skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand where you're coming from, but I'm not convinced that I see this as a bad thing.

The same logic can be applied to those who (like myself) don't think they can ever learn enough. Perhaps I know more than I think I do, or perhaps I don't, but I will always have a deep, insatiable hunger for more knowledge.
Is there any way to obtain this old data through a FOIA? Or do those requests not apply to US courts?
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It happens. I wrote an arbitrage script that makes a little bit of money every day (only requires me to rebalance the wallets every so often). Only risk is holding whatever is presenting the most lucrative arbitrage opportunity.
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> What? How have you not heard of CPAN? There is not a single language in the world that can touch Perl's libraries.

That's a really outdated meme. CPAN is small, pretty much every language you hear about regularly has a larger package space than CPAN. Even Go's package space is bigger than CPAN's. JS and Java each have package spaces roughly 3x CPAN's size.

http://www.modulecounts.com/
I've been considering this lately, and perhaps I'll give it a try. My concern is that, by coming in later, I lose the advantage of coming into early, which is the ability to do more work when there is no one around to interrupt me.
I think the bridge between math and programming is relatively small, so if you have the most mathematicians in the world, you probably have some pretty good programmers too.[1]

But for contractor, there are job boards for people with clearances.[2] Although you get a pay boost of at least 10-15k, I'm sure the bureaucracy is awful.

I also wouldn't assume that all the top people go to biz. Some very talented people work in gov and academia. Not everyone is guided primarily by money & scores.

[1] http://www.math.uh.edu/~tomforde/Web/Jobs.html
[2] http://www.clearedconnections.com/
Hidden dangers of team building rituals
This is a good company. Just look at the numbers. Revenue is growing really well. Their biggest expense is head-count and this year they will almost break even (they are on route to 105M). This will also be the year were expenses growth will be the smallest(23%). 2013 they simply grew very fast - which was quite expensive (59% increase).

This year they are growing revenue really well, while their expenses are moderately increasing(less than half of last year). There is a very clear path to profitability in less than 24 months.

Revenues:

2011 —> 2012 -—> 2013 -—> 2014

80% -—> 50% —-> 35%

Costs:

2011 —> 2012 —> 2013 ——> 2014

35% —> 59% ——> 23%
Why I love cloud application platforms
> I am not accusing anyone of being a bigot. However, it would be silly to assume that there are not cultural and social biases about gender that you and I grow up with and have, even if we don't realize it. That is what I am getting at: this isn't some accusation, but that statement definitely has a connotation about what it means to be a particular gender.

The words you're using could be applied to anything. We're culturally biased to believe that murder, rape and slavery are wrong, that free speech and self-determination are virtuous, etc. So your point has to be that the bias is not only present but incorrect. The problem is that's the political question which is in dispute. People aren't inherently wrong just because they disagree with you.

> Gender is not your genes and there is a difference between sex and gender.

This is what I'm talking about. "Gender" and "genes" have the same root. Several of the definitions of "gender" in the dictionary list it as a synonym for sex. You're trying to claim that sex and gender mean (materially) different things because that allows you to more easily distinguish one from the other. So you're essentially using gender as a term of art. Which is fine until you start trying to tell everyone else that your meaning is the only meaning.

> You are implying that trans people being able to define their identity and having their identity accepted is a niche thing that isn't relevant to society as a whole when it most certainly is. Being able to have an identity and exist without facing violence and hardship is important no matter how numerically small a population is.

The problem is the cultural bias goes both ways. Most of society will assume that someone referred to with the feminine pronoun is genetically female. When that assumption is false the use of that pronoun becomes inherently misleading. So you're implicitly claiming that someone should have the right to mislead others about their sex in order to self-identify as the opposite gender. Can you at least understand how not everyone would agree with that conclusion?

And there is a mile wide gap between disagreeing over which words to use to describe someone and committing violence against them.

> I think you missed the point of what Newspeak is. Correcting false assumptions and stereotypes about gender is not about limiting discussion or dialog. Further, there is no way that trans communities are even close to being in a position of political power and influence, being able to have their identity without that identity being challenged just because they exist isn't an attempt to suppress people.

A majority or position of power is not necessary to enforce conformity to an ideal. All it requires is dedication and repetition. More to the point, if you don't think it can be effective then why are you doing it?
Understood. I did not mean to imply that I'm productive the entire time. In fact, I don't believe in working 12 hours days specifically because I agree that virtually no person can put in 12 hours of productive work in a single day.

I take time to eat breakfast, lunch, and sometimes dinner while at work. I also take off at 5:00 some days to exercise, not to mention the fact that I take a 20 minute nap every day directly after lunch.

