skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "That is quite an epic underestimation of the possible consequences, both economically and geopolitically. Are you Theresa May ? :)"

Yeah, I'm Theresa May, ask me anything. ;-)

> "I'm not sure how the fact that business can find opportunity even in times of great adversity (including times of war) supports in any way your argument that Brexit is not bringing about adversity. It is very much a self-inflicted wrench in the spanner that the (thus-far booming) UK economy could have done without."

If the only consideration was the economy I'd agree with you, but there's more at play here than just the economy.

> "It's stating the obvious to say that things stabilise and life goes on "in time" (that is, over 30-50 years cycles).

That absolutely doesn't demonstrate that there won't have have been much unnecessary suffering, from economic downturn to war in the meantime."

Again, the main arguments against the EU were not about the economy. Clearly you're mostly pro-EU, but do you see any flaws with the current EU?
'..insanely smart and careful..'

This common sentiment speaks to the lack of clear understanding we have of the behavior of kernels and the like.

Crypto theory ain't hard. Real-world crypto-implementation is. What IS hard is understanding what is truly happening at the system level at any given time.
Which part of aytekin's message reminds you of the US?

For me, it was the notion of those in villages / rural areas having increasing interest in power, as they feel increasingly abandoned & their values ignored. It reminded me of the US Midwest becoming more interested in politics, leading to Trump's win over Clinton:

“You saw turnout spike in more rural counties,” Alexander said. “If you take a look at a lot of the larger cities you did see depressed turnout there. [1]

Microsoft made a similar observation when announcing their rural high speed wireless internet intiative:

"That message was underscored in last year's presidential election, when rural voters expressed dissatisfaction and anger over being left out of economic and technological growth, Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith said. "It's fair to say the election raised our level of consciousness, as it did for a great many people in the country."" [2]

[1] http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/voter-turnout-2016-elect...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-11/microsoft...
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Well said - people confuse NATO with "values" as II. Bush had a similar rhetoric. It's all about mitigating risks - and geography matters.
But that $3 trillion is all spent. Is it not?
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Anything too large and too diffuse is religion IMO. Technology, growth based capitalism etc .. It's what people holds as an entity to respect by "all" means.
Idk... He admits upfront that the standard critiques have merit, but that recent shifts to hard data are a positive upheaval(thank you, you hackers you).
This looks great - the Slack app is a massive PITA because it's so slow. The only thing stopping me junking Franz for this is that Franz has whatsapp (which you probably can't integrate into Eul anyway because it has to be the web client).
It's also present in other fields. Maybe in most fields. We're kinda looking at the gem of knowledge from our own perspective thinking we found the best one.
What about being forced to hand over passwords?

https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/01/fifth-amendement-passcodes-pa...

The Miami Herald reports that a child abuse suspect was jailed for six months for contempt of court after failing to reveal the correct passcode to his iPhone

Why is he being forced to incriminate himself?

1) the information on the phone will change the charges against him and/or sentence. It would seem that a fifth amendment defence is appropriate, and legal

2) the information on the phone will not change the charges against him and/or sentence. In which case the information isn't needed.

This whole debate for me can be summarized into one idea: Do you want other people to be able to watch everything you do?. If so, all bets are off. If not, the government shouldn't have the right to watch suspects, or to force people to incriminate themselves.
> But that $3 trillion is all spent. Is it not?

And the $1.9 trillion isn't? At the micro level, economies are just transactions. People (e.g. natural persons, companies and governments) buy goods and services with money or credit. Credit creates debt.

"Money" would still exist if we zeroed out debt, e.g. gold-based economies of yore, but that destroys the double-entry ledger system [1] that serves as a a distributed error-correcting mechanism. It also decouples the currency from economic growth, which produces all kinds of nasty side effects.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping_syste...
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Microsoft app ' Office Lens ' is the only app I use for screenshots of documents in Android. I see part of the tech is used in this app to take a screenshot also.

Love it
I would like to think it's impossible. I just have seen crazier things patented before...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click
Suggested recently by Richard Wolff and many others before him: a possible solution out of this economy is worker coops aka democracy at work.

https://youtu.be/ynbgMKclWWc
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Sounds rational
Here's why I don't use Tox, the executable are provided by a bunch of anons and while I could compile the code myself I'm not really bothered, especially because I can't force everybody to do the same. I like my software to have some collateral, usually it's either someone's good name or their company. On the other hand, I can't find anything about you, your records show you live at Pobedi (victory) 112, 84, Moscow. Really?!
I've made $64,000 so far this year working online and I'm a full time student. Im using an online business opportunity I heard about and I've made such great money. It's really user friendly and I'm just so happy that I found out about it. Heres what I do,
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I don't agree with your assertion that humans can't do that. Whether or not human cognition is a superset of computation is an unanswered question.

