jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Or, you know, the Fed is not authorized to deal directly with individuals via the Federal Reserve Act. The Fed's job is monetary and financial stability through credit markets. That's the tools that it has, and it uses them when needed.

Is this really true anymore? At least the past year, the Fed has taken an unprecedented powers to counter the effects of the pandemic. We've all heard of quantitative easing but there's a handful of programs such as SMCCF that allows the Fed to buy debt directly from large corporations.

Corporations aren't people but they're owned by shareholders and controlled largely by the 1%. The amount of money the Fed has directly or indirectly injected into global economy is absurd and surely, if there's a reckoning, the blunt will be taken on by the bottom 90%.

I thought this was a good overview of all the Fed's programs and initiatives since last year. https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/timeline-the-fed...
This is exactly how I take it. We thought it was Capitalism vs Communism, but what we learned is you can have Centralized Communism(Cold War Russia) and Decentralized Capitalism(Cold War USA) but it is just as much possible to have Decentralized Communism(Any examples?) and Centralized Capitalism(Current USA).

As it turns out it's the Decentralized that's the important part. You need many people making decisions for productivity to flourish. Rich and powerful making few large decisions simply loses every time.
>Microsoft has been a stain on the last decade of the computing industry

Pretty easy to make bold claims without expanding on them.
What are your thoughts on the whole [Colony Collapse Disorder](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_collapse_disorder)? Have you noticed an impact to your work?

As a side question, do you think bees are treated ethically by the industrial farming complex? Does that question even apply to bees? Not coming in with preconceived judgements, I'm genuinely curious
I think a true peer-to-peer sharing network would be a nightmare. However, I love the idea a centralized service that I could rent all kinds of things from. It's like Lowe's tool rental service on steroids. There's been hundreds of times that I wanted to rent something smaller, like an impact drill, or something else that they don't have. A full commodity rental service would be neat.
Or better yet, wrong scope
Sounds like you could just sell your drill!

It all comes down to how much money/headaches are you saving. Let's say the temporary drill/hole making service costs half as much as getting a drill itself ($11 for the service instead of $22 for the drill). If you need to put another shelf in, the service would cost as much as getting the drill in the first place! Also, is it more convenient as a service? Are you sure you want to deal with getting a person to go to your place to put a hole in? Sometimes, I don't want to deal with people and I don't want to wait. Is it worth the effort of ordering on your phone and waiting a hour every time you want to use a drill? Are you saving money in the long run?

I don't think everything can be put in the fancy schmancy "sharing economy." It comes to one simple principle - is something more convenient as a service?

Maybe it is convenient at scale. Maybe renting all the power tools you need or all the equipment you need is more convenient.
Just say how long you will think it will take realistically. Project managers don't usually understand the code. Be as honest as you can be.

Somebody somewhere said that:

"Estimate the time it takes to finish the project. Then multiply that by 8"

Surprisingly, this usually lands in the correct estimate. Best advice ever.
Voluntary work is not amateur work

I can't stress this enough, if you want to earn money you find something you are good at and society thinks is worth something. If you want to help someone you find something you are good at and people need. Maximize your impact by specializing in what you are good at and outsourcing that in which you are not.
Pennsylvania: Coinbase Exchange is not yet available in your state.

:(
Most of my HTML is generated by Perl so I am the opposite. Alls string vars at the Perl level are wrapped in double quotes in case interpolation is necessary. Attributes are wrapped in single quotes so my Perl code doesn't contain a bunch of \" patterns scattered throughout.

I totally agree about consistency though; I even take the minor performance hit when interpolation is unnecessary by using double quotes anyway so that all uses of double and single quotes are consistent
Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jamais_Contente
Yes that's how things work on itch/ouch. Downside with that is you can see your order hit the feed before you know it's yours. For people who want to exclude their orders from their view of the market, they have to build heuristics to handle this case or risk flashing/chasing their own tail.

Also doesn't help the IOC case. If market data dissemination is usually faster than the private order entry/ack/fill channel, it would be better to know that a trade resulted from my IOC by seeing it on the data feed rather than waiting.
I have a sneaking suspicion that certain groups of people are just much less susceptible to ads. I never click on ads. I mean, literally never. If you run an ad monetized site, I am the moocher who never makes you any money. If I search Google for something, and the result comes up as both an ad and a non-ad, I click on the non-ad link. If it only comes up as an ad, I keep searching. With me it's almost irrational, stemming from when long commercial breaks would interrupt cartoons and movies I watched. Ironically, I am building a mobile app that's going to be ad monetized (well, at least the free version will be). I suppose that makes me hypocrite.

