skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it looks like you've got data for four clinics in there. Of the three non-fraudulent clinics, two show pretty elevated levels of that particularly lucrative code, the one that clips the ceiling for the fraudulent clinic. How much of that is fraud?

The fraudulent clinic has something really bizarre going on, too. In the first year (years being in order lavender, red, yellow, green, black, and peach), they've got a big spike at the ultra-lucrative code and some other big spikes at other codes. In year 2 (red), they've got just the one spike, a smaller version of their second-biggest spike from year 1. In year 3 (yellow), they've got one "spike", but it's tiny. In years 4 and 5 they've got practically nothing at all. What were they doing then? Didn't they want any money at some point in that three-year period?
I just checked my e-mail - it looks like we decided that we were definitely going to do it approximately two weeks before the first round went live. That's not typical but not necessarily unusual, if that's a sentence that even makes sense.
ISIL is used as a proxy force by all powers that can effectively manipulate them, but they are also a force of their own.

The US heavily invests in using video games for propaganda and ISIL and Sunni-insurgent forces have been exposed to a number of anti-Assad video games. Hamas is unlikely to be the progenitor of anti-Assad video themed video games. It's speculative, but it makes a lot of sense that the US would do what it can to direct ire at Assad.

What's not speculative is that Turkey and the US were running guns to groups that became ISIL factions in Syria.

There's lots of influence to be had all over. The larger powers are trying to manage the situation to achieve their ends. That means funding insurgent groups where it benefits them and bombing the same groups from the air where they are challenged.
I agree on all fronts. I think GA is a poor choice for practical programming for the same reasons you identify: nobody knows how to do it well, tools / architectures are not made for it, and nobody has publicly demonstrated its utility on a practical problem in my domain yet (I intended to, and failed).

The second issue, about performance, makes me slightly skeptical of the 'made with GA' claims of Geomeric's engine. I don't doubt there's a GA system in there doing something, but I wonder how much of the actual hard problems in global illumination it is handling, given that global illumination is primarily compute-bound.

As I said, I'd like to be proven wrong. The math does have nice features in the abstract (as you point out).
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People will just pirate more.
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Or, why don't you give me the money and I'll ... make sure they get it?

http://fortune.com/2015/06/03/red-cross-haiti-six-homes/

At least with the soup kitchen, you see and feel the results of your input, in real actual people helped, not fractions of a fraction of a number on a report created by a report writer dedicated to presenting an organisation in the best possible light no matter what.
Here's the actual list: http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.com/indicators/number-boo...

The Guardian article seems a bit exaggerated, e.g. (comparing Buenos Aires with 25 bookshops per 100,000 population): "only Hong Kong comes close, with 22 bookshops per 100,000, followed by Madrid in a distant third with just 16 and compared to a mere 10 bookshops for every 100,000 for London"

Buenos Aires sounds awesome, but a factor of two isn't really all that significant. There are all sorts of random factors that can perturb such things up or down a bit, and given all those, 10 and 25 are pretty close. I'd lump London and Buenos Aires firmly in the same category (along with the other cities from the top end of the list) as "cities with a lot of bookshops for their size."

Now, once you get to those places with a single small bookshop for an entire city... well... that's a bit worrying...
By the way, it’s totally off topic (I’d email but you don’t have an email listed in your HN profile), but on the subject of new mathematical technologies with practical application, I’ve really been enjoying learning about this thing for the last month or two:

http://www.chebfun.org

Here are a couple of hour-long lecture videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQp-kB9EOQs
http://downloads.sms.cam.ac.uk/1160831/1160835.mp4
and the first 6 chapters of a book explaining the basics of the underlying theory are freely available online (the rest of the book is great too) http://www.chebfun.org/ATAP/

Basic concept is to approximate functions as high-degree polynomials, to within machine precision, and then do operations on those approximations instead of on the original functions, at each step chucking out any coefficients which are smaller than machine precision. This in many cases provides a dramatic speed boost over existing methods for taking integrals/derivatives, finding roots, solving differential equations, convolution, etc. etc., while staying extremely accurate, much better than discrete solutions.