That aside, even if human cognition is a computable function, there are no guarantees that the physical process giving rise to human cognition is computable, nor that any process giving rise to cognition is computable.
Approaching with math and large amounts of data are actually really great because you can start to account for variability and the flaws of traditional theoretical economics. Hard part now is determining who is twisting analysis for ideological/power reasons vs. staying true to the data/reality.
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Actually I m glad I don't make too many phone calls, (who's using their smartphones for making calls) but this type of "call injection" may annoy similar to Ads-gone-insane recently on the web. That happens because after the Gulen Islamists' coup d'Etat faction killed around 250 civilians and wounded 2500 civilians(mostly ) last year during the coup attempt - the voters for the main party feel too emotional during the anniversary of the event. Ironically AKP voters had sympathy for US based cleric Gulen who calls himself the Imam of the Universe and embedded thousands of his sect members in police, army etc in past 40 years especially accelerating in the past 15 years.

I guess and hope in a couple of years - things will be normalized.
FTA:

(a cop could) ask them to devise a way to retrieve the requested data from that device. Like, say, pushing a signed update to the target handset that will be tied to that device’s UDID (Unique Device Identifier). That way there’s no chance the coppers can intercept that update and re-use it on whomever they want

I'm amazed at the naiveness of this approach. Sure, it looks good on paper: "Cops can't use wiretap for user X against user Y".

But using technical means to prevent illegal behavior by police seems to be entirely the wrong approach. How about instead not giving the police the means to break the law?

Or, why stop with device-specific checks? Why not just force the APP to do a UDID lookup to a police-controlled server, where it can control who gets wiretapped? If the companies don't comply, throw the executive in jail for "contempt of court"! After all, we're out to get the bad guys!

Apple and others are right to fight this nonsense. They should take every possible step to ensure that they themselves can't help the police side-step the law. It not only protects their users, it protects themselves, too.
I tend to believe a diversity of systems is the healthiest state. Coöperative housing, for example, has a mixed history in New York. By removing price as a selection factor, they whitewashed "other* selection criteria, e.g. race [1].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/nyregion/new-bill-seeks-to...
Open sourcing the spam filter will only help spammers. It is unlikely that it would work on an individual server with small amount of traffic.

Instead of trying to make a perfect spam filter we should abandon outdated inreliable mail transfer protocol.
I get paid over $95 per hour working from home with 2 kids at home. I never thought I'd be able to do it but my best friend earns over 10k a month doing this and she convinced me to try. The potential with this is endless. Heres what I've been doing,
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Microsoft builds Skype on React Native. They use React in production on several websites including outlook.com. They are using it internally and not just for external devs.

Also see this HN thread from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12108273
Companies shouldn't be dictating what happens if they're sued; it's a government right just like it's a natural right to accuse someone of theft. People shouldn't be sabotaged of their right to sue based on some arbitrary terms meant to block people from suing, their right to accuse someone of theft.
Not only that... everyone in the street can see your eye, and high quality photo's might provide enough data to leak the key without you knowing. Same goes for stuff like fingerprints, you leave them everywhere you go.

Edit: typo
From what little exposure I had as a student in Biological sciences to the economics department at the University of Chicago, I saw the economics department as an excuse to do lots of sophisticated mathematics and proofs. I never heard people in the economics department talk about collecting data or measuring the flow of money. It was always prove this or solve that. It was the opposite of science and very much like theology -- theory divorced from testable observation

Edit, I need to emphasize the use of the word little
This was covered a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12108273
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If you are logged into chrome, with all google passwords synced, you could use NirSoft Chrome Password Export Utility to get a CSV/TXT file of all data; i.e. URL Username Password. Then import it into your other favourite password manager; backup it any secure way you wish.
>>> A hoodie-wearer at FB or Apple probably out-earns the majority of suit-wearers at Goldman - it is definitely not about money, just about attitude.

