skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know what the so-called "black boxes" look like? Do they bring a server into the datacenter and log traffic? Is it software they force companies to run on their servers? Is it only for telcos or also for websites?
"texting someone on a mobile phone during a minor surgical procedure done under local anesthetic can reduce significantly a patient’s demand for narcotic pain relief."

The mention of local anesthetic confuses me. If it's correctly used, I'm assuming the "minor surgery" should be a theoretically painless procedure. So texting isn't reducing the severity of actual pain the brain is receiving (which should be "none"), but the patient's own anxiety which might produce feelings of pain?

Yes, I realize that the brain can interpret anxiety and emotional pain as just as "real" as other types of pain, but the article seems misleading, if that's the case, and these procedures shouldn't have been producing physical pain.
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Yup, this is very much why I have put zero effort into documenting them: they deeply rely on compiler internals, and I have enough other work to do without helping create de-facto standardization, like what happened with macros...

That said, still glad to see posts like this.
Nickon hackers working to get 5K video out of $500 cameras (D5100)
I think caveat emptor absolutely applies with bootcamps, but there are also ones that are certainly worth the money. I'm a recent App Academy grad (full disclosure) and almost all of my cohort are now at high-paying jobs at companies they love, including Google, Groupon and Tumblr. (I'm still looking for work right now, but only because of extenuating personal circumstances.)

Having talked with my friends who are working now, there are definitely things a/A doesn't teach you much about (e.g. deployment/devops, advanced Git) but on the whole we all feel like we learned more than enough to prepare ourselves for working in software development. I've heard very good things about Hack Reactor as well, though they expect you to come in with some coding experience already.

So yes, there are good/great ones out there, but I'd agree that your bullshit detector should be set very high if you're looking into bootcamps.
Well, first obey "robots.txt".

Our SiteTruth system does some web scraping. It's looking mostly for the name and address of the business behind the web site. We're open about this; we use a user-agent string of "Sitetruth.com site rating system", list that on "botsvsbrowsers.com" and what we do is documented on our web site. We've had one complaint in five years, and that was because someone had a security system which thought our system's behavior resembled some known attack.

About once a month, we check back with each site to see if their name or address changed. We look at no more than 20 pages per site (if we haven't found the business address looking in the obvious places, a human wouldn't have either). So the traffic is very low. Most scraper-oriented sites hit sites a lot harder than that, enough to be annoying.

We've seen some scraper blocking. We launch up to 3 HTTP requests to the same site in parallel. A few sites used to refuse to respond if they receive more than three HTTP requests in 10 seconds. That seems to have stopped, though; with some major browsers now using look-ahead fetching, that's become normal browser behavior. More sites are using "robots.txt" to block all robots other than Google, but it's under 1% of the several million web sites we examine. We're not seeing problems from using our own user-agent string.

So I'd suggest 1) obey "robots.txt", 2) use your own user agent string that clearly identifies you, and 3) don't hit sites very often. As for what you do with the data, you need to talk to a lawyer and read Feist vs. Rural Telephone.
I dunno about that; [a,b) is frequently used to represent the left-closed interval, and what it is an interval over depends on the context. In topology, for example: open intervals over N are commonly written (a,b), but that actually means [a+1, b-1]. You could just as easily write it as [a+1,b) and everyone would already know what you mean.
Cool to see new tools emerging to give individuals access to the data & tools that larger companies have. I think the challenge here is to make tools that are powerful, but also simple enough for anyone to use.

PriceMethod looks like they might be on the right track.
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(Off-topic rant alert)

...And there are people who just decide they need to (and are qualified to) make new words for new technology, and make a total botch out of it.

Case in point: Some Koreans decided to make "pure Korean" word for website. Nothing wrong with that in itself. But then they looked at "world wide web", and also looked at "homepage", and decided that "world" and "home" patched together makes perfect sense as a website.

So was invented the word nurijip, from "nuri" (an archaic word for "world") and "jip" (house). A Korean website is thus a "world-house". WTF is it supposed to mean?

Makes me twitch every time I hear it.
Rust also has macros, which can easily be defined next to their use: http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/macros.html

Syntax extensions are more like plugins for the Rust compiler.
Do you have any further details/references, please? I'm a little surprised I haven't heard of any major efforts along those lines.
I remember in the 1.x and early 2.x timeframe of .Net trying to replicate functionality similar to the ASP.Net internals, but with some minor changes... being able to peak into the internals was incredibly useful, even if I did hit some walls... The changes made in support of MVC were really helpful in terms of being able to do more. I can't even remember the names of some of the first Alt.Net frameworks to gain momentum before it.

