skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's banks that do, CC companies primarily just facilitate the data exchange between the parties involved and charge per tx fee.

The way banks make money on those payments is the way any other interest loan payment works - you'll eventually pay what you owe but by the time you're done you paid the original debt + interest.
Don't worry: you don't have any choice in the matter, and neither do I.
Kardashians anyone?
Internal state makes understanding the output more difficult: your output is now a function of the input plus the internal state. However, it does not make it freer: the same input paired with the same internal state will always produce the same output.
It's not the amount by itself, it's the ridiculous interest rates on top of the amount.
>Except in some specific fields (maths, physics), people are much more interested in the MAD than the STDV, but all they get to make decisions is the STDV.

com'n guys, it all comes down to whether you like more romb or circle :) Interesting that MOND (modified Newtonian), if true, would suggest that a circle at very big distances looks like square (notice not like romb :), so physics may start to like it more.
> Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/my-secre...
Understanding something does not mean agreeing with something.

I disagree with the idea that artists should be shamed for selling out.
> I was going to wait a bit before I feel ready enough for Show HN

Go ahead and post it as a Show HN when you're ready. We won't treat it as a duplicate.
/me furiously redesigning our app to be a slot machine....
Emoji does not have a plural in Japanese, so stop trying to make emojis happen.

In the long run, I would have preferred Gretchen make fetch happen rather than Regina make this turn of phrase happen.
> You do realize those aren't the same thing, right? In fact, they're basically opposites. Deterministic is "if/then", while probabilistic is "maybe". Something is either deterministic or probabilistic, and it matters which it is.

I say "deterministic/probabilistic" because I am thinking about physical laws; i.e., what we know of physics and quantum mechanics. The intent is to exclude the idea that consciousness is somehow above the rules of cause and effect. It probably would be safer to just say "deterministic" to prevent all the magic-shoehorning people sometimes attempt with QM, but I was being pedantic.

> In your metaphor, consciousness is the learning system which is used to generate the model which drives the car. Our brains are semi-supervised learning, and our models get retrained when they drift far enough.

No, in my metaphor, consciousness is totally unrelated to learning, as the article suggested. In my metaphor consciousness is basically just part of the network stack.
The notes, no. The lectures themselves. For example, one of them was a Feynman guest lecture on potato chip worlds, which I'm sure if it was recorded it would be a classic today.

I went to Caltech.
Ancient forests like this are not too rare in the United States. You can find a list of them here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_old-growth_forests#Uni...

Disclosure: I compiled most of the list.
Galaxy Zega Is Like Real Life Mario Kart
isn't it better to use a universal icon for simple actions like this? e.g. pointing to wrist for the time, floppy disk icon for saving a file, etc
GTK has the advantage of being a C library with not that many dependencies (so, simple to wrap.) QT (at least in my very limited experience) has way more dependencies, some weird build steps (MOC anyone?) and writing stubs for it would require much more code.

That said, I haven't programmed a UI in about 5 years, so this might be completely outdated.
"Everyone who believes in standard deviation (...)"

Sounds like a moron.

I would love to hear more about what happened with your fund though.
Standard deviation is not the best terminology to use because it sounds like it's referring to the mean average deviation (MAD) rather than the square root of all the summed squares.

And when humans think of mean deviation, it's more intuitive to think of deviation in terms of regular units in relation to the mean rather than the square root of the sum of squared deviations. The former more accurately reflects human intuition.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, you had me laughing out loud.

However, there's something you're missing: just how dynamic this city is. And I'm afraid part of that is the Manhattan bubble that makes it hard to see what goes on outside of there.

Namely, you mentioned a list of neighborhoods earlier that matched the litter-strewn image you alliterated to here. It's true that many are shitholes from an aesthetic perspective. Some of the local neighborhoods also have your common element of suspicious, aggressive people who seem to pay no mind to tossing litter, etc. And Brooklyn drivers seem to have this 'Neglectful Psychopath' sort of persona. And teenagers ride around on dirtbikes, shuffling zombies yell and moan in line in front of the methadone clinics, etc. We can continue forever painting these sorts of images.

But these places were neglected for so long, with a poverty rate so high. Meanwhile there's a breakneck pace of change. You didn't mention Cobble Hill, which was a shithole, or Fort Greene, which was a bang-bang shithole recently, nor Prospect Heights before Barclays Center, unrecognizable and cheap a decade ago, nor (let's keep going backwards), Williamsburg with its empty Bedford Ave (as little as the early 00's there was little of what there is today, as I recall going there for music lessons). Let's keep going backwards: the East Village was a litter-strewn shithole where you had to walk in the middle of the street to avoid getting mugged (Alphabet City, I'm talking about), now you have multi-million dollar condos going up between aves B and C! Let's keep going backwards: Soho, and even Greenwhich Village?

