skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life is an RPG, play it.

Grind your stats.

Strength: Find an activity you enjoy that also gets you active. Rock climbing, biking, golf, ultimate frisbee, kite flying. Something you love doing solo.

Wisdom: When I'm learning a new language, I watch shows with English subtitles so that I can hear word usage. If you can find a kids show you can tolerate, it's better because you get a bit simpler sentence structure. So watch our TV with subtitles you understand fluently. Also read in English, fiction or non-fiction but nothing technical, start with kids' books, work your way up. Read with a dictionary at your side and look up every word you don't know. Set alarms on your phone and email if you need to be reminded to turn off the computer and go outside. Also try siteblocking everything that isn't essential to life.

Charisma: It can be easier to speak openly when you're not facing the other person. Sitting or walking or riding bikes side by side, you don't have to focus on their physical cues as much, and you can chat casually. One thing that PUA's do that's valuable is grinding out that part of your brain that worries about what other people think. Just grind it the fuck out, have conversations and fail. If you're weird, let the weirdness show.

Dexterity: Women like a man who's good with his hands. Building skill in something physical - carving wood, a sport, magic tricks - builds confidence.

Intelligence: You're an engineer, so engineer your way out of this. Don't overthink every moment, but hack your social functions. Try to notice the subconscious rules you operate on, if you have the money talk to a therapist for a few sessions. It can be very helpful to have an intelligent and objective expert point out your blind spots to you so you can work on them and balance for them.
Nice writeup. It seems like a supervised learning approach to fraud detection. I have a question: Where does the is_fraud variable come? Is it done by humans?
More broadly, it's important to distinguish what things are aspects of the actual program semantics and what things are just common implementation strategies. Linking in lots of STL implementation code is not strictly necessary to get the behavior of a structure where one can push_back and walk over with an iterator. A similar argument to the article's would say that a compiler for a language with first-class functions cannot target a system with memory protection.

That said, most general-purpose languages are designed with the expectation that they'll be implemented on a conventional target machine. Compiling something like C++ to efficient hardware is probably far into "sufficiently smart compiler" territory. So I'm inclined to believe the conclusion even if the proof is faulty.
It does work with regular JS though we present our examples in CoffeeScript.
They're talking about advancing society, not replacing a t-shirt. You're having a separate discussion.
Disclaimer: I work for Google as the product manager for Persistent Disk.

I suspect that what crb is referring to is the ratio of 30 IOPS/GB being the top ratio that could be bought and what that would cost on a per GB basis. I don't think crb was suggesting a 1 GB volume.

As for the specific case you describe - looking for 30 IOPS consistently on a 50 GB volume, with Google, there is no need to go to SSD for that or to pay $16.25/month.

- If you meant 30 random reads, you can hit that with 100GB of Standard PD for $4.00/month (with no IO charges)

- If you meant 30 random writes, it's less as 50 GB gets you 75 random write IOPS for $2.00/month (with no IO charges)

At Google, we've tried to bring consistency of performance even to the lower tier of block storage so no matter what level of IO you need, you can count on seeing a consistent level between volumes and over time.

So, how do you choose between the two PD types? As a very coarse rule of thumb:

- If you are looking for 2 random read IOPS / GB or less, growing Standard PD volumes to meet the IOPS needs is the most cost effective route

- If you are looking for 2-30 IOPS/GB, SSD Persistent Disk gets you the better value
The number of people that can win an Olympic Gold is arbitrarily fixed. The number of people that can become financially successful isn't.
Marc Andreessen: Turn Detroit Into Drone Valley
YouTube's Biggest Draw Plays Games, Earns $4 Million a Year
Their quality is sometimes really bad. Check out the first result for their own portal to all their online services:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=portal.microsoftonline.com

edit: Interestingly, for me it went from an "offer not available" link to urlwebz to the actual sign-in in the hour since I posted that. If nothing else, the search results are changing fast.
I dont know full details of Cap'n Proto, so please correct me if I am wrong. My impression is that Cap'n Proto is a re-implementation of protocol buffers with additional functionality for RPC wrapped in a futures/promises abstraction. Would that be a reasonable summary of Cap'n Proto ?

Guessing from the name I expected FlatBuffers to be a unified file format for on-disk and on-RAM presence, so that you can just mmap the disk file and you have the data-structure in memory. No need to translate between on disk and on disk representations. I am not claiming that it is so, this is what I expected it to be, given the name. But after spending some time looking around I am still confused if that's what it is. Would appreciate confirmation either way. Have to look at the code when I get around to it.

I have an use case in mind for a tree of appendable/insertable matrices. HDf5 comes close, but isnt quite what I am looking for.

