skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah i really don't understand why this is just assumed to be a common 'gotcha' to be recognized and avoided by every competent python programmer. What exactly does the python spec specify as the desired behavior here? If you have this 'broken stair' that everyone should just know to step over, shouldn't somebody actually fix the stair!?

I know python is not unique in having warts like this, but it's pretty b.s. in general that unexpected behavior is just thought to be okay, especially in a language meant to be very accessible, and most especially since it's being used as a perfectly valid metric for disqualifying new python programmers from employment.
Does Apple care what audiophiles think? iPods and the default ear buds are low quality compared to most audiophile gear.
> This can lead to communication issues.

That was part of the reason for that curated list of words that they were recommending in the article.

> If the hostname is randomized, then the logical thing would be to copy and paste the hostname and send it off over the wire

Eventually that chain of communication will need to end in an action. Not all actions are just "copy-paste it into a box." What if I know that the server is a "Rack #3", but now I need to look at labels on the actual servers to find server 'SDFssdfa4324tdfgfg"? It's a lot easier to grok server "crimson".
I'm curious - what's wrong with starting DNS A records off with numbers?

dig +short 4test.shephard.org
4.2.2.2
Design’s too important to be left to designers
It's all fun and games until the actual server is on fire.

Bob: "Frank? Which server did you say was on fire?"
Frank: "It's the email server. The name is ..."
Bob: "Frank - you know the rule. Send it, don't say it."
Frank: "Uh ... I can ... maybe text it to you?"
Bob: "Insecure."
Frank: "Uh ... pigeon?"
Bob: "The intern ate the last one."
Frank: "Uh, carve it on the intern's back?"
Bob: "Tattoo it. Safer that way."
Frank: "OK, give me an hour."
Bob: "Hey, server's burning, you know. Ain't gonna last forever ..."
How in the world can this be cheaper than running the fiber 100 more feet?
That only applies to voice calls, not DSL.
Sell me MechanicalSoup over Selenium.
I wasn't aware of it. Cert pinning is definitely a good solution!
Does anyone know if Mathematica 10 is retina-ready for Mac yet? This may seem petty to some, but when you do a lot of data visualisation, it really does matter.

As an aside, I've been using IPython Notebooks a lot over Mathematica over the past year and have generally been really happy with the change – not least because I know I won't be locked out of my notebooks if I can't afford a Mathematica license in future! That all said, I recently revisited a Mathematica notebook I'd made in the past, and it reminded me why I started using it in the first place. It really is a great piece of software: great libraries, great performance, generally a pleasure to use.
I ran all of the benchmarks on the same machine.

I would see it possible that the pre-configured Digital Ocean machine favors docker processes over non-docker somehow.
I took it to mean that the problem would not be given in this way unless there was an exact solution. In the stated version, there are no degrees of freedom specified, so there can be no degrees of freedom in the solution. In that way, the proof wouldn't work if the problem stated
"A six inch high cylindrical hole is drilled through the center of a sphere with radius R. How much volume is left in the sphere?"

In that case, the solution might be dependent on R, and we'd have to go through the long version. Without that mention of R, unless the problem is wrongly stated, it must be constant.

So it's still an invalid inductive proof, but it's a lot stronger than just assuming that because there is a question there is a constant answer.
maybe they've got a 50 mile one way commute (which in itself would be crazy for a $25k/yr job).

There are many people here in Minnesota who drive comparable distances to make less money. When you live in the sticks and the closest job is a gas station 30 miles away that pays minimum wage, you're pretty much screwed.
The problem you run into with using the MAC address is what happens when you swap out the NIC?
This looks really cool. Looking forward to trying it out.
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Its common to go from maybe 1mm mcap to 40mm but not all the way to 4bn. To cross a bn valuation is insane.
The previous history of humanity isn't a standard that I think we should aspire to. It means no democracy, short lives, widespread brutality, open discrimination against most people, and not much investment in or success in the sciences.

