skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1) linking (I don't know of any parallel linker)

How about ld.gold?
Can there be a solution? I don't really think so. More people want to live there than the area can fit. Someone has to lose out. The newcomers think they should get to live there because they have a lot of money to pay for scarce resource. The incumbents think they should get to live there because they were there first. Right or wrong, one group loses.
Both Harris [1] and Mantech [2] offer products that include "intel analysis". Section 215 seems like a great avenue to perpetually harvest data and keep these products a necessity. Yes, [1] looks like any other analytics dashboard, but what else would you expect for NLP and voice recognition on a massive scale?

[1] http://govcomm.harris.com/solutions/InformationManagement/Da...

[2] http://www.mantech.com/solutions/Intelligence%20and%20Counte...
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I haven't added any fault tolerance. Should be fairly easy to detect if a route is unavailable and re-write the routing table. And yes, I expect the Pi is still a bottleneck.
This is in large part thanks to Rand Paul.

It's the only thing on his homepage.

http://randpaul.com/
The problem is that with all the growing media hype about China's economy over the past few years, no free government or media seems to want to criticize the Chinese regime, so the Chinese regime seems to be able to do whatever it wants - including constructing these mini-islands in disputed territory and threatening to shoot down any planes that cross it.
I really like this blog, it's great. Very engaging. Would recommend subscribing to it!

ps thanks for the downvote HN - classy :-)
If you want to assert that assorted bad actors screwed over the banks, by all means. I agree that many homeowners, agents and others did in fact screw over mortgage issuers - in many cases fraudulently. I'm sure various traders also marked to model in order to get a bonus this year without caring about next year (in their case not so fraudulently).

You are correct that the sympathetic voters who engaged in mortgage fraud/etc are not being prosecuted, and are in fact being rewarded by craven politicians.

My apologies - I misread your first comment as somehow suggesting that ratings agencies and securitizers were deliberately attempting to cause mispricing.
People are paid pensions because they're owed pensions. They've been paying into the system their entire lives, and are entitled to that money. To describe it as 'welfare' is entirely misleading.
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So they were right? Unless they wanted to sell.
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It's pretty easy to sign up at https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/

It's free, and there's a pretty decent web UI once you're logged in.
In the article, they say that the Ghana experiment includes a comparison to a pure cash transfer (although I'm not sure of the amount of the transfer), and "the results are forthcoming."

> These positive results leave us with a number of important questions. First, is it better to deliver physical assets and support, rather than pure cash transfers? There is evidence—from an RCT evaluation of the GiveDirectly program in Kenya, which transferred on average PPP US$720 to poor households, either monthly or in one lump sum—that pure cash transfers also have positive impacts on consumption, food security, asset holdings in the short run (including productive assets), and on psychological well-being (49). Similarly, de Mel et al. (50) find that a cash (or in-kind) transfer to existing self-employed individuals in Sri Lanka has a persistent positive effect on self-employment profits 4.5 to 5.5 years later. Because it is cheaper and easier to just deliver cash rather than physical assets and training, and the initial consumption increases from Kenya seem to be higher than what we observe after 2 and 3 years, it would be useful to have a direct comparison of the effects of these programs. The Ghana experimental design does include a comparison of the Graduation program to merely an asset transfer, and the results are forthcoming.

> ...

> Second, how important was the training and coaching as a component in the full intervention? This is a particularly important component to test, because its costs are on average twice that of the direct transfer costs, and because operating at scale requires quality hiring, training, and staff supervision. As discussed above, we do not have experimental variation with which to test this question. Evidence from elsewhere suggests that the household visits, which are a large expenditure, may not be a cost-effective component. In Blattman et al. (33), for example, variation between zero and five household visits did not generate, after 9 months, large differences in income outcomes (but did lead to higher investment). Furthermore, a meta-analysis of self-employment training programs has found mixed but rarely transformative impacts from training (51).
Very cool project. One downside to this approach is that each tcp connection cannot use more than one link's bandwidth. I've been meaning to try this with a multipath VPN to work around that issue but haven't had the time yet.
I think that depends on your world-view. For some they see it as it's better to work to live, than to live to work.
Very interesting info on how the heart and blood vessels can keep up with such an exaggerated animal.

The first episode of BBC's "Africa"[1] (Kalahari) features a stunning scene of two males rutting.

The behind the lens clip at the end also covers the giraffe scene.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_(TV_series)
Thanks for the heads up. I really liked the blog posts I just read through but I think I'll avoid making a purchase in that case.
Just checked again. Customized MacBook Pros are not available in my country, i.e. India.

