotto ticket every day, and pick the 5 winning Jackpot numbers. Repeat 364 times.... you're rich.
Yeah, well, I for one just spit beer out of my mouth at a fucking public sports bar.
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Fun to think about, but I'm pretty sure you'd have trouble buying a billion dollars of any stock every day, much less $100 billion towards the end.
Perhaps not in value, but in GDP?
I'm not disagreeing with your point regarding wealth, but football is the most popular men's high school sport (by participation) in the country so your experiences aren't likely the norm. Also track, tennis and gymnastics are mostly individual sports so they're less likely to be the ones driving the same level of school-wide support and pride (logos on the masthead, trophies in the hall, etc).

Also HN readers might be unlikely to have had the average American high school experience.
Did you come up with this yourself, or are you just summarizing the end of the article?
I think there's a whole literary niche that has yet to catch on or be truly explored that just tells the story from texts and other electronic communications - like the modern version of a story told with just letters.
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Your son survived but Hacker News is dead.
This is exactly what Supercell, maker of Clash of Clans (currently ranked 81 in the App Store), is doing with its new game Boom Beach, which is Canada only
I've always wondered if there was a place for a language that was properly designed, but copied PHP/php-fpm's execution model? It has beautiful horizontal scaling, but perhaps the long lived process model is better (ruby, go, etc) than PHP's "stateless" (as in, the app holds no real state itself after the request, it shuts down) per-req setup. Thoughts?
Obviously the trades themselves and the shares available would alter the numbers, and the article mentions this at the end.

While they can't really adjust for the first issue without a crystal ball, this would be far more interesting to me if they factored in at least a rough estimation of how many shares you could reasonably buy (even if they assumed the company's outstanding shares were fully liquid in a perfect market) and not had you holding 264 billion dollars worth of shares in a company with a 29 billion dollar market cap at the end. IMO, that would have made for a more interesting data modelling story.

If the point is just pure fantasy of big dollar numbers based on large percentage moves they might as well have included very small penny-stocks and really goosed the number up.
The NSA seems technically capable, though. (They seem to get the best of the best software engineers / IT people.) Not that it's good they have it, but at least they can keep it safe from outside attackers.
In addition to the preposterousness of investing more than a company's market cap, I'd be interested in seeing this strategy backtested. Lots of random crap works over short time scales.
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Not sure what they would have used because it seems like no other language makes it quite as easy to install and start using. I get the feeling a lot of language designers don't really get that some poor sap has to get the language installed on the web server.
Who cares? It doesn't make the language any better.
> [...] how are mere mortals supposed to reason about algorithmic efficiency?

You profile, and then you look at the suspicious parts.
They do. Autoland requires a CAT II/III ILS. WAAS is very accurate and will surely be used for this purpose in the future, but it isn't at the moment.
1) invest in bitcoins

2) wait
The article is quite clear that it's a totally unreal hypothetical:

Of course, once your investment had grown past a certain
point, it would be impossible to put into any stock
without drastically affecting the stock’s price. In many
cases, investing this volume of cash would be
impossible [...] we also did not take into account
trading fees nor changes in the composition of the S&P
index. We also assumed that all companies allowed for
investment in fractional shares.

Moreover, even if one made the impossibly optimistic
assumption that picking the best stock of the day is a
50-50 guess, there would be only a one-in-3.53
trevigintillion (3.53 x 1072) chance of matching these
results.

There's another humorous follow up on Quartz, positing that "[i]nvesting a day late every day would have returned 19.6% in 2013".[0]

[0] http://qz.com/158489/investing-a-day-late-every-day-would-ha...

Edit: spelling.
The website just went down. Here's the Google cache: http://bit.ly/JBbjuT
(shortened because it is too damn long)
> You can always write correct but slow code in any language.

