skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this true of most actively managed funds?
Show HN: Weekend project full text search for your files
TIL: the startup world loves sunny beach locations.

Just posted an article about the blue house doing a similar thing in Morocco (or at least providing a framework for startups to do so in tropical locations): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9347228
Let's see: http://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors/russell-saunders.h... Russell Saunders is the pseudonym for a pediatrician in New England. Other articles with this name seem to be political and pop-culture references. I would guess that this is legitimately anti-meth.
Why would they care if you made an exact copy of Michaelangelo's David? I imagine that if I had the actual Declaration of Independence on display, I'd be flocked with visitors, but if I had an exact copy, indistinguishable to the human eye, no one would bother to look at it.

Maybe that's their reasoning, but if so it seems a bit overblown.
I was basing what I said off of the actual filing, not the EFF's pearl-clutching.

"Hacking video game access controls facilitates piracy and therefore undermines
the core anti-piracy purposes of Section 1201. As explained above, hacking the video
game access controls requires, by definition, hacking of the video game console or
similar device in order to play the hacked video game. Once the access controls for the
video game console are hacked, regardless of the purported purpose or intent of the
hacker, any content, including pirated games, can be played on a video game console.
What's more, console hackers may distribute their console-hacking solution to gamers
that have no intention of using it for the purposes stated in the proposed exemption. The
risk of piracy is even greater on personal computers and similar devices that do not
utilize device-based access controls to prevent the installation of unauthorized software.
The individual can use consoles to make and store infringing copies of copyrighted
games and other content and to distribute these unlawful copies online to a large
audience."[1]

They are equating hacking with piracy, full stop. They are saying "regardless of the intent of the hacker, the hacker is committing piracy". That's a scary precedent to set.

[1] http://copyright.gov/1201/2015/comments-032715/class%2023/En...
I actually work in Zürich!
Definitely!
linked in buy lynda.com, and it provides online training based on the skill categories. It is innovative.Actually I never use lynda.com before. Hope the sessions will be continuous, informative and effective.
Linkedin is paying for the content and ongoing business model. Lynda had $100M in revenue in 2014. Sure LinkedIn could have replicated the content but they are taking an existing business that works, building on it, and assuming that by marketing it via linkedin.com they can expand Lynda to a larger audience.
Yes, unlike 99% of the start-ups who demand it.
IIUC, contracts are specifically for creating verifications at runtime.

In some cases, sanity checking can happen up front/at compile time. In other cases, these must occur at runtime.

The Pragmatic Programmer has a whole section on contracts; it is pretty good.
Author here,

This was a weekend project in Go that I've since cleaned up a bit and made presentable.

Command line Indexer and Full Text Search for files on your disk. It handles anything plain text and pdf right now which is most of what I care about but support for other mime types can be added.

Comments are very much welcome.
sure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp_v_Commission

all in all almost $3B in fines.

This isnt FCC/FTC fining AT&A spare change for stealing billions. EC doesnt fuck around.
People have already been killed by computer pilots to various degrees. For example, that Helios flight that flew circles on autopilots after the pilots lost consciousness, then crashed because the computer wasn't programmed to land. Or incidents where airplanes have collided because they were put on the same path at the same altitude in opposite directions, and the autopilot held the course so precisely that they banged into each other, while a human pilot would likely have missed. Or the Air France flight that stalled into the Atlantic because the computer averaged the inputs of the two human pilots, preventing them from knowing that they were contradicting each other.

Like autonomous cars, autonomous airliners have been steadily sneaking up on us for a while, and the first fatalities have already happened. It's a smooth function, not a pure on/off.
Q&A with GSoC Head Carol Smith
Care to explain downvotes? Am I wrong somewhere here?
Touch ID not working with iOS 8.3
After 1.0 API changes really should increment the major version.
I mean that to continue their strategy they will need to onshore the money, at which point it will be taxed, at which point it looks far less viable in the long term.
The New York Times article seems to be talking about the extra gain, which I presume means gain in addition to beating the benchmark. Here's the quote:

"Over the last 10 years, the return on those “public asset classes” has surpassed expectations by more than $2 billion, according to the comptroller’s analysis. But nearly all of that extra gain — about 97 percent — has been eaten up by management fees".

I read this as meaning that the extra gain meaning gain minus benchmark gain was $2B and most of it was eaten by fees (which is still bad, but not as bad as the article and its title seem to suggest).
It's also a matter of actually asking whether prohibition helps. Does it help prostitutes? Not in the least.

