skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stock prices screw up validation with back testing. I tried using stock prices to illustrate random walks and the superiority of naive forecasts with random walk data. Only problem: they aren't random walks. They are random sequences of predictable pattern. Frequently, a regression model, or Holt-Winters, or neural net will outperform the naive forecast on backtests, because it was a better model before now. The challenge, is that now it isn't.
Yes, the surveillance state is pretty bad at the moment. But, the smart ones always find a way around. Because of the obsessive surveillance, the tech savvy are going to find better and better ways of fighting against state surveillance machinery.
Just like how I run some scripts occasionally to confuse Google about what I search for.
Keep multiple online personalities.
By 2020, I hope there will be a thoroughly encrypted messaging app run by some folks in Iceland or Switzerland that just acts like a utility and not gunning for its user's data.
Amazon's latency is measured in hours, whatever process they use involves literally cold storage, either disks that are completely switched off, or some tape-like media archive system, but the article makes a good case for why it's almost certainly not tape
You are correct. However, at many airports the winds are almost always favoring one direction. At LAX, for example, the wind is almost always coming from the West.
How mismatched are the new services in terms of size? If they are all roughly similar then network effects won't make much of a difference. But for example if one is ten times the size of the others, then I stand by my claim that network effects will result in

* shorter wait times for riders (better customer experience)

* more money for drivers (shorter waits between riders, so more paid time)

* cheaper fares (fixed costs spread over more riders, reducing per rider cost)

* more effective loyalty programs (improved ways to earn and spend on them)

A larger incumbent can be attacked, with the simplest way of doing it to go more niche - eg serving a smaller area better. Even then the incumbent should have greater ability to react.
Levels of e-waste soar in Asia as gadgets become affordable, UN says
They can give access to the source code without necessarily using an Open Source licence for that.
That's not a rebuttal against the argument. If you have a chicken and call it a bull, and I say "that's not a bull, those have horns, tails, etc", saying "well, try getting eggs from that" doesn't prove that chickens are actually bulls.
'Hidden Figures' tops box office – Mpelembe Media
What if we separate this into two questions:

(1) What if you have a fabric of "free" processors, and the real cost is energy?

(2) How would <foo> programming paradigm work on this fabric?
Such an application is not likely to be secure in the first place. If you've gotten as far as trying this list, you're probably well above the median.
Just some more info this is the DXVA GPU accelerated decoder http://imgur.com/a/9MPsp http://imgur.com/a/q8SfN It basically decodes a VP9 stream with a shader and outputs it into an image format inluding NV12 which means you can use PureVideo for direct ouput.

This one can work with either a dedicated media player or with Edge, Chrome does it's own thing and I'm not entirely sure what they do and I have no clue about Safari/Opera/Firefox so if some one wants to fill in about them that would be nifty.

Whilst technically DXVA is a software decoder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX_Video_Acceleration It does offload the heavy lifting to the GPU via shaders, so can still some what classify it as "hardware decoding" since softare decoder/encoders are usually defined as CPU only.
I make games, and see stuff like that occasionally.

The problem is that a game is not just a piece of software. It's a creative work that people pour years of their life into. Both on the code side, but also on design, art, audio, writing, etc.

Suggesting that games should be free is like suggesting that books or art should be free - and yet people wouldn't suggest that, right? We understand that art and creative work doesn't come for free, and that even artists have bills to pay.

(As for high hardware requirements - that's not right either, there are plenty of great games that will play just fine on an i3 with an integrated video card. Most games are not AAA.)
I don't nessisarily disagree with you examples. But, I think you are misssing the forest for the trees.

I have had several successful CEO's all tell me to ignore taxes. That does not mean you install or don't install solar panels based on tax breaks. It can be very important, but it's generally premature optimization. Further, it's not the top tax rate that is important it's differential tax rates aka A @X or B @ less than X.