It’s not universally applicable to all functions (for obvious reasons) or all problems, but the team responsible has really done an incredible amount of solid work on the project.

Apparently it’s 10+ years old now, but nobody I’ve asked has ever heard of it before. Which is kind of surprising, because it seems amazing to me so far.

Unfortunately stuck as a Matlab library for the moment (there are partial ports to NumPy and Julia but they are very feature poor compared to the Matlab version).
I think that your statement assumes that somebody that works in a beauty salon should want something 'better' than buying shoes. For a (most likely) low income woman, being able to afford something luxurious like beautiful shoes likely represents a significant accomplishment and would be very personally rewarding. This is good marketing copy, and probably does a better job of recruiting stylists than reading like a mutual fund prospectus.
I find what Joel says problematic - firstly, you touch that code and you might break something, so it's fragile already, and secondly if it dealing with corner cases, then it should be documented.
Well, Stubhub would seem to be an obvious candidate. New management could make it much more profitable (e.g. add price floors like the other official resale marketplaces), but they would also face a potential avalanche of fraud cases they aren't prepared for.
We recruted an MIT graduate for a programming position via CL.
My friend Regan Gill once worked for the Seattle blood bank. She said business was always hopping after the bars closed, espcially on friday and saturday nights.

On time a bag of blood broke open while she was carrying a case of blood down a long hallway. It looked just like she'd dragged a stiff down the hall.
The thing is, the banker (or other white-collar criminal) is the only one who planned it. They, more than the thugs imho, should be locked away because they're predators not just opportunists.

And maybe we could spare the cage... But after we get around to the mistakenly (cough) convicted black people, and poor people, and those with mental illness, etc, then we can worry about the poor-banker in his comfortable minimum-security cell.
Microsoft already stated multiple times they are only doing what is required by the C++ standard and relevant customers.
Time to buy ebay stock. There will probably be an aquisition with ~25% premium
And in the future this will look totally reasonable. The full house prices you quote are what houses in the Bay Area routinely sell for OVER list price. When I started looking in 2012, the average sale price in my area was $900k, and now it's $1.7m.
Mind linking where you got the data?
From the linked text.

The government's choices are now to remove the private copying exception—making personal copying illegal again, or to supply additional evidence that copyright owners suffer no or minimal “harm” from personal copying, or else to begin imposing a new tax on users to compensate the industry for that “harm”.

Which sounds to me like UK has the option to start collecting a similar surcharge to compensate for the right to make private copies of works. They are not required to ban private copying completely.
I am not sure what you are talking about when you say lured. This game is very complex. What happens if some secret services decide to infiltrate a government or create political situation that pushes to country towards wanting to join the NATO. Would that qualify for lured? The amount of false flag ops happening I would not be surprised that some of these things were planned in Ukraine.

Russia is not bullying here. What do you think the USA would do if China was deploying ballistic weapons to North Mexico? This is exactly the same situation. The west and the east could live together for almost 20 years with very low friction. Any expansion on any of the sides would leave to imbalance and more friction. And for your information, the country I am from, would be pretty damn happy to get back Russia. See http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/30/us-russia-europe-h...

Almost 50% of the country is pro-russia. There is lots of populism going on and it is so easy to get nostalgic about an era you can barely remember but the beer & bread was cheaper than now.

I think the the NATO should just stay in countries where they were before and not to play with this very dangerous situation. Just a reminder that USA would use nuclear force if the society would not stop it. That would lead to an absolute devastating demolition of entire countries and (worst case) long term nuclear pollution.

Plan of using nuclear weapons by USA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTxaGzm_v8Q&feature=youtu.be...
"Work" in this context would be your job, not things you do on your own initiative.
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Did they intend the crime? And their only defense is "The other guy was doing it too"? Oh well.

As long as we prosecute as many people in their position as possible it doesn't seem to be a problem if we miss some. It's only selective when we choose who to ignore.

Something like Aaron Schwartz where it wasn't a crime until someone who made the DA look like an idiot does it... Then it's clearly crossed the line.
For an unstable patient, our process is much the same - the EMTs will put in the IVs, and we'll bypass the ER to proceed directly to the cath lab. For stable patients, the EMTs will prioritize getting them to the hospital as fast as possible and often won't have the time to get the IVs into place before they arrive. (This part of the county has a ridiculous density of hospitals, so the ambulance ride is frequently not even five minutes long, which doesn't give the EMTs that much time to work.)

