skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EURUSD Loses Upside Pressure, Vulnerable to the Downside
I'm kind of surprised the name "OMG Digital" didn't raise any flags with legal given OMG is what Omnicom Media Group is often referred to, and is the media services division of Omnicom or OMD (one of the largest ad agency holding companies).

Couldn't find any relationship between the two from a cursory look, but I'd be shocked if they didn't have OMG trademarked in some form.
Right. I think that's true.

And yet, people are killed virtually every day by car accidents, but nowadays there's no serious legal effort to ban all cars.

How did humanity overcome its fear of cars in the first place? That same process is the one autosteer needs to undergo.
From the wiki (http://wiki.squirrel-lang.org/default.aspx/SquirrelWiki/Lua%...) it looks like most of the reasons Squirrel was created stemmed from problems that have since been fixed in Lua.

The remaining differences seem pretty minor; IMO having the OO system baked into the language instead of implemented in user-space is a step backwards. The 0-indexing might be nice if you do a lot of FFI with C, I suppose. Hardly worth giving up the insane performance of LuaJIT for though.
Gitlab open sources its Handbook
The double icon for external links to youtube|wikipedia|twitter etc. seems superfluous and makes things harder to read.
If you're at the bottom of the ladder (possibly Afro-Cuban), you're better off in Cuba than most other Latin American countries.

If you're one of the educated white folks whose family lost a plantation or Havana mansion, I can understand you hate the Castros. It's like getting kicked out of Paris and 60 years later the city is literally crumbling. For a while it was like a civilization trapped in amber but infrastructure has gone over the line into complete decay.

On the plus side is good education, good health care, not a lot of crime, until recently a guarantee of a job that would keep body and soul together.

The Castros still have > 50% popular support, they have managed to maintain control of the country and the armed forces despite all their failures, foreign military adventures, withdrawal of Russian support, constant pressure from the USA.

It's a very mixed bag but not the one-sided disaster we constantly hear about from people who make a cottage industry of selling that story (someone has got the US to spend $500m on broadcasts to Cuba no one can receive, and that's just one example).

Moving to a more liberalized economy and attracting foreign investment without causing social unrest, giving up control will be a challenge, and the fact that all the educated people want to leave will not make it easier.

these were interesting
http://fusion.net/story/116226/historic-poll-top-25-findings...

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/03/21/2157021/the-us-and-cub...

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/cuba-after-obama...

https://medium.com/@dtemkin/spending-the-last-week-in-cuba-w...
If you are interested in building something interactive for your students, we should talk.

My contact information is in my profile
It does mention choosing the "right tool/process for the job" about five times, but I will take the idea to first class status under the intro chapter.
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I'm curious - is this a 'known and standard' protocol adopted universally across many airlines? Or how do you know this? I guess I'm thinking that if this is 'known and standard' it may also be possible to design an attack against it.
what's exciting in that?
Warren v. District of Columbia
First of all, Fidel Castro had the support of most of the Cuban population. Everybody opposed the old brutal dictatorship. Second, Batista regime did not have the support of the US. Quite the opposite, there was an arms embargo against it.
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POPLOG was more than a LISP! It was an IDE for POP-11, Common Lisp, Prolog, and Standard ML. All other languages were incrementally compiled to POP-11. Lisp was the least used of these in my experience at Sussex.

\sidebar:

POP-11 has Lisp-y list support with a Pascal-like syntax. It was pretty nice. It had assignment the right way around (if you have the stack as a mental model):

5 -> x

Grad students and undergrad keeners were advised to learn enough LISP to read papers from the MIT AI Lab :)

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

It was pretty well done, but not exactly fast on a 1990 Sun minicomputer shared by a hundred students.

Almost all of our undergrad assignments were set and submitted via the POPLOG system, including lecture notes and tutorials: 'teach texts' with hypertext links. You could highlight code snippets with the cursor and run them in the REPL. All pre-web on a VT-100. Great stuff.
The answer is simple: there is no libre hardware if you want top performance, common architecture, don't have ability to order chips in hundreds of thousands or to make your own, etc.

The question is not whether some proprietary solution looks “free enough” if you squint your eyes more than the other proprietary solution. The question is whether people understand that chain of trust that ends in someone else's hands has its problems no matter how big that someone is, and bother to fix that vulnerability.
You were implicitly asserting that Ross Ulbricht is popular with the public, as well. I was pointing out how ridiculous that is.
I haven't read all of it yet but it also seems to miss the vein of development that has led to movements such as Correct by Construction et al. The idea that we should model our computations in a high-level specification and check that those designs meet our goals and hold the invariants we press upon them.

