skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The leaders of most public companies are indeed influenced by analysts and investors. The reason is because the leaders of most publicly traded companies can be fired by the board, and the board's perception of leader performance is influenced by analyst opinions and the opinions of large and/or influential shareholders. In Google's case, Larry and Sergey hire and fire the board, not the other way around. There is a meaningful difference between the corporate governance dynamics at Google and most other public companies.
It's virtually impossible that all governments get together and outlaw it. And it's not even like with drugs where it can be argued that they are harmful. So there will still be plenty of countries in the world who wouldn't outlaw or heavily regulate it and they will thrive, while others will miss out.
I commend you guys to work on a donation basis; also it's important to have someone with training (a former monk?) as the teacher.

Personally, what I find confusing about the website is that it conveys a feeling of a Buddhist monastery (with the leave and meditation posture as symbol, the domain name clearly aims at monasticism) but I'm not sure if it is a monastery or not; not sure if the teacher is a monk or not; the meditation section also notes that there are talks about Buddhism but not exclusively.

If people want to teach mindfulness its none of my business, but if you want to teach some kind of Buddhism I believe it is best to leave it at the Buddhist monks and nuns - those are the ones that can/should teach in the first place.
"But a $12,000 a year per adult basic income is another matter. The Roosevelt paper finds that paying for it would require increasing household tax revenue by 120 percent — a more than doubling. To do that, it assumes that all but the poorest 40 percent pay more in taxes. The middle quintile (households with an income between $48,300 and $85,600, per the Tax Policy Center) would see their average tax rate go from 14 percent to 25 percent; the top one percent would see its average tax rate go from 32.9 percent to 67.9 percent."

Well, this idea is dead in the water then.
I don't have advanced BIOS and most of the BIOS uses a safe set of values is my assumption.

However BIOSes catered to overclocking crowd has this functionality.

Ref1: http://www.overclock.net/t/1490835/the-gigabyte-z97x-overclo...

Ref2: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ram-overclocking-guide,review-...

Also remember that the training also depends on the environmental temperature.

> I can completely understand it being a struggle now. At some point was I thinking of getting into tinkering with DDR3/4 on FPGAs

Understanding of the different values for the registers which the tool recommends and validating the value is a real pain although some of the vendors such as Micron's datasheets explains things nicely.

Xilinx MIG has a really dense guide and you really need to understand your timing etc. It is really not for the faint hearted.
"Or will you be holding digital Beanie Babies somewhere down the line?"

Thanks for the chuckle... good way to start off the day!
Seems like there are some good arguments here for making Windows free (as in beer) but open source? I don't get it.
Postmates laid off all its city managers yesterday
They don't ignore cryptocurrencies, they just don't recognize them as 'currencies'[1][2], since they're not backed by a central authority (government or bank).

And by their very definition, don't expect either party to fully recognize each other. Central banks operate on the premise of centralizing, cryptocurrencies operate on the premise of decentralizing.

[1] A rather old post, on ex-Fed (Central Banker) Alan Greenspan take : https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-intrinsic-value-alan-greens...
[2] A recent post, on current central banker of Mexico take: https://www.coindesk.com/bank-of-mexico-governor-bitcoin-mor...
Damn these new drinks with their DRM, that you need to buy each time you want to consume them...
Please, let HN be my one sanctuary where I don't have to see references to this show.
CSS-in-JS can be a security hazard
That's good, I suppose, but the fact that anything like this was ever in there kinda suggests something fundamentally wrong in their approach. But I haven't looked at the actual code, and maybe I'm being too pessimistic.
Uh huh.

So every news outlet give Trump's a snowball's chance in hell of winning and Hillary Clinton is a member of the political establishment, but there's no democracy; plebian votes don't count.

People may it may not reach" correct" conclusions, but America is most certainly democratic.
It's not open source unless it's an open source license, and it's not an open source license unless it meets https://opensource.org/osd-annotated. You are referring to "source available". Please stop conflating the two.
As I mentioned, It is already happening.

https://github.com/SteveSanderson/Blazor

https://github.com/kg/ilwasm

https://github.com/konsoletyper/teavm

In two to three years time, Flash will be back.
I'm skeptical of that claim. The only economies that Chicago is at the middle of in the Midwest are agriculture futures for big ag business and options trading for big financial business. Otherwise, Chicago's economic footprint outside of Illinois extends to cover Milwaukee and maybe western Michigan and Indiana.