I'm all in favor of prohibiting theft, murder, etc., but drugs are a little ludicrous. It's obviously unenforceable, and a government will bankrupt itself trying.
Open source is key to the future of CMS development
The Crash of United 232 by Capt Al Haynes
Learn how to troubleshoot a project. If it's behind, how to get it back on track. If it's getting too complex how to bring it back into scope. Get good at finding & removing problems.
> Wonder how they will be able to compete with free online courses, there are plenty of them and they're just as quality.

The quality is the same, but most free online courses are their own worst enemy.

Sites like Lynda and Pluralsight, once you pay the price of admission, give you what I call the "Netflix experience." Essentially click any video you want, bored? No biggy find another. There's absolutely zero barrier to entry and no guilt associated with it.

Some free places do it well, like Berkley [0], and more or less anyone dumping onto YT. Because in those cases there is no registration, no "guilt" if you don't attend "class" and complete a "test" you just turn up, watch a few videos and leave.

However a lot of free training is trying to reproduce the actual college experience to their detriment. Coursera[1] is a perfect example. You have to register for a specific class, then turn up to watch it every week, do tests at specific times, and they guilt the shit out of you over email if you get bored after a few lectures (and have "limited" spots in a class).

Honestly paying Lynda $25/month was fine because of how frictionless the entire experience became after that. Ditto with Netflix/HBO GO (and why I cancelled Hulu+).

[0] http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
[1] https://www.coursera.org/
Reminds me of the famous line, you have a higher chance of getting killed on the way to the airport than on the plane.
Sure, if you can get the client to connect through your machine.
Possibly inspired by Jesse Schell's fantastic DICE2010 talk:

https://youtu.be/9NzFCfZMBkU?t=2m15s
My biggest gripe concerning Bootstrap is that it's listed as a project requirement, for whatever reason, and the designers refuse to design according to Bootstrap standards. For me that's been the main reason of having to tweak the defaults beyond their original intent. It can eventually reach a point where it's better to dump Bootstrap and build from scratch.

As for Bootstrap's grid system and nesting grids: I would think all grid systems work this way. I'm not sure how it would work otherwise. It's the same as nesting tables, you'll run into problems if you aren't careful and plan ahead. I would imagine in many ways that nested grid may not actually need to be a grid based on the purpose of Bootstrap's grid system. I bet a series of inline-block elements would serve the same purpose in many cases.
Many of the countries were coerced into banning drugs with international treaties that were supported heavily by the United States. Drugs have been illegal for much less of civilized history than they've been legal. Also there is the problem of misinformation that was actively spread by the most powerful entities in the world, nation states. I think its very wrong to blame the majority when the average citizen has no control over international drug treaties from 40-50 years ago.
Soon, but not just yet:

http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/australia/

I don't have anything listed there at all yet, however I do have some Australian companies in the OpenOffice spreadsheet that I've been compiling these indexes in.

It would not be hard for me to find lots more but I figure I now know how to proceed with automating a good chunk of it.

If it's urgent I will post what I have by this evening though, then dig up some more.
I see a lot of centOS and RHEL in big corporation production these days... always felt like most open source issues are solve in the debian world first ... in my experience at least -- didn't know if that was something big corp did but maybe smaller didnt' ... just thinking out loud
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Not really true, Ireland has a large concentration of 'tech giants'. They may be setting up because of tax regulations but they pretty much all have sizeable engineering workforces in Ireland. Google Ireland for example employs more than 2,500 people.

If you instead mean homegrown tech giants then you have a definite point. The only European giants I can think of are Telefonica, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Nokia and SAP. It would be interesting to see the research on if the reason for that has much to do with the horrible work expectations in the US.
An interesting facet of this is that even though the death rate is extremely low, the authorities still want to get it to zero. And it's becoming really hard, because failures are no longer happening often enough to be able to analyze them properly.
Docker in Your Data: Data Services as Microservices
An extended version of the quote would be "Don't just believe that because something is trendy, that it's good. I would go the other extreme where if I find too many people adopting a certain idea I'd probably think it's wrong. Or if my work had become too popular I probably would think I have to change." I took it from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Ju0eM5T2c
Even if the government would go part-way, there'd be an enormous impact. Let's say that we legalized marijuana...

The last figure that I read was that 85% of the DEA's budget was spent fighting marijuana.

If it were legalized, overnight, that would mean that the amount of money available to go after cocaine, heroin, crystal meth and prescription opiate trafficking would be increased by about 566%.
I was specifically wondering why the Orion-like bomb is so bad that no sane civilization would ever use it. The parent comment seemed to indicate that even if you knew you wanted to go into space and had the idea for an Orion-like system, you wouldn't use it unless you were insane, but I see no justification for that.
>Proof, yet again, that computers should be flying planes.

