skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Yes, a couple of times. But in the long run, we were so much better for it.

(For me at least!) I overestimated how obvious my product idea was. You see this all the time! The marketing effort becomes two-fold. You have this pain point (or opportunity), and here's a product that solves that pain point.

By being 2nd / 3rd / etc. the 1st person has already educated the potential client

2) Pay real attention to what the 1st to market was doing well. Can you copy / replicate it? Be aware of your mindset. Is this really a "winner takes all" situation? Or is there room for the both of you?

3) Why are you doing this? Is it to make a bazillion dollars? Or something more satisfying? Plenty of businesses (Stackoverflow, 37 Signals) have a certain "quality of life" - clearly they enjoy doing what they do. Why are you doing this?

4) Are you really really sure this is a bad thing? How many businesses can you think of that did fantastic from Kickstarter?

Compare that to how many Kickstarters were... less than successful?
UK to US is 15:70, no?
It's almost like you didn't read the article at all...
Y'know, just because it has a Wikipedia article doesn't mean it's not still a stupid idea...
I don't see a well working monetary system as a 'interventional instrument'. Its a inherent property of the system, not a outside system doing an intervention. Only since the time of central banks was this considered a 'intervention', because in many ways the central bank is the outsider.

> During the Gold standard, the bars were kept in vaults and we traded in convertible paper notes. The mint could always print notes of smaller or larger denominations if needed, but couldn't print more than it had bars to convert to. And that is the problem.

Maybe I am reading you wrongly, but the a ability to print larger or smaller notes is totally not relevant. A bank or minting house would actually always print more nodes/coins then they had bars to convert to gold. That is why minting coins was profitable in the first place. With Bank notes this became much more sophisticated.

The amount of notes in circulation was not directly determinate by the amount of gold, but rather by the flow of demands for gold (usually by other banks). As a bank you can get away with having 100x 1$ bills in circulation but you only had having 2$ worth of gold in your vault as long as the avg demand for gold per day is only 1$ worth. The other 98$ are invested in interest paying assets. Thus a bank always tries (tried) to maximize the amount of notes in circulation, but were always limited because other banks would demand gold if they got hold of your notes.

This system will thus lead to a situation where a increase in velocity (or decrease in demand) will automatically lower the amount of money in circulation because otherwise banks would not be able to hand out enough gold. This system effectively keeps nominal spending stable and that almost exactly what central banks are trying to do (its in fact better then inflation targeting if you look at most models).
Actually Venezuela used to be my country's (Colombia) closest trade partner. Today it's the US, but our exports have definitely been affected because Maduro can't stop printing bills just as a kid who gets prohibited eating candy can't stop eating candy.

I'm also against interventionism in general, but Venezuela needs it.
The decisions leading up to this by the Venezuelan government where known to cause things like this. They where made either out of ignorance or political pandering.
I'm a bit late to the party, but there are active React Native ports for both OSX and Windows.

Using them could be a good solution for targeting OSX and Windows and reusing logic from your web React app without having to deal with the overhead of Electron.
Mean absolute error is differentiable almost everywhere. Having objectives that are not differentiable, but are differentiable almost everywhere is very common - in a deep net, if you have rectified linear activations (very common) or L1 regularisation (not unheard of), you have an objective that is not differentiable everywhere ... but the methods still work.
>The other interesting point to observe is how both Tunisia and Senegal's digital currencies use the blockchain as part of their technology but don't use BitCoin as a currency.

That's a silly thing to say. Tunisia and Senegal already have Bitcoin. If they didn't declare some sort of national currency they would in effect be withdrawing from any sort of control over money in the countries entirely.
> Nothing is secure from all known threats.

Of course. That's why it's important to reduce the attack surface. Adding electronics (or worse, software) adds a huge amount of attack surface. The attack could be at any point from the CPU-internals to the software.

> the voting protocol doesn't provide a means of verification

Yes. That's a feature. Any new system cannot re-enable voter coercion.

> Homomorphic encryption

I already mentioned[1] that video yesterday. It's an interesting idea, but even Prof. Rivest in the video isn't claiming it's ready for use.

More importantly, the reply by marten-de-vries[2] brings up a very good counter argument to any voting system based on fancy math: the general population won't accept it. The voting process doesn't work unless the population considers it legitimate, and it will be hard to convince them if they first have to learn enough math to understand homomorphic (or public-key) encryption.

This is still interesting research that may evolve into a new type of voting protocol in the future.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13020917

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13021517
I don't think most people understand how bad relations between the US and Russia have gotten in the last year and how badly they would have spiraled out of control if Hillary won.

Hillary's favored no fly zone policy in Syria would have unavoidably led to armed conflict between the US and Russia/Syria.

