skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if we could only get over these pesky biases we might finally start introducing 150% marginal tax rates and let the middle class taste life at the upper middle class level. (by taking it from them, exchanging their places.)

as it stands the middle class really has no way of "trading places" with the upper middle class, who can always out-earn them.

a marginal tax rate above 100% would close this loophole.

yes this comment is sarcastic.
from hyper's readme:

Be aware that hyper is still actively evolving towards 1.0, and is likely to experience breaking changes before stabilising. You can also see the 1.0 issue milestone.
That's pretty much correct, yeah. Due to exponentiation, length is almost everything in password security. Which means there's going to be a bunch of lengths at which brute force cracking is trivial, and then a very sharp rise in complexity, after which brute force cracking quickly becomes astronomical, and then absolutely impossible.

If you look at the current cracking benchmarks of GPUs (https://gist.github.com/epixoip/a83d38f412b4737e99bbef804a27...), there is an easily quantifiable difference between bcrypt and MD5: 21 bits.
(https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=log2(200*%5E9)-log2(10...)

That means under current GPU architecture, bcrypt is basically like "adding 3-4 characters (or 1.5 diceware words)" for free to your password. Can you basically just add 3-4 characters to your password? Sure, but not without user friction, and certainly you can't think that way as the developer of the system, because you're trying to give a small leg up to even the most vulnerable by salting and bcrypt/PBKDF2/Argon hashing.

What about theoretical limits? Well, there is another way to approach this: Landauer's principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle), which considers the theoretical minimum energy of a bit flip of information - so this even covers future computing technologies. Even if you used up all available mass-energy in the entire sun, it is only theoretically possible to perform 2^225.2 operations (https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/6141/amount-of-...). 225 bits of entropy is roughly a 35-character (printable ASCII) password.

(Note that you can't do this with MD5 - it has only a 128-bit hash space, before preimage attacks, the best of which lowers it to 123 bits).

So the lesson is: use slow hashes to give some protection to the vulnerable and people whose password complexity is "on the edge". Use a password manager so that the rest of your passwords can be comfortably > 128 bits in complexity, without reuse. And then forget about passwords because after that, every other part of the security system becomes more important.
A lot of these things are seemingly no-ops because the tech has to be proven and withstood tests of legality. However some of these trust-less distributed systems are approaching a point where turning them into real systems in use is a matter of contractual agreement from a customer or peers involved and or the government. The disruption will be quite sudden once this happens.. assuming the tech moves faster than the bureaucracy, as is usually the case.

Calling it a no-op is pretty naive, any significant step towards allowing bearer tokens of more tradition securities has enormous value, and each step towards it has value as well.
> The laws of mathematics are very commendable but the only laws that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.

Explains their broadband policy too.
> You will if you try to trade bonds in the conventional way, which is a huge pain in the ass.

And that's a bunch of horsecrap. Do you buy stocks in your name too? No. Ordinary investors hold securities in street name with a brokerage.

I've bought corporates through Vanguard Brokerage Services, which actually doesn't have a great reputation for being friendly to buying individual securities. It's a click of the mouse and $2 per $1K face or half that if you have a large account. You can also call up the fixed income desk and do it over the phone. No problems.
Text SFMoMA an emoji and get a piece of art back
Nice. I thought you might not support others since you ruled it out for apex.
As opposed to bitcoin, where nobody has ever lost money ever.
Could you use this to deduplicate files in a filesystem?

Could you use this as the deduplication method in ZFS?
> I'm super curious since a lot of smart people seem to be into it.

Because trendy buzz.
goldblum moment
Nah, it's a special logic caused by the intended conclusion.
There are a lot of reasons that bearer bonds are no longer issued in most jurisdictions. This is one of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearer_bond
Under what conditions do the 2 differ?
gives me some solace to know others find themselves in this position. I remember nearly two years ago, i found some Oracle market brochures directed to BI 'solutions'--courtesy of an Oracle sales rep who sat next to CTO on a 12-hour business class flight--on my desk with a stick note from our CTO "please review, then let's chat". As ordered, i diligently read each pretentious little piece of trivia in the pile, then asked him what specific functionality the Oracle stack offered that our open-source stack did not. He said "360 view of the customer", which i had just read about a dozen times.
Yet it is a giant leap backwards for security and irreversible transactions are a deal-breaking bug in the real world of finance. Mistakes and frauds have to be unwound.

"Finders keepers losers weepers" is a playground rule.
LOL. Yes that should be casualty :)
Perhaps like the other ZFS fanboys on this thread, I was hoping that "efficient" would by some magic mean "sublinear in memory", but it doesn't look like that. :(
You have this backwards. Well, mostly. Having a separate die is definitely not the other option. A separate die would cost millions of dollars to develop, test, and produce separately, even for a smallish feature like this. The resulting price hike to cover the R&D would push the product even farther out of the competitive market than they are now.