So, how bad it will be if I go with 8GB one?
> The sensible first response when you find a vulnerability is take a snapshot of the existing system ... without having to disable the production systems.

Which would involve taking the system down to conduct the snapshot. What gets put back in place will depend on the severity of the breach, perceived threat, sensitivity of data, etc. They had no way of knowing exactly how sophisticated the attack was until the cops finished their investigation - is this some script kiddie or the Chinese military? I'm not going to worry about a foreign intelligence service if I'm serving up web pages for an eCommerce site, but I would if I were working for NASA. Just because you patch the vulnerability in question doesn't mean you've denied the attacker access to your network...

If they suspected additional backdoors have been added during the breach, the affected systems would need to rebuilt entirely, patched, then have data selectively restored from backup (you don't want to reintroduce to the system any malware that was saved to a backup). What other systems were accessible from the one that was hacked? Are there rootkits sending beacons home on any of them? Is there reason to preemptively take them down and rebuild them? What if one of the affected systems is a mail server/file server/etc.?

No, I don't blame NASA for overreacting. The kid pulled back technical details for a space station. The Russian government would have done the same (and may even have already been in there). NASA took steps that they thought were sensible, and they ate the costs. The kid ended up getting 6 months of house arrest and 2 years probation.
Thanks for the info :) I did enjoy the posts I read on the site, but was hoping for more advanced material in the book, good to know. Browsing through that repository right now, awesome stuff, I'll have to look for more like this.
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I agree completely. Bitterness or negativity toward people who leave for normal reasons is a common sign of a bad company. Also, when people speak negatively of the person who's in some way my predecessor in a role, I tend to wonder if they're going to say the same things about me in the future.
"And, in essence, this kind of sums up Watson for me. You need to tinker with it a bit before you can find something usable."

I think this is the most interesting part. Watson seems to work WITH you rather than for you.

Presently it appears to work very well as an inspiration and suggests things that are so far out you would never come up with them yourself. An example is the radish, cod, ginger, olives, tomato and green onions pizza.

I would've loved a bit more focus on what other people thought though. I got the impression that the writer was a bit biased to love the dishes before he tried them.
Right. Furthermore, our cells have many of other mechanism besides telomeres whose function is to prohibit immortality in a way that's difficult to bypass. (If it were easy to bypass, then it would be less effective at suppressing cancer.)
I would personally recommend using vim bindings in emacs, as they are (in my opinion) easier to make sense of and more intuitive. However, I'm sure this book is a great resource for all the other stuff and it seems very well put-together.
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Evil user concurring.
What about when you notice the politics that creeps in when the firm grows? The culture can easily change from a single team on a mission to competing teams, which often isn't comfortable for people.
Curious why the archive isn't using Backblaze's open storage pod design.
This happens all the time, for example movie The International (2009) is based on a true story :o. Banks are above the law.
No doubt, and I'm not really debating the language design tradeoffs involved in various approaches to OOP (or heck, typing in general). It's just this kind of talk comes up from time to time, seems to be fear-driven, and ignores the pragmatic practices that have been developed to work with inheritance (or any number of other language features that trigger a similar reaction, c.f. Pythonistas vs Rubyists on the topic of monkey-patching).

It was surprising enough in context of an otherwise incisive article that I was honestly wondering if there was something specific to Swift and/or the ObjC framework world that posed a unique hazard.
Absolutely yes. It's difficult to focus on your own career when everyone else is on the spotlight. It's been one year since I started grokking the entrepreneur culture: I've never felt more empowered; I've never felt more miserable.

On top of that, the average Joe can't appreciate long-term efforts and is quick to dismiss you as a loser. We worship the overnight successes and underappreciate everything else.

Magicians want you to believe in mind-reading. Media want you to believe you're missing out. Both of them know that keeping the boring secrets preserves the mystery and wonder. George Carlin said it best: "It's all bullshit folks, and it's bad for ya!"
Not at all! Realize that your have a finite amount of time, each day, each week, your entire life. You are going to miss out on some things, and that's okay! Ensure you're prioritizing the things in you're life that are important to you, and be realistic about what's important, and where you want to spend your time and energy.
Well, why are you missing out? There's plenty of opportunity for these things in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Seattle, etc. Is this a question about how to pick the right company, or where to live, or what kind of work to focus on?
> Am I engaging in professional misconduct? Maybe the garage is, for failing to take adequate security precautions, but not me.

Depends on what you mean by "professional misconduct." For lawyers like you (and me) the analysis by a bar-association ethics committee might be fairly strict. A lawyer's smartphone likely contains non-public client information such as contact info and perhaps even documents. In that case, leaving the phone (or worse, a laptop) in an unlocked car might be regarded as a failure to take prudent precautions to protect client confidences. That in turn could mean exposure for the lawyer, even though the thief was clearly the most-culpable.

