skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as much of a pessimist as I am, I highly doubt much of the doomsday scenario will come to pass. Comcast and Verizon will likely spend a lot of time and energy staying JUST on this side of the FCC's ire, because the FCC will always have the "nuclear option" of reclassifying the ISPs as common carriers.

Besides, ISPs degrade/prioritize traffic all the time through management of peering relationships. All they have to do is fail to adequately upgrade the servers that communicate with Netflix to cause congestion while at the same time spending lots of resources making sure their peering relationship with Hulu is top-notch. This would create much faster Hulu traffic relative to Netflix traffic on provider's network, but all of the traffic is still reaching the end-user in the same manner, i.e. it's still "net-neutral".

The only real solution here is the common carrier reclassification because the only real problem is the last-mile-monopoly. Everything else is just business.
I haven't seen it, and I'm an experienced data scientist, a seemingly high demand specialization. There's plenty of demand, for people who want to live in sf or the peninsula. I'd rather live in Tahoe or slt and work remotely, but nobody offers that to a first approximation (cl data scientist [1]; telecommute [2]). If you want remote ML people, contact me.

[1] http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/jjj?zoomToPosting=&catAbb...

[2] http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/jjj?zoomToPosting=&catAbb...
Are you looking for something similar?

It's not easy to recommend something based on a single book but have a look at Vicious by V. E. Schwab, This Perfect Day by Ira Levin or Wool by Hugh Howey.
Where does this article say that?
Show HN: Function Currying like Haskell in Python
I wonder how my old C code stack up to this as well. 15ms seems like eternity btw. My naive old code without any thought in it (no bit magic, no intrinsics) and only with -Ofast flag on i7 3770 Windows 7 iterates all the solutions in 10.1ms as well as prints first of them on the screen.

If redirected to file it takes 0.232ms, again to iterate all the solutions and print first of them.

It would be nice if authors provide some way to compare it to their code. Preferably on say 15 queens instead of 8 so pretty printing time could be ignored :)
for people in China? In a manner of speaking: Yes.
Speaking about this: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf ?

He/she/they talk about a need for finical transaction capability without the need of a trusted third party, but I'm not seeing how that was in any way overtly political.
Yeah, because everyone who holds Bitcoin is an Anarchist, right?
That's a fundamental misunderstanding of random.

Investing being random chance doesn't mean everyone will do about average. It means that some people will make quite a bit of money and some people will lose quite a bit of money. It just happens that Warren Buffet is an outlier.
> Markets are not efficient and all data is not priced in

EMH says that all publicly available data is priced in. The strongest form claims all data, but no one believes that (insider trading alone debunks it).

I would postulate that given the data available right before the crash, you would probably end up with similar results to what the pricing was at the time.

Note that one thing people have a hard time understanding with EMH is externalities, such as enthusiasm or whatever the opposite is called for a product or class of product.

> those are the profit opportunities that traders make a living off of

EMH relies on people making a living to function, the price setters need to do well or else enough won't be attracted to make the market efficient. You are correct that this kind of problem makes anything but the weakest form difficult to prove.

> the systematic risk that crashed the market could not have occurred

Why? One major factor in the crash was that people started walking away from their homes. Historically this didn't happen. If all of the data points to stability in mortgages, you cannot expect people to divine that problem, nor does the EMH require them too.
N: Order has been restored
I remember writing links on post-it notes and pasting them to the CRT monitor. Even going as far as writing the result URL from Altavista.
> And tracking the wrong metrics is almost as bad as tracking nothing at all.

Tracking the wrong metrics can be much worse than tracking nothing at all. You might end up optimizing for the wrong metric you selected.
I recognize this would be harsh to early adopters. C'est la vie. I still thing it would be an interesting experiment to let this play out unimpeded.
At some point vacation is far more important than salary; two weeks is unworkable. Both my and my SO's families are in other states, so one 3-4 day trip to each family plus 1-2 personal days to take care of typical life stuff and you've blown through 10 vacation days without a vacation for us, since visiting family is nice but not all that relaxing.

