skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using a wavelet time frequency analysis is what they generally do to highlight these kinds of patterns when dealing with brain activations of neural populations. It gives you an idea of power of a specific frequency over time [e.g., http://www.lauriefrick.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/wavlet...]. And apparently it's already been used for analogous purposes: [
http://www.paramics-online.com/downloads/technicaldocs/wavel...] :-)
Good points. McCain & Feingold passed campaign finance reform about 10 years ago, for the claimed purpose of getting money out of politics.

What that bill did succeed in doing was put more boundaries in place for less-powerful entities, while ensuring the more-powerful entities can do what they want, via fiat, loophole, secrecy, whatever.

Mission accomplished?!
I built a simple nodejs-based proxy that's meant to sit in front of a world exposed solr instance: https://github.com/dergachev/solr-security-proxy/

Perhaps it could be adapted to the elasticsearch scenario.
Check out https://mayday.us/the-plan and also http://reform.to/#/reforms for specific pieces of legislation that will be the 1st step in addressing the problem.
The RFS never said one million low end jobs and specifically stated they are not looking for companies that would employ one million people. Maybe creating 1,000,000 enterpreneurs?
>Prostitution is a victimless crime. Human trafficking is not. Unfortunately, without legalizing and regulating prostitution worldwide, it's impossible to disambiguate between an autonomous sex worker and a human trafficking victim. But sites like these can really help with that disambiguation.

>The FBI should be working toward this disambiguation. It should be filtering out the sex workers from the human trafficking victims, because the latter are the only actual victims in this business.

Have you ever considered that the opponents of legalized prostitution want it this way? They want prostitution to be conflated with human trafficking, rape, and violence against women because nobody is for those things. They want to be able to use that as their major emotional argument to circumnavigate logic and reason so people react based on emotion, not reason.
>First and foremost, if you're trying to get better at technical interviews, the best way to do that is to actually do it.

So to fix problems with signaling there should more signaling and even more wasted hours?
>A common pattern for people using Samza is actually to accumulate a large window of data and then rank using a complex brute force algorithm that may take 5 mins or so to produce results.

I think the argument eventually comes down to what people mean by "batch" and "stream". Some people might describe the aforementioned Samza use case as (micro-)batch as opposed to stream processing.

All in all, I found your post insightful. If a system with fewer moving parts can handle the same data processing requirements, that will be appealing to the majority of users.
I think you are confused with his proposal. YC is looking for any company that can create demand that requires 1 millions workers to fulfill it.

It is not to create a huge company. It has nothing to do with eliminating jobs. It has nothing to do with provide basic living standard.

For example, if a new technology that allow us to regrow part of organs easily, but it requires living persons to carry the organs within their bodies until organs mature to be transplanted. Those people may have a job as 'organ incubator'.
One other difference that a co-worker pointed out is that he's been asked by at least 3 tourists where the nearest weed shop is.

So now tourists ask us where the best places to hike & get weed are.
> How did you do it?

I got extremely lucky. I got dragged kicking and screaming into being an early hire at Google.

> What did it feel like when you first realised it was going to be true that you would never have to work again if you didn't want to?

Kind of surreal. On the day of the IPO, one minute I was still a working stiff, and the next minute I was suddenly looking at an account with my name on it with more digits than I had ever seen before.

> How old were you?

39

> What was it specifically that made the cash that ended up in your pocket?

Not sure what you mean here. The IPO obviously, but that was set up by the work I did at Google, which in turn was set up by the work I'd done prior to that, which in turn was set up by going to college, which in turn was set up by doing geeky things in high school that college admissions committees liked.

> Do you feel happy in your life?

Yes, but it took a while to get here. Having money is certainly nicer than not having it, but it's no panacea. It comes with its own set of problems, and it has taken me a while to figure out how to deal with them (still working on that actually). Nice problems to have to be sure, I wouldn't trade my life for anyone else's. But even nice problems to have are still problems.

It's also important to realize that money is only useful as a lever to accomplish some other goal, and if you don't know what you want out of life, money is not going to help much in figuring it out. A lot of people who make money without first getting to know themselves well enough to know what they really want out of life end up being miserable because they discover that having money in and of itself doesn't make them happy and then they are lost.

BTW, one of the things I found that I really want out of life is to be productive. So even though I don't have to work any more, I still do. I'm actually busier now than I was when I had to work to pay the rent.
Not exactly. He exposed his email address as a contact for bitcoin related development, then used the same username some time later as one of the first people to _discuss_ silk road. It's a tenuous connection at best, but this seemingly minor opsec lapse gave the investigators a hint to follow.
Simplest possible examples of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Does Grails and Gradle really have a tight relationship? In the past my experience has been that these two work really poorly together. Has this changed?
I pressed the "sign up" button and . . . nothing happened.
Angular Developer to Join Music Start-up in San Diego, CA
If you are applying to the enterprise that won't change in foreseeable future.

