skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welcome to the real world, where companies are ran for profit, not for some "greater good". I can safely assume you have never owned a company. How would you feel if you would not get paid for your work, but it would instead be handed out to homeless people for the greater good (as an example)?
And this goes to show that if you want a fair trial in any country (even relatively evolved western countries), you need to be rich enough to have a decent legal team. When you read some of the cases from the innocence project, the incompetence is mind boggling.

And don't get me started on countries like Japan with 99.7% conviction rate and antiquated laws regarding police arrest.

I think that until you have a significant sum of money that can be used to pay for a legal defense team, you are at risk of prison even if you're innocent (of course in most cases the risk is negligible but if you're part of a minority it might not be)...
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There was a TV show about this and they 'cured' a girl of peanut allergy.
In 2010, internalizers ABSOLUTELY, WITHOUT QUESTION, priced retail investor orders with SIP prices (the feed that got way behind). What the NYSE was doing:

ABSOLUTELY. POSITIVELY. Impacted retail investors and mutual funds.
I heard the same but only for the first year.
I suggest to anyone interested in this subject to read the book "Piracy" by Adian Johns, http://www.adrianjohns.com/piracy/
> The benefits are also tremendous though. Those people would be unburdened of repetitive, menial, dangerous work and society would have a more effective and reliable way of transporting goods.

Perhaps.

If, and only if, they can get something that at least partially replaces the menial work they lost.

To give a worked example, some of the former mining communities decimated by the pit closures in the 80s are dead communities with unemployment around the 40% mark, to this day. Many people never worked again, despite having spent many years in constant employment and were plagued with depression and other illness as a result of losing career. Many of those former miners would trade the half lifetime of unemployment for repetitive, menial, dangerous work in a heartbeat.

So in that case you're not filling people's needs more effectively, especially when as is so often the case, only lip service is paid to providing alternate options, encouraging industry to move to decimated localities and providing real, substantive help to those unable to find alternate employment.
I normally close my programs when I'm not using them, out of habit
Well, with different makeup and lighting at least.

Here's a photo without makeup. http://cdn.skim.gs/images/uhphenfa2qzmh51irily/stars-without...
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Shouldn't internalizers be required to use direct feeds instead of the SIP? The SIP, by construction, will always be lagging the 'real' (if that even means anything) NBBO.
In the german wikipedia article are some interesting details and stories. Once there was an accident where an elephant travelled with the Schwebebahn and fell in the river Wupper; not kidding.

Also, there is a Simulator for Windows, OS X and the Wii U:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwebebahn-Simulator_2013
1) What are the "much better alternatives"?
2) I've made 4 transactions in bitcoin this week, none of which had any problem being confirmed.
3) If people switch to alternatives, don't you think people will be incentivized to decentralize them for their own benefit just like bitcoin?
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Not only does the UK have a speed limit for vehicles over 7.5 tonnes (60mph, enforced by a speed limiter) but we have drivers' hours limits.

It is somewhat complex (https://www.gov.uk/drivers-hours/overview) but the gist is we take human factors into account.

The driver is personally liable and the fines could easily be more than income from the day's driving.
The best part about snapchat, vs sms/mms is when someone doesn't respond it just goes away. So when you message each other later it's not hanging there as a reminder building silent resentments.
I believe the issue is overall capacity. Sure, you can up transaction fees and get your transaction processed rapidly. But that's not a sustainable strategy if bitcoin continues to rise in popularity. Since total capacity isn't increased, you will have more and more people competing for what capacity exists and this will lead to ever-escalating fees.
How would closed, proprietary software make the situation any better?

Free & Open Source software benefits everyone, which sadly includes bad actors and companies you (and maybe I!) don't like. But don't forget about the "everyone" part, which is the most important one!
That's not the scenario. I'm saying what happens if you are the innocent one being falsely executed.
That's exactly the reason why I believe in the potential of Decred.

https://www.decred.org/
This is the paradox. Coinbase does not gain anything if bitcoin gets better. Their business is "we make bitcoin use easier". If both users are Coinbase customers, their transaction is done outside of blockchain. Their goal is to have more users and wonky or slow transactions outside of their servers helps them.
"Hey did you see my.........hey where did you go?"
Older generations are quite familiar with being labeled as a group. Signed, Boomers and Gen Xers.
I think these can be and often are combined. You can definitely have an event driven main IO loop accepting connections and reading packets, that nevertheless dispatches whole requests onto their own threads. I work with a lot of services written that way. The fact that you can reuse the frontend for several applications amortizes the cost of developing it as a high performance asynchronous thing.