Also, founders massively overrate the value of the lottery tickets they're dispensing, at least until the bay gets so bubblicious that banks accept options as payment.
It's interesting (and perhaps sad) how these days having a blog in which to complain, if needed, is one of the most foolproof ways to receive proper customer care from certain online companies.
Oil tankers actually run sophisticated on-board economic models to decide what speed to sail at. Depending on the price of oil, the cost of financing capital, the depreciation model for the ship, prevailing ocean currents, etc., they decide whether to run faster (ship fuel efficiency drops massively with speed) or slower.

As these factors change during the journey, the tanker adjusts its speed on an hour-by-hour basis.
I hope Mr.Hiroshima writes a blog post detailing what happened. I'm particularly interested in whether Twitter has implemented any changes in the way they handle high value handles/or all to prevent others who've experienced this with their Twitter account.
Orders of magnitude. Sure, adding someone else in china is in theory worth something. However adding one more friend that I regularly communicate with on a network is worth more to me than every person in China.

PS: For large networks X Log X is probably much closer to reality than X ^2. Just compare the amount of internet bandwidth between NY to California vs the bandwidth between the US and China.
Ironically, this is what I put together in 2009 (ten years after the DHTML demo) and it also crashed browsers then, and it also runs on my phone now: http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?page_id=1217
Vacation was on the list (line with reasonable hours) but I didn't go into detail as it seemed self-explanatory.

Personally, I never assume applicants hate their job. In this market, people have incentive to shop around, and movement between jobs isn't frowned upon. I think most people learn more by moving around a bit, and hiring managers look at people with 20 year tenures and they don't see loyalty - they see stagnation.
Consider that a self-driving truck would spend less time parked.

What proportion of loss do you think comes from robberies as opposed to theft when the barrier is reduced to finding an unguarded stationary vehicle? My guess is that robberies makes up a tiny proportion, and that they'd continue to be rare because of the perceived barrier of having to stop the vehicle.
we heavily rely on postgres as well, in the past we have tried to do the entire backend on postgres as we believe it could be the best solution, but we have had a terrifically hard time of maintaining stored procs, etc. We still use them, but a lot less than we probably would and wound up building an ORM and moving most logic to PHP.

I would be really interested in how you maintain your database code if you are up for another write up or have some time to chat.
If they can catch the perpetrators, then there is. However, btc can be laundered rather efficiently and all contact with the exchanges can be done through tor. Have fun bringing the perps to justice...
I hacked this together today after seeing something like:

def add3(a):
def add2(b):
def add1(c):
return a+b+c
return add1
return add2

But this requires one to do add3(1)(2)(3). I figured it was possible to transform functions more mechanically. The builtin "partial" function is a class that merely collects args in a list, so one can't incrementally apply a few more args at once like a real curry. It's more of a fancy lambda closure.
I'm not sure I understand. Buffett has a strategy X, which has defeated strategy Y (buy a market index fund) 39/47 times.

We can say any return in strategy X is

1) Due to random chance (i.e., it defeated the market 39 times "randomly")
2) Not due to random chance, and there is an inherent advantage

I'm saying the probability of 1) is sufficiently low so as to believe 2).
Well, currency is defined by divisibility, durability, scarcity and difficulty of forging. Humans desire a medium of exchange to better facilitate trade. The desire to trade creates the requirement for currency. The desire to collect manifests in many different forms - but the use of currency is separate (though probably related) to that.
Browsing the markup of geocities pages to learn how to do X in html. Creating a geocities page about the Ford Mustang GT (5.0, yo). Going into Yahoo chat, meeting other people and then exchanging mailing addresses to write to each other. E-mail was just weird. Oh, and meeting my wife on ICQ. Only a 90's kid will know... :)
100% agreed - this would certainly undermine the movement. The open question is whether it would do so more or less than the loss of half a billion dollars held by the community. I'm not sure what the answer is, but shouldn't every option be on the table?
The title is actually "Happy ending: @N has been restored to its rightful owner".

