skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't watch the video right now, but assuming the transcript accurately transcribes what was said then:

JS: I did it by assembling a wonderful group of people. When I started doing trading, I had gotten a little tired of mathematics. I was in my late 30s, I had a little money. I started trading and it went very well. I made quite a lot of money with pure luck. I mean, I think it was pure luck. It certainly wasn't mathematical modeling. But in looking at the data, after a while I realized: it looks like there's some structure here. And I hired a few mathematicians, and we started making some models -- just the kind of thing we did back at IDA [Institute for Defense Analyses]. You design an algorithm, you test it out on a computer. Does it work? Doesn't it work? And so on.

That's basically what I said. I didn't claim that he had a brilliant and correct answer before he started. (Nor am I claiming that you need to have a brilliant and correct plan for a cryptosystem before you start.) I'm claiming that he had the resources to make experimentation not ruinous (the first part of that story is how he acquired those resources, namely, "pure luck" which "certainly wasn't mathematical modeling"), and he engaged in that experimentation and took the scientific method seriously (the second part of that story).
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Most first world nations have become very bad at city building through what they think are good intentions, it's really sad.
Side note: Holy cow. I was initially posting to say I distinctly remembered Lazy Sunday coming out in 2004, because I remember posting it on my blog in my dorm room freshmen year. Then I remembered if it was in 2004 I was almost done with college, and so it couldn't have been from my dorm. Then I check the Wikipedia and realized he was right about the Dec 2005 date, which means I had already finished school. The mind is weird.
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What happends when you drive a nail through a fully charged LiPo Cell?
Am I reading the visualization right that CO2 practically disappears every summer? Wouldn't it logically follow then that we're not actually too late to fix our CO2 levels? If we can reduce emissions, plant consumption during the summer months for the northern hemisphere appears to be incredibly effective at basically demolishing the built-up CO2.

Or is the "too late" aspect more about the melting polar caps, and that they'd not rebuild quickly?
> In fifteen years from now such cars will look as quaint as the cars from the 1980s with full LED dashes:

Those are vacuum fluorescent displays and not LEDs, and were used in new vehicles (at least by Ford) until the early 2000s. They are still a great choice for vehicle instrument panels and are commonly used for aftermarket retrofit units (see for example http://www.parrautomotive.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=product/p...)
Bryan - hope you see this since I don't appear to have your email anymore. Do you guys have a list of maximums for Manta anywhere? Specifically object count - but node count/total storage/etc. I'm guessing that was part of the samsung testing :)
Reddit is looking like the whole site is failing "spectacularly"
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Noscript ;)
Is there a better version of this in 2016 somewhere?
Is there any chance you could create a reproducible test case? I'm very curious as to what's causing the slowdown.
>the only difference between...

If you are not buying and selling the same assets at the same weightings as an index fund, then it is different from that index fund.

>Cash sitting around not in an investment

How is this a difference between investing one way and investing another way?
As for "generic looking, templated landing page with no product to actually see." We actually built the landing page from the ground up. but we recognize there's room for improvement.

In our landing page, at the bottom right there is a little widget called "feedback" if you click on it you can not only comment but draw specific areas you have concerns with, or leave your specific concerns here, whichever is easier.

Any feedback is of tremendous value.
I'm confused, is the private key represented on the face of the note? If so, isn't there a risk that anyone who ever sees the note might spend the bitcoins, breaking the association with the note?
Reading the paper, there is a whole new theory of how vacuum and gravity work proposed. My dubiousness intensifies.
I just want a car that still runs even if all its electronics (not really counting ignition here) are fried.
I was lucky enough to beta test this so I've had time to clear the trainer levels. And let me just say, wow. The tricks and turns you have to navigate to get through this are some of the best fun I've had sitting in front of a computer.

I like that people are evaluating this against things like Overwatch, because for me, Stockfighter is a form of entertainment. I still play video games occasionally, but in my growing adult years, I'm not able capture that same rush from winning.

Not so with CTFs. Maybe it's because I'm a relative newbie, but the dopamine rush I get from winning a level is incomparable. There is something about a solve, when you get that brainfeel where you just understand completely what is going on, that is unique. Perhaps that's what black hat hackers feel when they p0wn a system. The closest recollection for me is when I smashed through that top level brick in World 1-2 of Super Mario Bros, and I could run across the roof to win the level.
That's fair, though I would point out Math is a Philosophy. There is noting in the physical world that directly correlates with i or even 37.5 for example. Thus, you could say this is beyond philosophy, but I don't think that's a useful standpoint.
Could a moderator change the link to something other than the mobile version? The other versions on the CACM site should be more nicely formatted.

