skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>not correlated.

Eh? So if I told you I had two products A and B and I showed them to potential customers who on average said they would pay $100 for A and $10,000 for B, you wouldn't be willing to bet that when I actually take them to market B would end up retailing for more?
Not sure why you're being downvoted. There is an online version with Sage code

http://abstract.pugetsound.edu/aata/
Instagram does this. They let anybody sign up for an account using any email address, and the account is immediately live. While they send a verification email, you don't have to click on it to still use the account. And most likely if you hadn't signed up for the service you'd think it's a phishing attempt and ignore it anyways.

I found this out the hard way when someone else had created an account under my email address and because some of my friends had uploaded their address book, my friends were following this stranger, perhaps thinking it was me. When I eventually did choose to sign up, I had to jump through a bunch of hoops just to be able to use my own email address.
Not misleading. The phrasing might be ambiguous, but in this case it's the author leaving the Mac App Store, not the other way around.
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I sent someone in Venezuela about USD 40 in Bitcoin in October or November. They were able to convert half of it into more local currency (Bolivares?) than they made in a month at their full-time job.

He said physical US currency was at a huge premium in the country because there wasn't nearly enough of it to go around, and the official exchange rate was clown shoes.
Good point. Windows is moving in that direction with Project Centennial / "desktop bridge" apps. There are more and more win32 apps in the Store (wrapped in a thin layer of UWPness).
The Silicon Valley and Bodybuilding cultures are fusing
Black market currency exchanges if you need to convert otherwise you just take payment in USD only and basically treat it as your currency instead of the Bolivar.
While I, uh, don't necessarily support the advice given by your parent comments ... this was literally the top result of a Google search for [a parent's house being seized because their child was arrested for drug possession]: http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/03/us/philadelphia-drug-bust-hous...

Most of the top results are about that case. Maybe it's misleading or simply inaccurate. However, check out this webpage (the fourth result) which offers legal advice: http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/if-my-kid-arr...

Choice quotation: "In 1988, Paul and Ruth Derbacher, a couple in their eighties, lost their Connecticut home after police raided their house and arrested their twenty-two year old grandson for selling drugs. Police found $50,000 worth of marijuana and cocaine in the house. The grandson was convicted of drug charges and sentenced to prison. The Derbachers were also charged with drug possession and were placed on probation. Prosecutors claimed the drugs were kept in plain view and that the Derbachers must have been aware of their grandson’s illicit activities. Although the Derbachers fought the seizure of their home, they ultimately reached a settlement agreement. The house was sold, and the couple split the proceeds of the sale with the government."
> You get 5GB free, which is more than most people use, and that's in addition to infinite storage for email.

I double-checked to be sure. My "free" 15GB of storage in Gdrive is actually 0GB (ie zero, nada, nothing) because I have almost 15GB of email in Gmail.

The same amount of email in Outlook still leaves 5GB free in OneDrive, for new users. (I have 25GB because Microsoft grandfathered my earlier storage.)
Surprising that they want to spy on us and teach these millennials that secrecy doesn't exist, and are surprised when the ones running their most secrecy-eradicating programs are not interested in maintaining secrecy. Maybe it would have been a different story if they did this only to foreigners, and maybe it wouldn't have blown up in their faces if their recruiting tactics didn't involve jailing hackers, but c'est la vie.
I'd suggest learning it via Haskell or maybe Scala if you've found programming helps your understanding of mathematics as I have. Learning via doing, internalizing by example, then diving deeper into the then-easier theory is how I like to go about things.
So I just run the setup CD, right?
I was in severe depression, for more than 1 year, had a good job, a good relationship and threw it all.

Simply could not understand what was wrong with me.

I did never had any contact with drugs before. After a while , and some not necessarily-recreational-experiences, I could understand better a whole new spectrum of ideas.

It's not so black and white.
I'm really interested in your second question!

I just released a product recently which HUGELY undercuts the competition. I was able to build it cheaply, over the course of a couple of years, and as a result I never took investment or hired anyone, so I can offer the product at incredibly low rates (compared to the competition).

My worry is that I may be pricing it so low, that I'm actually scaring off potential customers. This is an enterprise product, so they're used to seeing massive licensing fees. I initially thought that offering it at the lowest price I could afford, would mean I would garner the most customers, but now I'm starting to wonder if that's true... I have no experience pricing things, and I'm really considering putting out a survey to existing customers.
Don't most people just go along with it and say "I have nothing to hide".
Volunteers are in better health than non-volunteers
Side projects die because your initial enthusiasm wears off and you start to realize that you are midway through a project that you initiated for your own self amusement and it's no longer making you happy. Don't beat yourself up about walking away. It doesn't mean that you are a quitter and you'll never accomplish anything. It means that you need to find something more important to do. Important tasks are self-justifying; you don't have to talk yourself into working on them. When you find yourself on something important, your motivation will come. You will see it all the way through.