EDIT @vertex-four thanks for the clarification much appreciated.
Immunity Project gets published in Vaccine
It is indeed fascinating to study possible true origins of flood myths and other myths, but it's important to remember that finding a possibly true local origin doesn't provide evidence for a miraculous flood, whether global or local.
The painful truth about NASA's warp drive spaceship
> If you really wanted to be safe from Microsoft and not pay them licensing fees, you could have paid some professionals to review their patent holdings for you, and identify any patents that could potentially be asserted against your smartphones.

Or just stop being a competitor, I think this is what they're going for. Barring that, pay them some protection money.
But, if someone were to point out that an unfair law had been renewed, they would need to justify why it was renewed. That'd be slightly better than now, right?
Here are the ones that I found most useful, by Andrew Ng [1] and Daphne Koller [2] on Coursera.

[1] https://class.coursera.org/ml-003/lecture
[2] https://class.coursera.org/pgm-003/lecture
Hmm, I'm not seeing that analogy & how it relates to this discussion. Maybe you can connect the dots for me?

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My interpretation of your statement is that I'm pleading for people to upvote my post. Here's my take:

HN karma is a silly metric. What does it measure? How in sync you are with other HN commenters' opinions?

I see downvotes as people's reaction to something that I view as truth. Most people don't like their viewpoints challenged and will often take measures to punish such viewpoints.

HN is kindof a pulse of the community and receptivity to certain viewpoints.

I'm also curious over the characteristics of people who habitually downvote. Do they tend to be more judgmental, closed minded, & cruel? What is the incentive? Are lack of upvotes not enough?

It's not a really effective way to encourage "correct" behavior. I guess it's a way of weeding out certain people. That's fine, I'm here to let people get their moral buzz by downvoting something they don't agree with.

Go ahead and downvote this post too :-)
Too late to edit: it's kind of interesting how each of the replies to me used the taxi industry in their counter arguments, but not liquor licenses which is what the topic is about.
I agree that shopping can be a trap. If you don't have money to do a big, occasional shop for food/etc, you'll likely make a series of smaller trips to a supermarket, buying few things but still losing time, fuel and maintenance on each drive of your car, for example. Lose time and you're under more pressure elsewhere in life.
How does one go about finding a mental health professional? Throwaway account here, I am personally aware that I should seek mental healthcare, but have no idea where to start.

How do I choose between therapist, psychologist, and psychiatrist? How do I pick one therapist out of the many therapists in my city?
> My impression is that Cap'n Proto is a re-implementation of protocol buffers with additional functionality for RPC wrapped in a futures/promises abstraction.

No. It's a serialisation format that's specifically designed so that data structures in this format can be used as-is by programs, without unnecessarily copying data into or out of the format to use it. The RPC layer is then built on top of that, but the format could also be used for mmapped files, etc.
Been meaning to watch these sometime:

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/vlavrenk/iaml.html
Jonathan Ive on Apple's Design Process and Product Philosophy
The News App for iOS
What's wrong with just using jQuery? what's the rational for using a reactive solution?
In a free market, property rights are more extensive than in a highly regulated market, so tort law serves many of the purposes that regulators and federal agencies currently do.

When a multinational company causes damage to a harbor, beach, ecosystem or city, damaged parties can file suit for compensation. A harbor authority may have provided a guarantee to assume responsibility for environmental problems, in order to be granted the relevant rights of way, or it may be on the other side of the law, filing suit against a company which has damaged its income stream. Landowners or municipalities can file suit for damage caused to a beach, and fishermen, environmental tour companies, or governments can file suit for damage to ecosystems.

In the United States, the EPA has absolved many companies of any responsibility, or at least greatly diminished the corporations' costs, by depriving damaged parties of a cause of action, as the EPA has the sole responsibility for many forms of pollution, and their regulation.

Free markets are not very different from mixed systems in dealing with issues like climate change, but they do make it plain to each individual that they are directly responsible for the outcomes which come to pass. This responsibility is more effective in regulating action than one might think.

In a market system, entities at fault may be defunct by the time the repercussions of their actions are apparent; on the other hand, politicians are rarely held to account on any single issue, and they are often more ephemeral than large corporations; the bureaucrats responsible for regulation are never held to account for any results at all.
If you run your own server, you can make trusted calls from machines that don't have any client software set up, as can others using your server. Seems straightforward enough. It's clear the "no install" claims are about the client.
if anything, this is a testament to why closed source software is dead.

Spend $1000+ on a device. it doesn't do what you want? get world famous and complain. have a team of engineers fix it for you. ...right.