We use a system similar to Jira called Phabricator. I'm also interested in how our team can use Phabricator better, because I don't think it paints an accurate picture of the amount of work anyone at the company puts in.
i worry that this is only applicable to one map projection. (the map is not the territory.)
The Register have a fair few number of 419er stories: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=419+site%3Awww.theregister.co.uk
Some sources:

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2014/03/03/new-york-bill-wou...

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2014/0515/Minnesota-...

http://phonetheftfacts.com/facts-and-information/recent-news...

http://blogs.findlaw.com/technologist/2014/06/iphone-thefts-...

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/kill-switch-lowers-iphon...
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Ahh, the little-known trickle down theory…

An articulated and advocated instance, where it just might work.
Former Governor Schwarzenegger for one

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Idaho-town-is-favorite-Sc...
Underwater volcano is quite possible near a subduction zone. Were they flying over one?
Laws have unintended consequences. It's good to slow down the creation of laws and weigh tradeoffs. Laws are intended to be solutions. But the cure may prove worse than the disease.
This has been an application idea I've been wanting to build for a long time, but not having much networking know-how when it comes to these things, I put it on a to-do list.
If a five year old wants to learn how to read better, then teach them. If they don't, let them learn something else.
Kind of fun that, say, uint(0+0i) works, not that I'm going to use that tomorrow.
This is the permanent link for the constants article, currently the link points to the blog front page:

http://blog.golang.org/constants

edit: it has been updated now.
Future versions will be easier for users and have better incentives. Gotta start somewhere.

An example of things we can build is a recommendation system.
One problem with deskilling is loss of bargaining power. Because you become a cog in the machine, easily replaced. Good if you own/rent people, sucks if you're the "human capital".

(Companies often reject profit-improving innovations which empower skilled workers. On the flipside, unions — to the extent they exist — also have the incentive to reject improvements which damage bargaining power. That's one problem with capitalism's built in boss/worker antagonism.)

Another is mind-numbing work. Adam Smith rants about how division of labor makes people "stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become... But in every improved and civilised society this is the state into which the labouring poor, that is, the great body of the people, must necessarily fall, unless government takes some pains to prevent it." (http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN20.html#V.1.178)

Another (since the last century) is the rise of managerialism, with its bureaucracies. David Noble points out that tech can deskill workers and strengthen management, or empower workers and peel away management layers.
I had a similar experience back when I'd interviewed with Bloomberg. I was scheduled for a set of interviews with one team in the morning and another set with a different team in the afternoon. 1pm rolls around and the Bloomberg recruiter tells me the 1st team wanted to make an offer so there won't be afternoon interviews. I'd been looking for work for quite a while so it was really gratifying to have things just suddenly fall into place. Plus now I had the rest of the day to explore NYC a bit.
What questions were they asking?
Thanks for the pointer to d-ary heaps, there's some overlap there. You're right -- I simply wasn't aware of how those work.
Yes.

Unsustainable start-ups? Check.

Easy Fed money? Check.

Hype and BS in proposals? Check.

Not solving real-world problems? Check.

Pre-IPO liquidity for founders and backers? Check.

Bubbleicious.
That section is talking about typing. In that sense, a typed constant obeys all the [type] rules of typed values in Go.

It's true that dividing by zero is different, but there's lots of other more obvious ones, such as a typed value being assignable (and usually addressable).
I think most of them will be an oddity or way underused. Some will probably catch on, I know we're planning on buying some .app domains for landing pages, but overall, I think its a going to be a huge money suck from large brands who feel the need to protect their name across any tlds as they can.
You're telling me this isn't the US government conducting top secret experiments to control the weather?!
I lol'd then signed up.
I wonder if that's a line even Snowden wouldn't cross. It risks those tools falling into the "wrong hands", and is the most extreme way he could be said to be aiding terrorists by alerting them of our intelligence capabilities (which he is already accused of.)
This Man Built a $3M Business a Year After Four Years in Prison
You could also chalk this up to a global asset bubble. With all of these federal banks trying to keep interest rates down, money needs to be gambled on riskier investments in order to get any return. That's why it's now plausible for a company like this go to public. Have a look at ECOM. Almost the exact same story.

The sad thing is, a lot of pension money will probably be put into these "technology" stocks which are a lot of smoke and mirrors.

I am very familiar with ecommerce and SEO and hearing analysts and investors talk about these types companies is pretty astounding. The people investing tons of money in them have very little understanding of what they actually do.
> For those who don't know, laws are different, sometimes in major ways, when you cross a state line

That seems like a recipe for a huge disaster that we should rectify.

