skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it require some effort to actually break a compound in smaller parts once it became so common to be de facto a new word of its own?

No in general it's quite easy. You just have to pretend it's early latin before the innovation of spaces between words ;) And then there are semi-consistently applied rules about certain suffices (like -s, -er, -en + others) which somtimes go between the subwords to indicate that one of the in a declensional position. For example:

Volksempfänger = Empfänger (des) Volk(es) = "(radio) receiver of the people"

Forming compounds is a bit trickier; everyone "knows" the rules (for applying joining suffices) though they may not be able to articulate as to why -- the new compounds just pop out.
You can use the web link under the post.
Ask HN: Should we give a discount to a billion dollar startup?
We are a 5 months old SaaS startup with a fairly high monthly pricing ($1000+/month) with 7 paying customers. A large startup signed up recently for a month and now wants to prepay for a year but is expecting a discount on the list price (~50% discount). We have offered them a discount of 2 months, which I know is not substantial but given that we are bootstrapped till now, we are really in a dilemma. Any advice from people who have been in a similar situation would be helpful. Thank you.
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What ate statistics and linear algebra without calculus? Crippled.
A rather sweeping statement about the way other people think (apologies for being argumentative). In any case I'm sad because it is another frontier put beyond the reach of the human mind.

Science fiction lied to us. It is science fantasy. A fantasy where you have human away parties and depictions of human agency roughly analagous (albeit glamourized) to the role we have always had bringing history up to this point.

Some people value human agency (1) and the human condition and want to preserve it almost for ecological reasons - it is the world we know, and the only one with meaning. Others I think fear death or hate injustice and (optimistically) see technology as a way to solve all these problems once and for all. Human (2) pride be damned (3).

1) possibly mainly white men, since we apparently have more of it

2) (White male)

3) Sweeping blanket statement I know. Sorry for the identity politics bit too, but you cannot really say anything on the human condition without someone saying or thinking that is is a different affair for other people.
> It has nothing to do with web developer and everything to do with the insane state of web development and software development in general.

?por que no los dos? I agree that the stack is crazy-huge these days, and shifting too much to solidly learn everything. We should still expect devs to try and integrate security through the entire thing though
I don't think it is human prejudice, Deepmind can play Go and it cannot drive a car, Lee Sedol's brain can do both. Understanding the nature of cognition will open up new capabilities just as understanding the nature of genetics will open up new capabilities or understanding the nature of the cosmos Etc.

What is most interesting for me is that the nature of solving the problem "how do I win at Go?" is one that has not been, historically, one that computers could solve. Compute the ballistic trajectory of an artillery shell? Easy. Compute a winning strategy on the fly? Impossible. But by creating tools that allow computers to work on those problems we open up the things that can be improved and automated and that has historically improved the experience.
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Isn't ShareX windows only ? I tried to be platform agnostic in my post and I am using OSX myself.
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> What happens when this smart plug malfunctions and restarts your router every 5 minutes?

It's obvious, you get another gadget which bypasses the plug when it switches off despite network being up. Capacitors in the router will keep it running for the few milliseconds it takes to enable bypass.
And the evidence that it provides better prices?
The google method of getting around the paywall stopped working (as least for many of us) a little while back.
Look, I value my privacy too and I don't want to live in a police state, either. I don't think giving additional power over to our government at its current levels of incompetence and corruption is a good idea. But I think you (and I recognize that many/most of the people around here think the way you do) aren't being realistic about the threat of terrorism. Even if rates of terrorism are declining, I suspect they aren't going to be declining as quickly as the potential damage of terrorist attacks increases.

Regarding your question of the causes of terrorism, do you really believe that all terrorism is caused by government oppression or injustice? I doubt it. Even if it's the majority, there's always going to be plenty of unhappy people among the 7 billion on the planet. So I don't see you as having answered my challenge of imagining a stable secure society in a world where small groups can cause enormous damage. And I doubt that prevailing opinion will survive the first major terrorist attack that occurs. Note for your statistics: I'd count the number of major terrorist attacks to date as zero.

Fortunately, I also disagree with your assumption that a system of mass surveillance will necessarily result in a "police state" or at least the dystopian society that the term is intended to conjure.
I don't think it's about bitcoins. Wikimedia has also noticed that donations can decrease if you offer too many donation methods. They've seen this without bitcoins. Maybe donors feel like with all of those methods available someone else is already donating? Or maybe they get bewildered by the excess of choice?
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Right, just as the sadness of seeing a notepad and pen beat human memory.
It's too bad none of the lossy image formats ever implemented a progressive display mode. PNG has one but the overhead of lossless just isn't manageable most of the time.
Here is a revealing fact. Trading in FX has been electronic since well before the age of the internet, with EBS being setup to compete with Reuters as early as 1990. Still, as soon as transactions are bigger than some small nominal amount (say, 5m USD notional), inevitably, they're transacted human to human, to this day. Sure, many transactions in total size are larger than that, done in smaller electronic chunks, but as soon as there is a real, single-flow risk, many humans simply like to deal with another human. Twenty five years later.

