skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> with public healthcare for all and private healthcare available for the rich. That tends to rub Americans the wrong way because fairness,

I lol'ed. Because... we already have private healthcare for the rich, we just don't have public healthcare for all. Because fairness ;)

And I'm very much enamored with the German system as well, but then, I'm biased. I'm from there. (And currently pondering going back there, because as much as I love what the US could be, I hate what it currently is)
Yep, that's more like it. So what I'm imagining is a group of smart people just experimenting with and prototyping ideas like that until something very promising is arrived at.
Given the source, I might take that with a grain of salt.
I don't have the energy to argue this
What does this mean if you've bought or sold cryptocurrency within 2017?
Hmm, I think there's a number of people who have some limited AI experience (side project, internship, etc.) but don't have the money to invest in a huge amount of cloud computing hours to do novel research.

It doesn't seem like this is something like the Thiel fellowship that's supposed to replace an education, it's just a way to make AI research affordable. I'm sure if I wanted to I could scrape together enough money to do a lot of cloud computing and be able to aggressively try out ideas, but that would cut into money for living expenses. With a grant like this, I would feel much more comfortable just experimenting, not feeling like if I train a model overnight and it doesn't turn out perfectly I lose $10.

I don't think a hobbyist can justify using Google/Amazon's best GPU processors, and instead must settle for their cheaper options to feel like they're being financially responsible. I see this AI Grant as a way to solve that problem. AI projects aren't like web-dev projects-- it can take significant amount of money to train a state of the art model in the cloud.
> In their article, Das and Kramer claim to only send back information to Facebook that indicates whether you self-censored, not what you typed. The Facebook rep I spoke with agreed that the company isn’t collecting the text of self-censored posts.

The study and an FB representative both refute that the content of "self-censored" posts is collected.
And that would help in situations where you KNOW you might use your weapon, but if you had a sudden need to use your weapon and it wasn't already unlocked it would be the kind of failure law enforcement is very afraid of.
Is your hedge fund registered with the SEC? What's the name of it? I've been thinking about crypto hedge funds lately and am genuinely curious.
Being competent is not exclusive with leaving at 5pm, having a wife, kids, and a mortgage. Nor is being 17, micro-dosing on psychoactive drugs, working 100-hour weeks or hacking at 3am.

In fact, I would argue that the correlation swings in the opposite direction.
I have a vague recollection of IBM working with trucking companies to collect routing and shipper's source and destination information to optimize routing.

Possibly part of their "smart shipping containers" thing that has apparently evolved into the blockchain Maersk deal.

https://www.forbes.com/2006/08/06/smart-shipping-containers-...
I don't think they do. It's up 1000% or something since a year ago so it probably will take a while until people lose faith
Because the 55 year old is too smart to! It's not like those "kids'" are doing anything good at 3am either; their work seems to be flaky and fraud-prone. See: the DAO hack and recent Ethereum smart contract thefts to name just a couple.
Nothing, except your time.

Your time, and the crude attempt to model what you consider to be worthy of your time, so that people with money can waste it in just the right way to make you do what they want you to do — watch an ad, buy a product, vote for a policy.
We are kind of in the same place as the 2008 crisis, except the sub prime mortgages have been extrapolated out a level. The comercial product being sold today is the rent collected from the properties and the mortgage is the collateral. So if the renter can't pay, kick them out, The market shouldn't tank all at once, it will continue to go up 20% a year until nearly no one can afford to live in a house period. Then crash. edit: link: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/blackstone-renta...
This is from 1999. Meanwhile, IARPA now conducts studies where intelligence analysts look at various *INT layers of data stacked on top of eachother and cognitive modelers try to recreate the biases they demonstrate in the lab. See:

The Neural Basis of Decision-Making During Sensemaking: Implications for Human-System Interaction

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278679336_The_Neura...
When it comes to illegal drugs, one reason modern drugs are more addictive than before is that they are simply stronger. Heroin is 3 times stronger than morphine, which is 10 times stronger than opium. Fentanyl goes through the roof. They are all addictive, and they all have similar effects, but at different doses.

Having a more potent substance has many benefits : smaller quantities are easier to transport or hide and are often cheaper to produce per dose.
Why shouldn't mom-and-pop get the choice to invest in SEC regulated companies? If you like what the SEC has to offer, you can keep it. Taking away that choice seems paternalistic at best, corrupt at worst.
Why should one believe a 17 year old, working 100 hour weeks and micro-dosing (really, what does this have to do with anything?) knows or is more capable than a 55 year old?
So a CEO at a car company that outsources it's AI tells a programmer CEO at a company that does it's own AI that his understanding of AI is limited... hmmm
> The people who are skilled enough at machine learning/deep learning to receive the grant would be able to be employed at any relevant company for their research.

