skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BBVA is expanding, first the acquisition of (Bank) Simple [0] and now Holvi.

One thing i'm not sure about: is this a sign that BBVA has a good digital strategy by acquiring these neo-banks. Or does this show that a stand-alone neo-bank is not a easy / realistic thing to accomplish (yet)? Most, if not all, neo-banks struggle to get real customers (e.g. regular users, outside the 'TechCrunch PR wave group') and are either acquired (BBVA doing well here) or becoming software vendors to banks, vs a challenger to banks (e.g. Moven (bank) [1]).

[0] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/bbva-buys-banking-sta...
[1] https://newsroom.accenture.com/industries/banking/accenture-...
Developing the actual therapeutic is a very different endeavor, not one that academic institutions are well set up for. You need to do pre-clinical studies on efficacy and toxicity, modify your drug to make sure your animal models work, then scale that to humans including engineering the right delivery format, dosage, etc. that process for the most part is inefficient, expensive, and has a high rate of failure.
Marketing: noun, the action or business of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and advertising.

The keywords there are "action", and "promoting". The first 4 items you list are not marketing. They are preparing for the market. The only thing there that is actually marketing is "They increased awareness and trial of their product via word-of-mouth" and that only barely counts because most of it is OTHER people marketing it for you, without your consent, control, or even input. So, it's not Duolingo marketing themselves. It's Duolingo's users marketing it for them. That's usually referred to as Evangelism and Guy Kawasaki has made his career out of explaining and promoting that idea http://guykawasaki.com/
Is there a sass preprocessor that does tree-shaking for CSS classes? If so, that could trim away the stuff you don't need.
It's funny, your comment uses "true MRV" for language-level special-casing by opposition to a matched (or even just python-style unpacked) data-structure, whereas I've always thought the latter was "true MRV".

Either way, we do agree on MRV being a language-level special case being a hack. Even PHP isn't that bad — though the unpacking is macro-ish bleh.
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99% secure is NOT the same as 100% secure.

I'd argue that having your data on the cloud is pretty much giving away ownership. Companies don't want to do it.
If Satoshi Nakamoto him/herself appears and he/she promotes increasing the block size, would you change your position?
>Is this generation getting stiffed? There really are more opportunities now than ever before. College is simply not required for anything in IT. The rise of free online education is amazing. $5/month gets you a server on the internet that lets you start any business you can come up with. Many of the traditional barriers are gone.

This is fairly myopic and complements the common tech-centric sentiment seen around here of "Why don't you just teach yourself to program and pull in six figures? You can do it for free!"

> What has changed though is that people are required to be self reliant, which can be a tough thing for many.

Our current upheaval in economic relations makes it next to impossible for many to plan to make a living in the long-term. Pulling a jack-of-all-trades switch up every few years is less self-reliance and more desperation.

> IMO, the main people getting stiffed are the poor and blue collar workers.

This has always been the case. The problem now is that what were once secure, well-paying white collar jobs no longer are. As time marches on, these degree holders are not seeing fair compensation or opportunities for a career. These people are being driven into being the new poor and blue collar working classes.

And that's always been a shit place to be.
Unless you're doing it because you enjoy the coffee, you can just find the right thing on the website, reserve it, walk in and pick it up. They do support that kind of workflow if that's what you want.
Disable javascript. Disable user-agent. Run from VM.
In detail: How I dominate my schedule as a work-from-home designer
Improved per-worker productivity metrics down not mean workers are working harder. It means you can now Google something in 30 seconds instead of spending 2 hours at a library - and similar effects with other tasks.
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Going through the example, it comes up with:

> Get that off of me before I catch on fire!
> Needless variant. 'catch fire' is the preferred form

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "catch fire" rather than "catch on fire".

From the UK if that changes anything.
I think it's also worth looking at how the French aristocracy ruined themselves supporting what became the United States in the American Revolution.

In order to even have a theory about why there was a Great Depression in the first place is extremely difficult. IMO, WWII directly was caused by the Depression among other things. This being said, Pershing held that the end of WWI happened in a way that made another war inevitable in a generation, and this prediction was borne out.
Foreign Residence? Don’t Lose Your Tax Benefits
To me, the article shows that "startup" means something different outside the Silicon Valley bubble.

Taking 40% for $400k is probably counter productive for an investor shooting for a $1 billion plus exit. Consuming so much equity [the primary asset of an early stage company] so early for so little capital means that equity is not available for bigger rounds later.

