skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really, platforms like the hololens are essentially the Commodore 64 of AR. It's neat, and has some practical application, but it can't quite deliver on its full potential. I don't know which AR headset will be the Windows/Apple of this technology but I can describe it. Lightweight, stylish, essentially a smartphone on your face.

What AR not-so-obviously does is takes the internet and changes it from a limited access interface, wherein its a technology that has points of access that are limited to terminals that you have to actively access to an interface that you passively interact with.

An interface that you have to seek out, to an interface that seeks you out.
I thing so too, friend.
TensorFlow GPU performance
But as an investor, I'm not playing different sports. I'm looking to maximize returns while minimizing losses. A defensive team and an offensive team may have different strategies but their goal is the same: win the game.

Are you saying that "risk-adjusted maximum return" is essentially (rate of return, std. deviation), and that hedge funds are offering a lower rate of return in exchange for a lower std. deviation? Like how Treasury bonds offer (1%, 0)? I'm no hedge fund expert, but I've always assumed hedge fund claim to get higher rate of return than the S&P 500 through the brilliance of their active management (for which you pay them gobs of money). And in this experiment, over 10 years, the deviation of the S&P 500 compared to its expected average was about 0, and their returns (net fees) was about 25% the S&P 500. So even if the S&P 500 had less than average returns it would have still trounced the hedge funds.
DJI About to Launch New Selfie or Racing Drone
Hi.

I was having a lot of fun trying out the challenge, and got to the point where I was finding secrets, and then I got rate limited while trying to ungarble them.
She is such a ghastly warmonger.
Her term is up in November of next year. Time to start prepping a suitable challenger.
Yes indeed, we are mandated by NERC to have reserved for such events...it won't be an issue at all.
My understanding is that all new satellites have plans for deorbiting when they reach the end of their lifespan.
Well, it's a new term, and the meaning constantly evolves. From what I've seen, the expectations raise every month - originally ICOs were just posts on forums, now you need to spend considerable amount of time preparing the business outline, building a team, and your own credibility. If I'm not mistaken, some ICOs launch with some serious coding before.

The current requirements for a good ICO are quite similar to what you'd expect from a seed round, if not higher.
There are at least two announced Democratic primary challengers to Feinstein.
Hey, before everyone freaks out, it's Meldium, and not Medium that is being retired.
Thank you for this caveat.

Yes, that is true. Governments typically don't pay off the principal on their loan - more specifically, as soon as the loan matures, they take out another loan.

This is not a problem if you've got some 30-year bonds maturing (As a dollar borrowed 30 years ago is trivial to pay off today), but this is a big problem if most of your debt is in the form of rolling, 1-year, or 3-year bonds.

This is still quite different from a mortgage you need to renegotiate every 5 years, or where the interest rate is pegged to prime + X%.
Yea, here is Colorado we have Cory Gardner. Rank and file republican in an increasingly deep blue state. Currently leading the pack as most hostile to his constituent's interests:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/
This is kind of ... crappy. Sorry.
It might have been semi-useful in 2004 or so, but now...woefully outdated and inadequate to get anyone up-to-speed. I'd say it's actually harmful.
Maybe don't use this for paying mortgage or anything high risk?
If you want to lose all of your tech monopolies, then go ahead with your backdoors (the ones whose existence will be publicly known, that is).
It is coming back in Brazil, already.

Interestingly, their Status Twitter account says "We are working very hard to make this twitter account irrelevant.". As it has not been updated at all today, I'd say they have accomplished it.
Well it's good no one paid him for this bet because it was a shitty one. He could have chosen sensible options like Rentec or Baupost. Clear failure there...
Unfortunately the Democrats have been trying to out-Republican the Republicans since the Clinton administration. (When the party really embraced getting all married-up with wealthy donors, and inevitably turned its back on its traditional roots.)
There is an interview where Jan mentions that "thanks to Facebook's infrastructure" they can use local servers in India to send msgs to and from, instead of going to Palo Alto all the time. It's unlikely, that the sever setup there has changed. It's unknown to me what the (new) decentralized infrastructure setup is
How about I have three shell companies, and you guess which one has the real source of my income underneath it? $5 to to win $10.
Module counts aren't relevant. A good chunk of them are micro libraries (left pad) that are already covered by anything with a standard lib, half of them are abandoned crapware. I'll take 1 good library over 10 similar shitty ones any day.

