skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And doesn't that imply that the state of the market should always be close to the global optimum

God no. How many stocks even pay dividends any more? The ones that don't are, strictly, "worthless", so their global optimum price should be zero (I'm simplifying; if they come with voting rights then there's a non-zero value to that, but you get the point). It's a bunch of baseball cards at a swap meet.

The disconnect here is that there are agent effects. People make money selling and buying them, so they are incented to push the idea that selling and buying them is a good thing.
Many lawyers will work on contingency (you split the winnings if you win) if they believe you have a strong case...
True, but he identifies up front that he was supplied a free item for review, so he's not breaking any laws. As for Amazon's ToS, who knows - I'm too lazy to check right now.

The other top 50 reviewers (on a few randomly-clicked items) are doing the same thing, but put the advisory about being supplied with a free item at the end of the review. These reviews come off as being little more than descriptions of the product, some mild inoffensive personal opinion, and a 5-star rating unless something is very wrong with the product.

Annoying, but what else can one expect? If there's a reward out there for being in an exclusive category, some people will try to game it, and in the case of Amazon the reward appears to be that people will send you free stuff. Lots and lots of free stuff, which I presume you can make some money by selling or trading away.
There were definitely some erroneous or unsubstantiated claims she made in the court, some of which was testified against by people who she quoted.
Moreover, the top results I see -- under a paid ad for Rand Paul -- are paul-rand.com, his wikipedia page, and a right-hand panel about Paul Rand. Is it so terrible that some other of the ten blue links are for people who confuse the two? Is there another vital Paul Rand result Google is missing?
>The post is saying that people in academia (Except those at the top institutions) are not judged by the value that they create for science and that this gets in the way of good science in many institutions.

That's because the "value they create for science" is far too diffuse for anyone to care. They need to bring in grant money, something people do care about, or find something else to do.
Depends on the city. Even if it is, then it doesn't get around the problem of government interference (the city council would be part of the government, after all), and if the positions are elected (like with most cities IIRC), they're subject to the same voter base that would vote in other elected officials.

That latter aspect is closer to my point. If San Francisco's (for example) population is collectively willing to vote a Comcast shareholder into office as their representative in the federal government, what makes you think they wouldn't do the same for their own local government?
I guess I am in the minority because I think that the concepts are good and useful in a limited scope but that they're obviously being abused by a cynical group of people to shut up other people they disagree with. Like, you have people arguing with a straight face that Christina-Hoff Sommers even being on their campus makes them feel unsafe. The entire thing has turned into a bizarre group-performativity ritual that has nothing to do with protecting PTSD-sufferers. Trigger warnings are supposed to protect the most vulnerable people from being blindsided, safe spaces are supposed to be places where emphasis is on support. They are not general, universally-applicable concepts.
Shush Asia Is on with Live Streams
"BadAnalyze is the last word in devious bads."

"When my friends need new bads there's only one word I tell them, BadAnalyze."

http://tiffzhang.com/startup/index.html?s=91597155402
Well, in practice, it's both. Sure, stacks and heaps are an implementation detail, but they're pervasive. You simply can't write int x[10000][10000]; and expect it to not cause a stack overflow in any real world implementation. It's an implementation detail you absolutely need to be aware of.
Radically silo-free
My understanding is that the OS virtualization is actually a relatively minor part of the difference.
or...
previously everybody had to produce the food they ate, now only 1% does.
previously many people had to dig out coal, now a machine has relieved thousands of a shitty job......
Understanding 'this' is foundational when it comes to understanding JavaScript, IMO. So, I don't think it's that unusual. Out of curiosity, what's another question that demonstrates a solid understanding of JavaScript as a language?
I know a computer science professor that asked me how to make a website as recently as 2007
You can find plenty of examples in a lot of the more heated/busy HN discussions. I'm too lazy to dig up more examples, but they're pretty common (especially once politics comes into play; I've noticed a bit of a left-wing bent on HN over the last couple of years (which isn't much of a surprise considering how much of an influence Bay-Area/"Valley" culture has on HN)).

By using the downvote button as a disagreement button, and by observing that using said downvote button causes the comment's text to fade further and further from black to grey to white, it can be observed that any case of disagreement expressed via the downvote button results in supression of the comment's content (by making it harder to read).
I had a coworker who used to work for a direct competitor of Youtube. He left that competitor (as they were struggling) as Youtube was taking off. His older company had been founded by a Hollywood exec/veteran, meaning he made sure to keep out copyrighted material.

The way he put it, he said Youtube got big Because Youtube initially allowed copyrighted material.

