skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Consider the 2008 crisis, yes some white Americans went to jail, but the major (only?) "

The 2008 crises was not built on outright fraud by most of the banks.

They didn't commit any crimes for the most part.

Individuals lied on their applications, bank managers overlooked it, VP of Mortgage Sales for banks didn't want to hear about underperforming loans, ratings agencies didn't want to due proper due dilligence, German and Japanese banks buying the crap were too lazy to do any due diligence ... and it came down.

There was 'systematic, greed, stupidity and irresponsibility' across the board - home buyers included.

It was not caused by some cabal of bankers specifically doing something illegal.
Trump’s Transition Team Adds VC from Thiel’s Founders Fund
Maybe they're feeling guilty for creating mostly polyester-based clothing that pollutes our oceans with microfiber plastic.
AFAIK, Nuclear weapons basically revolve around creating a critical mass of radioactive material. The issue is that a critical mass is actively trying to push itself apart (because it's obviously exploding). So the idea is that you get your mass, wrap it in a sphere of explosives that will detonate and keep the critical mass contained for slightly longer, which will result in a larger explosion.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design#Implosio...
Amazon in Talks to Buy Dubai’s Souq.com in $1B Deal
It appears that Chrome version 55 is going to use the V8 JavaScript Engine
What bothered me about AlphaGo was the sheer amount of power that was dedicated to training and running it vs. the relatively puny power budget a human has.

i.e. "Lee Sedol used about 20 Watts of power to operate. By contrast, AlphaGo runs on a whopping 1920 CPUs and another 280 GPUs for an estimated power consumption of approximately 1 MW (200 W per CPU and 200 W per GPU). That’s 50,000 times as much power as the amount of power that Lee Sedol’s brain uses and the two are not quite evenly matched but it is close enough to use for comparison."[0]

I mean, sure, it's apples to oranges, but it feels like a pyrrhic victory to have to use 1MW of computing power to beat a 20w brain.

I want there to be a series of AI vs. AI games where everyone has an equal power budget for their AI. Everyone has to bring their own equipment and they receive exactly X kwh from a calibrated power supply to train their model. Training data could possibly also be standardized.

Each team would received a standardized power supply for the actual competition (e.g 20w). There could be bonuses for using less energy for training or during gameplay, or for faster response times between moves.

I believe this would drive innovation in building special purpose hardware, more efficient training models, and so on.

[0] http://jacquesmattheij.com/another-way-of-looking-at-lee-sed...
Page 8 of their 2014 annual report defines "net revenue" thusly:

"For purposes of this specific public benefit purpose, “net revenue” means Patagonia’s total sales of goods and services and revenues from other operations, less returns, discounts
and allowances: [...]"

Also, their announcement says:

"100% of purchases made in Patagonia® stores and online at patagonia.com and patagoniaprovisions.com"

My read is that "net sales" means pretty much "whatever was bought, less returns".

[1] http://www.patagonia.com/on/demandware.static/Sites-patagoni...
Ubuntu tech support. You can't email Sager and ask how to fix a kernel panic for their laptop.
Very true indeed. Trump got elected. That pretty much means that as long as you have power and say the right things you can get away with almost anything. I used to be stupid enough to believe this was not true in our country but god bless Trump, he opened my eyes.
This whole mess is causing us headaches at work, because some LatAm sales people requested a second exchange rate for Venezuela since the real one is so broken. But a lot of the code assumes a 1-1 country-currency mapping, so if we give in we'll end up with special cases for Venezuela everywhere... sigh.
That we have an article that discusses people providing no value to society yet working the system to extract billions of dollars (and the political power that comes with it) as if it were fascinating and cool rather than obscene tells us how fucked up our society is right now.

