skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Oh, btw: Fuck RUST. For once and for all fuck this tyranny of coercion by potential IP holders. It is a shit language.

... what? I am confused as to what you're saying here.
We're familiar with Lavoisier's Law.

So when you are suggesting CM, many of us probably know that Lavoisier's Law would show small errors at high energy states in CM... But then your explanation offers some perspective on Lavoisier's Law... So what are you suggesting with your key word?
I'm a moderator of one of the communities in which your site is relevant, http://reddit.com/r/flashlight

We do see some bad affiliate behavior there, though most of it gets automatically filtered. When it doesn't, the community usually ruthlessly mocks people who post low-quality content that's obviously just intended to make money.

Almost every time somebody shows up asking for purchase advice, somebody links parametrek.com because it's so useful. You want a flashlight under 120mm long with integrated charging that has a removable, non-proprietary battery? Here are 34 of them.

Make something people want.
You aren't "cursed with the weight" of a type system if you choose not to use it. You can even still reap benefits from this without using Typescript.
Having been brought up in a positive environment, yet full of sarcasm, I'm not sure I buy this argument.

Yes, there must be a balance. But sarcasm and negativity are part of our everyday life as adults and we should learn how to handle them.
Did a bit of research. You're in Toronto! What are the timelines? Maybe I could get a coffee with you to chat about the position?
technically you do need to define at the top level, but no, not in a practical sense:

declare var $: any;

$( "element" ).compiler.leaves.you.alone
"How is this better than TensorFlow" is the new "How is this better than Hadoop".

I wonder how their distributed training setup compares to mxent ps-lite (in terms of performance and licensing).
>incoherency of the people in that thread acknowledging pervasiveness of politics and then trying to exclude politics from discussions here

It's not "incoherent" at all and by using that label, you're falling into the same trap as JM using the label "ostrich mentality".

Imagine a political science professor that lived and breathed "politics" all the time such that he teaches classrooms, writes books, and sits on panels debating various policies with others. Now, imagine a friend's mother invites him to Thanksgiving dinner. It is suggested that politics not be discussed. Yes, the professor could be impossibly obstinate about it and say, "that's delusional -- there are politics in the production of that turkey, the food lobby, the creation of the Federal Holidays, etc. Politics is embedded in _everything_!"

However, the professor doesn't have to be that inflexible. He can avoid politics talk during that dinner and the very next day, sit on a panel with Noam Chomsky and Christopher Hitchens and debate every political hot button topic under the sun.

Turning off-and-on the political discourse switch for certain venues is not "ostrich mentality" nor "incoherent". Perhaps there's a different reason that some people don't want politics on HN: the political comments are low quality.

Likewise, the mother isn't delusional/incoherent in thinking that politics doesn't exist everywhere. She's just attempting to set the tone for a pleasant agreeable evening.
What value is that? I don't see it yet. It's promising a whole lot but delivering very little. I guess in this area it's similar with a couple of SF unicorns.

I think the concept is sane, I think the potential is there, I think Satoshi was brilliant, but I don't see BTC adoption for the things it promises.
How wrong you are sir
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12138374
you would think that something with "nerd" in their name would have a web app or at least an android app...
It might help if you consider spheres as a surface.

3D spheres are a 2D surface wrapped into a 3D space, likewise, hyperspheres would be a 3D surface wrapped into a 4D space. There's no "infinite spheres on its surface", I think the "rotation" is a better analogy.

Take a line rotated around an orthogonal axis and you have a circle, a circle rotated around an axis orthogonal to the other two is a sphere, a sphere rotated around another orthogonal axis is a hypersphere.
> Excluding debt financing (with which it need not increase present taxes) or monetization (with which it need never increase taxes.)

Which is equally true of any government program financed in those ways.

> Even in the balanced-budget, non-monetized case, landlords renting to a particular social class may have more money to capture if the taxes are levied on a different class (landlords or other vendors selling to a different class may lose money for the same reason.)

That's hardly "UBI leads to fully-canceling prices increases".
I don't think that Typescript ever did require that? AFAIK, it has always been possible to just declare the variable as "any" type and use it as if it were untyped.
If the market is a zero sum game, then for every winning trade, there must be a losing trade. Obviously some teams must be winning consistently, which implies that some are losing consistently. This says that the consistent losers go out of business. So who are the winners going to trade with? By contradiction, it is not zero sum.
Sometimes you don't know what you're missing in life until you find it.
"Wisdom is about using your abilities and knowledge not just for your own selfish ends and for people like you. It’s about using them to help achieve a common good by balancing your own interests with other people’s and with high-order interests through the infusion of positive ethical values."

