skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hong Kong's prosperity in the 80's and 90's had more to do with being the gateway between China and the West as trade started to open up, and less to do with policy or entrepreneurship, as much as some people would like to take credit for such.
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Agreed -- definitely consult a lawyer.
The browser on my iPhone works bad however:

After I Google something on my iPhone, if I click on any link that is the result of the Google search, the Mobile Safari stays frozen for me. Even switching to another application (with the "big physical button") gets delayed and then occurs in sequence more times, which means that some tight loop (or the flood of priority events) prevented the processing of the button, and only later the buffered presses are handled.

I've deleted cookies, history and the website data and rebooted, nothing changes.

I don't have any ad blocker installed, unless some app installed it behind my back? The only app I've installed recently is booking.com.

There are also other forum topics with the same bug:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7442924?start=165&tstar...

I wouldn't be surprised that some of the apps which adds some "handler" is the problem just like the Windows Explorer extensions made problem to Windows. However these can't be controlled by the user, and I would prefer not deleting all my apps and adding it one by one to discover if it would work then.

Even in Firefox for iPhone the links don't work directly. Obviously the "long hold" handling is different however: I can "open new tab" in Firefox but in Safari the whole Safari blocks and I have to kill it once I manage to wait enough for the phone to be responsive again.
That's exactly the point. Sooner or later, human consumption is going to hit a wall.
It wouldn't result in a very smart or fun AI. Tay was supposed to be fun because of its intelligence. Throwing a braindead solution intended for dumb forum software would run counter to the project's goals in my opinion.
This. Lotteries are "The Tax that's Fun to Pay."

I would love to see the Federal Government get into this game. Specifically, everyone who files a tax return gets a ticket to the national lottery. File early? Get two! Low income household? Get 3!

Income re-distribution and increased tax revenue in one shot.
Yes, you're correct, the sweet spot between under- and overfitting is completely dependent on the nature of the data set, and cannot be determined a priori. That's why cross-validation and similar techniques are critical for determining the right trade off between bias and variance.
> Also, mining profitably requires special hardware built specifically for Bitcoin mining.

For bitcoin yes, but there are proof of work cryptocurrency systems out there that use CPU. And there are proof of stake systems out there that neither cpu or gpu intensive.

For a lot of people, cryptocurrency = bitcoin. But there's a growing number of crypto enthusiasts who see crypto as an constellation of cryptocurrencies, each with their own unique attributes and fundamentals, that complement (as well as compete with) bitcoin.
Oh, thanks for the references.
I'm constantly astonished at how people can think "filter bad words" would fix everything. In some instances of Tay tweets, there are comparisons between black men and monkeys. What words should you forbid? Black, man, or monkey? Should the bot be allowed to speak about people of color visiting a zoo?
I appreciate this.. but why do you do it with real money? Shouldn't be better to allow a "simulation mode" ?
Technology can help us to make the fundamental economic structures more sophisticated in order to handle more complex goals.

The problem with running everything with simple money is that it is like running a body on doped water alone. I can't even say blood because money is one dimensional and blood has many useful components.

I think something like Ethereum is going in the right decentralized and high-tech direction. If we can have a common information platform then we can wire up our systems to be more decentralized and also have the capability to do holistic calculation and goals as well as evolve the system.

So I think having society integrate common information platform is key to turning this from a bunch of monopoly games into more like a wired game of Eve Online, or at least something where we can keep track of more than one stat ($) per entity.
Hm, not really convinced by the "just classify buy/hold/sell based on an n-lookback" strategy -> Maybe read Ernie Chan's book on algo-trading, or use a more traditional method trying to predict volatility instead of movement.
Performance surely depends on the application. In my personal experience, a rather complex JS application I'm working on consistently (tested on Windows, Linux and Android) runs significantly smoother and faster in Chrome than in Firefox, and somewhat better than in Safari.
It happens also to my wife's iPhone 6, but amusingly only on messages and mail, not safari. Same bug.
I think he's arguing that if you think you're productive, chances are everybody is productive on the team, at least in the boss's eyes.

If you're not productive, you certainly do have to worry about getting laid off (or fired). But when I've known folks who were fired for non-productivity, they didn't really care all that much. In fact, they were fired because they didn't care. These folks often get let go before an official round of layoffs, although in some companies they accumulate until the first round of layoffs.