Imagine reading a newspaper in 1840 reporting on a group of scientists who are making a killing in cotton because they figured out, using statistics Moneyball style, how to maximize profits by buying slaves that nobody else wants. Imagine the article tells it as a story of smart guys who amazingly did what no one else could do, with nary a comment or even awareness about the evil of slavery.
Some Mac users pre-ordering $699 Eve V convertible Windows tablets on Indiegogo
Only the first few properties are flexbox related (alphabetical order). Keep scrolling through the property list and you'll find the non-flexbox properties.
Wouldn't this be like Samsung selling Galaxy 7 fire extinguishers?
She was a convenient sop. Who cares if Martha Stewart engages in a little insider trading while we've got the "financial professionals" leading our countries into economic ruin and socialized bailouts of professed "experts."
I think the oil companies would disagree with you. Even with electric cars and whatnot, look up the figures, oil consumption around the world just keeps increasing, and more to the point, some nations are running out of it, at least for exports.

Venezuela still has a lot of light crude oil, and also the large heavy crude deposits, which is still cheaper to refine than shale oil for instance. The industry here still has not even touched all the offshore resources properly and it is mostly suffering from lack of investment, especially in exploration for new wells.

And in the end, when all that is consumed we will probably turn to the uranium and God knows other minerals in the Amazon, instead of properly developing and diversifying the economy.
> Im a fan of crypto currencys, but they are simply not ready for primetime. In order to have a monatary system thay correcly works for a complex economy with many stages of production you need a way to grow and shrink the money supply.

True but in this specific case we don't know yet if this is a permisionless blockchain, a sidechain, or something else (private blockchains are not blockchains in the original Bitcoin innovation sense). Every day the PR bullets invade the news without specific details.

BTW some Monetas code is here but not recently updated: https://github.com/monetas and there are, as usual, a lot of press releases: https://monetas.net/news/
Hahahahahaaaaaa. Yeah, sure. Except when they don't. Exhibit A: Trump University
There likely was no DDoS. This was an early guess based on the symptoms at the time, but after investigating IBM never claimed DDoS in the days following census night.
In China, WeChat wants to kill app stores
TOTP is tricky because that requires a real time clock, which the SC4-HSM does not have. That would require adding a battery and associated power management circuitry, which would considerably increase the cost. However, you could run a driver on the host machine that provided the time to the HSM, which would still securely store your secret key. But then you could only use it on a machine that had this driver installed. So yes, it's possible, but it's not straightforward.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/50/82/c0/5082c0ac8...
Sooo... people don't like JS because 1) it's dynamically typed, and 2) they don't like JS?

>They don't care if first class functions are sexy.

It's not about being sexy (and believe me: first class functions aren't): it's about getting a very useful feature right, something many languages seem to have trouble with, despite the fact that Lisp (and ALGOL, IIRC) got it right in the 50s.
The system itself is broken. Money is supposed to be a proxy for value added, yet these guys are adding nothing. Don't come at me with the "investing in winners" guff. They are taking real wealth.
It is madness, and the govt was about to fall 3 weeks ago, but to this day, millions of people like me still do not understand why the opposition sat down to negotiate anything with the govt during Vatican sponsored talks, and in turn, ended up cooling the streets.
This is fantastic.

For me CSS has been largely very unintuitive, and part of that has been because of the adversarial evolutionary race of browsers.
off topic, but is that true about the Flash Crash guy? Do you have a reference?

I have only read the headlines about the case's current state.
Here here! Also thankful for my wife and family.
tip: the "web" link underneath the title does this automatically
Yeah, I had a longer bit that covered that I cut out. The virtuality of the interaction makes people less empathetic.

However it also caps the potential for harm, the worst case is doxxing and bullying. In real life the worst case is lynching.

You can also turn off the internet and be safe, in real life you better be able to run faster than they can.

This seems like a fantastic trade-off to me. Seriously, the worst parts of the internet are fucking toxic as hell. The worst parts of the real world involve war, sadism, slavery and torture.

Toxic online communities are basically the best human beings have ever acted when in groups that large.
I see this narrative in the Russian anti-US communities a lot. It actually makes sense, Russian economy entirely depends on oil, and Musk is working towards making oil irrelevant.
Actually it is ~10k request/day, my bad.
You mean the armed thugs. Calling them paramilitary forces gives them too much dignity. They are thugs on bikes that will probably end up dead by the time they reach their 30s.
More crony capitalism.