It remains to be seen what will actually happen, but Trump's rhetoric is mostly about working with Russia to take down ISIS. Putin might be a thug, but he's not insane and doesn't want to go to war with the US. He can work with somebody like Trump who wants to talk and take down a common enemy.
From the guidelines:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics [...] unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon

This is a sad old phenomenon, not an interesting new one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Very useful.

You should consider serving a separate page for each property in addition to one big list. This would be more useful for quick Google lookups.
it's a convention in ML languages, for a name whose value has been modified
History under the last mandate was actually a pile of products and research projects that were more secure than anything today. That included Boeing SNS server, BAE XTS-400, Aesec GEMSOS, esp KeyKOS, a secure VMM, an embedded OS in Ada, GUI's immune to keylogging/spoofing, databases immune to external leaks, and so on.

All that disappeared in favor of Windows NT and UNIX w/out security the second they eliminated the regulations. There's just enough of a niche market for a few suppliers to be left, esp defense contracts. Most are gone, though, because private markets dont produce strong security if incentives are turning costs into profits.
You could have all content just unstyled (apart from sections heights) and enable the style for each section as it comes into view.

The problem with this site is not that it has too much context. Just too much new and crazy styles.
Yes, go out and have a coffee with every business owner you can find! Hairdressers, Accountants, Financial Advisers - ask them what they did!

Go find a business coach! Look at their marketing, pay attention to what marketing works for you.

Check out Mixergy[0]. They will definately have something for you. Listen to the interview on Mafia Wars[1].

[0] https://mixergy.com
[1] https://mixergy.com/interviews/roger-dickey-mafia-wars-inter...
To be fair, this Slack chat isn't reddit's internal company chat. This is a group with default sub-reddit moderators (random volunteers not associated with reddit the company) and a few reddit admins.

But yes, it's pretty awful and highly unprofessional. spez's comments in the chat are unprofessional and concerning as well.
Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
Having spent very little time in the Roman Empire I can't vouch for its authenticity, but http://www.passthegarum.co.uk/ looks like an interesting source of recipes.
I've been doing this for years. It always blows people's minds. Generous salt and pepper is key. Using a different type of bread for the toast bit is also a fun improvisation.
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There is no fundamental reason. I have already pointed out that it is possible with Bitcoin + Ecash. Its however a extremely difficult thing to do it on a block chain.

Also, it does not 'just' need to be dynamic, it needs to be dynamic in the right ways at the right times and it still needs to be save, user friendly and so on.

If you can design a system like it, please do.
Doiuse is a great PostCSS plugin that check if your css is compatible with the browsers you aim to support using caniuse.
https://github.com/anandthakker/doiuse
How does one define a troll vs. a non-troll?

You also have to consider that, as incredibly ridiculous and batshit crazy as it is, a high percentage of the /r/pizzagate people 100% believe it's true and that they're uncovering a massive criminal ring.
Ww3 not
I'm saying that i personally don't think the mods there give a single damn about cleaning anything.
Facebook has its pros and cons. While I continually seem to lose a bit of faith in humanity while on it, the truth is that it is the easiest and cheapest way to keep in touch with family back in the states. And it happens that I've met a few great people as a result of it.

Which is a real problem with studies like this: There isn't a viable alternative that could take its place. Sure, some have tried: But none of them have taken hold enough to convince some family members to switch over. The main thing missing from other platforms is that they don't cross-communicate. It is like a phone that won't connect to another company's phone, even if it is located next door.

In addition, there are a lot more options other than on or off facebook. One can limit their time on it, limit the folks they friend, and other such things. How do these people fare comparatively? Do they find exceptions to the rule - people that find themselves lonely without the broad connectivity?
There's an almost Onion-esque level of irony in your reply having no sources for anything you said.
Absolutely, and the commitment to security and privacy keeps me coming back to iOS. The iOS white paper[0] is an excellent read for anyone interested in security. Unlike android devies, iOS security is coupled to hardware HSM chips which Apple refers to the secure enclave. It's used not just to encrypt and decrypt, but to verify the entire boot process and all binaries used by the cellular chips.

Now that google is manufacturing devices I expect them to begin following Apple's example. Avoid garbage like TrustZone and do it right.

1. https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
Do what you love (and pay the bills)
Dropbox and Youtube always spring to mind. There were Dropbox solutions for YEARS before they came around.

Even Microsoft had one (well before OneDrive) they gave away for free - still, Dropbox came to the top.

And Youtube and a bunch of clones.

Go back even further:
MS Word - Wordperfect
Excel - Lotus 123
Just about every dinky database - MS Access
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Disable all the styles. Enable the styles just for the sections that are currently visible.

