skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cities that still don't have ride sharing services still see Uber as the shining Messiah coming to save them. Current shenanigans within the company are really not that well known outside of tech circles.

At present, in our city in North Australia, ride sharing services are still technically illegal, but Uber is campaigning hard against local government to get it overturned and the general population are behind them because the local taxi service stinks. Uber are even placing targeted ads on Facebook for local residents, and have a special page on their website just for our city residents to get information on the progress of the fight with our state govt. and local council.
Yeah, agreed re: drugs. Given the current state of the industry, "How do you develop drugs without patents?" is a legitimate question. As I said in my PP, I think it's more of an indictment of the industry than a good example for why we need patents. But yes, I agree, drug patents are the best leg patent proponents have to stand on. I still think drug patents should be massively weakened, but it's a longer argument.

> Should we prejudice a modern inventor just because he implements his useful machines in a virtual question, they ask, with the implicit response hopefully being no.

If the sentence starts with "Should we prejudice a modern inventor just because...", the answer is probably "Of course not!" because it's such a loaded way to phrase it. Just saying.

But your larger point is well taken; I understand that this is exactly the analogy used in court decisions that end up being pro-patent. "Even though the method of implementation of ideas has changed, the spirit of the original concept of patents still stands true, as it has historically." But my takeaway from looking at basically the same evidence is "Patents weren't a very good idea in the first place, and now they're a really bad idea because times have changed because of software and the patent-industrial complex has made the software business worse for the little guy."
Search for PDF < Model Number from appliance nameplate >

Prefixing your appliance model number with PDF cuts way down on unrelated sales material and spam.
So does this mean we need to stop trading BTC on GDAX until Coinbase considers the issue resolved after the fork?

What if we haven't touched the BTC on GDAX in a while? Wouldn't those chains still exist post-fork?

They left a bit of ambiguity in there specifying that we should move BTC out if we want access to both Unlimited and Core. But I'm unclear what to do since it doesn't matter to me either way. I just don't want to lose anything and I want the ability to continue trading.
Exchanges confirmed they will have BTC-U and BTC-C both available if a hardfork happens. Whichever fork wins in the end will just be bitcoin.
> usually positive

Is there an example of a voluntary transaction where the expectation is negative?
Although it's not origami, Pepakura Designer is another popular piece of software for creating 3D paper models.

http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/
An SMPS controller burned on my LG Washer control. LG didn't have any boards in stock, so I decided to repair it myself. Pried the board out of the tray with autobody pry tools and pulled away the silicone goo where I needed to repair.

I don't know what the rationale is for the board being covered in a half inch of rubber potting. A smaller coating would have provided a water seal, and this rubber is a heat insulator. Seems counterintuitive to me.

You will have to replace the board if the transformer has an open winding, because all these transformers are application specific. The silicone was burnt around some of the transformer terminals on my board, which scared me, but I didn't find any open windings. The other special part on this board is the cpu, everything else on the board is commodity and it is a real shame that LG decide to use this rubber potting AND screw up the supply of replacement parts.

I think it's a real flaw to integrate switchmode power supplies into control boards.
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Was with you until you got a little too aggressive. There is a better way to say what you're saying.
> AlphaGo Is Not AI

And the questioning article is not real writing. It fails to the standards of "real writing" that I uphold. A real article doesn't come with a clickbait title, and is better documented. I don't think the author knows what he's talking about - instead, just expressing incredulity based off his gut feelings.
This news is only getting traction because of Jeff Jones departure. In addition there has been a few other high profile departures that were news worthy
You might be wrong, and make decisions based on that wrong decision. That's the context of the discussion.

Nobody is suggesting that you'll get bumped off by the Uber PR squad, just that you'll be caught making uninformed definitive statemnts about an uncertain situation.
With a 10,000-person company, there will be departures, but there still shouldn't be many executive departures if things are going well. Especially now, the CEO and the board should be doing absolutely everything they can to get good senior execs to stay. That they can't is an important sign.
Yes, gambling for small wins can be negative, if you don't include the "excitement" or "entertainment" in the utility function.

But then you're not talking about a pure monetary transaction. More like a trade. Which goes back to your point: nobody makes a voluntary transaction where they get less value than they provide.

Take charity donations, for example: people value the warm feeling from helping others and a clear consciousness more than the money they are giving.
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> [Why do] gambling or insurance have negative expected value[s]?

