skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only after you've established that they have serious interest should you drop a name or two; private capital folks tend to be very well-connected with peers and likely have a direct line to any others you mention. When name-dropping a firm you've spoken to but hasn't actually expressed interest in moving forward, a casual mention can seem more like intentional misrepresentation.

You'll probably talk to a whole lot of "potential" before you find any actual "investors", so don't feel compelled to share anything until you get enough traction to be confident that things will line up the way you expect.
While the anecdote is interesting, for a couple of years I was happy living in New York while earning around $45K. If I'd played the finance game (I also have degree from a top-ranking CS program) I could have earned five times that. But I also know myself enough to know that route would have left me much less happy.
Which seems to be the route most countries are headed towards (India being the obvious exception). Good news is that Japan will get there first, so we can see what the actual impact is.
I took his point to be the opposite--that in expensive cities in general, the typical 'burbian metrics of success (big house, big dog, big car) are unattainable, but at least in NYC there is a lot of other things you can enjoy, much more so than in SJ.
Isn't the malicious attack fought by just picking a random pivot?
I agree with you. Arguments about "true free-market capitalism" are funny, because we neither have it nor we'd really want to have it - exactly because of externalities and some other failure modes we do need laws to patch up.
Diet for Bodybuilding
I have the same problem in Austin. Prices are going up faster than I can save, even accounting for the downpayment leverage. There's no way that I can compete with the all-cash offers that are $10k and $20k above asking price that are being made by investors and people from California and overseas. Knowing that it's a bubble, I think I'm going to have to wait until it pops, and just keep renting until then. Because commuting from Buda or Georgetown isn't attractive to me.
See also Bartosz Milewski's very nice WIP blog series[1] on category theory for programmers.

[1] http://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-pr...
I'm glad that there are (semi-) complicated kits that my kid can build. For his 4th birthday there was one with a 48 step instruction manual. That's an achievement (others might already build more complicated ones, but he didn't have small Lego before that). After a while these "builds" gradually fall apart and other things are being built.

Creativity is not the only thing that can be encouraged. Building complicated things from instructions is also an important skill. And there is still plenty of creativity to be trained while playing with the finished models.

I think you can not bemoan that LEGO is so important for raising engineers and then demand that they only have "creativity bricks".
£18k/year in London, I suppose you didn't live alone, that's the only way to make ends meet on that budget.
Given the amount of signal vs noise, I think it's pretty reasonable to ignore the crazies until they can back up their claims with hard evidence.

If they can't do that, their "theory" isn't worth my time. Now if one of the crazies keeps bugging me with his theory, I might apply critical thinking to shut him up, if I don't lose patience and punch him in the face first.
And here's a video from the 1970s, probably the first and last time Intel let anyone inside one of their fabs with a camera:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW5Fvk8FNOQ
> Of course, and I don't expect proof. I just expect long (20-years plus) studies that are unencumbered by commercial interests).

GMO's have been studied for more than 20 years
A Neural Network That Can Outsmart Wine Snobs at Their Own Game
It's worse than that. You are forced to save a lot for retirement and medical expenses, which leads to repressed consumer spending, which hurts the economy...in a vicious cycle. Insurance (public or private) to make these expenses predictable can help the economy substantially as consu ers have more confidence to spend (what they have left after paying premiums, of course).

You can see this playing out in China right now.
Whoa, whoa - that's not quite what they were saying, I think - and they were opposing me! I was referring to areas which are composed primarily of homeowners voting in ways that prevent other people from living there. There's also the fact that homeowners are more likely to be able to vote due to the greater likelihood of being citizens.

Something like 40% of London residents are foreign-born. Interestingly, I'm a foreigner in Dublin, but I'm allowed to vote in local elections after living here for a year.
Please do it and end the madness! You are assured at least one vote, and if you win I will relish the effect strict enforcement of your policy will have on the insanity[1] that is the London property market.[2]

[1] When Eric Schmidt is having trouble finding something in the £50M[3] bracket, that's got to be insane, right?

[2] http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-507206...

or take your pick from the bargains to be found at:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/map.html?locati...

[3] http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/sep/20/london-prope...
New Multisignature Bitcoin Exchange
VC investing is same as solving the Monty Hall problem
Is this a step forward to provide confidence and prevent theft of bitcoins on traditional exchanges?
Syphilis is also not new, but that doesn't mean that it's not a problem.

Inter-generational debt can and does destroy both societies and governmental systems. I'd argue that over the next 40 years, it's probably the biggest problem the western democracies are facing.

I didn't want to dive too much into the political side of this, but I found your comment to be a little too flip given the nature of the topic. One of the major advancements in civilization was the idea that parents _cannot_ pass their debts down to their children. That worked great for many decades, but we seem to have found away around that by collectivizing it. Not good.
Swipe Right for Poetry: Free Poems on Tinder
Pretty sure the amount of helium we could get from nuclear reactions would be quite small. I haven't run the numbers for fission, but I did for fusion, and the helium that would be produced even if the whole world ran on fusion came out to a tiny fraction of our current usage.

