skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Kat Manalac – Does YC fund and work with later stage companies? Do you want me to kick that over to you?

Anu Hariharan – So yes, yes we do. So the YC continuity fund that was launched two years ago, our primary goal is to really help support the companies in the growth state. So we do invest in companies in the later stage."

She managed to start every sentence with the word 'so'. Very impressive :)
Turkey has arrested Amnesty International’s local director
The industry we do I think we are well suited to appreciating the devotion you can give to a craft or knowing something well.

It's pretty inspiring and also shocking how someone could be so devoted to something for so long and how little it gave him other than what he intrinsically got from it.

We should be thankful that we live in a perfect time for those of us who want to devote ourselves to engineering and computer science can also reap rewards which let us have the freedom to live the lives we want. Just because what we do is useful or hard doesn't mean it needs to be financially fulfilling.
A collection of things that should have been written in a proper language ;-)
I feel the same way you do about how the article explained the concepts. I found what seems like a fuller explanation of a conceptualization of Kairos here [1] - even if it may not be the most transparent:

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01253421
The style I'm talking about, code isn't typed directly into the REPL/interpreter!!

You work in your real text editor and it has a connection to a persistent session of the language runtime, over which you can send fragments, lines or whole files into. And receive data back if you wish. You can refine or replace as little or as much of the program as you want, while it is running.

Say there's a power cut and your computer turns off. No big deal because you were working in your real text editor and saving source files to disk (but not necessarily sending all of their content into the session).

It's not trivial or a novelty. I get that a traditional line-at-a-time interpreter inside a terminal à la /usr/bin/python isn't super compelling. That's not what I'm talking about.

(I am also a happy user of Go FWIW. It's the C style of programming in a super-refined form (not surprising considering who 2 of its creators are!))
Suggest reading up on Andy Grove > https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2015/11...
That isn't strictly true. You do not need to do garbage collection to compact memory. The data needed to do memory compaction and garbage collection largely overlaps, so you may as well do both, but you don't have to. To implement either you need to do a scan of all pointers in memory - for a garbage collection you save a currently in use list, for compaction you need to a map of where they are so you can change them latter. What you do with that data is different, but only the first step is the same. (though garbage collection can feed the empty places into the compactor which makes that work easier)

I've actually been thinking about how to do compaction in C++. The reason you cannot do it in general is code like "socket.send(new object, sizeof(void*)". The remote is then expected to send back that pointer which you cast to object and reference. Evil code for sure with a lot of failure cases that result in leaks or security holes, but possible.
More stupid lawyers. Yay!
It seems you have a lot of faith in AI, but don't seem to really grasp what AI is/does/can do.

In your link, you neglected the part where NASA first had to learn what rocks made good samples before they could "teach" their AI to look for similarly interesting samples.

In this case, you have a lot of data strewn about many different mediums (some now obsolete). Yes there's images, but what would the AI look for? In the other data collected, what would it analyze... what would be the goal for it to achieve? This is why we still have human scientists... and yes, AI can help, but it cannot replace.

As another HN'er said, we're a long way away from "AI, discover new science!".
Weird website with cool music to cure your boredom
Domino – Typesafe DynamoDB DSL for Go
Amazon monopoly game will take forever to play out
Why the spectre of a hard Brexit has European airlines so worried
It workds pretty well, except for the download functionality.
uBeam - the longest running joke of Silicon Valley.
CentroUI – A UI Component Library for React VR
Rails had encrypted cookies for ages
With all we now know about the heritability of intelligence and dysgenics, we're kind of going backwards on that front.

(If you're not up to speed, Gwern's been maintaining a good bibliography: https://www.gwern.net/Mistakes#dysgenics)
Wow this is really cool! So how do you get the promo codes at all? Do you buy those through an API?

Are you considered Apple will shut you down somehow?
Team effort :)
Any advice for someone like me who has never taken Latin but would like to learn?
Here's a discussion on reddit. There's a link to the proposal on github, too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/redis/comments/4mmrgr/stream_data_s...
1. Why you bought it is irrelevant to the question of what their incentives are.

2. That people are willing to effectively pay in advance for a future release without any guarantees what they will get for it is irrelevant to the question of whether you have the lever to shut off that cash flow if they continue to not deliver any updates of value to you, while still using the existing version.

In other words: You are simply missing the point.
Any relation to https://github.com/QuiltProject ?
Having been in the real world before cell phones displaced me, I know USPS can be blind to this. The congressional mandate seems to be strong; years and years the demise and privitization has been predicted.

A Trump action could make change occur, but Russia and his ego may never get it on the radar.

When I say there is absolutely 0 organizational memory/ability to think like a for profit organization, that would be an understatement. Or they are quite bad about comminicating such. To find ways to use the investments is logical. To inspire an organization to care about customer service is difficult.