Sorry but it's highly unlikely.
I know nothing of modern economics, but couldn't you just model the rationality of individual as a random variable like everything else?
Most of your comments would be vastly improved by omitting the reams of repl output.
Your comment reinforces my cynical opinion of economics.

A friend of mine who is a noted economist with a Ph.D. in statistics, commented to me with something along the lines of:

> The only reliable correlation in economic papers is the probability that an author will be published.

I take her comment to mean that big names from big universities get papers published, but publication is not based on the merits of the paper.

More to the point, she said that the statistics used for almost all mainstream economics is flat-out wrong.
> I predict that in the future, brazil will be invaded to stop logging so that those trees can keep making oxygen.

As a Brazilian I say that this is just plain stupid in 3 different levels:

1) World diplomacy is or should be ruled by the principle of Westphalian Sovereignty: the idea that each nation is free to conduct its internal affairs as it pleases.

2) Brazil is the 5th largest country in the world, one of the 10 largest economies and the 8th biggest population. Who has the resources to spare and fight a war with Brazil?

3) During the 90's the main argument by farmers and loggers for deforesting the Amazon was exactly arguments like yours. Back then this bullshit you say was called "internacionalização da Amazônia" and those parasites argument was: "we need to occupy the Amazon before the gringos do it". So, basically, when you say this bullshit you are supplying arguments to the enemy.

Please, stop this bullshit. It is dangerous. It makes the fight of Brazilian environmentalists even harder.
Many people need to watch this. It reformatted much of my belief system in a disruptive way. That guy is something else.
There is a similar clause in the MIT License, which is even weaker than the BSD License.
Just 3% is cash in the economy; Everything else is debt, debt and damn statistics;
http://www.positivemoney.org/our-proposals/debt-based-money-...
Just to note they are equivalents in other languages including Hiccup's grandfather CL-WHO - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/671572/cl-who-like-html-...
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Unity! Incredibly satisfying for such a minimal learning curve. I'm currently learning WebGL/OpenGL from scratch - which is rewarding, but in the same time it took me to get a few perspectively-rendered triangles on the screen I made a weird "puppy simulator" in Unity (https://unity3d.com/) for my nephew and niece that they spent hours playing with. They had far less interest in my triangles.
Part of the techniques seem to come from 'office lens' app of Microsoft. It takes pictures of documents and positions them
$1.54 trillion is CASH.
$19.96 trillion is DEBT.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12773.htm
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I actually had 3D Construction Kit and Freescape engine in mind when i made this. I've heard of REND386 before, but i had forgotten about it until you mentioned it. I never managed to use it though. I downloaded the code from the site, but it seems to require a version of Borland C++ i do not have. I might try to "port" it to BC5 at some point.

EDIT: i forgot. The 3D Engines List (i suspect you mean [1]) lives in DevMaster's DevDb [2]. DevDb was originally just engines and IIRC its initial data was from another database site "3dengines.net" from around 2004, which itself sourced the 3D Engines List.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20060107015234if_/http://cg.cs.tu...

[2] http://devmaster.net/devdb
> for every pound in your bank account someone else must have a pound of debt

This is called double-entry bookkeeping [1]. Every pound in your bank account is a debt on the bank's balance sheet. If it weren't, you wouldn't have any claim to exercise when you walked into the bank to demand your deposits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping_syste...
Check mahole covers in Japan http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/03/the-beauty-of-japans-a...
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As if nobody was ever able to make a user interface before 2013.
The Idea Factory does note that there were Bell Labs engineers who were chided on the street by strangers for not being overseas.
The argument boils down to this:

1) The economy is a system with some amount of money in it.

2) The money is measured (see; M2 [1]).

3) The amount of money appears to be increasing extremely quickly (exponentially, in fact).

4) The new money is not being expressed in wages. The government doesn't appear to be pushing it into the economy directly because they are taking on debt instead of printing money.

If you accept this frame, then the follow up is that someone is being given a lot of money, and the question is why not change the rules so that the newly created money is given no-strings-attached to the government?

