skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. Still, there is something missing here: the game has no win condition. It is true that the best play seems to be to go for dice but suppose that rolling a 1 means I lose the game and forefit all my winnings. Why would I ever play that?
The cost of a car? You just think to small. I doubt, that you understand what I meant by "afford".
The Lost Boys of California
Yeah, I've read tons of statistics from both sides of the debate, and still feel a little morally wrong for it. I did add taxi calling directly from the app to 7 different local taxi companies to help assuage some of my perceived guilt. The taxi page does see visits in my analytics though, so that's good if nothing else.
If you feel the need to tell other people what they can and can't find sexy, then you're the one with a problem.
Wello: the health monitor that could change your life, or just your workout
RMS -vs- Doctor, on the evils of Natalism:
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-doctor.html
My point was that the Model S is not a car for the poor huddled masses, and that if anyone could "afford" to purchase political power, it would be the people driving luxury auto-mobiles.
What is the conflict? Unless there's a federal law that says that auto manufacturers can sell direct to consumers in states, I don't see what conflict there could be.
Deldo - Vibration Control and Teledildonics Mode for Emacs: "I LOVE EMACS!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sXuHnf_lo
I don't think it was. Above the person writes...

> "PG is off the mark here. Companies like Uber explicitly ignore the existing laws and regulations. In the case of Tesla, the ruling just passed."

This indicates to me that the "profound" differences to him/her regarding "validity" is whether a law previously exists. (...Seemingly completely oblivious to the notion that much of what is made into law is insidious, vile, and of a precedence worth objecting.) If the point was only about systemic inconsistencies, that wan't clear.
How were you contacted? Is this through a personal connection or is he fishing?

I'd suggest to ask for references. Follow through references and ask about how he/she helped them. I'd also make it clear up front that you have little capital to pay him or any marketing strategy - he might be assuming you have the money to do so.

Equity is typically not milestone based. You would typically agree to a form of 'sweat equity' - meaning the amount of work he puts in for a piece of the company.
Those are not actually formatting. Those are math symbols. Math relies on formatting to convey meaning, and Unicode is expected to be able to render math correctly without formatting. Therefore, it must be that math symbols' formatting is actually a feature of the character.

My Ubuntu box can't render the first three so I don't know what they are.

"is there" is blackboard lettering, though Unicode insists on calling it double-struck lettering. You may recognize the capital R in double-struck, ℝ, as the symbol for the Reals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_number Similarly, ℤ is the integers, ℂ is the complexes, et cetera. I can say this on HN, without formatting, because unicode.

The word "unicode" is in Mathematical Bold Italic. The words "for different," which you probably interpret as Fraktur, are ... oh wait unicode calls them mathematical fraktur. http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML2/bycodes.html#U1D58C 𝖆 means a ring group. ℵ is used for the cardinality of infinite sets. 𝖌 is a Lie algebra. Etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_alphanumeric_symbo...

I don't know what the last set are.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/yourharddrive
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ has a selection of tools for disk wiping.

If it is a Windows machine and you are trying to leave Windows in-place (not recommend) you can at least delete your user account, empty the trash can, and then run a program like SDelete - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897443.asp...
She jumped from an 80-floor building and pretended she was flying for 79 floors.
Oh hi, you're the dev of pidgin? I have a couple of awesome ideas I want to sell to you. I'll call you with the details...
Zethos – Speed reading tool in 1 kb
Presence of law does not mean absence of corruption. On the contrary, corruption usually results in passing laws that serve special interests of those that corrupt the lawmakers. So "existing laws and regulations" in this case is not the reason to dismiss the charge of corruption, they are the corruption.
Want to save the world from asteroids? Using code? NASA has a job for you
GPA is useful when curated with the 'reputation' of a particular college or university. For example, "Person P scored 3.25 from XYZ college, which is more impressive than person Q who got 3.75 from ABC college". This reputation information is usually known to those who have interviewed several years worth of interns and entry-level hires.

It usually means that P from XYZ has the discipline to undergo the grind, so at the minimum one can expect some business value from that discipline. It doesn't say whether Q is incapable of the same discipline, just that P is a safer bet. Outlier E&OE.
I got to 1024 with a 512 by keeping the biggest tiles in one corner
That's the state where it is considered too dangerous for you to fill up your own car with gas, right? So one's expectations of that place's lawmaking sanity should be already pretty low, and these expectations are now confirmed.
No it isn't. You either infringe a patent or you don't. It is better not to know about the patent if you get caught infringing because of the treble damage possibility that nknighthb referenced, but "I didn't know about that patent" is a meaningless defense, you're still on the hook for the base cost of the infringement, just not 3x whatever that base is.