It's true that we won't run out completely, but reducing the supply by orders of magnitude could well be a big deal. We'll have plenty for a while from natural gas, but at some point we're going to have to stop extracting all that fossil fuel, and that will interfere with helium production too.
There are lots of different types of tuna, some much more expensive than others. The tuna people talk about that is running out and that is used for things like high end sushi is Bluefin tuna which is very expensive. The stuff you get in cheap cans is either Skipjack tuna or Bonito (which are not technically tuna fish) both of which are cheap and relatively plentiful.
According to a report by the Berlin-based Correctiv & Der Spiegel [0], it was Russia's 53rd Air Defence Brigade that was directly operating the missile launcher.

[0] https://mh17.correctiv.org/english/
In principle, government has the capability to be less stupid than the market. Companies are driven by competition, which seriously limits their choices and forces them to dig us a deeper hole. The government can, in principle, just arbitrarily decide that maybe, just maybe, we need to care about surviving for longer than next fiscal quarter or at least try and not create ourselves a hell on Earth.

Keep in mind that the golden age of capitalism was the beginning of Industrial Revolution - it took a lot of blood and subsequent regulations to get us to the point we're not slaving away 16hrs/day in a sweatshop only to die early because some "entrepreneur" sold us poison.
I believe you completely, but I bet that if their were more pot shops, that unsavory element would just frequent the shops in their own neighborhoods. The Netherlands in general seem to get all the yahoo's that would just as well stay home and smoke up if they could buy legally in their home nations.
> but when you mix genes from a bird a pig a cow a bacteria and some corn to make corn that flies onto your plate cooks itself and repels insects.

Ah, you're not being serious
An issue that I've run into is that 1) Google registers traffic from Tor proxies as suspicious (with some reason), it 2) puts Captchas in front of you (which are getting quite difficult to solve), and 3) if you're rate-limiting Tor proxies (around 6,000 - 7,000 worldwide as I was checking earlier), you're going to block a lot of legitimate Tor traffic.

Similarly for VPNs and other tools. Whose use is fairly likely to increase as people start seeking ways to avoid ubiquitous surveillance.

There are other options, including a few tools that look at how to provide a fair and anonymous reputation system for Tor clients:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.4707v1.pdf

https://gnunet.org/node/1704
The intersection of Math and Programming (a blog)
Why digital natives prefer reading in print
Does coding in a pure functional language like Haskell solve this problem?
Show HN: Concert search based on your location and musical taste
Is that the idea that since the code should neither invent new values, nor duplicate values, it will always end up returning a permutation?

It seems like inventing values not being possible is fine, but duplicating a value seems very plausible - what safe subset of Java would ensure that doesn't happen?
The point here is that the new CAPTCHAs are hosted on Google's domains when used by other services.

Much as with Facebook trackers, this provides cross-site user tracking by Google.

"Perona told us: “The use of Google.com’s domain for the CAPTCHA is completely intentional, as that means Google can drop long-lived cookies in any device that comes into contact with the CAPTCHA, bypassing third-party cookie restrictions [like ad blockers] as long as the device has previously used any service hosted on Google.com.”"

(From TFA).
Their corrected version:

if (n > 0 && runLen[n-1] <= runLen[n] + runLen[n+1]
|| n-1 > 0 && runLen[n-2] <= runLen[n] + runLen[n-1])

In the first clause they add earlier to later runLen elements, but in the second they add later to earlier elements. Switching the order just makes the expression harder to understand, like reusing variables within a scope. Addition is commutative and there's nothing technically wrong with it, but this construction makes it appear like there may be something special about element n when there's not.

The programmer also has to do mental arithmetic to check the bounds. Bounds checks can be written so that the largest index subtracted is also the value tested:

if (n >= 1 && runLen[n-1] <= runLen[n] + runLen[n+1]
|| n >= 2 && runLen[n-2] <= runLen[n-1] + runLen[n])

This makes it easier to see that the bounds are correct. Formal methods found an important bug that would not have been found otherwise, but a lot of lesser bugs can be prevented just by writing clear and consistent code.
Reinventing the wheel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinventing_the_wheel
Partly because 59% of the tuna Americans eat isn't actually tuna: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/59-of-th...
App that generates Yelp reviews based on the rating and business type
Windows Defender Removes #Superfish Malware from #Lenovo PCs but Not Completely
Uberjars that use Bouncy Castle aka “JCE cannot authenticate the provider BC”
We hunt unicorns but must also value technology zebras
I agree. The salaries seem inflated compared to talks with co-workers. If I look within my own company and even within my own company+city+job title Glassdoor is way to high. Honestly the most accurate numbers we get are probably from the H1B visas because they are required to be reported by the employer but I don't know how that correlates to pay of national citizens.