Yes, but Haskell makes that exceptionally easy.
Quoted from the figure caption under the two candlestick charts on the right-hand side of the article: "People who report drinking one or two alcoholic beverages daily and getting around seven hours of sleep nightly performed best on a Lumosity game that measures spatial memory, a recent study of more than 160,000 users reveals."
Also: http://www.surfrider.org/jims-blog/entry/vinod-khosla-beache...
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You cannot simply move a billion dollars into a single stock that easily. The act of buying a billion dollars of any one company would alter the stock price significantly -- like a buyback.
Apply for two or three jobs at random get some interview practise. You'll soon get a feeling for how competitive you are and what the market is looking for. Take small steps in a better direction, don't expect to figure everything out at once. Don't necessarily change - look to see how you can improve in the current company, all companies have issues. Network. A lot will depend on where you are and what you want to do - you give no details. Cover letters are a thing, make them relevant. HN has regular monthly job adverts, check them. Make your twitter account work relevant, or your work match your twitter account. Delete it if it doesn't match the image you want to work towards.
So how many nobel prizes did Google generate so far?
Well, that was the parent's point:

PHP, heavily used in production, godawful language.

Perl, heavily used in production, godawful language, but at least it's not PHP.

Python, heavily used in production, pretty good language most of the time. (It's refactoring effort is Python 3, but ended up not changing very much.)
Much easier way you could have done it one night!

take 1000 and bet black or red on roulette, then let it ride 27 times and get them all right. easy
For clarity: his fraud was not related to climate science at all, but "for lying to his bosses and saying he was a CIA spy working in Pakistan so he could avoid doing his real job."
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Their IA clearly sucks though.
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It's amazing that, after all these years, PHP still has the ability to horrify me.

Hello again, old friend.
You are indeed correct. Good catch. I literally stopped reading after the first sentence of that paragraph.
Ahh it was under iTunes. Hence why I never saw it
I would say 100% test coverage is actually a maintenance nightmare in the making. 100% coverage would require fixing broken tests ant time you change things in your code. If you are testing the right things 25-35% coverage is probably all most projects need.
This is exactly what I thought while reading the article, and yet, this comment made me laugh so much.

This said, as written in the article, one will likely affect the stock price when trading a large amount of shares, while buying a single good lottery ticket for all the lotteries might be more of a transparent operation.

If TheAtlantic wanted more page views they could surf on the Bitcoin hype and the trader could have bought bitcoins some day in March or April and make even more. Someone should do a similar analysis based on the cryptocurrency market, it would be equally flawed, but might still be funny.
It seems strange how people will really jump on these sort of discussions. Are they more for entertainment? Do people feel like they gain a lot of information? Simply the fun of sparring? It would be cool to better understand. Maybe there's a business model here? Can't think of anything catchy.

"Why is ..." vs. "Why isn't..."
If people adopted a better-designed language, maybe that could have generated trillions and trillions of dollars for the economy.
Wealth doesn't make automatically turn someone into an asshole (plenty of counterexamples). It does wreak havoc with one's social life and bring people out of the woodwork.
That's much of the point. If people want to feel useful and most people want to be paid to feel useful, then only a few will opt out - hopefully in favor of something that means more to them - leaving space for those who can't and/or won't.
> In fact, despite being a part of a state sanctioned monopoly, Bell Labs produced a staggering amount of freely-available knowledge

Wasn't it because of the state-sanctioned monopoly that Bell Labs released so much? I thought that was part of the deal they made with the government.
That reminds me. The other in-detail telling of falling for a Nigerian scam I've read was actually by the wife of a minister who continued to throw money at the scammers before shooting her husband dead after an argument about money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Winkler
I'm located in Boston, but my wife and I aren't opposed to locating elsewhere if that's where this took us. (She's been looking for something else a little more fulfilling as well.)

Right now, I'm on the platform/infrastructure side of things, so I handle the typical management and deployment and configuration of machines, services, hardware, etc while pushing forward the infrastructure that our product rides on. I have a lot of latitude in what I work on, which is why this is so scary thinking about switching to something else. Ideally this is the area I want to be in, but I've always fancied the idea of working in application security or something in that vein.

Thanks for the advice altogether.
Is this even worth debating? No one at Google comes even close to the greatness of, say, Shannon or Deming.
The Bell Telephone Company/AT&T was also a privately owned, publicly traded, company with an obligation to maximize profit to shareholders.

I think there are probably a lot of differences between Bell Labs and Google. Some of them are due to just differences in historical context between the 60s and the 2000's, some are probably due to how Bell's monopoly effected it's R&D approaches, sure. It would be interesting to delve into this.