It looks like you may be conflating several separate issues here. My point is that science seemed to work fine in, say, the period 1550–1950 without the NSF, NIH, etc., and it's not necessarily a disaster if we return to that model. We don't, at the same time, have to shorten lives, increase brutality, etc. (Democracy is a mixed bag at best, though; for example, in 1783 France was a troubled but basically functional absolute monarchy, and by 1793 it was a universal suffrage democracy that guillotined tens of thousands in the streets of Paris and bound books in leather made from human skin. [1])

[grant writing is] tedious, time-consuming, but apolitical and based on merit.

Getting federal research grants is apolitical only if your subject is apolitical, and the list of apolitical scientific subjects gets shorter every year. There are whole fields of inquiry—exploring heritable cognitive differences (if any) as a function of ancestry, for example—that are essentially verboten, while others (e.g., stem-cell research and climate science) are impossible to separate from politics. Moreover, even apolitical fields are notoriously subject to the whims of (democratically elected) Congress.

[1]: http://bit.ly/FrRevHL
I use a bunch of anime characters when naming the machines. Source of my inspiration is: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1467
How Dungeons and Dragons Could Master Its Next Retailing Adventure
Ask HN: How do you keep up with politics and world issues?
I'm a student of science, and I rarely spend my time reading news about politics. So compared to many of my peers, I'm very uninformed about what's going on. How can I catch up on issues I should know about?
C, you need C. Otherwise it's just a toy.
I would caution you not to interview on things you would not be happy to see in your code base.

In my experence your much better off with people that look at odd syntax and say, "I don't know what that does" vs those who do.
Maybe Tim Cook can just start buying companies and wait for other people to figure out what to do with them. It's certainly interesting to see how many people think that Apple is infallible. They make mistakes just like any other company.
Don't forget to encode the physical location if that's a thing. It might be important to know that web02.prd.nyc.com is in Row D, Cage 4, Slot 5, Front.
> Does anyone know if Mathematica 10 is retina-ready for Mac yet? This may seem petty to some, but when you do a lot of data visualisation, it really does matter.

Yes it is.
Ask HN: Web Devs, how long until you considered yourself proficient?
Hello, I am CS major with about a year left until I graduate. In the last 6 months or so I have taken a liking to web development. I started learning JS with Backbone and also over the last month I have been learning RoR. The more I learn the more I realize I don't know. How long was it until you felt comfortable with you dev skills? I am currently trying to make a mobile app with a rails api and backbone for the front end and at some points I feel overwhelmed. I very much enjoy it but there are times I get discouraged that there is just too much I don't understand. I am just curious about some of your experiences down this road.

Thanks
-SV
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Although this is spun to sound like a breakthough, it's basically a cost reduction measure. G.fast and this new XG.fast are there to avoid the hassle of negotiating with each householder as to how new fibre gets deployed on their property, when it's a lot easier to negotiate with the municipality all in one go.
I don't think people should be so hung up on the risk of ICANN misbehaving. While the risk is obviously there, they have actually been very Internet-friendly in their lifespan and so far managed to steer clear of both government and private sector interference. (The big exception being all the new top domains created, which is a disturbing trend but not really damaging to existing ones.) When a certain naval themed torrent site hangs on to their domain name you know things are really not that bad.

The good side about a central needle's eye for decisions is that all eyes are on them. Any bad move will be caught immediately by the community and routed around. One fuck up from their side and no one would trust them with the root certificate for DNSSEC any more.

Until that happens, can't we at least agree that an authenticated DNS for certificate storage is a whole lot better than the current CA system. That does not mean development on alternatives should pause for even a second, but please get those TLSA records of yours signed and published today! Only then will we at least have something to compare other proposals against.

The fact that we have a central DNS root will be with us for the forseeable future. And as long as we use domain names for identity that centralization will be a thorn in the side. But that is what we use, for better or for worse.
Audiophiles basically agree that ears are sub-par
Because every household has copper phone cables run to it already. You can run fiber to the trunk and have high speed communication using existing copper lines.

