skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"For loans, there's some that would make sense for governments but not private banks. Suppose a dollar of this loan has an expected value of 99 cents for the bank, while generating $2 worth of taxable economic activity at a 10% rate. Private banks would lose a penny, municipal governments would make 19 cents."

While technically true, this is misleading. The numbers are still the same whether or not the government runs the bank. The private bank would lose 1 cent, as you mentioned, but no matter what the government is still getting the $2 in taxable revenue resulting in 20 cents to the government at the 10% rate.

Then you also need to factor in that banks have operating costs. In the case where the government gets both the tax revenue and profits (or losses) of the loan, this means that the only way for the government to make this work is if the government can run the bank more efficiently than the private bank would be run. Or, at least equal. Otherwise, the additional operating cost is a net loss to society from the inefficiency.

I don't know about you, but I would never, ever count on the government running anything more efficiently than the private sector. This is a bad idea.
As a former employee of Yandex I totally disagree with what you said about 'not that good' developers and their loyalty.

It seems to me that the most common reason for leaving the company is immigration, which has nothing to do with Yandex itself. All my ex colleagues who left Yandex work abroad at Google, Facebook, MS and etc. Also I've seen many very good developers who cared a lot about their products. So my impression is somewhat opposite to what you described.
The only way to move forward is to ignore them. Put up a message that advises to install Chrome or Firefox and get rid of all the cruft that supports browsers older than 5 years. Most probably already have a modern browser installed but use IE out of habit. I see it at large corporations all the time. I even heard "I wish it would remind me to just use Chrome"
I'd call it "Maintaining existing code" rather than "Refactoring".

To a non-technical manager, the former sounds like pretty much what it is, and won't raise many questions. (If they do question it, ask them if they maintain their car while it's still running ok, or just wait until it breaks down before they do anything to care for it.)

Refactoring, on the other hand, sounds like a buzz word, and if they look it up they'll get "rewriting code that's already working so that it continues working the same way". They probably won't get the nuances about why that's a useful thing to do, so it'll sound like busywork and they won't be happy with letting your team do it. They also won't be able to justify it to their management if they're questioned about it, which is critical for getting buy-in from your managers.
How does Violence end up in World Religions? On prevention of extremism [pdf]
It seems too soon to worry about it, unless you like to work on compilers in which case have fun! If you don't, you have to guess what compile-to-WebAssembly language will become popular. So maybe just learn new languages if you enjoy that?

If a popular web library uses it for something real, they will probably provide a JavaScript API to call into it.
A surprise contract that most don't pay attention to and severely limits the rights of the target human is an American standard.
Google currently is in arbitration with Levandowski, so the odds are relatively good they'll get both (positive outcomes from both suing Uber and pursuing AL).
U.S. statute is supposedly the same. A valid contract involves consideration from both parties. After you've bought something the contract is set. One party can't subsequently say, "oh in addition you have to agree to this."

Unfortunately law isn't what got written into statute or precedent yesterday. Law is what happens to you in court today.
This[1] seems to suggest otherwise? Or am I misinterpreting it?

[1] - https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/linux_clusters/intelAVX...
Is WebAssembley going to turn into yet another web technology that can be used by websites in order to track us or to annoy us with advertising?

I'm asking because every time something new is introduced, it feels like it ends up being used to abuse users (Javascript, XSS, Cookies, HTML5 Video).
This is not so much a matter of debate as of reading up.

