skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it is not!

I share my time over Singapore and Japan, and no one ever touches your stuff in both places; not during a bathroom break, not even during a lunch break when people leave their shiny macbooks to keep their seats warm.

This immediately invalidates all the other comments saying that uniformity of behaviour/lack of entrepreneurship is a consequence of this in Japan, since it also works in Singapore where (perceived) entrepreneurship is much higher.

Theft is a problem. It doesn't bring about good things, nor does the lack of it bring about bad things.

Quite the opposite!
I know that it is helpful at times to realize that invention and innovation could happen in a myriad of ways, but I don't think that is a fair way of looking at things in this case, or in many cases.

Without the invention of the mouse, we might all still be using trackballs. A mouse to me is not an "A ha!" invention. I remember when I first used one that it seemed silly to move a trackball around upside-down like that.

And without laser printing, we might all still be using ribbon cartridges at work, because of time/cost concerns with inkjet.

Everything that happens can have profound effects on the future. Think of the Challenger and Columbia disasters. While it's true that the American public had somewhat lost interest in the shuttle program prior to the Challenger disaster, they didn't think of it as risky or dangerous. Think of the lives that would have been saved and how much farther along we might be in space exploration had greater precaution been taken.
What do you do then? H-F? In any case, do not just stick to DFT. I can't emphasize enough how essential a book like Negele and Orland is to make yourself useful in dealing with strongly correlated systems -- running codes on these things is going to fail badly in terms of results deliverables useful to experimentalists or for further theory unless you can do some model building yourself. Way too many of these groups turn out people whose only skill is running ABINIT or VASP or QUANTUM-ESPRESSO or maybe writing some multi-threaded FORTRAN if they're lucky (shudder). Endeavor to make contact with developments in modern condensed matter theory (it doesn't have to be holography or AdS or anything that hardcore, just get used to the idea of a field as something other than what a plow goes into)
Considering that most elite universities started as male only and have taken a long path to inclusion, it is unlikely the power dynamics there have gone from biased pro male to biased pro female. So yes, the hard won primacy of women in higher education is probably the natural order of things.
PCoIP performs better than RDP over the WAN.
I think of it as two normal distributions. One is tight in the centre with few outliers at either end, the other is flatter. More excellence and more rubbish.
The former is Japan, while the latter is your baseline - I believe we were using USA.
It is common to see normal distributions, but rarer to see them skewed in the way you are proposing.

Note, I don't believe this is deterministic at the individual level. People choose to do crime or to think differently. Nevertheless, at the level of society, the law of large numbers applies.
(1) yeah, that doesn't sound right to me. a DMCA takedown notice by any other name is still a DMCA takedown notice. the specifics that you might find in the statute are the floor (a minimum) so of course YouTube is free to develop their own takedown process that goes above and beyond but it doesn't mean it's somehow opted out of the copyright statutory scheme.

(2) Never say never.
Cat Pose – Majaryasana | live with yoga
I remember a co-worker inviting to his place, with others also invited. He asked me if I had had sex with a female coworker since, I suppose, that upon first meeting her, we got along very amiably at work.

It seemed like a confession of character moment, though it was expressed in a joking manner. It was a kind of contextual humor.
I think there are other examples of this, such as price-to-earnings ratio, and focal length of lenses. In those cases, since a denominator can go through zero, the ratio goes through a big discontinuity. And I've seen p/e ratios reported as "n/a" when they should really be represented by a big negative number.
Whenever I get annoyed at labor unions and think they're mostly inefficient rent-seekers, make work, etc. (which they tend to be, in declining industries), the counter-example of UPS comes to mind -- they're unionized, but in a stable or growing industry, and seem to have both fair (not too high, not too low) wages and great performance.
> How does putting a floor under the bottom of humanity automatically put a ceiling over the top?

