skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be reading a lot into a simple business decision. Most advertisers probably don't want their brand advertised alongside (and thus associated with) highly controversial content, including racist content.

Thus most ad networks have general policies against hate speech and the like.

Same reason you can't monetize videos about war on youtube. It's not a conspiracy by google to stop people from making videos about war (which you are still free to do), advertisers just don't want their valuable brands becoming mentally associated with horrifying footage of human slaughter.
The central bank automatically equalizes over changes in money demand/velocity. That what a demand target (in the Feds case Inflation) is all about. So this action might increase velocity/decrease money demand, but it will not have a larger effect on Aggregate Demand.
The appeal to vulgarity is a tired cliche of social critique. At this point, no one can make a fresh point about it. Now it's just exploitation of the weak.
Those cases are not the same. Here you have individuals spending money because they find the idea of their money being wasted in such a fashion entertaining. It's waste for the sake of waste. This is exactly why this is the perfect stunt for CAH.
I'm reworking my first rails project into Elixir-Phoenix & Vue.js app as a learning exercise. It's a video manager for learning resources (Vimcasts etc.). So it "knows" about parsing a number of feeds, and can download from youtube etc. (shell out to youtube-dl). Allows you to comment and export them all to a page (so you can keep track of what you've looked at and learned).

Quite enjoying reworking it, once it's in a usable state I'll be putting it up on Github and posting a link here. I'm sure there's _lots_ I'm getting wrong, but I'm definitely enjoying the process.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_terrorism#U.S._...

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Commenting on the genesis of this provision, Edward Peck, former U.S. Chief of Mission in Iraq (under Jimmy Carter) and former ambassador to Mauritania said:

> In 1985, when I was the Deputy Director of the Reagan White House Task Force on Terrorism, [my working group was asked] to come up with a definition of terrorism that could be used throughout the government. We produced about six, and each and every case, they were rejected, because careful reading would indicate that our own country had been involved in some of those activities. […] After the task force concluded its work, Congress [passed] U.S. Code Title 18, Section 2331 ... the US definition of terrorism. […] one of the terms, "international terrorism," means "activities that," I quote, "appear to be intended to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping." […] Yes, well, certainly, you can think of a number of countries that have been involved in such activities. Ours is one of them. […] And so, the terrorist, of course, is in the eye of the beholder.[62]
Invent as many words you want, Its still legal.
High-falutin' titles seem to sell better (as opposed to"Using Docker with Perl"), never mind that English doesn't seem to be his first language. The talk itself seems to be on the pragmatic side, though (unsurprisingly when it comes to Perl).

Although one could make a point that symbiosis often involves quite different organisms, and pairing one of the currently hyped buzzwords with the language that last was really popular when CGIs ruled the earth might come close to that.
Haha, I agree, it's pretty small. If you look at my other projects, I <3 vanilla js.
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I am re-analyzing a library of galaxy merger simulations to estimate how much of the sky is covered by debris pulled off during the tidal interactions between the two galaxies. This may have important implications for interpretation of datasets on the growth lifetimes of supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. The simulations were created for a different purpose (matching observations of mergers to numerical models), but are well-suited to this sky-covering project. So I'm essentially mining those simulations in a monte-carlo fashion.
But it funds their current lifestyle indirectly as without investments one would have to cut down on expenses to save more for retirement.

If tomorrow investments doubled money in a year, then people would work far less.
Wow downvote within a minute.
> You are free to have that opinion, but I think that the majority of the people affected by these economic policies (who by definition cannot be rich) will disagree with you.

Didn't you just say that rich people benefit? So the policy affects rich people positively.
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Are you suggesting that Breitbart is the mirror image of NYT on the right? Because that's what you seem to be implying here, and it is ridiculous. Breitbart is a cesspool. Perhaps you are claiming the NYT is, too?
Building http://ossmetrics.com/ - Github Analytics and Lead research platform for open-source businesses.

I started working on it in parallel with my OSS business https://goreplay.org because Github literally does not give you any KPI's. The number of stars, won't tell you anything.

There is so many data generated by open source projects, and if used properly it can give you a huge bonus.

