skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One should be able to judge the severity. I was bitten by a small dog once on the middle finger. It swelled up pretty big the next day, started draining puss from the teeth holes, was red and hot to the touch. Had to take some pain pills just to go to sleep that night. Was better in the morning though, so didn't go to ER.
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Why not NetBlazr? They do residential wireless Internet in Boston.
That article literally consists of anecdotal musings from "a strong opponent of social media." It's pretty far from good business reporting.

People have been predicting the collapse of Facebook due to teens leaving since 2010 at least. They have been consistently wrong.
Consider that there are people who are smarter than you. There are people that are better looking than you. There are people who are better at sports than you. For a lot of people in the world, there are people who are better at all of those things than they are. Does it bother them?

Obviously it does for some people, but in the end you are who you are. Whether it is someone else, or even something else, being better is not necessarily as important as you might imagine.

I remember seeing a label on a box of very high quality glassware. It said something like, "The very slight imperfections in this glassware are proof of its hand made nature". We are free to value anything we want -- even something that is objectively inferior.
My brother _is_ most of our economy.

This was my whole point.
Also anecdotally and at a smaller scale, our experience is similar. What Facebook have claimed in their reports appears to match our data from other sources reasonably well.
Right. All of this is true.

But the point of a Basic Income is that it substitutes for other forms of income support/welfare.

That's supposed to increase the incentive to work, because many forms of welfare are income dependent. For example, we often hear reports of parents who refuse to work because they'll lose some or all welfare payments and their wages will be net worse off.

If everyone gets the basic income, then maybe this effect can be overcome. There's some reason to think this could be true - the marginal benefit of $1 extra at low income levels is much more than at higher levels.

It's worth noting that many conservatives support a basic income because of this, and because the system will be much less complicated and reduce the number of government programs.
I'm still seeing "To Read the Full Story, Subscribe or Sign In" when I click on that link, or when I click on the web link at the top of this page as well... strange.

Deleted cookies and all that jazz, too...
i kinda sorta remember dhtml menus and image rollovers. css was not very powerful back in the day. Javascript was the only option.
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I had a dentist tell me I should get my wisdom teeth pulled within the next year.

Next year, same place, different dentist at my regular cleaning. He gave me a clean bill of health. I asked him, "What about my wisdom teeth?"

He said "What about them? Are the bothering you?"

"Well, no..."

"Then you're fine." And he left.
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We don't know what effect basic income would have on GDP, only that it would affect distribution of wealth.

Income equality might rise while GDP falls in a re-distributive system. High GDP does not imply high income equality. That graph is misleading in this context.
I (like others in the comments have said) agree that there is value in this, but as an employee it's not worth it to me to give up so much for just this.

Say one day you figure out that the format of a report Connie gets isn't optimal, but you could do a quick change (1/2 day of work), that means she'll save an hour a month. That's easy to work out the economic benefits of the off chance meeting. But what you can't easily work out is how much time your employees have to waste to get there.
But there are quite a few companies churning out "replica" Ford Cobras, GT40s, Lamborghini Countachs and the like
I don't, but how would the doctor know? I've gone in plenty of times with horrid conditions, hacking up all colors of the rainbow, and barely able to talk. Yet was told it was allergies... My brother-in-law a few months ago had horrid throat pain and swelling. The Doc said it was strep (I think they even did a test too). The antibiotics did nothing. Once his throat got to the diameter of a pencil a few days later, they rush him to the ER. They said it was mononucleosis.
Discussion about a month ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10765562

For the record, I'm pretty sure Theranos is up to something very shady. Spend a couple hours watching just interviews with Holmes and reading the glassdoor reviews by current and former employees and you'll quickly start to piece together some pretty sketchy stuff.

Their glassdoor profile is full of some of the most obviously fake reviews I've ever seen, I wouldn't at all be surprised if about half of them were written by Holmes herself instead of running the company.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Theranos-Reviews-E248889.h...

Here's what I wrote on this about a month ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10765996

I've since spent some time looking into the company and asking some people I know in the industry about the company and the opinion seems to run from "scam" to "gross ineptitude".

Holmes' answers to simple questions are about as mealy mouthed as I've ever heard outside of Congress.
e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBs-oj7U-bo

Something smells really bad about Theranos and it's probably going to ruin a lot of people's careers while a select few are going to walk away with a nice percentage of the VC money in the end. The story on this will probably get caught up in post-Theranos litigation for many many years and I'll probably be retired long before the whole story is known.

The real problem is trying to ascertain motive. Money seems too easy for Holmes to have been working at it for so long. But it could be that simple.
> I'm also using 4Kbit RSA keys, maybe that's the cause, especially given that the server is a tiny Atom HTPC sitting in the kitchen

Yeah, the combination of those two things is very likely to not do you any favors.