In either the current situation or the one I think is worth considering, you either infringe or you don't, nothing changes with regard to due diligence. Many patents are infringed every day with the infringing party having no idea infringement occurred (see: Carmack's reinvention of the z-fail stencil shadow system or any of countless other examples); but not knowing of the patent is absolutely not a defense. This is one of the more insidious problems with the current patent system as it relates to software, there are so many broad patents currently active that you basically can't avoid infringing all of them if you write any code at all, even if you never spend a second looking at other people's patents. The only variables are will you ever get big enough to be worth suing or not prior to the lifetime of the many patents you will invariably infringe.

Also, the idea that having a system where the IP holder is essentially forced to act to maintain control of the IP can't, by definition, be "impossible" because it is already how trademark law works in the US.

And as I mentioned in the original post I made on this I recognize there would be some negative fallout from the proposed system, but I think over the long-run it efficiently adds in a lot of features to patents that are currently missing (eg. a lot of people have proposed a yearly fee to renew patents to make sure people don't horde mountains of defensive garbage patents, this would achieve that same goal because they wouldn't want to put the legal resources in worthless suits against known infringers, and thus their garbage patents would very quickly lose their power; also it would make it far easier for many unknowing infringers (see for example the recent audio podcast patent disaster that is still going on) to group up to fight garbage patents because the person claiming patent protection would be forced to pull them all in instead of using the current system which is "go after the small fish, get a victory in East Texas, then use that to bleed everyone else dry".
I don't think only writing zeros is considered safe, I mean it probably is for most purely software based recovery methods but I don't think it is for agencies with money to build the right hardware. Look into DoD 5220.22-M.
I like to know the most secure way to wipe a SSD. Apparently the google doesn't have much on it.
I found this to be quite interesting - the Programmer Competency Matrix. It's hard to be honest with yourself with these things, but worth a look anyway:

http://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/
$1 Microscope
It definitely used to be pronounced.
I've never heard of a word that started out with a silent letter. All silent letters I've come across in my studies have been pronounced in the past.
I could be wrong and if so, that would be very interesting.
Indian Navy joins search for missing Malaysian plane in the Malacca Straits
This looks dodgy to me. The purple and red lines on the graph don't end up parallel, so the active set algorithm appears to have time complexity O(n) in Julia, but O(n^2) or O(n^3) in Python. Can that be explained?
How would the people who have used both compare Emacs with Notepad++? I find Notepad++ beautiful, if not sexy :).
The courts didn't award her $14k. She agreed to it in arbitration and signed a contract specifying that she'd get it in return for moving out. She then declined to move out, and I assume didn't get any of that $14k (because... why would she?).
This Yahoo! News live update thread seems to be comprehensive:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/live--after-60-hours--no-sign-of-de...
There are all sorts of weird franchising laws and such on the books for dealerships as well.
Usually pronunciations get simplified (deletion, lenition, etc..) however it is possible (though rare) for words to gain new sounds, or regain sounds that were lost or weakened before.
If a dealer tells me "yes, we honor the price but..." and the "but" part is not an obvious add-on like insurance or pre-paid service or anything like that that I can refuse and still get a car - I'd just walk. These people are obviously liars, why would you want to spend so much money with liars? It's not like there's only one place where you can buy a car nowdays. Same for extended warranties, etc. - if the guys can't understand "no" there are always guys who can. I've seen both kinds and the best way to deal with liar kind is to just walk. It stings when you've already invested time with them, but it's just sunk costs fallacy - the sooner you cut your losses the better.
Still would be the hardest decision i ever made in my life, If it was me .. And I would still be agonizing over it today...
SSDs can only tolerate a limited number of writes. A secure wipe of a SSD would significantly reduce its lifespan.
and the echochamber they create that reinforces their belief system as well as amplifies the message to a wider audience.
The Disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
One of my best friends struggled through college and ended up failing out of grad school because she couldn't focus and couldn't get her work done. It turned out that her teachers had tried to get her tested for ADHD as a child, but her mother refused, not wanting her daughter to have the stigma of a mental disorder. After totaling her car in an entirely preventable accident that stemmed from how exhausted she was as a result of sleeping three hours a night all semester trying (and failing) to get her work done, failing all her classes, and getting kicked out of her school, she got diagnosed, went on medication, and is currently one semester away from finishing her Master's degree.