We also had libraries long before every language needed it's own package manager.
For those wondering why there isn't a Node v8.0.0 yet:

> We want to give ourselves the option to ship the Node.js 8.x release line with the TurboFan + Ignition pipeline, which will become the default in V8 5.9. This would allow our next LTS release line to run on a more modern compiler + jit pipeline, making backporting easier and giving us a longer support contract from the V8 team.

From https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/node-js-8-0-0-has-...
Not many vegetables and definitely not many fruits, although on a tour we did pass through an isolated little town in the Gobi that our driver said was known for its vegetables. As far as I could tell, they only seemed to have a few large gardens. Which I think proves the rule. But as you've pointed out there are plenty of other resources that discuss that, likely more accurate than my anecdotes.

Mongolia is pretty large. IIRC the south is mostly desert, the east more grassy plains, and the west very mountainous. I'm sure the cuisine varies. Nonetheless, AFAIU steppe cultures have very similar diets--heavy meat consumption, particularly sheep, goat, camel, etc.

My wife and I went in 2012 for about a week. Most of that time was spent with expat family working in Ulaanbaatar, where we took a few excursions to parks and monuments not too far from the city.

We took a 3-day trip to the Gobi Desert on a very typical itinerary where you hire a driver and translator and stay with a few host families. Because of tourism and the mining industry, the Gobi families were settling down more. Our host families, while still remote and dispersed, lived in Gurs that hadn't been moved in years. (Whereas traditionally you moved roughly once a year, cycling through grazing areas.) At the time travel books recommended the Southeast for a more "traditional" experience. But you really shouldn't miss the Gobi if you're doing a family trip or a short tour.

I'm hardly particularly knowledgable about the country or culture. But what was most striking was how the land was open and accessible--so very little private property, with the legal right for natives and (IIUC) visitors to roam and camp where ever they please so long as they're not disturbing anyone else.[1] It's basically a dream for anyone who loves the outdoors. I'd hardly classify myself as a world traveler, nor an avid outdoorsman. But I have hiked and camped rural Ecuador and visited rural parts of Borneo. The sense of openness, freedom, remoteness, and safety in Mongolia just seemed incomparable to anywhere else. But who knows how long that will last.

[1] There's an imaginary boundary (if not a fence) around a Gur or collection of Gurs that demarcates de facto private from public land. And Mongolians traditionally keep a native breed of guard dog for protection, so you're encouraged to get vaccinated for rabies. But outside the cities families are so dispersed (on the order of miles) that you're unlikely to accidentally intrude upon anyone's space.
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted (probably for ideological reasons). You are totally correct. Socialism hasn't really been tried in countries with diverse, abundant resources and powerful economies.
ForthOS
Zuckerberg thinks Facebook was “late” to competing with Snapchat, is now “ahead”
But should it still unroll the recursive calls and balloon the code out just because a mutatable function call was made, or should it leave it as an actual recursive function call.
Right after the Intel security disclosures.

Hmmmmmm.
Show HN: WOLUXI Data extraction using LED for headless devices diagnostics
What Happens When You Don't Copy Google
I was not involved in the Anime/Manga scene so I cannot say for sure, but from my understanding, the people who know Japanese and could translate it from Japanese were the minority. There was a blend of English and Japanese sources in the anime scene though. I don't know the exact mixture.