"finally" implies that Twitter was too slow in reacting to this. Please don't editorialize.
Ha, I got to be pedantic first on HN. And it feels good!
Your entire argument is based on the false assumption that foreign aid cannot be executed correctly. I would assume we have learned a thing or two since that 50 year old example took place.
Exactly what I was thinking! Neither the methods nor the devices are being duplicated for displaying the data. It is also very different satellite imagery than what was available in 1994. Users submit a lot of Google models. The number of things that are frivolous about this lawsuit make my head spin!
You forgot about how much Microsoft paid for Hotmail.. i think it was $40/user.. $400 million for 10 million users
It's a very good thing that when there's only one way to get the correct result, the compiler forbids everything else.

Would you prefer the compiler allow incorrect code?
Man, you don't want run flats on a fast car. Get an AAA membership and relax.
Brewery Start Up Webinar by Elysian Head Brewer Dick Cantwell
Sabeen Ali v. Gregory Gopman (Former AngelHack CEO)
I've lost respect for them since antenna-gate. They often rate Apple's phones the highest while writing articles about their horrible 'flaws'. It feels like two sides of the house aren't talking to each other.

That said, the Model S is supposed to be very nice and is a cool advancement for the industry over 'yet another model year of Civic/Focus/whatever'.
Interesting. Just a couple of days ago it had some spammy seeming name, instead of not existing like it had for the previous few weeks.
Pretty interesting, never thought about how much light I'm getting
That's a really fascinating article! I'd love to see how a C implementation would match up to that.

As an aside there seems to be lots of really interesting concepts involved involved in implementing chess engines.

From representing the chessboard in a highly compact manor through the use of bitboards (http://www.frayn.net/beowulf/theory.html#bitboards) to searching for 'best' possible moves.
thetruthaboutcars.com calls the 2014 Accord Hybrid the best car of 2013 if that matters.

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2014/02/review-2014-honda-a...
Arrrrgh, thanks for pointing it out. I don't use Firefox, and I don't know a damn thing about web programming.
To me seeing "requires WebGL" indicates that some sort of check has been carried out and the current browser has failed. Not really good as a loading message, IMO...
Presumably all you have to do to make a self-driving truck stop is stand in front of it. There should be zero risk of it running you over.
I remember the first time I met a webmaster IRL. It blew me away. The guy was a total badass (in my head, at least). My brother would talk to the webmaster about something called Perl. I did an Altavista search and started to write Perl on my paper notebook (did not know how to run it on my Windows 95 machine).
This is a time-honoured tradition.

The dirt in england is awash with buried hoards, where people buried their currency and valuables to hide them from the government. The list is fascinating.
I certainly can't get into a data debate with a data scientist, but do you think part of the reason SF companies aren't offering remote work is that they don't have to? The biggest tech market would seem least likely to need to offer remote work - even though demand is high, it's probably much harder to find data scientists in some small suburb hours from an airport or university than it is in SF. How would those numbers look nationwide?
Can anyone recommend a good dead-tree book on Mathematica?
Can anyone elaborate on the problems? Are there problems with analytics while using Angular?
The cost per employee numbers are what have me raging. Given how much value engineers produce (even mediocre ones, much less us closer to the 10x persuasion) how the fuck did we end up being so lowly valued?

I think the answer is that we suck at fighting for our own interests. A traditional union might not be the answer, but something like the SAG might be the way to go. It's absolutely inexcusable that computer programmers don't, for example, have the right to have a representative when negotiating with management or HR.
So you think it is right for people to steal Bitcoin because Libertarian-ism? So, it's okay with you if people take up the use of violence in retribution for Bitcoin theft? Part of the reason people willingly grant the gov't a monopoly on the use of violence is that the gov't will ostensibly attempt to use it to achieve order.
Stealing bitcoin does violate meatspace laws...

Also, I just realised there is an interesting parallel between IP/Copyright law, and Bitcoin ownership. I need to think on this some more.
Oh man. I was a "web developer" back then.