MSFT's re-patriating money is a good problem to have. They may see a tax holiday in the next administration or they may not. But again, it's getting to that point is the issue.
This is part of why I have hope for basic income. Everyone is lifted the same amount. People who got ahead by keeping their nose clean and working hard are still ahead.
I'd say yes. But it depends on the ends.
Using towels with loops attached (or adding the loops yourself).

For single sheets, you can cut along the sides of the left and right edge which allows you to put your hands through and pull the duvet into the sheet, super easy and makes swapping the sheets easy.

There was a whole bunch of stuff, it's all incorporated into my lifestyle now so picking it out is difficult.
The human injection phrase is priceless

It's a nice collection of text snippets to test against many systems
Why the eBay one?
> I think Microsoft forgot about developers for a while. The Windows 8 timeframe wasn't a great time to be a Microsoft developer.

Microsoft wasn't thinking much about web developers during their monopoly of Internet Explorer. Or, well, they might've had thoughts. But no love.
I did because I refuse to buy anything with a DRM. Which pretty much rules out all commercial games. Also I don't have any time to game anymore.
That is the primary purpose of the JSON files and the parser to convert the .txt to JSON; get the list, run it against a text input field, see what happens.
This URL is not readable to anyone who doesn't have a Pocket account (it prompts for a login).

As per HN Guidelines, "please submit the original source".

A web search indicates that this headline originally comes from either:

https://www.gettricks.in/foldable-gun-looks-like-iphone-puts...

or

http://mobiviki.com/foldable-gun-that-looks-like-iphone-puts...
On what points you think the NT kernel is architecturally superior to Linux today?
US has some of the lowest effective tax rates and some of the highest nominal tax rates. Making it a poor example for these discussions.
>Although this is not a malicious error, and typical users aren't Tweeting weird unicode, an "internal server error" for unexpected input is never a positive experience for the user

What would the user expect from inputting "U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE" into a form, anyway?
I think it is more important than ever that games aren't built on top of proprietary software. I am constantly hearing people complaining about:

- Restrictive DRM ruining the experience

- Servers being suddenly shut down with no recourse

- People who implement their own servers being threatened with legal action

- Popular features being removed

- Communities shifting focus just to appease advertisers

- Spying features being (ineffectively) implemented in order to prevent cheating

- Exclusivity deals, and authors just flat out refusing to port things to other platforms

- High turnover, high stress working conditions, lots of duplication of effort for little gain

Not that any of these problems are specific to games, but the point is that these things don't generally happen with free software. I appreciate the vast improvements we've made in microeconomics to get games to the point where the average quality of a game is incredible and the price is ridiculously low, but the whole thing stinks of a bear market right now.
This is a fun issue https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/iss...
How have I used Vimperator for years and not known about mark support?!? Thank you!
Amazon's 2006-2016 growth vs. other retailers visualized in one chart
I don't believe I did "simply dismiss it". But perhaps I was insufficiently clear in saying that bash is relatively unusual in making it tricky to identify the point at which to stop trying to force it through hoops and use something more powerful and easy to work with instead.
You're right, but those experiments are still pretty impressive.
I agree that regulation is an important part of controlling information asymmetries, obfuscation of risks etc, and that regulation can mean better signals and be more efficient than only relying on the reputation of institutions.

What I was saying though, is that a blunt approach of declaring that financial instruments can only have some specific measure of complexity would eventually limit the resources available to new projects and businesses. The tangent about rent extraction was a distracting and motivated by my suspicion that a lot of people simply resent incomes in the finance industry, and want to see them make less money regardless of net impact on the economy. However, just as a baker counter intuitively makes more when the price of flour increases, less fine-tuned and efficient financial markets could ultimately make more money for the people working in finance.

I think that there is a belief that complex financial instruments inefficiently insert extra steps into the flow of finance and extract rent from those manufactured inefficiencies. Yet, a better reading is that they circumvent some inefficiency elsewhere in the financial system, and the people who implement that gain in efficiency are able to extract a little of the decreased waste until they too are circumvented.
> A Tesla Taxi is more like a motel room with hourly rates.

