skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think your idea is nuts at all. I see the TLDR of this article as (quoted from the article)

"...active management has positive externalities, and if no one will pay for it, those benefits will disappear."

It probably contributes to poor corporate governance. The more your shareholders don't even bother to vote their proxies or even think or read about them, the easier it is for management to gradually evolve into caring more about padding their position and making short term results look good than catering to long term shareholders

It's a bit of a free-rider problem -- as long as there's enough active shareholders, passive shareholders can get a free ride and profit from the (averaged) wisdom of the active ones without paying for it in time/effort. But if that keeps growing, eventually the active shareholders who care are a minority in the company, and at that point management is incentivized to ignore the minority that cares and just "appease Wall Street", ie do whatever gives short term stock boosts.

> And if most people are only investing in the S&P 500 or Large Blend funds

BTW, IIRC, the largest firms are so large that most of the market by market cap consists of the largest few, so investing in just large cap vs investing in the total market is close to the same -- you have to manually skew towards medium and small if you don't want them to be negligible in your portfolio.
It raises interesting questions. I'm not a lawyer, so I know nothing about whether you could get force someone to affirm a work. Seems weird, but I'd be willing to bet it's happened.

My instinct is that a lie doesn't need to be told to create harm in a case like this where significant value depends on whether an important person created the work. Might search for some legal blogs to see if this has been analyzed further.
> You might be able to coerce Facebook or Google to cooperate

I doubt it, not for the French or German governments anyway. Simpler to shutter the offices there and put the onus on France/Germany of creating China-like Great Firewalls if they want to block Google/Facebook web access to their citizens. I can't actually imagine that happening in said democratic societies.
If I remember right Pitch Black wasn't a tidally locked planet, but rather an _extended_ eclipsed caused by the other planets in their stellar system.

Astronomy nerdship aside, I loved Pitch Black. Such a good movie. I haven't watched any of the sequels, though.

The first game that they released, surprisingly for a movie to game adaptation, was also quite good.
Ramblings about React and Redux Architecture
well, i don't think so.

Here is the kernel: http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-3248.60.10/
What's above it is not rocket science and the argument could be made that it would hurt apple open-sourcing it. (Whether it's true or not is irrelevant, it's a valid argument).
But this research is not.
Hey Uber, it is very nice to offer this in SF, SD, Boston, but what about NYC? :-(
Actually, I am wondering if it has something to do with Hadoop and/or Apache Spark. The reason for that is that they mention Hive, Spark and Impala which are all SQL engines that live on top of Hadoop. Since the Hadoop ecosystem is mostly all open source, it would make sense that one could go fiddle with these open source optimizers to make this happen.
The ride also has to begin and end in the given area (north of Cesar Chavez street). And if the ride is over $25 you pay the difference. That means SOMA to sunset at 1.7 surge won't be the flat rate at all.
This is pretty frightening all by itself, but I'm thinking: if this is possible with a router, should't a simple smartphone be capable of the same, since it can be used as hot-spot, and covers even more signal ranges? A device owned by everyone, everywhere, generally less secure and more carelessly used, with loads of proprietary software pretty much always installed? Does it mean the whole city can be almost realistically observable by someone, even when no video camera is there?
I wonder what it'd be like on a novel, say something like 'pride and prejudice', would it be able to essentially summarise the plot or would it end up like 'movie plots explained badly'

Either way, this is great research with a ton of real world applications!
Well, they released SQL Server for linux (even if pared down feature-wise), and that's probably a bigger hurdle than recompiling for a new architecture (depending on whether their compilation toolchain supports it, and how well), although there could still be some x86(_64) specific optimizations in place.

Sometimes weird stuff like supporting esoteric platforms happens because the companies in question are so large, that it makes sense to spend a few $100k on that project to make Intel squirm and get better pricing from Intel on your bulk deal. Keep in mind, Microsoft have their own cloud service...
If it meets the guidelines, EME might make a good "Show HN".
Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Can't say enough good things about Francis Spufford's "Red Plenty." Great book.
I'm interested in this. I have biologist friends at the university and we've discussed the possibility of implementing such functionality; I'd like to give it a try and probably re-discover what you found already. Some kind of report of your experience would be very useful.

Do you have some references to that project? Reports, comments, maybe software?
Elections are coming and everyone has to play tough.
None of this is targeted at terrorist as is does not even remotely make sense its all about controlling the population.

Let`s see when they propose to ban math.

Mandatory John Oliver on Encryption :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsjZ2r9Ygzw
Why Don't VCs Ever Respond?
They seem sort of interchangeable? If I stream a EU show is it gonna suck on my laptop?
> I don't recall where I got that idea though.