The facts is that, when you're risking large amounts of money, and I have been a portfolio manager and self-analysed why, despite being a techie, I was uncomfortable putting large risks through a machine, the fact is that you want re-assurance. You want a person to guide you through the risks, or at the very least, you want to be able to reward a real person with your flow, buy their loyalty, so that in future they will help you with new, nascent risks, that you might not be aware of (the salesman-PM bond).

Fintech in too many cases assumes that transactions are simply a dry exchange. Where it fails every time is in acknowledging the rich set of emotions that accompany any transaction beyond a certain threshold size, and which only another human can understand/acknowledge/address.

I have not been surprised, because of the above, about how many fintech companies are failing.
My guess is that CSS is used by far more developers than designers.
Sorry but your expectation will not be met. You might be able to get better security, like for instance avoid SQL injections but it's a question of whether you think security is an all or none game. That either it's totally secure or a few known well known attacks are usually mitigated. A few attacks, sure. Secure. I don't think so. The attack surface is too large and the timelines too short to ensure anything other than, it works.

Just like we do QA you need security reviews that follow QA, a security team needs to review the code for just that security. Some of it can be automated, other stuff needs to be carefully studied. You can expect to add 20-30% to the final cost to account for something like this.
That's easy. Just pretend to be a really stupid human. It's been done before.
This may be off topic, but I dislike Wired's new approach to adBlockers. I use Privacy Badger as my only adBlocker because I am fine with viewing adds if they don't track me. Wired's approach just means I refresh the page, select all the text and copy it into my text editor. Which is a shame because if they would just display non-tracking ads I would happily view them. The way things are going now if they ever make circumventing their restrictions to burdensome, I may stop reading their articles, but I will not allow their ads to track me.
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> Why do people here persistently insist, even after being corrected, that the government's 228 year old authority to conduct warranted search and seizure is some kind of shadowy and scary "new power"?

I'm not talking about the 228 year old law. I'm talking about the government's ability to collect information about conversations you had 10 years ago after a suspected crime which occurred, say, last week. This massive collection of data creates an imbalance between safety and potential data breaches and abuses.

> Nothing about this is in any way new, and it's grossly dishonest to continue to claim that it is.

Please read my comments carefully. You misunderstand my meaning

> But the more I read these doomsday scenarios from people who are mystified by the one-sentence, 64-word text of the 4th amendment, the less I'm able to believe them.

You can educate yourself and make up your own mind. You shouldn't believe or disbelieve a certain position based on the attitude of the person from whom you get your information. It's as unfortunate to miss the truth because of a terrible presenter (think of your worst science teacher) as it is to gulp down misinformation because it is presented in simple terms (think Trump). I've written tons of comments on HN about this issue with many citations. Here are detailed responses to Sam Harris [1] and President Obama [2]

To date, I feel the most compelling argument comes from Senator Lindsey Graham's position. He was initially very supportive of the DOJ's position, and publicly called for Apple to comply. Later, after researching the topic and questioning Attorney General Loretta Lynch, he found his view changed [3]

I also have a summary of recent events here [4]

[1] https://pastelink.net/151k

[2] https://pastelink.net/1555

[3] https://youtu.be/uk4hYAwCdhU?t=1m44s

[4] https://np.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/49otvu/...
Just a question - I completely lost interest in Julia when I read it adopts many of the ugly language hacks of Matlab - why should I care about Julia when I can feel frustrated with Matlab already?
That's already a known method to transfer "knowledge" from one model to another. I should double-check before quoting a paper, but I think that this one talks about this (http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02531).

You train many models. Then you "distill" their predictions into one model by using the multiple predictions (from many models) as targets (for the single model trained afterwards).

You're right to point out that humans don't do that.

I think it would be "cheating" if you train BetaGo on AlphaGo, for the purposes for doing that experiment. The goal would be to have some kind of "clean room" where people fumble around.

Of course, you can also run the other experiment to see how fast you can bootstrap BetaGo from AlphaGo. That's also interesting.
For me, the cost of having to go through all those steps and learn all those tools is significantly higher than the $300 or so cost of buying Camtasia. For me, it's not just the time cost, but the energy and cognitive resources consumed by not paying for the easy solution.

...just offering an opposing perspective, I respect your approach.
NVIDIA is projecting 5-10x gains in Deep Learning performance out of their next generation hardware (Pascal) [1]. Might be sooner than you think.