Instead there's Agile and the idea that we can throw together something that roughly works and iterate until our confidence is enough such that we can release it. The so-called, beta-driven-development. (Perhaps a vestigial remnant of the unix philosophy?).

I'm not arguing that formal methods should be used for every software project. I think Carmack was right to point out that if all software was written like the software at JPL we'd be decades behind where we are now. However I do think that it should be a part of the experience of becoming a programmer so that when we encounter hard problems we have the correct instincts to rely on mathematics to help us.
Yes, you are right. Database Systems.
> The core issue here is that Tesla is shipping a product called "autopilot", which gives the expectation that it is in fact an autopilot.

An autopilot system is defined as a system that assists, but does not replace, the human operator of a vehicle. Therefore Tesla's system is, in fact, an autopilot.
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9th Circuit: It’s a federal crime to visit a website after being told not to
Further down they do say this:

"Misconception: Humans have been making G.M.O.s for millenniums.
Actually: While selective breeding is a form of genetic modification, G.M.O. refers to foods made with specific forms of modern biotechnology."
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I've been talking with SENS about this while it was in development, and it seems incredibly promising. It's a concrete set of steps to produce practical applications, and it has already brought in more in a single donation than SENS normally receives per year.
That is entirely unclear due to how the geopolitical landscape has been evolving. SpaceX's major innovations amount to cutting out corporate bureaucracy, cutting operating costs, and taking advantage of economies of scale not available to the last generation of aerospace manufacturers. SpaceX hasn't invested in science, they've invested in engineering and logistics that make them competitive with the current state of the art, up to and including their first stage recovery technology. For example, they use kerosene instead of liquid hydrogen, cutting out the huge manufacturing and storage cost, and because they're not subject to Congressional pork barreling, they don't have to split manufacturing across many states and districts. Whether they can make the leap from basic chemical propulsion to something that can really drop costs by an order of magnitude or two remains to be seen.
The UK is a net contributor to the EU so the UK government could choose to fund all current commitments and still be better off.

As another commenter has posted [1], this had already been debunked in December last year [2]:

This claim is based on the UK being a “net contributor” to the EU budget as a whole. The size of that net contribution varies, but according to analysis [..] about 0.6% of nominal GDP. Models of impact to the UK economy on Brexit vary. [..] even the more optimistic assessments of the UK’s economic performance following a Brexit [..] model an immediate loss in GDP for the transition years following a Brexit. The size of that loss is substantially larger than the current net contribution of the UK to the EU budget.

[Brexit] is a sure-fire short term loss, wiping any free money for R&I investment until at least a decade down the line – according to the most optimistic scenarios.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12081215

[2] http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexitvote/2015/12/05/debunking-the-m...
Yeah but it was a onsite interview. If typing was going to be an issue, it would have already come up.
Not found. Did you mispaste the url?
>what I stated was objectively true while what most people believe is only subjectively true

It's not really, but of course you believe it is. Nobody wants to believe that their beliefs are just as arbitrary any anyone else's.
You are just a victim of propaganda. Cuba had decent education and decent healthcare system by third world standards but the Cuban economy wasn't able to support either of them and everything came tumbling down when the soviet money stopped flowing in.

It would be also very interesting to know from where you get that figure that more than 50% of the population support the Castros as that data is famously unavailable.
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If you're talking about grammar, that's in a different document.

> Why is it not accurate?

I said it _was_ accurate. It's just not neccesarily complete. It's not complete because I'm only one human, and I have more important work to do.
Growing up in suburban Seattle in the 1980s, all of us kids had great fun speculating on whose dad could secretly be D.B. Cooper.
IMO you don't miss out on too much by not having the AR.
> Student loans are 6% instead of 22% interest rate[1][2]. They don't have to so high because they can't be discharged and they are guaranteed by the government.

Maybe we should allow people to sell themselves and their future families into eternal servitude for loans ? We could have 1% student loans !

Hurray !