The fact that you're worrying about your place on the layoff list at all is an indication that you won't be laid off for productivity reasons, only for salary/strategic reasons.
Hey Guys, thanks for your all the comments;-) I agree with both of you... But, Co-living is a way to have a focused environment to achieve your goals, here are some examples: Do you wanna finish that code you've been planning to write since a year?
Well, let's say that i'm a programmer and I live in a different city, and if you move with me for a week or two, I'll help you to write it and discuss it, and focus on it while enjoying a different environment etc.
Example2:
Wanna lose weight?
Well, I'm a trainer... Live with me and I'll give you a focused sessions combined with the proper food diet...
Example 3:
Coming to NYC for business, and looking for a place to stay?
Live with me, and I'll introduce you to the right people...
ETC...
So, It's BnB + Value
I had so many bad experiences on AirBnB..
Because, People are usually busy, and they won't spend the time they've promised with you, and you end up with just a cheap room with a note: "leave the key under the mat when u leave" !!
And That's why we've started InspireBnB.com , where we focus on the experince and not the room...
Tell me what do you think?
90% of visitors at Vegas lose money. 70% leave happy.

OTOH I still daydream about getting rich even without gambling.
I think we'll just have to agree to disagree.

In my (personal, anecdotal) experience, you might be able to get away with rely on skills encouraged by tests without tests much of the time, but when a test fails that I didn't expect because I made a small change, and reveals I had a false assumption, I'm saved hours of going the wrong way, because without the test I'd likely have not noticed the unexpected bug until after I added a lot more code. When it was discovered, I'd have no idea which section of code caused it, and because I clearly hadn't anticipated the problem, it won't be my first guess either.

Similarly, when I need to make a quick last minute change, the tests give me much more confidence that there are no unintended impacts. I don't know how to rate that confidence, but it's definitely worth something.

Lastly, tests serve as the ultimate API documentation for me. I have a terrible memory, so when I return to code I've not touched in months, I'm usually a bit lost. The tests tell me exactly what I want to know: what the code does, how to call it, and specific requirements that are on it. So I'm more able to switch around my code with confidence and less spin up/task switching time. (And I'll admit, this is not a highly transferable benefit of tests - Of my coworkers, I can only think of 1 out of 5 in the last two years where I gained the same benefit from their tests. I pin this on the poor education regarding the real details of writing tests, but it might just be that the tests as are personal as some comments: Where I write exactly what future me will need, future someone else will have different needs)

All of that said, we completely agree that blind dogma without true understanding is just meaningless rote. To tie it back to the OP, he mentioned that he didn't shoot for 100% test coverage, but instead for where he found value in having tests. I'm likely far closer to that 100% coverage than you are, but if we're both making our choices based on experience and consideration, we're doing a lot better than some others.
This is quite interesting. Why trade BTC though, when you can just open an Interactive Brokers account and have access to a bunch of cheap assets?
Um..since this is the entire point of patents (to reduce an innovation to a bond), you may as well do away with patents (which is fine with me).
OP here.

You could. For me, 1 BTC is a negligible amount that was worth not having to manage the abstraction overhead of a simulation mode.
Just saw this comment, and it looks like other people chimed in, it isn't really controversial, the CDC has good number on it. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6414a9.htm
Less competition for profits vs. other algorithmic traders.
Ah GEM and Basic 2 Plus! My parents wrote a retail system (cashier, stock, orders) for their store with this and it's still running today (via DOSBox, the hardware is long gone)
I don't see how you're ignoring all the countries that have had economies collapse. It's not impossible.
A fun read, but there's a lot of claims and opinions without additional information or citation. Off the bat there's an arbitrary grades list. Why is Opera a B and desktop Chrome a B-? Author claims mobile Chrome required a bunch of optimizations. I believe him, but would love to read more on what type of work had to be done.

> The end result of this is that we've been brainwashed into believing Chrome is the best browser, when the reality is that across all metrics, Chrome is 3x to 300x slower than Safari.

In what way? The Javascript engine? Repainting?
http://lrt.sagepub.com/content/26/2_IEStrans/95.abstract

The abstract of this paper offers a data point that is consistent with the claim. For the purposes of this discussion, it is safe to say that the claim is not too far off.
Where does Firefox Mobile (Android) stand? I use that as my default browser on Android, and it works for me. I haven't used Chrome since long, especially because of privacy issues, so I can't compare them.
lol Darfs, thanx for your comment... that was an example too, my friend was trying the code...
Or prices will be in the same range of a normal BnB experience... just a little too expensive because you're paying for the time of the host + the room...
I'm not a lawyer and can't give you legal advice, but I'm almost 100% sure that what you're describing is illegal. Many lawyers will do a free consult to make sure that the case is worth taking, and you can take advantage of that to feel this out.
Thanks for the book recc. You are absolutely right that those are important metrics to feed into the system.