There is no fiscally responsible or sustainable way to do the former without doing the latter as well.
Sounds like your friend with multiple doctorates has put himself in situations where he has time to not use libraries, rather than the necessity of shipping everything asap.
The victim's website has on her about page

* slow to learn but quick to remember

* afraid of changes but change constantly

* shy and insecure but love taking risks

* dreamer and artist but grounded by analytics

Guessing #1 and #3 are very true.
Also time-per-frame instead of frames-per-second.
I am not doubting your account. I also know there are genuine asexuals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexuality
... that he wouldn't have clicked because who clicks random links over IM
> the MacBook Pro Retina doesn't have a hole for a Kensington lock...

It doesn't, but Maclocks makes a plate that you can screw to the bottom of your MacBook Pro with Retina display to contains a locking mechanism: http://www.maclocks.com/mac-locks-macbook-pro-lock-macbook-a...
Here you go: http://imgur.com/eXr5lzQ

Grabbed at 6:50PM PST
Maybe you could take a picture then tell them, if anything happens to me in the next 5 years, this picture will be sent to the police.

But at any rate, it is better to shut up and give description to the owner.
That was disturbing watch, but not necessarily because of the racist aspect.

I felt 70% of the reason why the Hispanic guy was confronted by people was because he was a much smaller than the white guy.

Had it been similarly sized black guy, nobody would've dared scolding him.

It's socially unacceptable to be racist, but we think being 'sizist' is ok.
Not really. Depending on the protocol CSRFs are often an easy 1-click exploit on noscript-enabled browsers. Something like this:

<form enctype='text/plain' method=post action='http://192.168.1.1/vulnerable'>
<input type='hidden' name="<!--" value="--> <SOAP...>" />
<input type='submit' value="submit" style="position:fixed;top:0;left:0;width:1200px;height:1200px;background:#000;opacity:0;" />
</form>

Is the corresponding 1-click that works on noscript.
I don't know about links to computational complexity, but in the many worlds interpretation the "classical approximation" is explained by "quantum decoherence".

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_decoherence
2: http://lesswrong.com/lw/pp/decoherence/
What's interesting about Java is not so much the language per se but the ecosystem around it. There are a lot of very interesting libraries, tools and middleware. Things like Apache ActiveMQ and Solr.
There is indeed no theft in a dictatorship.
In my experience (Australia) the protocol has been to leave your stuff at the table. I've seen people leave their stuff for an hour or more sometimes (though it seems a bit rude to use up an otherwise unused table for so long).

Generally if someone leaves their laptop to go pick up their order / bathroom I try to keep an eye on it. I assume they'd do the same for me.
Implementing a Concurrent Floodfill with Golang
Most metric countries report liters/100km, solving both problems at the same time.
An early xkcd did something similar for Sudoku (this was back when both xkcd and Sudoku were still new). https://xkcd.com/74/
Presumably the cup is empty? And it's just a marker?
If you're comparing all males and all females isn't that already disregarding race and class variables?
> This immediately invalidates all the other comments saying that uniformity of behaviour/lack of entrepreneurship is a consequence of this in Japan, since it also works in Singapore where (perceived) entrepreneurship is much higher.

No, it doesn't. In Japan, that safety is a product of a culture of uniformity, which invariably results in a lack of entrepreneurship/innovation.

In Singapore, that "safety" is the product of an authoritarian government that severely curtails civil liberties and human rights. Free speech and political freedoms are restricted, chewing gum is banned for non-medical purposes, and the punishment for possessing 500+ grams of pot is a mandatory death sentence. Archaic and barbaric punishments such as caning continue to be practiced. Such an oppressive government is not something we want in the West, regardless of the "benefits."

As Benjamin Franklin said:

> They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
iAlertU does this, unfortunately too many false positives that I had to stop using it.
How not to blow off your early sign ups and create a killer launching soon page
Design Can Drive Exceptional Returns for Shareholders
I used Anki a lot during school, especially to study physics, chemistry, physiology, and other science classes. I had thousands of cards by the end, and flew through university courses that others really struggled with.