I suggested that the latest budget include a line "deliveries will be made by a human" or some such language; to get it in now so it becomes legacy like 6 day delivery. But nobody even thinks about disruption. Kind of sad, actually.

If driverless cars really do become commonplace, the privitization of now-public roads, IMO, would come quickly. That may be the straw that breaks the Postal back.

As far as pensions, only the old timers have one. Most, like me, have the federal Thrift savings....
> Yes, I'd say solar was still more dangerous if it resulted in more deaths per kWh.

That's a statistic that inherently favors nuclear because:

- It focuses death vs. injury.

- It doesn't normalize for states with tough regulation of falls. Is it reasonable to attribute shoddy labor practices with an energy source? Injuries will be lower in states like New York because employers have 100% liability for falls, and insurance carriers require safety measures.

- It compares installation of solar panels to operational run state for nuclear.

- There are no reliable statistics re: deaths and injuries for construction or operational workers building nuclear plants 40-50 years ago.

An apples to apples comparison that was meaningful would be "Build / Installation Injuries per kWh of Rated Capacity". For operational comparison something like "Injuries per kWh of Generated Capacity".

It's actually a hard comparison that requires some judgement, as operationally a large professionally managed system like a nuclear plant is a low risk, high impact profile for injury and death. Distributed, unmanaged solar generation is likely going to generate more incidents (accidents, transformer fires, etc) but have a lower (and scoped) impact.
And at least for some old tapes, copying them is a read-once process. You can use an old drive that has been modified to not backtrack and retry on error. It doesn't help, and makes everything else worse. You run the tape straight through, non-stop, and get three things: some bits of data (if you're lucky), a rewound plastic backing, and a small pile of iron-rich dust.
Education might help but it won't solve the problem. As a thought experiment, what if the government let everyone pursue phds for free, would we still have poor people? Of course! The way to fix this problem is through direct redistribution. Trade and globalization are not pareto efficient, they are kaldor-hicks efficient. And while we have been sending jobs overseas to the benefit of the upper class, we've also been lowering their tax rates, essentially benefitting the rich at the expense of the poor on both sides of the equation. High, progressive tax rates and strong social safety nets can get us out of this mess, everything else is a diversion.
Ports are the conventional option for long-running native code, but I don't really know the performance implications.
No idea what these tests entail, but to me below paragraph is pretty normal:

Last year, just 62 percent of first-time test takers passed the California bar exam.
Pyxsee
Seems to work pretty well. I like this approach over things like GWT. Though creating a syntax error caused a bad exception:

public class JavaFiddle
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
x = 0;
}
}

Results in

An exception has occurred in the compiler (1.8.0_131).
Please file a bug against the Java compiler via the Java bug reporting page (http://bugreport.java.com) after checking the Bug Database (http://bugs.java.com) for duplicates. Include your program and the following diagnostic in your report. Thank you.
java.lang.NullPointerException
This will hopefully create a more inexpensive option for lawyers that just need to file paperwork and look over documents, etc. It may make fighting patents cheaper.
Well they framed it as being better. I don't necessarily disagree on that part, but from a time investment pov.. doesn't sound better at all.
Pyxsee – All Social Media in One
In the very short term, maybe it helps prevent the mass unemployment of new grads, but it doesn't change the structural situation -- over the course of this century, possibly in the first half of this century, machines are likely to surpass even the best-educated humans.
It is certainly still possible to get loans on collateral. If you have equity in a home then most banks will give you a loan using the home as equity and they don't much care how you intend to use the money. This is what a HELOC is (Home Equity Line of Credit).

The bank gives you a loan that is somewhere less than the amount of equity you have in the home for you to spend as you please. If you don't pay it off they take the house. I know several people who have started their own businesses later in life and used this time of lending to finance their own startup capital.

I'm not surprised that the bank would do this for a car loan for your dad, but I am a bit surprised that it was even needed. Typically when purchasing a vehicle on loan the vehicle you are purchasing serves as it's own collateral.
>We couldn't believe that this was the best deal obtainable for venture funding of the company, and we were inclined to ask around to see if this was reasonable. But, our Distinguished Financial Advisor informed us that this would constitute ``shopping the deal'' when ``a deal was on the table'' which was right out by the genteel standards of the venture community, and that he could not countenance such unrefined behaviour (notwithstanding the fact that in the real world this kind of collusion is called ``conspiracy in restraint of trade'' and people go to jail for it).