Almost everything i hated on my first android phone i fixed it myself or lazily waited for someone else to fix it... yeah, it took a year or so to have it how i liked. My new phone, if i install any custom ROM i will lose some of the new hardware functionality, so i can't. i have to wait for the company to fix the annoyances i have, which i am pretty sure will be never. sadly i don't have the time to make the new hardware work because that is a retarded huge amount of time you need to waste.
Game of Thrones themed hackweek project tells what SF neighborhood to inhabit
Kudos, what I've learned:

- When we don't get what we want, we get something even better than what we originally wanted

- Events that lead to the best outcomes often are disguised as failures

- We always get what we need

Best wishes to you. If only there were a startup that made it easy for founders to find jobs/gigs after their startups.
So I see 83 pages of twitter shortspeak as the only thing released in this FOI Request, it is possible that there are leetspeak terms defined there, but I did not bother checking.
The lost art of ROT-13-ing spoilers
Not at all. Just that mistakes happen to everyone, even the biggest corporations.

I could have phrased that a little better. Perhaps "I've made similar types of mistakes that were obvious in retrospect, so I have a hard time faulting them" might be a better way to say it.
The people writing and reading these papers for a living must live in a bubble and may not even realize how far and weird it is.

Could it be possible for a patent crash to happen? Maybe the way to get rid of this absurdity is to push it to the extreme, produce industrial quantities of silly patents and force the whole system to a stop, then a single match would easily burn all of it.
>In effect, undisclosed patents are like a law that someone says they know you are breaking, but they won't tell you why unless you agree not to tell the next guy. That's no way to run a society.

Undisclosed patents? That's quite an oxymoron. "patent" literally means out in the open. There are no undisclosed patents here. Even patent applications are public.
I wasn't trying to define communism - if I was doing that I would say it was the public ownership of the means of production - or something along those lines.

A better way of putting it would be 'all countries who have turned to communism have a lack of freedom to change the status quo'. It's not the definition of communism - or even one of it's stated goals - but the lack of ability for individuals to benefit from their efforts creates a situation where the status quo is difficult to change.

Your example of China illustrates this perfectly - all the while that mao-ist communism held sway, China went nowhere - or backwards - in terms of changing. The current weak-communism allows people to retain the rewards of their benefits - and so the dynamism of china has increased greatly.

I'm not talking at the single voter level - I'm more talking at the Bill Gates/Steve Jobs/Elon Musk level. You need strong individual change agents to move the whole game forwards, and in a publicly-owned, incentive destroying regime, these individuals never flourish. That is what entrenches the status quo, and that is why communism is characterized by a lack of status quo. There certainly is no argument that communism causes stagnation, the results are quite shocking even if you remove the tendency for brutal dictators to leverage themselves into the position of power and murder their opponents.

I agree that democracy at the federal level is very flawed, particularly in the EU, but also in the US, where Federal departments and laws overrule too many local and state laws. The success of Federalism lies in the reuiqrements of individual regions to compete in terms of opportunity and the ability of like-minded people to gather and control their destiny. Texas and Oregon should be allowed to evolve in different directions, as should Sweden and Greece. Forcing harmonious regultions and taxation on them makes both areas feel aggrieved. The benefits from Federalism are really about applicability of similar laws, common defense and completely free trade within the borders. The drawbacks are losing your voice by vote dilution. The balance has to be at the point where a federal government is limited as to the extent it can override state laws.
> because loops have to do bounds checking, but iterators don't.

They still have to check something to know when to stop iterating, though, don't they? You may have traded a bounds check for a dynamic dispatch or some "is done" check, but there's still some conditional logic each iteration isn't there?
In my experience, I found that I was far more productive/successful in undergrad when I used Windows as my main OS and set up *nix virtual machines for the my computer science classes. Having the computer just _work_ and not needing to worry about software/configuration conflicts between classes was a huge improvement over trying to do everything inside of a single native OS.

That said, I now have a Macbook Pro and love that I have a native unix shell and MacPorts. But I still run virtual machines for specific projects (e.g. a Windows VM for all that software that just doesn't exist for OSX/Linux; unfortunately free alternatives don't work when you need to collaborate with a team).
Valve Bans Developer for One Year for Publicly Exposing Exploit Vulnerability
You might like Manymo -- our company -- it's Android emulators as a service. Every recent OS and screen size combo; launches in a couple of second. Accessible from a browser, or in ADB.

https://www.manymo.com/
TEST LISTING by AIRBNB 2
OMG I love that cartoon. "Machine learning" is such a funny phrase if you think about it.
There's a comment from another sketcher in here talking about how it might be a peculiar grip not used by all artists.
>I've wondered before if a group of hackers could DDOS the patent system.

There is such a group and they're already doing it. One of the players is the focus of this article, in fact.
(I don't work for Airbnb, but work in a similar space)

Yes, this variable is usually set after the fact. For instance, a given transaction may have led to a chargeback, or may be done by a known fraudster. These models are usually trained on historical data, so we can know with some certainty which transactions are fraud.

