skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anonymous member takes off his mask and runs for president
Perhaps big data companies like Palantir are assisting with this?
The sudden drop in the user base, people left for languages with all the features mentioned in this post? I am not sure....
There were three things that really did it for me: powerful macro's + language designed to be easily macro'd; incremental compilation; updating live code. The macro's let me extend it however I liked. OOP was invented? Add a library. Aspects? Add a library. Type-checking? Add a library. In each case, the language itself transforms to more effectively use the approach with much zero-overhead potential given the transforms are usually at compile-time. I had DSL's for common things such as GUI's, state-machines, and databases. Let me do so much with so little work while having consistency across the whole thing.

The second was incremental compilation. I was an imperative programmer and mostly used that style. Languages such as C++ interrupt one's mental flow with long compile cycles. Interactive languages, especially scripting, tended to be too slow in production. LISP let me compile individual functions in a fraction of a second after writing them. Think, type, hit button, examine results, and repeat. The flow stays there and you just keep pumping out more of your solution. That my main DSL was compatible with a C++ subset meant I could just autogenerate that at the end to benefit from its compilers or portability. Otherwise, I stayed in LISP.

The third thing was something that I tried with C/C++. Self-modifying code for AI and security applications was one use. Another was updating apps live. LISP made both pretty easy. The program ran as an instance while you made it in certain development environments. You were in a way always working with a live program. Also, you could drop a member variable in a class definition and all running instances of that class would loose it. Just like that. So easy to change while being able to compile to fast code with type & safety level declarations.

So, it was a language that could do anything I want it to do, allow rapid iterations at max flow, and even change running systems if they weren't good enough. Still haven't felt this full effect in other languages. The old LISP machines went further [1] in that they could take you to any problem in the app or OS right at the source code without crashing. Like LISP apps, you can inspect the issue, modify the code of the running system, optionally modify the instance, and proceed how you wanted to. Still waiting for that feature in Windows or Linux development. ;)

[1] http://www.symbolics-dks.com/Genera-why-1.htm
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Weird, that area is full of bookshops.
Check out OSkit [1]. It was designed for people experimenting in OS's who might not want to reimplement all the low-level crap like memory management. It's been used in high-level language OS's from LISP to ML.

[1] http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/
Well, I can certainly see how it becoming known Soon sells anti-AGW "science" is damaging to his little money spinner, but that doesn't make it libel -- truth, absolute defense, etc etc.

Of course, he could always sue, but we know why he'll never do so: the defendants would get discovery.
No, in general developers in Argentina also comment in English.
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Yes, but what's the incentive to hold up an Uber driver, who isn't being paid in cash? OK, this doesn't prevent drivers from being selected by psychopaths or people who are intent on stealing cars and wanting to minimize risk, but the necessity to register a phone and a credit card to sign up for Uber service acts as an effective deterrent to most criminals in the first place.

And when you get down to it, a) nobody needs to drive for Uber, so if you don't like the risk calculus, don't do it; b) guaranteeing a defenceless victim is a lot less blameworthy than shooting people, notwithstanding the nutbags on fox news trying to hold a preacher responsible for being gunned down in his church the other day, and c) the legal & PR liability from leaving someone at risk is still massively lower than the liability from facilitating a (hypothetical) crime - sins of omission are always punished less severely than sins of commission.

I'm not saying this policy of Uber's is fair or rational for society at large, just that it is rational from the self-serving POV of the firm itself.
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My impression is that money lost to fraud is a tiny fraction of money lost to legal wasteful spending, lawyers fees, and drug company profits.

Is there any reason to believe these law enforcement activities are an efficient use of time and labor?
That's not a voting machine - that's a secret coup d'état.
My favorite is using Benford's law to find anomalous digit distributions in phony numbers.
What are the older examples of containers? Virtualization and chroot jails have been around forever, but LXC didn't exist until 2008 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXC). My beard is red, not gray, but I did a lot of years of coding and devops before I ever heard about containers.

What am I missing?
I've seen some neat projects using the speech API, including this one, but the recognition seems way too bad. Where does the recognition engine come from? Do the browser vendors make it?
Benford's law is surprisingly effective in detecting unnatural patterns in data; I believe the IRS relies heavily on it. Then, alert eyes at the payment end, and encuragement to low-level clerical staff to cooperate in implicating their bosses or be left holding the bag. This works better for white-collar crime, since the criminal higher-ups are that much less likely to successfully put out a hit on persons who informed against them, though sometimes not for lack of trying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Benford%27s_law
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Hardware RNG via cheap USB SDR
At a hackathon back in 2013, someone mentioned analyzing Medicare claim data to find impossible or improbable scenarios, like a doctor performing two lengthy procedures on the same day at hospitals 500 miles apart.
You could say "Convince me" about any branch of mathematics.