Worse, Java really means Java and not any alternative language for the JVM.
No difference, just a new name. Not so bad I guess, however I fear it will cropper when vendors leap on the bandwagon again and start sell inappropriate tools and frameworks badged as Microservice and we can start the process of renaming again.
Stop Interrupting Me: How to stop silencing women in your workplace.
>Another market would be disintermediating personal trainers from the gyms they are associated with.

FYI, some dance instructors in the Bay Area work this way (i.e. they are independent but have relationships with various dance studios to teach and/or use the space for private classes.)
You are describing universal health care.
Function composition is a single, special case of a function accepting functional arguments. You could define the compose operator as below:

compose : (a -> b) -> (b -> c) -> (a -> c)
a `compose` b = \x -> b(a(x))

However, there is a whole spectrum of additionally possible functions which can be built to accept functions as arguments. Here's a couple of example:

partial3 : (Integer -> Integer -> Integer) -> (Integer -> Integer)
partial3 f = f 3
map : [a] -> (a -> b) -> [b]
map [] f = []
map (x:xs) f = (f x):(map xs f)

The first one takes a function and applies an argument, 3; the next one takes a list and a function and maps the list using the provided function. The idea of functions as arguments is a very powerful one, and from my understanding one with which people sometimes struggle.
this would be for physical work and less for odesk/elance type of jobs that can be virtual. think accountants, on site employees in retail, etc.
Mayday is run by Lawrence Lessig of Creative Commons fame (the guy also did a lot of work with Aaron Schwartz). He has very specific plans on what he wants this PAC to do. Check out his March TED talk for example: http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_the_unstoppable_wal...

The problem and his strategy are laid out in his (free CC-licensed) book The USA is Lesterland: http://lesterland.lessig.org/ As with all big ideas, that requires a bit more time to digest than a HN comment. Plus, he's a better writer than I am.

The main idea of his PAC is if political bills can only happen in our system with the approval of 'Big Money', you need Big Money to pass the reform that would get rid of Big Money's influence. Hence, you need a PAC that gets involved in specific races and puts pressure on candidates who don't support the changes they're pushing for.

On a more broader level, Lessig is one of the big names in a loose coalition pushing for a constitutional convention that would amend the Constitution to overturn Citizen's United. The neat thing about such a convention is it's a checks-and-balances way that the popular vote can effectively by-pass their congressional representatives. This has happened only once before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendment...

This can happen if 2/3's of states agree to participate. California just passed a "we're in" bill a few days ago, joining Vermont. Similar bills are pending in other states: http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/California-seeks-cons...

This is actually one of the few non-partisan issues that both sides can agree on. Well, the constituents of both sides... most representatives hate this idea, which is exactly why you need a well-funded PAC to exert influence onto them.
I'm very scared of interviewing. I'm 29 and actually never got a job by interviewing and only had 1 interview in my life. It was kinda awful and the lady that interviewed me explained me how I was failing, which I understood but can't improve just by will alone. I also have big troubles on how oral communication implies a deadline (answer quickly or look bad)... I enjoy emails much more than the phone

She said I had to sell my skills much more, instead of strictly answering questions and then waiting for the next one in silence. I felt like a sociopath with no people skills.. I'm kinda shy guy that doesn't do well with strangers, or bigger groups. From my readings online, this is very common with anxious people or introverts.

In the interview there wasn't a group but there was the "this person can control my destiny" pressure, which is also irrational (you can always get another job).

Another things that affects me is impostor syndrome: selling myself feels like lying.

Also the crap unanswerable questions like "What's your biggest flaw?"

So this could actually be very good for me :)
In fact just publish the original request alongside the notice that the search results are censored.
It's not most HNers idea of "never having to work again rich", but there's a great blog by a tech guy (and his techie-wife) who retired in his mid-30's, after having worked a decade or so in a regular salaried tech job. The blog is dedicated towards showing how to live a high-quality retired life with relatively small amount of money:
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/about/
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The only option I found was OpenCATS, which seems kind of dead.
Privacy Board Backs N.S.A. Program That Taps Internet in U.S.
I limited myself to moral indignation, and tried to be very clear that moral indignation is not simply what a person happens to dislike. But, since apparently I was not clear, I specifically support your right to say a broad range of things that I dislike. If someone merely dislikes it, I feel like it is probably protected.