That's a really odd definition of "wisdom". That's more like "unselfishness" or maybe "benevolence".
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shieldapparel/shield-th...
I did some tutoring in a graduate program. There were definitely some students who were, for reasons of academic background or otherwise, barely able to hang on. And they were very focused on exactly what was going to be on tests and what they really needed to know to squeak through.
I know you're doing a thought experiment here (and a rad one at that), but wouldn't this leave a very obvious trail of activity though?
Scrum of One: How to Bring Scrum into Your One-Person Operation
>If you just want to 'feel good', you could start a heroin habit; you will FEEL great. But is that a satisfying and full life?

I don't know, but I would facetiously guess that yes, it probably feels like it is. Until you stop being able to afford more heroin, at which point no, it absolutely would not. Kind of like driving fast; it isn't the speed that kills you, it's the sudden stop.

Happiness and meaning probably look like different things to different people, though. Some people find fulfillment in offspring, sure. But I don't see how that's any different from anything else that works to assuage someone's existential malaise.
You're very right, and it still sucks. I wish we had a bitcoin community that was less like reddit and more like HN: well-reasoned submissions and replies and moon jokes (we are bitcoiners after all) from everyone are welcome, trolling and flamewars heavily moderated.
Standardized tests are a lousy way of deciding things. But at least they're better than non-standardized tests.

At my university (SFU, in Canada) admission to most faculties is based on high school grades. That's grades awarded by high schools -- we used to have province-wide grade 12 exams, but for almost all subjects those were abolished a few years ago. It's widely recognized at the post-secondary level that a 90% grade from some schools means much more than a 90% grade from some other schools; but if anyone is actually adjusting high school grades to account for these differences, they're not admitting it.

Entrance scholarships, and admission in one faculty (Business), is determined partly based on high school grades and partly based on extracurricular activities -- in most cases, volunteer activities. Great, we're bringing in well-rounded students who are dedicated to helping the community, right? No; it turns out that they admit that they're only volunteering in order to pad their resumes -- in some cases because high-priced consultants hired by their parents told them exactly what volunteering they should do and what to say about it when they're writing their scholarship applications. (I've been lobbying for years to get an analysis done of how the rating of student extracurricular activities correlates with the median income of their postal code. I'm still waiting.)

The SAT become popular because it could identify smart kids who would otherwise have been overlooked due to their race, gender, religion, or class. Is it perfect? Hell no. But as we discard standardized tests, I worry that we're moving back to a world where university admission will depend less on aptitude and more on having parents who have the money and the connections to get you the "right" extracurricular experience.
I agree with most of what you're saying in principle, but it is very possible to identify alpha or acquire an edge that institutional market participants don't have. If you have access to data that most of the market does not, you can effectively trade on it. You can also effectively trade on a novel insight on a combination of data sources.

There is a lot of information asymmetry, and an individual is capable of capturing that without requiring a PhD or the resources of a large firm. That's not to say it's easy per se, but it's not hopeless. It requires special expertise or an unconventional approach.

Otherwise I agree that most people probably shouldn't attempt it (for risk tolerance reasons).
I'm still digesting the documentation but it looks like it would be susceptible to replay attacks also. But if all the web transactions were happening over TLS with PFS, and everyone is validating certificates, I think that would be good enough.
> illegal, and very pathological

Pathological, certainly; "illegal"?
>Our current theoretical understanding of how human cognition arises from neural processes is probably close to a level sufficient to build human level AI.

Please state that understanding.
Almost fired from Facebook for getting into email flame war with Steve Jobs
Thanks! Made them using Processing.org then printed them in high resolution for the wall. Turned out really nicely!
If we give people good education and good role models, that people are going to be wiser.

I think the structure, culture, and emergent properties of web forums have shaped out culture in some insidiously highly negative ways. I think that the totalitarian and high censorious nature of many web forums has conditioned entire generations to subconsciously expect the world to have the same totalitarian and high censorious nature.

I see multiple instances of younger people getting "organized" online, only to engage in mass-groupthink stretches of logic and commonsense in order to manipulate some authority to do what they want under threat of their emotional toxicity, or "yellow journalism" style association of that authority with something unsavory. Never mind that what they want contradicts established law, and that their efforts would best be aimed at changing those laws. Many of the same groups of people seem to expect the authorities to have the same absolute and arbitrary power to change laws, regulations, or even the laws of physics in response to their emotional toxicity. (This applies on both sides of the left-right political divide!)
Is it that you don't want to sell anything at all? or just on Facebook? When facebook launched this feature I had a bunch of old iPhones lying around and I sold them through facebook really fast. I actually liked it a lot. Identity was not an issue (never felt like I would get ripped off). It was easy to take a photo, set a price and publish within 10 seconds. I started to sell things I didn't even think about selling because it was so easy.
Gold is inflated in of itself. The industrial value is way smaller than the trading value. Just because you can touch something and it's not a bunch of numbers on a PC, it doesn't mean it has value.
See also:

https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/the-1st-international-longe...