But they are definitely not about the "fundamental differences between a publicly traded company and a state-sanctioned monopoly," the OP is just confused. Bell/AT&T was a publicly traded company, as well as a state-sanctioned monopoly.

Also, in the histories of Unix that I've read, Bell/AT&T hardly wanted to contribute Unix to the 'public domain', they wanted to market/commercialize it, they just failed -- and never really realized the potential market value of what they had. There were also issues of AT&T being forbidden from entering some aspects of computer business by a 1950s antitrust consent decree. (The UNIX developers on the other hand definitely wanted to share it, and often had to act under the radar to do so. Another historical difference is that they could get away with that.)

I think the author is perhaps guilty of romanticizing Bell Labs as they are accusing others of romanticizing Google!
THIS fraud was not related to climate science, but who can imagine what else he can do?
We're missing the point here: this is not a "how I made $264 billion selling my ebook" guide that we're supposed to replicate. Rather, it's a "WHOA COMPOUND INTEREST" thought experiment.
Bell Labs most certainly did not release Unix into the public domain:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USL_v._BSDi
Facebook itself was PHP website thrown together without design!
Oh It makes complete and total sense. PHP was not a "language" originally. It was a collection of handy functions in Rasmus' toolbox. When it "graduated" to language, and I use that term loosely no one bothered to clean it up. No one bothered to clean it up is PHP's mantra and it explains everything that people hate about the language perfectly.
Your definition of exploit differed from his and you tried to disprove his...

The workers are forcing Amazon to change the contract, it has negative connotations but that is what's happening

> have no idea what the fuck you could mean by this. Also pretty sure you're making moral judgments anyway after lecturing us all against it. There's a word for that.

There is no one "right" party in the situation, and trying to determine one is foolish. And I suppose it could be called a moral judgement, in regards to discourse regarding morals, but that isn't the "situation".
In terms of shares you could buy, probably up to about 10% of the 200 day rolling average of the daily volume. It still works if you spread that over the top performing stocks for the day (staying under the 10% cap). But you are moving a lot of shares by the end of the year :-)
Well, at some point you would've hit amounts no casino can work with, so even if you could see the future, that's no way to make even $1B :)
Just ask a Go dev about how "elegant" they think Python is.
Kind of unfortunate NBC has chosen to use a title that makes you believe the article will be about lies on climate change, likely just to click bait.
I had a similar experience during a suicide at my high school in 2007. This wasn't nearly as tragic as Araphaoe: one poor, depressed kid who committed suicide during lunch but fortunately didn't try to take anyone with him. The most surreal bit for us was that the despite being on lockdown for four hours, the school told us nothing. We got all our information from the outside through our phones.
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This. I was implying that length of the string should mean length in characters, not bytes. This could lead to broken code and would require programmers to keep in mind both.

I have switched from php long ago, but remember odd naming conventions and frequent switch of parameters.
How about collecting $1 of ad revenue on 264 billion click-baity articles? That's The Atlantic's plan.
Wait, he was perfectly willing to assist in screwing over taxpayers in a foreign country if it meant getting ahead personally...
Android has industry-wide repercussions. I'm too young to remember but my history says that UNIX was regarded as a crappy, uninteresting operating system for years.

Go's dealing with a much more established computing environment than C, so it's not going to take over the industry overnight, but a lot of us think it hits the niche between C and Python very well, and could (with enough time) dislodge Java as the choice for most server-side development.

Agreed on dart.

More importantly, look at how much google stuff is not public: Their whole distributed computing infrastructure. That's why they're not bell labs.
It's not good enough because taking an oath and breaking it does not automatically equate to the horrors of imprisoning people for long, live changing lengths which is a pretty fucking horrible thing to do to individuals and their families. Especially not if they had good intentions. And not only that I don't agree with the first claim regarding "rules of law" and "civilization". It sounds like some historian's quote from the 19th century completely unaware of a century's worth work in the social sciences.
This explains why I meet so many deadbeat hippies obsessed with cats and acting like cats.
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Difficult to get as sign-off on re-write of large systems when there technically nothing broken.
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I think the big difference is that Bell Labs did much more fundamental research: basic science, physics, material physics, semiconductors. Google is putting a good deal of money into R&D, into engineering research like the self driving car and now robotics, but not basic science the way Bell Labs was.
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They're still calling it "NewCo", if that's what you're asking. And some other not-so-minor details are also still either under development or under wraps, most notably the revenue model. But the general strategy has been announced: They want to be a full-service news organization, with everything from Greenwald's stuff to sports, and they want to trade on the personal brands of their top hires. And a lot of those hires have also been announced.

