skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to tell you, but this kind of system does not exist in reality. Heads of states in all States are above some laws and there are plentiful of reasons for this.

And by the way, if you think is undemocratic to have an unelected head of state, just think about the reasons that supreme court members are not elected. Democracy has its limits :-)
But you can't really know the real value (or lack of) time learning X, until you have done X. (Thou somethings will always appear to have more value before you start)
How Iron Maiden found its worst music pirates -- then went and played for them
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>Both Applied Cryptography and the Handbook of Applied Cryptography are great resources, although they're a little dated now. ... Step one is to read Cryptography Engineering. This is not optional. Read it. It is a fantastic book that details how to use cryptographic primitives.

It seems kinda superfluous to mention Applied Crypto when the real reco is to read Cryptography Engineering. I'd almost wonder if it would be better to direct people away from Applied Crypto...

Personally, I found Applied Cryptography to be so-so at best. Practical Cryptography was a breath of fresh air in comparison.
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I met a guy who worked in the tech department of a large department store chain. He was one of a couple hundred programmers in a large cubicle farm. It was a pretty dead simple setup, each programmer got an assignment (generally COBOL maintenance, and new stuff was in C#, I think) that was due in 2 weeks. Rinse and repeat. Just like highschool or something. Anyway, he'd finish his "assignment" on day 1 and spend the next 2 weeks working on his own projects. Only made 40-50K, though (in the midwest).
Amex is also in general more likely to side with a merchant than Visa/Mastercard, who pretty much never do.
If is python that you are gonna use, i would prefer to you use Kivy for GUI
Great article by Carmack. Thanks.
Living with a type 1 for a number of years has given me a similar view. On the other hand, very real (and often hyped) advances really do happen. When pumps first came out, they were almost magic, ditto with continuous glucose monitoring.
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I think parent may be referring to the casual rape jokes the RG guys occasionally make.
Google definitely plays favorites. It is written in to how PageRank works. Some sites are Trusted manually. The distance from those sites is your Page Rank Flow.

Now that we have that settled, and you are looking for a new search engine, let me suggest http://www.plexisearch.com/

It uses a lot less Page Rank style rankings, we don't have to do much delisting since we can usually tell using NLP if a site is any good.
I feel like my response to this article would have been different if it read: "Ditch WordPress. X combines Pelican, and a kick-ass control panel that installs on any computer in 30 seconds."

I'm not against Pelican, I'm against the idea that this is somehow easier than WordPress. Adding a control panel that allows average people to edit content (Markdown or WYSIWYG, etc.). An installer that takes care of all the necessary required libraries, goes through steps to creating a scaffold, etc.

Then you can compare it to WordPress.
Have you seen these guys? They don't seem to be taking part in African American culture to me.

They just seem like massive, massive toolbags.

I find them extremely distasteful. They're trying way too hard.
They are, and if you flip one hardware switch inside you go into diagnostic mode and can print out the IP and all config information and trivially reconfigure without any sort of security or logging. The days of expensive dedicated lines are long gone. Most ATMs run off of the bank location's LAN, which given the quality of regional banking IT is not secured all that well.

A lot of the machines I worked on in remote locations (in highrise offices away from bank locations) were hooked up through the building's wifi via a wireless router sitting unsecured on top of the machine, just out of sight. I mean, you have easy physical access to the connections in that case.
What is this statement based on?
I've been both a merchant and consumer, and haven't found this to be true at all.
Royce here, one of the devs. This is a super simple app that basically helps with one question: How many customers and how much money have I gained to date? We're using Stripe for the data. Enjoy!
Or using remote controls.
Analyzing Pitchfork using pandas
But how is this easier than WordPress?
Arducoptor & Ardupilot are the way to go!

Forget amazon, that's not a place for hackers...

But beware of the hidden costs in Radio-Controlled flight - it's never a cheap date...
This applies to startups as well. You have a very limited man-hours. How you spend it matters a lot. Do you improve the product a little bit every day?

Investing time understanding users or improving your tools makes a big difference in the long term. When you understand your users you can work on the right features. When you sharpen your tools you spend less time wasting time with repeat tasks. For example, how long it takes to release a new version of your product matters a lot. Automated testing for most common problems makes you move faster.

In general, the best way to invest your time is to automate repetitive tasks.
So ten years ago I was fresh out of high school. Not a lot of money and I had accidentally left my debit card at a fast food joint. Fraud services called me later that day to inform me of various odd charges, none of which were mine.

Enraged I asked for the places and date/time stamps of transactions. I tracked the persons footsteps, some business owners allowed me to see security camera footage.

There she was, in her fast food uniform (the place I had ordered from earlier that day) in 3 different businesses at the exact same time of the debit card time stamps.