>The Defense Department is a major customer of software from Palantir, where Thiel serves as chairman. The company won a lawsuit against the U.S. Army last month, giving it a second chance to compete for a data system contract potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Certainly many as-yet fanciful technologies would be incredibly useful for us all.
For all the Trolls keeping theinternet
Technology firms may struggle to disrupt the food business
Hi, very interested in your freelance work way, how do you get jobs?
In most other electronic industries, sure. But in finance it is legally very difficult to avoid - traders have to be supervised, for example.
Could you post an actual example? I'm having problems deciphering what that would end up looking like.
> Mrs Clinton maintains a different style of politics, involving red tape, careful processes, observance of laws.

This is a joke right?
> white/male + white/female is not "homosexual" by any conventional definition. If anything it's "homomorphic"

Did I use the term "homosexual" incorrectly? Perhaps "origins of homosexuality" would be more accurate. That's what I said in the first place.

The article says "the researchers had come up with the concept that the birds were evolving a second set of sex chromosomes" and "the inversion on chromosome 2 doesn't include genes that determine sexual development — but it does contain some that affect the birds' reproductive behaviour". The tan-striped "swingers" are monogamous and fiercely protect their hatchlings from predators, whereas the white-striped "singers" are aggressive, promiscuous, and more cavalier about their offspring. The tan stripe birds almost always mate with the white stripes, but there are exceptions. We're seeing here firsthand (on a genetic time scale) the origins of homosexual behavior.

I appreciate your comment because when I first got the 5+ downvotes without any comments, I thought it was homophobic attitudes from HN readers. But now I know they could also be anyone with an overly pedantic reaction to the use of certain words.
>"Machines reaching a level of play that is consistently better than humans" and "the game is solved" are two completely different statements and it isn't particularly useful to conflate them.

Very good point

>We will likely never be able to solve Go in the formal sense.

I'm not sure if it would be precise to say chess will be solved either. The number of outcomes in a 50-move chess game approaches Graham's Number--a number larger than the number of atoms in the observable universe.

In a 100-move game, the number would be many orders of magnitude than an already incomprehensibly large number. So chess also will probably in a precise definition of the word, also never be solved.

Edit: It's kind of mind boggling to think about every atom in the universe representing one position in a game of chess and there not being enough atoms in the universe to represent each one.
I am most thankful for my family, my parents, my brother.
I'm thankful for the luck of the industry.

I use futureme.org to write diaries to my future self, and when I went into college after dropping out of high school, I wrote one that said I'd drop out of college too if a job were to offer me 40k/yr.

4 years later I graduated and moved to SF for 140k, and it didn't stop there.

I wish I could say I knew it would go this way, and was destined for greatness, yadda yadda, but I was as surprised as anybody.

The thing I was passionate about happened to explode into a darling of basically every company.

I'm thankful I was in the right place at the right time.
That was a nice eye roll on that line. Sadly the whole article was pretty pointless. It was one of those wowsa wow wow wow woop woop article, by the end of it you know nothing more than they take speculative risks on short/medium term using futures. Which any CFD trader does.
Err no, we can actually solve this issue ourselves. It was about to happen about 3 weeks ago actually. We just need the massive street demonstrations again and it will end.

I think international interference in this kind of issues end up causing more trouble than solutions. It ends up becoming a contest of whose side is supporting who. Just look at Syria.
Another major problem with the census was the Australian Bureau of Statistics holding onto the data and changing their privacy policies which meant that in an act of protest a ton of people entered false information or ommitted details. A really poor census overall.
Best burger in Seattle is at Two Bells in Belltown. Start with the Tavern Burger.
That's what couchsurfing.org used to be, and then they got into the game trying to compete against AirBnB.
Ask HN: What text editor do you use and why is it your editor of choice?
> The 2008 crises was not built on outright fraud by most of the banks. ... It was not caused by some cabal of bankers specifically doing something illegal.