It could be that a transaction was fraudulent but has not yet led to a chargeback (maybe the real cardholder hasn't yet seen their statement?), so there's still some uncertainty, but hopefully that approaches a minimum after some time passes.
Plus all one would have to do is actually use the pen for drawing. It doesn't take an artist actually using it to understand how that's a problem.
It may have been specifically coded as a "proof of concept" against a pre-release version of the OS, in which case it would have been very foolish to just chuck it on the machine he depends on for his livelihood.

Try not to be so arrogant in future. For Linux devices you could have developed this yourself (and assumed due responsibility) but under OSX/iOS the dev team wouldn't have been nearly as receptive to his issues.
Ask HN : Who's in NYC for YC StartUp School
I'm here two days early for Startup school and thought it would be cool to catch up with other people attending. So let's meet up?
Except for my use case, which is when you have a 1,200 page document with hundreds of tables, lists, and pictures. The thing grinds to a halt and has all sorts of problems. Yes, I know that MS Word is not the best choice for documents that big, but it's not up to me.
My favorite:
WTFT What the French toast? (polite WTF)
It reminds me of Jim Collins' concept (not original to him, I know) of shooting lots of little bullets and seeing which one hits, rather than wasting gunpowder on one big cannonball before you're even sure you're aimed in the right direction.

Except he mostly used that concept to describe how companies decide which individual products or strategies to focus on, while the idea of a pivot is that you shift your entire company to do something else. (Reminds me of another Collins metaphor - it's important to get the right people on the bus first, and then you can decide together where to drive.)
Undisclosed patents? That's quite an oxymoron.

It should be perfectly clear from context that I am referring to specific patents that are used as a threat against competitors, without the specific patent numbers being revealed. No amount of searching the patent database will tell you conclusively which patents those are.
Yes, this is because VHDL is not code. It's a different paradigm entirely. The FPGA doesn't "run" the VHDL, etc.

The units in an FPGA are just a little bit of logic with a bunch of connectivity to local busses.

I haven't done much VHDL lately (ECE '96 here) but I do remember how the stuff works. But then again I focused mainly on CPU architecture.
I began to feel that in certain contexts positive discrimination can play an important role.

I guess what I want to say is that I believe positive discrimination is too blunt an instrument. If there is a problem with unequal access to resources then solve that problem directly. Positive discrimination attempts to apply a band-aid to the problem after the damage has been done. And this fix is so broad that it may actually worsen the inequality of resources situation for many people.
Start skydiving:
http://www.uspa.org/AboutSkydiving/HowtoStartSkydiving/tabid...

There are many car pools in the bay area that head to some of the local places (Byron, Lodi, and Davis). Most skydivers are also socially awkward and come from very different walks of life. It will give you the confidence that you can do something different and scary while also being novel enough that it's a conversation starter. Though, if you monopolize the conversation that's a negative.

It didn't fix all my social anxiety, but I can't say how much it helped.
This looks clipped in my browser, but you can see the original diagram here: http://peekaboo-vision.blogspot.com/2013/01/machine-learning...
Are you attending startup school? I will be heading to Penn Station in the early morning / early afternoon. I am a marketing/business/developer hybrid from Long Island. Always looking to network!
Perhaps. But I wouldn't describe "preventative maintenance" by police as necessarily bad, if (and that's the big question) it can help avoid direct negative consequences down the road where those negative consequences outweigh the hassle of what they're doing.

At some point living with other people will necessarily inconvenience you, whether it's sobriety checkpoints, or directing traffic, or jury dury, or voting, or taxes, or any of the dozens of other things that go into the civic duties of maintaining the general welfare.

Obviously there's a balance that must be chosen (e.g. the speed traps in rural Georgia that are so dense that you have to assume they are more for revenue than for safety), but I don't think police activity only becomes legitimate when it's directly focused on a specific and known criminal occurrence.
>But if they are unable to see such opportunities then choosing to become more educated is not a bad choice provided as is the case in this situation that it does not present an additional financial burden.

You aren't taking into consideration opportunity costs. I spend 4 years at school to get a Spanish degree that doesn't cost anything for me to go. Now I have a Spanish degree and I have exactly the same job as I could have gotten before the degree. I've wasted 4 years where I could have been making a salary, pursuing hobbies, raising children, etc.

We shouldn't be like:

1) Take a class/get a degree in anything with no plan whatsoever.

2) ???

3) PROFIT!
And yet, for the last 30 years, the number of those who are successful relative to the rest of the population has suffered sharp decline.

Do you honestly not know this? Or are you simply the sort of person who just doesn't mind?
I like Excel as much as the next guy, but even in 2013 when you open a delimited text file it makes you manually tell it what the delimiters are. A computer should be able to guess whether a large text file is CSV, TSV, etc. This is an example of something Apple would get right, but Microsoft does not, even after more than a decade with this heavily-used feature. A tasteful implementer would make it do something reasonable by default, rather than making thousands of users click "Next" repeatedly and get presented with nonsensical defaults.