It would require setting section heights to fixed values so you can know which section is visible and enable and disable styles for them without changing the sites height.
FCPX Titles 4k
Don't hold your breath.

Consider the case, in the technology of proportional representation, of the Hagenbach-Bischoff quota: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagenbach-Bischoff_quota

It's (it seems to me) obviously arithmetically unfit for purpose compared to the Droop quota. In some cases more candidates can meet the quota than seats are available. Yet it remains in use/part of the credible discussion.
"What are you basing this on? This happened on /r/The_Donald, and that sub tends to have people who dislike PC culture. So it's likely true that the groups you're talking about have a lot of overlap, as an accident of population samples."

Sometimes, I generalize as a tool for understanding large groups of people. Generalization is a useful tool; it isn't always right, but the preponderance of folks on The_Donald have, as a big part of their identity, being "anti-PC". And, the preponderance of folks getting really riled up about this are people who are participants on The_Donald subreddit.

So, sure, I probably swept up some innocent folks in my generalization. It happens sometimes. Luckily, I hold no political power, no power to censor anyone, and no power to cause anyone harm with my generalizations. All I can do is make fun of people on the Internet.

"I also think that getting annoyed when you can't say what you want to say is a large factor in disliking PC culture"

More accurately, it would be "getting annoyed when you can say what you want to say, but other people are allowed to say you're an asshole for saying it", because no argument about being politically correct ever involved police knocking down your door for being an asshole on the Internet (unless "being an asshole" also includes "making actionable threats to someone's health", which might bring a police response). Free speech is a thing, and it applies to people making racist/sexist/homophobic comments, and the people who reply angrily to those racist/sexist/homophobic comments.
Zuck bragged about access, but there is no proof (or even indication) that he actually shared that info.
Nope, TrustZone is not tamperproof, cannot resist determined attackers who have access to the hardware. HSMs and smart cards are designed precisely to cover this use case.
>> This system just begs for being manipulated.

Paper ballots are not immune from such concerns. The concept of votes being added or removed from a count isn't a new phenomena. So the standard should be whether or not the electronic means are better, rather than them being a perfect counting method.
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Don't know about a paper, but here's a book:

https://www.amazon.com/Proving-History-Bayess-Theorem-Histor...
Why? Design (in the ideal) is about making things actually achieve the outcome they are supposed to. It subsumes all other product work.
I do think there is a lot of competition/growth potential for the fast casual burger market.
The Samsung Chromebook Pro looks pretty promising (RR3399, 4GB DRAM, 2K screen), but it hasn't been officially released yet.
Yes, in part. But don't underestimate the deliberate black, grey, and white propaganda elements of all this (see also: "meme magick").

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

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/meme-magic
:) I could have expected that, that these involved have said "it was according to the specs." I don't claim it wasn't. But the commission didn't find that "it had to be all done as it was":

http://www.math.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/ariane5rep.html

"4. RECOMMENDATIONS"

"R3 Do not allow any sensor, such as the inertial reference system, to stop sending best effort data."

See my other post, they effectively have sent something random ("diagnostics" instead of the data). And this piece of software wasn't even needed to run:

"R1 Switch off the alignment function of the inertial reference system immediately after lift-off. More generally, no software function should run during flight unless it is needed."

And of course, everything wasn't even tested together:

"R2 Prepare a test facility including as much real equipment as technically feasible, inject realistic input data, and perform complete, closed-loop, system testing. Complete simulations must take place before any mission. A high test coverage has to be obtained."
Indeed. And it goes both ways, of course. There are, for instance, many (delicious) traditional Mexican dishes that would have been impossible prior to contact from Europeans.
Simplifying somewhat, most Britons believe it's a genuine Italian dish, and most Italians believe it's a horrible British parody of their cuisine.
I think one should be really careful making statements like this.

In the case where an HSM is used for e.g. database encryption, one absolutely still cares.

The attacker can politely ask the HSM to decrypt all the data. On the bright side, you didn't lose the key, and your HSM should at least securely log the fact that all your data just walked out the door.

For SSL offload the situation is less dire, but it is totally realistic that heartbleed might cause issues for a system with HSM assisted offload (e.g. leaking plaintext) because the protocol processing happens in software. Any sane architecture should protect the actual private key though.