That is not true.

Why Only One Top Banker Went to Jail for the Financial Crisis

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/magazine/only-one-top-bank...
> Everyone has to bring their own equipment and they receive exactly X kwh from a calibrated power supply to train their model

What's the advantage of this over simply providing every team with identical hardware and equal computing time? It seems like providing a fixed power supply would favor whoever can afford to buy more efficient computing equipment.
It's not compounding.
This reminds me of Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, the Iraqi Information Minister, widely known as Baghdad Bob and Comical Ali.
No, just no. There was clear and obvious fraud. At banks. At rating agencies. At investment firms. In the government. And pretty blatant coordination between some players, including among some that were supposed to be regulating and watching for the sort of fraud that occurred and was allowed to occur.

The Big Short covers this in an entertaining fashion. Alternatively, http://dafacto.com/2011/the-big-short-a-brief-summary-of-the...

edit: I apologize, I edited later than I should have (mostly just rearranged words).
Me too. This isn't even political to me, this is psychological. A whole new world of how to deal with the public and media.

It's blown my mind.
American Somoa island now powered almost entirely by solar energy
You say:

> DJing is absolutely useless if you don't produce/compose

But then give no reason for this to be the case. You imply that DJing takes less skill than composing/producing/performing, and that may be true, but that doesn't make DJing useless if done on its own.

"Elitist prick" indeed.
I have just 5k at 23... I live in a third world country where USD 2k monthly salary for programmer is considered top-tier level...
The money quote:

"Secrecy is contagious: If something is secret, and something else touches it, it too becomes secret. Secrecy becomes a disease. Everything around the secret issue becomes secret, so the trial became a secret, so I became a secret."

(Best read in context because it's actually a quote within a quote, but that gets cumbersome to replicate in an HN comment.)
>Why do Americans use voting machines exactly?

It was a knee jerk reaction by Congress to the 2000 presidential election recounts in Florida. They passed a bill that funded the purchase of new voting machines called the Help America Vote Act[1]. It provided a fat pile of federal funds to states for the purpose of replacing voting equipment. Of course, throw a mountain of money in front of federal contractors, and several will rush out poorly designed systems quickly to claim the prize. Secure voting was the last thing on their minds. Diebold actually sued the state of Massachusetts for "wrongful purchase" of competitor systems.[2] Slashdot covered the fiasco generated by HAVA for years. Just search for Diebold or Sequoia in relation to their domain.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_America_Vote_Act

[2] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/07/03/26/1431258/diebold-sues...

[3] https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=diebold%20site%3Aslashdot.org
> heat pumps generally being over 100% efficient

Que? How can anything be over 100% efficient?
The Windows/Tile UI is very polarizing and one of the major reasons for the failure of Windows 8. I personally dislike it.
For smart questions
Is this a criticism of Patagonia in particular? They've done a lot to be environmentally aware. They've been using recycled polyester in their clothing for years. I also doubt that Patagonia-produced polyester clothing contributes even 0.01% of the polyester refuse in the ocean.

If you have specific criticisms of Patagonia, I would be very interested to learn more about them. Please share.
But actually Venezuela is one of the countries where at this price level, production is still profitable.

Check this link out, where they explain the concept in detail:
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29643612

If Venezuela were to adopt a model like Norway for instance, where all oil income goes to a sovereign fund and it is not to be touched for anything other than building infrastructure, I can bet that the economy would be in good shape. And the reason is simple, people and the govt included, would have to learn to live by their own means.
I am extremely thankful to speak English as a first language.
The whole sub?
I am thankful for my wife, who loves me.

I am thankful that both of my daughters are healthy and smart young women.

I am thankful for the AT&T team who created UNIX.

I am thankful for the programmers who work on the Linux, GNU, *BSD, Plan 9, and FreeDOS operating systems.

I am thankful to all the programmers who make free software possible.

I am thankful for the ACLU, the EFF, the CBLDF, and the NRA.

I am thankful to Edward Snowden for revealing that our government has been breaking the law.

