skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is failing to fit the data.

This is assuming that the non-fitting data is not ignored, if it is known to the theorist at all. If anything, the bigger problem among social science amateurs is obliviousness to data or lack of intuition to understand how biased collected data is simply because they're unaware of historical data. Hence, they come up with theories like x = t.

> there is only one valid response: "your theory predicts X but experiment shows Y."

Sure, except that the falsifying experiment took place 890 years ago, you likely don't know about it, and if you did, you'd find excuses (possibly good ones) for dismissing it as irrelevant. The problem is, of course, that experiments are very hard to conduct, and all-but-impossible to conduct under lab conditions.

The reason intuition is so important is that we know with absolute certainty that some things that seem so natural and stable now, used to be diametrically different, and they changed because people changed them. If you know from experience that 80% of coefficients are known to vary considerably over time and as a result of human action, you tend to be very skeptical when someone claims they have found a "natural law" of human society.

> So is blaming scientists with simple theories for "atrocities".

Perhaps it's ad hominem, but it really happened and more than once (except the atrocities were real and required no quotation marks). I don't know what else to tell you.

> They make testable predictions which accurately predict the world

Maybe, and maybe they theorize that x = t when, in fact, x" = 0. Showing that x = -t may also be a valid solution requires making huge changes, among them changing the perception that the theories are correct, which in itself perpetuates the path of the system. The only thing you can do is point to historical trends, but historians, most of them ever so careful, just sigh in exasperation, while the masses believe the "science". Just today I read something wonderful about perception of the sexes[1], yet I believe many might find simple models that perfectly predict the world they see around them, not realizing it is no more than the result of people who made it this way so-and-so years ago, and they can make it different yet again.

It's like having a reverse Cassandra complex only in reverse, and it can be just as frustrating.

Do you have any doubts that Netflix's prediction engine shapes people preferences more than it passively predicts them? I am not saying that it doesn't suggest movies people enjoy, only that it could have made completely different suggestions that people may have enjoyed even more. How do you measure the effectiveness of this algorithm against all others (and there are way more possible algorithms that can be tested with the sample they have)? Or do you just declare it successful and accurate?

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4c5l63/in_th...
According to Wikipedia, SCART was compulsory on French TVs from 1980.

(I'm not old enough to remember any TV connector before about 1997. By then, in the UK, only really cheap or old stuff lacked SCART.)
Cool list! I don't think I've ever seen them all in one place before.

I cannot stress enough what an incredible force for good Asimov had (and hopefully continues to have) on society. I remember reading "the World of Carbon" and not being able to put it down -- a non-fiction organic chemistry book! The high quality and sheer volume of work he output are each impressive on their own, but combined are astounding.
Every user of Mint is evidence to the contrary, no matter what their lips say.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210978
Mothballed boxship fleet reaches record high of 1.6M TEU
Perhaps what you are thinking of is the rule that in most of Ireland, the tenant did not get credit for improvements to the property. So an evicted family lost the value of any work it had put in.
> Upgrade everything, all the time

In my experience, rationality is better. Everything we do to our code assets has an associated cost. Therefore, everything we do should have a clear justification -- unless of course you have countless world and time to spend. It would be pointless to upgrade from your old MVC framework if there's no clear and prioritized problem it would solve. Professional developers acquire tools and instincts over time--not blind rules like these--and always use their brain when solving problems.
It's all mentioned in the bottom. The company also fired everyone involved. (More than we can say for a lot of companies)

Note: I have no connection to HubSpot, and I hate spam.
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What does that have to do with becoming a bank or payments processor, though?

I think the article is premised on a misunderstanding of what banks are and are not. A company does not need to be a bank or payments processor to manage a huge pile of money for a profit goal. In fact it's way easier to do that if a company is not a bank or processor.
There are tons and tons of cryptocurrencies that have infinite emission schedules. Doing that doesn't appear to give any competitive advantage over other currencies. I don't know if they've decided yet, but the I wouldn't be surprised at all if the subject of this article(Ethereum) ends up with an infinite emission schedule too. It's very common among cryptocurrencies who use Proof of Stake as their decentralized consensus method of choice.

Plus, Bitcoin isn't deflationary by any standard definition of the word. It's not inherently price deflationary of course, since that's dictated by demand. And the money supply inflates, albeit at a known predictable rate which slowly decreases over time.
Any AOT compiler to native code allows for self-contained, statically-linked, no-runtime-required binaries.

There is nothing special in Go about it.
> The Arduino is a family of microcontrollers built from the ground up to be easy to use. Easy to use software, easy to program (Variant of C) - and more importantly, heaps of support and tutorials online.