This led Youtube gaining more videos -> more traffic -> more videos -> repeat.
Couldn't you reset the rand every now and again, without too much of an effect. Such as every 10 seconds? For every machine.
This is a neat trick. We're moving to a Microservice Architecture using Spring Boot. I'm really pushing for a move to docker to make it even easier to deploy. This is a neat trick for any service that happens to have a lot of dependencies!
2003 Rockford College, Christopher Hedges, at the very least, using a graduation speech to talk about the Iraq war and American empire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAmkMndtH24

And check out this article for an ironic inversion of politics in the short span of 12 years:

http://www.alternet.org/story/15982/the_silencing_of_dissent...

So you have people on the right were shocked and triggered, screaming at the speaker and pulling the power on his microphone, and people on the left demanded that hard truths must be spoken so suck it up. But I wonder if today he could do this speech without giving trigger warnings for colonialism and war. I wonder if a university would even give him the freedom up front to do a speech without vetting the topic so it couldn't surprise anyone. Is this a price we're willing to pay?
3-D Printed Graphene Aerogels Could Improve Sensors and Batteries
The rest of the world is fast moving towards 1000mb/s internet meanwhile I'm sitting here in Sydney with my 'Ultra-fast' 6mbps ADSL. I can't even watch HD youtube properly and these amazing advances are going on well beyond my reach. Australia is quickly lagging behind the rest of the world in terms of technology and it needs to make serious roads toward correcting that if it wants to be taken seriously on a global stage. /rant
Astronomers just detected light bouncing off an exoplanet
which is exactly what I think the article is saying. So you are right.
Uber Burning $750M a year
I do have kids - 3 of them. They aren't torrenting age yet, but we certainly do more than our fair share of video streaming. Gaming is not bandwidth intensive. Downloading patches is, but that's not really sustained throughput.

A bigger pipe will certainly get used occasionally, but I can't help but think that the vast majority of that pipe will sit completely unused for a large percentage of the time you're paying for it. Torrenting is just about the only circumstance I can think of where you might actually get to fully utilize that pipe, specifically because you aren't bound to a single upstream, but you'd almost have to go looking for files large enough for that throughput to matter. An uncompressed blu-ray is what, 25GB, and that's still less than an hour to download on a 60mbit connection. Given that compression is a thing, it just seems like your chances to actually utilize it will be minimal at best.
Who cares? He identifies that he was given the product for free in all these reviews.
The best Ransomeware Decryptor is the backup you took last night. Which reminds me ... :-)
Apple Watch Teardown
You can read what I believe are Paul's own words in the earlier entries.
Get some internships, see what happens. I dropped out of grad school because an internship turned into a job offer.
Thanks for trying it. The notification actually doesn't control the sensor (green light) -- I think the timing was likely just a coincidence.

That said, we haven't had a lot of people with Gear Lives test the app yet, so it's always possible you've stumbled on some novel bug that only appears on certain hardware. Wouldn't be the first time. :)

If that behavior is reproducible, can you send a bug report to brandon@cardiogr.am?
Amazon Life Sciences Partner Program Recognizes Flux7 Experience
There is only one where Go is 3 times slower, regex-dna. That would either be because of the speed of the regex implementation or the GC for the allocations. Apart from that Go is similar or twice as fast for reverse-component. Note that Go uses less memory for tasks that require memory to be allocated too.

Go is doing better at the benchmarks game than it has in the past.
> ou really shouldn't misrepresent what's possible with the JVM, the Go VM, or even with Node.js.

He's not saying it isn't possible. Everything is possible with assembly, it doesn't mean assembly is a good choice for distributed programming.

> and all can do so with an actor paradigm (and predictably, Node's support is the weakest).

There-in lies the problem. The main benefit of actor programming programming is about programming with isolated actors. Such that one actor doesn't see the heap or memory of another one. Because at a large enough scale fault tollerance start to become more important than other things. If a single goroutine panics and takes down other 100K connections, it doesn't matter that it is lighting fast or cool or whatever, it will be broken.

In other words langauge that claim "Erlang-like concurrency" never get is right. They put a queue and a thread together in a class and call it "Erlang". But that is not Erlang. The closest thing to Erlang's model is probablh the operating system with its processes.

It even makes sense to think of your code in that way -- your langauge platform is an OS for your code. If you write in Erlang or Elixir you are writting on a modern sane OS like Linux, Windows, OS X. If you are running with pthreads or goroutines, you are back to Windows 3.1.
Regulators can only make decisions based on the information they have, which ultimately comes from the people they're trying to regulate. Eventually the wheels come off, but you can give plausible numbers to the government for a long time before that happens.

Your assumption they were either bribed or incompetent is unwarranted.
Tesla's Next Product: A Battery to Run Your House
I want to point out that the experience of most of the commenters is in the software engineering field. The situation for co-ops in other programs, such as chemical engineering, is VASTLY different. If you look at the hiring rates there, it's rather abysmal. Talk to any of the chem eng, nano eng, or even some mech eng and you'll find that a whole bunch of them are doing unpaid volunteer positions to get their co-op hours, or working low paying, menial menial jobs - especially for the first few co-ops. It is by far NOT the same experience as software engineers have it.