The house sets the rules and the house has to make money. Occasionally the house sets bad rules [1] [2]. Those houses go out of business, leaving a greater fraction of the surviving shops demonstrating the rule.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/04/the-man...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-untold-story-of-how...
https://twitter.com/anildash/status/843692126437302272
"Two separate, well-placed sources at the company have told the BBC that Mr Kalanick will likely step down as chief executive soon after the new COO is in place."
Next time be honest
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Khronos Group Appears to Be Readying for WebGL-Next Proposals
I agree with your first sentence, but I'm not comparing which one is worse. I'm just asking why do sites not redirect m.* addresses, when browsed from a desktop browser, to the canonical domains.
Great . its unusual to find dentist on HN . Where you from my friend ?
I consider it unlikely that it will change again, but somehow it is unsatisfying that it doesn't have a hash version, e.g. in the first nibble of the hash. If they had done that we could have avoided the unpleasantness long ago.
The belief that "our cars used to last much longer, manufacturers are screwing us" is bullshit. I'm not sure if people are looking at the past through rose-colored glasses, or if there's severe selection bias (people only notice the 40 year old car, not recognizing that it only represents >1% of the vehicles produced at the time, and has received a fortune in repairs and maintenance costs), but the data is clear, our cars are better and last much longer than they do in the past. Just look at the average age of the vehicle fleet:

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/line3.htm

https://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pu...

There are short-term blips in this data when new vehicle sales surge (or vice-versa), but the average age of vehicles hit a record high of almost 12 years last year, and the long-term trend is clear: our vehicles last much longer than they do in the past. There has also been a population surge in vehicles over 15 years of age, which has been a significant positive secular trend for numerous parts manufacturers and repair shops in the industry, and the increased complexity of the vehicle fleet (more parts that repair shops need quick access to), which has pushed numerous players in the automotive supply chain to invest more in their distribution infrastructure. Cars have become more complex, but the parts in the vehicles also fail much less frequently than they did in the past (though many now integrate more parts and cost more than they have in the past).

I did a bunch of research on the automotive sector for my last job, and it's striking how laymen's views are completely contrary to what is going on in the industry. I don't know much about the other appliance markets, but I wonder if there is a similar misperception issue in the other markets.

As for the short life-cycles in new technology like smartphones, is that really so terrible? My current smartphone is much better than the last one I bought in 2014, and miles better than the first smartphones that were in released in 2009-10. The short life-cycle reflects how quickly the products improved and evolved. That said, the improvement rate has slowed down, so hopefully, people will hold onto their smartphones longer instead of updating just for fashion reasons.
Yeah, it's not even a fix - just implementation of something that is not currently implemented.
Some have. No merchants have. So if you pay by bitcoin to bpay, your china-coin isn't going to be recognized. You would need to find exchanges that recognized the china-coin tokens. 97% of nodes in the bitcoin network currently enforce the same consensus rules. As soon as bitcoin forks, they will no-longer understand, nor view, the tokens in their forked crypto-coin. You might, or might not, find someone who is willing to trade with you.
I do!
Is there any good article that explains the idea and failure of this project?
What's the minimum nVidia GPU spec (VRAM) and SSD/HDD disc space (TB) required, from your perspective?
In my PP I specifically said:

> There's a decent argument for drug patents (drugs cost a fortune to develop; makers only recoup losses if they can mark up the cost of drugs massively; competition gets in the way of that), but I'd argue this is a better argument against the whole industry and an argument for more public funding of drug research.

Got any others?

And/or since you brought it up, I'm legitimately asking: what's the best example in your mind of a drug that probably would not exist without patents?
are "we" the result of hardcoded DNA or the result of learning? Our objective of survival is kind of hardcoded objective we optimize our life on. Why do we care about if we can build another "intelligence" similar to ours? Why not just build something good at jobs we don't want to do, and leave "culture" to us. I strongly believe a higher being will laugh to see we call ourself intelligent the same way we see artificial intelligence.
Take, for example, displaying the context source code for an error when you know the file and lineNo of the error.

A naive approach would be to read the entire file into an array and then to output the lines [lineNo-context..lineNo+context], possibly with line numbers prefixed. This is O(N) memory with regards to the size of the file being processed. A 8GB source file will crash your program when built for 32-bit.

Another approach is to read and discard until you've discarded lineNo-context '\n' characters, then copy chunks from your source directly to the output until you've read another 2*context+1 characters. This is O(1) memory (strictly speaking, you could do it byte-by-byte with an integer counter or two - practically you might have a fixed size buffer to read/write faster) and would allow you to handle even 1TB files sanely.

To be fair, I'm often guilty of the naive approach myself :)
What do you mean by 'IT'? Geeks who plug in printers? Yeah, that's a bad business to be in. Software, on the other hand, R&D, product development; those are GREAT businesses to be in. I can't help but laugh when people 'escape' a 99% margin business :-)
There's some value to be gained here from orthodox Indian philosophical schools. All roughly agree to three stages of learning:

- shravana (literally 'listening', as India's philosophical traditions were mostly oral, but more broadly may be understood to also be 'reading.')