ADDED: The same, negligence-based analysis might apply to security professionals as well: Even though others might be equally- or more-culpable, a failure to take prudent measures in accordance with "industry standards" (a vague term that would have to be [expensively] litigated) might lead to civil liability. See, e.g., The T.J. Hooper, a 1932 case in which the court held that a tugboat's failure to have reliable radios on board was negligent, even though that was not the prevailing practice among other tug operators [1]. It's a case with which all first-year law students (presumably) become familiar.

[1]http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/T.J._Hooper
You're conflating private keys and parameters. The random number that ECDH requires you to generate is the private key, just as FFDH requires you to generate a random private key (which is also fast). If you were actually generating your own random curves (which TLS doesn't allow) it would be much more expensive.
Keep in mind that the noise ratio is high, particularly in strong bull markets. Not all that glitters is gold.

If you no longer want to watch from the sidelines, you can follow this simple formula:

1). Build something great.
2). Tell people about it.

Also, read less tech press.
When they can't pay you

That happened to me once
I don't feel like I'm missing out, but I do often lament the lack of time[1]. It is an interesting observation though of feeling on the outside of an amazing time. Do you feel like you are not able to 'join' the party? And if so what is holding you back?

[1] Spending it reading HN not withstanding :-)
Ask HN: Where do you invest your money?
Traditional channels of increasing wealth are financial investments like stocks/bonds, or real estate investments like rental properties or commercial. In this community, I might assume we would see small loan investments like LendingClub.

These are all mostly well-known channels for wealth management.

What are some lesser known ways you invest your money?
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99% of the stuff mentioned doesn't last. Why not read a book instead of surfing twitter or viral content. Why not buy a diversified portfolio instead of speculating on stocks and real estate. Why not build a lasting lifestyle business rather than an over diluted non sensical on demand startup. Just my 2 cents, your milage and views may vary. Btw, physics discoveries are super cool :D
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spacemacs (includes evil) plug: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs

Really great.
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Then why do we need to continue contributing after working past 10 year if we already maxed out?
I used to, then I happened upon Dual Cores - Unplug. Just hit me like a ton of bricks. You are missing out, just define what's important to you.

http://open.spotify.com/track/6KUlm8u1OrdZyFf8m74QhR
Do you have a deeper point—which I'm missing—or is this FUD?
I wish they had a reasonable argument that benefitted everyone. They want the owners of properties not to be able to set the rent. But my family had an apartment building in NJ that unfortunately, due to laws, we couldn't raise the rent more than a set amount per year. Soon there was just no way to even pay for maintenance when the roof leaked and things like that and it had to be shutdown.

So giving these people what they want, the ability to force owners not to raise rent, just does not benefit anyone in the end.

She runs a chile shop, how would she feel if protestors were sitting in front of city hall demanding she can only charge ten cents per bowl of chile? Sure the protestors love the idea of nearly free food, but that is just going to kill the business, not give them nearly free food forever.
Learning some basic emacs bindings before using vim bindings is still valuable to me. Sometimes I have to use emacs bindings to do things.
He never signed into BBID. Which is a required feature for BlackBerry. He just doesn't know how to use his phone.

Sent from my Passport ;)

Also, since this thread seems to have a lot of BlackBerry users, check out my appp Reader YC.
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Yes I feel that a lot of times.But what I am trying to make myself understand:
-What you said,there are a lot of of amazing stuff going.The mind prefers vacillating compared to singular focus.So if you are trying to get into any one of them,where do I jump into?
-The more you get intimidated by all that good stuff going on the more chances that you are going to not focus on a singular thing which could (just maybe) be the place where you become one of those famous ones.
-Internet fame is as volatile as it could get.Take Flappy Bird for example. Dong Nguyen was one of those insta-fames .That lasted for a week?

Back to the age old cliche(or atleast a form of it that i remember).
~Do not chase success.Chase your goal and success(fame,debates and all those) will follow .

I know how lame it sounds.But ask any of those people sitting up there.It works.
I believe your reasoning, while correct, misses the bigger point: most of that wealth is not in the form of huge stacks of dollar bills in a bank safe, but company stocks. The only way to give a check to every citizen is to dismantle all these companies, which would destroy millions of jobs and make everyone much poorer.
Raising minimum wage would stimulate consumption. Poor people spend their money. Rich people sit on theirs.
It is in an actual language! It's called ML! And modules are better for abstraction than type classes.
"Fish" is a too broad category, it includes salmon, tuna, hake, ... (both for intelligence and tastiness)

Also:

> Tastiness is based on informal polling of myself and friends.

