skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're definitely important but hedge funds depend on investor confidence. Ours made an untimely bad decision that not only resulted in significant losses but caused investors to flee.

Sales is tied to performance. Hedge funds' customers are even more conservative than they are.
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Until the next time they decide to charge again by forcing everyone to move again ?
i've been working with/on Fossil since late 2007, and within the Fossil team we are not aware of _any_ loss of data except that caused by "system events" or severe user error (e.g. once i accidentally included a repo db in a sed filter, corrupting it).
I too started by purchasing MP3's from Amazon because f*ck DRM. However once Apple ditched the DRM, I started buying from iTunes, and rather like it's ability to "sync" music purchased on another iOS device to the device I'm currently using (I have a family with 5 iOS devices).

I tend to purchase most songs while in my car (after hearing it on Pandora/Sirius) and don't know if it would even be possible to purchase and play immediately a track purchased from Amazon on an iOS device (without a computer).
Spot on.

I got a job in finance as a quant and spent the first year building automated processes to pull portfolio holdings data from email attachments and scrape data from a bunch of different sources.
They could have had a better-timed liquidity event, like Minecraft did.
I suspect the real answer to your question is "in your own head, and with your own pen and paper." Amazingly, you cannot learn mathematics from reading books. Especially the abstract stuff. It is just too opaque. Not until you start to manipulate the symbols yourself, in your own way, does it start to make sense. Having said that, I would still like to recommend a book to read :-) This is big-boy maths (i am not shitting you), explained with cartoons and a bazillion examples from things like sensor networks, robotics, pattern recognition, electromagnetism, it goes on and on. Just published, but also available for free. I bought several copies. It blows my mind that a mathematician took the time to explain these advanced topics to the mere mortals:

"Elemantary Applied Topology", Robert Ghrist.
http://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/notes.html

Although you probably need to have some idea of multi-variate calculus (and linear algebra) before you get started.
Google easily answers a lot of these questions.
for ex: When will the sun rise today in city X. it works even for a small village in India
Ah, the doses makes sense - I was figuring even if you couldn't tell the difference with a little taste or a tiny sniff, you wouldn't go line for line without realising it wasn't coke... but if one coke-sized line of heroin is enough to OD then even if you can spot the difference easily, all it takes is doing a line without checking and you're fucked.7
> There's nothing quite so rewarding as listening to a great album, then mailing the artist and paying them directly, and getting a response from them personally.

Bandcamp seems to be doing about the right thing, actually. It allows to keep the interaction between artist and listener reasonably personal, while at the same time offering options to make the process easier and more streamlined from artist’s perspective. It also is very transparent about their fees—you know your money will go directly to the artist (though I’m not totally sure how it works with labels, for them Bandcamp seems to offer a separate kind of account).
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Why not gather all your products under one roof? Create a website that gathers all the other tools, choose a theme for it and everything, then start taking donations or charging small amounts of money for a monthly subscription to all your products or paid accounts that to use some extra tools
Since you have traffic, you could work on monetizing in other ways than adsense. Think of a product that visitors might be interested in and try to sell them that.
FWIW: simply removing records from your repo db (in particular the blob table) _will_ corrupt it. Fossil stores deltas and other metadata which span blobs, and it's not trivial (and in many cases not possible) to separate them post facto. Hypothetically it would be possible to "pop" the top-most change from a repo, then repeat that, going all the way back to the start of the repo, but it's not possible to remove something from in the middle without the equivalent of a 4-way heart bypass surgery.
Do you have that per worker? Per megawatt is the societal cost; not the most important stat to the guy on the roof.

Sorry I was away; I didn't think this would ignite such passion. It can be unintuitive how dangerous an occupation can be.

Here's some stats: http://www.deseretnews.com/top/2919/2/9-Electrical-power-lin...

Note: construction and electrical workers are in the top 10, with solar installers being members of both groups so may be hard to estimate their number. But its around 20 deaths per 100,000 per year! Add Roofer at near 40, and again solar panel installers are in this group. Compared to mining around 27.

So I admit my original comment was based on a news article, that I recall quoted solar installer at the top of their dangerous occupation list. No reference to give for that, so I withdraw my assertion.
215 employess x Avg tech-based salary ( $85,000) = 18, 275, 000 / yr. Add the 6, 000, 000 to awards and grants and the 2, 500, 000 in server hosting (which seems awfully slim) = 26, 775, 000 / yr. Their cash reserves just barely cover a year of operating costs at LAST year's expenses. If they wish to continue expanding their reach year over year, as any well minded business should, their yearly expenses from just these 3 items would most likely eclipse their cash reserves within the one year period. Zero cash reserves would halt all investments, meaning their current state wouldn't cover two years of these three liabilities without donations. So, now what?
The weird thing about this entire No Captcha solution, in my opinion, is that it assumes that a captcha is the most efficient method for defeating spam.

