skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if anyone in world besides the authors have actually read the whole thing? It would make an interesting mental test to see if it were possible to actually learn/absorb its contents. I imagine memorizing the first 10,000 digits of pi would be easier - while probably providing more useful insight.
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I don't know much about it, but in looking at some of the first locomotives I saw this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Richard_...

and this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Trevithick#/media/File...

That was probably a terrible screeching thing to witness going around bends, just being held in line by the inner lip of the rail.
> Go is productive enough that I’ve been enjoying implementing things from scratch like collapsible widgets and navigating a viewport. In order to do evil things like convert raw bytes to floats, I chose to use the “unsafe” package, which made me feel manly, powerful, and highly supportive of private gun ownership.

This was really funny!
> It increases costs without directly increasing revenue.

Attracting more customers because you offer unlimited data and other carriers don't sounds like a pretty-damn-direct increase of revenue to me.

See also: how T-Mobile makes money off me and millions of others.
If you have iOS you can use Spotlight for that: search a business name and get the same place info you get in Maps, it’s pretty convenient (I think it’s new in iOS 8).
Does the slow connection work for background reception of email? In that case, one would never wait interactively for email, only be notified when email had already been received.
We got rid of our dog door because of raccoons. 3:00 in the morning, me dancing around in the backyard in my underwear trying to figure out how to seperate raccoon and dog, and wondering how in suburban Seattle to quietly finish off the half dead raccoon and/or dog when it's over.

I don't mean to play up the "pit bulls are tough" trope, but damn that's the only dog I've seen walk away from a 'coon with only a few scratches, no trip to the vet. It was the raccoon's lucky day, too, as he scampered off to tell his friends. I'm serious, that's what the raccoon did, because we haven't seen a raccoon in the neighborhood three years since.
I quite enjoyed the parallel made between physics and economics and the subsequent case against such a comparison. There is a strong argument against a traditional notion of efficient markets here.
A good point. I've seen people say that the Go designers are designing a language for "bad programmers", but maybe they're just designing for humans. Maybe code readability is more important than conciseness.
"You're honor, it wasn't me, it just deep-learned it that way."

If a program uses AI to come up with strategies, how do you make sure it doesn't learn to spoof? Coming up with the goal-formulation of "don't spoof" seems like it would require the program to introspect about its own intent. Dunno, I would like to hear what kind of metrics one would use to make the learning algorithm reject spoofing strategies. I guess it would be something similar to whatever heuristics the SEC uses to flag potential spoofing, but they get a lot of false positives and almost never convict someone on metrics.
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I was hoping to see extended WebRTC support in Facebook :(
How was he able to single handedly build up the volume necessary to affect what is literally the most highly traded futures contract?

I imagine he wrote some awesome C++ code plugged into MetaTrader or TradeStation, but certainly they have checks in place to ensure that he can't just place tons of orders that fake the volume of a whale without having lots of proxy servers that also place orders (which would also require proxy accounts). If so, wouldn't he have to have multiple accounts with his broker (I assume Interactive Brokers, given they have the only reasonable rates of all the retail brokerage firms).

Can someone shed some light? I know a little about finance and I'm genuinely curious how some random guy could possibly pull this off without some complicity with his broker.
With 4G, you need as much spectrum as possible to provide fast service. Sprint and T Mobile are losing the 4G race pretty hard. Regulators won't let them merge, so this is kind of a way for them to team up. Just my speculation.
Didn't think about that. There are, of course, ugly workarounds, but I just asked about SimpleDB not because it's fun to use, but because of its low cost in this scenario.
I hear a great number of predictions regarding China - especially on discussion forums. It's also interesting to hear your analysis of debt accumulation. When the US did much the same what I kept hearing from finance folks was that foreign capital works quite differently than personal savings and that the US debt burden was (and is) not really so big a deal. I have heard variations of your argument for some years and so far none of them have been right - I am struggling to figure out how your argument now differs from their arguments then.

Consistently, on the other hand, what I hear from Washington strategists is that they can not make policy decisions based on the hope that China's economy with deflate or implode (not to mention that this would offer its own kind of disaster to the West - look at what Thailand unpegging the dollar did in '97). Their assessment is quite divergent from yours. Although it shares so many features with the many before you who have wrongly predicted an implosion it would be interesting if you were right. To reiterate my earlier point Washington behaves off its beliefs and it believes that growth in that hemisphere, plus growth in China, will make the Asian theater the dominant one for the next half century.

Luckily for the world all predictions made in this thread are falsifiable - we need only watch to see what happens over the next couple of decades to find out. :)
It's a chromebook that runs a full OS. What this device is good for:

* Grandma and Grandpa need a PC to read their email, watch YouTube, and maybe make a christmas card in Word. They don't care about playing Dark Souls II because they're not 12 year olds. They just need a cheap computer that isn't their eMachine from 2005. This outperforms it.

