skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many things push our daughters away from math and science. Enter vidcode
I know ;)

I'm looking forward to Electrolysis, since having only one process is what makes me use Chrome: the renderer hangs a lot, especially with complex pages (such as TweetDeck for me), and when that happens, the whole browser hangs.
Very nice! I would love to see something like this that compiles and gives the output in realtime, even if it is only done on the client. Would be very handy for tech-screens.
Does anyone find rotation controls such as the one in the linked site usable?
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Old-school marketing in the age of digital-overload. Love it.
There was an article on this a while back that Egyptologists had interpreted it as depicting something ceremonial- something like breaking champagne bottles across ships' bows.

Having scientific evidence that wetting the sand ahead of the sledges -could- have eased transport is pretty nice evidence that that's what the picture depicts, but without something corroborating its efficacy, it was just a plausible interpretation.
Or at least "Biological Neural Network Simulation in JS"
_When Genius Failed_ is a freaking fantastic book; even after the 2008 crisis, still one of the all-time best pieces of financial narrative journalism ever.

I'm not sure _Liar's Poker_ sets it up that well. Go ahead and read Lowenstein first. In fact, it might even work better the other way around, because Lewis' narrative is really fragmented and Lowenstein's isn't.
Well, I certainly don't have that much money to bet, but I wasn't surprised by the results. Just because a couple of late polls suggested that "Yes" was ahead doesn't mean much when the bulk of the polls still showed "No" in the lead. You have to understand that the polls only sample a (relatively) small number of people and therefore, when taken individually, have large margins of error that are sadly rarely reported. You have to consider all of the polls together as a set.
Health care inflation has been substantially outstripping core inflation for the past several decades (though this trend has slowed, or possibly even reversed, in the past four years).

Americans now spend nearly $18 of every $100 produced in the US on health care.

For every $100 made in the United States, $1.50 is spent just on hospital administration.

Wages are being eaten up by corporate health care expenditures.
Having a pejorative reference to an unpleasant person didn't hurt git. Here, Araq has taken an association that is generally viewed as slightly humorous and moved to a name with which no one has any associations, either good or bad.

In tech marketing, taking a brand that's been invested in and renaming it for no good reason is something you should be loath to do, as it throws away the value and associations that exist with the current brand.

Among the typical "good reasons" for changing the name in are: 1) the brand has been diminished by some bad news / negagive attention and so they're rebranding; 2) the brand causes confusion with other products; 3) legal reasons; 4) some other well-defined limitation that makes growth impossible.

Without having any more insight into the reasons behind this, it's hard to see whether this is a good move or the beginning of a decline for Nimrod as a concept.
Fair enough, but if the phone with the recorded video is in the police's hands anyways, your odds don't look so hot.
From what I have heard, "not too frequently" means once every 18 months, so some people have complained about sticking on a team they don't like for a year and a half.
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Another Lewis book, The Big Short, is also a good introduction to the events leading up to the 2008 crash.
Ask HN: Where can I find an example of a professional functional specification?
I'm a freelance developer and I have managed to land a very large contract (6 figures). It's an ecommerce web project (design and development) and I'm very keen on making an excellent impression.

I promised the client that I would draw up a full specification of the work that I will be providing - however I'm not a very confident writer and I don't know where to start.

I've read Joel's guide to functional specifications and had a go based on his example yet I can't help but feel that my attempt is amateurish and embarrassing.

Can anybody point me in the direction of a professional specification that I can use for inspiration or give me some pointers - What exactly is expected from a person or company when a client agrees to spend big money on a project.

Thank you.
Wikimedia projects offline explorer alternative to Wikitaxi?
You do not want to enable e10s for Firefox Aurora, Beta, or release. The Nightly release channel has many critical bug fixes that are not in the other release channels. :)
Good tip! Also left click and drag to rotate. Right click and drag to pan.
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> In a homomorphic encryption scheme that supported querying, only the encrypted results would need to be relayed back from each search shard, no?

Yes, but as I stated originally, the size of the result is the size of the finite state machine which encodes all of the query data plus the search mechanics. We may in the future discover ways around this, but it's a limitation of the current state of the art.
IMO, this should be more correctly called "The scamming of a group of Libertarians".
I don't understand how it could be considered consumer fraud or computer fraud and abuse if it was clearly indicated to the visitor that their browser would be used as a BitCoin miner in lieu of being displayed Ads. Assuming they weren't told, I could see the issue but it didn't seem like they were trying to dupe visitors.
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> For years I heard a lot of talk about how exercise was good for mood and cognition. But as somebody who hated sports, I filed it under "blah blah".