I'd like to see you explain to her that the medication is doing more harm than good, and that she could have succeeded in school earlier if only she had tried harder.
ot: now we see the great fruits of the iana going completely berserk. nobody fucking needs such tld. it doesn't help anybody but only makes money for some.
http://www.richard-feynman.net/videos.htm
Tech to travel smarter and get more fun
A question for those who know more: why has 18 become the accepted age worldwide?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Voting_ages.png shows that the vast majority of countries have settled on 18 with a handful for 16, 17, 19, 20, 21.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shred_%28Unix%29

shred is a Unix command that can be used to securely delete
files and devices so that they can be recovered only with
great difficulty with specialised hardware, if at all. It
is a part of GNU Core Utilities.
Only logical - if you've got $60000 on BMW you've probably got more money to spend on stupid crap, so why not try to get it out of you? ;) They'll always try it, but the decent ones won't try it again after you say no.
I absolutely agree that ADHD is likely massively misdiagnosed as a result of symptoms like "being a five year old child", but to say that nobody has it seems as ill advised as to say that everybody has it.
Yes, it seems to be a fairly clear violation of the dormant commerce clause (IMHO).

I've done a completely trivial amount of research, and haven't found anything in court on it.
Great post! As a sales guy (non-hacker), I think this post properly lays a foundation for technical founders and hackers to begin the sales process from MVP to first sales-hire. Like the author, I'm open to offering any tips/advice to help you make progress in your efforts.

Best of luck to all.
I am also interested in knowing an answer to this. In these designs, I often see people ignoring network costs. Can someone with practical experience comment on this aspect?
In most cases you're after the the ATA secure erase command. Read the hdparm man page, look for --secure-erase.
There seems to be quite a bit. But most credible articles (haven't tried Google Scholars yet) point to there being no clear "winner." The overall consensus is that we should just be DST year round or not have it.

http://www.history.com/news/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-...

http://gothamist.com/2014/03/08/22_reasons_why_daylight_savi...
The process for hiring Software Developers stinks, here’s how we fix it
Your alarm bells are calibrated for physics, it makes sense they would false alarm on a different subject.
Why does this trigger a GitHub authorization request?
I didn't realize that the silent "k" in knife and knight were ever pronounced. Or the "p" in pterodactyl. I'm glad those three aren't making a comeback. :)
I don't really agree with this for a couple of reasons.

One is that juries, by and large, tend to favor David in David and Goliath cases.

Also, it shouldn't be that hard to find competent lawyers willing to work on contingency to take meaningful patent case against a larger corporation if they get a percentage of the damages. For cases where the patent isn't that strong to begin with or the infringement isn't very clear cut and thus the lawyer's EV is very low, well then fuck the little guy anyway, he shouldn't be patent trolling in the first place.
> ...communicating with lightweight mechanisms, often an HTTP resource API

HTTP is great and all but it's not lightweight. I'm curious what happens when each incoming HTTP request from a client cascades into 5-10 HTTP requests inside your "Microservices" ecosystem. Does that scale? Granted, these may all take place on the same box but that still seems wasteful. Then there's the challenges of making sure each piece of the architecture is working correctly - and if it isn't, are you safely handling the error/routing to a known working node, etc?

Sounds quite difficult to cope with in practice.
> The only non-JS solution is to tell people to only load the page at exactly 12:00:00

If it's just a problem of initialization, couldn't you include a continuously-updated current_time.css file served with cache-control: no-cache?

You could estimate timezone from IP. It's not perfect, but it's the best you're gonna get without getTimezoneOffset().
I know you mentioned it elsewhere, but you should also have the '30 minute' message on that same screen, or preceding it.

I started using the plugin, freaked out a little bit when it opened a new tab and was doing stuff, and then freaked out a lot more when I realized it was going to do that every 30 minutes.

For the market you're looking at most intently; Those people with brands that they're trying to build, but that are new, the idea that their Twitter account could get blocked is probably extra scarier than for the average user.
They should open up internet cafes next door. Who just happen to have computers that only go to the Tesla website, and are full of Tesla marketing materials and helpful staff who can assist you navigating the only website available.

I would do this just to create press and get people to come and see the free-internet-cafe-next-to-showroom that caused such a fuss.
Unsure about chrome, but in Firefox having a single click button to close all tabs without closing the browser, helps dramatically.
If you read the end of the article, it turns out she is actually a German citizen, which has "a free program for nationals wishing to relocate. She’d be able to get off the plane, connect with social services, and get subsidized housing and medical coverage." In fact Germany has a very strong social welfare net, she just chooses not to take advantage of that.
English spelling is a product of how people used to pronounce words. So whenever you see "silent letters" it usually means they were pronounced before (although you still need supporting evidence).
I (and the GP) believe there's a profound difference in starting a company knowing that you'll be breaking laws (Uber) and running an established company that just had a law passed that negatively impacts your business (Tesla). You're failing to address that besides saying that all law is completely arbitrary.
Well, pretty much any law with any bootlegger support at all will present a 'baptist' face to the world; very few campaigns take the stand "I like to roll the dice, so I think it's better for everyone if we criminalize this service, prices go way up, profit margins go way up, and occasionally providers go to jail. What's life without adventure?".
> I hate dealers, every time I buy a car it is always a stressful experience. Dealers are trying to cheat me on every my step.