They killed the desktops. That, essentially, made SPARC mostly invisible to most people. They also do a crappy job of reminding the world that a software company (as they position themselves) can make decent hardware.
Sigh. Try reading the thread again, starting with 'tptacek's comment that ""The NSA is impenetrable" is not and was not the prevailing narrative, to say the least."
Why I love my local record shops:

* chatting with the owner who is supremely knowledgeable about the kinds of music I like, and buying records based on his advice

* looking for something similar to music I've found online, perhaps by the same artist or label

* looking for music I can't easily stream online, such as jazz from the ECM label. I stumbled upon one album while digging last time I went that I'd had in my sights for a while, but bought it for half what it would have cost on discogs (like an eBay/catalog for music). Or the Zimbabwean soukous album I just got that is super funky that doesn't exist online at all, and I'd never have heard had I not picked it up in the record shop for a listen.

* looking at cool things that I won't easily find online but probably also won't actually buy (e.g. the €70 original pressing 1970s Ghanaian highlife, or any other unusual rarity)

I'm super passionate about music and I love everything about the physical aspects of vinyl, so hopefully now you can see how ridiculous it is to suggest that record stores are useless because Spotify and the like exist. I'm listening to Spotify all the time too, but I definitely love my records more. I'm definitely not the only one.
Oh, what timing! I just finished the second book a couple of days ago. I had no idea the next book was coming out soon.
Most likely I believe the answer is yes. But since these appliances have been proprietary, not much is publicly known about what they do internally. I suspect that some design like the one we are seeing here at Baidu has been their secret sauce for some time.
There are still some issues with that – for example, it's easier to change attributes like text colour when using an icon font, something that becomes substantially more awkward with SVG. This is appropriate for things like buttons and other elements with hover effects.
such FPGAs seems to be on the edge of what is export controlled, recently even regular Intel CPU got blocked for delivery to China :

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2908692/us-blocks-intel-from-...

and around an year ago some Russian guys got busted for selling the FPGAs to Russia (and those FPGAs were less powerful):

http://kron4.com/2015/03/21/sf-business-owner-arrested-for-a...
I would agree most React workarounds are code smells. At one point I had to advise a teammate to not use jQuery to attach event listeners to DOM elements created by React.

My major issue is that everything is a component. Which means it's hard to delineate between View and Logic (Models/Controller) code. React rightfully called itself View only. But in classic JS fashion, the community Frankenstiened it into a full framework. Before someone says it, I think stateless functional components are a bad solution to the logic/view separation.

Also I don't think React has figured out a good solution for styling yet. The two major camps seem to be inline styles or css classes. We went with css classes so we could use css "frameworks." But I think both methods have their cons.
The bottom of the article has multiple links. Curious what you would recommend instead while not spamming the article?
Not perhaps. That's exactly what it is (OK, with with the huge caveat that it only represents the _publicly_ traded companies component of the economy -- but they are correlated)

This is why people with money in the market care (or should care) a lot about GDP predictions.
> Is an extremely large and well-indexed encyclopaedia smarter than you?

Kind of... I mean, is it useless trivia or is that information that can be used? I can't use information that I don't know exists. The only way I learn what I don't know is by using energy to search, read, do, to hopefully comprehend.

What if "Ok, Google" had some kind of RNN or other ML technique that learned my sons questions and thought process based on how he use the service. Who is to say they are not already doing that? The ads from Google are downright frightening with respect to the accuracy of what I am currently contemplating/researching.

To take this a bit further into "silly, not so silly" land...

With ML techniques; Deepmind, Watson, and others are showing that computers connected to this "encyclopedia" are besting their human counterparts. Is it a giant stretch to say that everything requires some input or energy to learn? Therefore, the only thing we are really missing is the wiring... that is, and I hate to use the "skynet" aphorism, but one day "it" will just turn on and there will be no looking back.

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>On the other hand, if I tell you enough information, you're likely to connect it together meaningfully, and come to your own conclusions and explanations about it. That seems like a fundamentally different kind of "smart" than what OK, Google can do.

We still have a problem of accuracy. Why should I trust your perception and/or your explanation of the concept? I realize this is a problem with computers as well. However, anything outside of emotional arbitrage should be easy to verify.

My own conclusions are biased as hell. I fully admit that is a problem, but it is a problem shared by humanity. I am not saying Wikipedia isn't biased... but it is 100x better in most cases than one single person's perception simply due to scale.

I am rooting for advanced ML/AI... I also hope that "going analog" is always a viable option.
Like everyone else who blows you off, in any industry: to demonstrate power.
Thank you, I actually just found him on Coursera(https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning) before your reply. I will definitely check it out.

I don't think that I want to make the switch, just know what is what and dabble a little bit.
Oh look, here's Nicholas Weaver on Lawfare making a very similar point about vulnerability disclosures:

"How is NSA changing the equities process now that "someone stealing the NSA's tools" has to be explicitly included in the threat model? Previously, equities calculations generally relied on the probability that someone else might independently discover and exploit a vulnerability. How does this calculation change when the NSA's own tools might be stolen, without detection? Is there a policy on what to do when the NSA knows that their tools are compromised?"

https://lawfareblog.com/nick-asks-nsa-shadow-brokers-and-lea...
Implement Copy Paste C# Code
> ...until the heat death of everything.