People can find moral indignation at anything. People from certain countries find women with uncovered heads truly indignant. It might have a difference from merely disliking, but in the end, it's just as subjective and meaningless.

Quoting Eminem, which is something I don't think I've ever done before, You find me offensive; I find you offensive for findin' me offensive.

And I'm not making a rhetorical point when I say attitudes like yours, who consider themselves superior to others and therefore worthy of deciding how others should live their lives, absolutely disgusting. Does that mean your opinions should be banned, as causes of moral indignation?

If you think that intimacy must be priceable or marketable to have a value

I don't see how you can possibly read that from my comment.

And unfortunately, without a long comment, I don't know how to explain my opinion that prostitution devalues intimacy.

How can see how prostitution devalues intimacy for the participants. But you're going to have to explain to me how does prostitution happening to other people devalues your intimacy.

And guess what: prostitution is still happening, even while illegal.

I will say that there are many people who feel that sex is more about relational intimacy than just a physical act or pleasure

Sex is just a physical act. Lobsters have sex. What your sexual activities are about is for you to decide. Just stop trying to impose your views on others. Because you won't accomplish it, you'll just hurt a lot of people and make sexual traffickers very happy.
It's a bit amusing that "why is Java so slow" is in there. I have to think that's coming from people who are familiar with Java from the horrible Java browser plug-in rather than server-side Java.
Why? And even if there is a good reason this does not work because you can not prove that you actually were at the location you encoded into the block chain.
Direct download link of the original paper:

http://economics.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/comparison_languages...
I really truly feel sorry for this guy.
"It just will eventually get removed, years afterwards"

I'm fairly sympathetic to the "right to be forgotten", but this Guardian article does raise some troubling questions about exactly how it is going to work. Two of the things it mentions being hidden from Google results are from 2011 and 2010. Is that "years afterwards"? Is three years so long ago that the information is genuinely irrelevant?
I think this is a great idea but would go a step further and include every major region/country rather than just the EU and US.

A group of international servers cross referencing indexed webpages for possible censorship would be a powerful tool. It could rank each region on their applied censorship laws in regards to the internet while providing a means of presenting the information that is censored. For it to be successful though, it would have to work 'out of the box' internationally.
I'd point out that it is one corporation giving another corporation policing powers. A natural result of extending the rights and power of corporations in our society is that they replace our other existing social institutions.
Google is playing this ruling really cleverly. They will just blanket accept every single request for a "right to be forgotten" that they receive.

Once swathes of valid journalism disappears down the toilet, the shit is slowly going to hit the pan.

You could use this for some nefarious purposes I'm sure.

I have a client that wants a page removed because of a court case that painted them in a bad light. This ruling just made their year.
A better Photoshop experience
This is a Photoshop extension that shows thumbnails of all your open photoshop documents and allows you to perform tasks which previously required a lot of effort. It’s the missing documents panel I always wanted, and it completely changes the Photoshop experience.
Interesting. There have been rumblings within the Magento community for some time regarding the huge delays of Magento2 and general changes in the company since it was acquired by Ebay. Good time to be BigCommerce or Shopify.
how it is different to mine your own bitcoins rather than buying from market? Who decides and based upon what factors - how many coins you can mine?
Let's Kick The Discovery Channel Out Of Lancaster
I always wanted to become better in Elisp, so I'm using SoundCloud now from Emacs ;) https://github.com/r0man/soundklaus.el
Kinda off-topic: where'd you get the batman icon?
Interesting post. I guess the emerging subtext here is: are you happier once you win the lottery?

Maybe you are interested in some contrast from academia?

I managed to become the academic equivalent of "never have to work again rich", namely, I got a tenured-for-life can't-fire-me professorship at a major university. This is the equivalent of winning the lottery for academics: we get to work on what we want and we get paid for it!

I literally do not have to go to work if I do not want to. I only have to teach a couple of hours a week, and I can get a graduate student to do that for me if it annoyed me (which it doesn't; I derive a great sense of satisfaction and fulfilment from teaching).

> How did you do it?

Working hard, naturally, but not sooo hard. Say 40 hours a week. But probably I am thinking about science all the time, so it's kind of hard to evaluate. But I also did it through politics: knowing the right people, talking to the right people, learning the system, identifying trends, jumping on the right scientific bandwagons, publishing incremental results in trendy journals, and winning large public grants (so far over US$2 million).

> What did it feel like when you first realised it was going
> to be true that you would never have to work again if you
> didn't want to?

I reinterpret this as "What did it feel like when you first realised that the need to ever look for a job again was gone?"

