skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I DO think Python libraries can do this already.
The linked Bloomberg article has a hilarious quotation at the bottom:

> Exploring odd things isn’t likely to help SAP attract more cloud customers in the short term, says Bill Hostmann, an analyst at researcher Gartner. “What SAP really needs is more execution,” he says. “A lot of people took inspiration from PARC. Did Xerox directly benefit from that? Not really.”

Bill Hostmann has no clue. Xerox got the laser printer out of PARC, which ended up as a multibillion dollar business for them.
It was 25 years ago. They didn't have either of those problems then.
And they IPOd for what, a little over $100mn?

An internet-connected connected, cat-enabled, SaaS, Bootstrap-themed, social, app that does something, anything, can realistically imagine those numbers.

Certainly, from today's perspective (and at the time), these were internet heavyweights. I write this using Firefox, to whom Netscape was a direct ancestor. Visionary.
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Is the US any better? There are so many vague, complicated, broad and contradictory laws that the government can do anything it has decided and find justification for it SOMEWHERE.

Edit: Talking strictly about constraints put on the government.
How Hacker News could help save an innocent man from life in prison
A few months ago, I stumbled upon a Dateline NBC episode about a clean-cut Iraq-war veteran and father of four who inexplicably murdered an 18-year-old girl he had never met before. When I finished watching the show, I was confused: How did police prove he was the killer?

As far as I could tell, the only thing he was guilty of was hearing gunshots, calling for help, and then trying to assist detectives. If you have 40 minutes, google "The Girl With the Blue Mustang" and see for yourself.

I decided to start my own investigation. What I discovered is the single worst miscarriage of justice I have ever heard about in a first-world country. For the last ten years, Sergeant Ray Jennings has been serving a life sentence, even though there is gunshot-residue and DNA-testing that proves he is innocent, as well as eyewitness testimony that another, unidentified man fled the scene of the shooting while Jennings was radioing his own location to the responding officers so they could arrive as quickly as possible.

Today, I sent the District Attorney this comprehensive refutation of the State's case: http://docdro.id/Qr6auC7

I'm posting it on Hacker News because I want to crowdsource ideas for how to make the arguments even more persuasive. Which parts did you find convincing? Can you think of any arguments I should add?

Please do not post the link elsewhere, because right now a huge outcry on social media would be counterproductive. The better way to express your support is to actually send a message to Ray in his cell using Letterquick.com.

He barely ever hears from people who understand he is innocent, so it would really raise his spirits to know that a bunch of smart people are brainstorming how to free him.

His address is: Raymond Jennings
Inmate ID AD0123, Block D1, Cell #222
PO Box 931
Imperial, CA. 92251
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If you want a long period of constant wars between nations, yes, please go ahead and ask for taking away the primacy of the US.

In simplest terms, gang wars break out when there's no strong leader on top. When a strong leader is killed/arrested, others will try to muscle their way to the top. Same story will take place if US loses the primacy.
While this is a good point along with hiding cereals, leaving fruit in view, using red plates and other proven tricks it does smack a little of the "quick hack".

They're all good things do to but if you want to lose weight you need to move more and eat better.
I hope this starts happening to more, even "higher-level" politicians and government officials. Only then, when they experience it firsthand, will they realize just how crazy they've allowed things to become. Then -- maybe -- we'll start to see changes being made.
The black stuff from diesels is soot, not smog. Soot is just unburnt carbon. The term 'smog' covers a whole manner of nasty chemicals, mostly oxides of nitrogen and sulfur.

Soot is relatively harmless compared to smog. A diesel producing soot is running rich and therefore is arguably cleaner than a "clean-diesel" running lean and pumping out oxides. Those carbon-belching trucks are far better for your lungs than the smoke-free VWs pumping out N0x. Beware the pollution you cannot see.
It's a common theory certainly, that the so-called petro dollar is the reason the USD is dominant.

However the US had the world's largest economy by about 1890 or so. At that point it was already significantly far ahead of the classic (and much older) powers France and Germany. It didn't require the global petro dollar to accomplish that.

Oil has become less important in the last 40 years, while the dollar has remained stubbornly in place as the reserve standard. We're now within ~20 years of a large scale switch to electric vehicles for instance, and the dollar is doing the opposite of quaking in its boots.

Possessing ~45% of all global wealth is far more powerful as a lever, than having the petro dollar. The US has the world's richest corporations, its richest citizens, the world's largest middle class, the #2 manufacturing economy, the top universities, the highest total scientific and invention output, and remains extremely innovative with a high level of productivity - while having 320 million citizens generating a massive tax base and GDP.