In the case of Facebook, I think it must have felt important, because it saw instant success around campus. Once you see that something is generating success, even on a relatively small scale, that starts to validate its importance and you can rationally consider increasing your commitment.
> “In order to do this kind of stuff, we have to recruit from a certain demographic,” he said, referring to government surveillance. “And I don’t mean to judge them at all, but this group of millennials and related groups simply have different understandings of the words loyalty, secrecy, and transparency than certainly my generation did.”

Your god damn right we do.

High praise as far as I'm concerned.
Something useful like bitcoin etf gets rejected. But look at some of the stocks that are allowed to trade...
Magnegas for example has been an ongoing fraud for 17 years.
Fake delivery of machines to Kazahkstan. It would be easy to prove this a fraud but the SEC does not care.
I really dislike this sort of naming scheme (Bryce Canyon, Honey Badger, Mono Lake, etc)

The names tell you nothing. You can't tell which one came before which, or even what they are. You just have to KNOW that information. A good naming scheme tells you information about the thing named.
Ultimately, it comes to these apps not making money from the App Store and it's not worth the hassle anymore
Pithy statement there. But I would hope a school teacher would harp on it, and further, that they would explain just why it is the truth. Part of their job is taking students to detect and evaluate the truth of something.
The SGI Indy came with just 16 MB RAM, and ran the IRIX graphical environment and also had OpenGL. IRIX had excellent system administration tools.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX
Few viable currencies do so.
Neural Episodic Control
We can only conclude that you were making expensive choices when you lived in Vancouver.
Evariste Galois always intrigued me. He died aged 20 in a duel supposably for some love story, yet he apparently had "time" to lay the foundations of some pretty serious math. To quote the into from the last chapter of this book which introduces Galois Theory:

"[...] attempts to solve the general fifth-degree, or quintic, polynomial were repulsed for the next three hundred years [...] no solution like the quadratic formula was found for the general quintic [...] Finally, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Ruffini and Abel both found quintics that could not be solved with any formula. It was Galois, however, who provided the full explanation by showing which polynomials could and could not be solved by formulas. He discovered the connection between groups and field extensions. Galois theory demonstrates the strong interdependence of group and field theory, and has had far-reaching implications beyond its original purpose."

My mom was actually reading a novel about him (a beautiful mind kinda style) last summer. I wonder how he would have turned out if he had not passed away so young.

Surprisingly, the only other mathematician that died really young (aka younger than jim morrison and co) is Niels Henrik Abel, also mentioned in the quote. Makes you wonder how healthy algebra is, doesn't it ;p
The short answer? We make it so, and it doesn't help that for-profit insurance companies are capable of using large sums of money to lobby Congress. The United States has for years attempted to make a "free-market" solution for insurance, and it has yet to work. We're rated 37 in terms of the quality of care for the amount we spend. The ACA was flawed, but at least it helped to get more people insured. The replacement bill is a complete disaster. When the Heritage Foundation pans the bill, you know it's bad. The US should move towards a single payer system, but with the fear of the word socialism and the "I got mine" attitude of conservatives, it's going to be a long time coming.
This post just goes to show how many people use the upvote button as a way save articles without reading them first.

The flywheel of clickbait titles in action.
The title makes sense on that company's blog, but in the context of HN it could appear to mean that the Mac App Store itself is going away.
Rust's Type System Is Turing-Complete: Type-Level Programming in Rust
https://www.conalarm.com - A service for monitoring cron jobs and scheduled tasks.
Facebook uses Xeon D and Xeon E5 CPUs. https://www.servethehome.com/facebook-at-open-compute-summit...
Ask HN: When did Amazon's store switch to HTTPS?
For the longest time Amazon's store only used HTTPS for login pages because the added latency was enough to harm conversions when people were shopping.

I visited smile.amazon.com today and noticed I ended up on an HTTPS connection.
“Alexa I'm UP”
If they are trying to dismantle the Federal government, that can't properly be described as consolidating power. A dismantlement of the federal government would be distribution of power back to states, localities, or individuals.
It's important to realize that there are many kinds of bots. So just because you found some doesn't mean you've discovered them all!
Arithmetic for Beginners (As written by CS/Programming book authors)
Do you suppose these weapons are only useable against people you don't like? Do you suppose 'the other side' is powerless to retaliate, using the exact same tools? Trump is the president now, as you have said. Half of America voted for him, and I'm sure many of them wouldn't be sad for people on your side of the trench to suffer the same treatment.