So, more like AirBNB than a leased rental agreement?
But to my point about friction in Clojure tooling, you can't just download Cursive, run it, and try Clojure. You have to download and install Java, Leiningen, IntelliJ, get a Cursive license, then install the Cursive plug in, create a project configure a REPL (local or remote?). None of that is a big problem, but cumulatively, all these little points of friction deter beginners.

And thank you for your work in the community. Luminus is great, and I Macchiato looks really nice as well.
No one is afraid. We are almost already there. It's clearly a bad thing to get to persistent surveillance, and the us at least has done a bad job resisting the lure of this. "Keep this info, improve law enforcement chances" is the saying and we never say now.
Well, depends. If copying a table from a technical document, maybe a zero width space?
Probably a 4xx error not a 5xx.
One of the dumbest rants I've heard. I have nothing constructive to add just like this stupid rant but I did so anyway because of the number of upvotes it got!
Yeah I meant to write NVIDIA not CUDA, FYI you need to login to download stuff from NVIDIA, try copying the URL with the auth parameter ;)

I've made a post about how VP9 is offloaded to GPU in this thread, it's done via DXVA/MF on Windows.
I must admit guilt to dragging my .vimrc and sometimes the whole of ~/.vim/ into machines that I'll be SSHing into for only a short time.
"Letters" in this context mean short communications, publications shorter than a full-length paper. Back in the day, Tetrahedron (then published by Pergamon Press, founded by the scintillating fraud and far-seeing visionary [1] Robert Maxwell, and now owned by Elsevier, and that isn't a step up) was the gutter journal that would print anything. But if something was too damn awful and thin even for Tetrahedron, then Tetrahedron Letters would surely print it.

Wire Transfer Letters because you must wire-transfer them the page charges for your paper that was generated by a Markov chain before they print it, and because the sketchy publisher sits far away in a country known for sketchy dealings. OMICS Publishers, we are looking at you!

Can someone enlighten the audience about what happened to Beall's List?! Another suit?

[1] Pergamon was founded in 1951
Looking Ahead to the Next Platforms That Will Define 2017
Modern bikes have a greater number of gears on the cassette on the back wheel, which in turn requires a thinner chain. Thinner chains wear quicker.

It’s one of the reasons hub gears (or, for the true hipsters as the stereotype goes, a fixie) can be so completely bombproof - the lack of dérailleur gears means the chain can be made much heavier duty & lasts much, much longer.

That said, your mountain bike probably did have quite a bit of chain wear, it just hadn’t reached the point that the chain had started to skip. How many gears did it have on the cassette?
From Monolith to Microservices
Perhaps, but optical is lighter, much simpler, durable, can be mailed, and fits into CD cases for travel, etc.
Yes, I suppose you can make multi-threading sound easy if you list all of the really easy problems. Mutexes, queues, and semaphores (or condition variables, if you have a modern code base) are all the easiest parts of multithreading.

But the "so long as you are sensible" advice is terribly, terribly wrong. You have to rethink how parts of your code are isolated from one another, and you have to avoid entirely new classes of errors—such as deadlocks, which can appear when you combine two well-tested and correct multithreaded components. And the number of threads has nothing to do with it.
Can't edit my original post, but here's a decent review of a crappy Walmart bike by a dedicated rider.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3vI2bYhCrk

For the record, I'm probably a slow beginner leisure rider on beginner trails, I probably wouldn't be doing even half of the things in the video so I wouldn't be very alarmed.

He has some other tests of the bikes and what kind of realistic destruction these kinds of bikes can endure.
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I'm up to 900km (559miles) per year again. It this "a lot"?
It's a huge state and if it fell into the ocean (wink, wink) data would not be a top-five concern of mine. ;)

Also, I prefer privacy. To each his own, however.
> object-oriented programming makes for terribly inefficient data structures that cannot handle threading very well.