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

> Some malware is used to generate money by click fraud, making it appear that the computer user has clicked an advertising link on a site, generating a payment from the advertiser. It was estimated in 2012 that about 60 to 70% of all active malware used some kind of click fraud, and 22% of all ad-clicks were fraudulent

If you want to coin a new term feel free, but malware means what it means and refers to malicious, not "more malicious than", not "malicious against the user" etc.
If he has a bad cell signal, replacing the battery won't make any difference. He needs to look at his stats.
The most material result of this is that Chromebooks won't have a working SSH client starting sometime next year, because WebAssembly can't do real sockets without an external proxy.
Trump rarely hits the 100k likes these days. I guess his popularity is waning.
While this seems drastically unrealistic from the viewpoint of someone in the US, from a European point of view, I can totally see that electrics become very viable - take a look at the new cars from Citroen, Renault and Hyundai in terms of decent to serious range (200-300km+) and Europe seems more likely to push regulations than a Trump-administration US.
For Me the point is not to get rid of ads. To be frank I already adblock them.

I just consider can I use a part of Internet infrastructure, and want to reward its creator and maintainer
They're firing him because they ordered him to cooperate with the investigation and he refused to do so, not for being guilty of a crime.
This feature is built into a lot of critical infra there, like airports. As I'm sure you know, the more common (and costly) it is, the better investment it is.
In these Japanese companies they'll be sorta monitoring you and fire you if you're caught not doing the mundane tasks they've assigned you. So they basically force you to quite or get fired.
Thanks for sharing your story. It makes me genuinely happy to hear.

It really bothered me that I wasn't able to successfully tutor more CS students, and many folks that I know would have (eventually) loved it and thrived in the discipline dropped out due to their inability to get over the hump.

It sounds like from your experience direct, constant mentoring (along with a highly motivated student!) does work.
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They most definitely should NOT sunset this project. Your issues are in no way a reflection of the majority of the cordova development community and projects don't need to be deprecated because you had some problems.

People keep mentioning they have problems with cordova but never state what they are. If your project is a big mess that it's no fault of the cordova platform. It's a wrapper with some well maintained plugins that don't drastically change. What about cordova is so hard for you, prepare, build, run.. whats steps are causing you to question 'hybrid' apps in the future and what are other wonderfully awesome cross platform alternatives are available that allow developers to jump right in.
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This is the only purpose I see and with reactions on every post now I don't really see it much anymore. Though, in a similar thought, it would prevent brigades from HN / reddit / etc if it's, say, an unpopular feature or change and it's at the top of their front page for a while.

If it's a legit heated discussion and you limit it then you're just to come back in 24 hours to very long, impossible to follow responses. At least this has been my experience when people have left things to cool down them come back and need to respond to everything.
Thanks for the feedback. I understand that the current UX is very unintuitive as this was a one day hack which I published online. I will add a description and search feature soon.

Regarding Pronunciation and definitions: I am exploring the possibility of integrating "Wordnet" by Princeton University. I will try to integrate it as soon as possible.
This is the basis for "The Innovator's Solution", and another word for it is "disruption". In the book, Christensen argues that existing suppliers target ever-higher quality (because they have the technology to do so), leaving room for "good-enough" vendors to undercut them and take away their volume product-by-product, meanwhile funding them to develop ever-better products.
He's also in the line of fire for quantum mechanics, so yikes indeed.
Async and await do not make your code work synchronously, they make it look like synchronous.
Thanks! We'd love to add Canada, but for the time being are focused on the United States only – need to work on the fundamentals of the business before we get too spread thin.

And yep - route search in general is on the roadmap! We've got some pretty cool other ideas in terms of filtering.

(Aside: Realm has been great. We use it in the iOS app)
MariaDB diverged from MySQL 5.5 (2010). I'm quite proud of what we've managed to achieve since then:

- MySQL 5.6 (2013)
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-nutshell.html

- MySQL 5.7 (2015)
I have a list @ http://www.thecompletelistoffeatures.com/

- MySQL 8.0 (in development)
http://mysqlserverteam.com/the-mysql-8-0-0-milestone-release...
http://mysqlserverteam.com/the-mysql-8-0-1-milestone-release...

