skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of those areas where I'd say it comes down to your lawyer. I agree with the general premise being presented, that sometimes the tech community tries to use technology to circumvent problems that aren't technological. That being said, in this specific instance the most effective defense would probably be something to the extent of "Your honor, based on the advice of my legal staff and my own understanding of the law, I was not in direct violation of the DMCA. For this reason, it seemed only logical that the issue must have been that the manner in which I was operating was the problem and not the outcomes of my operation. For this reason, in an attempt to comply with the notice I received, I revised my software to remedy what I understood to be the problem."
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By giving away more than 50% of the equity.

pre-money valuation: $150M

investment : $169.5M

post-money valuation: $319.5M

So the investors got about 53% of the company for $169.5M.
According to that page, some (early) hackathons were held in the US. Also, that page does not explain the reasoning why they're held outside the US. So that page is only a source for the existence of the hackathons, not for the reasons for their non-US location or for why they don't allow US citizens to contribute. (I wasn't the one who downvoted your GGP post.)
Y'know, there is a third position where one can be in support of neither Benchmark nor Travis.

Benchmark obviously did not cause Susan Fowler, Waymo, Greyball or the rape-file.
Travis deserved what he got or worse.

What Benchmark has done is continue to leak negative stories and internal data to gain leverage in boardroom spats. Without pointing fingers this is more or less acknowledged internally. And now they've instigated a very public lawsuit to drag everyone back through the muck. It completely undercuts the majority of thousands of employees who were not complict in any of the above and having been fighting desperately to right the ship.

If Benchmarks position is so righteous and self-evident why can't they just convince the other board members to remove him? No one's that strongly allied with Travis anymore. Ryan Graves and Garrett Camp both publicly declared theyre not voting him back in. There hasn't been a peep from Arianna in months. All the other directors are independent or external investors.

And btw the real fire from Benchmark didnt start until Travis rallied to have Bonderman, Benchmark ally, immediately step down after making mysognist comments at the Holder report all-hands. A role reversal which epitomizes the deeper truth here -- none of this is particularly about ethics; its about money, control and liquidity.
You need access to expertise, equipment, grounds, peer competition. These all require money and/or connections.
Going back even further, Socrates has said the same thing about writing. This new-fangled-thing-is-dumbing-us-down idea is an old idea.
It looks like this is the easiest way to train neural networks with GPU acceleration on my Radeon Pro (i.e. non CUDA)...

Thank you JavaScript!
My experience in the bay area has been that people overwhelmingly leave the area on the weekends. Any freeway that leads away from SF tends to be at a standstill by 3PM every Friday.
Gender differences in personality is cross-cultural [1].

Something to consider is that the Scandinavian countries have arguably done the most for gender equality, but instead saw gender proclivities in occupation choice and personality maximize [2][3][4][5]. Probably because by creating an equality of opportunity, people were free to pursue their interests.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/14018323_Gender_Dif...

[2]: Watch "The Gender Equality Paradox": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5LRdW8xw70

[3]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/223529887_Culture_c...

[4]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24001221_Why_Can%27...

[5]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11825676_Gender_Dif...
Wonderful network isn't the word is use for it. It's more of a patched together hodgepodge. One minute you are on a nice bit of road, the next you are diverted on to some weird alleys round the back of a housing estate. Then you can't see the next sign so you make a guess and hope for the best. Then you say fuck it I'm just riding on the road now.
>I wonder what he would have thought about audiobooks.

Background noise.

Ever since the greeks began taking up writing and reading, and Socrates bemoaning the loss of the ability to memorize entire epics, there has been an attack on "vain" knowledge.

I'd guess in his mind the epitome of a learned person was the aristocratic scientist who read first sources in the native language: Sanskrit, Greek, Latin among others. First sources, always in the original, not interpreted.

I don't doubt that results in improved critical thinking. But whether it's a good investment when you have limited time, I don't know.
I built something like this: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2016/04/10/libreboot-on-my-x60s/

I'm glad that a company is stepping up to build these because the situation with libreboot/coreboot is very confusing. I think the projects forked, plus the documentation is terrible.

As an 11 year old, 32 bit laptop it's not for everyone, but the X60s is small, light and rugged — a real classic — the last version that IBM designed before the Thinkpad brand was acquired by Lenovo. The main problem is sourcing batteries.
laner refers to the initial resource gathering period where you kill the minions spawned from each team's base
I wonder if the property is on his name, or some shelter company.
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auto_ml: Automated machine learning at production speeds.

https://github.com/ClimbsRocs/auto_ml

My dad keeps asking me how I plan on making money from this project, given the amount of effort I've poured into it. He grew even more confused once I told him that a company called DataRobot raised over a hundred million dollars to build essentially the same product.