The best approach I have seen to address this is the idea of transactional object as it is done in Realm (yes, the mobile database).

The idea that objects can freely be accessed on any thread without locks, with all changes protected by transactions, is so freeing, and the internal representation that Realm uses for the objects is apparently far more efficient than how they would natively be represented.

I really wonder why we are not seeing more of these kinds of transactional data structures. Seems like a natural next step for object oriented programming now that everything is turning multi-core.
The chart isn't fully accurate since a non-trivial chunk of Amazon's valuation may be attributed to AWS and Amazon's role in cloud computing, but the chart is still fairly interesting nonetheless.

Some have estimated AWS is worth around $150B [1], which is not entirely farfetched since AWS generated roughly $11B in revenue for 2016 [2].

Subtracting $150B drops Amazon's "retail" valuation to $205B, which still dwarfs everyone except Walmart.

[1] http://www.fool.com/investing/2016/06/07/this-analyst-says-a...

[2] https://qz.com/821060/amazon-web-services-amzn-is-now-a-11-b...
You're lucky that the Declaration of Independence is not part of the Constitution, otherwise you'd have to consent to the idea that those rights are endowed by the Creator :)
Look, it's not like taxis or Uber/luft are a basic human necessity to be subsidized.

Public transport exist, and for people that actually need a car on a daily basis, cars exist.

Taxis are luxury service and not subsidized ( as that word is defined in the dictionary) by money offsets. We can derail this into whether medallions/insurance regulation should be there, but the hard cold argument here is : Money. Lots and lots of money.

Uber/luft are subsidized by hard cash just to exist.

I drive, so from the outside, this looks as if somebody was subsidizing Android watches, because they'll overtake real watches.

It's a business gamble, but many are mistakenly taking it as a fact.

So, correspondingly, expect either prices to keep rising on Uber/luft/etc, or them to go out of business.
I think we need to force the hand of tenure committees.

Nature and Science are high profile, but due to ridiculous space constraints, I groan whenever a seminal paper is published there. If there is meat to the article, it's in the supplement, which forces a really awkward way of reading articles.

Cell is somewhat better.

But ideally the community would abandon Nature and Science as being the gold standard of publication. Field-specific journals that allow science to be published sensibly would be much better. When was the last time that a molecular biologist benefited from having a physicist brush past their highly technical article on epigenetics because it happened to be in Science? The benefit of these cross-field journals are somewhat limited, IMHO.
Google-Funded Project Envisions Nation's Librarians Teaching Kids to Code
Yes, though now that I think about it am not sure I have broken into the third layer yet. Hardware (LG) says it is capable.
I think a reasonable person could interprete that quote both ways. I'd note that the politico headline you linked says "Trump urges Russia to hack Clinton's email", and it is only a campaign spokesperson who said the opposite.
Control access to your wi-if network by forcing approval of your device mac addresses?
Show HN: Flask-Live-Starter
Discussion at the time it was posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10121974 (linked by the author in 2015).
That article does a good job of explaining the problem with an inherently deflationary currency. It does not explain why the author claims that Bitcoin is not a curreny. Neither does it explain why the author claims that Bitcoin is a Ponzi - or pyramid - scheme. The fact that the author feels that the two are interchangeable demonstrates a lack of understanding of what those schemes actually are.

A pyramid scheme involves selling a product - something like knives or energy drink. But the actual thing which is sold are licenses to sell the product. Each licensee passes some of their profits up to their licensor who is the licensee of someone else and passes along part of that and so on. Eventually the last round of licensees are stuck with product that they can't sell and the upstream licensors are getting rich from the "pyramid" of downstream licensor/licensees recruited into the scheme.

Well, there are no Bitcoin licenses - anyone can mine it, hoarde it, spend it, etc. So it is not a pyramid scheme (or multi-level marketing scheme). The value of Bitcoin will not collapse if everyone in the world is using it.