I am thankful that there are things like Pinboard and Tarsnap out there, where building something good is the goal.

I am grateful for Project Gutenberg, Wikipedia, Hacker News, and Lobste.rs; all for providing me interesting things to read.
To be fair, it's easy to suck at Cassandra and most folks that use it used to suck at it.
>Many HSMs also add advanced authentication capabilities, such as M-of-N access control

And this is exactly my point, it's all functionality which the manufacturers have decided some customer might need. I don't want that, I want a secure general-purpose Turing-complete execution environment which gives me full flexibility in what crypto, mechanisms and policy to implement. This entire industry approach is silly.
This:

INSERT INTO locks (id, lock, revision)
VALUES ('Tom', true, 1)
IF NOT EXISTS USING TTL 20;

looks like a race condition. The same problem comes up in SQL databases - you can't lock a row that doesn't exist yet. If you write, in SQL:

BEGIN TRANSACTION
SELECT FROM locks WHERE id = "Tom" AND lock = true AND revision = 1;
-- if no records returned
INSERT INTO LOCKS locks (id, lock, revision) VALUES ('Tom', true, 1)
COMMIT

you have a race condition. If two threads make that identical request near-simultaneously, both get a no-find from the select, and both do the INSERT.
SELECT doesn't lock rows that don't exist.

The usual solution in SQL is to use UNIQUE indices which will cause an INSERT to fail if the record about to be inserted already exists.

I ran into this reassembling SMS message fragments, where I wanted to detect that all the parts had come in. The right answer was to do an INSERT for each new fragment, then COMMIT, then do a SELECT to see if all the fragments of a message were in. Doing the SELECT first produced a race condition.
The idea that you should 'plot the error bars' ahead of, well, looking at the data seems a bit premature. As many other comments have stated, looking at the data first is critical.

It drives me up the wall: we have 1200dpi printers, retina displays, and so on, and yet somehow people feel the need to collapse everything they've done to these giant finger-painting quality bar charts. Statistical tests are well and good, but I'm amazed at the extent to which smart people will happily plug data which they have never actually seen into statistical metrics. So a mean might be derived from 9 reasonable results and a howlingly off factor-of-2 outlier, and you can dutifully plug this series into a bunch of standard tests and speak confidently about p-values.
According to the govt here that was incomplete information released by JPMorgan. Apparently people have started receiving payments as of today.

But I don't doubt that if this inflation rate keeps rising, something like that will happen very soon.
That's interesting, I'm the opposite - I listen to loads of music but don't play much. I would've thought one would lead to the other, but I guess not.
Are these sockpuppets? Why is this chain from three usernames that look like they were autoincremented?
This is a great book to get started - and whilst it is a little dated technology wise the fundamentals are great along with a very entertaining tongue-in-cheek presentation/writing style.

https://www.amazon.com/How-DJ-Properly-Science-Playing/dp/05...
kl divergence has no nice theoretical properties other than 'it is the answer to these questions'

it is also extremely poorly behaved numerically and in convergence
Restc – A server-side middleware to visualize REST requests
I am thankful I'm not black. What with all the lynchings.
Based on the stories I've heard from friends and colleagues about this in Barcelona, AirBnB is engaging in fraud. They should sooner pull out entirely that defile their customers in this manner - but then the real customer is apparently the landlord, not the renter, so I guess they are helping their customer defile the peasants. All of the stories involved AirBnB blaming the renter for not informing them immediately upon being redirected to a different apartment, while simultaneously being essentially impossible to get ahold of in a timely manner, you know after a 12 hour international flight and you've arrived at midnight. Getting a cot at this point has a very good chance of being accepted and AirBnB takes the side of the landlord that this is tacit acceptance of the entire bait and switch being valid.
See Interesting Blog Stories of Amir Najam
I am thankful for my elders and felllow citizens to provide for free education, free healthcare, and retirement for all.

My turn.
Transformjs: made css3 transform super easy
Is Japan a travel destination, or home base? 日本語がわかりますか。