skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the bottom of the Great Recession I remember reading about somewhat similar situations wrt to mortgages and, especially, unsecured debt purchasers. Basically, lawyers can often come to court without concrete evidence of the debt (both it's origin and the chain of transfer), either because it was lost or because they didn't have the time to locate and assemble it. If the case is uncontested (i.e. you don't show up), then it doesn't matter because there's nobody to challenge the prima facie case.[1] But theoretically the defendant could have just shown up and contested the validity of the debt: "Your honor, I don't remember that debt" or "your honor, I'm pretty sure bank XYZ possesses the mortgage". Because the plaintiff has both the burden of proof and of persuasion, it's trivial to put the ball back in his court on the first volley. The plaintiff's lawyer would request time to respond to the challenge. If they had a huge backlog (as during the Great Recession) you'd win if they couldn't gather the evidence in time, assuming they even had it. For smallish unsecured debt the lawyer is likely to simply walk away and default.[1]

If you got a final judgment, then any debt would be extinguished as a legal matter, presuming the plaintiff was the actual and rightful owner of the debt. That is, even if they sold the debt again it would no longer be enforceable, even if the chain of evidence was subsequently discovered or made available.

[1] I once won a case in traffic court when the prosecutor stormed out of the courtroom after losing 3 seemingly easy cases and motions. I don't know if she forgot about my case, if the cop failed to show up (for a second time), if she was just pissed at the judge, or some combination, but she never came back. My case was called and the judge asked the bailiff to step outside and see if the prosecutor was in the hallway. (He may have also called her office.) The bailiff quickly came back shrugging his shoulders, so the judge dismissed my case. I was happy but a little disappointed. I invested a ton of time photographing the scene of the alleged traffic violation, and even hired a lawyer, in an attempt to prove that the cop couldn't have seen what he alleged he saw--a failure to come to a complete stop before turning right. I had a perfect driving record up until then and was hell bent on fighting that ticket. Plus, while I've rolled through many stops in California, that intersection was helluva dangerous and I _always_ came to a complete stop before turning. In fact, at that hour (about 1 AM), I often simply waited for a green light, and then some, before gingerly completing the turn as I'd seen many idiots/kids blow right through that intersection. (There were railroad tracks on the west side of the intersection which people loved to jump, often ignoring the red light.)
No, it's you committing the slippery slope fallacy. You introduced the idea of being independent. I offered one extreme solution and one not so extreme solution and indicated how you could pick and choose just how dramatic you want to go.

You are the one who is saying I gave a either-or.

> Listening to you one would think that wanting to be an entrepreneur or a freelancer is something exotic, for really crazy daredevils.

I said nothing of the sort! I know lots of successful entrepreneurs. That's a great path to take if you want to do it. But you get there by learning about entrepreneurship and marketing, not by wishing and wishing you can quit your job.

> Maybe the military is not the best place to learn everything there is about employment and the motivations of people, or about what's "rational"?

Good thing I was only there for two years.
We better solve this fast. A lot of omnivorous people are quick to denounce vegan meat substitutes as fake. As in fraudulent kind of fake. This happens when people complain about how Taco Bell uses fake meat (i.e. soy) in their beef tacos for example.
> You're right that the FDA definition of mayonnaise requires egg.

Wikipedia says "Mayonnaise is a thick, creamy dressing often used as a condiment. It is a stable emulsion of oil, egg yolk, and either vinegar or lemon juice, with many options for embellishment with other herbs and spices." Random House says "a thick dressing of egg yolks, vinegar or lemon juice, oil, and seasonings, used for salads, sandwiches, vegetable dishes, etc." Oxford Learner's Dictionary says "a thick cold white sauce made from eggs, oil and vinegar, used to add flavour to sandwiches, salads, etc.". Merriam-Webster says "a dressing made chiefly of egg yolks, vegetable oils, and vinegar or lemon juice". Oxford dictionary says "A thick creamy dressing consisting of egg yolks beaten with oil and vinegar and seasoned."

Who's definition of mayonnaise doesn't involve eggs? How would you even define it except by mentioning eggs?
Ask HK: How do I report bugs in AWS services without paying for support?
A couple of weeks ago AWS released a blog post which claims that the ECS run-task API now supports overriding memory and cpu quotas, boto3 has been updated to accept and validate the new parameters, but they are ignored by the ECS backend. Does anyone know how to report this without paying for business support? I would rather not upgrade to pay for it to report a bug in an AWS service, as I've tried to do so in the past and AWS support simply let the ticket expire without a resolution.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/amazon-ecs-runtask-and-starttask-apis-now-support-additional-override-parameters/

https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/1184
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The divisions are very confused. I think that sensible people all wish to use domain knowledge if possible. There are two tiers of this, firstly the use of domain knowledge in the manual or procedural construction of the insight system. Secondly the use of formalised knowledge in the creation of models that can then be fused with data.

