skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> your argument on the basis of "I've heard that the free market value..." is not particularly robust.

I heard that from some former Chinese daytraders. I agree that it would be a bad idea to trade assuming my ratio without a better source.

> which is free to trade wherever the free market sees the pair going,

I don't know how to interpret those numbers. I'm not sure exactly how the futures market interacts with currency controls.

I've read that Venezuela also has currency controls, and while the official exchange rate of VEF:USD seems to be 10:1 from a quick Google search, I also see a Bloomberg article mentioning that the black market has it at 1000:1.

It could be that you get 25 Yuan by illegally shipping USD across the Chinese border to scared Chinese citizens, while the government only approves its citizens to trade at the smaller rate.
It's Brad and a couple of others who are to blame here, the golang subreddit didn't do shit to deserve being killed.
I have no interest in Golang, but if the mods feel strongly enough that they want to leave Reddit, that is absolutely their choice and completely understandable. But as moderators, I feel that they've accepted a moral responsibility to the community that uses the service they control.

If they all want to step down, the correct approach is to add a sticky post, recruiting new moderators willing to take over their roles. "I don't agree with this so I'm going home and I'm taking my ball with me" is childish and frankly a little pathetic.
Then just turn it off
Forget Brexit and Trump, “post-truth” was spawned by the liberal left long ago
You can certainly measure this with current surveying techniques. What the satellite InSAR technology allows is the measurement of millions of points at the same time, over thousands of square kilometres. And with the Sentinel-1 satellites providing free images every 6 or 12 days, the measurements can be updated frequently.
Thank you, I visit HN for this ;)
It would be great if it was just Trump, but basically all the sensible enviromental moves made by America in the last decade or so have been done in such a way that they bypass any Republican controlled body.

Things that the corporations, cities, states or President can do without needing Republican buy in have progressed, everything else has been stalled and killed.

Trump's coal nonsense is a symptom, not a cause.
It can do that. And that's pretty cool. But that's not what they chose to focus the article on.
Again, though, the lack of user's truth or faith in a piece of software does not make the software itself worse.

We can argue the merits of distrust and of the user's choice to distrust, but the software itself is the same.
A bit offtopic: I'm a recent convert to Brew and I was a bit surprised that it is missing two features that I am used to seeing in a package manager. The first is that there is no way to upgrade casks, and the other one is that there's no way to autoremove dependencies when a package is uninstalled. Since Brew is at this point a mature project, I am guessing these features are not in the plans, which is too bad.
You misread the OP, he's talking to 6 dev people, not 6 taxi drivers. I'd be surprised if anyone without a uni degree can find a dev job in a foreign company in Beijing.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not pro censorship. But you and many in the west assume people in China are all brain washed and incapable of seeing their own history. Sure, a large part of the population can't be bothered, but I'd bet it's not 95% as you assumed, and they have increasingly less influence in today's China.

And speaking of which, you don't think the west is ruled by 2% of elites and manipulate the media to tame the rest?
What happened? Why are you so angry?

Cool down; this is not such a big issue as it may seem to you right now.
An actual phone call? Really? In 2016? If I'm going to have a lengthy discussion with someone, I'd rather do it in an environment where I'm not being billed by the minute and in the worst audio quality possible.
Veritas was definitely better than the alternative. I was a dba at the time and it was a godsend.
Ironically I've found that non-software companies are a lot better about this than software companies when hiring programmers. They are much more likely to ask questions along the lines of "here's a typical problem we might have, give us a high level overview about how you might help us solve it".
I remember how heavy vinyls was to bring in clubs.. specially if you play longer than 1 or 2 hours. Haha, those were the days indeed.
Always Overreact!!11one. Seriously I expect a bit more by people that for work apply logic everyday.
So what the city gets an extra $1 or something. That seems pretty silly to tax
I have found the Stanford EE263 class to be possibly the best class on linear algebra. This might be due to the fact that it's technically a class about linear dynamic systems not linear algebra per se

http://ee263.stanford.edu/
> That is so beyond unethical and immature, I no longer want anything to do with that site. I will be deleting my account on Reddit after backing up my content, and I will no longer be a moderator of /r/golang.

Responding to immaturity with immaturity is a bad idea altogether.

I have never understood Google's choice of "use google groups" for projects, then farming out community relations to third parties like StackOverflow, Reddit, etc. They have enough resources to manage their own support, news dissemination, and discussion mechanisms.

There are a number of reasons to not have an official presence on Reddit, but "I'm taking my ball and going home" isn't one of them.
very useful... thanks!
9.4% tax on $8 a month is around 75 cents.

People will complain about anything.
NNTP, phpbb, anything else. Google Groups literally have the worst interface of any product that I've used in the last 6 - 8 years.