For example, the full HTML version is

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/6/202646-physical-key-ext...
Is this a trick question? Smart enough (along with the rest of my home) to order the cheapest reliable courier to pick up a quantity of fresh vegetables sufficient for the dietary profile that I need based on my height and weight and dietary restrictions, to order the vegetables from my local grocer for the courier to pick up, to let the courier into my apartment when they arrive and put them in the fridge, and smart enough to get them out of the fridge and make me a smoothie at the time that I've ordered on my smart phone, and then go wash itself in my dishwasher. Why - how dumb do you want your blender to be? Just a spinning blade for you to leave in a grimy corner of your kitchen or stowed away in a cupboard, never to be used?

of course, some of this functionality logically overlaps (why should the blender put itself in my dishwasher rather than my dishwasher taking the blender; is the blender ordering my groceries or is my fridge) but you get the idea....
Note: I buy into global warming, but that video was terrible and only manages to worsen the case for global warming.

He claims people are global warming deniers and uses ice cores to prove the case, only he's an idiot for not realizing that MOST of the people he's referring to are not denying that the earth is warming up, rather they're clearly saying that it is the impact/outcome where there is a disagreement.

He consistently and unjustifiably uses answers for peripheral problems to debate core arguments which only destroys his credibility. I could only watch for so long... I just had to stop, it was hurting that much.
I agree. I tell people all the time to not trade - they can't compete against computers.

It would help to further inform people of the advantages you maintain over regular folk.

How many signals do you track?

Are you using neural-nets?

What kind of computing power does your system use?

What's the latency of your connection?

etc..
It's the transition speed that is most important to consider. Past climatic changes have caused extinction events of varying degrees, but they happened on a timescale of tens to hundreds of thousands of years. We are changing the world's environments in equally or even more dramatic ways (ocean acidification, climate change, habitat destruction, deforestation, overfishing) on a timescale of just a couple hundred years that is currently driving the unprecedented extinction rates [1]. We could raise CO2 and the temperature slowly over thousands of years and the biosphere would have time to adapt, but it's the rate of current change that is so devastating.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/29/earth-lo...
This is actually an interesting question when combined with OTA updates. Could (auto maker of your choice) theoretically supply all the parts you want but deny you from using them via software blocks? Or would that be illegal?
I'm very confident the USA will respond effectively to global warming as soon as the Midwest actually sets on fire and not a moment before.
http://www.qt.io/FAQ/#_Toc453700716

The Qt FAQ specifically says that their copy isn't sufficient, but as you say perhaps it only counts if you've made modifications (which would make sense).
In the same vein, the Internet Archive recently hostly the Decentralized Web Summit in SF (http://decentralizedweb.net).
If I remember correctly what really rocketed youtube from being a website with nothing but crap to a site worth going to were the home videos from tourists caught in the the Tsunami in Thailand.
Great design.

Putting high achievers face on currency will quickly become a political issue. There are many cultures of people with almost no scientific achievement. Their people would never be on that currency.

Bitcoin paper currency will need more thought. Someone could steal your currency just by looking at it and thats not secure. We probably could take a range of coins and designate them as paper only currency and digitizing them would not be allowed.
Florida normally has concrete block. Newer construction has that covered in insulation and then stucco, which is more concrete.

Note that Florida houses are inexpensive. They are insulated pretty well, obviously for the opposite reason.

The nicer houses in Florida are solid poured concrete. Considering the expense of property in Massachusetts, the extra expense of poured concrete would be a smaller portion of the total cost. You might as well do it. You're already paying quite a bit for the land; why build a shack?
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I am working since one year with the last XPS 13, the lower priced version and it is a very good notebook for developers imho, I might would buy it again.
Only might because Dell sold the last model including quite a few bugs (Sound and Keyboard didn't work). Before you could work with it you had to upgrade the bios and the OS. Considering the amount of time required for this it was expensive. Dell did know about the problems but sold it anyway. I sweared I will never buy a Dell again, but then there aren't too many other options left anymore.
This comment likely also misses the point, but the zoning laws are not really intended to cover situations where the entire city is destroyed and rebuilt. Realistically, if the city were rebuilt from scratch today, much of what people love about it now would be gone regardless of zoning laws.

It seems like it's theoretically possible for residents and visitors in a given city to enjoy its current building stock while simultaneously desiring different standards for new construction. Whether or not that is the case in Somerville, I don't really know, but a statement that the city couldn't legally be built from scratch the same way today doesn't necessarily imply (in my mind) that the zoning laws are illegitimate.

I get that there are other issues here too, of course.
Well, part of the Communist marketing brand is that everyone equally gets a cramped two bedroom apartment, so it'd be useful to get hard evidence one way or another.