This is effectively slavery, and it should be illegal.
No I think that medical research can now be preformed by anyone. I think that there are going to be great advances that come from this amateur research in the next 5 years and I think it is the next evolution of hacking. People in general are capable of the kind of science required to achieve reproducible results. Most of this "research" is driven by a personal motivation (personal or some one close) where traditional medicine is unable to help. Research is driven by what can be sold afterwards and not the reward of knowledge gained from the results. And even then if knowledge was captured it often be inaccessible to those whom could turn that into a practical application of that science. So really this comes off as questioning the Doctors' absolute authority as masters in their field, and someone with out credentials coming up with just as meaningful results being tossed aside as amateurs not having a full understanding of what they are doing. I would say that in my personal experience that medicine is largely more art than science you rarely find Doctors that are interested in solving the unusual.
Definitely agree - my pet peeve (although I haven't seen it for a while) is introducting circular references by adding compiled dlls from /bin/debug as references instead of adding a project reference.

I use to see it a lot a few years ago, maybe I just got a little better at my job?
Nine-year-old inventor’s award-winning asthma monitor
That's hardly the only piece of tech the car companies have fought. Air bags and shoulder seat belts, among other things. The National Highway Traffic Safety Act of 1966 appears to be pretty universally cited as the turning point from a rapidly increasing rate of automative deaths to a dramatic, sustained drop over the next few decades.
Is it actually faster though?

https://github.com/r-lyeh/scriptorium

Perhaps these results are due to poor coding practices in the example code.
I think we could definitely do better in the US, but that's not a huge difference. That engineer making 60K (I'm assuming you're number was AUD, so I'm converting to USD to simplify calculations), will pay about $3600 per year in Australia, and about $4300 per year in the US. Not really much of a difference. The Australian engineer will pay their lown down quicker since there's no interest (right now subsidized loans are at 3.76% interested and unsubsidized are at a 5.31%), but the US engineer can take a tax deduction of up to $2500 per year in student loan interest.

The payment threshold is lower in the US 1.5x the federal poverty rate (so about 16k a year for single person), but again you only pay 10% of anything above that. And any remaining debt is cancelled after 20 years as long as you keep making minimum payments.
The exact opposite seems to be true. In many domains, machine learning showed even very simple algorithms easily outperform "experts". It's not uncommon to find that experts perform barely better than chance. See: http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gv/statistical_prediction_rules_out...
"OSS is great! Anybody can make a fork and improve the software!"

"Hey guys, it's me, Microsoft. I made a fork and improved the software."

"BURN THE WITCH"
I've played a bit, but most of the times I have tried the servers have been too busy. Anyhow, I played Pokemon Red and Blue and those games had way more depth.
Has it worked for you before?
There was enough flourishing before to prove the point.
Kind of, in the same way that waterboarding is better than good cop bad cop.
It's not size directly, but the risk of goodwill. A bigger company stands to lose more goodwill.
Första Långgatan 10, Göteborg is mainly a utf8 encoding problem. (I'm working on it, it's challenge especially with Russian, Hebrew or Armenian). Should work with ascii values too: eg, http://geocode.xyz/Forsta%20Langgatan%2010,%20Goteborg )

As to the typo, I have not implemented fuzzy search yet.
Now see, that I agree with. I merely disagree that sent's useless unless you have a taste for NIH.
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Besides the other suggestions, you can go to the source. Three of my favorite electronic enclosure manufacturers are Hammond, Bud and Polycase. Polycase in particular has pretty low setup and per-unit costs for modifying enclosures.
Yes and no. Yes, I signed up for it. No, because their servers have shit the bed.

Probably won't continue playing.
This is a fantastic analogy.

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Yes. Lua does it quite well by default. Apparently, luerl aspires to do it better.
The Castros are the main responsible for the dire economic situation of Cuba. Regardless of all the international relationship mistakes he made, Fidel Castro stands as one of the most economic incompetent of all communist dictators, with the notable exception of the ones in North Korea. Despite the embargo which affects mainly the commerce with the US, Cuba has always had commercial relations with many countries that were largely unaffected by the embargo. He basically had the whole country under his control. Think about a CEO of a very diversified industrial and agricultural conglomerate. He managed to screw it all and there was no other reason than his incompetence.
Nope, I love this comment and lol'd at the "gladwell-esque" part.

Keep in mind though I'm not a professional writer, far from it, a hack basically. It took untold suffering to get here, where "there's nothing wrong with this statement." Because believe me there were ten wrongs and ten revisions beforehand to get to this point.

That said, I do have a number of stories included in the text, unfortunately under five. I will keep a todo item to include more, but honestly I'll never be able to produce suspenseful text like the above. Maybe if it makes some money I'll be able to hire a pro co-author.
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The NFL doesn't require a college degree - it's just that playing college football is by far the best way to learn how to play professional football and to get noticed by the NFL teams.