If Illinois suffered an economic collapse I'm pretty sure the futures and options exchanges could be moved out of the city in short order. There are other big cities on Lake Michigan or Superior that can (and do) act as ports that could take over the shipping traffic. What else would be left?
I appreciate it but I never mentioned made in USA :)
Kind of a r/ShowerThoughts, we should maybe make an app & voluntarily fill our Contacts app with specific human like crap values & then sync all major apps with it thus peppering their gold-pots with waste contacts & by the time they catch up, the damage is already done. Rinse & repeat with slightly different values.
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Man in jail 2 years for refusing to decrypt drives. Will he ever get out?
Cowboy is a new e-bike startup from founders of Take Eat Easy
Cool! I tried it with our logo (https://www.airbornos.com/images/logo-mark.png), which is super generic (I spent $0 on it). It came up as 96% unique, even though there's two icons of clouds in the list of similar icons. Furthermore, it would be cool if it looked for similarity with a database of other logos as well, and not just icons.

Other small point: maybe you could show the uploaded logo again next to the other logos in the "Color/Contrast" and "Overall" categories, to (probably) drive home the point how bad your logo is in comparison.
China, as of yesterday, is considering a blanket ban on all ICOs. Ethereum prices, of course, appreciated as a result.

I think crypto-anarchists will always find technology to "route around" any bad sectors in the network. Even if it comes down to sharing e-wallets via secure bluetooth mesh networks in ad-hoc fashion.

The more impactful story may be the way Big Banks are adopting blockchain tech. As with the R3 consortium and open-source Corda project:

https://www.corda.net/

Another data point to watch is LedgerX, the first LedgerX CFTC-regulated Swap Execution Facility (SEF) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) for crypto currencies.

https://ledgerx.com/introducing-ledgerx/
That formula will give an item a higher score the more down votes it gets. A better approach is

score = (pos + a) / (tot + b).

Where a<b, e.g. a=1, b=2.

See this post why that formula follows from Bayesian reasoning: http://julesjacobs.github.io/2015/08/17/bayesian-scoring-of-...
Monaco and its cryptocards
Neat!

Found a minor bug: it seems like if you upload an SVG that it gets internally rendered at a pretty low resolution, I got better results when I converted it to a 512x512 PNG myself and re-uploaded.

Edit: it also should probably mention that it only really works with square logos ;)
BigData and ML Example and Toolset Weekly Roundup – Aug. 31, 2017
…not if they're moving faster.
jesus christ. the damage our own government has done to microsoft is just insane. if i was a shareholder I would be so pissed.

big companies go along with this behavior and collude with the government, but if this has a big enough effect on the bottom line, then it will happen less.
Gold is valuable because if the world economy collapses, there is still intrinsic value in gold because it's shiny and pretty and I can hold it.

IF the world economy collapses, bitcoins are useless. The internet would fail, people wouldn't have computers to use them any more. You can't do anything with bitcoins if you don't have a huge network of computers to sustain the system.
Correct. And to that some would say that the latest agile craze and the large number of shops using agile is because of clueless management. It's not the miracle cure some people want it to be.
I'd agree that the example of spending a dollar is a gross over simplification. I'd go further to say that there are good reasons to not allow just anyone to issue an exotic derivative. If you're going to draw up contracts, you should have a good understanding of how the rules of the contract work.
Although using a language other than JavaScript may help prevent some errors, it does not fix the fundamental issue of responsibility. One should not enter into a complex contract, blockchain or not, without fully understanding the contract itself. If instead of understanding the contract, you are relying on the structure of the language to protect you, well, you're doing it wrong.
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Show HN: Why IoT needs simulation instead of load testing
Sorry to be a downer but...what does this have to do with Hacker News, exactly?
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This post is from last week, follow the other links at the top to see some previous ones: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6v65ji/reddit_rede...

You can see the beginnings of it on the new profile pages, for example https://www.reddit.com/user/kn0thing
While this comment has been downvoted at the time I write this, it has some good points. First, malnourished women still make pretty decent breastmilk, although there's a point at which that is no longer true. Second, it is abusive to institute practices like routinely separating mother & infant at birth, which dramatically impacts breastfeeding success for the worse. Formula is expensive and breastmilk is free (although it certainly takes time and effort, and pumping isn't free). Fostering dependence on a commercial product when it's not necessary and the parties involved are poor is really immoral. When you have a choice between formula and diapers and bus fare to your job... what do you choose? Your breastmilk has dried up and letting the kid starve is not an option. (Plenty of moms in this situation do water down the formula a bit to try to stretch it a little longer, and this has its own harms, but they're reasoning that missing the bus is the first step on a path to homelessness which is also a great harm.)
I've seen petabyte-scale SANs for bioinformatics HPCs. Other sciences (esp. the high energy physics community) have similarly scaled storage and compute requirements.
Yeah, more likely the rich would just self-fund fascist paramilitaries to keep "the poors" in line like they've always done.
The beauty of decentralisation. If Bitcoin (or other) continues on it's path and becomes widely used globally, the government has a huge disincentive to ban it. Lets say China, EU etc integrate $Crypto into their financial system, it would be economic self-harm for another player to ban its use.
can't wait for iOS 11 and Safari's anti-AMP

What are you referring to? Safari adds a feature requested by Google that if you share an AMP page it shares the canonical URL and not the AMP url. Is that the "anti-AMP"?

