skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> vague existential bemusement

We'll that is why I asked people to talk me out of it ;)

Most people that I meet either assume 2 from the get go, reasonable because that's how everything appears to us at first glance.

3 Basically means we don't even exist, in the sense that you can't have agency/identity/whatever you want to pinpoint as 'you' if everything is predetermined. The closes analogy to 'real' (this is always a problem when discussing such things) people in our world is the experience a film character 'has' when it's played (none, it's not an agent).

Basically from 3 follows that, however counter-intuitive it seems to 3-type-people, you have no agency, no thoughts, no freedom, no choice I'd argue that you don't even exist or alternitively that you have always existed. Can you even say that causality exists if every location of every particle/wave/force/field/w\e has already been predetermined? AFAIK science does not really know if this is the case, and the only science I understand is the layman's tl/dr. But the general consensus, again AFIAK, seems to be: do more experiments, we're unsure as of yet.

I only know that we live in the macro world, and in the macro world the case for predeterminism is pretty darn strong.

I'd prefer 2 over 3, because 2 is the only place where a possibility exists for ethics and/or freedom. I can't be ethical if I can't 'do' anything. I can't 'do' anything if 'I' don't even exist (which I'd argue is the case in 3).
> soldering iron and supplies

While I don't own one, the TS100 [0] is supposed to be an amazing soldering iron. [1] As a plus, the hardware and software are open source. [2]

> "helping hands"

Realacc six arm third hand. [3] It's fantastic for the price.

> misc parts/supplies like wire, breadboards, switches, LEDs etc.

AliExpress? YMMV for quality though

> batteries, USB chargers, couple of PC power supplies for power supply

Can't recommend batteries or USB chargers from China, too much counterfeit junk. For PC power supplies, Seasonic is a well priced, quality brand. There are a bunch of ATX power switches available (e.g. AntMiner) on eBay for a few dollars.

[0] https://www.banggood.com/MINI-TS100-Digital-OLED-Programable...

[1] http://hackaday.com/2017/07/24/review-ts100-soldering-iron/

[2] https://github.com/Ralim/ts100

[3] https://www.banggood.com/Realacc-Strange-Third-Hand-Six-Arm-...
The Gard case has nothing to do with ability to pay. Cost of care wasn't a feature of any of the decisions or of any of the various court cases.

Money is not the problem in the Charlie Gard case.

The case is not between the parents and the government, it's between the parents, the child, and the hospital. The child has received world class medical treatment; the hospital can't just kill the child (as would happen in the US, and happens every day) - the hospital has to go to a court and persuade a judge. The parents have their legal representation (and you can say that they should have been eligible for legal aid), the child has his own legal representation paid for by the state, and his own guardian to represent his best interests.

The judgements are all available to read. Here's a search that returns all of them: https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/?s=yates+and+gard

And here are a couple of blogs:

http://barristerblogger.com/2017/07/16/open-letter-charlie-g...

http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2017/07/07/never-let-an-...
> I enjoy the drama of the Wild West that is Ethereum and the rest of the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

"Drama" is not really a desirable characteristic for most users of a market.
No, they don't. That organisation only works in the USA, they can't do anything for 'the world'.

Let me clarify this: Just because the US SEC wants something doesn't make it happen on the internet. They can do things with governments and companies, and that's about it.

If some random hacker in Ukraine decides to use a ETH or BTC or smart contract or create a new coin, the SEC isn't going to be able to influence that. There is no point of control there.
The 5th line does not say that. Now you're making things up.
In another thread commenters speculated that ICO hacks were coming from inside jobs.. does this new SEC report change how the government would handle that? Is fraud of securities different from fraud over imaginary coins now?
> interactive, animated, had sound, had dimensions

Interaction, animation, sound, and dimensions have their place in the web. That place is in a small percentage of websites. Very small. Flash was possibly a better tool for that small percentage of websites (games and something else I guess?).

I, for one, am glad I can read a fucking blog article these days without it being rendered through an animated page flip which makes the shrill sound of paper tearing each time a page is "turned" with no way to mute.

Yes, flat text suits me just fine.
This seems like an important distinction, i.e., between an ownership token and a "voucher token," assuming the latter is a token that gives the holder the right to some service. Curious how a groupon isn't a security if a voucher token is.
Bitcoin and others are actually up if you look at a high resolution chart: https://cryptowat.ch/bitfinex/btcusd/1m
I've watched probably more than 8,000 episodes in my life. Not because I wanted to keep up with anything (no external motivation), simply because I was addicted to TV shows (great ones, no regrets).

Now I don't watch TV anymore, or ever so rarely. I've converted the time to reading. It changed my life in dramatically good ways —pun very much intended. There's a time for everything, and quite frankly after some time it's like you've watched it all, you could predict plots and even lines (sometimes it feels as though all authors just get inspired from their peers and much of the writing/directing feels recycled).