I know exactly what you mean.
I don't know whether it's a result of taking LSD or just getting older, but for a lot of things where my initial reaction would be indifference or opposition, I've come to think: Wait, those people actually have a point!

There is also that difference between (rationally) understanding something and understanding something, attaching meaning and value to it.
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He was kind of a big deal in the Old Testament as a Baddie and Wikipedia says his story was well-known, especially in Islam and Judaism.

> The story of Abraham's confrontation with Nimrod did not remain within the confines of learned writings and religious treatises, but also conspicuously influenced popular culture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod#The_evil_Nimrod_vs._the_...
Is it based on an actual model of neural activity (Izhikevich, H-H, etc.) or is it an abstract visualisation in the sense that it just looks like neurons firing?
I apologize for making such a broad statement.

What portion of the US do you live in?
You can explain part of that, anyway, by immigration. Between legal and illegal immigration we're adding a couple million poor people to the total every year.
> How did a few asset managers earn more money in a single year than Pierpont Morgan did in his whole life?

Ummm, no they don't. $1 in 1913 is around $24 in today's dollars[http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=1913&ye...]. So JPM's net worth today would be $36 billion making him the 12th richest person person in the world [http://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/2014-09-19/aaa].
Cardiff University researchers estimated in 2006 that 41 per cent of UK press articles were driven by PR, a phenomenon known as “churnalism”.

Wow.
The hive needs to be south-facing (if you live in the northern hemisphere). Stay out of flight path, for best results...
Where would one even go to place such a bet?

Also, how can you assess the counter-party risk here? You're letting someone hold the equivalent of $1.4MM for some number of weeks/months; there has to be some risk that they will default on what is effectively a loan. Can you purchase an insurance policy on something like this?
Live coders do use rich sounds (why wouldn't they?) and make complicated things (a value judgement, I guess).

Well e.g. Autechre, Aphex Twin, BT and Holly Herndon work with code, and I'd say are pretty influential.

Improv is generally non-commercial due to the lack of end product, but we're seeing algoraves with hundreds of people turning up and having fun. It's still developing but is promising and we've seen some nice successes. Maybe there are live coding performances/situations you haven't experienced yet..

Also I particularly enjoy collaboration with live musicians, that's where the various trade offs play off each other and become something else.
I dunno, I used to think that Ellison was one of the biggest assholes around; judging from that little exchange, I'd wager Sinatra was a bigger one.
Not necessarily. You could, for example, have a large generation (the Boomers) pass through their peak earnings years at the same time as a large number of low-skill immigrants arrive in search of a better life. That wouldn't be polarization in the sense of the middle being split into rich and poor, it would just be changing demographics.

No idea if that's what's actually happening, but just watching the dot of the median and not the whole distribution is not likely to be enlightening unless events conspire to keep the shape of that distribution static. I don't think that's the case.
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The comparison has to be with banks...

Does Citi diligently pay every penny in taxes it owes?

Does J.P. Morgan perfectly free of corruption and accusations of insider trading?

Does Goldman always deliver high returns to its clients and charge very reasonable fees always?
This doesn't look like a neural network that's solving any actual problems beyond visualizing firing patterns. Most ANNs don't have any concept of time built into the model. When you're in feed-forward mode, the underlying computation is simply a bunch of dot products.

However, you might be able to make some cool visualizations if your ANN was a Spiking Neural Network.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiking_neural_network
Agreed. The amount employers are paying to employ people has gone up, in constant dollars. But the increase is getting eaten by the increased cost of providing health care.
There is a lot of confusion in this thread regarding basic concepts of the law.

1. The NJAG is not prosecuting the MIT student(s) (at least not yet). Therefore, this is not similar to the alleged overzealous prosecutors in the Swartz case.

2. A subpoena is a writ compelling testimony or evidence. A subpoena is not synonymous with being a defendant.

3. NJAG served one MIT student with a subpoena to turn over documentation (source code, downloads, users, ect...)for a program which maybe being used by third party websites in a way that violates the rights of NJ residents vis-a-vis unauthorized access to computer systems.

4. It seems there is an issue raised arguing NJAG does not have jurisdiction over the MIT student(s). Personally I would find this analysis the most compelling because it is at the intersection of where facts and law meet.

5. EFF is arguing that complying with the subpoena may violate the students right against self-incrimination. I think this is a losing argument where one's right against self-incrimination is rather limited, generally to information contained within their mind and not typically extended to documentation and records.

