skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue with traveling to China is not the border crossing. Its the many places you can be compromised after you've crossed the border (your hotel, the internet cafe, etc).

While working for a couple of different financial institutions they had blanket "hand in your electronic devices" both before you went to China (to ensure you didn't take them) and after you returned (to ensure you didn't attempt to continue using the device they gave you for your trip). This had nothing to do with political dissidents or customs inspections and everything to do with the assumption that anything on a device in China was compromised for financial reasons.

Its possible that the US/UK have been put in the same bucket by these organizations, and maybe with cause, but the threat model is completely different between the 2 places and comparing border crossing experiences doesn't invalidate that.
> once he was stuck in the embassy, he left himself vulnerable to being manipulated by the Russians

Err, how? Does Ecuador have good relations with Russia or something?
I don't think that's similar at all. When you tell someone something secret, it's still a secret, until you tell them it's no longer a secret. When you start exporting something for the general public, it's generally known.
I was replying to the above comment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation for the source of the number of employees. Your comment is more useless than mine since it does not provide any information and just a bland opinion out of nowhere.
"PyTorch is better for research" is a weird, unsubstantiated statement. The fact is that few serious researchers use PyTorch (and even those complain about it). It's mostly grad students in a handful of labs. The only researchers I know who use PyTorch have been from FaceBook, and that's because they were implicitly forced to use it (PyTorch is developed by FaceBook).

According to https://medium.com/@karpathy/icml-accepted-papers-institutio... , 3 of the top research labs in the world are DeepMind, Google Brain (and the rest of Google), and Microsoft Research. Let's see:

* DeepMind: TensorFlow

* Google Brain: TensorFlow

* Microsoft Research: CNTK

Ok, so what about academia? The top deep learning groups in academia are:

* Montreal: Theano

* Toronto: TensorFlow

* IDSIA: TensorFlow

So, what about the greater academic research community? Maybe we could get some data about who uses what by looking at the frameworks cited by researchers in their papers. Andrej did that: it's mainly TensorFlow and Caffe. https://medium.com/@karpathy/a-peek-at-trends-in-machine-lea...
You are making factual claims without providing evidence. It might be true that advancements in healthcare wouldn't be st the level it is today without the U.S. but to ascertain that their healthcare wouldn't exist without the U.S. is clearly incorrect.

Even supposing all pharmaceutical innovation comes from the U.S. still does not show that without the U.S. there would be none. Clearly there is a market for drugs and the U.S. is not the only country with research capabilities.

Taxes are not that much higher elsewhere. People are not being taxed to death elsewhere.
Plus, it's pretty similar to registering r/username, which is something that a lot of these "power users" already do.

My biggest complaint (and something I worry about when they talk about redesigning/reimplementing the site) is that the page just isn't all that great.

It's slow to load (where the old overview page was pretty much instantaneous), lacks features (though two more clicks will get you back to the superior overview page), and at least to my eyes, it's even uglier than normal reddit (though admittedly this is mostly subjective).

If this is what happens when they roll out new features, I worry that the rest of the site will wind up like it once they do their redesign.
Why is trying to colonize Mars not productive? How do you define productivity?
Whom they call — it terrifies me that even supposedly high-brow publications such as New Scientist are stooping to such grammatically incorrect lows.
So is /r/nyc :( all trump all the time
Lazare, you said it:

"The typical ICO very obviously meets all 4 elements, inasmuch as it involves a company raising money via an ICO..."

Do we really know what a "typical ICO" is at this stage? And as fast as the sector is changing, how do we know what will be typical by the time new legislation is

(a) passed and
(b) enforced?

Many (typical?) ICOs are not companies, registered as foundations to support free, open source software with crystal-clear terms of the token distribution:

Which explicitly state that it is not an investment and that it is likely that participants will lose all of their money.

This is just one exceptional example, and many more will follow.

Forward-thinking jurisdictions such as Switzerland which understand and actively support ICOs are quickly developing a strong competitive advantage against the more regressive ones.
>Is there no way to say "You buy [non-voting shares]"

Yes, you can have multiple classes of shares[1], but the tradeoff is it makes the shares less desirable for investors. This means the pricing of shares will be lower (or possibly unsaleable) and you won't raise as much capital as you intended. If you have a company considering an IPO, your investment banker (e.g. Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, etc) will advise if the marketplace is willing to buy your non-voting shares.

Facebook is an interesting example of having 3 classes of shares:

Class A - 1 vote per share
Class B - 10 votes per share (MZ holds these)
Class C - 0 votes

Facebook did not issue Class C when they went public in 2012. The non-voting shares were created in 2016.[2] Snap Inc on the other hand, issued non-voting shares right at the IPO.