I took this information directly to the police were I was dismissed saying that my bank would do the investigation and not too worry about it. I went a head and spoke with the manager of the fast food joint as well. Morale of the story, the police don't do shit.
Most founders/entrepreneurs have unicorn jobs, but it comes with a big caveat: being your own boss. Not as easy as it sounds.
Except that's not what a pardon is.
Both contestants in Countdown have 30 seconds to find the longest anagram that is also a valid entry in the Oxford English Dictionary. The one with the longer valid word wins, gaining equal points if there is a tie.

There is always an expert in "Dictionary Corner" who attempts to find the longest possible word, usually something obscure.

There are also two special rounds. One is mathematical (pick a combination of 6 large and small numbers -- large = {100,75,50,25}, small = {1..10} -- and attempt to make a randomly generated three-digit number using only addition, multiplication, subtraction and division. The other is a 9-letter handcrafted anagram which always has a 9-letter solution.

It would be interesting to have a bot that used information on word frequency in common vocabularies/usage to guess what the contestants were likely to find, vs. the expert with an open-book. I imagine few people would find 'perfectos' but many more would find 'prefects'.

Having said that, I'd imagine most people going on the show -- especially at this stage! -- would be armed with many more obscure words than the average reader. (I auditioned back when I was 16, in fact, but failed at the anagram round. Oh well! Growing up 'playing' Countdown certainly made for a fun childhood, and I was frequently called Carol at school because I was good with numbers. :))
The AR Drone is the cheap, hackable way to do it. It's just a tiny PC running Linux hooked up to four weak motors. You can control it via wifi, or replace the flight software yourself if you are enterprising. Add their new GPS add-on, and you can use the excellent QGroundControl. There are excellent projects putting it to use for a variety of tasks.

Unfortunately it will be limited in its power, unless you do an extensive engine and frame mod as shown here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KESy--N6ags

The 3DRobotics Iris is an exciting new product that represents a more flexible, pro-amateur level tool. They're made to be put to work, not flown like a remote controlled helicopter, so you'll find good support for programmability here.

On the other hand, it's almost $1k fully built out, compared to half that for the Parrot.
> helping some major corporation get a stronghold in some country is not about "national security".

While I agree with your overall message, and even the part I quote, if you think "holistically" then it is in the US interest to dominate trade negotiations through intelligence. For example, it's better for US national security if Brazil had bought a US fighter. It strengthens the financial health of Boeing, makes it easier for the US to keep up a certain level of capability (paid for by foreignors, win-win!), has money coming in to the US for decades as a result of the maintenance contracts, and there's a non-zero chance that the software for flying those planes have backdoors and loggers.

I'm not saying it's right, but the security forces and corporations are very much motivated for this to happen, with ready made excuses of national security to justify it.
This setup is certainly rare. At my company (http://istrategylabs.com) we've done our best to at least feed this desire and tie it back to revenue.

1. Everyone in the company can work on R&D projects.
2. There's budget set aside for this work.
3. Everyone can pitch new ideas for new projects/products.
4. If something get green-lit you can join that project if you desire and have value to bring to it.

It's really challenging to assign dedicated "20% time" or some other formal allocation. We've tried serval times and failed. Instead, now, we just setup hackdays/internal innovation days where the entire company can work on whatever they want. It's great for morale and produces new things we can pitch to our customers.
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do a start up or find a more job more aligned with my goals
Awesome job -- as a dev who uses Stripe, this looks great and I'll probably purchase it regardless of the below answers.

A few questions/comments:

1. Is it a flat $1.99? Is there IAP? Why isn't this on the splash page?

2. A demo video -- even a simple, short one -- would be great.

3. Is there a level of granularity available? I.E. I'd love to get 'paged' (push notified) when a customer cancels a subscription or a card is denied, but not necessarily every time there's a successful charge.
Sounds like you have issues where you feel the need to control others.
For the regex matcher, I outlined a practice project at https://github.com/darius/regexercise
> We've tried serval times and failed.

How did you fail if you don't mind me asking?
Because people should have alternatives to multiprocess Web servers in memory hungry languages. Threads have a stigma among dynamic languages but when they are abstracted nicely they can give you a lot of performance for very little headache. Memory isn't cheap when you're renting it.
We already have one for type-2. Don't eat carbs.

Really, if you have an intolerance to something... why are you still eating it?
Well hopefully your experience will be reflective of mine one day. My entrepreneurial ambitions and coding skills combined with multiple failed projects have taken me on the opposite journey - from relative wealth to relative poverty. I got screwed out of the one success I created - a company I was the technical co-founder of that was acquired for $64 million - by an unscrupulous partner who basically stole my $12.8 million stake and now fancies himself a televangelist. I am starting to lose hope that anything I create will be valuable ever again. Money definitely matters to me right now.
The Queen can't make or break law; she can only pardon.
My dad died in the mid-1980s from type 1 diabetes, when I was a child.

