skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like the thinking is "Anyone can use backdoors so they are bad but we have to have access to everything. So give us access without a backdoor."

I suppose tech companies could give them a backdoor and call it a front door?
Your advice is common amongst educators these days, but the general consensus in language acquisition research is completely the opposite. If you can understand something, with enough repetition, you will acquire it. Free reading of native material is hands down the most effective way to acquire a second language that we know about.

There are quite a lot of scholarly works accessible from the internet on the topic, so if you are interested I recommend taking a look. I was going to link some examples, but it's probably better for you to find your own way without my biases.
That's not a moral position, that's one branch of the conditional:

> if extreme techniques were viewed as likely to result in useful information

He's not arguing that torture is wrong, he's arguing that torture doesn't work.
If it worked, they probably wouldn't tell us (don't want your targets to wise up).

And if it didn't work, they probably wouldn't tell us (just in case it might sometime...)
Translation: Even experts can get fooled into thinking they can time the market...
Gah I used to absolutely hate to disassemble those for parts. But they were very cheap because everybody else hated them too and at the local flea market there was a guy selling those 5 for 2 Guilders, hard to resist.

Also, the remaining legs would be super short, on the order of 2-3 mm if you were lucky.
Well, this almost 10 year period didn't teach anything to this guy, or, more probable, he's just trying to defend a rigged industry.

Basically, he's saying that Warren won by luck, while in truth it wasn't even close. It's worth to state this clearly - the passive index did a 85.4% return up to date, while the five funds did 2.9%, 7.5%, 8.7%, 28.3%, 62.8%. You do the math.

If there is one guy in this world that understand how economy and markets work, it's Warren. And he has a ~60 years track record to back this up.
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Sure, but if the populace and the political climate demanded torture from the FBI and he refused, he would be fired and replaced with someone not so principled in their opposition.
Please don't go off like this here. Throwaway accounts are standard and Hacker News users are perfectly capable of incorporating that datum into their interpretation. We detached this thread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14255769 and marked it off-topic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill always makes me smile...
Your point is fair, but keep in mind that if people considered their own behavior rational then they would probably change it...
As long as the breathalyzer is only required once to start the car. I drove a car with an interlock one time and it required you to blow into the thing randomly while driving. Failure to do this correctly fast enough caused the engine to die. I felt more impaired driving under that system than I would have after 2 beers.
Good to hear for Snapchat, but they're going to have to do something major to change they're feature-as-an-app social network into something more substantial if they want to be able to stay alive in the long run. They're being hit by al sides from Facebook-owned companies to Apple's iMessage.

I recall Snap,inc. purchasing Vurb, but I don't believe we've really seen the app integrated to its full ability. The only change, from what I can see, is being able to search anything that was posted publicly. If they move quickly to really integrate the features from Vurb into Snapchat, Snapchat may be able to truly differentiate itself from Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger.
It has been tried, we call that country 'The United States' - at least, if you're over the age of 65.
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Please please write a blog post or tiny sample app illustrating this stuff
Australian man arrested in US for overstaying visa by 90 minutes
> Can anyone say why silver pins are needed?

> Silver seems to me to be the worst material for a connector.

It's pretty good actually.

Low resistance, very good skin effect. That's why it's usually silver over copper, all of the advantages and not nearly the same price.

Most quality RF components and connectors are silver plated.
>...if extreme techniques were viewed as likely to result in useful information

Right, he wouldn't use it because he doesn't believe it's effective. The GP is suggesting that if it were effective and legal, do you really believe he would refrain from doing it on moral grounds? It's the prerogative of the FBI to pursue cases using essentially all effective legal means, and it's no surprise to hear they are lobbying for more tools to become legal.
AFAIK, Ted Lieu is the only person that any opposition has produced, and I'm not sure who else is even in a position to primary Feinstein. Starchild ain't gonna cut it.
> When these mismanaged governments finally throw in the towel and hand the reins over to grownups what happens is the pensions and retiree benefits get cut.

What makes it appropriate to cut obligations to creditors we call pensioners, but inappropriate to cut obligations to creditors we call 'bondholders'?