But it just brings me joy to make ML available to everyone.

If you have any feedback, please let me know! I'd love to know how I can make automl better for you.
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Doesn't work for me on GNU/Linux. I checked a Windows VM and it works from there. My browsing mainly occurs in Linux so this is still an issue.
Interesting indeed. We talk a lot alternatives to sitting, but I don't recall reading anything about this position. Maybe worth trying.
Holy shit. I hope a significant amount of that is background noise rather than an actual use of time.
I thought so too. I had identified the charges as fraudulent but was afraid of retribution from Amazon for the chargeback, so I called them first.

I'm kind of surprised I even caught the transactions given how many legit ones I have each month with them.
They could allow me to purchase only items sold by Amazon, not by third party sellers, with no inventory co-mingling.

Apple bought a bunch of chargers and found over 80% were fake iirc.

If you buy a charger/power brick on amazon, from any vendor, amazon's unethical inventory mingling and lack of care mean there's a very high chance you get a cheap chinese knockoff that wouldn't come close to passing UL.

ps -- I told amazon about a charger they had with a fake Intertek (a UL competitor) mark. Their response was to offer me a refund... and keep selling the device. Which (imo) should be illegal to sell.
A big hero pool you can only pick one of each from is probably easier to balance than something like an RTS where there are a fixed set of units for just a few alternate races and the players typically choose between them once at the start of their career.

You have to consider how every single one of them interacts with all of the others and even less serious imbalances will be present in the games all the times for players that are unable to switch to playing anything else.
If you've got the data, try tossing it into auto_ml: https://github.com/ClimbsRocks/auto_ml

Super easy automated machine learning in Python. Fast enough to run at production speeds. I'm the author, and would love any feedback you have! The whole point of the project is to make ML available to people like you who just like building things, and think their thing could be better with a bit of ML.
How pleased people are this year, or in ten years time? There are lots of ways to make users happy in the short term at the expense of long term benefits.
Well, you're right. My usage of the phrase "something they can't control" as synonymous with unjust discrimination is culturally based. It is possible that one might, for example, find a caste system to be moral. I wouldn't do so, but that doesn't mean others cannot.

However, I must take issue with your statements regarding privilege. Privilege isn't something one chooses to take, it's something one is given and gives. It is impossible for each of us to escape the privileges we're granted and we should all be mindful of them. Everyone is, in some way, privileged.

Again, this isn't a debate about whether or not privilege exists, it's a debate about how/if we go about ensuring that everyone has the privileges they desire. As such, we all have a responsibility to point out the unjust granting of privilege and to not grant it to others ourselves. As policies are a matter of consensus and systematise privilege, I would say that OP is doing the right thing in calling out what they see as unfair and unjust so that we can have this discussion, just as those with opposing perspectives are doing.

I think we've all already come to the conclusion that equality of opportunity is a privilege we all would benefit from. That is, we should all have the freedom to be treated as an individual in individual circumstances. Now, and as always, we have to be careful to separate the debate of whether or not someone should have a privilege from the debate about how we go around systematising that privilege in order to avoid unintended consequences. We've already had the first as a society and now we have to do the work required of the second. It's always a messy process but if it is to be truly representative everyone with a grievance willing to engage in thoughtful, honest discussion should have a seat at the table. It does very little good to discriminate in the talks about how we end discrimination - we would simply be repeating history and, if we don't like how it went the last time, why do that?

Note: I am aware that the first debate is still occurring in some isolated locations. However, I speak from where I have experience and do not claim authority anywhere else.
In my opinion ARTS doesn't describe it better but introduces confusion since it implies these games have something in common with real time strategy games. I don't think they really have anything to do with RTS despite being originally conceived on the Warcraft 3 engine and assets. At least MOBA makes it clear that it's an entirely separate category.
I cannot agree more. Recently I was just happening to run a VM in Hyper-V where the VM is displaying a maximized window. There is literally no boundary between the hyper-V toolbar and the title bar of the window inside the VM. It is infuriating because I keep dragging the wrong thing.