- manana ('reflection' upon that which was heard. May include exercises, debate and such)

- nididhyasana ('meditation,' may be taken to mean experience)

Further, knowing is then classified into two types - jñana and vijñana. These correspond to mere apprehension of information ('knowledge') and integration of that into action, life and experience ('wisdom').

Knowledge is transformed into wisdom by a process of reflection which is active. Passively obtaining new information is unlikely to result in wisdom (which is useful) without reflection.

Thought this might be interesting to those in this thread who are looking to learn and improve themselves.

Questions? my_hn_username at gmail.

Disclaimer: Have studied Vedanta in India under a master (A Parthasarathy). This information may be found in his magnum opus, Vedanta Treatise: The Eternities[0].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/9381094160/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=...

EDIT: formatting and email address.
elektrotanya is one good library.

~10 years ago I decided to obtain and review service manuals before buying machinery, to be sure I could have the documentation and to try and figure out what pile of crap I am getting into.
Mitsubishis have always been notorious for shoddy build quality.
How much VRAM is required?
I've seen that brand in laundromats. I had no idea they made domestic machines too.
You have evidence .io domains take a hit?
They gained the influence through being really really good at what they do. They don't command it though by illegitimate means. I regularly disagree with Greg, Luke, and Pieter; while I don't always come around to their 'side' completely, I always learn something new about how the system works/functions or considerations I hadn't made. That's why they seem so influential on the core team; through a big 'peer review' process, most of the 'top'* engineers in this space respect them a great deal.

* not trying to appeal to authority, but you can go compare across all competing clients and see who is contributing the most meaningfully _to you_ and contrast that with who listens to gmaxwell and sipa.
Buy the finishing parts from the better variant along with the control (or steal them along with the control if you raid a used machine?)
I want to reply to you but I am too tired to make a proper well thought out reply. So I will keep it short.

I agree with you, and there is a whole lot of stuff to talk about with regards to this (far too much for me to type right now).

As pointed out in my previous reply on this topic, I have indeed stacked the table to one side to help illustrate my point.

I really want to talk more about schooling with regards to this subject of learning and assessing one's knowledge retention. But it is far too late :(
And yet as voters we must make these value judgments. Gambling for many is a dangerous addiction, one with significant societal costs. You could look at the financial crash of 2007-8 as being mainly about gambling at the institutional scale.

When transactions are truly consenting (which is not the case with addicts) and have no negative externalities, sure, we should default to letting people do their thing. But when that's not true, voters, who are the real insurers of last resort for societal risks, end up having to make value judgments.
Just a typo, but you mean Clojure？ :)
Ask HN: Fooling a self driving car.  Is this real?
Doesn't smell right:

https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/meet-the-artist-using-ritual-magic-to-trap-self-driving-cars
> joining an advisory council is not the same as lending support

That is your opinion, but it's not fact. I'm sure you are aware that many disagree (who have no greater claim to fact than you), including the people who bought that billboard and those who pressured Travis Kalanick (of Uber) into leaving the advisory council.

It's really a matter of degree. It says that this is a person who is worth the time to advise; they are therefore intelligent, responsible, capable, they listen, and I share their values enough to associate my name with their endeavors. It doesn't say 'I support everything they do'.

If Musk joined advisory council of most businesses, it would send an incredible message of support, for example (though not exactly comparable).
I think it's around 90% use core and 10% use unlimited. There aren't that many full nodes.
I have always found the idea that there's a hard line between strong and not-strong AI extremely naive. The whole thing is a long gradient of progress. Strong AI is going to creep up on most programmers like the proverbial boiling frog, and internet forums will be full of people denying its existence throughout that process.
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It's not a trick question at all. There is only one capital of Australia, the others are capitals of their respective states. This response is as though I asked where the US government is located and you said "trick question, there are 51 US governments!"
Yes. Thats what the college-lecturer tells you. But in the real world you should not stay longer than necessary in a company which lied so hard into your face.
Hashing for integrity and authenticity are different things.

For instance, a mere four byte CRC-32 can reasonably assure integrity in some situations, like when used on sufficiently small payload frames; yet it is not useful as a digest for certifying authenticity.

SHA-1 is suitable for integrity.
You have no idea whether GDAX will allow you to collect both coins in each chain if there is a fork. They might only honour one of the chains.

