skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. And if you were famous and got tarred one had the option of moving. It wasn't a good option as that typically meant starting from scratch --but it was there. You could start a new life.

Perhaps the so called right to be forgotten deserves serious consideration at least for some kinds of instances. Say, you can have indiscretion purged but not info on a felony.

On the other hand... In addition to searching foe people who get called out for offensive behavior also search for those who engage in mob mentality and hold them accountable when they try to find a job.
I've had good success with .svg from ggplot2. The only issue I've seen is that the legend for continuous color maps is glitchy. Especially if you try to touch up the plot in Inkscape.
This is great! We use Slack at work and for our uses wouldn't move away from it (we're paying and all), BUT for small teams/private projects/miscellaneous stuff, I absolutely love this.

Great work!
Maybe some bugs were added, also 100% free.

Thanks, I'll take a look.
Technically the businesses can be older, but they can't be "US businesses" for longer than the US existed. That doesn't take away from the spirit of your point, though.
Holy crap. That's going to be painful for anyone with under about 20 megabit downstream. There are internet plans in Australia that have less quota than that per month.

Can anyone comment on whether the CPU hit from using something like FLAC or Opus would really cause that much of a CPU hit? Especially when you're playing with about 4 threads minimum in an older gaming PC.

(Wouldn't the consoles have hardware accelerated audio too?)
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Oddly this was my first reaction too. Thst said, 2gb was always enough to enable Square Enix to deliver FF7 to iOS if they really wanted to, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
Please correct me if I have got this wrong or missed some code piece but you are pushing log records to a buffered channel (incomingChannel) without making sure that it has some space left. When that buffer of 2048 gets full, all the next requests are going to get blocked. Even if you call .log() in the background, there will be number of goroutines waiting to get their turn which will lead the system to a state where you have no idea what is pending and where.

here's a smaller version of the problem, notice how fillFoo() will have to wait to push to the buffer.
https://gist.github.com/Omie/52add99f6685dcb340a1

there's also a similar problem (how they solved it) described here: http://pivotallabs.com/a-concurrent-ring-buffer-for-go/
Yeah this makes the end game too easy.
I immediately though "Man, has hacker news always been so angular? Wonder if styling changed... my task bar seems harder too... wat"

Really interesting effect
> Just wondering, is the owner related to the manager of the server software behind it? https://github.com/solusipse/fiche

I have no affiliation with Termbin/Fiche, but yes I believe it's the same person.

> Is there a size limit of pastes?

I don't know, but it says that pastes are deleted after a month.
"For instance, data shows that the percentage of young men not working or not enrolled in school is nearly twice as high for blacks as it is for whites. This initiative, and others like it, is about doing the hard work to develop violence-resistant and drug-resistant kids, especially in communities of color, so they never become part of that officer’s life experience"

It's hard to read this any other way then "The criminality of African Americans means police excesses are understandable. What's a police officer to do, when he sees it's always black people committing crimes?"
I think the more typical case when the CLT is applied erroneously is not heavy tails, it's cases where the independence condition does not hold.

Independence of an unbounded sequence of variables is a very strong assumption, but so easy to hide away with the magic letters, "iid".
> New York itself can't bear the thought of having nature among it, so they put cars into central park.

This seems like an extremely cynical, not to mention pretty dubious explanation for why there are (occasionally) cars in Central Park.
So you'd be okay with, say, banning bacon because Jews don't eat it? I'm not arguing against a religious belief. I'm arguing against a religious belief being enforced by the government.

This isn't a disagreement over optimal taxation rates. There are people committing suicide because they've been demonized by people like those Eich paid money to support. There is real harm being done.
Regarding declining magstripe transactions: a friend of mine had a card with a literally broken (in half) chip. The magstripe still worked fine for many purchases in the UK, in particular, he never had any issues withdrawing cash from ATMs. So my guess is that cloning the magstripe onto a card with a deliberately broken chip will work in many situations.
Oh man, this is so important.

Yesterday we had a meeting, and this one guy in the team couldn't even imagine that we are NOT the users, so he was unable to take a different point of view...

It was a long discussion but totally worth it.
Lenin, and probably others, advocated for the use of a state to transition, not Marx. The dictatorship of the proletariate is a transitional period when the proletariates take over the means of production through revolution. There are still classes at this point, hence transition, but the ruling class is the working class. In other words, a "dictatorship" of the many and not the few.

