skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Securities in a cash account can't be lent out by the broker without the written agreement of the customer. The necessary language could theoretically be put into the standard account agreement, so if you care you should read it. However, it is not common business practice to include that in retail customer account agreements. Also, the broker is required to notify you whenever your shares are borrowed, and this requirement cannot be waived by the agreement. So if you haven't been notified about lending activity, your broker is not lending your shares. The same requirements hold for fully paid securities held in a margin account, so even if you have a margin account, if you're not actually borrowing money from them, they're not lending your shares without your knowledge.
It's amusing but a bit underwhelming, he's simply mapping a grid of pixels to segments, he's not taking the shape and orientation of the segments into account at all.
I'm really glad to see this. I attempted to draw lines when first learning OpenGL and wasn't able to get results like I wanted.
Facebook on the whole hasn't done much to improve the world. (It's greatest accomplishment in my mind is keeping geographically-separated family in contact with one another.)

While this manifesto was a little over-the-top, and probably amplifies globalism as a cure-all, he does appear sincere in his desire to do good. Time will tell.
I was talking with a group yesterday and that idea came up (or something similar). The idea was to have a data microservice for writes and then let the various microservices do reads from their specific db. This data microservice would handle writing data out across the various data sources so nobody else had to know about it, they just knew to send writes to that service. Is that sort of what you are doing?
Hello, here are a few tricks which helped me :
There are a few ways which will probably help you improve your communication skills. You can try to use Avaz app from Ajit Narayanan, or at least listen to his ted talk.
You can also try to pick up some (silent) violin and learn it on your own by playing it by ear (try to avoid using scores as much as possible, try to set-up a routine of around 30min a day, you should aim for "natural" and "fun" absolutely not forced).
Something will click one day, it won't make you less autistic, but it will probably show you the way normal people think. Then you will probably get that as for you it's probably not fun being around certain other people which don't get you, the feeling is reciprocal and it's not fun for them being around people that don't get them.

Depending where you live in Europe around 80% of people are quite nice naturally, and will help you if you tell them you struggle or ask for help (but most won't usually understand or care about your autism problems). Avoid the other 20%, they are just exploiting you or making fun of you.

Regarding interviews, try researching a fitting environment. Interviews can usually be hacked quite easily with a little training. Basically you tell them the response they want to hear. If you don't know what to say to a question, either you say "I don't understand", or you grab the most important word of the question and tell them something vaguely connected to it. Obviously the more interview rounds there are, the more chance there is that someone won't like you and puts its veto. Don't attach too much importance to it.

Once you land a job, try to go about two times slower than you can. This way you won't burn out (and be in a bad mood), people won't actively try to prey on you (to get you to do their work), and you will have enough mental energy to naturally pick-up communication skills. (You just earn yourself 20 hours a week to work on improving your communication skills, and even your company will be happy about it trust me).

Also don't be afraid to take welfare. We are in a society which is designed to take advantage of people with autism. It's like taking candy from a baby. So at least take the money, and if you don't need it then give it to someone who does. Or you can keep the money and give some of your time to help some who needs it.
http://www.waybackhn.com/ is much easier to browse through.
I think the gist of it was that "suffering brings one closer to God"...
First of all this is likely to be a temporary removal to address immediate risk while an investigation and court case is ongoing. In England this could be voluntary, but would need to go in front of a judge if the parents did not agree to it. There's a reasonably high bar to do this, because of the child's convention rights.

Also, I can't speak much about the US system, but in the UK it's possible to not be convicted of a crime and still have your children removed for that crime. (I'll find an English case that illustrates this later).

This is because criminal courts use "beyond all reasonable doubt" and family courts use "balance of probabilities". (Yes, it's weird. There are some extra protections in place because of this. Removing children is a measure of last resort and should only happen when nothing else will do.)

> I can’t see how it would have been possible to have had the case heard in court given CPS was unaware of the situation until the live streaming and took the baby one day later.

In the UK there are emergency applications for temporary removals, and long drawn out cases for other removals. Judges are happy to refuse unless the standards have been met, even if the parents are difficult people.

EDIT: very roughly: here's a case where the father was accused of sexually abusing his children; he was prosecuted for it and acquitted; the family court had a "finding of fact" session and said that he did in fact do it and child protection followed on. http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/OJ/2016/B95.html
Because it's a great PR angle.
>I just want to have some clarity around what my role is and where my responsibilities begin and end.

