skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FED is definitely privately owned. It's a private company with a share structure. Most banks in America have a share in it - or rather the regional bank.

" Although parts of the Federal Reserve System share some characteristics with private-sector entities, the Federal Reserve was established to serve the public interest."

Don't be so naive. A private company tells you 'they are to server the public interest' and you believe them?

Listen - I'm not a conspiracy theorist. Generally speaking, the Fed is much like other central banks. But make no mistake - it is not a public entity.

Try this: the US government does not have access to the financial records of the Fed. Congress wanted to do an audit of the Fed - and they were blocked from going back past 2004.

Think about that. The US currency system is controlled by an entity that will not let the public see what's in their records.

That's insane.

My bet is that from 1913 to past the Nixon era there is crazy, crazy stuff on the books, and confidence in the US currency would go crazy if that information got out.

Also - just because it does not generate a profit does not mean that it's not used for the benefit of the banks. They set interest rates that suit their interest, not necessarily the interest of the general public.

The Fed should definitely be nationalized.
What the fuck is this shit doing on HN?

(Just kidding, for those who can't detect sarcasm. That's a killer idea - build an app that detects sarcasm in text, deploy on HN, have a happier community.)
I hope they get deported to whence they came.
Genode OS Framework release 16.08 Aug 31, 2016
Yeah our wired network is lousy, we had commenced a rollout of nationwide 100MBit FTTP but that was crippled for political reasons, however we have some very high performing cellular networks.

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/australias-4g-net...
I was always a fan of mcedit.
Deporting 30 million people is not insanity. Letting them in is.
Palmer Luckey on Why There's No Oculus Rift for Mac: Weak GPUs
Like any parent, it's something you never want to think about and pray it never happens. I have a few friends that have lost a child. I've only discussed it with one of them. He told me all about it during work. He recounted the smallest details and the circumstances like it happened the day before (it was 17 years after it happened). I asked him whether it ever gets any easier and does he still think about his boy. He told me no, it never gets easier and he thinks about him everyday. He pulled out a chain on his neck and there was a little anchor on it. He said he had got it for his son when he was born because they were going to be fishing buddies. That look on his face afterwards, just emptiness. I told him I had to go to the can and went and sat in a stall, bawled my eyes out for a good 10 minutes while I got my shit together.

Having kids of my own I can't even imagine how fucking insane it would be. Don't even want to think about it.
For anyone interested in compact vector graphics, SWF (Macromedia/Adobe Flash) has a shape format which is also similarly efficient and might be even smaller, since it doesn't restrict things like coordinates and colour indices to multiples of bytes --- fields are bit-aligned.

SVG is ridiculously bloated in comparison. Even PostScript and PDF are more efficient.
"If" is the key word that you used. Nothing in the future is promised. See what long term holders of Valeant have to say..it goes both ways. The only thing that is certain is that the stock lost 12% of its value in a single day over acquisition/poor corporate governance concerns. That would be alarming to me as a long term shareholder.
Someone who has been here for 400 days should know non-tech articles get posted and are accepted here as well.
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The author has a point on the benefit of transference, but he's too extreme in his conclusions.

Trigonometry is useful in so many ways. It's even useful for projects around the house, let alone for a lot of careers. Last I checked it comes after 8th grade.

On the other end of the spectrum he concedes Harvard philosophy undergrads might want to read "The Road to Reality". Bullshit - No undergrad can understand all the math in this book and no one is proposing that they should. Reductio ad absurdum.

And don't forget gaming. Lots of young people these days dream about a career at a game studio and there are a lot more options if you have good math.

He mentions Sputnik but it's not the 1950's anymore. The number of careers that benefit from math will only continue to grow.
That was good music. Thank you.
> it is not their fault

I don't understand this line of reasoning. It's not like DDoS attacks are some kind of 0-day failure mode that nobody has seen before.

Would you also say "it is not their fault" if their uplink provider had a fiber cut and they didn't have redundant uplinks? I'm guessing not: it's well understood that has a service provider you need to plan for this kind of unavailability and pay more money for redundant links. So it seems really weird to have this double standard for a different kind of availability failure mode.

Just like network availability or datacenter power availability, you need to invest technical and financial resources into DDoS defenses if you want to be resilient to incidents. If you don't do that as a hosting provider, I definitely won't feel sad for you.
I see a lot of these "CSS frameworks" pop up, but which ones do people actually use day to day?