- I'm surprised he didn't mention tables. That's the first thing that came to my mind. We didn't use CSS but tables to make a layout. And I have to admit I miss them. Yes we have grid systems like bootstrap now but still, tables were damn easy.

- What about those counters that were displaying how many visitors had came since the website creation

- Those "in construction" pages

- the 
 tag that no one seem to use now, not even in markdown

- the <u>, <b> and <i>.

- XML! And xhtml!!

- flash everywhere

- java application sometimes

- music blasting when you would arrive on a website

- fake iframes or fake images for fake traffic (width="0" height="0")

- gifs everywhere

- fake urls like .fr.fm

- no right clicks allowed

- photoshop design that would get cut in multiple squares and displayed in a table. Fireworks used to do that automatically.

- all those crappy tutorials and all the real "books" I had to buy to learn.

- websites getting upset because of hotlinking

- those "top" websites that would pop in humor websites and where you could vote for the best website.

- <center>:(</center>

- WYSIWYGs!! Do they still exist?
Of all the comments, I think yours is most to the point:
we cannot rely on developers not making mistakes, but some kind of processes (tools, QA testing) should have caught an error like this one.
Anyone wanting to use their stolen bitcoins will likely have to interact with people in meat space though. Be it going through an exchange which will necessarily need their information to get them their money, buying drugs, selling them locally, etc. I mean, how much of half a billion are these thieves going to spend on anonymous VPNs and tipping people on reddit? Sooner or later, somebody sitting on 500MM is going to start itching for a few kilos of coke or a new yacht.

And mixers? Anyone who's stolen 500MM worth of bitcoins probably won't trust mixers... I sure as hell wouldn't if it were me because if I were running a mixer and saw those coins, I'd steal them again myself. Why the hell not steal from a thief?

I figure there are two ways this will play out:

1) The thief does nothing with the coins and goes uncaught, having performed the theft only 'for the lulz'.

2) The thief begins using the coins, and eventually somebody somewhere catches up with him. Hopefully for the thief, the law catches him first.

I don't think decentralized issuing authority is important to whether or not the legal system can effectively prosecute thieves. The general anti-government attitude may preclude victim cooperation with law enforcement, but I think in this particular case there is too much money at stake to bet on all of the victims taking an ideological stance against using every tool at their disposal.

(Keep in mind that by no means all* of the MtGox victims are crypto-anarchists or anarcho-capitalists. There are plenty of regular hapless "investors" too, or just regular old technology enthusiasts who like playing around with new technology. There isn't really a shared bitcoin mentality or political stance, only perhaps a majority that share vaguely similar libertarian-bent ideas.)
That was the entire point of model years. They needed way to make people want to upgrade their 'old' car. So instead of making the Ford Focus for 10 years there is the 2013 Focus and the 2014 Focus and....

Now your Focus is only a 2012 Focus. You're behind.
It's nice that Twitter merged @N_IS_STOLEN with his original @N account.
Because the owner of the car was lamenting the price of replacement tires. Why would you not point out cheaper alternatives?
I used the web in 1993, in the fall, with mosaic, and grey backgrounds. On a 286. With windows 3.1, and 16 colors.

So that makes it 20 years. (dangit!)

Anyway, I think javascript made a mess of it. The point of the web was to link documents. JS makes links obsolete, as they now are relegated to JS-app entry points.

before I get too much in the weeds, I'm gonna go read the article.
I would argue that it is, considering that it was in the press for a little less than a month before this happened.

See: https://medium.com/cyber-security/24eb09e026dd
I am said Hacker Schooler who issued the challenge. I thought I'd done well with a Rust solution that ran in 42ms [0].

I was well and truly pwned, as they say (but at least I got some sleep last night).

[0] http://rosettacode.org/wiki/N-queens_problem#Rust
Guest Post: Try Radar for Your Next Project
it also won't protect you from bullying from people named incognito
I read story a while back about a plumber who found a box filled with thousands of dollars...behind a wall after he knocked a hole in it. The owner of the house offered him 10% as a finder's fee, but he demanded more and ultimately sued her. The story of the law suit led to the children of the previous home owners filing their own law suit claiming they were entitled to the money...and they won everything. The woman and the plumber received nothing.
We have significant signs that this will improve performance on many pages. It would be too early to quote numbers, but you can run tests yourself if you're interested.

