skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jobs are already increasingly difficult to come by for low skill persons. Add a conviction into the mix (whether justified or not), and most businesses won't see a good risk/value proposition from that hire.

This, in turns, leads to recidivism in many cases as people unable to find any opportunity will acquire their essential needs by whatever means.

What can be done about it, though, is very difficult. I'm curious if the occasionally tried "hire-a-felon" programs [i.e. Work Opportunity Tax Credit] that governments do to try to sweeten the pot have much beneficial impact or not.
If you have a dynamic IP address (most people do), getting a new IP is as simple as changing a byte in your router's MAC address.
Experts don't think that will happen:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal#Effects_on...
hackernews = stagnated
The law doesn't require relationship or commercial gain. I can't share my story (and I'm sure there are others out there) but I can assure you: if you mess with the wrong people, the CFAA has no bounds
As someone who works specifically recruiting for Startups and i have worked with some pretty fast growing ones the main challenges any of these startups is helping recruiting "passive candidates". What i mean by passive candidates is someone who is not actively looking for a job.

I believe a platform will come that does cut out the middleman and i am actually working on a few ideas but the harsh reality good companies want the best talent and that talent isn't always looking for a job.

Referral apps are a great way to attack the problem but i do not believe will be the only angle.

Michael
Sun Burn = Radiation Burn
1. They raised my business circuit from $69/mo to $99/mo for 20/5.

2. They raised the cost of statics, from 5 for $9.99 to 5 $19.99.

3. They sent me a letter saying that there has been a billing mistake for the last 6 years, I have been being under billed for my service.

4. They raised the monthly modem cost to $9.95/mo and you have to use their modem as a business customer.

So I went down to a residential 50/10, no contract, provided my own modem for $44.95 a month.
He's literally referring to bandwidth. Transit to get data from A (PDFy) to B (the visitor)

:-)
Yahoo reports another quarterly revenue decline despite CEO's efforts
Thank you for the clarification, and yes, most of what I gave as an example could be characterized as forward probabilistic methods.

- Start with a value + divergence and then propagate that state through your transforms to get a mean + divergent final state.

I should note that in the given example the base divergences need to be found through some method, which is usually running a Monte-carlo around some baseline state, and then making the significant assumption that new calculations (with small deltas) follow roughly the same statistical behavior.

For the backwards case, that can be a significantly more challenging case, as it basically comes down to performing approximate eigenvalue decomposition. However, there are a lot of SOTA tools like pretty much anything from this list:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_recognition#Algorithms

IE, the crater example is fairly close to the setup for a Hidden Markov Model, where we get final data, and assume that it is based on a set of hidden states. Or for lighter reading, almost any of the major tools used in the Netflix recommendation contest, which is effectively an enormous version of this problem.
REMINDER TO EVERYONE: WE MUST STOP THIS. IT'S NOT TOO LATE. DO YOUR PART. YOUR CHILDREN WITH THANK YOU.
I agree, although I do enjoy watching talks and things, well listening to them mostly. Usually stuff from http://perltv.org/ bit I couldn't imagine wanting to watch someone program. I can't imagine someone would want to watch me either.

Anyone have a reason to watch live coding streams? If so, why?
I'm not interested in using a web service that "lets" me do things I can already do without it.
Yes, it's very definitely an unpopular idea. Having all of this available will be great for people who want to find people... like, say, your violent ex, or an oppressive regime.
I have to disagree. The "last mile" problem will require deep pockets, and investments like those are not made when the upside is restricted by regulation. There are those on HN who get excited by Google Fiber. Reclassification of broad band makes that investment by Google less profitable and therefor less likely.
It isn't very clear. But at the bottom of the page https://www.udacity.com/course/ud853

You can see the feature matrix for the Free vs Paid

Click on View Course Ware and you can get the free version
> I meant "hardware access ([when the particular thing is] not exposed by other languages ...

Ok, I agree.

>Like I said, you cannot quickly do better than a modern compiler, and a compiler does it very, very quick.

I'm not sure what you mean by "quickly" but this submission proves that it can be done in reasonable time. And if you look at the code (for example here:
https://github.com/icebreaker/floppybird/blob/master/src/gam...), it's obvious that you cannot produce anything nearly as compact and efficient with a compiler.

So, claiming that assembly is still a language of choice nowadays was maybe exaggerated, nevertheless it's nice to remember that no matter how good they are, compilers come with a cost. If you need some evidence simply compare the submitted code with any code produced with a compiler.
Google Result:
Benchmarks Round Two: Parallel Go, Rust, D, Scala and Nimrod.
http://togototo.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/benchmarks-round-tw...