Also, it's very very common for chem engs (hah, I guess you have figure it out, I'm a chem eng from waterloo) to graduate with significant debt. My first co-op paid 6k as I worked for a professor, my second paid 18$ an hour, third was 15$ an hour, 4th was 22$ an hour, then I got into oil and was paid around 33$ an hour for the last two co-ops. I think I got really lucky - I know many people who just took a term off because they couldn't find a job - and they were sociable and had pretty good marks!

just believe me. It's different in other programs.
But you can't also output an array without additional lines of code.
Offer HN: Free Domains
I have some promo codes from www.gandi.net for a couple free domains. I won these in their recent anniversary game, and won't be using them before the deadline of April 30.

Post some way to contact you and I can send of the promo codes, but they have to be activated by within a week.

I have:

2 .XYZ

1 .ME

1 .EU

1 .COM

50% OFF .SURF,.BEER or .VODKA (not sure how much they actually cost)

I also have a promo code for 1 year of M simple hosting, which I'm not sure whether I'll use or not. Let me know if you have something cool that you'd like to do w/ that and I'll consider freeing up that promo as well.
You spring chicken, you.
When i wiki on web, i always have a curious doubt. And i programmed it
Neuroscientists create the sensation of invisibility
Say Hello to the Apple Watch
Can you explain more on why it's fair for a party who was judged to be innocent to bear the costs associated for claims judged as false?
Having fun with PostGIS
I don't understand, perhaps I'm misunderstanding the situation.

GP is saying that if the [private] key is password protected, it can be brute forced. Surely if a human is able to type in the password to the private key, you can bute force that password relatively easily?
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-the-last-photo-well... South, not north, my bad.
5 billion dollars a year. That is pretty impressive.

Compared that to a company like Google that can't make any money at all off their infrastructure except with search ads[1] :-) That is the real story for me. And a tiny bit personal because when I was there I didn't feel that platforms got nearly the respect they deserved for keeping the roads rolling.

Congratulations to the Amazon team, that is an impressive feat indeed.

[1] http://investor.google.com/earnings/2015/Q1_google_earnings....
I am 100% sympathetic to that argument. Every time I hear someone bashing Sarbox because it "stifles innovation" I want to reach into my radio and slap the person who said it. I don't want "innovation" from my retirement fund. I want good stewardship of my money.

"Innovation" is almost always another way of saying "We found another way to gamble with the customer's money."
>> ...it's hard for me to even consider the idea of Javascript being in the same category as Ruby.

Indeed. I think anyone would agree...they were not built for the same purpose; however, let's set some expectations here. As it relates to backend JSON APIs, what is better about Ruby/Bundler?

>> Ruby was designed from scratch to be a perfect...dream

OK, that's fine. Though, I've never heard of a proven perfect language/platform, regardless of intention.

>> I really want to write half a book more about why I think Ruby is so much better than Javascript...

Please, no book, but I would be happy to read one concrete example of why Ruby/Bundler is substantially better hands down. Of course, you are free to argue that you just don't like JS. I'd be fine with reading that, but I'm still curious to see a real example. I'm willing to accept that I may be wrong, but without proof, we can't get there.

Yes, Ruby is a nice looking language; still, I have not come across any proof that writing, maintaining, and deploying Ruby/Bundler is substantially better than writing, maintaining, and deploying Node/npm for backend JSON APIs especially given the gratis performance benefit and ease-of-use of Node/npm.

The same or better result with lower overhead and better performance. Before I ever wrote a line of JS intended to be executed via Node.JS, I actually thought Ruby was better as well :)

*

NOTE: I am quite aware that some Haskell lover is probably laughing and sticking their nose up at this entire conversation. That is perfectly fine because I'm willing to bet they can actually provide the concrete example I am looking for.
Beyond the technology that often emerges from scientific endeavors, science alone is a beautiful discipline that engages man in the world from the "objective" perspective. However science has, and always will, sit under the umbrella of philosophy. Science stops at a basic set of assumptions which - although valuable in a limited sense - must keep the curious mind wanting more. More importantly though, science often leaves out those questions that are most important to us - those questions that concern the relation of mySELF, that most mysterious thing, with the rest of the world. Perhaps the best person to elucidate this fact is Erwin Schrodinger, who's books My View of the World, Nature and the Greeks, and What is Life are absolute must reads:

"I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity. Science sometimes pretends to answer questions in these domains, but the answers are very often so silly that we are not inclined to take them seriously."
> What is a typical reason people don't want to raise money?