If further climate outcomes continue to track Hansen's thus-far correct 35-year-old predictions [1], then we've already passed some kind of tipping point and "the heat death of everything" could potentially mean Venusian-style anthropogenic cooking of Earth in some worst-case scenarios, and mass population dislocations and mega-scale environmental disruptions in milder scenarios.

If it turns out that life as we know it is exceedingly rare (and I must admit that the more we find out about exoplanets, the more disconcerted I am while realizing that the hazy possible solution space to the Fermi Paradox is becoming rather uncomfortable as the resolution grows with each passing decade), then that would be truly a tragic outcome.

[1] https://tamino.wordpress.com/2016/08/16/crystal-serenity/
If you don't pay attention, data can drive you off a cliff
Yes. The distinction being made here is that PowerPC is not necessarily the same as Power, even if they have a shared lineage.
Shadow Brokers and the Leaking Ship
This reads like spam :/
First, let me say that this looks like mistaken identity or worse; and that I myself am an artist, and like most part-time artists I'm very sympathetic to the interests of full-time artists.

However, this sentiment is unrealistically simple:

"I feel a living artist should be the one who gets to say yea or nay and not be taken to task and forced to go back 40 years in time."

The way the art market works, attribution (and provenance) is a big part of valuation. If you're a famous artist and I bought one of your paintings without having you sign a bunch of paperwork -- and who does that with young artists and amateur collectors? -- then you have the power to give or withhold a lot of value.

I think the artist was in the right here. But you have to consider what his statement would mean if he had in fact painted that picture. By denying its authenticity he would be trying to destroy its value. You can choose what you acknowledge, but as an artist you don't get to choose your own history retroactively. Like anybody else you can tell your own story, but yours might not be the only version.

Of course, this is why real collectors document provenance, sometimes extensively; and why a lot of artists will by default include a "certificate of authenticity" of some kind with every sale.
That's just inaccurate – AFAIK all modern icon fonts make use of the Unicode PUA, which is specifically intended for this sort of application. The characters used have no semantic meaning beyond what the application, including its fonts, intend.
Siri is now a term used by Apple to cover many virtual assistant applications, not just the conversational side of things. The article goes in depth about things such as Siri Suggestions and pro-active notifications based on patterns and context.
Yeah it sounded like the plaintiffs had a decent reason to believe it was his painting at first.

But then the defendants found the "real" Pete Doige. At that point the planitiffs should have verified it and dropped the lawsuit, but for some reason they chose to keep going.
> What about creating art requires you to publicly claim authorship, though?

In this case, I think the alleged reason he was required to do so was because he had previously denied authorship, and that doing so was a false statement that harmed the owner of the painting which the acknowledgement of authorship was necessary to undue the harm.
Error-Analysis: How not to kill your Puppy with #NeuralNetwork
The cases where such a cpu would be efficient are already the places where a normal cpu is extremely fast. So it would also fail in the same ways, pipeline stalls and all. If you need to wait for the answer to one computation to know what to do next any additional cores won't add speed.

A good part of the complexity of current cpus comes from features like branch prediction, speculative execution and so on so removing features wouldn't make them drastically simpler.
Many of the truly rarely used instrucctions aren't build in hardware and therefore don't contribute to the complexity of the cpu anyway. Others are rarely used but add huge speed boosts for important special purpose tasks, think os kernel.
So if I make art "in the style of artist <x>", then all my work belongs to that artist?

(I'm not talking about blatant copies.)
Long-Range (200m) BLE Beacons with 1Mb EEPROM
Yep. Took me a while to find a copy of the signature [0]. I would happily follow the argument that the e character is embellishment from the end of the g. However all doubt is removed when presented with Doige's signature [1]. For comparison I also looked up Doig's signature [2], of course this could never be evidence that his signature at 16 wasn't the one presented.

[0] http://i.cbc.ca/1.3675486.1468348236!/cpImage/httpImage/imag...

[1] http://liverampup.com/uploads/images/362E348700000578-0-imag...

[2] https://www.wengcontemporary.com/cdn/uploads/default_site/ar...
Ask HN: Where to live within California
I'm a software engineer thinking of moving to California. There are many options within California, so I'd like to get opinions from people in the know about the various locations.

Could residents (or those with experience) state where they live/work and why they do or don't like it?

I don't care about salary, living costs, and jobs available - these stats are all widely available online. I'm looking for subjective and human perspectives on what it's like to live there.

Thanks to anyone who can help, I'm sure others will find this helpful too.
Maxima? I mean, it traces its lineage to the golden age of Lisp, but it's still being released.