6. Though this is not at issue, it would be almost impossible for the MIT student(s) to have committed a crime, as the crime would require intent. It would be nearly impossible to prove the student(s) intended that their code be downloaded by third-party websites for the specific purpose of running on the end users computers without their knowledge. It would be on par with charging a gun manufacturer criminally for intending that their guns be manufactured and sold for the exclusive purpose of committing crimes.
You might want to rethink your position on stock buybacks - they're more or less equivalent to dividends, and perfectly harmless.
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Why do you think talking with friends can not provide a similar environment?
Nimrod was the great grandson of Noah, and he is mentioned in the book of Genesis as "a mighty hunter before the lord." So great hunters were sometimes called "Nimrod" as a compliment.

Bugs Bunny taunted Elmer Fudd, a stupid an incompetent hunter that failed to catch Bugs Bunny, by calling him a Nimrod. But the children who watched Loony Tunes didn't get the joke and so they assumed it was a synonym for "stupid and incompetent."

Imagine that in the future people think that that "Einstein" means "imbecile" because "you're a regular Einstein" was an ironic taunt. It's the same idea.
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I'm a bit hesitant to throw all that on the screen as it would clutter the interface. Maybe display it on mouseover?
Can a linguist explain? I don't know much about sign languages. Is there a corresponding concept of "phonemes" into which words in other sign languages can be decomposed into? And is ABSL already "mature" i.e. native language of some babies, or is it still in some sort of "pidgin" stage? Maybe it will become more "normalised" as time goes by.

By the way, I wonder why sign languages are the ones whose birth we can easily witness. Nicaraguan Sign Language is the textbook example of this.
It is rather "odd".

Personally, deal with the low-hanging fruit first. For example: there are plenty of cases where an optimizing compiler could statically (read: at compile time) compute the lifespan of an object and thus bypass the GC entirely. (Or, for another example for a related issue: recognize that a threadsafe object can only be accessed by one thread and as such can be optimized in ways that break update order.) And yet most compilers don't see to do this sort of optimization, or do so in an extremely limited fashion.

In other words: deal with the slowness of garbage collection after you've reduced the amount of garbage to be collected.
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Don't users implicitly consent to a website using their CPU and bandwidth for arbitrary tasks while the website is open, by using a browser that downloads and runs arbitrary JavaScript and allows it to XMLHTTPRequest?

Even if the code in question was being run on a publicly accessible website, was used by a New Jersey consumer, and was fully functional and actually mined Bitcoins (all of those points are disputed by the students' counsel)...The only thing that's being taken by the website operators would be users' CPU cycles and bandwidth. And if the users have implicitly consented to the website's arbitrary use of those resources, how is anyone being harmed?
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> whether it is a good business practice to pay high value engineers, especially at startups, salaries that are well above market rate

Certainly better than suppressing artificially them as Apple and Google did not so long ago: http://valleywag.gawker.com/apple-and-google-face-9-b-lawsui...
>Where would one even go to place such a bet?

William Hill, one of the largest bookmakers in the UK. It's mentioned in the article.
So you think that hiding evidence is okay, but deleting evidence is not?

Can i start with a simple question, actually?

What is wrong with the authorities asking you to unlock your phone with a court order?
The claim is that corporations will borrow money and use it to buy back shares. That's actually a nice hack - interest income is favorably treated relative to capital gains, so it's a way to turn a higher tax piece of capital (stock) into a lower tax piece of capital (bonds).
When googling for go language related things, you may have a hard time, unless you know to use golang instead of go depending on context.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

vs

https://www.google.com/search?q=golang+strategy&oq=golang+st...
Apple Plans to Shut Down Beats Music?
Is it based on anything or just some random connection and nice visualization (which then isn't really impressive)
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Can someone tell me anything about this project? I'm curious.
One key difference is that avian runs on Windows, whereas JamVM does not appear to.
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If you regularly use multiple methods, you may vote for all of them. If you use a method that is not listed, mention it in the comments and I will add it.
Scroll wheel or ring
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Mouse grab-and-drag on scrollbar
Mouse grab-and-drag on page (like in most PDF readers)
Touch-pad gestures (e.g. two-finger drag)
Touch screen
Numpad keys
j / k keys or other vi-esque motions
Foot-actuated device
Head-tracking device
Eye-tracking device
Tongue-actuated device
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CalPERS, the largest pension fund, is pulling out of hedge funds entirely due to weak returns and high fees. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonhartley/2014/09/22/why-calper...

What pisses me off the most about hedge funds is that they are a powerful center of political corruption, as evidenced by the inability of Washington to close the disgusting "carried interest" tax loophole.
Although I like the human side of this, it might be impractical especially when I'm sitting at 2am trying to get access to some service I lost my password of.
Do you mean unusable?