This. There are two basic ways of looking at things when the organization is fluid. One, "everything is my job", which is a recipe for burnout. Or two, "I decide the boundaries of my job." That doesn't work very well either, because some people will draw the boundaries so small they never have to do anything, and others will draw them so large they don't do anything well.
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Seriously though, anyone who could find a serious bug in Bitcoin could cash in.
I just don't understand why any closed platform is needed here. Is this relaying messages between Facebook accounts? Why not run it on top of IRC or XMPP or Matrix?
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Botpress is great! RadBots (https://radbots.com/) built a monetization module for use in Botpress and found the experience to be great. Total support, engaged devs, and great mission.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/botpress-monetize
All that sounds great, but why not try some ContentBlockHelper on the side?
I like this idea. But see my other comment ;)
Thanks for originally sharing; hoping to do something with this info and will share.
According to Google Trends we reached "peak Google" in 2013:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=Google

What's actually happened is that fewer people are using search engines as their app launcher, because they are using the smartphone home screen instead.
Unfortunately, he's probably not helping his cause by hanging around at this point. I'm sure he has his reasons - family, mortgage etc - but a lot of recruiters likely treat those who remained despite the damning revelations very differently to those who jumped as soon as the writing was on the wall.
Our stack is Java / Tomcat + PSQL / Memcache. We don't do much load testing mainly because our traffic has been steady and we havn't introduced any new components where we need to gauge load. Not only that but we're probably going to incorporate AWS eventually and do auto-scaling to deal with load. Having functional / unit / integration tests are way more important to us.
igalia.com works in a similar fashion. No boss, some democratic global meetings per year. Their motto: 'same salary, same responsibility'.
Fifth Circuit holds that First Amendment protects the right to record the police [pdf]
Instead of what? Buying into the BS?

I'd rather take an honest, measured view of these companies. Many have the potential to change our lives, for both good and ill. Buying into the BS is a great way to short circuit healthy skepticism.

Selling the BS is a fantastic smokescreen.
After initial skepticism, I like Snapchat for reasons in the article (lower pressure). And I think they "get" the younger generation and have good product strategy, a lot like Facebook succeeded in a crowded space for similar reasons with a similar amount of skeptics.

Problem to me is they seem more like Twitter than Facebook in that their only real monetization path is ads, but their ads don't seem that valuable.

If I'm selling watches, I want to pay Google to advertise to people who just searched for watches. If I'm selling retirement planning, I want to pay Facebook to advertise to middle aged people who like personal finance topics. But who wants to buy Snapchat ads? Some people who want to do brand awareness marketing on a trendy platform but not much else. So I think just because they can get lots of users does not guarantee success.
I wanna do what's my best for my career.

That's the hard part.

I would never consider doing another major, there is no tangible benefits to it in my opinion, except a structured learning process that seems to be tailored to the normal achievers. I learn a lot better on my own and a lot faster.

I am in one of the best jobs I could possibly imagine in terms of my career point right now. Where I get paid an amazing amount for a junior and I am with some of the best people in the industry.
[facebook] was the most common search query when I was at Google (roughly the period covered by this graph), and [facebook login] would alternate between #2 and #3. Neither of your options seem likely at all to me - over the time I was there, I witnessed people becoming more likely to navigate to sites via Googling them rather than clicking, not less. The trend is even more pronounced with mobile, where basically nobody types in a URL, they use voice search and speak the name of the site.

I would bet on the Facebook mobile app being a major cause, though. Instead of hitting the web version at all, they're opening the mobile app.
The only thing Tesla vehicles have the bandwidth and storage to send back is "oops i'm crashed".

It's possibly a way to test your implementation by comparing it to what the human does, but that doesn't apply for a million basic things like sign recognition and you can't teach machine learning with that.
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have we reached 'peak car' 'peak operating system' yet or 'peak computer'? I think Facebook is going to be with us for a very long time and will continue to thrive. Yeah, the comments and posts suck sometimes (I don't use it) but hundreds of millions are addicted to it.
That's NO different than what the "Federal reserve" does. Creates paper money out of thin air.
Well yes, they were not wrong to cite the ability to detect hacks like this as a feature over zcash. This same class of error could exist in zcash and we would never know. We know it happened here because of the ability to audit.
Hey, I remember "Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins" from grade school.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Hershel_and_the_Hanukka...
It's also one of the reasons I want to write something like HN.
When the whole team feels uncomfortable as a result of one person behaviour, it's time to get rid of this bad apple—total output will be bigger than one person being brilliant and the whole team unproductive.