As for stack allocation I definitely see your point there. It is bizarre that Linux defaults to 2MB or whatever it is these days. I usually work with a 64KB thread stack.
Facebook and Twitter base their business models on people airing personal decisions to the world at large.
It's a market with an artificial, centrally planned cap on supply. So yes, it means that fees have to be higher, but it also means that some people/transactions will necessarily be priced out (or move to alternative, cheaper blockchains, as is currently happening).
Tipjoy shut down in 2009, how could it possibly be 13?
Hum. I don't know. I've lived (as in more than one year) in a couple of the countries mentioned and it doesn't seem accurate to me. In most of Europe tipping is equal to leaving the change on the table, period. No tipping taxi drivers or bag handlers.
It's past the study phase. My friend's daughter just "graduated" from her treatment a short while ago. They went to Oral Immunotherapy (OIT) at Rocky Mountain Allergy in Layton, Utah. She used to be on the "smell a peanut and you might die" side of the spectrum. Yes, she has to eat a handful of peanut M&M's every day for the rest of her life to keep from regressing.
I think that's demonstrably untrue -- open source and free software has had a massive economic and cultural impact with precious little of that originating from the involvement of business people or community leaders. (For instance, the GNU project or the linux kernel -- not to mention how many commercial products must use zlib). Business support almost always comes after the value has been created.
It would be great if there were an app that could simplify the process of recording your own versions. (Is there such an app?) It would be interesting to try this with songs and other sounds instead of just a speaking voice as well.
Recently beat cancer and I looked into the research on keto and cancer. A study I looked at said that the keto diet could actually cause tumor cells to develop other methods of getting energy, causing the cancer to grow more rapidly. I was too afraid to try.
It's a market with an artificial, centrally planned cap on supply. So pretty much the opposite of a free market.
Why does rephrasing a sentence magically turn a derivative thought into an original one? Why is using someone else's uncited phrasing considered the worst thing in the world? Why is it so vital that every single creative idea goes back to its root source with a full quotation and citation, distracting from the core idea, and shouldn't be creatively remixed or reworked?

It's bizarre and irrational. It's not just academic elitism, it's also about how the notion of copyright has changed our natural creative and communication processes. The natural copying, sharing and evolution of ideas has gone from being a natural of expression and communication into something verboten. Our collective culture, our modern folk tales and songs, are controlled in perpetuity with zero tolerance for "plagiarism". Any derivative ideas may not be retransmitted, reproduced, rebroadcast, or otherwise distributed without the express written consent of the copyright holder.
Forget the Tatra, I want the little station wagon that the police had.
I wouldn't trust USAtoday nor any source that isn't the actual published research[1].

"CONCLUSION: In this cohort of infants with likely milk or egg allergy, maternal ingestion of peanut during pregnancy was strongly associated with a high level of peanut sensitization."[1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21035177
This should be renamed, "The Traveller's Guide to Overtip".

> France
> Restaurants: French law requires that service be included in the price, but most locals round up their bills with small change (or up to 10% of the bill).

Locals tip when the service is exceptional... Tipping is rarely more than 5% and in a lot of cases people do not tip. It's also a bit of a class thing, students almost never tip, tipping is more reserved for high class expensive restaurants...

> Taxis: Plan to tip cab drivers about 10 percent.

Neither me nor any of my friends tip cab drivers...

> United Kingdom
> Taxis: Tip 10-15 percent for black cabs and licensed minicabs, or just round up to the nearest Euro. Tip extra for help with loading or unloading baggage.

Oh the miracles of copy and paste... I think tipping to the nearest Euro would be a little inconvenient when paying in pounds.
> the mind/brain is too complex to describe at any single level of abstraction

Sure, but now we're talking about a single neuron...

> Wikipedia lists 22 distinct branches of neuroscience [1], and each has their own set of problems they are trying to answer.

Sure, but only one or two of those 22 are about single neurons...

In artificial neural networks neurons are approximated basically as a weighted summation and a thresholding/sigmoid/rectified linear operation. It would be interesting to know how far from the truth this is. Is the biological neuron doing something entirely different than what our artificial neurons are? That's what I feel would be a pressing research question.
> "How would you feel if you would not get paid for your work, but it would instead be handed out to homeless people for the greater good (as an example)"

Why can't I have both? For example, the taxes the company pays could cover looking after homeless people.
And how is Decred better exactly at scaling?
I also suspect (though have not verified) that any output to terminal is quite a bit slower than the raw operation -- that sort of difference that we should all know, as programmers.

http://norvig.com/21-days.html#answers
I like this underground autonomous cargo system better [1][2] (sorry in German, but you get the idea from the video images) It's autonomous, clean and inexpensive to build.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSO_QPgQTw
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r11X-zMF_pc
[3] http://www.cargosousterrain.ch/de/
I read the article, but I still don't know why Bill Nye is supposed to be wrong, or how philosophy is not "asking pointlessly 'deep' questions, plucking an answer out of thin air".
I re-read the whole thing, then went looking for a page 2. Clearly, his future isn't in journalism.
Free means there aren't external factors interfering with market dynamics.