As far as the split goes, it was a lot more involved than just one issue. The problem you are referring to, however, had more to do with using politics of the time in order to motivate workers which they both understood in many parts of Europe were not ready for what they wanted. Marxist were ok with participating in politics, Bakunin was not. They both agreed though that real change would come from an uprising of people and not through political action.
This is exactly what I came here to say. Now I don't have to. It's hard for me to continue reading an article after reading such an obvious logical error.
Good luck getting everybody to upgrade their kernel to support your new transport protocol. Realistically, UDP and TCP are what we have. We may wish they were more suited to modern use cases, but realistically we must build on those foundations. If that means violating "layering" for performance, so be it.
You have a good point, but I would point out that deaf people watching a silent un-captioned video is more access to knowledge than watching no video at all.
It's not like it hasn't been tried in our history before:

http://i.imgur.com/LTolA7A.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/baNAKIP.jpg

The obvious solvency problems you might expect largely did occur
man that's genius!!
60, actually. Page 78:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Langua...
>Should we in fact tell them "it is illegal for you to put out this material to benefit much of humanity, without also expending additional effort to benefit the deaf part of humanity?"

Yes.

To prevent this exact line of thinking, laws exist. Not just to protect the majority, but to protect EVERYONE as equals, under the rule of law.
Of course not. I’ve been saying for this whole conversation that it’s simply odd, when X is a subset of Y, to use language that implies that X and Y are disjoint sets.
“The continuity component is surely helped by the custom of adopting (adult) sons to carry on the business, displacing ‘natural’ sons when direct progeny are not viewed as suitable,”

I have a Japanese friend that's part of a 400 year lineage of monks. He's expected to go back and be the head monk when he turns 50. Unfortunately he only has daughters. This little loophole could help him keep the lineage going.
Yes we're on 0.9.12, will be upgrading asap :)

thanks for replying 👍
I'm struggling to not sound rude, but that's the whole point of the submission. He was surprised, you're surprised, I'm surprised, everyone here is surprised. Facebook was so surprised that they gave him money.
Thank you for answering my anticipated question. I was thinking, "There is some beauty here, but this seems very slow relative to other options."
The alternative side to this argument is that if Eich discriminates against anyone at work he loses his job, but that inclusiveness includes including people we don't like - and that means Christians with weird but semi-private views about gay marriage.

The only reason anyone knows about his ciews is because political donations are public, not because of anything he did at work.
Start writing on the side.
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I worked for a law firm in Australia representing a resources company. This company had decided to buy a mine. I saw a bank statement, with an initial deposit of $200 to open the "checking" account, an ATM withdrawal, and then on the date of settlement, 12 deposits of "US$100M" each from entities like "Chase Manhattan Holdings" and other corporate banks.

The end result was a balance somewhere in the order of $1.5B AUD - the number overflowed the little shaded box for balances.

Perhaps entirely unsurprisingly, the case that this bank statement was being used in? "ATO vs [Client]" (ATO being the Australian Tax Office) for "deficiencies in income declaration"...
Personally I would make a lot of sacrificies to have a super solid software/hardware solution.

Where sony lost me was the abyssimal software quality of their products. Ignore the DRM, ignore the licensing limitations. Their music management software was clunky, limited, slow, had critical bugs and barely had enough functionnalities to be usable. I was loosing my time clicking and dragging everywhere to transfer my music, the NetMD went to a drawer and I bought an ipod. I just seems so hard for traditional big japanese companies to benefit from talented developpers.

Their laptop line has/had good specs, but the windows integration is perfectible at best. I can't imagine trying to update the drivers or doing anything non sanctionned on them. One of my relatives has one, and my MBA performs better 4 years down the line while it went out roughly at the same time for the same price. I don't see wintel becoming an underdog anytime soon, but I'd love ubuntu in this role.
It's also worth noting that what this expression matches are not primes given in decimal notation; rather, the language it accepts is "111...111" with any prime number of 1s. And we know straight-up that no "true" regular expression matches this language, by the pumping lemma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumping_lemma_for_regular_langu...).
Take your stand to other disabilities.

Should we in fact thell them "is it illegal to build a sidewalk to benefit much of humanity, without also expending additional effort to benefit the part of humanity that requires of wheelchairs"?

I think we should, because I think people with disability have the same right to move or to learn than I do. And accommodating to them is important.
This is awesome: exactly the kind of simplicity the personal server market needs. I dropped you an email; really interested in making Known work with the platform.
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I sent an e-mail.
Those are yearly costs.
Should they also have to pay for translation to all languages?
No not quite. A robust society is one which evolves to know limits. You can have stereotypical jokes, racist jokes, etc. But they are part of a bonding mechanism rather than an alienating mechanism.