When you're a glamorous high-flying tech company, it's easier to entice investors with the less-desirable non-voting shares. Could Whole Foods have issued non-voting shares at IPO in 1992? They would have had to have agreement from their investment bank to underwrite them and market interest from the first wave of investors to buy them. You can't always have your cake (significant capital funding) and eat it too (outside investors get 0 votes).

[1]
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/fundamental/04/092204.a...

[2] http://www.nasdaq.com/g00/article/facebook-shareholders-appr...
> eventually, history suggests, there will be some doomsday event

... along the timescale of millions of years. Dinosaurs lived for over 100 million years. What a load of rubbish.
With regards to your example (1), your commands is not a TTY, thus the null check is never performed.
War zones are not free markets - just because your existence is constantly under threat. This is a silly argument.
Very informative read please keep up the good work.
Biggest annoucement to me : drop of 32 bits support. Thousands of apps will just stop working.
Unhappy to say I had almost the same reaction. I was sad when they did the same with the debugger - suddenly searching through files was unusably slow.
> Reddit wont be around in 4 years.

Why not? It was around 4 years ago, and seems to be more or less as healthy today as it was then.
Which team was yours? I've been following the solar races quite intently, some of the work is amazing.
It's not a minor inconvenience to your commute when you can't get a train or a bus at all to go to work, several times a month. It makes you need to purchase a car and all the trouble that goes with it.
It doesn't do plating for vias so it's less of a two layer board and more of two 1 layer boards sharing a piece of FR4.
You could simply write a wrapper that reads an options file.

In general, it's a bad idea to have a hidden state such as a configuration file. Imagine, for examples, scripts that expect the standard curl behaviour, but your configuration file changes that.

(Of course setting shell aliases has the same problem...)
I have heard this argument and I don't think it's valid. We are stuck in a broken system where researchers are pressured to publish in closed-access venues. It's hard to act against this at the publication level, because you may need to publish in such venues (for career reasons), and (more importantly, at least for me) you often co-author papers with other people who may not share your dislike of closed access.

By contrast, acting at the review level is your own choice, it carries little penalty, and it is just as effective (closed-access journals would not be sustainable if no one reviewed for them). I don't think it's hypocritical to admit that you publish in closed-access journals because of career pressure or coauthor pressure, but you would prefer if such journals didn't exist so you act against them at the review level.

This looks like it violates the golden rule, but in fact it does not: if everything followed this policy, closed-access journals would disappear. :)
I'm genuinely curious, what do you see as the benefit over just writing plain HTML with inline JS?
Looks like all the heavy lifting is done by the yarn server. You can see the new interface in action at the 3:00 mark in the video on this page: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/06/hacking-on-the-network-mon...
Fellowship for Intentional Community
seriously? German? you mean the 1918/19 revolution that eventually helped to cause WWII? surely Hitler benefited a lot from the German Revolution of 1918/19!

You tell me how Nazi could possibly raise to the very top without the help of that very beneficial revolution? maybe time to read more history books and come back with better trolling skills?
Rheumatoid Arthritis: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Artist uses a computer model of his face to get a French National ID
The plan Elon has set out is for the transportation to mars- and its very impressive. He hasn't made any attempt at a colonization plan, but at least we've got an idea how the transportation might work. Colonization would be a much much harder problem. Every person you send to mars needs food, water, air, heat, and shelter from day one. If they're going to maintain their own habitat then you're talking about mining equipment, metal foundries, glass making, rubber for gaskets, fertilizer, etc etc etc. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that it might take a significant portion of the world GDP to get that set up for a million colonists- a million dollars per colonist seems very low and that's a trillion dollars altogether.
That's funny! One day I'll have other original thought... one day. But not today apparently.
My guess is that at 1:33 the car makes the turn a bit too wide and brakes because of the oncoming cars that come just a bit too close for comfort.
Can We Predict the Price of Cryptocurrencies?
The Russian deal has a fairly good explanation. Clinton made some very direct threats and attacks towards Assange in media after the diplomatic leaks, resulting in a personal vendetta between the two. All that talk about treating him as an enemy combatant, drone attacks, assassinations and so on has made it personal. In that context, if Russia gave him political ammunition then I am not very surprised that he used it.

He is no more a neutral party when talking about Clinton than Clinton would be talking about Assange. Any data brought by one party against the other need to be read in that context.
This is scary. Or rather pointing to a scary future. Does it mean I won't be able to play with my future GF fake boobs because they are only allowed into the iClinic network participants?
Can’t Disrupt This: Elsevier and the 25bn Dollar a Year Publishing Business(2015)
Or savescumming ;)
Why the vitriol? Forums are as close to being "cult-like" as it gets. They are effectively a subreddit in the form of a website.