The screeds and anger about AMP on here absolute baffle me.
China has already surpassed its 2020 solar target
Ah yes, I remember seeing an interaction that was probably yours, tried to find it for my comment, but never did.
Performant Angular UIs with large data sets
to ship that, you have to call an Ubear...
I think if govt gets involved in any way, its surely the demise
Some people choose not to breastfeed because it is a pain in the butt (or, rather, pain in the breast). If they are educated on why breast milk is a better choice then more people will choose to breast feed.
I disagree. The majority of money that generated the electronic boom were from defense spending. I'm not trying to pick a fight, but I personally don't find what he is doing to be effective in a sense larger than the personal interest of a user of a device that wouldn't exist if it weren't for the nuclear state. I mean to say, is Raytheon's freedom to use a compiler as important as individual freedom? There are some logical gaps there to me. I can see where people would disagree with me, and I personally like the man. I've met him...it's a weird story, but I think he's a really cool person. I just don't necessarily agree with him.
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I mean it's basically the same work you were doing before but now your articles can be featured in Google's carousel and you get absolutely no 'wink wink' ranking boosts.
Is the WikiLeaks site not responding to requests?
This is an opinion piece, not a news article. I don't think it's appropriate to flag it. From the HN Guidelines: "If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it ... When you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
I'm getting dns lookup failure.

Did they piss someone off too much this time?
The Age of Design Is Over. Make Way for the Age of (Artificial) Intelligence
It's mostly posers who malign others for their choice of platform or tools. Show me what you built. Usually guys like that have never built shit, but still ruthlessly criticize others.
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But suppose the technical managers of that currency and one or more governments are constantly playing whack-a-mole, wouldn't that degrade the scalability and usability of that currency? At least for the non-savvy people in those countries?
We'll add a tax on private armies first.
Progress is being made: https://blockstream.com/satellite/satellite/
Color-contrast seems highly dependend on how much whitespace there is within the image. It should evalute with some added white padding.
Box filling algos are rough. Working in ecomm for many years and trying to optimize costs, you spend a lot of time thinking about these kinds of problems. Apparently Amazon's answer is "F it" as they send massive boxes for tiny things frequently.

Slightly related, I worked in the sign printing industry for many years as well. There we also had fitting algorithms for ganging vector designs into runs for printing and cutting on large format printers. Those are a lot easier since it's 2D only, but they are still hard to get to perfection.
That's part of the problem here. Appropriately rating different types of things differ in various ways.

A simple utilitarian object? It mostly works or it doesn't.

A movie? Just to start with, there's the rating of the movie itself vs. the rating for this particular DVD. And then there are the dimensions on which the movie itself could be rated.

Or you just throw your hands up in the air and either do a thumbs up/down or a 5 star rating system on the grounds that it's better than nothing.
Wasn't it what WhatsApp did years ago?

And then Facebook acquired it and was able to complete its database of world's relationships.
I saw this on /r/design last night[1], haven't tried it yet, but based on the comments, it's not as intelligent as advertised. It ranks low the uniqueness of the Nike logo and high a dumb meme.

I'm not complaining, the technology is cool and no doubt it will get to a point that it can critique objectively a logo, but it's not yet here.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/Design/comments/6wz4ho/logo_rank_is...
As long there is no consistent and measurable value to back the cryptocurrency, the word "currency" in that construction is senseless. Who is buying goods or services using bitcoins? Anyone? That is just because nobody wants to sell something using a mega-volatile "currency", unless they want to speculate. The problem in the economy is that basic trading IS NOT speculative. Both, the seller and the buyer of goods and services have a strong understanding of what the value of their goods and services will be in one year in a currency, when that is denominated to a universally accepted value.

At this point, cryptocurrencies are just tradable speculative assets. They are not first-class-citizen currencies due to the major flaw exposed above.

No government in this world will ever give up the power to control its currency through this body called "the central bank".

The only one condition to make this a true currency that is out of the hands of the central banks is that EVERYBODY in this world will give up their currency and adopt ONE AND VERY SAME cryptocurrency. Since this is not a plan a government is willing to accept, they won't accept the cryptocurrencies either, since governments are the biggest money handlers.

If that is not possible, and very likely not to be, having a central bank to control a cryptocurrency cancels the very important and crucial attribute of the cryptocurrencies – the decentralization and the distributiveness – defeating its purpose.
But that's not an issue specific to the EU. Countries pass laws that they don't obey all the time. Usually the only recourse is to try and get the courts to order the government to comply but depending on the country that might or might not work. At least with the EU there are external fines to encourage compliance.
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It said my English based logo was similar to Hebrew/Arabic logos.
I always thought it would be neat to use something similar to determine "UserRank" in order to solve Eternal September.
> ability to talk to oneself in an empty room

Not sure why it is pathetic because you can always bring people in who are interesting in listening. What is your concept of "free speech" then ? Going into other people's home and shouting ?