Not criticizing the author—this looks cool and I'll give it a try, but I see a lot of these pop up and at work I've only ever used Bootstrap/Material/Semantic UI and for my own work I use Tachyons. Anyone use something a bit more obscure?
I am deeply sorry. Reading this is heartbreaking already.
If you like the lecture or/and the book, you'll probably want to read the transcript for the session he did on time management http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Randy/TMenglishTranscript...
You're missing the third option: the product isn't rocket science, and the FDA isn't creating an artificial monopoly, but nobody else wants to be in the business of making a product that could kill children if it's not perfect.
That last sentence is particularly ignorant in light of contemplatives reliably showing that the self we know is basically an illusion. People can be shown this reliably through meditation. To those that have glimpsed this fact his research seems particularly foolish. I call it a fact since it's akin to a magic eye picture...people have either seen what's there or they haven't, it can't really be argued.

His research seems, to me, to be the neurology of a delusion, albeit an absurdly common one. What would be much more interesting, and what I believe others are studying, is the neurology of those who have managed to move past this illusion.
I am also surprised as this is not the first time I am reading about it on HN. Linode seems to be highly vulnerable to certain attacks as we could see in the past. I hope they will fix it and provide a permanent solution as I was hoping to use them as a part of my network, but I see more and more signals they can't handle serious traffic. Hopefully, they will redesign their infrastructure to handle it.

I am with all of you guys that are affected by this. I am looking forward to them to resolving this soon.
This can't be good for (Linode's) business.

Vultr had problems a few weeks ago, but I don't think it was DDOS-related.

Somehow things have been quiet on the DigitalOcean's end.
My understanding is the SU collapsed for several reasons. One was that, as a centrally-controlled socialist economy, it because increasingly inefficient, as Hayek explained.

Another was that it had an economy only one-third the size of the US, but was matching it in military strength. This lead to so such huge expenditures that little was left over for capital investment in the rest of the economy. In addition, all the engineering and scientific talent went to the military sector, so there was little technological innovation elsewhere.

Reagan looked at his and decided to greatly increase the US military budget, in hopes the SU would see it couldn't win, and quit the cold war. In addition, his technologists came up with the Star Wars idea, which was a scam they knew wouldn't work, but the hoped the SU would be tricked into thinking it would and that they couldn't match it.

Fortunately, the Russian Politburo realized Russia was in terrible economic shape and needed radical changes, so they appointed Gorgachev to do this. And so when Reagan launched his plan, he eventually agreed to end the cold war. In addition in his attempt to rescue the Soviet economy he made radical political changes that eventually lead to the end of communism and the dissolution of the SU in to a number of separate states.

So yes, Reagan's plan succeeded, but in part because of independent developments in the SU.
Brought over an immigrant myself. The fact is you MUST ensure you've done everything correctly. You don't trust, you verify. Diplomats should have known better. People who adopt from overseas need to know. You can't just do whatever you want in terms of bringing new bodies from foreign lands. That's the administrative reality and there's no reason to have exceptions when these people should have been responsible. If you don't have consequences, then people don't follow administrative rules. If you don't have administrative rules and laws, good luck having order, good luck managing. Good luck collecting taxes, good luck having a country.

Why are we so quick to blame the USA, or blame our own country when these things actually aren't all that difficult. There are forms for everything. And where there are challenges, there are lawyers. Can't afford a lawyer or figure it out yourself? Guess what you just proved you're not prepared to bring over an immigrant regardless of their age.
Right, anything else in such a people-dependent industry is capitalist bullshit.
The company consists of the people in it, they deserve a direct share in the profits.
In defence of Douglas Crockford
I cannot fathom this experience, but even though you are a stranger I am truly sorry that you have had to go through this loss, i wish we could give legit hugs over the Internet or give some other more meaningful semblance of humanity/support than some bytes on a webpage.

I admire the self control you had in telling the cop about your gun despite knowing what you wanted to do with it.

If you are married, I have seen a pattern where the loss of a child severely impacts the marriage negatively. Try to resist that if possible.
Imagine what would have happened if HTML had been a non human-readable binary format just to spare a few bytes.

If you want to "just spare a few bytes", you could do the same to HTML and keep it text-based. Comparing something like XML and JSON shows that "human-readable" formats can vary significantly in complexity alone.

Besides, I think we could all do with fewer layers of abstraction in our lives. As a reverse-engineer I know once remarked, "Everything is human readable if you have a hex editor."
Isn't the problem money? They could certainly fix it but would have to raise the prices on each VPS?
Reminds me of teens/early 20s who say they won't marry and/or have kids and save up to retire before 40... wonder how many don't end up with a kid and a mortgage by then.
Staar owns a piece of Vanguard. They are one of many shareholders. Tiny or not, they own stock in a company that owns stock in the company that is selling the epipens. This is the problem. The layers of ownership are used to dilute and avoid responsibility. These companies only respond to shareholders. Realworld people are where you have to start. If I found my grandmother owned shares in a mutual fund that owned a piece of Mylan, I'd start with her.
> "They’ve decimated the taxi industry. The number of LA taxi trips dropped 30% from 2012."