But yes, an old fashion mailing list, archived on marc.info, would be a huge step up.

I can only assume that Google Groups is some sort of half baked example to show that GWT works.
How would I say my message without being snarky?
This is not arbitrary. It may be not intuitive coming from a rdbms background, but it isn't arbitrary.

As Johnathon pointed out, it's like properly using synchronized or volatile half the time. I don't call it sometimes not working as arbitrary. I call it expected for not following the rules of the system.
No Credit History? No Problem. Lenders Are Looking at Your Phone Data
A municipal tax on cable TV can be enforced because there's a physical line to a residence in the municipality.

What's stopping users from ordering netflix to an "address" in a tax-free municipality? For that matter, how are they determining this in the first place? I never told netflix where I live; they only have a billing address. But billing addresses aren't where tax is due; I regularly pay municipally taxed services for one address at another billing address.
Hint: lobbyists.

Source: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/what-if-politicians-had-to-we...
But of course when you have encoded the scale, rotate and translate into the matrix, it isn't possible to decode it back out to your original values. This is obvious if you consider the fact the following produce identical matrices (just consider 2D for now):

1. Scale in X and Y of -1

2. Z rotation of 180
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As a postulation, that's fine enough, but is there any human being on Earth who could honestly claim they wouldn't mind some stranger or group of strangers standing at their window, watching them live?

I doubt it.
Yup. Lotta places will now give you 1Mbps 95% on FastE inclusive with a service contract, if you ask nicely, and are taking a cage with 20+ racks. Datacenters which ask you to pay it's usually <$50 MRC.

Would guess the transition is slow because if it ain't broke why fix it, and its often a lot more than just provisioning a new circuit, you have to update process documentation, etc.
But my bill is $50 and I pay for both TV and Internet and Radio! Why do I have to pay 3 times for tv?
Mao hated Khrushchev which meant that Soviet-Chinese relations were extremely hostile (actual battles were fought between soldiers of the two nations). India was aligned with the USSR, which made China and Pakistan natural allies. They have been close since then.
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Solar power (heat/electricity) might not be huge during the winter, but the solar power levels produced in the southern parts of Finland are similar to the ones produced in Northern Germany. http://ilmastokatu.fi/en/solar-power-apartment-buildings/
The way I read it, OP was claiming that in any given place electricity demand goes up precisely when solar generation goes down.

Which may be true in Finland but is false in general.
Get a King James Bible and start reading.
The idea is good but I am afraid it misses the point entirely. Multiplying both columns of the right hand side matrix to the left hand side matrix is really not helping the target audience understand what is going on. 2 operations are going on as the same time. I believe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkY2DOUCWMU is a much better way to illustrate the matrix multiplication (and provide a clear explanation of the why) .
> 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.

You're missing the point. The voting protocol is built in such a way that you can verify that your vote was cast as intended, and that your vote was counted in the tally. Once everyone agrees on the voting protocol you don't need to trust someone else's electronics, you can do it on your own device, and use open source software.

> the voting protocol doesn't provide a means of verification
Yes. That's a feature. Any new system cannot re-enable voter coercion.

You can have vote verification without enabling coercion. If you have a vote receipt it does not imply you can prove or disprove how you voted, but it does allow you to verify that your vote was included in the tally.

> 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.

I disagree. The general population doesn't know how RSA or AES work but we have HTTPS and the green-lock-thingy. You don't need to know how or why something works in order to reap its benefits.
I will seriously never understand the imbalance of resources spent and the bills and laws passed in the name of "fighting terrorism" and "think of the children" which affects less people every day than pretty much every alternative way to suffer and die.

It doesn't make any sense. We spent trillions of dollars every year making intelligence and the military war machine one of the largest shadow economies in the world... We could pretty much solve every other form of death and illness with that money in less time, we could raise everyone in the country out of poverty with that money so they could stand on their own two feet. We could educate those that need education so they could get jobs and stand on their own without the need for Government handouts. So what the fuck.

Some days though, all you can do is throw your hands in the air in resignation and say "Fuck it, you're all crazy! You cause problems and you spend billions of dollars to band-aid the symptoms, just like you do with your medical system."

The underlying cancer is this mentality. We'll do what the fuck we want and treat people the way we fucking want because it makes us rich and then we'll spend billions to deal with the symptoms of this dumbass behaviour.

I hope the riches are worth it because the behaviour is (and I don't treat this word lightly, nor do I mean it with any disrespect whatsoever to those that unfairly get labeled with it) retarded.
> Take the text selector for example, which felt like a stopgap when it was made and hasn't been changed since its release.

It was updated for 3D Touch devices. Granted, not even the newest iPad has 3D Touch.
Right does Java throw an exception if you forget a lock around a shared variable?
Yet just a couple of days ago I was being told on HN that Chinese companies gobbling up companies isn't an issue at all.
I hope, that people leave CIA facebook and use alternatives. I can't understand why people are obsessed with it so much.
> But that's not what they chose to focus the article on.