And you say Scheme was friend-zoned by the industry. While I understand why this was, it's a shame: Scheme is a very nice language, and with several high quality implementations, some excellent FFI, and finally some good library support (CHICKEN is excellent here), not to mention Racket's deluge of features and libraries (not really a fan of it myself, and it's not scheme, but I'm willing to admit it's a good system, to say nothing of impressive), it's finally slowly reaching the point where it might be usable in an industrial environment. Although it's not there yet, you can definitely write useful things in it.
This is complicated because the transaction occurred in Canada but the case was heard in Chicago. But the argument is the same as forgery: the court may not be able to force Doig to authenticate it, but if the officer can prove Doig sold him the painting under the pretence of being his then Doig has sold him a forgery (selling a claimed Doig which truly is not) and is liable for it. It does not matter that the name Doig did not mean anything back then, because the forgery constitutes a loss of future earnings.

Of course this is all hypothetical because Doig obviously did not paint this given what has come out in court.
> They'd likely have radically different definitions of poles. One hot enough to melt lead, one cold enough to freeze C02.

Well, in a certain sense the West Pole and East Pole would exist in the manner you describe, but the behavior is not similar to that of the north and south poles. The stars will still rotate around the north-south axis, and east-west still won't affect that. It's not obvious that both phenomena should be called "poles".
Yes, also: profits from the operation are going to the state, which presumably puts them to better use than the local gangster.
As you say, there is no effective way for them to lock users in, but they don't need to. They can outspend and outlast Lyft to make them run out of cash and/or devalued to the point where they can acquire them and shut them down.

At that point, any (future) new entrant to the market will face a steeper uphill battle than Lyft did. In the process, they may lose some customers to real cars or public transit, but they'll remain the only player in this space.
GNU Emacs is written in C and Emacs Lisp. Much of the editor functionality is implemented in Emacs Lisp, while the Emacs Lisp runtime (plus some libs and some external tools) is written C.

Many/most Lisp systems have a runtime written in C and/or assembler.
Thanks! A big part of our mission is to demonstrate it's possible to do a co-op tech startup and run a company more in line with democratic values. If being transparent about how we've done it can help, that's awesome. Best of luck with your endeavors!
>The reason you can't show me the map from F(A) to F(B) is that it's not there.

That is literally the functor. Seriously, read the chapter on modules.
Nice idea, but it doesn't matter if this doesn't work in practice.
Thanks! I'll check that.

Meanwhile, you can find our repo here: http://www.github.com/loomio/loomio
Not want to share? That's really dumb. If I have some things I use, I might not want to share them with someone else because then I can't use them.

But we make no use at all of 99.999999999999999999999% of the universe, so how does it hurt us if some other species do?
Also check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocheworld
hping from remote node would be hilarious, but it looks like it silently fails :(
Also it's Pete Doige vs Peter Doig. Last names AND first names are a letter apart, and the court documents showed the signatures of both. The fact that the suitor didn't drop when presented with the evidence and let it go to trial anyway is pretty ridiculous.
Hi HN, this is Jakub, founder of Estimote, Inc. (YC S13).

We just released a new revision of our Location Beacons.
We implemented new, low power Nordic nRF52 chip and extended range to 200 metres (+10dB).

Beacons can simultanously advertise both iBeacon and Eddystone packets as well as telemetry & sensor data + they have built-in GPIO slot.

There is also 1Mb EEPROM, so you can read/write data directly in the beacon.

You can read more on our blog: http://blog.estimote.com/post/149362004575/updated-location-...

I will be more than happy to answer any questions here.
I'm an FPGA/ASIC engineer that does some software as a hobby (mostly clojure, some python. C and Pascal if you go back far enough).

Although I focus more on verification these days, I've done ASIC design for about 16 years.

I'd be very interested in working with anyone on figuring out if we can make something better by leveraging hardware.
> I like how Apple can't win here.

They have themselves to blame, at least partially since they painted themselves into a corner. A while back they went on a media offensive proclaiming how "data-mining" the user's information is bad, and they won't stand for it in the interest of privacy... As it turns out, reality is a little more nuanced, and a bit of applied AI is in fact good for the user experience. e.g. your phone can't tell you were you parked your car unless it knows your location, and when you stopped driving.

I see this article as Apple PR rolling back on the previous position which inadvertently made Apple look like a company being overtaken by recent technological developments.
Agree, not really sure what the alternative would be?
I don't know if it's coincidence, but over in https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/ today, someone happened to post

"Automated Elixir code review with Github, Credo and Travis CI" https://medium.com/@fazibear/automated-elixir-code-review-wi...
What's interesting here is how the art isn't valued on its own artistic merits, but by its authorship. The artist's ability to control the value of a work by testimony is weird, but only because the underlying work's value is weird.