Most college players don't go on to be successful in the NFL, but for those who do, college was a very good investment.
Well then, why do it? Sure, it lessens the chance of a ball dupe, but is that really worth ddosing yourself over?
I think it's the memory. The phone only has 1GB and the app requires 2GB.
I'd rather not mention my recent employer.

But these startups do exist: look up Achaogen (achaogen.com) and Tetraphase (tphase.com).

Cubist Pharmaceuticals was a big antibiotic developer that was recently purchased by Merck. Cubist itself bought another startup called Trius Pharmaceuticals, which had developed a newly marketed antibiotic.

So, there is $$ to be made in antibiotic drug development, but as many people on this thread have pointed out, there is more $$$$ to be made in other therapeutic areas (e.g., oncology).
I love how all the folks in this thread who actually lived in Cuba (or their families did) are getting down voted. I'm guessing by people who don't have the same type of experience.
Every now and then someone posts some humorous easily-digestible technical content to Hacker News and commenters say stuff like "All mathematics/science/software development textbooks should be written this way", and some commenters throw out a few similar links, and the story slowly drops down the HN front page, as stories do, and then it's mostly forgotten, until the next one comes along.

If education matters, and if human intelligence augmentation matters, then we should be researching how to make difficult technical material more easily digestible, for example by enhancing it with an appropriate level of humour.

Millions of dollars are being spent on making machines more intelligent (or is it billions?). Someone should be spending some time, money and effort on making people smarter.

Also, compared to other possible human intelligence augmentation technologies, writing textbooks in a more humorous style is less intrusive than taking "smart pills" or placing electrodes inside your brain.
> "Oh, so people who pick apart your flawed plans should just shut the fuck up and let you agitate for a global revolution?"

I'm all for debate, but if you were interested in debate before you wouldn't have dismissed it as 'impossible' without explanation. Just because you say something is impossible doesn't make it so, you have to elaborate on why. If you're interested in engaging in the implementation details now I'm all for a debate.

> "You did not argue for better education. You argued for a change in the financial system."

I argued for both. I argued for a change in the financial system, and as I elaborated on how I could see this come to pass, I argued for better education. To me there is no conflict, to have an effective democracy you need an informed populace, otherwise people are too easily swayed by demagoguery. If you think this represents a shift in my argument, I'd invite you to read my comment history, I have been clear with my position on how the mass media plays a big role in influencing the masses. Breaking through the misinformation spread by the mass media is an important prerequisite for societal change that benefits the many. In terms of how to break through media manipulation, I could go into implementation details if you're interested.

> "Because we have it very good now"

Maybe in your world, but economic inequality is an increasingly pressing issue, and one that needs to be addressed. Take a look at this story...

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/media-centre/press-releases/2016/01/...

If that is accurate, 62 people have the same level of wealth as half the population of the world. Do you recognise the types of problems that concentration of power can create?
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Is it even an investment? I thought most college football players were there on scholarships.

Or has TV warped my view?
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Recreating ancient vertebrate’s first step on dry land, with a robot
NASA's budget in 2015 was about $18 billion while the defense budget was just shy of $600 billion. If we lived in a fantasy world where NASA was considered as important as defense, we'd be an interplanetary species by now. Alas, we don't, and when we consider the feasibility of an idea we have to take that into account.
> Kjellberg/PewDiePie is based in Sweden, so the FTC guidelines don't concern him except insofar as he's doing commerce in the US

FWIW he resides in Brighton, England.
Is it just me or is there no way to just order a map on the web? Why do I need an app to do this?
Pokemon GO the biggest mobile game in US history
> if the person is willing to set up a company in their own country

I can't speak for other countries, but in Australia this is far simpler than most people realise.

There's a range of companies that will do all that for you. They set up and operate the company, they do payroll & taxes, they handle insurance.

When I worked remotely for a US company, I was technically a contract employee of an Australian company that existed purely to handle the contact work. I paid them something like $1-$2 per hour (that I worked) to handle all of that, including indemnity insurance, etc.

The only hard part was that the people that handled it weren't set up to easily handle foreign currency, and I was being paid in (and invoicing in) USD.

Other than that it was easy - in fact it was even better than when I contracted to Australian companies because I didn't need to charge sales tax, so more money went in to my pocket.
Ask HN: Presumably you are now cloning Pokemon Go “with a twist”?
So of course your big new idea is to do something very much like Pokemon Go but with some difference or twist.

What's your clone plan?
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Even ignoring the whole "IQ = smart" thing, you can have a lower IQ and still have a high IQ.