The answer is it took me a long time to realise: being a professor is much like being a postdoc, with some extra admin thrown in. So it took me a long time to really accept the amazing luck I have. I'm still coming to terms with it (5 years later). It gets better every day.

> How old were you?

Tenured at 28, full professor at 31.

> Do you feel happy in your life?

Now yes. But not because of the job. Another commenter (diego) noted that "We all age, get sick, have family / relationship problems, need to stay motivated." I completely agree.

Happiness has come to me not because of the job, but because I finally understood the value of family and relationships -- personally I derive much more happiness from my children, my wife, and the people around me than I do from science (although I do dearly love science).

For various reasons I know lots of very wealthy people who need never work again. They are, without exception, all miserable fucked up debased individuals who are so idle and unfulfilled they end up spreading their emotional contagion to all who are unfortunate to be in their way.
Rent a CFO is a smart play for a start-up. Especially when you need help systematizing the business for growth. Suggest you look for someone established, who works on a consulting basis. Bonus, these guys can often foster introductions to a wide network of contacts, including investors.

Here's an article that may be useful> http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB125358186243529783
Philips shows off Ethernet-powered LED connected lighting for offices
> According to government data, the Denver city- and county-wide murder rate has dropped 52.9% since recreational marijuana use was legalized in January. This is compared to the same period last year, a time frame encompassing Jan. 1 through April 30.

They need to also compare with demographically similar cities and counties that did not legalize marijuana. Crime is often heavily influenced by national or broad regional factors. You have to identify and account for this when trying to figure out how much of an affect a local factor (such as marijuana legalization in your state) had.
There is no battle. Python 2 is winning handily if there is, it's not even close.
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I don't think the submitter's comment needs to be privileged. But it would be nice if both text and url are entered then the system just magically turns that text into a comment from the submitter. It would just save the submitter a step. I'll refrain from the typical dev comment about how it should be easy to do in the code. It probably isn't that easy. But probably not that hard either. :)
I've used Groovy extensively for 4 years or so now. A product we used that ran on JBoss decided to use it as the plugin language to extend / use internal APIs. I really pity Java people who don't know or haven't used Groovy yet. It's like embedding Lua into your C app. Why people still write the bulk of their code in pure Java is beyond me.

The other day I learned that Solr supports Groovy as an embedded language to write extensions in. It's amazing.
yes, you're right about twitter. However, we don't have that much of a problem with people hitting the social login button as much as with people forgetting that they used social last time they logged in.

They then try to enter email and password. When it rejects them, they try to reset the password, and get frustrated that the reset password does not work...

We relatively regularly answer support emails and just tell users "It looks like you used your google account to sign in last time, just hit the right button and you'll get in instantly"
While I tend to agree, there's some truth to the saying "Idle hands are the devil's playground". How do non-creative people lead fulfilling lives without being rewarded for their labor? I suppose there's lots of volunteer work to do, but if we could eliminate jobs, we might as well eliminate volunteer work.
> it is a sensible precaution to turn off hosted services where data from third parties is transmitted (like Jabber, IRC, VPN, FTP, TOR exit nodes, TOR RELAYS!! …)

TCP/IP as well?
I use Strava for my runs and rides, and you can get the heatmap (or at least similar) through the third party VeloViewer (http://veloviewer.com/) by looking at your "wheel".

I basically want my always on and exportable Moves (http://moves-app.com/) data to port into "Personal Heatmaps" of Strava.
States on the page that it is possible to hire people that you interview anonymously. So it could be a good source of people.
Multi-sig is a very powerful innovation for corporate use of bitcoin. Not because you can have arbitrarily many M of N signing a transaction, but that you can outsource complex policy in a trusted way. E.g., create policy that lower level employees can control a small percentage of a company's holdings, while higher level employees can control a higher percent. It allows you to implement flexibility that exists in the credit system, without giving up the trust/control that comes from the blockchain system.
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Well, I think you don't really know what a job is and what efficiency should be.

A job is demand that has to be fulfilled by another human being.

Demand comes from desires of human beings.

We as human beings, can have unlimited desires.

We as human beings, are limited by time of lives.

To create jobs is to create unlimited demand that need to be fulfilled with trading of time of another human beings.

Efficiency is to increase the purchase power of time. Then wealth of lives of human beings.

And wealth has to flow, otherwise prosperity won't appear.

And desires are limited by our imagination.
Interesting implementation - I'm just starting to poke into reactive, things like this help me think differently :)

That said, this is not the same thing as a double-click handler. This is a single click plus a double click when you click twice. Typically when you do double-click handlers you delay single-click until it's a confirmed not-double-click. I think I have an idea of how to make that work here, but do you have a preferred approach?