No, the only two options are the ones Intel and AMD have already taken: artificial segmentation via feature flags, or just opening it up entirely.

I don't really like the artificial segmentation thing but I can't seem to reconcile that feeling with my feelings on software licensing, which doesn't bother me but can be the exact same thing.
I went to install it on my Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo but Google Play said it couldn't be installed in my country (Germany).

The most interesting feature to me is the ability to add annotations along the way. I'd use that to describe wayfinding points, such as "the elevator" or "the giant ice cream cone."
Read with a critical eye as I, obviously, wasn't present: in this case it seems likely the Financial Advisor screwed up or simply misunderstood the industry. "Shopping the deal" is only anathema if you've signed a term sheet. Many companies receive/solicit multiple term sheets and accept their favorite.
In the future, most AI will happen locally, not remote, because of privacy, latency and cost. There is a lot of research in adapting models to fit phones (such as reducing the size of the NN by 20x-100x and still having almost all the accuracy).
THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT
I have yet to see a boy who is not mangled by his single mother into some early adolescence by oversharing of information.
This is cool but strange and sad. Do you ever feel it goes in the opposite direction for a fraction of the people you meet? Like do you feel anyone who knows your real background (if anyone does...) treats you better because of that rather than worse? I'm asking because I'm tempted to think my reaction and some others' would be the opposite of what you just said, but I can't really say I have a large enough sample size to know...
Latin is a lot more fun if you don't focus on the grammar, and perhaps ironically, you may pick it up faster.

Unfortunately, grammar is super easy to test.
"Nobody intentionally creates a policy that will take $20K from someone with $40K and give it to someone with $10K. When that happens at all it's unintentional"

Actually, plenty of revolutions intentionally did just that, and much, much worse (as in executing aristocrats and land owners and giving all of their possessions to the poor).
> The beauty of Go is that you get developer productivity pretty close to Ruby/Python levels ...

I'm curious as to what metric you use for "developer productivity", and the values of said metric you can cite for the 3 languages you list.
Adjusting to the Gates or Apple timeline doesn't get you anywhere. Bitcoin won't exist in 30 years.
One can always disable WebGL.
"they know the pain, effort, and time it takes to accumulate wealth so they're loathe to take it from someone else"

Except that the scenario was explicitly designed to make clear that the wealth in question was not a result of effort but was acquired purely randomly.
It is. I downloaded their image and it's like 540x128 or so. If it were 512x128 it would be 4:1, but it's slightly larger, like 4.2:1 (er... 21:5?). I was highly confused by that as well.
Yep, since you can also manually enter the code.
Check out e.g. https://github.com/stackgl/headless-gl.
ABA Standard 501(b) states that "A law school shall not admit an applicant who does not appear capable of satisfactorily completing its program of legal education and being admitted to the bar."

If passing %s are falling while the cutoff is unchanged, the solution is not to change the cutoff.
Also, the school for "disadvantaged students" being singled out in the article is hilarious.
What do you mean by "simplest way"?
And so a problem caused by having a more complicated than necessary system is mitigated by adding in another very complex system for redundancy.

Now this can work, indeed as a engineer in SaaS, it's my job to make it work. But see how to make it work you have to hire engineers to nurse the all those systems along.
Another way of interpreting the results:

- 76.87% of subjects accepted a 25% tax rate intended for redistribution.

- 44.80% of subjects accepted a 50% tax rate intended for redistribution.

It's hard to infer much beyond that.

Perhaps they need to test for a larger number or more fine-grained tax levels between 25% and 50% and see if there is indeed a step change (or other sharp decline) in acceptability when it "reverses social order". Or if there is a smooth distribution curve based on tax rate, not relative position.

---

Even if you take the results as intended, that subjects were considering social order and not tax rate, you still have to concede that this could be about "fairness" and not "rank". It shouldn't be surprising that a majority of people dislike redistributing more than is necessary to achieve equality. That helps explain the results with the children. Ages 6-10 is about where they start to understand "fairness" from the perspective of both parties [1].

Additionally, taking the tax perspective into account, "Person B" appears to be subject to a lower tax rate than "Person A" despite ending up with more money, which subjects would likely see as unfair.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11/how-fair...
I don't understand why anyone would fund SoundCloud for a day. If someone can share what kind of sales pitch they have used to investors, I'd like to see it!

Their income apparatus seems to be "sing up for free". It's hard to charge for extra services, when your core product does almost everything already. Advertising doesn't really work, because their demographic groups are heavily leaned towards adblock usage.

Most of the content is indie music. The increased availability - since 1990s - of cheap music production tools has enabled everyone, and their dog, to make music recordings. The downside to that is that it has got a lot harder to find the quality after the quantity has exploded since. So, for discovery service SoundCloud fails. There should instead be a curated version with 1/1000th of the content left.