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/RELEASES/h6/Current/default.h...
Yup, same problem here on a XPS 13 with Fedora 26.
I've heard some Turks saying that the people living in Istanbul and western Turkey are basically Greek. Land has changed hands between Turkey and Greece many times and the people there often stayed put.
As for dress shoes being hideously uncomfortable, that's really a matter of fit and quality. For years, I walked several miles per day in NYC in leather-soled dress shoes and they were perfectly comfortable. Now I kinda' regret that I wear a pair of running shoes to my tech job and all my nice dress shoes are gathering dust in my closet.
The last phrase is the key. The economists in the Austrian school explain: Money is simply a proxy for goods and services. It solves the "coincidence of wants" problem. When the Fed and other similar agencies print money unbacked by goods and services, they immediately devalue the currency because now each unit (dollar) represents a smaller amount of goods and services. But when this "infusion" hits the big banks, the effect has not been felt by the full market so the rich and powerful benefit before the devaluation has been felt by the market. And the general public pays for the fraud.
And, just because I'm in a golfing mood:

def gen_stats_tech2(dataset_python):
start = time.time()

totals = defaultdict(lambda: (0, 0, 0.0))

for product_id, order_id, quantity, price in dataset_python:
o_count, o_quant, o_price = totals[product_id]
totals[product_id] = (o_count + 1, o_quant + quantity, o_price + price)

product_stats = [
[product_id, num_orders, total_quantity,
round(total_price / num_orders, 2)]
for product_id, (num_orders, total_quantity, total_price)
in totals.items()
]
end = time.time()
working_time = end - start
return product_stats, working_time

950x improvement. I think the former reads more pleasantly and you're likely to do better with something like pypy though rather than dragging the code through the muck.

Most improvements are from use of some of the builtins like dictionary's .items method rather than making a getitem call per loop, removal of references to globals (int) since the values stored already have an integer value, removing N calls to append and letting the list-comp manage, and removing a store-then-unpack.

Sadly I don't think the top loop can be reduced in a similar manner because it's self-referential. Still, that made for a fun hour or so, I was really hoping to hit 1,000x improvement :/
No, but that is one of the few occasions on which morning suits ([morning] tailcoat and usually pinstriped trousers) still see some use!
Spot on. I guess the backclash to Globalization is still progressing (despite Macron). I listened to most of the GOP candidates running for US presidency during debates on FOX, CNN and other channels. I was surprised how similar they sounded to : especially Trump, Carson, Cruz, somewhat Rubio.
Democracy itself is certainly not the best decision making process, but it tends to avoid some radical pitfalls of oligarchic and tyrannic processes.
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I think it was MIT that did a ti foil hat study and found it actually increased emf inside the head.
> why not change the rules so that the newly created money is given no-strings-attached to the government?

Argentina, Brazil and various countries tried this. TL; DR Politicians like to print money to hand out favors [1]. An independent central bank, governed by and reportable to elected officials at an arm's length, turns out to be a better solution.

Note that flat wages with job growth doesn't comport with your fourth observation. More wages were paid in June than in May [2], and in May than in April [3], et cetera. There were just more people earning them.

(I'm not suggesting stalled wage growth, especially relative to upward-marching productivity, isn't an area of concern. It's just that history shows it's better to address these issues through fiscal, versus monetary, policy.)

[1] https://people.ucsc.edu/~walshc/MyPapers/cbi_newpalgrave.pdf

[2] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-idUSKBN18T0BT

[3] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-idUSKBN1810BZ
At some point in my keyboard-optimizing phase I decided that trying to find the ideal keyboard was the wrong approach. As long as it's a mechanical keyboard, I'm probably happy enough, and really from that point my optimizing was just novelty-seeking. So I kept my final two mechanical keyboards: a Razer one with blue switches, and a Corsair one with red switches. When I get the itch to get a new keyboard, I just switch from one to the other. They're both pretty good keyboards, and I figure that the variety is probably a good thing. I probably switch 2-3x per year.
It's called "early media" and it's something standard, sometimes used to announce that the call will be charged at a premium rate and giving the caller a chance to hand up before the call begins and they get charged.
South Park did an episode about this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7OevEml84BI
Correct and one of the key causes is an understaffed and under trained USPTO staff. Even if you could train them to understand the (constantly changing) state of the art in ML learning, it could take years to truly determine if there was prior art or not.

I still think the way to solve the patent issue for software is that you make it's time limited to 5 years and make them non transferrable. Unlike patents on physical things, it is much easier to make something similiar that just works around a single one of the claims. Another thing we probably need is that any patent dispute that goes to court requires a prior art check and "novel" reassessment and if it is found that the patent was never novel or prior art existed, then the patent is thrown out. This could be done as part of the USPTO office instead of the courts as a precursor to actual trial.
How does it compare to Groonga?