I understand the arguments about the importance of the petro dollar. I don't agree that it's nearly as important as supporters of that theory project.
While your statement about payment promptness is correct, people with good scores tend to save more than others (scores do not use savings or income or wealth into account, however).

Credit scores only penalize you when you don't have any credit but most of these good score folks tend to have (or had) a mortgage or have had auto loans, etc. Just because they are not actively opening new accounts does not mean they will be penalized -- credit scores look at pretty much everything in your report and they get credit for their historical good behavior.

Another thing to consider is that good credit scores leads to a positive cycle: you don't pay high interest rates on your loans and the extra money saved here allows you to pay down obligations faster, which in turn allows you to save more in the long run.
I get more than a little bit worried when I look at the American political circus. The soft power the US once held has now been eroded by the steady stream of WTFs coming out of the country. I think that what most Americans don't realise is that when people threaten to shut down the American government over women's healthcare - the craziness shakes up the risk calculus of the world and people start searching for alternatives. This is bad for America and it's bad for the world.

For the longest time, we've been under a hegemony that was originally far more stable than the world before it. This has helped to bring an unprecedented era of prosperity. The American empire is perhaps the first empire in history where people want to be under its banner as opposed to out in the cold.† But current antics threaten that very tenuous stability that was fought over for so many centuries. It is not without any faults, but out of all the alternatives out there - this is the most peaceful one.

Yes, there are arguments that broadening the base of support will help not hinder stability.ß The fact remains that this is the best system we have found so far and it does actually work. We might even someday have something far more stable than this, but the transition to that is not going to be easy. In fact, I think that on the existential risks meter of the world - stabilising American hegemony should be a priority. It is vital that this system is maintained until a better one emerges to take its place.

People might disagree, but it really is a tragedy that countries and groups now want to overthrow the American hegemony largely due to political missteps at home and a steady disconnect between what it means to be hegemon and the day-to-day of American politics. They've forgotten that their alliances were built upon shaky ground and need upkeep to maintain. And that even the firmest of empires do fall.

† http://www.middlebury.edu/media/view/214721/original/OdomPap...
ß http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2012/02/wo...
I am Australian too :)

We do have credit scores here now, but I have never bother to look into mine (I don’t have any debt other than a credit card which I pay off each month). I think our banks are a bit more holistic when it comes to debt issuing than US banks which seem to be fixated on credit scores.

On the topic of credit scores they are a huge pain if you move to the USA. I remember having a huge problem buying almost everything that required monthly payments (phone, cable, rent, etc) because I did not have a credit score. If someone wants a good business idea start a credit rating agency that is able to rate US immigrants and gives them rational credit scores based on their previous credit history in their country of origin.
Haha DARE. Oh yes, I remember it well -- I got all the stickers you could by giving some bogus talks about God knows what. It made me pretty excited for middle school where I was being trained to Just Say No to all the random kids that would be coming up to me offering me drugs. Of course by the time I got to middle school, my DARE officer had been fired for smoking weed in his pimped out DARE cop car. A few years after that, I would be getting high nearly every day in high school. Great stickers though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umqvYhb3wf4
This is mainly my citation, without digging into the details of what he said.
What about people with no debt? If you own your home and don’t carry any consumer debt then you look like a bad credit risk despite being one of the best risks.
"Inasmuch as it is believable, this is a story about how all our lofty notions of justice, honor, purpose etc. are just bullshit, and it's really all about fucking, consuming and keeping those genes alive."

When we're sad, we often get caught in a sort of mental loop. Sometimes getting attention from a pretty girl steals our attention and helps bump us out of it. It's something about the human condition. It's relatable, and that's probably why people tend to find the story beautiful.

There's nothing inherently good or bad about that. Your disgust is fueled by the same physical processes that underly the warm fuzzies felt by others.
Yeah I figured that might piss someone off, HN doesn't let me down in that regard. Based on my experience with finding levels in the system itself, I thought it might be interesting to see some HN made levels. Or be ignored, that's fine too.

Somehow this seems different than spamming Twitch chat.

It's funny to think of this as "promoting" something though. Not all sharing is promotion.
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I live in Stockholm, Sweden and more or less day care system is same here. My son is 4 years old & he started day care when he was 1 and half. His life is so rich in terms of social activities, learning etc. We absolutely love this system. The money we pay is $130/month and thats the highest a family pay if both parents are working.
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Well yeah, that's why I addressed it in the post you're replying to. Offline key confirmation is still the best bet for most people, it's just that people don't use it because they don't use crypto because crypto tools are awful.
Sorry for a bit off topic coment, but it made me realize that Gattaca consists only of DNA "letters".
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I'm from Spain and I've traveled Europe a bit. Kids here go to school alone since they are 6-8 years old, they take the bus/metro, they do errands alone. That's the norm. It also happens in North Africa and Middle East. And, as the article says, it's the norm in Japan too.