See "Fast and Parallel Webpage Layout" for some early work by Leo Meyerovich at UC Berkeley: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~lmeyerov/projects/pbrowser/pub...
Try NetPositive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetPositive#Error_messages_in_...
If you give instructions along with the email, serious people are apt to play along.
Don't worry about it. Every thread needs a kids' table, and in some threads they're just more prominent.
Odd, it's New Category this year, there was no "best overal" in the 2013 writeup... see, eg > http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2013/04/top-pick...
Beautiful! I derived this solution back in 81 when Byte Magazine had a contest. It took 20 minutes to run in Basic on an HP 2000.
Needs a section on the joys of tables.

I don't think you need to be a 90s developer for that. Look at the HTML of the website you're currently using.
> Why doesn't GPU hardware do native path tracing now?

The PowerVR guys are working on it now that they bought https://www.caustic.com/ http://www.imgtec.com/powervr/powervr_openrl_raytracing_tech...

> Whoever made this brigade 3 thing, I wish nvidia or ATI would hire him

Otoy hired him instead http://render.otoy.com/ http://raytracey.blogspot.com/
If you care about typesetting and legibility, you sometimes really do need &nbsp;. It prevents the browser from inserting a line break between two words that belong together, like February&nbsp;26th or Louis&nbsp;XIV. IIRC nbsp is short for non-breaking space.

It was never designed to add arbitrary spacing to your layout, though ;)
I think your example of a Starbucks is a good one, and I'd be curious to know. The attacker has to go and physically sit in or near the Starbucks to do it, which is a strong limitation. They also have to have to have something worthwhile to do with what they steal. So that limits it to criminals with the knowledge to exploit this MITM attack who are willing to sit outside a Starbucks for long enough to harvest a worthwhile set of credentials.

I doubt that many credentials were stolen this way.
Did anyone else 'View Source' so they could quickly scan the text that was going to be displayed for all the other wpm values?
> I guess a Linux port of Portal 2 isn't likely to provide returns anywhere close to PC sales, so it may not have been approach furiously by Valve.

The same can be said of Left 4 Dead 2 and Half Life 2... so why Portal 2 was released so late versus those 2 ?
> If commercial vessels were uncrewed then that's fewer ships that could have helped.

It's also vastly fewer ships that could end up in trouble with crews that will need to be rescued.
Or even if not test coverage - static analysis.
Since it had an OSX port already I don't think it would be anything DirectX left. I'm betting it was expected sales and/or driver issues on linux. I know it's been recent that some of the features I think they're using for portal 2 were supported in open source drivers.
Latinos In Tech Conference Preceding SXSW
What do you hope to achieve with this?
You can rename your Twitter account to any unused handle. All they had to do was delete or rename the account holding @N, then he renamed his @N_IS_STOLEN account to @N. No merging was required.
It's hot to be the world portals, right? That's a fairly huge feature specific to that version of the engine.
You could stack marquee tags, creating an animation in an animation. Great fun for forums that didn't escape HTML input!
Most anything by Charles Stross, especially the Laundry series (Atrocity Archives, Jennifer Morgue, etc)
"True nature of reality"? Highly debatable! Maybe in legal offices. :)

Everybody sees that concept through their own filter. I suppose to a cobbler the true nature of reality is surfaces that wear out over time.
Twitter never responded to publicly, nor did they actually or take action for well over a month. From @N's feed, it seems that he got it back himself somehow, too.

I don't see why it's not accurate.
Sounds very interesting!
I'm glad to see this language has first-class hashtables (Association). Does it have any other data structures that Mathematica was lacking (e.g. trees)?
Does anyone know: what was the account used for in the mean time?
Thank you. Linked vid is not available in the US, but quick youtube search yield suitable alternatives.