I'm really happy to see more of .Net becoming open. I'd all but written it off in terms of new development. If the support for deploying in Linux/Docker becomes better, I'll be following this with great interest (to paraphrase Palpatine).
You and me both, sunshine!

Occasionally I get to do all that stuff above, outside the day job, and I love it. Trying to turn it into a real business but slow in getting there.

And I already live on a farm...
I built a business following the 4HWW. I happily spend more than four hours on it.

But the book gave me something very important: a systemization mindset and a wariness of administrative overhead.

Most of the stuff I've built runs pretty automatically. I spend my time building new stuff to add to it. Once that's built, it runs automatically too.

So I could take two months off if I wanted to and still earn most of my money. And I have done similar things. That's the freedom I really want.

So I've taken myself out of parts of it, but I'm still in it. Working on your business, not in your business, as the e myth revisited puts it.

Send me an email and link to this thread if you'd like more details. Emails in profile.
So I had this:

7*8+x*6*1+x*x

At this point it's unclear what I should do. I dragged the 8 on top of the * and that didn't seem to do anything. I dragged it onto the 7 and it asked what it should be. I said "56", but it put "56.0" for some reason.

I dragged the 1 onto the x, and replaced that with "x", and now this is as simple as it can be, really.

But no, it seems to want more. It seems it wants the "x * x" turned into x^2, which isn't necessarily simpler. I could find no way to factor out the "x"s, even though for some purposes that's simpler.

I can certainly find no way of converting

x*6*9+x*x

into

x(x+54)

even though that's the simplest form.

And if you say that you want standard form, why is

x*54+x^2

the standard form, and not:

x^2 + 54x

which every mathematician would prefer.

As I say, I find it an exercise in frustration, rather than enabling in any sense. If it were clearer what was the target then it might be better, but I don't know what it's trying to achieve.
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I came up with the following approach in Python last time I saw this puzzle here (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7734998)

from itertools import permutations as perms
houses = range(5) # numbered 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
for david, ed, nick, nicola, nigel in perms(houses):
if nick != 0: continue # by 9.
for tartan, paisley, gingham, striped, polka_dot in perms(houses):
if nicola != tartan: continue # by 1.
if paisley != gingham - 1: continue # by 4.
if nick not in [polka_dot-1, polka_dot+1]: continue # by 14.
for mochaccino, flat_white, dbl_espresso, chai, decaf in perms(houses):
if dbl_espresso != 2: continue # by 8.
if david != mochaccino: continue # by 3.
if paisley != flat_white: continue # by 5.
for car, bike, train, foot, plane in perms(houses):
if striped != bike: continue # by 7.
if plane != chai: continue # by 12.
if nigel != foot: continue # by 13.
if train not in [decaf-1, decaf+1]: continue
for guinea_pig, squirrel, pitbull, badger, fish in perms(houses):
if ed != guinea_pig: continue # by 2.
if car != squirrel: continue # by 6.
if badger not in [bike-1, bike+1]: continue # by 11.
if train not in [pitbull-1, pitbull+1]: continue # by 10.

person = {david: "David", ed: "Ed", nick: "Nick",
nicola: "Nicola", nigel: "Nigel"}
print "{} owns the fish".format(person[fish])

Running this reveals that there is one solution, Nigel owns the fish.
Count me in. For a specific location recommendation, there are quite a few existing agriculturally-oriented towns that are pushing hard to get a tech scene going. Of particular note (and one in my neck of the woods - figuratively and literally) is Loyalton, CA, USA, which has been pushing for a "tech-and-rec" environment (which sounds a lot like what you're describing, though with the "farming" component replaced with general outdoor recreation), and has been working on wireless hotspots and fiber connections to that effect in order to lure techies into the town.
It's simply wrong that smelling something is probable cause because of the potential for abuse.
my company is also registered here doing business mainly with mentioned Telcos.

One thing which I'm wondering is how can this go ahead if they want to stay aligned with EU regulation. Wouldn't such a move automatically violate the "Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC" ? [0]

If this moves forward I'll move the company to Germany because giving any more tax-Euros to such a government would feel like supporting a Stasi like apparatus. Also if this gets implemented then good luck for the future when Marie Le Pen's far right government gains further power in this economy (and they will because France is doing too little too late to recover from the mess they're in).