The first case is where data science has got a bad name; people swing into domains and companies full of cocksure ideas, produce insights that are risible or obvious and get ejected. Sometimes it takes years for sufficient knowledge to be acquired by analysts to deal with difficult domains.

Lots of people use Bayesian inference to do the second. Tools like Stan and PyMC3 are really popular and effective.
1) Replication failure, plain and simple.

How many meta-analyses have been conducted as of 2017 showing one result or the other? I don't think ego depletion itself has been thoroughly "debunked" yet. If it is a real effect, it's probably quite small - but I don't think that ego depletion has been thrown in the bin just yet.

2) Overfitting. There are dozens to hundreds of "cognitive biases" on lists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases. When you have hundreds of individual points, you really ought to draw some principles, and the principle should not be, "The system generating all this is rigid and inflexible."

3) Imprecision! Again, dozens to hundreds of cognitive biases. What possible behavior or cognitive performance can't be assimilated into the heuristics and biases theory? What can falsify it overall, even after so many of its individual supporting experiments and predictions have fallen down?

Wait a second - has anyone ever tried to explain the "IKEA Effect" using Dual Process Theory? What does a laundry-list of supposed cognitive biases have to do with the theory? Is anyone really trying to explain/predict all this almanac-of-cognitive-failings with Dual Process?
As an alternative to the Dominion base game, you can also use the Dominion: Intrigue expansion as a standalone (or as a base for the other expansions). It provides a substantially different 'flavor', although the rules are the same.
Ask HN: How much to charge for our API?
We have been working on an algorithm for a while, and later realized that it can turn into a great marketing campaign (sort of “creating a story for your product” type of thing). We pitched the idea to a big company and they are very interested in using it to sell more products (their annual revenue is around $250M). They told us that they prefer use our service as a per-use API with a maximum cap. But we are not sure how to go about pricing. Our questions are as follows:

1) Should we price the API calls based on the value of the product? (each product that our service will help to sell costs $100 on average)

2) Is it better to price the API calls based on ‘usage’ or based on ‘products that ended up sold’?

3) Is it common to request a lump-sum amount up-front (e.g. $50K) in addition to API costs that we will charge later? (since we will tailor our product based on their website and needs, we actually need to spend time and effort to make our service work on their end)

4) How to go about the maximum cap? (basically if the API gets used so frequently, they want to know the maximum amount they will ever get charged) Should we value it based on companies revenue? ($250M) or are there other factors we should consider?

So to sum up, its not really just the cost of our API call, but also the cost of using our idea and our algorithm. Any other suggestions are also highly welcome.
Out of curiosity, how recently have you touched on that?

I was one of them until the last couple of months. I think moving to 3 now makes sense, and it's pain-free in my experience.

In 2016 I hadn't made the move yet. And as recently as a couple of months ago, sometimes py2 was still the choice (for instance, Amazon Lambda didn't support 3 yet).
How to think like an economist
TLDR; it's a $66 billion dollar question, World Health Organisation Report says probably, yes - it is cancer causing.
Humble submission to the cause - using "the" and "it" in a scripting language to avoid having to come up with variable names all the time.

Way back, I'd designed a scheme-based scripting language called "muSE" [1] in which we created specifications for video editing styles. I also toyed with the language. One such experiment was having a way to refer to values already computed using "the" and "it". [2]

[1] https://github.com/srikumarks/muSE
[2] https://github.com/srikumarks/muSE/wiki/TheAndIt

edit: This project isn't maintained, but the latest version 711 still works on macosx [3]

[3] https://code.google.com/archive/p/muvee-symbolic-expressions...
And people who just want a lower environmental impact...
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Maybe, unless he got sloppier as time went on.

There are a few flags pointed out in these threads - like not telling anyone that he dived..
But "coming to the boss with another offer you have secured" is the expected next logical step after you've unsuccessfully discussed a raise, no?
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> Threat Modeling: Designing for Security

Very pleasant read. It's the kind of book I'd expect at university. Some background / history, explanations, presenting both the used and the slightly obsolete methods, (with explanation why they're worse) some practical hints. It's a good threat modelling 101 book in my opinion.
I felt the same way. There are so many open questions after watching the video.

How do I get my Euros to someone selling me bitcoin? Is there a central bank account everyone deposits the money? Some cryptocurrencies like Stellar have a built-in decentralised exchange[1]. They solve the problem of getting fiat into the system through anchors[2]. I wonder if there is a better way.

[1] https://www.stellar.org/developers/guides/concepts/exchange....
[2] https://www.stellar.org/developers/guides/concepts/assets.ht...
Way to belittle someone's interests and desires cunt
GCE has a free tier.
A solution would be to add a dependency on the chain itself. By definition, in a hard fork you have blocks in one chain which won't ever be accepted by the other. Suppose C2 has a block, let's call it B2, which won't ever be accepted by C1 (because it's larger than the C1 maximum block size, for instance).