From what I've read about Soviet housing in the Krushchev era, though, you were very lucky if you got a cramped two bedroom. Not sure about the 70s and 80s.
Runcible offers a $499 phone for people who hate phones
Seems like a standard burden of proof question. There are theories that explain consciousness just as well as any others that are purely based in the material world (my personal favourite is attention schema theory).

These are, of course, incomplete theories. But they are all incomplete, both the material-only ones and the others.

If you wish to add something, especially something fundamental that can affect physical matter but is not detectable at the scale of human brains then the burden of proof is on you.
I'd be happier if they costed the same and lasted longer or twice as much and four times longer.

It used to be that you could spend more and get a more durable good but those days seem to have gone and other than aesthetics there doesn't seem to be the correlation between price and durability there was, I've had two £40 quid kettles fail in under a year a piece and the £6 quid one I got as a stopgap is still going 3 years later.
> I do not believe that most people have the skill or discipline to understand the difference between happening to make money and properly making money long term.

Sure, and I agree on that point.

> If it's so easy to make money on the stocks why isn't everyone doing it?

No one said it was easy. Merely that it's not gambling; gambling implies that's it's random and you can't find any edge, but people clearly do find edges and make money consistently so it's not gambling, it's just damn hard. However, it's a fallacy to conclude that you have to be better than the pros to make money for exactly the reason I specified, the pros are playing a harder game because the more money you have, the harder it is to find alpha.

It's vastly easier to get a 10% return on a few tens of thousands that it is on millions or billions because of liquidity and slippage. You can't exit a losing position in the billions instantly like you can when you have a few thousand, or enter quickly, it's an entirely different game.
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That's in no way the customers problem, and you aren't going to capture the custom of anyone by explaining what a hard done by sod you are.

You want me to transit via the UK, spending my money in the heathrow airport and on british airline connection flights?

Dig a little deeper into your pockets and man the fucking desks, or like Veratyr I'll transit via Schipol who it would seem aren't so badly managed they can't turn superior service into a profit margin.
It doesn't look like genuine upvotes. r/The_Donald reminds me 4chan but with a paid agenda to elect Clinton.
From what I understand the first "used" mission will be insured.

Insurers seem to be playing a bit loose with SpaceX:

>This insurance official said that given the market’s current softness, underwriters have overlooked the fact that they are not always sure what modifications have been made to the Falcon 9 they are insuring.

http://spacenews.com/spacex-to-brief-underwriters-on-the-roa...
I completely agree. I'm firmly in the "do not want" camp with a lot of this stuff. I find very few of the modern electronic distractions to be useful or desirable anyway, and I find approximately none of them useful or desirable enough to justify risking safety, security or privacy.
The most prevalent domestic 'smart' devices (dishwashers? washing machines? automatic transmissions? electric refrigeration?) were once-new concepts in the last 100 years, but have become almost invisible today. They don't shout "smart," and that's OK, but they all integrate a bit of control logic that helps the user do something easier/better/cheaper/faster than was possible before. That's how I define "smart" -- I think the network-connected / software aspect is more of an implementation detail.

I really don't want a smart blender or a smart fridge.

But a 'smart' thermostat? Might save energy (and money). A 'smart' sprinkler or lighting control system? Might save water or energy (and money). A 'smart' door lock? Might save time and effort getting keys copied or locks changed or letting in guests while away. A 'smart' frying pan? Might cook a salmon fillet to perfection every time and let me master new recipes the first time.

Does the reality of today's smart devices match the potential? Unclear.

But if 'smart' means something that will give me, the user, a superior value -- defined very conventionally and rationally, such as saving time, saving money, making something higher quality, or making something easier -- and if the superior value outweighs the added complexity and cost, then maybe I'll take a look.

(Disclaimer: I make a "smart" frying pan but am not particularly in love with the word "smart." It simply helps people cook easier/better/cheaper/faster. https://www.pantelligent.com/ - comments of all kinds are welcome.)
They should demolish it...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
>We encourage investors to trade via triggers, instead of being driven by fear or greed.

These triggers could be considered a proxy for fear ("IF JPM dividend decreases THEN SELL JPM") and greed ("IF Fed raises interest rates THEN BUY VXX"). These codify and act on what a user expects their emotions to be.
It'd be great if someone put together a test suite for networking equipment to test for things like this. It could give a scorecard after checking that TCP fast open, SCTP, Websockets-over-HTTP, IPv6, WebRTC and any other new networking technologies work correctly.

I have no idea how to tell which routers and IDSes will silently make my network / internet connectivity crappy.
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Cars aren't iPhones though. Let's assume that the manufacturer supports the OS for 2 years and let's take the Nissan Versa 2016, which has the lowest cost to own of any car.