The Arduino is _not_ a familiy of microcontrollers, it's a family of dev boards (well, more like an ecosystem) and most Arduinos are based on AVR microcontrollers (but not all of them as far as I remember).
16-bit Machine Code Assembler in Python 3 (toy side project)
Yep, me. Fucking love Veertu, to the point where it looks like I'm spamming threads!

Veertu is way less featureful than Fusion but the latency means it's INSANELY fast. Windows 10 installs in sub 5 mins, but more to the point it just doesn't suck due to lag like Fusion did. I actually test on Edge now.
If you need an interface to your data, use structs/classes.

If you need genericness when the size of the data doesn't change, use templates.

If you need genericness when the size of the data does change, use inheritance.

If you need genericness with respect to part of an algorithm, use lambdas.
The main benefit of unit tests is the speed one can run them at, and the feedback. Unit tests make it vastly faster to figure out the culprit in a broken sector of code almost all the time, since it narrows down what code you have to check for any logic errors. It also so happens that unit tests tend to encourage better writing of code into reuseable units.

Unit tests cannot catch everything though, and for stuff like how multiple units are wired together, that's where integration tests come into play.

A good codebase has both types - even combined they won't catch everything, but they should capture almost all business logic issues.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceBuckets/ A community of 20,000 DIY indoor gardeners.

Subset from the SpaceBucket manifesto:

Humans of the Earth! Hear the Space Buckets calling. It is time for a DIY indoor gardening revolution. We stand at the vanguard:

I. Bucket culture is open. We are a community of learners, a movement of tinkerers. Our goal is to spread information about how to grow plants inside small containers with artificial lighting. Anyone can join us.

II. Bucket knowledge is free. We believe in the free flow of ideas and the unparalleled power of the Internet. We are part of the web, and we contribute to it. Profit is not our motivation, innovation is.

Also found these:

[1] http://hmeter.sourceforge.net/

[2] https://www.3dponics.com/ ( a 10,000 person community )

[3] http://yieldbuddy.com/ An open source automation system for hydroponics

[4] http://www.powerhousehydroponics.com/crash-course-open-sourc...

[5] http://scienceinhydroponics.com/2013/02/the-first-free-hydro...
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They are woefully undocumented.

Well, that perhaps isn't fair... fairer would be to say that there isn't an authoritative set of examples showing how people can achieve things similar to something like Django templating or Rails templating. It is actually fairly effortless to nest templates, extend them with custom functions, and all of the things one would need to do.

Probably one of the best resources is Hugo: https://gohugo.io/templates/go-templates/ and the funcs (template tags) they ship.

That isn't too bad at all, but the snippets and examples are so small that it's hard to really see what the value is and how it all glues together to create nice readable templates.

Anyhow, the key place to look at template tags would be:

1. Hugo's source code for template funcs: https://github.com/spf13/hugo/blob/master/tpl/template_funcs...

2. Hugo's creation of the func map: https://github.com/spf13/hugo/blob/master/tpl/template_funcs...

3. Hugo's documentation on the funcs: https://gohugo.io/templates/functions/

Those three things, viewed as one, should allow any Go dev to extend templates to do whatever you want them to do.

Hugo have been very "functional" in their choice of template tags, but there's huge scope for new packages to deliver more aesthetic tags, or tags for localization, to humanise time and plurals, basically to provide a core resource of tags similar to https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/templates/builtins... so that each dev doesn't implement their own.
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That's exactly what he's saying.
Wallets is too limited though. Increasingly a phone is not only a wallet replacement, but also a replacement for filing cabinets, bookshelves, photo albums… to the point where having unfettered access to a smartphone is akin to having access to someone's living room and office.
For extra ease and security (two things not often found together!) try setting it up in a Sandstorm server, works with one click and is sandboxed from the rest of your server. https://sandstorm.io/
This is what terrifies me.

We're potentially about to elect (assuming the primaries stay the course) one of (a) a gentleman who thinks that technology can magically just do anything asked of it or (b) a lady whose desire to use a personal Blackberry led to (at best) ignoring basic information security risks.

Despite my political leanings, and as much as I hate to admit it, I'm tempted to choose the pragmatic candidate with a business degree over the ignorant candidate with a law degree.

Btw, what is it with lawyers mistaking laws for truths? They seem to look at the world through some bizarre Borges lens where physics needs follow law instead of the other way around.
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Learn something behind OpenGL
All the dependencies of a unit are part of its API. You may not need to give them at every call, but you do need to give them atleast once. Whether the unit calls MissileLauncher::launch or not is in my opinion part of the external behavior of the unit.
Indeed! Here are potato quality images I took of RGB signal on a decent CRT a few days ago: http://imgur.com/a/UIMCI

Whenever I see those artifact-loaded attempts I think it's more of a combination of a very bad CRT, cable, and RF modulator. With most of those artifacts in signal coming from RF modulator.
To be clear about the technical facts: good luck pushing that engineered backdoor to an iPhone without Apple's keys.