Now get the block reward from B2, or some other coin which depends on it. This block reward, and any coin which depends on it, will never be accepted by C1. Mix it somehow with your coins from wallet A, and send the result to W2. Wait a few confirmations for it to stick.

Now you have in C2 all your coins in W2, and in C1 all your coins are still in A (the A->W2 transaction can't be replayed in C1, since it depends on an invalid block). All that's left is to move all funds from A to W1; this will happen only on C1, since it would be a double-spend in C2.

As you can see, it's not that complicated. The only hard part, if you aren't a miner, is to get the "one-sided" coin, but I'd expect either a service to pop up soon to do the mixing for you, for not much more than the transaction fee (the "one-sided" coin can be recycled indefinitely), or a "faucet" to pop up on C2 to give out tiny "one-sided" coins for anyone who needs them, for free.
Yahoo pipes is gone, right? So for us who didn't experience it, what kind of advanced functionality did it offer that is missing in ifttt?
Etherdelta has been doing this for ERC20 tokens for some time: https://etherdelta.github.io/
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I use IFTTT for a few different things:

1. Logged to a google spreadsheet when I enter and leave a radius around my work. I have to log hours worked, so this gives me a starting point at the end of the week for when I was physically here.

2. I get a stock price emailed to me when the market closes. I own a few shares of a single company (lowers my auto insurance premium, and keeps my engaged in the market), so this helps me see day-to-day changes.

3. I get the weather pushed to my phone at 6am every morning, so it is there on my lock screen as I'm getting up.

4. I get an email every time someone goes into space. SPACE.
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Aren't most of the "bits" these days protected by DRM encryption, even in the hardware? I know video is, but audio?

I'm always confused when people say they've backed up some website when there are these practical and legal barriers.
> Stopped spending money on public transport

How expensive is public transit in your area? And do you bike when the weather is bad (i.e. precipitation or glaze)?
Show HN: An etcd backed DHCP server
Sounds something like Haskell with a Smalltalk environment. Functional, statically typed with powerful type extensions, but with an image instead of text files that you modify.

From just using Jupyter Notebooks, I can see the appeal of working with a live environment, and it's just a fancy REPL, not a full Lisp or Smalltalk environment.
If you're in Canada report them for violating CASL - it's a cool $10k fine per infraction, I'd imagine they'll add an unsubscribe link right quick.
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> I at the same time contribute about thirty dollars worth of quality to society.

Did you factor in the increased healthcare costs from your smoking? These frequently outweigh any money recovered from tobacco taxes.
From my perspective, management often doesn't have the information or tools to be an ally or intermediate to his or her subordinates, and trying to curate that relationship is a one-man effort, unless you have great influence at company leadership.

Some of the tools for a quid pro quo relationship that extends beyond mere money include being able to tell people about big moves so that their lives aren't caught off guard. Coworkers help each other out in this regard. But should management?

People make their plans around timing, geography, and revenue from employment, and when management doesn't reveal big layoffs, big real estate changes, or other big restructurings, people have to up-end their lives. Management knows this, but values some things more, such as the company health. In doing so they set the tone of the relationship.

Management isn't in the position to establish a rich and sincere relationship with employees. There's always an element of insincerity because management isn't telling you things that your coworker friend would, the coworker friend who calls you from another company after the layoffs, recommending you to hop ship to their company. Would management ever tell you to hop ship to Apple?

One might argue that management ought never be in a position to establish such rich and sincere relations. One gossiping manager and you might trigger an early exodus. Or a wave of salary conversation. So managers ought not even know the very information which would help their employees stabilize their life against the uncertainty.

Also, if leadership doesn't want a union, and plenty of world-class places don't like unions, what is management's position to play then? Obviously squash the union talk.
Well done mate :)
Semantics is never fully unambiguous, because of its interface with pragmatics, which Lojban doesn't deal with at all. There is no systematic way to unambiguously convey tone, register, etc.
I couldn't have said it any better.
You could just replace "egg yolk" with "egg yolk or a similar substitute" — this is actually what many "optionally vegan" recipes do. I mean, the Wikipedia page for cake also mentions eggs — are cakes made without egg considered not to be real cakes either?
Do you really need a blockchain?
We've experienced agent crashes in the past but those seem to have been resolved now. Occasionally we will find a docker container from an old task which is still running, but about which ECS knows nothing. Definitely can make for an interesting troubleshooting adventure.