The first few paragraphs are about the Millennium Tower, but that's just the hook. The rest of the article discusses the wide-area applications, including SF, elsewhere in the Bay Area, and Oslo, Norway.
I have a friend that uses IM to generate memes. So, yeah IM can be used by dissidents. :)
I live in UK and I haven't been watching broadcast TV since 2013 - streaming all that I need. So, I will find it annoying if I am hit with an additional TAX just because I utilize the service that I already pay for to the best of my abilities - mind you that I also pay additional subscription fees for online streaming content and faster fiber. I totally support the TAX on plastic bags to prevent littering the environment but TAX on online content? What is the point of that?
Authoritarians might get elected, but they sure don't let themselves get un-elected.
There's more information about ICRs here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

The TLDR is it's netflow data eg:
Source IP,
Destination IP,
FQDN,
Date,
Amount of Data
Garrity's book looks exactly what I've been looking for for brushing up on basic math skills after a decade of fairly low-brow work after my MSc. Thanks for the reference!
Design Case Study: UI for Toonie Alarm
The hardware setup is based on what I had on-hand:

- Raspberry Pi with WiFi dongle

- Arduino Uno connected to rpi via USB

- NeoPixel (ws2812b) LED strip connected to arduino
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/individually-addressable-1m-...

- Adafruit Power Supply
https://www.adafruit.com/products/658

All that is in a Tupperware box below the deck with an extension cord for power running to it.

I'm running PlatformIO on the rpi to program the arduino from the command line (love it), and still moving between FastLED and the NeoPixel libraries to drive the LED strips. I've installed Homebridge on the rpi to eventually be able to control the setup with Siri from an iDevice.

I'll eventually properly document the project, but for now, here are my brain-dump notes:

https://github.com/kejaed/deckLights/blob/master/projectNote...
wouldn't they go off the billing address if they could not determine it in another way?
I'm no civil engineer but I talked to one about this story and the concerns seem to be overblown. First, the foundation as I am aware is created by drilling to the point of refusal. Obviously bedrock is ideal, but in a place like SF where some of the land is based off old landfill, refusal is acceptable. From there a concrete foundation is laid and the building rests upon it. Concrete slabs are secure and in the event of an earthquake it will be allowed to shift and "float" if the ground underneath liquifies. Secondly, the sinking and leaning can be corrected. Engineers account for some level of sinkage as the building settles, and if it tilts, they can apply ties to the sides to straighten it. In the most severe of cases they can shore up the foundation and build more supports. I'm sure the builders are examining their options currently so it'll be interesting to see what course of action they take.
I watched the movie and read the book, this is a very poor deflection.
>"1. Total hate crimes incidents as measured here will be not more than 125% of their 2015 value at any year during a Trump presidency, conditional on similar reporting methodology [confidence: 80%]

Weren't hate crimes in 2015 already at a high spike above previous years?
Uggg, why is zoom disable on mobile devices?
Seems more like propaganda than what we think of as history. In this vein some of the Old Testament comes to mind.

However, when we only have one account it's hard to judge accuracy.
Huh? People are complaining because it's a pointless tax. Cable taxes cover the costs of ROW maintenance and regulations. Netflix doesn't need any of this. We should be pissed. Taxes without reason is theft, plain and simple.
The princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was comprised of Jammu region, Kashmir Valley, Ladakh, Gilgit, Baltistan and a bit of Aksai Chin.[1] So, India have Jammu, Ladakh and a part of Kashmir. Pakistan have POK (Azad Kashmir + Gilgit-Baltistan). And, China have Aksai Chin.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir_(princely_st...
Not enough to power my mail & web server and an electric kettle, unfortunately, where I live, especially during winter months (~2-3kWh / day, when electricity is most needed). It's more viable to use diesel generator if i were thinking of going off-grid. To go on further minimizing dependency on something that isn't readily available, i'd probably go with gasoline engine generator equipped with wood gasifier [1]. Green power, unfortunately, is no libertarians dream - it only works when you can scale - that is, basically, if you're state-level actor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas
3Blue1Brown is an amazing youtube channel that provides very entertaining and educating visual explanation for all sorts of maths.

He has a whole series on linear algebra, including matrix mulitplication:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...
Not to mention, its pretty widely known that /r/the_donald uses bots to up the votes and push their stuff higher on /r/all. Not that Im thrilled that Spez did what he did, but /r/the_donald has been pushing the line ever since it was created.
Without being able to sell shares, a wine company that makes a profit can only grow by reinvesting their profit. E.g. it cost 100 tokens to set up the shop, it grows by 15 tokens a year, it has to wait 7 years before it can set up a different shop. With the ability to sell shares, once they prove a profitable business model, they can sell shares in order to grow the business into other areas.