This city changes, and that's one of the themes of the article we're referencing. Some of the areas in Brooklyn making a comeback were once where the wealthy specifically lived (some of most beautiful, custom-stoneworked brownstones are around Putnam and Hancock in southeast Bed Stuy where investment bankers are now moving). Now that the city's attracting so many residents, there's outward pressure to expand and finite supply of housing in which to do so.

Bushwick will never be a Connecticut Country Club (unfortunately, because then I wouldn't have to avoid walking on dog poop all the time). But it's becoming more and more an area like the affluent parts of Brooklyn (slowly but surely), which themselves have met or exceeded your comfortable little corners of lower Manhattan (where I also lived 10 years). Even places with 40% poverty rates have condos going up and NYU grads moving there.

In fact, the pace of change is so breakneck that DeBlasio got elected on a platform to protect those most affected by the change. And that's a constant theme of the City Council too. Demand is so high, the demand is pushing these 'shitty' areas to improve. Gentrification is a topic on people's minds and a source of arguments all day, every day here.

I'm going long on your detested outer boroughs: I've bought a place. And yes, in the meanwhile I have to clean up the garbage of my neighbors as it floats into my yard.
> all of the DRM opposition since the 90s has failed to move public opinion much

In the music space, opposition to DRM was very successful.

The same could have been true for video, we'll never know, because Google, Microsoft, and Netflix created EME.
I don't make submissions, only comments, but I like that no one else comment score is displayed for me, and I only feel the need to check my own comments page to see if anyone's replied to me.

On reddit I'm much more likely to check how my comments are doing.
Yep - this.

They're both financially foolish, but I did not rack up credit card debt because of lavish purchases. It was just as ^ says.
Top Violonist Playing in the Subway (2007)
Academia vs. Business
A "no true scotsman" argument would define good developers as developers who "don’t need velocity, daily stand ups, points estimations, spikes, scrum masters to deliver high quality software".

A different standard, such as not engaging in rash rewrites that disqualifies someone from the "good developer" category, would keep this from becoming a "no true scotsman" argument.
I agree that "An agent's ability to do and not to do without external influence or coercion." in the context of a social or political theory of free choice.

But in simple model, of just a world, where one only has configurations of atoms (or configurations of some substance or etc), there's nothing uniquely determining what's internal and what's external, what's an agent and what's not. So "free will" winds-up achingly ill-defined/under-determined here.

I think your definition is further relevant in that a lot of arguments confuse an ontological model and with a social/political model. And this could well be natural - as social beings, it seems like we tend to both model the world and see agents within it and so saying "in this model, you have choice but in this other model, you and choice don't exist" is highly counter-intuitive to an average human.
Is this technically a quine? It uses its own file as an input. I think that may technically disqualify it from quineness.
Yes, I did this the minute I realized what had happened. Both my Macbooks and my iPad are in the "Erase Pending" state. Not sure if I still get notified of the location if the thieves replace or wipe the drives before ever connecting to the Internet.
So, let's say we want to make an industrial process more reliable by reducing the variability of its output. We repeatedly measure the variability by means of MAD. We'd like to know what causes the variability, so we regress MAD on various predictors to see what causes variable performance. The regression allows us to optimize MAD but the regression itself is fit using ordinary least squares. I don't think anyone would object to that?

I guess you're thinking more along the lines of describing the performance of a model in terms of the MAD, and then optimizing using MAD / L1, which isn't always a wise choice? Then I guess we don't disagree at all. I do like MAD as an easy to communicate loss statistic in many cases (as well as % of cases with predictions further than a domain specific distance from the truth), but I don't think many people would consider loss to be a descriptive statistic at all – it describes not the world but a model of the world.
Do the math.

Vast numbers of people demonstrate grit, dedication, and work hard at the expense of enjoying the rest of life.

Very very few of them succeed on the terms they are being told and sold they deserve.

One of the biggest problems with the current extreme accumulation of wealth in a very thin crust of super wealth is that the number of people who enjoy the trappings of modest/qualified success is rapidly diminishing. I remember the dream that was _the middle class_.

Sure, you wouldn't know it to drive around the Bay Area, but the Bay Area is in another bubble fueled more by precisely the kind of unearned largess you mock.

The rest of the US, minus the other urban darlings of international wealth looking for a place to park or chasing some, any, return when interest rates are globally low, is turning into a place no amount of grit or hardwork will avail to rescue you from something not too far from permanent subsistence-level existence.
Ask HN: What is keeping you from leaving a large centralized service?
Hello!

I am trying to compile a list of common reasons why users don’t move from a big centralized evil™ service to either a self-hosted solution or another more “freedom friendly” option (say Gitlab.com vs Github.com) or some other thing altogether.