I doubt they have really tasted dolphin, rats, ...
If my understanding of the term is correct, NPMaxwell's comparison to a helicopter drop is a poor one. However, not only is it an established term of art, but he/she provided a reference for background. The glibness of your response is entirely unwarranted.
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"Error!Your quota (50 queries/12 hours) has been exceeded"

I only checked 2 ip addresses.... seems like a bug ;)
"best"? That is a strong word that the article does not back up. It just offers the one option, without discussing alternatives.
This is awesome! We're looking forward to ST_AsTWKB. We've had to do some interesting things to get our data small enough for use on the front end, and hope that this makes our life easier.
Luckily the author seems like he isn't too afraid of trying new things. I know a lot of people that would refuse to eat any of those things.
I swear, most of this is PR. How about these mega rich people give their average worker a pay raise? Nope, even though that is within their power, they don't. But...instead they petition the public to do something not within their power. Come on. This is all PR. I wish all the mega rich would just DO something instead of these endless PR 'battles'.
I've been there. It took me a while to figure out that the media manufactures stories to get eyeballs. Do some digging and you'll find a different story. Once you know the translation key, it is much less envious.

- Overnight success => Decade of work

- Owner is worth an estimated $100 million => Owner is saving for a couch (Kevin Rose said this after his cover story in a magazine)

- Innovative idea => Ripped off a competitor and had better marketing

- Hard work and sacrifice => Lied/cheated/stole to get where they are
I recommend you read some of the articles that the economist Donald Boudreaux has written on this topic. Most of them are short and well written.

http://cafehayek.com/?s=reich
One of the things I eventually realized was that -- maybe not for everyone, for all programs, but certainly for a lot of people -- the programs we write are very incomplete. There's a portion that we write down, that the machine runs, and then there's a portion that's only in our head.

When you've got both portions, everything is awesome. I'd worth with a guy for years, and never had a problem with them. If I was working with some code they wrote and didn't get what was going on, I'd ask them, they'd explain, it'd make sense, and everything would be fine.

Then they'd leave, and I'd no longer have access to the portion of the program in their head, and the code they'd left behind would become worthless crap. The structuring was all wrong, the choice of variable names idiotic, the corner cases they handled seemed trivial and the ones left unhandled, crucial.

Maybe there's something wrong with everyone I used to work with (as I tended to think the first time or two this happened), maybe if we were better and writing documentation this wouldn't happen. But it is very, very easy to be given a codebase from a former employee -- a perfectly fine codebase written by a perfectly competent employee -- and conclude they are an idiot, because you're missing the portion that's in their head.
If you presuppose that an entire group must win and the other lose, then there probably can't be a solution. Any real solution would prevent that outcome.
Too bad the electorate (whose opinions are primarily shaped by the government-friendly/hysteria-driven mass media) will dismiss him as an anti-american fringe kook, even though that label couldn't be further from the truth. Freedom implies we must tolerate some of his views and actually help him enact some of his policies.
Ask HN: Pros and cons of various hosting providers?
Can anyone speak to the pros and cons of the current crop of hosting providers?

What I have in mind is pretty straightforward: a Java web-app with a relational DB back-end, starting small.

As far as I can tell, AWS is the standard solution. Heroku and Azure are both credible offerings, but they only support one database each, PostgreSQL and SQL Server, respectively.

Any other issues?
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Seems like a good javascript library could turn that into a viewbox like api.
Such as being paid for accepting the business?
The New York Times is often far too deferent to the U.S. Government and a lot of people do knock them for it, but the difference between that and a state-run propaganda office like RT is pretty significant. See, for example, this: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/07/18/malaysia... where a RT reporter resigned on the spot because she was being forced to report facts that everyone knew were blatantly false. It sucks in both cases, but this is a whole different level of suck.
In essence, the EITC rewards work and provides an incentive for workers to improve their skills. Equally important, it does not distort market forces, thereby maximizing employment.

I wonder about this. In a perfect market system, it's impossible to pay below-subsistence wages, because you can't work if you've starved to death. I think Adam Smith pointed this out. So, any public support for wage earners distorts the market by driving wages downward.

It's arguable that the government should subsidize wage earners, so that wages can be lower. Low wage earners receive a lot of things that they don't pay for out of their own pockets, such as education, which I support. But it should not be offered as a protection of the free market.
This is mostly a waste of time. C++ modules will do the same thing when they are completely finished (folks i work with are the ones doing it, and it is very far along), and will be standardized, etc.
I guess this will be in Python 3, so probably never! :P