On the other hand, for normal capital, if the business grows to $500k a year in profit over the next five years, it provides a handsome internal rate of return for a local group of investors at the Chamber of Commerce scale.

The difference I sense, is that the "Austin" investors are hardening against future rounds of investment rather than encouraging it. With a 40% stake, such investors are likely to be the biggest single shareholder and hence have a high degree of control over future deal flow.
They have discreet shortcuts for if you do know where you're going. It's very cleverly designed so that the "natural" path through the store takes you on the grand tour, but you can get straight to specific places if you need to.
There's always been a push in the automotive industry to make parts in cars that the average person can't replace or repair easily. If anything, this makes more money for the automakers (like Tesla) because they can setup all kinds of service licenses and the like at their leisure. And if a particular product line gets too long in the tooth, then you just killed off any authorized servicing and parts. Now you got an instant customer if they keep thinking it's worth it. Especially if Tesla were to institute some sort of trade in program that would be cheap to finance but great for PR especially if it touts the recycling angle. Frankly, I'm surprised no one would think such a possible outcome was going to happen. Elon's not dumb, he's a businessman first and foremost. Telsa cars aren't a charity. You buy them to feel good, they are nice fun cars to drive, then when the time comes you're likely to get bored with it anyways and want to trade for the newest model because you're a good little consumer, right?
I appreciate that it's not 'social'. I don't think I'd use it if it resembled a social network.
As a parent of young kids, the future really worries me. Unless there's a new industrial revolution in the next decade, my kids' generation is going to be the first in a very long time that will have a worse life than their parents.
"Im curious what is stopping some other countries (even micro-nations) from instituting a policy that forfeits all patents on medication."

Simple answer: The US will invade that country in no time, or give millions or billions of dollars to support those against the Government in the country to instability the country.

They do it with Syria(they gave hundreds of millions of dollars in weapons to "moderate rebels" to start a war against Assad, Saudi Arabia gave billions or Ukraine(they gave 6 billion dollars to opposition), that are reasonable big countries. They can wipe out any small country that dare to go against US national interest.

With India, South Africa there was death threats, and killings,lots of money under the table and blackmailing of people in Government and finally economic sanctions.

If someone puts something on a paper it does not matter unless that someone has the means to protect what is in the paper.

Native Indians had the right to own the American land because it was the land of their fathers and grandfathers but the white man had repetition rifles and railroads.
> 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.

You think unions would fix this? Has it stopped auto jobs from leaving the US? It sounds like we need to fix H1B laws, and giving tax breaks to companies moving overseas. Throwing in a union sounds good in theory, but I don't think it would actually work.
To put this into context, the people around my age that I know are worried about being able to pay rent, having enough money to marry, paying off their student debt during their lifetime, and being so handicapped by a lack of money that they never get to retire, vacation, or travel.
"Price discrimination".
Consider that the election of Obama is the first time ever I have seen such outpourings of joy at the election of a US president in Europe. Not because it was Obama, but because it represented a return to normality after GWB.

The second term election of GWB was so surreal by European eyes that it seemed like some collective insanity had gripped large parts of American voters.

In response, when Obama was elected, there were election day parties many places in Europe. Some Americans celebrating always happens, of course, but this time you had Europeans going to parties to celebrate a US president.

The relief was the election of Obama brought was immense, and the Nobel prize is a reflection of just how deep felt it was in certain circles.
DIY Neurostimulation on the rise
Deficit spending by governments creates a generational obligation wherein the future generations must pay for profligate spending in the past (which they cannot go back in time and vote against). The primary means of paying down this debt is through currency devaluation; note how the person in the article claims her pay raises have at best tracked her cost of living increases. This transfer of wealth across generations also hurts the poor the hardest; if inflation weren't so bad for the poor we wouldn't have to raise the minimum wage periodically.

I suggest reading "the great wave: price revolutions and the rhythm of history". I found it to be a surprisingly easy read.
I thought millennials are people who were born in 2000s xD
> The only rule on the /r/bitcoin Reddit is not to promote these network fork attempts.

Not really. Any criticism of bitcoin or even worst, any bad news, about bitcoin are censored in /r/bitcoin

For instance, when back in 2014 MtGox failed, some days before a user from /r/bitcoin posted a lengthly article that discussed the MtGox resolution citing the problems MtGox was facing, that they had lost a big part of their bitcoins and that they were going to close doors. This came directly from an internal document and he was actually showing it.

That post was of course censored in some minutes and only the people from other forums saw it before the MtGox demise.