It's incredibly easy to cross state lines without purposely intending to, especially in the northeast (e.g. you can easily be ushered into NJ trying to get to upstate NY through NYC). It's exactly why 'safe passage' laws exist, even if it doesn't apply in these two scenarios.

It's not as though there's a customs check point at interstate boundaries where you are urged to dispose of materials that might cause you to be in violation of another state's laws.
Interesting. IEEE 754 allows either behavior (trapping or not) for division by zero, but it requires that -0.0 yield a different value from 0.0 (that nevertheless compares equal to it but can be distinguished via copysign or reciprocal).
> What does Dylan do?

I'm totally unfair here, because I really don't know much about Dylan, but my view maybe explains a bit why Dylan does not even "win" with people like me, who really like those strange languages like Lisp or ML.

To me, Dylan was never about creating something new and great. It was taking Common Lisp and "fixing" its syntax.

Unfortunately, I can't stand Lisp without prefix notation and lots of parentheses. And people who hate prefix notation and lots of parentheses aren't interested too much in Common Lisp.

The resulting set of people interested in Dylan was... well, I've heard of Bruce. Andreas Bogk was doing some heavy advocacy in Germany, to the point where people just didn't want to listen anymore.

Let's say about ten people in the world cared. And I just don't see how that set could grow by orders of magnitude.
I wish there was something like this for my wifi router (or in the Tomato Firmware) because that way if there is a malware in the phone, or my laptop I can immediately know about it without installing this on each device.

Also I hope it has list of known malware hosts for which it should give a huge red alert dialog if a connection is made to it.
>>This would be an ineffective way to accomplish that. They'd
first have to make a list of all the phones in the target area, and then they'd have to send the lock commands to them, one by one.

Phone[] phones = GetPhonesByGeo(radius=50, lat=102.23412323, lon=-129.4342424);

foreach(Phone p in phones) { p.sendmessage("Lock"); }

func GetPhonesByGeo(){
// your tax dollars at work
}
Is this where we start building giant robots in preparation for the giant monsters that will appear?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fupWquPNoTc

No, because that would kick all sorts of ass.
This Startup’s on a Mission to Save Us from Seedy Debt Collectors
That's an exaggeration. The Hilbert curve calculations are also done using bit flipping. They are harder to understand, but are not that cpu-intensive.
> It gets scary, once you see how many math professors have security clearances.

Makes sense, though. The people who are the best at math are going to be the people who are the best at grokking and expanding upon the existing understanding of the math involved in cryptography.
Good point. From a niche advertiser's point of view, this is better than regular TV. TV shows have product placement, but rarely revolve entirely around a product. But every "Let's Play" on Twitch is, on one level, an extended, entertaining commercial e.g. an infomercial. Which would make Twitch a massively interactive 24/7 infomercial, like QVC for gamers. To the eyes of Amazon, the internet's store for everything, that must be very attractive. It also raises the question of whether you could have a Twitch for other categories i.e. a 24/7 niche infomercial network that people actually want to watch.
Given a value how do you determine the granularity? How do you tell whether a leading 00 indicates a lower resolution quad or a higher resolution one in the 0th corner?
Your Problem: You don't have patience.
Remember, life is long and you have a lot things to learn. I had same issue as yours in my last company. I hated the company, their coding style, their system...everything. But after working 1 year there, I realized things weren't too bad. I really feel happy I learned a lot there.
Then I moved to my current job. I hated it for 6 months. I hated the code. So messy. I thought I deserved better. But now I'm in seventh month. I convinced my senior to move to new tools and new framework. I am already working on it. I learned so much here. Greatest thing: how to convince, how to tolerate, how to have patience and what NOT to DO. Now I know what type of attitude should a senior developer should have, what responsibility is. I am so glad I stayed till now.
Have patience. Take every negative as well as positive as opportunity to learn. That's how you'll move forward.
At last, be a good person. Be humble, respect others. Be a good listener. Problem with programming world is most of the developers talk more and listen very less. They search for quick answers and read very less. Don't go that way. Best of Luck !!!
Can Singapore use big data to engineer a more harmonious society?
Not really. You could try but I doubt it would get you anywhere.

This needs Congressional attention. Of course, Congress is on vacation. Not that it would matter.

Still, contact your representatives.
Ask HN: What incentive do MOOC teachers have?
I'm just wondering what the primary motivation for professors teaching MOOCs is. Are they getting paid? Or is it just because they'd like to volunteer their time to education?
No, it's nothing like a kill-switch. It's simply a key that that actually works. It simply ensures that the key that came with your car is present for the engine to run. The truest definition of a key. There is no remote kill capability.
Cell phone theft cannot be such a large problem that this is a politically beneficial thing to do, much less a legitimate use of power.
Funny. I would have guessed that a profitable company would garner a higher valuation, especially since they don't need money, yet the company is pushing for IPO now.