I find the sensitivity way too low. By the time my mouse is off screen, I should have rotated the thing more than 60 degrees.
There was no dishonest or misleading tactic that Renaissance tech used. They held on to options and used that legal tax structure. Options for a basket of stocks and the basket of stocks themselves are completely different things and have different risks and payouts. That they are using derivatives to avoid taxes is just drama that politicians are inventing.
I don't know why I didn't expect this, but this article was the most interesting thing I've read all day. It made me almost feel compassion for the bee hive by my mailbox (if you can call it that), in a hole in the grass. We've tried to be rid of them.
It's more nuanced than that and can relate to the broader macro environment. You have to think of the organization you're targeting and what's going on at the senior leadership level. What do they believe is happening to their market and their company within that market. During good economic times "saving" money isn't that appealing. Times are good and customers are opening their wallet so the company focuses on topline growth. So your "incremental revenue" is the best story. If an economy is slowing and new sales in general are impacted then cost cutting and savings becomes much more important because the best tool in the world isn't going to make tight customer's open their wallet. Lastly, if you're selling to big old enterprises that in general have sloow growth then cost cutting can be just as appealing as new revenue because they're managing to a bottom line.
If it's advantageous to have more debt, then this is what you do. It's done by pretty much every company in the world, not just hedge funds. It's literally finance 101.
1. try an antidepressant, keep taking it without changing the dosage. try this for at last one year.

2. when you feel down and you're feeling worse and worse, try going out and walking for at least 15 or 45 min, or find something to do. breathe. don't stay in one place. don't let immobility and routine drown you. if you can do something that can make you move and make memories, you should do it. depression is a brain which is being less and less active. make it work and sense stuff.

3. try to see the good sides of your situation. you live in a developed country, you eat every day, you have a minimum of education. in many countries, people don't know what the Pythagorean theorem is.

4. if you're young, feeling down is normal. be thankful you're not part of the people who are diagnosed with major depression, or with veterans who have PTSD or any other trauma.

5. depression is normal in our era. there was a recession, and the economy is going towards less human contact. that should mean bigger opportunity for people who have the courage to seek human contact.
Does "everyone else" include progressive wonks like Matt Yglesias?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/09/18/median_family...

He's arguing that life has gotten better for the median family, not about how "fat" the distribution is around that family, but based on your other comments, I assume you think "everyone" agrees that things are getting worse.
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>The new mantra is "you're lucky to even have job" with this economy.

The limit is shown in the recent fast food strikes: when the existing jobs are so damn bad that people can't get by from working, people start fighting back again.
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Yes! In fact my primary "content mission" is to promote good policies & procedures as a means of creating a sellable business, much in the same way that John Warrilow does.
What is the social function of Google's tax evasion?
William Hill is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with a market cap of over £4bn. I think they're good for it.
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In Britain, "Nimrod" may be best known as the title of a very popular piece of orchestral music (from Elgar's Enigma Variations).
What a load of garbage. Show me even one example of someone who's been fired for asking for a raise (who wasn't going to be fired anyway). There's no logic at all in firing someone who asks for something, unless there are other factors at play.

It's an untruthful trope that's damaging, because some people actually believe it.
I would like to know how much Deutsche Bank had bet on the referendum, or rather on Sterling. They released a research report saying the case for No was overwhelming, a week before the vote. Sterling had just been rocked by the one poll that put Yes ahead (after a series of tightening polls). Implied volatility jumped up. Had they neglected to hedge their currency exposure?
No. You're over-simplifying what I said and arriving at a trivial statement. I suppose I would correct your summary to be "The mechanics of current homomorphic encryption mean that by giving Joe Public _ONE_KIND_ of access to the database you'd be giving an adversary _ANOTHER_, _MORE_POWERFUL_ kind of access to the same database."

I'm responding to the GP, who was hoping that homomorphic encryption would allow TPB to hand an attacker a working copy of the database on which the attacker could run queries, but not leak information about what the database was doing.

I'm making the statement that allowing Joe Public the ability to interpret query results allows the attacker the ability to observe the database's internal state at each step of the query, nullifying any advantages of homomorphic encryption.

I explained why current homomorphic encryption doesn't allow the kind of separation of access the GP was hoping for, and outlined one way a theoretical discovery advancing the state of the art might allow what the GP was hoping for.
Here’s the key bit: “Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) is a new sign language emerging in a village with high rates of inherited deafness.”

It sounds like this language hasn’t existed long enough to evolve some of the characteristics of typical languages.

About a similar recently invented sign language, I recommend this RadioLab bit:
http://www.radiolab.org/story/91730-new-words-new-world/
http://www.radiolab.org/audio/m3u/91730/
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> existing jobs

"There are three million good jobs that no one seems to want."

http://profoundlydisconnected.com/