skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but they expect you to pay and they'll reimburse you. Not saying it never happens any other way, but that's the only way I've ever seen it done.
Now I'm confused because FINCA themselves launch studies to understand their impact. Shouldn't they be countering data-based arguments with data-based arguments?

From the article they link to FINCA's own internally developed study [1] which at first glance seems to have reasonable metrics [2]. Why not use those to assess whether you believe independent research methods and data were properly developed and analyzed?

As a side note, I like how AQR handles similar criticisms and releases Cliff's Perspectives [3] which use data and logic to evaluate arguments for or against their own or competitive portfolio strategies.

[1] http://www.finca.org/files/2015/06/FINCA-MasterCard-From-Int...

[2] http://imgur.com/eaUGNCH

[3] https://www.aqr.com/cliffs-perspective
> The caveat, of course, being that not everyone in these cities will be covered.

Nor will there ever be universal coverage in those cities. It'll be Fios all over again. (Assuming that ATT even actually deploys the service and this isn't just a zero-cost feint to prevent our City Supervisors from inviting Google Fiber into the city.)
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I wonder if capital-gains tax applies to Bitcoin? I'd think it would. And it's quite large, too.
We did something similar at Netflix. We had all the aggregations but also stored all the raw data. The raw data would be pushed out of the live system and replaced with aggregates and then stored as flat text in S3. If for some reasons you needed the old data, you just put in a ticket with the monitoring team to load the data back into the live system (I think this is even self service now).

The system would then load the data from S3 back into the live system via Hadoop. Turns out it was pretty cheap to store highly compressible files in S3.
From what I read on other sources, he is under investigation for tax issues by the ATO for a number of years now.

Perhaps the ATO felt they need to move quickly when news broke out (suggesting he is the BitCoin creator), to secure his assets before they are transferred / moved.
Excellent article and reporting! I’m actually not surprised at all of such a blatant security risk. This is something to be expected from a shared computer on a retail floor with a few shifts a day using the same terminal. I’m actually shocked that this was not exploited earlier.
Perhaps it's just me, but I find the - repeated - attempted unmasking of a cypherpunk nym adopted with good cause and reason for the creation of a very disruptive technology terribly disrespectful, although perhaps inevitable.

"Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask." (Well I can see that.) "Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is." [-V, 2005]
In this thread people stress how it is important to learn new things.
And then how showing interest in a new thing (Machine Learning) is a red flag.
Go figure.
> Many of the reviews arrived in a matter of minutes, and all were left without comment.

I think the example is misleading. It confirms many people's beliefs that they they can detect fake reviews based on characteristics like length, quality of the writing, etc. But anyone who notices those characteristics, and many people do, could write a much more sophisticated fake review. From what I understand, there are plenty of services that will do that.
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Everyone still is trying to work around the fact that you can't believe what random unknown people say, either in a bar or on the Internet. There is no solution; just stop believing it.
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An rnns success is related to, and determined by the programmers model of the space.
I like the docking concept, but you really can't trust input devices you don't own.
Perl has distinct operators for string concatenation and numeric addition (as well as string comparison/numeric comparison):

$ perl -E 'say "plus: ", 1 + "1"'
plus: 2
$ perl -E 'say "concat: ", 1 . "1"'
concat: 11

There is some type funkiness: a Perl variable can have both string and numeric components. However, which one is in use is only a problem in serializers (JSON, etc.) -- in normal usage you can rely on choosing the right operator for the type at hand.
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Yep, the Australian Tax Office recognizes it as a commodity that's subject to capital gains taxes.
And doesn't allow you to take permanent residence and a job? Also, that's likely $70 he doesn't have.
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a bit easier with less scale; otherwise identically to today.
Almost 4 years later than this article, I still don't have a good way to store my 1's and 0's.

There's a lot of good software solutions, but you can't find reasonably priced motherboards / sata extension cards with enough sata ports to accommodate a lot of disks.

I need to store between 20 and 30 TB. I have a lot of 2 TB disks that I can't gather in a single machine where everything could be centralized.

Buying 4TB (even worse with 6 or 8 TB) disks is too expensive (let's not forget the cost of redundancy).