But IMHO this is different.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GeometricAlgebra
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I think they're effective insofar as proposals for reform are often deflected by allegations of fraud and deliberate waste - 'if you can't root out the rampant fraud why should we trust you to reform a broken system?!'

You see this argument in immigration politics a lot too - 'we can't discuss reform until the border is secured.' I agree that meaningful reform would probably substantially reduce the profitability of fraud and make it easier to detect as well, but that's political reality for you.
Thanks for the link to the acknowledgements.
The same thing happened with "the cloud" and "nosql" etc etc. 2% of people crow "this changes everything!" and 2% yell back "this changes nothing you morons!" and both groups of people are wrong, and the other 94% of us just keep working and are grateful for all of the cool new tools that help us get to our goals faster.

10 years ago you couldn't build a Heroku unless you were a genius. Now you can build a Heroku clone in a month. That's progress.

Also, it's still just computers. Can we move on?
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Even if English is not his first language, one would think that he could use a basic spellcheck tool against his self-promoted page. ("Competititve"?)
Yes: it was 700 million dollars. And are you suggesting that law enforcement's time would be better spent investigating legal activities?
What's up with the kooky Penrose-esque metaphysics of the human mind at the end there? Lehar has taken the elegance of geometriv algebra to a bizarre spiritual plane (er, bivector?)
That exploit won't work.
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I think that is just a quirk of the English language...

For what it's worth, I also didn't like it - I thought the characters were dry and cliche. Multiple times I caught myself thinking "that makes no sense"...
Folly Futures support interrupts and cancellations. See https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/folly/futures/...
Good fun!

My understanding of the UK version of this was that the ball was actually placed by a group of pundits[0], rather than being in the original location, so even if you found a freeze frame of the original match you'd still not be able to cheat the system.

Would be fun to crowd source a position taken from wrong guesses to provide some variance.

0: http://www.theguardian.com/football/shortcuts/2015/jan/14/ho...
Thanks for the info. I'm interested in fasting just because I like to do these sorts of experiments. I fast once a year for 24 hours and I'm pretty hungry by the end... so I'm not sure I have the resolve to go through the hunger pangs much longer than that. How long do those last?

My other concern is that I run 50+ miles/week and I assume that would be impossible while fasting. I'd also be bummed about loss of muscle mass.
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Near the Abasto?
For what it's worth, you're not alone in that feeling. People love to make graph visualizations, but I rarely see the practical benefit.

Mind you, a good deal of my professional life has been spent as a data modeler. I would love better ways of visualizing complex relationships. But graphing everything doesn't seem to help.
So far I'm leaning towards the MicroPython. In fact, Python is my language of choice du jour, but I enjoy keeping my eye out for other possibilities.

At the same time, I've been using Arduino, and also have a fair amount of experience programming Microchip's MCU's in C. I'm actually fine with C, but not so good at wrapping my head around large programs that other people have written. This is probably because I've always been a lone wolf programmer.

The reasons why I want an interpreter on a micro is for some strictly hobby projects that require programmability on board. I started planning an absurd DIY pocket calculator, and actually ggot as far as writing my own parser and expression evaluator in C. But a programmable calculator that uses Python or even Lisp would be a fun novelty.
The larger portion of the value of criminal determent is the crimes it actually deters. We would have to calculate the cost of those crimes (tough to do-- the cost to society is not the same as the amount stolen, after all, since the money goes in the pockets of the criminals) that would have been committed if it was well known there was no enforcement.
For a while there was a UPS driver in my area who would flag me as not being home and who would not leave one of those we tried to deliver stickers on my door -- this despite the fact that I could see the apartment entrance from my window and he never even visited the building. I would have to call the national UPS customer support number, and they would call some local dispatch office, and the driver would show up super pissed off within the hour. This happened a few times until a new driver started on the route, and after that I have had no issues at all.

Probably not as bad as my neighbor who found out that the USPS mail guy was forging her signature on certified mail...
Wow. I find it stunning that in 2015,there is still engineers who execute user inputs without any kind of sanitization.
If it cost less than than $712 million to recover this $712 million, it was more than justified. Most law enforcement doesnt have nearly that ROI.