On a tangential note, this constant demand to focus on other causes whenever somebody points out something's wrong is a big part why most activism fail. Every cause gets piggybacked on by a hundred 'greater' causes that it has to expend all its resources to support. Every member has to agree with all one hundred or they can gtfo. At the end of the day nobody gets anything done, but at least you can show your friends on Facebook how virtuous you are.
HSL and the likes are based on a simple cylindrical transformation of RGB. I would argue that we usually want perceptual uniformity, so I recommend cylindrical versions of CIELAB instead; just replace a* and b* with C* and h* , where a* = C* cos( h* ) and b* = C* sin( h* ).
This is the same SEC that ignored multiple warnings about Madoff because they didn't want to know the truth.
The company's products looks like a bunch of simple utilities; I would be surprised if they any made any money at all from the App Store.
We do try to emphasize a 3-2-1 backup strategy through newsletters and blogs posts. A few examples: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/ and more recently https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backing-up-for-small-business.... We're not trying to hide anything, and truthfully, plenty of folks do use us as their primary or only backup, and it works just fine. Most business' already have a multi-part backup strategy in place.

As for the charging for geo-redundancy, it's something we've considered, but at least for now we like "clean" pricing where it's the same across the board. Might change in the future, but nothing to report now.
By spending time and effort on things that may not actually matter?

To their credit this post talks about improving the performance, instead of just using it to complain about they can't use https because of a difference in a metric that may or may not actually cause end users any pain.
Not with the domain indicated right next to it.
Historically, code names were chosen specifically to give up no information and it seems like that tradition continues, perhaps unintentionally.
> S3-like API if you wanted to down the road.

We already have -> https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html! Vaults was one of the reasons why we could build out ourB2 Cloud Storage service. We considered a lot of of options, but rolling our own fit with our culture :)
So, this is how you make it to the top of HN, with an outlandish clickbait-y claim. Good to know.
> The SEC decision does none of that.

That's because Bitcoin isn't directly tied to any economy. But just as Brexit had a real world impact on the pound, the SEC decision had a real world impact on bitcoin: It is directly tied to how people perceive Bitcoin, which is an import aspect just as well.
One can also consider that of the remainder 55% or so is supplied through employers. I have the minority opinion that there isn't that much difference between 'the government' and 'huge corporation'. Evidence is a claim I read from someone that handled heath insurance for a fortune 500 corp. Large corporations don't actually buy health insurance, they pay insurance companies to handle claims. Key difference.

So remove the 65% of healthcare paid for by the government. And then 20% that is mostly corporate self-insurance, and you have 15% left over that is nothing but a poo bucket filled with market failure.
i agree with your latter point but "very poorly coded" is going too far.

He made something that works (although I was a bit underwhelmed as well), and shared it here. Give him some credit.

Maybe instead of just outright saying "exhibit 1,2,3,4 on how shitty this guy's code is", you can give constructive feedback or send a pull request if you are so cautious about code quality.
Or a modicum of critical thinking.
Sure, we consider it every now and again but for now we like "clean" pricing - meaning that it's the same across the board. Of course that might change in the future, but we try to strive for simplicity, so having different "tiers" goes somewhat counter to what we've done thus far.
They're slowly raising the quality bar, fortunately. I'd say Microsoft's submission standards are now equal to the macOS App Store.
TWRP v3.1.0 is now Rolling out
It's interesting that this got so many upvotes so quickly, despite it being something similar to what (I'm sure) most of us wrote when we first started learning about computers and programming.

Maybe there's just a demand for a true, text-input, multi-purpose natural language personal assistant on the desktop.
It's people soft and outlook, but I'll have a look at the single sign in page and see what that's done through.
Note that you don't want to maximize customers, you want to maximize revenue. So even if hugely undercutting your competition gets you the most customers, you may still want to raise prices. If doubling your prices doesn't produce half as many customers (e.g. because you're still undercutting your competition) then you want to double your prices to make more money.

So yes, worry about scaring off potential customers with a price too low, but don't worry about scaring customers with a price that's too high, unless you scare off proportionally more than you increase the price. The way you describe it sounds like you could make way more money by raising your prices.
> Isn't it unlikely that an individual engineer (or even a handful) could effect a design level compromise on such a massive project as building a processor?

Yes, very unlikely. Something like the Intel Management Engine would be a much easier target.
Unification of Compile-Time and Runtime Metaprogramming in Scala
I'm amazed at the possibilities out there for some easy cash.

Guy I know paid thousands of dollars for commodity "libraries" like XML parsers, ZIP utilities, FTP/SFTP, all because there wasn't anything out-of-the-box for his VB6 product.
Those who stored some value when it was below $1 are not doing too bad...
The bill does no such thing:

https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr1313/BILLS-115hr1313ih....

Relevant quotes:

"...workplace wellness programs and programs of health promotion or disease prevention offered by an employer that provide for more favorable treatment of individuals with adverse health factors as described..."