Did not launch yet, but some cool stuff coming soon :)
No. I corrected a typo. My sentiment is towards whatever business is involve. AS I said, some part of my brain writes in google when discussing ads. And if my opinion sounds like "hate" I suggest spending some time on brietbart for perspective on that word.
I've been working on and off on a HTML5 and JavaScript encrypted chat application called Quiet Message. I use the result of a Diffie-Hellman exchange to transmit a key that is used to encrypt messages by the client. It's intended use case is to provide privacy on corporate networks with HTTPS man the middle devices. It's still very basic and messy but I'm slowly making progress.

https://qtmsg.io/login/hacker-news
The Iranians provided that link. Certainly with a more rational goverment we would never take intelligence information ( for example the famous yellow cake) from a hostile goverment with more restraint. Indeed Hussein through the US invasion was a bluff until the last minute.
Star Citizen production schedule goes public–but still no release date
Then you're missing the humour in the stunt.
There are probably more conservatives/libertarians in tech than you think, but don't speak their views for fear of being outcast (e.g. not getting hired, invited, funded, etc.). In fact, they probably even publicly agree with pro-left opinions just to keep from being "outed", even though they may disagree in private. What's ironic is that the left prides themselves on being diverse, inclusive, and open-minded. It'd be quite funny if didn't lead down such a dangerous path.

I'm beginning to understand why early enlightenment thinkers formed secret societies to discuss their ideas. Because if the normies found out what they actually believed, then they'd probably be outcast from their societies, or worse. Maybe there needs to be a secret handshake or something.
"...some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."

If ever there was an appropriate event for the quote.
No, it doesn't. However, you seem to be fairly convinced those people are all terrorists and not just political opponents that are under our drones' crosshairs.

I guess the people massacred at that MSF hospital were terrorists, too.
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Designing research grade pH meter. It is using 24 bit ADC, feeds into Teensy microcontroller and all that jazz.

It is always interesting to get some "DIY XYZ project using Arduino" and try to make it into commercial grade product.
I got a maxxed out 13 inch (touch bar) a couple of days ago, and I hate the new keyboard (I never got used to the shallow keyboard on the 12", after having one for almost a year).

The Touch Bar is also pretty much a useless gimmick.

Besides that it's a neat machine, though I think Apple is getting close to what is worth paying the Apple tax for (inconsistent product lineup: no USB-C on the iPhone 7, no USB-C on the external trackpads/keyboards, etc). My employer paid for my machine, I do not think I would have spent my own money on this.
I think that Google's TPUs (Tensor Processing Unit) use Altera FPGAs (speculation based on [1]). I'm sure there's some degree of collaboration if Google is filling cabinets with high-end FPGAs.

[1] https://twitter.com/danluu/status/705802676945072129
I'm currently working on a real time path tracer for games.

It's pretty neat what a simulation of physically-based lighting enables you to do in terms of lighting and visual phenomena. Needs fast hardware but we're getting there!

It's implemented in Vulkan and Rust.
Actually, you still could be punished, being an independent political activist.
I think there might be an argument to be made for Marshal Tito to have that "honor" over Castro.

But hopefully the foolishness of the embargo can really end now.
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In the US, the role of the central securities depository is done by the DTCC.[0] But the registered holder (nominee) of the DTCC is a separate legal entity known as Cede & Co. [1] (I recommend reading Matt Levine's article for further discourse)

So basically, the concept of ownership of a financial asset (which is itself, an abstraction) is further abstracted, for the purpose of making the system more efficient.

Fun fact: After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the DTCC had to recover/restore many damaged paper certificates after their securities vault was flooded. I don't know whether these had any electronic entries but I assume they did. But the physical certificates still needed to be retained.[2]

If you're interested in this sort of market structure/market participant discussion, I'd recommend the textbook Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners, by Larry Harris.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depository_Trust_%26_Clearing_...

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-07-14/banks-for...

2. http://www.dtcc.com/annuals/2013/superstorm-sandy-recovery/i...
As someone who recently went back and did an extensive review of college math, I got a lot out of your site. I'm looking forward to your book!
Taxes don't pay for federal government spending. So you don't even need to pay taxes to be culpable.
but corporations can already reinvest in themselves tax free, and on top of that capitalizable expenses get to be spread across tax periods for tax sheltering purposes.

tax shields are so valuable to that they can actually be bought and sold as an asset separate to the corporation (in a not uncomplicated structure and set of circumstances iirc). typically this is done for shareholder benefit rather than for some coherent investment strategy (the benefit is not only capital but power and influence as well).
Ah, so now we have location within the car, and accident detection. And we would need to detect accidents nearby so that drivers can call 9/11 without getting out their vehicles. This is too many layers of tech simply to stop people from doing something they already know is wrong. Spend all those development cycles on direct anti-drunk, anti-speeding and anti-crash tech.