* I want a web terminal in my kitchen for reading recipes, or in my garage for watching YouTube tutorials and running some obscure software to program my car.[1]

Why is it better than a chromebox/book?

* You need / want software that isn't available in a browser. And with this device, you don't have to hack on the BIOS to boot another OS.

Where this device is beaten:

* I want to a dedicated device to stream Twitch or Netflix (Get a $30 set-top device meant to do graphics intensive things, not a general computer)

[1]: http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=175 // my brother uses an old laptop for this currently.
Endless arguing over 2 vs 4 spaces or spaces vs tabs has not really advanced the programming industry very much, despite being highly democratic. For a lot of these small decisions, it doesn't really matter what you choose as long as a choice is made and it's consistent.
Both Sprint and T-Mobile are major providers to MVNO networks -- a significant amount of business they generate comes from carriers who use Sprint/TMo's networks, but handle the customer relations/sales/billing themselves.

To Sprint and T-Mobile, Google is just another MVNO carrier.
Sony is a great example of this.
I'm not terribly knowledgeable in this area, but I think part of it has to do with the availability of frequencies to do data communication over. They price data so people curb their data usage thus preventing crowding on the already limited bandwidth.

Of course, this could just be FUD I've been fed.
I still think it's futile for most people. Like a lot of other people, I begrudgingly use Facebook because it's an easy way to engage in "low priority" communication with lots of friends and family. Mass emails or texting is too demanding whereas the Facebook style of communication you can take or leave when you feel like logging in to read random posts.

The issue you touched on won't be easy to fight. I think that as long as these social platforms don't need to use any common protocol (like email), the natural state is to have a single major player with smaller ones maintaining pressure to improve and add new features.

I'm apparently one of the only people who likes Google+ for this sort of thing but no matter how hard I decided to bug and annoy people, there's no way I'd convince enough of them to migrate all of that stuff over there. Same goes for any other competitor. And unless you want to maintain redundant profiles for more effort (and more of the unavoidable marketing stuff) you can't just strike out on your own without defeating the purpose.

The fact that Facebook was the first to get your mom and your professor and your boss and your mailman to sign up means that they've got an incredible advantage. There's just no way to get that many people to opt into something else, especially as resistant to change as many are.

And unlike email, I can't just switch to G+ and keep bullshitting with my friends on Facebook like I switched to Gmail and kept emailing friends at Yahoo or Hotmail. Imagine if in order to change email providers, you had to convince everyone else to switch as well. We'd still be using our AOL addresses from 1993.
Ah, that's fair. I have good reception in my area, but I've definitely hit bad areas while traveling.

I do talk on the phone all the time at work, but for personal use it's pretty minimal. But even if I did, the Hangouts Dialer app will make GV calls over data, so I don't use any minutes, and I don't even use data when I'm on wifi.
DynamoDB is quite inexpensive at low usage levels. The Free Tier gives you:
"25 GB of Storage, 25 Units of Read Capacity and 25 Units of Write Capacity – Enough to handle up to 200M requests per month"

DynamoDB's free tier doesn't expire after 12 months.
(Source: http://aws.amazon.com/free/)
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Your gold standard meta-analysis is useless for the purposes of someone actually trying to lose weight. It merely takes the position that diet and exercise produce better outcomes than either alone. That tells us nothing about which has the more powerful effect.

Anybody who's actually tried, and succeeded, in losing weight and keeping it off will tell you that diet is way more important than exercise when it comes to fat loss. Exercise absolutely produces health benefits, but they are largely orthogonal to the ones produced by changing how you eat. If you can do one but not the other, then diet.

Most people with a lot of weight to lose have willpower problems, that's why they have a lot of weight in the first place. Not all, but most. These people are better served conserving their willpower and taking more effective courses of action than the one they can't take. (both diet and exercise)
Layering or spoofing in this sense is putting in many orders (or less commonly a few very large) orders at different "layers" of the order book with the intention to cancel them before they can trade. The purpose is to increase the perceived supply/demand and manipulate other market makers.

The problem is that the term quote stuffing is used to describe both this and the practice of spamming orders into an exchange (which I don't think happens much) for nefarious purposes.

What you are describing I've heard as layering and or stacking orders and is not illegal assuming your intent is to have those orders trade.

As always, definitions are important.
In the top-hit on Youtube, Michael starts to discuss the solution-space @31m15s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OY...)
Good point.