Without arbitrage, a wine shop that returns 15 tokens for every 100 invested might be able to sell shares at the same value as a meat shop that only makes 8 tokens for every 100 invested. Even though the wine shop is more popular, more profitable and providing more value to the market, it is forced to grow at the same rate as the meat shop.

We need a system of allocating resources efficiently, and the economy will provide the most value possible. This is what arbitrage does. And you'd want pretty smart people doing it, as these decisions can cause the success or failure of companies.

To put it in other terms, the footsoldiers might do the actual fighting, but I prefer to be part of an army with generals that decide where to place troops rather than one composed entirely out of 'actual fighting people' (or as you call it 'real things produced with real skill and effort, goods such as meat, wine, cars').

There are ways of cheating the system, and I support strong financial regulations. But that doesn't mean these jobs shouldn't exist in the first place or they don't provide any value.
Wow, the amount of people just going "yeah, delete it and make sure it doesn't come back" is staggering. Really bad image how some people seem to think the community and it's resources should be "officially owned".

Want to make a personal statement? Leave the platform, demand the subreddit being marked as unofficial (AFAIK it did start out as a random sub by a random person and only later added people from the Go team as moderators). Don't decide for your users that yes, you don't want to meet there anymore, so we torched it for you.
I think it's true that they're filtering for people who value that opportunity, but I'll also note that those people fall into two important categories. First are those who want to work at Google itself. Second are those who want to have Google on their resume, and an extra bucket of money from being overpaid for a few years, as a way to jump-start whatever they do next (including startups). Google is glad to have these ambitious, slightly mercenary types pass through, making contributions while there and then seeding the rest of the industry with allies. If Google were just hiring the lifers their interview process would be even more rigorous but less burdensome and demeaning. They're deliberately selecting for ambition and determination as much as actual talent.
I've written code (mainly bug fixes) on my Android tablet just fine. Used a terminal with Vim, then used SGit to commit and push my code to Gitlab. I've also written Python scripts to use in Tasker.

Yes, typing is a pain, but that's an ergonomics problems, not a lack of openness. I got a cheap BT keyboard, which works fine on Android. You can also use a plain USB keyboard with an OTG cable, though power might be an issue.
A few decent things I could find online that jive with what I remember:

https://www.patton.com/technotes/build_yourself_an_isp.pdf

http://www.gwi.net/behind-the-scenes-of-a-90s-internet-start...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8352432

The absolute minimum, and representative of the very first dial-up ISPs: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2025

http://www.datamation.com/erp/article.php/615281/My-own-priv...

There used to be a lot of nice material on this subject but a lot of it has been obsolete and rotted away from the web over the last 15-20 years. The larger dial-up ISPs used Cisco AS series boxes (or equivalent) with PRI (i.e.: phone over T1) connections (24 lines/each) to a centralized RADIUS server for authentication. They are/were the last hold outs providing dial up.

Smaller ISPs were more of a '94 to '99 thing. Usually they used cyclades or equivalent serial port cards with up to 16 serial ports per card and an external modem per port. Eventually this morphed into boxes with multiple modems in them and access servers that did the ppp termination and the authentication (to a RADIUS server) as scale increased. US Robotics was probably the best reputed player in the modem space.
I think number 10 is a little misleading. If Trump manages to deport almost as much as Obama in 4 years, he is deporting almost twice as much. Which is very alarming.
Conjugation only makes sense for square matrices. More generally, left and right multiplication correspond to coordinate transformations of the output and input space, respectively.
Yeah, that could work.

Or, to look at it another way... so what if the browser pops up notifications more often than the law requires? Might encourage people to make less use of cookies for functionality that doesn't really need them, which would be no tragedy. And if your site really can't do without them, you could pop up a message explaining the situation & politely asking to be unblocked.

I suppose there'd be a danger of alert fatigue... maybe some heuristic analysis of the cookies themselves would be in order, to at least tentatively classify them as "tracking" vs "other". Eg, Google Analytics & Piwik cookies could be identified pretty reliably.
No problem, i think more people should look at the problems with time. We tend to not deal with it due to only doing single threaded synchronous stuff, but it is not how the future is going to be, nor the world it seems. So better learn now :)
Beat me to it :)
amazing channel!
Finland doesn't guarantee prices for nuclear for some period? That sounds unlikely. The Hinkley Point plant in the UK was recently guaranteed a very high "strike price" to get it built

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

And those "subsidies" are free market! In Denmark power generators submit competing bids on the lowest required guaranteed price when building new wind power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horns_Rev#Horns_Rev_3_offshore...
shfmt 0.5 released
What does the ICT Manager of the future look like?