A ponzi scheme is quite different. You pretend to invest an initial investor's money. The returns to that investor are paid out of money coming in from later investors. There is no opaque "fund" making "investments" when it comes to Bitcoin.

So what makes something a currency? It is:

* Medium of exchange - 100s of 1000s of merchants accept Bitcoin for payment

* A store of value - Bitcoin has had a nonzero value for 5-10 years now so it can be reliably used for savings

* Unit of account - This is where things get fuzzy. Things tend to be denominated in US dollars or Euros with Bitcoin converted at the spot price when a transaction occurs. There is no reason why Bitcoin can't be used as a unit of account, but it still has a ways to go before it is popular enough that it is actually used that way.

The Washington Post article places a lot of emphasis on the greater fool aspect of buying/selling/hoarding Bitcoin. This applies to all investments, and especially to stocks. Are you going to claim that the stock market is also a Ponzi scheme or a pyramid scheme?
I think it could also be because there's clearly a single correct answer, even though it generates a lot of discussion.
At minimum, no error at all. Ideally, the same behavior you would get from putting in either nothing or a space.

Let's try it on Facebook. Here's what happens when you put only a blank or space into a post and try to submit: http://i.imgur.com/bNtgky8.png

Here's what happens when you put a zero width space and try to submit: http://i.imgur.com/NMgyZqc.png
Try to beat nethack for a start. I think it is OK to like high end games, though. And for VR even more powerful hardware is needed. It is not that expensive, though, compared to other things in life like owning a car, for example.
I'm not claiming to know better, which is why I'm not pissed off, and don't complain about the issue. My complaint is that people who don't have useful information to add are being louder and louder for no good reason, since they don't have any more information to provide, and they're starting to overshadow the people who do have new information.

For example, I know nothing about the true nature of how most US companies use the H1B visa. So I read the article, and then read some comments, and I now know nothing more except that Americans are pissed off, because it could be possible that companies are abusing the intent of the H1B visa. But we don't know, and I haven't heard anyone that does, and obviously congress is going to look into it, so why are some Americans pissed off?

Btw, I wouldn't say that if I was told some knowledgeable Americans are pissed off. But I was told some Americans feel like the H1B Visa is being abused, and are pissed off about it. That implies they don't know, it's just a feeling.
anyone using pytorch in a production setting in a startup environment? if so, which purpose?
To that end, I agree that rhetoric that many "bargain" and "thrown together" bikes are "death traps" does little to help the conversation.

That is, I would expect that quality bikes are safer. I still expect many did just fine on them. (Myself included.)
While the UK has parliamentary sovereignty, the UK is also party to the European Convention of Human Rights, which (via the Human Rights Act) takes precedence over any other law (unless a law is passed that explicitly repeals the Human Rights Act).

And indeed, in 2007 someone appealed a camera speeding ticket all the way to the European Court of Human Rights, saying that this system violates the right to remain silent!

Unfortunately, the court rejected the argument. "On the one hand, it was self-evident that it was incompatible with the immunities to base a conviction solely or mainly on the accused's silence or on a refusal to answer questions or to give evidence himself. On the other hand, the immunities could and should not prevent the accused's silence from being taken into account in situations which clearly called for an explanation. The conclusion was that the 'right to remain silent' was not absolute"

http://thenewspaper.com/news/18/1832.asp
Back in college I got rid of my old bike by just leaving it unlocked outside. It was gone in a few days.
Is this documented? I'd be curious to see some studies on it, if you know of any.
As per HN Guidelines[1], "please submit the original source". In this case, it's http://www.vox.com/2016/3/28/11318640/terrorism-threat-hype

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To echo other gamedevs in this thread: Games are a lot of design powered by a little bit of code. The code can be fairly complex in instances, but the engineering isn't a primary goal. It only has to be "there" enough to support the experience.
“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”