> XG-FAST can help operators accelerate FTTH deployments, taking fiber very close to customers without the major expense and delays associated with entering every home
Douglas, let's say we had a sequence of real or integer numbers (y-axis) against seconds [time] (x-axis).
At second 0, I have a corresponding value 29 on the y-axis.
At second 1, I have 52 on the y-axis.

I'm not interested in a model that would describe what might be in between the points, but rather in a function that can return an exact y for a given x.
That is, if we passed 52, we get the 1.

Somehow close to linear interpolation, but this is not what I'm looking for because, with interpolation, with 100 points the function will be of degree 99.
All the visual twitching - busy, busy, busy - makes me feel like I'm looking at someone's migraine.

Worked fine on Chrome for Mac here, but instantly redlined my i7.
Microsoft drops case that severed DNS hosting for millions of No-IP nodes
You've had a car for 10 years. You know it's history. You sell it and buy another car for 3/4 the price on Craigslist.

How do you know the car you just bought is reliable?
>Apple is significantly a fashion company

Which fashion companies design their own programming language, design their own CPUs, lead the industry in hardware manufacturing, produce innovative security features like TouchID etc. None. They are a product and services company who care about design. It really isn't hard to see that they contribute just as much to the IT industry as Microsoft or Google.
One of the big things that Dropbox missed with the Datastore API is the collaborative aspect. Creating a distributed database that you can use on any device is great, but without the ability to share data between users, you’re stuck building apps in an empty sandbox.

With Harmony (and its potential collaboration API) it seems that Dropbox could become a real distributed platform for single-page-apps.
I have experience in getting high-end plastic boxes manufactured (some in US, and increasingly in China because of price dynamics). Believe me, it is not a big deal. The variations are all commodity - you may have to get different molds made and finish made, but they will work will all different types of plastics. The plastics are already colored when in the pellet form (i.e., you dont paint on them) so colors variations are trivial to achieve.
To be fair, fast immutable hash tables have only been around as a technology since around 2005. (Yes, Mathematica is mostly based on immutability) .Other than internal R&D, Wolfram never add experimental methods to Mathematica.

Of course, its always had lists of rules as a far more general (though much slower) form of the hash table concept.
Lawyers fees.
Do you have opinions on/is there research regarding how much "fuzzing" you have to do to get substantial rewards in making space/time data anonymous? That is, if my legitimate use for a space/time dataset can stand that data being handled at the resolution of "hours" and "within 100 meters," does it win me significant privacy benefits to scrub out more significant figures?
high-margin headphones and iPods are complimentary products, integrating an iPod into Beats is essentially making an iPod free - which is a good thing if you own Beats
Source: http://www.audiocheck.net/soundtests_headphones.php

But me, I use the cheapest Panasonic headphones because they look cool and they're durable, and that's good enough for me. Probably for a lot of people. These: http://www.cnet.com/products/panasonic-rp-htx7-white/
That's a review? There's almost no criticism, or even considered discussion, of the book at all. He's just copied and pasted sections that he thinks are important or interesting, and called it a day.

Not that there's anything wrong with quoting sections of a work that you think are worthy of spreading to a wider audience (assuming proper attribution), but IMNSHO it's a bit disingenuous to call QFTing a "review".

(FWIW, I thought the book was both excellent and terrifying, and that you should read it. That's also not a review, just an opinion. :-p )

Edit: downvotes? Am I really being unfair? Can you explain what it is you think the author of the review has added here?
Not necessarily BT, but I totally agree with the premise. There's a limit to the number of CPUs, SSDs, and OSs a person wants to carry and manage. By all means, carry displays and HIDs of all sorts and sizes, but please drive them all from my "phone".

I think this concept carries all the way to "laptops" which are nothing more than a few ounces of battery, screen, keyboard, trackpad and a radio. Just a few more generations till Apple can "do it right" and they'll deploy the tech.