Unless you own the private keys yourself, you have no idea whether your bitcoin is going to be worth anything at all.
Why we rejected 100k in funding when we had next to nothing in the bank
Lithium Titanate battery: New downstream market in China is rising
Yep, all it does is update the countdown message: http://web.archive.org/web/20170319195114/https://ac3freedom... and it uses jquery-countdown. Sounds to me like we need jquery-fireworks: https://codepen.io/P3R0/pen/yyqdxR.
Forgot to mention that I didn't downvote either, despite disagreeing with much of the post.
CBS News has WildFire enabled on production servers
Always several sides to a story and during interviews everyone is on their best behavior. I have yet to be in an interview where I get the full and complete picture without any embellishments. It's only after you have been on the ground floor for a few months that you see things for what they are.

Also, OP's story is currently colored by how upset he is so I'm sure the interviewers made the job sound more appealing than necessary but I'm sure there is also some revisionist history happening.
Fridges have come a long way in efficiency. I cannot believe that operating a fridge from the 80s or before is not a ridiculous waste of money, no matter how inexpensive your electricity is.
I guess that's what I'm trying to get across: I fundamentally agree with core's approach over any other. That's why I work on Core. Core not prevailing here would be upsetting to me because it would be opting for a subpar design and review system which I think will make Bitcoin a lower utility platform overall.
Mastering legacy code is a core SW engineering skill. Learn how to do it if only because it makes new code you write less likely to end up in that state.
Yes, it was a pretty cool idea.
It would probably depend on how closely related the tasks are.

For instance, there's been a few papers talking about "transfer learning" where a network is trained on video data for the equivalent of tens of thousands of hours, and then used to control a robot (where the robot's inputs are partly from video). The pre-lesrned weights help significantly, as you'd imagine.

In another sense, it's often useful to use a pretrained network as the input to your model (so you'd run the images through another network that outputs a simplified representation of the images, and then run a second model on that). That's currently quite useful; I could see something like that being super useful here. Train on one task with lots of data, and then switch to something similar with less data.
No. Insurance is to pay for an outcome that the insured did not want. A person with car insurance does not want to get into an accident. A person with health insurance does not want to get sick. A person with home insurance does not want their house to get flooded.

A gambler, on the other hand, is indifferent to the outcome of the roulette wheel except for the monetary payout. Same goes for buying options unless there is ownership of the underlying security.

A gambler had an incentive to cheat to make the transaction go their way. An insurer has an incentive to help make the event the insured does not want to happen not happen.
Interesting, can you please tell us how to google those?
DVDs in Europe are required to have a non-AC3 audio stream, but not AAC - MPEG-1 layer 2 is one of the options.

AAC, while not controlled by a single company, still has its problems. AAC has had tons of stuff hacked on to it over time (I count 14 profiles), but only one license is offered. So you end up paying for things you don't use, and it's also quite expensive (4x the cost of H.264 video).
IBM also bought Blekko, a general purpose web search emgine like Google and Bing. They use it to harvest data to build something like Freebase internally, now that Googe closed down Freebase (to ise it as well internally only). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blekko

So it would definitely help smaller AI companies if an open minded consortium would launch a new FreeBase alike service and open web crawler with free data dump access. (WikiData is at the moment (and for the next months) several magnitudes smaller, and Freebase frozen stale data gets more useless every day)
Great.. Some /r/btc extremists found a YC thread to troll. Is nothing sacred anymore?
I just use webmail clients that come with the mail services I subscribe to. This gives me portability across any number of clients.
If you multiply the gambling reward with the probability of winning, it will be less than the cost to play. This is the house edge. It's how the casino makes money.

It's the same thing with insurance. If you multiply the size of the payout with the probability of getting a payout, it will be less that your insurance premiums. It's how the insurance company makes money.

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

E[x] = prize*winning_probability - cost < 0
You can look at gambling and insurance from a portfolio theory perspective. You want to hold the portfolio that maximizes return for the level of risk (variability) you're willing to take.

Both insurance and gambling lower your returns, but the change in variability for insurance has a -1 correlation with a risk you currently have (canceling it out), therefore significantly reducing the overall variability of your portfolio.

Gambling isn't related to any other risk you already have, therefore introducing more variability into your portfolio.

So insurance is just a form of gambling where the payout is correlated with a risk you currently carry, instead of being "random".
Could "betting" with insurance be made as fun as gambling?
The only ChinaBU nodes are living on centralized server instances, and none are actually used for bitcoin commerce. The software is unsafe. No exchange, wallet, payment processor, or user, would dare dream of using it. Which is why hundreds can disappear in the space of an hour, and re-appear 12 hours later all at once.

But to clear it up, there are thousands of nodes. By some measures, when including non-listening nodes, 10's of thousands.
Kudos. Can I have a named blog or similar?