At the same time, I think I'm not alone. There's just something dreadful about having your decision making so directly influenced. It's sort of a "why are you trying to push this thing on me? Is it not good enough to stand on its own merit?" I believe that when I need something, I will find it and do my own research. This is why I also never put much value in Facebook. Who clicks on those ads? Aren't you just there to socialize?

Edit: I should say that I am aware enough to realize that there are much more subtle form of marketing that definitely do influence me. If a person I respect gives something a good review, for example, I will be more likely to buy it. If a company has a good story to tell about themselves, that makes me think highly of them. If it's a product I've seen on Shark Tank I'm more likely to consider it because I'm more familiar with what they do. Ads are just too obvious about it for me.
How about using affiliate links for products that are relevant to your audience? E.g. books about programming, hardware, etc...
Skype is so rarely down that this did take me by surprise. Obviously they've been doing something right. Every other service that I use, even electricity, has been down more often. Heck, my favourite games are down every week, even every day.
Here's another recent article about the unsavory practices of Kaplan's for-profit university.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/education/10kaplan.html
The idea that writing an idea down reduces stress is one of the cornerstones of Dave Allen's Getting Things Done. He calls the unwritten items that nag at you "open loops". One important follow-on idea that that the ideas must be written down in a "trusted system": if you aren't absolutely confident that you will be able to find it when you go looking (or, better, that it will be brought to your attention when needed whether or not you remember to look at that moment), you won't stop worrying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done
Last year had quality entries, and I'm pretty sure the grand prize was the same.

You can see last years entries here:
http://nycbigapps.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
OpenX hasn't innovated in a long time. 99% of their resources have gone into their paid service.

They have a lax security culture.

We've migrated towards DFP. http://www.google.com/dfp/info/sb/
False. You don't just make up something and call it a fact.

http://stopthedrugwar.org/speakeasy/2010/jul/13/medical_mari...
http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/pressrel/marijuana_index.htm...
http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=13589480
http://www.canorml.org/news/fedmmjcases.html
This is because many people asked us for ideas for the contest. It's a sample app built from the ground up.
Calm down. I'm not trying to attack anyone, just stating what I'm observing. I'm not saying anything about whether or not it's morally right or wrong.

While I agree that person I heard from on TV is a nut, she's a rather prominent figure among the feminist movement in the middle east (Nawal El Saadawi).

In the west, marriage is the last step after a long long relationship. In the middle east, it tends to be the first step. This already suggests that marriage is much less important than it used to be, and I can only see it getting less and less important as time goes on.
And many times it makes it less readable.

Beautiful and efficient are orthogonal terms. They are pretty much independent.
> why a huge red button instead of green or any other color?

Red has been known to outperform green: http://blog.performable.com/631526233/
From now on, this sentence will appear in all the job descriptions I write:

> We'd like someone who isn't all "durrrr" when they look at Photoshop.
Absolutely none of the replies have addressed the fact that there is such a huge feature and quality disparity between iOS apps and Android apps that are clearly the result of resources alloted to each app.

And then commenters here, indict the platform because of it. This is illogical and I don't understand it. And people keep down voting me without any discussion. It's the pathetic fanboyism I expect elsewhere.
It seems to me that in case such as this the ones who ban the book haven't really read it. Anyone who reads "Brave New World" and actually thinks about it will see its true message, and anyone who reads "Huck Finn" and actually thinks about it won't find its use of the word "nigger" objectionable.

The problem is that it is easier to jump to a conclusion than it is to stop and think.
I agree completely about search quality, as my comment history here and elsewhere might indicate. The majority of my Google searches anymore return very low quality results without some serious query mangling or heavy filtering. At this point I too skip Google completely as much as possible and go straight to the "niche sources".

People like Matt Cutts at Google unfortunately don't seem to care about the extent low-quality sources have gamed Google - Cutts is still even defending Mahalo as far as I know.
The Mongoid docs are really pretty: http://mongoid.org/docs/installation/

People either love or hate the Ruby docs - I like them, personally. I never have issues finding what I need. http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/

I also like the rdoc.info stuff. It's a bit spartan, but it's usable, as long as the gem author actually included documentation. http://rdoc.info/github/mislav/will_paginate/master/frames
The effect of you dying from terrorism is not the same as the effect of you dying from backscatter radiation.

From a utilitarian standpoint, the chance of dying from something is not the most important factor in deciding where to put resources.