These were major frauds -- $712MM in fraud by 243 people.
com.twitter.util.Future supports raising interrupts that propagate 'backwards' through the chain (and across network boundaries.) This is used to implement cancellation, among other things.

https://github.com/twitter/util/blob/master/util-core/src/ma...
Does he at least give feedback? Is it useful? Do the other team members work on this project for a similar amount of time? If not, you need to have a manager that has more time to dedicate to you and give the support needed. If the project is behind schedule, mention it to stakeholders or higher management.
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Have to say, this seems like an area where I'd be very happy there's an experienced human weighing all the various factors and making the judgement call.

After reading the procedure you've described I feel very grateful for our highly developed acute care system, and the dedicated pros who make it all work.
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This is about machine learning, only instead of inducing things like neural network weights, it's inducing a logic program. I get the impression most of the work in this field gets called 'program synthesis' these days, though I haven't kept up.
The vast majority of APIs require an access token, anyway. Not surprised that Facebook followed suit.
Well, that CloudApp link got taken down. It was a video of Safari asking for location permission over and over again. Here's the reason:

"We've noticed that one of your CloudApp drops has been getting an unusual amount of attention: Screen Recording 2015-06-19 at 09.44 AM.gif has had a download transfer rate of 4.2 GB in the last day or so.

Even though we deeply appreciate you trusting us with your data, this violates our download limit and fair use policy. Unfortunately this is not something we are able to host on our servers.

Your drop has been disabled and can't be reached as of this moment. We haven't deleted it from our servers though so if you need to get it back or feel you might have received this email in error please contact us so we can sort it out."
"Mobile is a dud" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4855

Read the first comment.

Boy have times changed.
It's generally accepted that a deficit of 3500 calories causes 1 lb of weight loss. And most men burn around 2000-2400 calories day. So 1 lb (much less 1.5) surprises me. I wonder why the math doesn't quite add up.

I like the net-zero approach. Do you make those 600 cals primarily from protein? BTW, it's about 100-120 cals/mile typically. (I'm a runner and use 100 cals/mile since the math is easier and close enough.)
I wanted to ask how long it took to make this, but that's an impossible thing to answer - so how much lead time did you (and the team) have before the first version went live?
In game development we don't use futures or similar mechanisms. We use job systems. They are much more powerful for serious muktithreading requirements. I'm not saying futures are useless at all, but we wouldn't use them where performance matters.
If Alfredo says it, I am sure he is right and he can find other bugs.
This appears to be useable as an additional source of entropy in linux via rtl-entropy[0] and rng-tools[1].

[0] https://github.com/pwarren/rtl-entropy

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/user/tlecarrour/rng-tools....
YouTube has 1 billion+ users and is doing $4bn / year.
A great acquisition by google.
This is helpful; I'll get you a good response when I have a good moment.
Sure, there was a conjugal (male-female) definition coded into law, at least in California (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_22_(200... also in many other states. The traditional definition was in some cases implicit, and we don't need to dig up the Emperor Heliogabalus (made famous in G&S's "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General" patter song) or other exceptions to try to prove the counterfactual "never defined in law [as conjugal]."

Anyway, just thinking something is offensive doesn't account for the misleading comment to which I was replying. Fine if you want to digress, but please note well that I'm not in fact defending "separate but equal." I think Conjugal Marriage is superior to, not equal to, other definitions. (Feel free to be offended by this, not by s-b-e.)

See http://discussingmarriage.org/ if you want more on the arguments for the traditional definition.
Perhaps this helps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM1Zb3xmvMc
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It depends on whether the message/pic is identifiable. If it's not -- just "HEY IS THIS BAD?!" -- then it probably would not constitute protected health information, for HIPAA purposes. (Presuming this is in the US.)
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Did you have success getting any FIs to actually implement it?