No. I've watched too many episodes of air crash disasters to support this.
Yep - a review API is sorely missing - we've built a tool to enable reviewers to download their own reviews [1], and had to workaround many weirdness in the review system. I would say that besides obvious fraud detection, it is an under-managed part of amazon, with a lot of semi-rational behaviour from reviewers, because no one is sure what amazon actually does with those. Reviews routinely disappear, reappear on a whim - how you get to vine is not clearly understood. We've actually gathered a few interesting data on this topic, I should probably put a blog post about it sometime....

[1] https://reviewers.mediapps.com/
Multiple studies address riddles of the Moon's origin
I tend to agree with you, but you haven't made your point very convincingly.
Worse in the sense that you expect an HTTPS connection to be secure, while you don't (or shouldn't!) expect an HTTP connection to be.
Video of the talk, not sure if it's the same talk as the transcript: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mZYHMMMeHic
Because you'd never put your credit card into an HTTP web site, but you would on HTTPS.

Your argument about MITM being uncommon is moot because it's not impossible and is only rare because the current system is the way that it is. Changing the system would change the attackers' methods.
Plus, they have one less key competitor in that space if they buy Lynda than to build it themselves
Looks very similar to this hackathon idea… http://www.oxfordshirebusinesssupport.co.uk/news/2014/novemb...
How is a grid that requires a .row class exactly class-less?
>Let people do what they want as long as they aren't harming other people.

Take alcohol. Ideally it doesn't directly cause harm to another individual. Now remind me again how many people are killed by drunk drivers each year? Now, is this alcohols fault? Or is it the drunk driver's fault? Or is it both? Or some fourth option? Well we've now reached a point where 'harming other people' is quite a subjective standard when determining what is causing that harm and thus what can be prohibited.

>Science has demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that children cannot give informed consent

Links?

Of the limited amount of science concerning informed consent that I've read (dealing with mentally disabled individuals ability to give informed consent), most teens would easily meet the standards set for a mentally disabled adult.

But we can avoid that whole moral quagmire by instead focusing on outlawed images that look like children but do not involve any children in their production (such as photorealistic CGI). Even when no one is harmed in making, would you still be for prohibition?

And swinging back round to prostitution, what about those who are financially coerced into it? Fully informed consent requires that one be both of age and not coerced. Thus someone who is financially coerced is incapable of consenting, which means that the parallels and comparisons made here do stick.

Finally, even if we say that the prohibition of A cannot be compared to prohibition of B, if the original point being made was that prohibition of anything fails, then it fails regardless if it is A or B being prohibited.
I'll be honest and admit this is one area where hedge funds do get gready.

Most funds work on a model of 2 and 20, meaning they take 2% of assets they manage to run the fund and then take 20% of the profits as their compensation.

This works when you manage 100 million as the 2% can cover most costs, but gets absurd when you manage 100 billion. In cases like this the 2% gets absurdly big and you just can't hire enough people or buy enough tech to eat up this money. It becomes free profit, and that is borderline abuse.

The idea with hedge funds originally was, we think we can beat the market and we only get paid when we do, out of the 20% of profits that we take. Essentially we are betting on ourselves and we eat only when we do well,

With 2% of 100 billion, it turns out you get paid no matter how well you do. Venture capital funds are equally bad in this regard:(

Pension funds need to be better about negotiation fees.

EDIT Someone asked me what to look for when investing in a hedge fund.

There are really only 3 things:

1) fees, 2 and 20 is standard and if you are investing a "small" amount, less than 20 million, you should expect to pay this.

2) lock up time. Generally you should be able to redeem at the end of any month with 20 days notice, ie if you want to redeem for May 1st, you need to inform them by April 10th. No fund should be able to lock your money up for more than a month, though some will try.

There is an exception for this in funds that by definition invest in illiquid assets, such as venture capital or real estate that can take a year or more to mature, but even then 90 days is absolute max you should tolerate. ie if a VC tells you you are locked up for 5 years, and some will, you should tell them thank you and move on.

3) track record. Don't invest in any hedge fund less than 5 years old, unless you have special knowledge or a healthy risk appetite. Its just not worth giving someone else the chance on your dime. Most new funds are started by people leaving a fund and if they are good they get seeded by their previous fund, friends and family. Make them prove themselves before you put yoru money into them.
Ok. So you believe Sony Corp owners (who are mostly institutions) both made the decision to install rootkit in Sony BMG and signed off the ESA publication in SCEA?