Note I'm not really trying to 'convince' anyone of anything. I shared this on HN was to show off a fun problem domain I've been playing with. If you're looking for an end-game, you got me: Maybe I'll pick up a collaborator or two and get to profitability faster that way. Worst case, I get some resume fodder and an anecdote about machine learning to share at my next cocktail party. Best case: Eventually when cryptocurrencies are everywhere, long after this repo mints it's first millionaire, Hollywood will make a movie where I'm played by Johnny Depp. A haxxor can dream, can't I? ;)

The database model already supports the following inputs: price, volume, bid/ask spread. If a potential future contributor to this repo wanted to run a classifier or NN on this data, they could do so with significantly less time, using this repo's code.

I have a database of price, volume, bid/ask spread history for the entire poloniex index, at a minute-by-minute- granularity, for the last 2 months. I will post if there is enough interest. Vote here if interested => https://github.com/owocki/pytrader/issues
While the article is a nice run down, honestly there's not a whole lot you can do when "your number is up".

You may be told that you are low on the list or think you have a "buffer", but honestly if push comes to shove you will be laid off. It doesn't matter where you may be positioned.
But if you wanted to add a simulation mode, I'd certainly welcome the PR :)
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> But see, this is the valuable part! This is what we should be rewarding! The idea is worthless without execution.

And that's exactly what the system that allows the transfer of patent rewards.

If patents wouldn't be transferrable, than inventors and entrepreneurs would be forced to be both, instead of productively working together.
I would like to see one transfer. It would have to be worded just right, but just one transfer.

The reason I call for one transfer is patenting someting is a big deal(financially) for a poor person. The fees are too high. (I actually contacted the patent office in the US a few years ago, and questioned their fees. They came back with we give a slight break to micro-businesses, or someting like that? It was not low enough for my budget.)

My point is a rich entity can patent a fart sound, and the cost is a two person corporate lunch. And that's why they patent everything?

I would like to see patents/trademarks costs go up in cost exponentially. Example, first patent $1000 dollar fee. Tenth patent $50,000? I would like to see the cost tied to income level, maybe even gross?

A poor entity, even if they fill out the paperwork themselfs; the cost of a patent is high. Especially when you have file multiple patents in order to protect your idea. That person should be able to profit on his/her idea? That person should be able to afford to protect their idea. So many poor people can't afford those patent fees--

In all reality, I would like to see patent/trademark fees lowered for poor entities. (If the entity sends in sloppy paperwork; you can make that poor person pay what a rich person pays. This would prevent abuse of the system?)
Its worth remembering that these services are dependent on the network 'carrying their packets'. If you're worried about them 'phoning home' just make sure your home network is configured to record such events to the best of your ability, and setup some simple alerts or blocking.
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Hey MKoble, Really appreciate you suggestion, it's the only one was actually related to our website lol
We'll fix the design asap...
Plz. make a trial profile... tell me if you see anything else...
Thanx
I'm quite sure this was not posted by the authors, and they won't see your comment here.
How can they tell that it is GDDR5 and not GDDR5X ?
Why would you write code without an IDE?

And using var doesn't suddenly make things happen randomly, everything is still perfectly well defined, just less verbose. And it is a feature that 99.9 % of the time does what you want, situations in which you want a different type than the inferred one are rare in practice. Actually the only one that I can remember is initializing a variable with some concrete implementation of an interface and desiring the interface type instead of the concrete type. And this one occurs pretty rarely because I think aiming for single assignment is a good thing.
It's not agile to list out 32 milestones on the way to completing a project and estimate them up front. It's agile to list 32 steps and estimate the first step, which you will still get wrong.
It's not the ACLU's fault that reality has a liberal bias.

(for a Bush-era, Bill O'Reilly-ish-style definition of "liberal")
Heh. Well, so do sperm donors.
Please try again. Please see a physician.
> There is also the whole "buy American" thing written into most contracts nowadays, but which mostly applies to construction.

Interestingly, both TPP and TTIP make that illegal.
Because the defrauded organization was the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services.
LinkedIn has lost its vision
blogers?

There's zero information in this landing page. Why Meteor for such a resource-intensive application that doesn't need realtime collaboration UIs at all?
Interestingly, I think if we were doing a better job of identifying abusive and asshole comments on our giant social media platforms, we could build a kind of internal filter for such a chat bot. Learn an "asshole comment" classifier, and then have the chat bot ask itself, will I sound like an asshole before each utterance... As a bonus, the classifier would also be great for providing social media moderation tools, at the same time.
lol, good one man ... but' don't worry... I've tried this one and doesn't work lol... or I won't be wasting time building startups lol...
It's a beautiful hand crafted ring... perfect as a gift..
Getting started with a proper setup for a new AWS account
OOPS!

8 months later - still no awareness!
>And it is a feature that 99.9 % of the time does what you want

While typing a variable name explicitly is a feature that 100% of the time does what you want.
Sure you can, it's pretty clear that a is a boolean, b is an array on the stack and c is a string. If the code is so complex you can't eyeball a local scope you probably have bigger problems than whatever the type of the variables are, and if you get one wrong the compiler will yell at you.
FreeNAS 9.10 Released (NAS OS based on FreeBSD 10.3)
More likely, they'll lay off the whole team.
What pavel_lishin said, but also:

1) further distance from hospitals mean more people die.