In general, the right way to think about HSMs is that they protect your keys, not your data. If you care more about the data than the keys, you absolutely need to care about the security of your host.
I can't help facepalm when I read news like this. The value proposition of blockchain technology, combined with proof-of-work, is distributed trustlessnes. Why would a national, centralized issuer need anything of this sort? All they need is a PostgreSQL database or, preferably, letting their citizens use whichever medium of exchange they prefer, rather than try to pretend that there isn't plenty of foreign currency that their people would probably prefer using.
it's also possible to acknowledge something as true and not accept the logical consequences

Who's talking about "possible"? Any ignorant position is "possible".
Author here, i just threw this little quick'n'dirty nodejs script together to automate the tedious process of fetching current version numbers for analysis purposes. I hope anybody else can profit from it, too.
It's too much of a risk to develop a top tier app on a risky platform like whatever MS comes up with next.
This is madness. I can't believe people can live in such a nightmare. Isn't there any opposition or can't just people there revolt? Or maybe army makes a coup?
I'm thinking in terms of the magnitude of commercial success. As a counter-anecdote, I live in a liberal enclave -- Madison Wisconsin -- and there is a successful radio station with continuous right wing talk for several hours running. They have Limbaugh book-ended with other right wing shows, national and local. In contrast, attempts at finding a similar market for liberal talk have failed. One station that made a go of it in my locale just gave up and switched to a music format.

And the quality was just never there. While I have no use for Limbaugh, I respect that he delivers a quality product to his audience. In contrast, the liberal shows just seemed half-assed.

I'm pretty far to the left, but outrage propaganda turns me off. I also just don't react to the news in a tight feedback loop. I'm open minded, but being open minded means come back in a decade and see if my opinions have changed.
An interesting system, but this still aims at keeping stability to something outside. That is not bad, and if it works it will act in some similar ways to what I would like to see.

There are a couple interesting experiments going one.
You would have to know where and it's still quite a big decentralized system even if you knew for certain it would be those 3 states. It's simply not that easy.
I am not sure of what you think is left of communism in China, apart maybe from a dictatorship.
If you need temporary linux servers, check out linuxacademy.com.

I have a paid account and besides accessing the content, i can spin up to six virtual machine to test stuff, at no extra cost besides the montly fee.
Coming from i3, I tried Amethyst for a while when I had to use a Mac at my previous job. It seems like the best solution within the constraints of OS X, but it always seemed like enough of a hack that I ended up battling both it and the real window manager, so I ended up disabling it after a few months. The focus-follows-mouse never came close to working as expected for me.

Fighting with window size, positioning, and focus is such a productivity killer. Now I'm glad to be back in a real tiling window manager.
> There is a strategy called fast follower where you run behind a competitor (first mover) waiting for them to trip up.

And its not a bad strategy to adhere to either.

Here's a good article championing "fast follower" over "first mover" http://www.businessinsider.com/youre-better-off-being-a-fast...
I try to dig a little bit deeper than the headlines these days and it does look like this will be for "new" earth science projects and that any money would not be removed from NASA budget but be allocated to other (hopefully science not pork) stuff.

Still not good as NASA is the best placed to do this (in the US)

Very Happy for someone to dig deeper and correct me of course as its a tangled mess of click-bait out there!
Riseup.net likely compromised
Yes, sort of. But I think he says a lot of unnecessary things not getting at the root of the issue.

I left out some detail I should have said, like what is so special about a gaussian that makes the math easy. So I will say it.

A measurement can infer a probability distribution for what the measured quantity is. A second measurement, on its own, also infers some probability distribution for what the measured quantity is. It we consider both measurements together, we get yet another probability distribution for what the measured quantity is. The magic is that if we had a gaussian distribution for the measurements, then the distribution for the combined measurements is also a gaussian. This is not true in general. As long as we have gaussian distributions we can do all the operations we want and the probability distributions are gaussian and can be fully described by a center point and a width. (Forgive me for the liberties I am taking here.) The basic alternative to exactly solving the problem is to actually try to carry around the probability distribution functions, which is not practical even with very powerful computers.
Theoretically yes, though you would have to explicitly switch the original HSM into backup mode, an operation that requires one or more admins to be present and strongly authenticated, most often with smart cards.
Coerce – Fully asynchronous micro-service framework in Java
Speaking of which, whatever happened to Google's Project Vault? Did it die after Mudge quit Google? It looked so promising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6qrQzn8uBo
Isn't it plausible that DeepZenGo simply isn't at the level of play of AlphaGo? Facebook's DarkForest is also a competent AI, but even it does not compete yet.
I think Ethereum users will mostly converge on a limited set of useful cookie cutter contracts and simple combinations thereof. New types of contracts will hopefully be received with skepticism, as "The DAO" should have been. So the premise isn't really undermined. It's just that the focus on writing custom contracts in a programming language will diminish as the basic framework matures.
Good quality? Depends on your affinity to blue screens.
Or just plain malice. Do not be mistaken, the final objective of the "socialist" agenda of the Venezuelan regime has always been to enslave an entire nation in order to lock themselves into power forever.
If you really want to commit suicide for volunteering as an editor, you need some time off.
A Moneymaking Machine Like Few Others
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