Yes, but maybe some of those people want to work on a side project in their free time. And if you work in deep learning you need some resources to train your models, so any help is welcome.
> The government must prove there was a crime committed by someone to call that someone a criminal, otherwise it's not a crime.

Not only that. The government must establish jurisdiction, or obtain the cooperation of whatever government has jurisdiction.
SEC issues article on Investor Alerts & Bulletins about ICOs. This is after the just released a report[1] on the DAO tokens (that $120mil hack), on which they conclude that DAO tokens, a digital asset, were in fact securities.

Seems they will be more alert and diligent with future big ICOs. Probably no more US-based ICOs.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851721
> That's definitely not what that phrasing means

To clarify, because I think people may be misinterpreting what I meant by that. I wasn't implying a definitive intent to the statement, but stating that the suggested interpretation is not what that statement means in English, as the the subject is a "Mac", which could logically be construed as the OS, the hardware, or both, but not an application running on a Mac. So either it means something other than the suggestions put forth (that he's referring to application crashes), or it's a misstatement, on purpose or not.
Just found out today ... came to Amsterdam from Copenhagen, and no, the data plan and phone both do not transfer without the additional setup I think is described in a sibling comment here.

Still, I used a lot of data, was well worth it. I'm not sure what Amsterdam Lebara / Lyca prices will be or what kinds of data packages they'll have, didn't seem as promising when I look briefly online. So perhaps Copanhagen was a one-off great deal, I'll see tomorrow a.m. when the SIM card stores open again.
Now if only there were not a war of streaming protocols going on...
AFAIK the SEC considers BTC a commodity but that doesn't mean it's unregulated. CFTC, IRS, FinCEN, and state regulations impose all kinds of restrictions on cryptocurrency that almost no companies are following.
Ah, the classic SV "he or she has a real adult life, and thus cannot understand my h4xx0r skillz" chestnut.
Are we sure Ethereum is safe? Bitcoin never did a premined token sale but the Ethereum Foundation did, so it looks much more like theDAO than Bitcoin does.
> They have all the data and rule sets to completely automate the filing process.

My partner works in outside sales as an agent for a "Fortune 100" company, and the IRS in no way has all the data to automate any part of her taxes. From the way she's compensated, to the reimbursements, to the legitimate business expeses.. there's no way she'd get a good deal if she let the IRS guess at any of that.
Hey, cool! I've been tinkering together something custom using a VeraPlus [http://getvera.com/controllers/veraplus/] and a raspberry pi for the last couple of years. It stopped working a few months ago, and sadly I replaced my whole vera controller before realizing the problem was that the wall wart had degraded and was no longer supplying enough voltage. D'oh!

The Vera doesn't have wifi (well, it does, but it can't join a network!!!), but a regular old raspi can act like a wireless bridge, offering wireless access to the vera, and a sound card, and also a linux environment to run my custom rails frontend. Add in some location reporting via Tasker, and I have an announcement sound whenever an outside door is opened, and I have motion and light sensors that record video and upload it to my personal website, and it's all controlled intelligently based on when my wife or I are at home. I'm pretty proud of it.
From HN profile

> General Partner, Crypto Lotus.
> Cryptolotus.com

First google result for "crypyolotus sec" is an apparent SEC filing: https://goo.gl/txKA3t
In Silicon Valley, the Big Venture Funds Keep Getting Bigger
look for a short(est) vector of this lattice

Just to elaborate slightly on this: Finding the shortest vector in a lattice is (in general) hard, but finding a vector which is no more than a constant times the length of the shortest vector is easy. So techniques which rely on lattice reduction usually construct a lattice such that the shortest vector is much shorter than the second-shortest vector -- in other words, the shortest vector is the only one which satisfies the "no more than X times the length of the shortest vector" condition.

In the case of integer relation finding, this translates into having enough digits and making the value K large enough.
Adversarial Optical Channel Exploits Against Lidars for Automotive Applications
I don't shut my phone off but I do keep it in do-not-disturb mode while I am at work and check it once every hour or two. I have email on my computer so I don't need it for that. Work is stressful enough without my phone constantly squawking at me.
Sites that want to create a community, foster a dialog or encourage reader participation.

The smaller the audience, the greater the chance that an empty comment section will exist. This is dangerous as it will reinforce the notion that a given site is unpopular and not worth using. Historically sites have used puppet accounts to prevent this.
Trump Says Apple CEO Has Promised to Build Three Manufacturing Plants in U.S
What about dominant assurance contracts for funding public goods?
It only loads the first paragraph on my Nexus, and desktop mode on Nexus shows just a bunch of icons.
the ICO token is used to pay for the services offered by the network.