(The answer is, obviously, that our politicians are quite happy to push our elderly under the bus, in order to protect wealthy investors.)
Very interesting concept... this kind of accessibility opens a lot of possibilities

For example: simple things like better tracking my budgets or pulling transaction history. I have a pain doing that from my banks who gives me PDF or only goes back 6 months of data
There's the case about the active investors vs a cat (and the cat won). https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/08/01/a-cat-outperformed...
Hey I didn't get rich by being fair, and you can take that to the bank.
Its sophisticated in the sense that it makes you trust them and willingly share your information with them. It doesn't rely on some brute force method or some complicated hacking method, it simply rely on a modern workflow that people are used to go through without thinking twice about it. It is simple and incredibly efficient.
title should be "...Square Enix and...". The company "Square" ≠ "Square Enix"
Ha. Probably 70-80% of both customers and drivers are doing business with Lyft, simultaneously. That's the rub of "contract employees".
This sounds like FUD. When has a simple license like BSD been interpreted to not grant rights to the patents implemented in the technology being licensed? The language there is really clear.
Amazon Alexa and Solar Panels
That sounds like what virtually live is promising: http://virtuallylive.com/
What's your story? :)
Everything I said is accurate. Yet, you insist in missing my greater point:

This issue shouldn't even exist.

We, as a society, should revolt at having such clauses in a medical program that is supposed to help people.

The US healthcare system should take care of every single US resident. Period. Rich, poor, healthy and ill. And it should do this without the kind of thing I have highlighted regarding Medicaid.

It is my experience that it is extremely difficult to convince people who have a religious attachment to things. So be it. I put the matter on the table. I've done all I could here to raise awareness. And that's the end of the story.

Be well.
DARPA has been using VR since at least the 90s for training.

One of the main players in that area is a man named "Rudy Darken"; he was instrumental in quite a bit of the "Dismounted Soldier Training System (DSTS)" - and developed quite a few interesting input devices (one was a 360 degree treadmill with force feedback - think of two overlapping treadmills at 90 degrees to each other, with the surface made of rollers place parallel to the direction of travel of the belts - the part in the "center" of the intersection is such where you can walk, and move both belts at the same time, and your direction of walking determines the relative speed of the belts).

They've also long had networked simulator training systems, which also were setup to participate as part of "real" on-the-ground training and war-game simulations (that is, ones using live bodies and vehicles, aircraft, etc).

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if your scenario wasn't part of that already.
Self driving haul trucks are already at work at a few open pit mine sites around the world. These are vehicles driving relatively short, prescribed routes, with well defined patterns. The few articles I've read seem to indicate they're operating just fine, although I'd be interested to learn more. If the cost savings are there, I'd bet the entire mining industry will move in that direction rather quickly.

http://www.riotinto.com/ourcommitment/spotlight-18130_18328....
No you didn't say it, there was no way to tell that you hadn't factored in threshold effects from your first post, nor that you had glossed over high marginal costs for energy. Points you then pointedly ignore when replying.

If you don't want to be asked what you're saying precisely, you just have to provide more detail earlier, or at the very least the proper rubrik. I just don't understand the hostility here mixed into factual matters.

There's little to answer in your last post. Your definition of gradual was decades; re solar power it's already been decades, but the actual transitions to new technologies - the mass adoptions - happen quickly - so you're really changing the subject. The first consumer product (radio) to appear in my city with transistors came in the early sixties, at a price of $79 - a fortune then - but only a few years after that, you couldn't buy a regular radio with tubes. The transition was very rapid. Kodak's stock took a long time to fall to earth, but the loss of revenue was sudden, and massive.

Re transmission - solar will strongly tend to be local. Batteries: you can look up discussions of Vanadium batteries (just one novel tech) elsewhere on HN, but note that individual batteries are now being built that are nearly 1GW - so 50,000 GW is very far from impossible - even if that figure turns out to be accurate. Not impossible at 5 cents a watt. Betting that this or that is impossible is usually a bad bet.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/12/13/vanadium-...