Actually, the headline should read "why are USA little kids the only ones so dependent?"

I could go ahead and be a demagogue and say it's because all the helicopter parenting and the fear mass media... but I think it has more to do with the fact that we can go walking anywhere.

Europeans in general, and Spaniards in particular, live on the streets. We hardly use cars: most things are at walking distance, and public transportation is fine. Real crime, like abductions and violence, is very rare, and people help each other.

Local policemen (non-militarized) are everywhere and they help any lost kids. I have been lost maybe a couple times, in a supermarket and in a foreign city and, while I lament the stress that caused on my parents, they knew that I would turn up at some point. And I did. I was a little kid and I was just... lost. That happens and it's not a huge deal.

I'll turn the argument 180 degrees: the USA is a very, very young country. You know what they say, in Europe, 1000 km is a long distance, and in the US, 1000 years is a long time. We've been living in small cities literally since the dawn of time. We've walked. Many cities have streets where cars don't even fit.

It is mainly a car and culture problem. However, it'd be an improvement if you americans could convince your mass media not to constantly spread fear. We also have those fake-fear-documentaries but most people disregard them for what they are: yellowish press crap.
They can, but it's a balancing act. One that is constantly under threat by advertisement and similar that push the self above all else.

I sometimes wonder if one need to experience real hardship for the idea to set in. To really experience the need for cooperation to get something done.
I agree, calling attention to the statistic is probably better than no mention at all. But I think the site is better with citations, and it does strike me as lazy to ask others rather than providing for others. I don't mean to be too mean about it, but I am confused by the approach. As in, would the site be better or worse if everyone took the same approach?
Except that it might be hard to get shonky with a VW and keep it under the radar.
Companies in America repeatedly charge people $10, $50, $200 or more than they should have, and then you either have to pay to hire a lawyer or pay them. If you don't then you get a bad credit score, and all the other companies that use the credit system will charge you more.

In Austria, credit bureaus like in America are seen as corrupt and criminal. China also doesn't have a central credit bureau.

I feel bad for every american when I hear intelligent people muse about making it more complex. You are just increasing the ability of companies to walk on the poor. This creates a bad bottom end of society, which America suffers from and Austria does not.

America has crumbling cities like Detroit, and it's because of the criminal thieving credit bureau, but here in this thread we have lots of people talking about the credit bureau without even taking civilization into account.
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Mono-cultural areas are areas where nobody wants to move to. These are almost exclusively third-world countries.

The borders of nations are a bad separation or aggregation for cultures, we'd have to look at cultures by themselves and compare results there. But for now the immigrant percentage of the population has to do:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_immigrant...

China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Madagascar, Cuba, Lesotho, Philippines, Burma, Morocco, North Korea, Somalia, Eritrea, Colombia, Afghanistan, ...
That's where you can find regions with pristine mono-cultures.

Comparing these to truly multi-cultural countries like Switzerland, Hong-Kong and Australia I strongly doubt your hypothesis.
It depends on what you mean by 'no debt'. If you mean, they have never ever had a loan then they will most likely not even have a score or a poor one (they will be categorized as a 'no hit' or 'thin file'). Don't have stats top of my head for this group but my hunch is no-hit / thin-file are people with poor access to credit and not many actively avoid debt altogether.

If you mean, they had debt but they paid it all off, then they will still get a lot of credit for it. Credit scores look at your 'oldest tradeline' and maintaining good credit over many years is viewed favorably. Their scores will not be as high as someone who had recent credit transaction and managing it well (all else being equal), however, it will still be very good. If you look at the FICO Score, anything above a 760 or 780 is usually just bragging rights -- it hardly changes your rates on mortgages or loans.
For anyone in a similar situation with online forms seeming an official means, I now screencast myself in basically every transaction.

Shift+PrtSc and done.

Having never much been into recording screens before, this took a while to discover, but is not automatic behaviour.

There are lots of utilities for doing so. I use ShareX (with the above keyboard shortcut configures) and it is the most useful app I never knew I needed. http://getsharex.com/

[So useful, I just submitted it as a link. It took a long time to find and trust anything similar.]
Always really liked this one:

http://i.imgur.com/0xn9DUF.gif
We can only hope. It wouldn't be a very good or strong law if it didn't impact Facebook or Google in a significant way, considering all the freedoms the companies as well as the US government have taken with Europeans' data lately.
Does it help a relationship if you have two non-savers together? As you rightly point out, money problems are major cause of relationship conflict and breakdown, but are these less common if you have two reckless spenders in a relationship rather than just one? I would have thought that having two reckless spenders would just accelerate the process of hitting money problems.
1. Installing software is easy. People do it all the time, it's actually a very mainstream thing now. There are app stores built into most things. People know what apps are, and don't have trouble finding or downloading them.