And the ICO token is also used (and sometimes explicitly advertised) for investment as well. Uh oh.
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why do people take issue with highly paid nfl players getting injured doing something they enjoy, but have no problem with military members getting killed and maimed for 20k/year? some people are just more violent/aggressive than others, football provides a relatively peaceful outlet for that.
> just buy the components, make your own PCBs, do some surface mount soldering, then write all your own software

All of these except the last are surprisingly easy these days. Digikey and Mouser stock virtually everything, custom PCBs are easy to order, and surface mount soldering can be done with a cheap hot air gun or toaster oven.
I heard a guy talking on Bloomberg radio this morning about this in regards to emerging markets bond investing. The interviewer was commenting that the legal system didn't provide good recourse in the event of default. The guy said like you that the credit analyst would need to focus more on the likelihood of default than the recoverability of the collateral.

It reminded me of my time working on credit models for subprime mortgages. We forecasted 2 variables: frequency and severity of default. The total loss prediction was the product of the two. If your severity is always 100% at least it makes your model simpler.
Okay, but then there's the other XX% of Americans who only have W-2 income.
> the static typing was extremely limited: you could only type "Function", not the actual arg and return value types

You can type args and returns. One of the biggest things I relied on when I coded AS3
It also encourages scams, and based on the ethereum world there's more scams than innovation
For the record, I got my wires crossed - Shannon's chess machine played a variety of endgames. The king + rook versus king machine was another wonderful early contribution, from Spain much earlier in the 20th century; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ajedrecista
looks perfect for my needs, is there any REST API documentation?
> anti-jamming technology

Like what? SNR-boosting encoding tricks to get around high-power noise are not going to be fast like you want with a gun. The form factor needs to be omnidirectional. You don't have high power available in a portable device. You can't just change frequencies, because an attacker is likely broadcasting high-bandwidth noise. And you don't know whether the user needs it to fail safe (the bad guys got the gun) or fail hot (the good guys need to use the gun). After that, physics doesn't leave a lot of other options for technology to fix anything!
I second "It's just the way things are".
> I guess "unique to the wealthiest" is rather strong, but the claim made is pretty specific.

That seemed to be the claim, and I still state this claim is false.

Forgive me for nitpicking more, but most places with famines tend to still tend have large families, and arguably North Korea is an exception to that. Compare North Korea to the countries affected by 2011 drought in east Africa and the countries affected by 2012 Sahel drought. I'm not going to list every country but north African countries in general have far larger birth rates than east Asian countries.

In terms of cultures, I've never been to Cuba, Haiti, or North Korea either, so I don't really know either. But my anecdotal experience of places I have been, there are a lot of people both who don't want children, but won't admit it, particularly not to their parents. And there are also a lot of people who do want children.
The amount of delusion and denial in this thread is kind of hilarious. US securities laws aren't suspended because you sprinkled a bunch of magic libertarian crypto dust on everything.
I refuse to believe that this was at all necessary with all of the enterprise chat applications out there. Uber is big but is in no way an anomalous case.
advertising works in favor of the system/status quo/megacorps. not the little guy.

Ads on tv do not show new things. They push brand. brand is mother, brand is father.
Why are you still long? At this rate it seems ethereum can be easily "disrupted" by something with a similar idea that provides more trust
At least as far as the USA goes, society looks pretty peaceful to me. Sure, there have been a few protests, but nothing especially big or violent. The most dramatic sign of discontent of the masses was expressed through a peaceful presidential election, and all the spleen that most people want to vent, gets vented online in social networks or the comments section of partisan blogs.
It's a question of social norms. Most people I know use Facebook as a messenger and event calendar tool but ignore the dopamine-hacking feed, and most people I know use LinkedIn as a rolodex and recruitment tool but ignore the... whatever else LinkedIn does.

From the perspective of someone who uses Facebook almost entirely to organise weekend drinks and birthday parties, refusing to use Facebook is like refusing to read a pdf or respond to text messages, because it forces your friends to use other tools to stay in touch with you, just to solve a problem they don't have.

YMMV of course.
Good article. I found while doing the same thing a lot of the information online was out of date (for example referencing geth's built-in solc) and unusable.

One addition--Geth 1.6 released a very nice interactive tool called puppeth that creates genesis blocks and provisions testnets, I've found it easier than doing everything myself.

Although once again there really wasn't any tutorial or documentation about puppeth for Ethereum beginners, the only reference I could find was a Taiwanese Ethereum meetup blogpost, which was mostly in Chinese.
Neat. Always interesting to be reminded how far the capabilities have come in so short a time. The PS2 really wasn't all that long ago in the grand scheme of things.

Would be intriguing to see how far older architectures like ps2dev can be pushed on modern hardware.
A) Paywall

B) Pewdiepie

C) That headline makes me think the article was written by a moron. "Investment funds continue investing, compound interest is a thing, what's a profit?"
I think the analogy is true, but in a much more serious way. Smoking is the defining health issue of the previous generation. Everyone did it, and nobody knew (or wanted to admit) that it was slowly killing them. The companies knew, but there was too much money at stake.