Actually, far larger "batteries" exist - reversible dams, many built only for energy storage purposes. Analogous mass systems have also been proposed using air and salt.
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Wow! I just got some money with the help of a hacker. A friend told me about how he hacked into his bosses bank account and transferred some money from it into his own bank account less than 2days. It was so unbelievable because I never knew that could ever be possible by anyone until the hacker with the email address (spystealth.org AT gmail DOT com) truly transferred the sum of $50,000 to my bank account from a bank account he provided me with without being traced. He does his job discretely. I'm so very much excited right now because I've been broke all my life but now I'm living a comfortable life and thanks to this ethical hacker for making it happen at a good price.
React is such a nice way to make SVGs generally. My team was building a microservices to generate our dynamic images, then had the realization: our frontend is React, and we can make these images client-side as inline SVGs (or server side if we need using the same code).

There's some browser compatibility issues we have to stay on top of, but overall it's been a blast.
OK, trial by Jury, as provided in both the 6th and 7th amendments, is definitely a positive right even on that definition.
His point about the biases of the S&P 500 are valid but his conclusions are not. There's a point where even he acknowledges that hedge funds saw comparable performance to a separate passive fund (MSCI All World I think?).

Even if his thesis around the S&P 500's value is correct (which I agree with) it doesn't mean that passive investments as a whole will be outperformed by equivalent hedge funds. I'd be curious to see what the performance of hedge funds that were effectively "US-only" was, my suspicion is that they weren't in line with the S&P further invalidating his conclusions.
If I were to look for fraud anywhere, I'd start by looking at the people who give inflated ratings to bonds.
If you don't already know, you should be really careful about this. It's something which scammers do once they've got hold of your card; websites often require you to purchase something shipped to the billing address already on your card before changing the address.
> 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.

Wiretapping and search warrants are long standing and well support ways for law enforcement to investigate among other things organized crime. Just because you know have encryption doesn't mean that has changed. Similar to how the NSA didn't suddenly stop doing signal intelligence just because they allegedly "lost the crypto wars".

> 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?

It's a presumably a "better safe than sorry" and "nobody got fired for choosing more surveillance" kind of a thing.

> 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.

Terrorism is just the ultimate argument of people in the establishment. Just like encryption enthusiast might have some story about how they are helping dissidents, but are mostly encrypting their warez and mundane e-mails.
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Would suggest to add a cookie to the newsletter form, it opens every time.
Only for governments that can issue money.
Very similar to S1Search:

https://blog.slicingdice.com/slicingdice-uncovered-part-2-s1...

https://blog.slicingdice.com/slicingdice-uncovered-part-3-s1...
Did you even read cperciva's comment upthread?
Thats my thinking as well, but I dont think they will change anyones minds if they dont show some sort of results.
> Members of our government are so indoctrinated about stopping "terrorism" that they have lost all sense of perspective.

> In this case, it might be better to assume malice rather than incompetence.

I really want to consider you paranoid, but sadly I strongly agree. This is hardly the first time engineered paranoia has gripped the country, but living through it is horrible.

I was a kid during the mid-to-late Cold War (post "duck and cover") and somehow I was never able to take it seriously. Even when I took classes on strategic deterrence and the like in college I considered them light entertainment I was paying for to give me a break from the serious classes.

Now we have the emperor's new suicide vest.
No, I got it right. You can click on a radio button and get a head count instead of the percentage. Both pieces of information are useful. What it does say is that the overwhelming majority of people on Medicaid are what I would term as "young", say, somewhere around 50 or younger.

And, before you say 50 is old. I know plenty of people who have started businesses and entire new careers in their 40's and 50's. This ain't the 1920's.
I'm just getting started with ClojureScript, so this pretty timely for me.
>Retired investors are often more concerned with preservation of capital

Retired investors should have a few years of draw-down available in low-risk investments to mitigate market risks. In retirement there should be very little dependency on market forces.

If you have a couple million in the bank that you're drawing down at 4% then why do you care what the S&P is doing even if you have another couple million there?
You really need to do a bunch of research and reading.

Here's a tid-bit:

Quote:
"Does Medicare Pay For Long Term Care?

NO. After a 3 day hospital stay, Medicare pays 100% of the cost, but only for the first 20 days of skilled nursing care. For days 21 through 100, you are responsible for a co-payment. As of this date, the daily co-pay rate is $148 per day.