So I have a mismatch of (non) "solutions" : hard raid on my desktop, a lot of non redundant external hard drives and a small NAS that backs up the really important stuff. It's not a satisfying solution but I can't resolve myself to throw more money at it : I would need probably more than a month salary (admittedly I don't have a decent salary but still) to build something centralized.
I'm not sure about that. A newborn first learns to recognize shapes, then starts exploring its environment using hand-eye coordination. It learns the rules of gravity by watching and feeling. It has a few inborn reflexes, like looking for the source of milk right after birth, but the physics engine seems very much a learnt thing. Also it seems the fundamental physics laws can easily be learnt by a system like the brain (we can even do it with artificial neural nets). Visual cortex seems to be similarly simple. Only for understanding language we have been missing a couple of pieces to the puzzle. That seems still like a miracle.
Disclaimer: anecdotal evidence.
> ...and next the public could debate the issue of banning indoor e-cigs from a position of knowledge.

I very much want to live in a world where the public debates issues from a position of knowledge, rather than positions of deliberate ignorance motivated by tribalistic passions. :(
Indeed, old-school hypothermia is so much easier to treat.
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https://stripe.com/blog/pricing-update-for-europe

Down across all Europe.

Not really surprising considering the EU limited card interchange fees to 0.2% for debit and 0.3% for credit cards.

Actually a bit surprised it's not down further.
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Such a shame. I first learned about him and his work in 180 South [1], which really made me appreciate what he was doing to create and protect the park. Definitely worth a watch. It was actually one of my life goals to learn Spanish so that I would be eligible to go down and volunteer with him. Here's hoping the conservation effort stays strong.

[1] http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1407927/
> We have rpm, deb, pkg, pkgng, etc as system packaging formats.

Those are all general binary distribution formats: they copy certain files as root to a predefined position in the file system and execute code as root. Not at all the use case for this: Downloading library source files that are needed for building something as a user.

It actually also uses pre-existing things: "a package is a git repository with semantically versioned tags, that contains Swift sources and a Package.swift manifest file at its root."
It's possible, but there's also some annoying bootstrapping costs for starting a company (yes, even a consulting company) that can make it a hard thing to do if you don't have any money or access to credit.

I put everything on my credit card to start mine, I doubt he has that luxury.
Doing work over SSH isn't something I enjoy doing as developer.

I side with Xerox PARC in how a software development environment should look like.

I know many like to work like on a PDP-11, but for me that is only for time travel or server administration purposes.

I had my share of teletypes since the 80's, plus remote work on the go while traveling across Europe isn't something that I would recommend.
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Fellow Australian here (albeit currently living in Tokyo).

The "We create tax refunds" part of your homepage says that a company can get a tax refund even if there is no sales.

Does this mean that if I establish a company tomorrow, invest $100k of capital, and spent $100k of capital on R&D, then the ATO will give my company $45k?
This sounds like standard operating procedure in politics. The only surprise here (if there's any surprise at all) is that academics aren't at all immune to the same corruption.
> The common wisdom

From the perspective of your lungs it's most certainly more healthy.

There are numerous studies indicating that THC could be a neurotoxin, such as this[1] recent one (conversely there is evidence to suggest that CBD may be a neuroprotector). Vaping marijuana typically results in higher dosages of cannaboids, especially with paraphernalia such as a volcano.

A logical deduction of the two shows that THC could be extremely unhealthy if vaped. There is no evidence one way or another to suggest that CBD may or may not specifically counteract the neurotoxicity of THC, but I have myself stopped vaping sativas and only vape the cheaper stuff.

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24118193
> it seems to be a popular position that people are not really innocent until proven guilty

Shouldnt that be instead: "people are somewhat guilty until proven innocent" based on the links you shared?
You're too old. You have a criminal background. You're too overeducated. We think you'll sue. You're too young.

It seemed that companies are loathed to take risk on employee. At the same time, lot of environments contained toxic working conditions, so it's not clear if their choice of employees matter much.

But people must find a job to keep themselves afloat or depend on someone having a job. It didn't matter if you're bad at social grace or if you have mental illness or if you're a felon, old or young.

Without food, shelter, and peace of mind, I think people would be hard pressed to be economically productive.
It really isn't. A close associate of mine had a government official back out of a contract he signed (in the government's name) in a way that was so legally clear that it would have resulted in a summary judgement had it been anyone else. His lawyer advised him not to bother unless he could afford to pay the legal fees for a decade long court battle.
> Win32 is good enough so why would a developer port their app to UWP when the first two legs are either unavailable or have a very small install base of customers?