Fun read!
Yes and yes. Do you use frictionless data packages? If so, what do you like and not like? We've looked at their specs and have thought about ways we could integrate. We'd love to hear your suggestions.
It really feels as if the marketing side had more pull in the design than engineering. I wonder if they had a bunch of mock ups of what it could look like and simply picked what they thought was the best minimalist design and then passed if off to the people who had to make it work.

i never understood what I was supposed to get from one of these over traditional methods or even regular juice. Oh I get the concept of just now squeezed but part of these sales rely on being competitive in pricing and it never felt that they were even trying
Yes, jobs have changed throughout history. People have to learn new skills or get trained in new fields. There is no other way. Hopefully this time it can mean better work for more people again but that is yet to be seen.
Can you even avoid data loss with partitions in a AP system like RabbitMQ?
> Not mentioned in the article: China. China now has an official policy of autarky.

Which is also the official policy of the US. No major nation wants to have dependencies on external sources.

> Google, Facebook, Skype - all blocked in China. Microsoft Windows past XP is often a special version for China for which the Chinese government has the source code.[2]

What shocks me is why other nations don't do this too. I am so astounded that europe hasn't developed their own google/facebook/etc via protectionism. They've conceded so much wealth by simply allowing our tech companies to take over european markets. The same goes for india.

With all due respect, facebook and even google as not hard to replicate. The concepts are simple. A handful of CS students could build one up within a few weeks. Instead, europeans have pretty much cede their markets to the US and instead of their CS students creating facebook/google/etc, they work for facebook/google/etc.

We are talking about web companies, not aerospace or automobile companies that require tons of upfront investment.
You can generate promo codes on iTunes Connect. They're fairly limited: you can only get 100 promo codes per app version, and you're not allowed to use them for commercial purposes.

As long as you're not selling these cards, I don't think Apple would have a problem with them.
I agree.

I think there is a scene in Wrinkle where Meg uses the fact that atoms are mostly empty space to pass through a solid wall. However, this is really more of a classical view of atomic structure (atoms as hollow balls), rather than QM.
Understanding Poetry Is More Straightforward Than You Think
Datto, Inc. - First CT unicorn, started in a basement and made it very far before taking VC money: http://www.courant.com/business/hc-datto-startuprecovered-mo...
Why would drm be harder with a roller? If it's in the housing most people aren't going to open it and override even a simple drm mechanism
California's bar exam is notoriously difficult to pass compared to other states. Whether that nets fewer stupid lawyers here than other states, maybe so, but I know of a few very intelligent people who did not pass the CA exam.
But if you're just browsing past the ad, do you need reminding of how many discriminatory slimeballs there are out there?

I don't like the mentality that leads to this kind of confused legal situation. But if I squint sideways and pretend that I don't have a brain, I can kinda see how someone could have thought this a good idea.
> China now has an official policy of autarky

That seems to be untrue on the face of it.

China was the closest to autarky in the 60s, when it only traded with other Communist-aligned nations, and trade was <5% of GDP. Here's a picture of how it's changed [1].

Although the chart does show that share declining in past years, there's no way China will isolate itself from the world like it did 50 (or 300) years ago.

[1] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.TRD.GNFS.ZS?locations...
Ask HN: How do you protect your stock against a 20+% drop?
There is 401k, IRA, passive investing, low-cost indexing and all that and the main thing is to be in for the long term. But still working in a big tech company generally ends up giving you RSUs and ESPPs that after a few years you have a single stock that is a good percentage of your portfolio.

Well, if we have auto-insurance for a car worth ~$20K, then why not something for a single stock portfolio worth in the $50K+, $100K+ or more?

One option is to do some portfolio insurance. Plan a strategy with Options (protective put, maybe a collar) and consider the risk-reward and the upfront cost that will go "waste" and also consider how long it has to be in place.

I am building a tool to automatically calculate the above said risk-reward ratios for various stocks for various prices, time periods. Would this be something that you could use?

EDIT: Clarified with a edit in the title. Instead of "market drop", it is "drop in your stock".
The U.S. economy is about 65% driven by domestic consumer spending. That's huge and doesn't even include domestic commercial spending. In total, it represents a pretty self-sufficient economy. Not to mention the benefits of having oil largely denominated in dollars for so long,

It makes me earnestly wonder how the U.S. would have fared had we taken a protectionist stance like China (or even moreso). I get that cheap labor/manufacturing makes stuff cheaper for us, but of course it also creates downward pressure on domestic wages.

I also get that trade opens new markets for our corporations, but we do run pretty massive trade deficits with our larger partners, meaning that, on-balance, this benefit is oversold.

With higher wages and near full domestic employment, corporate profit margins would have likely been lower, though real-income may have been higher due to steady demand from high income consumers.

Anyway, just a thought exercise. Seems hard to go back from here, but I do wonder what the net result would have been.
Interactive documentary on how viruses fold
Ditto. I totally wasted the years I had to sit in a Latin classroom...

I've bought a book of Latin stories that we used in school, and I'm looking forward to diving back in. If my 13-year-old self knew that, he'd be horrified.
I this is quite similar to Rails; by default Rails includes webbrick or puma.
In Erlang you usually run one "node" per machine, though you can call between them with transparent RPC.