> Who is going to stop the government from telling you to keep your mouth shut

The constitution and courts. If both those options fail it is reasonable to pick up arms against the government too.
And a counterpoint

> But the great thing is, I've been able to live off of the sales.

So, he's at least been able to live off the profit, which is great.
Because the USPS wouldn't be sure if it were alive or dead...
Have you considered offering a savory snacks crate, which doesn't consist of majority ramen?

Japan Crate has the Umai crate, which we (Tofugu) subscribed to for six months; majority of the contents were ramen :/ Was hoping for some chips and other goodies.
In the video, she says "even if 0.1% of habitable planets have life, you would expect over a million planets with some form of life."

Where do we get this 0.1%? why it is not 10^-20% and probability of life in the galaxy is impossibly small?
I love stories like this. All the history behind a very young but rich science.

For example I always assumed C came from a strong typing background and its premises was always about being portable. Neither of them are true.
Won't the ratios should remain the same? A change of inertial reference frame in SR is just a linear transformation.
AMD Ryzen Pro Secures Key Wins with Performance Dell, Lenovo and HP Workstations
Why I'm Not Ditching Cloudflare
Being someone's mother is probably humanity's most important "gender role" and not something people should be trying to escape from.
CMU's Intro to Physical Computing course materials provide an excellent jumping off point:

https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/16-223/f2017/text/index.html
Fwiw, bees are sold by the pound.

I'm just waiting for the day when I can order 20lbs of bees on amazon prime... but shipped to my office.
Yeah, two nearly identical versions (probably only resolution differences) of our logo resulted in 21% & 94% similarity scores
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I don't know how well this would work for a twitch game like Overwatch or Call of Duty, but I could see it working very well with games where timing isn't a factor, like X-COM or Civilization.

Has anyone played a twitch game over a service like this that can comment on how well this works?
A couple of things right off the bat. This study assumes that:

- There is zero effect on propensity to work

- The national debt has no secondary effects on the economy

- Changes in taxation do not affect consumption or investment behavior, at any tax level.

Those first two right there are incredibly massive assumptions, and they amount to two of the biggest criticisms of these proposals in the first place. And the third is flat out wrong, with enormous amounts of data available to debunk it.

Moreover, the third assumption ("Increasing government revenue by increasing taxes levied on households does not change household behavior") is actually at odds with their end conclusion! If there were truly no change in household behavior (whether at the margin or in the aggregate), then there could be no primary mechanism for this policy to have an impact in the first place. (And because this study explicitly ignores secondary impacts, without a primary impact, what are they actually claiming to measure?)

So I'm not sure what the value is in a study that basically says, "If we ignore the biggest and most commonly criticized negative effects, the effect of this policy will be positive".
You don't fix a broken culture by throwing more "culture values" on it. You fix it from within.

What is it good for? In the current form - nothing. Sounds good, doesn't work.
> You have a lot more recourse with USPS

no you don't, most of our workforce is union protected, they can poop in your package and not lose their jobs
"I imagine if they stripped off all the stuff from their own sites"

Well...of course. Limitations are empowering in their own way. HTML grew, and grew, and grew to the point that soon middle managers are demanding the most abusive tactics in a desperate tragedy of the commons. Users -- tired of pop-overs and subscription boxes and notification demands and location monitoring and janky scrolling and slow loading -- start to prefer silos like Facebook instant articles or Apple news. AMP comes along and says "we'll limit these to the minimum to elegantly provide text content and put an icon to let you know" and users love it.

Could the site optimize themselves? Of course but they won't.

Every time AMP comes up I remark that we really need a new HTMLite specification, and must demand the same promotion/iconography, or optionally allowing users to turn their browser to HTMLite mode where it will only accept validated HTMLite content. All to achieve the same user-benefits without the central control. Instead everyone just pretends that we all just need to behave as developers and it isn't needed.
I'm just going off of what I hear vocal "FOSS" advocates screaming at me on online forums. They tell anyone and everyone, loudly, that licenses are terrible, but at least some are decent, and that if I can't do what I want, it's not free software, even if it's open source.

Turns out opensource.org disagrees with them. But it doesn't seem like FSF (or rather, RMS, and the FSF by proxy) agrees[1].

In the end, I don't really have a horse in this race. I just write code. I don't care how my company's legal department chooses to protect it.

Frankly, I find it kind of tiresome that there's such a big argument over this stuff.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
As an aspiring game designer who has never played Zork: that list was fascinating.