While this drama affects transaction times and scalability, it doesn't fundamentally change the supply/demand curve. Transactions offering the highest fee get processed first and rising demand (of transactions) with stable supply (of processors) raises prices like it should.

A non-free market would be something like if Core developers' transactions got moved to the front of the line regardless of transaction fee.
> OpenJDK open but not a realistic choice in most production deployments

This is news to me. I'm aware there are differences, but "not a realistic choice"? Can you elaborate?
TFL Car bought one and drove it from Prague to California.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiE8ZvqLoik

There's a lot of innovative thinking there. And also since then -- Tatra heavy duty trucks are interesting (a T815 was used in Mad Max Fury Road)
I hope we are all aware that this is not a black and white issue, that there are many ways to approach it and that there many ways to bring balance to an unbalanced situation.

After recently reading of a whole company's IT staff being forced to train their H1B replacements under the threat of not receiving severance pay, and then fired as soon as the training was completed, the thought of unions does cross my mind.
I mentioned that fork because you implied that a 75% hard fork would be effectively riskless. There are all kinds of things that can go wrong, and not wanting a hard fork unless there are no other options is prudent.

RBF helped the existing problem of transactions never going through. A fee market will need to develop eventually anyway (as nullc has said, there's an unlimited amount of data people would like to store for free), and allowing fee changes for transactions where zero conf acceptance is not required is a step towards making transactions easier in a fee market.

Claiming that RBF is not careful is something I can't agree with. If wallet designers disregard a feature of Bitcoin that's been there from the beginning, and users accept zero confs without doing basic security checks, protecting them isn't more important than providing features to everyone else. First seen was never advertised as secure, and if you're too lazy to check for that flag I don't really care. Considering that double spends were still very possible previously, and the detection is one line of code, I'm not particularly worried. https://petertodd.org/2016/are-wallets-ready-for-rbf points out that none of the top wallets would detect a regular double-spend even without RBF.
Yeah, java. What a failure. Oracle killed it. Rip
Because it's a consensus rule (enforced by every fully validating node), it would require a backwards incompatible change (hard fork) to be implemented by every single miner, exchange, wallet and merchant. Only soft forks (which are backwards compatible) can be rolled out with a 51% miner vote.

Bitcoin Classic is trying to gain support for a hard fork with 75% miner vote, but in reality this would also require every exchange, wallet and merchant to pledge their support, or risk creating a network split with two separate currencies.
> It's a free market.

It's a broken market, one in which the supply of space in the blockchain is unresponsive to increases in price induced by higher demand.

This impasse over block sizes and Bitcoin's governance would never have happened if Satoshi Nakamoto had designed the protocol well in this respect. It's unfortunate that nobody seems interested in fixing the basic problem, which is arbitrary parameters trying to do the job of endogenously determined economic variables.
IMO, the market is only non-random due to trader herd-mentality. Everyone using the same software, same algorithms, trend-analysis, etc. If everyone's software says that this particular point is a resistance/support level, then the market will potentially move because of this. But this strategy of waiting-for-the-dumb-traders-to-make-their-move has been practised for decades. But a single random event will invalidate all this herd-mentality in a second.
And plus, from your Wiki link, it states: "[Simon's] models are based on analyzing as much data as can be gathered, then looking for non-random movements to make predictions". I don't see that as being earth-shattering considering that random events occur constantly. And how do they know the movements are non-random?
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I do understand your point.

But as soon as scripting is supported, it's impossible to write tools that process the config files and always work, especially with untrusted config files. You can't have both.

So the question is: can code be separated from config (like I've proposed above) (the code can still be inlined in the config file, as long as the "root" of the config file is declarative and the boundaries are well-defined)?

If no, which is more important: parseability or flexibility? It's a tradeoff.
> But I hear fears of the robots taking over. What do you tell people who fear that?