Like this case, there are many others. /r/bitcoin is indeed heavily censored and there is this almost cult like mind hive thinking inside it that makes it impossible to get any idea about bitcoin reality from it.
If you're into jazz, you can check the label Rune Grammofon; you can start bands that are easy to listen to, such as Elephant9 (just listen to Fugl Fønix and try to resist the groove), and then get into the rest (woohoo, Shining). After that, you shouldn't find these bleep-bloops that hard.
Does the best technology come out of these European union IT orgs? My understanding is Americans in IT make much much better pay compared to Europeans in IT.

I have seen what a union environment is like. Your pay is fixed based on the number of years you worked at a company, nothing else matters. It is a race to the bottom.
Guys thanks both for the replies. I still do not understand the inputs and outputs of the attention mechanism neural network.

The paper says

eij = a(si−1, hj) is an alignment model which scores how well the inputs around position j and the output at position i match. The score is based on the RNN hidden state si−1 (just before emitting yi) and the j-th annotation hj of the input sentence.

We parametrize the alignment model a as a feedforward neural network which is jointly trained with
all the other components of the proposed system.

So a is a feed fw nn. What is the input to this nn ? Do we input each hj corresponding to each word of the input sentence separately and get one number for each word ? If the input sentence has 200 words do I run this 200 times ? One for each input word ?
That's rarely a problem where MRV makes sense. Though you could always fix it by using anonymous structs whose fields are both named and positional (similar to Python's namedtuples)
I deleted all endorsements, posts and removed all friends and follows about a year ago when they announced they were making it harder to get your data out of the Linkedin network. I created another throwaway account with a different email just so I could view peoples full profiles.

Haven't regretted it.
For browser support (Servo), FLIF has an issue pointing to Rust's common image library: https://github.com/FLIF-hub/FLIF/issues/142
This isn't how it actually works, but one way to turn a lossy decoder into a lossy one, is to send a diff of the actual pixels vs the encoded ones. Since the lossy compression will be close to correct, the diff will mostly be small values or 0's. Which is much easier to compress.

Likewise you can turn any lossless compressor into a lossy one, by modifying the pixels that are the hardest to compress. E.g. if there is a random red pixel in a group of blue pixels, you can make it blue, and save up to 3 bytes. Or you can discard color information that humans aren't very sensitive too anyway, like JPEG does. All lossless means is that the compression isn't required by the format itself.
Yes the teaching system is amazingly toxic. Ask anyone in US secondary education.
Haven't used it while looking for a job, but we've used SO to post and have not had good luck. Craigslist yields better results for a mobile dev in Portland, and costs one tenth of SO. Additionally my business partner and I received no less than 20 unsolicited recruiter and contract services spam emails each, and I wasn't even on the job posting!
Any chance of a version for WinJS? The only javascript based database available to both Windows Phone and Windows Store apps is SQLite, and it's seriously buggy
I can say that the difference between reading or studying quotes such as these (which I did, and still enjoy doing) and actually looking at myself without bias and accepting those artificial hurdles that I had placed on myself with the aid of LSD was astounding.

The best way I can describe it is that it was a positive, insightful, and compassionate change in my entire perspective rather than just 'Yes, of course my actions are my only limitation.'

The extreme substance abuser can be told by the most caring and compassionate friends and family how they can better themselves, they can be strong-armed and forced to go through rehab, they can even seek out their own counselling by professionals, but none of this may stick or actually remove those harmful actions or desires as much as entire change of perspective and reflection on themselves with complete acceptance. They have to really, truly find it for themselves, rather than just be told.

I think the most helpful and profound difference between regular counselling and basic self-help practices for myself and the experiences that I had while on LSD, was the fact that I experienced the 'ego-death', and looked at myself objectively, rather than with all of the baggage and strings I had attached to the negative things that I was drawn to. I was able to shed my insecurities by understanding what was important to myself, rather than what was important to those around me (even those who had my same interests in mind).
You schedule them right before lunch, I've always felt
Reversing Ageing of the brain: What works
FireLayers advances to “Get in the RIng” world finals
In the example you suggest using the hairs on the left side of the monkey's face have some significant artifacts. The quality of the jpeg is about the same as the FLIF file with a truncation of 80%, at which point the filesize is less than half the size of jpeg at 60%.

If the image quality of the 60% truncated jpeg is acceptable then you can get the same quality but half the size using FLIF at 80%.
Why web developers need side projects
Apparently they did, for there mere reason of guilt by association and simple to avoid subpoena. You can't answer what you don't know.
Well, there are a few responses:

1. Why should women be judged on attractiveness? Men are not generally judged on this standard to join orchestras or do office work. It also, perversely, punishes women for being experienced while men benefit from it, handicapping their lifetime earning power. Professional women probably do not want to spend their lives judged as eye candy.