Having your source code stolen gives your competitors an edge by letting them know, for free, how you've implemented things that might have cost you millions/billions to research and produce.

The biggest threat to having source code stolen is exposing the potentially embarrassing paperclips, string and gum holding a product together.

> Hasn't happened yet has it?

Years ago and at the time the most profitable software company, Microsoft had its flagship products, the NT kernel and Windows 2000, source code leak.

It isn't unheard of.

> I don't think the overall security risk increases by the existence of a backdoor on a single phone.

If the precedent is set for this single phone, then the security of other phones is at stake. This is also a red herring. It is not about this singular phone.

edit: You do not need the source code to find a backdoor or vulnerability[0]

[0] every closed-source product that's ever been exploited
As much as I like Antipope, I think he is overestimating the long term thinking of the Apple business because the time to have started the "Apple Bank" process is 2014 because they should have just acquired Simple:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/20/simple-acquired-for-117m-wi...

Then moved on from there and making it into "Simple, The Apple Bank". The fact they didn't move in that direction makes me think it never really occurred to them.
It's probably more useful to be able to run Lisp, R, Octave etc. in a device like this.
Your old CRT is probably PAL-M, a variant of PAL. Was it made in Brazil? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL-M#Compatibility
Most people were not bad enough to go to Tartarus. If you were not virtuous enough to go to Elysium, or if your good and bad deeds sort of balanced out, you were released into the fields of asphodel to be boring and unremarkable, forever. It isn't quite fire and brimstone, but lack of any meaningful stimulation could be considered a form of punishment.

If you read the Iliad, you ought to know that Achilles wasn't exactly a paragon of virtue, even by the standards of ancient Greece.

But the general run of bad people were simply ignored and forgotten. You had to be a real shitheel to get a special punishment in Tartarus.
A 3-D View of the Yield Curve [NY Times]
> I've noticed this particularly afflicts Go discussions. Python, Rust, D, Swift...all can be discussed rationally and productively. But if Go appears, it seems to be just threatening enough that it draws out people concerned about things they don't know.

I totally agree with that. Apart from Swift which is by fiat, Go is the only language in top 15 or so which is used for serious work by developers who are not PL enthusiasts/theorists. This is putting serious, though I think unfair, demands on Go developers to justify their choice. So users of languages as diverse Haskell, Elixir, Java, Rust, Scala and many more keep beating Go with their favorite feature of preferred language. Somehow Rust specially stands out as its users/developers seems 100 times more interested in Go related discussions than vice versa. It is similar to politics saying: "You may not be interested in politics but it doesn't means politics is not interested in you"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=champion.gnuro...
In homage to GEB:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11373548 (3+n)
Credit Cards, issuers, acquirers, gateways, etc - the whole payment intermediary grabs around 3%. Most of that could all go to Apple one day. Why leave it on the table?
Anyone wish the could rate the news? Started an app to rate news called Jirno on IOS. BETA is VERY BASIC but want to let users rate news and it's writers. FB mentions proving emoticons show ratings well
Given access to your financial info to a third party is not the same as being OK with said party being insecure.
What pisses me off more is that law enforcement are debating encryption issues while the terrorists are using low-tech devices and attacks to cause the damage.
Ask HN: What Linux distro for development
I am currently evaluating between Fedora (prefered) and Debian, any contenders in terms of packages and stability ?
Anyone wish they could rate - not comment- the news? Like music, restaurants,etc. Started an app to rate news called Jirno on IOS. BETA is VERY BASIC/BORING but it's a start to let users rate news and its writers. FB mentions proving emoticons show ratings well.
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Steve Gibson’s Never 10 Helps You Turn Off the Windows 10 Upgrade
I read that the UI is not even smooth on the Meizu Pro 5, which isn't a slow phone.
THE BUSINESS CASE AGAINST OVERTIME
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Idiomatic C++ is not well defined. There are so many possible ways to write C++ code that you should be skeptical if somebody promotes one version is the true one.
>If the article's point is just that Apple wants to maintain customer trust in the security of the iPhone, well, Tim Cook has stated exactly that numerous times. I don't understand why it took a whole post full of ill-considered speculation about banking to echo that sentiment.

Obviously because the whole point of the article is not to merely echo the sentiment, but to attempt a guess at the reasons behind it.
The Economist, paper copy, once a week. It has the benefit of keeping hype out of its perspective. Treating human disasters and wars as more important than the American primaries is sanity that I can't live without.

Keeping up with the alleged 24 hour news cycle in Western media (BBC included) I think leaves people poorly informed and over-hyping predictable events.
>There are tons and tons of cryptocurrencies that have infinite emission schedules. Doing that doesn't appear to give any competitive advantage over other currencies.