All the new APIs since Windows 8 are only available in WinRT.

For example, the upgrade path to MFC is XAML, which is only available for WinRT applications.
The three body problem though is famous for having no solution in terms of basic functions. I think for your planets model you must have been making different assumptions than in the article.
They reimburse, you need the money upfront.
If you print another brick, what happens to the old brick? Another piece of trash for landfill?
Given that the cause of death was hypothermia was someone at the the guardian having some fun with that headline???
They lost the war on technology long ago. What happened after was just inevitable.
This is why I am doing a Supply Chain Management degree despite 30 years as a programmer and when ingot here my faculty said there's a likelihood I can do a paid PhD if I get a 1st.
This is part of the larger tech hiring culture of "it's better to miss hiring someone good than to hire someone who might be bad." The guy in the story is hit especially hard by this, but HR's paradigm of fear/incompetence/inability to manage people after they're hired is a big piece of it.

It's not ever easy for someone classified as an ex-con to get a job, but tech discriminates more than most other professions.
I doubt that this [very] clever person would put his bitcoins at risk of a seizure at his/her home
would have

I know you probably don't think much of it, but it really makes your message much harder to read than it should be.
Especially for non native english speaker, where we have the split second where we have to think "Okay, why is there a 'of' here ? Is it a new construct, or simply a mistake?"
Silicon Flotilla? I like the sound of that. We should get a tax lawyer to weigh in too.
I don't imagine Satoshi bragging like this douche does.
> So... this was a tax raid? Quite a harsh response, considering the rules were drafted 12months ago...

You're making very ambitious assumptions that the tax raid is related to the rules that were drafted 12 months ago.

I'd bet significant sums of money that he isn't in trouble for creating bitcoin. Its more likely to be some other action he has done, possibly with bitcoin.
Might be more of a risk management move than anything regarding Australian legislation. AUSTRAC (in charge of supervising compliance of the The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act) put out a release in September regarding the closure of bank accounts: http://www.austrac.gov.au/media/media-releases/statement-bit...
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I wrote a more generic solution to this kind of problem recently, which I run as a service:

https://github.com/ianmiell/alert-on-change/blob/master/READ...

It's probably more suited for the programming types.

For example, you can do a 'raw' GitHub request to determine when a particular file has changed.
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Cites specific research that supports their belief. Does not cite any of the research that suggests microloans do in fact work.

And anyway, if they successfully make a business out of making loans to people that would otherwise not have access to loans, while not negatively impacting those people: good for them.
Repeat after me "I will not disrupt the NWO."
Innovate they say.
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True, however I don't doubt that there are [very] stupid people who think it would be a good idea to break in to his house to steal hard-drives/computers in case they have bitcoins on them.

And it looks like the ATO doesn't doubt that either and wants to protect evidence from its ongoing investigation.
Wrong guy, Satoshi Nakamoto is Swiss.
Top quality cringe.

How can anyone watch this video and not see that it's a braggart looking for some fame?
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Kudos for getting a 'rickroll' into a conversation about linguistics!
Ni no kuni is quite close. You should try it.
Anyone know if Niantic is still part of Alphabet or if it's spun off completely ?
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If you are going to hire a lawyer, you should be more interested in their knowledge of case law rather than how well they memorize statutes.
To be completely fair PyCharm is darn good with Python.
PyLint will get you to quite comfortable place as well.

Thanks to this thread I just discovered the state of type hinting in Python 3.5.1 and I am super excited.

I can imagine working on huge code base and having a beef with Python but being a Java developer I think that would be using the tool incorrectly. The reason why I am saying this is that in Java world we (or some of us) work on large projects, we have multi-module projects with millions lines of code.

Whenever I think about Python project, I like to think that I would build series of small, independent modules. Maintain them separately. Thus limiting burden of dynamic language. In Java/JVM land you can achieve the same with small JARs. But we often don't (for various reasons).

TL;DR: There are more than decent tools for Python. Java =/= Python. Development approach matters.
I had such a disappointing experience with Triplebyte. I take their automated test and everything is hunkydory. After that they gave me a very ambiguous technical interview live-coding session without an interviewer. It seemed like an unreleased feature or a trial a/b test variant. Even now I go back and they've removed every reference to a "programming challenge"!