So my question isn't as odd as it might first appear then.
iOS doesn't allow you to do this kind of thing, only Apple has enough power to view incoming call data.
One thing is not clear: What happens if I want some people (friends of friends etc) find me on facebook but they or others don't see my information on their hello app when I called / miscalled them? Would there be an opt-out?
In Go, defer basically serves this use case.
Both DynamoDB and SimpleDB have free tiers. credstash can happily live in the free tier until you are using it A LOT (more than 25 fetches/second, sustained). Storage in SimpleDB costs about as much per GB as DDB, but DDB gives you more free storage, so DDB is cheaper for any amount of data over 1 GB.
Hell, if we look at real-world-ish applications, the techempower benchmarks show go at easily 50% slower than a bunch of different Java options.
They also need to add proper alerting. Telling me that my app with 1m users has reached "Impact Level 2" for a particular bug because it's affected 50 people is basically useless.
First class modules let you package up a module in the module level language into a value, so you can pass it around in the expression language. But 1ML's goal is to eliminate the separation between the module language and expression language. So, 1ML can do first-class modules, but first-class modules do not mean a syntactically un-stratified language.
I forgot SimpleDB had per-value limits. Good catch
And Republic announced earlier this week that they're going to be beta-testing basically everything that Google Fi will offer that isn't currently part of Republic's service: more flexible billing for data plans, adding a second cellular provider (almost certainly T-Mobile), a new handset (the Nexus 6 is the most likely candidate), cell-to-WiFi handover. The only thing Google's promising that Republic isn't is the international service.

I've been wondering for a long time why Google hasn't just bought Republic Wireless. It's especially puzzling now that Google has made it public that their interests are exactly the same as RW's.
The fact is, AdBlock Plus is standing in a very delicate ground.
They're not selflessly defending users from ads: they're actually making money via their whitelist, and giving an advantage to their partners.
While many will say it's a fair business practice, we'll still have to see how long it's stand in court (appeals?).

AdBlock Edge, on the other hand, is on far firmer ground, IMHO.
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Unfortunately not very descriptive.
From a quick search, it looks like Baidu previously announced[0] a partnership with BMW to work on driverless cars.
[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2014/10/03/an-...
Montana is pretty well covered by AT&T. I travel out there all the time, so I was forced to ditch my old T-Mobile plan :(
If you want to understand why the Congress does what it does, you have to first accept that they are addressing the desires of large portions of the population.

When it seems like they are not, it's because many of the desires of the population are directly conflicting.

For example, people want very low-cost energy, but people also want a clean environment and to fight global warming. Or, people want the freedom to own their own guns, but they are horrified by mass shootings like Sandy Hook Elementary. Or, people want planes to never ever crash for any reason, but people also hate any security inconvenience at airports.

In the case of privacy, people want their data to be secure, and they want to keep the bad guys out of our companies. Even here on HN, look at the reactions to news of major hacks. The reaction is 100% negative. No one says "eh, that company was probably doing everything right, and just got unlucky." No, the prevailing opinion is "those idiots need to get better at security."

The thing is, there is no possible way for a company to get better at security without transacting information in some way. Cutting-edge exploits must be shared to be understood and mitigated. You can't do that without sharing information.

The EFF does not even discuss this, which is fine, because that's not really their job. Their job is to fight against a bad bill. But we should not make the mistake of thinking that no one wants the government to help with cybersecurity. Actually most companies DO want that, and indirectly, their customers and employees do too.
>that wouldn't make any difference because I have the right to make any changes to the computer that I own

Diminishing Adblock's business model also removes development resources from adblock which would impact negatively your ability to filter ads.

However, I found AdBlock a little too heavy or laggy and use uBlock nowadays.
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I'd like to see some sort of "Prove that you can shoot what you're aiming at, store a firearm safely, and do basic maintenance" vetting process for guns. Right now it's about where you live, what country were you born in, have you ever been arrested... all things that have nothing to do with the physics and safety of firearms.

I mean, we already do this with cars.

(Incidentally, this would disqualify me - I can't hit the skybox in Team Fortress 2, never mind real weapons)
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I made a web page like that a long long time ago.

http://www.redwoodsoft.com/dru/elevator/

The music no longer plays in browsers for some reason.
I'm sure I saw some limit update or something recently. Will dig it out in a bit.
I honestly don't see the issue.

I see the issue with doing it for the general public ala RVM, but internally where you control everything I don't see the issue with curl into sh.
But if I don't install it then the people I call still get my information without my knowledge, don't they?
Actually, I just made those quotes up.

As for "proselytizing"... rather than bickering over the word, bicker the intent. Do you think it's a bad thing for a non-vegan to cook vegan food for a vegan? To teach them about cooking and nutrition? To encourage them to make their own food rather than eating something put in a bag in a factory?