I think social media addiction and general internet addiction is destroying the mental health of millions of people around the developed world and nobody is doing much about it. Just as we look back now and go "oh my god they used to smoke in restaurants!" our children may say "holy crap look at this picture of my parents on the phone while they walk!". It's all-consuming.
I'm probably around your age but I remember being a kid and always fantasizing about having some kind of "personal technology" like a phone or device you could take anywhere with you. For the longest time the computer I used was owned by my entire family and was in a common room in our house. I didn't buy my own computer, a laptop, until I was an adult. I didn't have any cell phone until I bought my own as an adult.

But now every 10 year old has their own smartphone, and they are dialed into Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and the internet-at-large 24 hours a day, and while there are obvious benefits in terms of convenience, there is also an "ick" factor to it for me.
Wait ... is that Papyrus on the Bike Friday one‽
But the delay could mean the difference between life and death. Which would encourage users to draw and arm the gun before there's immediate danger, "just in case"...
Elon Musk, Zuckerberg Trade Barbs Over Artificial Intelligence
I think 90% of people here wouldn't comment on this story had they actually tried paint3d.

It's just a mspaint with an updated layout and more features. Y'all are arguing about msoffice 2007 vs 2010.

I never downloaded it, is just bundled like every other utility into insider versions of windows10, its certainly superior to paint.

Almost a bit worrying how fearful of change some hn people are.
Dunno, but you can flash any esp8266 firmware onto it and roll your own API (or other smarts)
So this is kind of an oddly phrased question. It's probably better to think of things in terms of offerings instead of companies. One company might have different offerings using different mechanisms to raise money. And different people can participate in different offerings. Pretty much anybody can participate in a registered offering or a Reg A offering, often called a mini-registration.

A Reg D offering is however limited to accredited investors. With Reg D the SEC is basically saying "We won't require as much disclosure from you, but you'll have to raise money from a more sophisticated investor, ostensibly."

Edit: spelling
Football is also no. Also probably no to rugby and contact hockey. I would prefer to avoid all sports that involve a lot of knocks to the head. They are just sports, it isn't worth it.
Show HN: I2S OCR – Image to Speech App
Hi All,

We just released a new version of our OCR application named I2S last week.

I2S is an OCR scanner that practically turn almost any images with human readable characters into text content which is in turn transformed into human voice in your native language & accent.

Once the image data (Book page, magazine, journal, scientific paper, etc.) recognized & transformed into text content, you'll be able to playback that text in your local accent & over 45 languages of your choice plus a built-in translation service to over 75 languages and the ability to generate PDFs on the fly for your output text.

Finally, I2S is powered by the PixLab[1] Machine Vision Rest APIs.

Playstore Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.symisc.ocr...

(iOS release pretty soon)

App website: https://i2s.symisc.net

[1]: https://pixlab.io/#/cmd?id=ocr
Were these intended as part of an external interface for Gecko? In which case I would say using bitfields (as opposed to explicit masks) was a mistake.

But yes, I can imagine that for Mozilla there is a need to mix Rust and C++ right inside an application at boundaries that are not usually considered external, in which case all kinds of non-portable C constructs are acceptable.
Should they also have the choice to take non-FDA approved drugs?
This is like criticizing the Wright brothers for making a plane that didn't flap wings, or demanding cars that gallop.
And that's why hundreds of bankers went to jail after the financial crisis. oh wait, no, that didn't happen.
Smoking regularly is also terrible for your health, which i think is the main reason it's become so maligned. Despite all the supposed harm social media is not nearly as damaging.
Optimizing Webpack: An Adventure
As a hedge fund manager who just added a token to one of our projects (to help create a resource to combat extremism naturally), I wrote up my thoughts here:

https://medium.com/ananas-blog/sec-on-icos-securities-are-se...

A general rule of tokens is that if they promise a profit they are a scam and if they promise a share of profits a security.

The closer they are to API keys the better in terms of non-securitability.

It is likely that the token usage will gradually bifurcate between those that are "property" and scarce digital assets like Bitcoin (or rarepepes) and those that are API keys.

For our charitable project we've tried to incorporate elements of both to create an interesting token economy to build a useful resource.

Hopefully there will be more of these attempts, both registered as securities and that fall outside of this classification.
Yes, if you want to sell your device you will need to go through Part 15 testing. I think the limit is in something like low-digit kHz.
We're starting off with a chatroom for grant winners, reviewers and some experts. We have other things planned like Q&A over Hangouts, in-person meetups and more. We'll treat this like a startup: experiment with a few options, talk to our users and see what's most useful.

As for value capture, there's no master plan. Getting to know smart people is enough of a reward.
The SEC has already prosecuted a few Bitcoin-related fraud cases even though they don't regulate Bitcoin itself.