As to the claim of reddit dying within four years, lol! I'll take that bet.
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Systematically refusing to do reviews really doesn't help your changes of getting your own papers (and those of your grad students) accepted in the future. Editors have a lot of freedom in deciding what's on topic for their journal.
Machines are used to get there, anyway. The difference is negligible. My glasses, my car, my dishwashing machine are my property ... unless breaking down or breaking something else. But it's not my smartphone anymore, so you do have a point coming from an unintended direction.
THE TICK THAT GIVES PEOPLE MEAT ALLERGIES IS SPREADING
I never stated it was for exile.

but you are right, article 2 talks about him being in Russia some time in early 2014. It also states that one of the reasons to be there was for selling a datacenter. He left shortly after that with the comment that he had no intentions to return to Russia arguing that the country is incompatible with doing internet business.

> Я уехал из России и не собираюсь возвращаться. К сожалению, в данный момент страна не совместима с ведением бизнеса в интернете

As for the office being in the same building as VK's - that is definitely weird. Even though I know that they also have offices in Berlin and London. Same goes for the fact that they also have multiple datacenters around the world for speed and security. There probably is also going to be a DC in Russia. I don't feel like my data is unsafe due to that.

And where did he lie about the location of developers or servers? I'd be very interested in seeing that. With that you could convince me that something fishy is going on.
How Apple is squeezing more photos into your iPhone
DeepMind Develops a Neural Network That Can Make Sense of Objects Around It
Here comes PragueCrunch V
I work for AWS but no relation to the go store, opinions are my own: but I'd argue it's non trivial to build this system. I don't think you could automate an entire store without a few million in funding and a couple of people. It's not a solo project and it's not a cheap one. Like self driving you can get to 95% really fast with relatively little effort. To go from 95% to 99.99%? That's where you spend your 3 years.
"...unlike traditional fiat currencies, cryptocurrency is technology — and thus, price depends on innovation potential... improving the underlying software of a cryptocurrency leads to predictable increases in its price."
You're totally right, if a page is merely serving static content with hyperlinks between the pages. For many types of pages, however, that's not the goal, and using JavaScript makes sense. Think of an interactive data visualization, where nearly the entirety of the content depends on dynamic user input controlling aspects like filtering and highlighting.

There are many cases where developers use JavaScript when plain CSS and HTML would do, but there are also many pages that simply do not fit that simple model. And between those two extremes is a large space of application with a mixture of static content and interactivity. Don't focus on a single usecase and ignore the rest.
Kotlin: It’s the little things
FYI --

Jean-Philippe Vergne will present his research in a presentation with the same title at the 4-year anniversary of the Bitcoin Wednesday Conference in Amsterdam on 5 July.

See:

https://www.bitcoinwednesday.com/speakers/jean-philippe-verg...
I'm heavily involved in one of the AUVSI's autonomous vehicle competitions where recruiters from SpaceX etc show up frequently. I'm a senior now and my grades have suffered as well. I wouldn't say it was purely because of the competition - but I've a similar experience to yours where recruiters love stories from the competition and about how we managed to achieve our goals. I've learnt a LOT of stuff that I wouldn't have managed to in class.

Similar to you, if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing.
> you do not want to subject a growing human body to gravity even slightly different from earth surface

> spending a week in Death Valley will look like an incredibly attractive prospect for them, but even dying of exposure [to germs, I suppose] there will be utterly out of reach.
> Maybe he's been a sexist asshole at times. The flesh is weak, no doubt. But I don't get how that can be a criticism of Wikileaks.

That's the halo effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect

Any quality, good or bad, will affect the perception of other qualities. If people come to believe Assange is a sexist asshole, they will trust Wikileaks less, even if the two have little to do with each other.

Another example would be Hans Reiser. Does killing one's wife makes one a worse programmer? Probably not. Still, I bet many people would be reluctant to trust him on file systems stuff, because, well, he killed his wife!
> As a side-effect, an unconventional use of symbols is usually quite grating to the experienced mathematician.

There's a great spoof paper that demonstrates this by giving each variable the next available letter of the alphabet. Something like "Let a be a set of points in the plane. Let b, c and d be elements of a. Let e be the angle formed by..."

It becomes unreadable very quickly. Sadly I can't find the original now - anyone know what I'm talking about?
I was also perplexed as to why Amazon would buy WF.

The only rationale that I can think of is that Amazon wants to run experiments in having physical stores in upscale areas, use AI for running the logistics of grocery stores, and perhaps as a test ground for in-store robotics.

This seems like a long term play.
> People have been doing it for millenia. We just build a bigger / better / faster / cooler thing than what we have right now! See? It's easy!