2) great access to means and methods - guns, vet meds, etc.

3) more high risk jobs (farmers, vets, and rural workers are high risk jobs (because means and methods, and also because economic uncertainty)

4) more stigma around suicide and mental health.
There are several things that go into a product. Using your metric, if you chip away any one of them the other parts tend to become worthless.

You wouldn't have a product without the ideas that go into it. You wouldn't have a product worth anything if you didn't have people selling & marketing it.

In a vacuum each aspect is worthless. So programmers should be paid zero, just like inventors should be paid zero. Because unless you're going to build a business, what you just programmed is worthless.
My uncle have invented a new type of sprinkler. Literally think of bearded guy tinkering in his garage for years. I can't imagine why his idea would be worthless without execution. Instead, this is something I very firmly believe should be the focus of the patent system. He made some money on it and couldn't have without the patent system. Executing this idea is quite capital intensive as you'd need to build a factory and so forth. It's much more effective to just sell the rights to an existing manufacturer.

Of course this is an idea resulting in an actual physical piece. If you mean that patents not resulting in such shouldn't be allowed ... then yes, I might agree.
Whose productivity has increased threefold? How?
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If you're allowed to "hurt the creator's feelings" then which creator would ever create?

Jokes aside, your statement is only true under the assumption that the original idea is cheap and trivial, which is not true for a large number of patents. For hardware patents such as the ones filed by Tesla that helped significantly advance modern technology, they are often non-trivial, yet he was never wealthy enough to produce his inventions at scale and relied heavily on corporate partners to do so. If he was not able to own his patents without actually produce the products himself, this arrangement would never have worked.
Sorry, I carry the mental scars of a victim of the platform. Seeing that this is still being debated, a decade after Scala, is simultaneously mind boggling and unsurprising. If a single person takes my comment as a life preserver rather than an attack, the world will be a better place.

The problem with "code generation", especially IDE-based, is when the programmer still has to worry about the resulting complexity. Reading code is harder than writing it, because understanding is what takes the mental work. So a language should seek to preserve intent and human-meaningful structure as its primary goal.

I mean, take this idea of a "pattern" that is manually macro^Wexpanded - In the best case, a later developer reads many lines and immediately recognizes the single concept. But likely they recognize the general pattern and miss a slight difference, because the human brain works by glossing over details.

Scala cut through much of the bullshit, and Clojure is a beautiful piece of work. But the primitive concepts of the underlying platform still remain as a crooked foundation. They seem fine when you're just reacting to them, as all programming requires accepting some layer of abstraction. But eventually you realize you're committed a long series of seemingly reasonable compromises (dependency on the massively complex JVM, community libraries that embrace unnecessary complexity, poor startup time, reliance on a single vendor, and the aforementioned "half-way" abstractions that represent neither your machine nor a simple high level model) and you snap, seeking out better abstractions that can be both relied upon and transparent when needed.

But hey, just because I've been through this doesn't mean you need to take my comment as sarcastically as I've written it. The same sentiment will undoubtedly be earnestly expressed by actual Java programmers still stuck in that tar pit, talking about explicitness, IDE completion, general uniform verbosity, and simplistic conservatism. And I personally quite like the hope in the analogy to the seasoned master starting an apprentice off with a toothbrush to scrub floors, so that their struggle will encourage them to grow.
Microsoft did not invalidate anything

> claims to own the concept of "product activation" in software, had all claims ruled invalid by the Patent Trademark and Appeals Board (PTAB)

>The PTAB case against Uniloc's patent was filed by Sega of America, Ubisoft, Cambium Learning Group, and Perfect World Entertainment

Microsoft paid the settlement and went on with business

> It was Uniloc's lawsuit against Microsoft that provided the company with its original headlines.

> Microsoft settled for an undisclosed sum
>To be fair, couldn't that just be because generic mobile apps are seen as a way to get rich quick?

In general yes, but as in the parent's case, this also happens when money is not the end target: lots of devs will just go and design a mobile app first, without really thinking it.
All right, what are the laws in, say, Germany or Spain? Except for some basics like "it's better not to show outright porn on national TV channels, at least before 11PM".
Fun with solving puzzles (and dragons): Thoughts after 500 days of PAD
Here's a start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_controversia...

Not a neural-net cure all, for sure. But took me precisely ten seconds to find and would've prevented this whole situation.
Make America great again.
Right, I saw that, I just can't see any motivation to make it profitable and then issue a pull request. Maybe I'm missing something?