Then why many people really go to SoundCloud. They go for commercial pirated music, or "remixes" - whatever. I've seen many albums offered on SoundCloud. Even a small number generates serious amounts of site activity. I have not understood this either, because SoundCloud does not by default offer FLAC downloads, and there are better services for that stuff...
I have a couple of Omega 1000's. Basically just a big motor attached directly to a strainer basket, simple as they come. I have no experience with any other centrifugal juicers. There is a technique; alternate hard and soft fruits, leave apples more for the last since apple fiber is best at clogging the strainer. I never save juice; I drink everything as soon as I make it. It's totally plausible to me that juice degrades over the course of hours. Over the course of the minutes it takes me to juice and drink... I'm less concerned.

Your Vert juicer is interesting. Can you really do both apples and greens? Can you juice really dry shit like kale and wheatgrass?
> About an hour later SoundCloud tweeted

Of course they are going to downplay this news. If they are having money issues and are seeking additional investment, the last thing they want is for a story like this to be in the headlines.

It gives their potential investors even more leverage, because if they don't have a successful funding round they're done.

It also makes it harder to convince investors to fund them, because no one is interested in funding a service which is losing money and doesn't have good growth numbers.

So these tweets mean nothing. It's completely normal for a company to deny reports of financial difficulty because to do anything else would just worsen the situation.

My rule has always been: look at how the company acts, not how they talk. SoundCloud just abruptly cut two major offices and 40% of staff. Does that sound like a healthy, growing company?
For iOS the GPS chip itself is only turned on when 1) a foreground application is using location 2) a navigation app is using location and you task switch (that blue bar you get at the top) 3) for background location, when the device reassociates to a new cell tower
Zerohedge has an update.[1] So does NYT.[2] The loss rate is down a little, to $708 million per quarter. Uber claims to have $7.2 billion in cash. But that's not all investment capital; at least $1.15 billion of it is from debt. At their current burn rate, they have about two years of runway left before the investment capital runs out. So they can stretch things to mid-2019, if the investors are agreeable.

Or maybe they can find another sucker.

[1] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-14/cash-burning-machin...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/technology/uber-limits-lo...
For years I've wanted a pair of glasses that overlays the world with captions, putting names and "you know them from" next to people, address numbers next to buildings, etc. Google glass made me hopeful, but it fizzled out.
You missed one! One of my favourite adventure games!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9j%C3%A0_Vu_(video_game)
GitLab.com taken offline by Azure failure in East US 2
I also find text to often be uncomfortably small. I can highly recommend using a 'readability' or 'read later' bookmarklet (InstaPaper offers a decent one), as it will clean things up and allow larger font sizes with one click.
This is a good point, but if I had pets, I don't think I would trust any air condition system at all to keep them alive for a few days.

But then I don't really know what it's like to own pets, and I don't know how housing in New Orleans works either.
It could be ok in context. Maybe it wasn't. But just commenting that you think someone is good with kids shouldn't be offensive. If the VC literally wanted the demoer to watch their kids then sure that's not ok.
The whole point is to cryptographically be able to prove ownership of something to the network. Given that bitcoins, litecoins and ether aren't magically disappearing out of people's wallets I think its pretty safe to say these systems can be designed in ways which are secure (at least secure enough for the marketcaps of each of those cryptocurrencies which is billions).

If I get a piece of paper that says I own some asset there is offices full of people who are dedicated to ensuring that piece of paper properly represents some piece of land, car, security etc. Why would you not want to automate such a system?

Not to mention once you can create such a system the chains of trust can extend beyond just your bond issuance, you can tie actions from other trusted systems into your bond issuing system in a fully automated way.
Its wrong to say no such thing is suggested, what it isn't is strong evidence of causation.
> What the book cannot give, of course, is the experience of [...] strolling through the streets of Rome with him. For that we will need his like—or to wait for the Reginaldians to start writing memoirs.

Shouldn't someone point these folks at VR headsets and livestreaming stabilized 360deg video? It doesn't matter that he can't walk and is stuck in the US. With someone to be his walking and conversation companion in Rome, and to hold his eyes, he could walk Rome every morning, telling stories, and recording it for posterity.
Besides telling me to use tor (which I know in general what it is), is there a guide I can use ? (i.e. how to send / recv anonymous email on tor from a non tor address ?) or something ???
VISA offers restaurants $10,000 to stop accepting cash
We routinely hear stories about a "fat fingered" trader. While most of the trades remain irreversible, sometimes they can be rolled back too. What happens if there is a massive error (or even a hack) and the trades of say 1billion cannot be rolled back?