I wonder why they elected to sell themselves short?
They have started iframing sites on mobile, so lets to measure there and easily enough data to not need to do it at all on desktop?
My Facebook feed is full of (IMO) low quality posts from them. Specifically, the "drop everything and watch this ice bucket challenge" videos. Seemingly every day, there is a new post declaring the king of the ice bucket challenge, to stop doing it, x has won, etc.
The official document is a piece of paper. Most people carry 'cards' which are provided by individual dispensaries after you show them the official document upon your first visit, and are only valid for entry of the providing dispensary. The cards all look different, some are subtle, some not.
> I'm still not sure why there are 80 different ways to loop

Please ignore if you're asking rhetorically. But there are reasons why it was put together in kind of a wild political dash. See: (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.lisp/Llmnxk2SYUk/y...) and (http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf)

An evolving, used platform which was (suddenly?) pressured to freeze.
Clojure is pragmatic in using jvm as its platform.
Why are you working 12 hours a day at a job you don't enjoy?

Stop. Stop now. Sleep in tomorrow morning, and leave around 5 or 6. Pay careful attention that the world does not end because you've done so--and if you get fired, you can punch me in the stomach.
Pervasive means "common". I'm not sure if this is what you meant (it does sound like "perverse" and if you're not a native english speaker I can see how the mistake could be made).

But of course your statement is correct either way. Interesting how both sides see themselves as lone warriors against a sea of villainy.
Does possession of a document merit "probable cause" that you used it for its purpose that very day?

I'm not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice.
I did give Hilbert curves a try at one point, what made me go with z-order instead is that there's an elegant way to convert between coordinates and z-order quads (which I'll describe in a later post) and I couldn't find something similar for Hilbert quads.
The S2 library is here: https://code.google.com/p/s2-geometry-library/

It's based on the hilbert curve.
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Exploding comments (2005)
Ask HN: I want to learn about database, how should I start?
I am a non-technical (sales). I’m interested in database and want to learn about it to enhance my network and system architecture knowledge. I am looking for effective resources where I can study, website/ books/ e-books. I appreciate any help that you can provide
It clearly says only a few intelligence officers from the different agencies had access. So it's not like any ol' police officer of FBI agent had access to this at all times.
More examples would be great, including some musings about templating (i.e. a Rust equivalent to Rails' ERB templates).
I thought the BBC was fairly center? Guardian strays left and AlJazeera was it's own thing. More a liberal middle eastern view. Maybe that says more about me than their position.

But you're correct this list is thin on the right for full coverage. I used to read 'The Australian' but now actively avoid Murdoch press in protest of his shameless politicising so this removes a bunch of mainstream options. I'd be interested if people had any non-Murdoch suggestions myself.
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start at: 11am ,

break time: 1hr (1pm to 2pm),

leave at: 5pm,
The 5-story downtown part of Paris is great, but from what I understand it’s also very expensive housing, and plenty of people commute in from high rises further away.
What's there in for Amazon by buying Twitch
Hubspot has a ton of assets to speak of that are taking off and not yet monetized at all or to their full capacity. Inbound.org, for instance is the HN for inbound marketing and has attracted a huge user base in their short existence. Tons of plans to monetize that and of course, drive more customers to their services.

They also have a great conference, coming up I beleive in Boston that is also not too shabby. Their content brand is also very much on point, their blog is a huge resource and ranks for basically any inbound/SEO type of query you could think up.

I'm not trying to argue against their profitability or growth, but Hubspot is a good company that has a lot of tricks up their sleeve. Dharmesh is also an extremely savvy individual who has elected a very capable CEO.

I don't know if I'd buy shares of Hubspot or not, but I will keep my eye on them.
which? I'm looking for child friendly ones (no cursing, cussing, annoying sarcasam, etc).
I'm at the interview process as well. had first phone interview and they went quiet for 2 weeks. So i just send follow up e-mail yesterday. wait and see. lots of people say their process is pretty slow though. keep clam and look for other positive possibilities :)
Does anyone grow up anymore? Or is it just high school until you retire?
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To me, it doesn't :

http://www.iris.edu/ieb/index.html?format=text&nodata=404&st...

The plane was travelling more south that these dots.
Yeah, my mom majored in math and minored in Russian. She got the NSA offer in her last semester. But she wanted to teach, and thought the whole thing was more than a little spooky. And indeed, it was a faculty referral that prompted the interview offer.
I think the modern wave of industrialization (post invention of the micro-computer) is starting to reverse the trend, especially as leisure time is potentially increasing.