In most blackhat circles, captchas are an afterthought. You figure out everything else (IPs, original content), then plug in a service like deathbycaptcha that solves the captcha for... looks like $1.39 per 1000 (thanks to ultramancool for the correction). (http://deathbycaptcha.com). What nocaptcha does is only show that captcha (which is already defeated), to a certain subset of the users who haven't been deemed trustworthy. So, the big bot builders will take a day or two and beat the system, and we're right back to where we started.

Honeypots, however, are brutal - especially if you throw a couple in there. When building a bot you build it for efficiency. If your site does anything abnormal (whether it's 'what's n+n?' or 'what popular figure comes through your chimney in December?') a bot is hopeless.

That being said, however, a bot is only hopeless so long as a solution isn't implemented widely enough to be worth breaking through for spammers. If, for example, Wordpress came up with 1000 questions like that, someone somewhere would come up with and sell 1000 solutions.

In some sense it may be the case that Google is one of the worst companies to create a a simple anti-spam API. I'm sure there's something they could do that would be more effective than this, but this won't really move the needle.
It dosn't stop there. Why use the decorators directly when you can get Hy on Meth?
https://github.com/hylang/hy/blob/master/hy/contrib/meth.hy
I created all sorts of honeypots (time based, hidden fields) and they quickly became worthless. As soon as the Russian bot networks target you, honeypots won't do anything to stop them.

Captcha has been the only thing that actually works. I will never use honeypots ever again. The headaches caused by those Friday night attacks aren't worth it.
It was twelve different Sony companies. It was clear that no part of Sony had any interest in information security.
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> there is always a chance that a batch of heroin has a local anesthetic in it so it produces a false positive

This suggests that there is some motivation to pass heroine off as cocaine, rather than this being a supply-chain mixup. But then why sell heroine as the substitute? It seems like the street value of heroine would still be higher than other substances (say, talc with the local anesthetic). If you're dealing, why not just try and pass that off, increase your profit margin, and not invite criminal investigation into the deaths of your customers?

Or is the presumption here that some people are dealing with the purpose of causing harm?
Awesome – the announcer just noted that there's a UAV which will be used to capture the final descent splashdown of the Orion capsule. That should make for interesting video. The UAV—Ikhana—looks to be a modified Predator:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/aircraft/Ikhana/index....
Right, but it's not sales in the sense of "lets convince stupid people to waste money by giving it to us", it's more in the sense of "trust us, we're smart, have a good strategy and good past performance". Of course, the average hedge fund under-performs the market (for a particular measure of performance), but rich people might have other investment goals (the chance of finding alpha & beating the market, diversification, negative beta (anti-cyclic returns), ...). Same as with casinos/lottery, they need little sales, people know it in average underperforms just keeping the money, but you're not gambling for the average, you're gambling for the variance.
Fossil was initially written for that very purpose - to host sqlite. That is still its primary target. The fact that the sqlite project is so heavily used gives fossil a great deal of exposure, and Richard regularly updates the sqlite.org sites from the fossil trunk to help insure that we "eat our own dog food" and find problems before they hit the outside world via an official (numbered/versioned) release.
Then just allow staff to also claim the prize? Seriously, given the risks and the money rewards, it's a bargain.
I would argue that the problem of spam and hackers is a greater burden on society as a whole than someone in Iran not being able to get past a captcha.
Jam a knife solidly between the halves, wiggle back and forth while pushing - I think you could expect almost exactly that pattern? And the pattern was described as almost impossible to see, so who knows how many shells have the mark.
I'm curious to hear more about the meaning of "The system was totally hacked".

"Farrugia told the court that hackers with names like “DVD Jon” and “Requiem” made Apple “very paranoid” about protecting iTunes. Updates that deleted non-Apple music files were intended to protect consumers from those system break-ins. “The system was totally hacked,” he said."

Is he stating that the iPhone OS (was it called iOS back then?) was completely hacked, or that the work-around to get music onto an iPod outside of iTunes was "hacked"? I'm assuming the former, just curious on the background there.
"...complex sql to remove a spam ticket..."

that was very possible the reason for his woes. Do not EVER manually edit the fossil repo db. That's like hex-editing an MS Word Doc.
pyqt works pretty well with it. I just gave it a try with QGIS (a open source GIS application) and it uses PyQt

http://nathanw.net/2014/12/04/using-hy-a-dialect-of-lisp-for...
"...complaining about the conflict resolution process..."