There's no "keeping up to date" with pop culture imho, at some point it becomes anthropological. You just overgrow pop culture beyond a certain amount of experience. You could actually produce it for that matter. As it relates to the medium, thus technology, I'm thinking it will evolve once again with VR/AR/etc.
I was around an ex NFL player at a restaurant once and he also was having trouble walking already. In contrast I played tennis a few times with Trent Tucker after he retired from the Chicago Bulls, and he was still really athletic and could even beat good D1 tennis players.
A long and absolutely excellent read. Certainly its theory of the way people organize themselves in corporations was new to me when I saw it a few years ago.
The study is about NFL players, but the harm starts in high school and college. Wait for more studies...
"High IQ"

Thanks for the laugh.
Why? Nobody is forcing crypto currenency on anyone. I get that registered companies might have some other deal with the govenment and with hacker organisations, but a free and open (and non-country-bound) system should really not be 'managed' by some random organisation in a random country.
securities are property and property theft is a crime. even before this ruling, coins were treated as property.
A groupon doesn't appreciate when the company succeeds.
Fraud is fraud, regardless of whether or not you're stealing securities, magical internet money, or baseball cards.
>what if I'm on duolingo learning Spanish? What if I'm checking my investments or making a trade?

...ah, the Paul Erdos defense:

http://amphetamines.com/paul-erdos.html

> I spend too much time on my phone, but a lot of it is useful and productive.

Looks like we might need to an another item to the list:

http://www.magicmgmt.com/magic/abuse-excuse/
The situation has become insane. Here is a 2 bedroom in Jackson Heights, Queens for $815k - where the median household income in the area (which is not really gentrifying) is $51k:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3413-80th-St-APT-52-Jacks...

I want someone to explain to me how this is going to work. We cannot structure our society this way, it leads to and has always lead to a landed gentry that is at a minimum semi-feudal, much less the social stability implications. The situation sounds much more serious on the West Coast, unbelievably.

I have no idea what's going to happen, but it's going to be bad, however this turns out.
Not necessarily. I think a great example of something that smart contracts enable in a lending scheme is built-in secondary market functionality. A lot of marketplace lending platforms have built in proprietary secondary markets, but none of them are anywhere near as liquid as crypto markets are in general, and the vast majority are not interoperable, to my knowledge.

Your ownership in a loan on Dharma is denominated by a cryptographic token like Bitcoin, Ether, or any other, meaning its just as easy to trade your stake in a loan as it is to trade a cryptocurrency.

Assets built on open protocols are fundamentally easier to build products and technologies around -- insofar as they lower the barrier to entry for developing financial applications, their openness is extremely valuable.
Having played the game for years, I can assure you the impact being generated on the line is very real. These folks do interact with their body/arms, but head on head contact is a very real part of the game, and that is the part that really affects the brain.

And the part of soccer that seems to cause concern is heading the ball, not the running around part.

Comparing helmet to helmet impacts to skiing over rough terrain feels like a real stretch here.
I agree, but look at electron apps, the situation is not better, Flash is similar to a game engine so it had a "game loop" running at a certain FPS. I coded AIR apps, and I know Flash was misused in websites but we have same misuse now with JS where sites with text and images don't work without JS, You had the option to turn off Flash but can you afford to turn off JS>
Adobe is at fault, they should have open source it or make improvements/
Almost all the token sales are being done on Ethereum so they'll probably be paying in ETH. I imagine Ethlance is working on integrating ERC20 payments, so you can get paid in tokens as well.
It's outrageous that the data was leaked over such a long period so many times.
The new biometric law is just laughing in the face of the citizens.
I feel it's clear the fad is waning, but that's my experience among my crowd. For young children, for grandparents, maybe for other countries it's not the same. For example Facebook's trendiness is in that familiar slow motion fall. The same one blogs experienced, or Instant Messenger. But "social media"? No, contrary to my experience, social media is still trending up. It should be interesting to see the backlash grow, the holdouts dig in, and the slow fade to irrelevance and memory. In ten years you might ironically send a foodie to your friends alongside a status update about how cute your cat is. Or a hamburger themed math problem presented by a Minion. Or maybe social media is the new jeans (long term) or the new beer (very long term).
What is an "unregulated company"? A bunch of geeks in a US basement could get prosecuted. A bunch of geeks in a non-US basement illegally selling unregistered securities to US persons might, too. And, if they did it personally instead of through a limited liability company of some sort, and they are found liable for their investors' losses, that will be a personal liability.
A non-smoking table. We have one at work.