Anyway, the problem involved writing a tree generation/traversal along with a little equation parser and a lot of string parsing (I think, at least). I was really uncomfortable because while it said "we will run this code" I didn't know what their expectations where (In what environment are they going to run the code? Is underscore ok? They said "you can't use built in eval" so do they really want me to write my own eval? Do they care if I look on stackoverflow for string parsing stuff?). I only had an hour for a difficult problem and I spent most of the time wondering what they really wanted and stressing out about little details that wouldn't consume ten seconds of thought on the job.

I've interviewed a lot and I'm pretty confident from a lot of experience whiteboarding code or typing up an answer on the spot in interviews, so this was very frustrating and I found it to be disrespectful of my time.
So, do you manage cocoapods or carthage for your iOS/OS X developers right now?
Go away and rant how all languages except one your favourite should be banned, because that would make ops job so much easier. Though I am still not sure what ops are doing on developers' machines.
> The millennials think outside the braces.

Please don't generalize. You have not been elected to represent all millennials.
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6y old? 3DS.
No one is suggesting using it as a system package manager, least of all Apple.

It distributes source code and the audience is developers wanting to integrate that into their projects at build time.

Using something like RPM or DEB for that task would be, uh, suboptimal.
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Beautiful! Much as I dislike Stephen's self-aggrandizing style of presentation, it would be lovely to be taught this way. It (the language and environment) is functional, has real examples that readily lend themselves to visualization, has extensive databases of useful real world data ... there's no wasting time on pointer arithmetic or reversing strings.
This guy is sending my bullshit detector off the charts.

I'll bet that the story here will turn out to be that he's built a backstory around being Satoshi in either an attempt to get famous, or some fraudulent scheme to profit from it.

On reading the tax stuff, I'm wondering if he's told the Australian Tax authorities that he is Satoshi.
Additionally, the US Navy has funded research into how dolphin sonar sensing and released a report in 1998 that demonstrated the generation of 2D images using "back projection acoustic tomography" of "synthetic dolphin signals". It's worth a read if you want to build your own DIY sonar system :)

I include it here because the work suggests dolphin echolocation pulses may contain sufficient information for dolphins to form something like a mental image of an object, although whether or not they actually do so is unknown. (They cite a 1995 paper by the lead author of the other paper I referenced, but not the potentially more-conclusive 1998 work).

"Tomographic Image Reconstruction of MCM Targets Using Synthetic Dolphin Signals", R. Altes, P. Moore, and D. Helweg. 1998. Accession Number: ADA337008, PDF Url: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDo...

"Extra information from elevation can be used to adaptively improve focusing and to construct a 3-D surface that represents the physical shape of an object as it would be perceived with vision. Such a surface is different from a representation of reflectivity as a function of position, and it allows direct comparison with visual representations (e.g., photographs) of objects. A visual analogue would be very useful to an animal that tries to perform sensor fusion by combining spatially registered feature maps from vision and echolocation. There is some speculation that dolphins may be capable of such a vision-like target representation (Pack & Herman, 1995), although the issue of the cognitive representation of targets formed by echolocating dolphins remains open to debate (Heiweg et al., 1996; Harley et al., 1995; Roitblat et al., 1995), and the lay concept of "seeing with echolocation" remains unsubstantiated. However, a vision-like target representation is well-suited to human observers and could have application to improvement of MCM performance."

The synthetic images are pretty neat. If you want to check them out but avoid the pdf, here is an imgur of the paper's figures: http://imgur.com/a/RLqF8
>> if it's so massively parallel, why do I read your comment left to right one word at a time?

For fun, I once had two friends speak to me simultaneously, one in each ear. We swapped places and did that to each other a few times. Result: nope, our language understanding unit is not parallel. You can either take in a wall of sound, OR focus to a string of words and understand its meaning. It might feel like you can almost do both at the same time and pick up two different threads of conversation at the same time, but it's always just beyond your reach. At best you can swap between threads quickly, if the conversations permit it (so forget it both/all conversations are rapid-fire and heavy with nuance etc).

I also note that our language generation units are not parallel. We can utter one syllable at a time. So maybe there's not much point in understanding multiple syllables at a time?
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