Definitely not for the Harry Potter case. The only source we had for Harry Potter was the English version. It took about 1 day for the English book to be scanned and appear online on KaZaA after the official book release, and leaked versions came up even earlier (but we don't know what was real, many were fanfics and viruses). All translated versions of any language other than English came way later, and as we wanted to consume the books as soon as they were released, English was the only choice.
Pretty sure that code gives the wrong answer for a = 0, b = 1 << 63 (assuming the goal is equality represented as 0 or 1).
Can't wait to vote him out. Incredible that he won't hold town halls. He knows what's coming for him.
From day one the only reason Uber was "disrupting" the taxi industry is because they blatantly ignored regulation. It should be expected for them to be equally shady in other areas if their entire business was based on breaking the law, whether you think those laws are warranted or not.
> comes off more like an old guard republican rather then a democrat

This is true of most Democrats these days, except when they want to pander to minorities or other disadvantaged groups who could use real, actual allies instead of the panderers. I am amazed and humbled by these folks' perseverance in the face of a two party system in which one party apparently hates them and the other thinks so little of them that their best efforts at being allies generally consists of terrible pandering.
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A lot of people forget that government debt is often funny-money. Defaulting on debt is very different than not paying your friend back.
Luckily you have democracy so her California voters can remove her. They apparently want to keep her so she should stay.
This is splitting hairs. The consequences of human-driven climate change are widely understood to include net warming of the globe.
Incumbency is difficult to upset.

Feinstein is just old and out of touch. She still thinks that Hollywood is an economic driving force in California.

Kumala Harris is our replacement for Boxer. Hopefully we can get someone a little more liberal to replace Feinstein.
I'm not into conspiracy theories... but Why can't i find anywhere to buy this book in my area in the US, or online?
If you like "if guards", and want a non-whitespace delimited, strict, dynamically typed language, check out the Pure language:

gcd a b = gcd (a-b) b if a>b;
= gcd a (b-a) if a<b;
= a otherwise;

https://agraef.github.io/pure-lang/
Er, TheDAO failed, but because of the hack that caused Ethereum hard fork and the return of money to the original investors. The founders of Slock.IT never received a dime.

While I was never a fan of the lock, TheDAO was an investment fund - there was a forum with a few other prospective proposals, and they had some amazing ideas regarding the funds' governance. There are some other, similar, funds in the works now.
To try this out you can install the app and test with the libraries provided or on the test drive page http://www.woluxi.com/xmit.html , where you can create different types of messages supported.
That's 600+ cities where suddenly there's a huge incentive to fill it fast.

Do advocates of free markets as engines of creation and disruption really have so little faith?
Limited liability, along with joint stock ownership, was possibly the greatest financial invention of all time. In terms of big history, I would mark the inception of this form of human social organization as the beginning of "The Great Acceleration." To a great degree, this is also why the West became so dominant until recent times, allowing for the building of then state of the art ships to undergo risky trade and exploration missions. Without it, no one besides monarchs would invest for fear of being financially ruined for the rest of their lives.

Conflating personal morality with economics... is very bad. It leads to things like debtor's prisons (which, unfortunately, exists more or less in America) and heavily prejudices against poorer people. It's an easy to understand system... you borrow money, you pay it back with interest. Its the lender's responsibility to ascertain your credit worthiness. If you default, it becomes harder for you to get credit and you pay higher interest. There is no need to also attach negative behavioral characteristics. Lets face it, we all know someone who is bad with money, but that doesnt make them a bad person, it just means they need an accountant.

How many times has the President declared bankruptcy? I have many issues with Trump but this is not one of them. in fact, I commend him for being able to reinvent himself by learning how to create an effective brand and sell his name.

You wouldn't bat an eye if a company made a controversial decision, like laying off a number of workers for the benefit of shareholders. Yet too often, we judge people if they cannot pay back.