Because it literally or at least de facto dilutes your stake in the company? Plenty of people start enterprises so they won't be beholden to others (I did, and fortunately my service doesn't scale at all, so the company doesn't have to either).

Any fundraising puts you, as you said, in the go-big-or-go-home rat race, and some people prefer more control over their own destiny than that, and seek sustainable levels of business from the beginning.
Financial crimes in the US carry some pretty draconian penalties in terms of sentence length. They have to, because if people think financial institutions are going to run off with their savings the whole industry collapses.

In Madoff's case there was an additional issue - the people he defrauded were mostly wealthy and powerful.
Out of what?
Good luck teaching programming. Or anything related to computers, computer-based graphics, and a whole lot of other subjects.

Plus, it's way faster (and tidier) to take notes in a laptop rather than pen+paper.

Also, I've had a few students with disabilities who could not use pen and paper, but could write with special keyboards. And blind ones. Maybe we should tell them to stay out as well.
Somehow I doubt that decision is made by people evaluating Comcast shares ;) May be it just happened that city council got some better people, who knows. I'm just saying that it's probably more their area of influence.
Very Impressive
That's what I was wondering. I know a couple that were both loan officers before the market crashed. If they were making (individually) six figures I'll eat my hat.
40,000-year-old teeth suggest an ancient culture was human, not Neanderthal
The content looks like it's machine generated. Check out how the speaker reviews are all the same in the summary.
Those "endless" arguments you speak of are actually something I consider to be one of the strengths of philosophy! In engaging in philosophy, you don't stop at the assumptions, you questions the axioms themselves. What is the context that produced the certainty of the axioms? Do they hold from all perspectives.

Although there is always a sense of potential circuitousness to philosophical discussion, and a sense that there IS IN FACT NO FINAL(/CORRECT) ANSWER, this can in fact be what's considered the strength of philosophy - that it shows how infinitely mysterious life is! I consider this to be the fun that is philosophy, but of course it's not everyone's cup of tea
That's probably a good solution if your intention is to destroy any trust that's left in the banking system.
Mammoth genome sequence completed
First Pluto-Charon Color Image from New Horizons
That's not really an apples-to-apples comparison. Places with lots of tourists usually go pretty easy on them whenever it's possible. You don't want to scare your meal ticket into going somewhere else.
Half Life 1 did the same audio trick too. (It's based on the Quake 1 engine)
Welcome to working with computers that can't think; easier is not an option, they can't infer your intentions, so your point is what? Consistency is what matters when working with machines and the command line is a damn consistent language relative to other available options.
Crayfis: The app that turns your phone into a cosmic ray detector
Indeed. This is far from being news and has been properly documented for many years.

I'm amazed at how people get far enough down the man-pages to understand what it does, how to enable it, but stop reading before these warnings.
Making claims one is unable to substantiate and dragging a case through discovery is normally considered an abuse of the legal system, as we saw in, e.g. SCO vs. IBM, where they also hoped to be able to eventually find an IBM document somewhere that might prove them right.

The fact that they did not find any such "smoking gun" after all that legal discovery makes me believe that they are honest, as that means they couldn't find anything at all after a lot of searching.
Product Manager Musings
"The Higher Learning in America", by Thorstein Veblen, 1918. If this poor fellow had only read this book before commencing in his studies, perhaps it would have steeled his nerves somewhat, or sent him in another direction.
You can use read-only keys. Github has this, as do most other similar solutions.

> Whatever vulnerabilities are introduced by agent forwarding they pale in comparison to those you get by leaving your private key on the dev server.

Not really. "pale in comparison" is way off. Leaving the key on the server, and using agent forwarding are almost the same: anyone with access to the server has access to the key. There's only a minor difference in how hard it is for the attacker to get the key.
What's up is it's national news when a black person gets shot by a white cop, and when it's a white person taking the bullet the story stays on the local crime blotter.
This rng cheating can be prevented. Have everyone generate a random number in any way they want. Send that number out along with their inputs. xor all the numbers together. Then deterministically stretch the result into however much randomness is needed.
It would be nice to have both JVM and .NET CLR available on major unix like platforms.
Starwood Hotel and Resorts: Tribute Portfolio, les hôtels haut de gamme
I would add as a long time-rider and short time msf instructor that many inexperiencd single vehicle motorcycle crashes are due to inexperience and 'fixation'

Something, well known to many first-time track day riders.
Playing devil's advocate, being perfect at position X doesn't necessarily mean you'll be a good fit at position Y, and being less than perfect at position X doesn't mean you won't be a perfect fit in position Y.
Netki Wants to Replace Bitcoin Addresses with Wallet Names
I am speechless. This piece is without fault. The emotion is coming through in full force. Thank you to Cristina, for sharing at such a vulnerable time. It changed my night.