Decimate means to reduce by 10%, hence deci.
You don't often get "handsomely rewarded" for doing what people consider to be your job, even if you do it much better than anybody else. The opportunities are when you get to jump to a different role, getting promoted or going to a different company or using your insight to start your own company.
It could be a style choice. Being more specific makes it feel more real, at least for me. Making it general sounds detached.
All of that kind of stuff is full of shenanigans.

My grandfather used to get the shakedown from mafia affiliated jukebox and cigarette concession guys in his bars in the 60s and 70s.
A code review app can measure WTFs / minute, as in the classic web comic: http://imgur.com/a/BHlkA
For our setup we just have master-master replication across two different hosting providers.
No point reading the article.

An Op-Ed from the woman who won't think twice about taking off her top in public insulting those who love porn. Now that's rich!
Various improvements to the pen have been patented over the years, the initial patent was granted in 1977 and is expired.

The question becomes, how small an improvement should we look at and decide that it warrants exclusivity?

It's a trickier question for something like the Epipen where there is benefit from widespread understanding of how to properly use it (so a change to the pen that requires different user training becomes a change that removes generics from the market).
I don't assume we should automatically trust or distrust him. The problem is I just don't understand enough about his motivations to decide whether or not to trust him.

The reason I am asking about his economic philosophy is it often influences people's decisions on matters of public importance, like releasing information to the public. If I understood his economic philosophy, it might help me understand his motives and so whether or not to trust him. On the other hand, it might not help.

And you have to admit, he's a unique individual. Aren't you at all curious to understand him?
> Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all

It's not often I can type lol and literally mean it, but this is one of those times.. lol :D
The good ones come to the US to get better paying jobs. I ran a team of 25 software engineers. I tried to hire the most talented programmers in a tight job market. All but one of the engineers I hired were born outside the US.
Ask HN: How Ethereum (smart contract) works?
Hello,

I have been looking at smart contract and ethereum today. I have very good understanding of bitcoin and some knowledge about smart contract.

but there are some details I don't understand and I wan't able to find good explanation.

I know that as part of block verification, everyone on the ethereum network needs to run all the triggered contract codes and verify the execution with others'.

how does this work? how can you verify other people's execution of a program? does it only look at the output of a program? or the storage change of that program?

for example, a contract transfers $10 to a person A. how do I check if this contract has been executed or not by another person B? if it only looks at the output of the program or storage change, he can easily fake the result, right?

also, since the contract code runs on everyone's computer, how to prevent race condition and control execution times?

for example, I wrote a contract to transfer $10 to a person as a penalty, if I lost his book. How can I make sure this contract will only be executed once, as I don't want multiple $10 being transferred to that person?

Thanks.
You forgot the back door.

How much fish did you buy from the fish guy? Were those oranges $40/case or $75/case? How about the linen guy?
You're actually calling justice / rules 'injustice.' You clearly have never done any of this type of paperwork. It's not actually that hard for one. And there are consequences for things you don't do, whether you're a nice guy, whether you didn't realize something was prohibited.

Sucks for some yes because they don't take care of business. But it also sucks when we don't have protective measures in place. And it's both unfair and extremely difficult to have exceptions for everything subjectively.

Are we also expected to pass with an A+ everyone who had good faith that they knew course material? Are we supposed to loosen up all regulation as well because we 'trust' a company will handle things fine because somebody's cousin owns the company?

You know when somebody leaves the scene of an accident, they sometimes do it because they don't realize they are supposed to stay, sometimes they don't even realize they knocked a cyclist down nearly killing them. Guess what, they still get charged with leaving the scene of an accident even if they were completely oblivious.
i think the first digital one was the D-17B, that was the guidance system of the Minuteman ICBM. Wikipedia says it used transistors so that it was a minicomputer, don't know if it had integrated circuits by 1966.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-17B

The Soviet R7 ICBM used a guidance system with tubes so that it was larger - that was a major reason why they needed a bigger missile; and that one would eventually take man to space.