It is worth clarifying that Google et al.'s claim that SSL is essentially no overhead is conditioned on the assumption that you're using reasonably modern and full-featured processors, especially with AES-GCM in hardware. (Which is pretty common on laptop processors these days even without trying hard to find it, but probably won't be on an Atom HTPC.) I think that's reasonable, since if you're seriously worried about performance and latency, you're probably starting off with good hardware, and your worry is that investment will go to waste if you turn on SSL. At least for running a web server for fun on an old personal machine, the added latency is real and is unfortunate but I'd guess also not such a big deal. But maybe that's a bad assumption?
It depends on the individual patient.
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While we're agreed on the deficiencies of GDP, the original issue was how economists define growth -- and, well, that's how, and is what Gordon's book addresses.

Mismeasures notwithstanding, to a first approximation, GDP likely works fairly well. Not that it's not the fiat created by banks, but the turnover (revenues) generated in the process which would inflate GDP. Something I've been meaning to look into -- and which will likely upset a maths friend of mine on G+ -- is whether financial sector activity really ought be counted as productive. Much of it I suspect isn't.
In that case, Apple is just a smartphone company and Microsoft is just an enterprise software company.

I understand your motive to label Google as just an advertising company, but just because their monetization strategy is the result of being the best search engine company on the planet doesn't mean you need to belittle their accomplishments.

Additionally, since Apple makes the majority of their money from selling phones it doesn't negate the fact that they were also a "advertising" company up until the day the realized it was a failed venture and wasn't worth sinking more time and resources into. Regardless of Apple's pro-user rhetoric they did exactly what Google did, but were just very unsuccessful at it.
You know that you can just turn that off in the settings, right?
Chrome provides hooks to allow Windows to force extensions into it through Group Policy et al. Good for corporate IT, bad for protecting yourself against malware.

The key insight is that Chrome itself is programmed to have quite-limited permissions—it not only heavily sandboxes itself, but it also does what it can to avoid requesting any powers from the OS that could be used to do damage in the first place, if one were to break out of the sandbox. (This also has the side-benefit that Chrome doesn't need any of those "scary" UAC elevation prompts during installation, which probably helps their funnel to an extent.)

This means that Chrome actually doesn't have any of the permissions required to weed out the GPOs responsible for feeding it malware extensions. Even if the Chrome process wanted to reach out and blow them away, it couldn't. So they created this separate program, that does do "scary" UAC-elevation things, to help out.

(What they could have done is package this program into the Windows Chrome install, make it headless, and make a button in the Chrome settings that would spawn it and then interact with it over IPC, displaying the UI on the Chrome side. They could have, further, made it just-in-time download the component—as, IIRC, Firefox does with its Hello component—which would have eliminated any install-time size overhead to this approach.)
You will want to go here for more information and to network with other groups toward starting a LibreGulag: https://libreplanet.org/

Good luck!
Likewise... F U WSJ. Your articles aren't are THAT special.
What a useless comment.
Krugman's LTG post: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/limits-to-growth...

On Gordon's paper: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/opinion/krugman-is-growth-...
Locks are actually really cheap in many instances; mutexes can Lock and Unlock millions of times per second as long as contention is low.
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There are many good suggestions around how to increase prosperity so far.

Could I make point related to the proposal?

In order for it to be accepted, I think it would be very useful if people could understand the modelling. Obviously this is difficult because economic modelling is pretty hard.

However, a good first step would be to make the model open - and preferably hosted on some kind of notebook-style platform so anyone can change the assumptions are try it.

I'd note that the Fed Reserve's economic models are open[1][2] and frequently updated, so there is some precedent for this.

[1] http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/frbus/us-models-pa...

[2] http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/ifdp/2005/835/revision/if...
Note that by default, Google apps stuff is on a delayed schedule compared to the general public, but you can go into your google apps profile and change to the "Rapid Release" feature deployment, which means you get stuff as soon as the general public does.
Image recognition, language processing might be a good fit here.

I imagine it's on their radar considering all their interest in AI.
This exists via Bloomberg. Their $26k p.a. terminals subsidize the journalism.

I haven't found another general interest news org whose journalists take the time to actually understand the industry they cover. One could argue that it's run by a billionaire politician, yet it stays much less partisan than say, the NYT.

That said, these days the best content comes from single-beat sources.
Why not just put your SquareSpace site behind Cloudflare? Then you get free SSL.
You tell that to all the trust fund kids who go on to build global businesses? You're way off. Fear is a disabler. Many peer reviewed studies prove this.