It's mostly empty, though.
As an admitted internet addict with an ADD diagnoses I am fairly annoyed that my comment was considered so rude. It didn't seem like something out of bounds to call someone out on to me. Sorry for any offense.
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Which is why most publicly-traded companies would get the SEC seal of approval in my hypothetical scenario--institutional investors (which I think own most of the U.S. stock market) would demand it.
Land use law is, under American constitutional law, permitted to local governments under the 'Police Power':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_power_(United_States_co...
In my opinion, using land use law to ban apartment buildings is a misuse of this power.

I think that we should be able to build miles and miles of apartment buildings that meet fire-safety codes, rather than laws that mandate vast swathes of a region's land are only usable for single-family homes, leading to sprawl and long car commutes.

Just because a society will never be perfectly just doesn't mean the status quo is particularly just— that's the is-ought fallacy. Do you think the state should use its power to ban things you dislike or find aesthetically distasteful, no matter its effects on others, when you're already wealthy and able to build yourself a pleasant life? Because that's the current usage of zoning law in the US.
You lack self-awareness.
Really?

Once Flex went to Apache and FlexDeveloper was killed, I just stopped paying attention.
I would love to see the loan be able to (or better yet, enforced that it is) used as a funding source in a smart contract. Provide an API for funneling revenue in the client contract to the loan object thus ensuring repayment. Making the release of the funds contingent on an audit ensuring the repayment is handled autonomously. Sort of interesting though.
I would consider holders of most tokens to be "dumb money"... they did not have an inside source to the SEC release...
I completely understand the feeling, but you're asking this on a site that uses the word 'karma' for internet points. That ship has sailed, the battle is lost, language just morphs in ways we don't like. Probably it always has.
Vaping.
Loved AS3. We managed to make lots of great work with it that didn't hog the CPU and performed beautifully. But the Flash runtime was the big problem. I'd love to have AS3 now as a language of useful programming. Still, big ups to everyone who worked on Flash, past and present. Thanks, y'all.
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If that's so, then the way it was worded seems needlessly unclear. It specifically says it caused Macs to crash. The normal terminology (and proper English) would be to say "cause Mac applications to crash" when referring to the applications and not the OS or hardware. It's like someone saying "Windows crash" is supposed to refer to Windows applications because people say blue screen instead of crash usually. Even if you accept the terminology, it's applied to the wrong subject.

As I said, I can't imagine that distinction having escaped notice in a PR piece such as this.
securities laws apply based on the investor's jurisdiction
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14850360 and marked it off-topic.
We just have to start guillotining them again, I guess. You need a good revolution once every generation or three to keep capital scared.
What was the point of that link? It shows that even the government assumed they were asking for funding but they were trying to sell fully-developed machines, as I said.
Same reason SEC exists. Because many people are easy to manipulate, and plenty of malicious people out there will convince (not force) them to invest in their ICO, etc.
No, it was a reentrant attack. The contract was doing a state change after sending ETH, and since the recipient called back, it was able to get repeated ETH sends before the state updated.
There are other problems that LLL solves

My favourite is integer relationship finding. For example, if you stumble across the value 194.927424491 it's straightforward to figure out that it is pi * 23 + e * 29 + sqrt(2) * 31.
Indeed, and yet the market cap of these cryptocurrencies has grown much faster than that of almost any company you could name over the last few years. (Yes, I know that's an apples-to-oranges comparison, but apparently a lot of people, myself not included, are willing to take the risk.)
I imagine blocking U.S. contributors would significantly affect the ecosystem.
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Adobe opened some parts like a compiler they were working on and the Flex SDK but Flash was not opened, this was a mistake, I mean they announced a few years ago that HTML is the future so why not put a few people work on Flash code, remove the parts they can't open and make it open source, similar with Open JDK. It is weird they support AIR but Flex was donated to Apache.
How to make custom marketplace items in Azure Stack
Is selling an unregistered security on secondary markets more legal, or just less likely to be noticed?
Easier said than done, but wake up an hour earlier and go for a run. Don't need to kill yourself, just go outside or to the gym or something.
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See also: Latently Deep Learning Certificate

https://github.com/Latently/DeepLearningCertificate

Free access to ridiculous amounts of hardware and the opportunity to implement important and hot scientific papers and conduct original research in deep learning.
Not Wifi, but definitely should be BLE. ZWave is notoriously insecure, the available chips are extremely buggy, and the licensing requirements very expensive. I used to work on ZWave products and now work on BLE devices. BLE has been far more pleasant of an experience. And Bluetooth is getting mesh networking soon!
"Uber for trucking"... Uber already has an Uber for trucking [0][1]. And it's doing very, very well.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2017/05/uber-freight/
[1] https://medium.com/official-uber-freight-blog/uber-freight-l...
What is the point of a government if it outsources its own work, this is exactly the sort of work governments should be doing.
I had exactly the idea of OP's title but never bothered to write an article around it. 100% agree.
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>but to protect U.S. citizens from being scammed all the time.