Twitter characters can actually store up to nearly 31 bits each, if you’re using the JSON API. (Or at least, this was true in 2010. I don’t know whether this is still true.)

http://blog.kevinalbs.com/base122

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13049329

Base-122 encoding is 87.5% efficient in UTF-8, better than anything listed in the base65536 repository’s comparison table.
You're complaining in ignorance. Type systems – especially TypeScript's – does not weigh you down as one might remember Java's does. It's there to help you prevent mistakes and ease refactoring. You're free to ignore as much as you want to.
Lots of people. That's why Wolfram kept getting requests to identify it. That's why the building was designed with that pattern. It's not like there's anything particularly obscure here.
Really appreciate the attempt. Thanks! Yet, I don't think that will be an answer.

A very simple example of political speak: Merkel basically said last Sunday: "We can't trust our overseas partners anymore. I've seen that the last few days. We must take our fate in our own hands."

Yet what she meant was: "Trump will let you down. I'm strong enough to defy him. If you want a strong leader that listens, come to me."

Another example is how the G7 fought just about phrasing of a final statement for day and night before. What does the result mean? Who won what? How will that influence decision of other people in the political landscape?

Really curious to learn about that.
1) I did not write any native code.

2) I use quite a few plugins containing native code. Older versions of react-native didn't handle this well, which required manually setting up linking for Android and iOS. This was painful. Thankfully, they added the "react-native link" command, which started doing this automatically. Since then, I haven't had any issues.

3) Upgrades from early version were also painful. I gave up the first time I tried, since the benefits didn't seem to outweigh the time it took to upgrade. Once they improved the upgrade process, I bit the bullet and upgraded. Since then, upgrades have worked flawlessly, so I've upgraded whenever they released features that replaced third-party libraries.

4) I develop on a Mac, and I release the application on both Android and iOS. Only one component differs between the two platforms: the header. I show a "Back" button on iOS, whereas I disable it on Android since it's unnecessary.

Early on, I also found some discrepancies in styling. Text boxes, for instance, showed default fonts on Android, while they showed my custom fonts on iOS. They also included underlines, and tapping outside buttons with a visible keyboard required tapping twice. These turned out to be bugs, and I was able to hack around them pretty easily. I believe they have since been fixed.

React Native definitely lacks a good charting solution, or at least it did when I wrote one. I haven't checked since then, since my custom solution solved my needs. It ended up working out well, since I was able to reuse my charting library to generate SVG-based charts for the web dashboard. If detailed charting is a requirement for an application, it will require some effort to get working on React Native, but it's not an insurmountable task.

Overall, React Native definitely had some rough edges when I first released the app, but they have fixed all of the issues that annoyed me. It has improved significantly, and if I were to build another application, I would use it again.
We see in 2D, with a tiny bit of depth metadata. True 3D vision would allow you to look at someone, and see the entire volume of all their internal organs simultaneously.
My wife is great at scrounging: kids didn't add much to my costs unless we are eating out. You can get last years styles all over for cheap. My kids can have a few stains - they will be putting their own on anyway.
You can always add a quick and dirty definition like:

declare module 'themodule' {
var mock: any;
export default mock;
}

But unless the lib doesn't propagate through your code at all, it pays of to give it proper typings.
Your argument fits, I noticed that the bigger BTC got, the smaller the volatility.
isn't it ironic that the power balance is shifting pretty much like climate change ?
I've gone the side-gig-for-extra-cash route before. It was easy to make the money, but hard to sustain with a full-time job. It's a recipe for burnout.

If you're a skilled developer, you're much better of demanding a raise, switching jobs, or switching up your skillset to a higher paying job if your motivations are strictly cash.
What resumes? Can you show me these vast numbers of resumes with CFAs? Are you talking about fund managers or quants? If your goal is develop quantitative trading strategies, you shouldn't be getting a CFA because it's superfluous.

http://news.efinancialcareers.com/us-en/150266/why-the-cfa-w...

On another note, even if what you were saying were true (and it isn't), it wouldn't demonstrate that it's useful to have the CFA. Certifications are usually helpful for HR or for regulation, not for actual knowledge. And everything you need to know about finance can be learned in far less than 1000 hours for trading if you're in a research or development role.
Very cool, but it looks like everybody is doing their own thing, no interoperability. =(
It's funny how this is really close to when celebrities tweet about how good a brand is.
> more people trading the same strategy, the less effective it becomes

you should pick a more scalable strategy, the kind of strategy that becomes more profitable the more you talk your own book.
Same old nonsense answers here.