The problem of immutability works both ways. Surely, DTCC could build a better solution, provide say better APIs (hmmm, startup idea if someone wants to take it up) to brokers so that the information is always up to date instead of relying on blockchain.
I really hope not. I'm not saying localization isn't important, but holding back an English app because of this is something I don't understand. A huge part of the world speaks English just fine. Release first, localize later if it's not possible right away.
This is probably not the case here, but I hate it when devs forget that the US isn't the entire world that they're releasing their app to.
https://www.google.com/maps/search/peachtree+rd/@33.8206276,...

Peachtree Rd, Peachtree Battle, and Peachtree Hills - all within a block or so.
Backpacking Venture in Tanzania – Exploring Motherland Africa
Then they fully deserve the ridicule. It's like Ford selling you a car but you have to bring your own tyres if you want to drive it away
My point is it could enforce a waittime. Disabling webgl only makes it worse as you'd have to wait much longer for the solution.
That's not end to end encryption.
There's quite a truth to that. I have used old smartphone as a dashcam with offline maps/navigation in one single package in the past.
Previous discussion when first published a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13789097
I am really confused by this logic.

So it's better to ask companies to invest in implementing "blockchain" within their network instead say upgrading their databases or their infrastructure to the current technology level? Then they could simple have API/Middleware calls between systems which can do this even more efficiently.
I generally fall into the microcontroller-fogey side of these debates. But the other side has an advantage in that "just use linux" is an easy, dumb choice that brings you into contact with the whole unix ecosystem.

There's always a certain cheezyness to your tools when doing what I think of as real embedded work. Probably the only nice part of it is the basic GNU compiler toolchain (if present). The rest -- including any high level development tools -- are either closed source, vendor specific stuff of varying quality or low quality half dead open-source projects.
You could plausibly use cloudfront, I don't know what tumblr's policies are.

But these aren't technical limitations! I don't know why Tumblr retricts you from using cloudflare, presumably because they want to control your content.

My two cents, don't use a free hosting service. S3+cloudfront is dirt cheap and will do the trick.
I think that's covered in the article - there's a passage on using `tf.scan` when the `tf.dynamic_rnn` abstraction won't cut it. `tf.scan` is more flexible than `tf.dynamic_rnn`, but provides a little more scaffolding for RNNs than using `tf.while_loop` directly.
Some very good points indeed. Let me address them one by one.

> Why should popularity automatically equate to quality?

Popularity is the by far the best indicator of quality that I could find. HN, for example, also operates on this principle. The posts with the highest votes get to the top. However, this does not mean that the posts that do not get as many votes are not as high quality. dang has mentioned this several times and went on so far as to say that high quality posts getting overlooked is one of the biggest problems of HN. One of the ways HN solves this problem is by using moderator discretion to put some overlooked posts in the front page, overriding the algorithm (I believe this post was one of them, it had just 5 points when it was put on the front page). In the same way, I use some editorial discretion to penalize books that have typos and poor English, if I could detect this by going through the Amazon preview. Some books were not even included in the list for this reason, most of them being independently published books. However, the book by Narasimha Karumanchi escaped my attention. Thanks for mentioning that it has typos etc. I will review it again.

However, just as HN tries to provide value by best effort quality ranking, PythonBooks also makes a best effort attempt at judging quality. It is not perfect, but it's the best I could do. If you have a better idea, let me know. I am all for improving the site.

> However Packt Publishing are generally not very good quality publications

Don't agree with this. Many Packt books are high quality. I have read several, including the one by Dusty Phillips, which is above Powerful Python. I do not share the same prejudice about this publication.

> Possibly because the author also sold the book DRM-free on their own website?

Possibly also because the book is relatively new and will only get more popular with time. The scores are dynamic and changes every week when I sync my database.

Like Powerful Python, most other books are also available outside Amazon, so it's mostly a level playing field. The exception is genuinely free books like Automate the Boring Stuff. These books get a blanket score bump to adjust for this.

Hope I could answer some of your questions and thanks for taking your time to provide feedback.
Nice beginning for Sky torrents kasumis_ Hope you'll see this !
Hey, cool website on https://www.skytorrents.in . Not a complex design but effective. I like the fact that links are marked and validated. Who knows what it really means, and what depth for the verification but at least there's an effort to make something good.
And downloads have been fast to complete till now, I appreciate.

I vote for the file list too, it generally gives a clue about fake torrent with trash content.

Do you plan to add :
• a ratio feature ?
• invitation only access?
• premium features ?
• private trackers?
• make encryption mandatory? is that possible?
• reduce links redundancy, cause typing "adobe creative cc" as keywords, I get a lot of similar links, and that makes the website messy, plus it create pages and pages of listing, that doesn't add a value to the website, there's almost no seeders on those. They could be on the links with most seeders to make them even faster

I'd like to know also if the site will be available thru a .onion address, I think that's really a must nowadays.

Well voilà, good luck for the rest.
Keep us up-to-date, and let me know if a .onion address is setup :) or a Bitmessage address for the announcements.