It's also not all that hyperbolic. Similar tech has been deployed with GPS. During the early days of handhelds many shutdown at high ground speeds as to prevent them being used to guide aircraft. I forget what the speed was (200mph?) but it was well below the arms limitations (mach 2+ and/or 60,000feet).
This is quite literally the third time in the past 24hrs that while I've been on the internet looking at other things, your course has come up. Must be a sign... buying it now!
In the US, I don't believe there's any paperwork unless you plan to build something in the hole. Then it would be construction, but this is just a hole. You call a "utility locate" service (commonly known as Miss Dig) a few days in advance, and they look up all the records for buried stuff, and come mark it with little flags. (If you damage something because you didn't call, you bear full responsibility for the damage, but I don't believe it's a criminal act, just civil liability. But I'm definitely not a lawyer!)

In this case, they probably checked those records and found a big patch of land with no underground utilities at all, before buying it. In rural areas that includes most land.

In the city: Fiber optics run chiefly along suspended wires (search terms "messenger wire" and "aerial cable") or buried in conduits along established cable routes. Municipal water and sewer lines usually run under roads or along easements parallel to roads. Taps serving individual buildings branch off these. Electrical wires are usually aerial, and in places where they're run underground, they're usually very well marked and dotted with pad-mounted transformers along their length.

If you wanted to dig a hole like this in the city, you'd be navigating a forest of little flags and might have a very hard time of it.

In rural areas: Fiber optics usually run along railroad tracks, since those are pre-existing straight-line paths that connect population centers. Oil and gas pipelines are usually underground but usually well-marked and often kept clear of vegetation on the surface for inspection purposes. Electrical wires in rural areas are always aerial. Water is usually from wells, sewage is handled in septic systems, and heating gas is trucked around and stored in tanks at each house, so there are no buried lines for any of those.

Digging a hole like this out in the country is pretty straightforward.
Google turns up nothing on that case, which is making it hard to become convinced. Why not provide the link yourself? :)

From what I can find, Dodge v. Ford isn't considered "garbage", but it is often misrepresented.

Directors have a primary responsibility to work for the benefit of the shareholders, but they also have virtually total discretion in how to achieve that. In the absence of clear evidence of the intention to shirk the responsibility - such as, in Dodge v. Ford, telling the shareholders you're putting public interests ahead of their profits - the onus is on the shareholders to prove that the directors aren't fulfilling their fiduciary duty.
> I see HN users decrying Trump's vague self-serving complaints

By responding to Trump's accusations by saying that the election wasn't rigged or hackable, Democrats undermined all of the folks who were actually trying to fix these issues. It doesn't matter if Trump said the election was rigged 'for the wrong reasons' or whatever, saying that the election wasn't hackable was absolutely the worst possible response.
Executes dissenters
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Yeah, sure, that's possible. You don't know me. I presume you've seen countless interviews with Trump supporters, like I have, where they are given objective truths ("you know Trump said X" for which there is an unedited video of him saying X) and still don't believe them? Because if I held a belief and someone showed me a video like that, I'd question my belief.
The quality listings are easy to find on eBay though and impossible to find on Amazon. eBay still has a lot of quality.
Republican state governments have been claiming election fraud for years, as a justification for passing Voter ID laws.
Hmm.. why not let people vote on worthiness with a point system (money)?

That's the current world we live in.
Awesome that you're doing this in Rust! How's your experience been? (Would you be able to write a blog post about it later?)

I'm very interested in seeing how Rust evolves as a video game design language. It's certainly shaping up as a language for building servers.
Probably the cost isn't amortized over a very long period of time so that some hours are much more expensive than others.
Braintree allows you to bring your own merchant account and then its just a per transaction fee. https://www.braintreepayments.com/faq#pricing
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I've been working on a 2D Physics Engine for the folks at Khan Academy to use. It's also a great way for me to learn programming and physics at the same time ^.^

https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/papercut-2d...
That is true of most fraud.
My ObjC-fu is pretty old --- the last time I looked at it seriously was when poc was still a thing --- but my understanding is:

Traditionally objc_msgSend is in assembly because it doesn't know how many and what types the message parameters are. So it can't portably preserve them while it does the computations to find out where to send the message to.

This project's alternative obj_msgSend always passes parameters in a structure. That helps, because now you know that all message calls have three parameters; the destination object, the selector, and the parameter block.

However... they don't always pass the return value in the message block; instead it coerces any integer types to void* and returns them in the usual way, only using an extra field in the parameter block for those values which aren't coerceable to void.

This does make me kinda unhappy. I don't think* it'll be a problem, but... it's definitely pushing the limits of what C allows; round-tripping arbitrary integers through pointers is one of those things that's not technically allowed but all real-world compilers support, so, um. I'd much rather they just pass everything through the parameter block.

