skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really hard to do this on an administrative level with the way that the price mechanism currently works. Prices are set at the margin, based on the most recent transaction. If I decide I'm willing to pay $72,000 for a single share of Microsoft stock, then Microsoft stock will momentarily be worth $72k, at least until the next transaction, and Bill Gates will be 1000x richer on paper. Similarly, if I turn around and sell that one share for 1 cent, Microsoft's value (and the net worth of everyone who owns it) will momentarily be cut by 7200x.

When do you assess the tax? If it's at any predictable interval of time, it opens the market up to massive manipulation schemes where people crash their own stocks to avoid paying taxes and bid up their rivals so they'll be forced to owe a massive tax bill.

You could I guess take an average over time to avoid the manipulation efforts, but then you still run into the issue many dot-com paper millionaires faced, where they were assessed a tax bill based on the paper value of their options but when it came time to pay it, the stock wasn't worth enough money to cover the taxes.

That's why we have the current system, where capital gains are taxed as income (though at a lower rate), but only when you sell them. That's the only time when you can put a fair value on the asset being sold, when it's convertible into the currency you actually plan to pay the taxes with.
No, develop on Windows and deploy on Windows Server with the new POSIX subsystem.
I can't say I have any great ideas, but they sure keep popping into my head involuntarily. It feels weird to me for people surf the web without frustration, never thinking to themselves, "what if this, but without the annoying/hard to use stuff?" If you do do that, then those are ideas.
I keep a spreadsheet of ideas i get from podcasts and reading books.
Please read the article and contribute something useful instead of your off-broadway Black Mirror episode.

The algorithm didn't focus much on emotions of the subjects in the photos.
> The author feels comfortable making the claim women are biologically more neurotic, in a professional setting, no less. His "citation" for this fact is Wikipedia. This is unimaginative sexist bullshit that everyone has heard before. That people feel the impulse to defend this is disgusting.

Wikipedia might not be the most credible source, but the differences in big 5 personality traits between men and women are well documented.

[Here's a study that finds the same, looking at > 17,000 people from 55 different countries.](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anu_Realo/publication/2...). There's plenty more on google scholar.
More sample fodder for the EDM artists and rappers. Always a good thing.
You do realize that section only focuses on genetic traits and completely ignores cultural context, right? Why do you think that is?
And here I was thinking that I was being all moderate by not calling it a "screed" or a "rant".
I don't really see how society would fail to function without religion. OP is claiming that our society relies on false beliefs to function efficiently.
Absolutely. Not much different from 'i am over 18' checkbox on a porn site.
In 2007 I faced a lot of racism by right wing nut jobs because I am a brown man, athiest, who came here from the middle East. And yes, also detained at airports (had SSSS "printed" on my boarding pass perpetually ).

But in 2016, I got called a neo nazi islamophobe for daring to question question SPLC for putting Majid Nawaz and Ayan Hirsi Ali on their Target list! And I have watched with my jaw on the ground how Linda Sarsour is now a women's leader!

I have no space in the American political discourse. I know I hate the right wing... They did some horrible things to me because of where I come from and my skin color. But I now absolutely detest the left wing for calling me a neo Nazi(!!) islamophobe for criticizing actions of some of these left wing orgs. I feel only relief now claiming I am not left wing.
Introducing Functions as a Service (FaaS)
The article claims "Without its internal heaters turned up to-the-max, a shrew would leak out all of its heat and freeze. And this explains its furious appetite."
That has turned out to be the comedy of the cash systems in the US. As I noticed the cash readers / auto change makers being installed in a lot of locations, it was just in time to rarely be used due to the shift to everyone using cards.
Ideally you don't want to port the C/C++ over to Python: that's the value proposition of mJS, I think.
Yeah, I was surprised to see that Neuroticism was a technical term for a phenomenon with a well studied gender gap. If you don't know that it sounds pretty mean.
> Without significantly reworking current infrastructure the challenges presented by city driving are too fuzzy to guarantee safety.

But, there's no guarantee of safety now. Human drivers are fallible and fail all the time.

A guarantee of safety is a crazy metric to require before we can allow autonomous vehicles. A better metric is: "before the vehicle is more safe than the median human driver". Once it hits that level of safety, it should be in the streets.
How so? Trump has shown time and again that he acts out against sound advice. I could see things spiraling out of control with reactions and counter reactions to nuclear/ICBM testing.

Obviously I don't think he's going to wake up one day and obliterate NK, but what happens when NK does another test--maybe an aerial test to really flout the world and show off a mushroom cloud--and Trump's reaction is to lob some missiles at their known nuclear sites? Lobbing missiles is what he did when he got angry seeing dead kids on cable news, it's not out of the realm of possibility. Is that when Seoul starts getting shelled? What do we do if thousands of people in Seoul start dying?