In terms of some of the most recent work, I think the utf8mb4 performance improvements will have a big return for users: http://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-when-to-use-utf8mb3-ove...
Ads don't have malicious intent (usually). You may not like them, but displaying ads doesn't cause you harm. You could argue "having to see ads is inconvenient, which is a kind of harm" but just because software is inconvenient or doesn't do exactly what you want doesn't mean it's malicious. In this case, what makes Judy malicious is that it is using your machine to defraud advertisers.
Ahahah, no… it's just that I'm terrible with typos. Thank you for reporting it, now should be fixed https://github.com/mapio/programming-with-escher/commit/a102...
Also see "to have or to be".
I suppose the follow up question is, what will replace this once enterprise SSDs start replacing spinning disks?
>who is this Barron?

I think if you are asking that question you are probably not the target audience for this website.
Former Netflix employee here.

I do hope the EU gets on top of Content Owners soon. In my time at Netflix, we often worked hard to negotiate global content deals; however, it's far more lucrative for the content owners to sell for each market individually. I suspect that the other players in this space feel the same way; all of them are held hostage by the content owners.
Some of the lenders actually helped them cook the books [1] . And I wasn't excusing the lenders, I was excusing the citizens. How are the citizens supposed to make informed decisions when they are getting fabricated numbers?

[1] https://www.thenation.com/article/goldmans-greek-gambit/
There's some indication that this is being addressed - among other things, it seems like they may cap the number of a single type that can be in a gym.

Honestly this is the kind of thing where I could see hyper-local chat (team or public) of the sort Yik-Yak was trying to do. "Hey Instinct within 1 mile, meet in 15 to take down the gym at the fountain?"
And this is the fundamental issue with the traditional hotel industry, and why AirBNB has found a successful niche. When I travel with my family, I care greatly about the space I will be in. I desire a living room space, multiple bedrooms, a kitchen, maybe even an outdoor or backyard space, and I don't want to pay to rent two attached hotel rooms at twice the price.

Hotels seem to aim their products at their primary customers (business travelers), and the product they sell is designed to primarily meet their needs. They compete on non-room amenities (bar quality, workout rooms, etc.) and on loyalty points, which frequent business travelers can use to make personal trips to vacation destinations. None of these things have any value to a family that makes 1-2 trips a year.

AirBNB does target my needs, with detailed pictures of exactly the space I'll be living in, diverse housing options, with many of the amenities that I desire above. I also care a lot less about cleanliness when I'm traveling with family. Yes, I want clean sheets, towels and other personal items. However, I don't care about a little dust in the kitchen cabinets, some spots on the windows, aging/peeling paint, or a few spiderwebs in the corners. My kids are going to make a mess no-matter what, and I certainly don't clean my home to hotel-standards every night.

I have seen a few mainline hotel chains offer family-focused properties (The Hyatt House in Anaheim is one.) However, the family-focused ones aren't that common. An AirBNB apartment I can rent almost anywhere.
well it would be cool to know what happens inside trump's head.
I mean I'm from germany and even school kids learn at least something about the nato. (especially their parts about how the system works).
But somehow trump does not understand it. he thinks that the money is the most important thing, however the nato only set a goal like 1 or 2 years ago which should preferable spend starting in 2024 (not, now of course). and now he blames every country who didn't reached the goal of 2024? or does he thinks that every country just somehow needs to pay the same amount that the usa uses for their military? or what does he think?
i mean yeah every political person does lie. but most of them don't lie upfront or show others that they don't have an idea. but trump looks just silly from the outside.

I also don't understand what the labour or partners of trump are thinking, it does not look like they can do anything useful for their country in the next 4 years.

well at least I can somewhat why people voted in favor of him. I mean with voting you can express yourself, normally. however if you can only vote between sodom and gomorra you can only express that you are more unhappy with sodom... that doesn't mean you are happy with gomorra, tough.
Another thing I forgot to mention - if the expected value of a loan is 99 cents on the dollar, then this is a bad loan to make at the onset. It should never be made, and never would be in the private sector.