In Fossil? Absurd. i don't know that i have ever, without help from a git professional, successfully resolved a merge conflict in git. In fossil it's trivial.
It's a story about american airports it is to be expected. You should probably give your nose hairs a good trim someone might think you're going to pluck the longest one out and strangle the country to death.
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Yup, thats one course I wanted to take but could not. Would be great if cmu could give access to class video lectures.
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As long as your religion is the best hardware currently available.
Fossil is not the right job for that - there's a dozen entries in the ML archives explaining why. Short version: it doesn't do file permissions and system users, and many files in /etc require specific perms and owners.
Pxl is the coolest iOS8 keyboard ever
Sadness can be a layer over anger - it's a more acceptable emotion to display or even experience.
A creepy, open source device to invade user's privacy
you are talking about human problems. people clicking links. people typing their passwords into foreign web forms.

software engineers wont magically fix executives handing over credentials to hackers.

if you were designing a network and interface to access your files, maybe you could design it without resorting to passwords, but that wasn't practical in sonys case.

maybe they could have designed their network to notice the data leaving, but again, the hackers could always find a way to win. (physical infiltration of the company and a verizon hotspot?)
It's a shibboleth : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth. It shows you belong.
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Do you mean an abstract binary packet, which can represent an infinite number of symbolic expressions, or do you mean a specific binary packet, which can be transformed into a photograph of art?

I understand we can simplify this argument down to 'everything is everything', 'i don't know' or 'maybe'. But that's an over-generalization of something very complicated, and then I miss the point of implementing things, doing things - with something real behind it.

I just don't know whether computer code and mathematics can truly be like art, and art can truly be like mathematics and code. Communication can be simple. It can also be everything besides simple. You can look at a symbol and know what it is. But do you really know what it is? Are you just using a bunch of other symbols to explain what you think you know it is? And then how do you explain those symbols?

In my mind, it's crazy. Not in a bad way. Just in an incessantly annoying way. There's a lot of philosophy and ideas and emotions and theories surrounding art, in what it represents, how it affects culture and society, how it represents culture and society and the individual. It's all reactions. Sometimes I think the same way about code, except in a psychoanalysis way, in that it explains how I think way, and why my perceptions of people socially are challenging, in two perfectly explainable simultaneous ways that keep changing depending on how much math and logic I know (or have the capacity to use all at once).
There's still no need for a click.
I've no idea. I suspect that yes, since it's photographic evidence of what is a crime (possession), whereas if you just tweeted "I'm high as hell right now" that wouldn't be proof of a crime. But I also suspect they'd never bother to arrest for something like that unless you were dealing.

Even if they catch you with drugs on you, as much as possession (non-dealing) charges have high maximums - for class A drugs I think the maximum is 7 years prison + fine for possession or life in prison for dealing - realistically you're unlikely to get in much trouble for a small quantity. Weed unless you're a serious repeat offender, or a cop decides he hates you, you'll either get an on-the-spot official "caution" and fine up to £90, or more likely a non-recorded verbal warning and confiscation. For harder drugs police aren't meant to do that, but stories I've heard you're still more likely to get confiscation and possibly a caution.

I've even known weed dealers (low level) who've been caught and only had to give up the cash and weed they had on them.
Balsamiq, Tarsnap are not in the same category as Bingo Card Creator.
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do you work somewhere where management/the board outranks IT and can decide "that sounds too expensive."
I agree. He's probably one of the best teachers, can explain difficult concepts in very simple terms.
This is the best idea. Make a database of these GIFs. I promise I'll spend an entire day watching them.
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will you provide the shortcuts that you were using in the demo for atom?
I keep hearing how apple makes these "good products", but I certainly don't see it. Many people I know hate their apple products, but still use them for certain reasons, ie: everyone I talk to has facetime so I have to have it.
Coke often gets cut with other much cheaper drugs that will simulate some effects of cocaine (such as numbing) so that users are less likely to realise how cut their drug is. (All coke will be cut at least somewhat, but if you're buying it you're hoping a.) fairly high purity and b.) cut with non-toxic non-drugs, rather than other drugs)

I'd be surprised if that didn't happen all the time with heroin too, though if heroin doesn't provide a numbing feeling then there's no motivation to specifically add a cheap numbing drug.. but numbing could well be an accidental side-affect of something that was added to dilute the % of heroin in each gram sold?
Hah, I just read your essay a couple of days ago!
> The story went that each of the Sony subsidiaries[1] had their own security division that was largely autonomous for reasons of politics and budget, of course. Each part of the company had different vendors, different policies and procedures, and different philosophies on how security should be implemented.

And they could centralize all of that and ... it still wouldn't solve the problem. You'd have a single point of failure that might still leave them with their pants down at the end of the day.