Societies need to allow the free flow of ideas. We can't be choosy about what we consider proper or not, desirable and not. We have to allow everything.

I used to be a dreamer growing up and thought why not make these bad thoughts illegal, racism cured. No. That was naive. It has too many negative collateral consequences.
It uses a string of '1' as a unary numeral representation of a number and then checks it for divisibility with 2,3,4... using brute force.
Really interesting strategy Expedia has, having these new brands benefit from Expedia's tech stack.
I bet if Jobs were alive they would have moved to 32GB long ago.

I know this is just an aside, but it's really tiring to see people evoke "Steve Jobs would never have stood for this!". You have no idea, and he isn't around to tell you.
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The bit that really irks me is that this is a compromise to help support lower-specced PCs - PCs that probably also have smaller HDs.
+1 from another happy paying Fastmail customer :)
Yes. There is such thing as "reputation". Logical fallacy? What logical fallacy?
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It seems languages with advanced GCs have same but different problems. Articles about how to reduce garbage generation, minimize heap allocation, etc because of slow and expensive GC collections and pauses. So it seems to me, putting in a little extra effort to reduce heap garbage that the GC has to go clean up is a win. Especially since go doesn't have an advanced JIT.
I had the same problem and just fixed it.

it was an extension named "fast search" in the Safari > Preferences > Extensions section. I unistalled it and the problem was solved!

Before that though i moved to trash all the suspicious files from the Finder > Applications section as they were described from the wildthing84 below.

hope i helped
You're right from a 'getting a case in court' stand point, but I don't think most of the spying/tracking is about getting a case to court, and as the SilkRoad trial MIGHT have shown, the gov't just needs a way to show that they were able to track you down. They can probably make up a way that they did it after the fact if their initial search was in fact illegal.

Please don't turn this into a debate about SilkRoad, I'm using that as an example of something that might have happened, I'm not saying it did or didn't. That is for other threads.
That's what the hint button is for.

If you start adding any automated processing like that, then you're only a couple more processes away from the game just solving itself without you.

The elegance of this implementation is that you are doing all the solving. Unless you specifically ask for help from the hint button.
Well, there is a "most likely" there ;)

But yes, I highly suspect that technology will never reach a point where multi-layer cores make sense. Part of the reasoning is that even if you reduce distances, you're still fighting with transistor switching speed, and individual cores are already very small. I do believe that designs with cores on one slice and L3 cache on another slice may happen, by the way. Another part of the reasoning is that (even if manufacturing can largely avoid the multiple-slice-then-glue method), the density of inter-layer connections will likely be much lower than the wiring density on the lower metal interconnect layers [0], which makes it unattractive to have closely tied logic spread across different layers. There are theoretical academic papers talking about the physical design of e.g. adders spread across a small number of layers, but they're frankly not very impressive, and their assumptions about the electrical properties of the inter-layer connections appear a bit on the optimistic side (understandable because hey, you've got to publish something!).

Overall, it's just a big headache, compared to the alternative of going 3D by stacking relatively large logical components such as cores and cache blocks.

[0] To be fair, I haven't seen numbers on this. I don't know how familiar you are with the typical stacks of interconnect metal, which consist of a very small number of layers for the thinnest wires, and then additional layers of increasingly (order of magnitude) larger wires for longer distance connections. In a hypothetical multi-transistor-layer design, how do you arrange those interconnect layers? To have a high density of connections between the layers, you want to only use layers with thin wires between the transistor layers, but then it's unclear how the longer distance wiring should work.

Edit: Let me formulate my position as a more concrete prediction. There will never be a major commercial microprocessor in whose design an automated tool is used to decide the assignment of a significant fraction[1] of transistors to their layer on an individual basis[2].

[1] Meaning a significant fraction of the random logic transistors; with growing caches, the fraction of transistors which is placed by an automatic tool is decreasing anyway.

[2] Meaning that the tool makes individual decisions about fundamental building blocks such as NAND gates. It is slightly more conceivable that an automatic tool is used to assign larger blocks (such as an FPU) to different layers. I would still predict that this won't happen, but with lower confidence.
Why is it important for the existence of a CLT type result that the Gaussian be a fixed point of the Fourier transform? Regardless of whether it were or not, we would find that characteristic functions of (suitably scaled) sample means converged to e^(-x^2/2), and thus the Fourier transform of e^(-x^2/2) would be their limiting distribution. That this Fourier transform is e^(-x^2/2) again does not seem essential.
My suggestion is write something that you love.

For example If you like culinary, go on explore your local restaurant and then review the food on your blog, etc.