Update: This is Trump's statement about the news...

https://twitter.com/AP/status/895003246372294657

> If NKorea escalates nuclear threat, 'they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.'

Still want to bet on his rational reaction thought process?
Anonymous releases new software to brake the stock market and make everone rich
I had specific examples of ACE, diuretics and PPIs generics in mind.
If I understand correctly, Evergreen uses written evaluations rather than grades, and this has evidently worked well for students and faculty for a long time. But are students allowed to petition for changes in these evaluations?
New York Fed Issues Its First Report on Startup Firms
Will Google also fire employees who 1) publicly support him in internal discussion, or 2) privately support him?

Based on the reasoning of Google's excutives, I don't see why they would not do 1 or 2.
I believe that's also how diesel trains work.
Seems like it would put you in a position to publish a, say, quarterly collection of the results. Combine that with a Patreon or something similar if other people enjoy the stories that come from the prompts, and you might break even while still getting the stories you like :) Seems like most short story publishers run in a deficit so if you're accepting that from the start you're in a better position than most.
photoshop, muscle memory

in that order
what adjectives would you find for the following comment....

'The study findings of increased prefrontal cortex blood flow in women compared to men may explain why women tend to exhibit greater strengths in the areas of empathy, intuition, collaboration, self-control, and appropriate concern. The study also found increased blood flow in limbic areas of the brains of women, which may also partially explain why women are more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, insomnia, and eating disorders.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/ip-whm080717...
Wow, nice work. Just downloaded and tested it out, I'll definitely be using this.
i'd kill for opportunities like this.

but maybe we have to make our own opportunities, so: how about a startup that provides science fiction writing thought leadership as a service?

dibs on founder
I would also like to plug Vim. I use it for both Clojure and C++ development, and it handles both like a champ.
That sounds like the most terrifying option available.
McMaster is also currently persona non grata around the WH and alt-right which is not comforting. If he gets the axe things get more tense.
Crawl the whole website. Check SEO issues, spelling, server errors including broken links and missing resourses and so on
https://seocharger.com
I'm one of the founders. Welcome :)
Why, do you think that if we exit the EU things will become instantly better? It will be much, much worse for the foreseeable future. Greece isn't self-sustained. We import pretty much everything, from oil to fertilizers.
It seems that this grew out of a project initially designed to port Android apps to Windows Phone https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/04/why-m....
For us, the idea came from working at a startup doing something completely different. We were developing a software to leverage the Cloud as primary storage. At the time I joined, I wanted to understand the space better and how our competitors were positioning themselves. I looked for tools that can show top performing content across blogs and social media networks, I wanted to see what type of messaging was resonating with people and driving the most traffic and engagement. I found a few but they lacked the simplicity and ease of use that I had in mind. Most would return the results in an excel/table format or just give you a link with some stats and force you to manually visit each link to see the actual content and what people were saying. After I left the company, I decided to pursue this idea and build a social media management platform that can solve this problem (among others). In a nutshell, the idea came from a problem I encountered in the past. Our platform is going live in a couple of weeks https://socialweaver.com.
There are only 2 ML courses on Udacity. One is by Georgia tech and the other is by Sebastian Tron Legacy.
It's a free resource in a pool, probably in interruptible wait() or poll(), but don't you think this is an implementation detail and separate topic of discussion from a thread carrying out program logic and stuck on, say, uninterruptible IO?
I guess there's a difference between being a socially awkward or kinda "crusty" software genius and being an actively anti-social and/or sociopathic software genius. Maybe I'm just thinking of the typical "high performing asshole" that Bob Sutton writes about.

Nobody, even other technical people, deserves to work with assholes. Period.
As a non-american I have to ask: why sign up for new credit cards all the time?
> Bitcoin was supposed to be a medium of exchange.

Who decides what it is supposed to be? If serves as a place to store value, then it can do that regardless of what people think it is supposed to be.

Maybe bitcoin will never be used for smaller, more common transactions, and it will remain solely a store of value. But I think it is simply a matter of time before a solution is found to the technical problem of creating a cryptocurrency (or maybe cryptocurrencies) that can serve the purpose of handling many smaller transactions.
> The author feels comfortable making the claim women are biologically more neurotic,

Nope. "Neuroticism" is a technical term, a big-five personality trait. Everyone has it to some degree and having less is not necessarily better, just like all the other traits.

What you are getting all riled about is "neurotic", which is related to a psychiatric condition (although the term is apparently no longer used – who knew?)