For 10 years I had outsourcing studio and once one of my programmers was that bad apple. At first he was nice, but then in couple months showed his real character. After four months of pain for everybody I fired him. Never again would I tolerate such situation.
Wow. I wonder if that's a PCI violation to ask for a credit card copy via email... Doesn't sound very secure to me.
I a boreal fan but they haven't updated their app for a while, I think they have abandon it. One feature I would like to see is some kind of history, posts I have visited.
Also, I think the font size on my 4s is huge, it takes a lot of screen space( almost one post per screen).
Will give it a try. Btw it's quite fast! Nice work!
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Facebook is so big it can just buy anything that competes with it ,but Whats App may be too big
I sometimes wonder what the future of money will be if AI takes off - will non-human autonomous intelligence have a use for money, for trade and store of value?
Ask HN: 100% salary and 5-day week or 80% salary and 4-day week?
Which would you prefer? (Assume office is closed on 5th day if 4-day week)
Google's AppEngine would likely be free or extremely low cost in this situation. Gspread appears to work there fine: https://github.com/burnash/gspread/issues/39
I think you are probably right. Or am I just trying to convince myself another year is a waste of time.

But I don't learn a lot from university nor have I ever. But the learning isn't the valuable part of university, it's that piece of paper to wave at employers.

What do you think is a more valuable piece of paper, Software engineering or comp sci? If hypothetically two people came in identically each with the different degree who would you hire?
A hypocritically preachy Facebook corporation is much better than an absolutely cynical one.

If you ask me, for a lot of these tech companies, this is a false dichotomy: they're outwardly preachy and inwardly cynical. How better to justify bad behaviour than to dress it up in grandiosity?
Just this morning I was thinking about how automated cars would eventually evolve to automated buses. Then, over time, all public transport becomes automated. We end up being minuscule parts of a large transportation machine, a bit like electrons flowing through the internet...
MS bizspark may be worth looking into if you're short on funds.
You seem to have renamed forum rules to CoCs here.

I think there's a difference since one just means moderators, and CoCs are like establishing a volunteer HR department over your volunteer employees. It changes the atmosphere, and they don't even get you a 401k.
wow, just jumped into google mail and found a personal reply from Alexis to an email i sent in 2006 about (now called?) downvoting ring behaviour. @#$@#$ i'm so old now. came to HN after being early user of Reddit. not a programmer, ex-scientist and to echo some of the other comments, I mentally delete 90% of the programming articles (i prefer mathematica although that is not a popular choice here) but even at 10% or less, i always find something of interest. i guess i'm a classic hacker definition kinda guy.
And that's only in the US -- GM sells something like 10 million cars per year.

[Edit: Over 10 million cars last year: http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/07/news/companies/gm-record-sal... ]
> Some people have legitimate reasons to not want to be found

That's definitely true!

But let's say a crime has been or is being committed (and I am not sure why you're putting it in quotes) via a website who's contact information is available via WHOIS and which is served from a legitimate ISP.

The usual route to take is to contact the registrar and the ISP with the info that this-and-that is happening. Usually, after a short period of time the registrar or ISP will agree (or not!) that whatever is going on is not acceptable on their network, and then take appropriate action. That even works for privacy oriented ISPs in Island, where they are under not legal obligation to do anything.

This is what I've been doing for many years when I come across illegal content, spam, botnets, phishing, and so on.

Sometimes networks do not cooperate and then usually it possible to block their net ranges as a means to make them realize hosting botnets isn't maybe so great.

But with the combination of ButtFlare and certain Whois privacy hosters, this is not possible. ButtFlare is too large to just block, and ButtFlare just doesn't give any fucks. They aren't a beacon of light upholding freedom of speech on the internet, they are just too cheap to actually have anyone deal with these sort of reports seriously, so they, instead of reading what I report to them, report with the same canned response:

> We are just a proxy. We are responsible for nothing.

The absolute maximum they are willing to do, is forward my request to the upstream ISP, which for safety reasons is unacceptable.

So you see, I do understand the legitimate need to not be found.

I just think that if you run a service as your main business, then you are responsible for what your service is offering.

Ebay somehow manages to not be a marketplace for anonymous heroin deals, I'm holding CloudFlare to the same standard.
Even if they are losing money, it is still a great deal - being the first to offer fully automated self driving ride sharing is going to be a HUGE competitive advantage, even if the cars are too expensive to be profitable right now.
I had one of their cards years ago when I was in college. It was as you describe. Years later I now have a personal and business card with them and the terms are good with a decent mileage program (and they have a real nice mobile app). Of course, now I have excellent credit/ income. I think they're all the same In That regard. If you have poor/no credit you're going to get taken advantage of.
> Do those studies explain why it relates to productivity? Correlation studies...