The core function of the loan and investment part of the financial sector can be summarized simply as "to provide the efficient allocation of capital". Making bad loans is not part of that function, nor should it be. The money can be put to better use elsewhere.

Also, let's not forget that if the government ran a bank, it would still have liabilities to its depositors and still has to pay interest to them. Making bad loans jeopardizes that, and can make the bank non-competitive. Sure, the tax revenue would be nice, but you won't keep your depositors for the long term with this approach.
I played Factorio for a while, but at some point becomes as complex as coding, when I reach that point I say "well, I can just work, get paid for it, and get same amount of fun", so I always drop around that.

Kerbal Space Program is by far the one I spent more time in, probably around 1000 hours.

Dark souls was one of my favourite (1st and 3rd), spent a lot of hours there too.
I'm also playing a lot of board games lately, not sure if they count!

I'm always looking for cool new games, I'm really picky.

Oh I almost forgot! XCOM and Invisible Inc, both great!
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The US government has been deferring all FAA UFO reports to Bigelow Aerospace for a while. So perhaps he knows something.
No, FTFA: “We will remove support for PNaCl in the first quarter of 2018 everywhere except inside Chrome Apps and Extensions.”

Chrome Apps (and extensions) using PNaCl will continue to work.
>Computer assisted knowledge work may be precisely the answer

No but that's the entire problem. Why computer "assisted" when computers are getting to the point where they can do it on their own completely?

Robotics already outperform humans physically, and AI is (in many areas) approaching humans. So the risk here is complete replacement, not supplementing.

In the near term your solutions are solid, but that's a band aid. Humans will soon simply no longer be able to compete at all except for niches.

>the human simply operates the expert system.

Operate what? At the current pace the only operating required will be flicking the ON button.

>when was the last time you calculated an amortization schedule by hand

5.5 years ago. :p
Point in my first post was that G is algorithmic. What you are referring to is the repeated extension of G which gets into issues of ordinals.
Yeah, between this and npapi removal the chromebook has lost a lot of functionality I used :(
> if you buy Apple's Final Cut X for $299, you should be allowed to resell that software

If you do resell your "copy" of the software, does the EU law make the company accept new-user registrations/activations? Does it require them to also send out new updates to the non-original owner?
> but they've been unable to keep up with demand

They sold out early and had long periods where no stock was available. This seems to point to a supply side issue, not a demand side problem
Every piece of technology can be abused, that doesn't mean the technology itself is bad and shouldn't be adopted.
Your comment scared me, but TFA doesn't say that:

> We will remove support for PNaCl in the first quarter of 2018 everywhere except inside Chrome Apps and Extensions.

Where do you see that chrome apps are being discontinued? Otherwise this is FUD.
Per someone else's mention elsewhere in the thread, it looks like Dudley eventually published a book based on it: https://www.amazon.com/Trisectors-Spectrum-Underwood-Dudley/... and also https://www.amazon.com/Budget-Trisections-Underwood-Dudley/d... (whose title was probably inspired by De Morgan's "A Budget of Paradoxes").

Edit: I think the second book there is actually just the first edition of the first book, and the title changed for the second edition.
> but also assuming that the battery (A) accounts for 50% of the sticker price today and (B) will drop by 77% by 2025.

With the number of battery factories being built around the world I wouldn't discount it. Tesla, Daimler, and Panasonic, I wouldn't be surprised if there were other too.
>So yeah, it happens; it's just a spectacularly bad idea for the police to do it. If they hadn't declined to file charges, my friend and another murder victim would probably still be alive today