> declaring women unfit to work

Yeah, he didn't do that.

Please calm down and read the actual text. If things seem weird or rile-worthy, maybe ask first. Or look.

I did a little writeup, http://blog.metaobject.com/2017/08/the-science-behind-manife... there are probably others that are better.

EDIT: language
Almost certainly not, as diesel and gasoline have very different self-ignition properties.
See, as much as it's a meme at this point, this is really where the GNU/Linux distinction is important. WSL is really GNU/Windows which is probably horrifying and a massive success story for the FSF.
I'm struggling with the same reasoning: NOx is the result of high combustion temperatures, which is a pure function of the compression ratio (and fuel mixture), which is the thing that defines the high efficiencies you can get with a diesel cycle.

The argument in the linked wikipedia entry is that combustion temperatures are lower in this cycle because the better fuel/air mixing means it can burn much leaner and thus at a lower temperature. But a leaner mixture means lower power for a given displacement too, which means lower efficiency than a comparable traditional diesel (which are already hard-pressed to see gains like the 40% claimed against well-tuned gas engines).

Honestly the whole thing sounds very snake oily to me. I don't deny that it's possible such a thing could be tuned to operate as well as a traditional engine, but... it sounds awfully fiddly. I'd want to see numbers from a production engine in a real car before placing any bets. Electric continues to look like a much better bet to my eyes.
You can use sci-fi novels as a way to normalise actions. Take drone warfare for example. If we actually thought about what that meant, it's pretty terrifying, but we've been conditioned by our media to find it fairly ordinary.
Numerous large restaurant chains in the US (eg Olive Garden) have installed small interactive screens at every table that act as a terminal, that do other things including take orders. When your meal is finished you pay by card at the machine and leave (it prints your receipt as well). I would expect this premise to essentially spread everywhere among non-fast-food chains.
You don't find it, it finds you. You first have a problem or see a problem that annoys you, later you discover how to solve that issue and make a world little better place. Finally you get hands on and create a side project with the idea that solves the problem.

Or simple you like to do something by passion and spend time on it.
Yes, when I said plane I really meant the parallelogram. By rotor I literally just meant "a thing that spins" - you could draw a circle on the parallelogram with an embedded arrow describing the direction it is spinning - that arrow could either be going clockwise or counterclockwise.
Sure, it might be less evil than some bosses I've had.
Agree with you. (not sure about most recent version)

The same with ID Tech, Unity, RAGE and CryTech/Dunia games. One can spot them "from 50 feets away", or at least when trying out the controls, the character physic gets rarely changed at all. (I cannot say the same thing for Frostbite 3 and AnvilNext, the are more modern.) And many Unreal and Unity games use the standard shaders included with the dev kit.

(e.g. Titanfall 2 based on Source 2 still feels very like the controls from Quake 1, well it's based on the same engine after all).
Could black holes also be masking an infinite number of stars?

Stephen Hawking notes in his book "A Brief History of Time" that we know that there aren't infinite stars because otherwise the night sky would have no patches of darkness since an infinite number of stars would imply that you could shoot out an arbitrary ray from earth and it would always reach a star.

However, black holes (lots of them!) could trap light and obscure line-of-sight stars.
Reducing the false negative makes getting a job "easier" (a higher percentage of applicants succeed) and therefore is lowering the bar. I understand your point about how this metaphor may not be exactly the right language to use, but that seems like a trivial difference in semantics and not content.
Wankels are cool but they really don't have an advantage over regular engines other than vibrating less as far I know. And they have a few distinct disadvantages.
1. sure. Im saying that readers should be aware of the fixed pie fallacy. People like to think that there is a fixed amount of growth given to us, and then we divide it up between the percentiles. It does not work like that. People can create growth, it does not come from the gods.

2. Income can be negative, yet the NYTs did not even touch losses. Change in wealth is what people care about, it makes more sense to compare, and it what people naturally assume when we compare income over time. NYT were comparing revenue only and calling it income purposely to hide the full picture.

3. yes, but the gap in lifestyle is small is my point. Smaller than any point in history. Whether you think diversity is natural and just, or injust, is more opinion however. Not worth going into that further.

Keep in mind, despite any income changes, a larger fraction of todays wealthy income goes to investments than any time in history. Because of this, while they may be incredibly rich, their QoL is not as vastly improved by income changes as the past. Most investments will be in things that have very little impact on their QoL, foreign homes, stocks, bonds, etc. I think this is because today it is easier to reach a level where you are satisfied with your QoL, and don't see the reason to consume your income in QoL changes than in the past. Profit from these investments will generally be reinvested, not consumed on QoL.