I don't see how what she's doing can be reasonably considered negative. So if it's proselytizing, then proselytizing is itself not a negative. If you think it's negative, I'd love to understand why.
Barely made it to paragraph 3.
> They ride on Sprint, who is desperate for revenue.

Google Fi also rides on Sprint (and T-Mobile, though it doesn't seem like T-Mobile is nearly as desperate for revenue at this point). So there's not really a difference there.

> Also, Republic retains the right to boot you if you use too much "unlimited" data on Sprint's network.

Pretty much all carriers have that bit of legalese in their respective agreements (even T-Mobile does, IIRC, and I know for sure Sprint does). Usually that's reserved for extreme cases where one's use of the network significantly dwarfs that of the rest of the user base and is actually causing congestion issues; a few extra gigs is a drop in the pond in comparison.
Scrolled to the bottom to check if someone had a made this comment. Was not disappointed.
There's also https://github.com/tfrce/social-buttons-server , from https://taskforce.is/
I have never needed to block a call, so I'm not the customer here. I'm curious what demographic uses call blocking so much that FB wants to advertise directly to them. Is it a problem that younger people face, or something that happens in other countries?
> it is the prevailing theory among academia.

What do you mean by "it"? The entire book? Some small part of it?

The only place I've seen a poll about what those in academia think about a central theme of the book is this one [1]. The question posed is central to the book, and only 2% agree with the statement, 47% disagree, and 16% strongly disagree (the rest are uncertain or no opinion).

2% agreeing with such a central tenet while 65% disagree or strongly disagree hardly seems like this can be the prevailing theory among academia. Read some of their responses - many have short points or links to literature.

This site, btw, has awesome questions about economic questions put to a poll of about 100 leading economists, and is an interesting source to see what issues they agree upon and which they don't.

[1] http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/poll-re...
Please note that this is still an analysis of "LHC Run 1" data. Fore more details you can visit Jesters blog:

http://resonaances.blogspot.de/2015/03/lhcb-b-meson-anomaly-...

"So how excited should we be? One thing we learned today is that the anomaly is unlikely to be a statistical fluctuation. However, the observable is not of the clean kind, as the measured angular distributions are susceptible to poorly known QCD effects. The significance depends a lot on what is assumed about these uncertainties, and experts wage ferocious battles about the numbers."

Conclusively: "Therefore, the deviation from the standard model is not yet convincing at this point."
anyone else get annoyed when this field is called "IT"? Maybe I'm over-sensitive but I just can't shake the feeling that "IT" is what shit-for-brains pointy haired boss types call this line of work.

Personally I prefer to just be called a programmer or an engineer, or a developer and for the job to be called programming, software engineering, or software development. "IT" is the guy who sets up the locked-down site installation for the accounting department which runs Windows XP and IE8 and the users aren't allowed to change it. I don't want to be associated with that.
So far we have:

- Facebook (networking)

- Messenger (messaging)

- Hello (calls and callerID)

Facebook should just fork Android, integrate all of these and release their own build.
Isn't that C++11?
Another one is
http://www.httphub.com
I guess it'd depend on the gender of the drug dog.
Sounds like a plan to me! Sites like CodeAcademy have gotten pretty good at creating lessons, but we've built a product that works with any coding lesson.

If your girlfriend is interested in monetizing those tutorials have her email me at saul[at]gradetrain[dot]com. We'll be opening up a marketplace for content just like that later this year.
T-Mobile also offers an unthrottled unlimited plan. Theirs is priced a little lower than Sprint's.
So, it'd require making any code that calls the function doing the logging do one of two things:

1. Explicitly end the scope of implicitly logging things by calling runWriter, and getting a pair of (result, log) out.

2. Continue working in the implicit log monad, which would mostly involve extracting the result of the log function with `do x <- theLoggingThing`, but you can still mix in pure statments with `do let y = 5` or other function calls, and then end the do block with `return val`, where val was what you were going to return before.
Sure it is. The NSA can stop mass monitoring of U.S. civilians. The reason for the sudden growth in encryption is purely because of their blatant monitoring of U.S. citizens as terrorist's.
So does it make sense to assume that this is where the WhatsApp phone book data comes into play?
If you're on Android, try using Tinfoil. It's the same browser version (so it may still be terrible for you), but interacting with it is a little easier than just opening Chrome/FF and going to fb.com.
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They pretty much tried that, and it failed miserably.
Not a mod but I believe that there is an "HFT penalty". And probably rightly so. The discussions around HFT are notorious for not being very productive.
T-mobile does not have unlimited calls for that plan. It is $30 per month — Unlimited web and text with 100 minutes talk
100 minutes talk | Unlimited text | First 5GB at up to 4G speeds