They should just default. Youll have a higher interest rate for future loans, but youll have something to invest for growth and not stifled by austerity. Ask Greece how austerity is going for their economy.
Current satellites don't do anything special over the National Radio Quiet zone. Why should the SpaceX ones?
I was curious about the financials of this project. Here's my back of the napkin:

According to (https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-it-cost-to-set-up-and-la...) it costs ~$80-$100 million per satellite to build, launch, and run. So that's ~$354-$443 billion for all the satellites. Let's call it $443.

Now, I pay ~$60/m for internet. That's $720/yr. If they want to recoup costs after 10 years, it'll take ~61.5 million subscribers.

For the U.S. alone, that'll probably never happen. But worldwide? Maybe. Though worldwide the price per subscribe will be less, often times substantially less.

On the other hand, SpaceX will have lots of operational discounts because its their own rockets, and they already have all the supply channels for building space tech. And maybe they aren't looking to payback in 10 years for this initial run; maybe they only want to break even so payback in 15 is good enough.

Just some numbers for thought.

P.S. Businesses unlucky enough to be in "rural" areas, aka most commercial business parks outside of tech cities, are in the unfortunate position of paying the local telephone company/AT&T/TimeWarner thousands per month for roughly dial-up speeds. SpaceX could charge the same but offer broadband speeds and get a nice chunk of business, methinks.
CAISO will do it's job and CA residents won't notice a thing...APS, BPA, and PAGE will make a good profit that day...utility planners/schedulers will minimize line work (especially on the BES), and everything will be normal
From his perspective as the head of the FBI whose job it is to achieve outcomes within the law, of course Comey advocates encryption backdoors. He would likely also advocate allowing the FBI to suspend the bill of rights for any suspect during the duration of an investigation, and he'd quite likely prefer that the FBI be legally allowed to torture suspects if extreme techniques were viewed as likely to result in useful information. To law enforcement, the rights of a suspect are a barrier to many convictions.

How did we get to this point? Nobody would reasonably argue that extreme surveillance measures, patriot act, etc., is necessary to stop the vast majority of crimes from occurring, so why is it so easy for seemingly serious/intelligent people to think this nonsense is reasonable?

Members of our government are so indoctrinated about stopping "terrorism" that they have lost all sense of perspective. Terrorism is a political word to describe political enemies of the state, yet the patriot act and surveillance machinery has been used in enforcement of many other kinds of (less serious) crime.

I am surprised anyone can still use the word "terrorism" with a straight face anymore after it's become so clear that there is no large existential threat (merely the occasional zealot who acts out due to his/her own mental health issues). And in spite of a historically unprecedented global surveillance system there have been no attacks thwarted.

Comey is a symptom of the kind of cowardly, authority-respecting society we've become. I look forward to the day when our FBI director is not someone whose gaffes and judgment calls we read about in the newspaper on a regular basis.
> If you have a couple million in the bank and are withdrawing 4% a year to live on, you're probably more concerned about the SP500 dropping 50%

And then you have illustrious hedge funds that go out of business when the SP500 suffers a small blip [1]. In any case, paying 2-5% to a hedge fund doesn't seem very good business when you're withdrawing 4% a year to live on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management
It's negligible
Massive Phishing Attack Targets Millions of Gmail Users
There are comparable talents to Warren Buffett, and Seides could have chosen them. If Jim Simons wasn't retired, I'd happily give up the legal right to invest in the S&P 500 ever again just to invest with him if that was somehow a requirement.

Instead, Seides did...whatever this silly attempt was. I get that the "fund of hedge funds" clause was his idea, but it was stupid.

I use the word "stupid" unironically, fully self-aware of potential Dunning-Kruger, and I reiterate - there was nothing sensible about his taking the bet at those terms. It was never a defensible position that hedge funds as an aggregate industry outperform the market - maybe before the turn of the century, but not after the market became saturated with every Tom Dick and Larry with a shingle outside their doors.