Stolen from another comment on this page:
>Financial desperation squeezes the cognitive juice right out of you.
In 2013, Harvard researchers did a study of how financial stress affects decision making. Denise Cummins, Ph.D. explains their findings in Psychology Today:
"When the cost of [a car] repair was increased to $3,000, a very different picture emerged: The cognitive performance of those at the upper end of the income distribution was unaffected by the increase. But those at the lower end suffered a 40% decline! The authors interpreted this to mean that scarcity impaired people’s ability to think clearly. The threat—even an imagined threat—of a large bill made it difficult for poor people to focus on the cognitive tasks at hand."
Financial stress impedes human thinking / problem solving. People get consumed by the short term challenges in front of them, and can’t see the big picture.
Sources: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/good-thinking/201309/why...
#GitHubpocolypse is happening now. We all wonder why? How long? What’s next?
Related question: What about VMware/VirtualBox vs qemu-kvm?

Obviously its UI etc is much more raw - I'm curious how it compares performancewise.
Wouldn't the standard 'Like' be sufficient for that?
I remember reading a quote years ago that went something like this:

If you give someone complete freedom to do what they wish 95 percent of the time they will end up attempting to copy the behavior of those around them. (can't remember who said it or where I read it)

I remember thinking that it sounded "spot on"...my opinion hasn't changed much...a couple of generations ago it was called "Keepin up with the Jones's"...keeping up with your neighbors...

Add access to the Internet... An unlimited number of "Jones's" to keep up with...who to emulate now?

Your comment seem relevant, my friend...
It's a hard read. The scans are bad and it reads like a bible lecture. IMHO Lot of "straw men" in there. Paints the founders as being seriously religious (Jefferson was not religious) and the thesis is incomplete. Only goes to page 48 and it's about a 100 pages
I think being difficult "for computers" is a misleading concept. Go is more difficult for our current algorithms than chess, at least in part because we've focused on chess for much longer.

Sooner or later we may discover some new algorithm (this deep-neural-net-based approach may be it) which will reduce Go to be as tractable as chess, or even more so.
Can I please stop seeing shit about poor people on Hacker News? I really do not care.
Supercell, like most big mobile gaming companies, make their money on in-app purchases. Someone leaked SC's internal dashboard 2 years ago [1]. At the time they were making $5M a day in rev just in CoC. You can get App Annie estimates of revenue for other companies pretty easily, but last I checked SC was able to dramatically increase LTV of users over the years so this has likely grown.

[1] https://recodetech.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/supercell-hac...
AWS CM Speeds encryption, but is storing private keys in the cloud a good idea?
This paper studies the effect of a high-frequency market maker entering the Dutch stock market: http://www.amf-france.org/technique/multimedia?docId=workspa...

The trader they study reduced the bid/offer spread and trades 80% passively (he is primarily providing liquidity in the order book for others to trade with). His limit orders are more informative about "hard" news such as changes in the index future price than other traders, meaning he tries to buy stocks that are cheap and sell those that are expensive relative to the overall market, steering them toward their correct prices. This is just a simplistic HFT from almost a decade ago, modern prop traders have teams of researchers building prediction models with many more inputs.

And for all that, he earns a realized spread of 0.72 basis points, before paying for computers and employees. 1 basis point is 1/100 of 1%. That's in 2008, a time when HFT was relatively new and competition was less fierce, margins are considerably lower these days, not like making 0.72 basis points is exactly robbing widows and orphans to begin with. No human would make a market for such low margins, no human could react nearly instantaneously to changes in the index/stock prices to set his quotes, and no human could trade hundreds of stocks at once.

How do you think HFTs cause flash crashes? If you look at the middleman's net position on page 3, he never accumulates more than 10000 shares in one direction, and his position mean reverts every few minutes. How could a trader who primarily trades passively (others choose whether to elect his orders sitting on the book), never accumulates a significant directional position, quotes both buy and sell prices on the order book, and who aims to flatten his trades relatively quickly (whatever selling pressure he could create is quickly turned into buying pressure after he's given a short position) have such a large impact on prices?

I don't think trading off news feeds is a typical HFT trade. Some market makers may use these feeds to get out of the way during announcements. Maybe it's an automated trade for hedge fund types, but it's a high-risk, high-reward infrequent type thing. If a trader is incorrectly predicting prices long enough, they'll lose money and go out of business.
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A big part of this problem was standing. There was no acknowledgment, in fact denial, that these things existed and were being used. It therefore was incumbent on the claimant to prove they existed. But now it's understood they exist, so that finally might work its way through the court system to see whether or not this is a legal search/seizure.
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>Also, I find it amusing you consider drugs unnatural.