It seems a little odd to call this "stealth"; the more typical stealth startup has announced only its name, and none of that other stuff!
See CGI.
I think a big part of it is the money and wonder at hand. When faced with figures or factors you've never faced before personally, it's possible that the brain approaches the puzzle in an unfamiliar way and stops you from thinking "What a minute - this is dodgy and makes no sense."
CouchDB has a HTTP REST API, and speaks JSON natively. You can write your own CouchDB client to meet your needs. You can also access your data from any server using http.
Then once you've made 264 Billion, create a blog, books, videos and courses on how you did it to create a sustainable business.
> "I love you so much"

Tears were (almost) shed. As someone who grew up in an Asian family, those words are uttered nowhere near enough (never).

I do hope that in the midst of our busy lives, we don't forget to tell loved ones that we love them. Thanks for sharing.
First off, from what I can gather, he's a policy advisor -- a law maker, not a scientist. This makes the title somewhat disingenuous, at least in my opinion.

Second, this story is 3.5 months old:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/former...
I don't think we're saying different things. :)
In reading The Idea Factory[1] it became incredibly clear that Bell Labs only released and licensed a great deal of this technology as the results of various antitrust settlements that plagued the company throughout its entire existence. Also, part of the role of the labs appears to have been to give the company something to "show off" whenever congress or the DOJ complained about the extraction of monopoly rents. I highly recommend the book, it was really fascinating to see the degree to which many of our assumptions about the functioning of the labs and its relationship with the corporation are in fact historically inaccurate.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Idea-Factory-American-Innovation/d...
Deleting an account from Quora, including deleting all your contributions, is not easy. It requires sending an email and waiting for them to run some script which can take a long time. So unless Quora changed this, which I doubt, that page needs to be updated.
Hey, don't give people stupid ideas :-). But really, that could pretty cool (until you find out you were duped).
The way I'm going to use this list is to look up services before I sign up.

I'd also be interested to see if user satisfaction correlates with ease of quitting. It seems like companies which make it hard for users to quit do so because many users want to quit. Anecdotally this holds true for the handful of companies on that list I've used, but I'd like to see some actual stats.
Do SSEs now support CORS? I know when writing a webapp at the start of this year we went with Websockets because we needed to work in a cross domain environment and SSEs didn't support it; I know it was to be added to the standard, and Firefox had unofficial support of it, but I can't find anything anywhere indicating if Chrome and Safari are supporting it (and IE will probably get it in 12 eyeroll).
It seems clear to me the point is not really how much money you could have made- that's just the framing premise, or excuse, for the data they present, which is mildly interesting.

Like, for example, this chart:

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/top-daily-perf...
We had better designed languages. The problem is getting them installed and easy of learning. The better designed languages weren't better in those areas.
The Atlantic's "Digital First" initiative ensures that we will see less of the magazine that has been good for the past 150 years and more of this kind of crap. They are pretty much squandering their legacy.

http://mashable.com/2011/12/19/the-atlantic-digital-first/
I think it might also be difficult to sell 263 billion dollars worth of ADBE stock today considering the entire company has a market cap of 30 billion.
Google, as a publicly traded company, has an obligation to maximize profit for shareholders — and there’s nothing wrong with that!

Why is there always this knee-jerk instinct to disclaim any critique of unfettered capital? It unhinges the basic thesis of his argument to say "there's nothing wrong with that." The claim is obviously that there is something -- albeit loosely defined -- wrong with it, which is why the comparison is being made in the first place. Let's feel free to have a real discussion about whether there's something wrong with the primary motive of enterprise to be maximizing shareholder profit, shall we?