We've found that things go little more smoothly if we do some of the prep in the ER, where there's a little more space for people to undress the patient etc. without worrying about bumping into the expense catheter equipment or compromising sterility, but even stable patients aren't supposed to spend more than five minutes there before being rushed to cath.

I do wish we had some way to directly transmit EKGs and vitals. American hospitals seem to have more money available for electronic equipment like that. (On the other hand, in Germany, the whole hospital stay including the catheter and a day in the ICU, probably won't cost you more than 10.000 Euro, and usually less than that.)
We don't put the patient's name on the EKG, so it's not directly identifiable, and we get their consent before submitting (if they're in any state to consent, which often they aren't), but I'm sure it does violate all kinds of rules and guidelines, if not actual laws.
This is pretty interesting. Aside from the security questions already asked, and assuming they can be addressed satisfactorily, I have this question/suggestion:

Financial institutions all differ in their online offerings and most live in the stone age (i.e. no useful API's), such that accessing transaction data relies largely on screen scraping. One of the biggest make or break moments for services like yours is getting critical mass in coverage of financial institutions. I use two services, Mvelopes and FileThis and have connected dozens of accounts to either, everything from large credit card providers like Chase to obscure credit unions and mortgage lenders. Neither service covers all my institutions. I've offered my help to build scrapers but have not been taken up on that.

I think what could really revolutionize this is creating an open source marketplace for these scrapers that anyone can contribute to. The scrapers would implement a standard API to return data in some common format and would call a number of standard methods to access login credentials, etc. You'd have to develop the framework that these scrapers get plugged in to (also open source) and a test framework. The calling/consuming code of your service can be closed source.

In the long term hopefully this would inspire banks to implement the required API's natively such that scraping is no longer necessary.
As I said elsewhere, when these comments come out in any general prison thread I support them. When they only come out when bankers are mentioned, I do not.

And, philosophical questions of free will tend to be a waste of time to consider. If you don't have free will then we also didn't really "choose" to execute you... Next.
I agree primarily because the music industries target demographic appears to be 12 to 26... A group that usually heavily consumes what their peers listen to. Niche music appreciation mostly occurs later in life. My point is that fragmentation doesn't matter to the existing powers because the target of those groups doesn't fragment until they are much older and when they do they have a new set of fresh blood.
>Is this project destined for failure?

Probably. You should probably have a heart to heart with this guy and tell him how you feel without evasions or minced words.

In the end you're a professional, and professionals don't need to tolerate bad behavior on the part of an employer.
So writing their code completely differently is a less-costly alternative?
It's rather disgusting that these people were fraudulently billing mental health services, seeing as how there are many real people who actually need these services. I'm thinking of veterans of the last 14 years of war. And anyone else who legitimately needs help.
For me it's the resolution to a very long piece of startup drama. As I recall it, an early CL employee got equity as a gift, and then sold it off in a way I thought disappointing:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040813165340/http://www.cnewmar...

EBay then launched a direct competitor, presumably using knowledge gained by being a major shareholder:

https://en.wikiphttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kijijiedia.org...

That also struck me as a shitty thing to do. Then eBay sued Craigslist and Craigslist sued eBay, causing further drama.

But now this is all over, and Craigslist can keep being Craigslist.
Sorry. Carry on. :)

And yes, they are a subjective tool for punishing the unpopular.
Most of these questions can be rolled up into:

Where is their proof of PCI Data Security Compliance[1]?

The fact that the submitter responded to your detailed and relevant questions with "This is helpful; I'll get you a good response when I have a good moment" is reason enough to run as far away as possible from this.

1 - https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/financial_institutions/
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We think/hope we can make a system that is impervious to fraud (or perhaps reduces the attack surface to easily manageable levels). Paper & human counting systems are always imperfect. I think that's the root of it, the combined desires to "solve it with technology" and the "strive for perfection".