Consider the Nimrod Programming Language
http://geetduggal.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/consider-nimrod/
LaTeX definitely fits to your question.
I find this frustrating, because it reminds me just how un-clever I am. Other commenters are progressing quite far, but I've gotten stuck already at level 5. Puzzle games cause me to call into question my entire sense of being.
That surprised me as well. Of course we are HN but I really didn't think anybody except Google wanted this.
Seems like it made sense at the time [1]:

> Thanks to HP's distribution network, the iPod+HP was sold in retailers where Apple did not have any presence at the time, which included Wal-Mart, RadioShack, and Office Depot. Many of these retailers now sell Apple iPods.

In hindsight, the subsequent sales explosion makes it look unnecessary [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod+HP
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#Sales
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I guess it depends on the field one is in. Confusing, though.
As MitchellRobert already pointed out, I'm refering to traffic in the sense of data traffic (commonly called bandwidth). A very common remark I've gotten is "but what about the bandwidth usage?!", but nowadays it's not hard to get a few terabytes of monthly traffic allowance for under $10.

For this particular VPS, I'm paying $9.30 a month, and it includes 2TB of montly traffic. Cheaper offers exist, and there are always providers like OVH that genuinely offer unmetered traffic on the cheap (as long as it's used for a legitimate purpose, eg. serving hosted files).
>Regardless, I really don't know how you actually identify someone. Likely, as you say, physically being present(retina scan, fingerprinting, both?). You raise an interesting philosophical question; that is, what is identity?

It's not really a philosophical question being raised. The question of identity is always, "Is the person trying to authenticate the same person as someone with whom I have some relationship?" Online, you set up a username and password, and the presumption is that any person with that username and password is the same person who set up the account. If you want to prove your "real" identity, you're basically doing the same thing, but you're instead trying to prove that you're the same person as the one who was awarded your driver's license, or the same person whose birth is certified by your birth certificate.
By the way, to address the problem of guessing your friends' identity: I know this is a critical point in the system and thus I added something to prevent that guessing, of course. However, it's a dirty fix, as it may introduce new issues (but of course that may be improved soon): When address books are synced with the friend lists in the app, those "friend" connections are always reciprocal. So even if you have only one single person in your address book, and you're seeing posts from friends in the app, you don't know if that's the person in your address book or any of your friends who has started using the app as well. Someone that you don't want to hear from may add your phone number to their contacts, but you may block any user inside of the app and this blocking is persistent.
The campaign itself explicitly recognizes the irony. You aren't being that observant if you fail to recognize that.
> I mean at the end of the day, they DO have your identity.

This was always the dumbest thing about the real name policy: Google knew anyway. They could have let everyone have synonyms and pseudonyms until the cows came home and it would only disadvantage their competitors who don't have enough data to do the linkage of identities. Instead what they did was literally drove me away from putting any important information into G+ profile because it was linked to my real name - so Google is the loser all round.
I think your definition of Hacker differs from the original and less notorious one.
> academia or R&D shops

Those are two very different things. And most of those R&D shops are attached to companies capable of doing something with the research.

> while most of the money flows to companies that take those ideas and build consumer products with them

If you're looking to come up with ideas and make money from them, as opposed to publishing them for general benefit, academia is the wrong place to do that. Universities aren't necessarily patent trolls, but university IP licensing departments are. (In any case, universities that make claims over the innovations of their students and faculty are broken to begin with, and I wouldn't blame a university for researchers who go off and create entities to license their own inventions that the university doesn't own.)
This is contrary to what most logicians think: "Programs are Proofs", http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/frege/frege.pdf, a paper by Phillip Wadler, seems to outline the case pretty conclusively.

Or maybe, as my 5th-grader says, "There's school math, and then there's fun math". Programs are not arithmetic, that's true. I think Ms Mei's view of "math" is impoverished, and this blog post is proof.
The RealmBrowser (which can be found under /tools/ at the above source link) is already using Realm internally to show/edit any Realm file dynamically.
I don’t think anyone at Realm has ever tried, but I doubt it would work at this point. We do a lot of things specific to each language in the implementation, so we’d have to support RubyMotion explicitly for it work.
Exactly. Sorry, should have mentioned that. I wasn't really sure how to handle this. The problem is that (a) the app is optimized for phones and (b) it has to ask the user to enter their phone number manually if the device has no telephony features and (c) it can run on a single device only. I wanted to prevent users from the confusion that arises when they have the app on their phone already, install it on their tablet as well and then see that it stops working on the phone.
Emacs, at least on OS X, has “level 5” in its games as “5x5”, including the “how many moves has it taken so far” counter. I couldn’t beat that, and once I got to level 5 here, I couldn’t beat this! Someday I’ll finally figure it out…

Screenshot for comparison: http://i.imgur.com/U4ZlgY9.png
I actually made a small utility for this that utilizes mkfifo, script, and netcat.