While there are ofcourse common regular reasons like “all my friends use it”, I wish to collect reasons specific to particular well-known services and not generic over all centralized services.

Would be super cool if the service you are talking about is well-known among the average Joe (yeah, like Facebook) and not just devs. It should however be well-known among atleast one of the either groups.

Disclaimer: I asked the same question on another link-aggregation community lobsters today itself: https://lobste.rs/s/qwfjab/what_is_keeping_you_from_leaving_large and I want to collect feedback from HN as well ;)
Whilst i somewhat agree with the sentiment, the difference now is in the amount of efficiencies or benefits gained. The gains/benefits from tools, farming, writing etc, are quite large. The gains from an app suggesting a movie or book, or reminding you to do various things in your life, are quite small in comparison. It might be merely a matter of a few minutes.

It begs the question, is it worth gaining a few minutes here and there each day for the price of dependence on apps and a degree of disconnection from what makes us human?
Not really, at least in competitive markets like the Bay Area. The buyer has an increasing need to anti up more of a downpayment because of inflating home prices. So while the financing is easier and they can leverage themselves more, they still need to come up with a quickly growing chunk of change to even take advantage of the cheap debt.
The people who really decide what you do don't care about syntax. They'll ask you if it is faster. And Python 3 is even slower than Python 2.

You don't have this problem with PHP. "Hey, Boss! We need to rewrite our code for PHP 7." – "Will it be faster? How much?" – "It will be faster. By factor X." – "Go on, make it so."
Transfer payments to old people aren't mentally exhausting.

What's interesting is what those old people spend the money on. macroscopically, what matters is what money motivates people to do, who handles the money is just a means.
AI will create 'useless class' of human, predicts bestselling historian
14 tips for better front end testing
"When you forget to backup your files" seems more appropriate.
With apologies to patio11, Backup backup backup BACKUP backup BACKUP. There are many, many bad things that can happen to your data, which can be mitigated with proper backups. Also test your backups.

Important even if you're not using FDE, but by design FDE makes any data corruption significantly worse. Not an Apple specific problem, either. LUKS is actually specifically designed so that the master key is wrapped in a large all-or-nothing transform (anit-forensics) to make it exponentially harder to recover from a damaged header.
screenshot http://i.imgur.com/m3TPBIy.jpg
Someone's nifty MVP for filtering out substandard job applications
No one claimed that it is normal to be detained for insults in Western nations, you're the only one arguing that point. Parent comment specifically mentioned terrorism accusations in the context of treatment that Hayes experienced and the fears he envisioned. Had they said that all travelers to the US have fears of being held on terrorism charges then you would have a point, but they didn't. It was limited to how people already accused of terrorism are treated [0] and what fears they have, not travelers in general.

>Perhaps the US has done more bad things than most. But none of them are comparable to North Korea.

Playing that game won't be productive.

[0] https://varnull.adityamukerjee.net/2013/08/22/dont-fly-durin...
The 3rd paragraph of the linked to article says:

Indeed, in a recent paper, Cornell professors Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn found that women were paid 79 cents for each dollar a man was paid. Even after adjusting for type of job, industry, experience, location and education, the gap remained 92 cents for each dollar.

With a link to: http://ftp.iza.org/dp9656.pdf
Outright as in "completely" or "immediately" financially foolish is like going to the club with your friends and announcing drinks are on you. My negligence (as in, I didn't stay on top of it as good as I should have) I meant as more drawn out and not so painfully obvious. It's like a hole in a boat that you keep meaning to get around to, but hey the boat's still moving just fine.
No web2py for Python 3.
That reads more like a joke about Land Rover maintenance costs.
Hi Eric! You can reach me at bitquest@bitquest.co. We do want to start experimenting with a sidechain
That's a more believable attack than what most of the other posters have suggested. I suspect that the first step to fight that might be to store a value for the entropy of each backed-up file. A massive change in a file's entropy would be something to flag and require manual intervention on. Also, maybe some controls to limit the damage of a "push off the cliff by adding new data", like a way to set specific directories as "critical" to prevent the last copies of files in them from expiring.

I'm just playing with ideas =) The software I'm familiar with comes with hardware, generally scaled to keep a few months of nightly backups of a few hundred workstations and some fairly powerful rulesets for data expiration...so I've never really had to consider malicious backup expiration by ransomware. It's an interesting set of problems to consider.
I remember as a kid I used to play soccer 1 hour bike away from home. One week I had a bad flu, but I decided to go anyway. The next day I felt mostly cured. I expected that exhaustion (2 hours biking + 2 hours somehow intensive soccer amongst PE teachers .. really exhausting) would worsen the disease but it did not.

Few times since I could notice that in lesser scales.

Maybe increase blood flow, increased metabolism, endorphins, etc do help keeping your system active instead of going in suspend mode while the immune system reacts alone.