Whether we can actually do that, is not certain.
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New code can share the same bugs and add new ones.

The point here is that voting machines must be open source and its hardware completely public to analyze it. This can't be the weakest link in a democracy.
Okay, so you reach failure. Now what are some tips & guidelines for optimally assessing your failure?
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But, the "reasonable person" referenced in so many laws does recognize idiom.

If I say "I'm going to fuck your shit up", literally that sentence is either a homosexual come-on or means nothing - but idiomatically it means "I will hurt and/or kill you", and at that point a (credible?) threat has been uttered...

So if your "specific" law said "insult X is fighting-words but insult Y isn't", yes that's retarded. But if it says "if a reasonable person would feel the comments were more threat and libel designed to raise hatred against them than criticism..." it might at least be on the right track.
You generally want to wait six weeks after a heart attack before implanting an AICD, because the patient's heart frequently recovers to the point where an AICD won't be necessary at all. The LifeVest is supposed to bridge those six weeks.
> The only problem is that you have to install something.

It was very relevant to point that. In my case, exactly this issue made impossible to me that I even try to use Dropbox. Is the install step actually still necessary?"
There's generally two things people want to accomplish out of charitable giving - making the world a better place, and the "warm fuzzies" of helping out.

The fact that getting the warm fuzzies isn't a particularly good way of making the world better doesn't mean that you can't get the fuzzies, too. It just means that there's a tradeoff involved, which means you want to make the best tradeoff you can between the two.

Go ahead and volunteer at the soup kitchen while you make $500, or even $5000 per hour. I particularly encourage it if you find it emotionally rewarding or motivating for the nitty-gritty work of making the world better.
Since this offering appears to be heavily based on OAuth 2.0, if not completely compliant with it, how have you addressed the concerns set forth in RFC-6819 "OAuth 2.0 Threat Model and Security Considerations"[1]?

And what reparations are SimpleFIN agreeing to provide in the event of customer information being compromised?

1 - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6819
I think the majority don't have a clue what laws come out of the EU versus their own parliament.

The EU has about 33 thousand employees, this is hardly tons of bureaucracy, just UK local government has 2.3 million employees.
Total strawman on the code example. They don't really need the mutex and all the complexity, but they add it so they can overstate their point -- make the most complex code you can and compare it to a simple example you code. Blah.
Thanks, I read the article but this sentence must have slipped my attention. I really would like to see them to supply evidence that copyright owners suffer no or minimal harm from personal copying but guess they won't even bother attempting.
Bandcamp is very different though - you buy and own your music there. An album bought is worth much more to an artist than fractions of a cent per stream.

I'm not surprised that Bandcamp has been doing that well for a long time now. In contrast to all those streaming services it's a business model that seems to be sustainable.
Putting a rational human being in a cage makes them mentally ill and irrational. Well, at least we know this for sure about solitary.
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So this is for a tech post I am pitching for some consumer tech publications. I figured I might as well ask some geeks about their views on their favorite hybrid / mobile we apps. What is your favorite currently non-native mobile app? and why?

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What a genius idea to raise awareness. This seems like a no-brainer for blood banks, hospitals, public health and so on.
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Is there some machine learning program that can make sense
from a lot of text?

What could read several thousand research articles about food intake and make common sense out of it? What could read Wikileaks and make sense of all that text?
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>except for a few small sections of the site in major metropolitan areas

Yeah... the most lucrative 20% of the volume...
FWIW, if you ever watched hot girls wanted (a documentary film) you will learn that a lot of "porn stars" were recruited via craiglist. It was a very interesting documentary to see how many people would actually use craiglist to find opportunity.
Honestly, I'm not interested in working for a place that doesn't use craigslist.
I happened upon this presentation just a couple days ago - compile-time geometric algebra in C++ via metaprogramming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4p-e-g37tg

Not sure how useful it is in day-to-day reality, but at the very least it might make other GA implementations seem simple by comparison.
Does analyzing this actually require joining in large data sets -- that is, larger than will fit on a single machine?

I'd always assumed that the records involved weren't very large, but I don't know much about the problem space, so I'm not sure if other data gets joined in in a way that benefits from cluster-based analysis.