1. Because companies don't want to pay license fees, so then don't use the damn software, who cares.

2. Oh you should just beg for handouts instead, because your effort and work isn't worth crap and you should be lucky to eat the crumbs of the massive tech industries table.

3. Oh don't sell the software, sell a bunch of crap around it instead.

Its about time developers stopped being afraid to charge for their effort.

If you want to charge those who commercially exploit your work, than dual license the damn thing.
I had never heard of it. Wish I had; I've been wanting something like this :(
Conceptually I agree with you, Twitter should be able to shut down a botnet like this by simply 'identifying bogus twitter accounts' (aka twitter bots) and 'deleting those accounts en masse.'

The part where it gets weird though is that twitter already has massive botnets which run around in it retweeting things and what not. Which they do not shut down. So is that because they don't want to? Because they can't? or simply because it isn't worth their time? That is still an unresolved question for me.
This isn't "defying" Trump. The tech companies weren't part of the treaty (or, as Obama called it, merely an "executive agreement" that needed no Senate ratification), they can do whatever they want. I see nothing wrong with wealthy tech companies spending their capital on whatever they see fit. If investors don't like where their money is going, they can invest somewhere else.

Fun fact: despite being one of the only countries not to join the Kyoto protocol, we met its obligations regardless - https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/04/05/usa-meets-kyoto-proto... - while countries virtue-signaling today, like Canada, withdrew from the Kyoto protocol because they couldn't meet its obligations.
How is Obama received as a public figure ? he showed immense human qualities over his terms, and tried to be honest in his speech regarding other countries. That's a nice part.
WIRED – How long do you have left to live? A new AI could have the answer
Also, construction (Which is notorios for the presence of 'mafiosos') is a business where... A lot of organized crime is involved, regardless of whether or not the work is unionized.
> Our current theoretical understanding of how human cognition arises from neural processes is probably close to a level sufficient to build human level AI.

No. Not even remotely close. If that were true we'd be able to emulate the behavior somewhat of simpler organisms that don't have the connectivity of a human brain. The fact of the matter is, we simply don't understand cognition.

I'd say the challenge in realizing strong AI right now is both a lack of understanding of the brain as well as emulating its mode of computation, which is different from a traditional digital computer.
I don't follow where the shell enters this conversation at all.
I tried to rely on your first bullet point and randomly end up with BigQuery surpassing some API treshold towards Drive (paying customer). Have to carefully manage doing copy-queries over to BQ, which is a pain, but better than nothing I guess.
Likely. A "non-evil" use would be setting up "IP over twitter"
> but if anyone is actually adjusting high school grades to account for these differences, they're not admitting it.

I am pretty sure this was the standard line for campus tours at the University of Waterloo -- that you should take high school exams at your school and not at some diploma mill, because Waterloo did adjust your entrance average based on what high school you came from, and how those students did once they got to university.

(That said, I also heard that there are so many "perfect" candidates that they're contemplating rejecting students at random in order to hit class size numbers, because scaling up requires more lecture halls and more dorms, and those things take years to build out.)
Would it be legal to use tools to perfect stones, or even use artificially made stones?

If so, where's the Kickstarter?

If not, do people go and dive to retrieve record-breaking stones to sell them to competitors?
The US really needs a single payer health care system. We are developing more and more drugs and surgeries that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. From what I have heard, more than half of all bankruptcies involve medical bills that they can't afford and this is true even if the individual has good insurance.

I worked in insurance. Insurance works well for things like car insurance where the threat of increased insurance costs can be a deterrent to irresponsible driving habits. But health insurance doesn't really make sense. It boils down to "you bet your life."

Like with fire and police, not giving adequate health care to some people who can't afford it threatens the welfare of all of society. The reason you don't want to refuse to put out a fire because someone didn't pay their fire bill is because the fire can spread and destroy large parts of town, not just the house that originally caught on fire. The same basic principle applies to health issues: Infections can spread.

So, when we kick some people to the curb on this issue, we undermine the health and welfare of all of society.
Ask HN: How to use vouch feature?
I have showdead on, and I see a lot of links that are not necessarily spam, and have somehow been marked dead. Here's an example [1] This link is not really spam, but not something I'm particular interested in. So, I'd vouch for it but I'm not going to vote it up.

Should we be using vouch to say "this is not spam"? Or "I know and trust the submitter"? Or "this is a good link"?

Does vouching for something decrease some internal karma? Should I "save my vouches" for something that is really important?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14471231