And it seems like maybe the ECS team is trying to move a little too fast recently. They released this blog which claims the run-task api supports several new override parameters but the backend still doesn't actually do anything with them it just silently ignores them.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/amazon-ec...
https://github.com/boto/boto3/issues/1184
I wanted to set up some home automation based on my phone connecting to wifi, but parsing dhcpd's lease file didn't seem cloud native enough, so I implemented this. Surprisingly, it actually works, is concurrency safe (you can legitimately run two of them on the same network, and you'll not corrupt the etcd state. I mean, I pity the clients that have to deal with that network, but eh), and um, is almost useful.

I would not recommend anyone use this for anything other than entertainment.
I meant taking a risk on a new vacation, or relationship.. But when it comes to mortality, it depends.

If taking a walk is as dangerous as cave diving - then yes, I'd consider moving.

If you want to reduce the risks in riding a motorcycle, you can drive slower, in dry conditions during the day. I'm not sure exploring uncharted underwater caves is the slow lane..
Cryptocurrency noob here. Isn't the ability to "mine" a cryptocurrency a design failure of the cryptocurrency?
Occam's Razor: Perhaps naturally occurring radio waves from collisions of stars?
Amazon is already selling pre-packaged 'Meal Kits' [plus a review]
It's not that hard, if you have a lucrative skill. You get an understanding manager, explain the situation, and ask for the accommodation. If you don't get it, change jobs.

If you have a lucrative skill, then you can keep doing changing jobs until you have one you like. If you don't have a lucrative skill, your first priority should be getting one. These days you can swipe a credit card to go to code school. Or just save up. Code school grads still get snapped up as soon as they graduate.

Not everybody likes to code, but hey, it's better than not having a job.
I actually wrote a comment which may help you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14791665
>Don't blame credit, you did this to yourself.

How casually we disregard the people whose poor decision making underpins capitalist society. Falling for carefully crafted messages to alter human behavior, they work in near-servitude to purchase their dreams and happiness.

Someone has to pay interest on credit cards - I don't :)

I don't know if financial literacy can be taught effectively; it may link back to fundamental behaviors.
Pilot. I rent 1970s aircraft so it's nice to have a backup set of avionics.

I should mention, this is also a fun thing to have on airline flights as you can see the route you're flying, other planes around, speed, altitude, where you are in line for the runway, etc. There are even free alternatives to foreflight for android (avare) so you only have to make the Stratux hardware.
> I might be speaking out of line, but taking on these kinds of risks with young children at home seems kind of selfish.

People die. A key responsibility of being a parent is to make sure arrangements are made for you children should you die.

I suppose whether this risk is warranted involves some complex calculus taking, among it's many inputs, the quality of arrangements that the parent has made, the actual mathematical degree of risk, and personal factors including those about the ages, personalities, etc., of the children involved. And that's true of basically every activity involving risk, but I don't think the key parameters on the boundaries here are unambiguous even if the input values were clearly knowable and computation tractable.

In general, I don't think outside parties ever have the information to have much of an meaningful discussion on specific cases, and it mostly ends up being empty posturing.
Ask HN: Influencer marketing app. Would you use it?
If there is an web app where you can write/see reviews on influencers you work with, would you use it? If so, would you willing to pay for the service if you are an influencer marketer?
Or living a life with interpersonal conflicts over topics is not something that they enjoy?
From the consumers perspective, a definition centered around the production process is not very useful. One could try to define it by the measurable attributes of the final product.
I almost bought their stuff once. The bottle looked nice, and I was looking for mayo. I was not looking to experiment, so buying their stuff would a a case of me buying something because it pretends to be something else. I want things to be called what they are. They could have called it "I don't believe it's not mayo" or something but they decided to try to trap people. I would feel cheated even if it does taste like mayo, I don't want vegan mayo in my chicken salad.
Can you elaborate on the eating habits you are proposing?

What/how do you eat in a week?
Even if you're self employed, you're beholden to your customers. With Patreon, you're beholden to your collective patrons. But maybe that was your original point that I misunderstood.

Still, I'd say in many of those jobs you have the self-determination to choose any topic. You just can't guarantee that there won't be any blowback of you pick some topic of controversy.
I am bullish on Bitcoin, even knowing this potential upcoming split. But as early as 2010 one could read criticism that power would become centralized in miners, it was only logical that if their interests and the communiity's diverged that they would have and exert this extra and very human influence.
Photos of China’s bicycle graveyards tell a sad story
Thank you, this is the kind of information I was looking for! I still would like to see some real world comparisons, though.

It sure sounds pretty impressive from your description!
data that "fell into your lap" is a euphemism for a process in which the data was not generated by a controlled experiment in which a hypothesis is created first, and then the data is gathered according to a procedure using the proper controls and testing.

"fell into your lap" has nothing to do with how hard the work is, it's about the difference between a controlled experiment and an observational study. the bulk of ML is observational in nature (focusing on prediction) and therefore has nothing to say about causation or understanding the causal variables of the underlying reality.
The definition of mayonaisse explicitly includes the use of egg yolk.

The definition of egg does not include the color of its shell.