US citizens shouldn't be treated like children that need to protected from their own stupidity.
The Indie Hackers for failures haha!
About 7 years ago, I spent about 20 days abroad.
Didn't have a data plan so my phone stayed in my suitcase the entire trip and didn't have a computer.

By the end I felt that I engaged with the world a lot more with a feeling that my perception was sharpened.

It felt great but didn't last long on my return. Because my life involves computers.

Today the idea of spending almost a month away from a PC would mean I'd have to quit my job.

But if I had the opportunity again, I would love to unplug myself. Not sure if I'd have the willpower though.
Ever heard of DoubleClick? Google owns many ad networks.
You can buy Sensortags with sub-1GHz RF transmitters, which have a (theoretical) range of >500m, which should be enough for most applications to not require a mesh network at all. They also accurate clocks (with a crystal) to do time-rendezvous networking as well.

I've some intended for home monitoring-- they have "10 sensors including support for light, digital microphone, magnetic sensor, humidity, pressure, accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, object temperature, and ambient temperature" for $30.
Removed. I'm not from the US.
That's an atomicity failure. That class of bug, incidentally, is a classic source of trouble in window/widget GUI systems.
There's no room for buyer beware? I mean c'mon. People participating in ICOs are still pretty sophisticated technically. Seems like we're regulating interactions between well informed consenting adults.
S/He's getting down voted because (I assume, it wasn't me) he changed the topic/point of the conversation, not because what he wrote wasn't true. Often a comment on something social/subjective/squishy devolves into a objective discussion about the irrelevant details..... like this comment does.
More info:

Latently, Bitfusion, and IBM Cloud enable democratized access to deep learning

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2017/07/latently-bitfusion...
history has proven this sentiment wrong
This is not a celebrity news website
Unless you know something I don't, I think you're completely incorrect on both counts. Z-Wave isn't going anywhere, just a few years ago the Z-Wave alliance published Z-Wave+ and more and more consumer devices have been coming to market. They're all over Home Depot (among other large retailers) and backed by very large brands [0]. All major hubs support it, and z-wave offers many specific technical and security advantages over WiFi with respect to automation.

Z-wave has a much smaller threat surface area and requires no internet. In fact, it requires no central controller at all, as you can have controllers in every room for scene automation. The internet connected hubs bring a lot of shiny features to the table, but they're completely unnecessary for local automation. Even better, communication forwarding is part of the design so you can have a controller hundreds of meters away from the thing you want controlled and as long as there are a couple of devices on the mesh between them it will work. We've seen how great WiFi repeaters are... plus WiFi on battery is basically a deal breaker, whereas you can have z-wave devices last two years on some AA batteries.

Z-Wave and Zigbee are both so much better than WiFi at automation that I can't even fathom why someone would suggest the opposite.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Wave
The GPU versions are performing surprisingly bad. To even match CPU performance, you need a training set in the tens of millions, and even far beyond that, a doubling of speed seems to be the best you can hope for.

Compare to, for example, tensorflow, where it isn't uncommon to see a 10x speedup even for moderately-sized training sets.

(I say "surprising" in the sense that I'm surprised; I don't know the algorithms used for decision trees, and it may well be that they are less amendable to GPU-parallelization than the NN- and matrix algorithms I've worked with)
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> Trucking is badly broken, especially in the US.

why do you say that?
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As I said before, that's in the 10th paragraph of the article. The first line people read is:

> A neuropathologist has examined the brains of 111 N.F.L. players — and 110 were found to have C.T.E.

It's incredibly disingenuous to lead with that. It makes readers think that the rate of CTE is almost 100%. Readers have to get through nine more paragraphs (including profiles of two NFL players) before the truth shows up. Yes, NFL players have absurdly high rates of CTE compared to the general population. Nobody in this thread is saying otherwise. But disingenuity makes your side easier to dismiss and discredit, even if it's right. That's why I criticized the article.
They're already doing it. It's near impossible to do it effectively, if the contributor is comfortable interacting directly with smart contracts, but they're doing things like geoblocking their websites, making you click a box saying you're not in the U.S., etc.
Most ICOs already try to block US contributors but it's usually only based on IP which can easily be gamed
Sociopaths rise in the dark to feast on ambition and solitude, before they subtly 'one up' everyone else by appearing in the office earlier.
well played
I am not sure how that exempts anyone from anything. If you, as a Swiss company, issue tokens that are securities according to country X and sell them to citizens of country X without going through a securities offering, you are violating that country's securities laws and the fact that you are based in Switzerland I don't think is relevant
Good luck building the "economy of the future" without the US banking system. There is a reason banking sanctions are the US's most powerful non-military diplomatic tool.
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Very nice work.

Is there an estimated release date for the Dharma Loan Browser?