For bank interaction beyond read-only, I would love for FIs to implement OAuth2. SimpleFIN is intended as the smallest possible pill for a FI to swallow -- it really is easy to implement, but I'll be the first to admit that it's not a final solution.
Also, Plaid offers additional data points (such as location), which this does not.
Off-topic, but I've lost count of how many times I've heard of owners of small businesses keeping payroll taxes, getting caught, and cutting a deal with the IRS to stay out of prison that means they have to sell the business RIGHT NOW for whatever cash they can get. I've known a number of people who bought very profitable businesses from people in that exact situation.
I have no way of knowing whether your project is destined for failure. But to me that would be almost irrelevant - if I had a boss who humiliated people (publicly or privately), I'd be looking for work elsewhere. I wouldn't have put up with that kind of abuse even from Steve Jobs himself.
Indeed I recall Spot the Ball compititions in the national papers in my youth and nicely covered here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spot_the_ball in much better detail than I. So somewhat nostalgic seeing the new edition. Though recall it's demise in newspapers was down to the worry of technology enabling analysis of the picture reducing the human level of skill involved and with it being money related prizes then they moved on.
@theandrewbailey yes, he does give feedback, about once every several days. However, three days of coding can be wiped out with one piece of feedback. This is frustrating since it could have been nipped earlier on during a design session. Is it common for people to code-to-vision rather than code-to-design?
I've never seen the need for voting machines, even if they were open source and not plagued by scandals constantly. Counting votes can be done mostly in parallel. If you can't get enough volunteers and auditors to watch them then you have other problems a machine would likely make worse. In Australia we rarely have to wait long for the result and our Senate voting is fairly complex. It's even crazier when people try to push the speed benefits for things like the US presidential election where those elected don't even take office for weeks after the polling day.

Although the ancient Athenians were not Luddites - they had an elegant machine to randomise a large stratified sample of the population for jury duty and water clocks to time speeches - for the actual votes they just used pebbles or pieces of metal. That's because counting something up is simply not that complex and shouldn't be made complex unnecessarily just to pad the CV of some electoral commissioner or pad the wallet of the company making the machines.
I have read so many stories of tough personalities like this who chew out their people publicly, yet in the process achieve greatness for themselves, their teams, and their products. I supposed I would have accepted this if I were working for Steve Jobs or Elon Musk or Steve Ballmer, so I keep wondering if I should just suck it up and grind on.

But coding-to-vision rather than coding-to-design/spec seems so inefficient. Is this common?
Intersectionality would come into play if he was arguing that he was a member of multiple minority groups. Here he was arguing that he was a contributor (not necessarily a member!) of a single group, distinct from the previously discussed ones. It's entirely possible he's a member of multiple groups, my point was just that his argument didn't reference that and it was therefore illogical.
I think there's a misunderstanding. I wasn't questioning what the law is or how it works. I was questioning the benefit of allowing for murder advocacy under the law. That is, why is free speech ever useful, in the specific case of murder advocacy? If murder advocacy is never beneficial, why do we need to protect it? I'm not disputing that there's a benefit to angry speech.
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For what it's worth, I tend to agree with you in this specific case. Even the craziest bitcoin gamblers avoided this one...

Now, 1broker.com on the other hand...
"I have read so many stories of tough personalities like this who chew out their people publicly, yet in the process achieve greatness for themselves, their teams, and their products."

Honestly, this doesn't sound like that kind of guy. From what you described, he's "all hat and no cattle" (as they say in Texas).
I wonder this is applied to find bad actors in the financial sector...
Here you go: http://www.waybackletter.com/jobs.html

For a couple years I use to run a Wayback like newsletter similar to this, but got too busy with my weekly Hacker Newsletter (http://hackernewsletter.com) that I haven't touched it in a while.
> Serious question, why do you look to de-power the legislators at your local and state level? if you don't agree with them, find a state/city/county with policies and government you agree with. Unless you disagree with all forms of governance, in which case there is no point in discussion.

I look to de-power HOAs, not local or state government. Government should be accountable; HOAs have been proven to not be.
For every dollar you earn, around 35% will be taken by the government and used for things most of which could be classified as "charitable". Just because you don't get a choice about taxation, doesn't mean that the choice to earn more money it isn't an effective form of altruism. And just because the government budget is huge, doesn't mean there isn't a 1-to-1 correspondence in the long run between how much the government taxes, and how much it can spend. (EDIT: and for actual charity, I go with Malaria. Dying sucks).
Steve Jobs: http://i.imgur.com/GWqCE06.png

Aaron Swartz: http://i.imgur.com/52ezERg.png
Stupidity or laziness, or misapplied machine learning.
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Ironically, "slippery slope" is the name of the logical fallacy you are making by not admitting a middle ground.
@theandrewbailey -- regarding how much other team members devote to the project, the rest of us work 40 to 50 hours a week. This is to be expected since a 10 minute vision takes 100x the time to actually code out and make functional. But to be honest, we are all putting in less and less productive time, as the whole process seems so inefficient and wasteful.