I've kicked around the idea of using it now, but I can't convince myself that the benefit of memorizing outweighs the cost of all the time I would need to dedicate to this.
He might not have been downvoted if he hadn't said it, but it's not like it's a farfetched idea. In Toronto Mayor Ford practically made it a campaign promise to screw over cyclists, going out of his way (and incurring great cost) in order to rip out recently installed bicycle lanes. So it's definitely a political issue, and while there might not be actual bona fide lobbyists there are definitely voters who are anti-road-cycling.
You could apply this to everything in life and conclude that nothing matters. What is important is that Xerox PARC did invent many of the technologies we take for granted today. This should be celebrated along with all the other contributions that led us to the present.
An interesting switch, but who cares? There are gas stations everywhere.
I agree that it's quite inexplicable why a woman who didn't know the owner of the laptop ran after the thief who was at least a third bigger than she was.
>Without the invention of the mouse, we might all still be using trackballs. A mouse to me is not an "A ha!" invention.

A ha! was to me when i first time used trackball instead of mouse. It was so great, such fast and precise movements (don't remember the game though :) And if i remember correctly people with carpal tunnel get trackball instead of mouse.

>Everything that happens can have profound effects on the future. Think of the Challenger and Columbia disasters. While it's true that the American public had somewhat lost interest in the shuttle program prior to the Challenger disaster, they didn't think of it as risky or dangerous. Think of the lives that would have been saved and how much farther along we might be in space exploration had greater precaution been taken.

i come from different school of thought. Whatever number of butterflies somebody squash today, it may (and will) affect only small details of the future while the whole system's trajectory will still be in the same volume of phase space as it determined by the macro conditions (like energy constraints, etc...).

>farther along we might be in space exploration had greater precaution been taken

the technological civilizations follow typical path. A bit faster, a bit slower doesn't matter. What matters is whether given technological civilization hits a bifurcation point like all-out nuclear war or uncontrollable climate change or uncontrollable run-away genetic development or implosion into ant-colony state as result of members being "always connected" ...
Canada pretty much uses X litres/100km nowadays recently replacing mpg. The lower the litres, the more efficient the vehicle. It actually was fairly easy to become accustomed to these new metrics.
MPG is useful for range estimates: if you've got n gallons, you can travel m miles.

GPM is useful for budget estimates: if you have a trip of m miles, you'll need n gallons of fuel, with some given cost.

Or you can use a tool such as GNU units which handles reciprocal conversions with ease and aplomb.
Thank you, Simone.
I've seen this done with non-empty drinks, so no, not always.
How much harder would this attack have been with a fully patched OSX Mavericks target and an Apple Time Capsule router?
> from skimage.transform import rotate

> rotate(image, angle, resize=True)

Also, scikit-image provides a nice interface for geometric transformations: `SimilarityTransform`, `AffineTransform`, `ProjectiveTransform`, `PolynomialTransform`.
The odds of getting your stuff stolen are very low. But having your stuff stolen is so bad, that it is worth doing stuff to avoid it, like taking it with you to the bathroom.
This was the only possible end.
That may depend on the language you are using.
The author seems confused or is deliberately straw-manning the issue:

>[unlimited liability] would basically make the corporate form untenable. Imagine, if you would, that by buying and holding the share of a firm for 10 minutes, you thereby subjected yourself to seizure of all your goods to satisfy potential lawsuit judgments

Here, she is conflating ownership (of any type/duration) with the actual decisions made and actions taken by the company. The reality is that we know that common shareholders, for instance, are seldom involved with day-to-day or even long-term decision making of the type that frequently causes companies to incur liability. Are we really to believe that a court would sieze the assets of Joe Blow because he day-traded the stock of company X once upon a time?