Just yesterday I had this metaphor of biology being a gyroscope, the more it spins the more it can dodge.
It's not so dire. OSMAnd discards data it doesn't use and has worldwide coverage in about 25 gigabytes. That data needs to grow a lot to have better coverage for stuff like POIs, but 100 or 200 gigabytes is going to go a long way.

On my phone with 1 gigabyte of memory, it can calculate a several hundred mile route in a few seconds. That's not as cool as the instant routes you get from real actual beefy servers, but it isn't unusable.

With just a little complexity you could do local routes on device and call out to a server for longer routes. That dramatically lowers the data requirement and tightens up the calculation times.
Hard to say - it was a visceral reaction that mostly manifested as a brief resistance to the idea ("no, that can't be right"). I imagine some component of my thought wants a space in the universe that is claimed by mystery. I enjoyed reading Heisenberg's "Physics and Philosophy", where he discusses the quixotic nature of the double-slit experiment and so on, notably things like observation collapsing the wave function and removing the diffraction pattern. Heisenberg definitely colors these things with an air of mystery, the idea that the operation of the universe flies in the face of what we think of as sensible. I'm someone who has always enjoyed being on the margins, questioning, overturning, poking at consensus. Before I understood the uncertainty principle I think it was a door to a much blacker mystery, and thus a much greater rejection of the notion that "we understand", which I think is something I have always associated with evil, hubris, and folly.
called on their bullshit == fired and harassed?

The behaviour here is the repression and marginalisation of a political group, deemed unworthy.
You can fix this with one bash command, or an IDE, or whatever. Sounds like the people who can't upgrade are just , well, you fill in the word yourself.
Why not a Linux VM on your Mac?
Coal power can be done safe, but we also have many examples of it not being done safe. Saying, "well it will be different this time. We will build systems to make corruption, laziness, and dangerous actions impossible!" is believing in a pipe dream.
Everyone already has one of two options in their pocket.
Credit cards are superior to debit cards in every way in the States.

Not only are credit cards more robust at consumer protection, but credit cards have 1% to 5% back deals. When I purchase gasoline, I get 3% back for example. As long as I pay back my credit cards every month, I never pay interest. AND I get the 3% back on gasoline and 2% back on groceries, 1% back on everything else.

There is almost no reason to use debit cards in the US. Use credit but pay it off.
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That's a shame, there are many wonderful people here, just as in the DPRK and all over the world.
This is just another "I dont have a backup..." story. Let me provide better one:

1) full disk encryption

2) police takes your laptop

3) after six months you are asked to decrypt the harddrive

4) you dont remember 100 character password after all that time

5) you go to jail until you remember
Thanks, I didn't think about the massive movie theater tankards. Seems like that could be solved by requiring that they offer a smaller size, rather than requiring that they not offer a larger one.

I've always thought that government could help a lot just by requiring that they sell tap water in cups of the same size as the cups of sugar water, and at cost. As it is, the choice is usually between a thimbleful of water, or a bottled water that is (other than being wasteful, environmentally horrible, and sending money to those same sugar water companies) sometimes more expensive than the soda.
its harder for me to get time off when school is out, because many of my colleagues also have children, and not everyone can take off. So I take my kids out of school when i can take vacation... first world problems :(

Some people will de-register and then re-register their children in public school as a way around it, but its not practical to do multiple times a year.
There is https://caremad.io/2015/04/a-year-of-pypi-downloads/ which is also based on PyPI downloads and is more recent.
> which transliterates to “unsharpness relationship,” but as there is really no such term in English

Seems like there is: "unsharpness relationship".
I just finished reading "Deep Work" by Cal Newport - great book. The central theme of the book is that you need distraction-free focus to do your best work (especially relevant for programmers I think). Social media goes against this - constantly checking HN, Twitter or FB breaks this focus. He basically recommends to quit altogether. A good start is to try and go a full day with checking any social media - it's harder than it sounds.
I like Elixir, but the ecosystem has years of catching up to be anywhere close to Python. Not just libraries but experienced developers. There's also a danger it might end up like Ruby - basically the support system for a web framework.
Once English speakers start using it, it's no longer a Japanese word, and doesn't have to follow Japanese rules.

"DVD" has four syllables in Japanese. Stuff like that just happens with loanwords sometimes.
Governments have been running deficits for 5000 years, it's how currency is established.
Oracle effectively killed Java with the Android lawsuit. Java's original selling point was to not be tied to a single vendor's platform. Now Oracle wants to be the single vendor. So long and thanks for all the fish.
I think this hearkens back to the "great power, great responsibility" cliche. The power of technology requires mature, responsible users and creators. But it's very difficult to be either of those.
Are you agreeing with my parenthetical?