I guess the only "problem" is such a laptop wouldn't become obsolete fast enough...
Damn that causality. High performance would be so much easier if causality wasn't there :p
Personal attacks are not welcome on HN.
There are quite a few adventure style games for the Nintendo DS.
I did read the article. It didn't mention if they were owed 20 bucks or 2 million. It said EA gave them their company back but there hasn't been a major use of their IP since they went under so obviously EA doesn't think it is worth much. Giving back the company but no cash could be EA saying "yawn we didn't really want it anyway thanks for taking out the trash" or "OMG! we just avoided a serious day in court". I am curious which it is.
We use the names of Final Fantasy characters.
Their site: http://site.introbiz.com

Apparently they're selling the contact information of celebrities, investors, developers, politicians, etc.

"At Black Book we provide contact information to world class artists. Upon purchase you will receive a file with the required information to be able to contact the artist."

"The information usually includes email and phone numbers to the artist's talent agent, publicist, legal representative, etc."

http://www.businessinsider.com/cynk-technology-2014-7

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-09/full-list-companies...

Formerly "Introbuzz", also associated with "Sanchez Medical Services"

http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/filing.ashx?filingid=8174...

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1540160/0001165527130...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-09/sheer-insanity-no-r...

Marlon Luis Sanchez and Kenneth Carter seem to be the two primary executives of the company.
Great, one more excuse why Big Telecom won't give us FTTH in the United States.
A lot of people, including myself, like Apple products less so for the design and more for the actual technical qualities. They make the best laptops by far. The operating system marries UNIX with ease of use like nothing before. There is genuine attention to detail in their software that Microsoft or Ubuntu simply doesn't have.

I am sick to death of idiots like you who dismiss my choice as being "fashionable".
PinLater: An asynchronous job execution system
It's funny how close that came to being a decent comment; the first sentence is like an own-goal.
http://scitr.com/a14
Didn't knew that, thank you very much.
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That is not fair criticism. The DNS root servers do not hold the keys to the root zone and have no ability to sign records. Neither do their operators.

Please also do look up the list of successful attacks on the root zone infrastructure. It is a very, very short list.

Not imprenetrable of course; nothing is. But it does not need to be. The fact that authoritative servers can not sign records is central to the design.
All you had to do was stop before writing that last sentence, and your comment could have been taken seriously.

There's still time to edit it (if you do, my comment won't make any sense anymore, and I'll kill it).
"But other than THAT, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"
You can find much better quality headphones for _much_ less.

90$ HD-280 pro's sound better than 300$ Beats..
Fair points -- just to counter, if a gun manufacturer makes guns, and an individual uses a gun to kill someone, the manufacturer is not held responsible... it was the user of the gun who facilitated and carried out the act.

Furthermore, the Tor network is not moderated, nor managed by the Tor project. The Tor project is more-or-less unrelated to the Tor network, and it certainly does not provide any "services" to users. The Tor Project is literally a software project, not a service or platform.

The Tor project simply develops on and provides the Tor core library, from which, other users have taken and made products like TorBrowser.
If this is running in a DigitalOcean droplet, isn't it already running inside a virtualization layer? How valid are benchmarks in this circumstance?
Great! Thank you. Will look forward to seeing some of the new visualisation styles in high-DPI :)
30 meters seems pretty useless, even for a FTTN setup, it would surely be simpler just to run fibre all the way then build nodes every 60 meters or so.
Honest question, who uses Mathematica commercially? What industries?
If you look back one year, they had a similar spike last summer.
Ciclista pagou mico no pódio ao ter beijo negado por modelo
> it might be easier to use groovy, for noobs it's basically the same as python and runs on the jvm, also you can introduce java gradually

Groovy (the JVM version) is marketed towards programmers who already know Java, and its main use cases (e.g. manipulating/testing Java objects, gluing together Java apps, and scripting in Grails) make the syntax terser but the programmer still needs to know what's happening underneath at the Java language level or they'll quickly hit a snag they can't solve.