I am thinking about making it into a web service but I don't know how.
Sadly most people who complain about regulatory burden know very little about actual regulations. I can't speak to hospitals (they do a LOT) or medical records but if you're doing something like running a clinical diagnostics lab, the "regulatory burden" can be as little as hiring a part time (FDA certified) lab manager who signs off on internal self-regulatory protocols and HIPAA can largely be distilled to "KEEP PATIENT DATA SECRET" with sane retention and security policies.

In my experience, healthcare and medical science are so difficult that the cost of the regulatory burden is a rounding error when you consider the amount of due diligence you have to do to make sure you don't badly mess up someone's life/health.
If it does, then it does so inconsistently. For me it doesn't on the About page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/115709092170300569371/about
Commons passes emergency data laws despite criticism
"then, for good measure, threw in: “He also dresses like a
lesbian, but it’s okay.” (This is a go-to Swisher barb;
she told Twitter CEO Dick Costolo he dresses “like
Ellen.”)"

I don't know about anyone else, but this strikes me as remarkably unprofessional. Would such comments be acceptable in a workplace if they were about a co-worker? If not, than why is it acceptable to speak similarly about people you cover. How Tony Conrad and Dick Costolo dress is orthogonal to what she focuses on as a journalist.
For developers and other tech guys maybe. But the average, non tech savy users have a very hard time understanding hierarchies and therefore tree controls. It's to such a degree that UX specialists like Alan Cooper strongly suggests never using tree views unless the data is naturally thought of as a hierarchy, such as a family tree etc.
I wanted to add a couple additional points, separate from my other response:

Everything at Oak Ridge did _not_ provide our grandparents with insignificant technical challenges. Not only for the points (in my other response) about neutron bombardment making the Hastelloy N brittle, but also:

- The cooling circuit glowed red hot. This indicates that it was close to its thermal creep zone; we didn't know much about thermal creep back then. [0]

- The MSRE reactor spent a good portion of its life down for maintenance. [0]

- The tritium release is not a small problem: of an estimated 2.0TBq of tritium produced, 6-10% diffused from the fuel system into the containment cell atmosphere, and another 6-10% was released from the heat removal system. And these were lower than expected. You really don't want your LFTR to be leaking tritium everywhere. [1]

- The decontamination of the experiment was really, really hazardous. Not only were they dealing with nuclear waste; they were dealing with nuclear waste and fluorine gas. You really don't want to be anywhere near elemental fluorine gas. This was all because ORNL didn't defuel and store the salts correctly; it's mostly been rectified in modern designs[1]. But it goes to show how horrifyingly dangerous the components are. As bad as a nuclear spill would be, you have to remember that these aren't your run of the mill molten salts. They're highly toxic salts spewing out gamma, beta, and alpha radiation. I'm trying to imagine what it would be like if Chernobyl released these kinds of chemicals in its radiation plume. I don't think I can imagine something that horrifying. Toxic rain over Germany doped with uranium hexafluoride and plutonium? I'd rather have coal power. And I hate coal power.

Of course, all of this is me being extraordinarily cautious. I was really, really excited about LFTR design when I first heard about it. But the more I learn, the more I'm convinced that we really don't have the materials to safely operate one of these things on a commercial scale.

0. http://daryanenergyblog.wordpress.com/ca/part-8-msr-lftr/
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment#... (throughout)
There are a few ways of making fully backwards-compatible "lossy" PNG: http://pngmini.com/lossypng.html

You can have icon files 3-4 times smaller, and large photorealistic images 2 times smaller than the regular PNG.
Why would he be rolling in his grave?

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple his laptop of choice was an IBM Thinkpad (560E). In fact, "he delivered it to Apple’s designers as a model of where the PowerBook line needed to go."

http://applefool.com/applefool/IBM_ThinkPad_560E.html
Ugly MVP create marketable products by design
afaik Europe doesn't have the same rules regarding chargebacks and it's much harder to successfully dispute a charge there.