I had the opposite last time I bought a car. I'm still a bit baffled by it.

The salesman said he could let me have the car for $X. I countered that if he could let me have it for $Y (which was the price a dealer an hour away was offering for people who bought online for pickup, and was the price that my research had said was quite good), I'd write a check right then and there. He said he'd have to talk to the manager about that.

When he came back from his talk, he said that the best he could do was $Z. The odd part: $Z was LESS THAN $Y, by something like $1-2k.
If the objective is to get a fast implementation of isotonic regression, I think the priority would be to choose the right algorithm. PAVA is indeed one of the fastest such algorithms and has a running time bound that is linear in the number of data points. I may be wrong, but from a quick look at the code it seems neither the [P/C]ython version nor the Julia version has an implementation that ensures linear time. The files are named Linear PAVA so I believe there was an expectation that they are indeed linear time.

Consider applying it to this sequence

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, -30.

It seems that the number of operations required according to these implementations would be quadratic in the size of the sequence. (It will average the tail repeatedly.)

I cannot read Julia yet, so not sure about the Julia version, but the others do indeed look very much a quadratic time algorithm at the least. The behavior will of course depend on input, so on certain inputs they may have a runtime that scales linearly. Complexity addresses the worst case behavior and as I showed coming up with such bad cases is not hard, and they need not be very un-natural either.

OTOH:

If the objective was to compare speeds of CPython, Cython and Julia, then it does not matter whether an efficient algorithm was chosen for the task. My hunch is, because the current implementations computes more than necessary, it is going to magnify the speed difference between Cython and Julia.

Does Julia do any inlining ? Or are there any plans for such.

If so, that would be one aspect where it could shine. As mentioned in the comment the Cython version is unfactored and manually inlined for performance. If Julia inlines in its JIT pass, such measures would be unnecessary and would allow one to write cleaner code.
> add two new brackets to capital gains taxes. positions held for more than 5 years pay 5% capital gains taxes, to encourage long term investment. positions held for less than a week pay 50% capital gains taxes, to reduce churn.

So, reward the megacapitalists that are most able to hold long term positions, but penalize people who get equity-based compensation (like stock options) that can't afford to hold it long term by taxing it far heavier than even the top rate for regular income?

> use a shortest splitline algorithm to make congressional districts fair

Blind, perhaps, but fair? And, as a federal mandate, replacing the judgements of the citizens of many states --including California, which might be important to consider if you are running to represent California in the Senate -- that have already adopted non-partisan commissions to solve the threat of partisan districting? That's a good way to hurt your chances of getting elected with a proposal that would go over like a lead brick even if you did get elected.

> lower the voting age to 16.

What's the argument for this? Politically, you'd better have a good one, because without it its a good way to threaten to reduce the voting power of the people you are asking to vote for you in order to appeal to people that won't be able to vote for you until after you win, at best.
Are you a time traveller from the 18th century or something? The good people in Congress have worked for centuries to not let free markets remain too free - otherwise where the good people in Congress would get the votes and the campaign funds, if they couldn't tweak free markets to benefit this or that interest group? Of course, the good citizens are universally (within tiny margin of error commonly called "those crazy libertarians") cheering this since they belong to one or other interest groups. The fact that while they are screwing others with one special interest law other screw them ten times with another ten special interest laws so at the end everybody ends up being screwed ten or eleven times eludes their attention and will probably continue to do so for many many years.
for ATA disk drives manufactured after 2001
(over 15 GB) clearing by overwriting the media once is adequate to protect the media from
both keyboard and laboratory attack.

--NIST, 2006 - http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-88/NISTSP800-... (page 14)

Found that while looking up the DoD standard, interesting stuff - thanks!
The comments here are a good example of how the predominantly white male upper class tech population that is moving in is changing SF's culture from a unique semi-socialist one to the same capitalist-uberalles culture of upper class white males everywhere. It's the latest colonization.
I know, which is also why it's so hard to wipe it. It seems that SSDs are built with self preservation in mind and it'll try its hardest to avoid a write.
Could Snowden End Up Breaking the World Wide Web?
I mean, we can talk later, but we have some information on the capabilities of the proposed Steam Machines, the prices, and what games are available right now and what are announced (the majority of AAA games between now and the end of summer are already announced, I can't think of any that have Linux support announced alongside Windows/Xbox/Playstation). There's certainly enough information to make SOME judgement about what Valve is doing. Being openminded enough to receive new information doesn't require us to shut off our brains now.