[1] http://techreport.com/news/27978/nvidia-pascal-to-feature-mi...
Confirmations are not required for casual purchases. The amount of luck and effort required to double-spend an unconfirmed transaction greatly exceeds the value of casual purchases. Bitcoin confirmations are more akin to the months during which you're allowed to contest a credit card purchase, except instead of months, it's between a few minutes to an hour.

Sitting there waiting for confirmation for a bitcoin purchase for a videogame is like waiting for the credit card company to reassure you that the transaction is now irreversible.
It's more complicated than that, however. The amount of data contained in a phone is stunning. Communication logs, location logs, metadata - at no point in history was it so simple to obtain so much information from a single object. The standards for evidence collection need to be higher here.
Very cool work! You should be proud of it.

One idea that you might think about adding is redshifting the light that comes off the accretion disk. If the light is monochromatic coming off the disk, then the areas of the disk closer to the horizon should look more red to a distant observer.
Speculation: Would it help to offer two major methods (card, PayPal) prominently, and hide many more behind a small "other" link?
Shouldn't that be "0 - 1"?

"1 - 1" will correctly be computed as "0".
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That link is broken. Here is the real link: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en...
Yes, it is far more complicated than you're describing. I'm going to assume you're taking Adderall (an amphetamine salt mixture), but this also applies to methylphenidate.

First: Stimulant drugs typically release or inhibit reuptake of both dopamine and norepinephrine. Dopamine actually converts into norepinephrine in the brain, complicating things further. L-DOPA, which is described in this article, is not a stimulant drug: it only raises dopamine concentration, and nothing else. It's the direct precursor molecule for dopamine.

Raising norepinephrine along with dopamine can create a focused and patient effect in some people (and sometimes a somewhat euphoric effect); raising just dopamine will generally create a euphoric, relaxing, reward-seeking effect. I don't know the entire pharmacology behind why that is. I seem to recall that DA and NE may be able to directly modulate each other.

Dexedrine (dextroamphetamine), another ADHD medication, has a higher dopamine:norepinephrine ratio than Adderall does (i.e. it releases proportionally more dopamine). It doesn't work for some ADHD sufferers, because they become too euphoric.

Second: Stimulant medication is also more about trying to maintain steady levels of dopamine
in the brain at all times, rather than constantly or intermittently fluctuating levels. If you were to take Adderall just once per week, for example, you would probably not get a lot of chronic relief. Taking small doses of L-DOPA every day could maybe help some ADHD sufferers after a week or two (though this is mostly just a theory on my part), for example, but this can lead to psychosis and many other dangerous problems, so is highly discouraged.

Someone please feel free to correct me if I got anything wrong here. I don't have formal education in medicine or neurobiology.
In general, the more you can rent a property for... the more you can sell it for.
Adding a Bitcoin payment option is not "free," since there is non-technical overhead opportunity cost/QA/support involved with adding Bitcoin payments, even if using a payment processing API eliminates the technical overhead.

It is too much effort for "a bit of buzz."
Just connect your own router to ISPs one, set it to the bridge mode and disable wifi on the ISP router. Done.
A brief history of human time
I own an XPS 13 (the 9333, the first 1920x1080 one).

I have very much enjoyed it. The trackpad, to me, has been excellent, and the keyboard a delight, even with the tiny arrows, which I use constantly since they work in coordination with Fn to be Home, End, and Page up and down. There is no physical middle button, but I switched to the XPS 13 from an MBP so I am used to this arrangement.

The only complaint I have is the small coil whine noticeable in quiet settings, which I believe they've fixed, the lack of anything like magsafe on the power cord, which is a patent issue, and the soldered-on ram, which is understandable given the form factor, but frustrating. I DO like that the mSATA storage is upgradable.
> The concept is so radical and revolutionary that it scares the shit out of a lot of people

Oh please.
https://github.com/JasperSnoek/spearmint
The advantage of being a startup is that you can fly under the radar while you're pursuing all that stuff.
I felt that Lee thought global sometimes, especially when he had time on the clock, but his mind could only take so much thinking, and time was catching up, so for a great many number of moves he thought locally.

AlphaGo doesn't tire and thinks globally on every move.

We saw that time and time again. Lee playing locally and AlphaGo surprising everyone with an unexpected move somewhere else on the board.

Obviously it is better to be globally optimal than locally optimal.
No. Not unless they become high-frequency traders themselves. HFT will always win the trade since they can instantly offer a 1 cent lower price.
Both the Jargon file quote and a citation from a published book (which has the quote the grandparent posted) are listed on the Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan

Eric Raymond kinda butchered the Jargon File when he took over maintenance, so it wouldn't surprise me if some of the text there is invented. The original Jargon File does not contain any koans:

http://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html
Eef, I hadn't seen that yet. That's really quite a thing.