Installing GPGTools or gpgbanana, or whatever it wants to call itself at present however is hard.

2. Stand on street corner and offer free coffee to anyone who can explain what a keychain is.

3. Last time I checked there was no way to find an arbitrary person's pubkey in GPGTools. What directories does it use?

4. I'd say most use gmail. Mail server headers would back that up.

5. I can fix most with sed. If you see a bunch of equals signs and Unicode values, replace it with the equivalent Unicode character.
> The US has the world's richest corporations, its richest citizens

I do wonder how quickly those would "flag out" if ever the tide turned. Damn it, likely many of them already have wealth stuffed away in offshore accounts.
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> Gratuitous use of autocorrect.

Or the one that drives me crazy; the user sees a squggly-line under a word early in the sentence they have just typed. To back-up to correct it they use backspace to erase the entire sentence back to that word, correct it and then re-type everything again, laboriously slowly.

I have to rise from my seat and look out the window whilst they do so.
See jwz's blog for details on how this actually still works. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/02/seeking-contact-inside-aol/
Let me first thank you for the comment. I try to answer your questions:

1 - RE Software - We have no intentions to transform investing in startups in stock market style investing. As mentioned in the article we use tech in 3 areas one of which is discovery and structure deal flow. We do not believe in automating investment decisions.

2 - Re ZERO management fee - We will announce in few weeks how we made this is possible. I can anticipate that this is a structural chance in the way how we built the firm more than the result of 3 rich boys waking up to the investment fever.
> Is it so important to have a single reserve currency? Couldn't these problems be largely offset with better diversification and less friction in currency trading.

Trade between countries otherwise degrades into complicated barters, which is the problem currencies tried to resolve on tribe/state level.
This is pretty good - probably better than the recent public release of Google's pre-trained Neural Network (based on the ImageNet classes).

It looks like this is using an attention-based model - it seems to generally pick out the most important thing in an image. That's pretty nice.

It would be interesting to know how many classes it is operating on (and where they got the training data!).
There are certainly parallels with the "unstoppable rise of Japan" articles that I remember reading back in the 1980s.

I read an article recently about urban Chinese youth being only interested in money and clothes and not work, that almost exactly paralleled an article I remember reading in about 1990, except s/Chinese/Japanese/g.
That's a good question and I was thinking about the same when I read the paper. I have never investigated this aspect of credit scores in my career so don't really know the answer. My guess is people who have similar score, even if it is bad, probably tolerate each other more than when they have very different styles. I am not sure if the paper looks at this deeply (they seem to only compare differentials and stdev at formation).
I agree the google translate link above pronounces this character very close to 'Arr', however do note the Pinyin (Chinese phonetic system), 'Er' starts with 'E'.

Just for the sake of discussion, here is character that starts with 'A'. See if you feel the difference.

https://translate.google.com/#zh-CN/en/%E5%95%8A
SDRs are an alternative. That's if they can be implemented in time. The US would have done better to give China a seat at the IMF table, but by locking them out it has created a monetary adversary that stands against the SDRs adoption as a global reserve currency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_drawing_rights
The children were never the target audience. Programs like DARE always reflect the wants of those who fund them, not those they try to help. Nancy Reagan and countless othersi power believed abstinence was the best tool for most any vice. So DARE reflected that simple mindset.

My experience of DARE was that it had little to do with drugs. It seemed focused on getting cops into classrooms. The ones who came to our class were always horrible. They openly lied to us about drugs, cars and even the law. We played with them. The goal was to get the cop red-faced mad by asking simple questions. One handed out something he called cocaine, but we instantly discovered was just baking powder.

If any chief is reading this: Do not sent a bicycle cop in spandex shorts to talk to boys wearing blazers and ties.
You only want to fire a callback because that's how you did async previously. In reality, all you want is async.
The beauty of it is that love or just having someone to talk to can change lives and last for decades, no matter the background or what happened to a person. Pretty beautiful if you ask me :)
Wasn't the first UK internet cafe in Cambridge? I think I've been.
That's wonderful stuff. How did you end up reading Punched Cards and what makes it 'seminal'?
I already know that a book on numerical analysis is likely to contain the answer I seek. The point of asking was to avoid a trip to the library since the working memory of someone who has been investigating differentiation techniques also likely contains the answer I seek.