Literally, because it was hard to take blood samples to monitor glucose and inject the right amount of insulin.

I'm told that with modern equipment (am guessing the continuous glucose monitoring you mention) he would almost certainly have survived.

So yes, not all advances like this end up working. But overall, within our short lifetimes, the best ones are creating substantial improvements.
The precision of the timing and dosing depends a lot on what kind of diabetic you are. A type 1 with no endogenous production is going to need precision, and I can't imagine somebody wanting tight control giving up their pump and going with a pill!

type-2's on the other hand, have insulin resistance often accompanied by astonishingly high endogenous production. They can sometimes achieve nice control by just having a base of exogenous insulin that's just high enough for their pancreas to supply the rest of what they need -- the precision is supplied by the still largely functioning pancreas. I know at least one type-2 that has been put on insulin with instructions to inject X units with dinner, with no consideration of the actual content of the meal! Presumably a pill would work fine for that group.
The problem that I've found with those environments is that the 60% of downtime you have is usually when people are socializing instead of working. That means it's not actually that easy to focus on your own project. Also the office laziness rubs off and you tend to be less disciplined to work on that personal project than you think you will be. Perhaps somebody out there can consistently pull it off, but I've never seen it.
I think it's fair to say that you have to rise with the tide a bit if you're going to use rails. The projects I work on tend to be continuously developed though so this has never been a pain point.
Would you mind giving a quick run-down of everything you ordered? I've been trying to price out a DIY quadcopter on HobbyKing.com but I'm always worried I'm going to miss a piece that ends up costing a ton of money.

If you could include prices that would be amazing, but I can always look it up if you can just post the parts!
Here are some more: http://openbookproject.net/py4fun/
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The DJI Phantom & DJI Phantom 2 vision are both awesome. The Phantom 1 is probably better if you want to put your own board in the air, as it has more payload space. But out of the box the Phantom 2 is unbelievable with its iPhone FPV & telemetry integration

If you have lots of time on your hands, though, you could build your own with ardupilot: http://ardupilot.com
What do find "juvenile" or "offensive" about them? The rap subject matter they cater to?

I've always found them reasonably professional, particularly their evidence-driven handling of the Heroku load distribution debacle.

http://news.rapgenius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-l...
Valleywag is east coast hater bullshit. It's a badge of honor to get attacked by Valleywag[1]

[1] http://valleywag.gawker.com/anti-foreigner-vc-also-supports-...
Good point. Gives stuff to think about.
Related!

https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/

Warning, this story is long and will drain your time if you start reading it because you'll want to know exactly what happens.
>Just to be clear. On Italian sales, they aren't paying Italy taxes. They're not paying Ireland taxes where they claim the sales are to do a Double Irish. They're not paying Holland taxes where they route the money through to do the Dutch Sandwich. They're not paying the US taxes, they park the money in an offshore account and lobby congress to grant a tax asylum.

I know that, and that is a problem. But even if they stopped doing that, Italy could easily see none of the taxes on profit. Italy's new law doesn't actually fix the underlying problem. Instead it's a tariff that somewhat works around the problem but also bans an entire category of inter-country trade, which is quite problematic.

Maybe I wasn't clear enough when I used a hypothetical situation to illustrate why Italy's law is attacking the wrong thing.

Italy's law blocks a German corporation from selling German-served ads on German servers to Italian customers. That's a problem.

Italy's law doesn't block a German corporation from using tax loopholes to never pay anything. Therefore those loopholes shouldn't be mentioned as a justification.
I suggest taking a look at readings section of top statistics courses. one from mit ocw is
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-05-introduction-to...

edx, coursera, udacity also offer many targeted statistics courses, you can check what book they reccommend.

also Royal statistical society London reccomennds a reading list for its examinationsome of which are classics

I read Probablity & statistics by walpole and myers in my bachelors and it was also a wonderful book.
Hah, M-CAM. Anytime an article quotes these guys, I know it's going to have some low quality reporting about patents. (And, yes, this includes the "When Patents Attack" episode [1] on "This American Life", where the very same M-CAM dude claimed there was a "patent on toast".)

I looked through every patent on online backups that M-CAM said "covered the exact same thing" in that episode [1], and found each one to claim something entirely different. Whatever their method of analysis is, it was completely useless then.

I also looked through the first few of the "just 70" out of the 5160 matches M-CAM found in this article, and found nothing really similar to Bobo's patent (or indeed, each other). Sure, there may be some really damaging prior art out there. I just highly doubt M-CAM found it.

But don't take my word for it, others have called these out as well [2, 3].

That said, if Huster can show that she indeed was an inventor, this patent is trivially invalid because she is not named on it. This is the same thing that killed the IV patent in "When Patents Attack Part 2" [4].

1. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/t...
2. http://gametimeip.com/2012/04/13/q-why-was-mdb-capital-right...
3. http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/Detail.aspx?g=c5c2c5b5-ecf9...
4. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/496/t...
How can you take control of your emotions by becoming rooted in yourself?
I really like the idea of money as freedom. I'll take it a step further though, and that is the ability to generate at least somewhat passive income whether from a business or from investments. Not having to make money right now is key to freedom.
I believe you could easily get the Scala version to be just as short, in terms of lines, as the Clojure version.
What does that have to do with the way these guys act?
Why is Rhino coming soon?
Nothing unethical there. Its the responsibility of the manager/lead to assess skill set and the amount of time one should spend on a project.
Is it really unicorn? Market forces push you instead of a boss.
What about an asynchronous PHP web server?
jmduke - I was just reading your blog post re: pandas and pitchfork. Anyway,

1. Flat and no IAP (In-app purchases). No reason why the price isn't on the splash page.

2. In the future, a demo video may make sense. The app is pretty simple for its first release.

3. We're planning to add more notifications (i.e., cancelled subscriptions) and stats to go along with stuff that goes on with your business.

Great questions/suggestions.
CoreOS + etcd... Nuff said!

[1] http://coreos.com
[2] http://coreos.com/using-coreos/etcd/
I think you have that backwards. Amex is the most consumer-friendly CC there is. Many retailers won't accept Amex for this reason.
> From what I've been able to gather, since the majority of the States did not expand Medicaid to additionally cover those making straight poverty line incomes

25 states plus DC are participating in the ACA expansion of Medicaid up to 138% of the Federal Poverty Level and two additional states are working to implement expansion late [1].

> since Obamacare has increased the cost of insurance premiums across the board in all but a few states (300% in NC alone), the poor will simply not be able to get or buy insurance - period.

Yes, its true that in states that have chosen to reject the -- completely federally funded in the short term and 90% federally funded in the long term -- Medicaid expansion, people making under 100% of FPL will generally have neither Medicaid nor the ability to afford individual insurance.

[1] http://kff.org/health-reform/state-indicator/state-activity-...
These are fairly nice and straight-forward suggestions, but I'm always surprised that these articles (or conversations like it) never mention ideas not directly related to programming. It might just be me, but in my opinion programming is a specific application of a given mindset, not the other way around. Anything that can improve this mindset can be beneficial, even if it's not always directly obvious. I've personally become a considerably better programmer by learning more about cooking, music, different languages, biology, physics, philosophy and many other things. I find it somewhat sad that so many people seem to consider programming an end rather than a means.
> 2. Gaming SEO is attractive to almost everybody. Google needs to make it so painful to get caught, that people won't bother risking it in the future.

If Google makes it painful to get caught while also doing a poor job algorithmically catching people, it just incentivizes people to do "pump and dump" type sites where they use blackhat tactics to get a lyric site to the top of Google and then rinse and repeat when they get caught.

The most optimal way to make money with SEO right now is to rank quickly with blackhat SEO tactics and then when you get penalized you create a new site and start over again. This means the competitive serps are always in a state of flux as there is a revolving door of short term sites.

This hurts legit sites - they have a lot to lose by breaking Google's policies so even if they offer a better experience they'll be outranked by short term sites that don't care about Google's policies since they expect to only last half a year anyways.

> The game is the game is a poor excuse. give me $15mm and a site like Rap Genius and I'll get it outranking everybody in the space in 9 months, with only legit strategies.

Give me $20,000 and I'll outrank a "clean" $15mm budget since I won't be barred from doing the things that actually work. It might only survive 6 months, but I'll make a positive ROI and I'll repeat the process again.
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Much easier path would probably to create several small SAAS product aside from your day job which create enough monthly revenue to sustain your lifestyle. While getting there might take longer, it would be definitely more stress free than running a startup.
Unprofessionalism
Did you see the original email that prompted this whole thing? It sounds like a frat boy. http://jmarbach.com/rapgenius-growth-hack-exposed
You need to use the command line configuration tools, it has got a lot better than it used to be (thanks to Azure, I assume). Still nowhere near as consistent/logical as Linux, but it's getting better..
And we got over all that stuff, and emerged stronger.

The Russian Roulette analogy is not applicable because we're not discussing random processes.
Man, I remember reading this and I loved it. A saga of corporate wastelands. I know deep down that it's too hilarious to be real, but I like it anyway.
And Zuckerberg isn't exactly who I would choose as a "play by the rules" example.
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I find that a bit limiting, I would rather hear people's opinions even if they might be subject to bias. And I don't think that an opinion based on personal experience is "only personal biases and assumptions".

It is also important that your approach be uniformly enforced: you would have to encourage people to refrain from saying that FP programmers have the same skill level as non-FP programmers, since that opinion is also not based on any evidence.