You've just described the entire technological progress of humanity. People dreaming about solving engineering problems... and then solving them.
Machines now dominate stock trading and it's having unexpected consequences
I'm not certain (and not a lawyer either) but I think if you sell to an American you are bound to US laws.
I think it comes down to it saying, "must be able to work on the fly." Wanting a promotion means putting yourself face first in front of management. Take a trip every so often to HQ.
Ask HN: Good resources for starting?
After years of mulling, I've decided to take a more active effort to start a side business. The goal is fairly small, something that can generate around $1400 a month to pay for insurance. Before I do that, though, I need to change some beliefs of mine, one of which is that I have nothing to share or good idea. I'm looking for people's best resources on how to start. Stories about people who have successfully launched a side business. Something that can help to change my beliefs as well as give some good ideas on how to start making something people will pay for.
Actually, there's a better method for embedding in an element: Just put the <script> wherever you want, but include an `id` in the configuration object that matches a <div> in your page.
Very interesting.

I like how this seems to let application logic live as close to the UI as makes sense. That is, there's no barrier, intermediary or anything else that might drive them apart.

Of course, applications have a higher-level structure that isn't just an artifact of the framework, and I'm curious how this system would work out in real life once you start grouping/composing cells and having them communicate to implement that structure. Each cell has a pretty uniform "surface" -- that is, the properties it has and what they mean, so it should be possible to "snap" them together easily and in any configuration. I wonder if it's too flexible, in a sense, meaning you would need to be careful to use higher-level patterns to organize your cells so that your app doesn't become a messy blob of cells.

These are just thoughts after a static reading of it. I'd like to play with it and see if I can get a better feel for it.

One thing I don't like is expressing HTML in JavaScript objects. Seems like we ought to express HTML in HTML! I wonder if "cellHtml" might be a better approach to this than cellJs -- that is, where a cell is expressed in HTML (would still have init and update JavaScript functions, though) I don't know if that's workable, though.
a typical day in Guangzhou:
http://s1.sinaimg.cn/mw690/001qhtxNgy6O9rzBib6e0&690
Another criticism: https://prestonbyrne.com/2016/08/12/against-crowdsales/

As for DeRose, if he isn't actually an asshat, he's certainly doing a flawless impersonation of one. But many of his points are correct nonetheless. Though do note that as a Bitcoin maximalist he would be making very similar arguments even if he were wrong ;)
should have used `-O - ` so the options is consistent with wget
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Which, by any standard, is a good thing unless you're an elitist, gatekeeping prick.
I wonder how many SMART PEOPLE(tm) would hate assange if he hadnt published the podesta emails.
This doesn't change anything I said beyond the first sentence. They described what should happen under a "democracy" and since our democratic system is unarguably a republic, things don't work that way.

Sorry I hit some strange political nerve. I remember the internet being full of the "ugh, were not a democracy" posts too, but I also swore some oath to the republic every day for a decade.
Scientists Deliver Formal Proof of Famous Kepler Conjecture
Glad I'm not the only one. I wonder if someone thought that would be a catchy title for this reason.
Deadspace the fight begins
> What about the Cultural Revolution which put the ruling party itself in power?

First of all, the Cultural Revolution didn't put the ruling party in power, and second of all the CCP (and China) of today is very different from the CCP (and China) at the time of the Cultural Revolution.
Every day, I lament that HTML and JS don't have an S-Expression syntax.
The CEO Steve Huffman recently admitted to editing his political opponent's posts. Maybe they can't get anything done because they're redditing all day.
The problem still stands. You can't really rely on it to convince someone wrongly.
The human visual cortex is far more powerful than the computers we can put in cars.
What are some of the sites for Japanese books?
When I did my master's, I explicitly chose 2-clause BSD as the license for all the code I had produced as part of the thesis. My thesis project was done with, and paid for, by the university I attended. Since my work was being funded with public money, I felt it only fair to release everything with a liberal license.

The review board expressly noted two things that were out of the norm with my thesis. One: I chose to include source code with my thesis. Every copy came with a CD-ROM. (I even made sure to upload the same archive to the digital library so access to print copies was not required.)

And two: the review board made a point of mentioning that I released the sources for my thesis project with a very liberal license. What I had considered only fair, the board considered out of the ordinary.

Footnote - I didn't include just the sources. I included the entire .svn/ hierarchy to provide complete editing history.

Footnote 2 - I picked up git in 2007. Thesis was done in 2006.
How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world (2015)
Scientist Didn’t Disclose Data–and Let Everyone Believe Glyphosate Causes Cancer
Had to alter the original title a little bit to fit into 80 characters
Yes, I agree. In the UK they had a bad reputation at first for being low end. Now a lot of the middle classes shop at the stores, the parking lot is often full of Audi's and other high end cars.

The quality of the food in general is very good, often better than the competitors, plus it's cheaper.

Keep in mind Aldi/Lidl have went from 0% marketshare in the UK to >12% in about 20 years - very impressive growth.
Another thing-- radiation shielding, once installed, has little to no continuing maintenance cost on Mars. Space borne shielding constantly requires additional fuel just to move around.
What was the market value of the painting? I fail to find any result corresponding with the comment.
“1M Syrian customers, do you think they will ever forget Western Union?”