"...the collection of information about the manifested disease or disorder of a family member..."

But nothing about forcing genetic testing on employees.
Speaking of only going to get bigger, The Republican Health care plan drops the mental health and addiction recovery mandate for medicare.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/09/gop-h...
"Why Facebook failed to do a $200 billion IPO"
Are They Slim Yet? Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari
Machine Learning Startup- Team Structure and Timeframe
Dear Contributors,
I intend to start a machine learning startup; Business is my creed and I am not a scientist and I do not code or have a technical background. I would like to know where to start?
1.Should I look for a team of scientist, coders?
2.How many people I need and what skill sets do I need to look for to build my initial phase and
3.What time frame I am looking at for Beta testing?Much appreciate all your time, thanks
Kraken.com?
It's sad to me this is becoming the status quo. Using other massively centralized companies for compute resources is a sad future.

It's bad for privacy, it's bad for diversity to protect against SPOFs, it's bad for general computing hardware (vendors primarily target the giants), it's bad for users via vendor lock-in, and it's bad for open source projects in the infrastructure space.

I think hackers justify it to themselves by pretending it's a commodity like electricity, but it's far from that. If my utility goes out, I can turn on generator and get exactly the same electricity. If Amazon goes out I have to build again on another cloud from a (hopefully recent) backup or just sit dead (like the recent s3 outage).

Sorry about the rant, but is there anything that would get you to stop giving the keys to the kingdom to Amazon?
I guess it's easier to say the argument is unfair than to admit you're wrong.
Case in point: the mouse wheel.
> When I hit the opening bracket, I don't know whether I'm looking at an array literal or a comprehension. I have to read ahead a few tokens to disambiguate.

All research I have seen says that proficient readers of a language read closer to a line at a time than a token at a time, so I suspect that not really a problem so much as a rationalization of aesthetic preference.

> bonus reason: why not `list(baz)`? Is there actually some logic to when Python uses methods and when it uses global functions?

list is a built-in type, and (as is usually the case for Python types) list() is the type constructor. There are other global functions in Python and there is room for debate over whether they make sense over methods, but constructors for built-types are pretty clear.

baz.list() is a method on baz. Assuming baz is iterable, list(baz) is valid, it's just different than baz.list().
I remember hearing about that as well, likely from a Radiolab or This American Life podcast (can't find it right now), but http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1291121... talks about it a bit more.

LT;DR, people didn't actually experience time slowing, they just happened to remember more of what was happening.
EM drive was just a recent example of my point - that people touting a little bit of science have been wrong to declare something impossible many times.

NASA and others are still testing those drives so last year might be a bit premature to write the idea off?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF_resonant_cavity_thruster
As Hawaii and Arizona show, the US government gives states a choice as to whether to adopt daylight saving time. But states aren’t currently allowed to switch to daylight saving time year-round.

I didn't know that states couldn't choose permanent daylight savings time. That might explain the hesitation to get rid of time changes...if it means being stuck with dark evenings all year round, I wouldn't want to change either. I want daylight savings all year round.
A conversational word-based bot game to kill your weekend (hint:not hangman)
> For both applications, complying with Apple’s sandboxing and feature constraints to get them approved for sale would have required significant rewrites.

As a user, this makes me want to get apps from the app store rather than downloading directly. It bothers me that apps can write arbitrary files. I'd much rather they be sandboxed so that when I tell the OS to delete the app, everything goes with it.
All insurance is regulated to varying degrees. The core idea of insurance doesn't lend itself well to unregulated free market competition. You can apply regulations to control the market and have it accessible to everyone, or you can leave it unregulated and use your tax payer base to pick up "the slack". Short of society becoming callously uncompassionate, this (health care reform debate) seems more like an argument of which accounting column it should fall in too.
>only 5 of the top 25 passwords are 10 characters, so if we require 10 character passwords, we've already reduced our exposure to the most common passwords by 80%.

That's not an accurate measure. Like, take two of the example common passwords: 123456789 and 1234567890. What do you bet that the people who'd pick the first would pick the second if they had to use 10 characters? Plus, attackers don't have to try passwords that fail your requirements.
Desire to Desire
How long until Facebook joins the public cloud business with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft?
Its true that you can be ordered by the court to decrypt drives. Then there is a documented point-in-time when the state received read/write access to your drives, and also, presumably the drives are already in custody etc.

I think the highest risk of evidence being planted would occur during the search and seizure process, so encryption would help you there. And it also prevents informants from doing it and then selling you out for their own benefit. And it prevents thieves from looking through your files if your bag gets snatched.

Overall I think disk encryption provides some great benefits.

EDIT: although you have to be more careful about data loss, for example: https://www.gwern.net/Notes#november-2016-data-loss-postmort...