Chargebacks only work the way they do in the U.S. due to regulatory requirements that the card companies allowed to go into law because they'd figured out how to profit any time a chargeback was filed.
Yeah, it's just dumb. Indeed, a search for "Some Guy" on the US version of google will also return somePage. To circumvent this legal provision, as a UK net user, you only have to go to http://google.com/ncr so that you use google.com instead of google.co.uk. Once done, your search results are no longer restricted.

So yes, unbelievably dumb and useless. Rivaled in dumbness only by the EU Privacy Directive, AKA the "stupid EU cookie law".
"A technical marketer will say, "I tested 100 variations and these 3 performed the best. Let's try and optimize them even more."

I disagree with the idea that "your VP of marketing should be an engineer".

An engineer may be able to test before or after the fact but a real marketer already has a framework to start from that gets you on the dartboard.

All things equal sure it would be nice to have a marketing person who is creative but also an engineer. But the world is not perfect. And the best brain surgeon is rarely also going to specialize in performing heart operations.

I think you are also discounting what I will call "get a law degree" effect. Sometimes the training than one has (or how your brain thinks that even allows you to pursue some profession) is contraindicated in another profession. With a lawyer this would be the tendency once trained like a lawyer to always think of problems as a lawyer would (and not be able to take appropriate chances that a non lawyer might).

Engineers can be creative of course and they could be marketers. But as a generality I don't think the benefits of thinking everything has to be tested and optimized is so clear cut.
I think its a pretty cool way to get a quick front end. I don't know exactly the market for this sort of tool but I could definitely see it being useful. One thing though, some of the examples ask for login information to a website to display some metric. This sounds like it would be a good way to steal people's information so you may want to think a bit on maybe warning users not to enter info, or have to option to view the source.
I find it much easier to read when the text is in columns of that width (like newspaper) than when it's full width. According to Wikipedia, it's actually recommended to put your content in columns of about 60 characters[1].

And it's not that narrow; facebook's newsfeed is about the same width as that post on my 23" monitor.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_%28typography%29#Typogra...
I see very little benefit for Apple.

IBM makes complex expensive software that people are still trying to get rid of in the enterprise. Apple doesn't need a sales force for iPads, most top execs have been demanding iPads for the last 2 years already, it's just IT that's slow to adopt it because they fear loss of control with BYOD.

Only upside here is stuff like Watson and the likes. I can see IBM providing back-end services to Apple but that's about it.
Office space, duh. Thing is, I only have this problem occasionally, maybe twice a month or less. Actually getting office space for that level of use is absurd.

Look into Regus (http://www.regus.com/), I think they have what you need, in particular "day offices" (http://www.regus.com/products/offices/day-offices.aspx). They are available after 5pm (all the way to midnight for some locations). You can also reserve an ongoing subscription for a few days a month and save some money. Alternatively, there are places that are underused during the day that may be willing to rent space to you very cheaply (e.g. after school tutoring centers like Sylvan or Kaplan).
While a step in the right direction, Google's move to force real names AND the integration of G+ into their various services over the past few years has killed all of my goodwill towards anything Google. So, what I'm wondering is how does Google plan on rebuilding that lost goodwill? An apology is a nice gesture, but it doesn't make me trust the company. Nor does it fix any of the various screwed up UX issues due to the forced integration of G+ everywhere.
AFAIK the term "cosmic radiation" is not really specific. Cosmic rays are cosmic radiation, but the term does not exclusively refer to them.
They do indeed.

If you're seeing BMP+ZIP being smaller than PNG it only means your PNG encoder is poor. This can be easily fixed with a PNG optimizer like Zopfli, AdvPNG or OptiPNG.
Just tried it and it works great. One thing I would like to see in this space is the same thing but then for plane travelers. It's very common to update your parents and family before, during (if you have stopovers) and after the trip.
I refuse to become emotionally invested in G+ because Google is infamous for shutting down products that aren't used by the majority of its users. Reading all the negative comments from this post reaffirms my decision.
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Just adding a link to the IETF discussion thread here (and yes, that's really what the randomness list is called!): https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dsfjdssdfsd/current/ms...

Theodore T'so isn't completely opposed to the idea, it seems.
> but it also excluded a number of people who wanted to be part of it without using their real names.

And people who didn't mind using their real names but were worried that Google won't think they're real enough and block their access to all services they used for years. They failed hard on that one, but now it's not even mentioned anymore. I'm slightly disappointed they just want to sweep that under the rug...
"makes a big difference in this new world of marketing."

What world are you talking about? The startup world? There is a big big world of marketing that exists separate from startups, YC, and venture invested companies.

Edit: AKA "the echo chamber"