But, if a common shareholder, who happened to be holding voting-stock during a 10-minute interval, in which the company decided to hold a public vote on, say, whether to deny a recent study on asbestos health-effects, did vote in the affirmative, then perhaps he/she should be liable.

But, such a scenario is ridiculous on its face for many obvious reasons. Not the least of these reasons is that the average shareholder is generally just as likely to be as duped by the company as the general public when it comes to issues of potential liability. Shareholders are effectively treated as customers too, with regard to the image the company wants to put forward, lest there be a devaluation of the stock.

So, by conflating the shareholders with the actual decision makers in such a ridiculous way, the author uses FUD to provide cover for the true beneficiaries of limited liability: the board and executive leadership.
And I don't understand why Amazon continues to let it happen. At that volume, surely they must know.
Alan Kay posits that yes it does matter that PARC "invented the future" because there were and are very few researchers working with the opportunity mix necessary. They had five years of freedom from business concerns, tons of ambition, the right context, intelligence and inspiration. Kay claims that the extremely unique situation and persons at PARC and previously at ARPA are what gave rise to the inventions. I think he would agree with you that other people would have made similar discoveries and inventions, if only they too had the opportunity and necessary materials. From what I have heard Alan say in his speeches his perspective is that the opportunity simply does not exist today, at least not in the necessary configuration to do what PARC did.

Check out this video for a more detailed history recounted by Kay about PARC and what led up to it:
http://vimeo.com/84523828
Well, if his password was weak, easier than TFA.

I don't know about the vulnerabilities in the Time Capsule router, but from my understanding the only router firmware even remotely worth a look in terms of security would be OpenWRT.
Also if you think of this from a retailers POV, they want to give as little commission to RetailMeNot as possible. From their view most customers are on the site ready to buy anyway and now just want to see if they can get a better deal cause they saw 'promo code' on the buy form.

If a large company says ok RetailMeNot we're going to pay you 2% instead of 4% what can RetailMeNot do? They can refuse the offer and lose all revenue from this retailer, only to have Google search learn people prefer to go to their competitor site who still has their coupons or take the cut. I dont see them having a lot of negotiating power.

Also if anyone wants an idea, create a browser extension that opens a dropdown on sites that have promo-codes displaying whats available. It would be a much better experience than going to a new tab and searching.
Ask HN: "No such thing" as flexible unpaid work in software dev?
Hi there, I had a question. So due to some personal issues, I haven't been working for a while. I do have past experience as a dev, but I'm sort of in an in-between zone where a flat out basic internship given to college grads would be a weird fit for me, but entry level might be overwhelming. I'm preferably looking for something unpaid, or if legally necessary, minimal pay.

Recently I finished up at a Coding Bootcamp and just last week spoke with the recruiting coordinator there. She said that what I was looking for basically didn't exist, and would have be be custom made for me. That "entry level jobs are too much work to create". I found that a bit odd since they work with lots of people who technically have much less experience than me, and certainly I have found flexible and entry level work at some point when I was starting out too!

I was thinking along the lines of, perhaps a startup who hasn't quite gotten funding yet, and they could use all the work they could get. I could pop in a few days a week as my schedule worked and I wouldn't expect anything in return but the experience it would help give me.

Is it true that it's impossible to come by this type of situation? I'm sure it's harder to find than a full time job expecting a certain level of experience but it seems odd to say it doesn't exist!

If anyone knows about resources for this kind of thing or has a lead for me let me know. I am in the Seattle area and have a very interesting story to tell :)
To provide an example of why this is complete and utter nonsense, BEHOLD, an example of imperative AND mutable programming in Haskell:

http://bitemyapp.com/posts/2014-03-25-when-nested-io-actions...
Citations, or you are just promoting your opinion.