But yeah, it's a decent enough idea, which simplifies things considerably at not a lot of performance hit. I'm kind of surprised that ObjC doesn't already do that.

My main disappointment is that this is a clang variant and not a standalone preprocessor. Since poc died there isn't a working ObjC preprocessor, which means if you want to use ObjC you're limited to gcc or clang. An ObjC->C preprocessor would solve that.
GDP is gross domestic product. The problem is in the term "gross": GDP doesn't measure depreciation.

Arguably here they're pumping $X per day into a project that is also depreciating at $X per day (i.e. no net value is produced, ignoring the entertainment value of the stunt). So the project contributes to GDP but not to net wealth.

The failure to account for depreciation is one of the major problems with GDP as a measure of prosperity.
Burning fuel for NASCAR and Formula 1 is also useless to a first approximation, and surely the land used for racetracks could be used for other stuff. But millions of people find it entertaining, and occasionally useful stuff comes out of it, like innovations in engines or telemetry or safety equipment.

How is this any different? It's entertaining plenty of us, it's less fuel than a race and less land than a racetrack, and maybe we'll learn something in the process. Maybe innovations in moderating the futility of online comment systems. ;)
> ...and I point out it was OK... because I just saw YOU do it...

This is tu quoque, because you're trying to say bad thing you did was OK because someone else did a bad thing too. However, you'll notice the above poster definitely did not claim what Castro did was OK.
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I wish they would go deeper though, they're kinda just digging a wide hole. Unlikely they'll hit magma.
Genuinely curious - what's your tax haven?
Can someone explain why MFCC is used rather than allowing the neural network to learn from the raw waveform? I looked back in the literature and the intention of MFCC & PLP seems to be to remove speaker-dependent features from the audio in order to reduce the dimensionality of the input. But I though the whole point of neural nets is that they can learn from very high dimensional inputs no?

I had a go at implementing wave->phoneme recognition using a simple neural net and it seemed to work pretty well.
I read the whole thesis, because on Saturdays I read papers, thats just how I roll. He does a great job identifying the problems (especially in finance) but his only source referencing Prior Work is Endnote #7 and that's an Excel resource.

This is why learning the history of your field is so important. Lotus Improv(1) was the "power-users" 1-2-3 (god I'm dating myself, aren't I). Lotus Improv essentially what this gentleman mentioned (it semantically separated the segment UDTs&UDF's) except in a cleaner fashion.

Let's examine that screenshot Lotus Improv screenshot briefly and allow me to espose its structural advantages over a traditional spreadsheet-

RE: Share - Worksheet - Untitled 2 - You have your traditional values of the cells in the primary pane. The selected cell is in grey. The derived value is in the cell. The expression evaluated to generate that value is in the bottom pane.

- An important thing to note is that there is an inherent hierarchy to your data (is-a, not has-a, sadly), which makes aggregate analysis easy right out of the box. No need to move into a OLAP star-or-snowflake schema BI platform. (This structure is displayed in the 3 rows of the bottom pane of the [Right Window])

- In "Untitled 2" to the [Left-bottom], you have annotations so you're somewhat self-documenting.

Joel Spolsky had an hour long talk on Excel to more or less use excel "right" (2) which is worth a watch, certainly, as the world is stuck in Excel. But for the most part it's constructing hacks around fundamental problems that exist in the platform. (I.e., according to his best practice methodology, you have to leave a r+1,r-1,c+1,c-1 border around all of your data. That should never, ever be required.)

It's been years since I've used Lotus Improv, so forgive me if I'm forgetting the terminology. Laudable work for an undergraduate, but it always reminds me of the old adage - those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. ;)

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lotus_Improv_screenshot,_...

(2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
The writer sounds like a crippling perfectionist. The world isn't perfect, and neither is any real program. It's an important step in your personal development to recognize and deal with that.

Perhaps they would be happier as a designer, where they can make everything fit into perfectly neat boxes.
Here you go. I use this to create my personal website.
https://github.com/dirkk0/microCMS
Yes, he created a big company, Microsoft, and a dominant (by marketshare) OS, Windows.
No, he's suggesting that any time he suggests that the NYT might be anything other than the gospel truth, he's attacked (like this)
> Microservices are rarely extraction or reporting

Perl is just Perl now, just as LISP is now just Lisp; Perl is not, if it ever was, the "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language", any more than Lisp is now "LISt Processing".
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Isn't it interesting how satirical humor often serves as a kind of rorschach test?

I remember reading something about both conservatives and liberals thinking Colbert's character was making fun of the other.
Do you guys think Trump will reinstate the embargo?