2. Because of the first point you will still end up with a strong male bias on top of whatever natural one training creates; after all, we're looking at men of any age versus young women, for the most part, in this scenario.

3. The numbers clearly do not bear out the assertion you're making in the first place, since blind auditions significantly increase the likelihood of women being hired after auditioning. It seems your "self-evident" reasoning does not fit the facts.

4. I do not think it is true that all men want to spend more time socializing with women. I don't see how the logic you're positing works unless sexual harassment is just outright permitted. If you're not convinced that sexual harassment is bad then I guess you're operating on a different plane than most of us.
You do realise that Fortune-500 companies have far, far worse HRMS systems in existence? I don't know every F500, but would guess all of them do, including big name consultancies that say they are the bees-knees.
Future of Hadoop
Yeah that is true, as a tech worker you have a good financial path ahead of you. But we have to remember that you can't build or maintain a society on software - people doing social work and working for non-profits need to be able to make ends meet just as we do. Not everyone can or even should be a dev, we need a large sum of people working on social programs and such to have a healthy society.
> Medicare is a big enough consumer that it should probably be running a program where it shares risk with generic makers

Perhaps, but Medicare has literally no incentive to do this.

It's one thing to posit that a monopsony or oligopsony could result in driving prices down. And in a closed system, that might be what happens[0].

But at the end of the day, Medicare has no mandate to ensure sustainability of reimbursement and payment rates. Since they can't raise revenues (taxes) without Congress, they balance the budget by driving reimbursements (for service providers) down below cost. Pharmaceutical companies are actually affected by this too, but because the big-ticket items are under monopoly protection (via drug patents), unlike care delivery, Medicare still has to pay sticker price for those.

The people who end up being hurt by this, by the way, are not Medicare patients, but uninsured patients and privately-insured patients.

[0] But not always - like a monopoly, a monopsony can choose price or quantity, but not both.
At the exact same time, too?
The point is that those things happens to you as a solider only because you chose to not take a much simpler way out. The civilians did not have that choice.
People don't go to the symphony to be titillated by the performers.
I find a combination of attending meetups, having a personal website, and contributing to StackOverflow to be much more effective than LinkedIn. There's less spam, because the people and jobs are much more interesting.

Your mileage may vary, but as a WASPish male mid-level dev based in London, this is true for me. I can appreciate that people outside that circle may get more value from LinkedIn.
My generations biggest fear was that there would be a global thermonuclear war that destroyed civilization, and those few that survived would have short miserable lives picking through the ashes ala 'the road'. Being 50 and renting a house instead of owning it doesn't sound that bad to me.
It could cause a failure for updates but not fresh installs.

Many people would uninstall and download it over again when running into that kind of error message.
One thing I've noticed living in Austin is that the technical talent pool is still not as deep as the bay area, which isn't surprising but is also true. Austin is catching up and in many of the local tech meetups, I've seen people fly down from the valley and give a talk about their tool/company/technology, which is a promising trend.

As others have mentioned, the cost of living is significantly lower, and I would wager that Austin is a pretty nice place to live as a young person, with its great coffeeshops and bars and live music scene.
Social ties found to reverse ageing of the brain
I worked w/ a guy who was good at editing my manuscripts. His opinion (which I agree with) was that the word "very" was almost always superfluous. You can delete it without affecting your message.
There is a long, long tradition, going back as far as the end of 2013 of censorship of any criticism or even any bad news about bitcoin in /r/bitcoin

Funny thing though is that /r/buttcoin that was made as a criticism of bitcoin in general is actually much more open and censor free than /r/bitcoin to the point that you can actually read some technical pro bitcoin articles there without any censoring or even down voting.
Statisticians issue warning over misuse of P values
A combination of debt, joblessness, globalisation, demographics and rising house prices* is depressing the incomes and prospects of millions of young people across the developed world, resulting in unprecedented inequality between generations.

* The question is if all the other factors are true, how can the prices continue to rise?
Which means you need JavaScript just to look at the file. Does web archive store js along with the content?
The Marketer’s Guide to Lead Generation Forms and Personalized Videos
Could you elaborate on the the different notions of identity in, say, "chernenko@mcvax.su" vs. "mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko"?

Is it because the "@" form is more stand-alone while the "!" embeds with it a sense of what you think others might think is notable?