Strange, I never said anything like that. I'm simply sharing my story. Yes I am kind of a cheapskate, and I don't like blowing my money on something that I don't get results from. I'm in my 30's, been to the doc plenty of times. Never really felt like it was worth it. But my health is perfectly fine, maybe in 10 years that won't be the case and I'll be forced to like the doc no matter what.
It's this or ads, and everyone's blocking the latter.
3D printing and market forces will take care of raised prices. Cost of production are going down. If company X decides to sell for 100% increase company Y will see an opportunity to undercut and we will continue with our race to the bottom. If no one offers value a new company Z will enter the market and provide it or people will just start manufacturing/growing it at home.

Inflation only occurs with increased supply of new money into the system so whether or not there is inflation depends entirely where the money to pay for BI comes from.
Well there's one I'm involved with atm which is unpublished yet.

But more broadly there are quite a lot of industry and industry-body sponsored ones, eg:

https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/articles/online-video-ads-dr...

http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Mobile-Video-Ads-Lift-Brand...

https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&q=video+ad+expos... will find more.
I'm afraid I don't know -- I read a pdf, and a library hardback for the latter book. That one shouldn't be hard to find from a U.S. library, and would tell you whether you want to delve into the former. (Which I found really interesting, though it's maybe too ready to valorize Ptolemy just because we know so little about his predecessors.)
I've written a few over the last 25 years as well, and it's fun to write something that produces pretty pictures -- like drawing or playing an instrument is fun.

Currently I'm doing a C++ one that describes the model, colour handling and animation etc. using the type system directly rather than a traditional class hierarchy. https://github.com/KayEss/AnimRay
To connect to the internet you must install comcast internet-enhancing-certificate. It's the only way to make all websites secure by default™

No reason to compromise when you can force the user.
Martin Luther King, Jr. touches on Georgism a bit in this writing shortly before his death: http://www.wealthandwant.com/docs/King_Where.htm
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You are conflating major and minor versions of software. Python 2 & 3 and Angular 1 & 2 are major versions that have forward declared breaking changes. If/When Go 2 is released, it will contain language breaking changes.
It's not back to the same problem, there are many ways to do it including but not limited to matching the sells with the lowest floors to the buys with the highest ceilings, working inward from the extremes of the spread. Why are you so convinced that a fair exchange is impossible?
I've seen malware add-ons that add themselves via the Windows registry and are near impossible for a normal user to remove, I've also seen some modify internet behavior by setting malicious DNS servers via group policy. A simple reset of settings will do nothing against these threats.
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Here's an exercise. Go to the App Store, click on Top Grossing. Out of the 150 apps displayed, how many are gaming-related? I counted 113. Thats 75%. I don't have the charts but you can compare this to a year ago period. My guess is that percentage has grown. This is not an accident.
Definitely linear algebra, but also some calculus and some probability theory / statistics. By way of illustration, if you were to go through the Andrew Ng course on Machine Learning, you'll encounter mathematical explanations involving partial derivatives from differential calculus

As it is, he gives you the derivations you need, so you can complete the class without needing to find partial derivatives. But the point is, a certain level of understanding of calculus will help with understanding exactly what is happening.

As for probability / stats, you'll find more than a few uses of probability notation and basic ideas from statistics scattered throughout machine learning.
Should probably mention that when forced his plan was "to initially drop to 80% day job and 20% thing and see how it goes for a few months, and go all in once funded". I see this as a vote of no confidence and a lack of passion?
Kasparov claimed that when IBM's team won against him they cheated.
I don't really see what's shady about it. If you connect to a server, it's accepted and expected that they'll get your IP address.
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So you can take an old car design, you make new ones but triple the power of the engine and... You don't need to recertify it ?
Facebook has a kind of campaign that is explicitly to garner likes, nothing illicit about it.

There are multiple articles about the quality of the demographic you get when you use their official platform. Conspiracy theorists point out that likes are a very weak signal of interest, and thus it's hard to judge if you got good likes or bad likes.

Facebook has a conflict of interest in choosing who to show your like ad to: if both Alice and Eve are willing to like you with equal probability, but Eve is less likely to be an engaged fan, Facebook should show your ad to Eve.

You got your like, so you're happy, but your content is less likely to organically go viral, because Eve isn't as engaged as Alice would have been. Notably, not all of your fans will see your posts: Facebook no longer guarantees delivery to people who have liked you. Luckily, Facebook will help you run a campaign to target the fans of your page that you just paid to get.
$100k for one? Holy cow. If I'm spending that I'll get a Tesla. I get the novelty and I'm genuinely happy to see them doing it but that seems sky high for a V6 coupe.