This library uses one "process" per neuron for concurrency. Processes are extremely lightweight and entirely unrelated to system processes or threads.
A corporation is also paperwork, which also does not have interests. Only people have interests. Shareholders have interests, but they're usually not privy to the actual inner workings of a business. I mean, even ultra-libertarian finance recognizes this, under the name "principal-agent problem."

Banks don't give away money when lending; the situation is a lot subtler than that. First, consider that, when you deposit money in your bank account, you're loaning the money to the bank. From the bank's perspective, you've given them cash, which is an asset, and they've given you the right to demand the cash back, which is a liability. This being a loan, they pay you a small amount of interest. Second, consider that you can create liabilities on yourself ex nihilo just by writing "I owe you $5" on a piece of paper and signing it, which creates an asset for the person you give the IOU to. Third, consider that, if you're incredibly trustworthy, these assets that you created are marketable---and if you've got the backing of the Federal Reserve and the FDIC, then those assets will trade at par.

With all this in mind, it should now be clear that, when a bank creates a loan, it creates the assets for the loan by creating corresponding liabilities on itself, which is, new deposit account balances. That is, the bank creates "bank money" (deposits) ex nihilo when issuing a loan. The borrower creates a corresponding asset/liability pair, in the form of the loan itself (i.e., similarly to a bond), which is an asset of the bank.

In this situation, losses only occur if the loan goes into default and gets written off the bank's balance sheet. As long as the loan is in good standing, the created deposits (liability) are in balance with the created debt instrument (asset). On the other hand, the loan being paid off reduces deposits (reduction of liabilities), of which the principal component is used to write down the loan (reduction of assets) while the interest component is profit (increase in capital). There are more layers to this (what if the deposits are cashed out, or transferred to another bank?), and answers to those questions concern the actual role of the Fed, but suffice it to say, those questions don't refute this discussion.

So this is why a bank executive would do this. As long as the loan remains in good standing, it generates profits. Once the loan defaults, those profits are wiped out by the write-down of the remaining debt (reduction in assets), and while the bank can foreclose (take over the house, which increases assets), that usually isn't to the bank's favor. But that window, where profits go up and before the losses are realized, is a gold mine for corrupt executives.

This game was played before, which was called the Savings and Loan Crisis. The thing that changed was deregulation: the S&L debacle got people sent to prison, while the latest resurgence of liar's loans came in an era of notoriously ineffective banking oversight.
I tried making PNGs before from bytes but got stuck on CRC generation - the math just seemed way over my head.

Is there a simple way to explain CRC for someone with just a high school mathematics background?
If you buy a product, like Windows 10, you pay X and get the product, with whatever it contains. You can return that and get your money back.

If you buy a service, or a customized product, then you pay for the time and effort it takes to build / customize that product. Returning that time and effort would be difficult :)
I do wish the article mentioned if passing rates were dropping till now or they've been the same and this is the breaking point. A specific school's plunge in recent years does make me think this is not entirely good, but doesn't represent the state as a whole.
So use 100,000 rounds, use 1 million rounds, whatever amount makes you happy. You guys can't even break 2 rounds.

I actually do use PKBDF2 / Bcrypt in real world projects. My original comment was entirely about MD5 not really being broken, just too fast.

> because users in the real world don't.

No, you missed the point, and I wrote about it specifically. You should not allow weak / common / short passwords.
Smart! Enjoy it so much!
CA is significantly lower re % people who pass than other states

http://www.ncbex.org/pdfviewer/?file=%2Fdmsdocument%2F205
The risk is substantial. Drafting standards are not equivalent across languages, and the translators are not legal translators.

Legal vocabulary contains words that are terms of art which are then bastardized and changed in usage when used in lay discussion, leading to differential meanings.

Let's not even raise the issue of the language having dramatically different meanings and legal effects across jurisdictional lines even if the wording of the text is unchanged. Or the fact that best practices in drafting specific clauses might be changed in a few weeks following the release of new jurisprudence.
Top UK college to replace busts of founding fathers with ethnic minorities
Labor omnia vincit!
By no surprising coincidence, you've written nearly an exact quote from a VC in the alternative universe mentioned in my first paragraph. After the engineer was turned down, another VC happens to say to him:

>[To the engineer from 2117:] While I definitely have my issues with David Rose, I am floored that you think your business has a "clear path" to a large business.

>You are essentially trying to completely replace every single (item) in (industry), but need $2M to build a prototype to do this? There are just too many red flags. I don't understand why you're in my office.

hugs and kisses, swampthinker :)

-

Note that I have no relationship with David Rose nor the company whose business plan he quoted.
What's the difference with CVMFS[1] and Nix[2]?

[1] http://cernvm.cern.ch/portal/filesystem
[2] http://nixos.org/nix/