I realize it's a bit of a silly question, but strong AI is a serious issue in my opinion and I'd like to understand how one of the leading researchers in deep learning addresses this concern? I think Andrew's answer could have been much more interesting.
This has nothing to do with Java, and everything to do with being an executive at a company with over 100,000 employees.
>There is not a country I know of where it is necessary or even expected.

Not quite. Eg In South Africa 10% is definitely the expected minimum for anything more classy than a McDonald's. You could probably get away with less if the less brings it to a round amount but that's pushing your luck.
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I think you nail it. The general, beyond peanuts, advice is stop helicoptering over your kids, let them get dirty, let them interact with people, let them eat things. Exposure early is not a bad thing.

All this new advise of "don't do this, don't do that"... At least paying attention to the media, etc. has resulted in a rise in issues like peanut allergies which were not an issue 30+ years ago.
How would closed, proprietary software help?
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zcash looks promising.
I'm an American and I don't even know when to tip in this country. I guess you now are supposed to tip the cleaning staff at hotels, but only certain chains? What about restaurants with no table service or food carts? Also seems to depend on the chain, whether the owner is working or an employee is working, or who knows what.
The railway is wonderfully featured in Wim Wenders' movie "Pina" (an homage to choreographer Pina Bausch).
There was a popular (4000+ active installs) Wordpress plugin for Stripe that up until recently (read a week ago) wasn't PCI compliant. I wouldn't be surprised if this sort of thing is more common than just one or two rogue plugins (maybe not as bad as stealing admin credentials, but at a minimum doing things that most people would not consider secure). I would think as a large portion of Wordpress users just download and install which ever plugin looks popular and doesn't verify / validate the actual code.
Well, at least the Chinese manufacturer successfully obtained detailed technology in the process.
Doesn't this prove the opposite of your claim? Look how much richer their use is than say the interactions on HN!
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Flip a coin... heads you go long, tails you go short. Limit your losses and ride the wins. You'll kill the market (until a perfect-storm meltdown event, of course). Nothing to do with Martingale.
I wonder why they need 10 truck convoys? You'd think you could test the system fine with 2 or 3.
Note this part:

> In this cohort of infants with likely milk or egg allergy

Even accurate conclusions for such a cohort might be very different -- including even inverted in direction of effect -- from what is true of the broader population.
Can you elaborate on why OpenJDK is not suitable for production deployments? I thought Oracle's JDK/JRE were based on OpenJDK's, with only minor changes.
Where do you draw the line as to which factors are 'external' to a market?
Also, one father can account for multiple single mothers (and vice versa). There is no inherent one-to-one relationship here.
Ask HN: Has someone at an idea stage without an MVP been accepted to YC?
If so, anyone have an example?
An investor shouldn't be judging you based on the judgement of another investor.

Why not? Personally, when a company gets into YC, my opinion of that company goes up. Seems like that is just the rational Bayesian-updating thing to do.
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I grew to dislike alcohol/wine because my parents were constantly badgering me to have some of their homemade wine/grappa growing up. I certainly saw the opposite in the US where kids grow up kept strictly away from it, and then binge when they break free. As a result I'm probably going to offer it to my kid.
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Well as someone who uses the motorway to go to and fro from work everyday; I welcome these 'driverless' lorries, as the human lorry drivers really do not know what they are doing most of the time and I have to constantly watch out for them.
Good to know for my upcoming visit to South Africa!
If it has any effect it's because it has the same effect a Keto diet has: It puts your body in ketosis.

Except in the process you're also putting your body through extremely unnecessary strain.
This. As there original post says, there isn't enough research on this which is exactly why for now you should follow the advice of your GP / specialists.
Hey there! We are talking a fully functioning/working app. Btw, App Inventor/Thunkable apps account for more than 1% of the Google Play Store apps.
You're right. This is the danger we're facing as automation across industries looms greater. There is reason to be pessimistic, seeing as governments and other institutions have historically dealt with this very poorly. I believe the danger is greater when middle class jobs (according to this site the average starting pay is $40k/yr http://www.alltrucking.com/faq/first-year-truck-driver-salar...) are tossed in the mill. There are few other alternatives when it comes to salaries like that. A high school graduate is going to have a hard time finding anything remotely close to that kind of pay, and that will be worse in rural working class communities, like the kind you point out.

This discussion is not full without some mention of the basic income debate. That is the leverage point at which governments can make a difference. The problem is that those policies will be difficult to fund at the beginning, before we see the possibly dramatic economic benefits of automation. My other fear is that this reality will cause governments to stifle automation. Things are usually very messy before they get better.
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I was confused by the name, then I was more confused by the page. This is like the last time I read up on Urbit.