I guess the best way to know if you are underpaid is applying for other positions and see what kind of offers you get.
Same here, move from Berlin to Zürich. From time to time I miss some things, but now I can fly there and spend a weekend more intensely than while living there ;)

BTW, I think I saw that appartment in Adliswil. Switzerland is so small ;)
Just because much of the science has flaws does not mean that the effect is temporary, we don't really know what the long term effects might be. But even assuming it had no bad long term effects on the brain, if one were a regular user then it would regularly drop your intelligence and motivation, which itself is a disadvantage. This is no different than drinking regularly.

I may be more keenly aware of this than people in the US, but life is a global competition for resources, and it's unwise to squander your competitive edge.

Ritalin probably has more risks, I've not decided that it's worth the tradeoff yet.

I guess the core of your question is a deeper one about life, happiness, and the tradeoffs we make. I think the answer to that is different for everyone. Life is short and without intrinsic meaning. You have to focus on what gives it value for you, which is likely very different from the next person. For me, I enjoy creating things, and I feel most alive when in the zone churning out code. Most other people probably enjoy activities that are more social.
Just FYI for anyone who's interested, but there's a Swift implementation of QuickCheck described in this book:

http://www.objc.io/books/

It's very minimal, but the chapter outlines what you'd need to do to make it more complete and get it on par with the Haskell version. There are also a few versions on GitHub too.
The parameterization theorem doesn't imply such thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smn_theorem
And 4. Policies to allow other British cities to become alternative centres of gravity. Particularly connecting together Northern and Midlands cities (Liverpool Manchester Sheffield Leeds Derby Nottingham Coventry Birmingham into city regions), and decentralizing power to those cities from London.
This is a strong point in favour of privacy. I don't feel I have much to add at this point in conversation, I need to think about this issue more. Thanks for elaborating :).

> That is why we vote in secrecy

Just to address this one thing though - from what I understand, we vote in secret so that we can't be forced to vote against our will by external actors via e.g. blackmail - not because we value privacy per se. Am I wrong here?
Agree. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort

The original mail with the proposal is: http://bugs.python.org/file4451/timsort.txt
I have been wanting to self-host GitLab for quite some time, but it doesn't support the workflow my team uses on Bitbucket.

We have a team and by default all the members of the team have read access to all the team repositories (unless overridden at a repo level) and write access to the repositories they created or forked. Developers can create forks within the team namespace and send pull requests between themselves and to the official "blessed" repo from which releases are done. Those with write access to some repositories can commit to those repos and also merge pull requests. Admin can basically do everything within the team namespace.

That said, congratulations on keeping GitLab rolling forward with more and more features and bugfixes every release.

Edit: Fixed a typo and added some more detail.
I have been wanting to self-host GitLab for quite some time, but it doesn't support the workflow my team uses on Bitbucket.

We have a team and by default all the members of the team have read access to all the team repositories (unless overridden at a repo level) and write access to the repositories they created or forked. Developers can create forks within the team namespace and send pull requests between themselves and to the official "blessed" repo from which releases are done. Those with write access some repositories can commit to those repos and also merge pull requests. Admin can basically do everything within the team namespace.
> Go doesn't want to use the concept of generics.

How many times do we have to read this... It's not that Go doesn't want to use generics, it's that the use of generics doesn't come for free.

For generics to be introduced, the gain have to overcome the costs. It seems we're not there yet (I'll be honest, I didn't follow all the arguments closely)
Putting a cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator into a sorting library is a bit awkward, and if it's not a good random number generator, then it's still DoS-able.
From my prior reading, there are heat issues at speed and when they tested at highway speeds (if I recall correctly, on an Audi) there was alarming vibration past ~50mph.

I would buy these very quick of they entered the market.
Perspectives is a new approach to helping computers communicate securely on the Internet. With Perspectives, public “network notary” servers regularly monitor the SSL certificates used by 100,000s+ websites to help your browser detect “man-in-the-middle” attacks without relying on certificate authorities.

http://perspectives-project.org/
Upvar, properly used, is an excellent tool. Years ago I went looking for an equivalent of PHP. One of the first links thrown up by Google was a PHP discussion thread on which the fellow wishing for upvar was told that he was a bigot (or worse) for even thinking of such a thing.
At a guess: A lack of practical ways to perform such checks without extensive extra knowledge and annotation as seen in the article. A large factor is likely that Haskell is pure by default - something that is reasonably rare in many languages (where a method likely reads (or mutates) state from instance variables or even globals).
Shoot a teammate in the back with a paintball gunto win a trip to costa rica
Nice. I loved skating when I was a kid, but skating rinks bore me. I always thought it'd be fun to travel a longer route as you would on skis. Now recreational skating routes do exist (usually built on natural ice e.g. on lakes), but a frozen way in the city sounds much more fun and useful.
What is the reason for all of these 2FA apps? This is completely unnecessary. If you're going to offer 2FA, please offer at least the following:

* TOTP
* Yubikey
* SMS

If you want to partner with someone and ram unnecessary apps down our throats, optionally add the following:

* Authy
* RSA
* etc

I have places where I want 2FA but I will not install the Authy app, so I go without. Sorry. Let me use TOTP or my Yubikey.
https://twitter.com/themitcho/status/308026012455821312
Creating a Simple World with Three.js
My wife's an infant teacher (5-6yo), and I'm a governor of my son's school (they take 4-11yo). There are about 200 students in each. And there is at least one severe nut allergy in each (i.e. epi pen level), and in both my wife's class and my son's class there is one more minor nut allergy (rash level).
Apple Acquires Popular Instrument and Effect Plug-In Maker Camel Audio
Founder of @Authy here. Happy to answer any questions.
Interesting acquisition, glad to see authy as a service living in Twilio instead of just using it. Can't wait to see it in the portal. Make sure you read Jeff's post as well.
It certainly does on IIS Express. You have to disable edit & continue to get it to work. I'm not imagining this, it's a highly upvoted SO question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19568762/how-can-i-preven...

There's a whole list of things you still can't do while EaC is running. So you're going to have to stop it a lot, EaC might help when debugging or tweaking, but for new code you're going to have it off.

They even confirm this stupid behaviour in this blog post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/07/11/enable-edi...
A number of us have actually even used it to skate to work!
How to Develop New Antibiotics
> The replacement to segmented stacks is copying stacks ...

Which again is not an answer. Why are segmented stacks necessary? Why are copying stacks necessary?

This reasoning, which is their best apparently, amounts to saying that they had to implement their own compiler, linker, assembler, and runtime because they decided they had to implement their own compiler, linker, assembler, and runtime.
What does this bode for GIMP as a whole?
I used it a few weeks ago in Ottawa. Sections of it were closed as the ice was in poor condition (not too thin, but too rough for skating).

It was great fun, but wasn't anywhere near as busy as the picture in the article and most of the people using it looked like they were there recreationally.
A hackathon exclusively for women
If the people signing for you are not willing to donate even £1, I'm not sure they're very serious about wanting you to run.
There are still inputs that will make it go quadratic, that just obscures it slightly. A proper fix is to fall back on a different sort if it looks like quicksort is doing that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introsort
This is really cool and something I have been missing. It still gets little things wrong, but it is pretty good.

Next step is to automatically extract these from PDF and integrate it into various citation management programs :)
I highly, highly doubt any Egyptian living in Iraq for a period of time would not be able to pick up the dialect rather quickly.

Except when you're working for an occupying military force, you're not really "living" in the country you're occupying. Unless you're native, you're living on a military base -- i.e. with the occupiers, and not with the locals.

Which is one of many, many reasons why these kinds of military operations tend not to work so well.
I hope you can appreciate that open-sourcing my app has a number of implications for its viability in the App Store. A devil's advocate might even argue that wide publication doesn't always guarantee security, as was the case with Heartbleed.

If it helps, internally I used the iOS framework APIs for AES/RSA directly. I didn't attempt to implement them on my own. What I built was simply an abstraction on top of that. Granted, I understand that there are still ways to go astray, but certainly less if I fundamentally rely on what the crypto experts implemented.

So, to address your concerns, what if I got a commercial security audit? Can you recommend any places you would trust?
> Maybe I will give it a shot. At the very least it force the candidates to address rent control as an issue.

I doubt it will force anyone to do anything, least of all the candidates.
The USB Armory from Inverse Path looks like a great platform to try this out on. It's shipping in March.

http://inversepath.com/usbarmory#usbarmory_top

One of the devs presented a talk about it at CCC earlier this year.
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/events/6541.htm...
They have a terrible NVH (noise, vibration, and harshness) profile. The deformation of the tire in motion produces significantly more noise than a traditional tire due to the larger amount of material and greater stiffness required for the support structure. These high levels of "tire noise" are the main hold up for consumer applications as the tweel has caught on in low-speed applications when durability outweighs cost considerations.
I take it the GMs goal is to convert succinct code into a verbose masterpiece?

My joke is that the code base should be getting smaller every week because we are all getting better.
Its quite far into the building process now actually. The whole Power Station/Nine Elms area is getting a huge number of (quite expensive) apartments and 2 extra Northern Line stations.
"Want a professionally printed copy – for FREE?"

Bold strategy, attempting to motivate tech entrepreneurs with paper copies. Let's see if it pays off.
Shared memory is hard. Using threading in conjunction with message passing is comparatively nice and safe.
Provably Fair Decentralised Poker with Ethereum