The only use case where they don't need to already know Java is Gradle, where the script for a whole project is typically 20 to 100 lines long, usually copied and pasted from another project, and only using a tiny subset of the Groovy grammar, i.e. the DSL which is the least Java-like, so programmers won't be introduced to Java by using Gradle.

I even tried writing a Groovy(JVM) tutorial a while back for those new to both Java and Groovy [1] but found I had to introduce most Java and Groovy concepts at the same time. Groovy only gives some syntactic tersity via collection syntax, closures (though now obsolete with Java 8), and getter/setter syntax, nothing more.

[1] http://groovy.codehaus.org/For+those+new+to+both+Java+and+Gr...
Interesting. No one?
>Early iPods did not have a significant leg up over other MP3 players in terms of usability

This is subjective, but I disagree. The click wheel was unmatched IMHO.
> While this is pretty cool, due to distance limitation we are not getting telephone line modems that can outstrip fiber optics.

From the article:

"XG-FAST can help operators accelerate FTTH deployments, taking fiber very close to customers without the major expense and delays associated with entering every home."

So you actually are getting a modem, hooked up to your telephone line, that goes up to 70m over telephone cable to the street, and then fiber the rest of the way. Makes a lot more sense than literally doing fiber to every home.
I agree that this narrative is a harbinger of very troubled times for our country.

I disagree, however, that shaming the story is fighting against that narrative. Empathy for individual decisions does more to effect systemic change, if by no other mechanism than allowing you a clearer understanding of why those decisions were made.

Darlena and her husband making these decisions will not effect the system as a whole, and neither will vilifying them. Understanding why they did what they did, and educating others on how their decisions hurt them will effect change.

The 'this could happen to anyone' tone irks me as well, but in my experience, it is also quite human. The view from hindsight is remarkably clear. The OP was probably more aware than anyone as they opened themselves up to fragility with each financial decision. Unplanned pregnancies (that double in expense w/ twins), jobs in new towns, unexpected job losses, DO happen. When they do, you there is rarely a 'whoa, we've taken on too much debt, this is not sustainable' moment that you can just turn it around. Horse was out of the barn.

an interesting and related read posted further down this thread was a fantastic perspective (though I'm not sure if I agree with it entirely):
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_stam...
In most languages you can't usually:

1. Iterate over a tuple

2. Convert a list to a tuple

3. Construct a tuple of a length not known at compile-time

Python allows these because "why not?" but it does break their "one and only one way to do it" rule and confuses beginners a hell of a lot.

There are definitely borderline cases. For instance, should a Vector be a list or a tuple? A Vec3 type is obviously a tuple, but a large Vector destined for BLAS is obviously a list.
I feel for both you and him.

The problem with getting praised a lot for being smart is that you then feel obliged to say smart-sounding things often, and being critical is an easy way to sound smart. It's even worse if you're hired to be smart. So the guy, if he wasn't a total tool, was probably thinking: I wish I could just be coding, but instead I'm supposed to interview a bunch of people in a way that guarantees it will be awkward. And shit, I just got nervous and said something that sounds insulting. I wish I could just hang up.
http://www.4-traders.com/business-leaders/Marlon-Sanchez-0D4...

One guy owns 72% of the company.
Early iPods did not have a significant leg up over other MP3 players in terms of usability

Excuse me?

The clicky wheel was a revolution over the garbage UIs that the competition had at the time.
I once tried to do meaningful work and, while things such as the NDSolve[] function are positively amazing, programming in Mathematica (which means using its editor) is a huge pain when you are used, say, to vim.

In the end I moved everything I had to the Python scientific stack and I'm very happy I did it.
The click wheel was good, but it wasn't like consumers were confused by the alternatives. With PCs you could make the case that most consumers struggled to use windows at the time, but hand-held media players haven't had that problem since the 80s.
contact info? we're looking to do packaging for an upcoming product of ours if you'd have any interest in lending some advice. :)