Sorry about your friend, but why is it a "spectacularly bad idea" for police to do so? What alternative do they have? If the sole victim is unwilling to cooperate with the investigation and subsequent trial, their chances of actually succeeding in imprisoning that scumbag are approximately zero. If you want to blame someone, go find the stupid, selfish woman who wanted to "let it drop" 5 years ago. Remember that old saying about evil flourishing because good people do nothing.
This--plus there is some evidence that suggests Uber already negotiated to acquire Otto before it even came into existence.
By the time Google disables PNaCl on Chrome Apps, this kind of thing won't be an issue. There is a reason why the announced 2018 deactivation excluded Chrome Apps and Extensions.
Yes, because non-portable NaCl has higher usage inside Chrome Apps and Extensions, but I don't for a minute believe that Google is going to continue investing eng resources in maintaining (non-portable) NaCl now that pNaCl is dead, so I'd expect that to get deprecated sometime in 2019 or 2020.

Disclaimer: My opinion, not that of my employer.
Google spent $1600M on a 18-months old company.

Youtube starts in April 2005. Is bought by Google October 2006.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube
It's crazy how common this is in even very sensitive cases. There should be a rule based system in place that makes it troublesome to email people not associated to a certain project.
>How do we make new better models?

Who knows? Just because you can't imagine the step after the one I describe doesn't make the one I describe less valid. Maybe it'll become self-improving? We already need AIs to help build CPUs so doesn't seem far-fetched.
Not mentioned in the article:

Uber is investing in a self-driving research unit in Toronto, Canada led by Raquel Urtasun [1].

Seems like a move to dodge all this Waymo brouhaha and benefit from Toronto's deep learning scene.

[1] https://www.techcrunch.com/2017/05/08/uber-hires-raquel-urta...
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I can't dispute that Intel video is simple and that's nice, but that's a failing of NVidia and AMD, who happen to be the primary discrete GPU manufacturers, and not an indicator that integrated graphics is a good idea.
This is the best kind of ban. Make them think they aren't banned and just let them continue to waste their time.
EOL for Chrome Apps outside of Chrome OS was announced in August 2016 https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...
>Is there really a lot of AI replacing highly trained professionals? There is a lot of hype around the idea, but I don't see any evidence of it happening in large scale.

Near zero I'd imagine. That's beside the point though. The fact that it's possible is what matters. The actual roll-out of it is just a matter of time.
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Money is a great thing to help you put aside your differences...
I usually use `cu`, but the docs for minicom tell me it's control-A followed by F to send a break signal. Then just hit "u." There are a number of single characters following a break with actions to them, the full doc on this kernel feature is here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.r...

I'm not terribly familiar with KVM but the VM console tools probably have some way to generate a break signal. Check the docs for how to "send a break."

Oh, and don't forget to enable this feature via sysctl -- per the above linux doc.
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Robert Yates wrote a book exploring approximations like this and other means of trisection (graduated ruler, linkages, etc.).

https://www.google.com/#q=the+trisection+problem+yates
It's already a nationwide structure fire.

The current approach of prosecution of doctors, or throwing up miles of red tape between a doctor and a patient has no affect on abusers.

Instead, it directly affects people like my grandparents, who rely on quite a bit of opiates for their quality of life.

It's almost like DRM for video games. The DRM has no affect on pirates (abusers), instead it only really affects legit customers (my grandparents)

You can burn fields of poppies. Prosecute every doctor with a prescription pad, seize and raid to your hearts content and nothing will change.

If prescription opiate pills vanished wholesale tomorrow, people would simply switch to heroin, which is more widely available and cheaper than any pill on the black market.

The more they tighten the grip, the more things will slip through the cracks. The people who stand to be crushed in the metaphorical palm are people like my grandparents, not the abusers.

Until some key changes are made, for example, less red tape between a doctor, an addict seeking treatment, and suboxone therapy, things aren't going to improve.

Methadone clinics need to be welcomed into cities and towns with open arms nationwide. A harm reduction attitude has to prevail over persecution and prohibition.

Maintenance therapy has problems of its own, making the inevitable withdrawl last months instead of a week or two. Simply due to the longer half-life.

Sometimes, folks switch back to heroin to get off of methadone because of this.