I'd also say, the neither of these numbers can be known in any accuracy right now, and there would be fast disagreement on any guess at what they might be.
I didn't read it that way, and I don't see why someone would.

In fact, I don't see any critique of your views in this comment. The comment is entirely a rewording and expansion of the original comment.

I think you're confusing the comment reading as if torture should be punished with the comment reading as if you think torture should be unpunished. That is, you're reading a comment that disagrees with you, and assuming that it implies you hold the opposite side.

I don't think you think torture should go unpunished. However, you seem to think that saying the justice system is corrupt because it punishes Brown while not punishing torturers implies that Brown should go unpunished. This is not the case either, and the original commenter need not believe that. The systematic corruption of the justice system is clear no matter what your views on Brown's guilt in this matter happen to be.

Can you say why it is you think the original comment argued in favor of not prosecuting car theft? So far you don't seem to have done so, but responded by asking why anyone wouldn't think so, which doesn't explain why you think so.
I am very emphatic that my ethics are of paramount importance.

On the other hand, I'm not having much luck getting a job, or even a consulting contract, so I'm developing a business that will get its money through crowdfunding.

Consider that even Snowden wants to come home; he's not asking not to be prosecuted, only that he gets a fair trial. So he fully expects to go to prison.

Sometime, my stand on ethics really gets me down. But there are lots of other times that I do not regret it.
I think you are being a little unfair to Keynes here.
Printing money doesn’t make people think that there are more goods and services. Money is a real thing, is a medium of exchange and there is a demand for it. If you have not enough supply of it the economy suffers.
Also, it’s deserved to note that the preferred Keynesian way of stimulating the economy is by fiscal policies (investing from the government), and not by “printing” money, but that is not possible in Europe or the States because politics.
> A fairly easy way to introduce rotation invariance in DCNNS is to perform random rotations on the inputs during training. Likewise for scale invariance.

It is a bit silly to call these invariances, as different filter/kernel combinations will be activated when a rotated or scaled input is encountered, the individual filters are not rotation or scale invariant. The entire network can only deal with rotations and scales it encountered during training, whilst having to learn 'redundant features' to a certain extent.

It will get the job done for many tasks, but it's a brute force sort of approach that will complicate the learning process (i.e. more scales and rotations require more filters, thus needing a more complex network that is harder to train).

I think there's definitely a lot that can be learnt from (classical) signal processing in order to come up with a much more elegant and efficient solution.
TL;DR: Google joins an Indian telecom operator association against Net Neutrality and has so far refused to comment on the matter.
Poe's Law definitely applies here.
http://i.imgur.com/0c1fGpR.jpg
"How about an experiment - I'll hold up an anti government sign in front of the French parliament, and you do the same in Tiananmen Square and we'll see how much control the Chinese gov has ;)"

Actually, i did just that 10 years ago, in front of the elysee ( white house french equivalent), alone, american style with my street sign ( although i didn't shout any sligan, i remained silent), and one policeman asked me my ID, went somewhere with it, gave it back to me, and told me to leave, saying "this is is not the US here".

But, yeah, nothing else happened. I wasn't beaten up or followed or spyed upon after that.
The fact they're not speaking English is not relevant, so I think this just boils down to "having to hear other languages makes me uncomfortable". If you just didn't want to have distracting talking happen around you, then you would not have included the bit about the languages. Simply from a distraction standpoint, foreign languages that sound nothing like English are probably better, since you lose your ability to eavesdrop.
I like project billing, but the upside of time & materials billing is that your time gets a fixed valuation at the beginning of the project. Project billing puts you on the hook for things that come up unexpectedly during the project.

Both are better than hourly billing!
I would be cautious in making the conclusions. Technically, it's quite trivial to implement precisely what you say is impossible.

How: give the private key of an RSA keypair to US Govt; use the public key of that keypair on the clientside to encrypt the key that is used for the symmetric encryption of the contents of the file.

The employee on the other end will be able to see the metadata, but he will not be able to access the contents.

The authorized government agent, on the other hand, would be able to read the file - he will have to subpoena dropbox to get the encrypted file data, and RSA-encrypted bulk encryption key, which they decrypt on their side.

What do you think ?

(As for my 2 cents on the story - someone claiming to be concerned with security who is not performing their own encryption of the data using the standard algorithms, tools and processes needs to rethink how concerned they are really).
Apple's CFArray does some of this. It can have different implementations depending on the number of elements in it.[1] I don't think it observes the usage pattern yet.