But it gets worse: After 100 days of care in a nursing home, Medicare stops paying altogether, and you are responsible for all future costs, unless there is a new 3 day qualifying hospital stay (which then re-sets the 100 day clock).

You also need to be aware that Medicare does not pay for “custodial care.” If you or a loved one are in need of custodial care, it must be paid for either by writing a check, by private long-term care insurance, or by Medi-Cal."

I am not going to bother providing you with links because you are obviously not reading anything. If you are truly interested in understanding the issues you need to spend half a day googling around to build a better image of what reality looks like.

Also, my wife is a doctor. She, among other things, has dealt with precisely the segment "served" by all of these programs for at least ten years. She has left that practice. And so have tons of doctors. This is the other side of the equation.

These programs work for some but, on the aggregate, they are a disaster. It is impossible for doctors to provide good care. Patients are getting screwed right and left. My wife would easily see a dozen patients a week for free because there was no possible way to justify doing it under these programs.

The vast majority of people are extremely ignorant of the realities in US health care.

Anyhow, that's the end of it. Thanks.
Mixing metals can also lead to corrosion. Luckily this seems to be a "spare no expense" rebuild.
Why do you think black female founders receive basically no VC funding?
https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/13/its-true-black-female-founders-receive-basically-zero-venture-capital/

https://www.wired.com/2016/02/its-embarrassing-how-few-black-female-founders-get-funded/

As a black female founder I'm wondering if pursuing VC is worth the effort.

Do you think there are any easily identifiable reasons why the numbers are so low, or are these numbers actually proportional?
I believe you. I've never used BK, but I did do some research before posting my comment. Couldn't find a single complaint on the technical end of things. Literally not one.
> Also worth noting that Buffett is an active manager and claims he could beat the S&P by a large margin if he was managing a smaller portfolio. And he's said the efficient market theory is dumb and makes his job easier. He tells people to put their money into index funds and then does the opposite. From his perspective he's talking his own book, if there is another Warren Buffett level talent out there, no need to tell everyone to find the best competition and back him, might as well tell people they're wasting their time, just buy the index.

Buffett already can't exploit his ideas and opportunities he sees because his scale is simply too large. So he doesn't even need to con investors into buying the S&P500. Your two points are in direct contradiction.

It is possible that he realizes 99.9999% (read the Superinvestors of Graham and Doddsville) of investors are far better off with S&P500 index investing than actively picking stocks, and that he doesn't need to tell the 0.0001% anything because their skill will manifest itself.
I've been programming in Lisp for 17 years now. I've always done it in Vim.
This explains CSS escaping pretty well: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/css-escapes

\37 is the escaped hexadecimal number 0x37 == the ASCII character '7'

The whitespace after the escaped character is "eaten" (the whitespace indicates the end of the escape sequence)

0 is '0'

\% is '%'

(update: fixed \37 == '7')
What context was that code expected to be executed in?
That's called confirmation bias and people do it all the time.

It just didn't work as a strategy if you actually wanted the find the truth. That's one thing this is about here.

The other thing I think you missed was the emotional context of these comments. I'm clearly asking for support and help to make HN welcoming, by not misrepresenting or cherry picking easy-to-ridicule info. It hurts when they do that and I don't like it. Please don't do it, don't ignore the people behind the comments, and don't quote this

> You just did the thing I suggested was insubstantial and said hurts and I didn't like. Please stop.

pretending that you've contradicted this, and made it somehow okay. You haven't and it's not.
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It's been said before, but what people need to understand is that the goal of this service isn't to make money- it's to balance demand.

SpaceX can plan to launch be 30% more launches than their actual customers need. All those extra rockets are used for internet satellites. If there's an accident (boom) or a sudden need for more rockets, the internet satellites get delayed, and the paying customer gets a rocket.

If customers are finicky about using re-flown rockets, that's fine, the internal customer doesn't care. If a customer backs out for any reason, the internal customer takes their place.

Rocket production gets a smooth flow going, which improves production efficiency.
Sure, the technology has a low barrier of entry but that ignores network effects (necessitating lots of cash burn) and the willpower to oppose entrenched interests such as governments and taxi groups.