I'm pretty sure that for most legitimate businesses, signup is something they want and wish everyone could do. It helps them track and maintain customer relationships, which is becoming an increasingly essential activity in the age of loyalty cards.

A bank account is similarly desirable. It takes a large part of the task of safeguarding your funds out of the hands of an amateur (i.e., oneself) and into the hands of a specialist with strong fiduciary responsibilities.
I will bet you (or snowwrestler, or both with some share to each) $1,000 that Obama will make no statements reversing himself on this position within 5 years of him leaving office (Jan 20, 2022).

To be clear his position here isn't about the value of encryption in all cases. But the specific case of whether law enforcement should be able to access the data on a phone that they have physical possession of.
This is not the final frontier, far from it, in truth. Go is very much like Chess, with an overshadowing branching factor. AI is yet to conquer Bridge. The first time we see a bot false-card will be the day when AI arrives. What we see now however, is still just searches and pattern matches...
It was trying to change my browser settings when I installed java 8 on osx last week.
For what it's worth, I had a bad time with the trackpad with a default 14.04 install. Switching to 14.10 fixed it, presumably due to the inclusion of newer drivers.
welfare != basic income though.

I'm not saying your concerns aren't valid, but it's different when everyone gets it, and there's no hoops to jump through.
Sigh, I use bitcoins to get paid for online math tutoring, and I've spent them to buy headphones online and madeleines at coffee shops.

I am not just a proponent; it just so happens that bitcoins are a convenient form of international internet money for me.
Turing test isn't just a natural language problem. It is far more complex and requires context awareness and emotional intelligence far beyond where we are currently. Language recognition has been at the forefront of research for at least 30 years and it has improved significantly. However, the turing test aspect has only minimally improved.

Edit: iopq, pretending to be a dumb human (or one with a language barrier) is cheating for a headline. A real Turing test would require a computer imitate a human for longer than 5 minutes (although currently that is plenty of time) and without any caveats or limitations on the computer's skill.
Just say "no".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2a8TRSgzZY
This is almost exactly how Wikimedia accepts Bitcoin payments, behind an "other" link, with credit card and paypal being shown as the only two options if you click on "donate". In fact, it's kind of hard to find all of their payment options. The "other" button actually is called "problems with donating?"
At the other end of the spectrum, the 5" Inspiron 3552 that comes with Ubuntu, which I'm typing this on, is quite the best 200 dollar laptop you can get.
Such as? I'd be curious.
BTW is it just me, or do other people find that the interpreter is very slow to start under older versions of OS X?

That's one of my current obstacles to diving further into Julia.
Phone status I'll agree is useful, but there's no need for a music-playing app to control BT pairing - the phone can do that itself.
It's not only the software developer side, but also the business side that doesn't take it seriously. Businesses currently see only the upside in aggregating ever-larger pools of crosslinked data. Schneier's article here is pointing out the downside: collecting big centralized pools of data is an accident waiting to happen, a giant pile of toxic waste stored in rusty drums, which businesses are happily piling more waste onto as fast as they can.
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I think they may be talking about evil ISPs who change TTL of all your incoming IP packets to 1 so that any router you may run would drop them.

However, this is not an issue with "dumb" ethernet-WiFi bridges.
You can also use https://jumpshare.com, which uses FFMPEG for screen recording. We built this app to help everyone be more productive. You can capture and annotate screenshots, record screencasts and audio clips, compose notes (in text, markdown, and code), and more.
Sometimes 90% of people like a technology, and when that technology crowds everything out it's really sad for the 10% that loved the alternatives.

I quite like button-less touch pads. But I also LOVE hardware keyboards on phones. The market decided my preferences aren't commercially viable, but I weep at the imprecision and slowness of touch screen phones, not to mention the general crappiness of terminal emulators without a physical keyboard.

When Logitech stopped making them I started stockpiling Logitech's Cordless Optical Trackman because it's the greatest trackball ever made. It will be a sad, sad day when the last one kicks the bucket, especially since working ones on ebay can be several hundred dollars.
ESR's "The Art of Unix Programming" includes a longish section on the history of Unix. For the rest of the book, he talks about the Unix programming philosophy, including many examples of real-life software.

I found this a fascinating book to learn about the mindset behind Unix, also to compare what that mindset was like back in the 70s (and why) and how it is today.

Well worth reading!
Does anyone here use the I Ching for divination? If so, how is that working out for you?
Getting a more MVC approach and still leveraging the react ecosystem is making me seriously consider trying react+mobx.
The theory might not be out of date, but the notes on implementation are quickly outpaced.
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Why is that a ridiculous hypothetical, but "omg they'll decrypt everyone's phones" isn't?