Also the standardization body (ETSI) which does a lot of the global technical specs (3gpp) for mobile and M2M is keeping quiet on the topic of building privacy into the standards. I have brought up the lack of privacy focus in several work groups but somehow this is not a topic that gets addressed at all. Mentioned chairmen are of course deeply ingrained in the telco industry which again is in bed with government. And from a sales/marketing perspective it's easier to build/sell features such as Lawful Interception (LI) or Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) rather than a product which refuses to do something (such as pass on private data)

The Charlie Hebdo team would turn in their graves if they'd know what kind of aftermath their deaths caused. It makes me sick beyond words.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive
Try this one: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7525
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Wow, i thought there was a $10M minimum, nice to see we can all get a piece
It seems likely that one will eventually be built, and hard to assess what it'll do. How does that not seem like a problem worth working on. To assume it'd be safe seems at least as ridiculous as assuming it'd be a huge danger.
I'm a programmer, my dad's a dairy farmer. We're both happy with our choices. Anyone thinking of the farm life, just be careful of romanticizing it as this article does. You have to be very efficient and manage risk extremely well - a lot is out of your control (the weather, crop/livestock diseases, the prices of livestock feed/fertilizer/seed, the price of the final commodity you sell which is determined by global markets). Farmers often have razor thin margins and it can be very stressful when it doesn't rain and your crops/livestock start dying, or when input prices in your local area are above global sales prices for your commodity. These things happen from time to time and must be planned for properly (insure/self-insure and don't freak out), or you risk emotional and financial bankruptcy. This takes some doing. My dad can handle this risk and he is a very happy and successful farmer. I can't. I'm a very happy programmer.
Yeah I think Oregon in general is "nice" for the most part. We don't have the usual EMS or Fire vs Police thing, nor do we have the career vs volunteer firefighting rivalries I read about either.
Because cops in Chicago never shoot people.
Well, it's been established beyond doubt that in the USA the FBI basically creates terrorists by finding angry people and putting bombs in their hands (and ensures that they complete the plot that was invented for them, even if they wouldn't have been able to do it themselves). They then use the prevalence of terrorism to justify new powers.

That's pretty damn close to what iuyoiuyy is talking about. Razor thin distinction between FBI and intelligence agencies excepted.
I had always assumed that EMT/LEO was like Star Trek. Where the Captain might have final say in most matters, in regards to medical/health matters the Chief Medical Officer can override the Captain.
Well it shouldn't be surprising, as Rust's enum behaves pretty much like a C/C++ one if all cases are nullary. The only changes are syntactical ("EnumType::Variant" instead of just "Variant", unless you "use EnumType::*"). In fact, it's exactly because they didn't want to be surprising that they used "enum" instead of something else, like "data" in Haskell.
For the future, or maybe you know by now, you are not required to carry an ID while walking anywhere in public. However, you are required to identify yourself in most places, if asked by an officer of the law, usually by giving your full name.
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That Seattle PI article is from 2011; so if the justice department is still investigating.. They need to hurry the hell up.

Also, Washington is only a blue state because of Seattle. It would be a swing state at best. You can see the evidence in its state legislature, where it has been in a near state of paralysis for years trying to figure out a budget that will satisfy "starve the beast" conservatives and Seattle's infrastructure needs.
Repeat of the 9/11 response in the US: Major Terrorist Attack -> Freak Out and Decide that Surveillance is the Solution -> Implement Surveillance -> Major Pushback Years Later from Individuals and Companies -> The story still unfolds...
>and I doubt that french and russian intelligence are cooperating.

You guys build warships for Putin's war machine which is murdering civilians in Ukraine, something the French knew they were going to empower someday with arms like these. You don't buy helicarriers for defense, you buy them to easily attack your neighbors. Ties between these two nations go back hundreds of years. I would absolutely not assume the FSB and DGSE/DGSI aren't talking. I would assume they are bosom buddies.
I kind of agree with you. They don't provide any interview feedback so there's something key I am failing that I don't realize.
You might want to read this: http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html
This is like making a McDonalds because everyone says they want it their way but deep down the truth is we just want an In-N-Out menu of 5 things. And the McDonald's way is bloated, slow, expensive, and dying.
Maybe I shouldn't have included the "blue" remark in my original comment. Perhaps it's not a red/blue issue, but I do think that there's a geographic component to it. I completely agree that unprofessionalism can and does rear it's head in otherwise quite "blue" urban areas. Maybe it's a mere function of there being more cops in urban areas, and it's just that the bad apples stand out. (i.e., https://xkcd.com/1138/)
I don't think it has anything to do with politics. While Oregon itself is a blue state and Portland is a liberal Mecca, the place i'm talking about is 45 miles of I5, solidly in conservative country. I don't think politics dictates police culture, I would guess it's mainly regional in nature.
You have to love private equity crowdfunding opportunities.
I have to agree on a few points as well:

We're much closer than we were a year ago but not as close as many think we are w.r.t self-driving cars, killer robots or even reliable speech recognition.