Some days, you just can't win. You can have the smartest people (they probably didn't), the best hardware and software (ditto) and you're still gonna get punched in the junk.
Check the current stock of hard-to-find Lego sets
One way to make money from an activity is to sell products and services to people doing the activity. Supply companies in Denver probably were more consistently profitable, and their owners and employees probably lived longer, than the miners who stopped in on their way into the mountains to dig for gold, silver and lead.

Use your experience with what you do to create books and other resources for people who might like to do what you do.

Create a hosting service that is structured to support that community really well.

Etc.
Given that solar is less than 1% of global energy production and installed capacity, you can still calculate the absolute numbers. Additionally, roof mounted solar is a very (very, very, very) small fraction of total installed solar capacity as the majority is ground mounted i.e. the large >500kw plants. Having started my career in energy this "roof" argument only pops up when talking to non-energy folks, as the real meat (installed capacity) is in remote, high radiation locations, far away from what people understand by solar (roof).
Pure math to head of QR risk management over the period when RBS took on insane leverage and relied on wholesale lending markets staying at low rates forever. An assumption that was incorrect and led to RBS being bailed out by UK tax-payers.

Good work fella.
I'd like to see an article titled "Why Get a Quant Job in Finance?"
An easier to read ("=3D" converted back to "=") version of this post: [1]

Previous discussion of this post on HN: [2]

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[1] - https://bpaste.net/show/a9bb9668beac

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=795344

[3] - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/267862/what-makes-lisp-ma...
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Only problem is, I've been to the village where Starry night was painted, it's not that big.
The most recent google hack [1] wasn't actually a Google hack. It was just a combined list of various email/password dumps of various hacked webservices over the years. That all ended in @gmail.com

My account was included yet my password was 18 months out of date.

[1] http://bgr.com/2014/09/10/gmail-hack-how-to-find-out/
But Apple does not seem to have "best hardware currently available" anymore and still fanboism level seems to be bigger than any non-Apple brand level
95% of quant code is not only fails to achieve low-latency, it's utterly incorrect, unmaintainable and frankly deranged.
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I do run small website called Notation Training http://notationtraining.com it is up and running for about three years and is doing quite good. I do run AdSense there, making around 200 USD/month and then I am selling premium version for $4 which quite some people buys as well. I guess I could be more aggressive with selling the premium version, but I am quite ok with it. There is very little maintenance going to this product and it makes quite nice extra money for me.
Is there any compelling reason to try this if I'm already comfortable with using Bootstrap for internal apps?
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With both of your examples (and many others I've come across) those question type captchas can be done with a quick ping to Google and a sanity check on the answer

"what popular figure comes through your chimney in December" -> "Santa Claus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"

"what's 1+1" -> "2"

They only really work if maybe the question is in the market of the site you're registering for "What's <some popular guy on site>'s last name" etc
Did you try bitcoin donations instead of ads?
New T-ZERO just set at 14:44 UTC (and that's the last possible attempt for today)
Now 14:44Z (9:44 EST).

Sounds like they're disabling a bunch of automated safeguards (like the wind speed monitoring) to get this thing up.
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Separation of tickets and VCS: that has been a bit of a stickler in the development of libfossil (http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/r/libfossil). In fossil the ticket system is married to a custom mini-script engine called TH1. In libfossil we want to avoid any specific script binding. That's turning out to be quite difficult, as Fossil's ticket system is built from the bottom up on top of TH1 (which is not a very flexible language).
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This is a pleasant change. My goto framework for internal apps is Bootstrap (no surprise there) although I actually end up using only a handful of elements. Flakes looks like a good enough collection of elements to cover 95% of my use cases. Definitely going to use this in my next app.

Thanks for sharing!
Both are going to compete fiercely on prices, so my money goes to whoever doesn't make it easier for CIA and NSA to assassinate people, much like how IBM made it easier for the Nazi to gas people.
Here is the code that won me the Vista Tech Challenge 2014
head of quantitative research = spending all your time on pricing models for complex derivatives. it's unlikely he had anything to do with RBS's overall financial strategy
UPDATE ( 9:30 ) - There is a new T-ZERO 9:44
Click an drag isn't working for me in Firefox or Chrome. The arrow keys work though. Am I doing something wrong?
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My nieces each have Amazon tablets they play games on. I watch them play and they're become experts at clearing out the in-app purchase come-ons. They don't seem to have much of an issue with it, but it annoys me seeing them have to do it. I guess it's the price you pay for the sheer volume of choices you have. When I grew up with the NES, I couldn't get hundreds of games to try out for free.
I haven't really been following this - was this a previously announced and planned launch, before the news about Mars yesterday?