Trying to catch all audience is hard, because they have different interest. if you have limited resources, Try to start blog that focused on specific interest like android tutorial, web design, etc.
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Awesome, thank you. I'll reply to your email, but the answer is definitely yes!

I've created a number of SaaS services over the years and the pain of building a scaleable service shouldn't have to be repeated by every single app developer. It's a huge distraction from building a great app.

It shouldn't take much work to get Known running as a one-click auto-upgrading app, but I look forward to your feedback on the process. Thanks!
Wikipedia suggests that it costs more like $40 per minute. For movies anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_Window_Captioning_System

I have no idea why it would be "even less if you do it yourself", unless you do not value your own labour.
Another way to look at this is the process of reading a stream of bytes.

A high-entropy stream means that based on what you have read so far you have a very small chance of predicting the next byte you read.

By the same token (as it were) in those circumstances the next byte you read will contain a great deal of information about its value that you did not previously have.

In a low-entropy stream the bytes coming in might be: 0, 1, 2, 3... and by the time you get to byte N you can be pretty sure of its value, so the next byte contains very little information you don't already have.

Both information and entropy are measures of the novelty of the next byte in the stream, but information is measured from the perspective of what you get when you read it and entropy is measured from the perspective of what you have before you read it.
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I didn't know that about the iPhone, interesting point. Unlocked phones have always been available, but you should certainly be able to buy the phone you want. All the same, the free market has made unlocked phones available already without any legislation. I don't see manufacturers reversing course, especially now that consumers have so many choices.
I don't think you've caught what I was saying. The GP noted indeed why we should expect the distribution of suitably scaled sample means to converge to the Fourier transform of e^(-x^2/2). I'm saying, it doesn't seem essential to the existence of a CLT type result that this Fourier transform is e^(-x^2/2) itself [i.e., it doesn't seem essential that e^(-x^2/2) happens to be a fixed point of the Fourier transform]; if the Fourier transform of e^(-x^2/2) were some other function, we'd still speak of a Central Limit Theorem and the privileged role of that other function instead. The Fourier transform fixed point phenomenon seems orthogonal to the distribution convergence phenomenon.
This is so good and useful! Thanks for sharing!

I'm just picking up Machine Learning these days and this is a good Bayesian intro.
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Another interesting thing to try (and maybe complementary as well) is building an interpreter or compiler for a language you like, trying to match the spec and feature set as closely as possible, and (hopefully) gaining more insight into the tradeoffs the language designers made when deciding why things are the way they are.
Progressive Enhancement? No thanks.
Given the relative frequency of topics on HN, that seems like a strange assumption.
So what about any charitable effort that discriminates on the basis of a protected class. If you can't do something for free to help one group without excluding some others no charity would be possible. Should MIT/Harvard intentionally avoid captioning? No. Should the government force them to use CCing? Hell no.
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I watched it last night and can confirm that C was not explicitly mentioned once.
Note that an app could conceivably be made that would on launch allow you to download all of Wikipedia. This limit is just on the size of the app binary as it's downloaded from the App Store.
http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/psych-lies-and-audiotape-th...

According to Gina Perry, she has found clear evidence of cheating in one of Milgram's 23 experiment series. It's of course possible that the other experiments were carried out properly but I think one bad apple spoils the whole bunch in this case. Even if other experiments arrive at similar results it doesn't change the fact that the original may be tainted.
Ask HN: What would you ask a founder that sold their company for $200M in 2 yrs?
We're going to be interviewing the co-founder of Acompli about their launch process, list building, and growth strategies that led up to their acquisition.

What questions would you ask them as part of the interview next week?

http://grow.kickofflabs.com/acompli-launch-story

You can reply here with your questions and we'll take some of the best ones.

Thanks,
Josh
"Chip and PIN is broken" is old news: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/banking/nopin/oakl...

Here's a video of them applying the exploit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPAX32lgkrw
> Notice how not a single variable in this code has a name. They all only have types.

Pretty cool, never even thought about this being possible.
In the UK at least, if the card is swiped rather than chip & pin then the card company may refuse to cover fraud losses and the merchant must swallow it. If the same fraud happenned via chip & pin, the merchant would've been "insured". http://www.theukcardsassociation.org.uk/cards-transactions/c...
This one has been going around for a while. I'd be curious to see a base-2 or base-10 variant of it.
Captioning celluloid film is a wholly different thing to transcribing an online video - the prices are in no way comparable.

I create captions for hundreds of hours of video every year - I know exactly how much work it can be, and, at the same time, exactly how easy it can be.
No, I mean the IT industry. I have been following it since the mid-eighties...