4. That single point was well stated. I'm not quoting the whole thing - just giving attribution.
The op speaks about the choices of people based on thier lived experience of working these jobs, and the grand parent is also arguing inside that context. You present arguments that clearly seek to support of the GP, but talk about the outsiders erroneous perception of these jobs when their harshness is an agreed premise. And its not even my premise you argue againts, I merely inherited it from the the user you try to defend!
What's your point?

If we would like to stop using an irrelevant but unchangeable trait (such as gender or race) as a basis for hiring and recruiting, what should we do?
I'm unfamiliar with the Cantillon effect, but from a quick glance at Wikipedia and the Mises Wiki, it looks like he basically anticipated Friedman's monetarist theory a few centuries early? That's a little different; it doesn't touch on the differences in competitiveness between different industries (I guess there weren't really different industries in Cantillon's time), and instead is more concerned about the response of the balance of trade to changes in the money supply.
This is actually really interesting. Google doesn't have a kernel so they're borrowing Linux. Microsoft doesn't have a good developer userspace so they're borrowing GNU's.
Similarly, check out where all the jobs for your industry are or you'll find yourself locked in a year lease commuting 2.5 hours across the city.
Hackers Demand Millions in Bitcoin for Stolen HBO Files
I cannot prove the contents of an internal university policy, but I think you are trying to make excuses for a story you find exciting.
Take a look at https://steemit.com
It's a blogging / social media platform built on a blockchain that rewards quality content with cryptocurrency.

Some people make hundreds of dollars per post.
Just because I am not clear, are you suggesting that the pharmaceutical industry be unregulated? You don't want your pharmacy subjected to regulation? How about professional engineers and physicians?
Couldn't the separate system just be employees, or be a security camera you don't see?
> If this is not the case he should apologize for it.

Even if your understanding is correct for which of the 3 points he should apologize for. My opinion is none.
I know what neuroticism is.
That's fine, my argument applies to YC and other investors in addition to the founders.
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But this is an announcement about a feature addition to the Windows Server product (not Win10, which already has it), which does little to no image editing in practice and tends to be touched by zero muscle-driven input devices in production use.
> Have they placed additional restrictions on the GPL (which I believe you are prohibited from doing)?

At that point, doesn't the trivial defense just become "It's not GPL. It's my own custom license which happens to have all the requirements of the GPL plus $my_awesome_additions"?
TrueTime and External Consistency
No. Check out this video by Zach Tellman. He talks about queues and how they break down under load. One of the least intuitive things he points out is that when you have more processors, the breakdown tends to be more of a step function: everything is running smoothly till the moment that it isn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bNOO3xxMc0

The point he makes arises from basic queue theory and is applicable to all kinds of systems, and how those systems react to load. It's got little to due with particular hardware and everything to do with basic math.
It's possible you just got a good record as well. The benefits may be more prominent on records that are worn or otherwise have playback peculiarities. There has always been an often subjective art to vinyl, both in it's production and it's playback.
There is no well defined financial distinction between insolvency and whatever you want to call the situation in which the marked to market net value of a bank's assets goes negative due to a fall in prices during a liquidity crisis.† There almost certainly were such situations during the last crisis, when a bank's book value went negative, and yet it was not deemed to be insolvent.

That's because in practice insolvency is not so much a financial concept but an accounting and legal one, and in those domains it refers only to situations in which a corporation cannot meet its financial obligations as they come due. In ordinary circumstances that convention gives corporations some leeway to re-negotiate their obligations to stave off insolvency. But during a liquidity crisis it means that an institution whose book value goes negative (temporarily?—who knows?) will or won't become insolvent in part depending on whether third parties are willing to lend to it to plug the hole that exists in its books at the moment. That means that solvency during such periods is a bit of an artificial thing, depending in part on the of vagaries of the marketplace, as well as the judgement and munificence (or whim, if you'd like) of central bankers and other governmental actors.

> Without fractional reserve banking, there cannot be credit.

This is not true. There can be credit, just not with the simultaneous fiction that creditors retain access to the money they've lent. Bond markets and old-fashioned money-market bank accounts operate without that fiction, for instance.

† — Or for that matter during a classic bank run, which is another form of liquidity crisis. A typical bank operating on fractional reserve is solvent in the sense that over some indefinite future time horizon it should be able to give its depositors their money if they demand it, since the money the bank is owned in loans exceeds the money the bank owes its depositors. But a bank does not enough money in its vaults to pay all its depositors if they all want it back at the same moment; if no third party is willing to lend cash to the bank suffering the run ("provide it liquidity"), then it will become insolvent, no matter what its book value.