Windows 7's appearance may not be "modern", or it may be too busy, but it looks so much better to my eyes too.
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They would have been the first _proto Canadians_ to arrive in the lower 48, arrived by boat since if they were not native to here they could not very well be (proto) Americans (of the lower 48) --their descendants yes, but the people who landed here were by the nature of things, not from the lower 48.

Or they could simply have claimed, most archeologists believe the first ancient people to arrive in the lower 48, arrived by boat.
I think you are mixing overnight index and overnight index swap. Derivative discounting is based on the index referenced in the CSA, which is typically an overnight index (Fed Fund in USD). To build a forecast curve for this index (and therefore a discount curve) you need to use swaps paying that index, ie OIS, hence the term OIS discounting. You can have any tenor you want for an OIS. When people refer to an OIS and don't specify the tenor, they usually mean a 3m swap, but you can 10y OIS.

You could document a loan paying quarterly with an interest calculated as the average o/n index for these 3 months. In fact that's how weekly CSA work. But that's not very practical for smaller non financial clients. It would be better if there was an index they can observe directly.
oh damn you're right, I didn't catch the humor. Thanks ~
I didn't use the word "stealing", but they take a cut from the grant money allocated to the PI.

Maybe here is another perspective. NSF "Smalls" in my program are 500K, and Army "YIPs" are 360K. If I get a Small or a YIP, and my friend at another university with half the overhead gets the same Small or YIP, my friend will get more spending money than me.

I get 300K on the Small, and my friend gets 380K. To do the essentially same unit quantity of research. A university with a higher overhead takes 80K more from the grant that would have gone to the lab.
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I would suggest [1] instead of Investopedia for a modern treatment of yield curve bootstrapping. The only difficulty with OIS is in my opinion the low liquidity for higher maturities where basis swaps have to be used to estimate a spread to LIBOR IRS.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2219548
(Germany) For example someone used our bank account to buy on Amazon. We found out by checking our bank account. We told Amazon about it, but they only would remove the bank data from that account. No blacklisting of our bank account IBAN or anything else. Then some time later this happened again by the same person with a much larger amount. We discovered it again because we regularly check our bank account. Amazon has no blacklisting or other protection. Again they only removed the account. Then a third time it happened with even a larger amount. Wouldn't we have checked, we'd lost some money. And obviously we would not like to play that game the next 20 years - because let's name it, someone stole from our bank account and Amazon didn't prevent it but helped although told about it.

We made a report online with the police, they had some questions and it never happened again.

This was one of several incidents with Amazon that only involving the police got fixed.
The Novena laptop is pretty rough from a hardware standpoint, but it's usable with 100% free code, all the way from the bootloader to the OS. There's an optional firmware blob for the GPU; everything else is free and has public documentation.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena
I think one potential solution is to not use Facebook and support the smaller startups.

Personally, I prefer spending my time clicking through HN soties rather than the stuff on the news feed.

If only HN also implemented infinite scrolling :)
Being a developer you might enjoy https://cryptotrader.org

Years ago I used an EMA bot & got a feel for what kind of volatility patterns it was good with. Haven't kept up with any of that for years now though.
It totally depends on what client will get if you solve their issue. For example: If you are working on an app which generates $100K/month in revenue you should charge based on flat rate. Your value to the project helps them to generate revenue. Every client wants to get benefit hiring someone who can solve their issue. In this case, you will develop their bug-free app which helps them to sell on apps store and google play store. Your charges always depend on what value you provide to your clients.
There's a lot bandied about "Thought control" or brain controlled devices to replace existing HCIs, but many fail to realize that our input devices aren't just used for input but are tools which help us amplify our thought process.
> No one wants to touch US residents when cryptocurrencies are involved.

It's not only cryptocurrencies. As soon as you're taxable in the United States it's pretty much impossible to get a brokerage account at most European brokers (I don't know about other regions). Unfortunately "just use a US based broker then" doesn't work as answer if you're a non-resident US citizen, as lots of US brokerage companies close accounts of non-residents.

At this point you're pretty much a customer that no-one wants to deal with.
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You know, a 2 handicap is far from being a master. The gap from 2 to +2 is bigger than that from 12 to 2. And a +2 is quite good. But if you're a +2, how do you get yourself to be a +3? Pray to the golf gods? The gulf there is vast. And even then, you're far, far from PGA Tour level. Those guys are good.

The way I'd put it is, this guy made himself be a competent golfer. He could average 2 over the course rating on the better half of his rounds. Not bad. Really, that's an achievement many golfers would dream of. He's broken 70, and what more is there to life?

I met a guy that started in his 60's after retiring. He hit scratch by the time he was 70.