Sticker Price I found was $12,825 ,so let's go with that.
Cost to Own for 5 years I found is $28,855. I assume this includes depreciation and that the car fully depreciates in 5 years. If the car lasts for 2 years, the monthly cost comes down to $796/month. If the car lasts for 5, the monthly cost is $476/month, which is a little more than half.

Now this is the most budget new car I could find. Straight up doubles in cost. Or you get the situation where people just decide to drive with the legacy version anyways, which sounds a lot like a literal ton of Windows XP at 50mph. And all because you couldn't come up with a universal plug for car entertainment systems.
> tending a garden and working in your woodshop

After doing tech for 15 years, that sounds glorious.
> Am I reading the visualization right that CO2 practically disappears every summer?

No. The concentration does drop seasonally, but not even close to zero. See:

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/

Click on the "full record" tab and note that the Y axis starts at 320 (compared to the preindustrial level of 270).

The seasonal drop is about 5PPM, and we're at about 400 now, roughly 50% over pre-industrial levels. There are seasonal natural emissions as well. Even if we cut artificial emissions to zero it would still take the better part of a century (maybe even several centuries) to get back down to preindustrial CO2 levels.
Unless the creator released the figures nobody will know however it must be bringing in enough money to keep him interested.

Personally if you're using the software to make money then dropping a one off payment of $70 is nothing in the long term.
What's the ratio of amateurs who fail to the Simmons' of the world?

Not to mention the fact that there is a huge number of professionals in this space who can only afford to do what they do because it's their losing their customers money and not their own.
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As an Englishman perhaps not as well as you would think.
Friend of mine did something similar in San Francisco. Got a low-work part time job that paid in the affordable housing range for a year or two; he had accrued a large down payment; and he managed to win the BMR lottery. Bought a place in North Beach, tripled or quadrupled his income the following year.

That makes it sound a lot more cynical than it actually was--he originally chose the badly paying job for the lifestyle it allowed him--but it's definitely an abuse of a system that doesn't even function well when it's not being abused.
If you look at this as a $6000 or so discount on a new Tesla, it actually seems like a pretty good deal.

A 75kWh battery pack that is limited to 60kWh is better than having a real 60kWh pack.

The extra over-capacity means that it won't be charging to it's true 100% capacity, and not discharging to 0%. That puts less wear on the cells, and means faster charging. (The sweet spot for charging is in the middle of the battery's capacity - charging speed is slower if the battery is near 0% or near 100%.)
Unfortunately, plants do not sequester much CO2 long term. Instead, the CO2 gets released back to the atmosphere as plants die off.
Somerville is hardly sparse. It's not high rises but it's a densely packed urban neighborhood without much in the way of industry (any longer) but local stores. As someone else said, it appears to be the most densely populated (i.e. people living in the space) area in Massachusetts. Sure, areas of NYC are denser and I appreciate that some might prefer that.

This is in spite of the fact that Somerville rail transportation is limited. There's an effort to improve that but it's way over budget.
I focus mainly on driving clicks to both content and eCommerce. The actual likes and comments on a post don't really matter much to me but it does help for increasing the CTR
You may be right for most people! I'm sure you're right for yourself. As someone who lives in such a neighborhood (and lived for two years attempting to survive biking and walking among the plentiful parking, wide streets, and zero pedestrians of suburban Los Angeles) you are very wrong for me.

Regardless, I just wish that the US government (and the vast majority of state and local governments) would stop making the choice for all of us with massive explicit and implicit subsidies for motor-vehicle-optimized travel.
There are many requirements other than simple time to successfully adverse possess property, such as the possession being open and notorious. Also, adverse possession as such applies only to real property; analogous concepts may exist with respect to personal property depending on the jurisdiction.
What I'm imagining is something similar to Android Auto / Chromecast / Samsung's smart TV "evolution kit", using a connector in like HDbaseT (everything-over-ethernet) or USB C 3.1 (both of these connector solutions even offer up to 100W power transfer and arbitary data streams).

Basically an RPi3 / RPi Zero with a single connector and a number of well defined interfaces for audio, video, talking to car systems, networking, etc...

The possibility to swap I/O devices would be nice too, so you can integrate stuff like Soli (Google ATAP) when modules for that shows up.

And I want that same thing for smart TV:s too. Ideally both of those could use the exact same standard too!
Is it because blame is harder to place?

I suspect that's part of it. Another possibility is that in some cases, these systems may outperform an average driver but not a good one. Removing control or judgement from a good driver in favour of the automated system is then an unnecessary loss.

Of course, you also have the problem that around 100% of drivers think they are better than average. The above is a reasonable and valid concern for drivers who actually are better than the alternative automated system, but there's also a problem with other drivers who mistakenly believe they are that good and that the automated system will therefore make them and their passengers less safe.