[1]: http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2005/12/23/array/
"Has anyone told these Westerners that not all porn is the same, and that paying a premium for things you'll really enjoy is what drives most of the world's economy?"
Yea, but if you live too long you're competing for resources with your offspring and lessening their chances of survival.
Maybe seeing the ad while they're looking at porn will give them a subconscious fetish for your toothbrush brand.
I wasn't aware the whole country had total 5G coverage. It's nice to know it has. Presumably you've included the millimetic bands as well?
I have zero doubt there any plenty of people that use Reddit primarily for porn. Consider that perhaps not everyone you know talks openly about their porn habits.
This brings up an oddity of bitcoin: storing gold costs money, property has upkeep. Endgame (non-inflationary) bitcoin is free to store, at the cost of people actually using it. The other oddity is it's not clear what would happen if no one traded it for n days. At some point, miners shut down, and because of how specialized mining hardware is, the currency might collapse.
I've had some issues on some restrictive network where DoT wouldn't go through, but DoH did.

I wished both were supported at the OS level.
The landlord doesn’t get to deduct expenses on their own residence. They can deduct expenses on other people’s residences for sure, but one end or the other is taxed at 30%. The landlord isn’t coming out ahead unless they are able to fudge numbers on their taxes in the confusion of their more complicated tax return. They can also deduct 25k in losses over rental revenue from personal income given lots of rules (like you can’t make more than $100k to get the full deduction and it phases out after $150k).
I wanted to know what hedge funds were in the bucket to see how they were doing.

But, "Both parties of this bet have agreed upon an adjudication methodology that has been approved by Long Bets. They have asked that it be kept confidential."

Doh!
There is someone at the door:

https://twitter.com/shambaig/status/1366166302956675075
Smalltalk, obviously.
I’m 39 going on 20. The other two co-founders involved in this start up are 49. They are extremely intelligent and the experience they bring to the table is invaluable. I know there is something to be said about youthful exuberance but experience has to factor in somewhere.

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." -- Mark Twain
I wonder whether hospitals could use something like this. Pipe in air from outside to the helmets of healthcare workers. Everyone needs to be tethered, which is pretty annoying, but maybe doable?

Maybe you could make one out of a snorkel mask (like one of the dodgy full-face ones: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07BP6CTBQ/) and a vacuum cleaner?
Thanks for posting. I’ve done diaphragm breathing exercises for sports training and meditation. How does using these inspiratory/expiratory devices strengthen the lungs? Isn’t the action just strengthening primarily the diaphragm and some chest muscles used in breathing? How many minutes training per day would you recommend for healthy people? And how much does the Pflex sell for? Site makes you request to order and collects a lot of info.
I'm not much aware of details, but it seems it's thriving here in Brazil.
I think the point is that, there is a bureaucracy to fight. Sometimes units can simply do what needs done, other times they'll need resources and get them, and other times then need resources and not get them.

But you can bet no high ranking officer in Saddam Hussein's army was successfully "fighting the bureaucracy" to get things through.
>And yes everyone breathes the wrong way, we pull in stomach when inhaling which is supposed to be otherway round, I know it's surprising to hear that we are breathing wrong. if you want the proof just notice a child breathing that's the most natural form of breathing

Interesting as in martial arts the kiai is from the base of the stomach clenching with a breath out.

More so as I breath in via the chest not the stomach, not given that much thought, though did a lot of competitive swimming and that may of played a part, not something I considered.
my tutor friend probably has a temporary problem. as soon as remote school gets going, I'm sure she'll be able to convince her clients to pay for remote tutoring.

but as a social worker, you can end up making house calls to some very dysfunctional (or at least, the opposite of tech savvy people). a lot of these people simply can't figure out how to do video calls reliably; they might not even own a computer or have a mobile plan with enough data for video. sometimes the social worker is helping them perform physical tasks.
Pretty sure some Waffle Houses are closed, so panic time may have finally arrived.

Apparently FEMA no longer uses the Waffle House Index, in any case.
Do you think the resulting meshes are amenable to auto-decimation tools? Also (directed to the previous poster), while VR applications sound cool, i must admit my interest really lies in improving the asset generation tools themselves. The work done in the original post is super inspiring, I'd love to see a more robust asset generation pipeline built up from tools like that.
> Sure as hell beats a bunch of people in the same supermarket breathing all over the produce and right on the cashier

Fred Meyer, at least, allows you to buy a whole list of groceries and they will bag it all up and meet you outside in the parking lot. Not a bad way to limit exposure.

Not everyone has FM, obviously, but I'm sure there are equivalents across the country. I'd start by checking any Kroger or Kroger subsidiaries.