This supports the hypothesis that cryptocurrencies are not useful as currencies and people mostly like them for their ponzi investment allure. This would make them not viable in the long run, the digital equivalent of gold but with even less intrinsic fallback value.
Well, I'm happy with running the basic stuff using GNURoot. (I have no intention of running more complicate GUI apps anyway, even though that should be possible as well.)
The problem with fiat money is that "inflation" is not visible. ECB, Fed, BoE, BoJ are all hyper-inflating and it will end very badly. Look at the balance sheets and you'll see the hockey stick growth. Has little to do with prices, but more with debt stockpiling.

Bitcoin is volatile, but its extremely useful as money (if you live in Argentina or Zimbabwe, etc.). Descendants types will be far superior to government debt as money. Deflation basically means price-appreciation versus other assets. Inflation as its currently happening is fraudulent accounting on a unprecedented scale. The blockchain by contrast offers honest computer based accounting.
Nice, but when is somebody going to create an easy way to build advanced dashboards on the fly for non coders? That's how Tableau is making a dent on Ms Excel market share right now.
This sounds awesome, but I'm not 100% sure what to expect. Like, what does the "Weather" setting look like vs the "time of day" setting and the "northern lights" setting? Do you plan on adding photos and/or videos to the site with examples of how it works?
The President is wisely keeping his distance.

He's made some statements seeking compromise, which allows him to avoid tipping his hand with respect to his actual thoughts while supporting a need to support law enforcement's needs and civil liberties.

The FBI guy is the guy at whom rocks will be thrown when something bad happens. All of his actions are biased towards "doing
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I suspect that https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gnuroot.de... is the newer version?
Actually the interchange does not vary per issuer.

It can vary per card type (pre-paid, debit or credit), card level (basic or signature/elite, etc.), type of transaction (CNP or present), Merchant type (supermarket, airlines, etc.) and some other rules, depending on the scheme and the region (US, Europe, etc.).

For instance the Interchange (to be paid to the Issuer) when a US issued MasterCard Debit Card is used in Gas Station is 0.70% US$ + 0.17 with a cap of US$ 0.95, but when used in a Restaurant is 1.19% + US$ 0.10 without caps.

Visa:
https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/about-visa/visa-rules...

MasterCard:
https://www.mastercard.us/content/dam/mccom/en-us/documents/...

What can vary from issuer to issuer is the processor/network costs.
That looks very interesting, did you leave the industry (as you said in the past) and if so, why?

Do you think that someone having experience with backend / web development with Python would do well in this kind of job?

Thanks
All looks really interesting but only 16 GB internal memory? I mean if I could move my user directory in it's entirety to the MicroSD I could see that working as 16 would be way more than enough for system, but that seems hackey. I feel like they could easily get that to 64 GB and add a few bucks to the price tag, I would buy one of these in a hot second if they did.
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Pretty sure this is what most news organizations do already and is why celebrity news, disasters, and horse race politics is all they report on.
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Well unfortunately I think part of the answer may be the victims in those cases were more influential.
Probably more related to the concerns that a judge would compel Apple to turn over their source code and signing key to software, which basically gives the government and any agent with access unlimited authority to tamper with Apple software and devices. Cracking passwords is also bad.
https://www.domo.com/businesscloud ?
That's sorta how I was approaching my Go services when I was writing Go: https://github.com/ProTip/cw-engine . I would write the main functionality as an "engine", something that could be embedded(hosted) in another Go app and then use it in my own main.go executable.

This is really cool BTW, great work! I was following it more when it was first announced but unfortunately I haven't been using Go for work these days :| Would be fun though to take some old stuff and rejig it with Suture. You're right though, the Go code doesn't crash much.
Can Apple do the FBI's job better?
Our legacy methods of solving crime typically use historical data from the private user data space. Is it possible to identify crime from public data only? Does investigation of a crime necessarily require violation of privacy?

I think a sample test bed is nearing completion. With the advent of self driving cars, there might soon be enough of them on the road to record driving activity. In addition data from traffic cams should be publicly available. This is not private data and should not be restricted. The same way that the clothing I choose to wear in public is visible to everyone, so should public behaviors be visible. Didn't the founders of this nation also believe that punishment was a public event as well? (How rude that was)

Although there are orders of magnitude more data points than human eyeballs, machine learning has reached a point where it can sift and identify objects in events in public data streams that are illegal. Local police would appreciate this service immensely. (whose departments are chronically strapped for cash because politicians and other short sighted decisions lead to more consultants and decision makers than actual service providers). The data is free and only someone like Google or Apple could possibly have the resources to invent it.

I would so love to see the government submit to the pressures that private enterprise has been struggling with over the past two decades - downsizing, outsourcing and the elimination of money sucking incompetent middle management.
Non-destructive editors include Adobe Lighttable and the open source Darktable.

Darktable: http://www.darktable.org/