I'm also curious about the numbers showing that 55mph is the most efficient. I do not particularly dispute that this is the case for the majority of vehicles. I am curious as to whether or not this is as it has to be, or because that is the way vehicles are built in the US. That is, could you do better with different high speed gearing?
This is a great talk in a completely unwatchable format. Here are links to mp4s of the video:

http://stream.hpi.uni-potsdam.de:8080/download/podcast/HPIK_...

http://stream.hpi.uni-potsdam.de:8080/download/podcast/HPIK_...

http://stream.hpi.uni-potsdam.de:8080/download/podcast/HPIK_...

http://stream.hpi.uni-potsdam.de:8080/download/podcast/HPIK_...
Quite.

I'm exploring some areas at the moment generally outside the "general acceptance field", and it's uncomfortable. I find that when I run across others, especially others I know, who are expressing similar concerns, or better, are reaching conclusions similar to mine, that I'm strongly reassured.
SSE = Streaming SIMD Extensions in my brain. They should name it something else.
Unix: Making Computers Easier To Use (1982)
To be honest, I can't imagine taking a laptop with me to the bathroom. It seems both awkward and fearful.

I prefer to not live in an environment of fear, even in NYC. Statistically speaking, it's very unlikely that anything will be stolen, especially since I usually ask someone to keep an eye on it.

Also, my insurance would cover theft——in many cases, renter's insurance or your credit card will.
I run an SEO fueled business and it scares the crap out of me; especially as we hire our first full time employee. The fact that Google could literally shut down my business at any time keeps me up at night.

My business started as a hobby and has grown significantly (due to SEO ranking improvements) over the last couple years. We're now at a point where we (my wife and I) can no longer handle the volume that's coming in. Our options right now are a) hire an employee to help reduce the load or b) remain small and stagnant because Google could cut the cord any minute.

I'm trying like hell to find alternate traffic streams like Adwords, Facebook, Mobile, etc, but I can't quite figure out how to make a reasonable profit with them. So for now I guess I just have to take the risk. No guts, no glory.
Isn't this just a trailing GET? This technique has been around since the 90's and has been used in lots of applications.

The comparison to AJAX in 2005 is a little odd for me, as this is already a pretty mature technique. AJAX in 2005 was pretty novel because the prior (to Google, and others) use-case was for early Microsoft web apps tied heavily to IE.
>You could apply this to everything in life and conclude that nothing matters.

it matters "locally" - to individuals who invent and innovate and to ones who gets direct financial profit from it. The rest of civilization will get it anyway, at the time when civilization is ready to consume it, so details don't matter at that scale. Ancient Greeks could in theory build a steam engine [granted very low efficient] - they wouldn't have been able to put it use anyway, it would be just a curiosity like Aeolipile was.
There is absolutely no reason it has to be a normal distribution. But let's say you started with one for the sake of simplicity. You could shift the peak a very small amount left (with taxes) and use that money to bring the entire left edge up to the same standard of living. This would have next to no effect on the right edge, the ones succeeding spectacularly.

The distribution is already highly skewed anyway.
There's a wealth of information here http://www.fueleconomy.gov/
A.H. Reeves  Symposium on Digital Filters (1970)
If you saw a sign that said "4k surveillance video on premises" would you feel secure? At some point the fuzzy video quality will be good enough that people are really going to have to find another line of crime.

I've been in places in NYC where I run to the restroom and have left my laptop.
A lot depends on typography and convention as well. For example, Maxwell's equations in raw form are HUGE. It's only after you compress them by inventing short hand for div and grade, they can be fit on T-Shirt. Even then integral forms does not feel as elegant. Similarly the field equations for General Relativity in "raw" form huge and ugly (involving 4X4 matrix). It's only after you shorten them using tensor notation they start feeling elegant.

I'm not sure we have analog for this in art world. However the technique in this article is interesting because you can extend it to other domains. How about finding out which algorithms are "beautiful"? I think the most beautiful algorithm ever invented is binary search.
A simpler explanation: people who spend their 20s in the military or in prison can't attend college until later in life. These are two large populations that are predominantly male and from lower classes.