Good for you, I guess. This belief is definitely more popular on HN than reality.
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This article is really a rather sloppy piece that contributes little to our understanding of what should be fascinating to this community: alternative histories and possibilities of the computer. For example, how cybernetics and "use of the computer" are used almost interchangeably. A critique of cybernetics, which is in fact somewhere in-between a political program and philosophical system, can in no way be equated with a critique of the computer. In fact, a critique of cybernetics as at once idealist (vs materialist) and mechanistic (vs organic/vitalist) is a very sensible philosophical critique and in no way a contradictory legacy of mere soviet ideology, however philosophically problematic the latter may itself be. Many of the decisions to avoid anthropomorphizing the computer are similar to arguments put forth by Djikstra for perspective.

Historically, how is it even possible that this article doesn't mention someone like Sergei Lebedev, a celebrated Soviet scientist, who had a working computer by the 50s which had been in development since the mid-to-late 40s? Or a figure like Victor Shestakov who independently made many of the same innovations as Claude Shannon? As a community, I think we should be very interested in other ways the computer could have been---at the level of use, hardware and software---thus histories like this or the Japanese http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer should be fascinating, even if one finds much about the Soviet Union problematic to say the least.

On the cybernetics point, I would also highly recommend reading Bogdanov's science fiction novel Red Star, written in 1908 (obviously in-between the two revolutions, so technically pre-Soviet, but he was important in defining many philosophical and technical programs in the Soviet Union, notably space flight), for a fascinating account of a utopian intertwining of statistics, computer-like devices, and the life of a planet. Absolutely materialist and organic/vitalist rather than idealist and mechanistic!
As an Australian company, we fall under applicable Australian law. The new data retention regime is not applicable to us (we believe) because if the reasons outlined in the blog post, that is, we don't meet the criteria necessary for the new rules to apply to us.

Basically, its business as usual. With an appropriate Australian warrant, we will hand over user data (content and metadata). It's been like this for years. See our privacy policy for details.

https://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html
Facebook CSRF protection bypassed in 2015
Didn't know they were for 20 years, I've just taken a look at Lynda'a wikipedia entry and oh yes they've been for 20 years, that's interesting. But revenue at $100M/year and acquisiton at $1,5B is more interesting. Still wonder how they'll compete with hundreds of good quality and free online courses, free badges, Mozilla certifications, etc. Good luck to them.
The question which isn’t answered in the article is: how would the fund have done if passively invested in the market? If the market lost money over the same time period, then although extremely high, the fees are a relatively "good deal" (since the fund was up $40M, and the alternative would be losing money). If they’re talking about the last 10 years however, it looks like the market should have returned about 70%, which makes the fund manager's performance look even worse.
Is this named in homage to this? http://www.qsl.net/wb5ude/kc6wdk/transmitter.html
A lot of computers using different numbering systems were built. Binary took over mainly because the required hardware was the simplest.
Relevant article: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...
Yeah, wrong on both counts (and the highly effective is true - big if - if used correctly)

Of course, if you're going to get them from a shady place and have no idea on how to use them, it might be dangerous and/or have bad side effects)
Agree. I used to run a design agency, we offered that to our employees it was a great way for people to keep up with various trends and actually much more effective than to send them at courses (which we also offered).
So we should make selling drugs legal, but keep the use of them illegal? That way cartels would still be undercut, but we could still lower drug use.

I wonder if that would actually work.
In this case, "totalitarian" refers to their level of control over their platforms and over third-party software, not their attitude toward employees.
Ask HN: Great books on Building user Stories?
I've recently taking a course at Pycon on Test Driven Development. The idea of user stories was touched upon - but I'd like to read more about them.

Can anyone recommend resources for learning more about building great user stories?
Not highly risky but they do provide some potential risks to natural hormone production, blood pressure, etc. Orals have liver risks. Most of these risks can be mitigated by proper post cycle therapy. The big side effects you hear about are usually at super high dosages that people like professional bodybuilders take. To put that in perspective I've seen pros quoted at taking 1g a week. A normal TRT dosage might be 100mg to 200mg per week. A normal beginner cycle dosage might be 200mg twice a week (400mg). On top of that pros are using a cocktail of insulin, growth hormone, multiple types of anabolic steroids, amphetamines, thing like clenbuterol and DNP.

Steroids them self are not nearly as dangerous as the media makes you believe. This is coming from someone who has clinically diagnosed hypogonadism (Low T) and has used Test. It's made a significant difference in my life.
Ah, that is my fault. We're using the fork quite actively, but need to revive that PR and improve the config settings.
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You could upload it to https://photosynth.net/preview if you just want to play around. It doesn't require you to have a lot of RAM, but you can only view it on the Photosynth website and you can't really tweak anything.