Even if it fundamentally changes the goal of the bet, Seides should have had different terms if he really wanted to win.
Ask HN: What do you think is preventing you from “thriving” in life?
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I don't believe that is true. A quick Google search turned up nothing.
Back online in US (Bay Area). Waiting for the post-mortem now.
Rumor has it that there are other large corporations whose operations span the globe, and whose employees know the arcane formulae to command the performance of mighty forces that can summon chariots at will.

I know nothing of such worldly matters; I am but a humble priest of Eris.
Craig Newmark Founded Craigslist to Give Back, Now He's a Billionaire
From the article:

> Other newspapers in Mr. Murdoch’s group supported remaining in the European Union, Mr. Gallagher noted, reflecting the views of their readers. Among that group was the Scottish edition of The Sun, which like Scottish voters backed Remain.
G Suite admins: you can check for compromise by going to Reports > Token in the admin panel. A compromise looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/Dm0NNTn.png
Who pays for all the infrastructure like mechanic shops, and oil changing facilities?
The best technology where "best" means it actually does something useful for people, rather than whatever we, engineering types, think it is.
One interesting contrast for this is in the legal requirements for dealing with counterfeit currency once it's discovered. That really does seem like a case where the person holding the money did nothing wrong, but the money must still be forfeited because the money itself is "doing something wrong" by being counterfeit.
Is there any good information on what has been accomplished through such access etc ?

What have they stopped using such methods? I think if they wanted to get anything like this moving forward they need to show results. Not too many trust the government these days.

I do not like the idea of "backdoors" but I can see realistic need for such things. I think many are against such things "until" some massive WMD type attack then the tune will change.
Here's an interview with Assange discussing "cablegate" where the 2006 plans for Syria were revealed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3HWiydFlJc

It's hard to prove a negative, but I'm open to being proven wrong about the top 5 newspapers. Here they are, please provide an example of an opposition article to the recent Syrian attacks from the day after the attacks.

USA Today,
The New York Times,
The Wall Street Journal,
Los Angeles Times,
New York Post,
While I agree that 95% of ICOs are not so good, so are 95% of e-mails in my Inbox.

With ICOs, there are quite a few ways to ascertain the quality - regular due diligence applies, even more so when there are so many eyes watching every proposal.
> so consider it a lesson that can't be taught in schools

You do realize you condescend Larry McVoy, right?
They can rebrand it as Goober afterwards though
>> There is a very interesting failure of imagination of the remain campaign in assuming that their best interests were the same as other people's, and denigrating or dismissing other people's concerns as due to stupidity or racism. The Brexit vote result is a comeupance for this self-serving elite.

I'm not saying that they didn't vote with their best interest at heart. But best self-interest with incomplete information can lead to disasters.

Let's say brexit causes some other country in EU to become the financial powerhouse of the region, means a lot of jobs get out of the UK, which means more strain on social services and lower value of investments already made by said voters, which means poorer retirement.

The above could well be right or wrong. But do you really think the average citizen actually thought about all this? Or did they just charge out because they "felt" left out?

Given a choice, most citizens' self interest dictates cheap housing, education and healthcare with lower taxes. Self-interest asks for wealth without working. Just voting it into law without understanding the repercussions is a recipe for disaster.
Any Post-mortem Yet ?
I found this part of the article interesting in its "spareness":

> Final assembly was quite challenging because you have to put all of the resistors and diodes in one side and then try to slide them across and into the right hole on the other side. It’s a rather tedious process, but it works.

That description seemed to echo "cordwood construction" for those modules, but I wanted to know if this was actually the case. The best I could find was this image of a CDC 6600 logic module:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/64/CDCcord...

...cordwood construction.

From what I understand, such modules allowed for greater part densities (and probably better airflow for cooling), but at the cost of repairability: Since they were made with thru-hole components, soldered on one side, if a component in the middle of the board failed, it was a very time consuming task to unsoldered all the parts on one side to be able to separate the halves to repair the module.
It isn't so much about crapping on the employees as recognizing reality. Nobody wants a piece of Uber for the office managers or designers.