Sommers showed causation. The presence of black subjects in the heterogenous group caused the white subjects in that group to behave more conscientiously/objectively, increasing the performance of that group compared to the control.

Others like Ellison/Mullin discuss performance in relation to social capital. Homogenous groups tend to find it easier to build more social capital, so feel more comfortable, but more easily succumb to groupthink.
Levine is such fun to read!

The solution to the problem he ends up with seems pretty easy to me - this is just counterparty risk:

When you lend your shares (or let them be lent on on your behalf) there are counterparty risks. You charge interest and accept collateral as compensation for these risks. Usually these risks are gone after the shares are returned or the position closed and settled out - but not always. Tracking down the short and making him cough up the extra $2.74 is the broker's job. If the broker can't find him, then if it was a case of a normal margin account the broker is on the hook. If it was a case of the client directly accessing the stock lending market then the broker is probably (fine print time!) not liable for the counterparty failure.
being long Facebook stock since the IPO, I take the opposite side of that bet . Facebook will be a bigger company even if it's slightly different. It's so huge and ubiquitous. It's not anything that can simply be a 'fad'. It's like a new medium of consciousness or fundamental integration with the world. The internet 10 years from now probably will not be too much different (the browser will continue to take over the desktop).
That figure was comparing Tesla worldwide sales to GM's US sales. GM sold over 10 million cars worldwide in 2016, it's more like 0.75%.
I was excited to play with this, but ultimately left disappointed. I was hoping that my initial melodies would be expanded upon and that I could build a series of riffs that would become increasingly complex but based on the same starting melody, but in the end, the responses from the AI seemed to be fairly random, and didn't seem to be built upon the previous sequences at all. The AI also changed keys a couple of times, which was disconcerting.
I have OAuth working. It's a pain and I'm sure I've kludged it because it requires going to a _specific_ sheet and re-authenticating every few months. But it works! Hit me up at patrick@lightbody.net and I'd be happy to share my work. Maybe we can polish it up and get it published to Github.
Yes, it can be tricky. One of the problems is that we don't have the memory model completely worked out.

I don't know how much harder it is than C/C++ though. Seems hard to quantify. But the `unsafe` markers should help quite a bit.
Why is there no clickable content in the continental US?
So... were's a unit test to make sure this never happens again?
Is it doing fine? There's lots of "cool" stuff, but in my perception it's still a long shot to "fine with real-world problems".

What's a complex real-world program written in Haskell? It seems to be good for trees (compilers like GHC, although it is kind of slow). Is there a non-toy graphics or graph-ical application that is both performant and written in Haskell?

Not denying that it's possible to write C-style in it, of course... only it's not fun.
This is a false proposition, watch this for a strong counter argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17DeSVjIqUI

tldr: whats better, one person donating $1 a month, or 100 people suffering thru 3 minutes of mindless ads? Do you really value your time at $0.2c/hour?
If I was hiring a software developer from a similar situation, this would be a huge red flag for me. Competent developers are constant being wooed away, and the fact that you hadn't jumped ship yet makes me think you are in the best case clueless and in the worst case incompetent to the point of unemployability.

The market must be very different for these medical science workers to make this a good idea. It must be much much harder to find a job.
I use Fossil for all my personal projects, and I use its wiki, technotes, and tickets for almost all of my knowledge and task management. It has become the centerpiece of my workflow. Where else have I seen as great a combination of reliability, simplicity, and flexibility? Oh yeah, SQLite. Thanks drh.
Me: plays a couple of minor chords

AI: long pause; holds down one random key for several seconds; boops another random key "Nailed it."

After spending a few minutes playing, I did see evidence of it occasionally tracking my chords (as long as they were very common - e.g. c major, a minor) and tempo (but only matching tempo, as in vaguely matching how fast I was playing, not actually playing in time with me). I played an extended chord sequence and it made one or two nice contributions, but mostly it was just random noise.

I wonder if this is due to lack of training data? Maybe it needs an actual data set of people specifically trading musical phrases with each other, rather than just a set of general music.

It's an amazing idea, and I can actually see it being quite interesting for things like musical phrase creation - supply the first half of a phrase and see what the machine comes up with for the second half, and tweak as appropriate. But currently it's a bit of a case of over promising and under delivering.
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I have tried just using N-grams which is pretty good but it doesn't have any structure. My next experiment will be to use the 'word2vec' algorithm the same way it it used for NLP. Meaning first create relationships between chords then create sequences with RNN.
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Code (Theano): https://github.com/stas-semeniuta/textvae
Yes, of course. It was just a joke.
Users migrated to Facebook from other popular social networks.. it doesn't take much to gain critical mass