Hearing that there's only 326,000 active golfers actually makes hitting the PGA Tour sound much more realistic than I would have thought. You only have to be one in two thousand. Edit: Thanks, no, it's 1 in 326,000, which makes way much more sense.
That's a little on the high side, but it's not surprising. I work for a company that pays even more for new customers, though we have much higher revenue. An "acquired" user is like an asset when you sell your company.
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> Now, we as a society are becoming illiterate, incapable of basic reading comprehension.

That's an extraordinary claim. Do you have evidence to back it up? Because from a cursory glance, studies seem to show the opposite: https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ourwor...
>“We [talked] about the idea of quitting everything to pursue something single-mindedly and whole-heartedly,” McLaughlin recounts. “Did you need talent or was it all about hard work?”

Why not apply that mindset to commercial photography, the field he was already in?
I think 30 days is really reasonable to see if something shipped or not. Maybe eBay could do more to alert you but if you purchase something you really should follow up and make sure you're getting it.
So they invented boats that can travel across the ocean, but after more than ten thousand years they never invented the wheel?

And we have consensus on this?
That's an impossible question to answer without running real numbers. It might be cheaper to buy the gasoline (or electricity). Or not.
We monetised through a mix of In App Purchases for products like Extra Swipes (see more profiles daily) and Instant Match (guaranteed to be seen to a soecified user) as well as a Premium subscription offering that includes some supplemental features as well as bundles of the IAPs. People don't always like the realities of the app economy but in truth we didn't monetise anything that was previously free. The free product is still as functional as ever. We modify pricing from time to time, you can see these in-app and in-stores, thanks.
What do you mean now we are voluntarily enslaving ourselves ?

This was already happening in 1548 as pointed out in the discourse on voluntary servitude[1].

[1]: http://www.constitution.org/la_boetie/serv_vol.htm
Roger Wagner here, creator of HyperStudio. Thanks for the mention!
If you read the market section of the FT every day for a year, you will probably read enough articles with an introduction to all of these concepts to have a good enough understanding. But like any other profession, if you dive into the details, it can get quite complicated very quickly. There are lots of introductary books to each area of finance. For interest rates, the best book I have read is Interest Rate Swaps and Their Derivatives: A Practitioner's Guide by Amir Sadr. It's been written a few years ago and some things have moved on since but that's still an excellent, very practical, not too mathematical introduction to interest rate products.
Sorry to hear that, I thought I chimed in on most topics! All hands on deck for demo day, having another read through now
People are reading more than ever thanks to the internet and literacy rates are up.

The problem is whether those readers and reading things that challenge their world view rather than just affirm everything they already think.
This worries me... Having read 451 several years ago (and absolutely loving it) how do I know if I've read an uncensored version or not?
I don't say this to be mean, but what about things like hard disk firmware?
Depends on the definition of literacy[1] turns out the low end (basic literacy) is getting better and the high end (full proficiency) is getting worse.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States
It's hard to quantify those risks when you have a rock star CEO. As long as Musk can keep the hype train going he'll be able to borrow money cheaply, which will make today's investment less risky.
Some of it undoubtedly is, but I suspect that there are a number of people who actually watch 7+ hours of TV per day. Remember that TV watching is concentrated among older people; the average for 18-24 year olds is 2 hours/day, for 65+ year olds, it's 7 hours/day, and even for just 50+ year olds it's > 6 hours/day. [1] "Media multitasking" is concentrated among the young, those < 35 years old, who watch the least TV anyway.

Just thinking back to my childhood in the 80s, I could totally believe this. I'd come home at 3:30, watch the entire Disney Afternoon until 5:00 when my mom would get home, pretend I hadn't been watching anything, then watch the news with her (6:00-6:30), have dinner, and then usually watch an hour or two more of primetime. That's about 4 hours a day, as a 9-year-old.

These were the habits of three whole generations (Silent, Boomers, and Gen-X) and half of another (Millenials). I don't watch any TV now, but that's because computer games and the Internet replaced it in my teenage years.

[1] http://www.marketingcharts.com/featured-24817
Great question. Not particularly as the current Chaperone system works as an email digest of conversations sent to your confirmed guardian. In the future we want to explore adding full muzmatch account functionality here so the chaperone can sign into the native apps and view conversations in a more realtime manor.
> You want this 'art' to stay around, post it directly on archive.org

I... had never actually thought of that before.
Previous discussion from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12101347 (169 comments)