Safe-guards are probably a good idea before unleashing an AGI onto the Internet but those working on it are not going to be surprised one morning that their AI project suddenly became sentient or dangerous. It will be a deliberate, massive project with lots of funding and lots of smart people working on it.
Something to think about WRT focus is consider a world, magically without retail car part stores. Actually I'm old enough to remember the world before autozone and pep boys and whatever other competitors I'm forgetting, and we got by pretty easily. But anyway...

It would be tough to startup the first ever disruptive retail car parts store if you focused deeply on parts for a '98 Saturn, however convenient it would be for a couple people. You'd have to make sure you focused deeply on ... How bout sparkplugs? Every spark plug commercially available today. It probably sounds insane, but there's a successful chain that theoretically sells nothing but batteries. This was actually pretty easy to focus. I think their project was immensely harder to focus. I think it would be extremely challenging to narrow their market yet still have more than a handful of customers.
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i think they mean actual studio, like production studio. really strange choice of words though.
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You are only required to identify yourself if they have reasonable suspicion that you've committed, or are about to commit, a crime. Of course, that all gets sorted out post-arrest if you don't cooperate, which sucks for us.
There is another reason for moving type tags outside of allocated blocks, albeit possibly not very relevant to PHP; for some local variables, type tags can be removed by constant propagation altogether.
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Seems like it would be the opposite. Red-leaning areas tend to be more white and I'd imagine there's more of a "good ol boy" mentality instead of the adversarial situation between cops and citizens that you see predominantly black or latino areas (which are generally more liberal-leaning).
> Police officers are trained to be aggressive, assertive, controlling, and correct in all situations

No, not in all situations.

When they see other cops doing clearly illegal things they don't do a damn thing.

That needs to completely change.
The part about black boxes (L851-4) expires on December 31st, 2018. So if companies complain enough by then, there is also hope that it won't be renewed. But it'd be better for the courts to reject it like you said.
Game mods are a minefield of adware, malware, and outright rootkits that compromise PCs. The Minecraft developers messed up a long time ago by doing two things. Not making mods easy to use and not having an official mod repository that offers safe downloads. Even the decent sites offering mod downloads have issues with ads laden with malware.
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Reminds me of Mitt Romney's entrepreneurial advice: "Borrow money if you have to from your parents." Such a disconnect. Must be nice to have parents to be able to bankroll your businesses, Mitt.
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Was this all because you encountered a MongoDB advocate?
Well, really, it doesn't matter how much salary they did or didn't give up for these purposes. The point is, if your initial grant is, say, 1.5%, then maybe your later grants will be pretty insignificant in comparison. But if your initial grant is 0.2%, there's no reason why you can't get significantly more stock through later grants.
In our area we have a medical director who oversees the entire county, and is surprisingly available for matters like this. If a problem like this were to reach him I am certain a local police department or even police chief wouldn't be able to override him.
I know, but Rust macros seem to be fairly simple "expansion of a syntax tree" things, not intended as a programming environment. This is (or at least appears to be) the Rust answer for things like elaborate C macros or C++ template metaprogramming. There's a place for that kind of code in the world, even though it's needed rarely.

Thinking about this as a "compiler plugin" is exactly what I think I'm getting at: if I need to implement some sort of DSL feature for my code, I want to do it as part of my code and not have to deploy it as a plugin to the compiler.
Generating Permutations
Pando's article on this:

http://pando.com/2015/05/04/as-police-militarization-increas...
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I learned what [a,b) means before i had even heard of computer.

Also, "like a programmer" sounds weird when programming actually is derived from mathematics and is fairly new.
Ugh, BlueCoat.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Blue-Coat-Surveillance-Device...
So are you shipping via USPS? I'm about to buy. I use a PO box for receiving most parcels, but only the postal service can ship there. 10x the hassle to accept via courier.

The landing page didn't say if PO boxes work.
EDIT: Turns out this Quora review is written by a different Jose who attended Coding House. My bad!

Was this review by Jose written under duress or legally compelled somehow?

http://www.quora.com/Reviews-of-Coding-House

It is written by the OP, but it is quite positive and recommends the experience from Coding House. It was written in April 2015. The article was from September 2014.

Something is off here...