The v2 had a gyroscopic a guidance system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj2QVgfyXik
There are a handful of environments that can sustain a large, coordinated DDOS attack. Can you sink 10-20Gb/s of traffic forever? Not cost effectively.
In one of the machine learning classes we looked at crime data in our city and discovered interesting patterns in how crime seemed to migrate with the seasons. It increased in the summer in some areas, then decreased and moved in the colder months.
You knew about the Nile in 3rd grade, in a school in the US of A. Wow!
The worst is when someone who's never used Vi before gets thrown in there after running, eg, 'git commit'. Can't Google how to quit because they don't even know the name of the program!
Unparticle physics
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Judge rejects class action status in Facebook privacy case
If you live in 2002, nah. In 2016? Yes. Bandwidth is cheap and linode has high margins.
Maybe read their comment again. It went over your head I think.
Balance is probably the key.
Ask HN: In what ways could the “HN frontpage” algorithm be improved?
Huh! I previously submitted this very same article (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10493543) with zero uptick. I wonder why it's managed to do so well on this go-round. Perhaps the different host? Perhaps just capricious luck.
I'm just a beginner. I write in hardware description languages for test benches, simulations, checkers and constrained random tests. I've also done PCB layout (hobbyist to RF microstrip), GUI programming (I don't enjoy that), and using IC design software for.simulation and layout. I also spend a lot of time working with hardware. The debugging process is very challenging, and certain aspects of it can be tedious. Overall I find it to be satisfying, challging work. I also get to apply my Linux knowledge most of the time when working on things, which is great.
Just a note that if you go into automotive, you will spend 90% of your time in Matlab/Simulink. Pretty fun IMO.
The humans are the issue today because they are still the dominant force on the roads. When these autonomous cars start seeing other autonomous cars, then it gets interesting. Android and Apple cellphones don't play nice together. I wonder what happens when the Google car looks to overtake the Apple car.

Will people pay more for a more aggressive car, for one that perhaps gets you there that little bit faster by jumping stop signs and squeezing through smaller gaps in traffic. Will the Apple car refuse to let the Google car merge? These things will find new enemies.
It's worth also keeping in mind that there isn't necessarily anything wrong with it being an editor for newbies. Emacs can be pretty intimidating to learn straight off.
Well, 15m of tweeting on BART has led to dozens of high-value interactions, new followers, and insights for the upcoming blog post. Not bad as a case study!
Another possible corollary: any page 1 article with a question in the title will have a comment referencing Betteridge's law. This comment will either be the second most upvoted or the most downvoted comment.
Working with SIEMS a lot, I agree it needs a serious revision.

1. Define an encryption standard, both symmetric and asymmetric (to prevent log tampering).
2. Define a compression standard, with scheduling options similar to cron jobs but defined in syslog.conf.
3. Overhaul the facility field, define some generic ones like "Auth", "Audit", "Kernel" etc and don't hardcode any numeric mappings. Article covers this well.
4. Make CEF the standard format for writing logs to disk or forwarding to other devices. All modern applications and kernels should be writing their logs in CEF format.
Online universities aren't money laundering, they steal from the government using the student as a proxy.
Electric Car Maker Collects $10M in Deposits, Then Says It Can't Be Done
I kind of think that in case Tesla runs into serious financial issues in the future it might get a hand from the US government in some way or another, because of the long term benefits of Tesla succeeding. Just my opinion, no sources for that.
I was an intern at Google Venice for the summer, and it was definitely cheaper for me to take Uber pool to work every day (especially since I lived with my parents). It would have been ~35 a day to rent a car, or ~20 a day for Uber pool, without the added stress of driving.
I used to be on Linode... then one of their techs tripped on a power cord causing a significant outage in a data center... and no I'm not joking.
I have a Linode VPS that is fantastically reliable. It's showing no downtime or problems during this DDOS. They've been great to deal with.
That definition is listed as "obsolete" with regards to that term: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/decimate
Actually, our job isn't to create software that works.

Our job is to add value for the company.

Also, we should follow the chain of command. Product should never talk to individual coders, they should talk to managers. Every time Product Managers can ask for individual bug fixes for problems to coders, unless you don't have a manager, the organization is not functioning correctly.
Yeah, I'm a bit confused about what this is for. Any icons common to an entire file type should be cached in RAM already, so I the only thing I can think of would be file-specific icons. But I expect most of those would be thumbnail images, which would not be amenable to a concise vector representation.
When I went on a guided tour through Dubrovnik the guide said -- and I'm paraphrasing her from memory -- that assaults carried more lenient sentences during the warmest parts of summer.

Looks like being cool-headed is more than a metaphor.
Infrastructure to service requests is not (comparitively). Rarely is it trivial to distinguish DDoS traffic from legitimate traffic.
What kind of DDOS attack is the most likely happening here, a simple L3 spoofed ICMP flood?
My box in ATL is just wicked slow, on the network. Looks like saturation to me. Got stuff in their other DCs which seems OK for now.